Re: No puedo compilar

1999-09-14 Thread Daniel H. Perez
* [990913 20:04] Sergio Blanco Cuaresma ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) decia: Hola a todos, intento compilar el programa xawtv pero me dice que gcc no puede compilar programas. No entiendo lo que sucede, quizas necesite instalar algun paquete extra pero no tengo ni idea de cual debe ser. ¿Alguien lo

Re: Se sabe algo de la Potato?

1999-09-14 Thread Daniel H. Perez
Hola, primero aclaro que agarre este thread empezado asi que quiza meto la pata con lo que digo, pero bue... que va se.. Por lo visto el tema tiene que ver con el ritmo de actualizacion de Debian. Creo que alguien ya comento que debian se caracterisa mas por la robustez que por la rapida

Re: Se sabe algo de la Potato?

1999-09-14 Thread J. Carlos Muro
Daniel H. Perez escribió: Hola, primero aclaro que agarre este thread empezado asi que quiza meto la pata con lo que digo, pero bue... que va se.. Por lo visto el tema tiene que ver con el ritmo de actualizacion de Debian. Creo que alguien ya comento que debian se caracterisa mas por la

Re: Se sabe algo de la Potato?

1999-09-14 Thread Daniel H. Perez
* [990914 02:55] J. Carlos Muro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) decia: Daniel H. Perez escribió: Osea el problema tiene mas que ver con el tiempo de conexion mas que con la disponibilidad de paquetes? Una y otra. Si no tengo ni tiempo ni dinero para bajar los paquetes, no tengo disponibilidad

Re: Telnet a tu propia maquina

1999-09-14 Thread Ricard P.G.
-- Sergio Blanco Cuaresma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola a todos, quisiera poder hacer telnet a mi propia maquina pero no lo consigo. He compilado el kernel con soporte para loopback y tengo el demonio inetd escuchando por el puerto de telnet, pero no me deja establecer la conexion. Creo

Re: Manual para instalar y dejar funcionando un DNS en condiciones bajo Linux

1999-09-14 Thread Ximo Nadal
¿sabeis donde podría conseguir un buen manualito en Internet para configurar un DNS como está mandado bajo Linux? A mi me pasaron unas hojas impresas de: http://www.nllgg.nl/LinuxFocus/Castellano/May1998/article5.html y lo puse en marcha con eso. No se si aun estaran ahi. Saludos. -- Ximo

RE: Manual para instalar y dejar funcionando un DNS en condicione s bajo Linux

1999-09-14 Thread Tejada Lacaci, Antonio
-Mensaje original- De: Ximo Nadal [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: martes 14 de septiembre de 1999 9:59 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Re: Manual para instalar y dejar funcionando un DNS en condicionesbajo Linux ¿sabeis donde podría conseguir un buen manualito

Re: Se sabe algo de la Potato?

1999-09-14 Thread J. Carlos Muro
Antonio Castro escribió: On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Daniel H. Perez wrote: que unstable ¿no? Pero bueno, de eso sí que pecan otras distribuciones, que por las prisas a veces meten la pata. No entiendo muy bien, paquetes nuevos ya hay, que son los de potato. Me parece que el tema

Re: Se sabe algo de la Potato?

1999-09-14 Thread Daniel H. Perez
* [990914 05:17] Antonio Castro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) decia: On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Daniel H. Perez wrote: que unstable ?no? Pero bueno, de eso s? que pecan otras distribuciones, que por las prisas a veces meten la pata. No entiendo muy bien, paquetes nuevos ya hay, que son los de

Re: Se sabe algo de la Potato? - ya vale ;)

1999-09-14 Thread dfm
Sin ánimo de ofender a nadie, vuestra discusión ya no es sobre Linux, podríais llevarla al privado, buen royo ante todo. :) Un saludo Daniel debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org con fecha 14/09/99 11:20:12 Destinatarios: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org CC: (cci: Daniel Ferradal

Re: Se sabe algo de la Potato?

