Re: permisos en ppp.log

1999-01-13 Thread Xose Manoel Ramos
El Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 02:36:55AM +0100, Vicente Barba contaba: todos he encontrado el mismo problema: el archivo /var/log/ppp.log tiene permisos de lectura para todo el mundo por defecto (evidentemente hay que pornerle un 600). Así, si ponemos debug en el options, entonces la contraseña que le

Re: Debian

1999-01-13 Thread Emilio de Miguel
Hola Andres Hirane escribió: ¿ Puedo tener linux y windows 98 en un mismo HD (disco duro)? ¿Como? Claro que puedes tener ambos. Eso si, el disco ha de ser algo grande para que te quepan los dos: A partir de 2G para una cierta comodidad. Tienes que mirar si tienes espacio libre suficiente en

Re: Red de Linux

1999-01-13 Thread Emilio de Miguel
Hola Andres Herrera escribió: Guenas Tiene pinta de problema de resolucion de nombres. ¿Que servidor DNS has configurado en el /etc/resolv.conf, tanto del servidor como del cliente? ¿Has instalado bind en algun equipo? No tengo bind. Mi resolv.conf es el mismo en todos los equipos:

Re: Permisos

1999-01-13 Thread Emilio de Miguel
Hola Conrado Badenas escribió: Emilio de Miguel wrote: Al listarlos me aparece con nauta como propietario y grupo, pero si intento acceder a el me dice que no tengo permiso. ¿El usuario que intenta acceder tiene permiso de ejecución de su propio directorio?. Ejemplo, yo soy el usuario

Re: permisos en ppp.log

1999-01-13 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
El Tue, Jan 12, 1999, Vicente Barba... tras haber instalado la Debian en tres equipos para un red local, en todos he encontrado el mismo problema: el archivo /var/log/ppp.log tiene permisos de lectura para todo el mundo por defecto (evidentemente hay que pornerle un 600).

Re: placa base atx

1999-01-13 Thread Paco Brufal
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: también me doy cuenta ahora de que al cambiar la tarjeta por una con soporte ATX y una caja ATX, no puedo apagar bien la máquina. Anteriormente intenté hacer Ctrl+Alt+Supr (=halt), pero no pude apagarlo. En windows, al apagar, la máquina se apaga

Re: Permisos

1999-01-13 Thread Conrado Badenas
Emilio de Miguel wrote: Hola Conrado Badenas escribió: Emilio de Miguel wrote: Al listarlos me aparece con nauta como propietario y grupo, pero si intento acceder a el me dice que no tengo permiso. ¿El usuario que intenta acceder tiene permiso de ejecución de su propio

Alguien sabe como actualizar las Xfree86???

1999-01-13 Thread A. de Miguel
¡Hola! En uno de los ordenatas tengo una tarjeta PCI (Picasso Gold) con un chipset Permedia que es soportado por la última version de las Xfree. Tengo la última versión que vino el último PC actual pero creo no viene un fichero .deb. Sólo los tgz. He mirado los readme y la docuentación

WordPerfect 8

1999-01-13 Thread TooManySecrets
Buenas. Ante todo espero que perdoneis éste cross a saco, pero creo que es de interés general y a más de uno interesará la noticia. En el próximo número de PC-PLUS (Febrero), que aparecerá a finales de Enero, viene, en los cd's, el WordPerfect 8 para Linux, incluido el paquete del idioma. --

Compilación del núcleo

1999-01-13 Thread Antonio Angel Sanz Arróspide
Para compilar el núcleo es interesante leer la howto del kernel, pero los pasos a seguier son los siguientes. 1.- Copiar el fichero del núcleo que viene en los funetes de la distribución de Debian 2.0 (la que yo tengo) en el subdirectorio /usr/src. 2.- Descomprimirlo con gunzip ( o

