Re: Lista parada ?

1999-02-01 Thread Eduardo Marcel Macan
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Lalo Martins wrote: Paradissima :-) Alguem ai' interessando em traduzir potfiles? Ou talvez os discos de instalacao (dbootstrap)? Eu ja estou fazendo isso. Mais alguns dias e eu vou fazer o primeiro conjunto de discos em portugues (pt_BR) -- Eduardo Marcel Macan

vt100 - Linux

1999-02-01 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
Hola, Hace tiempo que tengo un VT100 que conecto al puerto serie de mi Linux y funciona de maravilla. El problema es que ahora quiero alargar más el cable y he visto que el VT tiene también otro tipo de enchufe. Es parecido al de teléfono. Además en la facultad es el tipo de cable que usan para

Re: vt100 - Linux

1999-02-01 Thread Gerardo Aburruzaga Garcia
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Rafael Cordones Marcos wrote: Hace tiempo que tengo un VT100 que conecto al puerto serie de mi Linux ¿Un (una) VT100? ¿Seguro? Las VT100 son del año informático de María Castaña. ¿Es muy gorda, más o menos blanca y negra, con teclas negras que hacen clic cuando las aprietas?

RE: Linux Actual

1999-02-01 Thread Vázquez, Gustavo
Por lo que lei en esta misma lista, Esa editora obtuvo los derechos de Solo Linux y la Solo Linux de Tower Com. se llama Solo Programadores Linux. La verdad no se mucho, porque en Uruguay esas cosas no se obtienen. Pero en esta lista creo que se comento eso. Saludos Gustavo. -- De:

Faltan iconos en KDE

1999-02-01 Thread Ubaldo Fernández Covelo
Voy a dar unas charlas sobre Linux a en mi centro de trabajo en plan divulgación y propaganda, pues empieza a haber gente interesada. Así que me he instalado el KDE para poder dar una opinión sobre él. Normalmente uso WM. He instalado el que venía en los discos de Linux Actual con la Debian 2.0 Es

apropos ?

1999-02-01 Thread botto
Un saludo a todos, llevo mucho tiempo escuchando la lista, y lo cierto es que nunca he tenido, por suerte, problemas como para no resolverlos despues de tres dias dandoles vueltas :-). Bueno vamos co ello, el caso es que vi en la lista este comando apropos -r 'free.*disk' y quise probarlo, lo

RE: apropos ?

1999-02-01 Thread Vázquez, Gustavo
Pregunta personal... Como haces para solucionar problemas sin leer el man? -- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: domingo 31 de enero de 1999 19:55 Para: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Asunto: apropos ? Un saludo a todos, llevo mucho tiempo

RE: apropos ?

1999-02-01 Thread botto
Leo la propia documentacion del programa, el info ... De todas formas se me ha malentendido, quiero decir que cuando uso el man, que de todas formas es poco, me limito a man loquesea, nunca habia entrado en otros usos, como el de el ejemplo (creo que es igual que man -k no?) On Mon, 1 Feb 1999,

Re: Linux Actual

1999-02-01 Thread jonathan
Por cierto, os haveis fijado que este especial de Sólo Linux (el que viene con la Red Hat) lo hace Prensa Técnica que es la editora de Linux Actual. ¿alguien entiende algo? pues no.si piensan ke vamos a comrarlas por duplicado,ke no cuenten conmigo.

Re: Linux Actual

1999-02-01 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Así es, la editorial Prensa Técnica registró la marca solo Linux cuando saco Linux Actual, para que la competencia (Tower) no pudiera sacar una revista con ese nombre, y así romper el binomio: Programación Actual -Linux Actual Solo Programadores -? Esa es la historia, en

Re: Paquetes para instalar las X

1999-02-01 Thread benalb
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Vicente Barba wrote: La pregunta exacta de Benjamin era ¿paquetes para instalar las X?. Evidentemente la respuesta es única. Pero no la forma de conseguirlo. Puesto que ya tiene los nombres de los paquetes, yo intente ser original y proporcionarle una forma de hacerlo: en

Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-02-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
I haven't seen any big differences in performance yet, but there are several differences in how things are done in many cases. Read Documentation/Changes. 2.2.1 is now out with a few bug fixes. Bob On Sun, 31 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |2.2.0 will be available in deb packages,

Video card good for Linux and Windoes 3D games?

