Re: 1) Problem when installing cnews 2) Do I need it ?

1998-04-04 Thread Joey Hess
shaul wrote: I tried to install cnews at the first place becuase it is a pre requierment for NNTP. And the reason I want NNTP is becuase I want to be able to read (and post) news without the need for downloading large files from my ISP. Does NNTP a reasonble solution ? Are there better

Pioneer DRM-602X multi-CD player and AHA-2940AU with Debian 1.3.1?

1998-04-04 Thread Cleto Pescia
Hello, I'm trying to get a Multi-CD player Pioneer DRM-602X to work on a Debian 1.3.1 system (kernel 2.0.33 custom-compiled using make-kpkg) with an Adaptec 2940AU SCSI controller, but without luck... The various CD-ROM drives get different LUNs at boot-up, but then I get timeout errors while

Re: AOL's spam policy

1998-04-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 03:49:09PM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote: Hi, same spam to them, please leave it to the Debian Team to take appropriate action. The mail you receive from the list mailer is useless for AOL, as they can't verify the origin of the spam, because the list mailer places a

HP Deskjet 672C

1998-04-04 Thread Will Lowe
Anybody using this printer with linux? It claims to be PCL3 compliant, but I don't know if dvilj can convert from .dvi to pcl3... Will -- | [EMAIL

giflib3g PLEASE?

1998-04-04 Thread Christopher J. McNicholas
Can someone *please* tell me where to find giflib3g or a suitable replacement? several packages refer to it as a depend, and I can't find it or something that will provide it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Choosing a printer for Linux:

1998-04-04 Thread Liran Zvibel
Hello, I'm planing to buy a printer, and I don't know whether to choose Epson Stylus color 800 or HP LJ 4L. I know that the Epson has PS level 2 as an option, but the one at my store doesn't have it. Are there any other good printers to choose from? Does anybody have experience with those?

Re: Choosing a printer for Linux:

1998-04-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
I'm planing to buy a printer, and I don't know whether to choose Epson Stylus color 800 or HP LJ 4L. I know that the Epson has PS level 2 as an option, but the one at my store doesn't have it. Are there any other good printers to choose from? Does anybody have experience with

Re: Choosing a printer for Linux:

1998-04-04 Thread John Kloss
I have an HP LJ 6L which I'm very satisfied with. $400 or less for the machine (probably less now, sigh ... ). Used magicfilter to get it working with linux (took about 5 seconds to do, no configuring really). I do mostly postscript printing (latex to postscript using dvips, and ghostscript to

Debian, AOL and spam [igor@digicron.com: Re: META: Can we please restrict the list?]

1998-04-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Igor, I took the freedom to forward this to debian-user, mainly because I stated that the email adress is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (my fault, it is [EMAIL PROTECTED]). I think the information is interesting for the user list, too. Thank you, Marcus - Forwarded message from Igor Grobman [EMAIL

Re: mail in linux...

1998-04-04 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
First, the '_' character is illegal in host names. RFC 952 contains the requirements for hostnames: 1. A name (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string up to 24 characters drawn from the alphabet (A-Z), digits (0-9), minus sign (-), and period (.). Note that periods are only

Re: mail in linux...

1998-04-04 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Elliot) writes: SNIP the hostname, but won't let me get mail. I changed my computer name to mail.inxpress.net(my mail servers provider), and used fetchmail... I told it to send my root mail to my main user(alfor). When it downloaded it, it appeared to delete the

DPKG question.

1998-04-04 Thread hospedales
Is there a dpkg command to veryify the integrity of a package too make sure it downloaded okay? I skimmed through the manpage and documentation, but I didn't find anything like that. Thanks, Timothy -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03-Apr-98 Time:

dpkg error installing gcc

1998-04-04 Thread Christopher J. McNicholas
Help!! :-) when I try to dpkg --install gcc.deb, I get the following error message: trying to overwrite ' /usr/bin/g++ ', which is also in package g++ dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) what do I do now?! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Installing Debian Linux..

1998-04-04 Thread Brandon
Could someone tell me what the base1 3.tgz is for and what the base.bin files are for... i am just kinda getting into linux and wanted to know... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HP Deskjet 672C

1998-04-04 Thread Matt Thompson
Hi, Will, This printer is exactly the same as the HP 660 repackaged with a different model number (I know this for a fact because I work for Mac/PC Zone :) ). Make sure to install the gs or gs-alladin and magicfilter packages and choose the 'dj550c' filter when prompted. I have a 660Cse and

Re: Choosing a printer for Linux:

1998-04-04 Thread Matt Thompson
Hello Liran, I believe the PS L2 option for the Epson 800 is a software option that is proprietary for either windoze or mac. Ciao, Matt On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: Hello, I'm planing to buy a printer, and I don't know whether to choose Epson Stylus color 800 or HP LJ 4L. I know

