Re: Primeros pasos con Mutt

1999-09-01 Thread Juanjo Martinez
El Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 11:30:28PM +0200, Cosme Perea Cuevas escribió: El Sun, Aug 22, 1999, Francisco José Avila Bermejo... y cuando creas un nuevo mensaje, al aparecer el campo `To.', puedes poner el alias y se resolverá la dirección automáticamente. También puedes utilizar

Re: Lista de Modems

1999-09-01 Thread Juanjo Martinez
El Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 05:44:49PM -0300, Marcelo Ramos escribió: Hola a todos: Hola: Sin animo de chafarte la idea, ya tienes una (enorme) lista de los módems que son y los que no son en http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html Pulsa sobre Big List El tema de los winmodem

Re: dd if=remota:/dev/hda1 of=local:/dev/hda1

1999-09-01 Thread Enzo A. Dari
Enzo A. Dari wrote: Necesitaría copiar una partición completa de una máquina a otra. Ninguna de las dos está montada. El comando del subject seguramente me enviará a paseo y con toda la razón. Hay alguna otra forma de hacerlo sin pasar por un archivo intermedio? (no tendría lugar para

Re: Primeros pasos con Mutt

1999-09-01 Thread Marcelo Ramos
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 01:56:30PM +0200, Juanjo Martinez wrote: El Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 11:30:28PM +0200, Cosme Perea Cuevas escribió: El Sun, Aug 22, 1999, Francisco José Avila Bermejo... y cuando creas un nuevo mensaje, al aparecer el campo `To.', puedes poner el alias y se

RE: dd if=remota:/dev/hda1 of=local:/dev/hda1

1999-09-01 Thread Tejada Lacaci, Antonio
-Mensaje original- De: Enzo A. Dari [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: miércoles 1 de septiembre de 1999 7:23 Para: Lista de Usuarios Debian en español Asunto: Re: dd if=remota:/dev/hda1 of=local:/dev/hda1 Enzo A. Dari wrote: Necesitaría copiar una partición

Re: El login de la Debian Citus se carga el log de inicio...

1999-09-01 Thread Ricard P.G.
--- Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola. Buenas. Desde hace cierto tiempo me molesta que al hacer un login en una consola virtual, la Citus borra la pantalla y pone la barra esa azul arriba. Es muy chulo la primera vez que instalas la distribución. Sin embargo, tengo

Re: Copiar texto de la pantalla a un fichero.

1999-09-01 Thread Antonio Castro
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Nitebirz wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Felipe Sanchez wrote: Tejada Lacaci, Antonio wrote: -Mensaje original- De: Emilio Hernández Martín [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: martes 24 de agosto de 1999 5:50 Para: Debian Asunto:

banners en impresión

1999-09-01 Thread TooMany
Buenas. Al imprimir lo que sea, me sale el banner; la hoja indicando el número de trabajo, a quién pertenece, etc, etc. Me pareció leer en el printing-HOWTO que poniendo banner=no ya no aparecía, pero no hay manera. Ya he puesto las líneas :sh:\ y :sf:\, pero me sigue apareciendo una hoja

RE: Instalación de GNU/linux 1.3 en Windows 98

1999-09-01 Thread jarregui
Hola, bienvenido al grupo. Ahora mismo la versión de Debian ya es la 2.1, la 1.3.1 es ya un poquito antigua, por lo que puedes tener problemas dependiendo de la tarjeta gráfica que tengas, porque puede que no esté soportada en esa versión. ¿No puedes conseguir la 2.1? Por otra parte, la última

Re: El login de la Debian Citus se carga el log de inicio...

1999-09-01 Thread Hue-Bond
El martes 31 de agosto de 1999 a la(s) 23:33:55 +, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz contaba: ¿Es posible quitar la barra azul del login, y modificar el comportamiento para que no se borre la pantalla? Se puede hacer que salga la barra azul pero sin borrar la pantalla.

Re: dd if=remota:/dev/hda1 of=local:/dev/hda1

1999-09-01 Thread Hue-Bond
El miércoles 01 de septiembre de 1999 a la(s) 02:22:53 -0300, Enzo A. Dari contaba: La mejor solución sería no tener que pasar por los archivos intermedios. Alguien me sugirió usar tar. Recuerdo que era muy cómodo para pasar archivos de un disco a otro sin perder los atributos de los mismos, y

Re: Lista de Modems

1999-09-01 Thread dfm
Si vas a comprarte un modem aunque cueste un pelín más caro, por experiencia te aconsejo un modem externo. Yo a modo de ejemplo te digo que tengo en casa un modem externo 56k con chip Rockwell que va de maravilla y alcanza velocidades de vértigo, 5k/s y 6k/s. y sobre todo, para configurarlo no

Re: El login de la Debian Citus se carga el log de inicio...

