Re: Paquetes no main

1999-04-06 Thread Hue-Bond
El lunes 05 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 14:52:57 +0200, Santiago Vila contaba: ¿Que opciones habria que pasar a dpkg, para que me de los paquetes instalados, de las secciones contrib y non-free? Con dpkg -l no se puede hacer esta seleccion. A mí sí me funciona: Él se refiere a todos

Re: Acentos, eñes y demás zarandajas...

1999-04-06 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
El Mon, Apr 05, 1999, Javier Ramirez... export LC_MESSAGES=es_ES export LANG=es_ES export LESSCHARSET=latin1 export LC_CTYPE=es_ES.ISO8859-1 export MM_CHARSET=ISO-8859-1 Así consigo utilizar acentos(*), eñes y demás zarandajas con el vi, pero no así con el joe. ¿Qué tengo que hacer

Algo raro con la memoria

1999-04-06 Thread Hernan Mauricio Velasquez Nino
Hola a todos Tal vez recuerden que algun tiempo les consulte como instalar debian en un computador pentium dual (dos procesadores). Recibi sus respuestas y estoy muy agradecido, esta maquina esta que vuela. Ahora hay algo que me preocupa. Esta maquina que les cuento viene con 128 megas en ram,

xdm

1999-04-06 Thread Javier López
Hola a todos. Tengo una máquina instalada con debian 2.1 en la que utilizo xdm para conectarme desde estaciones X Window. La máquina no tiene ni pantalla ni teclado, por lo que me resulta completamente inutil el proceso que xdm lanza para controlar el display :0. ¿Alguien sabe como hacer que este

Re: AWE64 pnp

1999-04-06 Thread Javier López
Miguel Angel Velando wrote: Hola a todos, Soy nuevo en Linux y estoy tratando de reemplazar mi W95. No he tenido mayores inconvenientes con la instalacion las X 3.3.3.1, WordPerfect8, Netscape 4.08, etc pero no consigo hacer funcionar la placa de sonido Soundblaster AWE64 PnP.

Re: Algo raro con la memoria

1999-04-06 Thread Fernando Sanchez
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Hernan Mauricio Velasquez Nino wrote: Que es un mensaje del kernel que compile. Es que acaso este kernel no ve mas de 64 megas en ram? o habra que hacer algun procedimiento raro para Seguramente necesitas pasarle el parámetro mem=128M al arrancar (en la lista de

RE: Paquetes no main

1999-04-06 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
A mí sí me funciona: Él se refiere a todos los contrib y non-free ;-) Si, eso es. He ejecutado grep -B 1 -A 9 'Section: contrib' /var/lib/dpkg/available | lpr y ya tengo lo que me hacia falta, salen unos bloquecitos con la seccion, el paquete, descripcion y alguna otra

Re: Acentos, eñes y demás zarandajas...

1999-04-06 Thread drequena
y tampoco veo ninguna mayúscula con circumflejo (ÂÊÎÔÛ) ... aunque como no hablo francés ... sin embargo, otros: ß (eszet alemana) ¢ (céntimo ...dentro de poco en uso) ¥ (yen) ... POR CIERTO, ¿sabe alguien cómo, si se puede, implementar el símbolo del euro? Usando una fuente ISO-8859-15 que

Re: Quitar xdm del arranque

1999-04-06 Thread Agustín Martín
Hue-Bond wrote: En Debian el xdm no se controla, así sino en el archivo /etc/X11/config, tal y como salió en otro mensaje. Creo que con el xdm de la 2.1 ya no es así: del /usr/doc/xfree86-common/README.debian Upgraders from earlier versions of the X packages should

Log de inicio

1999-04-06 Thread Addex
Bueno esta es la primeracuestion que planteo a la lista, me gustaria poder registrar en un log todos los mensajes que se producen justo al arrancar linux para poder leerlos tranquilamente mas tarde "hacer fotos a la pantalla no es una opcion". ¿Alguna idea? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Directorio mqueue

