Re: Debian Netscape Installer and glibc2 Communicator 4.06

1998-09-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
Either get the glibc version of Netscape in /pub/communicator/4.06/development/english/unix/linux20_glibc2 or install the necessary libc5 packages. On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Jianbo Zhang wrote: > Hi Debians, > > When I run dpkg -i netscape4_4.0.12.deb, I got some error message: it > says that some lib

Re: Correction of Clock for summer time

1998-09-04 Thread David Warnock
Robert Wilderspin wrote: > > On 4 Sep 98 10:37:53 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >It turned out to be option a. The help from the list was great as > >always. My problem is that I don't know where to start looking in the > >MAN pages (I would never have guessed the names tzconfig or hwclock).

Re: chatscript permissions

1998-09-04 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 4 Sep 98 02:59:09 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Dyer) wrote: >Since I upgraded to hamm, only root is allowed to run pon. >/var/log/ppp.log reports that my user logon does'nt have permission to >open /etc/chatscripts/provider. >--open /etc/chatscripts/provider failed :access denied. >All users

Re: Correction of Clock for summer time

1998-09-04 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 4 Sep 98 10:37:53 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >It turned out to be option a. The help from the list was great as >always. My problem is that I don't know where to start looking in the >MAN pages (I would never have guessed the names tzconfig or hwclock). Try "man -k clock" to get a list of a

Asking for recomendations of AGP-motherboards

1998-09-04 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hi, I want to chage my video card to the matrox millenium g200 8 mb. I understand it is APG, so i need to change my motherboard and cpu too. (i have a 200mmx). The problem is that i dont know very much about computing, and dont know what motherboard to get. I need: 1) compatibility with my comp

Debian Netscape Installer and glibc2 Communicator 4.06

1998-09-04 Thread Jianbo Zhang
Hi Debians, When I run dpkg -i netscape4_4.0.12.deb, I got some error message: it says that some libc5 and motif related files could not be found. So I installed Communicator 4.06 in my fresh Debian (2.0) Linux box with nsinstall. So far I did not find any problem, but I still do not know why De

Re: ppp connection with Demon

1998-09-04 Thread Tom Bowles
Thanks very much to Roland Hinkley for sending me his chatscript, but still no luck I'm afraid. When I use minicom, the message I get back says 57600, so I suppose I should have a nice fast connection but I don't. It takes about 20 seconds after the login prompt before the password prompt c

vote on slashdot.org: who is your favorite linux distro?

1998-09-04 Thread Adam Heath

Re: plotting package

1998-09-04 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 02:36:02 -0700 (PDT) George Bonser writes: > > I need: > Scatter plots > Pie charts > Bar graphs > line graphs > > I would consider libraries for perl, python, tcl, or c. > > Any suggestions? Look at plplot and its companion plplot-tcl (unstable/main/math). Torsten

Re: Help: Problem about defrag

1998-09-04 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 12:57:53 +0800 htyj writes: > > When I run defrag /dev/hdc1(ext2 partition) I get a error msg: "Bad > magic number in super-block". What does it mean and how to solve > this problem? TIA. You need to use the e2defrag program. See the /usr/doc/defrag/README.Debian for infos

ICQ Does Not Match the JDK?

1998-09-04 Thread Art Lemasters
I'm running slink. The JDK available appears to conflict with the ICQ available. Is this the case, and if so, is there an update for this on the way? Thanks. Art

update security packages

1998-09-04 Thread HenSiong Tan
Hi! I was wondering if someone could provide any information ("safe" etc) regarding using "dselect" or "apt" to update security patches/packages. For example in a recent announcement, there is a patch netstd_3.07-2hamm.1_i386.deb under the directory /debian/dists/proposed-updates. Now

Re: WindowMaker 0.19.1 or close to it.

1998-09-04 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Sep 03, 1998 at 09:47:24PM -0500, Jeremy Hinegardner wrote: > I don't know who packages WindowMaker me. > but is one of the newer versions going to be packaged soon? they are. (0.19.0-2 is on slink right now; 0.19.1-1 is making it's way to incoming directories) > I checked several of t

I'm totally confuzed!!

