Re: modem

> I need help to choise a modem that works on debian > can somebody tellme about? I'm using an internal USR 56K Sportster on this machine; works fine. What you have to be leery of is any modem that requires Windows. Ask about that specifically. My advice would be to avoid an internal mod

Re: web based mail

> I have tried to do so, but this page does not seem to exist any > more. Does anyone have a suggestion where to find this .deb? Ivan's link at works just fine . Another interesting web-based system -- much more than just e-mail -- is Obsidian's OCS at

Re: VNC

If you don't mind another VNC question, what are you using for a viewer on the client side and how are you running it? The man pages on this aren't the best. I can run a VNC client on a Windows machine perfectly (finally, a use for Windows!:-), but when trying to access my Linux server fro

Re: StarOffice 5

> This is a HUGE difference. The multiuser patch was great! 12M for 4.0 to > 140M with 5.0. Does anyone know if there was a multiuser patch for SO5 > aswell? I like having a 12M user dir as opposed to a 140M dir. I haven't seen one. But at home here I'm only running the personal version and ha

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

> of them becoming developers, Deb's weaknesses such as the install > problems will be addressed as well (am I the only one who likes > dselect? :-) ). While dselect does have an odd interface, I definitely like it. I can see the original author's motive for force-feeding help screens, which I

Re: web based mail

> i was wondering if there's anyone here who gives web based mail services > to their customers. if so, what package/application can you suggest w/c, > based on ur experiences is proven to work in a nice and stable way. This is getting to be a FAQ. :-) Nice is easy, stable is the difficul

Obsidian's OCS web-based utilities

While perusing Freshmeat today I ran across Obsidian's OCS web-based set of "intranet" utilities. These include a e-mail, calendar/scheduling, chat, and other modules which fit nicely into an integrated web-based system. They're licensed under the GPL and appear to be highly polished and I was su

Re: X11 headers

> where do i can get this *.h files ? The various files needed for software development are libraries with a "dev" subject. Fire up Debian's dselect and search (using the '/' key) for "dev". -- Regards, | ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | "The most important design issue... . | http://www.g

Re: Linux Educational Needs Posting Pages

> I am passing around a link to a new page > designed for the purpose of helping > LINUX move into the classroom. Sounds like a great idea. Linux is a "natural" for education. Besides consultant types, what else do you need? I'm a technology coordinator in a public school district and hav

Re: Web email packages question

> What packages are available that would allow me to get > to my email from the web server on my system? Run -- don't walk! -- to http://www.tdyc.com/~rkrusty/Debian/ and grab Ivan Moore's IMP setup. When I did an overview of all the web-based systems IMP stood out as at least one of the best,

Win32 utilities for Debian

I was wondering if someone could recommend some Win32 utilities. The license on these has to be free, of course full GPL would be nice but the biggest issue is purely cost since these are going to be used in a school environment. These are the utilities that I'm looking for: #1 A decent telnet p

Re: where is /usr/src.linux???

> I am just now trying to compile my kernel for sound as per Marl Wagnon's > recent suggestions, but lo and behold, no /usr/src/linux and on top > of that, the only directory in my /usr/src directory is REDHAT?!?!?! > What's up here? Holy cow! RedHat's advertising campaign is taking over y

Sound card suggestion

I've had absolutely no luck with sounds cards and Linux. I'm in a position to where sound isn't really important on the machines I use, but I want to hear what a penguin sounds like. I used to have an Awe64 but didn't hit on the trick of patching the drivers into the source and configuring it pro

Re: Losing Linux

> I have asked previously on this list how to go about removing Linux from a > machine and reinstalling Windoze. Sorry, you can't do this -- ever. ;-) Did this machine have LILO installed on it? If so, boot from a DOS floppy and run "fdisk /MBR" to rewrite the master boot record, fdisk, a

Re: slashdot poll

> How about suggesting some improvements, rather than "I don't like the > Debian install"? The people I've talked to mention that RedHat's install is more of a "one screen, ask one question" mode. Debian's (at least the last time I did a full install) used a more complicated screen layout. Ne

Re: What Debian means?

