Re: (sin asunto)

1998-12-31 Thread Antonio Ballesteros
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Jesus M. Gonzalez wrote: Antonio Fernández Fernández writes: Es cierta la condena a muerte a piratas informáticos ? Pues no estoy absolutamente seguro de su autenticidad, pero una fuente bastante fiable me ha enviado esto (desafortuandamente no tengo la URL):

Re: Interfaz dpkgweb

1998-12-31 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 12:37:36AM +0100, Rafael Cordones Marcos wrote: On Sun, Dec 27, 1998 at 05:13:40PM +, Antonio Calvo Rodriguez wrote: Bueno, feliz año nuevo a todos!! --BEGIN-- #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w Ups! Puede que en tu caso tengas que poner #!/usr/bin/perl -w para

ayuda con el mail por favor

1998-12-31 Thread Felipe Sanchez
Holas! Me acabo de pasar toda la noche tratando configurar mi debian Bo para que me baje los mails de mi ISP, pero al parecer no llego a entender la filosofia detras de todo esto. Toda la documentacion que me he leido esta orientada a instalar un MTA como si la maquina estuviera conectada

Re: ayuda con el mail por favor

1998-12-31 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 08:11:15AM -0300, Felipe Sanchez wrote: Holas! Si alguien pudiera explicarme como se hace que un MTA haga eso estando instalado en una maquina que apenas tiene una identidad en la red (un ip dinamico), pero no tanto a nivel de archivos de configuracion y detalles

¡Criticadme mi página web Linux porfa!

1998-12-31 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Hola a todos y feliz 1999 antes de nada, acabo de subir unas páginas dedicadas a Linux en http://www.ctv.es/USERS/vigu/linux/vigulinux.html se que no son una maravilla pero... bueno por lo menos intento poner poco a poco en un mismo sitio lo que yo siempre uso y me es muy util. Decidme que me

Re: ayuda con el mail por favor

1998-12-31 Thread Andres Herrera
Guenas Felipe Sanchez wrote: Me acabo de pasar toda la noche tratando configurar mi debian Bo para que me baje los mails de mi ISP, pero al parecer no llego a entender la filosofia detras de todo esto. Toda la documentacion que me he leido esta orientada a instalar un MTA como si la

Re: Network Neighborhood and IPmasquerading

1998-12-31 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 05:46:19PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: Hello all, I've got a machine, A, that connects to network N via a ppp link to machine M. I'm planning to masquerade machine B through A (A will have masq installed and run ipfwadm, B will talk to the world through it). If net N

Re: Network Neighborhood and IPmasquerading

1998-12-31 Thread debian
Lost me.. but simply.. if you want linux pc to be seen in network neighborhood on windows machine. Install/configure Samba on Linux PC. This will allow it to look like it is a windows pc to other windows pc's. ie. file/print sharing. I've got a machine, A, that connects to network N via a ppp

Re: ip-up ip-down

1998-12-31 Thread john
Martin Bialasinski writes: There is also another problem. When ppp is updated, it will update poff, and all changes would be lost. I thought it was fairly obvious that one would need to take measures to deal with this. The simplest is to just put the edited poff in /usr/local/bin. You could

Problems with hamm and X11 stuff.

1998-12-31 Thread Jim Lynch
See the following? chinaberry 139 ldd `which xlogo` libXaw.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.6 (0x4000e000) libXmu.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x40046000) libXt.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x40058000) libSM.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x400a2000)

dumping to tape drive

1998-12-31 Thread wax_man
I'm trying to get a backup of my system using dump. However, I can not seem to get it to work. I have a 2.5gig scsi tape drive (Exabyte 8200) and 2.1gigs on my root partition. When I do dump -0 -f /dev/nst0 / the system starts to dump but seems to want almost 40 tapes. What is going on here?

Re: Problems with hamm and X11 stuff.

