>> "ABR" == Allen B Riddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ABR> Ok -- I'm using potato and gnome and this morning, I did an
ABR> apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade...and, low and behold, almost
ABR> all my pixmaps are gone for gnome (all the main ones, at least)
There is now a gnome-panel-data packag
WT> Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>>
>> As to the Viewer/Grpahics thing. Viewer to me is for pdf readers
>> and the like. I expect a graphics app to be in graphics.
>>
>>
>> Feel free to bring this up on policy.
I would appreciate, if the maintainers of graphic viewers could
>> "BB" == Bob Billson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BB> As a side note, is there collection of these little tidbits of
BB> info that are common knowledge to Debian old-timers, but known to
BB> the Debian (and/or Linux) newbies? I don't mean the Debian FAQ,
BB> though a section in the FAQ dealing
>> "F" == Fabien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
F> ps : it's a shame that there is not enough explanations in the man
F> pages.
You are always free to submit patches trough the bug system. You will
also find all this information in /usr/doc/menu/html/*
Ciao,
Martin
>> "BB" == Bob Billson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BB> I'm puzzling over an odd problem. I can run X just fine when I
BB> log in as a normal user and run startx. However, if I let Debian
BB> (potato) boot so xdm is started when the system boots, I can't log
BB> in at all. In fact, xdm seems to
>> "M" == Morgoth3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
M> I am trying to install GNOME onto my other computer from floppies.
M> What is the easiest way to do this?
Eek. This is no fun. Especially as some packages won't fit on one
floppy. I never did something like that before, so I can't help you
here.
The Debian GNOME team has recompiled the GNOME packages, as present in
the Debian developement tree, for the stable Debian release 2.1 (slink).
This update contains the current GNOME core packages, as well as
current versions of GNOME aware applications and window managers. A
valueable new packag
>> "BB" == Brendon Baumgartner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BB> Anyone know why, everything in dselect is set to uninstall?
Because you selected some new package (from unstable?) and refused to
upgrade some key package (libc6ß), so these packages can't be
installed any more? Or maybe you hit "-"
>> "RF" == Rene Feenstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RF> I got my analog modem working a few weeks ago but now i', trying
RF> to setup my isdn modem = Teles 16.3 I got it included in the
RF> kernel and i can see it installing well but when I try to call out
RF> with it with pon isdn ( my pon conf
>> "NC" == Nick Cabatoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
NC> Is there any way of getting complete bug reports (including those
NC> that have been closed) for a particular packages? I think I've
NC> found a bug in librx1g/regexec(), and was hoping to verify that.
Check bugs.debian.org/librx1g
You c
>> "D" == Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
D> I really dont think Debian is ever being unstable...
You are not that long with Debian and are not that involved with the
developement, right? Sometimes there are even mails to debian-devel
explicitly asking not to update some packages as a upload
>> "KGM" == Keith G Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
KGM> the 'datagram' from 127.0.0.1) to see what it's trying to find.
KGM> It's probably trying to interact with Netscape's site in some
KGM> way. Keep us updated. I'd like to know if there's a good reason
KGM> not to upgrade, or how to get
>> "DS" == Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DS> All resulted in this error: ** WARNING **: cannot
DS> open display:
You try to start it as root, but you use X as another user? Only the
user opening the X display may use it by default.
Try running gqview as this user. If you want to be ab
>> "JL" == Jarek Lewinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JL> Does anybody know about a tool that can help me monitor how my
JL> drives are working.
Well, at least for my host adapter, I find some stats in /proc/scsi.
Ciao,
Martin
>> "JM" == Jason Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JM> They're definitely tar.gz. What is the directory that I should
JM> unzip/untar them into? I'll do things manually if I have to.
I have seen this before. Unfortunately, the layouof some themes
tarballs seems to differ in some ponit that make
>> "BS" == Brian Schramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BS> But that is not reachable by ftp and I need some way to get it
BS> here automaticly. The system that I am useing at work for CD
BS> burning is a headless system so I do not need this on it.
What OS does it run? wget can download all files
>> "B" == Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
B> There's two ways to do it. One way is to get the tarball from netscape.com
B> and use the installer package (netscape4). The other way is to install the
B> 10 or so deb packages that make for a full install.
