Python

1998-02-12 Thread Heine DeJager
>On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Heine DeJager wrote: > >> HI Folks, >> >> I have a problem installing python1.4 (hamm), and here follows the output >> from trying to run dpkg --configure python-base. >> >> Setting up python-base (1.4.0-4) ... >> File "/usr/lib/python1.4/compileall.py", line 8 >> imp

Re: Home dir Permissions

1998-02-12 Thread William R. Ward
One comment about permissions: Web files do *NOT* have to be world readable. They just have to be readable by the web server. If you set up a user and group for your web server (I use www for both) you can get by with just having the files be group-readable by the webserver's group (and not all t

wtmp

1998-02-12 Thread dpk
I have seen posts on this before, but can't seem to find them in the mail archives. I upgraded to libc6 (hamm), deleted /var/adm/lastlog,utmp, wtmp - rebooted. As root I touched these files, did a 'login', and I then appeared in the 'last' command. However, when I logout, 'last' is blank again.

Re: Modem /dev/cua vs /dev/ttyS (The Long, True answer to this reappearing question)

1998-02-12 Thread Carey Evans
Steve Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No difference. Does it work on your modem port? > > raindrop:~> stty 115200 echoe -echo -clocal raw < /dev/ttyS0 > raindrop:~> stty 115200 echoe -echo -clocal raw < /dev/ttyS0 It won't ever work because the shell tries to open /dev/ttyS0 without O_NONBL

Re: Renaming a directory..

1998-02-12 Thread C.J.LAWSON
use the mv (move) command J. On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Bruno Simoes wrote: > Hi all > Does somebody know if there's some command to *rename* either a file or > directory in Linux. I don't want to move them to another files/dirs. > Thank you > Bruno > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: Debian on laptops; recommended?

1998-02-12 Thread Stephen Zander
Mike Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've done several installations on laptops with a PCMCIA ethernet > card. If you copy the pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules packages to > the laptop (with a floppy), you can install them with dpkg and do > the rest with dselect and ftp. Should work for a pcmc

Re: less clears screen after exiting

1998-02-12 Thread G John Lapeyre
My hamm distribution doesn't do it, in xterm nor rxvt. I don't know if its my .bashrc thats different or hamm vs. stable. On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Tomihisa Welsh wrote: > > Hi, > > Ever since I installed debian 1.3.1, less will unwantingly clear > the screen when after viewi

Re: wanted packages

1998-02-12 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Oliver Elphick writes: > "Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella" wrote: >> >> Is there any address where we can send our "wishes" to debian packages >> we would like to see created? Is there any address to consult for >> programs that can't (for any reason) have a .deb package? >> >> For instance, I would lik

less clears screen after exiting

1998-02-12 Thread Tomihisa Welsh
Hi, Ever since I installed debian 1.3.1, less will unwantingly clear the screen when after viewing a document (within an xterm). I can get rid of this problem with the "-X" option (disables termcap before and after calling less) however this option also disables my arrowkeys. Any ideas?

Re: Incredibly huge /var/log/lastlog

1998-02-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Colin R. Telmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >After a recent hamm upgrade (two or three days ago) on my machine (pretty >much a single user machine) I noticed that /var/log/faillog and >/var/log/lastlog are incredibly large (particularily lastlog): > >-rw-r--r-- 1 r

Re: Password Encryption

1998-02-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Butch Kemper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know how to propagate the password file to the second machine but the > problem I have not solved is how to have both machines use the same "seed" > for encrypting the passwords. Right now, if I add a user to machine A and > copy their encrypted passwo

Re: ATI Xpression support

1998-02-12 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> Hi everybody, >> I have small problem with great card. Don't you know which Xserver support >> ATI Xpression with 4 MB well ? >> And where should I get it ? For newer Rage II+ chips you need 3.3.1 I think, which is in hamm at least. Other solution is to use SuSE's XSuSE servers (www.su

