Webmin es impresionante!

1998-12-13 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Recomiendo a todo el mundo que le echeis un ojo al administrador de sistema Webmin, es literalmente: ¡la leche!. Gracias a Alexis por la información de su existencia. Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Windowmaker y los JPGs

1998-12-13 Thread Juan Carlos Muro
Hola a todos. Tengo un pequeño lio montado con las librerias para JPG. Resulta que el WMPlayCD (o algo asi) me pedia la libjpeg62. Me la baje y la instale. Resulta que luego de eso, cada vez que intento utilizar una imagen de fondo de escritorio (en jpg), para una barra de titulo o para lo que sea

lilo

1998-12-13 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a todos... He instalado el lilo-21, y al ejecutar liloconfig, dice que se ha encontrado un error en /etc/lilo.conf, pero no dice cual. El resultado es que cuando selecciono Linux para cargar, aparece Loading Linux, y ahi se queda. Tengo que arrancar con el rescue. He estado leyendo la

dselect con varios CDs

1998-12-13 Thread Oscar Ferrero Guerra
Hola a todos: He vuelto a subscribirme a la lista después de un periodo de ausencia, y el primer mensaje que me llega me ha dado un susto de muerte sobre el tema de los CDs de Linux Actual. ¿Pero que es lo que ha pasado? ¿De veras que hay gente que se le ha estropeado el CD? --- Y ya que

¿Cómo enviar un bug a debian?

1998-12-13 Thread Miguel Gil
Pues eso, ¿Cómo se envia? ¿Qué pasa si te equivocas y realmente no es un bug? Hasta otra... :-) -- Miguel Gil ** Dirección correo electrónico: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** WEB: Humor Informático Hispano ** * URL:

Prueba

1998-12-13 Thread root
Prueba -- Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dselect con varios CDs

1998-12-13 Thread Salvador Bosch Pérez
El 13 de Diciembre de 1998 Oscar Ferrero Guerra escribió: Y ya que hablamos del tema, en la LA5 viene el contrib de la 2.0 (supongo que en la distribución oficial vendrá también repartido en varios CD). ¿Como puedo usar dselect con dos CD's distintos? Yo lo he intentado poniendo 'none' cuando

Problemas (cuelgue de X) instalando StarOffice 5

1998-12-13 Thread Alejandro Jose Jerez
Saludos. Despues de bajar (sufridamente) los 60 y pico Mb del Staroffice 5, al arrancar el ./setup me sale la ventana de instalación y seguidamente se me quedan totalmente colgadas las X. Pensé que estaría corrupto algún binario, pero me lo volví a bajar de otro sitio y sigue igual. Supongo que

Re: Linux actual y la madre que la...

1998-12-13 Thread homega
Virgilio Gómez Rubio dixit: Yo no he tenido problemas con los CDs, pero s´i quiero comentar una cosa que me toca mucho las narices, y es el uso un tanto peculiar que hacen del idioma. Primero, usan el verbo rebotar como mala, p´esima, traducci´on de la palabra reboot (tanto costaba poner

Re: ppp y pppconfig [SOLUCION]

1998-12-13 Thread homega
El problema es que el nuevo nodo tiene unas especificaciones más exigentes en cuanto a mòdems. De momento funciono con un SupraExpress 56 prestado, y tendré que comprarme uno nuevo, lo que me lleva a la siguiente pregunta: ¿Cuál? Que sea totalmente compatible con Linux, y que no quede desfasado

Re: dselect con varios CDs

1998-12-13 Thread Juan Leseduarte
Hola: On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 06:53:18PM +0100, Oscar Ferrero Guerra wrote: Hola a todos: He vuelto a subscribirme a la lista después de un periodo de ausencia, y el primer mensaje que me llega me ha dado un susto de muerte sobre el tema de los CDs de Linux Actual. ¿Pero que es lo que ha

XF86Config

1998-12-13 Thread Ignacio J. Alonso
Hola, voy directo al asunto: Lo primero que tengo en la sección Screen del XF86Config es: # ** # Screen sections # ** # The accelerated servers (S3, Mach32,

Re: ¿Cómo enviar un bug a debian?

