Re: Estou preparando uma revista

1999-05-22 Thread Eduardo Marcel Macan
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Jose Carlos Benfati wrote: Sim. Voce tem razao. O Macan disse que ia conversar com o Ian Jackson sobre isso (o cara do dpkg). E ai Macan, falou com ele? Saiu no debian news desta semana que os japoneses estão implementando um modo de ter várias versões das

Re: Estou preparando uma revista

1999-05-22 Thread Jose Carlos Benfati
Sugestão: ao invés de usar um número serial (a lá DNS), poderia ser usado um checksum (md5, p. ex), de modo que uma nova versão da descrição simplesmente invalidaria as traduções sem que o alterador da descrição original tenha que se preocupar em atualizar um número serial. Isso considerando que:

Resolution in X

1999-05-22 Thread moron
When installing Linux I configured X for three screen resolutions -640*480, 800*600 and 1024*768. (ATI mach 64). How can I select which one is actually used and change from one to another? I'm sure this is very elementary, but I'd be grateful for help. Idiot

Re: Unsupported protocols??

1999-05-22 Thread Sean
The goofy thing is that this only happens with one of two dial-ups that I use. The one that is giving me the messages described almost always works fine w/ Windows ,is intermitent at best with Linux (although it didn't used to be), and is to a 56K modem pool, while my other connection has

Re: Cannot su.

1999-05-22 Thread Andrei Ivanov
shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories. Best wishes, Chip Check your permissions on . and .. directories. They should be chmod'd and chown'd as below. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 2 19:21 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root root

Re: Resolution in X

1999-05-22 Thread Andrei Ivanov
When installing Linux I configured X for three screen resolutions -640*480, 800*600 and 1024*768. (ATI mach 64). How can I select which one is actually used and change from one to another? Quite ok to ask that in the beginning of Linux use. Check my page (first URL below in .sig file ) for

Re: strange msg in bootup

1999-05-22 Thread Graham Ashton
On Friday 21 May, Dan Willard wrote: The route command now requires a netmask. Just add one in to both of the route commands and it should go away. if you read the 2.2 docs in /usr/src/linux/Changes (or whatever it's called) then you should find a bit that tells you that routes for local

Re: new wmaker package?

1999-05-22 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 10:13:19PM +0200, Philip Lehman wrote: On Fri, 21 May 1999, Thomas Keusch wrote: Or is a, maybe unofficial, 0.53.x package out there, somewhere? I downloaded 0.53 weeks ago from debian... dante:~ $ grep ^deb /etc/apt/sources.list deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian

[serge.francois@wanadoo.fr: Intallation of the packages]

1999-05-22 Thread Hanno 'Rince' Wagner
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Re: Cannot su.

1999-05-22 Thread Brad
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories. Check your permissions on . and .. directories. They should be chmod'd and chown'd as below. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 2 19:21 .

Re: new wmaker package?

1999-05-22 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 05:03:52PM -0300, Paulo J. da Silva e Silva wrote: Or is a, maybe unofficial, 0.53.x package out there, somewhere? Take a look at Gnome's site: www.gnome.org. The gnome .debs for slink were released today and I am almost sure that there is a wmake 0.53 there. I

Re: Cannot su.

1999-05-22 Thread Rob
The only time i can recall seeing those errors is when the cwd is moved or removed. Just now, i created a dir 'test', cd-ed to it as root, removed it from another tty, and su-ed to a normal user. Sure enough, there's the error. Even if it's removed and remade from the other tty before su-ing,

Re: new wmaker package?

1999-05-22 Thread Brad
i too have had wmaker 0.53.0 for quite a while. On Sat, 22 May 1999, Thomas Keusch wrote: deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US dante:~ $ apt-get update [...] (some errors concerning non-US, shouldn't matter in this case) They changed the layout of unstable on non-US.

GNOME not working anymore

1999-05-22 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I have lost gnome. It was really working well, and I like it alot. I have been upgrading weekly with apt-get, and somewhere a couple of weeks ago, gnome started losing it. FIrst, I am getting messages, /bin/sh: esd: command not found Then, soon after the panel comes up, when I

Re: Cannot su.

