Re: Agggh! can't start new GNOME for slink

1999-05-20 Thread Ossama Othman
any time soon so I guess I'll do an upload. :-) -Ossama -- Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Center for Distributed Object Computing, Washington University, St. Louis 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26

Re: Agggh! can't start new GNOME for slink

1999-05-19 Thread Ossama Othman
`.imrc' is broken. If only I had the time. :( -Ossama -- Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Center for Distributed Object Computing, Washington University, St. Louis 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26

Re: Dell Poweredge 1300 can't boot kernel 2.0.36

1999-04-17 Thread Ossama Othman
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Re: Dell Poweredge 1300 can't boot kernel 2.0.36

1999-04-15 Thread Ossama Othman
(Sorry Adam. I haven't finished putting the instructions in a form suitable for inclusion in the Debian documentation. I'm working on it.) __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024

cron.daily e-mails for exim and suidmanager

1999-03-22 Thread Ossama Othman
424880 Mar 15 06:39 /usr/bin/elm* -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root14768 Mar 21 02:00 /bin/ping* I am not subscribed to the debian-user mailing list so please CC me a copy of any reponse. TIA, -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL

imlib against gtk1.2?

1999-03-06 Thread Ossama Othman
are in a consistent state and are ready for release. Please bear with us. The new packages should be ready in a few days, and I believe that the wait will be worth it. I'm anxious to get them, too. :) Thanks, -Ossama __ Ossama

boot floppies -- thanks!!

1999-01-26 Thread Ossama Othman
running Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 (potato). Now if I could just get the rest of my colleagues to switch to Debian. :p The system is _smooth_ and stable! Thanks again for the help and for a great OS! -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL

Re: boot disk question/suggestion

1999-01-23 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi again, 2.0.x maxes out at 2^30-2^26 = 1006632960 bytes, or 960MB, of RAM. Thus, you'll wanna use mem=960M. You can also adjust some headers (I forget which) to expand the kernel memory / virtual memory split (it is adjustable, and it defaults to 1GB/3GB). Can the 2.1/2.2 kernels

Re: boot disk question/suggestion

1999-01-23 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Robert, I just wanted to thank you for your suggestion. It seems to be working! I am having problems getting the boot procedure find the root filesystem but at least I got this far! Any suggestions about the kernel being unable to find the root filesystem? Thanks, -Ossama # dd

Re: boot disk question/suggestion

1999-01-23 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Robert, Make sure your rescue disk contains ext2, msdos, ramdisk, initrd, and ELF support. Oh, I forgot, you need minix fs support too. See if that helps. Indeed it did. :) I had to use the rescue disk on master in Incoming but with my custom kernel instead. It boots but it behaves

Debian on Dell PowerEdge 6300 problems

1999-01-20 Thread Ossama Othman
with RedHat, too. Any ideas? -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26

weird vi exit behavior

1999-01-19 Thread Ossama Othman
am using the unstable distribution. Thanks, -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26

Re: Debian goes big business? [was: Re: Suggestion for RedHat (was: RH vs Debian)]

1999-01-19 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, An interesting question. The first step is (obviously) to convince enough people. Especially the developers' we've been talking about. Surely they have opinions? I'd be interested in such an entity. Count me in. -Ossama

Re: xconfig, menuconfig

1999-01-18 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Frederick, It does not work, I still get the message no target. I also cannot locate any files with patterns xconfig or menuconfig. I did install the kernel-package. I don't understand, what I'm doing wrong. kernel-package and kernel-source are two different things. You will need a

Re: xconfig, menuconfig

1999-01-17 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, There are no such packages. They are Makefile targets. Go into your Linux source directory and do make xconfig or make menuconfig. Have fun! -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4

Re: Warning on mounting partitions: automate e2fsck?

1999-01-17 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi automatically runs e2fsck on the root partition. However, I mount several other partitions automatically via fstab, and on those I will after foo number of mounts get a warning that the drive should be checked. However, it's a pain to switch to runlevel 1 and manually check all those

Re: non-free/libs package gets installed into libs

1999-01-17 Thread Ossama Othman
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Checksums for compromise checks

1999-01-15 Thread Ossama Othman
checksums. Does Debian have any such verification mechanism for individual files (i.e. not the entire deb)? It seems like it would be a useful feature to have available. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 58 60 1A E8 7A

Re: TIOCSER?WILD Boot Error!

