Re: wish

1999-04-11 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 06:01:00PM +0100, Addex dijo: intento configurar el nucleo mediante la orden: cd /usr/src/linux-2.2.3 make xconfig pero se para todo al no encontrar el archivo wish ¿alguna idea? gracias! Claro. Instala el paquete tcl8.0 y tk8.0 -- Ugo Enrico Albarello López de

Re: problema tonto con mutt al actualizar a slink

1999-04-11 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 02:46:05PM +0200, carlos saldaña dijo: Hola a todos. Como digo en el subject, al actualizar de hamm a slink me he encontrado con un problema de lo más tonto en mutt: resulta que en la línea de comandos tengo que pulsar dos veces la tecla d para que imprima el caracter.

Re: wish

1999-04-11 Thread Hernan Mauricio Velasquez Nino
On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Addex wrote: intento configurar el nucleo mediante la orden: cd /usr/src/linux-2.2.3 make xconfig Tienes dos opciones, o instalas tcl/tk que viene en cualquier distribucion debian, o recompila el nucleo en modo texto, esto es: En vez de dar make xconfig le das:

Re: problema tonto con mutt al actualizar a slink

1999-04-11 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Ugo Enrico Albarello [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Me pasa lo mismo. De hecho, si copio algo con el mouse, y lo pego en mutt las 'd' y las 'e' también se las come. Es porque tienes una línea que dice: bind down algo y debe decir: bind down algo

X-windows (de nuevo!)

1999-04-11 Thread Dragonbreath
Hola todos! De nuevo intento configurar mis X-windows, despues de haber instalado las X 3.3.3.1 que soportan mi tarjeta, una SiS 3D PRO AGP. Sin embargo, sigo sin tener exito: aunque carga a una resolución decente, la pantalla se mancha toda y los colores se ven mal. Por ejemplo, al pulsar click

Diamond SpeedStar A50

1999-04-11 Thread Dardo S Botto
Hola lista: Estoy luchando con una tarjeta de video Diamond SpeedStar A50 agp. Hay algun lugar donde conseguir un drive apropiado?. Tengo debian 2.1 con xserver-svga 3.3.2.3a-11. Desde ya muchas gracias -- = | Dardo

Re: wish

1999-04-11 Thread Hue-Bond
El sábado 10 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 18:01:00 +0100, Addex contaba: intento configurar el nucleo mediante la orden: cd /usr/src/linux-2.2.3 make xconfig pero se para todo al no encontrar el archivo wish make xconfig es un script en tcl/tk. Si no tienes tcl/tk instalado,

Interrupciones

1999-04-11 Thread Addex
Muchas gracias por el tema wish ahora ya me funciona (despues de instalar tcl/tk claro)! El problema que tengo ahora es otro ... estoy instalando una RDSI Teles 16.3 no PnP, esta placa usa la IRQ 10 al igual que la placa de red que tengo instalada, una 3COM Vortex. ¿Puedo hacer algo para

¿Grabwin?

1999-04-11 Thread Han Solo
Hola a [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ando buscando el programa aquel que servía para pillar los valores del monitor a partir de W95. Creo que se llamaba grabwin, pero no lo encuentro por ningún lado. ¿Podéis confirmarme que efectivamente se llama así?. -- Un Saludo Han Solo The Rebel Alliance Conecto,

+ Interrupciones

1999-04-11 Thread Addex
Creo que tengo problemas con las IRQ y por ello no consigo conectar a la red con mi placa RDSI. Me parece que las Teles 16.3 no PnP bienen configuradas de fabrica de la siguiente forma: IO=0x180 IRQ=10 de este modo lo unico que tendria que hacer es cargar el modulo de la siguiente manera:

Re: X-windows (de nuevo!)

