.emacs

1998-08-03 Thread TooManySecrets
Buenas. Todavía tengo la Debian 1.3.1 (a la espera de que me llegue de una maldita vez la 2.0), y utilizo xemacs. Resulta que en el apartado Options pongo el entorno a mi gusto, pero luego, cada vez que arranco, me aparece tal cual, sin ningún cambio, vamos, que pasando olímpicamente del .emacs o

Re: Paginador para man

1998-08-03 Thread Roberto Ruiz
On Sun, Aug 02, 1998 at 08:43:48AM +0200, Angel Vicente Perez wrote: ¿Alguien sabe donde o como se configura el man, para que utilice less como paginador? Ya ví las otras respuestas, pero si eres root (como quien dice, es tu maquina) y quieres que el cambio sea global, es decir, para todos

Re: only root can hear sound..?

1998-08-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Aug 02, 1998 at 10:08:30PM +0200, Peter Granroth wrote: try 'chmod a+rw /dev/dsp' as root Better solution is to adduser username audio to add them to the audio group (this is the correct solution). Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@

Re: Virtual Desktop in X HELP

1998-08-03 Thread Mark Harrison m0192@
Rick Smith wrote: Hi As you will get form this I am definatley a NEWBIE, I am having a problem shutting off the Virtual desktop in X I just want all my desktop in one viewing area... I am running a Diamond 3d2000 and a Princeton monitor (ultra 15) amd I am using th eSVGA Xserver..

Re: Diamond Supra Express PNP internal modem , Linux , and you.

1998-08-03 Thread Philip Thiem
I have a 336pnp supra interal that works, but I bought a PCI 56k that didn't. Be sure to through look at the box and on the internet at the requirements if WIN95 is required appears anywhere DON'T GET IT it's a win modem and has crappy software to replace parts of hardware and the software is only

Re: PLIP Connection to Win95

1998-08-03 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Dave, I've never tried using plip to connect Linux to Windows, so I don't know if any of this will help or not. I'm no expert on networking, but I do have plip working between two Debian 2.0 machines and, for reference, here's my config files. I have plip compiled as a module: /etc/hosts

Re: sh -- ash problems (was Re: Output of Anacron job)

1998-08-03 Thread servis
*- Deniz Dogan wrote about sh -- ash problems (was Re: Output of Anacron job) | Hi, | | Alexander == Alexander Yukhimets [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | Alexander Hi, probably as a result of the fact that I have sh - | Alexander ash symlink now instead of sh - bash, I got the | Alexander

Re: Using dialog

1998-08-03 Thread servis
*- Johann Spies wrote about Using dialog | I want to try out dialog and have read the man page. But I still do not | know how to use it. Can somebody send me an example please? | The dunc package requires it so you could install that package and look at its scripts. There is dialog replacement

Debian 2.0 upgrade didn't work

1998-08-03 Thread Keith
I am trying to upgrade to Debian 2.0 via ftp. I ran the autoup.sh script and everything was fine. Then I fired up dselect to update all my packages. That is where everything fell apart. I selected all the packages in dselect that I wanted but it errored everytime dselect tried to get one of the

dselect after upgrade does not work

1998-08-03 Thread Keith
I read in the Debian User archive that you were or are having the same problem that I am having. I upgraded to Debian 2.0 and when I try and get the packages to upgrade it says the following for every file. getting: dists/stable/main/binary-i386/editors/nvi_1.79-5.deb (199078)

Nedit, Revisited...

