Re: regrabadora

1999-09-26 Thread Jon
me referia a grabar cds regrabables,en cuanto al estilo del windows igual no me he expilcado bien,lo que queria decir es que a ver si se puede usar o grabar cds regrabables de manera que lo copias al cd y ya esta,y luego poder seguir copiando cosas... en resumen,me referia a cds

Re: Un monton de dudas

1999-09-26 Thread Andres Seco Hernandez
Hola. Solo te puedo ayudar con lo del correo. El 25 Sep 1999 a las 08:38AM -0500, Camilo Alejandro Arboleda escribio: 1. No tengo ni idea de como empezar con el smail. Tengo una dirección de correo electrónico que me da la univesidad, otra que me da el ISP, y mi hermana tiene una que le da su

Framebuffer: no paso de 8 bpp en X, :-(

1999-09-26 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
Hola, llevo ya unas cuantas horas de trastear y leer documentación para subir la profundidad de color en el servidor FB para las X, pero no lo consigo. Puedo arrancar Linux con diferentes valores en el `lilo.conf', por ejemplo 800x600x32, pero solo funciona el servidor XF68FB_Dev

Re: Dependencias de postgres

1999-09-26 Thread Antonio Castro
On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Antonio Tejada Lacaci wrote: On Sat, 25 Sep 1999 12:34:25 +0200, Juanmi Mora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola!!! Package: postgresql Version: 6.3.2-15 PCierto, van por la 6.5 y añade cosas necesarias, como soporte para el tipo SQL numeric(a,b) (hasta la 6.5 no

suscripción

1999-09-26 Thread José Miguel Sisó Espitia

No puedo enviar al servidor de news

1999-09-26 Thread xxx
Al intentar enviar un mensaje al servidor de news me dice: 400 No space left on device writing article file -- throttling ¿Es eso problema del servidor o mio? Un saludo _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at

Problemas al arrancar KDE

1999-09-26 Thread xxx
He estado intentando instalar el programa kpackage-1.3.8.tgz, y al hacer un configure me decia que no tenia las qt-1.3 (aunque ya habia instalado el paquete qt1g_1.42-2.deb), asi que busque por el disco y encontre el archivo qt-1.33.tar.gz, lo descomprimi y al intentar hacer um make me decia que

Re: Un monton de dudas

1999-09-26 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
El Sat, Sep 25, 1999, Camilo Alejandro Arboleda... 2. Actualizé la versión de GTK a la GTK+ 1.2, y quiero recompilar el GIMP para que soporte los temas, pero todos los códigos de fuente incluyen un .diff y no se como aplicarlo a todo un directorio. Aguno de ustedes sabe

Re: Framebuffer: no paso de 8 bpp en X, :-(

1999-09-26 Thread Roberto Suarez Soto
On Sep/26/1999, Cosme Perea Cuevas wrote: llevo ya unas cuantas horas de trastear y leer documentación para subir la profundidad de color en el servidor FB para las X, pero no lo consigo. Para eso, sigue los consejos que vienen en una página que menciona la documentación del

Re: regrabadora

1999-09-26 Thread Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
me referia a grabar cds regrabables,en cuanto al estilo del windows igual no me he expilcado bien,lo que queria decir es que a ver si se puede usar o grabar cds regrabables de manera que lo copias al cd y ya esta,y luego poder seguir copiando cosas... Posiblemente no se pueda hacer nada por

Re: Un monton de dudas

1999-09-26 Thread Hue-Bond
El domingo 26 de septiembre de 1999 a la(s) 10:47:09 +0200, Cosme Perea Cuevas contaba: Creación de paquetes de Debian. http://www.openresources.com/es/magazine/making-debian-packages/index.html En esa página hay un link que... $ wget -c

Re: Problema con ldconfig, o libc6

1999-09-26 Thread Hue-Bond
El martes 21 de septiembre de 1999 a la(s) 00:54:52 +0200, Hue-Bond contaba: ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libBrokenLocale.so (No existe el fichero o el directorio), skipping Sigo con esto. Me he puesto a intentar cambiar enlaces y creo que el fallo es que aunque tengo:

