Re: Iconos que no aparecen en KDE

1999-03-13 Thread Ubaldo Fernández Covelo
El Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 12:42:34AM +0100, Lucky dijo: He conseguido instalar el KDE 1.0 en Debian y es cojonudo, pero tengo el problema de que algunos iconos como el de ir para atras, adelante, inicio, etc. tipicos de los menus de las ventanas no me aparecen y salen unos graficos raros.

Re: OT. Editor Lex y Yacc

1999-03-13 Thread Antonio Castro
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Jose Luis Trivino wrote: Hola, Perdon por el OT, pero es que tengo que editar un monton de codigo en lex y yacc y no encuentro ningun editor que le ponga sintaxhighlight y sangrado. He probado con el emacs pero solo he encontrado un modo para yacc/bison que

HP Laserjet 6L

1999-03-13 Thread Jose Antonio Morillo
Hola a todos ! Alguien tiene configurada correctamente esta impresora. Yo utilicé magicfilterconfig para configurar la impresora en mi debian HAMM, pero me ocurre que los textos planos los imprime perfectamente, pero si uso postcript, (la impresora es PCL5) bien sea mediante gv, Acrobat reader

Como configurar el MagicFilter?

1999-03-13 Thread Lucky
No consigo instalar la impresora (HP690C) en el Debian, he conseguido imprimir alguna vez texto, pero no acaba de quedar bien pero no se como hacerlo con los graficos. Me podeis ayudar?

Re: Dudas /etc/resolv.conf

1999-03-13 Thread Netman
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 01:01:32PM +0100, ~ Miguel P.C. ~ wrote: Te servira para que no tenga que resolver dos veces el mismo nombre en la misma sesión, util si navegas durante periodos de más de 15 minutos accediendo varias veces al cada servidor. Un saludo Lo que cuento aqui es mi

Re: cambio de nombre de maquina

1999-03-13 Thread Tinguaro Barreno Delgado
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 11:26:40PM +0100, Jon Noble wrote: Hola ¿hay algun modo elegante de cambiar el nombre de una maquina sin recorrer todos los ficheros? Gracias y un saludo, Hola. Modifica el fichero /etc/hostname. Este fichero tan sólo contiene una palabra: el nombre de la

Re: cambio de nombre de maquina

1999-03-13 Thread homega
Tinguaro Barreno Delgado dixit: Modifica el fichero /etc/hostname. Este fichero tan sólo contiene una palabra: el nombre de la máquina. ¿Qué más habría que cambiar al cambiar el nombre de la máquina? Es decir, yo lo he hecho, y la conexión funcionaba bien, smail *creo* que también, pero

Re: tty con caracteres extranos

1999-03-13 Thread Hue-Bond
El jueves 11 de marzo de 1999 a la(s) 23:45:11 +, Jose Rodriguez contaba: 2) Teclear la orden: echo '\033c' No lo he probado, pero si lo dicen las FAQ, por algo será. Tiene el mismo problema que el anterior. 3) Mi favorito: Teclear ^V^O (Control-V, Control-O). Este no

Um esforcinha de ajudo

1999-03-13 Thread Brandon Gresham
Ola galeira, como vai??? Fico muito feliz com a recente distribuicao Debian (porque foi a tal distribuicao que consegui a resurretar a minha laptop antiga), a estou querendo saber se posso ajudar com um pouco traducao de manuais, FAQs, etc. Morei no Brasil alguns anos, e o ingles e minha lingua

Re: Wierd KDE Library error...?

1999-03-13 Thread Ray
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 09:45:10AM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: Just grab the source tar.gz from the tgz package tree (as in, not in the Debian section on the ftp site at all). THe KDE sources already include the debian directory by default; there's not patching necessary or anything.

unexpected inconsistency!

