Re: .ps or .pdf editing app

1998-04-03 Thread John C. Ellingboe
David Stern wrote: I've tried a lot of editing apps (and conversion utilities) in hamm, but I can't find one that edits postscript or acrobat files. Does anyone know what package I can use to edit a ps or pdf form that uses Times-Roman fonts in a variety of point sizes, with some lines

Re: mozilla.deb, get it while its hot

1998-04-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Jules == Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: sarcasm Jules Yeah. I know what you mean. I really hate blue envelopes. Jules Anything that comes through the door in a blue envelope, I Jules chuck it. Don't care who it's from, I refuse to see the Jules white-envelope standard polluted.

Re: Turning on NumLock with X

1998-04-03 Thread Brian White
Is there any way to get X to turn on NumLock when it starts up? According to the manpage xset led integer should do that. But I tried it and couldn't get it work. Someone any idea? It was my impression that that simply turned on the led -- it doesn't actually enable NumLock.

Re: Files in 2 or more packages

1998-04-03 Thread Brian White
To make people report these duplications. A lot of bugs have been submitted and many of those have been fixed now. The result will be that there will be a lot less of these imperfections in hamm when it is released. When it is released, --force-overwrite is supposed to be turned on again

RE: Editing java files.

1998-04-03 Thread Liran Zvibel
Well, It's a bit weird to answer yourself, but you may take a look at: http://sunsite.auc.dk/jde/ I didn't install it yet, but it looks promising. HTH, Liran Zvibel. http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Files in 2 or more packages

1998-04-03 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Brian White writes: To make people report these duplications. A lot of bugs have been submitted and many of those have been fixed now. The result will be that there will be a lot less of these imperfections in hamm when it is released. When it is released, --force-overwrite is supposed to

disk partition problem

1998-04-03 Thread rehawynn
Hello. I have been reading about Debian, and I am eager to try it out. However, I seem to have a problem that I have not found an answer for yet, even after searching through all of the FAQ's and help documents I could find. The problem is with partitioning my hard disk. I DO NOT want to wipe

Re: Files in 2 or more packages

1998-04-03 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You comment is very precise, but isolating the names of the packages, and running dpkg to see if they both (or at least one of them, because of some weird upgrade cases) conflict with the other would not take more than 5 lines of perl, and,

jdk1.1-dev depends on jdk1.1-runtime

1998-04-03 Thread Stuart Marshall
Hi, Choosing jdk1.1-dev in dselect on frozen/hamm dumps me into the conflict resolution thing with the message jdk1.1-dev depends on jdk1.1-runtime Is this true? Where do I get jdk1.1-runtime? thanks, Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

disk partition problem

1998-04-03 Thread Chris
Hello. I have been reading about Debian, and I am eager to try it out. However, I seem to have a problem that I have not found an answer for yet, even after searching through all of the FAQ's and help documents I could find. The problem is with partitioning my hard disk. I DO NOT want to wipe

Installing large packages from DOS formatted diskette

1998-04-03 Thread Gnoh, Chee Seng
Hi, I am a newbie to Debian. Recently I installed Debian 1.3 on my PC from diskettes. It is working fine. However I downloaded some Debain packages which are larger than 1.44M (diskette size). How can I install these packages? I have DOS/Windows tools like pkzip, arj, gzip but I am not sure how

Re: disk partition problem

1998-04-03 Thread aqy6633
on the Linux CD). First I scanned and defragged my disk, then I tried to run fips. Then it told me there was a file(s) at the end of my hard disk. So I checked the documentation on fips and it listed a two files that might be at the last sector, but it wasn't true on my machine. And

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How to make kernel release socket..

1998-04-03 Thread Won-Ho Kye
Hi Firends ! I try to implement server program for specific purpose. If the server is killed, I found that the server can't binding again the socket for about 1 min. How to make kernel release socket, instantaneously, when the process killed? In addition, when the client is died without closing

Re: disk partition problem

1998-04-03 Thread aqy6633
Whoa - I'm out of touch. Is there a FAT32 capable fips? Tell me where. Richard P.S. Please http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets

Re: Installing large packages from DOS formatted diskette

1998-04-03 Thread Jeff Shilt
Hi, I am a newbie to Debian. Recently I installed Debian 1.3 on my PC from diskettes. It is working fine. However I downloaded some Debain packages which are larger than 1.44M (diskette size). How can I install these packages? I have DOS/Windows tools like pkzip, arj, gzip but I am not

Re: How to make kernel release socket..

