Re: default window size for netscape?

1996-11-09 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, Brian C. White wrote: > > does anyone know how i can set the default window size for netscape? > > I start netscape like this: > > netscape -geometry 1137x990+3840+1024 -ncols 64 > > You can probably also add some lines like: > > Netscape*geometry: 1137x99

Re: dselect problem

1996-11-09 Thread Rafael Kitover
Excerpts from mail: 9-Nov-96 Re: dselect problem by Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Rafael Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm working with Debian 1.1 and since last week, when I want to > >install a .deb packages via ftp, I receive the following message: >

Re: dselect problem

1996-11-09 Thread Matt Bartley
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rafael Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm working with Debian 1.1 and since last week, when I want to >install a .deb packages via ftp, I receive the following message: > >Processing status file... >Odd number of elements in hash list at /usr/lib/dpkg/method

Logging users off..

1996-11-09 Thread Richard . Dansereau
Hi all! I was wondering if Debian has any admin programs that would allow root to log off a user and kill off all of their processes? We have tried simple scripts which would do a kill on all user processes. Unfortunately this has given some other problems with not always logging the user off pro

tclmidi-3.1

1996-11-09 Thread Neil Walker
Has anyone any exprience of compiling tclmidi on a debian system ? I cannot find a package. Thanks, Neil -- ~~~+ Neil Walker +44 626 853306Debian Linux | | Its different than I im

Re: accessing files over serial cable?

1996-11-09 Thread wb2oyc
On 09-Nov-96 John Rulnick wrote: >>> " " == Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Now I've got a PPP link between my laptop and desktop, so I would like >to run dselect, etc., accessing file systems on the desktop as if they >were local to the laptop -- I assume NFS is the thing. I will

misplaced ldso and libc5 in rex

1996-11-09 Thread Kevin at Paranoia
Pardon and ignore this message if it's out of place, but these files have been misplaced for a little while and I haven't seen any talk about it on the debian lists, so I just want to make sure that the archive maintainer is aware of it before 1.2 development grinds to a halt. Some new Incoming pa

Re: default window size for netscape?

1996-11-09 Thread Brian C. White
> does anyone know how i can set the default window size for netscape? I start netscape like this: netscape -geometry 1137x990+3840+1024 -ncols 64 Every new window it starts has those dimensions. The large offsets cause it to come up in a different virtual desktop since the above comman

Advice on hardware setup for 2nd NE2000 card

1996-11-09 Thread Stan Brown
I must admit to not being very good at X86 comapatiab;e hardware questiosns. I need to put a 2nd ethernet card in My HP Vectra runing Debian. I have looked at the FAQ's on this and it looks fairly straighhtfoward. The card I presntly have is using IRQ 5 and is at memory address 0x

keeping Debians identical ?

1996-11-09 Thread Marcin Palacz
Can anyone suggest what is the best way to keep a few Debian machines identical ? I want to make a one good Debian installation and then to be able to copy it to some other Debian/Linux'es... Marcin -- Marcin Palacz, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.slcj.uw.edu.pl/~palacz tel. 48-22-658202

Re: default window size for netscape?

1996-11-09 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: > ...but ever since i switched to fvwm95, new netscape windows open up > to about 3/4 of the screen - way too big! problem solved. The Netscape button in fvwm95's FvwmButton bar was launching netscape with '-geometry 920x622+90+5'. Deleted the geometry

E-Mail address

1996-11-09 Thread Christian Lynbech on satellite
>> I have a university account ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and a linux box at >> home. My account name is "joe" on the linux box, and I want all >> outgoing mail to say it is from [EMAIL PROTECTED] How would I do >> this? I use smail, configured as the `satellite' option. I did the following in the `tran

default window size for netscape?

