How stable is frozen

I will reinstall my (until a few days ago `stable' - see my previous mail) system. Is `frozen' (potato) mature enough for a person who is not keen on bug hunting? Blazej

Re: reading rtf files

Is there any utility/program in debian that assists in _reading_ rtf files? I only found a few that can generate them. Oh really did you? Could you please send me the names of those few... Blazej

Graphics viewers/converters [was: Graphics/X-windows ...]

Rick gave we the following idea: maybe it is easier to convert my data into a popular format and view it with a standard viewer. Any ideas about what format to use, where to find it's description? I imagine that using `BMP' should be quite easy, but than I may need a converter to e.g. GIF.

Completion/M-tab

What does that mean? B.

gzipped logs loose format

Old log files get gzipped (/var/log/*.?.gz). When I view them with mc using F3 they appear to have lost their format. All end-of-lines are removed and the text is `justified' to approx. 80 columns. This makes the logs very difficult to read and practically useless. When I ungzip the files and

Re: umount - URGENT - solved (again)

It seemed to me that I already expressed may thanks, but apparently it didn't hit the right person. So once again: among lots of pieces of advice (I remain grateful to everybody who wanted to be helpful) I got two answers that really solved my problem: 1) Dave Sherohman wrote: lsof should give

umount - URGENT

I've just fallen into serious trouble: can not umount my CD-ROM - it is reported as beeing used. I'm sure it is not, what may have happened is that I was examining it's contents with `mc' which died suddenly. I desperatly need this CD out _right_now_ so please if anybody knows the answer - give

Re: umount - SOLVED

Thanks to everybody, who wanted to be helpful. The answer I needed was this one: Dave Sherohman wrote: lsof should give you the pid of any processess using it. Then just bring out the kill -9... It WORKED! Thanks a lot! Blazej

Symlinks

When upgrading some packages I got the following warning: ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libtcpwrapGK.so.1 is not a symlink ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libomnithread.so.2 is not a symlink ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libomniORB2.so.6 is not a symlink ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libomniLC.so.2 is not

xhost

How do I enable a particular user on a given machine to write on my screen, not just anybody who is logged there? In particular how to enable another user logged on my machine to write on my screen? Blazej

Brief

Once upon a time there was a text editor called `Brief'. Does it exist in Linux version? Blazej

PVM

I found myself too stupid to execute Python examples, so I decided to turn to PVM (I was told it could also do the task I need), but during installation of pvm and pvm-dev I got the following warnings: ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libtcpwrapGK.so.1 is not a symlink ldconfig: warning:

Python again

I have a program, that I want to be executed in parallel (possibly on a network of Linux boxes). I've heard that Python is one of the esiest tools to be the `supervisor' - to launch the programs, to collect results, to inform me about the progress, and so on. Can you tell me where to start

Python

I installed: python-base -doc -examples -misc -stdwin When trying to execute scripts (eg. `wpi.py') I get the message: ImportError: No module named stdwin. How can I deal with that? Anything else should be installed? Blazej

Re: telnet not working on home LAN

1. dpkg --status telnetd if not installed = install (in my case this was the problem - apparently by default it is not installed) 2. check /etc/inetd.conf for lines: ftp stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.ftpd telnet stream tcp nowait

Installing system in non-default place

How do I install the base system in a given subdirectory? I mean installing in a directory intended to be root for the diskless client. Blazej

FvwmTaskBar

Suddenly I discovered that from 11 days a process is eating all the power. Top says: 14 0 856 788 584 R 0 98.2 0.6 17047m /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95//FvwmTaskBar 9 4 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95/.fvwm95/post.hook 0 8 The process belongs to the user (not shown above) that is not logged

Diskless

Hi everybody (after more than half a year..) I want some diskless workstations to boot from my Linux box. I followed the steps described in miniHOWTO (although I can't understand the idea of having two catalogues: /export/root and /export/linux as described there) and reached the point when I

Re: recommendation on presentation software

J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: Take a look at MagicPoint (the mgp package). Where can I find it? Dselect (in hamm) asked for `Magic' finds only `libmagick4g'. Blazej

Re: Linux cannot use swap bigger then 460Mb ?

Maybe you can find this useful: Adrian Bridgett wrote: Linux can per default only handle swap-partitions = 128 MB The latest 2.1 kernels raise this to just shy of 2GB :-) You will need a new version of util-linux which I am about to do an NMU of - util-linux-2.9e-0.1 will be the name.