> I want to know why our linux is called DEBIAN. Because Ian is married to Debra. See the Debian FAQ. -- Regards,| Windows98 (noun): 32 bit extensions and a . | graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 Randy | bit operating system

Re: shell scripting

> in dos, that "addmailuser" file will simply contain "adduser --conf > /etc/mailuser.conf %1" where %1 is the first parameter that it sees, that > is, the name of the user i want to add ... but how do u do this in linux ??? $1 is the first parm with bash. For simple scripts, see the files i

Re: Goodbye, people!

> distribution to compare it to, I'm glad I did. After getting over the > realization that I wouldn't have everything working that I wanted in Linux, > right now, I began to relax and it has become a hobby. Well an obsession:) Gee, that sounds familiar! ;-) Yes, Linux's learning curve is

Re: sendmail or smail =exim!

> Could you please point to a source URL for exim. That's easily reference in any of the popular search engines. -- Regards, | REDMOND, WA (API) --- MICROSOFT (MSFT) announced today . | the the official release date for the new operating Randy | system "Wind

Potato X problems

I had X break on two systems which both are running potato. The X login comes up, allows a login, but the window manager immediately closes and throws one back out to the login prompt. However, I haven't had any problems with slink systems. My guess is it's something in the new gnome or perhaps

Screenshot utility for Debian?

Could someone tell me if there is a utility to create screenshots packaged for Debian? I've searched various combinations in dselect and couldn't find one but it'd amaze me if one was already packaged. TIA. -- Regards, | REDMOND, WA (API) --- MICROSOFT (MSFT) announced today . | the

Re: Debian Weekly News

> I found this great link from LWN. > But, then I went back to the debian home page, and coundn't find it... I think the Debian Weekly News is a great addition to our community too. To address your concern, the DWN seems to be a separate entity from the "official" Debian web site. -- Regard

Re: Setting Prompt

> As root my prompt has the working directory listed. Where is the file > for the root prompt? This can be set in ~/.bashrc and/or? ~/.bash_profile. I just checked, and I have mine set in both (for what reason escapes me). I'm using: PS1="\t [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\$ " and then exporting

Re: USB Support

> I would also like to know if can mount a fat32 partition. i have tryed mount > -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /mnt ( fat32 is on and 3rd hard drive ) but i get a error > message. Is there a *.deb package i need to install?? And that error message is? Most likely you need to recompile your kernel with vfa

Re: Switch to Red Hat?

> Well, i think it is a very healthy experience once in a while to try > out another distribution like Redhat just to see what actually makes > Debian so good. [...] So just do it, you'll return > anyway - but being lots wiser. Hehehe. He can borrow my copy of RedHat 5.1 I bought and installe

Re: News reading

> I would like to be able to fetch news while online and then read them and > answer while offline. IMHO the best solution would be either leafnode or suck. Leafnode's smaller and far easier to set up. It also has a slick option to auto-delete unread newsgroups. Suck is more powerful, re

Re: consdiag v 1.0 released

Manuel Gutierrez Algaba wrote: > > hello, > > I've just finished my project "consdiag", it can be found in > http://www.ctv.es/USERS/irmina/texpython.htm > > It's a utility that makes Rumbaugh OO boxes in LaTeX, something > pretty useful for many computer science students. > > I do want to seve

Re: Web-based email for Debian

John Goerzen wrote: > There are quite a few. If you go to freshmeat.net and search for the words > web mail, you'll find about a dozen. Thanks John. I went ahead and grabbed Ivan's imp*.deb package (http://www.tdyc.com/~rkrusty/Debian) that he's working on and that installed beautifully. --

Re: Non US, PGP and slink

> Has anyone else had problems with the non US debian slink sites? The > Packages file seems to contain pgp-us version 2.6.3a-5, but, for at > least a month now, the pgp-us package itself is version 2.6.3a-4. I get the same thing about several non-existent files in non-us/slink. This was discu