1999-04-11 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 01:42:22AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: Hola todos! De nuevo intento configurar mis X-windows, despues de haber instalado las X 3.3.3.1 que soportan mi tarjeta, una SiS 3D PRO AGP. Sin embargo, sigo sin tener exito: aunque carga a una resolución decente, la

Re: problema tonto con mutt al actualizar a slink

1999-04-11 Thread carlos saldaña
on Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 09:24:58PM -0600 X-Operating-System: Debian Slink GNU/Linux en 2.2.5 Organization: toron.net El Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 09:24:58PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon decías: Es porque tienes una línea que dice: bind down algo y debe decir: bind down algo

Re: ¿Quién le ha puesto password al usuario news?

1999-04-11 Thread Barbwired
Hola On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Cosme Perea Cuevas wrote: Hola, si intento hacer `su' al usuario `news', me pide el password. ¿Realmente tiene una clave? ¿Cómo se genera, si es así? NO sé para qué pretendes ser 'news' en tu sistema, pero haz 'su' como root y no te pedirá clave,

Debianizar paquetes

1999-04-11 Thread Barbwired
Hola! Mi consulta es la siguiente: Tengo los fuentes de un programa y quiero hacer un paquete .deb, para instalarlo con dpkg y no romper mi base de datos de paquetes instalados. El paquete es gPhoto (GNU Photo) y no lo encuentro en formato .deb por ningún lado. ¿Cual es el proceso a seguir?

Re: RE: Mail system all fouled up

1999-04-11 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re:RE: Mail system all fouled up Date: Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 08:06:46PM - In reply to:Pollywog Quoting Pollywog([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On 10-Apr-99 Chris Hoover wrote: sender_host_reject_relay = * Bingo!! unset that guy. I don't think that is wise. From

Re: How do I change ppp window size in Debian?

1999-04-11 Thread John Hasler
Marc writes: So you consider an ISP whose support staff doesn't remember obscure configuration options of an obscure open-source opererating system losers? Unix is not an obscure open-source operating system. I expect them to either know the command, look it up and get it right, or say I

Re: RE: Mail system all fouled up

1999-04-11 Thread Pollywog
On 10-Apr-99 Wayne Topa wrote: Subject: Re:RE: Mail system all fouled up Date: Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 08:06:46PM - In reply to:Pollywog Quoting Pollywog([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On 10-Apr-99 Chris Hoover wrote: sender_host_reject_relay = * Bingo!! unset that guy.

How to combine SCSI-CDdrive with IDE-CDdrive

1999-04-11 Thread John Plate
Hi After installing a SCSI based CD-R drive, the old IDE CD-drive is not recognized. How to tell the boot-process to look for it? Thanks in advance. -- John Plate [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie networking

1999-04-11 Thread damaged justice
Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: See man resolv.conf. You need your nameserver addresses in there. If it works with the IP # then that your problem. BTW I would thing RH also had the same file. Yes, even with resolv.conf properly configured DNS lookups don't work under LOAF, although

Re: How to combine SCSI-CDdrive with IDE-CDdrive

1999-04-11 Thread Mark Wagnon
John Plate wrote: Hi After installing a SCSI based CD-R drive, the old IDE CD-drive is not recognized. How to tell the boot-process to look for it? I used to have that setup. If I'm not mistaken, I believe that my IDE CD-ROM drive was /dev/hdc (with a symlink called /dev/cdrom pointing to

Re: vi GUI for X ?

1999-04-11 Thread David Z. Maze
shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, is CR the only way to avoid broken words at the end of a line? SEP SEP And yes, hitting enter is the only way. No it's not...in vim, I routinely do :set wm=4 which sets a wrap margin of 4 characters at the end of each (80-character) line, and

Re: How do I change ppp window size in Debian?

1999-04-11 Thread W. Paul Mills
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marc writes: So you consider an ISP whose support staff doesn't remember obscure configuration options of an obscure open-source opererating system losers? Unix is not an obscure open-source operating system. I expect them to either know the

How to use Netscape mail w/local mail system?

