Re: Suggestion for change to debian package format

1999-03-29 Thread Maarten Boekhold
this :). Just some way to get a list of all packages that don't have any dependencies on them would be very useful already. Maarten -- Maarten Boekhold, [EMAIL PROTECTED] TIBCO Finance Technology Inc. The Atrium Strawinskylaan 3051 1077 ZX Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel: +31 20 3012158, fax: +31 20 3012358

Re: Can't get sound module installed

1999-03-26 Thread Maarten Boekhold
again after you added yourself to the audio group? You're shell (or xdm or whatever you loin with) won't pick up the new groups until you login again. Maarten -- Maarten Boekhold, [EMAIL PROTECTED] TIBCO Finance Technology Inc. The Atrium Strawinskylaan 3051 1077 ZX Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel

Re: apt-get update help

1999-03-10 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Here you tell apt to use the 'main' distribution, while you _mean_ to tell it you wantto use the main _section_ of the _stable_ distribution (I assume here you want to install packages from the stable distribution). Maarten -- Maarten Boekhold, [EMAIL

Re: Outgoing port 53 redirected to special port.

1999-03-09 Thread Maarten Boekhold
don't like the idea of another large program that takes up my memory. It's not that big, and you could even make it caching so your lookups will be a little faster. Maarten -- Maarten Boekhold, [EMAIL PROTECTED] TIBCO Finance Technology Inc. The Atrium Strawinskylaan 3051 1077 ZX Amsterdam

APT: packages held back

1999-03-08 Thread Maarten Boekhold
are no longer available. My previous version of apt (0.16-1 I think, pretty old), did have these docs in the package. Could this be considered as a bug? Maarten -- Maarten Boekhold, [EMAIL PROTECTED] TIBCO Finance Technology Inc. The Atrium Strawinskylaan 3051 1077 ZX Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel

Re: APT: packages held back

1999-03-08 Thread Maarten Boekhold
wonder how this happens, cos for sure I never did this myself, and I can't remember ever having had serious problems with dpkg etc. which might have automagically marked these packages as on hold. Maarten -- Maarten Boekhold, [EMAIL PROTECTED] TIBCO Finance Technology Inc. The Atrium

APT: packages held back

1999-03-05 Thread Maarten Boekhold
this be considered as a bug? Maarten -- Maarten Boekhold, [EMAIL PROTECTED] TIBCO Finance Technology Inc. The Atrium Strawinskylaan 3051 1077 ZX Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel: +31 20 3012158, fax: +31 20 3012358 http://www.tibco.com

Re: Beowulf cluster

1998-08-28 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Gregory Dickinson wrote: This might sound silly, but does anyone know of any documentation anywhere that tells one how to set up a Beowulf-type cluster for SMP. A beowulf cluster does no SMP (Although there are libraries which can 'emulate' SMP behaviour). It's better

Re: gtk

1998-08-28 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: Hi debianized... Someboady here knows how to make these new stuff of gtk themes work ?? What do you mean? are you referring to gnome, or what - what are you trying to do - gnome themes, E themes...? Matthew No, he's refering to GTK+ themes.

Re: gtk themes + pon

1998-08-27 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Well i have a tipical problem that coulnot find the answer. In my system, im able to conect to internet via root, but the users cannot. (currently to enable the conection to a user root must ejecute pon, but thats not the idea...)I explain: As a user, linux said (when i ejecute `pon')

Re: Netscape: Can't open display

1998-08-10 Thread Maarten Boekhold
I'm running X; however, I'm running it as root. When I try running Netscape in an xterm window, it tells me I can't run Netscape as root. So I try logging in as a normal user and I get the can't open display message. If I try netscape like you suggest above, I get a message like [1] 563.

XBanner trouble

1998-08-09 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Hi, I wrote about this to the xbanner maintainer a while back, but I either didn't get an answer, or it was a I don't know, don't remember: I'm having trouble with xbanner 1.31-13 after I upgraded the rest of my system to hamm. I already had libc6 by then, and a devel-environment for libc6,

Re: New Debian user's reaction to X

1998-08-03 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Radtke wrote: On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Ian Lynagh wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Randy Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Debian's X installation needed a *lot* of work. Which one? The text based one (xf86config) or the graphical one (XF86Setup)?

RE: Strange thing ...

1998-08-03 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Mario Filipe wrote: On 03-Aug-98 Ana Graca Silva wrote: Hello All I was trying to upgrade my installation of debian, using apt. When I do apt-get update it gives me the folowing output : Really! You shouldn't do that it's dangerous! Why? Maarten

Re: New Debian user's reaction to X

1998-08-03 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Of course, there are newer ones. But that time I was not able neither to ftp or post anything since I got an internal modem (miro connect 34, bullshit) emulating com3. This was quite a big challenge I didn't master yet, so BTW if anyone has info about how getting started an internal

Re: Filter for printer Canon bjc-4100..............

