app-config

1998-11-26 Thread Alfredo Casademunt
Hola. Quería saber si existe alguna manera 'oficial' de saber cuando un paquete tiene un script de configuración tipo liloconfig, magicfilterconfig, etc. ¿ Quizá con dpkg --alguna-opción ? Un saludo. Alfredo.

Bloquear el monitor.

1998-11-26 Thread Gabriel B.
Hola. Me gustaría saber cómo bloquear el monitor o poner un salvapantallas con password, en modo texto, para que nadie entre a mi cuenta. Gracias por anticipado. Un Saludo. Gabriel B. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

no lean, solo es una prueba

1998-11-26 Thread Phillip Neumann
prueba

Unidentified subject!

1998-11-26 Thread Juan_Carlos_Valero
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Re: Bloquear el monitor.

1998-11-26 Thread Raul Perez Justicia
Me gustaría saber cómo bloquear el monitor o poner un salvapantallas con password, en modo texto, para que nadie entre a mi cuenta. Gracias por anticipado. Veamos... Para Xwindows existe el xscreensaver que protege tu sesión abierta con contraseña. Para consola modo texto existe el

Re: Window Maker

1998-11-26 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Juan Carlos Muro wrote: sadacia:~# dpkg --pending --configure dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgtktty0: libgtktty0 depends on libgnome0 (= 0.27-2); however: Version of libgnome0 on system is 0.30.1-2. Un problema de dependencia impide la

Referencias profesionales de Linux, PLEASE!

1998-11-26 Thread jarregui
Hola a todos. Veamos: en mi empresa se desarrollan sistemas basados en HP-UX desde hace muchos años. Desde hace poco, algunos clientes han exigido los sistemas portados a PC. Como os podéis imaginar, se escogió NT para la misión. Hoy, por primera vez, y tras detectar ciertos problemas con el NT,

Re: Referencias profesionales de Linux, PLEASE!

1998-11-26 Thread Carlos Rodrigo
que ellos puedan aceptar. Las opiniones de todos nosotros basadas en experiencia personal no creo que sirvan para nada en esta situación. Todo lo contrario para las experiencias profesionales. Me comprendéis, ¿no? Bueno, espero que me llenéis el buzón... ;-) Hola RedHat es una empresa y da

Re: Referencias profesionales de Linux, PLEASE!

1998-11-26 Thread ricard
Hola, Por lo que yo se la mejor distribucion es la Debian, es una de las distribuciones en la que solucionan los problemas mas rapidamente de los paquetes que distribuye. Ademas en la Linux Actual ( no recuerdo exactamente que numero, solo han salido 4) sale una entrevista con

Re: Referencias profesionales de Linux, PLEASE!

1998-11-26 Thread ricard
Ups.. me olvidaba de la mejor razon por la cual Linux es una solucion (este texto es de Noticias Intercom) --- Microsoft ve en Linux una

Re: Bloquear el monitor.

1998-11-26 Thread Conrado Badenas
Gabriel B. wrote: Me gustaría saber cómo bloquear el monitor o poner un salvapantallas con password, en modo texto, para que nadie entre a mi cuenta. Gracias por anticipado. En modo texto puedes usar el vlock o el lockvc. Ambos exiten como paquetes debian en dists/hamm/main/binary-i386/utils.

Re: Referencias profesionales de Linux, PLEASE!

1998-11-26 Thread Jose Luis Trivino
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola a todos. Si lo que quieres son ejemplos de empresas que usan Linux te aconsejo que preguntes a cualquier servidor de Internet. La mayoria de ellos lo hacen. Concretamente en Malaga tengo noticias de la empresa ARI pionera en la telefonia por IP que me

Re: Window Maker

1998-11-26 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Nov 27, 1998 at 12:48:34AM +0100, Juan Carlos Muro wrote: Ufff, no se a que llamas que dpkg no se queje. Veras, esto es lo que me dice ello: Prueba instalando libhtml-parser-perl Si sirve, por favor envia un 'bug'. Instala el paquete bug, y pones: $ [EMAIL PROTECTED] bug -s Wrong

Forzar full-duplex una tarjeta de RED INTEL 100mbs

1998-11-26 Thread Iñaki Martínez
Kaixo!!! Necesito forzar a full-duplex una tarjeta de RED INTEL 100mbs, he estado mirando los fuentes del kernel y creo que si se puede, pero tengo miedo a meter la pata y modificar algo intocable... Alguien me puede ayudar? NOTAS: linea 82: MODULE_PARM(full_duplex, 1-

Leer correo en página WEB

1998-11-26 Thread Iñaki Martínez
Kaixo!! Como ya he comtentado varias veces mantengo la red de un Instituto que tiene servidor Linux Debian y 15 clientes (w95), el correo llega al servidor y lo que no quiero (y los profesores tampoco) en leer el correo desde los clientes utilizando programas de correo, ya que se quedarían en

Re: Referencias profesionales de Linux, PLEASE!

