Off Topic: Hard para Linux

1999-07-23 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a todos... Perdonar por el off topic; estoy buscando sitios donde tengan/vendan hardware para Linux. Concretamente estoy interesado en algun dispositivo serie multipuerto, hace un par de años o asi, vi una tarjeta con varias salidas serie, pero no recuerdo donde. Saludos.

Interfaces PPP

1999-07-23 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a todos... Quisiera informarme acerca de como activar mas de un interface PPP, estoy leyendo los docs del paquete ppp, pero a la unica conclusion a la que llego es que se puede hacer, pero nada mas. Saludos.

Themes

1999-07-23 Thread Manuel Trujillo
Buenas. Me he bajado algunos temas guapos para el windowmaker, pero resulta que algunos crean sus propios directorios, y contienen ficheros *.jpg, y no puedo visualizarlos desde el menú para cambiar el tema ni nada. ¿Puede alguien decirme cómo puedo hacer para instalarlos y usarlos como temas que

Re: Themes

1999-07-23 Thread Jordi Roman Mejias
Manuel Trujillo wrote: Buenas. Me he bajado algunos temas guapos para el windowmaker, pero resulta que algunos crean sus propios directorios, y contienen ficheros *.jpg, y no puedo visualizarlos desde el menú para cambiar el tema ni nada. ¿Puede alguien decirme cómo puedo hacer para

Re: Themes

1999-07-23 Thread Jaime E. Villate
Me he bajado algunos temas guapos para el windowmaker, pero resulta que algunos crean sus propios directorios, y contienen ficheros *.jpg, y no puedo visualizarlos desde el menú para cambiar el tema ni nada. Pues yo tuve exactamente el mismo problema hace unas pocas horas y descubri que los

Netscape, cucu... ¡tas!

1999-07-23 Thread Alberto Valverde
Hola, Tengo slink con Netscape 4.5. Cuando estoy usandolo (gnome+icewm-gnome), especialmente cuando lo estoy usando mucho, se vá. Me abandona. Desaparece. ¡Puf!. Bien, como supongo que no es culpa de Debian, pregunto: ¿puedo substituir este navegador web por otro potentillo?. Y en ese

Re: Perdonar pero no me aclaro

1999-07-23 Thread Jaime E. Villate
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: La conclusión que se saca de todo esto es que sí existe cierta confusión en cuanto a la definición de un CD Oficial de Debian. Habría cuatro posibilidades: Pues a mi me parece que está explicado muy claramente en las citas que das del servidor web de debian. Un CD es oficial

Re: Perdonar pero no me aclaro

1999-07-23 Thread Jaime E. Villate
Errata: Perdón a Enrique Zanardi por haberle cambiado el nombre en el mensaje anterior. Yo mismo me llamo Enrique, pero cuando fui a registrar a mi hijo hace 6 años, la ley portuguesa me obligó a llamarlo Henrique y de ahi viene mi confusión! Jaime E. Villate (o será Jaime H.?, ya no me acuerdo)

Re: paquetes Obsoletos/locales

1999-07-23 Thread Juanmi Mora
On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 10:33:06PM +0200, Jon Noble wrote: Hola On mar, 22 jun 1999 20:52:26 Iniaki Fernandez Villanueva wrote: He actualizado mi Hamm a Citius Slink y desde entonces tengo un monton de paquetes Obsoletos/locales. Que significa esto?? pues eso, o paquetes que han sido

Re: abiword

1999-07-23 Thread Jon Noble
Hola, On jue, 22 jul 1999 18:22:11 Alfredo Casademunt wrote: Hola a todos. He descargado el abiword 0.7.1 y con el comando make distribution ABI_BUILD_VERSION=0.7.1 ABI_DIST_TARGET=deb he creado un paquete .deb; el problema es que cuando llamo al abiword aparece una ventana vacía, en

Re: paquetes Obsoletos/locales

1999-07-23 Thread Jon Noble
Hola, On vie, 23 jul 1999 17:32:41 Juanmi Mora wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 10:33:06PM +0200, Jon Noble wrote: Hola On mar, 22 jun 1999 20:52:26 Iniaki Fernandez Villanueva wrote: He actualizado mi Hamm a Citius Slink y desde entonces tengo un monton de paquetes Obsoletos/locales.

