Re: Pregunta...

2000-08-27 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On sáb, ago 26, 2000 at 11:38:13 +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote: Unos 449 aproximadamente :P master.d.o/~lohner/lists. ¿Hay algún sitio donde se presenten este tipo de rincones de d.o?, algunos son realmente interesantes, como este o Release-critical bugs status en

Mensaje de ¿comprobación? del disco duro

2000-08-27 Thread Fermín Manzanedo
Hola, llevo tiempo recibiendo este mensaje en pantalla :-?: hdb:write_intr:status=0x58{DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest} ide0:reset:success que también aparece en /var/log/syslog. Sobre todo desde hace unos días en que reestructuré las particiones de disco duro me aparece con demasiada

Re: Programación puerto paralelo

2000-08-27 Thread Enzo Dari
Mauricio E Ruiz Font wrote: Hola, me encuentro tomando la materia de circuitos digitale y estamos haciendo circuitos que controlomos desde una pc utilizando el puerto paralelo, me podrian decir donde puedo encontrar información sobre progrmación del puerto paralelo... ... Créase o no, un

Re: Mensaje de ¿comprobación? del disco duro

2000-08-27 Thread Luis Clausell
Yep Fermín! El Sun, 27 de Aug de 2000 a las 01:56 PM, Fermín Manzanedo escribió: hdb:write_intr:status=0x58{DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest} ide0:reset:success A mi me sucedío por tener el kernel compilado con soporte DMA con un viejo HD y con otro no tan viejo :-) Block devices ---

Re: Nueva instalación desde partición linux

2000-08-27 Thread Luis Clausell
Yep José! El Sat, 26 de Aug de 2000 a las 11:26 AM, José Esteban escribió: He decidido que voy a probar la instalación básica para terminarla por la red. Me han convencido en la web de Debian: evito descargar miles de paquetes que nunca usaré. Además, luego será ese el método que usaré para

Re: problemas con el afterstep y gnome

2000-08-27 Thread Andres Seco Hernandez
Al fin lo conseguí con este thread. Yo tenía el mismo problema con enlightenment y window maker. Por mucho que pusiera en el panel de control de gnome el enlightenment, no me abría ninguno de ambos (las ventanas no tenian barra de titulo y esas cosas). He actualizado el x-window-manager con

sysklogd syslog-ng: un enlace simbolico roto...

2000-08-27 Thread Cosme P. Cuevas
Hola, he instalado el paquete `syslog-ng', un sustituto de `syslog'. También tengo instalado `sysklogd' (¿obvio?). Pero: $ ls -l /etc/init.d/sys* -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 1471 sep 15 1999 /etc/init.d/sysklogd.syslog-ng -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 1597 feb 26

auxilio

2000-08-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hola jovenes.. :) bueno como siempre escribo a pedir ayuda..:) Tenia en mi maquina instalado mandrake.. no habia instalado debian esperando la version 2.2. (La verdad no soy muy bueno con esto de linux.. y menos debian) bueno.. no tengo quemador.. y bajar todos esos archivos por ftp me daba

al iniciar no monta la swap

2000-08-27 Thread Fermín Manzanedo
Hola, pues eso, que cuando inicio el sistema no me monta la partición Linux Swap, antes si lo hacía, pero tuve que cambiar las particiones y la swap solo puede ponerla como lógica: hdb1 Primary Win95Fat32 756 Mb hdb2 Primary Linux ext2 578 Mb hdb3 Primary Linux ext2 (en esta está /) 945 Mb hdb5

Super cfg!!!!

2000-08-27 Thread Roberto Saldivar
Saludos: Hola, estoy estudiando sistemas computacionales y como tarea tengo que configurar en una computadora con linux Debian un servidor de correo, de ftp, de web y hasta de IRC pero no tengo ni una vaga idea de como hacerlo, espero y alguien me pueda ayudar... Grax.

