Re: ISA-bus modem: which device ?

1996-12-07 Thread Zenon Fortuna
Forwarded message: >From zenon Sat Dec 7 15:02:47 1996 From: Zenon Fortuna Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: ISA-bus modem: which device ? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zenon Fortuna) Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 15:02:45 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from "Zenon Fortuna" at Dec 7, 96

Useing $HOME in .fvwmrc file ?

1996-12-07 Thread Stan Brown
Can I do this? If so how? I need to set up a pixmap path that will point to a place relative to the users home directory. Thanks. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Look, look, see

more problems with newsfeeds

1996-12-07 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Hello, In my testing of feeding a site, it is apparent that the articles are not being fed in their entirety, rather going in 16K chunks. Why would that be? Where is this configured? thanks! Ricardo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . T

Re: apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database.

1996-12-07 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
Heiko R. Selber wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > > > On debian-user-digest "Heiko R. Selber" wrote: > > > > > > How do I create the fallback whatis database? Do I need it? > > > > It should be created automatically. > > Go superuser and try mandb -c > > I did it. It sai

Pine && procmail

1996-12-07 Thread Fabien Ninoles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Yep another newbie on procmail :-/ Sorry to disturb you about that but I wasn't able to make procmail work correctly with pine. I succeeded to mostly have my mail be proceded by procmail and put in a file in my $HOME/mail directory but the results are various an

MSDOS to LINUX ?? HELP!!

1996-12-07 Thread James D. Richardson Jr.
I have been waiting and tring to start play with the linux operating system. I have downloaded the Linux Debain source code and read all of the text files. They tell me that the compiler needed is the gcc-2.3.6 so I downloaded the file and it needs compiling also. So I read all of the text files on

shared debian installations

1996-12-07 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I have a similar situation here, and would be interested in finding out how you solve the problem. I have applied the 'Transnames Patch' to my kernel, and have the root filesystem of my server box mounted on the 'diskless' machine. They both use the same physical file system, so Debian only ne

tar multivolume archive - problem solved

1996-12-07 Thread Marek Duszynski
Hi, Thanks to all who responded to my problem of not being able to use the tar command with the 'M' option for multivolume archive. The machine was capable of creating such archives and then reading its contents, but every attempt of extracting it with the command: tar xvMf /dev/fd0 ended

logging messages from pppd

1996-12-07 Thread Ken Gaugler
My pppd messages stopped some time ago, and I have not been able to get them started again. Today I re-installed syslogd and klogd using the Debian package system, still no pppd messages. Someone told me to put daemon.*/var/adm/pppd.log in my syslog.conf to log ppp mess

Re: elm problem

1996-12-07 Thread fols9488
> How do I fix the > > Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #3 > > problem? Permissions of /usr/spool/mail _appear_ > to be correct, although every day I found many > new permission problems with my system here. > /tmp loses proper permissions every second day or so. :-(

texhash

1996-12-07 Thread Fulko van Westrenen
Hello, I just installed the Lucida fonts, and because they didn't come with a script I did it by hand. I really hope I didn't make too many mistakes. The next step would be running texhash. Unfortunately, I cannot find texhash. I installed all TeX packages from Debian 1.1.11, and Latex works OK.

APM problem on laptop

1996-12-07 Thread Casper Boden-Cummins
I posted a question about a problem I have with my notebook's suspend feature. Several people suggested using APM, which I already have. I said I'd look up the actual error message, so here it is. After about every five minutes of inactivity, the following message will appear in the current virtual

ISA-bus modem: which device ?

1996-12-07 Thread Zenon Fortuna
How to test the physical presence of an ISA bus-installed modem ? What device to use for, say, kermit connectivity tests ? TIA, Zenon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pgp?

1996-12-07 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sat, 07 Dec 1996 02:26:55 CST Todd T. Fries ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ok, silly question. I installed debian to kick back > and be lazy for a while. Where is the pgp package? Have a look at the README.non-US file on the top of the debian ftp tree... Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

pgp?

1996-12-07 Thread Todd T. Fries
Ok, silly question. I installed debian to kick back and be lazy for a while. Where is the pgp package? Or do I have to stop being lazy and actually do something? -- Todd Fries .. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: repartitioning hard drive

1996-12-07 Thread David Morris
Thanks, David, I took the plunge and everything worked like a charm. I thought I'd drop this on the larger debian-user list as well so others in the same boat can benefit. Now I have some more playi... working (yeah, that's what it is) room in my Debian section. On "Fri, 06 Dec 1996 20:15:41 MST."

