Compilando gnome-libs

1998-12-16 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a la lista... Estoy compilando gnome-libs, uso egcc, pero con gcc obtengo el mismo resultado: cuando llega al fichero gnome-color-selector, se produce un error, cuyo motivo he sido incapaz de determinar hasta ahora: gnome-color-selector.c:182: parse error before dkEventDropDataAvailable'

off topic UNIX

1998-12-16 Thread TooManySecrets
Buenas. Perdonad el off-topic, pero es por cuestiones de trabajo, y es posible que luego de leer ésto, haya alguien de por aquí que pueda ayudarme fuera ya de la lista. Tengo una empresa que necesita que por la noche, su máquina de una localidad, contacte con otra de otra localidad (todavía ni sé

Re: Actualización B0 = Hamm ¡¡SOCORRO!!

1998-12-16 Thread Santiago Vila
Hola. Los mensajes de perl acerca de LC_ALL y tal son normales, hasta que el nuevo perl está instalado y se siente a gusto en el nuevo entorno. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (/root)# apt-get install timezones locales apt-get: can't load library 'libstdc++.so.27' Prueba dpkg --pending --configure --

HAMM

1998-12-16 Thread Juan_Carlos_Valero
Hola a todos: ¿ Hay alguna imagen del personaje HAMM ? Lo digo porque si los nombres de las versiones de Debian estan sacados de Toy Story, cual de ellos es Hamm ? Puedo encontrar en Internet alguna imagen del personaje en cuestion ? Es para ilustrar unos CD's de Debian 2.0R3. Un saludo, Juan

Re: Problema con los menus

1998-12-16 Thread Xose Manoel Ramos
Así en general, el paquete menú lo que hace es crear los ficheros menu.hook para cada uno de los wm. O sea que para saber si es problema del menú, pues busca a ver si existen estos ficheros y mira su contenido. Segunda cosa. Existe el comando update-menus, que puedes ejecutar en cualquier

Re: HAMM

1998-12-16 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 03:36:09PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ¿ Hay alguna imagen del personaje HAMM ? Lo digo porque si los nombres de las versiones de Debian estan sacados de Toy Story, cual de ellos es Hamm ? Puedo encontrar en Internet alguna imagen del personaje en cuestion ? Es

Problemas con el correo

1998-12-16 Thread vigu
Siguiendo los consejos de Xose Manoel transferí la configuración del root al usuario normal vigu mediante # cp -R /root /home/vigu # chown -R vigu:vigu /home/vigu El problema aparece cuando arranco TkRat, el cual se bloquea al detectar un fichero /var/spool/mail/vigu (si espero un rato se

Re: Problemas con el correo

1998-12-16 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 16 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Otro problema que tengo es que al bajarme el correo del servidor me lo pone en /var/spool/mail/root en vez de en /var/spool/mail/vigu, ¿a qué se debe esto?, ¿cómo puedo solucionarlo?. Ejecuta fetchmail desde el usuario vigu. Es vigu el que debe

Re: X-windows (ATI 3D Rage II)

1998-12-16 Thread Kent West
At 11:46 AM 12/15/1998 -0600, KTB wrote: I have been reading and working with Debian for a week now and I can't even answer the questions you ask. Here is my best shot: At the X-Free86 web site they said to run X -showconfig I did and it said that I am using version 3.3.2.3 / window system

Re: missing header file

1998-12-16 Thread Robert Kerr
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Mike Touloumtzis wrote: On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 10:57:21PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: Hi, I'm trying to port a program from HP-UX to Linux, but I seem to be missing a header file. This seems kind of strange to me, since the header file is present in the gcc

Re: DNS problem

1998-12-16 Thread Damon Buckwalter
Shao Zhang wrote: Hi all, when I download netscape, I got the following error from Netscape 4.5: Bad Domain DNS NAME: Host Name: november.uws.EDU.AU IP Address: 137.154.230.60 Your DNS name probably won't be accepted. Click here for more info. I clicked more info

transparent xload?

