Fwd: Re: Tema del Kde

2000-02-20 Thread Agustin MuNoz
Pego esa parte, la tienes completa con links a los mensajes en English en: http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2000/4/index.es.html ---8--- Por increíble que parezca, ha surgido otro debate en debian-devel sobre la licencia de KDE. Comenzó con un simple pregunta: ¿Porqué KDE no está en

Re: Fwd: Re: Tema del Kde

2000-02-20 Thread Jordi
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 12:54:28AM +0100, Agustin MuNoz wrote: Obviamente, yo preferiría que KDE estuviera incluido en Debian, pero no creo que haya ningún problema con la licencia mientras que ellos piensan que sí (aunque todo el resto de las distribuciones ya ha visto que no lo hay), así que

Re: Red Casera

2000-02-20 Thread Daniel H. Perez
* [2219 17:19] Antonio Beamud Montero ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) decia: [...] 4- Añadir 2 scripts para cuando se levante la conexión a internet, que son: (llamalos como quieras dentro de /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/) #!/bin/sh ipchains -P forward DENY ipchains -A forward -s

Re: Sugerencias a la traduccion de Powered by

2000-02-20 Thread Cosme P. Cuevas
El Fri, Feb 18, 2000, Fernando... Si alguien tiene buenas ideas para un eslogan, que hable ahora o calle para siempre :-) En ese caso: A través de Debian Liderando con Debian (pelín fantasmón) A la vanguardia con Debian (ídem) Superándonos con Debian (este alude a la noción de

Sugerencias a la traduccion de Powered by

2000-02-20 Thread Alvarez Ricardo Marcelo
Podria ser: Potenciado por Debian. No se me ocurre ningun otro por ahora Pero es mas dificil de lo que parece encontrar un buen eslogan. Saludos.

Re: Red Casera

2000-02-20 Thread Joan Cirer
On 19 Feb 2000, Antonio Beamud Montero wrote: Pookie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gracias a todos... el tema SMTP (exim) y POP3 (qpopper) ya esta resuelto ahora me queda configurar el ip masquerading, ya que ahora tengo cern-httpd haciendo de proxy, y no es todo lo elegante que

Re: Red Casera

2000-02-20 Thread Joan Cirer
On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Pookie wrote: Bueno el caso es que tengo IP fija, referenciada por DNS con dom6-52.menta.net por lo tanto los mails son [EMAIL PROTECTED] El caso es que me han enviado varios mails, de los cuales aun no he recibido ni uno, excepto los que me envio yo, ya sea con

Qt 2 para Slink

2000-02-20 Thread Ricardo Villalba
Tan solo comentar que he subido a mi web las librerías Qt 2.0.2 de potato compiladas para slink (libqt2 y libqt2-dev, la documentación, qt2-doc, todavía no porque el fichero ocupa más de 3 megas, pero lo podeis coger de potato por no depender de ninguna librerías). También he puesto el Qt

Netscape y acentos.

2000-02-20 Thread hcl
El netscape composer ( en slink ) no quiere saber nada de los acentos, recuerdo que hace un par de meses sea habló del tema. He estado buscando en los mailbox que tengo guardados pero lo he debido borrar. ¿ Recuerda alguien como arreglarlo ? ¿ Hay alguna version que haga esto bien ?

Re: Red Casera

2000-02-20 Thread Pookie
Bueno el caso es que tengo IP fija, referenciada por DNS con dom6-52.menta.net por lo tanto los mails son [EMAIL PROTECTED] El caso es que me han enviado varios mails, de los cuales aun no he recibido ni uno, excepto los que me envio yo, ya sea con MI smtp o con el de MENTA (mi

Re: Red Casera

2000-02-20 Thread Pookie
Recuerdo que intente configurarlo (el masquerade) y no me sali Podriais ayudarme (y que no sea a base de HOWTOs plz) Hola! ¿Por qué no pruebas el paquete ipmasq (ipmasq_3.4.3_all.deb)? El mismo te instala todas las reglas del ip masquerading que salen en HOWTO y se encarga de

Re: Oracle 815

2000-02-20 Thread Luis Clausell
Yep Netman! El Tue, 15 de Feb de 2000 a las 01:48 AM, Netman escribió: Ahora se trataría de saber cuál ese el origen del error 'Cannot open /proc/02253 for GC' para saber contra qué paquete hay que emitir el bug. ¿Contra java, kernel, libc6? Después de instalar Oracle con el kernel

