Weather map fto site ?

1997-07-07 Thread Stan Brown
I was poking around in the xv sources and found a neat script to ftp a daily wether map. What with my ne color printer and all, I thought I'd give it a try. Unfortunately the ftp siite referenced in it isn't accepting connections anymore. Can anyone suggest

Re: Total Newbie partition question

1997-07-07 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
On Sun, 06 Jul 1997 15:34:46 -0700, Dan Hugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What to I do with extended and logical partitions when I have three physical paritions on my drive already? In other words, I have hda1,hda2,hda3, and I would like to add more than hda4. Assuming I am using fdisk, how to

Network Configuration

1997-07-07 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
During the base installation, as part of configuring the network, the configure script asks for the netmask and the IP address for the network and/or the default gateway. Where is this information stored? Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

ne.o: invalid signature

1997-07-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi! Tonight I ran into a problem which I have solved some time ago, but dunno how. When booting Linux, the NE2k driver recognizes the card, but then writes: invalid signature, got 42 42. Now the question is: What to do? This card runs just fine under Win95 - urgs. It's not my machine and I'm

Afterstep

1997-07-07 Thread Joe Lillibridge
This is a very minor problem, but I got a nice new computer. I've got afterstep 1.0-4 running. The Afterstep icon doesn't appear in the top icon. Here's the relevent section of my .steprc: *Wharf AfterStep AFstep.xpm Folder Any ideas? thanks, joe pgpORg6q3tKd2.pgp Description: PGP

Re: mc problem - solved.

1997-07-07 Thread Joost Kooij
On 6 Jul 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Troup) writes: It's Debian policy (afaik) that as little as possible should go into stable after release, and *definitely* as little as possible, if any, new upstream releases. This is very wise but i'd expect as well that

Re: Afterstep

1997-07-07 Thread dpk
I had this problem also I suggest: 1. make sure that the icon exists in one of the directories set in your PixmapPath, which is set in your .steprc 2. also make sure there are no errors in your .steprc, you can view the errors by wixh xconsole. I have xconsole start up in my

Re: Network Configuration

1997-07-07 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: During the base installation, as part of configuring the network, the configure script asks for the netmask and the IP address for the network and/or the default gateway. Where is this information stored? In the Network Administrator's

Re: Network Configuration

1997-07-07 Thread Shaya Potter
It's stored in /etc/init.d/network HTH, Shaya On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: During the base installation, as part of configuring the network, the configure script asks for the netmask and the IP address for the network and/or the default gateway. Where is this

Re: Network Configuration

1997-07-07 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sun, 06 Jul 1997 19:48:11 EDT Robert D. Hilliard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: During the base installation, as part of configuring the network, the configure script asks for the netmask and the IP address for the network and/or the default gateway. Where is this information stored?

Re: ne.o: invalid signature

1997-07-07 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Martin Schulze wrote: Tonight I ran into a problem which I have solved some time ago, but dunno how. When booting Linux, the NE2k driver recognizes the card, but then writes: invalid signature, got 42 42. Now the question is: What to do? From the Ethernet-HOWTO:

Well tested mode lines fail with 1.3.1

1997-07-07 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Can anyone verify that well tested mode lines, used with older X servers, fail with the latest X servers in 1.3.1? Sorry for making this so long, but I didn't want to leave anything out. Here's the info: --- dpkg --list xserver-s3: ||/ NameVersionDescription

Re: Motif v lesstif - was Re: Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 ...

1997-07-07 Thread David B. Teague
On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote: and david teague responded If one has the library call interface and specifications, it seems to me that it should be possible to write a library that is functionally identical to Motif. If this is not true, I'd like for someone to explain to me

Re: emacs won't install if /usr/local is read-only

1997-07-07 Thread Mark Eichin
I don't see any need to post that restriction on dpkg. dpkg is just a Uhh, it's not a *restriction on dpkg*. It's an *extension* to dpkg to make it more aware of a site's policy. We've already got a policy that says packages (ie. those part of debian; what you do with your own is up to you)

fs type vfat not supported by kernel?