Re: problemas :-? con ftp en PLIP. Consejo MODEMS

2000-08-27 Thread aherrerm
Guenas El Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 03:39:56PM +0200, Antonio disidio iscribir: /* Connection time out = PLIP_TRIGGER_WAIT * PLIP_DELAY_UNIT usec */ #define PLIP_TRIGGER_WAIT500 Y cambia 500 por un valor más alto... yo puse 15000 (a lo mejor es una burrada, he preguntado en el ecol a ver

Re: al iniciar no monta la swap

2000-08-27 Thread Miquel
El dom, ago 27, 2000 at 11:38:30 +0200 Fermín Manzanedo ha dit: Hola, pues eso, que cuando inicio el sistema no me monta la partición Linux Swap, antes si lo hacía, pero tuve que cambiar las particiones y la swap solo puede ponerla como lógica: hdb1 Primary Win95Fat32 756 Mb hdb2 Primary

Re: al iniciar no monta la swap

2000-08-27 Thread Xavier Andrade
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, [iso-8859-1] Fermín Manzanedo wrote: Hola, pues eso, que cuando inicio el sistema no me monta la partición Linux Swap, antes si lo hacía, pero tuve que cambiar las particiones y la swap solo puede ponerla como lógica: hdb1 Primary Win95Fat32 756 Mb hdb2 Primary Linux

CD-POTATO

2000-08-27 Thread Ricardo Marcelo Alvarez
Alguien sabe si las imagenes de CD que hay en ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian-cd/2.2_rev0/i386/ son las imagenes que estan bien o tienen algun error. Gracias de antemano.

Mirror Debian no Brasil?

2000-08-27 Thread Cesar Cardoso
Tem algum mirror Debian no Brasil? Especialmente que fique updated com o woody... A minha conexao e meu /etc/apt/sources.list agradecem :-) -- --- || Cesar Cardoso - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ICQ 32237133 || Visite http://bandalarga.cjb.net - AIM MightyNobody // || \\ Banda larga

Re: Mirror Debian no Brasil?

2000-08-27 Thread Cesar Cardoso
debian.org.br? (=linusp) Se aceitasse alguma conexao, ne' Macan? :-)

RE: Hosts.all/Hosts.deny vs. a firewall?]

2000-08-27 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Andrew, I also have proftpd running but it was _not_ called from inet.conf. I added the line like you suggested. I also confirmed I have tcp wrappers installed. After that I nmap'd myself and I see a several listings that are

Potato Freeze problem more clear...

2000-08-27 Thread Mike Hardiman
Hello all, Well I've noticed that noone has yet to reply to my problem, most likely because of its complexity. I've been able to narrow down the problem however: 1.) The system freezes only when the network is up 2.) Best guess is that it occurs when so much data has passed through the

RE: Hosts.all/Hosts.deny vs. a firewall?]

2000-08-27 Thread Pollywog
On 27-Aug-2000 Phil Brutsche wrote: Additionally, I noticed that smtp is not called like ftp is with the /usr/sbin/tcpd first, it's just called /usr/sbin/eximdoes this mean that hosts.deny would not protect that port? Likely not. (getting a little confused here) Exim can be compiled

Setting up additional keys in X with XKb?

2000-08-27 Thread Known Human Nick Rusnov
Greetings, I have a keyboard with many special keys on it. These keys produce scancodes, but not keycodes. I can easily assign them and bind them to keys at the console, but can find no documentation on how to do it under X with xkb. I was wondering if anyone could help me out with this.

Re: Potato Freeze problem more clear...

2000-08-27 Thread Nate Amsden
Mike Hardiman wrote: My best bet I suppose is to buy a better (expensive) eth adaptor... but any thought would be appreciated before I part with 80 bucks for a 3com. the 3com 3c59x series are pretty good cards, the only prob i've had is using the drivers that i have(from www.3com.com)

Re: Potato Freeze problem more clear...