1999-09-01 Thread Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Ricard P.G. wrote: ¿Por qué el dmesg no muestra todo el log? ¿Es posible quitar la barra azul del login, y modificar el comportamiento para que no se borre la pantalla? dmesg muestra los mensajes del kernel. Si por ejemplo luego aparecen los tipicos mensajes chorras como

Re: pascal for linux

1999-09-01 Thread Marcelo Ramos
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 11:28:03AM -0300, cordoba wrote: I have Pascal for Dos, but my OS (Sistema Operacional) is Linux, and I like how install in linux. Hi, What distribution are you using? I remember that SUSE comes with a pascal compiler, about Debian I don't know. Bye. --

Re: Hi all and a question

1999-09-01 Thread Marcelo Ramos
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 10:46:34AM +, Marcin Owsiany wrote: It was contained in a package whose main program was a program to make holes in files, thus non-destructively gaining space on HD. Ah! the name was perforate It contains 2 scripts that gather info about progs/libs and say

Mutt: Nueva Pagina en Castellano

1999-09-01 Thread J Horacio MG
Para quien le interese, he puesto una página sobre el programa de correo Mutt en castellano (en su mayor parte es una traducción de la página oficial de Mutt). La dirección es: http://www.ciberia.es/~carlotha/mutt Saludos, -- Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Valencia - ESPAÑA

Re: pascal for linux

1999-09-01 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
I have Pascal for Dos, but my OS (Sistema Operacional) is Linux, and I like how install in linux. What distribution are you using? I remember that SUSE comes with a pascal compiler, about Debian I don't know. Debian has gpc and p2c. FreePascal (I think that's what it's called) has been

Re: buenas.

1999-09-01 Thread Juanjo Martinez
El Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 04:41:18PM -0300, Jorgito Dufou escribió: hola me acabo de bajar el bitchx beta II creo que es, no se para que sirve ni tampoc se como usarlo, me podrian mandar un archivo de ayuda? ya que el que baje de internet dice que esta dañado.si puede ser en castellano. Es un

Re: Download da Debian em Português - kernel

1999-09-01 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Ola José, Sempre que vou instalar a Debian 2.1 acabo levando alguns kernel especiais, sem aquele monte de drivers scsi que tem no odisquete de instalação. Isso porque já em muitos casos o kernel trava logo depois de tentar detectar alguma controladora scsi. Já passei pelo problema tentando

Re: Download da Debian em Português - ke rnel

1999-09-01 Thread Jose Carlos Benfati
Sempre que vou instalar a Debian 2.1 acabo levando alguns kernel especiais, sem aquele monte de drivers scsi que tem no odisquete de instalação. Isso porque já em muitos casos o kernel trava logo depois de tentar detectar alguma controladora scsi. Eu em geral levo um kernel só com disco IDE, e

Re: 24-bit color with 1024x768 instead of 16-bit

1999-09-01 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Hello, On Windows98, I'm able to use my MAG DJ700 monitor with my Diamond 3D Stealth 2000 card at 1024x768 and 24-bit colors without a problem. Whenever I've tried to set that up with XFree86, it always turns off the 1024x768 option for 24-bit color, so the highest color depth I'm able to

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-01 Thread Edward Kear
At 02:24 PM 8/31/99 MDT, Duggan Dieterly wrote: i'm thinking about switching from debian to red hat. is there any compelling reason why debian is better than red hat? -- Duggan Dieterlyvoice: (970) 898-7906 Software Design Engr

Re: FW: FTP Install

1999-09-01 Thread Cormac McGuinness
Thanks for your response, For the info of everyone it seems that FTP install capabilities are not yet a reality for debian. ^^^ ?? FYI I originally came to use Debian because at the time it was the _only_ distribution that I was

Hi all and a question

1999-09-01 Thread jmmv
Hi all, I'm new at this list and I want to ask something: Is there any program to check which libraries are unused on a system, so, any program doesn't depends on them ? Many thanks. Juli-Manel Merino Vidal [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://jmmv.cjb.net

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-01 Thread Steve George
Hi, [ no doubt ths comes up often so I hope no-one minds me commenting! ] I'm sure you'll get lots of answers. For me the main points were: PRO: - More 'standards' compliant in the sense that I found that when I read the HOWTOS in many cases the RH stuff wasn't in the places it said it would

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-01 Thread Min Xu
Hi, i'm thinking about switching from debian to red hat. is there any compelling reason why debian is better than red hat? -- Sure. Debian has a better package control system and can resolve the dependence better. Apt is a superior tool. Can you find an equivalent one for redhat?

