Re: Gustos

2000-10-14 Thread Juanmi
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:23:02AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10 Oct 2000, at 12:32, Roberto Rodriguez-Fernandez wrote: La debian me gusta por los paquetes.. la diversidad, el saber que detrás de cada paquete hay gente que se preocupa porque vaya bien. Pero me disgusta porque

apt

2000-10-14 Thread Cesar
Saludos a [EMAIL PROTECTED] : He instalado Potato con dselect-apt desde los cuatro discos de SoloP. Todo iba muy bien hasta que por un error en el apt he metido instalacion via http, cosa que no queria hacer,aun asi le he dejado terminar de recuperar informacion y he salido cuando me ha

Re: apt

2000-10-14 Thread Luis Cabrera Sauco
Quien:Cesar Cuando: sábado, 14 de octubre del 2000, a las 01:10, Qué: apt Saludos a [EMAIL PROTECTED] : He instalado Potato con dselect-apt desde los cuatro discos de SoloP. Todo iba muy bien hasta que por un error en el apt he metido instalacion

Re: Directorios de los ftp para apt

2000-10-14 Thread Chafar
Fermín Manzanedo wrote: Hola, intento conectarme con apt a un servidor ftp (he provado con varios), pero no me encuentra el Packages.gz. Creo que el problema viene porque no le doy bien el camino de búsqueda. Supongamos que me conecto a ftp://ceu.fi.udc.es Le indico que los archivos

Re: seccion non-us

2000-10-14 Thread Chafar
Gerard wrote: Con dselect los veo perfectamente, salvo que pine figura como source (por su licencia tal vez?) Por gnupg se podria suponer que tus CDs no incluyen non-us. En caso de conexion via apt o ftp tal vez no hayas seleccionado non-us como distribucion en sources.list?

Quedada debianera en la Universitat de València

2000-10-14 Thread Virgilio Gómez Rubio
Hola: Hace tiempo mandé un mensaje sugiriendo una quedad debianera en el campus de Burjassot de la Universitat de València, pero no concretamos ninguna fecha. ¿Cuándo podríamos quedar? Personalmente me da igual porque literalmente vivo en el campus :-D Sé que hay gente que trabaja hasta tarde

RE: Comecar com ma revista on-line

2000-10-14 Thread Elias Serra P. Pereira
Amigos, Temos uma oportunidade incrível pela frente! Apesar de tudo a info vexame deu um baita empurrão ao debian no Brasil, com sua matéria. E, não poderia ser diferente. Os caras da debian fizeram um trabalho primoroso no 2.2 (dedicada ao jovem Joel Espy Klecker). Eu não tenho duvidas de que

Re: GPM + Xfree86

2000-10-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 04:07:12PM -0400, Cancer Omega wrote: I installed GPM and got it working flawlessly with my Intellimouse PS/2. Now, I start X, and my mouse will refuse to move. I commented out imwheel from my ~/.xinitrc, same result. The only way I can get my mouse to work in X is to

DNS problem

2000-10-14 Thread Bruce Perens
I'm stumped. Connects from my mail delivery system are being refused by hotmail, oreilly.com, brics.dk, and a number of other sites. I suspect that I've done something stupid in my DNS and am being rejected by sites that set ALL: PARANOID in /etc/hosts.deny . I don't see my system in the RBL, DUL,

Re: DNS problem

2000-10-14 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:16:43PM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote: I'm stumped. Connects from my mail delivery system are being refused by hotmail, oreilly.com, brics.dk, and a number of other sites. I suspect that I've done something stupid in my DNS and am being rejected by sites that set ALL:

Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was Mutt's Editor

2000-10-14 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 12:51:24PM -0500, Jeff Howie wrote: I cut my teeth on vim (4.x or so). and haven't looked back. On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:59:06AM -0500, will trillich wrote: emacs fans, please turn the other cheek-- how does vim compare to elvis? which is the resource hog? Not

need quick pointer for sound config

2000-10-14 Thread Monte Milanuk
Hello, all. I am getting to that point where I need to get the sound running on one of my boxes. It is running Debian 2.2, updated against the stable tree. The machine in question is a Dell OptiPlex GX1 w/ onboard sound (CS4236), video, and nic. I was able to get the sound originally to work

update-inetd problem

2000-10-14 Thread Dwight Johnson
# update-inetd --add telnet The entry definition does not contain any whitespace characters! What does this message mean? What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance, Dwight -- Dwight Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DNS problem

2000-10-14 Thread George Bonser
Been reading RFC2317, eh? It might be freaking out because if the CNAME domain. Try this and see if it fixes it: perens.108.15.216.in-addr.arpa. IN NS NS2.perens.com. 186.108.15.216.in-addr.arpa.IN CNAME 186.perens.108.15.216.in-addr.arpa. Then you master perens.108.15.216.in-addr.arpa.

