Alternatives to NIS?

1997-12-16 Thread John Goerzen
secure solution than NIS. Regards, John Goerzen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: best Linux video card

1997-12-24 Thread John Goerzen
- _`\;_ http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ PGP key available --- (_)/ (_)Lo importante es el concepto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- John Goerzen | Developing for Debian

Re: [Q] 56K US Robotics?

1998-01-25 Thread John Goerzen
. And may be I am connecting at 56K -- but how do I verify it for sure (my modem is US Robatics external). Thanks in advance, Vladislav -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- John

Re: Debian max file size is 1GB instead of 2GB?

1998-01-27 Thread John Goerzen
:46 test Kernel 2.0.33, libc6. This is well over a gig. John -- John Goerzen | Developing for Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| Debian GNU/Linux is a free replacement for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DOS/Windows -- check it out at www.debian.org

Re: MWave Modem

1998-01-27 Thread John Goerzen
without lots of legal/economic strings. -- Stephen --- Normality is a statistical illusion. -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- John Goerzen | Developing for Debian GNU

Re: Debian max file size is 1GB instead of 2GB?

1998-01-27 Thread John Goerzen
). They might be able to help. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- John Goerzen | Developing for Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| Debian GNU/Linux is a free

Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load

1998-02-07 Thread John Goerzen
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Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load

1998-02-08 Thread John Goerzen
unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- John Goerzen | Developing for Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| Debian GNU/Linux is a free replacement for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DOS/Windows -- check it out at www.debian.org

Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive

1997-10-11 Thread John Goerzen
] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fixing Unix is easier than living with NT. --Larry McVoy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org

Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive

1997-10-12 Thread John Goerzen
. Considering that they were all cheap IDE drives, originally installed in a poorly-ventilated case, it is not bad. John --Simon On 10 Oct 1997, John Goerzen wrote: I've had nothing but good luck with Seagate and Western Digital. Conner, I agree has horrible problems. Simon Karpen

Booting to SCSI

1997-10-15 Thread John Goerzen
instead of the IDE drive? Yes, I know I can make the LILO in the MBR of the IDE drive point to the Linux partition on the SCSI drive, and I have done this; but I would perfer a better solution. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| Debian

Re: A quickie on telnet

1997-10-15 Thread John Goerzen
(bleah)? --Mike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| Debian GNU/Linux is a free replacement

Re: CDR drive replacement.

1997-10-17 Thread John Goerzen
media. I have not experienced any problems with data loss on any media, as sometimes occurs with CDR drives. I have used both the genuine HP media and the cheap Pioneer media without difficulty. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| Debian GNU

CD recording question

1997-11-12 Thread John Goerzen
and better way to do it. Converting to wavs and back seems rather cumbersome. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks! John -- John Goerzen | Developing for Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| Debian GNU/Linux is a free replacement for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DOS

Re: CD recording question

1997-11-13 Thread John Goerzen
Unfortunately not. This being an audio CD and not a data one, that doesn't work :-( Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am looking for a good program to read audio from an audio CD and store it in a file suitable for later recording. I am aware

Re: fat32 in installation vfat module?

1997-11-19 Thread John Goerzen
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Re: fat32 in installation vfat module?

1997-11-23 Thread John Goerzen
. It does now come with PPP support. You just have to know how to configure it. (Which really isn't all that hard) -- John Goerzen | Developing for Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| Debian GNU/Linux is a free replacement for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DOS/Windows

Video capture boards and Linux

1997-11-29 Thread John Goerzen
Does Debian/Linux support any video capture boards? If so, what software is needed and what boards are supported? Thanks, John -- John Goerzen | Developing for Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| Debian GNU/Linux is a free replacement for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DOS

Re: cd writers linux

1998-06-13 Thread John Goerzen
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Re: e2defrag-problem

1998-06-14 Thread John Goerzen
The answer is yes, me. Fax: ++43-662-8684-23 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free

Re: Holy Water in my system? Daemons keep dying . . .

