Re: Tar y ficheros ocultos

1999-02-06 Thread Antonio Castro
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, benalb wrote: On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Antonio Castro wrote: On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, benalb wrote: ¿Se puede usar tar para hacer backups de directorios con archivos ocultos? Por más que busco en el man no veo nada de dot files o hidden. Un saludo Esta duda se

Qué tal slink?

1999-02-06 Thread Tomás Bautista
Hola! Pues esa es la pregunta. ¿Ya se puede uno cambiar a ella sin riesgos? Tomás. _ Tomas Bautista. Phone: +34 928 451275 -- Fax: +34 928 451243 / ___)_ E-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (___ \ Home page URL: http://www.cma.ulpgc.es/users/bautista \_) |

Re: =?ISO-8859-1?q?Qu=E9_tal_slink??=

1999-02-06 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
Hola : Yo estoy usando slink en este computador y no tengo ninguna queja, Los programas que componen el slink, estan bastante estables. Salvo un u otro problemita, todo esta funcionando bien. Pues esa es la pregunta. ¿Ya se puede uno cambiar a ella sin riesgos?

Re: Staroffice

1999-02-06 Thread Vicen
Jose Mari Mor Fabregat wrote: Habeis podido instalar la Staroffice 5.1 Yo no, tal como arranca el programa de instalación, las X se quedan congeladas, incluso todo el sistema, teniendo que apagar el equipo. He oido rumores que tiene algún problema con el servidor de la S3 Virge.

RE: iNet: conecto, obtengo una IP y ahora?

1999-02-06 Thread Jon Noble
Pues eso, que mi modem marca, linka, incluso obtengo las IP's local y remota.Pero...¿y ahora? ¿Debo hacer algo más? Cuando obtengo las IP's, arranco un browser, pero no es capaz de conectar con ninguna pagina (incluso poniendola con direcciones IP: http://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX) Bien, entonces

Re: Se acuerdan, sendmail?

1999-02-06 Thread Hue-Bond
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Octavio Rodriguez Perez wrote: Pues bien, configurando la impresora me encuentro con que al mandar trabajos no se imprimen. Me sale el mensaje: lpr: unable to get official name for local machine Si vuelvo a dejar el /etc/hosts como estaba, si que imprime, pero vuelve a

Re: Tar y ficheros ocultos

1999-02-06 Thread Hue-Bond
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Antonio Castro wrote: Yo siempre guardo las cosas haciendo un cd al directorio que deseo guardar y luego hago un tar del directorio actual. Pues todos los .tar.gz's que me bajo de Internet están hechos desde el directorio padre al del programa. |

Re: Staroffice

1999-02-06 Thread Hue-Bond
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Jose Mari Mor Fabregat wrote: Habeis podido instalar la Staroffice 5.1 He oido rumores que tiene algún problema con el servidor de la S3 Virge. ¿Sabeis algo de eso??? Ya la 5.0 tenía el bug, y existe un parche. Pero creo que lo mejor es usar el servidor

Configurar impresora.

1999-02-06 Thread Gabriel B.
Hola. He intentado configurar la impresora (epson lq1050+) y no me imprime todo lo ancho de la página; es decir, que se deja la parte derecha del texto sin imprimir. También, a veces, salen unas manchas por encima del texto. He intentado leer todo lo que he podido (mi inglés es un poco pobre).

Re: Kernel configurations

1999-02-06 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 23:18 (+), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I now have several networked Linux boxes; but they all have different hardware and do different things and they have different kernels. I have trouble keeping track of what options are compiled into which kernels and I'm

duplicate binaries

1999-02-06 Thread dan
I was looking around in the /bin directory, and there are several duplicate files installed there. For example, grep, fgrep, and egrep are all the same file. The program checks to see how it was called to determine what to do. Shouldn't files like egrep and fgrep be symbolic links to grep,

Re: Kernel configurations

1999-02-06 Thread Gregory T. Norris
This probably doesn't address all of your concerns, but if you use kernel-package to generate a kernel-image*.deb package, it will include the .config file as /boot/config-KERNELVERSION. That will at least let you see what options were selected for an installed kernel, and can be copied to your

[no subject]

1999-02-06 Thread Pawel Zawisza
is there a way to run debian (ie. v 1.3) on a 386sx system with ONLY 2megz of ram? If no then what other linux version would you recommend for this system? thanx, Pawel

Re: X-windows not working anymore...

