Re: informing a user community

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 16 May 1998, G. Kaplan wrote: Uhm, IRC? irc.debian.org #debian It seems to me , new user, that the use of chat rooms would be a means to more rapidly distributing the knowledge one need to be successful in using Linux in general and Debian in

Re: Debian...

On Sat, 16 May 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: You need to install the debian pacakges of xbase, xfntbase, xfnt75, and a xserver, from the debian ftp site ftp.debian.org you need to match the xserver, with your card type, for instance, the xserver-s3 is for the s3 based video cards, and the

Re: Supressing duplicate email

On Thu, 7 May 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote: On Thu, 7 May 1998, Mike Schmitz wrote: : Does anyone have a procmail recipe to supress duplicate email? (Useful when : subscribed to more than one Debian list). It's widely spread on the Internet: ## ELIMINATES DUPLICATE MESSAGES WITH

Re: freshmeat repository

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Stuart Krivis wrote: On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Kevin Traas wrote: While I'm still running Debian (for years - and on dozens of machines), I've long considered switching to RedHat for the simple reason that RPM's seem to be more readily

Re: A funny little mistake

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Thomas J. Malloy wrote: I was moving a file and intended to type mv thefile.tar.gz ~/so that it would be moved to my home directory, but by mistake I typed mv thefile.tar.gz /~ . Now I have a 800k file named ~ on

Modem Question.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I am looking for information that will allow me to see the modem conection speed between my modem and the ISP, I have set up pppd to report the conection speed, but when it reports the speed, its the speed between the modem, and my computer... I was told I

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: I was told that XFSTT had a new maintainer when I asked to adopt it... so I guess we are both to late. MUCH SNIPED -K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Petra Kevin J Poorman wrote: On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: I was told that XFSTT had a new maintainer when I asked to adopt it... so I guess we are both to late

Copyright Question.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I want to package Blender. It will have to go into Non-free. or maybe contrib... What I want to know is yalls thoughts on weather or not we can even distribute this software. Heres the pertinant part of the licence. Permission to use, copy, and

Re: ppp Questions.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 08:23:36PM -0500, Petra Kevin J Poorman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I installed pppconfig, configured my ppp setup for my ISP and got pon to work, VS, my old

Re: Question.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: This is what's known as a 'port scan'. Someone wants to see what network services are available on your box. This would likely be a first step for a would-be intruder. You should probably alert someone at

ppp Questions.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I installed pppconfig, configured my ppp setup for my ISP and got pon to work, VS, my old one line script that was broken by the ppp. Now when i dial my isp I find these messages in my syslog: Apr 13 19:22:30 petra pppd[11431]: local IP address

Question.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I was trying to download a new ppp package from one of the debian mirrors... speifficly ftp.fuller.edu, and in my syslog I found this. Apr 12 20:16:18 petra tcplogd: port 2417 connection attempt from deborah.fuller.edu Apr 12 20:16:23 petra tcplogd: port 2418

Re: (off-topic) Blender? [Was: cheap graphics station]

On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Frank Barknecht wrote: Shaleh hat gesagt: // Shaleh wrote: The p90 is a good start. The dual is over kill unless he is doing extremely intense modeling (which intel was never truly the best at anyway). GIMP, Midnight Creator, and the soon to be released Blender

Re: GIMP How is it?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, ' ALLAN W. BART wrote: Hi, I saw the linux journals write-up on gimp, now i would like to ask the question, how does it stack up against commercial or established shareware products? Gimp can do anything. It stacks up to photoshop

Help with a Mail Question.

Hi, I have installed the latest fetchmail/smail/procmail from Hamm and I use Pine as my mail reader/composer... When I start pine as a normal user I get a little message at the bottom of the screen telling me that it couldn't open the Mailbox normaly and that it is now READONLY so that I can't

Smail Question.

Hi, I have the latest Smail packages installed from hamm and just recently runq has stoped working ... I have know Idea why... has anyone else seen this? has anyone have any idea how to fix it? ... I saw a post earlier on this list about a bug in Smail and inetd and they said to comment out the

Pine, and Rxvt.

