Re: Netscape Probs on Slink

1999-04-22 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Peter Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello Debianers, > > another Slink problem: > > Starting Netscape 4.07 Communicator shows up the licence-window and > freezes short after. The prozess runs, hangs, no output, it does not > consume much cpu time (Kernel is 2.2.4). strace

Re: Help on auto mount and sound

1999-04-21 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Brian Schramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to know how to change the timeout on the automount system for > Slink. It is set WAY TO LONG. use the --timeout parameter, like in my /etc/auto.master: # Sample auto.master file # Format of this file: # mountpoint map options # For details of t

Compilation problems with XEmacs

1999-04-18 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
I have the debian sources for xemacs 20.4-13 and wanted to recompile it to remove the gpm support. After applying a little filter to the debian/rules file to get rid of the mule variants: while() { print unless /mule/; next unless /nomule/; s/\S*canna\S*//g; s/\S*[-_]mule\S*//g;

Re: problems w/pppd 2.3.7

1999-04-17 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jeremy writes: > > drwxr-s--- 2 root dip 1024 Apr 12 08:17 /etc/chatscripts > > ... > > Hasn't been modified since I installed. I don't think this is relevant. > > Set group ID on execution on a directory does nothing useful that I > know

Re: Permission mismatch

1999-04-10 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Christian Dysthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I keep getting this fiendly email from cron: > > /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager: > /usr/sbin/sendmail PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.root 777 changed to > root.root 4755 > > I am using exim so the sendmail refered to is just a symbolic > link.

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-10 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > then welcome. That is why I am so vehemently opposed to anyone > > using email for large attachments. That is why I say that as the > > size of the attachment > > The commercial world is a far more practical place. You can't take a > stand on large

Re: Good MP3 encoder

1999-04-04 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Does anyone know of a good MP3 encoder for linux? I have an old > copy of 8hz-mp3, but it takes like 10hrs to rip and encode a cd. > I'd prefer an open source encoder, but am not opposed to a > commercial one. I just want to get one that is fast. Look at ftp://wopr.c

Re: isdnctrl dialmode

1999-04-03 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Bon Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > when I set 'isdnctrl dialmode' to 'manual', it says that my kernel > don't have/support this option. > > any suggestions? You either need the kernel 2.0.x (x >= 36) or 2.2.x with the current isdn driver patched in (e.g., ftp.suse.com/pub/isdn4linux). Otherw

Re: Message from cron

1999-04-02 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Christian Dysthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I keep getting this message from cron daily: > > /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager: > /usr/sbin/sendmail PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.root 777 changed to > root.root 4755 > > I have not touched the permissions for sendmail. I am using exim, so >

Re: did ldd disappear?

1999-03-20 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Stuart Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry to answer myself but I re-installed ldso (1.9.10-1) and ldd is > back. Don't know what happened. /usr/doc/libc6/changelog.Debian.gz: glibc (2.0.7.19981211-2) frozen unstable; urgency=low * Get ldd out of the libc6 package on architectures

Re: Use the source luke

1999-03-18 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Any opinions are welcome :) > > > > How about the best of both worlds, download the orig.tar.gz, the dsc > and the diff.gz files and make your own packages. > > dpkg-source -x packagefoo.dsc > cd into the created directory > debian/rules binary > > Then y

Re: Upgrade to 2.2.1 kernel, sound problems

1999-03-17 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Antal Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's also true, but has nothing to do with the mentioned error > message. The "Cant't open /dev/dsp" error seemed to be going away > after I stopped NAS. Sorry again for the mis-information... You should upgrade your nas, the current version (1.2p5-9)

Re: mp3 encoder packaged for debian?