Re: HP Deskjet 672C

1998-04-04 Thread Rick Macdonald
Matt Thompson wrote: This printer is exactly the same as the HP 660 repackaged with a different model number (I know this for a fact because I work for Mac/PC Zone :) ). Make sure to install the gs or gs-alladin and magicfilter packages and choose the 'dj550c' filter when prompted. Matt - I

xdm, lesstif problems

1998-04-04 Thread Matt Thompson
Ok, I'm running full hamm, and just updated (about 20mb worth). Now xdm won't work at all, even with the /etc/init.d/xdm start command as root (I have the same xdm file in /etc/init.d I had before). And, when I do 'startx', it uses mwm instead of AfterStep, which I have called as the last line

Using sendmail for outgoing mail to ISP

1998-04-04 Thread Pierre Sarrazin
How can I configure sendmail under Debian 1.3 so that it can send my outgoing mail to my ISP on demand (when I have established a PPP link with my modem)? I wanted to configure /etc/smail/routers myself but I did not find the information I was looking for in the smailconf(5) manpage nor in the

Re: HP Deskjet 672C

1998-04-04 Thread Matt Thompson
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Rick Macdonald wrote: Matt Thompson wrote: This printer is exactly the same as the HP 660 repackaged with a different model number (I know this for a fact because I work for Mac/PC Zone :) ). Make sure to install the gs or gs-alladin and magicfilter packages and

Re: Choosing a printer for Linux:

1998-04-04 Thread Anthony Fok
On Sat, Apr 04, 1998 at 04:06:13AM +0300, Liran Zvibel wrote: Hello, I'm planing to buy a printer, and I don't know whether to choose Epson Stylus color 800 or HP LJ 4L. I know that the Epson has PS level 2 as an option, but the one at my store doesn't have it. Are there any other good

Re: giflib3g PLEASE?

1998-04-04 Thread Jim Pick
Christopher J. McNicholas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can someone *please* tell me where to find giflib3g or a suitable replacement? several packages refer to it as a depend, and I can't find it or something that will provide it. The source for it is in project/orphaned - so you'll need to

grep problems hamm

1998-04-04 Thread kevina
I first want to say that I am very pleased with the hamm release. It had a latest version of everything that I needed with no need to put any programs in usr/local thanks. However... I am having a problem with grep. I can't get it to output ANYTHING! No matter what I try it just returns to me

Re: No subject given

1998-04-04 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Gnoh, Chee Seng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, When I install Debian packages (from diskette) using dselect, I am asked for the packages.gz. Where can I get this file? If you want to install single packages you should use the dpkg -i filename_of_the_package.deb command. Dselect

Re: Correct directory permissions list?

1998-04-04 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, Somehow several directories on my 1.3.1 system have had their permissions changed. So far I have found /tmp and /var/spool. Is there some list somewhere that lists all the default permissions of these directories? Maybe a file in /etc or something? I

frozen grep

1998-04-04 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
Hello! I installed grep_2.1-6 and /etc/init.d/xdm didn't work until downgrade to 2.1-4. It seems grep -q ^start-xdm /etc/X11/config doesn't work more with grep_2.1-6. Where is the problem and how to fix it? -- Alexey Vyskubov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: pstree in fvwm* menus

1998-04-04 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 09:00:33AM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote: (..) However, it is possible that the pstree will be longer then the number of lines in an xterm of default size (24 lines). What then? We can always increase the size of the xterm but that wouldn't be a solution since there is

Re: disk partition problem

1998-04-04 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, May 03, 1998 at 09:21:28PM -0500, Chris wrote: Hello. I have been reading about Debian, and I am eager to try it out. However, I seem to have a problem that I have not found an answer for yet, even after searching through all of the FAQ's and help documents I could find. The

Re: frozen grep

1998-04-04 Thread Stefan Ratschan
AV == Alexey Vyskubov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AV Hello! I installed grep_2.1-6 and /etc/init.d/xdm didn't work until downgrade to AV 2.1-4. Have the same problem, but don't have the package to downgrade. Can anybody give me a hint where I can find the old version of grep

Re: frozen grep

1998-04-04 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sat, Apr 04, 1998 at 12:25:38PM +0200, Stefan Ratschan wrote: AV == Alexey Vyskubov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AV Hello! I installed grep_2.1-6 and /etc/init.d/xdm didn't work until downgrade to AV 2.1-4. Have the same problem, but don't have the package to downgrade. Can

Re: Installing Debian Linux..

