Re: after 'su -', 'Can't open display'

2001-02-20 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi, By default the Xserver doesn't listen to the tcp port (for security reasons) and I'll guess thats the reason for your problem. I've added the following few lines to the /root/.bashrc file: if [ ! $LOGNAME = root ] ; then export XAUTHORITY=/home/$LOGNAME/.Xauthority fi This

Re: after 'su -', 'Can't open display'

2001-02-20 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 02:43:13PM +0200, Martin Fluch wrote: Hi, By default the Xserver doesn't listen to the tcp port (for security reasons) and I'll guess thats the reason for your problem. I've added the following few lines to the /root/.bashrc file: if [ ! $LOGNAME = root ] ; then

Exceed 6.0 with Debian 2.2r2 and Windows95

2001-02-20 Thread Walther, Christoph
Dear Debian-Community, how do I setup Linux Debian 2.2r2, so that I can connect to it remotely using Hummingbird Exceed 6.0, running on a Win95-Box? Thanks, Christoph Walther mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any gotchas with kernel 2.4.x and Debian?

2001-02-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Aaron Brashears wrote: I'd like to try out kernel 2.4.1 from unstable, but I wanted to know if there's anything I should be wary of. A quick search through the archives of debain-user revealed there's *something* with modconf, but I'm not sure what the problem is. ...

Re: Potato and ADSL

2001-02-20 Thread John Foster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just need to know if ADSL is supported with potato. REPLY- You will find that it is MUCH easier to set up your system using ADSL connections than managing a dialup connection. You will need to have all of the

Re: after 'su -', 'Can't open display'

2001-02-20 Thread James Sinnamon
Martin, Thank you for your suggestion ... Hi, By default the Xserver doesn't listen to the tcp port (for security reasons) and I'll guess thats the reason for your problem. I've added the following few lines to the /root/.bashrc file: if [ ! $LOGNAME = root ] ; then export

Re: [Q] How to remove a broken package

2001-02-20 Thread Glenn Becker
Hi, I had these exact problems with four of the arphic font packages. Finally filed a bug report against them and got a nice response from the maintainer. In order for these things to get installed properly you will need to install the package xutils. Then I'd guess you could remove them,

Re: AMD k7

2001-02-20 Thread Hall Stevenson
On booting with the install CD, I get the regular messages until ncr53c406a: no available ports found. Then the system freezes, ctrl-alt-del doens't work. The default Debian kernel appears to include support for this device and a couple others and is compiled *in* vs being compiled as a

Re: Exceed 6.0 with Debian 2.2r2 and Windows95

2001-02-20 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Walther, Christoph wrote: Dear Debian-Community, how do I setup Linux Debian 2.2r2, so that I can connect to it remotely using Hummingbird Exceed 6.0, running on a Win95-Box? This one is easy enough... let's say your Win95 box has an IP of 10.0.0.95, just type export

iptables and 2.4.1

2001-02-20 Thread spent187
(i hope this posts properly) I am relatively new to linux, and have recently upgraded to woody, and the 2.4.1 kernel. But now my ip masq'ing doesn't work. This is what I had in 2.2.18pre with potato: echo -n Starting IP masquerading... echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ipchains -A

#!/usr/bin/tclsh not working

2001-02-20 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: I tried the following simple script with tclsh: #!/usr/bin/tclsh puts stdout {Hello, World!} ( from Brent B. Welch, Practical Programmin in Tcl and Tk) made the file (Hello) executable and typed . hello and I get the error bash: puts: command not found. I also tried

RE: AMD k7

2001-02-20 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Now we're on the subject, is there a way to succesfully compile a kernel using M$ operating systems ? It would be some handy last resort if all else fails. -Original Message- From: Hall Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 2:52 PM To:

clock with wrong time

2001-02-20 Thread Pedro Zorzenon Neto
Hi all, Please cc a copy of your replies as I am not a subscriber of this list. I have something strange happening in my computer, take a look: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date ter fev 20 10:37:24 BRT 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date --rfc-822 Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:37:25 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Banners and Logos

2001-02-20 Thread Brian Russo
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:14:15AM +0530, Murali Kumar K wrote: Dear sir, We have launched a Brand New Site www.softlandindia.com SoftLandIndia is a virtual freewares and Sharewares directory. The entries are selected with the average Indian user in mind. The aim is for a better,