1998-09-04 Thread Nathan Einwechter
Help! I just installed Debian on my laptop and don't know where to go from here. I can't add any programs because I can't figure out how to dial into my server. Some out there! PLEASE HELP!

Re: WindowMaker 0.17.4-5 and local additions

1998-09-04 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 08:59:09AM +0200, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > Is there is any place in /usr/local, where I can safely add > WindowMaker themes for all users? I already checked the locations > defined in /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker and the docs in /usr/doc/wmaker, but > could only find /usr/share/

Re: wmaker

1998-09-04 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 03:04:12PM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote: > When I check with dpkg it says that wmaker-traditional is uninstalled. $ dpkg --purge wmaker-traditional? $ dpkg -l wmaker\* I have: $ dpkg -l wmaker\* ii wmaker 0.19.1-1 Yet another window manager. This the next s

ppp connection with Demon

1998-09-04 Thread Tom Bowles
I have never used linux before, so I'm groping around a bit.   I am trying to connect to Demon Internet using a chatscript. The server is able to use either PAP or text-based login, but I got furthest with text-based. I set ppp up with pppconfig and I have checked the /etc/ppp/peers/Demon i

wmaker

1998-09-04 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, I am trying to install the wmaker 0.19.0-1 from the unstable ftp site using dselect. It keeps telling me that it will not install it because it conflicts with wmaker-traditional 0.14.1-7. When I check with dpkg it says that wmaker-traditional is uninstalled. Any idea's. Thanks Alot --

Re: Local News Server

1998-09-04 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 13:42:08 -0400 Hank Fay writes: > > Miquel, > Is INN what I would use to set up a news server for my personal use > (with clients coming over the net to use it, of course), with no > usenets groups, sucking, feeding, etc? Or is there something else I > should look at? Oh -- a

WindowMaker 0.17.4-5 and local additions

1998-09-04 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Is there is any place in /usr/local, where I can safely add WindowMaker themes for all users? I already checked the locations defined in /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker and the docs in /usr/doc/wmaker, but could only find /usr/share/WindowMaker and ~/GNUStep/Library/WindowMaker. However, I would prefer a l

is onboard aic7890 supported?

1998-09-04 Thread Ali A. Kooshesh
I have an ASUS motherboard with on board AIC7890 SCSI controller. Both, my hard disk and CD ROM are SCSI. Is there a kernel that supports this device? Sincerely, Ali A. Kooshesh [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: -ltermcap option...

1998-09-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Luis Sismeiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Matt McLean wrote: >> change the -ltermcap to -lncurses. AFAIK, debian doesn't use termcap >> anymore. > >And why is that? Because otherwise we'd have to keep /etc/termcap and /etc/terminfo in sync, now w

setting lib path

1998-09-04 Thread John Maheu
I just installed a program that has a dynamically linked library. I placed the lib in /usr/local/lib and added "/usr/local/lib/" to /etc/ld.so.conf and ran ldconfig as root. However, the lib wasn't found, but putting the lib in /lib works fine. What more should I do to get /usr/local/lib searched b

RE: Keyboard-switching

1998-09-04 Thread François Gouget
> Hello friends! > == > > Now I have a big question: does anyone of you know something about > software which allows me to instantly change the layout and > charset of the > keyboard while logged in XWindow??? Something like in Win95 [...] I do not know how to do this in X W

user-cgi

1998-09-04 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Hi Could someone help me to configure the apache web server to allow users ( selected users) create their own cgi scripts. I want to play with cgi scripts and do not what to be loged-in as a root. Thank you ZORO

Re: Can't boot past the Takaya

1998-09-04 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Hi Bill, I had the same problem with Takaya 16x CDROM. I do not know if it a problem with the device, but the problem was and is that hdb is detected twice and hdc is not detected at all. So, I connected the CDROM to the secondary IDE channel and left it as slave. It works. Hope this helps, Z

Re: -ltermcap option...

1998-09-04 Thread Luis Sismeiro
Hi to all. On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Matt McLean wrote: > change the -ltermcap to -lncurses. AFAIK, debian doesn't use termcap > anymore. And why is that? Regards, Luis Sismeiro -- luis.sismeiro(at)@mail.telepac.pt http://www.nca.pt/individual/lsismeiro/ ---

remote X apps

1998-09-04 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm having troubles trying to run remote X applications under a IP-Masquerading system. The situation is the following: Linux-Box--Linux-Server w/ IP-Masq.--DEC alpha 192.168.9.10 valid IP valid IP I would like to run an appl. in DEC alpha

Re: EGCS 1.1 is out!

