ANSI e BACKSPACE

1999-05-04 Thread pedro bastos - strm
ola pessoal :)) alguem poderia me ajudar? rodo debian 2.1, e estou com dois problemas; 1 - uso o bashprompt para colorir o prompt da minha shell bash no debian. so que, o ansi nao funciona direito, ele mostra ÄÄÄ. entao, eu tenho que entrar no bitchx e sair para o ansi funcionar. teria

Re: ANSI e BACKSPACE

1999-05-04 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Oi, a primeira pergunta eu sei. A segunda é melhor pergunta na debian-user (em ingles). Quoting pedro bastos - strm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ola pessoal :)) alguem poderia me ajudar? rodo debian 2.1, e estou com dois problemas; 1 - uso o bashprompt para colorir o prompt da

Re: Estou preparando uma revista

1999-05-04 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Oi, sou Paulo Henrique ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) do Linux Club (http://linux.cos.ufrj.br). Nos so usamos a Debian e adoramos ela. Traduzimos a sua instalacao e mandamos para o Zanardi da Debian. Estavamos super a fim de fazer uma distribuicao em portugues da Debian (comercial sim, mas

Re: diskless box: fanless too ?

1999-05-04 Thread shaleh
I have been asked to help someone learn about Linux. So far, I have installed Linux on an existing box. I must also give advice on new hardware. One of the concerns this person has, is not having anything spinning in his office. He currently uses a diskless sparc station, which is

xhosts question..

1999-05-04 Thread Allen B. Riddell
Ok, I'm using xdm and everything, when I su to root from my normal account and try to use x programs -- the program yells at me and tells me to use xhost to add whatever host to the list of approved addresses... Anyway -- so I get out of the shell and type xhost localhost or something like

help me!!

1999-05-04 Thread Arjen
Hello, I have Debian 2.1 installed, now i'm trying to mount my cd-players (hdc and hdd), and my zip-drive (hdb). but what i try, i cant mount them. I get the message that i cant find hdd, hdc, hdb in /dev/mnt, or another file (sorry, don't know the name any more. Does anybody know how i can mount

Re: diskless box: fanless too ?

1999-05-04 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I would think you could do it if you used once of those heat sinks which have a peltier junction on the bottom. I don't know if anyone's tried this of course but I do know such heat sinks exist (I saw and felt one a Comdex last year and boy was it cold!) G. Crimp wrote: I have been asked to

Re: diskless box: fanless too ?

1999-05-04 Thread Michael Stenner
On Mon, 3 May 1999, G. Crimp wrote: I have been asked to help someone learn about Linux. So far, I have installed Linux on an existing box. I must also give advice on new hardware. One of the concerns this person has, is not having anything spinning in his office. He currently uses a diskless

Re: help me!!

1999-05-04 Thread Arcady Genkin
Arjen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have Debian 2.1 installed, now i'm trying to mount my cd-players (hdc and hdd), and my zip-drive (hdb). but what i try, i cant mount them. I get the message that i cant find hdd, hdc, hdb in /dev/mnt, or another file (sorry, don't know the name any more. Does

Re: PGP with netscape

1999-05-04 Thread Daniel González Gasull
Hi! Philip Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the past I have always used netscape for email, pgp for encyrption. And I have manually encrypted the email, and attached it to a message in netscape. I'm getting tried of this a bit, and I would like to know if there a plugin or program that

Re: xhosts question..

1999-05-04 Thread Michael Stenner
On Mon, 3 May 1999, Allen B. Riddell wrote: Ok, I'm using xdm and everything, when I su to root from my normal account and try to use x programs -- the program yells at me and tells me to use xhost to add whatever host to the list of approved addresses... Anyway -- so I get out of the shell

Re: Debian and Novell Netware

1999-05-04 Thread Gregory T. Norris
In my (admittedly limited) experience Debian does just fine with Netware, provided that you stick with a 2.0.x series kernel. The 2.2.x series seems to have some very nasty problems with the IPX protocol (brings down just about everything on our network within moments, with a massive flood of

Re: .forward file -- How do you retain a copy when forwaeding

1999-05-04 Thread Shao Zhang
I would thought fetchmail is what you are after. Have a look at the fetchmail package and the keep option to see if it is what you want. Dan Nguyen wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : Basically I want to send a copy mail received by my work account : to my home account and

Re: Advanced Printer Control?