1998-11-26 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 12:10:33PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola a todos. Veamos: en mi empresa se desarrollan sistemas basados en HP-UX desde hace muchos años. Desde hace poco, algunos clientes han exigido los sistemas portados a PC. Como os podéis imaginar, se escogió NT para la

Re: Leer correo en página WEB

1998-11-26 Thread Carlos Rodrigo
Como ya he comtentado varias veces mantengo la red de un Instituto que tiene servidor Linux Debian y 15 clientes (w95), el correo llega al servidor y lo que no quiero (y los profesores tampoco) en leer el correo desde los clientes utilizando programas de correo, ya que se quedarían en cada

Re: Referencias profesionales de Linux, PLEASE!

1998-11-26 Thread Ramiro Alba Queipo
En resumen: necesito estar preparado para contarles la VERDAD con argumentos que ellos puedan aceptar. Las opiniones de todos nosotros basadas en experiencia personal no creo que sirvan para nada en esta situación. Todo lo contrario para las experiencias profesionales. Me comprendéis, ¿no?

Re: Referencias profesionales de Linux, PLEASE!

1998-11-26 Thread homega
Jose Luis Trivino dixit: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Si lo que quieres son ejemplos de empresas que usan Linux te aconsejo que preguntes a cualquier servidor de Internet. La mayoria de ellos lo hacen. Concretamente en Malaga tengo noticias de la empresa ARI pionera en la telefonia por

Re: Referencias profesionales de Linux, PLEASE!

1998-11-26 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 02:54:28PM +0100, Ramiro Alba Queipo wrote: He visto una pagina de Web con la tira de informacion: http://www.unix-vs-nt.org Esa misma, gracias! Marcelo

Re: RAID y Mirroring

1998-11-26 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 04:17:22PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola a todos, Alguien conoce algun sistema fiable para hacer mirroring y raid 5. Busco algo que sea muy estable. He encontrado informacion sobre el tema pero, segun la misma solo esta disponible el raid0 y esto no me

RE: Referencias profesionales de Linux, PLEASE!

1998-11-26 Thread Vázquez, Gustavo
Les juro que yo no estaba en la reunion :-) Saludos Gustavo P.D. No es que me tome esta lista como un chiste, es que me tentaron ;-) -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Jueves 26 de Noviembre de 1998 8:11 AM Para:

Re: RAID y Mirroring

1998-11-26 Thread Jordi Roman Mejias
Enrique Zanardi wrote: Alguien conoce algun sistema fiable para hacer mirroring y raid 5. Busco algo que sea muy estable. He encontrado informacion sobre el tema pero, segun la misma solo esta disponible el raid0 y esto no me sirve, yo necesito: -raid 1 - Mirroring

La aplicacion Aplixware

1998-11-26 Thread Jordi Roman Mejias
Antes que nada no me voy a cambiar a Suse. pero he visto en la libreria que con el 'solo linux' (de 2995 pts) 'regalan' el suse 5.3 con el aplixware ¿Alguien lo ha comprado? ¿En que tipo de paquetes se distribuye? (Supongo que .deb no) ¿Consume muchos recursos?

Re: Leer correo en página WEB

1998-11-26 Thread Roberto Ruiz
On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 02:23:16PM +0100, Iñaki Martínez wrote: ordenador (y nunca leerían el correo en el mismo ordenador) por lo que se me ha ocurrido que lo lean mediante página WEB, es decir, desde cualquier cliente habran el navegador y lean el correo, borran el correo, respondan, etc.

