Re: Netscape y rendimiento

1999-03-08 Thread Antonio Castro
On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Hue-Bond wrote: El domingo 07 de marzo de 1999 a la(s) 10:26:36 +0100, Antonio Castro contaba: Mientras tanto no se me pasa por la cabeza que llegado al punto de que el sistema este degradado y sabiendo que esta es la causa no hagais otra cosa que 'killall netscape' es

Re: Kernel 2.2.1: últimos pasos de instalación

1999-03-08 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez
Quizás te interese mirar http://www.openresources.com/es/magazine/linux-kernel-22/, un artículo sobre el kernel 2.2, en castellano. Entre otras cosas, cuenta con cierto detalle el proceso de instalación. Jesus. Miquel Escarrà writes: Hola: He compilado el kernel

RV: LiNUX en la calle ???

1999-03-08 Thread juanma
Estimados amigos de Debian: Yo os voy a comentar mi punto de vista personal en cuanto a Linux. Mi profesión no se acerca (ni con mucho) a la informática y simplemente me quedo en un usuario más de windows. Más bien lo padezco aunque poco a poco y con la ayuda de otras personas voy emigrando

Re: LiNUX en la calle ???

1999-03-08 Thread Jose M. Bello Dieguez
At 09:48 05/03/99 +, you wrote: 'amigabilidad' del sistema. Pero esto nos lleva a una cuestion importante : Que es un sistema amigable ?. Para mi, LiNUX es un sistema totalmente amigable, en tanto en cuanto es el S.O que conozco que mejor se cuida a si mismo, y por ende al usuario. En la

RE: LiNUX en la calle ???

1999-03-08 Thread juanma
Estimados amigos de Debian: Yo os voy a comentar mi punto de vista personal en cuanto a Linux. Mi profesión no se acerca (ni con mucho) a la informática y simplemente me quedo en un usuario más de windows. Más bien lo padezco aunque poco a poco y con la ayuda de otras personas voy emigrando (en

Re: version de window maker

1999-03-08 Thread Xose Manoel Ramos
El mantenedor del paquete del WindowMaker (y de casi todas las DockApps) participa en la lista o sea que me imagino que te responderá el. Yo te puedo decir que en Debian una vez que se ha sacado una versión (la Hamm por ejemplo), ya no se hacen cambios en esa versión. Las nuevas versiones de los

Re: modems

1999-03-08 Thread Xose Manoel Ramos
No necesariamente todos los winmodems son más baratos. En muchas marcas existe la versión interna (PCI y me imagino que WinModem) y el modem externo (que seguro que es de verdad) y los venden a precios iguales (o muy similares). A quien sí le interesa es a los fabricantes pues los costes son

Re: Instalar .deb con dselect de fuera del CD de distribucion

1999-03-08 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Andres Seco Hernandez wrote: Hasta ahora, he usado dselect para instalar paquetes que vienen con la distribucion hamm. ¿Como lo hago para instalar paquetes que vienen con CDs de revistas? Puedes usar el método dpkg-multicd que trae la Debian 2.1 (no lo he probado, pero

Re: LiNUX en la calle ???

1999-03-08 Thread Juanmi Mora
On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, TooManySecrets wrote: La verdad, no seré yo quien vaya aconsejando a los amigos que se instalen un Linux... quiero tener tiempo para seguir viviendo :-) ¡Jodón! Cualquiera diría... Pues yo lo hago, y muchos lo prueban. Afortunadamente, hoy día y gracias a Gnome y KDE

Re: version de window maker

1999-03-08 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 01:33:21PM +0100, Xose Manoel Ramos wrote: De hecho actualmente la Debian 2.1 traerá wmaker 0.2x, pero la próxima versión ya tiene paquettes 0.5x. Cierto. La cosa es: hamm -- wmaker 0.14.1-7 slink -- wmaker 0.20.3-4 potato -- wmaker 0.51.1-1

Como instalar GNOME

1999-03-08 Thread Lucky
Me han dicho que GNOME es un buen gestor de ventanas y ahora lo tengo, pero son muchos arxivos y no se en que orden van para instalarlos. Me podeis ayudar?

svgalib

1999-03-08 Thread jon
hola,alguien que programe con la svgalib?

