Re: printing

1997-12-08 Thread George Bonser
Sorry for misunderstanding the original post. I thought that he was looking for a tool that would find the printer and could tell what kind it was. :/ Yeah, magicfilterconfig does a nice job of it if you are using the standard lpr. It is a little quirky if you are using LPRng. On 07-Dec-97

The GIMP problems

1997-12-08 Thread adavis
I can't draw anything in the gimp. Lines don't show up, using the pencil, brush, or other drawing tools. The spline tool does lines, but when I switch over to pencil or brush, etc., the lines disappear. I get some messages, including ** WARNING **: XGetWindowProperty failed This message I

Radius

1997-12-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
A while ago I posted a question as to whether there were differences between the two Radius packages (Merit vs. Livingston). So far, no responses ... nobody using Radius?? Wrong forum for the question? We currently have Debian unstable - up to date as of last night. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet -

Re: The GIMP problems

1997-12-08 Thread Scott K. Ellis
Quick suggestion, if you've upgraded GIMP recently, you need to do rm -rf ~/.gimp since the new version of gimp doesn't cope with the files left by the older versions. On Mon, 8 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't draw anything in the gimp. Lines don't show up, using the pencil, brush,

two random questions...

1997-12-08 Thread Alan Su
Hi everyone- I have a couple unrelated questions to which I'm hoping someone might have answers. First, I've installed APS for my HP DeskJet 682C. Everything works wonderfully for PS files, but now when I pipe plain text to the printer (via lpr), I get output that looks as if it's been rotated

Re: two random questions...

1997-12-08 Thread Alan Su
Alan Su wrote (Sun, 07 Dec 1997 16:32:47 -0800 ): | |First, I've installed APS for my HP DeskJet 682C. Everything works |wonderfully for PS files, but now when I pipe plain text to the |printer (via lpr), I get output that looks as if it's been rotated to |landscape format and is printed with a

Re: CGI Error

1997-12-08 Thread Ralph Winslow
On 07-Dec-97 Paul Miller wrote: hmmm... that means something is wrong with Apache, suEXEC, or Perl 5.004. Do I need any special perl libs/files for cgi? The code you showed doesn't need anything but perl. If the command whence perl shows /usr/bin/perl, and dselect is working for you (or anyother

Existant Font isn't found!

1997-12-08 Thread Mark Phillips
I am trying to run a number of programs like filerunner and tkman, but get errors like: font -Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* doesn't exist However this font _does_ exist as can be seen when I execute the command: $ find /usr/lib/X11/fonts \( -name fonts.dir -o -name

Re: sound problem

1997-12-08 Thread A. M. Varon
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Larry Gariepy wrote: I have a Yamaha 3d Wavetable sound card. I would like to be able to use it. I have compiled sound support into my kernel (though I wouldn't bet my life that I did it correctly). I read the Sound.HOWTO, which referred

Re: NNTPCACHE

1997-12-08 Thread A. M. Varon
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Roger Dunk wrote: Just wondering if anyone has sucessfully compiled NNTPCACHE on a Debian system? If so, how?!?!? Sure... I have compiled NNTPCACHE on a Debian box. Just follow the steps (there is a readme on how to install it.). The problem really I have encountered on

Re: printing

1997-12-08 Thread Pere Camps
Damir, Did you try running magicfilterconfig (as a root), after installing magicfilter package? Nope... when I wrote the message I hadn´t even installed lpr! ;) Now I have and, truly, the config script does a very nice job. I´m already printing from netscape! :-O Now,

Re: CGI Error

1997-12-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 05:19:01PM -0500, Paul Miller wrote: hmmm... that means something is wrong with Apache, suEXEC, or Perl 5.004. Do I need any special perl libs/files for cgi? I've been able to run files which use sh (bash) and awk fine.. so I think there is something wrong w/ perl.