Re: [Debian: Grafikkarte] 3Dfx (MAXI Gamer 3D)

1999-09-01 Thread Jean-Philippe Guérard
On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 01:43:57PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Today I have found a 3Dfx graphic card in my miracle sack Currently I am using the 'miroCrystal 40 sv' which works very good, but the 3Dfx und mor then 2 years younger and it will have more Power. You will still have to rely

Re: modules loading (possibly zip driver quesiton too...)

1999-09-01 Thread Jonathan Heaney
Stephen Pitts wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 08:47:20AM -0400, Jon Hughes wrote: I just posted a question last night about some problems with a ZIP drive. One thing I read that could be a possible solution is the module lp is loading before ppa (at least, that's what the book says...). I

Re: Log files - large and queer

1999-09-01 Thread Brian May
On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 06:30:29PM +1000, Brian May wrote: wtmp: I don't understand why it should be so large for 294 entries: snoopy# last | wc 2942788 22522 Thats 26kb per entry!!! Really??? If this really is the case, please tell me why each record is so large... More

Re: Slink, tkdesk and libc6_2.1

1999-09-01 Thread Miles Bader
John Forest [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Isn't slink; libc6 2.1 ?? Needless to say I put tkdesk on hold. Alternatively, you could just install libc6-2.1. I did this last night, and was a bit nervous that installing a new C library would fuck things up, but apt-get did its magic, and all my

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, August 31, 1999, 3:04:45 PM, Steve wrote: - Speed of releases. Volunteers don't have the same amount of time as a commercial operation so the releases tend to be few and far between. They are very solid when they come along but it can be a bit galling if you want to run up-to-date

Re: Please help a poor gaijin!

1999-09-01 Thread Miles Bader
Neil Booth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: c) Setting up Japanese input is quite tricky. I use canna, with standard slink emacs20. The various packages for this come with Debian-jp. Thing's are quite a bit simpler if you just use emacs-20's built-in input methods -- they basically just work out of

Re: script command question

1999-09-01 Thread Mark Wagnon
On Tue 08/31/99 09:46AM, Michael Stenner wrote: I use ls with color and also use a cool prompt setting in bash (see below) which does REALLY nasty things to script. If you find a clever way to keep the colors and fix the script output, I'd be happy to hear it! I'm not sure what kind of stuff

X V.4?

1999-09-01 Thread Ben Lutgens
Anyone know when Branden plans (if at all) to release the snap of X? -- Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. Ben Lutgens (pgp public key is blutgens available @ hkp://pgpkeys.mit.edu) -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1

Re: Forgotten root password HELP

1999-09-01 Thread Nathan Duehr
Patrick, What's Tom's Rescue Disk? Is it the standard Debian Rescue image, or something else? (I missed it in your thread somewhere...) On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote: Thanks one and all. I tried two approaches: - at LILO prompt I typed linux init=/bin/bash. This failed because

Re: wtmp rotates two times a month

1999-09-01 Thread Brian May
On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 06:30:29PM +1000, Brian May wrote: My system is fully slink. wtmp: I don't understand why it should be so large for 294 entries: snoopy# last | wc 2942788 22522 In investigating the above problem, I found something else: [508] [snoopy:bam] /var/log last -f

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-01 Thread Nathan Duehr
True package management, including installation scripts. And a process in place to keep packages out of the main distribution that don't follow a standard for file locations, and other stuff. In a word: stability It's great for servers, end-users can use just about any version of Linux and be

Re: Hi all and a question

1999-09-01 Thread John Carline
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm new at this list and I want to ask something: Is there any program to check which libraries are unused on a system, so, any program doesn't depends on them ? Many thanks. Juli-Manel Merino Vidal [EMAIL

network setup

1999-09-01 Thread zdrysdal
Hi all with ifconfig i get a listing for eth0: which relates to my local ip-address. I have however a psuedonym for relations with a firewall i think.. anyways, when i add eth0:1 etc in the etc/init.d/network file and reboot... it comes up saying it doesn't know anything about interface eth0:1.