1999-03-10 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Frankie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've had a look through dselect and I can't seem to find an mp3 > encoder. (any number of players, but no recorders). > > Is there one, or do I have to go to sunsite, find one and roll it > myself? I heard someone is going to package l3enc. I suggest that

Re: Going back records, using mt. (script included)

1999-03-10 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sergey Imennov) writes: > Here's a basic layout of the program: > 1. mt eof ( to 'append to a tape' ) > 2. Write "/" > 3. Write 'dynamic' directories > 4. go back 2 records ( I use mt bsf 2, but that > doesn't work... ) > 5. Invoke BRU's integrity-che

Re: Here is some more on deb bus ideas (jc@crack.com) (fwd)

1999-03-06 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Paul Nathan Puri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please explain what kaberos does. I've quite understood it... It's an authentification protocol. Here an excerpt of the control file: Kerberos is a system for authenticating users and services on a network. Kerberos is a trusted third-party ser

Re: e-Tex

1999-03-05 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I saw a directory called etex under the tetex directory, so i > wondered wheather the debian distribution uses e-Tex (i am using > hamm). If not, can anyone tell me how am i supposed to install > e-Tex, because I didn't understand how the distribution is

Re: Connection timed out & Incorrect MD5Sum

1999-03-04 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Lyno Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 01:17 PM 3/2/99 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > When I get this I switch sites in sources.list. Fixes it for me. > > I tried to do that but couldn't seem to find a site that would work > for me. Does any ftp site work or do I have to use a htt

Re: root doesn't have permission?

1999-03-03 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
"Person, Roderick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What would cause root not to have permission to delete a file, > directory or symlinks. Is there anyway to correct this problem. > > I've tried chown and chmod and everthing I can think of. Checkout lsattr and chattr (ext2fs), especially the immu

Re: Netscape is ignoring cookies!

1999-02-21 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Help, > > All of a sudden Nestcape is ignoring cookies. The cookies file is > intact but Netscape is failing to use them or accept. I am using the > Netscape 4.5 packages from slink. The permissions on the cookies > file is 600. I have also tried moving the cookies f

Re: Mitsumi FX001D CD-ROM drv. Need help...

1999-02-20 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
"Larry Shields WD9ESU" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am hopeing that someone that also has a CD-ROM drive the FX001D > can help me out here, in configuring the cd-rom drive, so that when > at bootup it will be mounted... > > If I boot right from the linux floppy disk, when it gets to the > poin

Re: Is my locale wrong?

1999-02-14 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Tapio Lehtonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > I keep getting error messages about locale. My locale is set like this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Work/Debian-doc/ddp $ set | grep LC > LC_CTYPE=finnish.iso88591 Please use LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.iso8859-1 instead. LC_CTYPE=fi_FI is also possible.

Re: Problem with perl and locale

1999-01-28 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Gregory Vandenbrouck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I have made a setenv LANG=fr on my system. Which means some programs > are displayed in French. It works fine but for perl which prints the > following message: > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check th

Re: What happened to ldd?

1999-01-21 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ldso 1.9.10 does not include ldd anymore! Where did it go??? It seems you have to reinstall ldso after updating to libc6_2.0.7.19981211-2. At least it worked for me. Look at the changelog of libc6. Torsten -- Homepage: http://www.in

Re: Netscape4.5 cannot find libraries

1999-01-17 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederick Page) writes: [necessary Packages are installed, ld.so.conf is fine] > The first missing libs (did not check all of them) are located in > /usr/ X11R6/lib. Since I am a linux-newbie, I may have messed with > the system in earlier tries to get netscape running. I copie

Re: man page for hwclock

1999-01-17 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
James Dietrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Simple question: Where did it go? > > I'm running the latest from potato. util-linux 2.9g-3 > > /usr/man/man8/clock.8.gz -> hwclock.8.gz > ls: /usr/man/man8/hwclock.8.gz: No such file or directory > > /var/catman/cat8/hwclock.8.gz does exist, so it

Re: Netscape4.5 cannot find libraries

1999-01-16 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Moises Quinto Vargas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [LDD Output of a libc5 based netscape without any X11 library] > checking the mailing list archives i found the following: > - to run netscape 4.5 must install glibc (libc6). glibc comes with > 2.0.34, right? then why does not netscape recognize gl

Re: The Gimp and gif

1999-01-15 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Ferenc Kiraly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can load gifs into The Gimp but I can't save them. What am I > missing? I thought I only need the gimp-nonfree package installed > for saving gifs to work. Did you tried to convert the image to index colors prior? GIF is a 256 color format only and

Re: how to reinstall all? Alias: how to dup. an installation ?

