Libro de Debian

1999-12-26 Thread Alvarez Ricardo Marcelo
Alguien sabe donde se puede comprar en la Argentina algun libro sobre Debian en Castellano. O si hay algun lugar de la red donde se pueda bajar. Gracias.

Configuración del framebuffer bis

1999-12-26 Thread Miguel A. Abarca
Gracias por las indicaciones que me haceis. Efectivamente, el mensaje de que no existía del dispositivo /dev/fb0 se debía a no haber arrancado en modo gráfico. Y ahora una un poco más complicada: He puesto en mi lilo.conf vga=ask con lo que me muestra al arrancar los modos a

Re: Using Samba

1999-12-26 Thread Nitebirdz
Grzegorz, Try replacing Documento with Documents. It worked for me. By the way, that Documents/pdf directory is full of goodies in pdf format. Nitebirdz On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, TooMany wrote: Para el que le interese: O'Reilly

Re: .pid

1999-12-26 Thread Nitebirdz
No te puedo decir si es un estandar de UNIX o no, pero si que te puedo asegurar que FreeBSD 3.3.4 tambien lo utiliza. Supongo que cualquier version de BSD (SCO, HP-UX, etc.) tambien sigue esa regla. Nitebirdz On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Prog. d'un instal.lador wrote: Hola, mi pregunta es

ftp anonimo

1999-12-26 Thread Faúndez
Hola, tanto tiempo, Feliz navidad Bueno, estoy tratando de configurar un ftp anonimo en mi màquina y estos fueron los pasos a seguir: 1. crear una cuenta ftp (adduser ftp) sin passwd 2. escribir el nombre de la cuenta 'ftp' en /etc/ftpchroot 3. dentro del directorio /home/ftp cree bin, etc y pub

Re: Arreglar una vfat

1999-12-26 Thread Thoth
Xavier Andrade wrote: Hola Alguien conoce una herramienta de linux para arreglar una filesystem vfat. Las ultimas versiones de fsck.msdos, o creo que era fsck.vfat que van el las dosfstools (yo me baje las fuentes, no se si en algun paquete) me sirvieron para reparar un disco de 2Gb, pude

Re: Configuración del frame buffer

1999-12-26 Thread Thoth
Miguel A. Abarca wrote: Hola de nuevo, en vista de la imposibilidad de encontrar soporte para mi tarjeta gráfica (S3 Savage3D) con Xfree86 -ni siquiera la versión 3.3.5-, me Que extraño, en el Changelog de la 3.3.5 dice que la soporta y que soporta la Savage4... Echa un vistazo en

Re: [OFF TOPIC] me cuelgan el modem desde afuera

1999-12-26 Thread Thoth
Jose Luis Trivino wrote: Blu wrote: Hasta donde yo se la cadena funciona solo en un sentido, de la serial al modem y no desde la linea al modem. Bueno, ante la duda me picaba la curiosidad y lo comprobé ayer personalmente. Efectivamente una candena entrante a través de la línea

Problemas con LILO.

1999-12-26 Thread EMILIO HERNÁNDEZ MARTÍN
Hola a todos. Feliz Navidad y próspero año nuevo, antes de nada. Os escribo para preguntar qué es lo que tengo mal en mi LILO para que no me aparezca al arrancar el ordenador. Mi fichero lilo.conf es: message=/root/inicio boot=/dev/hda3 root=/dev/hda3 compact install=/boot/boot.b

MMSN842 - Suporte no Linux

1999-12-26 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Oi, Vocês sabem se é possível incluir o suporte do Linux a placa de som MMSN842 (AT3100)? Este é um modelo usado no Infoway da Itautec e possui entradas para rádio, TV, etc, e também tem o Fax-Modem embutido com suporte a viva voz. A placa não é PnP mas opera com um tipo de configuração

Re: Projeto de Lei

1999-12-26 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Andre Leao Macedo escreveu: Olá, Leiam esse projeto de Lei do Deputado Walter Pinheiro sobre a utilização de software de código aberto por órgão governamentais: http://www.conectiva.com.br/jornal/noticias/not337.html Como uma pessoa que contribui com software livre,

Re: Undeletable File Causing Massive Headaches

1999-12-26 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 12/25/99, Eliot Landrum addressed Undeletable File Causing Massive Headaches: is /lib/libext2fs.so.2.4 and the permissions are as follows: p---rw--w-1 root 28531 0 Dec 21 20:04 /lib/libext2fs.so.2.4 Apparently your group ^ doesn't really exist in /etc/group.