Problemas tipo Windows con la televisión

2000-02-20 Thread Roberto Ruisánchez Mazo
Hola Debianautas, Me pasa una cosa rarisima con la televisión... A ver si a alguno os ha pasado y habeis conseguido arreglarlo, porque a mi me supera!! Tengo una EasyTV sobre un kernel 2.2.13, y uso el Kwintv. El asunto es que cuando arranco la televisión por primera vez se abre la ventana del

Acentuação na Debian 2.2 Potato

2000-02-20 Thread Fernando César Carreira
Carlos Henrique Santos Laviola wrote: Estou tendo problemas para configurar acentuação corretamente no X. No Netscape a situação é a mais crítica, pois não posso utilizar o til, nem o ', nem qualquer outra dead key (eu tentei alguns scripts que prometem acentuação fácil hehe). Estou com

Re: SMP

2000-02-20 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... somebody on the debian-user-de-list said that she uses 2 K6 on a dual P5 board Yes, I've heard (she posted here once). All the documentation I've seen for dual P5 boards, and all those that I've talked to, say that such a machine

Re: Gimp Stable

2000-02-20 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 04:06:09PM +0200, Martin Fluch wrote: On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Ioa Petra wrote: The reason I would ask for such an except is because 1.0.4, the current potato stable is so -drastically- out of date. Seeing

iso image

2000-02-20 Thread TaoX { Brian Hinson; }
Is there a place where I can download iso image(s) of the current or potato distro of Debian? Thanks -- www.muhri.net/TaoX [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 61511769 AOL IM: TaoX 0x1 - thats the whole thing, space included, not seperate names!

Re: spice (fwd)

2000-02-20 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
The source of SPICE for Linux may be found almost everywhere. Just connect to any archie service (eg. http://archie.luth.se) and enter the spice3f5sfix.tar.gz as a search string. You'll get a lot of location to download it from. I've downloaded it from:

Installation Problem

2000-02-20 Thread Justin Megawarne
When I try to install Debian 2.1 (slink) by booting off the rescue disk, after loading the md driver it freezes up. I tried booting it on my old 486, and the thing loaded after the above mentioned driver was something to do with PCI. On my 486 it just gave me some PCI error, and happily carried

Re: Pronounciation of Linux that important? - curiosity about origin

2000-02-20 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Eric G . Miller egm2@jps.net Was it just an odd perception of how the letters l-i-n-u-x would be pronounced? Well, this poor sap, never having heard the word pronouned, and before hearing the Linn-Uhks vs. Lie-nucks debates, came up with the Lie-nucks pronunciation based on

Re: Newbie made a boo boo surprise surprise

2000-02-20 Thread kmself
On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 04:41:55PM -0600, Ian Timshel wrote: Hi all. I've been lurking for a bit but can't keep the pace on this most active list. I get nasty messages from the postmaster so I'm not subscribed regularly. Please reply privately if you would. Many people consider requests

roxen webserver problems

2000-02-20 Thread Högman
Hi, I just installed the Roxen webserver in order to check it out, but when I pointed my browser to the standardized address (http://moonspell.nowhere:19656) it seems that I can't connect to the server. Any clues? It's kinda fresh-of-the-deb-install, so basically I'd at least like to be able to

roxen webserver problems

2000-02-20 Thread Högman
Hi, I just installed the Roxen webserver in order to check it out, but when I pointed my browser to the standardized address (http://moonspell.nowhere:19656) it seems that I can't connect to the server. Any clues? It's kinda fresh-of-the-deb-install, so basically I'd at least like to be able to

Newbie boo boo

2000-02-20 Thread Ian Timshel
OK, I'm not the kind of the linux rescue, but here I go. :) Basicly, you need some space to do anything. (I'm assuming you have everything mounted on one partition - If that is not true, you have a different problem And- off-list responses to be bad nettiquette. Collective brain, etc. I'm

Re: Newbie made a boo boo surprise surprise

2000-02-20 Thread Lane Lester
On 20 Feb 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: Suggestion: wipe your install, install a base system, add packages a few at a time, and get used to your system. You'll have a much better understanding, and a much more stable system, this way. I'm a Linux fairly-newbie, and your advice

Lilo gets wiped off /mbr

2000-02-20 Thread ktb
This problem just started on my computer. I had Slackware installed using lilo with no problems. I had no problems with Slink for a day and now when I reboot lilo doesn't come up. I have to use my boot floppy and boot into Slink rerun /sbin/lilo and then I can boot properly into Windows 98 or

