Re: ¿No funcionan los acentos en el Netscape de Potato?

1999-11-04 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
El Tue, Nov 02, 1999, Agustín Martín Domingo... Han Solo wrote: Pue eso, en una potato que tengo en el trabajo, he instalado El Communicator 4.61 y resulta que ahora no funcionan los acentos... No, el problema es que no hay versión libc6 del 4.61... Pues yo creo que

Re: Foro sobre Debian

1999-11-04 Thread TooMany
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 01:32:53AM +0100, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona wrote: En paralelo a este foro, se esta montando una quedada, que aun no me queda claro si es el viernes o el sabado, pero seguro que en breve nos dan detalles. Bueno, tal y como dijo Barb, en principio es para el

Re: Foro sobre Debian

1999-11-04 Thread Barbwired
TooMany decía: On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 01:32:53AM +0100, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona wrote: En paralelo a este foro, se esta montando una quedada, que aun no me queda claro si es el viernes o el sabado, pero seguro que en breve nos dan detalles. Bueno, tal y como dijo Barb, en

Congelación de Potato

1999-11-04 Thread Virgilio Gómez Rubio
Hola: Mi jefe me acaba de comentar que congelan potato este domingo, ¿es verdad? Un saldo. Virgilio Dios mio, hemos caido en manos de ingenieros Ian Malcom, el matemático de Parque Jurásico http://mural.uv.es/virgoru

Re: ¿No funcionan los acentos en el Netscape de Potato?

1999-11-04 Thread Agustín Martín Domingo
Cosme Perea Cuevas wrote: El Tue, Nov 02, 1999, Agustín Martín Domingo... Han Solo wrote: Pue eso, en una potato que tengo en el trabajo, he instalado El Communicator 4.61 y resulta que ahora no funcionan los acentos... No, el problema es que no hay versión

Re: Congelación de Potato

1999-11-04 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Virgilio Gómez Rubio wrote: Mi jefe me acaba de comentar que congelan potato este domingo, ¿es verdad? Es verdad que el release-manager tiene esa intención. Si de verdad se congelará o no, nadie lo sabrá hasta que no ocurra realmente. [ Personalmente, todavía tengo la

RE: Foro sobre Debian

1999-11-04 Thread Manuel Trujillo
No! Yo hablaba de quedar en plan informal, tomando unas birritas o un cola-cao el sábado por la noche. Jesús habla de una quedada en el seno del Congreso, en el recinto de la Carlos III (si no le he entendido mal). O sea, que se pueden realizar ambas cosas. Jesús, confirma que estoy en lo

Re: como se activa el /dev/dsp

1999-11-04 Thread AVILA BERMEJO, FRANCISCO JOSE
31 wrote: antes me funcionaba con irq5 (tena que cambiar la 7 que viene por defecto), y sigo poniendo la 5, como no me hayan cambiado la irq de la tarjeta cuando se quem el enchufe de entrada de la corriente... a las tarjetas no se les puede cambiar la irq? Si se les puede cambiar. De hecho

saving X session?

1999-11-04 Thread Ron Farrer
Hello all; When I log out all my settings are lost; window manager (WindowMaker), themes, etc. How can I make it so that these things 'stick' when I logout and back in? I'm using slink and xdm to load X. TIA, Ron -- = = Ronald Burnett Farrer =

printf function

1999-11-04 Thread Andrew Clark
I wonder if anyone can help me out. I need to get a copy of the source for the printf function (I need to write modified version), but I don't want the rest of the standard c library, is there somewhere on the internet I can find it, or can someone email it to me, or should I just install the lib

Re: Why use Enlightenment?

