Accelstar graphics card

1999-03-18 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, If anybody uses Accelstar II graphics card could you tell me the right Xserver for this card ? Any other tips for X use wiould be appreciated TIA George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DS

Re: network help

1999-03-12 Thread G. Kapetanios
? Thanks again for your help George On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Paul Miller wrote: G. Kapetanios wrote: Thanks for the reply ifconfig gives the followng loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP

Re: network help

1999-03-11 Thread G. Kapetanios
is correctly detected the problem is with the gateway I guess since route (not route -n) hangs Any help will be appreciated Thanks On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Paul Miller wrote: G. Kapetanios wrote: Hi, I am trying to set up thi computer at work with Debian. All works fine apart from

network help

1999-03-10 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I am trying to set up thi computer at work with Debian. All works fine apart from the network. This is a novell environment. I have set up one computer in a novell environment before and it was fine. however here I have problems. The newtwork card is working OK as far as I can tell. On

Re: Partition confusion

1998-12-16 Thread G. Kapetanios
Shouldn't you create an ext2 filesystem on that partition with mkfs ? george On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Jeff Miller wrote: Hello, My drive 0 (hda) has three partitions. The first two are FAT32 Windoze and I have wiped, removed, and re-created the third with cfdisk. I selected 'Logical' as

anyone using xringd in the UK?

1998-12-14 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I would like to know if anyone has had any luck with getting xringd to work with an ISP service in the UK? If yes could you send me an email with more details ? Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill

exim question

1998-12-10 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I was wondering whether anyone could send me a sample exim config file. I am trying to get email to work over ppp to my ISP. I can'yt figure out how to specify the smtp server in exim.conf. Or is it not sepcified there ? A related question. What setup should I prefer iif I want my email

Re: HP 5L still giving problems!!

1998-10-23 Thread G. Kapetanios
I had the same proble. My HP 6L would not work. I tried magicfilter. ASCII text printed fine but postscript dvi e.t.c. were garbage. I then wrote a little script which uses explicitly gs and dvihp as filters to turn ps and dvi files into the printers native languge (PCL I think ) It essentially

(UK question) Help with diald and ISP demon.co

1998-10-20 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I was wondering whether anyone on the list has managed to use diald with the UK ISP demon. If so could you help help with the setup of the connect script ? Thanks very much George --- George Kapetanios Churchill

cdrom device not there

1998-10-16 Thread G. Kapetanios
After reinstalling my system (hamm) from scratch I have no /dev/cdrom Is this obselete ? If yes then what is the name of the new device ? I have tried ./MAKEDEV cdrom and got an error Any ideas ? George --- George

root partition deleted (resolved, hopefully)

1998-10-14 Thread G. Kapetanios
Following my numerous emails in my efforts to restore my machine I would like to thank everybody who respondd to my questions . I have managed to salvage my data but not my system since I did a total reinstallation. Anything less that that would not work. However compared to my experience with

Is there an official debian CD-ROM ?

1998-10-14 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I was wondering if there is an official debian CD-ROM and if there is where it is available from ? As I have lost my ethernet connection, getting slink by modem is prohibitive. George --- George Kapetanios

help !!! cannot log on to my machine

1998-10-13 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi all , After dleting my root partition I have managed to install a minimal syste. I tried to install some new packages but te installation script for cpp failed and I cannot login to my machine. The error i get is sh: Error in loading shared libraries : undefined symbol :

HELP!!!!! binaries not executed (fwd)

1998-10-12 Thread G. Kapetanios
I 'd like to thank you for all your help with my problem when the root partition on my box was deleted. The current situatrion is that I managed to install 2.0 from the dos partitiopn the system is minimally working. BUT i have no configuration files. No /lib libraries. I could reinstall but

HELP!! binaries not executed

1998-10-08 Thread G. Kapetanios
My question is a result of problems explained in another email. They concer a deleded root partition. My question has to do with binaries which are there can be seen can be read but cannot be executed. for example # /usr/bin/less /usr/bin/less : No such file o directory The same happens to

boot floppies (july 21 1998) error ?

1998-10-08 Thread G. Kapetanios
I am wondering whether the boot floppies in curent are ok. the rescue disk and drivers isk is working fine but when the base system gets installed and after all the floppies have been read (so no floppy eliability issue) the installation exits with an error. The same happens when installation

HELP!! binaries not executed (fwd)

1998-10-08 Thread G. Kapetanios
://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 14:04:46 +0100 (BST) From: G. Kapetanios [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: HELP!! binaries not executed

more trouble with deleted root partition please help !!!!!