1998-08-03 Thread Bob Bernstein
I've reviewed my past six months worth of the list that I have archived here, and I find a few mentions of problems with this editor, but no solutions. Here's what's happening for me: (I be running a new install of hamm, done from scratch with 2.0beta CD's. Running NEdit in AfterStep, both from

Re: Debian 2.0 upgrade didn't work

1998-08-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Keith wrote: I am trying to upgrade to Debian 2.0 via ftp. I ran the autoup.sh script and everything was fine. Then I fired up dselect to update all my packages. That is where everything fell apart. I selected all the packages in dselect that I wanted but it errored

Kernel 2.0.31 won't compile

1998-08-03 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I need to compile the 2.0.31 kernel. Unfortunately there is not a debian package for the 2.0.31 kernel, so I downloaded the upstream version, unpacked it into /usr/local/src, created links and followed the instructions for make-kpkg in order to make a kernel image package. Unfortunately it

FTP not working properly? deselect

1998-08-03 Thread Kent Andersen
Having same problem here... whats the matter with the FTP sites??? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Drive mounting

1998-08-03 Thread Patrick Olson
I don't know anything about the EtherPCI II card itself, but I have an EtherPCI card working with the Tulip driver. I don't know what the difference between my EtherPCI and your EtherPCI II is. If they are really similar, yours might work with the Tulip driver. On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, Cristov

Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Mark Phillips
I didn't ever notice an announcement of the release of Debian 2.0 on Linux Announce (apart from the beta announcement). Maybe I just missed it --- did someone see it? Just thought I'd mention it because we do want people to know about it I think! Cheers, Mark.

dpkg instead of dselect - how?

1998-08-03 Thread Eduardo Nahum Ochs
It is said that we can bypass dselect and the boot disks completely and install a Debian system using only dpkg and its friends, but I couldn't find any documentation on this anywhere... Can anyone give me some hints/links on this? I'm trying to learn it the hard way, by reading the sources and

modprobe error

1998-08-03 Thread Robert Rati
I added sound to my /etc/modules file so it would load at boot time, but I get this error: modprobe: no dependency information for module: /lib/modules/2.0.34/misc/sound.o I've done a make modules and modules_install as well as install when I compiled my kernel. I even tried it by itself.

emacs !!

1998-08-03 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Please could anyone tell me how to get emacs to wrap at column 132 .. also, where exactly does one change the color coding for the keyword highlighting? Thanks \ regards -- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical

whiptail

1998-08-03 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Hi, Someone just referenced a package called whiptail as a replacement to dialog .. Could you please let me know where I can pick up the sources? I would like to take a look at it also Thanks \ regards -- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and

X server problem?

1998-08-03 Thread Robert Rati
I'm trying to run a game called Maelstrom, and I can load it when not in X. When I'm in X though, I get this error: X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) Major opcode of failed request: 129 (MIT-SHM) Minor opcode of failed request: 3

netinit headers

1998-08-03 Thread Azog
Hello! I'm in need of netinet/ip_tcp.h, netinet/ip_udp.h, netinet/protocols.h. Which package are these in? TIA -- -Josh Co-Admin of California.ZUH.net (Azog) ..and always remember...arf is god spelled funny. Never allow yourself to become too attached to someone, because they'll just rip

smbmount and Windows NT Workstation

1998-08-03 Thread Tomt
Question I've been doing a little research and smbmount looks like it is going to do what I want. I want to make a sharepoint on my NT workstation Sp3 accessable under a directory on my Debian linux machine(Hamm) just like a fdd or a cdrom. Now my question I've got everything installed it

change from fvwm95 to kde?

1998-08-03 Thread Edward J Young
I installed Debian 2.0 with fvwm95 as the window manager. I'd now like to use kde. I installed all the packages and am able to run kde, but it seems to be running on top of fvwm95. How can I change the window manager to kde? Where is the window manager invoked? Thanx in advance. Ed --

Re: change from fvwm95 to kde?

1998-08-03 Thread Richard Alhama
On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Edward J Young wrote: I installed Debian 2.0 with fvwm95 as the window manager. I'd now like to use kde. I installed all the packages and am able to run kde, but it seems to be running on top of fvwm95. How can I change the window manager to kde? Where is the

Re: Which printer do you recommend?

1998-08-03 Thread Johann Spies
On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Michael Stone wrote: Quoting Peter Granroth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have one Linux machine and five Win95 machines networked. I want to attach a printer to my Linux machine and shared among them. Can someone recommend a printer for this configuration?