1998-06-16 Thread John Goerzen
Status PGP Key: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/deb/ Dijkstra probably hates me (Linus Torvalds, in kernel/sched.c) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- John Goerzen Linux

Re: Holy Water in my system? Daemons keep dying . . .

1998-06-17 Thread John Goerzen
OK, I don't mind that as long as the bug is left open (with severity downgraded, of course). John Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 15 Jun 1998, John Goerzen wrote: Or, just put a 2 second sleep between the kill and start in the /etc/init.d/lpd restart section. Why

Re: Bug reporting proceedure, was Re: Bug#24066: libc6: rsh segfaults as , a result of new libc 2.0.7r2

1998-07-15 Thread John Goerzen
fewer reports. I for one will not submit any (or very few at least) bug reports if this happens. This will end up hurting Debian seriously. -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org

Re: Bug reporting proceedure, was Re: Bug#24066: libc6: rsh segfaults as , a result of new libc 2.0.7r2

1998-07-15 Thread John Goerzen
-- or doing some quick hack to fix it. BTW, while we're on this topic, I am ASTOUNDED at the number of packages that display messages in postinst but don't prompt for Enter keypress -- the messages then scroll by. Even though policy requires a prompt. -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting

Re: Some thoughts for Debian.

1997-01-22 Thread John Goerzen
with the concept of the /etc directory, aren't you??? -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cygnus win32 cross-compiler

1997-02-26 Thread John Goerzen
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Re: Live filesystem on CDs

1997-02-26 Thread John Goerzen
. (Not necessarily directed at you, Mike.) Are *all* packages that are compressed with gzip compressed with gzip -9? Including all .orig.tar.gz files, .diff.gz, etc.? If not, this may be a way to save some space for now. John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

1997-02-28 Thread John Goerzen
or as a home machine that dials into an ISP. Does anyone want to offer suggestions, help code, or help test? This is what the existing system accomplishes, no? --- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Using SOCKS server

1997-03-05 Thread John Goerzen
Did you try passive mode? On Mar 4, Matt Lawrence wrote: Is there any way to run dselect via ftp through a SOCKS server? I have T1 access from work, but I'm behind a firewall. -- Matt -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming

Re: /etc/alternatives -- Why?

1997-03-05 Thread John Goerzen
the confusion of someone trying to learn the system. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: lprm says Permission denied (fwd)

1997-03-22 Thread John Goerzen
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Re: /etc/alternatives -- Why?

1997-03-01 Thread John Goerzen
What is the /etc/alternatives directory for. I mean, what's the philosophy behind it? Thanks Paul Serice It lets people have two programs with the same name on the system at once. Examples: nvi, vim, etc: install as vi xemacs, emacs: both install as emacs -- John Goerzen

Re: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32?

1997-03-01 Thread John Goerzen
Yes. And it also supports long filenames on those partitions. Hi, Having benefited greatly from this list before, I do not doubt for a moment that someone will know the answer to this: Does Linux read/write to the new Win95 Fat32 filesystem? thanks in advance. -alex -- John

Re: Live filesystem on CDs

1997-03-01 Thread John Goerzen
John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm, just an observation here. (Not necessarily directed at you, Mike.) Are *all* packages that are compressed with gzip compressed with gzip -9? Including all .orig.tar.gz files, .diff.gz, etc.? If not, this may be a way to save some space for now

Re: lprm says Permission denied (fwd)

1997-03-01 Thread John Goerzen
up lpr as well. I think I'll switch to lprng before spending any more time. Scott Carlos -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- John Goerzen | Running Debian

Re: lprm says Permission denied (fwd)

1997-03-02 Thread John Goerzen
John Goerzen writes: This is *not* an acceptable fix. Other packages, for isntance Samba, will **NOT** work with lprng. Why won't samba not work with it? Please file an appropriate bug against the samba package. Because Samba depends on the output formats of the lp* commands

Re: lprm says Permission denied (fwd)

