Re: Primeros pasos con Mutt

1999-09-02 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
El Tue, Aug 31, 1999, Juanjo Martinez... y cuando creas un nuevo mensaje, al aparecer el campo `To.', puedes poner el alias y se resolverá la dirección automáticamente. También puedes utilizar TAB para completar alias (como en el prompt) o, en el campo vacío, pasar a la

Re: Ni idea de cómo empezar

1999-09-02 Thread Marcelo Ramos
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 10:06:13PM +0200, PAMIFER wrote: Hola compañeros linuxeros: Tecleo startx y cosas por el estilo y no consigo nada. Creo que lo que tengo que hacer es configurar las X. Me leo la parte del LIPP que habla de la configuración del las X, pero habla de archivos que

Oportunidad

1999-09-02 Thread I-Team / Jobs
Buscamos locos Estudiantes o licenciados en publicidad, traductores, redactores, periodistas con hambre de webs, que se dediquen, que se quieran dedicar, que se hayan dedicado, al maravilloso mundo de la interactividad. Diseñadores, ex diseñadores, futuros diseñadores, webexpertos, con

Matrox G200 y XFree86

1999-09-02 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
Tengo intalado Linux y de momento me va bien, pero no me había metidos con las XWINDOWS hasta ahora. Mi problema, como el de casi todo el mundo, es configurar mi tarjeta gráfica. La versión que tengo de las X no tiene en su lista de tarjetas la MATROX MGA G200. Me he pasado por la página de

Configuración del Modem

1999-09-02 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
Tengo un modem interno ZOLTIRX FM-VSP56i3. Está en la lista de modems compatibles con LINUX por lo que por ese lado no creo tener problema. Sin embargo, lo configuré de forma que me dejara libre los puerots de serie 1 y 2 de mi ordenador. Dado que LINUX no acepta que 2 puertos compartan la

Re: Configuración del Modem

1999-09-02 Thread David Charro Ripa
Hola: Yo no tengo ese modem pero...vamos a ver ¿has cambiado la IRQ al modem significa que la has cambiado fisicamente? Es decir, ¿con un jumper o con un programa que venga con la tarjeta? Despues de eso, desde linux yo tuve que usar el comando setserial para decirle la interrupcion del ttyS2,

Re: Primeros pasos con Mutt

1999-09-02 Thread Sergio Rael Gutierrez
Hola Cosme, El miércoles 01 de septiembre, Cosme Perea Cuevas escribió: El Tue, Aug 31, 1999, Juanjo Martinez... y cuando creas un nuevo mensaje, al aparecer el campo `To.', puedes poner el alias y se resolverá la dirección automáticamente. También puedes utilizar TAB

Re: Mutt: Nueva Pagina en Castellano

1999-09-02 Thread Antonio Castro
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: Para quien le interese, he puesto una página sobre el programa de correo Mutt en castellano (en su mayor parte es una traducción de la página oficial de Mutt). La dirección es: http://www.ciberia.es/~carlotha/mutt Espero que un poco de publicidad

RE: Mutt: Nueva Pagina en Castellano

1999-09-02 Thread Tejada Lacaci, Antonio
-Mensaje original- De: Antonio Castro [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: jueves 2 de septiembre de 1999 13:49 Para: J Horacio MG Asunto: Re: Mutt: Nueva Pagina en Castellano On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: Para quien le interese, he puesto una página sobre el

Re: Instalación de GNU/linux 1.3 en Windows 98

1999-09-02 Thread Nestor A. Diaz L.
JESUS EMILIO LOPERA MENDOZA wrote: Es posible instalar esta versin de linux en mi ordenador? Si, excepto que la version debian1.3 trae un fips que no soporta la fat32, actualizese a la debian2.1, pidela por internet, o devuelveme un mail que yo le puedo enviar una copia de los 4 cd's oficiales

