Re: lost+found

1999-05-11 Thread Alexander Gieg
'As 21:02 de 9 May 99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] enviou o texto que respondo abaixo. Ola'! A minha placa e'uma Intel I430VX e no seu BIOS ela nao possui estes recursos de acesso 32 bits(acho que e' desabilitada por padrao). Talvez seja habilitada por padrao. :-) Sempre que configuro computadores,

RES: Debian em português

1999-05-11 Thread Leandro Dutra
problemas de qualidade, principalmente nos métodos de acesso do dselect para múltiplos CDs... com o agravante de que esse é um defeito que aparece muito para o novo usuário! Esse defeito só apareceu porque a Debian cresceu muito. Ela tem muitos programas. Isso não seria um

DNS is dead....

1999-05-11 Thread Lev Lvovsky
Hey all, first off, thanks for the previous replies to my question RE DNS. now a bigger problem... as far as I can tell, my DNS server is dead to all outside connections. the domain that I'm hosting is klaradio.com, using nslookup, I can find various subdomains, and entries, byt when I set

RE: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-11 Thread Pollywog
On 10-May-99 J Horacio MG wrote: I have some packages which require version 2.1.1 from libc6 (which I expect it can be found in potato). My question is, do I have to expect any problems if I install it in slink, or is it just as straight forward as upgrading any other package? If you

KDE Debian packages

1999-05-11 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
For those of you interested...KDE is available via apt-get at the following site: add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list file deb http://snowcrash.tdyc.com/debian slink rkrusty or deb http://snowcrash.tdyc.com/debian potato rkrusty depending on your version. They are still being worked on

Re: hdparm

1999-05-11 Thread Michael Beattie
It will be a process requiring the use of the filesystem, and as soon as it requests it, it will spin the hard drive back up. I had the same problem... It was syslogd putting --MARK-- into the logfile. your MTA is another culprit, doing the mail queue every 20 minutes. Or the update

wine with windows NT

1999-05-11 Thread Shawn Nguyen
Hi, Has anyone been able to get wine to work with windows NT? If so, can you help me with the setup? Any help or hint would be greatly appreciated. Shawn Nguyen

isp login promblem.

1999-05-11 Thread Monte Copeland
When I execute pon to connect to my isp, most of the time I connect with no problems. But about 10 to 20 percent of the time I get a different login prompt. In my pppconfig setup I specified that my login prompt was sername:, and when I watch the text scroll through the Xconsole, I do get the

Re: isp login promblem.

1999-05-11 Thread Shao Zhang
In that case, just set the prompt to :, that should do it! :) On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 09:57:30PM -0400, Monte Copeland wrote: When I execute pon to connect to my isp, most of the time I connect with no problems. But about 10 to 20 percent of the time I get a different login prompt. In my

Re: Apps For Debian?

1999-05-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
LW == Lawrence Wickline [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LW I need a good HTML code editor for debian (Been thinking I may LW just program macros in emacs but I don't realy want to) Just remembered. Besides the excelent html modes in emacs, you could try aswedit. It is free for educational and

Re: Updated packages

1999-05-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
CP == Chuck Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CP I did see the proposed-updates and ChangeLog, but is there just CP one or a few places to find the stable updated deb packages? It is just proposed-updates. Not that the files therein are sometimes moved to stable (therefor you have Debian

Re: Apps For Debian?

1999-05-11 Thread Sean
If you're using KDE, you might want to look at WebMaker. It's not a WYSIWYG, but it seems to be pretty nice anyway. http://www.services.ru/linux/webmaker/ Sean Martin Bialasinski wrote: LW == Lawrence Wickline [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LW I need a good HTML code editor for debian (Been

Looking for Mail Information

1999-05-11 Thread Chris Hoover
I've decided that I'm going to try and write an e-mail program for X, since I have not been able to find a good one yet. However, I'm not sure what to do. Does anyone know of some good site that document how and/or what a mail client should handle and do? TIA, Chris

gccchecker for potato

1999-05-11 Thread Min Xu
Hi, Thanks for all of you gave me the help on making a binary from debian source package. I tried the instructions on the source package for gccchecker-0.9.9.1 and the compilation works smoothly but the gccchecker got a segmentation error even for its own simple example included. My question

Re: netscape weirdness and bus errors

1999-05-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
AB == Alan Bailward [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AB I'm using /unstable, and a couple of upgrades ago some really, AB /really/ annoying netscape stuff started happening with 4.51. AB The first thing is when I have multiple netscape windows open, and AB close one, sometimes netscape will all go,

Re: Some newbie questions

1999-05-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
PJMaP == Paulo J Matos aka PDestroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PJMaP 4 - How do I configure my PCBIT ISDN card. I installed the PJMaP module but it says when it is loading it that there are still 3 PJMaP files to be configured at /etc/isdn... How do I configure them PJMaP ? Just edit the

Re: Help on getting libc6 working !

