Re: KDE

1999-07-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
I got it from there several months ago but when I went back to look for any updates, the kde stuff was gone. I guess I should try again. Thamks. Bob On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 08:55:38PM +, Bradley Bell wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 05:29:03PM +0200

Memory Recognition Problem

1999-07-09 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I've just installed Slink (using low memory disk) on a 486 with AMIBIOS V1.1 The bios reports 3716k RAM with >1M memory checking enabled there's 4 30pin simms installed. Linux sees 1936k available (free and top). Anyone know what can be causing this? TIA, Jon -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RedHat 6.0 Root Remote Login

1999-07-09 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Mark Brown wrote: > On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 06:53:13PM +0200, Rudy Broersma wrote: > > > But in RedHat 6.0 this doesn't work at all... Now,,, anybody got any ideas? > > ssh? su? In general, there's no really good reason to log in as root > directly other than on the console

Re: diald

1999-07-09 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 09:00:58PM +0200, Mateusz Lapsa wrote: > I'm using slink, and recently I wanted to configure this package. > Unfortunatelly there some problems. Are you using kernel 2.2? The diald in slink is not compatible with kernel 2.2. There is a package of diald 0.99 which fixes t

Re: RedHat 6.0 Root Remote Login

1999-07-09 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 06:53:13PM +0200, Rudy Broersma wrote: > But in RedHat 6.0 this doesn't work at all... Now,,, anybody got any ideas? ssh? su? In general, there's no really good reason to log in as root directly other than on the console. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tryi

Re: Howto to retrieve potato recursively?

1999-07-09 Thread Sami Dalouche
> I want to download the whole debian/dist/potato-tree via ftp. > How can I do that? E.g., if a wanted to do the same thing from our > ftp-server, I would simply type ``get debian/dist/potato.tar.gz''. > Our ftp-Server is configurated with this nice feature. > > Are there any other possibilities

Re: preventing weak passwords

1999-07-09 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Chad A. Adlawan wrote: > im really sick of almost having to remind my users to use > non-dictionary passwords. we provide a web based interface to > change their passwords and so the checking done by executing > /usr/bin/passwd is not implemented. im thinking of "dict

Re: X Windows

1999-07-09 Thread Didi Damian
edit /etc/X11/window-managers to move the line with your favorite window manager to the top of the list The FreeStuff Web Ring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > A while back I had requested a way to set the default Windows Manager > upon boot up. > It was > > exec . > > I have no idea what

Re: LyX not exporting PS

1999-07-09 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 09:03:56AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ooops, did I miss something? What new release do you mean? Lyx 1.03 is new, > but it's a bugfix and far from 'prone to be buggy' Mea culpa, I should have referred to LyX (the 0.12BETA version I'm using) as "early release" n

Re: KDE

1999-07-09 Thread Bradley Bell
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 05:29:03PM +0200, Jerome Marant wrote: > > >I don't want it in non-free, I want it in main. => > > > > So, it'll be in main and nowhere else :-) > > > > But KDE packaging project guys are doing a so good job ... :( > > Until its r

Re: iomega zip disk (100)

1999-07-09 Thread Bradley Bell
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Mark Wright wrote: > * Anyone know what the problem is with the tecra install? If I try to do a > 'insmod ppa' on my laptop after installing the tecra base system, I get a > error message saying that several functions (or entry points, or something > like that) are missing. I

what's a checksum?

1999-07-09 Thread Marlon Urias
I downloaded a tar file an tried to unpack it and got this: % tar xvf uri.tar tar: directory checksum error what's this mean?

Re[2]: Segmentation fault

1999-07-09 Thread Matthew McFarlane
I'm also getting a segmetation fault when I run xflame -- any iedas? Matthew McFarlane - Patrick> Did that but makes no difference. Is it relevant that I am using telnet from Patrick> a NT box and that I usually start a session by TERM=vt100? Patrick> Found hwtools but man hwtool

Problem with removing package.