Re: WYSIWYG editor (Prev. Rebooting is foolish)

2001-02-20 Thread John Foster
William Leese wrote: On Monday 19 February 2001 16:45, Keith G. Murphy wrote: urgh, however.. i still have to use Windows for Dreamweaver, any suggestions anyone? it needs to be a WYSIWYG-editor (till i finally cleanup the generated code) that handles nested tables well.. and yes

Re: Exceed 6.0 with Debian 2.2r2 and Windows95

2001-02-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
If you want to start processes (e.g., an xterm) from the win box, you'll have to install rexecd (in package rsh-server) which has security implications; if you elect to do so then you can use hummingbird's xstart tool to get an xterm and set the display for you.

Re: HTML2RTF

2001-02-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
LogicTran (http://www.logictran.com/net2rtf.html) hs one but it's not free. -- Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin

RE: jre problem

2001-02-20 Thread Jae Klaassen
On Thursday, February 20, wujf wrote: On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 12:58:12PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: Since you're using Oracle, presumably you're not opposed to using non-free software. That being the case, I would suggest using the jdk or jre available as debs through

Re: Fw: Debian crashes.

2001-02-20 Thread Moritz Schulte
Alexey P. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: During my usage of Debian I rarely had any problems with it at home, but after getting it into production server at work crashes became quite often (once per month - for sure). And it crashes randomly, at no particular task, not at high load,

LILO on my windows partition

2001-02-20 Thread The Doctor
Like an idiot, I accidentally wrote a LILO boot into my windows partition, so nw booting from my LILO to windows (on /dev/hda3) starts up another LILO that croaks with LI is there a way to be able to boot windows again? This will be complicated by the fact that the folks at HP only provided a

Re: iptables and 2.4.1

2001-02-20 Thread Moritz Schulte
spent187 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But with 2.4.1 I understand I must use iptables, but I don't know what I have to change in my script... http://netfilter.filewatcher.org/ is the homepage of the netfilter project; there you'll find good documentation. NAT is explained here:

Re: Running Deb on old PCs

2001-02-20 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Gavin Hamill [EMAIL PROTECTED], # Just my two cents' worth here... I did a semi-manual potato install # recently (i/e/ selecting individual packages from the menu rather that # just the groups) and have ended up with a full mail and # web/SSL/PHP/mod_perl system with quite a few extra

Re: after 'su -', 'Can't open display'

2001-02-20 Thread David B . Harris
To quote James Sinnamon [EMAIL PROTECTED], # My apologies for a question that should have been answered over and over # again on this No problem at all :) But check the archives next time. Since you have a specific string to seach for(Can't open display), a search would provide good results. #

Re: WYSIWYG editor (Prev. Rebooting is foolish)

2001-02-20 Thread Keith G. Murphy
William Leese wrote: On Monday 19 February 2001 16:45, Keith G. Murphy wrote: Actually, I don't understand the part about if i had a server. If you've got a Linux box, you can run Apache and any one of several DB's on it, and test out your pages locally. replace that with if i had

Virtual Desktop

2001-02-20 Thread techlists
I just bought Railroad Tycoon II for Linux. It only runs at 1024x768. My Laptop will only do 800x600, I'm running woody, XF864.0.2, KDE 2.0. How do I make my Virtual Desktop 1024x768, so I can play this on my Laptop. It runs fine on my Desktop, I guess it serves me right for going with a

Re: [OT] Re: WYSIWYG HTML Editor

2001-02-20 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Steve wrote: It's like the argument that b4 good page layout apps like Quark were as good as they are that the pros used to write their own postcript. Now most pros use a professional page layout app like Quark because it truly is WYSIWYG and almost no one writes their own postscript

Re: LILO on my windows partition

2001-02-20 Thread Hanno Böttcher
you can boot from win bootdisk and run fdisk /mbr to overwrite the mbr with a windows boot sector. Or you boot your linux with a boot disk and repair lilo ;) hanno - Original Message - From: The Doctor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001

Re: after 'su -', 'Can't open display'

2001-02-20 Thread hanasaki
You need to set your DISPLAY=host:0.0 env var. You may also have to use xhost to allow permisions to open the display. On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, James Sinnamon wrote: Dear Debian user's, My apologies for a question that should have been answered over and over again on this list (I have searced

