Re: sobre bases de datos

1998-11-21 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 04:20:41PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: Tengo DBaseV para DOS, ¿sería posible usarlo desde Linux? ¿existe DB para Linux? y por último, aunque muy fuera de lugar, ¿conoce alguien una lista para DBase? Dile adiós a DBase e instala MySQL (o PostgreSQL, como quieras,

Re: Criticas a Debian

1998-11-21 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 08:44:21AM -0300, Vázquez, Gustavo dijo: [Vázquez, Gustavo] Perdon por mi ignorancia, que es Yssac? Cualquiera que haya estado pululando por las listas de correo de Linux en espa~nol lo conoce. (bueno, lo conocemos) :) -- Ugo Enrico Albarello López de Mesa|

Re: Segmentation fault (ncurses)

1998-11-21 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 01:22:55PM +0100, disaster dijo: ¡ Saludos para todos ! Creo que en esta lista hay algunos programadores, la pregunta va para ellos. Mirad el resultado de esta compilacion y decidme donde esta el error. disãster:~/cc$ cãt dis.c #include ncurses.h void main

Re: Criticas a Debian

1998-11-21 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 02:44:32PM -0300, Vázquez, Gustavo dijo: Bueno gente, la verdad que la comunidad me debve de agarrar bastante rabia. Son opiniones personales y no creo que sean para reirse. Pero la cosa que hasta que Microsoft no haga softwre para linux.. Microsoft _está_ haciendo

Re: linuxero entre infieles

1998-11-21 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 02:35:22PM +, Jose E. Marchesi Corcostegui dijo: [bla, bla, bla... :) ] Por supuesto que seria `posible` un programa de gestion de paquetes .deb, con ventanitas, iconitos, botoncitos, y punietitas, y seria estupendo para el usuario final. [bla, bla, bla... :) ]

Preguntas urgentes

1998-11-21 Thread Eduardo Martínez
Hola a todos soy de Mxico y esto es lo primero que escribo y es para preguntarles lo siguiente (si me lo pueden responder o decirme o donde buscarlo, Gracias): (La verdad no lo tengo y nunca lo he utilizado) * Qe diferencia hay entre linx y debian? * Utilizan las mismas instrucciones? *

Re: linuxero entre infieles

1998-11-21 Thread Lord of Linux
Jose: Dejame corregirme, Dselect no es malo sino muy confuso. Es confuso en lo siguiente: Debian 2.0 y posteriores poseen mas de 1500 paquetes. El dselect fue disenado para trabajar con pocos paquetes ( me comentaron que con unos 200 o menos ) Al dselect le falta submenus para distribuir esos

PROBLEMAS CON EL XWINDOWS Y DEBIAN 2.0 ( hamm )

1998-11-21 Thread Lord of Linux
No he logrado hacer trabajar bien el Xfree86 ( X windows ) el problema es el siguiente: No me reconoce bien mi tarjeta de Video Diammond Stealth 3D 2000 La cual usa el chip S3 virge instale el xserve_s3v.deb, el svga y el vga En el XF86Setup seleccione Mi tarjeta seleciono el boton de la S3v

Re: Preguntas urgentes

1998-11-21 Thread Lord of Linux
hay un sitio excelente para revisar acerca de debian http://www.debian.org busca documentacion debian faq !!! Eduardo Martínez wrote: Hola a todos soy de México y esto es lo primero que escribo y es para preguntarles lo siguiente (si me lo pueden responder o decirme o donde buscarlo,

Re: Preguntas urgentes

1998-11-21 Thread Roberto Ruiz
On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 07:52:42PM -0600, Eduardo Martínez wrote: Hola (La verdad no lo tengo y nunca lo he utilizado) Pues ya es hora de que lo instales :) * ¿Qúe diferencia hay entre linúx y debian? Ninguna, Debian es una distribución de Linux, al igual que Slackware, RedHat, SuSE,

Unidentified subject!