1999-11-04 Thread James Pullman
OK, I'll bite. I mean, didn't the Trolls spout this back during E 0.14? Admittedly, I gave up on E recently for Sawmill, but E was always a good window manager. If it wasn't, why would it be as popular as it is? You said it yourself, you don't have to use it. Then don't. There's nothing

Re: Security

1999-11-04 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Evan Moore wrote: port to act as a loging machine, and then make the web server a read only system. How may a person make a read only system. Would mounting the drive ro do the trick, or would it be easy for someone to remount the system rw. In general it is neither

Emacs 20.4

1999-11-04 Thread Nic Ferrier
I've noticed a problem with GNU-Emacs 20.4 on my Potato installation When running inside X windows (using latest GNOME and Enlightenment is WM) the DEL key and the deletechar key are mapped to the same key symbol. (sorry if I use the wrong terms - I don't really know how emacs deals with key

Re: saving X session?

1999-11-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
Ron Farrer wrote: When I log out all my settings are lost; window manager (WindowMaker), themes, etc. How can I make it so that these things 'stick' when I logout and back in? I'm using slink and xdm to load X. Typically, you will create a file in your home directory called .xsession

Re: Password encryption

1999-11-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Most likely because it uses some kind of regular DES which isn't strong enou gh to fall under export controls. Strictly, password encryption is authentication, rather than encryption, because password encryption is one-way: you cannot decrypt a password.

Jaton Modem never responses EXCEPT in Seyon

1999-11-04 Thread Hongyu Lu
I just bought a Jaton Modulator 56K modem and tried to installed it on my PC. The problem is that the modem DOES response to the 'dial' command of Seyon and then dial out, but it never responses to other ppp tools like ifup and wvdial(even no response to AT, ATZ commands). I wonder if

Re: adding win 95 partition

1999-11-04 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
Okay. Here's what you do: 1. Start up fsck, and shrink the partition you want to shrink, but DO NOT SAVE THE PARTITION TABLE, just look at the size you get, and write it down. 2. Make sure the filesystem is at least mounted read-only, preferrably not mounted at all. 3. Run ext2resize

Conflict between hostname, and nis packages in unstable?

1999-11-04 Thread Stan Brown
I am trying to install a new machien using unstable. I choose the nis package in dselect, but the install script for it complains that it wants to remove a file used by the hostname package. I thought I would just dlete the hostname package, since I do have NIS

Re: installation and such

1999-11-04 Thread Eric G . Miller
I got my slink CDs from www.cheapbytes.com for about $10 total for the 4-cd set. The single CD version is only a couple bucks plus shipping. CDs worked fine... -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public

Re: Password encryption

1999-11-04 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 00:40, Oliver Elphick wrote: Strictly, password encryption is authentication, rather than encryption, because password encryption is one-way: you cannot decrypt a password. Well, yes, but . . . What do you call discovering a weak password using the tools created for

small problem in /etc/suid.conf (potato)

1999-11-04 Thread Pollywog
I ran 'apt-get upgrade' and now I have two entries in /etc/suid.conf for Eterm. Who should own Eterm? Is it root.root or root.utmp ? thanks -- Andrew - GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681 *we all live downstream*

Re: Potato Hostname Vs NIS conflict

1999-11-04 Thread Bill Goudie
On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 05:01:20PM +, Paul M Sargent wrote: Hi all, Can anybody tell me if I'm the only one who has a problem trying to have both the hostname and the nis package installed together. Apt is complaining that both contain /bin/hostname (indeed they do and they are

Re: Password encryption

1999-11-04 Thread Matthew Dalton
Pann McCuaig wrote: On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 00:40, Oliver Elphick wrote: Strictly, password encryption is authentication, rather than encryption, because password encryption is one-way: you cannot decrypt a password. Well, yes, but . . . What do you call discovering a weak

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #1907

1999-11-04 Thread george randall
take me off your mailing list. At 10:23 PM 11/2/99 -, you wrote: Content-Type: text/plain debian-user-digest Digest Volume 99 : Issue 1907 Today's Topics: Xserver tune up tool [ Antonio Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Re: debian installation