Re: Debian-Release-Party

1999-03-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Wolfgang Gernot Bauer wrote: Where, when (March 9, 00:00:00 GMT that means in about 20 minutes)? No, you are 24 hours too early. March 9 is Tuesday (or Dienstag if you prefer). Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ

Re: LinuxDos assmebler

1999-03-08 Thread Richard Lyon
I was thinking about learning assembler, but there is a problem. I heard about DOS interrupts, which I guess work only in DOS. Which I guess means that if I buy a book about x86 assembler, and it speak a lot about that interrupt things, I have a fair chance it wouldn't work in Linux, is

Re: packages missing

1999-03-08 Thread Richard Lyon
Are we talking about HAMM? are there some x-packages missing from stable? (xfree86-common and so on) if so, when are they going to get here?

Re: Linux

1999-03-08 Thread Richard Lyon
I would like to invest in Linux but can't find a stock in that name -- can you help I suggest the fastest and best way to lose your money is to send it to me.

hamm/slink gotcha

1999-03-08 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
Hello all: Hamm (up to date as of about 3 months ago) update to slink using dselect gives the errors (upon Install): internal error - no filename at -e line 12, P chunk 14. installation script returned error exit status 1. Press RETURN to continue. Anyone have a clue why I am getting this

(no problems) Re: X, new video card, and servers.

1999-03-08 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
When you say that it's a 3.3.3.1 server, I assume this means it won't work with 3.3.2, and I've heard that compiling xfree is a pain (though haven't tried it). Is there an experimental version somewhere (I've looked in /debian/project/experimental -- is there another repository of

Re: LinuxDos assmebler

1999-03-08 Thread ivan
At 04:53 PM 3/6/99 -0500, Alexander Gutfraind wrote: Hello fellows! Hello Alexander ! I was thinking about learning assembler Me too ... but there is a problem. Probably many problems - you just haven't discovered them yet :) I heard about DOS interrupts, which I guess work only in DOS.

TAGS file for gzipped source in emacs/xemacs

1999-03-08 Thread Miguel Wooding SF Ten.Union
Does anyone know how to make and use a TAGS file when the source files are gzipped? I installed the xemacs20-supportel package, which installs all of the *.el elisp files in gzipped form. (I would guess that emacs[19,20]-el also install the sources in gzipped form.) I suppose I could simply

uploading a website (reverse mirror)?

1999-03-08 Thread Frankie
I have a slow modem. My website is ~9MB. When I change files in it, I don't want to have to a) upload the whole site or b) remember which files I've changed, and upload them manually. ftp-upload and sitecopy both upload a site based on local changes. They do not consult the remote site to see

CD-R Win95 to Debian

1999-03-08 Thread Brian Clark
Hello all: I recently installed Debian (frozen/slink) on a Linux box here. My primary machine, for now, is running Windows 95. I installed Debian using the Driver and Rescue diskettes (which I made) and installed the base system from an archive which I downloaded to an existing RedHat partition.

Re: uploading a website (reverse mirror)?

1999-03-08 Thread servis
*- On 8 Mar, Frankie wrote about uploading a website (reverse mirror)? Is there an upload utility that compares local and remote file versions and uploads the changed version based on the differences between local and remote systems rather than local and old_local versions? cheers,

PGP complaint mail programs

1999-03-08 Thread Emil Soleyman-Zomalan
I know that there is a multitude of email clients that provide pgp complaincy. However, as a newbie I am not as well versed in their advantages/disadvantages (and more importantly user satisfaction). I would greatly appreciate it if anyone can direct me to a link or provide information about this

Re: Linux won't work with RAM 64 MB

1999-03-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Werner: I do not know why your system would not boot correctly with 64Mb RAM. Linux 2.0 will not recognise more than 64Mb RAM automatically, but it will still boot (but ignore the extra memory). I have 128Mb RAM in my system here and Linux 2.0 works fine. On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 12:12:34PM

Favorite WP/Office software...

