Re: Más sobre: En el NS Communicator 4.05 an dejado de fu ncionarme los acentos!!!

1998-08-21 Thread J . Parera
Hola, después de ejecutar: cd / cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums | md5sum -c me ha salido lo que sigue: md5sum: MD5 check failed for 'usr/lib/dpkg/methods/mountable/install' md5sum: MD5 check failed for 'usr/lib/dpkg/methods/mountable/setup' md5sum: MD5 check failed for

Servidor NIS.....

1998-08-21 Thread Miguel Angel Hernandez Sanchez
Hola! Tengo un problema, es acerca de mi servidor NIS: tengo 10 maquinas conectadas a una red local y no uso shadow. Y con la version anterior de Debian (1.3) no tuve problema alguno, pero ahora con esta version (2.0) me marca lo siguiente:

Re: Inclusión de Debian 2.0 en Linux Actual 9/98

1998-08-21 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
El Wed, Aug 19, 1998, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Peña... De todas formas me gustaria hacer un sondeo de opinion entre los presentes y, si veo respuestas, lo hare tambien en otras listas de distribucion de Linux españolas. Cuanto estarias dispuesto a pagar por una revista (Linux

Re: Más sobre: En el NS Communicator 4.05 an dejado de fu ncionarme los acentos!!!

1998-08-21 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 01:03:40AM +0200, J.Parera wrote: Alguien sabe que puedo buscar que afecte a los acentos del Netscape Communicator 4.05? ¿Tal vez los archivos de Netscape se han dañado? (Esos no van en los md5sums que usaste antes) ¿Es posible reinstalarlo? ¿Qué NS tienes? (creo

RE: Nuevo pie

1998-08-21 Thread Luís M. Arocha Hernández
Atención, pregunta tonta: ¿62 listas no son muchas listas? -- De: Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bueno, pues a lo que iba: Si alguno tiene algún problema para suscribirse o borrarse prefiero que contacte conmigo directamente antes de escribir a la susodicha dirección, así no les damos

dotfile

1998-08-21 Thread TooManySecrets
Buenas. He instalado el Dotfile para probarlo, pero me da el error: Application initialization failed: no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable The Dotfile Generator version 2.2 Copyright (C) 1995-1997 Jesper K. Pedersen The Dotfile Generator comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for

Re: LaTex con papel A4

1998-08-21 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 09:52:32PM +0200, Rafael Cordones Marcos wrote: pongo \usepackage{a4wide} pero al compilar me da error de que no encuentra el paquete a4.sty. Pues efectivamente no esta... :-( Me huele a que puede estar en el

!!!urgente teclado!!!

1998-08-21 Thread MAN
Hola: Acabo de actualizar de bo a hamm y me ha desconfigurado el teclado. No podia ni poner el pass ¿En que archiivo se configura el teclado español de 104 teclas Me urge, no puedo hacer nada, gracias un saludo Ricardo Lloret Vico [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SANE y un Mustek Paragon 800 II SP

1998-08-21 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 11:05:05PM +0200, J.Parera wrote: Hola, he instalado el paquete SANE (proveniente de la Debian 2.0) y tengo un scanner Mustek Paragon 800 II SP (model: MFC-800S), en la documentación de SANE se comenta un programa que te detecta donde tienes el (/dev/sg*, creo

[no subject]

1998-08-21 Thread Manuel Paz Flores
Hola a todos: sigo con el mismo problema que antes de marcharme de vacaciones ( ya he vuelto, :( ). ¿Por favor sabe alguien como demonios se instalan las X Window? Mi problema es que no consigo encontrar las XFree por ningún lado. Muchas gracias por adelantado Manuel

Entrega de correo

1998-08-21 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
Hola! He anadido 2 lineas en el crontab de root 15 0 * * * pon 25 0 * * * poff Ademas he puesto en el dir ip-up.d los scripts que vienen con el fetchmail. Pero ... que comando tengo que usar para entregar toda la cola de correo que me aparece con mailq. He probado con runq pero no me funciona o

