Cagada root arreglada, GRACIAS.

1998-12-08 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Os debo una, muchas gracias. -- Javier Viñuales [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ¡SOCORRO!: la he cagado como root.

1998-12-08 Thread Correcaminos
Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: Puedes acceder en modo texto pulsando Control+Alt+Fx donde x puede ser de 1 a 6. Gracias Maqui pero, no me responde el teclado si arranco Debian de forma normal, entendiendo por normal que el gestor de arranque lance el kernel y este inicilice los

Re: iconos desaparecidos en menus de KDE 1.0

1998-12-08 Thread miquel
Ramiro Alba Queipo ha escrit: miquel wrote: ¿alguien ha instalado la versión de KDE 1.0 que distribuye este mes Linux Actual (en el CD de debian contrib)? Resulta que en algunos menús falta el archivo con el icono, y en su lugar sale un cuadro negro. En concreto en las ventanas de

Distribucion mixta

1998-12-08 Thread Lord Of Linux
Distribuci'on mixta Debido a ciertos problemas con el Xserve de debian ( solo me trabaja a 8 bpp ) Me gustaria usar el Xserve de Openlinux copiar los achivos bases de debian ( dselect , deb, etc ) e instalar las apps de debian Alguien sabe como yo puedo crear esa distribucion mixta ???

Re: iconos desaparecidos en menus de KDE 1.0

1998-12-08 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 05:20:21PM +0100, Juanmi Mora dijo: Que puedes contar de gnome. Yo lo he intentado instalar, pero desgraciadamente pago teléfono y estaba harto de bajar tantas librerías que necesitaba. Yo he probado GNOME y me pareció muy bueno, el único problema que tuve era con los

Re: Parche WindowMaker 0.20.2 - 0.20.3

1998-12-08 Thread Juanmi Mora
On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: http://master.debian.org/~mmagallo/wmaker_0.20.3-0.0.1_i386.deb http://master.debian.org/~mmagallo/libwraster1_0.20.3-0.0.1_i386.deb Gracias Marcelo, al final me he bajado el paquete completo y lo estoy compilando. Bueno, corriendo, es

Nvidia tnt

1998-12-08 Thread TooManySecrets
Buenas. Resulta que estoy evangelizando a tó taco con Debian, y hoy se la he instalado (bueno, he ayudado/contribuido) a un colega que tenía Red Hat. Resulta que tiene una tarjeta como la del Subject (aka nvidia) con 18 Mb RAM, pero sólo le reconoce 8. ¿Se le tiene que forzar en el XF86Config la

Re: Distribucion mixta

1998-12-08 Thread TooManySecrets
Lord Of Linux el día Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 06:12:52AM -0800 expuso lo siguiente: Debido a ciertos problemas con el Xserve de debian ( solo me trabaja a 8 bpp ) Me gustaria usar el Xserve de Openlinux copiar los achivos bases de debian ( dselect , deb, etc ) e instalar las apps de debian

Re: Nvidia tnt

1998-12-08 Thread Pere Camps
Hola! ¿Se le tiene que forzar en el XF86Config la cantidad de Mb o qué hay que hacer para que lo reconozca? Has probado: VideoRam 18432 En la sección de devices del XF86Config? -- p.

Re: questions

1998-12-08 Thread Kent West
At 05:42 AM 12/8/1998 -0500, Josh Beavers wrote: I am planning to install Debian 2.0 and I had a couple of euqquestions. 1. I installed a small preview off floppies and it had a SCSI driver still in the kernel when I booted pup that I did not want there. This caused it to give a boot up error.

