Re: help compiling X11 clients

1998-09-09 Thread Shaleh
1. try using /usr/X11R6/lib istead of /usr/X11/lib. 2. do ldconfig -v|grep X11, you should get something like libX11.6.so -> /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.1.0 Otherwise, we can go one on one in irc or something. Ian Eure wrote: > > ieure!Phaktory:~$ dpkg --status xlib6g-dev > Package: xlib6g-dev >

CD-R and X

1998-09-09 Thread Lenwood S. Sawyer III
I was wondering if Xcdroast was the only X based cd-r software out there. ThanksLenny Sawyer

Re: help compiling X11 clients

1998-09-09 Thread Ian Eure
ieure!Phaktory:~$ dpkg --status xlib6g-dev Package: xlib6g-dev Status: install ok installed ieure!Phaktory:~$ dpkg --status xlib6g Package: xlib6g Status: install ok installed They're there. Anything else? On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 07:31:01PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: > Make sure you have xlib6g-dev an

Re: printing takes hours in HAMM

1998-09-09 Thread Michele Bini
> Hi! > After my upgrade to HAMM every kind of printing takes forever. > No matter whether I print via magicfilter or cat a file to /dev/lp1 > my printer prints a line, waits something like 5 seconds, then > prints the next line. > Anyone out there who has an idea what happened? > Do I have to set

Re: Automatic Unzipping?

1998-09-09 Thread Michele Bini
> Can apache automatically decompress files ending in ".gz" and send the > uncompressed stream (along with the correct mime-type) over the HTTP > connection? It seems that netscape or lynx are able to recognize a gzipped file and read it, so I do not think that it would be useful to (g)unzip them b

Re: X-Windows Mice

1998-09-09 Thread Brian Sheehan
I think you should be using /dev/psaux for the ps2 mouse - that's what I use. /dev/mouse is just a link. See what its points to with ls -l /dev/mouse. I could be missing the point here too aswell, so sorry if I am! Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anybody got any idea why I can get a serial

Re: help compiling X11 clients

1998-09-09 Thread Shaleh
Make sure you have xlib6g-dev and xlib6g installed. Otherwise you are doing it right. Ian Eure wrote: > > Hi there. I'm trying to get the shockwave flash plugin for netscape to > compile, and not having much success. It fails with this error: > > g++ -o swfplayer main.o libflash.o -L/usr/X11/li

help compiling X11 clients

1998-09-09 Thread Ian Eure
Hi there. I'm trying to get the shockwave flash plugin for netscape to compile, and not having much success. It fails with this error: g++ -o swfplayer main.o libflash.o -L/usr/X11/lib -lX11 -lXext /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make:

Can httpd and wwwoffled co-exist?

1998-09-09 Thread Jack Kern
On a Debian 2.0 system I had wwwoffle installed and working with lynx. I then installed dwww which required httpd, so I installed boa. dwww only worked if I nullified the HTTP_PROXY variable used by wwwoffle/lynx, or if I put wwwoffle "online" -- wwwoffle "online" then proceeded to cache all the d

Re: HELP: Even More Problems Configuring Email

1998-09-09 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"DMDP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I have figured out a cheap way to use PPP a regular user login as root, | connect, log back out, log in as a regular user... You can use XISP and, by adding yourself to the proper groups (dip, dialout, are the two I can think of), and creating a very minim

Re: BASIC HELP

1998-09-09 Thread shaul
Once you get the $ prompt you can do whatever you need to do. So, what you want to do ? You mentioned trying to send email. I think that the basic text command to send email is mail. Therefor, if you want to email yourself, you can try: $ mail -s "$(date) - trying to email myself" $USER < /dev/nu

Re: Debian manual -- printed.

1998-09-09 Thread shaul
There is a link from debian home page to a free "book" like the one you are looking for (and other documentation). > Since, I decided to use debian instead of Slackware or Red Hat. I have > noticed something. I can't find a book devoted to it. I can find the > other and I even am considering swit

Re: printing takes hours in HAMM

1998-09-09 Thread shaul
After upgrading to Hamm, (actually, after upgrading to 2.0.34) I noticed that the advanced extensions to the parallel port (SPP and such) can be recognized. Perhaps these extensions are the source of your problem ? > Hi! > After my upgrade to HAMM every kind of printing takes forever. > No matter

Re: X-Windows Mice

1998-09-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anybody got any idea why I can get a serial mouse to work, in X, but not a > PS/2 mouse? > > I am using /dev/ttyS0 for the serial mouse, but when I use /dev/mouse for the > PS/2 mouse it doesn't work. Either 'ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse' or use /

Re: X-Windows Mice

1998-09-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Has anybody got any idea why I can get a serial mouse to work, in X, but not a : PS/2 mouse? : : I am using /dev/ttyS0 for the serial mouse, but when I use /dev/mouse for the : PS/2 mouse it doesn't work. /dev/psaux for PS/2 mice, eh. -- Natha

Re: [3] Balsa personal-confusion....

