Re: modules.conf

2000-01-14 Thread Manel Marin
Hola a todos, On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 08:08:04AM -, Miguel A. Abarca wrote: ¿De qué manera se pueden añadir opciones al fichero modules.conf? Es decir, yo quiero indicar en ese fichero las opciones de configuración de mi tarjeta de sonido, por ejemplo la irq, io, etc, si las pongo

Modulos que no se cargan e isapnptools

2000-01-14 Thread Manel Marin
Hola a todos, Tengo un problemin con al AWE32 PNP de mi cuñao... (otro debianero más ;-) Bueno el caso es que modprobe modulo carga el modulo y funciona bien, con lo que queda claro que la deficicion del modulo en /etc/modutils es buena pero la carga automatica no va desde que instaló las isapnp

RE: Imagen tapiz 2

2000-01-14 Thread larochah
Para hacer que la imagen ocupe toda la pantalla se puede usar xv -quit -root -max imagen o xv -quit -root -maxp imagen #(No la deforma) Además xv tienes otras muchas opciones de linea de comandos. Saludos, Luis Arocha data Islas Canarias Spain - Sent using MailStart.com (

Re: Offtopic: direcciones IP privadas

2000-01-14 Thread Pookie
Angel Vicente Perez wrote: Hola todos. Hasta ahora pensaba que las direcciones IP privadas, estaban en el rango 192.168.1.x, o 10.0.0.x, pero tambien he visto 192.168.0.x. ¿Son los dos rangos direcciones privadas, o estoy equivocado? Saludos. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe

ftpmail

2000-01-14 Thread Fernando
Hola: Alguien sabe si existe en Linux (o mejor en Debian) aquel viejo programa ftpmail (cliente-servidor) que permitía mandar comandos de ftp a traves del correo. -- Fernando. {:-{D Hackers do it with fewer instructions.

Re: Imagen tapiz 3

2000-01-14 Thread Tomás Bautista
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 10:18:58PM +0100, Emilio Hernández Martín wrote: HOLA Hola... YO UTILIZO EL 'XDM', EN EL QUE ME ARRANCA LINUX POR DEFECTO, PERO NO TENGO NINGÚN FICHERO $HOME/.xsession. HE MIRADO LA AYUDA DE Xsession Y CREO QUE DICE QUE SÍ QUE DEBERÍA EXISTIR ESTE ARCHIVO,

Re: Imagen tapiz 3

2000-01-14 Thread Fernando
exec xsnow -delay 333 /dev/null fi # And here, our Window Manager ctwm -W ;; esac exit 0 Como puedes ver, las aplicaciones se ejecutan en background y, después de haberlas lanzado todas, se ejecuta el gestor de ventanas en *foreground*. Lo que tendrás que

Re: Modulos que no se cargan e isapnptools

2000-01-14 Thread Agustín Martín Domingo
Manel Marin wrote: Hola a todos, Tengo un problemin con al AWE32 PNP de mi cuñao... (otro debianero más ;-) Bueno el caso es que modprobe modulo carga el modulo y funciona bien, con lo que queda claro que la deficicion del modulo en /etc/modutils es buena pero la carga automatica no va

Re: Más sonido.

2000-01-14 Thread Agustín Martín Domingo
Emilio Hernández Martín wrote: También me dijeron que ejecutase: cat /dev/sndstat pero no me sale nada porque ese fichero no existe. O, al menos, yo no lo tengo. ¿Qué kernel tienes?. En mi máquina, con una soundblaster 16 pnp: $ cat /dev/sndstat OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130 Load type: Driver

RE: CD completo

2000-01-14 Thread jet
Hoolas!!! lo del CD autoarrancable con filesystem se puede hacer. SuSE saco uno q venia en Linuxactual!!! El Torito es donde se especifica como tiene q ser. - Original Message - From: Raul Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, January 08,

Re: dselect en citius-slink no funciona con kernel 2.2.X ¿solucion?