Re: Zip Drive

1998-02-12 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Thomas Rankin wrote: > I really want to add my Zip drive to my Linux Box > I have my Zip connected to an internal SCSI adapter that came with it. > Under Windows NT, my adapter is listed as > Adaptec AHA-151X/AGA-152X or AIC-6260/AIC-636 > > Any help is appreciated Yo

Re: printing .pdf files

1998-02-12 Thread Jameson Burt
I believe I had a similar problem last year with IRS forms. I have but 4MB of printer memory. Perhaps you have too little printer memory for such a large file. Maybe there is a slick way around low printer memory. In the end, I selected a few pages at a time for printing. > I hope the cross-posti

Incredibly huge /var/log/lastlog

1998-02-12 Thread Colin R. Telmer
After a recent hamm upgrade (two or three days ago) on my machine (pretty much a single user machine) I noticed that /var/log/faillog and /var/log/lastlog are incredibly large (particularily lastlog): -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1522440 Feb 10 23:03 faillog -rw-r--r-- 1 root root

Re: Renaming a directory..

1998-02-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Bruno" == Bruno Simoes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bruno> Hi all Does somebody know if there's some command to *rename* Bruno> either a file or directory in Linux. I don't want to move them Bruno> to another files/dirs. Thank you Bruno On the same filesystem, % mv dir1 dir2

Re: swap usage

1998-02-12 Thread joost witteveen
In an attempt to save the world from disaster, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > How can I find out which programs are using swap and how much of it? ps -am should be what you want. Or maybe "ps -axmw", what I often use. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The upstream maintai

Password Encryption

1998-02-12 Thread Butch Kemper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have two machines running Debian 1.3. I want to add a user with their password to the first machine and have the information propagated to the second machine for backup purposes. I know how to propagate the password file to the second machine but t

Re: Renaming a directory..

1998-02-12 Thread Keith Beattie
Bruno Simoes wrote: > > Hi all > Does somebody know if there's some command to *rename* either a file or > directory in Linux. I don't want to move them to another files/dirs. > Thank you > Bruno (Hmmm, I smell DOS.) The command: mv old new won't do what you want? (Make sure "new" doesn't al

Re: Debian on laptops; recommended?

1998-02-12 Thread Mike Miller
> "Anselm" == Anselm Lingnau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The current boot disks won't allow you to install over > PCMCIA ethernet or off a PCMCIA SCSI bus, AFAIK, but this > seems to be worked on. I've done several installations on laptops with a PCMCIA ethernet card. If you cop

Re: Modem /dev/cua vs /dev/ttyS (The Long, True answer to this reappearing question)

1998-02-12 Thread Steve Hsieh
No difference. Does it work on your modem port? raindrop:~> stty 115200 echoe -echo -clocal raw < /dev/ttyS0 raindrop:~> stty 115200 echoe -echo -clocal raw < /dev/ttyS0 On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Dale Smith wrote: > On Thu, 12 Feb 1998 01:22:39 -0500 (EST), you wrote: > > >No differ

Re: automount to amd or autofs map convertion

1998-02-12 Thread Tim Buller
On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Alex Shaltiel wrote: > On Trying to integrate a Linux box into an existing IRIX and SUN Solaris > with automount environment, I have a problem with the automount maps. > I tried to use both amd and autofs, (each separetly). > For use with amd, I need a script to convert our tr

Re: printing .pdf files

1998-02-12 Thread Adam P. Harris
[You (Avery Pennarun)] >(I'm not sure magicfilter can handle this on its own though!) Yes it can. .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Renaming a directory..