1998-04-03 Thread aqy6633
I try to implement server program for specific purpose. If the server is killed, I found that the server can't binding again the socket for about 1 min. How to make kernel release socket, instantaneously, when the process killed? In addition, when the client is died without closing socket,

[no subject]

1998-04-03 Thread Gnoh, Chee Seng
Hi, When I install Debian packages (from diskette) using dselect, I am asked for the packages.gz. Where can I get this file? Best Regards, Chee Seng ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing large packages from DOS formatted diskette

1998-04-03 Thread Jeff Shilt
Hi, I am a newbie to Debian. Recently I installed Debian 1.3 on my PC from diskettes. It is working fine. However I downloaded some Debain packages which are larger than 1.44M (diskette size). How can I install these packages? I have DOS/Windows tools like pkzip, arj, gzip but I am not

WINS - DNS [OT?]

1998-04-03 Thread Johan Berglund
This might not be a Debian specific question. In that case, please accept my apology. Is it possible for a Linux box running a DNS server to query a WINS server running on a NT box? Can I have the Linux DNS serving non WINS klients and still get the same name-resolving? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

lilo and boot messages

1998-04-03 Thread Will Lowe
Is there any way to get lilo to show a boot message after it prints LILO WITHOUT someone pressing a key? I have it currently configured to show a boot menu when you hit shift, but for novice users that's a little difficult to explain ...

Re: lsof -i

1998-04-03 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
Hello Torsten! First of all, thanks for your reply! On 1 Apr 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: Ulisses Alonso Camaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have build lsof for my system using the Debian, that is: dpkg-source -x lsof*something*.dsc cd lsof-something* dpkg-buildpackage

MetroX

1998-04-03 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
Hi all, I would like to use MetroX instead of XFree86 and I was wondering how I should install it, it comes as an rpm, do I use the Alien Package or is there another way? I noticed a MetroX deb file in the contrib (i think) directory, and I was wondering what this was, as it can't be the server

Re: Installing large packages from DOS formatted diskette

1998-04-03 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi, I am a newbie to Debian. Recently I installed Debian 1.3 on my PC from diskettes. It is working fine. However I downloaded some Debain packages which are larger than 1.44M (diskette size). How can I install these packages? I have DOS/Windows tools like pkzip, arj, gzip but

Re: disk partition problem

1998-04-03 Thread Arunas Norvaisa
On Sun, 03 May 1998 20:39:11 -0500 rehawynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (and I quoted): rehawynn Hello. rehawynn rehawynn I have been reading about Debian, and I am eager to try it out. rehawynn However, I seem to have a problem that I have not found an answer for rehawynn yet, even after

Re: lilo and boot messages

1998-04-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
Will Lowe wrote: Is there any way to get lilo to show a boot message after it prints LILO WITHOUT someone pressing a key? I have it currently configured to show a boot menu when you hit shift, but for novice users that's a little difficult to explain ... From /usr/doc/lilo/manual.txt:

Re: disk partition problem

1998-04-03 Thread Arunas Norvaisa
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998 11:40:53 +0300 (EET DST) Arunas Norvaisa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (and I quoted): arunas Chris, arunas arunas You might want to run disk defragmenter BEFORE partitioning your drive. arunas Norton speed disk or even defrag.exe from winblows will do the job for arunas you

Re: lilo and boot messages

1998-04-03 Thread A. M. Varon
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Will Lowe wrote: Is there any way to get lilo to show a boot message after it prints LILO WITHOUT someone pressing a key? I have it currently configured to show a boot menu when you hit shift, but for novice users that's a little difficult to explain ... In your

Re: MetroX

1998-04-03 Thread A. M. Varon
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: I would like to use MetroX instead of XFree86 and I was wondering how I should install it, it comes as an rpm, do I use the Alien Package or is there another way? I noticed a MetroX deb file in the contrib (i think) directory, and I

