Linux OS

1998-06-08 Thread Calvin T. Bowen, Jr.
Hi, I'm new to Linux. I would like to get have information about your software sent to me. Please include a catalog if available. Thank you, Calvin Bowen PSC 557 Box 2979 FPO AP 96379-2979 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Fresh install. Little troubles.

1998-06-08 Thread Julián Cardona
Hi! I'm installing Debian (hamm) in two machines, a 386SX with 4 MB RAM and 80 HD and a 486 with 22 MB RAM and 323 HD. I was very pleased to see the two new (?) preselections, a basic system that fits in about 40 MB of disk, and a standard system that occupies about 120 MB. Gre

Debian and Afterstep1.4.5.3-1

1998-06-08 Thread Phlip
I got this version ooff your site and installed it but had problems making it the default manager. Also, is the file .steprc included in the package? I can't seem to locate it on my system and would really appreciate knowing where it is supposed to be so I can at least create a new one and put it w

Re: php?

1998-06-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just noticed php 3 is out. I've had a little use of php2 in the past, >but maybe whenever I get my deb box going, I'll get php going too, but I >must ask: the download for it's linux binary says: >Linux 2.1.x (Redhat 5.x) Apache 1.3.0 +

Re: [ivan@vianet.net.au: dselect/ftp problem]

1998-06-08 Thread Bob Hilliard
Ivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After selecting update by ftp through dselect, the dialog is : > >Using FTP to check directories ... (stop with ^C) > >Connectingto ftp.debian.org... >Net::FTP:Bad hostname 'ftp.debian.org' at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line > 405 >FTP ERROR > >

Echoing another terminal -Reply

1998-06-08 Thread Gregory Dickinson
I know that with hamm you have a package called 'ttysnoop' that is for that exact purpose...but I'm not sure what directory it's in...I'm pretty certain it's non-free or contrib. --Greg >>> Matthew Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/08/98 01:51pm >>> Is it possible to echo the display of another ter

Re: HAMM ftp proxy install

1998-06-08 Thread Kenneth Johansson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Kenneth Johansson wrote: > > > I tried to install hamm thru a ftp proxy. It did not work. > > IIRC you'll need dpkg-ftp from hamm to get the ftp method in dselect to > work with an authenticated proxy. But that's a catch-22 if you are trying > to use

Re: cd writers & linux

1998-06-08 Thread Stephen Carpenter
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 10:38:06AM -0400, Paul Miller wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Robert Wilderspin wrote: > > > On 8 Jun 98 02:56:07 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > For writing audio CDs I would recommend a WORM. That sort of data > > doesn't really need the advantage of being able to re

TZ in login.defs

1998-06-08 Thread Tim Buller
I need to set TZ to the local timezone (CST6CDT) on my hamm boxes so pine knows the local time. I have set the following in /etc/login.defs: ENV_TZ TZ=CST6CDT which did not set TZ for any users. I also tried setting: ENV_TZ /etc/tzname and putting "CST6CDT" in /etc/tzname, but

cd writer support under linux

1998-06-08 Thread Paul Miller
Does Linux support the "HP SureStore 2X6 CD-Writer 7200"? The internal model uses the IDE interface and the external model uses a ECP or EPP parallel port. Has anyone used either of these drives (on any OS)? Any comments? Thanks -Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

php?

1998-06-08 Thread tsnake
I just noticed php 3 is out. I've had a little use of php2 in the past, but maybe whenever I get my deb box going, I'll get php going too, but I must ask: the download for it's linux binary says: Linux 2.1.x (Redhat 5.x) Apache 1.3.0 + PHP 3.0 binary Excuse me? Does that mean it's only for Redhat?

afbackup problems

1998-06-08 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi guys, I am still having problems with afbackup. This probably isn't the right place to ask for help but I was hoping one of you might have already dealt with this problem. I am using my hamm system as the backup server. Two Solaris machines are backup clients. The problem I am having is wit