1997-07-07 Thread David Densmore
I'm running debian 1.3 2.0.29 When I mount my vfat Win95 partition manually with the command: # mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /Win95 It works fine, and I can access the partition, long filenames and all. # mount /dev/hda2 on / type ext2 (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) /dev/hda5 on /home type ext2

Anybody get berolist to work with smail?

1997-07-07 Thread Dave Cinege
Berolist with smail isn't working for me. The maintainer doesn't know what it is and I haven't heard back from the author. No matter what I try I get the same thing. |- Message log follows: -| BeroList-2.3.5 ready... Sending... Connected to

safely downgrading from hamm

1997-07-07 Thread robert
Hi, I have the following problem: The system was installed with debian-1.2 and since then someone installed a 'hamm' ld package, namely: ldso_1.9.2-3.deb Why someone did this I have no idea as there are no traces of any system admin documentation on the system. I was trying to upgrade

Re: Afterstep

1997-07-07 Thread Joe Lillibridge
On Jul 6, dpk wrote I had this problem also I suggest: 1. make sure that the icon exists in one of the directories set in your PixmapPath, which is set in your .steprc 2. also make sure there are no errors in your .steprc, you can view the errors by wixh xconsole. I have

Re: safely downgrading from hamm

1997-07-07 Thread Igor Grobman
Hi, I have the following problem: The system was installed with debian-1.2 and since then someone installed a 'hamm' ld package, namely: ldso_1.9.2-3.deb Why someone did this I have no idea as there are no traces of any system admin documentation on the system. None of the

Re: Afterstep

1997-07-07 Thread Dick Arnold
Dick Arnold wrote: Joe Lillibridge wrote: On Jul 6, dpk wrote I had this problem also I suggest: 1. make sure that the icon exists in one of the directories set in your PixmapPath, which is set in your .steprc 2. also make sure there are no errors in your .steprc,

Re: Python and Postgres-questions

1997-07-07 Thread Alexander Kjeldaas
On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, Johann Spies wrote: 1. How do I add an extended module, written in C, to Python using the Debian-version of Python? (e.g. pg95 - Pygres95 for interfacing Postgres95). Would something like SWIG be what you're looking for? http://www.cs.utah.edu/~beazley/SWIG/ Don't

Netscape: How about some Unix instructions

1997-07-07 Thread jim
Netscape doesn't include any instructions for setting up helper apps. w/ unix. For example, I want to run VRML directly from netscape. Great! So, I go to preferences/Navigator/Applications and create a new mime-type called x-world/x-vrml. I then tell it that this is for extension wrl. I

/dev/cua1 not there! -- so can't use modem

1997-07-07 Thread Mark Phillips
I have recently installed Debian 1.3 on a friend's laptop for him. He is complaining that /dev/cua1 doesn't exist. Nor, apparently, do the other cua files. I did some reading and the impression I get is that the cu* files are now obsolete. If so, what are they replaced by? In particular,

Re: /dev/cua1 not there! -- so can't use modem

1997-07-07 Thread Alex Yukhimets
I have recently installed Debian 1.3 on a friend's laptop for him. He is complaining that /dev/cua1 doesn't exist. Nor, apparently, do the other cua files. Instead of /dev/cua? use corresponding /dev/ttyS? Good luck. Alex Y. I did some reading and the impression I get is that the

Re: Python and Postgres-questions

1997-07-07 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 07 Jul 1997 04:43:55 +0200 Alexander Kjeldaas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Would something like SWIG be what you're looking for? http://www.cs.utah.edu/~beazley/SWIG/ Don't know if there's a debian-package for SWIG. There is one in hamm/contrib. And it should work in a bo system.

