El login no me gusta mucho

1998-09-10 Thread Juan Carlos Muro
Hola a todos. Tengo una duda sobre algo que siempre me da la sensacion que ha ido mal en mi ordenador. Se trata de que cuando hago un login desde la consola, si el PC esta teniendo ya mucha carga de tareas (sobre todo cuando el HD esta trabajando como un cosaco), ocurre lo siguiente: Aparece

Re: impresora....

1998-09-10 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Miguel Angel, por que mejor no te simplificas la vida? Instala magicfilter, y si no te pide configurarlo, como root dale: $ magicfilterconfig --force cuando te pregunte la impresora, le dices algo asi como hplj4l (no me acuerdo la forma exacta, cuando la veas la reconoceras).

Re: Debian 2.0, Linux Actual y demás

1998-09-10 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
He demorado un tanto mi respuesta para evitar saltar en caliente, y ahora voy a aprovechar para responder un poco a todos. Como parece que a alguien no le ha quedado claro, LA4 tendra 2CDs: binary-i386 (main) y contrib, sin aumento de precio (995). Y, como dije, voy a pedirles que

RE: El login no me gusta mucho

1998-09-10 Thread Manuel Paz Flores
Por si te sirve de consuelo a mi me ha pasado en el trabajo con el servidor corporativo (Unisys, HP-UX y Solaris) más de una vez. Lo único que hay que hacer es comprobar que te sale la línea de password antes de escribirlo ( o sea paciencia ;-) ) y sobre todo que no hay nadie alrededor. Una

Re: Mail

1998-09-10 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 08:37:50PM +, Phillip Neumann wrote: Voy a hacer una pregunta realmente facil (por lo menos eso creo..), Como lo hago para mandar un mensaje a un usuario de mi sistema desde root?? No he instalado nada parecido a sendmail, o fetchmail, etc. todavia porque no se

Re: Debian 2.0, Linux Actual y demás

1998-09-10 Thread Tomás Bautista
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a wrote: Y, como dije, voy a pedirles que incluyan en LA5 contrib+non-US+non-free (lo que sea distribuible), junto con los programas de los articulos de LA4 y LA5 (o en un CD aparte) sin aumento de coste (995 ptas). Pues desde mi punto de vista,

RE: Reproduccion de CD's

1998-09-10 Thread jarregui
Jo, que pasada, me estais contestando todos. Casi ni me lo creo... Bueno, yo lo que he hecho para arreglar el tema es dar permiso de lectura a 'Otros'. Antes tenia los permisos con 640 y ahora lo he dejado en 644. Con esto ya no tengo problemas. Pero me sigue pareciendo muy peligroso el tocar

Re: Supergrep

1998-09-10 Thread Octavio Rodriguez Perez
Hola! No he podido leer el correo hasta ahora. Muchas gracias por las respuestas, la verdad es que me estaba enrollando demasiado, pero ahora ya funciona. Saludos y a su disposicion, Octavio

Re: SECURITY: new bash packages available

1998-09-10 Thread TooManySecrets
Buenas. Estoy viendo que el servicio de seguridad de Debian, parece ser que funciona más rápido (si es que puede ser en el mundo Linux), que el de Red Hat. El mensaje de Debian-security referente a una vulnerabilidad del Bash, y sus updates correspondientes, me llegó uno o dos días antes que éste

[no subject]

1998-09-10 Thread Manuel Paz Flores
Hola a todos; Ya sé que lo que voy a preguntar no tiene nada que ver con Debian. Así que perdón de antemano. ¿Puede alguien decirme como suscribirme a la lista BUGTRAQ de seguridad? Gracias, Un saludo,

Alguien que use /bin/sh

1998-09-10 Thread Octavio Rodriguez Perez
Hola! ¿Como compruebo el numero de parametros de la linea de comandos en el /bin/sh? Me explico: #!/bin/sh if (num_args_entrada != 2) then hacer_algo else hacer_otra_cosa fi Saludos a todos, Octavio