OT: WD-40

2000-10-14 Thread Christopher Mosley
I've been having terrible problems with xwindow crashes, screen distortion, ibm mouse port and serial ports. In desperation I squirted a little WD-40 on the cpu fan, well all the problems went away. I'm using a cyrix 686 233 MII, seems quite sensitive to a slight decrease in fan speed

Re: OT: WD-40

2000-10-14 Thread George Bonser
I think I remember that there was a set6x86 package that set some CPU registers on the Cyrix processors and made them run cooler. On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Christopher Mosley wrote: I've been having terrible problems with xwindow crashes, screen distortion, ibm mouse port and serial ports. In

task-x-window-system list of packages

2000-10-14 Thread Dwight Johnson
I need to get the list of packages installed by 'task-x-window-system', so that I can uninstall the ones I do not want. But # dpkg --listfiles task-x-window-system does not give it and /user/share/doc/task-x-window-system/README.debian does not show it. Thanks in advance, Dwight -- Dwight

Win 95 like GUI

2000-10-14 Thread Jatin Golani
Hi all, i'm using Debian 2.2.havent been able to get a GUI that I like...also not sure about the fonts,etcso i need to test it with a GUI that I'm familiar withthe Win 95 GUI.I have once seen a linux box which had a GUI exactly like Win 95...i mean like exactly like

Filtering mail in Mutt

2000-10-14 Thread RenX99
I am relatively new to debian and currently I have Mutt set up to recieve my email. The MTA I have running is exim and I am fetching mail with fetchmail. Here's my problem, I get a lot of mail and need to filter it into different folders but I am having problems figuring it out. Someone

Re: OT: WD-40

2000-10-14 Thread C. Falconer
At 02:09 AM 10/14/00 -0400, you wrote: I've been having terrible problems with xwindow crashes, screen distortion, ibm mouse port and serial ports. In desperation I squirted a little WD-40 on the cpu fan, well all the problems went away. I'm using a cyrix 686 233 MII, seems quite sensitive to a

Nither telnet nor ftp are found on my menu?

2000-10-14 Thread Shaul Karl
I can't see a ftp or telnet entries in my menu. Am I the only one? How does the relevant files in /usr/lib/menu looks like? What pacakges should be responsible for these menu entries? Thank you.

Re: OT: WD-40

2000-10-14 Thread Pollywog
I've been having terrible problems with xwindow crashes, screen distortion, ibm mouse port and serial ports. In desperation I squirted a little WD-40 on the cpu fan, well all the problems went away. I'm using a cyrix 686 233 MII, seems quite sensitive to a slight decrease in fan speed

Re: ran out of input data (wtf?)

2000-10-14 Thread Martin Fluch
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, volunteer1 wrote: i config'd stock 2.2.17, rebooted the new kernel, and got a 4-line boot halt: lilo loading linux... uncompressing linux... ran out of input data -- system halted am i toast? ...suggestions? Have you rerun lilo after installing the kernel (in

Re: Supressing the front page

2000-10-14 Thread Kari Ruohonen
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Mário Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: Hi In our department we have a HP LaseJet 4000T with a JetDirect board. Our Windows colleagues send things to the printer and it only comes out what they send. The linux guy's print things and there is always a front page with the

Re: ran out of input data (wtf?)