1998-07-29 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, phillip Neumann wrote: Hi I have a question about (my) printer. To print postscript i installed the magicfilter package and select the filter for canon bjc-600. It works fine. The only problem is that i have a canon 4100, and comparing with win95, that have the

Re: Enlightenment, Fnlib, and Imlib - get 'em while they're hot

1998-07-23 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Richard L. Alhama wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Damon Muller wrote: Hi, Ok, What I believe to be the final build of the Enlightenment trilogy is uploaded to www.livenet.net/~shaleh/software/enlightenment. If you have ANY probelms, please let me know.

Re: DVD support for linux

1998-07-23 Thread Maarten Boekhold
PCI supported, or AWE 64 ISA? Also is there really a big difference between 66Mhz bus and 100Mhz bus. I heard that it is just for the memory? Also AGP info on that? *just* for the memory? Do you know how much time a modern processor is waiting on data from main memory? This is called the

Re: CGI on apache Revisited (wierd problems)

1998-07-22 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wierd problems, at least from my standpoint. I was having problems getting my CGI to run on apache and to a certain point still am. When I goto the browser and type for instance http://www.gbasin.net/~kent/counter.cgi it counts as its

RE: 2 Xsessions?, 2 graphics cards?

1998-07-21 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Ted Harding wrote: On 20-Jul-98 Stuart Marshall wrote: Is there some way to run more than one X session on my debian PC? Ideally I would do something like run an 8-bit depth xdm session that logged me into a remote sun computer and a second X session that is

Re: Configuring GNOME v.20?

1998-07-20 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: I've installed the GNOME packages, but I missed the message during install that mentioned making a change to /etc/X11/window-managers. I now have no window manager running, and I can't for the life of me figure out what I'm supposed to do to get the

Re: Configuring GNOME v.20?

1998-07-20 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Ok, I've got a .xinitrc file that starts a window-manager et. al. However, X's startup sequence seems to be dysfunctional; it no longer reads /etc/X11/Xresources automatically. I have to include an xrdb line in .xinitrc to force it to read Xresources. I never used an .xinitrc file

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-17 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: Yes. use CTRL-\ Nope, that would kill the program... Maarten _ | TU Delft, The Netherlands, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems | |

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-17 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 12:13:44PM -0400, Brian White wrote: Yes. use CTRL-\ I've never heard of that. neither have II just tried it...it makes programs exit fast but I have yet to produce a core dump with it Actually,

Re: [What's the reason !?] ATAPI reset complete ......

1998-07-16 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Nuno Carvalho wrote: Michael Beattie wrote: Everytime I use dselect or make an intensive search on my CD-ROM (Philips 24x) I get the following message : ... hdb: irqtimeout: status=0xd0 hdb: ATAPI reset complete I don't know, but I sometimes get

Re: window manager cofiguration

1998-07-13 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Tom Malloy wrote: Some window managers require you to have a mouse in a window for it to be active. Others allow you to click the mouse in the window and it stays active even if you move the mouse away. This is probably adjustable in the configuration files for each

http mirror list?

1998-07-10 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Hi, I've searched on a lot of places, but I couldn't find any: is there a list of debian mirrors which are accessible through http? and which have frozen and unstable? (this is for use with apt, and I prefer a mirror somewhere in europe, but not france, they have very slow links...) Maarten

Re: Where are the Release Notes of Kernel?

1998-07-06 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Alex Kwan wrote: How do I know what is the change from the last version (e.g. 2.0.33) to the updated version (e.g. 2.0.34)?=20 I want to know the information like which drivers are added, which bugs are fixed, and which drivers are supported by the updated Kernel right

(Dutch:) dosemu and banking software

1998-06-20 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Hi, thought I'd ask here, is there anybody from Holland who knows if the banking software from the ABN/AMRO bank works with dosemu? I'd like to get that software, but I don't like having to reboot to winSomething for it :) (it is dos-software, but uses some graphics AFAIK, and ofcourse the

afterstep-1.0 package somewhere?