Accelerated-X

1999-07-23 Thread daniel
Hola, He oido hablar de Accelerated-X y de lo bueno que es... ¿Me podríais dar referencias y opiniones? ¿Es gratis? ¿Es tan bueno como dicen? ¿Permite resoluciones mucho mayores en X que los servidores normales? Un saludo Daniel

Re: Netscape hambriento de memoria.

1999-07-23 Thread Antonio Castro
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, budgy wrote: El Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Ugo Enrico Albarello escribió: Estaba yo muy feliz con los 64MB adicionales que le puse a mi maquina (96 en total). Todo iba de maravilla. Cargo el Netscape 4.5, abro dos paginas, voy a comer algo, llego y me encuentro con la

Re: abiword

1999-07-23 Thread Jaime E. Villate
El problema de abiword no tendrá que ver con el bug 40295? Package: abiword (main) Maintainer: Darren Benham [EMAIL PROTECTED] 40295 Abiword font problem

Re: Netscape, cucu... ¡tas!

1999-07-23 Thread Jaime E. Villate
Alberto Valverde: Tengo slink con Netscape 4.5. Cuando estoy usandolo (gnome+icewm-gnome), especialmente cuando lo estoy usando mucho, se vá. Me abandona. Desaparece. ¡Puf!. Bien, como supongo que no es culpa de Debian, Pues a mi me pasa exactamente lo mismo desde que instalé gnome hace un par

Re: =??Q?Netscape=2C_cucu=2E=2E=2E_=A1tas!?=

1999-07-23 Thread Jon Noble
Hola, On vie, 23 jul 1999 18:26:41 Jaime E. Villate wrote: Alberto Valverde: Tengo slink con Netscape 4.5. Cuando estoy usandolo (gnome+icewm-gnome), especialmente cuando lo estoy usando mucho, se vá. Me abandona. Desaparece. ¡Puf!. Bien, como supongo que no es culpa de Debian, Pues a

I+D Agora

1999-07-23 Thread jvicente
Pregunta: Hace como 3 semanas hice un pedido para fuera de España. Siempre tardan tanto en, al menos, contestar o es un impresión mía? Además, junto con el pedido, he mandado ya 6 o 7 mails para solicitar información sobre la compra de varios paquetes y descuentos promocionales al

Log de smail

1999-07-23 Thread IJAS
Antes de nada perdón por el peazo mail que me va a salir O:-) Yo sigo desesperado con lo del correo, este aparentemente me llega, es decir, fetchmail lo baja desde mi ISP a mi ordenador pero apartir de aquí ¿¿?? Os mando por si podeis analizarlos y ayudarme 2 ficheros logfile de smail el

Delphi For Linux

1999-07-23 Thread Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld
Ouvi dizer a inprise está interessada em portar seus ambientes de desenvolvimento para linux em especial o Delphi no endereço abaixo: http://www.borland.com/linux/ tem uma pesquisa interessante (provalvemente um teste de mercado para o LINUX) seria interessante dar uma olhada.

Primeira versão do manual oficial do manual de instalação da Debian em Português (fwd)

1999-07-23 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Alguém sabe se as listas da Debian não suportam CC? Ontem enviei esta mensagem com TO: debian-user-portuguese e CC: debian-l10n-portuguese, e foi enviada 2 cópias para debian-l10n-portuguese. -- Mensagem Redirecionada -- De: Gleydson Mazioli da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data: Thu,

Re: apt-get: upgrade one package to particular version?

