Re: XScreenSaver

2000-05-15 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 02:48:09PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I was just wondering how I would get xscreensaver to start up at the > beginning of every session in X. I'm using WindowMaker on Slink if that > matters. > I think WindowMaker has some kind of session manager, but if y

Maikl Server

2000-05-15 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello all, I'm looking to run a mail server similar to Microsoft Exchange. Is there something for debian out there I can use? If so what's the url?

Telephony

2000-05-15 Thread roudy veve
Hello! I would like to know a free/commercial telephony gateway, that I can use to place call to USA from my PC using voxilla on linux without Quicknet hadrware. I have heard from Internet That using voxilla packages can Help Linux End Users to place free/cheap long distance call, but me I can't,

Re: color syntax highlighting in emacs without X?

2000-05-15 Thread Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > M-x font-lock-mode ? > > > On Mon, 15 May 2000, Britton wrote: > > > > > Is there some way to do this? It seems it should be possible but I havn't > > been able to find any reference to it in the emacs > > docs. list-colors-display just produces an empty, colorl

Can not get a floppy only install to work

2000-05-15 Thread Tom
Hi, I have an IBM PS/2 Model 8535 386sx with 4 meg RAM and a 75meg IDE hard drive and a 1.44 meg floppy drive. I am trying to do a base Debian install but can not get past the second disk. I have tried 2.1 and 2.2 now with the exact same results and error message. I start with the compact rescue

Re: Couple questions

2000-05-15 Thread Brad
Sean, please wrap your lines at <76 characters, to allow for quoting. On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 03:36:02PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 15-May-2000 Cameron Matheson wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I have two questions: > > > > What's the difference between typing 'su', and 'su root'? > > not

Re: color syntax highlighting in emacs without X?

2000-05-15 Thread 50191914
M-x font-lock-mode ? On Mon, 15 May 2000, Britton wrote: > > Is there some way to do this? It seems it should be possible but I havn't > been able to find any reference to it in the emacs > docs. list-colors-display just produces an empty, colorless list. Any > info appreciated. > > Britton

RE: Samba Setup

2000-05-15 Thread Jay Kelly
What does it mean when I try to connect though Netscape and I get a error of Network Error: Broken Pipe??? Cant seem to still connect. I have swat in my /etc services and in inetd.conf. Any Idea's -Original Message- From: Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 7:18 PM To:

Re: bashrc

2000-05-15 Thread montefin
Or, perhaps it is as simple as Avinash wanting to... 1.) Edit his/her MOTD file to print to screen a set text message at login. (Edit your /etc/motd file, Avinash, to make it say what you want it to say.) and 2.) Attach a signature.txt file to his/her outgoing mail, such as I have attached to mi

Re: Upgrading to "potato"

2000-05-15 Thread Brad
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 09:51:19PM +0300, Lehel Bernadt wrote: > > No, dselect will not try to install everything, but I suggest to use apt-get > only and not bother with dselect's apt method. It will give you a bunch of > dependency problems, and screw up your existing configuration. Odd, since

Re: Samba Setup

2000-05-15 Thread Rob
Hi Jay, I assume you are trying to configure samba through SWAT.. ( I like using the manpage and editing smb.conf, but that's me :) Is SWAT in your /etc/inetd NOT commented out ( without a # in front of it ), is inetd running, which port are you trying to connect to? Thanks, Rob Namodn On

Re: amd home map

2000-05-15 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
Message from Barak Pearlmutter at 15/05/00 03:54:29PM: > > From: Graeme Mathieson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For autofs ... > > I have the actual home directories on the server in /disk/home> > > Doesn't this mean that all your home directories live on a single > server? The reason we are consideri

Samba Setup

2000-05-15 Thread Jay Kelly
I need some help setting up Samba.. Sorry to keep bugin you guys . Im getting there. I try to configure samba thought netscape but I am gettting an error Netscapes connection was refused by the server. Im sure I installed it when I installed Debian. Any Ideas guys

Re: Linux redials every 2-3 minutes REPLY

2000-05-15 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Karsten, Sorry for such delay. Here is what I learned to keep the windoz boxes from causing redials. Click on MY COMPUTER Click on CONTROL PANEL Click on NETWORK Now, scroll down and high light "FILE AND PRINTER SHARING FOR MICROSOFT NETWORKS" Click on PROPERTIES and look at the ADVANCED

Q: X-6.4 and imlib problem (longish).