2000-01-14 Thread Alberto F. Hamilton Castro
El Thu,13/Jan/2000 a las 21:56:42+0100, Manel Marin escribió: Hola a todos, Ya me he cansado de hacerme el macho y cargar paquetes a pelo con el mc ;-) Si arranco con un kernel 2.2.X no me funciona el dselect, bueno puedo seleccionar el paquete y al darle al [I]nstalar y tras confirmar el

Administracion de usuarios...

2000-01-14 Thread Saxa Egea
Busco una herramienta de administracion de usuarios en modo texto... Ya. Puedo usar el vi.. pero la verdad es q es bastante incomodo. He estado buscando y no he encontrado nada q sea digno de merecer. Alguna idea?? Gracias Saxa

Re: [Off topic: direcciones IP privadas] Tabla de rangos

2000-01-14 Thread Ivan Andres Hernandez Puga
Estimado Angel: Espero que te sirva: class range of first octet network rest possible addresses A 1 - 126 p q.r.s16777214 B 128 - 191 p.q r.s65534 C 192 - 223 p.q.r s254 las

Re: Imagen tapiz 2

2000-01-14 Thread Enzo A. Dari
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Para hacer que la imagen ocupe toda la pantalla se puede usar xv -quit -root -max imagen o xv -quit -root -maxp imagen #(No la deforma) ... Los comandos equivalentes usando display y convert (del paquete imagemagick) son: display -geometry

Servicios e información gratis en Brasil.

2000-01-14 Thread Nexobrasil.com
WWW.NEXOBRASIL.COM primer portal corporativo de Brasil para América Latina - visite www.nexobrasil.com y conviértalo en su herramienta. * Noticias corporativas sobre Brasil, on line y en español. *

Solucionado Sonido. ¿Programa para escuchar MP3?

2000-01-14 Thread Emilio Hernández Martín
Hola. Muchísimas gracias a todos por vuestra ayuda y vuestra paciencia. Después de muchos intentos y muchas recompilaciones del kernel, al fin he conseguido dar con el fallo gracias a Agustín Martín Domingo que me dijo que si mi tarjeta era PCI, seguramente sería una SoundBlaster64PCI de

RE: ¿Como instalar múltiples paquetes?

2000-01-14 Thread Ricardo Villalba
-Mensaje original- De: IJAS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Usuarios-Debian-Español debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Fecha: sábado 8 de enero de 2000 23:43 Asunto: ¿Como instalar múltiples paquetes? Hola Con la instalación del Kde que venia en el cdrom de una revista me ha surgido la

kdenetwork

2000-01-14 Thread Ricardo Villalba
Veamos, si a mi tan solo me interesa el kmail ¿porqué diablos tengo que instalarme todo el kdenetwork que en la versión para el kde 1.1.2 ya ocupa más de 8 megas? ¿No sería mejor hacer paquetes independientes con los programas que actualmente van el kdenetwork? Además creo que en la debian cada

Re: kdenetwork

2000-01-14 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
At 05:49 p.m. 2000-01-14 +0100, Ricardo Villalba wrote: Veamos, si a mi tan solo me interesa el kmail ¿porqué diablos tengo que instalarme todo el kdenetwork que en la versión para el kde 1.1.2 ya ocupa más de 8 megas? Pos ni idea... ¿No sería mejor hacer paquetes independientes con los programas

Re: apt-get

2000-01-14 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
luis writes: Hola: ¿Puede alguien decirme que direcciones utiliza para actualizarse a traves de apt-get? Las mías (sólo incluye cosas para slink): # Non-US deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US dists/stable/non-US/binary-i386/ # Stable deb

Me gustaria instalar potatoe pero mi conexion es muy lenta ...