1998-09-04 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > Please can someone explain to me the difference between EGCS compilers > and non-EGCS ones? The little info given in dselect is not very > informative. EGCS is the Experimental GNU Compiler System. It is on a slightly faster development track then GCC 2.8.1, for example. The EGCS project

Re: EGCS 1.1 is out!

1998-09-04 Thread jdassen
On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 05:07:51PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Please can someone explain to me the difference between EGCS compilers and > non-EGCS ones? See the README included in the various egcs packages (e.g. g++), and question 1 of the egcs FAQ at http://egcs.cygnus.com/faq.html . HTH, Ra

Re: EGCS 1.1 is out!

1998-09-04 Thread Julian Gilbey
Please can someone explain to me the difference between EGCS compilers and non-EGCS ones? The little info given in dselect is not very informative. Thanks, Julian =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey Email: [

Re: Debian and Reh Hat Questions

1998-09-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > > > > Couple of questions concerning Debian Linux: > > > > 1. How can I install .deb packages in RehHat? > > > Not likely. There is a prog called alien that can install a rpm > package on Debian, but it doesn't work all t

Re: Unrecognized binary format?

1998-09-04 Thread Ossama Othman
> file is a great tool. And I hate libtool. Slow, clunky, and odd. Not > to mention fun things like your problem (-: True, but it is nice not to have to figure out how to generate a shared library on different platforms. :) -Ossama

Re: Unrecognized binary format?

1998-09-04 Thread Shaleh
file is a great tool. And I hate libtool. Slow, clunky, and odd. Not to mention fun things like your problem (-: -- = Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today

Re: Unrecognized binary format?

1998-09-04 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > What does 'file

Re: Commandline FTP

1998-09-04 Thread Darren Benham
On 04-Sep-98 Johann Spies wrote: > Did you use python's ftplib? I ask because I once asked on the > python-list how I could use "reget" using ftplib, but I did not get any > answer. I did.. but I didn't use "reget". It's really the most basic if scripts... created the FTP object with the connec

Re: Unrecognized binary format?

1998-09-04 Thread Shaleh
What does 'file

Unrecognized binary format?

1998-09-04 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Oddly enough, I get an unrecognized binary format if I run gdb on a C++ program that I compiled. I get the same results if I run ldd on the program. However, I can run the program just fine. Any ideas why I would get unknown binary type errors from gdb and ldd? Thanks, -Ossama __

Re: Where's my mouse?

1998-09-04 Thread Lars Steinke
On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > - > In 'X': re-run XF86Setup and select /dev/psaux for your mouse port. > > also set up a sym link between /dev/mouse->/dev/psaux Well, that's not quite enough, you should change the Mouse type to ps/

Re: Where's my mouse?

1998-09-04 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 08:37:04AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > I change out my serial mouse for a ps2 mouse, and now my mouse > can't be found. > What do I do now? > > - > In 'X': re-run XF86Setup and select /dev/psaux for your mouse port.

Where's my mouse?

1998-09-04 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I change out my serial mouse for a ps2 mouse, and now my mouse can't be found. What do I do now? - In 'X': re-run XF86Setup and select /dev/psaux for your mouse port. also set up a sym link between /dev/mouse->/dev/psaux

chatscript permissions

1998-09-04 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Since I upgraded to hamm, only root is allowed to run pon. /var/log/ppp.log reports that my user logon does'nt have permission to open /etc/chatscripts/provider. --open /etc/chatscripts/provider failed :access denied. All users have read perm. What file is holding it back? thanx, Phil Dyer --

Help - network config probs?