1999-03-08 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I'm curious what people feel is their favorite word processor/ office productivity suite (i.e., star office, word perfect, lyx, TeX, siag office, etc.). NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com

lilo win/linux for 2 large HDD

1999-03-08 Thread Vitaliy Ababiy
I have two HDD hda: FUJITSU MPA3026AT, 2503MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=635/128/63, DMA hdb: ASUS CD-S340, ATAPI CDROM drive hdc: QUANTUM FIREBALL ST4.3A, 4110MB w/81kB Cache, CHS=14848/9/63, UDMA Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hdc: hdc1 hdc2 hdc3 With next partition: fdisk -l /dev/fda Device

beowulf clusters?

1999-03-08 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
Do nodes in a beowulf cluster all have to have the same hw configuration? or can different types of intel based configurations work? NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com

Conflict

1999-03-08 Thread Bal K. Paudyal
Hi Friends, Does anybody know why: When DNS server is running (as a daemon), telnet and ftp to that server does not work properly. It gets connected but nothing is seen on the remote host. Thanks

route: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument

1999-03-08 Thread Oz Dror
When I type ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 I get SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument When I type IPADDR=192.168.0.4 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.0.0 BROADCAST=192.168.0.255 GATEWAY=192.168.0.4 ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST} route add -net

Laptop install Help Needed

1999-03-08 Thread Chris Brown
Hello, I'm a newbie to Linux and want to install debian on my laptop as my primary (only) machine, its a compaq armada 1535 w/ 3com 3c575 pcmcia ethernet. I've got nfs/ftp access to a linux box on the local network which has a copy of the hamm distribution and have made the rescue and driver

xserver fixated on tty7?

1999-03-08 Thread Alan Su
i probably missed something as i upgraded to slink today, but is the tty that the xserver uses somehow changed to be in some config file (rather than taking the first unused one)? i had a couple extra virtual consoles which i used to use on tty7 and tty8. after the upgrade, the xserver

Re: Linux

1999-03-08 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
There are no linux based corps. that currently have offered IPOs. RedHat will likely be the first (and potentially VAResearch); pay attention to those names. NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On Mon, 8 Mar 1999,

Re: Qmail to Exim woes

1999-03-08 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So my questions are : Is the eximconfig script setting exim up for anyone else? It did not work for me. I had a lot of trouble getting exim to work in a similar setup than yours. People on this list helped me otherwise I would not have

Re: it's far, far more than a mere editor.

1999-03-08 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, mike shupp wrote: I hadn't been intending to ask about this, but since folks are exposing their prej--er-- discussing fine points of editors, has there ever been a UNIX or Linux port of XyWrite in any of its incarnations or of NotaBena? (or Atex, a dedicated word

Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-08 Thread Brian Clark
George Bonser said: //http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/features/opensource/390823.html // //zdnet did a review of Debian. Included are such comments as: // //Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 ($38.95 direct) ... //...Windows users should steer clear of Debian. // //...The company says it will include a new

Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-08 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 08:44:34PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/features/opensource/390823.html zdnet did a review of Debian. Included are such comments as: Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 ($38.95 direct) ... ...Windows users should steer clear of Debian. Aside from the

Re: uploading a website (reverse mirror)?

1999-03-08 Thread Frankie
George Bonser wrote: On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Frankie wrote: Is there an upload utility that compares local and remote file versions and uploads the changed version based on the differences between local and remote systems rather than local and old_local versions? You might be able to run

RE: route: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument

1999-03-08 Thread Shaleh
On 08-Mar-99 Oz Dror wrote: When I type ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 I get SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument 2.2.x (and later 2.1.x) kernels do not need route statements. Unless you have to set a gateway that is non-obvious.

RE: Laptop install Help Needed

1999-03-08 Thread Shaleh
On 08-Mar-99 Chris Brown wrote: Hello, I'm a newbie to Linux and want to install debian on my laptop as my primary (only) machine, its a compaq armada 1535 w/ 3com 3c575 pcmcia ethernet. there is now a debian-laptop list. You can ask laptop specific questions there. 1. I'm not

Re: Kernel Image

1999-03-08 Thread Doug Dine
At 3/7/99 11:57:00 AM, you wrote: Did you install the kernel-image-...deb file (in the directory above the one with the source code) using dpkg? I used Dselect and installed the kernel source package. Doug Dine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.xoom.com/dougdine