Socorro!! Necesito ayuda para configurar las X

1998-11-26 Thread Martinez Amenabar Mikel
Hola a todos: Agradecería si alguien me puede echar una mano con la configuración de las X. Tengo una tarjeta Intel i740 AGP, y no se cual elegir de la lista que aparece con xf86config. SuperProbe me dice que tengo una VGA genérica, pero si elijo esa no puedo hacer nada, ya que solo funciona el

StarOffice

1998-11-26 Thread Vázquez, Gustavo
Me gustaría que alguin me enviara alguna URL de algun sistio que tenga fotos del StarOffice. Si alguien ha probado los 2, con que me quedo, con Koffice o con StarOffice. Saludos Gustavo

Problemas con Infovia Plus: ya se la causa

1998-11-26 Thread Alfonso Pastor
Hola, hace 3 o 4 dias mande un mensaje diciendo que no podia acceder a Infovia Plus por el 901-XX-XX-XX. Puesto al habla con mi proveedor (RedesTB), me han dicho que los usuarios de RedesTB nos pasamos todos a Retenet y no podremos entrar mas por Infovia ni Infovia Plus. Para los que no tenemos

Re: Wine and MSWord

1998-11-26 Thread Carl Fink
Does anyone know if wine is at a stage where it will run MSWord6 . . . Yes, and yes. . . . and if it is possible to print to a windows-only printer using wine? Not at this time. I have *no* idea whether you could run WinWord off an HPFS partition, though. You should really post the question

Re: Linux Tips Tricks

1998-11-26 Thread David S. Zelinsky
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just to let you know all that i've started a project called Linux Tips and Tricks (http://www.patoche.org/LTT) in which i'm collecting tips i find. Since i use Debian and read this mailing-list i will put tips sent here. In fact there are the majority of tips i

Re: PPP connection speed

1998-11-26 Thread wb2oyc
Is there anything wrong with the script? I use them in Redhat as well, and it didn't cause trouble at all... Shao, I don't think so...but one thing, unless you've altered the /etc/ppp/options file, the default with RedHat has only the statement lock in it. That means the rest of the options

Installation woes

1998-11-26 Thread Kieran
My 486 is hanging when it gets to the screen selection screen. I can't move with cursors, can't enter, can't escape, can't reboot...any ideas? I'm installing off a Hard Drive. Cheers! K -- K I E R A N G A R B U T T Email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cellphone - 025 289 34 97 Homepage -

Re: xplaycd probs

1998-11-26 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Dave Swegen wrote: The version of mctools-lite I am using is the default one in hamm (v970129-5). The problems I encounter as follows: 1) When ejecting the tray pops out and then immediatly pops in again. This one is filed as a bug, well, It was last time I looked, about

dhcp lost track

1998-11-26 Thread Erik van der Meulen
I run a fairly straight forward Debian 2.0 box, configured as a gateway between a cable modem (eth0) and a small lan (eth1). I have installed dhcp server on eth1, so I can use my office laptop on the lan without having to change half a dozen Win95 settings on the laptop. This all used to work

Thanks: Pascal for Linux?

1998-11-26 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Thanks for the info. I just tried both. IMHO Free Pascal is better, it knows Borland procedures from CRT unit for example, GNU does not (well that was not their goal, as they say). Compatibility with Borland Turbo Pascal is imprortant to me, so I would prefer Free Pascal. Free Pascal

Re: Installation woes

1998-11-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 02:33:48PM +1300, Kieran wrote: My 486 is hanging when it gets to the screen selection screen. I can't move with cursors, can't enter, can't escape, can't reboot...any ideas? I'm installing off a Hard Drive. Cheers! Is scroll lock on, by any chance? Hamish --

RE: Linux Tips Tricks

1998-11-26 Thread David Karlin
I don't think people will think it inappropriate for you to publish their suggestions organized in this way (this is not dissimilar to FAQs or the FAQ-O-Matic) but I do think it is inappropriate for you to not credit the individuals who wrote the tip as well as copyrighting them in your

Re: Installation woes

1998-11-26 Thread Kieran
nope...It's only got a 5.25 drive and I was having problems even getting past the insert root.bin thing...I paralleled all data to the HD and then ran install...it keeps saying: unknown interrupt then it loads the selection screen and hangs like a wild stallion... Hamish Moffatt wrote: On

Re: Installation woes

1998-11-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 03:30:22PM +1300, Kieran wrote: nope...It's only got a 5.25 drive and I was having problems even getting past the insert root.bin thing...I paralleled all data to the HD and then ran install...it keeps saying: unknown interrupt then it loads the selection screen

FAQ-O-MATIC (was Re: Linux Tips Tricks)

1998-11-26 Thread Mark Phillips
I've had a look at the tips and tricks page and it is a good effort. The only query is about whether we are reinventing the wheel. We have the FAQ-O-MATIC on the debian web site: http://www.debian.org/fom/1.html It would be good if all sorts of tips and tricks went into here. There

Re: Installation woes

1998-11-26 Thread Kieran
Connor 60MB HDD Oak Technologies Video Card (OTI037C) 486-SX 25 8MB 5.25 Drive Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 03:30:22PM +1300, Kieran wrote: nope...It's only got a 5.25 drive and I was having problems even getting past the insert root.bin thing...I paralleled all data to

Re: Thanks: Pascal for Linux?