1999-07-09 Thread dave
Hello Everyone, I was hoping someone out there could help me with a problem with debian packages. For some reason, the python-base package currently installed in my system refuses to uninstall itself. dselect will not continue upgrading the rest of my packages until this one gets upgraded. These a

Toshiba Mouse Problem

1999-07-09 Thread Stanley J. Benes
Hi all. I'm using 2.1 (slink?) on a Toshiba satellite pro 410CDT laptop. It has a built in mouse-like device called an accu-point. I've been trying to use gpm with the built in device without success. I read a few web pages about the toshiba and its mouse, and I've tried just about every gpm comb

Re: iomega zip disk (100)

1999-07-09 Thread Jeff Beley
I just upgraded to 2.2.9 and when I do a insmod ppa or modprobe ppa, I get : /lib/modules/2.2.9/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy dmesg tells me : parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2,EPP] ppa: Version 2.03 (for Linux 2.2.x) WARNING - no ppa compatible devices found. As of 31/Aug/

Re: iomega zip disk (100)

1999-07-09 Thread Ben Cranston
Mark Wright wrote: > There is a mini HOWTO on this. Which zip disk will you be using, Parallel, > IDE or SCSI? My experience has been that as long as you don't use the Tecra > install*, this is trivial... > * Anyone know what the problem is with the tecra install? If I try to do a > 'insmod pp

Re: iomega zip disk (100)

1999-07-09 Thread eafarris
i've not used a SCSI or parallel Zip drive with Linux, but i have had good results with the internal IDE version (100MB). to use it, you need your kernel compiled with the ide-floppy support enabled. i have found some Zip disks (media) that i couldn't mount under linux. i don't know why, as Win95

Re: iomega zip disk (100)

1999-07-09 Thread Nate
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 03:18:15PM -0700, Wendell Buckner wrote: > Has anyone out there attempted to use a iomega zip disk with linux? I see > from the invformation on the debian website that it can be done. Has anyone > run into problems trying to do this? If so, please let me know, cause I p

Lilo version problem

1999-07-09 Thread dmacdoug
I installed Debian Slink on a system that previously had a Caldera system on it. Then when I attempted to run lilo I got an error message that said something like "The first somethingorother is version 18. Version 20 expected" and then lilo exits. Eventually I figured that maybe I needed to unin

Re: iomega zip disk (100)

1999-07-09 Thread Mark Wright
There is a mini HOWTO on this. Which zip disk will you be using, Parallel, IDE or SCSI? My experience has been that as long as you don't use the Tecra install*, this is trivial. The following commands: insmod ppa mkdir /mnt/zip(if this doesn't exist already) mount -t vfat /dev/s

Re: Tab Tab program/command line editing

1999-07-09 Thread Keith Beattie
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 08:29:18AM -0400, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Keith Beattie wrote: > > > Another invaluable NT setting is: > > > > HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Mouse/ActiveWindowTracking > > > > set to 1 - This gives you focus-follows-mouse, yea!!! > > I tried

Re: iomega zip disk (100)

1999-07-09 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 9 Jul, Wendell Buckner wrote about "iomega zip disk (100)" > Has anyone out there attempted to use a iomega zip disk with linux? I see > from the invformation on the debian website that it can be done. Has anyone > run into problems trying to do this? If so, please let me know, cause I

Blowfish Keysize

1999-07-09 Thread Ed Kutrzyba
Hi all, I recently downloaded the int'l patch for 2.2.10 and compiled the kernel with crypto support. It seems to work fine, but I need a different key and block size for the blowfish algorithm. My goal is to mount previously generated encrypted filesystems that were created under windows using s

RE: Segmentation fault

1999-07-09 Thread Patrick Kirk
Did that but makes no difference. Is it relevant that I am using telnet from a NT box and that I usually start a session by TERM=vt100? Found hwtools but man hwtools gets me nowhere, as does man memtest86. Anyone know how to start memtest86? Patrick > -Original Message- > From: Marc Mong

iomega zip disk (100)