1999-02-06 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Take a look at your ~/.xsession-errors file... I've usually found that it'll point me in the right direction. If that doesn't help, I'd be willing to do a little digging for you. I'd need you to run startx [any-options-you-normally-use] startx.out 21, then email me the output from that along

Matrox G100 with X

1999-02-06 Thread Robert Rati
I am attempting to setup X on my friend's machine and he has a Maxtrox G100 AGP card and am wondering what Xserver to use. I tried using the SVGA server, which in XFree86 3.3.3.1 says supports the G100 PCI version. XF86Setup cannot open the display at the end of the setup, and I cannot seem to

Modem locks up, yet again.

1999-02-06 Thread ktb
Well I've tried all the suggestions from the list and my modem is still locking up. This will probably be my last message from Linux until I can get this fixed because it is getting so bad. I have posted about this before but here are the symptoms: Sometime after I terminate a internet

Re: duplicate binaries

1999-02-06 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: I was looking around in the /bin directory, and there are several duplicate files installed there. For example, grep, fgrep, and egrep are all the same file. The program checks to see how it was called to determine what to do. Shouldn't files like egrep and

Re: Dual Boot Woes

1999-02-06 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Extended/logical drives always will start at hdx5. This leaves room for the max of 4 primary partitions in slots hdx1 - hdx4, and will prevent your logical partitions from changing later on if you add or delete a primary. The problem I see in your lilo.conf file is the first line as show below:

Re: duplicate binaries

1999-02-06 Thread John Hasler
dan writes: Shouldn't files like egrep and fgrep be symbolic links to grep, and same for any other program like this? What's wrong with hard links for this? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Debian Meeting tomorrow: Ian Jackson, Dale Sheetz, LinuxWorld

1999-02-06 Thread Joey Hess
Bay Area Debian, the only known Debian user's group, will hold its first meeting tomorrow at 9:30pm in the CoffeeNet internet cafe in San Fransisco. Dale Sheetz and (hopefully) Ian Jackson will be there, along with myself, and other Debian developers and enthusiasts in the Bay Area. Dale and Ian

Installing slink

1999-02-06 Thread MallarJ
When I installed hamm to my laptop, I used my zip drive to do most of the work. I ran the install.bat file from my Win95 partition in DOS mode, and continued with the installation. When it got to the point that it was ready to install the kernel, it allowed me to install from /dev/sda4 - my zip

Re: duplicate binaries

1999-02-06 Thread Mitch Blevins
dan wrote: On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 08:19:19PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: In foo.debian-user, you wrote: I was looking around in the /bin directory, and there are several duplicate files installed there. For example, grep, fgrep, and egrep are all the same file. The program checks

Re: off topic - Assembler using GCC

1999-02-06 Thread ivan
INT 10h is the video BIOS - I want to set the video mode directly. By using INT 10h I don't have to learn and programme the card registers - the BIOS takes care of this. Why is the video bios not available from protected mode ? Does this mean that making superfast graphics (as in DOS demo's)

Netscape 4.5 mail server messages

1999-02-06 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
This message may better be posted to another list, but I don't know what list. Anyway, I am using netscape 4.5, installed via the installer that came with the tarball.Im pretty sure this is the glibc version. I keep getting annoying messages about the mailserver, telling me to set a user

Re: Netscape 4.5 mail server messages

1999-02-06 Thread Mark Wagnon
Alan Eugene Davis wrote: I keep getting annoying messages about the mailserver, telling me to set a user name. It's not clear to me, but the default for mail server is: Outgoing mail (SMTP) server = localhost My user name is Outgoing mail server username = myname. Should

ftp.de.debian: Archive_in_progress - still?