Compiling Kernel

1999-03-08 Thread Doug Dine
Hi, I am going to compile the kernel again as the first attempt apparently didn't suceed. My users manual describes the steps as follows. Is this correct? 1. change to directory /usr/src/linux 2. make config 3. make dep ; make clean 4. make zImage 5. make modules 6. make modules_install

RE: Compiling Kernel

1999-03-08 Thread Shaleh
On 08-Mar-99 Doug Dine wrote: Hi, I am going to compile the kernel again as the first attempt apparently didn't suceed. My users manual describes the steps as follows. Is this correct? 1. change to directory /usr/src/linux 2. make config make menuconfig is a lot easier to handle

Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-08 Thread Mark Wagnon
George Bonser wrote: I think these criticisms are overstated in many cases. Ever try to get ppp running on Solaris? I have installed many distributions. The initial install is only a portion of the problem. The rest comes in getting the system configured the way that you need it. That is

Re: uploading a website (reverse mirror)?

1999-03-08 Thread oneiros
Thus spake Frankie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have a slow modem. My website is ~9MB. When I change files in it, I don't want to have to a) upload the whole site or b) remember which files I've changed, and upload them manually. mirrordir works very nicely for this purpose, and more. You can use

Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-08 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1999-03-07 22:47, Mark Wagnon wrote: George Bonser wrote: I've tried most of the distributions. I started with slackware, dabbled with redhat, tried debian 1.3 but wasn't able to get past dselect back then, used suse for more that a year, and now I'm settled with debian. Nothing beats

Re: Favorite WP/Office software...

1999-03-08 Thread Michael Bonetsmueller
Paul Nathan Puri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm curious what people feel is their favorite word processor/ office productivity suite (i.e., star office, word perfect, lyx, TeX, siag office, etc.). EMACS + AucTeX + LaTeX. Only missing thing is a useable UNIX-native free spreadsheet. (I'm

re: Laptop install Help Needed

1999-03-08 Thread etienne grossmann
Hello, 2. I can't get the machine to talk on the network. How do I do this? Do you have an IP number for the laptop? Your sysadmin should give/lend you one, and also tell you what the values for broadcast, gateway are. I know there are a hundred right answers to this question, I'm

Re: printer_help_please?

1999-03-08 Thread Jiri Baum
Harold G. Stevenson: ... Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Device or resource busy', attempt 34, sleeping 20 at 10:34:02 What else is using /dev/lp1? fuser -v /dev/lp1 (That's if you have the psmisc package.) Jiri -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] We'll know the future has arrived when every mailer

Re: Undersanding bootable media

1999-03-08 Thread Jiri Baum
Marlon Urias: In my quest to understand booting/LILO/MBR's I've come a cross a phenomenon I dont understand. Friend of mine (linux guru-ish) said that to make a linux bootable floppy you had to use a lowlevel tool like dd as opposed to just copying the files over to the floppy. Yes.

APT: packages held back

1999-03-08 Thread Maarten Boekhold
[Note: this is a repost, since nobody responded to it, yet I find it hard to believe that nobody knows the answer to my question.] Hi, Yesterday I wondered how much MBs I'd have to download to upgrade my hamm system (plus *some* slink stuff in there) to slink, so I set my sources.list and did

Re: GUI stuff

1999-03-08 Thread Joeri van Ruth
On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 04:24:12PM -0600, Havoc Pennington wrote: Gnome has two faces. From the developer's point of view it is an application development framework. It adds a lot of useful widgets to Gtk, adds some convenience functions, adds some things like configuration file

Re: route: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument

1999-03-08 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I assume you're running with a 2.2.x kernel? If so, you just need to add netmask ???.???.???.??? to the route add -net command. The 2.0.x kernel series would supply it's own default value if none was specifically given, but in 2.2.x that is no longer the case. Also, the kernel will now

Hamm -- Slink now no color ....

1999-03-08 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
I have recently upgraded to slink and now the following apps only display in monochrome: lynx 2.8.1rel.2 mutt 0.95.3i slrn 0.9.5.3 I don't get any error mesages and the config files are set to use color. (minicom is still in color)

Re: Favorite WP/Office software...

