Re: sobre bases de datos

1998-11-23 Thread JuanjoC \(PianoTuner\)
Ugo Enrico Albarello wrote: El Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 04:20:41PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: Tengo DBaseV para DOS, ¿sería posible usarlo desde Linux? ¿existe DB para Linux? y por último, aunque muy fuera de lugar, ¿conoce alguien una lista para DBase? Dile adiós a DBase e instala

Re: instalacion postgres

1998-11-23 Thread Hernan Mauricio Velasquez Nino
On Sun, 22 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola: Estoy toda la tarde intentando instalar el postgres. El paquete postresql no hay manera. Me da error con todos los cds que he probado:datom, linux actual y otro que me pasaron. ¿es problema de mis cds, o es que hay problema con el

Re: Problemas con Mutt

1998-11-23 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 08:36:09PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Estoy intentando usar Mutt en lugar de Elm-me+, que es el que uso ahora. A Mutt le dí como mailbox /var/spool/mail/homega, que es donde estaba el correo. La primera vez que ejecuto Mutt, me encuentro con todos los mensajes

Re: Permiso denegado a /var/log/messages

1998-11-23 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 07:54:41PM +0100, Ignacio J. Alonso wrote: Hasta ahora he mandado mis correos normalmente, usando un script llamado ineton en el que los mensajes de la conexión se almacenan en /var/log/messages, pero hace unos dias cambié el horario de cron que nunca se me había

Re: mas instalación postgres

1998-11-23 Thread TooManySecrets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] el día Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 08:46:37PM +0100 expuso lo siguiente: Hola: He intentado borrar el archivo antiguo, pues me lo he bajado por ftp. tampoco me dej borrarlo mensaje: dpkg -r postgresql dpkg: error processing postgresql (--remove): Package is in a very

Re: PROBLEMAS CON EL XWINDOWS Y DEBIAN 2.0 ( hamm )

1998-11-23 Thread Herranz Martin Rogelio
Lo que pasa es que en las ultimas versiones, en concreto con la del hamm, pues la S3 Virge usa el servidor SVGA en vez del S3V. MadBit [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez wrote: Hola : No he logrado hacer trabajar bien el Xfree86 ( X windows ) el

En busca del fichero perdido.

1998-11-23 Thread Jose Luis Trivino
Hola, Estoy intentando recompilar el apache de hamm con soporte para php2 (ya que hamm solo incluye php3). Sin embargo, al compilar me dice que no encuentra el script dh_installdocs. Alguien sabe a que paquete pertenece ese script. Hasta mas bits, --

Re: Infovia Plus + CROSS

1998-11-23 Thread Jordi Roman Mejias
Muy mal lo de CROSS-POSTING, es que te pueden canear ! Alfonso Pastor wrote: Hola, hace 2 minutos he intentado mi primera conexion con Infovia Plus a través del nodo de pueblo. Para ello he sustituido el ATDT055 de mi chatscript por ATDT901505055 (que es el numero para los que no tenemos

Re: Fetchmail ni es daemon ni es nada

1998-11-23 Thread Paco Brufal
On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Ismael Valladolid wrote: Hasta hoy siempre utilizaba fetchmail de manera interactiva. Al final hoy me he decidido a configurarlo como daemon para automatizar la descarga de correo. Con fetchmail -d segundos ya lo tienes corriendo como demonio. Cada segundos

Sin ratón en svgalib

1998-11-23 Thread jarregui
Hola a todos: Por primera vez me he metido a probar programitas para svgalib (zgv, algunos juegos...). El problema que tengo es que, entrando como usuario normal, falla la inicialización del ratón. Todo lo demás va bien, pero no tengo ratón. Lo he probado con el gpm corriendo y sin correr, con

RE: En busca del fichero perdido.

