Re: Porqué no uso tal o pascual (Era: Re: Freeze de Potato)

1999-11-19 Thread Miquel
El jue, nov 18, 1999 at 03:57:02 +0100 AVILA BERMEJO, FRANCISCO JOSE va dir: Vale, pero el 90% de las personas prefieren las ventanas. ¿pero de dónde te sacas esa estadística? ¿de usuarios de GNU/Linux? ¿O te refieres al 90% que usan windoze? Menudo argumento para una lista de Debian,

Re: Freeze de Potato

1999-11-19 Thread Barbwired
AVILA BERMEJO, FRANCISCO JOSE decía: Fin de la discusion por mi parte. Que cada uno haga lo que le de la gana. Libresss como el sl cuandoamaneece somos libresss... A todos los demás, pues espero que haberme enemistado con la gente de la lista por mis ideas. Que no hombre, que

bug seguridad de lpr

1999-11-19 Thread Inaki Fernandez Villanueva
Hola, En la web de debian surgió el 30 de octubre una nueva versión de lpr para slink a raíz de un bug de seguridad en el cual los usuarios podrían imprimir un fichero del que no tienen permisos de lectura. No se explican mucho, pero al parecer el lpd no mira los permisos de los fichero de

Re: Debian ser o no ser

1999-11-19 Thread Miquel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El jue, nov 18, 1999 at 11:18:56 +0100 Zuzen de la Cueva va dir: hola: Como novato usuario de debian (que todavía no lo ha conseguido) quiero apuntar un par de cosas al debate sobre facilidad de uso pero me parece alucinante que después

Re: Re: Freeze de Potato

1999-11-19 Thread SKaVen
El dia Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 02:59:04PM +0100, J. Carlos Muro escribió: curioso, yo no utilizo ninguno de los paquetes que has dicho X A mí lo que me gustaría saber es por qué hay al parecer tanta gente que se niega a utilizar 'el WindowMaker/KDE/Gnome' como F. José Avila

Re: Freeze de Potato

1999-11-19 Thread Barbwired
Miguel A. Vallejo decía: Lo que mas me gusta de windows es la aparente uniformidad entre las aplicaciones, al menos los shortcuts del teclado suelen ser los mismos en todos los programas, pero en linux, tenemos los X-cosas que van a la bola del programador, por otro lado los K-cosas que van

Re: Freeze de Potato

1999-11-19 Thread Barbwired
Andres Seco Hernandez confesaba: Desgraciadamente, por mi trabajo, tuve que convencer a muchos de que era mejor word y que aunque sabian usar wordperfect 5.1 tenian que pasarse a word. Ahora me arrepiento. En concepto depenitencia sírvase predicar LaTeX a los cuatro vientos. }:-) ¿Cómo

Re: Columnas en vi (Era: Re: Problemas de ajuste de mutt)

1999-11-19 Thread Barbwired
Barbwired decía: [EMAIL PROTECTED] decía: Ah y como haces que el vi te mande un retorno de carro en tal columna? yo tengo que pulsar return para que no siga escribiendo en la misma Yo tengo definida la variable export EXINIT='set columns=80' en mi .bash_profile (quizá tengas que

Re: Columnas en vi... solucionado

1999-11-19 Thread Barbwired
[EMAIL PROTECTED] decía: Ah y como haces que el vi te mande un retorno de carro en tal columna? yo tengo que pulsar return para que no siga escribiendo en la misma Yo tengo definida la variable export EXINIT='set columns=80' en mi .bash_profile (quizá tengas que hacerlo tb en tu

Re: Freeze de Potato

1999-11-19 Thread Andres Herrera
Guenas On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 11:43:56AM +0100, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote: Pues, yo mas bien creo que la mayoría de los mas fieles adoradores de Debian, empezamos con Slackware, después probamos cualquier variación posible de RedHat, y terminamos con Debian. :o) Y dentro de

Re: Freeze de Potato

1999-11-19 Thread Andres Herrera
Guenas On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 12:21:02PM +0100, Hue-Bond wrote: En Guin, hasta mi sobrinilla de 2 años sabría hacerlo, sin sudar tinta X-DD En Guin no podrias evitar que te cerrase el sistema hasta tu sobrinilla de dos años, aunque quisieras ;-) Pido un aplauso para Andrés por esta

Re: Debian, instalacion, mantenimiento de paquetes. Sugerencias.