Re: Compilación del núcleo

1999-01-13 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
Pues yo lo que hago para compilar el kernel es lo que dice en el paquete kernel-package - /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz De esta manera te creas un .deb para el binario y luego lo instalo con dpkg -i fichero_kernel.deb Básicamente es: 1.- cd /usr/src/linux-VERSION-QUE-SEA 2.- make

Re: WordPerfect 8

1999-01-13 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Yo pensaba incluirlo en el de LA, lastima que no haya respondido nadie de COREL para poder meterlo, la versión que se distribuye en WWW es sólo para uso personal (no se puede redistribuir) Saludete Javi On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 12:13:10PM +0100, TooManySecrets wrote:

Re: WordPerfect 8

1999-01-13 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 07:58:47PM +0100, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a wrote: Yo pensaba incluirlo en el de LA, lastima que no haya respondido nadie de COREL para poder meterlo, la versión que se distribuye en WWW es sólo para uso personal (no se puede redistribuir) Pues en el SOLO

Re: WordPerfect 8

1999-01-13 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Pues la verdad es que eso mismo he pensado yo, y os hago un adelanto de lo que va a ir en los DOS cds de LA (no es por desprestigiar a la competencia porque yo no he conseguido que los de Corel me den autorización para poner su WP8): - documentacion - mirror de sunsite (ahora

suscribe

1999-01-13 Thread Oscar González

Re: Red de Linux

1999-01-13 Thread Emilio de Miguel
Hola Marcelo E. Magallon escribió: ¿Está el módulo del protocolo cargado? Con el modulo cargado es igual. En esta situación también puede ser que desees colocar un proxy en 'peste' para que las otras dos máquinas se conecten a él. Así obtienes varias cosas, entre ellas, tienes un

suscribe

1999-01-13 Thread Oscar González

Slink problem - libc-doc depends on a duff version

1999-01-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, When using dselect to upgrade to slink, it objects to the version of libc that I have, so I have to remove libc-doc :( Is this a known problem, or am I being dumb? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer

Re: RH vs Debian (Switch to Red Hat ?)

1999-01-13 Thread shaul
i think the reason is the advertisement of redhat, i´ve never heard about debian until a fellow student points out (thanks rainer :-) that there other dists than redhat, suse or dld (german). - And i´m very satisfied with Debian (i´m a hobbyist ;-) What was the RH version that you used

Re: X Clients out on the net? (non-debian specific question)

1999-01-13 Thread shaul
If I understand what you want, you want to run an X client on a Windows box. This might give you a taste of the flavor of X, but the engine will still be Windows with all its limitations, so don't expect to get a true feel for it. To do this, you'll need an X Server on your Windows box. The

Re: Hamm beta upgrade to Slink

1999-01-13 Thread shaul
I want to upgrade my libc from 2.0.7t-1 to libc6_2.0.7v-1.deb too. Can I simply install the appropriate packages, even if during the process parts of the system will be broken ? Is there a possibility that my system will completely be useless so that I will have to reinstall hamm from scratch ?

Re: Slink problem - libc-doc depends on a duff version

1999-01-13 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: Dear all, When using dselect to upgrade to slink, it objects to the version of libc that I have, so I have to remove libc-doc :( the glibc-doc package is your friend -- Madarasz Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: too many open files

1999-01-13 Thread Joe Emenaker
i've recently reinstalled my debian system and i am now getting the following error message: Jan 12 09:00:15 random amd[1162]: setmntent(/etc/mtab, r+): Too many open files any ideas, or pointers to the fm are welcomed. The kernel's out of file handles. Go to /proc/sys/kernel and look at

Re: Debian goes big business? [was: Re: Suggestion for RedHat (was: RH vs Debian)]

1999-01-13 Thread Christian Lavoie
I don't think Debian is usable to found a company on that. No company can actually control Debian, impose release dates and such needed things (for a company). Even if it's feasible, no company ever SHOULD have such rights, for Debian to keep it's spirit. You are thinking in the wrong

nVidia TNT help!!