2000-05-15 Thread Martin Bishop
Hi everyone, I don't know if this is OT or not so I apologise if it is. I recently compiled X-6.4 on my system and eterm has refused to work. (The window frame showd up but no prompt.) I then got the Eterm source and compiled it myself, still no go; imlib2 can't be detected even though I have li

Firewall problems

2000-05-15 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
--- Begin Message --- I can also ping the firewall from the workstations, and the workstations from the firewall. I have ipchains -P forward ACCEPT. What am I doing wrong? -- Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. "Real hackers mostly think crackers are lazy, irresponsible, an

Re: X Starting automaticlly

2000-05-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
Kent West said: Pretty comprehensive list, but... > If you're wanting to shut down xdm after boot, press Ctrl-Alt-F1 and log in > as root; > then "ps ax" and kill the PID of the xdm process. There's an easier way to accomplish this one: /etc/init.d/xdm stop -- "Two words: Windows survives."

Re: Installing Netscape

2000-05-15 Thread Mike Werner
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 04:35:15PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Ok.. Im trying to install Netscape and when I type apt-get install > communicator, I receive erro Couldn,t find package communicator. Any know > what I need to do to install Netscape. What version of Debian are you using? I'm guessing p

Re: how to burn .raw files to CDs??

2000-05-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 12:11:48PM -0600, Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar wrote: > I have 4 .raw files that are suppose to be debian potato's distribution. > But how do I get a bootable CD from them? Do I need a special program to > do that? > thanks! just burn them to CDs and the CDs should be boot

Re: Bug in new ext2 ??

2000-05-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 06:09:18PM -0400, R. Ransbottom wrote: > > I normally use ext2 filesystems on floppies. > > After creating a filesystem with mke2fs from e2fsprogs 1.18-3 > the program mount from e2fsprogs 1.12-4 fails to mount it > with the message: > > EXT2-FS: 02:00: couldn't mount bec

canon bjc-1000

2000-05-15 Thread jpcox
can you tell me how to print a picture so that it will be the full size of the page? I was able to do that at one time. but now after I scan a picture I cant print it to be the full size of the page. Thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X Starting automaticlly

2000-05-15 Thread matthschulz
I would recommend to use >switchdm (certainly as root) Matth On Mon, 15 May 2000, Kent West wrote: > Jay Kelly wrote: > > > Hello Guys, > > How do I stop X Windows from startign automaticlly aafter rebooting? Should > > I use a boot disk to get to a promt? Any help would be great. > > Thanks >

Installing Netscape

2000-05-15 Thread Jay Kelly
Ok.. Im trying to install Netscape and when I type apt-get install communicator, I receive erro Couldn,t find package communicator. Any know what I need to do to install Netscape. I also tried apt-get netscape4 and I receive a another error, The Netscape archive must be in /tmp, owned by root and u

Re: Potato boot problems

2000-05-15 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Christopher DeMarco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using the current disk set of potato boot/root disks (build 2.2.13, > 5/5/2000) and the 3-disk set of drivers (May 5 2000). I install the > drivers from the disks before doing anything else, assuming that this will > allow me to do a http or f

Re: Screen Size

2000-05-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-May-2000 David S. Bateman wrote: > Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> On 15-May-2000 Ed Slocomb wrote: >> > On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 01:57:54PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> >> >> >> On 15-May-2000 Jay Kelly wrote: >> >> > Ok Guys, >> >> > I got X Finally working mouse and all. But and y

Re: Screen Size

2000-05-15 Thread David S. Bateman
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 15-May-2000 Ed Slocomb wrote: > > On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 01:57:54PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> > >> On 15-May-2000 Jay Kelly wrote: > >> > Ok Guys, > >> > I got X Finally working mouse and all. But and you knew there had to be a > >> > butt. How can I c

RE: dpkg-awk

2000-05-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-May-2000 w trillich wrote: > "Karl M. Hegbloom" wrote: >> `dpkg-awk' works pretty good, and so does `apt-cache', for finding >> things. I also like to use the web search interface at >> www.debian.org, under the Packages clicker. > > i'm using frozen (potato), all updated, upgraded and

dpkg-awk

2000-05-15 Thread w trillich
"Karl M. Hegbloom" wrote: > `dpkg-awk' works pretty good, and so does `apt-cache', for finding > things. I also like to use the web search interface at > www.debian.org, under the Packages clicker. i'm using frozen (potato), all updated, upgraded and dist-upgraded (not necessarily in that orde

Re: how do i get/install Apache::DB for debian?