Re: Banco de Dados

1998-04-03 Thread Anthony Fok
On Mon, Mar 30, 1998 at 02:42:49PM -0300, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: I'm afraid about PostGreeSQL because it's not 100% ANSI SQL. We'll run third part apps that will expect to find a 100% compatible DB w/ transactions. PostgreSQL is as close to ANSI SQL 92 as you can get, and it is still improving.

utmp hosed

1998-04-03 Thread B. Bell
Hi, I've got hamm system running now, and utmp seems to be completely screwed up. I've already done this: cd /var/log mv wtmp wtmp.libc5 touch wtmp cd /var/run cp /dev/null utmp and rebooted, but it's still broken. can anyone tell me where to look for clues?

POP3

1998-04-03 Thread Martin Madlik
Hi everybody, I have small problem : I want to get mail from my pop3 account - it's easy. But how can I select which mails can get and which leave ( e.g. specified size or unwanted sender ), ( Or Can fetchmail check number of messages and header of theese messages ?) --

Re: Banco de Dados

1998-04-03 Thread Jonas Bofjall
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Anthony Fok wrote: I'm afraid about PostGreeSQL because it's not 100% ANSI SQL. We'll run PostgreSQL is as close to ANSI SQL 92 as you can get, and it is still You might want to check out mySQL too. I do not know of its functionality but I've heard some good things. I

xmgr statically linked against motif?

1998-04-03 Thread Jens Lisner
Hi folks! I noticed that some packages like xmgr are dynamical linked against lesstif. Work isn't very easy with xmgr and lesstif, it's not much stable and it's buggy i think. So is it possible to make such packages statically linked against motif (like ddd-static). I would recompile it, but i do

Re: Banco de Dados

1998-04-03 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote: On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Anthony Fok wrote: I'm afraid about PostGreeSQL because it's not 100% ANSI SQL. We'll run PostgreSQL is as close to ANSI SQL 92 as you can get, and it is still You might want to check out mySQL too. I do not know of its

AOL's spam policy

1998-04-03 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I forwarded [EMAIL PROTECTED] some of the spam the list has been getting. I thought that posting what AOL has to say about spam might be interesting. They also mention spam from Compuserve since AOL recently acquired Compuserve. The following is an excerpt from an automated response from

grep broken?

1998-04-03 Thread Ossama Othman
I just updated last to the latest hamm packages last night and now grep is broken on both of my hamm machines. Has anyone else had this problem? I noticed this problem since the xdm start-up script didn't work. I tracked the problem down to grep. Thanks, -Ossama

Re: AOL's spam policy

1998-04-03 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: Hi, I forwarded [EMAIL PROTECTED] some of the spam the list has been getting. I thought that posting what AOL has to say about spam might be interesting. They also mention spam from Compuserve since AOL recently acquired Compuserve. The following

Re: grep broken?

1998-04-03 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: I just updated last to the latest hamm packages last night and now grep is broken on both of my hamm machines. Has anyone else had this problem? I noticed this problem since the xdm start-up script didn't work. I tracked the problem down to grep.

pstree in fvwm* menus

1998-04-03 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Since pstree exits as soon as it has printed the process tree, is there any point to having fvwm* start up an xterm that will close very soon after it is opened? For example, I can never see the outout of pstree when running it from the fvwm* menus since the xterm it opens up just closes too

Re: pstree in fvwm* menus

1998-04-03 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: Since pstree exits as soon as it has printed the process tree, is there any point to having fvwm* start up an xterm that will close very soon after it is opened? For example, I can never see the outout of pstree when running it from the fvwm* menus

(RFD) New list proposal - debian-unstable@lists.debian.org

1998-04-03 Thread Jules Bean
Hi! Currently it seems to me that debian-devel is serving two unrelated purposes. On the one hand it is a forum for developers to pick each others brains, and ask opinions of interested debian users. On the other hand, it also serves to monitor the status of the frozen and unstable

Re: pstree in fvwm* menus

1998-04-03 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: Since pstree exits as soon as it has printed the process tree, is there any point to having fvwm* start up an xterm that will close very soon after it is opened? For example, I can never see the outout of pstree when running it from the fvwm* menus

RE: xmgr statically linked against motif?

