Re: ¿Qué es el grupo linux.debian.spanish?

1999-09-18 Thread RESET
: El día Tue, 14 Sep 1999 12:28:53 +0200, José Carlos García Sogo [EMAIL PROTECTED] contaba: José:: Pues eso. ¿Es esta lista gestionada como un USENET? Me José:: interesaría mucho, pues a partir de poco no voy a poder José:: bajarme el correo todos los días, y no mola llegar y

Re: No puedo hacer telnet a mi propia maquina

1999-09-18 Thread RESET
Hola Probablemente es un problema de /etc/hosts. Éste funciona: como: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain 127.0.0.2 nombre_de_máquina localhost Un saludo. -- RESET

Re: monitorización de mail

1999-09-18 Thread Felipe Sanchez
M. Angel Esteban wrote: Hola!! ¿Sabéis alguna manera de monitorizar mediante slink como van entrando los mails a mi máquina (mediante cónsola, nada de X) basada en dhis?. Si pudiera ser mediante un doc o referencia muxo mejo,ke kiero aprendé :-D Hola, Lo que yo hago es correr tail -f

Dudas de XEmacs

1999-09-18 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Hola a todos. Cuando intento acceder a web desde xemacs, este lo intenta pero al momento suena un beep de error y aparece en la barra de mensajes: Invalid regexp: Invalid preceding regular expression y no sigue. ¿Alguien sabe donde tengo que tocar en el setup de xemacs para

Diald

1999-09-18 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a todos... Tenia yo en el trabajo, una maquina funcionando con diald, y al cambia al kernel 2.2.10 ha dejado de funcionar (aunque sospecho que el netbase tambien tiene algo que ver, porque en 2.2.9 funcionaba, y tampoco en este funciona), se queja de que hay un parametro incorrecto en inet,

Re: Lprng y permisos en /dev/lp0

1999-09-18 Thread Ramiro Alba
Angel Vicente Perez wrote: Hola a todos... Tengo instalado el lprng-3.6.10-1, como sistema de impresión, desde que tengo esta versión instalada, no puedo imprimir nada, siempre obtengo un mensaje diciendo que no existe el dispositivo, y que permiso denegado. He visto que cuando se ejecuta

Re: xemacs y del

1999-09-18 Thread Hue-Bond
El viernes 17 de septiembre de 1999 a la(s) 20:19:33 +0200, RESET contaba: ¿Qué es XEmacs? Los mantenedores de XEmacs siguen activamente los cambios de Emacs y además trabajan para añadir nuevas características. ¿Por qué hay dos entonces, si son (casi) iguales? -- Just do it.

Impresión

1999-09-18 Thread Pedro
Hola: Tengo la Debian 2.1 con el Kernel 2.0.36, el problema es que puedo imprimir sólo ficheros de Gv, por ejemplo páginas de html del Netscape he incluso de texto con el mutt etc, etc... no puedo, sabeis que debo hacer. Y otra cosa quiero actualizarme el Kernel a uno de los últimos, cuando

Re: No puedo hacer telnet a mi propia maquina

1999-09-18 Thread Jon Noble
Hola, On vie, 17 sep 1999 03:19:27 RESET wrote: Probablemente es un problema de /etc/hosts. Éste funciona: como: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain 127.0.0.2 nombre_de_máquina localhost ¿ Para qué sirve la dirección 127.0.0.2 ? Un saludo, JonN

Problemas con Samba y redes

1999-09-18 Thread Avid El Fasih Santalla
Saludos a los listeros. Acabo de instalar Samba en un servidor con Debian 2.0, pero no consigo hacerlo funcionar bien. El caso es que el servidor linux es visible desde clientes windows 95, pero cuando pincho en el explorador de red para ver los recursos compartidos me pide una contraseña

Re: No puedo hacer telnet a mi propia maquina

1999-09-18 Thread Paco Brufal
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Cosme Perea Cuevas wrote: Eps! lo he solucionado modificando `/etc/networks'. Lo tenía: localnet 127.0.0.0 y he añadido la línea: localhost 127.0.0.1 ¿Es una solución ortodoxa? 13:23:phucksys:root# cat /etc/networks loopnet 127.0.0.0 localnet192.168.1.0

icewm de Slink

1999-09-18 Thread Hue-Bond
Buenas. Cambiando cositas del ~/.icewm/preferences veo que algunas no funcionan. Por ejemplo le pongo a ColorActiveTitleBarText el valor rgb:00/00/00 y tras reiniciar icewm, el texto sigue tan blanco como por defecto. ¿Alguien lo ha cambiado y le ha

Netscape Communicator 4.51: trampa barriobajera.

