Re: primenet.com rejects mail from ibm.net

1999-04-12 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Prof. Feedlebom wrote: > > First of all, why are you sending this to the Debian list? *shrug* It > seems a bit off-topic. > How and/or why did Branden's original message get to the list in the first place? Here's the E-mail header I have from what I assume is the original message: Return-Path

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-12 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Jiri Baum wrote: > > Hello, > > John Galt: > > > Most crypto is based on a similar setup to email, > > Umm, no, cryptography is the art of writing messages that can only be > decoded by the intended recipient. Very little to do with e-mail. > > If you have messages that MUST not get into hostil

URL for gnome staging area?

1999-04-11 Thread Ian Keith Setford
What is the URL for the Gnome staging area? I am going to give it a try after years with AfterStep. TIA. -Ian __ Ian Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP = F2 92

Re: config X - s3 virge

1999-04-09 Thread Ian Keith Setford
That card, the same one I have, is problematic at 24bpp. Get used to it at 16bpp. Search last years e-mail archives for details. This question used to come up a lot. -Ian On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > I have a 4mb diamond 3d s3 virge video card. From XFree86.org, I >

Re: flexfax: customizing coverpages?

1999-04-07 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > Daryl Williams wrote: > > > > hello, > > > > i have just set up a hylafax server and i would like to customize > > the cover page. it currently prints a silicon graphics logo. > > is there a way to change this? also th

Re: email threat

1999-04-07 Thread Keith Beattie
On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 11:52:30AM -0700, Britton Kerin wrote: > When the leader or > representative of a group is stigmatized as a dangerous gun nut this rubs > off on the rest of the group, so please be careful what you say. Ah, but this is one of the reasons why the open source / free software

Re: flexfax: customizing coverpages?

1999-04-06 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Daryl Williams wrote: > > hello, > > i have just set up a hylafax server and i would like to customize > the cover page. it currently prints a silicon graphics logo. > is there a way to change this? also the cover page does not > contain "company", "regarding", or "comment" information > although

Re: email threat

1999-04-06 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Bruce, if you are actually in fear for your life the police are the right forum for this. It appears that you are trying to once again publicly defame Eric in front of the Linux community. This message is about embarrassment and character assassination hid beneath a patina of fear. Regardless o

Re: Daylight saving trouble

1999-04-05 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Look at the man page for tzconfig. Make sure that your link for /etc/localtime is correct and that /etc/timezone has the correct information. Also run hwclock to check to see what your BIOS is reporting as current time. That might be why linux is confused. I'd start there. HTH. -Ian On Mon,

Re: ifconfig doesn't show virtual interfaces

1999-04-05 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I bet you are running a 2.2.x kernel and your version of netbase is from slink. It is a known problem. As you mentioned, the aliased interfaces will work but will not show up in "ifconfig." An easy solution is to upgrade the "unstable" version of netbase (it is very stable.) The only reason, I

Re: shell scripting

1999-04-01 Thread Keith Beattie
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 03:46:27PM -0600, Craig Hancock wrote: > Hello al I was wondering if someone can tell me of some website taht > talk aboput shell scripting in great detail thanks The definitive reference for bash can be found (among other places) at: http://www.gnu.org/manual/bash-2.02/bas

Re: Announce: 3D graphical install for Debian

1999-04-01 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yup..you are right. It won't boot on my 486dx4/100. Damn..it's got a sweet OpenGL card in it too. -Ian On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Following up on the success of my VGA 16-color graphical install for > Debian, I am pleased to announce the next generation in installation > tools for

Re: Do We Need a New Evangelist?

1999-04-01 Thread Keith Beattie
does the world need to understand > us? > I, for one, would like to hear Bruce's responce to George's question. Perhpas the fact that perens.com has been unreachable for the last 2 days has something to do with this? Is Bruce's article mirrored anywhere else? Thanks, Keith

Re: How to open xterm with and a program at once

1999-03-31 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Try $xterm -e mutt & That should do it. Also try man xterm for a plethora of other options you can give to the xterm program. Might also want to take a look a RXVT. BTW, the command above is just a beginning, if you need a login shell, different colors, or title you should get thse parameters

Netscape Installer??