Re: Reproduccion de CD's

1998-09-10 Thread Jaime E. Villate
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Si Linux deja el grupo como disk, me imagino que sera por algo (por eso no lo he cambiado a cdrom) Pues la razón por la cual debian viene con un grupo cdrom pero no existe ningun dispositivo que pertenezca a ese grupo, es porque nadie puede adivinar donde vas a conectar

Re: Alguien que use /bin/sh

1998-09-10 Thread Sergio Gomez Bachiller
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Octavio Rodriguez Perez wrote: #!/bin/sh if (num_args_entrada != 2) then hacer_algo else hacer_otra_cosa fi Mu facil, con $#, que devuelve el numero de parámetros. De esta forma tu ejemplo quedaria: #!/bin/sh if (test $# -ne 2) then echo No

Busco qt-1.33-4 en formato .deb

1998-09-10 Thread Juanmi Mora
Hola!!! Pues eso, alguien sabe donde está. Gracias. Juanmi Mora Barcelona - España [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Powered by Linux

Re: Busco qt-1.33-4 en formato .deb

1998-09-10 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Juanmi Mora wrote: Pues eso, ¿alguien sabe donde está? En non-free/libs. El nombre del paquete es qt1g. -- 2f23c3c72e4b6a559a19c69272e5fd8c (a truly random sig)

Re: X windows

1998-09-10 Thread J . Parera
Hola, Por cierto los .tgz se descomprimen con el gzip ¿no? tar xzvf ficherillo.tgz --la opción concreta es la z. Saludos, J. Parera

Re: Reproduccion de CD's

1998-09-10 Thread Jesus Rodrigo
Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Modifica /etc/login.defs para que contenga la linea CONSOLE_GROUPS floppy:audio:cdrom Con esa linea alli (esta comentada probablemente) cualquiera que se siente en la consola puede usar el cdrom/audio/floppy [*] ¿Consola aplica sólo a las

Re: Reproduccion de CD's

1998-09-10 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 01:07:51AM +0200, Jesus Rodrigo wrote: Modifica /etc/login.defs para que contenga la linea CONSOLE_GROUPS floppy:audio:cdrom Con esa linea alli (esta comentada probablemente) cualquiera que se siente en la consola puede usar el cdrom/audio/floppy [*]

RE: Debian 2.0, Linux Actual y demás

1998-09-10 Thread Andrés Seco Hernández
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Por mi parte tienes mi apoyo y comprensión. Fue un detalle por tu parte mantenernos informados y recibir nuestras opiniones. El que no sepa lo que es una redacción y todo lo que se cuece dentro puede pensar que se preocupan poco por los lectores, pero

Re: X-Windows Mice

1998-09-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody got any idea why I can get a serial mouse to work, in X, but not a PS/2 mouse? I am using /dev/ttyS0 for the serial mouse, but when I use /dev/mouse for the PS/2 mouse it doesn't work. Either 'ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse' or use

Re: printing takes hours in HAMM

1998-09-10 Thread shaul
After upgrading to Hamm, (actually, after upgrading to 2.0.34) I noticed that the advanced extensions to the parallel port (SPP and such) can be recognized. Perhaps these extensions are the source of your problem ? Hi! After my upgrade to HAMM every kind of printing takes forever. No matter

Re: Debian manual -- printed.

1998-09-10 Thread shaul
There is a link from debian home page to a free book like the one you are looking for (and other documentation). Since, I decided to use debian instead of Slackware or Red Hat. I have noticed something. I can't find a book devoted to it. I can find the other and I even am considering

Re: BASIC HELP

1998-09-10 Thread shaul
Once you get the $ prompt you can do whatever you need to do. So, what you want to do ? You mentioned trying to send email. I think that the basic text command to send email is mail. Therefor, if you want to email yourself, you can try: $ mail -s $(date) - trying to email myself $USER /dev/null

Re: HELP: Even More Problems Configuring Email

1998-09-10 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
DMDP [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I have figured out a cheap way to use PPP a regular user login as root, | connect, log back out, log in as a regular user... You can use XISP and, by adding yourself to the proper groups (dip, dialout, are the two I can think of), and creating a very minimal

Can httpd and wwwoffled co-exist?