1998-09-04 Thread dave oswald
I have this linux box that was configured with Apache and is running on our network using tcpip. entering 169.163.64.117/~username I get the message from my netscape browsers. "Netscape is unable to locate the server: debian.citicorp.com. The server does not have a DNS entry. Check the server nam

Re: Netscape 4.06 Messenger

1998-09-04 Thread Shaleh
Hey David. I use Messenger for mail and have since it came out. The UNIX version has a few "features". I use a structure like this: Inbox debian-devel ... debian-user linux-arm linux-parport etc. As the folders get larger it no longer shows new mail. How

[Debian] ISDN - Worldwide support

1998-09-04 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, does anybody know of an ISDN-adaptor that can be used in the whole world (especially Japan and Europe) and is supported by Debian? Thanks in advance, Nico -- -- Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (PSDC-B/DNSE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (

Exim questions

1998-09-04 Thread David Warnock
Hi, I have Exim as my mail server. Currently it seems to reject messages to anyone that does not have a valid mail account. This is understandable but I would like to change this behaviour so that instead all messages that are not to a valid account get sent to a named account and do not get reje

Netscape 4.06 Messenger

1998-09-04 Thread David Warnock
Hi, I have installed netscape 4.06 communicator but I am concerned that the message filter is not working correctly. Basicly I want to move all the messages from various lists into folders. When I define multiple rules (which are after all very simple) it appears that messages go missing ie I see

Re: Help: cannot use alien

1998-09-04 Thread M.C. Vernon
> I used alien like the following: > > alien -d .rpm > > but an error msg was printed out: > > sh: cpio command not found. Exactly what it says - install cpio pick:/$ dpkg -s cpio Package: cpio Status: install ok installed Priority: important Section: utils Installed-Size: 114 Maintaine

Re: Debian and Reh Hat Questions

1998-09-04 Thread Ed Cogburn
Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > > Couple of questions concerning Debian Linux: > > 1. How can I install .deb packages in RehHat? Not likely. There is a prog called alien that can install a rpm package on Debian, but it doesn't work all the time. I don't know if there is an equivalent for th

Help: cannot use alien

1998-09-04 Thread htyj
I used alien like the following: alien -d .rpm but an error msg was printed out: sh: cpio command not found. I've installed rpm, debmake, gcc, make,etc. Is there any other packages needed? If not, how to deal with this problem?

Re: Debian and Reh Hat Questions

1998-09-04 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 09:14:19AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > *- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Re: Debian and Reh Hat Questions" > > | Yes. If the user is part of the group which owns the dial out devices > > | (with Debian, that's group "dialout"). > > > > Act

Re: Debian and Reh Hat Questions

1998-09-04 Thread jdassen
On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 09:14:19AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Re: Debian and Reh Hat Questions" > | Yes. If the user is part of the group which owns the dial out devices > | (with Debian, that's group "dialout"). > > Actually it is the dip group. All the p

Re: Debian and Reh Hat Questions

1998-09-04 Thread servis
*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Re: Debian and Reh Hat Questions" | | > 2. Can PPP be initiated by a user rather than by the "root"? | | Yes. If the user is part of the group which owns the dial out devices (with | Debian, that's group "dialout"). Actually it is the dip group. All the ppp and

[Frankay666@aol.com: Debian Installation from hard disk as opposed to floppy disk]

1998-09-04 Thread Martin Schulze
- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - MBOX-Line: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Sep 4 05:51:24 1998 X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 06:50:23 EDT To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Debian Installation from hard disk as opposed t

Re: Debian and Reh Hat Questions

1998-09-04 Thread jdassen
On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 06:39:19AM -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > Couple of questions concerning Debian Linux: > > 1. How can I install .deb packages in RehHat? The same way you install RPMs in Debian: using Alien (http://www.kitenet.net/programs/alien/). > 2. Can PPP be initiated by a user ra

Debian and Reh Hat Questions

1998-09-04 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
Couple of questions concerning Debian Linux: 1. How can I install .deb packages in RehHat? 2. Can PPP be initiated by a user rather than by the "root"? 3. X server does not recognize SVGA server and boot into VGA 8 bit mode. Can I remove VGA mode completely off of the XF86Config file? Thanks in

Re: -ltermcap option... [Thanks]

1998-09-04 Thread Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho
Santiago Vila wrote: > However this is already done in the Debian patches that you can find in > the Debian FTP archives, in project/experimental. Any special reason why > you don't want to use those patches? Not at all ! :- I thought it was the same ! I have just installed it using dpkg-s

Re: Keyboard-switching

1998-09-04 Thread Jeremy Chatfield
> > Now I have a big question: does anyone of you know something about > > software which allows me to instantly change the layout and charset of > the > > keyboard while logged in XWindow??? Something like in Win95 (sorry to > say > > so) - you know, you can choose for example between U.S. keyboar

Re: weird x error?

