Re: Problemas con Sendmail

1999-06-16 Thread Hue-Bond
El martes 15 de junio de 1999 a la(s) 13:15:42 -0300, Mariano De Lorenzo contaba: Necesito ayuda para poder configurar el Sendmail, cuando trato de crear el .cf con la aplicacion m4 me dice que me falta el archivo /usr/sendmail-cf/cf.m4, y es asi efectivamente, alguien puede decirme como hago

Re: playmidi no me tira

1999-06-16 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On mar, jun 15, 1999 at 07:09:49 +0200, Agustín Martín wrote: Si te sirve de consuelo, hace poco le instalé el sonido a una compañera con una ensoniq 1371 y tampoco me funcionan cosas como saytime que se queja de que no está /dev/audio (con un kernel 2.2.9) . Como el driver Pues no, no me

Re: Problemas con Sendmail

1999-06-16 Thread daniel
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 01:15:42PM -0300, Mariano De Lorenzo wrote: Necesito ayuda para poder configurar el Sendmail, cuando trato de crear el .cf con la aplicacion m4 me dice que me falta el archivo /usr/sendmail-cf/cf.m4, y es asi efectivamente, alguien puede decirme como hago para crear ese

Necesito información acerca de Programación Concurrente en Linux

1999-06-16 Thread Victoriano Domínguez
Sres., por favor agradezco cualquier tipo de información o fuente de esta acerca de Programación Concurrente en Linux. Estudio Ingeniería Informática y debo dar una exposición sobre el tema para una materia o curso llamado Sistemas Operativos. Muchas Gracias. Victoriano

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1999-06-16 Thread Carlos Javier Sosa Gonzalez
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, jon wrote: un colega tiene un toshiba 2540cds,va bien menos el modem,que parece que es un winmodem,qunque en los manuales no dice nada de eso. por lo demas le tira perfecto.. Rafael Cordones Marcos escribió: Hola, Estoy pensando en comprarme un portátil y

RE: Impresora HP 690 C

1999-06-16 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a todos. No sé si será esto lo que buscas: Package: djtools Version: 1.0-4 Si lo he probado y funciona, hago hpset nice, hpset test y otras cosas, y la impresora lo coge, pero no observo ninguna diferencia haciendolo y no haciendolo. Casualmente mi HP400 simpre ha funcionado mejor en

Re: LaTeX: problema con el silabeo (hyphenation) castellano

1999-06-16 Thread xcalbet
Respecto a los acentos: tiene pinta de que estas usando un editor que no soporta acentos. Configura bien las X windows para que los acepte: elige la opcion KBD y teclado con 101 teclas en espanyol (si es que tienes un teclado como casi todo el mundo). Ademas por supuesto tus ficheros

-URGENTE- Entrada al sistema remoto

1999-06-16 Thread Manuel Trujillo
Buenas. Tengo ya el servidor Hylafax bajo Debian 2.1 arreglado de una manera bastante decente, por así decirlo. Pero me encuentro con el siguiente problema: Cuando intento entrar, desde el cliente, o haciendo un telnet al puerto 4559 directamente, me rechaza la password. El fichero hosts.allow lo

Sw de gestion

1999-06-16 Thread Juanjo Martinez
Hola a todos/as: Me interesaría saber si hay sw de gestión para una empresa de trabajo temporal, aunque sea comercial, para Linux claro. Gracias por todo. -- Salut!! +---+ |Juanjo Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |

Re: Impresora HP 690 C

1999-06-16 Thread Agustín Martín
Barbwired wrote: Tambien me gustaria saber, si hay manera de dirigir la impresion de Netscape 4.5 hacia mis programas de filtros (html2ps, psutils..), en lugar de que sea Pues no tengo ni idea, pero si avriguas algo, házmelo saber. Dirígelo directamente al lpr (no necesitas símbolo de