B> communicator-base-4x
B> communicator-ne
>> "JM" == Jon Marler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JM> The permissions on /dev/null by default are set to 0600 root root.
JM> I set them to 0666 root root. Problem solved.
This would be very strange.
When I create it with MAKEDEV, it is
$ ls -l null
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 M
>> "FC" == Fu-Dong Chiou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
FC> Can anyone tell me where I can find Netscape 3? I remember older
FC> versions of Netscape are stored in an archive, accessible via
FC> browsers, but can't remember the URL now. Thanks!
Check dpkg --print-avail netscape3
Ciao,
Ma
>> "MW" == Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MW> so this has changed from hamm then which used to unpack it all for
MW> you and make the link from /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/ version> ?
Yes.
Ciao,
Martin
>> "RvdM" == Remco van de Meent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RvdM> It's strange indeed; it has come up before, and because the
RvdM> default Debian 2.1 install comes with 2.0.36, which doesn't
RvdM> support the /proc/bus/pci interface of the 2.2 kernels (the
RvdM> interface that pciutils uses) it
>> "MW" == Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MW> I don't know what's going on, but when I try to install (from my
MW> slink CD) the 2.0.36 kernel package .deb, I get a 2.0.36 aource
MW> .tgz under /usr/src
Yes, this is intended. You unpack it when you need it (with tar xfvz )
and it is
>> "SP" == Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SP> Windows is designed for the causal user. That's great,
SP> initially. There is no learning curve,
Hahahahahahah.
Sorry. I work parttime on phone support to pay for my studies. I can
assure you, that a current Linux is no more complicated
>> "JB" == Jim B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dispite some vocal mails from other users, I have a simple solution
for you.
JB> Someone sends to joe and the mail is filtered into his
JB> mailbox... meanwhile, tom's mail is filtered into his mailbox.
No problem. postilion does this without any pro
>> "JH" == John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JH> Jardine writes:
>> You're right. It is. I'll have to keep experimenting, I think
JH> But the absence of noauth (and the presence of auth in
JH> /etc/ppp/options) is pretty much the only thing that can cause
JH> that error. Could you send c
>> "AMW" == Allan M Wind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AMW> On 1999-05-22 12:20, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>> It will start the panel and window manager. You change the
>> windowmanager through the gnome control center.
AMW> That doesn't seem to work h
>> "TK" == Thomas Keusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
TK> On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 04:04:32PM -0400, eric a. Farris wrote:
TK> [no wmaker 0.53.0 package available?]
>> umm, my potato wmaker is 0.53.0-2. are you sure you're getting
>> everything from your potato mirror? here's my apt sources.list:
>> "OD" == Oz Dror <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
OD> what is the relationship between gnome-session and enlightenment
OD> which one should be started first. is dnome session going to be
OD> started in the .xsession file, if so which startup file need to
OD> start enlightenment. I am using xdm.
If
>> "FC" == Fu-Dong Chiou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
FC> But I already installed it. To make sure I did not mess up
FC> anything, I remove xlib6 and libc5 and reinstall them again; same
FC> result.
You also need xpm4.7
Ciao,
Martin
>> "P" == Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
P> Am I correct in assuming that I no longer even need
P> /usr/include/linux /usr/include/net /usr/include/scsi and
P> /usr/include/asm ?
You need them. They are used when you compile some
programms. Therefore libc6-dev provides a known good set of
>> "PJdSeS" == Paulo J da Silva e Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PJdSeS> Take a look at Gnome's site: www.gnome.org. The gnome .debs
PJdSeS> for slink were released today and I am almost sure that there
PJdSeS> is a wmake 0.53 there.
Do *NOT*, I repeat *NOT* use these packages yet. I don't kn
>> "JP" == John Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JP> On %M 0, Martin Bialasinski wrote
>> Currently I do something I do it the other way around. I run Debian
>> 2.0 on my 2.1 box. And it is fast enough. I compiled ~50% of the
JP> In case it hasn
>> "P" == Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
P> I cd /usr/include
P> there I do this:
P> ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386 asm
P> ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux linux
P> ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/scsi scsi
P> ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/net net
No. Debian stopped doing this for
>> "SG" == Steve Gore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SG> Astra:/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.2 kernel_image
SG> Error: The revision string may only contain
SG> alphanumerics and the characters + .
SG> The current value is: custom.1.2
SG> Aborting.