1998-09-04 Thread Jeremy Chatfield
> this probably isn't a debian specific error, but i think it might have > something to do with how i have the system set up. i'm logging in > remotely to an SGI IRIX machine and attempting to run an X > application. it fails with something like the following error: > > Error initializing colo

Re: Kernel compile fails on Cyrix...

1998-09-04 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 1 Jan 1996, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Mike Brownlow wrote: > > > Jeremy Tregunna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 4 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Hi everybody, > > > > > > > > I just installed hamm on a cyrix 686 system from scratch and > > > >

Re: Install problems debian 2.0

1998-09-04 Thread M.C. Vernon
> I am new at this Linux thing but I believe that it is a great OS. How do I > recompile the Kernel when I have not installed it yet. I ran RH on my old > computer but I have upgraded since. I want to install from the 2.0 cd if > this is possible. If you want to install from the 2.0 CD, then it i

Install problems debian 2.0

1998-09-04 Thread Bedwyr
I am new at this Linux thing but I believe that it is a great OS. How do Irecompile the Kernel when I have not installed it yet. I ran RH on my oldcomputer but I have upgraded since. I want to install from the 2.0 cd ifthis is possible.-Original Message-From: Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL

Re: Commandline FTP

1998-09-04 Thread Jeff Schreiber
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Darren Benham wrote: > >> When looking at the ncftp, I didn't see any place to specify a command line.. >> but I didn't look deeply into it. I eventually just ended up writing a >> python >> script (and getting it to work :) > >Did y

Re: WindowMaker 0.19.1 or close to it.

1998-09-04 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 4 Sep 98 02:47:24 GMT, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I don't know who packages WindowMaker but is one of the newer versions >going to be packaged soon? I checked several of the ftp sites and the >latest .deb for wmaker is 0.14.1 which is what shipped with the CD. I >would like to have a newer v

Re: chatscript permissions

1998-09-04 Thread john
Art Lemasters writes: > The only user that should be able to read any ppp files is root, AFAIK. > Double check to make sure that provider file is not readable by any > other. > Gurus, correct me if there's a better way, but I am using sudo to allow > user access to ppp. Depends on how paranoid yo

IPmasquerading FIXED Thanks to all

1998-09-04 Thread Bruce Jackson
It turns out that the server I have been using has networking screwed up. I have been upgrading this thing for over three years by hand. Through countless upgrades the networking got hosed somehow. I installed the modem into a fresh install on a spare computer and ipmasquerading worked first tim

Re: Correction of Clock for summer time

1998-09-04 Thread David Warnock
Gilbert, It turned out to be option a. The help from the list was great as always. My problem is that I don't know where to start looking in the MAN pages (I would never have guessed the names tzconfig or hwclock). Anyway all hunky dory now. Dave Gilbert Laycock wrote: > > David> During the i

Re: Commandline FTP

1998-09-04 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Darren Benham wrote: > When looking at the ncftp, I didn't see any place to specify a command line.. > but I didn't look deeply into it. I eventually just ended up writing a python > script (and getting it to work :) Did you use python's ftplib? I ask because I once asked on

Re: Q2 Server logging

1998-09-04 Thread Chris
On Mon, Jan 01, 1996 at 07:24:02AM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Chris wrote: > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > I run a q2 server under linux, and I'm having trouble getting a log file > > of the server output > > > > I'm trying to redirect output to a file, using a comma

Re: Where's my mouse?

1998-09-04 Thread Ilya Ovchinnikov
> > I change out my serial mouse for a ps2 mouse, and now my mouse > > can't be found. > > What do I do now? > > It's probably on a different device then. Run XF86Setup aagain. > > HTH, > > Matthew And probably you need kernel support for bus mouse. I don't remember does it present in stander

Re: -ltermcap option... [Thanks]

1998-09-04 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho wrote: > Thanks to the help for all of you. > > Make lncurses instead of ltermcap really solved the problem ! :-) > > Meanwhile, I also had to add lcrypt option on makefiles to have pico, pine, > imapd, > mtest, pilot compiled . Oh, yes, the new

Re: Kernel compile fails on Cyrix...