1998-11-23 Thread jarregui
El paquete debhelper. -- De: Jose Luis Trivino[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: lunes 23 de noviembre de 1998 11:47 Para: 'Lista de Debian' Asunto: En busca del fichero perdido. Hola, Estoy intentando recompilar el apache de hamm con soporte para php2

Re: mas instalación postgres

1998-11-23 Thread Agustín Martín Domingo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dpkg -r postgresql dpkg: error processing postgresql (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: postgresql lo mismo si hago un --purge intento

Re: linuxero entre infieles

1998-11-23 Thread Jose Eugenio Marchesi Corcostegui
On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Ugo Enrico Albarello wrote: El Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 02:35:22PM +, Jose E. Marchesi Corcostegui dijo: [bla, bla, bla... :) ] Por supuesto que seria `posible` un programa de gestion de paquetes .deb, con ventanitas, iconitos, botoncitos, y punietitas, y seria

Re: AfterStep al poder.

1998-11-23 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 09:42:07AM +, Jose E. Marchesi Corcostegui dijo: Bajo mi querido AfterStep, los clientes se vuelven locos para localizar una paleta correcta, con frecuentes mensajes de: cannot allocate color xxx in palette xxx Que tal si arrancas X con más colores

Re: Criticas a Debian

1998-11-23 Thread Andres Herrera
Guenas On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 12:48:15PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: Es que no me imagino una Debian con instalacion en modo grafico al estilo RedHat. Yo quiero ver todos los mensajes, quiero enterarme de que se esta instalando, quiero tocar todo. A mí no me molestaría ver una

Re: Criticas a Debian

1998-11-23 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 01:23:08AM +0100, Andres Herrera wrote: A mí no me molestaría ver una instalación gráfica... de hecho estoy anotando algunas buenas ideas de UltraPenguin y otro tanto de FreeBSD (¡tiene una instalación fantástica!) A mi tampoco me molestaria: me joderia

instalo la debian?

1998-11-23 Thread Martinez Amenabar Mikel
Hola a todos: Yo soy nuevo en estas listas de correo, así que perdonad mi ignorancia. Tengo instalada la redhat 5.0, y debido a algunos problemas y que tengo los CDs de la debian 2.0 (la de la Linux Actual nº 4) estoy planteandome si instalarla. El caso es que hasta hace poco he tenido un

Problemas con named

1998-11-23 Thread Sicom Multimedia
Hola amigos Me es imposible configurar el named, me funciona el inverso pero me es imposible hacer que funcione el normal, y quisiera saber si alguien conoce algun error del susodicho programa.

NeoMagic 128 v/zv

1998-11-23 Thread barreno_e
11/23/98 06:00 PM Eduardo Barrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hola: Soy un profano de Linux y más quisiera yo saber de todo. Me he aventurado con Debian y me ha surgido un problema con mi tarjeta de Video que no es soportada por ningún paquete de XF86. ¿Como puedo configurarlo para tener Xwindows?. Es

Re: PROBLEMAS CON EL XWINDOWS Y DEBIAN 2.0 ( hamm )

1998-11-23 Thread JuanjoC \(PianoTuner\)
On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 10:14:14AM +0100, Herranz Martin Rogelio wrote: Lo que pasa es que en las ultimas versiones, en concreto con la del hamm, pues la S3 Virge usa el servidor SVGA en vez del S3V. ¿Seguro? --- Cortado y pegado -- XFree86 Version

Re: Infovia Plus

1998-11-23 Thread Xose Manoel Ramos
Alfonso Pastor escribió: La configuracion es la misma que tengo para llamar a Infovia, solo he cambiado el numero. Como solo me quedan 9 dias para abandonar el 055, me esta entrando un ligero acojono, ¿alguien puede saber que he de cambiar en mis ficheros de configuracion?. Yo soy una

Re: Infovia Plus + CROSS

1998-11-23 Thread Juan Leseduarte
On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 11:37:02AM +0100, Jordi Roman Mejias wrote: Muy mal lo de CROSS-POSTING, es que te pueden canear ! Alfonso Pastor wrote: Hola, hace 2 minutos he intentado mi primera conexion con Infovia Plus a través del nodo de pueblo. Para ello he sustituido el ATDT055 de mi

Re: Infovía Plus. Tenle miedo, mucho miedo.