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2001-02-20 Thread JoshNarins
NThis system (Compaq Presario (tower) 7478, see below) has recently been upgraded to Debian-2.2r2 and everything was working so well. I edited /etc/lilo.conf ran lilo -v and got no errors. Now, reboots yield Compaq Presario 7478: 500 AMD K6 II CD-RW DVD-ROM on board AGP

Re: LILO on my windows partition

2001-02-20 Thread William Leese
On Tuesday 20 February 2001 17:11, Hanno Böttcher wrote: you can boot from win bootdisk and run fdisk /mbr to overwrite the mbr with a windows boot sector. Or you boot your linux with a boot disk and repair lilo ;) hmm, i'd suggest both.. fdisk /mbr might kill both lilo's (actually, i'm about

RE: [OT] Re: WYSIWYG HTML Editor

2001-02-20 Thread Steve
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote: if dreamweaver would be available on Linux i'm sure there would be a LOT of designer's making the transition, though i must add that Dreamweaver (not UDev version) has it's flaws and shortcomings it is still a very productive program to work with

RE: [OT] Re: WYSIWYG HTML Editor

2001-02-20 Thread Joris Lambrecht
i'm not convinced the open-source 'community' will ever be tempted to do so since a lot of them feel 'commercial' software is 'not done', the fact that current open-source software is more like beta-software with horrible look and feel is not of importance, free is, too bad -Original

dependency problems

2001-02-20 Thread Christian Terboven
Hi all! dpkg -i g++_2.95.3-5_i386.deb produces the following error messages: (Reading database ... 77304 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace g++ 1:2.95.3-5 (using g++_2.95.3-5_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement g++ ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent

Re: [OT] Re: WYSIWYG HTML Editor

2001-02-20 Thread ktb
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:24:16AM -0500, Steve wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote: if dreamweaver would be available on Linux i'm sure there would be a LOT of designer's making the transition, though i must add that Dreamweaver (not UDev version) has it's flaws and

RE: Virtual Desktop

2001-02-20 Thread techlists
I know, but the new config file makes no mention of virtual settings, so I'm not sure where to set it to 1024x768. Wayne Joris Lambrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote .. you're addicted aren't ya ? you'll have to edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config file and adjust the virtual entry to 1024 768 good

Re: [OT] Re: WYSIWYG HTML Editor

2001-02-20 Thread Steve
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, ktb wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:24:16AM -0500, Steve wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote: if dreamweaver would be available on Linux i'm sure there would be a LOT of designer's making the transition, though i must add that Dreamweaver (not

Re: iptables and 2.4.1

2001-02-20 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi try http://www.hgfelger.de/mss/mss.html and http://www.hgfelger.de/mss/mss-clamp don't know if that would help. Edwin Lau On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 08:47:20 spent187 wrote: (i hope this posts properly) I am relatively new to linux, and have recently upgraded to woody, and the 2.4.1 kernel.

ssh-client, which terminal emulation?

2001-02-20 Thread Florian Kessler
Hi, i want to connect to a remote linux server via ssh using nifty-telnet (mac) or putty (win32). Which terminal emulation is the right? Vt102 doesn´t work for me, because all funktion keys, insert, delete and some others aren´t mapped correctly. Any hints? Florian

Re: dependency problems

2001-02-20 Thread Thomas Deselaers
Christian == Christian Terboven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Christian, Christian Hi all! dpkg -i g++_2.95.3-5_i386.deb produces the Christian following error messages: you should try apt-get install g++ this finds out all dependencies and solves your Problem. thomasd -- [EMAIL

[OT]: UUCP

2001-02-20 Thread Stephan Kulka
I understand that UUCP is a form of a network system or protocol. Is it still in use or it is totally replaced by TCP/IP? Is there any good documenation about networking in general which is uptodate?? TIA Stephan

Mozilla .8

2001-02-20 Thread Ray Percival
Does anybody know of a deb for Mozilla .8 or failing that how easy is it to create one that just works using alien? What I am looking for here is something that works as well as the Progeny .7 debs. I installed it a entry showed up under Debian and net in my menus it launche ran and does what

Re: dependency problems

2001-02-20 Thread Christian Terboven
Thomas Deselaers wrote: Christian == Christian Terboven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Christian, Christian Hi all! dpkg -i g++_2.95.3-5_i386.deb produces the Christian following error messages: you should try apt-get install g++ this finds out all dependencies and solves your