1998-10-07 Thread G. Kapetanios
I have manage to salvage a minimal system after accidentally deleting my root partitioon. I tried to install debian stable but it did not work. I did floppy disk installation butfloppy relaiobility does not seem to be the problem. Let me explain why I have the debian disks on an unharmed

URGENT!!! ROOT PARTITION DELETED

1998-10-06 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi all, I was having problems with the network so I deided to use the rescue disk to configure my machine with no network. By mistake (big mistake !!!) I chose to initialise the root partition rather than mount a previously initialised partition. The hard disk did not work a lot but my root

URGENT !!!!!! SYSTEM SERIOUSLY BROKEN

1998-10-06 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi all, Following my previous email concerning a deleted root partition the following has happened. I tried to install debian from the hamm base disks which I had in another partition but an error kept coming which did not permit installation. Both installation from disk and floppies did not

URGENT !!! SYSTEM BROKEN (CONT)

1998-10-06 Thread G. Kapetanios
Following to my prvious email I have installed lilo. the system can boot from floppy. However, when I try to boot from disk the boot starts but it hangs with the following message VFS Mounted root (ext2) filesystem Unable to open an initial console This does not happen with the floppy boot.

PPP, host lookup failure and related questions

1998-10-05 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi all, I have moved from an ethernet connection to ppp. I have a couple of questions. I would really appreciate some help 1) pppd comes up on boot fine and I can telnet to a remote host as long as I use the ip numeric address. When I use the word address e.g. cus.cam.ac.uk instead of 131 I

xdm not working

1998-10-05 Thread G. Kapetanios
Following an earlier email concerning failure to look up a host adress which also prevented xdm from running I have included my ISP nameserver address in /etc/resolv.conf. Now xdm starts, I log in and the system waits before starting the window manager for some time I still havent waited long

question on connecting two computers

1998-09-25 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I am looking for info on how to connect two PCs running linux outside of a network. I.e. I want to be able to access information on both computers fron both computers (nfs e.t.c.) Is there a manual explaining the details? Any other source of info ? Thanks George

Is the 8Mb ATI expert 98 AGP 2x graphics card supported ?

1998-09-23 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi all, The subject says it all. Is this card supported by Linux ? If not what can be done ? Any suggestions are very welcome TIA George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL

ISDN question

1998-09-23 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I have the ooportunity to have an ISDN line instead of modem at my home. I was wondering whether having an ISDN connection is straighforward with debian ? there is a package in hamm called isdnutils. However, what I found on the net was a FAQ (rather old) for a package called isdn4linux.

Modem recommendation

1998-09-22 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi all, I am switching from ethernet to modem (end of school days) and I would be grateful about suggestion for a good external modem that works well under Debian 2.0. TIA George --- George Kapetanios Churchill

printing when network is disconnected

1998-09-13 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I ahve an ethernet connection which I will loose shortly.. When I remove all network relatwed init files from /etc/rc4d (my runlevel for no network ) the system boots up ok but when the printing init file runs it hangs the system. Any help ? George

is enlightenment 0.14 available as a deb package ?

1998-07-20 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I was wondering if enlightenment v. 0.14 has been made available as a debian package. If not, any ideas when it will happen ? George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL

Anyone using plplot ?

1998-07-14 Thread G. Kapetanios
I have installed plplot and plplot-tcl. All went ok. When I try to run pltcl I get the error pltcl: error in loading shared libraries libMatrix.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I can't find the libMatrix.so lib anywhere in my system or in www.debian.org I contacted

Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux?

1998-07-01 Thread G. Kapetanios
mgp is in the japan site, but it needs vflib = 2.22 I can't seem to find vflib Can anyone help ? Thanks George On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Keita Maehara wrote: From: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux? Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 12:07:44 +0200 There's

Re: Truning off shadowed password file

1998-06-16 Thread G. Kapetanios
Use shadowconfig off | on On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Ramon Nieva wrote: Ok, I installed my system (bo) with shadowed. Just for testing purpose, I want to get rid of them, how do I do this? Ramon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

URGENT e2fsprogs problem

1998-06-16 Thread G. Kapetanios
I decided to upgrade to e2fsprogs 1.10-17. Mistake.. It wants an newer version of dump which requires libe2p2. I can't find this package anywhere. Can anyone help ?? George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College

where is slink ?

