ATI Xpert Play TV AGP

1999-07-27 Thread Vicente García
Hola, estoy intentando ver las X con una ATI Xpert Play TV de 8Mb en AGP. He utilizado el XF86Setup y elijo este modelo de tarjeta de la lista, pero no consigo que funcione. Alguien me puede aconsejar algo??? Gracias.

Re: Las X no inician con una tarjeta STB LightSpeed 3300

1999-07-27 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 11:45:44PM +0200, Lucky dijo: Recientemente he cambiado mi tarjeta S3 por una aceleradora 3D, una STB LightSpeed 3300 con 16MB conectado en un Slot AGP y las X no inician. Solo consigo iniciar con un servidor VGA a 16 colores. Que puedo hacer para a lo peor conseguir q

Re: ATI Xpert Play TV AGP

1999-07-27 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 02:16:27AM +0200, Vicente García dijo: Hola, estoy intentando ver las X con una ATI Xpert Play TV de 8Mb en AGP. He utilizado el XF86Setup y elijo este modelo de tarjeta de la lista, pero no consigo que funcione. Alguien me puede aconsejar algo??? Hacerlo a lo

xdm o kdm

1999-07-27 Thread Benet
Hola a todos Como se hace que por defecto el KDM en vez el XDM Es el DEBIAN CITIUS 2.1 Saludos de Benet

Pero que pasa?.

1999-07-27 Thread Jordi Roman Mejias
---BeginMessage--- Es esto una lista de correo o un mercadillo en medio de Bangladesh (¿se escribirá así?). No os parece que ya se estan pasando estos argentinos, no hay manera de evitar esta mierda de SpaMing. Muchas gracias por apoyarme y perdon a los argentinos que

Re: Pero que pasa?.

1999-07-27 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On mar, jul 27, 1999 at 09:19:10 +0200, Jordi Roman Mejias wrote: No os parece que ya se estan pasando estos argentinos, no hay manera de evitar esta mierda de SpaMing. Totalmente de acuerdo, en un año y medio que llevo subscrito a esta lista no he visto nunca una cosa igual. Algo habría

RE: Pero que pasa? .... y script de shutdown en debian 2.0

1999-07-27 Thread Tejada Lacaci, Antonio
-Mensaje original- De: Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: martes 27 de julio de 1999 10:46 Para: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Asunto: Re: Pero que pasa?. On mar, jul 27, 1999 at 09:19:10 +0200, Jordi Roman Mejias wrote: No os

Re: Portatil para Debian

1999-07-27 Thread Jose Centeno
Saioa Perurena writes: - HYUNDAI HN-6000: AMD K6-2 400 MHz (Mobile), 64 Mb, HD 6,4 Gb, pantalla LCD XGA 13,3 TFT, tarj. gráfica 4 Mb, tarj. sonido 3D (altavoces), CD-ROM 24x, disquetera, batería Ion-Litio, puestos serie, paralelo USB... -AHEAD OPTIMA PRESAGE 400 Intel

Problemas instalacion CITIUS de Linux Actual

1999-07-27 Thread rquin66
A quien me pueda ayudar: He intentado instalar la Citius que viene en Linux Actual, pero en el dselect no me aparece el método multicd (la instalación la hago desde DOS (C:\INSTALL\BOOT.EXE creo). ¿Se debe esto a que no instalo copiando los disquetes uno a uno? ¿o es que hago algo mal? He

Re: Pero que pasa?.

