How emulate a SUN keyboard in olvwm?

1997-01-16 Thread Dany Dionne
Hi, we have olvwm in your debian box and we would be able to use the F keys (F1,F2,etc) to emulate the keys front,open,cut,copy,paste,help on a SUN keyboard. I think that i must edit the .Xmodmap file but i don't known what i must write in it. Thanks a lot, Dany Dionne Physics Department

Re: installing pico

1997-01-16 Thread Kendrick Myatt
At 09:56 PM 1/12/97 -0500, Daniel Stringfield wrote: Hello. Me again. I'm the pine/pico maintainer. Its in the non-free section. goto ftp.debian.org and look in /pub/debian/bo/non-free/binary-i386 ### Umm... I have been looking for pine pico for a while and can't find

PPP and /contrib

1997-01-16 Thread Kendrick Myatt
Hi folks :) 2 quick questions... 1)What is the best (easiest) way to get a PPP connection from my debian box to my isp via a modem? Ideally I'd like for it to be like my Win95 box (stop throwing things!) and dial on demand when I need Internet, and redial if disconnected. Is this

Re: How do access hda, fd0, etc. ?

1997-01-16 Thread Alexander Gieg
To mount your DOS partition, do: mount -t msdos /dev/hda /mnt I believe this is an error. /dev/hda refers to the entire drive 0 on an IDE system. The partition is probably /dev/hda1. Otherwise, a much better explanation than I could have given! Really. A little mistake :)

Re: How do access hda, fd0, etc. ?

1997-01-16 Thread Nathan L. Cutler
Gieg == Alexander Gieg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In Debian linux, I have certian files that I down-loaded via. a terminal emulator in dos, and it is on my dos partition, which is hda. How do I access this drive and my flopply drive fd0 in linux? Gieg You need to mount

Re: purged package base while update to Debian 1.2.2

1997-01-16 Thread Nathan L. Cutler
Rick == Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rick If I remember correctly, I just went into Rick /var/lib/dpkg/status and set the status line for them to Rick purge. I think I did the same with the old base package, Rick so it looks like this: RickPackage: base

Re: Is Linux much easier to install on 68k or PPC?

1997-01-16 Thread Nathan L. Cutler
Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hamish I think you're overlooking the Cyrix unfairly. A Cyrix Hamish 6x86-P166 costs about 1/3rd of the price of a Pentium 166 Hamish here in Australia, and according to the benchmarks, Hamish integer performance exceeds the

Re: netscape and LANG variable

1997-01-16 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Hi, it seems that netscape has problems when the environment variable LANG is set to de_DE. The postscript file produced by netscape isn't correct in this case e.g. With LANG variable set: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] translate [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] scale and

Re: Document describing defaults users/groups?

1997-01-16 Thread Philippe Troin
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997 07:15:22 EST Jean Pierre LeJacq ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'd appreciate if you could forward any information you receive. On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, hogendoorn r.a. wrote: Is there a document describing the default users and groups, like disk, cdrom? I found no

Re: what's NMI recieved.

1997-01-16 Thread Orn E. Hansen
NMI is intel nomenclature for non maskable interrupt, and it might mean the same under linux. If so, then the kernel is receiving an interrupt that it doesn't know how to process. I haven't hacked kernel code for linux, so I don't know the terms in use. Am I right? If its on a PC (and

does dselect log package installations?