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, George == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: George The problem with the current versioning system is that people George look at Debian 2.0 and Red Hat 5.x and S.u.S.E 5.x and George Slackware 3.x and figure Debian is seriously lagging when it George is not.I have had people tell me

Re: Kernel 2.0.31 won't compile

1998-08-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Mark == Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark I need to compile the 2.0.31 kernel. Unfortunately there is Mark not a debian package for the 2.0.31 kernel, so I downloaded the Mark upstream version, unpacked it into /usr/local/src, created Mark links What links did you

installation on a thinkpad 770ed

1998-08-03 Thread sen_ml
hello- i'm trying to install debian on a thinkpad 770 ed w/o much success. below are some of the various things i've tried: w/ the july 21st vanilla disks, i get the typical infinite reboot loop reported for many a toshiba and thinkpad -- so i gave the tecra disks a try. the result is

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Joey Hess
Manoj Srivastava wrote: I think I am really grateful for not having people like that trying Debian; it only increases the support headaches later on. Any one who is, umm, challenged, enough to make any technical decision based on version numbering would probably find Debian is not the

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Joey Hess
George Bonser wrote: Some of these people are highly skilled Solaris system administrators that do not understand the concept of the different distributions and versioning until I explain it to them. All they know at first glance is Debian is shipping 2.0 Linux while Red Hat is shipping 5.2

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Joey Hess
George Bonser wrote: I suppose the Linux Standard Base will provide common versioning over distributions and take care of this problem. I fear that it will end up being Red Hat driven, though. I would be very scared if the LSB went into such a level of detail and tried to dictatte to much to

Kernel panic

1998-08-03 Thread Adalberto da Silva
I'm trying to install Debian 2.0 (Beta) from CheapBytes cdrom. Everything works except I can't boot from hard disk. I've copied my previous Debian 1.3 installation to another computer and started from scratch, maintaning the same partitioning and reformatting them. My computer has three HD's and a

Re: dselect after upgrade does not work

1998-08-03 Thread H Huang
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith) writes: I read in the Debian User archive that you were or are having the same problem that I am having. I upgraded to Debian 2.0 and when I try and get the packages to upgrade it says the following for every file. getting:

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Joey Hess
George Bonser wrote: No, LSB would not dictate Debian's version but Debian could say that Debian-2.0 is LSB-1.2 compliant and someone looking at Red Hat 5.2 might see that it, too, is LSB-1.2 compliant and get the idea that both are roughly equal. Someone might today, see that both debian and

Thanks for Debianized Enlightenment!

1998-08-03 Thread Art Lemasters
Thanks, S. I installed the E WM, and it works fine. ...very easy install via dselect. Now, I'm munging the windows around by trial and error in theme_main.cfg. g You do good work. I downloaded all of the slink packages that were available to replace hamm packages on this box, too.

boot: unable to open initial console

1998-08-03 Thread G. Crimp
I've moved my old system over to a new hard drive. I thought I was fairly meticulous in copying things over (compared all permissions, ownerships, links and other special files between the two file systems). I edited lilo.conf and fstab, then shutdown, changed the drives master/slave

SOLVED: Re: fdisk and fujitsu drives

1998-08-03 Thread G. Crimp
Got this figured out, sort of. I don't know why, but fdisk seems to act differently for the fujitsu drives as compared to Western Digital, Samsung, Seagate and O'Connor drives I have or have had. I always just accepted defaults for the first cylinder when creating new partitions. Had to

Re: smbmount and Windows NT Workstation

1998-08-03 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
what I want. I want to make a sharepoint on my NT workstation Sp3 SP3 disables login without encryption Heres what I have tried smbmount //server/sharepoint /mnt -U anyone But this doesn't work Now smbclient '\\server\sharepoint -U anyone I think that you have compiled samba with