Re: idea y rsa con gpg

1999-09-02 Thread J Horacio MG
Miquel dijo: uso slink; los paquetes gpg-rsa y gpg-idea que contienen esas librerías me los bajé de potato (pues no están disponibles para slink). ¿Puede ser esto? Pero en la info del paquete no dice que necesite las glibc2.1 ni tampoco dio ningún error al instalarlos. ah, claro. Si

Re: procesos en background

1999-09-02 Thread Manel Marin
On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 08:33:12AM +0200, Fernando wrote: Estoy de acuerdo que en el uso normal esto resulta más comodo, pero hay situaciones en las que es desable que se terminen todos los procesos, y no se como hacerlo. ¿Puedes ser un poco mas especifico? ¿Por todos los procesos quieres

Posibilidades para alcanzar lo que tanto queres

1999-09-02 Thread Lic. pablo Miguel Benavides
Hola: Lea y responde a este e-mail, si escuchas para tener una profunda experiencia de realización al tener resultados. Le prometo enviar información que será la primera posibilidad para que los alcances. Los modelos mentales limitan nuestros resultados, en 1962 la compañía Grabadora Decca

fax en linux

1999-09-02 Thread Juanma
Necesitaría probar a enviar faxes desde linux, pues hasta ahora estoy utilizando la guarrería de windows ¿conoceis la posibilidad de hecer esto? o dirigirme a alguna página en español que me lo indique. Os agradezco de antemano vuestra ayuda. Juanma

Re: Ni idea de cómo empezar

1999-09-02 Thread Enzo A. Dari
Marcelo Ramos wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 10:06:13PM +0200, PAMIFER wrote: Hola compañeros linuxeros: de la configuración del las X, pero habla de archivos que no tengo en mi desco duro (no sé si porque en la Debian vienen con otro nombre o porque no se han instalado

Internet cumple hoy 30 anios

1999-09-02 Thread Marcelo Ramos
Internet cumple hoy 30 anios, SALUD!!! El 2 de setiembre es oficialmente el trigesimo aniversario de Internet, siendo el dia que los primeros paquetes fueron enviados entre el mainframe Sigma 7 (que fue el primer nodo de Internet) y IMP (Internet Message Processor) basado en Honeywell, en UCLA.

Coffee cup (o algo asi) y otras yerbas...

1999-09-02 Thread jvicente
Alguien tiene idea de este programa? Me acabo de enterar hoy que es un diseñador de páginas web para linux... Además, tengo en mis manos la debian slink. Alguna recomendación para la instalación que deba conocer?

Actulizar a Slink

1999-09-02 Thread Juanjo Martinez
Hola a todos/as: He actualizado de hamm a slink (Citius) creo que sin problemas, con apt. Ahora quiero actualizar el kernel al 2.2.4, pero leyendo la documentación veo que me pide una serie de actualizaciones que yo pensaba que la D2.1 ya tenía y eso me desorienta. Veamos: pide

Nuevos paquetes deb en mi página

1999-09-02 Thread Paco Brufal
Hola! Acabo de subir la última versión de las GTK+ (1.2.4) en paquetes debian para Slink. La dirección es: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/pbrufal/debian.html El listado completo de programas es: * afterstep_1.6.10-1_i386.deb * apt_0.3.11_i386.deb *

Re: Colgar una pagina

1999-09-02 Thread Nitebirz
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote: On 24/Aug/1999, TooMany wrote: Nop. Me refiero a que ahora tengo mis ficheros de la peich en el server ftp que existe para ello. Pero ahora, ¿qué hago para poder publicar la página? Parece ser que primero se sube al site ftp, pero ¿y

Sistema de Instalação da Debian em Português para Sparc

1999-09-02 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Ola para todos, Em breve vamos começar os testes da instalação da Debian em Português para a plataforma Sparc. Eu não tenho um computador para estes testes mas José Carlos Benfati (Obrigado Benfati!) pediu a um amigo dele que me ajudasse nos testes. Se nada pegar fogo :), já teremos a Debian

