Sobre Perl y gtk .....

1998-11-06 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hola, Me pregunto si perl y gtk son compatibles. Esto es, si applicaicones en perl pueden llegar a tener interfazes gtk Si es posible, hay documento sobre esto? donde? Gracias, Phillip Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Conexión a Internet

1998-11-06 Thread Toni Rodriguez
Hey !! Si te sirve de algo, en http://LuCAS.ctv.es hay manuales y documentos en castellano, donde te explican un monton de cosas. (Ademas tambien hay un apartado para los howto's en castellano, etc...). Bye!! y saludos !! Toni.

Re: ¿¿¿¿¿ IP MASQUERADING ó DNS ?????

1998-11-06 Thread Roberto Ruiz
Hola Antonio: On Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 10:25:52PM +0100, Antonio Jesús Oliva González wrote: El día 04 de noviembre de 1998, Roberto Ruiz (rru) escribió: rru rru Bueno, solo tienes que darle insmod ip_masq_ftp y listo, el ftp debe rru de funcionar. Debe ser otro problema, por que estos

Re: Sobre Perl y gtk .....

1998-11-06 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 06:37:49PM -0300, Phillip Neumann wrote: Me pregunto si perl y gtk son compatibles. Esto es, si applicaicones en perl pueden llegar a tener interfazes gtk Si. debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/interpreters/libgtk-perl_0.3-3.deb Baja el paquete. Alli debe decir

large kernels

1998-11-06 Thread Sasha Gutfraind
Hello Guys! I have problems compiling the kernel. Using normal make config I configured the kernel and it came to be around 970K. As far I understood, LILO (not only) requires kernels 500K. So, I read about big images, and made one with make bzImage. however, it was of no lesser size. I must

permission denied on ptty7

1998-11-06 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I've never seen this before, and now i've seen it twice in one day, on two different hamm systems: eyryttyp4:mmxxgdb /usr/src/lyx0_12/src/lyx.12 /dev/ttyp7: Permission denied this time, it let me launch again successfully. previously, i had to putz around a bit. I'm also getting really

APT 0.1.9 (yes, 0.1.9!) is released!

1998-11-06 Thread Ben Gertzfield
It's that time again! The APT team would like to announce the latest release of the next-generation Debian package manager frontend, APT 0.1.9! The binary i386 package and source have been uploaded to the master Debian archive and should be installed into it soon. We've skipped 0.1.8 because a

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-06 Thread stick
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. said chuck asked, Me too! I'm usually a very cautious person...How do we *know* that this has even originated from MicroSoft? So there is the issue of whether or not it's from MS, and if it is it it truly confidential? Is the Wall Street Journal a good enough

dpkg sort of broken?

1998-11-06 Thread timothy
Hi, Many packages I install lately give errors about /usr/sbin/install-info. Apparantly this file belongs to dpkg, so I try to reinstall dpkg, and get the same sort of thing. Any ideas? Thanks, Timothy SNIP Preparing to replace dpkg 1.4.0.31 (using dpkg_1.4.0.31.deb) ... Bareword found

tty's under X

1998-11-06 Thread Max
OK, I must have done something stupid to screw up my system, but ever since I rebooted, I can no longer use biff, write, and other tty-based utilities under X. Here's what happens: chinook:~ tty /dev/ttyp7 chinook:~ write maxk /dev/ttyp7 write: maxk is not logged in on ttyp7. chinook:~ w

Re: xmix cannot open mixer device

1998-11-06 Thread W. Paul Mills
Conrado Badenas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kirston Akos wrote: You have to compile the kernel with /dev/audio enabled. Or you have to chmod your device. The devices /dev/mixer and /dev/mixer1 are both owned by root.audio and I belong to group audio (I belong to groups users, audio, disk,

Turtle Beach

1998-11-06 Thread Max
If anyone here has successfully been able to use a Turtle Beach Multisound Fiji (or Pinnacle), I would like to talk to you. I've been struggling with this card for quite some time now with absolutely no success (except for the uncanny ability to completely crash the system). Max -- Some wounds

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-06 Thread G. Crimp
On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 09:28:45AM -0200, Vera Lucia Mazzocchi wrote: Hi, I was thinking if this document wasn't released purposely, that is, let them know only what we want they know and let's see what they think about. Seems to me that M$ might be playing with us, releasing such