1999-04-06 Thread Vázquez, Gustavo
Tengo un problemita. A veces (soslo un par de veces y con cierto usuario) sucede el siguiente error: sendmail[38608]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(user): The chdir system call failed, chdir(/var/spool/mqueue): The file access permissions do not allow the specified action. Obviamente el mail se pierde. Los

Re: Log de inicio

1999-04-06 Thread Jaime E. Villate
Addex escribió: me gustaria poder registrar en un log todos los mensajes que se producen justo al arrancar linux para poder leerlos tranquilamente mas tarde usa: dmesg |more o si quieres mas información todavia (estando como root) more /var/log/messages saludos, Jaime

Re: Servidor X para i740

1999-04-06 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On lun, abr 05, 1999 at 07:43:53 +0200, Ángel Carrasco wrote: Utilizo la debian 2.1 con el kernel 2.0.36 y las xfree86 3.3.2. He instalado una tarjeta gráfica Intel 740 y tengo el siguiente problema. No aparece por ninguna parte. Entonces, decidi bajarme los nuevos xservers, pero las webs de

RE: Las qt 1.42 no van [SOLUCIONADO]

1999-04-06 Thread Ricardo Villalba
[...] Tampoco puedo compilarlo, también salen errores con el símbolo __eh_pc. Por supuesto he instalado la libstdc++2.9 (y una actualización de libstdc++2.8), y no he tenido ningún problema de dependencias al instalar los paquetes. A veces uno descubre la solución 5 minutos de haber hecho la

No me funciona el KDE 1.1

1999-04-06 Thread Ricardo Villalba
El otro día instalé el KDE 1.1 que iba en la pc actual del mes pasado. Las qt 1.42 la saqué de potato. Parecía que toda iba bien, pero resulta que unos cuantos programas (kdehelp, kedit) no funcionan: símbolo no definido en libkfile.so.2 o algo así. ¿Cómo se soluciona? ¿Vale con actualizar el

Re: Log de inicio

1999-04-06 Thread Andres Herrera
Guenas On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 12:47:22PM +0100, Addex wrote: Bueno esta es la primera cuestion que planteo a la lista, me gustaria poder registrar en un log todos los mensajes que se producen justo al arrancar linux para poder leerlos tranquilamente mas tarde hacer fotos a la pantalla no es

Re: AWE64 pnp

1999-04-06 Thread Hue-Bond
El lunes 05 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 14:49:11 -0300, Miguel Angel Velando contaba: pero no consigo hacer funcionar la placa de sonido Soundblaster AWE64 PnP. Alguien ha tenido alguna experiencia con este modelo? /etc/isapnp.conf: (READPORT 0x020b) (ISOLATE) (IDENTIFY *) (CONFIGURE

Re: Suck en Debian

1999-04-06 Thread Hue-Bond
El martes 06 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 19:05:11 +0200, Han Solo contaba: Resulta que el script /usr/lib/suck/get.news.innxmit, que es el encargado de bajar y subier las news en RedHat, en Debian no existe. En ese fichero es donde se dice de que servidor de los marcados en newsfeeds se tiene que

Acentos... :-(

1999-04-06 Thread Adriano Freitas
Ola' pessoal, entrei na lista debian-user-portuguese ha' pouco tempo e gostaria de saber como anda a acentuacao para o XWindows, quais os metodos hoje existentes e qualquer documentacao a respeito disso. Quando eu estava usando o kernel 2.0.xx, eu usava um daemon chamado diacrd

Acentuação no 2.1?

1999-04-06 Thread jclaudio
Estranhamente não estou conseguindo acentuar no 2.1. Usava o 2.0 e acentuava corretamente em todos os programas no x e no console(exceto staroffice e seu ~ til. Uso como solução para acentuar a troca de fontes para lat1u-16.psf. Troca do arquivo defalut map para um do arnaldo carvalho de

Re: SB 128 PCI w/2.1 kernel

1999-04-06 Thread Randy Edwards
as far as i know the SB 128 PCI is based on the chip es1371 so i would try CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371=y instead. Thanks Helmut, but no, there's two different varieties of the SB 128 PCI according to the driver readme. You identify them with a 'lspci -n' command; according to the output I'm using

Re: where is Pine?

