Re: How to build Debian Linux cluster?

1998-05-07 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 03:59:39PM -0400, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: I've seen several responses point you to Beowulf. Check it out. I have a look. It's much more than we want or capable of doing. You build supercomputer out of small computers connected with fast network, so that speed

Re: por si alguien puede ayudarme :)

1998-05-02 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 05:21:09PM +0200, Manuel Suarez Calafell wrote: (parpadeante en rojo) Cpu setting incorrect que interesante chipset... si es tan simpático, ¿no pone la velocidad del CPU en forma automática? (el que tengo yo lo hace... al principio no me gustó la idea, pero funciona

Re: alien y dpkg

1998-05-01 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 04:49:22PM +0200, R.Ll.V wrote: He convertido el Netscape comunicator en rpm a formato dev lo he instalado y al parecer sin problemas, todo parece estar donde deve. Pero al ejecutarlo me dice que no está instalado incluso en el propio directorio /usr/bin puedes

Re: Convert RedHat install to Debian ..

1998-05-01 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 02:37:00PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: Now for the hashed over part. Is there a sane and reasonable way to either convert an existing RedHat machine to Debian, or to start the Debian install from what I have now? Remember, I can't use the Debian boot disk. (I

Re: FW: Problemas locale - Xlib

1998-04-30 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 10:39:39AM +0200, M. Pascual wrote: Siguen los problemas con el paso de libc5 a libc6. Tengo las siguientes librerias instaladas: locales_2.0.7pre1-4.deb - Xlib6_3.3-6.deb - Xlib6-altdev - Xlib6g_3.3-6.deb - Xlib6g-dev para Netscape (debe ser el mismo problema

¡Estamos archivados!

1998-04-30 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Si estamos archivados, no lo había visto porque estamos al final... en Others :-) Los archivos comienzan en abril de este año, pero peor es nada. Nuestro URL: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-spanish-9804/

Re: LAM MPI

1998-04-28 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 10:00:05AM +0200, Antonio Vieiro Varela wrote: Hay una versión distribuida con licencia GNU que se llama LAM-MPI. Estoy intentando bajarlo de http://www.osc.edu/Lam/lam/lam61-release.html pero, como siempre, la red de investigación es lentísima. vo'

Re: mutt+acentos?

1998-04-27 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 07:48:59PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: El asunto es que en el pager mutt en lugar de poner áééíóú pone . (sí, cinco puntos). Le he dado vuelta a la configuración y no encuentro una forma de hacer que ponga los caracteres no ascii. Ahora estoy en la

Re: Archivo de lista

1998-04-21 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Angel Vicente Perez wrote: ¿Sabe alguien si existe un archivo de esta lista, al igual que existe para otras listas de Debian? Si, http://www.debian.org/List-Archives/ y busca por alli debian-user-spanish. (Como

Re: How much HD is necessary to mirror Debian x86?

1998-04-16 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: I want to download the entire Debian hamm distribution _for Intel only_ (just binary-i386, isn't it?) How much HD is necessary? Just yesterday I put Debian 2.0 (main + contrib; binary-i386 + disks-i386) on a CD-ROM, flattening symlinks from

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-15 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Tamas Papp wrote: I don't think 'debian-flame' would be quite appropriate. How about debian-discussion, or debian-advocacy or something? It's a good idea, flame was just a thought (after the Hungarian list linux-flame). The name debian-discussion would be quite

Re: menus don't show up in hamm

1998-03-29 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: Windowmaker only shows the xterm and exit commands on the menu, while afterstep shows several others, but none of the packages I have installed show up even though the files exist in /usr/lib/menu and update-menus has been run. This one's my fault. Do

Re: menus don't show up in hamm

1998-03-29 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: I think I found something which might explain the problem with windowmaker. $ less ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu menu.hook menu.hook is missing. IIRC it was there previously. Yikes! Can I see /etc/menu-methods/wmaker? Have you edited the file?

Re: Deity looks AWESOME

1998-03-29 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: I thought it was an additional method and dselect was going to remain for the graphically-impaired (IIRC deity runs under X). This is Debian we are talking about... ;-) deity runs both under X11 and text. I have got used to dselect, but Deity is way

Re: AMD K6 233

1998-03-27 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, M.C. Bezemer wrote: A few hunderd messages ago someone (I believe 't was Wolf Logan) had a problem installing Debian. He mentioned that he had an AMD K6/200. I am thinking about buying a K6/233, but would linux run clearly with it? Has anyone experience with this? I

How do I use cyrillic fonts?