1999-03-13 Thread homega
I was using netscape (communicator4.5) and all of a sudden... the x-window hanged! Not even Ctrl-Alt-Backspace would work, so I had to resort to the reset button. Now, on reboot, the problem came when checking hdc6 (/home): /dev/hdc6: Unattached inode 70865 /dev/hdc6: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY;

How to run a script when disconnecting a dialup connection

1999-03-13 Thread Chris R. Martin
I know that ip-up and ip-down are run by pppd when the link is brought up or down respectively. However, ip-down is run AFTER the link is brought down. What I'd like to do is run a script or two BEFORE the link actually goes down. Using Debian 2.0. Any hints? Thanks, Chris

Re: Problems with ide-scsi emulation

1999-03-13 Thread Mark Blunier
I recently compiled a 2.2.1 kernel, (as per the cd-writing howto) and I cannot get my ide cd writter (HP 8100i on /dev/hdc) to map to any scsi device. When attempting to mount it as almost any scsi device I recieve the following error: mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sr0 as a

Quasi-mirror for local net

1999-03-13 Thread Matthew Sayler
Hello, I'm looking for a way to share a set of downloaded .deb files across a network st. they would be accessible to automatic package download. Ideally, I'd just like to export /var/cache/apt but I don't think that will work.. Has anyone done this before? Matt -- /* Matt

apt

1999-03-13 Thread Craig T. Hancock
Is there way to see what pacakges that happen to be upgraded

Re: fstab question

1999-03-13 Thread Pollywog
On 12-Mar-99 shaul wrote: I am using sudo for doing it. Perhaps the automounter can also help, but I have not tried it. I do not know if there is a way to do it with groups permitions and fstab. If there is I would also like to know.

Re: Quasi-mirror for local net

1999-03-13 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Matthew Sayler wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a way to share a set of downloaded .deb files across a network st. they would be accessible to automatic package download. Ideally, I'd just like to export /var/cache/apt

Re: Quasi-mirror for local net

1999-03-13 Thread Matthew Sayler
I remember back in '99 when George Bonser wrote: Yeah, make your own ftp archive, put the packages in there and build your own Packages file for it and point the other machines to your archive. Would love to be able to, but wouldn't I have to formally mirror ftp.debian.org, then? I neglected

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-13 Thread Ray
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 10:07:08AM -0500, Michael Stenner wrote: Take the old physicist down the hall... he has this great new thing for numerical integration. It makes many things possible that just weren't before. Why should he give a *^% about IRQs, printcaps, I/O addresses, kernel

Re: new libc6 in potato conflicts with timezones

1999-03-13 Thread David Natkins
Subject says it all. -- David Natkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: INstallatuion

1999-03-13 Thread ktb
There are a few pictures of the installation screen in The Debian Linux user's Guide put out by Linux Press. Kent Craig T. Hancock wrote: Can someone tell me where I can find pictures of the Debian installation screen I am writing a installation manual for my comapny and I would like to use

[mark.panzer@excel.net: Problems with ide-scsi emulation]

1999-03-13 Thread Ray
I recently compiled a 2.2.1 kernel, (as per the cd-writing howto) and I cannot get my ide cd writter (HP 8100i on /dev/hdc) to map to any scsi device. When attempting to mount it as almost any scsi device I recieve the following error: mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sr0 as a block

Re: network help

1999-03-13 Thread Paul Miller
G. Kapetanios wrote: Following your suggestion I pinged my gateway by IP rsther than name. The thing hang after printing a line. So maybe what you say about the card not working correctly is right. I was wondering: Win98 has no problem with recognizing and using the card. Why should Linux

Re: network help

1999-03-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: network help Date: Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 04:30:30PM + In reply to:G. Kapetanios Quoting G. Kapetanios([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Following your suggestion I pinged my gateway by IP rsther than name. The thing hang after printing a line. So maybe what you say

Re: Magicfilter and Stylus Color 640

1999-03-13 Thread Brian May
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I purchase a new printer (above model) and I'm having some troubles to get correct settings for it. I tried to use the magicfilter options (stcolor 360 and 720dpi) but the 720dpi always fails to print.

