Shell for gunzip so I don't have to remember?

1999-05-11 Thread André Bell
Is there a good shell for gunzip so I don't have to remember all the operators? I ask because I must be doing something wrong. When I ungzip .gz the system converts my .gz file to one file with no extension instead of unzipping the file and all of its contents. I know there are multiple files in

Smooth, Fast Mouse Motion

1999-05-11 Thread Jerry Gardner
I've been trying for several months now to get smooth, fast mouse pointer motion in X without luck. I've tried various 'xset m' settings, and I can either get smooth, slow mouse motion, or fast, jerky motion, but not fast, smooth motion. I do not like acceleration; I want smooth linear motion. I

Installing Debian

1999-05-11 Thread Jayson Baird
Anyone know of any trouble that when the kernel tries to load it causes a system reboot? Jayson S. Baird "Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter" -- Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Russian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: logging uf su usage

1999-05-11 Thread Carl Mummert
>From message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > ive downloaded the source and unpacked them already, almost ready to >recompile. may i know how/where do I add this removed compile time flag >thats needed to enable this logging ? >chad from su.c: /* su for GNU. Run a shell with substitute user and group

Re: logging uf su usage

1999-05-11 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
ive downloaded the source and unpacked them already, almost ready to recompile. may i know how/where do I add this removed compile time flag thats needed to enable this logging ? chad > > There is (was at the time) a bug against su because, somehow, the > compile-time flag needed to enable thi

Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-11 Thread add|ct|on
- Original Message - From: Stuart Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 4:58 PM Subject: Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install? > Phillip Deackes wrote: > > > > Well I decided to go ahead and upgrade to glibc2.1 when I found all

Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-11 Thread add|ct|on
- Original Message - From: Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian-user list Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 3:52 PM Subject: Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install? > I will give a specific instance. I need gtk 1.2 but when I try to install the > libgtk 1.2 deb, it complains that it needs lib

Re: problem searching list archives

1999-05-11 Thread Kirk Hogenson
Pollywog wrote: > > I am having a problem with the list archives. When I search for a > topic, I find lots of listings, but when I click on links, I get a cgi > error. Is it just me? > This was happening to me to for quite a while. Then, just when I mentioned the problem here on debian-user

Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-11 Thread Stuart Ballard
Phillip Deackes wrote: > > Well I decided to go ahead and upgrade to glibc2.1 when I found all the > new packages in unstable were compiled with it. It meant I couldn't get, > for instance, the new Gnome stuff. > > I had three problems. The first, JAVA, has now been resolved. What was the proble

bad hostname (lpd complains)

1999-05-11 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I made my hostname 486 on my 486 desktop. Now lpd complains about a bad hostname. How do I fix this? I already changed this in /etc/hosts. Is there somewhere else I should change this? Thanks... -- NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law Sacramento, CA [EM

Re[2]: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-11 Thread Phillip Deackes
> On 11-May-99 add|ct|on wrote: > > > tis true, it seems to be a huge issue though i can't see why. what i > don't > > get is why, if someone insists on using packages made for an > entirely > > different system (potato packages on slink, for instance), they > would > > complain that things break

Re: Need Apache with proxy support

1999-05-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, peter karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm running Slink and am in need of a version of Apache that has the proxy >module compiled-in (the supplied version hasn't). Is there a fully enabled >version available somewhere, or do I need to compile it from sources my

apache + proxy ?