1999-01-07 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Paolo Pedaletti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ciao, > I want to format my HD and reinstall all the system, but I don't > want to forget the list of installed packages (or reinstall them by > hand...). > > If I do: > > # dpkg --get-selections | grep "[^de]install" | cut -f "1" > dpkg--g-s You ca

Re: reverse order printing?

1999-01-05 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Aaron Van Couwenberghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been using an HP Deskjet 540 with spud, and it's worked fine so > far. One annoying thing though -- the pages come out with the last > page on top. Is there a simple way to reverse the order? would it > be a gs or lpd/lpr option? Use "ps

Re: Defragging large filesystems

1999-01-02 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
"Eric Gillespie, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not quite sure what you're talking about here. Seems to me > fragmentation percentage would mean how much my files are fragmented. On > all my other filesystems, the percentage is between 1 and 3. I can > understand how the mp3 filesystem may

Re: modprobe: Cannot locate module char-major-10

1999-01-01 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
"Jeroen N. Witmond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem appeared on my box when I upgraded from the Debian hamm > kernel 2.0.34 to a 2.0.36 kernel straight from linux. The only > relevent difference in the configuration of these kernels seems to > be: > > diff -u /boot/config-2.0.34 /usr/sr

Re: multiple xservers on one machine?

1998-12-31 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Vincent Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I and a colleague share a PC. We would like to each run our own Xserver, > which can be switched to using Ctrl-Alt-F7 and F8, as with virtual > consoles. > > Is such a situation possible? I'm running hamm. Yes, just use the shell function (can be de

Re: apache-ssl-1.1.3

1998-12-31 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
"Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > HEllo, > > i am trying to install apache-ssl-1.3.3 ... but i have a little problem... > > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of apache-ssl: > apache-ssl depends on apache-common (>= 1.3.3); however: > Version of apache-comm

Re: linux window manager

1998-12-30 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Darko Martic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi ! > > Which window manager is the best? Of course, the one I use ;-) > I meen, which one has graphical configurations, which one users > prefer I like Window Maker (wmaker). You should install the newest version in the unstable directory if possi

Re: Communicator won't run. Help!

1998-12-30 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Tongyu Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I got the libc5 version from the supported directory. > I am using tcsh. The $HOME is already set. > here is the ldd output: > ldd: version 1.9.9 > libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4000d000) > libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so

Re: Newsgroups and this mailing list

1998-12-30 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
ivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I may be wrong (pls correct me if so) but I believe this mail list > _IS_ linked to the newsgroups. Check out linux.debian.user At least in my region (Germany) the linux.* newsgroups are almost dead. I also had problems with other gated mailing lists (like com

Re: Keyboard policz[D[3~[D

1998-12-30 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rainer Dorsch) writes: > I upgraded Debian from 1.3 to 2.0.r3 on a laptop (toshiba Tecra 720 > cdt) some time ago. But I had always problems with the keyboard > mappings. > > Both delete and Backspace have the keysym Keyboard Delete (checked > with xkeycaps). *That* is your p

Re: Acroread & Hamm ???

