Re: dpkg and configuring packages

1999-02-16 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
On 16 Feb, J K wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering how to configure packages that I installed with > dpkg -i .deb. After installing a package, I got a message > saying package depends on another file, and that that file was not > installed. I have installed the other package now, and wonder ho

xterm-debian?

1999-02-16 Thread Navindra Umanee
Montreal Tue Feb 16 18:22:18 1999 Does anyone know why the default TERM for xterm under Hamm is xterm-debian? No other remote system has this term type defined and when I ssh from an xterm to such a remote system, I always get errors. (I'm aware of solutions like if TERM == xterm-debian then TER

dpkg and configuring packages

1999-02-16 Thread J K
Hello, I was wondering how to configure packages that I installed with dpkg -i .deb. After installing a package, I got a message saying package depends on another file, and that that file was not installed. I have installed the other package now, and wonder how to configure the first package.

Re: Tex

1999-02-16 Thread Mark Phillips
> Hate to sound stupid but just what is TeTex? What is it used for? It provides "TeX" and "LaTeX". This allows you to do word processing with a difference. They are a bit like a programming language that allow you to program nice looking documents. You can think about "TeX" as a lower level lan

Re: loadlin...

1999-02-16 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 16:45:12 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Partition check: > hda hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 > >VFS: Cannot open root device 08:02 >Kernel panic VFS: Unable to mount root rs on 08:02 > >If someone could explain the meaning of this message I'd appreciate it. >Note: I ha

Re: Ejecting scsi tape

1999-02-16 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Chris Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Is there a way to have my system automatically eject a tape from my scsi | tape drive? I'm wanting to add this to my backup script, so I don't | forget to change to tape and overwrite a backup. man mt Short answer: mt -f /dev/nst0 rewoff Gary

Re: GUI stuff

1999-02-16 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, David Webster wrote: > I am wanting to start some GUI development but I am having a hard time > figuring out just what the GUI development is? I see that the GTK > libaraires are the base C++ GUI class libraries, but I also see stuff > like Gnome and qt* and Glib, and other s

Re: Tex

1999-02-16 Thread ktb
I don't really know much about it but this should tell you all you need to know: http://www.freenix.org/unix/linux/HOWTO-vo/TeTeX-HOWTO-1.html Take care, Kent

Re: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 11:32:56AM -0500, Person, Roderick wrote: > I don't think this is the case since this the drive is a Western Digital > 26400 Caviar and it does report 6GB excatly it reports 6.14...GB I have a 6.4Gb Caviar. It shows as about 6Gb (in 1024 byte kbs). Hamish -- Hamish Moffa

Kanji characters?

1999-02-16 Thread homega
Hi, I have someone who needs to look at some web pages in Japanese. So far, Netscape shows some strange characters (they look nearly as strange as the right ones to me). Does anyone know how to do this? He is right now trying to download some M$ modules for IE (I hope his machine breaks down).

XFree86 3.3.3

1999-02-16 Thread John Welling
Anyone have any idea when XFree86 3.3.3 will be included in the debian release?

Ejecting scsi tape

1999-02-16 Thread Chris Hoover
Is there a way to have my system automatically eject a tape from my scsi tape drive? I'm wanting to add this to my backup script, so I don't forget to change to tape and overwrite a backup. thanks

Re: Strange 'find' result

1999-02-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 05:31:22PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > > Can somebody explain this to me? > > > > > > $ find /cdrom -iname wx* > > > $ find /cdrom -iname wxx* > > > /cdrom/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/libs

loadlin...

1999-02-16 Thread smarks
In an effort to avoid dealing with floppies, I tried following the install instructions for using loadinlin after dl the appropriate file to MS DOS partition. However, I am still having trouble, however, the trouble seems to be different then the trouble I was having with the kernel on the 2.0 cd.

Re: hiding sterr

1999-02-16 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 02/16/99 at 16:58:42, tracheotomy bob wrote concerning "hiding sterr": > Hi all > How do I hide error messages displaying on the console? I'm trying > to set up IPX and whenever I get it wrong the screen is flooded with > error messages I don't know how to redirect them to either a file o

Re: Best partitioning scheme?

1999-02-16 Thread Kent West
At 02:30 PM 2/16/1999 -0600, Kent West wrote: >I just inherited a machine with 4 SCSI drives, 2GB each. It'll be a >Micro$oft-free zone. It'll be an a LAN with several of us technicians (7 or >so) having access to it for storage of files mostly, so I'm thinking of >this for the partitioning scheme.