1999-07-27 Thread Jorge Ramiro
At 09:19 27/07/99 , Jordi Roman Mejias wrote: Es esto una lista de correo o un mercadillo en medio de Bangladesh (¿se escribirá así?). No os parece que ya se estan pasando estos argentinos, no hay manera de evitar esta mierda de SpaMing. Muchas gracias por apoyarme y perdon

El spam

1999-07-27 Thread Manuel Trujillo
Buenas. Creo que la mejor manera de contestar a esta gente, sin que sea un mailbombing y dentro de nuestros derechos, es confirmar si la dirección de correo (de haberla) es correcta. Si no localizar la correcta en la página web (si tienen) donde expongan sus productos. Una vez con la buena

Re: El spam

1999-07-27 Thread Antonio Castro
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Manuel Trujillo wrote: Buenas. Creo que la mejor manera de contestar a esta gente, sin que sea un mailbombing y dentro de nuestros derechos, es confirmar si la dirección de correo (de haberla) es correcta. Si no localizar la correcta en la página web (si tienen) donde

RE: TrueType Super-mini-howto

1999-07-27 Thread Ricardo Villalba
Gracias por tu contribución maxo, seguro que mucha gente lo agradecerá... Yo también uso fuentes True-type con las X, lo único que echo en falta es el anti-aliasing, para los que no sepan que es, anti-aliasing hace que las fuentes tengan un aspecto presentable y que por ejemplo no se vean los

Re: xdm o kdm

1999-07-27 Thread Monkiki
Benet wrote: Como se hace que por defecto el KDM en vez el XDM Es el DEBIAN CITIUS 2.1 Si mal no recierdo hay un script en las KDE que te lo hace. Se llama algo así como kdmconfig o algo de eso. Búscalo. Por cierto, saludines a todo el mundo de la lista :-)

Re: Free Software en España [Era: Re: Perdonar pero no me aclaro]

1999-07-27 Thread npardo
: El día Sat, 24 Jul 1999 17:42:20 -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] se animó a decir: :: En España, en cambio, la Ley de Patentes declara explícitamente :: que no son patentables los programas de ordenador, de manera :: que esa protección es posible. Marcelo::

Re: Free Software en España [Era: Re: Perdonar pero no me aclaro]

1999-07-27 Thread npardo
: En el artículo [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andres Seco Hernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] decía: Andres:: Yo de leyes, lo justito. Pero se me ocurre que con este Andres:: tremendo thread que se ha montado con las licencias, el Andres:: tema es suficientemente grade e importante como para que

RE: Free Software en España [Era: Re: Perdonar pero no me aclaro]

1999-07-27 Thread npardo
: El día Mon, 26 Jul 1999 09:53:23 +0200, Tejada Lacaci, Antonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] contaba: :: Esto parece muy abstracto, así que vamos con un ejemplo. No sé :: si recordaréis cuando apareció la Hamm en Linux Actual que hubo :: algunos mensajes en es.comp.os.linux que decían dos

Re: Acentuação na Debian 2.X

1999-07-27 Thread Adriano Freitas
Fernando Cesar Carreira wrote: Estou usando um roteiro que alguem me passou, mas eu não lembro quem foi... Me parece o mais simples para ser usado no Debian. Aí vai: Creio que o maior problema está baseado na acentuação no X. Recomendo a solução da biblioteca Xlib modificada conforme

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

1999-07-27 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Olá Rafael Não, foi uma msg pra cada lista. Por que você acha que as 2 foram pra mesma lista? (se você usa procmail, como eu, talvez as 2 msgs tenham ido pro mesmo folder) Sim, foi um problema na ordem das regras de classificação de mensagens (filtros) do sistema MailBr. Grato

Re: LILO problems with new HD

1999-07-27 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Jon Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: with that. Can a system boot up without a map file? It seems like it can. Yes, you experienced it :-) But like your problem, I always thought you needed the map file. I know my Only if you want more informative error messages in case of a kernel

ipxripd package: does it work?