1999-04-06 Thread Pollywog
On 06-Apr-99 Ed Cogburn wrote: Pollywog wrote: Which package contains Pine? I thought I had it installed but I can't find it and I can't find a pine deb. oic. Well, I did not need it that much, I just recall that in another distro, it was installed by default and I used it when KDE or

Re: email threat

1999-04-06 Thread thomas lakofski
On 5 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ESR wrote:] Damn straight I took it personally. And if you ever again behave like that kind of disruptive asshole in public, insult me, and jeopardize the interests of our entire tribe, I'll take it just as personally -- and I will find a way to

Re: email threat

1999-04-06 Thread Vincent Murphy
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 10:48:42PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today I received the following threat in e-mail from Eric Raymond. The message is this for-real? -vinny

Re: Double-Vision when increasing bbp

1999-04-06 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Up til now I've been living with a DefaultColorDepth of 8 in my X Windows. (I figured I had plenty of other stuff to learn about Linux first.) Now when I try to change it to 15 or 16 or 32 and restart X I get double- or triple- or worse- vision. It's sort of like the

Re: Setting the time and date is ?broken?

1999-04-06 Thread thomas lakofski
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Richard Black wrote: which _seems_ to work. But when I reboot, the time and date are incorrect. I have also tried using date with similar lack of success. Two things that I have noticed is that hwclock is slow and hwclock --show doesn't return anything. is it quite an

Unidentified subject!

1999-04-06 Thread Jeff Rose
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Re: email threat

1999-04-06 Thread homega
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: Today I received the following threat in e-mail from Eric Raymond. The message was copied to the Silicon Valley Linux User's Group officers, who you may consult regarding its authenticity. The police have been notified. Because I know that Eric is a firearms

Re: email threat

1999-04-06 Thread bruce
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forgive my ignorance here (and my curiousity) but just ... who is Eric Raymond, and who are you (or what you've done/said) so that he threatens you? I'm tempted to say he's just a nut, but he's the head of the Open Source Initiative. What annoyed him is that I cricicized

Re: Potato and egcs

1999-04-06 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 09:13:47PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: First, don't complain. One of the listed goals for potato on debian-devel (you do read that, don't you? potato is a DEVELOPERS RELEASE) I was under the impression that there are

Wall and chatscripts broken

1999-04-06 Thread wb4mle
I have potato-current with kernel 2.2.5. Wall quit a while ago which stopped the echo ip-up script line. Now something (perhaps ppp update) has stopped the report connect from sending the data to the current screen. Any idea what may get this working again? Hate to use a 16k4 when I get 49-50k

Re: vim/ctags problem: Java keywords not highlighted

1999-04-06 Thread Jonathan Hayward
- What are TERM and COLORTERM set to? I use rxvt and have TERM set to xterm-color and COLORTERM set to rxvt. I don't know what the appropriate values are for xterm. Setting TERM to rxvt (xterm-color wasn't recognized) and putting a syntax on .vimrc, together,

Re: email threat

1999-04-06 Thread John Hasler
bruce writes: Because I know that Eric is a firearms enthusiast, for my own protection, I feel the best strategy is for me to publicize the threat widely. And quotes: Damn straight I took it personally. And if you ever again behave like that kind of disruptive asshole in public, insult me,

Re: email threat

1999-04-06 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 5 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forgive my ignorance here (and my curiousity) but just ... who is Eric Raymond, and who are you (or what you've done/said) so that he threatens you? I'm tempted to say he's just a nut, but he's the head of the Open Source

RE: Loading packages from zip drive

1999-04-06 Thread Chris Reay
I posted this message on 23 March, and received replies from Helmut Metzdorf, Santiago Vila Doncel, Bruce Sass, and ANShevin. Thank you for you help, all of which was useful. This is how I solved the problem. 1. Throw away the Infomagic CD. 2. Download the base distribution from the Debian ftp

