Mozilla 5.0b1 en distribucion Debian de Datom

1999-03-15 Thread Andres Seco Hernandez
Hola. En el segundo cd de hamm distribuidos por Datom aparece un directorio llamado local-i386. Supongo que esto no es de la distribucion de Debian, ya que no esta en ningun directorio oficial. De todos modos, pregunto: los paquetes .deb que ahí estan ¿en que se diferencian mozilla-smotif de

Re: Mozilla 5.0b1 en distribucion Debian de Datom

1999-03-15 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 01:03:11AM +0100, Andres Seco Hernandez dijo: Hola. En el segundo cd de hamm distribuidos por Datom aparece un directorio llamado local-i386. Supongo que esto no es de la distribucion de Debian, ya que no esta en ningun directorio oficial. De todos modos, pregunto:

Re: Problemas con el correo de Netscape

1999-03-15 Thread Angel Barrio
Hola, Exacto, ese era el problema. Muchas gracias. Hasta otra. Vicen wrote: Angel Barrio escribió: La bandeja de entrada predeterminada no existe. ¡No puede recibir correo! ¿Sabe alguien qué es lo que sucede? ¿Cómo puedo arreglarlo?. Muchas gracias, aunque solo sea

Re: HP Laserjet 6L

1999-03-15 Thread Han Solo
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 09:12:20PM +0100, Jose Antonio Morillo wrote: Hola a todos ! Alguien tiene configurada correctamente esta impresora. Yo utilicé magicfilterconfig para configurar la impresora en mi debian HAMM, pero me ocurre que los textos planos los imprime perfectamente, pero si

Re: Como configurar el MagicFilter?

1999-03-15 Thread Ximo Nadal
No consigo instalar la impresora (HP690C) en el Debian, he conseguido imprimir alguna vez texto, pero no acaba de quedar bien pero no se como hacerlo con los graficos. Me podeis ayudar? Para configurar magicfilter puedes utilizar magicfilterconfig, es muy sencillo de usar. Para mas

Re: Sincronizacion horaria mediante ntp

1999-03-15 Thread Fernando
Andres Seco Hernandez wrote: Hola. Al final lo he dejado asi: #!/bin/sh /etc/init.d/cron stop /usr/sbin/rdate -s black-ice.cc.vt.edu /sbin/hwclock --systohc /etc/init.d/cron start mezclando las sugerencias de Ugo y Antonio. No he conseguido que slug.ctv.es me responda (a lo mejor

comparativa UNIX-NT

1999-03-15 Thread Lluís Palomes
Bueno aquí esta la comparativa que dije de UNIX vs NT Algerri'99 attachment: unix-nt.zip

Enrutar correo con smail

1999-03-15 Thread Netman
Hola a [EMAIL PROTECTED] Uso smail como gestor de correo en dos máquinas. Quizá me sobre en una, puesto que la otra es la pasarela. Pero no sé hacer que todo el correo de hamm vaya al smail de bo sin estar conectado a internet y sin tener que usar bind - bueno, con bind tampoco me salió, pero paso

Re: cambio de nombre de maquina

1999-03-15 Thread Hue-Bond
El domingo 14 de marzo de 1999 a la(s) 13:50:16 +, Luis Francisco Gonzalez contaba: Aunque el nombre como dice Tinguaro está en /etc/hostname, quizá no sea mala idea usar grep nombre /etc/* porque a veces aparece en algún otro fichero. Yo una vez lo hice. Por si acaso, aconsejo

Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-03-15 Thread Cubikice
Retuerta Pascual wrote: Problemas al instalar Word Perfect Me he instalado WP 8 en la ultima version de debian ( 2.0) y al ejecutarlo me dice que me falta la liberia libXpm.so.4 que sin embargo si esta presente en el directorio /usr/X11R6/lib/ Como es esto posible ?? Porque lo busca de la

Installing GNOME on a server

1999-03-15 Thread Chris R. Martin
I have a server which exports /usr/local/ to several other PCs (which mount it under /apps/). This has worked several well with the few applications/libraries I've installed. However, GNOME is a different story. It uses the bleeding edge versions of many basic libraries, like zlib, libjpeg,