1999-02-06 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Hmm, according to /debian/Archive_Maintenance_In_Progress ftp.de.debian.org update is starting at 13:52 US Central time, and ending at about 15:30. That's 19:52-21:30 CET, isn't it? Currently it's 0:50 CET and this file still exists. Is Archive_Maintenance_In_Progress incorrect, is the

XWIN Fixed

1999-02-06 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy All! Many thanks to those who e-mailed me regarding my X problems :) All fixed now :) Thanks, Brant __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: really simple format question

1999-02-06 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Robert Rati wrote: I've been looking all over my system to find a floppy disk formatting command, but have come up empty. Superformat doesn't appear to be in the slink dist nor can I find any kind of floppy formating command with apropos. Can someone help me out with this real quick?

Re: Slink CDs available - Australia

1999-02-06 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 04-Feb-1999, Richard Lyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tyson, As a satisfied customer, I would rather wait until there is an official release of Slink. I don't have any burning desire to run the cutting edge, but place more emphasis on a bug free complete distribution. Hopefully we

Mozilla Help!!!

1999-02-06 Thread Rod Person
Hey All, I've just spent 5 1/2 hours trying to get ppp and Mozilla up and running. I have successfully gotten ppp to hold the connection, but I can't get Mozilla to load any pages. If I type an address such as www.debian.org I get the error that the DNS does not exist. It doesn't even seem to

RE: apt-get update failing

1999-02-06 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup. I've removed the Packages.gz files and had mirror reget them several times. I also tried right from the ftp site ... Are you -sure- you have the right version? va{root}/usr/debian/home/jgg#cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb

Re: Mozilla Help!!!

1999-02-06 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Rod Person wrote: Hey All, I've just spent 5 1/2 hours trying to get ppp and Mozilla up and running. I have successfully gotten ppp to hold the connection, but I can't get Mozilla to load any pages. If I type an address such as www.debian.org I get the error that the

kernel 2.2.1 conf.modules...

1999-02-06 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I am tring to get midi working with my SB32 PNP. In my conf.modules, I have a line: post-install awe_wave /usr/bin/sfxload /usr/lib/awe/sfbank/synthgm.sbk But, when kernel boots up, it said failed. I've checked the /lib/modules, and it has awe_wave.o there.

SYM 53C416 SCSI and HP PhotoSmart

1999-02-06 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Thank you for your responses on my `Invisible files' question... I'll recompile the kernel as soon as I get to it. I have another question: I have a SCSI card that came with HP PhotoSmart scanner. It's a PnP card, and pnpdump identifies it as SYS 53C416 (this is also the number on a

Re: Extreme Security Suggestions?

1999-02-06 Thread Jiri Baum
Timothy Hospedales: Which leaves the option of having a dedicated physical drive and unplugging it when I leave. But that is annoying since I would have to leave my machine open all the time. You can get `drawers' for hard disks that let you slide the HDD in and out a slot on the front of the

Re: Tracking changes made by installation of software

1999-02-06 Thread Jiri Baum
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... allows admins to prevent users from making incorrect modifications where they shouldn't be. Why aren't you setting permissions appropriately? Unlike MS DOS / Win, in Linux you can set files to be read-only to ordinary users, or invisible altogether (inaccessible

Re: [whine] Power down. vs System halted.

