Re: /dev/audio

1998-09-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
Add the user to group audio. On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, > Every time I use tkdesk as a user it says permission denied to write to > /dev/audio. As root I hear the sounds fine. > What permissions do I have to cahnge. > Thanks Alot > > -- >---

windowmaker

1998-09-02 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, If anyone is using windowmaker out there could you tell me if there is a file to edit the popup menus and where it is located. Thanks Alot Rick -- Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: star office 4.0

1998-09-02 Thread Jens Ritter
Jim Harsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I read that star office 4.0 was available for download for nocommercial > users. Went to ftp.stardiv.com and downloaded what appears to be latest > version, sp3-49, but it is in German. High scholl was a long time ago, and > my German wasn't that good then.

Re: star office 4.0

1998-09-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
49 = German 01 = English You want ftp://ftp.stardivision.com/pub/so4/linux/sp3/01/so40sp3_lnx_01.tar.gz Bob On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Jim Harsh wrote: > > > I read that star office 4.0 was available for download for nocommercial > users. Went to ftp.stardiv.com and downloaded what appears to be la

Re: Fonts for Gimp

1998-09-02 Thread Chris Hoover
Thanks for the help. I went and installed both of these font packages, but it did not seem to solve the problem. I still seem to be missing the fonts that gimp wants to run many of the xtns. Especially the ones under script-fu. Is anyone else having the same problem? Are there any other font p

SCSI,ZIP Drive (fwd)

1998-09-02 Thread Marlon Urias
I'm trying to run a scsi zip, but when I go to load the scsi module: >modprobe sd_mod I get a long pause during which my console spits out this: Sep 2 12:34:48 quimney kernel: scsi : 1 host. Sep 2 12:34:54 quimney kernel

Re: /dev/audio

1998-09-02 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Rick Knebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hi, | Every time I use tkdesk as a user it says permission denied to write to | /dev/audio. As root I hear the sounds fine. | What permissions do I have to cahnge. | Thanks Alot You just need to add yourself to the audio group. "man adduser" should help y

Re: -ltermcap option...

1998-09-02 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 10:44:14PM +0100, Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho wrote: > I'm trying to compile pine4.02.tar.gz but I can't resolve the following > problem: > > cc -g -DDEBUG -Dlnx -DJOB_CONTROL -DPOSIX -DMOUSE main.o libpico.a > -ltermcap -o pico > ld: cannot open -ltermcap: No such file or

Re: -ltermcap option...

1998-09-02 Thread David Densmore
Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho wrote: >I'm trying to compile pine4.02.tar.gz but I can't resolve the following >problem: > >cc -g -DDEBUG -Dlnx -DJOB_CONTROL -DPOSIX -DMOUSE main.o libpico.a >-ltermcap -o pico >ld: cannot open -ltermcap: No such file or directory >make: *** [pico] Error 1 > >What sho

/dev/audio

1998-09-02 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, Every time I use tkdesk as a user it says permission denied to write to /dev/audio. As root I hear the sounds fine. What permissions do I have to cahnge. Thanks Alot -- Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Windowmaker 0.17 and fr locales

1998-09-02 Thread Eric Jacoboni
Hi, I've downloaded and installed the Windowmaker 0.17.5-4 i386 package, and it runs ok on my fresh Hamm. Today, in order to have french messages and french man pages, i've put an "export LANG=fr" in the system /etc/profile file. Now, when i start wmaker, i've a menu that only contains XTerm and

Where is ./configure that is referred by man mdir ?

1998-09-02 Thread shaul
$ man mdir mdir(1) mdir(1) Name mdir - display an MSDOS directory Note This manpage has been automatically generated from mtools's texinfo documentation. However, this process is . . . * To gener

Re: X and PPP Problems w/ Debian 1.3

1998-09-02 Thread shaul
1) I can't help you with the X problem. 2) About the ppp problem: To begin with, read the help available in /usr/doc/ppp and try the pon command as root. Report the result to the list (unless you can solve the problem yourself from there). Hope this help. > -- Forwarded message

Re: star office 4.0

1998-09-02 Thread David Stern
On Wed, 02 Sep 1998 14:24:10 MDT, Jim Harsh wrote: > > > I read that star office 4.0 was available for download for nocommercial > users. Went to ftp.stardiv.com and downloaded what appears to be latest > version, sp3-49, but it is in German. High scholl was a long time ago, and > my German wasn'

-ltermcap option...