1999-07-27 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Is anyone but me trying to run the ipxripd 0.7-5 package? I'm trying to run it on kernel version 2.0.36, compiled for IPX. When I try to run it, it just goes away. I never see it as a process doing 'ps aux'. If I try to run it in non-daemon mode (-d option), I see: Mon Jul 26 17:56:51

Re: Flaming Debian Newbies

1999-07-27 Thread David Karlin
On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 08:08:21PM +, Lee Elliott wrote: a single line man('xzy') reply direct to the poster (not via the list) will get the message across if you want to help - delete it if you don't.. IMHO, it's okay to post a reply like that to the list as there could be other people

Re: Flaming Debian Newbies

1999-07-27 Thread Ed Cogburn
Lee Elliott wrote: Hello, My personal opinion:- Flaming only wastes B/W and does nothing to help the next 'Newbie' who hasn't joined the list yet. Why be nasty? A single line man('xzy') reply direct to the poster (not via the list) will get the message across if you want to help -

Re: Netscape - Fontsizes

1999-07-27 Thread eric k. wolven
Bernhard: Try going to About.com---Computer/Technology---OS---Linux Once at Hsiao's main page, go to Search (this site) and enter fonts. Useful info on fonts, Netscape, et al. Eric K. Light, no heat. JonesMB wrote: Bernhard, If you figure out a way around this please let me know. This

Re: Flaming Debian Newbies

1999-07-27 Thread Lawrence Walton
Rather sounds like a dessert... -- *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - -

debian.midco.net mirror in trouble ...

1999-07-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
Hey everyone, I just returned from a week vacation and after being assured that everything worked fine in my absence, I find that's not the case regarding debian.midco.net. I don't know how out of shape the mirror is, but it's probably not up-to-date. I'll try to get it there ASAP. The machine

Re: basic info (so this newbie can quit bugging you pros)

1999-07-27 Thread Kent West
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Brad wrote: Yuck, long lines making the post hard to read... Yeah, I haven't figured it out yet. I keep dropping the parameter in Netscape's Messenger program to wrap outgoing messages at x, but I can't seem to get things right. I'm currently set at 65 characters. (I'm

PPP and kernel 2.2.x ?

1999-07-27 Thread Steffen Evers
I've updated my kernel to 2.2.10 and everything is fine except PPP. There are some strange hexdumps in the ppp.log file and the connection hangs sometimes what is very annoying. I'm using Debian 2.1 and ppp 2.3.5-2 netbase 3.12-2 Does anyone know anything about it ? Bye, Steffen PS: Please CC

Re: Netscape and Slashdot!

1999-07-27 Thread Tim Nicholas
On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 09:28:12AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 08:11:21PM +1200, Tim Nicholas wrote: The problem seems to be when netscape (4.6) trys to render the html. it just doesn't. It will download all of the files but then leaves the page blank. this is

Re: my SB16 can't play midi files

1999-07-27 Thread Eduardo Alvarez
At 10:08 AM 26/07/99 -0400, you wrote: On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, a wrote: I have Debian 1.2 and compile the kernel for SB16. [...] Your config looks right. In fact, it looks identical to the config I used to use with my SB16. Is yours a PNP card? Now I can play wav files and CD but can't play

Re: PPP and kernel 2.2.x ?

1999-07-27 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Steffen Evers; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I've updated my kernel to 2.2.10 and everything is fine except PPP. There are some strange hexdumps in the ppp.log file and the connection hangs sometimes what is very annoying. I'm using Debian 2.1 and ppp 2.3.5-2 netbase 3.12-2

Re: PPP and kernel 2.2.x ?

1999-07-27 Thread John Hasler
Steffen writes: I've updated my kernel to 2.2.10 and everything is fine except PPP. I'm having the same problem. I see it with pppd 2.3.7 and 2.3.8, so I don't think the bug is in pppd. Pppd seems to respond to every request from the other end with this LCP packet (not always the same id, of

help: telnet knows about NIS, ftp doesnt...