1999-04-11 Thread Jesse Evans
Folks, I've got Netscape 4.5 installed on my slink system. How do I get Netscape Mail to read from my local mail spool? I use a dial-up connection and have fetchmail set to periodically grab mail from my ISP POP account. This ends up putting mail in my system's

root can't login

1999-04-11 Thread Bradley Bell
I'm running potato, and just upgraded libc6. As can happen with unstable, it broke stuff. bash for one. since root has bash set as its shell, I can't log in as root. I can log in as a normal user, which has tcsh for its login shell. SO, does anybody know any way I can get root on this box? I

apt asking to erase files ?

1999-04-11 Thread John Leget
Apt has recently started asking if it should erase files. EEEeeek. :0) . What exactly does this do, ie would this delete my local copy of potato or does it only come into effect for when used with apt get, i haven't been able to find anything re erase. And if so how do i prevent it ( yeah i know

serious ppp problems

1999-04-11 Thread Robert and Amy Anuszewski
Today, while working in Xwindow, my keyboard locked up. I couldn't type anything in any window even though the system was fine. I was forced to hit the reset button (first mistake). When the system rebooted, it checked the hard drive and found many problems, which it fixed. The system seemed

Re: Newbie networking

1999-04-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
dj == damaged justice [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dj the Debian setup, despite the identical config. The only IP dj address slinky (the debian name) can ping is itself (and yes, it's dj the LAN number and not the loopback alias). Bad craziness. ifconfig eth0 reports the right values? Install

Re: /dev/audio and /dev/dsp

1999-04-11 Thread Igor Helman
Ajit Krishnan wrote: Hi, Try cd'ing to /dev and use ./MAKEDEV audio ajit This worked. Great, I have sound again. Thank you. -Igor How would I get the necessary sound devices to appear (such as /dev/audio, /dev/dsp, and /dev/sndstat). Any help would be great -igor --

Kmod not functioning correctly with 2.2.3 kernel

1999-04-11 Thread Jason Stokes
In order to get sound support for my SB Ensoniq AudioPCI 32, I compiled a custom 2.2.3 kernel with make-kpkg and installed it. Alas, the new module interface isn't functioning correctly. Certain unused modules are autoloaded on startup, and are never flushed, while others (soundcore, es1371)

Kmod not functioning correctly with 2.2.3 kernel

1999-04-11 Thread Jason Stokes
In order to get sound support for my SB Ensoniq AudioPCI 32, I compiled a custom 2.2.3 kernel with make-kpkg and installed it. Alas, the new module interface isn't functioning correctly. Certain modules hang around in the kernel forever, even when they aren't being used, and are never flushed

Re: Kmod not functioning correctly with 2.2.3 kernel

1999-04-11 Thread James Mastros
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 02:03:31PM +1000, Jason Stokes wrote: Certain modules hang around in the kernel forever, even when they aren't being used, and are never flushed (eg ppa, the Zip parallel port driver) Do an lsmod. Do the offending modules have a use count of 0, the (autoclean) flag

Re: Kmod not functioning correctly with 2.2.3 kernel

1999-04-11 Thread David Z. Maze
Jason Stokes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JS In order to get sound support for my SB Ensoniq AudioPCI 32, I JS compiled a custom 2.2.3 kernel with make-kpkg and installed it. JS Alas, the new module interface isn't functioning correctly. (Actually, it sounds like kmod is in fact DTRTing.) JS

Hello, and X DHCP setup questions...

1999-04-11 Thread Jim Campbell
Hello, everyone -- Well, I finally did it. I have Debian Linux running on my home system. I have never used Linux before, though I have been a UNIX fan for all my career. This is the first non-commercial version of UNIX I have ever used. I think that the attention and use that Linux is

Error on Install- mount error with dselect

1999-04-11 Thread Reid Ormseth
Hello all. I'm trying to install 2.1 from a CD that I got from Linux Central. The instalation goes fine until I run dselect. I can choose my installation medium just fine. Then I can go through and pick all my packages. But then when I choose INSTALL, the CD spins for a minute and then I get

Re: Kmod not functioning correctly with 2.2.3 kernel

1999-04-11 Thread Will Lowe
Apr 11 13:59:43 valis modprobe: can't locate module char-major-14 Alias this in /etc/conf.modules. For my SoundBlaster16, I have: alias char-major-14 sb post-install sb /sbin/modprobe -k adlib_card options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 options adlib_card io=0x388 # FM

Fw: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

1999-04-11 Thread Chris Hoover
First off, let me say thanks to those of you who replied to my other posting about my mail system being hosed. I ended up having to reinstall since it looked more an more like the first install did not go well. After that I applied what you guys said and I now have a working email system.