1998-09-10 Thread Jack Kern
On a Debian 2.0 system I had wwwoffle installed and working with lynx. I then installed dwww which required httpd, so I installed boa. dwww only worked if I nullified the HTTP_PROXY variable used by wwwoffle/lynx, or if I put wwwoffle online -- wwwoffle online then proceeded to cache all the dox

help compiling X11 clients

1998-09-10 Thread Ian Eure
Hi there. I'm trying to get the shockwave flash plugin for netscape to compile, and not having much success. It fails with this error: g++ -o swfplayer main.o libflash.o -L/usr/X11/lib -lX11 -lXext /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make:

Re: help compiling X11 clients

1998-09-10 Thread Shaleh
Make sure you have xlib6g-dev and xlib6g installed. Otherwise you are doing it right. Ian Eure wrote: Hi there. I'm trying to get the shockwave flash plugin for netscape to compile, and not having much success. It fails with this error: g++ -o swfplayer main.o libflash.o -L/usr/X11/lib

Re: X-Windows Mice

1998-09-10 Thread Brian Sheehan
I think you should be using /dev/psaux for the ps2 mouse - that's what I use. /dev/mouse is just a link. See what its points to with ls -l /dev/mouse. I could be missing the point here too aswell, so sorry if I am! Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody got any idea why I can get a serial

Re: Automatic Unzipping?

1998-09-10 Thread Michele Bini
Can apache automatically decompress files ending in .gz and send the uncompressed stream (along with the correct mime-type) over the HTTP connection? It seems that netscape or lynx are able to recognize a gzipped file and read it, so I do not think that it would be useful to (g)unzip them

Re: printing takes hours in HAMM

1998-09-10 Thread Michele Bini
Hi! After my upgrade to HAMM every kind of printing takes forever. No matter whether I print via magicfilter or cat a file to /dev/lp1 my printer prints a line, waits something like 5 seconds, then prints the next line. Anyone out there who has an idea what happened? Do I have to set some

Re: help compiling X11 clients

1998-09-10 Thread Ian Eure
ieure!Phaktory:~$ dpkg --status xlib6g-dev Package: xlib6g-dev Status: install ok installed ieure!Phaktory:~$ dpkg --status xlib6g Package: xlib6g Status: install ok installed They're there. Anything else? On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 07:31:01PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: Make sure you have xlib6g-dev

CD-R and X

1998-09-10 Thread Lenwood S. Sawyer III
I was wondering if Xcdroast was the only X based cd-r software out there. ThanksLenny Sawyer

Re: help compiling X11 clients

1998-09-10 Thread Shaleh
1. try using /usr/X11R6/lib istead of /usr/X11/lib. 2. do ldconfig -v|grep X11, you should get something like libX11.6.so - /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.1.0 Otherwise, we can go one on one in irc or something. Ian Eure wrote: ieure!Phaktory:~$ dpkg --status xlib6g-dev Package: xlib6g-dev

Re: help compiling X11 clients

1998-09-10 Thread Ian Eure
Ok, setting the lib path to /usr/X11R6/lib worked. Guess Debian doesn't have 'X11' symlinks in /usr. On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 07:56:46PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: 1. try using /usr/X11R6/lib istead of /usr/X11/lib. 2. do ldconfig -v|grep X11, you should get something like libX11.6.so -

ide cdr

1998-09-10 Thread Armando Cerna
I am running hamm and i can't find a program that suppports an ide cdrw drive can someone please reccomend me one

Re: help compiling X11 clients

1998-09-10 Thread Shaleh
Alex pointed that out to me. I added the symlink on my system to avoid re-writing make files. Forgot that Debian did not ship it that way. BTW the link is NOT supposed to exist according to the FSSTND we have been following, so Debian is following standards rather than standard practice --

Re: Is there a Debian package for SANE 0.74 or 0.73?