Re: email threat

1999-04-06 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Bruce, if you are actually in fear for your life the police are the right forum for this. It appears that you are trying to once again publicly defame Eric in front of the Linux community. This message is about embarrassment and character assassination hid beneath a patina of fear. Regardless

Re: X thinks my screen is larger than it actually is

1999-04-06 Thread Shao Zhang
edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config, set Virtual 1024 768 if you are using 1024x768 Marcus Claren wrote: Hi! I've got a very annoying problem. My X server seems to think that my screen is bigger than it actually is. I'm using wmaker, and when a program window drops out of the desktop I can

Re: SiS6326 chip and XFree86

1999-04-06 Thread Shao Zhang
The SVGA server in slink does not support this chip. You can just download the SVGA server from XFree86 website, and manually link it to /usr/X11R6/bin/X. Then edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config. You will need to set the following options on: Option sw_cursor Option no_bitblt Option no_imageblt

Smail and diald

1999-04-06 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Hi, I'm using diald and very happy with it. But a want to tell smail to deliver outgoing mail every 1h, i've tried to run smail -db -q1h but that makes no diference, every time I send a message smail try to deliver it and diald does it job. What can i do Thanks. --

xisp

1999-04-06 Thread v . polasek
Hi, I would like to run xisp without logging in as root. Right now when I run it as a regular user, xisp gives me an error message: /usr/sbin/pppd: using the name option requires root privilege. Some more facts: 1. I am running Debian 2.1 2. My ISP is using CHAP authentication. 3. I can

Re: ip-up for each user?

1999-04-06 Thread Robbie Huffman
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 02:14:37PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: I'm assuming that you have multiple users dialing into a single provider account. Change 'pon' from /usr/sbin/pppd call ${1:-provider} to /usr/sbin/pppd call ${1:-provider} ipparam $USER and have the behavior

Re: Setting the time and date is ?broken?

1999-04-06 Thread Robbie Huffman
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 04:01:22PM -0400, Richard Black wrote: rdate time.nist.gov hwclock --systohc I use the netdate command, which has been working really well from me. Run it periodically, or else from ip-up. Robbie

Re: email threat

1999-04-06 Thread Ed Slocomb
Regardless of what your differences are with Eric this message should not have been posted to this list. May I politely suggest that you reconsider that? Eric should not have written the letter to begin with. An apology to Bruce is long overdue. Every one of Bruce's criticisms of the

Re: ip-up for each user?

1999-04-06 Thread Robbie Huffman
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 10:19:13PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: This is in /etc/diald/ip-up: === #!/bin/sh # Set the time and date ntpdate -s -t 5 ntp2c.mcc.ac.uk ntp4.strath.ac.uk # Get mail fetchmail

Video Card Recommendation

1999-04-06 Thread Marouf
Hi, I've been asked at work to recommend a good PCI / AGP video card for a new linux machine they are going to set up. What seems to be working good for you guys. (Something less than a $120) Thanks -Nick M. TELEPHONE / Fax# 765-973-2895 Voice Mail + Fax # 1-800-792-0279 pin # :

Re: email threat

1999-04-06 Thread John Hasler
Ed Slocomb writes: The most ominous part of it is the quote at the end. Let's all hope, for the sake of civil discourse, that it was auto-generated. It almost certainly was. Eric has some sort of random sig generator. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL

email threat withdrawn

1999-04-06 Thread bruce
Eric says he only meant to threaten me with defamation of character, not with any kind of violence. Thus, I think I'll just let this issue drop now. Thanks Bruce

Re: ip-up for each user?