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-15 Thread ivan
At 12:43 PM 3/14/99 -0800, George Bonser wrote: On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: It will insist of *erasing* the complete disk, *repartitioning* it to one big partition, and then install DOS. It will NOT let you do anything else. It checks if there are other partitions, and

Re: Netscape gone

1999-03-15 Thread Gregory T. Norris
My best guess would be that you have the libc5-based version of netscape, and the glibc2 (also called libc6) version ot the library. If that's the case, you need to install the xlib6 package out of the oldlibs section. On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 05:05:16PM -0600, Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, I

strange log messages/behavior

1999-03-15 Thread Chris R. Martin
Has anyone ever seen these messages before? Does anyone know what they mean? Mar 14 17:27:19 server init: Id 1 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Mar 14 17:28:50 server init: Id 2 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Mar 14 17:29:39 server init: Id 3 respawning too fast: disabled

Freetype (TTF) X Font Server

1999-03-15 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
Is the Freetype X Font Server incorporated into Debian at this point? Supposedly it's out there, but all I have found package-wise is xfstt. That's *not* the same thing. The Freetype web pages offer patches for X servers to make them TTF-aware, and also something like xfstt. Thanks, Jesse --

ttf2pk and ttf2tfm

1999-03-15 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
Is there any documentation on how to use these? Has anyone used them successfully to produce TeX or LaTeX documents using fonts from TTF sources? Thanks, Jesse -- Pastor Jesse Jacobsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP public key at http://www.jvlnet.com/~jjacobsen/pgpkey.asc or through the keyserver at

Re: Xterm not showing Xresources changes

1999-03-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 02:08:29PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using KDE 1.1 Debian 2.1 (slink): I want my xterms to be yellow on black, and use a geometry that I choose: Here's my /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm file: XTerm*background: black XTerm*foreground: yellow

Re: termcap/info help

1999-03-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 02:27:15PM -0500, Jonathan P Tomer wrote: i frequently login to a remote freebsd system. freebsd uses termcap. is there a way to convert my linux and xterm-debian entries from terminfo to termcap format? tic *claims* to be able to convert terminfo *source* to termcap

Re: termcap/info help

1999-03-15 Thread Frozen Rose
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan P Tomer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i frequently login to a remote freebsd system. freebsd uses termcap. is there a way to convert my linux and xterm-debian entries from terminfo to termcap format? tic *claims* to be able to convert terminfo *source* to

Missing ldd? Have libc6 on hold? Get ldso from slink...

1999-03-15 Thread Robert Woodcock
Those of you who are tracking unstable but are too chicken to install the new glibc 2.1 may have noticed that your ldd has disappeared. That's because /usr/bin/ldd moved from the ldso package to the libc6 package. Therefore if you're using a new ldso package and an old libc6 package, you won't

Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread William Lacy
The Slink upgrade went great for me. Upgraded without rebooting. A couple of days later I needed to reboot to run a windows program (it had been 2 weeks). I had read The great X reorganization but forgot to remove xdm and xfs. So when I did reboot I got the xwindows login which is why I am

xterm in slink

1999-03-15 Thread William Lacy
Ever since the upgrade, my home and end keys don't work in xterm- what is the deal?

Re: ICQ for Linux

1999-03-15 Thread Mark Phillips
P of the find ICQ clones? I use Licq, but kicq and kxicq are also P good ICQ clones for UNIX and Linux. My suggestion is gtkicq. Relly nice thing. It is packaged for slink. I have just downloaded gtkicq. It asked for registering information (I haven't used it before), and it appeared to

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread servis
*- On 14 Mar, George Bonser wrote about Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, William Lacy wrote: I think that installing xdm and xfs as part of the upgrade is a very bad idea for several reasons: 1) This is a very big change to my system, I have never had these packages

NT causes continual dialup.