Re: your mail

1998-08-21 Thread Santiago Vila
Manuel Paz Flores wrote: ¿Por favor sabe alguien como demonios se instalan las X Window? Mi problema es que no consigo encontrar las XFree por ningún lado. ¿Has mirado en la sección x11? En Debian 1.3.1, prueba a instalar los siguientes paquetes: xbase, xcontrib, xext, xfnt75, xfnt100,

Re: ¡¡¡¡ ATENCION!!!! Distribución de Debian 2.0

1998-08-21 Thread gustavo
Burning Ice wrote: Saludos: Aun no me lo creo, pero ya tengo Debian 2.0 Pues si, tan solo 12 dias despues de pedirlo a www.datom.de/debian me a llegado el paquete con los tres CD´s... Ante todo gracias, porque gracias al mensaje yo también la pedí. Pero

Re: ¡¡¡¡ ATENCION!!!! Distribución de Debian 2.0

1998-08-21 Thread gustavo
Burning Ice wrote: Saludos: Aun no me lo creo, pero ya tengo Debian 2.0 Pues si, tan solo 12 dias despues de pedirlo a www.datom.de/debian me a llegado el paquete con los tres CD´s... Ante todo gracias, porque gracias al mensaje yo también la pedí. Pero

Re: LaTex con papel A4

1998-08-21 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 11:22:15AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: Me huele a que puede estar en el non-free. Busca en el tetex-nonfree, a lo mejor está por ahí. Se me olvido que existia tetex-nonfree, y pense tener todo el tetex instalado! Efectivamente: $ zgrep a4.sty Contents-i386.gz

Re: your mail

1998-08-21 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 11:46:32AM +0200, Manuel Paz Flores wrote: ¿Por favor sabe alguien como demonios se instalan las X Window? Mi problema es que no consigo encontrar las XFree por ningún lado. Entra a dselect. Selecciona xbase, xserver-vga16 y xserver-svga. Te preguntara: a) Si quieres

Re: Entrega de correo

1998-08-21 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 11:58:22AM +0200, Rafael Cordones Marcos wrote: Ademas he puesto en el dir ip-up.d los scripts que vienen con el fetchmail. Pero ... que comando tengo que usar para entregar toda la cola de correo que me aparece con mailq. He probado con runq pero no me funciona o eso

Re: Entrega de correo

1998-08-21 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 08:29:38AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 11:58:22AM +0200, Rafael Cordones Marcos wrote: Ademas he puesto en el dir ip-up.d los scripts que vienen con el fetchmail. Pero ... que comando tengo que usar para entregar toda la cola de

Re: Entrega de correo

1998-08-21 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 04:43:14PM +0200, Rafael Cordones Marcos wrote: Lo digo porque a veces hago mailq y me siguen saliendo emails en la cola de envio. Lo que he provado ahora es a meter un script llamado runq-up en el directorio ip-up.d para no tener tambien que poner la linea en el

Re: Instalacion de XWindows

1998-08-21 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 08:26:45AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 11:46:32AM +0200, Manuel Paz Flores wrote: ¿Por favor sabe alguien como demonios se instalan las X Window? Mi problema es que no consigo encontrar las XFree por ningún lado. Entra a dselect.

Re: Servidor NIS.....

1998-08-21 Thread Sergio Talens-Oliag
Hola, On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 08:21:48PM -0500, Miguel Angel Hernandez Sanchez wrote: Hola! Tengo un problema, es acerca de mi servidor NIS: tengo 10 maquinas conectadas a una red local y no uso shadow. Y con la version anterior de Debian (1.3) no tuve problema alguno, pero ahora

Re: Servidor NIS.....