Re: Acentuação no console em sistemas Debian 2.X

1999-09-02 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Ola Fernando, Sua mensagem foi ótima, ela é muito completa e acho que a partir dela pode ajudar a solucionar todos os problemas referentes a acentuação e adaptação para o nosso idioma. Eu consegui resolver um problema que não estava dando muita importância no X a partir dela. Valeu! Eu

Re: Sistema de Instala??o da Debian em Portugu?s para Sparc

1999-09-02 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Oi, eu tenho Suns a vontade aqui na faculdade. Se quiser que eu ajude. Abraços,PH Quoting Gleydson Mazioli da Silva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Ola para todos, Em breve vamos começar os testes da instalação da Debian em Português para a plataforma

Swap partition

1999-09-02 Thread zdrysdal
Thanx one and all for your help.. it seems that the swap partition is a subject everyone is familiar with :)

Re: WordPerfect Trouble

1999-09-02 Thread Aaron Solochek
I had this exact same problem... Still have it actually. If you figure it out, could you cc me the messages? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marius Aamodt Eriksen wrote: Hi, I'm trying out Wordperfect 8.0. First of all, the installer couldn't find libXpm.so.4, I fixed this by linking

Re: Machine freezes with xdm but not startx

1999-09-02 Thread ferret
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Stuart Ballard wrote: Hi, A while ago I posted to this list a question about the fact that my machine completely freezes up on a regular basis (with a pretty pattern of stripes on the screen) when I start X with xdm, but works fine when I start it with startx. I got a

Disk Druid

1999-09-02 Thread B. Szyszka
Hello, From Win98 with Partition Magic, I have resized my partition and made room for a partition I'll use for /var . In Red Hat, I had the option to use Disk Druid, format the partitions I wanted as Linux partitions, and set their mount points. I'm having trouble finding Disk Druid for Debian. I

Starting debian servers/Samba Newbie - help

1999-09-02 Thread Paul McHale
I need a POP3, FTP, Print and Web server. I would use NT server, but then I have to buy an expensive POP3 server. To save money and have a more reliable server, I would like to use debian. Here are the plans: Goals are: 1. Simple setup 2. Secure 3. Good available

Re: WordPerfect Trouble

1999-09-02 Thread David Blackman
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Marius Aamodt Eriksen wrote: this is stupid but ti works, you need basically every xpm package. easiest way, go into dselect, method apt, update, then select, /xpm, and install every xpm package --dave Hi, I'm trying out Wordperfect 8.0. First of all, the installer

Re: WordPerfect Trouble

1999-09-02 Thread Peter Ross
Marius Aamodt Eriksen wrote: I'm trying out Wordperfect 8.0. First of all, the installer couldn't find libXpm.so.4, I fixed this by linking the library in /usr/X11R6/lib to /usr/lib. I installed wp with the text-mode install, however, it segfaults when i try to run it. Has anybody

Some keys aren't working in X

1999-09-02 Thread Kent West
I've recently installed Debian on a new Gateway PIII-400. Everything is dandy, except in the X Window System some of my keys don't work, particularly the arrow keys and page-up/page-down keys. It doesn't matter what wm I'm using. I do get an error about some non-fatal xkeyboard xmapper problem,

Re: script command question

1999-09-02 Thread Mark Wagnon
On Wed 09/01/99 01:30PM, Marc Mongeon wrote: I'm trying to improve my shell programming skills anyway, so I made a first pass at a program that will strip backspaces from an input file. I stopped short of making it robust enough to handle edits that cross a newline; for example, the following