Problem with cfingerd solved

1998-06-08 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello everyone, === a long time ago I posted here a question about cfingerd. I noticed that cfingerd didn't correctly report the setting of mesg, and always reported that the fingered user has his messages disabled. In the meantime (as no one answered) I decided to ask the maintainer

Re: Recommendations

1998-06-08 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 10:28:06AM -0700, The Darkling wrote: > > Finally, does anyone know where can I find > >kernel patch to read MS's new 32-bit FAT from Linux. > > look to the 2.1.x my son. Nah! The Debian kernel images and source debs ship with the patch already applied. Even the 2.0 serie

Re: Recommendations

1998-06-08 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> I am wondering if someone could recommend good ftp,telnet clients for x. For FTP client, I would recommend the program I created myself - WXftp (http://www.wxftp.seul.org). This is basically a clone of WS_FTP client for Win32. Good luck. Alex Y. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wildcards

1998-06-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : One last question! :). : If I want to keep a particular directory, and all files and : subdirectories completly private to my user, how do I do apply the : suggested filters to this? (If I do chmod 600 * -R or something, it will set all : the

Re: Wildcards

1998-06-08 Thread timothy
One last question! :). If I want to keep a particular directory, and all files and subdirectories completly private to my user, how do I do apply the suggested filters to this? (If I do chmod 600 * -R or something, it will set all the files correctly, but then since the directories don't ha

procmail woes

1998-06-08 Thread Paul McDermott
hello my debian user friends, I have just upgraded my hardware and was doing a new install of slink. When it came to configure procmail is where I ran into trouble. These are the versions of procmail and smail smail 3.2.0.101-4.3 Electronic mail transport system. procmail3.

Re: Problems with /dev/audio

1998-06-08 Thread Ed Cogburn
Michael Roark wrote: > > I have been fiddling around with getting audio going today and have run > into a snag. I am using a Hitachi C-120 laptop that has a Sound Blaster > 16 compatible board. I have compiles the kernel to support it and such, > but I am getting devide busy when tkdesk tries to u

Re: Development Kernel - Required progs

1998-06-08 Thread Ed Cogburn
David Z. Maze wrote: > > Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > EC> I'm interested in trying the latest kernel 2.1.105, but in the > EC> docs it has a list of required programs that you need to use it. > EC> Of that list, I am missing 4 of them. > EC> PROCINFO > EC> AUTOFS > EC> NCPF

Echoing another terminal

1998-06-08 Thread Matthew Myers
Is it possible to echo the display of another terminal to the current terminal you are on? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: my machine is refusing talk

1998-06-08 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
matthew wrote, >> $ talk zorzella >> [Your party is refusing messages] >> [Press any key to continue] > Even if mesg is "y" and talkd is up: >If they are using an xsession (as opposed to just plain telnet or ssh), >then you need to look in the X config files - It's currently set up so >that you

Re: my machine is refusing talk

1998-06-08 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
M.C. Vernon writes: > > > $ talk zorzella > > [Your party is refusing messages] > > [Press any key to continue] > > > > Even if mesg is "y" and talkd is up: > > If they are using an xsession (as opposed to just plain telnet or ssh), > then you need to look in the X config files - It's c

Re: Linux is user friendly, I'm just not one of its friends

1998-06-08 Thread The Darkling
welp sorry for being a drag.. real special thanks to Norm for putting up with me. With spome more riggen tape (duck tape) and a bit of fancy routing (by hand.) and stealing my brothers socket (oh well.. hehehehhe) I mangaed to get it back on the network.. (woohoo!) I'm gonna go try and ftp ins

Compiling my own kernels

1998-06-08 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi all! I have just made new kernels for my 486 and laptop. I now have a few questions to ask. -=-=- On my 486 I get the following at bootup: pci_init: no BIOS32 detected Does this mean I should turn off PCI support (CONFIG_PCI)? -=-=- Also on my 486 I get: Sound initialization started Sou

Re: lyx Bus Error...hardware? -Reply

1998-06-08 Thread Stephen Carpenter
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 11:40:37AM -0500, Gregory Dickinson wrote: > Yes, it sounds very much like the drive is toasted. Which one, however, I'll > leave > to you to figure out :-) (look in the /etc/fstab to check the mount points, > etc. to > see exactly which drive is being referneced.) Ahh

umsdos run on fat32 ?