Tex

1999-02-16 Thread David Webster
Hate to sound stupid but just what is TeTex? What is it used for?

Adaptec 7770?

1999-02-16 Thread Joao Paulo Figueiredo
Hi, I'm tryng to install Debian 2.0.34 on a HP LM server with a Adaptec 7770 built-in board. When I trie to install it gives me an error like the following: No BIOS32 Extensions. This driver depends on it... And then he crash, dumping all the core image (if it is usefull I will post it). I sear

Re: XFree86 is 3.3.3.

1999-02-16 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Peter Paluch wrote: > The problem is that there are enough office packages with very interesting > features, but they are simply not usable everywhere. If someone is doing > some program (like word processor) under XWindow, why doesn't he make it > locale-compliant, as every pr

Firewall

1999-02-16 Thread Tony Schonfeld
Hello Everybody , i need to found a package in Debian who can provide a solid firewall easy to setup. Any idea ? Thanks per advance for reply Tony Schonfeld - F5GIT - GRENOBLE - Phone: (33) 0610104815 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - WWW: http://schonfeld.iscool.net Hamnet (ax25): [E

Re: Best partitioning scheme?

1999-02-16 Thread Helge Hafting
> I just inherited a machine with 4 SCSI drives, 2GB each. It'll be a > Micro$oft-free zone. It'll be an a LAN with several of us technicians (7 or > so) having access to it for storage of files mostly, so I'm thinking of > this for the partitioning scheme. > > Drive 1: > 200 MB = / I have 30M

Re: Best partitioning scheme?

1999-02-16 Thread Michael Procario
The /var looks large unless you are running servers that keep their files there. The mail spools are in /var and the web server can be configured to keep files there. On my machine which is a single user desktop which does run a mail server I have 26 currently MB in my /var directory. I use pr

Re: SCSI errors on Install

1999-02-16 Thread Kent West
At 04:02 PM 2/16/1999 -0500, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: >On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Kent West wrote: > >> In trying to run INSTALL.BAT off the Cheapbytes hamm CD, it gets to a point >> where it tries to scan the SCSI bus and it goes into a loop containing the >> following: >[...] >> This is my first exper

Re: XFree86 is 3.3.3.

1999-02-16 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 09:23:34AM +1300, David Zanetti wrote: > That is, until it dselect comes along an upgrades the X servers :( > > Several times already my 3.3.3 SVGA server has been nuked by dselect, > and 3.3.2 doesn't support my TNT board :( This would imply that you're using 3.3.3 debs

Re: slink=frozen still??

1999-02-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
Ken Long wrote: > > Hi there. I'm curious about something. > > When is the target for slink to be released now?? > > Looking back, I see that it was officially frozen on November 4th and the > information on the web page states a target date of sometime in December of > 1998 for release. Well,

Re: dmesg: What file?

1999-02-16 Thread Frozen Rose
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sebastian Canagaratna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi: I was under the impression that the command dmesg >just typed out the contents of /var/log/kern.log. This >does not seem to be true. What is the file which dmesg >is displaying? I believe the kernel keeps a cir

Re: SCSI errors on Install

1999-02-16 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Kent West wrote: > In trying to run INSTALL.BAT off the Cheapbytes hamm CD, it gets to a point > where it tries to scan the SCSI bus and it goes into a loop containing the > following: [...] > This is my first experience with SCSI, so I don't know where to begin. First thin

Re: running Exim with inetd / headder rewrite

1999-02-16 Thread Frozen Rose
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kenneth F. Ryder III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [exim in inetd.conf] >smtp stream tcpnowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/exim -bs I've got: smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/exim -bs i.e. I run exim as user "mail" rather than

New Dual Mount Copy Holder by Rubbermaid

1999-02-16 Thread remove
Amazing new copy holder can be mounted directly on your computer monitor or it can be used freestanding. Unique design is specifically engineered to increase your efficiency while reducing eye strain, stress, and fatigue. Quality Rubbermaid features include adjustable viewing positions, non-gl

Re: deb. kernel patch

1999-02-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
ktb wrote: > > Hi, I'm looking for debinized kernel patches for my 2.0.34 kernel. I've > been looking at the Debian ftp site and can't find anything. Maybe what > I'm looking for isn't there. Where can I find them? In general how do > you ever find anything at an ftp site? Isn't there a list

Re: dmesg: What file?