1997-03-02 Thread John Goerzen
On Mar 2, Craig Sanders wrote: On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Scott Stanley wrote: On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, John Goerzen wrote: This is *not* an acceptable fix. Other packages, for isntance Samba, will **NOT** work with lprng. This is nice to know actually, it's completely untrue

Re: 56k baud modem (x2)

1997-03-03 Thread John Goerzen
I don't know why not. There is nothing different about the modem - computer interface, AFAIK. On Mar 2, Gregory Vence wrote: Is the 56kb USRupgrade compatible with linux? I tired of 14.4. :) Thanx -- Greg. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom

Re: lprm says Permission denied (fwd)

1997-03-03 Thread John Goerzen
tried the second thing, but lpq, lprm, and lpr all worked fine from the local box, and lpr worked from Win95. If somebody could print, I would think that they would also have permission to view the queue. On Mar 3, Craig Sanders wrote: On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, John Goerzen wrote: i've got

Re: cdwrite / hybrid cd's

1997-05-03 Thread John Goerzen
You might check into the cdrecord program. Also, there is a list at pixar.com (cdwrite or cdrecord list or some such) that may be of use. Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any way to make a hybrid CD on Linux? I guess cdwrite just writes an image file onto the CD, so the

Who's using Debian?

1997-05-15 Thread John Goerzen
I'll probably also make a mirror of it somewhere... -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Debian install on multiple machines

1997-05-28 Thread John Goerzen
Hello, What is the easiest way to install an identical set of packages on multiple machines? That is, at install time, I want it to select the same packages to install, rather than manually having to select packages on each machine. Thanks, John Goerzen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: xdm???

1997-06-01 Thread John Goerzen
appears. Anyone know how to get this to work? Did you check /var/log/xdm-errors? That is the first place to check in the event of trouble. Secondly, did you try to start xdm when you already had an X session running? If so, that is a mistake. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux

Re: making 16bpp the default in X

1997-06-02 Thread John Goerzen
or xinit, you can set up an alias. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Non-interactive modem hangup

1997-06-08 Thread John Goerzen
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: Non-interactive modem hangup

1997-06-08 Thread John Goerzen
Look for an option something like: * Drop carrier on DTR low * Disconnect on DTR low If I remember correctly, it is an ATDx command, but I'm not completely sure. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 7 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote: Just killing pppd will do it unless your modem isn't set up

HTML ToC generators?

1998-05-20 Thread John Goerzen
Hi, I have a large collection of webpages and I am looking for something to generate a Table of Contents (eg, site index). I don't need a search tool -- something that just spits out HTML will be fine. Any ideas where to find such a thing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Is there any program like ICQ ? Thanks ! ;)

1998-05-26 Thread John Goerzen
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Re: Is there any program like ICQ ? Thanks ! ;)

1998-05-27 Thread John Goerzen
Stuart Krivis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 26 May 1998, John Goerzen wrote: There are several Linux solutions that provide an extended subset of the ICQ functionality. You may want to take a look at ytalk and IRC. Or you could use ICQ for Java. I've used it with Solaris x86 and RedHat

Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-28 Thread John Goerzen
not at all a stretch to say that the 32-bit machines from the late 1990s or early 2000s will still be around in 2038. -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org

Re: **IMPORTANT** Slink sendmail and libdb2

1998-10-27 Thread John Goerzen
this ASAP! Sorry for the confusion, -- Rick Nelson -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org

Re: **IMPORTANT** Slink sendmail and libdb2

1998-10-28 Thread John Goerzen
Remco van de Meent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 08:35:35AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: : Would it be possible for the sendmailconfig to update these databases? : It wouldn't be that hard, I think. Also, how about updating the defailts : so that they are stored

Debian over NFS

1997-06-18 Thread John Goerzen
on the client since it would fail if it tries to write anything in /usr. * How do I remove packages? Again, if I remove from the server, there may still be files left in the client's /etc and /var directories. * What is the suggested method for going about this? Thanks, John Goerzen

Re: BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)

1997-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Will ATI 3D Rage chips work with XFree86?