1998-12-29 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Wayne Cuddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does Acroread work with hamm? It tells me it can't find libXt.so.6. > If I set my LD_LIBRARY_PATH I get a SEGV. I do have libc5 > installed. Install the xlib6 (and to be sure the xpm4.7) packages from the oldlibs section. Otherwise check the output of

Re: Web mirroring software

1998-12-24 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Cagdas Ogut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anybody suggest me a tiny web mirroring software to run on > debian, preferebly in *.deb format? I don't expect much, only the > basic functionality. Maybe wget with the -m option can be useful. Torsten -- Homepage: http://www.in-berlin.de/

Re: Moving partition

1998-12-24 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Alexander Kushnirenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Symbolic links are just names of files. If the path of the > > destination stays the same (/usr is still /usr, even though the > > mount table is different) you shouldn't have problems just using > > cp. But I haven't done this before in truth.

Re: rotating log files

1998-12-21 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Thomas Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 02:17:06AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > The package "anacron" provides this functionality. > > Speaking of anacron: I used one of the preset configuration schemes > (Scientific Workstation) on one hamm machine and noticed

Re: xanim package?

1998-12-20 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Richard Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a Debian package for xanim? I have the source code > already, I'm just being lazy. It is in non-free/graphics, the current version is 2.70.7.0-3 Torsten -- Homepage: http://www.in-berlin.de/User/myrkr

Re: afbackup: comments and problems.

1998-12-20 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Alexander Kushnirenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > WHAT DOES NOT WORK: > After reading documentation, man pages, mail archive I thought that > the program I should run is "afbackup", it seemed natural as that's > the name of the package after all. My idea was to run periodically > following prog

Re: Backup recommendations

1998-12-19 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Alexander Kushnirenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After quite a few disks died on me I start to realize that backup > may be worth the effort :) I needed an accidential mkfs of the wrong partition before I decided to buy a streamer. Fortunately, all important data were recoverable (but it took

Re: Trouble with diaresis and ssharp key

1998-12-18 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Mike Touloumtzis dixit: > > > > > > This is my /etc/.profile file configured for the Spanish keyboard (ie. > > > dieresis, accents, n~,...). All you should do is changing: > > > export LC_ALL=es_ES > > > for: > > > export LC_ALL=es_DE > > > > > > > Shouldn't it be d

Re: X fonts problems. nothing available for helvetica

1998-12-13 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
"Alan Bailward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi there. Appologies for re-hashing this. > > Just upgraded my system for the first time in a couple of months > with slink. Everything mostly went right, but I have had some > problems with X. When starting it, my windowmanager (windowmaker) > com

Re: suid script

1998-12-10 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > problem: you can change the content of the file between the two !! > > so you can have your script, running as root, executing whatever > > you want !! > > So that's the problem with SUID scripts. Seems to me it could be > solved by *not* closing the

Re: ssh with password

1998-12-10 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [Using an empty passphrase] > *ARG* You should not do this and you don't need to. You can use > ssh-agent in your .xsession-Script to get your passphrase and > authenticate yourself for this session. Just do > > eval `ssh-agent` > ssh-add

Re: What's the story on Xemacs+GPM?

1998-12-10 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, I gave up on the debian source because when I went to make > a Debian package, it overrided my custom options. (Which, I'm sure > is my own fault, having not read any info on creating Deb packages). Just change the ./configure call in the debian

Re: ssh with password

1998-12-06 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 10:52:33 -0500 AJ writes: > hey, > im trying to set most of my commands to windows in windowmaker to > make things easier and i cant get ssh to work because i cant type my > password in the opening command.. is there a way to edit ssh so that > u can type something like: > >

Re: Oops! Sent that too soon.

1998-12-06 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 22:35:00 AST Jeff Browning writes: > > And another thing. Is it possible to get back into the drivers > configuration thing that I used after installing the drivers disk? modconf Torsten BTW: I just noticed that modconf speaks German to me, impressive.

Re: Unused libs for deletion?

1998-12-05 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: 04 Dec 1998 15:57:43 +0100 Torsten Hilbrich writes: > > On: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 13:06:15 +0100 Gunnar Isaksson writes: >> Is there some script I can use to find out which installed packages >> aren't used by other packages. > > I will email Gunnar a little perl

Re: xanim problem...