1998-11-26 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 07:52:48PM -0600, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: Free Pascal has RPM, but no DEB package I think we may want to have it... By Jeff Shilt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): (223 Days in Creation) FPK Pascal -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions

Re: ethernet card and ppp modem connection

1998-11-26 Thread Colin Telmer
On 24 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't want to divert net traffic to the ppp connection. You just want to make it the route to your office. Put a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d to add a route to your office network via the ppp interface and another in /etc/ppp/ip-down.d to delete it.

subdirectories and files to backup.

1998-11-26 Thread A. M. Varon
Hi, I would like to selectively backup my config files on a Debian 2.0. Anybody can suggest what subdirectory or files to backup? /etc and /var/www pops up. Any suggestions? regards, = = Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated = = == Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836 = == = = = =

Re: subdirectories and files to backup.

1998-11-26 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, A. M. Varon wrote: Hi, I would like to selectively backup my config files on a Debian 2.0. Anybody can suggest what subdirectory or files to backup? /etc and /var/www pops up. Any suggestions? Maybe ~/ too?? Michael Beattie ([EMAIL

Netscape 4.05 Startup Problem under Debian 2.0

1998-11-26 Thread Rudolf G. Schöbel
I have upgraded form Debian 1.3 to Debian 2.0. Now I have problems with Netscape 4.05 startup. The following error message appears in the xterm window from where I call Netscape: ./netscape: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' 'libXpm.so.4' is a symlink in '/usr/X11R6/lib' and points to

Re: Restricted group-writable directories

1998-11-26 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 05:57:03PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 02:41:33PM -0800, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... ~$ groups aaron dip [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... ~$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... /home/aaron# groups aaron aaron :

Keymaps/keytables/help...

1998-11-26 Thread Michael Beattie
I am getting a little confused with keymaps and the like.. I have never had to play with them, but now that I do, I am finding them a little hard to understand. Could someone enlighten me, or direct me to a ggod FAQ on the subject? My main troubles are with the Meta stuff, and the Compose key

Re: FAQ-O-MATIC (was Re: Linux Tips Tricks)

1998-11-26 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi! I totally agree with Mark on this subject. The whole idea of FAQ-O-MATIC is great, and once it showed up I thought it would quickly develop. In my PERSONAL opinion it did not quite reach it's goals. 1. I agree with Mike - put it on the main page. 2. It's quite complicated. I tried

XFree 3.3.3 is out

1998-11-26 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Quote from www.xfree.org: News XFree86-3.3.3 [November 1998] XFree86-3.3.3 is now available! There are quite a few bug fixes in this release. If you are having problems with a prior release, please try XFree86-3.3.3

setfont; bo, hamm, slink

1998-11-26 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi all, Recently I am doing some job with console fonts and it turned that after running $setfont some-font $setfont the mc and some other programs are losing the pseudographic characters which are used to draw frames, borders etc. Instead pseudographic symbols the 'q', 'x' and other leters

Re: exim

1998-11-26 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Hrm... I think if you don't have a message filtered at all it should automatically go into the mail file. However, I can think of reasons why you would want to put it there earlier than the end of the filter file. ;) Really? The manual didn't quite say that, I thought. It

Re: PPP problems

1998-11-26 Thread Rodrigo Moya
I don't know what is wrong, but I suspect that the chat script is the source of your troubles. To check it, try connecting your ISP with minicon. Also, send the list the chat file and ppp's log for more help. See attached files!! Cheers I don't know what is wrong, but I suspect that the chat

Re: Problems with Exim with ISP-dialupping

1998-11-26 Thread Carey Evans
Vesa Kaihlavirta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using an ISP to connect to the net. Exim's autoconfiguration makes a working configuration, except that I cannot mail @kolumbus.fi. Those addresses are considered local, and so if I try to mail some @kolumbus.fi, I get a return receipt: [snip]