1999-03-15 Thread wax_man
I've just added an NT 4.0 server machine onto my linux network so I can work on learning it. Anyway, since I've added it, my dial up connection has been going on continually. It appears to be dns look ups since it is connecting on port 53. Does anyone know how to stop this in NT? Sorry for

Re: ICQ for Linux

1999-03-15 Thread Pollywog
On 15-Mar-99 Mark Phillips wrote: P of the find ICQ clones? I use Licq, but kicq and kxicq are also P good ICQ clones for UNIX and Linux. My suggestion is gtkicq. Relly nice thing. It is packaged for slink. I have just downloaded gtkicq. It asked for registering information (I

Re: [Systalk] freshmeat crashes Netscape

1999-03-15 Thread Hartmut Figge
Ted Rolle wrote: Mee, too. RH 5.1/2. Netscape 4.5. hm, all fine here. ns 4.5 libc5 on suse 5.3 hafi

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-15 Thread Hartmut Figge
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 12:35:44PM -0500, William Schwartz wrote: That is why when you insert the DOS disks (dos 6.22 for example) you dont just let it do what it wants to do... You can still hold the right hand shift key while starting and it will skip the boot

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread servis
*- On 14 Mar, George Bonser wrote about Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows On Sun, 14 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: xdm was installed on your system before. It was part of the old xbase package. The reason xdm was sucked in during the upgrade was that because xbase was split into several

Re: HELP! need a shell not linked against libncurses.so.4

1999-03-15 Thread John Hasler
Will Lowe writes: I've managed to seriously bung up my system, and libncurses.so.4 is causing problems. Are there any shells in debian _not_ linked against this library? ash. You can copy it off the rescue disk if you can't install it. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the

Question

1999-03-15 Thread wlovett
Is there a simple way to load the i386 package from a DOS file: \potato\Conten~1.gz by the dselect functions in the Linux system. woodrow

remote printing permissions

1999-03-15 Thread wax_man
What file do I need to modify to allow remote printing on a linux box? Right now when I try to print, I get a no connect permission error. TIA

Re: remote printing permissions

1999-03-15 Thread Alec Smith
Take a look at /etc/hosts.lpd On Sun, 14 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What file do I need to modify to allow remote printing on a linux box? Right now when I try to print, I get a no connect permission error. TIA -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: remote printing permissions

1999-03-15 Thread wax_man
On 14 Mar, Alec Smith wrote: Take a look at /etc/hosts.lpd On Sun, 14 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What file do I need to modify to allow remote printing on a linux box? Right now when I try to print, I get a no connect permission error. TIA -- Unsubscribe? mail -s

Re: Missing ldd? Have libc6 on hold? Get ldso from slink...

1999-03-15 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 04:57:05PM -0800, Robert Woodcock wrote: The solution is to downgrade the ldso package to the one in slink, or actually take the plunge to glibc 2.1. so what's likely to break if i upgrade to glibc 2.1? will i still be left with a (mostly) usable system? (i'm willing to

Re: remote printing permissions

1999-03-15 Thread Alec Smith
You can use individual IP addresses -- Mine is 130.108.229.31 130.108.229.32 You can also use something like 130.108.229 to indicate that an entire subnet has access. The general format is something similar, but not identical to hosts.allow/hosts.deny. Other than that, there really isn't all

SGI's glp analog ?

1999-03-15 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
I wonder if there is a program for linux analogous to SGI's glp ? I.e. i need an easy and convenient method to select such parameters as whether to print one- or two-sided, flip horizontally or vertically, the paper size (the input tray), whether to print a banner, etc. Sergey.

Re: Missing ldd? Have libc6 on hold? Get ldso from slink...

1999-03-15 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 02:44:51PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: The solution is to downgrade the ldso package to the one in slink, or actually take the plunge to glibc 2.1. so what's likely to break if i upgrade to glibc 2.1? will i still be left with a (mostly) usable system? (i'm

Re: remote printing permissions

1999-03-15 Thread wax_man
On 14 Mar, Alec Smith wrote: You can use individual IP addresses -- Mine is 130.108.229.31 130.108.229.32 You can also use something like 130.108.229 to indicate that an entire subnet has access. The general format is something similar, but not identical to hosts.allow/hosts.deny.

hylafax???

1999-03-15 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
Anybody experienced with hylafax. I installed hylafax-server, hylafax-client, and tkhylafax. What do I need to do to be able to send and receive faxes? I will be using this computer for ppp and fax (but not at the same time, unless there is a tcp/ip fax thingy). NatePuri Certified Law Student

is linuxconf part of debian 2.0?

1999-03-15 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
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what is gnome?

