Re: Coffee cup (o algo asi) y otras yerbas...

1999-09-06 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
El Thu, Sep 02, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alguien tiene idea de este programa? Me acabo de enterar hoy que es un diseñador de páginas web para linux... Me lo bajé de Linuxberg, http://www.linuxberg.com/files/x11/office/coffeelinux.tar.gz [4.7Mb] se instala sin problemas y se puede

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

1999-09-06 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
El Sat, Sep 04, 1999, Manel Marin... Hice nuevos intentos y siempre fallaba con el mismo mensaje. Al final tuve que utilizar la línea mda formail -s procmail para bajar el correo. Yo uso esto y me va bien... (me ahorro un paso) mda /usr/bin/procmail -f -

Problemas con LILO

1999-09-06 Thread Arale
Hola a todos! tengo un problema con LILO y Windows, os explico: Mi PC tiene dos discos duros, en el primero Windows 95 FAT32 y en el segundo Debian 2.1, respectivamente son hda y hdc. Los dos estan puestos con bootables, la particion de linux es la hdc1. Cuando arranca el PC, pone el LILO

Re: Problemas varios con Gnome

1999-09-06 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Juan Carlos wrote: Hola, tengo instalado Debian Citius y Gnome+Enlightenment y bueno en general funciona bien pero tengo algún problemilla. 1) Problema con Gnome ppp. Lo he configurado para contectar a Internet, y si lo hago como root no hay problema. Pero si lo

Re: Problemas con LILO

1999-09-06 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Arale wrote: Hola a todos! tengo un problema con LILO y Windows, os explico: Mi PC tiene dos discos duros, en el primero Windows 95 FAT32 y en el segundo Debian 2.1, respectivamente son hda y hdc. Los dos estan puestos con bootables, la particion de linux es la hdc1.

Re: Una de Samba

1999-09-06 Thread Ximo Nadal
El Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:55:36 yo mismo escribia: Tengo un servidor Debian (Hamm) con Samba (v1.9.18p8) en una red con 30 puestos (NT y 98), leyendo la documentación de Samba veo que hay unos parametros llamados; logon script, logon path, logon driver y logon home que no consigo que hagan lo que

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

1999-09-06 Thread Hue-Bond
El sábado 04 de septiembre de 1999 a la(s) 08:08:54 +0200, Cosme Perea Cuevas contaba: ¿Tienes la línea FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains) en tu fichero .mc? :-m Eso debería arreglar este problema. Vale, he rehecho el `sendmail.cf' con esta línea en el

Re: A ver qué os parece esto: poffwait

1999-09-06 Thread Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Felix Ortega wrote: Estaba pensando yo en un proyecto similar bastante chulo... [corte] Vaya, después de hacer el script y probarlo, se me ocurrió hacer algo parecido, pero ni idea de cómo llevarlo a la práctica :-( No parece muy dificil y es mas elegante que u solucion

Re: A ver qué os parece esto: poffwait

1999-09-06 Thread Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Juan Ignacio Llona wrote: Yo lo hago a mano: correo ; poff Yo eso también lo hago. Pero cuando me surge la necesidad de cortar y no lo había planeado... Mi profesor de programación ponía un suspenso en cada programa que veía con un goto. No es un comando necesario, creo

Re: Host y domain

1999-09-06 Thread Hue-Bond
El domingo 05 de septiembre de 1999 a la(s) 19:59:32 +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal contaba: 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). Porque no es

Re: sis6326 vs. yo

1999-09-06 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 10:51:31PM -0300, garciaperez dijo: Quiero instalar Xfree, pero no lo logro , a pesar de que me pidio todos los datos de mi monitor y su descendecia. Mi tarjeta es una SiS 6326 . Preguntas:¿es la tarjeta que no rola ?o ¿es que aun estoy muy burro en esto? Esa tarjeta no

Re: Coffee cup (o algo asi) y otras yerbas...

1999-09-06 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 12:29:19PM +0200, Cosme Perea Cuevas wrote: Yo prefiero conocer bien las posibilidades del HTML y utilizar un editor de textos que resalte la sintaxis: Vim. No solo resalta sino que cambia el color si no reconoce algo. O si no, PSGML, un editor SGML bajo Emacs.