1999-09-14 Thread Miquel
El mar, sep 14, 1999 at 11:08:10 +0200 J. Carlos Muro va dir: Lo único que trato de decir es que en _mi_caso_particular_ (y puede que en el de otros, pero hablo de mi caso) a mí me resulta difícil disponer ahora mismo de potato. NO dudo de que probablemente a pesar de no haber salido, ésta

issue e issue.net

1999-09-14 Thread jvicente
Remitido por JUAN VICENTE/BANELCO/AR con fecha 13/09/99 17:38 Destinatarios: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org CC: Asunto: issue e issue.net Alguno sabe donde está el script que crean estos archivos? En Redhat estaba en /etc/rc.d/rc.local, pero anoche no lo pude

Alguien tiene el telefono de la gente de ID+Agora?

1999-09-14 Thread M. Angel Esteban
Les he hecho un pedido que me urge y tras el tiempo estipulado no he recibido nada. Les he mandado un email sin respuesta etc... Un saludo. Un desesperao que necesita instalar unas cosillas en el curro ;)

Re: No puedo compilar

1999-09-14 Thread Antonio Tejada Lacaci
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 16:25:03 +0200, Sergio Blanco Cuaresma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola a todos, intento compilar el programa xawtv pero me dice que gcc no puede compilar programas. Te dice gcc no puede compilar programas :-? ... ayudaría saber el error exacto :-m ¿qué ejecutas para

Re: Telnet a tu propia maquina

1999-09-14 Thread Antonio Tejada Lacaci
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 16:23:29 +0200, Sergio Blanco Cuaresma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola a todos, quisiera poder hacer telnet a mi propia maquina pero no lo consigo. He compilado el kernel con soporte para loopback ... eh ... me paíce que el loopback no tiene nada que ver en este caso. y

Re: Colores en motd

1999-09-14 Thread Antonio Tejada Lacaci
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 16:29:10 +0200, Sergio Blanco Cuaresma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ¿alguien sabe como hacer para modificar los colores que vienen por defecto en el motd? Entre otros sitios, en el bash-prompt-HOWTO tienes los colores, amén de otras judiadas varias que puedes hacerle a tu prompt.

Re: issue e issue.net

1999-09-14 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 09:29:33AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remitido por JUAN VICENTE/BANELCO/AR con fecha 13/09/99 17:38 Destinatarios: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org CC: Asunto: issue e issue.net Alguno sabe donde está el script que crean estos

Re: Alguien tiene el telefono de la gente de ID+Agora?

1999-09-14 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 02:41:52PM +0200, M. Angel Esteban wrote: Les he hecho un pedido que me urge y tras el tiempo estipulado no he recibido nada. Les he mandado un email sin respuesta etc... Un saludo. Un desesperao que necesita instalar unas cosillas en el curro ;) Investigación y

Re: Se sabe algo de la Potato?

1999-09-14 Thread Correcaminos
Agustin MuNoz wrote: El 13.37 14/9/99 +0200, Miquel va y dice : Potato es Debian, es una parte de Debian, y se actualiza a un ritmo de 20 o más paquetes por semana (¡estamos a punto de llegar a los 4000!). Para quien quiera mantenerse actualizado o colaborar en la prueba y puesta a

¿Qué es el grupo linux.debian.spanish?

1999-09-14 Thread José Carlos García Sogo
Pues eso. ¿Es esta lista gestionada como un USENET? Me interesaría mucho, pues a partir de poco no voy a poder bajarme el correo todos los días, y no mola llegar y encontarse con 500 mensajes sin leer. ¿En qué servidores se puede encontar ese grupo? Un saludo! --

Re: Se sabe algo de la Potato?

1999-09-14 Thread Xose Manoel Ramos
Pero, por ejemplo, yo ahora mismo estoy desarrollando un proyecto (Gseq) y necesito utilizar las últimas librerías de Gnome, Gtk y Glib (o casi las últimas). Ocurre, que mientras veo el montón de cosas que tengo que bajarme (la otra opción es bajarme los fuentes de todo y compilar, pero esos son

Re: Se sabe algo de la Potato? - ya vale ;)

1999-09-14 Thread Gustavo CR
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 01:06:39PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sin ánimo de ofender a nadie, vuestra discusión ya no es sobre Linux, podríais llevarla al privado, buen royo ante todo. :) Sin animo de ofender tampoco, para los pocos mensajes que quedan sobre Debian en la lista también

Octave, una de gráficas.