SG> I've compiled at least a do
>> "SL" == Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SL> Yup. Personally, I think for developers VMWare is something of a
SL> godsend. Imagine this simple situation, run VMWare on your
SL> machine, give it ~16Mb or so, and then run Debian inside Debian.
SL> The outer Debian is stable, the inner is
>> "K" == Koyote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
K> In the release notes page:
K> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-installing
K> .en.html it points to :
K> http://www.debian.org/releases/2.1/i386/install and that doesn't work,
It does for me. I tried Netscape 4.6, lynx, a
>> "K" == Koyote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Hmm, Seems I can not download the installation guide for slink.
K> Seems I can browse through the sparc and alpha guides- it's just the
K> i386 one I can't get to.
If you could give us the URL that fails for you, we could take a look
at it as well
>> "DM" == Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DM> Is this a bug with either of the packages? If so, which one? xdm
DM> and wdm seem to co-exist well as regards to things like depends.
The thing is, that you could manage :0 with xdm, :1 with wdm and XDMCP
with gdm or such. So the packages
>> "GA" == Graham Ashton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
GA> but GIMP still refuses to respond to the GTK themes - do I need to
GA> recompile GIMP to make it work?
Check dpkg -s gimp. Themes don't work for programms compiled for
libgtk1.0 or libgtk1.1 earlier than 1.1.16 or such.
Ciao,
Mart
>> "DM" == Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DM> Why am I getting all those unresolved dependencies? I thought that
DM> was what equivs was for?
The version in slink does not work well with apt. You installed a new
equivs package with different dependencies, but there is a equivs with
th
>> "MB" == Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MB> For step nine, edit the /etc/ppp/peers/provider file, replacing their
MB> chat line with:
MB> connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider"
Additionally, the +ua will not work with the pppd available in
slink. Thisoption has be
>> "MC" == Monte Copeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MC> Checking for valid XFree86 server configuration file not found.
MC> xdm failed to load.
In my /etc/init.d/xdm, this error message is generated when
/etc/X11/XF86Config is not present. Is it there?
Ciao,
Martin
>> "DM" == Debian Mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DM> I did an update and upgrade with apt-get. While configuring the
DM> packages, apt-get stoped with an error while configuring
DM> xemacs. How can I now configure the rest of the packages?
dpkg --configure --pending
DM> It's now also impossib
>> "GA" == Graham Ashton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
GA> I've installed gtk-themes-0.5 from source, but can't get it to
GA> work properly.
[...]
GA> Any ideas?
Try the gtk-engines-* packages available at
deb http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink unstable main
Ciao,
>> "WRP" == William R Pentney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
WRP> GImLib ERROR: Cannot find file : /etc/im/im_palette.pal gdk_imlib
WRP> : Cannot find Palette. A Palette file is required for this mode
Change the first line in .imrc in your home directory. Imlib now uses
/etc/imlib/, not /etc/im/
O
>> "P" == Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
P> On 19-May-99 Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>>
>> If you don't --force anything and think about what you place into the
>> metaheaders, it will be all right.
>>
P> Thanks. Since you ar
>> "AMAC" == Andrew Martin Adrian Cater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AMAC> I've been running unstable for too long: I've forgotten whether
AMAC> the version of Netscape in stable requires you to download the
AMAC> tarballs from Netscape's ftp site.
No.
AMAC> I've installed all the Netscape packa
>> "P" == Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
P> I looked into the equivs package, but from what I read, it is not a
P> good solution and can break a system.
Use the one in unstable as I said in another mail. The only "problem"
there could be is that you define Provides, dependancies or other
>> "DM" == Debian Mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DM> Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they have unmet
DM> dependencies:
DM> libc6-dev: Depends:libc6
DM> But I just installed libc6_2.0.7.19981211-6.deb
DM> So why does apt-get claim, that it's not there?
First do a dpk
>> "MB" == Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MB> In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
>> How can I convince my system that QT is installed? Is there a file
>> I can edit?
MB> Look at the "equivs" package.
But please take the version available in potato, as equivs has been
completely rewritte
>> "SB" == Stuart Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I have a fairly old Logitech three-button mouse. /dev/ttyS1 and mman
protocol for gpm and Logitech protocol in XF86Config.