Re: LILO

> Could someone tell me how do I install LILO and where, in what files, do I > configure it, and of course how ? LILO is installed in a default Debian setup. If for some reason you need to reinstall it, just download the lilo*.deb file from ftp.debian.org. Once downloaded, just use dpkg -i

Apache, Apache-SSL

Here's my silly question for the day. ;-) Does the non-us SSL version of Apache also require the non-SSL package or is it a standalone replacement for Apache? -- Regards, | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . | Randy |

Web-based email for Debian

I'm running a slink system w/Exim as my MTA. Does anyone know of a web-based e-mail system that would fit into a Debian system nicely? -- Regards,| Windows95 (noun): 32 bit extensions and a . | graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 Randy

Re: Adding memory

> I have just purchased some more memory for my machine so that i can > upgrade it to 64megs. Is there anything that i need to do so that Debian > will recognize it or should I just put it in and start the machine up??? Put it in (carefully!:-) and start the machine up. Linux should see it fi

Removing mungled packages

A while ago I installed the xfstt package and it wouldn't install properly. There has since been an update to this package and I figured the update would clear up my problem. No such luck. Dpkg reports problems with this package and suggests that I should reinstall. Reinstalling just gives me t

No "sender" field with Netscape Communicator

I previously asked a question about messages sent out with Netscape Communicator having a null "sender" field in the message header. This was pointed out to me by a listserv who wouldn't let me subscribe to a mailing list because of this omission. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to turn up an answer

Netscape mail "sender" problem

I'm running the Debian version of Netscape 4.5. Everything works fine (or so I thought!:-) until I decided to join a mailing list hosted by listserv. When subscribing, listserv complains that my "sender:" line is blank, and thus my message doesn't meet RFC standards and can't/won't be processe

Majordomo and Exim

Is anyone successfully running Majordomo and Exim? I'm in the process of setting this combination up and am running into some major headaches; I was wondering if I could ask a few questions off-list to you if you don't mind... -- Regards, | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Linux: superior operatin

Re: Unsure of how Debian is updated

> One thing I can't quite work out though is how Debian handles updated > packages. For example XFree86 3.3.3 is out now, will this eventually be > integrated into the 2.0 release or are the packages in this release frozen > except for bug fixes? Hamm (Debian 2.0) is presently "stable" it will

Re: recommendation on presentation software

> i need to make a presentation, and i'd like to do it with my laptop "a la" > Powerpoint. (ie video output of laptop plugged on LCD retroprojector) Go to ftp://narnia.mit.edu (or http://www.stardivision.com) and download a copy of StarOffice5. The StarOffice office suite has a presentation gr

Re: configuring sound (easy?)

> | I'm running 2.0.36 on i386, and have a SoundBlaster AWE 64 plugged into > | it, which is unconfigured. > If you can't figure things out from the HOWTOs (Marcus Brinkmann has > written a fine SB 32 HOWTO) I'm sure there are plenty of people on > this list who have a working SB AWE 64 (me includ

Mail "sender" problem?

I'm running a slink system with smail on a box that is being IP masqueraded. One manager of a mailing list I'm on complains that I don't have a proper "sender" field in my mail message. I'm fairly vague on mail headers so I'm not sure what the problem might be. Could someone take a look at my he

dpkg "Packages.gz: not a plain file" error?

I'm tracking slink and have a local mirror of it. However, when upgrading a machine on my local network with the latest apt, I get the following error message: Get ftp://ftp.golgotha.net slink/contrib Packages Error ftp://ftp.golgotha.net slink/contrib Packages 550 /pub/debian/debian-non-US/dist

Re: star office 5 hangs my system ...

Daniel Mashao wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Adam Shand wrote: > > > > > > I runs fine here. I am running slink and have tried three different > > > kernels, 2.0.32, 2.0.35, and 2.1.127, all work fine. Maybe you need > > > more video RAM? That thing is a resource pig. > > > I am running on a Pen

Re: APT 0.1.9 (yes, 0.1.9!) is released!