Re: Undeletable File Causing Massive Headaches

1999-12-26 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 12/25/99, Eliot Landrum addressed Undeletable File Causing Massive Headaches: This one file is causing me terrible grief and I need to get it fixed. The file is /lib/libext2fs.so.2.4 and the permissions are as follows: p---rw--w-1 root 28531 0 Dec 21 20:04

Detecting IBM 13.5GB IDE HDD---anyone?

1999-12-26 Thread Alan E. Davis
Installing potato. My system is as follows: Mainboard: ASUS P5A CPU:K6-II 400 What is sfdisk? Is it on the install disks---apparently not? I have attempted to follow the Large Disk HOWTO and jumpered the drive as a 15 Head drive, as suggested. Otherwise it was detected at

X-windows and fvwm2?

1999-12-26 Thread Reza Entezari
I have just installed Debian and X-windows which has a few window managers like fvwm2 and WindowMaker and But, the viewport is not properly set. The viewport is smaller than the size of my desktop; How can I adjust the viewport in X/WM ? Any help would be appreciated, -Reza

Re: Detecting IBM 13.5GB IDE HDD---anyone?

1999-12-26 Thread Richard
Actually, yeah. I have the IBM 14.4 GXP drive, and it detects fine. It's on as secondary on my secondary IDE controller, but I don't know if that affects anything. . . I have much the same system, except on an EPOX board with a bios that's only a few months old. . . You might wanna see if

Re: Undeletable File Causing Massive Headaches

1999-12-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On 25/12/99 Eliot Landrum wrote: root (superuser) is unable to delete, chmod, modify, move or do ANYTHING to this file. I've done gazillions of things to try and correct it. I've booted up with tomsrtbt, fsck'ed the disk many times, run badblocks on it, tried deleting it when the drive was

Re: Matrox Marvel G400 or Guillemot Cougar Video Edition

1999-12-26 Thread aphro
G400 by far as the best linux support of any videocard, full 2D/3D acceleration as well as DVD playback(still in development but from what i read it works) nate On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Nico De Ranter wrote: nico nico Howdy, nico nico nico I want to buy a new graphics board. I can choose between

Re: Detecting IBM 13.5GB IDE HDD---anyone?

1999-12-26 Thread aphro
are you running the latest BIOS ? 7.9GB is quite common on older boards as a limitation (32GB is another barrier) make sure you got the latest bios and the drive should be in LBA mode i believe. I just installed corel 1.0 on an IBM 18GB ide and it went fine (AOpen AP5T-3 i430TX mainboard) nate

xscreensaver

1999-12-26 Thread Robert L. Harris
Ok, I did an apt-cache search xroger and it doesn't report any hits. When my X screen saver kicks in, it says it can't find xroger. This should be a standard. Anyone know where I can find it? Robert :wq! --- Robert L.

mwave modem -- any support?

1999-12-26 Thread Carl Fink
Any plans to support the IBM MWave DSP's modem features in Linux? The kernel docs indicate that sound support is in the process of being added, but the current method is to load DOS level drivers . . . and the IBM drivers for the modem are unfortunately Windows-level. Hey, I hate to invest money

Re: xscreensaver

1999-12-26 Thread John Hasler
Robert L. Harris writes: I did an apt-cache search xroger and it doesn't report any hits It's in the gnome-control-center package. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Logging user's logging in

1999-12-26 Thread Neil
**Please CC all replies to me - I'm not currently subscribed** I would like to log via syslogd whenever a user logs in. How would I go about doing this? Furthermore, I might also want to JUST log when root logs in, or when someone's sus into root - how would I do this? Thanks in advance, Neil

Moving from RedHat to Debian

1999-12-26 Thread linuxdevil
I've been using RedHat for about eight months, but I'd like to switch to Debian. Is there any easy way to do this, or is it going to be a painful transition? Also, what's the best way to go about installing Debian? I have a fast connection, so I'm wondering if an ftp install is the way to go?