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-06 Thread G. Crimp
On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 05:02:43PM +, Thomas Lakofski wrote: On Thu, 5 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Me too! I'm usually a very cautious person...How do we *know* that this has even originated from MicroSoft? So there is the issue of whether or not it's from MS, and if it is it

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 6 Nov 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: : : A == AJT60 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : A On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: : : M$ had confirmed, that this document is a M$ memo. See slashdot for : the pointer. : : A Also, it's unlikely that this was deliberatly leaked

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-06 Thread G. Crimp
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 12:25:27PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, it's unlikely that this was deliberatly leaked by microsoft (IMHO), because it's not exactly good publicity for them. Far more PR damage is possible because of (admittedly somewhat backhanded) admissions of how well

tty's under X (continued)

1998-11-06 Thread Max
Apparently, this problem with tty's not being assigned under X disappears if I do startx as root. So, is something somewhere not getting the permission to assign the tty? Max -- Some wounds may never heal (The ways of grace are narrow) Some secrets can't be sealed (The battle rages on)

Upgrading Bo to Hamm with apt-get

1998-11-06 Thread David S. Jackson
Hi, when I try to apt-get update from a Bo machine I get ERROR ftp://sylvester/pub/cdrom/debian/hamm/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Need package libmd5-perl Does this mean the apt-get script can't find the libmd5-perl pkg on sylvester (the ftp server)?? I have the /etc/apt/sources.list point

Re: Still having Printer Problems

1998-11-06 Thread mwb
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: In my attempt to isolate why I can't print I came across a potential problem. When I installed Linux I had a parallel port Zip Drive attached to my printer port. If I type 'mount /dev/sda Zip' I am able to mount the zip drive. Since my printer

Re: GTKICQ doesn't do ANYTHING

1998-11-06 Thread Adam Shand
As I said, no problems with stability here. And what are these feeatures unique to licq? with licq you can: * spoof uin's so you can pretend to send messages as anyone :-) * authorize users (this is a biggie the gtkicq falls down on) * not crash on a fairly regular basis. the only thing that

dosemu on tty stalls system

1998-11-06 Thread Johann Spies
After upgrading to Debian 2.0 I could use dosemu for the first time in a meaningful way. One of my dos programs (Wordperfect Presentations 2.0) would not work properly when I run dosemu from X so I always used it on a tty-screen. In the mean time my computer was upgraded from a 486 DX 40 system

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
NEN == Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NEN Never assume that people, especially management, are rational. Well, I am studying economics. I hope me and others can turn this around sometime in the future :-) This semester, I have lectures in decision theory. On base of rational

Re: [comp.security] Secure computers

1998-11-06 Thread Kent West
On 5 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Collins writes: Does this still protect against the popular nuclear bomb DoS attack? Yes. The level of service does not change at all when the site is nuked. -- Unless the lights were mercury vapor lights, in which case there might be some

Re: large kernels

1998-11-06 Thread Mike Nachlinger
On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Sasha Gutfraind wrote: Hello Guys! I have problems compiling the kernel. Using normal make config I configured the kernel and it came to be around 970K. As far I understood, LILO (not only) requires kernels 500K. So, I read about big images, and made one with make

Re: xbase , xlib

1998-11-06 Thread Mike Nachlinger
On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Andrew Philip Bell wrote: Most debian X packages depend upon the xbase and xlib6 package. However, I am using Accelerated-X and I should have all of the libraries and binaries that are necessary for all of these X packages. How do I effectively tell dpkg that I have

Re: how to install slink netscape?

1998-11-06 Thread Mike Nachlinger
On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Markus M. Schneider wrote: Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: I recently upgraded as well but now communicator fails with a bus error. I've also upgraded to the latest libc and X packages in unstable. Has anyone else seen this problem? I've not upgraded the X

Command shells with scroll bars?

1998-11-06 Thread Kevin Grant
Assuming I'm using the right terminology, I can't seem to find a command shell (like csh or xterm or whatever) that gives me a little scroll bar on the side so I can use the mouse to scroll back and see what happened before. Are there any like this? Thanks, Kevin

Re: An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on Open Source

1998-11-06 Thread Tor Slettnes
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy as well. F == F Potorti Francesco writes: Martin == [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Bialasinski) writes: Martin M$ had confirmed, that this document is a M$ memo.

