Re: Undefined reference to '...'

1997-09-05 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Gonzalo A. Diethelm wrote: On Sep 3, 1997, at 13:47, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: The trouble is that it doesn't recursively instantiate, ie if you use STL and put the line template class vectorint; In some .cc file to force instantiation then you will not

Re: Auto Responder

1997-09-05 Thread tko
Alex Yukhimets writes: Does anyone know where I can find or how I go about getting an Auto Responder on a Debian Linux Box? Some time ago I encountered the perlmail program. As comments in the code say, # To get the latest version, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED],containing # send

Re: Red Hat's Xconfigurator for Debian?

1997-09-05 Thread tko
Arthur Jerijian writes: Hi, I tried to install the XConfigurator and newt RPM packages from Red Hat onto Debian, using the alien program. I was able to start XConfigurator, but it was apparently looking for some Red Hat administrative files. Is there a version of XConfigurator for

Re: Date in mail headers

1997-09-05 Thread richard
Carey Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So it certainly looks like Orn needs to fix his mailer. RFC2047 is also applicable - it's responsible to the mangled addresses you see sometimes if you MUA isn't aware of the proposed standard. However, I don't think it should be applied to Date:

Re: Who knows stuff about WAN cards?

1997-09-05 Thread Amos Shapira
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: |Pete Templin wrote: | | | Hi there!! | | I'm doing some network consulting for a computer store, and we'd like to | connect the store LAN to the Internet through a 56k or T1 connection. If | possible, we'd like to save the expense of the router and

SVGA w/ Matrox Millenium ?

1997-09-05 Thread adavis
Tried DOSEMU debian package. Saw it on the menu of a windows manager (nice feature) and was highly surprized when it booted up. But when I tried to run a small graphics program, I got an out of memory message. Also, it is apparent that the failure of this video card w/ SVGA lib is affecting

Re: Printing Problems

1997-09-05 Thread Michael Tempsch
Installed lpr and aspfilter ... but when I try to print I get this message: 'waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)' I have tried /dev/lp0 through 4 and it still says that the printer isn't ready when it is. Could it be because I am going from the printer port to the zip drive to the

RE: Colors in the prompt like in slackware ?

1997-09-05 Thread George Bonser
Sure, you should be able to alias ls to ls --color=auto I do it like this in my .bashrc alias ls='ls --color=auto' On 04-Sep-97 Michael Jensen wrote: Hi ! Just wondering if it is possible to put some colors on the directory listings ... like there is in Slackware ? It sure makes it easyer

problems after installing 32Mb/S3Virge

1997-09-05 Thread Jan Ramon
Hi, My computer: -pentium166 -32MbRam -S3-Virge (3DVGA digimate) -adaptec2940scsi (sda,sdb=harddisks) -atapi cdrom -kernel 2.0.30 (not all packages are upgraded to debian 1.3.1, i think some are still 1.2 or 1.3) after i upgraded from 16Mb ram to 32Mb ram and therefor also replaced my

Re: [OFF TOPIC] was: Segfault in free()...C++

1997-09-05 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On Sep 4, 1997, at 09:10, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: Jeff Gunter: Wildly off topic, but a fun view into `commercial quality software', let me show you the output of CC under IRIX 64 with the following application: hw.cc:

Re: Why Debian?

1997-09-05 Thread Kai Grossjohann
On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Gonzalo A Diethelm said: Gonzalo [...]I very much like the idea of contributing to the free Gonzalo software idea, but I'd also like to get a functional, Gonzalo feature-loaded and maintainable system;[...] The package maintenance software has an unusual interface (ie

Re: WantWEB/Linux/IP Masquerading

1997-09-05 Thread Dave Cinege
On Fri, 05 Sep 1997 16:25:03 -0800, Adam Shand wrote: I'd stay away from sat until LEO stuff starts to come out.the latency is 500ms+ jumping out 33,000 miles. Yep... but from what I understand this is minimised by the two way connection. Commands (eg. FTP/HTTP 'get' commands) are sent