FTP Installation Instructions

1999-12-26 Thread Hagen Finley
I would like to begin downloading Debian Linux but I remain a little puzzled as to how this procedure really works. I have RedHat 6.1 on an old P133 (64MB) 1 GB system at home I can play around with. The RedHat install works fine and we use the same release at work where I am a unix admin

Re: Moving from RedHat to Debian

1999-12-26 Thread John Kerr Anderson
I myself have just recently started to switch from Redhat to Debian. I have found that Debian has a lot of useful features, but with those is complexity. It seems to me as harder to setup than Redhat. I have tried the ftp install and it is very good, but still slow especially if you would be

palm pilot vs visor

1999-12-26 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
hi all, I am planning to purchase a palm OS based organiser. I am eyeing on 3com's palm pilot IIIe and Handspring's Visor. I would eventually sync with linux. Which one is best supported. thanks. -gnana

Trouble with /dev/tty vs. /dev/ttyX

1999-12-26 Thread Joe Reinhardt
Debian potato, Linux davinci 2.2.13 #1 Fri Dec 3 13:33:40 CST 1999 i586 unknown I was trying to use gpg and got this error: ~ {138}% gpg --gen-key gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.1; Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and

Re: Moving from RedHat to Debian

1999-12-26 Thread J C Lawrence
On 25 Dec 1999 14:47:55 -0700 linuxdevil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using RedHat for about eight months, but I'd like to switch to Debian. Having made the switch for a number of machines (web servers, mail servers, desktops, etc), its not *that* difficult. Is there any easy way

Re: Moving from RedHat to Debian

1999-12-26 Thread Howard Mann
I've been using RedHat for about eight months, but I'd like to switch to Debian. Is there any easy way to do this, or is it going to be a painful transition? Also, what's the best way to go about installing Debian? I have a fast connection, so I'm wondering if an ftp install is the way

Re: palm pilot vs visor

1999-12-26 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 10:50:31AM +0530, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: I am planning to purchase a palm OS based organiser. I am eyeing on 3com's palm pilot IIIe and Handspring's Visor. I would eventually sync with linux. Which one is best supported. Well, in theory the Visor is completely

Re: Moving from RedHat to Debian

1999-12-26 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Dec 25, 1999 at 02:47:55PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using RedHat for about eight months, but I'd like to switch to Debian. Is there any easy way to do this, or is it going to be a painful transition? Also, what's the best way to go about installing Debian? I have

RE: palm pilot vs visor

1999-12-26 Thread Hagen Finley
Dear gnana, I can't speak to the Linux support question, but from the standpoint of price for hardware, the Visor is significantly superior to the IIIx. The Visor is purportedly equivalent to the PalmVx with 8MB RAM and the latest screen enhancements. It also has the ability to accept

Re: palm pilot vs visor

1999-12-26 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
Hi Steve, Thanx for replying. Well, in theory the Visor is completely Palm compatable. Are you looking at the cheap visor? yes. I am a beginner organiser. I am mainly looking for the software compatibility. I would connect the cradle to my serial port and use pilot-link software to sync

Re: FTP Installation Instructions

1999-12-26 Thread John Carline
Hi Hagen Welcome to Debian. I'm assuming that you're planning on wiping out the disk and starting over once you've created the base system floppies? If so, point your browser at http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install and look at Chapter 5. The subsections cover just about

Re: vga=ask in lilo.conf

1999-12-26 Thread Nate Duehr
Hi Andy, The VGA stuff is kernel-based. SVGATextMode is a program that you can load after the kernel's loaded to use SVGA instead of VGA. So generally the answer to your question is, yes. However, you can use the SVGA stuff to get higher resolutions also. Personally, I don't use the

Re: xscreensaver

1999-12-26 Thread Robert L. Harris
According to apt-get, I have that at the newest version installed already. Thus spake John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Robert L. Harris writes: I did an apt-cache search xroger and it doesn't report any hits It's in the gnome-control-center package. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Trouble with /dev/tty vs. /dev/ttyX

1999-12-26 Thread Scott Henry
J == Joe Reinhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: J I was trying to use gpg and got this error: J ~ {138}% gpg --gen-key J gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.1; Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. J This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. J This is free software, and you are welcome to

Re: Logging user's logging in

1999-12-26 Thread Shaul Karl
**Please CC all replies to me - I'm not currently subscribed** I would like to log via syslogd whenever a user logs in. How would I go about doing this? Furthermore, I might also want to JUST log when root logs in, or when someone's sus into root - how would I do this? I did not try

Re: X-windows and fvwm2?