1999-03-31 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I'd like to re-install Netscape but I can no longer find the Debian installer script/package. Where did it go? What are all the "other" packages, now in Slink, that mention Netscape? I just want something to do what the older installer did: 1) Extract the .tar.gz from /tmp 2) Install in proper

Re: ntfs package

1999-03-25 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Do you have ntfs support compiled into your kernel? The support is "experimental" I believe and that is for the read-only. I understand the read-write ability to be considered unsafe to use. I have had no problems with the read-only stuff working though. HTH. -Ian On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Richa

Re: SB PCI 64

1999-03-23 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Have you compiled a new kernel? When you do, make sure to check [Y]es on the first option which asks if you would like do add support for "experimental" stuff. Then go to the sound section and select [Y]es for the es1370 support. That's it. Hope that helps. -Ian On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Tuv- OK!

Re: Printer Setup through SAMBA

1999-03-23 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Petru NOTINGHER wrote: > > Hello. > > I've installed Linux 2.2.1 on my machine, but I have no printer > connected via LPT. > The printer (HPOffice JetPro 1150) is installed on another machine > running Bill's stuff. > It seems it is possible to access the printer via NetBios. I read the > doc com

Re: Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI

1999-03-17 Thread Ian Keith Setford
You must have the "experimental" selected when you compile your kernel. Then you can select the es1370 from the sound options and that's it. -Ian On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > I have the above sound card, and when I modprobe es1370 it tells me device > or resource busy. I don'

qmail + mutt + fetchmail problems

1999-03-16 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Well I decided to install qmail upon suggestions from various people. I got the package source and compiled the .debs fine. Then, upon reading the docs, I found out that the "Maildir" format is preferred. So I set out to get that working in Pine. No go. I search the UW pages for info and see m

OT: CD-R suggestions

1999-03-15 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I'm looking for input on what kind of CD-R to buy. It will be a SCSI version with a 4x-6x write rate. It can have RW ability but I don't plan on using that. What brands should I strive for and which ones should I stay away from? It is going into a data-bank so an internal model is fine. TIA.

fmirror/mirror/lftp ?

1999-03-15 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I would like to mirror the unstable tree at work. I have tried to accomplish this with several tools (fmirror/mirror/lftp) but I can't figure out how to get exactly what I want. When I use fmirror (which I like), most of what is downloaded are symbolic links to "slink" which are not useful to me

cdu33a

1999-03-12 Thread Keith E. Richards
rking but it is tooo slow (14.4) to download much, plus I have to pay for more than 25 hours online.) I have the debian cd which is why I need the cdrom working asap. Do I need to recognize the sound card first? Also, it says that wd-7000 scsi card has failed. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks, Keith

cdu33a

1999-03-12 Thread Keith E. Richards
I have a soundblaster 16 card along with a sony cd (cdu33a) with a Creative Labs front. I need to know how to get Linux to read it. In my Dos system, the address for sb16 was 220 and the cd-rom was 230. Can you tell me how to do this? Thanks, Keith Richards

ergonomics question ($TERM colors)

1999-03-12 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Aside from personal preference, does anyone know if a certain combination of colors is better to stare at than others? I can guess, from my own experience, that white text on a black background is better than black on white. Does anybody have any input on this? I would like to use the one that i

Re: IP forwarding & chat problem

1999-03-11 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Bal K. Paudyal wrote: > > Hi Friends, > > I just installed ppp server in one of my machines. When I connect from > Win95, the ppp connection between the server and win95 is established. But > I can't connect from another Linux. It could be a chat script problem. I > have used almost the same scri

Re: Bios Problem

1999-03-10 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Michael E. Touloumtzis wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 06:39:54PM +0100, Simone Rapizzi wrote: > > > > I've just installed Linux, but I can't use LILO: > > > > When I reboot I see: > > " L 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01" and so on. > > > Unlikely a BIOS problem. Have you installed LILO in the M

DNS--> h2n program

1999-03-10 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I have been reading the O'Reilly DNS/Bind book and it mentions a program/utility (h2n) to convert a hosts file to the db.* files needed for DNS. I searched the debian packages in both stable/unstable and couldn't find any mention of it. Anyone know where I can find this program or one like it? T

Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-09 Thread Keith G. Murphy
George Bonser wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Jesse Evans wrote: > > > I feel that most of the press coverage of Linux has been tainted by > > the > > commercial marketing efforts of certain distributions. If I were a writer > > and > > had no knowledge of the subject matter of my current

Re: IP_ALIAS (kernel 2.2.1)

1999-03-09 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I will assume that you are running slink because you did not say. I also assume that the version of "netbase" you are running is 3.11-xx. Download the "netbase" package from unstable/Potato (v. 3.12) and your IP aliasing should work normally. For some reason the slink/3.11 version of netbase do

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

1999-03-08 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Frankie wrote: > > George Bonser wrote: > > > > On Fri, 5 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > just did, but is this list not moderated, Jesus Christ is so far I now, > > > from a different century and he is on top? > > > > > > Matth > > > > Don't even think Linus should BE the person of th

Re: Oh, Brad! Oh, Brad!

1999-03-05 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Guess we have proof of good crack at Purdue University. ;-) -Ian On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: > Let's do the time warp again! > > -- > G. Branden Robinson | "I came, I saw, she conquered." The > Debian GNU/Linux | original Latin seems to ha

Re: Janet

1999-03-05 Thread Keith G. Murphy
I can't let that pass. Sorry. I once knew a guy that broadcast something very similar to every user on an entire (large) VAXCluster at a major hospital. :-) ktb wrote: > > oops, sorry. > > ktb wrote: > > > You are beautiful. > > Kent > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PR

Safest way to segregate /usr (or others)

1999-03-05 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I would like to separate /usr onto its own partition on a different disk. First, I am under the assumption that this might speed my I/O times because both disks are Ultra2's. Secondly given my set-up below, what is the *safest* method to separate /usr. I thought of two ways but would feel safer

Re: Changing IP address: which config files?

1999-03-04 Thread Ian Keith Setford
A great many files could possibly be effected. It depends on if you are running DNS, sendmail, samba, etc.. The essential files are /etc/hostname, /etc/hosts, and edit /etc/init.d/network for the ip changes. HTH. -Ian On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > Hi! > > Which files do I

Re: Debian Linux Install -

1999-03-04 Thread Ian Keith Setford
> If I remember correctly, this is asking you where all the base files are > stored on the disk. Now, C disk for Windows is > /dev/hda for Linux, but you need to insluce the partition # as well. > If you are not sure, fdisk and see where the Windows resides, but > generally it's on /dev/hda1 > S

netbase bug?

1999-03-03 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Can someone try to duplicate this problem please? I have 2 Debian boxes with 3c905b NICs. Both are running 2.2.2 but with netbase 3.1-1.21 the ip-aliasing stuff "works", as in the ip alias is created but ifconfig will not show the alias unless you call it explicitly with the interface name. Whe

Re: Where are ms-dos filenames for Debian packages?

1999-03-02 Thread Keith Saxon
y the suggestions you gave about getting dselect to work. Great list! Keith

IP-aliasing

1999-03-02 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I have a one gateway with a 3c905b (Boomerang) running 2.2.2 just fine. When I use ifconfig to alias an ip it works no problem. On a different machine, an HP Vectra, with a 3c905b? (Cyclone) and the IP-aliasing works only with 2.0 kernels. Weird. I have compiled 2.2.2 for this Vectra 6 times wi

Re: dmsg?

1999-03-01 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Try "dmesg | more" or as root, look at /var/log/messages. HTH. -Ian On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > How do I find what my dmsg was so that I can show y'all whether my cd-r > was recognized? > > NatePuri > Certified Law Student > & Debian GNU/Linux Monk > McGeorge School of Law

Re: Where are ms-dos filenames for Debian packages?

1999-03-01 Thread Keith Saxon
NTto a new Windows NTto who-knows-what. The get-the-CD suggestion was also a good suggestion but right now I'm trying to introduce myself to Linux on my computer which has no CD before I make big changes to my other computer which my family uses every day (it has Windows 3.1, also). Thanks, Keith

Where are ms-dos filenames for Debian packages?

