Re: Netscape is now re-distributable and should be included in Debian.

1998-01-26 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On 23 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am communicating with Netscape's VP Client Products. They are still determining the license details, and I will do my best to convince them to use straight GPL or LGPL, or something DFSG-compliant. Bruce, I think Peter was talking about 4.0, not 5.0.

v0.14 of libc5-libc6 autoupgrade script

1998-01-26 Thread Craig Sanders
the latest version of the auto-upgrade script is available from http://www.taz.net.au/autoup changes since the last public release (v0.11): v0.12: (Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] - modified to fix errors encountered when upgrading a rex filesystem: - force removal of

Re: default xterm

1998-01-26 Thread Jens Ritter
Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Serge Delorme wrote: I'm using debian 1.3.1 and I want to change the default font size of xterm but I can't find which file to edit. I have look in /etc/Xresources, Xsession and the light did not came on. What is it?

Re: Dselect

1998-01-26 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Steve Koop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi There Does anyone know how to reinstall a program without purging the program then reinstalling it Other words trying to force reinstall using dpkg.. . I don't think it's possible through dselect; you have to work directly with dpkg, which means

Somewhat off topic...

1998-01-26 Thread DAVID B. TEAGUE
Hi My ISP one of the *.campus.mci.net ISPs. They claim only to support Windoze and refuse to help when I have problems, since I don't use the M$ os. When things work they work very, very well. I have had about a year of consecutive days of connecting the first try any time I try, with only an

Re: Re[2]: configuring return address on outgoing mail

1998-01-26 Thread robert havoc pennington
On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Bob Bernstein wrote: robert havoc pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A local expert tells me that bounced mail doesn't go to the From: address but to some other thing set by the MTA. I've tried sending mail to bad addresses and I get nothing back. So something's

Kernel 2.0.32 over Kernel 2.0.29

1998-01-26 Thread Ian Perry
I have instralled Kernel 2.0.32 over Kernel 2.0.29 to enable ipforwarding and ipmasquerading and now neither ping or ftp works. The error message received is ping: send to: Operation not permitted ping: wrote 192.168.64.3 64 chars, ret= -1 This is repeated for every packet. I can ppp to a

Network config -- slip + null modem

1998-01-26 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
I am trying, so far unsuccessfully, to connect two linux boxes with a null modem cable and slip, following the directions in the NET-3-HOWTO. One machine, bobspc, is a Micron Pentium-166 that is my primary computer, while the other, zeos, is an old 486DX-33 with a new no-name

Re: Hamm fvwm2 -- new Focus behavior

1998-01-26 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Hi Jameson! I also found the fvwm changes troublesome since I had to spend a few hours (or was that days) redoing post.hook. I also feel something like ctrltab should raise and focus on successive windows. I found the default fvwm configuration anemic. [snip] HERE IS SOME OF MY CODE FROM

Re: Why is debian more of a learning curve than Redhat???

1998-01-26 Thread David E. Scott
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: I'm not sure. The point is that you have to make a decision, which mail transport agent you need (do you have a big site, with lots of users, or stand alone with no mail at all, or only local mail, or what), which webserver if any, what printer spooler/filter and so

Re: Somewhat off topic...

1998-01-26 Thread Adam Shand
Sometimes 20 - 30 attempts with pppd will get a connection. Using kermit, I can program a loop to retry until it conects. I can't start ppp that way. Is there a way to program the ppp chat script or otherwise programm a dial loop that will allow me to repeatedly try to connect and start

Re: Somewhat off topic...

1998-01-26 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
DAVID B. TEAGUE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sometimes 20 - 30 attempts with pppd will get a connection. Using kermit, I can program a loop to retry until it conects. I can't start ppp that way. Is there a way to program the ppp chat script or otherwise programm a dial loop that will allow me

Xresources

1998-01-26 Thread tko
Is there a list of all the variables used in the .Xresources file? -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: Out of ideas with ppp

1998-01-26 Thread mwb
On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: Jeff Gutliph [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I've been trying to get PPP to work by following the PPP How-To. I called my ISP and got the required info. When I asked about PAP they didn't seem to know what I was talking about. So, I