1999-03-08 Thread Randy Edwards
I'm curious what people feel is their favorite word processor/ office productivity suite I use primarily WordPerfect and StarOffice. Out of these two I think WordPerfect is a more elegant program/environment. WP is definitely faster loading and I tend to use it more. However, I think

Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-08 Thread Randy Edwards
Yeah, and a whole bunch of other people. Basicly the article's slant is be afraid of Debian, be very afraid. I couldn't believe the way they portrayed Debian as a commercial product -- even the X days of support (that's your job George:-). The one strong positive they noted -- the

Re: Repartition

1999-03-08 Thread homega
Mark Yobb dixit: A rough step by step would help me out a whole bunch. Thanks You might copy the whole filesystem (or by directories) to a different location. That depends on whether you have an empty partition where to do this, or a tape drive like a zip drive. A straight forward method

Re: APT: packages held back

1999-03-08 Thread sjb
This showed numerous packages as being 'kept back': Packages are held back when you choose Hold in dselect. When there are dependancy/conflict errors apt tells you. Regards Sarel Botha

Re: Linux

1999-03-08 Thread homega
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: I would like to invest in Linux but can't find a stock in that name -- can you help Could anyone check if the real sender behind this email might be someone at the M$ Corporation? ;o)

X-Window and AfterStep

1999-03-08 Thread homega
After adding new applications (eg. /opt/netscape/netscape), to /etc/X11/afterstep/menudefs.hook, the menu works fine for a while, but after some time, menudefs.hook goes back to its original configuration, wiping out any trace of the new additions (well, it keeps them on menudefs.hook~). What's

Re: APT: packages held back

1999-03-08 Thread Maarten Boekhold
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This showed numerous packages as being 'kept back': Packages are held back when you choose Hold in dselect. When there are dependancy/conflict errors apt tells you. So, does this mean I'll have to go into dselect and see if these packages are placed on hold? I

Re: CD-R Win95 to Debian

1999-03-08 Thread eric Farris
I did this when 2.0 came out. The Debian distribution is available as an ISO image under here: ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/pub/linux/debian-cd/ (there are other mirrors; take a look at http://cdimage.debian.org/) Debian cautions you from simply mirroring the ftp.debian.org site, because of the

Re: beowulf clusters?

1999-03-08 Thread Norris Preyer
Paul Nathan Puri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do nodes in a beowulf cluster all have to have the same hw configuration? or can different types of intel based configurations work? There is no reason for the nodes to have the same hardware, or even the same kind of hardware--lots of people run

Re: APT: packages held back

1999-03-08 Thread sjb
So, does this mean I'll have to go into dselect and see if these packages are placed on hold? I wonder how this happens, cos for sure I yip never did this myself, and I can't remember ever having had serious problems with dpkg etc. which might have automagically marked these packages as on

kernel 2.2.2

1999-03-08 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I am getting some strange kernel messages. I did not happen before. If I run a dmesg, the following is what I get, anyone know what it is?? Thx. bmap of 3a2,block 155 is 6fe6 super 200 bmap 156 result 6fe7 bmap of 3a2,block 156 is 6fe7 super 200 bmap 157 result 6fe8 bmap of 3a2,block

failing print jobs

1999-03-08 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi all, I have a print setup with lpr from the lpr package, and simple print filters using gs. If for some reason gs fails, lpr keeps retrying to print the file anyway, and the result is a loop that doesn't end until the print job is removed with lprm. Is there anything that can be done about

Re: Qmail to Exim woes

1999-03-08 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Qmail to Exim woes Date: Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 09:58:20PM +0200 In reply to:Johann Spies Quoting Johann Spies([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Fri, 5 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So my questions are : Is the eximconfig script setting exim up for anyone else?

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Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-08 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 09:43:11PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Ben Collins wrote: Aside from the obvious errors, I think we should note the criticisms, they are actually quite true (they didn't beat around the bush when mentioning them either). Ben, I think these

Re: Smartlist not sending to sender

1999-03-08 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Erik Forsberg wrote: I'm using smartlist for some small mailinglists on a Debian machine (I hope this isn't too offtopic) Is there a way to configure smartlist NOT to distribute a message to the sender of the message ? I don't want my own postings. Short answer: no,

writing device drivers for fbsd

1999-03-08 Thread Wayne Cuddy
What is a good reference to learn to to write device drivers for fbsd? I remember some recommended a good book a few months ago but forgot to save the message. I saw Writing Unix Device Drivers by George Pajari, this weekend at the store,is this a good book? Where would I look in the kernel

Re: Favorite WP/Office software...