1999-07-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Carl == Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: apt-get --install icewm should be all you need to do. Carl No, actually it isn't, since that would install the version in Carl *stable*. That's what I have installed now. What I'd like to Carl do is install the version in *unstable*, without

Re: Lynx Problems

1999-07-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Doug == Doug Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doug a mammoth job since I'm not aware of any way to find files with html Doug extensioins other than open every directory one by one to see whats in it. I find /usr/doc/ -name *.html locate .html Doug don't know whether or not its doing that

Re: Samba and UserAdmin question

1999-07-23 Thread Gareth
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Jure wrote: I wonder if somene managed to configure Samba 1.9.18 to work with NT4.0 SP4? I have some problems beacuse i can login using Win 2000, but cant with NT4.0. The network at work was running NT4.0 sp4 with SAMBA 1.9.18 and it was working fine. There are about

Re: Buddha's Dselect' way

1999-07-23 Thread Buddha Buck
I get light from Buddha's 're:Why so much hate' ,really. Clearity in summarizing this debate , as he says 'no newer in this matter from years.' Obviously i can only take act of his strong- experience in Debian problems. But this , in my opinion, doesn't justify keeping Deselect as it

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-23 Thread Lee Elliott
On 22-Jul-99, you wrote: An observation from this Newbie may be related: snip... My pet peeve is mail that is all on one line and not properly word wrapped, such as this one. Sorry to have peeved you, I do this deliberately so that paragraphs format OK regardless of window size (I'm

dselect for newbies

1999-07-23 Thread Lee Elliott
I posted about the dselect interface before using it (and said so). After running through it about five or six times, and reading the on-screen instructions, and the various error messages, (not helped by a non-working ^C combination) I figured out what was going on and what I needed. So I've

Re: Latest gnome debs for SLINK?

1999-07-23 Thread John Foster
Rick Macdonald wrote: Where can I find the latest slink gnome debs? The one I last used doesn't seem to be there any more: deb http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink slink main ...RickM... They are here, I believe

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-23 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 23 Jul, Lee Elliott wrote about Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists On 22-Jul-99, you wrote: An observation from this Newbie may be related: snip... My pet peeve is mail that is all on one line and not properly word wrapped, such as this one. Sorry to have peeved

Re: How to switch off line buffering in stdin?

1999-07-23 Thread Shao Zhang
is select() and FD_ISSET() what you are looking for?? On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 01:05:12PM +0200, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: Hi All! I'm writing an application, which implements some terminal functionalities. I'd like to receive every keystroke, just after the key is pressed (like with

Re: shutdown -h now : don't power off

1999-07-23 Thread egm2
On 22 Jul, Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: | Hi, | | I have : | Kernel2.2.10-1 + potato + ATX_box | All packages are the last. | | When i do a : | shutdown -h now | or | halt | my system is rebooted, but not power off. | | Wheras I set this option in

Re: How to block cd for FTP users

1999-07-23 Thread Shao Zhang
I think most of ftp servers can do that. The config file should be something like ftpaccess. For some ftp servers, you will need your /etc/passwd looks like something: shao:x:1000:1000:Shao Zhang,,,:/home/shao/./:/bin/bash notice the extra ./ in the home dir. It is used by the ftp server to do

Re: Apache and user cgi scripts

1999-07-23 Thread Shao Zhang
I have the following entries in access.conf: DirectoryMatch ^/home/.*/public_html Options SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Indexes AllowOverride All /DirectoryMatch DirectoryMatch ^/home/.*/public_html/cgi-bin Options ExecCGI SymLinksIfOwnerMatch AllowOverride None AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl

e: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines (ITP)

1999-07-23 Thread Doug Young
Subject: R Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 11:28:23 +1000 From: Doug Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: virtanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: 1 shudder shudder ! God save us from experts who think EVERYTHING

Re: Wordperfect and LaserJet 6L

1999-07-23 Thread Shao Zhang
If your printer can handle ps files perfectly, in your wordperfect setting, just set the printer to be a postscript printer. Then wp will think your printer is a postscrpt printer and it will send the standard ps files to the printer, then your printer will filter it again and print them

Re: apt-get: upgrade one package to particular version?