1997-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
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Re: BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)

1997-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
on Bugtraq, I believe. And once Communicator for Linux is officially released, we won't have to worry about it any more. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Anyone has seen this before?

1997-06-21 Thread John Goerzen
have no cabling problems (long cable runs, etc). -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Netscape bug: Newbies using root

1997-06-21 Thread John Goerzen
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Re: Quotas AMD

1997-06-21 Thread John Goerzen
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Re: setting switching screen densities

1997-06-21 Thread John Goerzen
: Better: edit XF86Config and specify a default color depth. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: setting switching screen densities

1997-06-21 Thread John Goerzen
will have low enough refresh rates for the video card to cope with. The older xf86config program used to provide a lot more modes apparently. Has anyone noticed this before? Yes, although I had not identified the cause like you have. [CC to the X maintainer] -- John Goerzen | Running

Re: BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)

1997-06-21 Thread John Goerzen
Yes, that is true. This is precisely why this is not such a big deal for us, although it may be for people running Windows... Jim Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 19 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote: Let's not over-react, please. This bug *only* allows people to see files that the user

Re: BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)

1997-06-21 Thread John Goerzen
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And once Communicator for Linux is officially released, we won't have to worry about it any more. And exactly how is the release of Communitcator going to fix the systems running 3.01? There's this thing called an Upgrade, you know -- John

Re: Xlib3.3 server probs

1997-06-21 Thread John Goerzen
any user to run apps by executing: xhosts + Ick, ick, ouch! NEVER do that! The second solution is to add specific users to your .Xauthority file using the xauth program. See man pages for details. This solves the problem for me. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux

Re: modem hang up

1997-06-21 Thread John Goerzen
. Can somebody point out to me how to turn off this feature? Thanks for help in advance ! Anthony -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux

Re: X11 Problems

1997-06-21 Thread John Goerzen
(preferably without resorting to the rescue disk), and/or change my password? Is the problem that you can't login to X11 as root? Cheers Rich. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- John

Re: modem hang up

1997-06-21 Thread John Goerzen
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Re: X newreader

1997-08-31 Thread John Goerzen
I like GNUS from XEMACS. Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone know of a good X based news reader? Does not have to be a Debian package. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- John

Re: [Common Lisp] I'm working on the clisp package...

1997-08-31 Thread John Goerzen
How does this differ from gcl (GNU Common Lisp)? Thanks, John Goerzen Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The new version of clisp was released today from it's upstream source. I'm going to package it for debian, probably this weekend. If you use clisp (or are likely to use it), please

Re: Netscape ?

1997-09-01 Thread John Goerzen
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Re: integrate X-programms

1997-09-01 Thread John Goerzen
menus yet. I do know that it involves editing your .Xresources or .Xsession files, something like that anyways. No, you edit your window manager rc file -- .fvwm2rc for instance. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| Debian GNU/Linux

Re: UW SCSI Card

1997-09-03 Thread John Goerzen
was wondering if people had experience with those and/or if there is another suggestiong (Buslogic?) Thanks, Luis. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- John Goerzen | Running

Re: What owns a piece of postgresql...

1999-01-26 Thread John Goerzen
Two ways to find this: 1. grep or zgrep through Contents-i386, located in dists/unstable/ or dists/stable; 2. use dpkg -S libpq.so.1 John On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 06:21:47PM -0600, Chris Frost wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What package own

Re: What owns a piece of postgresql...

1999-01-26 Thread John Goerzen
Ahh, no ideas then. Try writing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to reach the maintainer; he may be able to help, or it may be a bug in the package. -- John On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 07:18:23PM -0600, Chris Frost wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, John Goerzen

Re: function keys

1999-01-29 Thread John Goerzen
I'm not so sure there's really a problem. As long as xterm is generating codes that match the xterm terminfo spec, and the console is generating codes that match the linux terminfo spec, what's the problem? On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 08:49:42PM -0600, dan wrote: Currently, the function keys in

Re: scsi tape

1999-01-31 Thread John Goerzen
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 11:23:26AM -0500, David B. Teague wrote: Hi Debian Users: The question is: can I use SCSI disk drives currently running with an Adaptec 2840 SCSI controller with Bus Logic controller? I'm not quite sure what you're asking here. There's not much point to having

Re: Goodbye, people!