2000-01-14 Thread jet
Holas!!! Me gustaria instalar potatoe pero mi conexion es muy lenta!!! Alguien me puede mandar un cd actualizado de potatoe o decirme ande lo puedo pillar en españa, pagaria todos los gasto gracias!!! Si hay alguien de Vitoria q me lo puede conseguir mejor, quedariamos rn algun sitio. GRACIAS

Re: Melhor forma de desligar

2000-01-14 Thread Andre Leao Macedo
Olá para todos, Não achei que ia dar tanto movimento na lista...:))) Bem obrigado a todos que responderam. É claro que eu poderia fazer muitas coisas da maneira mais fácil, tipo simplesmente dar chmod no /sbin/halt, mas eu uso linux principalmente

Fontes no console

2000-01-14 Thread Andre Leao Macedo
Olá, Eu não sei porque, mas as mensagens que eu estou recebendo estão todas vindo com o caracter '?' no lugar de acentos e c-cedilha. Eu uso o mutt. Alguém tem idéia se isso é configuração do sistema ou do mutt? Obrigado André Leão Macedo --

Re: Fontes no console

2000-01-14 Thread Lalo Martins
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 10:38:54PM -0200, Andre Leao Macedo wrote: Olá, Eu não sei porque, mas as mensagens que eu estou recebendo estão todas vindo com o caracter '?' no lugar de acentos e c-cedilha. Eu uso o mutt. Alguém tem idéia se isso é configuração do sistema ou do

Re: Melhor forma de desligar

2000-01-14 Thread Lalo Martins
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 10:38:43PM -0200, Andre Leao Macedo wrote: O que eu estou pensando agora é criar ou um script do bash ou do perl mesmo que seja executado no logon e quando o X for terminado. Alguma coisa do tipo: 1. Iniciar modo gráfico 2. Conectar Internet

Re: Melhor forma de desligar

2000-01-14 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Andre Leao Macedo wrote: Ter colocado o startx no .bash_profile foi, digamos, porco. Mas exatamente por isso que eu mandei a mensagem para a lista. já que você colocou o startx no .bash_profile, acho que se você colocar um shutdown logo abaixo ele vai ser executado

Re: Melhor forma de desligar

2000-01-14 Thread Hélio Alexandre Lopes Loureiro
Ah, quanto ao CTRL+ALT+DEL existe um problema: ele não manda KILL para os processos e não dá unmount nos fs, o que faz com que o sistema sempre execute o fsck qdo o sistema é reiniciado (o que é um pé no saco). Isto não é verdade. O Ctrl+Alt+Del faz com que o sistema mude para a

Re: Kernel error?

2000-01-14 Thread aphro
i think your best off submitting that to the linux-kernel mailing list, best chances of success there.. nate On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, [ISO-8859-1] Nils-Erik Svang?rd wrote: nisse Unable to handle kernel pageing request at virtual address e2092040 nisse Printing eip: nisse c0127339 nisse *pde =

Help: smail not sending outgoing mail

2000-01-14 Thread Marie Stutz
I'm having trouble sending mail with smail (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2) from my Debian (potato) system. I can receive mail, and can send to local users, but mail to anywhere else just goes to a temporary file in /var/spool/smail/input/. Empty files with the same name as the above temp files

Re: rsh access

2000-01-14 Thread Brian May
Paul == Paul McAvoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Don't know too much about rsh, but you would probably be Paul better off with SSH as it is (more) secure and offers the Paul same functionality. plug ... or the Kerberos version of rsh (eg in heimdal-clients in potato) ... (or, use

X-Console Scrambles 'box' characters

2000-01-14 Thread markm
Hi, I am stumped... I have two machines: 1) SVGA: chipset: cyberblade, and 2) S3Virge. On machine 1, when I switch from X to console, all of the 'box' characters are corrupted. (I am refering to the pretty outline characters that you get after typing: make menuconfig or the arrows that occur

Re: wine_0.0.991212-1_i386.deb broken

2000-01-14 Thread Martin Bishop
Darxus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Martin Bishop wrote: They don't keep old versions around. If you install your packages via apt-get, it leaves the installed packages in /var/cache/apt/archives. Check there first. There's a command apt-get autoclean that deletes

Re: wine_0.0.991212-1_i386.deb broken

2000-01-14 Thread Darxus
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Martin Bishop wrote: Darxus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Martin Bishop wrote: They don't keep old versions around. If you install your packages via apt-get, it leaves the installed packages in /var/cache/apt/archives. Check there first.

uucp/rmail -- urgently need help!