1999-02-16 Thread Remco van de Meent
Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > Hi: I was under the impression that the command dmesg just typed out the > contents of /var/log/kern.log. This does not seem to be true. What is the > file which dmesg is displaying? It uses the klogd to display the information (kernel log daemon). Try strace/ltrace

Re: Installazione di Debian

1999-02-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
Marco Frattola wrote: > > Come si esegue la partizione del disco rigido, senza cancellare dati utili > gia' residenti? > Grazie mille, > > Un nuovo utente di Linux Debian un po' confuso. > > fabio, questa mailing list e' internzionale ed e' obbligo e cortesia > usare l'inglese > > translation o

Error Installin XBase

1999-02-16 Thread Daniel . Farmer
When i run dpkg on the xbase_3_3_2_3-2.deb file i receive the following error: can not create symbolic link '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc' to '../../../doc/X11': no such file or directory Any one have any guesses. I've installed xlib6g_3_3_2_3-2.deb and

SCSI errors on Install

1999-02-16 Thread Kent West
In trying to run INSTALL.BAT off the Cheapbytes hamm CD, it gets to a point where it tries to scan the SCSI bus and it goes into a loop containing the following: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - resetting SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 0) timed

RE: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-16 Thread Person, Roderick
I thought this was the case, that Linux did need the Bios. I know that my BIOS isn't read the drive correctly. In fact it does even reach a GB when I put the C/H/S in the setup. Which is why I assumed the the Kernal did not read beyond 6.0GB. So Now I'm back to it's a problem with the drive >

RE: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-16 Thread David Zanetti
I've never had any such problems with both of my 6.4 Western Digital's, both the 36400 and the 26400. I'd check they're being picked up correctly by the probing (ie, C/H/S).. Other than that I'd look at BIOS issues, but I seem to recall Linux doesn't use the BIOSes idea of drives for a lot... Davi

KDE

1999-02-16 Thread Cuno Sonnemans
hello, KDE won't run I'have installed: qt 1.42 qt1g-dev(dselect, from contrib) libjpegg-dev(dselect, from binary) KDE (dselect, from contrib and non-free) this is what I get (example) kaudioserver: error in loading shared libraries libmediatool.so.0: cannot open shared o

Best partitioning scheme?

1999-02-16 Thread Kent West
I just inherited a machine with 4 SCSI drives, 2GB each. It'll be a Micro$oft-free zone. It'll be an a LAN with several of us technicians (7 or so) having access to it for storage of files mostly, so I'm thinking of this for the partitioning scheme. Drive 1: 200 MB = / 1.8 GB = /usr Drive 2:

Re: XFree86 is 3.3.3.

1999-02-16 Thread Remco van de Meent
David Zanetti wrote: > That is, until it dselect comes along an upgrades the X servers :( > > Several times already my 3.3.3 SVGA server has been nuked by dselect, > and 3.3.2 doesn't support my TNT board :( An easy fix of course is to put your new (3.3.3) server in /usr/local/X11/bin or somethin

RE: Acroread plugin crashes Netscape-4.5-libc6

1999-02-16 Thread David Zanetti
On a related note, the normal acrobat reader dies horribly under slink for me. Probably libraries, but as it's closed source I can't recompile it.. *curses quietly* David Zanetti, Unix System Administrator, Information Technology Group Wellington City Council, New Zealand. Phone x3354 or 04 801 33

RE: XFree86 is 3.3.3.

1999-02-16 Thread David Zanetti
That is, until it dselect comes along an upgrades the X servers :( Several times already my 3.3.3 SVGA server has been nuked by dselect, and 3.3.2 doesn't support my TNT board :( David Zanetti, Unix System Administrator, Information Technology Group Wellington City Council, New Zealand. Phone x33

Re: GUI stuff

1999-02-16 Thread Kirk Hogenson
David Webster wrote: > > I am wanting to start some GUI development but I am having a hard time > figuring out just what the GUI development is? I see that the GTK > libaraires are the base C++ GUI class libraries, but I also see stuff > like Gnome and qt* and Glib, and other stuff. Gnome is bas

Re: slink=frozen still??

