timezone

1999-01-12 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, libc recommends timezones, but this appears not to be available. according to dselect :( although I have it installed.. confused, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.c

Re: XF86 Config

1999-01-12 Thread Kent West
At 01:26 PM 1/12/1999 -0800, Tom Persons wrote: > > How do I get to the XF86 config from the command prompt? When I installed the > package it automatically led me to this configuration screen. > > Tom Persons XF86Setup for the graphical version. xf86config for the text-based one.

enabling sound in Netscape

1999-01-12 Thread Richard Hall
I finally got my sound card working, but I still don't have sound in Netscape. I could change the permissions on /dev/dsp and such so that anyone can access them, but I would rather run Netscape as gid audio. How do I do that? I tried adding 'setgid audio' to the /usr/bin/X11/netscape wrapper, b

Re: libc5 segfault; rindex()

1999-01-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 03:33:13PM -0700, Scott Scriven wrote: > Hello.. > > I'm using Debian 2.0 i386 (hamm), and can't get libc5 programs to run. > > The libc5 package is installed, and I've tried upgrading to the most > recent frozen version. It hasn't helped. > > Every libc5 program gets a

Mail, Kernel and X

1999-01-12 Thread Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd
i have recently had to reinstall Debian because i ran out of space on the / directory. Having used fetchmail to get mail from my isp my /var/spool/mail directory was filled while getting messages (pop3). After the re-install i get messages (using the -v option in fetchmail) that a number of message

Re: XF86 Config

1999-01-12 Thread Andrew Ivanov
xf86config Andrew > How do I get to the XF86 config from the command prompt? When I installed the > package it automatically led me to this configuration screen. > > Tom Persons > Never include a comment that will help | An

libc5 segfault; rindex()

1999-01-12 Thread Scott Scriven
Hello.. I'm using Debian 2.0 i386 (hamm), and can't get libc5 programs to run. The libc5 package is installed, and I've tried upgrading to the most recent frozen version. It hasn't helped. Every libc5 program gets a segfault at startup, and gdb tells me it crashes in the rindex() function, prob

Newsletter with Lyx

1999-01-12 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I and my friends at are starting to write a month newsletter about Linux and other bits. Any1 knows if there is a template of newsletter to Lyx. I'm using Lyx 0.12-final. If yes, all the newslleter will be made in Lyx :) Have a nice day,Paulo

Re: pppconfig

1999-01-12 Thread ktb
Well it works now. I set up the files as noted before, "chmoded" them so both the binary.net and mpool versions were the same. I couldn't dial out. So I ran pppconfig again and this time success with mpool:) Then binary.net wouldn't work (that isp line is now somewhat operational) I ran pp

Re: pppconfig

1999-01-12 Thread ktb
Well it works now. I set up the files as noted before, "chmoded" them so both the binary.net and mpool versions were the same. I couldn't dial out. So I ran pppconfig again and this time success with mpool:) Then binary.net wouldn't work (that isp line is now somewhat operational) I ran ppp

Re: XF86 Config

1999-01-12 Thread Alec Smith
I use xf86config as root. At 01:26 PM 1/12/99 -0800, Tom Persons wrote: How do I get to the XF86 config from the command prompt? When I installed the package it automatically led me to this configuration screen. Tom Persons

XF86 Config

1999-01-12 Thread Tom Persons
How do I get to the XF86 config from the command prompt? When I installed the package it automatically led me to this configuration screen.   Tom Persons

Re: pppconfig

1999-01-12 Thread Kent West
At 12:06 PM 1/12/1999 +, ktb wrote: >I have done what you suggested. In fact I tried it twice using the name >"mpool" for >some reason it didn't automatically set everything up like it did the first >time for >me many months ago when I used it to create the "binary.net" account. >Thanks, >Ke

nVidia TnT xf86config choices

1999-01-12 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I just received my new TNT card and I have downloaded the XFree86 3.3.3 SVGA server and put it in place. Now what I need to know is if my current xf86config program has the TNT option under chipsets and the other chip specific options. If not, what should I select for RAMDAC, card, and should I p

Re: aic7xxx kernel

1999-01-12 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Richard Hall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), "aic7xxx kernel": > Can anyone tell me which parameters to choose during 'make config' to fix > this? There are three questions that come up when I choose the AIC7xxx > driver. I've answered yes and no to overriding driver defaults, yes and > no to verbose