Re: truncating files

1997-12-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 03:05:00PM -0500, Carl Mummert wrote: cmrm -f {list of filenames} cmtouch {list of filenames} This doesn't work if you don't have write permission to the directory. The solution should be able to truncate any file I have write access to, even if I can't write to the

Re: printing

1997-12-08 Thread Pere Camps
George, Sorry for misunderstanding the original post. I thought that he was looking for a tool that would find the printer and could tell what kind it was. :/ No problem. Yeah, magicfilterconfig does a nice job of it if you are using the standard lpr. It did do a nice

StarOffice,printing and deskjets, again

1997-12-08 Thread tony mollica
One more time please. Here's the setup: Linux 2.0.30 (debian, of course) StarOffice 3.1 installed from the latest .deb installer HP870Cse printer magicfilter 1.2-10 (debian distribution) gs-aladdin 5.03 (.deb install ) The rest is the usual stuff, everything works, except the printing. Normal

Re: StarOffice,printing and deskjets, again

1997-12-08 Thread bruce
Magicfilter depends on being able to tell what kind of file it is. I think the file has to begin with %!PS-Adobe- for it to be detected as PostScript. Is that the case? Try sending it small PostScript files and see if it gets it right. If I still remember PostScript this should work for a test.

Re: The GIMP problems

1997-12-08 Thread Raja R Harinath
Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quick suggestion, if you've upgraded GIMP recently, you need to do rm -rf ~/.gimp since the new version of gimp doesn't cope with the files left by the older versions. It should actually suffice to edit `~/.gimp/gimprc' and comment out (or even

Re: CGI Error

1997-12-08 Thread Troy
I took his script, just as it was posted earlier, and installed it on my machine here. It ran flawlessly as a CGI program and gave me the thankyou notice (the script was posted a couple of days ago). I sent him the same script I made, and it doesn't work on his system, I am using perl5.003,

Re: Existant Font isn't found!

1997-12-08 Thread Daniel Martin
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: I am trying to run a number of programs like filerunner and tkman, but get errors like: font -Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* doesn't exist However this font _does_ exist as can be seen when I execute the command: Two things -

Re: CGI Error

1997-12-08 Thread Paul Miller
Unfortunately that is the first thing... it runs on other systems, so I'm clueless.. It wasn't able to run from the server cgi-bin, so I don't think it is suEXEC's problem, but Apache's. Thanks On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 05:19:01PM -0500, Paul Miller

Re: Radius

1997-12-08 Thread tps
On Dec 07, Nathan E Norman wrote A while ago I posted a question as to whether there were differences between the two Radius packages (Merit vs. Livingston). So far, no responses ... nobody using Radius?? Wrong forum for the question? I use the one that Miquel wrote. You can find it at

Re: StarOffice,printing and deskjets, again

1997-12-08 Thread tps
On Dec 08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Magicfilter depends on being able to tell what kind of file it is. Yup. I think the file has to begin with %!PS-Adobe- for it to be detected I think just %! would work. as PostScript. Is that the case? Try sending it small PostScript files and see if it

xntp, ntpdate, setting the local clock

1997-12-08 Thread David Stern
Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi, I'm using xntpd (for no good reason), have setup my ntp servers in /etc/ntp.conf, have ran ntpq to find that xntpd is working great. However, the local clock isn't being set, according to reftime in ntpq | rv. I'm

Re: CGI Error

1997-12-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Paul Miller wrote: : Unfortunately that is the first thing... it runs on other systems, so I'm : clueless.. It wasn't able to run from the server cgi-bin, so I don't : think it is suEXEC's problem, but Apache's. : : Thanks Are you sure that you have a ScriptAlias directive

Re: /dev on a ram disk

1997-12-08 Thread Joey Hess
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: I recall a post some time ago mentioning that putting /dev on a ramdisk would allow laptops to use APM. Does anyone know how this is done? I've never made a ramdisk with linux, and I'm not sure how to replace the /dev dir before anything starts using it... Check out the