1998-12-13 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 03:05:34PM +0100, Miguel Gil wrote: Pues eso, ¿Cómo se envia? ¿Qué pasa si te equivocas y realmente no es un bug? $ [EMAIL PROTECTED] bug -s 'Una descripción del bug' paquete y allí te pone en tu editor, explicas un poco mejor que es el problema, grabas el

Problema de Memoria

1998-12-13 Thread Marcelo Lepra
Hola para todos, soy nuevo usuario linux y tengo el debian 2.0. Luego de compilar el nucleo, me reconose solo 16 Mb. de memoria, cuando tengo 64. Agradeceria sy alguien sabe de este problema. Marcelo Lepra Montevideo - Uruguay

Re: [fsck]: file system errors ...

1998-12-13 Thread Nuno Carvalho
On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, wb2oyc wrote: Is anything going wrong !? It happens, sometimes, even when not having failure power or mounted disks. Nino, Nuno, you meant. :-) Are you actually shutting down with shutdown -h now and waiting for the System Halted message, or are you just killing

Re: automatic login?

1998-12-13 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 11:06:33PM +, Gossamer wrote: I'm SURE this is a faq, but I can't find the answer ... can I set up things so all the virtual consoles I have set up are automatically logged into a certain username? I'm aware of the security risks but live by myself so physical

nmh binaries not in path???

1998-12-13 Thread Mark Phillips
I have installed nmh and have noticed that the binaries for this are in /usr/bin/mh rather than just in /usr/bin, which means with the standard path setup you can't easily execute them. Now I know I can just add this directory to my path, but it seems a bit strange that I should need to do this.

Piped unpipable output [Xserver troubles]

1998-12-13 Thread Christian Lavoie
I'm trying to get a xserver (either svga or agx) on a XGA-2 chipset. The server specifies it's for the ISA bus, but I'm stuck with a PS/2 with a MCA bus. After everything is configured (correctly, AFAICT) the 'startx' show me the following output, anyone knows what's wrong (or for that matter,

apt-get

1998-12-13 Thread Peter Berlau
Hi there, I just mail to share my expirience during updating. usualy using lynx and than download install from ftp.de.debian.org and always forgotten something on whats depend the package i tried to install i just tried apt-get wow :) for example: apt-get update g++ ; apt--get install g++ will

Re: [fsck]: file system errors ...

1998-12-13 Thread chika
Hello. ,- Nuno Carvalho wrote. On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, wb2oyc wrote: Is anything going wrong !? It happens, sometimes, even when not having failure power or mounted disks. Nino, Nuno, you meant. :-) Are you actually shutting down with shutdown -h now and waiting for the System Halted

Re: ICMP attack

1998-12-13 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
Well, as for blocking it, there are new features in upcoming kernel releases... (2.2) and I think there are some in the current version..(don't remember) that will help with alot of these types of attacks. as for finding out where it's coming from...that depends on what type of attack

Re: ftp (client?) problem

1998-12-13 Thread Frank Smith
How are you connecting? Not all hardware implements Stac compression the same. For example, various Zyxel and Netgear ISDN routers would cause problems such as yours when making a PPP connection to an Ascend Max, unless compression was disabled. Try diabling compression in your PPP settings

Re: X is giving me a headache.

1998-12-13 Thread Richard Lyon
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, 13 December 1998 7:22 Subject: Re: X is giving me a headache. I found that page, it's www.x11.org. Thanks for

Re: 4 button Logitech MouseMan and XFree86

1998-12-13 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 22:43:45 -0500 Resent-from: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Precedence: list X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ICMP attack

1998-12-13 Thread AJ
hehe, i was pissing anyone of it was ppl trying to take an IRC channel im an op in.. :-( thanx for the help, AJ Ivan E. Moore II wrote: Well, as for blocking it, there are new features in upcoming kernel releases... (2.2) and I think there are some in the current version..(don't

Colours of tk applications under slink

1998-12-13 Thread Mark Mickan
The colours of all tk based applications seems to have been inverted under slink. That is, the background is now black rather than off-white, which makes many things difficult to read. I presume it is a matter of using X resources, but which ones? Out of curiosity, why was this changed? Please

gnome problems

1998-12-13 Thread wax_man
I'm trying to get gnome running. However, I'm running into problems with libraries. I've ran dselect, and it states that I have everything installed and configured, so I'm kind of at a loss. Does anyone have any ideas on what I need to do? Thanks, Chris The attached file is my

Star Office 3

1998-12-13 Thread Jeff Browning
Hey all, I just got Star Office 3. My ISP automatically disconnects me after four hours even if I'm not idle. Anyway, when I try to run setup program in /usr/lib/StarOffice3 it says Segmentation Error. Also, do you need to have a windows partition to run wine? Thanks a lot. Jeff

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-13 Thread John C. Ellingboe
The only lead I had to a location for slink 1440 floppy images gives an error now. Maybe someone else will come up with a URL. I'm afraid you will probably need someone with more in-depth knowledge than me to solve the problem. John Mark Weston wrote: On 10 Dec 98, at 11:17, John C.