1999-01-13 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I have tried and tried to get this Riva TNT video card up but I cannot. what I've done: 1) D/L'ed the binary XF86_SVGA server version 3.3.3 and put it in /usr/bin/X11/. (I was using this server with the S3V card earlier today.) 2) Configured my xf86config (3.3.2) for the Riva128 (Diamond

Re: timezone

1999-01-13 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 11:53:32PM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: Dear all, libc recommends timezones, but this appears not to be available. according to dselect :( although I have it installed.. Please give: dpkg -s libc6, dpkg -s timezones (if this is on the hurd, give me dpkg

Re: Switch to Red Hat?

1999-01-13 Thread Randy Edwards
Well, i think it is a very healthy experience once in a while to try out another distribution like Redhat just to see what actually makes Debian so good. [...] So just do it, you'll return anyway - but being lots wiser. Hehehe. He can borrow my copy of RedHat 5.1 I bought and installed

Killing CLOSE/CLOSE_WAIT Sockets?

1999-01-13 Thread Dale Harrison
Howdy, Got a bit of a problem, not real sure how to solve it. Debian box used for mail. People pop their mail (via Outlook). Theres about 50 clients that do this every 5 or so minutes. Every now and then people will complain that they can't get their mail [that in fact, they cannot be logged

network question

1999-01-13 Thread Wesley Simon
This isn't really a Debian specific question. I'm running Debian 2.0 on a machine with 1 10baseT network card. I use this as a Quake server on my LAN. I would like to add a 10/100baseT card to it so that there are 2 network cards. I would then like to be able to run one 100baseT hub and one

Re: Slink problem - libc-doc depends on a duff version

1999-01-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
You should probably use apt and do: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade to slink. This will handle the dependency stuff correctly. You can then configure dselect for the apt method, if you wish (recommended). There's a new version of all the libc6 packages in slink today, so

Re: X Clients out on the net? (non-debian specific question)

1999-01-13 Thread Kent West
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, shaul wrote: If I understand what you want, you want to run an X client on a Windows box. This might give you a taste of the flavor of X, but the engine will still be Windows with all its limitations, so don't expect to get a true feel for it. To do this, you'll

Re: Learning more/Linux programming books

1999-01-13 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, What computer languages do I need to learn? As others have said, that depends on what you want to do... If you are looking at particular files you want to understand, use the `file' command to check what they are; or, if the first line starts with #! it tells you directly (eg a file

Re: Mail, Kernel and X

1999-01-13 Thread David Z. Maze
Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A I also wish to compile my own kernel (make xconfig) but because i dont know A the specs for my vid card, monitor and sound card (soundblaster 16 clone i A think) will i run into trouble? You don't need to use 'make xconfig' to configure your

cron without cron package??

1999-01-13 Thread Chris R. Martin
I've noticed that on Debian systems without the cron package installed, there still appears to be some version of cron availible... however I've been unable to get it to work for anything. I can edit a crontab, but no cron daemon is running and /usr/sbin/cron doesn't seem to do anything. I did a

Re: timezone

1999-01-13 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: Dear all, libc recommends timezones, but this appears not to be available. according to dselect :( although I have it installed.. confused, Matthew I saw this earlier at work, and it looked like a misspelling in the libc6 recommends. It

Setting Prompt

1999-01-13 Thread ktb
OK, I did a search in Debian user's and came up with the the following to change my prompt: In /etc/profile I added the line, export PS1='\h:\w\$ ' This is the readout I got, crossyourfingers:~$ This wasn't what I wanted I only want the current working directory to show. I took a look

Re: default fonts in NS 4.05 unreadable

1999-01-13 Thread Dave Thayer
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 09:42:37PM +0100, Thomas Adams wrote: On two different hamm computers with different video cards and monitors I installed Netscape 4.05 with the install script. On both of these systems I can hardly read the web pages because the default fonts are too small. On

manually running cron

1999-01-13 Thread MallarJ
I have cron installed, and I'm sure it should be running things that I'm not currently running - like the locate database update. My problem is, I'm on a laptop, and I shut it down when I'm done with it. So, is there a way to get the cron stuff to run manually? Or possibly at bootuptime?

