Documentacion de smail. Diald.

1999-02-17 Thread Andres Seco Hernandez
Hola La guia de smail que aparece bajo el directorio /usr/doc/smail/guide esta en .gz, y la veo con zmore o zcat, pero tiene una estructura que no conozco, con controles como .PP o .HB 2 y cosas asi. Como la puedo ver correctamente? Sobre diald: al seleccionarlo con dselect para montarlo, me

Re: Perdido con el correo

1999-02-17 Thread Andres Seco Hernandez
On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 04:45:50AM +0100, Andres Seco Hernandez wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 12:44:49AM +0100, Alejandro Jose Jerez wrote: 1) Tengo que configurar mi máquina como si fuera un servidor de POP3 y SMTP ? 2) fetchmail, procmail, smail, mutt ... como se relacionan ? Con

AIC7XXX: parámetros en la línea de comandos.

1999-02-17 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
Hola a todos. Necesito meter unos cuantos parámetros para al módulo aic7xxx en el prompt del disco de rescate y no estoy seguro de si la siguiente línea es correcta: linux aic7xxx_reset_delay=15 aic7xxx_tagged_queuing=on aic7xxx_proc_stats=off Cualquier información adicional sobre los

Re: K6-2

1999-02-17 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On 14-Feb-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Saludos... Bueno la cuestion es sencilla, estoy pensando en comprarme uno. Van bien con linux? o me pillo un PII? Si te vas a pillar un sistema nuevo no hay mucha diferencia de precios entre un PII y un K6-2,

iproute

1999-02-17 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a tods. ¿Sabe alguien donde esta el programa iproute?, no lo he encontrado en el correspondiente paquete deb. Saludos.

Re: kernel 2.2.1 e impresion

1999-02-17 Thread Ricardo Javier Cárdenes Medina
From: Óscar Cotés Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Parallel port support * Parallel printer support [ ] Support IEEE1284 status readback no obstante cuando arranca pone el siguiente mensaje request_module[parport_lowlevel]: Root fs not

[no subject]

1999-02-17 Thread juanma
Hola lista: Mi consulta quizás pueda parecer demasiado obvia pero llevo un tiempo dándole vueltas. Resulta que me encuentro muchas veces con ficheros comprimidos con tar.gz y la verdad es que no s´muy bien cómo instalarlos en una distribución debian. Me gustaría que pudiera además agregarse a la

dpkg, tar.gz

1999-02-17 Thread juanma
-Mensaje original- De: juanma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: miércoles, 17 de febrero de 1999 14:33 Para: Debian-User-Spanish Asunto: dpkg, tar.gz Hola lista: Mi consulta quizás pueda parecer demasiado obvia pero llevo un tiempo dándole vueltas. Resulta que me encuentro muchas

Re: dpkg, tar.gz

1999-02-17 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, juanma wrote: Resulta que me encuentro muchas veces con ficheros comprimidos con tar.gz y la verdad es que no s´muy bien cómo instalarlos en una distribución debian. Me gustaría que pudiera además agregarse a la base de datos de la instalación (creo que es así). Usa

Re: Documentacion de smail. Diald.

1999-02-17 Thread Agustín Martín
Andres Seco Hernandez wrote: La guia de smail que aparece bajo el directorio /usr/doc/smail/guide esta en .gz, y la veo con zmore o zcat, pero tiene una estructura que no conozco, con controles como .PP o .HB 2 y cosas asi. Como la puedo ver correctamente? Está en troff, y todos los

Re: Documentacion de smail. Diald.

