Netscape y libc6

1998-11-03 Thread Octavio Rodriguez Perez
Hola, Estoy intentando instalar Netscape 4. Concretamente, me he bajado los siguientes ficheros: netscape-base-4_5.deb netscape-base-407_4.07-1.deb netscape-java-407_4.07-1.deb communicator-base-407_4.07-1.deb communicator-nethelp-407_4.07-1.deb communicator-smotif-407_4.07-1.deb Al hacer un

Servidor X e Intel740, ¡¡casi resuelto!!

1998-11-03 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Gracias ante todo a la gente de la lista por sus respuestas a mi problema con el servidor X y mi tarjeta gráfica Asus V2740TV. Me baje el servidor XBF_i740 según me indicó Fernando desde www.precisioninsight.com y ya parece que el servidor me pilla la tarjeta bien. Tuve un problema con el kbdcomp

Re: Servidor X e Intel740, ¡¡casi resuelto!!

1998-11-03 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 02:39:28PM +0100, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: Por otra parte, al iniciar las X con startx entra en ellas pero no arranca ningún gestor de ventanas, se queda la retícula gris de fondo y ya está. $ [ ! -f ~/.xsession ] echo exec /usr/X11/bin/wm_favorito ~/.xsession

StarOffice Debian 2.0 (glibc6), SI es posible :)

1998-11-03 Thread Manel
Hola Este es un mensaje que posteo a la lista para quien pueda interesarle Despues de instalar Debian 2.0 intente instalar StarOffice 4 sp3 con la desagradable sorpresa de que no pude porque Debian 2.0 viene con el nuevo formato de libc (glibc6) segmentaut fault Despues de investigar me

Re: Netscape y libc6

1998-11-03 Thread JMG
On Tue, 03 Nov 1998 09:28:56 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Octavio Rodriguez Perez) wrote: Hola, Hola Estoy intentando instalar Netscape 4. Concretamente, me he bajado los siguientes ficheros: netscape-base-4_5.deb netscape-base-407_4.07-1.deb netscape-java-407_4.07-1.deb

No funciona el programa de desfragmentación .

1998-11-03 Thread Juan Pedro García
Antes de nada quiero enviaros a todos un saludo ya que con este Correo-e me estreno en vuestra lista. La razón de que me dirija a vosotros es que no puedo instalar linux en mi ordenador porque el programa para desfragmentar el disco duro de mi ordenador que lleva Windows 95 no funciona

Problemas con libstdc++272 y libstdc++28

1998-11-03 Thread Alfonso Pastor
Hola, tengo la Debian 2.0 y estoy intentando compilar licq 0.42. Primero intento compilar con c++ (egcs) y el compilador se queja del codigo C++ en que esta escrito licq, en concreto arremete contra unos templates y unos operadores. Entonces voy y pruebo a compilar con g++272 (el GNU de toda la

Modulo ppa.o

1998-11-03 Thread vus
Saludos a todos: Hola me llamo Vicens,(prefiero vus, dentro la red) y evidentemente soy nuevo en esta lista. Esta es mi segunda instalacion de una distribucion Debian. La primera la abandone por problemas de puesta apunto y mantanimiento despues de la instalacion. Hasta hace poco corria con

Block highlight in elvis

1998-11-03 Thread Chris Leishman
Hi all, In the recent slink version of the elvis editor, a default action was modified, which now causes the editor to block select phrases found during a matching search. This is really, really annoying, as now the standard search and modify key strokes have changed. Does anyone know how to

Re: about latex and tables

1998-11-03 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Hi, Thanks to all that answered to my question about latex and tables. The 'longtable' was the first one I've try and it worked from the beginning. I'll look over the others also to see which is best for my needs, but longtable seems to be exactly what I need. And was on my computer, installed by

Re: exim questions

1998-11-03 Thread Gregory T. Norris
1. Is there any way to have exim rewrite headers for only outbound messages? I need to correct the headers for my ISP, but I don't really want local messages to appear as [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Absolutely. exim.conf has a header rewrite section. You might use the online manual at

why won't my modules work?

1998-11-03 Thread roadrun37
i just finished recompiling the kernel to configure my sound card. now my hpfs, vfat, and most importantly psaux modules won't work.!! should i use kerneld, what should i do?