RE:KDE and kppp

1998-12-08 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
I am not 100% sure this is the reason, can you just run pon as a normal user ? If not, add yourself to the group dip (add you username to the line dip:x:30:yourusernamehere ) When you can run pon and poff as a nirmal user, then see if kppp works as well. That worked in my case. Sergey. On Mon, 7

Re: installing linux debian on Toshiba Satellite

1998-12-08 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
I've installed hamm on Toshiba Tecra 700. tecra disk did not help - it seems to still use bzImage while zImage is needed. What I did (after seeing advice on this list) was to put kernel on a dos partition and use loadlin.exe (and the debian install.bat). And after I install everything, I still had

Re: installing linux debian on Toshiba Satellite

1998-12-08 Thread john
Vazquez Jr, E A writes: Actually, I did. Did what? The problem was and is that everything I can find presumes that I already have a mounted source device or network connection to complete the install and build the network connection. Er, if you have installed base, you *have* installed

Installation problem from floppies, RAMDISK error, please help me!!!

1998-12-08 Thread BG96
I am trying to install debian from a 386SX 16mhz with 5 megs of ram from a floppy disk drive. It has a 106 meg hard drive. 15 megs of the hard drive are used as an MSDOS partition. The installation goes through detecting items on the system and then says the following and freezes: RAMDISK:

Re: Installation problem from floppies, RAMDISK error, please help me!!!

1998-12-08 Thread David Coe
Are you *sure* it's freezing and not just taking a long time to decompress that compressed image? I intalled debian on a 386sx 16mhz (actually an 8mhz running at 16 in turbo mode, if that matters), with 8 meg RAM, and it was extremely slow. It did work, though. Sorry, I don't use that machine

Clock Skew?

1998-12-08 Thread Tun Yang
Hi... while compiling the kernel, I got a Clock Skew detected, your compile may not be complete (or something to that effect...) What is clock skew?? This started after I changed my motherboard to an Aopen AX6B (used to be asus KN97) I'm also running a Celeron now, though I don't think this is

Re: installing linux debian on Toshiba Satellite

1998-12-08 Thread David Stern
On Mon, 07 Dec 1998 22:44:20 GMT, wrote: Hi, I'm new to this list (1/2 hour). I subscribed because I intend (intended?) to install some Linux distribution on my Tosh Satellite 200CDS. Welcome! Don't go just yet. This info is just so motivating. I've never heard that called information

latex.....

1998-12-08 Thread Shao Zhang
Hey, Can someone please tell me how to write a tab in latex. Thanks for your help Shao Shao Zhang \\/ 5/28-30 Victoria AVE OxO PENSHURST 2035 //\ Sydney, NSW

install star-office5.0 on debian (slink)?

1998-12-08 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi, everybody -- I just tried to install newly downloaded so5.0 following their instruction (run ./setup form installation directory), but my installation stopped with the msg that the disk was full. df showed that my / partition was indeed 100% full, adn I discovered it is due to so5 using /tmp

Re: Help - X meets my OLD monitor

1998-12-08 Thread wtopa
Subject: Help - X meets my OLD monitor Date: Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 02:58:16PM -0500 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hey guys... I'm outta ideas on this one, so I'm posting here with the hopes someone can help me out. I'm trying

Re: latex.....

1998-12-08 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: Can someone please tell me how to write a tab in latex. Tabbing in LaTeX is almost always the wrong thing to do. LaTeX handles all whitespace for you if you use the correct semantic commands, and the results are very nice. Tabs are for typewriters. :-)

Re: SQUAKE SVGALIB problems

1998-12-08 Thread Alexander N. Benner
hi Ship's Log, Lt. Michael Beattie, Stardate 071298.1206: A `chmod +s /usr/games/squake.real` will fix it. you should also consider running suidregister from the package suidmanager as squacke is worth being updated frequently and you want to keep the +s Greetings -- Alexander N. Benner -

Re: resolve.conf specification

1998-12-08 Thread Jameson Burt
I avoid the problem of a separate /etc/resolv.conf for each of my ISP's by never using my ISP's DNS servers. I found that DNS lookups to my local ISP took as long as lookups to the the main internet DNS servers A through M, about 4 seconds. So, I run a local DNS server, and I have but one entry

Re: questions

1998-12-08 Thread Peter Berlau
On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 05:42:22AM -0500, Josh Beavers wrote: I am planning to install Debian 2.0 and I had a couple of euqquestions. 1. I installed a small preview off floppies and it had a SCSI driver still in the kernel when I booted pup that I did not want there. This caused it to

Re: Installation problem from floppies, RAMDISK error, please help me!!!