Re: kbd reccommends svgatextmode? why?

1996-12-07 Thread Christian Hudon
On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Joey Hess wrote: > Why is svgatextmode important to the kbd package? > > This is especially annoying since kbd is in base, and so dselect is going > to pretty well force the installation of svgatextmode on all debian > systems. Indeed! Especially since (correct me if I'm wro

Re: elm problem

1996-12-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
> On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > How do I fix the > > Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #3 > > Sounds like mail is being delivered, so the mailbox is locked against elm > reading it until the delivery is complete. > Does it eventually read the mailbox

Re: Mounting a file as a filesystem

1996-12-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
> Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This may be true (most probably is) but mkisofs is the tool I know about > > from personal experience. How would I create an ext2fs in a file? Wouldn't > > it still need to be a ro file system? > > You use losetup to make the loop, then make the fs, a

Re: newsfeeds help!

1996-12-07 Thread Michael Dillon
On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: > I'm trying to figure out if I'm really feeding the site... where else can Best way to test this is to post to misc.test Within 5 minutes you should start receiving email from other news sites confirming the posting with the path header in the message

Re: MS WORD format (and customizable telnet client)

1996-12-07 Thread Paul F. Pearson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Of course, I most always run Linux and rarely Windows, but in Windows >>I run PPP (Trumpet Winsock), Netscape, etc. Trumpet telnet sucks; >>uwterm is a pretty good telnet, but I'm always looking for a better one. >>Kermit suppo

Re: How do I upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2?

1996-12-07 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
Guy Maor writes: -> "Larry 'Daffy' Daffner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: -> -> > The development -> > releases (which are in general relatively stable, although things -> > break from tinme to time) are only given code names. -> -> That's not completely accurate. Every release is given a code na

Re: is it me or deselect?

1996-12-07 Thread Bruce Perens
> 1) Deselect keeps showing me that the kernel-source- > 2.0.6.deb is available (after repeated Packages updates). > Of course it won't download because it's not there. The mirror sites have been messed up by networking problems, and files are missing. The networking problem has been resolved (a

Re: Recompiling kernel broke my ppp

1996-12-07 Thread Bruce Perens
We had a report that adding PPP to /etc/modules rather than letting kerneld load it made it work. I don't know why that would be, so if you can corroborate it, that would help. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP f

Re: Wine, sources of other debian packages

1996-12-07 Thread Brian C. White
> With the discusion of Wine, I was wondering if a Wine package was in the > works? There has been a Debian package of Wine for many months. It can be found in "project/experimental". I don't update it very often because I haven't found it to be in a useful state as of yet. The latest one seems

is it me or deselect?

1996-12-07 Thread John D. Thomlinson
First - my apologies to all those working so hard on the bleeding edge, for questions relating to an old version. 1) Deselect keeps showing me that the kernel-source- 2.0.6.deb is available (after repeated Packages updates). Of course it won't download because it's not there. I've gotten the t

Re: Mounting a file as a filesystem

1996-12-07 Thread Scott Barker
Dale Scheetz said: > If you use loop devices at all you will certainly want more than one. My > system has loop0 thru loop7. As does mine. 'MAKEDEV loop' creates them all (at least, it did on my Debian 1.1 system). > This would allow your mount to look like: > > mount -o loop=/dev/loop2 -t ext2

Recompiling kernel broke my ppp

1996-12-07 Thread Ken Gaugler
Title says most of it. I have had this problem before, and now I can't figure out how to fix it, nor can I find the previous reference in the mailing list archives. So here it is: I have been running 2.0.6 kernel for some time now with no problems. I was experimenting around with trying to get

Re: XWindows Login Screen

1996-12-07 Thread Carlo U. Segre
On Fri, 6 Dec 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello All: > > > > I just upgraded to XWindows 3.2 and now my xdm login screen does not show > > the familiar "Debian Linux (hostname)" in CadetBlue but just "X Window > > System" in unfriendly black! > > > > I have been looking through the X con

Re: Fresh 1.2 instalation with minor problems

1996-12-07 Thread Bruce Perens
You didn't read install.html :-) . Log in as root and run .configure . This will be fixed late tonight, I hope. The 2.0.27 kernel is uploading now. I must build a new floppy set with that, and with various bug fixes. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EM

repartitioning hard drive

1996-12-07 Thread David Morris
This is a variation on the theme of moving parts of the directory tree to another hard drive that was on this list a while ago. I have a 800M hard drive that is currectly split roughly in half between a DOS partition (411M) and a Debian + swap set of petitions. The Debian partition is almost fu