2000-05-15 Thread w trillich
the guide at http://perl.apache.org/guide/ recommends using PerlSetEnv PERLDB_OPTS "NonStop=1 LineInfo=/tmp/db.out AutoTrace=1 frame=2" PerlModule Apache::DB PerlFixupHandler Apache::DB SetHandler perl-script PerlHan

RE: Quick Question

2000-05-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-May-2000 Jay Kelly wrote: > When running X, Where do I find NetScape Browser.I tried Mozilla Navigator. > Thats not is right? > Thank Guys > if you have it installed, it will be in the Apps menu, under Net. otherwise you need to type: 'apt-get install communicator' at the command prompt

Quick Question

2000-05-15 Thread Jay Kelly
When running X, Where do I find NetScape Browser.I tried Mozilla Navigator. Thats not is right? Thank Guys

RE: Couple questions

2000-05-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-May-2000 Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I have two questions: > > What's the difference between typing 'su', and 'su root'? nothing, however there is a difference between 'su user' and 'su - user'. When the dash is used, it means to run that user's initialization files (.bashrc and t

Couple questions

2000-05-15 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I have two questions: What's the difference between typing 'su', and 'su root'? -and- Are their any noticable differences between the 2.2.14 kernel and 2.2.15? Thanks Cameron Matheson

RE: Bug in new ext2 ??

2000-05-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-May-2000 R. Ransbottom wrote: > > I normally use ext2 filesystems on floppies. > > After creating a filesystem with mke2fs from e2fsprogs 1.18-3 > the program mount from e2fsprogs 1.12-4 fails to mount it > with the message: > > EXT2-FS: 02:00: couldn't mount because of unsupported option

WindowMaker .61 in Slink

2000-05-15 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I long time ago I used to use the new version of WindowMaker with Gnome. I have since formatted, and do not want Gnome back on my system (I like TKDesk better). Anyways, I downloaded wmaker, and wmaker-plain off of debian.org/~vincent, but it doesn't work. I installed if fine, and WindowMa

Bug in new ext2 ??

2000-05-15 Thread R. Ransbottom
I normally use ext2 filesystems on floppies. After creating a filesystem with mke2fs from e2fsprogs 1.18-3 the program mount from e2fsprogs 1.12-4 fails to mount it with the message: EXT2-FS: 02:00: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features. Fsck from 1.12-4 would find no fault wi

XScreenSaver

2000-05-15 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I was just wondering how I would get xscreensaver to start up at the beginning of every session in X. I'm using WindowMaker on Slink if that matters. Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Re: amd home map

2000-05-15 Thread Barak Pearlmutter
> From: Graeme Mathieson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For autofs ... > I have the actual home directories on the server in /disk/home> Doesn't this mean that all your home directories live on a single server? The reason we are considering amd (or autofs if it is capable) is to be able to have different

Re: Upgrading from Hamm to Potato

2000-05-15 Thread Hartmut Figge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I want to upgrade my system from Hamm (2.0) to Potato (2.2), using CDROMs. I > tried to first install apt, but, not surprisingly, I got all kinds of > dependency errors. http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/potato/upgrade-i386/ cu -- hafi

Re: Screen Size

2000-05-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-May-2000 Ed Slocomb wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 01:57:54PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> >> On 15-May-2000 Jay Kelly wrote: >> > Ok Guys, >> > I got X Finally working mouse and all. But and you knew there had to be a >> > butt. How can I change the screen size without going back

Re: Command ??

2000-05-15 Thread Kent West
Jay Kelly wrote: > uick question, > How would I edit a file such as XF86Cofig? I mean what is the command to > open it so I can change a few things such as pointer. > Thanks Any text editor will do. vi is the standard. vim is the improved standard. ae was my favorite for a while, then I discover

Re: Screen Size

2000-05-15 Thread Ed Slocomb
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 01:57:54PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 15-May-2000 Jay Kelly wrote: > > Ok Guys, > > I got X Finally working mouse and all. But and you knew there had to be a > > butt. How can I change the screen size without going back into XF86Config. I > > am looking at 640