1998-06-08 Thread R. Chris Ross
I have recently gotten a laptop at work that I need to run Win95 and later, likely NT. It would be great to also load Linux in the same partition. Can Debian be installed using an umsdos file system in a fat32 partition? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Linux is user friendly, I'm just not one of its friends

1998-06-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, The Darkling wrote: : well here we go (bitch wine cry moan.. I gotta write this all out) : : : ifconfig: : : Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet blah blah blah (hardware address stuff) : inet addr:146.115.107.117 Bcast: 146.115.107.127 Mask: 255.255.255.240 : UP BROADCAST RUNNING MU

Re: Recommendations

1998-06-08 Thread The Darkling
>I am wondering if someone could recommend good ftp,telnet clients for x. Welp I would suggest just using the consoul ones in a rxvt (make it look pretty) however there is Xftp that comes with debian, file runner that comes with debian, you don't[ need anything but consoule telnet trust me, a

Re: my machine is refusing talk

1998-06-08 Thread M.C. Vernon
> $ talk zorzella > [Your party is refusing messages] > [Press any key to continue] > > Even if mesg is "y" and talkd is up: If they are using an xsession (as opposed to just plain telnet or ssh), then you need to look in the X config files - It's currently set up so that you can't talk people o

Re: Linux is user friendly, I'm just not one of its friends

1998-06-08 Thread The Darkling
well here we go (bitch wine cry moan.. I gotta write this all out) ifconfig: Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet blah blah blah (hardware address stuff) inet addr:146.115.107.117 Bcast: 146.115.107.127 Mask: 255.255.255.240 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST and yes the Eathernet device is loaded (showsup

Recommendations

1998-06-08 Thread Ivan Trogranci
I am wondering if someone could recommend good ftp,telnet clients for x. Also, does anyone know if there are trackers (esp. Impulse Tracker) available for Linux and where can I get them? Are there movie viewers for vivo, avi and other movie formats? Is there a good sound editor (like Cool Edit for

RE: Xwindow from win95?

1998-06-08 Thread Dennis Dai
Yeah it works. I think I forgot to export the variable. That's way I got nothing. Thanks a lot Jim. Dennis > -Original Message- > From: Jim Russell [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 08, 1998 6:56 AM > To: Dennis Dai; Debian User list > Subject: Re: Xwindow from win95? >

Re: Linux is user friendly, I'm just not one of its friends

1998-06-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, The Darkling wrote: : welp, Norm made a belive r out of me, but murphy factor lives on. (I : hate doing this - asking for help for a ll the little things) but we : still get : : : SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument : SIOCADDRT: Network unavalibel : : On the other hand Debian did

my machine is refusing talk

1998-06-08 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Hi, I'm trying to enable the talk in my machine, but can't figure out what's happening. If I try to talk to a local user, I get this message: $ talk zorzella [Your party is refusing messages] [Press any key to continue] Even if mesg is "y" and talkd is up: $ mesg is y $ ps auxw | egrep talk

Re: Wildcards

1998-06-08 Thread servis
On 8 Jun, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for everyone's help. > One more question that I couldn't find when I browsed the man pages. > What does the '$' mean/do in "grep "/$""? > and what does the '^' mean/do in "grep "^d""? >From 'man grep', lines 220-222: The caret ^ and the dollar s

Re: Linux is user friendly, I'm just not one of its friends

1998-06-08 Thread The Darkling
welp, Norm made a belive r out of me, but murphy factor lives on. (I hate doing this - asking for help for a ll the little things) but we still get : SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument SIOCADDRT: Network unavalibel On the other hand Debian did not install /dev/eth0 despite having my Eather link car