1998-03-26 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, somebody here wants to use cyrillic fonts under X11 (Emacs 20, really). I have installed the xfntcyr package, but Emacs doesn't see the fonts. It lists iso-8859-5 as the font for cyrillic instead of koi8-r. The option on the menu that says koi8-r (display faces, or something like

Re: Anybody know how to tell for how long has ppp-if been up?

1998-03-23 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: I'm looking into hacking asmodem/wmppp to make one of them display for how long has the ppp line been up, but I don't have a clue on how to do that. Any ideas? How about looking at the time/date the tty lock file was created? I thought of that,

nolock option to NFS?

1998-03-17 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, I have experienced some problems with locking and NFS, and finally gave up and added nolock to the client options. Now I wonder... what does it do? Does it trap the the fcntl calls and ignores them? Marcelo -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: PPP to multiple Internet Provider

1998-03-17 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Niccolo Rigacci wrote: I think this is a simple task of writing some scripts, but does Debian have something already done? The ppp on hamm does this. You can say pon provider. The newest proposal to ppp on hamm, will (I think) address the second situation. You way want to

Free TrueType Fonts?

1998-03-11 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, Does anybody know where can I find free (Debian Free, not just $0) TrueType fonts? It's for an upcoming Debian package... Marcelo -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL

Re: Free TrueType Fonts?

1998-03-11 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Ender Wigin wrote: Does anybody know where can I find free (Debian Free, not just $0) TrueType fonts? It's for an upcoming Debian package... Actualy look on the microsoft web site they have some and links to some that are actuly public domain, Microsoft says there

Re: afterstep config file in /tmp

1998-02-17 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On 13 Feb 1998, Gilbert Laycock wrote: Does anybody have any idea what causes the steprc not to be deleted for some users? I suspect something in the personal setup files (this is a student lab, and once somebody gets a nice looking setup it tends to be copied around), but since I am not

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Pentium II performance?

1998-02-17 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On 16 Feb 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: Can you point me to the source code for the benchmark? I can run it on my PII/233 for comparison if you want. and Alex Yukhimets: Same here, only with PII/300. You can find the source code here: http://www.efis.ucr.ac.cr/~mmagallo/flops_p.c This is

[OFF-TOPIC] Pentium II performance?

1998-02-16 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, I know this is off topic, but I don't have access to cola (and newsgroups in general) and I feel more confortable asking here, because I want Linux specific answers. Ten days ago a professor here bought a Pentium II/233 system. He promptly installed Debian on it, and let me

Re: Window-manager?

1998-01-30 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On 29 Jan 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Are there any screen shots of wmaker? Or any comparisons with fvwm2? I have a fairly complex console (dock) set up in fvwm2, and I would like a little bit of incentive to change ;-) It depends on what you are looking for. There are screenshots

Re: PGP Which?

1998-01-27 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, 27 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pinepgp depends on pgp and i went to ftp.de.debian.org and i found pgp_i and pgp_us. Which one shoud i pick? in any case i think that dpkg will complain. You mean if you pick the other one? No, it will not. Since you are in Chile, you need pgp-i

Re: Netscape is now re-distributable and should be included in Debian.

1998-01-26 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On 23 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am communicating with Netscape's VP Client Products. They are still determining the license details, and I will do my best to convince them to use straight GPL or LGPL, or something DFSG-compliant. Bruce, I think Peter was talking about 4.0, not 5.0.

Re: New Smail, how to use offline?

1998-01-23 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On 23 Jan 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: So despite turning of this feature, smail *does* check the DNS. I'll have another look at this and will probably file a bugreport. BTW: which package has libpcap ? This one is missing in tcpdump's Depends: line. Another bugreport I guess. I

Re: New Smail, how to use offline? *BIG WARNING*

1998-01-23 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On 23 Jan 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Time to revert to smail from bo and do further tests on a spare machine. This happened to me, too. I lost mail from mailing lists, so for me it wasn't that bad. Anyway, I (almost) removed smail from the equation. I have: . smail: queues mail and

Re: Wmaker (hamm) and menu pkg.

1998-01-13 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Adam Shand wrote: What you do want to do is to edit the /etc/menu-methods/ file for you window manager (WindowMaker-- what's that? Is that a new window manager I didn't hear about, but does include a Menu-method? Fab!) It's a better Afterstep then Afterstep :) It's

Re: Good Soundcard

1998-01-12 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: BTW: If he hadn't explicitly request a SB compatible crad, I would never have suggested one ;) I dislike the marketing politic of Creative Labs. I bought my SB AWE 32 before I started to work with Linux :-( Ok. I'm not asking explicity for a SB

Re: DEBIAN does not find my harddisk!!