1998-12-09 Thread Ossama Othman
directory. It may contain files that explain the error/warning. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26

how? m68k cross compile

1998-12-09 Thread Ossama Othman
of the header files are, nor can I find the m68k headers. What am I doing wrong. TIA, -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26

dselect wants to remove crucial packages

1998-12-07 Thread Ossama Othman
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Re: No more C++ ?

1998-12-01 Thread Ossama Othman
_had_ working C++ prior to the __register_frame_info problem upgrades. I checked /usr/lib. All of the usual C++ libraries are there, including libstdc++-2.8 and 2.9. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4

ld can't find -lstdc++

1998-11-30 Thread Ossama Othman
is libstdc++.so.2.9 so small? Any suggestions on how to correct this link problem? Thanks, -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26

Re: Big problem, help !

1998-11-30 Thread Ossama Othman
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TAO packages available for testing

1998-11-25 Thread Ossama Othman
will respond to any e-mails regarding my packages as soon as I get back. Thanks for any feedback. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26

ACE-4.6.4 packages available for testing

1998-11-24 Thread Ossama Othman
. I'll release them tomorrow for testing. Thanks, -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26

Unidentified subject!

1998-11-23 Thread Ossama Othman
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List language?

1998-11-23 Thread Ossama Othman
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Re: linux operating system

1998-11-22 Thread Ossama Othman
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Re: linux operating system

1998-11-19 Thread Ossama Othman
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Re: linux operating system

1998-11-18 Thread Ossama Othman
it seems that I may have misunderstood what you were saying. My apologies. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26

Re: linux operating system

1998-11-17 Thread Ossama Othman
utilities, just like most Linux distributions. In fact, Debian is developing its own Hurd distribution. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26

Weird behavior with Tcsh

1998-11-17 Thread Ossama Othman
to get errors from ls of a non-existent directory if the directory was removed when I was in that directory, at least from what I recall. Am I missing something here? Thanks, -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 58 60 1A E8 7A 66

Where is makeinfo?

1998-11-12 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Is makeinfo available in the unstable tree yet? If so, what package is it in? I couldn't find one. Thanks, -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08

stupid mistake: /usr/info/dir wiped out!

1998-10-26 Thread Ossama Othman
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Locale C in X missing?

1998-10-22 Thread Ossama Othman
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When will X be working properly?

1998-10-22 Thread Ossama Othman
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Re: mail failed, returning to sender

1998-10-15 Thread Ossama Othman
Somebody want to get rid of these failed mail messages? Thanks, -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26

Re: threads package for libc6

1998-10-07 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, pages, the functions may not be thread safe. However I think that if libc6 in hamm supports POSIX threads, then the library functions in there must be thread safe. Any ideas on this from you guys? I don't think it is safe to make this assumption on any system. All I can suggest is to

Re: Voodoo Rush

1998-10-02 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I have a friend interested in changing his machine's OS over to Debian, the only problem that I can see is that he has a Intergraph Voodoo extreme as his video card, and I can't find a X-server for it. I was simply wondering if there is such an X-server for Debian. All Voodoo Rush

Savage3D X server?

1998-10-02 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Does anyone know if there is an X server that will support the Savage3D or if an X server/driver is in the works? Thanks, -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ACE packages available for testing

1998-10-02 Thread Ossama Othman
official Debian packages yet since I haven't received my developer approval yet. Thanks, -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26

[off-topic] Best way to replace quotes with angle brackets

1998-09-28 Thread Ossama Othman
and ending quotes to beginning and ending brackets. TIA, -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [off-topic] Best way to replace quotes with angle brackets

1998-09-28 Thread Ossama Othman
# include /**/ duh.h - # include /**/ duh.h ... etc. Is there a way to accomplish without making several passes? I'm not a Perl guru either so this is all very new to me. Sorry. Thanks again, -Ossama __ Ossama

Re: desktop calendar for linux

1998-09-22 Thread Ossama Othman
Try ical. It is fairly useful. -Ossama

[off-topic] gethostbyname_r prototype

1998-09-10 Thread Ossama Othman
**__result to get struct hostent *__result, which would then be analogous to the return value of the Solaris version struct hostent *? TIA, -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Unrecognized binary format?

1998-09-04 Thread Ossama Othman
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Re: Unrecognized binary format?

1998-09-04 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, What does 'file myprog' say? the g++ may be adding a messed up header. Well, I am floored. :) It seems that the compiled program is a Bourne Shell script, according to the file program. I confirmed this by viewing the contents of my executable. It turns out that the binary/script was

Re: Unrecognized binary format?