1999-07-23 Thread egm2
On 22 Jul, Carl Fink wrote: | apt-get --install icewm | | should be all you need to do. | | No, actually it isn't, since that would install the version in | *stable*. That's what I have installed now. What I'd like to do is | install the version in *unstable*, without

Re: Setting up Debian with sound

1999-07-23 Thread STrandahl
I have sound! I am now able to play a CD through the speakers on my PC. I currently have a working boot diskette with sound compiled into the kernel. I had several problems which turned out to be due to bad diskettes. The next step will be fine-tuning the process. As you suspected, I

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-23 Thread Adam Shand
Anyway, the problem is that Netscape is quite frequently crashing with a bus error. This usually happens when I close a Netscape window (actually, it happens close to half the time when I close a Netscape window), which is painful because I have to either live with an ever-growing number of

Re: Lynx Problems

1999-07-23 Thread John Hasler
Doug Young writes: yes I can ping one of my server DNS numbers (located about 25Km away) without trouble but not the other one. Both DNS numbers are listed in /etc/ppp/options What gave you the idea you should put your ISP's DNS numbers in /etc/ppp/options? Have you been reading the

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-23 Thread Christian Lavoie
Original Message On 7/22/99, 9:56:55 PM, Adam Shand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.: Anyway, the problem is that Netscape is quite frequently crashing with a bus error. This usually happens when I close a Netscape window (actually, it happens close

PIM's

1999-07-23 Thread Brian Schramm
Ok. maybe this is asking for a lot but I like to use my equipment until it no longer runs! I run Debian Linux for all my machines and use the KDE desktop system for my address book and schedualer. My problem is I want to use my portable for this type of setup too. But it is an older unit that

Re: Xircom Realport Cardbus 10/100?

1999-07-23 Thread Adam Shand
Anyone have this card working? If so, how did you do it? Any links or help is appreciated. i friend just hacked the source to make this work. the mod was sent to david hinds (the pcmcia maintainer) last week. he said he would tidy it up and include it in the next release. so, it should be

newbie q about perl modules

1999-07-23 Thread Larry Huffman
I suspect I already know the answer to this, but I'll ask anyway just to make sure. What is the proper way to obtain and install perl modules for a Debian system? Should one first see if the module has been packaged and, if so, install it via apt-get? If a module's not packaged, then I assume

Re: apt-get: upgrade one package to particular version?

1999-07-23 Thread David Coe
egm2@jps.net wrote: On 22 Jul, Carl Fink wrote: | apt-get --install icewm | | should be all you need to do. | | No, actually it isn't, since that would install the version in | *stable*. That's what I have installed now. What I'd like to do is | install the

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-23 Thread Adam Shand
- p2-266 128mb ram - kernel 2.2.9 - glibc 2.1.1-13 - xfree 3.3.1 (vmware 3.3.1 server) sorry i'm dumb that would be 3.3.3.1. I've not noticed this behavior on closing any window BUT a navigator window. The bug seems to be common to navigator and communicator 4.5+ (yes, I've seen this

cucipop

1999-07-23 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Is there anyway to use cucipop to retrieve files from a different mbox? By default, it retrieves the files from /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME. But in my procmail settings, all the default mails will go to /home/$LOGNAME/mail/incoming Thanks. Shao. --

Take 2: wmsound 0.9.5-1: Error on Play Event

1999-07-23 Thread Jonathan Lupa
I'm still having this error, haven't gotten any bites on the first post, and don't know where to start looking. If anyone even has any suggestions about what I can do about this, I'd love to hear them. Is it hard to compile up WM apps? Should I try to debug this myself? Thanks! Jonathan On

Re: WP font

1999-07-23 Thread Brad
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Micha Feigin wrote: For some reson WordPerfect 8 gives only one font option: Courier 10p. Originaly it gave me an option of several fonts. I am using the free version. Anyone has any idea why, or how to fix this? WP only gives you the option of using fonts it thinks are