1997-01-16 Thread hn16
Hi, I just upgraded from an old slackware distribution to Debian 1.2. Everything seems to have gone smoothly, but I'm afraid I missed some errors during package installtion with dselect. Does dselect log installations, and if it does, where is the log file stored? thank you sincerely,

Re: Need information from people who have had problems with boot

1997-01-16 Thread Paul Rightley
No, its an 8MB Thinkpad. I will happily test out any new boot floppies that are forthcoming. Paul On 14-Jan-97 Bruce Perens wrote: I think this was a low-memory problem - it's a 4MB thinkpad, right? Dale Scheetz and Sven Rudolph are currently working on reducing memory usage in the boot

Are you _STILL_ waiting for Bruce to do something? :-)

1997-01-16 Thread Bruce Perens
I've mostly recovered from the flood. I think I've caught up with all of the developer requests. I transferred my boot-disk duties over to Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] . If you have anything that requires my authorization or other action on my part, please

RE: Fax programs! help please. (fwd)

1997-01-16 Thread Paul Rightley
On 14-Jan-97 Johann Spies wrote: As a traditional DOS-user who does not like Windows I have been trying out Linux for the past few months and I am impressed escpecially with LaTeX (I use TeTeX because of problems with the debian LaTeX packages I experienced), Emacs, lynx and pine. What sort of

Re: Best Debian CD?

1997-01-16 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: I have avoided doing this on my CDs for technical reasons. I have been concerned that a label might interfere with the proper spinning of the CD. My blank CD supplier has a device he claims will properly center the label to avoid these problems, so, if

Re: what's NMI recieved.

1997-01-16 Thread Shaya Potter
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Marc A. Volovic wrote: On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Shaya Potter wrote: I have been recieving an NMI recieved error on my linux box at school recently. It says somehting like dazed and confused, but trying to continue and it does, but I'd like to fix this. I know some of

Re: what's NMI recieved.

1997-01-16 Thread Shaya Potter
The error message says that I either have a hardware problem, which I doubt or a memoery problem, which I think is the case. Shaya On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Vatiainen Heikki wrote: There seem to be at least two Debian packages that have some kind of memory test programs. There's memtest86 in

Can any one recommend a mailreader...

1997-01-16 Thread Walter Tautz
other than pine. I would like a simple curses based reader that easily allows one to configure the mail to read automatically into separate folders depending on the address it came from, allows filename completion when reading files in or when going to different folders,etc. Preferably any

Re: MS Exchange

1997-01-16 Thread Shaya Potter
[cc'ing this to debian-user b/c I can't e-mail Michael directly ] I meant the server, but again, I can't verify this as I am not running NT or exchange server at the moment, only Linux, HP-UX, win95, win3.1, CPM, and TI 99/4A. Pretty diverse for a 17 year old wouldn't you say. :-).

RE: dselect ftp from behind a firewall

1997-01-16 Thread Adam Alpern
The ftp option of dselect doesn't work for the machine I'm configuring at work because I am behind a firewall. With the Windows program WS-FTP I When setting up the FTP option in dselect, make sure you use passive mode. That will get you around the firewall. I installed Debian 1.2.2 on my

Re: Best Debian CD?

1997-01-16 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Robin Rowe wrote: Hi. How do I find out what Debian CD-ROM's are available? Is there an article somewhere that comparitively rates them? This was the original message to which I responded. I apparently offended a few of us out there. I apologize. However, please stop

Re: PPP and /contrib

1997-01-16 Thread Philippe Troin
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997 16:12:43 CST Kendrick Myatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 1)What is the best (easiest) way to get a PPP connection from my debian box to my isp via a modem? Ideally I'd like for it to be like my Win95 box (stop throwing things!) and dial on demand when I need

gdb warning

1997-01-16 Thread Richard Sevenich
Having updated to Debian 1.2.1, I get a new warning upon invoking gdb: 'warning: Unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint function' This doesn't cause problems for me, but maybe for someone else. Any ideas on rectifying this? Regards, Richard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: Webserver/CGI

1997-01-16 Thread Mathieu GUILLAUME
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Hi there, I have need for a web server to do one and only one : thing, run a single CGI script. I've installed Apache on my system, and : started to configure it when I though that Apache might be overkill. This : server must be VERY secure as it is both my mail

Re: Fax programs! help please. (fwd)

1997-01-16 Thread Orn E. Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have felt for some time that a lot of people are getting the wrong idea about Linux. I don't think linux is intended to be a suitable replacement OS for computer illiterates and other people who want to put no work into their system, and I hope linux

Debian Leader appearing on Long Island and Rochester N.Y.