1999-09-18 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
Hola, Pues o no lo he entendido bien, o la versión de Notescapes que he instalado me (nos) la está jugando miserablemente. Porque he desabilitado java, javascritp, etc., y cuando entro (off-line con Wwwoffle) en una página con algún código que llama a otro documento (=publicidad),

Re: picture as background in xterm or other?

1999-09-18 Thread RESET
rxvt and wterm, too -- RESET

Re: Awe64 Gold

1999-09-18 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:44:08PM +0200, Steeve Lennmark wrote: On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 09:51:30PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: I'm using an AWE64 quite happily. What's not working? Are you using isapnpconf or something to set it up correctly? What have you tried? I've tried compiling it

Re: Leafnode question...

1999-09-18 Thread NatePuri
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 06:38:41PM -0400, Jonathan Lupa wrote: Unfortunately, I get the same results. =( I forgot to inform you about something. Leafnode only knows to fetch news that you request with a news read (i.e., tin or trn). When the nntp server (leafnode) gets a request it will mark

Re: Backup -- what directories are important?

1999-09-18 Thread Scott Henry
B == Brian Boonstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: B Hi B I've got a CD-RW drive, and a hankering to back up. I'm using a few B GB of space with my potato distribution, but most of that is packages that I B could easliy fetch again from the web if my HD crashed. Are there any B comments

Re: [Mailer-Daemon@pingoo.linhax.org: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender]

1999-09-18 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 06:47:26PM +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote: How can I avoid this type of behaviour ? When I tell exim to use the smtp.free.fr - I have rights to use it as a smarthost -, I receive a message like this. How can I repair this ? SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL

ethernet configuration

1999-09-18 Thread Stephen Monroe
Hello, I'm having trouble getting my ethernet to work properly. I'm in a dorm room at a university that supplies ethernet and I KNOW it worked last year. I'm dual booted and I used my winmodem in Win98 over the summer (and unsuccessfully tried to configure it for Linux). This is all I can

RE: Leafnode question...

1999-09-18 Thread Jonathan Lupa
On Friday, September 17, 1999 1:33 PM, Mark Brown [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:31:45AM -0400, Jonathan Lupa wrote: Sith:/usr/doc/leafnode/examples# fetch -fvv 1.6.2: verbosity level is 2 I strongly recommend upgrading to a more up to date version of

Re: Regex and memory gone.. was Re: spreadsheet (excel, WingzPro)

1999-09-18 Thread rich
I remember reading today / yesterday that someone had problems with Wingz on a 48MB system... I just downloaded both Wingz and WingzPro, installed them in under 5 minutes and both run very smoothly and quickly on my 32MB 200Mhz Pentium I running Slink... The Excel and HTML import / export

Re: Backup -- what directories are important?

1999-09-18 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 17 Sep, Brian Boonstra wrote about Backup -- what directories are important? Hi I've got a CD-RW drive, and a hankering to back up. I'm using a few GB of space with my potato distribution, but most of that is packages that I could easliy fetch again from the web if my HD

Guessing the date style from the timezone for postgresql postinst

1999-09-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
In order to help remove unnecessary prompts from the Debian PostgreSQLl installation script, I want it to guess the local date style, to be chosen from the following list: Style DateDatetime --- ISO1999-07-17

Re: multihost exim setup (general MTA question I guess)

1999-09-18 Thread Mark M
Hi, On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 10:53:54PM -0400, Jonathan Lupa wrote: OK, this is pretty complicated to me, so the chance of me misspeaking is large. I'm no expert, so the same goes for me. What I want is the server to do the fetchmail durring ip-up and ip-down. That mail getting delivered

Opening dynamic text file

1999-09-18 Thread Mark M
Hi, Apols for the non debian specific Q, but I was hoping someone would know how I could read in and process a file (a log file in this case), and then when further lines are written read these without reloading the whole file (performance considerations). I thought that (using perl) continually

Re: multihost exim setup (general MTA question I guess)

1999-09-18 Thread Mark M
Whoops, should have said local_domains = localhost:*.mynetwork in server's exim.conf Cheers, Mark.