1999-07-09 Thread Wendell Buckner
Has anyone out there attempted to use a iomega zip disk with linux?  I see from the invformation on the debian website that it can be done.  Has anyone run into problems trying to do this?  If so, please let me know, cause I plan on attaching one to  my Linux P.C. soon and I'd like it to go

Re: RedHat 6.0 Root Remote Login

1999-07-09 Thread Carl Mummert
>> >> But in RedHat 6.0 this doesn't work at all... Now,,, anybody got any ideas? > >Security issues aside ... you can add these lines to /etc/securetty: >0 >1 >2 >3 >4 >5 >6 >7 >8 >9 >Yes, that's 0..9 each on its own line. Why? I got this advice by On newer kernels ( I bet that Redhat 6.0 ha

Poll at www.mozillazine.org

1999-07-09 Thread Andreas Persenius
Mozillazine is doing a poll on distribution usage on behalf of the mozilla.org people. So, go there and vote for Debian! -- Andreas Persenius [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RedHat 6.0 Root Remote Login

1999-07-09 Thread Michael E. Touloumtzis
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 06:53:13PM +0200, Rudy Broersma wrote: > > Since I updated my RedHat 5.2 box to RedHat 6.0, I got some problems. > > For example, in RH 5.2 I edited /etc/securetty and aded pty1 and pty2, and > ttyp0, ttypS1, ttypS2 etc, etc. So I could login with root at terminals and > t

Re: help: setting up dial-in mail server

1999-07-09 Thread Brad
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Pollywog wrote: > On 09-Jul-99 Carl Mummert wrote: > > > > Why not just set their shell to /bin/false or some such. > > > > That prevents login access, and should prevent ftp access > > (you have to check - try man ftpd ). But it allows pop > > access, and imap access. > >

Re: need monitor specs.

1999-07-09 Thread William Park
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 12:16:58AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Quoting Bob Nielsen([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > My SVGA monitor is rapidly losing all contrast (I expect it is about to > > fail). I have two older SVGA monitors and I'd like to be able to use > > one of them until I get a chance to pick up

Printing to WinNT lpd

1999-07-09 Thread mark . lake
Hi, I'm using lprng to print from Debian (Slink) via printcap to a laserjet and a deskjet which are both connected to a Windows NT printserver running NT's lpd. I can successfully communicate with the NT lpd (dequeue my jobs, list the queue, etc), but the files are always printed as text rather t

Re: KDE

1999-07-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 05:29:03PM +0200, Jerome Marant wrote: > > >I don't want it in non-free, I want it in main. => > > So, it'll be in main and nowhere else :-) > > But KDE packaging project guys are doing a so good job ... :( Until its really free, maybe they can supply apt-friendly .deb

RE: a driuver for Windows NT

1999-07-09 Thread wim
Ok, I am an idiot, replying to my own messages. I didn't read the poster's subject. He is slightly lost, this is no NT list. Maybe this will help someone else though. On 09-Jul-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As your are posting to a Debian list, I will assume your are using some > version > of

RedHat 6.0 Root Remote Login

1999-07-09 Thread Rudy Broersma
Hi Y'all, Since I updated my RedHat 5.2 box to RedHat 6.0, I got some problems. For example, in RH 5.2 I edited /etc/securetty and aded pty1 and pty2, and ttyp0, ttypS1, ttypS2 etc, etc. So I could login with root at terminals and telnet sessions. But in RedHat 6.0 this doesn't work at all... No

Offtopic - Amiga and Linux join forces?

1999-07-09 Thread Chrisopher D. Judd
Hi, This is not Debian related, but if you're interested have a look at http://www.amiga.com/diary/executive/linux-e.html. -Chris -- || | Dr. Christopher D. Judd | | NYS

Re: Granting access

1999-07-09 Thread Ernest Johanson
Mario, Check out the UserDir directive in the apache docs. You could also put a symlink in the DocumentRoot if you wanted. One issue here will be the permissions on the user's home dir. It will have to be world executable for the web server to be able to read the html directory beneath it. The .ht

Re: x11amp still available?