Re: Cambio Total

1999-09-06 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Pedro A.Vizcaíno wrote: Hola Lista: Vaya el subject parece que me ha quedado bien, parece el título de una peli, bueno voy al lío o al rollo. El caso es que yo vengo de la distribución de SuSE, hace un año o por ahí que la estoy utilizando, pero por fín he decidido

Viaje a MIAMI GRATIS ! ! - www.donde.com - Cumplimos 3 años

1999-09-06 Thread www.donde.com - El Portal de Latinoamerica!
ESTA VEZ EL BUSCADOR DONDE LO MANDA A MIAMI (GRATIS) DONDE! CUMPLE TRES AÑOS Y LOS FESTEJA A LO GRANDE !!! Estimado Cybernauta: DONDE!, el Buscador con la mayor Base de Datos propietaria de toda la red (más de 150.000 páginas indexadas) cumple TRES AÑOS el próximo 12 de Octubre. Estamos

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

1999-09-06 Thread Ricardo Villalba
-Mensaje original- De: Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Debian Users Spanish debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Fecha: miércoles 1 de septiembre de 1999 0:59 Asunto: El login de la Debian Citus se carga el log de inicio... Hola. Desde hace cierto tiempo me molesta que

Re: A ver qué os parece esto: poffwait

1999-09-06 Thread Fernando Sanchez
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Andres Seco Hernandez wrote: Yo uso diald. Lo veo más flexible. Además así marca automaticamente cuando lo necesito y corta según el tipo de tráfico antes o despues (inmediatamente Yo usaría pppd (con las opciones demand y active-filter, digo). ¿Qué ventajas tienes con

Como ser usuario subscrito de Linux_

1999-09-06 Thread Lucky
Veo que hay gente que tiene un n'umero de usuario de Linux y he oido que se puede subscribir en algun sitio para dejar patente que cada dia somos mas los que pasamos de Windows y apreciamos un buen SO. Alguien puede decirme donde me puedo subscribir_ -- Linux power!!!

Mas resolucion con una Banshee 3D

1999-09-06 Thread Lucky
Tengo una aceleradora Banshee 3D y baje el parche para que funcione pero tiene poca resolucion y no puedo canviar entre otras resoluciones. Sabeis como arreglarlo o necesito otro parche? -- Linux power!!!

No funciona con teclado espanol

1999-09-06 Thread root
Cuando quiero configurar el teclado con el XF86Setup el Linux se cuelga y no puedo configurar el teclado. Esto pasa desde que inserte un parche para que pudiera poner las X usando una Banshee 3D. Como lo soluciono? Gracias -- Linux power!!!

No puedo ver fotos de las News con Kmail

1999-09-06 Thread root
Acabo de configurar Internet con Linux y al conectarme a las News, si hay mensajes con fotos en vez de fotos pone todo un codigo larguisimo y no muestra la imagen. Que puede ser? -- Linux power!!!

Como arrancar todos con XDM menos el root_

1999-09-06 Thread root
Quisiera que mi sistema arrancara todos los usuarios directamente con las X, pero preguntando ya el Login en modo X y uso el XDM. Pero me gustaria que el ROOT arrancara con modo texto y si quiero ya entrare en las X manualmente. Se puede hacer esto. Gracias --

Programas y juegos para Linux

1999-09-06 Thread root
Quiero migrar de W98 a Linux pero me gustaria saber donde encontrar en Internet juegos y programs para este SO -- Linux power!!!

harto de las ofertas

1999-09-06 Thread Jon
Estoy harto de que nos ofrezcan viajes a miami,y demas historias.

Re: fetchmail baja el correo pero lo borra de mi host

1999-09-06 Thread Cubikice
Iñaki Fernández Villanueva wrote: Hi, Mis problemas han surgido porque uso smail como pine como MUA. Resulta que pine es incapaz de encolarme los mensajes=20 en /var/spool/smail/input cuando no estoy conectado a Internet. (no me de= ja enviar los mensajes). En cambio con la misma

Atualização do Sistema de Instalação em Português

1999-09-06 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Ola pessoal, Eu fiz uma revisão completa no sistema de instalação em Português corrigindo algumas partes da tradução e cortando algumas partes longas (e cansativas) do texto. E também os testes, é claro! Adicionei o crédito do LinuxLabs na parte notas de lançamento (logo após o boot inicial do

Re[2]: Debian Slink com kernel 2.2

1999-09-06 Thread Alexandre H Silva
Domingo, 05/09/1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira escreveu: Fala Alexandre. Pode não ser o kernel. O que me leva a crer que seja o kernel, é que estou com o kernel 2.0.36 e o 2.2.7 na máquina. Quando eu inicio pelo 2.0.36 tudo funciona normalmente, até o X. Já

[TIMOR]: Nem so' de Linux vive o Homem !