1999-02-01 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I'm probably going to buy a Matrox Millenium G200 8 MB AGP because it's a good Linux performer and it'll be pretty good when I boot windows to play 3D games. Any better suggestions? Thanks

using dpgk

1999-02-01 Thread rod peters
Could someone please send me an example dpkg command with flags and such. I would like to try kde 1.1 pre2, but it is on my msdos partition and I am unsure as to how to use dselect to install it. If someone could post a fill-in-the-blanks dpkg command I would really appreciate it. thanks

Possible NFS/mountd compromise?

1999-02-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
[CC:'s are appreciated; I am not subscribed to debian-user. Thanks!] I got the followed logged in my /var/log/syslog today. It looks to me like a buffer overflow attack of some kind (character  is `no operation' in x86 assembly language). Does anyone know of a vulnerability in mountd to this

Re: Browser for a slow computer?

1999-02-01 Thread Ryan Kirkpatrick
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, [iso-8859-1] Daniel González Gasull wrote: And the 3.04 source archive is not in the Netscape server! Where can I get it? http://www.netscape.com/download/archive/index.html or ftp://archive.netscape.com/archive/index.html These were

gnome-apt

1999-02-01 Thread Andreas Sliwka
Hi, anybody any experiences with gnome-apt ? I've got a mixed hamm/slink and like to get rid off dselect ... mfg --- Andreas Sliwka --- http://emil.nef.wh.uni-dortmund.de/~goff talk to me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ICQ:13961062

Re: Do you still need screensavers these days?

1999-02-01 Thread Carl Fink
In linux.debian.user, Stefan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I remember reading somewhere that you don't really need screensavers anymore with modern monitors to prevent damage to them, and that the only reason to run them is to show off to your colleagues or whoever. That, and to lock the the

Re: Minicom installed and ppp working...at l o n g last

1999-02-01 Thread Michael E. Touloumtzis
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 12:37:05PM -0800, Larry Fletcher wrote: Do these window managers allow you to cutpaste between windows? I had planned on just using the Bash shell for awhile, but am finding that it is inconvenient not having the ability to cutpaste from one console to another the way I

DSELECT - Install from CD-ROM - Block Device Name

1999-02-01 Thread Lee Harrison
I have just installed Debian with relative ease (Floppy boot, base system from Official CD Dist) however with DSELECT I am having difficulty -- How do I find out the Block Device Name requested when I then try to install packages from CD-ROM? Any assistance will be appreciated. Thanks.

load fail

1999-02-01 Thread sean tierney
Hey I cann't seem to get debian to load on to my laptop. It's a compac contra 410 Help!! Thanks P.S. yes I'm using 1.44 meg floppies and even tried the one for the thinkpad . The rescue disk will boot to the boot prompt then when you hit enter it says loading .then a load fail comes up.

Re: DSELECT - Install from CD-ROM - Block Device Name

1999-02-01 Thread Tom Persons
Actually I had the same problem when I first installed debian and this is how I resolved it. Instead of trying to determine the block device name (which I did find, but it didn't work) you should mount your CDRom then choose install from a previously mounted file system from the dselect

Re: using dpgk

1999-02-01 Thread David Z. Maze
rod peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rod Could someone please send me an example dpkg command with flags rod and such. There are many such simple examples on the dpkg(8) manual page. -- _ / \ Dad was reading a book called |

Re: load fail

1999-02-01 Thread Tom Persons
Typically this means that you have a bad rescue disk. Iv'e heard of some people needing to make three or four rescue disks before they could get one to work. Personally, I had no problems with my first disk, but I haer that this is the first thing to try when you are having load problems. Tom

Re: Possible NFS/mountd compromise?