1999-05-11 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
Hey, did someone know if the proxy of Apache will work only to my localhost or to all url ? more clearly : if I use my browser on my computer is apache-proxy see in its cache ? or apache-proxy will work only to the request on my http://localhost In fact I want to know if I have to in

Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-11 Thread Pollywog
On 11-May-99 add|ct|on wrote: > > tis true, it seems to be a huge issue though i can't see why. what i don't > get is why, if someone insists on using packages made for an entirely > different system (potato packages on slink, for instance), they would > complain that things break? I will give a

Need Apache with proxy support

1999-05-11 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! I'm running Slink and am in need of a version of Apache that has the proxy module compiled-in (the supplied version hasn't). Is there a fully enabled version available somewhere, or do I need to compile it from sources myself? Please reply Cc: me, since I have not subcribed to this list --

Gnome-Enlightment

1999-05-11 Thread Brian Schramm
I would like to install the latest version of Gnome and Enlightment on my Slink system. I have a modem at home so I thought tht I would download the files at work and create a cd for my upgrade. I went to this site : http://www.debian.org/~ljlane/downloads/enlightenment/ and downloaded the file

Glibc 2.1 and JAVA - success

1999-05-11 Thread Phillip Deackes
I upgraded my Slink distribution to glibc 2.1. I had the usual problems with Applixware and Java, and have just solved the latter by downloading JDK 1.1.7 for glibc 2.1 from the following site: http://shell.ncm.com/~kreilede/ The download is 18 MB. It is a tar.gz file and means that JDK does not

Re: rtl8139 + kernel2.2.5

1999-05-11 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
Frank Rosendahl wrote: > > > other question : > > after an upgrade a get this from ldconfig > > ldconfig: warning: can't open /lib/libNoVersion.so.1 (No such file > > or directory), skipping > > any idea ? > > Does this library exist with this name ? > > CU > Frank > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail

Re: .fvwm2rc problem

1999-05-11 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 11 May, bashir mudassar wrote about ".fvwm2rc problem" > Hi, > I am having a little difficulty customizing my .fvwm2rc. The > problem is the following: > > I cannot seem to define the size or the geometry of my Fvwm > window. The window I am talking about is the one that ho

Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-11 Thread add|ct|on
- Original Message - From: John T. Croteau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 2:12 PM Subject: Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install? > I am going to stick with 2.0.7 until gnu makes 2.1 available again. I > just love "political" issues. > > - JT tis true, it seems to be

Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-11 Thread add|ct|on
- Original Message - From: Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian-user list Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 1:44 PM Subject: Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install? > I just thought of something. Maybe Potato works better on the 2.2.x kernels > than it does on 2.0.x kernels ?? I cannot upg

Neophyte kde problems

1999-05-11 Thread David Jardine
Just starting with linux, and already have the following three problems: 1:I made a mistake with the configuration of kde and it leaves a blank area on the left-hand side of the screen. How can I reconfigure without starting all over again? 2:I seem only to be able to uses kde from root,

Re: checkdir error

1999-05-11 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > I have a shell script that unzips multiple files in a directory. This > directory have 4 subdirectories named 001, ..., 004. Each one have 400 > subdirectories named 001, ..., 400. In each of these 400 subdirectories > I have 400 html files. The file sy

hosed debian system

1999-05-11 Thread Ben Cranston
was trying to install package minicom and am now in a situation where dselect says: Broken Required packages in section base U** Req base libncurses4 4.2-3 4.2-3Shared libr... Broken Optional packages in section x11 U** Opt x11motifnls 2.1-2 2.1-4Files needed to... wha

.fvwm2rc problem

1999-05-11 Thread bashir mudassar
Hi, I am having a little difficulty customizing my .fvwm2rc. The problem is the following: I cannot seem to define the size or the geometry of my Fvwm window. The window I am talking about is the one that holds all the panels that represent the different desktops. You know

Re: Life at 4 bogomips

1999-05-11 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 04:50:30PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: Hi George! > Well I got the old 386 put back together, figured I would use it for a > firewall. 386SX33 with 10MB of RAM. Man, what an example to show what OS > bloat has done! I used to install Win31 on it, even installed OS/2 Warp

problem searching list archives

1999-05-11 Thread Pollywog
I am having a problem with the list archives. When I search for a topic, I find lots of listings, but when I click on links, I get a cgi error. Is it just me? -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]

Re: kernel and modules compiling

1999-05-11 Thread Alexander Schwartz
Hi Horacio, I usually clean my module directory before I reinstall the the kernel modules to get rid of old stuff in there. But beware: If you are using PCMCIA or VMWARE, you will need to reinstall the PCMCIA and VMWARE modules. After I install my modules using make modules_install I run depmo

Re: logging uf su usage

1999-05-11 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> does the default syslog.conf log all usage of the "su" command ? if so > may i knoe where ? There is logging of su in /var/log/auth.log Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402

Re: printout being chopped off...

