Re: Mensajes de error del kernel...

1998-04-21 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez
Ignacio Más Ivars writes: Hola a todos: Necesito ayuda para descubrir porqué al arrancar el sistema el kernel me da los siguientes mensajes de error: SIOCSIFADDR: no such device (o algo así...) SIOCSINETMASK: no such device. SIOCSI no me acuerdo del tercero...

Re: Dos cuestiones (monitor y t. video)

1998-04-21 Thread Agustin Martin Domingo
J. Parera wrote: Empiezo: 1. Tengo un monitor IBM G50 del cual necesito los datos necesarios para configurar las x-window (del modo que sea, editando el xf86config, con XF6Setup, etc), pero no tengo los conocimientos necesarios para hacerlo. No sé inglés :( Me temo que entonces necesitarás

Re: Communicator 4.04

1998-04-21 Thread Agustin Martin Domingo
Juan Carlos Muro wrote: PD1: De paso decidme tb si se puede cambiar el editor por defecto del elm para que no sea el vi y que sea por ejemplo el joe. No se con elm. Con otros programas basta incluir en el profile un valor para la variable de entorno EDITOR, p.ej. export EDITOR=joe --

Re: Mensajes de error del kernel...

1998-04-21 Thread Ignacio Más Ivars
Necesito ayuda para descubrir porqué al arrancar el sistema el kernel me da los siguientes mensajes de error: SIOCSIFADDR: no such device (o algo así...) SIOCSINETMASK: no such device. SIOCSI no me acuerdo del tercero... La cuestión es que llevo detrás de ello varios días

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 a

Donde estoy!!!!

1998-04-21 Thread Estuardo Rivera
Primeramente gracias a todos por su ayuda que paso a paso esto caminando con linux. Mi pregunta es la siguente hay alguna forma de saber donde estoy en el hard drive o mas bien asi por ejemplo doy un cd /dev/cdrom yo se que estoy en cdrom pero hay alguna forma que mi prompt me lo indique

Re: Donde estoy!!!!

1998-04-21 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez
Siempre puedes usar el comando pwd. Si usas bash (por defecto, en Debian, es así), has de poner una variable PS1 adecuada. Por ejemplo, en tu fichero .profile ($HOME/.profile) puedes poner: PS1=\h(\u)-\W Y tu prompt será del siguiente tipo: hola(jgb)-/etc (donde

Re: dselect trouble

1998-04-21 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez
Angel Martin Alganza writes: Hola a todos, Al intentar instalar un paquete con dselect el bicho me dice: Could not find state file (re-run Access method) at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/install line 28. Ni idea de qué te habrá pasado exactamente. Nunca he visto ese mensaje

Re: dselect trouble

1998-04-21 Thread Angel Martin Alganza
At 19:57 4/21/98 +0200, you wrote: Ni idea de qué te habrá pasado exactamente. Nunca he visto ese mensaje con dselect. Pero simplemente traduciendo del inglés, parece que has de volver a la opción Access, y elegir un método de acceso al sitio donde esté la distribución de Debian que

No hay manera con las x's (archivos que faltan)

1998-04-21 Thread J. Parera
Lamento el error al enviar el mensaje anterior, corregiendo lo anterior aqui les posteo los archivos. Nuevamente grácias, J. Parera -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Archivos que faltan

1998-04-21 Thread J. Parera
ahora si :) SuperProbe Version 2.14 (20 May 1997) (c) Copyright 1993,1994 by David Wexelblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] This work is derived from the 'vgadoc2.zip' and 'vgadoc3.zip' documentation packages produced by Finn Thoegersen, and released with all appropriate

Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?

1998-04-21 Thread tko
Paul Miller writes: [snip] hmm... I have 64 megs of EDO RAM and two ~104 meg swap paritions and Linux rarely touches them, and even if it does, it only uses less than 10 megs.. Has Linux decided my 6-year old, 208 meg drive is too slow? NO, Linux does not care. You have to determine if that

X11 setup

1998-04-21 Thread Larry Panzer
I am a Linux novice attempting to set up X11R6 on my 486 system. I had proceded to the mouse set up at one point using the graphical set up program but (due to a little stupidity) my computer locked up and I had to shut it off with out properly exiting Linux. Since it was the first install I

autoup.sh v0.24 released (was Re: autoup.sh bug)

1998-04-21 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 07:15:23PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: I did a bo--hamm upgrade over the weekend using your autoup.sh: $Id: autoup.sh,v 0.23 1998/03/26 15:31:10 root Exp root $ and got this when it got to installing dpkg: dpkg: regarding .../base/dpkg_1.4.0.22.deb

Linux as a eMail/Internet server.