Re: CGI Error

1997-12-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 11:29:08PM -0500, Paul Miller wrote: Unfortunately that is the first thing... it runs on other systems, so I'm clueless.. It wasn't able to run from the server cgi-bin, so I don't think it is suEXEC's problem, but Apache's. Hmmm, ok, I apologise for getting a bit

Re: dunc pppd configuration script

1997-12-08 Thread john
Richard G. Roberto writes: This was supposed to be as generally useful to as many people as possible. Yes. And the most generally useful thing to do for the most people is to make it easy for them to get a single connection working so that they can email for help and ftp files. It was

Re: Existant Font isn't found!

1997-12-08 Thread Mark Phillips
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Daniel Martin wrote: On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: I am trying to run a number of programs like filerunner and tkman, but get errors like: font -Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* doesn't exist However this font _does_ exist as can

Re: xntp, ntpdate, setting the local clock

1997-12-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 08:37:33PM +, David Stern wrote: I'm using xntpd (for no good reason), have setup my ntp servers in /etc/ntp.conf, have ran ntpq to find that xntpd is working great. However, the local clock isn't being set, according to reftime in ntpq I see a note: ntpdate

PCMCIA modem is silent

1997-12-08 Thread Mark Phillips
My friend's Toshiba laptop has a PCMCIA modem card. When it is dialing the number, you can't hear it - it doesn't make any sound. I've tried lots of things like atm1, atm2, checking for interrupt conflicts, but nothing seems to work. I've even tried borrowing someone else's modem card and

Re: NNTPCACHE

1997-12-08 Thread George Bonser
On 08-Dec-97 A. M. Varon wrote: snipped NNTPCACHE is really a cool program. It's a proxy like squid, but instead of proxying html, jpgs, etc., It proxies nntp newsgroups. It saves you enormous bandwitdth just using this

Looking for a good newbie file.

1997-12-08 Thread cs51wcs
I'm looking for a good file for newbies, preferably dummies that will be able to answer some of my questions about Linux. I currently only have e-mail access and am not able to browse or ftp. Thanks for any assistance, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO

Re: /dev on a ram disk

1997-12-08 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Joey Hess wrote: Jason Gunthorpe wrote: I recall a post some time ago mentioning that putting /dev on a ramdisk would allow laptops to use APM. Does anyone know how this is done? I've never made a ramdisk with linux, and I'm not sure how to replace the /dev dir

Re: The GIMP problems

1997-12-08 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I reinstalled gimp 0.99.14-1 and the gimp-data-extra, gimp-data-min, and gimp-non-free packages of this version. I also installed the up-to-date libgtk1. Get the older libgtk (971109-1) back while you can still find it on a mirror. The newer one

Re: xntp, ntpdate, setting the local clock

1997-12-08 Thread David Stern
On Mon, 08 Dec 1997 17:30:15 +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 08:37:33PM +, David Stern wrote: I'm using xntpd (for no good reason), have setup my ntp servers in /etc/ntp.conf, have ran ntpq to find that xntpd is working great. However, the local clock isn't

Compile kernel 2.0.30 / Debian 1.3 ?

1997-12-08 Thread Marc Fleureck
Hi, System: Debian 1.3/kernel 2.0.30/pcmcia 3com 562D/563G card My goal is to recompile the kernel2.0.30 in order to solve some bug with pcmcia.(see below for the error message at boot time) I have installed pcmcia-source_2.9.6-3, same for pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules. Also

Re: The GIMP problems

1997-12-08 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't draw anything in the gimp. Lines don't show up, using the pencil, brush, or other drawing tools. The spline tool does lines, but when I switch over to pencil or brush, etc., the lines disappear. I get some messages, including My

Re: Debian Problem after Compiling Kernel

1997-12-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
Vaibhav Goel wrote:... I installed Debian 1.3.1 off the InfoMagic Developers CD. This release incorporates the 2.0.29 kernel. Installation goes without a hitch. Everything works fine. I download the latest developers kernel (2.1.71) and compile it. Everything seems to compile fine.