Re: Good Soundcard

1998-01-26 Thread David E. Scott
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Try to get a SB 32, but stay away from SB 64! Reason: The SB32 does work fine with the awe patch to the kernel (available as Debian package). The SB64 will work , too, but only as a SB32 (because the additional 32 are windoze driver only). Marcus,

Re: Debian and Windoze 95

1998-01-26 Thread David E. Scott
Sten Anderson wrote: I disagree. Loadlin is perfect in this case. It is very easy to use, and it cannot damage the system in any way because it doesn't touch the MBR or the bootsectors. LILO - on the other hand - is more difficult to set up correctly, and if used incorrectly, LILO can

Re: Why is debian more of a learning curve than Redhat???

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
Hi everybody, most of the things were already pointed out. So if i repeat something - sorry. But i've not that much time to write. This is the 4th week after my first installation attempts. After trying many Computersystems and OS's i have to say that none of them is what it should be - user

Re: wmaker_0.12.3-0.4 install scripts ...

1998-01-26 Thread Marcelo E . Magallón
On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Damir J. Naden wrote: I was wondering if anybody else has yet installed the latest (as of Jan 24 98) package of wmaker (ver. 0.12.3-0.4). I had some problems with the install scripts; one I'm sure is a bug - somewher along in the install process, I got an error saying

old version of dpkg

1998-01-26 Thread Paul McDermott
hello everyone is there an old version of dpkg before 1.0.8 or something like that. If someone could point me to an ftpsite. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Re[2]: configuring return address on outgoing mail

1998-01-26 Thread john
robert havoc pennington writes: Hmm, pobox.com isn't the dialup, unfortunately. It's just an alias service, not an ISP. I have 'visible_name=win.bright.net' so that the envelope address will be in brightnet's domain so as to keep the paranoid software at brightnet happy, and 'from_field=From:

A few questions

1998-01-26 Thread Michael Beattie
Hi, I have a few questions involving things that have stumped me for a while... 1) How do I get a 320x200 modeline for svgalib?? Is there some explanation somewhere about how to do this? I cant get quake working :) 2) For some reason I cant use 16 bpp in X on my tseng ET4000/W32 while I can in

adduser in hamm dumps core !

1998-01-26 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, All have all hamm system and just found that adduser dumps core independently of any given input. Is this known problem ? regards OK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: A few questions

1998-01-26 Thread Shaleh
It sucks, I am sorry but not all ET4000/w32 can do 16bpp in X. Mine does not. I bought a Matrox instead (-; One possible solution is to specify the complete chip/clock combo you have. Another is to try XSuSE. They make a version of XFree86 w/ extra Tseng drivers. Try www.suse.de and follow

How to properly set TERM variable

1998-01-26 Thread Shaleh
I am using hamm. When I start programs in X like rxvt or xterm, my $TERM variable is set to rxvt or xterm. Some of my programs do not like this. For instance vim eats the term cursor when started. If I set TERM=vt102 I have no probs. And telneting gives a similar headache terminal type rxvt

bo, hamm, stable, unstable

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
Maybe this question is really stupid, but anyway: bo, hamm, stable, unstable, etc. What's this? Hamm means unstable or untested - concerning to the kernel or only to the software packages? I feel a bit outdated when running bo and it looks like the amount of problems is mostly the same - no

Turning NumLock on

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
A short question: NumLock How to automatically turn it on at boot-time? How to automatically turn it on in X? I heard that using NumLock on Linux-Systems causes trouble. Is this true? Mac -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

X-Windows questions

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
Here are many Questions about X-Windows: I read somewhere that an Window-Manager in the style of the Amiga-OS is available somewhere. Does somebody use this one, know whether the Package is stable and know where to find it (if stable and maintained)? What other Window-Managers are available?

Login-Warning

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
I want the system to tell me when (and how many times) somebody tried to login without proper password. Is this possible in a simple way? How? Or do i need some Package? Mac -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

Re: X-Windows questions

1998-01-26 Thread Shaleh
http://www.plig.org/xwinman/: all X window managers worth mentioning. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Commands

1998-01-26 Thread Matt Thompson
Hi, y'all, Ok, I've been poring over the HOWTO's and man-pages and can't find two little commands THAT I USED TO KNOW! :) A friend told me about these a while back and now I can't remember or find them. One is the command executed by root on a kernel to make it look at a certain partition,

Re: SEUL distribution?