1997-01-16 Thread Bruce Perens
I will be at Nassau County, Long Island, January 25 and 26, and in Rochester N.Y. January 27-31. I'd be happy to speak with any local Linux clubs that could put something together, or simply to hoist a beer with the local Linux enthusiasts. I'll be at the Linux Expo in North Carolina in April,

Re: PPP and /contrib

1997-01-16 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Kendrick Myatt wrote: 1)What is the best (easiest) way to get a PPP connection from my debian box to my isp via a modem? Ideally I'd like for it to be like my Win95 box (stop throwing things!) and dial on demand when I need Internet, and redial if disconnected.

Re: PPP and /contrib

1997-01-16 Thread John Goerzen
1)What is the best (easiest) way to get a PPP connection from my debian box to my isp via a modem? Ideally I'd like for it to be like my Win95 box (stop throwing things!) and dial on demand when I need Internet, and redial if disconnected. Is this possible? Yes, just install the

Re: xfm and debian package

1997-01-16 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Hi, we use olvwm and we search a file manager. I can't found a debian with a file manager like xfm. Anyone can help me? Thanks in advance, Dany Dionne Physics Department Universite Laval There is a package in X11 that is called 'offix', which contains a 'xfm' like filemanager

cryptic diald message

1997-01-16 Thread James Martino
Hi all, I've been trying to chase this one down, but no luck so far. I've got daild/ppp set up to connect to my ISP using dynamic addressing. Everything works fine, except the following weird message about Nonzero exit status for route when the link goes down (plus a few lines for context) Jan

Re: Best Debian CD?

1997-01-16 Thread Steve Dunham
Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think all existing silver Debian CDs are parts of sets. Infomagic - 6 CDs. Pacific Hightech - January edition of their Monthly CD, also contains redhat updates and contrib, Java, and Linux Gazette. Linux Systems Labs

Re: gdb warning

1997-01-16 Thread Philippe Troin
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997 16:46:46 PST Richard Sevenich ([EMAIL PROTECTED] i.org) wrote: Having updated to Debian 1.2.1, I get a new warning upon invoking gdb: 'warning: Unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint function' This doesn't cause problems for me, but maybe for someone else. Any ideas

Comm problems

1997-01-16 Thread Stuart Charlton
I believe I asked this question several months back, but don't recall if I received an answer.. Upon bootup I receive the message while it's setting up the serial ports.. /dev/cua0 no such device /dev/cua1 no such device /dev/cua2 no such device /dev/cua3 no such device Now, I modified

Re: Debian For The People

1997-01-16 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
From: Michael Stutz stutz@dsl.org ... 1. Installation. dselect has sure come a long way. But installation and package maintenance is still not so easy, especially for the novice or Linux newbie. The keystrokes are sometimes confusing, as are some of the messages (especially when a package

Re: Documentation (Was: Re: [1.2 installation]: how to tell X to ...)

1997-01-16 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
From: Fabien Ninoles [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Daniel S. Barclay wrote: However, how are users supposed to find out about those things? (Not to say your suggestion is bad, but to address how to make that information easier to find.) What about a Tip of the day package

Re: Documentation (Was: Re: [1.2 installation]: how to tell X to ...)

1997-01-16 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
From: John Labovitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... a related question -- has there been any thought of moving the debian changelog entries into the Packages files themselves? when i run dselect and it tells me there are updates, i would like to see what the changelogs are before necessarily

Re: How do access hda, fd0, etc. ?