1998-11-23 Thread Vicen
Ismael Valladolid wrote: El 20 de noviembre de 1998 a las 16:16, Antonio Calvo Rodriguez escribió: Vicen wrote: Bueno, yo estoy por Iddeo y la verdad es que dá un gusto ver eso de CARRIER:5... Como conseguiste que te de la velocidad de portadora al conectar ??? Yo no soy

Re: PROBLEMAS CON EL XWINDOWS Y DEBIAN 2.0 ( hamm )

1998-11-23 Thread TooManySecrets
Herranz Martin Rogelio el día Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 10:14:14AM +0100 expuso lo siguiente: Lo que pasa es que en las ultimas versiones, en concreto con la del hamm, pues la S3 Virge usa el servidor SVGA en vez del S3V. Pues yo uso, en mi 2.0, una S3 Virge con 4 Mb RAM, y uso el servidor S3V y

Re: RDSI + infoviaplus

1998-11-23 Thread Juan Ramón Larrea
On Fri, 20 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alguien ha enlazado con internet o con infoviaplus a través de RDSI y la nueva conexión infoviaplus Si: yo he conectado a internet por Infovía Plus a través de RDSI, solo he tenido que cambiir el número de acceso, y donde ponía 055 poner

Re: Infovia Plus

1998-11-23 Thread Ismael Valladolid
El 23 de noviembre de 1998 a las 16:52, Xose Manoel Ramos escribió: Alfonso Pastor escribió: La configuracion es la misma que tengo para llamar a Infovia, solo he cambiado el numero. Como solo me quedan 9 dias para abandonar el 055, me esta entrando un ligero acojono, ¿alguien puede saber

Re: slink rescue disk

1998-11-23 Thread Dean Carpenter
From: Yosef B [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: slink rescue disk Well, this gets me further. rawrite2 -f resc1743.bin -d a: writes all cylanders but returns a bad sector message at the end of the run. When I try to boot from this disk I get Boot Failed. I had the same problem with the

Re: procmail ........ (again)

1998-11-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 02:42:58PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: :0 ic | cd backup rm -f dummy `ls -t msg.* |sed -e 1,32d` Great idea here for new users to procmail and to others aswell who test new procmail recipes (-:

Sound Card

1998-11-23 Thread Andrew Julie Daws
Hi folks, Another (probably) dumb question, about the sound module for my SoundBlaster card... During the config (menuconfig) one is asked for the IRQ and DMA settings, but it seems to expect one DMA of 1 or 3, and another of either 5,6, or 7. This worked fine on my other PC (Jazz16 with IRQ7,

Remote Chat

1998-11-23 Thread Jim
Is there a way I can real time chat with other users on our remote Debian system? I think there was an echo command on my old Novel system but that was many years ago. Is there a like utility on Debian? Thanks, Jim Lawler New Global Net

Re: Sound Card

1998-11-23 Thread Kevin
I have the same problem with squake. I just play with no sound for now I guess. Andrew Julie Daws wrote: Hi folks, Another (probably) dumb question, about the sound module for my SoundBlaster card... During the config (menuconfig) one is asked for the IRQ and DMA settings, but it seems

Debian 2.0 boot-images with aic7xxx 5.1.4

1998-11-23 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Because I've received some requests for such a beastie, I've gone ahead and created a new set of unofficial installation-disks for Debian 2.0 (Hamm). This set was built from version 2.0.35 of the kernel-source (the debianized version, so that any normally-applied patches should be included), with

Re: isapnptools

1998-11-23 Thread Ingo Saitz
MoiN On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, James Dietrich wrote: I'm trying to set up Debian on a friend's computer, and so far have been unable to get the modem to work. It is an ISA card, so I ran pnpdump isapnp.conf. Towards the bottom of the file there was a section for an 'LT Win Modem'. After

Re: Remote Chat

1998-11-23 Thread Ingo Saitz
MoiN On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Jim wrote: Is there a way I can real time chat with other users on our remote Debian system? I think there was an echo command on my old Novel system but that was many years ago. Is there a like utility on Debian? You talk about a program called talk? You can find