Re: Installation suggestion: recommend recompiling kernel

1999-07-23 Thread Brad
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Stuart Ballard wrote: I was just thinking about the fact that the answer to many questions that I see on the list (mostly how do I get sound?) is recompile your kernel. Also the fact that recompiling the kernel is pretty much recommended in any situation. In some cases

Re: A problem:SIOCADDRT :Invalid argument

1999-07-23 Thread Brad
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Paul Miller wrote: solar wrote: default: Host name lookup failure (problem :() Are you connected to the Internet in any way? If so, do you have a nameserver supplied in /etc/resolve.conf? One way to avoid this error is to add a line in /etc/hosts for

Re: ssltelnet problem

1999-07-23 Thread Dieter Jäger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Konstantin Kivi wrote: Hello All I have problem with ssltelnet that I tried to install recently. first I tried to install binary package from non-us.debian.org. I tried both stable and unstable ssltelnet crashed if I used -z ssl which I

Re: STABLE graphical FTP clients?

1999-07-23 Thread Dieter Jäger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Bakosi Jozsef wrote: On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Bryan Scaringe wrote: I'm trying to get an FTP client for Linux that is graphical, and supports bookmarks. Something like gFTP or IglooFTP. Try WXftp GTK+ by Alexander Yukhimets. It is only

Re: x windows problem

1999-07-23 Thread Dieter Jäger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 06 Jul 1999, Alfalfa Sprout wrote: Hey. I think I setup the mouse as the wrong type in xf86config (I wanted to use XF86Setup, but when I try to go into that, all I get is a scrambled screen). When XF86Setup finds an old XF86Config file, don't use it.

Re: PIM's

1999-07-23 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Brian Schramm wrote: Ok. maybe this is asking for a lot but I like to use my equipment until it no longer runs! I run Debian Linux for all my machines and use the KDE desktop system for my address book and schedualer. My problem is I want to use my portable for this

default font for Xaw - Applications

1999-07-23 Thread Bernhard Rieder
Since I installed Xfsft all the text-widgets of Xaw-applications are nearly unreadable (Xaw uses a tiny awful font). Where can I set the default font for _all_ applications ? Bernhard -- __ ___ // )___---. \ |,( /`-- `. Bernhard Rieder

Re: ssltelnet problem

1999-07-23 Thread Brad
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Dieter J?ger wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Konstantin Kivi wrote: Hello All I have problem with ssltelnet that I tried to install recently. first I tried to install binary package from non-us.debian.org. I tried both stable and

kernel panic while mounting root fs

1999-07-23 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I just had to replace a motherboard in my Linux box (floppy controller went bad) and now, for some reason, when I'm trying to boot my 2.2.10 kernel, I get kernel panic while mounting root fs. I can't reproduce the exact message right now, but it seems that while booting it's doing a normal

Re: kernel panic while mounting root fs

1999-07-23 Thread Shao Zhang
just a guess... maybe you have pluged your harddisk into a different slot. it might have changed its name from /dev/hda1 to /dev/hdc1 Have you tried to use the motherboard bios to re-detect all your harddisk?? Have you tried to mount the linux root fs when you booted with the rescure disk??

Re: kernel panic while mounting root fs

1999-07-23 Thread Andrei Ivanov
just a guess... maybe you have pluged your harddisk into a different slot. it might have changed its name from /dev/hda1 to /dev/hdc1 Have you tried to use the motherboard bios to re-detect all your harddisk?? Have you tried to mount the linux root fs when you booted with the rescure

Re: kernel panic while mounting root fs (fwd)

1999-07-23 Thread Andrei Ivanov
In that case, it looks like a kernel bug in 2.2.* series. What did /var/log/kern.log say?? Can you send us the error msg when it is trying to mount the harddisk?? use dmesg error.log There is no error message through dmesg error.log because kernel panic occurs while trying to mount the

Re: kernel panic while mounting root fs

1999-07-23 Thread Aaron Solochek
Have you tried simply running lilo? and/or rdeving the 2.2.10 kernel to whatever it should point to? Apologies if you've already done all this. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrei Ivanov wrote: I just had to replace a motherboard in my Linux box (floppy controller went bad) and now,