1998-09-02 Thread Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho
Hi, I'm trying to compile pine4.02.tar.gz but I can't resolve the following problem: cc -g -DDEBUG -Dlnx -DJOB_CONTROL -DPOSIX -DMOUSE main.o libpico.a -ltermcap -o pico ld: cannot open -ltermcap: No such file or directory make: *** [pico] Error 1 What should I do !? If I remove -ltermcap

RE: star office 4.0

1998-09-02 Thread Darren Benham
First wait until it's released to be downloaded. Look for it at http://www.stardivision.com On 02-Sep-98 Harold G. Stevenson wrote: > when and where do it get staroffice 5.0, and how do i compile it?? > > from tucson-:)) > > harold > > On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Darren Benham wrote: > >> A lot o

RE: star office 4.0

1998-09-02 Thread Harold G. Stevenson
when and where do it get staroffice 5.0, and how do i compile it?? from tucson-:)) harold On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Darren Benham wrote: > A lot of the sites are drying up since StarOffice 5.0 is due out some time > this > week... supposedly under the same free for noncommercial users again. > > O

Re: swap size

1998-09-02 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 2 Sep, Max wrote: > I'm about ready to setup a machine with 512 MB of RAM and I'm > wondering how much swap space I should allocate. I've read about the > 2x rule, but 1 GB of swap seems somewhat excessive. I've also been > told that Linux will not use more than 128 MB of swap. So, how much

recovered most of disk with findsuper, needto find last partition

1998-09-02 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
amazingly, I've recovered most of my disk. from findsuper, at the beginning, thisoff block fs_blk_sz blksz last_mount 3328032 64480 0 Wed Sep 2 10:38:04 1998 choose to start a cylinder 1, +64480k, and it recovers the /boot partition And immediately after this in the li

Java on Linux

1998-09-02 Thread Steve Byrne
*-Vincent Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | At the start of my next term in CompSci, Java is being introduced as the | main language in most of my courses. Unless the description of the .deb package says that the version is 1.1.5v7 (last I saw it said "v5"), you don't want it. v7 contains significan

Re: machine hangs at boot

1998-09-02 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 03:28:46PM -0500, Azog wrote: > I can boot fine from a linux bootdisk, and from a dos bootdisk. Just when > trying to boot from /dev/hda2 that it hangs. I've tried reinstalling lilo, > uninstalling it all together, modifying lilo.conf, but nothing works. If its > a hardware

Re: machine hangs at boot

1998-09-02 Thread Azog
On Wed, 02 Sep 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > the "Verifying DMI Pool Data .." message does not come from LILO, > that is a message from your bios. If you never see the LILO (or even > just the 'L') then you never even made it into the boot block on the > disk. Try booting a dos floppy. If t

RE: star office 4.0

1998-09-02 Thread Darren Benham
A lot of the sites are drying up since StarOffice 5.0 is due out some time this week... supposedly under the same free for noncommercial users again. On 02-Sep-98 Jim Harsh wrote: > > > I read that star office 4.0 was available for download for nocommercial > users. Went to ftp.stardiv.com and d

star office 4.0

1998-09-02 Thread Jim Harsh
I read that star office 4.0 was available for download for nocommercial users. Went to ftp.stardiv.com and downloaded what appears to be latest version, sp3-49, but it is in German. High scholl was a long time ago, and my German wasn't that good then. I've tried to go to caldera.com but my dns se

Re: swap size

1998-09-02 Thread Jeremy Hinegardner
A single linux swap partition cannot be more than 128MB in size. But that doesn't mean you're limited to only 1 swap partition. As far as how much you should need I can't really answer that question. But if it helps the SGI Octane workstation I use has 512MB of RAM and only one swap partition of

Ethernet Lock Up

1998-09-02 Thread joseph evan porter
I have a 3Com 3c905 ethernet card on a dual processor Dell Workstation. I'm using kernel 2.0.35, and occasionally I get a screen full of: eth0:error re-entering the interrupt handler (or something very similar). I haven't been able to recover from this without rebooting the whole system. I've n

swap size

1998-09-02 Thread Max
I'm about ready to setup a machine with 512 MB of RAM and I'm wondering how much swap space I should allocate. I've read about the 2x rule, but 1 GB of swap seems somewhat excessive. I've also been told that Linux will not use more than 128 MB of swap. So, how much should I allocate? Can I chan

Unidentified subject!

