Octave

1999-01-16 Thread Alfredo Casademunt
Hola a todos. Estoy usando octave (sobre Debian 2.0r2) y muere miserablemente con un segmentation fault al pedirle el polinomio caracterisco de una matriz cuadrada, o al pedirle las raíces de un polinomio, o ... yo diría que no carga los ficheros .m que hay en los subdirectorios que cuelgan del

Re: WordPerfect 8 (modulo en castellano)

1999-01-16 Thread Antonio Ballesteros
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Rafael Cordones Marcos wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 11:15:05PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rafael Cordones Marcos dixit: Pues en el SOLO Linux de este mes sale el WP8. Yo me lo he instalado de ahí. Lo que no viene es el módulo español. yo tengo el nº5

Re: permisos en ppp.log

1999-01-16 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
Todo aclarado. Gracias a todos por las aclaraciones. A cuidarse, :-) Saludos. -- Cosme = -=-=- A través de Debian GNU/Linux -=-=- -=-=- Software Libre -=-=- -=-=- Computadora de 1992

Re: Ibernet ha desaparecio !?

1999-01-16 Thread Han Solo
Cosme Perea Cuevas wrote: Hola, llevo dos días sin poder bajar las news. Hoy, después de recibir otro Bad Status del Suck, le he hecho un [anarres]~# host diana.ibernet.es diana.ibernet.es does not exist (Authoritative answer) [anarres]~# host news.mad.ibernet.es

Migrar a 2.2.0

1999-01-16 Thread Xose Manoel Ramos
Hola!! Veo que estais hablando de los patches para pasar a 2.2.0, pero bueno, yo soy de los que nunca he tenido instalado un kernel inestable en el sistema. Me interesaría saber si existe: * paquete del kernel 2.2. (fuentes o binario) * paquetes con las utilidades necesarias para

Re: Compilación del núcleo

1999-01-16 Thread Hue-Bond
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: La ventaja de este método es, a) más rápido hacer actualizaciones (make-kpkg configure; make-kpkg ... kernel_image); b) se crean paquetes que se pueden instalar y desintalar Pues yo no veo ventaja en eso. ¿Para qué vamos a andar con

Re: Learning more/Linux programming books

1999-01-16 Thread Harrison, Shawn
snip I think that it is worth considering skipping the Pascal stage and going straight to C, or equivalent languages. Taking this approach a bit further, I think it is even worth considering going straight to C++, perhaps by talking first about the procedural aspects of C++ and only then, as a

Install Questions

1999-01-16 Thread Dan Furtney
I know repartitioning with fdisk/cfdisk is destructive. Is ADDING a partition destructive? I have a 10 gig drive: 4gb(Win), 2gb(RH) and the rest unpartitioned. It seems that partitioning the remaining space wouldn't hurt the existing partitions but I'm not sure. (came so close to trying it anyway

Re: Debian goes big business? [was: Re: Suggestion for RedHat (

1999-01-16 Thread Harrison, Shawn
A company basing it's business on Debian Linux should ideally be composed of Debian people and would mainly care in making Debian known as a viable product on the wider market. Precisely. Such as the various Linux distributors (lsl.com, etc), but on a larger scale in terms of marketing. -- Or

Re: Kernel Compile

1999-01-16 Thread Nidge Jones
Pann McCuaig Writes.. 2.0.34 works fine on our hamm boxes and I won't be upgrading kernels until slink is released and we (eventually) upgrade our boxes to slink. If you need features in 2.0.36 then you'll have to figure this out. OK fair enough. Least I am a little wiser. However, will

Re: Install Questions

1999-01-16 Thread Harrison, Shawn
Use FIPS (on the CD or the FTP site in /tools or utilities or somesuch). It does exactly what you're looking for -- but READ THE DOCS CAREFULLY. == [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==

Re: Install Questions

1999-01-16 Thread Florian Steffen
Dan Furtney wrote: I know repartitioning with fdisk/cfdisk is destructive. Is ADDING a partition destructive? I have a 10 gig drive: 4gb(Win), 2gb(RH) and the rest unpartitioned. It seems that partitioning the remaining space wouldn't hurt the existing partitions but I'm not sure. (came so

Re: X apps and windowmaker

1999-01-16 Thread Joey Hess
Person, Roderick wrote: I'm using windowmaker 0.20.3 and some apps that I run Maxwell, xmaddressbook, amaya and xpaint are larger then my virtual screen. When this happens I can get either to the title bar to Kill the app or to the bottom ^^^ do you mean can't? of the app to resize

Re: New installation - Xserver failure

1999-01-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed the Debian 2.0.10 from a CD using Dselect. The configuration had a few failures - among them a missing file: initrc, so the windowmaker couldn't be configured. After the installation I used XF86Setup to adjust videocard and monitorsettings. OK.