Re: XEmacs y política de Debian sobre el teclado

1999-06-16 Thread Jose Centeno
J. Carlos writes: Backspace -- Borra carácter a la izquierda del cursor Delete -- Borra carácter bajo el cursor He encontrado la respuesta a tu problema (que también era mío) en la lista debian-user: -- From:

problemas en el servicio pop3

1999-06-16 Thread Marga
Hola. La gente que utiliza el sistema de correo electronico que administro se queja continuamente de que se interrumpe la descarga del correo (a traves de infoviaplus) y su buzon queda bloquedado durante media hora o más a pesar de que los mensajes no sean excesivamente grandes. En syslog leo

RE: Gnome básico

1999-06-16 Thread ~ Miguel P.C. ~
At 21.07 15/6/99 +0200, you wrote: [...] Si tengo tiempo y me da por eso, a lo mejor lo que hago es preparar una especie de GNOME-lite, unos cuantos paquetes de GNOME que ofrezcan lo básico, ocupando poco sitio, que para ocupar 80 megas ya se basta el amigo Bill Gates. Eso estaría bien. Apoyo

RE: Impresora HP 690 C

1999-06-16 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Tambien me gustaria saber, si hay manera de dirigir la impresion de Netscape 4.5 hacia mis programas de filtros (html2ps, psutils..), en lugar de que sea Pues no tengo ni idea, pero si avriguas algo, házmelo saber. Dirígelo directamente al lpr (no necesitas símbolo de

Re: Problemas con Sendmail

1999-06-16 Thread Mariano De Lorenzo
El mar, 15 jun 1999, daniel escribió: On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 01:15:42PM -0300, Mariano De Lorenzo wrote: Necesito ayuda para poder configurar el Sendmail, cuando trato de crear el .cf con la aplicacion m4 me dice que me falta el archivo /usr/sendmail-cf/cf.m4, y es asi efectivamente,

Re: Impresora HP 690 C

1999-06-16 Thread Jaime E. Villate
Tambien me gustaria saber, si hay manera de dirigir la impresion de Netscape 4.5 hacia mis programas de filtros (html2ps, psutils..), en lugar de que sea Pues no tengo ni idea, pero si avriguas algo, házmelo saber. Agustín Martín: Dirígelo directamente al lpr (no necesitas

Re: Impresora HP 690 C

1999-06-16 Thread Jaime E. Villate
Respecto a la otra parte de la pregunta de Angel Vicente Perez (ya me acordé del nombre!), yo legré mejorar un poco la calidad de los colores introduciendo una corrección gama Por ejemplo para un factor gama de 3 uso el siguiente archivo postscript: %! {0.333 exp} dup dup dup setcolortransfer

Re: problemas en el servicio pop3

1999-06-16 Thread Antonio Beamud
At 12.49 16/6/99 +0200, Marga wrote: Hola. La gente que utiliza el sistema de correo electronico que administro se queja continuamente de que se interrumpe la descarga del correo (a traves de infoviaplus) y su buzon queda bloquedado durante media hora o más a pesar de que los mensajes no sean

Re: playmidi no me tira

1999-06-16 Thread Agustín Martín
Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: On mar, jun 15, 1999 at 07:09:49 +0200, Agustín Martín wrote: Si te sirve de consuelo, hace poco le instalé el sonido a una compañera con una ensoniq 1371 y tampoco me funcionan cosas como saytime que se queja de que no está /dev/audio (con un kernel

Re: problemas en el servicio pop3

1999-06-16 Thread mpadilla
Se trata de un isp con un sendmail en el que los usuarios/as se bajan el correo a través de infovía utilizando gran variedad de clientes. El caso es que no se cuales aspectos de la configuración son relevante para el pop3 Saludos, Marga Antonio Beamud escribió: At 12.49 16/6/99 +0200, Marga

Instalacion de Aplicaciones

1999-06-16 Thread Hector Garcia
Hola amigos . Estoy empezando en el mundo del Linux y como primer paso he instalado el Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.1 en una PC 486 / 100 MHz , que no posee lectora de CD , ni conexion a red . Ahora estoy intentando instalar las aplicaciones como el entorno grafico (XFree86) , etc. Quisiera saber si