1998-06-12 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi all, I have been trying for a number of days now to find a site that contains slink as I am looking for new packages such as apt to try them out but can't seem to find it. Any ideas ?? (www.debian.org seems to have only hamm). George

user can delete kernel images

1998-06-12 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, Something very strange has happened to my system. I have my kernels in /boot (the usual setup ) with permission 644. I have never touched that after they are created by the kernel-package. I am doing some experiments concerning security. So I tried as a user with no root privileges and no

user can delete kernel images (cont)

1998-06-12 Thread G. Kapetanios
Following to my previous email I have to say some things. the /boot directory in my machine is drwxrwsr-x 2 root disk 2048 Jun 12 17:58 boot the user who can do that belongs to the disk group but the file which was deleted (/boot/vmlinuz.2.0.0) does not belong to the disk group

Re: Upgrade bo- hamm, Problems !

1998-06-08 Thread G. Kapetanios
It looks there is some trouble with the gpm daemon. See if it is running and try killing it to see whether it makes any difference. George On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Sindelfingen Office wrote: ~ Hi there. during the weekend i upgraded my system from 1.3.1-XYZ to hamm (using the frozen- tree

Re: Building Kernel for Sound

1998-06-06 Thread G. Kapetanios
Try the make-kpkg package. Then make menuconfig make-kpkg --revision (version nunber) buildpackage in /usr/src/linux and dpkg -i kernel-imagedeb and you are done It is much simpler than the standard procedure George

Re: Printing

1998-05-18 Thread G. Kapetanios
Have you considered installing magicfilter ? My HP LJ 6L works fine with the lj4l filter from mgicfilter and the following entry i /etc/printcap lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry :lp=/dev/lp1 :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp :af=/var/log/lp-acct :lf=/var/log/lp-errs

trick in dpkg ; obsolete package

1998-05-13 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi all, I have two questions to ask. One concerns the probelmatic missing package elf-x11r6lib. the package gs-alladin version 4.03-7 depends on this (I know there is a newer version but this is another story ) As the elf-.. package is nowhehre to be found I did the following. I edited the

ssh question

1998-05-10 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi all, After some security incident on my network I decided to set up ssh. I think I have figured most things of interest to me out. However, before I had rsh in ascript to start my mail program which is another host through FvwmButtons. Now that I disabled rsh I tried to figure a way to do

Re: ssh question

1998-05-10 Thread G. Kapetanios
Thanks for all the replys. The RSA keys method can be made not to ask for anything if you put no passphrase, and that is my question. I can do what I want without a passphrase. But is this safe ?? The man page of ssh-keygen says that if you put no passphrase YOU SHOULD KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

Staroffice

1998-05-02 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi all, Sorry for the stupid quiestion but where is the debian package for staroffice ? I can't seem to find it in my nirror. Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread G. Kapetanios
After all the discussion I tried to install staroffice 4 as well. I have a slightly out-of-date hamm. I tried installing the net installation all went ok. Then I tried installing it on my directory as a user. The first thing to note is that there is a huge duplication of files. The net

enlightnement

1998-03-21 Thread G. Kapetanios
Dear All, I would like to change my window manager because I am a bit bored with fvwm2. I have chaecked enlightenment and liked what I saw. Has anayone had experience with installing it? It seems to require alot of libraries which exists as rpm packages but I can't install them using alien. I

tetex question

1998-03-16 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi all, My question is more tex oriented but involves knowledge of tetex. Tha is why I am asking the list. The book documentclass creates page headers with the title of the chapter. However, if the title is long the whole thing is meesed up. Is there a way to change that and either hjave no page

possible network attack question

1998-03-10 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, In the last few weeks I have been receiving the following message in syslog with increasing frequency Mar 10 22:19:46 garfield kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 7fffceff! I have been told that this is normal and should not worry me. However, as the

ethernet question

1998-01-22 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi all, For about 12 hours I get through syslog every couple of minutes messages messages such as Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers status ... . Now I have gotten this message before but only a couple of time and then it stopped. I asked the list about it and was told that it is

Moving from ethernet to a modem

1998-01-18 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi all, I have friend whom I have persuaded to use Debian instead of Win95 :-) He wants to \have an internet connection from his home. As his situation is of interest to me since my studying days will soon be over and I will ghave to move from ethernet to modem as well I have the following

upgrade to development kernel

1998-01-10 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, Today for the first time I tried to compile a devwelopment kernel. Using the kernel package everything went ok during compilation. I installed the kernel at /boot as usual run lilo and did everything I uisually do for a kernel upgrade. However when I rebooted and chose my new kenel it said

Re: 'math error' on irq 13?

