Re[2]: Dselect odd behaviour

1999-05-16 Thread Phillip Deackes
Dan Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : I'm using dselect under potato using apt to ftp://sunsite.org.uk/ : and something strange seems to have happened. I did an 'update' and : now all the descriptions have disappeared. Also most of the packages : I

Re: blocked SMTP port issue...

1999-05-16 Thread John Hasler
flip writes: have the upstream server bundle all mail for meteu into one /var/spool/mail file which I can grab via fetchmail and redistribute locally? Just have him install a POP server. That's just what it does. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Re[2]: Dselect odd behaviour

1999-05-16 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Phillip Deackes wrote: Dan Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : I'm using dselect under potato using apt to ftp://sunsite.org.uk/ : and something strange seems to have happened. I did an 'update' and : now all the descriptions have disappeared. Also

We got '-dpkg-new'!

1999-05-16 Thread Bob Bernstein
Having bulled my way through the extermination of emacs20, I went ahead with a massive apt-get update/upgrade, 129 meg all tolled. The cable modem is doing its thing with valor. Now I notice syslogd has been stopped so I peek into /etc/init.d and behold a bevy of new scripts eg

Help! Tar won't work!

1999-05-16 Thread Dan Smith
The first few archives I opened with tar worked fine, but then it stopped working. I installed cpio and the first few tars I opened with it worked fine too, but then it stopped functioning as well. I tried reinstalling both, to no avail. What happens is, I type the command to untar an archive,

Re: GNOME minor problems

1999-05-16 Thread Stuart Ballard
Martin Bialasinski wrote: SB == Stuart Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SB The only problem I had was a missing dependency somewhere that SB meant I was able to get the whole thing installed without ever SB installing (the right version of) imlib-base, so everything SB core-dumped.

HAVE_WAITPID

1999-05-16 Thread Jor-el
Hi, The source code for fvwm95 has the following code in fvwm/misc.h : #ifdef HAVE_WAITPID #define ReapChildren() while ((waitpid(-1, NULL, WNOHANG)) 0); #else #define ReapChildren() while ((wait3(NULL, WNOHANG, NULL)) 0); #endif Now linux (atleast, for 2.0.36) does have the

lost+found or lost for good ???

1999-05-16 Thread Christophe Clapp
I had huge problems with my hard drive, fsck apparently put all the files on the ext2 partition in the lost+found directory, I have 1 file of 1GB and 1 of 650 MB. I accessed both of them just by doing something like 'cd \#14477323' which had my root directory. I then VERY STUPIDLY did a 'rmdir

Re: Mouse not recognized (but RedHat works fine)

1999-05-16 Thread Stuart Ballard
Wayne Topa wrote: Subject: Mouse not recognized (but RedHat works fine) Date: Sun, May 16, 1999 at 11:24:25AM -0400 In reply to:Stuart Ballard Quoting Stuart Ballard([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have a dual-boot RedHat 5.2 / Debian Slink system. The RedHat system has a

RE: help on installing (starting) staroffice

1999-05-16 Thread Pollywog
On 16-May-99 Vladimir G Stanishev wrote: i downloaded all the files and the installer package from teh debian site adn everything seemed to install fine. everytime I type swriter hwoever a setup program starts and it doesn't have the user installation option that the readme mentions. just

Re: GNOME minor problems

1999-05-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
SB == Stuart Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SB My best guess is that imlib-gdk doesn't depend on imlib-base (and SB all the gnome stuff depends only on imlib-gdk). This is not the case. dpkg -s gdk-imlib1 [...] Depends: imlib-base, libc6 (= 2.1), libglib1.2 (= 1.2.0), libjpeg62, [...]

RE: help on installing (starting) staroffice

1999-05-16 Thread Pollywog
On 16-May-99 Vladimir G Stanishev wrote: i downloaded all the files and the installer package from teh debian site adn everything seemed to install fine. everytime I type swriter hwoever a setup program starts and it doesn't have the user installation option that the readme mentions. just

Re: Life at 4 bogomips

1999-05-16 Thread R. Brock Lynn
Raymond A. Ingles wrote: On Sun, 9 May 1999, George Bonser wrote: 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 on

downloads...burst, then nothing

1999-05-16 Thread Lev Lvovsky
Hello, I'm having a problem with downloads from my machine (slink). On the network I have at home, I can upload at the regular high speeds, but downloading form the machine (to a Win98 machine), whether it be by ftp, or by http gives me a little bit of the file, and then slows down to a

Re: URGENT to DEBIAN

1999-05-16 Thread add|ct|on
On Sun, 16 May 1999 08:47:21 Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz is empty. If I do a mistake excuse me. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null i noticed that last night. it had me worried that

Re: Starting programs on local x through telnet

1999-05-16 Thread Carl Mummert
From message [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Is it possible to start programs needing x to run through the net (telnet, rlogin ...). How do i tell them to use my screen? The program tells me its starting (it has a text output) and then doesn't do anything else (it's suposed to have a graphical interface).

PPP with IP masquerading over a null modem

1999-05-16 Thread tigerchild
I'm trying to connect two machines, near and far, via a null modem plugged in to /dev/ttyS0 on each, using PPP and IP masquerading so they can share my ethernet connection. For IP masquerading, I'd like the near machine to be 192.168.1.1 and the far machine to be 192.168.1.2. My lan is

telepath modem with x2 (making me crazy)

1999-05-16 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I've tried everything to make this modem work. I have two modems to use one is a Boca logic 33.6, it uses a Rockwell chip. The other is a USR Sportster clone with x2. I also have a NE2000 clone NIC card. I'm trying to make the modem work first. When the kernel boots is reports two devices 1.

Re: running scripts (manual and auto)

1999-05-16 Thread J Horacio MG
John Hasler dixit: ~ J Horacio MG writes: ~ - start script - ~ #/bin/sh ~ ~ fetchmail -f /home/horacio/.fetchmailrc -a -u a4608456 ~ ~ runq ~ - end script - ~ ~ That first line should read #!/bin/sh . Sorry for the typo... the script is correct though (but doesn't work),

International characters don't work in console mode

1999-05-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I'm using Debian Linux 2.1 and have tried to get international characters to work in console mode. But, it will not work! The characters that I especially want to display are from the swedish alphabet: the a character with a ring above the a, and the a character with two dots above the a and

Re: Wierd PPP Problems

1999-05-16 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Sun, 16 May 1999, Peter Ludwig wrote: You misunderstand. I'm not telling you or Mr. Hoover to ask the ISP what the problem is, only what a disconnect code (or however it's done on their system) is. However, I would most certainly agree with Mr Hasler about the fact that most ISP's

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