Re: fdisk problem

2000-05-15 Thread Werner Reisberger
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 03:04:30PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > I've found that I get best results when I set the disk, in the BIOS, > > to standard translation, rather than to LBA or Large. After replacing util-linux v. 2.7.1-3 with v. 2.10.f-5 (and therefore replacing fdisk) the proble

Unreal 1 on Linux

2000-05-15 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I know you can get Unreal Tournament working for Linux with a patch, but I was wondering if their was a patch for Unreal 1 too. Thanks, Cameron Matheson

RE: Screen Size

2000-05-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-May-2000 Jay Kelly wrote: > Ok Guys, > I got X Finally working mouse and all. But and you knew there had to be a > butt. How can I change the screen size without going back into XF86Config. I > am looking at 640x480 and would like 800x600. Will this be possible to > change without going into

Screen Size

2000-05-15 Thread Jay Kelly
Ok Guys, I got X Finally working mouse and all. But and you knew there had to be a butt. How can I change the screen size without going back into XF86Config. I am looking at 640x480 and would like 800x600. Will this be possible to change without going into XF86Config? Thanks Agian for all the HELP

Re: How to forward by default in exim

2000-05-15 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[ Catch all account in exim ] I'd go to www.exim.org. The FAQ you find there contains some cookbook solutions to common requests. Ciao, Martin -- begin LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs Outlook sucks End

Re: Epson 740

2000-05-15 Thread Matthew Thompson
Well, I had heard that printtool was an easy program to use to set up my printer, so I upgraded to 2.2 in order to install printtool. What I didn't know was that printtool is a graphical program, and I don't run any XFree on my server, I don't even have a monitor or keyboard hooked up, just ssh ac

Re: Command ??

2000-05-15 Thread ktb
To confuse you more I'll add 'joe' to the list of user friendly editors:) hth, kent - Original Message - From: Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 1:12 PM Subject: Command ?? > uick question, > How would I edit a file such as XF86Cofig? I mean what is the comman

Re: Debian on UMSDOS?

2000-05-15 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 02:46:09PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > When I got my laptop a few months ago, I set it up to dual-boot > Win98 and Debian. Win98 and Debian exist on seperate partitions, > and the booting is handled through LILO. It was actually quite > easy to do. I know it is easy t

netbase update - no NIC module

2000-05-15 Thread Chris Mason
Since updating to frozen, modprobel will not recognize my rtl8139.o NIC module. I can insmod them manually, but I cannot modprobe them, even though I give the correct path. The path is in the /etc/modutils/paths files and I have ran update-modules. During boot the module is not found. Chris Mason

Potato boot problems

2000-05-15 Thread Christopher DeMarco
I'm using the current disk set of potato boot/root disks (build 2.2.13, 5/5/2000) and the 3-disk set of drivers (May 5 2000). I install the drivers from the disks before doing anything else, assuming that this will allow me to do a http or ftp install. This seems to go alright, but when I try to

Upgrading from Hamm to Potato

2000-05-15 Thread KELowery
I want to upgrade my system from Hamm (2.0) to Potato (2.2), using CDROMs. I tried to first install apt, but, not surprisingly, I got all kinds of dependency errors. So I thought I would do it the old fashioned way one more time: using dselect and do each of the binary CDs separately (Update, S

Re: NIC Cards...is there any difference between them?

2000-05-15 Thread Robert Waldner
well, for money´s worth, get 3com 509 (if you can spend 50$+). run in most of our workstations, not a single problem in 2 years now. for a home-machine I´d prefer somewhat tulip-based, seen at 20$+, and the driver is aged by now ;-), my linksys 10/100 has its peculiarities... just my 2 (euro-) ce

remapping M$ windows key to act as meta under console emacs (like X)

2000-05-15 Thread Britton
I notice that under X, emacs now uses the little window key as a meta, while doing something totally other with Alt. This is fine, but I like to use emacs from the console, and there Alt is still needed. I don't think it's a good idea to have emacs requiring different keystrokes depending on whe

RE: Upgrading to "potato"

2000-05-15 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 15-May-2000 David E. Young wrote: > Greetings. I am brand new to Debian, but a long-time Linux > user/administrator (mostly RedHat). > > I've installed Debian 2.1 from CD onto my SPARC IPX; the process went > flawlessly and the system is running fine. I would like to try an > upgrade to the upc

Re: Debian on UMSDOS?