1998-04-21 Thread Alistair Phillips
Hi there fellow Linux fans (Debian and the like!) About 6 months ago I stumbled upon the greatest find of my life. Someone had told me about a wonderful OS that multitasked great, handled 100's of users, had very little requiremets and was a all round OS for anyone. So, I downloaded Debain GNU

Re: PINE Debian Package

1998-04-21 Thread robert havoc pennington
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote: No, I think someone is taking the politics of free software to an extreme. It looks like someone in Debian decided that their patches to configure it resulted in a derivative work and since pine does not allow derivative works to be called pine, it

Re: autoup.sh v0.25 released

1998-04-21 Thread Craig Sanders
BTW, i've also made some changes to my http://debian.vicnet.net.au/autoup site. 1. updated autoup.tar.gz to have the latest versions of all the needed packages. 2. made it accessible as ftp://debian.vicnet.net.au/autoup (some people requested this) 3. made a debfiles/ directory

Re: PINE Debian Package

1998-04-21 Thread Mike Miller
George == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, I think someone is taking the politics of free software to an extreme. It looks like someone in Debian decided that their patches to configure it resulted in a derivative work and since pine does not allow derivative

Re: autoup.sh v0.25 released

1998-04-21 Thread Craig Sanders
I've just released version 0.24 which fixes this (and a few minor problems too). v0.24: 1998-04-21 (Craig Sanders) - added libstdc++, libslang0.99.34 (libc5), libslang0.99.38 (libc6), netbase, and netstd to the list of packages to install. - changed 'unstable' to 'frozen' in various

Re-compiling Kernel error

1998-04-21 Thread Jim Crumley
I am trying to recompile my kernel in order to get sound and I am getting a strange error. I ran make xxconfig aand then make-kpkg andd then I get these errors: ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x10 -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o init/main.o init/version.o \ arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o

Re: Re-compiling Kernel error

1998-04-21 Thread Jim Crumley
I am trying to recompile my kernel in order to get sound and I am getting a strange error. I ran make xxconfig aand then make-kpkg andd then I get these errors: snip Sorry to reply to my own message, but I forgot to mention that I am running a bo system. Let me if there is any other useful

emacs

1998-04-21 Thread David B Wilson
I realize this isn't specifically a Debian question -- but which versions of emacs have postscript-mode? Also, I have a large .el file that works great under emacs 19, but not under emacs 20. Should I expect to be able to port it so that it works under both versions, or just focus on emacs 20?

RE: Linux as a eMail/Internet server.

1998-04-21 Thread Scott D. Killen
Alistair, I setup Linux at my home to give my wife and I access to the internet using only one dialup line. We both run Windows 95 and we have [almost] seamless internet access. When we need an Internet connection, the Internet is dialed and PPP is automagically connected. :) Here is how it's

Re: Re-compiling Kernel error

1998-04-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
Any ideas on what is wrong? You need to install the bin86 package, which contains the as86 program. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

laptop install help

1998-04-21 Thread Michael Stutz
I'm installing 1.3.1 from floppy to a Toshiba Satellite Pro 400CS, and am having some trouble. The actual install went fine, up until the end where you get dropped in dselect. I installed the dpkg-ftp package (and all its dependencies, like Perl), but can't get my modem to work. (Since the

Re: emacs

1998-04-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
I realize this isn't specifically a Debian question -- but which versions of emacs have postscript-mode? AFAIK no version of Emacs come with a builtin postscript-mode. I think you will have to look for one as a third-party package. Also, I have a large .el file that works great under

Re: emacs

1998-04-21 Thread David Z. Maze
Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BP AFAIK no version of Emacs come with a builtin postscript-mode. I BP think you will have to look for one as a third-party package. The Debian xemacs20-* packages have one. -- _ / \ Dad was