1999-05-11 Thread Alexander Schwartz
Hi Sudhakar, Maybe you should consult the manual of your printer. Every printer has a printable area, and you should check if you want to print outside the border your hardware sets (therefore: software upgrade will not work?). Read the fine manual. Alex. > I have an Epson Color Stylus 640.

Java crashes in recent Potato?

1999-05-11 Thread Stuart Ballard
Java, Javac and all other java commands appear to be crashing since a recent apt-get upgrade of my potato system. I get the following message: /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/../bin/i686/green_threads/java: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/../lib/i686/green_threads/libjava.so: undefined

Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-11 Thread John T. Croteau
I am going to stick with 2.0.7 until gnu makes 2.1 available again. I just love "political" issues. - JT

Re: logging uf su usage

1999-05-11 Thread Carl Mummert
I noticed this problem a while back. There is (was at the time) a bug against su because, somehow, the compile-time flag needed to enable this logging had been removed. I noticed this change when I upgraded from hamm to slink. My solution was to recompile su. It is in the shellutils package; you

printout being chopped off...

1999-05-11 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Hi, I have an Epson Color Stylus 640. When I print 2-uped pages, a bit of the page (on the left hand side) gets chopped off. I am printing to 'letter' paper. Here is what I tried: * Installed slink's lprng, gs (not gs-alladin), enscript, psutils and magicfilter. * Ran /usr/sbin/magicfiltercon

logging uf su usage

1999-05-11 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
hello list, does the default syslog.conf log all usage of the "su" command ? if so may i knoe where ? ive been reading the syslod.conf man page but im not sure whether i understood everything. and if it doesnt, may i knoe how do i tell syslog to log all usage of the "su" commang ? TIA, chad

Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-11 Thread Pollywog
On 11-May-99 add|ct|on wrote: > i run potato with glib6-2.1.1 and kernel 2.2.7. and i have no problems to > speak of, although i did with the first release of potato. i also haven't > noticed any significant problems with any packages. if you want an opinion, > here's mine: my system is much faste

Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-11 Thread Pollywog
On 11-May-99 add|ct|on wrote: > i run potato with glib6-2.1.1 and kernel 2.2.7. and i have no problems to > speak of, although i did with the first release of potato. i also haven't > noticed any significant problems with any packages. if you want an opinion, > here's mine: my system is much faste

KDE's untimely death

1999-05-11 Thread add|ct|on
i am having a strange problem with kde... whenever it runs, and i try to open a program, it crashes, IE xdm (or kdm, if i try with that) stops and x exits. i went through a lot of analysis and i came to the odd conclusion by trial and error that, if i log into it with users which don't have

Re: vim and mutt?

1999-05-11 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 11 May 1999 10:41:27 +0200, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: >On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 23:00:39 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: >>I'm having a small problem with vim in conjunction with mutt. I set the >>editor to "vim -u ~/.vimmailrc" so I can have vim turn on

Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-11 Thread add|ct|on
i run potato with glib6-2.1.1 and kernel 2.2.7. and i have no problems to speak of, although i did with the first release of potato. i also haven't noticed any significant problems with any packages. if you want an opinion, here's mine: my system is much faster, more useful, and just as stable now

Re: setting up a HP 880C/850C

1999-05-11 Thread David Wright
Quoting Christian T. Steigies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > I got an HP 880C yesterday which works in principle. Now I have two or three > questions: > Ive seen there is an (experimental?) gs driver for newer HPs, available as a > patch. Are there plans to integrate it into gs or is it not worth it?

