Re: Potato

1999-09-29 Thread Miquel
El mar, sep 28, 1999 at 09:44:39 +0200 Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona va dir: Con respecto a GNOME en potato, todo se deber'ia estabilizar en unos d'ias, justo seg'uns ale la nueva versi'on estable de GNOME (1.40, si no estoy equivocado). Pero s'i, parece que ahora mismito hay un buen

Instalación de Netscape-Mozilla.

1999-09-29 Thread Emilio Hernández Martín
Hola, saludos a todos. Estoy intentando instalar el Netscape una vez que ya creo que tengo configurado el módem. Creo que he logrado instalarlo pero no configurarlo bien (o lo que sea) porque al intentar ejecutar 'netscape' me dice que no es capaz de cargar la lib. 'libg++.so.27'. He

RE: Información sobre sgml/dtd

1999-09-29 Thread Tejada Lacaci, Antonio
-Mensaje original- De: Han Solo [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: martes 28 de septiembre de 1999 16:24 Para: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Asunto: Información sobre sgml/dtd Hola a todos. Para ciertas cosas que hago, creo que el sgml es una gran herramienta,

RE: Instalación de Netscape-Mozilla.

1999-09-29 Thread Tejada Lacaci, Antonio
-Mensaje original- De: Emilio Hernández Martín [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: miércoles 29 de septiembre de 1999 6:48 Para: Debian Asunto: Instalación de Netscape-Mozilla. Hola, saludos a todos. Estoy

Re: alien: corrupted filesystem tarfile

1999-09-29 Thread TooMany
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 07:55:14PM +, David Charro Ripa wrote: Hola lista: Estoy intentando instalar un base de datos que viene en formato rpm para RedHat6.0. Hago alien y me dice que el archivo esta corrupto. La primera vez he pensado que se trataba de un error al bajarlo pero

Noticia del día...

1999-09-29 Thread TooMany
Buenas. Creo que ésto puede ser muy muy interesante: Inprise y Corel han juntado sus esfuerzos en potenciar Linux, reflejándose más que nada en el tema del Office de Corel, y lógicamente, herramientas de desarrollo de Borland/Inprise y demás progs de Corel... (a grosso modo). Así compartirán todo

rsync y similares

1999-09-29 Thread shadow
Hola, quisiera bajarme los unstable de debian, pero el equipo desde el que conecto a internet no tiene instalado linux, tiene windows, por ello me gustaría saber si existe algun programa similar al rsync para windows y de donde puedo bajarmelo. Gracias de antemano.

Problemas con CONSOLE_GROUP

1999-09-29 Thread Jordi Roman Mejias
1.- Comencemos por el principio. Me estoy actualizando dia a dia a Potato 2.- He conseguido una targeta de sonido Mad16 que suena 3.- En su dia configure la maquina para que tuviera la consola por el puerto serie y actualmente la configuracion del lilo.conf es la siguiente: lilo.conf

RE: rsync y similares

1999-09-29 Thread shadow
Muchas gracias

Mirror Debian

1999-09-29 Thread Xose Manoel Ramos
No se que pasa ultimamente, pero el mirror de Debian que hay en la Facultad de Informatica de la Coruña (ftp.ceu.fi.udc.es) no me deja entrar. No se si es que han cambiado las restricciones de entrada o que está frito o que. Se que en esta área participa alguno de los que por ahí mandan, así que

un modem pcmcia que es winmodem

1999-09-29 Thread Marga
Queridos/as amigos/as despues de perder mogollon de tiempo y llegarme a creer que era tonta, result'o que mi modem pcmcia ZOLTRIX modelo kfm5600-l era un winmodem. Adjunto el mensaje de respuesta del servicio tecnico. Asunto: RE: support Fecha: Mon, 20 Sep 1999

problema disco scsi

1999-09-29 Thread Pablo Vazquez
Cuando agrege la placa scsi aha-1522a debian la detecto perfecto pero... el problema surgio cuando enchufe el disco, me aparece el siguiente mensaje Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 scsi0 channell 0 : resseting for second half of retries SCSI bus is being reset for host 0