1999-05-04 Thread Shao Zhang
Just some add on to it: You can use mpage to to decide how many logical pages to print on one physical page. I believe it also has a duplex option. Or you may have a look at aps, which does something similar, and it allows you to print with user id, current time, header and a lot of other

Loadlin and new kernels

1999-05-04 Thread Jayson Baird
When using loadlin to boot from dos into Linux, it requires the command line loadlin linux /hda2 whereas linux is the kernel I keep in a local directory. If I compile a new kernel, is there anyway to get that new kernel on disk to copy over to the dos local directory to use loadlin? Any help

DNS time to live lookup delays...

1999-05-04 Thread Lev Lvovsky
Hello, I recently set it up so that my linux box runs the klaradio.com domain. I am running my own DNS server off the machine, and I have a few questions: one of the addresses that I'd like to put under a subdomain of the site (stream.klaradio.com) has it's IP changed somewhat frequently (once

Re: help me!!

1999-05-04 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I also have trouble whit Dosemu. everytime i start it, it says i don't have any dos partitions. i have a 8.4 GB harddisk from WD, devided in three sepperate disks. On the first (2.1 Gb) i run win95, and on the second (3 Gb) i have Debian installed. The third i use for saving downloaded

backspace not working and ansi

1999-05-04 Thread pedro bastos - strm
hello people :) i recently got into debian linux, and i have two question. if you, people, could answer them, i would be pleased :) 1 - ansi does not work in console. do you guys know a program called bashprompt? if so, you can help me. the ansi that this program uses to put in bash prompt

Re: .forward file -- How do you retain a copy when forwaeding

1999-05-04 Thread Carl Mummert
I believe that this is the first example in the procmailex manpage... Carl

secure Xterminal scheme?

1999-05-04 Thread Stuart Marshall
Hi, I am hoping to set up some low end pc's running debian where we use them as xterminals. That is, we do: X -query some xdm host It works well and allows running an 8-bit color display off of a sun host while keeping a 16-bit color display on the local linux host. In this case we

Re: Loadlin and new kernels

1999-05-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 08:17:43PM -0400, Jayson Baird wrote: When using loadlin to boot from dos into Linux, it requires the command line loadlin linux /hda2 whereas linux is the kernel I keep in a local directory. If I compile a new kernel, is there anyway to get that new kernel on disk

Re: Loadlin and new kernels

1999-05-04 Thread W. Paul Mills
opps! -- /*** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * EMAIL=

Re: Loadlin and new kernels

1999-05-04 Thread W. Paul Mills

Re: .forward file -- How do you retain a copy when forwaeding

1999-05-04 Thread W. Paul Mills
Just include yourself in the .forward file -- /yourself, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- /*** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W.

setting up pop3, smtp

1999-05-04 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Finally, I have got my dns name set up. Am I right that now I can set up a pop3 and smtp for my mail system? And I can create as many mail account as I want to?? If I can, could someone please point out to me where I should start? Also, which mail server will you recommand? smail,

Re: X server on a Compaq Presario 1235

1999-05-04 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 05:41:52PM -0500, Douglas Bates wrote: Thanks for the reply. Where would we find an xserver-neomagic package? I don't see it in either the stable or the unstable distributions? NeoMagic support was integrated into the SVGA server for XFree86 3.3.3.1. This server is

Re: setting up pop3, smtp

1999-05-04 Thread Michael Fox
I use qpopper for pop3 and also qmail for smtp -Original Message- From: Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, 4 May 1999 11:35 Subject: setting up pop3, smtp Hi, Finally, I have got my dns name set up. Am I right that now I can set up a

Re: Kernel Source Installation Probs...

1999-05-04 Thread add|ct|on
Brant Wells wrote: Howdy All: How are ya? Last night, I was working on installing the Kernel 2.2.3 Sources. I unpack them and then run 'make menuconfig' and this is what I get... rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering

Re: diskless box: fanless too ?

1999-05-04 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 3 May, G. Crimp wrote about diskless box: fanless too ? I have been asked to help someone learn about Linux. So far, I have installed Linux on an existing box. I must also give advice on new hardware. One of the concerns this person has, is not having anything spinning in his office.