> We hope everyone's Debian systems are made just a little bit better > with APT. A little?! You have a knack for the understatement. ;-) Thanks much Ben. -- Regards,| Debian GNU/ __ o http://www.debian.org . |/ / _ _ _ _ _ __

Re: slink features?

> > - Is GNOME and Enlightenment ready to go out of the box? What versions? > I think there will be gnome packages in slink. I don't know about > enlightenment. Yes, Enlightenment is in slink. I installed E as a total Enlightenment dummy and it installed seamlessly right out of the box -- ver

Re: Diamond Viper 330 AGP card.

> Is X running on Diamond Viper 330 AGP card? Could someone comment is it a > good card? I like the card a lot. I'm running one now (4MB) in this box. It runs with the regular SVGA X server and I'm currently pushing it at 1024x768 @ 99mhz. Couldn't be happier with it... -- Regards,

Re: help! apt upgrade breaks everything

> PS: Why is xbase_3.3.2.3a-6 100K and my old xbase_3.3.2.3a-1 2.1MB? With 3.3.2.3a-6 the slink X package underwent a major redesign. It still has a lot of problems (I've still got one system which has WindowMaker broken ). IMHO, you might want to consider putting the various X packages o

X errors

I'm running 3 slink systems and I've run into a problem with X on two of them. Given the state of X and slink this normally wouldn't bother me but what caused me concern was that only 2 of the 3 systems broke -- darn it, I want all or nothing. ;-) I get the following error message when trying to

Re: replacment for quick books

> Is there a replacement for Quicken/Quickbooks ? Good question. I still use NT for two purposes: QuickBooks and a voice-mail system. I could live without the voice mail system but until I find a decent accounting program I'm still in the dual-boot mode. -- Regards,| Debian

Re: deb box as 'gateway'?

> If I put the modem in the old 486, can I > use that to dial out through both under NT4 and debian on the other box, > and debian on that box? Of course. First, install the Debian package called "diald" (dial on demand daemon). Then set up NT to see your Debian box as the gateway. Then yo

Re: Multi-partitions

DOS is fairly fussy about where it wants its partitions. If I were you, I'd make a small DOS partition with DOS (how large is this supposed to be? Beware of the ~510MB/1024 cylinder BIOS problems), install DOS onto it, and then install Debian elsewhere on the hard drive using Linux's fdisk to m

Re: Mirror debian 2.0

> I have a debian cd 2.0. I'll be copying the "main" to a harddisk. How do I > mirror "main" in such a way that packages will be automatically be > updated(delete some old packages, add some packages, automatically.)? Grab the 'mirror' package. You can easily configure it to get only the subd

Restricting mail use: local/internet

I'm running Exim as my MTA and I've got a situation where I would like to restrict e-mail usage for some users to the local machine, but still allow other users to have full internet e-mail capabilities. These users are all accessing the Linux box from Win95 machines via Samba. Could anyone give

Proposed-updates subdir?

Could someone tell me exactly what the dists/proposed-updates subdirectory is for? Yes, I know it's for "proposed updates" ;-), but what for what dist? Hamm? Slink? Does this subdir function as sort of a new "incoming" type of subdir so that the files are checked and then moved into Hamm o

Re: Fetchmail don't work for me !

> all messages are stored in the root account not each recipients. I've tried umpteen variations in my configurations and I run into the same thing. No matter what I do, fetchmail won't store mail in the user's account, only in root's. The kludge that I've worked out is to put an individ

Re: Technical aspects that make Linux better than NT -- Is a list compiled somewhere?