1998-09-02 Thread Jens Ritter
(I forwarded this mail from the Faq-O-Matic. Please obey the reply-to! Thanks Grimaldi) Petr.Herman writes in http://www.debian.org/cgi-bin/fom?file=170 : I have the PCI Planet ENW-8300 Combo ethernet card (plugged into the PCI Slot 2 of the Matsonic MS-5025S mainboard with the Cyrix 6x86MX PR20

Re: Geometry and keyboard problems in X

1998-09-02 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 09:53:07AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > *XmTextField.translations: #override\n\ > > osfDelete: delete-next-character() > > XTerm*utmpInhibit: false > > emacs.font: 7x14 > > emacs.geometry: 85x30+0+0 > > xpdf.geometry:80x32

Vanishing root.

1998-09-02 Thread Erik van der Meulen
I have a problem which seems a bit odd. If I send a mail from any account on my Linux box all works well, except from root. Anything send as root just seems to disappear and does not show up anywhere. I have noticed this on my current set up (Debian 1.1) and never paid much attention. Now I am bui

SCSI,ZIP Drive

1998-09-02 Thread Marlon Urias
I'm trying to run a scsi zip, but when I go to load the scsi module: >modprobe sd_mod I get a long pause during which my console spits out this: Sep 2 12:34:48 quimney kernel: scsi : 1 host. Sep 2 12:34:54 quimney kernel:

Re: Linux BOOTP server: questions

1998-09-02 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 01:38:18PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > I wonder what "when it discovers that the configuration file has > changed" means. Does it "keep an eye" on the file? Yes. Jeff

Re: locking kernel, bzImage and zImage same size?

1998-09-02 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 02:21:42PM +0200, Nils Rennebarth wrote: > It's small enough to include it for your convienience which I didn't do. Here it is Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L> Linus Torvalds, W> Winfried Tr

Linux BOOTP server: questions

1998-09-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
Hi, I'm setting up a Linux box to act as a BOOTP server - a Win95 box was trying to do the job before. I have one question: the bootpd man-page says When bootpd is started it reads a configuration file, (normally /etc/bootptab) that initializes the internal databas

Re: Motherboard Quesiton

1998-09-02 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Note that many BIOSes (if not all? there must be some out there..) will not boot without a display adapter. This doesn't mean you have to have a monitor. I built a 486 server at home sans keyboard but I had to keep a display adapter in it. Fortunately I had a salvaged 286 with a plain vanilla 16

Re: Getting Debian 2.0 to boot on ThinkPad 600

1998-09-02 Thread James G. MacKinnon
On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Nils Rennebarth wrote: > Appears it does not try to mount /dev/ram0 as root device as it should. > > Did you really run rdev.sh right? > (Make sure the floppy is writeable) > > mount /dev/fd0 /mnt > sh /mnt/rdev.sh > umount /mnt Thanks very much. This must have been i

Re: Minimum hardware for Netscape

1998-09-02 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 10:47:59AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I've got a 386-40 with 8MB that does okay for the command line stuff, but > Netscape is horridly slow. I know the 386 is underpowered, but it's all > I've got right now. I was just wondering if doubling my RAM would bring > Netscape up to

Re: Getting Debian 2.0 to boot on ThinkPad 600

1998-09-02 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 11:35:21AM -0400, James G. MacKinnon wrote: > Steve Hsieh kindly pointed out that we should have read readme.txt on the > rescue disk and run rdev.sh after transferring the kernel to it. We have > now done this, using both a bzImage (as recommended in the readme file) > and

