Re: Projeto LinUSP (http://linusp.usp.br)

1999-02-03 Thread Eduardo Marcel Macan
Nos estamos utilizando o CVS para manter o site do linux brasil. As paginas HTML estao todas no CVS, entao se algum novo membro deseja participar a gente cria uma conta para que ele possa baixar as paginas para sua casa, alterar o que quiser (ou melhor, o que for de sua jurisdicao) e fazer

RE: TV

1999-02-03 Thread Jordi Román Mejias
conf.modules alias char-major-81 bttv pre-install bttv modprobe -k msp3400; modprobe -k tuner options bttvcard=1 radio=0 vidmem=0xe80 options tuner type=0 debug=0 Bueno recompilando en casa la version 2.2.0 del kernel he conseguido cargar todos los

Re: Quake2

1999-02-03 Thread Correcaminos
TooManySecrets wrote: Buenas. ¿Alguien sabe por qué demonios me dice ésto el Quake2 cuando intento ponerlo en marcha:? Error: Couldn't load pics/colormap.pcx Hasta ahora me había funcionado bien, pero instalé una Voodoo2 con 12 Mb RAM, y desde entonces no me ha funcionado

Query para dpkg.

1999-02-03 Thread Jose Albores
Mil disculpas! Por error envié el mensaje en inglés anteriormente! Cual es el comando equivalente a: # rpm -qa pero en dpkg ?? Para saber cuales son los paquetes dpkg instalados ? Mil gracias! -- \\\o/// \\ - - // ( @ @ )

Tar y ficheros ocultos

1999-02-03 Thread benalb
¿Se puede usar tar para hacer backups de directorios con archivos ocultos? Por más que busco en el man no veo nada de dot files o hidden. Un saludo Benjamín Albiñana Pérez mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux User Nº78177 Espacio disponible para publicidad

Re: ¿Alguien usmeando en mi sistema?

1999-02-03 Thread benalb
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Conrado Badenas wrote: benalb wrote: que pillé por la red, que le manda al chico malo un winnuke, un jolt y un teardrop, además de pasarme su ip, dominio, y tal a un fichero. Muy práctico Me gustaría saber qué es eso. Veréis, desde hace un mes tanto el Linux como

Re: Kernel 2.2 y smbfs

1999-02-03 Thread Hue-Bond
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Jordi Roman Mejias wrote: ([EMAIL PROTECTED])~$ mount -V mount: mount-2.8a He mirado en rediris y no encuentro mas alla de la 2_71 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/base/mount_2.9g-6.deb 2) en el ordenador del trabajo me fallan los

Re: ¿Alguien usmeando en mi sistema?

1999-02-03 Thread Hue-Bond
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Conrado Badenas wrote: Me gustaría saber qué es eso. Veréis, desde hace un mes tanto el Linux como el Win3.1 se me quedan colgados de manera esporádica pero SOLO CUANDO ESTOY CONECTADO. Si desenchufo de internet todo va bien. Supongo que alguien o algo me está atacando

Re: Query para dpkg.

1999-02-03 Thread Francisco Callejo
On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 08:42:10PM -0300, Jose Albores wrote: Cual es el comando equivalente a: # rpm -qa pero en dpkg ?? Para saber cuales son los paquetes dpkg instalados ? dpkg -l Te sirve también para saber los paquetes disponibles y no instalados. Si escribes, por

Re: Tar y ficheros ocultos

1999-02-03 Thread Antonio Castro
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, benalb wrote: ¿Se puede usar tar para hacer backups de directorios con archivos ocultos? Por más que busco en el man no veo nada de dot files o hidden. Un saludo Esta duda se soluciona con una sencillisima prueba de medio minuto. tar cf /tmp/kk . tar tf /tmp/kk |

Tamaño imagenes en Tex

1999-02-03 Thread Dani Nebot
Hola, estoy insertando imagenes en un documento Tex con: \begin{figure}[ht] \begin{center} \leavevmode \epsffile{images/jdk11.ps} \end{center} \caption{La arquitectura de Seguridad de JDK 1.2.} \label{jdk12} \end{figure} pero como me han quedado un poco grandes, necesitaria

smail en red local

1999-02-03 Thread Fernando
Hola a todos: Sigo intentando poder utilizar el mail para enviar correo, ahora mismo puedo enviar correo a cualquier direccion de internet excepto a las direcciones del dominio al que estoy conectado. por ejemplo no puedo enviarme correo a [EMAIL PROTECTED] me explico: Existe una maquina