1998-01-07 Thread G. Kapetanios
I think it is supposed to be like that. It is like that on my system and I think this has been asked before and it was mentioned in the list that for some reason it appears so in /proc/interrupts George On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Britton wrote: While trying (and

e2fsprogs

1997-12-06 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, How does one move to the libc6 e2fsprogs without using force in dpkg ? I tried installing commer2g and dpkg tried removing e2fsprogs. How does go about upgrading ? Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill

kernel warning

1997-12-04 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I got a new message from my kernel today: Dec 4 13:22:07 garfield kernel: Warning: dev (03:01) tty-count(1) != #fd's(2) in do_tty_hangup anybody knows what this is ? Thanks George

processes after exit from X

1997-12-03 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, A while back I send an email to the effect that X processes survive X and eat up huge amount sof CPU time. IN my case it is the FVWMbuttons. Other people said that happened on their compuiters too. I am using 3.3.1-1 and haven't moved to 3.3.1-2 yet but I was wondering if there is a script

libc5 to libc6

1997-12-03 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, A friend wants to upadate from libc5 to 6 . I have done that some time ago and can't rember the exact order . Can somebody let me know of the http address for libc5 tp libc6 HOWTO ? Thanks George

Re: undeletable file

1997-12-03 Thread G. Kapetanios
I had an examople of such behaviour a while back. It occured for some files in a mounted dos filesystem. If it is not a ext2 filesystem could you be mounting it read only ? (come to think of it maybe it is ext2 and mounted read only as well ) Just a thought On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Ken

magifilter problems

1997-12-02 Thread G. Kapetanios
I have a pretty strage problem with my new printer. I have a HP 6L with the latest version of magicfilter from hamm When I try to print anything but text and pcl files nothing happens. I have gs-alldin installed. If however, I process ps files with the same exact options as in the filter I am

HP printer and printcap

1997-12-01 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I have just installed a new HP 6L printer. It works fine under Windows. It works under DEbian but only reacts when text files are sent to it. When ps or dvi files are sent it does nothing. I am using the ljet4l-filter but otherwise changed nothing in my printcap which worked fine with a

HP printer and printcap (cont.)

1997-12-01 Thread G. Kapetanios
Thanks very much for your help. I am using magicfilter and from what I heard in the list, people think it might be slightly better, it has worked for my bubblejet anyway. In the last few minutes I managed to print dvi files by using the dvihp command. However the most important thing for me is

taper question

1997-11-30 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi all, I have managed to install my tape drive ( Seagate travan 3200 on a floppy controller ) and to have it work under Debian . I even managed to figure out how to make the modules detect the new floppy controller ( not easy in my case :-) ) . As far as I can see only taper exists for user

tape driver configuration(cont)

1997-11-24 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, following my previous email. A note: all devices seem to be where and how they should be, permissions and all ... George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge,

tape driver configuration

1997-11-24 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I have just installed a new tape driver ( seagate travan 3200 ). I have tried it u der windows and it works ok. I am trying to make it work under Linux. I have installed ftape-2.0.30 and am using a 2.0.30 kernel. When ftape was installed it complain that the modules were unresolved symbols.

suggestion for tape driver

1997-11-19 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, Thanks for all the help on the question of printer memory. I was thinking at the same time of bying a tape driver fo backing up my system. Has anyone got any suggestion for a good tape driver which works with Debian ? The system I will be backing up is about 2 Gig. Any suggestions will be

URGENT: strange floppy behaviour

1997-11-19 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I tried to mount my floppy, the mount failed. I had to press CTRL-C a number of times to get apropmpt and got the following messages in syslog Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: floppy driver state Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: --- Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel:

Memory and printing

1997-11-18 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I am thinking of bying a laser printer but I have one question. I will be printing some large documents with lots of graphics in them. The files will have the postscript format. For example one file I recently printed was 6.2 Mb. The cheapest laser printer is HP 6L with 1 Mb of memory. Does

autofs and ncpfs

1997-11-15 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, Anyone knows whether autofs can support novell filesystems ? (I guess the answer is no but you never know :-) ) Thanks George

Re: xdm/X not terminating processes on logout

1997-11-14 Thread G. Kapetanios
Almost exactly the same thing is happening to my machine. I n case FVWMButtons does not terminate. It has starrted happening after I upgradeed to 3.3.1-1 George On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Brian M. Rectanus wrote: For some reason processes are not being

Re: need a hint to mount novell netware.