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1999-09-01 Thread Govindsk
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xemacs21 missing startup/configuration files?

1999-09-01 Thread Micha Feigin
I installed Xemacs 21 together with xemacs20. It worked fine untill i removed the xemacs20 instelation. I then got the following mesage: Couldn't find obvious defaults for: doc-directory data-directory exec-directory Perhaps some directories don't exist, or the XEmacs executable, /usr/bin/xemacs21

Re: Help with packages

1999-09-01 Thread John Carline
Luca Bonci wrote: Hello everyone, I just installed Debian slink on a PII and as a first attempt I choose to install the minimal configuration. Now I would like to go back to the nice page that let you choose the installation profile. I mean the installation step where we can choose to

need voice modem back do not know how to get back in

1999-09-01 Thread Jennifer S Denney

Problem with open_1.40-10_i386.deb

1999-09-01 Thread Big Gaute
I'm a fairly satisfied Debian 2.1 user. I recently installed the open_1.40-10_i386.deb package in order to be able to run commands on other VCs without having to log on to them first, and possible to put it in init as outlined in various places (so that you can spawn a new VC with alt-up etc.)

exim.conf headers_remove

1999-09-01 Thread Peter Mickle
hi and thanks for taking the time to look at another exim question... i am using exim together with mutt on a dial-up slink machine, and i have modified the /etc/exim.conf per the Linux Gazette article by Jan Stumpel, as suggested on this list previously. everything works as described except the

Re: XDMCP broadcasts on all machines

1999-09-01 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 09:20:42AM -0400, Aleksandra Bytnerowicz wrote Igor Mozetic, the Debian List and Brandon Harris: I came across a post for XDMCP and broadcast posting to the debian lists + in November 1998. SPecifically, the message which was written was:

Re: startx Fails

1999-09-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya greg - simple answer: video ram problem... - look at your svga card... see how much memory it says you should have... add that value to the VideoRam line for that device in XF86Config - check the Horizontal/Vertical stuff from your

httptunnel client for win 95

1999-09-01 Thread Oz Dror
Does anyone knows where I can get win95 version of htc, so that I'll be able to communicate with my linux computer from wokr. Thanks Oz Dror -- NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94 PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126

Re: network setup

1999-09-01 Thread Mark Wagnon
On Wed 09/01/99 03:03PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all with ifconfig i get a listing for eth0: which relates to my local ip-address. I have however a psuedonym for relations with a firewall i think.. anyways, when i add eth0:1 etc in the etc/init.d/network file and reboot... it comes up

Text processing under Linux - newbie question

1999-09-01 Thread Alex V. Toropov
Hi all ! Please tell me (a new linux/Unix user) where to start learning about possble text processing apps under linux. I've heard such words as TeX, LaTeX, TeTeX, Emacs that should deal with subj. But where can i find some kind of introduction and feature description for this apps and general

Re: network setup

1999-09-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi I think you are looking for: server# ifconfig eth0:1 10.1.1.10 server# route add -host 10.1.1.0 eth0:1 other# ifconfig eth0:1 10.1.1.11 other# route add -host 10.1.1.0 eth0:1 --- other# ifconfig -v eth0:1Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet

FireWall and FTP server question

1999-09-01 Thread Alex V. Toropov
Hi all, I have an FTP WWW-server behind my firewall. This firewall allow any tcp trafic from/to ports 21 and 80 of this machine. WWW-server works fine, but connection to FTP-server hangs after user authentification (on first LIST request from client). As far as I know FTP needs some other port

Re: exim.conf headers_remove

1999-09-01 Thread Marcelo Ramos
Hi, I tried the same and worked. I think a secure way of get the conversion home (non existent) email address real email address is defining your own From: header in your .muttrc: my_hdr From: email-address Try it and tell me if it works for you. Bye. On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at

Re: more info on dhcpcd problem

1999-09-01 Thread Seth R Arnold
Constantine, thanks for your help, but I am back again.. :) I removed dhcpcd and replaced it with dhcp-client-beta and dhcp-beta (or whichever package contains the docs for dhcp-client-beta) from my slink release 2 CDs. Still no go. I get the same Operation not permitted error message. It just

Re: Text processing under Linux - newbie question

1999-09-01 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 10:30:27AM +0400, Alex V. Toropov wrote: | Hi all ! | | Please tell me (a new linux/Unix user) where to start learning | about possble text processing apps under linux. | Please be more specific. There are editors, mark-up languages + interpreter (i.e. LaTex DVI, PS),

perl leap year function?