1999-02-28 Thread Keith Saxon
Where can I find Debian packages with 8.3 filenames so I can install them from a DOS partion with dselect?

Re: hostname & domain name changing

1999-02-25 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Edit /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, and maybe /etc/resolv.conf. Hope that helps. -Ian On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hello, > when i installed my debian box, i only put in some out of nowhere hostname > and domain names, now it seems that i need to give it some real hostname and

IP-Chains help!?

1999-02-23 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Since I just picked up a new computer last week I no longer have to dual-boot. I now have a need to share a 56k dial-up. I'll admit that I haven't used/needed ip-masquerading since mid 1996 so I'm very rusty with ipfwadm. Now, if I'm correct, we have ipchains instead of ipfwadm and such? I am

Re: How to get mod_perl into Apache?

1999-02-23 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > I'm running a 2.0 system, and I need mod_perl. However, there does not > seem to be a source or binary package under hamm for this. > > I have tried getting the hamm Apache source package and the mod_perl > tarball (from perl.apache.org),

Exceed 6 setup help

1999-02-19 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I just purchased a new computer so I wouldn't have to dual boot anymore. I must use Windows for MS Office (Excel) and games. Problem is that I have only one monitor. I have Exceed 6 but I can't seem to get it working. Does someone who has done this have time to walk me through this? What do I

Re: It's Time to Talk About Free Software Again

1999-02-18 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Bruce Perens wrote: > Sadly, as I've tended toward promotion of Free Software rather than Open > Source, Eric Raymond seems to be losing his free software focus. The Open > Source certification mark has already been abused in ways I find > unconscionable and that I will not abide. Are we talking

How to get mod_perl into Apache?

1999-02-17 Thread Keith G. Murphy
I'm running a 2.0 system, and I need mod_perl. However, there does not seem to be a source or binary package under hamm for this. I have tried getting the hamm Apache source package and the mod_perl tarball (from perl.apache.org), then building mod_perl (telling it to not build apache), then doin

Re: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-17 Thread Keith G. Murphy
OK, go into fdisk and have it looking at your drive. Use 'u' to make sure it's reporting everything in cylinders. Use 'p' to show the partition table. 1) is it showing the number of C/H/S the manufacturer shows on the drive? 2) if you multiply out the number of cylinders with the numbers given

Re: NON-US means?

1999-02-10 Thread Ian Keith Setford
It means that the server is not located in the US, excepting it from US encryption laws. -Ian On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: > Packeges in non-us means that they are not in english? > > __ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http:

Re: slashdot poll

1999-02-10 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Kenneth Scharf wrote: > Actually it's not that Debian is built to be hard to use. > It's just that many of the 'pretty' system control and configure > applications supplied by RH are not in Debian. (Besides they only work > in X) As someone who has recently come to use Debian from a year or two

Re: slashdot poll

1999-02-09 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Second place is taking a beating? I don't think so. Yes, I voted. -Ian On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Debian seems to be taking a beating on the recent /. poll > of distributions. Have you all voted? > > .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> > > > -- > Unsu

Re: mgetty: AutoPPP Failure

1999-02-05 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Frank Barknecht wrote: > > Hello Debianites, > > I am struggling to get the AutoPPP feature of mgetty to work. > I want to connect two Debian Maschines running (mostly) Hamm. I have a working configuration. DISCLAIMER: This runs on RedHat 5.1. I'm just about to set one up for Hamm, so it will

Re: 16 MB STB nVidia TNT 3D AGP

1999-01-19 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I recently bought a TNT based card and I use it with Debian. You have to download the binary XF86_SVGA Xserver from xfree86.org and place it it /usr/bin/X11/. The binary only server is from the newest Xfree86 release, 3.3.3 which has not been made into a Debian package yet due to time constraint

Quake2 & nVidia TNT

1999-01-18 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I am trying to get Quake2 to run under linux in an accelerated mode (i.e. OpenGL). Has anyone sucessfully accomplished this? Could you tell me what the correct command line syntax is to start the game in that mode? Any help/suggestions are greatly appreciated! -Ian _