Re: manually running cron

1999-01-13 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 10:10:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have cron installed, and I'm sure it should be running things that I'm not currently running - like the locate database update. My problem is, I'm on a laptop, and I shut it down when I'm done with it. So, is there a way to

Re: package upgrading issue

1999-01-13 Thread Paul Miller
Deepak Nulu wrote: Hi, I had the same problem. I wanted to get a package from the FTP site that was not on my CD and did not know how to make dselect load just the package I was interested in. I tried to unselect everything This I believe is not possible. You should use the dpkg command

SMP.

1999-01-13 Thread Chris Wong
Hmm, Does SMP work well with the 2.0.36 kernel? I heard that older kernels (2.0.35), froze when there was a high load. I just want to make sure that it's safe for me to run 2.0.36. Chris Wong | [EMAIL PROTECTED] AD Digital Media Inc. (c) 1998 http://addm.com/

Re: Setting Prompt

1999-01-13 Thread Henning Makholm
ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: show. I took a look at the man page for bash. It said that \w would list my working directory. So I tried the following: If I use, export PS1='\w:\\$ ' I get, ~:$ That is a feature. The tilde is a commonly-used abbreviation for the home directory of the

Re: Setting Prompt

1999-01-13 Thread Jim Foltz
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 09:01:53PM +, ktb wrote: OK, I did a search in Debian user's and came up with the the following to change my prompt: In /etc/profile I added the line, export PS1='\h:\w\$ ' This is the readout I got, crossyourfingers:~$ This wasn't what I wanted I

Re: X and fvwm2 configuration

1999-01-13 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 07:17:37PM +0100, LOPARIC Marko wrote: Just FYI, your fvwm configuration will have no effect on the size of your desktop (real or virtual), or the resolution of your X display. 1. Make X start in higher resolution. This is determined by the Modes line in the Screen

Re: SQLs Servers in Debian

1999-01-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 04:27:30PM -0400, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: I have some questions: 1) Is there any frontend gui to postgres in Debian Hamm or Slink or Pota to? 2) Is there any frontend gui to mysql in Debian Hamm or Slink or Potato? Does it

Re: removing ^M from a text file

1999-01-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 03:48:31PM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Brandon Mitchell wrote: sed 's/^M//g' badfile goodfile Replace badfile and goodfile appropriately. Generate the ^M in bash with contv contm Thanks - that's what I couldn't figure out. It's nice to know

Re: Setting Prompt

1999-01-13 Thread Henning Makholm
I wrote: There doesn't seem to be any way of turning this feature off in standard bash. after downloading and checking the source No, there isn't. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: RH vs Debian (Switch to Red Hat ?)

1999-01-13 Thread Wayne Cuddy
I used RedHat through version 5.1 before switching to Debian. Here are a few of the reason I stuck with Debian and continue to do so. - More packages distributed with the base system. - I believe the dpkg package management is much better than RedHat (especially for

Gnome-ONLINE?

1999-01-13 Thread celtic-rogue
ok.. so I can't get GNOME installed.. I've been told its easier to do, ONLINE, I've even had offeres of help, once I get online.. so... how the heck to I get online with Debian? Remember.. I'm deffinatly a newbie at Debian, and Linux.. just got it installed this past sunday.. Rogue - One who

Re: Soundblaster under Debian 2.0

1999-01-13 Thread Daniel Martin
Ramesh Natarajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I just installed Debian 2.0 and compiled kernal (2.0.34) with Sound as module. I seem to get something working, but not all. I configured my /etc/isapnp.conf, did a isapnptools /etc/isapnp.conf followed by $insmod sound trace_init=1. On dmesg,

Setting Up Newsgroups

1999-01-13 Thread Chris Hoover
How do I go about setting up newsgroups on my hamm box? I installed the news servers, but I'm unsure of what to do next. I just want to pull maybe 10 groups down to my local box. Thanks

Re: Gnome-ONLINE?