1998-04-17 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Hi, Does anybody still have an afterstep_1.0 package lying around? I accidentally installed 1.4, and I hate it. Completely new configuration, which I don't want to learn right now (other than that it looks very nice, though I already noticed some problems with the pager after less than an

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

1998-04-12 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Could you tell me, what sort of program Blender is and where to get it? Blender is a high quality 3d graphics program that alows you to model scenes and render them as well as creating animations. you can find out more about it at www.neogeo.no (IIRC) the linux version is'nt out yet

Re: gnome

1998-03-14 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Richard Sevenich wrote: I am looking for a window manager to go with long term. I recently installed kde and find it quite nice, but I'd like to look at other options also. I understand the reason why debian has given some support to gnome and would like to try it when

ddd doesn't do a thing

1998-02-09 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Hi, Some time ago I upgraded to ddd-2.1.1 with lesstifg-0.82-4, and ever since, ddd doesn't do a dd thing anymore. It starts up, and that's it. I can't even open a menu to open a file, or typw in the console window. Anybody knows how to fix this? I really start to miss my debugger

Re: Afterstep blues

1998-01-26 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On 26 Jan 1998, Sten Anderson wrote: Maarten Boekhold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Difference between the computers: I use xdm, he doesn't, When using xdm, the relevent file is ~/.xsession When using startx, the relevant file is ~/.xinitrc Not on my system it is startx uses

Afterstep blues

1998-01-23 Thread Maarten Boekhold
a clue? Did I miss some package? Relevant packages installed on both systems: xlib6_3.3.1-2.deb xlib6g_3.3.1-2.deb xpm4.7_3.4j-0.5.deb xpm4g_3.4j-0.5.deb afterstep_1.0-5.1.deb m4_1.4-6.deb Maarten _ | Maarten Boekhold

Clean hamm installation

1998-01-15 Thread Maarten Boekhold
disks? Or would a better approach be to install a minimal bo system and then upgrade? Maarten _ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL| | Computer Architecture and Digital

more on 'clean hamm install'

1998-01-15 Thread Maarten Boekhold
of packages (only those marked 'required'?). Maarten ps. aren't there somewhere experimental hamm install disks that I can 'test'? _ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL

-dev's and upgrade to libc6

1998-01-09 Thread Maarten Boekhold
_ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL| | Computer Architecture and Digital Technique section | | [EMAIL PROTECTED

hamm CD in area NL?

1998-01-09 Thread Maarten Boekhold
disks ain't fun either :) Maarten _ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL| | Computer Architecture and Digital Technique section | | [EMAIL

Re: The GIMP problems

1997-12-08 Thread Maarten Boekhold
experience (with a very old version of the GIMP), was that you can only draw lines etc. when you convert your image to RGB (or at least something 24bit I think). Maybe this is still true. Maarten _ | Maarten Boekhold

Re: How to use the Compose key?

1997-10-06 Thread Maarten Boekhold
. Tried to get this working some time ago but failed. Maarten _ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL| | Computer Architecture and Digital Technique section

Re: postgresql for debian

1997-10-03 Thread Maarten Boekhold
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where's dlfnc.h?

1997-10-03 Thread Maarten Boekhold
, and there it is missing. Also, I noticed that all section 3 manpages for libdl are missing from that version I'll try to use the dlfnc.h from 1.8.8-2, but I have a feeling this is not gonna work. Maarten _ | Maarten

Re: dos2unix, recode and dbview

1997-09-30 Thread Maarten Boekhold
up the header with the recode stage. You shouldn't use recode on the whole file but actually only on the field-contents. Maarten _ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL

Re: Possible flex-2.5.4 bug

1997-09-29 Thread Maarten Boekhold
); Maarten _ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL| | Computer Architecture and Digital Technique section | | [EMAIL PROTECTED

netscape4_4.0-5.deb install probs

1997-09-26 Thread Maarten Boekhold
/java/classes)? Maarten _ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL| | Computer Architecture and Digital Technique section | | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: netscape4_4.0-5.deb install probs

1997-09-26 Thread Maarten Boekhold
by the search-and-replaces that are in the version 3 postinst script. Maarten _ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL| | Computer Architecture and Digital Technique section

Re: Incomprehensible CGI error

1997-09-16 Thread Maarten Boekhold
a variable that you use only once. That causes output too with -w. Maarten _ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL| | Computer Architecture and Digital Technique section

IP aliasing

1997-09-10 Thread Maarten Boekhold
' on this? Maarten _ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL| | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Can't get talk to work

1997-09-06 Thread Maarten Boekhold
: Connection refused'. And I keep getting this last message, even if I put 'in.talkd: ALL' and 'talkd: ALL' in hosts.allow. This is with netstd 2.12-1 Anybody got a clue? Maarten _ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty

Re: Modem doesn't reset anymore

1997-08-13 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Daniel J. Mashao wrote: On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Maarten Boekhold wrote: Hi, I suddenly am forced to first start win95 and use dial-up networking there to reset my modem before I can use it from Linux. What kind of modem is it? Some modems especially Zoom needs d2