1999-12-26 Thread Shaul Karl
I have just installed Debian and X-windows which has a few window managers like fvwm2 and WindowMaker and But, the viewport is not properly set. The viewport is smaller than the size of my desktop; How can I adjust the viewport in X/WM ? There is a ViewPort parameter in the

Re: Moving from RedHat to Debian

1999-12-26 Thread Shaul Karl
I've been using RedHat for about eight months, but I'd like to switch to Debian. Is there any easy way to do this, or is it going to be a painful transition? Also, what's the best way to go about installing Debian? I have a fast connection, so I'm wondering if an ftp install is the way

moving to a bigger harddisk - weird (?) problem

1999-12-26 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I´m trying to move from a 1.6G[1] to a 25G harddrive. I put the new drive in as secondary master, the kernel detects the following hda: Conner Peripherals 1620MB - CFS1621A, 1548MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=786/64/63 hdc: IBM-DJNA-352500, 24405MB w/1966kB Cache, CHS=49585/16/63, DMA then I

DEB files

1999-12-26 Thread Tux
Hello, How to create .deb files? How to convert .rpm files do .deb files? Thank you,

Re: DEB files

1999-12-26 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 26 Dec, Tux wrote about DEB files Hello, How to create .deb files? http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/packaging.html/ How to convert .rpm files do .deb files? Install the alien package and read the man page and then try, alien

Re: DEB files

1999-12-26 Thread Dennis Schoen
On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 11:54:12AM -0200, Tux wrote: ^^^ No Realname ?? Hello, How to create .deb files? Read the Debian Packaging Manual How to convert .rpm files do .deb files? apt-get install alien man alien Dennis -- Contrary to popular

Mirror transformation of the Postscript files

1999-12-26 Thread Alexey Petrov
Hi All, I have need in mirror transformation of the Postscript files for printing on the transparence. I should be glad for any idea. A. Petrov

Re: xscreensaver

1999-12-26 Thread John Hasler
Robert L. Harris writes: According to apt-get, I have that at the newest version installed already. hasler//u/home/john dpkg -S xroger gnome-control-center: /usr/share/control-center/.data/xroger.png -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

massive root filesystem corruption

1999-12-26 Thread Ethan Benson
hi, I just had some massive filesystem corruption on the root filesystem of a debian potato system that was installed about a month ago and was working fine till now, running self compiled 2.2.13 kernel. the box has been running GNU/Linux (redhat) for about a year and a half with no trouble

Re: apt-get can not remount /usr ro. How to use lsof to find the offending files?

1999-12-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On 23/12/99 Shaul Karl wrote: Can it be that the removed files are not the problem with the failure of the remounting? [04:17:04 /tmp]# mount -o remount,ro /usr/ mount: /usr is busy [04:19:08 /tmp]# lsof +L1 |grep /usr/ [04:19:16 /tmp]# if you are running 4.43 of lsof (the first version to

Re: xscreensaver

1999-12-26 Thread Robert L. Harris
Ok, Thinking closer to clearly I just forced the screen saver to xroger and on after 1 min. I haven't changed anything and now it's working. Really bloody odd. Thus spake John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Robert L. Harris writes: According to apt-get, I have that at the newest version

Re: Mirror transformation of the Postscript files

1999-12-26 Thread Jor-el
On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Alexey Petrov wrote: Hi All, I have need in mirror transformation of the Postscript files for printing on the transparence. I should be glad for any idea. Alexey, This may sound like a dumb question - but cant you just flip the transparency onto its other

Re: Detecting IBM 13.5GB IDE HDD---anyone?