1999-01-13 Thread Mark Wagnon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok.. so I can't get GNOME installed.. I've been told its easier to do, ONLINE, I've even had offeres of help, once I get online.. so... how the I too am stumbling with Debian. I got gnome to work by getting the following files: gdk-imlib1_1.8.1-0.1_i386.deb

Re: SQLs Servers in Debian

1999-01-13 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 02:52:49PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 04:27:30PM -0400, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: I have some questions: 1) Is there any frontend gui to postgres in Debian Hamm or Slink or Pota to? 2) Is there

Re: default fonts in NS 4.05 unreadable

1999-01-13 Thread Mark Wagnon
Dave Thayer wrote: In Windows you have TrueType fonts which display much more nicely than X fonts, especially on a lower res screen. I installed xfstt from slink which vastly improved Netscape on my 640x480 laptop screen. I decided to try a fresh look for X and install xfstt. Is there

Re: Why not as a newsgroup?

1999-01-13 Thread Ed Cogburn
Tom Persons wrote: Actually, if you check an earlier post someone responded with the address of a site that mirrors this list. But your right, that many e-mail's at 28.8 or lower can take quite awhile. On the flip side a 56K modem goes for under $100 now and I've seen some on sale for as low

Boa and ProFTPd from inetd?

1999-01-13 Thread atallam
Hi all! I was wondering if somebody could tell me what I have to do to get these services to run properly from inetd? (Apparently they don't bother to configure themselves in the least for it!) I tried manually adding a line to my inetd.conf file, (and then killall -1 inetd), which didn't seem

Re: Why not as a newsgroup?

1999-01-13 Thread Ed Cogburn
Thomas Adams wrote: On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 05:53:50PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: Newsgroups allow you to only download the subject lines of the messages instead of have to download all messages whether you would have read them or not. I'm glad you have a 56k connection, How

Re: default fonts in NS 4.05 unreadable

1999-01-13 Thread Dave Thayer
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 09:37:49PM -0800, Mark Wagnon wrote: Dave Thayer wrote: In Windows you have TrueType fonts which display much more nicely than X fonts, especially on a lower res screen. I installed xfstt from slink which vastly improved Netscape on my 640x480 laptop screen.

Re: NT and Debian...O.S. loader 4.01 sux!

1999-01-13 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, NT loader 4.01 will overwirte mbr without any warning. you can get the debian rescue image, and boot linux from the floppy disk... then you can mount the linux native partition and reinstall lilo on the root partition. After that, go back to NT and set the linux native

Re: hosts.deny problem.

1999-01-13 Thread Matus \fantomas\ Uhlar
- hosts.allow - ALL: localhost,128.206.x.x : ALL - - Whenever I've put an IP in, I always also add the mask, a la: - ALL :localhost, 128.206.0.0/255.255.0.0 - - AND LEAVE OFF THAT SECOND ALL! - - hosts.deny - ALL: ALL I likemore idea of one config file and use: ALL: localhost

Re: default fonts in NS 4.05 unreadable

1999-01-13 Thread Mark Wagnon
Dave Thayer wrote: It was a pretty uneventful installation, but read /usr/doc/xfstt/FAQ.gz. In particular there are some details regarding choosing font size for netscape. What I did, in a nutshell, was -Set up symlinks from /dosc/windows/fonts to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/winfonts

Re: Type tags for Debian packages.

1999-01-13 Thread Patrik Rak
On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: The problem I have with a heirarchical structure is that you always have those 'gray area' packages that may go into one location or another. For example: I have an X11-based system administration tool. Should it go into X11/system or system/X11?