1999-04-06 Thread John Hasler
Robbie Huffman writes: So how does fetchmail know who to run as? I'm supposing as the user who called pppd, right? It will run as root, because that is what pppd runs as. Otherwise more hacking will be necessary. The conventional thing to do is to have root's .forward push the incoming mail

Re: xisp

1999-04-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
vp == v polasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: vp I would like to run xisp without logging in as root. Right now vp when I run it as a regular user, xisp gives me an error message: vp /usr/sbin/pppd: using the name option requires root privilege. Do you have the xisp package from 2.1, or do you

RE: xisp

1999-04-06 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I had the same problem. The dirty way is to change overnership for usr/sbin/pppd. Or you could add yourself to the group that allows using pppd, think it is dialout or pppusers. On 06-Apr-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to run xisp without logging in as root. Right now

tar'd to disk instead of tape (oops!)

1999-04-06 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I've really done it this time. I blithely took scsi device 2 as sdb, and tarred onto it. I started e2fsck,, and went through about a dozen inode messages until it occurred to me that I had another disk of the same size, and stopped it. I then used dd to copy the partition, which occupied the

Re: New install: net unreachable

1999-04-06 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy: Have you checked to make sure that the latptop PCMCIA packages are installed? Just checking, Brant. Chris Brown wrote: Please help, this is a newbie being stupid question I've done several slink installs that have worked fine. I'm trying to install it on my laptop now and am

Re: email threat

1999-04-06 Thread MallarJ
I have two things to say about this, or maybe three: 1) Am I the only one that is tired of hearing about the bickering between these two? and on a Debian-user list? and on a public mailing list? 2) If the authorities have been notified - fine, leave us out of it. 3) Don't make judgements

Re: vmware/kernel

1999-04-06 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy: You are running Kernel v2.2.5, right? Did you install VMWare before or after you installed 2.2.5? I've got the same problem on a different scale, but VMWare installs and runs... Does yours install at all? Go a head and tell it to install VMWare onto your computer. As for the Ncurses

What DO you lose with Linux

1999-04-06 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy all... I saw a message in this thread pass by a couple of days ago... It was talking about some software called VMWare. Http://www.vmware.com Anyone that has a PC with Linux Win 9x/NT installed needs to see this site. I've downloaded the software for Linux (still in the first beta

Re: What DO you lose with Linux

1999-04-06 Thread Shao Zhang
Is there a deb? Brant Wells wrote: Howdy all... I saw a message in this thread pass by a couple of days ago... It was talking about some software called VMWare. Http://www.vmware.com Anyone that has a PC with Linux Win 9x/NT installed needs to see this site. I've downloaded the

Re: Video Card Recommendation

1999-04-06 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I got S3 DX/Virge with 4Mb memory. Works very well with hamm, never had problems with setting up X on it (SVGA server.) Costs $30-50, depending upon the vendor. Andrew

vmware

1999-04-06 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Sorry, please ignore my last message. I just find out that vmware is not free. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _

pppd problems

1999-04-06 Thread Chris Mayes
Hello, all. I have been struggling valiantly to get a user to connect to an ISP using wvdial, but so far, no dice. Here's the deal: everything works very nicely for the root, but it's been an awful struggle to get a user to that oh-so-desirable state. I added a user to the dialout group,

Ethics Violation

1999-04-06 Thread Jesse Gilman
I apologize to XFree86, as a group and to the members thereof, for my confusion of them with the Open Group, in my previous post. Branden Robinson brought my mistake to my attention, and promptly. Let me thank him for this. I have become familiar with Branden's name as a result of

where is my kernel source?

1999-04-06 Thread Marlon Urias
After going through pppconfig (after a fresh install of Debian 2.1) I tried pon and got a error message about my kernel not supporting ppp. So I head on over to /usr/src/linux to run make xconfig but alas, /usr/src only has a dir named linux-x.y.z.headers (or something close). I was under the

XFmail - Anyone know anything?

1999-04-06 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, does anyone know what is going on with XFmail (or not is going on!)? The mailing list is dead. The page hasn't been updated in a while. XFmail is the only GUI email client I have been able to find that (sort of) comes close to what I was used to work with under Windows, it has multiple

Re: ip-up for each user?