RE: [OT]: UUCP

2001-02-20 Thread Joris Lambrecht
UUCP stands for Unix-to-Unix-CoPy I've used it nearly 8 yrs ago in a specific situation, even then it was considered out-dated. I figure it's mostly replaced by TCP/IP on all devices. From what i remember (did not use it since then) it's easy (what's in a word) to set up but only support

can't exec some CGI scripts

2001-02-20 Thread John May
I am using Apache 1.3.17 (compiled from source) on Debian Woody. When I try to exec some CGI scripts, by typeing in the URL, ex. http://www.cybergeek.org/cgi-bin/newspro/newspro.cgi, I get an an Internal Server Error with the following error in Apache's error log: [Tue Feb 20 08:55:23 2001]

Re: [Q] How to remove a broken package(SOLVED)

2001-02-20 Thread wen
glenn I had these exact problems with four of the arphic font glenn packages. Finally filed a bug report against them and got a nice response glenn from the maintainer. glenn glenn In order for these things to get installed properly you will need to glenn install the package xutils. Then I'd

RE: Exceed 6.0 with Debian 2.2r2 and Windows95

2001-02-20 Thread Lewis, James M.
Dear Debian-Community, how do I setup Linux Debian 2.2r2, so that I can connect to it remotely using Hummingbird Exceed 6.0, running on a Win95-Box? I use exceed on nt all the time (required to use nt @work...). You can use any number of connection methods. Since I am on an

Re: [OT]: UUCP

2001-02-20 Thread Joe Block
Joris Lambrecht wrote: UUCP stands for Unix-to-Unix-CoPy I've used it nearly 8 yrs ago in a specific situation, even then it was considered out-dated. I figure it's mostly replaced by TCP/IP on all devices. From what i remember (did not use it since then) it's easy (what's in a word) to

Re: annoying modules.dep message

2001-02-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Brian May wrote: Erik == Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Erik apparently no. this question keeps popping up, never Erik answered. I had the same problem and I wasn't even able to Erik figure out what changes the date on /etc/modules.conf Erik the problem

Re: QuarkExpress equivalent on Linux?

2001-02-20 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:47:08AM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: Hi, Would that be the Latext system? Considered professionally acceptable? LaTeX is nice, but it is *not* a desktop publishing programming like Quark. -- Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net

Re: LILO on my windows partition

2001-02-20 Thread c-3
Date sent: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 09:42:31 -0500 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:LILO on my windows partition From: The Doctor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forwarded by: debian-user@lists.debian.org Like an idiot, I

module problem

2001-02-20 Thread c-3
Hi! Can anybody tell me how (or where) the location of modules are referenced? Because I compiled and installed some modules, but if I try insmod module name I get a message that the module couldn't be found. But perhaps it's just a very dumb reason. Christian

RE: module problem

2001-02-20 Thread Joris Lambrecht
you seem to be getting into a whole lot of trouble, in a very short timeframe. I'd advise you to take the time to read some How-to's. Read what you're in need of and read it two or three times to let it sink in. You'll see that afterwards a lot more things are lot more apparent. You might also

RE: Suggestions for and comments on trackballs?

2001-02-20 Thread Lewis, James M.
Greetings, all. Over the last several months, I've been having increasing pain in my right wrist. A co-worker suggested that this is due to problems with standard mice and recommended that I try a trackball instead. So, I'm looking for a trackball that will work well with potato/X.

Re: LILO on my windows partition

2001-02-20 Thread Hall Stevenson
Like an idiot, I accidentally wrote a LILO boot into my windows partition, so nw booting from my LILO to windows (on /dev/hda3) starts up another LILO that croaks with LI is there a way to be able to boot windows again? Is linux installed on a *second* hard disk ?? It sounds like it... If

Re: module problem

2001-02-20 Thread T. Tilton
c-3 wrote: Hi! Can anybody tell me how (or where) the location of modules are referenced? Because I compiled and installed some modules, but if I try insmod module name I get a message that the module couldn't be found. But perhaps it's just a very dumb reason. First do a depmod -a

Re: after 'su -', 'Can't open display'

2001-02-20 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:46:35AM +1000, James Sinnamon wrote: Martin, Thank you for your suggestion ... Hi, By default the Xserver doesn't listen to the tcp port (for security reasons) and I'll guess thats the reason for your problem. I've added the following few lines to

Samba | VFS

2001-02-20 Thread Rob Hudson
We recently set up a Samba server on Debian potato. After a little uptime (about 30 minutes to an hour) we saw an error message that said: VFS: file-max limit 4096 reached I did some searching on the net, and found what might be a solution. I added a simple .sh script to the startup that

PPP interface question

2001-02-20 Thread Jason Michaelson
I've got a pptp connection to my employer. I'd like (for purposes of netfilter rules and routing) to have the connection come up always using the same ppp interface number. Does anyone know of any way to do this, or would it require significant changes to the ppp driver and pppd source code?