1999-03-15 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
what is gnome? does linuxconf need it? Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: Sound card configuration

1999-03-15 Thread Doug Dine
At 3/14/99 5:20:00 PM, you wrote: Below is what you could use for isapnp.conf. I've cut all the parts that are not needed. Also, base 530 is not supported by your card, because there is no entry in the isapnp for it. This is one of the questions in the sound configuration. What would I want to

Re: Sound card configuration

1999-03-15 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Just leave it at 530, and try compiling with that IO base. See if it works. Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv

Re: NT causes continual dialup.

1999-03-15 Thread Jameson Burt
I've just added an NT 4.0 server machine onto my linux network so I can work on learning it. Anyway, since I've added it, my dial up connection has been going on continually. It appears to be dns look ups since it is connecting on port 53. Does anyone know how to stop this in NT? I have

Re: 2.0 - 2.1 ftp problem

1999-03-15 Thread Terry Carney
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, John Maheu wrote: After upgrading to slink I can't ftp into my box, but I can ftp out of it. If I try to ftp to my box I get ftp: connect: Connection refused My /etc/hosts.allow is empty and /etc/hosts.deny only has the ALL: PARANOID entry. Any ideas on how to fix

Re: New glibc java problems

1999-03-15 Thread Max Kamenetsky
Anyway, I recently decided to check out Java, and (not being entirely sure what I was doing) installled the jdk1.1, jdk1.1-dev, guavac and tya packages. Didn't get a chance to check anything out until today and having retrieved installed a new glibc via apt-get last night, am not sure

Bind going crazy

1999-03-15 Thread wax_man
I'm having a problem with bind going crazy and continually trying to do lookups. This is causing my dial up to my isp to stay active. Does anyone know how to trace down the culprit? This problem just started recently, and I don't think I've really changed what is going on. Thanks, Chris

Re: HELP! need a shell not linked against libncurses.so.4

1999-03-15 Thread Will Lowe
ash. You can copy it off the rescue disk if you can't install it. Thanks. Saved my night ... Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: a tiff viewer for faxes

1999-03-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Allan M. Wind wrote: On 1999-03-14 18:25, Pollywog wrote: Since I am unable to get fax to work in Linux, I want to use the e-fax service offered on the net, but I will need a tiff viewer for faxes. Does Debian have such a thing? mgetty+fax was pretty easy to get

Re: Missing ldd? Have libc6 on hold? Get ldso from slink...

1999-03-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 02:44:51PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 04:57:05PM -0800, Robert Woodcock wrote: The solution is to downgrade the ldso package to the one in slink, or actually take the plunge to glibc 2.1. so what's likely to break if i upgrade to glibc 2.1?

Re: 2.0 - 2.1 ftp problem

1999-03-15 Thread John Maheu
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Terry Carney wrote: Yes, this was the problem. Thanks John After my upgrade the ftpd lines were commented out in /etc/inetd.conf . You might want to have a look there as well. This is how mine looked after the upgrade: #:STANDARD: These are standard services.

Re: hylafax???

1999-03-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
You will need to configure things by running faxsetup and faxaddmodem--follow the prompts. I couldn't get efax to work with my modem. hylafax works quite well for both sending and receiving faxes. tkhylafax is nice also--you can fill out the cover page with it. I looked at some tools to design

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 07:32:59PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: Well, maybe I should READ those package descriptions :) I should make this the offical motto of the Debian X packages. I don't know how I am supposed to support XFree86 if people won't read: 1) the Debian release notes 2) the

Re: hylafax???

1999-03-15 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I ran faxsetup and faxaddmodem, but when I use sendfax or tkhylafax to send faxes my modem doesn't dial out. What could I have done wrong? NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 10:58:15PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: The problem is that many of the other packages DO NOT note in the package descriptions what has changed and the other docs are only available AFTER you have installed them unless you want to manually take it apart and look at it

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread Richard Harran
After reading this thread, I've removed xbase and (unwanted) xdm (I'll own up, I didn't rtfm, and it caused me a problem upgrading hamm-slink). However, I dpkg warnings: while removeing xdm, directory /var/state/xdm not empty so no removed, and the same for /etc/X11/xdm.