1999-02-06 Thread Jiri Baum
trio: A human has to push the button to turn it back on. Does anybody know a way to get around this new convenience? If you can't get the motherboard jumper/BIOS setting methods to work, how about shorting the actual switch? (Or getting rid of the pushbutton and installing a proper on/off

Re: perl script

1999-02-06 Thread Jiri Baum
Mike Schmitz: I don't have pico, and usually use only vim. Vim showed no ^M's so I was fairly satisfied that they did not exist. ... Is vim now trying to be compatible with M$?!! Yeah, vim is trying to be too clever. :set ff=unix or :set fileformat=unix For more info, :help

Re: Unviewable pgp-signed messages

1999-02-06 Thread Jiri Baum
Bob Nielsen: I keep getting this with all of the messages to the list from Steve Lamb: [just a couple of PGP status lines, with no text between] Me too! The way I usually get around it is to type |less at elm (five characters plus enter). I assume it'll work similarly in pine. The same trick

Re: OFF TOPIC: is this abuse of mmap()?

1999-02-06 Thread Jiri Baum
Britton Kerin: ... printf(0: I'm still here sir!); ... Bus error ... None of the little I'm still here sir! message print You should probably put a newline at the end of those printf(3)s. Otherwise, the text will be buffered and you won't see it. It might be getting further than you

Re: Extreme Security Suggestions?

1999-02-06 Thread Jiri Baum
Timothy Hospedales: I am wondering what is the recommended way to secure a sizeable volume (0.5-2GB) of confidential data such that it is non-retreivable/unusable even in the event that a hacker has gained user level or shudder root access? Removable harddisk? Hardware encryption? If a

Re: /usr vs. /usr/local

1999-02-06 Thread Jiri Baum
*- On 5 Feb, Ted Behling wrote about /usr vs. /usr/local What's the recommended usage difference between /usr and /usr/local? [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /usr/local is off limits to Debian packages. Things in /usr/local will not be replaced, deleted, etc. when upgrading or whatever. Also, if you

Re: X crashes after upgrade to slink

1999-02-06 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Marko Loparic wrote: Apparently X can't start my window manager (fvwm2) using startx. It quits after showing the X screen for a second. Using xinit another window manager is activated (I strange one, I can't tell what it is...) The X messages shows no fatal errors, but the .xsession.errors

SB32 PnP Midi with Kernel 2.2.1

1999-02-06 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Hard luck for me. I still cannot get my midi working under 2.2.1. Could you please help me out?? If I use playmidi, I got a message playmidi: No playback device set. Aborting.. If I use drvmidi, then it started playing, but no sound. Mp3

emacs and pgnus

1999-02-06 Thread hubert . fauque
I am trying to use pgnus-0.75 and I have the following problem: it compiles fine (./configure and make) but when I use it I get the error void function: gnus-truncate-string the problem is that there is no function named gnus-truncate-string in pgnus; so I think it may be loaded before I start

Wrong HD size in BIOS, Recovery?

1999-02-06 Thread Dan Hugo
I had a bad 3.2G hard drive that was flaking on me, and it did so for what I called the last time Monday at about 3am... what better time to upgrade to a much more recent Debian version AND a new hard drive at the same time? I had a 4.0G drive waiting to take its place, so why not? So everything

Only One Problem Left

1999-02-06 Thread Art Lemasters
As far as I can tell, the Netscape-to-libBrokenLocale error is the only one on the slink system that lingers. All-in-all, though, wow! What a system! ...sure hope the dist. stays free...goose and golden egg thing, you know. g Oh, and BTW, the afterstep install might be broken. It

xemacs-20.4-mule-canna-wnn question.

1999-02-06 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, In xemacs, I selected the menu: mule - set-language-environment - Chinese-big5. Then I selected the menu: mule - Toggle-input-method. Then I got a message: Can't activate input method `chinese-py-punct-b5' I then set the debugger on, and got the following

Re: Only One Problem Left - slink, that is

1999-02-06 Thread Art Lemasters
Oh, and I'm running slink (frozen) here. Art On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 03:23:19AM +, Art Lemasters wrote: As far as I can tell, the Netscape-to-libBrokenLocale error is the only one on the slink system that lingers. All-in-all, though, wow! What a system! ...sure hope the dist.