Re: Tamaño imagenes en Tex

1999-02-03 Thread Juan José Domínguez Jiménez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Dani Nebot wrote: Hola, estoy insertando imagenes en un documento Tex con: \begin{figure}[ht] \begin{center} \leavevmode Puedes especificar el ancho de la imagen de la siguiente forma:

Re: Tamaño imagenes en Tex

1999-02-03 Thread David Leal
Dani Nebot wrote: Hola, estoy insertando imagenes en un documento Tex con: \begin{figure}[ht] \begin{center} \leavevmode \epsffile{images/jdk11.ps} \end{center} \caption{La arquitectura de Seguridad de JDK 1.2.} \label{jdk12} \end{figure} pero como me han quedado un

Re: Tamaño imagenes en Tex

1999-02-03 Thread David Cabrero souto
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Dani Nebot wrote: Hola, estoy insertando imagenes en un documento Tex con: \begin{figure}[ht] \begin{center} \leavevmode \epsfxsize= \epsfysize= \epsffile{images/jdk11.ps} \end{center} \caption{La arquitectura de Seguridad de JDK

Faltan ficheros.

1999-02-03 Thread Area Tecnica, Externo17
Hola a todos. (Esto es lo primero). Acabo de aterrizar en Debian y tras varias reinstalaciones creí conseguir un sistema algo estable :-) Tengo instalado Debian2.0 Hamm con el Kernel 2.0.36 y he intentado montar el Kernel 2.2.0 (sin conseguirlo). El problema que tengo es

¿Callejón sin salida particionando?

1999-02-03 Thread jarregui
Hola a todos. Tengo dos discos duros: /dev/hda, /dev/hdc. La tabla de partición (impresa con cfdisk) de /dev/hdc es la siguiente: Partition Table for /dev/hdc FirstLast # Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type -- --- - -- -

re:2 discos

1999-02-03 Thread Emilio Castrillejo
Tengo dos discos duros: /dev/hda, /dev/hdc. FirstLast ü Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type -- --- - -- - 1 Primary0 1846655 63 1846656 Linux (83) 3 Primary 1846656

RE: 2 discos

1999-02-03 Thread jarregui
No sabía ni que existía la orden mkfs.ext2. ¿Es lo mismo que mke2fs, que es lo que he probado yo? Porque a mí no me ha dejado... Javi

Re: ¿Callejón sin salida particionando?

1999-02-03 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 12:01:47PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Si borro /dev/hdc3, y trato de crear una nueva partición Linux en el espacio libre, NO me permite crearla de tipo Linux ext2 (ID=85). Me la crea Linux (ID=83), y no me deja cambiarle el tipo... La ID 85 no es Linux ext2

RE: ¿Callejón sin salida particionando?

1999-02-03 Thread jarregui
El cfdisk la pone como Linux ext2, pero no te dice que su ID sea 85. La razón por la cual el cfdisk llama a las particiones ID=83 a veces Linux ext2, a veces Linux, es un misterio que se encuentra profundamente oculto en el código fuente de dicho programa... ;-) Pues a mí me ha vuelto loco

Re: Kernel 2.2 y smbfs

1999-02-03 Thread Jordi Roman Mejias
Hue-Bond wrote: On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Jordi Roman Mejias wrote: ([EMAIL PROTECTED])~$ mount -V mount: mount-2.8a He mirado en rediris y no encuentro mas alla de la 2_71 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/base/mount_2.9g-6.deb Ya he instalado esta

Re: Kernel 2.2 y smbfs

1999-02-03 Thread Jordi Roman Mejias
Hue-Bond wrote: On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Jordi Roman Mejias wrote: ([EMAIL PROTECTED])~$ mount -V mount: mount-2.8a He mirado en rediris y no encuentro mas alla de la 2_71 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/base/mount_2.9g-6.deb Ya he instalado esta