Partitioning

1997-12-08 Thread Andrew
Owing to the fulness of my Linux partition, I have bought a 1.2 Gb harddrive. I'm intending on transfering Linux to this, leaving win95 to fester on my old 800 Mb one. I think I'll want two partitions besides swap for robustness and performance, but how do I divide the filesystem up? Can I just

Re: CONT2:Debian Installation Problem, PLEASE HELP!!!

1997-12-08 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Liran Zvibel wrote: I tried to configure PPP/SLIP (my ISP is IBM). When I try to use minicom to connect it does make the sound but that is the last thing it does with the modem, I mean that, I see no CONNECT message nor anything else. I don't see any prompt from the

New gv does not find Xaw3D-libs

1997-12-08 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hi all, recently I completed my libc6-upgrade with no further problems but now I cannot start gv anymore. It gives me: $ gv gv: error in loading shared libraries libXaw3d.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory And ldd shows: $ ldd /usr/bin/X11/gv libm.so.6 =

56k voice modem for Debian

1997-12-08 Thread Randy Edwards
I've got to get a new modem for a Debian machine. My requirements are that it be one of the Rockwell 56k standard ones, of course, that it do fax, and I'd like it to be able to handle voice. What I'd really love is to set up a voice mailbox system on my Debian box. So I was wondering, is

Re: 56k voice modem for Debian

1997-12-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Dec 08, 1997 at 06:51:29AM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: I've got to get a new modem for a Debian machine. My requirements are that it be one of the Rockwell 56k standard ones, of course, that it do fax, and I'd like it to be able to handle voice. What I'd really love is to set up a

Re: New gv does not find Xaw3D-libs

1997-12-08 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hi all, recently I completed my libc6-upgrade with no further problems but now I cannot start gv anymore. It gives me: $ gv gv: error in loading shared libraries libXaw3d.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory And ldd

Re: Netscape unresolved symbols

1997-12-08 Thread Alain Nissen
Richard A Nelson wrote: When I start netscape I get a ration of the attached messages... I thought I've taken care of all the requisite symlinks, but am obviously missing something... Does anyone know what ? See bug report #14249. http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/14/14249.html Alain

fetch/mail and xconsole

1997-12-08 Thread Brian Skreeg
evenin, Xconsole is started by xdm before login. It appears in the bottom left corner. 1. How do I change the resources for this? I`ve altered personal resources, xdm`s and even app-defaults. Can`t get the bugger to shift :) 2. How do I direct program output to appear in this window? Before I

Re: truncating files

1997-12-08 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
From the bash manpage: noclobber If set, bash does not overwrite an existing file with the , , and redirection operators. This variable may be overridden when creating output files by using the redirection operator |

Re: Partitioning (fwd)

1997-12-08 Thread Paul
Hello Andrew, there are a few things you need to do first with your drive before you can move your linux onto it. You have to partition it forst, you said you want two plus swap. What are they / and /usr if I may ask? If this drive is going to be home to any servers run on it you may want to

Re: ssh and shosts file

1997-12-08 Thread Dale Martin
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd suggest a different solution: Create a local key using ssh-keygen, don't set a password and copy your .ssh/identity.pub to .ssh/authorized_keys on the remote machine. Regards Joey And, if you still have problems, study the output of

Re: How are .Xdefaults files handled under Debian?