1999-09-06 Thread Nuno Carvalho
PROTESTE Participe no movimento de solidariedade para pôr fim à violência em Timor. Escreva a personalidades responsáveis pela condução do processo. Leia a seguinte

Re: H45 QuickCD PCMCIA CDROM and/or JVC SCSI via Bus Toaster ?

1999-09-06 Thread Mark Wagnon
On Sun 09/05/99 03:46PM, John Miskinis wrote: I am wondering if anyone has experiences (good or bad) with using either of these CDROM devices under debian. I have the opportunity to borrow the debian (or other dists) CD next week, and want to make sure it is possible to use these devices to

Re: nas???

1999-09-06 Thread John Gay
Thanks for the offer. I can ping between both PC's, it is just ftp and telnet that only work one way. I don't know a lot about networking so I read the net3 HOW-TO and set up some files for the I.P. Addresses and route. I don't know what is configured as far as the I.P. setting. I.E.

How to produce a newsletter

1999-09-06 Thread Kent West
Learning curve aside, what's going to be the best Linux app for producing a 1- or 2-page newsletter? I've used WordPerfect for years (from back in the DOS days of 5.x to the Windows version to the Linux version now), but I suspect there's something better for this sort of thing. Thanks!

Re: more ftp, but no apt-get

1999-09-06 Thread Greg Heather Vence
below is the default... Notice your 2nd line is different? hth -- Greg. # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits # your mirror contains. # deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free # See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy # Remember

Re: Fetchmail--SMTP connect to localhost failed

1999-09-06 Thread bwarsing
From: Kent West I can send mail from this box to my own account on this box, as well as to my account on my ISP (university campus). I think I've tried every permutation on the qualify_domain and local_domains lines in exim.conf, but either I haven't hit the right combination or it's got

Re: reboot question

1999-09-06 Thread Seth R Arnold
ctrl-alt-delete works well for all users logged in at the console... 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 ? cheers, Mark.B. --

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 08:40:06AM -0400, David Teague wrote: 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

Re: Problem of installing Word Perfect 8

1999-09-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
Word Perfect 8 uses libc5, not libc6. You need to install xpm4.7, xlib6 and libc6. Bob On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 01:59:02AM +0800, 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

now what

1999-09-06 Thread Bill West
Why the change in bind to start using /etc/bind over /var/named? Was there a change in the FSSTND that I didnt catch? I bit the bullet and copied the files over to the new places and renamed the old dirs to get them out of the way. Now named just hangs forever when started from the commandline

Re: FTP servers and security help

1999-09-06 Thread Seth R Arnold
Paul, stay away from wu_ftpd. It might be a wonderful piece of software, it might do many things -- but it seems half the unix traffic on bugtraq is due to buffer overflows in wu_ftpd. A security hole was found in proftpd recently, but the patch (on bugtraq) is a one-line fix -- so I imagine the

Re: Revisit Large Hard Drives

1999-09-06 Thread Seth R Arnold
Well, I amrunning my debian from a 14.4 gig IBM drive... (its fast :) I did have some troubles -- many things thought it was a seven gig drive, but sooner or later I convinced fdisk how big it was, and haven't had trouble since, despite the kernel still reporting it a 7 gigger at boot. shrug

Re: How to produce a newsletter

1999-09-06 Thread Seth R Arnold
Kent, LaTeX has some beautiful output, though it might not be quite what you are looking for... You may wish to give staroffice a shot. :) On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 06:36:53PM -0500, Kent West wrote: Learning curve aside, what's going to be the best Linux app for producing a 1- or 2-page

RE: FTP servers and security help

1999-09-06 Thread Paul McHale
Thanks much for the advice. I am firewalling off FTP for now! I will wait for pro_ftp to get fixed. This coincides with what I have seen so far. Thanks for the input ! paul -Original Message- From: Seth R Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 05, 1999 8:20 PM

can't read Creative Labs cdrom

1999-09-06 Thread N. Thomas
I'm trying to put Debian 2.1 on my old 486 box. I have the boot disk made, but when it asks me to select the installation media, it won't recognize my cdrom. I have an old Creative Labs SoundBlaster CDROM (the kind where the drive is hooked up to the sb card), and I know it should use the sbpcd

re: H45 QuickCD PCMCIA CDROM and/or JVC SCSI via Bus Toaster ?