Re: new XFree86

1999-01-16 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I don't believe that Xfree86 3.3.3 has been packaged yet because the developer is busy making the Slink version ready for release. If you go to ftp.xfree86.org and download the *binary* XF86_SVGA server and then copy it to /usr/bin/X11 and edit /etc/X11/Xserver to match the server location y

Re: [OFFTOPIC]Gnu Utils For AIX

1999-01-14 Thread Keith Beattie
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 02:18:01PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone knows if there are any GNU (or other no > cost) utils that work with AIX. Specifically, I'm hoping to find > something like top. So we can find out which process is trying to > kill the machine here at wor

SOLVED: WP8 unzip problem

1999-01-13 Thread Ian Keith Setford
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problem gunzip'ing WP8

1999-01-13 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I downloaded the GUILG00.GZ in whole and in sections from cdrom.com and download.com today but I can't unzip them. Gunzip says it the wrong format: ~ shark:~$ gunzip GUILG00.GZ gunzip: GUILG00.GZ: not in gzip format ls -l shows: ~ shark:~$ ls -l GUILG00.GZ -rw-rw-r-- 1 ian ian 286

nVidia TNT help!!

1999-01-13 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I have tried and tried to get this Riva TNT video card up but I cannot. what I've done: 1) D/L'ed the binary XF86_SVGA server version 3.3.3 and put it in /usr/bin/X11/. (I was using this server with the S3V card earlier today.) 2) Configured my xf86config (3.3.2) for the Riva128 (Diamond

nVidia TnT xf86config choices

1999-01-12 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I just received my new TNT card and I have downloaded the XFree86 3.3.3 SVGA server and put it in place. Now what I need to know is if my current xf86config program has the TNT option under chipsets and the other chip specific options. If not, what should I select for RAMDAC, card, and should I p

Re: installing Debian and WinNT 4.0

1999-01-06 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I have to use NT for work sometimes so I boot into it when I have to print Office97 stuff and to use Photoshop 5. Anyways, here is my lilo.conf, maybe it will help you. ##/etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda2 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz la

Re: Logo

1998-12-30 Thread Ian Keith Setford
When I started using Debian a little over 2 years ago I thought the capital "DEBIAN" that was multi-color looked really sharp. It would make a cool sticker, t-shirt, CD-cover or anything actually. Kudos to whoever designed it. It appeared on the web page 'back in the day and looked great! Keep

Re: xterm font is W I D E

1998-12-17 Thread Keith Beattie
7:48, 126:48 XTerm*visualBell: true --- HTH, Keith

Re: QUantifiable reasons to use debian instead of redhat...?

1998-12-10 Thread Keith Beattie
Marc Barnett wrote: > > What I need is a lists of reasons, logical supportable reasons, that I could > use to convice a change of standardization. Quite literally, this will decide > what the next 50-100 systems will look like. DO they run Redhat or Debian... > Did you search the mailing list arc

Re: Just My 2 Cents

1998-12-09 Thread Keith Beattie
Jens D. Baumgartner wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 11:34:29AM -0800, Keith Beattie wrote: > > > Well, I disagree. Personally I dislike massively integrated > > applications like Outlook and Explorer. They are too big, too slow > > and too complicated (to

Re: emacs & xemacs

1998-12-09 Thread Keith Beattie
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 " an oxymoron? How could your ever expect to see graphics on a text-only display? (Unless

Re: Stupid Telnet question.

1998-12-09 Thread Keith Beattie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've seen this before, but don't remember what I did to make it work. > Have a remote user wanting access to a Linux system. That user used > to just telnet with no problem. > > Now they are getting: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: telnet 205.242.10.73 > Trying 205.242.10.73..

