hookup to isp

1999-12-25 Thread softguy
i use pon to make a connection and after that i find i can't ping ip numbers (the output say "network unreachable" but i'm sure it is reachable.) during startup, Debian says that it can't find /usr/sbin/inetd. is this the problem? i use Debian 2.0 pls reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] because i'll leave

Undeletable File Causing Massive Headaches

1999-12-25 Thread Eliot Landrum
Hello! First, please let me put a note that I am not subscribed to this list. Please CC all responses to my address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Thanks! This one file is causing me terrible grief and I need to get it fixed. The file is /lib/libext2fs.so.2.4 and the permissions are as follows: p---rw--w-

Why does timidity depend on ALSA?

1999-12-25 Thread John Dalbec
I'm using OSS/Free sound modules. When I try to remove alsa-base, apt wants to remove timidity also. Why is this? John

cluster

1999-12-25 Thread luis
hello are there some network (switch and cards) that have low latency times (perhaps of the order of 20-30 microseconds), but that were not so expensive ? it is intended for a modest, experimental and no numerous athlon cluster i have tried with a 10 mbps hub and 2 k7-550 cluster, but the results

ADDS 1010 terminal installation in Debian 2.1

1999-12-25 Thread John Kerr Anderson
I am trying to connect a terminal to my PC running Debian 2.1. I added the following line to my /etc/inittab file: My terminal is in the Adds viewpoint 3a+ personality, set for FDX, set for 9600 baud, connected to the PC using a standard modem cable. After I added the line in /etc/inittab I sa

superformat: get drive parameter: argument invalid

1999-12-25 Thread Georg Colle
Hi, Drive specifications (i. e. /dev/fd0) as suggested in the examples of "superformat" manual page don't work. Message returned: "get drive parameter: Das Argument ist ungültig" (argument invalid). If I take /floppy, a or a: as drive specification, I get "open: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefund

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1999-12-25 Thread Ulrich Zehner
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Re: Opera Beta for Linux Released!

1999-12-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, December 24, 1999, 2:46:12 PM, Marcin wrote: > Try links. > links - lynx-like alternative character mode WWW browser Thanks, looks decent. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboa

Re: How to setup USR 56k Faxmodem?

1999-12-25 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
>Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; >X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: "Thirunathan Sutharsan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >How can I get my US Robotics 56k faxmodem to work with Debian 2.1? Please >provide me with the steps I need to follow. Thanks. > I have bought a US Robotics 56k faxmo

Re: lyx: Can not use AMS math.

1999-12-25 Thread Shaul Karl
I was able to open the yours attached unbenannt.lyx file with no problem. Yet when I tried to "View DVI" it I was getting a window saying that saying that \mathfrak, \mathbb and \mathds are allowed only in math mode. The alpha was not bold as well as it is in math mode. I then deleted every thin

Re: vga=ask in lilo.conf

1999-12-25 Thread Andy Thomas
Hi, It's when it gets to "Invoking SVGATextMode..." on bootup that it switches back to 80x25. Is "svgatextmode" some sort of driver I should unload in order to get this to "stick?" Thanks Andy

Re: GnuPG stands for ...?

1999-12-25 Thread Lyno Sullivan
At 09:23 AM 12/25/99 -0800, Fish Smith wrote: >Okay, if PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy, does that >mean GnuPG stands for GNU Pretty Good?  I don't know >how this title conveys encryption... My guess is that the full name is recursive AND a palindrome.  GnuPGPunG, folded back over itself (in t

Re: debian install and multiple partitions

1999-12-25 Thread Lyno Sullivan
At 11:19 PM 12/24/99 -0700, Howard Mann wrote: >Matt Garman wrote: >> Now I want to split up Linux into many partitions,... >I used cfdisk... Here are some things I remember. You will need to figure out beforehand if you want to leave room for more than one operating system on your disk.  IMHO,

unrouteable mail domain

1999-12-25 Thread Johann Spies
I hope you all have a blessed Christmas weekend. I get this error sometimes - and there is no pattern that I can discover because sometimes mail to the same address sometimes go through without a problem. This time the mail was sent by a python program to two addresses and to myself. The mail to

Re: GnuPG stands for ...?