1998-09-10 Thread Kevin Dalley
Well, there is a workaround. Edit /etc/sane.d/dll.conf by commenting out all scanners which you do not have on your system. There is a bug somewhere in 0.74, but I haven't found a fix for it yet. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a UMAX Astra 1200s: When using sane 0.74-1 my GIMP

Re: What is MARK in /var/log/messages

1998-09-10 Thread H Huang
Andy Spiegl writes: This is syslogd's heartbeat - it tells you that the logger is still alive and well. -m interval The syslogd logs a mark timestamp regularly. The default interval between two -- MARK -- lines is 20 minutes. This

Re: Boot problems with lilo

1998-09-10 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 01:06:18PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: [ snip ] : Any ideas why lilo is unwilling to work on this drive? : The drive has about 8000 (aprox) cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors (obviously) Did you try the linear

changed server name, how-to change back

1998-09-10 Thread Keith
I somehow changed the name of my server back copying files from another server onto this one. Which files sets the name of the server? -- Thanks, Keith MCNE Debian GNU/Linux

xmame

1998-09-10 Thread Default Debian Reader
I know xmame is the normal content of debian list but Just wondering if anyone has used xmame and if so what do you uzip the roms with? It seems they are zipped with compression uncompatable for gzip or uncompress. Thanks for any help

Re: changed server name, how-to change back

1998-09-10 Thread Default Debian Reader
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Keith wrote: I somehow changed the name of my server back copying files from another server onto this one. Which files sets the name of the server? hostname is the command the file you can change is /etc/hostname -- Thanks, Keith MCNE

modem and PPP trouble

1998-09-10 Thread Joshua Wilson
I recently installed Debian GNU/Linux, and I am having a terrible time getting PPP to work with my modem. I have a US Robotics 28.8 at /dev/ttyS2. I tried to set up PPP using pppconfig and I have looked at the files in /etc/ppp. Everything seems to be ok, but when I run pon my modem does not

Re: Compiling XFree86 -- no makefile in doc directory...?

1998-09-10 Thread David R Baker
Hi, I have been working on building XFree86, though the version on the CD's I think just before yours. After some time comsuming experimentation (it's big!) and finding libraries I did not have -dev versions of (joystick and libz), I found the following sequence to work for me: cd wherever

Re: modem and PPP trouble

1998-09-10 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Joshua Wilson; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I recently installed Debian GNU/Linux, and I am having a terrible time getting PPP to work with my modem. I have a US Robotics 28.8 at /dev/ttyS2. I tried to set up PPP using pppconfig and I have looked at the files in /etc/ppp.

Re: xmame

1998-09-10 Thread Ian Eure
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 08:55:01PM -0500, Default Debian Reader wrote: I know xmame is the normal content of debian list but Just wondering if anyone has used xmame and if so what do you uzip the roms with? It seems they are zipped with compression uncompatable for gzip or uncompress.

Re: xmame

1998-09-10 Thread Default Debian Reader
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Ian Eure wrote: On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 08:55:01PM -0500, Default Debian Reader wrote: I know xmame is the normal content of debian list but Just wondering if anyone has used xmame and if so what do you uzip the roms with? It seems they are zipped with

Re: xmame

1998-09-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Default Debian Reader wrote: [ snip ] : Umm... They are usually in standard .zip format, as used by the old dos : program PKZip. Install the unzip zip packages, then `unzip filename'. : I guess my question was what are the packages names. unzip and zip, in section

Re: modem and PPP trouble

1998-09-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
Read /usr/doc/ppp/SETUP.gz Actually the Debian package sets things up a bit differently than this, but you should be able to understand the procedure from this document. The files you need to set up are /etc/ppp/peers/provider and /etc/chatscripts/provider. Bob On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Joshua

Re: Compiling XFree86 -- no makefile in doc directory...?

1998-09-10 Thread Preston Landers
David R Baker wrote: I have been working on building XFree86, though the version on the CD's I think just before yours. I am using the files in the hamm directory, which, AFAIK is the same as what's on the CD. cd wherever dpkg-source -x blah.dsc debian/rules clean debian/rules build

Hamm Low Memory Installation From 1.2 MB Floppy

1998-09-10 Thread Mark Von Hatten
I am trying to install Debian Release 2.0 (hamm) on my PC -- 4 MB of memory, 1.2 MB floppy drive, 40 MB hard drive for MSDOS, 120 MB hard drive for Linux. When I previously performed a successful installation of Debian Release 1.3 on my PC configured with 4 MB of memory and a 1.2 MB floppy disk

Re: TEXINPUTS ?