URL for gnome staging area?

1999-04-11 Thread Ian Keith Setford
What is the URL for the Gnome staging area? I am going to give it a try after years with AfterStep. TIA. -Ian __ Ian Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP = F2

RE: Mail system all fouled up

1999-04-11 Thread John Pearson
On %M 0, Pollywog wrote On 10-Apr-99 Chris Hoover wrote: exim is running from inet.d and is being ran as exim -bs. If you're running exim from inetd, you should also have a crontab for mail that runs exim -q periodically; do you? I have never run it from inetd, but what do the

Re: question regarding hardware conflict and linux

1999-04-11 Thread JW Park
On 10 Apr 1999 08:02:58 -0500, you wrote: My modem is ActionTec ISA x2. You can download firmware upgrade from their web site to V.90 or something like that. Only $60 u if you can actually find one.

Windows NT Samba

1999-04-11 Thread Chris Hoover
I was wondering if it was possible to use samba and have my linux box be able to read/write on my NT box. I would like to do this since my NT box has more hd space right now, and I'm in need of a place to store my mp3's. Thanks, chris

Re: URL for gnome staging area?

1999-04-11 Thread Chris Hoover
deb http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink unstable main On Sun, 11 Apr 1999 00:20:27 Ian Keith Setford wrote: What is the URL for the Gnome staging area? I am going to give it a try after years with AfterStep. TIA. -Ian

Re: Windows NT Samba

1999-04-11 Thread Alec Smith
You don't need Samba if you just want to use a Linux Workstation to write to an NT hard drive. You only need Samba if you want to allow Windows read/write access on Linux. To write from Linux to NT, install the smbfs package for kernel 2.0, or smbfsx for 2.2. Then, build your kernel with either

2 Questions

1999-04-11 Thread Chris Hoover
I have two hopefully quick questions. 1. How can I get my machine to automatically start fetchmail after a reboot? Also, how do I have it ran by a user other than root (it is only setup to run as me right now)? 2. Is there a way to script the startup of a remote program? I want to have

Re: How to determine actual modem speed

1999-04-11 Thread Dave Thayer
On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 09:27:40AM +0200, Ookhoi wrote: Is there a way to measure the actual speed at which a modem is connected? As modems negotiate the speed al the time, the CONNECT string at the start of the connection is not up to date some time later. Depending on your modem

/dev/nst0 hosed

1999-04-11 Thread Chris Hoover
Somehow my /dev/nst0 device has become messed up. Could someone please tell me what it should be? Also, how do I use /dev/MAKEDEV to recreate it. Thanks, chris

Re: 2 Questions

1999-04-11 Thread Marsh Ray
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 02:30:05AM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: 1. How can I get my machine to automatically start fetchmail after a reboot? Also, how do I have it ran by a user other than root (it is only setup to run as me right now)? Debian's boot process is fairly well-described at:

Re: /dev/nst0 hosed

1999-04-11 Thread Marsh Ray
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 02:49:30AM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: Somehow my /dev/nst0 device has become messed up. Could someone please tell me what it should be? bash-2.01$ ls -l /dev/nst0 crw-rw 1 root tape 9, 128 Jul 20 1998 /dev/nst0 Also, how do I use /dev/MAKEDEV to

Re: Kmod not functioning correctly with 2.2.3 kernel

1999-04-11 Thread Jason Stokes
Apr 11 13:59:43 valis modprobe: can't locate module char-major-14 Alias this in /etc/conf.modules. For my SoundBlaster16, I have: You mean *manually*? Not done automagically by the package manager? Oh well, and I was getting so excited about how easy make-kpkg makes recompiling a kernel.

