Netscape 4.5 in slink (problems)

Hi Debian users, I had Netscape installed. Then I upgraded it to Netscape 4.5 that is in slink. Now, when I run netscape from xterm I got the following error messages: grep: /etc/netscape4/config: No such file or directory egrep: /etc/netscape4/config: No such file or directory

Status of Debian in Ultra/Sparcs

Hi Debian users, my techer is asking me for help him install Linux at two Sun Ultra Sparcs that he is buying. I thought a little and think that I want the same quality in Suns that I have in PCs with Debian installed. I'm asking about the status of Debian Ultra Sparcs,

Re: device or resource busy

Hi, try lsof /dev/audio as root. Then we can find what process is opening (using) the device. Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique

Re: device or resource busy

Quoting Max ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Rvplayer just crashed on me and now I keep on getting device or resource busy errors whenever I try to reinstall the sound modules. Does anyone know a way of resetting this other than rebooting? I tried removing /dev/dsp and recreating it with mknod, but that

Re: Host lookup failure.

Hi, Put your provider's DNS IP into file /etc/resolv.conf like this: # /etc/resolv.conf nameserver DNS.IP.YOUR.PROVIDER Good luck, Paulo Henrique Quoting Andrew Ivanov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello. I just recently ( last night) got

[Off topic] Mutt wrong from

Hi Debian users, I have a little problem with mutt that I can't figure how to fix. In elm or pine, when I send an e-mail the from header is right (only cos.ufrj.br) and when in mutt it appends my hostname too (jaca.cos.ufrj.br). The result is that many people that reply

Mirror Debian (HOWTO)

Re: [Off topic] Mutt wrong from

Worked! Thank you very much,Paulo Henrique Quoting Dale Harrison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 02:23:28PM -0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi Debian users, I have a little problem with mutt that I can't figure how to fix

Problems with XWindow at slink

Hi Debian users, I upgraded XWindow at slink but I have many problems. I downgrade to Hamm. But there are some problems: 1) Every time I run a xterm or Eterm the console erros go out in xterm or Eterm 2) Every time I run netscape from xterm the errors are:

XWindow at Slink already good?

Hi Debian users and developers too, Last week I have upgraded XWindow and that was the worse thing that I ever did in Debian. I didn't have read the warning about XWindow in slink. I reinstalled XWindow that I have in hamm, but the things aren't stable yet. I

PPP Connection and local networ

Hi Debian users, I setup my PPP connection, but I'm in trouble with my ethernet local network. How I can route the packages correctly. When I'm using PPP I can't use the network and vice-versa. Also, I setuped the network and when I telnet to one computer I can login and

Smail configurationg (wrong from)

Hi Debian users, I'm using smail as my MTA and I have a problem: when sending a mail the from is jaca.cos.ufrj.br and not cos.ufrj.br as desired. I used smailconfig, selected the third option and put the server machine name (rio.cos.ufrj.br) and the from as desired

No PPP connection :(

Hi Debian users, I'm getting frustaded with getting PPP to connect with my ISP. With minicom I can dial and login. But with PPPconfig, I login and can't even ping. I have an ethernet card atached in my computer. I'm suspecting of it because there is an error

XWindow broken :(

Hi Debian users, I upgraded my XWindow System today morning with apt and the fonts went out and everything was very strange. I tried to reinstall the xbase, xfnt75, xfn100 from Hamm and now I have still some problems. 1) The pixmaps of wmaker isn't working anymore

Re: Installation stops during system check

Hi, looks like the kernel is trying to found SCSI devices. Try again. Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique On Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 12:49:54PM +0200, Stefan Möller wrote: Hello everybody, This is the first time installing Debian Linux. After booting the

NIS not working anymore :(

Hi Debian users, I'm using NIS since I setup it 2 weeks ago. Now when I need to add more users I can't login using NIS. 2 weeks ago one guy helped me. I mailed him with my passwd and shadow files and he complain me about security but his e-mail solved all of my

Best way to mount and umount Novell servers automatically in XWindow user login

Hi Debian users, I setup some computers with Debian Hamm and installed ncpfs and ipx papackages. I already mount user directories with .nwclient file and ncpmount at .bash_profile and umount at .bash_logout at console. But in XWindow I didn't figure how I can mount user

Ncpmount and ncpumount automatics in XWindow login

Hi Debian users, I setup some computers with Debian Hamm and installed ncpfs and ipx packages. I already mount user directories with .nwclient file and ncpmount at .bash_profile and umount at .bash_logout at console. But in XWindow I didn't figure how I can mount user

I have a winmodem:( And now?

Hi Debian users, last week I wrote to the list saying that I bought a Motorola V90 56.6 Kbps modem. I wrote telling that it doesn't working in my Linux box. My friend discovered that it is a winmodem. What I have to do to this piece of hardware work in my Linux Debian Hamm

I Cannot upgrade with apt!

Hi Debian users, yesterday, a perl package had an error, because data-dumper. I tried to remove data-dumper and all packages that dependes on it. I removed all lg-issues. Today, the perl package is good and I cannot either install the lg-issues or remove them.