1999-11-19 Thread Antonio Castro
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Javier_Vi=F1uales_Guti=E9rrez?= wrote: On jue, nov 18, 1999 at 03:27:07 +0100, J. Carlos Muro wrote: Pues no se hable más, nos documentamos primero, y nos ponemos después ;-) Quiero decir que me empiezo a bajar documentación desde ahora mismo de las

Re: Freeze de Potato

1999-11-19 Thread Antonio Castro
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Miquel wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El jue, nov 18, 1999 at 12:16:34 +0100 Fernando Sanchez va dir: =20 Esto mismo quer=EDa decir yo, vaya. Parece que el =FAnico problema es mi = forma de expresarme :-) Intentar=E9 comedirme. Y en fin,

Corel Linux

1999-11-19 Thread Virgilio Gómez Rubio
Hola: Esta mañana hemos instalado Corel Linux en la empresa donde trabajo (con Debian, por supuesto) y escribo para contar qué tal es. Sólo tenemos la versión gratuita, que ocupa unos 311 paquetes (imagen iso). Arrancamos desde CD , y... ¿plas! fondo gráfico con dibujitos de pingüinos, logos

Re: Ayuda con sudo

1999-11-19 Thread Andres Herrera
Guenas On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 06:43:00PM +0100, 31 wrote: y otra cosa, yo le meto grupos al usuario, pero como se los quito, es decir, si borxa pertenece al grupo dialout, ¿como lo saco de ese grupo? Echa un ojo a /etc/group Saludines -- -- QQ |

Re: Freeze de Potato

1999-11-19 Thread Andres Herrera
Guenas On Nov 18, 1999 at 04:14:39PM +0100, AVILA BERMEJO, FRANCISCO JOSE wrote: Fin de la discusion por mi parte. Que cada uno haga lo que le de la gana. Al fin y al cabo, es lo que siempre hacemos todos :-))) y que dure!!! Si hay alguien que esté interesado en hacer la Debian más a migable,

Re: Si quieres hacer aplciaciones para Debian

1999-11-19 Thread Andres Herrera
Guenas On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 07:36:43PM +0100, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona wrote: Por lo tanto, la idea es mas o menos montar un sitio con paquetes preparados para bajarlos con apt (de forma que la gente se los pueda instalar), y montar alli nuestros juguetes. Hay alguien dde la

Re: Freeze de Potato

1999-11-19 Thread Andres Herrera
Guenas On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 11:26:19PM +0100, Andres Seco Hernandez wrote: No es que sea malo. En todo este thread, si recapitulamos, se esta pidiendo: - menos paquetes - mas rapidez de desarrollo - instalacion grafica - autodeteccion de hardware - simplificacion y facilidad de uso Si

unsuscribe

1999-11-19 Thread Jesús Lera
unsuscribe

Re: un programa de icq

1999-11-19 Thread Josep Llaurad Selvas
Hola 31! ;-) On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, 31 wrote: he instalado el icq para gnome, pero no tiene la opcion de chatear en una lista, es decir, hacer un chat con varias persona, al estilo Active lists de icq de win, he probado el licq también, ¿hay algun programa de icq para

Re: Si quieres hacer aplciaciones para Debian

1999-11-19 Thread Agustín Martín Domingo
Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona wrote: ?Que os parece todo esto? ?Quien quiere colaborar? (algunos ya me lo habeis dicho por correo, creo que es el momento de que lo digais directamente a todos en esta lista). Yo no tendría ningún inconveniente. De hecho tengo algunas cosillas preparadas

Re: Ayuda con sudo

1999-11-19 Thread 31
ya esta. tenía que hacer nuevo login, y ya se solucionaba, ademas en el /etc/groups, se pueden borrar y añadir usuarios a un grupo. :))), muchas gracias a todos.