Re: exim questions

1998-11-03 Thread Gregory T. Norris
What is the ownership and permissions on that .forward file? Does the mail user have permission to read it? What does /var/log/exim/mainlog or /var/log/paniclog say about it? It is owned by myself and group users, with mode 644. The error-message coming out of mainlog is: -

Re: why won't my modules work?

1998-11-03 Thread Nathan C. Burnett
What error does it give you, if any? Do the modules load at all? (use lsmod to see what modules are loaded). If you just rebuilt the kernel I would suspect that your problem is that you didn't remember that you need to rebuild the modules to go with the new kernel. Nate On Mon, 2 Nov 1998,

Re: Haunted PPP daemon.....

1998-11-03 Thread Ryan Kirkpatrick
On 1 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Kirkpatrick writes: They never specified what authentication protocal to be used (chap or pap), while I was. You need to understand that ppp is a peer to peer protocol. There is no server and no client: it works exactly the same way whether

xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Gossamer
I've just installed xfstt and a bunch of truetype fonts. When I run 'xfstt --sync' it works fine, and startind the daemon from the /etc/init.d/xfstt script works. But I can't get the server to talk to it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/cs3/ai ps aux | grep xfstt root 227 7.4 1.3 1332 520 ? S

First-time Linux setup - questions

1998-11-03 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
I've just got the basic Linux 2.0.35 working and have been busily adding packages. Among them is the olvwm package. When I try to invoke olvwm, I get a library missing error message. When I look in /usr/lib, the file olvwm complains about is there. Apparently, the environment setup is not

Sml-nj requires libc6 , will this have problems with libc5?

1998-11-03 Thread Kenneth F. Ryder III
Hi A while ago I wrote about setting up ML on my system. I am running 1.3.1 and have libc5 installed (ver 5.4.33-3). In trying to install sml-nj, dpkg tells me that I need libc6 (=2.0.7u). Will I have problems if I install libc6? Will this conflict with libc5, will it over write it?

Re: ppp problems continue! (long)

1998-11-03 Thread john
Chris Evans writes: I suspect from the proxyARP message... No. This message is harmless and irrelevant. I have a sense that I need to change /etc/init.d/network to bind ppp0... Can't be done: ppp0 does not exist until the ppp link comes up. Acting on advice from my last posting I have

cracklib mail

1998-11-03 Thread Max
I keep on getting bizarre mail from cracklib every single day with the following message: /etc/cron.daily/cracklib: 45375 45375 Looking in /etc/cron.daily/cracklib doesn't tell me why it's mailing me with those two numbers, and neither do the cracklib man pages. Any clues? Thanks, Max

wmaker

1998-11-03 Thread Debian-User
can anyone tell me how to make images your background in wmaker? I dloaded some of those themes from e.themes.org which are .jpg format then i converted them to xpm with the gimp. But i can't figure out how to set it to my background. Can anyone help? Am I doing anything wrong? Thanks in

netdate

1998-11-03 Thread Steve Lamb
I use netdate to sync my machine's clock to several other clocks. However, netdate does not change the BIOS clock along with the system clock so each time my machine is rebooted (which is often right now, nasty memory leak somewhere) the clock is out of sync again. This is also happening on

Re: netdate

1998-11-03 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I use netdate to sync my machine's clock to several other clocks. However, netdate does not change the BIOS clock along with the system clock so each time my machine is rebooted (which is often right now, nasty memory leak somewhere) the clock is

Re: netdate

1998-11-03 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998 22:00:12 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: hwclock --systohc You might want to add a --utc if your clock is set to GMT. I don't know of a time program that does this. It shouldn't be a big deal to add this to your shutdown routine. Great, thanks for the information. :) --

Re: Haunted PPP daemon.....

1998-11-03 Thread john
Ryan Kirkpatrick writes: As for the authentication protocal, I understand now. The ISP was demanding an auth protocol and I was demanding one as well. Guess it does not work even when both demand the same auth protocal... Actually, it would work fine as long as both sides are willing to

Re: wmaker

1998-11-03 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 2 Nov, Debian-User wrote: can anyone tell me how to make images your background in wmaker? I dloaded some of those themes from e.themes.org which are .jpg format then i converted them to xpm with the gimp. But i can't figure out how to set it to my background. Can anyone help? Am I