1999-12-26 Thread Jor-el
On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, aphro wrote: are you running the latest BIOS ? 7.9GB is quite common on older boards as a limitation (32GB is another barrier) make sure you got the latest bios and the drive should be in LBA mode i believe. I just installed corel 1.0 on an IBM 18GB ide and it went

Xscreensaver Modules crashes X

1999-12-26 Thread John Foster
I have the standard xscreensaver installed on my Slink server. I have it set to random. When it loads the penetrate demo it locks up the system. I have to turn off the system and reboot. NOT GOOD! Can anyone tell me how to remove this demo module? -- AdVance-Computing Systems We sell fine

Re: massive root filesystem corruption

1999-12-26 Thread Rick Macdonald
I had similar problems. I thought it was my IDE drive but then I finally ran memtest86 (from hwtools) and it found that one of my 128MB DIMMs was bad. Give it a try. 4 passes is apparently a complete run. ...RickM...

HD boot/Potato 2.2.13

1999-12-26 Thread j way
I installed 2.2.13 from dwnld floppies it runs fine from the boot floppy. It hangs with the hard disk boot. There may be no boot record on hd? I'm using a 13.7 Gig HD, 100 MHz '486. This same box with a smaller HD boots runs Slink without a prob. Any suggestions? TIA.

Re: Undeletable File Causing Massive Headaches

1999-12-26 Thread Eliot Landrum
Finally! Some real assistance! :) Strangely enough though, lsattr is just sitting here ... I'm not sure if this is normal or not. I'll let it sit for 30 min to make sure it has enough time to do whatever it is it is doing. What exactly is an immutable file though? Thanks for the replies! Like

[Linux: DNS-Server] Hardware requirements

1999-12-26 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, can anyone tell me please, whats the minimum requirement for a non caching real primary DNS-Server ??? I will have around 20-30 Domain-Names with around 60-80 Hosts. The Hosts are running on a K6 II-350 and a virtual Apache. Is a 486 enough ??? Which speed ??? I have for testing a

Newbie seeks help...

1999-12-26 Thread Kenneth Vittrup
Hi All... First of all, I am a newbie (in terms of Debian, before switching from RedHat)... Still I have managed to install and currently run Debian... But a few things still bother me... 1) why won't LILO install because my HD is to big? (and how to overrule) 2) how do you connect using ISDN

Re: Trouble with /dev/tty vs. /dev/ttyX

1999-12-26 Thread Joe Reinhardt
Thanks, this did the trick. SH == Scott Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SH /dev/tty is a psuedo-tty that is always the current tty SH (whether a real one, a serial port, or a pty). You need read SH and write access to it. -- Joseph M. Reinhardt [EMAIL

~/.Xresources - oclock*Stick: true

1999-12-26 Thread Shaul Karl
Can I set a flag in the ~/.Xresources file so that the oclock will always have the sticky feature set to true? What is the correct syntax? Where can I learn more about the X resources?

safe to upgrade slink to potato?

1999-12-26 Thread Pollywog
I recall seeing many posts about systems being rendered unusable or broken after upgrade from Slink to Potato. Is this still a problem? I do not want to try it if I will just break my system. thanks -- Andrew - GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681 *we all live

Re: Undeletable File Causing Massive Headaches

1999-12-26 Thread Anthony Wong
Eliot Landrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: EL Finally! Some real assistance! :) EL EL Strangely enough though, lsattr is just sitting here ... I'm not sure if EL this is normal or not. I'll let it sit for 30 min to make sure it has EL enough time to do whatever it is it is doing. EL EL What exactly

Re: safe to upgrade slink to potato?

1999-12-26 Thread kometboy
Pollywog wrote: I recall seeing many posts about systems being rendered unusable or broken after upgrade from Slink to Potato. Is this still a problem? I do not want to try it if I will just break my system. I am a reformed Red Hat user. I've upgraded to potato on both my machines, and

palm pilot vs visor

1999-12-26 Thread Michael Perry
Hi- I am kind of following along with this and am wondering if people are using jpilot to link their visors? If they are palm compliant, will jpilot see these and provide true desktop-palmtop integration? I am using now a Casio E100 which is quite nice (except for the OS) and it has some nice

Really?