1999-07-09 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
hi On Fri, 9 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> I upgraded to xmms and I'd like to go back to x11amp. > >> xmms uses about 30% of my 233cyrix's cycles. > > > > that looks like quite consistent numb

Re: FreeLinux (Debian/GNU BSD)

1999-07-09 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 09:17:14AM -0700, Nate wrote: > GO AGS! > > I'm a UCD alum. Now I'm a law student in Sacramento. Cool. > > I'll be going to the Linux Users Group of Davis next Tuesday. > > See http://www.lugod.org for time and place. > > First off, if you are really interested in this

Re: BUG ??

1999-07-09 Thread Sami Dalouche
On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 10:13:38PM +1000, Jason Carley wrote: > Sami Dalouche wrote: > > > see http://opdaf1.obspm.fr/www/lexique.html and http://opdaf1.obspm.fr/ > > to have more infos (sorry, french links) > > > > the UTC time IS THE reference but the GMT acronym is used in 99% of the > > cases

Re: Exim & SMTP

1999-07-09 Thread Sami Dalouche
I don't know how to do this but I tried this and it made the same. Maybe it's a netscape bug because on another machine with netscape for Windows, it works ! On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 12:38:10PM +0300, Ali Onur Uyar wrote: > I am using Debian Slink with Exim, configured for an Internet Site, > to re

Help me

1999-07-09 Thread fabrice blain
Hello, I'm french, and i'm looking for the HP CD-Writer 7100E's drivers. But ther is nothing interesting on the web . So i saw your message with altavista, and that's why i am asking you for this drivers. If you could help, can you send me an e-mail with tis drivers? You'll be welcomme, Tha

Re: Programming question: sizeof struct?

1999-07-09 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > For instance, if the structure were: >> > >> > struct foo { >> > char text[3]; >> > int num; >> > }; >> > >> > sizeof would return 6 and not 5. >> >> 6? Are you sure you're using Linux/gcc? jg> Yes, 6, it will

Re: unable to install - new user

1999-07-09 Thread Bill Leach
Read the installation HOWTOs! One suggestion that I can think of is that there are machines with BIOS related problems. The installation HOWTO tells you about some BIOS setting that might cause problems. Note that some of these problem may only affect some kernel versions and configurations. Al

Re: FreeLinux (Debian/GNU BSD)

1999-07-09 Thread Nate
GO AGS! I'm a UCD alum. Now I'm a law student in Sacramento. Cool. I'll be going to the Linux Users Group of Davis next Tuesday. See http://www.lugod.org for time and place. First off, if you are really interested in this project, you should take a look at the mailing list archives at www.de

RE: a driuver for Windows NT

1999-07-09 Thread wim
As your are posting to a Debian list, I will assume your are using some version of debian. Through dselect, select xserver-mach64. By selecting it, dselect will automatically install it's dependancies. If you have APT, run 'apt-get install xserver-mach64 -u'. '-u' will show the packages that w

Re: Programming question: sizeof struct?

1999-07-09 Thread Carl Mummert
>#pragma pack(1) >struct {}; >#pragma pack() > >Which forces the layout to be as you specified. > >Using a command line option is a Bad Idea (tm) as it may corrupt glibc's >structures To test a resonse to the original message, I made the follwing c file ( I was not familiar with the attribute flag

Re: Programming question: sizeof struct?

1999-07-09 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > > > to not be handled properly. Even though I specify -fpack_struct the > > > generated code does not appear to actually do this. Structure fields > > > are > > > offset and the return from sizeof(

Re: Programming question: sizeof struct?

1999-07-09 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > to not be handled properly. Even though I specify -fpack_struct the > > generated code does not appear to actually do this. Structure fields > > are > > offset and the return from sizeof() returns a value that is not valid. > > what do you mean it

Re: Programming question: sizeof struct?

