Re: Netscape 4.03 missing features?

1997-09-29 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 15:24:07 PDT Ed Slocomb ([EMAIL PROTECTED] .com) wrote: > I installed the most recent version of NS Communicator (4.03) using the > debian installer from hamm, but it seems that the bloated pig is > missing one of the simplest enhancements present in the win32 version: > the m

Re: IP MASQ: Errors

1997-09-29 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 09:54:50 CDT Joe Stewart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have IP MASQUERADING on our network, and when a client connects to some > sites we get this in the logs: > > MASQ: failed TCP/UDP checksum from 204.74.200.69! > > Otherwise, it seems fine. Is this a problem? E

Re: losing keys in fvwm2

1997-09-29 Thread Rick Hawkins
> Slap me if you've tried this, but turning numlock on in X does all sorts > of funky things to alt and function keys. I often find (particularly > using forms in netscape) that I turn on numlock, and then spend half an > hour trying to figure out why my keyboard doesn't work anymore ... turn >

Prosignia 200 NIC

1997-09-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
Just pulled a Prosignia 200 out of the box - trying to configure it as a news server. Spent about 2 hours trying to get BSDI to load (cos the boss said so) but decided to do the Linux thing instead ... Everything works fine except I can't figure out which driver to use for the 10/100 Ethernet car

Re: Q: Programming for console and X11?

1997-09-29 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Dirk Luetjens wrote: > I wanted to write an aplication which is capable of running in a graphics > mode but also on a text console. I though of having the same look & feel > in both modes. Since is only uses buttons, checkboxes, selection lists and > tabulars it should be pos

Re: losing keys in fvwm2

1997-09-29 Thread Will Lowe
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: > At times, the keystrokes for fvwm2 simply stop working. Particularly, > alt-arrow to shift virtual screens, alt-f9 (to icocnify) and the like, and > teh > alt-click combinations to move windows forward/back. Slap me if you've tried this, but turning

losing keys in fvwm2

1997-09-29 Thread Rick Hawkins
There was some discussion of this a month or two ago, and I don't recall it coming to a conclusion. At times, the keystrokes for fvwm2 simply stop working. Particularly, alt-arrow to shift virtual screens, alt-f9 (to icocnify) and the like, and teh alt-click combinations to move windows forwa

Netscape 4.03 missing features?

1997-09-29 Thread Ed Slocomb
I installed the most recent version of NS Communicator (4.03) using the debian installer from hamm, but it seems that the bloated pig is missing one of the simplest enhancements present in the win32 version: the mechanism for adding a new bookmark to an existing subfolder. Am I missing something h

Re: fax mini-howto?

1997-09-29 Thread m*
Lawrence wrote: > > > where is /dev/fax> it seems that efax does not create it device. you are correct: efax does not create any devices nor does mgetty-fax. those devices are standard. but it does uses a serial device, say /dev/ttyS1 which Could be referred to via symbolic link from /dev/

Re: Loading multiple GNU/Linux machines [not guarunteed]

1997-09-29 Thread Will Lowe
A NOTE: I've never tried this. Just my thoughts, and I might not know enough of what I'm saying, so someone feel free to shoot me down if I'm wrong. On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Nick Gilliam d-3712 7-5554 ng96753 gillidn wrote: > I am looking for methods to efficiently load many (up to > 200)

Re: dosemu and vfat

1997-09-29 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote: > Is dosemu vfat32 compatible? I assume it is, if you run a vfat32-compatible DOS in it. That would be MS-DOS 7.1, taken from Windows 95 OSR2 or any higher version. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Netscape Default window size+Debian Linux Book?

1997-09-29 Thread David ROCHER
On Mon, Sep 29, 1997 at 08:15:45AM -0400, InvisibLe wrote: > I just installed netscape for debian and i have one problem that is really > annoying me when i start netscape,netscape mail,netscape news,etc,there > window size is so big that i have to udjust it every time is there a way or > a file th

Re: xbase 3.3-6 problem

1997-09-29 Thread Brandon Mitchell
According to the postinst script, this will occur if you have any of the following directories: /usr/bin/X11 /usr/include/X11 /usr/lib/X11 I'm assuming these are safe to delete if there is nothing in them. If there is something in them, leave it and the config will take care of it (move to /usr/

Re: fax mini-howto?