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #1907

1999-11-04 Thread george randall
At 10:23 PM 11/2/99 -, you wrote: Content-Type: text/plain debian-user-digest Digest Volume 99 : Issue 1907 Today's Topics: Xserver tune up tool [ Antonio Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Re: debian installation woes [ Nick Phillips

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #1907

1999-11-04 Thread Matthew Dalton
George, From the Debian web site: Subscription / Unsubscription Our lists are served by Smartlist. This results in a comfortable way to manage them. If the subscription policy for a particular list is `open' anyone is able to subscribe/unsubscribe on their own. *NO* subscription or

Re: Password encryption

1999-11-04 Thread Greg Wooledge
Pann McCuaig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What do you call discovering a weak password using the tools created for that purpose? It is most certainly not decryption. We usually call it cracking, or more specifically, brute-force cracking. -- Greg Wooledge| Truth belongs to

Re: download

1999-11-04 Thread Greg Wooledge
mike ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: can you send me debian for a 486 computer Nobody is going to mail you this! It requires two CDs to hold the latest stable version. Check these links: http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist (to download by FTP) http://www.debian.org/distrib/vendors (to buy

Re: ipmasq_3.2.5 breaks nameserver lookups

1999-11-04 Thread Greg Wooledge
Curt Daugaard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The subject says it all. I've gone through the docs, but since the out-of-the-box config at least appears to have broken a pretty average dialup ppp setup, I'm wondering if others have run into the same problem and would be willing to tell what fixed

Re: Sources of linux documentation

1999-11-04 Thread Greg Wooledge
Manuel Arenaz Silva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 1) How can I know the source package name from the output of the command dpkg --print-avail debian-guide? I don't understand the question. debian-guide isn't a binary package, so I don't think it would have useful source code...? 2) I have been

Re: Problems with rlogin!!!

1999-11-04 Thread Greg Wooledge
John Sanabria ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Somebody know how can i let that others machines can get into my machine using rsh. I put .rhosts in my home user, but always request me for my password. You have to put the *right form* of the hostname in the .rhosts file. The easiest way to learn

Re: Potato Hostname Vs NIS conflict

1999-11-04 Thread Greg Wooledge
Paul M Sargent ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Apt is complaining that both contain /bin/hostname (indeed they do and they are different). Is there any info on this? For me, it was /bin/domainname. See below. Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I choose the nis package in dselect, but

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-04 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: debian installation woes Date: Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 10:59:08AM -0800 In reply to:aphro Quoting aphro([EMAIL PROTECTED]): you can't boot a logical drive, it must be primary.. nate OH?? Gee, I wonder why my potato dist is working so well on hdb10. A 1 gig

set coredumpsize in bash?

1999-11-04 Thread jack
hi, limit coredumpsize in csh or tcsh is easy as limit coredumpsize 0. How can I do the same thing with bash? tia, jack

Another Crazy DNS Question... ;-)

1999-11-04 Thread Art Lemasters
How can I set up two completely different FQDNs (two totally different hostnames) on one box (e.g., my.domain.net alsomy.otherdomain.net) so that this machine accepts traffic on my.domain.net while appearing to be alsomy.otherdomain.net to anyone who accesses it via the webserver or

Re: Another Crazy DNS Question... ;-)

1999-11-04 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Art Lemasters wrote: How can I set up two completely different FQDNs (two totally different hostnames) on one box (e.g., my.domain.net Point both DNS entries at your IP address. You can only have your IP map to one of them in reverse DNS, though. If you absolutely

Re: setting the date with date

1999-11-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
Try hwclock, it's more straightforward than doing it with date. Here's the example from the hwclock man page: hwclock --set --date=9/22/96 16:45:05 Bob On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 04:40:45AM +0200, tf wrote: Hey guys, I have one that really should be easy, I think, but I'm struggling with

Re: Password encryption

1999-11-04 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 22:24, Greg Wooledge wrote: Pann McCuaig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What do you call discovering a weak password using the tools created for that purpose? It is most certainly not decryption. We usually call it cracking, or more specifically, brute-force

October mail spool of debian-user list.