Re: Kernel 2.2.3

1999-03-13 Thread Ed Cogburn
steven walsh wrote: On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: [snip] Is a lot faster to just apply the 2.2.2 2.2.3 patches. About 350 K for the 2 or 12M for 2.2.3 Kernel. Your choice. On the other hand, i like having the full tgz around Just In Casetm. If you

mysql install error

1999-03-13 Thread Daryl Williams
folks, i have an apperantly broken installation of mysql server. this started under the old hamm version and now that i have upgraded to slink it is still there. in fact it was the only error reported during the upgrade. following are the error messages from the install. any help, tips, rtfms

kernel

1999-03-13 Thread Craig T. Hancock
hello everyone I am confused about something I saw that a kernel version known as 2.2.2 is the stable version but I thought that the 2.0.x where the stable versions and 2.1.x where the developmental 2.2.2 looks like it fits in the developmental category

Re: ergonomics question ($TERM colors)

1999-03-13 Thread mike shupp
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Ian Keith Setford wrote: Aside from personal preference, does anyone know if a certain combination of colors is better to stare at than others? I can guess, from my own experience, that white text on a black background is better than black on white. Does anybody have

Re: ergonomics question ($TERM colors)

1999-03-13 Thread Joey Hess
mike shupp wrote: Amber on black used to be recommended in Olden Times. But I'm surprised you find white on black better than black on white. The white letters stand out true, but black on white is closer to normal reading, and ought to seem less obtrusive. Normal paper doesn't glow in the

mh and piping

1999-03-13 Thread lanceh
I am new to piping commands and was hoping to get some help. I have mail in a MH folder which I wish to move to another MH folder according to if the mail was sent before a particular date. I can find the mail using pick pick +Folder1 -before 01 Feb 99 but I am not sure how to move the mail

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-13 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 reply-to reply-to... ==BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE== From: Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Stenner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 19:08:34 -0800 Reply-To: Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Priority:

Re: kernel

1999-03-13 Thread ktb
The first number is the major version number the second the minor version number the third the patch level number. An even numbered kernel such as 2.2.x is a stable version. An odd number such as 2.1.x is a development release. The patch level numbers start at 1 and are added with each

DHCP

1999-03-13 Thread Mono
My DCHP client daemon seems to spit out a crap dhcpcd-eth0.pid file on every reboot, which usually means my jack gets locked out of the network b/c of a bad IP addy. I can delete the file and run the client again and everything runs fine, but the init scripts don't seem to work. Is there

Re: ergonomics question ($TERM colors)

1999-03-13 Thread Seth M. Landsman
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 06:36:13PM -0800, mike shupp wrote: On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Ian Keith Setford wrote: Aside from personal preference, does anyone know if a certain combination of colors is better to stare at than others? I can guess, from my own experience, that white text on a

Day planners?

1999-03-13 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, now that I have X up and running on my laptop I am now looking for decent day planner software. So far all of the offerings I have come across, plan, ical, xcal, fall short. Plan looks quite good, except on my 640x480 display some of the

Re: new libc6 in potato conflicts with timezones

1999-03-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
Yeah, it looks like timezones didn't get updated with the rest of the libc6 stuff, and dselect wants to remove the old one. On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, David Natkins wrote: Subject says it all. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL

Re: fstab question

1999-03-13 Thread Matt Folwell
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 04:33:04AM -, Pollywog wrote: Is there a way for me to be able to mount both /a and /floppy on the KDE desktop (no, not at the same time)? It seems I will have to mount /a from the command line only, when I need to mount a dos floppy (not often). Do you really

hdparm

1999-03-13 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Evening all. I've been trying to get hdparm to work, but it seems ( I can not verify) unsuccessfully. I got Scorpio:/home/ryn# hdparm -i /dev/hda /dev/hda: Model=WDC AC11000H, FwRev=12.07H12, SerialNo=WD-WT364 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR5Mbs FmtGapReq }

Memory Help

1999-03-13 Thread Jesse Lee
Why will linux only recognize half of my 128 meg of ram? It reads my swap space fine but when I look in dmesg It says it only found 64 megs RAM. Thanks in advance everyone! Jesse (aka Dade)

Re: ergonomics question ($TERM colors)

1999-03-13 Thread John Hasler
Seth M. Landsman writes; Very few people I've spoken to prefer black on white over white on black. I do. I have lousy vision and I find that black on white lets me cram more stuff on the screen and still read it. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL

Re: Kernel 2.2.3

1999-03-13 Thread Marshall Savage
Yes, there are Linux 2.2x kernels in .deb format at http://netgod.net/ Follow their 2.2.3 button in the upper left hand corner of their home page. Version 2.2.3 is the one you, now, immediately get to but the older 2.2.x versions are in the archives. At 3/10/99 08:20 PM , you wrote: When

Re: Magicfilter and Stylus Color 640

1999-03-13 Thread Ray
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 01:59:15PM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: I purchase a new printer (above model) and I'm having some troubles to get correct settings for it. I tried to use the magicfilter options (stcolor 360 and 720dpi) but the 720dpi always fails to print.