Re: How do I change ppp window size in Debian?

1999-04-11 Thread Phillip Deackes
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He doesn't remember correctly. The command is 'route', not 'ifconfig'. Try 'route window 8000 ppp0'. Thanks, John. Unfortunately when I enter 'route window 8000 ppp0' as root, I just get the following: Usage: route [-nNvee] [-FC] [Address_families]

cfs???

1999-04-11 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, I've been trying to install cfs1.3.3-1 from the deb package and the install goes fine. I can mount it and I get a line in mount that says:- 'localhost:/null on /crypt type nfs (rw,port=3049,intr,addr=127.0.0.1)' However I can't create any cfs directories. When I try to use the cmkdir

RE: serious ppp problem

1999-04-11 Thread Jaroslaw Berezowski
Hi, Amy. About your ppp0 interface problem: It seems that you don't have compiled-in the PPP support into your kernel (this support is required for ppp0 net device). Solution: Reconfigure and recompile kernel (in 2.2.x kernel module form is recommended because some parts of PPP are

Re: How do I change ppp window size in Debian?

1999-04-11 Thread Marc Haber
On 10 Apr 1999 19:55:33 -0500, you wrote: Fact is that most know less than this ISP did. Which is exactly what I intended to say. I apologize if I did not make myself clear on the first try. We don't live in an ideal world, unfortunately. Greetings Marc --

Re: How do I change ppp window size in Debian?

1999-04-11 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 10:21:30AM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: [...] Thanks, John. Unfortunately when I enter 'route window 8000 ppp0' as root, I just get the following: Usage: route [-nNvee] [-FC] [Address_families] List kernel routing tables route {-V|--version}

Re: How to use Netscape mail w/local mail system?

1999-04-11 Thread Richard Harran
I've been trying to do this since I first started using debian about 2 years ago. One thing that you can do is to use a ~/.forward file to get your MTA (smail or exim) to move the mail to a directory which NS can use for mail (eg ~/.netscape/Mail) and direct netscape's mail directory to there.

Exim, Fetchmail, and Mangled Headers

1999-04-11 Thread Ian Winter
Hi, I having problems with receiving email via exim and fetchmail. I have the feeling this is a true newbie question but I can't find a reference to the problem anywhere -- sorry if I am missing the obvious. The received email has mangled headers with a blank line part the way through (thus

Re: vi GUI for X ?

1999-04-11 Thread homega
David Z. Maze dixit: ~ shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ~ Also, is CR the only way to avoid broken words at the end of a line? ~ SEP ~ SEP And yes, hitting enter is the only way. ~ ~ No it's not...in vim, I routinely do ~ ~ :set wm=4 (...) Fine, I downloaded vim and kept nvi as well

Re: How to use Netscape mail w/local mail system?

1999-04-11 Thread Jan Muszynski
All I can tell you is the message that showed up while installing Netscape. It said (in effect) that the external movemail program should be set to /usr/lib/netscape/movemail I haven't started playing around with mail configuration yet so haven't gotten around to this point in my own setup. (I

missing libraries on svgalibg1 install

1999-04-11 Thread ivan
Hello, I'm having tremendous difficulties with a programme that I am writing and the root of the problem seems to be with svgalib for some reason. To try to establish whether this is true and to attemp to fix the break I decided to purge svgalib ( dpkg --purge --force-depends svgalibg1 ) and

apache: browsing only what you want

1999-04-11 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I've found that if an user makes a soft link from his public_html directory into /, then an external user can browse throughout all the directory hierachy. Can anybody tell me how to make apache server only the pages which are directly under the public_html directories and

alarms: disk full

1999-04-11 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Does anybody know of a prgram that monitorizes the use of hdd, and when one of the gets full it sends an email to a designed address? Is easy to do it in a shell script, but why do it if it's already done? Thanks a lot for your help! -- p.

