exmh configuration.

1998-07-16 Thread shaul
I changed my smail configuration so that it will change the From: field on an outgoing mail to be my account on my ISP machine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). This setting is working when I use the mail command. For example, $ echo `date` | mail -s test [EMAIL PROTECTED] results in From: [

Re: efax printing PS code..?

1998-07-16 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
efax expects the first two characters to be '%!' which is quite reasonable. However, many evil machines like to put '\004%!' as the first characters (the first one is an 'EOF' mark, like our friend Ctrl-D generates). This really should be a bug against efax since this is so common. You can inspe

RE: Linux via un terminal

1998-07-16 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Salut, Olivier Tharan[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 08:48:54AM +0400, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: > > - Y-a-t'il un miraculeux moyen pour avoir plusieurs consoles virtuelles > >à partir d'un terminal ? J'y crois pas trop mais bon... > > Si, tu peux utiliser screen qui e

Re: Debian w/ Win95?

1998-07-16 Thread Manfred Bartz
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The easiest way is how I said to do it. (-: I made no claim with regards to ease. > Move the windows hard drive to the secondary master. Put the new drive > as the primary master. I don't consider changing hardware addresses around as easy, especially i

Re: PNP modem

1998-07-16 Thread Robert Henry Rati
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Robert Henry Rati wrote: > > > On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > > > Robert Henry Rati wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > > > > > > > Yup. Under hamm. I've had trouble is isapnp in the past but

Re: apt problems

1998-07-16 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Robert Kerr wrote: > I think the problem may lie in my sources.list. does anyone have an > example one that I could look at? I would like to access the frozen us > sections, and the non-us section. You need another package installed to do the ftp transfers (see the apt guid

Re: apt problems

1998-07-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
I don't believe www.debian.org is a site containing Debian packages. The apt package includes a sources.list which contains both us and non-us sites which will work. I have attached a copy. There are others, such as llug.sep.bnl.gov (hopefully README.mirrors will list them some day). Bob On Th

Re: What is the change from /hamm/disk-i386/2.08 to /hamm/disk-i386/2.09

1998-07-16 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Alex Kwan wrote: > Would someone know the changes from > /hamm/disk-i386/2.08 to /hamm/disk-i386/2.09 > what is the difference between these two version? If you are curious enough, look at the changes log in dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/admin/boot-floppies_2.0.9.deb Mainly

Re: named setup problems

1998-07-16 Thread sjc
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 03:28:21PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 10:17:45AM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > Hack is the word alright. My opinion is that you're attacking this > > > problem the wrong > > > way though. Now let me m

Re: Debian w/ Win95?

1998-07-16 Thread Shaleh
The easiest way is how I said to do it. (-: Move the windows hard drive to the secondary master. Put the new drive as the primary master. Install linux, then setup lilo to boot either linux or windows. No writes to the windows hard drive needed. I can send the needed lilo config if you desire

Re: Debian w/ Win95?

1998-07-16 Thread Manfred Bartz
Marcus Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've got a rank beginner question for y'all: I'm thinking of installing > Debian on a machine I've got that has Winduhs95 on the primary 4.3 gig > drive. I don't want to disturb what I've got there (Windoze is so touchy > as you know), and I'm thinkin

Re: More Linux in the press

1998-07-16 Thread joost
On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: > The problem with that is two fold. They paint a false picture of Linux > and they also strengthen the hold of those applications have on the market by > insisting they be everywhere. I've been bitten by that misconception. I've > been asked three t

Re: Print to HPLaserjet 5/L on a windows box

1998-07-16 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
There was a thread long ago about how to do this. I don't remember when. I'm going to assume you first searched the debian-user archives before posting to the list. (That *would* be the good-netizen thing to do.) Ahem. Anyway. The first thing you'll want is magicfilter. magicfilter will take the

apt problems

1998-07-16 Thread Robert Kerr
Hi all, when I run dselect using apt as the method, I go to update and I get these errors. Get http://www.debian.org frozen/contrib Packages Error http://www.debian.org frozen/contrib Packages 404 Not Found Get http://www.debian.org frozen/main Packages Error h

Re: Print to HPLaserjet 5/L on a windows box

1998-07-16 Thread servis
*-... (16 Jul) | | Well, the subject pretty much says it all. Is there an (semi) | easy way for me to print to this box? I've just spent the last 1/2 hour | trying to coax windows to print a 10 page HTML doccument containing only | text, and I've had no luck. My workstation is (proudly :)

efax printing PS code..?