2000-05-15 Thread Mike Werner
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 07:38:41AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Easier to have the dreaded Win98 (Asheron's Call, mmm) and Linux on a > single partition for multi-booting that to juggle different partitions. When I got my laptop a few months ago, I set it up to dual-boot Win98 and Debian. Win9

Re: color syntax highlighting in emacs without X?

2000-05-15 Thread Gary Hennigan
Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there some way to do this? It seems it should be possible but I havn't > been able to find any reference to it in the emacs > docs. list-colors-display just produces an empty, colorless list. Any > info appreciated. Last time I checked into this one of t

Re: Command ??

2000-05-15 Thread cls--colo spgs
Jay Kelly wrote: > > uick question, > How would I edit a file such as XF86Cofig? I mean what is the command to > open it so I can change a few things such as pointer. > Thanks > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null hi, i just use "anthony's editor" (ae): 1. as

RE: Debian upgrade problems/perl

2000-05-15 Thread 50191914
On Mon, 15 May 2000, Chad Day wrote: > I am hesistant to run apt-get -f install, as this is what it shows: > > vw1:/usr/local/pkgs# apt-get -f install > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Correcting dependencies... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: >

color syntax highlighting in emacs without X?

2000-05-15 Thread Britton
Is there some way to do this? It seems it should be possible but I havn't been able to find any reference to it in the emacs docs. list-colors-display just produces an empty, colorless list. Any info appreciated. Britton Kerin

Re: Ethernet Card

2000-05-15 Thread karthikeyan gourisankaran
hi. I just installed debian on my laptop toshiba satellite 2595cdt. I have a pcmcis 3ComLan PC card(3ccfe574bt lan pc card). I do not know how to install it ie what drivers/modules to use(i am a newbie;bear with me).Can someone sugggest something to get my ethernet to work) thanks

RE: mysqladmin

2000-05-15 Thread Chad Day
mysqladmin -uroot -ppassword -Original Message- From: Kreaped Ripping Reaper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 2:37 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: mysqladmin how do i fix this one? kreaper:/usr/share/doc/mysql-server# mysqladmin -u root password blah

mysqladmin

2000-05-15 Thread Kreaped Ripping Reaper
how do i fix this one? kreaper:/usr/share/doc/mysql-server# mysqladmin -u root password blah mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password: NO)' -- kreaper [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: HTTP request forwarding

2000-05-15 Thread w trillich
Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > > We have one Debian server, which is router, proxi (IP masq), > > mail server, ... All we need is to forward HTTP request on > > Debian's extern IP forward to a different PC in LAN... > > ipmasqadm (in package netbase) is what you need. > look at the list archives f

Command ??

2000-05-15 Thread Jay Kelly
uick question, How would I edit a file such as XF86Cofig? I mean what is the command to open it so I can change a few things such as pointer. Thanks

how to burn .raw files to CDs??

2000-05-15 Thread Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar
I have 4 .raw files that are suppose to be debian potato's distribution. But how do I get a bootable CD from them? Do I need a special program to do that? thanks!

Re: alternate pop auth scheme, not APOP

2000-05-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 03:37:01PM +0100, Graeme Mathieson wrote: > One word of warning with that method. If you're using NFS, make sure > NFS file locking is supported by the clients and the server. Otherwise > you'll wind up with mysterious mailbox corruption. Unless you use maildirs, which

RE: Debian upgrade problems/perl

2000-05-15 Thread Chad Day
I am hesistant to run apt-get -f install, as this is what it shows: vw1:/usr/local/pkgs# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: perl-5.005 sendmail at g++ htdig libstdc++2.9-dev lib

Re: screen grab for screenshot

2000-05-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Thanks Michael. The `import' command works great! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 15 May, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > How does one grab an image of the root window (containing many > > window) while the mouse is in the process of selecting in a menu? > > > > - Using ImageMagick's display'

Re: How do I run multiple X sessions?