Corel Linux otra vez

1999-11-19 Thread Virgilio Gómez Rubio
Hola: He estado probando el programa para instalar y desintalar paquetes en mdo gr´afico y es una pasada. Es una especie de front-end para el apt y es muy manejable. POr cierto, alguien sabe si Corel va a dejar los fuentes de todo lo que haga? Un saludo. Virgilio Dios mio, hemos

Re: Re: Freeze de Potato

1999-11-19 Thread Hilario Ortigosa monteoliva
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 07:18:16PM +0100, SKaVen wrote: Y eso sí, no dejaré de sugerirle al que viste a lo 60's que se dé una vueltita por ahí y admire las maravillas que existen ahora a las puertas del año 2000 X-DDD a lo mejor os vendría bien tambien ver las maravillas de los años 60.

Re: Necesito info sobre... (Parte II)

1999-11-19 Thread Jesus Rodrigo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: De cualquier manera que tengas acceso a Internet, ya sea por dialup o por algun caño directo, siempre pasas por tu ISP, salvo que tu seas ISP :-) Asi que por ahora solo pienso llegar hasta el ISP. (Por eso habia puesto INET, además, porque la idea es conseguir info

Re: arranque y SCSI

1999-11-19 Thread Andres Herrera
Guenas On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 12:37:54AM +0100, Landaluze Produktions IS - Carlos wrote: la cosa es que he leido por ahí, en ingles, cosa que es el motivo de el porque no me he enterado bien, que hay problemas al instalar el linux en un disco SCSI a la hora de luego arrancar. Que yo sepa no

Re: Off-topic total (para distenderse de las discusiones)

1999-11-19 Thread Daniel Payno
EL otro día, Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 04:11:41PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: Solo tengo una duda, Alguien tendría una lista de las abreviaturas que se usan en Internet como BTW, RTFM, y otras? Solo conozco esas 2, pero supongo que debe haber más, y creo haber visto una que es IMHO. Esta me

Re: Off-topic total (para distenderse de las discusiones)

1999-11-19 Thread eloy
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Daniel Payno wrote: EL otro día, Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 04:11:41PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: Solo tengo una duda, Alguien tendría una lista de las abreviaturas que se usan en Internet como BTW, RTFM, y otras? Solo conozco esas 2, pero supongo que debe haber más, y

Sobre la jerga ...

1999-11-19 Thread Juan C. Amengual
Hola a tod*s, últimamente he visto algunos mensajes en la lista que preguntan sobre lo que significan acrónimos como IMHO y demás. Para el que tenga curiosidad recomiendo instalar el paquete jargon: [EMAIL PROTECTED](~)_$ dpkg -l jargon Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge |

Re: Freeze de Potato

1999-11-19 Thread Andres Seco Hernandez
Hola. El 17 Nov 1999 a las 02:13PM +0100, Miguel A. Vallejo escribio: Ricard wrote: Sinceramente, creo que seria imposible viendo los caminos que estan cogiendo tanto gnome como kde... y seria una lastima... Por que, tan fantastica es la interface de Windows? nose, poneos un

problema con dejasearch

1999-11-19 Thread Agustin MuNoz
¡Ché All! No sé si estoy haciendo algo mal o es que el dejasearch de potato tiene algun problema :-? ~$ dejasearch ~g es.comp.os.linux.misc ~s brutal Fetching page 1 of search results ... Fetching page 2 of search results ... Nothing found. No encuentra nada, sin embargo abro el

RE: Diccionario Inglés-Español

1999-11-19 Thread Ricardo Villalba
-Mensaje original- De: Alfredo Casademunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Debian Castellano debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org CC: Figue [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Antonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: sábado 13 de noviembre de 1999 20:14 Asunto: Diccionario Inglés-Español Hola a todos. Después de más

RE: Freeze de Potato

1999-11-19 Thread Ricardo Villalba
-Mensaje original- De: AVILA BERMEJO, FRANCISCO JOSE [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Ricard [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: J. Carlos Muro [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Fecha: martes 16 de noviembre de 1999 18:00 Asunto: Re: Freeze de Potato

Re: Necesito info sobre... (Parte II)

1999-11-19 Thread Agustin MuNoz
El vie, 19 de nov de 1999, a las 03:50:59 +0100, Jesus Rodrigo va y dice: Internet - fetchmail - MTA - ¿MDA? - MUA - Persona Estoy bien? Pues... No sé lo que es el MDA... Pero por lo demás bien. (¿Mail Delivery Agent?) Sipe :) por ejemplo procmail ¿? Si es lo que creo que es,

Re: Debian, instalacion, mantenimiento de paquetes. Sugerencias.