Re: root can't login

1999-04-11 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Bradley Bell: I'm running potato, and just upgraded libc6. As can happen with unstable, it broke stuff. bash for one. since root has bash set as its shell, I can't log in as root. I can log in as a normal user, which has tcsh for its login shell. SO, does anybody know any way I

Re: Q: User access to hardware peripherals - preferred method?

1999-04-11 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, James Mastros: I always run as root. Avoids permission problems.) Hmm, most permission problems are there to tell you you're doing something dangerous. Always running as root deprives you of that warning. Jiri [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: using FAT floppies- a drawback

1999-04-11 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Pollywog: I was going about reformatting a floppy disk I use to backup my Exim filters and configs and I remembered something: DOS floppies are limited to 8.3 type names. I believe there are some ways around this umsdos - unix filesystem on top of MS DOS - that way you'll be able to

Re: Q: User access to hardware peripherals - preferred method?

1999-04-11 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Michael Stutz: This works for the CD-ROM drive after doing chgroup audio /dev/cdrom; chgroup audio /dev/hdc as root (should I have done that?) but doing mount /dev/fd0 /floppy as a user still gets mount: only root can do that: Only root is allowed to mount/umount things by default;

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-11 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, John Galt: What's the accepted method of sending a file to a person that MUST not get into unfriendly hands, but needs to get between users that have no access to the other's machine, due to dynamic PPP and hostile ISPs, then? This method should be as easy and as transportable as

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-11 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, John Galt: Most crypto is based on a similar setup to email, Umm, no, cryptography is the art of writing messages that can only be decoded by the intended recipient. Very little to do with e-mail. If you have messages that MUST not get into hostile hands, I suggest reading a good

Re: top like drive usage utility?

1999-04-11 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Our drives have occasionally been going nuts with disk access. They would for no reason just start reading the disk and go solid for 10 minutes. Is there a utility like top to check for who or what is accessing the disks? There's fuser -mv /, but that just tells you which

Re: where is my kernel source?

1999-04-11 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, ktb: My Slink had no /usr/src/linux. /usr/src contained 'kernel-headers-2.0.36/' and 'kernel-source-2.0.36/' Marlon Urias wrote: My /usr/src/ only contains kernel-headers-2.0.36, this isn't the weird thing about my installation either. I guess I'll try looking in the cd. thanks.

Re: What advantage; gs-aladdin vs. gs?

1999-04-11 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Gary Singleton: I have to ask what the advantage of gs-aladdin is (if any)? gs-aladdin is the newest version gs lags behind some fixed number of years (maybe three but I don't remember) I use gs-aladdin because it has/had some driver that I needed. Jiri [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fdformat missing

1999-04-11 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Nathan E Norman: The real reason FAT filesystems are good for floppies is because it wastes the least space, while providing a decent medium for transferring data. But if you're just going to put one tar.gz file on it, do you need a filesystem at all? Jiri [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie networking

1999-04-11 Thread damaged justice
(LOAF recognizes NIC and networks, Debian recognizes NIC but doesn't despite identical configuration) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Bialasinski) writes: ifconfig eth0 reports the right values? Correct. It does take many seconds to report back after hitting ENTER, which goes against my experience.

apache proxy configuration on slink

1999-04-11 Thread John Stevenson
Hello Debian land, Does anyone know where I should put the configuration directives, in order to switch on proxy caching. I am following the guidelines in the O'Riely book on apache, and it says to place the directives in a file called .../site.proxy This file I created as

Re: missing libraries on svgalibg1 install

1999-04-11 Thread ivan
Further to my questions, I have checked /usr/lib (stupid not to have done so earlier !) and the libraries do in fact exist. Why then does ldconfig generate an error and does this mean that the installation is broken even though dselect didn't return an error ? Sorry for my silly mistake. Ivan.

Re: vi GUI for X ?

1999-04-11 Thread David Z. Maze
homega [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: homega Fine, I downloaded vim and kept nvi as well (for now, just homega while I'm learning). but I suppossed there should be a homega configuration file, either general for all vi programs, or for homega nvi or vim in particular ... the problem is I haven't

Re: cfs???

