Re: debian 1.3 upgrade: my first success with one minor problem

"James D. Freels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > dpkg --remove lesstif-bin > > (Reading database ... 11943 files and directories currently installed.) > Removing lesstif-bin ... > dpkg: error processing lesstif-bin (--remove): > subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 >

Re: Non-interactive modem hangup

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > What I'm after is something simple I can put into a script for sudo > to kill the ppp daemon and also hang up the line, freeing /dev/ttyS1 > immediately (rather than waiting for the ISP to idle out the line and > hang up on me). > > The first part I've got fi

Re: debian 1.3 upgrade: my first success with one minor problem

> > "James D. Freels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [snip] > > > dpkg --remove lesstif-bin > > > > (Reading database ... 11943 files and directories currently installed.) > > Removing lesstif-bin ... > > dpkg: error processing lesstif-bin (--remove): > > subprocess pre-removal script returne

console screenblanker?

How does one disable the screenblanker that's installed on the console by default? My machine mostly runs headless and heyboardless so it'd be nice to *just* be able to plug in a monitor and see what's going on and not have to plug in a kbd just to be able to hit a key... --Zachary -- TO UNSU

Re: console screenblanker?

On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Zachary DeAquila wrote: > > How does one disable the screenblanker that's installed on the console > by default? My machine mostly runs headless and heyboardless so it'd > be nice to *just* be able to plug in a monitor and see what's going on > and not have to plug in a kbd j

ethernet problems

Hi, I've just put a 3c900 card in my linux machine and it's giving me problems. Kernel version is 2.0.30. From what I could ascertain, the new version of 3c59x.c is a plug-in replacement for the old one without 3c900 support. Accordingly, I replaced the old version with the new, ran make-kpkg and

Re: URL for StarOffice is here

On Sat, Jun 07, 1997 at 10:58:59AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Paul Serice wrote: > > > Plenty of people have asked for the URL after I posted a > > "Debian Success Story". So, here it is > > ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/staroffice > > Can anybody give a report of the StarO

Re: Non-interactive modem hangup

Just killing pppd will do it unless your modem isn't set up properly. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know a simple command or tool to hang up the modem? Just > hang it up, not stay connected to the tty and await more commands. > > What I'm after is something simple I can put into a

Re: Non-interactive modem hangup

On 7 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > Just killing pppd will do it unless your modem isn't set up properly. Then my modem isn't set up properly. I got a private email mentioning something about how the modem should automatically hangup once DTR is dropped, which happens if "modem" is given as an

why so many broken peips when installing 1.3?

To further my previous post, I found that I have no problem installing netscape_3.0, but netscape-4.0 displayed a lot of broken pipes message and it not installed properly. After the install, I cannot find a find the nescape directory in /usr/lib. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: URL for StarOffice is here

Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Jun 07, 1997 at 10:58:59AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Paul Serice wrote: > > > > > Plenty of people have asked for the URL after I posted a > > > "Debian Success Story". So, here it is > > > ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linu

Re: LILO: Wrong Loader ..

> On Fri, 6 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Disclaimer: it's my fault, I know. > > On a stable (1.1.13) debian box I tried to upgrade the kernel from install > > 2.0.6 to a home-built 2.0.27. The home built kernel is known to work, so > > this > > is not the problem. I built it via kernel

MAN dumps core - solved!

Hi. I recently installed version 1.2. At some point in the insta process, the man command stopped working. It turns out that one of the packages installs the man pages owned by root, but another installs man owned by the user man. Then man cannot wirte the cat files and crashes. Solution: chmod the

Re: URL for StarOffice is here

On Sun, Jun 08, 1997 at 02:00:07AM -0500, stephen farrell wrote: > You should also take a gander at wp 7 before you throw any money on > the table. There is a beta at http://www.sdcorp.com/. I've never Having discard the warning about being an authorised beta tester :-) since they don't have any

a x86 emulator that support win95

Just found a x86 emulator and it seems support win95 though in early stage. http://world.std.com/~bochs/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Leafnode

Does anyone know where leafnode keeps it lists of newsgroups it's supposed to retrieve? Somehow, my system keeps grabbing more and more things I didn't ask for (Local newsgroups of Miami, stuff like that). I'd like to lean it out a bit and see if it helps at all. After running fetch for the first

Re: URL for StarOffice is here

stephen farrell wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sat, Jun 07, 1997 at 10:58:59AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Paul Serice wrote: Do any of these import Word* or Wordperfect? I don't want to re-type my resume. One of these days I'm going to have

Re: URL for StarOffice is here

On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: > stephen farrell wrote: > > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, Jun 07, 1997 at 10:58:59AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > > On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Paul Serice wrote: > > Do any of these import Word* or Wordperfect? I don't want to re

Re: SLang? Cron run-parts /etc/cron.weekly

I've got a newbie-type question for anyone kind enough to answer. This morning I got a message from my cron which told me the following (header cut down a bit for brevity): >> From: root (Cron Daemon) >> To: root >> Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> run-parts /etc/cron.weekly >> >> Terminal

Re: Leafnode

Tim O'Brien: > Does anyone know where leafnode keeps it lists of newsgroups it's supposed > to retrieve? Somehow, my system keeps grabbing more and more things I > didn't ask for (Local newsgroups of Miami, stuff like that). I'd like to > lean it out a bit and see if it helps at all. /var/news/in

Re: SLang? Cron run-parts /etc/cron.weekly

Randy Edwards: >I've got a newbie-type question for anyone kind enough to answer. This > morning I got a message from my cron which told me the following (header cut > down a bit for brevity): > > >> From: root (Cron Daemon) > >> To: root > >> Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> run-parts /et

Locales Problem?