1999-02-16 Thread servis
*- On 16 Feb, Ken Long wrote about "slink=frozen still??" > > Hi there. I'm curious about something. > > When is the target for slink to be released now?? > http://www.netgod.net/footer.cgi > Looking back, I see that it was officially frozen on November 4th and the > information on the web pa

Re: Strange 'find' result

1999-02-16 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: > In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > Can somebody explain this to me? > > > > $ find /cdrom -iname wx* > > $ find /cdrom -iname wxx* > > /cdrom/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/libs/wxxt1_1.66d-2.deb > > > > Why does the first 'find' query give no results? >

Re: Floppy Drive Alignment Software

1999-02-16 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
On 16 Feb, Person, Roderick wrote: > Hi All, > > My 3.5 floppy is out of alignment, I know for other OSs there is software to > help you align your drive is there any for Debian or Linux in general. > > thanks > Rod > > Alignment? Are you sure? I thought that alignment problems needed an osc

Pop authentication from a Netware server?

1999-02-16 Thread Dale E. Martin
Hello. I've almost convinced a company to use a Linux box for mail service on their network of 15 workstations. They're running Novell 5 as their main network OS. What I've proposed to them is to install a Linux box to connect to their dual ISDN Internet connection, and to run their mail servi

Re: "green" linux user needs CRON clarification

1999-02-16 Thread sawitt
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, William Schwartz wrote: > There is a filed called "crontab" in the "etc" directory. That is my "system > wide" crontab. This file I am able to edit and modify... > > then there are crontab files in the "/var/spool/cron/crontabs" directory > that are to be edited with the cr

slink=frozen still??

1999-02-16 Thread Ken Long
Hi there. I'm curious about something. When is the target for slink to be released now?? Looking back, I see that it was officially frozen on November 4th and the information on the web page states a target date of sometime in December of 1998 for release. Well, it's February of 1999 now and i

Re: changing timezone

1999-02-16 Thread Matthew Myers
use tzconfig Pollywog wrote: > > I must have goofed when I set my timezone during Debian installation. Is > there a way to change this? > > Thanks > > -- > Andrew > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Matthew D. Myers ==

Installazione di Debian

1999-02-16 Thread Marco Frattola
Come si esegue la partizione del disco rigido, senza cancellare dati utili gia' residenti? Grazie mille, Un nuovo utente di Linux Debian un po' confuso. fabio, questa mailing list e' internzionale ed e' obbligo e cortesia usare l'inglese translation of user question for non-italian speaker: how

Re:dfm

1999-02-16 Thread John Greer
i have icewm and dfm running on my system at home and i am now trying to get DFM set up so that when I view a directory I can assign icons to files depending on the icon. The man page for DFM tells how to do this using a .dfmext file in my home directory but when I do this all of the icons dis

changing timezone

1999-02-16 Thread Pollywog
I must have goofed when I set my timezone during Debian installation. Is there a way to change this? Thanks -- Andrew

GUI stuff

1999-02-16 Thread David Webster
I am wanting to start some GUI development but I am having a hard time figuring out just what the GUI development is? I see that the GTK libaraires are the base C++ GUI class libraries, but I also see stuff like Gnome and qt* and Glib, and other stuff. Is there any online documentation that sorts

Re: hiding sterr

1999-02-16 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, tracheotomy bob wrote: > Hi all > How do I hide error messages displaying on the console? I'm trying > to set up IPX and whenever I get it wrong the screen is flooded with > error messages I don't know how to redirect them to either a file or > /dev/null. Any suggestion

Re: accessing debian from an hpterm

1999-02-16 Thread Carl Johnson
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have an HP-UX workstation where I work; if I connect to my Debian box > using an hpterm window, the terminal emulation is appalling. > > Arrow keys don't work for command line history (but it looks like hpterm isn't > actually sending anything to th

deb. kernel patch

1999-02-16 Thread ktb
Hi, I'm looking for debinized kernel patches for my 2.0.34 kernel. I've been looking at the Debian ftp site and can't find anything. Maybe what I'm looking for isn't there. Where can I find them? In general how do you ever find anything at an ftp site? Isn't there a list of the paths to what y

Re: trouble booting from CD

1999-02-16 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 12:34:12 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >However, at this point, the machine hangs. Is there anything I can do to get >around this problem? (I tried Loadln with the file from the cd and got the >same results.) Obviously you don't have a problem booting from CD, but you have a