Re: [linux-l] - Mensaje Clock skew detected

1999-09-29 Thread Roger Pen~a Escobio
On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Lucky wrote: Cuando intento configurar un programa mediante la orden './configure' me da el mensaje 'Clock skew detected'. Alguien sabe que significa? casii siempre eso pasa cuando el reloj del sistema tiene una fecha anterior a la fecha de los ficheros que tratas de

Re: ipchains

1999-09-29 Thread Hue-Bond
El miércoles 29 de septiembre de 1999 a la(s) 00:12:39 +0200, leumas contaba: # ipchains -A input -i ippp0 -s ij-9.arrakis.es -d 212.25.138.48 -j DENY esto... ¿tienes ip fija? Sip. en el caso de que la direccion origen no cambie (ij-9-arrakis.es) creo que podrías

Re: Instalación de Netscape-Mozilla.

1999-09-29 Thread Enzo A. Dari
Emilio Hernández Martín wrote: ... Estoy intentando instalar el Netscape ... ... al intentar ejecutar 'netscape' me dice que no es capaz de cargar la lib. 'libg++.so.27'. He mirado y yo tengo la 'libg++.so.2.7.2', la 'libg++.so.2.7.2.8' y la 'libg++.so.272', pero no la que me pide y no sé

Re: problema disco scsi

1999-09-29 Thread Carlos Javier Sosa Gonzalez
? Tienes los terminales del BUS bien puestos ? El BUS SCSI posee unos terminales en el bus (a los dos extremos) Las resistencias terminales se configuran por medio de unos jumpers tanto en la tarjeta SCSI como en el HDD. Si no tienes nada mas conectado al BUS, has de activar la de la

Re: Imprimir

1999-09-29 Thread Pedro A . Vizcaíno
La impresora la tienes correctamente configurada, el problema esta en otro lado, si solo te imprime postscript es que tienes configurada la impresora para que solo imprima postscript. Veamos. que paquetes has instalado de impresion? lprng seguro Seguro gs , gs-aladin El gs lo tengo

Re: Imprimir

1999-09-29 Thread Pedro A . Vizcaíno
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 06:03:45PM +0200, Antonio Calvo Rodriguez wrote: La impresora la tienes correctamente configurada, el problema esta en otro lado, si solo te imprime postscript es que tienes configurada la impresora para que solo imprima postscript. Veamos. que paquetes has instalado

Re: regrabadora

1999-09-29 Thread Samuel Montosa
El Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 08:31:06AM +0200, Tejada Lacaci, Antonio dijo: Efectivamente, las regrabadoras emplean el método de packet-writing, lo que les permite grabar sin cerrar la sesión, pero siendo incompatible con un lector de CD normal (aunque creo que ya hay en el mercado lectores

RE: Problemas varios con Gnome

1999-09-29 Thread Ricardo Villalba
-Mensaje original- De: Juli-Manel Merino Vidal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Debian Users Spanish debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Fecha: domingo 19 de septiembre de 1999 21:04 Asunto: Re: Problemas varios con Gnome [...] Pero el x11amp (o xmms como se llama ahora) está en los servidores

RE: No puedo enviar al servidor de news

1999-09-29 Thread Ricardo Villalba
-Mensaje original- De: xxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Lista Debian debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Fecha: domingo 26 de septiembre de 1999 11:00 Asunto: No puedo enviar al servidor de news Al intentar enviar un mensaje al servidor de news me dice: 400 No space left on device writing

RE: Offtopic: ¿Alguien tiene a mano la clave del StarOffice?