1999-02-01 Thread Joey Hess
Ben Pfaff wrote: [CC:'s are appreciated; I am not subscribed to debian-user. Thanks!] I got the followed logged in my /var/log/syslog today. It looks to me like a buffer overflow attack of some kind (character  is `no operation' in x86 assembly language). Does anyone know of a

Re: using dpgk

1999-02-01 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi David Z. Maze; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: rod peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rod Could someone please send me an example dpkg command with flags rod and such. There are many such simple examples on the dpkg(8) manual page. Or, you can do : dpkg --help |more for a bunch of

Stupid Netscape question

1999-02-01 Thread Tim Heuser
Ok, so I've installed netscape as it says to do in the instructions. Manual install that is, couldn't get the auto install program to work. How does one launch it? (I'm real new at this). I just get a message saying that that command isn't avalible or some such thing. Tim

eth0: bogus packet size with e2100

1999-02-01 Thread Eric
I'm trying to get a 486 with a Cabletron e21xx NIC in it to work. After much time trying to figure out what I/O port the NIC is on, I finally got it working at 0x380. It inserts the module and even assigns an IP to it just fine, but I can't ping anywhere and I continue to get kernel messages like

Re: hdparm

1999-02-01 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Rob Mahurin wrote: I am trying to set up hdparm to put my hard drive to sleep after a certain timout (the -S option, I think it is). I thought it would be prudent to go through and make certain that my hardware reacted OK before I set it up, not really expecting any

Re: Stupid Netscape question

1999-02-01 Thread ktb
First off I'm new to this also but try using, /usr/local/netscape/netscape at the prompt instead of netscape. This is where mine was installed and probably yours also. That is the full path name. If that brings up the browser then you need to add, /usr/local/netscape to Path= in /etc/profile

Silly question

1999-02-01 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
I'm sorry if this is a really silly question, but I was wondering where one goes to get apt-get and the necessary utilities to upgrade a hamm system to slink via ftp? Thanks for the help -Dan

kernel 2.0.36 compile problems

1999-02-01 Thread Robert Rati
OK, I just d/led kernel headers and source for kernel 2.0.36, but when I try and do a make xconfig, I get these errors: wish -f scripts/kconfig.tk WARNING - broken Config.in! CONFIG_PMAC was not declared! WARNING - broken Config.in! CONFIG_APOLLO was not declared! WARNING - broken Config.in!

kernel 2.0.36 question update

1999-02-01 Thread Robert Rati
I just discovered that when I uncompressed 2.2.1 tarball, it installed to the linux dir which was a symlink to my 2.0.36 dir, so I guess that is the major problem. Still, how do I apply to patch for kernel 2.2.1? Rob

Re: Stupid Netscape question

1999-02-01 Thread Art Lemasters
It should launch from a click on the Netscape Icon in X Windows if your windows manager has the icon. Otherwise, just enter netscape from an xterm or rxvt in X Windows. If that doesn't work, make sure that you started your installation with _the whole_ gzip'd Netscape file. Count the

Re: Crypt function

1999-02-01 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: I am trying to compile a C program that utilizes the crypt() function. It worked fine on another Linux box, but on my newly-installed system it says that crypt() is undefined or some such. How do I go about installing the library or telling gcc where to look

Re: help with symbolic links

1999-02-01 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 01 Feb 1999 00:31:23 -0600, Darknight wrote: I'm having trouble getting ftpd setup correctly. It seems that when I make a symbolic link, it works on the shell, however fails to work on ftp connections. Any ideas on how to make them work

RE: Crypt function

1999-02-01 Thread Shaleh
On 01-Feb-99 Ted Behling wrote: I am trying to compile a C program that utilizes the crypt() function. It worked fine on another Linux box, but on my newly-installed system it says that crypt() is undefined or some such. How do I go about installing the library or telling gcc where to look

Re: Stupid Netscape question

1999-02-01 Thread Johann Spies
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Tim Heuser wrote: Ok, so I've installed netscape as it says to do in the instructions. Manual install that is, couldn't get the auto install program to work. How does one launch it? (I'm real new at this). I just get a message saying that that command isn't avalible or

Re: I hate dselect

1999-02-01 Thread George Bonser
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . So following another suggestion on this list, I went into dselect and tried to put some stuff on Hold. Only thing is, dselect's Select option sucks! sucks! sucks! Maybe if I spent a few weeks learning all the nuances of dselect I could figure out how

Crypt function

1999-02-01 Thread Ted Behling
I am trying to compile a C program that utilizes the crypt() function. It worked fine on another Linux box, but on my newly-installed system it says that crypt() is undefined or some such. How do I go about installing the library or telling gcc where to look for it? I'm running Debian with