Re: ethernet card and ppp modem connection

1998-11-26 Thread Carey Evans
Colin Telmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I ultimately would like to do is to be able to do rlogins through this ppp connection but have all other network connections still using my ethernet connection. I guess I don't completely understand what you mean by Put a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d

DOSEMU and games

1998-11-26 Thread Trevor Glen
Hello Everybody, I would like to play a few of my dos games in dosemu, but I am not having much luck. Most of the time when I run the program (anything from Maniac Mansion through to GP2) it just freezes. Now running GP2 is not a huge demand (from my point of view), but I would like to run small

XFMail and Rules

1998-11-26 Thread Trevor Glen
Hi Everybody, It's me again :) Does anyone know how I can set a rule (or something similar in XFMail such that when they get to be more than a week old, the messages get moved to another folder? Trev -- E-Mail: Trevor Glen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 26-Nov-98 Time:

Oracle 8i has problems

1998-11-26 Thread Lukas Eppler
Hi, We managed to set up an Oracle Version 8i on our 2xPII/512MB debian box with the Oracle Webserver, but it answers webrequests only all 10.05 seconds. If I manage to wget the page right before the tick, I get it instantly, otherwise I have to wait up to 10 seconds. Logs seem to think the

Mail Question

1998-11-26 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
Hi all, I want to put a couple of lines in ip-up, so that everytime my ppp is on, it will automatically contact my mail server, send out my username and passwd, retrieve all the mails from the server, and append them to my local INBOX(.incoming-mail). Could anyone please teach me

Re: Mail Question

1998-11-26 Thread dpk
On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: Hi all, I want to put a couple of lines in ip-up, so that everytime my ppp is on, it will automatically contact my mail server, send out my username and passwd, retrieve all the mails from the server, and append them to my local

Re: printing over smb

1998-11-26 Thread Jens Ritter
Chris Frost [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've setup printers using magicfilterconfig before, but how do I set the printer up to print using smb? Use the normal magicfilter entry, which you redirect to a raw queue, which has an if entry in

dwg in Debian

1998-11-26 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Anything to edit a dwg in debian? Or at least to convert it to .ps or .gif or whatever in order to print it. TIA! Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Ratio Regum 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available

DOSEMU problem

1998-11-26 Thread Daniel Elenius
How do you know what value to use for 'offset=' in mtools.conf. I have drive n: file=/var/lib/dosemu/hdimage.first offset=8832 but Í'm not sure it's right.

HELP: debian mirrors are corrupt

1998-11-26 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i am trying to install slink onto my laptop, but actually this fails due that all mirrors around me (ftp.info.iut-tls3.fr, ftp.inka.de etc) have wrong Package-files (ex: xfonts-bas... vs xfnt-base...) I am trying since yesterday to get a working computer (without having to revert to hamm)

kernel: Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=208)

1998-11-26 Thread Ryan Lackey
I keep getting these messages on a debian potato system with a 2.1.129 kernel. I've been getting them for months, using various versions of the development kernel with slink -- I have IPv6 compiled into the kernel, an SMC Ultra II/EPIC network card, etc. Is there any known cause for these? I've

long lines on hpljet4l + magicfilter

1998-11-26 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Whenever I print a long line (more than 80 chars) to my hp ljet 4l printer, only the first 80 get printed. I'd like that the 80 characters get printed on a new line. Can this be done? I'm attaching my printcap. TIA! Salutacions, Pere

Re: Strange finger information

1998-11-26 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 01:53:32PM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: Dear all, This is puzzling me: finger -l apc27 gives this: included below yet there are no processes belonging to him running. How do I get rid of that on since sat message? Thanks, Matthew Login: apc27

Re: Strange finger information

1998-11-26 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 01:53:32PM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: Dear all, This is puzzling me: finger -l apc27 gives this: included below yet there are no processes belonging to him running. How do I get rid of that on since sat

Re: ethernet card and ppp modem connection

1998-11-26 Thread john
Colin Telmer writes: What I ultimately would like to do is to be able to do rlogins through this ppp connection but have all other network connections still using my ethernet connection. I guess I don't completely understand what you mean by Put a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d to add a route to

Re: Strange finger information

1998-11-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MCV == M C Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MCV Which is not what I was asking. I was wondering how to deal with the on MCV since saturday, given he has no such process running. Most likely a corruption in utmp, wtmp or btmp (all located in /var/log). Is the output of last, lastb, w and who

Howto OSPF routing on Debian ?