1999-09-06 Thread Koyote
I am wondering if anyone has experiences (good or bad) with using either of these CDROM devices under debian. I have the opportunity to borrow the debian (or other dists) CD next week, and want to make sure it is possible to use these devices to install. Yepperz!- I'm using the h45 24x

xauth

1999-09-06 Thread Seth R Arnold
Hello once again! :) I am hoping someone with more experience with X than I will help me out. I have two machines running potato (yay! :) -- sarnold is running ipmasq between amidala and the residential computer network here at school. Neither machine runs xdm. (I like text-based bootups :) I

Re: Ethernet

1999-09-06 Thread shaul
[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? I believe that insmod 8390; insmod

Why can't I run my program

1999-09-06 Thread Wendell Buckner
I was playing around with GNU C before I getting ready to load GNU C++, and decided to write a simple c program (The standard hello world app). I was doing this to make sure that GNU C was working properly. I compiled the application as follows: gcc -v hello.c -o hello I thought this

Re: dselect in xterm

1999-09-06 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Brian E. Lavender wrote: 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

Re: Why can't I run my program

1999-09-06 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 09:13:00PM -0700, Wendell Buckner wrote: I was playing around with GNU C before I getting ready to load GNU C++, and decided to write a simple c program (The standard hello world app). I was doing this to make sure that GNU C was working properly. I compiled the

Re: Why can't I run my program

1999-09-06 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya gcc -v hello.c -o hello I thought this would be a simple process but it seems I am missing = something trivial. I attempt to run the program after compiling and = bash says: bash :hello :command not found try: cd what ever directory you have hello.c in ./hello

Re: FTP servers and security help

1999-09-06 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: Paul, stay away from wu_ftpd. It might be a wonderful piece of software, it might do many things -- but it seems half the unix traffic on bugtraq is due to buffer overflows in wu_ftpd. A security hole was found in

RE: FTP servers and security help

1999-09-06 Thread Paul McHale
That was fast, thanks for the response !!! -Original Message- From: Brad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 05, 1999 9:49 PM To: Seth R Arnold Cc: Debian-User Subject: Re: FTP servers and security help -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 5 Sep 1999,

Re: How to produce a newsletter

1999-09-06 Thread Beverley Eyre
The best typesetting program ever IMHO is TeX. If you're going to do anysort of publishing, learning it is well worth it. Bev Learning curve aside, what's going to be the best Linux app for producing a 1- or 2-page newsletter? I've used WordPerfect for years (from back in the DOS days of

Re: How to produce a newsletter

1999-09-06 Thread Beverley Eyre
I use LaTeX for publishing scientific papers, but it may not be versatile enough for a news letter. I think using TeX to create a specifically designed news letter program, doing for news letters what LaTeX does for research papers, would be better. Bev Kent, LaTeX has some beautiful output,

Re: /etc/hosts problem

1999-09-06 Thread Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar
Did you try the line hosts:.. on /etc/nsswitch.conf?? it shold look something like this : hosts: files dns On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Fredrik Ax wrote: My problem is that the /etc/hosts files doesn't seem to be used when resolving hostnames. I'm runing Debian 2.1 r2 with Linux kernel

RE: filtering with exim

1999-09-06 Thread George Bonser
On 05-Sep-99 Mark R. Devlin wrote: # cut here # if $h_X-Mailing-List: contains debian-devel-changes@ then testprint $h_Subject: if $h_Subject: matches xxx then save Mail/debian-changes-in finish else

Re: dselect in xterm

1999-09-06 Thread Mark Wagnon
On Sun 09/05/99 08:16PM, Brad wrote: On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Brian E. Lavender wrote: 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

Mwave and docking stations

1999-09-06 Thread Koyote
Okay- Is there support for mwave cards on the thinkpad laptops (755CE in my case)? Where, how, who? And- how do I tell my laptop that it now has a docking station, with scsi devices, to play with? Koyote

Re: How to produce a newsletter

1999-09-06 Thread Mark Wagnon
On Sun 09/05/99 06:52PM, Beverley Eyre wrote: The best typesetting program ever IMHO is TeX. If you're going to do anysort of publishing, learning it is well worth it. I went crazy last year and bought something like 4 LaTeX books. Most (90%) of the stuff in them is way over my head, but from