1999-07-27 Thread Edward Lee

Re: basic info (so this newbie can quit bugging you pros)

1999-07-27 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: basic info (so this newbie can quit bugging you pros) Date: Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 02:55:06PM -0700 In reply to:pplaw Quoting pplaw([EMAIL PROTECTED]): hello d-community, i can at least boot d-linux (so, i get some credit, right?). Yes you do. [ snip help

Re: Flaming Debian Newbies

1999-07-27 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Flaming Debian Newbies Date: Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 08:08:21PM + In reply to:Lee Elliott Quoting Lee Elliott([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello, Having said that, when I followed the instructions (from Debian.org) for installing slink on my platform and finally got it to

ssh client

1999-07-27 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
hello all, this is not a debian specific question, but does anyone know of an ssh client for Win9x/NT that i can use to connect to my ssh ONLY enabled debian server ? i need this as i dont have a linux box at home. TIA, Chad

xinetd access control

1999-07-27 Thread Jim B
This isn't Debian-specific, but I tried another list I'm on and didn't hear anything back Anyone else running xinetd (the inetd replacement)? I'm wondering if there's a way to use wildcards in the access control (no_access). For example, with inetd you could deny: .aol.com and that line

Re: The Hat: was Re: new logo on debian.org

1999-07-27 Thread egm2
On 26 Jul, Matthew Cordes wrote: | I'm not sure it's really necessary, though. If there's any meaning | behind that hat, I don't know what it is. | |-Michael | | The 'Hat' is a clever marketing icon. The Debian Swirl is a little too

Still can't build kernel_image on slink

1999-07-27 Thread Tadeusz Bak
Hi all, After upgrading from hamm to slink I tried to compile a new kernel. Unfortunately the command 'make-kpkg kernel_image' stopped with the following error: [...] cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 chmod 644 debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 test -f System.map

Re: Flaming Debian Newbies

1999-07-27 Thread Bernhard Rieder
Ed Cogburn wrote: The man package is far to large to fit on the base system. I had exactly the same problem when I installed Linux for the first time. 'man' was one of the few unix commands that I knew (thanks to a book I bought), but after installing it wasn't there. Ouch. You're

Re: ssh client

1999-07-27 Thread Carl Mummert
There is a program named 'tera term' that has an ssh extension, surprisingly known as 'tera term ssh'. The url is http://www.zip.com.au/~roca/ttssh.html You have to download two files: the tera term regular executable, and the ssh extention. More info is available through the above link. I am

RE: Still can't build kernel_image on slink

1999-07-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
[...] cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 chmod 644 debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 test -f System.map cp System.map \ debian/tmp-image/boot/System.map-2.0.36 test -f System.map chmod 644 \

Re: ssh client

1999-07-27 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 09:32:46AM +0800, Chad A. Adlawan wrote: hello all, this is not a debian specific question, but does anyone know of an ssh client for Win9x/NT that i can use to connect to my ssh ONLY enabled debian server ? i need this as i dont have a linux box at home. TIA,

Re: Still can't build kernel_image on slink

1999-07-27 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 11:30:45AM +1000, Tadeusz Bak wrote: Hi all, But my attempt to build a new kernel_image still results in the above error. Is there something wrong with the kernel-package 6.05 or, more probably, my system is completely disorganized? Thank you for your attention

Re: Using apt with downloaded deb

1999-07-27 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 12:05:08PM -0500, Brad wrote: Just out of curiousity, what's up with the apostrophies in this message? This has been discussed extensively in Slashdot. Evidently, Microsoft email/web creation programs don't Do the Right Thing (TM) in regards to apostrophes, and fail to

Re: Question on hooking up ISP

1999-07-27 Thread John Hasler
a writes: ... Serial line is looped back. ... What is the problem? Your chat script is not providing everything the other end wants. Chat is exiting at your end and allowing pppd to start sending LCP packets while the other end is still looking for some string and echoing everything it

Re: PPP and kernel 2.2.x ?

1999-07-27 Thread John Hasler
damir writes: Sorry I can't be of more help, but I have done same upgrade two days ago and have had no problems with EXACT same packages. My ppp is compiled in the kernel as opposed beign the module. Hmmm. I tried it both ways. What libc do you have? I don't know enough about it, but I

Re: PPP and kernel 2.2.x ?