1998-09-04 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Mike Brownlow wrote: > Jeremy Tregunna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi everybody, > > > > > > I just installed hamm on a cyrix 686 system from scratch and > > > I have 2 problems: > > > > > > 1. X11 crashes about once in

Re: Q2 Server logging

1998-09-04 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Chris wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I run a q2 server under linux, and I'm having trouble getting a log file > of the server output > > I'm trying to redirect output to a file, using a command such as: > > ./quake2 +set dedicated 1 +exec server.cfg > /tmp/serverout > > But

Re: Local News Server

1998-09-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Hank Fay: > Is INN what I would use to set up a news server for my personal use > (with > clients coming over the net to use it, of course), with no usenets groups, > sucking, feeding, etc? You could. > Or is there something else I should look at? Very possible, but I have no

Re: Where's my mouse?

1998-09-04 Thread M.C. Vernon
> I change out my serial mouse for a ps2 mouse, and now my mouse > can't be found. > What do I do now? It's probably on a different device then. Run XF86Setup aagain. HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://

Where's my mouse?

1998-09-04 Thread Pat O'Brien
I change out my serial mouse for a ps2 mouse, and now my mouse can't be found. What do I do now? pob

Re: Correction of Clock for summer time

1998-09-04 Thread Gilbert Laycock
David> During the installation of Hamm I was asked if my PC was David> running on GMT or not. I guess I answered this wrong as the David> time is displayed an hour ahead of what it should be. David> It should be showing British Summer time now which is GMT + 1 David> but is in fact showing GMT + 2

Re: Kernel compile fails on Cyrix...

1998-09-04 Thread Mike Brownlow
Jeremy Tregunna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 4 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > I just installed hamm on a cyrix 686 system from scratch and > > I have 2 problems: > > > > 1. X11 crashes about once in a hour for no apparent reason. > > Cyrix has a big probl

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #914

1998-09-04 Thread Mike Neuhaus
Hallo, while compile the kernel 2.0.34 on my debian 2.0 beta i have error messages in the form: cpp got fatal signal 11 or 6. the change of dram-timings have not take a result. cu Mike Neuhaus, Germany

Re: Quake 2

1998-09-04 Thread M.C. Vernon
> I am trying to run Quake 2, but I receive the message: > > /dev/dsp: No Such Device > Could not open /dev/dsp > > The /dev/dsp is present: > > crw-rw-rw-1 root audio 14, 3 Jul 21 02:45 dsp > > I've tried as root and with my own userid (member of users). > > I am using the OSS So

Re: Keyboard-switching

1998-09-04 Thread M.C. Vernon
> Now I have a big question: does anyone of you know something about > software which allows me to instantly change the layout and charset of the > keyboard while logged in XWindow??? Something like in Win95 (sorry to say > so) - you know, you can choose for example between U.S. keyboard and > Slo

Delivery failure notification (fwd)

1998-09-04 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, Anyone else getting these? If so, should the offending address be removed? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/to

Re: bash shell prompt

1998-09-04 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
[...] > .bashrc only gets read for subshells. .bash_profile always get read no > matter what. You can also source .bashrc from .bash_profile and you can > forget about order. -marlon Not true. The file ~/.bash_profile is sourced only in interactive _login_ shells. If you rea

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1998-09-04 Thread Rainer Scheidegger-Sun
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Re: pcmcia driver problem

1998-09-04 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Hi All, > I ran into the exact same problem. Here's the solution I found: > > 1. Make sure you install *both* the pcmcia-cs and the pcmcia-modules of the > same version and of the same version as your kernel (Note if you are > installing > these via a pcmcia card connection, copy them locally to

Re: IPmasquerading HELP for LINUX server EMERGENCY

1998-09-04 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
>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 o

Re: -ltermcap option... [Thanks]

1998-09-04 Thread Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho
Thanks to the help for all of you. Make lncurses instead of ltermcap really solved the problem ! :-) Meanwhile, I also had to add lcrypt option on makefiles to have pico, pine, imapd, mtest, pilot compiled . Thanks. Best regards, Nuno Carvalho