1999-04-06 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 5 Apr, John Hasler wrote about Re: ip-up for each user? Robbie Huffman writes: So how does fetchmail know who to run as? I'm supposing as the user who called pppd, right? It will run as root, because that is what pppd runs as. Otherwise more hacking will be necessary. The

Re: where is Pine?

1999-04-06 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
http://ompages.com/debian/pkgs/pine/pine.html don't worry about license issues I already dealt with them... NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Pollywog wrote: Which package contains Pine? I

Re: where is my kernel source?

1999-04-06 Thread ktb
Marlon Urias wrote: After going through pppconfig (after a fresh install of Debian 2.1) I tried pon and got a error message about my kernel not supporting ppp. So I head on over to /usr/src/linux to run make xconfig but alas, /usr/src only has a dir named linux-x.y.z.headers (or something

Re: ipchains

1999-04-06 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/ in the mini howto section there is an IPMASQUERADE document. Then, in the regular howto section there is a document on IPCHAINS. NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On Mon, 5 Apr 1999,

boot failed due to superblock error and FAT BREAD Failure

1999-04-06 Thread J. Lee
Hi, I browsed the recent posts and didn't quite find an answer for my problem. Can anyone help me out? Thanks. My hardrive is partitioned into four parts, namely /dev/hda1 MSDOS /dev/hda2 NTFS /dev/hda3 linux swap /dev/hda4 linux I can boot from the floppy disk but has problem in booting from

Re: netscape plugins

1999-04-06 Thread Gary Singleton
http://home.netscape.com/plugins/by_platform.html#Linux HTH, G.S. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Curious... There are alot of plugins available for netscape, but most don't specifically mention they are for linux - in fact, one of them I tried gave me an .exe. file to run to install.

Re: where is my kernel source?

1999-04-06 Thread Marlon Urias
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, ktb wrote: Marlon Urias wrote: After going through pppconfig (after a fresh install of Debian 2.1) I tried pon and got a error message about my kernel not supporting ppp. So I head on over to /usr/src/linux to run make xconfig but alas, /usr/src only has a dir

xmcd

1999-04-06 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, When I run xmcd, I got the following msg: Fatal: Xmcd configuration error Cannot open configuration file: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xmcd/config/hdb I read the man page and it says: CD-ROM drive ; e.g., /usr/lib/X11/xmcd/config/rcd0). A configuration program

Why no asWedit .deb package?

1999-04-06 Thread Gary Singleton
I only ask because they have one on their site @ http://www.advasoft.com/. I downloaded it but haven't installed. I'm afraid it will trash my dpkg database or something like that. Does anyone know of any problems with their .deb? Thanks, G.S.

Re: boot failed due to superblock error and FAT BREAD Failure

1999-04-06 Thread Shao Zhang
What is the filesystem type for your linux native partition? It should be 83. I guess you have set your harddisk to 81(minix/Linux). If you have done that, setting the file system id back to 83 will not help. You will have to delete the partition and and repartition the harddisk. At least, that

Netscape and *.png files

1999-04-06 Thread Christopher Swingley
Hello! I'm having trouble getting Netscape to read portable network graphic (*.png) files. I've tried Navigator 4.08 and 4.51 via the netscape4 package and in both cases netscape simply quits with a Bus error when I try to open a *.png file in the browser. I've got libpng0g and libpng2

.rpm -- .deb conversion

1999-04-06 Thread Fethi A. Okyar
I did this once before, I copied the file xf86setup.rpm from my old installation CD and used a tool to either convert that .rpm package directly to .deb format, or had used an intermediate step, I can't remember... Surely somebody knows how to do this ?? thank you

Re: Why no asWedit .deb package?

1999-04-06 Thread ktb
Gary Singleton wrote: I only ask because they have one on their site @ http://www.advasoft.com/. I downloaded it but haven't installed. I'm afraid it will trash my dpkg database or something like that. Does anyone know of any problems with their .deb? Thanks, G.S. I used it under Hamm

Re: Why no asWedit .deb package?