1998-01-26 Thread David E. Scott
Craig Sanders wrote: why not pick a subset of debian as your base distribution? more than the debian base disks but less then the full distribution. modify the packages as appropriate for your needs. Excellent suggestion. For example, our Linux guru went thru the various FAQ's and found a way

Re: Commands

1998-01-26 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, Matt Thompson wrote: Hi, y'all, Ok, I've been poring over the HOWTO's and man-pages and can't find two little commands THAT I USED TO KNOW! :) A friend told me about these a while back and now I can't remember or find them. One is the command executed by root on a

where is killall command ?

1998-01-26 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, All just stupid question - in which package is killall command ? regards OK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

gimp plug-ins

1998-01-26 Thread Jess Stryker
For some reason the gfig plug plug-in for The Gimp is not included in the Debian distribution.(?) I have been trying for days to compile it but it complains of missing libraries that I am unable to locate. Has anyone been able to sucessfully compile this plug-in with the hamm distribution? Or

SoundBlaster AWE64

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
Another question: I'm quite sure that the isapnp-config for my SoundBlaster AWE64 is ok. I know, that only AWE32 is supported through Linux. After make config in the awedrv directory and the make menuconfig in the linux-source directory (2.0.32 for now) i recompiled the kernel and have now a

Development under Linux and X-Windows

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
Another stupid question: I want to develop a few medium-sized Programms running under X-Windows. Oberon doesn't look stable on my system, C and C++ isn't my favour language (i do only know as much as it was neccessary to know about while programming Assembler on an Amiga), but it seems that i

Partition

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
Never partition your harddisk using the 32Bit-Support from fdisk (Win95B). It's buggy. Maybe most of you know this, but in an eMail in this list about partitioning i read the same error-message i got after using a harddisk partitioned with this 'feature' of fdisk. I had to repartition and use the

Sorry for the html-mails

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
I hope this is normal text... :-/) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Unidentified subject!

1998-01-26 Thread Pure Energy
Hello, I have debian installed on /dev/hdb /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd with a cdrom as /dev/hdh. I have Dos and Win3.11 on /dev/hda. I now wish to upgrade the dos/win3.11 to win95. I boot debian via floppy and *dont* use lilo. Is there anyway that this upgrade could affect my linux on the

would like to use qmail on debian box and got bo running on a hinote ultra 2

1998-01-26 Thread Sen Nagata
hi- i'd like to use qmail on my debian box running bo and i'm wondering if anyone else has that setup already. i haven't actually installed any packages (on this particular machine) using dselect/dpkg yet (except pcmcia-cs), so smail is not installed yet. is there a qmail package for bo

SoundBlaster AWE64

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
Another question: I'm quite sure that the isapnp-config for my SoundBlaster AWE64 is ok. I know, that only AWE32 is supported through Linux. After make config in the awedrv directory and the make menuconfig (and all those other needed makes) in the linux-source directory (2.0.32 for now) i

Development under Linux and X-Windows

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
Another stupid question: I want to develop a few medium-sized Programms running under X-Windows. Oberon doesn't look stable on my system, C and C++ isn't my favour language (i do only know as much as it was neccessary to know about while programming Assembler on an Amiga), but it seems that i

bo, hamm, stable, unstable

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
Maybe this question is really stupid, but anyway: bo, hamm, stable, unstable, etc. What's this? Hamm means unstable or untested - concerning to the kernel or only to the software packages? I feel a bit outdated when running bo and it looks like the amount of problems is mostly the same - no

Turning NumLock on

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
A short question: NumLock How to turn it on at boot-time? How to turn it on in X? I heard that using NumLock on Linux-Systems causes trouble. Is this true? Mac Sorry for the html, i dont' want to cause any overheat - so i hope it's better to remail this message again. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Partition