Re: debian 2.0 as a NIS+ client

1998-09-02 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On 2 Sep 1998, Gilbert Laycock wrote: > I had a (rather brief) look at the site > http://www-vt.uni-paderborn.de/~kukuk/linux/nisplus.html > (mentioned in /usr/doc/libc6-doc/FAQ), and I get the impression from > there that a patched version of a newer (non-stable) version of glibc2 > is required

Re: pcmcia driver problem

1998-09-02 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Giuseppe On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > Hi, > I have succesfully installed a Debian2.0 from a CD on a laptop Toshiba > Satellite 310CDS. Then I upgraded the pcmcia*.deb file the the 4th version > (from slink) and installed the package. > Now I h

debian 2.0 as a NIS+ client

1998-09-02 Thread Gilbert Laycock
Is it possible to use a debian2 machine as a NIS+ client? I have many machines running as ordinary NIS clients, so I know that is not a problem. I had a (rather brief) look at the site http://www-vt.uni-paderborn.de/~kukuk/linux/nisplus.html (mentioned in /usr/doc/libc6-doc/FAQ), and I get the i

pcmcia driver problem

1998-09-02 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Hi, I have succesfully installed a Debian2.0 from a CD on a laptop Toshiba Satellite 310CDS. Then I upgraded the pcmcia*.deb file the the 4th version (from slink) and installed the package. Now I have a problem related to pcmcia ethernet adaptor. The error I get is: hsogso:/etc/init.d# ifconfig et

Re: Geometry and keyboard problems in X

1998-09-02 Thread Anders Hammarquist
>On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 09:53:07AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: >> *XmTextField.translations: #override\n\ >> osfDelete: delete-next-character() >> XTerm*utmpInhibit: false >> emacs.font: 7x14 >> emacs.geometry: 85x30+0+0 >> xpdf.geometry:80x32+0+0 >> pine.geometry: 101x32+0+0 >> xterm.geometr

Re: Getting started with Java?

1998-09-02 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Vincent Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | At the start of my next term in CompSci, Java is being introduced as the | main language in most of my courses. My condolances. ;-) | Therefore, I want to fix my Debian | (Hamm) box up for Java development. Any easy-to-use .deb packages around | which will

Re: Motherboard Quesiton

1998-09-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
Most, if not all, newer BIOSes allow you to disable the keyboard check. Monitor and mouse aren't checked, so no problem there. I have a 4-year old 486 in my garage which I have run for months with no monitor, mouse or keyboard running my packet radio station and do all the access via ethernet. I

Re: Sendmail and virtualdomains

1998-09-02 Thread Pete Harlan
Yup. For 'dbm' substitute 'hash' and it should work. I suppose the precompiled debian doesn't have dbm support turned on. (You have to use 'hash' both in the FEATURE macro and when you create the database with makemap hash /etc/virtusertable < /etc/virtusertable Good luck, -- Pete Har

Re: Errata/updates

1998-09-02 Thread servis
*- Wayne Cuddy wrote about "Errata/updates" | | When I was using RedHat I could go to www.redhat.com/errata and get a | list of problems with packages they shipped with the last release and | based on how serious the problem was I could download the package and | upgrade if I wished. I am sure th

Motherboard Quesiton

1998-09-02 Thread Greg Vence
Hello, In building a cluster, I'd like a motherboard/bios that supports a LAN managed system. I'm looking to not use a keyboard, monitor, or mouse after the initial set-up. I'll be accessing these systems through the LAN by telnet etc. Do you know if this is common, rare, whatever in MB's today

Re: Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key

1998-09-02 Thread Jeremy Chatfield
> * Eric Jacoboni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | > | I've some problems with some programs under X : when i try to run > | xosview, for exemple, i get the following message : > | > | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > | titine:~# Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > | Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key > |

Re: Fonts for Gimp

1998-09-02 Thread Frank Barknecht
Chris Hoover hat gesagt: // Chris Hoover wrote: > Can someone tell me where to get the fonts for use with gimp? I've > tried to use several of the built in xtns, and they all seem to die > because I don't have the font(s) they need. Install the "freefont" and "sharefont" packages. sharefont lives

found superblocks, now what?