1998-08-21 Thread Miguel Angel Hernandez Sanchez
On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Sergio Talens-Oliag wrote: Hola, On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 08:21:48PM -0500, Miguel Angel Hernandez Sanchez wrote: Hola! Tengo un problema, es acerca de mi servidor NIS: tengo 10 maquinas conectadas a una red local y no uso shadow. Y con la version

Re: Problemas en X-Window con tarjeta AGP

1998-08-21 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 06:09:16PM +0200, Pedro F. Pareja wrote: Saludos a los miembros de la lista: Mi ordenador dispone de una tarjeta gráfica Leadtek Winfast 3D S900 con 4 Mb de memoria video. Está equipada con el chip i740 de Intel y es del tipo AGP. Mi problema es que supongo que no

Lenguaje de programación

1998-08-21 Thread David
Hola a todos, quisiera que me dijerais algún lenguaje para programar en Linux, para manejar base de datos. Gracias de antemano, Carlos

Re: Servidor NIS.....

1998-08-21 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
We need some minutes to build the databases... Building /var/yp/Herejia/ypservers... Running /var/yp/Makefile... make[1]: Entering directory `/var/yp/Herejia' Updating passwd.byname... failed to send 'clear' to local ypserv: RPC: Program not registeredUpdating passwd.byuid... failed to

Más sobre: En el NS Communicator 4.05 an dejado de funcionarme los acentos!!!

1998-08-21 Thread J . Parera
Hola, como ya dije hace unos días me decanté por el WM KDE. Como sus usuarios (del KDE) sabrán tiene una opción para definir el lenguaje (K-Settings-Desktop-language), en esta opción tengo dos posibilidades, poner que quiero el lenguaje español o el Default language. Cuando me di cuenta que en

Más sobre: Uso de fuentes TrueType con xfstt

1998-08-21 Thread J . Parera
Hola, el fichero /etc/X11/xfs tiene una variable llamada catalogue la cual hace referencia a los mismos directorios de fuentes que el /etc/X11/XF86Config pero no hace referencia a /var/ttfonts. Tiene que ser asi o hay que añadir dicha ruta tambien en el path? Un saludo, J. Parera

Más sobre: En el NS Communicator 4.05 an dejado de funcionarme los acentos!!!

1998-08-21 Thread J . Parera
Hola, esto ejem! ... esss que . .. .. . glups! ... ... si eso, que como Resulta que todos los documentos que edité antes de que enviase el mail diciendo que los acentos habían dejado de funcionarme (los estaba repasando ahora) !Ninguno contiene

Re: jed y mutt

1998-08-21 Thread TooManySecrets
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 02:24:43PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: ¿Por qué no me funciona la tecla tabuladora? En otros editores sí lo hace, y para el correo, y sobretodo edición de ficheros del sistema me iría muy bien tenerla. Si funciona. Diferente, pero funciona. Dependiendo del

Gnomeç

1998-08-21 Thread TooManySecrets
Buenas. ¿Lleva algún programa estilo gnome-session la Debian 2.0? He estado mirando la distribución de arriba a abajo, pero no he encontrado nada. ¿Se sabe si vendrá algo ya de esto en la 2.1? Y por no perder la costumbre... 8-D ¿se tiene prevista alguna fecha aproximada para la 2.1? ¡Que conste

Re: SANE y un Mustek Paragon 800 II SP

1998-08-21 Thread J . Parera
Hola, Asegurate que ejecutas find-scanner como root. Para saber que dispositivos tienes rulando haz: shell:$ cat /proc/interrupts 0:8483901 timer 1: 74560 keyboard 2: 0 cascade 5: 8768 sound blaster 9: 3694 + advansys Mi controladora SCSI

Re: Más sobre: En el NS Communicator 4.05 an dejado de fu ncionarme los acentos!!!

1998-08-21 Thread J . Parera
Hola, ¿Qué NS tienes? (creo que había una versión de NS 4.05 para libc6) [/usr/local/netscape]$ ldd netscape libXt.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 (0x4000b000) libSM.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libSM.so.6 (0x4004d000) libICE.so.6 =

/usr/share/apps/kppp/Rules/Spain/Infovia.rst para kppp

1998-08-21 Thread J . Parera
Hola, como en España las tarifas telefónicas han subido un pelín he decidido usar la posibilidad que brinda el kppp para hacer un seguimiento del coste telefónico el problema es que el fichero que trae para Infovía está ya anticiado. Me encontré uno en una web pero no me funciona (no lo puede

Re: xv package for deb?

