Empaquetado de los fuentes del kernel.

1998-10-28 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a la lista. He estado visitando la lista de bugs, y se menciona alli que en lo sucesivo, que el kernel-source se entregara en tar ball, esto parece ser que es politica de Debian, vienen referencias a documentos, pero todavia no los he leido. Segun esto, despues de instalar kernel-source,

Re: Empaquetado de los fuentes del kernel.

1998-10-28 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Angel Vicente Perez wrote: He estado visitando la lista de bugs, y se menciona alli que en lo sucesivo, que el kernel-source se entregara en tar ball, esto parece ser que es politica de Debian, vienen referencias a documentos, pero todavia no los he leido. Segun

Diccionario de Ingles

1998-10-28 Thread Ramiro Alba Queipo
Hola a todos: Hace bastante tiempo que busco un diccionario de inglés para Linux (en windows hace tiempo que lo tengo pero no lo utilizo porque mi plataforma de trabajo es casi siempre Linux) Freeware y no visto nada (hay uno pero comercial, aunque por problemas con librerias aun no he podido

Filesystem Hierarchy Standard - 2.0 con SLINK?

1998-10-28 Thread Ramiro Alba Queipo
Hola a todos: ¿Alguien me puede confirmar/desmentir si en la version 2.1 de debian (slink) está implementado FHS - 2.0 ? Saludos -- Ramiro Alba Laboratori de Termotecnia i Energetica Departament de Maquines i Motors Termics ETS d'Enginyers Industrials de Terrassa C/Colom 11 Tf: 34 - 93 739

Re: Diccionario de Ingles

1998-10-28 Thread Sergio Talens-Oliag
El Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 02:27:34PM +0100, Ramiro Alba Queipo escribió: Hola a todos: Hace bastante tiempo que busco un diccionario de inglés para Linux (en windows hace tiempo que lo tengo pero no lo utilizo porque mi plataforma de trabajo es casi siempre Linux) Freeware y no visto nada

RE: Empaquetado de los fuentes del kernel.

1998-10-28 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
* Si al desempaquetar el .deb obtienes las fuentes desempaquetadas, cuando quieres borrar el paquete es un lío, pues en cada directorio habrá ficheros objeto (*.o). Ahora que el .deb contiene el código fuente empaquetado, desinstalar el paquete es mucho más fácil. Pero si antes se hace make

Re: Scripts...

1998-10-28 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Bueno, de nada, pero ahora te cuento... On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 12:09:24AM -0300, Phillip Neumann wrote: Primero que nada gracias por la ayuda La verdad es que no entiendo nada de perl, asique no se que hace el script que me diste: #!/usr/bin/perl (1) while () { (2)

Re: Grabador HP 7200 puerto paralelo

1998-10-28 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Ramiro Alba Queipo wrote: Estoy intentado instalar los drivers de paride para tener acceso a un grabador de puerto paralelo HP 7200 compilando el kernel 2.0.35 [...] [...] Si por el contrario lo incluyo en el kernel, al mirar la salida de dmesg veo las linas: pcd: pcd

Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard - 2.0 con SLINK?

1998-10-28 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Ramiro Alba Queipo wrote: ¿Alguien me puede confirmar/desmentir si en la version 2.1 de debian (slink) está implementado FHS - 2.0 ? Te puedo confirmar que no, todavía seguimos con el FSSTND, pero vamos siendo cada vez más permisivos. Hay muchas cosas ya en /usr/share, que

Re: Diccionario de Ingles

1998-10-28 Thread villate
En el número 33 de Linux Gazette salió recientemente un artículo sobre dict y word inspector. Puedes consultarlo por ejemplo en: http://quark.fe.up.pt/doc/lg/issue33/ayers1.html Jaime Villate http://quark.fe.up.pt

Re: Diccionario de Ingles

1998-10-28 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 05:38:40PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: En el número 33 de Linux Gazette salió recientemente un artículo sobre dict y word inspector. Puedes consultarlo por ejemplo en: http://quark.fe.up.pt/doc/lg/issue33/ayers1.html Y naturalmente puedes bajar ambos de Slink.