Re: shutdown -h now : don't power off

1999-07-23 Thread Halis Osman Erkan
1) you must have APM (advanced power management) support in kernel. 2) on the fly ; before poweroff / halt -p there must be the deamon apm working. To test just write # ps aux |grep apm if these are ok . it will poweroff Halis Osman ERKAN On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 egm2@jps.net wrote:

Re: kernel panic while mounting root fs

1999-07-23 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Have you tried simply running lilo? and/or rdeving the 2.2.10 kernel to whatever it should point to? Apologies if you've already done all this. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yep, I ran lilo (I even recompiled the 2.2.10 kernel and created the boot disk, still it panics when booting

Slink - kernel compiling problem (2.0.36)

1999-07-23 Thread Tadeusz Bak
Hi, I've just tried to compile a new kernel in my Debian slink (upgraded from hamm). The command 'make-kpkg kernel_image' finished with the following message: dpkg-gencontrol -pkernel-image-2.0.36 -Pdebian/tmp-image/ dpkg-gencontrol: error: package kernel-image-2.0.36 not in control info make:

Re: Buddha's Dselect' way

1999-07-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 08:02:57PM -0400, Buddha Buck wrote: Wichert Akkerman and Ben Collins (et alia) have announced a design and technical specification fo DPKGv2, which will presumably replace dpkg and dselect. The intent is to replace dpkg only. As you said, there are already other

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 12:43:37AM +, Lee Elliott wrote: Sorry to have peeved you, I do this deliberately so that paragraphs format OK regardless of window size (I'm only able to check this on YAM Outlook) - for me, reading: Don't do that! The standard line length is 80 columns, and

dselect or apt installation profiles?

1999-07-23 Thread Ralf Mueller
Hello, there are preselections for the dselect programm in which several packages are selected. Where are this profiles and how can I manipulate them that I can define my own 'preselections' beacause I whant to install identical debians on several machines and don't want to run the

Re: Dselect 'project'(RE: the dselect debate)

1999-07-23 Thread Peter Makholm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: read 'Why so much hate?' posted some days ago in this mailing - list. we could put in contact each-other by this mailing-lists for an initial project about Dselect. Try have a look at apt-find and see if that is better and probally make sugestions for improving that

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-23 Thread Mark Wagnon
Mark Brown wrote: Don't do that! The standard line length is 80 columns, and all sane mail clients can display that without problems. Most Unix mail clients do *not* do word wrapping in either display mode (spacing may be To check that I'm not unknowingly sending long lines, how does this

smbfs vis ncpfs

1999-07-23 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, because I couldn't solve my ncpfs-problem to let users mount their Novell-drives at request themselves via an /etc/fstab-entry I wonder if this is possible with smbfs. Did I understand it right that it is possible with smbfs to mount Novell and Win drives. I didn't used Samba yet and I'm

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists Date: Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 12:43:37AM + In reply to:Lee Elliott Quoting Lee Elliott([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On 22-Jul-99, you wrote: An observation from this Newbie may be related: Sorry to have peeved you, I do this

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines (ITP)

1999-07-23 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Michael Stenner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What do you think about: a) using html (this would help us -- we'd just mirror each other) b) having a table of contents and index ( - index might be hard ) What about using/modifying/enhancing dwww -- I think it would be good to take an

Re: E-mail with exim tip.

1999-07-23 Thread Dieter Jäger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Hans van den Boogert wrote: There was some discussion on how to set up Exim a few days back. I found the following article in the Linux Gazette (http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue43/stumpel.html) and it was useful (for ... -- Hans They use a

modem line speed

1999-07-23 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, How do I determine what modem line speed I currently have. I have 33.6k modem, but windoze reports 56700bps, I have tried to set with the string W2, and it still reports 56700bps. Hopefully, linux will give me a correct value. Thanks. Shao. --