1998-12-08 Thread Jim Pick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to install debian from a 386SX 16mhz with 5 megs of ram from a floppy disk drive. It has a 106 meg hard drive. 15 megs of the hard drive are used as an MSDOS partition. The installation goes through detecting items on the system and then says the

PPP and kernel 2.0.36

1998-12-08 Thread Paul Miller
I have just installed the lastest stable kernel 2.0.36 and PPP does not work for me. I have compiled it into the kernel. The version is the 2.2.0 version of PPP. I have tried patching the kernel to PPP v2.3.3 to no avail. I am using the Debian PPP package 2.3.5-2. I am running the Hamm version

Re: latex.....

1998-12-08 Thread Chris Frost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: Can someone please tell me how to write a tab in latex. For what purpose? Just the tab in the first line of a paragraph? The \ident. If you'd like to make a table, try using the tabbular enviroment. Chris -

Re: install star-office5.0 on debian (slink)?

1998-12-08 Thread Jim Pick
Damir J. Naden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: b)alternatively, can I, temporary, make a link for /tmp to point to /usr/local/tmp and so trick the system long enough to install the so5 in my /home partition? Are there any side effects I should be aware of ( I am planning on getting back to regular

RE: Just My 2 Cents

1998-12-08 Thread Christian Lavoie
Hey All, Just venting. Recently I check out the Linux apps wish list web page! I though that it was mighty funny that the software that most people want to see ported to Linux is made by the big nasty Microsoft clan. Personally, I hate M$ and was glade to find Linux. If it wasn't for

Re: latex.....

1998-12-08 Thread Jameson Burt
While it isn't exactly a tab, you could use \qquad #big space \quad#no so big space \; #thickspace \: #mediumspace \, #thinspace \! #negative thinspace \hspace{2.3cm} #you probably want to avoid ruler measurements \hspace{4.7ex} #varies by

ipchains/ip_masq problems

1998-12-08 Thread wax_man
I can't seem to get my ip_masq working. I'm running 2.1.131, so I'm using ipchains. I've set it up the best I can tell from the instructions, but can't hit anything outside my lan from my win95 box. Any ideas on what I have not done properly? Here is what I'm sending ipchains from my

Latex - let me make clear

1998-12-08 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi all, Thanks for all the kind answers about tabbing in Latex. Let me make myself clear, I am trying to do something like this(my resume): Name: Shao Zhang Address:Debian, org Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Health:

Re: ipchains/ip_masq problems

1998-12-08 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 11:10:28PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas on what I have not done properly? Trying to do it yourself... ;) ipmasq - Initializes IP Masquerade firewalling/forwarding This package contains scripts to initialize IP Masquerade, a feature of Linux that allows

Re: Just My 2 Cents

1998-12-08 Thread Jameson Burt
I think the way to go as a community would to form a regroupment which would define standards on how such suite of apps should behave and output, and let the programmers do their job. Let's have a central brain which coordinates everyone's effort in a single place, to get the most out of our

Re: Installation problem from floppies, RAMDISK error, please help me!!!

1998-12-08 Thread David Coe
OK, As a simple test, I took the current RESC1440.BIN from the hamm distribution, used RAWRITE2.EXE to copy it to a floppy, dusted off the old 386 and booted it. It took about a minute and a half to get to the RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 message (which is NOT an error), then

Re: XFree86 Problem

1998-12-08 Thread Alan Tam
Hi Jeff; Last night I've done a few things -- install the XFree86 X windows system; run the make xconfig; and finally compiled the kernel. Get the basics of XFree86 from Debian 1. xbase 2. xfntbase 3. xlib6g 4. xserver-vga16 or xserver-svga or

Re: PPP and kernel 2.0.36

1998-12-08 Thread john
Paul Miller writes: Upon attempting to run pppd I get the following: This system lacks kernel support for PPP. This is one of pppd's favorite error messages, and it is almost always wrong. There are several possible problems that can mislead pppd into saying this. Any thoughts on this one?