Hi, Got 2 questions ... When I start a Rxvt in my .xinitrc file like this: rxvt -fg grey -bg black it will come up fine but it will not run pico or clear the screen 'clear'. when I try and run pico I get the following error: Terminals database in inaccessable and typeing clear brings the responce

Re: Pine, and Rxvt.

On Sun, 4 Jan 1998 10:11:37 -0500 (EST) Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Kevin J Poorman wrote: Got 2 questions ... When I start a Rxvt in my .xinitrc file like this: rxvt -fg grey -bg black it will come up fine but it will not run pico or clear the screen

Re: Miscellaneous and security

On Sat, 03 Jan 1998 22:31:29 +0100 Mario Fabiano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am a new Debian user. I actually have been using Linux for a while. I have some questions. Is there some way to unpack a Debian package in a place different than the target directories, e.g. /tmp? The aim is just to

Re: debian 1.3 on thinkpad 760xl

Have you tried useing the tecra boot disks ... you might try these boot disk ... try installing from there as it will add that kernel to the hard drive ... I think that the tecra boot disks are made for the Laptops that can't handle BzImages I think they can be found in the /disks directory

Pros and Cons of various Mail packages.

Hi, I was wondering if you all could tell me the pros and cons of some Mail Packages: I was wondering about: Fetchmail: I want to use this to just grab my mail and deliver it to me. (can it do sorting of mail?) Sendmail: I just wonder which is beter sendmail or smail SMail: same as

More on Mail programs.

Hi, first: Thanks for all the help you all have given me. Second ... I want to have my mail sorted into differant folders ... IE all mail from this list is placed into a folder. I get the feeling that Fetchmail can't do this ... Do I need to use BOTH fetchmail and procmail or just Procmail

Help with Mail Questions...

Hi, I would Like to set up My computer to be able to send and recive mail (with a twist)... I would like to be able to upload and download mail only once a day ... (around 2 in the morning) so my mail would proably have to be up/downloaded to a local mail spool ? .. Is this Even Possible? ... I

Intrasystem mail and Assosiations..

Hi, Is there a How-to on how to set up a mail system for intra system use only? I want to be able to send myself reminders and soforth ... I also want to do some experimenting with allowing my system to send me mail about system events...? I was also wondering if there was a way to link a data

a hypothetical, some questions and merry christmas...

Hi, I have a hypothetical situation ... and it's corrlaly questions... If I wanted to connect 2 debian machines together with ethernet cards ... How would I set it up so that the 2 computers can share files and printers... What if one of the machines was a windows machine...? What if they

Another Darn Upgrade problem/question.

Hi, I have fairly easily upgraded to hamm However I have had some uh ... Kinks. Heres the latest ... I upgrades the ncurses packages to : ncurses3.0 ncurses3.4 which seem to live together nicely from a debian perspective however when I got the new Kernel source from ftp.kernel.org and untar'd

Xlock

Hi, I just installed the new version of Xlock on my computer ... And now when I type xlock -mode flag it thinks for a second (or two it's only a lowly 486) and then spits out the message Unable to determine hostbyname What does this mean ... how do I fix it TIA -Kevin, kc5vxy [EMAIL

Help I broke my X instalation.

AHHH I very very carefully followed the instructions in the lic5-lic6-Mini-HOWTO.txt and upgraded to libc6 today Great I thought that the Packagename and the packagenameg files could coexist ... apearntly not ... the xlib6g replaced my xlib6 package rendering my x instalation

ICQ for Java [kinda off topic]

Hi, I was wondering if any one here is useing ICQ that was released for Java ... I'm having some problems setting it up... and would like some help configureing it However it should probably be off list Also has anyone thought of writing a deb package installer script..? TIA -Kevin,

Pager utility or script?

Hi, I am looking for a way to allow my computer to dial a pager and send the number ... I was wondering if anyone had a way to do this via a shell script or maybe there is a pager program ?... Debian Package? -Kevin, kc5vxy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Col, 3:23 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

PAS CD-ROM

Hi, I was wondering if anyone else had a Pro Audio Spectrum (16) working with there Debian box and more importantly if they have gotten the cd-rom to work with it off the cd-rom port on the card I have gotten the sound to work but not the cdrom ... what I need to figiure out is the device

Question about sane

Hi, I have a general question about linux and a debian specific one ... I grabed sane-0.66 and tried to compile xscanimage... it didn't work ... so I was wondering if there was a binary debian package of sane ...? where would I get it ... (I didn't see it on ftp.debian.org or ftp.wgs.com) my

Gnome deb package.