Re: removing ^M from a text file

1999-01-12 Thread Ramesh Natarajan
Hi, Try $cat file | col -b > file.plain.txt This is also great way to transform man output to plain text. $ man date | col -b > man.date.txt Hope this helps, Bye, nram [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-+ |Linux Now |

Re: /etc/alternatives

1999-01-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 09:45:48PM +0100, Thomas Adams wrote: > What is /etc/alternatives good for? During installation of packages I can > sometimes read that I can do this and that with an update-alternatives but I > can't figure it out. /etc/alternatives is used when there is more than one p

Re: NT and Debian...O.S. Loader 4.01 sux!

1999-01-12 Thread Alec Smith
That sounds about right. I run Debian and NT Workstation 4 on my desktop. One suggestion -- Try mounting your C: drive under Linux and then use dd if=/dev/hdaX of=/mnt/linux.bts bs=512 count=1 to avoid having to copy over later. Also remember to remove the hidden, system, and read-only attribut

Re: removing ^M from a text file

1999-01-12 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: > Dear all, > > I had the misfortune to be stuck with MSWrite over the vac, and > although I told it to save as plain text, it didn't. I can delete most of > the cruft, but there is ^M at the end of each and every line. I've tried > catdoc, word2x, an

Re: PyGreSQL package?

1999-01-12 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Glenn Rogers wrote: > Is there a .deb for the python interface to PostgreSQL? Or at > least any way to avoid having to compile anything. I do not know about a .deb but there maybe a .rpm available which you can install using alien. Johann -

default fonts in NS 4.05 unreadable

1999-01-12 Thread Thomas Adams
On two different hamm computers with different video cards and monitors I installed Netscape 4.05 with the install script. On both of these systems I can hardly read the web pages because the default fonts are too small. On the same computers and monitors, a Windows Netscape displays fine. Why?

/etc/alternatives

1999-01-12 Thread Thomas Adams
What is /etc/alternatives good for? During installation of packages I can sometimes read that I can do this and that with an update-alternatives but I can't figure it out.

Re: Why not as a newsgroup?

1999-01-12 Thread Thomas Adams
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 05:53:50PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Newsgroups allow you to only download the subject lines of the > messages instead of have to download all messages whether you > would have read them or not. I'm glad you have a 56k connection, How many Unix newsreaders offer th

Re: uninstalling smail when a self compiled MTA is present

1999-01-12 Thread Marc Haber
On 06 Jan 1999 16:09:32 +0100, you wrote: >Install this exim-local package and deinstall the dummy smail one (or >apt will try to update it). Then activate your local MTA, and you are >done. After some initial confusion with making the new equivs working on my hamm system, your solution worked. Th

Re: NT and Debian...O.S. Loader 4.01 sux!

1999-01-12 Thread Steve Beitzel
If you want to avoid a headache, you can configure the NT Boot Loader to boot your Debian system for you by doing the following IIRC (It's been a long time since I used NT :) 1) Boot to Debian using a boot floppy or the Rescue disk. 2) Type the following, where X is the number of your linux parti

too many open files

1999-01-12 Thread Daryl Williams
folks, i've recently reinstalled my debian system and i am now getting the following error message: Jan 12 09:00:15 random amd[1162]: setmntent("/etc/mtab", "r+"): Too many open files any ideas, or pointers to the fm are welcomed. thanks in advance, //daryl -- Daryl Williams Network Adminis

Soundblaster under Debian 2.0

1999-01-12 Thread Ramesh Natarajan
Hi, I just installed Debian 2.0 and compiled kernal (2.0.34) with Sound as module. I seem to get something working, but not all. I configured my /etc/isapnp.conf, did a isapnptools /etc/isapnp.conf followed by $insmod sound trace_init=1. On dmesg, I see Sound initialization started at 0x22

printing to NT with smbclient

1999-01-12 Thread ulisses
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- hi all I'm trying to print in a remote NT printer I can access other shares (disk) on that server with the same user, see the output of the "qinfo" command but not the queue: smb: \> queue ERRDOS - ERRbadfunc (Invalid function.) obtaining print queue also I

Re: tv card

1999-01-12 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I got the hauppauge working with 2.0.X without too much trouble. The driver isn't in the debian kernel sources though, you'll have to find it on sunsite or wherever. IIRC the driver is called the 'bttv' driver. Benoit Joly wrote: > hi, > > I want to buy a new tv card, 1st choice hauppauge, 2nd