Re: Just My 2 Cents

1998-12-08 Thread Keith Beattie
s as a business model (which a monopoly will certainly want to employ) are overthrown, or more likely, crumble under it's own weight and complexity. Just *my* 2 cents... Keith

Re: Netgear NIC card support

1998-12-02 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I have an older 310tx with the Digital 21140 AE chip which works great. I also noticed that Netgear decided to remove the Digital 21140 (Tulip) chip from their more recent models. If you have a 310tx card that says "NETGEAR" on the chip try and take it back. If you look hard enough you can s

Re: Linux Tips & Tricks

1998-11-25 Thread Keith Beattie
t entirely your content I think it would be a very good resource for a lot of people. Regards, Keith

RE: Installation error.... AGAIN... *sheesh* (fwd)

1998-11-19 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Are you sure the CD is on its "master " selection? The physical switch/jumper is what I'm referring to. -Ian > Thanks for responding so quickly, but I'm pretty sure that /dev/hda is the > cdrom because I have only one SCSI harddrive. > Besides, it won't let me use any of the others because it c

Xircom RealPort anyone?

1998-11-18 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I was wondering if anyone knows what chip is used in the 10/100 Xircom RealPort PCMCIA adapter for notebooks. I read Donald Becker's page and it says that the card bus is unsupported but it has no mention of the adapter itself. Anyone using this with Debian? TTYL. -Ian _

Re: Stable GUI Web Browser

1998-11-17 Thread Keith Beattie
David Warnock wrote: > > PS I am British and I am always sarcastic, I have been warned that US citizens > are unable to recognise sarcasm - I guess thats why so many Americans use M$ > software. > Hey, maybe that's what M$ software *is*: American sarcasm! :) Keith

2.1.127 errors

1998-11-10 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- When I try a make xconfig on .127 I get the following in the xtermI ran it from: ... make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.1.127/scripts' wish -f scripts/kconfig.tk WARNING - broken Config.in! CONFIG_PMAC was not declared! WARNING - broken Config.in! CONFIG_APOLLO was not dec

can't link to termcap

1998-11-03 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I d/l the Pine 4.05 tarball and I am trying to compile it. Everytime I compile (using the ./build lnx command) it bails when trying to link to termcap (-ltermcap "File or directory does not exist"). Any idea how to fix this? TIA. -Ian __

Re: auto-indenting-formatting with a vi?

1998-11-02 Thread Keith Beattie
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > rick, who'd be happy as a clam in a bucket of beer if he had a classic > vi that would handle multiple buffers and color & indent his programs Being an Emacs fan myself, I believe what you asking for is an oxymoron. :) I don't use vim (obviously) but using one

neXtaw widgets?

1998-11-01 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I have installed the neXtaw widget package in hopes of having the cleaner look to my apps. It appears to have worked half way. I have the outline and relative effectiveness OK but the bar and buttons do not look "right". They should be a solid color with an indented dot in the center of the

Re: Diamond Stealth 2000 / 4 megs

1998-10-29 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I have and use a Stealth 2000. I have used under 1.3 and now under 2.0 Hamm. I use the S3V server and the card number in xf86config is 115. I have heard that the 24bpp mode is not well supported by this card so I run at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't really say that I've had problems with this

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-28 Thread Keith Beattie
and you to be saying is something like this: "I built a desk in my garage that I want to give it to a friend but I can't get it out of my garage because it is bigger than my garage!" Are you sure the size is truly over 2 Gigs? How about "od" or writing your own C or perl "cat" program to see where they fail? Keith

slink upg. error

1998-10-23 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I decided to upgrade to "frozen" slink and I used dselect to to do it. Now I am getting libncurses.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such object or directory. Did a package not get installed or is my system hosed now? Sorry if this is an old question but I haven't had the need to upgr

Re: Security.

1998-10-18 Thread Keith Beattie
how to factor large numbers quickly, the technological world as we know it will change. HTH, Keith

Re: replacment for quick books

1998-10-16 Thread Keith Beattie
Carl Vilbrandt wrote: > > Is there a replacement for Quicken/Quickbooks ? > . . . for ACT, a contact management software ? > > without creating one in linux. > gnucash - http://www.gnucash.org/ ksb

Re: Why having the . at the end of someone's PATH is a security ?