RE: ¿Callejón sin salida particionando? - Solucionado

1999-02-03 Thread jarregui
Bien, ya está todo funcionando. Ya sé por qué esta mañana no me funcionaba mke2fs: porque aún tenía montada la partición FAT32 que me acababa de cargar (pero qué bestia soy, madre mía). Sería un detalle que el cfdisk no permitiera trastear con las particiones que ya están montadas, porque si

sugerencias

1999-02-03 Thread Felipe Sanchez
Holas, Convencí a un amigo de cambiarse a Linux y, ahoraque el sistema ya lo tiene funcionando me está preguntando por algunos softwares. Como nuestros estilos de trabajo son distintos yo no uso el tipo de software que él necesita, así que les escripo a ver si alguien me da sugerencias. [...]

xforms

1999-02-03 Thread Jose Mari Mor Fabregat
No se si alguien a probado a instalar el Lyx que viene en la 2.0r1, pero si lo ha intentado verá que dpkg le pide las xforms. Las xforms están en formato .tar.gz, pero no en .deb Puedo pasar del .tar.gz a .deb mediante alien, pero no lo he hecho nunca. Si alguien tiene otra sugerencia

Re: xforms

1999-02-03 Thread Jose Miguel Gurpegui
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999 17:37:09 +0100 (MET) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jose Mari Mor Fabregat) wrote: No se si alguien a probado a instalar el Lyx que viene en la 2.0r1, pero si lo ha intentado verá que dpkg le pide las xforms. Las xforms están en formato .tar.gz, pero no en .deb Puedo pasar del .tar.gz a

Problema con postgres

1999-02-03 Thread Hernan Mauricio Velasquez Nino
Hola lista Tengo un pequeno problema con postgres Tengo una base de datos, con nombre xxx la cual cree con algunas tablas. Debo crear otra base de datos yyy. Lo hago con tanto con el comando createdb como con psql y create database, y en ambos casos me crea la base de datos yyy pero le copia

Re: xforms

1999-02-03 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 05:37:09PM +0100, Jose Mari Mor Fabregat wrote: No se si alguien a probado a instalar el Lyx que viene en la 2.0r1, pero si lo ha intentado verá que dpkg le pide las xforms. Las xforms están en formato .tar.gz, pero no en .deb

tocando la cage

1999-02-03 Thread Jordi Roman Mejias
Pues eso intentando averiguar porque no tenia acentos en el kernel 2.2.0 o 2.2.1 me he quedado sin acentos . De esto se deduce que no era cosa del kernel, pero no se de que. Alguien tiene alguna sugerencia ahora mismo mis variables de entorno son

un posible BUG con libpaperg 1.0.3-11

1999-02-03 Thread Jordi Roman Mejias
con el paquete libpaperg vienen una serie de utilidades para gestionar el tipo de papel a usar en muchos programas. Pues bien cuando lo configuro para que utilize el tamaño a4 me escribe un fichero /etc/papersize cuyo contenido es 'A4'. si entonces uso el GV o el

iNet: conecto, obtengo una IP y ahora?

1999-02-03 Thread Jon Noble
Pues eso, que mi modem marca, linka, incluso obtengo las IP's local y remota.Pero...¿y ahora? ¿Debo hacer algo más? Cuando obtengo las IP's, arranco un browser, pero no es capaz de conectar con ninguna pagina (incluso poniendola con direcciones IP: http://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX) ¿Alguien me puede decir

Problemas compilando Postgres-6.4.2

1999-02-03 Thread Felix Herrera
Hola a todos: Estoy intentando compilar Postgresql-6.4.2 y me da el siguiente error: postmaster.c -o postmaster.o postmaster.c: In function `ServerLoop': postmaster.c:625: too few arguments to function

RE: iNet: conecto, obtengo una IP y ahora?

1999-02-03 Thread Jon Noble
En primer lugar, gracias por el interes... Pues eso, que mi modem marca, linka, incluso obtengo las IP's local y remota.Pero...¿y ahora? ¿Debo hacer algo más? Cuando obtengo las IP's, arranco un browser, pero no es capaz de conectar con ninguna pagina (incluso poniendola con direcciones IP:

Re: vt100 - Linux

1999-02-03 Thread Antonio Calvo Rodriguez
Gerardo Aburruzaga Garcia wrote: y funciona de maravilla. El problema es que ahora quiero alargar más el cable y he visto que el VT tiene también otro tipo de enchufe. Es parecido al de teléfono. Además en la facultad es el tipo de cable que Debe ser un DEC-423. Es un cable serie.

