Nuevo en la lista

1999-11-28 Thread Pookie
Hola, saludops a todos, envio este mensaje para que sepais que existo, y de paso para recibirlo yo y poderme configurar los filtros del programa de mail... Hasta pronto, nos veremos

Re: Re: Si quieres hacer aplciaciones para Debian

1999-11-28 Thread SKaVen
Hell-o debianitas: El día Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 11:50:46AM +0100, Alvaro Alea escribió: Hola, si te sirve de algo yo tengo debianizado algunas cosas: Heretic - version shareware y comercial, para X, SVGA y X-aceleradas. Xchomp - un comecocos que venia con RedHat pero sin licencia. gqmepg -

Re: Nuevo en la lista

1999-11-28 Thread Jordi
On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 10:48:52AM +0100, Pookie wrote: Hola, saludops a todos, envio este mensaje para que sepais que existo, y de paso para recibirlo yo y poderme configurar los filtros del programa de mail... Hola Pookie, Ya que configuras, podrías aprovechar para quitar el

Re: Ahora Descargar era: cargar modulos automaticamente

1999-11-28 Thread Ricard Sierra
9 at 01:56:25PM +0100, Xose Manoel Ramos wrote: ¿Alguien sabe cuanto tiempo tarda en descagarse un módulo? Es que por lo menos en mi sistema tarda un rato de narices en descargarse le módulo, aunque lleve minutos sin ser utilizado. Bueno buscando un poco por man kerneld, modprobe y en la

Re: svenska tecken...

1999-11-28 Thread Joel Rosdahl
Henrik Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jag har lite problem med mina svenska tecken. De funkar i prompten, men inte med tex less och inte i mutt. Hur kan jag kolla att jag har rätt teckentabell, finns det något program? Eller någon fil jag kan editera? less vill ha variabeln LESSCHARSET

upgrading kernel

1999-11-28 Thread zdrysdal
Hi will upgrading my firewall kernel via the internet retain all of it's kernel settings or will i have to recompile it? thanx

Re: upgrading kernel

1999-11-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
If you have customized the kernel, you will have to compile the new one. Put the existing .config file in your source directory and use 'make oldconfig'. You will only be asked for those options which are new. Bob On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 01:35:02PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi will

Boot disk for kernel-image-2.2.13 not working

1999-11-28 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hi, I'm trying to upgrade my kernel and have downloaded some of the kernel... packages, including the kernel-image-2.2.13 one. My problem is that during its setup, when it asks me to create a boot disk and makes one, the disk doesn't seem to work. When I reboot and put it in, all it says is

[no subject]

1999-11-28 Thread Rafa³ Szulim
Dopiero niedawno zainstalowa³em debiana 2.1 na moim PC i nie bardzo wiem jak dok³adnie korzystaæ w kompilatora gcc. Wedle tego co siê oriêtujê to kompilacja programu przebiega poprawnie, niestety nie udaje mi siê uruchomiæ pó¿niej programu skompilowanego. I'm a new user debian 2.1 and I have

IDE device a win-device?

1999-11-28 Thread westk
I went shopping for a CD-ROM drive this weekend, and nearly all the drives I saw said they Support Windows (various versions) and OS/2). I always thought an IDE device was an IDE device was an IDE device, but this makes me wonder if these drives are some sort of software-dependent devvices like

Leafnode, fetchnews and cron jobs

1999-11-28 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all, I decided to set up leafnode for reading mail with slrn. I have everyhting set up okay, AFAIK. I guess leafnode runs from cron.daily, but I want to pull down new messages more frequently. I created the following file in cron.d: # /etc/cron.d/leafnode: crontab fragment for leafnode

Re: diald failing with no messages

1999-11-28 Thread fairfax
I have had similar problems with diald though not in the past few days. BTW your e-mail to the list (just this one) keeps crashing my XFMail for some odd reason. Very odd. It's not that much different from any other mail I've sent, i.e., same editor, same mail program, etc., so I can't

Re: diald failing with no messages

1999-11-28 Thread fairfax
But diald isn't working, and no log messages are being produced. If you type 'diald' at a prompt, does it segfault? If so, try making lines in /etc/services that look like: No segfault :( Steve Martin

Re: diald failing with no messages

1999-11-28 Thread Pollywog
On 28-Nov-1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had similar problems with diald though not in the past few days. BTW your e-mail to the list (just this one) keeps crashing my XFMail for some odd reason. Very odd. It's not that much different from any other mail I've sent, i.e., same

Re: apt sources.list

1999-11-28 Thread Shaul Karl
Hi all, is there a definitive list for apt's source.list file. Specifically I want the lines pertaining to potato but I can't seem to fine a list anywhere for any distribution. I assume sombody must maintain a list. Is there a way to find out what archives are available through apt?