2000-10-14 Thread Ville Harju
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 07:25:10PM -0600, volunteer1 wrote: debs, i config'd stock 2.2.17, rebooted the new kernel, and got a 4-line boot halt: lilo loading linux... uncompressing linux... ran out of input data -- system halted am i toast? ...suggestions? plz cc me as the box

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-14 Thread Matthias Mann
I´m very sorry! In germany, my home country, it is entirely legal to send others letters with advertising material into their letterboxes. The same is valid for emails. Have a nice day! - Original Message - From: C. Falconer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Matthias Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

Re: BitchX auto accept DCC

2000-10-14 Thread Timmy Douglas
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 07:53:03PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote: By default, BitchX auto accepts DCC transfers. I'm reading the (long) man pages right now, but it doesn't mention anything about DCC settings. How do I disable that ? try: /set option value /set -- will give a list of options i

Re: Win 95 like GUI

2000-10-14 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jatin Golani wrote: Hi all, i'm using Debian 2.2.havent been able to get a GUI that I like...also not sure about the fonts,etcso i need to test it with a GUI that I'm familiar withthe Win 95 GUI.I have once seen a linux box which had a GUI exactly

Re: task-x-window-system list of packages

2000-10-14 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
In Dwight Johnson's email, 13-10-2000: I need to get the list of packages installed by 'task-x-window-system', so that I can uninstall the ones I do not want. But # dpkg --listfiles task-x-window-system does not give it and /user/share/doc/task-x-window-system/README.debian does not

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-14 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Matthias Mann wrote: I´m very sorry! In germany, my home country, it is entirely legal to send others letters with advertising material into their letterboxes. The same is valid for emails. It is also legal in Brazil, which doesn't mean that you would not: 1. Be

Re: Win 95 like GUI

2000-10-14 Thread John Travis
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Jatin Golani wrote: Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 01:41:01 -0500 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Jatin Golani [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Win 95 like GUI Hi all, i'm using Debian 2.2.havent been able to get a GUI that I like...also not sure about the

Re: Filtering mail in Mutt

2000-10-14 Thread Moritz Schulte
RenX99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here's my problem, I get a lot of mail and need to filter it into different folders but I am having problems figuring it out. Someone suggesting procmail but I have no clue where to start, any have suggestions or ideas? See the manpages for procmail,

Re: OT: WD-40

2000-10-14 Thread oneiros
Thus spake Christopher Mosley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Any suggestions for a good cpu fan ,other cooling methods or any tips. any comparable cpu's compatible with a bios from a couple of years ago, PC power and cooling http://www.pcpowercooling.com/ manufacture some of the best power supplies and

Re: Win 95 like GUI

2000-10-14 Thread kmself
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 12:10:47AM -0700, Dwight Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jatin Golani wrote: Hi all, i'm using Debian 2.2.havent been able to get a GUI that I like...also not sure about the fonts,etcso i need to test it with a GUI that I'm

Re: Nither telnet nor ftp are found on my menu?

2000-10-14 Thread kmself
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 08:47:13AM +0200, Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I can't see a ftp or telnet entries in my menu. Am I the only one? How does the relevant files in /usr/lib/menu looks like? What pacakges should be responsible for these menu entries? What are you trying to do?

Re: Nither telnet nor ftp are found on my menu?

2000-10-14 Thread kmself
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 08:47:13AM +0200, Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I can't see a ftp or telnet entries in my menu. Am I the only one? How does the relevant files in /usr/lib/menu looks like? What pacakges should be responsible for these menu entries? ...if the executables aren't

Re: Filtering mail in Mutt

2000-10-14 Thread kmself
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:47:48PM -0700, RenX99 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I am relatively new to debian and currently I have Mutt set up to recieve my email. The MTA I have running is exim and I am fetching mail with fetchmail. Here's my problem, I get a lot of mail and need to filter

Re: Win 95 like GUI

2000-10-14 Thread kmself
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 01:29:34AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 12:10:47AM -0700, Dwight Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jatin Golani wrote: KDE is now part of Woody, so if you don't mind a slightly unstable KDE,

Re: Help Again moving /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom for apt-get

2000-10-14 Thread Andre Berger
Chris Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:41:22AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: I used apt-cdrom briefly a few weeks ago and noted that it appears to be hardcoded to use /cdrom as a mountpoint. There must be a /cdrom directory, and an /etc/fstab entry for the

Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was Mutt's Editor

2000-10-14 Thread Andre Berger
will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: emacs fans, please turn the other cheek-- how does vim compare to elvis? which is the resource hog? which does better syntax highlighting? which makes your teeth whiter? Is there anything like reftex for vim? -- Andre

Re: zgv and dvisvga/tmview problem on potato

2000-10-14 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:21:27AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: In reply to:Johann Spies All I get is a blank screen with nothing readable at all. I have zgv Version: 3.3-2 installed on potato and it works the same as it did on slink. ... apt-cache show tmview and dpkg -S tmview

Re: A conio for Borland C under Linux

2000-10-14 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:24:01PM -0400, David Teague wrote: Dan I promised to try to find Linux conio for Borland. I found it in my archives. It is a 1996 reimplementation of conio for Linux, for From a Freshmeat newsletter: subject: UConio 1.0.7 added by: Pablo J.