1998-09-10 Thread LUK ShunTim
Remo Badii wrote: Dear Debian TeX/LaTeX users, I have just installed the revtex library under $HOME/tex/sty/revtex, as in my previous Linux system (2 years old, S.u.S.E. 4.2), under Debian 2.0. Although I have set the variable TEXINPUTS to include $HOME/tex/sty and $HOME/tex/sty/revtex,

Re: Compiling XFree86 -- no makefile in doc directory...?

1998-09-10 Thread David R Baker
Preston Landers wrote: David R Baker wrote: I have been working on building XFree86, though the version on the CD's I think just before yours. I am using the files in the hamm directory, which, AFAIK is the same as what's on the CD. The version you are using has a new patch from

Re: Couldn't find Packages.gz

1998-09-10 Thread Paul M. Foster
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Oliver Thuns wrote: I start dselect, select FTP in access (using my lokal Windows-FTP-Server) and then try to make an update. I get the following error message: Couldn't find Packages.gz in dists/stable... Someone can probably answer this better, but I've run into

Re: Font Servers

1998-09-10 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 05:15:27PM -0500, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: Is anyone aware of were to get a fontserver to run on a Debian 2.0 system? just add xfs-start-server start-xfs to /etc/X11/config prior to starting up xdm rick I see the test for start-xfs in

Hamm Low Memory Installation From 1.2 MB Floppy

1998-09-10 Thread Mark Von Hatten
I am trying to install Debian Release 2.0 (hamm) on my PC -- 4 MB of memory, 1.2 MB floppy drive, 40 MB hard drive for MSDOS, 120 MB hard drive for Linux. When I previously performed a successful installation of Debian Release 1.3 on my PC configured with 4 MB of memory and a 1.2 MB floppy disk

Re: HELP: Even More Problems Configuring Email

1998-09-10 Thread Azog
On Wed, 09 Sep 1998, DMDP wrote: I have figured out a cheap way to use PPP a regular user login as root, connect, log back out, log in as a regular user... But, now I want to be able to receive e-mail. I have installed SMAIL. I believe I have all the config options set correctly. I

Log monitoring GUI program

1998-09-10 Thread Richard L Shepherd
I seem to remember reading sometime (in comp.os.linux.announce I think) about a package that was something like a GUI that provided log-file (e.g. syslog written stuff) monitoring features. I've got to the point of having several machines syslog-ing to one central machine (as well as keeping

Re: modem and PPP trouble

1998-09-10 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Hey Joshua, You may have a winmodem version if it's an internal plug and pray card. There is no support for winmodems in Linux. If you are not sure run pnpdump and it will tell you if it is. John Joshua Wilson wrote: I recently installed Debian GNU/Linux, and I am having a terrible time

Re: Backspace in xterm (again)

1998-09-10 Thread Pete Harlan
Pete Does Alt-backspace work for anyone in an xterm (deleting the previous Pete word on bash input, for example)? This worked fine in Bo and before. What kind of keyboard do you have? On my 104 key (windows 95) keyboard, the windows key produces Meta and the Alt key produces Alt when in

Re: Backspace in xterm (again)

1998-09-10 Thread Pete Harlan
Just to followup on my own message, it's probably not a bug in xterm because bo's xterm binary misbehaves identically when copied to slink. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: WindowMaker 0.19.1

1998-09-10 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 09:28:03 +0530 (IST) XRDLAB writes: 1) As root run ldconfig. 2) Upgrade to xlib6g 3.3.2.3-1 (it4s in hamm). I have it installed. Any other clue? I had the same problem with 0.19.1. I upgraded to xlib6g-3.3.2.3a-1 (note the a in the version number) and the problem

