Re: Acelerar Fetchmail

1998-10-27 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 11:38:50PM +, Ubaldo Fernandez Covelo wrote: Lo he hecho pero se me olvido decir que mi proveedor CTV funciona con POP3 por tanto segun el man expunge no funciona con POP3, con Lo que no se como borrar los mensajes en grupos de 20 o 30 Estas seguro que es una

Re: kdeoffice

1998-10-27 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 12:19:55AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /opt no existe, ¿debería existir? Puedes hacerlo. Debian no lo va a hacer pues el FHS dice algo asi... son componentes que no son parte de la distribucion... opcionales... Marcelo

Re: kdeoffice

1998-10-27 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 12:19:55AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: Ugo Enrico Albarello dixit: Ponlo en cualquier parte (mejor en /opt) y prueba a ver que pasa. /opt no existe, ¿debería existir? Haz un mkdir /opt y listo!. Así hice en los viejos tiempos con KDE beta1 y Slackware96 ¿quieres

RE: kernels en desarrollo

1998-10-27 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
P.D: Ahhh, el kernel lo bajé de www.kernel.org como un .tar.bz2. No hay, que yo conozca, un paquete debian con éste kernel. Esta mañana he visto en ftp.debian.org, los fuentes del kernel 2.1.125. Saludos Angel Vicente Perez Dpto. Informatica KNIPPING ESPAÑA S.A. Tfno. +34-1-6070-311 Fax

Re: Koffice

1998-10-27 Thread TooManySecrets
Ugo Enrico Albarello el día Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 05:47:43PM -0500 expuso lo siguiente: ¿Se sabe algo respecto a la debianización del Koffice? Realmente no creo que Debian se vaya a encargar de eso, es decir, que algún día lo vaya a incluir en su distribución. Pero si quieres verlo

Re: Koffice

1998-10-27 Thread Nacho Priego
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, TooManySecrets wrote: ¿Se sabe algo respecto a la debianización del Koffice? Aparte de los problemas legales, Koffice está en fase MUY beta, y una de las normas de Debian es que sea estable. Así que hasta que no esté más acabado no creo que se debianice. Nacho Priego

Re: KDE es ilegal

1998-10-27 Thread Nacho Priego
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Ugo Enrico Albarello wrote: El Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 10:36:46AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: P.D: Sabías que KDE es ilegal 0% de software comercial. Decir que KDE es ilegal, es pasarse un pelo. Lo único que le pasa es que los desarrolladores lo pusieron alegremente

Re: Koffice

1998-10-27 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 08:56:06AM +0100, TooManySecrets wrote: La pregunta era por que se había dicho que había una persona que iba debianizando paquetes del kde, aunque ahora que Debian no lo va a volver a incluir en su distrib... no sé qué se hará... Si no estoy mal informado, uno de los

RE: Aventuras instalando hamm

1998-10-27 Thread jarregui
Hola, saludos a todos. Ayer investigué un poco más sobre mi problema. Como dije en mi primer mail tengo en mi casa dos sistemas: un bo migrado a hamm y un hamm nuevo. Los problemas los tengo en el sistema bo migrado a hamm. Ejecuté en los dos sistemas unas órdenes para comparar resultados:

Re: Koffice

1998-10-27 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 10:13:31AM +, Enrique Zanardi wrote: Si no estoy mal informado, uno de los miembros del equipo del KDE (¿Stephan Kulow, o algo así?) está encargado de generar paquetes deb, y ponerlos en los servidores del KDE. Correcto. Stephan Kulow es del equipo de KDE y hace

Re: Koffice

1998-10-27 Thread thoth
TooManySecrets wrote: Buenas. ¿Se sabe algo respecto a la debianización del Koffice? Gracias. -- Have a nice day ;-) TooManySecrets -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Si tienes el alien haz alien -g paquete.rpm Veras la estructura de como monta el

Re: KDE es ilegal

1998-10-27 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 10:41:02AM +0100, Nacho Priego dijo: On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Ugo Enrico Albarello wrote: El Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 10:36:46AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: P.D: Sabías que KDE es ilegal 0% de software comercial. Decir que KDE es ilegal, es pasarse un pelo. Lo

Re: kdeoffice

1998-10-27 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Ugo Enrico Albarello wrote: KDE depende de software de distribución no gratuita, o sea Qt. non-free - no libre. [ Por favor, no confundir libre con gratis ] -- f68d6336039a0aa81610977ea303af5c (a truly random sig)