Re: problems after installing 32Mb/S3Virge

1997-09-05 Thread Lawrence
Then, it could be your 32Mb/S3Virge faulty. Jan Ramon wrote: Hi, My computer: -pentium166 -32MbRam -S3-Virge (3DVGA digimate) -adaptec2940scsi (sda,sdb=harddisks) -atapi cdrom -kernel 2.0.30 (not all packages are upgraded to debian 1.3.1, i think some are still 1.2 or 1.3) after

Debian over MS-DOS (UMSDOS distribution)

1997-09-05 Thread John Lines
Does anyone have experience of running Debian as a UMSDOS system - I have used a Slakware based system built on UMSDOS as a gentle introduction to Linux for people who dont like the idea of partitioning their hard disks, just to try Linux. They pull a big tar file off the network, and a copy of

Re: Colors in the prompt like in slackware ?

1997-09-05 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
To also have .gz and .tgz in read quite like in slackware, you may also try putting in /etc the file I send as attachment and in /etc/profile these lines: # set up the color-ls environment variables: if [ $SHELL = /bin/zsh ]; then eval `dircolors -z` elif [ $SHELL = /bin/ash ]; then

Re: Colors in the prompt like in slackware ?

1997-09-05 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
To also have .gz and .tgz in read In red of course, sorry ^ Nicola -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Server must be run as root

1997-09-05 Thread tko
Karsten Bolding writes: Hi Just installed a new machine and updated my old one, so same versions on both. When I try to start x (startx) as a normal user on the new machine I get: [snip] Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Server must be run as root When reporting a problem

problem with imapd/shadow

1997-09-05 Thread Davide Barbieri
Ciao, imapd on debian 1.3 seems to work only on system without shadow password. Looking in the sources I see that shadow password are not used. Am I wrong? How do you make imapd works with shadow passwords? ciao -- Davide Barbieri - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint =

Re: Auto Responder

1997-09-05 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Alex Yukhimets writes: Does anyone know where I can find or how I go about getting an Auto Responder on a Debian Linux Box? Some time ago I encountered the perlmail program. As comments in the code say, # To get the latest version, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED],containing

Re: [OFF TOPIC] was: Segfault in free()...C++

1997-09-05 Thread Alex Yukhimets
On Sep 4, 1997, at 09:10, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: Jeff Gunter: Wildly off topic, but a fun view into `commercial quality software', let me show you the output of CC under IRIX 64 with the following application: hw.cc:

Re: [OFF TOPIC] was: Segfault in free()...C++

1997-09-05 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
On Sep 5, 1997, at 10:16, E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) wrote: Well, remarks are just that: comments the compiler has regarding some non-standard, perhaps non-portable and not-so-secure assumptions you MAY have made in your code. You didn't look carefully enough, or you don't understand what

Re: problem with imapd/shadow

1997-09-05 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Davide Barbieri wrote: Ciao, imapd on debian 1.3 seems to work only on system without shadow password. Looking in the sources I see that shadow password are not used. Am I wrong? How do you make imapd works with shadow passwords? Which package are you using? The

Re: Auto Responder

1997-09-05 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
Alex Yukhimets wrote, :Well, may be I did not understand the original meaning, but I meant the :piece of software able to answer your e-mails automatically. : Check out vacation on the bsdmainutils pacakge. Just me, Wire ... -- Tan Wee Yeh [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Auto Responder

1997-09-05 Thread Keith Beattie
Be very carefull when using auto-responders when you have subscribed to a mailing list. Consider the following senerio: * A subscriber to a mailing list (call him Bill) sets up an auto-responder for his email and leaves for holiday. * The list Bill subscribes to sends out an email. * Bill's

Re: problems after installing 32Mb/S3Virge

1997-09-05 Thread Jan Ramon
On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote: Then, it could be your 32Mb/S3Virge faulty. any idea how i can check what's faulty? i first installed the 32Mb. result: - win95 dos box hangs - linux dos box has problems - X runs without problems then i installed the S3Virge that can

Re: Auto Responder

1997-09-05 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Be very carefull when using auto-responders when you have subscribed to a mailing list. Consider the following senerio: * A subscriber to a mailing list (call him Bill) sets up an auto-responder for his email and leaves for holiday. * The list Bill subscribes to sends out an email. *

Re: MPEG doesn't work from any gr browser; Netscape probs.