1997-11-13 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi I am running on a TCP/IP network, have a kernel configured with IPX, use the package ncpfs and have no trouble accessing Novell networks. So you should be OK using the above. Good Luck George On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Dirk

autofs and 2.0.31

1997-11-13 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I have compiled a 2.0.31 kernel. One of the reasons for doing so was to use autofs. However when I did make menuconfig I didn't see an option for autofs support. I thought it was in the kernel anyway and instaled he package. However the package does not find autofs support and won't start.

2.0.31 kernel

1997-11-13 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I have just installed 2.0.31. I have heard from the list that it might be unstable. However, the statistical package I use for my work seems to be working noticeably faster with this kernel. Has anyone noticed any marked performance improvement or am I mistaken ?

Panasonic KxP 6300

1997-11-12 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I am thinking of bying a laser printer and the cheapest one I found is the Panasonic KxP 6300. Is anyone using this printer with Debian ? Are there any problems ? Is it any good ? Thanks George

X process takes over cpu

1997-11-09 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, Something strange has happened to my X sessions since upgrading to glibc6 stuf (3.3.1-1). Sometimes whan I finish the session an X process ( FvwmButtons ) remains active and uses about 50% of my cpu time. In order to stop it I have to use kill -9. Has anyone else noticed that ? Might this be

2.0.31 kernel source

1997-11-08 Thread G. Kapetanios
Does anyone know when the kernel-source-2.0.31 package will be ready ? Or is it exactly the same as the tar.gz source files available from, say, www.kernel.org in which case getting that would do the job ? Thanks George

Re: tty uses only bottom line of screen

1997-11-06 Thread G. Kapetanios
I had the same problem some time ago. It would happen when I used less. As time went by more and moreof my consoles would suffer that. It stopped on its own after upgrading to a new kernel (at the time I was using 2.0.0 ) and I guess I must have upgraded less at some point. I know this isn't

web question

1997-11-06 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I must apologise for asking an irrelevant question but I can't get any help from elewhere. Can anyone give me some references to documentation discussing setting up password protected web pages (or even better a description of how do that :-) )?

Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers

1997-10-27 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I have a question every so often I get messages of the following form Oct 27 20:58:27 garfield kernel: eth0: Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers,s tatus 7fffceff! Oct 27 20:58:27 garfield kernel: eth0: Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers,s tatus 073a858e! Oct 27 20:58:27 garfield

X problems

1997-10-24 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I have tried to upgrade to the libc6 X. All was going alright apart from some ldso warnigs when I upgraded xlib6, most of which went away when I installed xlib6-altdev and installed xlib6g and xlib6g-dev. I upgraded all the other stuff and all seemed fine. Then I tried running X -query

X upgrade

1997-10-22 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, From my mirror I see that the setup for X has changed considerably. I am wondering what is the correct procedure to upgrade. I have X 3.3-4 Here is what i think i should do. First upgrade xlib6 to 3.3.1-1, then remove xlib6-dev and everything that depnds on it and install xlib6-altdev,

administration tool for command logging

1997-10-17 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I was wondering whether there is a system administration tool which permits the monitoring of specified commands, file access attempts, by users. Thanks George

Re: Wordperfect files in linux

1997-10-12 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, And thanks to everybody who answered my question. To summarise, unless I am prepared to pay some money ( and I am not :-) ) there is no straightforward solution. The only thing available is wp2latex which is not in a Debian package. I 'll probably give it a try. As far as MS-Word is

Wordperfect files in linux

1997-10-10 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, Does anyone know of a program that will read WP files in linux ?? TIA George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College

question on free

1997-10-09 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, Whenever the memory usage on my machine goes up and I use free I get the following total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 63252 57316 5936 31364 9492 -/+ buffers:478244190748

user cron question

1997-10-07 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I have cron installed and it works fine. However, I need to run a backup script as a user since I mount a novell network acount with the same username and save my data. So I tried to set up a cron job as a user. I created a file called allow in /var/spool/cron which contained only my

.fvwm2rc question

1997-10-06 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I have a pretty minor question which however is bothering me. I am asking fvwm2 through a menu definition in .fvwmrc to kill a process with the command ExecStop It exec kill -9 $(ps aux | grep xlock | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}') This works in the shell but not from