What filter to use for HP Deskjet 520?

1999-01-16 Thread Yi-ping Chang
Hi, guys: I got an HP DeskJet 520 from a friend of mine moments ago. I tried it out, using 'dj500-filter' of magicfilter package. It seemed to function well (paper is loaded correctly, the printing head is moving), but nothing printed out. I am not sure if I chose the wrong filter, or just the

how to install sendmail or exim on my debian box ?

1999-01-16 Thread Brandon Liew
hi there, i am a beginner on debian linux ... i have installed a debian box in my office and it is connected to my LAN, i have installed telnetd on my linux and it is running fine. now i wanna install sendmail/exim on my debian to let it be my mail server ,,, i have downloaded this software from

Re: Netscape4.5 cannot find libraries

1999-01-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
Moises Quinto Vargas wrote: ...new to linux, runing 2.0.34, my problem is that netscape 4.5 does not know where the libraries are: 1) ldd netscape gives me the following: libXt.so.6 = not found libSM.so.6 = not found libICE.so.6 = not found libXmu.so.6 = not found libXpm.so.4 =

Re: What filter to use for HP Deskjet 520?

1999-01-16 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Yi-ping Chang; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Hi, guys: I got an HP DeskJet 520 from a friend of mine moments ago. I tried it out, using 'dj500-filter' of magicfilter package. It seemed to function well (paper is loaded correctly, the printing head is moving), but nothing printed

Re: shell scripts.

1999-01-16 Thread Jameson Burt
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 11:37:23PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, Where can I learn how to write the shell scripts?? Is there any good documentation to read?? Thx. Shao. I would recommend O'Reilly Learning the bash Shell. (http://www.ora.com) and Beginning Linux

X problems

1999-01-16 Thread Andrew Ivanov
This just started happening tonight: I was running X, and needed to restart the Afterstep, so I did. Instead of restarting Afterstep Xdm restarted. And would not let me login as a user anymore ( I can login as root and run everything fine). So I took xdm out of startup. Now I can login into shell

Re: Help needed piping output to a bash script

1999-01-16 Thread Alfie Costa
On 13 Jan 99 at 11:27, E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Um, yeah, it looks neater :) I was just mindlessly copying the original poster's script. Anyway, you actually still have one superfluous character there :) cat $TMPFILE is enough, so that the entire script becomes

Re: Help needed piping output to a bash script

1999-01-16 Thread Alfie Costa
On 12 Jan 99 at 16:56, E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...The problem is that the script gets its standard input from the pipe, and vi needs input from a tty. Your current tty is /dev/tty. This works: #! /bin/bash # mymore $TMPFILE=/tmp/mymore.$$.tmp while read line;

Re: Kernel Compile

1999-01-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Nidge Jones wrote: Pann McCuaig Writes.. 2.0.34 works fine on our hamm boxes and I won't be upgrading kernels until slink is released and we (eventually) upgrade our boxes to slink. If you need features in 2.0.36 then you'll have to figure this out. 2.0.36 should

X problem solved

1999-01-16 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Wasnt anything serious, just the changes I made to afterstep, or tried to make, caused it to fail at startup when in user mode. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code.

Program to chart ppp through-put?

1999-01-16 Thread Jim Foltz
Hello, Is there some program that can log ppp data through-put? I'd really like to see what's happening while I am downloading for extended periods, like when I upgrade Debian. -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] ACORN techie AOL/IM: jim foltz

terminal based schedule program

1999-01-16 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I'm looking for a telnet accesible (ie: terminal) program that will allow to set some schedules: meetings, appointments, date limits, etc. Does anybody know any package that does that? TIA! -- p.