1999-04-06 Thread Bruce Sass
You can always use dpkg-deb to have a look at a package, without touching the dpkg DB. Try: dpkg-deb --help - Bruce -- On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Gary Singleton wrote: I only ask because they have one on their site @ http://www.advasoft.com/. I downloaded it but haven't installed. I'm

Re: xmcd

1999-04-06 Thread surak
The Debian xmcd package comes with a program called xmcdconfig. Try running that program to configure xmcd. Hope that helps, Alan Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, When I run xmcd, I got the following msg: Fatal: Xmcd configuration error Cannot open configuration file:

Re: .rpm -- .deb conversion

1999-04-06 Thread Alan Tam
Hi, check out http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/admin/alien.html for full details Alan Fethi A. Okyar wrote: I did this once before, I copied the file xf86setup.rpm from my old installation CD and used a tool to either convert that .rpm package directly to ..deb format, or

Re: XF86Setup

1999-04-06 Thread Burt Model
On Mon, 05 Apr 1999 08:49:00 +0200, you wrote: I installed 2.1 , therefore I used 2.0, I did not upgrade. then I wanted to install the X window system with XF86Setup ,as root,and I know what to choose and the entire procedure goes well but there is something not good.At the end after the last

SAVE UNTIL 70 % IN ITS INTERNATIONA

1999-04-06 Thread atras
ESTA INFORMACION EXISTE EN ESPAÑOL. SOLICITELA NOT REPLY THIS MAIL. REMOVE mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] We thought that this information can be to him of utility. Avoid the elevated costs of the central telephone offices. Call from his own telephone by half of the amount that now this paying.

Re: where is my kernel source?

1999-04-06 Thread Paul Dubbell
Marlon Urias wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, ktb wrote: Marlon Urias wrote: After going through pppconfig (after a fresh install of Debian 2.1) I tried pon and got a error message about my kernel not supporting ppp. So I head on over to /usr/src/linux to run make xconfig but alas,

Re: Debian 2.0 and Iomega ZIP 100 //

1999-04-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 06 Apr 1999q, Darius Quenum wrote: Hi Anthony, I tried to install an Iomega ZIP 100 on parallel port of my computer but it doesn' work. My computer is a Pentium 120 running Linux Debian 2.0. When I use the command : insmod ppa, I get this error message : get the message init_module:

Re: Debian 2.0 and Iomega ZIP 100 //

1999-04-06 Thread Alec Smith
The other thing you can do if you arn't ready for 2.2.x yet is to unload the lp module. On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 06 Apr 1999q, Darius Quenum wrote: Hi Anthony, I tried to install an Iomega ZIP 100 on parallel port of my computer but it doesn' work. My computer is

Discussion with Pine developers Debian Issues

1999-04-06 Thread Brock Rozen
** NOTE: The Pine developers wanted to give me a new message to quote/post publicly -- after waiting for a month for this message, and having requested it numerous times, I've decided to go through anyhow ** Hi, I've been in touch with the Pine developers at U Washington (U Dub) recently, and it

New Mail not being notified

1999-04-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
Since upgrading from mutt to slink I find that I am no longer notified that new mail has arrived. Presumably this is something in /etc/smail/config that has changed; does anyone know what it is? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 Book Reviews:

Re: ip-down does not stop ip-up's run-parts on disconnect

1999-04-06 Thread John Leget
Thanx for the help , but ;0). Right pppd doesnt go down if ip-up doesnt which wont unless run-parts does which wont unless all scripts in ip-up.d do. And indeed ip-down then does not appear to launch catch 22 ( or so i thought ). (ok im a newby so it may not be the best way but

poff wont poff

1999-04-06 Thread John Leget
Hi, Running kernel 2.2.5-ac3 , potato ( unstable ). poff version 0.9.4 poff myisp refuses to poff - kill my connection, and it reports the following /usr/bin/poff i could not find a pppd process for provider 'myisp' . none stopped but poff by itself does work. Now i have checked my processes