GTKICQ doesn't do ANYTHING

1998-11-03 Thread Mark Panzer
I d/l'ed and installed all the files for GTKICQ from SLINK to use it on my HAMM box. The only problem is it says connecting to server... then the moving scroll-bar freezes and it never connects. Is this package broken? There are no real docs with it. Thanks in advance, Mark Panzer

dpkg-perl help

1998-11-03 Thread Kalvinder Kang
I've installed Debian Linux ver 2.0 as an alternative os to Windows on my PC with a view to making this a permanent arrangement and learning Unix as part of my studies. However, on running dselect and trying to install Standard Packages (or updates, etc.) I constantly get the following message:

XF86Setup on Debian2.0 - help

1998-11-03 Thread rathon
Hi, I was installing Debian2.0 on a new PC and I have two question: 1) While in deselect, I would see the follwoing EIOM *** some package name etc etc *** some package name etc etc How can I tell that the above pkg has already been installed ? Is that by that last asterik under 'M' ? 2)

Re: XF86Setup on Debian2.0 - help

1998-11-03 Thread Andrew Ivanov
On 3 Nov 1998, rathon wrote: Hi, I was installing Debian2.0 on a new PC and I have two question: 1) While in deselect, I would see the follwoing EIOM *** some package name etc etc *** some package name etc etc How can I tell that the above pkg has already been installed ? Is that

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
Use ps aux to check that xfstt is actually running. I've encountered a wierd problem today that xfstt by itself works, but xfstt --daemon does not. Very strange - it worked yesterday. I don't think I've changed anything important. Anyone got a similar problem ? Sergey. On 3 Nov 1998, Gossamer

Re: rawrite2 NT

1998-11-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Nov 02, 1998 at 11:57:45AM -0800, Jeff Katcher wrote: Greg Vence wrote: It appears that rawrite2 doesn't work with NT. Is there one that does? I didn't see it going 0-1-0-1-... on side. Is there something I'm missing? No, I had the same results - EXCEPT that my disks worked

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 02:06:33AM +, Gossamer wrote: I've just installed xfstt and a bunch of truetype fonts. When I run 'xfstt --sync' it works fine, and startind the daemon from the /etc/init.d/xfstt script works. But I can't get the server to talk to it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/cs3/ai

Re: GIMP plugins

1998-11-03 Thread Peter Granroth
M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear all, I want some plugins :). a) are any debian packages? b) if not, where will the gimp debian package look for them? just get the plugin (e.g from the plugin registry at gimp.org) then 'man gimptool': == quote == DESCRIPTION

how to install slink netscape?

1998-11-03 Thread Eric
I am really confused and I feel like I shouldn't be. I recently upgraded to slink so I figured I would go from the old netscape deb package (netscape4) to the new format (netscape-base-45b2). So I ended up removing netscape4 (since it conflicts with the new netscape package) and installing

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 12:07:05AM -0500, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: Use ps aux to check that xfstt is actually running. I've encountered a wierd problem today that xfstt by itself works, but xfstt --daemon does not. Very strange - it worked yesterday. I don't think I've changed anything

Re: how to install slink netscape?

1998-11-03 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Eric ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): seemed to go fine and I was very pleased. I went under the assumption that the actual netscape binaries were now included in these packages...is this wrong? When I tried to run netscape, it wasn't there. I don't have You also need to install either a

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Peter Granroth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gossamer) writes: I've just installed xfstt and a bunch of truetype fonts. When I run 'xfstt --sync' it works fine, and startind the daemon from the /etc/init.d/xfstt script works. But I can't get the server to talk to it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/cs3/ai ps aux | grep xfstt

Re: XF86Setup on Debian2.0 - help

1998-11-03 Thread Kent West
On 3 Nov 1998, rathon wrote: Hi, I was installing Debian2.0 on a new PC and I have two question: 1) While in deselect, I would see the follwoing EIOM *** some package name etc etc *** some package name etc etc How can I tell that the above pkg has already been installed ? Is

Re: exim and bad Sender: header

1998-11-03 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 08:09:41PM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 10:18:15AM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: I ended up with the following fetchmail messages: reading message 1 of 31 (1088 header bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP error: 501

Re: potential smail security bug

1998-11-03 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998 00:31:33 -0800 (PST), George Bonser wrote: Remote site connects to your mail server. In the reverse DNS lookup, the remote admin has pointed the in-addr.arpa PTR record to your mailhosts name. The forward and reverse lookups do not match, smail warns of the discrepancy in the

