Desactivar XDM

1999-09-05 Thread Jose Carlos Fortea Marín
Recientemente, he instalado la Debian 2.1. Después de configurar las X, he visto que cada vez que arranco Linux, entro directamente en las X sin entrar en las pantallas modo consola. Buscando información, he encontrado que el causante de esto, es un programa denominado XDM, pero no he conseguido

Re: Desactivar XDM

1999-09-05 Thread Enzo A. Dari
Jose Carlos Fortea Marín wrote: Recientemente, he instalado la Debian 2.1. Después de configurar las X, he visto que cada vez que arranco Linux, entro directamente en las X sin entrar en las pantallas modo consola. Buscando información, he encontrado que el causante de esto, es un programa

Re: A ver qué os parece esto: poffwait

1999-09-05 Thread Felix Ortega
On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 12:37:19AM +, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote: Saludosss a losss pingüinos del lado oscuro. Pues que ocurre que mi madre me suele llamar a comer justo cuando me estoy bajando la cantidad de mensajes que tengo pendiendes en el servidor de noticias, y claro, o espero

Errores del qpopper

1999-09-05 Thread Ricardo Villalba
De vez en cuando me aparecen estos errores en el /var/log/messages: Sep 1 18:50:16 rvmsoft in.qpopper[3238]: @rvmsoft.es: -ERR Too few arguments for the auth command. Sep 1 18:50:16 rvmsoft in.qpopper[3238]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -ERR Unknown command: xsender. ¿Alguien sabe a qué se deben y cómo

Re: Configuración del Modem

1999-09-05 Thread J. Ivan Juanes Prieto
El dia Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 11:57:03AM +0200, Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren tuvo a bien escribir: Tengo un modem interno ZOLTIRX FM-VSP56i3. Está en la lista de modems compatibles con LINUX por lo que por ese lado no creo tener problema. Sin embargo, lo configuré de forma que me dejara

Re: Desactivar XDM

1999-09-05 Thread Miquel
El dom, sep 05, 1999 at 03:42:42 + Jose Carlos Fortea Marín va dir: Recientemente, he instalado la Debian 2.1. Después de configurar las X, he visto que cada vez que arranco Linux, entro directamente en las X sin entrar en las pantallas modo consola. Buscando información, he encontrado

Re: Sendmail dice NO, Fetchmail flipa y corta, y yo me j*d*, :-(

1999-09-05 Thread José Carlos García Sogo
Cosme Perea Cuevas wrote: Hola, Hola! :-)) pues una mañana me encuentro que no tengo correo nuevo y mirando los logs... (...) Si te fijas en lo que dicen ambos log's es que el sendmail está rechazando el correo debido a que en la dirección de TO: la parte correspondiente al

Host y domain

1999-09-05 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hola a todos: tengo un pequeño problema con el nombre de dominio de mi máquina. En el /etc/issue, si pongo para que aparezca el domain name (no recuerdo la sequéncia), sale en pantalla (none). En el nombre de host aparece 'juli', que es correcto. Dónde tengo que configurar mi nombre de dominio ?

RE: Sustazo

1999-09-05 Thread Antonio Castro
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Ricardo Villalba wrote: Hola. Pues resulta que esta tarde al entrar en linux noto que tarda mucho menos en arrancar, porque por lo visto no arrancó los demonios (el último mensaje que aparecía en pantalla antes de pedirme el login era INIT: Entering runlevel: 2,

Re: Host y domain

1999-09-05 Thread Fernando Sanchez
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: sequéncia), sale en pantalla (none). En el nombre de host aparece 'juli', que es correcto. Dónde tengo que configurar mi nombre de dominio ? Creo que el comando hostname es lo que buscas. Y si no, en la página man de hostname probablemente sí

Re: A ver qué os parece esto: poffwait

1999-09-05 Thread Fernando Sanchez
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Felix Ortega wrote: los resultados anteriores tendriamos un pautooff que, si no hay trafico durante 5min, deconecte la linea. No parece muy dificil y es mas Pienso yo que pasarle la opción idle 300 (por ejemplo) al pppd es bastante más sencillo, ¿no? :-)

Nuetra invitación especial

1999-09-05 Thread Argentina NetDepot
Hola. Queremos invitarlo a visitar nuestro shopping virtual Argentina Netdepot http://netdepot.com.ar y participar de nuestro club que sin cargo ni obligación de compra le permite obtener beneficios todos los meses. Creemos que es un buen punto de referencia para sus futuras compras

Re: A ver qué os parece esto: poffwait

1999-09-05 Thread Andres Seco Hernandez
Hola. El 05 Sep 1999 a las 08:07PM +0200, Fernando Sanchez escribio: On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Felix Ortega wrote: los resultados anteriores tendriamos un pautooff que, si no hay trafico durante 5min, deconecte la linea. No parece muy dificil y es mas Pienso yo que pasarle la opción idle 300

StarOffice gratuito !