Re: Machine freezes with xdm but not startx

1999-09-02 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Hi, I have an S3 ViRGE GX (if I remember right) 'vedio' card manuf. by SIIG, and I had a similar problem at times with it. My current configuration is running XFree86 3.3.3.1 from netgod, using the S3V X server. I'm also using kernel 2.2.10 with the SVGA framebuffer for text console,

apache 1.3.9-2 + php3 3.0.12-3

1999-09-02 Thread Marcin Kurc
Does anyone have problem with starting apache 1.3.9-2 with php3 3.0.12-3? error.log [Wed Sep 1 19:23:15 1999] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down -- Marcin Kurc Indiana Institute of Technology System Administrator http://me.indtech.edu http://www.indtech.edu

Re: WordPerfect Trouble

1999-09-02 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 08:41:39PM +0300, Marius Aamodt Eriksen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying out Wordperfect 8.0. First of all, the installer couldn't find libXpm.so.4, I fixed this by linking the library in /usr/X11R6/lib to /usr/lib. I installed wp with the text-mode install,

Re: ipx problem with 2.2.x

1999-09-02 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I tried the patch. Unfortunately it seems that it didn't correct the problem for me. I still have a big collision rate, bringing down my entire network. That's unfortunate... it did seem to correct the rush of broadcast packets I was seeing. Unfortunately I still got a packetstorm later when

Dividing a large long lined file

1999-09-02 Thread John Haggerty
I thought I would ask this question since it is about general unix and debian as well. I have a file which is say about 700 characters wide and 2,000 characters long I wish to take this file and divide this into equal files horizontally AND vertically say about 65 characters long and 80 wide. I

Re: Setting up Soundcard

1999-09-02 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Hello, I have a Sound Blaster AWE64 sound card and am looking for pointers on what I need to do to set it up on Debian Linux. What programs would I need? I have the latest KDE version (1.1.1 I believe) with the various programs for playing multimedia files, but don't have my soundcard

Hardware Compatibility

1999-09-02 Thread Mark Hendriks
Hello This is question that I couldn't find the answer to on either the Linux or Debian web site. I've also been considering FreeBSD, but I couldn't find the answer on their web site either. I am finally aproaching the day when I will replace the ancient piece of junk which I am currently

Kppp for normal users

1999-09-02 Thread John Hall
I've been able to set up and use Kppp as root, but of course I don't want to surf the web as root. How do I use pppd as a normal user. Do I need to write a special setuid. If so, how do I? Thanx -J (beggining linux user) P.s. This subject really should be more user friendly for single-user

Re: Obscure ethernet/IDE trouble

1999-09-02 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam C Powell IV) writes: Greetings, I'm having bizarre troubles with the base 2.1 system (2.0.36-scsimod) on an Abit BP6 dual-celeron system with Triton IDE DMA chipset and twin 3C905 ethernet cards. After my first net access (via eth0), be it ping or apt-get update

net install

1999-09-02 Thread tf
hey guys, I just got my modem happily dialing and connecting, however, apt-get --update can't open (sources list). can someone please tell me what files to edit? /etc/hosts? hosts.allow? I'm installing from a base slink system I downloaded a while back. I'd also like to configure exim

test

1999-09-02 Thread bwarsing

Re: Dividing a large long lined file

1999-09-02 Thread John Hasler
John Haggerty writes: I have a file which is say about 700 characters wide and 2,000 characters long I wish to take this file and divide this into equal files horizontally AND vertically say about 65 characters long and 80 wide. I tried to look for an obvious way to do this but can only divide

Re: Why does kdebase depend on xdm? Right way to disable xdm?