RE: X crashes after upgrade to slink

1999-02-06 Thread Mario Bertrand
On 05-Feb-99 Marko Loparic wrote: Hi, Apparently X can't start my window manager (fvwm2) using startx. It quits after showing the X screen for a second. Using xinit another window manager is activated (I strange one, I can't tell what it is...) The X messages shows no fatal errors, but

I really need some help!

1999-02-06 Thread Nuno Donato
I really need some help in this. A month ago I bought a spanish magazine called Linux Actual. It brought the new version of Debian Linux 2.0 Hamm. This magazine didn't had in the CD the sections: Non-US, non-free and others. This month, I bought the magazine again. It brought a CD with the rest

I really need some help!

1999-02-06 Thread Nuno Donato
I really need some help in this. A month ago I bought a spanish magazine called Linux Actual. It brought the new version of Debian Linux 2.0 Hamm. This magazine didn't had in the CD the sections: Non-US, non-free and others. This month, I bought the magazine again. It brought a CD with the rest

XF86Setup: xinitrc not there.

1999-02-06 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I wanted to run XF86Setup. It told me, that it cannot find /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc So I checked in slinks Contents-i386. According to it, xinitrc should be in xserver-common. So I installed that package, but xinitrc still is not there (also not in /etc/X11/xinit/). Am I missing

XF86Setup doesn't run (windowmaker?), with error opening terminal

1999-02-06 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Having upgraded xfree to new packages on Potato, I have tried to run XF86Setup from the virtual console, xterm and rxvt. In each case, I get the message. To wit: electra:/usr/doc/xf86setup# XF86Setup Error opening terminal: linux. Error opening terminal: linux. Error opening terminal:

Re: Wrong HD size in BIOS, Recovery?

1999-02-06 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Dan Hugo wrote: Apparently, I had forgotten to change the BIOS setting back to AUTO for the IDE drive probing, which I had set up when I first found that 3.2G drive to be flaky. Ugh! #includestdisclaim.h I would suggest you tell the bios to auto-detect your disk, and

debian-user-Request@Lists.debian.org.schreiben

1999-02-06 Thread Torsten Japke

Re: finger return No one logged on. and I am logged...... (fwd)

1999-02-06 Thread Paolo Pedaletti
Ciao Mike, On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, David Fries wrote: On my machine: mike:~$ finger No one logged on. mike:~$ finger @localhost [localhost] Username Real name Idletime TTY Remote console location

source-debs of qmail 1.03?

1999-02-06 Thread Mike Gerber
hi folks! i was searching for source-debs (debian packages) of qmail 1.03 but i only found the 1.01 and 1.02 ones. is there a 1.03 package? thanx in advance!

Re: Mozilla Help!!!

1999-02-06 Thread Rod Person
Thanks, I still can't get Mozilla to do anything. Once my ppp is up I cant use ftp but that is it. ifconfig reports that I am connected to my isp and returns the address, but still every address that I type with a www. form automatically comes back nameserver has no DNS, but typing in

Token ring card diffuculties

1999-02-06 Thread Michael D. Cencula
Please forgive me if this is posted twice, but my ISP's e-mail server was down yesterday, so I'm not sure if it made it. I recently installed a token ring card in my debian system (in addition to my ethernet card). To do this, I added the line: ibmtr to my /etc/modules file. Afterwards, the

Re: duplicate binaries

1999-02-06 Thread servis
*- On 5 Feb, Mitch Blevins wrote about Re: duplicate binaries With the output of the ls commands here, note the sizes of the files. I have actually checked, and the files are identical except for their names. $ ls -l /bin/*grep /usr/bin/*grep -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root75728 Apr

Re: I really need some help!

1999-02-06 Thread Allens
You can download them from the net. If you go to www.debian.org then follow the link on the left called packages, you should get to the packages page. The kde lib you are looking for AFAIK is qt1g. Peter Allen Nuno Donato wrote: I really need some help in this. A

Re: New User - Debian?