1998-12-31 Thread Jim Lynch
- Received message begins Here - I figured out the netscape problem, but this one is still bugging me. Second question. What is this telling me? dpkg --install x11/fvwm95_2.0.43b-5.deb Selecting previously deselected package fvwm95. (Reading database ... 21675 files

new hard drive mounting to /home

1998-12-31 Thread AJ
hey, im purchasing a 16.8gig new ibm deskstar HD.. and am partitioning it like this: 8gig VFAT Win32 4gig VFAT Win32 4gig Linux Native what i wanna do is mount the linux native part to /home/ while keeping all the current files in /home/ in tacked, and having all the user privelages and stuff

frame relay

1998-12-31 Thread ivan
Hi everyone ! The telco that I am leasing bandwidth from advises that I cannot use ISDN for speeds over 256K - therefore I am going to go to frame relay. From what I have seen frame relay = X25 = CCITT - is this correct ? What additional hardware do I require for my debian box to connect to the

Re: LILO

1998-12-31 Thread Andrew Ivanov
To configure LILO one needs to know the parameters of the machine. If you specify the parameters of your computer, I could help you. For example: how many OS's you have, what disks are they on, partition table. Andrew Hi ! Could someone tell me how do I install LILO and where, in what files,

Re: Problems with hamm and X11 stuff.

1998-12-31 Thread Martin Bialasinski
JL == Jim Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JL Why can xlogo find the libraries and netscape not? Because xlogo is compiled for libc6, whereas your netscape is compiled for libc5. Install xlib6 from oldlibs. JL dpkg --install x11/fvwm95_2.0.43b-5.deb JL Selecting previously deselected

Building a custom install

1998-12-31 Thread Gossamer
I want to burn a CD which is -basically- debian, but has two or three extra packages present and marked as necessary, and also runs a script which changes which packages are and aren't selected (depending on things such as the partition sizes) before it runs dselect. (It's for a volunteer

Re: Netscape Communicator v.5 won't run ?

1998-12-31 Thread Jim Lynch
- Received message begins Here - I just solved this one. You need the libc5 libraries from the oldlibs directory. I assume you are running hamm. dpkg --install oldlibs/xpm4.7_3.4j-0.6.deb dpkg --install oldlibs/libg++27_2.7.2.1-14.4.deb will probably fix it. Regards, Jim.

RE: Netscape Communicator v.5 won't run ?

1998-12-31 Thread Avijit Bandyopadhyay
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Shaleh wrote: On 30-Dec-98 Mike Rae wrote: All : After installing Navigator 4.5, and attempting to run, I get the following error messgae ./netscape: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4 Running a ldd netscape tells me that libXpm.so.4 = not found

Thanks/Switching X managers

1998-12-31 Thread ktb
Hi, I'm trying to set it up so that after I sign into X the fvwm2 windows manager comes up and not fvwm95. I followed the tutorial directions at the Debian site to do this: touch ~/.xsession chmod u+x ~/.xsession I then used locate .xsession and found three files in /home/kent directory:

Help wanted with daemon startup

1998-12-31 Thread jpjevans
Hi, folks I want to begin fetching mail as soon as my system boots up, by having fetchmail running as a daemon. What should happen is that fetchmail will trigger diald when it wants to connect to my POP account. Where should I install the fetchmail-up script to enable this? --

XFree86 3.3.2.3a-8pre9v2 available, and help wanted

1998-12-31 Thread Branden Robinson
There is another test build of the XFree86 packages available. The .dsc and .changes files are not PGP signed. These are not official debian packages; they are simply used to make sure I have not introduced something hideous into the X packages. *) http://master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86/ *)

Re: Help wanted with daemon startup

1998-12-31 Thread David Natkins
I'm not running DIALD but am running PPP. I have fetchmail in the ip-up.d directory. When PPP comes up it automatically runs everything in ip-up.d. David Natkins email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax : (609) 896-2239 On Wed, 30 Dec 1998

Re: LILO

1998-12-31 Thread Randy Edwards
Could someone tell me how do I install LILO and where, in what files, do I configure it, and of course how ? LILO is installed in a default Debian setup. If for some reason you need to reinstall it, just download the lilo*.deb file from ftp.debian.org. Once downloaded, just use dpkg -i

Re:debian-user-digest Digest V98 #1538

1998-12-31 Thread Laurie Leinow
I will be out of the office on Dec. 31, 1998.