1998-12-05 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 22:39:16 -0600 Evan Van Dyke writes: > > I just installed the xanim .deb, but it is unable to play any audio > files... > Or, atleast is unable to produce any actual sound. I do know that > the sound driver is compiled into the kernel and it works, so I'm > guessing that the

Re: Linux newbie needs help

1998-12-05 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 00:10:52 AST Jeff Browning writes: > > Thanks but when I dpkg the .deb file, it says qt1g depends on xlib6g. > Where could I get that? Thanks. Do you still have a bo Debian box or a hamm/slink one? xlib6g is the libc6 version of the X11 libraries (the according package in b

Re: What installation with Debian 2.0?

1998-12-04 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 20:51:43 +0100 Georg Lohrer writes: > after many obstacles I have running a Debian 2.0 installation. But > without looking at the cryptic usage of dselect it's still a secret > for me what installation is the best/correct/only one. On the CD-ROM > are the directories: [...] >

Re: suid script

1998-12-04 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: 03 Dec 1998 12:58:14 -0600 john writes: > > Joey Hess writes: >> Because shell scripts are supposidly very often full of securitry holes when >> suid. > > There's a bit more to it. There is a race condition that would > permit you to substitute a script of your choice for the suid script >

Re: Unused libs for deletion?

1998-12-04 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 13:06:15 +0100 Gunnar Isaksson writes: > > Is there some script I can use to find out which installed packages > aren't used by other packages. > > It's about time for me to get rid of all the unused libraries that > has been installed when testing various games and other stu

Re: slink upgrade

1998-11-30 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 16:16:10 +0200 Yosef B writes: > > Still trying to install slink. > Somebody on the list suggested that I install hamm and then upgrade to > slink as the 1743 resue disk won't work on my system. > > I cannot seem to find any instructions or FAQ to show how to > "upgrade" to s

Re: unavailable dependencies: libgtop1 and libguile4

1998-11-30 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 02:38:14 -0500 (EST) Zack Brown writes: > > These packages are needed by some gnome packages, but they don't seem to be > available. dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/libs/libgtop1_0.26.2-3.deb dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/libs/libguile4_1.3-6.deb unstable means potato.

Re: setfont; bo, hamm, slink

1998-11-27 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 13:24:54 +0400 (AMT) Eugene Sevinian writes: > > Hi all, > Recently I am doing some job with console fonts and it turned that > after running > > $setfont some-font > $setfont > > the mc and some other programs are losing the pseudographic characters > which are used to

Re: Netscape 4.05 Startup Problem under Debian 2.0

1998-11-27 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 06:25:49 +0100 Rudolf G Schöbel writes: > > I have upgraded form Debian 1.3 to Debian 2.0. Now I have problems with > Netscape 4.05 startup. > The following error message appears in the xterm window from where I call > Netscape: > > ./netscape: can't load library 'libX

Re: DEL key in Xemacs

1998-11-26 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 16:01:04 +0100 (CET) Daniel Elenius writes: > > Well, nothing in the HOWTO works! I had the same problems and inserted the following lines in my .emacs: (setq delete-key-deletes-forward t) (unless window-system (puthash ?\^? 'backspace keyboard-translate-table)) T

Re: ascd

1998-11-26 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 04:09:58 -0500 (EST) Robert Rati writes: > > I use ascd to play cds, but it doesn't play through the speakers, > for some reason. The man page doesn't tell if there's an option to > tell ascd what device to send the music to. Is this a limitation of > ascd or is there a way

Re: procmail ........ (again)

1998-11-24 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 09:10:47 -0600 (EST) Nathan E Norman writes: > > On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: > : On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 10:44:59PM +, Gossamer wrote: > : > Actually you don't need ANY .forward fo rprocmail to work, as long as > : > you have a .procmailrc file in your homedi

Re: Valid values for LC_ALL and LANG?