1998-09-02 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
ok, the program to find superblocks is, not surprisingly, "findsuper", and it is on the resc1440 disk.. It tells me things like thisoff block fs_blk_sz blksz last_mount 2611225254653 0 Wed Sep 2 04:45:27 1998 2819072 2753 999299624 -705580337 Fri Feb 1 06:19:1

Errata/updates

1998-09-02 Thread Wayne Cuddy
When I was using RedHat I could go to www.redhat.com/errata and get a list of problems with packages they shipped with the last release and based on how serious the problem was I could download the package and upgrade if I wished. I am sure there is similar technique for Debian. Where do I start?

RE: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #913

1998-09-02 Thread Person, Rod
I can't figure this out. I have been installing Debian for about 2 weeks of and on. I'm downloading from the net to a DOS partition. Every so often my Linux partition gives me a 'can not allocate memory error.' I run df and sure enough 100% of my partition is in used. Then I run dselect again or re

Help! finding superblocks on hosed partition table

1998-09-02 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Oh, dear. Just as i decided to store the whole file system, reinit the hd, and reinstall, it beat me to it by one boot. I had been getting error messaes from fdisk, and it wouldn't create my new partition 3. (the "resource busy", reboot to save message) The last act was to use mtools to copy f

Re: Geometry and keyboard problems in X

1998-09-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 09:53:07AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > *XmTextField.translations: #override\n\ > osfDelete: delete-next-character() > XTerm*utmpInhibit: false > emacs.font: 7x14 > emacs.geometry: 85x30+0+0 > xpdf.geometry:80x32+0+0 > pine.geometry: 101x32+0+0 > xterm.geometry: 101x32

Re: list archive?

1998-09-02 Thread servis
*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "list archive?" | Is debian-user archived somewhere publically accessible? | I'm just wondering if I can search previous discussions before | asking questions that have already been answered. | http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ -- Brian ---

Re: list archive?

1998-09-02 Thread jdassen
On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 02:06:08PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is debian-user archived somewhere publically accessible? Yes. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new

list archive?

1998-09-02 Thread nic-debian
Is debian-user archived somewhere publically accessible? I'm just wondering if I can search previous discussions before asking questions that have already been answered. thanks, Nick

Re: Best Debian-supported NICs? Also, firewalling help?

1998-09-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 1 Sep 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: : Hi, : : I am very happy with tulip based cards. There is an actively : developed set of drivers and other information at : http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html. For the most part I agree - the tulip based cards are excellent.

Getting started with Java?

1998-09-02 Thread Vincent Murphy
At the start of my next term in CompSci, Java is being introduced as the main language in most of my courses. Therefore, I want to fix my Debian (Hamm) box up for Java development. Any easy-to-use .deb packages around which will do this for me, or do I have to go with the blackdown.org stuff? Any

RE: machine hangs at boot

1998-09-02 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Hello. After a recent reboot, lilo didn't load. It went through the memory check, and then said: "Verifying DMI Pool Data .." and hung. I booted from a floppy, re-ran lilo, and it still does the same thing. Just hangs. Any ideas on what might be the cause of this? Tkanks --

Re: locking kernel, bzImage and zImage same size?

1998-09-02 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Sat, Aug 29, 1998 at 01:57:23PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've installed hamm on a thinkpad 560e, and the kernel from the tecra boot > disk works, but I can't build my own kernel (reboots after 'loading > linux...') > > I understand that this is a known problem, and that thinkpads, tecr

Re: IPmasquerading HELP for LINUX server EMERGENCY

1998-09-02 Thread servis
*- Bruce Jackson wrote about "IPmasquerading HELP for LINUX server EMERGENCY" | I am having a huge problem with ipmasquerading. My network and ppp | connection appears to works by themselves. Once I try to use | ipmasquerading I cannont do anything. I cannot connect to anything | (either LAN or

IPmasquerading HELP for LINUX server EMERGENCY

1998-09-02 Thread Bruce Jackson
I am having a huge problem with ipmasquerading. My network and ppp connection appears to works by themselves. Once I try to use ipmasquerading I cannont do anything. I cannot connect to anything (either LAN or Internet) I use a modem to access the Internet. When ipmasquerading is turned on I c

Re: where is zip/unzip?