1999-12-26 Thread Fish Smith
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 21:03:12 +0200 (SAST) From: Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:Debian-poslys debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: unrouteable mail domain I hope you all have a blessed Christmas weekend. I get this error sometimes So do I. =) On the other listserv

Re: Mirror transformation of the Postscript files

1999-12-26 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Alexey Petrov wrote: Hi All, I have need in mirror transformation of the Postscript files for printing on the transparence. I should be glad for any idea. I'd suggest using CUPS instead of standard lpd. (package cupsys from unstable). This kind of stuff is done by just

Processed: this is an unimplemented feature of update-inetd

1999-12-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 25816 netbase Bug#25816: xinetd use is problematic Bug#10059: xinetd: inetd.conf changes don't auto-propagate to xinetd.conf Bug reassigned from package `general' to `netbase'. merge 8927 25816 Bug#8927: netstd: update-inetd don't update

Netscape 4.07 problem: Issuer Certificate is invalid

1999-12-26 Thread Daniel Mashao
I have searched netscape.com to no avail and I am hoping someone can help me. I used to and still access a site using netscape 4.03 running some Java scripts program. Now I was foolish to want to install the latest netscape 4.07 and I am very dissappointed. First I see no improvements except

Re: [apt] Sets of packages that run the same command.

1999-12-26 Thread Joey Hess
Hamish Moffatt wrote: What would be the advantage of this? It seems to take only a few seconds to run anyway. Beleice me, it takes longer on my low-end pentium. Let's not even discuss my 486. The real problem is it's cumilitive; on a single upgrade it may be run 10 times, which translates to 5

Re: new toy story release names

1999-12-26 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: new toy story release names Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 00:52:16 + (GMT) At the rate we are getting releases out, there should be a new Toy Story out before we use up these new names... If there would be more frequent releases we migth be able

Re: DEB files

1999-12-26 Thread Shaul Karl
*- On 26 Dec, Tux wrote about DEB files Hello, How to create .deb files? http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ 1) Is there a postscript version of this doc somewhere? 2) On my system, a bug with html2ps does not seems to get solved. What are the alternatives?

Re: Quake is GPL

1999-12-26 Thread Joseph Carter
--envbJBWh7q8WU6mo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 09:45:52AM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: I'm confused; are you saying that quake source is legal in Germany, but binaries aren't!? If that's not what you mean, what

Re: Quake is GPL

1999-12-26 Thread Richard Braakman
On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 02:22:55PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: On 99-12-26 Raul Miller wrote: So how about volunteering to contact those ftp maintainers and let them know about their governments' laws? And how has enough knowledge to do this? For example here in Germany you need to be a

Re: /etc/profile should include sbin in PATH

1999-12-26 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 06:16:36PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: The GNU project adopted /sbin because ordinary users should not be burdened with executables that they *cannot* run usefully. (Which is in fact the same reason that they are in

Re: Logging user's logging in

1999-12-26 Thread hypnos
On Sat, 25 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: **Please CC all replies to me - I'm not currently subscribed** Furthermore, I might also want to JUST log when root logs in, or when someone's sus into root - how would I do this? I believe this is a default in Debian. At least, my system logs

Re: FTP Installation Instructions

1999-12-26 Thread hypnos
On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Hagen Finley wrote: site. However, in spite of that, I remain unclear where I deposit the Debian ftp download and how I initiate the installation. Do I create a boot floppy and point it to a installation directory? Can someone point me to some documentation that

Re: moving to a bigger harddisk - weird (?) problem

1999-12-26 Thread Robert Waldner
ok, I figured it out. for the records, there where several steps necessary: - an extra append when booting from cd-rom rescue root=/dev/hda2 hda=49585,16,63 - _careful_ and __complete__ reading of the Hard-Disk-Upgrade - mini-Howto: 10. ...With Debian, make sure that the boot line says

Re: DEB files

1999-12-26 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 26 Dec, Shaul Karl wrote about Re: DEB files *- On 26 Dec, Tux wrote about DEB files Hello, How to create .deb files? http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ 1) Is there a postscript version of this doc somewhere? Check your local Debian mirror in the doc/package-developer/