Problem with installation of emacs20, emacs20-el e w3-el

1998-09-04 Thread Piero Campanelli
Hi, i am unable to install three packages in the subject line of this message. They are unpacked regularly, but they failed config. For example emacs20 terminates with exit script error 69. w3-el is a consequence, because it depens on emacs20. Hovewer emacs works (in its basic functions..) Thank

Q2 Server logging

1998-09-04 Thread Chris
Hi all, I run a q2 server under linux, and I'm having trouble getting a log file of the server output I'm trying to redirect output to a file, using a command such as: ./quake2 +set dedicated 1 +exec server.cfg > /tmp/serverout But when I try this, /tmp/serverout is just an empty file (ev

weird x error?

1998-09-04 Thread Alan Su
this probably isn't a debian specific error, but i think it might have something to do with how i have the system set up. i'm logging in remotely to an SGI IRIX machine and attempting to run an X application. it fails with something like the following error: Error initializing colors for color

Help: Problem about defrag

1998-09-04 Thread htyj
When I run defrag /dev/hdc1(ext2 partition) I get a error msg: "Bad magic number in super-block". What does it mean and how to solve this problem? TIA.

Re: users starting with digits?

1998-09-04 Thread Shaleh
Ben Jorgensen wrote: > > I can't seem to create users starting with digits with debian2.0. Is there a > reason I shouldn't? If I want to do it anyway, > can I just change an existing users login name by editing the files group, > gshadow, passwd and shadow? > > //Ben > -- > http://surf.to/anTiX

Re: Gnome/GTK

1998-09-04 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: > > 1. I happened to have both 1.0.5 and 1.1.x installed on my system. This is the > first part that really confused building with gnome because they require the > 1.1.x now, but for some reason my /usr/lib/libgtk.so and libgtk.so.1 pointed > to >

RE: pcmcia driver problem

1998-09-04 Thread Geoffrey L. Brimhall
I ran into the exact same problem. Here's the solution I found: 1. Make sure you install *both* the pcmcia-cs and the pcmcia-modules of the same version and of the same version as your kernel (Note if you are installing these via a pcmcia card connection, copy them locally to your harddrive first,

Re: Gnome/GTK

1998-09-04 Thread Geoffrey L. Brimhall
I ran into the same problem, and found a solution, but it was a bit of work. I'm hoping someone out there knows a cleaner solution. I wasn't sure if I should email this as a bug, but here's the problem inso much as I could figure out: Basically there are two problems (stemming from one): It stems

Re: chatscript permissions

1998-09-04 Thread Art Lemasters
Phil, change the chatscripts modes to 600 and make sure the permissions are root:root The only user that should be able to read any ppp files is root, AFAIK. Double check to make sure that provider file is not readable by any other. Gurus, correct me if there's a better way, but I a

Re: (ignored) scsi,ZIP Drive

1998-09-04 Thread Greg Starkes
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Marlon Urias wrote: > I'm having trouble getting my question answered, if I am not explaining my > problem correctly would you please tell me what else I should post so that > someone would answer me? thanks. It's possible that no one knows the answer to your question, or have

Re: Quake 2

1998-09-04 Thread Michael Beattie
On 3 Sep 1998, Ruud de Bruin wrote: > I am a little further with Quake 2 on Debian 2.0, but I get the following > error: > > - Loading ref_soft.so - > Segmentation fault > > Anyone an idea? I had this problem, (I think) but it was a long time ago. Check your svgalib version? and maybe

Re: IRC

1998-09-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 1 Jan 1996, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > > [snip] > > -> Yikes! The server has 20 IP's! > > > > yes it's a little IRC net with ~20 servers and ~200 users... really great > > Like Manoj said; little (if at all) congestion. With so many serve

Re: You can try VM. Re: Gnus for mail: How do I setup my system.

1998-09-04 Thread Christopher Barry
Hi, I'm sure nothing is wrong with Debian's prepackaged VM. I didn't know it existed, and didn't think to check. I'd really like to manage emacs packages through dpkg actually, especially if it took care of all the emacs lisp 'require and loadpath and autoloading and autoloading cookies crap for m

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