Perl en linux

1998-10-28 Thread Antonio Luque
Hola!: Tengo un interprete de Perl y puedo ejecutarlo sin problemas dentro de /usr/bin, pero si lo hago desde otro directorio, incluso añadiendo #! /usr/bin/perl, no me funciona. ¿Que pasa?. Como podeis ver no tengo mucha idea. Gracias.

wishlist Item ( autodial / bandwidth on demand)

1998-10-28 Thread Dimitri
Here is the thought. A linux box can be set to autodial a ppp connection. How about a linux box being able to dialup a primary ppp connection ( analog modem) and if another connection is initiated and the utilization of the primary ppp link is greater than some throughput it fires up a secondary

Re: installation problem

1998-10-28 Thread Michael B. Taylor
I have seen circumstances where cfdisk (used by the install program) would fail, but fdisk would succeed. Try going to the console and typing 'fdisk'. Mike On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 12:19:52PM -0800, Artin Nebel Rebekale wrote: while installing hamm to my thinkpad laptop i had this odd

Re: SATAN

1998-10-28 Thread A. M. Varon
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Mike Holliday wrote: 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. Forget satan. I managed to compile it... but

Re: lynx colours

1998-10-28 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 05:06:03PM +, Dave Swegen wrote: Is there anyone out there who could enlighten me on the topic of colours in lynx? IMHO the default colours are dreadful (dark-blue on black, anyone?). I have rtfm, but to little avail. This is something that has been bugging me for

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

1998-10-28 Thread Darxus
On 27 Oct 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: Yikes! Yup :) I missed your original post. That's what I get for replying to you via someone else's reply and not reading the subject closely enough. Duh? Where on earth did you store this file? I could've sworn the ext2fs had a 2GB/file limit on

Re: xf86setup_3.3.2.3a-6

1998-10-28 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Jeff Noxon wrote: I managed to get things running, but not with x86setup. I had to tweak a lot of stuff by hand and I had to keep going back to find yet another X package... Where can I find this warning message ? Also related: how do I know if a ftp site is good for upgrading from ? It

Re: /etc/host.deny and co

1998-10-28 Thread Daniel Martin
Linh Dang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thank you very much! Another question if you don't mind? Someone mentionned ipfwadm. What do you think about it, how does it compare to tcpwrapper? Does one has to recompile the kernel to use ipfwadm ? Yes, your kernel has to be compiled to support

timezones

1998-10-28 Thread David S. Zelinsky
Since I dual boot with Win95, I have my hardware clock set to local time. I don't use Win95 much any more (read: my wife now uses Linux :), so I figure I might as well change over to UTC, so Linux will handle daylight/standard time correctly (I hope). How do I make that change? I can't find any

Australia: Debian CD Retail Re-sellers wanted.

1998-10-28 Thread Tyson Dowd
Hi, I'm looking for Debian-friendly people in Australia who would be interested in re-selling Debian CDs in a retail outlet. I usually do mail/internet-order Debian CDs (at http://tyse.net), but people often find it easier to pick them up from a store (they are often in a rush). I'm looking for

[Fwd: [Fwd: irq timeouts and ide resets]]

1998-10-28 Thread marvin stodolsky
The following is liable to be relevant to newer motherboards newer powersave BIOSs---BeginMessage--- Thanks Marvin, I went into the Power Management settings and disabled them all and sure enough problems have disappeared. Now if I could just get it to make coffee in the morning...

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

1998-10-28 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Darxus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Any chance I can split this thing into like, 2 pieces, and be able to access half of it ? First half--no problem; second half--no go. Did you try filname tar zxf - Mike Stone

Fwd: irq timeouts and ide resets

1998-10-28 Thread iodine
I am having this problem on a IDE MODE4 1gb disk running on a 486 PCI motherboard.. WIll investigate tonight.. if changing some settings to OFF will fix it.. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.. Been bugging me.. -Original Message- From: George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: marvin

Fw: [Fwd: [Fwd: irq timeouts and ide resets]]

1998-10-28 Thread iodine
Thanks to all.. this may fix what I have problems with.. -Original Message- From: George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: marvin stodolsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian_user debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, 28 October 1998 14:42 Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: irq timeouts and ide

Re: Voodoo 2

1998-10-28 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Alvaro Reguly wrote: Hello .. I've set up q2 and installed libglide2_2.4-3.deb but i can't get my monster II to work .. q2 works only in 320xsomething in +vid_ref soft not vid_ref gl. I've read somewhere that i need to run q2 with a script called quake2.3dfxgl

hosting

1998-10-28 Thread zhongming
i want bulte some independent www and email server on one windowsNT4.0 machine. anyone can tell me how? thank you fanzhongming

Re: lynx colours

1998-10-28 Thread mwb
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Dave Swegen wrote: Is there anyone out there who could enlighten me on the topic of colours in lynx? IMHO the default colours are dreadful (dark-blue on black, anyone?). I have rtfm, but to little avail. This is something that has been bugging me for ages, and I would

Alt keycodes..