Re: How to read/interpret X server output (Matrox G200) ?

1999-01-16 Thread Jameson Burt
--Message-Boundary-7696 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Hi, Can anyone help me how I have to interpret the output of the (Matrox) X-server. I start but crashes. but how to interpret all the messages

Re: Program to chart ppp through-put?

1999-01-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
Jim Foltz wrote: Hello, Is there some program that can log ppp data through-put? I'd really like to see what's happening while I am downloading for extended periods, like when I upgrade Debian. Well, the apt 'method' in dselect (install apt and it'll show up in dselect's list of

Re: Program to chart ppp through-put?

1999-01-16 Thread Jim Foltz
On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 01:57:59AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: Jim Foltz wrote: Hello, Is there some program that can log ppp data through-put? I'd really like to see what's happening while I am downloading for extended periods, like when I upgrade Debian. Well, the apt

Re: Program to chart ppp through-put?

1999-01-16 Thread Joey Hess
Jim Foltz wrote: Is there some program that can log ppp data through-put? I'd really like to see what's happening while I am downloading for extended periods, like when I upgrade Debian. Procmeter is a program similar to xload, but it can display many other graphs as well, ppp load amoung

Re: Kernel Compile

1999-01-16 Thread Nidge Jones
Bob Nielsen Writes.. 2.0.36 should compile without problems on a hamm system. Well it doesn't here. I have spent years compiling kernels, and never really had a problem before, until now. I posted the Errors here, but no-one suggested what may be wrong. I don't have a clue as to why you are

Re: compiling

1999-01-16 Thread Nidge Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Writes.. I had a similar problem when I upgraded from 1.3 to 2.0. In my case (I don't know if this is your problem), it became clear that the problem arose because the organization and contents of /usr/include/ were quite different in 1.3 and 2.0. There has been a long

Xi - Xserver

1999-01-16 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Has anyone tried out the Xi graphics video server?? Is it really much better that XF86?? Thx. Shao.

Re: default fonts in NS 4.05 unreadable

1999-01-16 Thread Dave Thayer
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 08:49:54AM +0100, Thomas Adams wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 12:35:30AM -0700, Dave Thayer wrote: It was a pretty uneventful installation, but read /usr/doc/xfstt/FAQ.gz. Strange, on my hamm box installing xfstt was a pretty eventful job. First, there is no

Re: how to install sendmail or exim on my debian box ?

1999-01-16 Thread M.C. Vernon
i am a beginner on debian linux ... i have installed a debian box in my office and it is connected to my LAN, i have installed telnetd on my linux and it is running fine. now i wanna install sendmail/exim on my debian to let it be my mail server ,,, i have downloaded this software from

Re: C++ book.

1999-01-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 00:32:39 +0200, shaul wrote: How about the 3rd edition of Stroustrup's book ? In my opinion (mainly formed by the 2nd edition, though I've looked at the 3rd too) Stroustrup's book is bad, both for beginning, intermediate and advanced users. For beginning and intermediate

Category tags - debcat program

1999-01-16 Thread Patrik Rak
Hi! Here is a new release of the debcat program. It is an html index generator for Debian package tree. It is also an example of handling the newly proposed Purpose: lines. This version includes support for loading file of user defined category descriptions. Such file has the very same format as

GNOME problems

1999-01-16 Thread Daniel Elenius
All gtk-based programs that I run on my box mysteriously die, always on a mouse-click somewhere on their window, with this message on the xterm that I start it from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Gdk-Message: ** ERROR **: sigsegv caught I have these packages installed (from slink, but I had the same

Xdefaults VS Xresources

1999-01-16 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi all, Could you clarify the differences between these two files?? I just found out that I don't have .Xresources file in my home directory... is this a problem?? Thx. Shao.

xf86 config error

1999-01-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Is it possible to get more details about the follwing: [12:15am] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# /etc/init.d/xdm start Checking for valid XFree86 server configuration...error in configuration file. Not starting X display manager. [12:15am] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# I grabbed a compiled XF86_FBDev off a website.