Re: Graphics tablet pen + psaux mouse

2000-02-20 Thread W. Paul Mills
Horacio MG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : On monday, Jan 17, 2000, David Wright said: : Quoting J Horacio MG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): : I acquired a graphics tablet and a ps/2 mouse. I wonder if it's : possible to have them both working together, or whether there's another : solution to it. : : The

LinuxBar Grouup

2000-02-20 Thread Huberto Pava
Dear Debian Group: We are a New group interested in the difussion of the knowledge of linux operative system in the latin american area, specifically in Colombia where linux is just shamely appearing, but there is not so much information about the products, so we are trying to get the more

Re: Question on installing packages and upgrading

2000-02-20 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 07:30:00PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: . . . But it wants a whole debian tree, not just some additional packages. I can install the packages manually, but this involves a lot of dpkg -I or checking the dependencies first. . . . . . . New packages for wmaker etc.

Re: What's the difference between kernel-image-2.2.14-ide and kernel-image-2.2.14?

2000-02-20 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What's the difference between kernel-image-2.2.14-ide and kernel-image-2.2.14? The descriptions of those packages in /var/lib/dpkg/available are identical. There are some IDE-related kernel patches; that -ide kernel apparently

smail can't receive mails

2000-02-20 Thread Daniel Yang
Hi, everyone I installed smail on my linux server. I didn't do a lot of configuration on smail and I am able to send email through smail. However, I can't receive any email from outside of domain.Here is the details.The domain is called snacker.net Here is my DNS record looks like.

Re: SMP

2000-02-20 Thread aphro
On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Phil Brutsche wrote: pbruts Yes, I've heard (she posted here once). All the documentation I've seen pbruts for dual P5 boards, and all those that I've talked to, say that such a pbruts machine can't exist. pbruts pbruts I'd like to hear how it was done - maybe it'll work

[no subject]

2000-02-20 Thread TaoX { Brian Hinson; }
Ok, I found a place that offers the potato distro as a cd-image... but all the other distros have .iso as the extension, and I'm use to seeing that, but for some reason its cd-image for the potato is .raw? is this equiv to a .iso or will I need some special software or something? I had planned on

Re: Lilo gets wiped off /mbr

2000-02-20 Thread Eric G . Miller
It would help if you posted your /etc/lilo.conf. My first guess is it's installing lilo on the second disk, rather than the first. -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc

Re: Newbie boo boo

2000-02-20 Thread Andrew Chung
Valid xdm at boot. GNU/Linux login screen. Once logged in it kicks me back to a textured screen with a mouse curser to play with but nothing else. ^alt bksp takes me back to the GUI log in screen. ^alt F1 takes me to a console with no error messages. When I log on there (as root)

Re: K6 Optimized Debian Binaries

2000-02-20 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 10:14:05PM -0500, S. Salman Ahmed wrote: I would like to recompile kernel 2.2.14 with the extra C flags -march=i686 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer to see what effect it has on speed and performance. Think those flags get set in the Makefile (well, not -03) by choosing the

Re: LinuxBar Grouup

2000-02-20 Thread Eric G . Miller
See http://www.debian.org/index.es.html for information en Español. -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++

Re: Newbie mistakes

2000-02-20 Thread kmself
On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 09:21:36PM -0600, Ian Timshel wrote: I'm up and subscribed. Thanks to all who were kind enough to tolerate my post De nada. On request: slow down and space out your paragraphs. Dense text is hard to read. I'm having some problems after a smooth installation of

No mouse in PowerShell (and Gnome Terminal).

2000-02-20 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I am currently using PowerShell (and Gnome Terminal) with Midnight Commander as my preferred file manager. The problem is that I can not use my mouse to control MC as I am used to from wterm (and also other terminals). I do have a sluggish slow mouse control initially, but if I for

Should I use squid?

2000-02-20 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, would I gain anything by setting up, and configure my browser to use squid as a proxy on my workstation. I'm running Debian unstable. TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org ICQ 3945810

Re: Should I use squid?