2000-01-14 Thread Seth R Arnold
Ok lists, I desperatly need your help. I have been tasked with moving the company's email from a modem-based uucp to a tcp/ip based uucp. We will make the firewall our mx, and I have sendmail installed on it. uucp can copy files (over tcp/ip) between speedy (an SCO 5.0.5, running sco's

installation bug ?

2000-01-14 Thread Casper Doppen
Hi, I tried to install Slink 2.1_r4, but got a problem. I'm installing from CD (which I made from the iso-images). The file /install/install.en.txt tells me I have to run /boot/boot.bat, but there is no boot.bat in /boot, so I used /install/boot.bat. I am starting with a msdos-disk with an

Re: Help! - DEC Alpha install

2000-01-14 Thread Dave Wiard
Warning: Unable to open initial console /dev/console Kernel Panic: cannot open initial console /dev/console And then she sinks. The boot command I have been using is as follows: MILO boot fd0:linux root=/dev/fd0 panic=30 This is the rescue floppy? IIRC, you need: boot

Re: JDK says can't open /proc/xxxxx

2000-01-14 Thread Mike Werner
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 02:02:36PM -0800, aphro wrote: sounds like the JDK bug with newer kernels, see the linux-kernel mailing list or the archives of this list, the solution is usually downgrade the kernel or upgrade your JDK. this bug only affects older JDK with newer kernels, JDK tries

IP without host

2000-01-14 Thread Dave Wiard
is there any way i can set up my machine to use IP but NOT go looking for a host, anywhere? i have 2 machines completely isolated and i'd like to let them talk (ipx would be fine also, but i can't seem to get that compiled in correctly). i've got an AMD (nt, right now) and an sx164. the sx uses

Re: Weird ash/sash behavior

2000-01-14 Thread H Huang
Joey Hess writes: produces one directory under test: test/{usr,bin} Note that /bin/sash also has the same problem, while /bin/bash, /bin/tcsh, and /usr/bin/ksh do not. Any comment? Yes. {foo,bar} is a bashism. Do not expect any shell except bash to expand it. But how can you

nfsd times out

2000-01-14 Thread Robert L. Harris
I just did an apt-get install nfs-server on my slink box. The only thing in my /etc/exports is /mnt/mirror. When I do an /etc/init.d/nfs-server start I get: {0}:wally:/root/etc/init.d/nfs-server start Starting NFS servers:Cannot register service: RPC: Timed out nfs is compiled into the

Window Maker 0.61.0

2000-01-14 Thread Smirks
Hi guys, I installed slink yesterday from a CD, and seem to be having a little problem with window maker. I downloaded and compiled the latest version, and when I run the WPrefs application it craps out when you click on the misc. options buttion with the error: ./WPrefs: error in loading

Problem with xdoom

2000-01-14 Thread Rajesh Radhakrishnan
Hi, I downloaded doom from cnet and I get the foll error message when I run it, DOOM System Startup v1.8 V_Init: allocate screens. M_LoadDefaults: Load system defaults. Z_Init: Init zone memory allocation daemon. W_Init: Init WADfiles.

Re: ICE-WM middle mouse task list + gnome

2000-01-14 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 04:51:29PM +0200, Neilen Marais wrote: Good day all I am running a fairly recent potato, with Gnome and IceWM. When I updated, the task list that the middle mouse button on the root window used to bring up stopped appearing. This seems to have something to do with

Re: Problem with xdoom

2000-01-14 Thread aphro
make sure your X server is in 8 bit color, 16 24 and 32 is not supported apparently by xdoom. nate On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Rajesh Radhakrishnan wrote: rradha Hi, rradha rradha I downloaded doom from cnet and I get the foll error rradha message when I run it, rradha DOOM

Re: IP without host

2000-01-14 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Dave Wiard wrote: is there any way i can set up my machine to use IP but NOT go looking for a host, anywhere? i have 2 machines completely isolated and i'd like to let them talk (ipx would be fine also, but i can't seem to get that compiled in correctly). i've got an

printing from Windows to Linux printer

2000-01-14 Thread fairfax
I am trying to print from Windows to a printer connected to a Linux machine. What I have discovered, is that unless the spool directory has permissions 777, Windows cannot print to the Linux machine. However, if I set the directory permissions to 777, it reverts back to 700 after I reboot.