X -indirect, xdm and chooser

1999-01-13 Thread ulisses
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all, I'm using default /etc/X11/Xaccess configuration My /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers has the X server line commented I start xdm, ok I start X -indirect localhost I get the chooser with a list of all available hosts willing to manage my X server, that's fine If

Two IPs for one adapter?

1999-01-13 Thread Gossamer
Is there a 'cannonical' way to get my server to bind two addresses to the one network card? I know how with ifconfig, but I was wondering if it should go into the deb config thingies somewhere? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

libc6 whoes

1999-01-13 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all, I upgraded my libc6 to libc6 2.0.7v-1, which took me a while to locate. However my dev is still libc6 2.0.7t-1. I've been unable to compile the window maker sources, and it just dawned on me this evening that maybe having different versions of runtimes and dev files is a bad thing(?).

jdk1.2 as .deb package?

1999-01-13 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, is there a jdk1.2 .deb package available somewhere? Or is somebody working on it? Thanks, Thomas

Re: sendmail config Q.

1999-01-13 Thread Rob S. Wolfram
On Sat, Aug 02, 1997 at 12:57:34PM +0800, zhaoway wrote: Methinks the date of your system needs checking... i want to rewrite the reply-to addr. according to the receipent's email addr. i don't know howto. anyone can help me? i use sendmail. why i want this, if you have interests to read

Re: Slink problem - libc-doc depends on a duff version

1999-01-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: There's a new version of all the libc6 packages in slink today, so hopefully there should be no problems with that. In fact, my slink mirror has no libc6 at all ! (sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk). Using the potato one unhosed my system. Matthew -- Elen sila

Re: printing to NT with smbclient

1999-01-13 Thread John Stevenson
I took the easy way out of this situation by using rlpr instead of samba. Simply install the rlpr package and run Printing over TCP/IP Services on the NT machine. To be able to just use the lpr command instead of rlpr [EMAIL PROTECTED] all the time, change your /etc/printcap file to read as

Re: Setting Prompt

1999-01-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
This wasn't what I wanted I only want the current working directory to show. I took a look at the man page for bash. It said that \w would list my working directory. So I tried the following: If I use, export PS1='\w:\\$ ' I get, ~:$ ^ This is your working directory - ~/ is short

Re: RH vs Debian (Switch to Red Hat ?)

1999-01-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Wayne Cuddy wrote: I used RedHat through version 5.1 before switching to Debian. Here are a few of the reason I stuck with Debian and continue to do so. snip lots of good reasons why debian is better than RH :) I'd like to add the GNU/Hurd project to the list of plusses.

Installation Probelm Potato !!!

1999-01-13 Thread Franz . Skale
Downloaded new potato disks and installed it via ftp. After deselcting all wanted packages all seems to be all right. After installation and configuration i am not abel to reboot the machine because some essential progams are deleted by dselect. E.g. reboot, sulogin, shutdown etc. What`s this ?

Re: libc6 whoes

1999-01-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
I upgraded my libc6 to libc6 2.0.7v-1, which took me a while to locate. However my dev is still libc6 2.0.7t-1. I've been unable to compile the window maker sources, and it just dawned on me this evening that maybe having different versions of runtimes and dev files is a bad thing(?).

Emacs19 won't install

1999-01-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, Here is stderr from and attempt to configure emacs19. FWIW, I have a working emacs20 setup. Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish(forking to background) Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock) install: *.elc: No such file or directory emacs-install:

Re: libc6 whoes

1999-01-13 Thread Conrado Badenas
Mark Wagnon wrote: Anyway, I went back to where I got my libc6 2.0.7v-1, and it's gone, and there is no libc-dev 2.0.7v-1 package either. The only 'non-stable' version of either is the 19981211 version. Does anyone happen to know where I can get the dev package? Try at some secondary mirror

Dselect-problem (new user)

1999-01-13 Thread faoho
Ringkjøbing Amt - e-post I'm a new debian-user (or ties to be...) I've got a debian CD and install it on my disk. Running Dselect as a part of it I have to pick a access method I mark the CD-ROM - method dselect ask me then, what the device block name is. What the # shall I write here?