Re: Query for dpkg.

1999-02-03 Thread TooManySecrets
Jose Albores el día Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 07:19:58PM -0300 expuso lo siguiente: I'd like to know how can I see which packages are in my dpkg's data base. Or more precisely: What command is equivalent to: # rpm -qa for rpm's packages ??? But for dpkg's ??? P'os mú fasil, coleguita...

doc para postgrs?

1999-02-03 Thread jlpl
Saludos: ¿Hay documentación para postgres en español? ¿Dónde? -- José L. Pérez de León [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sugerencias

1999-02-03 Thread TooManySecrets
Felipe Sanchez el día Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 11:40:19AM -0300 expuso lo siguiente: Como nuestros estilos de trabajo son distintos yo no uso el tipo de software que él necesita, así que les escripo a ver si alguien me da sugerencias. [...] Una pregunta : sabes donde encontrar los software

Re: iNet: conecto, obtengo una IP y ahora?

1999-02-03 Thread TooManySecrets
Jon Noble el día Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 09:12:08PM +0100 expuso lo siguiente: Pues eso, que mi modem marca, linka, incluso obtengo las IP's local y remota.Pero...¿y ahora? ¿Debo hacer algo más? Cuando obtengo las IP's, arranco un browser, pero no es capaz de conectar con ninguna pagina (incluso

Re: Query for dpkg.

1999-02-03 Thread Paco Brufal
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Jose Albores wrote: I'd like to know how can I see which packages are in my dpkg's data base. Or more precisely: What command is equivalent to: # rpm -qa for rpm's packages ??? But for dpkg's ??? dpkg -l. Por cierto, la lista es en castellano :)

Re: Borrar directorio

1999-02-03 Thread Antonio Ballesteros
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Jaime E. Villate wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ¿Cómo hago para borrar un directorio con todo su contenido? rm -r directorio (piensa dos vezes antes del enter, porque un error te puede costar caro) Sobre todo por una linea que ponia en el mensaje original que

Re: minicom config

1999-02-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, ktb wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get away from my modem failing to hang up properly and am attempting to install mimicom. I went through the configuration process and as root, the program at least starts the dialup process. I aborted because I didn't want to be on line

Notebook manufacturer recomendation

1999-02-03 Thread Dave Swegen
With a bit of luck I'll be starting work in a few weeks (crossing fingers til they pop off and fly accross the room), and I was told I'd be bought a notebook. So I was hoping I could get some pointers to which notebook manufacturers tend to allow for easy debian installation. I believe the

Re: Help! I can't partition my disk.

1999-02-03 Thread Jeff Katcher
trio wrote: My problem: i've downloqded the floppies needed to install a new configuration and the rescue disk boots and starts the configuration process. First it asks if i have a color screen, then what keyboard. Then it says NEXT: Partition the hard disk. When i choose it, it goes back

Re: minicom config

1999-02-03 Thread ktb
Bob Nielsen wrote: On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, ktb wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get away from my modem failing to hang up properly and am attempting to install mimicom. I went through the configuration process and as root, the program at least starts the dialup process. I aborted because I

exim: I get mail but cannot send

1999-02-03 Thread Frederick Page
Hi all, after trying to configure sendmail (pain in the neck) to work with uucp, I gave up on sendmail and (thanks for the exim-thread) tried exim. Now this really went smooth, I also read some of the docs and had it set up quite nicely. Wow, *this* is really a difference. Haven't set up

Switching between X and Text mode terminals

1999-02-03 Thread Alfie Costa
Question: Is there an easy way, such as a few keystrokes or a command, to switch between text terminals and X, and vice-versa? That is, before running X, I can press 'Alt-F1' to get the first text terminal, 'Alt-F2' to get the second, and so on. Once I'm in X, this doesn't work. It seems as

Re: Switching between X and Text mode terminals

1999-02-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Alfie Costa wrote: Is there an easy way, such as a few keystrokes or a command, to switch between text terminals and X, and vice-versa? That is, before running X, I can press 'Alt-F1' to get the first text terminal, 'Alt-F2' to get