1997-12-08 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Wintermute wrote: Mark Phillips wrote: On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, bleach wrote: Shouldn't it be: xterm*scrollBar:true (on) Maybe. I was copying another file. How did you find out about the correct format? If you want to find the resource listing for ANY X program you can use

Re: PHP/FI Apache Module

1997-12-08 Thread Steve Kostecke
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hamish Moffatt) writes: There is a dynamic module (.so) for Apache if you use the precompiled PHP/FI package. I'm not sure which versions of Apache it works with though; I have used it with 1.1. I've tried adding the php_mod.so to the

crc error

1997-12-08 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, I had a major crash on my debian this weekend and now I would like to know how would I go about retrieve some of the files that I'd like to keep. Here is the symptom: 1) At boot, I got about 3 line of text printed out. One of which said: crc error and the next line

Email only users, and Bulk User Adds/Removes

1997-12-08 Thread Darren Renaud
Is there a way to establish an email only account? Also is there a way to add or remove a large amount of those accounts (if they can exist)? I'm setting up a system for student email, and have to add or remove 40+ accounts per semester. I'd like to limit the accounts to POP3 only, and prevent

Unidentified subject!

1997-12-08 Thread mangelo696
unsubsribe -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: PHP/FI Apache Module

1997-12-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Steve Kostecke wrote: : In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hamish Moffatt) writes: : There is a dynamic module (.so) for Apache if you use the precompiled : PHP/FI package. I'm not sure which versions of Apache it works with though; : I have used it

Re: StarOffice,printing and deskjets, again

1997-12-08 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Magicfilter depends on being able to tell what kind of file it is. I think the file has to begin with %!PS-Adobe- for it to be detected as PostScript. Is that the case? Try sending it small PostScript files and see if it gets it right. If I still remember

Re: Streaming Password: in VC

1997-12-08 Thread David Wright
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Jay Barbee wrote: I believe I botched my Debian 1.3.1 install up, upon the first bootup. I was converting from Slackware to debian after a crash (perfect time to do this), so I had my users and home directories on another partition I did not want to setup the

[OFF-TOPIC] Re: Simple Unix utility?

1997-12-08 Thread Lorens Kockum
NONDEBIANPOST On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 12:31:23PM +0100, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: cut doesn't buffers everything, grep is to blame. If grep output to a non-terminal (e.g. a pipe) it use buffers of 4k (don't remember the correct value). Unfortunatly, I don't know any way to get around this.

Elm failing ?

1997-12-08 Thread Andrew Martin Adrian Cater \[Andy\]
My elm (hamm) suddenly seems to have stopped picking up mail from my ISP. Anybody have any advice as to where to start looking: I wonder slightly if a directory may have changed permissions. Andy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Bash 2.01 Upgrade/Libc6

1997-12-08 Thread Paul Rightley
Thanks for the idea. I have already suggested to Scott Ellis to put the locations of the packages mentioned in the Mini-HOWTO for other brain-dead people like me. Paul On 07-Dec-97 Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Paul Rightley

RE: ssh and shosts file

1997-12-08 Thread Paul Rightley
Note: I never really understand what I am doing with Linux, I just try brute force... I have solved similar problems by setting up the .shosts files to the way they should be and logging in to the remote machine (usually using my password or passphrase) and then logging back into the local

RE: Debian Problem after Compiling Kernel

1997-12-08 Thread Paul Rightley
I am no expert, but... Are you sure that you compile the correct driver for your networking card into the new kernel? I get errors like this after I have recompiled the kernel with the wrong ethernet card driver. If you think you did this correctly, did you compile the driver as a module? Are

Msql'n'Perl don't play together anymore

1997-12-08 Thread Frank Barknecht
On the weekend I upgraded a lot of stuff to hamm. Now perl and msqlperl give me errors. Everythinng went fine with perl-*-5.004.02-1.deb and msqlperl_0.91-1.deb. After the upgrade I now have all perl-*-5.004.02-2.deb's and I am still using msqlperl_0.91-1.deb. Now my old scripts give me

Re: New gv does not find Xaw3D-libs [SOLVED]

1997-12-08 Thread Frank Barknecht
Joost Kooij hat gesagt: // Joost Kooij wrote: On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hi all, recently I completed my libc6-upgrade with no further problems but now I cannot start gv anymore. [...] I am using the gv-package gv_3.5.8-.1.deb form unstable and I do have this