installing Debian 2.0 r3

1999-05-11 Thread John
I have a spare machine onto which I am trying to install 2.0 r3. The machine has a Pentium MMX166 processor, two hard drives (one 426Mb with DOS 6.2 and W3.11: the other 1.1Gb empty and available for Linux), 32Mb FPM physical RAM, 1.44 Floppy, 32x CD-ROM Drive, an S3 Virge/DX(PCI) Video Card and a

Re: I need help with X

1999-05-11 Thread deblists
On 10 May, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: [...] >> > > Another question. Now I'm running wm. And i click with the middle > button on the clip to create a new workspace i can't get to the menu > options because the menu follows the mouse arround. What am i doing > wrong? > > Thanks

Re: Visual Basic type IDE/Compiler

1999-05-11 Thread deblists
On 11 May, Brant Wells wrote: > Hi Y'all > > Does anyone know of a good Visual Basic Style IDE for Linux?? Or how > about an ELF compiler for basic?? > > TIA, > Brant > > Hello Brant! I'm not sure what you want; do you want a Basic compiler for Linux that comes with an IDE, or do you want an

Re: X works, but no mouse?

1999-05-11 Thread deblists
On 10 May, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 07:17:02PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I usually have gpm set up as a repeater and X using the repeater >> device, however, gpm can't start either. >> >> An strace of 'cat /dev/psaux' gives me the same errors about not being >> ab

Netscape bus errors after upgrade to 3.3.3.1-3

1999-05-11 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
Communicator 4.51 started to give bus errors after the X upgrade to 3.3.3.1-3 Actually it is possible to start it, but when I quit it produces bus error. This seems pretty innocent, but apparently it gives bus error when closing certain windows ( or when the child exits? ). As a result, i cannot u

"problem" with portmap

1999-05-11 Thread Dietrich Beck
Hi, we have small PC cluster running Debian 2.1. Since a few days to of those bother me with the following message: "my_host portmap[6050]: connect from 134.58.X.Y to callit(ypserv): request from unauthorized host". In principle that is o.k., because 134.58.X.Y should have no access to our clus

Re: rsh when root

1999-05-11 Thread Philippe Andersson
As an afterthought: don't forget to use the FQDN in your .rhosts (it didn't work without it in my setup) Ph. A. Philippe Andersson wrote: > > Hello, > > Edit /etc/inetd.conf, look for the line that invoque rshd and modify it > as follows: > > shell stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/

RE: StarOffice no longer works after upgrading to Slink

1999-05-11 Thread Pollywog
On 11-May-99 Daniel Mashao wrote: > Any help? Unlike the tough guys who have problems with SO in potato, I > have a problem with SO in slink. It worked fine in my previous hamm/slink > setting, now it just Aborts. I have tried some of the suggestions I have > seen for potato but they do not work.

RE: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-11 Thread Pollywog
On 11-May-99 J Horacio MG wrote: > > That sounds as if upgrading to libc6 2.1.1 is not a good idea, at least > not if it's just for a couple of packages. But, does it mean libc6 > 2.1.1 is not stable, or it means it's stable but not fit to use with a > system packed with (and for) a previous ver

Re: rsh when root

1999-05-11 Thread Philippe Andersson
Hello, Edit /etc/inetd.conf, look for the line that invoque rshd and modify it as follows: shell stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.rshd -hlL ^^ This disables the use of ~/.rhosts *except for root* (-l) and allows

Re: setting domain - name

1999-05-11 Thread Rune Linding Raun
it shall have a domainname! and 'it' ask for one ! On 11-May-99 Martin Bialasinski wrote: >>> "TM" == Thorsten Manegold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> writes: > > TM> I installed Debian using the dialup option. It asked me the name > TM> that my computer should get, but not the domain name. I guess > TM>