1998-10-28 Thread Michael Beattie
Is there an equivalent way to use the alt keycodes to enter highascii?? I remember in windows, Alt- would display lovely characters... It's more a matter of intertest than anything else. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with

Re: Linux on 4Mb

1998-10-28 Thread G. Crimp
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 11:49:08AM +0100, Bostjan JERKO wrote: Is it possible to install Linux on machine with 4 Mb and of course it should work. Bostjan Don't know about Debian 2.0, but I installed Debian 1.3 on a 486sx 25MHz with 5 MB of RAM and a ~110MB harddrive. I had about

Getting cmucl hemlock to work.

1998-10-28 Thread Christopher Barry
I grabbed all of the cmucl packages, and the Lisp is working okay but I can't invoke the hemlock editor no matter how many times I do (ed) or run cmuclconfig to set up the loading. After running a generic Debian installation of the packages, what am I supposed to do to get hemlock or any of the X

Re: My mail doesn't work at all :((((((((((((((( (fwd)

1998-10-28 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, George Bonser wrote: On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: I just installed Exim on a new system. The fix is this: sender_host_accept_relay=127.0.0.1 This still doesn't work :(( Ok, then you are getting a new error in the rejectlog, what is

Re: My mail doesn't work at all :((((((((((((((( (fwd)

1998-10-28 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998 00:08:18 -0800 (PST), George Bonser wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: sender_host_accept_relay=127.0.0.1 Ok then use this: sender_host_accept_relay=127.0.0.1:cus.cam.ac.uk If one is using IPs don't you want to use: sender_net_accept_relay=127.0.0.1/32

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

1998-10-28 Thread Andreas Neukoetter
Hi, They are both lovely suggestions, unfortunately the problem is a bit more substantial. The 1st thing I tried was tar -zxvf home.tgz, and a couple of the things I tried soon after that were cat and less. Neither of which read any of it -- less is the only thing that did anything useful,

Re: quake 2 on debian

1998-10-28 Thread Frank Barknecht
Vincent Murphy hat gesagt: // Vincent Murphy wrote: exactly what packages will i need? i got all the quake2 packages from slink/non-free/binary-i386/quake* and hamm/non-free/binary-i386/libglide*. what else will i need which is not on the hamm cd? i'm getting all the extra stuff i need in

Re: Voodoo 2

1998-10-28 Thread Frank Barknecht
Alvaro Reguly hat gesagt: // Alvaro Reguly wrote: I've set up q2 and installed libglide2_2.4-3.deb but i can't get my monster II to work .. q2 works only in 320xsomething in +vid_ref soft not vid_ref gl. I've read somewhere that i need to run q2 with a script called quake2.3dfxgl or

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

1998-10-28 Thread Keith Beattie
Darxus wrote: Where on earth did you store this file? I could've sworn the ext2fs had a 2GB/file limit on it? Certainly all the file utilities do. It fat32 filesystem. [snip] Well, I think more than that, the assignment of the pointer to the file probably failed, before it even got to

md driver problem

1998-10-28 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Hi all! I've been trying to install Linux (Suse, Debian, RedHat...) in a Pentium MMX 200 with 3 hard disks and a cdrom, but with either distribution, the boot-up process hangs up in the same place (never mind whether started from DOS boot disk, Linux boot disk, cdrom...). This is the output I

Re: md driver problem

1998-10-28 Thread Peter Iannarelli
hello Rodrigo: I've never seen problems with a floppy before. Thats a good one. Try booting a DOS floppy if you can to see what happens. Try resetting the CMOS to the manufacturers defaults. You may also try removing the two hard drives on your second IDE chain for the install. You can