Re: slink install messed up hamm partition

1999-02-16 Thread John Hasler
John Bagdanoff writes: > That was a stock 0setserial, just with the change to irq3 as I mentioned > before. When I updated packages from slink, setserial (_2.14-3) was one > that I upgraded to. So I reverted to the hamm setserial (_2.12-6) and > now the change to irq3 stays permanent. I didn't u

trouble booting from CD

1999-02-16 Thread smarks
Hi, I have a ThinkPad 600. I can boot from the 2.0 CD OK. I hit return to begin install. Loading root.bin goes by ok. Next I see: Loading Linux.. That seems to complete, as the cursor moves to the next line. However, at this point, the machine hangs. Is there anything I can do to get ar

Re: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-16 Thread homega
Lewis, James M. dixit: > Just a guess. I think it sees the whole thing. Disk drive makers > sometimes use 1000bytes as 1k, whereas, most folks use 1024. The disk > folks think 1,000,000,000 bytes is 1G. Others think 1,073,741,824 bytes > is 1G. 6 x 1G = 6,442,459,944 bytes. Which 6.4G if you

Re: filename conversion

1999-02-16 Thread servis
*- On 16 Feb, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "filename conversion" > hello everyone, > i just uploaded some 800++ files to my debian box (from a windoze box) and > found out that all filenames had been transformed to their uppercase > equivalent ... > anybody knows how do i convert all these f

RE: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-16 Thread Person, Roderick
If I get what your saying here. Linux does report the correct heads,sectors, cylinders as the manufacture claims are on the disk. But it only reports 6.1GB FDISK sees only this too. Rod > -- > From: Philippe Andersson[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 1

dmesg: What file?

1999-02-16 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: I was under the impression that the command dmesg just typed out the contents of /var/log/kern.log. This does not seem to be true. What is the file which dmesg is displaying? Sebastian Canagaratna Department of Chemistry Ohio NOrthern University Ada, OH 45810

Re: Problems compiling Sendmail 8.9.3

1999-02-16 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Matthew Myers wrote: > When I try to compile Sendmail 8.9.3 with the Berkley DB routines from > sleepycat.com, I get two errors about unresolved externals. Can someone > tell me what to try? My first suggestion (if this is for i386) would be to just get the .deb and install

hiding sterr

1999-02-16 Thread tracheotomy bob
Hi all How do I hide error messages displaying on the console? I'm trying to set up IPX and whenever I get it wrong the screen is flooded with error messages I don't know how to redirect them to either a file or /dev/null. Any suggestions would be helpful thanks

Re: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-16 Thread Philippe Andersson
Hi folks, I may be missing the point here, but it looks to me that if you use the hdparm utility (DOS utility - you'll have to put it on a DOS boot floppy) to check the drive geometry as reported by the BIOS, then go to Linux and check that fdisk uses the same geometry parameters, you can verify t

Weird memory allocate problem

1999-02-16 Thread Chris Kaltwasser
Hello - I've been running Debian 2.0 on an HP Brio, PMMX166, 16 M RAM. This morning I was greeted by a bizarre message when I tried to log in at the console -- some of the messages flashed by too quickly b/c mingetty cleared the screen, but there was a memory error for crypt, and after a few trie

Re: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-16 Thread David B. Teague
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: > I just bought a 6.4GB but Linux only reads it as 6.0GB, which Kernal do I > need to get the full access Roderick: Are you sure that isn't an "Unformatted size"? I had that happen to me just recently: My HDD was advertised as a 10.4 gig drive, (they

exmh broken again

1999-02-16 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
grr. As of yestderday's updates to frozen, exmh seems to be broken again. It gives an error of invalid command name "Gpg_Init" while executing "Gpg_Init" (procedure "Pgp_Init" line 157) invoked from within "Pgp_Init" (procedure "Exmh" line 112) invoked from within "Exmh"

Re: XFree86 is 3.3.3.

1999-02-16 Thread Remco van de Meent
Peter Paluch wrote: > Again - I am terribly sorry if I offended someone. I didn't mean it so, > indeed. You maybe don't see this event to be so serious than I see it, but > in fact the present state doesn't allow me to use my native language on > Linux. I didn't think you offended someone. At leas

RE: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-16 Thread Person, Roderick
I don't think this is the case since this the drive is a Western Digital 26400 Caviar and it does report 6GB excatly it reports 6.14...GB > -- > From: Lewis, James M. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 10:56 AM > To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org';

filename conversion

1999-02-16 Thread caa
hello everyone, i just uploaded some 800++ files to my debian box (from a windoze box) and found out that all filenames had been transformed to their uppercase equivalent ... anybody knows how do i convert all these files back to their lowercase equivalent while keeping the numbers and the d