1998-11-26 Thread Guido Bozzetto
What's the simplest way to adding OSPF routing protocol on a Debian 2.x host ? I suppose that is to use the RPM file of gated, I've founded: gated-R3_6Alpha_2-1.src.rpm but this a source file :-((, someone have a best idea ? The use of the original source: gated-pre-3.5.10.tar.gz I think

Re: Strange finger information

1998-11-26 Thread M.C. Vernon
On 26 Nov 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: MCV == M C Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MCV Which is not what I was asking. I was wondering how to deal with the on MCV since saturday, given he has no such process running. Most likely a corruption in utmp, wtmp or btmp (all located in

smail not resolving some remote addresses

1998-11-26 Thread matt
I'm having trouble sending mail from my hamm machine to some remote addresses. many addresses, for example 'debian-user@lists.debian.org', receive my mail, but some mail is bounced immediately. Following is a mail I receive immediately after trying to send to my email account at my ISP: ---

OFFTOPIC: ssh in userspace?

1998-11-26 Thread Colin Telmer
I want to connect my debian box to my sun station at work using ssh, but I do not have su access at work. Someone mentioned that you can install ssh in userspace but I tried and failed. Everything works fine but until the install wants to chown root ssh (or something like that). Can I get around

Netscape cache weirdness

1998-11-26 Thread Dave Swegen
I don't know if I'm missing anything obvious, but I'm having problems with netscrape's cacheing. I discovered last night after a few hours intensive browsing that the reason why X had slowed down to a heavily disc-chewing crawl was that netscrape was using 60+ megs of memory. On further

Re: printing over smb

1998-11-26 Thread John Stevenson
An overview answer: Run magicfilterconfig as normal to get a /etc/printcap entry for what ever printer you are finally going to print with. Then you need to set up a smbprint script that will be called by your /etc/printcap whenever printing is done. To see how to do this last step, install

Installation

1998-11-26 Thread Ignacio Garcia
I am trying to install Linux 2.0.34 on my IBM 385XD thinkpad. I have tried using various different versions of the boot disk, but each one doesn't work. I know that the boot disks do work in some environments, because I have been able to install Linux succesfully on a desktop. The error that I

Re: OFFTOPIC: ssh in userspace?

1998-11-26 Thread Jens Ritter
Colin Telmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to connect my debian box to my sun station at work using ssh, but I do not have su access at work. Someone mentioned that you can install ssh in userspace but I tried and failed. Everything works fine but until the install wants to chown root ssh

Re: XFree 3.3.3 is out

1998-11-26 Thread Jens Ritter
E.L. Meijer (Eric) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quote from www.xfree.org: XFree86-3.3.3 is now available! Any chance this will make it into

Re: How to customize fvwm entries ?

1998-11-26 Thread Evgeny Roubinchtein
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, shaul wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (shaul) writes: 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

Sony CDU33A

1998-11-26 Thread caine
I just installed Debian on an old 486, which has a old sony cdu33a cdrom connected to a soundblaster 16. The problem is that the soundcard only has jumper settings for the cdroms irq, not for the base adress, and stupid as I am, I didn't have those written down somewhere since I haven't used this

Re: smail not resolving some remote addresses

1998-11-26 Thread m*
perhaps this is because there is no host debian.debian.org? methinks so. m* -- Horseman of the Digital Apocolypse

Testing

1998-11-26 Thread Jason Dawe
Sorry, just a test message.

Re: Getting Linux to recognize Windows files.

1998-11-26 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, David Stern wrote: ... Just in case you need to know, you're most likely trying to mount the files either manually or in /etc/fstab. Yes, we so often forget all the little things... If you don't know what mounting means: In DOS, different disks and partition are accessed by letters -

Please help with CD writer questions

1998-11-26 Thread timothy
Hi, I wanted to get one of these drives for data archival and I had afew questions, i'de be glad for any advice: 1. I read (on NetExpress) that the shelf life of CD-R media is only like 5 years. Is this true? Doesn't this suck? And that CD-RW media has a shelf life of 30 years. Does this mean I

virtual hosts

1998-11-26 Thread Chris Evans
I am currently using Smartlist on Debian to run some small open and very small closed lists. I am also running Apache and wu-ftpd to serve http and ftp. I like the whole combination very much now I've learned to configure it properly (wry grin!) I am planning to move everything to a