Re: Zen and the art of working with NT

1998-04-21 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: I have a linux machine here which is low on hard disk space my idea was to mount my Windows NT home directory here at work and use it for extra space (I can up my spcae by 2 gigs that way) o far I have mounted my home drive \\home5\sjc8$ on

Xdm

1998-04-21 Thread Michael Beattie
I've just started having a look at Xdm, and have decided I would like to use it if I can do two things. 1) How do you add another display (:1), I had a look at the Xservers file, and added a new line, but it died... 2) Can it be made to start in the background, so that on boot up, The first

Re: laptop install help

1998-04-21 Thread Asher Haig
I've got a Megahertz PCMCIA 14.4 fax/modem card that was recognized as com2 by the win311 software that came with the laptop. There were no cua? devices in /dev so I made cua0 and cua1 using the MAKEDEV script, made a /dev/modem symlink from cua1, but the pon command still dies on me. You may

Re: Xdm

1998-04-21 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: I've just started having a look at Xdm, and have decided I would like to use it if I can do two things. 1) How do you add another display (:1), I had a look at the Xservers file, and added a new line, but it died... In the latest xbase package,

I now HAVE PINE Debian package.. how do I install it?

1998-04-21 Thread Kenneth F. Ryder III
What a interesting thread my PINE question created... OK I have found a Debian package for pine, pine3.96L-2 the file is pine_3_9.deb its located on the root of /dev/hda7 , a MSDOS partition on my drive, which is not mounted by default, so if I use it in Linux I need to mount it. I want to

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-21 Thread Stephen Carpenter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I know in fact xfstt is on the list of Packages needing a new main tainer I know this list is not really the proper place for this but... since it needs a new maintainer...I am wondering what is involved in that I have been thinking for a while that I would

Re: I now HAVE PINE Debian package.. how do I install it?

1998-04-21 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Kenneth F. Ryder III wrote: What a interesting thread my PINE question created... OK I have found a Debian package for pine, pine3.96L-2 the file is pine_3_9.deb its located on the root of /dev/hda7 , a MSDOS partition on my drive, which is not mounted by default,

Re: laptop install help

1998-04-21 Thread Michael Stutz
I've got a Megahertz PCMCIA 14.4 fax/modem card that was recognized as com2 by the win311 software that came with the laptop. There were no cua? devices in /dev so I made cua0 and cua1 using the MAKEDEV script, made a /dev/modem symlink from cua1, but the pon command still dies on me. I

Re: Running XDVI from netscape

1998-04-21 Thread King Lee
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Egon Schmid wrote: The problem is definitly bash 2.0. Try a real shell. This was an answer from a netscape person (name forgotten but can be found in the emacs manual) -Egon I linked sh to ash, but then another script with #!/bin/sh on first line broke. I took

Re: Running XDVI from netscape

1998-04-21 Thread Fernando Tadeu Caldeira Brandt
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 07:51:10 -0500 (EST) From: John Kloss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Fredrik Ax [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Fernando Tadeu C Brandt [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian User Mailing List debian-user@lists.debian.org

inconsistent X security?

1998-04-21 Thread pgarcia
I'm currently not using xdm; I'm using startx to start X. When I don't have an .xserverrc file, X uses magic cookies. When I do have one (that simply says X -bpp 24), the security is completely disabled. What gives? How do I use an .xserverrc file without losing my security? Thanks, Phil

Re: Re-compiling Kernel error

1998-04-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, You need bin86. This is mentioned in the README that comes with kernel-package, the README that comes with kernel-source-*, the extended description of the kernel-source package (which is seen in dselect), the extended description of the kernel-package package. I guess I

weird utmp/perl problem

1998-04-21 Thread B. Bell
Okay, I've got a strange problem here. I'm trying to build a .deb, using the devscripts tools and dpkg-dev... I get a utmp error when I try to build: $ build no utmp entry available, using value of LOGNAME (brad) at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 16. okay, not a disaster, there, but

Telnet Proxy anyone?