> Is there a list somewhere that's compiled about technical reasons that > Linux is better than NT? I'm interested as far as having good reasons to > quickly list off to NT hacks. Not a matter of convincing _me_ -- just > them. Go to the URL of http://www.golgotha.net/why_linux/index.html and take

/var/tmp/*map* files

I have a huge and growing selection of files in /var/tmp with various names like local_map.9831.dir, local_map.9831.pag, local_map.944.db, remote_map.*.*, etc. Could someone tell me what program is generating these files, what they are, and is it safe to delete them periodically? Thanks in advanc

Copying only root directory

I've got a simple question. I'm in the process of switching from a 2.5 GB HD to a 4.3 GB drive. I have my Linux box set up with a 64 meg / partition, a 700 meg /usr, and separate /tmp, /home, and /var (etc.) partitions. Okay, so I partition my new drive with the various sized partitions that I w

Smailconfig prompt

Could someone explain this smailconfig prompt to me please: "You have to tell me where to send all locally-generated mail. Using colebrook.k12.nh.us will result in mail for local users being sent to whatever system the rest of the world thinks deals with mail for that address - that had better not

Named configuration problems

I've been working to set up a name server for a local school server and have run into a configuration problem. Could someone spot this problem for me? Here's the situation: The domain is "colebrook.k12.nh.us" This doesn't resolve. However, if I address the machine, e.g. "academy.colebrook.k

dists/sid subdirectory?

Does anyone know what the sid subdirectory in dists is? I'm guessing that this is the follow-on version after slink, but that idea seemed a bit strange as slink is unstable. Anyone know for sure? -- Regards,|Debian GNU/__ o http://www.debian.org . |

Video card/TV tuner recommendation

I know this must be a FAQ, but I couldn't find it while looking. Can someone give me a recommendation for a good, fire-breathing Linux-supported video card and TV Tuner? Thanks in advance. -- Regards,|Debian GNU/__ o http://www.debian.org . |

Re: change from fvwm95 to kde?

> I installed Debian 2.0 with fvwm95 as the window manager. I'd now like to > use kde. I installed all the packages and am able to run kde, but it seems > to be running on top of fvwm95. > > How can I change the window manager to kde? > Where is the window manager invoked? Check out /etc/X11/wi

New Debian user's reaction to X

I just installed Debian on a friend's machine, a computer junkie but full-blown Linux newbie. For the sake of his reactions, I thought I'd give y'all his impressions of Debian. This guy previously had RedHat installed on his machine. He loved RedHat's installation and GUI nature but couldn't get

Re: no pon!

> When I type pon, nothing is happening. I ran plog and got the message > that "Device ttyS1 is locked by pid 109" > ttyS1 was working fine for weeks. > who is this pid 109 and what does it want with my life? PID is simply a process identification number. What that message was telling you wa

Re: RAM SIZE large than 64MB

> It was said that if the system have more than > 64MB RAM, the user needed to use kernel > option specified the actual RAM size, Yes, you do need to tell the kernel about more than 64 megs of RAM. Assuming you are using LILO to boot your system, just add the following line to your /etc/lilo.

FetchMail problem

I'm trying to set up fetchmail and have been pulling my hair out because the program doesn't seem to be acting like how the docs and manpage says it should. I want to run fetchmail in a daemon mode, so I created a script in /etc/init.d with the proper format which calls fetchmail as: start-stop-d

Re: REPOST: Diald routing (Help!)

> > Diald is already dialing when it should but the routing table is not > > being updated. I've had the same problem. Somewhere (either a HOWTO or a Linux Journal article) I found advice about setting the routing manually. This is what I'm doing now. In /etc/ppp/ip-up (the script) I put

Re: kde (and K memory leak question)

> Yep. KDE is still beta right now... the 1.0pre1 was released last week, but > afaik isn't debianized yet. If you're running the KDE build out of frozen, try > upgrading to beta4, in slink, as it fixes a few problems and is more stable. I'm running the slink KDE setup here; have you or anyone

Diald connect script for chap

I recently switched ISPs to one that uses NT and its chap. Using the pppconfig package I have my system working so that it works fine with "pon". However, I want to get diald working. Unfortunately, I can't for the life of me create a diald "connect" script that works properly in this setup. Wo

Re: How do I setup /dev/cdrom ?