1998-04-03 Thread Cesar Talon
On 03-Apr-98 Jens Lisner wrote: Hi folks! I noticed that some packages like xmgr are dynamical linked against lesstif. Work isn't very easy with xmgr and lesstif, it's not much stable and it's buggy i think. So is it possible to make such packages statically linked against motif (like

Re: Forcing a process to have a new controlling terminal

1998-04-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First open /dev/tty. Then do an TIOCNOTTY ioctl on the file. This will make it so your process no longer has a controling terminal. Then simply open a terminal-type device. Argh, that's the old BSD way of doing things...

Re: pstree in fvwm* menus

1998-04-03 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Greg, I'd suggest to run `watch -n 10 pstree' in the xterm... I like that solution! I didn't know about the watch command. However, it is possible that the pstree will be longer then the number of lines in an xterm of default size (24 lines). What then? We can always increase the size of

Correct directory permissions list?

1998-04-03 Thread servis
Hi all, Somehow several directories on my 1.3.1 system have had their permissions changed. So far I have found /tmp and /var/spool. Is there some list somewhere that lists all the default permissions of these directories? Maybe a file in /etc or something? I think it happened when I tried to

RE: How to make kernel release socket..

1998-04-03 Thread Lewis, James M.
You probably want to read about setsockopt. In particular, the SO_REUSEADDR function. Install a signal handler to catch the SIGPIPE and do what you want. See sigaction and other signal man pages. jim -- From: Won-Ho Kye[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 02, 1998 11:34

/etc/cron.deny ?

1998-04-03 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, is there a way to deny users to run cron jobs? Thanks, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /etc/cron.deny ?

1998-04-03 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi, is there a way to deny users to run cron jobs? man crontab The files are /var/spool/cron/allow /var/spool/cron/deny Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032

Re: pstree in fvwm* menus

1998-04-03 Thread Scott Ellis
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: Hi Greg, I'd suggest to run `watch -n 10 pstree' in the xterm... I like that solution! I didn't know about the watch command. However, it is possible that the pstree will be longer then the number of lines in an xterm of default size (24

Re: xmgr statically linked against motif?

1998-04-03 Thread Christopher Judd
On 03-Apr-98 Jens Lisner wrote: Hi folks! I noticed that some packages like xmgr are dynamical linked against lesstif. Work isn't very easy with xmgr and lesstif, it's not much stable and it's buggy i think. So is it possible to make such packages statically linked against motif

8bpp?

1998-04-03 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- How to I get xdm to start with 16bpp or 24bpp? It is currently starting in 8bpp so AfterStep looks terrible. Thanks in advance! -Ian _ Ian K. Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 8bpp?

1998-04-03 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Ian Keith Setford wrote: Yo- How to I get xdm to start with 16bpp or 24bpp? It is currently starting in 8bpp so AfterStep looks terrible. Best method, probably, is to go into your /etc/X11/XF86Config file, go down to the section in your XF86Config that looks like

Re: WINS - DNS [OT?]

1998-04-03 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
It is possible. In fact, I can email you a program which will do it right now. The newer versions of Samba will also support this. But what you probably want is for everyday program to be able to use WINS for name lookups. Programs generally use the c library call gethostbyname for this purpose.

Re: POP3

1998-04-03 Thread Steve Mayer
Martin, You probably want to use IMAP instead of POP for this. Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Martin Madlik wrote: Hi everybody, I have small problem : I want to get mail from my pop3 account - it's easy. But how can I select which mails can get and which leave ( e.g. specified

Re: Forcing a process to have a new controlling terminal

1998-04-03 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Yes. Bravo. I graciously defer to this more modern method. Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First open /dev/tty. Then do an TIOCNOTTY ioctl on the file. This will make it so your process no longer has a controling

still missing package

1998-04-03 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
I wrote about a month ago saying that the package emacs19 was missing, and someone (I lost his message, sorry) told me it eould be included for the frozen version, but it's still not there. What happens? Won't we have emacs19? -- Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella Product Engineer [EMAIL

missing features in new mozilla

1998-04-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
grr. THey're still gone. In 4.0, the alt-number sequence to go back pages disappeared. ANd the autoload images was moved from the menus to a dialog. And they're still this way in the 5.0--though it seems to start faster than 3.0. does anybody know of any hidden options or anything to get