Re: Segundo acceso a X

1999-06-16 Thread Ignacio J. Alonso
Hue-Bond decia: El lunes 07 de junio de 1999 a la(s) 02:12:11 +0200, Juan Ignacio Llona contaba: Curiosamente, si arranco los dos en la misma profundidad de color, WindowMaker se queja de que ya hay otro gestor de ventanas corriendo; sin embargo, si arranco uno en 8 bits y otro en 16,

Ensoniq no soporta ULAW : playmidi no me tira

1999-06-16 Thread Xose Manoel Ramos
El Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 07:09:49PM +0200, Agustín Martín contaba: Si te sirve de consuelo, hace poco le instalé el sonido a una compañera con una ensoniq 1371 y tampoco me funcionan cosas como saytime que se queja de que no está /dev/audio (con un kernel 2.2.9) . Como el driver de la es1371 no es

Re: el FTP de DEBIAN español tiene problemas o que?

1999-06-16 Thread Xose Manoel Ramos
El Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 01:25:26PM +0200, RESET contaba: ceu.fi.udc.es/debian ftp.usc.es/pub/mirror2/linux/debian ftp.cs.us.es/debian ftp.rediris.es/debian Añade este a la lista: ftp://ftp.tsc.uvigo.es//pub/linux/debian Es de donde me bajo yo las cosas y va de miedo. Si no estás en RedIris

Ensoniq no tiene sequenciador : el playmidi no tira

1999-06-16 Thread Xose Manoel Ramos
El Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 11:31:51AM +0200, Agustín Martín contaba: ¿Podrías decir que tarjeta de sonido tienes, y si tienes el sonido compilado como módulo, cuales son tus entradas para el sonido en el directorio /etc/modutils? A ver si nos leemos la documentación del kernel:

Re: partición raiz herida de muerte :(

1999-06-16 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Pues si lo parece ... varias preguntas: - se ha fsckeado la particion? - tienes uotro SO ? si eas así, has comprobado si tienes algún virus? (yo creo que he descubierto que un virus que anda por ahí toquetea las particiones , creyendose muy listo y se carga, en el proceso

Kernel patching

1999-06-16 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Hi all. (Sorry, forgot to include the meaningful subject: message below) I've just applied 2.0.35, 2.0.36 and 2.0.37 patches to my 2.0.34 kernel. Now as I compile the kernel, I get these errors: setup.c: In function `Cx86model': setup.c:286: `Cx86_mult' undeclared (first use this function)

Sound-HOWTO docs wrong; what next?

1999-06-16 Thread Kent West
I've recompiled my kernel in order to get sound working. Now when I reboot I can see messages about my sound card, so I went back to the documentation to see how to test the sound. The Linux Sound HOWTO; Installation (p15 of 26), section 4.3 states that there should be a /dev/sndstat file. There

Re: PS/2 mouse rolling away

1999-06-16 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Armin Wegner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: my logitech ps/2 mouse behaves oddly. Sometimes, the pointer rolls to the top or bottom of the screen when pressing a button while moving left or right in X and on console. I can stop this by moving the mouse. But I can't Are you sure this isn´t a

Switch console in xterm

1999-06-16 Thread ktb
Somewhere I heard there exists a program that will allow you to switch consoles in an xterm. In other words it would be like switching consoles with ctrl+alt+F* but from within a single xterm window. I poked around in the packages at the Debian site but can't find anything. I don't even know

Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-16 Thread JW Park
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999 05:05:39 +, you wrote: On Tuesday, June 08, 1999 at 23:26:35 -0600, Craig McPherson wrote: Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: BE MORE SIMPLE X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.02b14) X-UIDL: d2077d16c3127d4bf73a47a47027a8d9 As one Debian newbie to

Re: Switch console in xterm

1999-06-16 Thread Gareth
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, ktb wrote: Somewhere I heard there exists a program that will allow you to switch consoles in an xterm. In other words it would be like switching consoles with ctrl+alt+F* but from within a single xterm window. I poked around in the packages at the Debian site but can't

Re: Switch console in xterm

1999-06-16 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 16 Jun, Gareth wrote about Re: Switch console in xterm On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, ktb wrote: Somewhere I heard there exists a program that will allow you to switch consoles in an xterm. In other words it would be like switching consoles with ctrl+alt+F* but from within a single xterm window.