1999-05-22 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Yeah, that would be a more likely reason. However, messing up permissions could do that as well. Andrew. --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354

Re: Cannot launch WordPerfect.

1999-05-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
Install the following packages: libc5, xlib6, xpm4.7 Bob On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 01:01:38PM -0400, Fu-Dong Chiou wrote: Hi, I am having a problem running WordPerfect for Linux. Specifically, it says can't load library libXmp.so.4, which seems to be a symlink to libXmp.so.10. Would

Re: Cannot su.

1999-05-22 Thread Brad
On Sat, 22 May 1999, Rob wrote: You get these errors (sometimes) when suing to a normal user from another normal user, eg: /home/jim has permission 700 (drwx--) and I'm in /home/jim (and I AM jim ;) I do 'su bob', enter the correct password, and I get those messages. Which makes sense,

Re: Cannot su.

1999-05-22 Thread Rob
My su doesn't give that error. It just says Permission denied when i try anything that would involve accessing the contents of the current directory. No errors though, and pwd works fine. Sorry, my mistake. I forgot, I only see this on my girlfriend's machine, and I assume its because she

Re: new wmaker package?

1999-05-22 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 04:04:32PM -0400, eric a. Farris wrote: [no wmaker 0.53.0 package available?] umm, my potato wmaker is 0.53.0-2. are you sure you're getting everything from your potato mirror? here's my apt sources.list: I thought so. My sources.list was like this

Re: problem with my system includes

1999-05-22 Thread Pollywog
On 21-May-99 Martin Bialasinski wrote: P == Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: P Am I correct in assuming that I no longer even need P /usr/include/linux /usr/include/net /usr/include/scsi and P /usr/include/asm ? You need them. They are used when you compile some programms.

mail clients

1999-05-22 Thread Jim B
Hi all. Is there a good POP3 and/or IMAP4 client (console or GUI, doesn't matter) that supports multiple accounts with easy switching between them... and that can filter based on the account concept rather than just on headers? If I'm not making sense, I'm looking for something for Linux that

X server problem again.

1999-05-22 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Hi all, I am having a strange problem running X. As of now, I can run X as root, not as a user. I don't know why, but here's the error message I got. Best wishes, Chip Error message running X as a user hostname: Unknown host _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener()

Re: mail clients

1999-05-22 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 21 May 1999 21:23:53 -0400, Jim B wrote: Hi all. Is there a good POP3 and/or IMAP4 client (console or GUI, doesn't matter) that supports multiple accounts with easy switching between them... and that can filter based on the account concept

Netscape 3.

1999-05-22 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Hi, Can anyone tell me where I can find Netscape 3? I remember older versions of Netscape are stored in an archive, accessible via browsers, but can't remember the URL now. Thanks! Best wishes, Chip

bios q

1999-05-22 Thread Koyote
I'm rebuilding a 486/33 to be our internet server (when I get that far...) The cmos setup isn't handling the hdd (1 gig), nor the cdrom- I've heard that Linux bypasses the system setup, or it can use devices in spite of it. How much of this is true? TIA Koyote

Re: mail clients

1999-05-22 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1999-05-21 19:42, Steve Lamb wrote: No. There is not. Many people will point you to Netscape, mutt, procmail, fetchmail, blah-forking-blah. Do *NOT* believe them. Sure, it works, after you hack it all together and switch your thinking a total 180 degrees to something archaic and

Re: mail clients

1999-05-22 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 21 May 1999 22:55:46 -0400, Allan M. Wind wrote: So, if you have known about this problem for years, where is your solution? Show me the code! This is the other bone I have to pick. NOT EVERYONE IS A PROGRAMMER AND CAN CODE. IT IS

Re: bios q

1999-05-22 Thread Arcady Genkin
Koyote [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm rebuilding a 486/33 to be our internet server (when I get that far...) The cmos setup isn't handling the hdd (1 gig), nor the cdrom- I've heard that Linux bypasses the system setup, or it can use devices in spite of it. How much of this is true? I