1999-05-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
NC == Nuno Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NC I'm unable to get my linux box working cause I'd broken glibc2.1 ! NC I'd an older rescue disk (Debian 1.3) and I can mount my linux box NC meanwhile I also have lastest libc6-2.1 package on it but i'm NC unable to get dpkg working ! :( Try to

QT for debian?

1999-05-11 Thread Alan
Hello, i'v been searching for a qt *.deb package for debian with no luck. Can anyone tell me where I might find one if there is one at all :) thanks Alan

Re: 2 network cards

1999-05-11 Thread John Pearson
On Sat, 8 May 1999, MR wrote: I have two network cards (1 Intel etherexpress 16, 1 NE2000) in a debian system. Both are detected on boot up and both are ifconfig'd. This system will be used to connect my little LAN through IP masq to the Internet. For various reasons, I am only able to have 1 IP,

Re: QT for debian?

1999-05-11 Thread Ernie Pasveer
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Alan wrote: --Hello, i'v been searching for a qt *.deb package for debian with no luck. Can --anyone tell me where I might find one if there is one at all :) -- Check KDE's web site. http://www.kde.org --ernie :^)

Re: Q: multi-cd method.

1999-05-11 Thread Tony Schonfeld
On Sun, 9 May 1999, Steve McIntyre wrote: the Packages.cd file on CD#5 knows about packages on CD#1, CD#2 and CD#5 So, whatever combination of CDs you have, you should run Update from dselect with the _last binary CD_ of your set in your CD-ROM drive. There should be a file called

Re: QT for debian?

1999-05-11 Thread Sean
I think there's one in the unstable tree, but I've had great luck with compiling the source. I find that easier in the case of qt kde than waiting for *.deb files. Sean Alan wrote: Hello, i'v been searching for a qt *.deb package for debian with no luck. Can anyone tell me where I might

Re: 8 Newbie Questions

1999-05-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
AB == André Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AB Since I just installed linux a few days ago from my debian 2.1 cd AB there This should also be your primary choice for software for now. You will also find mtools there. There might be newer versions of the packages out there, but you don't need

RE: QT for debian?

1999-05-11 Thread Pollywog
On 11-May-99 Alan wrote: Hello, i'v been searching for a qt *.deb package for debian with no luck. Can anyone tell me where I might find one if there is one at all :) thanks Alan Qt debs can be found on Debian's ftp site. Go to the main page at http://ww w.debian.org and click the

Re: debmake help

1999-05-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
r == roddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: r I'm experimenting with making my first .deb. The howto's tell me In addition to the other answers: There is the mailinglist debian-mentors, which is just there as a forum for new developers. Subscribe via www.debian.org Ciao, Martin

2.2.x boot/root needed

1999-05-11 Thread John T. Croteau
Does anyone happen to have a rescue boot/root with a 2.2.x kernel on it that I could get a copy of? I am installing a new workstation with a fairly new SCSI controller with a kernel level driver, manufacturer supplied, that requires 2.2.5. The controller in question is a new DPT SmartRaid V.

map too big

1999-05-11 Thread bewei
hi guys i got this problem: i compile kernel 2.2.5 and after make bzImmage,make modules,make modules_install i copy bzImage to /boot then edit the lilo.conf after that do lilo then message map too big apprears my bzImage size 655 k helppp me plss regards budi wibowo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xosview

1999-05-11 Thread Joey Hess
Wayne Topa wrote: Think I read in the Debian Weekly News that the author had been told of the problem and was working on it. No, I never wrote that in DWN. I am filing a bug now though. -- see shy jo

grab user's ip/tty on login

1999-05-11 Thread nate
is there an easy way to grab an user's ip upon login? i would like my servers to email page me when a user logs in ..but getting the IP and TTY is prooving more difficult then the date/time and username :) what i want is something like this galactica: $USER logged in at `date` on $TTY from $IP

Re: Looking for Mail Information

1999-05-11 Thread Aaron Solochek
Well, how about imap with kerberos v4 support. Thats my 2 cents. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 10 May 1999, Chris Hoover wrote: I've decided that I'm going to try and write an e-mail program for X, since I have not been able to find a good one yet. However, I'm not sure what to

Re: 2 network cards

1999-05-11 Thread Oz Dror
I have a similar problem, But instead of having 2 network cards I have one card using IP aliasing ( two subnets on the same card/network, one for DSL and the second local 192.168.0.x). as soon as I start ipmasq I cannot ping beyond the local subnet of each card, thus I cannot access the DNS

vim and mutt?