1999-09-02 Thread Takanori Suzuki
Which version of debian do you use? My system is pototo. If you want to use kdm instead to xdm, please do the following steps. 1)cd /etc/init.d 2)mv xdm xdm_back 3)update-rc.d xdm remove 4)update-rc.d kem defaults From: Takanori Suzuki [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... kdebase doen't depend on xdm.

test2

1999-09-02 Thread bwarsing

Re: net install

1999-09-02 Thread KaHa
tf wrote: hey guys, I just got my modem happily dialing and connecting, however, apt-get --update can't open (sources list). can someone please tell me what files to edit? /etc/hosts? hosts.allow? /etc/apt/sources.list (Mine looks like this:) deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian

Re: WordPerfect Trouble

1999-09-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 07:22:29PM -0500, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 08:41:39PM +0300, Marius Aamodt Eriksen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying out Wordperfect 8.0. First of all, the installer couldn't find libXpm.so.4, I fixed this by linking the library in

Re: [NeilB@earthling.net: Re: Please help a poor gaijin!]

1999-09-02 Thread Miles Bader
Neil Booth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thing's are quite a bit simpler if you just use emacs-20's built-in input methods Thanks for the reminder, but I had tried that (and forgotten about it) because I found it so frustrating. It doesn't accept standard input methods - to type in Nihongo I

Re: light spreadsheet for stable?

1999-09-02 Thread Tadeusz Bak
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: I need to find as light as possible a spreadsheet that still works reasonably will for stable. I'll recall Thumper's daddy's advice, and You can try XessLite (http://www.ais.com). Works very well under slink. But it's shareware, not free!

test3

1999-09-02 Thread bwarsing
wow. this filter system sucks. sorry, everybody. bw.

Oops! Hey, tf! [was:Re: net install]

1999-09-02 Thread KaHa
KaHa wrote: /etc/apt/sources.list (Mine looks like this:) deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free erm.. needless to say, switch the unstable to stable if you're running slink. Sorry. -- . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /-\ (-) /-\ Debian

swap file signature

1999-09-02 Thread zdrysdal
Hi i have deleted and then readded a swap partition... when i reboot it says : activiting swap file unable to find swap-space signature hmm do i have to set up the swap partition from a boot disk rather than from an up and going linux? thanx

Re: net install

1999-09-02 Thread John Hasler
hmf writes: I just got my modem happily dialing and connecting,... Do you mean that you can ping hosts? ...apt-get --update... apt-get --update produces E: Command line option --update is not understood. Do you mean apt-get update? ...can't open (sources list). Exactly what happens? Be

RE: Hardware Compatibility

1999-09-02 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
At one time I had Linux installed on a (very ugly!) IBM Aptiva M50. It has the video on board, and the sound card and modem are on a single BIG card. As long as you know what chipset the video uses, you shouldn't have a problem. Mine was a Trident, but I've seen S3's onboard as well. Ask the

Changing refresh rate in X...?

1999-09-02 Thread Steve
Hello all, I have been, for some time now, attempting to change my refresh rate to 100Hz. My monitor's Hor. and Vert. Sync rates are 30-70 and 50-120 respectively. I used to have it run at 100Hz magically somehow, but my HD died and I had to reinstall because I am an idiot and never

qmail procmail

1999-09-02 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, We are using qmail for our machines here. Now I could not get qmail to work with procmail to do the sorting. Basically, I need to fetchmail emails from three pop3 mail servers and then use qmail to deliever them all to the root account. The

Re: Dividing a large long lined file

1999-09-02 Thread Marcelo Ramos
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 06:40:42PM -0700, John Haggerty wrote: I thought I would ask this question since it is about general unix and debian as well. I have a file which is say about 700 characters wide and 2,000 characters long I wish to take this file and divide this into equal files

Re: Hardware Compatibility

1999-09-02 Thread Marcelo Ramos
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 07:07:10PM -0700, Mark Hendriks wrote: This is question that I couldn't find the answer to on either the Linux or Debian web site. I've also been considering FreeBSD, but I couldn't find the answer on their web site either. I am finally aproaching the day when I

mouse problem

1999-09-02 Thread S Manikandan
Hi all, Recently installed Debian Linux 2.1 ,mouse server gpm is not starting it says that freopen(stderr) not able to open.my mouse type is PS/2.X server is starting,but be'coz mouse is not moving,Iam not able to do anything ,without mouse.Is it possible to work with X without