1997-01-16 Thread hilliard
Several people have suggested mounting the dos partition with: mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt If any text files are involved, the different newline characters in dos and linux can cause problems. Adding the conversion option to the file system specification in the mount command can

Re: cryptic diald message

1997-01-16 Thread edwalter
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, James Martino wrote: Hi all, I've been trying to chase this one down, but no luck so far. I've got daild/ppp set up to connect to my ISP using dynamic addressing. Everything works fine, except the following weird message about Nonzero exit status for route when the

Re: dpkg-split

1997-01-16 Thread woodja
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997 14:04:57 -0800 Thanh Ngo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I downloaded Perl.deb package from internet in order to install on my machine at home. The size of this package is more than 2M. In the FAQ of Debian said , there is a program called dpkg-split in

ghostscript

1997-01-16 Thread Fundamental
Is ghostscript a package? or is this a dumb question? I searched the debian archives, found a lot of fonts and addons for ghostscript, but no ghostscript:( PaChi, michl electric RAIN http://www.electric-rain.net/ No such thing as an atheaist on the

Re: Best Debian CD?

1997-01-16 Thread woodja
In reply to On 15 Jan 1997 21:59:23 -0500 Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think all existing silver Debian CDs are parts of sets. Infomagic - 6 CDs. Pacific Hightech - January edition of their Monthly CD, also contains

Re: [1.2 installation]: how to tell X to ...)

1997-01-16 Thread woodja
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997 22:40:34 -0500 Daniel S. Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Fabien Ninoles [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Daniel S. Barclay wrote: However, how are users supposed to find out about those things? (Not to say your suggestion is bad, but to address how to

to help us lighten up...

1997-01-16 Thread Pete Templin
There have been a few flame wars and other discussions going back and forth. Although many of the topics can certainly offer good criticisms when taken with a shake of salt, perhaps we need something besides the norm here. Let's not turn our wonderful list into a jokes-only list, but I just

updating packages with dpkg

1997-01-16 Thread Adam Shand
Hi, I have been updating packages by manually ftping them from ftp.debian.org and putting them in a directory which I have nfs exported to the other three machines. I have then been running dpkg -i manually to install the packages I want updated. I was just about to write a script to do a

Re: updating packages with dpkg

1997-01-16 Thread Vociferous Mole
On Jan 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Shand) wrote: What I want is a way comparing what is currently installed (dpkg -l) with what is available on my local mirror. I believe the package you are looking for is dftp (not to be confused with dpkg-ftp). Steve Greenland -- The Mole - I think,

Re: Can any one recommend a mailreader...

1997-01-16 Thread John Goerzen
EXMH is a powerful X-based reader that meats all of your criterion (except perhaps filename completion as I am not quite sure exactly what you are talking about here). other than pine. I would like a simple curses based reader that easily allows one to configure the mail to read

Re: Can any one recommend a mailreader...

1997-01-16 Thread Buddha Buck
EXMH is a powerful X-based reader that meats all of your criterion (except perhaps filename completion as I am not quite sure exactly what you are talking about here). While I use Exmh, and I would highly recommend it myself, as far as I can tell, it meets none of the asked for criteria.

Re: ghostscript

1997-01-16 Thread Bob Clark
Fundamental wrote: Is ghostscript a package? or is this a dumb question? I searched the debian archives, found a lot of fonts and addons for ghostscript, but no ghostscript:( PaChi, michl electric RAIN http://www.electric-rain.net/ No such thing

Timestamping Error?

1997-01-16 Thread Roger Endo
Hello my favorite mailing list I do this in succession within seconds of each other: endo% date Wed Jan 15 23:33:46 PST 1997 endo% touch hello endo% ls -al hello -rw-r--r-- 1 endo staff 0 Jan 16 00:26 hello endo% If you notice, the timestamp is almost an hour off. Any one have

Re: Can any one recommend a mailreader...