Re: Switch console in xterm

1999-06-16 Thread ktb
Brian Servis wrote: *- On 16 Jun, Gareth wrote about Re: Switch console in xterm On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, ktb wrote: Somewhere I heard there exists a program that will allow you to switch consoles in an xterm. In other words it would be like switching consoles with ctrl+alt+F* but from

Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-16 Thread Craig McPherson
I'm hoping that someone will be able to offer some advice on this, because it's annoying when a program crashes under Linux even more often than it crashes under Windows. Anyway, the problem is that Netscape is quite frequently crashing with a bus error. This usually happens when I close a

Re: CMI8338 sound card on board under Linux

1999-06-16 Thread Peter Ludwig
On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi all, Hi! I have a CMI8338 sound card on board under Linux. It's a PCI Sound Pro. PCIUtils in potato detected it. Anyone has got this card to work in Linux? I happen to have the earlier model of this card (the

Re: shell programing

1999-06-16 Thread Keith Beattie
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 01:32:11PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: *- On 15 Jun, Keith Beattie wrote about Re: shell programing On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 06:09:12PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: Is there any good online document for shell programing under unix (linux)? i need bash and cshell.

Re: acroread --why can't package be installed?

1999-06-16 Thread Barry Kauler
*- On 15 Jun, Barry Kauler wrote about acroread --why can't package be installed? When I type # dpkg --list acroread The package lists with the letters pn at the start of the line. Such packages will not install, and there is an error message no installation candidate when I

Hoping for some help with this kernel error

1999-06-16 Thread Craig McPherson
Well, my little foray into kernel compiling didn't meet with much success... any ideas on this? kmod failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c, errno=8 request_module[binfmt-464c]: fork failed, errno 11 repeat endlessly -- Craig McPherson The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville AR

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-16 Thread thomas lakofski
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Craig McPherson wrote: Are any of the earier versions of Netscape more stable than 4.6? I'm willing to use whatever is stable. I haven't yet tried earlier Netscapes. same thing happens to me with 4.51 and 4.08, both linked with glibc2. i think it's a glibc2.1 issue.

Re: Source Depends

1999-06-16 Thread Laurent Martelli
Paulo == Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paulo Hi all, I got a new machine at home (k6-350) and have Paulo only slink. So I begin to use debget for fetching source Paulo packages of potato and compile. I have only a small question: Paulo How to know what

Re: Remote print spooling, Debian/LPRng

1999-06-16 Thread Laurent Martelli
Aaron == Aaron Van Couwenberghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aaron Hi all - ... Aaron On machine awac, whenever I attempt to invoke lpr I recieve: Aaron ...~$ lpr dpkg2-spec.tov no connect permissions job Aaron 'cfA939awac' transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed Have you looked

Re: NFS performance problems

1999-06-16 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Thanks for the suggestion. 2.2.10 also has better nfs client performance -- I just tried it after a few hassles building a .deb to get dhcp-client-beta to work on a slink system with the 2.2.10 kernel. user time real time

Re: acroread --why can't package be installed?

1999-06-16 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 16 Jun, Barry Kauler wrote about Re: acroread --why can't package be installed? It's in dpkg's local database, it's on the web package site, I've got a relatively new installation that hasn't been messed up in any way, I've never installed an earlier version of acroread. So, why can't

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
Craig McPherson wrote: I'm hoping that someone will be able to offer some advice on this, because it's annoying when a program crashes under Linux even more often than it crashes under Windows. since you´re using glibc2.1, the best way would be - imho - either to use the libc5 version

Re: Help with networking a new install

1999-06-16 Thread Sandy Kear
Try this: 1) find out what irq and i/o address the card is using. If it's a PnP, use whatever setup software/jumper is needed to force it into a free irq and i/o address 2) edit /etc/modules so that it contains ne.o io=0x240,irq=10 (using whatever io and irq that you set the card to) and

Re: Sound-HOWTO docs wrong; what next?

