kbd

1998-06-28 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a la lista... He estado recompilando el paquete kbd_0.96a-4, y en un momento dado me sale: debian/dh_compress -i make:execvp:debian/dh_compress:Permission denied make:***[binary-indep] Error 127 He mirado el fichero debian/dh_compress, y he visto que no tenia permiso de ejecucion para

RE: Agradecimientos y mas ....

1998-06-28 Thread Santiago Acha
Quiero sumarme a esta ola de agradecimientos y proclamar también yo ese amor universal :)). Hace ya unas cuantas semanas que pertenezco a esta lista, pero hasta ahora he permanecido en la sombra : El caso es que, además de agradecer, deseo realizar una cuestión(comienzo con un poco de

RE: Seguridad ....

1998-06-28 Thread J. Parera
Hola, hace poco leí algo sobre el tema en www.rediris.es/cert. Es un web que trata sobre temas de seguridad, incluso tiene un buscador de bugs. Tu le pones sobre el tema que quieres tratar y te da una lista de los posibles bugs. Allí encontrarás una buena guia sobre como montar tu FTP, más

Afinar resolución en X's

1998-06-28 Thread J. Parera
Hola, utilizo una resolución por defecto de 800x600 y tengo una resolución máxima de 1024x768 a más tengo la virtual desabilitada. Con esta resolución al ejecutar xfig maximizado veo todos sus comandos perfectamente (pués tengo un virtual de 1024x768). Pero si cambio mi configuración borrando de

Inicio y Fin con less

1998-06-28 Thread J. Parera
Hola, cómo configuro less para que me acepte las teclas Inicio y Fin? Tengo entendido que tambien hay que configurar la tecla Supr (Del), como y porque? Un saludo, J. Parera -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

StarOffice 4.0

1998-06-28 Thread J. Parera
Hola, no uso staroffice, la cual creo que va por la v4.0. Estoy planteandome bajarmela por lo que me interesa saber cuanto tiempo tardaran a sacar una nueva versión, pués comprenderán si me la bajo hoy y dentro de dos semanas sale una nueva versión ... Alguien sabe el tiempo que tardará? He

modulos kernel

1998-06-28 Thread arco
He compilado, hoy, el kernel por tercera vez y no me va nada de lo que cargo como modulos. Concretamente el sonido, la vfat y el iso9660 Activo la opcion del daemon para que cargue los modulos pero nada. Si lo compilo con esas opciones en el kernel, ningun problema. En ningun caso me da error

Re: StarOffice 4.0

1998-06-28 Thread Juan Carlos
J. Parera wrote: Hola, no uso staroffice, la cual creo que va por la v4.0. Estoy planteandome bajarmela por lo que me interesa saber cuanto tiempo tardaran a sacar una nueva versión, pués comprenderán si me la bajo hoy y dentro de dos semanas sale una nueva versión ... Hombre, yo creo que

Re: Inicio y Fin con less

1998-06-28 Thread Esteban Crespi
cómo configuro less para que me acepte las teclas Inicio y Fin? Crea el fichero .lesskey en el directorio home, que contenga: ^[[1~ goto-line ^[[4~ goto-end puedes añadir mas lineas indicando lo que quieres que hagan, por ejemplo para las flechas arriba y abajo: ^[[Bforw-line ^[[A

Kde Beta3 a Beta4

1998-06-28 Thread Juan Carlos
Hace unos dias, actualize las Kde Beta 3 a la Beta 4, utilizando los paquetes para Debian que venian con el CD de la Linux Actual 2. Me he fijado que cambian muchas cosas en cuanto a la distribucion se refiere. Por ejemplo, que antes todo estaba bajo /opt/kde y ahora los ejecutables estan bajo

stumped

1998-06-28 Thread Matt Pittaway
Hi Ig, I downloaded and, after some trials, installed Linux to a 2nd hard drive. 1)How do I learn the commands? When I first got DOS I just typed help and learned from there. 2) What files do I need to install the x gui? Are there instructions to do this? Thanks, Matt Pittaway

Re: getting pgp

1998-06-28 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote: I updated my list of sites for apt to use to get .deb packages to include ftp.funet.fi in the expectation that I would then be able to get pgp??*??.deb but, no joy. Did I simply make a bad site choice, or am I, once again, missing something? The

