Gimp1.1 Dependencies

1999-07-04 Thread Jordi
Hello... trying to install gimp1.1_1.1.6-2, and got some dep errors. Both libgtk-perl 0.5000-1 and pdl 2.001-1 are required... but inexistent in all the mirrors I have tried, including ftp.debian.org. I simply wanted to inform about this because I can't get gimp set up. Thanks. Jordi --

Re: Networking help

1999-07-04 Thread Robert Rati
On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, John Pearson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 04:52:14PM -0500, Robert Rati wrote > > On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, John Pearson wrote: > > >[snip] > > > Your NIC driver is sending stuff to your NIC and expects to receive an > > > interrupt down the track (probably to say that it has fin

Porting Fortran apps to Debian

1999-07-04 Thread Carl Greco
We are planning to port several scientific (Fortran77) applications from HP-UX to Linux. I have found a few examples with Redhat and other distributions but not Debian. In order to justify selecting Debian, I need some successful prior examples. If you have (or know of) a Fortran application tha

Re: Securing system

1999-07-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Mark" == Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> order to telnet into my gateway (is that right?)). But i've read Mark> in the past that telnet isn't very secure and that people can Mark> intercept logins and passwords when one telnets to a computer. If the packages pass theri box. For

RE: E-mail for dummies.

1999-07-04 Thread Christian Dysthe
I was a Linux email newbie a few months back. What has brought me a good solution is a combo consisting of exim/fetchmail/XFmail. If I were you I would start out with XFmail on it's own. This email client is very simple to set up. It does what you expect a normal GUI based email client to do with e

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problems with listar-cgi

1999-07-04 Thread Adam Shand
hi, i'm hoping someone can help me. i've got listar working and it seems very nice, but i want to play with the cgi frontend and i can't get it to do anything. i've just installed both listar and listar-cgi, have made to modifications necessary to have one working list and am trying to run the

Re: File Attributes in /var

1999-07-04 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: File Attributes in /var Date: Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 07:43:00AM +0200 In reply to:Klaus Pieper Quoting Klaus Pieper([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > > After moving the /var directory to another partition using tar cfSp - * > | ( cd /mnt && tar xfSpv - ) I got problems because

Re: [SuSE Linux] What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-07-04 Thread Revenant
I use the Netscape Mail program and am quite happy with it. I've recently returned to Netscape Mail from Pegasus, which is nice, but has a few little annoying things that Netscape doesn't: New messages appear in the "New Mail" folder. Once they move from there (after reading) they can't be put

CD-RW drives and Linux

1999-07-04 Thread Alec Smith
I'm looking into getting a CD-RW drive to go along with my Debian system. I'm looking at the following possible combinations. 1. SCSI CD-ROM and SCSI CD-RW 2. IDE CD-ROM and SCSI CD-RW 3. SCSI CD-ROM and IDE CD-RW 4. IDE CD-ROM and IDE CD-RW The cheapest option would be the IDE/IDE combo. Would a

Re: Securing system

1999-07-04 Thread Steve George
Hi Mark, The first thing you should do is comment telnet back in until you have drawn up your security strategy ;-) The standard things people will tell you to do are: - turn everything off - use inetd/wrappers with PARANOIA for anything you *have* to have on - use packet

Re: Linking c programs?

1999-07-04 Thread Steve George
Hi, When you compile a library function into your program the system has to be told in which libraries to look for these references during linking. A small set of libraries such as stdio are always checked for by the compiler - but it doesn't check all the libraries for references to functions

Securing system

1999-07-04 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all: Okay. I seem to have my two computers networked together. In fact I've telneted into my machine that has a direct internet connection to write this email. I have some questions on how to go about making my system more secure. When I first had my cable modem installed, one of the first th

Re: [RedHat]: Automatic Hardware Detection

1999-07-04 Thread Paulo J Matos aka PDestroy
Automatic Hardware detection is what Win98 has for example... When you install a printer, and restart win98, it'll say that there is a new printer and install it for you. I would like to know if RedHat or any other Linux type OS can do that. Regards, At 22:43 04-07-1999 +0200, Lex Chive wrote: >O