Re: Silly question

1999-02-01 Thread surak
I'm sorry if this is a really silly question, but I was wondering where one goes to get apt-get and the necessary utilities to upgrade a hamm system to slink via ftp? Well, the way I did it, a long time ago, was to grab the apt package from http://www.debian.org/~jgg and install it. Your best

truncated printing

1999-02-01 Thread Madarasz Karoly
Hello! I have a Debian 2.0 hamm system and a HP LaserJet 5L printer. I configured the magicfilter with HP Laserjet4. When I print a postscript page (A4) the printer is not informed about the end of job, I must press the eject page button, and the page is printed in 3/4 portion. The bottom 1/4

Re: Kernel 2.2.0 on a 486DX2/66

1999-02-01 Thread Carey Evans
Ralf G. R. Bergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is strange -- I too had a mysterious lockup with the same symptom you describe, but with 2.2.0 (the release version.). I'm running a 5X86-133 (this is a 486 from AMD) on an ASUS PCI/I-SP3. OK, so it might not have been the one-off I thought

[off topic] Video 7 video board

1999-02-01 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Hello, Does anyone have an idea were to find the switch/jumper setup on an old video seven 8 bit board. John C. Ellingboe

Re: XFree86 Almost Working...

1999-02-01 Thread M.C. Vernon
I am using the mach64 server and it appears to autoprobe my card OK using XF86Setup (The card isn't listed so I just left it to autoprobe the various settings). You may be better supplying what you know. If I set it up to run with 1024x768 I get 2-10seconds of flickering rolling lines and

Re: using dpgk

1999-02-01 Thread Jiri Baum
If someone could post a fill-in-the-blanks dpkg command I would really appreciate it. To install a deb: dpkg -i filename.deb HTH - for more info, try: dpkg | less Jiri [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnome-apt

1999-02-01 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Andreas, I installed Gnome-APT and looks good. But I have to install apt-0.3.0 and it hasnt ftp method. :( I think that the apt main programmer is Jason. Jason, are you already knowing this bug? Reggards, Paulo Henrique Quoting Andreas Sliwka

Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-02-01 Thread Helge Hafting
Those of you who have moved to 2.2.0---have you noticed serious improvements in performance over the 2.0.xx kernels? You won't see much improvements in performance for a machine that runs a light load only. This is typical for the home/hobby machines that many people have. Try pushing it

Re: Crypt function

1999-02-01 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello, == I am trying to compile a C program that utilizes the crypt() function. It worked fine on another Linux box, but on my newly-installed system it says that crypt() is undefined or some such. How do I go about installing the library or telling gcc where to look for it? I'm

Re: this guy talks to ff01a8c0 from loopback

1999-02-01 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /etc/init.d/network (stripped of comments) route add -host 127.0.0.1 lo ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 /usr/local/bin/socks5 -i -t You shouldn't

Re: How do file transfer with minicom?

1999-02-01 Thread Carey Evans
Blair Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would a kind person give me a simple example or point me at documentation with same that describes how to do a file transfer using minicom? I am unable to get kermit to work, and I have no experience with zmodem. I have been trying various combinations

Re: kernel 2.0.36 question update

1999-02-01 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello, == I just discovered that when I uncompressed 2.2.1 tarball, it installed to the linux dir which was a symlink to my 2.0.36 dir, so I guess that is the major problem. ;-) Yes, that surely caused a perfect mess. Still, how do I apply to patch for kernel 2.2.1? Assuming from your

Bootdisk / syslinux Problems

1999-02-01 Thread HPH
Hi, I recently got an old Dell 486 PC. I tried to install Debian 2.0 on it, but booting with a disk which is using syslinux is not working. I tried bootdisks from other distributions to make shure, that it's syslinux - same results. Booting from a RedHat 5.0 bootdisk, this one is not using

Re: Dselect and obsolet packages

1999-02-01 Thread Björn Elwhagen
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 11:46:59AM -0600, Gary L. Hennigan wrote this: However, it's also got a lot of packages in Obsolete sections. What do I do with these? Obsolete/local packages is packages that: 1. is old and now removed from the distribution. Although some of the packages might still

Re: What does this mean?