1998-11-21 Thread Manuel Antonio Ramos
Hola a todos: Soy nuevo en la lista y con poca experiencia en Linux, pero con muchas ganas de trabajar con el. Tengo la distribución Debian 2.0 que viene en la revista LINUX ACTUAL nº 4 , ¿ os parece buena ?. He leido que es inestable , ¿ es cierto ?. ¿ Permite la conexión con terminales o

Re: PROBLEMAS CON EL XWINDOWS Y DEBIAN 2.0 ( hamm )

1998-11-21 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
Hola : No he logrado hacer trabajar bien el Xfree86 ( X windows ) el problema es el siguiente: No me reconoce bien mi tarjeta de Video Diammond Stealth 3D 2000 La cual usa el chip S3 virge instale el xserve_s3v.deb, el svga y el vga En el XF86Setup seleccione Mi tarjeta seleciono el

Re: Infovía Plus. Tenle miedo, mucho miedo.

1998-11-21 Thread Antonio Calvo Rodriguez
Vicen wrote: Bueno, yo estoy por Iddeo y la verdad es que dá un gusto ver eso de CARRIER:5... Como conseguiste que te de la velocidad de portadora al conectar ??? Yo no soy capaz. -- Antonio Calvo Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vigo/Galicia/España --

Infovia Plus

1998-11-21 Thread Alfonso Pastor
Hola, hace 2 minutos he intentado mi primera conexion con Infovia Plus a través del nodo de pueblo. Para ello he sustituido el ATDT055 de mi chatscript por ATDT901505055 (que es el numero para los que no tenemos nodo local) y la respuesta en mi plog ha sido: Nov 21 19:09:07 zapata chat[196]:

¿Qué es GNU?

1998-11-21 Thread Eduardo Martínez
Alguien podria decirme concretamente que es GNU y/o que significa esto(G..N..U..). Muchas Gracias.

Re: Criticas a Debian

1998-11-21 Thread Andres Herrera
Guenas On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 08:44:21AM -0300, Vázquez, Gustavo wrote: Tú a mí no me engañas... tú eres Yssac... [Vázquez, Gustavo] Perdon por mi ignorancia, que es Yssac? Pues es un participante de linux-qmd, caracterizado por su gran comprension (y defensa) de Windows NT,

Re: Linuxero entre infieles.

1998-11-21 Thread Andres Herrera
Guenas On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 01:13:05PM -0400, Lord of Linux wrote: linux sin x windows no tiene gracia !!! Linux, como de verdad tiene gracia, es en modo texto. Las X estan muy bien para lo que estan muy bien, pero el modo texto sigue siendo lo mas eficaz y adictivo que jamas he visto. Si

Dpkg serious troubles.

1998-11-21 Thread Christian Lavoie
I decided to use dselect (prime time) to update my debian install a few other things. (teTeX and apache... wanted to try them out) A 49megs download was awaiting me. I left it alone most of the time, but used some bandwidth here and there. I managed to crash the keyboard (would not respond to

Re: Thinkpad 360CSE questions

1998-11-21 Thread Ryan Kirkpatrick
On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: Does anyone have any of the following for the 360CSE? I actually have a 360CE, but it should be rather close. Working libvga.config No, and I would like a working one. Of course this was with RH4.0, so I have yet to try it with

pine sorting

1998-11-21 Thread D'jinnie
Is there any way for me to sort my inbox by sender name and the rest of the folders by orderedsubj? I'm getting kinda tired of hunting around my inbox for emails from specific persons, but like OrderedSubj for lists like this one :) --- I love my country. I fear my government. D'jinnie/Jinn,

Re: web design question

1998-11-21 Thread James Pollard
Quoting Matthew Parry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I was wondering whether it was possible to overlay text on to an image in HTML... specifying a background image for a table cell or something like that. I think I've seen it done before, but of course I can't find the website now.

X troubles

1998-11-21 Thread Gossamer
After upgrading my X packages a few days ago, I'm suddenly getting this: X: exec of /usr/bin/X11/ failed _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. I

Re: X troubles

1998-11-21 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Check file /etc/X11/Xserver, it should have server name in it, like: pccmu1 more /etc/X11/Xserver /usr/bin/X11/XF86_S3V Console The first line in this file is the full pathname of the default X server. The second line shows who is allowed to run the X server: RootOnly Console (anyone

Re: PPP daemon has died

1998-11-21 Thread john
Jonathan Crowe writes: To start up pppd I just typed pppd at the # With the result that pppd tried to make a connection to the console, since you didn't tell it what else to do. Won't work. The right way to start pppd on a Debian 2.0 system is to type 'pon', which is a script which calls pppd