1999-09-01 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
Just a question - I need an algorithm that can match a number of days with any month. For this to be useful, I need a function that can tell me if it's a leap year this year. Is there one available in any of the perl modules? If not I could just hardcode the next few into my script... --

Re: Text processing under Linux - newbie question

1999-09-01 Thread virtanen
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Alex V. Toropov wrote: Please tell me (a new linux/Unix user) where to start learning about possble text processing apps under linux. In Your case I would start with lyx. Of course it depends on, how complex and nice texts you want to do. With lyx you can do practically

Re: FireWall and FTP server question

1999-09-01 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 10:37:07AM +0400, Alex V. Toropov wrote: | Hi all, | | I have an FTP WWW-server behind my firewall. | This firewall allow any tcp trafic from/to ports 21 and 80 of this | machine. WWW-server works fine, but connection to FTP-server | hangs after user authentification (on

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-01 Thread Patrick Kirk
I'm not a techie so this is a user's perspective. Red Hat is just as free as Debian so there's no issue there like there is with SuSE and Caldera. There are far more Red Hat users out there and lots of RPMs. So give it a try and decide for yourself. I use Debian because its so easy to keep it

Re: Forgotten root password HELP

1999-09-01 Thread Patrick Kirk
Toms Rescue Disk is a complete Linux system on a bootable floppy. http://www.toms.net/rb/home.html It's handy in that you can use it on any machine. Patrick

Fw: Cron root@enterprise run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily

1999-09-01 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, Anyone know how I can stop getting these messages? Thanks in advance. - Original Message - From: Cron Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 6:26 AM Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily

RE: Hi all and a question

1999-09-01 Thread jmmv
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 31-Aug-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm new at this list and I want to ask something: Is there any program to check which libraries are unused on a system, so, any program doesn't depends on them ? **ASSUMING** all

3.3.4-1 - Netscape 4.51 Crashes

1999-09-01 Thread Mark M
Hi, Apols for flogging an already dead horse, but I believe that upgrading to xfree86 3.3.4-1 may cause the revered netscape 4.51 solution to fail For me, ns4.51 caused X3.3.4-1 to crash completely on minimising windows. ns4.6glibc2 continued to give bus errors on exiting windows but X stayed

Re: Text processing under Linux - newbie question

1999-09-01 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi Alex, I've heard such words as TeX, LaTeX, TeTeX, Emacs that should deal with subj. But where can i find some kind of introduction and feature description for this apps and general conception for using them. Emacs is a text editor. TeX is a typesetting system developed at Stanford

Re: perl leap year function?

1999-09-01 Thread Corey Popelier
Since leap years fall within a specific pattern, I can't see why you would have to hardcode the next few. In psuedo-code, just have a function like: function isLeapYear(year as int) as boolean if remainder(year div 4) = 0 then return true else return false end I

Delay under X

1999-09-01 Thread jmmv
Hi all, It happens a very strange thing in my Debian distribution (now, it's 2.1/potato mixed) that I haven't noticed under others as RedHat, OpenLinux or FreeBSD. The problem is that when I 'startx' it apperes the cross mouse pointer and it's a big delay (some times to 10 secs) until X loads the

Re: perl leap year function?

1999-09-01 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi folks, Is there one available in any of the perl modules? If not I could just hardcode the next few into my script... isn't that essentially why we've got a Y2K problem, because nobody thought those old COBOL hacks would last mor that 5 years... and that was 30 years ago. Seriously:

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-01 Thread Hasso Tepper
At 01:43 01.09.99 -0700, George Bonser wrote: Patrick, I graduated from Red Hat to Debian twice. I was hard-headed and did not learn the first time ... gave it a second chance. I came back to Debian. The ONLY thing Red Hat has is an easy install ... upkeep of a Red Hat system is a nightmare.