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-06 Thread John Galt
Okay, I guess this is a good thing, but what about when the permission is given already? And what about when the holding area is unavailable, such as with ISPs that give you enough server space to hold your configuration files and not much more? If these problems ahve a simplish solution, I

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-06 Thread John Galt
SNEAKERNET just because YOU can't configure procmail? I'd say that your failure to configure procmail is YOUR problem, not one to be visited on the internet at large. I've sneakernetted files of a size that would make you blanch in my day, but I see no reason to do this as a matter of protocol,

Re: Exim delaying delivery of mail?--SOLVED

1999-04-06 Thread Curt Daugaard
This fixed it. My thanks to Greg Norris. On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 05:39:00PM -0500, Gregory T. Norris wrote: On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 05:21:41PM -0500, Curt Daugaard wrote: I recently uninstalled procmail and started using exim's built-in filter capability. The weird thing is, it often

Re: pppd problems

1999-04-06 Thread John Hasler
Chris writes: I added a user to the dialout group, modified the permissions on all of the files in a reasonable manner, The pppd files are in the 'dip' group. Did you change them? Now, I have modified the permissions on my modem a number of times, but the pppd used to reply: Since pppd

Re: Debian install on blank HD

1999-04-06 Thread John Galt
write the disk1_4's to floppy, make a rescue disk and a drivers disk, and try to install from floppy and apt-get needed packages from ftp.debian.org is what I'd do in your situation. YMMV On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Mike Glass wrote: Hi. I'd like to install Debian 2.0 on the hard drive of my

Re: /dev/isdnctrl Operation not supported....

1999-04-06 Thread Stefan Hornburg
Ries van Twisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hai, I'm buzy installing my Telis ISDN card on my Linux box. Currently i'm running Debian with a 2.0.34 kernel When I do isdnctrl addif ippp0 I get a 'operation not supported by device' message back. I have tryed lots and lots of

Re: where is Pine?

1999-04-06 Thread Jeremy
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Pollywog wrote: Which package contains Pine? I thought I had it installed but I can't find it and I can't find a pine deb. Binaries are available from ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/. Jeremy --- email : [EMAIL

Re: boot failed due to superblock error and FAT BREAD Failure

1999-04-06 Thread Jor-el
Li, I think the message is saying that you have partitioned /dev/hda so that /dev/hda7 ends on a block that lies beyond the end of the hard disk. Things should probably work out correctly if you repartition your hard disk to fix this error. Regards, Jor-el On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, J. Lee

How does Debian compare to SUSE?

1999-04-06 Thread Franz Kaufmann
Hello. I wonder how Debian would compare to Suse, as I have been using Suse all along, but recently discovered that the number of packages shipped with debian was much greater. Many thanks in advance, Bye.

Re: email threat

1999-04-06 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I'm tempted to say he's just a nut, but he's the head of the Open Source Initiative. What annoyed him is that I cricicized the Apple license. The full text of the threatening email can be found at http://perens.com/Articles/Threat.html . I hope you two can work out your differences before

Re: New install: net unreachable

1999-04-06 Thread Chris Brown
Brant others. getting desperate here, please help! To answer your question, I'm not sure *EXACTLY* how to check if the PCMCIA packages are installed, but I believe the answer is yes. If I look at top, I can see cardmgr running. If I insert/remove the 3c589 I hear the tell-tale hot-swap

Re: poff wont poff

1999-04-06 Thread ktb
John Leget wrote: Hi, Running kernel 2.2.5-ac3 , potato ( unstable ). poff version 0.9.4 poff myisp refuses to poff - kill my connection, and it reports the following /usr/bin/poff i could not find a pppd process for provider 'myisp' . none stopped but poff by itself does work.

X busted after 2.0 - 2.1 upgrade

1999-04-06 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
I upgraded (at least, with CD 1) from 2.0 - 2.1 last night, and everything seemed to be fine. I quit dselect, fired up X, and while running X, looked at some notes I had made preparing for the upgrade. I purged xbase, since it's been claimed that it's no longer needed. Everything still ran

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