KDE quirks

1999-01-12 Thread MallarJ
Well, I finally managed to get the KDE environment to come up when I start kdm. My problem was that in the startkde script, it didn't have the full path to the program, so the programs just never started. When I put the full path in the script file, things work fine. Well, almost fine. 1) Whe

PHP3 Installation. (Trouble #2)

1999-01-12 Thread Christian Lavoie
Title: PHP3 Installation. (Trouble #2) Having found out that the problem was caused by Apache's magic necessary-modules loader, I went to try to connect to mySQL. Here's the output: Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_connect() in /var/www/index.php3 on line 13 Is it

Re: removing ^M from a text file

1999-01-12 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 12 Jan 1999 15:13:41 + (BST), M.C. Vernon wrote: > I had the misfortune to be stuck with MSWrite over the vac, and >although I told it to save as plain text, it didn't. I can delete most of >the cruft, but there is ^M at the end of each and eve

PyGreSQL package?

1999-01-12 Thread Glenn Rogers
Is there a .deb for the python interface to PostgreSQL? Or at least any way to avoid having to compile anything. Thanks

Re: Help needed piping output to a bash script

1999-01-12 Thread Henning Makholm
"E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > while read line; do > echo $line >> $TMPFILE > done Any special reason for not simply doing cat >> $TMPFILE ? -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm

Re: AGP Suppot

1999-01-12 Thread Martin Weinberg
Hi, I just had the same issue with a Matrox G200 card. You need to use the 3dLabs server from SUSE: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse_update/XSuSE/xglint/xglint.tgz Unpack it. Put the server in (e.g.) /usr/local/bin and change the first line of /etc/X11/Xserver to point at this file. I don't

RE: Why Netscape is so slow?

1999-01-12 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
I have the same problem with mine - PII-266, 64mb, with NO other programs running. Seems to go the same speed (slow - about half what the Win95 version does, maybe a little slower) with one browser window or three, with or without WP8. I was guessing I had a setting wrong, but hadn't had time to di

nis and IRIX64

1999-01-12 Thread ulisses
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all I have partially configured nis on a Debian 2.0 machine using ii nis 3.2.1-3Clients and daemons for the Network Informat the nis servers are: HP-UX crac B.10.01 A 9000/715 (ttyp1) -> no problem IRIX64 bugs 6.4 11191505 IP27 -> the

Re: Adaptec 2940U2W not recognized during installation

1999-01-12 Thread Richard Hall
I have the same controller, and I had to download a boot disk compiled specifically for the 2940. You can get it at http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/ You may also run into trouble compiling your own kernel. You just need to apply a patch to the drivers which can be found at ftp://ftp.dialne

Re: pppconfig

1999-01-12 Thread ktb
I am only allowed to run it as root. Kent West wrote: > Are you running pppconfig as root or as another user? > > At 12:06 PM 1/12/1999 +, ktb wrote: > >I have done what you suggested. In fact I tried it twice using the name > >"mpool" for > >some reason it didn't automatically set everythi

Re: pppconfig

1999-01-12 Thread ktb
Sorry if my last message was not clear. "Nothing happened" means my modem wasn't activated. I obtained no connection. I usually hear my modem dial. I can pick up my phone and hear it dial. I used "ping binary.net" which verified I did not have a connection, Thanks, Kent Andrew Ivanov wrote:

X and fvwm2 configuration

1999-01-12 Thread LOPARIC Marko
Hi, When I start X with fvwm2 the resolution is low. The size of the xterm window and the font size is good, but in emacs the font size is too big and the whole desktop window doesn't fit in the screen. When I change to high resolution the window, the desktop window fits well in the screen, but t

Re: pppconfig

1999-01-12 Thread Kent West
Are you running pppconfig as root or as another user? At 12:06 PM 1/12/1999 +, ktb wrote: >I have done what you suggested. In fact I tried it twice using the name >"mpool" for >some reason it didn't automatically set everything up like it did the first >time for >me many months ago when I u

RE: tv card

1999-01-12 Thread Becher, Andrew
The Hauppage works great for me! -Original Message- From: Shaleh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 1999 12:27 PM To: Benoit Joly Cc: Debian User List Subject: RE: tv card On 12-Jan-99 Benoit Joly wrote: > hi, > > I want to buy a new tv card, 1st choice hauppauge, 2n

Re: removing ^M from a text file

1999-01-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
Pico will strip the ^M but still leaves the ^Z which (sometimes) is at the end of a MSDOS text file (at least there is only one think to delete). Bob On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, John Stevenson wrote: > I found a useful way of converting a file, simply load it into > Netscape browser and it will not dis

Re: Why not as a newsgroup?