Hi, Where can I find the gnome debian package that Bruce talked about? ... Thanks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

PAS16 and cdrom....

Hi, although this has nothing to do with Debian in paticular ... I hope that I can get some help with the Linux end of this problem I got a Pro Audio Spectrum 16 and the cdrom that comes with it ... I put it in and compiled the kernel to use it ... However ... the sound output is very very

Question about scsi card.

Hi, I got a umax scaner ... came with a scsi card that looks to be a dtc3181a does any one know if this card will work? ... and how to get it to work ... I saw in the /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/ a dtc3x80 driver ... will this work? ... Thanks -Kevin, kc5vxy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Col, 3:23

Re: K Desktop Environment

On Wed, 10 Sep 1997 14:06:35 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello everyone... I was just looking at KDE's website (http://www.kde.org), and was very impressed with some of the things I saw. I know it is still in alpha, but does anyone have experiance with how stable it is on Debian? I also

StarOffice and Printing.

Hi, I installed magicfilter... went to printer setup and saw that I have three options available. A HP pcl printer driver NULL A HP Postscript printer driver When I try either the first or last ones staroffice quits saying that It can't open Xprinter please make sure you have XPPATH is set.

Re: Problem with module after recompile

On 31 Aug 1997 23:44:12 +1200 Carey Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael Legart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] just one thing ... I have to disable use of external cache, or else it wount compile without errors... that really makes compiling slow ! If you ask me, that is... isn't 65

Wierd Printing problem

Hi, I asked a question while back about printing from staroffice with my archaic 9pin epson lx80. I was told to install apsfilter. so I did ... then I tryed printing a ps file from the command line like this lpr hum.ps at that point I recived page after page of this error message printed on

Debian developer How to....

Hi, I was just thinking that I would like to be more involed in debian and as I am just learning C++ I thought I would ask this list (specificly Bruce) how to become a debian package maintainer ... as there are some programs that I would like to see .deb's made of . Thanks... -Kevin, kc5vxy

Magic filter setup....

Hi, I as per a responce to my last question I installed magicfilter to allow StarOffice to print on my arcayic(SP) Epson Lx-80 ... I also installed and setup lprng since the documention refered to it often... Now my question arises in that when I try to print something on the command line

Star Office, Spell Check, and an Epson LX-80

Hi, Few Questions: 1: Star Office has a gallery of clipart, has anyone ever gotten it to work ... 2: Has anyone gotten the Spell check functions of Star Writer to work? 3: I have an Epson LX-80 that was bought when we purchaced our first computer (Apple ][ E) So far As I know this is a bare

Rebuilding the Status file

Hi, while running X and Netscape my computer decide of its own acord to suddenly reboot. this caused me to get errors on reboot abought problems in the /etc/rc* directorys as well as a bad bash binary the core dumped (or something) when it was called on startup. so I opted to reinstall the base

An x question, and a Permisions question

Hi, I learned (hard way) not to use root as my normal user. but when I try to start X as ender(my user) I get this error xinit: unexpected error 2. How can I fix this? now for the permisions question in trying to fix the above X question I found that almost my entire /usr directory is in the

Iostream.h

I have just bought a book titled On to C++ a book that was recomened to me by a freind Now partway into the book when I'm trying some of the examples it calls for the statement #include iostream.h and the compile fails, does anyone know where I can get this H file? what packages is it in ...

X Problems

Hi I just got a new video card (S3 86p805) and I would like to use X, like I did with my old video card (clgd5428) but after changing some small sections of my XF86Config file when I start X the highest resoultion I can get is 640X480 and it is set off to the right very very badly and when I try

Star Office question

I saw it posted erialer but I acedently deleted it ... there is a bug? in the star office install script? something about lang=us_eg or some such could someone please repost this?? -Thanks -Kevin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Lilo question

I have a 240mb hard drive and a 850mb hard drive in my computer. I have my partions set up like this hda1 dos 210mb (soon to be open dos) hda2 boot for linux 10mb hda3 swap for linux 20mb hdc1 ext2 root partion for linux(850mb) now I was told by a friend to do my partions this way after I

Help transfering data....