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya patrick/george I graduated from Red Hat to Debian twice. I was hard-headed and did not learn the first time ... gave it a second chance. I came back to Debian. The ONLY thing Red Hat has is an easy install ... upkeep of a Red Hat system is a nightmare. install on rh ain't that

Re: perl leap year function?

1999-09-01 Thread Matthias Murra
function isLeapYear(year as int) as boolean if remainder(year div 4) = 0 then return true else return false end I realise this isnt the only condition (theres something fishy about years divisible by 400 from memory) but it would do the trick. The fishy part is that

Re: xterm-menus not working

1999-09-01 Thread Keith Harbaugh
Change XTerm*geometry: 80x24 XTerm.VT100*geometry: 80x24 to XTerm.vt100.geometry: 80x24 Let me know if that doesn't work; it works fine for me (although actually I use 80x63).

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-01 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 01:43:52AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: Patrick, I graduated from Red Hat to Debian twice. I was hard-headed and did not learn the first time ... gave it a second chance. I came back to Debian. The ONLY thing Red Hat has is an easy install ... upkeep of a Red Hat

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-01 Thread Patrick Kirk
I also graduated from Red Hat. Debian installation is a beast but it leaves you with a working system that is idiot proof. Red Hat is an easier installation but things fail and you're left trawling the net resolving dependencies. Patrick - Original Message - From: George Bonser [EMAIL

Re: Hi all and a question

1999-09-01 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 01:47:48AM +, John Carline wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm new at this list and I want to ask something: Is there any program to check which libraries are unused on a system, so, any program doesn't depends on them ? Many thanks.

Problem with the login.app package

1999-09-01 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I have tried to post to other lists to get a solution for this. It seems to be Debian related though. Here goes: I installed login.app on my Debian box. I run WindowMaker. What happens when I boot up is that I get to the login.app login screen, but when I put in my user name and password the

Unidentified subject!

1999-09-01 Thread Kennie J. Cruz-Gutierrez
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Re: [Debian: Grafikkarte] 3Dfx (MAXI Gamer 3D)

1999-09-01 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Jean-Philippe Guérard wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 01:43:57PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Today I have found a 3Dfx graphic card in my miracle sack Currently I am using the 'miroCrystal 40 sv' which works very good, but the 3Dfx und mor then 2 years younger and it will have more

Re: more info on dhcpcd problem

1999-09-01 Thread Constantine Karbaliotis
1. make sure that you have enabled dynamic ip addressing and forwarding in your network script before you call dhclient/dhcpcd (since they are not enabled by default): echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr echo 1 /pro/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward 2. check your cables and card. make sure that they

Thanks and more questions:)

1999-09-01 Thread Jon Hughes
First off, thanks to all of you who helped me with sound card and modules and stuff. Appreciate it :-) Secondly, does Debian have a utility that will let me repartition my drive without data lost? I set up my paritions in a bit of a haze and have something like Root: 4 gigs /usr: 5 gigs

exim: unknown

1999-09-01 Thread Debian Mail
Ho do I configure exim to send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] where x is not known to a user on the local machine? For virtual domains I have search_type = lsearch*@ and *: user in the corresponding alias file On a machine with no virtual domains I also said search_type = lsearch*@ under

Machine freezes with xdm but not startx

1999-09-01 Thread Stuart Ballard
Hi, A while ago I posted to this list a question about the fact that my machine completely freezes up on a regular basis (with a pretty pattern of stripes on the screen) when I start X with xdm, but works fine when I start it with startx. I got a reply in a private email from someone who's

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-01 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Lamb) writes: Tuesday, August 31, 1999, 3:04:45 PM, Steve wrote: - Speed of releases. Volunteers don't have the same amount of time as a commercial operation so the releases tend to be few and far between. They are very solid when they come along but it can be a

Re: exim: unknown

1999-09-01 Thread Debian Mail
Ho do I configure exim to send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] where x is not known to a user on the local machine? What I meant is: mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be delivered to a local user if x is not known...

webby postgres

1999-09-01 Thread rnewton3
Hi all, I've finally set up a postgres db with a table and a few entries in (I think), now I'm trying to connect this to a web page. I've put the pgsql module in the php.ini file and created a page with the following code; html head titlePHP Test/title /head body ?php $conn=pg_connect(, , ,

Re: Thanks and more questions:)

1999-09-01 Thread Ashley Clark
On Wed, 01 Sep 1999, Jon Hughes wrote: Secondly, does Debian have a utility that will let me repartition my drive without data lost? [snip] Any advice? I don't think Debian has anything like that yet (other than ext2resize, which as I understand is still being worked on quite heavily). I

Re: kernel 2.2.x (x7) nfs very verbosy

1999-09-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 02:06:09PM -0600, Rogerio A. de Paula wrote: I upgraded the kernel to 2.2.x version (I tried different ones), but now I always get a warning message from mount saying that the compiled version of mount is older than the kernel (although I've already recompiled mount!).