1999-09-29 Thread Ricardo Villalba
-Mensaje original- De: Francisco José Avila Bermejo (Monkiki) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Fecha: miércoles 22 de septiembre de 1999 10:36 Asunto: Offtopic: ¿Alguien tiene a mano la clave del StarOffice? Es que he ido

Re: Problemas con CONSOLE_GROUP

1999-09-29 Thread Daniel H. Perez
Hola * [990929 16:55] Jordi Roman Mejias ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) decia: 1.- Comencemos por el principio. Me estoy actualizando dia a dia a Potato 2.- He conseguido una targeta de sonido Mad16 que suena 3.- En su dia configure la maquina para que tuviera la consola por el puerto serie y

Re: ipchains

1999-09-29 Thread Fernando Sanchez
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Hue-Bond wrote: # ipchains -A input -i ippp0 -s ij-9.arrakis.es -d 212.25.138.48 -j DENY ¿Dónde está mal esto? Porque lo puse y el port-scan del mamón de ij-9.arrakis.es seguía llegando intacto. Vamos, que lo tuve que Igual tienes alguna regla antes que

Re: Configurar módem.

1999-09-29 Thread Andres Seco Hernandez
Hola. El 28 Sep 1999 a las 04:48AM +0200, Emilio Hernández Martín escribio: ¿Alguien puede decirme cómo configurar mi módem desde Linux para poder acceder desde allí a Internet? Tengo los discos que venían con la distribución 2.1 slink donde hay documentación en castellano sobre Linux,

ipchains

1999-09-29 Thread RESET
: En el artículo [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hue-Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hue-Bond:: # ipchains -A input -i ippp0 -s ij-9.arrakis.es -d Hue-Bond:: 212.25.138.48 -j DENY Hue-Bond:: ¿Dónde está mal esto? Porque lo puse y el port-scan del Hue-Bond:: mamón de ij-9.arrakis.es

Re: problema disco scsi

1999-09-29 Thread Manuel Fonseca
el Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 11:00:25AM -0400, Pablo Vazquez dijo: Cuando agrege la placa scsi aha-1522a debian la detecto perfecto pero... el problema surgio cuando enchufe el disco, me aparece el siguiente mensaje Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 scsi0 channell 0 :

Re: Kernel upgrades = security upgrades - a possible solution?

1999-09-29 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 05:05:21PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: *- On 28 Sep, Fraser Campbell wrote about Re: Kernel upgrades = security upgrades Brian Servis wrote: Notice that the version is part of the package name. Thus a kernel-image-2.0.34 and kernel-image-2.0.36 are two totally

Re: Flat-panel monitors?

1999-09-29 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 05:57:27PM -0400, B. Szyszka wrote: Hi, I was wondering what luck, if any, you guys have had with flat panel monitors in Debian. Has everything worked as it should? not right from the start... X docs are your friends :) don't ask me where have i found the right info,

Re: Installing debian to another hard drive

1999-09-29 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 10:42:15PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: Hello, How can I install the debian base system to another hard drive in the same computer? I have a working Debian / DOS+Win95 dual boot system, and would like to install Debian to a laptop, whose floppy disk drive is

Re: txt 2 ps?

1999-09-29 Thread Jordan Howarth
erasmo hello everybody which package can i use in order to convert a text erasmo file (as created by emacs) to a postscript file, but in a way i ould erasmo have control over factors like: type and size of the font, spacing, erasmo identation, justification, etc. The long way is:

Re: Root password

1999-09-29 Thread Seth R Arnold
Well, in multi-user mode, it does NOT prompt for root password (on my potato anyway... :) Single user mode MIGHT be different, but I would be suprised. On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 06:50:11PM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote: Seth R Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I haven't tried this myself... but, I

RE: txt 2 ps?

1999-09-29 Thread Ted Harding
On 28-Sep-99 erasmo perez wrote: hello everybody which package can i use in order to convert a text file (as created by emacs) to a postscript file, but in a way i ould have control over factors like: type and size of the font, spacing, identation, justification, etc. thanks a lot Try

Re: X for Win95

1999-09-29 Thread Gareth
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Jon Hughes wrote: I've been working on my Linux box here at work from my windows computer (easier to telnet into rather then move around and stuff). This is fine and dandy, but I've been told there is a way you can actually get the X server/KDE stuff to work remotly,

Re: Best API for g++?