Hot-247 sound card

1999-07-04 Thread The Buht Man
Hello , i run Debian 2.1 and its all up to date everything is working nicely ..  i am running Icewm , with gnome for a window manager      Problem:   i Cannot get my sound card to initialize , or load , and i dont know which module is compatible.                 ive tried installin

Re: Remove funny files

1999-07-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Rolf" == Rolf Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rolf> That gives me a '--exclude=files.txt' file. Trying to remove it Rolf> as 'rm -i --exclude=files.txt' was unpossible. But when I go upp Rolf> one directory, then it was easy to remove the file. -- starts an option. Commands, that accept -

NFS Installation

1999-07-04 Thread Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello - posgrad/98 - SDR
Hi,We have encountered some problems regarding configuring NFS in Debian system. We haven't got parameters about server and the notation used, in the screen "Choose Debian NFS Filesystem". If you could help us, we appreciate. Thanks.

Re: Hylafax problems

1999-07-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 08:20:24PM +0200, Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > Allan M. Wind wrote: > > > On 1999-07-04 17:46, Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > > > > > I Get the following warning: faxrunq hasn't been run in the last 24 > > > hours > > > > > > I've been told that I have to install a cron job that calls

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Glibc 2.0.7t-1 -> 2.0.7u - that shouldn't break anything, should it?

1999-07-04 Thread scode
As the subject says. 2.0.7t-1 and 2.0.7u sounds pretty compatible to me. Right? Thanks! -- / Peter Schuller --- PGP userID: 0x5584BD98 or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://hem.passagen.se/petersch Help create a free Java based operating system - www.jos.

Re: [RedHat]: Automatic Hardware Detection

1999-07-04 Thread Lex Chive
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 09:13:28PM +0100, Paulo J Matos aka PDestroy wrote: > Does anyone know if RedHat 6.x does Automatic Hardware Detection? > What's automatic hardware detection? PnP? -Lex pgpO73diF41kN.pgp Description: PGP signature

RE: gnome session-panel & X problems

1999-07-04 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
I just went through my logs and I have the same errors in my .gnome-errors file. My .gnome-errors is 14k! Thats from one start of gnome, but it looks like they are mostly errors with sound. I'll try and fix that now and see what else happens. Brendon -Original Message- From: Didi Damian

[RedHat]: Automatic Hardware Detection

1999-07-04 Thread Paulo J Matos aka PDestroy
Does anyone know if RedHat 6.x does Automatic Hardware Detection? Regards, Paulo Jorge Matos aka PDestroy Minister of FortuneCity - Marina District http://www.fortunecity.com Personal Page : http://pdestroy.fortunecity.com Fed. Portuguesa de JuJutsu e D.A. Webmaster : http://welcome.to/fpjujutsu

getting Realplayer to work through Netscape

1999-07-04 Thread Monte Copeland
Hello, I have been trying to get Realplayer G2 to work through Netscape. I have installed the Alsa drivers onto my debian 2.1 box and installed the RealplayerG2 app. When I try to access a sound file by clicking on an icon in Netscape, the G2 player comes up and says it is "Connecting", but

Where is klogd instructed to dump the ring buffer into syslog?

1999-07-04 Thread Marc Haber
Hi! My Debian box seems to write the boot messages (that can be accessed by dmesg) to the syslog on boot-up. The SuSE box at work has code to dump this information to a file (/usr/sbin/klogd -f /var/log/boot.msg -o) in /sbin/init.d/boot. I am curious. Where do I find the code that does this on De

hardware block size on scsi cdrom

1999-07-04 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
I have a scsi cdrom (Plextor) and a scsi cdwriter (Yamaha). They both have a jumper to set the block size to 1024 bytes or to 512 bytes. The manuals say that for Unix 512 is the good value. Do you have any suggestions? What does this value mean, after all? Pf --

Re: faxrunq problems

1999-07-04 Thread Cuno Sonnemans
Allan M. Wind wrote: > On 1999-07-04 20:20, Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > > > I've run faxrunq by hand, but now I have a new problem. > > I get the following message (my modem is on ttyS0, I've changed sendfax) > > /dev/ttyS0..OK > > /usr/sbin/sendfax: not a class 2/2.0 fax modem. > > It sta