PD440FX (sonido)

1998-10-27 Thread Enzo A. Dari
Hola gente, tengo un PII 300 MHz montado sobre un MotherBoard PD440FX con placa de sonido incorporada, parece que es una Yamaha, no sé bien qué modelo. El tema es que no he podido configurarla para que funcione bajo Linux. La idea sería recompilar un kernel 2.0.35 con el soporte adecuado. Ahora

Re: PD440FX (sonido)

1998-10-27 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
Hola gente, tengo un PII 300 MHz montado sobre un MotherBoard PD440FX con placa de sonido incorporada, parece que es una Yamaha, no sé bien qué modelo. El tema es que no he podido configurarla para que funcione bajo Linux. La idea sería recompilar un kernel 2.0.35 con el soporte adecuado.

Re: modem connection speed

1998-10-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Ed == Ed Cogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ed'plog -f' will show the connect speed in its output. Use ctl-c to exit Ed when done. __ plog -f Oct 26 17:45:17 tiamat diald[2284]: Running pppd (pid = 3742). Oct 26 17:45:17 tiamat diald[3742]: Running pppd: /usr/sbin/pppd -detach modem

Re: ISDN Adapter or Eth Router or Serial

1998-10-27 Thread Lee Bradshaw
I believe the Netgear rt328 is an OEM product from Zyxel http://www.zyxel.com. I've used Combinet (now Cisco) and Ascend. The Zyxel box is by far the easiest to configure. It's especially good for connecting to multiple sites and masquerading as different IP addresses on different connections.

RE: Which device for scanner?

1998-10-27 Thread Jon Burchmore
I recently had to re-install because of an 'administrative error'. ;) I am now trying to re-setup my UMAX S-6E using SANE. I remember that I had to 'mknod' a new sga device, but I can't remember what the major and minor numbers were. I've been searching the net and the mailing lists, but I

Where to find/fix/configure You've been idle... logoff?

1998-10-27 Thread cls
I normally connect to my Debian systems via telnet. My 1.3(bo) system lets me remain logged into a shell all day. My 2.0(hamm) system logs me off after about an hour of idle time. Where is this automatic logoff feature configured? Documented? How do I turn it off or change the timeout value?

Re: Still having Printer Problems

1998-10-27 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Make a copy of your /etc/printcap and then run magicfilterconfig. I think the if line should be something like :if=/usr/sbin/ljet4l-filter ljet4l-filter is a magicfilter script (it starts with #! /usr/sbin/magicfilter). All lines should end with a \ until the end of the printer description.

Re: Strange firewall non-function or nag-ware?

1998-10-27 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect that the Ether Boy is nasty nagware. Or is the firewall broken? Opinions welcome. Expert opinions encouraged. Etherboy comes from Curtin University of Western Australia (just down the road from me) so it is serious software. IFRC it

Q: Hub/router/switch

1998-10-27 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, I'd like to know what are the differences between HUB/Router/Switch? Thanks and please pardon my novice question! -- Timothy C. Phan

Re: Strange firewall non-function or nag-ware?

1998-10-27 Thread john
Lindsay Allen writes: On Tue, 27 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect that the Ether Boy is nasty nagware. Or is the firewall broken? Opinions welcome. Expert opinions encouraged. Etherboy comes from Curtin University of Western Australia (just down the road from

Trying to remove smail

1998-10-27 Thread Azog
Hello, I've recently moved to using qmail on my system, and so decided to remove smail. But, apt/dpkg refuses to allow me to do so. How can I override the dependency errors and uninstall smail and not have it affect any other packages that depend on a MTA? Thanks. -- -Josh Co-Admin of

Re: adding .tmf files to tex

1998-10-27 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Antti-Juhani wrote, On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 05:30:18PM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: [.tfm files] But how in the world do I get latex to recognize these? I see a number of places I can put them, Put them in a subdirectory of /usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/tfm/ (IIRC) and run texhash

Upgrade to X 3.3.2.3a-6 broke netscape

1998-10-27 Thread wb4mle
Netscape 4.5pr2 worked fine prior to new X. Now fails to run and calls the help messenger. Command line messages are: Locale `C' not supported. Perhaps your $XNLSPATH is not set properly Warning: Locale not supported by Xlib Locale set to C Warning: X locale modifiers not supported, using

Re: modem connection speed

1998-10-27 Thread Ed Cogburn
Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, Ed == Ed Cogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ed'plog -f' will show the connect speed in its output. Use ctl-c to exit Ed when done. __ plog -f Oct 26 17:45:17 tiamat diald[2284]: Running pppd (pid = 3742). Oct 26 17:45:17 tiamat diald[3742]: Running

Script help...............