1999-11-19 Thread Agustin MuNoz
El jue, 18 de nov de 1999, a las 08:55:06 +0100, J. Carlos Muro va y dice: Se me ocurre que la herramienta podría ser (de nombre por ejemplo 'debconfig' o similar) parecida a la de configuración del kernel. Habría que comprobar si ciertos paquetes estarían instalados para habilitar ciertas

Re: Necesito info sobre... (Parte II)

1999-11-19 Thread Jesus Rodrigo
Agustin MuNoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pues... No sé lo que es el MDA... Pero por lo demás bien. (¿Mail Delivery Agent?) Sipe :) por ejemplo procmail Aaah. ¿? Si es lo que creo que es, sí, reparte el correo a los usuarios locales (o sea, gestiona el spool). procmail no solo

Re: Corel Linux otra vez

1999-11-19 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
Virgilio Gómez Rubio writes: Hola: He estado probando el programa para instalar y desintalar paquetes en mdo gr´afico y es una pasada. Es una especie de front-end para el apt y es muy manejable. POr cierto, alguien sabe si Corel va a dejar los fuentes de todo lo que haga?

Re: Si quieres hacer aplciaciones para Debian

1999-11-19 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
Bueno, pues ya vamos teniendo algo. Podemos ir empezando con esto. A ver si abrimos un área en algún sitio ASAP. Jesus. Agustín Martín Domingo writes: Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona wrote: ?Que os parece todo esto? ?Quien quiere colaborar? (algunos ya me

Re: Si quieres hacer aplciaciones para Debian

1999-11-19 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
Fale. Apúntate mi dirección y contacta conmigo cuando tengas algo. De todas formas, supongo que si se van haciendo cosas, se informará aquí, como está mandao. Saludos, Jesus. Andres Herrera writes: [...] Solo comentar que estaria bien que periodicamente

Re: Off-topic total (para distenderse de las discusiones)

1999-11-19 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
En mi fastuoso cacharro (con Debian slink) escribo en mi xterm jargon IMHO y me aparece: :IMHO: // /abbrev./ [from SF fandom via Usenet; abbreviation for `In My Humble Opinion'] IMHO, mixed-case C names should be avoided, as mistyping something in the wrong case can cause

Re: Off-topic total (para distenderse de las discusiones)

1999-11-19 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
El Jargon File es un paquete Debian ;-) Si lo instalas, lo puedes ver cómodamente desde el menú Info de Xemacs, por ejemplo. Muy, muy interesante de leer. Un ejemplo (lo siento, en inglés): bug-of-the-month club: /n./ [from book-of-the-month club, a time-honored

Re: Corel Linux otra vez

1999-11-19 Thread Miquel
El vie, nov 19, 1999 at 02:49:21 +0100 Virgilio Gómez Rubio va dir: POr cierto, alguien sabe si Corel va a dejar los fuentes de todo lo que haga? creo que el compromiso de Corel es desarrollar su distribución bajo una licencia compatible con Open Source. Hizo un amago hace dos meses de

Re: Mail och ljud

1999-11-19 Thread Karl B Werf
Tack allihopa, att kompilera in direkt i kärnan gjorde att att det fungerade men jag vill nog hellre ha det som modul(jag lyssnar ju inte på musik jämt) så jag skall prova det här också. Mattias Andersson wrote: 1) Mitt ljudkort är ett Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI (es1371). Jag har kompilerat

Re: E-Mail em rede

1999-11-19 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Gleydson Mazioli da Silva wrote: A minha itenção é esta mesmo: fazer a mesma máquina ser a responsável por enviar e receber e-mails de/para os clientes da rede interna. dê uma olhada neste artigo no LinuxGazette. Acho que resolve o seu problema. Eu fiz uma busca com a