Re: ethernet configuration

1999-09-18 Thread Phil Brutsche
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Stephen Monroe wrote: Hello, I'm having trouble getting my ethernet to work properly. I'm in a dorm room at a university that supplies ethernet and I KNOW it worked last year. I'm dual booted and I used my winmodem in Win98 over the summer (and unsuccessfully tried

How does it...

1999-09-18 Thread Fredrick Schmitt
Is the setup text based or graphial? What are the extra features this opperating system has over my RH6 box? What system would be the cheeziest I could run it on?

Re: How does it...

1999-09-18 Thread Seth R Arnold
Text-based. The extra features are multiple -- the package management is by far the best I have ever seen in any product. (I haven't tried FreeBSD yet, though.. I hear it is nice too. :) The updates are far more often. (Security patches are released within hours of finding the problems..) There

Re: [OT] How to make a critical section in user program?

1999-09-18 Thread John Hasler
Wojciech writes: I agree, but what about the root's processes? Root's special status extends only to file access. Well, but in the kernel I can't use the write(ComFd,c,1). Am I wrong? (I hope I've missed something) Write a device driver and put your critical section in it. Run the rest of

Re: How does it...

1999-09-18 Thread NatePuri
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 08:47:19PM -0500, Fredrick Schmitt wrote: Is the setup text based or graphial? What are the extra features this opperating system has over my RH6 box? What system would be the cheeziest I could run it on? Oh boy, you have hit a nerve. You will get quite a lot of

IPX woes-want old module and new kernel-possible?

1999-09-18 Thread kaynjay
Thanks to earlier suggestions about pinpointing the source of my kernel slowing down... it is the ipx service causing problems. While others have noted in earlier posts ipx issues with the 2.2.x kernels, I found none which involved a slowdown/lockup of the machine itself. Don't know if this is a

login failed -- critical error - immediate abort

1999-09-18 Thread John Bagdanoff
Hello I'm running the latest potato. I rebooted my box this morning and I got the error after logging in (as root as user): critical error - immediate abort I noticed a bug report filed about this, and so I downgraded login from stable, and now I'm able to login. Before I run another apt-get

Free version of maildir2mbox?

1999-09-18 Thread Brian May
Hello, Is there any DFSG free versions of maildir2mbox, included with qmail? This program converts $HOME/Maildir/ into $HOME/Mailbox, to allow use of Maildir, even if individual programs (eg pine, nmh) do not support Maildir format. (...or please correct me if pine and/or nmh do support

Re: login failed -- critical error - immediate abort

1999-09-18 Thread Seth R Arnold
I am too proud of my uptime to reboot, but switching to a different VC and logging in worked for me, and I think I saw login upgraded when I upgraded earlier today. Out of curiousity though, how on earth did you downgrade login when you couldn't log in?? :) On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 07:45:50PM

Re: correct way to move /usr to a new partition..

1999-09-18 Thread rich
I have decided that I need more room for my Slink system... my 1GB linux partition that stores my entire system is now over 80% full... I was thinking of using another empty 1GB partition (/dev/hdb1 - currently mounted as /linux2a) for /usr. My thinking is: 1. as root, cp -r -p /usr

Re: To the Debian Project, IMHO

1999-09-18 Thread Nitebirz
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Simon Martin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok, so this is my 2 cents worth. GUI utilities are ok, command line utilities are ok, simple dialogs are ok, this is not the issue. The real issue is not to fall into the Microsoft or RedHat

Unidentified subject!

1999-09-18 Thread Michael Phillips
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1999-09-18 Thread Michael Phillips
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Re: login failed -- critical error - immediate abort

1999-09-18 Thread John Bagdanoff
Hi Seth, Sorry, didn't mean to send to you directly, twice no less :{ Seth R Arnold wrote: I am too proud of my uptime to reboot, but switching to a different VC and logging in worked for me, and I think I saw login upgraded when I upgraded earlier today. I did try the other VCs but still

Re: Opening dynamic text file

1999-09-18 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 11:01:20AM +1000, Mark M wrote: Apols for the non debian specific Q, but I was hoping someone would know how I could read in and process a file (a log file in this case), and then when further lines are written read these without reloading the whole file (performance