Re: Wildcards

1998-06-08 Thread Steve Mayer
Timothy, The two symbols that you are asking about are parts of a "regular expression" search. The $ is telling grep to search for something at the end of a string. Therefore, "/$" is looking for a / (forward slash) as the last character in a string, (i.e. the ending slash on a directory entr

Re: Development Kernel - Required progs

1998-06-08 Thread David Z. Maze
Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: EC> I'm interested in trying the latest kernel 2.1.105, but in the EC> docs it has a list of required programs that you need to use it. EC> Of that list, I am missing 4 of them. EC> PROCINFO EC> AUTOFS EC> NCPFS EC> PCMCMIA-CS EC> EC> The las

Re: Linux is user friendly, I'm just not one of its friends

1998-06-08 Thread Stephen Zedalis
Ho, this file is majorly hosed! First, your netmask should be something like 255.255.255.0. Your network looks ok. But your broadcast should be something like 146.115.107.255 Gateway is probably ok. It will probably work if the right parameters are in there... On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, The Darkling

Re: which script is missing from rpm

1998-06-08 Thread Stephen Carpenter
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 03:44:18AM +, Robert Wilderspin wrote: > On 5 Jun 98 03:39:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > >> > >> Which script is it that rpm doesn't have, that dpkg does? I had thought > >> it > >> was the post-removal, but I'm being challen

Re: Wildcards

1998-06-08 Thread timothy
Thanks for everyone's help. One more question that I couldn't find when I browsed the man pages. What does the '$' mean/do in "grep "/$""? and what does the '^' mean/do in "grep "^d""? Thanks, Timothy On 08-Jun-98 David Lauder wrote: > For directories, try: > > ls -lF | grep "/$" > or: >

Re: Linux is user friendly, I'm just not one of its friends

1998-06-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, The Darkling wrote: [ snip ] : SIOCSIFNETMASK: Invalid Argument ^^^ : SIOCADDRT: Network un-avalbel : SIOCADDRT: Network un-avalbel [ snip ] : #! /bin/sh : ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 : route add -net 127.0.0.0 : IPADDR=146.115.107.117 : NETM

Zip and CD-rom (part two)

1998-06-08 Thread Marc van der Vossen
>MV> I have a problem with my secondary IDE channel. I have a CD-rom as >MV> slave ans >MV> a Zip-drive as Master on that controller. When I insert my Debian-CD, >MV> install goes OK. Then, after reboot, dselect starts and I say; load from >MV> CD-rom. That's the place it does not work. I tried ins

Problems with /dev/audio

1998-06-08 Thread Michael Roark
I have been fiddling around with getting audio going today and have run into a snag. I am using a Hitachi C-120 laptop that has a Sound Blaster 16 compatible board. I have compiles the kernel to support it and such, but I am getting devide busy when tkdesk tries to us an .au file. Also, when I try

lyx Bus Error...hardware? -Reply

1998-06-08 Thread Gregory Dickinson
Yes, it sounds very much like the drive is toasted. Which one, however, I'll leave to you to figure out :-) (look in the /etc/fstab to check the mount points, etc. to see exactly which drive is being referneced.) --Greg >>> Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/08/98 09:56am >>> I am havin

Linux is user friendly, I'm just not one of its friends

1998-06-08 Thread The Darkling
hrrm. well I supose all of you are upgradeing to Hamm, and may have faced a similer problem( probably not as drastic) but anyways I need some help getting my system back up and operational. Like a good debian user, I used the auto update script to get me up to libc6 etc. and ran into a couple

Re: HAMM ftp proxy install

1998-06-08 Thread joost
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Kenneth Johansson wrote: > I tried to install hamm thru a ftp proxy. It did not work. IIRC you'll need dpkg-ftp from hamm to get the ftp method in dselect to work with an authenticated proxy. But that's a catch-22 if you are trying to use the ftp method to upgrade to hamm.