National fonts under their own dir?

1999-11-28 Thread Shaul Karl
Is there a standard/policy or similar for the right place for national fonts? I believe this subject was decided and I wonder what are the reasons for not putting each national fonts under their own dir (which seems to me better)?

Re: Leafnode, fetchnews and cron jobs

1999-11-28 Thread Mark Wagnon
Nevermind, it's working now. Scratches head and shrugs... -- __ _ Mark Wagnon ( Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA) /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\

Re: ap-get source.list for kernel 2.2.13

1999-11-28 Thread Shaul Karl
What line should I add to my sources.list in order to be able to find and intelligently download and install all sources and dependencies for kernel 2.2.13? I've done it through the search tool in the web site, but I suspect that I have already some of the recommended dependencies. I am

RAID trouble with SMP kernels

1999-11-28 Thread Adam C Powell
Greetings, About two months ago, I built 2.2.12 with SMP and RAID 5 for my dual-Celeron (Abit BP6) system with four IDE drives. I booted, and it fsck'd the arrays just fine, and mounted all the non-RAID partitions, but when it went to mount the RAID partitions, it froze. I heard some reports

Boot Floppy

1999-11-28 Thread Todd Suess
Part of the install of a new kernel calls a utility to make a new boot floppy, does anyone know exactly what function is used for that, as I want to make a couple of spare boot disks, just in case, since I boot strictly from floppy and do not use lilo or any other boot manager. Thanks! Todd

Re: fetchmail, exim and pine

1999-11-28 Thread claw
On Sat, 27 Nov 99 20:39:41 GMT John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: b. I understand a .forward file (in my home directory) will enable me to sort incoming mail. Can I create it in a text editor (say pico or ee - my favourites) and are there any special rules and examples. You can create a

Re: Boot Floppy

1999-11-28 Thread John Carline
Todd Suess wrote: Part of the install of a new kernel calls a utility to make a new boot floppy, does anyone know exactly what function is used for that, as I want to make a couple of spare boot disks, just in case, since I boot strictly from floppy and do not use lilo or any other boot

Re: Good UK spell checker?

1999-11-28 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 03:54:45PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: Does anyone know of a spell-checker that only accepts U.K. (Canadian) English? I need to be able to have a spell checking tool for school that will reject words like color, favorite, etc, and only accept colour,

Re: Compiling Mesa for Voodoo2

1999-11-28 Thread Cyrus Patel
Thanks Jonathan, I got the file I was looking for - Glide2x_SDK-2.1-3.i386.rpm which is the development library. I couldn't find it at first cause all the 3dfx stuff on Daryll Strauss' has moved to the 3dfx website except the development library which is on his old page. Should've checked

Re: suggestions for inter-OS file sharing?

1999-11-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 01:25:51PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: Perhaps I was mistaken. It's been some time now since I've used NT at home. Maybe it was fat16/vfat. Either way, I recall not having it loaded on NTFS and booting the NTLoader from LILO. If I had a spare partition, I'd double

staroffice , potato , unrecoverable error

1999-11-28 Thread John Leget
Just wondering if anyone here is able to run sun's staroffice on the current potato. Its dead for me --splash screen --desktop appears -- unrecoverable error appears Installed using setup /net as root. Same problem when run as root or user, also tested on virgin potato install some error.

Re: staroffice , potato , unrecoverable error

1999-11-28 Thread Eric G . Miller
It's been working here fine for quite some time. But I almost never use it. BTW, anyone got it to work with Java? I was wondering if I could use it to interface with databases that provide JDBC connectivity. -- ++ | Eric G. Miller

Re: staroffice , potato , unrecoverable error

1999-11-28 Thread aphro
This is a longshot, but what kernel are you running? I saw in the linux-kernel mailing list a bug in staroffice that deals with the latest kernels See: http://kt.linuxcare.com/kt19991122_44.html#5 [from the site] It was pointed out that the latest stable kernels break StarOffice (or rather the

HELP, my installation is broken!!