Re: wmaker

1998-09-10 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 08:29:00 -0500 Rick Knebel writes: Hi, Is there anyway in wmaker 0.91-1 to put something like slrn in the dock and assign an icon like news.xpm without changing every other xterm icon to this icon? I have the following in my WMState: Applications = ( {

Re: floppy boot to changed /dev/hdax

1998-09-10 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I am trying to add a logical partition for anonther OS but my linux boot disk expects my swap and root partitions to be in the same spot. Linux root and swap are hda7 and hda8 respectively. I create a new hda7 that changes the linux root and swap devices to be hda8 and hda9 respectively.

xterm menu problem

1998-09-10 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Hi all, I have installed a debian 2.0 slink with kernel 2.1.120. On this system, but the problem was still in 1.3.1 or 2.0 hamm, I have a strange behaviour of xterm. When I try to change the font size, using the control+rightmouseclick then I get a menu showing me same font sizes. But this only

Re: X-Windows Mice

1998-09-10 Thread Ilya Ovchinnikov
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 08:48:41AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody got any idea why I can get a serial mouse to work, in X, but not a PS/2 mouse? I am using /dev/ttyS0 for the serial mouse, but when I use /dev/mouse for the PS/2 mouse it doesn't work. Am I overly stupid? what

Re: Backspace in xterm (again)

1998-09-10 Thread Gilbert Laycock
Pete I wonder what the difference between your setup and mine could be... Odd isn't it. I finally compared my /etc/X11/Xresources with the one from the distribution. I had *VT100.Translations: #override KeyDelete: string(\033[3~)\n\ KeyHome: string(\033OH)\n\

Re: ide cdr

1998-09-10 Thread Ilya Ovchinnikov
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 05:07:57PM -0700, Armando Cerna wrote: I am running hamm and i can't find a program that suppports an ide cdrw drive can someone please reccomend me one First, your need kernel with SCSI cdrom, SCSI generic and SCSI-ATAPI host adapter emulation but *without* IDE(ATAPI)

Re: Couldn't find Packages.gz

1998-09-10 Thread Ed Cogburn
Oliver Thuns wrote: Hallo, I start dselect, select FTP in access (using my lokal Windows-FTP-Server) and then try to make an update. I get the following error message: Couldn't find Packages.gz in dists/stable... I don't know what's wrong... HELP!!! ;-) I haven't used FTP

apt and multiple cdroms

1998-09-10 Thread Daniel Quinlan
hi, I've just got debian 2.0 on cd from lsl (http://www.lsl.com.au) and main, contrib and non-free are on separate cdroms. how do I setup apt to handle this? my current sources.list is deb file://cdrom/debian stable main deb file://cdrom/debian stable contrib deb file://cdrom/debian stable

RE: Frustrated

1998-09-10 Thread kolds
Simon, I tried your fix last night. I re-installed the whole thing and then rebooted with the lo-mem disk in. I got as far as menu option 4 on the low mem disk (Exiting). When I did that, the following happened: Action: 4 VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem) readonly mounting /proc

Broken emacs

1998-09-10 Thread David R. Kohel
I found some references to this in the July and August archives, but has no fix been found for the emacs19 emacs20 packages? My apologies if there has been more recent discussion which I did not find in my search. As far as I could tell, some people got them to install by removing certain

RE: Frustrated

1998-09-10 Thread kolds
Matthew, My harddrive is 128MB. As to the install, I do the following: -boot from the low-mem disk -partition harddrive ( 3 partitions: 32MB swap, 3 MB minix, the rest as native) -activate and initialize swap -activate temp root partition -exit (the system then asks for the Rescue Disk

tin charset

1998-09-10 Thread nic-debian
Hi, I have upgraded to tin 980226-3 (hamm) and need to do one or other of the following + change my charset to iso-8859-1, or + change my bitrate to 7bit in order to post messages (currently I get the error msg that the posting is not us-ascii. Does anyone know how to do one of the above? (And

Re: Compiling XFree86 -- no makefile in doc directory...?