1999-09-05 Thread Vinicius De Mario
Oi para todos ! Imagino que muitos jah estejam sabendo, mas para quem nao sabe, a Sun adquiriu a StarDivision e esta disponibilizando gratuitamente o StarOffice. A licença eh meio estranha, jah que diz que o soft e livre para uso interno e nao pode ser redistribuido. (alias esta mal traduzido o

StarOffice Gratuito !

1999-09-05 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Oi para todos ! Imagino que muitos jah estejam sabendo, mas para quem nao sabe, a Sun adquiriu a StarDivision e esta disponibilizando gratuitamente o StarOffice. A licença eh meio estranha, jah que diz que o soft e livre para uso interno e nao pode ser redistribuido. (alias esta mal traduzido o

Off Topic - StarOffice gratuito !

1999-09-05 Thread Vinicius De Mario
Desculpem, esqueci de postar como off topic, corrijo agora ... Vinicius De Mario wrote: Oi para todos ! Imagino que muitos jah estejam sabendo, mas para quem nao sabe, a Sun adquiriu a StarDivision e esta disponibilizando gratuitamente o StarOffice. A licença eh meio estranha, jah que diz

Debian Slink com kernel 2.2

1999-09-05 Thread Alexandre H Silva
Oi pessoal. Estou com um problema com o kernel 2.2.7 e o Debian 2.1 Já atualizei todos os pacotes recomendados na página do debian para se usar o Slink com o kernel 2.2, compilei o novo kernel e está quase tudo funcionando, o único problema é quando eu vou inciar o X, na primeira

Re: StarOffice gratuito !

1999-09-05 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Vinicius De Mario wrote: Eu jah estava utilizando para testes uma versao pessoal do StarOffice e como agora eh gratuito acho que vou implantar em definitivo uma maquina Linux com o StarOffice para uso na empresa. Se conseguir e tudo funcionar direitinho quero convencer o povo a mudar para

Re: SoundBlaster 16 PNP WaveEffects help needed

1999-09-05 Thread Brian E. Lavender
Ok, I got sound working. In fact I believe I discovered an UNWANTED FEATURE in # modconf When I first tried to use modconf to insert the module, I specified the wrong parameters and the module installation failed. The modconf utility wrote the parameters to /etc/conf.modules anyway and when I

Re: xterm-menus not working

1999-09-05 Thread Keith Harbaugh
If you want to do a little further digging on this situation, try the following: xrdb -q | grep -i ^xterm and post the results back. And yes, I am using slink, but with some addons. Here's my /etc/apt/sources.list if you're interested deb http://ftp.netgod.net/ x/ deb

Re: reformatting a postscript file from letter to a4 paper size ?

1999-09-05 Thread Hartmut Figge
shaul wrote: Can I change the postscript files (and not the source file) so that it will have a reasonable setting on a a4 paper ? yes man pstops, at the end you can see other possibilities. -- hafi

gnome-apt 0.3.4 not working

1999-09-05 Thread Oz Dror
When I try to update package list I get the following error is this a bug? Update failed. The following errors may help: Couldn't stat source package list 'file:/pub/debian/dists/ potato/main Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/pub_debian_dists_dists_potato_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No

Re: Clueless Newbie needs Networking Help

1999-09-05 Thread Seth R Arnold
Hello Simon On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 06:52:43PM -0400, Tor- Simon Law wrote: Hello. I'm pretty new to Debian and have been unable to get my network configured properly. You see, in a couple days, I will be heading off to University of Waterloo (Canada) and will want to hook up to

Re: Clueless Newbie needs Networking Help

1999-09-05 Thread Mark Wagnon
Tor- Simon Law wrote: Hello. I'm pretty new to Debian and have been unable to get my network configured properly. You see, in a couple days, I will be heading off to University of Waterloo (Canada) and will want to hook up to their residence's network. The only problem

fix for potato xemacs21 instelation

1999-09-05 Thread Micha Feigin
Its probably not the best way to fix this because it doesn't deal with the sort of the problem, (I don't know if its from the scripts or the source - I don't have enough time right now to learn elisp in order ro check), but A solution to the problem - potato's xemacs21 will run without a problem