1998-02-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
Use 'mv oldname newname'. Moving and renaming are synonymous. On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Bruno Simoes wrote: > Hi all > Does somebody know if there's some command to *rename* either a file or > directory in Linux. I don't want to move them to another files/dirs. > Thank you > Bruno > > > -- > TO UNS

Re: fetchmail & smail

1998-02-12 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Ole J.Tetlie wrote: > This message uses a character set that is not supported by the Internet > Service. To view the original message content, open the attached > message. If the text doesn't display correctly, save the attachment to > disk, and then open it using a viewer t

gs -- still trying

1998-02-12 Thread Robert LaGrasse
Hi Group, Maybe I'm braindead or just don't get it. If I have an HP laserjet plus hooked up to the parallel port on my Debian 1.3.1 machine, should I need to issue anything other than the following to get the file to print: gs -sDEVICE=ljetplus -r300 file.ps Assuming file.ps is a post-script f

Re: Renaming a directory

1998-02-12 Thread Robert LaGrasse
You rename a file or directory using the mv command. You don't necessarily have to move the directory to another location. For example, if you had a directory full of files in the current path called test, and you issued the command: mv test test.renamed when you listed the contents of the curren

Re: Renaming a directory..

1998-02-12 Thread Steve Mayer
Bruno, That's exactly what the mv command is for. When you issue a RENAME under DOS, you are copying the file to a new name and then deleting the original. What sort of problem do you expect to run into by using the mv command? Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bruno Simoes wrote: > > Hi all > D

Re: Renaming a directory..

1998-02-12 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> Hi all > Does somebody know if there's some command to *rename* either a file or > directory in Linux. I don't want to move them to another files/dirs. > Thank you > Bruno mv oldname newname "mv" actually *moves* files only if oldname and newname are on the different partitions (filesystems),

swap usage

1998-02-12 Thread servis
Hi all, How can I find out which programs are using swap and how much of it? As an example, I have found that netscape4 will occasionally start using lots of swap and will not release it until closed, even if it is not using it anymore(say after loading a large page like Packages.gz or something).

Re: system state

1998-02-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
'dpkg -l |less' On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Russ Cook wrote: > Is there a file on the system I can read which tells me which version of > packages and libraries are currently installed on my system? > If not, is there a system command I can use to find out? How do you keep > track of what your current

Re: limiting user access

1998-02-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Paul Miller wrote: : : hmm... how would that stop users from running programs they copied onto my : server? Mount the /home partition noexec. In fact, make sure any user writable partition is mounted noexec. If your users can copy files to /usr, then you've got a fairly b

Re: KING INK

1998-02-12 Thread DAVID B. TEAGUE
All I called their number, 1-888-248-0837, and left the debian-user mailing list as a 'to be removed' address. I hope I was not the only one to call them. I hate SPAM. --David Teague On Tue, 10 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Header: SAVE up to 90% on your PRINTING NEEDS! > > *

fetchmail & smail

1998-02-12 Thread Ole J . Tetlie
[Please CC replies] Hi, I've tried to set up fetchmail to get mail from my university-account and deliver it locally to smail on port 25. Telnetting to port 25 goes well. When I run 'fetchmail -v' however; the following happens: fetchmail: 4.3.6 querying ifi.uio.no (protocol IMAP) at Tue Feb 10

Re: Compute Farm, Part II

1998-02-12 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
>you wouldn'tr want to share /etc tho...because then that shares >everything...which isn't always good >(wouldn't want them all to have the same IP adress) >tho you could mount a shared version of etc and have the shared configs >be sym links to the shared mounted version >but.. something along t

Renaming a directory..

1998-02-12 Thread Bruno Simoes
Hi all Does somebody know if there's some command to *rename* either a file or directory in Linux. I don't want to move them to another files/dirs. Thank you Bruno -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How do I use slrn?

1998-02-12 Thread Johann Spies
I installed slrn and slrnpull, connected to my news provider and ran slrnpull to pul 20 articles in the newsgroup com.os.linux.announce. When I run slrn --spool, I get a screen with one row: --> U 20 comp.os.linux.announce When I press the space bar or return the 20 changes to 0 with a messa

system state

1998-02-12 Thread Russ Cook
Is there a file on the system I can read which tells me which version of packages and libraries are currently installed on my system? If not, is there a system command I can use to find out? How do you keep track of what your current system configuration is? I'm trying to upgrade from Bo to Hamm,

Re: smail, HELO hostname without dot

1998-02-12 Thread Tim Sailer
joost witteveen wrote: > > The current debian smail (3.2.0.100-4) daemon does not accept HELO comands > with non-fully qualified hostnames. See the following, "rulvsa" is not OK, > whereas "rulvsa.leidenuniv.nl" is: > > $ telnet rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl 25 > Trying 132.229.1.33... > Connected to rulc

Re: PAP authentication server names

1998-02-12 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
The local name is there for completeness. When you're using it for dial-out it's very important, especially if you dial out to more than one place. You then set the local name to be used on the pppd command line. For dial-in you could also use it to set a different set of authentication for differ

Re: Debian on laptops; recommended?