1999-07-27 Thread egm2
On 26 Jul, John Hasler wrote: | Steffen writes: | I've updated my kernel to 2.2.10 and everything is fine except PPP. | | I'm having the same problem. I see it with pppd 2.3.7 and 2.3.8, so I | don't think the bug is in pppd. Pppd seems to respond to every request | from the

Re: Using apt with downloaded deb

1999-07-27 Thread egm2
On 26 Jul, Brad wrote: | On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Tiago Alves Macambira wrote: | | I've been trying to install debian 2.1 but not I’?m not being very lucky. | | Just out of curiousity, what's up with the apostrophies in this message? I saw somewhere that this is caused by some forms

removing badly-broken package

1999-07-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
After a recent upgrade of some potato packages, xcontrib is in a very broken state where I can neither upgrade nor remove it. dpkg reports: $ dpkg -l xcontrib Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/

Re: Still can't build kernel_image on slink

1999-07-27 Thread Tadeusz Bak
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: Try make-kpkg clean. It should clear out some old cruft in the configuration files. Thank you very much, that fixed my problem. Why didn't I think about it? Silly me... Thanks again! :-) -- Tad

Re: LILO problems with new HD

1999-07-27 Thread Jon Keating
You were referring to System.map for the error messages, not the /boot/map file used to load the system.

Adobe Acrobat Reader in slink

1999-07-27 Thread Matthew Edwards
I downloaded Adobe Acrobat Reader for linux and installed it on my Debian 2.1 distribution (2.9.9 kernel). When I tried to run it, first it told me it couldn't find various libX... libs. After i put that dir(/usr/X11R6/lib) in the lib search path for the script, it gives me a segmentation fault.

Problems with Debian-based minimal rootfs

1999-07-27 Thread Matt Porter
Hi, I am building a minimal rootfs that will loads as a large ramdisk when booting some nodes on a clustered system. I'm basically pulling pieces by hand from a working PowerPC potato system as each node is PowerPC-based. I only have the need to allow serial login and networking (rshd etc) so

Re: PPP and kernel 2.2.x ?

1999-07-27 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi John Hasler; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Hmmm. I tried it both ways. What libc do you have? My system is slink based on libc6_2.0.7.19981211-6; I only wanted/ was curious about 2.2.10 kernel, so I installed it. I can't imagine why that would matter. Why did you need bootpc? I

Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy

1999-07-27 Thread a
i am hooking up ISP. Below is part of output of plog: Jul 27 00:18:52 debian chat[668]: expect (word) Jul 27 00:18:52 debian chat[668]: vip^M Jul 27 00:18:52 debian chat[668]: Password -- got it Jul 27 00:18:52 debian chat[668]: send (vip^M) Jul 27 00:18:52 debian pppd[667]: Serial

Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader in slink

1999-07-27 Thread Mark Wagnon
Matthew Edwards wrote: I downloaded Adobe Acrobat Reader for linux and installed it on my Debian 2.1 distribution (2.9.9 kernel). When I tried to run it, first it told me it couldn't find various libX... libs. After i put that dir(/usr/X11R6/lib) in the lib search path for the script, it

Re: PPP and kernel 2.2.x ?

1999-07-27 Thread John Hasler
Steffen Evers writes: Did you remove/comment out a line such as this from /etc/init.d/network? It's failing in the LCP phase, before any network protocols come up. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: PPP and kernel 2.2.x ?

1999-07-27 Thread John Hasler
I just followed the instructions ( the ones about running 2.2 kernels in slink at debian web site), since I don't know enough about it, and it did affect the netstd package behaviour. Better safe than sorry, I guess. Yes. My system is pretty much potato, though, and I did follow the

older deb packages

1999-07-27 Thread Paul Nesbit
I 've just recently installed (from scratch) the most recent stable version of Debian (slink). I ftp'd the files necessary to my win box, and installed from hard disk. My question is: I have a distribution on CD (Debian/GNU Linux 1.2.0). After installing the base, I've used dselect with

apt-get reports missing packages

1999-07-27 Thread Johann Spies
After running apt-get update and apt-get upgrade I apt-get reports about several packages the following eg.: Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/dists/proposed-updates/gpc-doc_2.91.66-0slink2_all.deb Unable to fetch file, server said

understanding netstat output

1999-07-27 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
hello all, when i invoke netstat, i get the following : Active UNIX domain sockets (w/o servers) Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node Path unix 2 [ ] STREAM 824491 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 unix 2 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 824490