1998-07-16 Thread Jay Barbee
I seem to have a problem with my Postscript output (saved from MS Word) that I am tring to fax via efax! Quite simply it prints the postscript code. I look at the *.ps files with ghostscript and it looks fine. I use ghostview and it views just fine. If I use efax's "view" option or if I try t

Cd vendors in Europe ?

1998-07-16 Thread shaul
> ... and at least one of the vendors in Europe is strictly a reseller of CDs. Perhaps you have his email or www address ? Does anyone knows other CD vendors in Europe ? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Trident 3DImage 9750 AGP with Xfree?

1998-07-16 Thread Cesar Talon
I've got the card mentioned in the subject and I'm having problems with the configuration under XFree 3.3.2 (hamm) In the docs of the Xfree server, in the file README.trident, there's a mention of the support of another Trident 3DImage AGP that should be supported in the current server, but

Re: Print to HPLaserjet 5/L on a windows box

1998-07-16 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 02:49:13PM -0700, ... wrote: > > Well, the subject pretty much says it all. Is there an (semi) > easy way for me to print to this box? I've just spent the last 1/2 hour > trying to coax windows to print a 10 page HTML doccument containing only > text, and I've had n

Re: problems with X in hamm

1998-07-16 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 04:16:08PM -0500, Carlo U. Segre wrote: > > I have been trying to install a new machine with the frozen hamm > distribution and I am running into 2 problems with X11. > > 1. No user outside root is allowed to start X11. This may be a > configuration issue but I know that

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stephen J. Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 12:13:44PM -0400, Brian White wrote: >> > Yes. use CTRL-\ >> >> I've never heard of that. > >neither have II just tried it...it makes programs exit fast but >I have yet to produce a core du

Re: Print to HPLaserjet 5/L on a windows box

1998-07-16 Thread Shaleh
I am sorry that I do not know the specifics but You should be able to use samba to access the printer too. I believe you have to add a network printer line to your /etc/printcap. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: named setup problems

1998-07-16 Thread Jeff Schreiber
"Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >You don't *need* two different files. I don't understand why you do. Just >go ahead and make your named the authoritative name server for carpanet. >Forward other requests outside. This should work just fine. Why is it you >think you need two conf

Print to HPLaserjet 5/L on a windows box

1998-07-16 Thread ...
Well, the subject pretty much says it all. Is there an (semi) easy way for me to print to this box? I've just spent the last 1/2 hour trying to coax windows to print a 10 page HTML doccument containing only text, and I've had no luck. My workstation is (proudly :) 100% Microsoft free, b

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Brian White wrote: : > Assuming that forking a "kamakazi" child is not an acceptable : > solution, is there some way of capturing the image of the process from : > the kernal? : : Hmmm... That's interesting. Assuming there is no library/system call : to force a core dump, I

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Brian White wrote: > > Assuming that forking a "kamakazi" child is not an acceptable > > solution, is there some way of capturing the image of the process from > > the kernal? > > Hmmm... That's interesting. Assuming there is no library/system call > to force a core dump, I could fork a child an

Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?

1998-07-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, kernel-source-2.0.33_2.0.33-9.deb (found in my hamm mirror) -rw-r--r-- root/root 844 1998-05-01 04:38 usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.33/README.Debian That points to stuff in /usr/doc/kernel-source-2.0.33/, which has more docs. I mean, I am running out of places to put point

problems with X in hamm

1998-07-16 Thread Carlo U. Segre
I have been trying to install a new machine with the frozen hamm distribution and I am running into 2 problems with X11. 1. No user outside root is allowed to start X11. This may be a configuration issue but I know that this did not happen in Debian 1.3 2. I use a S3 ViRGE video card and I am n

Re: named setup problems

1998-07-16 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 10:17:45AM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > Hack is the word alright. My opinion is that you're attacking this problem > > the wrong > > way though. Now let me make sure I've got it right. When your connection is > > down > > (diald? pon?