A few questions

1998-11-03 Thread Karsten Bolding
Hi 1: If I use 24 bpp then Netscape doesn't look very nice and if I run 8 bpp idl, gimp and glade are not optimal. Is there a way to use 24 bpp with Netscape - also the fvwm95 icons looks starnge if I use 24 bpp. 2: Can Netscape 4.5 under Windows and Linux share address book and e-mail folders

Re: A few questions

1998-11-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
KB == Karsten Bolding [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KB 1: If I use 24 bpp then Netscape doesn't look very nice and if I KB run 8 bpp idl, gimp and glade are not optimal. Is there a way to KB use 24 bpp with Netscape - also the fvwm95 icons looks starnge if KB I use 24 bpp. Some programms have

Re: Build of xemacs-20.4-7 fails

1998-11-03 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /usr/src/XEmacs/xemacs20-20.4-5/lib-src/profile.c:51: too few arguments to function `gettimeofday' This sounds like a configure failure. The source package is probably using some --with-bla-bla switches that are incompatible with your hamm install and

Re: kppp

1998-11-03 Thread Bostjan JERKO
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 27.10.98 04:45:00 PM To: Bostjan JERKO/si/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org@internet Subject:Re: kppp Sounds like your chat script is garbled. Both 'OK' and 'CONNECT' are messages that chat expects from the modem. Send me a copy of your

creating CD images

1998-11-03 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! I want to create my own non-official Debian CD set using the debian-cd package. I have an intact mirror, including contrib , non-US and non-free. Is there an easy way to include ALL the non-free packages on the images, the hard way being listing each package separately in the

Re: XF86Setup on Debian2.0 - help

1998-11-03 Thread WebMaster
The dselect screen is divided in three parts the top part is the one u describe with the list of packages, as your cursor moves thru each item is highlited. the b lue line in the middle gives u the status of the package highlited, i.e whether it is on your system and whether it is install. It

Re: XF86 config - help

1998-11-03 Thread WebMaster
hi all I have recently installed debian 2 on my PC and after a bit of tribulation and hours FTPing I got it working :) I was playing around in Xwindows and there was an option on the menu for XF86 config and I thought I'd click on it and see what'd happen. There was a lot of disk activity

[OFF TOPIC] Re: Linux kernel in breach of GPL ? (fwd)

1998-11-03 Thread C.J.LAWSON
I guess we should all be aware of this posted on Linux-kernel I'm sure all of you are aware of the Halloween Document, URLS: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/halloween.html http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,28215,00.html?st.ne.ni.lh Given the attention of Microsoft, I think it would be

Re: dpkg/apt-get madness

1998-11-03 Thread Helge Hafting
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/02/98 at 05:10 PM, E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I seemed to remember that the X11 maintainer specifically mailed to this list that the slink X packages were severely broken and only to be used by brave peoply meaning to help with the debugging

Diskette Basic Installation

1998-11-03 Thread Mitchell R. Pryor
I have downloaded the bin files for 2.0 and created diskettes (using rawrite2.exe). The following message appears after the install reads the 2nd Base diskette: Error reading from tempfile! Input/Output error. Any suggestions as to what could cause this? I redownloaded the bin file and

Linux diskettes

1998-11-03 Thread Bostjan JERKO
Hello ! Can anybody tell me how to create basic diskettes for Linux (e.g. Debian) to install on PC without CD-ROM and than install the rest over the network. I tried make-floppy or something like that (can't remember exact name) but it exits with an error. Bostjan

Disk problems

1998-11-03 Thread Biciunas, Paul John
Hello, all. I installed Debian 2.0 (2.0.34) Greenbush distribution. My disks are 2 IDE drives, a 540M and 2.5G slave. The partitions are (df output) /dev/hda1 99029 ... / /dev/hda3 348873 ... /home /dev/hdb1 495714 ... /var /dev/hdb2 1926659 ... /usr I had problems making a

Re: Linux diskettes

1998-11-03 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Bostjan: Goto ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/install.html and it is all explained there. Peter Bostjan JERKO wrote: Hello ! Can anybody tell me how to create basic diskettes for Linux (e.g. Debian) to install on PC without CD-ROM and than install

Font Frustration

1998-11-03 Thread Jeff Miller
Hello, I am trying to get AfterStep working and I keep getting the following error message: AfterStep: can't get font -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-* AfterStep: can't get font -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-* AfterStep: can't get font

absolute beginner !