X won't load

1999-02-16 Thread Bach, David S
I get the following messages when doing startx: -- X: exec of failed _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 _X11TransSocket

ATN: running Exim with inetd / headder rewrite

1999-02-16 Thread Kenneth F. Ryder III
A problem occurred (on my system with Exim) that made some mail bounce (now fixed) and caused me to be removed from the list, right after I sent my message about Exim if anyone could forward their responses to my original mail "running Exim with inetd / headder rewrite" to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Libraries for Enlightenment

1999-02-16 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello! == > I haven't found > imlib1, not even at debian's ftp site... where could I find it? does it > belong to some other package? You can find imlib in slink distribution, the graphics directory. > It is also required to have libc6 (>=2.0.7u), and I have libc6 2.0.7t-1 (hamm) > installe

RE: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-16 Thread Lewis, James M.
Just a guess. I think it sees the whole thing. Disk drive makers sometimes use 1000bytes as 1k, whereas, most folks use 1024. The disk folks think 1,000,000,000 bytes is 1G. Others think 1,073,741,824 bytes is 1G. 6 x 1G = 6,442,459,944 bytes. Which 6.4G if you use the 1000 for 1k base. It d

Re: Curious Question.

1999-02-16 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Lawrence Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I am not sure that's always true; try looking at addgroup in redhat and | addgroup in debian. Or the different choices UID's, or file placement. | Enough that I rather dislike distro hopping. | | /Blatant Debian plug/ | Also I almost alway agree with D

"green" linux user needs CRON clarification

1999-02-16 Thread William Schwartz
OK, I've been having problems understanding something. I'm new to debian, and I still cant figure this out about cron... I have read the man pages, but I'm still not clear. There is a filed called "crontab" in the "etc" directory. That is my "system wide" crontab. This file I am able to edit and m

Problems compiling Sendmail 8.9.3

1999-02-16 Thread Matthew Myers
When I try to compile Sendmail 8.9.3 with the Berkley DB routines from sleepycat.com, I get two errors about unresolved externals. Can someone tell me what to try? -- Matthew D. Myers Catch me after work, I'll buy you a beer.

Re: newest ncp

1999-02-16 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello, == > I am trying to use ncpmount to mount subdirectories on a Novell > Netware server, but my current version of ncpfs only allows the > mounting of volumes - not subdirectories. I was wondering if > anyone knew if there was a newer version available that DOES allow > you to mount

Libraries for Enlightenment

1999-02-16 Thread homega
Hi, I downloaded enlightenment 0.14-6, enlightenment-docs, enlightenment-theme and econfigedit .deb packages. For the library requirements, I managed to find libesd0, libfnlib0, libpng2, libtiff3g, giflib3g (instead of libungif3g), and zlib1g 1.1.3-2. I haven't found imlib1, not even at debian's

Re: XFree86 is 3.3.3.

1999-02-16 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello again, > > 1.) There is not even one (!) word processor which is able to export the > > documents in MS Office97 format and is working properly with Slovak locale > > in XWin. > > You don't need to blame, nor Debian, nor Linux in general, that M$Office is > being used at your o

RE: ISP connect

1999-02-16 Thread Bill Bell
I have USED MSN untill recently. I found that I needed to give my user name in the following format: "MSN/user_name" (including the quotes for chatscript) This may help. Bill Bell >> I use the KDE window to configure dial-up settings. I have reconfigured the >> connect script to this: >>

Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-16 Thread Person, Roderick
I just bought a 6.4GB but Linux only reads it as 6.0GB, which Kernal do I need to get the full access Thanks.

Re: XFree86 is 3.3.3.

1999-02-16 Thread David B. Teague
> > Graham Lillico +44 1785 782329 wrote: > > > Does anyone know if XFree86 is 3.3.3.x is avaliable in deb format > > > anywhere? Or when we will have one avaliable? As I understand it, you need to go to www.XFree.org, find the 3.3.3 server for your card, and copy it over the 3.3.2 server. I h

Re: XFree86 is 3.3.3.