1999-11-04 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Can anyone lend me their October mail spool of Debian User ? Please indicate by mail as soon as U can, 'coz I have lost my October spool inadvertently due to a HDD crash. I was in the process of generating the Hypermail archive for the same to be put up at http://members.xoom.com/debianut/ All

A few questions.

1999-11-04 Thread Tom Gray
I have a few questions about installing Debian Linux 2.0 (NOTE: I am using the Debian CD, and am currently running Windoze 98): 1. When I run the boot.bat file it always says that I don't have enough memory available. I find this odd, considering that I have 256MB of RAM. 2. I have

Re: A few questions.

1999-11-04 Thread Matthew Dalton
Tom Gray wrote: 3. Should I defragment my hard drive? If your Windows C: is using the whole drive and you want to break it up to let Linux use some, then yes. 4. How is Linux pronounced: lih-nucks or lie-nucks? Why not listen to Linus himself say it?

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-04 Thread John Foster
Wayne Topa wrote: Subject: Re: debian installation woes Date: Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 10:59:08AM -0800 In reply to:aphro Quoting aphro([EMAIL PROTECTED]): you can't boot a logical drive, it must be primary.. nate OH?? Gee, I wonder why my potato dist is working so

Re: X-windows GUI utility for maintaining user accounts

1999-11-04 Thread aphro
kuser included with kde, guserman, included with gnome both seem to work ok although i admin ive never used them for other then just looking :) you can also use webmin (www.webmin.com) seems to work ok ..although i've only used that once or twice for user management. nate

Re: Why use Enlightenment?

1999-11-04 Thread aphro
i agree ..it looks great..if your willing to sacrafice the speed..for some its worth it ..its always nice to have the choice. i for use chose afterstep, and it flies. kde is a DOG compared to it..i havent tried E for a couple years back then it was pretty slow ..but was useable..never figured out

Re: newbie curious

1999-11-04 Thread aphro
no its not safe to assume if it works with mandrake it will work with slink, ESPECIALLY if it comes to graphics cards and sound cards, maybe even network cards. i bought that same book, its great, and the cd is great, i did encounter a problem that the install defaulted to kernel 2.2.12 and did

Re: Security

1999-11-04 Thread aphro
best way is to get a drive that physically supports read only via a jumper, or some bios's support setting the drive in read only mode.(ive seen this feature on some single board computers ive been testing) many scsi drives have a jumper on them for read only operation. software read only is

Re: set coredumpsize in bash?

1999-11-04 Thread aphro
i use ulimit to do the job. i believe the command is ulimit -c ..it would apply to all shells .. (man ulimit or man builtins or man bash it may be in any/all of those man pages) my defaults for ulimit: core file size (blocks) 0 data seg size (kbytes) unlimited file size (blocks)

Re: Another Crazy DNS Question... ;-)

1999-11-04 Thread aphro
yeah that would work fine, point 1 domain at 1 ip, or point a million domains at 1 ip ..its all the same ..now if your doing it for web hosting, e.g. http://www.aphroland.org and http://yahoo.aphroland.org and http://comedy.aphroland.org are all the same ip (208.222.179.35) however they are all

Re: newbie curious

1999-11-04 Thread Matthew Dalton
aphro wrote: ... Slink uses a very old(by today's standards) version of X, and may not support(fully) graphics cards made in the past year (TNT, TNT2, G200/G400, S3 Savage series etc) i suggest grabbing a binary server before you upgrade, or just copy the server from mandrake(copy the

Re: A few questions.