Re: Linux as a router

1999-11-19 Thread Oki DZ
Brian Boonstra wrote: You might want to try the Debian-based Linux Router Project, at http://www.linuxrouter.org/ The whole thing runs off a write-protected floppy, so you can't be hacked as badly as with a HD. The docs on the official site are not too good, but

Re: Mouse, please help

1999-11-19 Thread Brian Neal
Hi, Hello, I have a problem with the mouse. After the installation finished, and i startx there is no mouse. I see an x in the middle of the screen. snip I recently installed Debian too. What kind of mouse do you have? If you have a ps/2 mouse like I do then perhaps this will help: 1) When

Re: dselect vs apt

1999-11-19 Thread Oki DZ
Urban Gabor wrote: Though it might be a lamer question, I would like to know the major differences between dselect and apt. dselect is menu based, and apt is command-line based. dselect is slightly confusing, and apt is pretty straightforward. I think xdselect (if there's any such thing)

Re: Compatible notebook

1999-11-19 Thread Mike Werner
Head on over to http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ and take a look around. Lots of info there. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | Where do you want to go today? ICQ# 12934898 | As far from Redmond as possible! '91 GS500E| Morgantown WV

Re-Partioning

1999-11-19 Thread Brian Neal
Hi, I put my /var on it's own partion, but didn't realize it got used so much and made it too small. Several times it has almost filled up during apt-gets. I also have /usr/local on another partion which is pretty much empty. Can I tar off the contents of /var and /usr/local and put them on one

Re: PLIP

1999-11-19 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I'd like to connect two computer ( on both debian 2.1 ) with paralel cable using PLIP. Fair enough. Should I give the command 'ifconfig ' 'route ...' on both or on one computer? 'ifconfig' and 'route' needs to be run on both

Re: trouble installing debian

1999-11-19 Thread Shaul Karl
I'm having trouble installing debian on my system. It's an IBM PS/1, 486sx33 w/ 8mb ram, and a 1.2gb quantum fireball hard drive, with 5 partitions. I put the rescue disk in my floppy drive, reboot, and press enter at the boot: prompt. There is some disk activity for a few seconds, and

Re: Easy way to migrate a Slackware system to debian?

1999-11-19 Thread Oki DZ
Bruno Boettcher wrote: Hello, I have a running slackware system on a computer which lacks a CD so since this is a running linux system i figure that it should be possible to migrate it towards debian is there somewhere a help about this? would it be enough to install apt? Hi,

Dual-ethernet

1999-11-19 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I'm wondering whether it's possible to load ne.o module for a dual ethernet machine. Can it be done? I have tried to load the same module twice (with different iobase's), but it wouldn't work. Do I have to recompile the kernel for including the support for NE2K in it? TIA, Oki

2nd Linux installation

1999-11-19 Thread RRPotratz
I'm a relative newbie to linux with a working Red Hat 6.0 system, but I would like to migrate to Debian. To do so I would like to install to a second hd, and keep my Red Hat until I've felt out Debian, but I have a few questions. One of the things I use the linux box for is an FTP server for my

Re: Gnome panel and Enlightenment

1999-11-19 Thread Oki DZ
Michael Stenner wrote: I gotta bite... I sit in front of a Dual PII 400 w/ 512MB ram at work and recently switched back to afterstep (from Gnome/Enlightenment) largely because of speed. (Maybe afterstep spoils me, but still...) I see. But does it mean that Gnome/E is a resource hog, or it

Re: Dual-ethernet

1999-11-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 03:25:00PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: Hi, I'm wondering whether it's possible to load ne.o module for a dual ethernet machine. Can it be done? I have tried to load the same module twice (with different iobase's), but it wouldn't work. Do I have to recompile the kernel

Bash can't find, PS1 and HISTSIZE

1999-11-19 Thread ktb
I have freshly installed Slink and put the following lines in my ~.bashrc : case $TERM in xterm*) PS1 =\[\033]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]: \w\007\]\w\$ ;; *) PS1 =\w\$ ;; esac HISTSIZE =1000 _ I get the

Re: [ftp] ftpadmin user, private directories, incoming and not much more. . .