1998-02-12 Thread Anselm Lingnau
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Braakman) writes: > Can any happy (or unhappy) Debian-on-laptop users help me here with > information? I'd say it depends a lot on the laptop in question. My own notebook is a slightly dated IPC PortaPC 5 with a 486DX33 processor, 8 MB RAM, 700 MB disk and a WD90C24A gr

Re: pine/spell checking

1998-02-12 Thread A. M. Varon
On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Colin R. Telmer wrote: > Paul, In case you haven't used ispell, it does not give any choices > (unless I have it set up incorrectly). > > A.M. Do you have ispell give you choices in pine? sure! go to the setup of pine. In the speller, type ispell. Invoking the speller in pi

Re: limiting user access

1998-02-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
hmm... how would that stop users from running programs they copied onto my server? If they can't copy them, how will they run them? Disable ftpd and don't give them access to very many commands (not cc or ftp or chmod, certainly) and they can't copy anything or create anything runnable, th

Re: NCPFS seems broken on 2.1 kernels...

1998-02-12 Thread Roy C Bixler
On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Kevin Cave wrote: > I've now tried 2.1.86, and it still has the same problem. I can use > "slist" to see the > various Netware servers, but I can't mount the volumes, or send print > files to 'em. Yes, this is a problem. The only fix I know of right now is to get the ncpfs-2.

Re: limiting user access

1998-02-12 Thread A. M. Varon
On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > hmm... how would that stop users from running programs they copied onto my > server? chmod, perl and tar connot be directly used to make the copied/uploaded files executable... since the files in /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin, and /usr/bin are owned by say, ro

Problem with autofs

1998-02-12 Thread AUBORD Alain
I have just installed the last version of autofs 0.3.14-4 over last kernel (2.1.86) and nothing work again. Basically I get "nfs server not reponding..." message, but the server is perfectly working (I can mount and unmount partition from other non linux machines in the network). I get the followi

Re: gcc 2.7.2.3-3: Internal compiler error 366 ???

1998-02-12 Thread joost witteveen
In an attempt to save the world from disaster, Rene Hogendoorn wrote: > > While compiling two C++ files with g++, I get the above error > (consistently on 2 different hamm 2.0.33 pentium boxes). > The same two files compile OK on a Dec alpha DU4.0 with gcc-2.7.2. > Anyone got a clue what this mea

smail, HELO hostname without dot

1998-02-12 Thread joost witteveen
The current debian smail (3.2.0.100-4) daemon does not accept HELO comands with non-fully qualified hostnames. See the following, "rulvsa" is not OK, whereas "rulvsa.leidenuniv.nl" is: $ telnet rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl 25 Trying 132.229.1.33... Connected to rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl. Escape character is '^

Re: pine/spell checking

1998-02-12 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, A. M. Varon wrote: > On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > > > Is there a good spell checker for pine? - One that works all the time and > > gives possible choices? > > There is a program called ispell. It can be used with pine. Paul, In case you haven't used ispell, it

Re: StarOffice and Debian.