1998-09-09 Thread ...
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > Well I had a confution about the inbox FILE. I tought i was an inbox DIRECTORY > so i was creating a direcory in the /var/spool/mail named . When i > realized i change it to a file and all works great. It was a stupid error of > mine.

Re: X-Windows Mice

1998-09-09 Thread Shaleh
As I like to tell people, there is a difference between stupidity and ignorance. Ignorant is a lack of knowledge, stupidity is an inability to gain knowledge. Now for ps/2 support. The proper file is /dev/psaux ( pc auxillary port). You also need kernel support for ps/2 (aux). Link dev/mouse t

Re: Couldn't find Packages.gz

1998-09-09 Thread Frankay666
> Hallo, > I start dselect, select FTP in access (using my lokal > Windows-FTP-Server) and then try to make an update. I get the following > error message: > Couldn't find Packages.gz in dists/stable... > I don't know what's wrong... HELP!!! ;-) I don't use the dselect ftp method, but I do kn

X-Windows Mice

1998-09-09 Thread Frankay666
Has anybody got any idea why I can get a serial mouse to work, in X, but not a PS/2 mouse? I am using /dev/ttyS0 for the serial mouse, but when I use /dev/mouse for the PS/2 mouse it doesn't work. Am I overly stupid? what am I doing wrong? Frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Erratic mouse pointer

1998-09-09 Thread Denny Robertson
In my case, the problem was with the video hardware cursor (thanks for the idea D'jinnie). I am using the svga Xserver with a Cirrus Logic GD5430 PCI video card. Using the "sw_cursor" option in the Device section (for the Cirrus Logic) of the XF86Config file solved the problem. -- Denny Robertson

[3] Balsa personal-confusion....

1998-09-09 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hi, Well I had a confution about the inbox FILE. I tought i was an inbox DIRECTORY so i was creating a direcory in the /var/spool/mail named . When i realized i change it to a file and all works great. It was a stupid error of mine. So when i try to make balsa use the suposted inbox `DIERCTORY

HELP: Even More Problems Configuring Email

1998-09-09 Thread DMDP
I have figured out a cheap way to use PPP a regular user login as root, connect, log back out, log in as a regular user... But, now I want to be able to receive e-mail. I have installed SMAIL. I believe I have all the config options set correctly. I can send e-mail, but I cannot recieve it

Re: pc keyboard oddity in xterm

1998-09-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 08:46:56AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > I use the "home" and "end" keys now and then when editing. > This is supported by several editors, and by command > line editing in bash. But there is an oddity when using > xterm: "home" and "end" is swapped when editing command > l

X problems on TI travelmate 5200

1998-09-09 Thread F.P. Schuurmans
Hi, I've problems configuring X on a TI travelmate 5200: 1. Screen too far (+/- 40 pixels) to the right 2. Switching to textmode (quitting X or switching to another VT) results in a black screen. XF86config: Section "Monitor" Identifier "tft" VendorName "tft" ModelName "tf

Re: Help! CD-RW Media

1998-09-09 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 9 Sep, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, i'm trying to mount some CDRW media, but its not working. :(. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/timothy# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom > mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad sup

Re: [2] Balsa

1998-09-09 Thread ...
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: > Robert Ramiega wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 05:22:53PM +, Phillip Neumann wrote: > > > I just download balsa 0.4.5 and it dont want to configure itself. It > > > asks for an indox path, i put there /var/spool/mail/user , but balsa > > > >

Gateway monitors and X

1998-09-09 Thread Brian Sheehan
i would be glad to hear from people who have gotten (or not) X running with a gateway monitor (in particular an EV700) thanks Brian Sheehan

Re: y2k (don't kill me!)

1998-09-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 01:52:38PM -0500, Stephanie A. Tomlinson wrote: > Actually, i did check the debian web page. Unfortunately, i don't have the > resources necessary to go on a long hunt for the information and it didn't > seem to be readily noticeable on the site. Perhaps i'm smoking crack.