Re: Problema con ldconfig, o libc6

1999-09-26 Thread Jon Noble
Hola, On dom, 26 sep 1999 19:50:48 Hue-Bond wrote: Debería actualizar libc6-dev pero: Conflicts: libc-dev, libstdc++2.9-dev [...] libstdc++2.9-dev depende de g++ y viceversa (!) así que no sé qué debo hacer. ¿Cómo actualizo libc6-dev? ¿Y si usas la opción

RE: Copiar configuraciones de KDE

1999-09-26 Thread Ricardo Villalba
-Mensaje original- De: Lucky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Debian debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org; Linux onelist [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Llista Linux Infoap [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: miércoles 22 de septiembre de 1999 23:58 Asunto: Copiar configuraciones de

RE: Copiar configuraciones de KDE

1999-09-26 Thread Ricardo Villalba
-Mensaje original- De: Lucky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Debian debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org; Linux onelist [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Llista Linux Infoap [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: miércoles 22 de septiembre de 1999 23:58 Asunto: Copiar configuraciones de

Re: Problemas al arrancar KDE

1999-09-26 Thread Gustavo CR
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 11:42:39AM +0200, xxx wrote: He estado intentando instalar el programa kpackage-1.3.8.tgz, y al hacer un configure me decia que no tenia las qt-1.3 (aunque ya habia instalado... En principio cuando un programa a compilar te pide una librería suele ser la de

Problemas dselect

1999-09-26 Thread Gustavo CR
Ultimamente el dselect me da el siguiente problema (con un paquete cualquiera de ejemplo): Desempaquetando xwave (de ./xwave_0.6-4.deb) ... gzip: stdout: Tubería rota dpkg-deb: El subproceso gzip -dc ha finalizado con el estado de error 1 dpkg: error processing ./xwave_0.6-4.deb (--install): El

Problemones con Citius :-(

1999-09-26 Thread M. Angel Esteban
Bueno, vamos al ajo. Resulta uqe me he comprado el paquete de 3CD's binarios (no me he pillao los sources porque no me llegaba la pasta). El caso es que instala que instalaras, y leyendo la documentación (el manual incluido), me encuentro con que en Dselect debo utilizar un metodo llamado

Re: Problema con ldconfig, o libc6

1999-09-26 Thread Hue-Bond
El domingo 26 de septiembre de 1999 a la(s) 21:39:56 +0200, Jon Noble contaba: Conflicts: libc-dev, libstdc++2.9-dev [...] libstdc++2.9-dev depende de g++ y viceversa (!) así que no sé qué debo hacer. ¿Cómo actualizo libc6-dev? ¿Y si usas la opción --ignore-depens de dpkg

Re: Grabaci?n de CD's

1999-09-26 Thread Roberto Suarez Soto
On 24/Sep/1999, Tejada Lacaci, Antonio wrote: El Torito es la extensión al estándar de CDs (llamado ISO9660) que ¿En serio? ¿Se llama así, Torito? :-??? ¿Quién le puso el nombre? :-) -- Roberto Suarez Soto · My red is so confident [EMAIL

RE: Un monton de dudas

1999-09-26 Thread Ricardo Villalba
-Mensaje original- De: Camilo Alejandro Arboleda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Fecha: sábado 25 de septiembre de 1999 14:35 Asunto: Un monton de dudas [...] 2. Actualizé la versión de GTK a la GTK+ 1.2, y quiero

RE: Problemas al arrancar KDE

1999-09-26 Thread Ricardo Villalba
-Mensaje original- De: xxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Lista Debian debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Fecha: domingo 26 de septiembre de 1999 11:06 Asunto: Problemas al arrancar KDE He estado intentando instalar el programa kpackage-1.3.8.tgz, y al hacer un configure me decia que no

Re: Root password

1999-09-26 Thread Keith Harbaugh
On Fri, 1999-09-24 at 08:32:28 -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote: Here is how you do it: reboot and at lilo prompt type linux init=/bin/sh This will rop you into shell. In there, mount -n -o remount rw Then edit the /etc/passwd file and blank out root password field. (The second field). Or

Re: two monitors

1999-09-26 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
hi, Ok guys -- I have a second monitor, and wouldn't mind buying a second video card if it would allow me to use two monitors at the same time. I don't know where to start looking for information on this. as usual http://www.xfree86.org My current video card is an AGP ATI [EMAIL

test (don't read)

1999-09-26 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
This is a test message, and not to be read :) Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim Be it our wealth, our jobs, or even our homes; nothing is safe while the legislature is in session.