1999-04-11 Thread caffeine
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 10:45:50AM +0100, Andrew Holmes wrote: Hi, I've been trying to install cfs1.3.3-1 from the deb package and the install goes fine. I can mount it and I get a line in mount that says:- 'localhost:/null on /crypt type nfs (rw,port=3049,intr,addr=127.0.0.1)' However

ati vedio card

1999-04-11 Thread dlopez
I have recently purchased IBM aptiva E Series 2158-270 and it has a ATI (PCI MACH64 GT) card however it is giving me the unknown ati device and will not allow me to use 3d games . if there is any drivers or other known problems please send me the fix

Re: apache: browsing only what you want

1999-04-11 Thread Kevin Conover
instead of FollowSymLinks use: Options SymLinksIfOwnerMatch so no one can link to / unless they are root (assuming / is owned by root ;-) note that this doesn't answer your question, but I think it's the solution... On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Pere Camps wrote: Hi! I've found that if an

POP spool: permission denied (13)

1999-04-11 Thread Tony Crawford
Hi people! Anyone got a tip for me? I'd like to use Debian as a POP server in the LAN, but so far it doesn't want to play along. Here's the syslog: Apr 10 17:29:42 pumpkin tcplogd: pop-3 connection attempt from miregal [192.168.0.1] Apr 10 17:29:42 pumpkin in.qpopper[17472]: connect from

iBCS Anyone?

1999-04-11 Thread Mike Barton
I've got Debian 2.1 running on a dual PPro with 256 Megabytes of RAM, Adaptec 2940 and a Seagate 4 GB Cuda drive. All's fine except that I really need to run a legacy application which requires iBCS. Since the newest iBCS.deb package was compiled for 2.0.35, I installed and compiled the sources

Re: HP Web JetAdmin

1999-04-11 Thread John Stevenson
I got HP Web JetAdmin to work okay on my Hamm distribution, after making a few sym-links to make up for the differences in filespace layout. However, I tried it again with slink and it refuses connection. I wonder if there are some access permissions that changed default from the two distros'.

Re: linuxconf

1999-04-11 Thread John Stevenson
Last I heard about linuxconf was that it had a negative affect, as it does not follow the debian file structure properly. I guess that if the debs are in experimental then you should not install them on a machine that you arent prepared to trash. John. Oliver Thuns wrote: Hi! Does anyone

Netscape bookmark management

1999-04-11 Thread John Okell
I run Netscape both at work and at home. From time to time I add some sites to the bookmarks list at home and others to the list at work. How can I transfer the added sites, and only the added sites, from one list to the other? I have tried the Import command, but that merely adds all the

Re: Multiple gnome-panels are started by gnome-session and other problems

1999-04-11 Thread John Stevenson
I have the same 'feature' running slink with the slink-staging-area gnome debs (these few do work quite nicely actually). In order to avoid the problem, I always log out of the gnome pannel before exiting from the window manager. It would be nice if there was a more elegant way around this

best way to start gnome

1999-04-11 Thread shawnnguyen
Hi, I've been trying to find out how to start the gnome session without getting all kinds of error when I exit X window. When I read the gnome help file it says to put exec gnome-session in .xinitrc.xsession or .Xclients but I don't have those files in my directory. I am guessing

Linux vs FreeBSD

1999-04-11 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi ppl, It seems that this is very general question, but can someone give some pros and contra about applying these OSs as either gateway, router, cash-server etc. Many system administrators here are using FreeBSD, and I need to analise other options because I am debian addicted person :) Is any

Emacs

1999-04-11 Thread Sean
I've been thinking about giving emacs a look see, as it seems that a zillion people out there use it, and I do like some of the features I've heard about. I went and took a very cursory glance at the FAQ, and some of the online manual, and then went to apt-get install. This thing is HUGE. I'd

Re: cfs???