1998-12-16 Thread Matt Garman
Does anyone know if there exists a transparent version of xload? I've got a nice root background for X, but I I also want xload stuck on my desk. I was thinking it would be nice to have a type of xload that maybe only draws an outline of its window on my desktop, and have only the actual usage

Re: Running seperate eth0 ppp0 networks

1998-12-16 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 03:29:49PM +, Ian Stuart wrote: I'm trying to set up my machine to use two networks: I occasionally access an ISP (who requires that all non-web access is done only through their modem-banks) on my workstation which is connected to my academic LAN. what I wish

Re: xbiff

1998-12-16 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 03:09:08PM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: Shao Zhang hat gesagt: // Shao Zhang wrote: Is it possible to use xbiff to watch out for two files?? I want it to watch /var/spool/mail/my account ~/mail/debian at the same time!!! Never tried this until now but this seems

suEXEC and ~user/cgi-bin

1998-12-16 Thread digger
Hello All, I just can't figure out how to get cgi's to work in the home directories. The log shows suEXEC is running and cgis work from /var/www/cgi-bin. In the home directory I have /home/user/public_html/cgi-bin. I'm using apache for the server. I've looked through the manuals and

Xpm

1998-12-16 Thread Charles Collicutt
Hi, I just ran ./configure for xscreensaver and it said that Xpm was not installed - in /usr/X11R6/lib I have: libXpm.a libXpm.so libXpm.so.4 libXpm.so.4.7 Isn't this what I need?

Re: Netscape, samba, power, awe64 ?s

1998-12-16 Thread Paul Miller
Brian Morgan wrote: Having some trouble using debian 2.0.34 2. Downloaded netscape from netscape.com, ran ns-install, and now I get an error: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' I've had this problem in the past, on another debian machine, but I don't remember how I solved it. Any

Configuring modem and connecting to the net

1998-12-16 Thread Tey, Chui CG
Hi, I am a new user to Linux. I have installed the Debian base system so far. Part of that involved setting up the Connection configs to connect to my ISP. Now, what packages do I require to set up my external modem and what is the command I execute to connect to the net. How do I assign the

Cyrillic and Communicator 4.5

1998-12-16 Thread Andrew Ivanov
To be more specific regarding my previous mail: Here is a problem.. I can view russian pages. I can not read the title on top of the browser for russian page, but I can read it in the bookmarks just fine. form handling is not working. But I can type in URL's without any problem. In message

Install on Adaptec 7890?

1998-12-16 Thread Tapio Lehtonen
Problem: Dell Precision 410 has two SCSI adapters on the motherboard, Adaptec 7880 with CD-ROM connected and Adaptec 7890 with the hard drive. Now installing Debian 2.0 fails. It sees the CD-ROM but not the hard drive. It seems this is because the Debian 2.0 Rescue disk has kernel 2.0.34, and

Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

1998-12-16 Thread KTB
Hi, thanks to all the people who have offered advice with configuring X-windows. I have not been successful and am brain dead at this point. I also tried hooking up to the internet with the same result. I chose the debian release because I wanted to learn more about computers (I have only used a

Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

1998-12-16 Thread Adam Shand
like the philosophy behind Debian. I am wondering if Debian is just too difficult for me at this point. I am wondering if maybe I should try Red Hat, I have heard it is easier to install, and then come back to Debian. Does this sound like a logical progression to anyone? I don't have

Help installing Linux on a Toshiba laptop

1998-12-16 Thread MallarJ
I'm attempting to install Debian onto my laptop. I know I need the tecra disk images, but I'm still having problems. So far I've: Downloaded the files to a directory on my Win95 C: drive. I renamed resc1440tecra.bin to resc1440.bin and drv1440tecra.bin to drv1440.bin. I also guess that the

irqtune

1998-12-16 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I'm trying to fix a serial link speed problem; We are having speed problems over a serial PPP link, trying to realize the 115K capacity of the physical link. Using a commercial com server (Xyplex) I get 115K each way; replacing it with an small Linux (Debian LRP) I get about 70-90K max; and

Re: QUantifiable reasons to use debian instead of redhat...?

1998-12-16 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Joe Emenaker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Now, being on the bleeding edge has its drawbacks. My co-workers sometimes get on my case for always upgrading to the latest stuff in unstable. However, I prefer the occasional broken install to an outright security hole. I *can* say this since

Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

1998-12-16 Thread Andrew Ivanov
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, KTB wrote: Hi, thanks to all the people who have offered advice with configuring X-windows. I have not been successful and am brain dead at this point. I also tried hooking up to the internet with the same result. I've looked through the postsdidnt see anything.