1999-05-11 Thread Steve Lamb
I'm having a small problem with vim in conjunction with mutt. I set the editor to vim -u ~/.vimmailrc so I can have vim turn on wrapping, automatic insertion of quote characters and the like. It colors nicely, but it does not appear to read the rc file at all. I generally see this in

Re: Re: Need libgcc2.c ????

1999-05-11 Thread Seppo
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote: The file mentioned sounds like it is part of gcc, which means that the program is causing an error in gcc's internal library. it is uqite common to get a not found message from gdb (especially with e.g. string errors or malloc errors), but it

instalar Linux

1999-05-11 Thread Fernando Primo del Val
me gustaria intalar el LINUX en mi ordenador, y queria saber donde puedo obtener tanto el Kernel y todo el software adicional como XWindow, etc para intalarlo en mi PC. El ordenador que tengo es un portátil pentium Celerom en el que tengo instalado W98. Actualmente tengo dos particiones una

Re: vim and mutt?

1999-05-11 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 23:00:39 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: I'm having a small problem with vim in conjunction with mutt. I set the editor to vim -u ~/.vimmailrc so I can have vim turn on wrapping, automatic insertion of quote characters and the like. It colors nicely, but it does not appear to

setting up a HP 880C/850C

1999-05-11 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, I got an HP 880C yesterday which works in principle. Now I have two or three questions: Ive seen there is an (experimental?) gs driver for newer HPs, available as a patch. Are there plans to integrate it into gs or is it not worth it? When printing with a2ps the first two columns of the let

StarOffice no longer works after upgrading to Slink

1999-05-11 Thread Daniel Mashao
Any help? Unlike the tough guys who have problems with SO in potato, I have a problem with SO in slink. It worked fine in my previous hamm/slink setting, now it just Aborts. I have tried some of the suggestions I have seen for potato but they do not work. Any ideas?

rtl8139 + kernel2.2.5

1999-05-11 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
Bonjour, I have a problem about rtl8139 (ethernet card) option in the compilation of the kernel. rtl8139 is in the kernel source but not available in make xconfig. How to compil it anyway ? other question : after an upgrade a get this from ldconfig ldconfig: warning: can't open

Kernel patches needed for running Informix Dynamic Server Linux Edition

1999-05-11 Thread F. Fernandez
Hi all! I'm posting this message in debian-user and debian-testing since it relates both to slink and to potato so excuse me if you get it twice. I'd like to know where can I find the patches to recompile the kernel 2.0.36 and/or 2.2.x so that the system supports more open files. I'm trying to

Making gnuplot plot to file

1999-05-11 Thread Richard Harran
Could anyone tell me how to make gnuplot output its plots to (eg) a postscript file. I have tried gnuplot set output outfile.ps gnuplot plot 'myplot' but it plots to screen. When I exit, there is and outfile.ps, but it is zero bytes. Any help appriciated TIA Rich

Metro-X Slink

1999-05-11 Thread debian
MetroX support got back to me. (Apparently they do that at the end of the day. I spent my time waiting playing with gcal -- i'm kicking myself over the $60 i spent on Daytimer's calendar program, especially after configuring a2ps to print to the DayTimer paper size) If anyone else has this

Re: Making gnuplot plot to file

1999-05-11 Thread Ian Peters
On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 11:23:52AM +, Richard Harran wrote: Could anyone tell me how to make gnuplot output its plots to (eg) a postscript file. I have tried gnuplot set output outfile.ps gnuplot plot 'myplot' but it plots to screen. When I exit, there is and outfile.ps, but

Re: rtl8139 + kernel2.2.5

1999-05-11 Thread Frank Rosendahl
Khalid EZZARAOUI [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bonjour, I have a problem about rtl8139 (ethernet card) option in the compilation of the kernel. rtl8139 is in the kernel source but not available in make xconfig. How to compil it anyway ? Did you activate Conde maturity level options/Prompt for