1998-10-27 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hi debian world... Im not know very much about scripts so i need some help with one.. Here my situation: A script will be executed when i call to my linux box... here it is: /etc/init.d/xringd stop /root/IP_MAIL pon incomingcall /etc/init.d/xringd start

RE: Which device for scanner?

1998-10-27 Thread Matt Thompson
Thanks, Jon, '/dev/MAKEDEV sg' did the trick. :) Matthew On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Jon Burchmore wrote: I recently had to re-install because of an 'administrative error'. ;) I am now trying to re-setup my UMAX S-6E using SANE. I remember that I had to 'mknod' a new sga device, but I can't

Re: XDM and XDMCP

1998-10-27 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Steve Rothanburg wrote: In the XDM manpages(in the chooser section), it says you can set up XDM to use chooser to give a list of hosts you can connect to. I haven't really had time to look at it, but it says it'll use the chooser for indirect XDMCP connections. But it

Re: Script help...............

1998-10-27 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: Hi debian world... Im not know very much about scripts so i need some help with one.. Here my situation: A script will be executed when i call to my linux box... here it is: /etc/init.d/xringd stop /root/IP_MAIL pon incomingcall

Re: modem connection speed

1998-10-27 Thread Michael Beattie
On 26 Oct 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, Ed == Ed Cogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ed 'plog -f' will show the connect speed in its output. Use ctl-c to exit Ed when done. __ plog -f Oct 26 17:45:17 tiamat diald[2284]: Running pppd (pid = 3742). Oct 26 17:45:17 tiamat

More than one question....

1998-10-27 Thread Vincent Rosso
Yep, I still have more questions. Ugh. But, things are shapping up at least. 1. Netscape Messenger takes a /very/ long time to load. Navigator loads pretty quickly but then it takes Messenger a good 6 minutes to load. I had version 4.5 so I figured it might be a bug so I downgraded to 4.07 but

exim filters and/or procmail

1998-10-27 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Aarg. I upgraded my system yesterday and smail stopped delivering my messages. I noticed that fetchmail was downloading, but then I didn't have any new messages in my folders. I couldn't find anything useful in the log files and I couldn't find the messages anywhere, so it looks like they went to

Re: Security problem

1998-10-27 Thread Christian Hudon
The bug is real, and Debian has a fix. See security lists in Debian. If you are running Debian 2.0 you might have a security hole. There was also security problems with bind. The fixes appear in the current distributions (2.0.2 I think) not in package-updates. Why the

RE: Script help...............

1998-10-27 Thread Shaleh
Dunno why you are doing it this way so let me ask. Why are you not using the scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down}?? The IP address of the connection is passed to the scripts on login. So you are guaranteed to get a good IP. If this is not useful for some reason contact me and I can get your script

Re: More than one question....

1998-10-27 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
1. Netscape Messenger takes a /very/ long time to load. Navigator loads pretty quickly but then it takes Messenger a good 6 minutes to load. I had version 4.5 so I figured it might be a bug so I downgraded to 4.07 but to no avail. Everything works fine (i'm using messenger right now), it

Re: More than one question....

1998-10-27 Thread AJT60
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Vincent Rosso wrote: Yep, I still have more questions. Ugh. But, things are shapping up at least. 1. Netscape Messenger takes a /very/ long time to load. Navigator loads No idea about this one. Don't use messenger? 2. I have 32 megs of RAM, but when I call free,

NEW USER - mainframe connection

1998-10-27 Thread sam
Can Linux connect to a IBM Mainframe - on windows I use software that has something called TN3270 or a IRMA gateway allows me to connect via a VT100 like terminal. What package would work for this - it does not seem to be listed in the package descriptions.

debian boot disk that supports aic 7890

1998-10-27 Thread Oz Dror
Hi, I am going to by a MB with on scsi u2w controller aic7890 can I boot/install a new debian system using on this board thanks Oz Dror -- NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94 PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126

Re: DayLight Saving - in Australia

1998-10-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 07:53:00PM +0100, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: Linux will not change the clock at all (contrary to Windows). All Linux does is to interpret the time in a different way. [...] If the CMOS clock is set to local time Linux won't adapt to the change between daylight saving and