Re: Cannot print from StarOffice

1999-09-05 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Julio You're lucky - my current potato install doesn't even install Julio StarOffice.. Feel free to send me your `dpkg -l' so that we can diff ours. It was really no problem here (potato apt-get'ed up tp speed two days ago, SO51 re-downloaded yesterday). -- According to the latest

Re: New X for stable

1999-09-05 Thread Greg Heather Vence
ok, added it... xbase-client and xf86setup are want xlib6g version 3.3.4-1 or greater... Another clue please? TIA -- Greg. - Original Message - From: Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 7:33 PM

Re: netbase from potato not configuring

1999-09-05 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: Hey guys -- I just did the apt-get stuff to upgrade to potato, but the silly thing died several times. After restarting it often enough, I got to the point where netbase was causing eight other packages to not

How to reset time information

1999-09-05 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all: I posted earlier aboout my troubles with getting the system time and my Netscape time in sync. I set my timezone to US/Pacific when I installed. I just noticed that there is an America/Los Angeles timezone, and I thought I'd give it a try. Only one problem...how do I do it? In the

latest gnumeric gnome-print

1999-09-05 Thread Obi
Hi, I just upgraded the last gnumeric hoping to be able to print (gnome-print is now available) but it doesn't start: it complains it canno find the Times fonts. THere is no much documentations with it: what should I do? graziano

re: smbmount-2.2.x

1999-09-05 Thread Paul Harris
hi, i had some problems with my smbmounts when the NT server would reboot (haha) and i would lose the connections. the mount point would then give a input/output error if i tried to do anything with it. one day i noticed that my eterm that i mounted those points from was asking for Password:

Re: Cannot print from StarOffice

1999-09-05 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Dirk I am at wit's end here -- I have a `network' installation of Dirk StarOffice 5.1 here at home for use by myself and my wife. It works Dirk fine, but just won't print. I even re-downloaded 5.1 again,

alternative to getting packages file by file?

1999-09-05 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, Although I have been able to get the base 2.1 system up and running, I am now trying to download what I need to get X Windows, and its dependency packages, and then a few clients (for now) running. In the relnotes9.html, the required files are listed, but mention tared sets such as

How can a user change a postgres password?

1999-09-05 Thread Eric G . Miller
Apparently there is no way for a regular user of postgres to change their password. Can anyone enlighten me on this? The only way I found to change a password, is using $ pg_passwd password_file as user postgres (I su from root as there's no postgres user really). Is this an extreme oversight,

Re: How to reset time information

1999-09-05 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: I set my timezone to US/Pacific when I installed. I just noticed that there is an America/Los Angeles timezone, and I thought I'd give it a try. Only one problem...how do I do it? man tzconfig In this case, you could

xf86config

1999-09-05 Thread Brian E. Lavender
It does not seem to be on my system, but I do have xfree86 3.3.3.1 Where do I find xf86config? brian -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/

Re: alternative to getting packages file by file?

1999-09-05 Thread Mark Wagnon
John Miskinis wrote: Hello, Although I have been able to get the base 2.1 system up and running, I am now trying to download what I need to get X Windows, and its dependency packages, and then a few clients (for now) running. In the relnotes9.html, the required files are listed, but

Re: netbase from potato not configuring

1999-09-05 Thread addiction
ahh i remembered! the problem was that something which installed PRIOR to netbase had wiped out my hostname. that is, my hostname was just a blank line and as you know that can play some funny tricks on things. once i re-added my hostname everything installed properly. cheers again, addi

Re: xf86config

1999-09-05 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya... It does not seem to be on my system, but I do have xfree86 3.3.3.1 Where do I find xf86config? you might want to try XF86Setup or Xconfigurator too if you want to see if its on your system find / -name xf86config -ls have fun alvin

Re: xf86config

1999-09-05 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Brian E. Lavender wrote: It does not seem to be on my system, but I do have xfree86 3.3.3.1 Where do I find xf86config? Using the search at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages (at the very bottom of the page), i find it's in the

Re: xf86config

1999-09-05 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Alvin Oga wrote: you might want to try [...] Xconfigurator too AFAIK, that is a RedHat tool that hasn't (yet) been Debianized. So you probably won't find it on a Debian box ;) - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP

RE: xf86config

1999-09-05 Thread Pollywog
On 05-Sep-99 Brian E. Lavender wrote: It does not seem to be on my system, but I do have xfree86 3.3.3.1 Where do I find xf86config? brian -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/ in xserver-common -- Andrew

Re: How to reset time information

1999-09-05 Thread Mark Wagnon
Brad wrote: In this case, you could find it using apropos timezone. Sometimes that doesn't work, depending if you pick good keywords or not ;) Thanks. I forgot about apropos. It worked though. However, the problem persists... thanks again -- ( __ _

Re: Cannot print from StarOffice

1999-09-05 Thread John Foster
Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: (Please CC: me on replied. Thanks.) I am at wit's end here -- I have a `network' installation of StarOffice 5.1 here at home for use by myself and my wife. It works fine, but just won't print. I even re-downloaded 5.1 again, and reinstalled, but no luck. The

Re: Clueless Newbie needs Networking Help

1999-09-05 Thread John Foster
Tor- Simon Law wrote: Hello. I'm pretty new to Debian and have been unable to get my network configured properly. You see, in a couple days, I will be heading off to University of Waterloo (Canada) and will want to hook up to their residence's network.

(More info about my setup) Trying to get X11 and other packages in full

1999-09-05 Thread John Miskinis
Hello Folks, I got a couple requests for more information about how I am trying to set things up, and what I did to get this far. I gave up on trying to use 1.3, as it would crash shortly after Loading Linux., even when I copied the entire debian directory from the 1997 Boot Magazine to

Re: X Driver for Viper V770D AGP Graphics?

1999-09-05 Thread Alexis Maldonado
Hello! On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 03:35:14PM -0600, Duggan Dieterly wrote: i can't find the X driver for my viper v770d agp 32 MB graphics board. does anyone know if a driver has been written for this board? can i use anyother drivers? is this board so new that a driver hasn't been written for

Expert disk partioning help needed

1999-09-05 Thread Eric G . Miller
I had a huge partition devoted to linux (most of my 10.x GB disk). Anyway, I tried out the experimental ext2resize to resize my / partition so I could use some of the space for HURD (my BIOS won't look past cylinder 1024 which is where some unused space lived). Anyway, the resize seemed to work

Re: How to reset time information

1999-09-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
I'm not familiar with 'netscape time' but you can set the timezone with tzconfig. Bob On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 02:38:43AM +, Mark Wagnon wrote: Hi all: I posted earlier aboout my troubles with getting the system time and my Netscape time in sync. I set my timezone to US/Pacific when I

Re: How to reset time information

1999-09-05 Thread Mark Wagnon
Bob Nielsen wrote: I'm not familiar with 'netscape time' but you can set the timezone with tzconfig. Thanks. I tried that. The funny thing is that my local/system time is correst. Netscape for some reason insists on using the UTC time. I'm assuming that's what it is, because it's off by 7

where is what?

1999-09-05 Thread Keith Harbaugh
`what' was an old unix program which would access certain identifying lines within text files, allowing easy reading of key parts of files without having to use a pager or editor. I used the search features of the debian web site's Package page, searching on `what', but to no avail (the first

Apache SuExec won't work with virtual hosts outside /var/www

1999-09-05 Thread Alexander List
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Package: apache Version: 1.3.6-15.2 Changing the SuExec docroot from /var/www/htdocs to /var/www will enable SuExec for people without or with few virtual hosts residing below /var/www. However, on bigger systems with lots of virtual hosts, one might want to

Re: netbase from potato not configuring

1999-09-05 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 08:38:12PM -0500, Brad wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: Hey guys -- I just did the apt-get stuff to upgrade to potato, but the silly thing died several times. After restarting it often enough, I got to the point

Re: where is what?