1999-11-04 Thread aphro
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Tom Gray wrote: Rotten I have a few questions about installing Debian Linux 2.0 (NOTE: I am using the Debian CD, and am currently running Windoze 98): Rotten Rotten 1. When I run the boot.bat file it always says that I don't have enough memory available. I find this odd,

Re: dselect still not working

1999-11-04 Thread Phillip Deackes
Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UGH! dselect still is messing up. I don't see any packages that are suspect, it gives basically no other information. Configuring packages ... /tmp/fileiCcdVa: /usr/share/debconf/confmodule: No such file or directory E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig

Re: ls: file: Input/output error

1999-11-04 Thread Debian Mail
you try running a e2fsck on it ? Yes, but it was /home which was always busy, although I stoped every process I could think of using files in /home. Isn't there a tool to check which process is using a certain part of the filesystem? run e2fsck -c too, i think that is the option to check for

SMB loop

1999-11-04 Thread Debian Mail
I have Samba running on two machines. I smbmount'ed //host1/myself to host2:/home/myself/m/host1 and //host2/myself to host1:/home/myself/m/host2 Then I realized that this causes a loop. Now I cannot smbumount these shares anymore, yet not even kill -9 the smbd! Is there no other solution than

Re: Why use Enlightenment?

1999-11-04 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 11:33:29AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: [...] Enlightenment seems to be as fast as any other window manager on my P133/80Meg machine, and E is a quite a bit more attractive than any other WM I've seen (I should perhaps phrase this as `most of the other WMs I've seen are

Re: icq under firewall

1999-11-04 Thread Onno
I'm seeting up a firewall as well. The know about the ICQ problem and I've heard that the best solution is port forwarding (socks?). I'm not at that point yet but I have to deal with it... Port forwarding might be your answer (socks?) but please mail me your results... Thanks, Onno At 11:10

Re: Emacs 20.4

1999-11-04 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi , Nic Ferrier writes: When running inside X windows (using latest GNOME and Enlightenment is WM) the DEL key and the deletechar key are mapped to the same key symbol. This is perfectly normal (for Emacs, that is). It's an Emacs/XEmacs issue and not related to your X version or your

10/100Mbit PCMCIA network card

1999-11-04 Thread Christian Ericsson
Which 10/100Mbit PCMCIA network card works with Linux and is possible to buy today? Please answer be directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I'm not currently subscriber of this mailing list!)

Re: Why use Enlightenment?

1999-11-04 Thread Miles Bader
E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does the current incarnation of E already have a desktop pager with the same functionality as fvwm2? Some time ago it didn't, and for me it is one of the features I like most (and use heavily) about fvwm2. I can't give a real answer, since I

Re: printf function

1999-11-04 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: printf function Date: Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 11:09:09AM +1100 In reply to:Andrew Clark Quoting Andrew Clark([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I wonder if anyone can help me out. I need to get a copy of the source for the printf function (I need to write modified version), but I

Re: setting the date with date

1999-11-04 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: setting the date with date Date: Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 04:40:45AM +0200 In reply to:tf Quoting tf([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hey guys, I have one that really should be easy, I think, but I'm struggling with the silly date command. I need to set my system clock. ack.

Bug in smbmount?

1999-11-04 Thread Debian Mail
I again have an ls: n: Input/output error Now I'm quite sure smbmount is causing these troubles. Anyone experienced similar problems with smbmount? Stef

LI during Lilo (normal solutions not working)

1999-11-04 Thread Dan Hugo
Greetings- I am getting the LI_ (flashing _) at boot of my newly installed slink on a dual PPro machine. I have a 14G IBM drive in there with /dev/hda1 partitioned to 200Megs, exactly the same as another identical drive in my normal machine (in other words, both have /dev/hda1 sizes the

Re: LI during Lilo (normal solutions not working)

1999-11-04 Thread Dan Hugo
Answer: linear... [or lilo -l ] boots fine now. Found this tidbit in an old lilo users guide at http://www.yggdrasil.com/bible/lilo/user/user.html though I should have thought of this earlier... -dh Dan Hugo wrote: Greetings- I am getting the LI_ (flashing _) at boot of my