Re: Remove funny files

1999-07-04 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1999-07-04 20:22, Rolf Edlund wrote: > rm -i Backupfiles/--exclude=files.txt There are 2 tricks: 1. rm -i * (say no to everything that you want to keep) 2. rm -- FILE In this case, 2 would work. /Allan -- Allan M. Wind Phone: 781.938.5272 (home) 687 Ma

Re: Remove funny files

1999-07-04 Thread Mark Wagnon
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 08:22:56PM +0200, Rolf Edlund wrote: > Hi! > > I was playing around with Tar, and done a verry foolish thing.. :-) > > tar -cvf --exclude=files.txt allfiles.tar * > > That gives me a '--exclude=files.txt' file. Trying to remove it as 'rm -i > --exclude=files.txt' was u

Remove funny files

1999-07-04 Thread Rolf Edlund
Hi! I was playing around with Tar, and done a verry foolish thing.. :-) tar -cvf --exclude=files.txt allfiles.tar * That gives me a '--exclude=files.txt' file. Trying to remove it as 'rm -i --exclude=files.txt' was unpossible. But when I go upp one directory, then it was easy to remove the fi

Re: Hylafax problems

1999-07-04 Thread Cuno Sonnemans
Allan M. Wind wrote: > On 1999-07-04 17:46, Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > > > I Get the following warning: faxrunq hasn't been run in the last 24 > > hours > > > > I've been told that I have to install a cron job that calls > > faxrunq in regular intervals, as "root" user. > > Yes or you can run faxrunq

Re: [SuSE Linux] What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-07-04 Thread David Woolley
> To a certain extent I have to agree, but where I REALLY think Linux lags > behind > is email. I miss an email client coming close to for instance Outlook Express > and The Bat! for Windows (or even Eudora!). The only one is XFmail which > currently is not being developed it seems. The Outlook f

sendmail - cannot email out from a laptop with no DNS?

1999-07-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
Can anyone help, please, with this problem? I use a laptop at a customer's site, and when I am there, my laptop is configured as if it were one of their own machines and is listed in their /etc/hosts; they do not run DNS. Their mailserver is running Microsoft Exchange(?); I can download mail with

Re: Networking Question

1999-07-04 Thread William Flores
At 10:03 PM 7/3/1999 -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: >Hi everyone: > >other. In fact, they're doing it right now. It's so cool to see those >little lights on my hub blink! Anyway, I manually entered in a bunch >of stuff with ifconfig and route on each computer, and now I guess I Cool! You like to watch

Re: Linking c programs?

1999-07-04 Thread Robert Pintarelli
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 05:10:59PM +0100, Andrew Holmes wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to compile a c program which uses maths functions like pow() > and cbrt(), I've included the #include and it compiles to an object > ok. However when I try to compile it to a program I get: > > /tmp/ccc1332

Re: SVGATextMode

1999-07-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Jul 1999, Lex Chive wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble with SVGATextMode. I have an S3 Virge DX, but every time I > use a mode using a frequency over 37.5 MHz, I have display problems: at 40MHz > some chars become unreadable, at 45 only some chars are actually readable and > at 50 it gets s

Re: E-mail for dummies.

1999-07-04 Thread Pollywog
On 04-Jul-99 Lex Chive wrote: > If you dont have a permanent connection to the internet the best way I know > of > is to use fetchmail. fetchmail will fetch (hehe...) the messages on your ISP > (or your mail account wherever it is) and delivers them locally. Then you > can > either have your mail

Linking c programs?

1999-07-04 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, I've been trying to compile a c program which uses maths functions like pow() and cbrt(), I've included the #include and it compiles to an object ok. However when I try to compile it to a program I get: /tmp/ccc13322: In function `difi': /tmp/ccc13322(.text+0xea): undefined reference to `cbr

Re: Hylafax problems

1999-07-04 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1999-07-04 17:46, Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > I Get the following warning: faxrunq hasn't been run in the last 24 > hours > > I've been told that I have to install a cron job that calls > faxrunq in regular intervals, as "root" user. Yes or you can run faxrunq by hand - execute faxrunq when you h

Re: squid - why?