FW: md driver problem

1998-10-28 Thread Andreas Loosen
Hi, Peter, It doesn't seen to be a floppy problem but the md-driver seems to hang. Ciao Andreas Loosen -Original Message- From: Peter Iannarelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 1998 11:28 AM To: Rodrigo Moya Cc: Debian User List Subject: Re: md driver

Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: irq timeouts and ide resets]]

1998-10-28 Thread schulte
According to George Bonser: On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, marvin stodolsky wrote: The following is liable to be relevant to newer motherboards newer powersave BIOSs Note: These errors are common on UDMA disks even without any powersaver features enabled. I had these errors with two Seagate

Re: FW: md driver problem

1998-10-28 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hay all: I think md is for the ramdisk. how much memory is available ? Peter Andreas Loosen wrote: Hi, Peter, It doesn't seen to be a floppy problem but the md-driver seems to hang. Ciao Andreas Loosen -Original Message- From: Peter Iannarelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: md driver problem

1998-10-28 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Try booting a DOS floppy if you can to see what happens. I've been using all this time Windows on this computer, and the floppy works perfectly well. Usually, I start the installation process by booting with a DOS disk, and then executing boot.bat from the cd. Try resetting the CMOS to the

Re: md driver problem

1998-10-28 Thread Rodrigo Moya
It doesn't seen to be a floppy problem but the md-driver seems to hang. Sorry for me being stupid, but what exactly is the MD-driver? Thanks very much

Re: FW: md driver problem

1998-10-28 Thread Rodrigo Moya
I think md is for the ramdisk. how much memory is available ? I've got 64MB of memory Thanks

mutt won't send mail?

1998-10-28 Thread Victor Torrico
Hello, I recently installed mutt_0.94.14-2.deb. Everything works OK except sending Mail. I get the following error message when I send mail: Error sending message, child exited 127 (). All help appreciated. Best regards, Victor

Re: FW: md driver problem

1998-10-28 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Rodrigo You certainly have lots of RAM. Disconnect the two HDs on the 2nd IDE chain and try again. Check the manufacturers WEB site for firmware updates. Peter Rodrigo Moya wrote: I think md is for the ramdisk. how much memory is available ? I've got 64MB of memory Thanks begin:vcard

Re: md driver problem

1998-10-28 Thread Rodrigo Moya
The Multiple-Device-Driver for HD-Mirroring and Striping So, what does this mean? What should I change in the BIOS or wherever?

Re: mutt won't send mail?

1998-10-28 Thread James Dietrich
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 05:57:53AM -0500, Victor Torrico wrote: Hello, I recently installed mutt_0.94.14-2.deb. Everything works OK except sending Mail. I get the following error message when I send mail: Error sending message, child exited 127 (). All help appreciated. Best

RE: [SuSE Linux] bitmap to outline postscript

1998-10-28 Thread Ted Harding
On 19-Oct-98 I wrote: Does anyone know of a package that can take a bitmapped black-and-white image and produce PostScript outline code which would draw the equivalent? I am most obliged to everyone who responded to the above request. Several people suggested Corel Draw or other commercial

PostScript - Acrobat

1998-10-28 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, Is there any package which convert postscript format for acrobat !? Thanks. Best regards, Nuno Carvalho ? Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho Dep. Informatics Engineering University of Coimbra PGP key available at finger

Re: PostScript - Acrobat

1998-10-28 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Nuno Carvalho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Is there any package which convert postscript format for acrobat !? gs-alladin will do it, and contains a ps2pdf script to automate the process. Mike Stone

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-28 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Hello, Antti-Juhani wrote on debian-user: On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 11:05:42AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: ... I would agree however, that a good description of each package would help you decide what to install. Please tell me, what you would consider a good description! Feel free to

Printing to a Novell network printer

1998-10-28 Thread Clovis Sena
Hi all, so is that possible? How can I print to Novell network printer, where i put the queues? NOTE: I work in a environment that includes Win95+dos6.22 as clients, Win NT and Novell 3.12 as servers ( running a mix of database+ intranet nad internet access + mail(most uses outlooks/messenger) )

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

1998-10-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 12:53:53AM -0800, Keith Beattie wrote: Darxus wrote: Where on earth did you store this file? I could've sworn the ext2fs had a 2GB/file limit on it? Certainly all the file utilities do. It fat32 filesystem. Hang on a second here, if the file exceeds the