Re: ascd

1998-11-26 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 04:09:58 -0500 (EST) Robert Rati writes: I use ascd to play cds, but it doesn't play through the speakers, for some reason. The man page doesn't tell if there's an option to tell ascd what device to send the music to. Is this a limitation of ascd or is there a way to

Re: DEL key in Xemacs

1998-11-26 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 16:01:04 +0100 (CET) Daniel Elenius writes: Well, nothing in the HOWTO works! I had the same problems and inserted the following lines in my .emacs: (setq delete-key-deletes-forward t) (unless window-system (puthash ?\^? 'backspace keyboard-translate-table))

Re: Installing Debian 2.0 on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 440 CDT

1998-11-26 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! }- Dont Panic !!! }- }- There is nothing wrong with your laptop, except that it has the same feature as all }- the other toshiba laptops (and a few other brands). }- }- The Toshiba laptops require special rescue and drivers and these are located in the }- tecra folder in the boot disk

Re: Strange finger information

1998-11-26 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: The log files are in binary format, and I have no idea about how to sort this out :(, so any assistance much appreaciated. rm /var/log/wtmp touch /var/log/wtmp All done. Thats If you dont mind losing all the records. Otherwise, copy the utmp file

Is it possible to scroll back and see bootup messages on console?

1998-11-26 Thread Stan Brown
In FreeBSD, you can hit the {Scroll Lock} button and scroll back on the console using {Page Up and {Page Donw} keys. Is there anything similar in Debian? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]770-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems

Part II of Linux Tips and Tricks

1998-11-26 Thread pat
Hi all, I'm pretty amazed of the amount of feedback i have for what was at the beginning a personnal project. Here is my comment of few things: (it's a compilation, sorry not to have written to each of you separately) David Zelinksy wrote: I suggest you send a note to the author of any posting

Re: Is it possible to scroll back and see bootup messages on console?

1998-11-26 Thread AJT60
On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Stan Brown wrote: In FreeBSD, you can hit the {Scroll Lock} button and scroll back on the console using {Page Up and {Page Donw} keys. Is there anything similar in Debian? Sure. Shift-PageUp and Shift-PageDown. At least, they work in xterms. I

Re: Contents file?

1998-11-26 Thread shaul
I think that you are right. The Contents file should be included. Is the Contents file going to make a re-appearance in the next Debian release? If not, I would like to request that that be reconsidered. I am seeing more and more posts asking where some utility is located, but this could be

Re: How to customize fvwm entries ?

1998-11-26 Thread shaul
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (shaul) writes: Thank you. How a user can set it for himself ? (It seems to me that menu offers a way to do it, only I couldn't understand how) He can put it in ~/.menu/lyx and run update-menus himself, which will create all the files for just that account. However,

Re: ascd

1998-11-26 Thread Robert Rati
Yes, my CD-ROM is attached to my sound card and I know that connection is good because I can play CDs in winbloze. As far as the mixer goes, I'm not sure. According to xmix, I have my volume for the CD player turned up and all other outputs too. When I read the manpage on xmix, it says to also

Re: Question

1998-11-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Can somebody please answer? Regards, Joey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try to install my packages it says dpkg-perl file not found or renamed then it tells me where to put it when I search for it though its not there how do I fix this? -- A mathematician is a machine for

Re: XML-based configurations

1998-11-26 Thread Davide Bolcioni
Thomas Tanner wrote: Aaron wrote: [snip good reasons for XML] I agree with you that a standard configuration file format is a good thing, but I'd rather suggest to use the GNUstep/OPENSTEP property list format. It's extremely easy to understand and can be read and modified using the

Re: LSB should not deal with GUI for now

1998-11-26 Thread Ralf Flaxa
On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 02:41:43PM -0800, Andy Tai wrote: The Linux Standard Base should not deal with GUI components for now. Good statement. That's exactly what LSB said from the very beginning. But unfortunately this thread seems to never die. It's a good thing (TM) if the GUI people/camps

Form XSB, take some load off LSB.

1998-11-26 Thread BadlandZ
Daniel Quinlan wrote: Jean-Eric Cuendet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm asking me a question. There is now 2 big desktops for Linux: KDE and Gnome. This issue has come up at several meetings with Linux distributors and developers. The general view (which I share) is that the LSB should

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