Re: xclients through ssh and docking in windowmaker

2000-10-14 Thread Brad
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 12:54:05PM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote: I'm trying to start xclients on my router (potato) through a ssh connection and docking those to windowmaker dock. I'm executing 'ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin/X11/wterm' in a terminal on my machine. Then I dock the

libc6 -- down to potato?

2000-10-14 Thread Andre Berger
I made a mistake when I upgraded my xemacs21-nomule from the woody packages -- libc6 was replaced on my potato box. Am I damned to use woody forever? Seriously, I want the stable version! Any help will be appreciated. -- Andre

Re: BitchX auto accept DCC

2000-10-14 Thread Rino Mardo
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 07:33:24PM -0500 or thereabouts, Timmy Douglas wrote: On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 07:53:03PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote: By default, BitchX auto accepts DCC transfers. I'm reading the (long) man pages right now, but it doesn't mention anything about DCC settings. How do

Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was Mutt's Editor

2000-10-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pann McCuaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still use nvi on occasion 'cause it will show me ^M's in a file and it's easier to `nvi file` than to look up how to get vim to do it. ;- vim -b file (binary mode). Also handy to edit binaries to change hardcoded strings or

Re: ypbind problem

2000-10-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nate Amsden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Douglas Eck wrote: Anyone know if it's normal for ypbind to spawn four daemons that eat up 16Mb of memory? It works fine... but seems like a lot of overhead. I'm running woody... From memstat: 4180k: PID 6497

FYI: Apt move /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom solved

2000-10-14 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Thanks for all those who put in their 2 cents worth on moving the default /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom and getting apt-get to work. I read the three msgs (response was controlled but quality and not quantity is what matters), and the man pages, and it finally came down to typing assorted commands and

Re: Symlinking /tmp to /var...

2000-10-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ethan Vaughn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: Dear debian-users, The disk space for my root-partition is 40 MB, while I supplied 80 MB for my /var-partition. I would like to make a symbolic link from /tmp, which resides in the root

LCP timout

2000-10-14 Thread Rino Mardo
Hi. I'm back in my Debian now and am using mutt. Feels so good! Now on to the problem. I'm trying to dial-in to our Cisco 3640 RAS from home and I'm not able to do it. Yesterday, I did some tracing of what the Cisco box is sending me and what my Debian box is sending to the Cisco box. What I

Re: Symlinking /tmp to /var...

2000-10-14 Thread Bud Rogers
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Alternatively symlink /tmp to the existing /var/tmp That would have been my suggestion. Anything wrong with that? -- Bud Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Filtering mail in Mutt

2000-10-14 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:47:48PM -0700, RenX99 wrote: I am relatively new to debian and currently I have Mutt set up to recieve my email. The MTA I have running is exim and I am fetching mail with fetchmail. Here's my problem, I get a lot of mail and need to filter it into different

Re: Symlinking /tmp to /var...

2000-10-14 Thread kmself
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 05:45:26AM -0500, Bud Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Alternatively symlink /tmp to the existing /var/tmp That would have been my suggestion. Anything wrong with that? Check your init scripts. /tmp is wiped on

Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was Mutt's Editor

2000-10-14 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 10:10:35AM +0200, Andre Berger wrote: will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: emacs fans, please turn the other cheek-- how does vim compare to elvis? which is the resource hog? which does better syntax highlighting? which makes your teeth whiter? Is there

Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was Mutt's Editor

2000-10-14 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 09:25:53AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pann McCuaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still use nvi on occasion 'cause it will show me ^M's in a file and it's easier to `nvi file` than to look up how to get vim to do it. ;- vim -b

Re: hostname/netname

2000-10-14 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 12:44:47AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: thanks for your info! now i've got some fine-tune questions-- On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:21:40PM -0400, Gregg C wrote: If you want people to be able to surf www.dontuthink.com, email [EMAIL PROTECTED], telnet to

Potato -newcomerI

2000-10-14 Thread guran remberg
Hi I have done a new installation of Potato, and have taken away xdm from all rcx.d and was happy - thanks for the help. My way of using the windowmanager is to have many desktops up with specific programs running concurrently. So I tried to install Helix Gnome with apt-get. There was a hell of

Re: PHP joy at last!