Re: Guessing the date style from the timezone for postgresql postinst

1999-09-18 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Style DateDatetime --- ISO1999-07-17 1999-07-17 07:09:18+01 SQL17/07/1999 17/07/1999 07:09:19.00 BST POSTGRES 17-07-1999 Sat 17 Jul 07:09:19 1999 BST GERMAN 17.07.1999

berolist mail-list server

1999-09-18 Thread Ben Messinger
I am trying to get the mailing-list server berolist working. Setting it up includes adding aliases such as: listname : |/usr/sbin/list listname So you see that mail sent to listname gets piped to the program /usr/sbin/list , or at least that is what is suppose to happen. When I do send mail to

Re: Guessing the date style from the timezone for postgresql postinst

1999-09-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
Carey Evans wrote: Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk writes: If you have a recent potato system, with timezone files in /usr/share/zoneinfo, could you please run the script and let me know if it gives WRONG results for you. If it does, please tell me your timezone and offset (date

Re: How does it...

1999-09-18 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 08:47:19PM -0500, Fredrick Schmitt wrote: What system would be the cheeziest I could run it on? Unfortunately, you cannot run Debian on a block of cheese. Work on a cheese port is in progress, but is not even ready yet for the alpha release. Until then, you must run

Re: Guessing the date style from the timezone for postgresql postinst

1999-09-18 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Here's a revised version of the script taking into account all comments so far. I guess Argentina isn't the only country that uses the SQL format. There must be some others too. It would be great to find a source for this information

ppp failure under debian (slakware with pppd 2.2 patch level 0 works)

1999-09-18 Thread Robert . King
Hi, I'm typing this from my old slackware install. I connect on this installation using cu -l /dev/cua1 then negotiating my way through my ISP's login manually, then start pppd in another window, then quitting from cu. This worked fine whne this machine was a 486 and now works with a new

Re: Free version of maildir2mbox?

1999-09-18 Thread Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Brian May wrote: Hello, Is there any DFSG free versions of maildir2mbox, included with qmail? This program converts $HOME/Maildir/ into $HOME/Mailbox, to allow use of Maildir, even if individual programs (eg pine, nmh) do not support Maildir format. (...or please

Re: su without password using libpam

1999-09-18 Thread Andreas Kurth
Ben Collins wrote: Ok correction on this. In the /etc/security/su.allow just put root (who they are allowed to su to). and the add this line: ### auth sufficient pam_listfile.so onerr=fail sense=allow \ file=/etc/security/su.allow item=user apply=you ### This

Re: correct way to move /usr to a new partition..

1999-09-18 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:40:09PM -0500, rich wrote: That's a good suggestion - my question is: is there a linux utility to compare directories / files to see if they are the same? Seems like I've heard of one, but can't remember... $ apropos checksum cksum (1)- checksum and

Re: berolist mail-list server

1999-09-18 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 10:45:31PM -0700, Ben Messinger wrote: V 1999-09-17 22:06:25 11S7dL-00039J-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of |/usr/sbin/list news Is list a trusted user in /etc/exim.conf? trusted_users =

Dying services due to low memory?

1999-09-18 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi there, can anyone point me to a solution for the following problem? I have several machines running as Internet servers, mainly FTP and HTTP. They're relatively low-end machines (P100 and 486-133 with 48 resp. 64 MB RAM.) Every couple of days I have to restart inetd or other stand-alone

Re: Dying services due to low memory?

1999-09-18 Thread Seth R Arnold
Ralf, ugly as it is, you could have a cron job restart inetd every five minutes. I have heard that there is a debian package to ensure that daemons are always running, I have forgotten the name of course. Perhaps you could check ebay, ubid, etc for used memory? On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at

Re: telnetd-ssl

1999-09-18 Thread peter karlsson
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray): Looks like the permissions on your ttyp devices are wrong; they should look like this: crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty3, 2 Mar 13 1999 /dev/ttyp2 Okay, I fixed that (it must've somehow forgot to reset them, because some were owned by my own user accound, and had

latex

1999-09-18 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, where can I found a latex tutorial ? Thanks. -- --- - Powered by Debian/GNU Linux - -- Linux User 140860 Machine 61143 -- Juli-Manel Merino Vidal [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xemacs del

1999-09-18 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, I've a problem with the del key in xemacs. If I press del it does the same as backspace, so deleting the character before the cursor position. It happens in the console and under X (but not with emacs, that works fine). What I have to do to make work both keys ? So, del deleting the

Re: latex

1999-09-18 Thread Seth R Arnold
The canonical reference is a silly-looking book with a wierd cat on the cover and such. It is written by a Leslie Lamport. (A quick google finds this webpage: http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Leslie_Lamport/home.html Nice book. :) On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 11:59:06AM +0200, Juli-Manel

Re: Job in queue on hold, but not job in queue. Huh?!