Window Maker and Looking for the right window manager

1998-11-06 Thread Kevin Grant
At the moment I'm using Window Maker as my window manager but I'm having trouble figuring out how to make it do some of the things I'd like it to do. For instance, I'd like to set program specific window looks. Like have all xterm windows come up with white writing on a black background and all

loading slink packages

1998-11-06 Thread Dave Caswell
Should I be able to upgrade a hamm instalation to packages from slink?? After trying that trick I had to recover my system by copying shared libs off of a backup. Is there a way to bring the dselect database back into correspondance with the files on the system?? -davec

Re: The next step: supercomputer via disparate nodes

1998-11-06 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Zack Brown wrote: ... 2) no node is more or less vital to the system than any other (!) 3) nodes can connect and disconnect at will [...] How will it deal with a net.split? 4) nodes can locally select to include or exclude jobs (via config file) initiated by particular users. PGP

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-06 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, rick wrote: chuck asked, Me too! I'm usually a very cautious person...How do we *know* that this ... There's enough in there contrary to the ms party line that it's quite clear that it's confidential. Just because it's confidential doesn't mean it wasn't leaked intentionally...

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-06 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Jiri Baum wrote: ... [extra level of indenting still Jiri] While this appears at first sight to be a classic play out of the Microsoft handbook, there is a subtle but very important distinction. By releasing the source

[HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

1998-11-06 Thread Peter Makholm
Eric S. Raymond has made another memo from Vinod Valloppillil public. http://www.opensource.org/halloween2.html I do not thionk it's as interesting as the first, but it mentions Debian (and RedHat) [About RedHat] [...] One of the larger grants however has been the now

Re: changing default window manager - How!

1998-11-06 Thread M.C. Vernon
I am using Debian2.0 and the default window manager that comes up is fvwm. I would like to change this permanently to olvwm. Which file should I edit ? /home/userid/.xsession the last line should say olvm remember to make it executably. Also, how I can I change my shell permanently from

Errors compiling kernel

1998-11-06 Thread Cristov Russell
Hello everyone. I've been trying to recompile my kernel for sound (SB32PNP) but have been getting errors. The very end of the compile message reads: make[2]: as86: Command not found make[2]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/arch/i386/boot'

Re: Command shells with scroll bars?

1998-11-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
Kevin Grant hat gesagt: // Kevin Grant wrote: Assuming I'm using the right terminology, I can't seem to find a command shell (like csh or xterm or whatever) that gives me a little scroll bar on the side so I can use the mouse to scroll back and see what happened before. Are there any like

PCMCIA ethernet cards w/Debian

1998-11-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Does anyone know if a PCMCIA ethernet card with the following wonderful description will work with a Hamm/Slink system? Credit-card size, PCMCIA Type II form factor Complies to PC Card 1995 CardBus standards -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your

Symbolic bookmark link

1998-11-06 Thread Cristov Russell
Hello again. I'm dual booting Debian and Win98 and using Netscape in both. What I'd like to do is have the same bookmarks available in both. I thought the best way to achieve this would be to make a symlink from the mounted win directory to my netscape directory. After doing this, if I open

Re: Window Maker and Looking for the right window manager

1998-11-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
Kevin Grant hat gesagt: // Kevin Grant wrote: At the moment I'm using Window Maker as my window manager but I'm having trouble figuring out how to make it do some of the things I'd like it to do. For instance, I'd like to set program specific window looks. Like have all xterm windows come

Suggestions for implementing xntp

1998-11-06 Thread Erik van der Meulen
I have installed the xntp package, and managed to configure it to connect to a time server all right. It seems that the deamon only works on boot up in the default configuration, for my log file shows no activity ever since. The documentation is very thorough, but also very general. I was hoping

Re: Command shells with scroll bars?

1998-11-06 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
In addition, Shift+PageUp/Shift+PageDown will scroll in xterm, rxvt, and the console. miket On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 09:34:45AM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: Kevin Grant hat gesagt: // Kevin Grant wrote: Assuming I'm using the right terminology, I can't seem to find a command shell (like

Re: apt-get update errors?