Re: Driver for SCSI-card Iwill SIDE2935UW

1998-06-28 Thread Anders Hammarquist
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: I have an Iwill-SCSI-Card SIDE2935UW (see http://www.iwill.com.tw/). Under DOS, Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 it works very good. Now I wont to install the a Debian-Linux-Distribution (1.3.1), but it dosen't works. If I'm not mistaken, that card is (more or

Man + Latex

1998-06-28 Thread Dennis Dixon
I am still working on reading text files. Acting on Alexey Vyskubov's advice I downloaded the man-db package. Now, instead of: 'zmore Xserver.1x.gz', when I use 'man Xserver' I no longer have control characters interspersed in the text. When I was

Re: awe64, how?

1998-06-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 09:07:14PM +0200, michael/badpixel wrote: hi! one of my friends are trying to use his awe64 with linux... does anyone know what to use? can he use the standart sb16 driver in the kernel? what about alsa .. please send config files :)

Re: Hamm in Australia?

1998-06-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jun 26, 1998 at 06:04:20PM -0700, Gasper Fele - Zorz wrote: Why don't U just get someone to bake it 4 U ? Part of the problem is that we pay for bandwidth used in Australia -- $230/Gb on most of the backbones. It's just a bit cheaper to get a CD from the USA. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt,

Re: saving copies of sent mail with mutt

1998-06-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 11:47:36PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], the lone gunman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a simple way to save copies of messages I've sent with the mutt email client, other than Cc:'ing myself? In your .muttrc do set

Newton connectivity?

1998-06-28 Thread Carl Fink
Does anyone have any suggestions (or FAQ pointers) for someone using a Newton MessagePad 2100 with Debian Linux? I have been offered a really good deal on one (next thing to free). I currently have a Bo system because I'm waiting for official CDs to upgrade to Hamm. I've found a bunch of good

Re: Man + Latex

1998-06-28 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
* Dennis Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | The other problem is with .tex files which I assume I use the Latex command. | My error message when I run: |'latex guide.tex' is: | |'Can't find file linuxdoc.sty' | | On Jens Ritter suggestion, I downloaded the 'sgml-tools'

Re: stumped

1998-06-28 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
* Matt Pittaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | 1)How do I learn the commands? When I first got DOS I just typed help | and learned from there. You can try the debian tutorial (at www.debian.org/~hp/ IIRC). It's not complete, but the beginning is there. | 2) What files do I need to install the x gui? Are

[off-topic] SCSI cables

1998-06-28 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
[Story part, you can skip this if you want] I'd like to start working on some packages that relate to Zip drives (ie, Zip rescue/install) however I've discovered a problem.. My external SCSI connector seems to have been damaged. The damage doesn't affect the

Re: awe64, how?

1998-06-28 Thread michael/badpixel
http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/soundblaster.html thanks! The howto is also on sunsite and mirrored everywhere. i claims to have read the howto, but :) Alsa is definitely not for you. It is a development project and has only limited support for SB cards (as for any

fvwm95 install problem

1998-06-28 Thread Ivan
Hello again ! I have recently installed Debian GNU Linux ( Bo release ) which shares a 4.5Gb H/D with Windoze (all seperately partitioned). I tried to install fvwm using dselect but I don't think it worked - but then how do I tell - much X help needed !!! Anyway, I have now downloaded the

List of default installed files

1998-06-28 Thread Zoong
Hi everyone, I want to download only files that are needed for the first default installation by Dselect of Official Beta hamm CD. But where can I find the list, which site has it ? Please help. TIA, Zoong == Zoong

ACK! file ownership screwup!

1998-06-28 Thread sjc
Ok now I pulled a Good One. My hard dirve died 2 days ago...it was at 3 am...so I went to bed The next day I boguht a new drive on my way home from work (just slightly larger one) My thought was to restore form my month old backups and be done with it... to my surprize the old drive worked

Re: Where is Netscape?

1998-06-28 Thread Salvatore Sasegui
Just get the netscape-package which is no debian-package!! (tar.gz) from your favorite NETSPAPE-mirror and put the netscape-package in /tmp I have been in ftp.netscape.com/pub/unsupported/gnu and I have downloaded the file gzip-1.2.4.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.Z But it seems that this

How to block mail relaying in smail (bo distribution)?