Re: LILO on my windows partition

2001-02-20 Thread Bram Dumolin
re, The Doctor([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 09:42:31AM -0500: Like an idiot, I accidentally wrote a LILO boot into my windows partition, so nw booting from my LILO to windows (on /dev/hda3) starts up another LILO that croaks with LI is there a way to be able to boot windows

lucent winmodem driver and potato/2.2.18pre21

2001-02-20 Thread Kimon Ioannides
Has anyone been able to get the lucent winmodem driver from linmodems.org working on potato (linux 2.2.18pre21)? thanks kimon _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

Ip masquerading help

2001-02-20 Thread Guilherme Barile
Hello debian users. I am having the following ip masquerading issue: 1) I have four networks in my office 200.189.194.144 (netmask 255.255.255.248) - internet servers 10.0.0.x (netmask 255.255.255.0) - internal network 10.0.1.x (netmask 255.255.255.0) - other internal network 200.217.207.129

Re: LILO on my windows partition

2001-02-20 Thread John Hasler
The Doctor writes: Like an idiot, I accidentally wrote a LILO boot into my windows partition, so nw booting from my LILO to windows (on /dev/hda3) starts up another LILO that croaks with LI is there a way to be able to boot windows again? Run 'lilo -u /dev/hda3'. This tells lilo to put the

Missing Warnings.pm = broken debconf

2001-02-20 Thread Andrew n marshall
Hi, In a recent attempt to install the Glide3 libraries from unstable, I recently broke my debconf. Apparently, I tried this during the Perl 5.6 package upheaval, which the new debconf relied on, and libglide3 relied on that. Currently, I am just looking to return to a working debconf since

Re: can't exec some CGI scripts

2001-02-20 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:20:11AM -0500, John May wrote: I am using Apache 1.3.17 (compiled from source) on Debian Woody. When I try to exec some CGI scripts, by typeing in the URL, ex. http://www.cybergeek.org/cgi-bin/newspro/newspro.cgi, I get an an Internal Server Error with the following

who/finger output - billions of pts

2001-02-20 Thread MaD dUCK
hey all, want to help me figure something out? i am a former redhat/suse person finally having ascended to debian. there is something peculiar that i noticed which i cannot explain with my (pretty good) linux knowledge. so on either suse or debian, i use xdm to start windowmaker after login and i

Re: Any gotchas with kernel 2.4.x and Debian?

2001-02-20 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 19 Feb 2001 23:06:59 -0500, Jens Gecius wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aaron Brashears [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, does alsa work with the new kernel? There I realized some problems. Alsa was working erratically and I had no clue for two weeks or so. But

oldlibs

2001-02-20 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I am trying to make an old compiled application to work, but it is one of the 'olddays' compilations. That means that I need old library's. I know that there is a package under Slackware called oldlibs6, but I cannot find then under Debian. Anyone know where I can find them? Thanks,

Re: who/finger output - billions of pts

2001-02-20 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 12:57:52PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: hey all, want to help me figure something out? i am a former redhat/suse person finally having ascended to debian. there is something peculiar that i noticed which i cannot explain with my (pretty good) linux knowledge. so on either

Re: APIC error

2001-02-20 Thread Sean
Let me guess, you have an Abit BP6 motherboard . If so, don't worry about it ... the SMP on the BP6 is basically a hack job, which is why these error messages are getting generated. These things used to lock the kernel tight in the early 2.4.x days, but now they're just annoying messages.