Re: WINE

1998-12-13 Thread Cheng Tang
I have wine in my system, but it still does not work well yet. My guess is that your need change the setting in file wine.ini or ~/.winerc . Probably you forget to create a windows directory in your c:\ drive or point it to the wrong direction. Hope this works. -cheng On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at

Re: Star Office 3

1998-12-13 Thread Ed Cogburn
Jeff Browning wrote: Hey all, I just got Star Office 3. My ISP automatically disconnects me after four hours even if I'm not idle. Anyway, when I try to run setup program in /usr/lib/StarOffice3 it says Segmentation Error. Also, do you need to have a windows partition to run wine? Thanks

moving the root partition (esp. /dev)

1998-12-13 Thread John Paul Lorenti
I'm trying to move all the files in my root partition to a different disk parition. I had no problems using cp -ar to do this with the /usr tree, but /dev is giving me problems. I can't seem to copy the devices in /dev. I get messages like cp: /dev/sdh3: Operation not supported by device. MAKEDEV

system instablity

1998-12-13 Thread Dan hursh
Hi all, I'm asking here because I'm hoping someone might have a nicer diagnosis for what I'm seeing. I had been running a debian hamm installation that I had upgraded with no trouble until I had a disk failure. I verified it was the hard drive that was hosed. Anyhow, I recent bought

Re: Star Office 3

1998-12-13 Thread Jeff Browning
I alrady have libc5 installed. Any other suggestions? Jeff Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 00:27:42 -0500 From: Ed Cogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-Users debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Star Office 3 Jeff Browning wrote: Hey all, I just got Star Office 3. My ISP automatically

Re: moving the root partition (esp. /dev)

1998-12-13 Thread Pete Harlan
I'm trying to move all the files in my root partition to a different disk parition. I had no problems using cp -ar to do this with the /usr tree, but /dev is giving me problems. I can't seem to copy the devices Don't give it the -r option; -a alone will suffice. In particuar, -a includes the

Installation Problem

1998-12-13 Thread Alex
I am trying to install debian linux on an IBM personal system 2 model 70, 386 and have a major problem! The installation program trys three times to detect my controller card and says unrecognized chip and says there are no hard disks on my system. The installation continues till it wants me to

Re: Joystick

1998-12-13 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *- Michael Beattie wrote about Joystick [snip] Linux quake does not have native support for the joystick. The only way to get the joystick to work in quake is to use the joy2key program at http://www.freenet.tlh.fl.us/~amstpi/joy2key.html.

Re: system instablity

1998-12-13 Thread Ed Cogburn
Dan hursh wrote: Hi all, I'm asking here because I'm hoping someone might have a nicer diagnosis for what I'm seeing. I had been running a debian hamm installation that I had upgraded with no trouble until I had a disk failure. I verified it was the hard drive that was hosed.

Re: Star Office 3

1998-12-13 Thread Ed Cogburn
Jeff Browning wrote: I alrady have libc5 installed. Any other suggestions? Jeff Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 00:27:42 -0500 From: Ed Cogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-Users debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Star Office 3 Jeff Browning wrote: Hey all, I just got Star

Re: Configuring scsi controller on ISA bus

1998-12-13 Thread Kent West
Damir's line: boot:aha152x=0x340,11,7,1 What you said the error message was: inside install program it return the error couldn't find kernel image:aha152x=.0x3 I'm not familiar with the way this error message is generated, but I assumed (oops, maybe that's where I went wrong) that the

Re: moving the root partition (esp. /dev)

1998-12-13 Thread John Paul Lorenti
-r was a typo. I meant -R for recursive. It still won't copy the devices in /dev. Pete Harlan wrote: I'm trying to move all the files in my root partition to a different disk parition. I had no problems using cp -ar to do this with the /usr tree, but /dev is giving me problems. I can't

Re: xserver-svga 3.3.2.3 messes virtual terminals

1998-12-13 Thread Carey Evans
Jean Orloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) what more can I try (outside reboot) to clear the terminals? setfont -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Microsoft is the answer! The question is, Why did my PC crash?