Re: Non-Free Software

1998-04-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
manoj wrote, I certainly would prefer the Debian project itself not pass these judgements on non-free packages unless we had legal advice. speaking hypothetically, as my law licenses are inactive to avoid the $800 a year in fees while i spend time as a graduate student, and am probably

Re: Microsoft buys TeX! Knuth sells out! (fwd)

1998-04-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Isn't it bad luck to send out april fool's jokes after 12? no, just dangerous, as the internet was formally shut down at the time. :) -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

those big non-standard mail fiels

1998-04-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
jules notices the topic drifiting His 1-page note was sent as a 1MB Word document filling up 5% of everyone's mailbox, using up a lot of ressources to send in 200 copies! An amusing story. I'm doubtful though... I've written long essays and papers which aren't 1MB even in MS Word.. real easy

Re: missing features in new mozilla

1998-04-03 Thread Ben Pfaff
does anybody know of any hidden options or anything to get them back? or do I need to hunt down files to remove so I can reinstall 3.0? There's no reason you couldn't hack them in yourself. That's one of the beauties of open source--if it doesn't have a feature you want, you can write

Re: missing features in new mozilla

1998-04-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
ben wrote, does anybody know of any hidden options or anything to get them back? or do I need to hunt down files to remove so I can reinstall 3.0? There's no reason you couldn't hack them in yourself. That's one of the beauties of open source--if it doesn't have a feature you

Re: 8bpp?

1998-04-03 Thread m*
Jules Bean wrote: On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Ian Keith Setford wrote: Yo- How to I get xdm to start with 16bpp or 24bpp? It is currently starting in 8bpp so AfterStep looks terrible. Best method, probably, is to go into your /etc/X11/XF86Config file, go down to the section in your

Re: disk partition problem

1998-04-03 Thread Geza Gyorgyi
The problem is with partitioning my hard disk. I DO NOT want to wipe it out (like using fdisk), so instead I tried FIPS (found on the Linux CD). First I scanned and defragged my disk, then I tried to run fips. Then it told me there was a file(s) at the end of my hard disk. So I checked

RE: those big non-standard mail fiels

1998-04-03 Thread Lewis, James M.
I'm sorry, I tried not to comment but I couldn't help it. I received a Functional Design Spec for a project as a self extracting archive (.exe). I ran it and it turned into a word document (office 97 version) of a bit over 16Mb. I sent that to a small group of folks for review and it blew the

Re: Banco de Dados

1998-04-03 Thread Jules Bean
[Initial message wasn't sent to debian-users, but I am quoting it in full, and annotating it]. On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: The problem with mySQL is you can't do transactions (rollback if something went wrong...)... It's not for our busines... Obviously you understand your

Problems with too much memory

1998-04-03 Thread Timm Gleason
Recently we have been build a number of Debian proxy servers with lots of memory. We are using an Asus P2L97 Motherboard, PII 300 and three 128MB SDRAM DIMM modules. We have almost a hundred PII 233's on the same motherboard, but with only one 128MB DIMM. In a majority of the systems we have built

Re: missing features in new mozilla

1998-04-03 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I would think that there's a fix you could do with your Xresources which could handle this. (Not to say I know exactly what.) Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: ben wrote, does anybody know of any hidden options or anything to get them back? or do I need to hunt down files to remove

Re: URGENT: Problems with bash_2.01.1-1_i386.deb pkg.