2000-05-15 Thread Bruce Sass
On 15 May 2000, Richard Klinda wrote: > You can start a second X with this command: startx -- :1 > > So if you have 2 running Xs, one'll be at 'alt-f7' and the other at > 'alt-f8'. Actually, "startx" will bring up X on the first unused vt. e.g., if you start 3 vt's at boot (see /etc/inittab), st

Upgrading to "potato"

2000-05-15 Thread David E. Young
Greetings. I am brand new to Debian, but a long-time Linux user/administrator (mostly RedHat). I've installed Debian 2.1 from CD onto my SPARC IPX; the process went flawlessly and the system is running fine. I would like to try an upgrade to the upcoming 2.2 release, primarily because I'd like the

Re: Debian upgrade problems/perl

2000-05-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 01:53:15PM -0400, Chad Day wrote: > I'd love to upgrade to potato, but... > > vw1:/usr/local/pkgs# apt-get dist-upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. > Sorry, but the followi

RE: Debian upgrade problems/perl

2000-05-15 Thread Chad Day
I'd love to upgrade to potato, but... vw1:/usr/local/pkgs# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: perl-5.005: Depends: perl-5.005-b

Re: screen grab for screenshot

2000-05-15 Thread Kreaped Ripping Reaper
you tried the 'import' command? do man import On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 01:21:14PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > How does one grab an image of the root window (containing many > window) while the mouse is in the process of selecting in a menu? > > - Using ImageMagick's display's grab func

Re: How do I run multiple X sessions?

2000-05-15 Thread Richard Klinda
Hoi Marc! m> I seem to recall having seen, somewhere, that it is possible to m> have multiple X sessions running at the same time. You can start a second X with this command: startx -- :1 So if you have 2 running Xs, one'll be at 'alt-f7' and the other at 'alt-f8'. Hope this helps. -- ign

screen grab for screenshot

2000-05-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
How does one grab an image of the root window (containing many window) while the mouse is in the process of selecting in a menu? - Using ImageMagick's display's grab function, I enter a time delay and select a menu in Emacs. I get the error: display: Unable to grab the mouse. (I think I

Re: NIC Cards...is there any difference between them?

2000-05-15 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Make that a third... kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Second the Linksys 10/100 endorsement. > > On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 07:38:46PM -0500, KULISHdotCOM wrote: > > I haven't used those cards in months... > > > > I switched to linksys 10/100... can get them for 15 bucks US and they work > > flawles

Re: Broken startup; syslogd hangs...

2000-05-15 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Gregory Guthrie wrote: > > INIT: entering run level 2 > Starting system log daemon: syslogd > > and hangs... > Wild-ass guess based on bad reasoning and half-remembered experience: Is it just possible you filled up a partition when you de-tarred all that stuff? Like maybe the /var partition?

RE: outdated deb's in dselect

2000-05-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 14-May-2000 jerry j jaskierny wrote: > i'm having problems with outdated packages and dselect, ala dpkg. for > instance, the alsa modules at version 4.1 are pretty old. say i want the > updated alsa, for whatever reason. unsupported soundcard, whatever. so i > download the source from alsa

Re: Configuring Logitech Wheel Mouse

2000-05-15 Thread Sven Gaerner
For using the wheel under X you can also use imwheel or add the following line to your /etc/X11/XF86Config ZAxisMapping 4 5 For using the wheel in Netscape you have to change some other files (see some older postings), I think there were some resource files to edit. At Sun, 14 May 2000 19:10:

Re: Debian on UMSDOS?

2000-05-15 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> you have to go to the second console (ALT-F1) and do ALT-F2, of course, but you know, don't you? ;-) -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- If Windows is the answer, I want the problems back!

Re: Debian on UMSDOS?

2000-05-15 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> The latter. I know I can get Slackware onto UMSDOS fairly easy as well as > a few others (Monkey Linux comes to mind). I much prefer Debian however. > Easier to have the dreaded Win98 (Asheron's Call, mmm) and Linux on a > single partition for multi-booting that to juggle different part

Re: Broken Startup (repeat)...

2000-05-15 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I seem to have somehow have broken my system, and want a minimal way to ix it; > Is there a "refresh system files" option for Debian with the rescue disk, > or dselect, or ... ? > > I.e. to say "install base" from a rescue, will this do an add-only refresh > of files from the archives, or will

Re: Debian upgrade problems/perl

2000-05-15 Thread cls--colo spgs
Chad Day wrote: > > I'm trying to upgrade my perl on my debian 2.1 system to 5.005, but am > having serious problems, as shown below. Myself and another system admin > here have both tried this, but have gotten either stuck or broken libc. I'm > back at the point where I have to fix this, and I'

Broken Startup (repeat)...