Re: LILO

1998-12-31 Thread John Reid
vi /etc/lilo.conf to install lilo using a file in this location just type lilo from a shell prompt (for further details eg options, alternate files etc see the man page) more details on how lilo works and how to configure it can be found in the Debian-user FAQ-O-Matic under installation

Re: new hard drive mounting to /home

1998-12-31 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, AJ wrote: can anyone tell me the best way to do this? i was thinking among the lines of: tar -vcf home.tar /home/ rm -rf /home/ mkdir /home mount /dev/hdb3 /home tar -xvf home.tar That will work, but here's a slightly nicer way to

Re: Thanks/Switching X managers

1998-12-31 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, ktb wrote: I placed exec fvwm2 in both the .xsession and .xsession~ files and used chmod again. I did all steps as a regular user while in the /home directory. First of all, the .xsession~ file is merely an automatic backup made by

Re: Defragging large filesystems

1998-12-31 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Eric Gillespie wrote: I know this isn't a Debian-specific question but I'm at home for xmas and I don't have access to the newsgroups here, so forgive me this transgression. I have an 8gig hard drive which I made a single ext2 filesystem to hold my mp3s. While ripping

Re: dumping to tape drive

1998-12-31 Thread Jameson Burt
I too have an Exabyte 8200. Mine works, so I mention what I do. The primary line I use is /sbin/dump 0uBf 250 /dev/nst0 / Notice the 0 for a whole dump, the B for size 2.5MB (250) You merely needed to tell it how long your tape is, otherwise the default is old-fashioned small. If

Re: Apache, Apache-SSL

1998-12-31 Thread Yu Zhao
non-us SSL package is required. zhao On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Randy Edwards wrote: Here's my silly question for the day. ;-) Does the non-us SSL version of Apache also require the non-SSL package or is it a standalone replacement for Apache? -- Regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Newsgroups and this mailing list

1998-12-31 Thread Matus \fantomas\ Uhlar
- I may be wrong (pls correct me if so) but I believe this mail list - _IS_ linked to the newsgroups. Check out linux.debian.user - - At least in my region (Germany) the linux.* newsgroups are almost - dead. I also had problems with other gated mailing lists (like - comp.risks) so I prefer

Re: ip-up ip-down

1998-12-31 Thread Frederic Breitwieser
Why are you rewriting ip-up and ip-down? The standard Debian ip-up and Honestly? I didn't read the man pages, and it seemed logical at the time :) Frederic Breitwieser Bridgeport, CT 06606 Homebrew Automotive Website: http://www.xephic.dynip.com/ 1993 Supercharged Lincoln Continental 1989

Multiple X sessions?

1998-12-31 Thread J Hulley-Miller
Greetings, Is there a way of starting two X sessions with *different* screen sizes ? I can start a second session fine but it uses the same screen size as the primary. I've tried Ctrl-Alt-[-+] but it only changes the resolution, not the screen size. What I want to do is start an X desktop

Re: Thanks/Switching X managers

1998-12-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
ktb wrote: Hi, I'm trying to set it up so that after I sign into X the fvwm2 windows manager comes up and not fvwm95. I followed the tutorial directions at the Debian site to do this: touch ~/.xsession chmod u+x ~/.xsession Another method that you can use, but one which will

Re: Thanks/Switching X managers

1998-12-31 Thread Alexander N. Benner
hi Ship's Log, Lt. ktb, Stardate 301298.1945: I then used locate .xsession and found three files in /home/kent directory: .xsession~ *~ are backupfiles .xsession that is the right one .xsession-errors that's the errors which occure starting X I placed exec fvwm2 in both the .xsession and

apache-ssl-1.1.3

1998-12-31 Thread Matus \fantomas\ Uhlar
HEllo, i am trying to install apache-ssl-1.3.3 ... but i have a little problem... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of apache-ssl: apache-ssl depends on apache-common (= 1.3.3); however: Version of apache-common on system is 1.3.0+1.19-1. dpkg: error processing apache-ssl

Dosemu stopped working

1998-12-31 Thread Anthony Campbell
I posted this before Christmas but got no response - everyone away partying? So I thought I'd try again. When I installed Debian on my Toshiba Satellite recently I had dosemu working, though not perfectly. Now it doesn't work at all. I've no idea what I've changed or what has happened. The

multiple xservers on one machine?