Off Topic: Translating upcase filenames to lowercase filenames

Hi debian users, I need to translate 800 filenames from upcase to lowercase. I remember that I can do this with tr, but I don't know very well. Any hints? Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique

Re: Make Config Does Not Work!

Are you in the root account? Are you in directory /usr/src/linux? Have you installed the source of the linux kernel? Give me more details and we can help you. Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 08:43:50AM -0500, Brian

VNCServer problem

Hi Debian users, I installed VNC Debian package and when I type: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~$ vncserver -query localhost The error is: xauth: (argv):1: bad display name jaca: in add command xauth: (argv):1: bad display name jaca/unix: in add command New 'X' desktop is

Re: Gnome

Search in unstable section (slink directory). I have Gnome 0.30 installed and running in my machine. Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 06:01:59PM +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: Hi all!! Is Gnome available to download in the Debian FTP

Re: NIS/NFS packages?

Hi, install the nis and netbase packages. The NFS is just mount -t nfs server_directory client_directory But you have to start /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs at server and client. NIS is bit more dificult. Tomorrow I wrote more to you. I didn't have

Cirrus Logic 5430 at 16 bpp and 800x600

Hi debian users, I'm having a problem setting a Cirrus Logic card model 5430 1Mb of RAM. It doesn't enter in XWindow at 800x600 at 16bpp. It complies about linear addressing that I don't know. Anyone has this type of card? Have a nice day,Paulo

IPX Collision

Hi Debian users, I installed IPX and ncpfs packages from hamm and compiled my kernel with IPX support and already mounted Novell servers and printed at Novell printers but there is an error: Oct 5 08:03:24 HOST132 kernel: IPX: Network number collision 5 Oct 5

NFS error report

Hi Debian users, I mounted the directories /usr/local and /home in a PC 486 client from a Pentium (server). The mount was sucefully but at boot the çlient gives me the error: NFS: notice message: result = -101. several times. What is wrong? Have a

Motorola modem not working

Hi Debian users, First, I didn't know very well yet manipulate ioports and interrupts. I bought a 56.6Kbs Motorola V.90 (SM56) modem and tried the package wvdial to detect my modem and it didn't detected. My mouse is at /dev/ttyS0 and the output of the wvdialconf program is:

Excel DLLs (.xll) in Wine or Willows or Bochs or ...

Hi Debian users, my boss at work have to run a simulation into Excel that uses a DLL of Excel (.xll). The problem is that the simulation will take too long (about 7 years) and he couldn't put this kind of thing to run in Windowze because it could go into GPF and loss the entire

NIS Installation problem

Hi Debian users, I'm having some troubles into getting NIS into one server and some clients. I step by step followed de Debian NIS HowTo and the NIS HOWTO, but I can't login into a client. In NIS HowTo there is a program to check if NIS is Ok. I created a

Re: xwin-32, debian, and colliging window managers

Hi Rick, try Debian vnc package. It allows you to view the Linux Desktop into Netscape 4 withing Windows. More info into Debian homepage in session News. Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 02:33:32PM -0500, Richard E.

NFS simple question

Hi Debian users, I'm trying to setup a NFS server(machine 10.0.0.132) and a client(10.0.1.222). I read the NFS-HOWTO: I wrote in /etc/exports at 10.0.0.132(Server) the line: /home 10.0.1.222(rw) Then I add the line in /etc/fstab at

NIS Server and Clients

Hi Debian users, I'm trying to setup a NIS server with some clients. I'm following the steps of /usr/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz. I begun with the server. At step 3.6: Setup the server by typing /usr/lib/yp/ypinit -m The following error occurs and I

XBanner fonts

Hi Debian users, at work I installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 in 3 486 computers out of order and only one have the default font of xbanner (the other two presents the error message #Could not get the font, using fixed). I think that the file /etc/X11/XBanner.ad that

IPX Colision and XBanner font (solved)

Hi Debian users, excuse my old mail about XBanner fonts. I have already found that the problem was with the FONT PATH in the file /etc/X11/XF86Config. But, I have another problem with IPX. The console gives me an error: Sep 28 07:41:28 HOST132 kernel: IPX: Network

Backspace and Delete weirds

Hi Debian users, I have a problem. My /etc/X11/Xresources have the following lines: *VT100.Translations: #override KeyBackSpace: string(\177)\n\ MetaKeyBackSpace: string(\033\177)\n\ KeyDelete:

Novell and Linux (pam_ncp again)

Hi Debian users, In pratical terms, I have to do this until friday to my users login into Linux using Novell account. I downloaded http://www.csn.ul.ie/~airlied/pam_ncp/pam_ncp.0.5.tgz, compile, put into /etc/pam_ncp.conf the Novell Server and the README tells

Audio Group and NIS passwords

Hi Debian users, I follow always the threads about the group audio in the user debian list and know that I have to add a user in group audio for he to be able to play CD and midi. But, I installed Debian 2.0 and use NIS and my passwd does not have any user and when I try

Authentication of users in Linux using Novell Netware

Hi Debian users, I'm faced with a problem. I'm installing Linux at a Pos-Graduate Economy lab at Brazil and the users use Novell to login into Windows95. I'm trying to find something similar in Linux. That is I don't have to create 60 new accounts to Linux. The best would be the

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