Re: Boot disk swiped, how to make one?

1999-03-13 Thread Jim Bray
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, David B. Teague wrote: Folks: I installed Slink on my system but had not installed LILO to make it bootable directly from the HD. Someone swiped the boot disk. Question: Is it possible, given the contents of the /etc/fstab file and a knowledge of where the

Re: Memory Help

1999-03-13 Thread Mark Wagnon
Jesse Lee wrote: Why will linux only recognize half of my 128 meg of ram? It reads my swap space fine but when I look in dmesg It says it only found 64 megs RAM. you need to put the line: append=mem=128M in your lilo.conf and rerun lilo -- Debian_GNU/_

Re: Memory Help

1999-03-13 Thread ktb
You can add, append=mem=128m To your lilo.conf file and rerun lilo. If I remember right you can upgrade to the 2.2.x kernel and the memory will be recognized also. Hope that helps, Kent Jesse Lee wrote: Why will linux only recognize half of my 128 meg of ram? It reads my swap space fine

web link checker

1999-03-13 Thread wax_man
I'm in need of a program that can parse a bunch of linked web documents and look for any broken links. Does anyone know if such a thing exists? TIA, Chris

Re: PLEASE READ! IMPORTANT! ALL THE MEMBERS! PLEASE READ!

1999-03-13 Thread Marshall Savage
Filtering gets the email messages from the listserver into the correct separate email box. However it does nothing for the overwhelming volumn problem which threading would considerably help. Both web based discussion managers news reader programs handle treading well. For a group of this

Re: web link checker

1999-03-13 Thread Lucas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in need of a program that can parse a bunch of linked web documents and look for any broken links. Does anyone know if such a thing exists? TIA, Chris -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null check here:

Using current progs: unstable debs v tarballs

1999-03-13 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi Everyone: I will be receiving my slink CDs in the next week or so. I've noticed a few posts about the more adventurous moving to potato. I want to run the latest version of windowmaker, and there is a package in potato. I'm a little nervous about mixing portions of potato in with slink

Re: Static IP / Hostname

1999-03-13 Thread Ray
You need to ask your ISP to put you in their DNS. When someone tries to contact a host.domain.name, their computer sends a request to their ISP's DNS server. That if that DNS knows the IP that goes with that name then it sends the IP back to the person/program that requested it. If not, it

Re: C Program confused me

1999-03-13 Thread ivan
Check out sci.math the sci.math FAQ (lost the url-sorry) - the faq has extensive descriptions of several different algorithms for calculating pi. At 06:47 PM 3/12/99 +0800, Bal K. Paudyal wrote: Hello Friends, I encountered following program in one of the Linux Howtos. This calculates the

Re: Boot disk swiped, how to make one?

1999-03-13 Thread Ryan Yeske
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 12:01:10AM -0500, Jim Bray wrote: Grub, the Grand Unified Boot Loader, actually understands ext2 (altho' when I tried it it didn't do symlinks, and I like to have vmlinuz be a symlink). So if you are using Grub, these problems don't arise. Grub should eventually

debian-user-list archive in tar.gz format???

1999-03-13 Thread Ramakrishnan M
Hi, Apart from the searchable archives in the web,has anyone made a tar.gz archive of this list? I think somebody with time and resources should seriously consider doing this,since this list is an invaluable resource. ramOO

Re: Problems with .tar file

1999-03-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 03:16:49PM -0330, Greg Starkes wrote: On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it should be qt-1_42.tar (or qt-1.42.tar), not qt-1_42_tar.tar. Try renaming it ^^ ^ ^ If this doesn't work, may be it's a

Re: auto sorting mail clients

1999-03-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 12:02:11PM +0100, Nicolas PROCHAZKA wrote: Try procmail, it's very good stuff, and it's independant of your email client , an example of procmailrc : Or exim's .forward, if you're running it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: Slink CDs available - Australia