Development Kernel - Required progs

1998-06-08 Thread Ed Cogburn
I'm interested in trying the latest kernel 2.1.105, but in the docs it has a list of required programs that you need to use it. Of that list, I am missing 4 of them. PROCINFO AUTOFS NCPFS PCMCMIA-CS The last two, I know I can do without as I'm not using that kind o

Re: Thank you for all of your help.

1998-06-08 Thread Ed Cogburn
Paul McDermott wrote: > > I just wanted to say thank you to all of you nice debian users for taking > the time to help anybody and everybody who comes on the list. > Paul > Well, since I'm not much of a programmer, lurking on this list and helping others when I can, is the only way I c

Re: Building Kernel for Sound

1998-06-08 Thread Ed Cogburn
Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > > > > > > Ok, I removed the .config file and ran make menuconfig... This worked fine > > > > > > I ran make-kpkg and got the following error: > > > > > > s.o ipc/ipc.o net/network.a \ > > > fs/filesystems.

Re: wav to mp3

1998-06-08 Thread tko
Timothy C. Phan writes: > > Hi, > > I'd like to know if there is a tool that would convert wav file > to mp3 file! > > Thanks! > Go to www.8hz.com They have a "FREE" wave to mp3 converter. I've used it and it works pretty slick. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CI

Re: Problems with Debian2.0: Perl, Xincludes, ...

1998-06-08 Thread Wolfgang Gernot Bauer
Nuno Carvalho wrote: > > From what I'm remembered you need some include files like Intrinsic.h > so try to install the xlib6-dev package ! > > I'm not sure at the moment if it's on this package ! > > > When I try to compile KDE I get the following error-messages when using > > "configure": >

Re: Problems with Debian2.0: Perl, Xincludes, ...

1998-06-08 Thread Ed Cogburn
Wolfgang Gernot Bauer wrote: > > Hi, Im having some problems with my Debian2.0 installation (upgrade from > Deb1.3). First, perl has a bug. "aclocal" does not work because it looks > for perl in /bin/perl and not in /usr/bin/perl where it is installed > (bug submitted). > > When I try to compile

lyx Bus Error...hardware?

1998-06-08 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I am having a frustrating problem installing and using lyx here at work and I am wondering if it may be hardware, or software or what not. The story goes like this: On Friday I decided to install lyx on my system (see the histories below) This is the latest lyx as apt-get got from frozen for me.

Re: deb package for Netscape 4.05 installer on Debian 1.3.1 ?

1998-06-08 Thread Ed Cogburn
M.C. Bezemer wrote: > > Paul McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > hello, just a suggestion the netscape.tar.gz file comes with an install > > script and does not need the debian package. just run the install script > > as root and your laughin'. > > Just a suggestion. > > Paul > > Why shou

Re: Problems with Debian2.0: Perl, Xincludes, ...

1998-06-08 Thread Nuno Carvalho
From what I'm remembered you need some include files like Intrinsic.h so try to install the xlib6-dev package ! I'm not sure at the moment if it's on this package ! Best regards, Nuno Carvalho --- Nuno Emanuel Carvalho University of Coimbra

Re: Upgrade bo-> hamm, Problems !

1998-06-08 Thread Ed Cogburn
Sindelfingen Office wrote: > > Hi there. > > during the weekend i upgraded my system from 1.3.1-XYZ to hamm (using the > frozen- tree on ftp.debian) with the aid of the autoup script. > Surprisingly everything went fine with no bigger problems. But when i > tried to start the menuconfig programm

Re: Problems with Debian2.0: Perl, Xincludes, ...

1998-06-08 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hi, Im having some problems with my Debian2.0 installation (upgrade from > Deb1.3). First, perl has a bug. "aclocal" does not work because it looks > for perl in /bin/perl and not in /usr/bin/perl where it is installed > (bug submitted). > > When I try to compile KDE I get the following error

Re: cd writers & linux

1998-06-08 Thread Paul Miller
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Robert Wilderspin wrote: > On 8 Jun 98 02:56:07 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >I'm interested in buying a internal/ide cd writer. I'd like to be able to > >(in linux) write audio cds, direct read, speed isn't too important, and > >I'm not sure about worm vs rewritable. W

Problems with Debian2.0: Perl, Xincludes, ...