Re: kmail stopped working

1998-11-21 Thread Jesse Evans
Folks, Ok, all those files are where you say they should be and I was able to view each of them using KView. So, that's not the problem. What's next? On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 11:20:27PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Jesse

Re: pine sorting

1998-11-21 Thread Adam Shand
Is there any way for me to sort my inbox by sender name and the rest of the folders by orderedsubj? I'm getting kinda tired of hunting around my inbox for emails from specific persons, but like OrderedSubj for lists like this one :) hrm. i sort everything by reverse arrival (so the most

Re: smbmount via /etc/fstab?

1998-11-21 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Marc Haber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): How can I do smbmounts via /etc/fstab? I'm not 100% sure if this is the correct link, but you might take a look at http://www-scf.usc.edu/~vibber/linux/smbfs.html . IIRC there are at least some links to patches against mount to do this. I can't verify the

Re: Problem starting X for first time

1998-11-21 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Amanda Shuler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): did you run xf86config? maybe he has ;-) IIRC there are situations where some parameters aren't set as chosen. edit /etc/X11/XF86Config (it has a manpage :-) and go to Section monitor. set HorizSync and VertRefresh according to your monitors manual.

Re: Debian2.0/XFree86 3.3.2.3 on TOSHIBA 4400: X does not start

1998-11-21 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Marc Fleureck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Installed all relevant packages (xbase, xbase-clients, xlib6, libc6, and xserver-vga) without errors. When we do: startx It complains: X: exec of /usr/bin/X11 failed. put your desired Xserver in the first line of /etc/X11/Xserver

Re: Updated installation disks/images?

1998-11-21 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Amanda Shuler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Rainer Clasen wrote: Hi! Amanda Shuler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Is there anyone out ther who has the installation images for Debian 2.0 with a kernel version 2.0.36 or greater? I have 2.0.34 and I am having trouble with

Re: Problem with X...Windowmaker...locale?

1998-11-21 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Ben Jorgensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Ok, lets see. I assume you've installed 3.3.2.3a-7, haven't you? Either update to 3.3.2.3a-8 or reinstall xbase. According to debian-user this fixes the local problem. Have you installed those new packages: xmodmap, xfonts-*, xterm? Is

Re: cd-rom problems

1998-11-21 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Mike Fetherston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I've been having troubles installing debian on my system. If I run boot.bat from \boot it starts the installation just fine, but then when it reboots for the first time to install the packages using dselect it can't find my cdrom. My cdrom is an LG

Re: emacs, PATH, trailing /

1998-11-21 Thread David S. Zelinsky
Torsten Hilbrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 14:54:49 -0500 (EST) David S Zelinsky writes: Ever since upgrading from bo to hamm, my PATH environment variable as seen from inside emacs (with (getenv PATH)) has a trailing / on each entry:

Re: looking Wm that can emulate mac windows...........

1998-11-21 Thread Jason Lunz
On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 3:02AM -0300, Phillip Neumann wrote: Where can i find a good mac-like w-manager?? If you use fvwm2 along with the MacOS theme at: http://www.staticbomb.com/~fvwm2gnome/ you'll get something that _looks_ the same. You'd have to do some configuring to get things to

Re: pine sorting

1998-11-21 Thread Jason Lunz
On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 6:41PM -0600, D'jinnie wrote: Is there any way for me to sort my inbox by sender name and the rest of the folders by orderedsubj? I'm getting kinda tired of hunting around my inbox for emails from specific persons, but like OrderedSubj for lists like this one :) mutt

Re: pine sorting

1998-11-21 Thread Robert V. MacQuarrie
I had the same problem. I always hated to have to search through 300/400/500 or more emails in my INBOX. What I did was install procmail and a few real simple filters which divided all incoming mail into pre-assigned folders. I set it up like the following E-MailGoes

Re: Problem with X...Windowmaker...locale?