1998-08-21 Thread the lone gunman
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 10:34:43PM +0200, Michele Bini wrote: On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, the lone gunman wrote: Is there an xv package for debian? By xv, I mean the XView program by John Bradley. Do you really need xv?! Have you ever tried GIMP? If you only need to put an image on the background

Re: [Help] resc1440.bin (kernel) crash

1998-08-21 Thread Jimen Ching
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Jimen Ching wrote: Please help me. I accidentally hosed my linux upgrade and need to reinstall from scratch. Hmm, how far did your system fall beyond the edge? Chances are that you may very well be able to fix things

Re: shutdown not unnmounting

1998-08-21 Thread David B. Teague
Hi I have a 1.1 system (yes, I know that is almost prehistory) but I make money with it almost continuously, it serves the purpose, so I havent messed with it since installation. The problem is that SOMETIMES, not frequently, shutdown -h now will stop before unmounting drives The

Re: OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)

1998-08-21 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Richard L. Alhama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you guys sort all this mail? Personally, I gateway high traffic mailing lists such as several [EMAIL PROTECTED] ones into local newsgroups. There's no coping without a threaded newsreader and a kill file. There's a program mail2news, originally

Trouble with IP forwarding

1998-08-21 Thread Michael B. Taylor
I am trying to get ip forwarding working between a hamm box and a Win95 box. Both machines have permanent ip addresses recognized by the campus name server. I compiled a custom kernel with the Debinized 2.0.34 source, with ip forwarding enabled. I installed a second net card in the hamm box

eight_bit console

1998-08-21 Thread Linus Nilsson
Hello. I'm using Debain Linux and do most of my work in console mode. I use us keymap and i wonder what i have to do to be able to write eight_bit characters. In X alt is bound to meta and that works just fine, but in console-mode holding in alt while writing seems to have no

Re: shutdown not unnmounting

1998-08-21 Thread Keith Beattie
David B. Teague wrote: The problem is that SOMETIMES, not frequently, shutdown -h now will stop before unmounting drives The correct answer is to upgrade, but is there anything I could do in the interim? I have a draconian set of deadlines, and I don't want to do anything

Re: shutdown not unnmounting

1998-08-21 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Keith Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | David B. Teague wrote: | | The problem is that SOMETIMES, not frequently, | | shutdown -h now | | will stop before unmounting drives | | The correct answer is to upgrade, but is there anything I could | do in the interim? | | I have a

Email migration

1998-08-21 Thread Eric Saylor
Does anyone know how to migrate Microsoft Outlook Express email messages to a unix email client? At this point, I'll use any email client that let's me do this. I'm ready to leave NT behind (well, at home anyway) and I need to keep all my archived mail available for records and searches. Messages

scsi newbie

1998-08-21 Thread Marlon Urias
I have an Adaptec adapter with an internal CDRW and IOMEGA Zip on the external 68-pin connector. On bootup my kernel seems to see the devices but does not report back mountable points (ie sda, sdb4). I have appended the relevant dmesg section, thanks for your time. [clip] hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL

Debian Books?

1998-08-21 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all- I'm relatively new to Debian (just migrated from S.u.S.E.) and was wondering if anyone knows of any books that have a Debian slant. I'd like to know things like is there a debian command equivalent to rpm -q with rpm-based distributions and any other little tidbits specific to Debian. I'd

Re: threads package for libc6

1998-08-21 Thread Philip Thiem
JonesMB wrote: Where can I find the threads package for libc6 - I have looked all through the dselect list? All I find is the one for libc5 in the old libs section. Is this the right place for this or should I have asked on the -dev list? We are using Linux (as well as some Solaris

Re: Debian Books?