Using NetZero ISP with Linux

1999-03-15 Thread Ramiel Givergis
I noticed a user had NetZero in their signature and I began to wonder if anyone has figured out a way to use NetZero with Linux? netzero is a free ISP which I have no association with except that I have an account with them which I only use when I'm on my winblows machines.. but for linux I use

StarOffice Installation Error

1999-03-15 Thread Emil Soleyman-Zomalan
I am running potato with kernel 2.2.3 and just ran into an installation problem with StarOffice. I recently upgraded my packages including libc6 through dselect. However, I could run StarOffce just fine with libc6 2.07 but with libc6 2.1 I am receiving a handful of errors that simply say that I

smb and 95

1999-03-15 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, I am having problems installing printers on win95 machines. I am using a linux server running debian slink and have been able to set up clients running windows98 to use the linux printer, but windows 95 refuse to acknoledge that the server even exists. Attached is my smb.conf file.; ;

Re: Statistics/graphing programs for scientists?

1999-03-15 Thread Richard Lyon
However, your last sentence is so seriously misleading that it must be corrected. I'm interested. First, octave is no spreadsheet but close to being a clone of the MatLab core executable. Therefore it is a highly programmable matrix- and array-oriented general-purpose numerical analysis

Keyboard locked up under X [was System trashed]

1999-03-15 Thread Nils Rennebarth
There appears to be a long outstanding bug in the S3 X servers that completely locks up the keyboard, although the system still runs fine, mouse can be moved, starting programs by mouse and menu works, even cut and paste some text into an xterm works. But the keyboard appears like it's plugged

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 07:20:29AM +, Richard Harran wrote: After reading this thread, I've removed xbase and (unwanted) xdm (I'll own up, I didn't rtfm, and it caused me a problem upgrading hamm-slink). However, I dpkg warnings: while removeing xdm, directory /var/state/xdm not

Re: NT causes continual dialup.

1999-03-15 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 08:52:32PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just added an NT 4.0 server machine onto my linux network so I can work on learning it. Anyway, since I've added it, my dial up connection has been going on continually. It appears to be dns look ups since it is

Re: Question

1999-03-15 Thread Johann Spies
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, wlovett wrote: Is there a simple way to load the i386 package from a DOS file: \potato\Conten~1.gz by the dselect functions in the Linux system. woodrow I am not sure what you want to do. If you want to use the file in Linux, just copy it to your linux partition eg. cp

Re: a tiff viewer for faxes

1999-03-15 Thread Johann Spies
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Pollywog wrote: Since I am unable to get fax to work in Linux, I want to use the e-fax service offered on the net, but I will need a tiff viewer for faxes. Does Debian have such a thing? I use efax which has a nice script named fax you can use for handling faxes e.g.

printcap entry to use smbclient with lprng

1999-03-15 Thread Nils Rennebarth
I looked in the samba and lprng docs for a while (only superficially the latter one), but it may be easier if someone had already solved this: Could you send me a sample lprng printcap entry that accesses a Windows network printer via smbclient and also uses magicfilter. Thanks a lot, Nils --

Re: smb and 95

1999-03-15 Thread John Stevenson
To add to the mistery, I have one win95 machine that works just fine with two linux samba servers, but I have three win95 machines that refuse to connect, stating that the share name is incorrect. Anyone have any clues ?? The users now all have accounts on the linux server and I have used all

Re: remote printing permissions

1999-03-15 Thread Peter Berlau
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 11:17:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] hi, I've had the same errors, my resolution was to change the files: /etc/lpd.conf /etc/lpd.perms I don't change the `/etc/host.lpd` however cu -- Peter Berlau [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: smb and 95

1999-03-15 Thread John Stevenson
To answer my own problem, it was a windoze config problem. We found a win98 doing the same thing and discovered that the subnet mask was incorrect on some of the client machines, doh. What a pain... John John Stevenson wrote: To add to the mistery, I have one win95 machine that works just

Re: Bind going crazy

1999-03-15 Thread L. Besselink
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a problem with bind going crazy and continually trying to do lookups. This is causing my dial up to my isp to stay active. Does anyone know how to trace down the culprit? This problem just started recently, and I don't think I've

Re: Using NetZero ISP with Linux

1999-03-15 Thread Doug Dine
At 3/14/99 11:37:00 PM, you wrote: I noticed a user had NetZero in their signature and I began to wonder if anyone has figured out a way to use NetZero with Linux? netzero is a free ISP which I have no association with except that I have an account with them which I only use when I'm on my