1998-09-04 Thread Ossama Othman
file is a great tool. And I hate libtool. Slow, clunky, and odd. Not to mention fun things like your problem (-: True, but it is nice not to have to figure out how to generate a shared library on different platforms. :) -Ossama

Re: EGCS 1.1 is out!

1998-09-04 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Please can someone explain to me the difference between EGCS compilers and non-EGCS ones? The little info given in dselect is not very informative. EGCS is the Experimental GNU Compiler System. It is on a slightly faster development track then GCC 2.8.1, for example. The EGCS project

EGCS 1.1 is out!

1998-09-03 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi all, Any idea when EGCS 1.1 will be packaged? I'd really like to have it. Otherwise, I'll just stick it in /usr/local myself. :) -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X11 remains black (fwd)

1998-09-01 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, using the PCMCIA drivers), but if I start X (version included in Debian 2.0), the screen remains black. SuperProbe does not work neither. Screen black, machine locked ? When I reboot with 2.0.30, no problems, not at all. Please note that this 2.0.30 kernel was made with gcc 2.7.2..

Re: X11 remains black (fwd)

1998-09-01 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I believe that the latest development 2.1.x kernels can be compiled using the new compilers. I am not suggesting that you use the development kernels, however. Why not? :) I got 2.1.119 last night...man it is sweet :) My first development kernel :) I didn't want to be responsible

Re: driver for 3com fast etherlink XL ?

1998-09-01 Thread Ossama Othman
I need to find a driver for my net card in win nt is name is driver for 3com fast etherlink XL. You want the driver for 3Com 3c90x cards which is supported in the 3c59x driver/module. -Ossama

Re: Beowulf cluster

1998-08-28 Thread Ossama Othman
from what I remember Beowulf uses PVM, and that is already packaged. They basically seemed when I read their pages to be makeing add ons which make PVM more powerfull From what I recall, PVM is being superseded by MPI. There is already a Debian packaged implementation of MPI called mpich.

Re: Logitech TrackMan CD Changer

1998-08-27 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Does anyone have any experience with using the TrackMan+ or TrackManFX with hamm? I'm thinking about buying one but part of my decision will be based on it's compatability. I have a TrackMan Marble and it works just fine. Assuming that there isn't anything different with the connectors

Re: CVS 1.10 is out...hamm?

1998-08-26 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Will CVS 1.10 be available in hamm? No. Hamm is released. It will be available in slink, it's successor. Doh! I didn't realize that released distributions (e.g. hamm) don't get periodic updates to packages. Does this mean that only big fixes go into releases? -Ossama

Re: telnet break-in

1998-08-26 Thread Ossama Othman
Hence the One-Time Password suggestion. Either way, better to have/use SSH than use telnet/ftp/r{login,sh,exec}. I have both SSL-Telnet and SSH installed. I don't type root passwords over clear connections unless it is an emergency. Hmm - why is it that emergencies always happen

Re: telnet break-in

1998-08-25 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Interesting ... after reading the above messages, I decided to check out my /var/log files and found a whole suite of in.telnetd[XXX]: connect statements. Bummer! It appears that it is time for you disable all of those incoming services we mentioned. Have you considered using Secure

Re: telnet break-in

1998-08-25 Thread Ossama Othman
can't use Secure Shell, you might want to try One-Time Password packages, such as OPIE. I believe that even WU-FTP is starting to support one time passwords, too. Uhm, secure shell is not the answer to all problems. It WILL revert to an unsecure protocol if the other end can not

CVS 1.10 is out...hamm?

1998-08-25 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Will CVS 1.10 be available in hamm? -Ossama

Hardware monitoring software?

1998-08-24 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Is there such a thing as software that will check environmental conditions on a motherboard, CPU fan, etc? My motherboard has a hardware monitor on it but I don't always want to go to the BIOS to check the conditions. Thanks, -Ossama

Re: not all memory is recognized

1998-08-24 Thread Ossama Othman
i have a debian system with 128 megs of memory. i have the following line in lilo.conf: append=mem=128 It should be: append=mem=128M It works fine for me. -Ossama

Re: telnet break-in

1998-08-23 Thread Ossama Othman
You might want to consider disabling all incoming connections if you are never going to login to your machine via remote. As George suggested, you can edit your host.{allow,deny} files or edit /etc/inetd.conf and comment out things like: telnet ftp login exec