Re: Another Crazy DNS Question... ;-)

1999-11-04 Thread Robert Varga
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Art Lemasters wrote: How can I set up two completely different FQDNs (two totally different hostnames) on one box (e.g., my.domain.net alsomy.otherdomain.net) so that this machine accepts traffic on my.domain.net while appearing to be alsomy.otherdomain.net to

Re: Sources of linux documentation

1999-11-04 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
I have downloaded the sources of the Debian linux documentation in the format .tar.bz2. While compiling the .tex file using the default slink Latex2e, the compiler couldn't found the file html.sty. Where can I found this file? Do I have to install any new package? Thanks in advance,

Where in the debian's gcc is defined the FLT_MAX constant?

1999-11-04 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All, I'm just trying to compile the snns program, which uses the MAXFLOAT constant. The maxfloat is defined in the /usr/include/math.h as: #define MAXFLOAT FLT_MAX However the FLT_MAX is not defined at all... Probably it should be defined in the float.h file, but there is no such file in

Re: starting ssh port forwarding from inetd

1999-11-04 Thread Robert Varga
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Bernhard Rieder wrote: Hi, I'd like to secure my pop3 ans smtp ports with ssh, but I'm not sure hoe to set it up. Is there a way to start it from inetd? Try to conform to the standards. Use stunnel to set up an SSL proxy for the 110 port on the POP3S port (995). For

Re: adding win 95 partition

1999-11-04 Thread David Natkins
Dwayne, Don't you mean fdisk and not fsck? Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: Okay. Here's what you do: 1. Start up fsck, and shrink the partition you want to shrink, but DO NOT SAVE THE PARTITION TABLE, just look at the size you get, and write it down. 2. Make

Perl

1999-11-04 Thread Tim Bedding
Is Perl 5 part of the standard Debian 2.1 installation?

Jed and ispell

1999-11-04 Thread David J. Kanter
I've hunted around the man page, but I can't seem to find a way to have jed use ispell on anything more than one word (ESC $). Is there a way to have jed spell-check the whole document? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies

Re: Perl

1999-11-04 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi Tim, Tim Bedding writes: Is Perl 5 part of the standard Debian 2.1 installation? Perl 5 is part of the standard distribution. Whether or not you install it is up to you. Check with dpgk -l or dselect. Cheers -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL

Re: starting ssh port forwarding from inetd

1999-11-04 Thread Bernhard Rieder
Robert Varga wrote: Try to conform to the standards. .. If you want to use ssh, then use portforwarding on the client side. If you use it on the server side, then you need to teach the POP3 client ssh, which is not really feasible. I want to use it un the client side. Maybe I expressed

Driver for Compaq Netelligent network card

1999-11-04 Thread Tim Ayers
Hi, I'm trying to install Debian GNU/Linux on a Compaq Deskpro 6000. I'm stuck on getting the network to work. As far as I can tell the network card is a Netelligent 10/100 TX Embedded UTP Bus 0. Can anyone tell me which driver goes with that? Thanks! Hope you have a very nice day, :-) Tim Ayers

Re: Driver for Compaq Netelligent network card

1999-11-04 Thread Nico De Ranter
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Tim Ayers wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install Debian GNU/Linux on a Compaq Deskpro 6000. I'm stuck on getting the network to work. As far as I can tell the network card is a Netelligent 10/100 TX Embedded UTP Bus 0. Can anyone tell me which driver goes with that? Thanks!

Re: Where in the debian's gcc is defined the FLT_MAX constant?

1999-11-04 Thread Remco van de Meent
I'm just trying to compile the snns program, which uses the MAXFLOAT constant. The maxfloat is defined in the /usr/include/math.h as: #define MAXFLOAT FLT_MAX However the FLT_MAX is not defined at all... Probably it should be defined in the float.h file, but there is no such file in my

Re: Are you having trouble downloading my pine .debs?