Re: Switching between X and Text mode terminals

1999-02-03 Thread ktb
Try Ctrl-Alt-F1 F1 through F6 are text terminals. F7 is the X terminal. If your is set up like mine:) Hope that helped, Kent Alfie Costa wrote: Question: Is there an easy way, such as a few keystrokes or a command, to switch between text terminals and X, and vice-versa? That is,

Re: Switching between X and Text mode terminals

1999-02-03 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Alfie Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Question: | | Is there an easy way, such as a few keystrokes or a command, to switch | between text terminals and X, and vice-versa? | | That is, before running X, I can press 'Alt-F1' to get the first text | terminal, 'Alt-F2' to get the second, and so

Re: Switching between X and Text mode terminals

1999-02-03 Thread Mark Wagnon
Alfie Costa wrote: Question: Is there an easy way, such as a few keystrokes or a command, to switch between text terminals and X, and vice-versa? That is, before running X, I can press 'Alt-F1' to get the first text terminal, 'Alt-F2' to get the second, and so on. Once I'm in X, this

Re: Help! I can't log in!

1999-02-03 Thread trio
What happened? I installed linux v2.0.34 about a month ago. Everything was working fine. In fact, everything is still being served by apache just fine, but my telnet sessions get as far as logging me in, telling me that i have new mail and then closing the connection! Even from the

Re: minicom config (digression)

1999-02-03 Thread Alfie Costa
On 2 Feb 99 at 16:50, ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: am attempting to install mimicom. I went through the configuration process and as root, the program at least starts the dialup process. I aborted because I didn't want to be on line while in root. Don't know if this will help, but it

Re: Notebook manufacturer recomendation

1999-02-03 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: With a bit of luck I'll be starting work in a few weeks (crossing fingers til they pop off and fly accross the room), and I was told I'd be bought a notebook. So I was hoping I could get some pointers to which notebook manufacturers tend to allow for

Re: Goodbye, people!

1999-02-03 Thread Frankie
Assuming you still haven't got your CD-ROM working, tell me the answers to these questions and they might be enough to establish what you need to do to get your cd working: what kernel version are you using? - I might be able to compile you a module for that kernel. Do you have any other kernel

Re: Goodbye, people!

1999-02-03 Thread Randy Edwards
distribution to compare it to, I'm glad I did. After getting over the realization that I wouldn't have everything working that I wanted in Linux, right now, I began to relax and it has become a hobby. Well an obsession:) Gee, that sounds familiar! ;-) Yes, Linux's learning curve is

Re: Goodbye, people!

1999-02-03 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 02 Feb 1999 20:30:35 -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: Yes, Linux's learning curve is pretty steep, and you can't just overwhelm the system either (at least I can't!). Fork bomb!!! Fork bomb :) - -- Steve

Re: Tracking installs

1999-02-03 Thread Peter S Galbraith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) dpkg won't track anything done by installation scripts after dpkg does it's configuration. You can archive everything under /etc for that (config files). Anything else done in postinst will be recreated correctly when you reinstall. 2) dpkg won't track non-deb

Adding foreign keys

1999-02-03 Thread Dave Swegen
I will have to start writing the occasional document in swedish in the near future (with a bit of luck), but since I have a UK keyboard I don't really want to switch to a swedish layout. I would prefer to use Alt Gr or somesuch to assign the extra 6 chars needed to the current layout. Does anyone

Re: Goodbye, people!

1999-02-03 Thread John Hasler
ktb writes: ...my clock doesn't keep time,... What sort of probelm are you having with it? perhaps you should try the chrony package from unstable. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Help! I can't log in! (fwd)

1999-02-03 Thread trio
Sorry if this is a duplicate, but i didn't see it come by earlier. -- Forwarded message -- What did i do? I installed linux v2.0.34 about a month ago. Everything was working fine. In fact, everything is still being served by apache just fine, but my telnet sessions get

Re: Goodbye, people!/Digressing to time.