33k6 mgetty direct PPP

1998-11-23 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I'm getting strange random delays with a modem attached to a machine connected to the internet. Both of the machines are Debian 2.0 and I have appended a series of 'ping' stats. One of the modems is a K56Flex and the other is a V.34 Does anybody know what are the correct

Re: procmail ........ (again)

1998-11-23 Thread David S. Zelinsky
Phillip Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, i still cannot use procmail. .forward |exec /usr/bin/procmail `` You must have quotes around this: |exec /usr/bin/procmail otherwise /usr/bin/procmail will be interpreted as a file in

Re: procmail ........ (again)

1998-11-23 Thread David S. Zelinsky
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gossamer) writes: Actually you don't need ANY .forward fo rprocmail to work, as long as you have a .procmailrc file in your homedir. Debian uses is as a user-agent. That's not right. It's possible to set it up to use procmail by default, but Debian doesn't come that way,

Re: procmail ........ (again)

1998-11-23 Thread Jason Lunz
On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 5:50PM -0300, Phillip Neumann wrote: :0: * ^TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] debian-english :0: * ^TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] debian-spanish ``a Since you seem to be using the suggestions I made, I should point out that I was wrong

Re: file permissions: setting like another file

1998-11-23 Thread Jason Lunz
On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 5:39PM -0500, Jameson Burt wrote: This is analogous to the touch command that sets the timestamps of one file like another file, touch -r file-template file-target Of course, one can go through machinations like cp -p file-template file-target cp

Re: isapnptools

1998-11-23 Thread Greg Starkes
On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, James Dietrich wrote: Now I know that winmodems are generally a hopeless case, but is this still true if pnpdump detects it? Any other ideas on how to configure it? The problem with winmodems is that some of the features that are normally handled in the hardware are done

Netscape and $XNLPATH

1998-11-23 Thread lanceh
Something happened to netscape and now everytime I try to start it I get the errot message that locale 'C' not supported perhaps $XNLPATH is not configured properly What does this mean and what might I try to correct it so that netscape will work?

rex - hamm upgrade nearly tragic

1998-11-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Just upgrading a rex box direct to hamm, using apt from the /upgrades directory on the official CD. I told dselect to remove libreadline2, which it said was fine. apt them removed libreadline2, and installed libreadline2g, BEFORE upgrading bash. bash then didn't work, and bash couldn't be

Re: SVGATextMode! (was Re: Console mode with 80x24 possible?

1998-11-23 Thread Michiel Ettema
On 22 Nov, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Hi, SVGATextMode has more advantages over vga= option: * You can choose from dozens of textmodes, for example 100x37 is nice here. vga= only allows three (I think). * You can design your own text modes if you have special needs (for example

Re: Remote Chat

1998-11-23 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Jim wrote: Is there a way I can real time chat with other users on our remote Debian system? I think there was an echo command on my old Novel system but that was many years ago. Is there a like utility on Debian? Try ytalk. Make sure you install talkd as well...

Re: How to customize fvwm entries ?

1998-11-23 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (shaul) writes: My /etc/X11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook has the following entry for lyx: [23:36:37 shaul]$ grep lyx /etc/X11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook + lyx Exec/usr/X11R6/bin/lyx [23:38:51 shaul] I want to change it to + lyx Exec /usr/X11R6/bin/lyx -width 631 -height

Re: procmail....................

1998-11-23 Thread Carey Evans
Phillip Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] mmm, i just want to make me sure what a colon is.... or , ?? $ ascii colon ASCII 3/10 is decimal 058, hex 3a, octal 072, bits 00111010: prints as `:' Official name: Colon Other names: Double-Dot [snip] ok, now how do i put procmail in

Beginner - Ethernet configuration was: Re: HELP

1998-11-23 Thread Carey Evans
Alan Mayott Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello My name is Alan and I need HELP... I am trying to set up a simple network between Win95 and Linux... The problem seems to be with Linux as I've done this in win95... I've checked with the manufacturer about my ethernet card and from what I