1999-09-18 Thread Laurent Martelli
Kent == Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kent I'm trying to set up printing on a Debian box to a remote Kent printer. My printcap looks like: lp|hplj4l|HP Laserjet 4L:\ Kent :lp=/dev/null:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l:rm=the_printer's_ip_address:rp=hplj4l:\ Kent

dselect error

1999-09-18 Thread Andrew Hately
Kenneth Litko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I keep getting this error from dselect and it is driving me nuts. Here's the error: internal error - no filename at -e line 12, P chunk 13 installation script returned error status 1. Press RETURN to continue. Me too, except I get it at

silly sendmail question

1999-09-18 Thread add|ct|on
Greetings... I know I'm going to get a lot of responses to the tone of read the how-to or check the archives but I have to post my question anyway, as I have done both and I'm still clueless. My question is this: I do not have a domain of my own, and connect to the net via PPP. I use sendmail

netscape: booksmarks have changed

1999-09-18 Thread Remco van 't Veer
Hi, Some weirdness.. Today I upgraded to navigator-46 (from netgod). Netscape reports, every 2 minutes or so, that the bookmarks are changed and are being reloaded. I've seen this before (after my previous upgrade?), ignored it and it went away.. but curiosity remains.. Does anybody know what

Re: Dying services due to low memory?

1999-09-18 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999 02:31:44 -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: [...] RAM.) Every couple of days I have to restart inetd or other stand-alone services (like syslogd, klogd, snmpd, apache.) [...] Ralf, ugly as it is, you could have a cron job restart inetd every five minutes. I have heard that there

Re: ppp failure under debian (slakware with pppd 2.2 patch level 0 works)

1999-09-18 Thread John Hasler
I'm fairly sure that the serial conifg is OK, as I can get out with cu -l /dev/ttyS1, but when I try to start pppd, it complains about cu having the serial line and won't let it at it. Odd. I just tried cu on this system and it complains that the line is in use. Pon works fine. Is there

Configurare la schda video

1999-09-18 Thread r.mattei
Ho una scheda video s3virge agp con chipset non supportato e non riesco a configurare xwindow. C'è un upgrade, o qualcosa che possa fare?? Grazie

Re: su without password using libpam

1999-09-18 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 09:44:58AM +0200, Andreas Kurth wrote: Ben Collins wrote: Ok correction on this. In the /etc/security/su.allow just put root (who they are allowed to su to). and the add this line: ### auth sufficient pam_listfile.so onerr=fail sense=allow \

labels

1999-09-18 Thread eric k. wolven
Greetings: I am running potato with an hpdeskjet 540c installed as my printer. I would like to find out how to print labels under Debian linux. I am a hobbyist bee-keeper and give labeled honey jars to friends. Last year I printed my labels under a windows program but want to use debian to

Re: telnetd-ssl

1999-09-18 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 11:50:06AM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray): Looks like the permissions on your ttyp devices are wrong; they should look like this: crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty3, 2 Mar 13 1999 /dev/ttyp2 Okay, I fixed that (it must've somehow forgot to

Re: silly sendmail question

1999-09-18 Thread Allan K. Neal
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 07:32:38AM -0400, add|ct|on wrote: Greetings... I know I'm going to get a lot of responses to the tone of read the how-to or check the archives but I have to post my question anyway, as I have done both and I'm still clueless. My question is this: I do not have a

Re: labels

1999-09-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Sep 1999, eric k. wolven wrote: Greetings: I am running potato with an hpdeskjet 540c installed as my printer. I would like to find out how to print labels under Debian linux. I am a hobbyist bee-keeper and give labeled honey jars to friends. Last year I printed my labels under

Re: How does it...