1999-02-06 Thread Allens
Ed Cogburn wrote: Leonardo Bermudez wrote: Hi I'm still not a full new user because i still havn't stall any Linux yet. I got a Debian CD version 1.3.1, i know that is old and current version is 2.0. Before I download the 2.0 version and install it on my P350 PC, I would

Re: xterm configuration

1999-02-06 Thread John Bagdanoff
Thanks for the clue, Rafael: I have xrdb, but it couldn't work because it couldn't find cpp. S. I downloaded and installed cpp, and now my Xwindows is reading everything correctly (charles: except .Xresourses grin). Now that I have slink the way I want it, I can go back to my hamm

Re: duplicate binaries

1999-02-06 Thread Andreas Persenius
[BIG snip] Look at this: $ ls -li /bin/*grep* /usr/bin/*grep* 6071 -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root74308 Apr 11 1998 /bin/egrep* 6071 -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root74308 Apr 11 1998 /bin/fgrep* 6071 -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root74308 Apr 11 1998 /bin/grep* 139868 -rwxr-xr-x 1

Re: I really need some help!

1999-02-06 Thread homega
Nuno Donato dixit: I really need some help in this. A month ago I bought a spanish magazine called Linux Actual. It brought the new version of Debian Linux 2.0 Hamm. This magazine didn't had in the CD the sections: Non-US, non-free and others. This month, I bought the magazine again. It

Netscape True Type Fonts

1999-02-06 Thread Sean Johnson
I have TTF support in X-Windows now (via xfstt), but I cannot get Netscape to use them (which was the primary reason for getting them in the first place). I was wondering if anyone has any luck with getting Netscape to recognize the TTFs. Sean

Mailman not doing his work: smail won't deliver anything

1999-02-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
I have smail set up on my laptop. Neither internal nor external mail is sent. In /var/log/smail/logfile I find the reason for Xdefer is: router inet_hosts: BIND server failure: Connection refused Also: Xfail: reaspm: transport local: failed to open output file:

Re: Tracking changes made by installation of software

1999-02-06 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 2/6/99 2:51:14 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: allows admins to prevent users from making incorrect modifications where they shouldn't be. Why aren't you setting permissions appropriately? Unlike MS DOS / Win, in Linux you can set files to be

Re: New User - Debian?

1999-02-06 Thread Allens
Allens wrote: Ed Cogburn wrote: Leonardo Bermudez wrote: Hi I'm still not a full new user because i still havn't stall any Linux yet. I got a Debian CD version 1.3.1, i know that is old and current version is 2.0. Before I download the 2.0 version and install

Re: Mozilla Help!!!

1999-02-06 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Rod Person wrote: I still can't get Mozilla to do anything. Once my ppp is up I cant use ftp but that is it. ifconfig reports that I am connected to my isp and returns the address, but still Are you saying that ftp does or doesn't work? To what host can you ftp? Can you

Re: Netscape True Type Fonts

1999-02-06 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Sean Johnson wrote: I have TTF support in X-Windows now (via xfstt), but I cannot get Netscape to use them (which was the primary reason for getting them in the first place). I was wondering if anyone has any luck with getting Netscape to recognize the TTFs. It works

Re: wine question

1999-02-06 Thread Allens
You can compile in ntfs ro support in the 2.2.1 kernel. I think there might be an experimental rw support bit as well. Peter Allen Dan Willard wrote: There is a tool/program that allows linux to read ntfs (and dos to read it too). I need to check around to find it

Re: Netscape True Type Fonts

1999-02-06 Thread Mark Wagnon
Sean Johnson wrote: I have TTF support in X-Windows now (via xfstt), but I cannot get Netscape to use them (which was the primary reason for getting them in the first place). I was wondering if anyone has any luck with getting Netscape to recognize the TTFs. Hi Did you make a link to your

Re: Netscape True Type Fonts

1999-02-06 Thread Mark Wagnon
Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: It works fine. Are you sure the fonts are recognized by X? You can verify using the following: xlsfonts | grep ttf. If you don't see any fonts, then you need to read the docs for xfstt. (I had to put the following in my .xinitrc to get it working: xset fp+

Re: Token ring card diffuculties

1999-02-06 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
Hi, the card, but when I use ifconfig to assign an IP address (or make the card active using ifconfig tr0 up), the process that is running ifconfig hangs. I had the same problem. If I remember right, the Token Ring adapter can't be configured if it is not connected to a network. So just

Where is kdenetwork?