HP printing

I have a HP LJ5M connected directly to the network. I configured everything as described in HowTo and on THAT day it worked fine! After rebooting my computer I can: telnet to the printer and change any parameters I wish. check with lpq that: Printer: lj-5 is [EMAIL PROTECTED] JetDirect lpd: no

Re: Network adapters (speed 100MB)

Anybody knows some network adapter (speed 100MB) which supports linux drivers? Kingston KNE100TX B.

Re: Automate UPPER to lower case directory

Trying to automate work done by some WIN95/NT people who don't understand upper/lower case. I have a directory of files that are upper case and need to be brought to lower case. Does anyones have a program or script that could help me do about 400 files? man mmv B.

Re: Can't drag and drop in Netscape

Michael Beattie wrote: On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, LUK ShunTim wrote: May be I have not made myself very clear. What I would like to do is something like this. After I read a web page in Netscape, I would like to bookmark it. There is a Location icon in the Netscape browser window to the left

Re: Wordperfect 7.0 on Debian 2.0

When I start Wordperfect installation I get a message, that it can't start graphical installation Most probably you use X as yourself and install WP as root. You must enable root do display at your DISPLAY e.g.: xhost + (as yourself) Blazej

Re: Can't drag and drop in Netscape

LUK ShunTim wrote: KDE and Netscape 4.5bPR1. Sorry I don't uderstand what you are trying to do, but 4.5bPR2 is already available - maybe that can help you? Blazej

Re: Adaptec AIC-7890 SCSI under Debian?

I was skimming through the messegas from the last few days and I haven't noticed any answers so I'm answering (even though it is rather late). I've been trying to install Debian on a P-II, with a ASUS P2B-LS Motherboard, and a Adaptec AIC-7890 Ultra2 SCSI chipset. Matthias Klose wrote:

Re: Weird stuff in X

Alexander Stavitsky wrote: Adam Klein wrote: I have a Diamond Viper V330, and in X at 1024x768x32bpp, it behaves strangely. When I scroll or move a window, little blips come up on the screen. They go away when I stop. Does anyone know how to get rid of this? It is a documented

Where is XF86Setup?

I was removing all Xservers but the one I'm using, and I must have removed by mistake the XF86Setup (if I remember correctly the name of the utility to manage the XF86Config). I tried to find, and reinstall it, but I can't see it under dselect. Could you please let me know what package should I

Re: Where is XF86Setup? - solved

Sorry! Netscape died at the moment of sending my last message so I repeat it (abbreviated - have no patience to retype as it was)! Thanks for the quick answers. Eric was right - it works now. I think there should be a possibility of seraching not only trhe headers but also the descriptions

What DSELECT does?

I installed hamm via ftp. Now I needed to add one package. I added it in dselect and to my horror it downloaded some 20 packages, among them different Xservers. Said that now the default is a different Xserver than I in fact had as default, then it did byte-compling for different packages and so

Re: Apple diskettes OK

I got what I needed - THANKS! Get the hfsutils package. xhfs has done its job! Mac double-density disks (800K or so) ... IBM floppy controllers physically *cannot* read Fortunately it was a 1,44M, anyway: thanks. Blazej

Re: Is there a .deb version of netscape?

There are .deb's of the 4.5b1 prerelease. Get them from http://master.debian.org/~doogie/netscape/ I'd say. -Remco Sorry, for not knowing that, but who is who there: communicator4-dmotif_..16-Jul-1998 17:32 4.1M communicator4-smotif_..16-Jul-1998 17:31 4.9M

FTP oddity

I have two hosts, running bo and hamm respectively. I can't ftp (telnet either) from hamm to bo. The session goes as: $ ftp bo Connected to bo.my.domain.name 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection ftp ... If I ping from hamm it sees bo. Additionally I _can_ ftp from hamm

Re: passwd oddity

I dont know about anyone else, but in my mind, two users with the same UID is a Bad Thing (tm). As for the different username... `echo $USER` or `whoami` dont know if either would work.. but anyway.. I used it under Solaris, and it was quite a Good Thing. The root account was reserved for

Server name, how-to change forward

I need to change the name of my machine. I changed `/etc/hostname' and during startup it waits for several minutes after having displayed: starting printer spooler: lpd (finally it reboots, but it suggests something is wrong...) BTW: During hamm installation I was asked several times about the

Apple diskettes

How can I read Apple McIntosh dikettes on a Debian system? Blazej