1999-02-03 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 08:30:35PM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: Gee, that sounds familiar! ;-) Yes, Linux's learning curve is pretty steep, and you can't just overwhelm the system either (at least I can't!). You're taking the right tack -- you have to relax, plug away, keep trying,

Re: Slink CDs available

1999-02-03 Thread John Goerzen
Hi, Will you be making CD images of the other architectures to be carried in slink as well, so those can be tested? Thanks, John On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 02:59:11AM -0500, Johnie Ingram wrote: With the Bug count under 20 now, I figure it's time for some final testing of Slink. For CD

Re: [whine] Power down. vs System halted.

1999-02-03 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 02:26:44PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: I belive we now use the POWER_OFF mechanism by default as machines with APM bioses and ATX power supplies actualy do shut off. My Alpha, which has zero APM suport either in the BIOS or in the kernel, also displays that message.

Re: XFree86 is 3.3.3.

1999-02-16 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 09:23:34AM +1300, David Zanetti wrote: That is, until it dselect comes along an upgrades the X servers :( Several times already my 3.3.3 SVGA server has been nuked by dselect, and 3.3.2 doesn't support my TNT board :( This would imply that you're using 3.3.3 debs for

Re: XFree86 3.3.3.1 packaged.

1999-02-20 Thread John Goerzen
Is this built with the Sparc and Alpha patches, so those of us not on x86 can try it out too? Thanks, John Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 'lo, If you feel bored this WE or happen to have one of those gfx cards supported only in the most recents XFree86 releases, you may want to

Re: cdu31a

1999-02-22 Thread John Goerzen
Hello Andrea, The kernel sources list the following as possible addresses: { 0x340, 0 },/* Standard configuration Sony Interface */ { 0x1f88,0 },/* Fusion CD-16 */ { 0x230, 0 },/* SoundBlaster 16 card */ { 0x360, 0 },/* Secondary standard Sony

Re: Debian Kills Disks

1999-03-01 Thread John Goerzen
Jerry, It would be *very* helpful if you could include the exact error messages that you get, word-for-word, what you were doing when you received them, and how to reproduce. Otherwise, we really have no idea what to do to fix. However, you can wipe out the partition table and master boot

Re: help me to undertand GMT time!!!!

1999-03-11 Thread John Goerzen
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wrote: 12:00 noon, please. 12:00 pm is midnight... Pann McCuaig writes: I don't think so. 12:00pm is noon PM stands for post meridiem, which means after noon. Thus 12PM is 12 hours after noon, or midnight. No. By your logic, 12:01 PM is 12

Re: help me to undertand GMT time!!!!

1999-03-11 Thread John Goerzen
Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PM stands for post meridiem, which means after noon. Thus 12PM is 12 hours after noon, or midnight. No. By your logic, 12:01 PM is 12 hours and one minute after noon. 12:00 PM is noon, because the time switches from AM to PM at

Re: elm sending blank mails

1999-03-13 Thread John Goerzen
Max, I don't know if this is a problem with glibc2.1 or Exim -- neither of which I have the opportunity to test (my development platform is Alpha running sendmail). It is possible that your kernel version is causing trouble; being an unstable and development kernel could have its risks. Have

Re: elm sending blank mails

1999-03-14 Thread John Goerzen
Max Kamenetsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, I haven't tried downgrading yet, though I know that the problem is not with the kernel version. I get the same problem with kernel 2.2.3. I'd also be very surprised if this were an MTA problem because pine works fine. I haven't tried downgrading

Re: using Hauppauge WinTV under Debian

1999-04-01 Thread John Goerzen
Andrei Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: it's a TV/Radio tuner which works under all the winblows versions Just because it works with Windows doesnt guarantee it's work with Linux. It's a WinTV card. Basicly, logic suggests it's a Win-hardware, and therefor you can not use it with Linux.