1998-08-21 Thread Philip Thiem
Mark Wagnon wrote: Hi all- I'm relatively new to Debian (just migrated from S.u.S.E.) and was wondering if anyone knows of any books that have a Debian slant. I'd like to know things like is there a debian command equivalent to rpm -q with rpm-based distributions and any other little

moving fvwm windows by thier handles

1998-08-21 Thread the lone gunman
As per my Debian 1.3 fvwm2 configuration, I could move windows by clicking and holding on any part of the border and title. That is, I could click and hold on the handles that surround a window, or the title bar and move my window around. I could only resize the window by explicit command or by

Re: [Help] resc1440.bin (kernel) crash

1998-08-21 Thread joost
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Jimen Ching wrote: After I upgraded to hamm (no problems encountered, good job), I noticed some obsolete packages, which I progressed to remove. I did this in steps so I don't harm my system. I did all of this in X, which may be my first mistake. Everything went fine

Re: PHP 3.0.3 available on my webpage

1998-08-21 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote: This is PHP 3.0.3 for Apache 1.3.1 (Slink). I was going to build it for hamm, but I noticed that Apache 1.3.1 is no longer in stable-updates. I have built binaries for Alpha *only* ... It's tested and working, and should be trivial to compile on x86.

Thanks! Was [Re: Debian Books?]

1998-08-21 Thread Mark Wagnon
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 05:54:41PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: One thing that I can't figure out is how to set up a color ls. I copied a custom DIR_COLORS file to /etc, and created an alias for ls with the --color option but some of my files, namely those that are archived, compressed,etc., and

Re: threads package for libc6

1998-08-21 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Where can I find the threads package for libc6 - I have looked all through the dselect list? All I find is the one for libc5 in the old libs section. A specially adapted version of Xavier LeRoy's implementation of kernel-level POSIX threads (pthreads) is already part of libc6. Some

Autokill Runaway scripts?

1998-08-21 Thread Kent Andersen
anyone know of an animal that watches user processes and will autokill them if they start to use too much CPU or runaway? I have had a small problem with this, sometimes on my own programs and would like a watchdog to kill them before they become a problem. Kent

CD-ROM hassles

1998-08-21 Thread Joel Gluth
I'm installing Linux onto a freshly-partitioned (linux-only) drive, from base floppy images I copy from a distribution CD-ROM on a Win95 machine. Everything appears happy, apart from the fact that things refuse to install from CD-ROM (hence the floppies). Trying this from dinstall gets

Re: Autokill Runaway scripts?

1998-08-21 Thread Shaleh
Kent Andersen wrote: anyone know of an animal that watches user processes and will autokill them if they start to use too much CPU or runaway? I have had a small problem with this, sometimes on my own programs and would like a watchdog to kill them before they become a problem. Kent --

Re: shutdown not unnmounting

1998-08-21 Thread Mike Nachlinger
On 20 Aug 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: How about something like mount -o remount ro -a after umount -a in /etc/init.d/reboot halt? See something like /usr/doc/tips??? (PS Don't use this without verification - I don't know what I'm doing!) Keith Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: |

Start X problem

1998-08-21 Thread gbh
I'm having problems starting X windows. After installing Debian 2.0 and entering 'startx' I get the following error; (--) VGA16: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 90 MHz (--) VGA16: There is no defined dot-clock matching mode 1024 x 768 Fatal server error: No valid modes found. When

Re: moving fvwm windows by thier handles

1998-08-21 Thread David Stern
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998 20:59:33 CDT, the lone gunman wrote: As per my Debian 1.3 fvwm2 configuration, I could move windows by clicking and holding on any part of the border and title. That is, I could click and hold on the handles that surround a window, or the title bar and move my window

Re: scsi newbie

1998-08-21 Thread Helge Hafting
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/20/98 at 05:26 PM, Marlon Urias [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have an Adaptec adapter with an internal CDRW and IOMEGA Zip on the external 68-pin connector. On bootup my kernel seems to see the devices but does not report back mountable points (ie sda, sdb4). I have

support for backup hardware (streamer)