1999-12-25 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
On Sat, Dec 25, 1999 at 09:23:20AM -0800, Fish Smith wrote: > Okay, if PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy, does that > mean GnuPG stands for GNU Pretty Good? I don't know > how this title conveys encryption... Gnu Privacy Guard. -- Weaselhttp://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~pp

GnuPG stands for ...?

1999-12-25 Thread Fish Smith
Okay, if PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy, does that mean GnuPG stands for GNU Pretty Good? I don't know how this title conveys encryption... Tschus, = Fish of Borg Visit me on the web! http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Frontier/4874/stccg.html ///Archaeologists near mount Sinai ha

Re: kernel 2.2 -- no sound?

1999-12-25 Thread Carl Fink
Gregory T. Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You need to select "OSS sound modules" first, then the SB16 stuff will > show up. You're kidding. How on Earth is someone supposed to know that, except by asking you folks? SoundBlaster support wasn't in OSS in 2.0.x. Thank you very much. -- Carl

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Re: PGP for Windows -> GnuPGP?

1999-12-25 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I don't have either of those entries, and I couldn't find them in mutt's manual.txt file. I'd guess that they were valid entries for some of the pre-1.0 releases, and the HOWTO is just slightly out of date. Cheers! On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 04:05:43PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: > Actually, I fo

Cant install debconf in potato

1999-12-25 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I'm not suceding to install debconf in potato (i386). I suspect that is something related with perl. My perl packages installed are: s390:/home/baptista# dpkg -l | grep perl rc libnet-perl 1.0606-3 Implementation of Internet protocols for Per ii perl-5.004-base 5.004

Re: Bad points for debian (was: resetting dpkg)

1999-12-25 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Fri, 24 Dec, 1999 à 05:39:32PM +0100, Egbert Bouwman wrote: > In this discussion it may be helpful to summarize my view on dselect-dpkg: > > - the underlying mechanism seems to be very good (I do agree with everybody) > - the user interface could be better > - as a coherent tutorial the documen

Re: apt-move

1999-12-25 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > Try running with the "get" or "getlocal" option first. This should > download/copy the required master file(s). > > On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 10:29:20PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > > > I can't get apt-move to co-operate. > > > > elm:# apt-move

Re: debian install and multiple partitions

1999-12-25 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Howard Mann wrote: > Matt Garman wrote: > > Now I want to split up Linux into many partitions, i.e. put /usr/ on one > > partition, /home/ on another, etc. I want to do this for ease of > > backups and some security benefits. > > I did this successfully. I used cfdisk and spe

Re: lyx: Can not use AMS math.

1999-12-25 Thread Herbert
> Although I have activated the radio button of AMS math at the Layout->Document > menu I can not been able to follow what the UserGuide.lyx suggets. > In particular, both \mathfrak{g} and \mathbb{R} give an error message. > \boldsymbol{\alpha}, which does not seem to require the AMS extentions is

Re: fatal error with mouse when trying to start x

1999-12-25 Thread d00d
Make sure you have the '/dev/mouse' file. If not, create it and link it to '/dev/psaux' file. TroPeek - Original Message - From: Joseph de los Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, December 24, 1999 5:28 PM Subject: fatal error with mouse when trying to start x > Hello, after I c

Re: PGP for Windows -> GnuPGP?

1999-12-25 Thread David J. Kanter
Actually, I found a great HOWTO on integrating GnuPGP with Mutt that helped me with everything. It's at: http://www.linux.com/howto/Mutt-GnuPG-PGP-HOWTO.html I'm curious though: did you set anything for the pubring or secring? THe howto says to: set pgp_gpg_pubring=~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg set pgp_g

Re: Opera Beta for Linux Released!