1998-12-31 Thread Vincent Murphy
I and a colleague share a PC. We would like to each run our own Xserver, which can be switched to using Ctrl-Alt-F7 and F8, as with virtual consoles. Is such a situation possible? I'm running hamm. regards, vinny PS please CC any replies to me. -- Vincent Murphy | UCC CompSci Student |

Re: Installing XWindows

1998-12-31 Thread Martin Schulze
[ Please direct your submission to debian-user@lists.debian.org which is the proper list for such things.] crown victoria wrote: I installed the Debian's linux base system on my PC. I tried launching the X Windows, however I could not locate startx or xdm programs in the Unix directories. I

Re: Umax Astra 1220P Scanner

1998-12-31 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Trevor Barrie wrote: Does anybody know how I'd go about using a UMAX Astra 1220P under Debian? I installed sane, but looking at the docs it seems as though the only Umax scanners it supports are SCSI models; this is a parallel port scanner. I have the Mustek 9636P and

Re: apache-ssl-1.1.3

1998-12-31 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of apache-ssl: apache-ssl depends on apache-common (= 1.3.3); however: Version of apache-common on system is 1.3.0+1.19-1. anyway i didn't found apache-common-1.3.3 on FTP server; what's wrong

Windoze printer

1998-12-31 Thread Martin Saturka
Hello. Does anybody know, whether is some way to make work printer Oki OKIPAGE 4w plus under Linux. That printer is 'Win printer'. I heard something about rendering by ghostscript, but I can find really nothing, how to do it. thank you very much. PF 1999, Martin

Re: Can anyone suggest a dialup terminal emulator?

1998-12-31 Thread wb2oyc
I think seyon can handle all of these requirements. Actually, minicom is among the most accurate emulations I've ever found. Its as close to perfect as a VT220 as you'll find, at any price :) Paul

Re: multiple xservers on one machine?

1998-12-31 Thread Matus \fantomas\ Uhlar
- I and a colleague share a PC. We would like to each run our own Xserver, - which can be switched to using Ctrl-Alt-F7 and F8, as with virtual - consoles. - - Is such a situation possible? I'm running hamm. do it as startx -- :0 startx -- :1 (on other VC's of course) and you can switch

Re: apache-ssl-1.1.3

1998-12-31 Thread Matus \fantomas\ Uhlar
- On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: - dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of apache-ssl: - apache-ssl depends on apache-common (= 1.3.3); however: -Version of apache-common on system is 1.3.0+1.19-1. - - anyway i didn't found apache-common-1.3.3 on FTP server;

Strange PPP problem

1998-12-31 Thread Akop Pogosian
Ok, I have set up ppp connections several times but I am not an expert. I am trying to connect to my new ISP, INTX.NET (if anyone else is using INTX.NET as their ISP, please tell me what you do!) I had real hard time figuring out what kind of strings my ISP sends and expects. I have already

Re:debian-user-digest Digest V98 #1539

1998-12-31 Thread Laurie Leinow
I will be out of the office on Dec. 31, 1998.

Re: multiple xservers on one machine?

1998-12-31 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Vincent Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I and a colleague share a PC. We would like to each run our own Xserver, which can be switched to using Ctrl-Alt-F7 and F8, as with virtual consoles. Is such a situation possible? I'm running hamm. Yes, just use the shell function (can be defined

Re: apache-ssl-1.1.3

1998-12-31 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Matus \fantomas\ Uhlar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: HEllo, i am trying to install apache-ssl-1.3.3 ... but i have a little problem... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of apache-ssl: apache-ssl depends on apache-common (= 1.3.3); however: Version of apache-common on system

Debian and Cyrus IMAP server

1998-12-31 Thread Antonio L Rodriguez
Has anyone installed the CMU Cyrus Imap server? I am having a hell of a time running the ./configure script because of a tcl problem. Here is the output of the script: (I am running it with the --with-tcl=/usr/lib/tcl8.0 switch on by the way) checking if tclsh knows where tclConfig.sh is... no