Visual Basic type IDE/Compiler

1999-05-11 Thread Brant Wells
Hi Y'all Does anyone know of a good Visual Basic Style IDE for Linux?? Or how about an ELF compiler for basic?? TIA, Brant

[SOLVED!!]: Telnet Problems

1999-05-11 Thread Brant Wells
Hey Y'all!! Thanks for the tips on the telnet problem-- it worked!! :) Thankfully Yours, Brant

kernel and modules compiling

1999-05-11 Thread J Horacio MG
I just recompiled kernel 2.0.36, and everything seems to work fine except for the following messages during boot up (same with modprobe). pon seems to be working ok so, what does all this mean? :~# modprobe ppp.o /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ppp.o: unresolved symbol netif_rx_R88a5d1d7 /lib/modules/2.0.

Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-11 Thread Sean
This kind of strikes at something I've been wondering of late. Slink, back when Hamm was the stable dist, was pretty stable I thought. I realize that Potato started out hideously broken, mostly because of the libc6 2.1.1, but that was a while back, and I'm now wondering if anyone has any comments

Re: Broken "Select" in dselect (typos removed)

1999-05-11 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > Hi All. > > This just started today, after doing a dselect/Update off of www.debian.org > stable main, contrib, and non-free. Now when I run dselect and go into the > Select option, the program just quits with the message: > > dselect: failed to create baselist p

RE: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-11 Thread J Horacio MG
~> > I have some packages which require version 2.1.1 from libc6 (which I ~> > expect it can be found in potato). My question is, do I have to expect ~> > any problems if I install it in slink, or is it just as straight forward ~> > as upgrading any other package? ~> ~> If you upgrade a slink ins

Re: Scanners: Compatibility with Linux

1999-05-11 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 11 May 1999, William Denton wrote: > 1. Where's the SANE webpage - I've tried http://www.mostang.com/sane/ > but it doesn't seem to be there. Try again... I can see it there just fine. It's really the best source of information about scanners and Linux. I did a presentation very recently

rsh when root

1999-05-11 Thread Rx
Hi there ! I would like to do a rsh from one machine to another being root. Debian said Permission denied Yes it is dangerous but i would like to do it. thanks of course .rhosts is positionned machine1 root Xavier __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Broken "Select" in dselect (typos removed)

1999-05-11 Thread Kent West
Hi All. This just started today, after doing a dselect/Update off of www.debian.org stable main, contrib, and non-free. Now when I run dselect and go into the Select option, the program just quits with the message: dselect: failed to create baselist pad: Cannot allocate memory This is on a 32MB

Re: wine with windows NT

1999-05-11 Thread Kent West
At 04:00 PM 5/10/1999 +, Shawn Nguyen wrote: >Hi, > > Has anyone been able to get wine to work with windows NT? If so, can > you >help me with the setup? Any help or hint would be greatly appreciated. > >Shawn Nguyen I'm not entirely sure what you mean; do you mean "how to get wine t

Scanners: Compatibility with Linux

1999-05-11 Thread William Denton
I'm about to buy a scanner and am likely to buy either an Epson, Agfa or Umax scanner. I have a few questions: 1. Where's the SANE webpage - I've tried http://www.mostang.com/sane/ but it doesn't seem to be there. 2. Should I get USB, Parallel Port or SCSI? I've already got a ZIP drive and printer

RES: Scanners: Compatibility with Linux

1999-05-11 Thread Leandro Dutra
> 2. Should I get USB, Parallel Port or SCSI? > I've already got a ZIP drive and printer on the parallel port, so > was wondering if it was a good idea to hang yet another device off it. > The SCSI scanners appear to be quite a bit more expensive. USB > ones are comparable with the parallel port on

Scanners: Compatibility with Linux

1999-05-11 Thread William Denton
I'm about to buy a scanner and am likely to buy either an Epson, Agfa or Umax scanner. I have a few questions: 1. Where's the SANE webpage - I've tried http://www.mostang.com/sane/ but it doesn't seem to be there. 2. Should I get USB, Parallel Port or SCSI? I've already got a ZIP drive and printer

Re: Linux Kernel Version?