1999-07-09 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, > Hi there, > > The upstream maintainer of one of my packages is having problems > with his code. with his code? > I thought it would be nice to use the debian mailing > lists, to see if we can an answer on this. I will forward any solution > to him. > > --

Granting access

1999-07-09 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi I have a user arround here who has explicitly asked to have the permissions on his home directory to 0700. He wants to access some info on his home dir throug a browser (he will put it in public_html), but in a way that only he can access it. I suggested using .htaccess to ask for a password. T

Re: package dependency

1999-07-09 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
[ my `debquery' script ] Right, this is the first update... %) [...] > > ex $STATUSFILE << _EOF_ | cut -d: -f2 > g/^$FIELD:.*\<$PACKAGE\>/ ?Package? p The previous line works better if it replaced by these two: g/^$FIELD:.*\<$PACKAGE\>[^-]/ ?Package? p g/^$FIELD:.*\<$PACKAGE\$/ ?Package? p Th

a driuver for Windows NT

1999-07-09 Thread A Benchissou
I would like to get the driver for Windows NT of the ATI 3D RAGE PRO AGP video card. Can you help me ?? Thanks & regards ALAIN BENCHISSOU -- CADLM 9, rue Raoul Dautry 91190 Gif/Yvette Tel : 33 1 69072922 Fax : 33 1 69072809 email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

modemu and cr/lf

1999-07-09 Thread fsavage
I'm using modemu/minicom so I can transfer files with zmodem to a couple dialup accounts. But it's unusable with one account because text scrolls off the right -- all line feeds and no carriage returns incoming? I've played with TERM settings on my machine and minicom's translation table (lfs ->

Re: x11amp still available?

1999-07-09 Thread fsavage
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > On Mon, 5 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I upgraded to xmms and I'd like to go back to x11amp. >> xmms uses about 30% of my 233cyrix's cycles. > > that looks like quite consistent number. On my cyrix-333 > i usually got 18-19%. I installed the la

Re: package dependency

1999-07-09 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hi, > How do I know if the package is no longer dependent by others? > > for example, if I have a lib-blah package installed, and I want to know > if there are any other packages installed on my system that depends on > this package. > > I don't want to try to r

Re: help: setting up dial-in mail server

1999-07-09 Thread Bob Billson
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 02:00:07AM -0400, Carl Mummert wrote: > Why not just set their shell to /bin/false or some such. Thanks. I'll give it a try. bob

Re: Compaq Presario 1245 Touchpad interface problems

1999-07-09 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, jesus duran wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > I just got the new laptop, and have been quite satisfied with it, except > > when it comes to X... > > > > The primary problem is that I must configure X for a serial mouse, because > > I don't know what de

Problems accessing vfat directory tree and files.

1999-07-09 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Hi all. Ive upgraded to 2.2.10 kernel a bit ago, and since then my windows partition became 'isolated', that I could not access it at all. I can mount it, and once mounted, I can read off the directory listing of the root only (cd /windows ; ls), but once I go into anymore directories, I get someth

Re: help: setting up dial-in mail server

1999-07-09 Thread Pollywog
On 09-Jul-99 Carl Mummert wrote: > > > Why not just set their shell to /bin/false or some such. > > That prevents login access, and should prevent ftp access > (you have to check - try man ftpd ). But it allows pop > access, and imap access. Does setting the shell to /bin/false prevent ftp ac

Re: Exim & SMTP

1999-07-09 Thread Ali Onur Uyar
Thanks for those replies from Jor-el, Gregory and Martin. But the solutions Jor-el and Gregory had proposed did not work for me, so I has to the some RTFM. THE PROBLEM I installed netscape and was trying to configure mail. I have exim installed and configured for internet site, uses SMTP. I tried

RE: Parallel-port CD-ROM install trouble

1999-07-09 Thread Paul Miller
Oops, I didn't realize you were just installing Debian. I don't think that is possible with Debian's current boot disk. I'd copy the installation/base (15 MB) files to your hard drive + the kernel-source 2.2.10 package and the kernel-package packge and install from there. After you're done insta