Re: Best Solution for PPP?

1999-09-26 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Todd Suess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings PPL, I am running a development server in my home that is connected via ppp to the net. What is the best program to use to automatically reconnect me if the connection is dropped? I checked out pon,

Re: Does X11 ignore ~/.bash_profile?

1999-09-26 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes. I think that xterm are non login shells by default. And it's xdm's job to source the proper scripts to set up environnement variables as if you had logged in. Even if you don't use xdm, and start X using startx, your environment is

Re: emacs or xemacs ?

1999-09-26 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Richard E. Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . . also, using emacs on CCIE (*Control Key In Exile) keyboard, causing enough long reaches on my little finger sthat I had to see a quack, is probably part (put a minor part) of my avoiding either. Bringing the Control key back from exile

Re: emacs or xemacs ?

1999-09-26 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Daniel Barclay wrote: From: Richard E. Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . . also, using emacs on CCIE (*Control Key In Exile) keyboard, causing enough long reaches on my little finger sthat I had to see a quack, is probably part (put a

Re: Root password

1999-09-26 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I tried the commands as written, but the mount command produced the error message mount: can't find rw in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab Did you mean mount -n -o remount,rw /dev/x where /dev/x should be replaced by the filesystem to be mounted? With that, everything went just fine.

Re: large hard disks (again)

1999-09-26 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] . However this is NOT the physical geo, which IS reported by the bios and stamped on the drive. The geometry printed on the label isn't always the actual IDE geometry; it's typically limited to 16383 cylinders (for BIOSes that can't handle the full

Getting The Most Out Of APT

1999-09-26 Thread Todd Suess
I ended up creating a good (I think) sources.list file for apt-get ftp, so I wanted to share it with the group in case it could benefit anyone else, especially those to whom non-us.debian.org seems to have dropped off the map (Don't feel bad, I have an OC3 and *I* can't get there either.) ;)

Re: Getting The Most Out Of APT

1999-09-26 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks for posting this. When one lists both stable and unstable distributions, who wins (for example, if you use the automatic update procedure)? I might want to get a thing or two off unstable, but I don't want to just pull everything since it might be, well, unstable :) At 09:37 PM 9/25/99

Re: Getting The Most Out Of APT

1999-09-26 Thread Todd Suess
Ross, Well, APT seems to be fairly intelligent in how it handles this particular file anyway. Once I did the update I did an apt-get upgrade -s just to see what it would do. It held back like 197 packages and updated 127 existing ones. Most of the ones held back seemed to be involved with

Re: Getting The Most Out Of APT

1999-09-26 Thread Salman Ahmed
[oops! I meant to send this message to the list!] Since we are all sharing, here is my /etc/apt/sources.list: # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits # your mirror contains. # deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free # See sources.list(5) for more

RE: Getting The Most Out Of APT

1999-09-26 Thread B. Szyszka
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists stable/non-US/binary-i386/ deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists unstable/non-US main contrib non-free Hmm...

Re: Getting The Most Out Of APT

1999-09-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: Anyone care to explain why I should use ftp instead of http ? I connect the old-fashioned way : 56k dialup access using PPP :) You shouldn't, the HTTP code in APT is very carefully optimized to get the best performance so long as you are not using a

Re: Getting The Most Out Of APT

1999-09-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Todd Suess wrote: took a fair amount of tinkering to get the format right, as the sources.list man page gives some fairly obscure and incorrect examples. :) Really? Send a patch in.. Jason