RE: Well tested mode lines fail with 1.3.1

1997-07-07 Thread David Puryear
Hi Brandon, On 06-Jul-97 You wrote: Can anyone verify that well tested mode lines, used with older X servers, fail with the latest X servers in 1.3.1? Sorry for making this so long, but I didn't want to leave anything out. Yes, I noticed this as well. -- edited -- Modeline 640x480

Re: fs type vfat not supported by kernel?

1997-07-07 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
You must have the vfat device driver compiled as a module in your kernel. and Normally modules are loaded on demand. (Making your kernel use much less memory as it doesn't have to load unneeded code.) There is a daemon called kerneld which watches for module requests like when you manually

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-07 Thread Marty Leisner
I just bought a Pentium pro with a bundled 3c905 boomerang card... I figured to try it out in windows to see if it works...couldn't get the enet card to work... Installed redhat 4.2...the boomerang worked with no problem... (but I built a clean 2.0.30 with 3c59x support and I had no luck...)

get-news failed

1997-07-07 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, Can someone please tell me what did I do wrong that would have caused the 'testhost localhost' failed everytime? My 'get-news' never worked because I stoped and exited at 'testhost localhost'! Thanks! -- Timothy C. Phan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Can't open ./install.sh from rescue disk

1997-07-07 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi -- I'm trying to install Debian 1.3 from a set of 1.44 floppies; which contain a kernel compiled just for my setup by kind Susan Kleinmann ( and based on 2.0.30 kernel). (Stock rescue floppy gets stuck on my aic7xxx driver...) Installation goes smoothly through setting up a color display,

Re: Afterstep

1997-07-07 Thread Jason Westervelt
Joe Lillibridge wrote: This is a very minor problem, but I got a nice new computer. I've got afterstep 1.0-4 running. The Afterstep icon doesn't appear in the top icon. Here's the relevent section of my .steprc: *Wharf AfterStep AFstep.xpm Folder Yeah, me too... I noticed that as

Re: fs type vfat not supported by kernel?

1997-07-07 Thread Jason Westervelt
David Densmore wrote: I'm running debian 1.3 2.0.29 When I mount my vfat Win95 partition manually with the command: # mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /Win95 It works fine, and I can access the partition, long filenames and all. # mount /dev/hda2 on / type ext2 (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw)

Thanks! (was Re: Total Newbie partition question)

1997-07-07 Thread Dan Hugo
Thanks, Bob! I guess I should have kept going with fdisk instead of wimping out. I probably would have gone down that path eventually. I asked two of my friends familiar with this (both Debian users, in fact) and both of them answered with I don't remember exactly how that works, but it does.

Toshiba laptop resume mode

1997-07-07 Thread Bill Moran
HI I am trying to install debian on a Toshiba laptop 410 CS and am having trouble making resume mode work. When I try to resume the computer hangs. Any ideas? Bill -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Where can I get libtermcap.so.2 ?

1997-07-07 Thread Mark Phillips
I did a dpkg --search libtermcap.so.2 and it couldn't find it. Does that mean that it doesn't exist anywhere in the debian distribution? Does anyone know where I can get it from? Thanks. - Mark Phillips [EMAIL

default fonts and the x server

1997-07-07 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
hello, i just updated my system (dselect) and several x-related files were updated, including xbase, vga svga servers, fonts, etc. i am using xinside's AcceleratedX with a Matrox Mystique video card. since i updated, when i attempt startx, i get the following error messages: failed to set

Work-Needing and Prospective Packages

1997-07-07 Thread Philippe Troin
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Philippe Troin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.47 1997/07/07 06:08:32 phil Exp $ 1. Note I've taken over the maintenance of the Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux from Sven Rudolph starting version

boa and security

1997-07-07 Thread Adam Shand
Hi A quick boa question. I would like to run boa as our web server on our terminal server to run cgi scripts but would really like to be able to restrict who can run those scripts. Can I run boa from inetd or are there any ways to easily do this with an .htaccess file or similar? I'd rather

AfterStep prob fixed

1997-07-07 Thread Joe Lillibridge
Well, I fixed the little problem with the icon. Once I installed procps and xproc, the afterstep icon appeared. joe pgpGYZwPBRIyP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: It still don't work......