1997-09-05 Thread W Paul Mills
On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, James D. Freels wrote: On the recommendation of a colleague, I fixed the netscape-plugin problem by directly editing the netscape executable using emacs [just search for the error message]. This eliminates the need to use bash 2.01 which I could not install

Re: Date in mail headers

1997-09-05 Thread Orn E. Hansen
On 05-Sep-97 Buddha Buck wrote: [snip] Not really. The current -standard- for email transmission is RFC821 (also about 15 years old), and that explicitly states that SMTP is 7-bits only. ESTMP, MIME, and other standards-track protocols are designed to try to work around that problem, but

Re: Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Server must be run as root

1997-09-05 Thread Philippe Troin
On Fri, 05 Sep 1997 08:36:27 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karsten Bolding writes: When I try to start x (startx) as a normal user on the new machine I get: [snip] Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Server must be run as root Easily fixed. Go into /usr/X11R6/bin and 1)

Re: Colors in the prompt like in slackware ?

1997-09-05 Thread W Paul Mills
On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: To also have .gz and .tgz in read In red of course, sorry ^ Besides the --color=auto option also set your LS_COLORS environment variable - I use: export LS_COLORS=:*.gz=31\;1:*.zip=31\;1:*.c=35:*.h=36: SEE: man ls

Backup question

1997-09-05 Thread Shaleh
I am doing a sytem backup, other than /etc, /usr/local stuff, and /home or /root what else do I need to save?? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Debian over MS-DOS (UMSDOS distribution)

1997-09-05 Thread Joey Hess
John Lines wrote: Does anyone have experience of running Debian as a UMSDOS system I'm cc'ing this to a friend who runs 3 debian systems over top of umsdos. I wouldn't reccommend it, but if you have to do it, maybe he can help you. - I have used a Slakware based system built on UMSDOS as a

Re: Backup question

1997-09-05 Thread m*
Shaleh wrote: I am doing a sytem backup, other than /etc, /usr/local stuff, and /home or /root what else do I need to save?? i'm not sure what backup utility you are using, but BACKUP EVERYTHING the first time around! paranoid about whether evrerything gets backed up, m* -- The

Re: Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Server must be run as root

1997-09-05 Thread W Paul Mills
On Fri, 5 Sep 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karsten Bolding writes: Hi Just installed a new machine and updated my old one, so same versions on both. When I try to start x (startx) as a normal user on the new machine I get: [snip] Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole:

Re: Colors in the prompt like in slackware ?

1997-09-05 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
Ah... yes, I read `man ls` and I have the 'auto' option on, actually I have this alias: alias ls='ls --color=auto -F -T 0' instead of using the $LS_OPTIONS environment variable, which by the way was quite different in that old Slackware: --8bit --color=tty -F -T 0 so I _had_ to

Re: Backup question

1997-09-05 Thread Brandon Mitchell
the result of dpkg --get-selections and /var/spool/mail (especially if these are frequent backups and you don't place mail in the user's home directory). Brandon - Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage:

PSCOL

1997-09-05 Thread kestrel
is there a way using pscol to have it show processes that are running with a ? in the tty field to be in a different color? tried just using tty,? and get a core dump whenever I run ps -x and another flag, ps -x by itself just colors as root G'razel the shifty kitty ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Prompt in Bash

1997-09-05 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
A while ago, somebody in this forum posted how to make the current working directory appear on the title bar in an xterm. I lost that article somehow; could the author repost it? Thanks in advance... On Aug 22, 1997, at 22:44, Dave Cinege wrote: On Fri, 22 Aug 1997 12:32:35 -0300 (EST), Daniel

Re: Prompt in Bash

1997-09-05 Thread Rob Browning
Ask and ye shall receive : This is a cut-down version of my bashrc. It also shows a trick to get around the problem with some shells actually being login shells, but not calling .bash_login (i.e. X login shells). I just symlink my .bash_login to my .bashrc, and let .bashrc handle figuring out

Re: Prompt in Bash

1997-09-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Gonzalo A. Diethelm wrote: A while ago, somebody in this forum posted how to make the current working directory appear on the title bar in an xterm. I lost that article somehow; could the author repost it? Thanks in advance... Well, you should have RTFMpage, but here's the excerpt you

