Re: Corel Update

1999-12-15 Thread Darren Benham
You'll have to ask that of Corel. Most of us at Debian do not use their tools to do the actual day-to-day update of our boxen. We use and recommend the tool called apt from the commandline.

Re: lost kernal source

1999-12-15 Thread Darren Benham
Did you install one of the kernel-source packages?

Re: Need help with pppd

1999-11-30 Thread Darren Benham
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: when I hook up the pppd starts ok, but when I try to use a application like lynx (and several others) all I get is a message saying that they cannot find the remote connection. Do you have the option: defaultroute set?

Re: Just went tp potato

1999-10-25 Thread Darren Benham
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: Hi all, Just upgraded from slink to potato and seem to be having a few mail troubles. How can I tell if exim is running? It never shows up in pstree? Patrick Also.. when you upgraded exim, you should have seen an install message telling you that the format of

Re: wine trouble

1999-10-24 Thread Darren Benham
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: hey guys, At this point, I might have wine.conf mangled beyond recognition, but I also stumbled upon this: dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of wine: libwine0.0.971116 depends on wine (= 0.0.981018-1.1). dpkg: error processing wine (--remove): does

RE: logo-contest

1999-02-04 Thread Darren Benham
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Re: Web server is really good, but can't email webmaster

1998-12-24 Thread Darren Benham
Your message made it to the webmasters (well, most of them). I remember reading it. My guess, one person in the list had problems with his email and *that* message bounced. Anyway, the compliments were very much appreciated. It's nice to know that ones work is being noticed and is actually

RE: Problems with Maelstrom

1998-12-13 Thread Darren Benham
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RE: Subjects not so comfortable

1998-12-04 Thread Darren Benham
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RE: how to remove xfmail's auto-signature

1998-10-31 Thread Darren Benham
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RE: WARNING about XFree86!

1998-10-19 Thread Darren Benham
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Chap w/o Chap?

1998-10-16 Thread Darren Benham
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Re: Creating HTML

1998-10-12 Thread Darren Benham
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RE: XFMail rules question

1998-09-28 Thread Darren Benham
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RE: XFMail rules question

1998-09-28 Thread Darren Benham
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Re: Commandline FTP

1998-09-04 Thread Darren Benham
When looking at the ncftp, I didn't see any place to specify a command line.. but I didn't look deeply into it. I eventually just ended up writing a python script (and getting it to work :) On 03-Sep-98 Ralph Winslow wrote: I like ncftp for this. It works in scripts (I believe you need to use

Re: Commandline FTP

1998-09-04 Thread Darren Benham
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Commandline FTP

1998-09-03 Thread Darren Benham
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RE: star office 4.0

1998-09-02 Thread Darren Benham
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RE: star office 4.0

1998-09-02 Thread Darren Benham
First wait until it's released to be downloaded. Look for it at http://www.stardivision.com On 02-Sep-98 Harold G. Stevenson wrote: when and where do it get staroffice 5.0, and how do i compile it?? from tucson-:)) harold On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Darren Benham wrote: A lot

sendmail / .forward / executables ???

1998-08-25 Thread Darren Benham
I've got an aliase setup ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) that's supposed to filter all mail through a custom filter. I have a one-line .forward file: /home/vote/bin/test.sh test.sh consists of two lines #!/bin/bash cat test sendmail uses /bin/sh as it's mail shell and

RE: new user needs help

1998-08-19 Thread Darren Benham
On 19-Aug-98 Brian D Kellogg wrote: 1. I can't mount the cdrom. i get this error--can't find /dev/hdc in /etc/mtab or /etc/fstab. It's a standard Atapi cdrom. try mount /dev/hdc /cdrom 2. command make menuconfig doesn't work. i get error--no rule to make target.

RE: Changing shell

1998-08-07 Thread Darren Benham
chsh On 07-Aug-98 Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: What is the command that a user can use to change their default shells? I -- http://benham.net/index.html -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS d+(-) s:+ a29 C++$ UL++ P+++$ L++ E? W+++$ N+(-) o?