1999-09-14 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Hola todos. Se que muchos de los subscritos a esta lista usan desde hace tiempo octave. A ver si entre unos y otros me podeis resolver dos dudas sobre gráficas en 2d, estas son: 1) ¿Es posible cambiar las etiquetas line 1, line 2, ... que aparecen cuando se superponen gráficas mediante

Re: Se sabe algo de la Potato? - ya vale ;)

1999-09-14 Thread Antonio Castro
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Gustavo CR wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 01:06:39PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sin ánimo de ofender a nadie, vuestra discusión ya no es sobre Linux, podríais llevarla al privado, buen royo ante todo. :) Pues crei estar hablando 100% de Debian y de un tema

Re: GNOME en potato

1999-09-14 Thread Jon Noble
Hola, On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 01:57:05PM +0200, Felix Ortega wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 09:51:22PM +0200, Jon Noble wrote: Hola, ¿alguien usa los paquetes de GNOME de potato? Desde que actualicé GNOME a las versiones de potato tengo algunos pequeños problemas. El más incómodo de

Re: Se sabe algo de la Potato?

1999-09-14 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 02:50:42PM +0100, Correcaminos wrote: 2) No es **muy** caro actualizarse a potato. Con una conexión mediana (2.5kb/s, por la noche es fácil conseguirlo en alguno de los mirrors europeos), tardas aproximadamente 9-10h -depende del número de paquetes que tengas

Re: capturadora

1999-09-14 Thread Manuel Fonseca
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Sergio Blanco Cuaresma wrote: At 14:49 12/09/99 +0200, you wrote: On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Jon wrote: Ejecuta el MAKEDEV que te envio, venia con el xawtv y a mi me crea los dispositivos necesarios para ver la tele. Gracias por mandarme el MAKEDEV, luego lo probare.

Re: xemacs y del

1999-09-14 Thread Roberto Suarez Soto
On 13/Sep/1999, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: viene compilado con soporte gpm :). Una pregunta... es xemacs GNU / GPL ? Bueno, es que si XEmacs no es GNU ... no sé si concretamente en XEmacs, pero en Emacs gran parte del código viene de Richard Stallman :-) Supongo que compartirán

Re: No puedo compilar

1999-09-14 Thread Luis M. Garcia
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 01:37:23PM +, Antonio Tejada Lacaci wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 16:25:03 +0200, Sergio Blanco Cuaresma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola a todos, intento compilar el programa xawtv pero me dice que gcc no puede compilar programas. Te dice gcc no puede compilar

Nuevo en la lista

1999-09-14 Thread Raul GN
Hola Debianeros, Solo quería presentarme, aunque llevo ya tiempo con Linux esta es la primera vez que entro en esta lista. Perdonadme que escriba con win pero aunque ya tengo instalado Debían 2.1 aún no he conseguido configurar correctamente pppd. El log me dice que no encuentra el Login y el

Re: Se sabe algo de la Potato?

1999-09-14 Thread RESET
: En el artículo [EMAIL PROTECTED], J. Carlos Muro [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: [...] J. Carlos:: Todo esto está muy bien. Pero la verdad es que se J. Carlos:: presenta un problema cuando necesitas la última J. Carlos:: versión de algo porque sabes que dicha versión tiene J.

Notescapes de enlace dinámico

1999-09-14 Thread RESET
Hola a todos. El NN de enlace dinámico funciona al fin. No sé si esta noticia es vieja o no (probé por última vez hace unos meses), así que pido disculpas si lo sabía ya todo el mundo. El navegador parece cargarse en aproximadamente el mismo tiempo que el estático (lo que no debería ocurrir,

Re: Se sabe algo de la Potato?