Re: telnet break-in

1998-08-23 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, telnet ftp login exec finger shell ...you get the idea... And dont forget the r services ... rlogin, rsh, rexec, etc. Yep, the r services are covered by login, exec and shell. Here is what inetd.conf has to say: shell stream tcp

Re: threads package for libc6

1998-08-21 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Where can I find the threads package for libc6 - I have looked all through the dselect list? All I find is the one for libc5 in the old libs section. A specially adapted version of Xavier LeRoy's implementation of kernel-level POSIX threads (pthreads) is already part of libc6. Some

Re: threads package for libc6

1998-08-21 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Well that explains why I couldn't find anything. What about the man pages? Which package has those? When the guys do a man on pthread_create nothing is found It seems that I didn't have the libc6 man pages either. :) Anyway, I found the docs package. Not surprisingly, it is:

XF86 thread safe?

1998-08-21 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Does anyone know if Debian's XF86 package is thread safe (i.e. patches in /usr/doc/libc6-doc/README.linuxthreads.gz have been applied)? Thanks, -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- PGP Keys --- Public: http

Re: Motif

1998-08-21 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, What versions of MOTIF will work with Debian 2.0? Can't help you with Motif. Have you considered the LessTif package? I believe that it aims for Motif 1.2 compliance. It may still be a little buggy, however. -Ossama

Re: Big-endian/little-endian

1998-08-18 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, The authors concern was that on a big endian system network order and byte order are the same so hton* and ntoh* do nothingso how do you do the swapps... You could just cast the address of the variable to a char * and swap things around using pointer arithmetic or arrays. Here is a

I forgot... Re: Big-endian/little-endian

1998-08-18 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi again, // number is the size of the array being byte swapped swap4(void *dest, void *src, int number) { I forgot to mention that the code excerpt I posted was meant for swapping variables that are 4 bytes in size, e.g. floats and such. -Ossama

Re: PDF file generation

1998-08-18 Thread Ossama Othman
How does one create a PDF (Acrobat) file? In searching through the packages I found a number of ways to view a PDF file, but didn't seem to find any way to create one. The only ways I am aware of besides using Adobe Acrobat is to use ps2pdf, found in the ghostscript package or by using using

Re: xterm-debian

1998-08-16 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Read /usr/doc/X11/README.Debian on your systems. That file has explanations and solutions for your problems with xterm-debian. -Ossama

[OFF TOPIC] cvsweb and CVSROOT

1998-08-07 Thread Ossama Othman
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automount trying to mount /home/.htaccess

1998-08-07 Thread Ossama Othman
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Re: Password to single user boot.

1998-08-06 Thread Ossama Othman
The default Debian setup allows you to select which partition to boot from, before selecting a default. On my system (with only /dev/hda2 marked bootable), I see a 2FA: prompt. If I press any keys here, I can press 2 (boot from hda2), F (boot from floppy), or A, which changes the prompt to

Re: Automatic X startup

1998-08-06 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Could anyone tell me how to get X automatically started. Now I have to write 'startx' every time. Try configuring xdm to start at boot. You can probably use xbase-configure to configure it. If that doesn't work check /etc/init.d for a script called xdm. If you don't have xdm but have

Re: resolv.conf

1998-08-05 Thread Ossama Othman
You might also want to check /etc/nsswitch.conf. You should have something like the following for the hosts entry: hosts: files dns -Ossama -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

2 CPUs and ps/top -- question

1998-08-05 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I remember that this question was asked before but I can't seem to find it in the list archives. My question is how can I tell what processes are running on a given processor using ps or top, or some other utility. SMP support has been enabled in my kernel (2.0.35). Will I need SMP

Re: Password to single user boot.

1998-08-05 Thread Ossama Othman
Why don't you just restrict booting by using LILO's password= and restricted in /etc/lilo.conf? Here is what the man page for lilo.conf says: password=password Protect the image by a password. restricted A password is only required to boot the image

Re: Password to single user boot.

1998-08-05 Thread Ossama Othman
No problem. Have fun! :) By the way, perhaps lilo.conf should be readable by root only since a password will be listed inside it, in your case. This shouldn't be a bad thing, from what I can tell. I am glad that you asked this question since I wanted to do the same thing but never actually

Re: Password to single user boot.

1998-08-05 Thread Ossama Othman
As David Maze points out, it'd also be best to NOT use mbr as the master boot record since that will allow one to boot off a floppy and/or another partition. I prefer to let LILO be the master boot record on my servers since they only run Linux ... one less piece of software to worry about.