1999-09-05 Thread Seth R Arnold
Keith -- will 'grep' do what you want? (suggested usage is along these lines: grep Keith email-message -or- grep Keith */* ... grep is nice. :) On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 06:23:57AM +, Keith Harbaugh wrote: `what' was an old unix program which would access certain identifying lines within

Help finishing Coda's installation

1999-09-05 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I have to do in one week a monograph about CODA for school and I'm a bit late! :) I got Debian GNU/Linux experimental packages of Coda-server and Coda-client and installed in 2 machines (a server and a client). These packages do a lot for me to setup. I was checking CODA

Re: Help finishing Coda's installation

1999-09-05 Thread Seth R Arnold
Having never run coda before makes me emminatly qualified to talk about it. :) set the cache-size-in-kb to whatever you want. The rule is -- more cache will likely lead to more speed improvements. Of course, if coda is like everything else, there are limits to how far you can push it and still

[Debian: Directorys] /user/ on external Server

1999-09-05 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, I have a problem with my Disk-Space on my Workstation and now I have four Workstations (DLD, Debian, DR-Dos/DJGPP and WfW). Now I like to install a big File-Server in my private network (not the FTP/NFS-Server in my Public-Network). It must contain the /user/... Directorys. Also a

Re: [Debian: Directorys] /user/ on external Server

1999-09-05 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 12:29:01PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello, [snip] As File-Server I can use my AMD K5-133 and one IBM DTTA 351680. But what software I must use ??? It all depends on what your clients are -- if it is the one machine that runs the DOS and the linux and the something

CRITICAL: syslogd hangs (fwd

1999-09-05 Thread Alberto Maurizi
The following message have been sent to bugs list. Does anybody have an idea of the problem described? Thanks, alberto maurizi -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 12:13:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Alberto Maurizi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: CRITICAL: syslogd hangs (fwd

1999-09-05 Thread Aaron Solochek
I have almost the exact same behavior on my slink system with 2.2.10. It is unpredictable, but yep, syslogd, and also lpd hang on bootup. However if I wait it out (sometimes like 10 minutes) I get a login and everything seems fine, that includes startx. So if you find any solutions, please

traceroute: icmp socket: Operation not permitted

1999-09-05 Thread Phillip Deackes
Today I tried to use traceroute and got the message: traceroute: icmp socket: Operation not permitted This has happened only recently. I tried running the command as root, but got the same message. It appears that this has happened since I last did apt-get dist-upgrade (I use unstable) *or*

Re: traceroute: icmp socket: Operation not permitted

1999-09-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today I tried to use traceroute and got the message: traceroute: icmp socket: Operation not permitted This has happened only recently. I tried running the command as root, but got the same message. - Your traceroute binary

RE: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-05 Thread David Teague
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Paul McHale wrote: If you have bizaar hardware, redhat (I believe) has more drivers. Redhat has more packages but this may be an arguement for alien. Paul I have acquaintances who never did get X up under Red Hat using the SiS6326 card. That card is apparently S3

Fetchmail for all users

1999-09-05 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, at home, I have my brothers and I want to do the following thing: when PPP goes up fetchmail get all the mail from them and store in /var/spool/mail/paulo pedro luiz So I have to have a .fetchmailrc for root with all the accounts? in /root?

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

1999-09-05 Thread Frankie Fisher
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 10:26:28PM +0200, andreas palsson wrote: Hello. I am using Debian GNU/Linux as a nameserver, and I wonder how do I modify it to reject all lookups for stupid sites like ad.doubleclick.net or any other annoying banner-site? I've been told to use

Re: CRITICAL: syslogd hangs (fwd

1999-09-05 Thread Alberto Maurizi
The problem has been solved. But i don't know how. I edited some network related files (that were actually wrong) and I get the syslogd running. thanks to all alberto

reboot question

1999-09-05 Thread Mark Bathie
I am trying to set up my home system for friends to use, what is the best way to allow them access to some sort of reboot command ? cheers, Mark.B.

Re: traceroute: icmp socket: Operation not permitted

1999-09-05 Thread Phillip Deackes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) wrote: - Your traceroute binary is setuid, but not to root, or - there is some firewall rule blocking ICMP packets installed Thanks, Mike. I took a look in /usr/sbin and found a few files which are set as owned by gsmh and as group 1000 - me in other

Re: reboot question

1999-09-05 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 10:59:42PM +1000, Mark Bathie wrote: I am trying to set up my home system for friends to use, what is the best way to allow them access to some sort of reboot command ? Why do you need you friend to reboot your machine? Usually inittab is configured so that

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

1999-09-05 Thread Pollywog
On 05-Sep-99 Frankie Fisher wrote: This thread has been going on for a few days, and noone seems to have said very much about junkbuster. I started installing it last night. I more or less have it working, but the sample files don't have enough examples of acl list entries, for one thing,

Re: Fetchmail for all users

1999-09-05 Thread Phillip Deackes
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, at home, I have my brothers and I want to do the following thing: when PPP goes up fetchmail get all the mail from them and store in /var/spool/mail/paulo pedro luiz So I have to have a

Re: where is what?