Re: Getting The Most Out Of APT

1999-09-26 Thread Todd Suess
I would be happy to contribute, would I mail the APT Development Group with suggested updates, etc? Todd At 09:06 PM 9/25/1999 -0600, you wrote: On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Todd Suess wrote: took a fair amount of tinkering to get the format right, as the sources.list man page gives some

Re: A Problem with jadetex

1999-09-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
There were quite a few problems with the slink packages of jadetex; it might be easier to upgrade to the relevant potato package. No, the slink version should work fine on a slink system. Mario, can you give me some more details on your system? Assuming you are running standard slink tetex

Re: Getting The Most Out Of APT

1999-09-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Todd Suess wrote: I would be happy to contribute, would I mail the APT Development Group with suggested updates, etc? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jason

Re: X-sever problem with ATI Rage II

1999-09-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 08:08:25PM +0200, Oliver wrote: Hi, I tried to configure the X-server for my ATI Rage II. But If I start the Which version of XFree86?? (I use 3.3.4 XFree86 the Rage svr from SuSe, and its working perfectly with my ATI Rage Fury). server it hangs. I 'm confused with

ports 113 and 88

1999-09-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I wonder about the use of the kerberos, 88 and auth, 113 ports? I often see them in my logs, as they are blocked by the firewall. Thanks in advance, JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] PURGE COMPLETE.

Re: PAP Authentication Failed

1999-09-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 25 Sep 1999, Joakim Svensson wrote: I have the same problem ! Started today. hmmm If you solve it please let me know /Joakim Have you tried putting noauth in /etc/ppp/options.ttySx? I have to do this to make things work. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1

ssh won't forward x11 connections

1999-09-26 Thread Lukas Eppler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, when typing ~$ ssh localhost kvt I get _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 101 kvt: cannot connect to X server spy:10.0 This happens also when I try to connect to my machine from the outside. Since it works on the other three machines I

printing debian web page using html2ps

1999-09-26 Thread Keith Harbaugh
The design spec for dpkgv2, aka the Herring Package Management Library (HPML), is available for our browsing pleasure at http://www.debian.org/~bcollins/hpml; specifying precisely that URL does bring up the proper web page on my web browser. If I am interpreting the html2ps documentation

start X11 on bootup

1999-09-26 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi there, at some point I disable the X11 from opening at startup (default with slink installation). But I forgot how I did that (and I recall there were various ways of doing so), so now I can't reverse the changes. Among the bootup messages I always get the following one: Checking for valid

Re: X-sever problem with ATI Rage II

1999-09-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
PS, I forgot one *important* thing: as the server's name is not known from X, the best is to zap your SVGA (or rename it) and to rename the ATI Rage128 server into SVGA, in order to gain an easy use of it. Cheers, JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] %DCL-MEM-BAD, bad

Re: start X11 on bootup

1999-09-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 12:43:54PM +0200, J Horacio MG wrote: Hi there, at some point I disable the X11 from opening at startup (default with slink installation). But I forgot how I did that (and I recall there were various ways of doing so), so now I can't reverse the changes. Among the

A simple program behaves differently under mc's terminal and a normal terminal ?

1999-09-26 Thread shaul
Package: mc Version: 4.5.1-1.1 I tried to run a simple program with mc's terminal (ctrl+o from mc) and a normal terminal and got different results. Is this expected ? When running under a normal terminal the program (pipe1) produces: [11:59:17 sigi]$ ./pipe1 [12:02:47 sigi]$ hello world But

Re: Debian images with newer kernel

1999-09-26 Thread Stephan Hachinger
- Original Message - From: B. Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-User List debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, September 25, 1999 6:38 PM Subject: Debian images with newer kernel Hello, Where can I find the rescue and other disk images for Debian with the newer kernels?

Enlightenment Sound

1999-09-26 Thread Greg Heather Vence
Hey all, Enlightenment is working but complains that it can't find the ESD sound server or run it. I've installed the esound package... What's next? TIA -- Greg.