Re: diskless box: fanless too ?

1999-05-04 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 3 May, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote about Re: diskless box: fanless too ? I would think you could do it if you used once of those heat sinks which have a peltier junction on the bottom. I don't know if anyone's tried this of course but I do know such heat sinks exist (I saw and felt one a

Config multiple ips on one linux box

1999-05-04 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I am trying to set up seval ip addess on my linux machine. But when I run something like ifconfig eth0:1 203.63.219.30 up arp broadcast 203.63.219.255 I got the following messages: SIOCSIFADDR: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported by device

anacron job for a user?

1999-05-04 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi all: I want to set up a job to daily compress my nnml directories in ~/Mail/; for that I need to run a command: find ~/Mail -type f -name *[0-9] -print | xargs gzip --best I can't use crontab, because the computer is not on constantly and I want to make sure the job is executed. As far as I

RE: Config multiple ips on one linux box

1999-05-04 Thread Dan Willard
Don't the kernel version 2.2.0 require that a netmask be added with the ifconfig command? Just add the netmask. --Dano -Original Message- From: Shao Zhang [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 9:10 AM To: Debian Subject: Config multiple ips on one linux box

Re: Config multiple ips on one linux box

1999-05-04 Thread Shao Zhang
Thanks for the reply. Just tried: ifconfig eth0:1 203.63.219.30 netmask up arp broadcast 203.63.219.255 and still getting: SIOCSIFADDR: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported by device up: No address associated with name SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported by

Re: Config multiple ips on one linux box

1999-05-04 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 04 May 1999 13:18:45 +, Shao Zhang wrote: I think I am missing something in my kernel. Single NIC? You you have multicasting turned on? Multiple NICs? Do you have the NIC portion loaded as a module and aliases properly. Some

Re: LDAP

1999-05-04 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1999-05-03 12:10, Nathan E Norman wrote: Where can I get more information about LDAP? I keep hearing that it's the way to go for a corporate email directory ... I see that Debian has an LDAP server packaged. What should I do to learn the ins and outs of LDAP? OpenLDAP (www.openldap.org)

Re: Switching windows managers

1999-05-04 Thread Ben Messinger
Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there is any software available that makes it easy to switch window managers without having to edit too many ini files. TIA Go to freshmeat.net and look for guichooser. It is a gtk app that works great for switching between window

Help on configuring the mailserver.

1999-05-04 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I am trying to configure my system to have smtp pop3. But when I try to send the mail to the machine, I get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 203.63.219.177 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 551 '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] not matched: (ERR_104) security

Re: Config multiple ips on one linux box

1999-05-04 Thread Shao Zhang
Thank you. ip muiticasting fixed the problem. Steve Lamb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 04 May 1999 13:18:45 +, Shao Zhang wrote: I think I am missing something in my kernel. Single NIC? You you have multicasting turned on? Multiple NICs? Do

Re: diskless box: fanless too ?

1999-05-04 Thread ferret
I've ran a few of these. 1) AFAIK you require a fan in a closed case 2) Watch out for condensation a) Can short the junction b) Has dissolved the adhesive on me more than once. I ran a K6/225 for a month with the fan fallen off, before it started sig11-ing and I checked inside.

Debian 2.1 install help!

1999-05-04 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Hi all, I just installed Debian 2.1 on a DX2 100 MHz labtop. I am encountering two problems after the installation, and would appreciate your help. The first one, I first used a 3Com ethernet/modem combo card to do ftp install, but since I do not have a permanant IP, I am actually using the

Need Project development Software

1999-05-04 Thread John Foster
I need project development software for linux. It needs to be of the type that is teamwork oriented and allows offsite participation by team members. It must be web or server based so that it runs in a web environment. This is to be used for developing several items of software and other projects.

Re: Debian 2.1 install help!