Sound blaster 16 pnp

1999-05-22 Thread roddie
Ok guys and gals, After 9 months of having a mute linux system, I have acquired a real soundblaster 16 pnp. But, of course I can't get it to make noise. I have kernel 2.2.7 running. I have installed the soundcore and sound modules, sb module will not install for me, saying that either the device

Re: mail clients

1999-05-22 Thread Brad
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: I get tired of people asking me for the code. Pretentious, rude, arrogant and utterly annoying. If I could code worth a damn, do you think I'd be on the Software Bazaar offering $35 for the first person to put *color* into joe? :P Pretentious,

gnome-session + enlightenmet

1999-05-22 Thread Oz Dror
Hi what is the relationship between gnome-session and enlightenment which one should be started first. is dnome session going to be started in the .xsession file, if so which startup file need to start enlightenment. I am using xdm. thanks Oz Dror -- NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California

RE: Sound blaster 16 pnp

1999-05-22 Thread Pollywog
On 22-May-99 roddie wrote: Ok guys and gals, After 9 months of having a mute linux system, I have acquired a real soundblaster 16 pnp. But, of course I can't get it to make noise. I have the same type of card, and rather than fool with the stuff you are getting into, I downloaded the $20

RE: Sound blaster 16 pnp

1999-05-22 Thread Dan Willard
I had the same thing happen. I ended up having to check my i/o, irq. and dma(s) for my system to get what was free. Here is what I did, I have no idea if its correct but it works. isapnp with whatever conf file pnp came up with. modprobe sound insmod uart401 (in reality this probably isn't

Re: mail clients

1999-05-22 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1999-05-21 20:03, Steve Lamb wrote: On Fri, 21 May 1999 22:55:46 -0400, Allan M. Wind wrote: So, if you have known about this problem for years, where is your solution? Show me the code! This is the other bone I have to pick. NOT EVERYONE IS A PROGRAMMER AND CAN CODE. IT

Re: Debian installation - list of things that make it hard

1999-05-22 Thread Christensen
A final note on this thread--I tried re-installing Debian because during the first installation I remembered seeing messages about not being able to find the package.cd files. It turned out that when I used the scan option it found the ones for main and contrib, but not the ones for non-free,

Re: mail clients

1999-05-22 Thread Russell Rademacher
While people are complaining about this... they have overlooked one email client that does that job as I have been using at work. It is called XFMail. It is full featured email client written like 3 years back and it got rules filtering system so you can set it any which way you want.

Re: mail clients

1999-05-22 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Reply-to... Reply-to... ==BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE== From: Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian Developers debian-devel@lists.debian.org Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 21:46:01 -0700 Subject: Re: mail clients On Sat, 22

Re: mail clients

1999-05-22 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Reply to Reply-to... ==BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE== From: Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian Developers debian-devel@lists.debian.org Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 21:47:28 -0700 Subject: Re: mail clients On Fri, 21

Re: help /var is filling up!!!

1999-05-22 Thread Carl Johnson
Bruno Boettcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You really should find the real problem before you try changing logging. Try something like the command 'find /var -xdev -size +5000k -print'. This will print out the names of all files more than 5MB (there probably shouldn't be any). Then look

Re: strange msg in bootup

1999-05-22 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: strange msg in bootup Date: Sat, May 22, 1999 at 12:46:47AM +0300 In reply to:Ali Onur UYAR Quoting Ali Onur UYAR([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have been using Linux for a year. I started with hamm and now I am using slink. I was running kernel 2.0.36 until last week. Then

Can someone interpret this X error message for me?

1999-05-22 Thread David Ballantyne
Hi folks, I downloaded the xiraftools deb package from stable. It contains 3 programs: xtapemon, xgterm, and ximtool. The package installed no problem, and the first two applications worked. However, the third program (which of course was the one I really wanted to use!) gave me this X error: ~

Re: mail clients

1999-05-22 Thread Pollywog
On 22-May-99 George Bonser wrote: On Sat, 22 May 1999, Russell Rademacher wrote: Dunno if there is a deb package for it but you can complie it yourself and install it. I have been using it for nearly a year and have no complaint about it. Although.. it would be nice if they updated it