1999-11-04 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Try the debs at http://members.mint.net/frodo/pine instead. They are known to be good. I'll update the tripod page to direct people there. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, David Teague wrote: On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: I've received svral

netbios/udp server failing

1999-11-04 Thread Ingo Reimann
Hi, My box (convert) sits in a NT-Domain, i am running samba (potato - daily upgrade). Every couple of minutes, my syslog shows a lot of Nov 4 15:43:09 convert nmbd[8798]: connect from convert.uni-muenster.de Nov 4 15:43:09 convert inetd[976]: /usr/sbin/tcpd: exit status 0x1 and finally :

Re: Perl

1999-11-04 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 4 Nov, Tim Bedding wrote about Perl Is Perl 5 part of the standard Debian 2.1 installation? Yes and no. There is a stripped down perl that is called perl-base that is part of the base packages that are installed with the initial install on the base disks. If you want full use of perl

Re: Driver for Compaq Netelligent network card

1999-11-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Tim Ayers wrote: : Hi, : : I'm trying to install Debian GNU/Linux on a Compaq Deskpro 6000. I'm : stuck on getting the network to work. As far as I can tell the network : card is a Netelligent 10/100 TX Embedded UTP Bus 0. Can anyone tell : me which driver goes with

Re: Another Crazy DNS Question... ;-)

1999-11-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 12:01:29AM -0500, William T Wilson wrote: Yes, you can point A records from two domains to the same IP address. You can also use a CNAME record. I'm not sure when one approach would be preferred over the other. You can also use virtual hosting to have the same machine

Re: Password encryption

1999-11-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Pann McCuaig wrote: : On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 22:24, Greg Wooledge wrote: : Pann McCuaig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : : What do you call discovering a weak password using the tools created : for that purpose? : : It is most certainly not decryption. We

Re: A few questions.

1999-11-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
Tom Gray said: 4. How is Linux pronounced: lih-nucks or lie-nucks? Linus's name is pronounced (in Finnish) lih-nus, so the 'offical' pronunciation is lih-nux. However, he has said that, since his name is pronounced lye-nus in English, it is appropriate for English-speakers to pronounce it

Re: setting the date with date [ Netdate ]

1999-11-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
Ray Schultz said: Netdate will sync your computer clock with that of a Network Time Protocol server (NTP). An example is time.uh.edu What's the difference between netdate and ntpdate (other than that ntpdate is a separate package)? -- Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+:+ a- C+++ UL++$ P L++

Re: Another Crazy DNS Question... ;-)

1999-11-04 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Bob Nielsen wrote: On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 12:01:29AM -0500, William T Wilson wrote: Yes, you can point A records from two domains to the same IP address. You can also use a CNAME record. I'm not sure when one approach would be preferred over the other. This is true however the rfc (not

Re: Where in the debian's gcc is defined the FLT_MAX constant?

1999-11-04 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 01:25:22PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: Hi All, I'm just trying to compile the snns program, which uses the MAXFLOAT constant. The maxfloat is defined in the /usr/include/math.h as: #define MAXFLOAT FLT_MAX However the FLT_MAX is not defined at all...

Re: Another Crazy DNS Question... ;-)

1999-11-04 Thread Robert Varga
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 12:01:29AM -0500, William T Wilson wrote: Yes, you can point A records from two domains to the same IP address. You can also use a CNAME record. I'm not sure when one approach would be preferred over the other. You

Re: setting the date with date [ Netdate ]

1999-11-04 Thread Ray Schultz
Dave Sherohman wrote: Ray Schultz said: Netdate will sync your computer clock with that of a Network Time Protocol server (NTP). An example is time.uh.edu What's the difference between netdate and ntpdate (other than that ntpdate is a separate package)? I haven't the slightist idea.