1998-06-28 Thread Wojciech Marek Zabolotny
Hi! I would like to limit the possibility of mail relaying in one of my bo boxes. I would like to be able to use this box as a smart host for my home machine (connected to Internet via dialup with dynamically assigned IP :-(). The same possibility should be available for other legal

Re: postgres intallation failed

1998-06-28 Thread Networking Wizard
On Jun 27 1998 , Oliver Elphick wrote: To find out what is going wrong with initdb: Edit /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb and add the line `set +x' after the first line. Then become root and run the initialisation command (this is all one line): su - postgres -c

Re: which C compiler?

1998-06-28 Thread jdassen
On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 11:45:45PM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: I remember a few months ago, a certain compiler and C++ libraries were recommended. Since then there have been some changes. Confusingly, there sre at least two compilers and more than one C++ library in the hamm

Re: Where is Netscape?

1998-06-28 Thread Joerg Friedrich
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Salvatore Sasegui wrote: Just get the netscape-package which is no debian-package!! (tar.gz) from your favorite NETSPAPE-mirror and put the netscape-package in /tmp I have been in ftp.netscape.com/pub/unsupported/gnu and I have downloaded the file

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #536

1998-06-28 Thread Ed Cogburn
Gregory Guthrie wrote: I just did an upgrade bo -- hamm using autoup.sh. Amazing. But, there are a number of steps which left me cold; and flipping a coinn for the right action. 1) during the autoup it had seeral conflicts, adn it was not clear to me if I needed to do anything about

Re: postgres intallation failed

1998-06-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
Networking Wizard wrote: ... It seemed a write-permission denial in /var/postgres sub-tree. Therefore i switched back to root and changed the owner of /var/postgres: %% chown -R postgres.postgres /var/postgres I think I'll add this to the postinst script This time postgres

Re: memory usage and Netscape

1998-06-28 Thread Mark Panzer
Rick Macdonald wrote: Mark Panzer wrote: www.netbuyer.com I noticed the memory usage jump by about 5Meg when navigator was started and after just staring at the page for 5 min I noticed the memory usage was once again starting to increase. Thanks for helping me out here. OK, I

Re: Where is Netscape?

1998-06-28 Thread Ed Cogburn
Salvatore Sasegui wrote: Just get the netscape-package which is no debian-package!! (tar.gz) from your favorite NETSPAPE-mirror and put the netscape-package in /tmp I have been in ftp.netscape.com/pub/unsupported/gnu and I have downloaded the file

Re: Kernel version

1998-06-28 Thread Ed Cogburn
Hank Fay wrote: I notice that doing the 7 floppy + FTP installation this week left me with version 2.0.29-7, and the .30-7 and .33.3 source code is available in dselect, as updated via FTP with ftp.debian.org. 1) is there reason to upgrade my Kernel? (I mean, there are reasons for

Re: X-Window for 2.0beta

1998-06-28 Thread Ed Cogburn
Alex Kwan wrote: I have succeed to download and install the Debian 2.0 beta, and now I want to install X-Window too, can I use the X window packages on the debian 1.3.1R6 CD-ROM (distributed by Cheapbytes), also do the other packages on the 1.3.1R6 CD-ROM will working well under 2.0 beta?

Re: getting pgp

1998-06-28 Thread Ralph Winslow
When Brandon Mitchell wrote, I replied: Thanks for the clue, Brandon. It didn't work for me; probably because I don't have the version of apt that you do (I noticed that you're on the unstable, rather than frozen, branch). Now that I've discovered how to edit /etc/apt/source.list, preparing a

Re: ACK! file ownership screwup!

1998-06-28 Thread Jaakko Niemi
--envbJBWh7q8WU6mo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ok now I pulled a Good One. My hard dirve died 2 days ago...it was at 3 am...so I went to bed=20 The next day I boguht a new drive on my way home from work (just slightly larger

Re: synchronizing console, xterm and rxvt using bash.