Hi. I just got a new hard drive and wish to transfer my root fs to this new drive as it is larger now to the hard part ... I Tryed to do a cp -a * /mnt (where the new hd was mounted) but it sat there cp'ing files for an hour and never got past the proc directory did I do something

Kernel Question

Hi. questions, questions How will I know if my kernel is to big for a zImage? Reason for asking I can't get my kernel to compile at all and when I try to compile useing make zImage I get the following message, about 3 minutes into compile.: *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_ Start Screen Dump

kernel compile error

Hi. I just upgraded to Debian 1.3 (which went with out a hitch) but now I want to compile my kernel so I have Sound Suport and other things I went and grabed the source and tryed to compile it ... and this is what I got Begin Screen Dump. gcc -D__KERNEL__

fvwm-audio

Hi. I was wondering what the fvwm-audio module does... I have searched my hard drive for documentation on this but I don't seem to have any... I would like to set up my machine to bind sounds with events like window minimise and maximise thanks --kevin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

kfm

Hi I Have downloaded the latest version of kde and Love it. however I have 3 questions. 1: when I run kfm the root windows color changes. This also hapens when i open folders ... etc . I have changed my root windows color with kdisplay -setup so this may have something to do with it but I have

Bo.

Hi I have had debian linux running for about 9 months (So I still a newbie) in this time I have learned alot about system admin and system keepup. also in this time I have made some royal srewups. so I have made the desion to wipe clean my hard disk and start anew with a 1.3 system. I was

wtmp and utmp

Hi what do the files wtmp and utmp do ? Thanks ... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

A few questions

hello As a somewhat unix/Linux newbie I have a few questions for this list: they are in no spesific order: 1: I have a text file that in of itself is a list of files. I would like to take that list and grep though them to find a string. I think this can be done with a shell script (Bash) but I

cua /ttys

hi Ok I have heard from one source that the cua* devices are being kept up... and from this list that the cua* devices are not being kept up... and that we should use the ttyS* devices ... and comments ... -kevin

Re: KDE/KDM

On Thu, 10 Apr 1997 07:56:51 +0200 (MDT) Philipp JW Grau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Kevin J Poorman wrote: hello Does anyone have kde/kdm working on there computer ... I downloaded the red hat package and tryed to install it but it errored out ... if any one has kde

KDE/KDM

Snip for the sake of bandwith I must appolagise for the typing mistake it should be I can't get kdm to work when I type kdm I can's get kdm to work when I type kde nothing happens ... no prosess are spawned and no errors are given ... I also can not get xdm to work ... same deal as

KDE/KDM

hello Does anyone have kde/kdm working on there computer ... I downloaded the red hat package and tryed to install it but it errored out ... if any one has kde working I would appreciate info on how you got it working... -kevin

motif and X

Hi first the motif questions 1: where can I get the motif librarys ? 2: How much do they cost ? secondly the X questions when I type xdm absolutly nothing happens I just get a command prompt back and no processes are spawned... any thoughts ? when I look though /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95-2/ I

Re: motif and X

Kevin Poorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR my web page at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/2782 icthus...this is a fish Memory Fault Where Am I ? On Mon, 07 Apr 1997 21:14:24 -0400 (EDT) Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 07-Apr-97 Kevin J Poorman

Motif

Hello Question where can I get the motif librarys and How much are they ... Kevin Poorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR my web page at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/2782 icthus...this is a fish Memory Fault Where Am I ?

Dpkg gone haywire

Ok I think I have figured out what happened to my dpkg... I lost the file dir or dir.lock that is the database in /usr/info. does anyone know how I can force the creation/recreation of this file? Does any one know the format of this file?? thank for everything Kevin Poorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR

Dpkg gone haywire?

Hello I am new to this list and I am joining to hopefully recive help with a realy strange error that I am getting from dpkg. so without further wait here are the error messages This first error is from trying to configure all package's that where pending. But as a side note gimp-smotif gave me