Re: Debian and Cyrus IMAP server

1998-12-31 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 06:20:32 -0800, Antonio L Rodriguez wrote: [configure problems] Have you looked at the config.log configure generates for the precise test performed, and its results? HTH, Ray -- J.H.M. Dassen | RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may [EMAIL

modprobe: Cannot locate module char-major-10

1998-12-31 Thread Jeroen N. Witmond
I have searched the mailing list archives for this problem, and I understand it can be solved by aliasing module char-major-10 to off, but I would like to understand what is going on. (It is not really a problem, because in spite of the message everything seems to work.) The problem appeared on

RE: Debian and Cyrus IMAP server

1998-12-31 Thread Antonio L Rodriguez
Yeah, but it just seems to stick-or rather it does not provide any info that I can make anything out of. The last two lines of the file are: (I've also included the rest of the file below) configure:2846: checking if tclsh knows where tclConfig.sh is configure:2852: checking for a tclConfig.sh in

Rundown on Netscape .deb packages?

1998-12-31 Thread Craig P. McDaniel
Can someone give a quick rundown on the various Netscape packages out there? I think knowing what to download and what is needed will clear up a lot of confusion (at least for me :) Here are some examples from the [frozen] list: communicator-base-45 4.5-1 [non-free] Popular

Termcap and Libc5/6 with Debian Problems...

1998-12-31 Thread Ryan Kirkpatrick
I have a binary that is linked with both libc6 and libtermcap2 that I am trying to get running. I tried installing the termcap-compat debian package, and that provide the binary with the needed libtermcap library. Unfortuntely, since libtermcap was built and linked using libc5 (as stated

Re: new hard drive mounting to /home

1998-12-31 Thread Jim Foltz
On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 12:52:48AM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, AJ wrote: can anyone tell me the best way to do this? i was thinking among the lines of: tar -vcf home.tar /home/ rm -rf /home/ mkdir /home mount /dev/hdb3

Re: Strange PPP problem

1998-12-31 Thread Jim Foltz
Akop, Did you try to dial you ISP with a terminal emulator, like minicom? This is a good way to find out exactly what it expects as far as send and expect strings. The log looks similar to mine. My ISP uses CHAP. Have you tried making a chap-secrets and using the name option in options? On Thu,

Linux GTKicq Security Flaw (thought u should know)

1998-12-31 Thread AJ
Last night i was rummaging around my system on another account and i was checking out my directories seeing if i could find stuff. well i went to my main account went to the .icq folder which uses GTKICQ i typed: cat gtkicqrc it listed my password i use for ICQ which i also used for my own root

Re: Termcap and Libc5/6 with Debian Problems...

1998-12-31 Thread Ben Pfaff
Ryan Kirkpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now, how, if possible, can one get this binary running? I imagine that I need a libtermcap2 built/linked with libc6. Does such a debian package exists? Or do I need to go find the sources and built it myself? AFAIK there is no

Re:debian-user-digest Digest V98 #1540

1998-12-31 Thread Laurie Leinow
I will be out of the office on Dec. 31, 1998.

Re: Netscape Communicator v.5 won't run ?

1998-12-31 Thread Mike Rae
Thanks for the input. I went into Dselect, and libc5 was already installed, as was xpm (what was the exact name of the xpm package you recommend ??). BRGDS mike Avijit Bandyopadhyay wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Shaleh wrote: On 30-Dec-98 Mike Rae wrote: All : After installing

Re: Linux GTKicq Security Flaw (thought u should know)

1998-12-31 Thread Martin Bialasinski
A == AJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A cat gtkicqrc it listed my password i use for ICQ which i also used A for my own root password!! they were the only places i used A it.. needless to say if u use GTKicq make sure u set permissions on A /home/user/.icq/gtkicqrc to only the user.. This was

Re: Linux GTKicq Security Flaw (thought u should know)

1998-12-31 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 11:43:26AM -0500, AJ wrote: it listed my password i use for ICQ which i also used for my own root password!! they were the only places i used it.. needless to say if u Needless to say your root password should not be the same as you normal account password especially not

micro-HOWTO (was Serial consoles)

1998-12-31 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! I've seen FreeBSD being installed over a serial console and thought Hmm, how can I do this with debian?. I was aware of the sercons stuff in recent 2.1 kernels. Initiated by a question from Shane Wegner on debian-user I tried it out (up to partition a harddisk - I had no spare disk to

Apache modules compiling ?