1998-02-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Robert Moody wrote: > Hi there, > > I am wondering if anyone knows of a company which sells both the Debian > version of Linux and StarOffice. I am asking as it would be easier for > me to purchase both at the same time. Any web sites etc. would be very > helpfull. There is

Re: encoding mp3

1998-02-12 Thread Stefan Berndtsson
Wiria A Kusuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is l3enc available for linux? if you mean for M$soft try Xingencoder > can encodes 60megs of wav in less than 30 secs on pentium166MMX Only as binary for linux/x86. No other linux version.. /Stefan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: Library for cgi progamming in C

1998-02-12 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Well, I'm going to recommend Cgicc. The only drawback (advantage, as far as I'm concerned) is that it's a full-on C++ object library. It is 100% free, as long as it's distributed with the library source. This library seems pretty nice (I've just started using it) and is probably a good candidate fo

Re: Ghostscript

1998-02-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On 12 Feb 1998, Jens Ritter wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert LaGrasse) writes: > > > I've installed ghostscript from the debian 1.3.1 cd and the stuff that > > relates to it as well. In going through some of the doc, I discovered I > > should have a few mak files, devs.mak for example. These fi

Re: encoding mp3

1998-02-12 Thread Wiria A Kusuma
is l3enc available for linux? if you mean for M$soft try Xingencoder can encodes 60megs of wav in less than 30 secs on pentium166MMX regards kusuma Pere Camps wrote: > > Hi! > > Apart from l3enc, does anybody know of a mp3 compressor? > > Salutacions, Pere __o mail

PAP authentication server names

1998-02-12 Thread David Wright
Thanks to Tim, Joost and Carey for the callback suggestions. I guess the log contains the server's innocent reflection of the login name (which is secret) and to change this would require a change in the way mgetty's callback worked. BTW I don't have HANGUP in my man chat, so I guess I'm slightly

Hamm upgrade woes

1998-02-12 Thread Russ Cook
Hello All, Yesterday I took the plunge, and tried to upgrade my Bo system to Hamm via the autoup.sh script found at the Debian web site. I specified ftp to acquire the new files, and let the script run with defaults to ftp.debian.org. My system was 2.0.31 kernel, with libc6 and libc5-c

Re: limiting user access

1998-02-12 Thread Paul Miller
hmm... how would that stop users from running programs they copied onto my server? On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, A. M. Varon wrote: > On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > > > Is there any way to do this for only certain groups? > > what I do is chmod 550 and chown root.staff the /bin, /sbin, /u

Re: X Windows

1998-02-12 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I wrote: > > If you have a ps2 mouse, run gpm with the -R repeater switch, and > tell X to use > > Protocol"MouseSystems" > Device "/dev/gpmdata" > > in the "Pointer" section of your XF86Config so that you will still > be able to

Masquerade_Domain

1998-02-12 Thread eugene mendoza
I'm using mc file to configure sendmail.cf. When the MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(XYZ.FOO.COM.AU) is wriiten into the mc file it comes back with the error A= argument required Anyone know where i've gone wrong. Regards, Eugene _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get y

Library for cgi progamming in C

1998-02-12 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, do you use any (_free_) Libraries that help you developing cgi-bin's written in C? I have tested libcgic that has an inacceptable copyright and fastcgi that does some strange things but doesn't tell me how to use it. I don't need much routines. These come to my mind: . cgiHeader() prin

Re: encoding mp3

1998-02-12 Thread Stefan Berndtsson
Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > Apart from l3enc, does anybody know of a mp3 compressor? yes.. ftp://ftp.tnt.uni-hannover.de/pub/MPEG/audio/mpeg2/software/technical_report/dist10.tar.gz it's horribly slow, but it has source.. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: which init file starts sendmail?

1998-02-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Debian 1.3.1, which init file starts sendmail? > [I need to prevent sendmail from starting at boot-time.] You have two options for using sendmail. 1. as a standalone demon. Then there is a file in init.d which start it. Use update-rc.d to remove the calls to it in

Re: which init file starts sendmail?

1998-02-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Debian 1.3.1, which init file starts sendmail? [I need to prevent sendmail from starting at boot-time.] /etc/init.d/sendmail -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

encoding mp3

1998-02-12 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Apart from l3enc, does anybody know of a mp3 compressor? Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:343/108.91 - _`\<;_ http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ PGP key available --- (_)/ (_)"Lo importante es el concepto" -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FRO

Re: Modem /dev/cua vs /dev/ttyS (The Long, True answer to this reappearing question)

1998-02-12 Thread Dale Smith
On Thu, 12 Feb 1998 01:22:39 -0500 (EST), you wrote: >No difference. If you try on the command line, it will not come back the >second time (it seems to work the first time though..) Just try on your >serial port.. > > >% stty 115200 echoe -echo -clocal raw < /dev/ttyS0 > /dev/ttyS0 > >% >% st

NCPFS seems broken on 2.1 kernels...