Internet access

1998-12-16 Thread KTB
OK, I ran pppconfig and after I was done I entered the command pon and I heard my modem begin dialing. I did this as root user. I then tried it as a regular user and the modem didn't dial when I entered pon. I then realized even if I do get hooked up I have no idea how to tell that the dial up

Re: DNS problem

1998-12-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
Damon Buckwalter wrote: Shao Zhang wrote: Hi all, when I download netscape, I got the following error from Netscape 4.5: Bad Domain DNS NAME: Host Name: november.uws.EDU.AU IP Address: 137.154.230.60 Your DNS name probably won't be accepted. Click here for

Re: Monitor Troubles.

1998-12-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
Raymond A. Ingles wrote: On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Anders wrote: I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this (probably not) but I am having a problem getting my monitor (A Sony Multiscan 200sf) to display in 1152 x 864 mode correctly...it is always too small to fit the

Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

1998-12-16 Thread Peter Berlau
Hi Kent, Before 3 month ago I ask me the equal question; I could not isdn get running under debian, and had no idea to figure out that problem. So I tried redhat 5.1 , I can't install it. the redhat crashed during installation 3 times. So I went back to Debian 2.0 (hamm) and began to stress

RE: 'Segmentation Fault' - how do i find out what thr problem is

1998-12-16 Thread Sean
Sorry if this is too basic . a segmentation fault (seg fault) is a UNIX app crashing. The most common cause is a pointer writing or reading an incorrect memory location. Possibly you are not compiling the bin correctly (leaving off a libray or a define). to find out why you can use gdb

RE: X Windows

1998-12-16 Thread Sean
Which X Windows package would you suggest I load and install ? Are there any special drivers I should load? Beyond the standard X (x-base, fonts) tseng labs cards either run on the svga or the w32 server. Most use the svga, a few benefit from the w32.

Netscape Downloading resuming

1998-12-16 Thread Jeff Browning
Hey, You can resume downloads in Netscape? How do you enable that? Whenever I have to cancel a download, Netscape deletes the partially downloaded file. Thanks. Jeff __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

transparent xlterm?

1998-12-16 Thread John Storey
Along the same lines, can anyone tell what those semi-transparent xterm - like windows in the Gnome screenshots are? Thanks, John ---Matt Garman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if there exists a transparent version of xload? I've got a nice root background for X, but I I also

Re: Install on Adaptec 7890?

1998-12-16 Thread Kevin White
Maybe if you put the CDROM on the other SCSI port and the hard drive on the other one, it might work? I dont know if Linux boots from a CD like windoze systems can, and so forth, or like a Mac system can, it boots from a CD even without a hard drive, it might be worth a try.. It might be seeing

Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

1998-12-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
KTB wrote: Hi, thanks to all the people who have offered advice with configuring X-windows. I have not been successful and am brain dead at this point. I also tried hooking up to the internet with the same result. I chose the debian release because I wanted to learn more about computers (I

Re: DNS problem

1998-12-16 Thread Jim Pick
Ed Cogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can download the Netscape binary from ftp.netscape.com or use the one in slink, and in either case, you can upgrade to 128bit encryption using fortify.net's software. http://fortify.net is your friend. There are fortify packages in non-US.

Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

1998-12-16 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, thanks to all the people who have offered advice with configuring X-windows. I have not been successful and am brain dead at this point. I also tried hooking up to the internet with the same result. I chose the debian release because I wanted to learn more about computers (I have only

Re: COBOL

1998-12-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
[Moved to debian-user; I don't see what this has to do with the development of Debian, as there is no proposal to package any COBOL code for Debian] On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 14:25:07 +1030, Computel Computing Services Pty Ltd wrote: Are you aware of any COBOL compilers that run, or have been

Re: Install on Adaptec 7890?

1998-12-16 Thread David Stern
On Wed, 16 Dec 1998 05:56:01 +0200, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: Problem: Dell Precision 410 has two SCSI adapters on the motherboard, Adaptec 7880 with CD-ROM connected and Adaptec 7890 with the hard drive. Now installing Debian 2.0 fails. It sees the CD-ROM but not the hard drive. It seems

RE:RE: switch off Debian

1998-12-16 Thread Michael Wahl
Good Morning everybody !!! I'd like to thank you for your quick and good help. It seems I need some basic instructions for working with Debian/Linux. Is there a good documentation / book for REAL greenhorns? (With basic syntax, commands and so on) Bye Michael, Trier, Germany