Re: Partitioning

1997-12-08 Thread tko
Andrew writes: Owing to the fulness of my Linux partition, I have bought a 1.2 Gb harddrive. I'm intending on transfering Linux to this, leaving win95 to fester on my old 800 Mb one. I think I'll want two partitions besides swap for robustness and performance, but how do I divide the

Re: Problem installing Debian 1.3

1997-12-08 Thread tko
Gianluca Ryo Trimarchi writes: First of all, sorry my bad English :-) Please help me with these problem: Few days ago I've installed my new hd (conner 1080mb) in my computer.= It's splitted in three partions: 1 primary (dos fat 16) e 2 logical for linux = That's the

Re: smail won't send mail

1997-12-08 Thread Adam Klein
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Daniel Martin wrote: On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Adam Klein wrote: In the past few days, smail has stopped non-local mail. It returns a message from MAILER-DAEMON saying something like `551: Have you read DNS + BIND'. What's going on? Adam Klein Well, since

Re: Partitioning

1997-12-08 Thread Paul
hello again, I hope I understand you correctly you want to take a 100 megs of your win95 partition and use it with /home to make a grand total of 400 megs? or did you want to take my first suggestion and add an additional partition of 100megs as /home? If you can do that but I would not

Re: Partitioning (fwd)

1997-12-08 Thread Paul
hello again, I hope I understand you correctly you want to take a 100 megs of your win95 partition and use it with /home to make a grand total of 400 megs? or did you want to take my first suggestion and add an additional partition of 100megs as /home? If you can do that but I would not

Re: fetch/mail and xconsole

1997-12-08 Thread David Stern
On Mon, 08 Dec 1997 09:47:03 GMT, wrote: Xconsole is started by xdm before login. It appears in the bottom left corner. 1. How do I change the resources for this? I`ve altered personal resources, xdm`s and even app-defaults. Can`t get the bugger to shift :) I'm not sure I understand what

Re: Msql'n'Perl don't play together anymore

1997-12-08 Thread Scott Ellis
Yep, basically anything with XS extensions needs recompiled for the new perl. Submit a bug against msqlperl, and if you really need it immediatly, fetch the source package and recompile. On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Frank Barknecht wrote: On the weekend I upgraded a lot of stuff to hamm. Now perl and

Re: NFS: mount clntudp_create: RPC: Program not registered

1997-12-08 Thread Gertjan Klein
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If everything worked fine, you will need to configure /etc/hosts.allow on host kilu . It did - and although the /etc/hosts.allow files were equivalent on both machines, I found that changing ALL: ALL to ALL: PARANOID (as it was on host judy) on host kilu solved

Re: Problem installing Debian 1.3

1997-12-08 Thread Sten Anderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gianluca Ryo Trimarchi writes: Few days ago I've installed my new hd (conner 1080mb) in my computer.= It's splitted in three partions: 1 primary (dos fat 16) e 2 logical for linux = That's the problem-^ When

postgresql update

1997-12-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
Someone was asking on one of these lists for up-to-date files of postgresql, since there were some problems with earlier versions. Unfortunately, I have lost the message; sorry about that. The latest version is in Incoming. If you cannot get into master.debian.org, you can download the current

Re: Problem installing Debian 1.3

1997-12-08 Thread G John Lapeyre
On 8 Dec 1997, Sten Anderson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gianluca Ryo Trimarchi writes: Few days ago I've installed my new hd (conner 1080mb) in my computer.= It's splitted in three partions: 1 primary (dos fat 16) e 2 logical for linux = That's the

ip-up script in PPP package with 'persist' option

1997-12-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
A friend of mine who I recently converted to Debian is encountering a conceptual problem with the PPP package. He has a dynamic IP, but wants to keep his connection up as much as possible. So, since the Debian ppp options file includes the persist option by default, we thought we were okay. And