1999-02-01 Thread Björn Elwhagen
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 02:17:22PM -0600, Jesse Evans wrote this: [crack-lib talk] Branden, Cute. Ok, so I can ignore it safely. How can I stop it? Just remove the file cracklib in /etc/cron.daily/ and you should be just fine. // Marwin -- | Björn Elwhagen aka Marwin

dftp interrupted

1999-02-01 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
Last night I started dftp to update my system. After ist downloaded packages for some hours, the connection to my ISP was shut down. Is there a way how I can resume dftp with the packages it already downloaded? Stef

smail or sendmail

1999-02-01 Thread caa
i will be setting up a mailserver for the first time, can someone please suggest to me as what should i use, smail or sendmail .. i have tried using smail b4 and found it easy, but i only had a dial up (dynmic ip) connection then and also just used my ISPs forwarders, i am having a domain this

Re: smail or sendmail

1999-02-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
c == caa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: c i will be setting up a mailserver for the first time, can someone c please suggest to me as what should i use, smail or sendmail .. exim Exim is smail done right. *Very* good manual. Easy to setup and configure. Ciao, Martin

Re: reading /usr/doc files

1999-02-01 Thread Martin Waller
Use TkDesk (requires X...) and double click on them. They will be automatically opened up and displayed in a window for you. Martin Is there a tool for reading the oodles of documentation in /usr/doc, or do I just have to go in there, gunzip, and more?

ipchains and /dev/audio

1999-02-01 Thread Christopher R. Barry
I just installed the 2.2.1 kernel over 2.0.36. I couldn't find `/dev/audio' and `/dev/mixer' in the configuration options so sound is completely broken right now. What do I need to do to get `cat foo.au /dev/audio' to work again? Also, I use this WM dock-app called wmnet that used to use ipfwadm

Hard disk problem on istallation of Debian

1999-02-01 Thread Ólafur Freyr Hjálmsson
Hi I'm a bit new to Linux so excuse me for asking trivial questions. I tried to install Debian yesterday and made it as far as past selecting a color display :) when I try to run cfdisk on my hdb it exits with an error message (I didn't note it down, sorry) I looked closer at the startup

Debian 2.1

1999-02-01 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 782329
Hi, Does anyone know whats going on in the Debian world lately. Still no sign of 2.1 as of yet? Anyone know anything? Graham

Re: smail or sendmail

1999-02-01 Thread Art Lemasters
Martin, I've read many good things about the exim MTA here. *Is it as powerful (configurable) as sendmail?* I've run smail and sendmail--sendmail, because it's very standard for the work I'm getting into soon. Exim will be the next one I'll run, though, just to see what it will do.

Re: hdparm

1999-02-01 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 11:31:13PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote: If -y is ok, then -S should be ok. OK. I think that's the reassurance that I was looking for, that I'm not going to set this and find my system going down every ten minutes. My third question (which is actually not an

Re: ipchains and /dev/audio

1999-02-01 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Christopher R. Barry wrote: I just installed the 2.2.1 kernel over 2.0.36. I couldn't find `/dev/audio' and `/dev/mixer' in the configuration options so sound is completely broken right now. What do I need to do to get `cat foo.au /dev/audio' to work again? [stuff about ipchains cut] I am

Re: SCSI_error with ncr53c8xx

1999-02-01 Thread Armin Wegner
HTML BODY BGCOLOR=#FF After repartitioning my harddisk I wanted to reinstall hamm (2.0 r1). BRWhen I used dselect to install the packages I got the following error message BRwhile unpacking Xemacs20.4: PTTscsi: aborting command due to timeout: pid 26898, scsi 0, channel 0, id 0,

Re: dftp interrupted

1999-02-01 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Yes you should be able to run 'dftp getselect' again, but first you want to: 1) look in dftp's log file (/root/packages/.ftplog) to determine which file it was downloading when the connection was lost. Then go into the dftp archive (/root/packages/dists) and delete that (potentially) partial

Re: hdparm

1999-02-01 Thread Tom Pfeifer
07:01 $ ls /etc/rc.boot/hwtools ls: /etc/rc.boot/hwtools: No such file or directory I assume I get to create that? If you install the hwtools package (apt-get install hwtools), it will put a default script file there. The default file has everything commented out, so it does nothing

Re: ipchains and /dev/audio

1999-02-01 Thread Chris Frost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Christopher R. Barry wrote: Also, I use this WM dock-app called wmnet that used to use ipfwadm which needed the IP Accounting kernel configuration option. I now need to use ipchains to do this, but get always get an error like:

Re: Help me to install Debian 2.0

1999-02-01 Thread virtanen
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Cristiano Viana wrote: I am trying to install Debian but when I try to install the software packages, I can't mount the CD ROM. Some people here told me to install the isofs module, but this module is not listed in the fs section of the modules selection. Did you manage

Re: scsi tape

1999-02-01 Thread Ramin Motakef
David B. Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are adaptors that allow backward conpatibility all the way to SCSI I, I know I am using a SCSI II controller on a couple of SCSI devices, but when I moved from An Adaptec 1540A to eht 2840, I had to reformat all drives, and I was desperately

Debian appears as a commercial distribution ???