1996-11-09 Thread Craig Sanders
does anyone know how i can set the default window size for netscape? i'm getting very bored of having to resize every "new browser for this link" window i open. i know that it varies the size according to font chosen, but there's some other factor involved too. While running fvwm2, i had the w

Re: rpminstall not found in debmake 1.09

1996-11-09 Thread Lawrence Chim
Warwick HARVEY wrote: > > Lawrence Chim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Just downloaded debmake_1.09.deb and installed it. However, I couldn't > > find rpminstall, where to get it? > > At some stage it had its name changed to "alien". At some stage later, the > documentation was updated to refl

Re: rpminstall not found in debmake 1.09

1996-11-09 Thread Warwick HARVEY
Lawrence Chim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just downloaded debmake_1.09.deb and installed it. However, I couldn't > find rpminstall, where to get it? At some stage it had its name changed to "alien". At some stage later, the documentation was updated to reflect this change. See if you have an

Re: pppsetup

1996-11-09 Thread Richard G. Roberto
Mike, I've been semi working on something like this. Its included as an attachment. It requires pretty much nothing other than base and ppp, but it isn't a .deb file. Anyone interested in testing it, please drop this tar file in /usr/local and give it a whirl. Currently, there are just a handfu

rpminstall not found in debmake 1.09

1996-11-09 Thread Lawrence Chim
Just downloaded debmake_1.09.deb and installed it. However, I couldn't find rpminstall, where to get it? lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

weird files in /var/spool/news/control

1996-11-09 Thread Craig Sanders
I just upgraded my news box to the latest rex stuff (my mirror is freshly updated every morning) and while doing so, discovered that i've had some corruption on my news spool drive sometime in the last month. i found the following files in /var/spool/news/control: c---r- 1 8736 30054

Re: too many open files?

1996-11-09 Thread Rob Browning
Ricardo Kleemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I check/monitor the number of file descriptors being used?? This I know. Install the lsof package, and use lsof (ls open files). It will give a listing of all the open files and who's using them. This program gets installed in /usr/sbin, an

Re: accessing files over serial cable?

1996-11-09 Thread John Rulnick
> " " == Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Given that you have 16550A-compatible serial interfaces (or > something else with a deep serial buffer), you should be able > to go 115,200 bits per second over serial lines from one Linux > to another. Get a "Laplink" cab

Re: MS-DOS FS won't work as a module. Why?

1996-11-09 Thread Bruce Perens
Be sure you are loading _both_ the "fat" and the "msdos" modules. They are two halves of the same driver. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

MS-DOS FS won't work as a module. Why?

1996-11-09 Thread Dave Cinege
After recomplied my kernal I lost MS-DOS FS support. I tried setting FAT as both a module and static but MS-DOS will not work if I compile it as a module. HPFS on the other hand works fine. Dave 'Kill a Cop' Cineg

E-Mail address

1996-11-09 Thread no . junk . mail
> I have a university account ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and a linux box at home. My > account name is "joe" on the linux box, and I want all outgoing mail to say > it is from [EMAIL PROTECTED] How would I do this? I'm using sendmail, rather than smail, and the sendmail installation dialogs ask about thi

Re: Unidentified subject!

1996-11-09 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -> Hello all ... -> -> Some idiot here has given me a vax! Specifically a 4100. Anyway I -> have no desire to run VMS - but I would consider running any form of a -> free Linux / unix on it. Sorry, but no, Linux does not run on VAXen. You

Re: pppd problems

1996-11-09 Thread Mark Carroll
> > # pon > > Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support (from pppd, I think) > > Okay, first off... this message is VERY misleading. What this really means > is that the pppd was denied, and it's assuming that the kernel lacks support > for it. > > In my case, it was that I was giving it t

E-Mail address

1996-11-09 Thread J. LILLIBRIDGE
I have a university account ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and a linux box at home. My account name is "joe" on the linux box, and I want all outgoing mail to say it is from [EMAIL PROTECTED] How would I do this? Thanks. -- Joe Lillibridge - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://web.nmsu.edu/~jlillibr My PGP fingerpr

efax no longer supports "fax view -l ..."

1996-11-09 Thread Brian C. White
The new version of efax (08a-1) no longer accepts the "-l" flag for the 'view' and 'print' commands. If I try to do anything with the faxes I have (all received by the older 07a version) everything gets compressed onto the top of the page. Is there any way I can fix this, or is it a bug?