Re: grab user's ip/tty on login

1999-05-11 Thread Carl Mummert
galactica: $USER logged in at `date` on $TTY from $IP Try the 'last' command,which parses wtmp and tells you who has logged in. $ last -10 -ad williams Tue May 11 07:39 - 07:40 (00:01) rn109022.wcu.edu mummert Tue May 11 07:37 still logged inrn109238.wcu.edu

RE: Gnome missing dependencies

1999-05-11 Thread Dmitry Ya
-Original Message- From: Craig R. Hodges [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 10, 1999 12:24 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Gnome missing dependencies When trying to install (unstable) Gnome using the directions at

Re: Newbie Question: PPP

1999-05-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
RF == R Feenstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RF I'm running Debian 2.1 Slink since one week and now I'm trying to RF get my ISDN card to work.Installed isdnutils. You need to load the isdn modules first modprobe hisax options For me, options are type=15 protocol=2 io=0x100 irq=10 id=line0 In

Re: Making gnuplot plot to file

1999-05-11 Thread Richard Harran
Thanks very much for this. Cheers Rich Ian Peters wrote: On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 11:23:52AM +, Richard Harran wrote: Could anyone tell me how to make gnuplot output its plots to (eg) a postscript file. I have tried gnuplot set output outfile.ps gnuplot plot 'myplot'

checkdir error

1999-05-11 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
I have a shell script that unzips multiple files in a directory. This directory have 4 subdirectories named 001, ..., 004. Each one have 400 subdirectories named 001, ..., 400. In each of these 400 subdirectories I have 400 html files. The file system( using df ) still have enough space for the

Re: setting domain - name

1999-05-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
TM == Thorsten Manegold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TM I installed Debian using the dialup option. It asked me the name TM that my computer should get, but not the domain name. I guess TM that's ok as I'm only using PPP? Never done this option. but it looks strange. TM Does the local

Re: smail/exim/qmail/zmailer/... which MTA?

1999-05-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
ML == Michael Laing [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ML In the near future I may need to handle daily bulkmail to a list ML of users in the 20,000-100,000 range. I would check the documentation on www.exim.org. debian.org runs with exim, and it does pretty well. Ciao, Martin

Re: checkdir error

1999-05-11 Thread Larry Loreman
I have a shell script that unzips multiple files in a directory. This directory have 4 subdirectories named 001, ..., 004. Each one have 400 subdirectories named 001, ..., 400. In each of these 400 subdirectories I have 400 html files. The file system( using df ) still have enough space for

Re: checkdir error

1999-05-11 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I have a shell script that unzips multiple files in a directory. This directory have 4 subdirectories named 001, ..., 004. Each one have 400 subdirectories named 001, ..., 400. In each of these 400 subdirectories I have 400 html files. The file system( using df ) still have enough space for

Re: Kernel patches needed for running Informix Dynamic Server Linux Edition

1999-05-11 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 12:02:56 +0100, F. Fernandez wrote: I'm posting this message in debian-user and debian-testing since it relates both to slink and to potato so excuse me if you get it twice. At the moment, debian-user is the appropriate list for both slink and potato. debian-testing is

transparent proxy with Squid?

1999-05-11 Thread Louis-David Mitterrand
Has anybody successfuly configured Linux and Squid to act as a transparent proxy? I have looked at the Squid FAQ and an interesting pointer provided by it (http://alderan.gurulink.com/transproxy-linux21-squid2.html) but have not succeded yet. All squid configuration options and and ipchains

Re: checkdir errory

1999-05-11 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I wrote: You are trying to create 4*400*400=64 files. You can check how many inodes are left using [...] By default there are 4096 bytes per inode, which means that for the amount of files you want to store your partition needs to be at least 64*4/1024=25000 MB in size (neglecting

Re: Linux Kernel Version?