1997-09-29 Thread Lawrence
m* wrote: > i haven't seen a HOW-TO, but the mgetty-fax and efix packages > have a resonable amount of doco with them. i would recommend > installing them both and then seeing if you can use them then > post back if you have specific questions. > > i use them together. i did end up modifying the s

libjpegg6a

1997-09-29 Thread kestrel
I had noticed a posting about it and didn't need this package until I had removed the message, where can I get it since its not in the unstable branch yet and I tried finding it on chiark where it was originally uploaded but no luck G'razel the shifty kitty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.aye.net/

Loading multiple GNU/Linux machines

1997-09-29 Thread Nick Gilliam d-3712 7-5554 ng96753 gillidn
I am looking for methods to efficiently load many (up to 200) Debian GNU/Linux machines. The machines are to be configured identically. TCP/IP connectivity is available. Any help will be appreciated. Tnx, Nick Gilliam Lockheed Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

xbase 3.3-6 problem

1997-09-29 Thread Paul Miller
anyone have this problem when installing X on a fresh installation? running dpkg --pending --configure ... Setting up xbase (3.3-6) ... cp: *: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing xbase (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encount

Re: duplicating installation

1997-09-29 Thread Jason Killen
Ok that almost works. My question now is once I have used --set-selections what do I do? Do I run dselect set the place to get the files and just hit install. (I don't have a machine that I can experiment with right now.) In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote : >On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Jason K

Re: duplicating installation

1997-09-29 Thread Jason Killen
I thought that might do what I wanted. Thanks for the help. In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote : >On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Jason Killen wrote: > >> Is there a quick and easy (ha) way to duplicate a debian installation from >> one machine to another. I've got 5 machines and I would like for the

Re: duplicating installation

1997-09-29 Thread Scott Ellis
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Jason Killen wrote: > Is there a quick and easy (ha) way to duplicate a debian installation from > one machine to another. I've got 5 machines and I would like for them all to > have the same packages installed. dpkg --get-selections dpkg --set-selections -- TO UNSUBSCRIB

duplicating installation

1997-09-29 Thread Jason Killen
Is there a quick and easy (ha) way to duplicate a debian installation from one machine to another. I've got 5 machines and I would like for them all to have the same packages installed. -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity Friends of Sin

Re: spreadsheet program

1997-09-29 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > is there a text-based spreadsheet program available? Similar to Symphony? Don't know Symphony but there is oleo in the oleo package. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Troub

spreadsheet program

1997-09-29 Thread Paul Miller
is there a text-based spreadsheet program available? Similar to Symphony? if so, where can I get it? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

making a menu with lilo

1997-09-29 Thread Jason Killen
Can anyone give me some help with setting up lilo to give the user a menu at boot. I've never set up a machine to do more than boot linux and the man pages haven't helped much. -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity Friends of Sinn Fein,

Re: General mail setup

1997-09-29 Thread nimennor
Thanks for advise, I got it all working now; fetchmail works like silk. I don't know what has caused the problem, but it's fixed now... Thanks, Nikita. On 28 Sep 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: :From: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :Subject: Re: General mail setup : :Hi, : : I thi

netatalk question...

1997-09-29 Thread Jason Costomiris
I'm in the process of converting my boss to believing that Linux can act as a fast and stable file && print server. Help! I've got a Compaq ProSignia something-or-other up and running just fine under 1.3.1. I've got an old LJ IIP hooked up to it, and am using lpr-ng and magicfilter to print to

Re: Possible flex-2.5.4 bug

1997-09-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, On a closer look, I don't like this change in behaviour either. In fact, I get a worse behaviour: -- __> flex foo.l __> gcc lex.yy.c __> ./a.out "foobell" barbell yylex() done *__> ./a.out "foo cat foo.l %array %% "<

DISK DEFRAGMENTER - PARTITIONS :-((

1997-09-29 Thread Zouave
| To install Linux Debian 1.3.1 on my system (now running windows 95) I have | to do 2 things: | 1) FORMAT my HDD and create 2 partitions, one for W95, one for Linux | 2) Split my actual partition, without erasing anything, with the | application FIPS.EXE | | I prefer the 2nd one because I CANNOT

Re: mc & colors

1997-09-29 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ferenc Kiraly) writes: > This may be a stupid question, but is it possible to convince colorize > MC in a xterm? I don't use MC I'm just curious. > Just start it with "mc -c" and it will be in color. Using rxvt this is default behaviour. It is well documented and if you type

Re: fax mini-howto?