1999-07-04 Thread Brad
On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > we have installed Slink on a box that will be a normal company web > server. This means will have normal visitors wanting to know about our > company and maybe some e-commerce going on also. > > I chose to install Debian as web server which, after I b

Re: Hylafax problems

1999-07-04 Thread Cuno Sonnemans
John Plate wrote: > Hi Cuno Sonnemans > > I've had Hylafax running for quite some time. It works just fine. > > Did you solve the problems? > > If you are going to have incoming calls to your fax modem, you must > hack the mgetty configuration file a little. > > Caio > -- > John Plate <[EMAIL PROT

Re: E-mail for dummies.

1999-07-04 Thread Lex Chive
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 09:43:06PM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote: > Could someone please post a quick mail-system setup for dummies? As said, I > simply want to connect to my ISP, collect/download my mail and read it in a > browser-like X program like Mahogany. What is the principle setup? (Ple

Re: Can't write to an nfs export

1999-07-04 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
> and don't forget user id mapping may confilct, too. > you will have to make > shure about same uid on both machines or on appropriate uid-mapping, see > manpage (mount, nfs ...) And of course, see /usr/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz My huge home network consists of 2 computers and even in this sim

SVGATextMode

1999-07-04 Thread Lex Chive
Hi, I'm having trouble with SVGATextMode. I have an S3 Virge DX, but every time I use a mode using a frequency over 37.5 MHz, I have display problems: at 40MHz some chars become unreadable, at 45 only some chars are actually readable and at 50 it gets simply impossible to read anything. Strangely

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-07-04 Thread Lex Chive
On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 06:28:37PM +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote: > > It's one thing to send Christmas gifs to people that are a couple of > > hundred bytes long; it's quite a different story when it's a huge, > > uncompressed bitmap which does exactly the same job. Sadly, in most e-mail > > clients e

Re: gnome session-panel & X problems

1999-07-04 Thread Morgoth3
If you're not starting gnome by hand, just create a new one using vi or whatever. type in : panel & exec gnome-session. This'll start your panel and GNOME. I'm not familiar with e, i use ICE myself, so i can't help you there. Colin Winters

Re: CD Changer setup

1999-07-04 Thread Sami Dalouche
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 01:24:22PM -0700, Rick Salvador wrote: > Hi, > > I have a NEC CDR-4300a 4disk cd changer drive, and I would like to have > a way that I could access the 4 disks remotely through the FTPD. Is this > possible? How Do I mount disks 2-4? and how can I have the FTP server >

E-mail for dummies.

1999-07-04 Thread Hans van den Boogert
Sofar I'm quite happy with Linux, Debian and the documentation. If you read all you can find on the subject, use your senses and experiment a bit you can always get done what you want. However, for me the one thing that still remains a mystery is the setting up of a mail system. I'm used to telne

Re: Upgrading slink -> potato

1999-07-04 Thread Sami Dalouche
> Don't use dselect. Use "apt-get dist-upgrade". If you are concerned about > glibc, put your libc6 package on hold and APT won't touch it. How to put a pkg on hold w/o dselect ? -- |. ICQ : 25529539 || |\ | | | \ / AIM : linhax |

Re: squid - why?

1999-07-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 04 Jul 1999 08:18:25 -0500 (CDT), you wrote: >I chose to install Debian as web server which, after I brought the box up, >includes the proxy squid (and of course Apache). What I would like to know is >why I need squid running on this box which will be a normal web server with a >couple of m

squid - why?

1999-07-04 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, we have installed Slink on a box that will be a normal company web server. This means will have normal visitors wanting to know about our company and maybe some e-commerce going on also. I chose to install Debian as web server which, after I brought the box up, includes the proxy squid (and o

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-07-04 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Sami Dalouche: > > The operative word being `need to'. It'd be a very good feature indeed > > if the e-mail client checked the size of the message and said, when > > appropriate, something along the lines of "this is an unusually large > > message by Internet standards; are you sure? (y/N)"

Re: XTerm and marking text

1999-07-04 Thread Tomas Pihl
> I'm coming from SuSE and one thing I noticed is that I'm no longer > able to mark text in "scrolled-up" xterm windows. .. > $ dpkg -l xterm enlightenment-nosound > ii xterm 3.3.3.1-9 X terminal emulator I installed -10 and I have it working now. --Tomas Pihl

RE: gnome session-panel & X problems

1999-07-04 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
I don't have an .xsession file, or mabye I dleted it in trying to clense the problem. I deleted all the X related hidden stuff. .gnome* and such. I tried to get it to revert to defaults to see if that would help, but it doesn't. Seems like gnome doesn't understand i want to exit!! Well, I thought t

telnet terminal gets garbled

1999-07-04 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
I don't know why this happens, but when I telnet to my machine and I use dselect, emacs, or whatever. The text gets messed up. I use CRT for telneting. I have it set to vt100 and have the ansi box checked in the settings. I telnet to slackware boxes with the same settings and they work fine. It see

Re: https connections?