1998-02-12 Thread Kevin Cave
Hi All, On this machine at work, I use Debian Hamm, and, normally, kernel-2.0.32. Recently I compiled and tried kernel 2.1.81, and found that I could no longer mount Netware volumes onto my machine. I thought to myself "Oh well, could just be they'll fix that later", and went merrily back to good

Re: KDM and > 256 colours

1998-02-12 Thread Florian Attenbergerhphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
AUBORD Alain wrote: > > How to start KDM with more than 256 colours. I have spent some time browsing > through the doc. without success. > > With "startx" command, the solution was easy (startx -- -bpp 16) but I can not > find the file where to put a similar definition for KDM (or XDM) which are

Re: Using 100Mbit ethernet with Debian 1.3.1??

1998-02-12 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Joergen Haegg wrote: > We are trying to get a working 100 Mbit card to a Debian system. > None of the cards we have tried will listen to the net, > ifconfig says 'SIOCSIFFLAGS Try again'. > > This happens with Intel Etherexpress 100 and 3COM 3c905. We've been using the 3c905

Re: printing .pdf files

1998-02-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 08:06:53AM -0500, Avery Pennarun wrote: > I find that printing from Acroread produces some postscript that ghostscript > doesn't like. This may be a bug in either package, I don't know. Well, you're in some trouble if you can't trust Adobe to produce valid postscript ...

reboots during kernel boot

1998-02-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I'm having a strange problem with the kernel; sometimes, after loading (before booting) the kernel the system will just reboot. I compiled 2.1.86 earlier today; I rebooted from my previous 2.1.72 into 2.1.86 and it worked fine. Tonight I switch the PC on, boot direct to 2.1.86, it just reboots. Did

which init file starts sendmail?

1998-02-12 Thread charles_read
On Debian 1.3.1, which init file starts sendmail? [I need to prevent sendmail from starting at boot-time.] Regards, -c -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Using 100Mbit ethernet with Debian 1.3.1??

1998-02-12 Thread Joergen Haegg
We are trying to get a working 100 Mbit card to a Debian system. None of the cards we have tried will listen to the net, ifconfig says 'SIOCSIFFLAGS Try again'. This happens with Intel Etherexpress 100 and 3COM 3c905. What does that error mean and what can I do about it? (We have tried D-Link a

Re: printing .pdf files

1998-02-12 Thread Avery Pennarun
On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 01:15:06AM -0800, Matt Thompson wrote: > I hope the cross-posting is OK. I'm running a fully-updated hamm system > and wasn't sure if one was more correct than the other. > > I was trying to print out my tax forms with Acrobat Reader. I have an HP > DJ660Cse, with magicf

Re: StarOffice and Debian.

1998-02-12 Thread Jens Ritter
Robert Moody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am wondering if anyone knows of a company which sells both the Debian > version of Linux and StarOffice. I am asking as it would be easier for > me to purchase both at the same time. Any web sites etc. would be very > helpfull. At the Moment StarOffice

gcc 2.7.2.3-3: Internal compiler error 366 ???

1998-02-12 Thread Rene Hogendoorn
While compiling two C++ files with g++, I get the above error (consistently on 2 different hamm 2.0.33 pentium boxes). The same two files compile OK on a Dec alpha DU4.0 with gcc-2.7.2. Anyone got a clue what this means? -- R. A. Hogendoorn E-mail: [EMAIL

Moment 22

1998-02-12 Thread Joakim Burman
hi, I have a problem..., when trying installing xbase-package I get the message "xbase depends on cpp., However, cpp is not installed" When trying to install cpp??.deb I get the message "No such file or directory". Is it something wrong with me or the package?. The cpp package recuires libc5 witc

Re: ATI Xpression support

1998-02-12 Thread Bob Clark
I'm using the Mach-64 xserver successfully with my 2M ATI card. Just install it from the Debian x11 section. --Bob Martin Madlik wrote: > > Hi everybody, > I have small problem with great card. Don't you know which Xserver support > ATI Xpression with 4 MB well ? > And where should I get i

Re: How do I convert data e-mailed from a mac?