Modem doesn't reset anymore

1997-08-12 Thread Maarten Boekhold
haven't been able to find a way to do it by hand. Does anyone out there knows of any tool that can correctly reset things? Maarten _ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL

XF_S3V

1997-07-29 Thread Maarten Boekhold
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Re: Video card not located

1997-06-24 Thread Maarten Boekhold
video Matrox Millenium (4mb) monitor viewsonic PT810 Maarten _ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL| | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: kerneld and iBCS (was Re: ADSM/iBCS)

1997-05-27 Thread Maarten Boekhold
, Colin. Do you have a line in /etc/conf.modules at the beginning that says: alias binfmt-332 iBCS If not, try adding this by hand and see what happens. I think this ought to fix your problems. Maarten _ | Maarten

Re: How to trick debian into thinking a package is installed

1997-05-10 Thread Maarten Boekhold
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Re: postgres95 / libbsd.so

1997-05-08 Thread Maarten Boekhold
because somewhere in the Makefile.global (I think) -lncurses was added somewhere. Maarten _ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: kfdialog.h

1997-05-08 Thread Maarten Boekhold
it by making a string. In old DOS, it is the program itself that does the globbing (I think thats what they call it there). Maarten _ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL

Re: postgres95 / libbsd.so

1997-05-06 Thread Maarten Boekhold
have libtermcap...). My guess is that the debian-sources are screwed up. Try grabbing a .tgz from ftp.postgresql.org Maarten _ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL

Re: STL

1997-04-28 Thread Maarten Boekhold
documentation for libg++. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . _ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering

Re: Compaq Smart Array Controller

1997-04-18 Thread Maarten Boekhold
?). I'm curious about the SMART RAID-controller from compaq (ie. version 1). Anybody got some info on that one? Maarten _ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL| |[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Deb file viewing [was: Dependency ordering]

1997-04-12 Thread Maarten Boekhold
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Pentium GCC

1997-03-31 Thread Maarten Boekhold
out of that. Most ppl won't take the trouble of recompiling every single package that have installed :). Just curious, how much would I gain with an 'pentium optimized' kernel? Maybe libc? And X? Maarten _ | Maarten

Re: Connection closed by foreign host.

1997-03-20 Thread Maarten Boekhold
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Can't get NFS with ugidd working

1997-03-12 Thread Maarten Boekhold
' to the export-lines. But I still get numbers or 'nobody' and 'nosuchgroup' or something like that. I don't get it. Isn't this the way I should get this working? Maarten _ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU

Re: 128M ram not detected

1997-01-07 Thread Maarten Boekhold
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Re: using fork in cgi perl

1997-01-05 Thread Maarten Boekhold
of choice from delicious drinks :) Maarten _ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

mounting files as filesystems

1996-10-11 Thread Maarten Boekhold
help me out here? Maarten _ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

IP-accounting

1996-09-28 Thread Maarten Boekhold
of the computers that are on our network transmit to and recieve from the outside world. TIA, Maarten ___ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: exmh and Xauthority

1996-08-17 Thread Maarten Boekhold
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Re: kernal-image-2.0.0-0 + stuff...

1996-06-29 Thread Maarten Boekhold
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Re: elf Mtools screw pooch

1996-05-26 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Since I upgraded to 1.1, all of the ELF versions of mtools have failed on my system, with the error: init: set default params Can't initialize 'A:' I'm getting the same messages. xconsole says things about floppy time-outs. But I have always had trouble with my 3 1/2 diskdrive under Linux

uninstalled packages in 'dpkg -l'

1996-05-16 Thread Maarten Boekhold
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Re: 1.1 setup for /dev/xconsole?

1996-05-14 Thread Maarten Boekhold
of problems. This started around 1.3.65 and still is a problem, so I stopeed using xconsole. I'm using 1.3.71, no probs with xconsole, system is a (to 1.1) upgraded 0.93R6. Maarten ___ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical

Re: Checking if the network is up

1996-05-11 Thread Maarten Boekhold
if the connection is dropped by a bad line or such things. Maarten ___ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Take life as a party! | ---

Re: Checking if the network is up

1996-05-10 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Hi, how about: #!/bin/sh if ! ping -c 3 known_address_which_is_in_etc_hosts | grep -q round-trip then do_your_stuff fi We use this to check our leased line every 5 mins. Maarten ___ | Maarten Boekhold

xconsole

1996-05-07 Thread Maarten Boekhold
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Re: xdm config after install

1996-05-06 Thread Maarten Boekhold
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Re: mirror and symlinks

1996-05-06 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Hi, I have already found the answer: the option local_follow_symlinks or something like that. Maarten ___ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

mirror and symlinks

1996-05-06 Thread Maarten Boekhold
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