2000-05-15 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I seem to have somehow have broken my system, and want a minimal way to ix it; Is there a "refresh system files" option for Debian with the rescue disk, or dselect, or ... ? I.e. to say "install base" from a rescue, will this do an add-only refresh of files from the archives, or will it wipe o

FIXED: gnome-session + .Xclients, stopped working

2000-05-15 Thread Ron Farrer
Ron Farrer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm running gnome-session and WindowMaker, I am trying to get > Gnome-session to load my '~/.Xclients' file. It did for a while but > after upgrading potato to the most recent potato it quite working. I solved the problem myself, I changed "source" (or "ex

Re: Linux on VAIO PCG-N505X

2000-05-15 Thread Martin Oldfield
Curious! If I find out anything I'll let you know. Cheers, -- Martin Oldfield, AdamsNames Ltd.

Re: X Starting automaticlly

2000-05-15 Thread Kent West
Jay Kelly wrote: > Hello Guys, > How do I stop X Windows from startign automaticlly aafter rebooting? Should > I use a boot disk to get to a promt? Any help would be great. > Thanks > Jay If you're wanting a "permanent" fix, uninstall the xdm (or wdm or gdm) package. If you're wanting to simply

ODBC/JDBC Drivers

2000-05-15 Thread Philippe Jean
HI All,       I'D like to know where i can find ODBC/JDBC Drivers for your Debian Linux distribution.  Since we need our JAVA SERVER APP running on Debian to Access to an MSSQLServer.  Currentrly i'm using freetds but it seem's to fail connection to the MSSQLServer 7.0.       Does someone as

Debian upgrade problems/perl

2000-05-15 Thread Chad Day
I'm trying to upgrade my perl on my debian 2.1 system to 5.005, but am having serious problems, as shown below. Myself and another system admin here have both tried this, but have gotten either stuck or broken libc. I'm back at the point where I have to fix this, and I'm going to need some help,

Re: Q: about networking

2000-05-15 Thread paul
> Does anyone know where I can obtain a documentation on how to > setup network on a Potato system? > Try the NET-3-HOWTO and the NET3-4-HOWTO as a start, but youll find you need others as well ;) (Ethernet-HOWTO, Firewall-HOWTO, IP-Masquerade-HOWTO, IPCHAINS-HOWTO, etc, etc, etc...) -ptw

Q: about networking

2000-05-15 Thread Katerina Tsarouchas
Does anyone know where I can obtain a documentation on how to setup network on a Potato system? -- The free Corel® LINUX® OS Download is NOW available! Check it out at http://linux.corel.com -- The address in the headers is not the poster's real email address. Do not send private mail to the

ODBC/JDBC Drivers

2000-05-15 Thread Philippe Jean
HI All,       I'D like to know where i can find ODBC/JDBC Drivers for your Debian Linux distribution.  Since we need our JAVA SERVER APP running on Debian to Access to an MSSQLServer.  Currentrly i'm using freetds but it seem's to fail connection to the MSSQLServer 7.0.       Does someone as

Re: How to forward by default in exim

2000-05-15 Thread Graeme Mathieson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, "Matthew W. Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On May 09, 2000 at 08:01:03AM, Paul McHale wrote: > > I recently received the domain desinc.com from another company. > >Occasionally, exim reports that I have mail bound for someone at > >desinc

Re: alternate pop auth scheme, not APOP

2000-05-15 Thread Graeme Mathieson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, "Markus Stausberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I dont want to use APOP auth, because not all of the clients can > say that word (e.g. kmail, as of slink), but is it true that the only > alternative is to store a worthy login passwd at every c

Re: Debian on UMSDOS?

2000-05-15 Thread Graeme Mathieson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Subject says all. Has anyone successfully installed Debian on a UMSDOS > partition? Well, can't say that I have. Another solution which (I've heard) is workable. Installing on a loopback filesyste

Re: LLP Modem problems

2000-05-15 Thread Graeme Mathieson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Has anyone experienced the problem where uucp system produces Low Level > Protocol (LLP) errors? I've never had any problems with UUCP. I must admit to being fairly new to it though. What protocol are you using? Is

Re: Debian on UMSDOS?

2000-05-15 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 03:45:19PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > is this a "is it possible at all" or "how difficult is it" question? > the answer to the first one is "yes", to the second one "no idea" *g*. > i've made this some years ago with an old redhat. it wasn't funny. an > umsdos /dev d

X Starting automaticlly

2000-05-15 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello Guys, How do I stop X Windows from startign automaticlly aafter rebooting? Should I use a boot disk to get to a promt? Any help would be great. Thanks Jay

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