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
Never partition your harddisk using the 32Bit-Support from fdisk (Win95B). It's buggy. Maybe most of you know this, but in an eMail in this list about partitioning i read the same error-message i got after using a harddisk partitioned with this 'feature' of fdisk. I had to repartition and use the

X-Windows questions

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
Here are many Questions about X-Windows: I read somewhere that an Window-Manager in the style of the Amiga-OS is available somewhere. Does somebody use this one, know whether the Package is stable and know where to find it (if stable and maintained)? What other Window-Managers are available?

version 0.15 of autoupgrade script

1998-01-26 Thread Craig Sanders
version 0.15 of the script is now available from: http://www.taz.net.au/autoup changes in this version: v0.15: 1998-01-26 (Craig Sanders) - i should have checked rob's changes more thoroughly. yet another fix: added $PKGS_LDSO to ALL_PKGS so that the script checks to see if the

Re: Sorry for the html-mails

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
Hamish Moffatt wrote: Much better! thanks, Hamish I want to say sorry to everybody- won't happen again (grin)... Mac -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: SEUL distribution?

1998-01-26 Thread Charles
Excellent suggestion. For example, our Linux guru went thru the various FAQ's and found a way to install a fully working system on a 100M Zip drive! There even is a 10-20M swap partition and the rest is for the system. He set up a boot diskette and there it all was. Very nice. Something like

Re: SPlus balked at Linux; R: statistician's dream

1998-01-26 Thread Jameson Burt
This message addresses several private questions about R from my earlier mail to the Debian users mail-list. Of course, the real experts gave us R, knowing answers better than I. Indeed, I answer these questions from the perspective of a novice. I include here a little about the R developers,

Re: where is killall command ?

1998-01-26 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi, All just stupid question - in which package is killall command ? $ dpkg -S killall procps: /usr/man/man1/killall.1.gz sysvinit: /usr/man/man8/killall5.8 procps: /usr/bin/killall sysvinit: /sbin/killall5 So that means it is in procps. Don't confuse it with the killall5 command, and

Re: Commands

1998-01-26 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi, y'all, Ok, I've been poring over the HOWTO's and man-pages and can't find two little commands THAT I USED TO KNOW! :) A friend told me about these a while back and now I can't remember or find them. One is the command executed by root on a kernel to make it look at a certain

Re: Somewhat off topic...

1998-01-26 Thread Britton
On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, DAVID B. TEAGUE wrote: Hi My ISP one of the *.campus.mci.net ISPs. They claim only to support Windoze and refuse to help when I have problems, since I don't use the M$ os. When things work they work very, very well. I have had about a year of consecutive days of

Re: How to properly set TERM variable

1998-01-26 Thread Britton
On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, Shaleh wrote: I am using hamm. When I start programs in X like rxvt or xterm, my $TERM variable is set to rxvt or xterm. Some of my programs do not like this. For instance vim eats the term cursor when started. If I set TERM=vt102 I have no probs. And telneting

Re: Virtual Desktop Size

1998-01-26 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, Catalin Popescu wrote: How can I setup the Desktop Size under X to be not greater than the physical size of my monitor? Look at the /etc/X11/XF86Config file under Subsection Display and set the Virtual to wanted numbers. How can I setup applications to make them start in

Re: would like to use qmail on debian box and got bo running on a hinote ultra 2

1998-01-26 Thread Carey Evans
Sen Nagata [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is there a qmail package for bo available? i haven't been successful in locating it if there is one... Get the qmail-src package out of hamm's non-free. I built it manually rather than with the provided command, but it's not a big problem. The version

Re: default xterm

1998-01-26 Thread Carey Evans
Jens Ritter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You may want to set it in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color These will get overwritten when you upgrade xbase. On a Debian system, global customisation should go in /etc/X11/Xresources. --

Re: bo, hamm, stable, unstable

1998-01-26 Thread Jens Ritter
Hallo Markus, Posted and mailed. Markus Lechner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe this question is really stupid, but anyway: bo, hamm, stable, unstable, etc. What's this? Hamm means unstable or untested - concerning to the kernel or only to the software packages? Well, only to the

Re: Sorry for the html-mails

1998-01-26 Thread Adam Shand
I hope this is normal text... :-/) Speaking of which has anyone else noticed that pine hides some HTML tags automatically? I was most surprised the other day when I replied to s two line message only to discover (as soon as the reply screen came up) that there had actually been about 6 more

Re: SEUL distribution?