SB> Could I need to add a kernel module for this? Or might I have
SB> added one which conflicts? (I might have added PS
>> "KE" == Khalid EZZARAOUI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
KE> is it safe to use the old 2.2.5 config file (to compile the
KE> kernel) in the 2.2.7 configuration ?
Yes. Just copy it to the new directory. If there are new options,
make-kpkg will ask you for the values (actually it is make I believe)
>> "MH" == Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MH> However, the installed system dies with a kernel panic because it
MH> can't mount the root file system. I suppose that the other kernel
MH> (that is quite a few KB smaller than the one installed by the
MH> install system from /install) doe
>> "MF" == Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MF> Is it possible to start programs needing x to run through the net
MF> (telnet, rlogin ...). How do i tell them to use my screen?
Best way is to install ssh (from non-us) and connect to the other
system with it. ssh will automatically do the
>> "p" == pedrob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
p> im having troubles installing netscape. so, i would like to know if
p> there is any how-to explaining the install process of netscape
p> (.deb) in debian
Get intso dselect. Choose "select" press "/". Enter
"communicator-smotif-45". Press Return. P
>> "JF" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JF> I seem to remember seeing somewhere (and I can't find it now) a
JF> reference to starting the Gnome-session command with the xdm
JF> display manager at boot up.
Check http://www.gnome.org/gnomefaq/html/x441.html you can then
specify your win
>> "BB" == Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BB> Now I notice syslogd has been stopped so I peek into /etc/init.d
BB> and behold a bevy of new scripts eg 'whutever.dpkg-new'. Without
BB> looking further into the matter, they mostly appear to be of
BB> identical length to their 'old' foreb
>> "SB" == Stuart Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SB> My best guess is that imlib-gdk doesn't depend on imlib-base (and
SB> all the gnome stuff depends only on imlib-gdk).
This is not the case.
dpkg -s gdk-imlib1
[...]
Depends: imlib-base, libc6 (>= 2.1), libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0), libjpeg62,
>> "PC" == Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PC> Can somebody explain me what's in each package and what are their
PC> inter-relationships?
Basically it is
netscape
navigator communicator
smotifdmotifsmotif dmotif
qualified
>> "SB" == Stuart Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SB> The only problem I had was a missing dependency somewhere that
SB> meant I was able to get the whole thing installed without ever
SB> installing (the right version of) imlib-base, so everything
SB> core-dumped.
As you can't be more specif
>> "JH" == John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JH> David Teague writes:
>> ppp has not been in default kernels I use.
JH> Only if you did not select it as a module when you installed.
And even than, I believe all modules are installed, you just select
which modules should be loaded by defau
>> "d" == deblists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
d> There are other IDE's, but those are the ones that include visual
d> interface builders that I can think of right now.
There are "code crusader", "sniff++" and "wipeout" as well. All aiming
at c/c++/java.
I don't know C, just perl and pike, b
>> "AI" == Andrei Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AI> I just ran into an interesting thing: On my desktop, I accidently
AI> hit Shift+Alt+arrow key. I know that Alt+arry key switches between
AI> screens, bbut what does Shift+Alt+arrows do? It switches me into
AI> an empty screen, where I can o
>> "SZ" == Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SZ> After a long time, I finally decide to replace smail with exim. I
SZ> have sucessfully set it up on one machine. But the other one stops
SZ> working...
So I guess my late reply on settig upsmail is obsolete :-)
SZ> After installing exim, my
Quoting Paul Nathan Puri([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>> I'm trying to get the modem going. Windows reported that it sat on
>> IRQ 4, on io port 0110-0117.
>> "WT" == Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
WT> That is a strange looking port address. Common address for COM 1
WT> is 3F8 on 'normal' PC ha
>> "M" == MallarJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
M> but KPPP refuses to do the job. XISP is nice, but I couldn't get
M> it to dial over 38,000kbps for me for some reason. WVDial is what
M> I use now. It's not
Both are frontends to pppd, so as long as the same options are used,
the result should
>> "SZ" == Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SZ> Some sites block the emails sent from an unqualified domain. How
SZ> do I configure smail so that I can send the mail via a qualified
SZ> smtp, or as it looks like my domain is qualified.
First make sure you don't deliver mail directly to th
>> "P" == Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
P> software with dselect, it tries to upgrade my custom kernel to the
P> default 2.2.5 kernel (my custom kernel is also 2.2.5).
