Re: graphical tool for network design/illustration

2001-10-03 Thread Immanuel Yap
Maybe dia will be to your liking. It's quite similar to Visio, if you're familiar with that. There are both Debian and Ximian packages for it: Package: dia Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: graphics Installed-Size: 10836 Maintainer: Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version:

Re: superformat?

2000-09-15 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Thu Sep 14, 2000, Michael Soulier wrote: On 14 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote: Yeah, I suppose. Out of curiousity, what format is used on zip drives running under Linux? I've never used one. Do they have their own format, ala CDROMS with iso9660? ZIP drives are treated as hard drives:

Re: Using AucTeX with XEmacs 21

2000-04-28 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Apr 28, 2000, Joseph Martin wrote: Hello All, I have xemacs21.1.9 installed. I cannot install AucTex as it conflicts with xemacs21. The description with the auctex says that auctex is included with xemacs. When I open LaTeX files the buffer is in LaTeX mode and the file is

Re: graphic login does not allow choice of wm

1999-09-10 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Thu Sep 9, 1999, John wrote: Have installed 2.1 from Official CDs: this took 2hrs as program continually spent long periods searching sectors and 'resetting atapi' and made it difficult to recall what options I selected. After completion XF86Setup was run successfully and startx fvwm95

Re: A quickie-2.2.XX kernel compile-/usr/include links?

1999-09-10 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Fri Sep 10, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm about to compile 2.2.10 for my work machine, and as usual simply follow the Fine manual which comes with the package. This time around, though, I noticed no reference to linking /usr/include/{asm||linux||scsi} to dirs under the source. Is

Re: Samba and /etc/passwd

1999-08-17 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Tue Aug 17, 1999, Debian Mail wrote: I'm quite puzzled since I cannot find the answer to what seems to be a faq: I want that samba uses /etc/passwd and not /etc/smbpasswd to authenticate a user. How do I do that? You can't. So every user has to use passwd AND smbpasswd every

Re: Samba and /etc/passwd

1999-08-16 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Mon Aug 16, 1999, Debian Mail wrote: I'm quite puzzled since I cannot find the answer to what seems to be a faq: I want that samba uses /etc/passwd and not /etc/smbpasswd to authenticate a user. How do I do that? You can't. Noel

RE: bash color

1999-08-16 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Mon Aug 16, 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 16-Aug-99 Pollywog wrote: This is what I have in my .bash_profile in order to get colors: export LS_OPTIONS='--color=auto' eval `dircolors` The last line is apparently superfluous, so I removed it. It's useful if you want to change the colors

Re: Terminal errors

1999-08-10 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Mon Aug 9, 1999, John Carline wrote: Executing 'dselect' now gives me the error 'Error opening terminal: unknown', and in addition many other commands give similar messages. For example, if I use a pipe to less (ls | less) I get the following: WARNING: Terminal is not fully functional.

Re: Terminal errors

1999-08-10 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Mon Aug 9, 1999, John Carline wrote: Immanuel Yap wrote: On Mon Aug 9, 1999, John Carline wrote: Executing 'dselect' now gives me the error 'Error opening terminal: unknown', and in addition many other commands give similar messages. For example, if I use a pipe to less (ls

Re: Good HTML editor for debian Linux?

1999-07-22 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Wed Jul 21, 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: On Wed, 21 Jul 1999 15:47:02- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would not mind something that could: 1. Gives color coding 2. Be good for perl AND html AND cgi AND javascript (I doubt I'll get all 4) 3. Let me save to a web server. 4. The only time I

Re: Refusing to deliver mail

1999-06-18 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Fri Jun 18, 1999, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: Is there a way to configure the email server (sendmail 8.9.3) so that it refuses mail coming from a specified address to a specific email. Let me clarify: My user A doesn't wan't to receive mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it possible (with

Re: grep \ ... how

1999-06-11 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Fri Jun 11, 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: I need to write a script to replace '\'s with '/', but how can I get grep to accept '\' as a regular expression (it assumes it to be line continue character, at least from the sh prompt)? Put the expression in single quotes? Noel

Re: screen 'savers'

1999-06-10 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Thu Jun 10, 1999, Judith E Bush wrote: I'm looking for what might be blanking out the screen on several linux systems. On all three systems, power management in the bios is set to 'always on.' All three systems have dramatically different monitors. I'm running metrox's Xwindows and have

Re: pack/compress?

1999-06-07 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Mon Jun 7, 1999, Jonathan P Tomer wrote: it strikes me as odd that the standard potato doesn't seem to include the pack huffman coder or compress lzw compressor. while these are fairly obsoleted by gzip, especially as gunzip will read .z and .Z files, they still are mildly useful. am i

Re: rvplayer working?

1999-04-30 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Fri Apr 30, 1999, Timothy Hospedales wrote: Hi! Has anyone got the RealVideo player to work? I got the .rpm package from www.real.com and debianized it with alien and then installed it. Then I set it up with netscape as per instructions. (It didn't come with the .class files for the plugin;

Re: is postgresql free?

1999-03-08 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Fri Mar 5, 1999, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: can I have unlimited clients conected to postgresql with no licese payment. Yes. See http://www.postgresql.org for more info. Noel

Re: Removal of idle telnet connections?