Re: FW: md driver problem

1998-10-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Peter Iannarelli wrote: : Hay all: : : I think md is for the ramdisk. No, md is Multiple Device Driver. Usually it's the NEXT driver that's hanging, and that's almost always a SCSI driver. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD

Using debian as a file server

1998-10-28 Thread Clovis Sena
Hi all, what do I need to make a win95 to see and uses my Debian as a file server A print server is also available?? how can I configure all of it?? Any help is wellcome!!!Thanks.Clovis Sena. NOTE: I work in a environment that includes Win95+dos6.22 as clients, Win NT and Novell 3.12 as

mutt won't send mail

1998-10-28 Thread Tad R. Thurston
Sirs, I had the same problem with mutt (child exiting, error 127()) and found that it was trying to call /usr/bin/sendmail instead of /usr/sbin/sendmail. I believe this has now been patched, but a logical link from /usr/bin/sendmail to the one in /usr/sbin works for me for the present version.

Re: exim filters and/or procmail

1998-10-28 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 08:33:19PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: BTW your mail is probably in smail's input queue. Try running smail -v -q Thanks, that worked. I switched to smail temporarily and then back to exim. I use fetchmail to get some of my mail. exim got the first few messages, but now

wmaker icons

1998-10-28 Thread Tim \(the Unslept\) Sailer
I somehow/somewhere/sometime lost my wmaker-* xpm, png and tif files... I guess across an upgrade somehow. Can someone tarball them up from their system and send them to me? I'll put them in a private dir. I really liked some of then... besides, now my wmaker has blank tiles instead of nice color

Unidentified subject!

1998-10-28 Thread Darxus
From: Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting Darxus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Any chance I can split this thing into like, 2 pieces, and be able to access half of it ? First half--no problem; second half--no go. Did you try filname tar zxf - Just tried it, and it didn't work. BTW: I found

Re: dselect can't download Packages.gz

1998-10-28 Thread Paul Quinn
Thanks for the offer Peter, but this isn't a newbie issue for me. I've been using debian for 2 years and never encountered this problem before. For a temporary workaround I downloaded the entire stable debian distro and am using dselect via the 'mounted' method. But this is impracticle and

Re: Using debian as a file server

1998-10-28 Thread Kent West
Clovis Sena wrote: Hi all, what do I need to make a win95 to see and uses my Debian as a file server A print server is also available?? how can I configure all of it?? Any help is wellcome!!!Thanks.Clovis Sena. NOTE: I work in a environment that includes Win95+dos6.22 as clients,

Re: clearing screen after logout login screen

1998-10-28 Thread stick
jim r said 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? Personally, I don't like the shell-specific solutions. As system administer

How do you make the X Icons, Fonts, Everything bigger

1998-10-28 Thread Joe Smith
Whenever I run Windows in 1024x768 mode, I get decent quality fonts and icons in terms of size. how can i run x in the same mode with much larger fonts and icons? _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at

How to check for new packages at debian.org ??

1998-10-28 Thread Andreas Neukoetter
Hello, is there it tool which allows me to check for new packages at debian.org ?? i simply want to get a list of _all_ packages that are newer than the ones on the last (official) cd. i've got a very fast connection at work so it would be very easy to update my mirror (at home). (it's not a

Re: How to check for new packages at debian.org ??

1998-10-28 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Andreas Neukoetter wrote: is there it tool which allows me to check for new packages at debian.org ?? i simply want to get a list of _all_ packages that are newer than the ones on the last (official) cd. i've got a very fast connection at work so it would be very easy to

lost mail

1998-10-28 Thread chadi
Hi ! due to a power failure i lost some email from this list. id very much like it if someone can send in all messages regarding that question on sample /etc/hosts.deny co. config ... denying all telnet ftp access. thanks, Chad

guilemots () from a US AT keyboard

1998-10-28 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Help! On the one hand, if anyone needs mail-merge, I now have a working patch to lyx that does it. On the other, I need to use european quotes (guillemots (sp)), those and , as delimiters. How in the world do i enter them from a US keyboard. To make it more fun, it's an AT keyboard--one