1998-04-21 Thread Richard L Shepherd
Has anyone heard of a telnet-proxy package (especially for linux and Debian of course)? We have some people who have (and want to keep) their subnet blocked for offsite access (so they do all their WWW browsing via a WWWcache which can then be billed for). I was wondering if there is something

Re: MP3 encoding

1998-04-21 Thread Chris
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Corey Miller wrote: Does anyone know of any good mp3 encoding programs for linux? Thanks, Corey Miller look for l3enc (I think it is in the hamm distribution) Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is

1998-04-21 Thread tko
DAVID B. TEAGUE writes: [snip] HEAR HEAR! This is not inappropriate discussion for the Deb User list. I too play double bass myself (or bass violin as Professor Murray Grodner called it, and the folk who succeeded Professor Grodner and his wife at Lemur Music call it as well.)

stuck with only 1 xterm in X

1998-04-21 Thread Alain Toussaint
does anyone know how to open several xterm in X,i'd like to run more commands/program in X but dont know how (i tried to open another xterm from the first one but then,i could not use the first xterm since the where no longer any prompt) also, how do i start X when booting my computer,it's well

Re: Xdm

1998-04-21 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: I've just started having a look at Xdm, and have decided I would like to use it if I can do two things. 1) How do you add another display (:1), I had a look at the Xservers file, and added a new

KDE Problem

1998-04-21 Thread Oz Dror
I have installed the latest version of kde from hamm when I type kde I get the following error: kde: error in loading shared libraries /usr/X11R6/lib/libkdecore.so.0: undefined symbol: __ti8QListBox It is clear that one of the libraries that I am using is not up to date can anyone tell which?

Hamm FAT 32

1998-04-21 Thread Jesus Duran
Greetings all, just a quick question..does hamm have built-in support to read FAT-32 Partitions Regards, jd? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X11 setup

1998-04-21 Thread Alain Toussaint
Xlib5 setup in deselect ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (no such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (no such file or directory), skipping it did that when i installed a second time debian 1.3.1 (and basically

Re: Zen and the art of working with NT

1998-04-21 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hallo erstmal! Stephen Carpenter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): create a second extended filesystem in a file on the NT home dir and then mount that filesystem (I need a filesystem that will hole my some time ago I tried the same, and somebody told me loop support doesn't work with any remote FS.

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-21 Thread Petra Kevin J Poorman
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: I was told that XFSTT had a new maintainer when I asked to adopt it... so I guess we are both to late. MUCH SNIPED -K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Changing xterm titles to something more usefull than 'xterm'

1998-04-21 Thread Mike Brownlow
this one has a color prompt.. :) heh. cewl. I'm using yours now. :) I noticed mine was really dumb because it executes all of those programs every time a new prompt is issued. I guess the first two should have been pointed toward env variables. Still, I like yours better. :) As for the current

Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?

1998-04-21 Thread Lorens Kockum
In debian-user Thomas Kocourek wrote: Paul Miller writes: I have a 6.4 WD UDMA drive installed now, maybe I should try it out. Is it worth it? BTW- the hdparm -t values for those IDE drives are approximately 1.05 megs/sec, 3.27 megs/sec, 8.51 megs/sec, respectively. Yep, those are about

Re: stuck with only 1 xterm in X

1998-04-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Firstly, you could try starting the second xterm inside the first one like so: % xterm See the `' symbol? That send the xterm launched into the background, and returns your command prompt on the first xterm. Voila! tow command prompts ;-) Secondly, you should look into

IDE CD writer

1998-04-21 Thread XRD Lab
I am running Debian bo (1.3). We have recently purchased a HP cd writer (Model 7100i, IDE interface). The cd-writer howto and other related docs talk of burning cd's, etc all give pointers to scsi drives. Can somebody point me to or assist me in writing a cd through the ide interface drive?

Using the same database on Linux and NT

1998-04-21 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, I use postgresql on linux and my colleage and our office uses NT. Is it possible make a postgresql-database available to the other two computers which does not operate on linux? Which will be the best way to do it? All three computers do have modems. Johann.

Re: Hamm FAT 32

1998-04-21 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 01:30:47AM -0500, Jesus Duran wrote: just a quick question..does hamm have built-in support to read FAT-32 Partitions The FAT-32 situation for hamm, AFAICT is: - A patched FIPS (fips15c) with support for resizing FAT32 partitions is available in the tools

Re: stuck with only 1 xterm in X

1998-04-21 Thread Alain Toussaint
Hi, Firstly, you could try starting the second xterm inside the first one like so: % xterm See the `' symbol? That send the xterm launched into the background, and returns your command prompt on the first xterm. Voila! tow command prompts ;-) i'll do it a try right now.