Re: FTP servers and security help

1999-09-06 Thread Seth R Arnold
Well, if it was released in the last two weeks or so, then thats the one! :) On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 08:48:49PM -0500, Brad wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: Paul, stay away from wu_ftpd. It might be a wonderful piece of software, it

Re: Why can't I run my program

1999-09-06 Thread Seth R Arnold
I have seen something similar to this before -- you are missing a library that it requires to run. Try ldd hello to see what libraries it requires. On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 09:13:00PM -0700, Wendell Buckner wrote: I was playing around with GNU C before I getting ready to load GNU C++, and

Re: How to produce a newsletter

1999-09-06 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 09/05/99 at 18:36:53, Kent West wrote concerning How to produce a newsletter: Learning curve aside, what's going to be the best Linux app for producing a 1- or 2-page newsletter? I've been using LaTeX for about a year now. It takes some getting used to, but in some ways it makes life

Re: StarOffice on potato dist - am I screwed?

1999-09-06 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Please keep your line lengths 76. Notice the off line breaking in your quoted message below; this is because you used lines too long for the mailers commonly used on this list. Although the press of a button could fix it, i leave it to show you how it looks.

hard disks more than 8gb

1999-09-06 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I bought a new HD (and a new MB and cpu for that matter. BIG upgrade. Re-installing EVERYTHING!) I am running debian 2.1. Fdisk reported my 17.2 maxtor (which the bios sizes as about 16.8gb, so maxtor lies a little). But linux fdisk only sees half of this. MS fdisk sees ALL of the disk. I

Re: hard disks more than 8gb

1999-09-06 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya... but primarily, just make sure you are using LBA mode in the PC bios... ( LBA vs auto mode vs normal mode... etc... auto detect is okay... ( auto on the left side of the bios screen ) - i have a few 10/13/17 GB maxtors all over the place... - some older fdisk cannot handle large

Re: How to produce a newsletter

1999-09-06 Thread John Foster
Kent West wrote: Learning curve aside, what's going to be the best Linux app for producing a 1- or 2-page newsletter? I've used WordPerfect for years (from back in the DOS days of 5.x to the Windows version to the Linux version now), but I suspect there's something better for this sort of

Dumb package install question

1999-09-06 Thread Paul McHale
Hi, I have downloaded the latest proftp with the root patch (I believe) from debian. I have it on floppy and can copy the file proftpd_1.2.0pre4-2.deb to wherever. Question is how do I install it ? When I run dselect, it looks for directories which don't exist on the floppy. I looked at dpkg

Re: Dumb package install question

1999-09-06 Thread Seth R Arnold
Hello paul On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 11:35:13PM -0400, Paul McHale wrote: Hi, I have downloaded the latest proftp with the root patch (I believe) from debian. I have it on floppy and can copy the file proftpd_1.2.0pre4-2.deb to wherever. Question is how do I install it ? When I run

RE: Dumb package install question

1999-09-06 Thread Paul McHale
I ran: # apt-get -f install Which straightened out my previous PERL error/conflict by removing 5.005. I then ran: # apt-get install proftpd It supposedly installed and started it. When I run: server:~# ps aux | grep pro root 937 0.0 1.8 1800 844 ? S00:42 0:00 proftpd So

Dselect selections

1999-09-06 Thread Tadas
Hello all, I was playing with dselect and I have selected many packages to install or remove. But I dont want to remove them. How can I remove any selections I have made? Bye, Tadas

Re: reboot question

1999-09-06 Thread Joseph Chung
My parents have no password sudo access to the shutdown command on the Debian box I set up for them. This way they can shut down the machine from an icewm menu selection. 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

Re: Fetchmail not exiting in ip-down

1999-09-06 Thread damon
In regards to my fethmail script not running in ip-down.d... I recently worked out something weird. If I run poff manually (by hand), all of my scripts in ip-down.d run perfectly. Yet it's when I use the GNOME modem-lights applet that things don't run. I've told this applet to terminate

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

1999-09-06 Thread damon
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 01:45:57PM +0100, Frankie Fisher was heard to state: This thread has been going on for a few days, and noone seems to have said very much about junkbuster. I personally use JunkBuster (and have been for a long time), and I have a pretty good blocklist (which I have built

sndcard

1999-09-06 Thread Kreshna
it is said that Debian doesn't have a soundcard support last time I saw the manual. Is there any patch for it now? And can I download nettools or TNOS to patch Debian to use AX.25 protocol? Thanks a lot!