1998-11-06 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 10:34:04 -0500 Adam Lazur writes: Whenever I run apt-get update with slink stuff in my sources.list I end up getting like 20 errors similar to: Get ftp://ftp.debian.org slink/main makedev [16.1k] Error ftp://ftp.debian.org slink/main makedev 550

Re: Window Maker and Looking for the right window manager

1998-11-06 Thread Mitch Blevins
Kevin Grant wrote: At the moment I'm using Window Maker as my window manager but I'm having trouble figuring out how to make it do some of the things I'd like it to do. For instance, I'd like to set program specific window looks. Like have all xterm windows come up with white writing on a

Scheduling/contact software for console

1998-11-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Is there any decent scheduling/contact/to-do type software akin to Sidekick for the console that has been Debianized, or not? -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my http://www.calweb.com/~morpheus| employer's. They hired me for my

exim

1998-11-06 Thread Leon Breedt
i currently have this mail setup on my system: i download all my mail from my ISP with fetchmail, and it gets delivered locally by qmail. all outbound mail that isnt local, collects in a maildir and gets sent when next i go online. can i do the same stuff in a similar manner with exim? i know

Re: Errors compiling kernel

1998-11-06 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Cristov Russell wrote: make[2]: as86: Command not found as86 is in the bin86 package. Just install it.

Re: Re: mutt trashes mail

1998-11-06 Thread David Wright
Quoting Leon Breedt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Wed, Nov 04 1998, David Wright spake thus: Takes up 1.6MB though :( try 'strip' on the executable, or turning off the '-g' option to your compiler in the Makefile. my mutt executable is only +/-400KB. Thanks. I'll do that to procmail too! (I

DOSEMU: lredir fail everytime

1998-11-06 Thread Helge Hafting
I tried dosemu as I have a dos-program I need to run at work. But I can't get access to drives using lredir. I have tried lredir D: linux/fs/d Where /d is the mountpoint for a mounted partition with some files I need. lredir always fail with an error code. I downloaded dosemu from slink, it

Re: DOSEMU: lredir fail everytime

1998-11-06 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Helge Hafting wrote: I tried dosemu as I have a dos-program I need to run at work. But I can't get access to drives using lredir. I have tried lredir D: linux/fs/d Where /d is the mountpoint for a mounted partition with some files I need. lredir always fail with an

Re: Suggestions for implementing xntp

1998-11-06 Thread alexander.schwartz
On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Erik van der Meulen wrote: I have installed the xntp package, and managed to configure it to connect to a time server all right. It seems that the deamon only works on boot up in the default configuration, for my log file shows no activity ever since. The documentation is

RealTek Ethernet card ?

1998-11-06 Thread Dan Pomohaci
Reply-To: Hello, I have an offer to buy no-name Ethernet PCI 10T/100T cards with RealTek chip. I didn't found it in hardware compatibilty Linux list. Is this card good for Linux? Some comments, please. Thanks, -- | Dan N.

Networking Newbie

1998-11-06 Thread ivan
Hi All, I am currently trying to install Debian on a second computer which will be connected via a 10Mb ethernet connection to my main Debian computer (excuse me using Windows at the moment tho' :) ) There is a NE2000 ethernet board installed which is cabled to a Soho Basic Hub205 hub. When

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on why MS is in trouble from OpenSource OSes like Linux

1998-11-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 12:09:54PM +0100, Roberto Ripio wrote: El Wed, 04 Nov 1998, Chad A. Adlawan escribió: http://www.opensource.org/halloween.html Very interesting. I can't believe they describe Gimp 1.0 as Paintbrush. At least they weren't stupid enough to say nasty things about

Email - can't send mail to users on local ISP

1998-11-06 Thread cleland
This is my first post to this list. I have been running Debian(currently Hamm)/ Win 95/98 for over 12 months, and gradually increasing the functionality of debian and using windows only when I have to. My email is working fine except when I try to send messages to other users on my local ISP.

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 11:14:47AM +, Jiri Baum wrote: Just because it's confidential doesn't mean it wasn't leaked intentionally... Say with a view of getting some feedback on their analysis from us. Perhaps unlikely, but possible. Indeed. The memo mentions that they have list archives

Re: Networking Newbie

1998-11-06 Thread alexander.schwartz
This simply means that you are (temporary or permanently) unable to load that module into the kernel, that doesn't has necessaryly something to do with the device itself. Make that you have done the following: make bzImage (or whatever to make the kernel) make modules make modules_install

Re: PCMCIA ethernet cards w/Debian

1998-11-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 12:34:23AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Does anyone know if a PCMCIA ethernet card with the following wonderful description will work with a Hamm/Slink system? Credit-card size, PCMCIA Type II form factor Complies to PC Card 1995 CardBus

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-06 Thread John Forest
Hi, While all this cloak and dagger stuff makes for good entertainment, I believe the following link sums up my feeling on this a lot better then I could. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit19981105.html Got that from http://slashdot.org John.

Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

1998-11-06 Thread Chris Fury
George Bonser wrote: He also compares Debian to Slackware as having to roll your own stuff. As if Debian does not have a package manager. It looks like the Microsoft people think that rpm is the only Linux package manager. Well, not to rock the boat, but I see more .rpm's that I do .deb's on

NFS install

1998-11-06 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, Im just setting up debian system on a new PentiumII. Got no Debian CD. I want to install the basesystem with NFS, can anybody recommend me a NFS server preferably in Germany/Northern Europe? Ciao, Christian.

Xmodmap, delete

1998-11-06 Thread Richard Harran.
I know someone posted about this earlier, but I've 'lost' the email. Could someone please tell me how to change the behavior of my backspace key (on AT keyboard) to be backspace (as in move cursor to left deleting) for all my X apps. I seem to remember it was something in Xmodmap, and unusually

Re: Command shells with scroll bars?

1998-11-06 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 01:40:47AM -0800, Mike Touloumtzis wrote: In addition, Shift+PageUp/Shift+PageDown will scroll in xterm, rxvt, and the console. ... and program screen (it works on console and on xterm). Mirek

dpkg-multicd

1998-11-06 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I installed the dpkg-multicd package, but I don't see how to use it to install from multiple cd's. I have the cheap bytes cd set with main, contrib, and non-free on separate disks. Is dpkg-multicd supposed to let me flip disks as required, or does it assume that I have 3 cdrom drives? In the

Re: smb logs

1998-11-06 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 08:12:25PM +, Pere Camps wrote: Does anybody know what to put and where to put in order to have some decent samba logs? I've got the following but nothing nice comes out (ie: no smb log files and an nmb log file which is pretty useless. ; smb.conf

Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

1998-11-06 Thread Vincent Murphy
Well, not to rock the boat, but I see more .rpm's that I do .deb's on the net. I mean, yeah, you can go to www.debian.org to get a whole boatload of packages, but that's about as far as you go. I think a lot of rpm's you see out there suck. One of the reasons I dig Debian so much is the .deb

Re: PCMCIA ethernet cards w/Debian

1998-11-06 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 12:34:23AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Does anyone know if a PCMCIA ethernet card with the following wonderful description will work with a Hamm/Slink system? Credit-card size, PCMCIA Type II form factor

Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

1998-11-06 Thread Chris Fury
Vincent Murphy wrote: It does annoy me also when you can't get the latest whizz bang version of e.g. Eterm, but at the same time it's a great incentive for us to get up off our butts and start maintaining them ourselves. True. I keep saying that I want to do something like that, but I never

Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

1998-11-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 09:40:24AM -0500, Chris Fury wrote: So, um, what would you people like to see packaged? :) See http://www.debian.org/~johnie/ . And I'm sure we'd be grateful if someone were to go over the list of ancient bugs to see if they're still present. Ray -- J.H.M. Dassen

Re: RealTek Ethernet card ?

1998-11-06 Thread Phil Sweeney
Dan Pomohaci wrote: I have an offer to buy no-name Ethernet PCI 10T/100T cards with RealTek chip. I didn't found it in hardware compatibilty Linux list. Is this card good for Linux? Some comments, please. i'm assuming it's the RealTek 8029 .. i have one and it works great with linux.. just

Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

1998-11-06 Thread Greg Vence
Vincent Murphy wrote: Well, not to rock the boat, but I see more .rpm's that I do .deb's on the net. I mean, yeah, you can go to www.debian.org to get a whole boatload of packages, but that's about as far as you go. I think a lot of rpm's you see out there suck. One of the reasons I

Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

1998-11-06 Thread Greg Vence
Greg Vence wrote: Vincent Murphy wrote: Well, not to rock the boat, but I see more .rpm's that I do .deb's on the net. I mean, yeah, you can go to www.debian.org to get a whole boatload of packages, but that's about as far as you go. I think a lot of rpm's you see out there

Debian 2 stable installation

1998-11-06 Thread Bob Towers
My kit is K6-166MMX, 2.1GB IDE drive, 64MB RAM and LAN connection to the Net. The first Linux I ever installed was 1.2! I have recently installed Debien 2.0 from the bin distibution sold by CheapBytes. I had a problem during install.. After the packages had been installed and during the

Re: smb logs

1998-11-06 Thread Pere Camps
Mirek, max log size = 0 I don't have this line I just took it out. /usr/sbin/smbd -a ^^^ Try remove -a parameter Same stuff. Nothing happened. Can you tell me what permissions do you have for your /var/log dir and for the

Re: Command shells with scroll bars?