1998-02-12 Thread Frank Barknecht
Tony hat gesagt: // Tony wrote: > I have been sent files of this sort: > > jpmaster.dvi > This is a application/mac-binhex40 > > Is there a utility that will convert these? Is it available in a Debian > package? For decoding MIME-attachments I found "uudeview" a very nice package. It ha

KDM and > 256 colours

1998-02-12 Thread AUBORD Alain
How to start KDM with more than 256 colours. I have spent some time browsing through the doc. without success. With "startx" command, the solution was easy (startx -- -bpp 16) but I can not find the file where to put a similar definition for KDM (or XDM) which are started automaticaly by initiali

Re: lchown(), libc6-2.0.7pre1, and 2.1.8x kernels

1998-02-12 Thread joost witteveen
In an attempt to save the world from disaster, Steve Hsieh wrote: > Doesn't appear to be good enough on its own... However, didn't Linus agree to change the kernels after 2.1.87 (or 88?) so that an old dpkg would work with the latest kernels? > > dpkg: error processing ssltelnet_0.11.1-2.deb

Re: printing .pdf files

1998-02-12 Thread joost witteveen
In an attempt to save the world from disaster, Matt Thompson wrote: > I hope the cross-posting is OK. I'm running a fully-updated hamm system > and wasn't sure if one was more correct than the other. > > I was trying to print out my tax forms with Acrobat Reader. I have an HP > DJ660Cse, with ma

Re: zip drive

1998-02-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > works wonderfully on my linux side. I added the line: > /dev/sda4 /zip msdos defaults0 0 > to my /etc/fstab file and the line: > /dev/sda4 /zip msdos rw 0 0 > to my /etc/mtab file. There is no use in altering the /etc/mtab

automount to amd or autofs map convertion

1998-02-12 Thread Alex Shaltiel
On Trying to integrate a Linux box into an existing IRIX and SUN Solaris with automount environment, I have a problem with the automount maps. I tried to use both amd and autofs, (each separetly). For use with amd, I need a script to convert our traditional automount maps to amd style maps,

Re: PS/2 Mouse problem

1998-02-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Matt Kennedy" wrote: >I'm new to Linux and I'm having trouble using my mouse. It's a generic = >PS/2 compatible which doesn't run on any of my COM ports. The only = >informtion I could gather on it from my Win95 setup was that it's on a = >"PS/2 Compatible Mouse Port" and that it uses IRQ

RE: zip drive

1998-02-12 Thread Ted Harding
On 12-Feb-98 Hamish Moffatt wrote: > I'm running Linux 2.1.x and haven't been able to get my zip drive > to work in ages (parallel port one). It should be as simple as installing > parport, parport_pc, then ppa, shouldn't it? parport_pc always tells > me device/resource busy on insertion; inserting

Re: xlib6g

1998-02-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
Britton wrote: > >On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote: >> Upgrading to glibc (libc6) is not that simple. It is a fundamental >> change which affects a lot of other things. Especially, don't force >> anything or you may end up with an unuasable system. > >But is this the correc

Re: limiting user access

1998-02-12 Thread A. M. Varon
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > Is there any way to do this for only certain groups? what I do is chmod 550 and chown root.staff the /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin, and /usr/bin etc. Where the group staff could be you. All others connot access the binaries or whatever. regards, == =

Re: PS/2 Mouse problem

1998-02-12 Thread Carey Evans
"Matt Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm new to Linux and I'm having trouble using my mouse. It's a > generic PS/2 compatible which doesn't run on any of my COM ports. [snip] > My problem is that I don't know where to tell programs like gpm or X > Windows where the mouse is actually at i