Re: How to produce a newsletter

1999-09-06 Thread Johann Spies
Kent, I have been using LaTeX for a few years now to produce newsletters and I like it. As somebody suggested Lyx might be an easier way to go if you are not familier with LaTeX. Previously I also have used Wordperfect 5.1 (which I still see as one of the best in the Dos/Windows-world), but now

Re: Dselect problems

1999-09-06 Thread peter karlsson
Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You're using a broken mirror (or an arch that doesn't have all packages properly ported--if you're not using an i386, please say so and disregard the below). (I'm using i386). Hmmm, strange, I'm using ftp.sunet.se, which ought to be complete. I used another mirror

Re: hard disks more than 8gb

1999-09-06 Thread Alexis Maldonado
Hello! On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 07:52:36PM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: I bought a new HD (and a new MB and cpu for that matter. BIG upgrade. Re-installing EVERYTHING!) I am running debian 2.1. Fdisk reported my 17.2 maxtor (which the bios sizes as about 16.8gb, so maxtor lies a little).

Reading Word format files?

1999-09-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
I occasionally get email with files attached in Word format. Is there any way to convert these to a readable format? (I don't want to use WordPerfect). Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux - Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: www.achc.demon.co.uk/bookreviews/ The Moving

How to fully utilise a 10 GB harddisk

1999-09-06 Thread Tamas . GAIDOSCH
Hi folks, I got a 10 GB IDE harddisk (/dev/hda), but cfdisk 0.81 of slink only sees approx. 7.5 GB of it: 240 heads x 63 sect/track x 1023 cyls = 15467760 total sectors How can I use the missing 2.5 GBs? The machine is a rather up-to-date PIII. It came with NT Wstn preinstalled, and that

syslogd kernel stack corruption

1999-09-06 Thread J Horacio MG
Help, please! Just a few secs ago I was reading my mail when mutt broke and all the stuff below appeared. Then it asked me if I wanted to leave mutt (obviously I did, it didn't look nice). Now it seems to be working fine ... well, the problem doesn't look as if it's got to do with mutt, rather

Re: #!/Perl question

1999-09-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Joey == Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The following works under more shells (and also is a man page ;-) #!/usr/bin/perl -- # -*- Mode: Perl -*- # 'di'; 'ig00'; true || eval 'exec perl -S $0 $argv:q'; eval '(exit $?0)' eval 'exec perl -S $0 ${1+$@}' eval 'exec perl -S $0

Re: VMware on debian: module compilation

1999-09-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Regis == Regis Duchesne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Regis Thank you. My personal take on this is that these reasons were true Regis with libc5 and they are not true anymore with libc6. What makes you think that? I see nothing, really, that has changed since the libc5 days that would

Re: Revisit Large Hard Drives

1999-09-06 Thread Martin Oldfield
I've been playing with a couple of boxes with large drives on over the weekend and here are some more data: 1. Dell box with 20GB Maxtor and Phoenix BIOS. The box came with a single 98 partition which we resized with FIPS to 16GB Win/4GB Linux. Neither the slink nor potatoes cfdisk liked

Re: Good books

1999-09-06 Thread Julian Midgley
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, John Foster wrote: --- I highly recommend Running Linux by O'Reilly Associates. I have the 2nd edition and hope they release the 3rd edition soon as it needs updating. The value is that you can learn how to set up your

Re: How to fully utilise a 10 GB harddisk

1999-09-06 Thread Seth R Arnold
Tamas, do NOT trust the NT installer. It is a known bug in pre-SP4 winNT that it CANNOT SEE more than 8 gigs of a drive. A workaround is to install WinNT onto a small partition (it also cannot install onto a partition larger than two gigs... ) and then resize the partition using a recent (and

Re: sndcard

1999-09-06 Thread Seth R Arnold
Kreshna, you need to give a bit more information than that... Your version of Debian, whether you are willing to upgrade to a newer one, etc.. I have no knowledge of ax.25, but the kernel has supported it for four or five years; one would hope the userland tools have existed for a while too. And