[2] Balsa

1998-09-09 Thread Phillip Neumann
Robert Ramiega wrote: > On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 05:22:53PM +, Phillip Neumann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I just download balsa 0.4.5 and it dont want to configure itself. It > > asks for an indox path, i put there /var/spool/mail/user , but balsa > > I'm yet to get my hands on balsa but m

Re: Using pine for internet mail

1998-09-09 Thread jesse
My understanding is that hotmail, lycos, and the other web-based free email accounts deliberately do NOT provide alternate access to your email box. Their business model is based on being able to push advertising at their users, and people using POP3/pine/etc wouldn't see them. On Wed, Sep 09, 19

AW: Using pine for internet mail

1998-09-09 Thread TBaetzle
> C.J.LAWSON asked: >Please could someone give me a pointer as to how to use pine to > access > my hotmail and lycos accounts? > Assuming that they support access to your mailboxes using POP3, you might want to check out the fetchmail package. HTH, Thomas

Re: Help with mirroring Debian ..

1998-09-09 Thread vaidhy
> > rsync is the easiest on your system - you must use the package from > slink and find a site that supports anon rsync (or get a login at a site > that supports rsync but not anon-rsync) > Which of the sites supports rsync.. > I don't use wget, so can't help you there. > *--

Using pine for internet mail

1998-09-09 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Hi, Please could someone give me a pointer as to how to use pine to access my hotmail and lycos accounts? Regards -- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedf

Help! CD-RW Media

1998-09-09 Thread timothy
Hi, i'm trying to mount some CDRW media, but its not working. :(. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/timothy# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, or too many mounted

Re: Help with mirroring Debian ..

1998-09-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Hi All, : : I want to locally mirror the debian dist. Which is the better way.. : rsync, wget or mirror ? I am planning to just do the base install, install one of these and then start the mirroring. rsync is the easiest on your system - you mu

Re: y2k (don't kill me!)

1998-09-09 Thread Stephanie A. Tomlinson
Actually, i did check the debian web page. Unfortunately, i don't have the resources necessary to go on a long hunt for the information and it didn't seem to be readily noticeable on the site. Perhaps i'm smoking crack. At any rate...

Re: Balsa

1998-09-09 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 05:22:53PM +, Phillip Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > > > I just download balsa 0.4.5 and it dont want to configure itself. It > asks for an indox path, i put there /var/spool/mail/user , but balsa I'm yet to get my hands on balsa but maybe You should give it just /var/spo

Re: Help with mirroring Debian ..

1998-09-09 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 12:19:21PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All, > > I want to locally mirror the debian dist. Which is the better way.. > rsync, wget or mirror ? I am planning to just do the base install, install > one of these and then start the mirroring. I would say fmirror (it'

Re: NetWare Volumes

1998-09-09 Thread Jay Barbee
> Thank you all for replies to my question about keyboards in XWindow. I > have another quite important question: is it possible to mount Novell > Netware 3.12 disk partitions under Linux? What software do I need for it? > I really mean the physical disks which were installed in Netware servers >

Re: enlightenment for debian ?

1998-09-09 Thread Shaleh
dave oswald wrote: > > has enlightenment been packaged for debian? Where can it be found ? E is in slink. Version .14 of E, 1.7 of Imlib and .3 of Fnlib. *PLEASE* www.debian.org has a package search app. Use it. Save another four messages to this mailing list. Thank you. Or check the archiv

Re: How to pretend that i have some pckg installed ?

1998-09-09 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 12:56:09PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Robert Ramiega wrote: > > : Hi! > : > : I've been trying to find info on this on www.debian.org but i failed. > : I have installed qmail-1.03 from "upstream" sources. Now i would like to > : install e

enlightenment for debian ?

1998-09-09 Thread dave oswald
has enlightenment been packaged for debian? Where can it be found ? please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well as the group... thanks

Re: NetWare Volumes

1998-09-09 Thread peloy
Get and install packages ipx and ncpfs. Works pretty well (read and write access). Your kernel must be compiled to support IPX and ncpfs. peloy.- Peter Paluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, friends. > === > > Thank you all for replies to my question about keyboards in XWindow. I

Help with mirroring Debian ..