Re: Weird ash/sash behavior

2000-01-14 Thread Eric G . Miller
I can't reproduce your results here. With both '#!/bin/ash' and '#! /bin/ash' I get 'test/{foo,bar}' as a directory. I'll guess that on your system, the space causes the #! to be ignored and the script run by your current shell (presumably bash). Try changing your shell to ash and rerunning

Jaz Drive on Parallel Port

2000-01-14 Thread Eric G . Miller
Anybody have experience using a Jaz drive on a parallel port. I don't have a SCSI card so it has to be ||-port. The Jaz HOWTO only talks about SCSI. I'm guessing I need SCSI support compiled, but not sure what else. Thanks in advance. -- ++

Re: ncurses-base obsolete, but essential

2000-01-14 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I did dpkg --purge --force-remove-essential ncurses-base. All seems to be well! On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 12:33:25PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: After a recent upgrade of potato packages, ncurses-base 4.2-3.4 shows up as obsolete (no longer listed in Packages). However it is tagged as essential

Re: Weird ash/sash behavior

2000-01-14 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I can't reproduce that behaviour here (potato with ash 0.3.5-9). On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 12:16:02PM -0800, H Huang wrote: I've been experimenting using /bin/ash as /bin/sh recently. No big problem so far. However, a couple of debian/rules failed to build. Further examination shows that:

Re: IP without host

2000-01-14 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... is there any way i can set up my machine to use IP but NOT go looking for a host, anywhere? i have 2 machines completely isolated and i'd like to let them talk (ipx would be fine also, but i can't seem to get that compiled in

Booting Linux and Win 98

2000-01-14 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, My dad got me a job at his work (I just need to install linux and win 98 on the same hard drive). I've done this on my computer, but I have to use a boot floppy to get into linux. My dad's company wants it so that you can choose which OS to start from a menu. Is their a way to do this?

Re: Booting Linux and Win 98

2000-01-14 Thread ktb
Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, My dad got me a job at his work (I just need to install linux and win 98 on the same hard drive). I've done this on my computer, but I have to use a boot floppy to get into linux. My dad's company wants it so that you can choose which OS to start from a

Re: Booting Linux and Win 98

2000-01-14 Thread Howard Mann
Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, My dad got me a job at his work (I just need to install linux and win 98 on the same hard drive). I've done this on my computer, but I have to use a boot floppy to get into linux. My dad's company wants it so that you can choose which OS to start from a

Re: Booting Linux and Win 98

2000-01-14 Thread Peter Ross
On 13-Jan-2000, Cameron Matheson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, My dad got me a job at his work (I just need to install linux and win 98 on the same hard drive). I've done this on my computer, but I have to use a boot floppy to get into linux. My dad's company wants it so that you can

Possible to run RH program from Deb. on same HD?

2000-01-14 Thread ktb
I have both Debian and Redhat on the same HD. I was wondering if it is possible to run programs that are on the Redhat side from Debian (while running Debian)? I've mounted the Redhat side and tried, but I get, /mnt/rh/usr/local/sbin# /mnt/rh/usr/local/sbin/c bash: /mnt/rh/usr/local/sbin/c:

Re: How to install new Window manager

2000-01-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On 13/1/2000 John Pearson wrote: When your .xsession terminates, so does your session. The last program you start in your .xsession should *not* be put in the background like that, or you will exit before your WM has time to start. oops your right, I usually start xscreensaver and use the

IO-redirection seems to be not working

2000-01-14 Thread matthschulz
I'm trying to setup a connection of an multimeter to ttyS0. It gives a steady stream of lines to the port. (CONRAD VC96 for whom who knows) When I use minicom for this, it works fine. The input is written on the sceen, can be saved and so on. I can leave minicom with ^A^Q and then cat /dev/ttyS0

FW: chat rooms for vampire

2000-01-14 Thread Adam Bronnenkant
-Original Message-From: Adam Bronnenkant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 9:05 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: FW: chat rooms for vampire -Original Message-From: Adam Bronnenkant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 8:54 PMTo:

Re: Booting Linux and Win 98

2000-01-14 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, Thanks for the help with booting Win98 and Linux everyone. When my dad brings the computer home tommorrow, this should be pretty easy. Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Re: Weird ash/sash behavior

2000-01-14 Thread H Huang
Joey Hess writes: But how can you explain -- #! /bin/ash mkdir -p test/{foo,bar} -- does expand the {foo,bar}, while It doesn't here. Sorry. It doesn't here either. But try: -

Re: wireless suggestions

2000-01-14 Thread Nate Duehr
Alberto, What do you use on the head end of the system? Is there an inexpensive base station for the WaveLAN products? Thanks for your time! On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 08:50:17AM -0600, Alberto Brealey G. wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 09:45:04PM -0600, Aaron Solochek wrote: A friend and I

ethernet config

2000-01-14 Thread Suresh Kumar.R
Hi Once the debian base system is installed how to config the ethernet card?. I used to call something like netcfg in redhat. I am new to debian and dont know the equivalent in debain Thank you Suresh - Suresh Kumar.R

Is My copy bad?

2000-01-14 Thread Charles Gretton
Hi I just purchased a CD release of Debian GNU/Linux release 2.1. I have attempted to install it but failed. I got the impression that the CD I got was broken when the default directory for the kernel( /debian?) wasn't there( Although resc1440tecra.bin was in the /boot dir). And the file

Re: Booting Linux and Win 98

2000-01-14 Thread Kent West
Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, Thanks for the help with booting Win98 and Linux everyone. When my dad brings the computer home tommorrow, this should be pretty easy. Thanks, Cameron Matheson Alternatively (to the suggestions to multi-boot using LILO), you can also tweak CONFIG.SYS

Re: ethernet config

2000-01-14 Thread Jim B
You will need to use ifconfig to set up your network adapter. For example: ifconfig eth0 1.2.3.4 You also will also need to add routes depending on what kind of network environment you are in (is this machine a gateway, or does it use another machine as its gateway, etc.). Respond to the list

Re: Weird ash/sash behavior -- Solved

2000-01-14 Thread H Huang
Forget it! I put the space in the wrong place: # !/bin/sh, as opposed to #! /bin/sh. I'm really sorry :( Thanks. -- H Huang

Re: Help! - DEC Alpha install

2000-01-14 Thread Martin Lucina
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This is the rescue floppy? IIRC, you need: boot fd0:linux root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 You need to make the root.bin floppy also. I believe you are correct on this. You will need both floppies, and the MILO command here looks right, to

sb 16

2000-01-14 Thread Jianbo Wang
Hi, I have a soundblaster 16 card, when I choose soundblaster compatible module for it, the module is for soundblaster pro (8 bit only 3.01), not for soundblaster 16. My card chip is CT8920. In my message log, it said SB DSP version is just 3.01 which mean that your card is several years old.

Re: Hint: Finding packages with needed files

2000-01-14 Thread Dänzer
--- Howard Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a simple solution to that kind of problems. There's a file called Contents-i386.gz in the dists/your dist directory. It lists every single file with the package that contains it. So a 'zgrep file I need Contents-i386.gz' gives you the

Re: uucp/rmail -- urgently need help!

2000-01-14 Thread I. Forbes
Hello Seth On 13 Jan 00, at 15:36, Seth R Arnold wrote: uucp can copy files (over tcp/ip) between speedy (an SCO 5.0.5, running sco's honeydanber uucp) and scorch (a linux firewall, taylor uucp, sendmail 8.9.3, mostly a hand-rolled machine from before I met debian). I have a similar setup

Re: pppd trouble..

2000-01-14 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hello /AutoPPP/ -a_ppp /usr/sbin/pppd auth login debug crtscts modem ms-dns 208.222.179.31 lock proxyarp (my local ip):(remote ip assigned to modem) also, the system is not detecting when the line hangs up, i logged off 8 minutes ago and it still shows the connection, i suspect

Re: Hint: Finding packages with needed files

2000-01-14 Thread Bruce Sass
It is also searchable online: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages at the bottom of the page (Thanks, Jay). -- On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Michel Dänzer wrote: There's a simple solution to that kind of problems. There's a file called Contents-i386.gz in the dists/your dist directory.