RE: WYSIWYG Word Processor

1998-08-03 Thread Darren Benham
Try Star Office. I *might* do what you're looking for without going commercial. On 03-Aug-98 Ivan wrote: Any other options - should I go commercial ??? -- http://benham.net/index.html -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS d+(-) s:+ a29 C++$ UL++

Re: WYSIWYG Word Processor

1998-08-03 Thread Darren Benham
The Linux port is free -- not as in DFSG but as in: the Linux port is free for non-commercial use... hence the *might* On 03-Aug-98 Robert Claeson wrote: Darren Benham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try Star Office. I *might* do what you're looking for without going commercial. And I've

RE: WYSIWYG Word Processor

1998-08-03 Thread Darren Benham
On 03-Aug-98 Ivan wrote: At 09:10 AM 03-08-98 -0700, you wrote: Try Star Office. - COMMERCIAL Only available FREE as part of the Caldera distribution ! Close.. it may only be distributed with Caldera (ie, not with Debian, SuSE, Red Hat, Slackware). It can still be downloaded under

Re: WYSIWYG Word Processor

1998-08-03 Thread Darren Benham
On 03-Aug-98 Ivan wrote: At 12:55 PM 03-08-98 -0400, you wrote: Maybe after 11 August ... the site at the moment makes no mention of it being available and the Caldera site still specifies a price for it - - any wonder I'm confused ??? :) I just got down browsing their site looking for the

RE: Ordering Debian 2.0 CDs is confusing!

1998-07-27 Thread Darren Benham
I just ordered from Cheap Bytes. It's there. You have to go into the CD list to get there but it is there. On 27-Jul-98 Peter S Galbraith wrote: One of the only main sites to `have' CDs listed on the web pages is www.lsl.com, but... --

Re: Ordering Debian 2.0 CDs is confusing!

1998-07-27 Thread Darren Benham
On 27-Jul-98 Peter S Galbraith wrote: I admit that the `CheapBytes Debian 2.0 CD-ROM Install + Add-on Pack' doesn't state this date, but the `CheapBytes Debian 2.0 Official Binary CD-ROM' entry does... hmmm.. only read the debian+add-on entry :( --

RE: A whole load of questions

1998-07-09 Thread Darren Benham
On 08-Jul-98 Jeff Schreiber wrote: cable modem and getting lost]. What I'd like to do is to use NFS to mount some of the Linux directories on the Win95 system, so that I can download packages from the net and deposit them on the linux system. Comments on a better idea

Re: xforms replacement

1998-07-09 Thread Darren Benham
On 09-Jul-98 Shaleh wrote: At one time fltk was to be a XForms replacement. This changed. Darn shame. Seems the Windows support helped make it less X complaint. I agree. I like the XForms look and feel. As it stands, most of my programs will recompile under fltk. I just have a few that

fetchmail sendmail/smail

1998-05-27 Thread Darren Benham
Ok... I get this message when I run fetchmail... fetchmail: 9 messages at [EMAIL PROTECTED] reading message 1 (3345 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.skylink.net I've successfully set up fetchmail on several systems but

RE: creating simple interface for low-power users

1998-05-27 Thread Darren Benham
On 27-May-98 G. Crimp wrote: I thought it would be great if I could set up their accounts so that when they logged in a button bar greated them. They could invoke xpat2, logout, shutdown, or call up a graphic mail user agent (maybe xfmail or netscape) just by clicking the appropriate

RE: Reinstalling required packages with dselect

1998-05-24 Thread Darren Benham
Unless you don't like less for some reason, I'd just copy /usr/bin/less ontop of /bin/more and use less, instead. On 24-May-98 Jim Rogers wrote: I accidentally overwrote /bin/more (using instead of |), and dselect won't let me reinstall the package that contains it (util-linux) because it is

RE: the boot disk's kernel

1998-05-24 Thread Darren Benham
On 24-May-98 Wakko Warner wrote: I have noticed that the boot disk for debian contains support for fat32 drives, yet 2.0.33 does not have this support. What has been done in the kernel to support fat32? The 2.0.34 kernel will have FAT32 support (all the prePatches do) officially. Debian's