1998-11-21 Thread Ed Cogburn
Rainer Clasen wrote: Hi! Ben Jorgensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Ok, lets see. I assume you've installed 3.3.2.3a-7, haven't you? Either update to 3.3.2.3a-8 or reinstall xbase. According to debian-user this fixes the local problem. Have you installed those new packages: xmodmap,

Re: netscape woes

1998-11-21 Thread Ed Cogburn
George Bonser wrote: Just exactly what is the procedure now to install netscape? I made the mistake of upgrading netscape from slink to 4.07 ... then tried 4.5 ... I have no netscape program anymore. There is a wrapper, if I link to it from, say, /usr/bin, it complains that I have no

Re: Advice on Hardware

1998-11-21 Thread Ed Cogburn
Moore, Paul wrote: I'm thinking of buying a new PC. However, I want to be sure my hardware will be supported. I've read the Hardware HOWTO, and I *think* I understand it, but there are a number of things I am still concerned about: * The supplier wasn't 100% clear on the exact video card

Re: Locale 'C'

1998-11-21 Thread Ed Cogburn
Trevor Glen wrote: Hello Everybody, I am having this error message come up when I start Netscape (4.05) netscape: locale `C' not supported. And then some blurb about the $XNLSPATH. An error similar to this is occuring in my .xsession-errors file Warning: locale not supported by Xlib,

backup and additional HD-space in one device?

1998-11-21 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Hi, as my HD-space is shrinking, and I don't have any means backup till now, I thought if it was possible (and recommended) to get something that might be used for backup and additional HD-space. Maybe a Zip-Drive? One of those LS-120 drives? What do you think? P.S.: O' course it's a must do

Re: Locale 'C'

1998-11-21 Thread Trevor Glen
On 21-Nov-98 George Bonser wrote: Any idea when that will be available for download? I have 3.3.2.3a-8 and that is not fixing the problem. I got it to work with 3.3.2.3a-8 first go (!?), wish I could help you George! And for anyone else: If I have xlib6g_3.3.2.3a-8 installed, do I have to

Re: netscape woes

1998-11-21 Thread Ed Cogburn
George Bonser wrote: On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: Remco's answer is correct. The actual NS binary is in the last package he lists, 'xxx-smotif-xxx'. This dod not seam to help. I went so far as to delete all the netscape packages and then download the binary

Re: Locale 'C' (but with more)

1998-11-21 Thread Trevor Glen
Hello again, I suspect that slink is going to be a very sloppy upgrade ... completely reomve X from hamm, then completely reinstall X and all X packages in slink. What about xvidtune? Does that come into the same category? I just then tried to use it to install my xserver (I have one running

Re: Locale 'C'

1998-11-21 Thread Ed Cogburn
George Bonser wrote: On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: Trevor Glen wrote: Hello Everybody, I am having this error message come up when I start Netscape (4.05) netscape: locale `C' not supported. And then some blurb about the $XNLSPATH. An error similar to this is

Re: Locale 'C'

1998-11-21 Thread Ed Cogburn
George Bonser wrote: On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: Uh-Oh. I have xlib6g 3.3.2.3a-7 installed. It has the missing locale directory in it; I checked with 'dpkg -L xlib6g'. Installing this solved my problems. Check /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ and look to see if there is a

Netscape4 -- Font Problem

1998-11-21 Thread Craig R. Hodges
I've installed communicator 4.5 with netscape4_4.0-14 (slink), xpm4g_3.4j-0.6, and motifnls_2.1-3 (slink). I get the following error mesg when Netscape loads... Warning: Cannot convert string -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*--* to type FontStruct (then same mesg repeated again)

RE: Valid values for LC_ALL and LANG?

1998-11-21 Thread Mario Bertrand
On 20-Nov-98 Daniel Elenius wrote: Does anyone know what values you might have for the environmnt variables LC_ALL and LANG (I sometimes get a warning that I should set these). I have set LC_CTYPE (to ISO8859-1), I use a swedish keyboard. I haven't found the specs for these variables

Kernel compilation error / Kernel too big.

1998-11-21 Thread Andrew Ivanov
I just finished compiling my own kernel( 2.0.34), and it comes out of size 788K, which is too big for Lilo to handle. Are there any ways around it? I tried make bzImage, like HOWTO suggested, but at the end of compilation I get: as86 -0 -a -o bbootsect.o bbootsect.a make[1]: as86: Command not

Re: Netscape4 -- Font Problem

1998-11-21 Thread Craig R. Hodges
I just noticed that it only does this in KDE! My .xsession-errors has KCharset: Wrong charset! in it. Time to chuck KDE. On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, Craig R. Hodges wrote: Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 01:51:39 -0600 (EST) From: Craig R. Hodges [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:

Re: Kernel compilation error / Kernel too big.