Re: You have new mail disappeared

1999-05-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 May 1999, Max wrote: What happened to the You have new mail prompt on potato? It now says You have mail when I log in, regardless of whether it's new mail or old mail that I've already ready but just haven't deleted yet. Max -- The hopeful depend on a world without end Whatever

[Help] Memory

1999-05-22 Thread Nguyen Hai Ha
Hi folks, I've just installed the debian 2.0.34 on my machine. Everything seems to work well excepts the memory. The real memory consists of 2 DIMM 128M+32M. But it seems to me that the kernel doesn't think so. % cat /proc/meminfo total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem:

Moving Gnome Applet Panel

1999-05-22 Thread John Foster
I have Gnome running on and Icewm-gnome window manager. I want to have the applet panel at the top of the screen and use the autohide feature. I have used the panel menu to relocate it. I want it to stay there when I log out and be there the next time I log in. I have not been able to figure out

Re: gnome-session + enlightenmet

1999-05-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
OD == Oz Dror [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OD what is the relationship between gnome-session and enlightenment OD which one should be started first. is dnome session going to be OD started in the .xsession file, if so which startup file need to OD start enlightenment. I am using xdm. If you use

Re: Environment variables and X

1999-05-22 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 08:56:16AM -0500, Marc Mongeon wrote: Arcady Genkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/21 1:30 AM Where is the proper place to set environment variables, so that they would propagate to X apps? Look in the wdm man pages for a profile that wdm executes on startup (I would be very

Commercial mail client now free - source code availabl

1999-05-22 Thread Phillip Deackes
Hi. for some time now I have been using Ishmail on my Debian system. ishmail was a commercial email app, but I was willing to pay because I found it much better than anything else I could find. The Ishmail website (http://www.ishmail.com) is now announcing that Ishmail will no longer be developed

Re: new wmaker package?

1999-05-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
TK == Thomas Keusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TK On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 04:04:32PM -0400, eric a. Farris wrote: TK [no wmaker 0.53.0 package available?] umm, my potato wmaker is 0.53.0-2. are you sure you're getting everything from your potato mirror? here's my apt sources.list: TK I

Fetchmail problems

1999-05-22 Thread XRDLAB
Hi, I upgraded my hamm system to slink. Everything went well. The old configurations generated by ppconfig run equally well under the new system also. But I am having some trouble with regard to getting the mail from my isp. This has happened after upgrading to slink. When I do a fetchmail, I get

login error

1999-05-22 Thread dan ilan
Shalom, i've created a dual boot/root disk and i have a problem logging-in: I get this error: invalid password for UNKNOWN on tty1 TIA, Danny Ilan ICQ 31119569 http://www.imagineradio.com/mymusiclisten.asp?name=danilan __ Get

Printer doubt

1999-05-22 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, Anyone here uses HP LaserJet IIP plus and Epson LX-300 under Debian? I'm trying to setup these two printers and dont know what to do! Thanks in advance. Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique

Re: New install question

1999-05-22 Thread Dennis Schoen
John Hagemann wrote: I have downloaded and installed slink on an old pentium 60 with and isa ethernet card to use as a proxy. The problem I have is I cannot get the driver loaded for my ethernet card (SMC Elite) The installation goes well and I can run linux, but cannot get my ethernet

Re: [Debian]: Mathematische Schriftart

1999-05-22 Thread Bernd Mayer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hallo folgende Frage hab ich in ner Usegroup gelesen: kann mir jemand eine Schriftart (TTF) nennen, die speziell mathematische Formelzeichen enthält? Die Antwort war dann: Starmath.ttf Das hätte ich auch gern - kann mir da jemand was zu sagen?

Re: Color Bit Depth

1999-05-22 Thread Matt Kopishke
That's fine if I used startx, but I run xdm, this best solution I have seen so far is starting the server on another console. -Matt- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://169.244.227.129 MSAD#40 Home Page http://169.244.227.129/ss/MVHS Seed Savers Project

HELP! apt stops working!