Re: moving the root partition (esp. /dev)

1998-12-13 Thread ray
On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 12:39:36AM -0500, John Paul Lorenti wrote: I'm trying to move all the files in my root partition to a different disk parition. I had no problems using cp -ar to do this with the /usr tree, but /dev is giving me problems. I can't seem to copy the devices in /dev. I get

Re: Configuring scsi controller on ISA bus

1998-12-13 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi David Herbert; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I tried your suggestion, it did not return an error but also did not work I continued on and also tried your suggestion using a shell from inside install program it return the error couldn't find kernel image:aha152x=.0x3

Dead middle button in Agiler 3 button mouse

1998-12-13 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
Just got a basic Agiler serial mouse (AGM1904). It works fine but the middle button does not respond. I used the spec: Section Pointer ProtocolMicrosoft Device /dev/mouse BaudRate1200 Resolution 400 Buttons 3 If I add ChordMiddle or

Re: Piped unpipable output [Xserver troubles]

1998-12-13 Thread tko
Christian Lavoie writes: [troubles] Christian, looks like you lack a valid modeline. Check your monitor spec's vs the available modelines. Most video cards are capable of displaying far more video formats than the monitor is capable of displaying (without messing up or worse - burning out). --

Re: gnome problems

1998-12-13 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I'm trying to get gnome running. However, I'm running into problems | with libraries. I've ran dselect, and it states that I have everything | installed and configured, so I'm kind of at a loss. | | Does anyone have any ideas on what I need to do? This is potato, right?

Re: WindowMaker 0.20.3 on hamm

1998-12-13 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Tun Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | thanks for the input... I checked and I had those packages installed | already... and I couldn't find any packages with the same name but without | the 'g' at the end...It still gives the same error... | ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory If I

Re: moving the root partition (esp. /dev)

1998-12-13 Thread John Paul Lorenti
Ok, thanks to you guys I got it working. If you're interested, here's what happened (I think). The first time I tried to copy all of the root partition using -axR. This was working until it got to one of the bttv (brooktree tv card) dev files. I think that because the card was in use (but it

PalmPilot going OpenSource?: off topic?

1998-12-13 Thread John_Gay
I know this is slightly off-topic, but, I just found an article and had a look around Palms site and found this page: http://www.palmpilot.com/devzone/rom3/srcavail.html I followed some of the links and, basically, You can register on-line as a developer, then fill out the Source code license

xdm screen shot

1998-12-13 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi all, Could anyone tell me how I can capture the screen shot of my xdm?? Thx. shao.

mailtools filter

1998-12-13 Thread Richard L. Alhama
does anyone here have a working mailtools filter for debian-user? I gave up on smail/procmail. TIA

Re: two smarthosts in exim?

1998-12-13 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 06:33:16PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: Get rid of one ISP George... What if he is like me (you're going to love this)? I work at an ISP but try not to use the connection since I want my personal netlife seperate from my professional netlife. Thanks -

Re: Unsure of how Debian is updated

1998-12-13 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, I am converting from RedHat to Debian and in the main am pleased with Debian. One thing I can't quite work out though is how Debian handles updated packages. Normally, updated packages go into unstable, which is a sort of work-in-progress area. Every now and then, unstable gets

X fonts problems. nothing available for helvetica

1998-12-13 Thread Alan Bailward
Hi there. Appologies for re-hashing this. Just upgraded my system for the first time in a couple of months with slink. Everything mostly went right, but I have had some problems with X. When starting it, my windowmanager (windowmaker) complains with a message like: Can't load font

Re: [fsck]: file system errors ...