Re: Dead keys in X.

1998-07-16 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Paulo J. da Silva e Silva wrote: > Jens B. Jorgensen writes: > > I'd like to help you out, and I'll try to do so. I think you can get the > X's XKB to do > > your bidding in this case, but I'm not sure. Pardon my ignorance but what > are 'dead > > keys'? > > > > Thank you for your attention.

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread Brian White
> Assuming that forking a "kamakazi" child is not an acceptable > solution, is there some way of capturing the image of the process from > the kernal? Hmmm... That's interesting. Assuming there is no library/system call to force a core dump, I could fork a child and then make the child access me

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread Keith Beattie
C.J.LAWSON wrote: > I guess the next logical question would be how to get a program to > backtrack and reload the core file .. and then contiue executing > Here's a wild shot at it... Assuming that forking a "kamakazi" child is not an acceptable solution, is there some way of capturing the ima

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 12:13:44PM -0400, Brian White wrote: > > Yes. use CTRL-\ > > I've never heard of that. neither have II just tried it...it makes programs exit fast but I have yet to produce a core dump with it > Actually, though... I was looking for the program to dump core when it >

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 11:31:55AM -0400, Brian White wrote: > Is there any way to make a program dump core and then continue execution? > Sorta like taking a snap-shot of the current program state. well I have made a program dump core on purpose... how about... kill(getpid(), SIGFPE); the progr

Re: named setup problems

1998-07-16 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 10:55:54AM -0400, Jeff Schreiber wrote: > "Stephen J. Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >then setup one of them so that it has no knowledge of any root servers and > >is the primary nameserver for the network...and list no other > >outside adresses or nameservers anyw

Re: connecting debian to win98

1998-07-16 Thread servis
*-darkmoon (16 Jul) | Hi there, | | i've installed debian 1.3 today w/ just minimum install. i wonder if any | knows how to connect it via ethernet card(isa) to my win98? do i need | special package or appz? | network setting: linuxwin98 | ip:

Re: Virtual provides?

1998-07-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "EM" == Edvard Majakari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "MB" == Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: EM> Thanks for info. It complains about missing command debstd. I wonder EM> where I can get this? :) It is in the package debmake. A good way to find this out, is to grep the Co

Re: named setup problems

1998-07-16 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 10:17:45AM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Hack is the word alright. My opinion is that you're attacking this problem > the wrong > way though. Now let me make sure I've got it right. When your connection is > down > (diald? pon? xisp? ???) programs are trying to make DN

Re: Selection/clipboard problems

1998-07-16 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 12:52:16PM +0200, Oskar Liljeblad wrote: > Right now, it seems to be impossible to move text using the clipboard/X > selection between some applications - especially from xterm/rxvt to > nedit/netscape. Am I doing it the wrong way, or is there a way to make it > work without

Re: KDE in deb format?

1998-07-16 Thread Ian Eure
I'm running KDE 1.0, from the debs on ftp.kde.org, and it seems ok. Hasn't crashed yet. It was kind of interesting to install, I had to remove my beta4 packages before it would work right, and there are some programs I have that are still linked to the old (pre-1.0) kde libs, which break. I also se

lib missing for kde apps

1998-07-16 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I installed kde from slink (kde-1.0) and when I try to execute some apps, some libs aren't found. P.ex: linux1: ~$ kfinger kfinger: error in loading shared libraries libkfm.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory linux1: ~$ ktelnet ktelnet: error in loading

connecting debian to win98

1998-07-16 Thread darkmoon
Hi there, i've installed debian 1.3 today w/ just minimum install. i wonder if any knows how to connect it via ethernet card(isa) to my win98? do i need special package or appz? network setting: linuxwin98 ip:192.168.1.2 192.168.1.1

Re: Debian 1.3 with AHA2842B

1998-07-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > : I have a problem, installing debian 1.3 with AHA2842B VLB controller. > : > : When I'm booting the root.bin, I see this on the screen: > : In swapper task - not syncing. > > You need a different rescue disk kernel. Co

Re: Debian w/ Win95?