Re: modem connection speed

1998-10-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 01:00:33PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: richard wrote: How can I tell at what speed I am connecting to my ISP under linux? 'plog -f' will show the connect speed in its output. Use ctl-c to exit when done. Only if your modem is configured to report it;

Re: modem connection speed

1998-10-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 01:33:12PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wb2oyc writes: I'm not sure how to tell the ppp daemon or chatscript to tell you that Replace the 'ATZ' in your chatscript with 'ATW2'. Add '-r /etc/ppp/speed' Not really the same thing; you really need ATZ then ATW2 as a

Debian in Beowulf Multiprocessor

1998-10-27 Thread Paul Neumeyer
Has anyone got experience using Debian linux in a Beowulf architecture parallel computer. I am interested in setting up a small experimental system before going larger. I have Debian linux, but the sites I found describe their Beowulf systems as running Red Hat Linux 5.0/5.1 Any help will be

Notification of incoming telnet sessions..

1998-10-27 Thread Michael Beattie
I want to be able to have some form of notification when a telnet connection is made to my linux box, most likely in the form of playing an appropriate .wav file. Having sysklogd sending all daemon connections to an unused terminal would do the second part... how I find out who/where it was. I

Re: XDM and XDMCP

1998-10-27 Thread Martin Waller
Couldn't you just use: Xnest -query host -geometry widthxheight :1? This will bring up a XDM login-screen from the desired host on display :1 in a window of size geometry in your current X session. Martin Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 16:12:23 +1300 (NZDT) From: Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XDM and XDMCP

1998-10-27 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Martin Waller wrote: Couldn't you just use: Xnest -query host -geometry widthxheight :1? This will bring up a XDM login-screen from the desired host on display :1 in a window of size geometry in your current X session. Hmmm... after looking at the options you

clearing screen after logout login screen

1998-10-27 Thread jim r
How do I clear the screen after logout? so...instead of walking up on the remnants of the X server terminating and a login prompt, all that shows on the screen is the login prompt... what script is it? For that matter, how can I change the login prompt itself?both lines (Debian GNU/Linux

ppp problem

1998-10-27 Thread Chris Evans
I sent this yesterday (I think: windoze problems!), hasn't been copied back to me by majordomo so I assume it didn't get through. I have moved my debian machine home from old workplace and am trying to configure it for ppp access to my university ppp entry point. I have used pppconfig to

Re: XDM and XDMCP

1998-10-27 Thread Martin Waller
Dunno - perhaps put in the /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers or whatever it is file? Forget off-hand what the format of the file is - something like: local:0 X Perhaps change it to: local :1 X -query host -bpp wotuwant? Just a guess, Martin Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 22:31:44

Re: Notification of incoming telnet sessions..

1998-10-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MB == Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MB I want to be able to have some form of notification when a telnet MB connection is made to my linux box, most likely in the form of playing an MB appropriate .wav file. Having sysklogd sending all daemon connections to MB an unused terminal

Re: debian boot disk that supports aic 7890

1998-10-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
OD == Oz Dror [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OD I am going to by a MB with on scsi u2w controller aic7890 OD can I boot/install a new debian system using on this board The currently available disks don't have support for it. However, Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] made disks for his own use. You

Re: Notification of incoming telnet sessions..

1998-10-27 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
MB == Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MB I want to be able to have some form of notification when a telnet MB connection is made to my linux box, most likely in the form of playing an MB appropriate .wav file. Having sysklogd sending all daemon connections to MB an unused

Re: Notification of incoming telnet sessions..

1998-10-27 Thread Petter Adsen
Michael Beattie writes: | I want to be able to have some form of notification when a telnet | connection is made to my linux box, most likely in the form of playing an [snip] You can probably do this with tcpwrappers. See the manpages for hosts_access(5) and tcpd(8). Petter -- Petter Adsen

Debian Menu Methods WMaker Menu Config

1998-10-27 Thread jim r
I've installed several non-debian packages (some RPMs and what not). How do I safely update my Window Maker menus? If I hand-jam the changes, will the results be wiped out the next time I install a .deb? orwill the changes cause a .deb install (specifically the menu update part) to screw

Re: clearing screen after logout login screen

1998-10-27 Thread chadi
edit /etc/issue if u are on the local machine or /etc/issue.net for telnet sessions ... that is, put a full screen of welcome messages on it and it will clear away all those funny characters hope this helps, Chad *** REPLY PARTITION *** On 10/27/98, at 1:31 AM, jim r wrote:

Re: Installation

1998-10-27 Thread Rodrigo Moya
I tried last night to set up everything as [EMAIL PROTECTED] said yesterday, that is: controller 0, device 0: harddisk, STANDALONE controller 1, device 0: harddisk, MASTER controller 1, device 1: cdrom, SLAVE And now, the boot-up process hangs up a step forward. Now it shows: ...