1998-08-21 Thread Harald Boeing
Dear Debian users, I'm running Debian 2.0 and want to do some backups from time to time. At the moment a floppy streamer seems to be the cheapest possibility, but looking at the current howto's I couldn't figure out if the Iomega Ditto 7GB is supported. (Is it still true that the 2GB version

Re: OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)

1998-08-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 12:51:37AM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Richard L. Alhama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you guys sort all this mail? Personally, I gateway high traffic mailing lists such as several [EMAIL PROTECTED] ones into local newsgroups. There's no coping without a

Re: apt dists/stable-upgrades DOESN'T WORK

1998-08-21 Thread Ruud Janssen
Robert Ramiega wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 03:19:03PM +0200, Ruud Janssen wrote: Short question: Is it possible to point apt to dists/stable-upgrades to update the system with the latest bugfix releases of all installed packages? sure put deb

Re: Autokill Runaway scripts?

1998-08-21 Thread Joey Hess
Shaleh wrote: anyone know of an animal that watches user processes and will autokill them if they start to use too much CPU or runaway? I have had a small problem with this, sometimes on my own programs and would like a watchdog to kill them before they become a problem. I am not aware of

Re: APT keeps deb in /var/cache/apt/archives

1998-08-21 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 09:31:22PM -0300, Jack Kern wrote: `man apt-get` Yes i've read that clean clean clears out the local repository of retrieved package files. It removes everything but the lock file from /var/cache/apt/archives/ and

Re: eight_bit console

1998-08-21 Thread jdassen
Hi Linus, On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 01:58:58AM +0200, Linus Nilsson wrote: I'm using Debain Linux and do most of my work in console mode. I use us keymap and i wonder what i have to do to be able to write eight_bit characters. In X alt is bound to meta and that works just fine, but in

Re: Designing a Linux lab.

1998-08-21 Thread Lars Steinke
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: Hi. We have some Linux servers, and we want to build a new computer lab. We basically have two choices: 1. Install NT on all of them, and work with Xceed. 2. Install a dual boot Linux/NT on them. I'd like it to be the dual boot (If it was up to

Re: Debian Books?

1998-08-21 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 05:54:41PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: Hi all- I'm relatively new to Debian (just migrated from S.u.S.E.) and was wondering if anyone knows of any books that have a Debian slant. I'd like to know things like is there a debian command equivalent to rpm -q with rpm-based

/var/tmp/*map* files

1998-08-21 Thread Randy Edwards
I have a huge and growing selection of files in /var/tmp with various names like local_map.9831.dir, local_map.9831.pag, local_map.944.db, remote_map.*.*, etc. Could someone tell me what program is generating these files, what they are, and is it safe to delete them periodically? Thanks in

Re: Debian Books?

1998-08-21 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Mark Wagnon wrote: Hi all- I'm relatively new to Debian (just migrated from S.u.S.E.) and was wondering if anyone knows of any books that have a Debian slant. I'd like to know things like is there a debian command equivalent to rpm -q with rpm-based distributions and any other

RE: Runaway X

1998-08-21 Thread Hersh, Harry
Thanks, everyone for all the help. Here's what I found that might be helpful to others starting out: 1. From a virtual console, pressing Alt-Fn on the keyboard switches control to virtual console n. However when X is running, the command is ctrl-Alt-Fn. (I don't remember reading this in

Re: Runaway X

1998-08-21 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello: You say your running X, what is your window manager? Select 1, fvwm, fvwm95, KDE, also install kdm or xdm. Peter -Original Message- From: Hersh, Harry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Rafael Cordones Marcos' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian Users debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday,

possible security hole? causes system crash

1998-08-21 Thread Paul Miller
I'm having lots of trouble w/ mc (midnight commander). It offen stops responding when running an external command (viewing files (using internal viewer), executing programs, going to the shell prompt, etc.). There is no way I can kill it either. I've tried kill -9 and nothing happens. Once it