1999-09-29 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... What's the best API (GUI) for writing/generating C/C++ code in Linux X Windows, in your opinions? I need some suggestions or recommendations from those of you who have used them. Two of the most popular these days seem to be Qt

Re: Kernel upgrades = security upgrades

1999-09-29 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 05:19:24PM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote: I realize the kernel is a very special piece of software but still see no reason why it is treated differently from normal software. Perhaps the upgrade process depends on the virtual package kernel-image which I don't seem to

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-29 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 06:20:36PM -0400, B. Szyszka wrote: Personally, I find it difficult to troubleshoot problems when the only data I'm given is These things cost money. Give us something to work with. Well buy something else isn't exactly a very good solution to a problem either. I

Problems with lilo?

1999-09-29 Thread Jason Murray
I think this problem is with lilo. I am riding the bleeding edge upgrading roughly every night. Well yesterday when I upgraded there was an update for lilo. Now I can't boot from the HD. It tells me this: LILO boot: Lodaing Linux Uncompressing Linux... crc error -- system halted Now I've

Re: ppp how to use ppp for a normal user?

1999-09-29 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brad) writes: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hmmm... ugly long lines. Fix the MUAs to use lines 76 characters at maximum. On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Andrew L. Gould wrote: I did a fresh install of Debian 2.1r3 last night. Accessing the internet via wvdial as a

Exim... can't get outgoing mail off my machine

1999-09-29 Thread kvaughan
Sorry, but I cannot figure out how to get mail to other people on our LAN using exim. Those I send are booted back saying they don't exist on my machine. Mail should go to a server, but it treats all with the same domain as being on my machine. Have gone through the manual but I guess I'm

Re: LiLO and Multi distributions

1999-09-29 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Ben Collins wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 10:19:38PM +0100, Joao Pissarro wrote: Hello all, I have isntalled two distributions of Linux (Reh Hat 6 and Debian 2.1) on two hard disks, just like the following: hda1: Win98

Re: Problems with lilo?

1999-09-29 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 28 Sep, Jason Murray wrote about Problems with lilo? I think this problem is with lilo. I am riding the bleeding edge upgrading roughly every night. Well yesterday when I upgraded there was an update for lilo. Now I can't boot from the HD. It tells me this: LILO boot: Lodaing Linux

Re: X for Win95

1999-09-29 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I've had good luck using VNC... http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 09:16:57AM -0400, Jon Hughes wrote: I've been working on my Linux box here at work from my windows computer (easier to telnet into rather then move around and stuff). This is fine and dandy, but I've

Re: emacs or xemacs ?

1999-09-29 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Daniel Barclay wrote: .. Bringing the Control key back from exile is much cheaper and more productive (than reaching unnaturally and having to see a doctor). i've never had trouble with my control key being in exile... Then

Re: Flat-panel monitors?

1999-09-29 Thread Scott Henry
B == B Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: B I was wondering what luck, if any, you guys have had with flat panel B monitors in Debian. Has everything worked as it should? For the case of the Number Nine card and SGI 1600SW digital flat panel, all the necessary info needed to manually configure

netscape, and gnome

1999-09-29 Thread tf
hey guys, two problems that I've just been living with... 1. netscape won't open cgi pages. I have a message board and one of those fake chat rooms that come up pretty much blank. Could it be that I'm using somehow microsoft-specific cgi scripts? 2. I got gnome from netgod. the displays in

Re: Language of www.debian.org.....

1999-09-29 Thread Miles Bader
E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you go to the bottom and click on `Yngilizce',,A (Byou will get an english version. The label on the button for switching to language X really ought to be written in language X, not the language the rest of the page is written in! -Miles --

Re: Kernel upgrades = security upgrades - a possible solution?