1998-11-06 Thread Jim Crumley
Kevin Grant hat gesagt: // Kevin Grant wrote: Assuming I'm using the right terminology, I can't seem to find a command shell (like csh or xterm or whatever) that gives me a little scroll bar on the side so I can use the mouse to scroll back and see what happened before. Are there

Re: Networking Newbie

1998-11-06 Thread Roberto Ripio
El Fri, 06 Nov 1998, ivan escribió: When trying to install the ne (NE-2000 Ethernet Controllers) module using the setup programme I am told that /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ne.o: init_module: Device or resource busy new line Installation failed. ¿Have you checked the interrupt settings in your card?

dual boot Linux/NT question

1998-11-06 Thread Steve Ball
Hi all: My hdd is partitioned: hda1 [boot] NT DOS hda2 [boot] Linux hda3 hda4 I tried the various lilo.conf settings suggested to dual boot and system booted straight to Linux every time. Acting upon a recent submission, I reinstalled NT (without reformat or repartition). Now system boots

Re: smb logs

1998-11-06 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 03:31:45PM +, Pere Camps wrote: Same stuff. Nothing happened. Can you tell me what permissions do you have for your /var/log dir and for the smb.log and nmdb log files (and ownership too). drwxrwsr-x 12 root adm 5120 Nov 6 09:37 /var/log

Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

1998-11-06 Thread Michael Stenner
On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Greg Vence wrote: Vincent Murphy wrote: Well, not to rock the boat, but I see more .rpm's that I do .deb's on the net. I mean, yeah, you can go to www.debian.org to get a whole boatload of packages, but that's about as far as you go. I think a lot of rpm's you see

Newer kernels

1998-11-06 Thread Martin Oldfield
Has anyone packaged a more recent kernel than 2.0.35 ? Cheers, -- Martin Oldfield.

Re: DOSEMU: lredir fail everytime

1998-11-06 Thread Carl Fink
Note: copied to both Helge and the mailing list. In linux.debian.user, helge.hafting wrote: lredir always fail with an error code. Are you using Novell DOS or DR-DOS? At this time, lredir doesn't work with those DOS flavors. I ended up deciding to boot off an hdimage file and mount my real

Re: Newer kernels

1998-11-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 03:59:45PM +, Martin Oldfield wrote: Has anyone packaged a more recent kernel than 2.0.35 ? No. There are no newer stable kernels than 2.0.35 at the moment (although the prepatches for 2.0.36 seem to be stabilising now); if you want to have packages for newer kernels

Re: dual boot Linux/NT question

1998-11-06 Thread Patrick Ouellette
I had a similar problem. NT bootloader likes to control the system and load bootsectors from a file. You should be able to solve it with the following. Boot into Linux (use a rescue disk if your machine does not boot into Linux) Install Lilo on the LINUX PARTITION use dd to copy the boot

More kernel problems

1998-11-06 Thread Cristov Russell
After recompiling my kernel I'm noticing some error messages during the boot concerning memory. Hoping that someone here could help me, I dumped the kern.log to the attached log.txt.file. If I should send something else please let me know. I also get an error about LD 4 which I believe is the

Netscape 3 cookies

1998-11-06 Thread Richard Harran.
Does anyone know how I can make netscape 3 refuse all cookies without prompting me: there no good to me, and slightly sinister, but some sights try to set so many, its a nuisance to refuse them all by hand. Cheers Rich

Re: Netscape 3 cookies

1998-11-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 05:07:52PM +, Richard Harran. wrote: Does anyone know how I can make netscape 3 refuse all cookies without prompting me: there no good to me, and slightly sinister, but some sights try to set so many, its a nuisance to refuse them all by hand. I don't know if it can

netscape 'cannot perform malloc'

1998-11-06 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi, after installing the new slink netscape binaries I get this error messages when starting the program: ERROR: /usr/lib/netscape/45/communicator/plugins/libnullplugin.so: undefined symbol: FE_GetToplevelWidget Cant load plugin /usr/lib/netscape/45/communicator/plugins/libnullplugin.so.