1999-06-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
Kent West wrote: I've recompiled my kernel in order to get sound working. Now when I reboot I can see messages about my sound card, so I went back to the documentation to see how to test the sound. The Linux Sound HOWTO; Installation (p15 of 26), section 4.3 states that there should be a

Re: soundcard too silent

1999-06-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
Lex Chive wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 01:54:05PM +0200, Bernhard Dobbels wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Armin Wegner wrote: how can I raise the base volume of my sb 64 pci (ensonique)? try xmix and aumix on the console. Dont forget to change the volume of the PCM channel too, not

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-16 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 02:38:43AM +0200, Hartmut Figge wrote: Craig McPherson wrote: I'm hoping that someone will be able to offer some advice on this, because it's annoying when a program crashes under Linux even more often than it crashes under Windows. since you´re using

imagemagick compile

1999-06-16 Thread Tim Burgess
I'm compiling a *very* simple example.c program that uses the imagemagick library (which in turn uses many other libraries), yet I get a compile error with libICE: gcc -o example -O -I/usr/X11R6/include/magick -L/usr/X11R6/lib example.c \ -lMagick -ltiff -ljpeg -lX11 -lz -lm /usr/bin/ld:

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
thomas lakofski wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Craig McPherson wrote: anyone have libc5 debian packages for 4.08/51/6? get the files from ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.08/english/unix/supported/linux20/ and use the debian installer. hafi

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: i found 4.6.1 even more unstable than 4.08. at least i know that, if i don't close windows, 4.08 is unlikely to crash. 4.6 just died all the time. well, then it seems, that the poor glibc2.1 people should go to the libc5 version. hafi

Re: Compaq Deskpro 6000 install trouble

1999-06-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
George Bonser wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: The problem I'm aware of with the Compaq Deskpro 6000 was a a model sold two years ago with an Adaptec SCSI card (2940U). The PC would reboot. Do you have such a controller? I thought this was solved in recent

autofs not autounmounting

1999-06-16 Thread Brian Servis
For some reason autofs is not autounmounting the mount points. Even if I explicity define a timeout in the auto.master file for a mount tree it never unmounts the filesystem. And no the filesystem is not in use. I am using autofs_3.1.3-1 compiled from the Debian potato sources on my slink box

Re: Two installations on the same system

1999-06-16 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 01:01:20PM +, Gertjan Klein wrote On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 21:59:30 +0200 (CEST), Bruno Goncalves Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Two Linux partitions] This is exactly what I want to do. I just tried to do it, but wasn't totally successful because I didn't configure

Re: Can I get the .deb files that I currently have installed.

1999-06-16 Thread Joseph Chung
Be careful when using dpkg-repack to clone a system onto another pc. I did this with a hamm system, and though I did get a more-or-less working clone system, permissions on this system were broken all over the place. Maybe, things have improved with the newest version of dpkg-repack. On Mon, Jun

Re: Sound-HOWTO docs wrong; what next?

1999-06-16 Thread Kent West
Hartmut Figge wrote: Thanks for the response! I really appreciate it. Comments dispersed throughout below: Kent West wrote: I've recompiled my kernel in order to get sound working. Now when I reboot I can see messages about my sound card, so I went back to the documentation to see how to

Re: Sound-HOWTO docs wrong; what next?

1999-06-16 Thread Arcady Genkin
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so do you own a soundblaster? which sort of? No. I don't have the documentation in front of me (it's an office machine and I'm at home now); it's something like ESS-blahblah, but I think it's supposed to be SB-compatible. It's standard fare in a

(X)Emacs in the console

1999-06-16 Thread Matthew Gregan
Hi. I've been playing around with configuring Emacs20, and XEmacs20. I've got it all working out I want under X, but under the console, XEmacs thinks that my backspace key is delete. I would've thought this had something to do with the keyboard settings for the console, but Emacs works

Re: Sound-HOWTO docs wrong; what next?

1999-06-16 Thread athos
Kent wrote: KW I've recompiled my kernel in order to get sound working. Now when I KW reboot I can see messages about my sound card, so I went back to the KW documentation to see how to test the sound. I'm no expert (I'm still learning myself), but here're some clues I picked up from my sound

Re: [oops] Sound-HOWTO docs wrong; what next?