Re: sorting russian text

1998-11-23 Thread Eugene Sevinian
On 22 Nov 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: On: 20 Nov 1998 20:58:52 +0100 Ole J Tetlie writes: | I have checked my sort command (version 1.22) for the value de_DE | for LANG and it didn't work either. | | I checked the documentation for both sort and the fileutils and | couldn't find

Re: setting up lprng

1998-11-23 Thread Jens Ritter
On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Chris Frost wrote: On 22 Nov 1998, Jens Ritter wrote: Install magicfilter and run magicfilterconfig. Ahh, very nice; thanks! When I print postscript files it still just sends text to the printer (using the deskjet 855c filter fwiw), any ideas? You have installed

Re: How to start program in cron script?

1998-11-23 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Spiegl) writes: 0 8 * * * /usr/local/bin/myprogram 21 | /usr/bin/logger -i -t myprogram /dev/null 21 That's a nice alternative, but I found that logger doesn't quit after myprogram is done. What am I overlooking now? The only thing that comes to mind is

Re: networking problem with 2.1.x

1998-11-23 Thread Carey Evans
Ben Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When booting with 2.1.128 I can't remove the net entry in the routing table. route del some net address I get SIOCDERT: no such process What's wrong? With 2.0.35 it works fine! 2.1.x drastically changed the way routing works. Usually it looks

Re: procmail ........ (again)

1998-11-23 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 10:44:59PM +, Gossamer wrote: Actually you don't need ANY .forward fo rprocmail to work, as long as you have a .procmailrc file in your homedir. Debian uses is as a user-agent. Bad assumption as Exim does not use it at all. And since, IIRC, Phil is using Exim,

HELP: best place to place binfmt_misc directives?

1998-11-23 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, wanted to set up again some of the misc binary modules capabilities on slackware init i had a rc.local where to put such stuff where do i put it in debian? BTW wouldn't it be neat if the packages beeing susceptible to propose such services had a switch to set this functionality on

how to decode quoted printable?

1998-11-23 Thread Nils Rennebarth
I was looking for a program/filter ... for an apparently simple task: convert a message from quoted-printable to 8bit (iso latin1 encoding) I didn't find any in the debian packages. All that I tried were unable to do the above thing (althoug I didn't try hard) The packages I looked at were:

Re: procmail ........ (again)

1998-11-23 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: Phillip Neumann wrote: Hello, Ok, i still cannot use procmail. .forward |exec /usr/bin/procmail `` I use this line in my .forward

Re: how can i install internet via a modem under linux?

1998-11-23 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, shaul wrote: how can i install internet via a modem under linux? please help me thanks for the answer Reminds me of a windows info message I once saw... (nice little hacked screen shot that is.) About to install the internet on your Hard Drive. Insert Disk 1 of

Re: Remote Chat

1998-11-23 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Ingo Saitz wrote: MoiN On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Jim wrote: Is there a way I can real time chat with other users on our remote Debian system? I think there was an echo command on my old Novel system but that was many years ago. Is there a like utility on Debian?

Re: Staroffice 5.0 freezing on right-click

1998-11-23 Thread Mário Olímpio de Menezes
On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Will Lowe wrote: Has anyone else here had trouble with StarOffice 5.0 freezing when you right-click in it's window? I'm using the patch they provided for the X3V xserver problem. Every time I right-click the mouse anywhere in the Staroffice window, staroffice hangs.

Re: Has anyone gotten Star Office running?

1998-11-23 Thread Mário Olímpio de Menezes
On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Allan Bart wrote: Hi, I have been reading all the notes about this suite freezing up or the failing to install correctly. so what is the review of those who have managed to install it? Hi Allan, I'm having several hangs/freezing with so5.0. I'm

RivaTNT Quake2

1998-11-23 Thread wax_man
Has anyone gotten the RivaTNT video chipset to work with quake2 and linux? I can get the game to run, but when I try to switch it to the open gl settings for the video, it just freezes. It appears to load the open gl stuff, but no further. Any advice? thanks, Chris

Re: Can I start X while other stuff going on?