1999-05-04 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: I just installed Debian 2.1 on a DX2 100 MHz labtop. I am encountering two problems after the installation, and would appreciate your help. The first one, I first used a 3Com ethernet/modem combo card to do ftp install, but since I do not have a permanant IP, I

Re: Need Project development Software

1999-05-04 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 01:08:09 -0500, John Foster wrote: I need project development software for linux. It needs to be of the type that is teamwork oriented and allows offsite participation by team members. It must be web or server based so that it runs in a web environment. I find this

Re: system shutdown from xdm

1999-05-04 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 07:32:38PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: If you want anybody to shutdown without password, make /sbin/shutdown a suid executable. Make shutdown a menu choice in your window manager for user friendliness. Don't do the suid thing unless *anybody* logging into your

Re: dosfsck - Root directory has zero size.

1999-05-04 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 06:26:21PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My first guess is that dosfsck cannot check fat32 partitions. Hmm. The man page says nothing about Fat16/Fat32 issues. You will need dosfstools-2.0 (potato) for making and checking Fat32

Downgrading potato - slink

1999-05-04 Thread Henri . Bergius
Greetings! This question might be stupid, but... Is there a sensible way for downgrading from unstable distribution back to the stable one. This is because web browsing is very important part of my work and Netscape keeps on crashing on potato (propably due to the new glibc?) Also any other

W3C needs help to defeat a patent!

1999-05-04 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
See the www.w3.org, and check out it's problem with P3P technology. W3C is working to keep this important security technology in the public domain. They need everyone with the time to research the prior art for this technology in order to get the patent claim rejected. It is currently owned by

Re: Config multiple ips on one linux box

1999-05-04 Thread Remco van de Meent
Shao Zhang wrote: ifconfig eth0:1 203.63.219.30 up arp broadcast 203.63.219.255 I got the following messages: SIOCSIFADDR: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not

Re: Printer stopped working with Kernel 2.2 [SOLVED]

1999-05-04 Thread Frank Barknecht
Printing now works again, after I disconnected the cheap parallel port scanner attached to the same port as the printer. Seems the parport module handles this in another way than the old 2.0 kernels because they did not have problems to shuffle the print data through the scanner first as the 2.2

Re: Gnuserv and emacs20

1999-05-04 Thread Peter Weiss
On Sat, 1 May 1999 14:22:24 +0100, Ian Winter [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Ian On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 10:21:53AM +0200, Peter Weiss wrote: I can't manage to make the gnuclient (gnuserv package version 2.1alpha-4) work with emacs20 (package version 20.3-7). Emacs message: error in process

Routing problems

1999-05-04 Thread Loek Engels
I'm having some problems getting my local network up and running again ever since I've upgraded my system from RH5.1 to Debian 2.1. Even ping cannot get throught to my local network... here's my routing table and eth0 configuration Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref

Re: X server on a Compaq Presario 1235

1999-05-04 Thread Randy Edwards
Thanks for the reply. Where would we find an xserver-neomagic package? I don't see it in either the stable or the unstable distributions? Hmm, neither could I! But I'm not making this up, seriously! :-) The package itself is xserver-neomagic, a non-free/x11 extra package maintained

Corrupted mouse pointer

1999-05-04 Thread Alex Lee
Hi, I'm new to Linux and Debian. I've just recently installed Debian 2.1 and XFree86 3.3.3.1. I had everything running great until I did something. Of course I don't know what! My mouse pointer is now a strange square box with vertical lines in it. It moves and works okay around XWindows apps.

Re: X server on a Compaq Presario 1235

1999-05-04 Thread jesus duran
for the neomagic cards on compaq presarios(i have the 1680) you can now use the svga serverget it from the unstable tree or get it from xfree86.org..there will be no new neomagic-xserver i think because the hardware specs were released to the xfree86 people so they incorporated it

finding and using applications

1999-05-04 Thread Tommy Malloy
Suppose you have a Debian Gnu/Linux system set up and fully loaded with applications. A new user appears who is going to use the system. The new user is a unix novice. He/she knows enough basic commands to get by. Is there a simple way for that user to find every available application

Re: finding and using applications

1999-05-04 Thread Jean-Marc Bourdaret
A 07:14 04/05/99 -0400, vous avez écrit : Suppose you have a Debian Gnu/Linux system set up and fully loaded with applications. A new user appears who is going to use the system. The new user is a unix novice. He/she knows enough basic commands to get by. Is there a simple way for that

Unstable help.