1997-07-07 Thread Andree Leidenfrost
Hi Tony, you have to make these links both in /usr/lib *and* in /lib. Do this and have a look at the output of ldconfig afterwards. Hopefully it won't complain any longer and dselect will start working properly, too. Regards, Andree PS: Besides, I ran over a similar problem when

Re: default fonts and the x server

1997-07-07 Thread Christian Balzer
Matthew wrote: hello, i just updated my system (dselect) and several x-related files were updated, including xbase, vga svga servers, fonts, etc. i am using xinside's AcceleratedX with a Matrox Mystique video card. Same here, AccelX 2.1 and Matrox Millenium for the record... since i

Makefiles

1997-07-07 Thread Jason Westervelt
I am running across a few apps that need xmkmf to compile.. where should I go to get all the stuff to deal with these type of make file? actually I am something of a newbie to linux, but I think xmkmf MAKES a makefile from some other type of file, i dunno.. =) been looking for general

Re: Afterstep

1997-07-07 Thread Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH
- This is a very minor problem, but I got a nice new computer. I've got - afterstep 1.0-4 running. The Afterstep icon doesn't appear in the - top icon. Here's the relevent section of my .steprc: - - *Wharf AfterStep AFstep.xpm Folder - - Any ideas? - - thanks, - joe It did the same

Re: Netscape: How about some Unix instructions

1997-07-07 Thread Bob Clark
jim wrote: Netscape doesn't include any instructions for setting up helper apps. w/ unix. For example, I want to run VRML directly from netscape. Great! So, I go to preferences/Navigator/Applications and create a new mime-type called x-world/x-vrml. I then tell it that this is for

Re: Afterstep problem solved

1997-07-07 Thread Jason Westervelt
It did the same thing for me when my desktop was configured with 256 colors. Using, 65000 colors, the icon appeared. I don't know why but maybe it could help you. nah.. that only gets a few other icons to pop up... don't ask why, but the TOP button (the one that has the lock buttons,

Re: default fonts and the x server

1997-07-07 Thread Civ Kevin F. Havener
Guys, I've seen the answer to this recently. Don't know how current the archive is--so you may not be able to search it for the exact answer. AccelX can't do compressed fonts (.gz I think). XFree has apparently decided to start compressing them. There is a workaround and it involves

Re: default fonts and the x server

1997-07-07 Thread Christian Balzer
Kevin wrote: Guys, I've seen the answer to this recently. Don't know how current the archive is--so you may not be able to search it for the exact answer. AccelX can't do compressed fonts (.gz I think). XFree has apparently ^^ That's true, .Z it handles

Re: Can't open ./install.sh from rescue disk

1997-07-07 Thread W Paul Mills
On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Damir J. Naden wrote: Hi -- I'm trying to install Debian 1.3 from a set of 1.44 floppies; which contain a kernel compiled just for my setup by kind Susan Kleinmann ( and based on 2.0.30 kernel). (Stock rescue floppy gets stuck on my aic7xxx driver...) Installation goes

Mailers

1997-07-07 Thread David R. Kohel
This is not really Debian specific, but is relevant to handling the volume of mail from this mailing list. I've been using elm for years. But as far as I can tell, it does not handle multiple active folders. Before investing in converting all of my mail archives to a new system, I'd like to

Re: /dev/cua1 not there! -- so can't use modem

1997-07-07 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: I did some reading and the impression I get is that the cu* files are now obsolete. If so, what are they replaced by? In particular, what device should my friend use for his modem? Use /dev/ttyS* instead of /dev/cua* Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