2000-02-20 Thread Robert L. Harris
If you have only 1 machine, the only benefit would be the ease of adding Ad Zapper. If you hvae more than one in use, it could definitely be a benefit.The difference on my fir apt-get, http and ftp is noticable, especially with Ad Zapper. Pages load ALOT faster. Robert Thus spake

Newbi window manager configure

2000-02-20 Thread Ian Timshel
Thank-you all. I feel the frustration subsiding. Also the notes on density of text etc. appreciated. Trick: http://localhost/doc/ should point to your documentation Love that! Once your system has booted, you can run the command dmesg to capture the kernel ring buffer output. This should

Re: Newbie mistakes

2000-02-20 Thread Brad
On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 09:04:39PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: I also disable gdm and xdm by deleting the corresponding [SK][0-9][0-9]gdm files from /etc/rc.d/ You can leave the /etc/init.d scripts alone. Alternatively, you can run: /etc/init.d/gdm stop ...and/or whatever

Re: Lilo gets wiped off /mbr

2000-02-20 Thread ktb
Here it is: boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hdb1 compact install=/boot/boot.b delay=40 map=/boot/map vga=4 image=/vmlinuz label=slink read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=win98 Thanks, kent - Original Message - From: Eric G . Miller egm2@jps.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent:

Re: Lilo gets wiped off /mbr

2000-02-20 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 01:05:57AM -0600, ktb wrote: Here it is: boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hdb1 compact install=/boot/boot.b delay=40 map=/boot/map vga=4 Take it that number means something on your system... image=/vmlinuz label=slink read-only other=/dev/hda1

Re: spice

2000-02-20 Thread Paolo Nenzi
If you are interested in a versioneof spice that works on Potato, try to look at http://ieee.ing.uniroma1.it/ngspice. It is not debianized but works on Potato. Paolo

Problelm with mounting of partitions

2000-02-20 Thread Thomas Delaet
Hey everyone, I have troubles mounting my /var filesystem. This is my fstab file # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # file system mount point type options dump pass /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda2 none

Re: your mail

2000-02-20 Thread aphro
use cdrecord (or X cd roast which uses cdrecord) dunno if other programs can burn it. easy cd creator has a history of screwing up bootable cds when burnt using it. dont know if they fixed it. nate On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, TaoX { Brian Hinson; } wrote: brianh Ok, I found a place that offers the

Re: Should I use squid?

2000-02-20 Thread aphro
On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Christian Dysthe wrote: cdysth Hi, cdysth cdysth would I gain anything by setting up, and configure my browser to cdysth use squid as a proxy on my workstation. cdysth cdysth I'm running Debian unstable. i do it, at the same time if your using netscape/X11 it may be good

Re: Apt-get through proxy

2000-02-20 Thread Markus Fischer
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 10:36:02AM +0100, Radim Gelner wrote : How do I instruct apt-get to use a proxy server instead of directly contacting the host? Just a sidenote, there is also a small utility called apt-proxy which re-creates a local mirror of all downloaded debian packages

Re: Should I use squid?

2000-02-20 Thread kmself
On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 10:30:19PM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: If you have only 1 machine, the only benefit would be the ease of adding Ad Zapper. If you hvae more than one in use, it could definitely be a benefit.The difference on my fir apt-get, http and ftp is noticable,

Re: Problelm with mounting of partitions

2000-02-20 Thread Markus Fischer
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 09:07:29AM +0100, Thomas Delaet wrote : I have troubles mounting my /var filesystem. [...] /dev/hdc2 /var ext2 defaults 0 1 [...] And when I start up I got the message : filesystem not cleanly unmounted Maybe your

Re: /usr/doc vs /usr/share/doc

2000-02-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 11:13:52AM -0500, Marc Sherman wrote: Some packages install their docs in /usr/share/doc, but don't add a symlink to /usr/doc -- is it ok for me to manually add those symlinks after installation, or will that cause problems with dpkg when it tries to update or remove

Re: how to mark package hold

2000-02-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 07:01:48PM +0200, Martin Fluch wrote: Im still wondering, why ther is no --hold/unhold option in dpkg. IMHO this is somehow inconsistant. This step is not that unusual. Wishlistbug? this works fine for me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ cat /usr/local/sbin/dhold #! /bin/sh

Re: FTP overwrite

2000-02-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 02:52:20PM -0500, Andrew Chung wrote: How do you allow FTP clients, when uploading files, to overwrite same existing files on the server? I understand that some FTP servers have the /etc/ftpaccess, which I don't see under my etc directory. The only one that I is

Re: Problelm with mounting of partitions

2000-02-20 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 09:07:29AM +0100, Thomas Delaet wrote: Hey everyone, I have troubles mounting my /var filesystem. This is my fstab file # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # file system mount point type options dump pass /dev/hda1 /

Re: roxen webserver problems

2000-02-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* Martin == Högman Martin wrote: Martin I just installed the Roxen webserver in order to check it out, Martin but when I pointed my browser to the standardized address Martin (http://moonspell.nowhere:19656) it seems that I can't connect Martin to the server. Check that it is indeed running

How to apt-get gnome

2000-02-20 Thread Lane Lester
Is there a single command to apt-get that will fetch all of the latest gnome basic system packages? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Corel Linux

I have repackaged TkMan unofficially.