1998-04-04 Thread David R Baker
Brandon wrote: Could someone tell me what the base1 3.tgz is for and what the base.bin files are for... i am just kinda getting into linux and wanted to know... Hi, The 5 base-?.bin files are for writing to floppies. They contain the base system which has enough utilities to install the

Re: xdm, lesstif problems

1998-04-04 Thread jdassen
On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 09:56:27PM -0800, Matt Thompson wrote: I also got these errors regarding lesstif: [prerm failure] Can you please tell me what version of grep you have installed. I'm still not sure if this is a lesstif problem or a result of grep-2.1-6 being broken. TIA, Ray -- ART A

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

1998-04-04 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Nick Busigin wrote: On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, [iso-8859-1] Marcelo E. Magallón wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: Cant help jumping in, is there an easy way to add/subtract times from the output of date??? Or do you mean that the time-stamp file

Hamm compile errors.

1998-04-04 Thread ninjaz
Since getting hamm updates today, nothing wants to compile.. everything ends up with a few pages of errors after hitting the first file. Are there any fixes out for this? libg++27-dev was not initially installed, but I tried plugging it in to see if it would make a difference, to no avail.

Re: x is dead - non-free

1998-04-04 Thread Tristan Day
After loads of problems with LSL ( after 2 weeks they wrote back to me saying my credit card was out of date because 1/10/98 in England means 1st October and over in America it's 10th Jan, and I wrote back correcting them but they said that I have to use another card) I am facing a real dilemma

KDElibs vs qt1 and libgif2

1998-04-04 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, I'm trying to install KDE Beta3 but when I try kdelibs a get the following message: - cut here --- (Reading database ... 16596 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace kdelibs Beta3-1 (using kdelibs-Beta3-1.i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement kdelibs ...

Re: Hamm compile errors.

1998-04-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Apr 04, 1998 at 06:07:23AM -0700, ninjaz wrote: The lines it are complaining about are: 90 typedef int bool; 91 #ifdef __cplusplus 92 const bool false = 0; 93 const bool true = 1; 94 #else This is evil; there is a built in bool type with the new g++ and

Re: KDElibs vs qt1 and libgif2

1998-04-04 Thread Randy Edwards
Has someone already installed KDE Beta3 ? Nuno, where did you find this new KDE beta? I'm running hamm and the latest I've seen at ftp.debian.org is packages requiring Beta2-2. Either way, to answer your questions, the hamm KDE package has dependency problems which make it not function (at

Re: x is dead - non-free

1998-04-04 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Tristan Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After loads of problems with LSL ( after 2 weeks they wrote back to me saying my credit card was out of date because 1/10/98 in England means 1st October and over in America it's 10th Jan, and I wrote back correcting them but they said that I have to use

pgp

1998-04-04 Thread Chris
Hi all I notice alot of you use pgp signed messages. I would like to set this up myself (just for the hell of it) - but to be honest I can't figure out how. I tried to install the package pinepgp from my local debain mirror, but it complains that it can't find the package pgp. Any ideas

Re: pgp

1998-04-04 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Chris wrote: I tried to install the package pinepgp from my local debain mirror, but it complains that it can't find the package pgp. Any ideas how I can set this stuff up? You need to download the pgp package which is in a non-US based distribution. Go to

Re: x is dead - non-free

1998-04-04 Thread john
I am facing a real dilemma with Distribution disks. If X becomes non-free, there will be no point buying a Debian distribution CD if I am correct?? I mean, if X isn't on there, I'll have to dnld everything anyway, or buy Red Hat ?? It is the *next* release of X that will be non-free. The

AOL and spam suggestion

1998-04-04 Thread M.C. Bezemer
Hi! Just in case you didn't yet notice, it seems that the spam mail on the debian-user list is coming from only ONE sender. I'm not saying this really is true, but examining all headers of the spam mail, I noticed that the following line: X-Mailer: AOL 2.5 for Windows sub 2 (by the way, isn't

[ppp] Many Protocol-Rejects

1998-04-04 Thread Steve Kostecke
I'm getting alot of Protocol-Reject entries in syslog. What would cause this? pppd 2.3.3 (hamm/frozen) Apr 4 11:40:37 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x8a6c Apr 4 11:40:37 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x4c1 Apr 4 11:41:37 stasis

database server/debian stability

1998-04-04 Thread Alain Toussaint
the good address for postgreSQL is http://www.postgresql.org/ it's not a comercial organisation. Alain Take a look at postgresql.. You can find it on the web at www.postgresql.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: swapFILE vs swapDISK ??

1998-04-04 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 01:33:24PM -0500, Nebu John Mathai wrote: Is there any performance loss to making swapfiles (large ones), as opposed to having a static swap partition? Will it (this may sound silly, but my hard drive is old too ... 1993) increase the wear and tear on my hard drive?

Re: HP Deskjet 672C

1998-04-04 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 10:40:55PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: Matt Thompson wrote: This printer is exactly the same as the HP 660 repackaged with a different model number (I know this for a fact because I work for Mac/PC Zone :) ). Make sure to install the gs or gs-alladin and

Re: mail in linux...