1999-05-11 Thread Peter Ludwig
On Sat, 8 May 1999, Dave Evanson wrote: > Hello, > Just reading your FAQ's and cna't find out what Linux Kernel version > that Slink uses...I have downloaded Slink, and I want to use Linux > drivers for my Token Ring NIC, the only problem is that the manufacturer > only lists compatibility by Linux

Re: checkdir errory

1999-05-11 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I wrote: > You are trying to create 4*400*400=64 files. You can check how many > inodes are left using [...] > By default there are 4096 bytes per inode, which means that for the > amount of files you want to store your partition needs to be at least > 64*4/1024=25000 MB in size (neglect

transparent proxy with Squid?

1999-05-11 Thread Louis-David Mitterrand
Has anybody successfuly configured Linux and Squid to act as a transparent proxy? I have looked at the Squid FAQ and an interesting pointer provided by it (http://alderan.gurulink.com/transproxy-linux21-squid2.html) but have not succeded yet. All squid configuration options and and ipchains command

Re: Kernel patches needed for running Informix Dynamic Server Linux Edition

1999-05-11 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 12:02:56 +0100, F. Fernandez wrote: > I'm posting this message in debian-user and debian-testing since it > relates both to slink and to potato so excuse me if you get it twice. At the moment, debian-user is the appropriate list for both slink and potato. debian-testing is

Re: checkdir error

1999-05-11 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > I have a shell script that unzips multiple files in a directory. This > directory have 4 subdirectories named 001, ..., 004. Each one have 400 > subdirectories named 001, ..., 400. In each of these 400 subdirectories > I have 400 html files. The file system( using df ) still have enough > spac

Re: checkdir error

1999-05-11 Thread Larry Loreman
> I have a shell script that unzips multiple files in a directory. This > directory have 4 subdirectories named 001, ..., 004. Each one have 400 > subdirectories named 001, ..., 400. In each of these 400 subdirectories > I have 400 html files. The file system( using df ) still have enough > space f

Re: smail/exim/qmail/zmailer/... which MTA?

1999-05-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "ML" == Michael Laing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ML> In the near future I may need to handle daily bulkmail to a list ML> of users in the 20,000-100,000 range. I would check the documentation on www.exim.org. debian.org runs with exim, and it does pretty well. Ciao, Martin

Re: setting domain - name

1999-05-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "TM" == Thorsten Manegold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TM> I installed Debian using the dialup option. It asked me the name TM> that my computer should get, but not the domain name. I guess TM> that's ok as I'm only using PPP? Never done this option. but it looks strange. TM> Does the local m

checkdir error

1999-05-11 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
I have a shell script that unzips multiple files in a directory. This directory have 4 subdirectories named 001, ..., 004. Each one have 400 subdirectories named 001, ..., 400. In each of these 400 subdirectories I have 400 html files. The file system( using df ) still have enough space for the unp

Re: Making gnuplot plot to file

1999-05-11 Thread Richard Harran
Thanks very much for this. Cheers Rich Ian Peters wrote: > > On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 11:23:52AM +, Richard Harran wrote: > > Could anyone tell me how to make gnuplot output its plots to (eg) a > > postscript file. I have tried > > gnuplot> set output "outfile.ps" > > gnuplot> pl

Re: Newbie Question: PPP

1999-05-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "RF" == R Feenstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RF> I'm running Debian 2.1 Slink since one week and now I'm trying to RF> get my ISDN card to work.Installed isdnutils. You need to load the isdn modules first modprobe hisax For me, options are type=15 protocol=2 io=0x100 irq=10 id=line0 In