1999-02-17 Thread Sergio Talens-Oliag
El Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 03:50:29PM +0100, Agustín Martín escribió: Andres Seco Hernandez wrote: La guia de smail que aparece bajo el directorio /usr/doc/smail/guide esta en .gz, y la veo con zmore o zcat, pero tiene una estructura que no conozco, con controles como .PP o .HB 2 y cosas

Re: StarOffice + S3 Virge

1999-02-17 Thread JuanjoC \(PianoTuner\)
Jose Mari Mor Fabregat wrote: Ahora bien. Yo he provado a instalar con el servidor SVGA y conti- núa quedándose colgado. Me falta probar el parche, pero hasta que no habran el ftp... Alguna idea más? Pues no se, quizá tengas algún problema más. En mi caso al sistema le

Intel740

1999-02-17 Thread PEDRO FERNANDEZ
No encuentro el driver correspondiente a esta tarjeta para arrancar el sistema gráfico, agradecería me dijeran donde puedo conseguir este driver. Ya he mirado en Intel y no hay nada. Muchas gracias. Pedro.

Re: Perdido con el correo

1999-02-17 Thread homega
Andres Herrera dixit: 4) cómo hago para tener varios mailboxes para almacenar el correo ya leido? Puedes ir grabandolo uno a uno, o quizas Mutt te deje grabar los mensajes en el mailbox que quieras. Bueno, creo recordar que al indicar a procmail que enviara a un mailbox todos los mensajes

Re: Donde se instalan los programas?

1999-02-17 Thread Emilio de Miguel
Hola Lucky Kentucky escribió: cuando instalo un programa, como se en que directorio se instala? dpkg -L pakete te lista los ficheros. -- Deica logo

Re: DSELECT para instalar todos los programas?

1999-02-17 Thread Emilio de Miguel
Hola Lucky Kentucky escribió: Puedo utilizar el Dselect en Debian para instalar cualquier programa? Como? Puedes, pero es mejor dpkg -i ruta/pakete dpkg --help te dice lo que se puede hacer. -- Deica logo

Re: Rendimiento de disco duro

1999-02-17 Thread Emilio de Miguel
Hola Eugenio Serrano escribió: ¿Conoceis alguna herramienta para verificar la tasa de transferencia de unidades de disco duro internas/externas?. hdparm , leete la documentacion, que esta muy bien. -- Deica logo

Re: Perdido con el correo

1999-02-17 Thread Hue-Bond
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Alejandro Jose Jerez wrote: 1) Tengo que configurar mi máquina como si fuera un servidor de POP3 y SMTP ? El de POP no hace falta, pero el de SMTP es muy recomendable si quieres encolar los mensajes para mandarlos cuando conectes. Yo puse los dos y así

Re: NO ENCUENTRO LA LIBRERIA libc6-2.0.7u

1999-02-17 Thread Hue-Bond
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Luis M. Fuertes wrote: yo tengo las libc6-2.0.7t no se que y que le hace falta las libc6-2.0.7u. Las busco en los mismos lugares (tanto en potato como slink) que yo tengo las librerias libc6-2.0.7t y resulta que no estan. Algunos paquetes para el kernel 2.2.1

Re: kernel 2.2.1 e impresion

1999-02-17 Thread Hue-Bond
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Juanmi Mora wrote: alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc Gracias, tampoco me funcionaba a mí. ... y por último cambiar en el /etc/printcap en la sección lp que apunta al lp1 por el lp0. Bueno, a mí siempre me imprimía en el lp0 así que no tuve que

instalación del wine

1999-02-17 Thread Miquel Escarrà
A ver si alguien puede ayudarme: He instalado el wine desde la versión que viene en LA6. Se ha compilado, se ha instalado, ... todo sin problemas. Sin embargo, al intentar ejecutarlo se me queja de la ausencia de ficheros de configuración en el directorio $home. Sabéis como se puede configurar

suggestion to installation team regarding /var

1999-02-17 Thread Stuart Marshall
Hi, I have one suggestion to the folks who write the installation instructions. Please mention that Debain uses piles of space in /var/lib/dpkg and that consequently, those folks who make their /var be a separate partition should make it 20MB bigger than they think it should be. Same goes for

patching one kernel only

1999-02-17 Thread ktb
I didn't see this in this covered exactly in the kernel howto. What I would like to do is save my old kernel 2.0.34 until I'm sure that the newly compiled kernel works. I have downloaded two patches for the kernel to make it 2.0.36. Here is my /usr/src: /usr/src$ l total 14011 drwxrwsr-x 4