Limited Bandwidth for Linux-router

1999-09-02 Thread Alex V. Toropov
Hi, all, Need a quick answer for my boss about possibility to limit bandwidth for special kind of ip-traffic (for specific source/dest network) . Linux-box is gateway from LAN to Internet. So this limitation is needed on WAN-NetInterface or on internal (kernel ?) routing. Can anyone help me in

Re: mouse problem

1999-09-02 Thread Mark Wagnon
On Thu 09/02/99 11:19AM, S Manikandan wrote: Hi all, Recently installed Debian Linux 2.1 ,mouse server gpm is not starting it says that freopen(stderr) not able to open.my mouse type is PS/2.X server is starting,but be'coz mouse is not moving,Iam not able to do anything ,without

RE: mouse problem

1999-09-02 Thread S Manikandan
Hi, how to load psaux module?please explain,iam a newbie this area. TIA, Mani. -Original Message- From: Mark Wagnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 11:29 AM To: S Manikandan Subject: Re: mouse problem On Thu 09/02/99 11:19AM, S Manikandan wrote:

pppconfig - bug or feature?

1999-09-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
When I run pppconfig it always replaces my /etc/aliases file. As a result the aliases I've put in are no longer there and emails get bounced. The first time this happened it took me a long time to spot it; now I know about it but sometimes I forget to restore the aliases. Is this what is

Re: mouse problem

1999-09-02 Thread Kent West
S Manikandan wrote: Hi all, Recently installed Debian Linux 2.1 ,mouse server gpm is not starting it says that freopen(stderr) not able to open.my mouse type is PS/2.X server is starting,but be'coz mouse is not moving,Iam not able to do anything ,without mouse.Is it possible to

Re: mouse problem

1999-09-02 Thread Mark Wagnon
On Thu 09/02/99 11:39AM, S Manikandan wrote: Hi, how to load psaux module?please explain,iam a newbie this area. I think that if you're still using the kernel that the installation procedure installed, you can use modconf to install new modules. I'm not 100% certain, because I've

Re: Hardware Compatibility

1999-09-02 Thread Matthew Dalton
Marcelo Ramos wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 07:07:10PM -0700, Mark Hendriks wrote: How do I find out if Linux will run (and recognise the video chipset) on this type of motherboard? Would Linux distinguish between this type of motherboard, and a standard motherboard? If not,

RE: mouse problem

1999-09-02 Thread S Manikandan
Hi all, Thanks for ur help.I installed psaux using modconf now it is working fine. Thanks once again. Mani. -Original Message- From: Mark Wagnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 11:47 AM To: S Manikandan Subject: Re: mouse problem On Thu 09/02/99

Re: Dselect suddenly unable to read cdrom

1999-09-02 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: I have an official CDROM for Debian which I've used for a good many months without problems. Suddenly I'm getting numerous errors in reading the disk; I can't give the exact error messages but they are of the form Atapi reset... error on

Re: swap file signature

1999-09-02 Thread Martin Fluch
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi i have deleted and then readded a swap partition... when i reboot it says : activiting swap file unable to find swap-space signature hmm do i have to set up the swap partition from a boot disk rather than from an up and

ProFTPD patch for exploit?

1999-09-02 Thread nate
I firewalled off my ftpd last week when i saw the news of the proftpd root exploit(i have to keep it up for our customers), but have yet to see a patch or even an announcent from Debian be it in this userlist, bugtraq, linuxtoday, freshmeat etc.. as to the status of a fix(if one is needed for

Debian GNU/Linux Guide to installation and usage

1999-09-02 Thread Jemfinch02
I recently purchased this book, being interested in the Debian distro, and would like to install it on a computer that cannot boot from the cdrom. I read through the book until I got to chapter 2, page 20, where it gives directions on how to make a bootup floppy from the included cd with which

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Guide to installation and usage

1999-09-02 Thread Jack Lee
Hi: I think the safest way is to install from FDs. Fro teh files you asked, check the section 5.2 in the installation manual at this address: http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install After you installed, learn how to use deselect. It's a very convenient package-management tool.