2000-02-20 Thread Shaul Karl
I have repackaged TkMan. It is an unofficial package for woody (unstable). TkMan is a graphical, hypertext manual page and Texinfo browser for UNIX. More information about TkMan is at http.cs.berkeley.edu/~phelps/tcltk/. It used to be in the non-free/doc section but has been orphaned by its

Re: OT: Free-Quake

2000-02-20 Thread Frank Barknecht
Lars Weber hat gesagt: // Lars Weber wrote: Question: Is someone already doing this? (AFAIKT this is out of the scope of the Quakeforge project, but I'm not sure) Open Quartz is a project to supply GPL'ed artwork in the form of PAK and WAD files to create a fully GPL game based

Re: Squid

2000-02-20 Thread Onno
Please take a look at the order you placed the http_access rule in, it does matter! Regards, Onno At 01:38 PM 2/19/00 +, Sven Gaerner wrote: Hi, I want to to deny the access of some domains like microsoft.com... I added the following lines to /etc/squid.conf acl MSDOMAIN dstdomain

Apt-get Confusion

2000-02-20 Thread Lane Lester
According to the apt-get man page: install install is followed by one or more packages desired for installation. Each package is a package name, not a fully qualified filename (for instance, in a Debian GNU/Linux system, ldso would be the argument provided, not

Re: How to apt-get gnome

2000-02-20 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a single command to apt-get that will fetch all of the latest gnome basic system packages? apt-get install task-gnome-desktop ... should do the job. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question on installing packages and upgrading

2000-02-20 Thread Jean-Philippe Guérard
Le 2000-02-19 19:30:00 +0100, Alex Schuster écrivait : I am using Debian stable for some weeks now, but there still are so many things I don't really understand, for example the installation of debian packages. I know how to use dselect, and I can also use dpkg. But how do I, for example,

The singer Teresa Teng information (¾HÄR§g)

2000-02-20 Thread tuba0123
English: The singer Teresa Teng information Thanks your time for this brief message. Please delete if this cause you any trouble. My dear lady and gentlemen, Good day! (This is not advertisement, nor commerce. All you have to do is reply) On May 8, 2000, it will be the 5th anniversary since

Re: debian-mirror: inconsistency

2000-02-20 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerhard Kroder) wrote: i noticed during lookup packages for hylafax* that there seems to be some inconsistency about recent changes to file system structure and symlinks on debian ftp mirrors. hylafax is accessible from stable/ and unstable/, but stable/ still is slink and

modem in bash

2000-02-20 Thread Michael Zielinski
I am trying to get my Practical Periphials 28.8 external modem working under Debian 2.1. I have followed the examples in O'Relly's Running Linux and created the following files in /etc/ppp: my-chat-script #!/bin/sh # my-chat-script: a program for dialing up your ISP exec chat -v \ ''

Configuring x-windows for EGA

2000-02-20 Thread Eric Hagglund
I'm trying to get a 486dx set up with X-windows. The monitor I'm using is a NEC Multisynch JC1401-P3A EGA that was manufactured when Ronald Reagan was peaking in popularity (in the U.S. at least, before Oliver North eclipsed him; no I'm not kidding :). I have installed Debian 1.3.1 onto a 500 meg

Woody upgrade wants to remove ppp-pam. Should I let it?

2000-02-20 Thread Phillip Deackes
When I do 'apt-get dist-upgrade' on my already-woody system I get the following: The following packages will be REMOVED: ppp-pam I am too scared to carry on. Is this a problem or is there something else to replace ppp-pam? Cheers. -- Phillip Deackes Using Debian Linux

Re: Apt-get Confusion

2000-02-20 Thread Ron Rademaker
Have you tried 'apt-get -f install', I've had similar problems also and apt-get -f install solves most... Ron On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Lane Lester wrote: According to the apt-get man page: install install is followed by one or more packages desired for installation. Each package

Re: Woody upgrade wants to remove ppp-pam. Should I let it?