1998-12-13 Thread Nuno Carvalho
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had such a problem. My problem has been caused by glibc2 bug. This bug is fixed glibc-2.0.7u, and glibc-2.0.7t have such bug. Hamm is using glibc-2.0.7t, so Hamm causes such a problem. I had as base installed hamm but with apt-get i've

fetchmail procmail

1998-12-13 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi all, My fetchmail is now working fine. Thne I want to use procmail as well to divert all my debian mails to a different folder... I changed the line in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/fetchmail from fetchmail -v to fetchmail -v --mda formail -s procmail I also have

incorrect username on 'From:' line of outgoing messages

1998-12-13 Thread Britton
The subject pretty much says it all. My 'smarthost' is aurora.uaf.edu, and my username on this system is fsblk, but my username from my home maching (which is 'gandalf') gets put in the From: line. I have tried responding with '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' when asked by smailconfig for my systems visable

Toshiba Satellite crashes with fn key

1998-12-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
Has anyone on this list tried pressing the fn key on a Toshiba Satellite while in Linux? In my case it locks up the machine irretrievably :)) . I wish there were some way of disabling it. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.achc.demon.co.uk

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-13 Thread Mark Weston
On 12 Dec 98, at 10:24, David Stern wrote: Yes, I was trying again last nigt, and waited for 20 minutes or so without result. And the Master/Slave jumpers are definitely configured correctly. I thought of something the other day.. umm.. I know it's generally considered somewhat of a

Re: (off topic) UPS recommendation

1998-12-13 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am in the market for a UPS to use with my PC that will provide power just enough power to get a shutdown finished in case of total power lost. I know that Best Power and Fenton UPS explicity support Linux with their software, and I

Re: recommendation on presentation software

1998-12-13 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i need to make a presentation, and i'd like to do it with my laptop a la Powerpoint. (ie video output of laptop plugged on LCD retroprojector) [...] I need very basic capacities, as i won't have much time to create the contents of the

Re: Star Office 3

1998-12-13 Thread Peter Berlau
On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 07:41:31AM -0400, Jeff Browning wrote: Hey all, I just got Star Office 3. My ISP automatically disconnects me after four hours even if I'm not idle. Anyway, when I try to run setup program in /usr/lib/StarOffice3 it says Segmentation Error. Also, do you need to

Re: Star Office 3

1998-12-13 Thread Peter Berlau
On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 12:27:42AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: Jeff Browning wrote: Hey all, I just got Star Office 3. My ISP automatically disconnects me after four just suck star office 5.0 from stardivision and this works with libc6, StarOffice is eventually really slow :(, but works

Epson Stylus Color IIs

1998-12-13 Thread van den Hurk
Hi everybody out there! Is there any support under Linux for the Epson Stylus Color IIs? Thanx Jan alias hinkel_stein!

Re: Maus/ was: Debian Hamm used

1998-12-13 Thread Bernd Kreimeier
Off topic, but educational. Thomas Adams writes: Hmm, does anybody out there in Germany know Art Spiegelman at all? :) A few might. A court in Sonneberg handed a public prosecutor, one Hoenninger from Meiningen, free license confiscate whatever the publishing company distributing Maus in

Re: incorrect username on 'From:' line of outgoing messages

1998-12-13 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 02:42:57AM -0900, Britton wrote: change this behavior so my outgoin messages have '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the 'From:' field, or do I just need to use a 'Reply-to:' field. Any help or advice greatly appreciated. Yes, have pine put in a domain for you. Look in the

shell magic/info

1998-12-13 Thread Sibuyas Bombay
Hello everyone ! I've been dirtying my hands on how interactive shell programs like smailconfig, bindconfig (those who ask the user for a choice and execute something for that choice). They always start with that usual executable magic #!/bin/sh . Does anyone know of any documentation w/s

ftping StarOffice in small doses

1998-12-13 Thread tracheotomy bob
Hi all, I want to download StarOffice but with it being 70Mb I don't fancy having an open line for seven hours plus. Does anyone know of an ftp program that can download in chunks at a time and doesn't mind frequent interruptions. I think in the past someone mentioned 'cftp' but I

Re: Problem compiling the kernel

1998-12-13 Thread Allens
Peter Granroth wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 08:06:56PM +, Allens wrote: Hi, I am at the moment trying to build the kernel (2.0.34) I have configured it (make xconfig, then ran make mrproper as advised by a post in the mail archives on this problem, and then done make zImage,

Re: 4 button Logitech MouseMan and XFree86

1998-12-13 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 10:43:45PM -0500, Paul Miller wrote: I have a 4 button Logitech MouseMan (has a thumb button) and my buttons don't work correctly in X. The thumb button seems to ack as the middle button and the middle button doesn't work at all. Here's what my current XF86Config file