KDE stuff under other desktops (and desktop recommendations)

2000-01-14 Thread Guyren G Howe
I want to get right into customising this thing (currently ranked as newbie). So I installed the Afterstep desktop instead of KDE. Kinda nice, in many ways. But I miss some of the nice little apps from my Corel KDE stuff. I've found that I can fire up the file browser by executing CorelExplorer.

Re: Possible to run RH program from Deb. on same HD?

2000-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ktb) wrote: I have both Debian and Redhat on the same HD. I was wondering if it is possible to run programs that are on the Redhat side from Debian (while running Debian)? I've mounted the Redhat side and tried, but I get, /mnt/rh/usr/local/sbin# /mnt/rh/usr/local/sbin/c

Re: ncurses-base obsolete, but essential

2000-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory T. Norris) wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 12:33:25PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: After a recent upgrade of potato packages, ncurses-base 4.2-3.4 shows up as obsolete (no longer listed in Packages). However it is tagged as essential which prevents dpkg from removing it

first time install

2000-01-14 Thread David Pilz
I am about to install linux for the first time, and am having a few problems: what are the symbolic links for? what do they do? They are not being downloaded to my computer when I download the packages. Do I need them? Also, the file sizes specified for the packages are relatively small - 3 Kb, 4

Re: Booting Linux and Win 98

2000-01-14 Thread John Gould
You need to set up Windoze in it's own partition first, leaving space for Linux. Then install Linux and use LILO to boot into Windoze. Do it the other way around and Windoze will write over the Linux boot mgr. Typical Microsoft crap! Regards JohnG

Re: Booting Linux and Win 98

2000-01-14 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Out of curiosity, what are the basic specs (processor, RAM etc.) of the machine where you are using VMware as you describe below? Tom Kent West wrote: And yet one more alternative: if you have the horsepower, get VMWARE and install Win98 on top of Linux. That way you never have to reboot

Re: Booting Linux and Win 98

2000-01-14 Thread Brian May
Kent == Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kent I've got my home computer set up this way, and my mom's Kent computer set up to multi-boot using LILO. They both have a Kent 2-choice menu; with the Windows method you can use the Kent up/down arrows to make the choice; with the

cfdisk

2000-01-14 Thread Nikos Voutsinas
Hello, I would like to create a new partition (logical, type 83) using cfdisk. I have done what ever I usually do but the last time I get a message saying something like "Wrote partition table, but re-read table failed. Reboot to update table" After that I can not mount the partition (even

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #79

2000-01-14 Thread Guyren G Howe
Title: Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #79 This does nothing. I execute chmod 700 .xsession, and nothing happens. I just get the command prompt back. Besides, shouldn't this tie into startx somehow? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: 13 Jan 2000 22:02:49

Defaults in /etcD/apt/sources.list, potato

2000-01-14 Thread Johan Ur Riise
I installed a fresh potato-system from 2 diskettes, files base2_2.tgz and drivers.tgz dated 2000-01-04. The rest pulled from the net. I noted: The documentation give you a choice to use only the rescue-diskette, but I think there is no root system on that diskette now. I had to use the

potato install-disks and package selection

2000-01-14 Thread Gerhard Kroder
do the potato boot-disks contain the base package selecion menue? i used the disks from before a week and did run in troubel with this. gerhard

Re: How to install new Window manager

2000-01-14 Thread Jim B
The correct way to install a new window manager is to use register-window-manager. register-window-manager --add /usr/local/bin/blah or register-window-manager --default /usr/local/bin/blah to make blah your default WM. Basically it just puts it in /etc/X11/window-managers . The first in the

Re: starting prefered window manager (was: Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #79)