Re: Just My 2 Cents

1998-12-08 Thread Mitch Blevins
Jameson Burt wrote: I would often like to at least narrow the software selection from a long list. I should never have dabbled with the flexible but arcane mh mailer or several other mailers. I would like to see the choices that the experts, the Debian developers, make. Do they mostly use

eth0: unknown interface

1998-12-08 Thread Rino Mardo
Hi! I just got my trusty Debian Linux installed and here's my hardware setup: 486/66 with 8 MB RAM, 630 MB hard disk, 3C509B-combo NIC My problem is during initial installation I wasn't able to setup the NIC so now here I am in the # prompt not knowing how to add/configure it. I read

latex2html and navigation buttons

1998-12-08 Thread Chris Frost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When running latex2html on documents, it complains about not finding many images (this is a very plain text document fwiw, no math; I'm trying to keep it simple), and a look at the output reveal that the links to the nav buttons are in reference to my

Re: Clock Skew?

1998-12-08 Thread Pere Camps
Tun, Hi... while compiling the kernel, I got a Clock Skew detected, your compile may not be complete (or something to that effect...) What is clock skew? It's probably due to the fact that you have modification time of files in the future! That is only possible if you had a bad time

Re: refused connect from 'unknown'

1998-12-08 Thread Daniel Martin
Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! Can somebody explain me what this is? Dec 7 13:52:11 casal in.telnetd[27798]: warning: can't get client address: No route to host Dec 7 13:52:12 casal in.telnetd[27798]: refused connect from unknown If my machine has a telnet

Re: Latex - let me make clear

1998-12-08 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: Name: Shao Zhang Address:Debian, org Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Health: Excellent and so on Ok, so how do I write this in Latex? You're fighting LaTeX by deciding on

Ports

1998-12-08 Thread KTB
Hi, I don't know a whole lot about computers but I'm going to attempt to install Debian tomorrow and am going through the checklist. One of the questions asked is, To which port is your mouse connected. I have an Aptiva 2137-E24, I looked in the manual and visited the IBM site but can't seem

Re: Ports

1998-12-08 Thread Rino Mardo
Almost all new PCs nowadays come with a PS/2 connector for the mouse. For your attempt, use the device/port /dev/psaux. This is the PS/2 equivalent in Linux. HTH. -Original Message- From: KTB [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date:

Re: Ports

1998-12-08 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Rino Mardo wrote: Almost all new PCs nowadays come with a PS/2 connector for the mouse. For your attempt, use the device/port /dev/psaux. This is the PS/2 equivalent in Linux. This is if your mouse plugs into the little round socket. If it goes in the trapezoid

man problem

1998-12-08 Thread Matt Garman
My problem with man is as follows: say I type man something, I get the following error: man: can't set effective uid: Operation not permitted Surely this isn't too bad, eh? Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women

Re: -- MARK --

1998-12-08 Thread Gregory T. Norris
It's generated by syslogd, and is intended to show that logging is still active. You can use the -m option to change it's frequency. On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 08:29:52PM +0100, Armin Wegner wrote: Every twenty minutes my xconsole writes a string consisting of date and time, my hostname and the

Hacked System

1998-12-08 Thread Hakan Ardo
Hi, we had a hacker in one of ouer Debian boxes last night. Now is it possible to check my system integrity by comparing it's contents with the centrall debian archive? And how would that de done? Thanx! --- Name:Hakan Ardo