1999-05-04 Thread David R. Kohel
As with another user I've had problems with unstable. I killed X windows with 3.3.3-1, and can't seem to get it back with 3.3.2. XF86Setup just blanks the screen; returning to the tty1 I just find a segfault message. How much do I need to downgrade? Advice? Secondly, on my laptop, I lost

Re: Kernel Source Installation Probs...

1999-05-04 Thread John Galt
Do you have ncurses-dev installed? That output looks like what happened to me when I forgot to install ncurses-dev before building my kernel with menuconfig :( On Mon, 3 May 1999, Brant Wells wrote: Howdy All: How are ya? Last night, I was working on installing the Kernel 2.2.3 Sources.

Archives

1999-05-04 Thread Urban Gabor
HI, I would like to know if this mailing list is archived somewhere or can we browse it somehow. At the present there are some postings that are uninteresting for me, but it can be important in the future. Gabor Urban --- Lufthansa Systems Hungaria KfT mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel :

Re: finding and using applications

1999-05-04 Thread Fernando T C Brandt
dpkg -l | less Fernando T. C. Brandt Instituto de Física | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Univ. de São Paulo | www: http://satie.if.usp.br CP 66318, 05315-970 | tel.: (55) 11 8186718, 99356907 São Paulo - SP - BRAZIL | fax: (55) 11 8186715

Re: finding and using applications

1999-05-04 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Suppose you have a Debian Gnu/Linux system set up and fully loaded with applications. A new user appears who is going to use the system. The new user is a unix novice. He/she knows enough basic commands to get by. Is there a simple way for that user to find every available

Re: Archives

1999-05-04 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 14:28:21 +0200, Urban Gabor wrote: I would like to know if this mailing list is archived somewhere or can we browse it somehow. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ HTH, Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be

tcplogd causing firewall/proxy to crash

1999-05-04 Thread scratch
Hi, I'm running a small local net, masqueraded behind one linuxbox, extra. Earlier today, it seems I got portscanned (judging from the logs). Tcplogd (afaik part of Wietse Venema's tcp_wrapper), that is installed with Debian by default logged the attempts nicely, but the logs also show this:

Re: finding and using applications

1999-05-04 Thread ivan
On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 07:14:53AM -0400, Tommy Malloy wrote: Suppose you have a Debian Gnu/Linux system set up and fully loaded with applications. A new user appears who is going to use the system. The new user is a unix novice. He/she knows enough basic commands to get by. Good

Re: xhosts question..

1999-05-04 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy Allen: In your $HOME direcotry, edit the file .xinitrc In this file somewhere should be a line that says something like: xhost + blablabla. If you have no need for security (in a small home network like mine...) you can just add in: xhost + and and that should solve the problem. I

[SOLVED!!]:Kernel Source Installation Probs

1999-05-04 Thread Brant Wells
Hey Y'all :) Thanks for the help. It worked!! I don't know what happened--I had the source code installed perfectly before, and then it just went crazy on me... Oh, well--I'm back in business. Thanks! TAL [Thanks A Lot!], Brant

Re: xhosts question..

1999-05-04 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 3 May, Allen B. Riddell wrote about xhosts question.. Ok, I'm using xdm and everything, when I su to root from my normal account and try to use x programs -- the program yells at me and tells me to use xhost to add whatever host to the list of approved addresses... Anyway -- so I

Re: diskless box: fanless too ?

1999-05-04 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've ran a few of these. 1) AFAIK you require a fan in a closed case 2) Watch out for condensation a) Can short the junction b) Has dissolved the adhesive on me more than once. I ran a K6/225 for a month with the fan fallen off, before it started

Re: Xwrapper

1999-05-04 Thread Wayne Cuddy
No, I did not get any help. I will copy the list in on this in hopes of getting some. Wayne On Tue, 4 May 1999, Andreas Kahari wrote: Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 11:07:28 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andreas Kahari [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [ISO-8859-1] Andreas Kähäri [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

ldap

1999-05-04 Thread Craig Hancock
Hello all I am starting a ldap server on my machine and I am curious the machine that is ruunning the server is it neccesary to run a databse for that machine I ma configuring the server and adding the entries all by hand and I want to know what ourthe advantages of having a database for ldap well

Re: DNS time to live lookup delays...