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, George == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: George Some of these people are highly skilled Solaris system George administrators that do not understand the concept of the George different distributions and versioning until I explain it to George them. All they know at first glance is

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, George == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: George On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Joey Hess wrote: I have to wonder why such people bother with linux (2.0) when there are such obviously numerically superior os's out there like, say, windows (95). George I suppose the Linux Standard Base

Re: GNOME 0.20

1998-08-03 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Havoc Pennington wrote: On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Richard L. Alhama wrote: How can I make GNOME 0.20 working? I installed all the necessary packages. Now what file do I need to edit? /etc/X11/window-managers or my $HOME/.xinitrc? The apps are working fine (e.g.

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, George == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: George People that are not Unix SysAdmin's by trade or hobby are not George going to give a rat's pair of hips what version of libc they George have. People have a job to do that usually does not involve George spending hours of learning a

Re: GNOME 0.20

1998-08-03 Thread Richard Alhama
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Havoc Pennington wrote: On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Richard L. Alhama wrote: How can I make GNOME 0.20 working? I installed all the necessary packages. Now what file do I need to edit? /etc/X11/window-managers or my

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, George == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: George THere are still a great many Solaris, HP-UX, and Irix admins George who have heard the word Linux but that is about the extent of George their exposure. Many still laugh with Linux is mentioned. Yes, ignorance is a blight

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Joey Hess
George Bonser wrote: Let me put it another way. Non-geek calls software vendor to buy WonderWare for Linux. He asks if it will run on his system. The guy asks what version of libc he is using. The non-geek says he has no idea. Vendor asks what the LSB version is and the non-geek says 1.2.

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Joey Hess
George Bonser wrote: Never anywhere in any posting did I even imply that. Where do you get this stuff? What I am saying is that they WILL likely conform to some version of LSB in the future. If WonderWare 54.2 is targeted for LSB-2.1 and my Debian-13.2 system is also LSB-2.1 compliant, I know

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, George == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: George On 3 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Market domination is not a goal for me. George No, but being able to even be IN the market should be. We have remained alive without having to jump through hoops for lusers so far.

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, George == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: George On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Joey Hess wrote: Why do you expect non-geek will know what version of LSB his system complies with? George Because it would be right on the Debian Website and probably George on the software box. So,

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Peter Gervai
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 01:53:07AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Joey Hess wrote: True, but kernel version is not as important as libc version and filesystem layout. Kernel version really means very little. It simply provides an easy method of very basic configuration

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Peter Gervai
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 02:46:38AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: Major versions for ONLY major changes, minors for minor, and not entering the version-number-hype-marketing-bandwagon is the hackers' view of version numbers. What constitutes a major change is fuzzy. I think it should be

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, George == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: if they call me a geek, I call them a luser George Manoj, I find that remark disturbing. That is who you are George writing the software for. No. No. No. Let me put that foul canard to rest. I do *NOT*, repeat *NOT* write

Re: change from fvwm95 to kde?

1998-08-03 Thread Randy Edwards
I installed Debian 2.0 with fvwm95 as the window manager. I'd now like to use kde. I installed all the packages and am able to run kde, but it seems to be running on top of fvwm95. How can I change the window manager to kde? Where is the window manager invoked? Check out

Re: Error when partitionig my hard drive.

1998-08-03 Thread count zero
Mrpeabody wrote: I have a computer that came with windows 98 on it. I want to paritition the drive and put linux on it but when I try to partition the drive using debian basic install on the rescue disk it shows that my only drive is dev/hda and when I try to paritition it I get a FATAL

Strange thing ...

1998-08-03 Thread Ana Graca Silva
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 : Can't locate File/stat.pm in @INC at /usr/lib/apt/methods/ftp line 21 (#1) (F) You said to do (or require, or use) a file that couldn't be found in any of

Re: New Debian user's reaction to X

1998-08-03 Thread Radtke
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)? Hello all, Since most half a year I am

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Robert Claeson
May I step in? I'm pretty new to this list. Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. No. No. Let me put that foul canard to rest. I do *NOT*, repeat *NOT* write software for darned users. I write software because it pleases my muse, and becuase I feel like contributing to the free

Re: dpkg instead of dselect - how?