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 11:04:45PM +0100, Steve George wrote: [Please include line breaks within paragraphs and leave a blank line between paragraphs] - More 'standards' compliant in the sense that I found that when I read the HOWTOS in many cases the RH stuff wasn't in the places it said it

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 06:11:13PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: [Slow releases] This is a fallacy. The longest Debian release cycle I could find on record was 7 months. In fact, that is the average. Red Hat and Slackware have both had 7 month long release cycles. The shorter ones were for

Re: wtmp rotates two times a month

1999-09-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 10:52:05AM +1000, Brian May wrote: In /etc/anacrontab, it says that if the monthly activities have not been run in the last 30 days, then it should run them NOW! However, July and August are 31 days... Som on the 31st anacron runs the monthly routines, and on the

XML conversion

1999-09-01 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I got the Havoc Gnome book from Gnome-CVS, but it's in XML. What tool in Potato I can use to change it to .html or .txt or .ps or something readble? Thanks, Paulo Henrique

[NeilB@earthling.net: Re: Please help a poor gaijin!]

1999-09-01 Thread Neil Booth
Miles Bader wrote:- Thing's are quite a bit simpler if you just use emacs-20's built-in input methods -- they basically just work out of the box (as long as your emacs was compiled with the leim support enabled). Just do: (set-language-environment Japanese) Then type C-\

Video For Linux

1999-09-01 Thread Matt Kopishke
Does any one have any experence with video4linux, or really what I am looking for is bttv. I have a ADS Tech Channel surfer (w/o the radio), it has a BT848 chip set. I tried the drivers in the 2.2.12 kernel with out any luck (I am using xawtv out of potato), I then grabed the latest source from

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-01 Thread A. M. Varon
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Hasso Tepper wrote: Agree. I moved from Redhat to Debian 2 months ago and only app I'm missing is printtool. I like printool of redhat. So I used alien to debianized that thing. I installed and it works(gui), but have not tested it yet. Anyway, to comment on the original

Re: SCSI Tape Drive

1999-09-01 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 07:34:44AM -0500, Anthony Landreneau wrote: Greetings, I have recently installed a SONY SCSI tape drive onto my linux box. I would like to use the Taper program to back up my hard drive to tape. But I seem to be having a problem with getting the tape drive to

Re: perl leap year function?

1999-09-01 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 12:55:41AM -0700, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: Just a question - I need an algorithm that can match a number of days with any month. For this to be useful, I need a function that can tell me if it's a leap year this year. Is there one available in any of the

Re: No cut/paste on lynx

1999-09-01 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 08:46:15AM -0500, Bruce Walzer wrote: On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 12:26:55PM +0200, Debian Mail wrote: [...] Hold down the SHIFT key when you select text in lynx. Works for me either in a text console (gpm) or X. Yep, that works. Thanks! Still strange that

Re: Fw: Cron root@enterprise run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily

1999-09-01 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 09:30:12AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: Hi all, Anyone know how I can stop getting these messages? Thanks in advance. - Original Message - From: Cron Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 6:26 AM Subject: Cron

Re: XML conversion

1999-09-01 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 18:28:01 -0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: I got the Havoc Gnome book from Gnome-CVS, but it's in XML. What tool in Potato I can use to change it to .html or .txt or .ps or something readble? Quoting Havoc's page

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-01 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
nathan nattered, True package management, including installation scripts. And a process in place to keep packages out of the main distribution that don't follow a standard for file locations, and other stuff. But the biggest single reason: this list. Most problems get resolved in a matter

Re: Text processing under Linux - newbie question

1999-09-01 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
(Lyx is based on Tex Actually, it isn't :) It used to describe itself as a front end for latex, but it went beyond that a couple of years ago. Therehad been plans for 1.2 to use latex as its file format, but that was dropped. It imports almost all latex with reLyX, and still outputs by

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