1999-05-22 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, apt works fine on my other machine without any problem. On my second machine, I have the same configuration, but it does not work. The error is: Get http://snowcrash.tdyc.com slink/rkrusty Packages 0% [Packages `Waiting for file' 0]http: Bad header

/dev/dsp

1999-05-22 Thread budi w
i use ess 1868 i try to detect my sound with sound module and isapnp but when i try to play my *.mp3 file i got messsage can't open /dev/dsp anyone can help me ? regards budi wibowo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Locations of experimental/really new beta debs?

1999-05-22 Thread Allen B. Riddell
Seeing the degree of testing (justifiable, I'm sure!) that new debs go through before they get to unstable/stable --- I was wondering if there is any index or any way to find the more experimental packages other than running across the maintainer's web page by chance --- take, the e-cvs debs

Re: Locations of experimental/really new beta debs?

1999-05-22 Thread Gregory T. Norris
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/project/experimental/ http://http.us.debian.org/debian/project/experimental/ On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 10:47:55AM -0400, Allen B. Riddell wrote: Seeing the degree of testing (justifiable, I'm sure!) that new debs go through before they get to unstable/stable --- I

compiling vim (terminal recognition problem)

1999-05-22 Thread Micha Feigin
I recompiled vim on my computer (needed some support i didn't have) only now when i try to start it on a non xterm (rxvt ot on text console) i get a message that it can't recognize the terminal: 'rxvt' not known. Available builtin terminals are: gui ansi xterm iris-ansi dumb

Bus error in Netscape

1999-05-22 Thread Michelle Coelho
I have 16MB of swap space on the primary hard disk , /dev/hda (where / is mounted as well as the rest of the file systems) and 116MB of swap space on /dev/hdb. Actually, I had been using /dev/hda. Then when netscape gave me a bus error, I connected the second hard disk and ran cfdisk, and

Re: /dev/dsp

1999-05-22 Thread Peter Makholm
budi w [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i use ess 1868 i try to detect my sound with sound module and isapnp but when i try to play my *.mp3 file i got messsage can't open /dev/dsp Your user has probally not permission to write to /dev/dsp. Add your user to the audio group in /etc/group. -- Peter

RE: /dev/dsp

1999-05-22 Thread Pollywog
On 23-May-99 budi w wrote: i use ess 1868 i try to detect my sound with sound module and isapnp but when i try to play my *.mp3 file i got messsage can't open /dev/dsp anyone can help me ? I believe you need to add yourself to the audio group in /etc/group

Re: gnome-session + enlightenmet

1999-05-22 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1999-05-22 12:20, Martin Bialasinski wrote: It will start the panel and window manager. You change the windowmanager through the gnome control center. That doesn't seem to work here. /Allan -- Allan M. Wind Phone: 781.938.5272 (home) 687 Main Street, 2nd Floor

need inittab

1999-05-22 Thread Oliver.Neukum
Hi, iam trying to install debian on ppc. The base2_2.tgz lacks an inittab. Could someone using debian mail me his ? TIA Oliver Neukum

Re: gnome-session + enlightenmet

1999-05-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
AMW == Allan M Wind [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AMW On 1999-05-22 12:20, Martin Bialasinski wrote: It will start the panel and window manager. You change the windowmanager through the gnome control center. AMW That doesn't seem to work here. Which part of it? doesn't gnome-session start the

ssh and PATH trouble

1999-05-22 Thread Ramin Motakef
Hi everybody! I have some troble with ssh. I want to restart (or reload) services in /etc/init.d from a perl script. But what happens is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/root]# ssh -x vmdebian /etc/init.d/nfs-server reload Reloading NFS servers configuration files. /etc/init.d/nfs-server:

Re: gnome-session + enlightenmet

1999-05-22 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1999-05-22 18:22, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Which part of it? doesn't gnome-session start the window manager, are you not able to change it, something else? GNOME Control Panel | Desktop | Window Manager does does not have anything to tweak on the right side. Cancel Help are the only

ppp diagnostic

1999-05-22 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi, ppl, few times I got sach info in ppp.log: May 22 21:47:46 spyur pppd[2493]: sent [LCP ConfNak id=0xa magic 0xd845] May 22 21:47:46 spyur pppd[2493]: rcvd [LCP ConfNak id=0xa magic 0xd845] May 22 21:47:46 spyur pppd[2493]: Serial line is looped back. May 22 21:47:46 spyur pppd[2493]:

gnome-print library

1999-05-22 Thread Micha Feigin
does this library have a port to debian? if so how is it called, and where is it? _ Do You Yahoo!? Free instant messaging and more at http://messenger.yahoo.com