More problems becoming a 'normal' user

1999-01-16 Thread Rich Harran.
I emailed a problem on the list yesterday, about getting to use X as a normal user. The problem was the permissions of /dev/null, which I changed to: crw-rw-rw- 1 root root and everything worked. However, when I restarted today, I had the same problem, and found that the

ISDNLOG: Kernel 2.0.36 and isdnutils3.0-8

1999-01-16 Thread mbu
Hi ... This week I compiled a new kernel going from 2.0.34 to 2.0.36. With the change to higher kernel I also had to update my isdnutils to 3.0-8. I got all new packages from slink and got no problems compiling the kernel. Before the change to newer kernel, my isdn connection to the ISP worked

Re: compiling

1999-01-16 Thread Nidge Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Writes.. For me the problem was solved very easily---I installed libc6-dev from the Debian 2.0 CD. This completely reorganized /usr/include/ and the kernel-compilation problems then disappeared. OK I already had this installed on both Debian 2.0 machines here. But I decided

Re: Suck and Inn problems

1999-01-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 12:47:27PM +0200, Tapio Väättänen wrote: I use get-news script provided by Suck pakage. When I have written new articles get-news will send them out next time I run the script. Now, I don't know is problem with suck or inn, but after the articles are sended out, there

Re: default fonts in NS 4.05 unreadable

1999-01-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 08:49:54AM +0100, Thomas Adams wrote: Strange, on my hamm box installing xfstt was a pretty eventful job. First, there is no FAQ.gz. Maybe it is in the slink but I can't install that to a hamm box, can I? Then there is a problem with starting xfstt. It looks like

Debian Weekly News

1999-01-16 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi all, I found this great link from LWN. But, then I went back to the debian home page, and coundn't find it... Am I missing something?? PS: There are also some great links in Debian Weekly News which I cannot find them in the debian home page... Thx... Shao.

RE: Xi - Xserver

1999-01-16 Thread Shaleh
On 16-Jan-99 Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, Has anyone tried out the Xi graphics video server?? Is it really much better that XF86?? Depends on the card, monitor, etc. However it does not interface nicely with the Debian X packages. Personally I would suggest supporting Xfree. Hell,

Re: xf86 config error

1999-01-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 12:20:13AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Is it possible to get more details about the follwing: [12:15am] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# /etc/init.d/xdm start Checking for valid XFree86 server configuration...error in configuration file. Not starting X display manager.

How to setup Xwindows with xkb and locales?

1999-01-16 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All! I'm looking for a proper way of installing the Xwindows to support the Polish locales. Well, I have configured my system in this way that I can get Polish characters in my windows but it is done in a very dirty way (the xkb switched off, NLS set to C, the keyboard sends Polish characters

Re: dosemu and freedos

1999-01-16 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, shaul wrote: or is it possible to use my linux-partitions? I guess not, but I never tried it. Of course it is! Just use the emufs.sys driver. Have a: device=c:\emufs.sys /your/linux/directory line in your DOS's config.sys (or a few such lines) There is however one

Re: Why not as a newsgroup?

1999-01-16 Thread Roger Pittman
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 08:55:00AM +0100, Thomas Adams wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 01:32:57AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: Don't all news-servers provide for this, and all news-readers implement it? The news reader in NS Communicator does the above. I'm sure every news server lets

still fighting for normality

1999-01-16 Thread Rich Harran.
I've been trying to get a dos partition mounted in group 'dos', with read-write permissions for those in this group. I found an old thread on this, and now have: /dev/hda1 /mnt vfat unmask=0002,gid=101,uid=0,showexec 0 2 in fstab, (where 101 is dos gid). However, the drive mounts with

Alien package converter for Debian (fwd)

1999-01-16 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, I am forwarding the question below to this list because I am not sure about the answer. Some experts on this list should be able to answer it and inform readers of the GLUG-list in South Africa of whom a very few are debian user's about debian. Johann -- Forwarded message

RE: Alien package converter for Debian (fwd)

1999-01-16 Thread Shaleh
The main advantage to using Debian made packages is that a Debian develpoer made them and you can be sure they follow Debian policy and standards. Installing a new version of a package from an rpm may wipe out a conf file or change the directory it looks for data. In general a Debian package is

How do I install Wordperfect 8?