2000-08-27 Thread Alec Smith
Why not use the drivers in the stock Linux 2.x kernel? I've got a 3Com adapter in this box with no problems getting around 10-12MB/s. Could be the 3Com drivers are having a few issues Don Becker's versions lack. At 09:12 PM 8/26/00 -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: Mike Hardiman wrote: My best

Re: Slow X on a MII 300

2000-08-27 Thread kmself
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 06:25:02PM +, Peter Good wrote: kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: Define slow. What specifically is slow? Window creation? Menu response? Window movement? Program launch? Specific applications? Any graphic action such as Window creation, Menu response, Window

Re: Mouse problems in X.

2000-08-27 Thread Daniel E. Baumann
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, luke b wrote: I am having problems with my Logitech PS2 mouse in X. GPM is set to use /dev/psaux for the mouse and it works perfectly. In X, I set the mouse to use /dev/psaux as well. I can move the mouse, but it moves really fast at the very bottom of the screen and

Re: Potato Freeze problem more clear...

2000-08-27 Thread Nate Amsden
havent had the best of luck with those, sometimes they work sometimes they dont(at all) for me..maybe the newer kernels is better i havent tried the 3c905c driver since 2.2.10 or so. nate Alec Smith wrote: Why not use the drivers in the stock Linux 2.x kernel? I've got a 3Com adapter in this

some comments about the potato installation system

2000-08-27 Thread Adam Di Carlo
I'm putting in a few comments here since the Installation Manual is still so out of date. BTW, we are correcting this in an ongoing fashion; newer versions of the manual are being updated for boot-floppies 2.2.17, but can also be found at http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/ . Be aware that

Re: emacs cursor color

2000-08-27 Thread Dale L . Morris
Thanks, it works fine. Dale s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 08:30:24PM -0700, Dale L . Morris wrote: What's the proper way to set the cursor color in emacs. I'm using the following in my .Xresources file emacs*background:DarkSlateGrey emacs*foreground:Wheat

Re: very simple lan question

2000-08-27 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
this is the first time i've looked at my /etc/network/interfaces file and everything is commented out. currently i configure my network interfaces from /etc/init.d/network. if i set my network from /etc/network/interfaces does this mean that i can remove /etc/init.d/network? what is the

Where is acroread?

2000-08-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
I know I got a .deb package of acroread previously but I can't find it now. Anyone know where it is? -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.2 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/bookreviews/ Skeptical articles: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/freethinker/ To

audio cd problems

2000-08-27 Thread Vik
I can't play audio cd's in potato - audio or cd progs complain that saying they cannot access the cdrom device, and if I just hit the 'play' button on the cd-drive itself, the output doesn't go thru the soundcard - The only way I can listen is to get the audio cable and put in the the jack on the

ppp, netscape,HD

2000-08-27 Thread Vik
Firstly, is there a package for netscape 4 (the program - I can only find the base files on my cds) around? More importantly, I am having problems with configuring ppp - my /var/log/messages file shows this: Aug 27 00:51:30 is pppd[1498]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0 Aug 27 00:51:30 is

Re: Where is acroread?

2000-08-27 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
earlier today i installed acroread, which i downloaded from www.adobe.com. i was never aware that there was a .deb for. gv can read some .pdf files, but of course acroread does a much better job. why not just get it from adobe - it just takes 10 min to install? On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at

Re: audio cd problems

2000-08-27 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 06:15:56PM +1100, Vik wrote: I can't play audio cd's in potato - audio or cd progs complain that saying they cannot access the cdrom device, and if I just hit the 'play' button Make sure you belong to the group that owns the cdrom device, usually audio or cdrom. --

mkinitrd in Debian

2000-08-27 Thread Jeff Lessem
I noticed that mkinitrd (for building initial ram disks) doesn't seem to be in a Debian package. Have I just overlooked it and it is really hiding in some deb file, or is it really not around? I can install it from scratch easily enough, but I was wondering if there was some reason that this

Re: Where is acroread?