1999-02-16 Thread Remco van de Meent
Peter Paluch wrote: > 1.) There is not even one (!) word processor which is able to export the > documents in MS Office97 format and is working properly with Slovak locale > in XWin. You don't need to blame, nor Debian, nor Linux in general, that M$Office is being used at your office. If they want

Acroread plugin crashes Netscape-4.5-libc6

1999-02-16 Thread servis
Has anyone had any luck getting the Acrobat reader plugin to work in Netscape-4.5-libc6 packages? Without fail it crashes netscape. Thanks, -- Brian - "Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, be

[vim] :se num -> underlined numbers

1999-02-16 Thread Graham Ashton
I've got vim installed on both hamm and slink boxes, versions 5.0 and 5.3 of vim respectively, and use both from the same remote rxvt session. When I switch line numbering on in 5.0, everything looks fine. When I switch it on in 5.3, the line numbers themselves are underlined. It's really annoying

newest ncp

1999-02-16 Thread Ben Frame
I am trying to use ncpmount to mount subdirectories on a Novell Netware server, but my current version of ncpfs only allows the mounting of volumes - not subdirectories. I was wondering if anyone knew if there was a newer version available that DOES allow you to mount a specific subdirectory?

Floppy Drive Alignment Software

1999-02-16 Thread Person, Roderick
Hi All, My 3.5 floppy is out of alignment, I know for other OSs there is software to help you align your drive is there any for Debian or Linux in general. thanks Rod

Installazione di Debian

1999-02-16 Thread Fabio Drigani
Come si esegue la partizione del disco rigido, senza cancellare dati utili gia' residenti? Grazie mille, Un nuovo utente di Linux Debian un po' confuso. Fabio [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CDROM trouble and Kernel message.

1999-02-16 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I saw a test patch on linux-kernel this morning, for what sounds like the same problem you're having. I'll take a look and see if I can find it again. On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 10:15:26PM +0100, Björn Elwhagen wrote: > Hello! > > I'm having some strange problems. I can't eject my CDROM even tho it

Re: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-16 Thread Richard Lyon
> David Webster wrote: > > > > Well Windows and OS/2 don't seem to have a problem with letting you > > configure your sound stuff right up front. How hard is it to add a > > sound item to modconf screen used in in the "Drivers Configuration" > > phase of the install?. Afterall, these drivers are

Re: Installing DOS and ATAPI CD probs

1999-02-16 Thread Richard Lyon
> Else, since reinstallation the CDROM driver is not working well. It's and > OTI-HERMES ATAPI (primary slave) and during installation gave many errors > like: > hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 > hdb: ATAPI reset complete > > and I'm having a hard time to mount it or to run dselect with it. > I

Re: Can't Mount a Zip Drive

1999-02-16 Thread Richard Lyon
Hi, I have a SCSII zip installed on a hamm system. During boot with no disk in the drive I get the following messages: aha152x: processing commandline: ok aha152x: BIOS test: passed, detected 1 controller(s) aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x140, IRQ=11, SCSI ID=7, reconnect=enabled, parity=enab

Re: dselect and downloading kernel

1999-02-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, ktb wrote: > > > Havoc Pennington wrote: > > > On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, ktb wrote: > > > > > > Is there an easier way to do what I'm trying to do? This is my first > > > attempt at compiling a kernel. I thought I would go ahead and try 2.2.1 > > > instead of the one I have 2.

Re: modem configuration..

1999-02-16 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello, == > > I've installed LINUX (debian 2.0.2) on my IBM 240 E pc. LINUX is > > unable to sense the built in modem. PC has Rockwell HCF 56K > > modem at IRQ 4 on COM1. It works fine with Windows. I tried > > editing /etc/rc.boot/0serial script with various parameters. > > Whenever I run 'w

pine 4.1 on debian slink

1999-02-16 Thread Matthew Cocker
There is a termcap compatibility lib in the old libraries section of slink packages which has the termcaplib and a termcap file. I installed that and then the downloaded the linux binaries from the pine homepage. Pine 4.10 works on my slink system cheers Matt Cocker

Re: XFree86 is 3.3.3.

1999-02-16 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello, == > Graham Lillico +44 1785 782329 wrote: > > Does anyone know if XFree86 is 3.3.3.x is avaliable in deb format > > anywhere? Or when we will have one avaliable? > > It will not be in the distribution till the maintainer of the X11 Debian > packages feels comfortable about the curren

Re: xdm & kdm

1999-02-16 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello, == > I want to run xdm on vt7, and kdm on vt8. So how do I do it? I do not remember quite exactly the process how I managed to do it, but it worked ... Well, you have to set up two independent directories - /etc/X11/xdm and /etc/X11/kdm (you can copy /etc/X11/xdm to /etc/X11/kdm

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