1999-01-12 Thread Jan Vroonhof
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Bialasinski) writes: > > http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ I am reading debian-devel there occasionally and I can assure you this is NOT a viable alternative. 1. The software cannot handle multipart/signed messsages :-( 2. The threaded display does not contain date

Re: pppconfig

1999-01-12 Thread Andrew Ivanov
> > I tried using "pon mpool" and nothing happened. So I thought I would try and > move /etc/ppp/peers/provider to my home directory to see what would happen > and I got the following message: > /usr/sbin/pppd: Can't open options file /etc/ppp/peers/provider no such > file or directory exists.

Re: pppconfig

1999-01-12 Thread ktb
I have done what you suggested. In fact I tried it twice using the name "mpool" for some reason it didn't automatically set everything up like it did the first time for me many months ago when I used it to create the "binary.net" account. Thanks, Kent Andrew Ivanov wrote: > Try running pppcon

Re: Slink/Potatoe && libc6

1999-01-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Peter Berlau wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 10:51:25AM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: > > I'm trying to upgrade to and/or install either slink or potatoe, but > > keep running into a problem with libc6. Several programs keep saying > > they depend on libc6 >= 2.0.7u. However

Re: GNOME, on floppy?

1999-01-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 10:23:03PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I tried the dpkg -i /floppy/package.deb, and got the following msg's > nb: roots path should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin You should be running dpkg as root. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tr

Re: Learning more/Linux programming books

1999-01-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 06:02:58PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I did a few searches in user's archives and came up with the book > > "Beginning Linux Programming.' I read a review and it said it was for > > people who already have programming experience. I

Re: package upgrading issue

1999-01-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 11:12:50PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Using dselect I ftped in wanting to get an upgraded package list for potato. > ( most of my system is stable) > I prefer to at least look at the packages in dselect because it will inform > me of any required dependences even

Re: pppconfig

1999-01-12 Thread ktb
"John C. Ellingboe" wrote: > > > Hey Kent, > > You have coppied the /etc/ppp/peers/binary.net file to /mpool so you > have two accounts at that point, but they both default to using > /etc/chatscrips/provider which is a default. Copy the > /etc/chatscripts/provider file to /etc/chatscripts/binary

FW: courtesy notice - my linking to your site

1999-01-12 Thread Webmaster
[FYI - dob] -FW: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 02:36:50 -0800 (PST) From: Leu Enterprises Unlimited <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: courtesy notice - my linking to your site Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings! This is a courtesy letter, to let you know that

Re: NT and Debian...O.S. loader 4.01 sux!

1999-01-12 Thread Kent West
At 05:17 PM 1/12/1999 +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> what up! >> scenario: i had Linux on my laptop running efficiently well...however, i >just >> installed NT4.0 without preparing LiLo for the image of NT...now, my laptop >> will only boot to NT (o.s. loader 4.01 takes

Re: pppconfig

1999-01-12 Thread Kent West
At 09:56 AM 1/12/1999 +, ktb wrote: >Hi, I ran pppconfig some time ago and I could connect to the >internet just fine using "pon." My isp has three dial up numbers and >two were down, one of them was the one I use as my default. I looked at >the pppconfig man page and discovered I could

Re: package upgrading issue

1999-01-12 Thread Deepak Nulu
Hi, I had the same problem. I wanted to get a package from the FTP site that was not on my CD and did not know how to make dselect load just the package I was interested in. I tried to unselect everything from the topmost section, but it did not work. I read in one of the help files that any opera

Firewall :

1999-01-12 Thread Mike Rae
Can anyone please direct me to a FAQ/Howto on implementing a very good firewall ? Any experiences you might like to share ? BRGDS Mike Rae

Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...