Linux on 4Mb

1998-10-27 Thread Bostjan JERKO
Is it possible to install Linux on machine with 4 Mb and of course it should work. Bostjan

how to stop /dev/dsp being in use?

1998-10-27 Thread Andrew
Just a quickie: I killed timidity (i can't remember why), and couldn't get it to play again because /dev/dsp was in use. How do I stop it being in use without restarting? -- Andrew Tarr We were so close to heaven --- Peter came out and gave us badges, proclaiming us `The Nicest of the

Procmail and smail

1998-10-27 Thread Moore, Paul
Hi, I have smail and procmail installed, and I want to get them working together. I am currently using a .forward file to push my mail through procmail, but what I'd like is if smail used procmail directly as the local delivery agent (when I used the SuSE distribution, with sendmail and procmail,

kppp

1998-10-27 Thread Bostjan JERKO
I installed kde on my Debian 2.0 and would like to use kppp to connect to Internet. After installation and configuration I tried to connect to my ptovider, but script expects OK after CONNECT message, but my provider doesn't send any OK ater connection (in ppp it would be CONNECT ). Can

Re: clearing screen after logout login screen

1998-10-27 Thread Juergen Fornoff
How do I clear the screen after logout? so...instead of walking up on the remnants of the X server terminating and a login prompt, all that shows on the screen is the login prompt... what script is it? For that matter, how can I change the login prompt itself?both lines (Debian

Re: clearing screen after logout login screen

1998-10-27 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, jim r wrote: How do I clear the screen after logout? so...instead of walking up on the remnants of the X server terminating and a login prompt, all that shows on the screen is the login prompt... what script is it? No script, just add `trap clear EXIT` to the end of

Re: Notification of incoming telnet sessions..

1998-10-27 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Petter Adsen wrote: Michael Beattie writes: | I want to be able to have some form of notification when a telnet | connection is made to my linux box, most likely in the form of playing an [snip] You can probably do this with tcpwrappers. See the manpages for

Re: Notification of incoming telnet sessions..

1998-10-27 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: MB == Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MB I want to be able to have some form of notification when a telnet MB connection is made to my linux box, most likely in the form of playing an MB appropriate .wav file. Having

Re: Desperately in need of a Database app....

1998-10-27 Thread Damon Muller
On Sun, 25 Oct 1998 14:05:30 -0600 (CST) D'jinnie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have attempted to set up ODBC with Postgres, and I think I got the ODBC part working (I'm doing this for my work, trying to come up with an alternative to M$ SQL :) but I've no clue how to make Access talk to

Re: KDE Questions

1998-10-27 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Cristov Russell wrote: 2 - When I start the editor application, it opens 3 times. The first 2 times it pops up an error message for a directory I have not loaded a file from previously but from a directory I used in bash prior to running KDE the first time!? Does anyone

Re: Debian Menu Methods WMaker Menu Config

1998-10-27 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, jim r wrote: I've installed several non-debian packages (some RPMs and what not). How do I safely update my Window Maker menus? If I hand-jam the changes, will the results be wiped out the next time I install a .deb? orwill the changes cause a .deb install

Re: Crash

1998-10-27 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Andreas Kahari wrote: At work, if I reboot my Solaris workstation, the last command reports something like rebootsystem boot Fri Oct 23 09:54 ... but at home, with Debian 2.0, it simply states that my system has crashed at a specific time. the

Re: DayLight Saving - in Australia

1998-10-27 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 07:53:00PM +0100, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: Linux will not change the clock at all (contrary to Windows). All Linux does is to interpret the time in a different way. [...] If the CMOS clock is set to local time Linux won't

Re: exim filters and/or procmail

1998-10-27 Thread servis
*- Lee Bradshaw wrote about exim filters and/or procmail | | Does anyone have an example of exim filters which split list mail into | different files? Here are some chunks of my .forward file that deal with the debian-* lists traffic. # Exim filter if error_message then finish endif if