Drifting /dev/ttyS3 IRQ

1999-09-26 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, /dev/ttyS3 is my modem. The hardware is jumpered for IRQ 5. I added the following line to /etc/rc.boot/0setserial: ${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/ttyS3 irq 5 port 0x2E8 skip_test autoconfig ${STD_FLAGS} The problem is the irq frequently reverts to 3. This happens after closing my dial up connection

Re: ports 113 and 88

1999-09-26 Thread Steve George
Hi, It is pretty common to see auth as anything that wants to get an idea of the user running the process will try and use this, for example wb servers (NT especially) and I believe sendmail does it as well. The idea is that you can see the user who is running the process and authenticate

Re: Getting the most out of apt.

1999-09-26 Thread Tobias Zimpel
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 05:23:07PM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: Todd, here are two lines from mine that make sense for everone. deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free I just cut

S3 AGP Trio3D2x and X servers (SVGA vs FBDev)

1999-09-26 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, I'd an S3 Trio3D2x AGP 86C362 graphic card and was working fine on hamm with an older XF68_FBdev X server. Yesterday, I upgraded my machine to slink and downloaded xserver-svga and xserver-fbdev packages. Xfree86 web site says I should use SVGA X server: well i'm unable to get it to

Re: Drifting /dev/ttyS3 IRQ

1999-09-26 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 26 Sep, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote about Drifting /dev/ttyS3 IRQ Hi, /dev/ttyS3 is my modem. The hardware is jumpered for IRQ 5. I added the following line to /etc/rc.boot/0setserial: ${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/ttyS3 irq 5 port 0x2E8 skip_test autoconfig ${STD_FLAGS} The problem is the

dselect/apt/cdrom

1999-09-26 Thread John
I'm trying to configure /etc/apt/sources.list to use a 2CD 'Official' Debian 2.1 set and seem unable to get the right formulation. All the examples given relate to ftp and http. I want to use apt in dselect to adjust the original installation (for some reason not all slink packages on the second

Re: dselect/apt/cdrom

1999-09-26 Thread Martin Fluch
You should install the dpkg-multicd package and than choose the multi_cd access methode in dselect. Martin On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, John wrote: I'm trying to configure /etc/apt/sources.list to use a 2CD 'Official' Debian 2.1 set and seem unable to get the right formulation. All the examples

shutting down X

1999-09-26 Thread Salman Ahmed
I use WDM (WINGs Display Manager) instead of xdm to manage X on my slink box. I have noticed this weird thing when shutting down or rebooting my system. After I enter shutdown/poweroff/reboot, the X server is terminated but then I am 'dumped' back to the first virtual console (tty1). I don't see

`ping', and name resolution in general, hangs

1999-09-26 Thread Eric Hanchrow
Can anyone tell me what's wrong with my system? At first I assumed it was a bug in the resolver library, and opened a bug against libc6 in Debian potato (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/45/45912.html); but the Debian libc6 maintainer is sure that my system is merely misconfigured. Here's the

Re: S3 AGP Trio3D2x and X servers (SVGA vs FBDev)

1999-09-26 Thread Seth R Arnold
When i had my S3 Virge/vx, I never once got the SVGA server to work. Try the s3v server. And, I think the fb server requires kernel 2.2.x or so. On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 04:53:58PM +0100, Nuno Carvalho wrote: Hi, I'd an S3 Trio3D2x AGP 86C362 graphic card and was working fine on hamm with an

Re: S3 AGP Trio3D2x and X servers (SVGA vs FBDev)

1999-09-26 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 04:53:58PM +0100, Nuno Carvalho wrote: Hi, I'd an S3 Trio3D2x AGP 86C362 graphic card and was working fine on hamm with an older XF68_FBdev X server. Yesterday, I upgraded my machine to slink and downloaded xserver-svga and xserver-fbdev packages. Xfree86 web

Re: Enlightenment Sound

1999-09-26 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 09:19:57AM -0700, Greg Heather Vence wrote: Hey all, Enlightenment is working but complains that it can't find the ESD sound server or run it. I've installed the esound package... What's next? Installing sound support, either alsa or oss. You might need to

Re: `ping', and name resolution in general, hangs

1999-09-26 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 09:58:48AM -0700, Eric Hanchrow wrote: Now, here's the kicker: the problem goes away if I run `tcpdump': I do tcpdump ping blarg.net and `ping' responds correctly. I can then kill `tcpdump', and until the next time I boot, the network works fine.