Re: help: setting up dial-in mail server

1999-07-09 Thread Marc Mongeon
I've just done something similar here at Ban-Koe. I just set up normal PPP access, then used ipfwadm to filter out all packets except those destined for the appropriate ports on the mail server. It appears to be working-- allows access to the mail server, and prevents any other types of use. I'd

please help! gdk-errors - BadMatch

1999-07-09 Thread Aaron Solochek
I really need help with this, all of the sunnder, after a brief stint with xdm, I am getting errors when the windows are trying to open. I get to the manual placement part, then when I click down it just goes away. The errors are the following. For Eterm: XError: Request 62.0, Error 8 Eterm: Ba

Re: Tab Tab program/command line editing

1999-07-09 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Keith Beattie wrote: > Another invaluable NT setting is: > > HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Mouse/ActiveWindowTracking > > set to 1 - This gives you focus-follows-mouse, yea!!! I tried it, because I really like that feature. Sadly, I couldn't use the bookmarks menu on Ne

RE: Segmentation fault

1999-07-09 Thread Marc Mongeon
$ env Look for a line with "LANG=". $ unset LANG ... to unset the variable, at least in the bash shell. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's s

package dependency

1999-07-09 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, How do I know if the package is no longer dependent by others? for example, if I have a lib-blah package installed, and I want to know if there are any other packages installed on my system that depends on this package. I don't want to try to remove it

apache-ssl and certificates in netscape

1999-07-09 Thread Nate
I've been plugging away trying to get apache-ssl to make https connections. I have and I haven't succeeded. When I type "https://www.ompages.com/"; the connections goes through w/o netscape telling me the connection was refused. However, it says that "the certificate is not approved for the atte

raid-problems

1999-07-09 Thread Peter Bartosch
hello after a reboot (caused by a power fail) my raid was checked with ckraid and brought back into sync, but e2fsck sais, that the md-device-partition has zero length?? the problem is, that my /usr /home and /var on the md-device resist any hints? -- until next mail B-) Peter --

Re: Enter mail, end with a single ".".

1999-07-09 Thread Rolf Edlund
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Ben Cranston wrote: > > Have now found out, that my problem has something to do with mail size. > > >>> MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=6697 > > That mail won't send. But a small mail (like this), will be sent without > > any problem ? > > This is a real shot-in-the-dark,

Power failure

1999-07-09 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, A fuse blew last night taking out the power supply to the server with my new debian linux installation.:-( On reboot this morning, the second NIC wasn't present so I had to modprobe /lib/...tulip.o, then ifconfig eth1, then route add, then ipfwadm -F -p deny and finally ipfwadm -F -a m -S

Re: Programming question: sizeof struct?

1999-07-09 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 09:09:15AM +0200, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > The reason why I have not released LogConv 1.54 for Linux is that I am > having problems with packed structures that is causing some file formats > to not be handled properly. Reading and writing structs to files is at best unporta

Re: becoming a maintainer

1999-07-09 Thread Ramakrishnan M
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Dan Brosemer wrote: > I was wondering who I need to talk to about becoming a package maintainer? Read Debian Developer's guide and debian policy guide.Your question is already answered there. Ramakrishnan M World Wide Web: http://www.ee.iitm.ernet.in/~ee98m09 -- "A designer

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Re: Compaq Presario 1245 Touchpad interface problems

1999-07-09 Thread jesus duran
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I just got the new laptop, and have been quite satisfied with it, except > when it comes to X... > > The primary problem is that I must configure X for a serial mouse, because > I don't know what device and port to pick for the touchpad. Am I out of > lu

Re: Modem Blues

1999-07-09 Thread Ray
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 02:15:40AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To all-- I have a Diamond Supra 288i SP modem in a ISA motherboard, and > my Debian 2.1.8 system won't detect it. Specifically: > > 1) If I run ./0setserial, it says-- Cannot autoconfigure port. > Device or resource busy.