1999-11-28 Thread Svante Signell
In an attempt to upgrade from slink to potato the installation got broken. The following I need help with. 1. Networking using eth0 and another computer as gateway is no longer functional. How do I reconfigure networking?? I have the 2.1 CD and downloaded protato files available. 2. The

Re: staroffice , potato , unrecoverable error

1999-11-28 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi! I installed Star Office 5.1 in the /opt directory as root with the setup option /net. Then I ran setup as normal user from the /opt/staroffice-dir directory and the setup program installed basic files in my home directory. That's all, no problems under potato with 2.2.11. Did you install

Annoying anacron (or cron?) jobs after turning on the debian box

1999-11-28 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi all, I saw a lot of complaints on this list, concerning the behaviour of debian box shortly after turning it on. If the box is running continuously, all the serious housekeeping tasks are performed unnoticeably (because before 7am each normal computer user sleeps tidy :-) ), but if someone uses

Font in GNOME

1999-11-28 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi! I'm running potato with GNOME and gmc with some icons on the desktop. The font of this icons is very bad to read... Can anybody help me? Thanks. Bye, Sven

Leafnode/slrn - I need to run texpire before I can see new messages

1999-11-28 Thread Phillip Deackes
I have been having a few problems with slrnpull and my ISP, ao have installed leafnode. I have used leafnode before so am aware of how to use it. Everything works fine except that I cannot see new messages in slrn until texpire has been run. An example. My machine logs on to the Internet

Re: your mail

1999-11-28 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 01:52:32AM +, Rafał Szulim wrote: Dopiero niedawno zainstalowałem debiana 2.1 na moim PC i nie bardzo wiem jak dokładnie korzystać w kompilatora gcc. Wedle tego co się oriętuję to kompilacja programu przebiega poprawnie, niestety nie udaje mi się uruchomić

test - ignore

1999-11-28 Thread Nate Duehr
thanks.

NIC problem

1999-11-28 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi all, i've a little trouble with my 2 nic on my inet gateway. after ifconfiguring it i receive continously some errors like: eth1: Tx timed out, excess collisions, TSR=0x9c, ISR=0x8, t=1000 the error is always the same except for t= that is variable. The network attached to eth1 is

Windows moving active partition mark

1999-11-28 Thread Micha Feigin
I am tring to run linux and windows 98 together on the same drive using lilo. I installed lilo on a partition containing the kernel. I then set the active partition mark to that partition. As long as windows isn't started then this setup works greate (the lilo boot prompt comes up and I can chose

apt-get removing unnecessary packages?

1999-11-28 Thread Jon Hughes
This morning I'm attempting to install the licq package. done this before so it's no problem. This time it said i had to get the licq-plugin package, so mno problem there, but when i attempt to grab that, it gives me the following message: Note, installing licq-plugin-qt2 instead of

Re: National fonts under their own dir?

1999-11-28 Thread Changwoo Ryu
Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a standard/policy or similar for the right place for national fonts? I believe this subject was decided and I wonder what are the reasons for not putting each national fonts under their own dir (which seems to me better)? Do you mean the national

Re: Font in GNOME

1999-11-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Sven Gaerner wrote: Hi! I'm running potato with GNOME and gmc with some icons on the desktop. The font of this icons is very bad to read... Can anybody help me? Is it that it's too small, or the letters are misshapen? I had some really ugly letters in the window title bars of

Using apache with suexec?

1999-11-28 Thread Debian Mail
Hi there I see that suexec comes with apache-common. I wanted to use it with apache-ssl, so I changed mode of suexec to 4711 and stoped/started apache-ssl. But suexec does not seem to be recognized. Do I have to reompile apache (Then why does suexec come with apache-common)? Is only apache and

Re: HELP, my installation is broken!!

1999-11-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Svante Signell wrote: In an attempt to upgrade from slink to potato the installation got broken. The following I need help with. 1. Networking using eth0 and another computer as gateway is no longer functional. How do I reconfigure networking?? I'm not sure, that should be working.