1999-09-14 Thread Daniel H. Perez
* [990914 19:05] Juli-Manel Merino Vidal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) decia: Para automatizar el proceso: Crear el archivo /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/apt con el siguiente contenido: #!/bin/sh apt-get dist-upgrade -d -y /var/log/apt Y en /etc/ppp/ip-down.d/apt: #!/bin/sh killall 'apt-get' Cada vez

NIS users

1999-09-14 Thread Wilco Greven
I have installed a NIS server at the server on our small network. All the regular are now registered on the server so every user can log in at every machine at home. How can I add a user to a certain group at only one machine. Wilco Greven

Re: Sleeping in a shell

1999-09-14 Thread Jon Leonard
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 07:59:35PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: Low! Does anybody of you guys know a way to sleep for an amount of time less than a second in a shell (bash/sh) script? sleep refuses arguments like: 0.5 0,5 1/2 Maybe there is a nice perl command to do this? I really

Re: Xemacs problem

1999-09-14 Thread Eberhard Burr
David Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I try to start xemacs, I occasionally get this error message: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.0. Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use

Re: cluster size

1999-09-14 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Jim B wrote: What command can I use to find out my drives' cluster size? I know I can specify what I want to use when I [c]fdisk, and that the default is 2 KB I think... but I would still like to know how I can find this information out. There must be some program that will tell me this...

To the Debian Project, IMHO

1999-09-14 Thread Craig H. Block
I have been a Debian user for several years now. The first time I loaded it was before the Bo version. I compared it to what was available at the time and chose Debian mainly because of the installation control it offered via dpkg and dselect. But I also preferred just about everything else

Re: To the Debian Project, IMHO

1999-09-14 Thread NatePuri
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 04:53:04PM -0700, Craig H. Block wrote: After reading the last few months worth of newsletters at debian.org, I am concerned that the Debian project may be buying into this foolishness. My I think that the debian project will have the best of both worlds. There will

hi i got a question

1999-09-14 Thread Jerry
HI! My name is Jerry Smith. I use Debian Linux, and have tried pppconfig, pppsetup, and diald. Pppconfig and pppsetup i had no luck with, diald i got to work without errors but when i try to BitchX to an irc server or connect to some site with lynx it don't work. Is there any way to setup ppp

Re: To the Debian Project, IMHO

1999-09-14 Thread Havoc Pennington
Hi, As someone who's written lots of code toward making free Unices easier to use, let me just say that I think this supposed conflict between power and ease of use is total nonsense. Even if a tool is for power users, it can be pleasant for those users to learn and use or it can have an

Re: hi i got a question

1999-09-14 Thread Marcin Kurc
You probably made mistake configuring your nameservers. Check /etc/resolv.conf, it should look like this: search nameserver 216.88.77.7 nameserver 216.88.76.6 Assuming that ev1.net is your dialup ISP. On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 07:22:41PM -0500, Jerry wrote: HI! My name is Jerry Smith. I use

Installation Problem, Please Help.

1999-09-14 Thread Allix Primus
During the boot up of the installation it freezes at md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 just wondering if anyone knew how to get past this point. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

HElp

1999-09-14 Thread Baltazar Quinterno
I have an 8 Gig disk mount in /var/spool/mail, Im runing out of space what can I do?? Is posible to mount another disk in same mount point?? Thanks Baltazar

Re: Need help compiling VMWare modules.

1999-09-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
Which version of vmware are you trying to install? Some of them do not like gcc 2.95. I changed the CC= line in the Makefile to use gcc272 when I a problem similar to this (I don't remember the exact errors, so it may not be the same problem). The latest betas work fine for me with gcc 2.95,

logging within shell scripts

1999-09-14 Thread Gregory T. Norris
This isn't really a Debian issue as such, but I thought that someone here might be able to point me in the right direction... Hope I'm not too far off base here :-) I've got a shell script that I want to have log it's actions on a selective basis (dependent upon run-time settings). I know it

what are the standard programming tools available in Debian?