Re: IDE CD writer

1998-04-21 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, XRD Lab wrote: I am running Debian bo (1.3). We have recently purchased a HP cd writer (Model 7100i, IDE interface). I just can say that one friend uses this (or 7200) happily under Linux indeed he never uses it under Win95 or NT

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-21 Thread C.J.LAWSON
I didn't know it, and I don't care. To me, this is worthless information. This is not valuable information about debian or is it? I happen to have some very valuable information on how to play the classical guitar. Would you like me to post that to debian-user? The internet is full

Re: Super.tab syntax

1998-04-21 Thread C.L.Daugaard
On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 08:32:56AM -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, C.L.Daugaard wrote: On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 09:29:33PM -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote: I still get bash: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward: Permission denied I don't use super, but it's

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-21 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Petra Kevin J Poorman wrote: On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: I was told that XFSTT had a new maintainer when I asked to adopt it... so I guess we are both to late. Where is xfstt*.deb? /---/

Re: stuck with only 1 xterm in X

1998-04-21 Thread Alain Toussaint
a last question,does it possible in X to be logged on as several user at once (you see,have 2 xterm logged as root,one as alaint,etc...) after this is answered,i'll keep my mouth shut except when answering question (i found that i asked more than enough questions) ?? Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: why?

1998-04-21 Thread C.J.LAWSON
What? Do they forbid sending e-mail with bogus To: headers? I am once again baffled by the stupidity of USA laws regarding electronic (1) Why would anyone intentionally want to send email to a bogus header? to wreak havoc?? ... to bounce spam messages??? (2) I wish you knew how much hassle

Re: stuck with only 1 xterm in X

1998-04-21 Thread Fredrik Ax
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote: a last question,does it possible in X to be logged on as several user at once (you see,have 2 xterm logged as root,one as alaint,etc...) See man-pages for: su, rsh, rlogin, ssh after this is answered,i'll keep my mouth shut except when answering

Re: PINE Debian Package

1998-04-21 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote: Although the above trademark and copyright restrictions do not convey the right to redistribute derivative works, the University of Washington encourages unrestricted distribution of patch files which can be applied

Re: [QUESTIONS] Using the same database on Linux and NT

1998-04-21 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Johann Spies wrote: Hallo, I use postgresql on linux and my colleage and our office uses NT. Is it possible make a postgresql-database available to the other two computers which does not operate on linux? I'd say the best way is to inter-connect them using

Re: KDE Problem

1998-04-21 Thread Florian Attenberger
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Oz Dror wrote: I have installed the latest version of kde from hamm when I type kde I get the following error: kde: error in loading shared libraries /usr/X11R6/lib/libkdecore.so.0: undefined symbol: __ti8QListBox It is clear that one of the libraries that I am

Re: [QUESTIONS] Using the same database on Linux and NT

1998-04-21 Thread Alexzander Blashko
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Johann Spies wrote: You can use Postgres ODBC. Hallo, I use postgresql on linux and my colleage and our office uses NT. Is it possible make a postgresql-database available to the other two computers which does not operate on linux? Which will be the best way to do

UUCP :error with login

1998-04-21 Thread Nicolas Weinachter
Hello When i try to connect to my server, the server doesn't send me anything. So, my login chat script doesn't work. Have u an idea ? thanks -- Nicolas Weinachter -- EXTERN e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: stuck with only 1 xterm in X

1998-04-21 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
a last question,does it possible in X to be logged on as several user at once (you see,have 2 xterm logged as root,one as alaint,etc...) after this is answered,i'll keep my mouth shut except when answering question (i found that i asked more than enough questions) ?? I do this quite alot, I

upgrade to libc6 script?

1998-04-21 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hello everyone, I tried to look up the url for the autoupgrade script to libc6, but aparently the list archives on www.debian.org are hosed (i.e., not there). Could anyone tell me where to find the most recent version of this script? Wouldn't it be nice to put this on the web page under

Xlock with shadow passwords

1998-04-21 Thread Carroll Kong
Hey guys, I recently lot a LOT of suid bit that slaughtered a lot of system functionality. I reinstalled xlock via package.. or at least i thought i did. It has perms 2755 xlock chowned to root.shadow. Problem is... for some odd reason the group shadow although it has suid (s)... cannot

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-21 Thread Stephen Carpenter
ahh thanx for the info It has been on that list saying it needed a new maintainer for a while now...oh well... hopefully now the documentation will be fixed :) -Steve Petra wrote: On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: I was told that XFSTT had a new maintainer when I asked to

Re: upgrade to libc6 script?