Re: Boot disk for kernel-image-2.2.13 not working

1999-11-28 Thread Graham Williams
I've also just started moving to Potato and was trying the 2.2.12 (kernel-image-2.2.12_2.2.12-4.deb) and 2.2.13 (kernel-image-2.2.13_2.2.13-1.deb) kernels, creating a boot floppy, and getting exactly the same problem, with the same message over and over again: 0400 AX: 0212 BX:

Stubborn Printer

1999-11-28 Thread Todd Suess
Greetings all, I just got a new printer, a Canon BJC1000 which I got for free, so I can't complain much. It works fine under windows, and I seemed to get it all installed correctly under potato, but it refuses to print. My printcap, etc seems to be all set correctly, the kernel identifies the

Re: Stubborn Printer

1999-11-28 Thread Mike Werner
Todd Suess wrote: Greetings all, I just got a new printer, a Canon BJC1000 which I got for free, rest snipped This printer does not do plain text. According to http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/show_printer.cgi?recnum=139017 it works using the BJC600 or BJC4000 Ghostscript driver. --

Re: NIC problem [SOLVED SORRY]

1999-11-28 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: Hi all, i've a little trouble with my 2 nic on my inet gateway. after ifconfiguring it i receive continously some errors like: bla bla ps the nic is a isa non PnP ne2000 compliant on io=0x300 tryed on different free irq. sorry i've found the problem in

pppd died unexpectedly. Where to look?

1999-11-28 Thread Hans
System: Acer Travelmate 512T running Slink. Generic PCMCIA modem. Goal: setting up ppp connections to two different ISPs. Done: configured pppconfig, kppp, resolv.conf (for DNS) The problem: pon/poff dials in, but refused to connect. kppp the same, and the log from pppd is as follows for both

Re: staroffice , potato , unrecoverable error

1999-11-28 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999 07:29:37 + John Leget wrote: Installed using setup /net as root. RTFM of staroffice! If you install staroffice using setup /net then you MUST login as normal user and install using setup it from the dir you installed it as root to a subdir of your home dir . The setup

Proposal: Source file package format

1999-11-28 Thread Svante Signell
Greetings, What do you think of the following proposal: I order to simplify for package authors/maintainers and to reduce duplication, distribute the source file packages in .tar.gz (or .tar.bz2) format. This avoids the need to provide both .tar.gz, .src.rpm and debian source files. Included in

Re: Proposal: Source file package format

1999-11-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
Svante Signell wrote: What do you think of the following proposal: I order to simplify for package authors/maintainers and to reduce duplication, distribute the source file packages in .tar.gz (or .tar.bz2) format. This avoids the need to provide both .tar.gz, .src.rpm and debian

Re: GNULinux [Comdex]

1999-11-28 Thread John Gay
I didn't see a reply to this, so I thought I'd through in my 1.575128 Euro's worth. James; Installing Linux, Debian or otherwise can be a very daunting experience for someone from the Windows world. I know, I'm still climbing the learning curve, but I've made some progress and would like

Re: samba for a kids network-server

1999-11-28 Thread Patrick Kirk
Doesn't binding the interface to a private IP range protect against just this? Please do tell me if I've got this wrong... Patrick

Re: Netscape configuration; Fortify

1999-11-28 Thread Matthias Hertel
Hi! Eric G . Miller egm2@jps.net writes: On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 09:50:02PM +0100, Matthias Hertel wrote: Hi, I can't get Fortify (fortify 1.4.5-1, fortify-linux-x86 1.4.5-1) to patch my Netscape Navigator (navigator-smotif-47 4.7-14). Is it possible that this particular Navigator

Re: Proposal: Source file package format

1999-11-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Svante Signell wrote: Greetings, What do you think of the following proposal: In order to simplify for package authors/maintainers and to reduce duplication, distribute the source file packages in .tar.gz (or .tar.bz2) format. This avoids the need to provide both .tar.gz, .src.rpm and

kernel config

1999-11-28 Thread zdrysdal
Hi, i have a few questions : is there any way to find out the configuration settings of an active kernel other than using the .config file.? Does the kernel for Debian have to be Debian specific or are Linux kernels used generically? ie. kernel used for Debian can be used for RedHat. is kernel

Re: Stubborn Printer

1999-11-28 Thread Todd Suess
Ok, so that means I can only print to that printer using Ghostscript? More or less making it kinda useless as a general printer, right? Regards, Todd At 02:20 PM 11/28/1999 -0500, Mike Werner wrote: Todd Suess wrote: Greetings all, I just got a new printer, a Canon BJC1000 which I got

Re: kernel config

1999-11-28 Thread Ben Lutgens
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 10:25:30AM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i have a few questions : is there any way to find out the configuration settings of an active kernel other than using the .config file.? Do a make xconfig (Or whatever) and read the settings. they will be the same as that