Re: shell magic/info

1998-12-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
Sibuyas Bombay wrote: Hello everyone ! I've been dirtying my hands on how interactive shell programs like smailco nfig, bindconfig (those who ask the user for a choice and execute something for th at choice). They always start with that usual executable magic #!/bin/sh .

exim: my contrib :)

1998-12-13 Thread Marco Frattola
hi debianers, after some struggling with exim (mostly due to myself, not to this nice program) i've found a setup that could be interesting for other people beside me. so i'd like to contribute it, with the hope it can help someone and maybe help myself too in bettering my config. BACKGROUND i've

calculating bandwidth requirements

1998-12-13 Thread ivan
Hello All, I am looking at setting up a dial-in machine to have a permanent connection to the net so that family and friends can have accounts with me rather than with seperate ISP's and therefore share the costs. It is intended that all normal services (e-mail, ftp, web browsing, newsgroups

fetchmail + procmail setup

1998-12-13 Thread Dave Swegen
Well, since there seems to be a fair a number of people who can't figure this out, I thought it might be helpful if I mailed my own setup. First of all read the mail filtering FAQ (search yahoo for it). This describes more in detail the system that I use. Anyway, this is how I do it. In

Gnome-(panel?)

1998-12-13 Thread Ramin Motakef
Hi! I've installed the latest gnome-debs yesterday, and have one little problem: The panel doesn't save its state when exiting. It always starts with only the main menu and the clock applet and at the default place. I know gnome is alpha, but maybe someone got this to work? P.S.: I have

Re: gnome problems

1998-12-13 Thread wax_man
On 13 Dec, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I'm trying to get gnome running. However, I'm running into problems | with libraries. I've ran dselect, and it states that I have everything | installed and configured, so I'm kind of at a loss. | | Does anyone have any ideas on what

Re: less shows fortune

1998-12-13 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
There probably a mismatched quote somewhere, or something similar. Post /etc/profile and /etc/csh.cshrc here, the error should be obvious to spot I don't think so: # /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for bash(1). PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games PS1=\\$

Cannot access Web Page from behind firewall

1998-12-13 Thread Paul Miller
The Web Page I am trying access is www.columbiahouse.com. I try to access it from either Netscape or Lynx but both get hung up on waiting for the host to reply. This is on my machine inside my firewall. My set up is a two machine network. One is my gateway with a masquarading firewall with the

Re: calculating bandwidth requirements

1998-12-13 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 10:39:24PM +0800, ivan wrote: I am looking at setting up a dial-in machine to have a permanent connection to the net so that family and friends can have accounts with me rather than with seperate ISP's and therefore share the costs. Heh, I've been telling people at

Re: fetchmail + procmail setup

1998-12-13 Thread Richard L. Alhama
I used to have a working sendmail/fetchmail/procmail setup until I reinstalled hamm on my machine(used to be 1.3) after I've messed up init. But when I choosed smail as my MTA, my used to be working ~/.procmailrc could not sort mail anymore. I forgot how I set things up before, maybe a little of

Re: Star Office 3

1998-12-13 Thread Ramin Motakef
If I remember correct, SO3 needs Motif libs for the setup programm. Version 4 and 5 don't. HTH Ramin Jeff Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey all, I just got Star Office 3. My ISP automatically disconnects me after four hours even if I'm not idle. Anyway, when I try to run

Problems with Maelstrom

1998-12-13 Thread Peter Kovacs
I used to play this game for hours and hours on my old Mac LC III. Anyway, I just discovered that it existed last night, and I'm having a few problems starting it. In X, I start it with the -nofade option, and the load status bar fills up and the game apparently crashes. The window is still

Re: less shows fortune

1998-12-13 Thread Carl Johnson
Stef Hoesli Wiederwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There probably a mismatched quote somewhere, or something similar. Post /etc/profile and /etc/csh.cshrc here, the error should be obvious to spot I don't think so: # /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for bash(1).

Re: system instablity

1998-12-13 Thread Dan hursh
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: Thanks Dan, I thought it was just me. I reported transient errors with apt/dpkg. Do the errors start with 'General Protection: 00' or 'General failure: ' or something like that? I don't know if I'm any help. I've never gotten any

Re: Network cards.