RE: Recognizing old scsi controller/disk

1997-07-07 Thread Matthew
-- From: Michael B. Taylor[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 July 1997 21:14 To:debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc:The recipient's address is unknown. Subject: Recognizing old scsi controller/disk I boot the system using a Debian 1.3 rescue disk. At the boot prompt, I type:

Re: default fonts and the x server

1997-07-07 Thread Civ Kevin F. Havener
Glad you were able to figure out what to do. I figured if you were reasonably competent (and I'm not) my hint may have been of some help. Just bought a copy of AX3.1. I plan to upgrade to XFree 3.3 late this week. If AX3.1 breaks I'll let you know what Xi support's official position is. :)

Re: First Mars Pictures

1997-07-07 Thread Ed Down
Interesting point. I seem to remember xv is shareware, I wonder if they've paid their fee. And I wonder what NASA is classed as - commercial or educational? Ed On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Jim Pick wrote: Anyone watching NASA Select TV for the first pictures of Mars? The desktop they're using

Re: Makefiles

1997-07-07 Thread Ed Down
I have just started delving into Makefiles and I would recommend you get GNU make an use the documantation that is supplied - it got me going quite quickly, and it's well supported and free... For those packages that require xmkmf to compile, I would just install whatever package it comes in,

Re: Netscape: How about some Unix instructions

1997-07-07 Thread Carey Evans
Bob Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Bash incorrectly considers (( to be an arithmetic expression introducer when really, it's $((. That's strange, since both pdksh and zsh both consider (( to be an arithmetic expression, and $(( to be an arithmetic expression _substitution_. Have

Perl 5.004 stability?

1997-07-07 Thread Kaj Wiik
I'd like to upgrade to Perl 5.004 but I am discouraged to do that by our system admin because of potential stability/compatibility problems. I know of majordomo and chat problems, are there other known problems? Thanks, Kaj -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-07 Thread Daniel Chalef
I just bought a Pentium pro with a bundled 3c905 boomerang card... I figured to try it out in windows to see if it works...couldn't get the enet card to work... Installed redhat 4.2...the boomerang worked with no problem... (but I built a clean 2.0.30 with 3c59x support and I had no

Re: Makefiles

1997-07-07 Thread Alex Yukhimets
I am running across a few apps that need xmkmf to compile.. where should I go to get all the stuff to deal with these type of make file? actually I am something of a newbie to linux, but I think xmkmf MAKES a makefile from some other type of file, i dunno.. =) been looking for general

Re: Makefiles

1997-07-07 Thread Shaya Potter
On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Jason Westervelt wrote: I am running across a few apps that need xmkmf to compile.. where should I go to get all the stuff to deal with these type of make file? actually I am something of a newbie to linux, but I think xmkmf MAKES a makefile from some other type of

Xauthority

1997-07-07 Thread BG Lim
Installing Xfree3.3 form bo-updates gives me Xauthority as well. My question is, how do i use it to authorise other users to display on the same server? I know the xauth program is used but I have followed the instructions in the man page but still I can't get it to work. Please help BG --

Re: Netscape: How about some Unix instructions

1997-07-07 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Bob Clark wrote: Date: Mon, 07 Jul 1997 04:11:37 -0400 From: Bob Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org Subject: Re: Netscape: How about some Unix instructions Resent-Date: Mon, 07 Jul 1997 09:06:49 +

bug in bash?

1997-07-07 Thread BG Lim
I'm using bash 2.0 from the base installation. I notices that if the line that I type exceeds the wide of the screen, instead of going down to the next line, it goes to the start of the same line, thus obliterating the prompt and whatever I had typed. This occurs in Xterm as well. Bash 1.4 and

Off-topic: Making ALT be the META key

1997-07-07 Thread sjg
I recently installed XEmacs, and would like to have it recognize my ALT key as the META key (which I thought was supposed to be the default, but isn't on my machine). I played around with xmodmap some, but didn't accomplish anything useful. This is an i386 platform, so the HP fixes for it won't

still moving my partitions

1997-07-07 Thread Will Lowe
Ok. I had debian installed on a 500mb partition, hda5. I've created four other partitions (for var, usr, home, and a _new_ /). I've successfully moved var, usr, and home to new partitions via cp -a. Concerned over the fact that any partition after hda5 is unbootable (being past that funky