1998-06-28 Thread Ed Cogburn
Alan Eugene Davis wrote: A recent blow up with new xtide version not working as I expected led to the revelation (should I have known?) that rxvt is not sourcing /etc/profile. This led to one of the environment variables being set not as usually, and the program acted like it was broken,

Re: stumped

1998-06-28 Thread Ed Cogburn
Matt Pittaway wrote: Hi Ig, I downloaded and, after some trials, installed Linux to a 2nd hard drive. 1)How do I learn the commands? When I first got DOS I just typed help and learned from there. 2) What files do I need to install the x gui? Are there instructions to do this?

[Fwd: List of default installed files]

1998-06-28 Thread Alexander Gutfraind
A good point. Being pretty new, I've been looking for a list of Important, Standard, Optional and Extra packages. When I've been installing the new beta dselect suggested on my first attempt to ftp the packs to download only limited ranges of packages. My connection failed, but it's still a good

Re: suggest a backup media

1998-06-28 Thread Alexander Gutfraind
Hi! I remember reading a comparison between backuping technics in PCmag or Byte, in the previous 4 months. Check their older issues. The article did a good job. sasha. the lone gunman wrote: I'm unsure of what backup media I should go with for my Linux system. I have a 4 gig harddrive. I'm

Re: awe64, how?

1998-06-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 08:52:00AM +0200, michael/badpixel wrote: The howto is also on sunsite and mirrored everywhere. i claims to have read the howto, but :) If you have read my howto, you may have specific questions. Feel free to ask! Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.

Re: ACK! file ownership screwup!

1998-06-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, sjc == sjc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: sjc That is it SO FAR. I am wondering if anyone has any advise? sjc Would it be possible for a few people to give me an ls -lR of /usr /var sjc /etc /boot /dev /bin /sbin ? sjc (ahd whetever else could be helpfull...but I think I got em all..obviously

Re: suggest a backup media

1998-06-28 Thread the lone gunman
On Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 12:50:34PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CDR has definite advantages. I had a SCSI 2x running fine on a 386 40mhz with 8mb of RAM and a 1gig IDE drive. If I generated the iso image on the box it was a little slow, so I nfs exported the directory with rw and

Re: stumped

1998-06-28 Thread Bjorn Isaksson
On 28 Jun 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: * Matt Pittaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | 1)How do I learn the commands? When I first got DOS I just typed help | and learned from there. You can try the debian tutorial (at www.debian.org/~hp/ IIRC). It's not complete, but the beginning is there. You

Re: Is Netscape Navigator really only for 16-bit color?

1998-06-28 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Chip Grandits [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've installed Netscape Communicator v4.05 on my bo system running Xwindows with the FVWM manager. I don't have any Motif or Motif clones. When I attempt to browse to a page which uses Java, Netscape just crashes immediately and goes away. (No harm

Inoperative ls in wu-ftpd-academ

1998-06-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
In wu-ftpd-academ 2.4.2.16-9 (hamm), I'm not getting any response to an ls command with an anonymous connection. I know there was a bug report on an earlier version had included libc5 files in /home/ftp/lib with binaries linked with libc6. With that version, I copied the correct lib files into

Re: older debian release?

1998-06-28 Thread peter
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, peter wrote: hi, i've got what may seem a strange request.. i'm looking for an older release of debian. i have a laptop w/ only 2MB RAM and i've been told that one of the older releases of debian will run under 2MB. Try using an older kernel; The 1.2.13 is smaller than

bo -- hamm upgrade..

1998-06-28 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I find a lot of small changes, logs moved from (non-existent) /var/adm, to /var/logs, pppd argument changes, ppp setup changes, etc.. It took a bit of fiddling to bet the system re-working. E.g. pppd now needs a noauth argument, files have moved, etc.. Is there a list of these changes,

autofs HOWTO

1998-06-28 Thread Paul Serice
This message tells how I got autofs to mount floppies so that any member of the floppy group would have read/write permission. I'm wondering if what I did is the right approach. If so, and if this isn't common knowledge (as I couldn't find it), it should be helpful to others. The

Turtle Beach Montego A3D

1998-06-28 Thread Yamamoto Hirotaka
Can someone successfully use Turtle Beach Montego A3D PCI sound card with Debian2.0beta (hamm)? Any help is appreciated! Thanks. -- Hirotaka Yamamoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]