1999-02-25 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Thu Feb 25, 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: Dear all, One of my users is complaining that if he leaves sessions idle for more than about 30 mins the connection that gets dropped. I don't recall running any idled or whatever; is this a feature, and if so, how might I disable it? If he's

Re: /home/ftp directory question

1999-02-24 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Wed Feb 24, 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 24-Feb-99 Jesse Jacobsen wrote: I missed the first part of this thread, but was wondering... do you have separate /home/ftp/bin and /home/ftp/lib/ and /home/ftp/etc directories? You need those under /home/ftp/ because the ftpd automatically changes

Re: Crashing Install with Debian 2.0

1999-02-19 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Fri Feb 19, 1999, Tallon wrote: Does anyone know what this means? I am trying to install Debian 2.0 on a Cyrix MII 300 with 128Megs and 2 Fujitsu 4.3G drives. Has a Genoa 3d Phantom Video Card and a SMC Ethernet card 1211TX. Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address

Re: VM problem

1999-02-11 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Wed Feb 10, 1999, Daniel Elenius wrote: I have a problem with the VM mail reader that has been annoying me for a LONG time. I use an exim filter to put e.g. the debian-user mail in a ~/mail/debian folder. Then when I open this folder, there will usually be new mail coming into the folder

Re: TK installation

1999-02-01 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Mon Feb 1, 1999, ktb wrote: I've never attempted anything like this before so I really have no clue. What I'm trying to do is ultimately install the aol instant messenger program for unix. To do this I have to install Tcl/Tk. I don't know what they are for but I followed the

Re: debian-user trailer line: incomprehensible to those who need it

1999-02-01 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Mon Feb 1, 1999, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: So, shall we take this opportunity to reopen the discussion about the debian-user trailer line? The evidence just keeps indicating that the existing one is useless to those who could benefit from it and ignored by everyone else. Thomas P.

Re: emacs xemacs

1998-12-09 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Wed Dec 9, 1998, Keith Beattie wrote: Kent West wrote: Ever since I started with Linux I've wanted a console-based graphical web browser, but kept running into a brick wall. Then I read that emacs could Uh, isn't console-based graphical anything an oxymoron? How could your ever

Re: Repost - First-time Linux setup - questions

1998-11-03 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Tue Nov 3, 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: I've just got the basic Linux 2.0.35 working and have been busily adding packages. Among them is the olvwm package. When I try to invoke olvwm, I get a library missing error message. When I look in /usr/lib, the file olvwm complains about is

Strange Netscape font problem, '=?

1998-11-02 Thread Immanuel Yap
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I have a really strange font problem in Netscape. Some apostrophes(') appear as question marks(?). This problem as been around since bo and since Netscape 4.0 or so, I can't remember exactly. When I look at the source it shows question marks as

Re: Y2K Compliant?

1998-10-14 Thread Immanuel Yap
Here's a link to Debian's Y2K statement: http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19980104 Noel

Re: vnc x-windows server looking for xauth

1998-10-12 Thread Immanuel Yap
David Karlin wrote: Hello, I just installed the vnc x-windows server (.deb) and when I fire up vncserver, it says: vncserver: couldn't find xauth on your PATH. First I checked my hard-drive for xauth (find / -name xauth); the file does not exist on my drive. Then I checked in

Re: help getting started with postgreSQL

1998-10-08 Thread Immanuel Yap
Shaleh wrote: Hi, I just installed the postgreSQL packages. However I can not add users because foo# createuser Connection to database 'template1' failed. FATAL 1: SetUserId: user root is not in pg_shadow createuser: database access failed. foo# The docs are not helping. What is

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-10-08 Thread Immanuel Yap
Wilson Tuma wrote: Hi Plase could you give the the files I have to download to be able to install linux man pages so I can get help by typing say man rm man cp Install the man-db package. Noel

Re: running X windows

1998-10-07 Thread Immanuel Yap
Bostjan JERKO wrote: I still have problem running X windows (Xfree86) on Debian 2.0 as ordinary user. It works fine if I log on as root. I use it on stand alone machine without network card and xdm is not running. The messages I get are : _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ... Socket

Re: Kernel compiling error

1998-10-07 Thread Immanuel Yap
Ken Archer wrote: Came up with the following error trying to compile a development kernel. The same kernel compiled fine on my Suse partition. as 86 -0 -a -o bboot sect.o bbootsect.s make [1]: as86: Command not found make [1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127 make [1]: Leaving directory

Re: using RAM above 64 Mb as a swap area

1998-09-21 Thread Immanuel Yap
Default Debian Reader wrote: I have a question regarding RAM, does linux recognize anything over 64M of ram? I have 128M on my machine and this is what top reports... CPU states: 0.5% user, 1.1% system, 0.0% nice, 98.5% idle Mem: 63344K av, 62092K used, 1252K free, 32960K shrd,

Re: xterm menu problem

1998-09-10 Thread Immanuel Yap
Giuseppe Sacco wrote: When I try to change the font size, using the control+rightmouseclick then I get a menu showing me same font sizes. But this only happens if the user is root. Otherwise I get a menu that is really smaller and I can only see the first line of text in the menu (the

Re: Modules

1998-09-01 Thread Immanuel Yap
Kenneth Scharf wrote: |Just installed Debian 2.0, and now I have a question |about modules. |I have managed to get isapnp setup my network card |properly. When I |manually |give: | insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ 8390.0 | insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ne io=0x220 irq=11 |I get the

Re: Auc Tex not working

1998-09-01 Thread Immanuel Yap
Johann Spies wrote: After upgrading Debian 2.0 (emacs20) Auc Tex is not working. I have, as the auc tex info file indicated, included the following in my .emacs - file: (setq TeX-auto-save t) (setq TeX-parse-self t) (setq-default TeX-master nil) I have re-installed auctex but without

Re: Font Servers

1998-08-28 Thread Immanuel Yap
Mike Nachlinger wrote: Is anyone aware of were to get a fontserver to run on a Debian 2.0 system? xfs is included in the xbase package. Noel

Re: format a floppy ?

1998-08-19 Thread Immanuel Yap
Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: Hello, as i upgraded from bo to hamm (and on other machine I installed directly hamm), I miss the fdformat command... where's that gone ? fdformat is obsolete; use superformat. Noel