Re: 3COM 3C905-TX

1997-07-04 Thread m*
Dave Cinege wrote: Thus, and I swear I see it at least once a day, people keep asking if the XL series is supported at all. this was the first i had heard of it, but great! thanks, m* -- The Shining One -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Re: Please but more bugs in Debian Linux ;-)

1997-07-04 Thread Thomas Baetzler
Martin Steigerwald wrote: Thats way to easy. Could I please have some nasty installation problems and bugs and such back? I want to pay $100 for a software and have bugs, and now I pay nothing and have no bucks. What do I get? ;-) Hey, no problem! I can send you some older Debian CDROMs that

Re: Idea for deity. (dselect) Security hole alert system.

1997-07-04 Thread John Foster
On this point, is/has anyone work(ing|ed) on COPS as a deb package? John Foster On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: On Tue, 01 Jul 1997 23:07:37 -0400 (EDT), Alex Yukhimets wrote: No I'm not willing to work on it, and no I have not thought out the fine details, but I think it would

Is there a Debian mpr package?

1997-07-04 Thread teague
Hi I uploaded the mpr-1.6.tar.gz from sunsite today. I have looked for a Debian mpr package without success at ftp.debian.org and at debian.crosslink.net. Does a Debian mpr package exist? If not, would anyone find it useful for me to package it? About the program, from the lsm: Title:

Digests

1997-07-04 Thread Tommy
Are the various debian lists available in digest formant? If so what is the procedure for setting delivery for digest. Thanks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Can't execute slrn in 1.3.1

1997-07-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
I updated to 1.3.1 from 1.3 and now I get the following when I try to run slrn: [nielsen:nielsen]$ ls -al /usr/bin/slrn -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 171072 Jun 23 08:26 /usr/bin/slrn [nielsen:nielsen]$ /usr/bin/slrn bash: /usr/bin/slrn: No such file or directory It's really there (or is

pcmcia modules problem

1997-07-04 Thread Mark Phillips
You wrote: I've had problems in the past with the pcmcia packages. My solution was to use both the kernel source and pcmcia source packages and build custom binaries myself. Make sure you build the modules from the kernel package. You will probably have to define some aliases in

A Basic Question

1997-07-04 Thread Alex Fan
Thanks for those who replied to my last question. Here is another: Where can I find a Debian Distribution? Is it avilable on CDs or just from download? Alex -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 works fine

1997-07-04 Thread Anthony Fok
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: The new Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 installs nicely using the Debian netscape-beta package. It seems to be very stable but then again I never had problems with Communicator 4.0b5. [deleted for brevity] Communicator 4.01b6 works great here too!

Re: A Basic Question

1997-07-04 Thread Shaya Potter
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Alex Fan wrote: Thanks for those who replied to my last question. Here is another: Where can I find a Debian Distribution? Is it avilable on CDs or just from download? You can either download the floppies, and install the base system, and then ftp the rest over.

Re: laptop install problem - pcmcia-eth card can't access internet

1997-07-04 Thread Adam Shand
The problem could be that I can't install pcmcia-modules properly (as outlined in my previous email) but I'm not sure if this is the problem or the only problem. Just wanted to say that you are not alone. :-) You are definately not alone. I wrestled with this all last night and the night before

Re: Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 works fine

1997-07-04 Thread Shaya Potter
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Anthony Fok wrote: On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: The new Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 installs nicely using the Debian netscape-beta package. It seems to be very stable but then again I never had problems with Communicator 4.0b5. [deleted for brevity]

Re: Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 works fine

1997-07-04 Thread Alex Yukhimets
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Anthony Fok wrote: On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: The new Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 installs nicely using the Debian netscape-beta package. It seems to be very stable but then again I never had problems with Communicator 4.0b5. [deleted for

source missing for pcmcia-modules

1997-07-04 Thread Mark Phillips
Am I mistaken or is the source for the two pcmcia-modules packages missing in the source directory of bo? First the modules package doesn't work properly, now I can't even get the source to compile it myself! - Mark

Re: Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 works fine

1997-07-04 Thread Anthony Fok
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Shaya Potter wrote: memory. Maybe part of the reason is that I am using some big Chinese fonts? :) But other than that, it is one of the most stable release! The response was fast and quick too! And they include a dynamically linked version too. Oh yeah!