Re: Resolution in X

1999-05-22 Thread moron
Thanks to you all for your help. I tried everything and finally it works. (Actually ctrl-alt-plus doesn't, but ctrl-alt-minus doesn't, but since it rotates it makes no difference). One last (for now) important question: Where should I have looked to find the key combination and saved you the

Re: Q: cc1plus

1999-05-22 Thread Thomas Ruedas
The intent of that is to invoke the C++ compiler as g++ rather than gcc. Change the GCC definition in sources.cc/makefile from gcc to g++. Hello, and thanks a lot again - now I got it. Indeed, changing this made it work without problems. wp2latex doesn't seem to follow many of the informal

Re: compiling vim (terminal recognition problem)

1999-05-22 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 22 May 1999 08:11:00 -0700 (PDT), Micha Feigin wrote: I recompiled vim on my computer (needed some support i didn't have) only now when i try to start it on a non xterm (rxvt ot on text console) i get a message that it can't recognize the

Modem GM56PCI-L

1999-05-22 Thread Luiz Felipe
Hello, now I use Debian 2.0 and a modem GM56PCI-L of Genius. My minicom (ttyS1) don't recive responce, in Windows my modem is COM3 it's put in PCI2 on my MotherBord, and how I can use it? Sorry my english but I'm Brazilian.!!! Wait your mail!

Re: ppp diagnostic

1999-05-22 Thread John Hasler
Can someone explain me what does it means? It means that your chatscript has failed to satisfied your ISP's login procedure. Your machine has started pppd but the other end is still expecting more text and so is echoing everything it gets. Pppd sees its own LCP packets coming back to it and

Re: New install question

1999-05-22 Thread Brad
On Sat, 22 May 1999, Dennis Schoen wrote: and the Kernel Howto for Compiling a new Kernel. Personally, i'd recommend reading the Debian FAQ, section 11, for directions on making a new kernel. http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/debian-faq-11.html

IRCD

1999-05-22 Thread Brian
Greetings; I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to compile an older copy of dalnet's ircd ver 4.4.10 however it appears that I may not have the correct libs? Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance CT TCPIP Coordinator 44.88/16

Re: ssh and PATH trouble

1999-05-22 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 05:21:27PM +0200, Ramin Motakef wrote: Hi everybody! I have some troble with ssh. I want to restart (or reload) services in /etc/init.d from a perl script. But what happens is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/root]# ssh -x vmdebian /etc/init.d/nfs-server reload Reloading NFS

man!

1999-05-22 Thread Johan Pettersson
Hello! When I installed fetchmail and typed man fetchmail it did not work. But when I did a reboot it worked after that. I have now installed pgp and when I type man pgp No manual entry for pgp!! So I did a locate /usr/man/man1/pgp.1.gz. What is wrong ? I can not reboot my computer every time i

Re: mail clients

1999-05-22 Thread Pollywog
On 22-May-99 George Bonser wrote: On Sat, 22 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: I have the deb package installed but I also don't believe it is under active development. I downloaded a new client Mahogany Mail, which reminds me of Eudora. Where did you get it. Linuxberg (TUCOWS for Linux)

daylight savings time aint savin' ME time

1999-05-22 Thread Michael Stenner
Ever since Daylight savings time struck, my clock has been incorrect. I've tried setting it with hwclock --set --date=bla bla which seems to work, according to hwclock --show but when I reboot, the clocks (system AND hardware) are still wrong. I've also tried setting it in the BIOS. Again, my

Re: man!

1999-05-22 Thread Johan Pettersson
Johan Pettersson wrote: Hello! When I installed fetchmail and typed man fetchmail it did not work. But when I did a reboot it worked after that. I have now installed pgp and when I type man pgp No manual entry for pgp!! So I did a locate /usr/man/man1/pgp.1.gz. What is wrong ? I can not

Re: man!