Re: Sound card configuration

1999-03-15 Thread Doug Dine
At 3/14/99 10:40:00 PM, you wrote: Just leave it at 530, and try compiling with that IO base. See if it works. No luck. Seems to cause a problem with my SCSI adapter, IN2000 for whatever reason. Will a plug and play card work without being set up as such? My modem does. Doug Dine [EMAIL

Re: strange log messages/behavior

1999-03-15 Thread ivan
At 06:12 PM 3/14/99 -0600, Chris R. Martin wrote: Has anyone ever seen these messages before? Does anyone know what they mean? IIRC the answer to both questions is YES. Unfortunately, I don't have the answers :) There was some discussion on this issue just recently. It may pay to check the

smbfs automount

1999-03-15 Thread Patrick
does someone has succeeded in mounting remote smb shares with automount ? i have a debian 2.1 with smbfsx and samba but when trying i have in my log only: automount[25275]: cannot find mount method for filesystem smbfs what am i missing ? thanks for your help. Patrick

exim user

1999-03-15 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Exim runs himself in inetd.conf as user 'exim'. This user doesn't exist in my /etc/passwd, so I've changed it to user 'mail'. Am I doing the right thing? TIA! -- p.

printcap, filtering, etc

1999-03-15 Thread Richard Harran
I decided to get that HP Deskjet 695c, and I think it should work ok, 'cos the windows drivers that came with it were the ones for the 690. I am having a bit of trouble setting up printcap properly. Could someone who uses the cdj500 gs filters please tell me what to put in /etc/printcap, and

RE: strange log messages/behavior

1999-03-15 Thread Kris Van Heghe
Hello, As i read your message i realized you're stuck with the same problem as i do for some time on hamm, without finding a solution. That's why I launched a similar cry for help a few days ago, without any luck until now Here's a copy of my original message: Hi, While I installed Linux

Re: exim: smarthost

1999-03-15 Thread Pere Camps
Grep, Run eximconfig and select the proper option is the easiest way. I've seen the option, but I dont want to send _all_ outbound mail via the smarthost, only the 'difficult' ones. -- p.

Re: Keyboard locked up under X [was System trashed]

1999-03-15 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 10:05:36AM +0100, Nils Rennebarth wrote: There appears to be a long outstanding bug in the S3 X servers that completely locks up the keyboard, although the system still runs fine, mouse can be moved, starting programs by mouse and menu works, even cut and paste some

Re: HELP! need a shell not linked against libncurses.so.4

1999-03-15 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I've managed to seriously bung up my system, and libncurses.so.4 is causing problems. Are there any shells in debian _not_ linked against this library? ATM even root can't do anything, because nobody can get a shell started ... Have a look at sash:

Remote Unix printer - Permissions

1999-03-15 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, I am running a linux print server that is working very nicely with win95 clients (using samba) but am having trouble connecting to the printer from linux clients. I have read the printing howto (see snippet below) and it refers to the /etc/hosts.lpd file, but I have know idea what the

Re: Keyboard locked up under X [was System trashed]

1999-03-15 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 06:21:43AM -0600, Stephen Pitts wrote: FWIW, I've had the same thing happen with my i740 XBF server and kde several times. That was One of the reasons I stopped using KDE. No KDE here. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To

Re: Installing GNOME on a server

1999-03-15 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 06:01:40PM -0600, Chris R. Martin wrote: I have a server which exports /usr/local/ to several other PCs (which mount it under /apps/). This has worked several well with the few applications/libraries I've installed. However, GNOME is a different story. It uses the

Re: CDROM problem

1999-03-15 Thread Elaina Tillinghast
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 16:27:45 -0600, you wrote: I thought the standard name for all cdrom devices was /dev/hdc check your /dev drirectory to see if you have a hdc device and I bet my bottom dollar that is your cdrom device the standard device for many scsi cdroms is /dev/scd0 for the first and

Re: CDROM problem

1999-03-15 Thread Elaina Tillinghast
I have been fighting a simular problem. I've traced mine down to the scsi driver probing for devices during boot-up. If the cdrom is found during bootup, the adding of the module will add sr. Most of the time, this new resc1440.bin doesn't find my cdrom. Once booted Press alt+F2 if you need a new