1997-01-16 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Jan 15, Walter Tautz wrote other than pine. I would like a simple curses based reader that easily allows one to configure the mail to read automatically into separate folders depending on the address it came from, I'm not sure if I'm understanding you here: if you want incoming mail to

Re: ghostscript

1997-01-16 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Jan 16, Bob Clark wrote I think you want the gs package, Yes. The non-free one if possible, because it is better. actually gv is probably better. No. ghoscript is a PostScript interpreter, with very limited viewing capabilities; gv and ghostview are PostScript viewers that use ghostscript

Midnight Commander and gpm

1997-01-16 Thread Tony Finch
Do I have to do anything to make mc talk to the mouse? At the moment, the mouse is just doing cut-and-paste as usual when mc is running. Tony. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

tar dumps core

1997-01-16 Thread Chow Chi-Ming
Hi, Has anyone else seen this before? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp # dd if=/dev/zero of=file count=100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp # tar cvf test.tar file file [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp # tar tvfM test.tar -rw-r--r-- cmchow/cmchow 51200 Jan 16

Re: updating packages with dpkg

1997-01-16 Thread Adam Shand
What I want is a way comparing what is currently installed (dpkg -l) with what is available on my local mirror. I believe the package you are looking for is dftp (not to be confused with dpkg-ftp). Hmm, I think you're correct. It seems pretty bare bones but it will hopefully do the trick :)

Packages installation from floppy disks

1997-01-16 Thread Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.CNET/LAB/FCI/PIH
Dear Sir/Madam, As you say, I am a newbie in Linux. I have installed the Debian distribution from the floppy disks. Now, I would like to install some packages from msdos floppy disks but dselect ask me for 'packages disk'. How do I create it ? Moreover, some packages

Re: pernewbie_question

1997-01-16 Thread Martin Stromberg
I have used Debian for some time, yet seem to be a permanent newbie - a 'pernewbie'. I updated from 1.1.4 to 1.2.1 and have one remaining glitch; lpr has a problem. I am hoping someone can give me the simple solution: 1. As root, an attempt to 'lpr filename' leads to this error

[no subject]

1997-01-16 Thread Thomas Tomiczek
Hello, we have set up a router using a whole bunch of 3c509b-ethernet-cards (finally getting all recognized with a little kernel-patch). Now I have 2 ICN 4B-cards in this mashine. We are running debian 1.2 with kernel 2.0.27. I am unable to get the cards to load their firmware. I got a

Re: Is Linux much easier to install on 68k or PPC?

1997-01-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hamish I think you're overlooking the Cyrix unfairly. A Cyrix Sorry, I did indeed overlook the Cyrix. Nothing against it! Good to hear. Thanks for the clarification. hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Discussion Role Based Packages (was Re: Fax programs! help please. (fwd)

1997-01-16 Thread Fredrick Paul Eisele
Orn E. Hansen wrote: What Im driving at is... for a writer, make an environment suitable for writers... and for an office worker set up an environment for an office worker... each can be based on a common os... but to try and create a one setup to serve all... will only fail

Re: dpkg-split

1997-01-16 Thread Vatiainen Heikki
Somebody already suggested mounting the DOS partition so that Linux can see it, but if you still want dpkg-split it's in package dpkg. The full path is /usr/bin/dpkg-split // Heikki -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: novice questions

1997-01-16 Thread tomk
Larry Clayton writes: 1. On startup the initial login will not take any input--as if the keyboard was frozen. So I go to vc 2 and login. Then I can login at vc 1 again. But after I succeed with the password, it still won't give me a prompt until I do a Ctrl C. What's happening? 2.