1999-05-22 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: When I installed fetchmail and typed man fetchmail it did not work. But when I did a reboot it worked after that. I have now installed pgp and when I type man pgp No manual entry for pgp!! So I did a locate /usr/man/man1/pgp.1.gz. What is wrong ? I don't know

Re: Can someone interpret this X error message for me?

1999-05-22 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Sat, 22 May 1999, David Ballantyne wrote: ~ {208} ximtool [1] 15911 ~ {209} Warning: Cannot convert string center to type Justify ^^^ I'm no expert, but this looks like a font problem. I don't really know more than that, but

Re: Can someone interpret this X error message for me?

1999-05-22 Thread David Ballantyne
~ {208} ximtool [1] 15911 ~ {209} Warning: Cannot convert string center to type Justify ^^^ I'm no expert, but this looks like a font problem. I don't really know more than that, but for what it's worth... What does

Re: Bus error in Netscape

1999-05-22 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Sat, 22 May 1999, George Bonser wrote: On Sat, 22 May 1999, Michelle Coelho wrote: what I get: bash-2.01$ netscape Netscape: Ignoring unsupported netscape contenttype in user mailcap file. Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background Warning:

Re: mail clients

1999-05-22 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 09:23:53PM -0400, Jim B wrote: Hi all. Is there a good POP3 and/or IMAP4 client (console or GUI, doesn't matter) that supports multiple accounts with easy switching between them... and that can filter based on the account concept rather than just on headers? If I'm

Re: mail clients

1999-05-22 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 08:03:45PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 21 May 1999 22:55:46 -0400, Allan M. Wind wrote: So, if you have known about this problem for years, where is your solution? Show me the code! This is the other bone I

Re: mail clients

1999-05-22 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 22 May 1999 16:48:47 -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote: Unix-esque operating systems are _not_ designed for casual use. I understand that. The more you understand about the way computers work, the more efficently you will be able to do things.

peer refuses to authenticate

1999-05-22 Thread moron
I'm trying for the fiftieth time to set up an internet connection for the first time. Could someone tell me if the message peer refuses to authenticate signifies something specific and easily correctable or just that I'm still a long way from getting things right? David

Re: Bus error in Netscape

1999-05-22 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Sat, 22 May 1999, George Bonser wrote: On Sat, 22 May 1999, Christopher J. Morrone wrote: Sounds dangerous...doesn't a bus error mean that the app tried to write into kernel space memory? If so, wouldn't giving it root access allow it to overwrite kernel memory and crash the

Re: gnome-session + enlightenmet

1999-05-22 Thread add|ct|on
Allan M. Wind wrote: On 1999-05-22 12:20, Martin Bialasinski wrote: It will start the panel and window manager. You change the windowmanager through the gnome control center. That doesn't seem to work here. /Allan -- Allan M. Wind Phone: 781.938.5272 (home) 687

Re: peer refuses to authenticate

1999-05-22 Thread thomas lakofski
On Sat, 22 May 1999, moron wrote: I'm trying for the fiftieth time to set up an internet connection for the first time. Could someone tell me if the message peer refuses to authenticate signifies something specific and easily correctable or just that I'm still a long way from getting things

Re: Bus error in Netscape

1999-05-22 Thread Peter Allen
George Bonser wrote: On Sat, 22 May 1999, Christopher J. Morrone wrote: Sounds dangerous...doesn't a bus error mean that the app tried to write into kernel space memory? If so, wouldn't giving it root access allow it to overwrite kernel memory and crash the system? Not dangerous

apt-get problem

1999-05-22 Thread Debian Mail
I encountered some problems while upgrading with apt-get. I ended up with removing xemacs20, then apt-get update and apt-get upgrade finished without error. But now some programs are missing. E.g. xterm and startx. What could have gone wrong? Stef

SO5, 5.01 5.1

1999-05-22 Thread tjm
Hello. I'm looking for pointers on this StarOffice Problem. The system is a Debian 2.1, 2.0.36 system on an Asus P2B-F PII 350Mhz, 128M ram. The installation is the home user setup from the Debian install. With SO5.0, 5.01 and 5.1, the mail and news functions do not work reliably. In fact, SO