1999-06-16 Thread athos
Kent wrote: KW Hartmut Figge wrote: KW Thanks for the response! I really appreciate it. Comments dispersed KW throughout below: Oops. Well.. scratch my comments. :) heads offstage muttering about learning -- | Shawn Sulma, The Rigel Group | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _\|/_

make and subdirectories

1999-06-16 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Sorry, I read the info files on make, but I didn't find information on how I could make start make in all subdirectories (without having to tell it the subdirectory names would be preferred). Does anyone know, where I could find this? Well or just tell me right here. Thank you Ingo Hohmann

Kernel 2.2.9 and soundblaster module

1999-06-16 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Hi, is there something about soundblaster support that I should have known by now? Seems that my irq, ... settings get lost when I compile soundblaster support as a module. (Sound works when compiled in, but I get device is busy error, when I use modules and try to insmod sb.o) Is there a

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
Yea, use the 4.08 version of Netscape. You might also try with statically linked motif (it's a bit bigger, but avoids shared library probs). -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the A HREF=http://www.debian.org;POTATO/A!

Debian Updates?

1999-06-16 Thread Marc Matteo
Hi all, Ok, I'm a little confused on how updates to the Debian system are supposed to work. I hope someone can help me figure it out So what determines an r release? The Debian pages say the current release is at 2.1r2. How do I know if I have an r2 release? Are the r changes automatically

Re: debs for WindowMaker sound stuff?

1999-06-16 Thread Ben Messinger
Mark Wagnon wrote: Since I've managed to get sound working to some degree, I thought I'd play with some of the sound options of WM, only I can't seem to find any debs for them. Does anyone know where I might find debs for WSoundPrefs, wmsoundconfig, and WMSound? If not, then I guess I'll

Re: Kernel 2.2.9 and soundblaster module

1999-06-16 Thread Mark Wagnon
Ingo Hohmann wrote: Hi, is there something about soundblaster support that I should have known by now? Seems that my irq, ... settings get lost when I compile soundblaster support as a module. (Sound works when compiled in, but I get device is busy error, when I use modules and try to

Re: debs for WindowMaker sound stuff?

1999-06-16 Thread Mark Wagnon
Ben Messinger wrote: [snip] Slink debs for wmsound are at: http://master.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/ The other sound related packages are listed there, but the deb's are missing (tarballs are there though). Perhaps they are still being prepared. I updated WM and wmsound tonight

Re: (X)Emacs in the console

1999-06-16 Thread Destrius
On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 04:30:47PM +1200, Matthew Gregan wrote: -clip- Can someone tell me what I need to do to fix this, or point me to something which will help? -clip- Hmm. I got this little bit of code from the XEmacs newsgroup. It works for me. Just insert it into .emacs: ---Cut Here---

Re: Two installations on the same system

1999-06-16 Thread Gertjan Klein
On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 12:52:31 +0930, John Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The disadvantage to this is that *both* /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 have to fall within the first 1024 cylinders cylinders for this to work. With the BIOS harddisk mode set to LBA this shouldn't be a problem, as the harddisk

Re: ftp/telnet fails since upgrade

1999-06-16 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
For the ftp problem, take a look at /etc/inetd.conf and see if the ftp line has been commented out. If so, remove the octothorpe (#). There might be more than one of these lines; you should only enable one. These two lines are uncommented in inetd.conf: ftp stream tcp

Re: Debian Updates?

1999-06-16 Thread Mark Wagnon
Marc Matteo wrote: Hi all, [snip] What about security updates? I've added deb http://security.debian.org/ stable updates to my sources.list file but I see that not all the security updates are in security.debian.org but rather some (like procmail) are still in proposed-updates. How

Re: CMI8338 sound card on board under Linux

1999-06-16 Thread Bruno Goncalves Russo
C Media, the manufacturer of this chip, has a driver for Linux. You can download it from their site: http://www.cmedia.com.tw/e_snd_drv.htm It is for the 2.2.x kernels, so you'll have to be running one of these. Ciao. Bruno. On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Peter Ludwig wrote: On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Paulo

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-16 Thread Mark Wagnon
Craig McPherson wrote: I'm hoping that someone will be able to offer some advice on this, because it's annoying when a program crashes under Linux even more often than it crashes under Windows. I'm having trouble with netscape too. I've tried several things to get around the problem, but I

I made a mistake!!