1998-11-22 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 17:09:10 +0100 (CET) Daniel Elenius writes: > Does anyone know what values you might have for the environmnt > variables LC_ALL and LANG (I sometimes get a warning that I should > set these). I have set LC_CTYPE (to ISO8859-1), I use a swedish > keyboard. I haven't found the s

Re: sorting russian text

1998-11-22 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: 20 Nov 1998 20:58:52 +0100 Ole J Tetlie writes: > | I have checked my sort command (version 1.22) for the value de_DE > | for LANG and it didn't work either. > | > | I checked the documentation for both sort and the fileutils and > | couldn't find any mentioning of locale support. So it seem

Re: sorting russian text

1998-11-20 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 22:17:09 +0400 (AMT) Eugene Sevinian writes: > > Hi, > As I am working now on a multilingual text proccesing system I tried > to use 'sort' for this purpose. From "man bash" I have read that the > LANG variabale is responsible for local language setting. Assuming > ru_RU is

Re: emacs, PATH, trailing /

1998-11-20 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 14:54:49 -0500 (EST) David S Zelinsky writes: > > Ever since upgrading from bo to hamm, my PATH environment variable > as seen from inside emacs (with (getenv "PATH")) has a trailing / on > each entry: > > /usr/local/bin/:/bin/:/sbin/:/usr/bin/:/usr/sbin/:/usr/X11R6/bin

Re: Problems updating squid ?

1998-11-20 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:32:48 +0100 fskale writes: > > I have installed squi V 2.0Patch2 (debian package) on my proxy. > Today i wanted to update squid to a newer version. > I configured and compiled the source then i finally installed it. > After restarting squid, the tasks ran normally but i wa

Re: autofs

1998-11-20 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 22:40:32 +1100 (EST) Jiri Baum writes: > > Hello, > I tried to use autofs, but it says "Error: autofs support not available". > > I assume it can't find /lib/modules/2.0.34/fs/autofs.o which is correct > because it doesn't exist. > > Where would I get one, please? You need

Re: Is the aladdin ghostscript 5.50 available as debian package?

1998-11-18 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 21:08:12 +0100 (EET) Wojciech Zabolotny writes: > > Hi! > I've just tested the aladdin ghostscript 5.50, and stated that it has > fixed some annoying bugs in pdfwrite driver. > I'm just wondering if it is available somewhere as the debian package? Yes, it is at least part of

Re: Problem installing jdk1.1.6

1998-11-17 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: 16 Nov 1998 12:59:30 +0100 Joachim Trinkwitz writes: [...] >> update-alternatives: slave link name /usr/man/man1/java.1.gz duplicated >> dpkg: error processing jdk1.1 (--install): >> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 >> Errors were encountered while processing:

Re: Can't start windowmaker

1998-11-15 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 01:24:36 -0500 Mario Bertrand writes: > > Hi, > I can't start windowmaker from login with startx command, it open a > few seconds and then it crash. All other WM are ok. Is there > something missing? You should start a plain X11 (e.g., with a single xterm in .xinitrc) and cal

Re: Telling apt where my files are...

1998-11-13 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 12:24:32 - Moore, Paul writes: [...] > PS I'd like to do apt-get upgrade (or even dist-upgrade) but I don't > want to do the multi-megabyte download all at once. Can I get apt to > tell me what would be done by a [dist-]upgrade and then let me do it > in stages? apt-get

Re: XEmacs shell garbage

1998-11-12 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:09:20 +0100 Marcus Geiger writes: > > XEmacs-Shell-mode doesn't seem to work correctly. I get some > [ldksjf] <- control-codes in braces. My machine is setup for > german-keymaps and I installed the german-package. I have no strange output while executing normal command li

Re: Netscape 4.5 and "locale C not supported"

1998-11-10 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 23:41:55 -0500 (EST) Will Lowe writes: > > I downloaded and installed (with the netscape4 installer package) > Navigator standalone 4.5 today. Running it gives: > > netscape: locale `C' not supported. > Perhaps the $XNLSPATH environment variable is not set correctly?