1999-09-14 Thread rich
Howdy everyone, I was wondering: what are the tools available in Debian that one would consider part of the standard toolbox of a programmer? I have programmed for several years in BASIC, and dabbled Fortran and Pascal. Now I want to learn C, Perl, and (maybe) Java... mostly for relatively

Re: HElp

1999-09-14 Thread Marcin Kurc
Buy a new hd and repleace the old one. BTW 8 gig is quite some space for email. How many users you have? On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 09:56:48PM -0300, Baltazar Quinterno wrote: I have an 8 Gig disk mount in /var/spool/mail, Im runing out of space what can I do?? Is posible to mount another

Re: How do you LOW FORMAT a hard drive

1999-09-14 Thread shaul
If you really must do low level formating and the disk is WD then there used to be an appropriate tool (wd_diag.exe) on their www pages. This tool will also tell you if low level formating might help. On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Patrik Magnusson wrote: I need to Low Format a hard drive - I have

Re: HElp

1999-09-14 Thread Marcin Kurc
I don't think so On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 10:14:20PM -0300, Baltazar Quinterno wrote: Thats a chance, but i was thinking in adding the new one to the same mount point is that posible.?? -- Marcin Kurc Indiana Institute of Technology System Administrator http://me.indtech.edu

Re: what are the standard programming tools available in Debian?

1999-09-14 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 06:41:15PM -0500, rich wrote: Howdy everyone, I was wondering: what are the tools available in Debian that one would consider part of the standard toolbox of a programmer? Well, it all depends on the programmer, I suppose. :) You need a good text editor. For me, that

Re: Help! mgetty ppp won't play together

1999-09-14 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 10:02:56AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote Bob Billson wrote: [cut] # Every regular user can use PPP and has to use passwords from /etc/passwd #* molec3* richmolec3*--the only user allowed to run ppp Substitute a real

Re: what are the standard programming tools available in Debian?

1999-09-14 Thread Kristopher Johnson
rich wrote: Howdy everyone, I was wondering: what are the tools available in Debian that one would consider part of the standard toolbox of a programmer? I have programmed for several years in BASIC, and dabbled Fortran and Pascal. Now I want to learn C, Perl, and (maybe) Java... mostly

Re: hi i got a question

1999-09-14 Thread Carl Fink
[This message has also been posted.] On 14 Sep 99 00:22:41 GMT Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI! My name is Jerry Smith. I use Debian Linux, and have tried pppconfig, pppsetup, and diald. Pppconfig and pppsetup i had no luck with, diald i got to work without errors but when i try to BitchX to

Re: ppp and kernel 2.2.12

1999-09-14 Thread John Hasler
Levi writes: Attached are /var/log/ppp.log /var/log/kern.log and /var/log/debug, maby they'll help. This looks very much like what I am getting. When I look at the logs at the other end I see that my end is sending empty LCP packets. Is there any way you can check the logs for the other end?

Re: Avoiding gpm before installing GNOME

1999-09-14 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 11:08:05AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: FWIW, I _did_ have a problem with Gnome vs. gpm. It seems to be specific to Enlightenment WM, though; now that I switched back to WindowMaker it seems to be OK. gpm was periodically dying with Too many open files. My guess is

Re: Need help compiling VMWare modules.

1999-09-14 Thread Jon Marler
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 06:05:56PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: Which version of vmware are you trying to install? Some of them do not like gcc 2.95. I changed the CC= line in the Makefile to use gcc272 when I a problem similar to this (I don't remember the exact errors, so it may not be the

Re: Debian 2.1 boot disk with Tekrm DC390F

1999-09-14 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Hi, On Tue, 14 Sep, 1999 à 12:37:22AM +0200, Eric CHEVALLIER wrote: Hi, I'm french and i have a problem to installation of Debian 2.1 the installation stopping after detecting my SCSI card, whit boot CD-ROM installion or boot floppy disk using your binary image with rawrite. I have finding

Re: X Configuration

1999-09-14 Thread Simon Martin
I have reconfigured. I am well within the specs of both monitor and video card. I am trying to install using XF86_Mono to make sure, and work my way up to XF86_SVGA as this is the suggested server for my video card (Trident TGUI9440 based PCI Graphics card) - Original Message - From:

Re: NIS users

1999-09-14 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 10:36:19PM +0200, Wilco Greven wrote: I have installed a NIS server at the server on our small network. All the regular are now registered on the server so every user can log in at every machine at home. How can I add a user to a certain group at only one machine.