Re: older deb packages

1999-07-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
Slink is libc6 (with support for libc5 available). 1.2.0 is libc5 (possibly some libc4, I forget). I'd recommend you either use ftp or get a more recent CD. I also recommend you use the apt method with dselect (which supports both ftp and http). Bob On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 12:43:25AM -0400,

Using Rock Ridge extentions with Windowns NT 4

1999-07-27 Thread david . cureton
HI, Since I do not have a CD-ROM in my linux box I am trying to serve the Debian CD from my Wintel NT 4.0 box via FTP. This appears to work OK except that NT does uses 8.3 file names of the ISO9660 file system and does not make use of the rock ridge extentions. Therefore

Re: understanding netstat output

1999-07-27 Thread Andrei Ivanov
hello all, when i invoke netstat, i get the following : Active UNIX domain sockets (w/o servers) Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node Path unix 2 [ ] STREAM 824491 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 unix 2 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED

Re: Using Rock Ridge extentions with Windowns NT 4

1999-07-27 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I do not have a CD-ROM in my linux box I am trying to serve the Debian CD from my Wintel NT 4.0 box via FTP. This appears to work OK except that NT does uses 8.3 file names of the ISO9660 file system and does not make use of

Help me stay away from visual C++ :)

1999-07-27 Thread Moses Leslie
I'm taking an intro C class, and of course everything there is run on win95. For a project we're doing now, I need to be able to tell if a scanf(%d,x) actually gets an int or not, but scanf seems to freak out if it gets anything but an int. For example: int test; for(;;) { printf(Status

Re: understanding netstat output

1999-07-27 Thread Carl Mummert
Active UNIX domain sockets (w/o servers) Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node Path unix 2 [ ] STREAM 824491 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 unix 2 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 824490 unix 2 [ ] STREAM 824228

(3c509) Selecting 10baseT or 10base2 ?

1999-07-27 Thread William Park
Hi, My 3Com509B ethernet card uses 10BaseT (twisted pair) port by default. How do I enable 10Base2 (coaxial) port instead? Yours truly, William Park

Re: Help me stay away from visual C++ :)

1999-07-27 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Moses Leslie wrote: int test; for(;;) { printf(Status is %d\n,scanf(%d,test)); fflush(stdin); } prints out Status is 1 if it gets an int, but freaks out and keeps printing Status is 0 over and over if you give it a char. The same snippet works

Re: Help me stay away from visual C++ :)

1999-07-27 Thread Carl Mummert
under visual C++. Is this something that's (most likely) broken in vc++, or perhaps (less likely) broken in glibc 2.1? All I have to test it on is a potato box, so I don't know if other versions of gcc have the same problem. According to the fflush manpage, only _output_ streams are flushed.

Re: Help me stay away from visual C++ :)

1999-07-27 Thread Carl Mummert
The more I think about it, the following is better. No more buffer overflow problem. #include stdio.h int main() { int test; int result; int j; for(j = 0; j 10; j++) { while ( scanf(%*[^0-9-]) ); result = scanf(%d, test); if ( ! result) printf(Error\n);

Re: Netscape - Fontsizes

1999-07-27 Thread John Foster
JonesMB wrote: Bernhard, If you figure out a way around this please let me know. This past weekend I spent some time (again) trying to do the same thing. The font sizes don't even change no matter what you specify in Netscape. Maybe we can edit the preferences file and save it there

Converting from Redhat to Debian

1999-07-27 Thread Jordan Howarth
I am currently running Redhat and have decided to try Debian instead. I wish to install from the hard drive from an existing linux partition and have read the instructions for doing this from http://www.us.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install but am confuse by one aspect. The instructions state