1998-11-21 Thread Ed Cogburn
Andrew Ivanov wrote: I just finished compiling my own kernel( 2.0.34), and it comes out of size 788K, which is too big for Lilo to handle. Are there any ways around it? I tried make bzImage, like HOWTO suggested, but at the end of compilation I get: as86 -0 -a -o bbootsect.o bbootsect.a

Re: Kernel compilation error / Kernel too big.

1998-11-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 02:30:12AM -0600, Andrew Ivanov wrote: I just finished compiling my own kernel( 2.0.34), and it comes out of size 788K, which is too big for Lilo to handle. Are there any ways around it? I tried make bzImage, like HOWTO suggested, but at the end of compilation I get:

Re: Netscape4 -- Font Problem

1998-11-21 Thread Craig R. Hodges
I think this is something buggy in KDE's latest stable dist because it works fine in icewm. Icewm is okay but I'm looking for a window manager with some more features. Any sugestions? Thanks, Craig On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, George Bonser wrote: Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 00:46:56 -0800 (PST) From:

Re: Kernel compilation error / Kernel too big.

1998-11-21 Thread Andrew Ivanov
I have binutils 2.9.1-0.2 installed, which is what I think , at least this is a requirement for kernel source, as it's said on www.debian.org And compilation ran with binutils installed, and I got that error. Andrew Never

Re: Kernel compilation error : Got it.

1998-11-21 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Thank you for fast response. bin86 was the package needed. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ:

Unkillable Process?

1998-11-21 Thread David Densmore
I use Wine 0.0.980315-1 on my hamm system to run Forte's Agent newsreader, which frequently crashes, locking up my X server. When this happens, I go back to a console and use the ps a command to identify the PID then kill it, which usually returns my system to normal. Just a little while ago it

Re: Unkillable Process?

1998-11-21 Thread jd?
to kill xserver try ctrl+alt+backspace works for me! jd?

Gnome

1998-11-21 Thread Trevor Glen
Hi Everybody, My gnome libs are all wrong. Or to be more precise my gnome apps are. The availiable packages in dselect for the games (and most of the gnome stuff) are ver 0.30-1, whereas the lib packages are around 0.30.1-2 and so when I run a gnome app I get a message similar to this: gnobots:

recognition ide (was :ide)

1998-11-21 Thread Rx
ok, this time i've more information : my debian linux doesn't recognize well my HD ibm 8.4 GB here are some messages from dmesg, cfdisk and fdisk note : under cfdisk, my hd seems to have 189 GB I include the bios autodetection : size cyl head precomp landz sector mode 8447 1027 255 0

printing

1998-11-21 Thread claydona
sure this ranks as a newbie question so let me know if it is misplaced, My printer hp deskjet portable has started to work using the default printcap file. (foolishly not saved as printcap.old) After editing it as suggested in 't printing HOW-To to give carriage returns: lp|dj|deskjet:\

Stable 2.1.x Kernel?

1998-11-21 Thread bluehell
Hi Debian users! Which development kernel is considered stable enough to use in a productive machine? I need the video4linux-support in it! -- Thanx in advance, Mike.

Re: printing

1998-11-21 Thread Alan Tam
Use ' magicfilterconfig --force ' to create a new printcap file to suit your needs. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sure this ranks as a newbie question so let me know if it is misplaced, My printer hp deskjet portable has started to work using the default printcap file. (foolishly not

Ispell (British English please)

1998-11-21 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Hi, I am trying to locate a British version of ispell ... does anyone know where I can find a precompiled version || a premunched british-hash .. Regards --- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical

Re: dammit (netscape)

1998-11-21 Thread wb4mle
On Fri, 20 Nov 1998 21:28:40 -0800 (PST), you wrote: If I have to downgrade the entire system back to HAMM I will if that is what it takes to get a web browser. What is so difficult about it? Hello George- I also had X foul up Netscape. I reinstalled the Communicator 4.05 from netscape with