1998-09-02 Thread David Z. Maze
eyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: eyal> Just installed Hamm, and was surprised to not find zip. A search eyal> through the packages list did not help. What am I missing? Both don't meet Debian's free software standards, so they're in the non-free distribution. They can be downloaded from ftp.deb

Re: where is zip/unzip?

1998-09-02 Thread James Dietrich
On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 11:15:40AM +, eyal wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > Just installed Hamm, and was surprised to not find zip. A search > through the packages list did not help. What am I missing? I found it in the non-free section. HTH, James

Re: FREE PROXY FOR DEBIAN AND WIN95!!!!

1998-09-02 Thread Frederic Breitwieser
>I tried sambar (www.sambar.com) is a free proxy you can install in >win 95 but it do not have page caching. >Someone know about a FREE proxy that I can install in win95. If you want to use win95 as your proxy server to the internet, the best (and absolutely free) package is "VSOCKS". Was writ

DNS Secondaries?

1998-09-02 Thread Gordon Russell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Is there anyone out there with permanent connections to the internet who would like to offer themselves as DNS secondaries for me? I have been using ns?.granitecanyon.com for my DNS, but it seems to be continually broken. For instance, I am subscribed to a

where is zip/unzip?

1998-09-02 Thread eyal
Hello Everyone, Just installed Hamm, and was surprised to not find zip. A search through the packages list did not help. What am I missing? -- Eyal Lebedinsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: INN, Cleanfeed and Debian Hamm

1998-09-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 1 Sep 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > : Well actually I am waiting with a new release for inn 2.2 or so .. > >Great! I'm glad to hear this. 2.0 was frighteningly buggy, and I >haven't been bold enough to try 2.1

Fonts for Gimp

1998-09-02 Thread Chris Hoover
Can someone tell me where to get the fonts for use with gimp? I've tried to use several of the built in xtns, and they all seem to die because I don't have the font(s) they need. Thanks -- E-Mail: Chris Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 02-Sep-98 Time: 04:50:22 Thi

Specifying ??

1998-09-02 Thread M.C. Vernon
Can anyone tell me how to specify the exact forward path of mail - the rfc says that @host1,@host2:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is valid, but how can I tell sendmail (or any other mail sender) to do this - the idea is to use this in a programme - so it will generate the file and then | it to mail... Than

Help! I hosed my filesystem with mkfs.ext2

1998-09-02 Thread A. M. Varon
Hi, It was a stupid mistake. I accidentally type "mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdb2". It was an unmounted file system. Someone can help me on how to bring it back? I have not rebooted my computer or anything. thanks, == == Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated == == Technical Head Fax-Tel:

Making a disk bootable.

1998-09-02 Thread Mishka Gorodnitzky
I just got a brand new pretty-damned-big (5.1GB) IDE HD to play with and I've decided to switch over to Debian on it (currently using RedHat). The problem I'm having isn't directly Debian-related but rather lilo-related ... basically I can't get my new IDE HD to boot. Let me begin, however, b

Geometry and keyboard problems in X

1998-09-02 Thread Johann Spies
My problem with this continue to bother me. Every time I start X I have to ajust my emacs and lyx frames because the font and geometry settings in the abovementioned files are ignored. I also have to run xkeycaps to restore the default xmodmap to get compose working in X. The contents of my .xi

Compose key not working

1998-09-02 Thread Johann Spies
I am sorry to bother the list about this. My compose key is not working after upgrading to Debian 2.0. I do not know how to define it. All the documentation I have read simply supposes there is a compose key and that Linux's default is Control-period. I had no problems using it under Debian 1.