1998-09-09 Thread vaidhy
Hi All, I want to locally mirror the debian dist. Which is the better way.. rsync, wget or mirror ? I am planning to just do the base install, install one of these and then start the mirroring. Thanks and regards, Vaidhy ** Alike for those who for To

Re: Formatting large hard drives

1998-09-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: : : Use more blocks per inode when you format the filesystem. The inode table : is probably what is using up the 2 GB. I know I run out more quickly of : space than I do of inodes: : : $ df -i : Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree %IUs

Re: Boot problems with lilo

1998-09-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: [ snip ] : Any ideas why lilo is unwilling to work on this drive? : The drive has about 8000 (aprox) cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors (obviously) Did you try the "linear" option in lilo.conf? Also, try commenting out "compact" if it isn't already

Re: Formatting large hard drives

1998-09-09 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Use more blocks per inode when you format the filesystem. The inode table is probably what is using up the 2 GB. I know I run out more quickly of space than I do of inodes: $ df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree %IUsed Mounted on /dev/sda3 180848 48901 13194727%

Re: y2k (don't kill me!)

1998-09-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 12:03:28PM -0500, Stephanie A. Tomlinson wrote: > Ok, don't kill me.. i know you all are probably tired of/avoiding/irked with/ > frothing at the mouth because of the whole y2k compliance bruhaha. > > I just gotta find out... where might i find an official bullettin or who

Re: compiling FreeBSD utilities for debian

1998-09-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: : : while we're talking about non-standard packages, I'll toss out another : one: : : There are some utilities (ftp at the top of the list) for which I : prefer the Free/Net-BSD equivalents. I've downloaded the source tree, : but what

Re: How to pretend that i have some pckg installed ?

1998-09-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Robert Ramiega wrote: : Hi! : : I've been trying to find info on this on www.debian.org but i failed. : I have installed qmail-1.03 from "upstream" sources. Now i would like to : install ezmlm package but it depends on qmail and refuses to configure. : I *know* tha

NetWare Volumes

1998-09-09 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello, friends. === Thank you all for replies to my question about keyboards in XWindow. I have another quite important question: is it possible to mount Novell Netware 3.12 disk partitions under Linux? What software do I need for it? I really mean the physical disks which were install

Re: y2k (don't kill me!)

1998-09-09 Thread Keith Beattie
Stephanie A. Tomlinson wrote: > > I just gotta find out... where might i find an official bullettin or who might > i talk to in order to get an official statement concerning debian linux's > y2k compliance? > You can always looks at the source code, you'll find no other statements more "official

Re: Xserver output

1998-09-09 Thread Michele Bini
On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Roy Ayres wrote: B> Hi, > > When I shutdown X (using ctrl-alt-backspace) I get see the usual > messages > left on my screen by the xserver. I was just wondering how I get to see > the full output of the xserver, rather that just the tail end of it. > thanks > > Brian Sheeha

Re: y2k (don't kill me!)

1998-09-09 Thread Greg Vence
No problem. http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19980104 Enjoy -- Greg. -- What do you want to spend today? Debian GNU/Linux (Free for an UNLIMITED time) http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html Greg VenceKH2EA/4

Balsa

1998-09-09 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hi, I just download balsa 0.4.5 and it dont want to configure itself. It asks for an indox path, i put there /var/spool/mail/user , but balsa said its invalid path. What sould i do?? the user is in the mail group, and i try to put all the directories (var, spool, mail, user) as `mail' group

RE: Frustrated

1998-09-09 Thread kolds
Simon, I will definitely give this a shot tonight. Can you clarify two points though. One, you say to 'log in' to the second terminal. Since I haven't been able to run the system, I haven't set Id's or passwordswho do I log in as? Also, for the sake of clarity, could you give me

Boot problems with lilo

1998-09-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
I decided since i was moving into a new apartment and planning on working towards that lofty goal of having my network connected to the net 24-7 (if I could only convince my girlfriend that $70/month is not too much $), It is time to move the modem out of MY workstation and into another box. I dug

y2k (don't kill me!)