Re: Help me stay away from visual C++ :)

1999-07-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, July 26, 1999, 10:51:02 PM, Carl wrote: if ( ! result) You know you've been using perl for too long when you see this in C and immediately think, Hmm, no wonder it doesn't work, there is no $. :) -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your

Re: Help me stay away from visual C++ :)

1999-07-27 Thread Moses Leslie
On 27-Jul-99 Jason Gunthorpe wrote: fflush doesn't do anything (or at least isn't supposed to) for input streams, fflush is ment to flush pending output, not discard pending input. So what is happening is that glibc ignores the fflush and continually rescans that invalid character in a

Problem solved

1999-07-27 Thread Moses Leslie
On 27-Jul-99 Carl Mummert wrote: [.. elegant solution, above and beyond the call of duty..] I really appreciate the help, now if I could only get debian on all the machines at school, maybe they'd be usable. (p-75 with windows is *not* fun) Moses -- Moses Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using apt with downloaded deb

1999-07-27 Thread Brad
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 12:05:08PM -0500, Brad wrote: Just out of curiousity, what's up with the apostrophies in this message? This has been discussed extensively in Slashdot. Evidently, Microsoft email/web creation programs don't Do the Right

Re: Help me stay away from visual C++ :)

1999-07-27 Thread venu
dear carl The more I think about it, the following is better. No more buffer overflow problem. have heard lots about it in security bulletins ... what is a buffer over flow ? and how does it appear in code ? cheers venu

Re: Help me stay away from visual C++ :)

1999-07-27 Thread Brad
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Moses Leslie wrote: On 27-Jul-99 Jason Gunthorpe wrote: fflush doesn't do anything (or at least isn't supposed to) for input streams, fflush is ment to flush pending output, not discard pending input. So what is happening is that glibc ignores the fflush and

bootstrap query

1999-07-27 Thread Walter Logeman
I am installing Debian 2.1 cdroms, first go at Linux or unix, on an AMD K6 200, on a second 2Gig HDD. The machine has win 98 on a 6gig Hard disk. After dealing with network options in the installation I created a Boot Floppy and used it to reboot. This took an unusually long time. Is that

Re: basic info (so this newbie can quit bugging you pros)

1999-07-27 Thread John Foster
pplaw wrote: hello d-community, i can at least boot d-linux (so, i get some credit, right?). however, i get probs w/ dselect (installation script returned error exit status 1). it feels like i'm skipping steps/concepts, which are probably explained in the man(ual). anyway, the pro

startx-errors: Where is the log file?

1999-07-27 Thread Johann Spies
After apt installed some packages during upgrade to slink-proposed-upgrades, my xwindows wouldn't work. I changed .xinitrc to remove all references to gnome, but it did not work. I suspect it has something to do with installing a newer version of icewm. But even after installing wmaker and

Re: Still can't build kernel_image on slink

1999-07-27 Thread John Foster
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: [...] cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 chmod 644 debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 test -f System.map cp System.map \ debian/tmp-image/boot/System.map-2.0.36 test -f System.map chmod 644 \

Re: Networking ~ peer to peer

1999-07-27 Thread Walter Logeman
Martin, John, all I had my first go at the installation last night... and among the many things on my learning curve is the networking, inspite of all the help! John Walter writes: So will setting the network up conflict with setting up the dial up connection to the net? John Only in

Re: Help me stay away from visual C++ :)

1999-07-27 Thread Brad
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, venu wrote: The more I think about it, the following is better. No more buffer overflow problem. have heard lots about it in security bulletins ... what is a buffer over flow ? and how does it appear in code ? In C, you (almost) always have

Re: older deb packages

1999-07-27 Thread John Foster
Paul Nesbit wrote: I 've just recently installed (from scratch) the most recent stable version of Debian (slink). I ftp'd the files necessary to my win box, and installed from hard disk. My question is: I have a distribution on CD (Debian/GNU Linux 1.2.0). After installing the base,