1998-07-16 Thread Robert Henry Rati
I have Debian and Winbloze on my 2.0 gig hd just fine. The only problem is, Winbloze will not see any partition that is not it's own format. When you format a partition for linux, you will lose sight of that partition in Win95. Linux, on the other hand, can see all partitions, so you can still c

RE: Need good ftp-client, Checking links on webserver

1998-07-16 Thread Ralf Comtesse
On 15-Jul-98 Clemens Heuberger wrote: > > > 2) Is there some program in order to check all local links in my >html-project? I tried hsc, but it does not seem to be appropriate, >it is to powerful/complains about so many things I cannot afford to >correct ... I use linklint and I am

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread Joey Hess
C.J.LAWSON wrote: > I guess the next logical question would be how to get a program to > backtrack and reload the core file .. and then contiue executing That's what gdb is for. -- see shy jo -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Debian w/ Win95?

1998-07-16 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
Yes, it's possible to boot linux from the second drive. It will only modify the MBR on the 1st drive in a way which is perfectly tolerable for W., if you choose to use lilo. If you are afraid of that, you may choose using a boot diskette for linux, this time not touching your primary hd at all. It

Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?

1998-07-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 16 Jul 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: : Hi, : >>"E" == E L Meijer \(Eric\) writes: : : E> What about putting a Readme.debian in the /usr/src/linux dir of the : E> debian kernel-source package, in which you tell people about compiling : E> kernels the debian way? I think that would be reall

Re: Debian w/ Win95?

1998-07-16 Thread Shaleh
I ran a machine this way for almost a year. I originally had Win95 on it. I put in a new hard drive and made it the primary master. I moved the Win95 drive to be the secondary master. I set lilo up to boot linux by default or windows if I typed "win" at the lilo prompt. It is exceptionally eas

Re: PNP modem

1998-07-16 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Robert Henry Rati wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > Robert Henry Rati wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > > > > > Yup. Under hamm. I've had trouble is isapnp in the past but setting up > > > > an internal USR > > > > Sportster this time

Debian w/ Win95?

1998-07-16 Thread Marcus Johnson
I've got a rank beginner question for y'all: I'm thinking of installing Debian on a machine I've got that has Winduhs95 on the primary 4.3 gig drive. I don't want to disturb what I've got there (Windoze is so touchy as you know), and I'm thinking that it might be best to put it on a second drive.

Re: deselect & apt

1998-07-16 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Russ Cook wrote: : using Apt. Apt tells me that over 50 packages are being held back. It : doesn't : tell me why. What does this mean? I assume that "held back" means "not : going to download", but it doesn't tell me if it is because of conflicts, : non-selection,

Re: hamm problem: mutt-i

1998-07-16 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 05:15:53PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 09:13:50AM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > > For future reference, how would I access the non-maintainer upload? I see > > 0.93i-1 on the non-us ftp sites, and I can't find an Incoming > > directory/mirror tha

Re: color-ls how do I use it?

1998-07-16 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Richard L. Alhama wrote: > How do I use color-ls? man ls :) ls --color=tty ls --color=auto I use =tty out of preference. just set the alias in you .bash_profil or in /etc/profile Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?

1998-07-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"E" == E L Meijer \(Eric\) writes: E> What about putting a Readme.debian in the /usr/src/linux dir of the E> debian kernel-source package, in which you tell people about compiling E> kernels the debian way? I think that would be really helpful to new E> debian users. It seems that the

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread C.J.LAWSON
I guess the next logical question would be how to get a program to backtrack and reload the core file .. and then contiue executing --J. On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Brian White wrote: > > Yes. use CTRL-\ > > I've never heard of that. > > Actually, though... I was looking for the program to dump cor

Re: color-ls how do I use it?

1998-07-16 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Richard L. Alhama wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Andreas Mueller wrote: > > > Hi > > Try > > 'ls --color' > > If it works, set the alias ls='ls --color '. > woohoo! It worked > > > by > > -am > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/nu

Re: color-ls how do I use it?