1999-09-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 20:26:35 -0700, NatePuri wrote: 4. Menu integration. When ever you install an X app dpkg will update your menus in all you window managers. Whether you use KDE, GNOME, icewm or fvwm your menus will always reflect the packages you have installed. No hand

Re: ppp failure under debian (slakware with pppd 2.2 patch level 0 works)

1999-09-18 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 09/18/99 at 17:06:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote concerning ppp failure under debian (slakware with pppd 2.2 patch level 0 works): Hi, I'm typing this from my old slackware install. I connect on this installation using cu -l /dev/cua1 then negotiating my way through my ISP's login

KDEDIR and KDE 1.1.2

1999-09-18 Thread Pollywog
I have KDEDIR set to /usr/bin/X11 I installed KDE 1.1.2 in this order (source, not Debian packages): kdesupport kdelibs kdebase all the other packages The problems is that my menus do not work; only my desktop icons bring up the apps they should bring up. Should I have KDEDIR set to

Re: hi i got a question

1999-09-18 Thread Craig B
Scott Henry wrote: snip Medium answer: WinModem (and other Win* hardware) is a really stupid idea: cripple the hardware to save a few manufacturing bucks. snip And unless you have a pretty fast system, you take a big performance hit too. What a rip-off.

Re: How does it...

1999-09-18 Thread Fredrick Schmitt
You knew what I meant. What is the most gutless system I could run it on (weakest processor)? Rob Mahurin wrote: On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 08:47:19PM -0500, Fredrick Schmitt wrote: What system would be the cheeziest I could run it on? Unfortunately, you cannot run Debian on a block of

Re: undelete for partition tables?

1999-09-18 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Tom Pfeifer wrote: Instead of me trying to cover every possible detail now (which is impossible anyway), I suggest you try following my procedure and try to account for the differences in your situation as you do it. If you have specific questions or problems, feel free

Re: silly sendmail question

1999-09-18 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 07:32:38AM -0400, add|ct|on wrote: Greetings... I know I'm going to get a lot of responses to the tone of read the how-to or check the archives but I have to post my question anyway, as I have done both and I'm still clueless. My question is this: I do not have a

Re: hi i got a question

1999-09-18 Thread Pollywog
snip Medium answer: WinModem (and other Win* hardware) is a really stupid idea: cripple the hardware to save a few manufacturing bucks. snip Maybe stupid today, but when modems were expensive, it made it possible for people to have a high-speed modem at low cost. --

Re: undelete for partition tables?

1999-09-18 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: Lo?c Prylli posted a C programm on the newsgroup fr.comp.os.linux some 2 years ago to detect an ext2 partition that can help to solve Jaldhar's problem. This programm can be found on http://www.linux-france.org but I don't know the exact URL. If

Re: PCMCIA (?) Ethernet problem

1999-09-18 Thread Craig B
Ingles, Raymond wrote: I'm installing Debian 2.1 onto a Zenith Z*Star EX, a 486/50MHz laptop w/8MB RAM and a 300MB HD. snip Sorry I don't have any technical help to offer you on this. But I would like to tell you this; The very first time I installed Linux, in '95, was on one of those

Re: To the Debian Project, IMHO

1999-09-18 Thread Simon Martin
Ok, ok, I sit corrected in several respects, but I am still adamant that any attempt to paint Linux as an out of the box solution with no prior knowledge is a real danger to the on-going comercial success of Linux. I worked in tech-support for Xerox for about 7 years (Xerox used to sell Apple

xfree 3.3.4 debianized, where can I found it pls?

1999-09-18 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Any URL? Thanx in advance. JY

Re: Question of Firewall Mail Servers

1999-09-18 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 14:11, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: I am working on adding a debian slink linux system as a fire wall to my existing company network. When finished, we will have an ISDN router connected to the linux firewall machine and a separate network card connecting the internal

Re: xfree 3.3.4 debianized, where can I found it pls?

1999-09-18 Thread dyer
Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: Any URL? Thanx in advance. JY I assume you are talking about slink packages. http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/ you can apt-get with deb http://samosa.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ xfree86-334-slink/ hth -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer

Re: xfree 3.3.4 debianized, where can I found it pls?