First, go into /dev and do a "ls -l cdrom" and see where the symbolic link is pointing to. If your CD-ROM is the slave off from the primary controller, then it will be known as /dev/hdb. If the symbolic link is missing, or pointing to some other device than what your CD-ROM is on, then simple del

Weird diald behavior

Recently I decided to revamp my ppp and diald setup and adopt the script strategy that the new version of ppp uses rather than my old kludge. Well, my experience proves the old saying, "if it ain't broke..." ;-) Here's the problem I'm having. If I connect to my ISP using the ppp package's script

APT package list question

I'm playing around with APT and am running Slink. Right now I've got apt set up to grab the non-us, frozen, and unstable versions. I did this originally thinking that something might change in hamm that wouldn't be reflected in slink. Seems to work fine, though of course it adds download time to

Hamm upgrade to Slink

Now that hamm has been frozen I'm starting to miss the routine of playing with new packages on my home system. :-) So I was playing with the idea of upgrading to slink and running that. Unlike the upgrade from bo to hamm, I can find no docs/readme's on a hamm to slink upgrade. Can someone who is

Re: How to create device for tape backup

Thanks for the tip Bernt. I assume that MAKEDEV pulls the device info from /proc/devices? Another tape-related device I've seen reference to (and thus assume I need) is /dev/nht0. Any idea what that device might be for and why two are needed (in addition to whether it is made the same way:-)?

How to create device for tape backup

I just acquired an IDE tape backup and I believe that this uses ht0 for a device. I've recompiled my kernel, and the kernel recognizes the device at boot and I have a ht0 listed in /proc/devices, but I don't have any sort of /dev/ht0 entry to use the device with. Can someone tell me what th

backup s/w suggestions

I just got ahold of a Seagate TapeStor 8 GB IDE tape backup that I'm eager to use with my hamm system. I noticed that dselect lists out several different tape backup programs. I was wondering if someone could give me a recommendation. I'm not looking to do anything radical or special, just

backup superblocks/bad drive

I've got a friend who has a corrupted his primary partition. He gets an error message when he boots of an invalid superblock suggesting that he run "e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sda1". I know that mke2fs makes several backup copies of the superblock, but I'm unsure of where these are placed. Are they pla

Stupid question for the day

Okay, you can tease me later :-), but for now, could someone please answer this stupid question for today? I've looked and apropros'ed myself to near death, but nowhere can I find out what that command is to automagically set up a program in /etc/init.d to run properly at the various run lev

Re: Setup w/large hard drives

> Why do you need a separate partition to boot from? > I have an 800mb root partition (which is more than 1024 cylinders, > obviously) and it boots from that just fine, and that's on /dev/hdb > too. This is what I thought too! As I said, I initially tried a 64 meg / partition thinking I could

Setup w/large hard drives

I tried setting up bo on a friend's hard drive today -- actually, two different hard drives, one IDE and one SCSI, both 3.2 gig drives which have more than 1024 cylinders. My first attempt was to create a 64 meg primary partition which was to be root, then a swap partition, then other partit

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

> as a side note i always use dpkg to upgrade my system (i just don't > like the interface that dselect offers) ... but i'd like to sync my system > to the latest hamm. what is the easiest way to do this with (dselect i > assume)? This is what I'd do: Use dselect, update all of the packa

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

> staroffice 4 on my hamm system just segv's (installed with its own > installer) After getting some replies on this thread, I went ahead and dove in too. I'm running the latest hamm and extracted the tarball into /tmp. I then read the read.me, looked at the license, and said, "what the heck,

StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

Is there a Debian package to automate the installation of StarOffice 4.0? Thanks in advance. -- Regards,|Debian GNU/__ o http://www.debian.org . | / /__ _ _ _ _ __ __ Randy | / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ /

infocom botched installation

I tried to install a couple of the infocom-type games from hamm without luck. The packages in question are xzip, gsn-jigsaw, and weather. Dpkg gives me error messages that there is no "old pre-removal script" and that the new package (there's been an update since I first installed them) doe

Exabyte Eagle TR-4i IDE tape backup

Does anyone have any info on the Exabyte Eagle TR-4i IDE tape backup? Specifically, I'm wondering if it'll work with Linux. (Any other stories/experiences with these would be appreciated too.:-) -- Regards,|Debian GNU/__ o http://www.debian.org . |