1999-03-13 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 11-Mar-1999, Richard Lyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently offering CDs 1,2 and 5 (all the binary CDs -- source will come along soon). Given the prices most people in Australia are forced to pay for net access it will almost certainly be a lot cheaper to buy the CDs than

Re: Memory Help

1999-03-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Jesse Lee wrote: Why will linux only recognize half of my 128 meg of ram? It reads my swap space fine but when I look in dmesg It says it only found 64 megs RAM. Thanks in advance everyone! Hi, If you're still running kernel 2.0.x then you need to add this to lilo.conf

Re: Kernel 2.2.3

1999-03-13 Thread steven walsh
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: [snip] If you have 2.2.1 and successfully add the 2.2.2 and 2.2.3 patches, then the end product *is* 2.2.3. Just tar it up yourself and name it as 2.2.3 tgz. Details, details. :) See you on the flip side - Steve Walsh

Re: How to run a script when disconnecting a dialup connection

1999-03-13 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
-Chris R. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] I know that ip-up and ip-down are run by pppd when the link is brought up or down respectively. However, ip-down is run AFTER the link is brought down. What I'd like to do is run a script or two BEFORE the link actually goes down. Make a script that does

Re: Book on Xwindow

1999-03-13 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
-Shawn Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Does anyone know a good book for Xwindow? I looked up O'reilly and they seems to have two of them. One for MIT version and one for Motif. I have no idea which one I should get so if anyone can recommend a book I would appreciate it. And

junkbuster acting up

1999-03-13 Thread John Leget
Greetings all Running 2.2.3 and potato I have suddenly started having problems with junkbuster, it runs from inet.d or seems to accept it doesnt work, i restored config files from a recent backup in case i had made i change in one of its config files causing the problem but no go. I now also

Re: apt

1999-03-13 Thread Remco van de Meent
Craig T. Hancock wrote: Is there way to see what pacakges that happen to be upgraded $ apt-get -s dist-upgrade HTH, -Remco

Re: ergonomics question ($TERM colors)

1999-03-13 Thread mike shupp
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Joey Hess wrote: mike shupp wrote: Amber on black used to be recommended in Olden Times. But I'm surprised you find white on black better than black on white. The white letters stand out true, but black on white is closer to normal reading, and ought to seem less

Re: Memory Help

1999-03-13 Thread mike shupp
From the Linux Hardware Compatability HOWTO v98.4, 10 November 1988 ( Patrick Reijen [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ...When you add more than 64 Mb of memory you have to add the follwing line to your LILO configuration file: append=mem=number of MbM So when

putting a WWW site and CGI-BIN on a CDROM?!

1999-03-13 Thread Chris Evans
Apologies for cross-posting to debian-user and debian-ISP but I think you're the people I need. I run a site under Apache-SSL very happily under Debian but someone wants me to run a new site for him which would have about 450 articles (journal articles), about 4m words. He and I would want

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-13 Thread Richard Lyon
I have no respect for those people. Yes, a computer is a tool. But lets drop in a few other examples. Well linux is a tool for me. I don't care a monkey about the internal workings of the kernel. Its only important to me that it works. Yes I have had to compile a kernel image to get

Re: Statistics/graphing programs for scientists?

1999-03-13 Thread Richard Lyon
I'm just about to get my doctorate in neuroscience, and I have have several large databases essential for my dissertation. For statistical analysis, I use Statistica for windows, and for graphing my data, I use SigmaPlot for windows. A call to all scientists out there - are there any native

Re: Gnome 1.0 debs?

1999-03-13 Thread Richard Lyon
Couldn't .debs that aren't 100% at least go into potato? That's what unstable is for isn't it ? Why is there this pent up frustration for always having the absolute latest versions of software? I would have thought it may be a good idea to wait a few weeks to see if others report that there

Re: Gnome 1.0 debs?

1999-03-13 Thread Richard Lyon
The staging area is not a secret, it is publically available, too, for developers and testers. Check the dtk-gnome mailling list archiv if you are interested (or devel-announce). And by testing this you make a significant worthwhile contribution to the Debian project. Whoops ... gnome

Re: ergonomics question ($TERM colors)

1999-03-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
JH == John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JH Seth M. Landsman writes; Very few people I've spoken to prefer black on white over white on black. JH I do. I have lousy vision and I find that black on white lets me JH cram more stuff on the screen and still read it. I also do. In Germany,

Re: junkbuster acting up

1999-03-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
JL == John Leget [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JL I now also get the following error when trying to fire it up again JL manually etc/init.d/junkbuster start which give me this JL # shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot JL access parent directories: Permission denied This

Re: Where to now?