1999-06-16 Thread www.arjenvv
Hi all, during the installation of Debian a put up also the configuration for the network. But i've made a mistake there. At the end there where three options, PMCIA, Ethernet or fast Ethernet and anotherone. I should've had to point to Ethernet, but i mistyped, and pointed PMCIA. So know i

Re: Configuring exim (or rather fetchmail and procmail)

1999-06-16 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
But I am not sure it is the right thing to do, why wouldnt you want to receive mail directly? Because I am going to want to use procmail soon, and it's easier to configure it to only work through fetchmail, and because if I try to fetch mail with POP3 and SMTP a collision sometimes

clocks

1999-06-16 Thread Aaron Solochek
Ok, I've read man pages, and I'm still confused. What different types of clocks are there? I know of the system and hardware, but I'm not sure which is responsible for what. I also would like to know how to set everything because I think my system time and/or date is wrong. Or maybe its my

Re: clocks

1999-06-16 Thread Joop Stakenborg
On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 03:35:09AM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: Ok, I've read man pages, and I'm still confused. What different types of clocks are there? I know of the system and hardware, but I'm not sure which is responsible for what. I also would like to know how to set everything

cron executes at UTC not local time

1999-06-16 Thread Alex V. Toropov
Hi all, I've faced a problem with cron: it's executes all tasks from /etc/crontab and /etc/cron.d/* at specified time as if it's UTC time, not local time as I'd like it to be. date command returns correct date time (both for local time and UTC time) Can someone tell me where I should tell

Hmmmm .deb files??

1999-06-16 Thread David Ellison
Hello, I've tried the install and upgrade program. Whilst I chose the ones I need now. Since installing base system. I need a mail program and irc. The program complains that they are broken programs? It then refuses to install any!! I have added all the libs and other things that a program

Re: ftp/telnet fails since upgrade

1999-06-16 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
longer ftp or telnet to my machine. (421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection, and Connection closed by foreign host). In /etc/hosts.deny try commenting out the line ALL: PARANOID Thanks. That didn't help with the ftp/telnet problem, but I think it solved another

Re: ftp/telnet fails since upgrade

1999-06-16 Thread Dr. Karl-Wilhelm Schulte
On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 12:03:15PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: longer ftp or telnet to my machine. (421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection, and Connection closed by foreign host). Have you noticed, that some net services have now their own debs in the net section?

RE: Hmmmm .deb files??

1999-06-16 Thread David Karlin
Hi, dpkg -i filename.deb will install the .debs on to your system. Make sure you are in the correct directory first, or specify its path. As an alternative, try: apt-get update;apt-get install package name (package name is foo, not foo.deb); apt-get will take care of dependencies. Try man

Re: Danger of software patents in Europe

1999-06-16 Thread Detlev Zundel
Hello Sami, What's a software patent ?? A software patent is for software what normal patents are for normal products, i.e. a way to protect inventions from being exploited. Usually this means that if you invent something and get granted a patent on it that everybody using your invention in

Re: A few questions from a newbie.

1999-06-16 Thread John Gay
Thanks for the info, but I think you over looked a few items. The reason I want to upgrade to potato is, I installed x11amp, which required newer libs than slink uses. This has broken apt. I've seen this problem mentioned before and the recommended fix was to upgrade to potato. Also, my video

Re: Sound-HOWTO docs wrong; what next?