1999-12-25 Thread Brian May
> "Matt" == Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matt> And there's another text-mode web browser called w3m, which Matt> somewhat supports frames and tables. There is also w3, for (x)emacs, with similar claims. Its rendering doesn't seem very robust right now (often text appears i

Re: MTA and debian default mta

1999-12-25 Thread Brian May
> "Matt" == Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matt> And why did they choose exim over others (such as postfix)? I don't think postfix was available at the time the decision was made. I seem to remember that there were rather heated debates in debian-devel over the default choice of

Re: debian install and multiple partitions

1999-12-25 Thread Howard Mann
Matt Garman wrote: > > Hello: > > It's been quite a while since I've installed Debian. Last time I did an > install, it was by putting the whole system on one partition. > > Now I want to split up Linux into many partitions, i.e. put /usr/ on one > partition, /home/ on another, etc. I want to

debian install and multiple partitions

1999-12-25 Thread Matt Garman
Hello: It's been quite a while since I've installed Debian. Last time I did an install, it was by putting the whole system on one partition. Now I want to split up Linux into many partitions, i.e. put /usr/ on one partition, /home/ on another, etc. I want to do this for ease of backups and som

Re: Bad points for debian (was: resetting dpkg)

1999-12-25 Thread Matt Garman
On Sat, Dec 25, 1999 at 01:56:31AM +, Mark Brown wrote: > > I've got another question about dselect. It seems like when I go in there > > and choose some more packages to "install," then tell it to install, it > > gives some kind of error about /cdrom being mounted. I have to exit > > dselect

Re: Opera Beta for Linux Released!

1999-12-25 Thread Matt Garman
On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 05:46:12PM -0500, Marcin Kurc wrote: > > pages Opera is just barely 2nd to IE and NS. Also in the development of the > > Linux version they developed a console version which can actually render > > pages > > with frames/tables intelligently. Something that Lynx, after yea

Re: MTA and debian default mta

1999-12-25 Thread Matt Garman
Just out of curiosity, why did Debian choose exim as its default MTA? I remember Debian's default MTA used to be smail. Why did they move away from smail? And why did they choose exim over others (such as postfix)? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "And through the window in the

Re: aha1542 kernel panics

1999-12-25 Thread Michael W. Shaffer
Peter Ludwig wrote: > I myself have an Adaptec 1542CF and I have started to receive > problematic errors with the card. After seeing this message, I'm > tempted to get another card from somewhere and try that out. > > I have looked at adaptec's website in regards to this card (about a year > ago

Re: MTA

1999-12-25 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 01:42:27PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > Hi! > > I'll be moving and will lose my direct Internet connection, and will have to > resort to dial-up. To prepare for this, I am switching over to doing mail > and news offline (slrnpull, fetchmail), but I need some ideas on what

Re: HTML WYSIWYG creator

1999-12-25 Thread Art Lemasters
...correction. That might only come with the whole Communicator package (instead of just Netscape). _Art On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 07:56:58PM -0700, Art Lemasters wrote: > Composer (an HTML editor) is WYSIWYG, and it comes with Netsca

Re: kernel 2.2 -- no sound?

1999-12-25 Thread Gregory T. Norris
You need to select "OSS sound modules" first, then the SB16 stuff will show up. On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 10:42:17PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > I finally broke down and decided to compile a 2.2.13 kernel despite > the fact that my 2.0.36 kernel continues to work perfectly. > > Well, 2.2.13 worked ok

kernel 2.2 -- no sound?

1999-12-25 Thread Carl Fink
I finally broke down and decided to compile a 2.2.13 kernel despite the fact that my 2.0.36 kernel continues to work perfectly. Well, 2.2.13 worked okay, except: I can't install my SoundBlaster 16. When I select sound support in "make menuconfig" it prompts me only for *other* sound cards (Ensoni

Re: Bad points for debian (was: resetting dpkg)

1999-12-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 03:33:59PM -0800, Andy Thomas wrote: > I've got another question about dselect. It seems like when I go in there > and choose some more packages to "install," then tell it to install, it > gives some kind of error about /cdrom being mounted. I have to exit > dselect, umou