1999-09-29 Thread Ashley Clark
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Marcin Owsiany wrote: the way to solve the problem would be to create a package called e.g. secure-kernel, which would depend on the most secure kernel-image-ver. Then if the security team has newer kernel with security bugfixes, they would make a new version of

Re: imap

1999-09-29 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
By the way, if you are using exim, then it supports Maildir directly, no need to use procmail for this. Sergey.

Re: Exim... can't get outgoing mail off my machine

1999-09-29 Thread Seth R Arnold
Kenward, check out the /usr/doc/exim/spec.txt.gz file, near line 11900 for some information on setting up a smarthost thingy. (Anyone else think exim's docs might be a bit too big? :) On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 04:51:57PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, but I cannot figure out how to get

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-29 Thread Stephen R. Gore
B. Szyszka wrote: Personally, I find it difficult to troubleshoot problems when the only data I'm given is These things cost money. Give us something to work with. Well buy something else isn't exactly a very good solution to a problem either. I cited two error messages and asked what

Re: Flat-panel monitors?

1999-09-29 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 11:05:20PM -0400, B. Szyszka wrote: Well I'm not really ready to configure one yet. I was just asking for people's personal experiences with them. Do they display things just as well as Windows would? Worst? The same? The few that I have looked at do not look as nice as

RE: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-29 Thread B. Szyszka
I cannot give you any other suggestions ATM, because you haven't deigned to list /any/ of your hardware. Since this seems to be a hardware-related problem, the idea that anyone could solve it for you w/o hardware specicfic information is ludicrous. All you had to do was ask, then. Some of you

Modems, caller id, and init strings

1999-09-29 Thread Robbie Huffman
Hi all, I thought this list might be the best place to ask: What's the easiest way to get an init string into the modem? Specifically, I want AT#CID=1 to put the modem into caller-id reading mode. Is there a simple way to do something like 'echo AT#CID=1 /dev/modem'? Thanks much, Robbie

Re: Flat-panel monitors?

1999-09-29 Thread Miles Bader
Seth R Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 11:05:20PM -0400, B. Szyszka wrote: Well I'm not really ready to configure one yet. I was just asking for people's personal experiences with them. Do they display things just as well as Windows would? Worst? The same? The few

dhcp-dns problems

1999-09-29 Thread strider
I have a small network @Home and use dhcp to dole out the ip's, I use the dhcp-dns package so that I can refer to these boxen by name and so that various network utilities will work. Recently I've started getting emails to root from Cron saying update packet failed. I know that dhcp-dns uses the

Re: Exim... can't get outgoing mail off my machine

1999-09-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 07:49:21PM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 04:51:57PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, but I cannot figure out how to get mail to other people on our LAN using exim. Those I send are booted back saying they don't exist on my machine. Mail

Re: Exim... can't get outgoing mail off my machine

1999-09-29 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 06:03:09AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 07:49:21PM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 04:51:57PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, but I cannot figure out how to get mail to other people on our LAN using exim. Those I send

Re: Exim... can't get outgoing mail off my machine

1999-09-29 Thread kvaughan
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 06:03:09AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 07:49:21PM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 04:51:57PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, but I cannot figure out how to get mail to other people on our LAN using exim. Those I send

Re: X for Win95

1999-09-29 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 09:16:57AM -0400, Jon Hughes wrote: I've been working on my Linux box here at work from my windows computer (easier to telnet into rather then move around and stuff). This is fine and dandy, but I've been told there is a way you can actually get the X server/KDE stuff

Re: Installing debian to another hard drive

1999-09-29 Thread Rob Mahurin
Perhaps something like this (assuming the target drive is /dev/hdb). (I'm going to emphasize that I'm JUST GUESSING and you should RTFM all the suggestions I give here). # mke2fs /dev/hdb1 # makeswap /dev/hdb2 # dpkg --get-selections selections # dpkg --root=/mnt --set-selections selections #