Re: Linux on 4Mb

1998-10-27 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Once I did it with BO. All installation was done on another PC with 32M but after that the harddrive was placed on machine with only 4MB ROM and it was ok. On 27 Oct 1998, Bostjan JERKO wrote: Is it possible to install Linux on machine with 4 Mb and of course it should work. Bostjan

how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-27 Thread Darxus
Before I wiped redhat to install debian several weeks ago, I backed up my /etc, /root, and /home directories to .tar.gz's on another drive. Unfortunately I was overconfident that my syntax was correct, and that there were no other problems that could occur -- I think I verified that I could

Re: kppp

1998-10-27 Thread Kirston Akos
Hi! I have the same problem on RedHat 5.0. Then I change the next beta version of kde. After this it's worked. Now I use debian and I don't use kde. May be if there is no other solution try this. By krisah On 27 Oct 1998, Bostjan JERKO wrote: I installed kde on my Debian 2.0 and would

Re: DayLight Saving - in Australia

1998-10-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 07:27:49AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: Quoting Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 07:53:00PM +0100, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: Linux will not change the clock at all (contrary to Windows). All Linux does is to interpret the time in a

Re: how to stop /dev/dsp being in use?

1998-10-27 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I killed timidity (i can't remember why), and couldn't get it to play again because /dev/dsp was in use. How do I stop it being in use without restarting? /var/lock contains the lock files; remove the appropriate file. rick --

HELP!! Slink hosed my system!!!

1998-10-27 Thread Person, Rod
Help! On the recommendation of others, I attempted to download some apps from slink! I had done this before and everything worked fine! Not this time I need to download libc6 and libreadline2 from slink along with mime-support from slink. I missed then dependency of mime-support until after the

Re: Security problem

1998-10-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
King Lee wrote: The fixes appear in the current distributions (2.0.2 I think) not in package-updates. Now I'm really confused. I always thought that I'd have everything by installing 2.0 and then tracking proposed-updates. I thought that 2.0 was _stable_, and therefore

apt-get broken?

1998-10-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Here's what happens when I try to `update' : # apt-get update Get ftp://debian.crosslink.net dists/hamm/ Packages Error ftp://debian.crosslink.net dists/hamm/ Packages 550 /pub/linux/debian/dists/hamm/Packages.gz: not a plain file. Get ftp://debian.crosslink.net dists/proposed-updates/

Re: ppp problem

1998-10-27 Thread David Wright
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Chris Evans wrote: I have moved my debian machine home from old workplace and am trying to configure it for ppp access to my university ppp entry point. I have used pppconfig to enter the basic parameters that work for Win95 ppp access and I can see from plog (after

Re: **IMPORTANT** Slink sendmail and libdb2

1998-10-27 Thread John Goerzen
Would it be possible for the sendmailconfig to update these databases? It wouldn't be that hard, I think. Also, how about updating the defailts so that they are stored in /etc/mail instead of /etc? John Richard A Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The last update of sendmail switched from libdb

SATAN

1998-10-27 Thread Mike Holliday
Hi, I'm having a slight problem installing Satan..when I go to the reconfig script..I'm not sure of the command I've used sh /my/satan/directory/reconfig.sh But it's not moving or showing that it is working. Mike H.

RE: Help with E-Mail

1998-10-27 Thread Martin Waller
Hi, I downloaded the .tgz file direct from ftp.netscape.com, stuck it in /usr/local/ (where all my non-.debs go), unzipped it, untarred it, ran the nsinstall script (instructions included in the .tgz file) and voila! it was ready to go. Remember to get the version corresponding to your libc

/etc/host.deny and co

1998-10-27 Thread Linh Dang
Hi I want to deny telnet, ftp and smtp connection from ANY other sites. But I want to accept http connection, pull down pop3, imap and send out mail (smtp). How do I setup /etc/host.deny, /etc/host.allow and CO. I will RTFM but since security is so important (that why I choose Debian) I'd like

[stallkne@digger.scc.uni-weimar.de: fschk-error]

1998-10-27 Thread Martin Schulze
Please take care. Regards, Joey -- Unable to locate coffee, operator halted. -- Stefan Farsch ---BeginMessage--- At the last boot-attempt I got an fschk error(8) (operational error) and was told by the program to fix this manually. What do I have to do now or where can I find some

Re: **IMPORTANT** Slink sendmail and libdb2

1998-10-27 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 08:35:35AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: : Would it be possible for the sendmailconfig to update these databases? : It wouldn't be that hard, I think. Also, how about updating the defailts : so that they are stored in /etc/mail instead of /etc? They default to

Re: Security problem

1998-10-27 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Christian Hudon wrote: ... Well, you can also subscribe to debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Information about every security fix released by Debian is posted there. (To subscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the single word 'subscribe' in the subject

Re: apt-get broken?