How did you build it? When you use kernel-package, you can use a
revision number that is higher than any that could poss
>> "RM" == Richard Miles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> xterm -ls -geometry 80x24+0+63 &
>> xterm -ls -geometry 80x24+515+63 &
>> /usr/bin/X11/fvwm2 &
>> /usr/bin/panel
RM> I have a couple of questions concerning the .xsession script.
RM> Will calling gnome session load enlightenment, and whatev
>> "PHBdO" == Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PHBdO> But gnome-stage-slink (and now slink dist) doesnt have glade,
PHBdO> only potato.
It does now.
Ciao,
Martin
>> "SK" == Stephen Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SK> Has anybody got a TNT working under slink. Perhaps its just a case
SK> of compiling the potato xfress86 package?
You can download the packages from http://www.netgod.net/x or add a
line to sources.list and use apt.
deb http://www.netgod
>> "PHBdO" == Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PHBdO> Is there any intention to package Free Builder for Debian? Now
PHBdO> that we have a reasonable java plataform (with jdk, awt,
PHBdO> xemacs, and others).
You should ask this question on debian-devel.
Ciao,
>> "BR" == Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BR> On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 12:23:21PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> There are only very minor changes that have been made from 2.1r0 to 2.1r2;
>> there are bigger changes planned for 2.1r3 and there will be updated CD
>> images to go with
>> "AS" == Alexander Stavitsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AS> Communicator 4.51 started to give bus errors after the X upgrade
AS> to 3.3.3.1-3
Actually, it is not X but glibc2.1
Netscape must be using some internal libc things, that are no longer
present in glibc2.1
And as there is no source
>> "PK" == Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PK> Did you find GNOME easy to set up?
If you want to try GNOME, add the folowing line to your sources.list
and use apt to install it.
deb http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink unstable main
We are currently in progre
>> "BS" == Brian Schramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BS> and downloaded the files from there. I then went to the gnome
BS> site and followed the links for the files there and it gave me the
BS> apt-get command.
I don't know what is written at the gnome site, but if you get a line
to add to so
>> "PK" == Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PK> When I went back into dselect for GNOME, I selected some games and
PK> apps that required the whole GNOME setup to work.
You may want to try newer packages. In slink, there is gnome 0.3, but
there is gnome 1.0 available. Make sure you insta
>> "PHBdO" == Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PHBdO> I installed slink in a friend house and he wants glade that I
PHBdO> showed for him running in my potato system at school. But
PHBdO> gnome-stage-slink (and now slink dist) doesnt have glade, only
PHBdO> potat
>> "SB" == Stuart Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SB> /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/../bin/i686/green_threads/java: error in loading
SB> shared libraries:
SB> /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/../lib/i686/green_threads/libjava.so: undefined
SB> symbol: _dl_symbol_value
SB> Anyone else experienced this, or have a fi
>> "S" == Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
S> I'm now wondering if anyone has any comments on how "stable" the
S> unstable distribution is in general.
Pretty OK, but there are some known problems with glibc2.1
Netscape gets unstable.
Sometimes gives a bus error when closing a window -> closing
>> "BGR" == Bruno Goncalves Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BGR> I've updated my system to potato, but now Icq-java doesn't work
BGR> anymore.
There is a fixed version of jdk1.1 in Incoming. Check the mirros file
on www.debian.org where to find Incoming.
Ciao,
Martin
>> "ML" == Michael Laing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ML> In the near future I may need to handle daily bulkmail to a list
ML> of users in the 20,000-100,000 range.
I would check the documentation on www.exim.org. debian.org runs with
exim, and it does pretty well.
Ciao,
Martin
>> "TM" == Thorsten Manegold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
TM> I installed Debian using the dialup option. It asked me the name
TM> that my computer should get, but not the domain name. I guess
TM> that's ok as I'm only using PPP?
Never done this option. but it looks strange.
TM> Does the local m
>> "RF" == R Feenstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RF> I'm running Debian 2.1 Slink since one week and now I'm trying to
RF> get my ISDN card to work.Installed isdnutils.