1999-02-01 Thread Jose Rodriguez
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/cte102.htm

Re: Do you still need screensavers these days?

1999-02-01 Thread Shao Zhang
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Carl Fink wrote: In linux.debian.user, Stefan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I remember reading somewhere that you don't really need screensavers anymore with modern monitors to prevent damage to them, and that the only reason to run them is to show off to your colleagues

PPP and Modem Question

1999-02-01 Thread Danny R. Gray
Hello everyone, Well after a couple of months I decided to connect to my ISP. I have a machine at the local firestation that I want to use as an IPMasq server and my home PC. Both have given me a bit of a problem. I am running Debian - hamm on both. Fire Dept. box first: I can find the

Re: hdparm

1999-02-01 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Rob Mahurin wrote: 07:01 $ ls /etc/rc.boot/hwtools ls: /etc/rc.boot/hwtools: No such file or directory I assume I get to create that? Oops, it's part of the hwtools package. I guess the package split because there was a line commented out for hdparm. My part of the

installing/using an old IBM tape drive

1999-02-01 Thread James D. Freels
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to linux.debian.user as well. I have an old IBM Model 7207-001 scsi tape drive that I have obtained from some old IBM RS/6K equipment we are no longer using. I would like to use the tape drive as a backup device even

gnome + gtk + dpkg

1999-02-01 Thread Graham Ashton
I've finally decided to bite the bullet, and install GNOME. I'm running hamm, without any packages from slink or potato installed. I've downloaded the .deb files for the basic gnome system from ftp.gnome.org, and thought I'd try and work out how to install them with dpkg. The problem is, it's

Re: Quicktime player for Linux?

1999-02-01 Thread Greg Starkes
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Jim Foltz wrote: On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 06:36:01PM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: Does anyone know of a Quicktime .MOV player for Linux? xanim The problem with xanim though is the fact that it loads the entire movie into memory before playing. Try playing a 80Mb mov

Re: netscape

1999-02-01 Thread Tim Heuser
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Ok, so I've installed netscape as it says to do in the | instructions. Manual install that is, couldn't get the auto | install program to work. How does one launch it? (I'm real new at | this). I just get a message saying that that command isn't | avalible or

Changing ethernet cards

1999-02-01 Thread Danny R. Gray
Hello again, Another question for the group: I am going to switch out a 3C509 card and replace it with a Parallel Port Xircom Pocket Ethernet adaptor III. How do I list, add and remove the card modules from the kernel without doing a re-install? -- Danny R. Gray Research Technician

Re: Stupid Netscape question

1999-02-01 Thread Tim Heuser
Johann Spies wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Tim Heuser wrote: Ok, so I've installed netscape as it says to do in the instructions. Manual install that is, couldn't get the auto install program to work. How does one launch it? (I'm real new at this). I just get a message saying that that

Re: help with symbolic links

1999-02-01 Thread Michael E. Touloumtzis
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 10:35:00PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: On Mon, 01 Feb 1999 00:31:23 -0600, Darknight wrote: I'm having trouble getting ftpd setup correctly. It seems that when I make a symbolic link, it works on the shell, however fails to work on ftp connections. Any ideas on how

Re: Stupid Netscape question

1999-02-01 Thread Tim Heuser
Art Lemasters wrote: It should launch from a click on the Netscape Icon in X Windows if your windows manager has the icon. Otherwise, just enter netscape from an xterm or rxvt in X Windows. I tried launching from the icon in TKDesk, but it didn't work. It didn't think eth program

Re: Quicktime player for Linux?