Re: shutting down X

1999-09-26 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 26 Sep, Salman Ahmed wrote about shutting down X I use WDM (WINGs Display Manager) instead of xdm to manage X on my slink box. I have noticed this weird thing when shutting down or rebooting my system. After I enter shutdown/poweroff/reboot, the X server is terminated but then I am

Remote Login

1999-09-26 Thread j way
Hi, again. I tried the suggestions provided( tnx) but without change. My login looks like this at the remote terminal: Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Struggles ttyS1 Struggles login: jway Password: (keyed in) (time passes.) Login timed out after 60 seconds. Any more suggestions? Thanks. -John.

RE: Debian images with newer kernel

1999-09-26 Thread B. Szyszka
Where can I find the rescue and other disk images for Debian with the newer kernels? When I went to the potato directory and got them from there, the kernel was 2.0.x. Isn't it up to 2.1.x or 2.2.x now? There are debian images by CapTech including newer kernels at:

Re: ports 113 and 88

1999-09-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Thanks Steve, I'm gonna do what you said: enable auth/113 and leave kerberos/88 alone (in fact, I didn't see it a lotta time, perhaps less than 3%, instead of auth). JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] PURGE COMPLETE.

from .texinfo to .txt URGENT

1999-09-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I want to translate the last Exim doc (3.00) into french. These docs I retrieved from ftp://cus.cam.ac.uk are in .texinfo format; as I actually don't know anything about Tex LaTex, I'm searching a good will to explain it to me. Thanks in advance, JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL

Re: shutting down X

1999-09-26 Thread Salman Ahmed
Brian == Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Look in your /etc/syslog.conf for output to a different tty. I Brian used to use one of the following and had similiar results, I Brian have since commented them out. Brian #daemon,mail.*;\ #

RE: Newer LICQ?

1999-09-26 Thread Rob
Ive used them all (X versions) and have had the best luck with GtkIcq. Using V 0.57. Robert ICQ 815773 On 23-Sep-99 Bill wrote: Hello everyone, I've been using the licq package that is standard with slink, this version is very old something like version 0.44. On the net the latest stable

Re: `ping', and name resolution in general, hangs

1999-09-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On 26 Sep 1999, Eric Hanchrow wrote: Can anyone tell me what's wrong with my system? At first I assumed it was a bug in the resolver library, and opened a bug against libc6 in Debian potato (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/45/45912.html); but the Debian libc6 maintainer is sure that my system

Where is a 2.2.x floppy distro [was: Re: Debian images with newer kernel]

1999-09-26 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Don't really know about others. Sorry. Perhaps anyone else knows??? Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger - Original Message - From: B. Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stephan Hachinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, September 26, 1999 8:00 PM

ipchains patch to 2.0.x kernel

1999-09-26 Thread N.P. Puam
Hi i have debian 2.1, but i like to apply the ipchains patch to my system... is it advisable and is there a debian way to do it? or should i wait for debian 2.2 and do everything with ipfwadm now? (but that sounds like doing the same thing twice) B

Re: shutting down X

1999-09-26 Thread Salman Ahmed
Salman == Salman Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Salman Ok. I'll also check RedHat-5.2 to see what /dev/console points Salman to under there. Then I'll try symlinking it to /dev/tty1 and Salman see if that solves my problem. BTW, under RH5.2, I am running Salman kernel 2.2.10 and

Kernel options

1999-09-26 Thread Fish Smith
Please send replies directly to me, as I am not subscribed to the list. How can I view which options my current kernel is compiled with? I am trying to compile a new one and I do not have my hardware manual, so I want to keep everything the same except adding sound and module addability. Thnx

Re: shutting down X

1999-09-26 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 26 Sep, Salman Ahmed wrote about Re: shutting down X Salman == Salman Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Salman Ok. I'll also check RedHat-5.2 to see what /dev/console points Salman to under there. Then I'll try symlinking it to /dev/tty1 and Salman see if that solves my

hd to hd copy?