RE: Gnome missing dependencies

1999-05-11 Thread Dmitry Ya
> -Original Message- > From: Craig R. Hodges [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 10, 1999 12:24 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Gnome missing dependencies > > > When trying to install (unstable) Gnome using the directions at > http://www.gnome.org/start/getting_de

Re: grab user's ip/tty on login

1999-05-11 Thread Carl Mummert
>galactica: $USER logged in at `date` on $TTY from $IP Try the 'last' command,which parses wtmp and tells you who has logged in. $ last -10 -ad williams Tue May 11 07:39 - 07:40 (00:01) rn109022.wcu.edu mummert Tue May 11 07:37 still logged inrn109238.wcu.edu

Re: rtl8139 + kernel2.2.5

1999-05-11 Thread Frank Rosendahl
Khalid EZZARAOUI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bonjour, > > I have a problem about rtl8139 (ethernet card) option in the compilation > of the kernel. > rtl8139 is in the kernel source but not available in make xconfig. > How to compil it anyway ? Did you activate "Conde maturity level options/Pr

Re: Making gnuplot plot to file

1999-05-11 Thread Ian Peters
On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 11:23:52AM +, Richard Harran wrote: > Could anyone tell me how to make gnuplot output its plots to (eg) a > postscript file. I have tried > gnuplot> set output "outfile.ps" > gnuplot> plot 'myplot' > but it plots to screen. When I exit, there is and outfile

Metro-X & Slink

1999-05-11 Thread debian
MetroX support got back to me. (Apparently they do that at the end of the day. I spent my time waiting playing with gcal -- i'm kicking myself over the $60 i spent on Daytimer's calendar program, especially after configuring a2ps to print to the DayTimer paper size) If anyone else has this

Making gnuplot plot to file

1999-05-11 Thread Richard Harran
Could anyone tell me how to make gnuplot output its plots to (eg) a postscript file. I have tried gnuplot> set output "outfile.ps" gnuplot> plot 'myplot' but it plots to screen. When I exit, there is and outfile.ps, but it is zero bytes. Any help appriciated TIA Rich

Kernel patches needed for running Informix Dynamic Server Linux Edition

1999-05-11 Thread F. Fernandez
Hi all! I'm posting this message in debian-user and debian-testing since it relates both to slink and to potato so excuse me if you get it twice. I'd like to know where can I find the patches to recompile the kernel 2.0.36 and/or 2.2.x so that the system supports more open files. I'm trying to

rtl8139 + kernel2.2.5

1999-05-11 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
Bonjour, I have a problem about rtl8139 (ethernet card) option in the compilation of the kernel. rtl8139 is in the kernel source but not available in make xconfig. How to compil it anyway ? other question : after an upgrade a get this from ldconfig ldconfig: warning: can't open /lib/libNoVers

StarOffice no longer works after upgrading to Slink

1999-05-11 Thread Daniel Mashao
Any help? Unlike the tough guys who have problems with SO in potato, I have a problem with SO in slink. It worked fine in my previous hamm/slink setting, now it just Aborts. I have tried some of the suggestions I have seen for potato but they do not work. Any ideas? /--

setting up a HP 880C/850C

1999-05-11 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, I got an HP 880C yesterday which works in principle. Now I have two or three questions: Ive seen there is an (experimental?) gs driver for newer HPs, available as a patch. Are there plans to integrate it into gs or is it not worth it? When printing with a2ps the first two columns of the let pa

Re: vim and mutt?

1999-05-11 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 23:00:39 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: >I'm having a small problem with vim in conjunction with mutt. I set the >editor to "vim -u ~/.vimmailrc" so I can have vim turn on wrapping, >automatic insertion of quote characters and the like. It colors nicely, >but it does not appear

instalar Linux

1999-05-11 Thread Fernando Primo del Val
me gustaria intalar el LINUX en mi ordenador, y queria saber donde puedo obtener tanto el Kernel y todo el software adicional como XWindow, etc para intalarlo en mi PC. El ordenador que tengo es un portátil pentium Celerom en el que tengo instalado W98. Actualmente tengo dos particiones una pa

Re: Re: Need libgcc2.c ????