Re: Hacked System

1998-12-08 Thread Rino Mardo
Hold on. Your email says you're coming from debian.org and that your Debian boxes have been hacked. Does that mean our Debians too? -Original Message- From: Hakan Ardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, December 08, 1998 12:40

Re: Hacked System

1998-12-08 Thread Daniel Podlejski
Hakan Ardo napisal(a): [...] : we had a hacker in one of ouer Debian boxes last night. Now is it : possible to check my system integrity by comparing it's contents with the : centrall debian archive? And how would that de done? debsums -- Daniel Podlejski [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: suid script

1998-12-08 Thread Helge Hafting
[...] the executable (bash, whatever) opens the file it closes it it changes uid/gid to reflect suid status - so it becames root or whatever it reopens it and executes it problem: you can change the content of the file between the two !! so you can have your script, running as root,

Emacs20

1998-12-08 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi all, When I run dpkg --configure emacs20, I got the following: While compiling hyperlatex-format-htmltitle: ** reference to free variable hyperlatex-meta-| Wrote /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/hyperlatex/hyperlatex.elc Done install/tm: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs20

Compressing hard disk

1998-12-08 Thread Gregory Vandenbrouck
Hi, Did someone managed to install e2compr-1.06.orig ? My hard disk is too small to fit everything, and I heard e2compr was acting as stacker. But I was unable to install it on my linux, the compilation and the kernel patch both failed. I have a 2.0.34 kernel. Has someone tried and managed to

Re: g++2.8, egcs, gcc 2.7.2, etc. - *very confused*

1998-12-08 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Over the weekend, I downlaoded V 1.20 onto /usr/local/. Did the same last night. I tried compiling it and after finding out that I needed all the OpenGl stuff and isntalling that to (V. annoying by the way - had even to edit some of the source code to get rid of those probelms) I

Re: dselect wants to remove crucial packages

1998-12-08 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, How can I prevent dselect from wanting to remove crucial packges on my potato system? The problem seems to be related to the libc6/dpkg issue. I assume the problem is that when you try to exit out of the Select screen, it insists on doing whatever it thinks is a good idea? When you

fetchmail problem

1998-12-08 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi all, I ran the command fetchmail, but nothing happened. I have a simple .fetchmailrc in home directory and it worked before... I also tried fetchmail -L logfile... and the only line in logfile is: fetchmail: starting fetchmail 4.3.9 daemon It

Re: Emacs20

1998-12-08 Thread Vincent Murphy
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: When I run dpkg --configure emacs20, I got the following: AFAIK, emacs20 on the hamm cd is broken. You'll need to download an updated package if you were using the one off the cd (I think). -vinny -- Vincent Murphy | UCC CompSci Student | [EMAIL

Re: fetchmail problem

1998-12-08 Thread Nuno Carvalho
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: It seemed to me that fetchmail is noting doing anything... What do you get when running fetchmail on verbose mode(fetchmail -v)!? Best regards, Nuno Carvalho ?? Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho Dep. Informatics

Re: fetchmail problem

1998-12-08 Thread Shao Zhang
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Nuno Carvalho wrote: On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: It seemed to me that fetchmail is noting doing anything... What do you get when running fetchmail on verbose mode(fetchmail -v)!? I have tried that as well, no output... Best regards,

mailers machine name

1998-12-08 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hi, sometimes I get serious problem when posting to some systems. I installed smail on my local machine (connected to my ISP via ppp) and forwad all mail which smail cannot send by itself to my ISP's mailhost (smarthost !?). But some servers refuse my mail. I think this depends on my

Re: fetchmail problem

1998-12-08 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, I ran the command fetchmail, but nothing happened. I have a simple .fetchmailrc in home directory and it worked before... Just a thought - are you running it from the same account? I also tried fetchmail -L logfile... and the only line in logfile is:

Canon BJC 4100 printer without color :(

1998-12-08 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I have a problem. I installed lpr and magicfilter from hamm and can't print in colors with my printer: Canon BJC-4100. I tried the bjc-600 filter. Is there anyone with this printer? Have a nice day,Paulo

help please! still unknown interface and SIOCSIFADDR!!!!!