1998-07-16 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Andreas Mueller wrote: > Hi > Try > 'ls --color' > If it works, set the alias ls='ls --color '. woohoo! It worked > by > -am > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > Thanks a lot /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical S

Re: color-ls how do I use it?

1998-07-16 Thread Andreas Mueller
Hi Try 'ls --color' If it works, set the alias ls='ls --color '. by -am -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: 3-button mouse

1998-07-16 Thread Andreas Mueller
> > I have a generic three button serial mouse on my computer. I can get X to > recognize two of them, but can't seem to find a mouse driver in XF86Setup > that will recognize the third button. Does anyone know a mouse driver > that will work with a generic 3-button serial mouse that recognizes

color-ls how do I use it?

1998-07-16 Thread Richard L. Alhama
How do I use color-ls? I've put the line: eval `dircolors` on my $HOME/.bash_profile ran source $HOME/.bash_profile and I still get white on black direytory listing. I sometimes use the console when I don't use the GIMP or too lazy to run X. What shall I do? /\ Richard

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread Brian White
> Yes. use CTRL-\ I've never heard of that. Actually, though... I was looking for the program to dump core when it wanted (rather than at user request) and then be able to keep executing. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ---

Re: Wyse 50 Dumb Terminal

1998-07-16 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Has anyone successfully connected a Wyse 50 terminal to their debian > box? I have one hooked up to my serial port, but I can't seem to > properly configure it. I get a login prompt and entering the username > seems to work fine. However, the password you type shows up

Re: PNP modem

1998-07-16 Thread Robert Henry Rati
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Robert Henry Rati wrote: > > > On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > > > Yup. Under hamm. I've had trouble is isapnp in the past but setting up an > > > internal USR > > > Sportster this time was a breeze and it was actually better si

Re: color prompts

1998-07-16 Thread stick
Patrick Ouellette said > On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 09:19:41PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The PROMPT_COMMAND line is missing the closing ' after the " so it should be: > > PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]2;$TERM: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$PWD/ > \007\033]1;$PWD\007"' > > Wouldn't want someone

Re: Dead keys in X.

1998-07-16 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
Jens B. Jorgensen writes: > I'd like to help you out, and I'll try to do so. I think you can get the X's > XKB to do > your bidding in this case, but I'm not sure. Pardon my ignorance but what > are 'dead > keys'? > Thank you for your attention. Dead keys are keys that don't get processe

Selection/clipboard problems

1998-07-16 Thread Oskar Liljeblad
Right now, it seems to be impossible to move text using the clipboard/X selection between some applications - especially from xterm/rxvt to nedit/netscape. Am I doing it the wrong way, or is there a way to make it work without modifying the source? Oskar Liljeblad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Uns

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Is there any way to make a program dump core and then continue execution? > Sorta like taking a snap-shot of the current program state. > > Brian > ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) > That's an interesting idea :). Let me see,

Re: PNP modem

1998-07-16 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Robert Henry Rati wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > Yup. Under hamm. I've had trouble is isapnp in the past but setting up an > > internal USR > > Sportster this time was a breeze and it was actually better since I could > > use IRQ 5 > > which is non-standard for a se

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
Yes. use CTRL-\ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Wyse 50 Dumb Terminal

1998-07-16 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
> box? I have one hooked up to my serial port, but I can't seem to > properly configure it. I get a login prompt and entering the username > seems to work fine. However, the password you type shows up on screen as > regular characters (i.e. not blanked out), and it doesn't register the > enter key

Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread Brian White
Is there any way to make a program dump core and then continue execution? Sorta like taking a snap-shot of the current program state. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )

Re: hamm problem: mutt-i

1998-07-16 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 09:13:50AM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > For future reference, how would I access the non-maintainer upload? I see > 0.93i-1 on the non-us ftp sites, and I can't find an Incoming > directory/mirror that has 0.93i-1.1. ftp://non-US.debian.org/debian-non-US/Incoming . HTH, Ra

Re: hamm problem: mutt-i

1998-07-16 Thread Adam Klein
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 09:13:50AM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 08:31:06AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 05:25:23PM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > > [mutt-i_0.93i-1 key problem] > > > > On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 07:57:37AM +0200, Martin Schulze ans

Re: Dead keys in X.