1998-06-08 Thread Wolfgang Gernot Bauer
Hi, Im having some problems with my Debian2.0 installation (upgrade from Deb1.3). First, perl has a bug. "aclocal" does not work because it looks for perl in /bin/perl and not in /usr/bin/perl where it is installed (bug submitted). When I try to compile KDE I get the following error-messages when

Re: about distributions

1998-06-08 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Can anyone tell me what is bo, hamm, contrib distributions ? > > I ve got Debian from stable/binary-i386 and stable/disks-i386 > Should i take it from bo ? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bo = Debian 1.3.1. hamm= Debian 2.0 (not yet 'officially' rele

Re: Question about xterm and rxvt

1998-06-08 Thread Ed Cogburn
Mark Yobb wrote: > > How do I change the colours of these terminals. > Don't know about rxvt, but for Xterm there are command line options for this as well as resources you can put in your Xresources file. Example resources: XTerm*VT100*background: Black XTerm*VT100*fo

Re: deb package for Netscape 4.05 installer on Debian 1.3.1 ?

1998-06-08 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Yes, you're rigth ! But I think that if you install the debian package you will could easily remove it from your system ! Best regards, Nuno --- Nuno Emanuel Carvalho University of Coimbra Dep. of Informatics Engineering PORTUGAL

Re: deb package for Netscape 4.05 installer on Debian 1.3.1 ?

1998-06-08 Thread M.C. Bezemer
Paul McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, just a suggestion the netscape.tar.gz file comes with an install > script and does not need the debian package. just run the install script > as root and your laughin'. > Just a suggestion. > Paul Why should there be a netscape installer package

Re: deb package for Netscape 4.05 installer on Debian 1.3.1 ?

1998-06-08 Thread Paul McDermott
hello, just a suggestion the netscape.tar.gz file comes with an install script and does not need the debian package. just run the install script as root and your laughin'. Just a suggestion. Paul On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > > > You could download the netscape 4.05 on tar.gz form

Thank you for all of your help.

1998-06-08 Thread Paul McDermott
I just wanted to say thank you to all of you nice debian users for taking the time to help anybody and everybody who comes on the list. Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xwindow from win95?

1998-06-08 Thread Jim Russell
>How can I connect MI/X from Win95 to my linux box? In the FAQ MI/X >provided it says telnet to linux box and change the display environment. Right. The DISPLAY variable is used by X applications to determine what display to get i/o from. Here's my two scenarios: 1. Using M/IX's "local" window

Re: Quake Segfaults

1998-06-08 Thread Ed Cogburn
Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > > On: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 05:49:18 -0500 Ed Cogburn writes: > > >> > drwxrwxrwt 6 root root 6144 Jun 6 14:07 /tmp/ > >> > > >> > If this is not how it is do a 'chmod 1777 /tmp' as root. > >> > >> Thanks! I got it before, but whats the 't'?? (all execute bit)

Re: X11 & AGP Card

1998-06-08 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > Thank for the information. Does the AGP card improve the > graphics significantly and noticeable? Thanks! AGP is meant to significantly improve 3D performance, not 2D. There may be improvement in 2D performance but I don't think that it would be significant. I've got a Millenium II

debian-user-digest duplicate postings

1998-06-08 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, It happens regularly now that I get the same message twice e.g. 279 Jun 8 Bruce Mardle (708) Re: Wildcards 280 Jun 8 Bruce Mardle (708) Re: Wildcards 281 Jun 8 Robert Wilderspin (1,270) Re: which script is missing from rpm 282 Jun 8 Robert Wilderspin (1,270) Re: which s

Re: Checking Ports? (fwd)

1998-06-08 Thread David Wright
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Marcus Johnson wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 12:50:21 -0700 (PDT) > From: Marcus Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Checking Ports? > > Sorry for my brevity and thank you for your answer.