Re: Troubleshooting (was Re: DEBIAN 1.2 DISKETTE PROBLEMS UPDATE)

1997-01-16 Thread tomk
Syrus Nemat-Nasser writes: [snip] read it. Please don't feel concerned that this list is too technical for the simpler questions. All of us were new to Linux and Debian at one time. IMHO, the best thing that a newbie can do is RTFM when they can The problem with RTFM is sometime the

trident 9440

1997-01-16 Thread tomk
I use the Trident 9440AGi card with X windows. You will need the SVGA server for X windows to drive this card. Be aware that you may have to lie to the configuration program and state the video ram as twice the size reported by SuperProbe. I ran into this situation when I configured Xwindows. I

Re: PPP and /contrib

1997-01-16 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Kendrick Myatt wrote: Hi folks :) 2 quick questions... 1)What is the best (easiest) way to get a PPP connection from my debian box to my isp via a modem? Ideally I'd like for it to be like my Win95 box (stop throwing things!) and dial on demand when I need Internet, and redial if

Re: Can any one recommend a mailreader...

1997-01-16 Thread John Goerzen
While I use Exmh, and I would highly recommend it myself, as far as I can tell, it meets none of the asked for criteria. It is Tcl/tk based, not curses, so it requires X. While it can handle Oops, missed that one. Sorry. Although it should be noted that MH can be used without X.

Re: How emulate a SUN keyboard in olvwm?

1997-01-16 Thread Volker Ossenkopf
Dany Dionne wrote: we have olvwm in your debian box and we would be able to use the F keys (F1,F2,etc) to emulate the keys front,open,cut,copy,paste,help on a SUN keyboard. I think that i must edit the .Xmodmap file but i don't known what i must write in it. Since I need F1 to 10 for the

Re: Any IRC channels for (Debian) Linux?

1997-01-16 Thread Martin Schulze
Moin Hanno! Try shame.blackdown.org: if mean.netppl.fi is too far for you. Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / To-Zeilen in öffentlichen Nachrichten ist FidoNet-Technologie / / gröll^^ / / ...

RE: novice questions

1997-01-16 Thread Casper BodenCummins
Thomas Kocourek wrote: Larry Clayton writes: [snip] 3. When I call man, for example man 9wm, I get the response, What manual page do you want from section 9wm? So I try man 9wm.1 and get the same response. What is the appropriate answer to such a question? It looks like it's interpreting

Re: cfinger and .xface

1997-01-16 Thread Martin Schulze
Ben Gertzfield writes: Hi, all. Has anyone had luck putting their X-Face in the .xface file for cfinger? Mine has two $s in it, which seems to make cfingerd try to interpolate them into variables. How can I fix this? Normally I would say use $$ or \$ instead, but I'll try... man cfingerd --

debian-user as a digest?

1997-01-16 Thread Alexander LIST
The traffic on this list has become very heavy. Is it possible to get this list as a digest, e.g. once a day? -- Alexander List, Neue-Welt-Hoehe 52a, A-8042 Graz, Austria, EU phone: +43-316-474737 Home address: Dafens 4,

Re: Inexpensive color printer experience

1997-01-16 Thread Michael Laing
The 'stcolor' driver in Alladdin Ghostscript 4.01 works well for me on my Epson Stylus. No 'scratching' required... Michael Linh Dang wrote: I've just bought a Epson Stylus 200 for $240 CAN (~ $180 US). It didn't try the color mode with Linux YET but color-printing is fine (in W95 :-()

Re: to help us lighten up...

1997-01-16 Thread Michel 'dbk' Rochman
Hi girls, I really enjoyed Pete Templin's message about OS brews and, since it didn't mention Linux in particular, I thought you folks would relate better to this one... Sincere apologies for loading this otherwise serious list with another joke but I think the Linux bit really gets to the

Re: tar dumps core

1997-01-16 Thread Dr. Andreas Wehler
Yes, I've experienced this too. : It won't dump core if file is smaller (say a few KB) or the option M : is not used. I've put together a set of 3 QIC-150 tapes with debian 1.2. Reading/testing every single tape back is ok, where of course the overlapping files are lost. Reading it back with

Unidentified subject!

1997-01-16 Thread J. Ramos Goncalves
Hi! I'm trying to use dwww to read the Debian documentation but the following error message appears when I access some of the links: The requested URL /cgi-bin/dwww was not found on this server. The links done automatically by dwww seem to be fine. I suspect that perhaps the apache server

Re: How do access hda, fd0, etc. ?