Re: Trouble with IP forwarding

1998-08-21 Thread Lane
Your answer can be found in the Mini-Howto, IP-Masquerade. The network address 192.168.0.0 has been designated by the internet gods as a non-routable network, this allows companies (and you and me) to use it for internal use accomplishing two things. (1) We don't unnecessarly take up a whole

Solved: win98/hamm dual boot problem

1998-08-21 Thread Michael Stenner
Thanks to all that offered suggestions on this one. For future use, I'm posting below the solution that worked (quite nicely) for me, since it wasn't posted previously. Michael Stenner wrote (Wed, 19 Aug 1998 09:39:43 -0400

Re: [Help] resc1440.bin (kernel) crash

1998-08-21 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Jimen Ching wrote: Hi all, Please help me. I accidentally hosed my linux upgrade and need to reinstall from scratch. But when I tried to boot from the rescue disk, the kernel crashed on me. I have an AHA-2842 SCSI controller. You might want to try the boot disk mentionned below.

voice mail

1998-08-21 Thread Carl Vilbrandt
Where do I look for a voice mail/fax software and or hardware for Debian/Linux. Thanks in Advance.

Re: [Help] resc1440.bin (kernel) crash

1998-08-21 Thread Peter S Galbraith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead, try to unpack base2_0.tgz directly onto your hosed system. I think you'll have to extract files from it using cpio, as there's no tar on the rescue disk. I'm not used to cpio, so what I'm

Re: Email migration

1998-08-21 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Eric Saylor wrote: Does anyone know how to migrate Microsoft Outlook Express email messages to a unix email client? Use fetchmail to get your NT mail spooled on Debian, and then use *any* regular mail reader to deal with it (pine, mh-e, exmh, netscape, ...) -- Peter Galbraith, research

Re: threads package for libc6

1998-08-21 Thread JonesMB
Well that explains why I couldn't find anything. What about the man pages? Which package has those? When the guys do a man on pthread_create nothing is found jmb A specially adapted version of Xavier LeRoy's implementation of kernel-level POSIX threads (pthreads) is already part of libc6.

Re: scsi newbie

1998-08-21 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I have an Adaptec adapter with an internal CDRW and IOMEGA Zip on the external 68-pin connector. On bootup my kernel seems to see the devices but does not report back mountable points (ie sda, sdb4). Expensive adapter for slow devices... :-) aic7xxx: Warning - detected auto-termination on

Re: threads package for libc6

1998-08-21 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Well that explains why I couldn't find anything. What about the man pages? Which package has those? When the guys do a man on pthread_create nothing is found It seems that I didn't have the libc6 man pages either. :) Anyway, I found the docs package. Not surprisingly, it is:

XF86 thread safe?

1998-08-21 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Does anyone know if Debian's XF86 package is thread safe (i.e. patches in /usr/doc/libc6-doc/README.linuxthreads.gz have been applied)? Thanks, -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- PGP Keys --- Public:

Re: Designing a Linux lab.

1998-08-21 Thread Liran Zvibel
On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Lars Steinke wrote: On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: Hi. We have some Linux servers, and we want to build a new computer lab. We basically have two choices: 1. Install NT on all of them, and work with Xceed. 2. Install a dual boot Linux/NT on them.

debian Packages

1998-08-21 Thread Brandon Stewart
I am looking for a good site that has Debian packages. I am extremely new to the linux OS environment Brandon

Motif

1998-08-21 Thread randall_ramsey
What versions of MOTIF will work with Debian 2.0? Thanks

Re: debian Packages

1998-08-21 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Brandon Stewart wrote: I am looking for a good site that has Debian packages. I am extremely new to the linux OS environment Welcome! :) Depends on where in the world you are http://www.debian.org will be able to point you to your nearest ftp mirror. HTH, Matthew --

V.35 Serial Card

1998-08-21 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Greetings, Does anyone know of a V.35 serial card that has LINUX (Debian) drivers? Looking to hook a T1 directly into a LINUX box and the CSU/DSU has a V.35 output. Anthony

Motif

1998-08-21 Thread randall_ramsey
What versions of MOTIF will work with Debian 2.0? Thanks

Re: Motif

1998-08-21 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, What versions of MOTIF will work with Debian 2.0? Can't help you with Motif. Have you considered the LessTif package? I believe that it aims for Motif 1.2 compliance. It may still be a little buggy, however. -Ossama

Re: problems with xdm.