Re: timidity help-libncurses.so.2.0 not found

1999-09-06 Thread Stephan Hachinger
- Original Message - From: Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, September 04, 1999 1:03 AM Subject: timidity help-libncurses.so.2.0 not found I just used apt-get to download timidity but when I try to run timidity it tells me: timidity:

Re: syslogd kernel stack corruption

1999-09-06 Thread Seth R Arnold
Horacio, near the tail end of the linux kernel README file, Linus suggests what to do in case of a crash. (Wow... This is actually my first crash-incident involving the kernel! I have seen X die once before, and I had to login remotely and reboot in order to get the thing back... but this is the

Re: What driver do i use for a 3com Etherlink XL pci

1999-09-06 Thread William T Wilson
On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, David Blackman wrote: that's it, what driver do I use for a 3com etherlink XL pci, it's the card my DSL supplier supports I don't know, but you don't have to use their card. Unless they're paying *very* close attention they won't even be able to tell. If you already

Re: Why can't I run my program

1999-09-06 Thread Stephan Hachinger
- Original Message - From: Wendell Buckner To: Debian Users Group Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 6:13 AM Subject: Why can't I run my program I was playing around with GNU C before I getting ready to load GNU C++, and decided to write a simple c program (The standard hello world app).

Re: WD drives was:IBM drives

1999-09-06 Thread Robert Varga
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote: WD has a utility on their website that you can run and actually repair the drive. I've had drives with bad sectors that i've repaired with utility that have lasted YEARS after the fact, without developing a single bad sector. Also,

Re: sndcard

1999-09-06 Thread Stephan Hachinger
- Original Message - From: Kreshna To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 8:35 AM Subject: sndcard it is said that Debian doesn't have a soundcard support last time I saw the manual. Is there any patch for it now? And can I download nettools or TNOS to patch

Re: Error opening terminal: xterm-debian.

1999-09-06 Thread Robert Varga
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Brian E. Lavender wrote: 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. Try copying /etc/terminfo/x/xterm-debian to the appropriate place on the

Re: How to uninstall X

1999-09-06 Thread Stephan Hachinger
- Original Message - From: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian Users debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 12:18 AM Subject: How to uninstall X Since I'm having so much trouble getting the extended-half of my keyboard to work (arrow keys, pg-up/dn, etc), I'm

Re: importing screenshots?

1999-09-06 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 01:19:25AM -0400, Harlan Crystal wrote: I recently reinstalled my debian system, and the command which i had been using to take screenshots (import thepicture.jpg) no longer works. I seemed to remember that import was associated with xv or imlib but I have both

Re: SoundBlaster 16 PNP WaveEffects help needed

1999-09-06 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 03:59:19PM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote: Where do I find the source for modconf, and who is the maintainer? # dpkg -s modconf Package: modconf Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: base Installed-Size: 171 Maintainer: Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL

psnup creating faulty PS?

1999-09-06 Thread Debian Mail
I have a PDF document which I printed to a PS File on windows NT. I used fixps to repair the NT errors. Then I used psresize to scale the document to a4. The resulting file can be viewed with gs without problem. But when I use psnup -4 -d on the file, the resulting PS cannot be printed or viewed

Re: What driver do i use for a 3com Etherlink XL pci

1999-09-06 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 05:43:25AM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, David Blackman wrote: that's it, what driver do I use for a 3com etherlink XL pci, it's the card my DSL supplier supports I don't know, but you don't have to use their card. Unless they're paying

elks-libc

1999-09-06 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, where can I get the sources of elks-libc package and debian patches ? I'm not able to find them in ftp.debian.org... Thanks. Juli-Manel Merino Vidal [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://jmmv.cjb.net Running

apt-get source [was soundblaster...]

1999-09-06 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 10:22:57PM +1200, Matthew Gregan wrote: The source is available at ftp.debian.org (and mirrors), or if you have apt-get set up correctly (you probably need the newer apt-get from netgod.net if you're running slink): # cd my-src-dir # apt-get source modconf And

Re: Reading Word format files?

1999-09-06 Thread David Blackman
Wordview, it's a program you can apt-egt --dave On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: I occasionally get email with files attached in Word format. Is there any way to convert these to a readable format? (I don't want to use WordPerfect). Anthony -- Anthony Campbell -

Re: elks-libc

1999-09-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 01:21:15PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: where can I get the sources of elks-libc package and debian patches ? I'm not able to find them in ftp.debian.org... Their source package is linux86. You can find out which package provides the source for a given package

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