Netscape Fonts

1999-02-17 Thread Chris Hoover
Somehow, my fonts in Netscape have become all messed up. Could someone be so kind as to tell me what the original fonts where? Thanks, Chris

Bridging Networks

1999-02-17 Thread lwbuss
I am attempting to bridge 2 Windows 95 peer to peer networks through a phone connection. At this point I feel that the use of a dedicated Linux machine is necessary. The 2 networks both use NetBEUI and IPX/SPX. Does anyone have an idea where I should start. TIA

Re: slink=frozen still??

1999-02-17 Thread Peter Makholm
Ken Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: than with putting out software! Shoot - missed deadlines and playing politics insteadwhat is this? Microsoft?? ;) At least one difference: MS would release a non working slink. Debian wouldn't. -- Peter er den mindst gamle af de gammeldags

hp cdwriter (where to mount?)

1999-02-17 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I installed an hp ide cd writer. What is the best way to do this? Should I make it the primary cdrom, and use my former cdrom's ide cable? Or should I make it the secondary ide? When I install it together with my cd-rom drive the kernel reads it as /dev/hdd, but then I cannot mount it. For now

Help. Trying to upgrade to hamm 2.0.36

1999-02-17 Thread Tim Heuser
o type make zImage I got to the make zImage command and sat around till the computer got done processing all kinds of stuff. The last 6 lines printed to the screen were... as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s make [1]: as86: command not found make [1]:*** [bootsect.o] Error 127 make [1]:

Managing /usr/local

1999-02-17 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
What's the name of the software that helps you keep track of what's getting installed in /usr/local when you install a non-Debianized piece of software yourself? Something akin to the Win98 uninstall utility. I believe you simply run it after doing a make install, or similar, and it scans the

Odd Mutt Behavior

1999-02-17 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I have a directory structure that looks something like this: MAIL Psycholoquy Trash OPERATING SYSTEMS Debian OS2 STATISTICS S-News Stat-L I have mutt setup to open in MAIL and I can switch folders, most of the time. I can go into the OPERATING SYSTEMS subdirectory

Re: green linux user needs CRON clarification

1999-02-17 Thread Frozen Rose
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], sawitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, William Schwartz wrote: I guess my question is: what is the difference between the two? and which one should I use? I need a program to run every 5 minutes to do some polling. and I want it to happen 24/7.

Re: Strange 'find' result

1999-02-17 Thread Frozen Rose
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: In foo.debian-user, you wrote: $ 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

Windows making me crazy

1999-02-17 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I'm trying to network my windows box with my linux pc-server. I'm running an old Gateway P5-200, with 32 megs of RAM, and Win98 For the life of me, I can't figure out what the hell Win98 will not recognize my NIC. It's a 3Com Vortex card. It's recognized in bios, at first it wasn't recognized

Re: Help. Trying to upgrade to hamm 2.0.36

1999-02-17 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Tim Heuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | o type make zImage | | I got to the make zImage command and sat around till the computer got done processing all kinds of stuff. | The last 6 lines printed to the screen were... | | as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s | make [1]: as86: command not found

Re: Managing /usr/local

1999-02-17 Thread MallarJ
I was also looking for just this sort of package, but never did find one. There are some similar tools, but none that perform the functions you're looking for. * tripwire monitors systems and reports modifications to files, but it doesn't tell you what was changed, only that they were changed.