Re: Flaming Debian Newbies

1999-07-27 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Lee Elliott wrote: [...] Having said that, when I followed the instructions (from Debian.org) for installing slink on my platform and finally got it to load, and logged in, I found that I didn't have 'man'. It took more RTFM'ing and figuring out the various things dselect was telling

Problems encrypting with GnuPG and decrypting with PGP

1999-07-27 Thread Brian May
Why does the following not work? If I don't get any reply from debian-user, I will post to debian-devel, as I am reasonably certain I got these packages from potato. [540] [snoopy:bam] gpg -se -r bam abc gpg (GnuPG) 0.9.7; Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program comes with

Re: Using Rock Ridge extentions with Windowns NT 4

1999-07-27 Thread egm2
On 27 Jul, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | HI, | Since I do not have a CD-ROM in my linux box I am trying to | serve the Debian CD from my Wintel NT 4.0 box via FTP. This appears to work | OK except that NT does uses 8.3 file names of the ISO9660 file system and | does not

Re: understanding netstat output

1999-07-27 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: understanding netstat output Date: Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 01:14:02PM +0800 In reply to:Chad A. Adlawan Quoting Chad A. Adlawan([EMAIL PROTECTED]): hello all, can someone please tell me what they all mean ? or maybe direct me to docs that i could read so that ill

Re: Help me stay away from visual C++ :)

1999-07-27 Thread egm2
On 26 Jul, Moses Leslie wrote: | I'm taking an intro C class, and of course everything there is run on win95. | For a project we're doing now, I need to be able to tell if a scanf(%d,x) | actually gets an int or not, but scanf seems to freak out if it gets anything | but an int.

PCMCIA nightmare - help!

1999-07-27 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, In a wild fit of Debian advocacy, I persuaded a colleague at work to partition the hard disk on his portable and install Debian. Installation was a breeze...it put the PCMCIA stuff in and booted nicely with beeps and so on. But it had lost all the IP info and ifconfig eth0 got no such

sendmail/fetchmail how?

1999-07-27 Thread Geocrawler.com
This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by Joakim Svensson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be sure to reply to that address. Hi all, Would appreciate some help with setting up my mail. Here is the background: Installed 2.1 from cd, just the 40Mb or so basic system. Upgraded some things, such as X and some

ext2 spec

1999-07-27 Thread Anders . ohrt
Where can I find info on the ext2 file system? I'm writing an OS and will probably need ext2 support...

Re: PCMCIA nightmare - help!

1999-07-27 Thread Adam Shand
In a wild fit of Debian advocacy, I persuaded a colleague at work to partition the hard disk on his portable and install Debian. good for both of you :-) Installation was a breeze...it put the PCMCIA stuff in and booted nicely with beeps and so on. But it had lost all the IP info and

Re: startx-errors: Where is the log file?

1999-07-27 Thread egm2
On 27 Jul, Johann Spies wrote: | Then I installed xdm and it did get xwindows to work using icewm, but no | gnome and it ignores .xsession as well as my icewm-configuration (eg. it | shows only 1 workspace). | Are you sure ~/.xsession is being ignored? What does your file look like?

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-27 Thread Adam Shand
a little late but ... Only HTML (among formats that some readers can handle) really handles nested quotes well, IMHO. It's got a tag just for it. Do any text-based readers handle HTML (by spawning Lynx or something)? Just curious; I wouldn't *dare* post HTML here. ;-) pine (and i'm

startup question

1999-07-27 Thread Aaron Solochek
I have a slink system, with 2.2.10, and until earlier today it was running fine. I rebooted the system to windows so a friend could play some games, and of course windows froze twice. Both times he missed lilo and it booted into linux. He ctrl-alt-deleted during the startup stuff, and it ran

Re: removing badly-broken package

1999-07-27 Thread Stefan . Ehlen
Hi, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: After a recent upgrade of some potato packages, xcontrib is in a very broken state where I can neither upgrade nor remove it. dpkg reports: $ dpkg -l xcontrib Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge |

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