1999-07-04 Thread Gerhard Kroder
Nate wrote: > > Hi folks. > > I have installed apache-ssl. I still cannot get https connections. > > What do I have to do to get this going. Documentation? Thanks give us a little more... how do you try, what does it say, what does logfile say, is there any appropriate networking set up? doc

XTerm and marking text

1999-07-04 Thread Tomas Pihl
I'm coming from SuSE and one thing I noticed is that I'm no longer able to mark text in "scrolled-up" xterm windows. Eg. I cat a file, scroll up with Shift-PgUp and then tries to mark something with either double-clicking or dragging the mouse over the text with the left mousebutton pressed. No

Re: Can't write to an nfs export

1999-07-04 Thread Gerhard Kroder
Mark Brown wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 08:40:52AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > Yet when I try to create a directory or copy a file, etc I get > > "Permission Denied" errors. > > Are you trying to do this as root? As a security measure, NFS defaults > to converting all accesses from root

Re: What's the best way to organize "small" drives

1999-07-04 Thread John Foster
David Forcey wrote: > > NEWBIE ALERT! > > I just installed slink on a 486-100 (Windows throwaway) with 3 salvaged > drives (each 540 MB). I partitioned them as follows: > hda1bootPrimary Linux ext2250.4MB > hda2Primary Linux Swap63.99 MB > hda3Primary

File Attributes in /var

1999-07-04 Thread Klaus Pieper
Hi, After moving the /var directory to another partition using tar cfSp - * | ( cd /mnt && tar xfSpv - ) I got problems because exim could not write to /var/spool/exim and /var/log/exim. How are the correct settings? I changed them to drwxrwx--- 5 root mail 1024 Jun 24 06:27 /var/s

Re: gnome session-panel & X problems

1999-07-04 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 05:59:29PM -0700, Brendon Baumgartner wrote: > I installed gnome and e. The session panel doesn't seem to load up. All i > can do is right click and middle click. > > Also, another problem i'm having with X: > When I Log out, the window manager closes, (the borders an

Re: gnome session-panel & X problems

1999-07-04 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 12:35:52AM -0400, Didi Damian wrote: > Whenever I try to start the gnome panel and/or gmc they fail with this error: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.enlightenment/cached/pager/ > panel > ** WARNING **: Could not get name service! > ** ERROR **: file goad.c: line 606 (real_goad_se

RE: Networking Question

1999-07-04 Thread Pollywog
On 04-Jul-99 Mark Wagnon wrote: > Hi everyone: > > I've got another question (or two). I've been trying to get networking > setup and I seem to be on the right track. I have a book entitled "The > Linux Network" and I've managed to get my two systems to ping each > other. In fact, they're doing i

Networking Question

1999-07-04 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi everyone: I've got another question (or two). I've been trying to get networking setup and I seem to be on the right track. I have a book entitled "The Linux Network" and I've managed to get my two systems to ping each other. In fact, they're doing it right now. It's so cool to see those little

Re: gnome session-panel & X problems

1999-07-04 Thread Didi Damian
Brendon Baumgartner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I installed gnome and e. The session panel doesn't seem to load up. All i > can do is right click and middle click. I have the same problem. Whenever I try to start the gnome panel and/or gmc they fail with this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.enlighten

Re: port redirection

1999-07-04 Thread Jonathan Lupa
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 09:49:53AM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: > On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 03:24:50PM -0400, Jonathan Lupa wrote: > > [setup deleted] > > Now, what I want to do, but haven't been able to get working is a forwarding > > scheme for CVS. I want to have my gateway XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX box redire

Re: gnome session-panel & X problems

1999-07-04 Thread Morgoth3
In a message dated 7/3/99 8:02:36 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << I installed gnome and e. The session panel doesn't seem to load up. All i can do is right click and middle click.> What does your .xsession file say? You might not have panel listed as booting up. < Al

https connections?