Re: A Basic Question

1997-07-04 Thread Randy Edwards
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Alex Fan wrote: Where can I find a Debian Distribution? Is it avilable on CDs or just from download? Both. You can find info for downloading from www.debian.org, you can ftp it from ftp.debian.org or one of its mirrors, and if you want it on CD, check out www.lsl.com

About Debian CD Image

1997-07-04 Thread Alex Fan
I can download the Debian Linux Distribution CD image from Debian FTP site. But anyone can tell me what CD-Writer software should I use to write the image to the CD-W? Thank you in advance. Alex. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Can't execute slrn in 1.3.1

1997-07-04 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jul 3, Bob Nielsen wrote I updated to 1.3.1 from 1.3 and now I get the following when I try to run slrn: [nielsen:nielsen]$ ls -al /usr/bin/slrn -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 171072 Jun 23 08:26 /usr/bin/slrn [nielsen:nielsen]$ /usr/bin/slrn bash: /usr/bin/slrn: No such file or

Re: Can't execute slrn in 1.3.1

1997-07-04 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Bob, I believe I've seen this message on a script when the path is incorrect on the first line. Try this: file /usr/bin/slrn. If that doesn't provide anything useful, and it doesn't say anything about it being ELF, view it with more or less to see what the first line points too. The other

mc problem

1997-07-04 Thread Lindsay Allen
I am nearly certain that, some time back, I could put the cursor (in mc) over a .deb file, press Enter and find myself inside the package. I can do it right now on .tar.gz files, but with .deb files it shows a directory OTHER with a filesize of 0. I had a look on the mc www page and saw a

Re: About Debian CD Image

1997-07-04 Thread Bruce Perens
Many CD programs will take ISO image files. I don't have instructions on many yet, here are the two I have so far. Thanks Bruce Here are notes for writing Debian's ISO 9660 CD image files using various CD-writing programs: Cdwrite Cdwrite is in a free Debian package. Most

Re: Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 works fine

1997-07-04 Thread Hong Huang
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote: Communicator 4.01b6 works great here too! However, it seems to be a memory hog, and the memory usage just keeps growing, sometimes up to 40 MB virtual memory (?) (and X was taking over 30 MBs by then too) and by that time I would just

Re: Can't execute slrn in 1.3.1

1997-07-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote: Bob, I believe I've seen this message on a script when the path is incorrect on the first line. Try this: file /usr/bin/slrn. If that doesn't provide anything useful, and it doesn't say anything about it being ELF, view it with more or less to

Re: xinitrc vs. xsession (was Re: Window Managers)

1997-07-04 Thread Buddha Buck
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Gary L. Dolan wrote: I hate to think that my version of 1.2 (now 1.3) is idiosyncratic, but the global xsession and the global xinitrc files are identical. I have attempted in my own halting way to parse my way thru the file(s), and the result appears to me to be

X finally working! ...but in the wrong resolution...

1997-07-04 Thread Curt Howland
Evening, all. I finally have X working, olvwm is no longer crashing and burning. Thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] for your pointing me in the right direction (and my finding the manual for the video card). However, I am now in the unenviable positionn of 640x480 only. While the chip set was supported,

Re: Anyone using Real Audio

1997-07-04 Thread Jim Pick
Has anyone got Real Audio working, when ever I have tried to use it, it buffered the data, and then just quit, with the stderr going to netscape saying Signall 11. Is this a case, where Real Audio has to be LD_PRELOAD'd with something. Thanks, Shaya Everytime I tried it, it crashed X

Help! I broke 'man'!!