2000-10-14 Thread Steve Simons
After careful consideration, I decided you're right. After all - the package management capability is what I switched to Debian for in the first place! And guess what - I works just fine now! -\ PHP4, mysql and apache are all installed and running from the .deb packages. Can someone now

Re: going full duplex

2000-10-14 Thread Igor Mozetic
Most of the time the ethernet card can detect full duplex vs half duplex on the fly. You only need to fuss with the nic driver if the switch you're using can't autodetect properly (cisco switches, for example). If anybody has a good way of going about this please let me know. I fear that

Re: need quick pointer for sound config

2000-10-14 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I don't know what it is, but I've never goten these cards to work on Debian when built as modules (even when they worked with the same module and setting in a different distro, this is particularly weird because I rebuilt the kernel sever times under each distro with the same results). So,

Re: Potato -newcomerI

2000-10-14 Thread Moritz Schulte
guran remberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My way of using the windowmanager is to have many desktops up with specific programs running concurrently. So I tried to install Helix Gnome with apt-get. Yes.. There was a hell of a lot of warnings during installation - what is the Which warnings?

Re: libc6 -- down to potato?

2000-10-14 Thread Moritz Schulte
Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I made a mistake when I upgraded my xemacs21-nomule from the woody packages -- libc6 was replaced on my potato box. Am I damned to use woody forever? Seriously, I want the stable version! Is the system usable? Why not kicking out woody-entrys in

Re: OT: WD-40

2000-10-14 Thread mike
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 02:09:11 -0400 (EDT), Christopher Mosley said: I've been having terrible problems with xwindow crashes, screen distortion, ibm mouse port and serial ports. In desperation I squirted a little WD-40 on the cpu fan, well all the problems went away. I'm using a

Re: Win 95 like GUI

2000-10-14 Thread mike
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000 23:40:06 -0700 (PDT), Jatin Golani said: Hi all, i'm using Debian 2.2.havent been able to get a GUI that I like...also not sure about the fonts,etcso i need to test it with a GUI that I'm familiar withthe Win 95 GUI.I have once seen a linux

Re: Potato -newcomerI

2000-10-14 Thread guran remberg
Moritz Schulte wrote: guran remberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My way of using the windowmanager is to have many desktops up with specific programs running concurrently. So I tried to install Helix Gnome with apt-get. Yes.. There was a hell of a lot of warnings during installation -

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-14 Thread John Hasler
Matthias Mann writes: In germany, my home country, it is entirely legal to send others letters with advertising material into their letterboxes. The same is valid for emails. What has legal got to do with it? Do you labor under the delusion that everything that is legal is right? -- John

Re: going full duplex

2000-10-14 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 02:27:44PM +0200 or thereabouts, Igor Mozetic wrote: The best is to buy a NIC that can autonegotiate with the switch (eg, Cisco and Intel EtherExpress Pro100). Will this really work? I mean I know about the workaround for the Vortex cards as we are also experiencing

Re: Software-RAID and partitioning

2000-10-14 Thread Cory Snavely
Christian Pernegger wrote: I have 3 18GB SCSI disks I want to use in a new-style Soft-RAID-5 configuration. At the moment I have 1. partitionsd.4swap 2. partitionsd.3ext2(for squid) 3. partitionsd.1raid-auto This of course means I have to have

Re: Bring Out Yer' Dead... Dead Sparcs That Is.

2000-10-14 Thread Cory Snavely
Check your keyboard connections, both at the motherboard and at the keyboard. If the keyboard is connected, you should hear a beep (from the keyboard) at power-on. It is possible that's what's causing it not to boot is that it's in diag mode. Without console output from the PROM, you're not going

Potato - newcomerII

2000-10-14 Thread guran remberg
Hi I have tried the 'dselect' for the first time, and I was overwhelmed, more than SuSe - I could not believe my eyes. I found LyX, albeit an old one and nedit and gnat so I am very interested. Therefor I have decided to do a new installation and not include Gnome, in the original one, but let

Recent Woody update - alsa broke gnome?