1998-10-14 Thread Keith Beattie
shaul wrote: > > There shouldn't be a "." in your PATH; even at the end, it's a > > security risk. > > Why ? How it can be exploited ? > A somewhat related story: When I was taking CS classes in college there was this one student who many of us suspected of not being entirely honest about the

Re: simple password

1998-09-25 Thread Keith Beattie
ng a mix of capitalization and punctuation) makes for easy to remember, almost impossible to guess passowrds. Obviously, don't pick well known phrases: "Tb,ontb;", is certianly a bad choice.) Use them as timely mantras, and change them when they get out of date. Keith

Netscape locks up all the time

1998-09-20 Thread Keith
Netscape locks everytime I use it now. I have Netscape Communicator 4.05 and I am running Debian 2.0. It never used to due that and I haven't changed or added anything to this machine. If anyone has had this trouble before I would appreciate some suggestions. -- Thanks,

Re: diald and ppp

1998-09-14 Thread Keith
user username' to pppd so that it can > find the secret. Add this line to diald.options: > > pppd-options user infinetwork > > If you run pppconfig you can use the chatscript it generates for diald by > replacing > > connect "/etc/diald/connect" >

diald and ppp

1998-09-14 Thread Keith
is working without to much time going by. I have attached /etc/diald/diald.options and /etc/diald/connect I am using pap-secrets also. -- Thanks, Keith Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.naples.net

ppp[729] - peer refused to authenticate

1998-09-13 Thread Keith
-secrets, chatscript, and dial script are all the same as on the Debian 1.3 box. Is there more files that I have forgotten about. Keith

Re: backing up with tar

1998-09-12 Thread Keith
You are correct about specifying / that doesn't work because it errors on the /dev files. I will check in to CPIO. Thank You, Keith -- > From: Wayne Cuddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: backing up with tar > Date: Saturda

Re: scanners

1998-09-12 Thread Keith
://www.mostang.com/sane/. Keith -- > From: Rick Knebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: scanners > Date: Saturday, September 12, 1998 10:11 AM > > Can anyone tell me if scanners work with linux and if so make a > reccomendation.

backing up with tar

1998-09-12 Thread Keith
I would like to know if I am backing up my system correctly. I am using the following command to backup with tar. tar -creat -file /dev/st0 / Then a compare with tar -compare -v -f /dev/st0 Is this the best way to use tar for backing up to a tape drive. Thanks, Keith

renamed my server now Samba doesn't work

1998-09-10 Thread Keith
I accidentally renamed my server and now ,Samba in particular, does not work anymore. I removed Samba and reloaded it but it still does not work. Any suggestions. Keith

changed server name, how-to change back

1998-09-10 Thread Keith
I somehow changed the name of my server back copying files from another server onto this one. Which files sets the name of the server? -- Thanks, Keith MCNE Debian GNU/Linuxhttp

Re: y2k (don't kill me!)

1998-09-09 Thread Keith Beattie
Stephanie A. Tomlinson wrote: > > I just gotta find out... where might i find an official bullettin or who might > i talk to in order to get an official statement concerning debian linux's > y2k compliance? > You can always looks at the source code, you'll find no other statements more "official

Re: moving fvwm windows by thier "handles"

1998-08-21 Thread Keith Beattie
stole it from...). Personally, I think that no decorations is a little extreme but this ability alone is enough reason for me to prefer X-windows as a GUI. HTH, Keith

Re: shutdown not unnmounting

1998-08-21 Thread Keith Beattie
umount -a shutdown -h now Idea #2 - have shutdown wait a period of time before actually shutting down shutdown -h +5 # Check my syntax on the +5 Idea #3 - some combination of the above ideas sync;sync;sync umount -a shutdown -h +5 etc. HTH, Keith

Re: pathchar documentation

1998-08-17 Thread Keith Beattie
h Group at LBL. Links are off the groups main page: http://www-nrg.ee.lbl.gov/ Luck, Keith

Re: gunzip - invalid compressed data?

1998-08-13 Thread Keith Beattie
of anyway to convert a binary file accidentally downloaded in ASCII mode, I think data is actually lost if Binary mode is not used on a binary file. If this is the case you will probably need to download it again. Let's hope I'm wrong! Keith

Time is off after upgrading

1998-08-12 Thread Keith
know. -- Thanks, Keith MCNE Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.naples.net/~nfn11988/linux

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