1997-07-04 Thread Tim
I think I broke 'man'.. It says it's updating the index cache, and hangs that way until it's stopped. I did delete a file in /tmp, called zman___aaa, since there was a message saying it couldn't do anything because this file was there. Was that a mistake? I though things is /tmp were temporary and

Re: Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 works fine

1997-07-04 Thread Alex Yukhimets
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote: Communicator 4.01b6 works great here too! However, it seems to be a memory hog, and the memory usage just keeps growing, sometimes up to 40 MB virtual memory (?) (and X was taking over 30 MBs by then too) and by that time

Re: Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 works fine

1997-07-04 Thread Philippe Troin
Well I still get: ERROR: File not found Cant load plugin /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/libnullplugin.so. Ignored. ERROR: File not found Cant load plugin /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/libnullplugin.so. Ignored. But the files are there... Whatever, it seems to be working ok... Phil. -- TO

Re: epson Stylus 600

1997-07-04 Thread Philippe Troin
On Thu, 03 Jul 1997 03:27:15 MDT Anthony Fok ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) wrote: which describes the EPSON Stylus COLOR printers support in Ghostscript 4.03. The Stylus COLOR printer driver was written for older models, but they work with newer models including COLOR 500, 600 and 800, up to 720x720

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-04 Thread Philippe Troin
On Thu, 03 Jul 1997 16:49:14 CDT m* ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Dave Cinege wrote: I call upon you Kernel gods. You see, it will not end by itself. Please put the words and 3c90x on the vortex driver line in the configs. (Or someone submit a patch. I don't know how) are the 90x cards

Debian and Cybercash?

1997-07-04 Thread Roger Endo
Has anyone tried to install the cybercash module on a debian system. It is supposed to work on a red hat system, but since it is a .tgz, we'd figure to try it on debian. We get pretty far except that it gets stuck on host name lookups. It calls remote addresses, and if I hardcode these remote

dselect ftp hamm

1997-07-04 Thread Victor Torrico
I have had no problems using dselect ftp to install files from all directories but hamm. I answer the ftp prompts in an obvious fashion and voila everything works OK. What do I do to install files from /debian/hamm/hamm /debian/hamm/contrib and /debian/hamm/non-free? That is, how do I answer

Re: Can't execute slrn in 1.3.1

1997-07-04 Thread joost witteveen
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote: Bob, I believe I've seen this message on a script when the path is incorrect on the first line. Try this: file /usr/bin/slrn. If that doesn't provide anything useful, and it doesn't say anything about it being ELF, view it with more or

Re: questions about new releases

1997-07-04 Thread Jaakko Niemi
How much faster? If it's a lot faster, it might be worth trying. It´s a bit faster (5-xx%). And I mean the binaries compiled. I tried it (almost two years ago ?? :-)), and it didn´t quite work then. It would be though nice to have debianized packages of pentium-optimize pieces in (let´s

Re: Way to set up a MacFiles virtual drive?

1997-07-04 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote: Way back when I was working at one of my older jobs we used Macs and UNIX stations. Our unix accounts had a MacFiles directory that allowed a mac to connect to it like it was a regular mac drive. Now at my new job I am using Mac and Linux

Re: Anyone using Real Audio

1997-07-04 Thread Lawrence
Jim Pick wrote: Has anyone got Real Audio working, when ever I have tried to use it, it buffered the data, and then just quit, with the stderr going to netscape saying Signall 11. Is this a case, where Real Audio has to be LD_PRELOAD'd with something. Thanks, Shaya Everytime

Re: off topic: password strategy as an ISP

1997-07-04 Thread Pavel Galynin
hello, John Foster wrote: We use the following strategy: 1) Generate a list of passwords with pwgen could you describe this utility? 2) On a SP2 supercomputer, try to crack them (after feeding them through crypt). do you use a wordlist and if so, how big? 3) Those who can't be

Re: off topic: password strategy as an ISP

1997-07-04 Thread Nils Rennebarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Pavel Galynin wrote: attempts to telnet from the one source, but as we've disabled shell access for dial-in clients it'll just give them motd if they do get in that way! i'm not at all knowledgeable in linux, but chsh changes a default

Re: octave

1997-07-04 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks to the many who helped yesterday. Octave complained that it needed libg++, even though it wasn't listed dependent on it. I tried to install libg++27_2.7.2.1-6.deb. When I did, dpkg found several packages in available that had the version field empty. I looked

Re: off topic: password strategy as an ISP

1997-07-04 Thread Pavel Galynin
hello, Nils Rennebarth wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Pavel Galynin wrote: attempts to telnet from the one source, but as we've disabled shell access for dial-in clients it'll just give them motd if they do get in that way! i'm not at all

Re: mc problem

1997-07-04 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lindsay Allen) writes: I am nearly certain that, some time back, I could put the cursor (in mc) over a .deb file, press Enter and find myself inside the package. I can do it right now on .tar.gz files, but with .deb files it shows a directory OTHER with a filesize of 0.