1998-12-13 Thread Marc Haber
On 12 Dec 1998 13:38:56 -0800, you wrote: I believe Donald Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] said that he believes that every 10/100 Mbps ethernet card on the market is now supported for Linux. :-) He believes. Though he knows that later Adaptec ANA6911A cards don't work. You have to be pretty unlucky

Re: ftping StarOffice in small doses

1998-12-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998 22:13:33 + (GMT), you wrote: I want to download StarOffice but with it being 70Mb I don't fancy having an open line for seven hours plus. Does anyone know of an ftp program that can download in chunks at a time and doesn't mind frequent interruptions. I think in

Re: dwww: how to include /usr/local/doc

1998-12-13 Thread Marc Haber
On 12 Dec 1998 21:56:43 +0100, you wrote: MH == Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MH I have compiled some programs myself, such as a testing release of MH exim. These programs went into /usr/local, so I have a MH /usr/local/doc with quite some documentation that I'd like to MH include into

how to set up delete and Num_Lock under X Window ?

1998-12-13 Thread Jan Krupa
I. Under X Window backspace works in the standard way but delete works exactly the same way as backspace. How can I achieve the two keys named delete working under X Window in all applications (e.g. xterm, emacs, mathematica, netscape, vim,..) in the standard way (erasing the sign after cursor

RE: Dead middle button in Agiler 3 button mouse

1998-12-13 Thread Jon Burchmore
Just got a basic Agiler serial mouse (AGM1904). It works fine but the middle button does not respond. The mouse box says: resolution 400DPI, Mode: Microsoft / Mouse system. You need to hold down a button at power-up to go into Mouse System (I guess they mean Mouse Systems?) which I did not

Re: system instablity

1998-12-13 Thread john
Ed C. writes: I first got the same kind of 'General failure: 0' message from apt/dpkg then I got the kernel message that began with 'Aiyee' or something like that. It was the first time I've seen a hard kernel crash outside of the X win system. An X server can crash the kernel because it

Re: mailtools filter

1998-12-13 Thread john
Richard L. Alhama writes: does anyone here have a working mailtools filter for debian-user? I'm fairly happy with mailagent. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: fetchmail + procmail setup

1998-12-13 Thread Graham Ashton
On 14 Dec, Richard L. Alhama wrote: But when I choosed smail as my MTA, my used to be working ~/.procmailrc could not sort mail anymore. oh. well I have a very similar setup to dave. my .forward and .procmailrc files seem to be virtually identical (technically). my fetchmail is done slightly

Re: apache: httpd: cannot determine local host name.

1998-12-13 Thread Tim Moore
Graham == Graham Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Graham if you've got a dynamic ip address, or that still doesn't Graham work, look through your httpd.conf file until you find the Graham line that looks like; Graham #ServerName myhost.mydomain.com Graham replace

Re: Toshiba Satellite crashes with fn key

1998-12-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Dec 1998q, Anthony Campbell wrote: Has anyone on this list tried pressing the fn key on a Toshiba Satellite while in Linux? In my case it locks up the machine irretrievably :)) . I wish there were some way of disabling it. Anthony Very sorry to follow up to my own post but this

Re: system instablity

1998-12-13 Thread john
Dan writes: Could you tell if the General Protection/failure messages were from dselect, or the kernel. Such messages can come only from the kernel. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: vgetty info.

1998-12-13 Thread Joerg Friedrich
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for information about vgetty. Does anyone know if there is a homepage for it? Also what modems does it support? Anyone have real world experiance with it? Main Site http://alpha.greenie.net/vgetty/ vgetty mirror sites:

new LILO won't install a new boot sector ...

1998-12-13 Thread Seth M. Landsman
So I have a laptop that has been running slink since August. I just downloaded the new lilo and tried to install a new kernel via lilo. I get the error message : [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo lilo First boot sector has a pre-21 LILO signature lilo -q does not show the new kernel has

russian text; perl NEED HELP!!!

1998-12-13 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi, as I run into this problem and do not how to cope with it, I would like to ask somebody who is workig with russian just to test whether perl supports sorting of russian texts. Torsten sent me a simple script which was working for him. Any help will be greatly appreciated, TIA,

Re: resolve.conf specification

1998-12-13 Thread homega
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: At present there is no simple way to use a different set of nameservers with each ISP. So, that means there is a non simple way of using 2+ different ISPs... if so, how? and, could you explain it to me step by step, please? BTW, not only it would have to be able to

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