1998-11-23 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, ... }- or can I bring up the process in an Xterm or something similar? }- No. Except, hmm, I don't know how you would do that. You might be }- able to take the /dev/ttyXX from the vt and put it in an xterm. ... - this procedure can be done with screen i think, with it it_s possible if

Re: setting up lprng

1998-11-23 Thread Chris Frost
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Jens Ritter wrote: You have installed magicfilter and you did run magicfilterconfig --force if necessary? Is ghostscript installed? Yes, yes, and yes. GS works just fine, I can view the postscript files fine w/ gv (I'm running gs 5.10 btw). Please post the printer entry

CD vendors

1998-11-23 Thread Magnus Peterson
On the Debian web-site you list four vendors of Debian CDs within the United Kingdom. Two of the sites listed are currently dead. They are http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~stevem/DebianCD/ http://tree.home.ml.org/ Is there any explanation for this? Magnus Peterson

Re: how to decode quoted printable?

1998-11-23 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 11:46:08 +0100, Nils Rennebarth wrote: I was looking for a program/filter ... for an apparently simple task: convert a message from quoted-printable to 8bit (iso latin1 encoding) You sent your message with mutt; mutt can do it for you (go to the message; type v to list

Re: CD vendors

1998-11-23 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 12:41:53 +, Magnus Peterson wrote: On the Debian web-site you list four vendors of Debian CDs within the United Kingdom. Two of the sites listed are currently dead. They are http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~stevem/DebianCD/ http://tree.home.ml.org/ IIRC,

ICQ for hamm?

1998-11-23 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, I've been asked for ICQ. Now, I see there's one in slink, but I've hamm. a) is there one I can run under hamm? b) how much of slink would I have to download for it to work? (it needs a recent version of libc6 and a bunch of other things) (my modem is 9600) (is the current slink

Re: CD vendors

1998-11-23 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra
Magnus Peterson wrote: On the Debian web-site you list four vendors of Debian CDs within the United Kingdom. Two of the sites listed are currently dead. They are snip Is there any explanation for this? Perhaps you would have a better chance of finding the answer to you question at

Re: ICQ for hamm?

1998-11-23 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 12:00:37AM +1100, Jiri Baum wrote: b) how much of slink would I have to download for it to work? (it needs a recent version of libc6 and a bunch of other things) (my modem is 9600) (is the current slink reasonably OK?) Depends on which one you grab. There are

Re: Sound Card

1998-11-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 10:49:37AM +1100, Andrew Julie Daws wrote: Another (probably) dumb question, about the sound module for my SoundBlaster card... During the config (menuconfig) one is asked for the IRQ and DMA settings, but it seems to expect one DMA of 1 or 3, and another of either

apt-get would not run - solved

1998-11-23 Thread Lindsay Allen
For two weeks or so I have been baffled by the fact that apt-get would not *do* anything. dselect worked fine, but not apt-get. Lurking on debian-devel gave me the clue to the problem. I had libc6_2.0.7u-5 and dpkg_1.4.0.28 installed. A message from Jason said that dpkg versions 1.4.0.28

Re: ICQ for hamm?

1998-11-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 05:14:01AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: c) how difficult would it be to set it up on the Win95 machine and use the Debian box to forward it to the Internet? (where would I find the relevant information?) (I don't use forwarding, just wwwoffle for the web) Not

Re: Weird behavior with Tcsh

1998-11-23 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED], I came across some strange behavior with my tcsh and xterm on slink. Here ... xterm-2: mv test/me ~ xterm-1: pwd --- /export/home/myhomedir/me ... The prompt in my xterm-1 still shows ~/test/me. When I do an ls in xterm-1 I get no error. That's

Re: CD vendors

1998-11-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 12:41:53 +, Magnus Peterson wrote: On the Debian web-site you list four vendors of Debian CDs within the United Kingdom. Two of the sites listed are currently dead. They are