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Guide to installation and usage

1999-09-02 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently purchased this book, being interested in the Debian distro, and would like to install it on a computer that cannot boot from the cdrom. I read through the book until I got to chapter 2, page 20, where it gives directions on how to make a bootup floppy

1.5 years old user

1999-09-02 Thread Madarasz Karoly
Is there any programs for a 1.5 years old user? Something like xteddy controllable by mouse, or a program that turn the keyboard into a synthetiser. -- thanks, Karesz.

Re: 1.5 years old user

1999-09-02 Thread Seth R Arnold
vi and gcc just aren't doing it for your kid, eh? :) (In all honesty, the gimp might be the closest thing to fun on these blasted no good worthless hunks of ethernet-ignoring money holes... :) Oooh! how about xtacy? or sopmething like that? of course, you don't want your kid to grow up thinking

Re: qmail procmail

1999-09-02 Thread Robert Varga
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, We are using qmail for our machines here. Now I could not get qmail to work with procmail to do the sorting. Basically, I need to fetchmail emails from three pop3 mail servers and then use qmail to deliever them all to the

Re: pascal for linux

1999-09-02 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Patrick Olson wrote: On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: I was looking at porting a pascal program from dos to linux. Besides having to write a device driver (as it twiddles the printer port directly) I would have to fix all references to the Borland runtime

Re: Limited Bandwidth for Linux-router

1999-09-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alex V. Toropov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, all, Need a quick answer for my boss about possibility to limit bandwidth for special kind of ip-traffic (for specific source/dest network) . Linux-box is gateway from LAN to Internet. So this limitation is needed on

Re: Dividing a large long lined file

1999-09-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
Marcelo Ramos wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 06:40:42PM -0700, John Haggerty wrote: I thought I would ask this question since it is about general unix and deb ian as well. I have a file which is say about 700 characters wide and 2,000 characters long I wish to take this file

Re: is malloc() reentrant ?

1999-09-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 17:41:01 -0400, Seong Hoon Kim wrote: is malloc() reentrant ? I strongly suspect it is. Read info libc 'Feature Test Macros' on how to compile for threadsafety. HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive imaginations

Re: Limited Bandwidth for Linux-router

1999-09-02 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Alex Look for SHAPER. But you can limit the bandwidth of an Internal-IP-Address from 9600Bps to 256kBpS only. Webmistress Michelle At 09:55 02.09.1999 +0400, you wrote This was the original Message: MKHi, all, MK MKNeed a quick answer for my boss about possibility to limit

Re: 1.5 years old user

1999-09-02 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 11:07:30AM +0300, Madarasz Karoly wrote: Is there any programs for a 1.5 years old user? Something like xteddy controllable by mouse, well, i do not know what you mean by controllable by mouse but there is a package xteddy, containing a cuddly teddy-bear. You can also

Re: FW: FTP Install

1999-09-02 Thread Ookhoi
Hi Cory, That's strange. I _always_ install via ftp, and it works very well. I started with Debian as a newbie, and found the installation manual very clear and valuable. Nowadays I can only find this one: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install It has several pages; quite difficult to

[OT] Linux software for ispLSI programming?