2000-08-27 Thread Daniel E. Baumann
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Anthony Campbell wrote: I know I got a .deb package of acroread previously but I can't find it now. Anyone know where it is? -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.2 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/bookreviews/ Skeptical

Re: audio cd problems

2000-08-27 Thread Daniel E. Baumann
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Vik wrote: I can't play audio cd's in potato - audio or cd progs complain that saying they cannot access the cdrom device, and if I just hit the 'play' button on the cd-drive itself, the output doesn't go thru the soundcard - The only way I can listen is to get the audio

Re: audio cd problems

2000-08-27 Thread Daniel E. Baumann
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Daniel E. Baumann wrote: On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Vik wrote: I can't play audio cd's in potato - audio or cd progs complain that saying they cannot access the cdrom device, and if I just hit the 'play' button on the cd-drive itself, the output doesn't go thru the soundcard

Re: Where is acroread?

2000-08-27 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 03:25:41AM -0400, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: earlier today i installed acroread, which i downloaded from www.adobe.com. i was never aware that there was a .deb for. gv can read some .pdf files, but of course acroread does a much better job. why not just get it from adobe

Web-based CVS ci/co

2000-08-27 Thread Rob
Hiya, Just wondering if anyone has used/heard of an opensource Web-based CVS client. CVSWeb does the browse/checkout/diff part find, but can't ( to my knowledge ) do checkins and adds and imports, etc. If one is not forthcoming, I have been looking at hacking such functionality into CVSWeb.

Re: LWE: Debian.org booth staff?

2000-08-27 Thread kmself
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 09:10:53PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: I'd appreciate a roster of the booth staff at LinuxWorld Expo for Debian.org, I'm trying to find contact information for a Debian developer I'd talked to there. I believe this is the familiar face. Can anyone put a name (or

Re: You are a Linux Guru!

2000-08-27 Thread Preben Randhol
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote on 26/08/2000 (13:33) : I believe it's possible (and generally recommended) *not* to go about using dselect to install packages on installation. My generally suggested MO is to get the minimal install set (the default), and then start adding packages afterwards.

Re: very simple lan question

2000-08-27 Thread Tom Pfeifer
The /etc/network/interfaces file is new starting with potato, while previous releases used /etc/init.d/network. Although /etc/network/interfaces would now be considered the preferred Debian way, I don't know of any reason why you can't continue to use the old method if you want. Of course if you

Re: ppp, netscape,HD

2000-08-27 Thread John Hasler
Vik writes: I am having problems with configuring ppp all had bit 7 set to 0 usually means that pppd has started at your end before the other end has received everything it needs. Your pppd starts sending LCP packets and the other end echos them as it waits for the missing string. Since it is

Re: Sending mail via exim: spooky....

2000-08-27 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
Phillip Deackes schrieb: I posted some information on this recently. I am sending it again: I'm sorry. My attention was completely captured by another thread... My machine's name (hostname) is scgf. If I look in /etc/hosts I see: 127.0.0.1 scgf localhost In /etc/hostname: scgf

-dev dependencies when building debs from source?

2000-08-27 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello. I have built console-apt and gnome-apt from source here, because I needed the debs (and that seemed much easier to me than browsing ftp.debian.org -- besides that, I like to compile things... :) Anyway... I found that apt doesn't seem to know about dependencies related to -dev

APM won't blank the screen

2000-08-27 Thread Philipp Schulte
Hi, I recently exchanged my MSI-6167 board with a new MSI-K7pro. Since then I seem to have a problem with the Power Management. I chose Enable console blanking using APM in the kernel setup (2.2.17pre20) and with the old board the screen was turned off after 10 minutes. But with the new board I

Re: APM won't blank the screen

2000-08-27 Thread s. keeling
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 03:15:52PM +0200, Philipp Schulte wrote: I recently exchanged my MSI-6167 board with a new MSI-K7pro. Since then I seem to have a problem with the Power Management. I chose Enable console blanking using APM in the kernel setup (2.2.17pre20) and with the old board

.xsession / .xinitrc?

2000-08-27 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello... All Debian documentation I found until now says I should use a .xsession file in my homedir... Instead of .xinitrc But I've tried creating an .xsession file (executable), andit's just ignored, and .xinitrc is used instead. (This is a woody box, and there's no display

Re: -dev dependencies when building debs from source?