1999-09-05 Thread Mark Buda
Keith == Keith Harbaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Keith `what' was an old unix program which would access certain Keith identifying lines within text files, allowing easy reading Keith of key parts of files without having to use a pager or Keith editor. Your description doesn't

Re: importing screenshots?

1999-09-05 Thread Tommi L. Jensen
imagemagick -- You name it, I lame it /LamerBill AKA platypus AKA Tommi L. Jensen --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: xterm-menus not working

1999-09-05 Thread Johann Spies
On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Keith Harbaugh wrote: If you want to do a little further digging on this situation, try the following: xrdb -q | grep -i ^xterm and post the results back. Hello Keith. Here are the results: $xrdb -q | grep -i ^xterm XTerm*termName: xterm-debian XTerm*geometry:

Re: reboot question

1999-09-05 Thread Tommi L. Jensen
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 10:59:42PM +1000, Mark Bathie wrote: I am trying to set up my home system for friends to use, what is the best way to allow them access to some sort of reboot command ? sudo ? -- You name it, I lame it /LamerBill AKA platypus AKA Tommi L. Jensen --- [EMAIL

RE: Fetchmail for all users

1999-09-05 Thread Pollywog
On 05-Sep-99 Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi all, at home, I have my brothers and I want to do the following thing: when PPP goes up fetchmail get all the mail from them and store in /var/spool/mail/paulo pedro luiz So I have to have a

Re: How to reset time information

1999-09-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
Yeah, WordPerfect 7 seems to use UTC, since if I use the date function after 5 p.m., it shows the following day. Oh, well. On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 11:14:09PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: Bob Nielsen wrote: I'm not familiar with 'netscape time' but you can set the timezone with tzconfig.

Re: xterm-menus not working

1999-09-05 Thread Keith Harbaugh
On Sun, 1999-09-05 14:44:47 +0200, Johann Spies wrote: On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Keith Harbaugh wrote: If you want to do a little further digging on this situation, try the following: xrdb -q | grep -i ^xterm and post the results back. Here are the results: $xrdb -q | grep -i ^xterm

RE: Fetchmail for all users

1999-09-05 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 05-Sep-99 Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi all, at home, I have my brothers and I want to do the following thing: when PPP goes up fetchmail get all the mail from them and store in /var/spool/mail/paulo pedro

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

1999-09-05 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 05-Sep-99 Frankie Fisher wrote: This thread has been going on for a few days, and noone seems to have said very much about junkbuster. I started installing it last night. I more or less have it working, but the sample files don't have enough

Re: Ethernet

1999-09-05 Thread Jean-Yves Barbier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got a new computer and brought it to my college, and installed Debian on it. However, when i installed it, i couldn't get the module for my NE2000 compatible driver to install correctly. Does anyone know how to reinstall? No need, just recompile a kernel, it's

NIS with LDAP

1999-09-05 Thread Dan Pomohaci
Is possible to use LDAP as NIS? How can I do it? I read umlich-ldap-doc but I found nothing about. I have a small old (486) network (10 computers) working in Debian (slink version). Thanks, -- | Dan N. Pomohaci

Re: NIS with LDAP

1999-09-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 06:26:02PM +0300, Dan Pomohaci wrote: Is possible to use LDAP as NIS? How can I do it? I read umlich-ldap-doc but I found nothing about. I have a small old (486) network (10 computers) working in Debian (slink version). Thanks, Yes it is possible. I suggest using

Re: where is what?

1999-09-05 Thread Jim Foltz
You're not thinking of whatis, are you? On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 06:23:57AM +, Keith Harbaugh wrote: `what' was an old unix program which would access certain identifying lines within text files, allowing easy reading of key parts of files without having to use a pager or editor. I used

How do I get Meta key for emacs?

1999-09-05 Thread Brian E. Lavender
I am using emacs and I am trying to get the Meta key from Xwindows and the terminal. I know I can issue the command $ xmodmap -e keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L and that will give me the meta key in Xwindows, but not outsite Xwindows. I seem to once running across another way to remap the

X 3.3.4 dependancy

1999-09-05 Thread Greg Heather Vence
from http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/xfree86-334-slink/ xbase-client and xf86setup are want xlib6g version 3.3.4-1 or greater... xlib6g says its version is 3.3.4-0slink1 How do I solve this one? TIA -- Greg.