Xprinter problem with StarOffice

1997-07-04 Thread Johnny Stevenson
I have Debian 1.2 and (successfully) installed StarOffice in /usr/local. I ran setup as a user successfully, with no errors reported. Each time I run swriter3 I get an error: Xprinter not found XPPATH incorrectly set. (or something very similar) I have XPPATH set to:

Re: dselect ftp hamm

1997-07-04 Thread Igor Grobman
I have had no problems using dselect ftp to install files from all directories but hamm. I answer the ftp prompts in an obvious fashion and voila everything works OK. What do I do to install files from /debian/hamm/hamm /debian/hamm/contrib and /debian/hamm/non-free? That is, how do I

Re: dselect ftp hamm

1997-07-04 Thread Pavel Galynin
hello, Igor Grobman wrote: I have had no problems using dselect ftp to install files from all directories but hamm. I answer the ftp prompts in an obvious fashion and voila everything works OK. What do I do to install files from /debian/hamm/hamm /debian/hamm/contrib and

Re: dselect ftp hamm

1997-07-04 Thread Igor Grobman
hello, Igor Grobman wrote: I have had no problems using dselect ftp to install files from all directories but hamm. I answer the ftp prompts in an obvious fashion and voila everything works OK. What do I do to install files from /debian/hamm/hamm /debian/hamm/contrib and

Re: mc problem

1997-07-04 Thread David Puryear
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lindsay Allen) wrote: I am nearly certain that, some time back, I could put the cursor (in mc) over a .deb file, press Enter and find myself inside the package. I can do it right now on .tar.gz files, but with .deb files it shows a directory OTHER with a

emacs won't install if /usr/local is read-only

1997-07-04 Thread Linh Dang
1.2.8 and 1.3 exhitbit the same behaviour!!! My /usr/local mounted read-only when I install emacs. The package keep complaining about /usr/local is mounted read-only. Linh -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

emacs won't install if /usr/local is read-only

1997-07-04 Thread Linh Dang
1.2.8 and 1.3 exhitbit the same behaviour!!! My /usr/local mounted read-only when I install emacs. The package keep complaining about /usr/local is mounted read-only. Linh -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: X finally working! ...but in the wrong resolution...

1997-07-04 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Curt Howland wrote: Evening, all. I finally have X working, olvwm is no longer crashing and burning. Thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] for your pointing me in the right direction (and my finding the manual for the video card). Glad to have been of help. However, I am now in

Re: emacs won't install if /usr/local is read-only

1997-07-04 Thread James R. Van Zandt
My /usr/local mounted read-only when I install emacs. The package keep complaining about /usr/local is mounted read-only. packages are not allowed to store files into /usr/local. However, the emacs package is installing only directories: $ dpkg -L emacs|grep local /usr/local

Q: How to change icon bitmap for rxvt-xpm??

1997-07-04 Thread jim
I'd like to have a special icon bitmap for when rxvt-xpm is minimized. Read the man page and nothing. Any ideas?? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 works fine

1997-07-04 Thread Bob Clark
Philippe Troin wrote: Well I still get: ERROR: File not found Cant load plugin /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/libnullplugin.so. Ignored. ERROR: File not found Cant load plugin /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/libnullplugin.so. Ignored. But the files are there... Whatever, it seems to

kernel panic fs?

1997-07-04 Thread K.Y.Lo
Hi I own an 386 with 4MB of ram, I want to do my best about solve the problem. at other day, I installed Debian linux on my hard disk with DOS partition as well. it takes a few mins but what happened.. I am beginner of new linux. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0. VFS: Cannot open root

No man

1997-07-04 Thread Will Lowe
Ok. I upgraded from 1.2 - 1.3 the other day. Got an error saying that mandb conflicted with man, so I purged man and installed mandb, thinking that the latter replaced the former. Now I've got no man. Any clues? Will

Toshiba Tecra 500CDT internal modem register settings ?