RE: Windows making me crazy

1999-02-17 Thread David Zanetti
You'll prolly not get much support from the list, being a Windows issue *grin*. What I can tell you is that the Vortex is a known problematic card under Windows, certaining the ones I've heard about locally being played with were a pain - you'll have to get drivers from 3Com for it.. Hope this

RE: Managing /usr/local

1999-02-17 Thread David Zanetti
Might want to look thru Freshmeat (www.freshmeat.net) .. I seem to recall there's a couple of wrappers that might provide enough infomation.. David Zanetti, Unix System Administrator, Information Technology Group Wellington City Council, New Zealand. Phone x3354 or 04 801 3354 The information

Re: Managing /usr/local

1999-02-17 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I was also looking for just this sort of package, but never did find one. | There are some similar tools, but none that perform the functions you're | looking for. | | * tripwire monitors systems and reports modifications to files, but | it doesn't | tell you what was

Re: patching one kernel only

1999-02-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
From the size (and names) of the linux-2.0.35.tar.gz and linux-2.0.36.tar.gz files, it looks like you downloaded the complete kernel source instead of the patches. Just 'rm linux' to delete the symlink and 'tar xzf linux-2.0.36.tar.gz' which will untar the archive into linux. You can 'mv linux

Re: Help. Trying to upgrade to hamm 2.0.36

1999-02-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Tim Heuser wrote: o type make zImage I got to the make zImage command and sat around till the computer got done processing all kinds of stuff. The last 6 lines printed to the screen were... as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s make [1]: as86: command not found

Strage Problem with FTPd and Telnetd but not SSH.

1999-02-17 Thread Jay Barbee
Hey All... I have a reoccurring problem that can be solved by a reboot, but I would rather fix the problem now so I know what is going on. It is a fairly awkward error that just started again on my system after working for 17-days without reboot. My home linux box is on a network and is a

WindowMaker themes - Debian packages

1999-02-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
Hi. Over the weekend, I wrote a script that converts WindowMaker themes to Debian packages automatically. (the themes have to follow wm.t.o's packaging policy). I think it would be useful for other Debian users but I don't really know what to do with it. So, based on looking over Debian's

Re: RealTek 8029 PCI pnp Ethernet card

1999-02-17 Thread wtopa
Subject: RealTek 8029 PCI pnp Ethernet card Date: Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 11:56:07AM -0600 In reply to:David Webster Quoting David Webster([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Any guesses as to what driver to use for this card since it is not directly supported? I see that someone suggested

Cron examples?

1999-02-17 Thread James R. Lunsford
What are some of the things that you are using cron to do? I used to use a similar DOS based program, same name, eons ago when I ran a BBS. In the middle of the night I had it start up and run maintenence for the online games, delete old local e-mail messages, get/sort/unpack FidoNet mail for

RE: hp cdwriter (where to mount?)

1999-02-17 Thread Timothy Hospedales
My HP IDE writer works fine with mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /cdrom as slave. or mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom when I have it configured as master. Which IDE controller you have it on shouldn't matter: I have my writer and reader on one cable on the secondary. Getting it to write

dpkg error

1999-02-17 Thread Shane Wegner
Hi, I seem to be having problems with apt when it tries to update. dselect u Get ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages Get ftp://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US Packages Get ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Packages Get ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages Fetched 663k in

Re: dpkg error

1999-02-17 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Shane Wegner wrote: Updating package file cache... E: Line 3 in package file /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages is too long.(2) update available list script returned error exit status 100. Press RETURN to continue.

System Freaking out

1999-02-17 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm kind of at a loss as to what is going on with my system. I am running a slink/potatoe machine with 2.2.1. I was playing x11amp off of my cd changer (scsi) when I had a hard lockup (still a mystery as to why, but something with the changer). Anyway, this is not the first time for a lock up,

Re: Cron examples?

1999-02-17 Thread Christopher A. MacKay
Well, in the (distant) past, I used to occasionally use cron to create a su account with root priveleges in the middle of the night, and then to kill it again 5 minutes later. That wasn't on my own system, though... :) Oh, I suppose you're going to tell me that's not what you're looking for,

Re: hp cdwriter (where to mount?)