1998-12-08 Thread Rino Mardo
So I checked everywhere (HOWTOs, #Linux, FAQs) and couldn't find out why I can't use my 3C509B NIC even after recompiling the kernel. So I thought I'd use the NE2000 nic since it is loaded with the kernel by default. Guess what? Though it says 8390 loaded during the boot process (but it

Re: Latex - let me make clear

1998-12-08 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Name: Shao Zhang Address:Debian, org Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Health: Excellent The simplest way is: \begin{tabular}{ll} Name:Shao Zhang\\ Address:Debian, org\\ Email:{\tt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Health:Excellent \end{tabular} If

Re: Hacked System

1998-12-08 Thread Hakan Ardo
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rino Mardo) writes: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=3D_NextPart_000_0016_01BE22AA.97038E90 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3Diso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hold on. Your email says you're

Re: Help - X meets my OLD monitor

1998-12-08 Thread wb2oyc
Hope you find that site! Wish I could find the URL, sorry. There may be others, but I suspect this is the one he couldn't find. Try: www.nashville.net/~griffin/monitors/ paul

Re: fetchmail problem

1998-12-08 Thread graz
On 8 Dec, Jiri Baum wrote: That sounds like you are running it in daemon mode, I'd forgotten about daemon mode. I used to use it, but then it crashed for some reason, so I decided to just run it from crontab instead. Is daemon mode much better? Should I switch back to daemon mode, do you

Re: help please! still unknown interface and SIOCSIFADDR!!!!!

1998-12-08 Thread wb2oyc
eth0: unknown interface I have setup my NE2000 to be IRQ=5 and IO=0x300. Please help!! Rino, The eth0 message means the kernel did not find the ethernet card during its last boot. You could try the module and see if it will initialize the card. Ie: insmod ne2 300,5 should insert the

Re: (off-topic)

1998-12-08 Thread Chang, FKK
Hello all, I am having a discussion with my colleagues here about the use of RE: in mail reply messages. Since the Dutch versions of certain Microsoft Mail programmes use AW: for replies (Antwoord, Reply), people here are convinced that Re: stands for Reply. I always thought it was the Latin re

Re: suid script

1998-12-08 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, So that's the problem with SUID scripts. Seems to me it could be solved by *not* closing the script file, just keep it open. Why can't that be done? Because the first open is done by the kernel but the second by the shell. It can't be possible, or someone would surely have fixed it

Re: Where do I start fetchmail?

1998-12-08 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, What is the right place to start fetchmail?? I would think to put them ip-up. But it didn't work. I psed the process, it was there, then disappeared after a while. Is it because it has some problems to read the ~/.fetchmailrc?? Don't forget that ip-up.d scripts

Re: Re: resolve.conf specification

1998-12-08 Thread David Wright
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Ben Collins writes: What does this [resolv.conf] have to do with policy? Packages are not to mess with other packages' conffiles. We had a long and inclusive discussion of this on debian-devel earlier this year. There are also technical

re Just My 2 Cents

1998-12-08 Thread Kenneth Scharf
From: Person, Roderick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey All, Just venting. Recently I check out the Linux apps wish list web page! I though that it was mighty funny that the software that most people want to see ported to Linux is made by the big nasty Microsoft clan. Personally, I hate M$ and

Why is lpd making this dns query?