2000-08-27 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Jeronimo! On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: I have built console-apt and gnome-apt from source here, because I needed the debs (and that seemed much easier to me than browsing ftp.debian.org -- besides that, I like to compile things... :) Anyway... I found that apt

Re: ppp, netscape,HD

2000-08-27 Thread Vik
Vik writes: I am having problems with configuring ppp If you have not configured ppp with pppconfig do so (you can then start ppp with 'pon' and stop it with 'poff'). If you have run pppconfig post copies of /etc/chatscripts/provider, /etc/ppp/peers/provider, and the output of the 'plog'

Re: -dev dependencies when building debs from source?

2000-08-27 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Sun, 27 Aug 2000 15:50:13 +0200, Peter Palfrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi Jeronimo! Whie not automated (AFAIK), the build-depends can usually be found in the debian/control file. Thanks a lot, Peter! :-) Also, I took another look at the bugs filed against apt, and it seems taht

mailcheck

2000-08-27 Thread Dale L . Morris
I'm using icewm-gnome as a window manager and have my .procmailrc moving mail from /var/spool/mail/'user' to ~/mail/2000/08 in which there are 3 subdirectories cur, new, and tmp. Great setup, credit goes to Chris Gushue for his muttrc configuration which sorts mail on a monthly basis. But, how

Reading Sun disks/backup tapes on a Debian system

2000-08-27 Thread Melanie Dymond Harper
Hi folks, Does anyone have information about how one might read Sun-format (ufsdump) backup tapes or, alternatively, ufs-format disks on a Debian system? Thanks Melanie -- Melanie Dymond Harper

Console based Word Processor

2000-08-27 Thread USM Bish
A difficult thing to ask for in today's GUI world. I am looking for a simple light weight console app (non GUI) word processor, something like the good old WordStar (and such relics of yesteryears). Should be able to do formatting of text with left and right justification, setting of left

quota error

2000-08-27 Thread Umum Wijoyo
Hi! I'd just like to ask: How come any of my users with a uid of 1024 (uid=1024), always experiences quota problems? Is there anything magical about the number 1024? (I know that 1 kb = 1024 bytes...) Or did I just set my system's quota incorrectly? OK! TIA... Umum Wijoyo --

Re: Where is acroread?

2000-08-27 Thread Stephane Gaudreault
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Anthony Campbell wrote: I know I got a .deb package of acroread previously but I can't find it now. Anyone know where it is? ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian2.2r0/non-free/binary-i386/text or apt-get install acroread Stéphane Gaudreault Étudiant au B.Sc.

Re: ppp, netscape,HD

2000-08-27 Thread Stephane Gaudreault
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Vik wrote: Firstly, is there a package for netscape 4 (the program - I can only find the base files on my cds) around? You could try mozilla (m14) apt-get install mozilla Netscape 4 is here ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian2.2r0/non-free/binary-i386/web

KDE and Potato

2000-08-27 Thread Barry Samuels
One thing puzzles me about the Potato KDE list on kde.tdyc.com. If I try to upgrade to the Potato KDE packages I find that some of the packages use qt1 and some use libqt1. Because qt1 and libqt1 are incompatible this causes DSelect to automatically mark quite a lot of packages for removal that

Re: cleaning /usr/doc vs /usr/share/doc

2000-08-27 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: until i have the budget, i'm looking to free up some space from redundant doc files (then i'll be able to gripe about not being able to find any docs, of course)... Maybe the `cruft' package will be helpfull to you. Greetings, joachim

Re: How to convert multiple pages html doc to other formats?

2000-08-27 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
USM Bish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As far as the original puspose goes, I have only this much to offer - point to http://freshmeat.net and search for an utility called htmldoc. Or, much better and easier, do a # apt-get install htmldoc (since we are on a debian list). If unsure, if a

Re: How to convert multiple pages html doc to other formats?