Re: PS/2 Mouse problem

1998-02-12 Thread Sen Nagata
at some point around Thu, 12 Feb 1998 04:03:45 -0500 "Matt Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mentioned: > My problem is that I don't know where to tell programs like gpm or X > Windows where the mouse is actually at in /dev. I've read through the > manpages, the FAQ's and many of the HOWTOS and I'm at

Re: xlib6g

1998-02-12 Thread Britton
On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote: > "David Z. Maze" wrote: > > > >Richard Sevenich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >RS> I would like to install a software package that requires > >RS> xlib6g. dpkg is loathe to install xlib6g with xlib6 already > >RS> installed. Can I safely remov

Re: printing .pdf files

1998-02-12 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > I hope the cross-posting is OK. I'm running a fully-updated hamm system > and wasn't sure if one was more correct than the other. > > I was trying to print out my tax forms with Acrobat Reader. I have an HP > DJ660Cse, with magicfilter, djtools and GV installed. I was able to > print: > >

on the fly (per archive) ext2 compression works great!

1998-02-12 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi! Yes, the current e2compr package version lacks on the kernel patches (the bug report has alredy posted) you can get it from the package source, the diff file seems to do not modify this patches so I have applied them and I just can say that It works great!

printing .pdf files

1998-02-12 Thread Matt Thompson
I hope the cross-posting is OK. I'm running a fully-updated hamm system and wasn't sure if one was more correct than the other. I was trying to print out my tax forms with Acrobat Reader. I have an HP DJ660Cse, with magicfilter, djtools and GV installed. I was able to print: ftp://ftp.fedworld

PS/2 Mouse problem

1998-02-12 Thread Matt Kennedy
I'm new to Linux and I'm having trouble using my mouse. It's a generic PS/2 compatible which doesn't run on any of my COM ports. The only informtion I could gather on it from my Win95 setup was that it's on a "PS/2 Compatible Mouse Port" and that it uses IRQ 12 in Windows. My BIOS has an "E

Re: xauth for my wife:WOW, xdm & multi X-windows

1998-02-12 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Jameson Burt wrote: > Daniel Martin suggested a magical solution, one his mail prodded me to use. > I now have an X-session for myself on F7, > one X-session for my wife on F8, > one X-session for my child on F9. > WOW > > Mail to debian-users on January 4, 1998, by Remco Bl

StarOffice and Debian.

1998-02-12 Thread Robert Moody
Hi there, I am wondering if anyone knows of a company which sells both the Debian version of Linux and StarOffice. I am asking as it would be easier for me to purchase both at the same time. Any web sites etc. would be very helpfull. Thanks in advance, -- Robert Moody Sysop of Programmer's Tes

Re: X Windows

1998-02-12 Thread Carey Evans
Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't have to do this. I run unstable(does it make a difference?), and both > 2.0.33 and 2.1.86. When I switch to text mode, the mouse immediately works. > When I go back to X, it sometimes takes a few seconds to start functioning(the > mouse). I've ne

Re: wanted packages

1998-02-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella" wrote: > >Is there any address where we can send our "wishes" to debian packages >we would like to see created? Is there any address to consult for >programs that can't (for any reason) have a .deb package? > >For instance, I would like to have .debs of... Don

Re: xlib6g

1998-02-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
"David Z. Maze" wrote: > >Richard Sevenich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >RS> I would like to install a software package that requires >RS> xlib6g. dpkg is loathe to install xlib6g with xlib6 already >RS> installed. Can I safely remove xlib6 i.e. will packages depending >RS> on xlib6 acc

Re: HELP!! applix 4.3.7 woes

1998-02-12 Thread Adam Shand
> Actually, in fiddling a bit more I've noticed that it times out every > other time and hangs when I try to import anything at all. I do not know what you problem is but I am running Applix on a mixed stable/unstable system (upgraded to libc6) without any problems. I used alien to convert the .

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