Monitoring precise data in and out of eth1

1999-07-23 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, My ISP is wireless which means a 24/7 service which charges for usage over 600 Megs of days in and out in a month. The connection is via an antenna and thence an rj45 cable into a NIC. The NIC is eth1. Is there a term for measuring data throughput on a NIC and how would I set about

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-23 Thread Philip Lehman
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Adam Shand wrote: i was trying to find a pattern among the info people posted but couldn't really see one. did anyone else figure this out? - p2-266 128mb ram - kernel 2.2.9 - glibc 2.1.1-13 It's the glibc from unstable. -- Philip Lehman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: default font for Xaw - Applications

1999-07-23 Thread Philip Lehman
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Bernhard Rieder wrote: Since I installed Xfsft all the text-widgets of Xaw-applications are nearly unreadable (Xaw uses a tiny awful font). Where can I set the default font for _all_ applications ? Technically, in your .xdefaults file. Take a look at editres, it will give

Re: modem line speed

1999-07-23 Thread Philip Lehman
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: I have 33.6k modem, but windoze reports 56700bps, I have tried to set with the string W2, and it still reports 56700bps. Hopefully, linux will give me a correct value. Invoke chat with the -r option from your /etc/ppp/peers/my_isp

Re: shutdown -h now : don't power off

1999-07-23 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
Hi, for your question : This is a summary of what I have done: I set the APM option in the kernel 2.2.10. if I do halt, my box act like the use of reboot : it reboots using the shutdown of windows95 act as i want : power off the computer the command : #ps aux |grep apm root

Re: shutdown -h now : don't power off

1999-07-23 Thread Philip Lehman
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: I set the APM option in the kernel 2.2.10. if I do halt, my box act like the use of reboot : it reboots using the shutdown of windows95 act as i want : power off the computer the command : #ps aux |grep apm root 2169 0.0 0.3

RMail POP config

1999-07-23 Thread arifi
Hi, I am trying to setup Emacs/RMail as my main e-mail client, and I have a dial-up connection to the internet. The mail server is POP3. I browsed the emacs manual but what is said there about rmail and pop3 did not talk to me that much. Could the knowledgeable people here please point me to

Re: slrn - posting to newsgroup rejected

1999-07-23 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Mark Brown wrote: Well, see the questions above. Try moving the articles into the outgoing directory and running slrnpull from the command line. Try looking in the system logs in /var/log to see if any information went there. Aah! I found a log in /var/spool/slrnpull

Re: shutdown -h now : don't power off

1999-07-23 Thread Halis Osman Erkan
As it seen your APM daemon is not working. The result from the ps aux command points the query you have just entered. It means PID 2169 is your ps aux commands PID. Not APM's PID. So you must have re-compile kernel with advanced power management support APM. Or a little bit chance try to start

Re: kernel panic while mounting root fs

1999-07-23 Thread Paul Miller
Most of the time when I see this problem, it is because there is no support for the drive compiled in the kernel. Did you check the following under the Block Device section of menuconfig when compilinf the 2.2.10 kernel? Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK

Re: kernel panic while mounting root fs (fwd)

1999-07-23 Thread Paul Miller
Andrei Ivanov wrote: Obviosly one of the partitions is not found. Any idea why? Andrew Well, I might have spoken too quickly with my last post :-) One other thing to check for is that ext2 support is compiled into the kernel. It is kinda hard to tell what might be going on here without

ANSI telnet program

1999-07-23 Thread Daniel Maupin
I need to know if their is any ANSI art compatlible telnet programs avalible that will work with Debian. I just have to play on the new Userfriendly bbs :) I looked around and couldn't find one. Thanks -- Daniel Maupin AMA#588800 One World, One Web, One Program Microsoft Marketing Add Ein

Re: cron, crontab, etc. [update]

1999-07-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: cron, crontab, etc. [CORRECTION] Date: Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 04:22:03PM -0400 In reply to:Wayne Topa Quoting Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Subject: Re: cron, crontab, etc. [CORRECTION] Date: Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 02:49:10PM -0300 In reply to:Daniel

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists Date: Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 12:36:06AM -0700 In reply to:Mark Wagnon Quoting Mark Wagnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Mark Brown wrote: To check that I'm not unknowingly sending long lines, how does this look? Messed up threads and

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines (ITP)

1999-07-23 Thread Michael Stenner
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 08:24:06PM +0200, Colin Marquardt wrote: * Michael Stenner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: a) using html (this would help us -- we'd just mirror each other) We still need an ASCII document that tells newbies about lynx or Netscape in that case, IMO. Agreed. b)

xcircuit - it does not respond to the kbd.