Quick eth question

1997-09-05 Thread Mike Patterson
Just a quickie question I can't find anywhere I have an ne2000 card that worked in 1.2.1... And I just moved to 1.3.1. in /var/log/messages I see the line: eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 9 but there is no /dev/eth0, and executing the command: MAKEDEV eth0 gives me: MAKEDEV:

Re: Printing Problems

1997-09-05 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
Ok, it was the zipdrive causing the non-printing .. but now another small problem has started ... I am getting the stair stepping now... This prints but stairsteps: lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :tf=/etc/filter.pcl:\

Re: Printing Problems

1997-09-05 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
Fixed my own problem ... replaced apsfilter with magicfilter and now it prints fine... go figure :\ On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote: Ok, it was the zipdrive causing the non-printing .. but now another small problem has started ... I am getting the stair stepping now... This

Re: Quick eth question

1997-09-05 Thread stick
Howdy Mike! Networking doesn't use devices in /dev. As Root try: ifconfig You'll see that the device is there and has the values shown in /var/log/messages. If that's the case, then everything should work. Give it a try and let us know what you find. Chuck Just a quickie question I

Re: Prompt in Bash

1997-09-05 Thread Lawrence
Is it possible to do it in tcsh? Rob Browning wrote: Ask and ye shall receive : This is a cut-down version of my bashrc. It also shows a trick to get around the problem with some shells actually being login shells, but not calling .bash_login (i.e. X login shells). I just symlink my

Re: Auto Responder

1997-09-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, If you use mailagent (which, unfortunately, is not for the faint of heart), then you can configure exactly how often the auto responder responds (one a day, once a week, once a month) per email address. You may auto respond to some people, and not to others. You can look at

Re: Quick eth question

1997-09-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Mike Patterson wrote: Just a quickie question I can't find anywhere I have an ne2000 card that worked in 1.2.1... And I just moved to 1.3.1. in /var/log/messages I see the line: eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 9 but there is no /dev/eth0, and executing the command: MAKEDEV

libc6 upgrade

1997-09-05 Thread kestrel
Im trying to upgrade to libc6 and following the howto, the problem Im getting is this: Shadow:~# dpkg -B --install libc6_2.0.4-1.deb dpkg: considering removing libc5 in favour of libc6 ... dpkg: no, debianutils is essential, will not deconfigure it in order to enable removal of libc5. dpkg:

Re: Prompt in Bash

1997-09-05 Thread Rob Browning
Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, you should have RTFMpage, but here's the excerpt you want: That seems a little over-harsh. a command. Bash allows these prompt strings to be cusĀ­ tomized by inserting a number of backslash-escaped special characters

Re: Prompt in Bash

1997-09-05 Thread Rob Browning
Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it possible to do it in tcsh? Good question. I've never used tcsh, but I would guess so. The key thing to note is this escape sequence which changes the titlebar: echo -n ]2;$* or with a fixed string for illustration: echo -n ]2;My new

Re: Quick eth question

1997-09-05 Thread Philippe Troin
On Fri, 05 Sep 1997 15:51:49 MDT Mike Patterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have an ne2000 card that worked in 1.2.1... And I just moved to 1.3.1. in /var/log/messages I see the line: eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 9 but there is no /dev/eth0, and executing the command:

Re: Prompt in Bash

1997-09-05 Thread Steve Witt
On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote: Is it possible to do it in tcsh? Yes, this is from the O'Reilly book Using csh tcsh. I use this at work on SunOS 4.1.4 running tcsh. There are two files involved, your .cshrc (or .tchsrc) and another little file ~/.settitle. = .cshrc ==

Console Fonts?