1998-01-08 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Nils Sandmann wrote: unable to initialise controller at 0x308, error 1' and 'PS/2 ESDI: Attention error. interrupt status: EF'). After that it is searching for the harddisk and it is doing something with it (you can hear it) and it then it displays the number of sectors

Re: changing pine config

1997-12-17 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Paul wrote: hi everybody, is there a way to change the field from: in my headers to say an alternative email address. Thanks for everything. Paul I do this by setting the user-domain field in the config file. My address

samba not printing via lpr

1997-12-15 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, until a few days ago, I was using samba to print to a laserjet attached to a NT box. Today I needed to print a C program, using a2ps, but printing doesn't work anymore. I *think* I upgraded samba recently, but I don't recall how long ago... I have this on /etc/printcap

Re: kernel sound defaults wrong?

1997-12-11 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Stephen Zander wrote: I thought irq 5 was also for lpt1. surely it's better to document what we have now? Otherwise we may trade one set of questions for another (Why can't I use my ... printer? :)) In linux the lp module doesn't use an IRQ, it polls instead, doesn't

Gimp doesn't accept text input

1997-12-10 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, is anybody else having this problem? The Gimp no longer accepts text input... I mean, I can't type in text boxes. It may have something to do with libgtk1, which is something I upgraded before the problem showed up. Package: gimp Version: 0.99.14-1 Versions of the packages gimp depends on:

Re: Are 120 MB diskspace enough?

1997-12-10 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Thomas Apel wrote: Again, it will only be used for above mentioned purposes. No GUI or any other apps like StarOffice or Netscape are required. The served network are only two other machines. And I expect the stored data to be less than 20 MB. What size are the needed

rxvt terminfo entry?

1997-11-03 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, after upgrading ncurses-base to 1.9.9g-5 the handling off backspace has been reverted to Delete. Using the old entry fixes this, but I'd like to know why the file was changed in the first place. Anything besides backspace that I should know? Marcelo

Re: rxvt terminfo entry?

1997-11-03 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Scott Ellis wrote: I'd like to know why the file was changed in the first place. Anything besides backspace that I should know? /etc/inputrc Nope. That's not it. Iff i use an rxvt backspace is delete. If i use the console, or an xterm, it's ok. Thanks anyway.

EWS under Debian?

1997-10-29 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, anyone here using EWS (Excite for WebServers) under Debian? How do you install it? Following the setup is no use. Patching it here and there makes some progress, but now I've come to a deadend. Marcelo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Can Debian replace Windows NT Server?

1997-10-29 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
I know this is a FAQ, and the answer is no in principle, because the Samba team won't do any development regarding authentication services (with a justified reason), but I'd like to know if Debian can replace NTS -- obviating the lack of authentication. What I have here is a lab with a Pentium

Re: majordomo list server

1997-10-16 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On 16 Oct 1997, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: test-list: :include:/var/lib/majordomo/lists/test it is not the correct one!? I think that's ok (don't take my word for this). But probably the configuration of some director in smail is not... in /etc/smail/directors. I don't remember, it

Shared Libraries Howto?

1997-10-14 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, I'm trying to build Diffpack, and I'm having some troubles. I want to build this thing using shared libraries. Reading the ELF-HOWTO and patching the sources somewhat I've managed to produce the shared libraries for the different parts, but now I cann't use them. Setting

Re: How to use the Compose key?

1997-10-09 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
It doesn't work (only beeps at me) in rxvt or xterm. My rxvt is version 2.4.1 which I downloaded and compiled, but I see no compilation parameters to set this. I'll keep playing around. You'd think this would be made easy! You don't have to configure rxvt, bash's the one. You need: set

PVM packaging

1997-10-01 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
a very loose license (basically it says you can use it provided that you keep this copyright appears in all copies ...). Should a get something more specific or is it enough? (For an official package, that is) TIA, Marcelo E Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Astrophysics

nfsroot (update)

1997-07-25 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
I got a spare machine where I installed Debian 1.3.1 base system and a couple of things like sed, bind (I need this because mknfsroot needs nslookup and the one from dnsutils is not enough... btw, can't we move nslookup from bind to dnsutils?) and other stuff. Now the machine boots, gets its IP

Re: PnP ( ie: Modem )

1997-07-07 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Keith Knipschild wrote: I installed and setup Debian Linux, But I would like to setup my PnP Modem.. I helped a friend of my with this a couple of weeks ago... I hope I can remember. Install isapnptools (it's in admin). Run pnpdump and redirect it's output to

Re: Too many open files: ulimits

1997-07-03 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Take a look at /etc/lshell.conf Oh, that's it, thanks! Now one question... I have fortunes installed and fortunes-mod. With this setup if one types fortune it will try to open 74 files! (The fortunes and the .dat files plus stdio et al) I know this