Re: dhcp-dns problems

1999-09-29 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 12:58:08AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a small network @Home and use dhcp to dole out the ip's, I use the dhcp-dns package so that I can refer to these boxen by name and so that various network utilities will work. Recently I've started getting emails to

Re: Modems, caller id, and init strings

1999-09-29 Thread Ashley Clark
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Robbie Huffman wrote: What's the easiest way to get an init string into the modem? Specifically, I want AT#CID=1 to put the modem into caller-id reading mode. Is there a simple way to do something like 'echo AT#CID=1 /dev/modem'? Take a look at the chat program provided

Re: Modems, caller id, and init strings

1999-09-29 Thread Pollywog
What's the easiest way to get an init string into the modem? Specifically, I want AT#CID=1 to put the modem into caller-id reading mode. Is there a simple way to do something like 'echo AT#CID=1 /dev/modem'? I put my init string in my connect script: # The initialization string for your

Re: Installing debian to another hard drive

1999-09-29 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 01:54:42AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: Perhaps something like this (assuming the target drive is /dev/hdb). (I'm going to emphasize that I'm JUST GUESSING and you should RTFM all the suggestions I give here). # mke2fs /dev/hdb1 # makeswap /dev/hdb2 should read: #

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-29 Thread Mark M
Hi Bart, running into some error messages: hdb: write_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: write_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Not sure if anyone else has mentioned these yet, here are a few things you could check: i) Is there a power down of the drive through

Re: Exim... can't get outgoing mail off my machine

1999-09-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 10:05:56PM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: Well, the line number that I pointed at tells how to make exim point at a smarthost. It looked like the smartuser director might be able to do it, but it looked more like whatever was near line 11900 would do it better. :) I'm

Re: ipchains patch to kernel?

1999-09-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 11:03:27AM +0200, Bruno Van de Casteele wrote: i have debian 2.1, but i like to apply the ipchains patch to my system... is it advisable and is there a debian way to do it? or should i wait for debian 2.2 and do everything with ipfwadm now? (but that sounds like

Peripherals work fine on old M/B, misbehave on new M/B

1999-09-29 Thread Mark M
Hi, I was hoping that someone would be able to suggest a solution for some hardware problems I'm having. i) I have two eisa network cards: 3c507, and ni65 (ancient lance chip:) These both work fine (500kB/s) when used on a 486DX100 M/B (with VLB) However, I also have access to two more recent

Re: Exim... can't get outgoing mail off my machine

1999-09-29 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 07:13:45AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 10:05:56PM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: Well, the line number that I pointed at tells how to make exim point at a smarthost. It looked like the smartuser director might be able to do it, but it looked more

missing man ... pages

1999-09-29 Thread Alberto Maurizi
I don't know how it happened (surely I did something stupid) but it seems that almost all the man pages are lost. Is there any way to recover from this without reinstalling all the packages? a.

Getting shaper0 to work

1999-09-29 Thread Mark M
Hi all, I was wondering why I cannot get the kernel's network traffic shaper to work. It is compiled as a module in the kernel and seems to be initalising correctly. I have installed the shapecfg deb, (I assume this is for the 2.2 kernel's, not AC's backport to 2.0.*) I have tried many

Re: Berolist

1999-09-29 Thread Ben Messinger
Matt Kopishke wrote: I am trying to configure Berolist under Slink. snip ### I have tried every thing I can think of, I also have tried smartlist, Majordomo, and mailman with out any luck, all thought I had Majordomo running while back on a different install. I have yet to find a easy

apt: conf file says: /tmp/cache/apt/. Apt insists on /var/cache/apt/archives/

1999-09-29 Thread shaul
How can I fixed it ? Package: apt Version: 0.3.11.1 [09:21:40 shaul]# apt-get install xbooks Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 120 not upgraded. E: Sorry, you don't have enough free space in

Re: netscape, and gnome

1999-09-29 Thread lexchive
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 09:46:12PM +0300, tf wrote: hey guys, two problems that I've just been living with... 1. netscape won't open cgi pages. I have a message board and one of those fake chat rooms that come up pretty much blank. Could it be that I'm using somehow microsoft-specific

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-29 Thread Andrew Hately
B. Szyszka wrote: Like I said, I can't afford to OK, but for me it remains the only convincing test. As it happens I have a couple of old pentium 75 motherboards at home and I just imagined that maybe you or somebody you knew also had stuff like that that you could use for a test, temporarily.