1999-07-23 Thread shaul
Package: xcircuit Version: 2.0a6-3 From time to time xcircuit does not respond to the kbd. To be more specific, it seems to ignore it. It does respond to the mouse, though. I believe that this happens if I quit xcircuit and then activate it again, as if it remembers that it was running at least

New kernel causes kernel panic

1999-07-23 Thread Marc Dubrowski
Hello everybody, I'm a newbie in compiling kernel, and I don't know exactly what problems are caused by 2.2.x kernels I've tried compiling one, and the make menuconfig, make dep make clean and make ran just fine. It was the kernel provided with slink's packages: kernel-2.2.1. I don'yt know if

Re: kernel panic while mounting root fs (fwd)

1999-07-23 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Andrei Ivanov wrote: Obviosly one of the partitions is not found. Any idea why? Andrew Well, I might have spoken too quickly with my last post :-) One other thing to check for is that ext2 support is compiled into the kernel. It is kinda hard to tell what might be going on here

mc: How to terminate an FTP connection ?

1999-07-23 Thread shaul
Package: mc Version: 4.5.1-1.1 I have another mc (midnight commander) question. How can I terminate an ftp connection made from within mc ? The fact that I can not terminate such a connection at will has 2 implications for me: 1) I am holding an unused connection to the server until its timeout

Re: newbie q about perl modules

1999-07-23 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 04:47:43AM -0400, Larry Huffman wrote: I suspect I already know the answer to this, but I'll ask anyway just to make sure. What is the proper way to obtain and install perl modules for a Debian system? Should one first see if the module has been packaged and, if so,

Re: dselect or apt installation profiles?

1999-07-23 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 23 Jul, Ralf Mueller wrote about dselect or apt installation profiles? Hello, there are preselections for the dselect programm in which several packages are selected. Where are this profiles and how can I manipulate them that I can define my own 'preselections' beacause I whant to

Dvorak

1999-07-23 Thread qxm
How do I change my keybaord over to Dvorak on an already set up slink install? thanks -- Matthew McFarlane -

X whacks PPP in Debian's Slink

1999-07-23 Thread Brian Wildasinn
Hi, Installed Debian-2.1, Slink, without anytroubles via an essentials cdrom, then installed the rest via ftp. Everything got downloaded, installed, and configured without any errors whatsoever. So here's the problem: PPP works fine except when XWindow is running! No ping packets return from my

infomagic

1999-07-23 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Check out www.infomagic.com. The reason they no longer put Debian on their linux toolkit cd's (they say) is that at 4 cd's it is now too large. So they now have a SEPARATE debian 4 cd set. The latest (2.1r0x) will be out in August at $15 (plus postage). You can subscribe for updates at $10 a

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-23 Thread J Horacio MG
Anyway, the problem is that Netscape is quite frequently crashing with a bus error. This usually happens when I close a Netscape window (actually, it happens close to half the time when I close a Netscape window), which is painful because I have to either live with an

RE: infomagic

1999-07-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Jul-99 Kenneth Scharf wrote: Check out www.infomagic.com. The reason they no longer put Debian on their linux toolkit cd's (they say) is that at 4 cd's it is now too large. So they now have a SEPARATE debian 4 cd set. The latest (2.1r0x) will be out in August at $15 (plus

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-23 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 22 Jul, Wayne Topa wrote about Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists Subject: Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists Date: Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 12:43:37AM + In reply to:Lee Elliott Quoting Lee Elliott([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On 22-Jul-99, you wrote: An

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