1999-02-17 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
I have a HP CD writer 8100 and I emulated it as a scsi device. I do not know how to do that if you already have another cd drive in the system. However, I mount my emulated cdrom as sr0 and it works fine. Regards, Vaidhy On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 04:08:41PM +, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I

Re: RealTek 8029 PCI pnp Ethernet card

1999-02-17 Thread Joel Gluth
FWIW, I've always used ne2k-pci for this card, and haven't upgraded to 2.2. Using the old drivers for an old kernel doesn't seem necessary to me, but I guess wtopa's mileage varied. Give ne2k-pci a go first... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: RealTek 8029 PCI pnp Ethernet card

creating 10 disks of Debian

1999-02-17 Thread mastracco
I'm trying LINUX for the first time, and was attracted to the straight to the point FAQ on installing this program on low memory machines. The machine is an old Compaq 4/25 Contura laptop with 4 Megs of ram - 130 Meg of ram. I simply want to make it a machine that can access the net with a

Re: Cron examples?

1999-02-17 Thread Jim Foltz
James, In the morning, I start an at job that runs pon and downloads my email from a pop server. I set it to run about 15 minutes before I get home from school, so all my Debian mail is ready to read as soon as I get home. -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] ACORN techie http://www.acorn.net

Dhelp need help

1999-02-17 Thread Mario Bertrand
Hi, Since i have made some change in my network configuration (change from ppp co nection to ethernet) and apache don't give me access to Dhelp. I really don't know what that mean: Description: Unable to process request for URLhttp:///doc/HTML/index.html;. Mario

[Fwd: Help. Trying to upgrade to hamm 2.0.36]

1999-02-17 Thread Tim Heuser
---BeginMessage--- Tor Slettnes wrote: as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s make [1]: as86: command not found make [1]:*** [bootsect.o] Error 127 make [1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.36/arch/i386/boot' make:*** [zImage] Error 2

Re: hp cdwriter (where to mount?)

1999-02-17 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: I have a HP CD writer 8100 and I emulated it as a scsi device. I do not know how to do that if you already have another cd drive in the system. However, I mount my emulated cdrom as sr0 and it works fine. Regards, Vaidhy On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at

help with deselect

1999-02-17 Thread Tony
Hi, It's me again, trying desperately to learn Linux... I am trying to use dselect to install some packages into my new install of Debian.. but every time I try to start installing, I get the message: Packages yet to be unpacked: 304 in unknown: vim gnushogi xphoon pwgen tcl8.0 tk8.0

Re: NE2000 PCI Card

1999-02-17 Thread Ming Hsu
Got it. Thanks! At 09:28 AM 2/16/99 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The NE2000 PCI-module is probing a number of addresses, make sure that your card is configured for one of those addresses. This can probably be done with the DOS-program (sorry) you have got with your card, Joop Ming Hsu

Re: [Fwd: Help. Trying to upgrade to hamm 2.0.36]

1999-02-17 Thread Mark Wagnon
Tor Slettnes wrote (if this wasn't you, I apologize. Just trying to trim down the message a bit): Also, instead of doing all those steps listed below manually, try using the 'make-kpkg' Debian utility. (man make-kpkg for details). If you do not have it, it is in the 'kernel-package' Debian

Re: Tex

1999-02-17 Thread William Park
On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 03:27:34PM -0600, David Webster wrote: Hate to sound stupid but just what is TeTex? What is it used for? teTeX is TeX/LaTeX distribution for Unix. TeX/LaTeX is computer typesetting software usually used for documents containing text, graphic, and math (a lot of math).

custom compile xfree86 deb package

1999-02-17 Thread Matt Garman
I want to build a custom xfree86 debian package from the debian source of said package. Is there a guide on how to go about this? Particularly, I want to compile with egcc and full-optimization options, and also allow threads (so my xlib will be thread-safe). The source is massive and