1999-02-06 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
There is a version of the kdenetwork package for hamm, but there is none for potato on the ftp.kde.org. Ehat happened to it? Stef

Netscape woes...

1999-02-06 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, I hope someone can help with this. I have been using netscape 4.05 for some time without a hitch. Recently, my disk ran out of space and sense then, my netscape will not run (I fixed the disk space problem BTW). I get the message Aborted. when I try to start it from a command line.

Re: Debian Meeting tomorrow: Ian Jackson, Dale Sheetz, LinuxWorld

1999-02-06 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Bay Area Debian, the only known Debian user's group, will hold its first meeting tomorrow at 9:30pm in the CoffeeNet internet cafe in San Fransisco. FYI, I'm the guy who lives upstairs, and as such can have you at The CoffeeNet as my guest for some time

[Fwd: ADV: 900+ Search Engines, Only 9.95]

1999-02-06 Thread Ed Cogburn
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Re: your mail

1999-02-06 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Pawel Zawisza wrote: is there a way to run debian (ie. v 1.3) on a 386sx system with ONLY 2megz of ram? If no then what other linux version would you recommend for this system? Quotation from the /usr/doc/HOWTO/Installation-HOWTO.gz: ===

Re: [Fwd: ADV: ... IGNORE THIS AND PRIOR MESSAGE. A MISTAKE.

1999-02-06 Thread Ed Cogburn
I meant to send this to my ISP, not Debian ml. I'm really sorry. -- Ed C.

Re: Mozilla Help!!!

1999-02-06 Thread Rod Person
Took a break from this for awhile now I'm back. I can use ftp and I ftp to 130.149.28.10 but in Mozilla ftp.debian.org still doesn't work. It tells me to set the $SOCK_NS variable. But, I'm not understanding this. The man page states that Mozilla does not have a usable man page - that nice...

Re: Tracking changes made by installation of software

1999-02-06 Thread John Hasler
jiri writes: Actually, a simple version shouldn't be difficult at all - if you start with the `find and diff' idea, but put a checksum next to each of the files, then you'll have a list of files added, files removed and files changed. For the changed files, you compare them with an archive

how and where to download boot floppy disks

1999-02-06 Thread Daniel Kahraman
Hello All: I've gone to the ftp.debian.org/pub/debian site but I cannot find /stable/disks-i386 or any of the other possibilities listed Debian GNU/Linux Installation features on page 16 of http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/LDP/gs/node4.html Hard to even get started!

RE: how and where to download boot floppy disks

1999-02-06 Thread Shaleh
On 03-Feb-99 Daniel Kahraman wrote: Hello All: I've gone to the ftp.debian.org/pub/debian site but I cannot find /stable/disks-i386 or any of the other possibilities listed Debian GNU/Linux Installation features on page 16 of http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/LDP/gs/node4.html Those docs are a

Re: how and where to download boot floppy disks

1999-02-06 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 04:06 (-0500), Daniel Kahraman wrote: Hello All: I've gone to the ftp.debian.org/pub/debian site but I cannot find /stable/disks-i386 or any of the other possibilities listed Debian GNU/Linux Installation features on page 16 of

Old afterstep

1999-02-06 Thread Robert Rati
Does anyone know where I can get the old 1.0-1 .deb files for Afterstep? All the sites seem to have 1.4.5.* and I can't find a site with the bo dists, which is where it was located. Rob

male friendships

1999-02-06 Thread Kevin Dalley
I found this on a Linux group. I'm sure that your father would enjoy it. Alexander N. Benner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alexander N. Benner - The Seven Promises of a Promise Keeper: -2- A Promise Keeper is committed to pursuing vital relationships with a few other men, understanding that