1999-05-11 Thread Seppo
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote: > The file mentioned sounds like it is part of gcc, which means that the > program is causing an error in gcc's internal library. it is uqite common > to get a "not found" message from gdb (especially with e.g. string errors > or malloc errors), but

vim and mutt?

1999-05-11 Thread Steve Lamb
I'm having a small problem with vim in conjunction with mutt. I set the editor to "vim -u ~/.vimmailrc" so I can have vim turn on wrapping, automatic insertion of quote characters and the like. It colors nicely, but it does not appear to read the rc file at all. I generally see this in repl

Re: 2 network cards

1999-05-11 Thread Oz Dror
I have a similar problem, But instead of having 2 network cards I have one card using IP aliasing ( two subnets on the same card/network, one for DSL and the second local 192.168.0.x). as soon as I start ipmasq I cannot ping beyond the local subnet of each card, thus I cannot access the DNS serv

Re: Looking for Mail Information

1999-05-11 Thread Aaron Solochek
Well, how about imap with kerberos v4 support. Thats my 2 cents. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 10 May 1999, Chris Hoover wrote: > I've decided that I'm going to try and write an e-mail program for X, since I > have not been able to find a good one yet. However, I'm not sure what t

grab user's ip/tty on login

1999-05-11 Thread nate
is there an easy way to grab an user's ip upon login? i would like my servers to email page me when a user logs in ..but getting the IP and TTY is prooving more difficult then the date/time and username :) what i want is something like this galactica: $USER logged in at `date` on $TTY from $IP S

Re: xosview

1999-05-11 Thread Joey Hess
Wayne Topa wrote: > Think I read in the Debian Weekly News that the author had been told > of the problem and was working on it. No, I never wrote that in DWN. I am filing a bug now though. -- see shy jo

map too big

1999-05-11 Thread bewei
hi guys i got this problem: i compile kernel 2.2.5 and after make bzImmage,make modules,make modules_install i copy bzImage to /boot then edit the lilo.conf after that do "lilo" then message " map too big" apprears my bzImage size 655 k helppp me plss regards budi wibowo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2.2.x boot/root needed

1999-05-11 Thread John T. Croteau
Does anyone happen to have a rescue boot/root with a 2.2.x kernel on it that I could get a copy of? I am installing a new workstation with a fairly new SCSI controller with a kernel level driver, manufacturer supplied, that requires 2.2.5. The controller in question is a new DPT SmartRaid V. Ple

Re: debmake help

1999-05-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "r" == roddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: r> I'm experimenting with making my first .deb. The howto's tell me In addition to the other answers: There is the mailinglist debian-mentors, which is just there as a forum for new developers. Subscribe via www.debian.org Ciao, Martin

RE: QT for debian?

1999-05-11 Thread Pollywog
On 11-May-99 Alan wrote: > Hello, i'v been searching for a qt *.deb package for debian with no luck. > Can > anyone tell me where I might find one if there is one at all :) > > thanks >>Alan Qt debs can be found on Debian's ftp site. Go to the main page at http://ww w.debian.org and click the

Re: 8 Newbie Questions

1999-05-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "AB" == André Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AB> Since I just installed linux a few days ago from my debian 2.1 cd AB> there This should also be your primary choice for software for now. You will also find mtools there. There might be newer versions of the packages out there, but you don't

Re: QT for debian?

1999-05-11 Thread Sean
I think there's one in the unstable tree, but I've had great luck with compiling the source. I find that easier in the case of qt & kde than waiting for *.deb files. Sean Alan wrote: > > Hello, i'v been searching for a qt *.deb package for debian with no luck. Can > anyone tell me where I mig

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