Re: [Debian]: Deutsche Manpages

1999-04-21 Thread John Goerzen
Kurt, Entschuldigen Sie bitte meine Grammatik. Ich spreche nur ein bisschen Deutsch. Wenn Sie Debian 2.1 haben, koennen Sie dies tun: Zuerst installieren Sie die Pakete manpages-de und manpages-de-dev. Dann schreiben Sie: export LANG=de_DE Jetzt koennen Sie schreiben, zum Beispiel: man cat

Re: Web-based email for Debian

1999-01-02 Thread John Goerzen
There are quite a few. If you go to freshmeat.net and search for the words web mail, you'll find about a dozen. -- John On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 10:35:39AM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: I'm running a slink system w/Exim as my MTA. Does anyone know of a web-based e-mail system that would fit

Re: Xorg on dfsbuilt live CD

2007-09-11 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue September 11 2007 4:55:36 am Piotr Kopszak wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get Xwindows going on a live etch CD I prepare using dfsbuilt on recent etch. In my dfs.cfg I added the following packages: x-window-system-core xorg larswm The CD builds OK. It runs fine in text mode however

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-26 Thread John Goerzen
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:20:00PM +0100, Piotr Dziubinski wrote: I'm very irritated and disappointed with your policy! Why? I've used various Linux distributions for 8 years. I've been using Debian for the last 6 months, but today I changed my mind! After updating Firefox in Debian I

Re: X broken at 3.3.6-8 potato update!!! a work-around fix

2000-07-01 Thread John Goerzen
James D. Freels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The fix as recommended by several folks is to rm -rf /tmp/.X11-unix I trust this information is being passed on to the developers without a formal bug report. It would be far better to submit a bug report, actually. -- John

Re: freedomization task list [was: Re: Dangerous precedent being set - possible serious violation of the GPL]

1999-12-27 Thread John Goerzen
spouting these lies until you have actually tried it. up in the tree than execution: you can install without execution, but you can't execute without installing. -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade

Re: GNUCash 1.6.4

2001-11-05 Thread John Goerzen
Brown PS Craig, I installed the files you suggested. -- John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED]GPG: 0x8A1D9A1Fwww.complete.org

FW: Debian From Scratch 0.99.0

2006-04-21 Thread John Goerzen
I received a comment suggesting that I forward this message on to debian-user. So here goes. Please make sure to CC me on replies as I'm not on this list. Thanks, -- John - Forwarded message from John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 20 Apr

Kernel? Shadow?

1996-09-22 Thread John Goerzen
I am curious: Why hasn't the kernel source/image been updated since 2.0.6? Also, why is there not a shadow password package? Specifically, one that fixes problems with xdm and xlockmore? Thanks. -- John Goerzen | System administrator owner, The Communications Custom programming

Re: mime? nslookup?

1996-09-25 Thread John Goerzen
Are there mime and nslookup packages for debian? Yes. Debian has all sorts of packages :-) -- John Goerzen | System administrator owner, The Communications Custom programming| Centre and Complete Network (complete.org) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Free Unix shell access, 316-367-8490 w

Re: Disk Compression - Stacker - Drivespace, etc.

1996-09-26 Thread John Goerzen
there is a utility to allow Linux to read DoubleSpaced systems. Linux has a filesystem-independent on-the-fly compression for Linux called DouBle, that incidentally, I am writing the documentation for :-) Check it out at http://homepage.midusa.net/~jgoerzen/DouBle -- John Goerzen | System

Re: POPmail and procmail

1996-12-09 Thread John Goerzen
simulate it, though, by running: procmail -o spoolfile other options cat spoolfile | formail -s procmail rm spoolfile -- John Goerzen | System administrator owner, The Communications Custom programming| Centre and Complete Network (complete.org) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Free Unix shell

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