Here is an error message received when I do dpkg installs on certain Debian packages such as xemacs for instance. Everything seems to work OK. perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "us" are support

Re: Will ATI 3D Rage chips work with XFree86?

Michael Tempsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 15 May, Rick Macdonald wrote: > Re: R. Chris Ross wrote: > Re: > I wondered if the D3 Rage chip set boards would work with > Re: > XFree86. They are supposed to be quite hot and someone offered to > Re: > trade me a Wincharge for one even up. >

Re: Non-interactive modem hangup

Look for an option something like: * Drop carrier on DTR low * Disconnect on DTR low If I remember correctly, it is an AT&Dx command, but I'm not completely sure. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 7 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > > > Just killing pppd will do it unless your modem isn't set up

Re: Setting up news

"Tim O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to set up a news server on my LAN. I have IPmasquerading running > to allow the other computers access to the Internet through one 28.8 modem > and a standard PPP account, as well as diald for demand dialing at night > and constant connection

Starwiter

I am sorry to ask this here because this is not strictly a debian question. I spent many hours downloading StarOffice 3.1 and untarred it (StarOffice31-english.tar.gz StarOffice31-common.tar.gz StarOffice31-statbin.tar.gz) in /usr/local. I then, apparently successfully, ran the setup script as a

Python add-ons

How do I add on a module like Pygress95 to python? "make" does not seem to work. Is there something missing in Debian's version of Python? Johann Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel

Re: Is xdm required?

The instal script is just giving you the option of using xdm at bootup. Just say no and you can start it manually, or any other X startup program. On 4 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > J. Goldman writes: > > Sorry, I'm confused. What do you mean by the statement that you "don't > > want to be

Re: Starwiter

I get that too once and a while with the StarOffice stuff as well. And I figured out what it was with me ... and it may be the same for you. If I would get the error, I would do an 'su - your ' and then try swriter3 again .. and then it would work. Not sure exactly why that would have that big

Re: Stupid Question: Striping Dos ^M From Texts

>Somewhere in the dank recesses of my mind, I recall >a utility that would strip the extra ^M's from a >text file copied to a unix box. Well, it seems that >Linux also considers these ^M's extranious, is there >such a standard utility or do I have to dig even >deeper to remember sed/awk/grep comma

Re: making 16bpp the default in X

On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, David B. Teague wrote: > > Hi: > > A note of appreciation to several,and a continued request for help. > > Luke Bussanmas, Rob Browining, Brian White, and Gary Dolan (others? if > so accept my apology!) have tried with varying degrees of success in > helping me get Netsca

Re: Vid card memory

>>Ralph Winslow wrote: ... >> Did you try 24/32 bpp? > >Yes, I got them by default, but + and - (+ and - >on numeric >keypad) don't seem to be working. They only switch screen resolutions, not colour depth. Colour depth is in /etc/XF86Config -- by default it's 8 bpp, unless 8 bpp entry i

Re: Starwiter

Johann Spies wrote: > > I am sorry to ask this here because this is not strictly a debian > question. > > I spent many hours downloading StarOffice 3.1 and untarred it > (StarOffice31-english.tar.gz StarOffice31-common.tar.gz > StarOffice31-statbin.tar.gz) in /usr/local. I then, apparently > suc

Re: SLang? Cron run-parts /etc/cron.weekly

Alexander Koch: > Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Oh no - I think I might know what package is causing this problem, and > > unfortunatly, I maintain it :-/. Do you have slrn installed? Does > > /etc/slrnget.conf contain the following lines setting variables =y? This > > could very well

Re: making 16bpp the default in X

> > Luke Bussanmas, Rob Browining, Brian White, and Gary Dolan (others? if > > so accept my apology!) have tried with varying degrees of success in > > helping me get Netscape running on my 1MB TVGA 9400 CXi card and KFC 15" > > monitor with X11R6, Debina 1.1 (with some upgrades). I am grateful t

Problem getting German Umlaute

Hello, I recently installed Debian 1.2 on my notebook and everything went fine. Almost everything. While I am duly impressed by Debian's complex package management system and wide range of packages, I seem to fail in the simple task of getting it to display German Umlaute ("a, "o, "u, sz (if your

Re: Starwiter

On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Johann Spies wrote: > I am sorry to ask this here because this is not strictly a debian > question. > > I spent many hours downloading StarOffice 3.1 and untarred it > (StarOffice31-english.tar.gz StarOffice31-common.tar.gz > StarOffice31-statbin.tar.gz) in /usr/local. I then

iBCS

Hi! I'm trying to get iBCS working...I've tried iBCS-packets from bo and hamm, but nothing works. I always get a message like this: /lib/modules/2.0.30/misc/iBCS.o: unresolved symbol kill_fasync_Rab0414db What's wrong?! If you can help, please email me. Mika -- Mika Marjamäk

FAQ: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages

Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Sven Rudolph, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.43 1997/06/08 22:50:25 sr1 Exp sr1 $ 1. General Questions 1.1. Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ . 1.2. Purp

Re: Starwiter

On Jun 8, Bob Nielsen wrote > will have a script, .sd.sh, installed in your home directory. Running > that will modify some environments, including $LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This will > place the required lib files in your library path so you will no longer > get that message and swriter will work. > >