Crypto patching 2.4 kernel

2001-02-20 Thread spamtrap
Hi, I want to compile the 2.4 kernel + crypto patch. apt-getting the kernel-source is no problem, but the international kernel patch isn't yet debianized. What's the best option? -Patching the debianized kernel source. -Patching the non-debianized kernel source. Thanks for reading, Jurgen

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Re: xlibsosmesa3 vs. mesag3

2001-02-20 Thread Sean
With the advent of XFree86 4.x Mesa is getting rolled into X, this being all part of the DRI initiative. This is why your mesag3 pacakges are being replaced ... Sean On Monday 19 February 2001 18:17, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: All of a sudden, I find dselect wanting to replace mesag3 and

Re: who/finger output - billions of pts

2001-02-20 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Erdmut Pfeifer (on Tue, 20 Feb 2001 07:21:09PM +0100): rxvt has a compile-time option for wtmp/utmp support. Maybe that's where the distros differ... the same happens when i use xterm. but i just now remembered that i use aterm on suse, and with aterm, no additional utmp login is

kernel make-config not recognising new drivers

2001-02-20 Thread Pete Meyer
I've got the source for a network card driver, and am trying to compile it into my kernel. I put the code into kernelsource/drivers/net. Unfortunately, make config does not recogise that it's there (neither does make menuconfig). Is there a way I can get the configuration scripts to

Re: rxvt utmp

2001-02-20 Thread MaD dUCK
ah! command line option: rxvt(1): -ut|+ut Inhibit/enable writing a utmp entry; resource utmp­Inhibit. woohoo. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- la lune, c'est comme les canards

Re: who/finger output - billions of pts

2001-02-20 Thread Bram Dumolin
re, Erdmut Pfeifer([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:21:09PM +0100: On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 12:57:52PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: why is this? what's different about wtmp/utmp (i presume) on suse/redhat than on debian? i don't want finger to show 20+ logins of my account when all i

Re: Virtual Desktop

2001-02-20 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Whenever you are doing the xf86config (or your other favorite X config), when you get to the last screen where you are supposed to change video modes for color depths, just go ahead and change them. Once you specify the video mode for a color depth, it'll ask you wehther you want the virtual

Re: xmps-win32-plugin

2001-02-20 Thread studenten wg
i finally found that out yesterday night (blame me i thought the libs would be installed by default)... now after i compiled it and copied the dll's and stuff i can view the divx movies... BUT the xmps is running in a little messy box and i couldnt figure out whats the matter ( is xmps workin

Re: xmps-win32-plugin

2001-02-20 Thread Robert Kasunic
Hello Peter, On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:57:24PM +0100, studenten wg wrote: i finally found that out yesterday night (blame me i thought the libs would be installed by default)... now after i compiled it and copied the dll's and stuff i can view the divx movies... BUT the xmps is running

Re: Debian or Redhat 7???

2001-02-20 Thread Rick Rezinas
oops...guess there was a reason I wasn't using it already ;) rick On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Tal Danzig wrote: On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 07:13:40PM -0800, Rick Rezinas wrote: I've been loosely foloowing this thread, and hope you have the best of luck locking down. A few places to start with the

Re: who/finger output - billions of pts

2001-02-20 Thread Colin Watson
MaD dUCK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why is this? what's different about wtmp/utmp (i presume) on suse/redhat than on debian? i don't want finger to show 20+ logins of my account when all i did was login once and opened xterms otherwise... You could try starting 'xterm -ut' or 'rxvt -ut' instead to

Re: ssh-client, which terminal emulation?

2001-02-20 Thread Anthony Fox
Florian Kessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, i want to connect to a remote linux server via ssh using nifty-telnet (mac) or putty (win32). Which terminal emulation is the right? Vt102 doesn´t work for me, because all funktion keys, insert, delete and some others aren´t mapped correctly.

Why did all my X11 fonts suddenly double in size?

2001-02-20 Thread Chris Gahan
I used to be using the fonts package that came with the XFree86 4 binary distribution, but after upgrading to the most recent XFree86 package in sid (4.0.2-4), X refused to start, on account of not having the fixed font. I checked it out, and the font was installed! I've never had that error

PowerMac G3 not booting after installation

2001-02-20 Thread Mohamed Abdulbaset
greetings, i have downloaded the 3 binary CD images for the potato version and write them my self to CD's i went through installation steps till end but my system not rebooting from the harddisk. my computer is Power Mac G3, PLS. Assist me.