Help! XFree86 and on-board video chip problems

1998-12-16 Thread Frank Packer
A general HELP! to all. I am having a problem with XFree86 and its detection of my video card. I cannot find a solution in any of the normal references, so I thought I would put it out to the list. I am running an NEC P100 with 16M ram. Hda is FAT16 with Chicago (Windows94++) on it, hdb

Re: suEXEC and ~user/cgi-bin

1998-12-16 Thread Joe Emenaker
Hello All, I just can't figure out how to get cgi's to work in the home directories. The log shows suEXEC is running and cgis work from /var/www/cgi-bin. In the home directory I have /home/user/public_html/cgi-bin. I'm using apache for the server. I've looked through the manuals and tried the

Linux Distributions in latest german news magazine FOCUS

1998-12-16 Thread Steffen R . Mueller
Hi all, the latest german news magazine FOCUS has a short review of Linux mentioning the Halloween papers from Micro$oft. Below the article there was a small table mentioning Caldera, Debian, RedHat and SuSe. SuSe got an A while Debian only got a D. The article didn't mention any test methods

Alpha PCI 64-275 Opinions

1998-12-16 Thread Kevin White
I'm looking for anyone who has a Digital Alpha PCI 64-275 machine who can give me their thoughts on it. Im thinking of getting one for LINUX and abandon my Motorola Macintosh Clone system... Hope to hear from someone soon, so I can order the board and chip, also if anyone knows what one of these

Re: X-windows (ATI 3D Rage II)

1998-12-16 Thread Martin Waller
At the X-Free86 web site they said to run X -showconfig I did and it said that I am using version 3.3.2.3 / window system (Protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300). The release date is July, 15 1998 it OK. I ran ls -a and didn't see any file for X. I tried dpkg --status

Re: Running seperate eth0 ppp0 networks

1998-12-16 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Lee Bradshaw wrote: On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 03:29:49PM +, Ian Stuart wrote: I'm trying to set up my machine to use two networks: I occasionally access an ISP (who requires that all non-web access is done only through their modem-banks) on my workstation which is connected to my

Re: 'Segmentation Fault' - how do i find out what thr problem is?

1998-12-16 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi, Excuse the vague problem definiton, but on a variety of programs I've compiled (but not written...), when i try to run the resulting program I just get a 'Segmentation Fault' immediately. Any clues either as to what causes this, or how to find out what does/doesn't (-for

Re: New/old kernel devices disappearing?

1998-12-16 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 17:16:04 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that can be fixing with lilo if you put it its configuration file append=mem=128Mo No French spoken here. :-) Make that append=mem=128M Thanks, guys, but: a) Not using LILO b) I found

Re: Package install problem

1998-12-16 Thread Lyndon Fletcher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15-Dec-98, Lyndon Fletcher took time to write : Hi all, I have a number of small problems getting Debian packages onto my PC. Ok, for a start the machine has an unrecognised CDROM type and the

cron/syslog

1998-12-16 Thread Gossamer
My cron daemon likes to identify itself in the syslog as /USR/SBIN/CRON uppercase no less. Why not plain 'cron'? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : In case you haven't heard, the Internet is

SOLVED: Quake 2 3dfx mouse problem

1998-12-16 Thread Vincent Murphy
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Vincent Murphy wrote: When I play Quake 2 using 3dfxgl.so, it won't let me use the mouse. The other modes do. Killing gpm with `gpm -k' did the trick. -- Vincent Murphy | UCC CompSci Student | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405 NT = Not

xbuffy question

1998-12-16 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I am using fvwm. I want to configure xbuffy so that it won't display meuns, maximize minimize buttons..(i.e, just like what xbiff does..) Thx Shao.

Re: New/old kernel devices disappearing?

1998-12-16 Thread pat
On 15-Dec-98, Peter (Troff) Petroff took time to write : [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: by the way you can install lilo on a diskette and boot with it. Erm... why would I want to do that? I use the bootdisk if I want Linux, just to use the append=mem=128M thingy. otherwise I leave it out and

Package for transfering data via printer cable

1998-12-16 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi all, I have two debian box. But I don't have network. Is there any package that will allow me to use the parallel port to transfer the data using the normal printer cables?? Thx Shao.