1998-11-03 Thread Alain Cadenat
Hy all, I am an absolute beginner in linux and Debian I have just download and (successfully) installed the base debian linux. It runs properly on the same hard disk of windows 95 ! (hmmm not too bad for a beginner no ?) But now.. I dont even know how to read the .gz files in

Re: absolute beginner !

1998-11-03 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hay there absolute beginner: That pretty good for a first go around. To uncompress the .gz files. Use gunzip file-name. Happy uncompressing. Peter Alain Cadenat wrote: Hy all, I am an absolute beginner in linux and Debian I have just download and (successfully) installed the base

RE: wmaker

1998-11-03 Thread Person, Rod
Does anyone no how to center the background. I was playing with the gimp and converted my old NT backgrounds to wmaker, but the tile and there is no need for them to. Rod Person Humanity is the biggest cancer ever to be seen! -Alx Hellid Contempt -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL

xadmin. Where did it go?

1998-11-03 Thread Person, Rod
What happend to the xadmin package. when I first install Hamm via ftp I could find it now I can't. That's one of the few deb I did backup. Rod Person Humanity is the biggest cancer ever to be seen! -Alx Hellid Contempt -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:debian-user-digest-re [EMAIL

RE: dpkg-perl help

1998-11-03 Thread Cristov Russell
I've had this problem as well. I had to manually install the file. It appears that the name of the file is slightly different than what is listed in the Packages.gz file. This will also happen if you download .deb files from a Win box and not change the last '_' to a '.' before saving it. To

Re: absolute beginner !

1998-11-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Alain Cadenat wrote: Hy all, I am an absolute beginner in linux and Debian I have just download and (successfully) installed the base debian linux. It runs properly on the same hard disk of windows 95 ! (hmmm not too bad for a beginner no ?) But now.. I

Re: netdate

1998-11-03 Thread dpk
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: I use netdate to sync my machine's clock to several other clocks. However, netdate does not change the BIOS clock along with the system clock so each time my machine is rebooted (which is often right now, nasty memory leak somewhere) the

Re: Problems with network card IRQ conflicting.

1998-11-03 Thread Dale E. Martin
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Both PCI cards, right? And an Adaptec SCSI card I'll wager. Pull out the NIC, and boot. Shutdown, insert the NIC, and boot. The BIOS should assign a different IRQ to the NIC. I had this exact problem recently with a 2940 and a Netgear FA-310TX.

Re: cracklib mail

1998-11-03 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Max wrote: I keep on getting bizarre mail from cracklib every single day with the following message: /etc/cron.daily/cracklib: 45375 45375 Looking in /etc/cron.daily/cracklib doesn't tell me why it's mailing me with those two numbers, and neither do the cracklib man

RE: wmaker

1998-11-03 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Person, Rod wrote: Does anyone no how to center the background. I was playing with the gimp and converted my old NT backgrounds to wmaker, but the tile and there is no need for them to. Add this line on your ~/GNUstep/Defaults/Windowmaker --WorkspaceBack =

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: Ok well...as xfstt maintainer I have to say I have never seen this before :) Usually if there is a problem...xfstt wont even run. ok found the problem :) xset fp+ unix:/7101 --- wrong :) try: xset +fp unix/:7101 Whjew...you had me

Re: absolute beginner !

1998-11-03 Thread Helge Hafting
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/03/98 at 01:59 PM, Alain Cadenat [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hy all, I am an absolute beginner in linux and Debian I have just download and (successfully) installed the base debian linux. It runs properly on the same hard disk of windows 95 ! (hmmm not too bad for a

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 10:32:47PM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote: On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: Ok well...as xfstt maintainer I have to say I have never seen this before :) Usually if there is a problem...xfstt wont even run. ok found the problem :) xset fp+

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: Now that xfstt is tackled on this thread, why can't I see any TTfonts when I run an xsession? I have copied some TTfonts on /var/ttfonts/, xfstt is running as a daemon tho' I have to manually enter the entries into /etc/rc?.d. Doesn't