Re: download

1999-11-04 Thread Ray Schultz
Greg Wooledge wrote: mike ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: can you send me debian for a 486 computer Nobody is going to mail you this! It requires two CDs to hold the latest stable version. Check these links: http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist (to download by FTP)

Re: dselect still not working

1999-11-04 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, I have similar problem. Fixed by manual installation of debconf. Worked fine after that. Hope that helps, Sasha. UGH! dselect still is messing up. I don't see any packages that are suspect, it gives basically no other information. Configuring packages ... /tmp/fileiCcdVa:

how to compile packages optimized for Pentium or Pentium-II?

1999-11-04 Thread Robert Varga
How can I recompile the packages so that they be optimized for running on Pentium or Pentium-II or else? Robert Varga

Re: Sources of linux documentation

1999-11-04 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
I've tried some three times to get a book compressed in that bz2 format uncomperessed to a readable version. But no LaTex, TeX or LyX ever could read that stuff. Is there something in general wrong with that bz2 format or are there available some brand new TeX formats, which no Slink latex

Re: how to compile packages optimized for Pentium or Pentium-II?

1999-11-04 Thread Ingo Reimann
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 05:08:04PM +0100, Robert Varga wrote: How can I recompile the packages so that they be optimized for running on Pentium or Pentium-II or else? Hi Robert, i just found a package: pentium-builder, that sets some compiler-flags for that greetings, ingo

Re: ls: file: Input/output error

1999-11-04 Thread aphro
debian debian What could have caused this I/O error anyway? almost anything, if the system crashed, or had some bad physical sectors on it ..or a program crashed while it was writing to disk may of curropted some stuff..hard to tell. you can always avoid a reboot and you can always (i believe)

Re: Bug in smbmount?

1999-11-04 Thread aphro
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Debian Mail wrote: debian I again have an debian ls: n: Input/output error debian Now I'm quite sure smbmount is causing these troubles. Anyone debian experienced similar problems with smbmount? debian yes, i experienced that problem often when using smbmount, i attributed

Moving the iconbox in Enlightenment 0.16-1

1999-11-04 Thread Ian Stuart
How do I move the Icon box? I can change it's orientation, and features about it, but I cannot move it, or any new ones to different screen locations. Any ideas anyone? -- --==**==-- Ian Stuart - University computing services. - Opinions are funny

Installing Debian slink (X)

1999-11-04 Thread Daan van der Sanden
Hi, I just installed debian Slink, and I am trying to configure X with XF86Setup. But I can't configere my Mouse. I have an PS/2 mouse from Microsoft (i'm sorry), and this is on the buttom of the mouse: IntelliMouse(r) 1.1 A PS/2 compatible. It also has an wheel on it. But it don't has to work.

time is 5 hours ahead (using ntp)

1999-11-04 Thread Brian J. Stults
I'm using ntp and it's working just fine. The problem for me is that the time is always 5 hours ahead of what it should be. I think this is something in the kernel settings, right? I set it to report GMT or UTP or something, and I'm in the EST zone. Can someone tell me how to switch that back?

Re: Why use Enlightenment?

1999-11-04 Thread Brian J. Stults
I'll second (or third) the I like E, but now I'm using sawmill senitment. I had no clear reason for moving from E to sawmill other than the fact that sawmill seemed a little more minimalist which is what I like in a window manager. If you like to hack your window manager and you're addicted to

Re: Sources of linux docu... html.sty ???

1999-11-04 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: In first place, you have to decompress the debian-guide.tar.bz2 file by using: tar -xvIf debian-guide.tar.bz2 This command generates following files... You seem to be right. It was another book I tried decompress earlier.

Re: Sources of linux docu... html.sty ???

1999-11-04 Thread Peter S Galbraith
virtanen wrote: In my linux box the compiling process stops because the file html.sty is not installed. Where can this file by obtained from? Is it available in any package? I ended with the same problem... who knows? whre to

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