Re: KDElibs vs qt1 and libgif2

> Has someone already installed KDE Beta3 ? Nuno, where did you find this new KDE beta? I'm running hamm and the latest I've seen at ftp.debian.org is packages requiring Beta2-2. Either way, to answer your questions, the hamm KDE package has dependency problems which make it not function (at

Re: Samba config/password problem; Win95 OEMSR2

> I am not sure if osr2 forces encrypted passwords, but it sounds like a > possibility. Yes, it seems as it does (see below), at least with the DUN 1.2 upgrade it does. > Can you smbclient to yourself in Linux to see if it will browse? Aha, this is an interesting angle I haven't thought

Samba config/password problem; Win95 OEMSR2

I'm running my Linux box (hamm) to two Win95 machines which are running OEMSR2 with the Dial-Up Networking 1.2 upgrade. After upgrading to the latest Samba I am having trouble getting access to my printer (which is on the Linux box) and my home directories. I have read and reread the Samba

Re: missing /usr/X11R6/lib/i486-linuxaout libs

> Maybe you just need to remove the symlinks. I notice that my > /usr/X11R6/lib/i486-linuxaout directory is empty (hamm). Can't do that Bill, they've got to point to somewhere! Strange how my tunnel vision works -- there are symlinks there, where are the libraries? There must be libraries so

missing /usr/X11R6/lib/i486-linuxaout libs

When it rains, it pours! :-) Does anyone know what package contains the various libraries found in /usr/X11R6/lib/i486-linuxaout? I'm missing these files for some reason and many packages want them! Right now, all I have are some bad symlinks in that subdir. A grep of /var/lib/dpkg/info d

netstd_3.03 problem, KDE problem

I'm in the process of updating my hamm system and while installing netstd_3.03-1 I get the following error message: trying to overwrite '/usr/man/man8/ftpd.8.gz', which is also in package wu-ftpd dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Could someone give me a clue as to wh

Re: Deity looks AWESOME

Okay, I'll bite: where can one find/download Deity? Also, "how unstable" is it? -- Regards, | Debian GNU/__ o http://www.debian.org .| / / _ _ _ _ _ __ __ Randy| / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / ([EMA

ftp.debian.org status?

I finally got my Linux box back up after motherboard problems and so the first thing I wanted to do was to update my old copy of hamm. However, when I ran dselect to grab updates I find that the package lists from ftp.debian.org are mangled or bad and only list a few packages in them (for exampl

Cloning a Debian hard drive

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Re: [fuzzy@ns.asarian.org: was wondering if you could help us]

On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > > we'd like to try other window managers... what is available and > They reside in the binary/X11 directory I'd think. There are, The hamm distribution has KDE desktop. This thing is *real* slick. You can see screenshots and get info from www.kd

Re: !!!!I am not linux smart.!!!!Please Help

> I have installed debian, now how do I get on the net so I can run dselect. > I don't think I have my modem set up yet. > /dev/modem not valid when ppp... My advice would be not to use /dev/modem. Call all of your serial devices by their "real" name, e.g. /dev/ttyS1. Then set up all o

e2fsck problems/info

I had a lockup of my system (while running Netscape 4.04) which required a hard reboot with the reset button. When the system came up it auto-fsck'ed disks except that it gave me an error message on two of my large files partitions which told me that I needed to run fsck manually (there was a mirr

/sbin/clock status?

Does anyone know what happened to the nifty little clock program that used to be in /sbin/clock? I used that to set my CMOS clock time from the OS' time but since I updated to hamm I can't seem to find it. A grep of Contents-i386 doesn't seem to show it either. Anyone know its status? Thanks in

libmd5-perl and libmime-base64-perl

Running hamm I tried to install the various Linux Gazette packages. However, they depend on libwww-perl. Fine, but after selecting libwww-perl it says it needs libmd5-perl and libmime-base64-perl and these are nowhere to be found. Anyone know what the status is of these packages? Thanks in adva

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