Re: Too many open files: ulimits

1997-07-01 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On 29 Jun 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Your `ulimit's are too low. Here's what I do, in /etc/profile for now. This exactly the problem I'm having. The ulimit is set to 24. But I cann't find where to set this... (I know ulimit -n 256) What I don't get is why on another debian machine the

Too many open files

1997-06-28 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, I'm getting this message very often in one of the Debian Linux machines I work with, and I have no clue of where to start looking. It's not coming from the kernel since it's not logged along other kernel messages, but it shows up in the console. The first time I saw it, it

Re: from 1.3 to hamm

1997-06-27 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Maybe I don't understand the stable/unstable concept of debian, but I don't see any reason why they don't go to stable. An easy one: stable is just that, stable. It won't change. Unless a bug is found, nothing goes into stable after the release date. For example, right now XFree 3.2 is in

[Off-Topic] Making FLI's

1997-06-14 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, sorry for posting this here, but since xanim supports FLI's, I hope somebody here knows the answer. Does anybody here know if there's a Linux program for making FLI's? In the Povray homepage I found a reference to a DOS program (DTA was it?) but I'd like to stick to Linux. TIA, and apologies

Re: WPLINUX Beta Testing (fwd)

1997-06-09 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Regarding the beta version of Corel WordPerfect for Linux, I asked them what's requiered to become a beta tester. I got this from sdcorp. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 08:10:25 -0600 From: Brad Caldwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: WPLINUX Beta Testing We have

Re: Debian 1.3 Release FAQ - Preliminary

1997-06-04 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Jim Pick wrote: 2. Installation and Upgrading 2.1 Installing from Scratch 2.1.1 - Where do I start? 2.2 Upgrading from a Previous Release 2.2.1 - What do I have to do? 2.3 Networking A real FAQ: how do I install Debian using FTP *and* PPP? Stress

Re: couldn't get a free page

1997-05-28 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, 27 May 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote: Kernel 2.0.30 changed the way it handles memory. It's supposed to be a stable kernel (by this I'm saying it's a 2.0.x and not a 2.1.x), but problems like this make me think it shouldn't be used in 1.3. Could you try downgrading to 2.0.29 and let

Re: couldn't get a free page

1997-05-28 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, 28 May 1997, Leslie Mikesell wrote: I got this recently when running in single-user mode doing mke2fs on a 9 gig drive, but I think my swap space wasn't activated. Has the install package activated swap at this point? Yes, basically this occurs following the prompts when installing

Regarding bounced messages from debian-user-cr

1997-05-22 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, I have to apologize to all of you regarding a couple of bounced messages from debian-user-cr. Those messages, as you could tell, are announcements from Debian's Team, and appeared in Debian Announce. I bounced them to debian-user-cr, and majordomo found an Approved field from Bruce,

Re: Beginner: Where are error messages of dselect saved?

1997-05-20 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Finally I installed debian 1.2 from InfoMagic 6 CD April 1997. But when I use deselect (with its default selected packages) to install the packages I get a lot of messages, error messages and can't messages. As these messages scrolls fast, I can not read them to understand what is wrong?

shadow+npasswd_boulder

1997-05-15 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, I was wondering, do the new passwd package and npasswd_boulder work together? I just turned shadow passwords on (shadowconfig on), and then installed npasswd_boulder, but I don't think they get along well, do they? Marcelo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

XTACACSD

1997-05-08 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, I´m trying to install xtacacds here, but I haven´t had any success. Everytime I try to authenticate a password, there´s an entry in the log file that says invalid password and that´s it. Anyone here using xtacacsd under Debian? Can I have your makefile/config? TIA,

Re: DEITY TEAM -- REQUEST FOR FUNCTIONALITY and COMMENTS

1997-04-15 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Probably I'm going to say the obvious, but... On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Rob MacWilliams wrote: 2. I know there has been much traffic about the interface [...] Now all that is needed is a keystroke sequence to open and close the categories. The closest piece of software out now that would be

Re: lprng+samba+some_filter? (WAS: LPD network printing)

1997-03-17 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Adam Shand wrote: I haven't yet tackled the .dvi thing (because I don't use DVI) but I have a script that works with lpr and a shared windows printer via samba. If you can figure out a way to detect dvi files then I can't see any reason why it wouldn't work. Oh, thanks

lprng+samba+some_filter? (WAS: LPD network printing)

1997-03-13 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On 13 Mar 1997, Graeme Stewart wrote: This is a problem with the `lpr' package. My solution (the solution?) was upgrade to lprng (in the unstable tree, but I've had no problems). Some people have reported that it messes up Samba configurations, but that seemed to be surmountable too (and if

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