Re: simple three-d graphs

1998-11-23 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I'm not finding, in the list of usual suspects, a program to do the type of simple graphing I need. I only need this to make illustrative diagrams, not for real data. What I'd like is a 3D plot of a handful of cubes, with a line connecting their center. Ideally, each cube could

killing D processes

1998-11-23 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! How do I kill this processes? root 844 4.0 0.0 0 0 ? DW 14:46 0:24 (quotacheck) root 1041 0.0 0.3 744 344 ? D14:51 0:00 umount /xtd/ root 1119 0.1 0.5 868 500 ? D14:53 0:00 repquota -a I've tried with kill -9 pid

screenshot

1998-11-23 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi all, I made this groovy looking xdm login screen and now I want to make a screen shot of it. On the screenshot I want the background picture, the xlogin widget, and the xconsole. If I try to do this with `xwd -root -display :0' from a vc, all I get is a black picture. The -screen option

Re: file permissions: setting like another file

1998-11-23 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, I LOOK FOR A COMMAND THAT SETS THE PERMISSIONS OF ONE FILE LIKE THE PERMISSIONS OF ANOTHER FILE. Oh please don't shout. This is analogous to the touch command that sets the timestamps of one file like another file, touch -r file-template file-target OK, I did apropos mode,

HP printing

1998-11-23 Thread Blazej Sawionek
I have a HP LJ5M connected directly to the network. I configured everything as described in HowTo and on THAT day it worked fine! After rebooting my computer I can: telnet to the printer and change any parameters I wish. check with lpq that: Printer: lj-5 is [EMAIL PROTECTED] JetDirect lpd: no

/dev/audio: device not configured

1998-11-23 Thread ivan
Hi, folks ! I compiled my 2.0.34 kernel with /dev/dsp and /dev/audio support, but whenever I try to reference such devices, e.g. cat on /dev/audio, it doesn't work, with the message: /dev/audio device not configured. May someobe tell ne what can I do to get /dev/audio working in Linux ?

Re: slink rescue disk

1998-11-23 Thread Yosef B
Thanks for the info. As I have a very pressing need to get a copy of slink up and running, any idea how I might get my hands on this new rescue image ASAP? It presently is not at any of the sites I know of. Alternatively, is there a cd image of slink yet? Oliver Elphick wrote: Frankie

Re: how to decode quoted printable?

1998-11-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Nils Rennebarth wrote: I was looking for a program/filter ... for an apparently simple task: convert a message from quoted-printable to 8bit (iso latin1 encoding) I didn't find any in the debian packages. All that I tried were unable to do the above thing (althoug I didn't try hard)

Re: Help with Install

1998-11-23 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, I have recently downloaded from ftp the necessary installation files. All went well except for the linux (kernel image) which my browser insists on saving as a .txt file. Is this ok? No. The browser can usually guess, but sometimes it guesses wrong (as it did here). The usual method

Re: ICQ for hamm?

1998-11-23 Thread Robert V. MacQuarrie
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: c) how difficult would it be to set it up on the Win95 machine and use the Debian box to forward it to the Internet? (where would I find the relevant information?) (I don't use forwarding, just wwwoffle for the web) Not difficult at all. Problem

Re: help!

1998-11-23 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello nbrown, i am trying to use apt and typing ... in pon..'apt-get' without the ' of course ... Sorry, I never tried apt, can't help you with that specific problem. (if i download now i have to do it to a dos drive because i dn't have anything that will work in the web in linux.. )

Re: ICQ for hamm?

1998-11-23 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 12:38:19AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Without incoming connections, you can't do live talk or file transfer, so it's nice to have. Well, not entirely true. You cannot have files sent to you and you cannot accept a live chat. You can, however, ask someone else to

I don't want the display to blank....

1998-11-23 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Greetings, This is probably easy and I just can't find the answer. I have a couple dozen Debian boxes attached to a rotating display. Of course after time it rotates blank screens, don't want that. I want to see the login prompt. Where, how who, do I modify in order to keep the screens

Re: procmail ........ (again)

1998-11-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: : On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 10:44:59PM +, Gossamer wrote: : Actually you don't need ANY .forward fo rprocmail to work, as long as : you have a .procmailrc file in your homedir. Debian uses is as a : user-agent. : : Bad assumption as Exim

Re: screenshot

1998-11-23 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
[ on trying to make a screen shot from an xdm login screen ] try setting the DISPLAY var with export DISPLAY=:0.0 That is not the problem. Both with xwd and xv I explicitly specified the display with the -display option (also tried DISPLAY variable). To be able to do that I had to give an

Re: System wide data type system?