1998-04-21 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 02:42:01PM +0200, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: I tried to look up the url for the autoupgrade script to libc6, but aparently the list archives on www.debian.org are hosed (i.e., not there). Could anyone tell me where to find the most recent version of this script? Wouldn't

Re: upgrade to libc6 script?

1998-04-21 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 03:00:32PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's available from the Developer's Corner as http://www.debian.org/devel/autoup.sh ; I'm not sure if it's the latest version though (one was posted this morning I think). OK. According to the autoup.sh distributed by the bot

KDE mouse-click strangeness

1998-04-21 Thread Thomas Lakofski
I've just upgraded my home system to the latest KDE available in hamm. Most of it seems fine, except that certain elements no longer respond to mouse clicks, or do not respond initially and can be 'coaxed' by lots of clicking. Unfortunately, ony of the elements which doesn't respond is the task

Debian list `From' line (Re: exim mutt, weird)

1998-04-21 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I have a procmail recipe to catch the Debian mailing list traffic : :0 * ^From [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian It fails on mail from a few users, for which the `From' line is not the Debian mailing list: Rev. Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nils Rennebarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Norbert Veber

Re: KDE Problem

1998-04-21 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Oz Dror wrote: I have installed the latest version of kde from hamm when I type kde Why are you typeing this, KDE should be started from startx or xinit (maybe xdm/kdm even). Graham I get the following error: kde: error in loading shared libraries

Re: Debian list `From' line (Re: exim mutt, weird)

1998-04-21 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: I have a procmail recipe to catch the Debian mailing list traffic : :0 * ^From [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian I would not trust the From line. Why don't you just use the Resent-Sender field? -BEGIN PGP

pcmcia install help

1998-04-21 Thread Michael Stutz
Now I am thoroughly confused. I installed pcmcia-cs_2.9.6-2.deb, which I found on my Debian 1.3.1 CD, and it complained that the actual modules were missing. The only pcmcia module package I could find on the CD were pcmcia-modules-2.0.29_2.9.5-2.deb and pcmcia-modules-2.0.30_2.9.5-3.deb; I tried

Re: Debian list `From' line (Re: exim mutt, weird)

1998-04-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
I have a procmail recipe to catch the Debian mailing list traffic : :0 * ^From [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian I suggest you use the X-Mailing-List header instead. It's added by the mailing list manager, so it gets added to every mailing list message. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Debian list `From' line (Re: exim mutt, weird)

1998-04-21 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 09:22:16AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: I have a procmail recipe to catch the Debian mailing list traffic : :0 * ^From [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian It fails on mail from a few users, for which the `From' line is not the Debian mailing list: Rev. Joseph Carter

Re: upgrade to libc6 script?

1998-04-21 Thread Stephen Carpenter
The one you link is the old version It is v.23 and I elieve from what I read this morning .25 was releaces According to the old versiont he latest version shoul dbe at: http://www.taz.net.au/autoup/autoup/ -Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 02:42:01PM +0200, E.L. Meijer

Re: Linux as a eMail/Internet server.

1998-04-21 Thread tko
Alistair Phillips writes: Hi there fellow Linux fans (Debian and the like!) About 6 months ago I stumbled upon the greatest find of my life. Someone had told me about a wonderful OS that multitasked great, handled 100's of users, had very little requiremets and was a all round OS for

man fails -- segmentation fault

1998-04-21 Thread Jack Kern
Yesterday man failed: e.g., $ man man Segmentation fault (I also noted a possibly unrelated increase of about 9megs on the partition, for which I could not account. Today, the disk space is back -- presumably cron.daily took care of this.) I decided to try gdb for

Re: Video Modes in X

1998-04-21 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: I am trying to get my X running 1152x862 at 16 bpp - Vertical scan = 60Hz, Horizontal Scan = 56Hz. The only hastle is that there is no modeline for this in my XF86Config, and I don't know how to write one. If you are your monitor are feeling lucky, you

Re: UUCP :error with login

1998-04-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 02:21:27PM +0200, Nicolas Weinachter wrote: When i try to connect to my server, the server doesn't send me anything. So, my login chat script doesn't work. I think more details are required. Firstly, is the server under your control? Are you trying to UUCP over direct

Problem with NE2000 Card not working after kernel compile.