1999-05-11 Thread Peter Ludwig
On Sat, 8 May 1999, Dave Evanson wrote: Hello, Just reading your FAQ's and cna't find out what Linux Kernel version that Slink uses...I have downloaded Slink, and I want to use Linux drivers for my Token Ring NIC, the only problem is that the manufacturer only lists compatibility by Linux

Scanners: Compatibility with Linux

1999-05-11 Thread William Denton
I'm about to buy a scanner and am likely to buy either an Epson, Agfa or Umax scanner. I have a few questions: 1. Where's the SANE webpage - I've tried http://www.mostang.com/sane/ but it doesn't seem to be there. 2. Should I get USB, Parallel Port or SCSI? I've already got a ZIP drive and

RES: Scanners: Compatibility with Linux

1999-05-11 Thread Leandro Dutra
2. Should I get USB, Parallel Port or SCSI? I've already got a ZIP drive and printer on the parallel port, so was wondering if it was a good idea to hang yet another device off it. The SCSI scanners appear to be quite a bit more expensive. USB ones are comparable with the parallel port ones,

Scanners: Compatibility with Linux

1999-05-11 Thread William Denton
I'm about to buy a scanner and am likely to buy either an Epson, Agfa or Umax scanner. I have a few questions: 1. Where's the SANE webpage - I've tried http://www.mostang.com/sane/ but it doesn't seem to be there. 2. Should I get USB, Parallel Port or SCSI? I've already got a ZIP drive and

Re: wine with windows NT

1999-05-11 Thread Kent West
At 04:00 PM 5/10/1999 +, Shawn Nguyen wrote: Hi, Has anyone been able to get wine to work with windows NT? If so, can you help me with the setup? Any help or hint would be greatly appreciated. Shawn Nguyen I'm not entirely sure what you mean; do you mean how to get wine to run

Broken Select in dselect (typos removed)

1999-05-11 Thread Kent West
Hi All. This just started today, after doing a dselect/Update off of www.debian.org stable main, contrib, and non-free. Now when I run dselect and go into the Select option, the program just quits with the message: dselect: failed to create baselist pad: Cannot allocate memory This is on a

rsh when root

1999-05-11 Thread Rx
Hi there ! I would like to do a rsh from one machine to another being root. Debian said Permission denied Yes it is dangerous but i would like to do it. thanks of course .rhosts is positionned machine1 root Xavier __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Scanners: Compatibility with Linux

1999-05-11 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 11 May 1999, William Denton wrote: 1. Where's the SANE webpage - I've tried http://www.mostang.com/sane/ but it doesn't seem to be there. Try again... I can see it there just fine. It's really the best source of information about scanners and Linux. I did a presentation very recently

RE: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-11 Thread J Horacio MG
~ I have some packages which require version 2.1.1 from libc6 (which I ~ expect it can be found in potato). My question is, do I have to expect ~ any problems if I install it in slink, or is it just as straight forward ~ as upgrading any other package? ~ ~ If you upgrade a slink installation

Re: Broken Select in dselect (typos removed)

1999-05-11 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: Hi All. This just started today, after doing a dselect/Update off of www.debian.org stable main, contrib, and non-free. Now when I run dselect and go into the Select option, the program just quits with the message: dselect: failed to create baselist pad:

Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-11 Thread Sean
This kind of strikes at something I've been wondering of late. Slink, back when Hamm was the stable dist, was pretty stable I thought. I realize that Potato started out hideously broken, mostly because of the libc6 2.1.1, but that was a while back, and I'm now wondering if anyone has any

kernel and modules compiling

1999-05-11 Thread J Horacio MG
I just recompiled kernel 2.0.36, and everything seems to work fine except for the following messages during boot up (same with modprobe). pon seems to be working ok so, what does all this mean? :~# modprobe ppp.o /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ppp.o: unresolved symbol netif_rx_R88a5d1d7

[SOLVED!!]: Telnet Problems

1999-05-11 Thread Brant Wells
Hey Y'all!! Thanks for the tips on the telnet problem-- it worked!! :) Thankfully Yours, Brant

Visual Basic type IDE/Compiler

1999-05-11 Thread Brant Wells
Hi Y'all Does anyone know of a good Visual Basic Style IDE for Linux?? Or how about an ELF compiler for basic?? TIA, Brant

Re: setting domain - name

1999-05-11 Thread Rune Linding Raun
it shall have a domainname! and 'it' ask for one ! On 11-May-99 Martin Bialasinski wrote: TM == Thorsten Manegold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TM I installed Debian using the dialup option. It asked me the name TM that my computer should get, but not the domain name. I guess TM that's ok as

Re: rsh when root

1999-05-11 Thread Philippe Andersson
Hello, Edit /etc/inetd.conf, look for the line that invoque rshd and modify it as follows: shell stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.rshd -hlL ^^ This disables the use of ~/.rhosts *except for root* (-l) and