Programming question: sizeof struct?

1999-07-09 Thread Joop Stakenborg
Hi there, The upstream maintainer of one of my packages is having problems with his code. I thought it would be nice to use the debian mailing lists, to see if we can an answer on this. I will forward any solution to him. -- The

Re: LyX not exporting PS

1999-07-09 Thread Stefan . Ehlen
Hi, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >Hi, > >I'm trying to generate a Postscript file in LyX. From within LyX I can view . >dvi but view PS only shows the embedded graphic (not the text!). > >I can export a PS file, but it turns out missing the text as well. I know that > this is a n

unable to install - new user

1999-07-09 Thread Jesus Vinyas
Hallo experts on Linux, Not with a lot of experience (i had rh6 running on a 486) , but with a lot of interest i decided to install Debian on a P166 with motherboard VX Pro+, 32 M Ram ( 16 EDO + 16 Fast Page ), with 1 Hd of 1,2 Gb (also i tried with one of 170 Mb HD, other of 400 Mb,etc.)

problems running dvips (or xdvi) OR what's up with tetex?

1999-07-09 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all, I'm trying to update my resume. I've run latex on the file with no errors reported, but if I try to view the dvi file or make a postscript file, I get a bunch of errors complaining about not being able to find fonts. I've never used any fonts other than the default fonts that come with the

Modem Blues

1999-07-09 Thread maxalbert
To all-- I have a Diamond Supra 288i SP modem in a ISA motherboard, and my Debian 2.1.8 system won't detect it. Specifically: 1) If I run ./0setserial, it says-- Cannot autoconfigure port. Device or resource busy. Done. /dev/ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq =4) is a 16450 /dev/ttyS1 at

Re: Compaq Presario 1245 Touchpad interface problems

1999-07-09 Thread Ray
On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 07:27:51PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > The primary problem is that I must configure X for a serial mouse, because > I don't know what device and port to pick for the touchpad. Am I out of > luck, or is there a working choice available in XF86Setup? Try treating it just

Re: preventing weak passwords

1999-07-09 Thread Carl Mummert
You can get better versions of passwd(1) that prevent users from setting bad passwords in teh first place - we use one called npasswd, which works a little TOO well (it screens out my attempts to give new users simple passwords). I can give you the source if you need it, but there is a distro si

Re: help: setting up dial-in mail server

1999-07-09 Thread Carl Mummert
Why not just set their shell to /bin/false or some such. That prevents login access, and should prevent ftp access (you have to check - try man ftpd ). But it allows pop access, and imap access. Carl

Re: preventing weak passwords

1999-07-09 Thread Dave Thayer
On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 07:39:44AM +0800, Chad A. Adlawan wrote: > > hello all, > im really sick of almost having to remind my users to use > non-dictionary passwords. we provide a web based interface to change > their passwords and so the checking done by executing /usr/bin/passwd > is

Debian Linux on a Powerbook

1999-07-09 Thread Ed
I am trying to install Debian Linux on a Powerbook 550c (*NOT* a 540 or a 520). I have a Sony 6x external CD-ROM drive as well as a aaui ethernet connection. Any and all help would be *GREATLY* appreciated. Regards, Ed Balch [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: help: setting up dial-in mail server

1999-07-09 Thread Dan
Also, I don't know if this is at all helpful, but the mail daemon, qpopper is made by Qualcomm, who of course make Eudora. So maybe compatibility might help there. I am not sure exactly what your setup could be, but I thought I'd let you know in case you didn't. From: Bob Billson <[EMAIL PROT