To Patch, or Not To Patch (A Kernel)

1999-02-17 Thread Mark Wagnon
I'm currently running kernel 2.0.36 on a hamm system. I've heard a lot of good things about 2.2.1, so I thought I'd give it a go. I'm currently downloading linux-2.2.1, but the directory also contains linux-2.2.0 and a patch-2.2.1 file. I was reading through the kernel-howto, and the first

Re: To Patch, or Not To Patch (A Kernel)

1999-02-17 Thread ktb
I'm by far not an expert but I have been looking into this also and that is my understanding. Just use the 2.2.1 file. I just compiled and installed kernel 2.0.36. I had 2.0.34 and thought I was downloading a couple patches to bring me up to 2.0.36 but I downloaded the whole kernel 2.0.35 and

Re: Help. Trying to upgrade to hamm 2.0.36

1999-02-17 Thread Tim Heuser
Tim> Where might I find the Debian 2.2.1 kernel source? The Debian kernel-source package is at: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/devel/kernel-source-2.2.1_2.2.1-1.deb I'm downloading the "deb" now.. Or the raw sources:

Re: Help. Trying to upgrade to hamm 2.0.36

1999-02-17 Thread Tim Heuser
Tim Heuser wrote: # cd download-directory # dpkg --install kernel-source-2.2.1_2.2.1-1.deb # rm kernel-source-2.2.1_2.2.1-1.deb # cd /usr/src # tar zxvf kernel-source-2.2.1.tar.gz # cd kernel-source-2.2.1 # make xconfig After entering this I got... Xlib:

Re: XFree86 3.3.3

1999-02-17 Thread Peter Makholm
John Welling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone have any idea when XFree86 3.3.3 will be included in the debian release? Probally with the potato release. The X maintainer is smart enough to get the slink versions bugfree before proceding to the potato versions of the packages. XFree86 3.3.3

Re: Help. Trying to upgrade to hamm 2.0.36

1999-02-17 Thread Mark Wagnon
Tim Heuser wrote: After entering this I got... Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display :0.0 Error in startup script: invalid command name button while executing button .ref

How do I find what a source package depends on?

1999-02-17 Thread Robert King
I'm trying to compile pine 4.10 and having problems. The build fails with ld: cannot open -lncurses: No such file or directory I'm trying to work out if I'm missing a required library before reporting it as a bug, but there doesn't seem to be any way to find out what a source package depends on,

Re: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-17 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 11:49:26AM -0500, David B. Teague wrote: 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

AIC7XXX: parameters at boot promt.

1999-02-17 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
Hello: I need to pass some aic7xxx parameters at boot promt of the rescue disc and I'm not sure about the syntax. Is the following line correct: linux aic7xxx_reset_delay=15 aic7xxx_tagged_queuing=on aic7xxx_proc_stats=off ? I'll thank any additional information on this subject. Thanx in

lp error

1999-02-17 Thread Ian Stuart
I'm running potato, with a 2.2.1 kernel. I've just moved my /usr tree onto a new partition (I used cp -av /usr/* /tmp to do the copy). Everything seems to be OK - I'm posting from Netscape 4.07 within Enlightenment 0.15 - except for my printing. I print to an external network printer (which was

Re: Boot managers

1999-02-17 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
About the boot manager I can't say nothing more, just read all the doc available on this subject. By the way you can find tons of documentation in every debian's ftp site, just lok for '.../LDP' directory. There's the Linux Documentation Project. Under this project was release a quick start

kernel 2.2.1 message

1999-02-17 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, When my 2.2.1 boots up, I got the following error: SIOCARDDRT: Invalid Argument What does this mean?? And how do I eliminate it?? Thanks. Shao.

latex

1999-02-17 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I am having trouble to use footnote in a paragraph mode. This is what I have done. \paragraph { hello world\footnotemark } \footnotetext{hello world} what did I do wrong?? Also, how do I break text into paragraphs without any white spaces

Re: creating 10 disks of Debian

1999-02-17 Thread Debian Mail
The machine is an old Compaq 4/25 Contura laptop with 4 Megs of ram - 130 Meg of ram. I simply want to make it a machine that can access the net with a browser like Netscape - or something similar. With only 4 MB RAM the X-server is unusable slow. Don't even think about Netscape! With 16 MB

Re: xterm-debian?