1998-01-26 Thread Adam Shand
neither know what we need or want yet. Is there any way that a list can be compiled to let us know what we need most out of this extensive list of files, so that we can get operational systems, and get used to the system? After we get used to the system, we will better know what it is that

Re: Login-Warning

1998-01-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
Markus Lechner wrote: I want the system to tell me when (and how many times) somebody tried to login without proper password. Is this possible in a simple way? How? Or do i need some Package? The command to use is `lastb' from package sysvinit. Relevant data is stored in

Re: Virtual Desktop Size

1998-01-26 Thread Markus Lechner
Catalin Popescu wrote: How can I setup the Desktop Size under X to be not greater than the physical size of my monitor? Run the script xf86config - it should be what you want to start. Otherwise edit the resulting file directly, it's location is /etc/X11/XF86Config. At the end of this file

Re: Installing Problems with 3com PCI Bus Master 3C590 Combo Network Card

1998-01-26 Thread Tony Curzon Price
Dear Martin, Thank you for your help. First of all: I may be wrong, but aren't the vortex and the boomerang cards supported only by kernel = 2.0.32 ? My old Slackware distribution was of Kernel 2.0.12, and had support for the card. The errors reported are: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again

How to kill a process which refuses to be killed

1998-01-26 Thread Johann Spies
I am typing this message after I received the message that shutdown is running for a reboot now. I started shutdown after lynx just freezed and I could do nothing. I tried to kill lynx and although after that that there is no lynx running anymore, the tty-screen stilled stayd the same. I then

mount: only root can do that??

1998-01-26 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, I am trying to change /etc/fstab to allow the user to mount the floppy and the cdrom. The following lines did not help: /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user 0 0 /dev/fd0/floppy msdos defaults,noauto,user0 0 Why not?

Re: Why is debian more of a learning curve than Redhat???

1998-01-26 Thread Craig Sanders
(i knew that the unhtml package would be a useful thing to install...a tip for you: don't send html documents to mailing lists. most people wont even bother reading them. even fewer will make the effort to reply. if you want to communicate, it's up to you to communicate in a manner which everyone

Re: mount: only root can do that??

1998-01-26 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hallo, I am trying to change /etc/fstab to allow the user to mount the floppy and the cdrom. The following lines did not help: /dev/cdrom/cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user 0 0 /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos defaults,noauto,user0 0 Why

Re: Kernel 2.0.32 over Kernel 2.0.29

1998-01-26 Thread Ian Perry
Problem solved, I had not set up the rules properly. I good nights sleep (or a long mornings sleep in) does wonders !! I have instralled Kernel 2.0.32 over Kernel 2.0.29 to enable ipforwarding and ipmasquerading and now neither ping or ftp works. The error message received is ping: send

Re: adduser in hamm dumps core !

1998-01-26 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Oleg Krivosheev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: have all hamm system and just found that adduser dumps core independently of any given input. Hi Oleg! Does this include when it is given no input, as in: # adduser adduser: I need a name to add. # If so, then it will be easier for people to

Re: How to properly set TERM variable

1998-01-26 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I like to set TERM=xterm-color, and don't have a lot of patience with programs that can't deal with this. When telneting, it is good to put TERM=vt100 or some such thing in your .bashrc or it's equivelent on the remote system. Note that, as things stand

Re: Debian and Windoze 95

1998-01-26 Thread Sten Anderson
David E. Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sten Anderson wrote: I disagree. Loadlin is perfect in this case. ... Sten, Does this mean that Loadlin can boot linux when it's in another partition? Yes! In this case, you will copy the kernel to the DOS/Win partition, and use a

Re: Network config -- slip + null modem

1998-01-26 Thread Bob Clark
I needed the same thing recently and someone on this list kindly posted this solution. Put this on both machines in /etc/ppp/options.ttyS0 and then type pppd ttyS0 on both sides. I'm assuming that you are using the first serial port (ttyS0) on both computers here. 'bobspc' will then have two

Re: Off-line newsreader

1998-01-26 Thread Frank Barknecht
Ian Watkins hat gesagt: // Ian Watkins wrote: Thanks for all you folks who replied to me regarding an off-line news reader. I d/led slrn and configured it, but as a couple of you suspected it _doesn't_ support d/l of just headers and the picking of interesting articles. I can't afford to

Re: where is killall command ?