Re: Package for transfering data via printer cable

1998-12-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 22:20:09 +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: I have two debian box. But I don't have network. Is there any package that will allow me to use the parallel port to transfer the data using the normal printer cables?? Check out http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/PLIP.html You'll

Unsuscribe

1998-12-16 Thread Bert Conliffe

about a new agp graphics card

1998-12-16 Thread Ibrahim Turkyilmaz
I have an agp raptor i740 (intel chip) graphics card. When I tray to configure Xbase using xf86config program I encounter following problems; 1.The name of my graphics card is not in the list of supported graphics card. 2.When we try to use VGA16 or SVGA

Re: Configuring modem and connecting to the net

1998-12-16 Thread john
Chui Tey writes: I am a new user to Linux. I have installed the Debian base system so far. Part of that involved setting up the Connection configs to connect to my ISP. Now, what packages do I require to set up my external modem... ppp and pppconfig, which you already have as they are in

Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

1998-12-16 Thread john
KTB writes: I also tried hooking up to the internet with the same result. Did you run pppconfig? If so I would like to know what problems you had. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Install on Adaptec 7890?

1998-12-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
TL == Tapio Lehtonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TL Does some kind soul already have a Rescue disk with support for TL Adapted 7890? Or can someone give me some advice on making the disk. http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/ Ciao, Martin

Smail not delivering mail to local domain

1998-12-16 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Reply-To: Hi Recently I posted about smail being able to deliver mail via smtp to remote domains but not to users on my own domain unless they existed on the box smail was running on. Basically I wanted mail for these users to be delivered to the company mail server. Several people have offered

Re: about a new agp graphics card

1998-12-16 Thread Kirston Akos
Yes debian supprts this graphic card. See the debian archive for more info. You have to download the XBF_i740 Xserver from RedHat XBF projekt site. By krisah On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Ibrahim Turkyilmaz wrote: I have an agp raptor i740 (intel chip) graphics card. When I tray to

strange modem behaviour

1998-12-16 Thread Lukas Eppler
When using my modem by ppp, everything works fine, always. But when trying to dial with the following script (which I plan to use out of a database), it sometimes hangs at the stty command. I have a Laptop using a ClipperCom World V.34 PCMCIA Modem. Removing it and reinserting does not solve the

Re: Re: Syslog message errors!

1998-12-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Amanda Shuler wrote: : Hello all. : I have these messages being repeated over and over and over in my syslog, : every : 10 minutes. : What do they mean? : : Dec 15 06:42:26 snafu syslogd 1.3-3#26: restart. : Dec

Partition confusion

1998-12-16 Thread Jeff Miller
Hello, My drive 0 (hda) has three partitions. The first two are FAT32 Windoze and I have wiped, removed, and re-created the third with cfdisk. I selected 'Logical' as the type, through cfdisk, and it was assigned a Type of 83 (Linux). I can mount it and everything seems to be ok. My

Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

1998-12-16 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I am wondering if Debian is just too difficult for me at this point. I am wondering if maybe I should try Red Hat, I have heard it is easier to install, and then come back to Debian. Two years ago, Red Hat was certainly easier to install. Today, debian is much easier. Debian fixed its

Re: Partition confusion

1998-12-16 Thread G. Kapetanios
Shouldn't you create an ext2 filesystem on that partition with mkfs ? george On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Jeff Miller wrote: Hello, My drive 0 (hda) has three partitions. The first two are FAT32 Windoze and I have wiped, removed, and re-created the third with cfdisk. I selected 'Logical' as

Re: strange modem behaviour

1998-12-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting Lukas Eppler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): When using my modem by ppp, everything works fine, always. But when trying to dial with the following script (which I plan to use out of a database), it sometimes hangs at the stty command. I have a Laptop using a ClipperCom World V.34 PCMCIA Modem.

Re: Configuring modem and connecting to the net

1998-12-16 Thread homega
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: How do I assign the user (instead of the root) the right to dial up the connection? Do 'adduser user_name dip' to add user_name to the dip group and 'chmod g+x /etc/chatscripts' to correct a bug in the ppp package. bug? which bug? Never did that and I'm not

Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

1998-12-16 Thread homega
KTB dixit: Hi, thanks to all the people who have offered advice with configuring X-windows. I have not been successful and am brain dead at this point. Most (All?) of us have gone through that feeling at some point... and still keep going ever now and then. I also tried hooking up to the

Graphics Card: S3 3D - compatible?