1998-08-21 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Paulo wrote, Last night I tried to get xdm working. As far as I understood all I should do was edit /etc/X11/config line from no-start-xdm to start-xdm. I did that, booted and then I got xdm up. After that I logged as a user, logout, and then logged as root (to install something). After

sendmail bug?

1998-08-21 Thread David Stern
$ man aliases [..] Loops can not occur, since no message will be sent to any person more than once. [..] Loops cannot occur, ... So, if I make an alias for tsawyer to hfinn, and an alias for hfinn to dstern, and I send a mail to tsawyer, then who should get it? First I thought that

rxvt

1998-08-21 Thread Michael Symalla
Dear Debian-Experts, i have changed all my xterms against rxvt because it looks nicer with the scrollbar and the colours (for example in pdmenu). But when I have opened to much rxvt's I can't open anymore, the only message I recieve is rxvt: can't open pseudo-tty rxvt: aborting So, how can I

apache: perl_module suexec

1998-08-21 Thread Paul Miller
How do I use the perl_module? Can I replace suexec w/ the perl_module? Thanks -Paul

Re: scsi newbie

1998-08-21 Thread Markus Lechner
Marlon Urias wrote: (scsi0:0:-1:-1) Scanning channel for devices. (scsi0:0:3:0) Refusing WIDE negotiation; using 8 bit transfers. (scsi0:0:3:0) Refusing synchronous negotiation; using asynchronous transfers. Vendor: YAMAHAModel: CRW4260 Rev: 1.0h Type: CD-ROM

installation from a FAT32 partition

1998-08-21 Thread dwt77
In both the Debian and Red Hat installation programs I've gotten to the point where I choose my installation method (HD) and in both cases the program does not recognize my hda1 (FAT32) parition, preventing me from completing the installation. Debian tells me that no partitions not already

Re: V.35 Serial Card

1998-08-21 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Sangoma has such a board and also has one with an integrated T1 CSU/DSU. They also supply the Linux kernel drivers and "WAN Tools" to get the thing going. The stuff I've heard about it has been positive. Check out www.sangoma.com, esp. WANPIPE for Linux FAQ Anthony Landreneau wrote: Greetings,

Re: voice mail

1998-08-21 Thread Colin Telmer
On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Carl Vilbrandt wrote: Where do I look for a voice mail/fax software and or hardware for Debian/Linux. Thanks in Advance. For software, look at the various mgetty-* packages. Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.telmer.com

Re: rxvt

1998-08-21 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Each rxvt (or xterm or ???term) uses a pseudo-tty, so using a different term won't help you. By default there are 64 of them but you can make more. They are also used for telnet sessions and basically any shell session not occuring on some other type of tty (virtual console, serial port). You

Minicom question

1998-08-21 Thread Kim Breedlove
I'm new to debian and maybe I' overlooking something simple, but have not been able to send a text file with Minicom. Can it be configured to do so? Thanks for any assistance. Kim Breedlove [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sendmail bug?

1998-08-21 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 09:03:42AM -0700, David Stern wrote: $ man aliases [..] Loops can not occur, since no message will be sent to any person more than once. [..] Loops cannot occur, ... So, if I make an alias for tsawyer to hfinn, and an alias for hfinn to dstern, and I

Re: eight_bit console

1998-08-21 Thread Anders Hammarquist
I'm using Debain Linux and do most of my work in console mode. I use us keymap and i wonder what i have to do to be able to write eight_bit characters. In X alt is bound to meta and that works just fine, but in console-mode holding in alt while writing seems to have no effect whatsover. The meta

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