1999-11-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On 18/11/99 Neil D. Roberts wrote: This is my first mail here, so hi to all. . .I have a little problem, lack of knowledge is what I call it. Anyway, I have a public ftp server, and I need to create a special account for ftp administering (ftpadmin). This account can only be to accessed via

Re: 2nd Linux installation

1999-11-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
One of the things I use the linux box for is an FTP server for my LAN, and I was wondering if it is okay to share the /home/ftp/pub directory between the 2 distros so that as it gets modified in one distro the modifications will be updated in the other. For example if my partitions are:

Re: Linux as a router

1999-11-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 07:16:40AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: BTW, would using a floppy for the system be better than a HD in terms of security? Or, it just means that a floppy will have less data so that even if the system badly hacked, the recovery would be pretty simple (just make a copy from the

Re: Re-Partioning

1999-11-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 06:37:43PM -0600, Brian Neal wrote: Hi, I put my /var on it's own partion, but didn't realize it got used so much and made it too small. Several times it has almost filled up during apt-gets. I also have /usr/local on another partion which is pretty much empty. Can I

Re: How to install pine on slink from source

1999-11-19 Thread Oki DZ
Daniel Mashao wrote: I once did it, but I forgot what I did. Searching the archives I could not find pine installation messages. Anyone remember? I just can't get used to mutt. It smells too much like vi and I find vi hard. I think mutt is okay with me. Problem is, how do you justify the

Re: Bash can't find, PS1 and HISTSIZE

1999-11-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On 18/11/99 ktb wrote: case $TERM in xterm*) PS1 =\[\033]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]: \w\007\]\w\$ ;; *) PS1 =\w\$ ;; esac HISTSIZE =1000 _ I get the following error when I open an xterm, bash: PS1: command

Re: trouble installing debian

1999-11-19 Thread Oki DZ
Chris Acheson wrote: I'm having trouble installing debian on my system. It's an IBM PS/1, 486sx33 w/ 8mb ram, and a 1.2gb quantum fireball hard drive, with 5 I have my 486/DX4 running on slink; did that aprox. two days ago. The only problem I encountered was that the resc. floppy changed

RE: Bash can't find, PS1 and HISTSIZE

1999-11-19 Thread Pollywog
On 19-Nov-1999 ktb wrote: I have freshly installed Slink and put the following lines in my ~.bashrc : case $TERM in xterm*) PS1 =\[\033]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]: \w\007\]\w\$ ;; *) PS1 =\w\$ ;; esac HISTSIZE =1000

Re: Strange file names

1999-11-19 Thread Oki DZ
Rob Mahurin wrote: 18:39 ~ $ which [ /usr/bin/[ 18:39 ~ $ type [ [ is a shell builtin ^^^ Hm... does it mean that magic is not quite magical...? Oki

RE: dselect vs apt

1999-11-19 Thread Paul McHale
It appears Corel/Debian Linux offers some X graphical interface to deslect. Check out: http://linux.corel.com/products/linux_os/highlights.htm paul -Original Message- From: Oki DZ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 7:23 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Installation

1999-11-19 Thread James D. Scott
How do I change the Debian install routine so I can put Linux on my secondary hard drive. Not with Windows. Jim Scott

Re: Dual-ethernet

1999-11-19 Thread Oki DZ
Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: add an append line in you /etc/lilo.conf read /usr/doc/HOWTO/BootPrompt.HOWTO I did that (append=ether=5,0x300,eth0 ether=10,0x320,eth1), it wouldn't boot. I recall that boot options will not work for modules. Is this correct? If it is, the only way is to recompile

Re: secure pop3 via ssh

1999-11-19 Thread aphro
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: mario How can I set a secure pop3 server using ssh? mario I read the man page for fetchmail and there is an example of a mario secure conection via ssh. mario How do I implement the server? didnt know this was possible till i got my

LILO and IDE primary slave drives

1999-11-19 Thread sdoerr
From what I can tell from the LILO documentation, LILO can't boot from the slave drive on the primary IDE controller. Is this correct? I don't want to try the linear option because I may need to boot from a floppy in the future. Specifying disk = /dev/hdb bios = 0x81 did not make the HD