That Infamous Microsoft Memo

1998-11-03 Thread Allan Bart
Hello, Here is something that should bring joy to the heart of the free software community, microsoft is afraid of us. allan go to http://www.opensource.org/halloween.html == Allan W. Bart, Jr. Strategic Analyst _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get

can't link to termcap

1998-11-03 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I d/l the Pine 4.05 tarball and I am trying to compile it. Everytime I compile (using the ./build lnx command) it bails when trying to link to termcap (-ltermcap File or directory does not exist). Any idea how to fix this? TIA. -Ian

Re: can't link to termcap

1998-11-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 09:29:40AM -0600, Ian Keith Setford wrote: I d/l the Pine 4.05 tarball and I am trying to compile it. There's a pine-src package you might want to look at. Everytime I compile (using the ./build lnx command) it bails when trying to link to termcap (-ltermcap File or

absolute beginner again

1998-11-03 Thread Alain Cadenat
Thanks to all for your answers I am ok with .gz files now ! But it appears I started the wrong way ! each time I want to read email or access to the web I have to reboot and goes back to windows, then go back to linux try etc.. So first thing is to get connected under linux. I tried to

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Frank Barknecht
Stephen J. Carpenter hat gesagt: // Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: Do you mean you need to manually enter the font path every time you start X? if that is the problem then I suggest the following: edit /etc/X11/Xf86config and add to the fontpaths: FontPath unix/:7101 I remember a thread on

Re: Disk problems

1998-11-03 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 07:32:19AM -0500, Biciunas, Paul John wrote: Hello, all. I installed Debian 2.0 (2.0.34) Greenbush distribution. My disks are 2 IDE drives, a 540M and 2.5G slave. The partitions are (df output) /dev/hda1 99029 ... / /dev/hda3 348873 ... /home /dev/hdb1

Clustering and Fibre Channel Support

1998-11-03 Thread Adam Greene
With the sudden uprise in the desire for Server Clustering, and the advent of Fibre Channel devices, where will that place Linux on the Road map?? Is there any attempt to support Fibre Channel, for example 3Com has designed what they call a Storage Area Network (SAN), basically a Fibre Channel

XWindow at Slink already good?

1998-11-03 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users and developers too, Last week I have upgraded XWindow and that was the worse thing that I ever did in Debian. I didn't have read the warning about XWindow in slink. I reinstalled XWindow that I have in hamm, but the things aren't stable yet. I

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 12:07:05AM -0500, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: Use ps aux to check that xfstt is actually running. I've encountered a wierd problem today that xfstt by itself works, but xfstt --daemon does not. Very strange - it

Re: UPS systems and Debian/Linux?

1998-11-03 Thread stick
Mitch Blevins said Chris R. Martin wrote: I am looking to get a couple UPS units to protect my (2) Debian 2.0/Linux boxes. I don't need a lot of running time; I just want to be able to shutdown in case of a short power outage. I need a unit with uses a serial port to communicate its

Re: how to install slink netscape?

1998-11-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Eric wrote: I am really confused and I feel like I shouldn't be. I recently upgraded to slink so I figured I would go from the old netscape deb package (netscape4) to the new format (netscape-base-45b2). So I ended up removing netscape4 (since it conflicts with the new netscape package)

/etc/ppp/ip-up not being run

1998-11-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- The ip-up script is not being run when I start a ppp connection using pon. I can run the script manually, and it works OK. I've read the pppd man page, but didn't find anything in it that mentioned anything about requiring this script to have certain

Re: absolute beginner again

1998-11-03 Thread Brent McMillan
Have you tried using pppconfig (need to be root)? Your modem should be found at /dev/SttyX where X is (modem com port - 1). Eg, if your modem is on com 4, then you can reach it at /dev/Stty3. some people make a symbolic link (ln -s /dev/SttyX /dev/modem) to make things easier. There's also

Re: absolute beginner !

1998-11-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Alain Cadenat wrote: Hy all, I am an absolute beginner in linux and Debian I have just download and (successfully) installed the base debian linux. It runs properly on the same hard disk of windows 95 ! (hmmm not too bad for a beginner no ?) But now.. I dont even know how

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
Even more wierd: I have a server and a client, the client mounts /usr via nfs from server; /var is local, the rest is syncronized via cfengine. /etc/init.d/xfstt start works on the server, does not on the client. Just xfstt works everywhere. Any idea what the so subtle difference between these

lprng and logs

1998-11-03 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Anyone got some decent logs for lprng? Something like puting: user someone printed somewhat on lp on Sat 5 Oct 12:23 at /var/log/lpr.log :-? Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Ratio Regum 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 11:39:43AM -0500, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 12:07:05AM -0500, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: Use ps aux to check that xfstt is actually running. I've encountered a wierd problem today that xfstt

Re: XF86Setup on Debian2.0 - help

1998-11-03 Thread M.C. Vernon
I was installing Debian2.0 on a new PC and I have two question: 1) While in deselect, I would see the follwoing EIOM *** some package name etc etc *** some package name etc etc How can I tell that the above pkg has already been installed ? Is that by that last asterik under 'M' ?