Re: Ip masquerading help

2001-02-20 Thread Anthony Fox
Guilherme Barile [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello debian users. I am having the following ip masquerading issue: 1) I have four networks in my office 200.189.194.144 (netmask 255.255.255.248) - internet servers 10.0.0.x (netmask 255.255.255.0) - internal network 10.0.1.x (netmask

fonts

2001-02-20 Thread user list
I'm sure this is an old question but gv and ghostview give me the following error when I try to load a file with an .eps graphics file embedded Error: /invalidfontAladdin Ghostscript: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 in findfont Operand stack: --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 6

Reinstalling unstable broke cookies

2001-02-20 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dumb subject, but I couldn't come up with anything better. The problem is: I reinstalled Linux a few days ago; the only big change that I made was that I replaced Gnome with KDE. Before, I had a CGI script written in Perl that would set a session

Re: QuarkExpress equivalent on Linux?

2001-02-20 Thread Richard Taylor
From: Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:47:08AM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: Would that be the Latext system? Considered professionally acceptable? LaTeX is nice, but it is *not* a desktop publishing programming like Quark. There's Adobe's port of Framemaker or the

rc.local

2001-02-20 Thread Vittorio De Martino
Having experience of Linux RedHat, is there anyone out there able to tell me where is the equivalent of the rc.local file in Debian and where can I find it? Vittorio

Re: [OT] Re: WYSIWYG HTML Editor

2001-02-20 Thread Richard Taylor
From: Keith G. Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve wrote: It's like the argument that b4 good page layout apps like Quark were as good as they are that the pros used to write their own postcript. Now most pros use a professional page layout app like Quark because it truly is WYSIWYG and almost

Tailoring a window manager

2001-02-20 Thread Vittorio De Martino
I've installed icewm-gnome as my favourite window manager. I'd like that when starting up the window manager, automatically il loads GMC. Is that possible? What should I do? If not what window manager should I use and hoc can I configure it? Vittorio

netscape 4.76

2001-02-20 Thread Vittorio De Martino
What files from the www.debian.org stable download should I download to have netscape 4.76 up and running? Vittorio

Re: can't exec some CGI scripts

2001-02-20 Thread John May
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Erdmut Pfeifer wrote: I can execute the CGI scripts from the command line, when I use: $ perl newspro.cgi Also, below is a sample of the errors I get in my Apache error_log file when I run the scripts from a web browser with the #!/usr/bin/perl -w option. BTW, I get

Re: QuarkExpress equivalent on Linux?

2001-02-20 Thread Jonathan Gift
Richard Taylor wrote: There's Adobe's port of Framemaker or the Corel stuff... WordPerfect and so forth. On Linux? I didn't know. Same name? Thanks, Jonathan -- Jonathan // Gift /~~(0) (_|

Re: can't exec some CGI scripts

2001-02-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
I can't speak off the top of my head to the exec problem you're having; the -w problem is clear. -w turns on warnings in perl, which are essentially non-fatal errors regarding programming style and structure. The Name %s used only once warning tells you that the given variable appears to be

Re: netscape 4.76

2001-02-20 Thread Hall Stevenson
What files from the www.debian.org stable download should I download to have netscape 4.76 up and running? apt-get install navigator *should* get all the necessary files/dependencies to install just the browser component. I'm not sure if there's a similar one for the entire Communicator suite.

apache-ssl broken in potato?

2001-02-20 Thread aphro
hi a couple weeks ago i installed several apache-ssl servers on potato machines. today when i try i get: fury:/tmp# cat /etc/apt/sources.list ; apt-get update ; apt-get install apache-ssl # See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file

Re: Tailoring a window manager

2001-02-20 Thread Hall Stevenson
I've installed icewm-gnome as my favourite window manager. I'd like that when starting up the window manager, automatically il loads GMC. Is that possible? What should I do? If not what window manager should I use and hoc can I configure it? In either .xinitrc or .xsession, add the line

ICQ and other applications for Linux???

2001-02-20 Thread Mahalingam, Sivendiran
Does anyone know what protocols ICQ uses to send data out on the internet? I am attempting to use my my linux machine as a router for my cable internet service and was wondering if i would get full internet funtionality on my client machines on the LAN. Thanks. Siva

Re: oldlibs

2001-02-20 Thread Bob Hilliard
Sebastiaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to make an old compiled application to work, but it is one of the 'olddays' compilations. That means that I need old library's. I know that there is a package under Slackware called oldlibs6, but I cannot find then under Debian. Anyone know

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