Re: Emacs on console: keys not responding

1996-09-22 Thread Dominik Kubla
Peta Harlan wrote: > Distributions ought to be repaired so all meaningful Meta key > sequences work at the console, I think. (For that matter, Shift-Tab > shouldn't be the same as Tab, but maybe that's been done.) There are two different problems here: 1. The current keytables that i 'inherited'

identname@remote.host for inetd SECOND TRY

1996-09-22 Thread Remco van de Meent
I'm sorry, I hit the wrong key last minute... In some other distributions, there is the possibility to get log-entries as: Sep 22 10:05:25 sku in.telnetd[31280]: connect from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [fake names] What I want is to get this also in my Debian distribution... is that possible? I cannot

identname@remote.host for inetd

1996-09-22 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hey In some other distributions, there is the possibility to get log-entries as: Sep 22 10:05:25 sku in.telnetd[31280]: connect from [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Remco van de Meent (nParago on IRC) // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www: http://cal052012.student.utwente.nl // " Never make any mistae

Re: Filename case

1996-09-22 Thread John Goerzen
> ls | awk '{ system("mv " $0 " " tolower($0)) }' Not being familiar with awk, I can only guess that the above code transforms all filenames to lowercase. An easier way, using just the shell, would be: for ASDF in *; do mv $ASDF `echo $ASDF | tr A-Z a-z`; done -- John Goerzen | Syste

Re: Mouse problems

1996-09-22 Thread Paul Christenson \[N3EOP\]
Scott Danzig wrote: > it registers as a PS/2 type mouse, using IRQ 12. > They all didn't work. Did you recompile the kernel with PS/2 mouse support? -- ++ | Technical Support Engineer, Cyclades Corporation | | 8

Re: PS color separations

1996-09-22 Thread Nelson Posse Lago
On Fri, 20 Sep 1996, ciccio wrote: > Is there a package that allows a device dependent and table-based conversion > of RGB to CMYK? (to prepare RGB-graphics for output on a typesetter) I believe that Gimp has a plug-in that converts RGB-CMYK. Don't know if this is exactly what you want.

Re: Mouse problems

1996-09-22 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Scott Danzig, you wrote: > > Honestly, I'll end up getting a serial adapter for the mouse if > I can't get it working, but I was hoping not to have to. I own a > Dell Dimension XPS P90 system, with a Logitech mouse. I'm honestly > not sure whether it is a bus mouse or a PS/2

Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)

1996-09-22 Thread Paul Seelig
On 21 Sep 1996, Winfried Truemper wrote: > And if several users try to update the ls-lR database, it gets (got) messed > up resulting in a not-working TeX/LaTeX (we had that several times and > therefore stucked with debian-TeX). > Updating of the ls-lR database should only be allowed to root anyw

Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)

1996-09-22 Thread Mark Phillips
>Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'd prefer it to be included with Debian in any case > >I second that. I'm using tetex at my debian system without problems. Does anyone know how teTeX compares with NTeX? NTeX is what I have been using. How easy would it be to debianize teTeX?

Re: Missing terminfo entries?

1996-09-22 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
Raymond Penners wrote: > > Hi, > > My newly installed Debian system doesn't seem to recognize less > standard terminal emulations. For example, Amiga terminal emulation > (export TERM=amiga) is not present. You should install ncurses-term to get /usr/lib/terminfo/a/amiga You should also NOT hav

Re: Filename case

1996-09-22 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
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Re: System hangs on SCSI reset (AHA 1522).

1996-09-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
> Problem: The system hangs when the SCSI bus is reset. > Config: Adaptec 1522 SCSI controller > Two different motherboards > Three different versions of Linux > > More specifically, I cannot perform a soft reboot from Linux. If, for Is this with Debian only, not Slackware

Re: Firewall

1996-09-22 Thread Remco van de Meent
At 18:22 21-09-96 -0400, Simon Martin wrote: > >1) can anyone let me know there experiences with firewall software (SOCKS, >TIS, ...) as I intend to setup an Internet firewall now Maybe you'd choose another program, called ipfwadm. > >2) can anyone let me know where to find the above software.

How to stop lynx from checking mail

1996-09-22 Thread Martin Schulze
Good morning folks, how do I stop lynx from checking mail on a per user basis? I know that I can set CHECKMAIL:FALSE in the global configuration file /etc/lynx.cfg, but as the default is TRUE I would like to configure this on a per-user basis, but neither CHECKMAIL:FALSE nor

Re: Emacs on console: keys not responding

1996-09-22 Thread Pete Harlan
> When running on the console, Emacs does not respond to several keys. > For example, the following keys have no effect when the ALT key is > used as the meta modifier: > > M-% > M-! > M-< > M-> You can put this in your startup scripts somewhere: loadkeys < keys. I never bothered to fix the oth

Mouse problems

1996-09-22 Thread Scott Danzig
Honestly, I'll end up getting a serial adapter for the mouse if I can't get it working, but I was hoping not to have to. I own a Dell Dimension XPS P90 system, with a Logitech mouse. I'm honestly not sure whether it is a bus mouse or a PS/2 mouse, but when Windows 95 autodetects it, it registers

Kernel? Shadow?

1996-09-22 Thread John Goerzen
I am curious: Why hasn't the kernel source/image been updated since 2.0.6? Also, why is there not a shadow password package? Specifically, one that fixes problems with xdm and xlockmore? Thanks. -- John Goerzen | System administrator & owner, The Communications Custom programming

program cc1 got fatal signal 6

1996-09-22 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
I just recently installed Debian from the August 96 release of Infomagic's 6 cd set. This is the best distribution, after trying the others on the cd set. I have this one problem though, I can't compile a kernel. I have tried both 2.0.20 and 2.0.21. Here is a paste of the exact place and errors:

Re: where's man ??

1996-09-22 Thread Boris Beletsky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- manini> German (manpages-de), Spanish (manpages-es), and Italian (manpages-it). manini> (just to be precisian :-) is there a russian ver. ? ___ Boris Beletsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For pgp public key, e-mail me with subject "get pgp-key." ___ In Linux veritas -

Firewall

1996-09-22 Thread Simon Martin
Hi all, My thanks to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for his solution on setting up my PS/2 mouse. I eventually gave up on X11 though, never got more than a blank screen. I'll come back to it when I get a chance. Now for my next questions: 1) can anyone let me know there experiences with firewall software (SO

Re: Filename case

1996-09-22 Thread Philippe Troin
No python, no fancy stuff, nothing but plain old bash: for i in *; do j=`echo $i | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'` if [ "$i" != "$j" ]; then mv $i $j fi done Or on a single line: for i in *; do j=`echo $i | tr '[A-Z]' '

Re: where's man ??

1996-09-22 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sat, 21 Sep 1996, Vadik V. Vygonets wrote: > But ae is somewhat broken -- it puts DOS-style CR/LF as EOL :( I had > problems with /etc/modules until I installed vi and realized the problem. > What version are you running? This have been fixed, as far as I can tell. The 962-9 version does not

Re: less displays help when invoked on an empty file

1996-09-22 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 20 Sep 1996, Shaya Potter wrote: > > I'm not sure you can call it a bug, (maybe it's a feature ;) ) because it > is a well-known behavior of less (and some other pagers from what I have > heard) that they don't work well with files of length 0. This is mostly > seen that you can't les

Re: Swap partition and fdisk

1996-09-22 Thread Greg Hudson
> My simple formula > swap needed = total memory need - physical memory size > works much better than the "twice physical memory" one. Questionable. Aside from not being computable (everyone can easily tell what their physical memory size is, but few people know how much their "to