1999-03-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
w == wlovett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: w I installed Debian, and it dropped me into deselect. Deselect what? w Is the question? Are the packages additional software that needs to w be down loaded or is it talking about software included within the w distribution. These are the packages which

Re: fstab question

1999-03-13 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, When I use the 'auto' filesystem type in fstab, my vfat floppies are detected as umsdos and I lose the long filenames. Is there a way around this? Andy Holmes West Sussex, England [EMAIL PROTECTED] The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!, Edmund

lilo.conf problems

1999-03-13 Thread Nicholas W Kopan
I am having problems configuring lilo to dual boot to debian and win98. I have two hard drives: Primary /dev/hda, one partition, /dev/hda1 = win98 boot FAT32 3.2Gb Secondary /dev/hdb, two partitions, /dev/hdb1 = linux boot 4.0Gb Am I having problems because I didn't make root fit in the first

I've been cracked! (hamm, 2.0.35)

1999-03-13 Thread Don Erickson
Somebody (through jhb60.jaring.my) wandered into my system, set up a user account for themselves and set up a couple of programs, eggdrop and smurf. I've not been using encrypted passwords, I understand that there are ways to derive the salt that the passwd file uses? Anyway, this person hid a

Re: web link checker

1999-03-13 Thread oneiros
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm in need of a program that can parse a bunch of linked web documents and look for any broken links. Does anyone know if such a thing exists? Linbot at http://starship.skyport.net/crew/marduk/linbot/ works very well... --

Re: web link checker

1999-03-13 Thread Colin Telmer
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, oneiros wrote: Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm in need of a program that can parse a bunch of linked web documents and look for any broken links. Does anyone know if such a thing exists? Linbot at

Re: true type fonts

1999-03-13 Thread Frank Barknecht
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay. I've got xfstt, I've got my .ttf fonts from the Windows dir. Now what? Do I just move them to /usr/share/fonts/truetype and I'm done? No, you better make a soft link if you have access to your dos partition from linux. Here it

Re: web link checker

1999-03-13 Thread oneiros
Thus spake Colin Telmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Why not just install the debianized version? I don't know about stable, but it is in unstable. Cheers. Sure, by all means. When I originally set linbot up over here it wasn't available in a debianised form. So, in addition to the tarball, you can

Re: I've been cracked! (hamm, 2.0.35)

1999-03-13 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: Somebody (through jhb60.jaring.my) wandered into my system, set up a user account for themselves and set up a couple of programs, eggdrop and smurf. I've not been using encrypted passwords, I understand that there are ways to derive the salt that the passwd file

Re: Statistics/graphing programs for scientists?

1999-03-13 Thread Ted Harding
On 12-Mar-99 Richard Lyon wrote: No free unix program is going to provide the sort of on-line help, user interface or range of analysis methods that comes with statistica. Unix applications like octave are not going to provide any better statistical analysis than a spreadsheet. You may be

Re: Apt, Dselect, and Dpkg. What's the different?

1999-03-13 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 03:49:07PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: the hierarchy is: dpkg apt dselect currently. dselect may disappear. Please, don't! :-) I know this is a ugly beast, but I learned to love it, and it will take some time for me to get used to any other. I not in the way of

Re: Kernel 2.2.3

1999-03-13 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 09:20:04PM -0600, Faton Useni wrote: When i updated slink from kernel 2.0.36 to 2.2.1 i got a kernel source package from the debian ftp site. It was a debian package. I read that there where no patches applied to the kernel source for use with debian. I am wondering

[Slightly Off-Topic] Printing from Netscape - page address

1999-03-13 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, Is there any way to get the Netscape Browser (in communicator 4.5) to include the address of the web page on the top corner of the printout. The same version of netscape but for M$ does this automatically, even when attached to a linux print server. Is there anything I can do to get this