1998-09-10 Thread David R Baker
Hi, Sorry to hear problems continue. The version I built was xfree86_3.3.2.2-4.dsc debian 2.0 CD ( from linux central) The ftp site is now 2.0r2 and X is 3.3.2.3-1 I think . The changelog does say that xfree86 was updated with an upstream patch. Maybe there's a new problem. :( Don't know

ISDN in Debian 2.0: questions.

1998-09-10 Thread Remo Badii
Dear Debianers, I have just read the isdn4linux FAQ (suggested by somebody in this list) and, since I intend to buy a PCMCIA card, I'd like to ask a few questions. I have just installed Debian 2.0 on my IBM Thinkpad 760 CD, with a 120MHz Pentium, 40 MB ram, and a 2.1 GB HD. I am about to try my

XFree86 problem

1998-09-10 Thread Daniel ANDRE
I have a problem with XFREE86 configuration on my laptop (thoshiba tecra730xcdt): The svga chip is CT65550 with 2Mb VideoRam. I have successfully set up for 8bpp up to 1024*768 resolution I have tried with 16bbp and the 1024*768 mode has too high mclock frequency. I have tried to adjust if with

LT WinModem not working with Debian 2.0

1998-09-10 Thread Norbert A'Campo
Hello all! I'm having troubles configuring my internal (PnP?) LT WinModem under Linux. No one program can recognize it. Kernel also configures only the first serial port (modem is attached to the second one). setserial doesn't find it in the default configuration and I have to specify its

Re: Why does Debian use ncurses-1.9.9g and not 4.x

1998-09-10 Thread Paul Slootman
George Bonser wrote: I have modified a few packages in my day and make, for example, a modified package of vim with GUI support available on my FTP site. I believe the current (standard debian) version of vim is built with GUI support. Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | work: [EMAIL

Re: linuxpress rumors

1998-09-10 Thread Damon Muller
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998 00:33:48 -0700 Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: George Bonser wrote: I hear that a new version of the Debian Linux user's guide is in the works that covers 2.0. Any truth? Well, just to add to the rumors, I was reading that autstralian computer mag's article that

Re: LT WinModem not working with Debian 2.0

1998-09-10 Thread Brian Sheehan
Windmodems don't work under anything except windows. A friend of mine got caught out with a US Robotics one from dell. Hard luck 8-( Brian Sheehan Norbert A'Campo wrote: I'm having troubles configuring my internal (PnP?) LT WinModem under Linux. No one program can recognize it. Kernel also

Re: LT WinModem not working with Debian 2.0

1998-09-10 Thread Lars Steinke
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Norbert A'Campo wrote: Hello all! I'm having troubles configuring my internal (PnP?) LT WinModem under Linux. No one program can recognize it. Kernel also configures only the first serial port (modem is attached to the second one). setserial doesn't find it in the

Re: ISDN in Debian 2.0: questions.

1998-09-10 Thread Oliver Thuns
I am about to try my first kernel compilation ever and I'd like to know wheter ISDN support should be compiled in. I think so. You should compile the HiSax drivers in. But a current Debian kernel should have ISDN support compiled in. Moreover, is isdn4linux necessary in addition to the ISDN

X problems

1998-09-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I have two boxes here which I upgraded (buzz to rex to) bo to hamm. On both boxes, users without .xsession files just get an xterm window with no window manager. /etc/X11/window-managers lists a valid window manager (/usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2) first, and /etc/X11/Xsession exists and is the default.

Re: xterm menu problem

1998-09-10 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
When I try to change the font size, using the control+rightmouseclick then I get a menu showing me same font sizes. But this only happens if the user is root. Otherwise I get a menu that is really smaller and I can only see the first line of text in the menu (the smaller font size.) ok, I

Re: ISDN in Debian 2.0: questions.

1998-09-10 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Remo Badii wrote: Moreover, is isdn4linux necessary in addition to the ISDN package that comes with Debian? This issue is not addressed in the FAQ. In the Debian documentation, I read that isdnutils is all you need to run an ISDN connection. AFAIK isdnutils in debian

Re: xterm menu problem

1998-09-10 Thread Immanuel Yap
Giuseppe Sacco wrote: When I try to change the font size, using the control+rightmouseclick then I get a menu showing me same font sizes. But this only happens if the user is root. Otherwise I get a menu that is really smaller and I can only see the first line of text in the menu (the

Re: following symlinks?!?