Re: apt: conf file says: /tmp/cache/apt/. Apt insists on /var/cache/apt/archives/

1999-09-29 Thread Seth R Arnold
Shaul, give us output from df -- I bet it isn't much. On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 09:33:33AM +0200, shaul wrote: How can I fixed it ? Package: apt Version: 0.3.11.1 [09:21:40 shaul]# apt-get install xbooks Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 1 packages upgraded,

DGA vmware

1999-09-29 Thread Serge Gavrilov
Hello all! Today I've installed X 3.3.5 from potato. After this vmware reported that my X server (XF86_S3) does not support DGA. If I use utility dga I get cannot connect to X server Why? Before this upgrade I used X 3.3.2 and vmware said that my X server support DGA 1.0 (not 1.1 that

Re: Kernel upgrades = security upgrades - a possible solution?

1999-09-29 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 09:41:26PM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Marcin Owsiany wrote: the way to solve the problem would be to create a package called e.g. secure-kernel, which would depend on the most secure kernel-image-ver. Then if the security team has newer kernel

Re: Kernel upgrades = security upgrades - a possible solution?

1999-09-29 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 10:27:43AM +, Marcin Owsiany wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 09:41:26PM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Marcin Owsiany wrote: the way to solve the problem would be to create a package called e.g. secure-kernel, which would depend on the most

Re: Kernel upgrades = security upgrades - a possible solution?

1999-09-29 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 02:42:38AM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 10:27:43AM +, Marcin Owsiany wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 09:41:26PM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Marcin Owsiany wrote: the way to solve the problem would be to create a

Re: Installing debian to another hard drive

1999-09-29 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 10:42:15PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: Hello, How can I install the debian base system to another hard drive in the same computer? I have a working Debian / DOS+Win95 dual boot system, and would like to install Debian to a laptop, whose floppy disk drive is

.emacs setup question

1999-09-29 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I am trying to get emacs to open dvi2tty in console and tkdvi in X. The syntax I saw was: (setq tex-dvi-view-command (if (eq window-system 'x) tkdvi dvi2tty * )) but this does not seem to work. How do I modify this so that different viewer will be used depening on whether I am

FTP server recommendation ???

1999-09-29 Thread Paul McHale
Hi, Does anyone have a strong recommendation for an FTP server? What I want to do is fairly meager. I want to support several (10) accounts. The directory structure would look something like this: User anonymous: /ftp/anonymous (this is root for FTP) /ftp/anonymous/upload (write

Re: configuration of a printer

1999-09-29 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
Hello, I have already solved my problem. My problem came from the fact that I created the /etc/printcap properly (for example, using magicfilter) but I didn't know that, in order to use the new configuration, I had to make the lpd daemon re-read the printcap file. This can be done by executing

Re: Kernel upgrades = security upgrades - a possible solution?

1999-09-29 Thread Ashley Clark
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Marcin Owsiany wrote: That is the point of this idea. If you want your kernel to be upgraded automatically, you install secure-kernel, if you only want to be informed, you install secure-kernel-info, if you don't care at all, you instal neither. I had read nothing of this

Re: Best API for g++?