1999-01-16 Thread Johann Spies
I have downloaded the 7 GUI??.GZ-files, put them into a directory, unzipped and untarred them and ran Runme. I did answer 'y' on the question 'Did you unzip and untar the files you downloaded?' and then got the message: Error: nothing new to install. What am I missing? Johann

Re: How do I install Wordperfect 8?

1999-01-16 Thread MallarJ
Word is that the 7 files method doesn't work - I'd suggest you get the one big file. It worked for me. -Jay

login: is md5_crypt anabled?

1999-01-16 Thread Alexander N. Benner
Hi Going through my /etc/login.defs I found this passage: # # Only works if compiled with MD5_CRYPT defined: # If set to yes, new passwords will be encrypted using the MD5-based # algorithm compatible with the one used by recent releases of FreeBSD. # It supports passwords of unlimited length

Re: login: is md5_crypt anabled?

1999-01-16 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 02:21:57PM +0100, Alexander N. Benner wrote: So I wondered if MD5_CRYPT is defined. It is. How to check comp. options in general? I'm not sure about that one, other than d/l the source and debian diffs to see. -- --- - - --- - -

Re: How to get fonts out of .exe !

1999-01-16 Thread Michele Bini
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 02:28:10PM -0600, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: Any ideas how to decompress them? Try using Wine. I managed to decompress self-extracting Windows archives using it. -Michele

Re: Repairing a HD with fsck?

1999-01-16 Thread Michele Bini
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 09:22:37AM -0700, Scott J. Geertgens wrote: I recently posted a message about GCC not being able to compile due to dma_intr and/or read_intr errors. After receiving a response here and scouring the net I've realized that the problem lies on the drive itself (bad

Re: Suck and Inn problems

1999-01-16 Thread Tapio Väättänen
Mark Brown wrote: Last time I checked, the scripts provided by suck should replace the file. They copy the outgoing file away, and then flush it (which closes the old outgoing and creates a new one). Here's the relevant bit of script: if [ ! -s ${OUTGOINGNEW} ]; then mv ${OUTGOING}

Re: How do I install Wordperfect 8?

1999-01-16 Thread Gregor Giesen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Word is that the 7 files method doesn't work - I'd suggest you get the one big file. It worked for me. The 7 files also work. You must gunzip all files; netscape should do it automaticly. Then you must untar the first one gui00 and you get the Runme -script. All

Re: Xdefaults VS Xresources

1999-01-16 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 12:20:40AM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: Could you clarify the differences between these two files?? Two different names for the same thing. I just found out that I don't have .Xresources file in my home directory... is this a problem?? Either mv

Re: Program to chart ppp through-put?

1999-01-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
Jim Foltz wrote: On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 01:57:59AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: Jim Foltz wrote: Hello, Is there some program that can log ppp data through-put? I'd really like to see what's happening while I am downloading for extended periods, like when I upgrade Debian.

Re: Help needed piping output to a bash script

1999-01-16 Thread Alfie Costa
For some reason my mail reader, (Pegasus Mail v2.55), ate some linefeeds from a previous post, as the original text looked OK when it left the edit window. Correction: On 15 Jan 99 at 23:55, Alfie Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: handle any of these invocations: vl foo vl foo vl --help vl

Re: day planner/scheduler program

1999-01-16 Thread D'jinnie
I use plan ol' 'calendar' at school, but apparently it hasn't been ported to Linux, at least I don't have it installed...it was pretty handy :( what other planner software is there? I was something like my monthly planner, just on the screen... --- Yes, but every time I try to see things your

Re: More problems becoming a 'normal' user

1999-01-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
Rich Harran. wrote: I emailed a problem on the list yesterday, about getting to use X as a normal user. The problem was the permissions of /dev/null, which I changed to: crw-rw-rw- 1 root root and everything worked. However, when I restarted today, I had the same problem, and

Re: Intent to package mh-book

1999-01-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
shaul wrote: I intend to package the html version of the book MH xmh: Email for Users Programmers Can you add the postscript version to the package ? What PostScript version? I _recall_ seeing that but can't find it now... Peter

Re: How do I install Wordperfect 8?