1998-07-16 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I'd like to help you out, and I'll try to do so. I think you can get the X's XKB to do your bidding in this case, but I'm not sure. Pardon my ignorance but what are 'dead keys'? Paulo J. da Silva e Silva wrote: > Hello, > > I am using Debian for some time now and something is really bothering m

Re: named setup problems

1998-07-16 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Hack is the word alright. My opinion is that you're attacking this problem the wrong way though. Now let me make sure I've got it right. When your connection is down (diald? pon? xisp? ???) programs are trying to make DNS lookups and these programs hang for a long time waiting for a DNS response

What is the change from /hamm/disk-i386/2.08 to /hamm/disk-i386/2.09

1998-07-16 Thread Alex Kwan
Would someone know the changes from /hamm/disk-i386/2.08 to /hamm/disk-i386/2.09 what is the difference between these two version? Thank You -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Wyse 50 Dumb Terminal

1998-07-16 Thread newser
Has anyone successfully connected a Wyse 50 terminal to their debian box? I have one hooked up to my serial port, but I can't seem to properly configure it. I get a login prompt and entering the username seems to work fine. However, the password you type shows up on screen as regular characters (i

RE: named setup problems

1998-07-16 Thread Jeff Schreiber
"Stephen J. Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >then setup one of them so that it has no knowledge of any root servers and >is the primary nameserver for the network...and list no other >outside adresses or nameservers anywhere. I'm not sure I am completely understanding the issue that you

Re: Afterstep's .steprc gone?

1998-07-16 Thread Lars Steinke
The new Afterstep in Debian 2.0 has converted to a configuration subdirectoy instead of a .steprc file. You can still force Afterstep to use .steprc but that behaviour will eventually be phased out. (see the docs) The directory is called GNUStep afaik and contains pretty much the same info as the

Re: color prompts

1998-07-16 Thread Patrick Ouellette
On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 09:19:41PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > BTW, I also set the following for xterms: > > PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]2;$TERM: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$PWD/ \007\033]1;$PWD\007" > > This changes the title bar of my xterm to show user, host and cwd. > The PROMPT_COMMAND li

Re: KDE in deb format?

1998-07-16 Thread Lars Steinke
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Eugene Sevinian wrote: > > > > > There are some wrong pointer to deb packages of KDE1.0 on www.kde.org. > > Anybody tried to get it from somewere and install? Does it works good? > > >

Re: 3-button mouse

1998-07-16 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
Do you have gpm recognizing the 3rd button in the console mode? If so, you can use gpm -R (and all the other gpm options you usually give) to reproduce the events on /dev/gpmdata, and configure X to read the events from there, using MouseSystems protocol. Be sure to read Mouse HOWTO and gpm manpa

"/etc/init.d/xdm stop" problem in hamm

1998-07-16 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Hi, I didn't find any info about this problem on the bug tracking system. Can someone confirm the problem before I file a bug? /etc/init.d/xdm "stop" and "restart" don't work properly in hamm. freefall /etc/init.d # ps x # some output deleted PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 3305 ? S0:0

3-button mouse

1998-07-16 Thread Robert Henry Rati
I have a generic three button serial mouse on my computer. I can get X to recognize two of them, but can't seem to find a mouse driver in XF86Setup that will recognize the third button. Does anyone know a mouse driver that will work with a generic 3-button serial mouse that recognizes all three b

Afterstep's .steprc gone?

1998-07-16 Thread Robert Henry Rati
I used Afterstep as my window manager in X on Debian 1.3, and I just installed X and Afterstep in Debian 2.0. The interface has completely changed, but the biggest change is there doesn't appear to be a .steprc so you can configure it. It seems to have some menu options for minor modifications (i

Re: KDE in deb format?