Re: user list

1999-07-09 Thread Michael Merten
On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 09:42:58PM -0400, Carl Mummert wrote: > >Is there an easy way to get a list of all regular user ( UID > 1000 ) > >accounts on the system? I can't find the userls command I used to use > >on SCO. > > awk -F ':' '{if ($3 > 999) print $0}' < /etc/passwd > > Thanks! Mike

becoming a maintainer

1999-07-09 Thread Dan Brosemer
I was wondering who I need to talk to about becoming a package maintainer? I've just successfully packaged spruce (a GTK mailreader) and I don't believe that it is in the debian distribution yet. I'm perfectly willing to become the maintainer for this package if someone could point me at some lit

How do I setup smail as a gateway for another email program

1999-07-09 Thread Bruce Jackson
I have a network that consists of a debian slink machine as a firewall running smail. It has local email on it for some users. These users can access their email either through POP3 or IMAP. It works great. The problem is that I have a Novell machine inside the network running Groupwise 5.5 tha

Re: need monitor specs.

1999-07-09 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: need monitor specs. Date: Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 05:29:07PM -0700 In reply to:Bob Nielsen Quoting Bob Nielsen([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > My SVGA monitor is rapidly losing all contrast (I expect it is about to > fail). I have two older SVGA monitors and I'd like to be able to u

Re: Parallel-port CD-ROM install trouble

1999-07-09 Thread Todd Last
No, I did not try that. I'm a newbie to this. To do this, do I need to install from floppies? Paul Miller wrote: > Did you install the parallel port drivers in the kernel? I think the option > is under block devices. Depending on your drive, you may need SCSI > emulation and SCSI support enable

RE: Parallel-port CD-ROM install trouble

1999-07-09 Thread Paul Miller
Did you install the parallel port drivers in the kernel? I think the option is under block devices. Depending on your drive, you may need SCSI emulation and SCSI support enabled. I have an external HP7200e CD-Writer that connects to a parallel port and it works great. The devices for the parall

Parallel-port CD-ROM install trouble

1999-07-09 Thread Todd Last
I'm trying to install Debian on my laptop with a Microsolutions 164700 model CD Rom. This CD attaches to the laptop via the parallel port. When I get to the part of the install that tries to load the kernel to the hard disk, it can't find the CD-ROM I understand that I may have to add a driver

Re: install can't read from cd

1999-07-09 Thread Dave Thayer
On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 12:03:58PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there, > > Can anybody help with the following, I'd like to be able to try debian... > > Disappointed with rh6 I thought I'd give debian a go. I ran the cd through > dos > > (d:\install\boot) and successfully mounted the

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 for x86 Installation Problem

1999-07-09 Thread Dean
I think Hendy was trying a hard drive installation. I don't know how but I think the hda1 needs to be mounted to be read for this. I found disk easy enough after a couple of tries.. Dean Robert Rati wrote: > > You have a very in depth message, which is good. Your problem is simple. > The rec

Re: Can not setup up mouse for xfree86 (new user)

1999-07-09 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> XF86Setup is a piece of crap from my experiences. First of all, you should > make sure the hardware is for sure com1 and nothing else is trying to > conflict. Obviously modems could interfere. If your bios definately says > ``Serial #1 - IRQ 4'' or whatever, then that is settled. Second, do an

Re: Can not setup up mouse for xfree86 (new user)

1999-07-09 Thread Dan
XF86Setup is a piece of crap from my experiences. First of all, you should make sure the hardware is for sure com1 and nothing else is trying to conflict. Obviously modems could interfere. If your bios definately says ``Serial #1 - IRQ 4'' or whatever, then that is settled. Second, do an ``ls -

Re: user list

1999-07-09 Thread Carl Mummert
>Is there an easy way to get a list of all regular user ( UID > 1000 ) >accounts on the system? I can't find the userls command I used to use >on SCO. awk -F ':' '{if ($3 > 999) print $0}' < /etc/passwd

xircom pcmcia card

1999-07-09 Thread Bob C. Ruddy
Hello, I've got a problem getting my xircom Ethernet+Modem multifunction card working right. The first problem is that I can't get the card manager to automatically load the modules for the card. The second problem is that even when I do modprobe the module. When I run ifconfig it tells me that t

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