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 12:11:20PM -0500, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: Even more wierd: I have a server and a client, the client mounts /usr via nfs from server; /var is local, the rest is syncronized via cfengine. /etc/init.d/xfstt start works on the server, does not on the client. Just xfstt

Re: absolute beginner !

1998-11-03 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Alain Cadenat wrote: Hy all, I am an absolute beginner in linux and Debian I have just download and (successfully) installed the base debian linux. It runs properly on the same hard disk of windows 95 ! (hmmm not too bad for a beginner no ?) But now.. I

Re: XWindow at Slink already good?

1998-11-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi Debian users and developers too, Last week I have upgraded XWindow and that was the worse thing that I ever did in Debian. I didn't have read the warning about XWindow in slink. I reinstalled XWindow that I have

Re: A few questions

1998-11-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Martin Bialasinski wrote: KB == Karsten Bolding [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KB 1: If I use 24 bpp then Netscape doesn't look very nice and if I KB run 8 bpp idl, gimp and glade are not optimal. Is there a way to KB use 24 bpp with Netscape - also the fvwm95 icons looks starnge if KB I use

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 12:11:20PM -0500, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: Even more wierd: I have a server and a client, the client mounts /usr via nfs from server; /var is local, the rest is syncronized via cfengine. /etc/init.d/xfstt start

Stopping apache at boot

1998-11-03 Thread Dave Swegen
How do I stop apache from starting at bootup? I have installed it for learning purposes (another item to put in my CV :) but I don't need it running all the time. Somehow I have a feeling the answer is going to be very simple... Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen [EMAIL

xfstt font database should be in /var

1998-11-03 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
Package: xfstt Version: 0.9.10-1 Ok I am opening a bug report on this now..mostly as a note to myself to fix it the fix should be easy :) ill move it to /var/cache/xfstt unless anyone has a more apropriate idea -Steve On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 01:04:13PM -0500, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: On

Re: cracklib mail

1998-11-03 Thread Max
-- Start of included mail From: Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Max wrote: I keep on getting bizarre mail from cracklib every single day with the following message: /etc/cron.daily/cracklib: 45375 45375 Looking in /etc/cron.daily/cracklib doesn't tell

Re: lprng and logs

1998-11-03 Thread Max
Anyone got some decent logs for lprng? Something like puting: user someone printed somewhat on lp on Sat 5 Oct 12:23 at /var/log/lpr.log Have you tried looking in /var/log/lp-acct? LPRng saves very detailed accounting info in there if you enable accounting. If it's not

Re: Stopping apache at boot

1998-11-03 Thread Peter Granroth
Dave Swegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do I stop apache from starting at bootup? I have installed it for learning purposes (another item to put in my CV :) but I don't need it running all the time. Somehow I have a feeling the answer is going to be very simple... should be as easy as

missing libcurses.so.1

1998-11-03 Thread Jeff Katcher
Hi all I am trying to experiment with the grass4.2 GIS software, and when I start it up I get the message /usr/local/grass42/etc/gis_set: can't load library 'libcurses.so.1' I (ass}u{me} ;) that this means I need the curses library (as opposed to the ncurses library) is there a Debian package

Re: cracklib mail

1998-11-03 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Max wrote: -- Start of included mail From: Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Max wrote: I keep on getting bizarre mail from cracklib every single day with the following message: /etc/cron.daily/cracklib: 45375 45375 I'm using

Re: missing libcurses.so.1

1998-11-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Jeff Katcher wrote: Hi all I am trying to experiment with the grass4.2 GIS software, and when I start it up I get the message /usr/local/grass42/etc/gis_set: can't load library 'libcurses.so.1' I (ass}u{me} ;) that this means I need the curses library (as opposed to the ncurses

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