1999-02-03 Thread ktb
It's been quite a while since I posted here about it. I can't even remember all I did. It is consistently 6 hours off. Time zone, bios clock and everything is set ok but when I reboot the correct time is lost. It has been one of those things on the back burner. I am (was) working with the

Re: Goodbye, people!

1999-02-03 Thread Alan Tam
Hi, I've installed Debian Gnu/Linux 2 months ago, till now I still can't handle the Dosemu package and run dos correctly. But I never think of giving it up. I use win95 to download and read news groups to improve my knowledge on Linux. Linux is my destination and windows is

ftp driver for Apt-0.30 missing

1999-02-03 Thread buns
Running slink and upgraded apt 0.1.9 to apt 0.30. Using dselect-apt with /etc/apt/sources.list pointing to an ftp download site will give an error message that the ftp driver is missing from /usr/lib/apt/methods. Any idea why it's missing and how to resolve it. Currently I am getting around the

Re: Switching between X and Text mode terminals

1999-02-03 Thread Dave Swegen
On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 16:59 -0800, Mark Wagnon wrote: Alfie Costa wrote: Question: Is there an easy way, such as a few keystrokes or a command, to switch between text terminals and X, and vice-versa? That is, before running X, I can press 'Alt-F1' to get the first text

Re: suggestion (was Re: 2.0 install problems)

1999-02-03 Thread ivan
At 01:55 PM 2/2/99 -0500, Richard Hall wrote: Sounds like he needs a boot floppy with iso9660 support compiled in. Why it's not there to begin with is beyond me. This seems like a really common problem with Debian installs. Someone needs a custom boot floppy in order to get their SCSI

Re: Latex / TeTex Local Guide

1999-02-03 Thread Gossamer
Johann Spies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... /usr/lib/texmf/doc/latex/base/usrguide.dvi /usr/lib/texmf/doc/latex/general/guide.dvi /usr/lib/texmf/doc/latex/general/guide.ps Odd. /usr/lib/texmf/doc/latex/general doesn't exist on my box: ls /usr/lib/texmf/doc/latex/ custbib/ foiltex/ komascr/

Re: netscape library dependencies?

1999-02-03 Thread Chris Ryan
Hi, Further to this problem: I assumed that netscape is libc5 only, and redirected library loads to /usr/lib/libc5-compat (using LD_LIBRARY_PATH). This found the libc5 versions of most libraries, and the libg++.so.27 and libstdc++.so.27 that are ONLY in the libc5 directory. But this showed that a

Unviewable pgp-signed messages

1999-02-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
I keep getting this with all of the messages to the list from Steve Lamb: -- Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 17:40:06 -0800 From: Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Goodbye, people! Resent-Date: 3 Feb 1999 01:37:49 -

Re: X11 and fvwm2: how to set screen size

1999-02-03 Thread BOHICA
OK, gave that a try and completely toasted the X server (thankfully I learned early in my computing life to keep a detailed changelog), I had to boot from Rescue disk and edit the XF86Config file to get it back. At this point, the XF86Config is the same as when the system was first installed. I

Re: Unviewable pgp-signed messages

1999-02-03 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 2 Feb 1999 19:37:51 -0700 (MST), Bob Nielsen wrote: I keep getting this with all of the messages to the list from Steve Lamb: I had a feeling this was going to be me. :) Looking at the raw message in my mail folder, the

netscape on Debian, libc5 or libc6?

1999-02-03 Thread Chris Ryan
Hi, I have followed the netscape installation instructions (generic linux) and all is unpacked and the install script completes OK. But netscape will not run. It is missing the libraries libg++.so.27 and libstdc++.so.27. These are present on my Debian system (2.0) in usr/lib/libc5-compat.

Re: ftp driver for Apt-0.30 missing

1999-02-03 Thread Christian Lavoie
Running slink and upgraded apt 0.1.9 to apt 0.30. Using dselect-apt with /etc/apt/sources.list pointing to an ftp download site will give an error message that the ftp driver is missing from /usr/lib/apt/methods. Any idea why it's missing and how to resolve it. Currently I am getting around

Gnome-Panel

1999-02-03 Thread Evan Van Dyke
I've had the following problem for quite a while when trying to use gnome... the gnome panel clears an area at the botom of my screen, and greys it out presumably in preparation for putting the bar there... however, it sits forever and doesn't actually draw the bar... instead, it crunches my disk

Re: Goodbye, people!/Digressing to time.