Too New

1999-03-13 Thread Joe
I'm still trying to install Debian2.0. Here is what I'm doing. My computer boots to the CD-ROM, the rescue screen comes up. I press enter, Then I go into configure keyboard. After that I partition my second hard disk, ( first one has win98 on it)Make 1815mb for linux, 50 for swap, and should I

Re: Too New

1999-03-13 Thread shaleh
I'm still trying to install Debian2.0. Here is what I'm doing. My computer boots to the CD-ROM, the rescue screen comes up. I press enter, Then I go into configure keyboard. After that I partition my second hard disk, ( first one has win98 on it)Make 1815mb for linux, 50 for swap, and

Need advice for installing Oracle on Debian

1999-03-13 Thread Edmund Lian
I've been reading through the installation guide for Oracle 8.0.5, and I don't like what I see. It's such a memory hog that Oracle recommends tweaking the kernel parameters to allow the RDBMS to suck up vast amounts of memory. They also want four mount points at the root level, etc., etc. I need

Re: How to run a script when disconnecting a dialup connection

1999-03-13 Thread John Hasler
Ole J. Tetlie writes: Make a script that does what you want, and then takes down the links. That won't help when the link goes down for reasons other than having been poffed. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what

Re: Kernel 2.2.3

1999-03-13 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.3 Date: Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 02:01:13AM -0600 In reply to:steven walsh Quoting steven walsh([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: [snip] If you have 2.2.1 and successfully add the 2.2.2 and 2.2.3 patches, then the end

Re: Netscape Install

1999-03-13 Thread wtopa
Subject: Netscape Install Date: Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 04:28:45PM -0800 In reply to:Rob Pratt Quoting Rob Pratt([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello. Excuse the newbie question, but I'm having a tough time getting the ns-install script to run to install Netscape on a 486 machine. The

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-13 Thread William Schwartz
I know that everyone loves to hate Microsoft, and its Windows products. I know they are an easy target becuase they make a very successful product that has quite a few problems. They are a big corporation that controls the pc industry. and Linux is the underdog... All of this makes Windows VERY

Re: I've been cracked! (hamm, 2.0.35)

1999-03-13 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Don Erickson wrote: Somebody (through jhb60.jaring.my) wandered into my system, set up a user account for themselves and set up a couple of programs, eggdrop and smurf. Typically this is done by script kiddies who aren't particularly good computer users, but they take

Mozilla Fault

1999-03-13 Thread Rob Pratt
Hello. I got Mozilla installed from Debian packages, but when I run it, it creates two small windows (in fvwm95) then closes and returns the message, Segmentation fault. Can anyone help me troubleshoot this one? Rob Pratt

Debian GNU/Linux -- Getting in Contact with Us

1999-03-13 Thread r . sabre
we have a Ultrasparc 10 station and i would buy debian linux for UltaSparc. Is it possible ? thank you for ask me. answer in french if possible please.

ssh problem on potato

1999-03-13 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! I have a fresh potato install and I cannot log in to the machine from a remote host using ssh. I get an error message like this: Warning: Remote host failed or refused to allocate a pseudo tty. What can be worng? feri.

Re: Too New

1999-03-13 Thread sjb
go to www.linux.org and click on documentation, go to the LDP pages and download (and read) the Getting Started guide -- Sarel Botha On Sat, 13 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm still trying to install Debian2.0. Here is what I'm doing. My computer boots to the CD-ROM, the rescue

Re: PLEASE READ! IMPORTANT! ALL THE MEMBERS! PLEASE READ!

1999-03-13 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 10:16:17PM -0700, Marshall Savage wrote: Filtering gets the email messages from the listserver into the correct separate email box. However it does nothing for the overwhelming volumn problem which threading would considerably help. Both web based discussion

Re: true type fonts

1999-03-13 Thread sjb
I once saw a page plenty of TrueType fonts for (free?) download, don't remember the pointer, but may be worth to do a search. fonts.themes.org is nice :) -- Sarel Botha

Re: size of swap

1999-03-13 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 02:59:18PM -0800, mike shupp wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Armin Wegner wrote: I've got 128 megs ram. Which size should I choose for the swap partition? Apparantly Linux can't use more than 128 M in a swap partition, even if it happens to be larger, so... You can

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