1998-12-31 Thread Dean . Carpenter
I want to add the mod_auth_pam module from Ingo Lütkebohle [EMAIL PROTECTED] from http://blank.pages.de/pam/ to my existing apache-ssl setup. Unfortunately, he only supplies it in source form, with instructions for adding it to the source tree and recompiling the whole shebang. I

modem problems

1998-12-31 Thread Brent Hueth
Ok, got my new debian system up and running at work (yahoo!!), now i'm trying to do the same at home. Everything seems to have installed properly, but i can't get my modem to respond. I tried a cat /dev/ ttyS1 atdt## to see if i could get a response, and nothing. I'm sure that the modem is on

Re: modem problems

1998-12-31 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 11:33:08AM -0600, Brent Hueth wrote: Ok, got my new debian system up and running at work (yahoo!!), now i'm trying to do the same at home. Everything seems to have installed properly, but i can't get my modem to respond. I tried a cat /dev/ ttyS1 atdt## to see if i

Fwd: Re: LILO

1998-12-31 Thread Kent West
I believe this was intended for the list. vi /etc/lilo.conf to install lilo using a file in this location just type lilo from a shell prompt (for further details eg options, alternate files etc see the man page) more details on how lilo works and how to configure it can be found in the

X11 'fixed' font error

1998-12-31 Thread me
After re-installing X11, (with all new fonts) -- 'frozen' distro, I still get the same error: could not open default font 'fixed' but: locate fixed gives /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fixed.pcf.gz. /etc/X11/XF86Config shows this path as well, so I know I have the font. What should I do?

octavegunplot||symbolic math

1998-12-31 Thread Eric Drayer
I am interested in using the above as well as any other packages that might be related...scilab,pari I am having difficulty getting to the documentation that tells how to run and use the above.I installed octave and gunplot with dselect along with other stuff I also can't figure out how to run

How to establish a semi-permanent dial-up connection?

1998-12-31 Thread jpjevans
Hi, folks What I'm trying to setup is this: When I boot-up my system, I want to get a dial-up ppp connection to my ISP and grab mail. I want this to happen without having to manually run pon after I log in. I also want to be able to detect if the line has gone down and re-connect in that

dosemu: lredir difficulties

1998-12-31 Thread shaul
Package: dosemu Version: 0.66.7-13 lredir prints its help text and reports no redirections correctly. But it also refuses to redirect anything. Everything I tried resulted in an error. Have someone else encounter this ? Where should I look to see what I am doing wrong ? - -- System

Re:debian-user-digest Digest V98 #1541

1998-12-31 Thread Laurie Leinow
I will be out of the office on Dec. 31, 1998.

Re: How to establish a semi-permanent dial-up connection?

1998-12-31 Thread Kevin Traas
My question is: instead of having fetchmail start up from ip-up, how to I get it going by itself? In other words, I want to start fetchmail in daemon mode during the boot sequence. I know it has to be after diald gets started, or the thing won't work the first time out. Where do I put the

Debian's fvwm2 hooks and themes.org themes?

1998-12-31 Thread servis
Hi all, Does anybody have any advice on using the themes at fvwm.themes.org with the hooks style setup of the fvwm2 Debian package? Both seem to use the same type of principal of reading in seperate files but I don't want to spend hours cutting an pasting if I don't have too. Thanks, -- Brian

Re: apache-ssl-1.1.3

1998-12-31 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
I've found: ftp://ftp.task.gda.pl/pub/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/web/apache-common_1.3.3-4.deb but it's a simlink and points to nowhere... :-( Wojtek Zabolotny On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: - You should look for it in slink

Re: octavegunplot||symbolic math

1998-12-31 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
If you are interested in symbolic math, I'll sugest you MuPAD: http://www.mupad.de or ftp://ftp.mupad.de it's free for non-profit educational and scientific use Wojtek Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED]

bash/sh scripting tutorial?