1998-12-08 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! I have set up a print server and a print client with magicfilter and everything would be fine, were it not for lpd on the server side making a dns query (and waiting a long timeout) for every remote connection. My system is not always connecting to the internet, and a query for a host not

PPP and kernel 2.0.36

1998-12-08 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I remember getting that error message. The problem was not related to the kernel. 1: make sure that you are a member of the group owning rights to execute ppp. (I think it was dial) 2: make sure you are using the right serial device. such as /dev/ttyS1 (the S is in CAPS!!!) I got that

Re: Re: resolve.conf specification

1998-12-08 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 01:21:25PM +, David Wright wrote: I'm not sure which package owns resolv.conf, but it does appear that pcmcia-cs is quite happy to mangle it (with /etc/pcmcia/network). Could ppp not do the same sort of thing? (and apologies if more knowledgable people have their

Re: PPP and kernel 2.0.36

1998-12-08 Thread Paul Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Miller writes: Upon attempting to run pppd I get the following: This system lacks kernel support for PPP. This is one of pppd's favorite error messages, and it is almost always wrong. There are several possible problems that can mislead pppd into saying

Broken package: dselect can't istall or deinstall a package

1998-12-08 Thread Mario Bertrand
Hi, For about a 2 weeks I'm unable to install the wmaker package. Dselect tell me that the package is to much broken and that I should deinstall and when I try to deinstall I have the message to reinstall the package. Any idea? Thanks Message envoyé le

Re: 512MB RAM, 860MB swap and out of memory ?

1998-12-08 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Mon, 07 Dec, 1998 à 12:56:06PM +0100, Jan Krupa wrote: On Mon, 7 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Krupa! On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Jan Krupa wrote: My Debian Linux 2.0 cannot use more than 460MB sawp :( that's very extrange :-(

Re: installing linux debian on Toshiba Satellite

1998-12-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 07 Dec 1998q, Ed Slocomb wrote: I'm sorry to ask this if you've already done it, but... Have you tried the tecra diskette images? Many thanks to the numerous people who replied. Yes, the tecra image did the business. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 [EMAIL

???current directory in prompt in bash???

1998-12-08 Thread Rich Hartman
Is there a way to have bash include the current directory in the prompt of bash? Actually, let me re-phrase that my root account DOES include the current directory in the the prompt, but I have no idea why or how... I've tried to copy my root's .bash_profile to my regular-user's

??? Problem with KDE's KFM...

1998-12-08 Thread Rich Hartman
Hello everybody I'm using hamm with KDE, and occasionally, when using the KFM as a web-browser, it just suddenly disappears when this happens, the system will not let me start up another KFM (nothing happens when I try to start a new one..) until I log out and log back in Is this

Re: PPP and kernel 2.0.36

1998-12-08 Thread Daniel Podlejski
Kenneth Scharf napisal(a): [...] : 3: script starting pppd must be suid (I think) Script ? Suid shouldn't work with shell scripts :) For example: # cat test #!/bin/sh id ^D # chmod a+x test # chmod u+s test And run test as any user ... pppd must be suid. -- Daniel Podlejski [EMAIL

dselect-help!!!!!!!

1998-12-08 Thread Patrice Bertrand
I have installed Linux on my laptop and i have now to use 'dselect' to install X and others packages. Problem : i can't find my way and i'm stuck with dselect from the beginning. I've downloaded the file 'Dselect documentation for beginners' from debian.org but it's not very helpful. (e.g.

Re: PPP and kernel 2.0.36

1998-12-08 Thread Glenn Amerine
Daniel == Daniel Podlejski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel Kenneth Scharf napisal(a): [...] : 3: script starting Daniel pppd must be suid (I think) Daniel Script ? Suid shouldn't work with shell scripts :) Daniel # chmod a+x test Daniel # chmod u+s test Daniel And

ack! I've hosed init

1998-12-08 Thread Richard L. Alhama
seems like I'm in big trouble here. I've experimented update-rc.d and now init doesn't know it's runlevel. Well, I can boot but when I issue reboot it coughs up something like: couldn't determine runlevel... doing soft reboot instead. then it reboots. Everything looks fine 'cept that the

Re: PPP and kernel 2.0.36

1998-12-08 Thread Daniel Podlejski
Glenn Amerine napisal(a): [...] : If you call the script test, you would need to do ./test to run : it. Yes, I know :] : It is best to stay away from the command test when writing test : software. :-) But try do this. Any other name ... maybe abcd ... And look at result ... -- Daniel

/var/log/kern.log is almost empty

1998-12-08 Thread David Wright
I've been trying to get pcmcia going in a Gateway solo 2500 laptop (and have now succeeded merely by compiling 3.0.5) so I wanted to read things out of /var/log/kern.log. I noticed, however, that it's almost empty, and has been since I compiled the laptop's kernel. I do get the PCMCIA Card

has anyone installed gimp-manual?