1998-12-16 Thread Moore, Paul
Hi, I'm looking at buying a new PC sometime soon - I've just seen a *very* good looking deal for a 350MHz Pentium II system. As usual, my main compatibility worries are with video and sound cards. The video card is described by the supplier as an AGP S3 3D card, with a 365 chipset. I've looked

??? how to TOTALLY remove KDE ???

1998-12-16 Thread Rich Hartman
Hey there everybody, After using KDE for a while, I've decided to ditch it and try Gnome... my question is - How do I remove it so that EVERYTHING is gone? This is my second attempt at running debian (had it running earlier this year with KDE... when I tried to remove KDE via dselect, it

XFree86 3.3.3

1998-12-16 Thread pqa
Hey there everybody, Is the package XBASE 3.3.2.3A-8.1 already an implementation of XFree86 3.3.3? If not, when do you think that xbase_3.3.3 will be released? Thank you, At\'e breve Pedro Quaresma de Almeida Departamento de Matem\'atica, Faculdade de Ci\^encias e Tecnologia Universidade

Re: Running seperate eth0 ppp0 networks

1998-12-16 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 03:29:04AM -0600, John C. Ellingboe wrote: Lee Bradshaw wrote: On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 03:29:49PM +, Ian Stuart wrote: what I wish to do is set up my PPP connection so that (when it is up) all requests for the ISPs network is routed via ppp0, whilst all

Sendmail

1998-12-16 Thread Benedikt Carda \(Digiweb Austria\)
Hi! Since two month I'm using Debian Linux for a non-commercial www-server. Anyway I am not a Linux specialist, until I started using Debian Linux I just had experience with MS-Windows based PCs. I have a problem with sendmail. I just don't get it up and running. I asked my ISP to setup the

Sendmail

1998-12-16 Thread Benedikt Carda \(Digiweb Austria\)
Hi! Since two month I'm using Debian Linux for a non-commercial www-server. Anyway I am not a Linux specialist, until I started using Debian Linux I just had experience with MS-Windows based PCs. I have a problem with sendmail. I just don't get it up and running. I asked my ISP to setup the

Slink CD image

1998-12-16 Thread Brian Morgan
Where do I get ahold of the slink CD image? I'd like to be able to burn one or 2 of them, but can't find the image file that others have referred to. Thanks == Brian Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Support Specialist

Re: ??? how to TOTALLY remove KDE ???

1998-12-16 Thread Sean Johnson
One of the nice things about Debian/Linux as opposed to -other- operating systems is that software doesn't tend to fight with other applications. So, since you seem to still be in window- manager-browsing mode, I'd leave KDE installed, especially if space isn't an issue. Currently I have

Samba

1998-12-16 Thread mark . lake
Hi, First, thanks to everyone who answered my query about remote printing. One problem solved. Can anyone tell me about using the smbclient part of samba to access a WinNT network: 1) Would smbclient run under Debian 2.0? 2) Does it cost? Thanks, Mark

Re: Sendmail

1998-12-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 15:56:55 +, Benedikt Carda Digiweb Austria wrote: I have a problem with sendmail. I just don't get it up and running. I asked my ISP to setup the sendmail script for me, but he told me, that he doesn't use Linux machines and only has sendmail scripts for Solaris. He

Re: Samba

1998-12-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 15:15:52 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me about using the smbclient part of samba to access a WinNT network: 1) Would smbclient run under Debian 2.0? smbclient is part of the samba package in Debian 2.0 . 2) Does it cost? The samba package is

Re: xbuffy question

1998-12-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, I am using fvwm. I want to configure xbuffy so that it won't display meuns, maximize minimize buttons..(i.e, just like what xbiff does..) Add somethig like this to your rc file: Style xbuffy NoTitle, WindowListSkip, BorderWidth 0 -- Peter Galbraith,

Problem with Compuserve and Fetchmail

1998-12-16 Thread Dieter Jäger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I am trying to use fetchmail to receive mail from Compuserve. Everything works fine except that sometimes, when I get a mail from the Compuserve Postmaster with an Sender of @ or even , because there is no domain, fetchmail refuses to get any further mail. This

Re: DNS problem

1998-12-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Damon Buckwalter wrote: [ snip ] : Why not just install the netscape packages? They're in potato, and : slink too I belive. The Export Version of Netscape contains only : 40-bit encryption, instead of 128-bit, that's the only difference. ... and Fortify patches most

Re: Netscape Downloading resuming

1998-12-16 Thread Peter Kovacs
On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Jeff Browning wrote: Hey, You can resume downloads in Netscape? How do you enable that? Whenever I have to cancel a download, Netscape deletes the partially downloaded file. Thanks. I haven't quite figured out when it works. (It may only work for FTP downloads, for

Help!!!!!! Package install problems!!!