1997-07-04 Thread Stan Brown
Does anyoe have any information on register settings for the ineternal modem in a Toshiba Tecra 500CDT? Toshiba is less than useless on this. I have spenst over an hour on the phone to their support centere without any information. I needto make mine

Re: Can't execute slrn in 1.3.1

1997-07-04 Thread Joey Hess
The slrn in bo was horribly broken and wouldn't work on libc5 systems. I've just uploaded a fixed version. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Can't execute slrn in 1.3.1

1997-07-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, joost witteveen wrote: On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote: Bob, I believe I've seen this message on a script when the path is incorrect on the first line. Try this: file /usr/bin/slrn. If that doesn't provide anything useful, and it doesn't say

Re: Xprinter problem with StarOffice

1997-07-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Johnny Stevenson wrote: I have Debian 1.2 and (successfully) installed StarOffice in /usr/local. I ran setup as a user successfully, with no errors reported. Each time I run swriter3 I get an error: Xprinter not found XPPATH incorrectly set. (or something very

Re: Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 works fine

1997-07-04 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote: On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Anthony Fok wrote: On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: The new Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 installs nicely using the Debian netscape-beta package. It seems to be very stable but then again I never had problems

Re: Help! I broke 'man'!!

1997-07-04 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Tim, Check for something like a set -a in the boot up scripts. Comment it out, login again. I think this has been reported as a bug against bash by now. HTH, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage:

Re: dselect ftp hamm

1997-07-04 Thread Victor Torrico
Igor Grobman wrote: I have had no problems using dselect ftp to install files from all directories but hamm. I answer the ftp prompts in an obvious fashion and voila everything works OK. What do I do to install files from /debian/hamm/hamm /debian/hamm/contrib and

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-04 Thread Dave Cinege
On Fri, 04 Jul 1997 01:00:34 -0700, Philippe Troin wrote: On Thu, 03 Jul 1997 16:49:14 CDT m* ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Dave Cinege wrote: I call upon you Kernel gods. You see, it will not end by itself. Please put the words and 3c90x on the vortex driver line in the configs. (Or

Re: kernel panic fs?

1997-07-04 Thread Bruce Perens
If you are trying to boot from the hard disk root using the rescue floppy, try this command line: boot: linux load_ramdisk=0 root=/dev/hd?? Replace the ?? with the appropriate details for your system, like b2. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger

Q: How to add helpers on Netscape which require a file as input

1997-07-04 Thread jim
Using Netscape 4.0b5. I need to add maplay as the MPEG helper app. HOWEVER, just adding the application does nothing. The online help in netscape and at the web site doesn't tell me how to tell helper applications where to find the temporary file. What I suspect is happening is that netscape

Re: mc problem

1997-07-04 Thread Dima
David Puryear wrote: Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lindsay Allen) wrote: I am nearly certain that, some time back, I could put the cursor (in mc) over a .deb file, press Enter and find myself inside the package. I ca n do it right now on .tar.gz files, but with .deb files it

Re: Q: How to add helpers on Netscape which require a file as input

1997-07-04 Thread Shaya Potter
add a %s to the filename. EX. use playaudio %s to play .au files. Shaya On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, jim wrote: Using Netscape 4.0b5. I need to add maplay as the MPEG helper app. HOWEVER, just adding the application does nothing. The online help in netscape and at the web site doesn't tell me

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-04 Thread Kevin Traas
are the 90x cards even supported yet? Well, I just bought one after my transceiver died on an old 3c509, and to my disapointment, it didn't work under 2.0.30 (device or resource busy it said). I went to the hardware howto, and found a link to Donald Becker's homepage. There's an upgraded

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-04 Thread Kevin Traas
Well, I just bought one after my transceiver died on an old 3c509, and to my disapointment, it didn't work under 2.0.30 (device or resource busy it said). I went to the hardware howto, and found a link to Donald Becker's homepage. There's an upgraded version of 3c59x.c which works ok with my

Re: off topic: password strategy as an ISP

1997-07-04 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 4 Jul, Nils Rennebarth wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Pavel Galynin wrote: attempts to telnet from the one source, but as we've disabled shell access for dial-in clients it'll just give them motd if they do get in that way! i'm not at all knowledgeable in

Re: Digests

1997-07-04 Thread Emilio Lopes
T == Tommy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: T Are the various debian lists available in digest formant? If so T what is the procedure for setting delivery for digest. Thanks Just subscribe to debian-user-digest, etc. -- Emilio C. Lopes mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Off topic satellite information...