RE: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-11 Thread Pollywog
On 11-May-99 J Horacio MG wrote: That sounds as if upgrading to libc6 2.1.1 is not a good idea, at least not if it's just for a couple of packages. But, does it mean libc6 2.1.1 is not stable, or it means it's stable but not fit to use with a system packed with (and for) a previous

RE: StarOffice no longer works after upgrading to Slink

1999-05-11 Thread Pollywog
On 11-May-99 Daniel Mashao wrote: Any help? Unlike the tough guys who have problems with SO in potato, I have a problem with SO in slink. It worked fine in my previous hamm/slink setting, now it just Aborts. I have tried some of the suggestions I have seen for potato but they do not work. Any

Re: rsh when root

1999-05-11 Thread Philippe Andersson
As an afterthought: don't forget to use the FQDN in your .rhosts (it didn't work without it in my setup) Ph. A. Philippe Andersson wrote: Hello, Edit /etc/inetd.conf, look for the line that invoque rshd and modify it as follows: shell stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd

problem with portmap

1999-05-11 Thread Dietrich Beck
Hi, we have small PC cluster running Debian 2.1. Since a few days to of those bother me with the following message: my_host portmap[6050]: connect from 134.58.X.Y to callit(ypserv): request from unauthorized host. In principle that is o.k., because 134.58.X.Y should have no access to our

Netscape bus errors after upgrade to 3.3.3.1-3

1999-05-11 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
Communicator 4.51 started to give bus errors after the X upgrade to 3.3.3.1-3 Actually it is possible to start it, but when I quit it produces bus error. This seems pretty innocent, but apparently it gives bus error when closing certain windows ( or when the child exits? ). As a result, i cannot

Re: X works, but no mouse?

1999-05-11 Thread deblists
On 10 May, Branden Robinson wrote: On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 07:17:02PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I usually have gpm set up as a repeater and X using the repeater device, however, gpm can't start either. An strace of 'cat /dev/psaux' gives me the same errors about not being able to open

Re: Visual Basic type IDE/Compiler

1999-05-11 Thread deblists
On 11 May, Brant Wells wrote: Hi Y'all Does anyone know of a good Visual Basic Style IDE for Linux?? Or how about an ELF compiler for basic?? TIA, Brant Hello Brant! I'm not sure what you want; do you want a Basic compiler for Linux that comes with an IDE, or do you want an IDE for

Re: I need help with X

1999-05-11 Thread deblists
On 10 May, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: [...] Another question. Now I'm running wm. And i click with the middle button on the clip to create a new workspace i can't get to the menu options because the menu follows the mouse arround. What am i doing wrong? Thanks I

installing Debian 2.0 r3

1999-05-11 Thread John
I have a spare machine onto which I am trying to install 2.0 r3. The machine has a Pentium MMX166 processor, two hard drives (one 426Mb with DOS 6.2 and W3.11: the other 1.1Gb empty and available for Linux), 32Mb FPM physical RAM, 1.44 Floppy, 32x CD-ROM Drive, an S3 Virge/DX(PCI) Video Card and

Re: setting up a HP 880C/850C

1999-05-11 Thread David Wright
Quoting Christian T. Steigies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, I got an HP 880C yesterday which works in principle. Now I have two or three questions: Ive seen there is an (experimental?) gs driver for newer HPs, available as a patch. Are there plans to integrate it into gs or is it not worth it? I

Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-11 Thread add|ct|on
i run potato with glib6-2.1.1 and kernel 2.2.7. and i have no problems to speak of, although i did with the first release of potato. i also haven't noticed any significant problems with any packages. if you want an opinion, here's mine: my system is much faster, more useful, and just as stable now

Re: vim and mutt?