Re: 2 CPUs and ps/top -- question

1998-08-05 Thread Ossama Othman
I found an answer to my question from one of my colleagues. This seems like a good thing to know so I'll post it in case anyone is interested. Here is he how checks to see how well his SMPing is working: (incidentally, these are benchmarks for a Debian 2.0 system running kernel 2.0.35 on a dual

Re: AGP video card (fwd)

1998-07-29 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, page. One thing they don't tell you though that you have to do under Debian is delete the 'X' bin that should be in /usr/X11R6/bin and then just link the Elsa_GLoria bin (XSuSE_Elsa_GLoria I believe) to 'X'. I really don't think that is a good idea. Debian created that X as an suid

Re: Debian Std C++?

1998-07-23 Thread Ossama Othman
there are kernel compile issues with gcc 2.8.x and egcs 1.x. By the way, this is not local to Debian. Any distribution that uses g++ will have these problems. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- PGP Keys --- Public: http

Re: cd rom drives

1998-07-23 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, now.. here's the dumb newbie question.. apart from staying away from plug and pray, is there any complication to installing a cd-rom drive and new modem? do i have to invoke prayers to any particular UNIX gods? or do i get to shove the new stuff into their proper bays and boot up? You

xterm-debian and pine problem

1998-07-23 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I just added the xterm-debian terminfo file in the appropriate Solaris 2.6 location on our Solaris machine, in accordance with what /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian says. When I start up an xterm on our Solaris machine remotely using SSH on our hamm system (Solaris xterm displayed on hamm

Re: xcdroast and scsi

1998-07-07 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Does I really need scsi support since my burner is IDE ? Why this support is not detected by xcdroast (I have got no scsi card) ? I'm not sure if this will help, but have you tried enabling SCSI emulation in the kernel? Note that the SCSI drivers need to be enabled for the emulation to

Re: Browser search

1998-07-07 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I am having trouble finding browsers that use 128 bit encryption. I've have found IE versions 3.0 and higher and Netscape versions 3.0 and higher. Are these the only ones out there? What about AOL? If you could shed light on this subject it would greatly be appreciated. Is this a

Re: CAP and linux

1998-07-04 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Try the netatalk package instead of CAP. I've been using it for over a month now and haven't had any problems. You will need to enable support Appletalk DDP in the kernel or as a module. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL

Re: Did I do something wrong ?

1998-06-30 Thread Ossama Othman
has setup a filter to send all of my posts to /dev/null. just kidding.. :) I wish I could answer your fvwm95 question but I deleted it before I read it. :) -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- PGP Keys --- Public

NFS/Network locking available?

1998-06-30 Thread Ossama Othman
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Re: Page counting / Print quota

1998-06-26 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Have you tried pac, the printer accounting utility? Do a man pac do get some additional information. As far as I know, pac is part of the default Debian installation. Here is an excerpt from the pac man page: --- NAME pac -

Re: Re[2]: Two 'gcc's? Yea or Nay?

1998-06-25 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, $ ls -l /usr/bin/egcc /usr/bin/gcc -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root60320 Jun 17 03:04 /usr/bin/egcc* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root49460 Jun 15 00:48 /usr/bin/gcc* Ok, I haven't posted a BIG DUMMY question in quite some time; I'm overdue! SO: what's the

Re: Once burned...

1998-06-25 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I can vouch for the Trackman Marble since I have the exact same thing. :) It works fine for me. All three buttons work in X Windows. If you are using the PS/2 mouse port, make sure you have PS/2 mouse support enabled in your kernel or installed as a module. The module for this psaux.

Re: nvidia riva 128 - xf86config

1998-06-25 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I`m useing a Diamond Viper V330 (Nvidia Riva 128) card but this card isn`t listed... Try the SVGA driver. I believe support for the Riva 128 is in it. -Ossama -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xterm-debian?

1998-06-24 Thread Ossama Othman
settings. It's easy enough to do a set term=xterm but I really don't want to keep doing that. Why did Debian create their own terminfo/cap entry and why was such a change necessary? Thanks, -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED

GnuHoo a major BooHoo

1998-06-23 Thread Ossama Othman
support Open Source can do something about this. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XWindows

1998-06-17 Thread Ossama Othman
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Re: KHOROS on Debian Problems

1998-06-12 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, So my question is: what is and where or how do I get libfl.a? libfl.a is a fast lexical analyzer library meaning that it should be part of the flex (Fast Lexical Analyzer) package. The function yywrap is in libfl.a I can't help you witht the other two problems you mentioned, sorry.

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