1999-01-12 Thread Andrew Ivanov
> > It sounds to me like the original DOS/Win disk may have had a drive overlay > on it. You know, that software that allowed older BIOSes to see hard drives > larger than 540MB. If so, then LILO clobbered the overlay. If this is the > case, you should have an Overlay Boot/Install floppy that can

X-CD-Roast

1999-01-12 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Hello, In X-Cd-Roast hard disk setup tab, I am not able to enter anything for "Image-Partition 1:" it doesn't let you type into the field, and the select button brings up a box with nothing in it except OK and CANCEL. Everything else in setup works fine. Any idea what is going on he

Re: pppconfig

1999-01-12 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Try running pppconfig and when it asks you for a providor name, changing it to mpool, and entering all the date for that phone number. That will create a mpool file in the /ppp/peers, and then all you need to do is pon mpool Andrew _

Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...

1999-01-12 Thread Kent West
At 09:35 AM 1/12/1999 -0600, Andrew Ivanov wrote: >On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, CJ wrote: > >> -After I ran "lilo", I reboot the system it gives me a boot prompt, I >> enter in "Linux" and it loads Linux(it works fine). But when I enter "MS" >> for dos/win95, it doesn't load. > >Is MS a label for

RE: tv card

1999-01-12 Thread Shaleh
On 12-Jan-99 Benoit Joly wrote: > hi, > > I want to buy a new tv card, 1st choice hauppauge, 2nd stb tv. > > which one is the best and the most supported in linux? > > my video card is a 3dXpression and I have also a ati tv tuner :( > it seems that both are compatible with my 3dXpression in wi

Re: Secure Mailer

1999-01-12 Thread Anders Arnholm
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: > A quick glance at the web site doesn't indicate that Secure Mailer > (Wietse Venema's software) has been packaged yet. Anyone know if it has There are a unstable package for postfix-19981230-1, I have briefly watchd a test installation of the MTA, an

Re: resolv.conf problems

1999-01-12 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Daniel! It's indeed is a strange problem. You may try a few things: 1. One you boot, can you ping computer on the same local network, just using it's numerical IP address? 2. Can you ping computer outside of your local network using it's numerical IP address? 3. Can you ping DNS server usi

DB2 and Debian

1999-01-12 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, I have been looking at IBM's latest beta for DB2 for linux found at: http://www.software.ibm.com/data/db2/ I noticed that it was in RPM format so I installed the Alien/RPM/... package and tried their db2setup script. It still doesn't seem to want to work. Has anyone tried to install thi

AGP Suppot

1999-01-12 Thread Tom Persons
Does anyone know if Debian/XWindows supports the AGP slot? I have a Diamond Fire GL Pro 1000 and this card is not listed when I go to set up X Windows. I have to choose "Unsupported VGA" and the resolution on this setting sucks Also, it causes the screen to be shifted about 1.5 cm to th

Re: Slink/Potatoe && libc6

1999-01-12 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Peter Berlau wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 10:51:25AM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: > > I'm trying to upgrade to and/or install either slink or potatoe, but > > keep running into a problem with libc6. Several programs keep saying > > they d

Re: C++ compiler and lyx install

1999-01-12 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Ray rote, > On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 23:30:17 -0600, Brent Hueth wrote: > > I'm (a newbie) trying to do something relatively simple: install lyx on > > debian. When I try to use configure it complains that it's unable to find > > a working C++ compiler (that I'm virtually certain exists). > The C+

Re: removing ^M from a text file

1999-01-12 Thread John Stevenson
I found a useful way of converting a file, simply load it into Netscape browser and it will not display the ^M characters. Then you can print it off or copy (alt-c) and paste the text into an editor, or put it into netscape composer. John. "M.C. Vernon" wrote: > > Dear all, > > I had

Re: Slink/Potatoe && libc6

1999-01-12 Thread Peter Berlau
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 10:51:25AM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade to and/or install either slink or potatoe, but keep > running into a problem with libc6. Several programs keep saying they depend > on libc6 >= 2.0.7u. However, this is not an available package. Does anyone

Re: removing ^M from a text file

1999-01-12 Thread Peter Berlau
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 03:13:41PM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: > Dear all, [..] dos2unix text.txt "removes" the ^M -- Peter

tv card

1999-01-12 Thread Benoit Joly
hi, I want to buy a new tv card, 1st choice hauppauge, 2nd stb tv. which one is the best and the most supported in linux? my video card is a 3dXpression and I have also a ati tv tuner :( it seems that both are compatible with my 3dXpression in windows but is it the same in linux? Thanks B