Re: Debian Meeting tomorrow: Ian Jackson, Dale Sheetz, LinuxWorld

1999-02-06 Thread Miguel Wooding SF Ten.Union
I was wondering whether anyone might have burned some Slink CD's that they could bring to the get-together. I'd happily pay for the cost of the CD's. I'd like to try testing Slink, but over a not-too-fast modem, downloading a whole setup is do-able, but a bit ungainly. I'm something of a

sendmail config behind firewall?

1999-02-06 Thread Stuart Marshall
Hi, I have several machines behind a firewall. Let's say they are named cam1,cam2,cam3,cam4 with addresses 192.168.1.[2-5] with a firewall machine at 192.168.1.1 having 2 eth interfaces. The firewall also does ip masquerading. I want to be able to send mail from the cam? machines with the

Re: Debian Meeting tomorrow: Ian Jackson, Dale Sheetz, LinuxWorld

1999-02-06 Thread Joey Hess
Miguel Wooding SF Ten.Union wrote: I was wondering whether anyone might have burned some Slink CD's that they could bring to the get-together. I'd happily pay for the cost of the CD's. I'd like to try testing Slink, but over a not-too-fast modem, downloading a whole setup is do-able, but a

unable to change desktop wallpaper in 981228-1.1alpha1-1

1999-02-06 Thread Jesse Evans
Hi, folks I've recently installed KDE (from the 981228-1.1alpha1-1 files) on my debian system. All seems to work reasonably well except I cannot change the desktop backgrounds. I'm able to apply color schemes, but when I try to add a wallpaper picture, the desktop app just quits. Any ideas as

Re: I really need some help!

1999-02-06 Thread Brant Wells
Hey Nuno! How are you? Log in to your Linux system as root. Then run the dselcect to install the packages (libs, etc..) When you get into dselect, go to the packages list, and then press the / key. Then, you can search for the libs that it is missing, like for xpm, or libg++, etc. (You

xntpd and linux on PPC question

1999-02-06 Thread Sunil N. Goda
I am trying to use xntpd (or ntpdate) to set my clock at boot up (after xdm loads). I have a file ntp.conf as follows: logfile /var/log/xntpd driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift statsdir /var/log/ntpstats/ statistics loopstats peerstats clockstats filegen loopstats file loopstats type day

Problems identifying libXmHTML.so.1.1

1999-02-06 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Everytime I try installing a file (tar or deb) I get an error message ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmHTML.so.1.1 and ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libhttp.so.0.1 but I checked and both of these files are in the directory. So, why will they not be

Re: Netscape woes...

1999-02-06 Thread Rob Mahurin
I got the bus error message repeatedly some time ago for absolutely no apparent reason. I moved my ~/.netscape/ directory to .netscape.screwed/ and ran it again, and it gave the you haven't run netscape before dialog and set itself up again and worked fine. I never figured out what was

how do I use UID setting?

1999-02-06 Thread Chris Evans
I think this is an incredibly basic question. I want to use a cgi-bin executable behind https security (i.e. fairly secure) that will copy files uploaded using ftp (insecure) into my www document directories (not an area I want open for write access!). The issue seems to be my failure to

windowmanager does not start

1999-02-06 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
Since I updated my system using dftp, no windowmanager ist started when I startx. Does anybody have an idea what the problem could be? Cheers Stef

Zip detection in Kernel2.2.0 Problems

1999-02-06 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
When loading the kernel I get ppa: Version2.03 (for Linux 2.2.0) Warning - no ppa compatible devices found. My zipdrive is connected to my parallel port with the printer connected to the zipdrive. I have had the zip for around 3 years so I do not believe it is one of the newer types (plus my

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