1999-02-01 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi, On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 06:36:01PM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: Does anyone know of a Quicktime .MOV player for Linux? xanim The problem with xanim though is the fact that it loads the entire movie into memory before playing. Try playing a 80Mb mov when your total memory + swap is

Re: Stupid Netscape question

1999-02-01 Thread Tim Heuser
I did change to the /usr/local/netscape/ dir and tried to run it. I'll check the profile file. Thanks TIm ktb wrote: First off I'm new to this also but try using, /usr/local/netscape/netscape at the prompt instead of netscape. This is where mine was installed and probably yours also.

Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-02-01 Thread Lawrence Walton
I have found almost miraculous performance gains. *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - - On Sun, 31 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |

Re: Stupid Netscape question

1999-02-01 Thread Tim Heuser
This time I got a can not execute binary file [exit 127] Ideas?

Modem freezeup again

1999-02-01 Thread ktb
I posted a couple days ago (to Debian User's) about my modem freezing up. I got a couple suggestions and am now getting around to trying to solve this problem. The problem has increased in frequency so that every time after logging off using poff my modem can't be accessed. I have to shut the

Re: kernel 2.0.36 question update

1999-02-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Peter Paluch wrote: Hello, == I just discovered that when I uncompressed 2.2.1 tarball, it installed to the linux dir which was a symlink to my 2.0.36 dir, so I guess that is the major problem. ;-) Yes, that surely caused a perfect mess. Still, how do I

Re: Debian 2.1

1999-02-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Graham Lillico +44 1785 782329 wrote: Hi, Does anyone know whats going on in the Debian world lately. Still no sign of 2.1 as of yet? Anyone know anything? 2.1 is still in the 'frozen' state until all the bugs get resolved. These things take time and it is difficult

Re: PPP and Modem Question

1999-02-01 Thread Kent West
Danny R. Gray wrote: Hello everyone, Well after a couple of months I decided to connect to my ISP. I have a machine at the local firestation that I want to use as an IPMasq server and my home PC. Both have given me a bit of a problem. I am running Debian - hamm on both. [snip] My

chmod script

1999-02-01 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Does anybody have a script for changing all the dirs and subdirs into mode 700 and all the files into mode 600 ? If I do a chmod 700 -R then all the files get changed to 700... :-/ TIA! -- p.

x11amp deb?

1999-02-01 Thread Daniel Elenius
Does anyone know where one can find x11amp as a debian package. I certainly have it on my computer: ii x11ampg 0.7-1 X11 amp, a mp3 player but I don't remember where I got it, and it isn't on the official debian sites. Also a more recent version would be nice, but it's too much

Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-02-01 Thread Philip Thiem
My roommate and I noticed that it booted up much faster. Probablly because of the new PCI ide driver, and the bus mastering support but my chipset VIA is still under experimental :( [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | 2.2.0 will be available in deb packages, Real Soon Now (tm), | I'm sure.

connecting a zip

1999-02-01 Thread krosigk
Hello, I´m trying to connect my Iomega ZIP drive over the parallel port to my debian 2.0 R?4?. I configured the kernel with modul support for lp and ppa. I can do without problems a insmod lp but when I try to make a insmod ppa I get: ppa: Version 1.42 ppa: Probing port 03bc ppa: Probing port 0278

Why Linux can crash when connected to internet?

1999-02-01 Thread Conrado Badenas
My GNU/Linux Pentium machine with Debian Hamm (and some packages from Slink) crashes completely at random intervals (from 5 minutes to 1 hour), and preferably in the morning. But only when I am connected to internet When I unplug the ethernet cable from the netcard I can be working for endless

is this mailing list still up?

1999-02-01 Thread ulisses
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Re: Why Linux can crash when connected to internet?

1999-02-01 Thread Kent West
Conrado Badenas wrote: My GNU/Linux Pentium machine with Debian Hamm (and some packages from Slink) crashes completely at random intervals (from 5 minutes to 1 hour), and preferably in the morning. But only when I am connected to internet When I unplug the ethernet cable from the netcard I

unknown libs

1999-02-01 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I have some warning when install new packages and cant figure how to solve this: ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libUnidraw.so.0 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libTime.so.0 (No such file or

TK installation

1999-02-01 Thread ktb
I've never attempted anything like this before so I really have no clue. What I'm trying to do is ultimately install the aol instant messenger program for unix. To do this I have to install Tcl/Tk. I don't know what they are for but I followed the directions and installed Tcl just fine, I

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