Re: Need help compiling VMWare modules.

1999-09-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
You might try the following in driver-only/Makefile: INCLUDE = -I$(TOPDIR)/include -I$(TOPDIR)/common \ -I$(TOPDIR)/linux -I$(TOPDIR)/export/include -I$/usr/src/linux/include/linux and the following in vmnet-only/Makefile: INCLUDE = -I. -I/usr/src/linux/include Someone else suggested this on

RE: How do you LOW FORMAT a hard drive

1999-09-14 Thread Mike Barton
Actually, low formatting most SCSI drives is useful since it tests the drive and updates the dud sector map with the results. SCSI and IDE drives that would be damaged in some way by low formatting *usually* return success with out doing anything when asked to do a low level format. IOW, hard

Re: hi i got a question

1999-09-14 Thread John Hasler
Jerry Smith writes: I use Debian Linux, and have tried pppconfig, pppsetup, and diald. Pppconfig and pppsetup i had no luck with, What do you mean when you say you had no luck with pppconfig? Exactly what did you do and exactly what happened? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)

word not so perfect

1999-09-14 Thread tf
Hey Guys, I'm on a roll. In trying to install wordperfect 8, I followed the instructions on their site: gz guilg00.gz;tar guilg00 And got an error, not in gzip format. Corrupt download? Hope not. Any ideas? -- -t

Re: word not so perfect

1999-09-14 Thread Ashley Clark
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, tf wrote: I'm on a roll. In trying to install wordperfect 8, I followed the instructions on their site: gz guilg00.gz;tar guilg00 And got an error, not in gzip format. Corrupt download? Hope not. Did you download it with netscape? Usually netscape decides to

simple bind question

1999-09-14 Thread Jonathan Lupa
I'm in the process of moving my masq. firewall over to Debian and leaving Slackware altogether, but I'm running into a difference in the bind setup and I am curious about ramifications that I may not forsee... In my old named setup, (I think it was bind 8.1.2) I had a named.conf which specified

RE: Weird ICQ problems

1999-09-14 Thread Robert Rati
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 13-Sep-99 Robert Rati wrote: How did you get the plugins to build? I got LIcq .70 (the stable version) to build, but couldn't get ANY plugins to build to it was basically worthless. What did you do to get the plugins to build? I am hoping

unused libraries reported by binstats

1999-09-14 Thread rich
Hello all, I ran binstats, which reported that I had 79 used libraries, and 118 unused libraries... this is after having Debian running since Bo (1.3). Is there a way to find out which libraries are unused and purge them? Thanks, Rich

Resizing / using ext2resize

1999-09-14 Thread Ramakrishnan M
Hello have anybody tried resizing partitions using ext2resize? How stable is it? I need to shrink my root partition. Do I unmount the partition before resizing? Ramakrishnan M World Wide Web: http://www.ee.iitm.ernet.in/~ee98m09 -- A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there

Re: Resizing / using ext2resize

1999-09-14 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 10:25:40AM +0530, Ramakrishnan M wrote: Hello have anybody tried resizing partitions using ext2resize? How stable is it? I need to shrink my root partition. Do I unmount the partition before resizing? Yea, I used it and it *seemed* to work okay. At least, linux

Re: Pulled /home from / to New File Sys

1999-09-14 Thread Matthew Dalton
Your old /home is still on your root filesystem, but is being hidden by the new partition mounted there. Unmount your new home, delete the old one, then remount the new one again. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran out of space on /, so I decided to pull /home into its own partition. I created

FDISK parameters was Re: undelete for partition tables?

1999-09-14 Thread Ed Cogburn
Tom Pfeifer wrote: Question: Was that possibly a Linux extended partition (type 85) as opposed to a DOS extnded partition? That would explain why DOS fdisk could delete it. Yes, originally this computer was set up by me with linux only. It was my colleague who starte messing with

Re: E-mail client for POP3?

1999-09-14 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 04:25:53PM -0500, David Kanter wrote: I use POP3 with my dial up connection, and wonder what people generally use as a mail client for this situation. Do people just default to Netscape? I was looking at Mutt, which looks a little confusing, but seems to be somewhat

Re: E-mail client for POP3?