Re: "Unable to open an initial console" error

1998-11-10 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 16:14:06 +0200 (SAT) Daniel Mashao writes: > > I am trying to transplant a Debian Linux disk to another formerly > Debian machine. Actually it is from a dual pentium to a single > pentium machine. I have been experiencing a lot of crashes with the > dual pentium machine so I no

dpkg speed?

1998-11-08 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Recently I installed a rpm based system (SuSE 5.3) just to test it and noticed that rpm is much faster while accessing its database, it seems to use a binary database instead of the text-based and a-lot-of-files approach of dpkg. Are they any plans to improve the speed of dpkg for database operati

Re: Command shells with scroll bars?

1998-11-06 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 01:27:13 Kevin Grant writes: > > Assuming I'm using the right terminology, I can't seem to > find a command shell (like csh or xterm or whatever) that > gives me a little scroll bar on the side so I can use the > mouse to scroll back and see what happened before. Are > there

Re: apt-get update errors?

1998-11-06 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 10:34:04 -0500 Adam Lazur writes: > > Whenever I run "apt-get update" with slink stuff in my sources.list > I end up getting like 20 errors similar to: > > Get ftp://ftp.debian.org slink/main makedev [16.1k] > Error ftp://ftp.debian.org slink/main makedev > 550 /debian/dists/

Re: Backups seem to take too long(scsi tape)

1998-11-05 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 12:29:57 -0500 (EST) servis writes: > > Hi all, > I have a Seagate Tapestore 8G on a scsi-2 controller. When I back > up my drives(ext2, vfat) and some smbfs mounted drives(over a 10-T) > it seems to take too long. I am just using tar whith compression. > Here are the stats

Re: Isapnp won't see my AWE64 sound card.

1998-11-03 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 17:04:19 -0500 roadrun37 writes: > > does anyone have this problem? Is there any error message from pnpdump while scanning for PnP cards? If you use an old configuration file, try rerunning pnpdump (save you old isapnp.conf). Torsten

Re: splitting up a MIME-digest

1998-11-03 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 17:53:10 + (UTC) Thomas Lakofski writes: > > I have a couple of messages with about 1200+ messages in each as > MIME-digests (thanks to the braindead forwarding of microsoft exchange > server) > > I was wondering if anyone had suggestions of a way to split these > digests

Re: Upgrading with APT: which packages is it going to download?

1998-10-31 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: 30 Oct 1998 22:44:35 +0100 Torsten Hilbrich writes: [...] > BTW: If you are unexperienced in writing such code I could assist > you. Here is some code for slurping in the package files as a > start. Next you need to call the above comand and print the > filename for each pack

Re: Strange? error with slink ISDN

1998-10-30 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: 30 Oct 1998 10:21:35 +0100 Rene Hogendoorn writes: > > I am trying to get ISDN working on my new system. While I had a > working configuration on my old system, I am now stupified by an > error while trying to dial out, i.e. after "isdnctrl dial ippp0", I > get > > isdn_ppp_bind: Can't find u

Re: Upgrading with APT: which packages is it going to download?

1998-10-30 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 23:21:24 +0100 Enrico Zini writes: > > Hello! > As my modem internet connection is slow and (being in Italy) > expensive, I would like to use apt to upgrade my system, but being > myself the connection using a Zip disk to carry .deb files from our > debian mirror at the univer

Re: Trying to remove smail

1998-10-29 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 19:05:35 -0600 Azog writes: > > Hello, I've recently moved to using qmail on my system, and so > decided to remove smail. But, apt/dpkg refuses to allow me to do > so. How can I override the dependency errors and uninstall smail and > not have it affect any other packages tha

Re: xterm broken

1998-10-29 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 15:46:11 -0500 (EST) Richard Hall writes: > > I just upgraded my system to glibc6, and it went smoothly for the most > part. I used autoup and followed the instructions in the Mini-HOWTO. I > am pretty much running as usual, but xterm doesn't work anymore, so I have > to use