1998-12-31 Thread Gary Singleton
Hi everyone, I'm starting to find a lot of things that could be made easier on my system if I could write better scripts. Are there any tutorials available? I know about the O'Reilly bash book but just need something to get started and explain to me what the heck stuff like 'if [ -x /bin/blah ]'

Re: dosemu: lredir difficulties

1998-12-31 Thread Bob Nielsen
If you use the freedos image, lredir won't work. You need to use MS-DOS, PC-DOS, DR-DOS, etc. Bob On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, shaul wrote: Package: dosemu Version: 0.66.7-13 lredir prints its help text and reports no redirections correctly. But it also refuses to redirect anything.

Re: X font fixed missing (was: Re: Hey girls and boys)

1998-12-31 Thread Sourcerer
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 07:52:50PM -0600, me wrote: Hey there! I'm new. I installed Debian 2.1 (frozen) and received a X11 error (both on Intel and Alpha platforms): Fatal server error: could not open defualt font 'fixed'

RE: bash/sh scripting tutorial?

1998-12-31 Thread Shaleh
On 31-Dec-98 Gary Singleton wrote: Hi everyone, I'm starting to find a lot of things that could be made easier on my system if I could write better scripts. Are there any tutorials available? I know about the O'Reilly bash book but just need something to get started and explain to me what

Re: octavegunplot||symbolic math

1998-12-31 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Eric Drayer wrote: I am interested in using the above as well as any other packages that might be related...scilab,pari there is also maxima - comp.alg. system on top of GNU CL. I am having difficulty getting to the documentation that tells how to run and use the

Network problems

1998-12-31 Thread crown victoria
Hi: I installed Debian linux on my PC. However, I could not set the network connection correctly. When I reboot the system I get list of errors: eth0: unknown interface SIOCADDRT: Network unreachable SIOCADDRT: Network unreachable When I used the dselect utility, I noticed that netbase and

Re: Thanks/Switching X managers

1998-12-31 Thread Sourcerer
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, ktb wrote: Hi, I'm trying to set it up so that after I sign into X the fvwm2 windows manager comes up and not fvwm95. I followed the tutorial directions at the Debian site to do this: Why don't you just select fvwm95 from fvwm2's root-menu? If it's not there, you

Re: installation frustration

1998-12-31 Thread Sourcerer
On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 29 Dec 1998 17:53:49 -0500 (EST), Sourcerer wrote: Afaik, none of the commercial os's allow for it in their installs. Untrue. Afaik it was true. Thanks for the info. OS/2 allows you to use Boot

Re: How to establish a semi-permanent dial-up connection?

1998-12-31 Thread jpjevans
Ok, tried this and no joy. Any other ideas? When I run fetchmail-up from root's home dir, it seems to work (at least it dials ok). Perhaps the problem is the order in which things are started. How can I set things up to be sure that diald has been started before fetchmail-up runs. BTW,

Re: multiple xservers on one machine?

1998-12-31 Thread Martin Wheeler
On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Vincent Murphy wrote: I and a colleague share a PC. We would like to each run our own Xserver, which can be switched to using Ctrl-Alt-F7 and F8 First user logs on, starts Xserver with startx (available via Ctrl-Alt-F7)

Re: How to establish a semi-permanent dial-up connection?

1998-12-31 Thread john
What I'm trying to setup is this: When I boot-up my system, I want to get a dial-up ppp connection to my ISP and grab mail. I want this to happen without having to manually run pon after I log in. Rename /etc/ppp/no_ppp_on_boot to /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot . Ppp will then come up when you boot.

Re:debian-user-digest Digest V98 #1542

1998-12-31 Thread Laurie Leinow
I will be out of the office on Dec. 31, 1998.

Re: Termcap and Libc5/6 with Debian Problems...

1998-12-31 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 10:18:29AM -0600, Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote: PS. This is better than thier previous Eval kit they had up until just recently... Zmagic binaries linked with libc4! :( It would probably be easier to get those running though :-) Just grab libc4 and a few other things