1998-04-04 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 07:25:12PM -0600, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: First, the '_' character is illegal in host names. RFC 952 contains the requirements for hostnames: 1. A name (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string up to 24 characters drawn from the alphabet (A-Z),

aic7xxx + IBM DCAS 4.3GB = LI

1998-04-04 Thread Michael Agbaglo
before changing boot=/dev/sda1 to boot=/dev/sda I got 1FA: instead of LILO. Now I'm getting LI - I've had Suse on the system and no problems at boot. I don't want to re-install Suse again just to get this problem solved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: [ppp] Many Protocol-Rejects

1998-04-04 Thread Florian Attenberger
On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Steve Kostecke wrote: I'm getting alot of Protocol-Reject entries in syslog. What would cause this? pppd 2.3.3 (hamm/frozen) Apr 4 11:40:37 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x8a6c Apr 4 11:40:37 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for

help with SCSI warnings

1998-04-04 Thread John Szumowski
Whenever I use (i.e. install a package or use find- some read intensive task) my SCSI cdrom, I get the message Warning: Running low on SCSI on SCSI DMA buffers Whenever I use (i.e. install a package or use find- some read intensive task) my SCSI cdrom, I get the message Warning: Running low on

pgp

1998-04-04 Thread Chris
This is probably off the topic, but I was wondering what the difference is between the international and America only versions of pgp are? Which is better? Why? (Not that I am allowed to use the america only version - I'm just interested in why there is a difference) Thanks for any info,

[Offtopic: Java Mode broken in Xemacs20?]

1998-04-04 Thread hospedales
Hi. I just installed xemacs20 (I had xemacs19 before). Previously I did Tools-VC-RegisterFile-FileName.java, and it would do syntax highlighting and allow me to use indentation and stuff. Now when I try that, it says Searching for program: No such file or directory, admin. Any idea on how to

Problems with symlinks and moving /usr to another partition

1998-04-04 Thread Kiyan Azarbar
I have two (non-swap) ext2fs partitions, /dev/hda8 and hda9. I had hda9 mounted on /rep. The thing is, I've been running out of space so I decided to move /usr to the new partition. What I did is do a cd / cp -av usr rep Which resulted in a /rep/usr directory being created. Then I did cd / rm

Re: x is dead - non-free

1998-04-04 Thread Gary Kline
The news about X11 is among the more disturbing items I've heard in this realm--the unix-paradigm world. An X-guru coworker mentioned this possibility to me a few months ago but I never thought that corporate greed would sink to this depth.

libXmu.so.6 error?

1998-04-04 Thread Christopher J. McNicholas
After I installed xlib6g, I get an error trying to startx: can't load library libXmu.so.6 I reinstalled X332lib.tgz, but still no good. I peeked in the lib directory and found these: libXmu.a libXmu.so libXmu.so.6 libXmu.so.6.0 What should I do to fix X? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Starting X-Windows 8bpp

1998-04-04 Thread John Wingfield
Can anyone tell me how to start X-Windows at greater than 8bpp. I am using XFree86 and using an X Server which is capable of this. Thanks -- John Wingfield Committee Member Website Manager British Double Reed Society [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bdrs.demon.co.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: x is dead - non-free

1998-04-04 Thread john
I wrote: It is the *next* release of X that will be non-free. The present release will remain free and remain available, and XFree86 will continue to maintain and support it. George Bonser writes: Stop! Stop what? XFree will ALWAYS be free. Yes, of course it will. 'X', however, refers

Re: Starting X-Windows 8bpp

1998-04-04 Thread Shaleh
Take a glance at xinit or startx's man page. It boils down to a -bpp option. -- --- How can you see, when your mind is not open? How can you think, when your eyes are closed? - Jason Bonham Band, Ordinary Black and White

backspace key under X in vim

1998-04-04 Thread Stuart Marshall
Hi, There have been previous discussions on this topic but I never quite understood them. As near as I can tell, an out of the box hamm/frozen system has the backspace key configured differently than it was in Debian 1.3. The particular example that concerns me most is under the application

I need hellp installing debian....

1998-04-04 Thread Brandon
i got my diskettes (rawimage files) wrote to disk and i goto install base it says unable to extract i redownload and got a fresh diskette out of my newly bought box of disks and it says it still unable to extract..If it helps i am using packerd bell legend supreme with win95 and a 56k modem a

Re: I need hellp installing debian....

1998-04-04 Thread aqy6633
i got my diskettes (rawimage files) wrote to disk and i goto install base it says unable to extract i redownload and got a fresh diskette out of my newly bought box of disks and it says it still unable to extract..If it helps i am using packerd bell legend supreme with win95 and a 56k