1999-05-04 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Your TTL already seems to be zero (note the second field in the answer record): chilin$ dig stream.klaradio.com ; DiG 8.1 stream.klaradio.com ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1,

Re: Routing problems

1999-05-04 Thread Craig Hancock
Loek Engels wrote: I'm having some problems getting my local network up and running again ever since I've upgraded my system from RH5.1 to Debian 2.1. Even ping cannot get throught to my local network... here's my routing table and eth0 configuration Destination Gateway Genmask

HP 895 e 4 pages by papers

1999-05-04 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, Is there support for printing in HP 895 in Debian GNU/Linux? How I print 4 pages in a paper in postscript? Thank you, Paulo Henrique

Re: finding and using applications

1999-05-04 Thread William R Pentney
On Tue, 4 May 1999, Tommy Malloy wrote: I agree with this one. Now and then I will install a package in which none of the binaries have the same name as the package, and there is no manpage available, so I have to hunt for the application's _name_. It makes one feel very silly, and can be quite

FYI: ftp.us.debian.org downtime

1999-05-04 Thread Dpk
For those of you who use ftp.us.debian.org (debian.egr.msu.edu), for ftp/http/rsync access, downtime has been scheduled: Wednesday, 5-5-1999 8-10am EST Fyi, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU

RE: ftp.us.debian.org downtime

1999-05-04 Thread Baraka
Please revise your reply list as we received 1444 of your email yesterday and today. Thanks . Baraka ltd. -Original Message- From: Dpk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 10:19 AM To: Debian User List Subject:FYI: ftp.us.debian.org downtime For those of

Re: Downgrading potato - slink

1999-05-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
What version of netscape are you running? I am running the Debian packaged 4.08 (smotif) on a potato system and it has been extremely stable. I had problems with 4.51 and the downgrade of navigator to an earlier version made quite a difference. Gnome applications are a different story, however

Lilo F4A

1999-05-04 Thread Clyde Wilson
If I install a new system and don't run lilo I sometimes get F4A or something close. Is this prompt usable?

Re: finding and using applications

1999-05-04 Thread John Galt
Would it be too hard to add a verbose type flag that tells exactly what dpkg is installing as it does it? gzip does this by default, so I'd think that since dpkg basically calls gzip, there could be a pass-through switch to turn on verbose reporting with not too much hassle. On Tue, 4 May

Re: Lilo F4A

1999-05-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 4 May 1999, Clyde Wilson wrote: : If I install a new system and don't run lilo I sometimes get : F4A or something close. Is this prompt usable? It's the prompt from mbr. Docs in /usr/doc/mbr . -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Lilo F4A

1999-05-04 Thread Clyde Wilson
Thanks, Nathan On Tue, 4 May 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Tue, 4 May 1999, Clyde Wilson wrote: : If I install a new system and don't run lilo I sometimes get : F4A or something close. Is this prompt usable? It's the prompt from mbr. Docs in /usr/doc/mbr . -- Nathan Norman

LinuxBerg??

1999-05-04 Thread Person, Roderick
Has anyone checkout linuxberg.com. I went there to check out some themes and such, but everything I follow is a windows theme. I even downloaded the LINUXBERG theme and it for win95. That cool since I'm at work and using NT, but what is the deal. I can't seem to find anything fro linux. I'm I

Re: LinuxBerg??

1999-05-04 Thread Marek Habersack
* Person, Roderick said: Has anyone checkout linuxberg.com. I went there to check out some themes and such, but everything I follow is a windows theme. I even downloaded the LINUXBERG theme and it for win95. That cool since I'm at work and using NT, but what is the deal. I can't seem to

Linux to VAX

1999-05-04 Thread PATRICK DAHIROC
hi there i'm not quite sure if this is the right place to ask, but i'll ask anyways. i would like to port some Linux/UNIX binary files to a VAX machine. i've read that the integers and floats are very different on these machines. does anybody how make these conversion and/or know where i can

Re: finding and using applications

1999-05-04 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Would it be too hard to add a verbose type flag that tells exactly | what dpkg is installing as it does it? gzip does this by default, so I'd | think that since dpkg basically calls gzip, there could be a | pass-through switch to turn on verbose reporting

Using linux to protect a DSL connection.