1999-05-11 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 11 May 1999 10:41:27 +0200, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 23:00:39 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: I'm having a small problem with vim in conjunction with mutt. I set the editor to vim -u ~/.vimmailrc so I can have vim turn on

KDE's untimely death

1999-05-11 Thread add|ct|on
i am having a strange problem with kde... whenever it runs, and i try to open a program, it crashes, IE xdm (or kdm, if i try with that) stops and x exits. i went through a lot of analysis and i came to the odd conclusion by trial and error that, if i log into it with users which don't have

Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-11 Thread Pollywog
On 11-May-99 add|ct|on wrote: i run potato with glib6-2.1.1 and kernel 2.2.7. and i have no problems to speak of, although i did with the first release of potato. i also haven't noticed any significant problems with any packages. if you want an opinion, here's mine: my system is much faster,

Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-11 Thread Pollywog
On 11-May-99 add|ct|on wrote: i run potato with glib6-2.1.1 and kernel 2.2.7. and i have no problems to speak of, although i did with the first release of potato. i also haven't noticed any significant problems with any packages. if you want an opinion, here's mine: my system is much faster,

logging uf su usage

1999-05-11 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
hello list, does the default syslog.conf log all usage of the su command ? if so may i knoe where ? ive been reading the syslod.conf man page but im not sure whether i understood everything. and if it doesnt, may i knoe how do i tell syslog to log all usage of the su commang ? TIA, chad

printout being chopped off...

1999-05-11 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Hi, I have an Epson Color Stylus 640. When I print 2-uped pages, a bit of the page (on the left hand side) gets chopped off. I am printing to 'letter' paper. Here is what I tried: * Installed slink's lprng, gs (not gs-alladin), enscript, psutils and magicfilter. * Ran

Re: logging uf su usage

1999-05-11 Thread Carl Mummert
I noticed this problem a while back. There is (was at the time) a bug against su because, somehow, the compile-time flag needed to enable this logging had been removed. I noticed this change when I upgraded from hamm to slink. My solution was to recompile su. It is in the shellutils package;

Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-11 Thread John T. Croteau
I am going to stick with 2.0.7 until gnu makes 2.1 available again. I just love political issues. - JT

Java crashes in recent Potato?

1999-05-11 Thread Stuart Ballard
Java, Javac and all other java commands appear to be crashing since a recent apt-get upgrade of my potato system. I get the following message: /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/../bin/i686/green_threads/java: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/../lib/i686/green_threads/libjava.so: undefined

Re: printout being chopped off...

1999-05-11 Thread Alexander Schwartz
Hi Sudhakar, Maybe you should consult the manual of your printer. Every printer has a printable area, and you should check if you want to print outside the border your hardware sets (therefore: software upgrade will not work?). Read the fine manual. Alex. I have an Epson Color Stylus 640.

Re: logging uf su usage

1999-05-11 Thread Andrei Ivanov
does the default syslog.conf log all usage of the su command ? if so may i knoe where ? There is logging of su in /var/log/auth.log Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354

Re: kernel and modules compiling

1999-05-11 Thread Alexander Schwartz
Hi Horacio, I usually clean my module directory before I reinstall the the kernel modules to get rid of old stuff in there. But beware: If you are using PCMCIA or VMWARE, you will need to reinstall the PCMCIA and VMWARE modules. After I install my modules using make modules_install I run

problem searching list archives

1999-05-11 Thread Pollywog
I am having a problem with the list archives. When I search for a topic, I find lots of listings, but when I click on links, I get a cgi error. Is it just me? -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]

Re: Life at 4 bogomips

1999-05-11 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 04:50:30PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: Hi George! Well I got the old 386 put back together, figured I would use it for a firewall. 386SX33 with 10MB of RAM. Man, what an example to show what OS bloat has done! I used to install Win31 on it, even installed OS/2 Warp

.fvwm2rc problem

1999-05-11 Thread bashir mudassar
Hi, I am having a little difficulty customizing my .fvwm2rc. The problem is the following: I cannot seem to define the size or the geometry of my Fvwm window. The window I am talking about is the one that holds all the panels that represent the different desktops. You know

hosed debian system

1999-05-11 Thread Ben Cranston
was trying to install package minicom and am now in a situation where dselect says: Broken Required packages in section base U** Req base libncurses4 4.2-3 4.2-3Shared libr... Broken Optional packages in section x11 U** Opt x11motifnls 2.1-2 2.1-4Files needed to...

Re: checkdir error

1999-05-11 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: I have a shell script that unzips multiple files in a directory. This directory have 4 subdirectories named 001, ..., 004. Each one have 400 subdirectories named 001, ..., 400. In each of these 400 subdirectories I have 400 html files. The file

Neophyte kde problems

1999-05-11 Thread David Jardine
Just starting with linux, and already have the following three problems: 1:I made a mistake with the configuration of kde and it leaves a blank area on the left-hand side of the screen. How can I reconfigure without starting all over again? 2:I seem only to be able to uses kde from

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