2000-02-20 Thread Sean Johnson
Phillip Deackes wrote: When I do 'apt-get dist-upgrade' on my already-woody system I get the following: The following packages will be REMOVED: ppp-pam I am too scared to carry on. Is this a problem or is there something else to replace ppp-pam? Remember, apt-cache is your friend

Re: Squid

2000-02-20 Thread Randy Edwards
Does anyone have an idea to solve this?? Sorry Sven, I don't. But as one who's played with using Squid's ACL functions, I'll suggest a different strategy. In the Squid docs on ACL you'll find descriptions of an option to reference out to a file to get blocked URLs and/or domains. When I

Re: Question on installing packages and upgrading

2000-02-20 Thread Randy Edwards
But how do I, for example, install a newer version of windowmaker or netscape? There are several .deb packages, and I don't know which of them to use. Just use dselect, browse through the various descriptions of the *.deb files. If all else fails, just try it -- the worse you'll do is

Re: roxen webserver problems

2000-02-20 Thread Högman
Check that it is indeed running with ps axf | grep pike. Check /var/log/roxen/debug/default.1 (or .2). Check you have tried the correct port (grep ConfigurationURL /etc/roxen/Global_Variables). Right. It seems I found the problem (around 3:30am, but that's another story). Strangely, I got no

Sawmill/Gnome raising windows

2000-02-20 Thread Randy Edwards
Here's my stupid question for the day (I'm allotted one per day, aren't I?!:-). How can I configure Sawmill/Gnome so that a window will rise to the top if I click on the title bar? I prefer a sloppy focus, one where I can move the mouse over a window and have it in focus. However, I

Re: modem in bash

2000-02-20 Thread John Hasler
Michael Zielinski writes: I am trying to get my Practical Periphials 28.8 external modem working under Debian 2.1. Run pppconfig as root, answer the questions, and then run 'pon' to start ppp and 'poff' to stop it. man pppconfig, man pon, man poff. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing

Re: Question on installing packages and upgrading

2000-02-20 Thread Alex Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink) wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 07:30:00PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: So, what would I need to do to get an up to date system? Without being online for days (which costs some money here). Or is potato finished very soon? To answer your question: if you're

Re: Rationale behind the groups dip and dialout

2000-02-20 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
John Hasler wrote: Setuid root also makes it possible for the secrets files to be readable only by root, and for pppd to use the serial ports without the user having access to them. Pppd drops root privileges as soon as it doesn't need them. So root can give users on the system access to a

Re: Sawmill/Gnome raising windows

2000-02-20 Thread Phillip Deackes
Randy Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's my stupid question for the day (I'm allotted one per day, aren't I?!:-). How can I configure Sawmill/Gnome so that a window will rise to the top if I click on the title bar? By default, the window will rise to the top if you click the

Re: afterstep

2000-02-20 Thread Cormac McGuinness
Hi there Sorry! I didnt notice this topic on debian-user. I had the exact same problem and found the same solution as you and I filed a bug report for the afterstep package last week. Cormac On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 11:25:36AM -0600, Timothy C. Phan wrote: Hi, I finally figure what was

Getting the wm working?

2000-02-20 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
OK Installed from frozen. Installed wmaker but when I try to startx, just the standard xinit screen appears. I guess there is some config programm I should run, I have tried register-window-manager, but no results, when I run x-window-manager, wmaker starts. Is there something I'm missing here,

eth0--what's up?

2000-02-20 Thread Fish Smith
Whoo--I saw the Matrix last night, quite a trip. On to business. What exactly is eth0? From the way I've seen it discussed I always presumed it was a device node, residing in the /dev directory, just as ttyS1 is my modem, ttyS0 is my mouse, hda is my first hard drive, hdd is my cdrom. But

Re: Soundblaster AWE64

2000-02-20 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Michael Symalla wrote: Hi, I think that won't solve my problem as my AWE64 is not an pci device ;-( As far as I understood the help for the es1370 driver, it is for pci soundcards. On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 02:04:47PM +0100, Darlock wrote: It's not the same case,

Re: Apt-get Confusion

2000-02-20 Thread Lane Lester
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: Have you tried 'apt-get -f install', I've had similar problems also and apt-get -f install solves most... Is that safe? I seem to recall doing that once some time ago, and it mangled my system. It would still run, but I recall an awful lot of stuff got

any clear description of sources.list format and apt interpretation?