1998-04-03 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
May be I didn't tell what I want to say about transactions. I will use third part applications that uses transaction. I can't change this. Yaeah! I'm so interested in use a free and stable database server. I'll try it however it need support transactions. Is the FreeBSD more stable than

Re: Problems with too much memory

1998-04-03 Thread aqy6633
Recently we have been build a number of Debian proxy servers with lots of memory. We are using an Asus P2L97 Motherboard, PII 300 and three 128MB SDRAM DIMM modules. We have almost a hundred PII 233's on the same motherboard, but with only one 128MB DIMM. In a majority of the systems we have

Re: AOL's spam policy

1998-04-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 02:16:58PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: Hi, I forwarded [EMAIL PROTECTED] some of the spam the list has been getting. I thought that posting what AOL has to say about spam might be interesting. They also mention spam from

Re: MetroX

1998-04-03 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: I would like to use MetroX instead of XFree86 and I was wondering how I should install it, it comes as an rpm, do I use the Alien Package or is there another way? I noticed a MetroX deb file in the contrib (i think) directory,

RE: Problems with too much memory

1998-04-03 Thread Timm Gleason
Yes they do. Every time we add or remove memory modules we use one of these lines in lilo.conf and rune lilo, then reboot. append=mem=128M append=mem=256M append=mem=384M We have to have the append=mem=128M in our standard PII 233 servers in order to make them use all of the memory and we see no

Re: disk partition problem

1998-04-03 Thread G. Kaplan
my 2 cents: If you run under dos the command dir /v/s or dir *.* /v/s it will return a list of all file on the default disk starting from the default directory; and this output will include the file attributes. If you where to pipe the output to a file you could then edit it as a command file to

Re: disk partition problem

1998-04-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Geza Gyorgyi wrote: The problem is with partitioning my hard disk. I DO NOT want to wipe it out (like using fdisk), so instead I tried FIPS (found on the Linux CD). First I scanned and defragged my disk, then I tried to run fips. Then it told me there was a file(s)

Re: Problems with too much memory

1998-04-03 Thread aqy6633
Yes they do. Every time we add or remove memory modules we use one of these lines in lilo.conf and rune lilo, then reboot. append=mem=128M append=mem=256M append=mem=384M We have to have the append=mem=128M in our standard PII 233 servers in order to make them use all of the memory and

Re: AOL's spam policy

1998-04-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 04:07:20PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 02:16:58PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: The mail you receive from the list mailer is useless for AOL, as they can't verify the origin of the spam, because the list

swapFILE vs swapDISK ??

1998-04-03 Thread Nebu John Mathai
Hi, I was wondering whether there are any benefits to using a swap partition as opposed to using a swap file. I am running debian 1.3 on a system with relatively low resources (200 megs HD, 12 megs ram), and have it set up to have a 12 meg swap partition. But, today I found out about mkswap and

RE: Problems with too much memory

1998-04-03 Thread Timm Gleason
If I leave the modules in the sockets but 'disable' them through lilo.conf the machine still runs, using memtest however, gives calloc errors if I try to tell it to test more memory than is installed through lilo. I might be using memtest incorrectly also, the man page is a bit sparse and I cannot

Re: Non-Free Software

1998-04-03 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: manoj wrote, I certainly would prefer the Debian project itself not pass these judgements on non-free packages unless we had legal advice. speaking hypothetically, as my law licenses are inactive to avoid the $800 a year in fees while i spend time as a

Re: xmgr statically linked against motif?

1998-04-03 Thread Alex Romosan
stable and it's buggy i think. So is it possible to make such packages statically linked against motif (like ddd-static). I would recompile it, but i do not have motif. Thanks, Jens i've made the xmotif-static package. you can get it by anonymous ftp from caliban.lbl.gov in /pub/debian. i don't

Re: swapFILE vs swapDISK ??

1998-04-03 Thread Jeff Shilt
Hi, I was wondering whether there are any benefits to using a swap partition as opposed to using a swap file. I am running debian 1.3 on a system with relatively low resources (200 megs HD, 12 megs ram), and have it set up to have a 12 meg swap partition. But, today I found out about

Re: xmgr statically linked against motif?