1997-01-16 Thread Alexander Gieg
Several people have suggested mounting the dos partition with: mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt If any text files are involved, the different newline characters in dos and linux can cause problems. Adding the conversion option to the file system specification in the mount command

Problems with dwww.

1997-01-16 Thread J. Ramos Goncalves
Hi! I'm trying to use dwww to read the Debian documentation but the following error message appears when I access some of the links: The requested URL /cgi-bin/dwww was not found on this server. The links done automatically by dwww seem to be fine. I suspect that perhaps the apache server

Re: Webserver/CGI

1997-01-16 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On 16 Jan 1997, Mathieu GUILLAUME wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Hi there, I have need for a web server to do one and only one : thing, run a single CGI script. I've installed Apache on my system, and : started to configure it when I though that Apache might be overkill. This :

libc5_5.4.14-1?

1997-01-16 Thread Brian K Servis
Were can I find libc5_5.4.14-1? Several apps in 1.2.2 have dependencies on it an only libc5_5.4.13-1 seems to be available. Is this a bug? Brian Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue

I cannot upgrade from 2.0.0 to 2.0.27

1997-01-16 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
Can anybody tell me what I need to successfully upgrade from 2.0.0 to 2.0.27. When I run dpkg on the kerneld package it says every is fine but unfortunately my sound, cd-rom and floppies stops working. Anyone? // D.J.

Re: Can any one recommend a mailreader...

1997-01-16 Thread Stephen Zander
J.H.M.Dassen wrote: PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would have the decency to betray his country. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan

Multifunction Cards

1997-01-16 Thread C . J . Lawson
Hello everyone, I am thinking of getting one of those multifuncion (Modem, Fax, Answerphone, Sound ...) cards. I know of only two such cards (1) The microConnect 34 office and (2) The Aztech Telephony 3000 I wonder if anyone could let me know of any other and what is the pecking order

Re: libc5_5.4.14-1?

1997-01-16 Thread Guy Maor
Brian K Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Were can I find libc5_5.4.14-1? Several apps in 1.2.2 have dependencies on it an only libc5_5.4.13-1 seems to be available. It's in unstable. Is this a bug? Yes, but has been fixed in Debian 1.2.3. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: your mail

1997-01-16 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Thomas Tomiczek wrote: we have set up a router using a whole bunch of 3c509b-ethernet-cards (finally getting all recognized with a little kernel-patch). Now I have 2 ICN 4B-cards in this mashine. We are running debian 1.2 with kernel 2.0.27. I am unable to get the cards to

Debian 1.2.3

1997-01-16 Thread Guy Maor
Debian 1.2.3 is released and contains eight updated packages. Here is the entire ChangeLog (debian/stable/ChangeLog on ftp sites), since I never posted a similiar announce for 1.2.1 and 1.2.2. --- Debian 1.2.3 Thu, 16 Jan 1997 10:12:39 -0600 cron (3.0pl1-37) stable unstable; urgency=medium

RE: ICN-Card-Problem PLEASE HELP / URGENT

1997-01-16 Thread Thomas Tomiczek
Thanks for your mail. Lets go on... -Original Message- From: Nils Rennebarth [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Donnerstag, 16. Januar 1997 17:47 To: Thomas Tomiczek Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject:Re: your mail On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Thomas Tomiczek wrote: we

Test

1997-01-16 Thread Victor Torrico
This is a test to see if I can post to the list yet. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SECURITY: Important bug fix for /sbin/login (fwd)

1997-01-16 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Guys, has this been fixed in debian? If not, can anyone explain how to install an rpm package so I can try out rpm within debian? ;-) -- Their is a buffer overrun in /bin/login which has the potential to allow any user of your system to gain root

Re: Documentation (Was: Re: [1.2 installation]: how to tell X to ...)