Error opening terminal: xterm-debian.

1999-09-05 Thread Brian E. Lavender
When I telnet into another machine and I try to run a curses based application I get the below error. Say I run mutt $ mutt Error opening terminal: xterm-debian. I then type $ TERM=vt100 $ mutt now it runs The remote curses based application will run. Is there a better way to do this, or

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

1999-09-05 Thread Pollywog
On 05-Sep-99 Martin Fluch wrote: On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 05-Sep-99 Frankie Fisher wrote: This thread has been going on for a few days, and noone seems to have said very much about junkbuster. I started installing it last night. I more or less have it working, but

Re: Help finishing Coda's installation

1999-09-05 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi, Quoting Seth R Arnold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Having never run coda before makes me emminatly qualified to talk about it. :) set the cache-size-in-kb to whatever you want. The rule is -- more cache will likely lead to more speed improvements. Of course, if coda is like everything

RE: Fetchmail for all users

1999-09-05 Thread Pollywog
On 05-Sep-99 Martin Fluch wrote: On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 05-Sep-99 Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi all, at home, I have my brothers and I want to do the following thing: when PPP goes up fetchmail get all the mail from them and

Re: Help finishing Coda's installation

1999-09-05 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi, Quoting Seth R Arnold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Having never run coda before makes me emminatly qualified to talk about it. :) set the cache-size-in-kb to whatever you want. The rule is -- more cache will likely lead to more speed improvements. Of course, if coda is like everything

dselect in xterm

1999-09-05 Thread Brian E. Lavender
When I use dselect in an Xterm the text is rather annoying compared to the way it is in a plain terminal. When I open an Xterm, by default I get black text on a white background. I am using Windowmaker, so I hold down the ctrl key and click the middle button. I then enable reverse video and get

Re: Clueless Newbie needs Networking Help

1999-09-05 Thread Kent West
Tor- Simon Law wrote: snip about needing to set up dynamic IP addressing on a client As far as Windows services and protocols are concerned, they want me to start up: Client for Microsoft Networks, IPX/SPX, NetBEUI, and TCP/IP. I'm using an ISA D-Link DE250CT card, but I think I've

ftp, but no apt-get

1999-09-05 Thread tf
howdy guys, my little saga continues. using cftp, I'm able to access my website's remote directory, but while connected, can still not use apt-get to build a system. Can I just ftp packages to some directory on my machine, then dselect them from there? can't think of how to say this, but

Re: where is what?

1999-09-05 Thread Ernest Johanson
There is a program called grep to search text files. There is also an rgrep that will search directories recursively. You can do searches on the Packages file that is at the base directory of each distribution. In this case searching for what may not have found something, but searching for text,

Re: Error opening terminal: xterm-debian.

1999-09-05 Thread David Z. Maze
Brian E Lavender [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian When I telnet into another machine and I try to run a curses Brian based application I get the below error. Say I run mutt Brian Error opening terminal: xterm-debian. See /usr/doc/xterm/README.Debian for more information on why xterm-debian is

Problem of installing Word Perfect 8

1999-09-05 Thread Liu Chung Him
Dear all, I got the Word Perfect 8 and I want to install it into my system. However, when i run the install problem (Runme), it shows me that it cannot find the libXpm.4.s0 . I have checked that the libXpm.4.so is in /usr/X11P6/lib. What is the problem ?? Thanks ! Wilson

Re: printer setup

1999-09-05 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
i would try to run magicfilterconfig. I finally got this to work, to my surprise (makes me about 1 for 6 with that package). Ultimately it took purging it and lpr, reinstalling configuring lpr, and only then letting it try to install magicfilter. Oh, and for a deskjet 500, it is

Re: Problem of installing Word Perfect 8

1999-09-05 Thread Mark Wagnon
Liu Chung Him wrote: Dear all, I got the Word Perfect 8 and I want to install it into my system. However, when i run the install problem (Runme), it shows me that it cannot find the libXpm.4.s0 . I have checked that the libXpm.4.so is in /usr/X11P6/lib. What is the problem ?? Hi,

Re: ftp, but no apt-get

1999-09-05 Thread Greg Heather Vence
hey tf, how about sending the contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list file? L8r -- Greg. - Original Message - From: tf [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, September 04, 1999 11:43 AM Subject: ftp, but no apt-get howdy guys, my little saga continues.

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