Re: Can't open ./install.sh from rescue disk

1997-07-07 Thread Igor Grobman
Hi -- I'm trying to install Debian 1.3 from a set of 1.44 floppies; which contain a kernel compiled just for my setup by kind Susan Kleinmann ( and based on 2.0.30 kernel). (Stock rescue floppy gets stuck on my aic7xxx driver...) Installation goes smoothly through setting up a color

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-07 Thread Rob
I may be wrong, but why compile support for 3c59x when your card is 3c905?? get the numbers mixed up there? :) -Rob On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Marty Leisner wrote: I just bought a Pentium pro with a bundled 3c905 boomerang card... I figured to try

Re: Where can I get libtermcap.so.2 ?

1997-07-07 Thread Igor Grobman
I did a dpkg --search libtermcap.so.2 and it couldn't find it. Does that mean that it doesn't exist anywhere in the debian distribution? No, this means that it is not installed on your system. This library is included in termcap-compat package. Does anyone know where I can get

Re: PnP ( ie: Modem )

1997-07-07 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Keith Knipschild wrote: I installed and setup Debian Linux, But I would like to setup my PnP Modem.. I helped a friend of my with this a couple of weeks ago... I hope I can remember. Install isapnptools (it's in admin). Run pnpdump and redirect it's output to

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-07 Thread Jesse Goldman
Hi, I was playing with this stuff a while back and it looks to me like the 3c900/3c905 series is an update/replacement for the 3c590/595 series. On Donald Becker's home page at cesdis: http://cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/ there are a couple of different driver versions for the 3c900/905 series

RE-COMPILING the Kernel...

1997-07-07 Thread bigt
Just so I know and have my ducks in order. Is this the correct method for re-compiling my Kernel?? cd /usr/src/Linux make config make dep make zImage make zdisk make zlilo Is this correct? Can someone explain briefly each step and why I have to do this??? I just want to understand it more.

Re: Security hole in Debian's /bin/false?

1997-07-07 Thread Emilio Lopes
EAP == Eloy A Paris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: EAP I do not know much about security but Debian's /bin/false is also EAP a shell script. Are we at risk? Shouldn't /bin/false be changed EAP to a compiled version? That's no risk. If you do a C-c at login, the shell process will be ended too, and

Praise the Lord it worked......

1997-07-07 Thread bigt
Well after weeks and days of trying I finally got this thing to work.., [EMAIL PROTECTED] your method of fixing this worked and was straight to the point. I do appreciate everyones efforts in helping me out with this particular problem. I have seen several comments posted about what the

Re: rxvt colours

1997-07-07 Thread Emilio Lopes
JM == John Maheu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JM After upgrading to 1.3, rxvt can find certain colours: JM rxvt: can't load color snow JM rxvt: can't load color blue JM I also have this problem using gnuplot. JM I've tried some of the tricks posted the last few weeks. I have a JM ~/.Xdefaults

Printing problems ...

1997-07-07 Thread Eddie Katz
When the kernel boots I have a message: lp0 at 0x0378, (irq = 7) Then when I try printing (LPRNG) I get an error message Status: Cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'No such device or address', sleeping 10 at 17 Why is it trying /dev/lp1 since the kernel loaded /dev/lp0 ??? Also if someone has a

Re: Off-topic: Making ALT be the META key

1997-07-07 Thread jdassen
On Jul 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I recently installed XEmacs, and would like to have it recognize my ALT key as the META key (which I thought was supposed to be the default, but isn't on my machine). I played around with xmodmap some, but didn't accomplish anything useful. This is an i386