1998-09-09 Thread Stephanie A. Tomlinson
Ok, don't kill me.. i know you all are probably tired of/avoiding/irked with/ frothing at the mouth because of the whole y2k compliance bruhaha. I just gotta find out... where might i find an official bullettin or who might i talk to in order to get an official statement concerning debian linux's

compiling FreeBSD utilities for debian

1998-09-09 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
while we're talking about non-standard packages, I'll toss out another one: There are some utilities (ftp at the top of the list) for which I prefer the Free/Net-BSD equivalents. I've downloaded the source tree, but what else do I need to know to do a make on these? or more specifically, to

floppy boot to changed /dev/hdax

1998-09-09 Thread Bradley Fehr
Hi, I am trying to add a logical partition for anonther OS but my linux boot disk expects my swap and root partitions to be in the same spot. Linux root and swap are hda7 and hda8 respectively. I create a new hda7 that changes the li

Re: update security packages

1998-09-09 Thread LOPARIC Marko
Hi all, I am also confused since I started receiving the security announcements. Is there a procedure to deal with security updates? If I install a new Debian system now getting the stable distribution from ftp, do I have to care about the security announcements from yesterday? In other words, i

Re: Keeping multiple systems up-to-date with apt: how?

1998-09-09 Thread David Warnock
Ian, I have been setup by Phil Hands to have the following. 1. My Server as a complete copy of Hamm as at 1 Sept. 2. My sources.list in /etc/apt first points to the copy on my server and then to the copy on the debian ftp site. Now I only pay to collect the changes. If I install the same thing

Entity Modelling sw for Linux?

1998-09-09 Thread David Warnock
Hi, As you may have seen from other messages I am moving the whole office onto Debian. The FileServer and Firewall are working fine as pure Linux. My Java programmer is fine as pure linux. I am left with needing NT for a few things such as Delphi 3 Development (against SQL Anywhere dbms). One ot

Re: ISDN howto

1998-09-09 Thread Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho
Michele Comitini wrote: > This is the one specific to isdn4linux: > > http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~ui161ab/www/i4l-faq/eng-i4l-faq.html Thanks. :) Is there many important information for me ! :) Best regards, Nuno Carvalho

Re: PCI problems

1998-09-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Richard Heller wrote: [ snip ] : Hey, Hey! Your lines are too long :) : I have a 3COM 3c905TX network card and a Real3D StarFighter video : card. When I boot my machine, the PCI probe gives both of the cards : the same IRQ number. However, the network card is on bus 0

Re: make-kpkg "not in control info"

1998-09-09 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
manoj replied > >>"Richard" == Richard E Hawkins Esq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Richard> dpkg-gencontrol -pkernel-image-2.0.34-eyry -Pdebian/tmp-image/ > Richard> no utmp entry available, using value of LOGNAME ("hawk") at > /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 16. > Richard> dpkg-genc

Re: What is MARK in /var/log/messages

1998-09-09 Thread Andy Spiegl
> This is syslogd's heartbeat - it tells you that the logger is > still alive and well. >-m interval > The syslogd logs a mark timestamp regularly. The > default interval between two -- MARK -- lines is 20 > minutes. This can be changed with thi

Re: Backspace in xterm (again)

1998-09-09 Thread Gilbert Laycock
Joost> But then `Alt-Backspace' in emacs deletes one word, as it does on Joost> the VC and so on. So I don't see the point in doing it different Joost> on an xterm. Nor do I think it is good: When I press `Alt-Backspace', Joost> I want something different to happen than when I just press `Backspace

following symlinks?!?

1998-09-09 Thread Paul McDermott
hello everybody, and thankyou for all of the assistance to my recent questions. I have yet another question. I am trying to download debian packages from an ftp site with ncftp or wget. I am having a problem in getting files that are symlinked to other places. I cannot for the life of me find o

Re: What is MARK in /var/log/messages

1998-09-09 Thread servis
*- Andy Spiegl wrote about "What is MARK in /var/log/messages" | Hi! | | In my /var/log/messages there are a lot of lines like this one: | Sep 9 14:56:58 kira -- MARK -- | | A new one every 20 minutes to be exact. But I don't see any cron | job that runs every 20 minutes. | | Who knows who wr

AW: What is MARK in /var/log/messages

1998-09-09 Thread TBaetzle
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked: > In my /var/log/messages there are a lot of lines like this one: > Sep 9 14:56:58 kira -- MARK -- > This is syslogd's heartbeat - it tells you that the logger is still alive and well. HTH, Thomas

Re: Apache / SSL

1998-09-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 07:43:38AM -0300, Carlos Marcos Kakihara wrote: > > Hi, I've compiled Apache with SSL support, but I'm > getting the follow message (when I start it): > > Skip first time initialisation > > What is it? > There is a apache.deb with SSL support? Check out