1999-09-26 Thread tf
hey guys, I might put in a 6 gig drive in place of the 1.6 gig drive I'm using now. My current installation works fine (its me thats broken!). is there a way that I can copy this hd to the new one? I only have a swap and a root partition on this drive, and will probably want to partion the 6

Re: shutting down X

1999-09-26 Thread Salman Ahmed
Brian == Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian I don't know which kernel RH 5.2 was based on, was it 2.0.x or Brian 2.2.x? Apparently the console device was not around in the Brian 2.0.x days, which Debian 2.1 is based on, so a symlink was used Brian then. In 2.2.x

Re: Kernel options

1999-09-26 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Fish Smith wrote: Please send replies directly to me, as I am not subscribed to the list. It's considered more polite to ask for CCs to you, instead of [implicitly] asking for replies to go only to you. Since the question is on topic for

Re: Kernel options

1999-09-26 Thread Gregory T. Norris
If it's either a Debian-supplied kernel, or one in which make-kpkg was used to create an installable debfile, you will find it's config-file in /boot/config-VERSION. On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 02:02:50PM -0700, Fish Smith wrote: Please send replies directly to me, as I am not subscribed to the

Getting Alt key to work in X with Win keyboard

1999-09-26 Thread debuser
I have a cheap keyboard which has a Windows key next to the Alt key. On the console, the Alt key works as expected, but in X, the Alt key doesn't work. Instead, the functionality of the Windows key and the Alt key seems to have been swapped (Windows key functions as the Meta key and Alt doesn't

Re: hd to hd copy?

1999-09-26 Thread Tom Pfeifer
The mini-HOWTO for hard drive upgrades covers this pretty well. You can find it here: http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html Tom tf wrote: hey guys, I might put in a 6 gig drive in place of the 1.6 gig drive I'm using now. My current installation works fine (its

setting up and running proftpd

1999-09-26 Thread Jim Ruby
I installed proftpd the other day and well read the man page and visited the proftpd web site. Maybe I should get a new hat, but in there I found that I should have an ftp group etc. Ok, here is what I want: I have a 5 gb partition set a side for ftp space, so I would mound /dev/hdc2 /ftp Now I

Re: hd to hd copy?

1999-09-26 Thread Eric G . Miller
There's been some discussion recently of how to move partitions around. You might search the archives. A fresh install is not required! One of the biggest gotchas to moving around your partitions will be modifying your /etc/fstab and LILO so you can reboot properly. First, you'll want

beeps playing through pc speaker

1999-09-26 Thread Jim Ruby
Hi, I would like to have all sounds play through my sound card. example, a very basic one, when you hit the backspace key at a shell prompt and the system beeps through the pc speaker, how can I get that to go to the sound card instead of the pc speaker? I have wavp installed and am able to play

Ip Accounting ...

1999-09-26 Thread Alexandre ARNOUD
Hi, I want to know how to set rules for ip accounting with kernel 2.2.12 with ip firewalling enabled ... and monitor what come inside from my lan computers and outside eth0 whithout looking at the lan trafic on eth1 . and statistics on each computers TIA Alexandre Arnoud

Re: Drifting /dev/ttyS3 IRQ

1999-09-26 Thread Kristopher Johnson
Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: Hi, /dev/ttyS3 is my modem. The hardware is jumpered for IRQ 5. I added the following line to setserial: ${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/ttyS3 irq 5 port 0x2E8 skip_test autoconfig ${STD_FLAGS} The problem is the irq frequently reverts to 3. This happens after

Re: Getting Alt key to work in X with Win keyboard

1999-09-26 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 26 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a cheap keyboard which has a Windows key next to the Alt key. On the console, the Alt key works as expected, but in X, the Alt key doesn't work. Instead, the functionality of the Windows key and the Alt

Re: Remote Login

1999-09-26 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 11:01:43AM -0700, j way wrote: Hi, again. I tried the suggestions provided( tnx) but without change. My login looks like this at the remote terminal: Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Struggles ttyS1 Struggles login: jway Password: (keyed in) (time passes.) Login timed out