1999-03-08 Thread Johann Spies
On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I'm curious what people feel is their favorite word processor/ office productivity suite (i.e., star office, word perfect, lyx, TeX, siag office, etc.). I have WP8 and Staroffice 4. I use WP8 most of the time just to read documents created by other

Using Procmail

1999-03-08 Thread XRDLAB
Hi, Currently I am using fetchmail and pine to get the mail from my isp account and to read/send the messages respectively. As the number of messages I am getting has increased, I am feeling the need to use procmail to sort the mail into different folders. How do I go about putting the messages

Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-08 Thread Dave Swegen
On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 00:22 -0500, Brian Clark wrote: If you're trying Linux for the first time, Red Hat is the best choice. If I had to choose for the first time again, there is no doubt in my mind that I would go with Debian. Period. As horrible as it sounds I think I would have to

Re: Hamm -- Slink now no color ....

1999-03-08 Thread Dave Swegen
On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 06:00 -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: I have recently upgraded to slink and now the following apps only display in monochrome: lynx 2.8.1rel.2 mutt 0.95.3i slrn 0.9.5.3 I don't get any error mesages and the config files are set to use color. (minicom is still

dselect problem

1999-03-08 Thread Mans Joling
Dear Sir I have just installed debian 2.0.36 slink on hda5. I have make a connection with my 'ISP. When I use dselect and fillin in apt acquistion ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian he still says ftp_connect : Could not connect. What could be wrong. Any help would be appriciated Mans Joling

Re: ppp

1999-03-08 Thread Kirk Hogenson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *- On 5 Mar, Ole J. Tetlie wrote about ppp I'm having a little trouble with ppp. Everything seems normal until the line with Hangup. I don't know why that happens. Are you using PAP or CHAP authentication? It looks like the type of

Re: failing print jobs

1999-03-08 Thread Mark Wagnon
E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: Hi all, I have a print setup with lpr from the lpr package, and simple print filters using gs. If for some reason gs fails, lpr keeps retrying to print the file anyway, and the result is a loop that doesn't end until the print job is removed with lprm. Is there

Re: dselect problem

1999-03-08 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
[Please disable the HTML. This is mail, not the web] On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 17:04:33 +0100, Mans Joling wrote: When I use dselect and fillin in apt acquistion [1]ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian he still says ftp_connect : Could not connect. Can you ping ftp.de.debian.org? Can you

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-08 Thread John
Hi All, Much as I hated to, I had to crank up my win95 drive (the list won't accept my linux root email. I know! I know!) and forward the following email to the list. I sent this last night to the PC Magazine Editor. I hope others with more experience than I with Debian also write. I think what

Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-08 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 3/7/99 10:45:21 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 ($38.95 direct) ... ...Windows users should steer clear of Debian. I completely agree. Your forget, the targe of Windows is those people that DON'T know an IRQ from an I/O address.

Re: Laptop install Help Needed

1999-03-08 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 3/7/99 11:55:54 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm a newbie to Linux and want to install debian on my laptop as my primary (only) machine, its a compaq armada 1535 w/ 3com 3c575 pcmcia ethernet. there is now a debian-laptop list. You can

Reoccuring Problem with network

1999-03-08 Thread Jay Barbee
Well it seems to happen every 16 days or so. My home Linux box that I use as my IPmasq dial up box for my home network his not connecting with most of the standard network (client/server) apps. Now, when my system is at home and make a PPP connection to the Internet, I cannot use the clients on

portforwarding question

1999-03-08 Thread whbell
Hello again, I have a web site on my Debian box visible to the world. Of course this is using xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80. I also have an internal web site visible to the world using portforwarding xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:port. Question 1- Which port(s) should I forward to allow this visibility and not overrun

Re: Using Procmail

1999-03-08 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, XRDLAB wrote: Currently I am using fetchmail and pine to get the mail from my isp account and to read/send the messages respectively. As the number of messages I am getting has increased, I am feeling the need to use procmail to sort the mail into different folders. How

Re: is postgresql free?