1998-11-23 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Is there any kind of system wide data type system in the works for linux (like the ones found in AmigaOS and BeOS). You mean like file(1) and magic(5) ? Such a mechanism would essentially eliminate the need for programs like c2p Well, no, you'd just be calling them automagically

Re: CD vendors

1998-11-23 Thread James A. Treacy
On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 01:55:55PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen Ray wrote: Is there any explanation for this? Explanation for what? Why they're dead? I don't know. Why they're still listed? Because apperantly so far nobody noticed it and decided to act in the way the page suggests: Please send

Status of Debian in Ultra/Sparcs

1998-11-23 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, my techer is asking me for help him install Linux at two Sun Ultra Sparcs that he is buying. I thought a little and think that I want the same quality in Suns that I have in PCs with Debian installed. I'm asking about the status of Debian Ultra Sparcs,

Re: Very very very sorry, but please help

1998-11-23 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Just wanted to say thanks. Got the needed script! (One C, one Perl). The first came 3 minutes after my post. Yup, there's just no reliable customer service with linux, is there? ;) Well, no, there isn't. It's very often excellent, but reliable means something else :-) Let it

Re: I don't want the display to blank....

1998-11-23 Thread servis
*- Anthony Landreneau wrote about I don't want the display to blank Greetings, This is probably easy and I just can't find the answer. I have a couple dozen Debian boxes attached to a rotating display. Of course after time it rotates blank screens, don't want that. I want to see

Re: simple three-d graphs

1998-11-23 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
_ /\__\__\__\ /\/\__\__\__\ /\/\/\__\__\__\ \/\/\/__/__/__/ \/\/__/__/__/ \/__/__/__/ with the line going through the middle region. I don't exactly get how simple these drawings will be, but if they are going to be really simple, you might

Re: HELP: best place to place binfmt_misc directives?

1998-11-23 Thread Jim Foltz
On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 01:11:30PM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: hello, wanted to set up again some of the misc binary modules capabilities on slackware init i had a rc.local where to put such stuff where do i put it in debian? It is not clear to me exactly what you mean, but you can

Re: web design question

1998-11-23 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello Andrew, I was wondering whether it was possible to overlay text on to an image in HTML... Are you sure you want to do that? Images sometimes have an annoying tendency to get in the way of the information you are trying to get across... The image will also slow down loading, the text

Re: HELP: best place to place binfmt_misc directives?

1998-11-23 Thread Bruno Boettcher
It is not clear to me exactly what you mean, but you can edit /etc/modules nope, i know how to load a module... its the stuff like this i don't know where to put: echo ':DOSWin:M::MZ::/usr/local/bin/wine:' register echo ':Java:M::\xca\xfe\xba\xbe::/usr/local/java/bin/javawrapper:' register

Re: I don't want the display to blank....

1998-11-23 Thread Jim Foltz
Anthony, setterm -blank 0 The man page is not very helpful. On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 09:08:49AM -0600, Anthony Landreneau wrote: Greetings, This is probably easy and I just can't find the answer. I have a couple dozen Debian boxes attached to a rotating display. Of course after time

Re: Always my problem with X

1998-11-23 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, I still got that problem running X : waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing. immediately after the graphical screens comes up... and down ! That error message doesn't sound too bad - after all, it says

Boot Param: floppy=thinkpad

1998-11-23 Thread Ryan King
I'm trying to install Debian on an IBM Thinkpad 755C, and was having trouble with the floppy drive during the installation. (It does fine until time to install the drivers, and then all I get /dev/fd0: Device not configured). When I `mount -t (ext2|msdos|dos|*) /dev/fd0 /mnt`, I get: mount:

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