1998-01-26 Thread James Troup
Oleg Krivosheev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: just stupid question - in which package is killall command ? In bo it's in procps, in hamm it's in psmisc. -- James -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: X-Windows questions

1998-01-26 Thread David Z. Maze
Markus Lechner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [About window managers] ML Which of them are not beta? twm and mwm and a couple of variants have been around since the beginning of time. Also, I would consider the older (1.24) version of fvwm not beta. ML Which of them are how stable? Despite being

Re: Commands

1998-01-26 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Matt Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, y'all, Ok, I've been poring over the HOWTO's and man-pages and can't find two little commands THAT I USED TO KNOW! :) A friend told me about these a while back and now I can't remember or find them. One is the command executed by root on a

Re: superformat having problems allocating memory?

1998-01-26 Thread Douglas Bates
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 01:03:00PM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote: I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but I get errors from superformat saying it cannot

Re: Sorry for the html-mails

1998-01-26 Thread Scott Ellis
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Adam Shand wrote: Speaking of which has anyone else noticed that pine hides some HTML tags automatically? I was most surprised the other day when I replied to s two line message only to discover (as soon as the reply screen came up) that there had actually been about 6

Re: [lesspipe]

1998-01-26 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Remco Blaakmeer wrote: To configure less to be more useful, you can set some environment variables. If you like them, place the commands to set them in /etc/profile and they will be set every time you log in. These are the commands: export LESSOPEN='|/usr/bin/lesspipe %s' This

Re: SPlus balked at Linux; R: statistician's dream

1998-01-26 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Okay... I see that the `binaries' in The Comprehensive R Archives (CRAN) http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/R/contents.html contain all sorts of .deb files! Great! -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and

where is it?

1998-01-26 Thread Cynyde
All right, don't flame me too hard. I want to download Debian. Someone told me to go to debian/dists/stable. From there, what file(s) do I need to download if I have no previuos version of Debian. I am not lazy, I have read all th README files. I have Rawrite to save it to disk, but the rest of

Re: X-Windows questions

1998-01-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Markus Lechner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What other Window-Managers are available? Which of them are not beta? Which of them are how stable? If you mean debian packages, just use dselect and check the x11 section. Or go to www.debian.org - Packages. Whats the thing with those color-tables

Re: Turning NumLock on

1998-01-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Markus Lechner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I heard that using NumLock on Linux-Systems causes trouble. Is this true? When running X, numlock is a keymodifier like shift or alt. This is a issue if you try to use shortcuts (like alt+F4) for example. But of cause you can configure the wm to issue

Re: [lesspipe]

1998-01-26 Thread Brian K Servis
Peter S Galbraith writes: export LESSOPEN='|/usr/bin/lesspipe %s' This makes less pipe everything you view through this script. This gives you readable information for verious non-text files, like .tgz, .gz, .tar, .zip, .arj and .deb files. This is nice, but where is lesspipe? It is

Re: where is it?

1998-01-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Cynyde wrote: All right, don't flame me too hard. I want to download Debian. Someone told me to go to debian/dists/stable. From there, what file(s) do I need to download if I have no previuos version of Debian. I am not lazy, I have read all th README files. I have

Re: [lesspipe]

1998-01-26 Thread joost witteveen
Remco Blaakmeer wrote: To configure less to be more useful, you can set some environment variables. If you like them, place the commands to set them in /etc/profile and they will be set every time you log in. These are the commands: export LESSOPEN='|/usr/bin/lesspipe %s'

Re: [lesspipe]

1998-01-26 Thread Peter S Galbraith
This is nice, but where is lesspipe? $ more /var/lib/dpkg/info/less.list Not there! Seems you've got a rather old version of less, maybe? $ grep pipe /var/lib/dpkg/info/less.list /usr/bin/lesspipe $ dpkg -l less ||/ NameVersionDescription ii less

Re: where is it?