1997-01-16 Thread Fabien Ninoles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- First my apologizes about being a little spicy in my respond. I don't know which kind of meat I was eating this day... :) On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Daniel S. Barclay wrote: From: Fabien Ninoles [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Daniel S. Barclay

Re: Comm problems

1997-01-16 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Stuart Charlton wrote: I believe I asked this question several months back, but don't recall if I received an answer.. Upon bootup I receive the message while it's setting up the serial ports.. /dev/cua0 no such device /dev/cua1 no such device /dev/cua2 no such

Re: Best Debian CD?

1997-01-16 Thread Nathan L. Cutler
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody who wants more information on ftpmail can send me a private e-mail, or if you feel its appropriate I will post it on the debain-user list. As long as it's not commercial software, I think it would be appropriate to post it to the list.

Re: ghostscript

1997-01-16 Thread Nathan L. Cutler
On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Fundamental wrote: Is ghostscript a package? or is this a dumb question? I searched the debian archives, found a lot of fonts and addons for ghostscript, but no ghostscript:( When searching for packages, I believe that better than browsing the ftp archive is to get the

Problems with 1.2 Install Disks

1997-01-16 Thread Kevin Traas
I've heard of others having problems with getting a working version of the installation disks and I've tried doing what was suggested in each case - download the image and write to a fresh floppy and try again - however, that hasn't been helping in my case. The boot/rescue disk works perfectly

Solution to: not able to post to debian-user list

1997-01-16 Thread Victor Torrico
Victor Torrico wrote: Dale Scheetz wrote: On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: Dale, My eMail From: line reads Victor Torrico [EMAIL PROTECTED]. What file/files do I change to make it read the correct info which is: Victor Torrico [EMAIL PROTECTED]? This is

cdrom block device

1997-01-16 Thread Richard Sevenich
I am doing a new install with debian 1.2.1 and the 1997-04-01 base diskettes. The boot recognizes my cdrom at sr0, but I cannot mount it - finding no appropriate block device in /dev. My guess is that I should be using the 1996-12-8 set. What is the verdict? Regards, Richard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Discussion Role Based Packages (was Re: Fax programs! help please. (fwd)

1997-01-16 Thread Joey Hess
While watching the discussion concerning dselect that went on a while back it occured to me the deselect may not be the best place to implement role based system configuration (a setup based on what the intended user will be doing). It seems to me that dpkg should (already) support recursive

PPP traffic dies

1997-01-16 Thread Daniel Stringfield
I was wondering if anyone had any problems with PPPD just stopping (not letting any traffic through). I'm online quite a bit, and it has only been happening this last week or so... and usually after a hour or so of heavy traffic, it slows WAY down, and eventually won't let anything through. I'm

dselect for newbies

1997-01-16 Thread Rob MacWilliams
I'm probably fanning the flames in regard to dselect and new user installation problems, but being a recent convert to Debian and *nix, I think I might have something productive to add. When I set up my system for the first time, I didn't use dselect at all because it seemed too

WordPerfect for Java

1997-01-16 Thread Paul Serice
Has anyone been able to get the pre-beta of WordPerfect for Java running. The URL is http://officeforjava.corel.com/ Paul Serice -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Best Debian CD?

1997-01-16 Thread woodja
On Thu, 16 Jan 1997 10:42:20 +0100 (MET) Nathan L. Cutler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 15 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody who wants more information on ftpmail can send me a private e-mail, or if you feel its appropriate I will post it on the debain-user list. As long as it's

Re: WordPerfect for Java

1997-01-16 Thread Vatiainen Heikki
This was just today on java-linux list: // Heikki ++ Start of excerpt ++ Hello Java-Linux people, I assume that yall know this, but in case you dont, Corel's Office for Java is available for download from ftp2.corel.com. The file is in the / directory and is called coj.zip. I ran it both

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