Re: fetch/mail and xconsole

1997-12-08 Thread d1temp
On 8 Dec, David Stern wrote: On Mon, 08 Dec 1997 09:47:03 GMT, wrote: Xconsole is started by xdm before login. It appears in the bottom left corner. 1. How do I change the resources for this? I`ve altered personal resources, xdm`s and even app-defaults. Can`t get the bugger to shift :)

Re: PCMCIA modem is silent

1997-12-08 Thread Steve Kostecke
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Phillips) writes: My friend's Toshiba laptop has a PCMCIA modem card. When it is dialing the number, you can't hear it - it doesn't make any sound. I've tried Toshiba laptops have a hotkey combination to control the audio output.

Re: PHP/FI Apache Module

1997-12-08 Thread Stephen Zander
Wintermute wrote: BTW, what version of Apache comes with the Hamm dist? I haven't upgraded to it yet (wanting to wait for a little while for sake of paranoia). On my box: ii apache 1.3b2-3Versatile, high-performance HTTP server However there is a later version out (it just

Re: /dev on a ram disk

1997-12-08 Thread Joey Hess
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: Thanks, it worked here but there was still lots of disk activity : I went so far as killing everything but network services and going into a text console and it still ran the disk about every min. sigh Sitting here normally in X without virtual-dev there is a disk io

Re: fetch/mail and xconsole

1997-12-08 Thread Ken Lauffenburger
On Mon, Dec 08, 1997 at 09:47:03AM +, Brian Skreeg wrote: evenin, Xconsole is started by xdm before login. It appears in the bottom left corner. 1. How do I change the resources for this? I`ve altered personal resources, xdm`s and even app-defaults. Can`t get the bugger to shift :)

Re: fetch/mail and xconsole

1997-12-08 Thread Stephen Zander
Brian Skreeg wrote: Xconsole is started by xdm before login. It appears in the bottom left corner. 1. How do I change the resources for this? I`ve altered personal resources, xdm`s and even app-defaults. Can`t get the bugger to shift :) /etc/X11/xdm/Xresource_0 is the X resources file used

Re: Email only users, and Bulk User Adds/Removes

1997-12-08 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! Is there a way to establish an email only account? Also is there a way One thing you can do is give the user /bin/false insted of a shell. to add or remove a large amount of those accounts (if they can exist)? You will have to write a little script to do that for you. I'm

Re: reply:StarOffice,printing and dj, again!

1997-12-08 Thread tony mollica
Thanks for the replies. For Paul Thompson: I wasn't sure exactly what that did and that was a test to see what condition the message was in when it came back to me. Now I know. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears Netscape will pick the proper format for the message and recipient if you pick

Re: Partitioning (fwd)

1997-12-08 Thread Jim Lynch
I'm real confused in reading these messages. Here is my fdisk output: bash# fdisk Using /dev/hda as default device! Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 1023 cylinders Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System

RE: ThinkPad 560

1997-12-08 Thread Matt Thompson
On 30-Nov-97 Matt Thompson wrote: I seem to be having trouble configuring a custom kernel. The only kernels that work are on the 'tecra' rescue disk, and the one I got from Valery Petrov's site, but those don't support fat32 and when I make a boot floppy from the rescue disk, it loads the

Re: CGI Error

1997-12-08 Thread Paul Miller
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 11:29:08PM -0500, Paul Miller wrote: Unfortunately that is the first thing... it runs on other systems, so I'm clueless.. It wasn't able to run from the server cgi-bin, so I don't think it is suEXEC's problem, but Apache's.