1998-12-08 Thread Zack Brown
I've tried about five times to download the gimp-manual package from ftp.cdrom.com, and each time it has been corrupt. At least two of those times, the corrupt files were identical. Before I try downloading it yet again, could someone please confirm that it is actually possible, or point me to a

Re: Latex - let me make clear

1998-12-08 Thread Richard Lyon
Try \begin{tabbing} Type\qquad\= Quality\quad\= Color\quad\=Price\\[0.8ex] Paper \ med \ white \ low\\ Card \ bad \ gray \ med \end{tabbing} Check out the latex documentation for more details.. -Original Message- From: Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian

Re: Just My 2 Cents

1998-12-08 Thread Richard Lyon
I guess the 'real' truth is that most of the microsoft stuff is actually quite good. With the latest versions of service paks installed things are very slick on windows NT. I have debian and winnt-workstation running on two machines on my desk. Sure at first glance it appears that linux is

Re: Latex - let me make clear

1998-12-08 Thread Richard Lyon
See comments below: -Original Message- From: Havoc Pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, 8 December 1998 16:46 Subject: Re: Latex - let me make clear On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: Name: Shao Zhang

Re: eth0: unknown interface

1998-12-08 Thread John Stevenson
One of the easiest ways to configure the network is to use the install program on the Rescue Disk / CDRom. You can mount an already initialised swap and linux partition and then move on to configure the network. This will create all the right files for you (/etc/networks /etc/resolv.conf). If

Re: Emacs20

1998-12-08 Thread Kent West
At 09:24 PM 12/8/1998 +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi all, When I run dpkg --configure emacs20, I got the following: While compiling hyperlatex-format-htmltitle: ** reference to free variable hyperlatex-meta-| Wrote /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/hyperlatex/hyperlatex.elc Done install/tm:

Re: install star-office5.0 on debian (slink)?

1998-12-08 Thread Anthony Wong
On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 09:39:42PM -0500, Damir J. Naden wrote: |Hi, everybody -- | |I just tried to install newly downloaded so5.0 following their instruction |(run ./setup form installation directory), but my installation stopped with |the msg that the disk was full. df showed that my /

Re: help please! still unknown interface and SIOCSIFADDR!!!!!

1998-12-08 Thread tko
Rino Mardo writes: So I checked everywhere (HOWTOs, #Linux, FAQs) and couldn't find out why I can't use my 3C509B NIC even after recompiling the kernel. So I thought I'd use the NE2000 nic since it is loaded with the kernel by default. Guess what? Though it says 8390 loaded during the

Re: ???current directory in prompt in bash???

1998-12-08 Thread David Z. Maze
Rich Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rich Is there a way to have bash include the current directory in the Rich prompt of bash? Yes. See bash(1), under PROMPTING. -- _ / \ Dad was reading a book called | David Maze

Re: ???current directory in prompt in bash???

1998-12-08 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi Rich, On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 08:38:00AM +, Rich Hartman wrote: Is there a way to have bash include the current directory in the prompt of bash? Actually, let me re-phrase that my root account DOES include the current directory in the the prompt, but I have no idea why or how...

Re: installing linux debian on Toshiba Satellite

1998-12-08 Thread MallarJ
I don't know what your issues are, but just taking a stab at it from the little information you just sent out... I don't have my hamm box hooked to the 'net either. My installs (using dselect) have been comprised of going thru the Packages file to find the package I want, list the depends

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