1999-09-29 Thread Kenneth Scharf
What's the best API (GUI) for writing/generating C/C++ code in Linux X Windows, in your opinions? I need some suggestions or recommendations from those of you who have used them. Two of the most popular these days seem to be Qt (C++) and GTK+ (C). I like Qt - the programs I create are

Re: Serial connection to windoze box

1999-09-29 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! Thanks very much for your reply. Here's the inf. It installs like a modem, so you really have to make and start a DFUE conection. There is some kind of (ppp?) communication if I start pppd (with options crtscts, home:remote ip, detach (what does that mean??-I've got it from the howtos),

Re: Flat-panel monitors?

1999-09-29 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 05:57:27PM -0400, B. Szyszka wrote: I was wondering what luck, if any, you guys have had with flat panel monitors in Debian. Has everything worked as it should? I'm using an SGI 1600SW (17.4 wide) with the #9 card it's bundled with. The X-Server for this card really

eth0: unknown interface...

1999-09-29 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Hello, I have installed the debian base system on a laptop, but now I need to install the rest over a network (from another brilliant working Debian machine). For this to work, I must get the pcmcia network card working... I installed the same kernel package I installed on anther laptop, and

Re: bootup messages

1999-09-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting Jonas Steverud ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Krosigk, Lorenz Von [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is there a way to hide the bootup messages at the screen, to direct them (the important ones like warnings and errors) to a file and to show something else on the screen meanwhile the machine starts

What packages are installed?

1999-09-29 Thread Jose L Gomez Dans
Hi! I suppose this is a *very* basic question, but is there an easy way to find out what packages are installed? I mean, I can go through /var/lib/dpkg/available and figure it out. However, if it's a very popular package, it'll take for ever. I tried using dpkg --print-avail, but this does

Re: eth0: unknown interface...

1999-09-29 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
I have installed the debian base system on a laptop, but now I need to install the rest over a network (from another brilliant working Debian machine). For this to work, I must get the pcmcia network card working... I just realised, I think I didn't make use of the menu item Configure PCMCIA

Re: HP 890C printing

1999-09-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting Jose L Gomez Dans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi! I got hold of an HP 890C colour deskjet printer. However, I can't print to it. I'm using the hpdj driver in gs-aladdin 5.50, and according to the man page, it should print flawlessly. I am aware that other drivers are available for this

Re: What packages are installed?

1999-09-29 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 02:37:08PM +, Jose L Gomez Dans wrote: Hi! I suppose this is a *very* basic question, but is there an easy way to find out what packages are installed? I mean, I can go through /var/lib/dpkg/available and figure it out. However, if it's a very popular

Re: Replacing exim with a source package of qmail

1999-09-29 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Z. Lysik) writes: How do I switch from exim to qmail? Do I have to use a yucky force option, or is there a cleaner way to go about it? You have to use dpkg -r --force-depends exim before you can install qmail. A yet cleaner way to do this is (after the command above)

Re: Flat-panel monitors?

1999-09-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Jeff Noxon wrote: I'm using an SGI 1600SW (17.4 wide) with the #9 card it's bundled with. The X-Server for this card really stinks and is full of bugs, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make for this beautiful screen. :) I'd change

Re: Replacing exim with a source package of qmail

1999-09-29 Thread Bruce Z. Lysik
J == Joachim Trinkwitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: J You have to use dpkg -r --force-depends exim before you can J install qmail. J A yet cleaner way to do this is (after the command above) to J install qmail-src (apt-get install qmail-src), which compiles J and installs the

Re: Kernel upgrades = security upgrades - a possible solution?

1999-09-29 Thread Martin Fluch
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Marcin Owsiany wrote: I guess this kind of kernel packages would be for people quite concerned about security but also quite lazy :) I guess, this is mutual exclusive. People which are lazy will leave many (and I think also bigger) security holes some where else on the

One last time: smail problem

1999-09-29 Thread David Kanter
I'll post this problem one last time: I must type runq at the console after running fetchmail in order for my e-mail reader to see my new mail. This never happened before, that is until I installed Netscape 4.61 the other day; before, I would run fetchmail and smail ran the queue automatically.

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