2000-01-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On 14/1/2000 Guyren G Howe wrote: This does nothing. I execute chmod 700 .xsession, and nothing happens. I just get the command prompt back. chmod 700 changes the permissions on the .xsession file, it must be executable to work. Besides, shouldn't this tie into startx somehow? yes but

update-menus problem with potato

2000-01-14 Thread Gerhard Kroder
i've just setup a brandnew potato system (builtup from scratch as potato) an try to get x/windowmanagers runnig. i noticed that update-menus doesn't run throug correctly, but i can't find the problem. running on the new system shows: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gerdk more update-menus.log In file

Re: How to install new Window manager

2000-01-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On 14/1/2000 Jim B wrote: Basically it just puts it in /etc/X11/window-managers . The first in the list is the default. assuming you 1) have root and 2) want the change to be global rather then per user. Ethan

quick latex question

2000-01-14 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, How do I do this in Latex: Foo bar that is, I want flushright the bar word. I tried \begin{flushright} and it starts a new pagraph. I also tried \raggedright and it gives error, coz I am using this within a

Re: first time install

2000-01-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
Symbolic links are, you would never guess it: links, for example you can make a a symbolic link by: `ln -s /var/www/cgi-bin /usr/lib/cgi-bin` (if you now cd to /var/www/cgi-bin you find yourself in /usr/lib/cgi-bin). That about devel being 150MB is that devel is not just one package, but a

small lab

2000-01-14 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I need to set a small lab where one machine will be a server and 3 or 4 others clients. These clients will mount /home from server and I would like to have a central authentication. All machines already run potato. What's the better way to do this? Any suggestion is

Re: Is My Copy Bad?

2000-01-14 Thread Charles
Answering Jim's questions( thanks for helping): Yes I am trying to install Debian from a CDROM and booting from this. I am trying to install on a p-133, 32-meg 16xCDROM, IDE hard drive and CDROM boot enabled. The installer runs fine, I mount the root partition and so on. Then I get to the

Re: Adaptec AHA-2940

2000-01-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Glenn Remstedt wrote: hi there, my verry first time to boot up an Debian, with floppies ... Package: boot-floppies Version: ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/2.1.12-1999-12-09/ Architecture: i386 memory: 32Mb scsi: Adaptec AHA-2940/AHA-2940W During boot

Re: quick latex question

2000-01-14 Thread Armin Wegner
Foo \hfill bar \\

Re: QuickTime player for Debian?

2000-01-14 Thread Jens Guenther
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 11:38:05AM -0500, Joe Block wrote: It isn't Apple's to release docs on - they just license it from Sorenson Vision (www.s-vision.com) I asked Sorenson some time ago (after this subject was raised last time...) and they told me, that they have not the right to license it

Re: update-menus problem with potato

2000-01-14 Thread Sean Johnson
A quick fix is to remove (or move) the /usr/lib/menu/xbase-clients file ... as its format is evidently fscked. Sean Gerhard Kroder wrote: i've just setup a brandnew potato system (builtup from scratch as potato) an try to get x/windowmanagers runnig. i noticed that update-menus doesn't run

mgetty's autoPPP not doing what I want...

2000-01-14 Thread Patrick
Hi, I have a little problem with mgetty's autoPPP on slink. I don't seem to be able to deny autoPPP to specific users. In /etc/mgetty/login.config I have /AutoPPP/ - - /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap +pap login and in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets : * fritz * fritz being my dialin

Re: small lab

2000-01-14 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi Mario Mario Olimpio de Menezes writes: I need to set a small lab where one machine will be a server and 3 or 4 others clients. These clients will mount /home from server and I would like to have a central authentication. All machines already run potato. What's the better way

imp/horde minor problems

2000-01-14 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I just updated my potato system today and noticed some minor problems in IMP/HORDE. The horde.lib released with the today horde version has wrong WebClient class - it's lacking a var (rather_not_popup): you need to re-build it. I used build.pl

Re: cfdisk

2000-01-14 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 11:47:59AM +0200, Nikos Voutsinas wrote: Hello, I would like to create a new partition (logical, type 83) using cfdisk. I have done what ever I usually do but the last time I get a message saying something like Wrote partition table, but re-read table failed. Reboot

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