1997-07-04 Thread Dale Scheetz
To appologize for wasting bandwidth, I will keep this short. This has a very vague connection to Debian, in that seesat5 was first distributed as a Debian package, so users of this program will be interested. Check out the following url if you have any global security interests:

Re: Q: How to change icon bitmap for rxvt-xpm??

1997-07-04 Thread Randy Edwards
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, jim wrote: I'd like to have a special icon bitmap for when rxvt-xpm is minimized. Read the man page and nothing. Any ideas?? I believe this is done in your window manager. I run fvwm2 and accomplished this by adding a line of: Style rxvtIcon xterm-linux.xpm into

ideas: tutorial and mail filter

1997-07-04 Thread Brandon Mitchell
I was thinking about two ideas that may help Debian and general linux systems: 1) How about a simple tutorial that comes up after installing debian. Something that would offer 3 steps: 1. a general linux tutor for those people who are completely new, 2. a sys admin tutor for those who haven't

Re: ideas: tutorial and mail filter

1997-07-04 Thread Martin Schulze
Brandon Mitchell writes: 2) Is there a way to convert the following from my .procmailrc: :0: * .*(@mega.net|\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]|\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]|\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]|\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]|\ ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]) to search for one of these e-mail addresses in a file? The idea being

Audio support

1997-07-04 Thread Jason Westervelt
I apologize in advance for being such a newbie at Linux, but I do know a little. I managed to install the Debian base set along with X11, and got it all up and running, even got the Afterstep package up, that was easy and straightforward. When I tried to recompile the kernel to add in sound

Re: No man

1997-07-04 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jul 4, Will Lowe wrote Ok. I upgraded from 1.2 - 1.3 the other day. Got an error saying that mandb conflicted with man, so I purged man and installed mandb, thinking that the latter replaced the former. Now I've got no man. Any clues? Reinstalling mandb should fix it. Christian

Re: Audio support

1997-07-04 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jul 4, Jason Westervelt wrote [snip] After asking several sound card questions, I get error messages stating that stdio.h and 4 other *.h files could not be found. Do you have libc5-dev installed? If not, install it and try again. Christian pgpUT0p4swhKr.pgp Description: PGP signature

xemacs19 dumps core w. XFree 3.3

1997-07-04 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
After installing the new XFree 3.3 packages xemacs 19.15 (from the unstable dir) dumps immediatly core after starting. I had to go back to 3.2. Is it possible that xemacs19 doesn't work with the new xlib6? -- Joachim Trinkwitzemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CIP-Pool

Problem linking with publib library and g++

1997-07-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
I have a linking problem when I try to include functions from the publib library in a C++ program. This worked before I upgraded to the new releases (see below). An easy example: #include publib.h main() { char *x = This is a string with spaces ; char y[256]; strcpy(y, x);

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-04 Thread Dave Cinege
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997 11:36:29 -0700, Kevin Traas wrote: I installed using May 30 diskette set (Debian 1.3.0, Kernel 2.0.29). From there, I chose the 3c59x module (I got this information from the above URL - like Dave mentioned, this should definitely be identified in modconf). I tried setting

GS mode for Epson Stylus Color 800 ???

1997-07-04 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi! I just recently got my new printer. It was easy to set up the magicfilter so that I can print anything I want. But the highest resolution I got was 360x180. Like this: /usr/bin/gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -r360x180 -sDEVICE=epsonc If I write anything higher than that, like

Re: What programs make disks spin up?

1997-07-04 Thread Andy Spiegl
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Andy Spiegl writes: I read that when a disk has been running for a very long time it sort of dug a ditch into the ball bearing. And when it spins up after a shutdown chances are high it won't find that 'ditch' or stumbles across it and fails. You read

Re: off topic: password strategy as an ISP

1997-07-04 Thread John Foster
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #!/bin/sh cat __EOF__ No telnet login allowed. ** Insert the motd here ** __EOF__ sleep 5 exit 0 And if the remote user managed to interrupt it would they get /bin/sh?, with EUID 0? And what if the sleep call was suspended? I don't