1998-07-16 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Eugene Sevinian wrote: > > There are some wrong pointer to deb packages of KDE1.0 on www.kde.org. > Anybody tried to get it from somewere and install? Does it works good? > I've installed the .debs of KDE beta3 and beta4, which worked qu

Re: PNP modem

1998-07-16 Thread Robert Henry Rati
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Yup. Under hamm. I've had trouble is isapnp in the past but setting up an > internal USR > Sportster this time was a breeze and it was actually better since I could use > IRQ 5 > which is non-standard for a serial port (I'm using two other ports al

Re: hamm problem: X and backspace/home/end

1998-07-16 Thread Lee Bradshaw
I found the info on the bug tracking system that the home/end key problem was fixed in the latest release. The xrdb problem was a user error -- have to start a new xterm to test the new resources. I had gotten used to xmodmap working immediately in xterms that were already open. I modified /etc/X

Re: Report: installed hamm from Cheapbytes CD

1998-07-16 Thread Jens Ritter
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You're lucky, it doesn't boot here in my desktop system with Award BIOS. > > > I assumed it wasn't bootable when it didn't work. The Debian 1.3 > > > disks I have from LSL from the original Debian images boot just fine. > > > > It didn't boot at fi

deselect & apt

1998-07-16 Thread Russ Cook
Greetings All, I have a question regarding the Apt method of access under deselect. I am running Hamm, and periodically try to upgrade my system under deselect using Apt. Apt tells me that over 50 packages are being held back. It doesn't tell me why. What does this mean? I assume that

Re: ISP logon problems

1998-07-16 Thread Russ Cook
Thanks for the reply. I'll check the issues you raised this evening when I get home from work. I appreciate the help. Russ Russell Cook, Engineering Branch WSR-88D Operational Support Facility (405)366-6520 x4237 [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- > From: Hamish Moffatt <[

Dead keys in X.

1998-07-16 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
Hello, I am using Debian for some time now and something is really bothering me: using the compose key to get accented characters (that 3 key strokes instead of 2 and not very ergonomic). As a Portuguese speaker very often I need to write documents where there are lots of accents and most of the

Re: hamm problem: mutt-i

1998-07-16 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 08:31:06AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 05:25:23PM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > [mutt-i_0.93i-1 key problem] > > On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 07:57:37AM +0200, Martin Schulze answered: > > This has been reported as a bug yesterday. Seems somehow a k

named setup problems

1998-07-16 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
I have been trying to solve some issues for myself by making my own version of a "dynamic IP hack". I think its a great idea but implimenting it is proving tough. The reason is this: I have 127.0.0.1 setup as my main name server. whenever my ppp connection is not up, any program which ends up ca

Re: Virtual provides?

1998-07-16 Thread Edvard Majakari
> "MB" == Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MB> Then edit /etc/equivs.conf cd /usr/src/equivs- fakeroot MB> debian/rules binary dpkg -i ../equivs*.deb Thanks for info. It complains about missing command debstd. I wonder where I can get this? :) -- # Ed GSM: 040

hdparm

1998-07-16 Thread Martin Oldfield
I'd like to improve the IDE performance of my system. The IDE controllers are on a newish Intel motherboard; /proc/pci says: IDE interface: Intel 82371AB 430TX PIIX4 (rev 1). The drives are older: Model=QUANTUM FIREBALL ST6.4A, FwRev=A0F.0800, SerialNo=15672304 Model=QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM3840A,

Re: [What's the reason !?] ATAPI reset complete ......

1998-07-16 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > Michael Beattie wrote: > > > > > Everytime I use dselect or make an intensive search on my CD-ROM > > > >(Philips 24x) I get the following message : > > > ... > > > > hdb: irqtimeout: status=0xd0 > > > > hdb: ATAPI reset complete > > > > > > I don't k

Re: [What's the reason !?] ATAPI reset complete ......

1998-07-16 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Michael Beattie wrote: > > > Everytime I use dselect or make an intensive search on my CD-ROM > > >(Philips 24x) I get the following message : > > ... > > > hdb: irqtimeout: status=0xd0 > > > hdb: ATAPI reset complete > > > > I don't know, but I sometimes get these with my ATAPI Zip disk, too. >

Re: KDE in deb format?

1998-07-16 Thread Martin Schulze
Eugene Sevinian wrote: > > There are some wrong pointer to deb packages of KDE1.0 on www.kde.org. > Anybody tried to get it from somewere and install? Does it works good? Please look into our Incoming directory or into our slink distribution. There were 1.0 packages some days ago. They work and

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