Re: majordomo

1998-09-02 Thread tko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hello folks :-) > > > Please, I need help about create a list in majordomo. > > I read the **newlist** file (where there is instructions to create a > list), but I does not understand the step 7: > > --

Re: *H*E*L*P* (fwd)

1998-09-02 Thread Akop Pogosian
Getting started wit Linux. Get a good book on Linux or unix in general. "Running Linux 2ed." from ORE is a very good starting point. Look at unix books in general. And use web!. There are tons of information. The sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/ and http://www.geek-girl.com/unix.html have tons of information f

Re: Pine 4.02

1998-09-02 Thread M.C. Vernon
>I have just gotten the latest (I think) version of pine and seemed to > have compiled it OK (with '000's of warning messages ... what did I do > wrong).. The matter is: I was under the impression that it automatically > highlighted html text within an email so one could follow the link .. I >

Re: HELP: Newbie with communicator 4.06 problem

1998-09-02 Thread M.C. Vernon
> I am running Debian 1.3.1, and ISP provider is cable. I have not used > the deb netscape installer because I tried it with 4.04 and it removed > my only reliable Netscape, 3.04, and then aborted on the installation of > 4.04 :-( Check the bo (1.3) installer - it will only work with certain vers

machine hangs at boot

1998-09-02 Thread Azog
Hello. After a recent reboot, lilo didn't load. It went through the memory check, and then said: "Verifying DMI Pool Data .." and hung. I booted from a floppy, re-ran lilo, and it still does the same thing. Just hangs. Any ideas on what might be the cause of this? Tkanks -- -Josh Co-Admin of

problems with Cyrix MediaGX system

1998-09-02 Thread Carlo U. Segre
Hello All: I am having a strange problem with a new motherboard. The system is an integrated Cyrix MediaGX CPU with on-board video and sound. I can get the system to boot properly with teh Rescue disk and I can go all the way throught the base system installation but the problems begin when I

Re: Getting Win9x to Recognize Linux as a Network Drive

1998-09-02 Thread Paul M. Foster
On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, DMDP wrote: > Is it possible to configure Win9x to recognize a Linux (partition or > physical drive) as a network drive? Has any one done this successfully? > Yes and no. Not a whole drive, but directories on it via Samba. Paul

Re: cant't get ppp working.

1998-09-02 Thread James Minor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Mark writes: > > any clues,, what is it looking for? > > Try editing /etc/chatscript/provider and replacing the string '\d\c' with > "" . Also try dialing in with minicom and working through the login to see > what they want. > -- > John Hasler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J

Re: Fetchmail don't work for me !

1998-09-02 Thread Tony Schonfeld
On Mon, 31 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- Tony Schonfeld wrote about "Fetchmail don't work for me !" > | i need to keep a messages from a pop3 account and send it to my > | machine via smtp in multi-drop mode. > | > | well i use this form : > | > | poll protocol pop3 > | user password

Re: Best Debian-supported NICs? Also, firewalling help?

1998-09-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I am very happy with tulip based cards. There is an actively developed set of drivers and other information at http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html. manoj /* tulip.c: A DEC 21040-family ethernet driver for Linux. */ /* Written 1994-1998 by Donald Bec

Getting Win9x to Recognize Linux as a Network Drive

1998-09-02 Thread DMDP
Is it possible to configure Win9x to recognize a Linux (partition or physical drive) as a network drive? Has any one done this successfully? Denis

Re: FREE PROXY FOR DEBIAN AND WIN95!!!!

1998-09-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 11:33:46AM -0700, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: > I tried sambar (www.sambar.com) is a free proxy you can install in > win 95 but it do not have page caching. > > Someone know about a FREE proxy that I can install in win95. debian? hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED

HELP: Newbie with communicator 4.06 problem

1998-09-02 Thread Albert Hurd
I just downloaded Communicator 4.06 and also 4.5, and am having the same problems in both of them. They seem to work ok for a variable amount of time (3 or 4 minutes), bringing up a few sites, bringing up Help Contents, and allowing me to set preferences, then the trouble begins: 1.Unable to creat

Best Debian-supported NICs? Also, firewalling help?

1998-09-02 Thread Kendall P. Bullen
Hiya, I'm setting up a machine to act as a firewall or router or something (not sure what the exact term is -- basically, to allow only certain Internet IPs to get to a machine that will be behind this firewall-or-whatever). As such, I was planning on two NICs and having a Debian system that does

Re: netscape

1998-09-02 Thread A. M. Varon
On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > No, I'm running 4.06, but I never used the installer to install it. > 4.06 is far more stable than 4.5 is. Hi, You should use the installer/wrapper of debian. it's at: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/contrib/binary-i386/web/netscape4_4.0-