2000-10-14 Thread Lee Elliott
After updating to the latest woody, something, I think alsa, broke gnome. Both of these groups of packages were updated. The problem occurs when trying to log into a Sawfish-Gnome session from gdm - the login window disappears but no Gnome session starts. Logging into a console and running top

Re: Win 95 like GUI

2000-10-14 Thread cjm2
I'm running potato and kde 1.x. I added the kde.tdyc.com site to /etc/apt/sources.list and started loading deb packages earlier this week. So far, so good. Later, Colin kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 12:10:47AM -0700, Dwight Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On

Re: Borland C specific libraries in Linux

2000-10-14 Thread Sean Furey
Hi Dan! Do you know if there are C libraries who mimic Borland Turbo C specific libraries (conio, etc.) in Linux (a Debian package will be better :-). At school my daughter use Borland C and I don't want to install Windows on my computer only for that. Beside emacs is a better tools for

Re: Nither telnet nor ftp are found on my menu?

2000-10-14 Thread Shaul Karl
--+sHJum3is6Tsg7/J Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 08:47:13AM +0200, Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])= wrote: I can't see a ftp or telnet entries in my menu. Am I the only one?

Re: Recent Woody update - alsa broke gnome?

2000-10-14 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 02:49:43PM +0100, Lee Elliott wrote: After updating to the latest woody, something, I think alsa, broke gnome. Both of these groups of packages were updated. The problem occurs when trying to log into a Sawfish-Gnome session from gdm - the login window disappears but

Re: update-inetd problem

2000-10-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 10:55:35PM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote: # update-inetd --add telnet The entry definition does not contain any whitespace characters! What does this message mean? What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance, Dwight Wow. I didn't even know there was an update-inetd

Re: Filtering mail in Mutt

2000-10-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 01:38:09AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: I use procmail, along with Lars Wirzenius's procmail spam filters. You can get both with: apt-get install spamfilter Note that Lars's filters are extremely fascistic, and you can generate bounces (and annoying You

Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was Mutt's Editor

2000-10-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 06:16:48AM -0500, will trillich wrote: Is there anything like reftex for vim? i haven't the faintest idea. not much of a tex person, here. I do a lot of LaTeX in Vim. What's reftex? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...the word HACK is used as

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 08:50:51AM +0200, Matthias Mann wrote: I´m very sorry! In germany, my home country, it is entirely legal to send others letters with advertising material into their letterboxes. The same is valid for emails. Who cares if it's legal? Do they want them? Why do you

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 05:34:00AM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: You want to send spam because it is legal? Fine, do it. But do it in the open as the law (probably -- after all, I don't know german law) requires, using your real email address. Just don't expect people to like it. The

Re: Nither telnet nor ftp are found on my menu?

2000-10-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 04:36:21PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: I haven't clarified myself properly: I was not reffering to the executables. I was reffering to the menu entries, the ones that you get when you use your left mouse button in the root of the X windows system. Assuming that is

Re: Bring Out Yer' Dead... Dead Sparcs That Is.

2000-10-14 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 09:10:38AM -0400, Cory Snavely wrote: Check your keyboard connections, both at the motherboard and at the keyboard. If the keyboard is connected, you should hear a beep (from the keyboard) at power-on. It is possible that's what's causing it not to boot is that it's

RE: libc6 -- down to potato?

2000-10-14 Thread Pollywog
On 14-Oct-2000 Andre Berger wrote: I made a mistake when I upgraded my xemacs21-nomule from the woody packages -- libc6 was replaced on my potato box. Am I damned to use woody forever? Seriously, I want the stable version! I have downgraded my libc6 with no problems. Woody's libc6-dev has a

Re: printtool

2000-10-14 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 05:11:57AM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: I'm trying to get my printer working after an upgrade. I've posted several other messages to the list, so I won't repeat them now. My question is this.. When I try to configure printtool for my Epson StylusColor 600 printer, there

Re: Filtering mail in Mutt

2000-10-14 Thread Colin Watson
RenX99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am relatively new to debian and currently I have Mutt set up to recieve my email. The MTA I have running is exim and I am fetching mail with fetchmail. Here's my problem, I get a lot of mail and need to filter it into different folders but I am having

Re: ran out of input data (wtf?)