Re: TCP (over ppp) problem with kernel 2.2.x

1999-11-19 Thread Miles Bader
aphro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: check the routing table? 2.2.x handles initialization of routes slightly differently, although ive never had any probs going from 2.0 to 2.2 (just upgraded 2 machines yesterday. and what kernel are you using? exactly ? check your firewall rules too.. that

Re: process limits

1999-11-19 Thread aphro
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Marcin Inkielman wrote: marn even for more than 500 process in total for all users? 2.2 can do 1024 processes..ive never gotten near that high (my highest limit has been about 320 processes and that was with runaway processes) from the looks of the code you posted

Re: 2nd Linux installation

1999-11-19 Thread Oki DZ
Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: One of the things I use the linux box for is an FTP server for my LAN, and I was wondering if it is okay to share the /home/ftp/pub directory between the 2 distros so that as it gets modified in one distro the modifications will be updated in the other. For

Re: pppd Crashes Serial Port

1999-11-19 Thread aphro
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Jeff Sciortino wrote: jjs281 the mouse and the modem. The jumper setting on the sportster are for jjs281 com2, IRQ3. The BIOS setting for serial A is com1, IRQ4. what about the i/o ports? there still could be an i/o port conflict on my box: /dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port:

Re: 2nd Linux installation

1999-11-19 Thread Oki DZ
RRPotratz wrote: I'm a relative newbie to linux with a working Red Hat 6.0 system, but I would like to migrate to Debian. To do so I would like to install to a second hd, and keep my Red Hat until I've felt out Debian, but I have a few questions. You have a quite high spririt of

Re: Corel linux

1999-11-19 Thread aphro
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Sven Esbjerg wrote: joker Well all the GNU/Linux stuff will have to be GPL and it is. The rest is under joker a Mozilla-like license that Corel made up. It's pretty much free. I think joker Debian developers should take a look at it, notice the good parts and try to joker

Re: quota.group / quota.user

1999-11-19 Thread aphro
On 19 Nov 1999, Brian May wrote: bam ext2? removable? ext2 non removable bam Why do you want the sosuid and nodev options? i saw a tip on linux.com about running users in chroot'd home, and to prevent devices from being made so they can access tehm i mounted the filesystem (/users in this

Re: What's gone in Corel Linux

1999-11-19 Thread aphro
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Bart Szyszka wrote: bart a different installer and KDE. Can anyone tell me what those bart things that were taken out might be? And if a new version of from what i saw in beta 2 it was a VERY stripped version of slink. i bet it had less then 150 packages(that were

Re: trouble installing debian

1999-11-19 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I'm having trouble installing debian on my system. It's an IBM PS/1, If I remember right, some IBM PS1s have trouble booting Linux; I never saw it in any of the

Re: Installation

1999-11-19 Thread ktb
James D. Scott wrote: How do I change the Debian install routine so I can put Linux on my secondary hard drive. Not with Windows. Jim Scott I may be wrong but it sounds like you have two HDs and you wish to install Debian on your second HD. Windows is on your first HD. If that is the

Re: TCP (over ppp) problem with kernel 2.2.x

1999-11-19 Thread aphro
On 19 Nov 1999, Miles Bader wrote: miles I'm currently using 2.2.13, but I had the same problems with 2.2.10. miles I don't *have* any firewall rules, that I'm aware of -- at least, I miles didn't set anything up; however, I'll read the documentation for miles `ipmasq' and see if that tells me

Re: LILO and IDE primary slave drives

1999-11-19 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... From what I can tell from the LILO documentation, LILO can't boot from the slave drive on the primary IDE controller. Is this correct? Nope. Until just recently I did this for 18 months; I had Win95 on /dev/hda, with my Debian root

Re: /dev/console

1999-11-19 Thread Nagilum
Hey.. fyi... I thought that I knew what the problem was (below). But I just had mor eprobs with it, and toyed around with it some more. What is happening is this: when syslogd is (re)started, it points to whatever is the current console *at that time*. The real solution to my problem was to

Thanks! got my VPN up!