What is MARK in /var/log/messages

1998-09-09 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi! In my /var/log/messages there are a lot of lines like this one: Sep 9 14:56:58 kira -- MARK -- A new one every 20 minutes to be exact. But I don't see any cron job that runs every 20 minutes. Who knows who writes this and what it means? TIA, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Techno

Re: BASIC HELP

1998-09-09 Thread joost
On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, BOB'S MAIL wrote: > I log on and get the '$' prompt and except for a few things like vi and > emacs I can do nothing. For example, I answered the queries for smail > yet from root or /usr/bin/ I get the error message saying bad command > when I enter 'smail' I even can list

capturing telnet datastream

1998-09-09 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I'm trying to diagnose a problem that we're having between x3270 and an IBM mainframe (PAn sequences don't work). After communicating with Paul Mattes (the author and/or current developer of x3270), he requested that I capture the datastream from both x3270 and a win32 client we also use (which do

Apache / SSL

1998-09-09 Thread Carlos Marcos Kakihara
Hi, I've compiled Apache with SSL support, but I'm getting the follow message (when I start it): Skip first time initialisation What is it? There is a apache.deb with SSL support? Thanks! Bacate..

How to pretend that i have some pckg installed ?

1998-09-09 Thread Robert Ramiega
Hi! I've been trying to find info on this on www.debian.org but i failed. I have installed qmail-1.03 from "upstream" sources. Now i would like to install ezmlm package but it depends on qmail and refuses to configure. I *know* that there is a package that allows me to make dpkg and friends

Console bug with more than 9 vc's

1998-09-09 Thread Zini Enrico
Configuration: 12 virtual consoles, SVGATextmode (112x40), Linux 2.0.34, Hamm Alt-F1 Type foo Alt-F11 Start mc Alt-F1 Type bar Alt-F11 Quit mc (screen should be restored to what it was before starting mc, it is instead cleared) Alt-F1 Screen is restored to what it was on console 1 before

Re: Backspace in xterm (again)

1998-09-09 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Joost Witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | skribis Gilbert Laycock: | > Pete> Does Alt-backspace work for anyone in an xterm (deleting the previous | > Pete> word on bash input, for example)? This worked fine in Bo and before. | > | > What kind of keyboard do you have? On my 104 key ("windows

RE: ISDN howto

1998-09-09 Thread Michele Comitini
This is the one specific to isdn4linux: http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~ui161ab/www/i4l-faq/eng-i4l-faq.html On 09-Sep-98 Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for an ISDN howto for linux but the only one I'd found was > in german ! :(( > Is there any other but in english !? >

Couldn't find Packages.gz

1998-09-09 Thread Oliver Thuns
Hallo, I start dselect, select FTP in access (using my lokal Windows-FTP-Server) and then try to make an update. I get the following error message: Couldn't find Packages.gz in dists/stable... I don't know what's wrong... HELP!!! ;-)

Re: cdrom ??

1998-09-09 Thread tko
spOOL writes: > I was reading your response to the question about the hdc: no response > (status = 0xd0) at boot. > > I have this same problem. I think it may have occurred after I installed > the wrong PIIX4 drivers for my motherboard. Now win95, doesn't like my Should be straight forward to rep

Re: Which packages for c++ development?

1998-09-09 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > You don't need > > egcc - The GNU (egcs) C compiler. But if you have got a project which uses C and C++, you do need egcc. At least I have problems because gcc and g++ do not play together well. Grimaldi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] KeyID:

Re: SAMBA: Help!!

1998-09-09 Thread peloy
Hi, so you are saying that the first user can login succesfully but after that no one else can log in? Are you sure Windows users are logged in their Windows 95 boxes as user "student"? If not do Start Menu:Shutdown:Close all programs and log in as a different user. I have never tried using null

Printer Problem

1998-09-09 Thread Lyno Sullivan
I studied all the documentation I could find on setting up printers under Debian, GNU/Linux and Unix and can't get a clue about the nature of my printer problem and its remedy. I am new to Linux, so its probably simple. When I do a "cat foo | lpr" I get "Driver configured but no interfa

Re: Backspace in xterm (again)

1998-09-09 Thread Joost Witteveen
skribis Gilbert Laycock: > Pete> Does Alt-backspace work for anyone in an xterm (deleting the previous > Pete> word on bash input, for example)? This worked fine in Bo and before. > > What kind of keyboard do you have? On my 104 key ("windows 95") > keyboard, the "windows" key produces Meta and t