1997-09-29 Thread m*
Lawrence wrote: > > Is there a mini-howto about how to sending fax under linux? > > Lawrence > i haven't seen a HOW-TO, but the mgetty-fax and efix packages have a resonable amount of doco with them. i would recommend installing them both and then seeing if you can use them then post back if y

Tripwire: segentation fault

1997-09-29 Thread Varga R. Tamas
Hi! I am trying to run tripwire 1.2-4, but when I run 'tripwire -init' I always get a segmentation fault after the 2nd step. I am using kernel 2.0.31-pre9. Any ideas? -- Bye, : Thomas R. Varga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : PGP fingerprint = 2C 50 14 B7 E5 5C 05 27 88 4C DD E4 08 74 3B A6 -- TO U

Re: MC and .deb files (was Re: extract only PART of an archive)

1997-09-29 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remco van de Meent) writes: > There is a .deb file of the latest Midnight Commander (4.1) at > ftp.nuclecu.unam.mx. For convenience, I put it on > >ftp://oloon.student.utwente.nl/pub/linux/misc/ > > too. > The "mc_4.1-0.1_i386.deb" on "ftp://ftp.nuclecu.unam.mx

Re: Where is libjpegg6a?

1997-09-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, joost witteveen wrote: : > Where is libjpegg6a to be found? Several other packages depend upon it but : > I can't find it. : : It's on master's incoming. : : If you don't have an account on master, try one of these: : : ftp://cfni.com/pub/linux/debian/Incoming

Re: No Debian updates?

1997-09-29 Thread David Wright
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Im using Debian Linux for about a year now. Is it true that there were > > no updates in the stable non-free contrib files for 3 (in words: three) > > months now? (I am using ftp.debian.org as ftp-server). > > Well, stable is called st

Re: X Server Client Refusal?

1997-09-29 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Here are my two solutions for the xauth problem. Both of these methods rely on xauth (user based authorization) as opposed to xhost (host based authorization). Let's say I'm running X as hessu and I need to su and run some X programs. hessu% echo $DISPLAY :0.0 hessu% su - # export DISPLAY=:0

dosemu and vfat

1997-09-29 Thread Lawrence
Is dosemu vfat32 compatible? Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

samba security -- more info?

1997-09-29 Thread John M. Rulnick
Dear Folks, If you know about the samba security problem, could you please send me as soon as possible a pointer to more information, or to the (source) patch or fix? Thank you. John -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mai

Re: No Debian updates?

1997-09-29 Thread Shaleh
No flame intended gents. I use Debian for work and school, not a playground. I want to be able to use it without screwing around with updates/bugfixes/jadajada. Every four or five months is fine for an update unless critical. I think many others feel the same way. You can always get the actual

mc & colors

1997-09-29 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! This may be a stupid question, but is it possible to convince colorize MC in a xterm? I don't use MC I'm just curious. feri. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

bogus packet size

1997-09-29 Thread mfrattola
Hi all, today I found an old 386 locked up. After rebooting, I read this message in /var/log/messages: bogus packet size: 1 status=0x21 nxpg=0x40 This machine is on a local net, uses a ne2k clone (like many other machines on that LAN), and no other machine signaled such error. What does that mess

Re: Diald problem

1997-09-29 Thread Michael Legart
At 11:07 28-09-97 -0500, Paul Serice wrote: >> Sep 28 11:19:57 badpixel connect: Connected >> Sep 28 11:19:57 badpixel connect: Loggin in >> Sep 28 11:19:57 badpixel diald[674]: Connect script failed. >> Sep 28 11:19:58 badpixel diald[674]: Delaying 30 seconds before clear to dial. >Looks like yo

dat drive recognized as removable hard drive

1997-09-29 Thread Louis Larry
Hello, I have a SCSI tape autoloader that's capable of having 4 * 4Gig 4 mm dat on it. Problem is that when the kernel boots, it recognize it as a removable hard drive (/dev/sdb) instead of a tape drive. I use adaptec 2940 SCSI adapter. Pointer? Clue? --snippet from dmesg: md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_

Re: reloading samba configuration

1997-09-29 Thread Eloy A. Paris
joost witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Usually, though smbd only runs very shortly (look at top, it's PID : changes frequently). So, usually just changing the the smb.conf : file is enough. (I have often just added a new service to smb.conf, : and new service will be available to other compu

Re: X Server Client Refusal?

