Re: xload

1998-01-14 Thread csmall
William R. Ward wrote: It moved to a different package. Look in Packages for 'xload' - I don't remember which package it's in, but you'll find it. xcontrib -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Icon Conversion

1997-11-25 Thread csmall
Paul Serice wrote: What do you use to convert Win95 icons into XPM format? There is a great set of graphics converters in netpbm. bmptoppm (1netpbm) - convert a BMP file into a portable pixmap ppmtoxpm (1netpbm) - convert a portable pixmap into an X11 pixmap If it is not a bmp file, then

Re: Linux for Amiga

1997-11-20 Thread csmall
Torsten Jonas wrote: here are Torsten from Hamburg, Germany. I have Interest on a Linux Package for the Amiga 1200. G'day Torsten, First of all, I don't have anything to do with the Debian Amiga group, so what you are getting are observations from a user, not the offical party line. AFAIK,

Re: less than useful dselect/dpkg error msg

1997-11-17 Thread csmall
Bill Leach wrote: Receiving error messages such as the following: Linux# dpkg --configure fvwm2 dpkg: error processing fvwm2 (--configure): package fvwm2 is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status `installed') Errors were encountered

Losing colors in X

1997-11-10 Thread csmall
G'day All, I think this is a bug, but I am unable to track down what program is causing it, so I thought I would try here first. I am finding in X that I am missing colors. I find that xcolors crashes and that xcolorsel says unable to allocate any colors. When a launch xterm from another

Re: xdm3d_xpm

1997-11-06 Thread csmall
Has anyone been able to compile xdm3d_xpm? I get this error when I try to compile: server.c: In function `_SysErrorMsg': server.c:71: conflicting types for `sys_errlist' /usr/include/stdio.h:221: previous declaration of `sys_errlist' make: *** [server.o] Error 1 I've tried installing

Re: modem

1997-11-04 Thread csmall
My modem picks up every 10 secs and dials 0. I think it has something to do with mgetty. Can anyone help? It's probably due to the initialisation script or perhaps mgetty thinks the line is busy and tries to pick up the incoming call. Looking in the mgetty log should tell you what is going

Re: xdm broken during package additions.

1997-10-13 Thread csmall
I'd like to be able to run xdm to start X but it seems that it starts in some wrong mode. I believe when I originaly installed debian, it asked me if I wanted to use xdm to start x and it recommended it. Is there a script or some parameters I can pass to have xdm start X in the same mode that

Re: user cron question

1997-10-07 Thread csmall
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

Re: Network Configuration

1997-07-08 Thread csmall
Robert D. Hilliard is rumoured to of said: During the base installation, as part of configuring the network, the configure script asks for the netmask and the IP address for the network and/or the default gateway. Where is this information stored? You will find this information at the

Re: Problem with Smail

1997-03-20 Thread csmall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Lars Hallberg writes: I think smail refuses to rewrite the from: field. Putting from_field=From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ($fullname) in /etc/smail/config works for me. With some versions of smail, you cannot do any substitution. I suspect you have a good

Re: Security Issue

1997-03-20 Thread csmall
Matthew Tebbens typed: I'm not sure if this is normal, but it seems that any file owned by someone else and in one of my directories can be deleted by me even if I don't have the proper permissions to do so. I also can rename the file, but I can't alter the file. This holds true even if the

Re: Problem with Smail

1997-03-20 Thread csmall
Marcus Brinkmann typed: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lars Hallberg writes: I think smail refuses to rewrite the from: field. Putting from_field=From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ($fullname) in /etc/smail/config works for me.

Re: Strange network problems

1997-03-14 Thread csmall
Brian Freeze typed: If I telnet out or ftp out I wait long periods of time for the username to be excepted then the passwd. From there it is the same for ls or any other command. For example. System www2.deltastar.nb.ca is the system with the new debian release on it and www.deltastar.nb.ca is

Re: xt?

1997-03-06 Thread csmall
David Stein typed: Can debian Linux run on an xt? If not is there another linux that can run on an xt? a http: link in the right direction would be appreciated. No Linux will ever work on an xt or a 286. They are missing neccessary bits of hardware called a MMU which protects the memory. A

Re: Dos Linux

1997-03-06 Thread csmall
David Stein typed: How can I download .tar and .gz compressed files on a Dos system copy them over to my linux system and uncompress them? Is the uncompression built into unix? Also can I interlink my Linux and my Dos system? (my modem is on my Dos system). mount -t msdos

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

1997-03-05 Thread csmall
CoB SysAdmin typed: Yes, I've read the Serial HOWTO. I've read the PPP HOWTO. I've even read the PPP RFC. I know what IPCP does and I know what LCP does. But I shouldn't have to. I didn't have to read the LILO HOWTO to get my machine to boot Linux. I didn't have to read anything about the

Re: Procmail recipe.

1997-03-02 Thread csmall
. If it is a bug, I'll put a bug in for it. The procmailrc file looks like PATH=/bin:/usr/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail DEFAULT=/usr/spool/mail/csmall LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from :0: * ^X-Mailing-List: .*debian-user.* $MAILDIR/deb - Craig -- // /\ | | | Craig Small VK2XLZ @home: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ldp and samba

1997-02-23 Thread csmall
Remco van de Meent typed: At 10:16 21-2-97 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remco van de Meent typed: Anybody any idea how to config smb.conf and lpd.*/printcap for adding printer services to samba? I assume this means it is not working? This is strange as I just used the default parameter

Re: ldp and samba

1997-02-21 Thread csmall
Remco van de Meent typed: Anybody any idea how to config smb.conf and lpd.*/printcap for adding printer services to samba? I assume this means it is not working? This is strange as I just used the default parameter and it worked fine. What's happening/not happening, what does the logs say?

Re: Smail and slip dialup (2nd request)

1997-02-20 Thread csmall
Brian Skreeg typed: I'm trying to setup smail the operate over my dial-up slip account. I installed smail (and it's dependants) using dselect and ran smailconfig. I chose option 1: Internet site sending and receiving mail using smtp : This seemed to me to almost setup smail correctly. It

Re: /usr/include/linux, /usr/include/asm, ...

1997-02-20 Thread csmall
Manoj Srivastava typed: Hi, I'll reverse the question: why are you using the links? The links are ignored anyway while compiling the kernel, so that's not it. However, you may totally confuse some other program (during compilation) that does not expect changes that are made in the

Re: missing/non-functional identd service?

1997-02-20 Thread csmall
Pete Templin typed: Hi there. I've been learning about PGP, and was in the process of taking a look at a few public keys, when I ran into a small stumbling block. You see, I was fingering [EMAIL PROTECTED] when I ran into a small obstacle: tcsh finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's wrong with Debian User List

1997-02-19 Thread csmall
Mikael Hallendal typed: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] Hi! I have a question. The same messages are dropping in over and over again. I've got the same messages for about 25 times now. I'm so glad someone else said that, I just thought I was going mad over getting

Re: Linux - Win NT 4.0 with Samba

1997-02-18 Thread csmall
Daniel Stringfield typed: I'm having a problem. Not a big one, just annoying. I'm running the Samba server to export my home directory to my Windows NT 4.0 workstation. I'm having problems when it comes up for my password. It's not accepting the password the first time, when I attach it as