1998-08-03 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- The new mountable dselect method (in package dpkg-mountable) logs everything. Maybe this is what you are looking for. On the other side, if you want to install a Debian system from scratch by using just dpkg, you may use the new package pkg-order to write your

RE: Strange thing ...

1998-08-03 Thread Mario Filipe
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! I think the problem is with the perl version... But now I can't

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread jason and jill
other than Red Hat, Caldera, or S.u.S.E. versions of their applications. Try to talk Debian to them and they dismiss it saying they just do not have the time. And your solution is what? Debian jump to 6.0 and always make sure to stay a version number ahead of Red Hat? Hey, Red Hat just

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 Radtke
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Maarten Boekhold wrote: So, concluding, this has nothing to do with installing the X-windows system, but with the netscape application. I don't know where you got the installer for netscape3 from, but there has been an installer for netscape4 for ages now. Maarten

Going back to slackware...

1998-08-03 Thread Peter Weiss
Hello, sorry, but that debian 2.0 with the apt-package isn't quite the thing for me. I upgraded to an early pre hamm using a self burned cd round about in april this year. Some packages needed a configuration afterwards. Last week I did an upgrade using an official 2.0 CD

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: New Debian user's reaction to X

1998-08-03 Thread Radtke
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Maarten Boekhold wrote: Unless this is a 'windows-modem', there should be no problem at all. An internal modem will behave exactly like an external one. You can view an internal modem as a normal comm-port connected to a seperate modem, but now all on one card (or even

Help with EIDE IBM Drive.

1998-08-03 Thread Mrpeabody
Linux doesn't seem to be compatible with my hard drive can anyone help me. I have a 10.1 gig Ultra ATA EIDE drive made by IBM and I don't have any luck installing debian or red hat. -jeff -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: boot: unable to open initial console

1998-08-03 Thread Dirk Bonne
G. Crimp wrote: I've moved my old system over to a new hard drive. I thought I was fairly meticulous in copying things over (compared all permissions, ownerships, links and other special files between the two file systems). I edited lilo.conf and fstab, then shutdown, changed the

Video card/TV tuner recommendation

1998-08-03 Thread Randy Edwards
I know this must be a FAQ, but I couldn't find it while looking. Can someone give me a recommendation for a good, fire-breathing Linux-supported video card and TV Tuner? Thanks in advance. -- Regards,|Debian GNU/__ o http://www.debian.org . |

strange Cron emails?

1998-08-03 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear Debian People, I have been away from my machine for about a month now (and this mailing list with it ;( ), and when I get back my inbox contains two types of message: (Apologies for the display, but this is a W95 machine :( Type one: Date: Mon,13 Jul 1998

RE: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-08-03 Thread Mike Barton
Just to add my experiences of win95 into the frey, i have also done the MB swap thing and while after a lot of rebooting in managed to recover, on the other hand my bro's machine is almost identical to mine (only minor differences lijke graphics card, HD make) failed miserable to survive the same

Re: boot: unable to open initial console

1998-08-03 Thread Taren
VHS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. thenUnable to open an initial console Looks like /dev/tty0 isn't there. Are use sure you did copy the devices correctly (cp does not copy devices correctly, use tar or cpio). Dirk Or the permissions aren't set right.

Debian 2.0 and Netscape 4.5

1998-08-03 Thread Robert Lyonnais
I just finished installing Debian 2.0. I used to have RedHat 5.1 but I figured it was time to try something new :-). To make a long story short, I can no longer use Netscape 4.5. When attempting to start this beast, I now receive the error can't load library libXpm.so.4. Strange part is this file

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: The problem with the current versioning system is that people look at Debian 2.0 and Red Hat 5.x and S.u.S.E 5.x and Slackware 3.x and figure Debian is seriously lagging when it is not. humor There are two solutions to this problem: 1) change the next

Re: netinit headers

1998-08-03 Thread Dirk Bonne
Azog wrote: Hello! I'm in need of netinet/ip_tcp.h, netinet/ip_udp.h, netinet/protocols.h. Which package are these in? TIA They are called tcp.h udp.h and in.h. They are in kernel-source package. Dirk -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

simple Q.