1997-09-29 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> Where in the docs is the information regarding X client setup? man xauth man xhost > When running as root or su applications are refused permission to run. The > following error message appears: > > vct# nedit > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to

Re: xemacs and mail

1997-09-29 Thread Olaf Weber
Craig Sanders writes: > i don't want gnus (or anything else apart from procmail) to "store > my mail"...it's already stored where i want it. >From the Gnus manual: Mail and Procmail - Many people use `procmail' (or some other mail filter program o

Re: MC and .deb files (was Re: extract only PART of an archive)

1997-09-29 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, David Wright wrote: [about MC and .deb files] There is a .deb file of the latest Midnight Commander (4.1) at ftp.nuclecu.unam.mx. For convenience, I put it on ftp://oloon.student.utwente.nl/pub/linux/misc/ too. bye, Remco -- // Remco van de Meent //

Re: Installation with BT-930

1997-09-29 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Egon Schmid wrote: > > > Can you boot from CD-ROM? A WD-7000 isn't on your hardware list. Which > > debian-version is it? > Yes, as I said I insert the CD-ROM and the installation programm comes up > without any problem -- so the

IP MASQ: Errors

1997-09-29 Thread Joe Stewart
I have IP MASQUERADING on our network, and when a client connects to some sites we get this in the logs: MASQ: failed TCP/UDP checksum from 204.74.200.69! Otherwise, it seems fine. Is this a problem? Either way, what is it telling me? TIA Joe Joe Stewart CompuFriends <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Where is libjpegg6a?

1997-09-29 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
> If you don't have an account on master, try one of these: > > ftp://cfni.com/pub/linux/debian/Incoming > ftp://llug.sep.bnl.giv/pub/debian/Incoming/ gov > ftp://ftp.lh.umu.se/pub/linux/debian-Incoming/ OK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS M

Re: General mail setup

1997-09-29 Thread liiwi
>> Hi, >> Sometimes when I check my mail with fetchmail I see the messages fly by: >> reading... flushed and so on. But when I go to >> /var/spool/mail/$USER, it's not there -- I've lost many important >> messages this way. Can somebody advise me what to do? >> Also, how can I setup pppd so t

Re: Installation with BT-930

1997-09-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Jeff Noxon wrote: > > The last words were: > > > > Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2 > > FDC 0 is a post-1991 > > md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 > > > > It seems that after this the SCSI controller is to be initialized. > > I don't follow you here. The kernel actuall

Re: No Debian updates?

1997-09-29 Thread joost witteveen
> On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > > > Im using Debian Linux for about a year now. Is it true that there were > > > no updates in the stable non-free contrib files for 3 (in words: three) > > > months now? (I am using ftp.debian.org as ftp-server). > > > > Well, stable is called st

Re: Installation with BT-930

1997-09-29 Thread Jeff Noxon
You have an interesting problem. The BIOS on the BT-930 is responsible for booting the kernel. It is doing that just fine. However, the kernel doesn't know about the BT-930, and it can't do anything once booted. ** The BT-930 is not supported by the bootable CD-ROM. On Sun, Sep 28, 1997 at 06:

Re: No Debian updates?

1997-09-29 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > Im using Debian Linux for about a year now. Is it true that there were > > no updates in the stable non-free contrib files for 3 (in words: three) > > months now? (I am using ftp.debian.org as ftp-server). > > Well, stable is called stable for one r

Setting the time and xntp

1997-09-29 Thread Colin R. Telmer
I am currently using a machine that has Win95 on the first harddisk and debian unstable on a second harddisk and I am having trouble getting the time to change from GMT. The cmos clock is set to the Eastern time zone and as this is not my machine I don't feel right asking to have the cmos clock set

Re: Possible flex-2.5.4 bug

1997-09-29 Thread Maarten Boekhold
> ~/flexbug $ cat foo2.l > %array > > %% > "<" { int c; >while ( (c = input()) != '>' && c != EOF ) > ;/* eat up text of comment */ >if ( c == EOF ) printf( "\n" "error: EOF in comment\n" ); > } > foo printf("bar"); > %% > ~/flexbug $ echo "*** Here comes the b

Re: Possible flex-2.5.4 bug

1997-09-29 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Hi, [In response to my post regarding a possible flex-2.5.4 bug] Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Each argument is scanned separately, with yy_scan_string. An > end of file is generated, then, at the end of each string (each > argument). There is no yywrap function defined. Ri

MC and .deb files (was Re: extract only PART of an archive)

1997-09-29 Thread David Wright
On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I use Midnight Commander for this. It has a feature that lets you "dive" > into a .deb file (it may require a patch to mc.ext, see below) and "view" > the contents. You can also copy any file you see "out" to another > directory using Midnight Commander.