2000-10-14 Thread volunteer1
Martin Fluch wrote: On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, volunteer1 wrote: i config'd stock 2.2.17, rebooted the new kernel, and got a 4-line boot halt: lilo loading linux... uncompressing linux... ran out of input data -- system halted am i toast? ...suggestions? Have you rerun lilo

Re: update-inetd problem

2000-10-14 Thread Shaul Karl
# update-inetd --add telnet The entry definition does not contain any whitespace characters! What does this message mean? What am I doing wrong? I do not understand you well, can you write the context of what you are doing? Anyway, if you are just trying to run update-inetd and are

Problems compiling drivers.

2000-10-14 Thread Pablo Zurita
I am a newbie to the Debian world. I have a problem, I need to compile the drivers for my ethernet card and my video card(GeForce DDR). When I try to compile, the compiler says that it can't find linux/modversion.h now checking the source I see many #includes to files that should be in the

Netscape 4.75 with 128 bit encryption?

2000-10-14 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, so far I use an alien rpm package of netscape with 128 bit encryption. I would like to switch to a secure (that is version 4.75) deb package. Are the netscape version under www.debian.org/security/2000/2901 128 bit? If not, is there a place to find 128 bit debian packages? By the way: I

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-14 Thread Matthias Mann
Matthias Mann writes: In germany, my home country, it is entirely legal to send others letters with advertising material into their letterboxes. The same is valid for emails. John Hasler: What has legal got to do with it? Do you labor under the delusion that everything that is legal is

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-14 Thread Matthias Mann
- Original Message - From: Henrique M Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Matthias Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 9:34 AM Subject: Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA Huui! This discussion becomes a content

Re: update-inetd problem

2000-10-14 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 10:55:35PM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote: # update-inetd --add telnet The entry definition does not contain any whitespace characters! What does this message mean? What am I doing wrong? Wow. I didn't even know

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-14 Thread Tyrin Price
* Matthias Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] [14Oct00 16:38 +0200]: No! Nevertheless this is the only way for me to advertise for my new buisnes, cause i have not enought budget to pay for other possibilitys. And i think i have the right to get my existence. And isn´t it all the same if you see publicity

Ghostscript

2000-10-14 Thread Dan Griswold
I noticed that the version of GS in Woody is 5.10, while the newest stable release listed on the ghostscript home page is 6.01. I'm curious: why is that? Many thanks, Dan -- -- Dan Griswold [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004 Greenview Drive Carrollton, TX 75010 (972) 394-2800

Re: ran out of input data (wtf?)

2000-10-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 09:54:23AM -0600, volunteer1 wrote: debs, i got to bash with my rescue disk. (glad to see my files are still there.) i ran lilo and got scary results: /target/sbin/lilo: error in loading shared libraries /target/lib/libc.so.6: undefined symbol:

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 04:38:42PM +0200, Matthias Mann wrote: No! Nevertheless this is the only way for me to advertise for my new buisnes, cause i have not enought budget to pay for other possibilitys. And i think i have the right to get my existence. And isn´t it all the same if you see

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-14 Thread Pollywog
On 14-Oct-2000 Matthias Mann wrote: No! Nevertheless this is the only way for me to advertise for my new buisnes, cause i have not enought budget to pay for other possibilitys. And i think i have the right to get my existence. And isn´t it all the same if you see publicity on busstops, tv,

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 06:13:26PM +0200, Matthias Mann wrote: My experience with buisnes in web is not very big. Do you have some idears what i can do to reach more hundrets of people per day over the internet, whithot paying more than the online time? It is very important for me to reach

Re: update-inetd problem

2000-10-14 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: # update-inetd --add telnet The entry definition does not contain any whitespace characters! What does this message mean? What am I doing wrong? I do not understand you well, can you write the context of what you are doing? Anyway, if you are

Re: update-inetd problem

2000-10-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 09:26:57AM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote: That's what I have always done on my Red Hat and SuSE installations. But on Debian 2.2, my inetd.conf file does not have a telnet entry to uncomment and the inetd.conf file begins with a commented caution to not change it except

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