2000-02-20 Thread Daniel Barclay
Where can I get a clear and consistent specification of how apt-get interprets a sources.list file? I'm having trouble figuring out which GNOME-for-slink and KDE-for-link releases (e.g., at kde.tydc.com) I can use with apt-get and how to write the sources.list entries. The source.list manual

How to get GNOME as a WindowManager???

2000-02-20 Thread Morten Trab
How do I instal GNOME as a windowsmanager??? /JPS2MT

LILO error

2000-02-20 Thread Morten Trab
How do I repair my LILO??? When I boot, it just says LI and then stops... I have to boot via the RESCUE disc... /JPS2MT

How to install a second NIC

2000-02-20 Thread Morten Trab
How do I install a second NIC??? I only know the IRQ of it, NOT the IO address... HOW can I install it??? /JPS2MT

Re: How to get GNOME as a WindowManager???

2000-02-20 Thread Francois Deppierraz
Morten Trab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I instal GNOME as a windowsmanager??? GNOME is not a window manager. It's a collection of progs and libs. But if you want to use the gnome panel with X-Window, you should put the following line in $HOME/.xinitrc. exec gnome-session --

Re: Apt-get Confusion

2000-02-20 Thread Ron Rademaker
I've done it a few times and never had any real trouble, once it did delete a few packages I actually wanted to keep, but afterwards I just reinstalled them and all was fine. Ron On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Lane Lester wrote: On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: Have you tried 'apt-get -f

Re: LILO error

2000-02-20 Thread Ron Rademaker
Try adding the line: linear to your /etc/lilo.conf, run lilo and it should work fine. Ron On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Morten Trab wrote: How do I repair my LILO??? When I boot, it just says LI and then stops... I have to boot via the RESCUE disc... /JPS2MT

Re: PCMCIA Network Installation

2000-02-20 Thread Dave Whiteley
I think that I have now successfully installed a PCMCIA network card on my IBM thinkpad 380d. I used the most recent copy of the potato boot disks. What I did find was that it was vital that the card was not plugged in during initial software installation. Only after you have completed the

ftpable GNOME for slink?

2000-02-20 Thread Daniel Barclay
Is there any archive of GNOME packages built for Slink that is accessible by FTP? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

POSIX tar archive

2000-02-20 Thread lbianca
a friend asked me to extract a text file from a floppy unix formatted. I can see this file looking with mc (is a little data base of pc spare parts) in /dev/fd0, but i can't mount the floppy: no vfat, no ext2, no sysv. The command file /tmp/foo produces this output: POSIX tar archive but the

low mem boot disks

2000-02-20 Thread Wakko Warner
slink was the last debian dist with lowmem boot disks, where have they gone? Don't tell me that the programs have gotten so big they won't work on a 2-4mb machine. -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals

Re: SMP

2000-02-20 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Phil Brutsche wrote: pbruts Yes, I've heard (she posted here once). All the documentation I've seen pbruts for dual P5 boards, and all those that I've talked to, say that such a pbruts machine can't exist. pbruts pbruts I'd like to hear how it was done -

Re: any clear description of sources.list format and apt interpretation?

2000-02-20 Thread Brad
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 01:57:53PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: Where can I get a clear and consistent specification of how apt-get interprets a sources.list file? Read the source? ... Actually, i don't think it's explicitly stated anywhere else. What is unclear is exactly how apt-get

Re: Question on installing packages and upgrading

2000-02-20 Thread John Hasler
Alex Schuster writes: But how would one do this? Go online, enter apt-get dist-upgrade, and wait for well, a too long time. You don't have to upgrade everything at once. Just do 'apt-get update' and then use 'apt-get install package' to upgrade what you need. Apt will take care of any

Re: Rationale behind the groups dip and dialout

2000-02-20 Thread John Hasler
Viktor writes: So root can give users on the system access to a PPP connection without letting them know, what the user name and password for that account is. Makes sense, although it's not aplicable to my situation, because I can't use PAP/CHAP and it wouldn't work with a chat script. You

How to get bo packages?

2000-02-20 Thread Tom Kuiper
Greetings. I'm still running `bo' and I would like to get a few additional packages. 'dselect' doesn't work anymore because it can't find Packages.gz anyway. I've poked around myself with ftp and with Netscape, and I can't find a bo distribution with a Packages.gz file. What can I do? I know

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