1999-09-02 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi all! I'm just intersted if there is any free code (running under Linux) to programm the Lattice's ispLSI EPLDs? Are there any tech specs freely available (without NDA) to write such code? -- TIA Wojciech M. Zabolotny

Re: TrueType fonts, xfstt and freefont

1999-09-02 Thread Aaron M. Stromas
thanks to all responders. xlsfonts shows that freefonts are installed. i didn't have to use 'type1inst' which is not currently on my machine but, i'm guessing, debian package added FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/" to my /etc/X11/XF86Config. it appears, i must find a windoz box to

[ make install CD of debian ]

1999-09-02 Thread Imad Soltani
i want to make a install CD of debian distrib , with the max appli i can . someone can help me with a method ? Imad *breuheu* *groumph* *raaah* *bouh* Micro$oft Imad Soltani (1999)

Printer configuration

1999-09-02 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
Hello, I would like to know what I have to do to configure a printer. I need to configurations: 1) A local printer attached to a parallel port. 2) A remote printer that is accesed through a local area network. ¿Is there any tool to configure printers (as there is in RedHat)? Thanks in advance.

Apache modules etc

1999-09-02 Thread Stephen Kelly
Hi All, I have problems getting some perl scripts to run on my apache server. Anyone know what needs to be runnign with apache for the request method to be available. I have most things running as modules, but do some services require a compile into apache to work properly? The error is below. I

Ooops! [was: Re: Hi all and a question]

1999-09-02 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Ah! the name was perforate I have Debian Hamm and this program is really undocumented :( my apologies. The perforate package does not contain the needed program. It is in package binstats :) and as for perforate, i've got slink, and it has some mans Marcin --

Japanese debian?

1999-09-02 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, we have a japanese guest scientist and he would like to read his japanese email here. I bet it is possible to do this with debian, debian-jp. Can somebody please tell me what packages to install to allow reading japanese mail with debian? (and maybe send a mail in japanese for testing?)

System defaults: user enviroment

1999-09-02 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
Hello, I would like to know where the default user enviroment is configured. Thanks in advance. Manuel Arenaz

Re: ipx problem with 2.2.x

1999-09-02 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote: Hi Gregory, Judging from some posts to the linux-kernel mailing list, it's also possible to get a flood of directed (i.e. non-broadcast) IPX packets when running slist. That's what I think I ran into... unfortunately it seems to be difficult to

Re: is malloc() reentrant ?

1999-09-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 17:41:01 -0400, Seong Hoon Kim wrote: is malloc() reentrant ? I strongly suspect it is. Read info libc 'Feature Test Macros' on how to compile for threadsafety. Thread safe and using from a

Re: System defaults: user enviroment

1999-09-02 Thread Laurent Martelli
Manuel == Manuel Arenaz Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Manuel Hello, Manuel I would like to know where the default user enviroment is Manuel configured. What do you mean with environment ? If you're talking about environment variables, they are usually set in .bashrc or .bash_profile

Re: ipchains firewalling question

1999-09-02 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Patrick Olson wrote: I am thinking of using IP chains to tighten security a little on my Debian 2.1 box. Currently, I have it set up as follows: ipchains -P forward DENY ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.9/255.255.255.255 -j MASQ Below is a much more involved

Re: Setting up Soundcard

1999-09-02 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, B. Szyszka wrote: Hello, I have a Sound Blaster AWE64 sound card and am looking for pointers on what I need to do to set it up on Debian Linux. What programs would I need? I have the latest KDE version (1.1.1 I believe) with the various programs for playing multimedia

Re: Yamaha sound

1999-09-02 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
i got a Yamaha sound card but I can't manage to load sound as a module, because i don't know exactly which card it is... Is there a way to get the irq, dma, and such things it uses ? I also run NT but I neither can find these informations there... Hi! Well... it seems it is either a

Re: ipchains firewalling question

1999-09-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 09:48:01AM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Patrick Olson wrote: I have the following specific questions: 1. Have I made any mistakes that could cause really annoying problems? (perhaps unintentionally blocking something that shouldn't

Re: No cut/paste on lynx

1999-09-02 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Pann McCuaig wrote: On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 08:46:15AM -0500, Bruce Walzer wrote: On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 12:26:55PM +0200, Debian Mail wrote: [...] Hold down the SHIFT key when you select text in lynx. Works for me either in a text console (gpm) or X. Yep, that works.

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