Re: Ispell (British English please)

1998-11-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
C.J.LAWSON wrote: Hi, I am trying to locate a British version of ispell ... does anyone know where I can find a precompiled version || a premunched british-hash .. Debian package ibritish -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: libsvga

1998-11-21 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 12:01:06AM -0500, Phil Dyer wrote: Hi all, Trying to upgrade to svgalibg1.0.3 or dummy but dpkg won't let me replace the current svgalib. Just trying to install gs, ghostview. How do I get around this? thanks, dyer more info needed - what's the error message and

Re: Stable 2.1.x Kernel?

1998-11-21 Thread Dale E. Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which development kernel is considered stable enough to use in a productive machine? I need the video4linux-support in it! You're asking a question that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Which development kernel is stable? By definition, none. Now for the useful

Packages for writing tcl/tk programs

1998-11-21 Thread D. Vrabel
Hi, What packages do I need to write tcl/tk programs. I need to incorperate them into C/C++ programs. Thanks David. David Vrabel Engineering Undergraduate at University of Cambridge, UK.

RE: Packages for writing tcl/tk programs

1998-11-21 Thread Shaleh
You need the tcl/tk packages (the 8.0 is preferred) and the tcl/tk -dev packages. There is a visual tcl package which is a wysiwyg tcl/tk program environ. On 21-Nov-98 D. Vrabel wrote: Hi, What packages do I need to write tcl/tk programs. I need to incorperate them into C/C++ programs.

Re: Packages for writing tcl/tk programs

1998-11-21 Thread Peter Berlau
On Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 03:30:01PM +, D. Vrabel wrote: Hi, Hi, try the `et' package. I assume You will find it under the optional development package, but I'm not sure, I have the sources of et and build it therefrom -- Cheers Peter

Re: Kernel compilation error / Kernel too big.

1998-11-21 Thread Ed Cogburn
Andrew Ivanov wrote: I have binutils 2.9.1-0.2 installed, which is what I think , at least this is a requirement for kernel source, as it's said on www.debian.org And compilation ran with binutils installed, and I got that error. Andrew The as86 program is in the 'bin86' package,

Re: Advice on Hardware

1998-11-21 Thread D'jinnie
: The current stable linux kernels don't have support for PnP. There is :a package called 'isapnptools' that can initialize PnP cards, but only :on ISA bus cards; yours is a PCI card. Before giving up, try checking :your computer's BIOS program. It may be able to initialize PnP cards at

mysql

1998-11-21 Thread Yosef B
Is there a deb for mysql and if so where is it? TIA L Baker

remapping pine keys?

1998-11-21 Thread D'jinnie
Is there any way for me to tell pine to use different Ctrl-keys? I'm getting tired of wanting to hit Ctrl-X to send, and hitting Ctrl-C instead (they're right next to each other, in case this was not known :). I still like pine but little annoying things like that are getting to me... --- Every

procmail....................

1998-11-21 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hello, Promail is for filtering mails isnit? Well how do it work? It takes the /var/spool/mail/user file and prosess it?? I have in my ~/.promailrc file: MAILDIR=/home/filsin/Mail :0 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian-english :0 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian-spanish How do i make it work? First i

Slow mail delivery

1998-11-21 Thread wax_man
I'm reposting this message since I've never seen my original come through: I'm having problems with mail delivery on my local box. When I d/l my mail from my isp (using fetchmail), it is taking over 5 minutes (probably closer to 10) for the mail to get delivered, i.e. for the machine to say I

Re: wdm problems? [was: Re: Exploring the recent QT open source issue.]

1998-11-21 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 21 Nov 1998, Paul Seelig wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Gunthorpe) writes: wdm comes -very- close to providing this, it unfortunately has a few problems with the users ~/.xsession that prevent me from using it : Care to be more explicit in this matter? I'm using wdm-1.0-2 here

Re: procmail....................

1998-11-21 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 04:57:43PM -0300, Phillip Neumann wrote: Promail is for filtering mails isnit? Yes. It takes the /var/spool/mail/user file and prosess it?? It can do that, but I wouldn'r recommend it. Procmail is better used as part of the mail delivery process. Which MTA (mail

Re: procmail....................