Re: smail won't send mail

1997-12-08 Thread Daniel Martin
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Adam Klein wrote: On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Daniel Martin wrote: On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Adam Klein wrote: In the past few days, smail has stopped non-local mail. It returns a message from MAILER-DAEMON saying something like `551: Have you read DNS + BIND'. What's

Re: /dev on a ram disk

1997-12-08 Thread bruce
If it's hitting your disk every minute, and you have virtual-dev, you probably haven't killed enough. Be sure to get the log daemon, I guess you got cron and at. Don't run a name daemon, they do a traversal of their database once a minute that generally hits virtual memory. Maybe you don't have

Re: dunc pppd configuration script

1997-12-08 Thread bleach
John, I am not sure that I even want to get into this flay but some comments about my own observations with the issue are: Some ISPs using CHAP present the username/password sort of thing (of course username: might be something else like login:, account:, etc. but actually don't use them for ppp

RE: ThinkPad 560

1997-12-08 Thread Paul Rightley
On 08-Dec-97 Matt Thompson wrote: Paul, Thanks for your reply. I found that, for some reason, my TPad didn't want to boot any 'bzImage', but that any 'zImage' was fine. ??? All is well, now. I have a tendency to do things manually with regards to the kernel. :) Cheers, Matt Matt, Good

Re: ip-up script in PPP package with 'persist' option

1997-12-08 Thread Daniel Martin
On 8 Dec 1997, Ben Gertzfield wrote: The problem is, we don't know where to call this script from :) I tried putting it in the /etc/ppp/ip-up script, which ostensibly is called whenever ppp brings its connection up, but evidently is not called with the persist option. Well, are you sure that

Re: fetch/mail and xconsole

1997-12-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, Dec 08, 1997 at 09:47:03AM +, Brian Skreeg wrote: ... 2. How do I direct program output to appear in this window? Before I discovered xconsole I just used an Xterm to display whatever was sent to /dev/console by just launching progs like...; fetchmail /dev/console

HELP!!!!!!

1997-12-08 Thread --- A.T.E. ---
O.K. here's the problem . I have a laptop and I want to take dos ,windows and all that stuff off and just run a straight Linux system but .if I do that how can I install Linux on it ? It doesn't have a cd-rom (well it does but it's pcmcia), and all of my Linux stuff is on cd-rom

Looking for Linux rplay testers

1997-12-08 Thread Mark Boyns
rplay is an audio system I developed on Suns a few years ago that until now had never worked very well on Linux. I spent some time this past week learning about the OSS driver and added some code to get rplay working well on my Debian 1.3 Linux 2.0.32 systems. I'm looking for people to test this

Re: New gv does not find Xaw3D-libs

1997-12-08 Thread Igor Grobman
Hi all, recently I completed my libc6-upgrade with no further problems but now I cannot start gv anymore. It gives me: $ gv gv: error in loading shared libraries libXaw3d.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory And ldd shows: $ ldd /usr/bin/X11/gv

Can I stay current using source packages instead of binaries?

1997-12-08 Thread Peter Mutsaers
Hello, Normally I stay current with hamm using dselect or dpkg directly. This uses binary packages. The drawback is that sometimes (most often) the real package doesn't change, but only the patches that were made to 'debianize' it. Now I wonder whether it is possible (e.g. like the FreeBSD ports

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1997-12-08 Thread --- A.T.E. ---
I don't have a modem or network card and I want to install Linux on a clean harddrive I have a rescue disk but I need base installation disks . See all of the base files I have are on cdrom Which my system will not detect untill I reboot it What can I do??

Re: Problem installing Debian 1.3

1997-12-08 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 8 Dec 1997, Sten Anderson wrote: That's the problem-^ When You install debian (or most other distributions), you must remove these pseudo-partitions as only DOS understands them. Are you saying that linux can't handle logical

Re: HELP!!!!!!

1997-12-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, --- A.T.E. --- wrote: O.K. here's the problem . I have a laptop and I want to take dos ,windows and all that stuff off and just run a straight Linux system but ...if I do that how can I install Linux on it ? It doesn't have a cd-rom (well it does but it's

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