1998-12-16 Thread Lyndon Fletcher
Hi, I'm reposting this message with a few clarifications in the hope that someone will answer my questions. I was recently lent an old 486 PC by a friend so that I could do some Web server development. The machine is not mine and not readily upgradable so I HAVE to work with what I have. First

Re: cron/syslog

1998-12-16 Thread john
Gossamer writes: My cron daemon likes to identify itself in the syslog as /USR/SBIN/CRON uppercase no less. Why not plain 'cron'? Cron spawns children to do the actual work. The children upcase themselves so that they can be distinguished from the parent. -- John HaslerThis

Re: Install on Adaptec 7890?

1998-12-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, David Stern wrote: [ snip ] : What I did was to select the kernel options good ol' Bruce listed in : the readme on the rescue disk statically (initrd, ramdisk, loop, msdos, : fat, minix, elf, ext2fs, procfs). Then I added major categories of : features statically

Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

1998-12-16 Thread Åsmund Ødegård
Wed, 16 Dec skrev Richard E. Hawkins Esq.: As for ppp . . . i can't help much there. I've needed massive help to get it goign myself, and what I have is so odd, that what i know is useulss for anyone else . . . I have lost the original message, but anyway, if you have problem with ppp,

Re: Debian Japan and updates

1998-12-16 Thread Fumitoshi UKAI
From: Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Debian Japan and updates Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 14:58:40 -0200 Hi Debian users, recently I download XFree86 3.3.3 from Debian Japan project. I'm asking if is safe to install these packages? We hope it's safe to

Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

1998-12-16 Thread john
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. writes: ...on the other hand, every time I have GNU/ Linux shoved in my face, I give FreeBSD another thought. Anyone know how to remove it? I can't find where it's coming from /etc/motd, of course. You can put what ever you want there. What's so offensive about

printing from netscape

1998-12-16 Thread Brian Morgan
How do you print to a remote printer from netscape? When I click on the print button, I get a screen with the print command defaulting to lpd. Is there some other place I need to specify which printer in my printcap I want to print to? I've got my printcap setup with a couple of different

I can't connect to my computer

1998-12-16 Thread Thomas Adams
i installed a hamm system (Scientific Workstation) and can't connect to it. Neither ping, telnet nor smtp or something else works. It's like there is no network installed. But it is, I, sitting at the computer, can connect to any other machine, I can browse the web, send email or do other stuff

Re: DNS problem

1998-12-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Damon Buckwalter wrote: Shao Zhang wrote: Hi all, when I download netscape, I got the following error from Netscape 4.5: Bad Domain DNS NAME: Host Name: november.uws.EDU.AU IP Address: 137.154.230.60 Your DNS name probably won't be

RE:RE: switch off Debian

1998-12-16 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Michael Wahl wrote: I'd like to thank you for your quick and good help. It seems I need some basic instructions for working with Debian/Linux. Is there a good documentation / book for REAL greenhorns? (With basic syntax, commands and

RE: Help!!!!!! Package install problems!!!

1998-12-16 Thread Person, Roderick
I have the same type of CDROM. I used the goldstar cdrom driver (gscd). I works fine. Try that driver and you should have full access to the CD. It is possible to use dselect without the the packages file - but I don't recommend this. I have done it that way and it can lead to problems. When I

Re: Smail not delivering mail to local domain

1998-12-16 Thread Michael E. Touloumtzis
Pat, I had the same problem and made the same change. Sorry I didn't recognize that when you posted your query; I made the change to the hostnames line in /etc/smail/config more on a hunch than based on actually understanding what I was doing ;-), and I promptly forgot about it. I had already

Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

1998-12-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: I am wondering if Debian is just too difficult for me at this point. I am wondering if maybe I should try Red Hat, I have heard it is easier to install, and then come back to Debian. Two years ago, Red Hat was certainly easier to

Re: Graphics Card: S3 3D - compatible?

1998-12-16 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, I'm looking at buying a new PC sometime soon - I've just seen a *very* good looking deal for a 350MHz Pentium II system. As usual, my main compatibility worries are with video and sound cards. The video card is described by the supplier as an AGP S3 3D card, with a 365

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