2000-08-27 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i wish ALL this linux documentation were in searchable, browsable html format without having to learn info commands, manpage constructs, so forth. Install man2html, info2html; to integrate all further on, package dwww or doc-central (or maybe dhelp,

installing USB devices under storm linux

2000-08-27 Thread Charles Lewis
I have a USB 3com USR 56K modem and a USB Alps MD-5000 printer that I'm having trouble installing on storm (hail), Starter Edition that I purchased recently. I haven't tackled the printer yet, but according the 2.2.16 docs (acm.txt), I need to load usbcore.o, usb-[uo]hci.o or uhci.o, and acm.o.

Re: Hosts.all/Hosts.deny vs. a firewall?

2000-08-27 Thread Gary Jones
So far I have the following setup: hosts.deny: ALL:ALL hosts.allow: ALL: my_work.domain My intention is to prevent everyone from the 'outside' from reaching my box. I do realize that anyone in my_work.domain would also be able to get at it. Is this secure? No! If this is indeed

RE: Hosts.all/Hosts.deny vs. a firewall?]

2000-08-27 Thread Gary Jones
I'm sorry, make that three attempts. The fuckwits can FOAD - all such attempts are logged and sent to the appropriate abuse / postmaster addresses. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

RE: Hosts.all/Hosts.deny vs. a firewall?]

2000-08-27 Thread Pollywog
On 27-Aug-2000 Gary Jones wrote: I'm sorry, make that three attempts. The fuckwits can FOAD - all such attempts are logged and sent to the appropriate abuse / postmaster addresses. I have been on a DSL connection for a few weeks, and my IP address will change about once a week. Since the

Re: Console based Word Processor

2000-08-27 Thread USM Bish
Grateful for your prompt reply. No, I'm actually looking for a word processor for small time jobs like letters and other odd things that I push out on my DMP. This type of odd jobs actually occupies 60% of my time. I am getting tired of switching to X for such small stuff. The ASCII

Strange KDE2 Language Problem after recent update, help pls.

2000-08-27 Thread Todd Suess
Greetings, I have been running KDE2 and Woody for some time now with no problems, however after a recent update, several things happened. First of all, my console keymap got changed to a non us one, so I could not login. Once I figured out what was happening, I determined how my keyboard was

RE: Hosts.all/Hosts.deny vs. a firewall?]

2000-08-27 Thread Gary Jones
Pollywog wrote: On 27-Aug-2000 Gary Jones wrote: I'm sorry, make that three attempts. The fuckwits can FOAD - all such attempts are logged and sent to the appropriate abuse / postmaster addresses. I have been on a DSL connection for a few weeks, and my IP address will change about once a

Re: Console based Word Processor

2000-08-27 Thread USM Bish
Got your point . I suppose emacs is the way out if all others fail. Though the concept in Unix is text processing as opposed to word processing popularised on smaller OSs, it is just possible there may be some in existance. I did a search for console word processors in Linux through

Re: Console based Word Processor

2000-08-27 Thread Stephane Gaudreault
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, USM Bish wrote: A difficult thing to ask for in today's GUI world. I am looking for a simple light weight console app (non GUI) word processor, something like the good old WordStar (and such relics of yesteryears). Should be able to do formatting of text with left

Delete key not working as expected in emacs under X

2000-08-27 Thread ferret
I'm using GNU emacs 20 with mule. In xterm and on console emacs gives me what I consider to be proper behaviour. My BackSpace key on keyboard will quote as '^?' and is described with 'describe-key as 'DEL runs the command backward-delete-char-untabify'. My Delete key quotes as '^[[3~' and is

Re: Console based Word Processor

2000-08-27 Thread John Anderson
The Cliq suite is available at www.quad.com, it offers not only character-based word processing, but additional features such as a spreadsheet, calendar, calculator and phone book. You can download the programs from their web site and ask for a temporary key to try it out. A single user license

Re: Reading Sun disks/backup tapes on a Debian system

2000-08-27 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 03:09:12PM +0100, Melanie Dymond Harper wrote: Hi folks, Does anyone have information about how one might read Sun-format (ufsdump) backup tapes or, alternatively, ufs-format disks on a Debian system? You probably need a kernel with ufs support. Apparently there are

X and Console in the same News/E-mail program?