Re: timezone

1999-01-13 Thread Conrado Badenas
M.C. Vernon wrote: libc recommends timezones, but this appears not to be available. according to dselect :( libc6 version 2.0.7_19981211-1 recommends timezone, but the package is actually named timezones (bug#31706 for libc6). -- Conrado Badenas (Assistant Lecturer) Department of

Re: libc6 whoes

1999-01-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Conrado Badenas wrote: Nevertheless, if you want to try version 19981211-1 you can do it although it has a very very small bug: it says that depends on timezone instead of timezones (bug #31706). Importantly, it only recommends: timezones, which is the correct spelling.

Re: Dselect-problem (new user)

1999-01-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
I've got a debian CD and install it on my disk. Running Dselect as a part of it I have to pick a access method I mark the CD-ROM - method dselect ask me then, what the device block name is. What the # shall I write here? Nothing seems to work. Hmm /dev/hdc is probably a good guess, or

Re: default fonts in NS 4.05 unreadable

1999-01-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 12 Jan 1999q, Dave Thayer wrote: In Windows you have TrueType fonts which display much more nicely than X fonts, especially on a lower res screen. I installed xfstt from slink which vastly improved Netscape on my 640x480 laptop screen. your pal dave -- Dave Thayer Denver,

Re: Setting Prompt

1999-01-13 Thread Conrado Badenas
ktb wrote: In /etc/profile I added the line, export PS1='\h:\w\$ ' This is the readout I got, crossyourfingers:~$ This wasn't what I wanted I only want the current working directory to show. I took a look at the man page for bash. It said that \w would ~ is the name of your $HOME

Re: Help needed piping output to a bash script

1999-01-13 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: while read line; do echo $line $TMPFILE done Any special reason for not simply doing cat $TMPFILE Um, yeah, it looks neater :) I was just mindlessly copying the original poster's script. Anyway, you actually still have one

USB Support

1999-01-13 Thread Faton Useni
Hi, Im a new Debian Linux user and i would like to know if the usb port is supported in the stable Debian 2.0 distribution. I want to use it to connect my mouse, keyboard, and modem on my other machine. If it is supported, could some please direct me to some documentation to read. Also also

Re: printing to NT with smbclient

1999-01-13 Thread ulisses
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi John!! On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, John Stevenson wrote: I took the easy way out of this situation by using rlpr instead of samba. Simply install the rlpr package and run Printing over TCP/IP Services on the NT machine. Thank you for your tip, I forgot

tricky installation problem!

1999-01-13 Thread ari gold
hello there good folks, my question is: what is the next level of help available? who are the gurus? but here's why i'm asking... you may have seen my prior email regarding problems in installation. in case not here's a brief restatement (and also in case you can help ; i'm trying to install

Re: tricky installation problem!

1999-01-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
my question is: what is the next level of help available? who are the gurus? A good number of them are here(not myself though) but here's why i'm asking... snip does mr. steven reisman have it there? is the solution to change the source code of the install files? (if so, how do i get

Re: Setting Prompt

1999-01-13 Thread Armin Wegner
OK, I did a search in Debian user's and came up with the the following to change my prompt: In /etc/profile I added the line, export PS1='\h:\w\$ ' This is the readout I got, crossyourfingers:~$ This wasn't what I wanted I only want the current working directory to show. I

Re: X -indirect, xdm and chooser

1999-01-13 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 10:03:15AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using default /etc/X11/Xaccess configuration My /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers has the X server line commented I start xdm, ok I start X -indirect localhost I get the chooser with a list of all available hosts willing to manage