1999-09-14 Thread wim
Oh, also check out XFMail (there is a deb for it) at xfmail.slappy.org. Does everything you need: PGP, and the whole bit. It uses xforms, but still works very well. It's fast, does filtering, multiple folders, multiple pop/imap, etc, etc. On 13-Sep-99 Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: On Mon,

IMAP Interface

1999-09-14 Thread Stephen Kelly
Hi, Does anyone know of an imap interface written in c or perl that can be incorporated into another application. eg opensource. I am working on a web based email client, but I want to use imap instead of pop3. This will initially run on a one of my debian servers, and will be concurrently

Re: .profile BASH in PATH?

1999-09-14 Thread Gerhard Kroder
Pollywog wrote: You could make a directory $HOME/bin and put your shell scripts there, and also add it to your PATH in your user .profile: PATH=$PATH:/home/username/bin export PATH That would be better than just adding . to your PATH. even better might be using $HOME rather than

Re: r utilities went missing

1999-09-14 Thread Gerhard Kroder
Lewis, James M. wrote: What happened to in.rexecd (and the rest of them)? They used to be in netstd in slink. I upgraded this morning and they went missing. this seemed to happen somewhat earlier, i miss`m some days I got the Contents-i386.gz from potato and they were not in there.

Re: Mail Server Problem

1999-09-14 Thread Alex V. Toropov
---START Hi. This is the qmail-send program at neptune.cyberscapes.com.au. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry. Although I'm listed as a best-preference MX or A

Re: FDISK parameters was Re: undelete for partition tables?

1999-09-14 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Ed Cogburn wrote: In the future, I would recommend saving the output of either... 1) Linux fdisk == fdisk -l part.txt(this does all drives) 2) Ranish PM == part -d 1 -p -r part.txt (for each drive) Tom, or somebody, what version of fdisk do you have? My copy (v2.9w

Re: To the Debian Project, IMHO

1999-09-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 16:53:04 -0700, Craig H. Block wrote: This counter productive philosophy, started by the biggest and best example of what software should not be and you know who I'm talking about, is propagating at the expense of the truly important measures. Extrapolated to the end

Re: FDISK parameters was Re: undelete for partition tables?

1999-09-14 Thread Ramakrishnan M
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Tom Pfeifer wrote: Ranish Partition Manager is a DOS program, but is an excellent partitioning tool. It's source code is available for download from the web site. At one the time the author was planning on porting it over to Which site? Ramakrishnan M World Wide Web:

Test - delete me

1999-09-14 Thread Paul McHale
Please delete, a test of my mailer ! thank Double E Solutions Attn: Paul McHale 4912 Effingham Dayton, Ohio 45431 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: 937-253-7610 Mobile: 937-371-2828 Fax:937-253-7513 Home: 937-253-6260

Re: logging within shell scripts

1999-09-14 Thread Quant-X UNIX and Linux Support
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 08:18:30PM -0500, Gregory T. Norris wrote: This isn't really a Debian issue as such, but I thought that someone here might be able to point me in the right direction... Hope I'm not too far off base here :-) I've got a shell script that I want to have log it's actions

Re: FDISK parameters was Re: undelete for partition tables?

1999-09-14 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Ramakrishnan M wrote: On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Tom Pfeifer wrote: Ranish Partition Manager is a DOS program, but is an excellent partitioning tool. It's source code is available for download from the web site. At one the time the author was planning on porting it over to Which site?