1999-04-11 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, caffeine wrote: If you want a working CFS, I recommend compiling your own copy or hassling the maintainer. I don't think bugging the maintainer would help since it appears that cfs is not maintained upstream. It's also hard to find maintainers for crypto packages. The

Re: How do I change ppp window size in Debian?

1999-04-11 Thread John Hasler
Phillip Deackes writes: Thanks, John. Unfortunately when I enter 'route window 8000 ppp0' as root, I just get the following: As Mirek pointed out, I should have specified a target, not an interface. The command should read 'route add -host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx window 8000' where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is

Re: Emacs

1999-04-11 Thread David Z. Maze
Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sean I've been thinking about giving emacs a look see, as it seems Sean that a zillion people out there use it, and I do like some of Sean the features I've heard about. I went and took a very cursory Sean glance at the FAQ, and some of the online manual, and then

Re: vi GUI for X ?

1999-04-11 Thread homega
David Z. Maze dixit: ~ homega [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ~ homega Fine, I downloaded vim and kept nvi as well (for now, just ~ homega while I'm learning). but I suppossed there should be a ~ homega configuration file, either general for all vi programs, or for ~ homega nvi or vim in particular

gnome capplet

1999-04-11 Thread Marcus Ahlfors
Ok, I'm just a clueless newbie i guess but i have to ask.. I'm using potato, Window Maker version 0.52 and Gnome v0.99.3.2. My problem is that when i run the gnome configuration tool ie Control Center, my only Capplets there are Multimedia, Appearances, Workspace and Input Devices. Where is my

Re: PPP/Modem prob

1999-04-11 Thread ANShevin
Could you please reply to this and include your ppp script (/etc/ppp/peers/script) and your chat script (/etc/chatscripts/script). It may be something as simple as the wrong com port to the latest version of pppd. (Hint: I find that the latest version of pppd from potato (2.3.7.x) does not

Re: ati vedio card

1999-04-11 Thread ANShevin
The ATI cards are not supported by any of the 3d APIs under linux. X will work using the Mach64 server, but you will only get 2d accel.

Re: Windows NT Samba

1999-04-11 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Windows NT Samba Date: Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 12:35:58AM -0500 In reply to:Chris Hoover Quoting Chris Hoover([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I was wondering if it was possible to use samba and have my linux box be able to read/write on my NT box. I would like to do this since my

Re: Fw: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

1999-04-11 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Fw: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender Date: Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 12:14:13AM -0500 In reply to:Chris Hoover Quoting Chris Hoover([EMAIL PROTECTED]): First off, let me say thanks to those of you who replied to my other posting about my mail system being

dselect error

1999-04-11 Thread Rick Smith
Hello All I have a problem with deslect all of a sudden I can't select Access, update nor install I get the following error.. dselect: unable to access method script '/usr/lib/dpkg//methods/http/setup': no such file or directory I dont have dpkg http installed so I can't figure this out... any

Re: cfs???

1999-04-11 Thread Andrew Holmes
Thanks for the advice, I have found the source for TCFS but it seems to want to patch everything, does anyone know where the source code for cfs is? I'd like to be able to use a cfs without having to change other parts of the system. -- Andy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] The path of my life is

Re: Netscape bookmark management

1999-04-11 Thread Padraic Renaghan
At 2:17pm on Sun, 11 Apr 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JO I run Netscape both at work and at home. From time to time I add some sites JO to the bookmarks list at home and others to the list at work. How can I JO transfer the added sites, and only the added sites, from one list to the JO other?

gpm and the -S switch

1999-04-11 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
Has anyone been able to get gpm to work with ``Special command processing'' a la the -S switch? According to the manpage, it should work by having the line ``append=-S \command1:command2:command3\'' in /etc/gpm.conf. But somehow the start-stop-daemon used by /etc/init.d/gpm befuddles the string

8GB drive partitioning

1999-04-11 Thread Hamilton
Hi. I have been trying to install debian onto a new computer, and I am having problems with reparitioning the 12 Gig hard drive. I don't want to lose the information on the existing win98 installation. I have read the documentation etc with fips, and the current version (2.0) to the best of my

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