Emacs 20.5

1999-12-26 Thread mcclosk
Hello: Does anyone know if there is a .deb available for Emacs 20.5 suitable for slink? I know that there was some discussion of including it in the current stable release but I didn't see a definitive announcement and it doesn't seem to be in the current 2.1r4. It would be nice to have the

Re: Quake is GPL

1999-12-26 Thread Joseph Carter
--UHN/qo2QbUvPLonB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 02:37:04PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: I would *personally* make sure that I was in compliance with the relevant laws. If I felt that that would take too much of

Re: Quake is GPL

1999-12-26 Thread Christian Kurz
--T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 99-12-26 Joseph Carter wrote: On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 02:37:04PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: I would *personally* make sure that I was in compliance with the relevant laws. If I felt that that would take too much of my time,

Re: palm pilot vs visor

1999-12-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Saturday, December 25, 1999, 9:39:18 PM, Hagen wrote: price for hardware, the Visor is significantly superior to the IIIx. The It all depends. Visor is purportedly equivalent to the PalmVx with 8MB RAM and the latest screen enhancements. That is if he gets the expensive Visor. The

Re: safe to upgrade slink to potato?

1999-12-26 Thread Tobias Zimpel
On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 07:42:37PM -, Pollywog wrote: On 26-Dec-1999 kometboy wrote: [Updating to potato] Thanks for your thoughts on the subject. I could be wrong, but it seems I saw more than a few posts from people who had upgraded and had some not-so-minor problems. Unless

Installing an older compiler

1999-12-26 Thread Jor-el
Hi, I had to install some packages from unstable on my Slink system, and the dependencies forced an upgrade of the compiler to gcc 2.95.2). However, the 2.0 kernels wont compile with this. Is there a way to also install the standard Slink compiler on my system so that I can use it to

Re: What's the deal with .gnome-desktop?

1999-12-26 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 11:26:32PM -0500, Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to the few replies, I got it copied, however the links are not quite working the same. On my system, the floppy and cd-rom links pop open a gmc windows open to the correct paths, however, it does not mount

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1999-12-26 Thread Stach
Dla mnie jest super, że jest strona o Debianie, mały problem po co ona jest skoro i tak najważniejsze rzeczy są w języku angielskim, po co marnować miejsce na serwerze. Może da się coś z tym zrobić? [POLBOX - REKLAMA] -- Zrob swiateczne zakupy w

Re: xscreensaver

1999-12-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 26 Dec 1999, John Hasler wrote: : Robert L. Harris writes: : According to apt-get, I have that at the newest version installed : already. : : hasler//u/home/john dpkg -S xroger : gnome-control-center: /usr/share/control-center/.data/xroger.png [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ dpkg -S xroger

Re: safe to upgrade slink to potato?

1999-12-26 Thread Pollywog
On 26-Dec-1999 Tobias Zimpel wrote: Well, I broke my system completely a few weeks ago with a simple (segfaulting) 'apt-get dist-upgrade' while I was running potato for months without serious problems. There was no chance to repair it; I couldn't even boot, and I didn't manage to repair it

[OFFTOPIC] Article- getting SB Live to work under Linux

1999-12-26 Thread Pollywog
I have seen several recent posts from people who could not get their SB Live card to work under Linux. If you have problems with this card, you might check out the article at: http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/soundcards/sblive.html -- Andrew - GnuPG Public

Loadlin and DidkOnChip

1999-12-26 Thread Lyno Sullivan
I pulled loadlin off the Debian Slink CD and loaded it onto my C: (DiskOnChip device) and tried to boot linux with the following MS--DOS command: c:\loadlin\loadlin c:\linux root=/dev/sda1 ro vga=3 and got the message not an Image file. I am a Linux novice and not quite sure what is going on.

Printer configuration

1999-12-26 Thread Robert L. Harris
Ok, Redhat has a neat little control panel that makes installing printers and filters very easy. Does debian have anything comparable or do I need to learn the printcap for lprng? Robert :wq! --- Robert L. Harris

logging ppp

1999-12-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
syslog-ng in potato (which replaced syslog) uses /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf instead of /etc/syslog.conf. There is a sample conf file in usr/share/doc/syslog-ng, but when I tried the ppp /examples in this, they do not seem to work. Putting a local2 line in /etc/syslog.conf (which is now