Re: Netscape 3 cookies

1998-11-06 Thread Dale E. Martin
Richard Harran. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know how I can make netscape 3 refuse all cookies without prompting me: there no good to me, and slightly sinister, but some sights try to set so many, its a nuisance to refuse them all by hand. Sure - leave them enabled in your

Re: Netscape 3 cookies

1998-11-06 Thread Tommi Kaariainen
J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know if it can be done with netscape 3; in case it can't, you could work around it by installing junkbuster on your box and using that as a web proxy. You don't have to do that if you make the cookie database (cookies.txt in ~/.netscape

Re: Netscape 3 cookies

1998-11-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 07:47:06PM +0200, Tommi Kaariainen wrote: J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [junkbuster] You don't have to do that if you make the cookie database (cookies.txt in ~/.netscape directory if I remember correctly) a symbolic link to /dev/null Aren't cookies

Re: smb logs

1998-11-06 Thread Pere Camps
Mirek, I use separate logfiles for client computers: log file = /var/log/smb.%m.log They are created automaticaly by smbd. I don't suppose that problem is in file permissions because smbd runs as root. It worked! It was a simple problem. I didn't have the 'log file' in the

installation trouble

1998-11-06 Thread Richard Hall
I am trying to install Debian on a machine that had NT on it. I made a rescue disk (resc1440.bin), but when I boot with it, I get errors related to the SCSI controller. The machine loops indefinitely with this message: (scsi:-1:-1:-1) Bad scbptr 16 during SELTO (scsi:-1:-1:-1) Referenced SCB

xboard and kde

1998-11-06 Thread Riccardo Tommasini
Does anybody knows why xboard does not work properly with kde? I mean, the menu bar does not react to the mouse clicks. trhanks for any suggestiom. ric ___ Riccardo Tommasini University of Berne - Institute of Applied Physics -

Re: DOSEMU: lredir fail everytime

1998-11-06 Thread stick
Carl Fink said Note: copied to both Helge and the mailing list. In linux.debian.user, helge.hafting wrote: lredir always fail with an error code. Are you using Novell DOS or DR-DOS? At this time, lredir doesn't work with those DOS flavors. I ended up deciding to boot off an hdimage

Full name of a mailing list?

1998-11-06 Thread Antal Ritter
Hi, I'd like to set the full name of a mailing list created with SmartList. I can do it by defining a user in the passwd file and setting its gecos field, but I don't like this solution. Could somebody direct me how else can I do this? Thanks for your help,

Yet another lilo question!!!

1998-11-06 Thread Paul McDermott
What I want to do is very simple. Yet i can't find a solution to the problem. Here is the situation. (I am asking for someone else i may not have all the correct informatiofn) partion my drive with the following hda1win98 4gig hda2/ 100megs hda2swap 64mgegs hda3/usr

Netscape crashes after dist-upgrade slink

1998-11-06 Thread Kevin Atkinson
I just did another dist-upgrade toward the slink distyribution and now netscape crashes before it even starts with this message. communicator-smotif.real: locale `C' not supported. Perhaps the $XNLSPATH environment variable is not set correctly [... and after it loads for a few

Re: tty's under X (continued)

1998-11-06 Thread Max
You (Richard Hall) wrote: I'm having the same problem ever since I upgraded to glibc6. I haven't figured it out either, just wanted to let you know that you aren't alone. It turns out that xterm needs to be suid root. I figured this out after I noticed that rxvt and xvt didn't have this

Re: Netscape and $XNLSPATH

1998-11-06 Thread Tres Hofmeister
On 1998.11.05, Ed Cogburn wrote: : : Craig R. Hodges wrote: : : I just apt-get dist-upgrade to the latest version of slink. : When I attempt to run netscape-comm 4.5 I get the following error: : : netscape: locale `C' not supported. : : The problem is a broken X package(s). There is

How can I create my own CD's?

1998-11-06 Thread Ty Mixon
Ok, I'm brand new to Linux, as well as Debian. I've looked around and looked around and can't seem to find the answear. I'm getting a new computer next month, and I want to use Debian on it, but I am a little limited on funds. One of the things I will have, however, is a CD-R drive. So what

  1   2   >