1999-07-04 Thread Nate
Hi folks. I have installed apache-ssl. I still cannot get https connections. What do I have to do to get this going. Documentation? Thanks -- _ NatePuri ("natedawg") o m p a g e s . c o m Certified Law Student p e r c r v t i o f i McGeorg

Re: xterm with utf-8

1999-07-04 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 05:57:10PM +0100, Stefan Baums wrote: > From /usr/doc/xterm/changelog.Debian.gz: > > xfree86-1 (3.3.3.1-4) unstable; urgency=low > >* (#011): Debian-specific xterm patches >- disable UTF-8 support, upstream author is still working on it > > How ca

Re: mod_perl debianized? (thanks)

1999-07-04 Thread Nate
On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 09:41:19PM -0500, Brad wrote: > On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Nate wrote: > > > I'm hoping mod_perl for apache is somewhere debianized. I really would > > rather > > not mess around with too much source code since I'm not a programmer. > > > > Anyone know where mod_perl would be?

Re: mod_perl debianized?

1999-07-04 Thread Brad
On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Nate wrote: > I'm hoping mod_perl for apache is somewhere debianized. I really would rather > not mess around with too much source code since I'm not a programmer. > > Anyone know where mod_perl would be? Thanks. Try the libapache-mod-perl package. In the future, you can g

mod_perl debianized?

1999-07-04 Thread Nate
Hi folks! I'm hoping mod_perl for apache is somewhere debianized. I really would rather not mess around with too much source code since I'm not a programmer. Anyone know where mod_perl would be? Thanks. -- _ NatePuri ("natedawg") o m p a g e s . c o m

Re: Brave New Perl

1999-07-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
You need to put liblocal-gettext-perl on hold. Bob On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 08:03:35PM -0500, Brad wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > > > I tried to do a dselect update on my potato box today. New Perl debs caused > > a > > lot of trouble. > > Yeah, the dependancies aren't

Re: [SuSE Linux] What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-07-04 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 02:49:57AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > Oh, indeed - the signature placement is just plain wrong, I'm pretty sure it encourages no .sig delimiters too - you have to insert your own, and even then it strips the trailing space. > and the quote > line is bad too (although no

Re: Networking help

1999-07-04 Thread John Pearson
On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 04:52:14PM -0500, Robert Rati wrote > On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, John Pearson wrote: > >[snip] > > Your NIC driver is sending stuff to your NIC and expects to receive an > > interrupt down the track (probably to say that it has finished), but the > > interrupt never arrives. > > >

Re: [SuSE Linux] What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-07-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 02:35:54AM +0100, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 12:25:54AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 11:43:27PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski > > wrote: > > > > > Sorry, but OE doesn't deserve to be called a email client. You > > Placing the cu

Re: [SuSE Linux] What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-07-04 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 12:25:54AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 11:43:27PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski > wrote: > > > Sorry, but OE doesn't deserve to be called a email client. You > > can't quote quoted-printable encoded mails, you are placed on > > top on a reply (thous encou

gnome session-panel & X problems

1999-07-04 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
I installed gnome and e. The session panel doesn't seem to load up. All i can do is right click and middle click. Also, another problem i'm having with X: When I Log out, the window manager closes, (the borders and such disapear) but the system doesn't return to gdm. It sits in X till i pr

Re: Brave New Perl

1999-07-04 Thread Brad
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > I tried to do a dselect update on my potato box today. New Perl debs caused a > lot of trouble. Yeah, the dependancies aren't all worked out yet... That's why potato is called 'unstable'. > After dselect saw the new Perl's it wanted to remove A LOT o

samba printing..oops

1999-07-04 Thread peter moody
Hi all, I have a question. I'm trying to set up some linux folks at work (we are in the minority) with the ability to print graphics (i'm not sure why, but the orders came from above...) I'm printing to an NT served hp laserjet 4. does pcl and all that. i'v got magicfilter, but it's not configured

Re: [SuSE Linux] What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-07-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Mark" == Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I have yet to see a program on any operating system that comes close >> to the power of gnus. Mark> Which also starts you off at the top. Not if you don't want this. It is a changeable, as everything else. The problem is not the cursor at