Re: Linuxconf

1998-06-08 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 09:21:02AM +0100, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: > I friend of mine is running RedHat 5.1 (i have tried to convert him, but > without any luck) and he was telling me that RedHat is now using the Linuxconf > package, and I was wondering how compatiable Linuxconf is wit

Re: directory tree and .deb's

1998-06-08 Thread D. W. Wieboldt
G. Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can I determine the destination directory of a package from the Packages > file. My objective is to calculate the disk storage requirement for all > (or a preselected subset of) packages by destination directory. Where > can I find this information without

Re: deb package for Netscape 4.05 installer on Debian 1.3.1 ?

1998-06-08 Thread Nuno Carvalho
You could download the netscape 4.05 on tar.gz format and netscape 3.01 package from debian ! So you copy the netscape 4.05 to the /tmp directory and install the package. I still not found the netscape 4.05 package but it works with the older one (3.01) ! Best regards, Nuno Carvalho

deb package for Netscape 4.05 installer on Debian 1.3.1 ?

1998-06-08 Thread Shaul
I am using Debian 1.3.1. On which ftp sites can I find deb package for Netscape 4.05 (communicator) installer ? Are there deb packages for the last issues of Linux Gazzete ? Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Trouble with the list - 2.

1998-06-08 Thread M.C. Bezemer
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: > OK This one only goes to the list. Does this work for you? seems so... maybe I should ask the sysadmins to mail me the filter to see what's wrong here. Thanks for the help and let's now close this discussion on the list. It's some kind of spam for other

Re: Trouble with the list - 2.

1998-06-08 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, M.C. Bezemer wrote: > > > On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > OK - so do you get this one then? > > > hmmm it seems I just got it. (twice that is: one directly from > you, and one from the list.) > > Maybe you should try to send something to the list without > se

Re: Upgrade bo-> hamm, Problems !

1998-06-08 Thread G. Kapetanios
It looks there is some trouble with the gpm daemon. See if it is running and try killing it to see whether it makes any difference. George On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Sindelfingen Office wrote: ~ > Hi there. > > during the weekend i upgraded my system from 1.3.1-XYZ to hamm (using the > frozen- tre

Upgrade bo-> hamm, Problems !

1998-06-08 Thread Sindelfingen Office
Hi there. during the weekend i upgraded my system from 1.3.1-XYZ to hamm (using the frozen- tree on ftp.debian) with the aid of the autoup script. Surprisingly everything went fine with no bigger problems. But when i tried to start the menuconfig programm to compile a new kernel it failed with

Re: Trouble with the list - 2.

1998-06-08 Thread M.C. Bezemer
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: > OK - so do you get this one then? > hmmm it seems I just got it. (twice that is: one directly from you, and one from the list.) Maybe you should try to send something to the list without sending it to me. Now that there was a [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: field

Re: Trouble with the list - 2.

1998-06-08 Thread M.C. Vernon
OK - so do you get this one then? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward-elect of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Trouble with the list - 2.

1998-06-08 Thread M.C. Bezemer
For some strange reason, there was added a reply-to address to my last mail to this list. I hope it has been removed with this one... By the way, I got this message back from the list, so the mail I write myself does get through... Things are getting strange around here... Regards, Maarten.

Trouble with the list.

1998-06-08 Thread M.C. Bezemer
Hi! I'm having some problems with getting mail from debian-security-accounce. I've been kicked off twice because of massive amounts of bounced mail. I guess it has something to do with an anti-spam filter some sysadmins have placed on the backbone of the university. It probably rejects mail that

Linuxconf

1998-06-08 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
Hi all, I friend of mine is running RedHat 5.1 (i have tried to convert him, but without any luck) and he was telling me that RedHat is now using the Linuxconf package, and I was wondering how compatiable Linuxconf is with Debian 1.3.1(bo) and 2.0(hamm)? And is there a .deb package for the latest

about distributions

1998-06-08 Thread Adam . Sztuka
Can anyone tell me what is bo, hamm, contrib distributions ? I ve got Debian from stable/binary-i386 and stable/disks-i386 Should i take it from bo ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Perfmeter clone for Debian?