Re: Stubborn Printer

1999-11-28 Thread carlf
Ok, so that means I can only print to that printer using Ghostscript? More or less making it kinda useless as a general printer, right? Why useless? If your /etc/printcap is set up right, magicfilter (or whatever you use) will translate plain ASCII to Esc/P and print it just fine. -- Carl

Re: Stubborn Printer

1999-11-28 Thread Todd Suess
I use Magicfilter, I will try setting it up for the BJC600 driver and see if it will work that way. Thanks for the help! Todd At 05:41 PM 11/28/1999 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so that means I can only print to that printer using Ghostscript? More or less making it kinda useless

G400 high-res problem

1999-11-28 Thread Greg Schulein
Hi, I'm running a Matrox G400 with a Sony G500 display, on a slink system that's been upgraded (via apt) to XFree86 3.3.4. The problem I'm getting is dark bands that flicker on the screen whenever the on-screen image is changing. The scanlines under the dark bands also seem to be displaced a

IPMASQ and UDP Packets

1999-11-28 Thread Peter Ludwig
I'm trying to figure out how to set the IP Masquerading rules to allow UDP packets to and from my local network. Basically, I'm trying to get a battle.net connection going from my Win98 box running, and I don't want to hook the modem up to the windows box (for some strange reason is it? my modem

Re: samba for a kids network-server

1999-11-28 Thread aphro
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote: patric Doesn't binding the interface to a private IP range protect against just patric this? Please do tell me if I've got this wrong... provided you have the option bind interfaces only = yes if you dont have that set along with the interfaces option

Re: kernel config

1999-11-28 Thread aphro
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: zdrysd is there any way to find out the configuration settings of an active kernel zdrysd other than using the .config file.? no easy way, i read discussion on ideas that would store a copy of the config in /proc but i dont think it ever got out the

Re: kernel config

1999-11-28 Thread aphro
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Ben Lutgens wrote: blutge Do a make xconfig (Or whatever) and read the settings. they will be the same blutge as that of the current kernel. that is, assuming you have not rm -rf /usr/src/linux and uncompressed a new kernel :/ nate

Re: G400 high-res problem

1999-11-28 Thread aphro
I'm not a matrox user myself(yet) but i do see this: http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.4/MGA4.html#5 On some Millennium II cards the driver shows severe distortions with 24bpp in modes above about 1024x768. We hope to have automated the detection and fix of this problem. If it still occurs, putting

AcceleratedX 5 on slink

1999-11-28 Thread aphro
ANyone have any success stories about running AcceleratedX 5 on top of slink? I talked to one guy and he said he had to update a ton of packages to make it run. any info would be appreciated! (no im not looking to move to potato :) ) nate [mailto:[EMAIL

liloconfig

1999-11-28 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I think Debian should copy Slackware's liloconfig to the distro; it's simply more useful than Debian's. Oki

Re: National fonts under their own dir?

1999-11-28 Thread Shaul Karl
Where can I find the X font policy? On Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:32:03 +0900 (http://www.debia.org/Lists-Archives/debian-x -9910/msg0.html) Changwoo Ryu [EMAIL PROTECTED] says the X font not-yet policy. Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a standard/policy or similar for the right

smail routing

1999-11-28 Thread Steve George
Hi, I am using smail to receive mail to my machine which acts as the gateway for my LAN. I have a new domain and would like to send the mail for this domain through my gateway to a machine on the LAN. Problem is that smail seems to be processing the mail fine but then sends it back out to

Re: AcceleratedX 5 on slink

1999-11-28 Thread Aaron Solochek
I have gotten acceleratedX 5 to work on slink with no issues. Any only a few issues on potato. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] aphro wrote: ANyone have any success stories about running AcceleratedX 5 on top of slink? I talked to one guy and he said he had to update a ton of packages to

Re: G400 high-res problem

1999-11-28 Thread Greg Schulein
I noticed this warning also. The mga_24bpp_fix option didn't help my problem, though. Thanks, Greg aphro wrote: I'm not a matrox user myself(yet) but i do see this: http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.4/MGA4.html#5 On some Millennium II cards the driver shows severe distortions with 24bpp

floppies' .bin

1999-11-28 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I'm wondering whether Debian could change the format of the distributed .bin files in the installation floppies. Currently, it seems that the .bin files are custom made and the program for creating them is not openly available. I'm thinking that if the installation files are put in the