Re: lost mail

1998-10-28 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ! due to a power failure i lost some email from this list. id very much like it if someone can send in all messages regarding that question on sample /etc/hosts.deny co. config ... denying all telnet ftp access. thanks, Chad Are

RE: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-28 Thread Person, Rod
This morning I was rebuilding my system and I selected perl and perl-base. And a got a strange conflict dependency error. It said: perl (version numbers from hamm stable) depends on perl-base. perl-base conflicts with perl I don't understand that one. But it would not install them. Rod

wmaker 0.20.2

1998-10-28 Thread Mike Wood
Is this package broken? This morning I did a apt-get upgrade and now wdm and wmaker no longer work. Is anybody else seeing this problem? I can provide more info upon request. mike...

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

1998-10-28 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Darxus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | Any more ideas ? :) Only thing I can think of is getting access to a 64-bit machine, decompressing the file there, tarring the contents off to tape and then restoring them on your machine. Or at least putting them into sub-2GB chunks before taking

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-28 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
Please, if you are cc:-ing me, only cc my reply-to address. On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 11:46:32AM -0500, Person, Rod wrote: This morning I was rebuilding my system and I selected perl and perl-base. And a got a strange conflict dependency error. It said: perl (version numbers from hamm stable)

Re: wmaker 0.20.2

1998-10-28 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 08:50:02AM -0800, Mike Wood wrote: Is this package broken? This morning I did a apt-get upgrade and now wdm and wmaker no longer work. Is anybody else seeing this problem? I can provide more info upon request. Yes. I totally screwed up this time. I can reupload

Re: wmaker icons

1998-10-28 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 11:02:33AM -0500, Tim the Unslept Sailer wrote: I somehow/somewhere/sometime lost my wmaker-* xpm, png and tif files... I guess across an upgrade somehow. Can someone tarball them up from their system and send them to me? I'll put them in a private dir. I really liked

smail statistics

1998-10-28 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Anybody know of a log file parser for smail that shows some nice statistics that can be put on the web? Something like analog for apache, but for smail. Thanks! Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Ratio Regum 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_

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

1998-10-28 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Perhaps it's still ON the fat32 file system. Mind you, it's a bit of a worry we are being outdone by Windows. A 2Gb limit is almost unreasonable these days; I have some 400-500Mb MPEG video files here, so a 2Gb one isn't out of the question, especially with DVD.

web mail

1998-10-28 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Does anybody know of a program I can install on my system that will give my users web mail capabilites? Something like hotmail but without slowness and ads. TIA! Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Ratio Regum 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_

Re: My mail doesn't work at all :((((((((((((((( (fwd)

1998-10-28 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, George Bonser wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipients. The following address(es) failed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SMTP error from remote mailer after end of data: host

Corrupted links in rcXXX.d in Debian2.0

1998-10-28 Thread MarioGiammarco
Hello to everyone, I have corrupted by mistake links in /etc/rcXXX.d. How can I reconstruct the right links to reflect my actual setup? Thank You in advance for your replies Mario Giammarco [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Via Calamandrei, 5 -48022 Lugo (RA) 0545/22965-ITALY

Re: colors in text-mode

1998-10-28 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 12:30:56PM -0800, jim r wrote: Once more the newbie asks a question: I was wonderinghow might I get the login prompt to use some colors? nothing fancy...just the text in a color other than white. Use something gross like this in /etc/issue (but leave issue.net

Re: web mail

1998-10-28 Thread m*
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 05:31:30PM +, Pere Camps wrote: .Hi! . . Does anybody know of a program I can install on my system that .will give my users web mail capabilites? . you hit the nail on the head when you said Webmail! see http://www.woanders.de/~wastl/webmail/ i haven't

Mirrors

1998-10-28 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I'm mirroring the binary-i386 portion of the Debian distribution on a machine at work because my company (actually huge corporate entity) has a firewall, naturally. Moreover, this firewall has some very non-standard proxies that I have not been able to get to work with the apt method of dselect.