X 3.3-6

1997-10-03 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I am considering moving from X 3.3-3 which I currently have to X 3.3-6 . However in the last few weeks a number of messages point that there are a number of problems with this upgrade associated also with xlib6g. Can somebody briefly summarise what these are and how to upgrade safely ?

pascal

1997-10-01 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, Could someone tell me which debian package provides pascal support ? Thanks very much George --- George Kapetanios

pascal (cont)

1997-10-01 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, Thanks to all who replied to my question. I have juct installed gpc on my system . However, it requires gcc 2.7.2.2 So I downgraded gcc to 2.7.2.1 I was wondering whether it would be possible to have the newest gcc ( 2.7.2.3 ) together with gpc . Does anyone know if this is possible or

Pascal question

1997-10-01 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I have installed the pascal package and downgraded my gcc to 2.7.2.1 for compatibility reasons. In the beginning I got some errors concerning files the package could find By linking then I got through that stage .Now I am getting the following errors garfield:/usr/home/guest$ gpc

quota bug ?

1997-09-19 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I have just installed the quota utility on my system. I did everything by the book but when I would run quota as a user it would say Disk quotas for ... : None . I checked and rechecked everything but it didn't help. I run quotacehk about 2 times and also /etc/init.d/quota start . Then I

Mail command

1997-09-18 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, As I am on a university network I have no right to send mail on my machine. So I haven't installed any mail software until now. However, I have set up my web page with stuff for downloading and a form. I would like to have the cgi script to send an internal mail to a user on my machine , no

permission on dos filesystem

1997-09-16 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I have been using my dos partition as a store for data files I don't use very often. Creating the files as a normal user, these files and the directories belonged to my username. Today I just found out that the ownerships had changed to root. I tried changing them back as root using chown

Re: X boot not automatic SOLVED--

1997-09-12 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, Maybe I am wrong but doesn't the automatic start of X or not depend on /etc/X11/config ? So if you have no-xdm-start-server in /etc/X11/config, even runing the xdm daemon would not start X automatically ? George On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Victor

Re: Security issues for nfs mount

1997-09-12 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, Although I am not familiar at all with the inner workings of nfs the description below indicates a risk that an unauthorised client may read files on the specific directory which is being exported by nfs read only. However my worry is not whether somebody else will read the files which in

Security issues for nfs mount

1997-09-11 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I was wondering whether there is anything to worry about if I let another machine nfs mount, read only, root-squash, one directory on my machine. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks George

xlib6g package

1997-08-30 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi all, I tried updating to libc6-dev and in the efort I had to reinstall tk42-dev However this now depends on tk4.2 which in turn depends on xlib6g But I can't find xlib6g anywhere. Can somebody help ? Thanks

Question on libc5 5.4.33-5

1997-07-24 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I am trynig to upgrade my libc5 to 5.4.33-5 from unstable When I do dpkg it tries to replace libc5-dev with libc5-altdev . However stuff dependes on libc5-dev and dpkg doesn't know that libc5-altdev contains the same stuff as libc5-dev . So it crushes I tried to remove anything that

question on emacs and xterm under XFree 3.3-3

1997-07-14 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I have just upgraded to XFree 3.3-3 . All went smoothly but I have two questions Firstly when I start emacs I get the following warning Warning: Cannot convert string %s to type %s Can anyone tell me what this is ? Secondly I used to have xterm-color as my default xterm Now I get the

Printer question

1997-07-05 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I have an old bubble jet BJ-10SX cannon printer. I have just set up lprng and magicfilter. I can print but only text . I am not very sure as to how to incorporate the filter in /etc/printcap I have triad the if statement and it didn't work. ( :if=\usr\sbin\magicfilter:\ ) I would be

Quick question on /etc/modules

1997-06-25 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I accidentally sent a job to the print queue while the lpd daemon was running . I have no printer and no printer support in my kernel . Now I get a message from modprobe about the module char-major-6 not being found. This fills up my log files. I probably have to stop kerneld and put a

Staroffice

1997-06-09 Thread G. Kapetanios
Sorry for the e-mail which is not strictly on a debain matter, I am looking for the non-commercial version of staroffice. The stardivision www page says that it is available from ftp.gwdg.de However I can't get through. I also checked sunsite and couldn't get it. Anybody know a mirror that has

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