1999-06-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): instead of that, got to /dev and execute ./MAKEDEV audio as root. (or use fakeroot) Okay! Now I have a /dev/sndstat. (Would that really have been too hard to put in the HOWTO? Or maybe it depends on the distribution you're running?) It's safe to

Re: PS/2 mouse rolling away

1999-06-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting Colin Marquardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * Armin Wegner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: my logitech ps/2 mouse behaves oddly. Sometimes, the pointer rolls to the top or bottom of the screen when pressing a button while moving left or right in X and on console. I can stop this by moving

Re: Switch console in xterm

1999-06-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Brian Servis wrote: *- On 16 Jun, Gareth wrote about Re: Switch console in xterm On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, ktb wrote: Somewhere I heard there exists a program that will allow you to switch consoles in an xterm. In other words it would be like switching

Re: PS/2 mouse rolling away

1999-06-16 Thread Tracy Nelson
I've seen this happen with cheap mice exposed to bright light. Seems the plastic shell is so thin that they let enough light in to trigger the protoreceptors. The next time it happens, try just shading the mouse with your hand. If that stop it, then you can disassemble the mouse and spray the

Re: Switch console in xterm

1999-06-16 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 16 Jun, David Wright wrote about Re: Switch console in xterm Well there's also the concept of an Alternate Screen in xterm. That's why you don't see, for example, the last screenfull of output from less when you quit, but just your interactive commands. less uses the alternate screen,

Re: Hoping for some help with this kernel error

1999-06-16 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 07:13:08PM -0600, Craig McPherson wrote: Well, my little foray into kernel compiling didn't meet with much success... any ideas on this? kmod failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c, errno=8 request_module[binfmt-464c]: fork failed, errno 11 repeat

Re: SV: Webmasters Wanted!!! We'll pay you...

1999-06-16 Thread Frankie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This kind of crap is NOT welcome on the Debian-user mailing-list, su butt off!! Viggo Wichmann yes it is, see the debian website about charges for advertising/spam. ($1999 to SPI iirc) -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL

Re: DNS problem

1999-06-16 Thread Frankie
Jean-Yves F. Barbier wrote: Hi all, I have a little problem with my provider DNS: mine is much faster, but I need to access the provider's if I want to have the news groups and mail sending allowed, because my identification is made by these DNS (I'm on a cable network). So how could I

Scanner, TV tuner, PC-TV support on Debian 2.1

1999-06-16 Thread Nadarajah, Dinesh
Hi: I am trying to find out some information on scanner support for Debian 2.1. Can someone recommend a good scanner for use? Also, what would be a good PC-to-TV card that is supported on Linux. I am looking to run my graphics output to my computer output to my TV (preferably through a S-video

Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-16 Thread Frankie
E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: Debian installation manual is not at all the worst one. It is quite good actually. But it definetely isn't easy to find on the website instructions how to get started... This is getting on my nerves... * go to www.debian.org * note the section `Getting

EPSON LX-300 under Linux

1999-06-16 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I have an Epson LX-300 under Linux and cant it to work. Already tried Magicfilter and Apsfilter. I dont know the right driver... Thanks for any help,Paulo Henrique

Re: Scanner, TV tuner, PC-TV support on Debian 2.1

1999-06-16 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 16 Jun, Nadarajah, Dinesh wrote about Scanner, TV tuner, PC-TV support on Debian 2.1 I am not speaking from experience, just pointing the way. I am trying to find out some information on scanner support for Debian 2.1. Can someone recommend a good scanner for use?

Re: Can I get the .deb files that I currently have installed.

1999-06-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Mark == Mark Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark That's not really what I'm looking for. What I want is not the Mark list of .deb's, but the .debs themselves. What I'm trying to Mark do is to create a ZIP disk which holds everything I need to Mark replicate my setup. If I do the

Re: Switch console in xterm

1999-06-16 Thread John Foster
Brian Servis wrote: *- On 16 Jun, David Wright wrote about Re: Switch console in xterm Well there's also the concept of an Alternate Screen in xterm. That's why you don't see, for example, the last screenfull of output from less when you quit, but just your interactive commands. less

Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-16 Thread Shao Zhang
On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 10:35:52AM -0400, Kristopher Johnson wrote: I'm the guy that asked which package had the HOWTOs. I know it seemed like a dumb question, but I did try searching on HOWTO in both dselect and on the Debian web site, and came up with nothing. again, I kindly advise you

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