Re: web mail

1998-10-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
PC == Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PC Does anybody know of a program I can install on my system that PC will give my users web mail capabilites? www.atdot.org I wanted to try it myself, but didn't find the time to do it. Ciao, Martin

Problems with Networks

1998-10-28 Thread Paul \Baloo\ Johnson
Ok, Ive tried and tried looking through all the support stuff on the Debian site, but I just can't figure out how to get my Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+ Adapter to work. Intels site wasn't informative, either... Please help! Baloo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mirrors

1998-10-28 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Stephen A. Witt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I'm mirroring the binary-i386 portion of the Debian distribution on a | machine at work because my company (actually huge corporate entity) has a | firewall, naturally. Moreover, this firewall has some very non-standard | proxies that I have not been

FW: mail failed, returning to sender

1998-10-28 Thread Mario Bertrand
I debian users, Can anybody give me a explanation for that returned email? If you get my email, of course :-), I will try direct smtp instead of smail. Thanks -FW: [EMAIL PROTECTED]- Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 13:07:58 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mbert Subject: mail failed,

apropos in man corrupted ! - howto fix ?

1998-10-28 Thread Geoffrey L. Brimhall
At some point, my apropos has gotten corrupted so that it never returns anything. I've tried un-installing man-db, and re-installing it, but it apropos still does not work. Though I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it, when I issue 'catman' as super-user, I get the following error:

Re: Problems with Networks

1998-10-28 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 12:24:23PM -0600, Paul Baloo Johnson wrote: Ok, Ive tried and tried looking through all the support stuff on the Debian site, but I just can't figure out how to get my Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+ Adapter to work. Intels site wasn't informative, either... Please help!

Re: **IMPORTANT** Slink sendmail and libdb2

1998-10-28 Thread John Goerzen
Remco van de Meent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: lprng and disabling network printer

1998-10-28 Thread Rene Hojbjerg Larsen
Pere Camps wrote: How do you disable the 'printer' port for remote connections if you're using lprng? Edit /etc/lpd.perms so it has a couple of lines saying sth. like this # reject all connections from remote machines ACCEPT SERVICE=X HOST=localhost REJECT SERVICE=X and make sure that

Re: FW: mail failed, returning to sender

1998-10-28 Thread Samuel Tardieu
Mario == Mario Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mario I debian users, Can anybody give me a explanation for that Mario returned email? If you get my email, of course :-), I will try Mario direct smtp instead of smail. There's a good chance that the problem doesn't come from you, but from the

Netscape and gunzip

1998-10-28 Thread Armin Joellenbeck
Hello, I'm missing in Netscape the feature to gunzip downloaded files on the fly. I'm sure to have seen this in non-Debian installations. How it could be setup. Armin Joellenbeck

HP_Deskjet890

1998-10-28 Thread Knutte Bergstrom
Need help. I am not get my printer to print lpr.log says cannot execv /etc/magicfilter/dj550c-filter if i remove from /etc/printcap the line if=/etc/magicfilter/ the printer works, but with a blank printout there is no communication problem !! so far i now the dj550c-filter is the right

Re: Printing to a Novell network printer

1998-10-28 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
One option is to install Novell-nfs on the Netware server. It includes lpd. At least that what we do at NYU to enable Windows, Mac and Unix to print. Sergey. On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Clovis Sena wrote: Hi all, so is that possible? How can I print to Novell network printer, where i put the

Re: mutt won't send mail?

1998-10-28 Thread wtopa
I had the same problem as well. I thought I had done something wrong with my qmail setup ( I had. forgot to install maildirsmtp) but that didn't fix it. I them compiled up mutt-0.93.2.tar.gz and installed it. That fixed the problem for me. Might the -94xxx.deb possibly be bad?

Re: **IMPORTANT** Slink sendmail and libdb2

1998-10-28 Thread Richard A Nelson
Sendmail slowly is moving everything to /etc/mail - but they haven't hit all the databases yet. I can update the features for Debian, and move the default files from /etc/ to /etc/mail/ Without parsing /etc/mail/sendmail.mc, I can't tell what type of encoding is used for the databases, so I

Re: Debian Questions

1998-10-28 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 03:30:28PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: because it needs an MTA and doesn't know about qmail. Use the qmail-src package available at a mirror of the non-free section near you. Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] **

Re: **IMPORTANT** Slink sendmail and libdb2

1998-10-28 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 03:39:51PM -0500, Richard A Nelson wrote: : Without parsing /etc/mail/sendmail.mc, I can't tell what type of encoding : is used for the databases, so I don't think I can do the makemaps : automagically ;-{ People can't be obligated not to edit sendmail.cf, instead of

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