1999-05-04 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, I am about to get a DSL connection for my home. I have two systems at my house (debian linux system and a windoze 95). Both of these systems are currently connected to a pipeline 50 (ISDN) router and the pipeline will be replaced by a DSL gateway. My ISP will give me two fixed IP

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #801

1999-05-04 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
- Subject: HP 895 e 4 pages by papers Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 12:58:45 -0300 From: Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, Is there support for printing in HP 895

Unidentified subject!

1999-05-04 Thread Daniel Wesslén
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Re: Lilo F4A

1999-05-04 Thread John Galt
Most certainly, the F is for floppy boot, the 4 is for booting from /dev/hda4, and the A is for showing all bootable partitions on /dev/hda. The only drawback to this prompt is that you are strictly limited to /dev/hda--no booting off /dev/hdb at all. It was in the docs the last time I checked

Re: Using linux to protect a DSL connection.

1999-05-04 Thread Will Lowe
How should I protect these systems from outside hack attacks? Use Bridging http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Bridge.html http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Bridge+Firewall.html and IPChains http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/IPCHAINS-HOWTO.html If I add a second network card to the linux

How to build socks5 for Debian?

1999-05-04 Thread Marc Haber
Hi! Highly astonished I discovered today that there is no Debian package that provides socks5-compatible clients. So I went out and built socks5-v1.0r9 from the NEC web site. Configuring, building and installing went fine. However, runsocks does not seem to work though: |[EMAIL

Re: Linux to VAX

1999-05-04 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 4 May 1999, PATRICK DAHIROC wrote: hi there i'm not quite sure if this is the right place to ask, but i'll ask anyways. i would like to port some Linux/UNIX binary files to a VAX machine. i've read that the integers and floats are very different on these machines. does anybody

Re: HP 895 e 4 pages by papers

1999-05-04 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1999-05-04 12:58, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Is there support for printing in HP 895 in Debian GNU/Linux? How I print 4 pages in a paper in postscript? Check out magicfilter and in particular hpdj (either unspec or 850c). For multi-page printing consider mpage,

Re: network printer problems

1999-05-04 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: network printer problems Date: Mon, May 03, 1999 at 02:17:41PM -0500 In reply to:Marc Mongeon I am not, by any means a printer guru, but. I installed magicfilter and the printcap I made using it, allows me to do: lpr hellow.ps No sweat, no strain. HTH Quoting Marc

Apt and non-standard directory structure

1999-05-04 Thread Christo Barnard
Hi, Yet Another Newbie Seeking Help. I have a Debian mirror upstream from my ISP from which reasonable download speeds can be achieved and the following directory structure: ftp://ftp.saix.net/pub/Linux/distributions/debian/main/binary-i386/. Notice the missing dists/stable between debian and

Re: How to build socks5 for Debian?

1999-05-04 Thread Richard A Nelson
wrt no extant packages: Read the license - not very nice... you might take a peek at DANTE (free socks4/5 client/server) wrt it not working: ah... you're on potato... runsocks works fine on glibc-2.0(slink), but fails with glibc-2.1(potato). Note that you can use NEC socks to socksify,

Re: Lilo F4A

1999-05-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 4 May 1999, John Galt wrote: : : Most certainly, the F is for floppy boot, the 4 is for booting from : /dev/hda4, and the A is for showing all bootable partitions on /dev/hda. : The only drawback to this prompt is that you are strictly limited to : /dev/hda--no booting off /dev/hdb

X sudo?

1999-05-04 Thread William R Pentney
At times I find myself wishing for a root login in X without using a terminal, such as when run wine on my mounted DOS partition, or edit the KDE menus. Does anyone know of a good sudo/su type program with an X/KDE/GNOME interface? (I switch to GNOME now and then ...) - thanks, Bill

frame buffer ati rage fury

1999-05-04 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
HI, I'm new with linux (3 weeks), and I wasn't able to set frame buffer with my ATI rage fury (rage 128 GL cpu) since 3 days. The text part is working very well (I respond 0x0317 to the vga=ask lilo line, and I get 1024x768x16 text mode Ok) The docs are not very helpfull, since, even together, I

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