1999-02-03 Thread A. M. Varon
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, ktb wrote: It's been quite a while since I posted here about it. I can't even remember all I did. It is consistently 6 hours off. Time zone, bios clock and everything is set ok but when I reboot the correct time is lost. It has been one of those things on the back

MS FrontPage alternative?

1999-02-03 Thread Frankie
Is there a linux alternative to MS FP, or better a still, a decent dtp-style html editor without the crappy FP server extensions that many hosts still dont have, and the faulty hoverbutton script etc etc etc? Also can anyone point me to some information regarding the relative merits of gnome and

Re: netscape on Debian, libc5 or libc6?

1999-02-03 Thread Christian Lavoie
Hi, I have followed the netscape installation instructions (generic linux) and all is unpacked and the install script completes OK. But netscape will not run. It is missing the libraries libg++.so.27 and libstdc++.so.27. These are present on my Debian system (2.0) in usr/lib/libc5-compat.

Re: CD image: *.raw -- *.cif?

1999-02-03 Thread Michael Phillips
Sorry about that, it was a late night: it is indeed Adaptec, I had Adobe (the PDF creator) on the brain. But thank you all for your most helpful advice! No, it almost definitely won't work. The .cif format is a proprietary one used by Adaptec (and apparently Adobe); in fact, it's a wrapper

Re: Notebook manufacturer recomendation

1999-02-03 Thread Greg Starkes
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: With a bit of luck I'll be starting work in a few weeks (crossing fingers til they pop off and fly accross the room), and I was told I'd be bought a notebook. So I was hoping I could get some pointers to which notebook manufacturers tend to allow for

Re: Goodbye, people!/Digressing to time.

1999-02-03 Thread John Hasler
ktb writes: It's been quite a while since I posted here about it. I can't even remember all I did. It is consistently 6 hours off. Do you have your hardware clock set to local time? If so, check /etc/init.d/boot to see if you have GMT=u . It should be GMT= . -- John Hasler

Re: Stupid Netscape question

1999-02-03 Thread Tim Heuser
I got it installed. Thanks. Just as everything else, I seem to have bad carma or something. I started from scratch, right down to downloading it again. This time the netscape installer worked, However, when I tried to run it (using netscape at the prompt) I got something like... agh! I

Re: Goodbye, people!

1999-02-03 Thread kaynjay
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/02/99 at 05:16 PM, ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: will get there. What I do have is a system that doesn't crash every five seconds, it is fast and very configurable I guess what I'm trying to say is if I can work with this O/S anyone can. It just takes time. Use

Re: Goodbye, people!/Digressing to time.

1999-02-03 Thread John Hasler
A. M. Varon writes: I have also encountered the same problem few months ago. Try to: 1. Edit /etc/default/rcS 2. find GMT=-u and replace it with GMT= 3. set your clock (Thru BIOS or thru hwclock). Try to reboot if it works. You're right: it's rcS, not boot. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Notebook manufacturer recomendation

1999-02-03 Thread Shaleh
On 03-Feb-99 Dave Swegen wrote: With a bit of luck I'll be starting work in a few weeks (crossing fingers til they pop off and fly accross the room), and I was told I'd be bought a notebook. So I was hoping I could get some pointers to which notebook manufacturers tend to allow for easy

Re: how to adjust @INC Path of Perl

1999-02-03 Thread Rafael Kitover
On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 01:56:45PM +0100, Thomas Gebhardt wrote: Hi, on my slink system perl frequently does not find its modules. I get error messages like this: Can't locate Net/FTP.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.005 /usr/lib/perl5/5.005

Re: Goodbye, people!