Re: X Background

1998-09-09 Thread Michael Beattie
On 8 Sep 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: [snip] > First xsetroot is run. The script will wait until it has finished. > that shouldn't take long time and afterwards it continues to put > xemacs and kvt in the background. Then icewm is run in the > background. Weird, shouldn't we wait for that. Oh yes, w

Re: 2.1 kernel

1998-09-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I thought I saw Linus make a comment to someone that "That feature is >going to have to wait for 3.1, this kernel is frozen with regard to new >features" or something along those lines. If the next devel kernel is 3.1 >then I

ISDN howto

1998-09-09 Thread Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho
Hi, I'm looking for an ISDN howto for linux but the only one I'd found was in german ! :(( Is there any other but in english !? Thanks. Best regards, Nuno Carvalho

Re: Could I use RPM in Debian 2.0?

1998-09-09 Thread Martin Schulze
cj wrote: > I am a newbie.I want to know if i can use RPM to install package rather than > dpkg .If can ,how > can i do? You can convert .rpm files with alien to .deb files and install the resulting .deb files. This is the appropriate method when using Debian GNU/Linux. You can't use pure rpm

Re: Backspace in xterm (again)

1998-09-09 Thread Gilbert Laycock
Pete> Does Alt-backspace work for anyone in an xterm (deleting the previous Pete> word on bash input, for example)? This worked fine in Bo and before. What kind of keyboard do you have? On my 104 key ("windows 95") keyboard, the "windows" key produces Meta and the Alt key produces Alt when in X.

kernel timer resolution

1998-09-09 Thread Juan Pedro Lara Mendiola
Hello! I want to change the resolution of the kernel timer. In the manpages, the variable HZ is named, but I don't know how it is changed. Please help me. Thanks! *** Juan Pedro Lara Mendiola Universidad Politecnica de Valencia Spain [EMAIL PROT

Re: IPPORTFW & IPFWADM

1998-09-09 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> Whenever I type an ipportfw command, I always get an error back: >> >> ipfwadm: setsockopt failed: Protocol not available. >> >> What does this mean? And how do I resolve this? I have the current >> kernal, installed IPchains successfully, but need to get this piece of the >> puzzle going :)

Re: PCI problems

1998-09-09 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> Hey, >> >> I have a 3COM 3c905TX network card and a Real3D StarFighter video card. = >> When I boot my machine, the PCI probe gives both of the cards the same = >> IRQ number. However, the network card is on bus 0 and the video card is = >> on bus 1. Are the different bus numbers because the

off topic: found this on Solaris list, what a hoot

1998-09-09 Thread PJ Barbera
found on the Solaris mailing list :) Peter Barbera >> Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: GMX delivery to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 23021 invoked by uid 0); 9 Sep 1998 07:48:01 - Received: from mlist.eis

Formatting large hard drives

1998-09-09 Thread David Khoury
I've managed to get my hands on an 18Gig SCSI drive (woohoo!!), but I was just wondering if I should format it completely as one ext2 partition or split it up. ext2 dosen't seem to have any problems with it as one large partition, except that it takes 30 seconds to mount it at bootup, and see

Re: pc keyboard oddity in xterm

1998-09-09 Thread jdassen
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 08:46:56AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: [home and end behaviour reversed when editing command lines in xterm] This problem has been fixed in xbase 3.3.2.2-2 and newer (including the version in stable), by an update of the conffile /etc/X11/Xresources which now has ! Make the

AW: Error Initializing swap partition on lowmem install

1998-09-09 Thread Hofman, J.A.M.H.
Hello Troy I had exactly the same problem and it took a lot of reboots before it worked. How I solved it exactly I cannot remember anymore, but somewhere at the end of the low mem setup I switched to another virtual terminal and added the swap partition manually in the /target/etc/fstab (/target

pc keyboard oddity in xterm

1998-09-09 Thread Helge Hafting
I use debian 2.0 on a pc. I have got a lot of keyboard issues set up the way I want, such as backspace and delete both working, and working in different ways like they are supposed to. I use the "home" and "end" keys now and then when editing. This is supported by several editors, and by command l

Re: find & replace?

1998-09-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"timothy" == timothy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: timothy> Hi, is there a console utility to find and replace in a file? timothy> Preferably on which can find & replace from a bunch of files timothy> as passed by 'ls' or something? Other have already pointed out sed, whic

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