1998-06-08 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hello, > > Is there something similar to Solaris' Perfmeter available as a Debian > package/binary or just source code? There is procmeter, which comes in its own debian package. Sorry to say it has no dials though ... %) Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +3

Re: Wildcards

1998-06-08 Thread Bruce Mardle
> Is there a wildcard type thing to indicate all directories, or all > files etc? Like "dir /ad" in dos. And is there anything as cool as a wildcard > for file modes like all executeables? Use zsh and that would be "*(/)" and "*(*)", so the equivalent of "dir /ad" would be "ls -d *(/)".

Re: Compiling a kernel

1998-06-08 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > kernel-package does this, including putting System.map- in > /boot. It also gives you an option for creating a boot-floppy with the > new kernel. > > What does system.map do? I've compiled kernels before without > kernel-package and never had problems.

Question about xterm and rxvt

1998-06-08 Thread Mark Yobb
How do I change the colours of these terminals. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Printer (port) Problems

1998-06-08 Thread Mark Yobb
Hi, I would really appreciate some's help. I have been trying to get my linux system working for a long time. I have install Redhat 4.1, Redhat 5.0, Slackwear, etc. I think I have found the distribution I want in Debian but now I have to get my system working right! When I try to prin

Re: Quake Segfaults

1998-06-08 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote: > >> On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote: > >> [snip] > >> > >> I was told a fix for this was an ldconfig . It worked for me, and > >> everything is fine now... except.. (who knew that was coming?) > > Didn't work for me. But it is now working with th

Re: Afterstep

1998-06-08 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > On Sun, Jun 07, 1998 at 06:30:55PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: > > I read on the list a while ago (I may have misinterpreted) that there was > > a configuration utility written in tk or tcl for afterstep. is this true? > > where can i get it? > >

/dev/fd0, fsck and fstab

1998-06-08 Thread Lindsay Allen
My fstab had the following entry to enable easy mounting of fd0. The "2" in field 6 was meant to enable a fsck when a floppy was mounted. /dev/fd0/floppy ext2 noauto 0 2 This used to work, but now on system boot it complains that it cannot check /dev/fd0, th

Perfmeter clone for Debian?

1998-06-08 Thread Igor S. Livshits
Hello, Is there something similar to Solaris' Perfmeter available as a Debian package/binary or just source code? Thanks, igor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cd writers & linux

1998-06-08 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 8 Jun 98 02:56:07 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I'm interested in buying a internal/ide cd writer. I'd like to be able to >(in linux) write audio cds, direct read, speed isn't too important, and >I'm not sure about worm vs rewritable. What is the difference (other than >being able to erase,

Re: which script is missing from rpm

1998-06-08 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 5 Jun 98 03:39:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: >> >> Which script is it that rpm doesn't have, that dpkg does? I had thought it >> was the post-removal, but I'm being challenged on that: > >None. In fact, rpm has one script debian lacks: the verify script. F

Re: [aba@it.ntu.edu.au: help]

1998-06-08 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 8 Jun 98 01:50:54 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hello, I would like to install linux or debian into my 200Mhz 32MB window95 >pentium notebook. I know how to download files from the internet, i use >winzip to unzip files that are zipped,and self extracting files. But >linux seems to be abit

wav to mp3

1998-06-08 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, I'd like to know if there is a tool that would convert wav file to mp3 file! Thanks! -- Timothy C. Phan Intelligence Quest Research, INC. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X11 & AGP Card

1998-06-08 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi Brian, Thank for the information. Does the AGP card improve the graphics significantly and noticeable? Thanks! Brian Weiss wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to know if X11 on Linux support the AGP card? I'd > > like to in particalur w

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