Re: ipfwadm after kernel recompiling

1997-07-07 Thread Lalovic, Drazen
I have looked at my /proc/net directory. There are no ip_* files. What should I do. Note: After recompiling kernel I have noticed following: Setup is 4384 bytes System is 638kB System is too big Man[1]: ***[zImage] Error 1 Everything but ipforwarding and firewalling work just fine. Thanks,

RE:ipfwadm

1997-07-07 Thread Lalovic, Drazen
I have looked at my /proc/net directory. There are no ip_* files. What should I do. Note: After recompiling kernel I have noticed following: Setup is 4384 bytes System is 638kB System is too big Man[1]: ***[zImage] Error 1 Everything but ipforwarding and firewalling work just fine. Thanks,

Re: nice job with Debian CD-ROM!

1997-07-07 Thread Bob Billson
On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Christian Hudon wrote: Thanks for the nice words. I'm sure the oficial is just a typo. If memory Could be a typo. However, the way the word Oficial (with the quotes) is printed on the CD, it appears to be intentional. by Debian. You might want to email them about that (i.e.

Re: using cable modem with Debian?

1997-07-07 Thread Bob Billson
On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote: Sounds a lot like dhcp, try using the dhcpcd (client daemon) package. The Thanks. We'll give it a try tomorrow. attack). I haven't the slightest idea how diald would work with dhcpcd, I just left mine connected all day. He probably be switching

Re: using cable modem with Debian?

1997-07-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
I fail to understand why diald is needed at all. These are cable modems, right? The cable modems we're using are Zeniths ... 4Mbps upstream/downstream. Does your friends modem require use of the phone lines for any reason? If not, seems to me a 'shutdown -r now' command is gonna bring the link

Re: Printing problems ...

1997-07-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Eddie Katz wrote: When the kernel boots I have a message: lp0 at 0x0378, (irq = 7) Then when I try printing (LPRNG) I get an error message Status: Cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'No such device or address', sleeping 10 at 17 Why is it trying /dev/lp1 since the

Re: rxvt colours

1997-07-07 Thread John Maheu
On 7 Jul 1997, Emilio Lopes wrote: JM == John Maheu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JM After upgrading to 1.3, rxvt can find certain colours: JM rxvt: can't load color snow JM rxvt: can't load color blue JM I also have this problem using gnuplot. JM I've tried some of the tricks posted

Re: RE-COMPILING the Kernel...

1997-07-07 Thread Emilio Lopes
b == bigt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: b cd /usr/src/Linux With this you go to the directory where the kernel sources are. :-) b make config Here you will be asked a lot of things. Responding these questions you are saying what you want and what you don't want in your kernel, acording to your

Re: Diety contacts? (was Re: Dselect replacement?)

1997-07-07 Thread Brian White
Next question and then I'll hopefully shut up for a day or two about this topic :-) Does anyone know where I can get in contact with the people and/or the product of the Diety project? I checked www.debian.org's web site and didn't find anything, and am not going to even bother with an

Re: Where's the package for netscape communicator

1997-07-07 Thread Brian White
There used to be a package, netscape-beta, that could be used to install communicator, it's gone now. Is there a reason it disappeared. I removed it because it doesn't work for beta-5 and above. I have a fixed version I just need to test for a bit before uploading.

Re: Python and Postgres-questions

1997-07-07 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, Johann Spies wrote: 1. How do I add an extended module, written in C, to Python using the Debian-version of Python? (e.g. pg95 - Pygres95 for interfacing Postgres95). 2. Are there any debian-users using python as an interface to a PostgreSQL or Postgres95? 3. Is

Minimal hardware for web server

1997-07-07 Thread sfuqua
I have offered to set up a web server for computer science students here at Western Kentucky University to practice their cgi and perhaps java skills on. The machine would never have to support more than about 5 simultaneous users, and usually would have only one user at a time. The idea is to

Re: StarOffice3.1

1997-07-07 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Johannes Martinez wrote: Is there a deb package out there, or does any one have a diff for alien to install this properly? I installed but had problems, i have to admit i like micrsoft office 97 ten times better. It takes about 5 minutes to load swriter and about 3

Re: ipfwadm after kernel recompiling

1997-07-07 Thread Jim Pick
I have looked at my /proc/net directory. There are no ip_* files. What should I do. That means that there isn't any ip forwarding or firewalling, for sure. Note: After recompiling kernel I have noticed following: Setup is 4384 bytes System is 638kB System is too big Man[1]: ***[zImage]

Re: RE-COMPILING the Kernel...