1998-09-10 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Paul McDermott wrote: hello everybody, and thankyou for all of the assistance to my recent questions. I have yet another question. I am trying to download debian packages from an ftp site with ncftp or wget. I am having a problem in getting files that are symlinked to

Boot sector

1998-09-10 Thread Micki Heyns
My disk is partitined with linux - lilo and win95 When I re-installed win95, I could not start linux again. I would appreciate it if you could help me Miki Heyns *+27 (021) 807 2271 (W) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

sendmail rejecting bad domains

1998-09-10 Thread Gene McCulley
I have someone trying to send me email from a machine that is behind a firewall. The firewall relays the mail through, but leaves the sender's machine name on the message. The sender's machine is not in the DNS, so sendmail rejects it with 501 Sender domain must exist. The sender can't fix his

Re: sendmail rejecting bad domains

1998-09-10 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Gene: I had the same problem. If you are using smail, in the /etc/smail/config you can adjust the authentication for a specific IP addresses or subnets. Thus your server receive e-mail from the location in question. The line in question is smtp_hello_broken_allow Peter -Original

Re: Boot sector

1998-09-10 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi! On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Micki Heyns wrote: My disk is partitined with linux - lilo and win95 When I re-installed win95, I could not start linux again. Boot from rescue disk (either from floppy or CDROM) mount the partition where you have the root (/)

Re: sendmail rejecting bad domains

1998-09-10 Thread Richard A Nelson
The sender will need to setup sendmail to masquerade as his firewall. That is how this message is getting out, my box masqerades as vnet.ibm.com when sending mail externally. -- Rick Nelson On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Gene McCulley wrote: Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:11:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Gene

/proc filesystem...

1998-09-10 Thread Yoann Vandoorselaere
Hello, I'm running debian hamm, with slink upgrade Anybody know why /proc/net, /proc/sys /proc/scsi have theses permissions : dr-xr-x--- 2 root root and aren't readable for all... ? Thanks a lot... -- -- Yoann It is well known that M$ products

Re: Broken emacs

1998-09-10 Thread Mark W. Eichin
I'm not sure I've seen this reported before (but I'm way behind on list mail, and haven't checked the bug system for this specific thing) Cannot open load file: bytecomp Seems like the most likely problem, but things have to be very odd for that not to be found... what does dpkg -S bytecomp

apt-get update or dselect update

1998-09-10 Thread ...
If I have apt setup as my default method in dselect. Which is the preferred command to use. I guess what I want to know is this. When I run apt-get update will it also update the package information used by dselect and dpkg -l package name or regexp thnx,

XDM

1998-09-10 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hi, I have some troubles with xdm. When configuring to start with it (/etx/X11/configure) I reboot and all start ok, except that X11 dont read my link from .xsession to .xinirc. Sould i explicit said X11 to use my .xsession file?? Thanks, --

RE: Boot sector

1998-09-10 Thread Ken Archer
That is what they make boot disks for. When you reinstalled Win95, it did an overwrite of lilo in your MBR. Now you need to boot linux with your emergency boot disk (you made one didn't you) and reinstall lilo. On 10-Sep-98 Micki Heyns wrote: My disk is partitined with linux - lilo and win95

Re: Broken emacs

1998-09-10 Thread David R. Kohel
Seems like the most likely problem, but things have to be very odd for that not to be found... what does dpkg -S bytecomp show? it should at least have emacs19: /usr/share/emacs/19.34/lisp/bytecomp.elc Yes, on a machine with broken emacs19: emacs19: /usr/share/emacs/19.34/lisp/bytecomp.elc

Re: apt-get update or dselect update

1998-09-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, ... wrote: If I have apt setup as my default method in dselect. Which is the preferred command to use. I guess what I want to know is this. When I run apt-get update will it also update the package information used by dselect and dpkg -l package name or regexp

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