1999-11-19 Thread aphro
Thanks to those who helped me with getting started with a vpn. i ended up going with vpnd 1.0.0 (compiled from source) on slink with a 2.2.10 kernel ..it was quite a headache trying to sort out 6 different ips and 8 different routes but a friend and i finally got it fully functional today(thankss

Re: quota.group / quota.user

1999-11-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On 18/11/99 aphro wrote: since the chroot stuff didnt work out, and the author of the tip never replied to my request for help i can take the nodev option out, but would like to keep the nosuid option. BUT i can take it off too, its not a huge deal. just wanted to know if/why those files

Re: What's gone in Corel Linux

1999-11-19 Thread Bart Szyszka
from what i saw in beta 2 it was a VERY stripped version of slink. Well apparently Corel made some major changes in the final because according to this page: http://linux.corel.com/products/linux_os/inside.htm , Corel Linux is based on Debian 2.2. At their site I read something about their KDE

Re: Dual-ethernet

1999-11-19 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 03:25:00PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote Hi, I'm wondering whether it's possible to load ne.o module for a dual ethernet machine. Can it be done? I have tried to load the same module twice (with different iobase's), but it wouldn't work. Do I have to recompile the kernel for

Re: dselect vs apt

1999-11-19 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 07:23:14AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote Urban Gabor wrote: Though it might be a lamer question, I would like to know the major differences between dselect and apt. dselect is menu based, and apt is command-line based. dselect is slightly confusing, and apt is pretty

Re: 2nd Linux installation

1999-11-19 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 05:41:50PM -0600, RRPotratz wrote I'm a relative newbie to linux with a working Red Hat 6.0 system, but I would like to migrate to Debian. To do so I would like to install to a second hd, and keep my Red Hat until I've felt out Debian, but I have a few questions.

Re: PPP problems on potato

1999-11-19 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: PPP problems on potato Date: Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 11:39:27PM + In reply to:Rickie M. Quoting Rickie M.([EMAIL PROTECTED]): |Nov 17 21:29:14 debian pppd[137]: Serial connection established. |Nov 17 21:29:14 debian pppd[137]: Using interface ppp0 |Nov 17 21:29:14

problems with '~' in sources.list

1999-11-19 Thread Nagilum
Am I the only one who can't use apt-get with URLs that have a tilde in them? Here's my /etc/apt/sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ y2k-update main And here is what happens when I run apt-get update: Err

Re: HELP: my system is still screwed....

1999-11-19 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 03:31:13PM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: Have you tried to --force anything? You can probably force it to install the new apt, the whole list i suspect this was at the beginning the reason why all screwed up but who knows what it will do then. I bet it fixes

keep alive

1999-11-19 Thread valéry leduby
I use Debian SLINK. I'd like to know how to modify my Keep-alive time-out for TCP connections by socket. Thanks. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: [ftp] ftpadmin user, private directories, incoming and notmuch more. . .

1999-11-19 Thread Neil D. Roberts
Hi Ethan; Thanks for the help. . . I use proftpd under slink, but I'll try and apply this to it :) Ethan Benson wrote: On 18/11/99 Neil D. Roberts wrote: This is my first mail here, so hi to all. . .I have a little problem, lack of knowledge is what I call it. Anyway, I have a public

Thanks! Re: secure pop3 via ssh

1999-11-19 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, Thanks you all! I've enough material to study. I think I'll be able to do this soon. []s, Mario O.de MenezesMany are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario

Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast! (solution... sort of)

1999-11-19 Thread Peter Arien
Here's a solution to the netscape bus error problems: http://members.ping.at/theofilu/netscape.html I had _all_ the problems several people on the debian-user list mentioned last month. I'm trying to follow the latest potato releases. Even got communicator 4.7 installed from there - it's not

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1999-11-19 Thread Andreas Meyer
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Re: Mgetty+Cyclades

1999-11-19 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi, Thanks. But I have done more changes in the getty configuration and now it prints: INIT: ID S2 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes What is wrong this time? Quoting Richard Kaszeta ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira writes

Re: Dual-ethernet

1999-11-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 09:19:57AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: I did that (append=ether=5,0x300,eth0 ether=10,0x320,eth1), it wouldn't boot. I recall that boot options will not work for modules. Is this correct? I don't really know, since I only use modules for sound in my kernels. If it is, the

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