You need to load the isdn modules first
modprobe hisax
For me, options are type=15 protocol=2 io=0x100 irq=10 id=line0
In
>> "r" == roddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
r> I'm experimenting with making my first .deb. The howto's tell me
In addition to the other answers: There is the mailinglist
debian-mentors, which is just there as a forum for new
developers. Subscribe via www.debian.org
Ciao,
Martin
>> "AB" == André Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AB> Since I just installed linux a few days ago from my debian 2.1 cd
AB> there
This should also be your primary choice for software for now. You will
also find mtools there. There might be newer versions of the packages
out there, but you don't
>> "NC" == Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
NC> I'm unable to get my linux box working cause I'd broken glibc2.1 !
NC> I'd an older rescue disk (Debian 1.3) and I can mount my linux box
NC> meanwhile I also have lastest libc6-2.1 package on it but i'm
NC> unable to get dpkg working ! :(
>> "PJMaP" == Paulo J Matos aka PDestroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PJMaP> 4 - How do I configure my PCBIT ISDN card. I installed the
PJMaP> module but it says when it is loading it that there are still 3
PJMaP> files to be configured at /etc/isdn... How do I configure them
PJMaP> ?
Just edit
>> "AB" == Alan Bailward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AB> I'm using /unstable, and a couple of upgrades ago some really,
AB> /really/ annoying netscape stuff started happening with 4.51.
AB> The first thing is when I have multiple netscape windows open, and
AB> close one, sometimes netscape will
>> "CP" == Chuck Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
CP> I did see the proposed-updates and ChangeLog, but is there just
CP> one or a few places to find the stable updated deb packages?
It is just proposed-updates. Not that the files therein are sometimes
moved to stable (therefor you have Debian
>> "LW" == Lawrence Wickline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
LW> I need a good HTML code editor for debian (Been thinking I may
LW> just program macros in emacs but I don't realy want to)
Just remembered. Besides the excelent html modes in emacs, you could
try aswedit. It is free for educational and
>> "m" == mguenthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
m> I don't know if this will help, but I encountered problems myself with
m> update-menus, being unable to add menu entries for certain packages. However
m> I was able to manage a workaround by prefixing the package name with a
m> "local." For exa
>> "MF" == Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MF> I upgraded my computer from slink to potato and it wont print
MF> anymore.
You didn't by chance also switch from a 2.0.x to a 2.2.x kernel?
uname -a
MF> from lpq i get a message: status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'device
MF> not configures
>> "SZ" == Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SZ> Some sites do a smtp look up and I cannot send mails to these
SZ> sites because my local domain name is not qualified. How do I fix
SZ> this?? By putting a qualified domain name does not fix the
SZ> problem.
You didn't say what your hostname
>> "MM" == Matthew McFarlane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MM> I'm getting these errors... yet I have these files in /lib/
MM> failed dependencies:
MM> ld-linux.so.2 is needed by XFree86_3DFX-SVGA-3.3.3-4
MM> libc.so.6 is needed by XFree86_3DFX-SVGA-3.3.3-4
[...]
You don't use Debian, right? This
>> "LW" == Lawrence Wickline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
LW> Now I have a minimally configured box running WindowMaker and I
LW> need to find Replacement apps for my windows junk. Specificaly a
LW> Word Replacement ( I tried WordPerfect but the install blew up at
LW> the end)
Worked for me. You
>> "AB" == André Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AB> Here's a LARGE link to 1,370 debian files/apps via hotbot search
AB> (many of them are at www.debian.org).
You are better of going to www.debian.org. Then choose "Debian
Packages" on the left side. There you can browse through the available
>> "JHMG" == J Horacio M G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JHMG> /var/spool/exim/input/ and /var/spool/exim/msglog/. I believe
JHMG> Exim complained about |exec and IFS (I tried both with
JHMG> .forward). This is what I had in my ~/.forward:
JHMG> "|exec /usr/bin/procmail"
In /etc/exim.conf, you
>> "JB" == Jayson Baird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JB> Okay, I know I'll probably give a few people some laughs here..but
JB> my .deb package is no where to be found..I had about a 7 minute
JB> wait while the kernel compiled and poof, no .deb with the
JB> Kernel..any ideas?
They are created one
>> "PM" == Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PM> Since you're running debian and (de)installation is so easy, why
PM> not just replace Apache with Roxen and see how it goes. You can
PM> always change back easily if something breaks.
I would leave apache for now, and install roxen in addit
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