2000-08-27 Thread Adam Scriven
Hey all. I've been thinking (dangerous) recently about what I'd like in a news and e-mail reader. I'd like them both to be X based, for the most part, but it would be handy if there was a secondary curses (or other console) based interface, for when I telnet into my box remotely. Is such a

Re: Helix Gnome Evolution 0.3

2000-08-27 Thread Felix Natter
Andrew Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 09:03:57PM +0200, Felix Natter wrote: It seems like it will be better and surely safer than Outlook, Why better and, most particularly, why safer? Given that GNOME is built to allow components to interact with one another

Matrox G400

2000-08-27 Thread Paul T. McNally
I'm replacing my RedHat system with Potato and want to know what is the best XServer to run with my Matrox G400. Paul

Re: Matrox G400

2000-08-27 Thread brian moore
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 01:31:43PM -0500, Paul T. McNally wrote: I'm replacing my RedHat system with Potato and want to know what is the best XServer to run with my Matrox G400. The same one that you would run on RH: SVGA. (And, yes, it -is- accelerated. Despite the name, the SVGA server is a

Re: Hosts.all/Hosts.deny vs. a firewall?]

2000-08-27 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 04:42:13PM +, Pollywog wrote: Since the most recent IP address change, I have been seeing in my logs attempted connections to ports 137, 138, and 139 but I am not concerned because I am guessing that someone was running a server there before I got the IP address.

Re: Problems sending message

2000-08-27 Thread kmself
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 05:33:21PM -, Ronald Castillo wrote: Hi. I would like to know how to configure my sistem to send e-mails. I can ^ y send them to my users, but I tried to send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (my real address) nd I

compile question

2000-08-27 Thread Debian Mail
Hey Users, Ghost here. I have a compile question. I'm compiling gnubile and am running into a compile problem. A good bit into my make, I am getting an error: make[2]: Entering directory `/root/gnubile-0.31-pre/src' gcc -g -O2 -Wall -o gnubile main.o support.o interface.o callbacks.o admin.o

Re: Matrox G400

2000-08-27 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I'm replacing my RedHat system with Potato and want to know what is the best XServer to run with my Matrox G400. XF86_SVGA is the best for any Matrox video card --

Re: Console based Word Processor

2000-08-27 Thread Morten Liebach
On 27, aug, 2000 at 10:00:48 +0518, USM Bish wrote: snippage I did a search for console word processors in Linux through various search engines. Not much joy. However, I do vaguely remember seeing a demo ncurses based wp in a Yggdrasil CD (Slackware distro) at a local vendor about three

2 questions package installs and TCP/IP startup script

2000-08-27 Thread Mark Simos
All, I am sure these are pretty easy questions, but I am running out ideas. 1. I am trying to install vim on a really bare installation of Debian. I have internet access that routes and resolves names fine. When I type apt-get install vim vim-rt or just about any other package name i see listed

Re: 2 questions package installs and TCP/IP startup script

2000-08-27 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Mark! On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Mark Simos wrote: 1. I am trying to install vim on a really bare installation of Debian. I have internet access that routes and resolves names fine. When I type apt-get install vim vim-rt or just about any other package name i see listed on Debian's site, i

Re: compile question

2000-08-27 Thread Nate Amsden
Debian Mail wrote: Hey Users, Ghost here. I have a compile question. I'm compiling gnubile and am running into a compile problem. A good bit into my make, I am getting an error: make[2]: Entering directory `/root/gnubile-0.31-pre/src' gcc -g -O2 -Wall -o gnubile main.o support.o

Re: Reading Sun disks/backup tapes on a Debian system

2000-08-27 Thread Christoph Gaitzsch
EGM == Eric G Miller egm2@jps.net writes: EGM On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 03:09:12PM +0100, Melanie Dymond Harper wrote: Hi folks, Does anyone have information about how one might read Sun-format (ufsdump) backup tapes or, alternatively, ufs-format disks on a Debian system?