1999-02-17 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, 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 TERM = xterm) you may

Re: kernel 2.2.1 message

1999-02-17 Thread Raghavendra 'ragOO' Bhat
When my 2.2.1 boots up, I got the following error: SIOCARDDRT: Invalid Argument Hah...Shao before U post any message or rather query on this list, please do make a search for your question on the user list archives. Do go to www.debian.org or any of the mirrors and there is a link to the

Re: To Patch, or Not To Patch (A Kernel)

1999-02-17 Thread Martin Recktenwald
Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: kernel. My question is then, if I ftp linux-2.2.1, then there is no need to get the patch, right? It's for those who have the linux-2.2.0 revision and wish to upgrade to 2.2.1 without the need for another thirteen-meg file transfer. Am I reading this

I've removed /etc. How can I restore it?

1999-02-17 Thread Conrado Badenas
Please, don't laugh at me until you have read the message! I was doing some maintanance tasks, removing old files with rmold (it is an alias for rm -rf *~ .*~). I noticed (with ll /etc|less) that /etc had some old files and I did rmold /etc, unknowing of the catastrofic effects: It removed the

RE: Tex

1999-02-17 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
David Webster wrote: Hate to sound stupid but just what is TeTex? What is it used for? You don't sound stupid! It a package for word processing. The only thing stupid you can do is NOT to use TeX for your word processing. It is realy great! At school I had a teacher in computer science, who

I always have to log in as root!?

1999-02-17 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
I have installed Linux and it works just fine, if I log in as root. When I log in as a 'normal' user a lot of thing don't work. For example I can't use the pon command when I am not the root. I also can't start X11 when I am not the root. The system tells me I have to be a root for this. I

Re: To Patch, or Not To Patch (A Kernel)

1999-02-17 Thread Jim Foltz
On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 05:04:00AM +, Mark Wagnon wrote: I'm currently running kernel 2.0.36 on a hamm system. I've heard a lot of good things about 2.2.1, so I thought I'd give it a go. I'm currently downloading linux-2.2.1, but the directory also contains linux-2.2.0 and a patch-2.2.1

Re: dselect and downloading kernel

1999-02-17 Thread Growler
D-Select will ONLY install Debian packages (.deb). The Kernel upgrades are source code (compressed into a tgz). To install : download the latest kernel from ftp.kernel.org - ftp://ftp.uk.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/linux-2.2.1.tar.gz should get it. copy it into the /usr/src directory. Use

Re: Best partitioning scheme?

1999-02-17 Thread Jeremy
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Kent West wrote: Storage mostly needs to be shared, so I think I need Samba and Netatalk (see below). So, after getting input from several people, this is how I'm looking to do things: Drive 1: / = 200MB I think 200 megs is overkill here, but since you have the

Re: I always have to log in as root!?

1999-02-17 Thread Frank Barknecht
Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven hat gesagt: // Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote: I have installed Linux and it works just fine, if I log in as root. When I log in as a 'normal' user a lot of thing don't work. For example I can't use the pon command when I am not the root. I also can't start X11 when I

New home page address

1999-02-17 Thread Helmut Leinfellner
Hello everyone ! Please note that my home page address has changed: My new address now is: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Hallelujah/ My Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] will remain until the end of April 1999. Come and visit ! Helmut

Re: I've removed /etc. How can I restore it?