Re: network question

1999-01-13 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 07:15:17PM -0600, Wesley Simon wrote: : I use this as a Quake server on my LAN. I would like to add a : 10/100baseT card to it so that there are 2 network cards. I would : then like to be able to run one 100baseT hub and one 10baseT hub. I : have read that Linux

Re: USB Support

1999-01-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 04:28:15 -0600, Faton Useni wrote: I would also like to know if can mount a fat32 partition. i have tryed mount -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /mnt ( fat32 is on and 3rd hard drive ) but i get a error message. Is there a *.deb package i need to install?? Please make a habit of

Re: USB Support

1999-01-13 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 04:28:15AM -0600, Faton Useni wrote: : Im a new Debian Linux user and i would like to know if the usb port : is supported in the stable Debian 2.0 distribution. I want to use it to : connect my mouse, keyboard, and modem on my other machine. If it is : supported,

Re: Setting Prompt

1999-01-13 Thread Gregory T. Norris
As others have already pointed out, that's actually a feature with ~ representing your home-directory. If you want to force bash to display the full path, you can embed ${PWD} into PS1 - be sure to enclose it in single quotes, so that it's not expanded during the actual assignment. On Tue, Jan

mounting IRIX64 with 2.2.0pre5

1999-01-13 Thread ulisses
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all, I'm trying to mount an nfs exported directory to a linux-2.2.0pre5 I've tried using tcp,udp and nfsv2,nfsv3 with no luck at all, all I get is Permision denied The only thing I find extrange is: rpcinfo -u host 15 (mountd) program 15 version

linux instalation: error activating swap partition

1999-01-13 Thread Ulrich Gruen mails again
Dear helpful person. I have a problem with the installation of linux, and I hope that you can help me. I tried to install Debian linux, with the help of cfdisk.txt and the Installing Debian Linux 2.0 For x86 guide. I try to install with floppies. I have an i386-25 MHz and 4MB RAM, and I'm using

Re: SMP.

1999-01-13 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I haven't had any problems with 2.0.36 (dual PII-300 on a system from Micron). I did experience very occasional SMP-related lockups with 2.0.35 and prior. The 2.2.0-preX kernels are very noticably faster, tho. On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 07:42:46PM -0800, Chris Wong wrote: Hmm, Does SMP

Re: SoundBlaster Vibra 16 jumperless card under Linux

1999-01-13 Thread Damon Muller
On Sun, 10 Jan 1999 23:58:10 +0100 Michele Bini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you detect your card using pnpdump? No, it wasn't detected by pnpdump. I actually worked it out eventually. I basically made a dos boot disk with a ramdisk on it using OpenDOS (did a 'format /s' from an OpenDOS image

Re: Slink problem - libc-doc depends on a duff version

1999-01-13 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Gergely Madarasz wrote: On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: Dear all, When using dselect to upgrade to slink, it objects to the version of libc that I have, so I have to remove libc-doc :( the glibc-doc package is your friend If we are going to

Re: linux instalation: error activating swap partition

1999-01-13 Thread Peter Berlau
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 12:49:29PM +, Ulrich Gruen mails again wrote: Hi Ulrich, The problem: When I try to activate the swap-partition, I get the following error message: The swap partition /dev/hda1 could not be activated: Device or resource busy if the device is busy it is already up,

Re: USB Support

1999-01-13 Thread Randy Edwards
I would also like to know if can mount a fat32 partition. i have tryed mount -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /mnt ( fat32 is on and 3rd hard drive ) but i get a error message. Is there a *.deb package i need to install?? And that error message is? Most likely you need to recompile your kernel with

Re: Setting Prompt

1999-01-13 Thread Randy Edwards
As root my prompt has the working directory listed. Where is the file for the root prompt? This can be set in ~/.bashrc and/or? ~/.bash_profile. I just checked, and I have mine set in both (for what reason escapes me). I'm using: PS1=\t [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\$ and then exporting it,

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