Re: compile question

2000-08-27 Thread Esko Lehtonen
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 03:24:16PM -0500, Debian Mail wrote: Hey Users, Ghost here. I have a compile question. I'm compiling gnubile and am running into a compile problem. A good bit into my make, I am getting an error: make[2]: Entering directory `/root/gnubile-0.31-pre/src' gcc -g -O2

Re: You are a Linux Guru!

2000-08-27 Thread kmself
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 10:04:25AM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote on 26/08/2000 (13:33) : I believe it's possible (and generally recommended) *not* to go about using dselect to install packages on installation. My generally suggested MO is to get the minimal

Re: Console based Word Processor

2000-08-27 Thread kmself
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 07:10:57PM +0518, USM Bish wrote: A difficult thing to ask for in today's GUI world. I am looking for a simple light weight console app (non GUI) word processor, something like the good old WordStar (and such relics of yesteryears). Should be able to do formatting

startx

2000-08-27 Thread Ricardo Gabriel Herdt
Hail Debianers, how can I allow everybody to use startx. When I try it, the computer don't responds and I shut the job down. Thanks, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt

exim headaches

2000-08-27 Thread David Bellows
Hello everyone, I've been banging my head against the wall on this one. Here's what I'm trying to do. I have exim installed I want local mail delivered locally like: MAIL TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] FROM [EMAIL PROTECTED] In other words all local mail stays local. This is currently working with all

Linksys LNE100TX problem solved

2000-08-27 Thread Gary L. Dolan
Gentlemen Thanks to everyone who made suggestions about how to get my ethernet card working on ADSL. This was my first experience with ethernet cards. The card uses the tulip driver, and altho the driver would install, the system would not recognize it, i.e., it would not be assigned an

Re: Reading Sun disks/backup tapes on a Debian system

2000-08-27 Thread staf
Does anyone have information about how one might read Sun-format (ufsdump) backup tapes or, alternatively, ufs-format disks on a Debian system? You could try to restore the tape with the restore command on a your Debian system (it's included in the dump package), I know the syntax is more or

Re: startx

2000-08-27 Thread John Carline
Ricardo Gabriel Herdt wrote: how can I allow everybody to use startx. When I try it, the computer don't responds and I shut the job down. I'm not sure I understand your question Ricardo? But if you mean how can more than one user run X at the same time, it's done by using different

problems installing

2000-08-27 Thread George Frederick Viamontes
I'm trying to install debian for the first time. I've attempted booting up with the rescue disk and a debian cd, but both times the startup sequence locks up at the same point. I get a line that says: NCR53c406a: no available ports found That's the point at which the startup crashes. Someone

Voodoo3 3000

2000-08-27 Thread John Swain
Hello I have a voodoo3 3000 card and I can get it using the svga server and all, but I just cant figure how to install the glide drivers that came with the debian 2.2 release. So if anyone out there has the time to write some very basic instructions on how to get everything working great

Re: exim headaches

2000-08-27 Thread Gregory T. Norris
What I ended up doing was configuring two copies of exim, based on instructions I found in the Exim FAQ at http://www.exim.org/. The primary copy delivers only local mail, and doesn't perform header rewriting. Non-local messages are forwarded to the second copy over port 26, which performs

Querying and managind daemons

2000-08-27 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hallo... I've read the Debian FAQ, the Debian guide... And the manpage of start-stop-daemon... And I still don't know how to do this: - I was to know which daemons were started and are now running... A simple list of them. (like apache, omniorb, gpm, etc... Just the names are enough) I

Re: exim headaches

2000-08-27 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 05:53:01PM -0500, David Bellows wrote: Hello everyone, I've been banging my head against the wall on this one. Here's what I'm trying to do. I have exim installed I want local mail delivered locally like: MAIL TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] FROM [EMAIL PROTECTED] In

cron error - @cmp: command not found

2000-08-27 Thread William Jensen
Over the last couple of days I have added and removed a lot of packages so I do not know what exact package might be causing this. Nevertheless, cron is reporting: /etc/cron.daily/standard: /etc/cron.daily/standard: @cmp: command not found When i go into /etc/cron.daily/standard the file @cmp

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