Re: Debian and SuSE with Win98/FAT32 and NTFS

1999-01-12 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Mon, 11 Jan, 1999 à 07:33:21PM +0100, Peter Bartosch wrote: > Hi! > > > > On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 09:16:45PM +0300, Serge Gavrilov wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 10:09:26AM -0800, Pann McCuaig wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 11:00:14AM -0500, Danny R. Gray wrote: > > > > > > > >

Re: wdm keyboard lock-up

1999-01-12 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 12:39:48AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Roy Pluschke wrote: > > I have a slink system (updated from hamm) which seemed to be working > > perfectly, however I recently attempted to install wdm which dselect > > starts during the installation procedure -- all apeared to work we

Re: Secure Mailer

1999-01-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 10:03:52 -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > A quick glance at the web site doesn't indicate that Secure Mailer > (Wietse Venema's software) has been packaged yet. It is: http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/mail/postfix.html Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human ex

Re: NT and Debian...O.S. loader 4.01 sux!

1999-01-12 Thread Martin Schulze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > what up! > scenario: i had Linux on my laptop running efficiently well...however, i just > installed NT4.0 without preparing LiLo for the image of NT...now, my laptop > will only boot to NT (o.s. loader 4.01 takes over) and I dont know of any way > to get back into Linux

Re: resolv.conf problems

1999-01-12 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I mistyped my DNS ip address when setting up networking here. I > fixed resolv.conf to reflect the actual ip. Here's the problem: after a > boot, names don't resolve. If I su to root and take down the network > and restart it (via "/etc/inet.d/ne

Secure Mailer

1999-01-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
A quick glance at the web site doesn't indicate that Secure Mailer (Wietse Venema's software) has been packaged yet. Anyone know if it has been? Has anyone used it? If so, I'm interested in comments, good or bad. TNX, -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto

Re: Using ISDN in Germany

1999-01-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MH" == Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MH> On Tue, 12 Jan 1999 10:52:43 +0100, you wrote: >> Then we configured ppp - using pppconfig - and as device specified >> /dev/ttyI0 (thats a zero) MH> Is there any reason that you don't use ipppd? It is easier to configure and easier to contr

pppconfig

1999-01-12 Thread ktb
Hi, I ran pppconfig some time ago and I could connect to the internet just fine using "pon." My isp has three dial up numbers and two were down, one of them was the one I use as my default. I looked at the pppconfig man page and discovered I could have more than one account. So I ran pppco

Re: Help needed piping output to a bash script

1999-01-12 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Can use a hint or two with a 'bash' script... > > I've just downloaded and installed the basic 5 or 6 meg Hamm distribution of > Debian. Couldn't get it to see the modem, (due to a non-Hamm problem, it > turned > out the ISA PNP modem had switched configs, when I'd recently flashed the >

Re: removing ^M from a text file

1999-01-12 Thread David B. Teague
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: > Dear all, > > I had the misfortune to be stuck with MSWrite over the vac, and > although I told it to save as plain text, it didn't. I can delete most of > the cruft, but there is ^M at the end of each and every line. I've tried > catdoc, word2x, an

Slink/Potatoe && libc6

1999-01-12 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm trying to upgrade to and/or install either slink or potatoe, but keep running into a problem with libc6. Several programs keep saying they depend on libc6 >= 2.0.7u. However, this is not an available package. Does anyone know where I can find this package? Thanks, Chris

Re: removing ^M from a text file

1999-01-12 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > sed 's/^M//g' goodfile > > Replace badfile and goodfile appropriately. > Generate the ^M in bash with Thanks - that's what I couldn't figure out. It's nice to know I was trying to use sed the right way :) Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo

Re: removing ^M from a text file

1999-01-12 Thread Brandon Mitchell
sed 's/^M//g' goodfile Replace badfile and goodfile appropriately. Generate the ^M in bash with HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software wi

Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...

1999-01-12 Thread Andrew Ivanov
On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, CJ wrote: > -After I ran "lilo", I reboot the system it gives me a boot prompt, I > enter in "Linux" and it loads Linux(it works fine). But when I enter "MS" > for dos/win95, it doesn't load. Is MS a label for loading your Windows? In lilo.conf you can specify what

Re: removing ^M from a text file

1999-01-12 Thread Didier Verna
Noah L Meyerhans writes: Noah> On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I had the misfortune to be stuck with MSWrite over the vac, and although I >> told it to save as plain text, it didn't. I can delete most of the cruft, >> but there is ^M at the end of each and every line.