1998-10-27 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 09:32:52AM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: : : Here's what happens when I try to `update' : : : # apt-get update : Get ftp://debian.crosslink.net dists/hamm/ Packages : Error ftp://debian.crosslink.net dists/hamm/ Packages : 550

Re: Setting variables for menu access

1998-10-27 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, David Morris wrote: ...CVSROOT... Where do I need to set variables like that so my xdm-started session menus have access to them? I have it in .bash_profile. better than .xsession in my opinion. If more than one user uses it, you could also place it in /etc/profile, i

Re: /etc/host.deny and co

1998-10-27 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 09:52:28AM -0500, Linh Dang wrote: : I want to deny telnet, ftp and smtp connection from ANY other sites. But : I want to accept http connection, pull down pop3, imap and send out mail : (smtp). : : How do I setup /etc/host.deny, /etc/host.allow and CO. I will RTFM

Re: Security problem

1998-10-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 09:27:55AM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: I thought that 2.0 was _stable_, and therefore was the same as my CD. This is not the case? Proposed security fixes (from proposed-updates) are moved into the stable tree at the request of the security team. Ray -- ART A

GUS PnP with isapnp alsa-modules

1998-10-27 Thread Mike Gerber
Hi Debian Users! I'm trying to get my GUS PnP working under Debian 2.0 using Kernel 2.0.35, isapnp and the corresponding alsa-modules. My first question: Is the alsa-Driver OSS-compatible? I initialized my GUS using isapnp as I've done under my prev. distro(it worked there), but the alsa

Re: Security problem

1998-10-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 09:27:55AM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: I thought that 2.0 was _stable_, and therefore was the same as my CD. This is not the case? Proposed security fixes (from proposed-updates) are moved into the stable tree at the request of

dselect can't download Packages.gz

1998-10-27 Thread Paul Quinn
I'm trying to use dselect with the ftp method for accessing debian packages. I use a correct site and dist names (the Access step complete successfully), but the Update step fails to retrieve the Packages.gz files. It complains that it can't find Packages or Packages.gz in any of the

Re: modem connection speed

1998-10-27 Thread john
Hamish Moffatt writes: Not really the same thing; you really need ATZ then ATW2 as a separate command. Or do ATW2 and write the options to NVRAM with W. You're right: 'ATZ OK ATW2' for belt suspenders. But most modems don't need the ATZ at all. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)

Re: kppp

1998-10-27 Thread john
I installed kde on my Debian 2.0 and would like to use kppp to connect to Internet. After installation and configuration I tried to connect to my ptovider, but script expects OK after CONNECT message, but my provider doesn't send any OK ater connection (in ppp it would be CONNECT ). Sounds

Re: Procmail and smail

1998-10-27 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 11:13:48AM -, Moore, Paul wrote: I have smail and procmail installed, and I want to get them working together. I am currently using a .forward file to push my mail through procmail, but what I'd like is if smail used procmail directly as the local delivery agent

installing .tfm files

1998-10-27 Thread Jim McCloskey
| On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 05:30:18PM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins | Esq. wrote: | [.tfm files] | But how in the world do I get latex to recognize these? I see a | number of places I can put them, | | Put them in a subdirectory of /usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/tfm/ | (IIRC) and run texhash as root.

Re: HELP!! Slink hosed my system!!!

1998-10-27 Thread Steven Udell
Person, Rod wrote: Help! On the recommendation of others, I attempted to download some apps from slink! I had done this before and everything worked fine! Not this time I need to download libc6 and libreadline2 from slink along with mime-support from slink. I missed then dependency of

Problem with xdm in a bo-hamm updated system

1998-10-27 Thread jarregui
Hello! I've upgraded my bo system to hamm, and have had some problems. Also, I have a clean new installed hamm system in another partition. When a try to start xdm, I get a core dump and I can see in /var/log/xdm-errors: sh: '-c' requires an argument I've removed, purged and re-installed xbase

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