Microsoft IntelliMouse IntelliEye

1999-12-25 Thread Brian May
Hello, Somebody I know has a Microsoft IntelliMouse, with optical sensor. It uses version 3.0 of Intellipoint mouse drivers under Windows. Is it possible to get this mouse to work with X and/or GPM? So far nothing I have tried seems to work. I have searched the archives for this mailing list,

Re: HTML WYSIWYG creator

1999-12-25 Thread Art Lemasters
Composer (an HTML editor) is WYSIWYG, and it comes with Netscape for Linux. Art On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 09:07:16PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Is there any HTML WYSIWYG creator for Xwindows under Linux, or something > similar? > I would like to be able to create web pages w/o needing t

Re: aha1542 kernel panics

1999-12-25 Thread Peter Ludwig
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Michael W. Shaffer wrote: > I have been trying to solve this problem without success for about a year > now. > > My hardware is: > My problem is: > > After the system has been up for a random length of time (usually about a > week or so) it will crash in the middle of the

Re: Kernel Panics

1999-12-25 Thread Peter Ludwig
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, aphro wrote: > Does it always happen when you run iptraf? it could be a network driver > problem or a network card hardware problem. Nope... The machine can just be sitting there lying "idle" (as idle as a linux box should get that is...) > a good way to test the board/cpu/

Re: apt-cache dumpavail > /tmp/apt-chace; dpkg --update-avail /tmp/apt-chace;

1999-12-25 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Shaul Karl wrote: > I want to avoid the need to run update from within dselect after apt-get > dist-upgrade by writing the lines > > Post-Invoke { > "apt-cache dumpavail > /tmp/apt-chace"; > "dpkg --update-avail /tmp/apt-cache"; >

Re: HTML WYSIWYG creator

1999-12-25 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Xfree I suppose, the one with debian slink Marcin Kurc wrote: > First of all it is XF86, or XFree, or X. Xwindows is some kind of software > for Win NT :) > > For html editor search at tucows.com, freshmeat.net, linuxapps.com, I just > don't remember names > > On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 09:07:16P

Re: HTML WYSIWYG creator

1999-12-25 Thread Marcin Kurc
First of all it is XF86, or XFree, or X. Xwindows is some kind of software for Win NT :) For html editor search at tucows.com, freshmeat.net, linuxapps.com, I just don't remember names On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 09:07:16PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Is there any HTML WYSIWYG creator for Xw

Re: I thought KDE wasn't included because of QT?!?

1999-12-25 Thread Joey Hess
J.H.M. Dassen Ray" wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 14:00:56 -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > > The KDE folks had/have no exception and thus were/are violating the GPL. > > Only if they're reusing other people's GPLed code, which reportedly they > don't. > > Remember, an author isn't bound by the co

HTML WYSIWYG creator

1999-12-25 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Is there any HTML WYSIWYG creator for Xwindows under Linux, or something similar? I would like to be able to create web pages w/o needing to learn html. Thanks, Antonio.

Unidentified subject!

1999-12-25 Thread HITMAN
Hello Dear DEBIAN team, i want to ask you from where i can download your ISO file [the newest ver. of DEBIAN linux] :))) Best regards, Hitman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt-cache dumpavail > /tmp/apt-chace; dpkg --update-avail /tmp/apt-chace;

1999-12-25 Thread Shaul Karl
I want to avoid the need to run update from within dselect after apt-get dist-upgrade by writing the lines Post-Invoke { "apt-cache dumpavail > /tmp/apt-chace"; "dpkg --update-avail /tmp/apt-cache"; "rm -v /tmp/apt-chace";

CHAP problem

1999-12-25 Thread Yunsheng Zheng
Hi guys,   I am new to Debian and I'm trying to set up a PPP connection to my ISP, which is MSN. I used pon to dial and I have problem. It seems CHAP was not authenticated by the server. Thanks in advance for any hints and suggestions.   The following is my chap-secrets: # Secrets for authen