1999-01-16 Thread Johann Spies
On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Gregor Giesen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Word is that the 7 files method doesn't work - I'd suggest you get the one big file. It worked for me. The 7 files also work. You must gunzip all files; netscape should do it automaticly. Then you must untar the

Re: Netscape4.5 cannot find libraries

1999-01-16 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Moises Quinto Vargas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [LDD Output of a libc5 based netscape without any X11 library] checking the mailing list archives i found the following: - to run netscape 4.5 must install glibc (libc6). glibc comes with 2.0.34, right? then why does not netscape recognize glibc?

How to split Debian digests?

1999-01-16 Thread Riku Saikkonen
Is there a good tool to split debian-user digests into invidual articles? I'm currently using formail +1 -ds (formail is from the procmail package), but it has the following problems: * It includes the digest boundary line (a line of dashes) in each message. * It seems to break MIME

new XFree86

1999-01-16 Thread Sebastian Oehm
I'm wondering, where I can find the XFree86-3.3.3 Release for debian. I have installed the debian 2.0, that does not support my graphiccard: Matrox Millenium G200 AGP and want to update at least the XFree86 packet. Thanks for every useful information!

Re: terminal based schedule program

1999-01-16 Thread Frank Smith
I haven't found any, but there are some good web-based programs around if you have a browser. Come to think of it, you could probably use Lynx (a text-only web browser) to access one of those. Frank --On Saturday, January 16, 1999, 6:43 AM + Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: shell scripts.

1999-01-16 Thread Thomas Adams
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 05:52:21AM -0700, Dan Furtney wrote: scripts. On the back of the book it said shell progamming wasn't covered because Pearl would be better for the task. I decided to look into Pearl instead. Good Luck Please don't confuse Pearl with perl. Pearl is a different - if

Re: Program to chart ppp through-put?

1999-01-16 Thread John Hasler
Ed Cogburn writes: I remember also when some folks were talking about this earlier, that there was a way to get pppd to output the speed to a file that could then be parsed, but I can't remember it very well. 'man pppd' might help. I don't know any way to get pppd to do that, but you can get

libdb.so.1

1999-01-16 Thread Nidge Jones
OK, next problem :-) I am seeing from time to time when running dselect, this warning.. ldconfig: Can't open /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libdb.so.1 What's this about ! I am not aware I am using any aout stuff ?? How do I replace the file ! What package should be installed for this. Perhaps one of

Re: Alien package converter for Debian (fwd)

1999-01-16 Thread Joey Hess
I know that you can use alien to convert rpm files to deb files. Are there any disadvantages to downloading the rpm files and installing all software this way for Debian or is it better to download the deb file for the program. If you have a choice between a deb file and a rpm, always

Re: RH vs Debian (Switch to Red Hat ?)

1999-01-16 Thread Henning Makholm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (shaul) writes: There is the difficulty that Debian is an organization that is based on volunteers, where RH is a registered company. So managements tend to see RH as much more solid and stable organization then Debian. No doubt you are true about that, but I've never

Re: still fighting for normality

1999-01-16 Thread Henning Makholm
Rich Harran. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /dev/hda1 /mnt vfat unmask=0002,gid=101,uid=0,showexec 0 2 in fstab, (where 101 is dos gid). However, the drive mounts with permissions: drwxr_xr_x A silly suggestion: as far as I remember off the top of my head it should be 'umask', not 'unmask'.

Re: Accessing Novell mail from debian

1999-01-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 03:12:11PM +, Jose L. Gomez Dans wrote: The problem radicates on how to read those messages from, say, mutt or pine in my linux box. I guess that these programs have some sort of mailbox format to read these files, but I don't know what format to choose. I

Debian 2.1?

1999-01-16 Thread SEGV
Okay, it's been another month. Are we any closer to a 2.1 release for x86? Is there a web site where I can more closely track progress? Will it be out before or after kernel 2.2? -- SEGVhttp://www.cgocable.net/~mlepage/

Re: new XFree86

1999-01-16 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I don't believe that Xfree86 3.3.3 has been packaged yet because the developer is busy making the Slink version ready for release. If you go to ftp.xfree86.org and download the *binary* XF86_SVGA server and then copy it to /usr/bin/X11 and edit /etc/X11/Xserver to match the server location