1998-04-21 Thread Vaibhav Goel
Hello; I have had this problem for quite a while and am completely lost as to what to do to fix it. I have had this problem with both Debian 1.3.1 and Debian 2.0 unstable/frozen. Basically, I install Debian from scratch on my system. During the install process autoprobe for ne2000 card, it

Re: Debian list `From' line (Re: exim mutt, weird)

1998-04-21 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I used to use that also but a number of them got through I don't think that handles cc: to the list -Steve Nils Rennebarth wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 09:22:16AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: I have a procmail recipe to catch the Debian mailing list traffic : :0 * ^From [EMAIL

Re: man fails -- segmentation fault

1998-04-21 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 11:09:00AM -0300, Jack Kern wrote: Yesterday man failed: e.g., $ man man Segmentation fault Looks like man's database is corrupt. mandb --create ought to fix this. HTH, Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years

Re: Problem with NE2000 Card not working after kernel compile.

1998-04-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
messages. Upon exploring around, I see that these messages are being caused when the file /etc/init.d/network is run the 2 lines are: route add -net ${NETWORK} [ ${GATEWAY} ] route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1 You also need an ifconfig command. See the ifconfig man page

Re: Problem with NE2000 Card not working after kernel compile.

1998-04-21 Thread Vaibhav Goel
I do have that in the file...here is what it looks like: ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST} its basically the default nework file that comes with debian...i do have all the variables defined. Thanks On 21 Apr 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: messages. Upon exploring

Re: KDE Problem

1998-04-21 Thread Erv Walter
In article 0847151421041998/A06349/GCSSTF/[EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Oz Dror wrote: I have installed the latest version of kde from hamm when I type kde Why are you typeing this, KDE should be started from startx or xinit (maybe xdm/kdm even). Maybe he,

Re: pcmcia install help

1998-04-21 Thread Ian Stuart
Michael Stutz wrote: Now, I have no idea what I should do to get Debian working. I'm ready to conclude that you cannot install Debian on a laptop that uses a pcmcia modem as its primary interface to the world. I would really love it if somebody proved me wrong. Not sure about the modem part,

Re: I have a pppd connection problem.

1998-04-21 Thread Carlos Barros
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Szomor Attila wrote: --ppp not replacing existing default route to eth0[0.0.0.0] --Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP I do not have idea what is a solution if you know it please send me an e-mail. /etc/ppp/options asyncmap 0 crtscts

Re: Debian list `From' line (Re: exim mutt, weird)

1998-04-21 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Santiago Vila Doncel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: I have a procmail recipe to catch the Debian mailing list traffic : :0 * ^From [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian I would not trust the From line. Why don't you just use the Resent-Sender field?

PDF and Linux

1998-04-21 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
How can I print PDF collor files to a linotronic 530 Image Setter with command line. Yeah... there are a few questions inside this... where can i find the linotronic 350 drivers for linux; how can i print CMYK separations from adobe acrobat reader or other; how

Re: possible intrusion in my box ??????

1998-04-21 Thread Paul Rightley
On 14-Apr-98 Ossama Othman wrote: On the systems that I run, I have disabled all incoming telnets, ftps, rsh/rlogin/rexec/etc, finger, rusers, ident, etc. The only way in is via Secure Shell. Note that outgoing telnets and ftps would still work. If -Ossama I already use ssh, but

Linux DRAW or Linux ILLUSTRATOR

1998-04-21 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
Can someone tells me about some apps thats do the work of Corel Draw in Linux, Like Corel Draw? O heard about GIMP that can substitute Corel PhotoPaint and Photoshop! And about substitute Corel Ventura, Adobe Pagemaker or QuarkXpress? I don't know if I am just wondering... but its

Re: Linux DRAW or Linux ILLUSTRATOR

1998-04-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
Can someone tells me about some apps thats do the work of Corel Draw in Linux, Like Corel Draw? O heard about GIMP that can substitute Corel PhotoPaint and Photoshop! And about substitute Corel Ventura, Adobe Pagemaker or QuarkXpress? xfig might fit your needs for a Corel Draw-like

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