Re: DayLight Saving - in Australia

1998-10-25 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 00:27:04 +1100 Hamish Moffatt writes: > > On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 10:22:13AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> My system hasn't recognized daylight saving either, I don't think >> it has to do with the bios... is there a way to automate these >> changes? > > Linux will only

Re: HELP: tetex .tfm file not found

1998-10-24 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 23:11:28 -0700 Albert Hurd writes: > > I am trying to use postscript fonts in plain TeX (I have no trouble in > LaTeX) and get the following message when tex'ing the .tex file: > > ! Font \times=Times not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. > >\par >

Re: Problems with xbase/xserver upgrade

1998-10-24 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:04:35 -0400 Mark H Mabry writes: > > I've been running slink for a few weeks. Last night I upgraded and > xbase and xserver failed to install. What is worse is that somehow > they deleted (at least) the "xdm" executable. Some of the message > during the failure said that

Re: dpkg-ftp thru Squid

1998-10-24 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:17:16 -0400 Mitch Blevins writes: > > Anybody having trouble using dselect/ftp to slink thru a Squid > proxy? Or is it just me... On work I'm forced to use a proxy server (because of a firewall sitting between me and the internet). The only way I found for updating my sy

Re: HP Laser Jet 5L anyone?

1998-10-23 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 01:03:59 -0500 John C Ellingboe writes: > > Install the HP Laser Jet 5L as a HP Laser Jet 4L in Magicfilter and > it will work proper. Also install gs-aladdin, its fonts and other > related document converters. Print from Netscape as postscript and > Magicfilter/Gs will conv

Re: HP Laser Jet 5L anyone?

1998-10-23 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 01:03:59 -0500 John C Ellingboe writes: > > Install the HP Laser Jet 5L as a HP Laser Jet 4L in Magicfilter and > it will work proper. Also install gs-aladdin, its fonts and other > related document converters. Print from Netscape as postscript and > Magicfilter/Gs will conv

Re: HP Laser Jet 5L anyone?

1998-10-23 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 01:03:59 -0500 John C Ellingboe writes: > > Install the HP Laser Jet 5L as a HP Laser Jet 4L in Magicfilter and > it will work proper. Also install gs-aladdin, its fonts and other > related document converters. Print from Netscape as postscript and > Magicfilter/Gs will conv

Re: HP Laser Jet 5L anyone?

1998-10-23 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 01:03:59 -0500 John C Ellingboe writes: > > Install the HP Laser Jet 5L as a HP Laser Jet 4L in Magicfilter and > it will work proper. Also install gs-aladdin, its fonts and other > related document converters. Print from Netscape as postscript and > Magicfilter/Gs will conv

Re: floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory

1998-10-22 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 09:16:30 + (GMT) Pere Camps writes: > > Hi! > While using mtools I get the following error: > > floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory Can't open /dev/fd0: Device > not configured Cannot initialize 'A:' > > And whilst using mpg123 I get this one: > > Sound e

Re: slink package upgrades fail

1998-10-16 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 07:10:44 +0100 (BST) M C Vernon writes: > >> I also get similar messages for tetex-base and tetex-bin and can neither >> install nor remove these packages. > > Yes, I have problems like this as well... :( > > tetex-bin included as an example. Shall I file a bug? and how do I

Re: I can config man-db, the man command is unavaliable.

1998-10-16 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 16:53:15 +0800 ayin writes: > > Dear Sir > When I install the man-db package , the dselect utility tell me that > I should have groff. But groff need libg++272. > > The problem is that I have installed libg++272( the dselect show > installed) , but the groff item still shows

Re: hmm, so I can't even upgrade the rest of my system with tex having a problem...

1998-10-16 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 07:58:51 -0400 (EDT) Darxus writes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-get upgrade > Updating package status cache...done > Checking system integrity...ok > The following packages will be REMOVED: > tetex-bin > The following packages have been kept back > xscreensaver-gl siag >

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