1998-08-03 Thread Eugene Sevinian
HI, I downloaded one of the CD images and now I would like to check CHECKSUM. sumcksum commands give definitly another values, not hex but decimal. How should I check it? Thanks, Eugene Sevinian CRD, YerPhI, 375036, Armenia URL:

Re: Kernel 2.0.31 won't compile

1998-08-03 Thread Mark Phillips
On 3 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Mark I need to compile the 2.0.31 kernel. Unfortunately there is Mark not a debian package for the 2.0.31 kernel, so I downloaded the Mark upstream version, unpacked it into /usr/local/src, created Mark links What links did you create?

dists/sid subdirectory?

1998-08-03 Thread Randy Edwards
Does anyone know what the sid subdirectory in dists is? I'm guessing that this is the follow-on version after slink, but that idea seemed a bit strange as slink is unstable. Anyone know for sure? -- Regards,|Debian GNU/__ o http://www.debian.org . |

eth0 and ppp0 routing issues

1998-08-03 Thread Frederic Breitwieser
Greetings, Being new to Debian (as well as Linux in general), I've been suffering for a short while and was hoping you folks might be able to assist me. I have successfully installed the rescue, drivers, base 1-5 diskettes, and was attempting to setup the debian box to dial my ISP and download

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread servis
*- George Bonser wrote about Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce? | | I have had people tell me that they are using Red Hat because it is at 5.2 | while Debian is still only at 2.0. The perception is that Red Hat is I'm sorry but those people are ignorant then. Tell them to

Re: Debian 2.0 and Netscape 4.5

1998-08-03 Thread Robert Lyonnais
Oops, make that Netscape 4.05. Cheers, Robert On Mon, 03 Aug 1998 13:00:21 + (GMT), you wrote: I just finished installing Debian 2.0. I used to have RedHat 5.1 but I figured it was time to try something new :-). To make a long story short, I can no longer use Netscape 4.5. When attempting

Re: Kernel 2.0.31 won't compile

1998-08-03 Thread Mark Phillips
On 3 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Mark == Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark /usr/include/sys/types.h:45: conflicting types for `mode_t' Mark /usr/local/src/linux-2.0.31/include/linux/types.h:12: previous declaration Mark of `mode_t' Something is seriously wrong

Re: Going back to slackware...

1998-08-03 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 01:56:00PM +0100, Peter Weiss wrote: Hello, sorry, but that debian 2.0 with the apt-package isn't quite the thing for me. I upgraded to an early pre hamm using a self burned cd round about in april this year. Some packages needed a configuration

Re: Debian 2.0 and Netscape 4.5

1998-08-03 Thread Erv Walter
Robert Lyonnais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just finished installing Debian 2.0. I used to have RedHat 5.1 but I figured it was time to try something new :-). To make a long story short, I can no longer use Netscape 4.5. When attempting to start this beast, I now receive the error can't load

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 03-Aug-1998, Robert Claeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I'm wrong or too phragmatic, but I just don't see much of a problem with using free and non-free code in the same system. If Informix was to create a Debian package of their database, would they be prohibited from doing so? They

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Joey Hess wrote: : George Bonser wrote: : No, LSB would not dictate Debian's version but Debian could say that : Debian-2.0 is LSB-1.2 compliant and someone looking at Red Hat 5.2 might : see that it, too, is LSB-1.2 compliant and get the idea that both are : roughly

CPAN modules

1998-08-03 Thread tko
Quick question - Where is the best directory to locate the modules to? I have the CPAN library on CD and would like a pointer on where to put them. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...--

Re: KDE games problem...