Re: Netscape Default window size+Debian Linux Book?

1997-09-29 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, InvisibLe wrote: > I just installed netscape for debian and i have one problem that > is really annoying me when i start netscape,netscape mail,netscape > news,etc,there window size is so big that i have to udjust it every > time is there a way or a file that i could adjust so

Re: X Server Client Refusal?

1997-09-29 Thread Will Lowe
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: > When running as root or su applications are refused permission to run. The > following error message appears: > > vct# nedit > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > NEdit: Can't open displ

Re: Where is libjpegg6a?

1997-09-29 Thread Erv Walter
[Posted and mailed] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor Torrico) writes: > Where is libjpegg6a to be found? Several other packages depend upon it but > I can't find it. > > Thanks, > > Victor > Several packages in _unstable_ depend on this. The libjpeg packages

Re: Q: Programming for console and X11?

1997-09-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
Dirk Luetjens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >4.) Again qt: Does the moc compiler fall also under the terms special >Troll license, or is this free to use? The Qt licence is in a directory above the moc source and, among other things, refers to `the whole of this archive'. I conclude, theref

Re: Where is libjpegg6a?

1997-09-29 Thread joost witteveen
> Where is libjpegg6a to be found? Several other packages depend upon it but > I can't find it. It's on master's incoming. If you don't have an account on master, try one of these: ftp://cfni.com/pub/linux/debian/Incoming ftp://llug.sep.bnl.giv/pub/debian/Incoming/ ftp://ftp.lh.umu.se/pub

Netscape Default window size+Debian Linux Book?

1997-09-29 Thread InvisibLe
Hi, I just installed netscape for debian and i have one problem that is really annoying me when i start netscape,netscape mail,netscape news,etc,there window size is so big that i have to udjust it every time is there a way or a file that i could adjust so this wont happen and another question are

Where is libjpegg6a?

1997-09-29 Thread Victor Torrico
Where is libjpegg6a to be found? Several other packages depend upon it but I can't find it. Thanks, Victor -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Q: Programming for console and X11?

1997-09-29 Thread Dirk Luetjens
Hello, I wanted to write an aplication which is capable of running in a graphics mode but also on a text console. I though of having the same look & feel in both modes. Since is only uses buttons, checkboxes, selection lists and tabulars it should be possible to provide a console equivalent. In c

Re: reloading samba configuration

1997-09-29 Thread joost witteveen
> > On Sun, 28 Sep 1997 22:23:06 EDT Paul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > I'm using the default samba package installation which runs via inetd.. > > how can I reload samba's configuration file? > > I'm afraid you have to: > # killall smbd nmbd > which means that all connections are b

Re: No Debian updates?

1997-09-29 Thread joost witteveen
> Hi, > > Im using Debian Linux for about a year now. Is it true that there were > no updates in the stable non-free contrib files for 3 (in words: three) > months now? (I am using ftp.debian.org as ftp-server). Well, stable is called stable for one reason! But I think there have been updates,

X Server Client Refusal?

1997-09-29 Thread Victor Torrico
Hello All, Where in the docs is the information regarding X client setup? When running as root or su applications are refused permission to run. The following error message appears: vct# nedit Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server NEdit

No Debian updates?

1997-09-29 Thread Gernot Bauer
Hi, Im using Debian Linux for about a year now. Is it true that there were no updates in the stable non-free contrib files for 3 (in words: three) months now? (I am using ftp.debian.org as ftp-server). dselect does not find any new file for Debian 1.3 Or is there something wrong with my linu

Re: tcpd weirdness

1997-09-29 Thread George Bonser
On 29-Sep-97 Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > >>From man hosts_access(5): > >... > An extended version of the access control language is > described in the hosts_options(5) document. The extensions > are turned on at program build time by building with > -DPROCESS_OPTIONS

Re: Installation with BT-930

1997-09-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Egon Schmid wrote: > Can you boot from CD-ROM? A WD-7000 isn't on your hardware list. Which > debian-version is it? Yes, as I said I insert the CD-ROM and the installation programm comes up without any problem -- so the controller works! No a WD-7000 isn't on my list becaus