1999-02-17 Thread David B. Teague
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Conrado Badenas wrote: Please, don't laugh at me until you have read the message! I was doing some maintanance tasks, removing old files with rmold (it is an alias for rm -rf *~ .*~). I noticed (with ll /etc|less) that /etc had some old files and I did rmold /etc,

Re: Best partitioning scheme?

1999-02-17 Thread David Z. Maze
Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeremy The only thing is you have 64 megs of swap on each drive. This Jeremy is a total of 256 megs. Linux will not make use of more than Jeremy 128 megs, unless you're running a 2.2.x kernel. This is wrong: Linux will not use more than 128MB of a single swap

sulogin and MD5 pwds

1999-02-17 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
Hi all! For security reasons I've switched to MD5_CRYPT + shadow pwd's. login seems to work fine, but sulogin refused to recognize my root-password that is much longer than 8 chars. Thanks, Soeren. we usually get what we want. Its me quoting myself. I've had a look at sulogin.c

sulogin and MD5 pwds

1999-02-17 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
Hi all! For security reasons I've switched to MD5_CRYPT + shadow pwd's. login seems to work fine, but sulogin refused to recognize my root-password that is much longer than 8 chars. Thanks, Soeren. we usually get what we want.

Re: latex

1999-02-17 Thread David Z. Maze
Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shao I am having trouble to use footnote in a paragraph mode. Shao Shao \paragraph { hello world\footnotemark } Shao \footnotetext{hello world} I'd do something more like \documentclass{article} \begin{document} Hello, world.\footnote{Thanks to

Re: I always have to log in as root!?

1999-02-17 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote: I have installed Linux and it works just fine, if I log in as root. When I log in as a 'normal' user a lot of thing don't work. For example I can't use the pon command when I am not the root. I also can't start X11 when I am not the root.

Re: sulogin and MD5 pwds

1999-02-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Soeren Sonnenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its me quoting myself. I've had a look at sulogin.c and discovered that the max. pass-string-length is about 15 characters. Is there anyone to patch that ? (I guess MD5 allows max. 127 characters) so the only thing to do

gnuplot/libvga and permissions

1999-02-17 Thread Jose L. Gomez Dans
Hi! I downloaded gnuplot 3.7 today, as I wanted to compile it to plot graphs on the console. Compilation went OK, but if I try to plot a graph in the console, I get an I/O permission error. For a try, I logged in as root, and everything worked fine. Since other programs that use libvga work

Error Installin XBase

1999-02-17 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

Re: Firewall

1999-02-17 Thread Dale E. Martin
Tony Schonfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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 If you're using a 2.0 kernel, check out dotfile-ipfwadm. (It depends on other stuff too, but if

Re: Tex

1999-02-17 Thread M.C. Vernon
Hate to sound stupid but just what is TeTex? What is it used for? It is latex, tex, and a bunch of add-ons. They are _the_ way to typeset documents. Combine this with a decent editor[1] and you'll produce better documents than MSWord Matthew [1]I could name one, but that might be flame-bait

Re: Acroread plugin crashes Netscape-4.5-libc6

1999-02-17 Thread Markus M. Schneider
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone had any luck getting the Acrobat reader plugin to work in Netscape-4.5-libc6 packages? Without fail it crashes netscape. When using the Acrobat reader plugin netscape crashes with a message concerning the libBrokenLocale. Therfore I've tried to prevent the

Re: Tex

1999-02-17 Thread Ted Harding
On 17-Feb-99 M.C. Vernon wrote: Hate to sound stupid but just what is TeTex? What is it used for? It is latex, tex, and a bunch of add-ons. They are _the_ way to typeset documents. Combine this with a decent editor[1] and you'll produce better documents than MSWord Matthew [1]I

Re: Kanji characters?

1999-02-17 Thread Fumitoshi UKAI
At Tue, 16 Feb 1999 22:50:09 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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? You need to install fonts

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