Re: printcap, filtering, etc

1999-03-15 Thread Conrado Badenas
Richard Harran wrote: am having a bit of trouble setting up printcap properly. Could someone who uses the cdj500 gs filters please tell me what to put in /etc/printcap, and associated filter. I have been able to get some The easiest way is to install magicfilter package, and then run as root

RE: 2.0 - 2.1 ftp problem

1999-03-15 Thread sjb
ftp: connect: Connection refused You just need to add your host (the one allowed to ftp into your box) into the /etc/hosts.allow. the hosts.allow and .deny files will allow for a connection but the connection will immediately be terminated. If the ftp program is a daemon and is not

Re: printcap, filtering, etc

1999-03-15 Thread Richard Harran
Ok, I'm replying to my own post. I installed magicfilter, and set it up for dj500c. This then worked for everything except plain text. I changed the 'default' line at the bottom of /etc/magicfilter/dj500c-filter from 'filter /usr/bin/djscript -q' to 'filter

RE: strange log messages/behavior

1999-03-15 Thread Maarten Bezemer
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Kris Van Heghe wrote: * Sometimes, after playing around for a while on the machine, if some command gives me an error, subsequent commands (whatever it is) produce only one output: 'Segmentation fault'. From that moment, there is only one solution: restarting the

Re: printcap, filtering, etc

1999-03-15 Thread Richard Harran
Cheers Got it going, and you answered one of the qu's in my next post. Thanks a lot Rich Conrado Badenas wrote: Richard Harran wrote: am having a bit of trouble setting up printcap properly. Could someone who uses the cdj500 gs filters please tell me what to put in /etc/printcap, and

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread servis
*- On 15 Mar, Richard Harran wrote about Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows After reading this thread, I've removed xbase and (unwanted) xdm (I'll own up, I didn't rtfm, and it caused me a problem upgrading hamm-slink). However, I dpkg warnings: while removeing xdm, directory /var/state/xdm

HELP! [homega@vlc.servicom.es: unexpected inconsistency!]

1999-03-15 Thread homega
I posted this a few days ago, and I got no responses. Now, after two days it has happened yet again ... this time while editing various files on three different consoles: all of a sudden I got a message (don't remember which one), and couldn't do anything else, not even ^C. I had to reset the

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread servis
*- On 14 Mar, George Bonser wrote about Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: As a developer, I track the debian-devel-changes mailing list. I freely admit that this is not something we can reasonably expect our users to do. As a user, though,

Help - a very little problem with latex

1999-03-15 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I did a lot of research on this, but still cannot find the solution. I want to print a , or a in latex. But when I view them in ps format, it displays the strange symbol(a question mark upside down). From what I read from the books, there is no need to do anything special.

Re: new user unable to install Slink

1999-03-15 Thread Steve Rothanburg
I had the same problem with one of our systems here. I had to remove the SCSI card (only using it for the scanner right now) and compile a kernel without all the extra stuff I don't need. I do know that it'll boot fine with the boot disks from RedHat and SUSE. Check

Re: remote printing permissions [solved]

1999-03-15 Thread John Stevenson
To solve my problem of remote printing, it was very simple (once I found out what I was doing). Edit the /etc/lpd.perms so that it allows remote print job requests: Find these following lines in the file: # reject remote prints from arbitrary hosts REJECT SERVICE=XRPQ NOT SERVER Replace them

LPR gives suidmanager errors

1999-03-15 Thread Jay Barbee
I updated my Hamm's LPR and now I am getting a cron error when suid manager runs. Below is the actual cron error. How is this corrected? --Jay Barbee Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 06:46:30 -0500 (EST) From: root (Cron Daemon) To: root Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily

which graphic card and processor

1999-03-15 Thread Armin Wegner
Hi, Can I use the ELSA ERAZOR II and the ATI EXPERT 98 graphic card with X Window? Are there drivers? Can I use the AMD K6 processor with debian? What graphic card and processor do you recommend? Thanks a lot, Armin

fmirror/mirror/lftp ?

1999-03-15 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I would like to mirror the unstable tree at work. I have tried to accomplish this with several tools (fmirror/mirror/lftp) but I can't figure out how to get exactly what I want. When I use fmirror (which I like), most of what is downloaded are symbolic links to slink which are not useful to me.

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