Re: tcpd weirdness

1997-09-29 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
> On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, George Bonser wrote: > > : > : Got a stumper here. I have a friend that installed with the Debian 1.3.0 > disk > : from Cheapbytes and I installed using 1.3.1 via FTP from debian.org > : > : His tcpd seems to require access rules as found in the hosts_options(5) man > :

Re: Menu errors [fixed]

1997-09-29 Thread Will Lowe
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Joey Hess wrote: > You seem to have a number of executable menu files. Look in /usr/lib/menu > and /etc/menu - remove the executable permissions of any files there that > are executable (and file bugs on the packages that placed them there.) Ah, yes. It was /var/lib/menu/fv

Re: Possible flex-2.5.4 bug

1997-09-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Each argument is scanned separately, with yy_scan_string. An end of file is generated, then, at the end of each string (each argument). There is no yywrap function defined. So, you call yylex thrice, on three separate, non-wrapped files. The second file (string, argument, whatever

Re: tcpd weirdness

1997-09-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, George Bonser wrote: : : Got a stumper here. I have a friend that installed with the Debian 1.3.0 disk : from Cheapbytes and I installed using 1.3.1 via FTP from debian.org : : His tcpd seems to require access rules as found in the hosts_options(5) man : page while mine see

Re: General mail setup

1997-09-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I think we need more data. Could you try running fetchmail like so: % fetchmail -v -c % fetchmail -k -v -a The -v options make it verbose. The first command will only check the number of email messages you have. -k will keep a copy on the server so thet you do not l

Re: Menu errors

1997-09-29 Thread Joey Hess
Will Lowe wrote: > /usr/lib/menu/fvwm95: wm: command not found > /usr/lib/menu/fvwm95: fvwm95module: command not found > /usr/lib/menu/fvwm95: fvwm95module: command not found > /usr/lib/menu/fvwm95: fvwm95module: command not found > /usr/lib/menu/fvwm95: fvwm95module: command not found > /usr/lib/m

Menu errors

1997-09-29 Thread Will Lowe
Whenever I install a new .deb and it goes to update my menus, I get a billion errors like this: Unpacking blast (from blast_1.1-3.deb) ... Setting up blast (1.1-3) ... Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish (forking to background) Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock) (later:) /usr/lib

Re: reloading samba configuration

1997-09-29 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sun, 28 Sep 1997 22:23:06 EDT Paul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm using the default samba package installation which runs via inetd.. > how can I reload samba's configuration file? I'm afraid you have to: # killall smbd nmbd which means that all connections are broken. And as SMB is

reloading samba configuration

1997-09-29 Thread Paul Miller
I'm using the default samba package installation which runs via inetd.. how can I reload samba's configuration file? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

qt1.2 development package

1997-09-29 Thread Paul Miller
is there a qt1.2 development package out there which doesn't require libc5-dev? .. something like libc5-altdev or libc6-dev instead -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

tcpd weirdness

1997-09-29 Thread George Bonser
Got a stumper here. I have a friend that installed with the Debian 1.3.0 disk from Cheapbytes and I installed using 1.3.1 via FTP from debian.org His tcpd seems to require access rules as found in the hosts_options(5) man page while mine seems to require them as shown in hosts_access(5). Were t

Pine and Netscape mail

1997-09-29 Thread Will Lowe
Lately I've been getting some mail from this list which is (I assume) sent via netscape mail. I read mail in pine, and it comes in as two seperate attachments: one is text (but pine insists on spawning a command in another shell to view it) and another is text/html, which pine can't view at al

Re: My CD-ROM ain't workin'

1997-09-29 Thread Will Lowe
On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Al Matthews wrote: > Hi there, I'm real new to Debian (Linux also), and I can't get Linux to > reconize my CD-ROM as a block device. I try mounting it on the command > line by typing in "mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/cd driver /cdrom". This isn't gonna work. You need to figure

tcl3 andk tk3

1997-09-29 Thread Lawrence
I have a binary file linked with tcl3 and tk3 a.out libs. Anyone still have the tcl3 and tk3 libs in a.out format? Or, who still remember how to compile a.out library in a ELF system? Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble

My CD-ROM ain't workin'

1997-09-29 Thread Al Matthews
Hi there, I'm real new to Debian (Linux also), and I can't get Linux to reconize my CD-ROM as a block device.  I try mounting it on the command line by typing in "mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/cd driver /cdrom".I have a Panasonic type CD-ROM (2x).  I've tried using all the drivers that are listed as a c