1999-09-18 Thread Erik Hovland
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 06:13:45PM +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: Any URL? http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/xfree86-334-slink/ Found from: http://www.debian.org/~branden/

Re: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0

1999-09-18 Thread Craig B
Gary Young wrote: snip Some change between the kernel in Debian 2.0 and in Debian 2.1 fails on something in my hardware. I'll look at what hardware is in the box next. Hamm uses 2.0.34 while Slink uses 2.0.36 The only obvious difference I have noticed is that 2.0.36 is able to proble

guest accounts with wu-ftp

1999-09-18 Thread Werner Reisberger
I am trying to enable the guestgroup feature with wu-ftp (2.5.0). The login and the chrooted environment is flawlessly but the ls command doesn't work. The ls used within the anonymous account works. I used the same binary and the libs within the guestgroup account without success. The ls command

Re: xfree 3.3.4 debianized, where can I found it pls?

1999-09-18 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Thanks to all of you! JY

Re: Dying services due to low memory?

1999-09-18 Thread Carl Johnson
Ralf G. R. Bergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have several machines running as Internet servers, mainly FTP and HTTP. They're relatively low-end machines (P100 and 486-133 with 48 resp. 64 MB RAM.) Every couple of days I have to restart inetd or other stand-alone services (like syslogd,

Re: latex

1999-09-18 Thread Carl Johnson
Juli-Manel Merino Vidal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, where can I found a latex tutorial ? There are books available as has already been mentioned, but if you have tetex installed, look in the /usr/doc/tetex-doc/texmf/latex/general/ directory. The file lshort2e will give you some quick

Re: xemacs del

1999-09-18 Thread Matthew Guenther
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 12:01:17PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: Hi all, I've a problem with the del key in xemacs. If I press del it does the same as backspace, so deleting the character before the cursor position. It happens in the console and under X (but not with emacs, that

Re: netscape: booksmarks have changed

1999-09-18 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 18 Sep, Remco van 't Veer wrote about netscape: booksmarks have changed Hi, Some weirdness.. Today I upgraded to navigator-46 (from netgod). Netscape reports, every 2 minutes or so, that the bookmarks are changed and are being reloaded. I've seen this before (after my previous

removal of essential packages

1999-09-18 Thread Werner Reisberger
Once again I spent a lot of time with the debian package system. It seems to be impossible to remove an essential package although dpkg offers an option. When I am issuing the command dpkg --force-remove-essential perl-base only a help message is displayed. This is frustrating since

Re: removal of essential packages

1999-09-18 Thread Ashley Clark
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Werner Reisberger wrote: Once again I spent a lot of time with the debian package system. It seems to be impossible to remove an essential package although dpkg offers an option. When I am issuing the command dpkg --force-remove-essential perl-base only a help

.xsession problem with WDM amd/or WindowMaker

1999-09-18 Thread Salman Ahmed
I am running Debian 2.1 with all updates (nothing as yet from the unstable area) and am having this bizarre problem with my .xsession file. I am using Wdm 1.0-7 and WindowMaker 0.20.3-5. WindowMaker has been specified as the default window manager by moving its entry to the top of the

Re: removal of essential packages

1999-09-18 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Werner Reisberger wrote: Once again I spent a lot of time with the debian package system. It seems to be impossible to remove an essential package although dpkg offers an option. When I am issuing the command dpkg

Re: How does it...

1999-09-18 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 08:32:52AM -0500, Fredrick Schmitt wrote: You knew what I meant. What is the most gutless system I could run it on (weakest processor)? I'd guess either a 386SX/16 or an old m68k box. Probably the 386 is the better option - many old m68k machines are too underspeced to

PPP for non-root users

1999-09-18 Thread Salman Ahmed
How do I enable non-root users to use PPP (via pon/poff) ? Thanks. -- Salman Ahmed ssahmed AT interlog DOT com

Re: .xsession problem with WDM amd/or WindowMaker

1999-09-18 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: Do I have to start up WindowMaker from my .xsession file (as I do for RedHat) or is it enough to rely on /etc/X11/window-managers ? Yes, you do have to run the window manager explicitly if you use an .xsession file.

Re: PPP for non-root users

1999-09-18 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: How do I enable non-root users to use PPP (via pon/poff) ? With the normal Debian setup, you only have to add those non-root users to group dip. As root, this command should do it: adduser username dip - --

Re: PPP for non-root users

1999-09-18 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 01:26:17PM -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote: How do I enable non-root users to use PPP (via pon/poff) ? Add them to the dip group (eg, put their name in the list at the end of the dip entry in /etc/group). -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness)

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