1998-04-03 Thread Alex Romosan
i've made the xmotif-static package. you can get it by anonymous ftp ^^ sorry to follow up on my own post. what i meant to say is that i made the xmgr-smotif package. and one more thing, it depends on libc6, as i have a hamm system. i just saw that the message was posted to

Re: Poor interaction between chown and quota

1998-04-03 Thread Raul Miller
Pete Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This would solve problem 2, but not problem 1. I have a wonderful workaround for problem 2: NFS mount /var/spool/mail on another server, install qpopper, and change the IP address of pop.jdweb.com. However, this only works if management store staff

RE: Netscape Communicator and Mail

1998-04-03 Thread Ionut Borcoman
Hi, Thanks to all that try to help in my problem with ppp and Netscape. Finally I have done what Steve suggested: to remove the '\r' from the ppp.chatscript. It wasn't my idea to put them there, it was just what I have found in some documentation about how to set the ppp. Those guys that are

Re: AOL's spam policy

1998-04-03 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, same spam to them, please leave it to the Debian Team to take appropriate action. The mail you receive from the list mailer is useless for AOL, as they can't verify the origin of the spam, because the list mailer places a new header on the mail. And even if you would have the full header,

Re: AOL's spam policy

1998-04-03 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- Who are we supposed to beat then? :) It is unfortunate that headers are so easy to forge. Hopefully some form of legislation will be passed that will illegalize spam. Anyone know anything about this? I am curious to know what actions if any are being taken. I have read the article

Getting info from Win '95 before removing it

1998-04-03 Thread Ian Lynagh
On the release of Hamm I will be taking Win'95 off my 486 and replacing it with Linux (BTW, does 40 meg swap partition sound about right for 8 megs of RAM (total HD size=340MB)?). Before removing Win'95 is there anywhere I can get any information which may be useful to Linux? I have printed a

database server/debian stability

1998-04-03 Thread ninjaz
Yaeah! I'm so interested in use a free and stable database server. I'll try it however it need support transactions. Take a look at postgresql.. You can find it on the web at www.postgresql.com. Is the FreeBSD more stable than Linux? I now that the Red Hat comunity agree that. Does

Re: AOL's spam policy

1998-04-03 Thread servis
On 3 Apr, Ian Keith Setford wrote: Yo- Who are we supposed to beat then? :) It is unfortunate that headers are so easy to forge. Hopefully some form of legislation will be passed that will illegalize spam. Anyone know anything about this? I am curious to know what actions if any are

abaqus and arcview like programs

1998-04-03 Thread Usman Roshan
Hi everybody, There are 2 programs called Abaqus and Arcview that engineers (civil) mostly use. I'd like to know if there are similar packages available for Debian. Thanks. Usman Roshan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Getting info from Win '95 before removing it

1998-04-03 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Ian Lynagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On the release of Hamm I will be taking Win'95 off my 486 and replacing it with Linux (BTW, does 40 meg swap partition sound about right for 8 megs of RAM (total HD size=340MB)?). It sounds much too big. I would definitely NOT have swap space more than

Re: Getting info from Win '95 before removing it

1998-04-03 Thread T-SNAKE
It sounds much too big. I would definitely NOT have swap space more than about twice my physical memory. Seriously? I've always been told to have around 3X when this little physical ram is involved. I have 16MB ram, but my total swap is 48MB. What would be the reson for only 2X? Chris --

I need help with installation....!!

1998-04-03 Thread Brandon
I get every thing goin except for the base diskettes then it say its unable to extract them, whats goin wrong??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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disk partitioning (again)

1998-04-03 Thread Chris
Hello again Thanks to all of you that gave me suggestions on my partitioning problem. I have one more thing to ask: I have decided to go with the method of changing my system file attributes so that my disk defragmenter will move them to the beginning of the drive. But how do I do this and how

Re: I need help with installation....!!

1998-04-03 Thread aqy6633
I get every thing goin except for the base diskettes then it say its unable to extract them, whats goin wrong??? What disks are you using - form bo or hamm? hamm disks are not ready for a prime time yet. In any case the error you mentioned probably indicates bad floppy disk. Just create anotehr

RE: Problems with too much memory

1998-04-03 Thread Timm Gleason
-Original Message- From: Alex Yukhimets [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alex Yukhimets Sent: Friday, April 03, 1998 10:26 AM To: Timm Gleason Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Problems with too much memory Yes they do. Every time we add or remove memory modules

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