Re: removing ^M from a text file

1999-01-12 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
I use the following under vi or vim or elvis: :1,$s/^M//g The ^M is type as Ctrl-V Ctrl M. It works like a charm. Sebastian. Sebastian Canagaratna, Department of Chemistry Ohio Northern University Ada, OH 45810. > Dear all, > > I had the misfortune to be stuck with MSWrite over the vac

Re: removing ^M from a text file

1999-01-12 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- dos2unix, in the sysutils package. noah On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: > Dear all, > > I had the misfortune to be stuck with MSWrite over the vac, and > although I told it to save as plain text, it didn't. I can delete most of > the cruft, but

Re: removing ^M from a text file

1999-01-12 Thread Patrick Colbeck
I seem to remember that crypt++ with emacs/xemacs was supposed to do this but I just tried it and it didn't. I may be doing it wrong though, does anyone have any comments ? Pat On Tue Jan 12, 1999 at 03:13:41PM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: > Dear all, > > I had the misfortune to be stuck with MSW

Re: Getting KDE up and running.

1999-01-12 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yup - you got it. The startkde macro starts kfm, but I don't see where it's > starting kfmclient - is that a separate operation? how can I turn it off? I > just don't want it to start when KDE starts up. It co

removing ^M from a text file

1999-01-12 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, I had the misfortune to be stuck with MSWrite over the vac, and although I told it to save as plain text, it didn't. I can delete most of the cruft, but there is ^M at the end of each and every line. I've tried catdoc, word2x, and sed, but none of them will remove them. Can you s

Re: GNOME, on floppy?

1999-01-12 Thread Henning Makholm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I tried the dpkg -i /floppy/package.deb, and got the following msg's > dpkg: `ldconfig not foud on path` etc. Looks like you tried running dpkg from another account than root. Or something went wrong when you su'ed. Try logging in as root from a separate virtual co

LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...

1999-01-12 Thread CJ
hi, My LILO program is working, thanks to all the poeple that have helped me. But although my LILO is working, I now encounter another problem(MINOR). As you know, i have dos/win95 as a master on the first IDE chain and Linux as a master on the second IDE chain. -After I ran "lilo",

RE: windowmakers .0.20 and dockit.

1999-01-12 Thread Graham Ashton
On 11 Jan, Person, Roderick wrote: > I assume that this is part of wmakerconf, which I have got to yet. no, it's on the attributes menu (the one you get when you right click an application's title bar). I don't know when it was introduced, but it was certainly in there by 0.20.3. >> it has become

Re: Using ISDN in Germany

1999-01-12 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999 10:52:43 +0100, you wrote: >Then we configured ppp - using pppconfig - and as device specified >/dev/ttyI0 (thats a zero) Is there any reason that you don't use ipppd? Grüße Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber

Is anyone packaging tclx8.0 as a deb ?

1999-01-12 Thread Cormac McGuinness
Hi, Is there anyone out there who is packaging Extended Tcl for tcl 8.0.4 ? I need to be able to use a wishx and some of extended Tcls features but with tcl/tk 8.0 I've downloaded the .tar.gz but am having trouble getting it to compile. Please let me know if someone has already got a .deb fo

RE: Getting a list of attached devices

1999-01-12 Thread wb2oyc
>> I am trying to determine the name assigned to my CDROM drive so that I >> can mount it. Anyone have a suggestion ? dmesg | grep cd paul

Re: hosts.deny problem.

1999-01-12 Thread wb2oyc
>hosts.allow >ALL: localhost,128.206.x.x : ALL > Whenever I've put an IP in, I always also add the mask, a la: ALL :localhost, 128.206.0.0/255.255.0.0 AND LEAVE OFF THAT SECOND ALL! >hosts.deny >ALL: ALL > Thats what you want. Paul

Re: file managers

1999-01-12 Thread wb2oyc
> >So, anyone wanna chime in with why they like their favorite file managers >(under X)? I'm on the lookout for the cream of the crop. I hate to say it, >but the Winblows team has a good file manager, and I'd like similar I like the filemanager in TkDesk. paul

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