1999-02-03 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 08:30:35PM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: Gee, that sounds familiar! ;-) Yes, Linux's learning curve is pretty steep, and you can't just overwhelm the system either (at least I can't!). You're taking the right tack -- you have to relax, plug away, keep trying,

Re: Stupid Netscape question

1999-02-03 Thread Tim Heuser
I seem to be missing libxpm.so.4 or so my system tells me when I try to run netscape. While in Linux I can't download it from anywhere! Suposedly there is a ver. ...so.4.8, never saw it, but I did find a few places with 4.7, but I couldn't figure out a way to download it. None of the ftp

Re: Switching between X and Text mode terminals

1999-02-03 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 01:41:57AM +, Dave Swegen wrote: On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 16:59 -0800, Mark Wagnon wrote: Alfie Costa wrote: Question: Is there an easy way, such as a few keystrokes or a command, to switch between text terminals and X, and vice-versa? That is,

Re: Modem freezeup again

1999-02-03 Thread Christopher R. Barry
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christopher R. Barry writes: I have a Courier X2 and I always need to type pon, wait a second (the modem lights change), then type pon again to connect. Try editing /etc/chatscripts/provider and changing 'OK' to 'OK-AT-OK' . Let know how it works.

Re: netscape library dependencies?

1999-02-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Chris Ryan wrote: Hi, Further to this problem: I assumed that netscape is libc5 only, and There is a libc6 version of NS Communicator on ftp.netscape.com. As you go deeper in the path, select the 'unsupported' branch when you come to it. The libc6 based Communicator tarballs have

Re: slink: kernel-package fails

1999-02-03 Thread schulte
According to Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: make-kpkg clean; make config; make-kpkg --rev printe.20362 kernel_image and get the following error messages: dpkg-gencontrol -pkernel-image-2.0.36 -Pdebian/tmp-image parse changelog/debian: error: unable

Cant save my xf86config file, in user mode......

1999-02-03 Thread David Peterson
Hi! Cant save my xf86config file, in user mode, says that I need to be root to save, but when I try to open any file in root mode, for example the xf86config file, I cantit works under normal user, but then I cant save. Strange, need help, cause I really wanna reconfig my xf86 config so my

Re: Stupid Netscape question

1999-02-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Tim Heuser wrote: I seem to be missing libxpm.so.4 or so my system tells me when I try to run netscape. While in Linux I can't download it from anywhere! Suposedly there is a ver. ...so.4.8, never saw it, but I did find a few places with 4.7, but I couldn't figure out a way to download it.

Re: Cant save my xf86config file, in user mode......

1999-02-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
David Peterson wrote: Hi! Cant save my xf86config file, in user mode, says that I need to be root to save, but when I try to open any file in root mode, for example the xf86config file, I cantit works under normal user, but then I cant save. Strange, need help, cause I really wanna

Re: setserial question

1999-02-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Feb 1999q, Carey Evans wrote: Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Use of setserial/setrocket to get SPD_* flags is deprecated This seems to be said more in sorrow than in anger, since the process then goes off correctly. But what does it mean, and what can I do about

Slink CDs available

1999-02-03 Thread Johnie Ingram
With the Bug count under 20 now, I figure it's time for some final testing of Slink. For CD beta testers I've put the 2 i386 binary and 2 source images up on a server in Michigan (US), accessible via ftp, http, and rsync: -rw-r--r-- 588021760 1999/02/02 20:17:16 slink1.raw -rw-r--r--

Re: LILO hassles

1999-02-03 Thread Daniel Marquez-Klaka
Tongyu Wang wrote: I had similar problem before. My setup is similar to yours: NT on /dev/hda1 and Linux on /dev/hdb1. I use NT boot loader to choose which partition to boot. To solve the problem, I boot from a Linux boot floppy and login as root. Run lilo (this rewrite the boot

Re: Help! I can't log in!

1999-02-03 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-trio [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |What happened? | |I installed linux v2.0.34 about a month ago. Everything was working | fine. In fact, everything is still being served by apache just fine, but | my telnet sessions get as far as logging me in, telling me that i have | new mail and then

Re: Slink CDs available

1999-02-03 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
I tryed to upgrade from ftp. I downloaded apt-get 1.8, I modified sources.list, I run apt-get update and the apt-get dist-upgrade. After a lot of download I got this error: ERROR http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/base/base-files_2.1.0.deb 404 Not Found ERROR

Re: Where is kernel 2.2.0?

1999-02-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Feb 1999q, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: 'Fraid I can't help you with that. I usually just download the raw kernel source and use make-kpkg to get a kernel-image*.deb. I've never had a need to build the kernel-source and kernel-headers packages. You'll have to rely on one of the maintainers

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