Problems compiling kernel 2.2.12

1999-09-14 Thread Wayne McLemore
Hello all, I am a first time writer and I'm looking for a little help. The problem is I'm trying to upgrade my kernel to 2.2.12 and after I do the make dep, make clean and make zImage my machine tells me this: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2

Re: Problems compiling kernel 2.2.12

1999-09-14 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 04:41:41AM -0400, Wayne McLemore wrote: Hello all, I am a first time writer and I'm looking for a little help. The problem is I'm trying to upgrade my kernel to 2.2.12 and after I do the make dep, make clean and make zImage my machine tells me this:

Re: Problems building book from source, Debian GNU/Linux: Guide to Installation and Usage

1999-09-14 Thread Sergio Moretti
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christian Ericsson wrote: Hi, I have downloaded the source from http://www.newriders.com/0914-9.htm, but I have problems building the book from the source. LaTeX keeps complaining about some fonts that are missing. try running the tetex config utility, texconfig (as

sendfax say gs: command not found

1999-09-14 Thread Alex V. Toropov
Hi, all Can anyone tell me in what package there is gs program ? TIA Alex

NMAP on dselect sites

1999-09-14 Thread bwarsing
Hi, I want to upgrade my 'nmap' to the latest version, however the Debian sites seem to have let the package slide. Does anyone know if there is a mirror with the latest Debain nmap package. Alll the ones I have seen are version 1.51. It's very old. Thanks, bw

apt-get dselect-upgrade

1999-09-14 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
Hi, on one of my debian (potato) machines I have: $ apt-get dselect-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Segmentation fault (core dumped) apt-get upgrade works ok. How to cure/diagnose it. My versions: ii apt 0.3.12 Advanced front-end for

Re: word not so perfect

1999-09-14 Thread David Blackman
Netscape DOESN'T decompress anything. just do tar -xvzf guilg00 let's look at that -x (extract) v (verbose) z (gunzip it) f (read from file) also I've never heard of the command gz, try gunzip (file); tar (file) --dave On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Ashley Clark wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, tf wrote:

netscape mail time strangeness

1999-09-14 Thread Ali Graham
(Please CC: any replies as I'm not subscribed to the list -- even in digest format, it's just too big! :) OK, I'm using the potato debs of netscape communicator 4.61, smotif version. As you'll probably be able to see if you look at the headers of this message, Netscape Messenger doesn't obey my

Re: sendfax say gs: command not found

1999-09-14 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 01:46:16PM +0400, Alex V. Toropov wrote: Hi, all Can anyone tell me in what package there is gs program ? Hi, gs is provided by gs (free) or gs-aladdin (non-free) packages. Mirek

Re: E-mail client for POP3?

1999-09-14 Thread Kent West
Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 04:25:53PM -0500, David Kanter wrote: I use POP3 with my dial up connection, and wonder what people generally use as a mail client for this situation. Do people just default to Netscape? I was looking at Mutt, which looks a little

Re: X Configuration

1999-09-14 Thread Kent West
Simon Martin wrote: I have reconfigured. I am well within the specs of both monitor and video card. I am trying to install using XF86_Mono to make sure, and work my way up to XF86_SVGA as this is the suggested server for my video card (Trident TGUI9440 based PCI Graphics card) -

bash or tcsh

1999-09-14 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, This is not a question related to debian, but... Which are the differences between bash and tcsh (instead of scripts :) ? Another question: tcsh isn't gnu, is it ? And last: tcsh uses libreadline ? If it does, bash have a bug really ugly that I've commented here some days ago. Bash

man and links

1999-09-14 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, I've noticed some problem with manual pages of xemacs (an I think that also with tin). When I run man, when it's updating the cache, it shows a lot of annoying messages on screen of the following type: Updating index cache for path `/usr/man'.

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1999-09-14 Thread Ton Hamerslag
Dear debian-user. I have a IBM 386sx 55 machine with 4 MB RAM and a harddisk of 80 MB. I want to make a linux server of that machine. The only thing this machine also has is a floppy drive, no cd-rom. Which software must I download and what needs to be done to install Linux on this machine.(For

KDE 1.1.2

1999-09-14 Thread Jon Hughes
I've seen that kde.tdyc.com has the potato stuff for the latest KDE, does anyone know if it has the stuff for slink? (Can't upgrade to potato...yet) God, Root. What is the difference? Pitr, User Friendly

RE: KDE 1.1.2 (Answered my own question)

1999-09-14 Thread Jon Hughes
I answered myself, silly me :-) deb http://ruins.tdyc.com potato kde deb http://ruins.tdyc.com slink kde -Original Message- From: Jon Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 8:26 AM

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