1998-11-21 Thread Phillip Neumann
hello, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: On Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 04:57:43PM -0300, Phillip Neumann wrote: Promail is for filtering mails isnit? Yes. It takes the /var/spool/mail/user file and prosess it?? It can do that, but I wouldn'r recommend it. Procmail is better used as part of the

Re: Slow mail delivery

1998-11-21 Thread Robert V. MacQuarrie
Hi .. This has been a problem for myself aswell. I used to run a few mailing lists (500+ people on each) with smartlist and smail. Things worked great and as an email came in it was sent out to the list vary quickly. Since I have upgraded to sendmail 8.8.8-20 i'm almost afraid to

Unidentified subject!

1998-11-21 Thread l chinsky
how can i install internet via a modem under linux? please help me thanks for the answer

Re: procmail....................

1998-11-21 Thread Jason Lunz
On Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 4:57PM -0300, Phillip Neumann wrote: Hey Phillip, a couple of things should get you set up: :0 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian-english :0 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian-spanish These rules won't do what you want. They should be: :0: * ^To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problems with locate

1998-11-21 Thread Kevin Dalley
There is a second possibility. The file you are looking for is in a directory which is not readable and executable by world. updatedb is run by nobody, which doesn't have any real permissions. Running updatedb as root will allow everyone's files to be listed, even if the directory are not world

Re: mysql

1998-11-21 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 09:17:22PM +0200, Yosef B wrote: : Is there a deb for mysql and if so where is it? Yup: slink/main/binary-i386/devel/mysql-base_3.21.33b-4.deb slink/main/binary-i386/devel/mysql-dev_3.21.33b-4.deb slink/main/binary-i386/devel/mysql-doc_3.21.33b-4.deb

Re: procmail....................

1998-11-21 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 04:53:30PM -0500, Jason Lunz wrote: :0 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian-english ... These rules won't do what you want. They should be: Incorrect. According to procmailrc(5), they're just fine, even better than your suggestion (except that they need the lockfile as you

tcp wrapper

1998-11-21 Thread Sibuyas Bombay
i was wondering whether there's debian package for tcpwrapper ... can someone please tell me where do i find it ? sib - A world of Information. The journey begins here. At Home. Internet Cebu's web based mail. http://www.i-mailbox.net

Installing a modem connection (was:Re: Unidentified subject!)

1998-11-21 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 09:56:03PM +0100, l chinsky wrote: how can i install internet via a modem under linux? What do you mean? Do you want to install Debian over modem, or you have already a working Debian system and you want to hook it up to the net via modem? If the latter, we need to know

How to customize fvwm entries ?

1998-11-21 Thread shaul
My /etc/X11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook has the following entry for lyx: [23:36:37 shaul]$ grep lyx /etc/X11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook + lyx Exec/usr/X11R6/bin/lyx [23:38:51 shaul] I want to change it to + lyx Exec /usr/X11R6/bin/lyx -width 631 -height 461 I tried to create a ~fvwm2/post.hook

Re: tcp wrapper

1998-11-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Sibuyas Bombay wrote: : i was wondering whether there's debian package for tcpwrapper ... can someone : please tell me where do i find it ? : sib wiz:~ $ dpkg -S /usr/sbin/tcpd netbase: /usr/sbin/tcpd It's already part of netbase, which is priority Standard so it's

Re: recognition ide (was :ide)

1998-11-21 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 01:06:45PM +0100, Rx wrote: ok, this time i've more information : my debian linux doesn't recognize well my HD ibm 8.4 GB here are some messages from dmesg, cfdisk and fdisk note : under cfdisk, my hd seems to have 189 GB I include the bios autodetection :

Re: dammit (netscape)

1998-11-21 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
If nothing else, try installing 3.0 :) There shouldn't be a conflict there. Also, manually edit the staus file to remove any indications netscape is installed. rick --

Re: Future of Linux (.so contracts)

1998-11-21 Thread Bruce Stephens
Davide Bolcioni [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The concept seems very interesting to me, although I wonder if it is within the scope of LSB; I had the notion that its effort was concerned with standardizing existing development approaches. Probably it's not [it being TenDRA]. On the other hand,