1998-01-26 Thread Alex Yukhimets
All right, don't flame me too hard. I want to download Debian. Someone told me to go to debian/dists/stable. From there, what file(s) do I need to download if I have no previuos version of Debian. I am not lazy, I have read all th README files. I have Rawrite to save it to disk, but the rest

Re: Partition

1998-01-26 Thread Fabian Knittel
Never partition your harddisk using the 32Bit-Support from fdisk (Win95B). It's buggy. What is buggy, the support from Linux for this feature or the feature itsself ? Maybe most of you know this, but in an eMail in this list about I don't... partitioning i read the same error-message i got

Re: where is it?

1998-01-26 Thread Fabian Knittel
All right, don't flame me too hard. I want to download Debian. Someone told me to go to debian/dists/stable. From there, what file(s) do I need to download if I have no previuos version of Debian. I am not lazy, I have read all th README files. I have Rawrite to save it to disk, but the rest of

Re: Afterstep blues

1998-01-26 Thread Sten Anderson
Maarten Boekhold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Difference between the computers: I use xdm, he doesn't, When using xdm, the relevent file is ~/.xsession When using startx, the relevant file is ~/.xinitrc - Sten Anderson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Re: adduser in hamm dumps core !

1998-01-26 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Kirk Hilliard wrote: Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 07:12:28 -0500 From: Kirk Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Oleg Krivosheev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-devel@lists.DEBIAN.org, debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org Subject: Re: adduser in hamm dumps core ! Oleg Krivosheev

SMTP refusal

1998-01-26 Thread kestrel
I just upgraded to hamm and now I can't get incoming smtp connections, I'm using fetchmail to get my mail from my ISP and smail, I can telnet in on 23 and another port where I have a telnet-based service running but all connections to 23 are refused. G'razel the shifty-kitty [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: adduser in hamm dumps core !

1998-01-26 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi Oleg Hi, All have all hamm system and just found that adduser dumps core independently of any given input. Is this known problem ? regards You are not by any chance using KDE .deb's packaged by the KDE ppl themselves? It seems to have this weird habit of causing perl to use one of its

Anybody ever set up /etc/printcap with an HP LaserJet II on a network?

1998-01-26 Thread debian mailing list
Hello Everybody (Hi Dr. Nick :) Has anybody here setup an HP LaserJet II on a network? I've been able to wrangle my /etc/printcap to dump out a banner sheet but that's it. I don't get any output. I've not been able to find anything (in English anyhow) that explains how to setup an HP

RE: adduser in hamm dumps core !

1998-01-26 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Neilen Marais wrote: Hi Oleg Hi, All have all hamm system and just found that adduser dumps core independently of any given input. Is this known problem ? regards You are not by any chance using KDE .deb's packaged by the KDE ppl themselves? It

Re: Installing Problems with 3com PCI Bus Master 3C590 Combo Network Card

1998-01-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Tony Curzon Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The errors reported are: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again SIOCADDRT:network is unreachable SIOCADDRT:network is unreachable When do this errors occur? I get this error at boot-up, but also as a result of: /sbin/route add -net my IP netmask

Re: SMTP refusal

1998-01-26 Thread Tim Sailer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgraded to hamm and now I can't get incoming smtp connections, I'm using fetchmail to get my mail from my ISP and smail, I can telnet in on 23 and another port where I have a telnet-based service running but all connections to 23 are refused. port 23 is

Re: Sorry for the html-mails

1998-01-26 Thread Adam Shand
Actually, you ran into pine displaying the HTML version but including the text version that was also included when you replied. Many HTMLizing mailers seem to send out a plain-text version as well. Ya... I realise this... but there are many tags that pine can't display (like smaller and font

error with dpkg

1998-01-26 Thread Paul McDermott
hi everyone, i was updating serveral 486's over the weekend and I get the following error. [root:/home/paul/tmp:]$dpkg -i gcc_2.7.2.1-9.deb Selecting previously deselected package gcc. (Reading database ... 6871 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace gcc 2.7.2.1-4 (using

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