1998-08-03 Thread Greg Starkes
On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Richard Evans Hartman wrote: Hello all, I am using debian 2.0 with KDE (relatively new linux user) When I login as me, I can access the KDE games However, when I login as root, and try to run a game, I get the message could not execute program ___ Any

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Paul
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Joey Hess wrote: Why do you expect non-geek will know what version of LSB his system complies with? LSB isn't something innately easier for non-geek to comprehend than the libc or kernel version. Remember that the concept of standards is just as foreign to non-geeks as is

Re: strange Cron emails?

1998-08-03 Thread servis
*- M.C. Vernon wrote about strange Cron emails? | | shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent | directories | Hmmm, I have been getting these randomly at the prompt, not in emails from cron jobs. I haven't been able to trace the source of these. Anyone else

Palm Pilot software

1998-08-03 Thread Tim Sailer
Is there any other software available like the KDE's kpilot? I'd love to convert the use of my Pilot to pure Linux, but the KDE stuff is questionable, and kpilot in Debian is broken due to libs. I'm looking for something that will sync the Pilot, backup/restore, install new software, and have a

Re: emacs !!

1998-08-03 Thread servis
*- C.J.LAWSON wrote about emacs !! | Please could anyone tell me how to get emacs to wrap at column 132 .. | also, where exactly does one change the color coding for the keyword | highlighting? | Interactive: M-x set-variableRETfill-columnRET132 elisp: (setq fill-column 76) To edit faces in

[ivan@vianet.net.au: WYSIWYG Word Processor]

1998-08-03 Thread Martin Schulze
-- Whenever you meet yourself you're in a time loop or in front of a mirror. ---BeginMessage--- Hello, I am seeking a WYSIWYG Word Processor - I downloaded and installed lyX today - pretty good but not quite what I am looking for. Maxwell seemed an option but I couldn't get it installed

RE: only root can hear sound..?

1998-08-03 Thread Mark Mickan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Any users that need to use sound should be added to the audio group with the command 'addgroup username audio'. Do not change the permissions on /dev/dsp to world readable/writable as another poster said --- anything world writable is generally a bad idea.

RE: installing adbbs

1998-08-03 Thread Mark Mickan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Try installing the libterm-readkey-perl package. If you're using the Debian package of adbbs and it doesn't depend on libterm-readkey-perl then this is a bug in the package, and can be reported as such with the bug program (from the bug package). HTH, Mark

hardware purchase advice: modems

1998-08-03 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
Ok... I am using a 33.6 kbps modem and it works pretty good...the main problem is now I am running a masquerading firewall for my girlfriend and me...and it can get bogged downa bit by us... I want to alleviate this abit by getting a 56k modem. I plan to do this within the next month or

Re: eth0 and ppp0 routing issues

1998-08-03 Thread Lindsay Allen
ppp will not set a default route if a default route currently exists. Next time try this:- route del default route add -net 172.16.x.x (172.16.0.0 if your netmask is 255.255.0.0) pon This time ppp will set a default route for you. The above may not be exactly right as it makes an assumption

Re: whiptail

1998-08-03 Thread servis
*- C.J.LAWSON wrote about whiptail | Hi, |Someone just referenced a package called whiptail as a replacement to | dialog .. Could you please let me know where I can pick up the sources? I | would like to take a look at it also | Package: whiptail Priority: optional Section: base

Re: printop problem....

1998-08-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Richard Evans Hartman wrote: Hello all, I am running debian 2.0 with KDE (relatively new linux user) I have been having some problems printing (I have an HP Officejet 600) I am using the deskjet filter in magicfilter, and it works okay, but still not perfectly... I want a GUI

Re: hardware purchase advice: modems

1998-08-03 Thread David Parmet
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: (since this is not really on topic (not that this list has much of a topic as it is just general for al debian users private replies are ok... I really have no preference to private or public) I'm interested in this as well so keep it public!

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