1997-09-05 Thread Victor Torrico
Hello All, Where is the information concerning how to change console fonts? I'm using SVGATextMode which works OK but I don't understand how to select font faces and font sizes to use with the various text modes. Regards, -- Victor Torrico -- Wildflower Hill, Head Waters,

Re: Building Debian Packages

1997-09-05 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Will Lowe wrote: [...] Things that probably ought to be included but aren't: Specific instructions on what to change in the control, rules, etc. files. This isn't very clear, and requires a lot of hacking around with source to figure out. While hacking is good for

Re: Date in mail headers

1997-09-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Orn == Orn E Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Orn On 04-Sep-97 Manoj Srivastava wrote: The RFC are all the rules that actually apply to the internet. And if we all start ignoring the rules, the cooperative process that is the internet (and, indeed, Linux itself is the product of a

Re: Date in mail headers

1997-09-05 Thread Buddha Buck
On 04-Sep-97 Manoj Srivastava wrote: The RFC are all the rules that actually apply to the internet. And if we all start ignoring the rules, the cooperative process that is the internet (and, indeed, Linux itself is the product of a similar cooperative process). The RFC

problems with makedepend and ctype.h

1997-09-05 Thread Chris R. Martin
whenever I try to makedepend on a file that #includes ctype.h I get the follow (very strange) error message: makedepend: warning: basechar.cxx: 13: # error architecture not supported by the Linux C library Huh? Has anyone else seen this? How can I solve this problem? I'm running Debian

Re: WantWEB/Linux/IP Masquerading

1997-09-05 Thread Adam Shand
I've been told that by using the miracles of IP masquerading, I can do this by purchasing a single connection for the server, and letting the remainder of the machines leach off it in some way. Yep this is very possible and not all that hard to do. If you don't already know about this sorta

How to duplicate BOOT disk?

1997-09-05 Thread Jimmy Lu
I use BOOT disk to boot up my system. Now I want to duplicate the BOOT disk as a backup but I am having problem. I tried to mount BOOT disk in fd0 but it won't mount. I use: mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt or mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt both cases won't

Re: How to duplicate BOOT disk?

1997-09-05 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Jimmy Lu wrote: I use BOOT disk to boot up my system. Now I want to duplicate the BOOT disk as a backup but I am having problem. I tried to mount BOOT disk in fd0 but it won't mount. I use: mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt or mount -t

Re: WantWEB/Linux/IP Masquerading

1997-09-05 Thread Dave Cinege
On Fri, 05 Sep 1997 14:49:37 -0800, Adam Shand wrote: I've been told that by using the miracles of IP masquerading, I can do this by purchasing a single connection for the server, and letting the remainder od the machines leach off it in some way. Yep this is very possible and not all that

Re: How to duplicate BOOT disk?

1997-09-05 Thread Dave Cinege
On Fri, 5 Sep 1997 05:33:42 +0200 (CEST), Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Jimmy Lu wrote: I use BOOT disk to boot up my system. Now I want to duplicate the BOOT disk as a backup but I am having problem. I tried to mount BOOT disk in fd0 but it won't mount. I use: mount -t ext2

Re: Undefined reference to '...'

1997-09-05 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
On Sep 3, 1997, at 13:47, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: I would like to point out that GCC doesn't explicitly instantiate too well when running with -fno-implicit-templates, which is what I would like to use in my sources.. That's a shame... Hopefully, egcs will do a better job. The trouble is

[OFF TOPIC] was: Segfault in free()...C++

1997-09-05 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
On Sep 4, 1997, at 09:10, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: Jeff Gunter: Wildly off topic, but a fun view into `commercial quality software', let me show you the output of CC under IRIX 64 with the following application: hw.cc:

Re: WantWEB/Linux/IP Masquerading

1997-09-05 Thread Adam Shand
I'd stay away from sat until LEO stuff starts to come out.the latency is 500ms+ jumping out 33,000 miles. Yep... but from what I understand this is minimised by the two way connection. Commands (eg. FTP/HTTP 'get' commands) are sent over the modem link so latency is less of an issue.

Printing Problems

1997-09-05 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
Installed lpr and aspfilter ... but when I try to print I get this message: 'waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)' I have tried /dev/lp0 through 4 and it still says that the printer isn't ready when it is. Could it be because I am going from the printer port to the zip drive to the

svgalib configuration?

1997-09-05 Thread Luka Pravica
Hi, does anyone knows how to configure svgalib with ATI Mach64 Rage II? I tried using vga mode but is is not working too, all I get is a blank screen. Thanks for any help. Luka -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to