1997-07-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] , writes: Just so I know and have my ducks in order. Is this the correct method for re-compiling my Kernel?? cd /usr/src/Linux or /usr/src/linux or whatever This is where the kernel source is stored, of course. make config If you're running X-windows

Re: nice job with Debian CD-ROM!

1997-07-07 Thread Bob Billson
On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Christian Hudon wrote: by Debian. You might want to email them about that (i.e. the typo), but I guess they probably have heard about it already... And I heard back from them. You are right. It is was a typo. Guess I now have an Official Oficial Debian 1.3 CD-ROM. From

Re: Minimal hardware for web server

1997-07-07 Thread Jim Pick
I used a 386/33 with 8MB RAM as my web server for almost a year. It was also running a busy mail server too. Something like that can handle quite a bit of load, surprisingly. I wouldn't want to run it with 4MB of RAM though. Actually, if you are teaching CGI, it's probably a really good idea

Re: using cable modem with Debian?

1997-07-07 Thread Bob Billson
On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: I fail to understand why diald is needed at all. These are cable modems, right? The cable modems we're using are Zeniths ... 4Mbps I wasn't sure. I have never used them before so this is new to me. Am I missing something here, or are you? :) Most

Re: rxvt colours

1997-07-07 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, John Maheu wrote: On 7 Jul 1997, Emilio Lopes wrote: JM == John Maheu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JM After upgrading to 1.3, rxvt can find certain colours: JM rxvt: can't load color snow JM rxvt: can't load color blue JM I also have this problem using

Re: Can't open ./install.sh from rescue disk

1997-07-07 Thread Damir J. Naden
Igor Grobman wrote: I was hit by this problem once. What happens is the system reads the floppy drive (you see the light come on) and at the same time displays this message. If you hit enter before the light comes off, the drive would be unreadable, hence the error message. Try waiting

gcc, libraries, executables

1997-07-07 Thread Rick Hawkins
I'm trying to compile development versions of lyx, and am having problems with gcc or it's libraries (i think). I have 1.3 unstable installed. When I run lyx' configure, I get: bash-2.00# ./configure loading cache ./config.cache configuring LyX version 0.11.29.2 WARNING: This is a

Re: bug in bash?

1997-07-07 Thread Eloy A. Paris
I think this is a feature of Bash 2.0, not a bug. I don't know how to fix it since I'm still in Bash 1.x. E.- BG Lim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : I'm using bash 2.0 from the base installation. I notices that if the line : that I type exceeds the wide of the screen, instead of going down to the :

Re: gcc, libraries, executables

1997-07-07 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jul 7, Rick Hawkins wrote I'm trying to compile development versions of lyx, and am having problems with gcc or it's libraries (i think). configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables. bash-2.00# You'll need the g++, libg++ and

Re: Netscape: How about some Unix instructions

1997-07-07 Thread Bob Clark
Warning, Off-topic Sorry for this arguably off-topic thread, even the original post was technically off-topic but, it _is_ a Debian bug (#10598). The bug was fixed upstream in the June 5 release of bash-2.01. I've received private email that pointed out that the new Debian package is now in

Re: gcc, libraries, executables

1997-07-07 Thread Rick Hawkins
I'm trying to compile development versions of lyx, and am having problems with gcc or it's libraries (i think). configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables. bash-2.00# You'll need the g++, libg++ and libg++-dev packages if you

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