1999-03-08 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Fri Mar 5, 1999, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: can I have unlimited clients conected to postgresql with no licese payment. Yes. See http://www.postgresql.org for more info. Noel

Re: Using Procmail

1999-03-08 Thread Dave Swegen
Try searching yahoo for the mail filtering faq, as it has all the info you need. Note though that if you are running exim as your MTA you need to use a different .forward. I use this: # Exim filter pipe /usr/bin/procmail -f- Cheers Dave On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 20:41 +0530, XRDLAB

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

1999-03-08 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Frankie wrote: George Bonser wrote: On Fri, 5 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just did, but is this list not moderated, Jesus Christ is so far I now, from a different century and he is on top? Matth Don't even think Linus should BE the person of the century. That honor

Re: Compiling Kernel

1999-03-08 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Hi, I am going to compile the kernel again as the first attempt apparently didn't suceed. My users manual describes the steps as follows. Is this correct? 1. change to directory /usr/src/linux 2. make config Or, if under X, make xconfig. Which is a GUI, lets you jump from one section

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

1999-03-08 Thread Kirk Hogenson
Branden Robinson wrote: Nope I don't think I will vote for any person on the basis of scientific or technical merit. A more global view is required. I was thinking of RMS, too. LOL - Spoken like a true Debian-ite. I'd put RMS #2, right after Mr. T. There is no gravity in space. Then

Apt 0.3 lost ftp-method ???

1999-03-08 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi, after installing gnome-apt (with the necessary packages from potato) onto my hamm system, apt seems to have lost the ftp method. When I try apt-get update I get: E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/ftp could not be found. Exitcode 100 What happened? Is there any cure except

do I need to tell any one....

1999-03-08 Thread Lawrence Walton
Do I need to tell anyone that I am going to mirror ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian? this is not a high bandwith link mostly for private use. Can someone do a df -h on ftp.debian.org? I am guessing 3 or four gigs of stuff in /debian/ am I off? ftp://ftp.otak-k.com/debian/ *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Color Depth [was: X Font Problem]

1999-03-08 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Ok, guys this is a call for help again. I solved my other problem for now. Blackbox was listed on the first line of my window-managers file. (yes, I'm very new to Linux in general). I changed that first like to Window Maker and now I'm able to get a window manager up. As for

Nevermind Re: writing device drivers for fbsd

1999-03-08 Thread Wayne Cuddy
Sorry, wrong list. On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Wayne Cuddy wrote: Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 10:50:07 -0500 (EST) From: Wayne Cuddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user list debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: writing device drivers for fbsd Resent-Date: 8 Mar 1999 15:08:25 - Resent-From:

Re: CDROM

1999-03-08 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 13:56:02 -0600 Resent-from: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Gordon von Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Precedence: list X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-EveryThing: Net-Tamer

Setting time - Question

1999-03-08 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hello Debian-user, this might be a stupid newbie question, but I have really tried to figure out how to do this. I would like the clock in my X-window environment to show my local time, not GMT/UTC. When I type in date I get my local time, when I type in date -u I get GMT, but how do I

RE: Setting time - Question

1999-03-08 Thread Shaleh
On 08-Mar-99 Christian Dysthe wrote: Hello Debian-user, this might be a stupid newbie question, but I have really tried to figure out how to do this. I would like the clock in my X-window environment to show my local time, not GMT/UTC. When I type in date I get my local time,

Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-08 Thread eferen1
I read similar articles like this too. They are not really biased simply because they promote Redhat's Linux. The Debian system is a collection of high level puzzle pieces that an under-experienced user would have great difficulty using. On the other hand, you have Redhat and Caldera with their

Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-08 Thread eferen1
-- Regards, | REDMOND, WA (API) --- MICROSOFT (MSFT) announced today . | the the official release date for the new operating Randy | system Windows 2000 will be delayed until the second | quarter of 1901 due to year 2000 problems. This is really good! I will put this

Re: Hamm--Slink, now fetchmail/exim behaves strangely

1999-03-08 Thread Helge Hafting
you wrote: Graham Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 02 March, Mark Phillips wrote: I've just upgraded from Hamm to Slink. Fetchmail seems to work the same as before, except that now, only the first 10 messages get to my mail box straight away. I've got the same

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