Re: How to multitask in X-windows?

1997-10-01 Thread Will Lowe
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, ImmortaL wrote: > Actually your both right because my question can go both ways it doesnt > matter they both are helpful BUT,i tried both ways and they dont work for > example if i enter X and start netscape and then go back to Xterm i cant > enter any commands its locked until

Re: Bus-Mastered DMA support for Triton Chipset?

1997-10-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Richard S. Gray wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to understand bus-mastered dma (ide) for a long time but I > clearly don't understand what is going on. I first compile support into > my kernel by selecting: > > [*]Intel PIIX/PIIX3/PIIX4 (Triton 430FX/HX/VX/TX, 440FX) DMA sup

Re: Bus-Mastered DMA support for Triton Chipset?

1997-10-01 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Richard S. Gray wrote: > understand a little more about what is going on. Shouldn't a channel be > allocated for the ide drive? Or does this form of DMA bypass the DMA > controller found on the main board. If yes then does this mean that the > DMA controller is actually on

Re: what is the sticky bit?

1997-10-01 Thread john
jim writes: > Way back when (in the olden days), unix would exec a program by copying > it into swap and then allowing the page mechanism to page it into memory > for execution. Way, way back in the *really* olden days (that is, five years ago when I was still running System III on my Onyx) there

Bus-Mastered DMA support for Triton Chipset?

1997-10-01 Thread Richard S. Gray
Hi, I'm trying to understand bus-mastered dma (ide) for a long time but I clearly don't understand what is going on. I first compile support into my kernel by selecting: [*]Intel PIIX/PIIX3/PIIX4 (Triton 430FX/HX/VX/TX, 440FX) DMA support I then added the following code to my rc.local initi

Re: midi software

1997-10-01 Thread Britton
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, David Stern wrote: > On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm in the middle of learning to play keyboard/piano. I'd like to > > know if there is any MIDI software on Linux that can help me. > > > > I've AWE32 soundblaster card. I'd like to know

RE: GCC setup problem

1997-10-01 Thread Galen Hazelwood
> Hi, > > My GCC setup doesn't appear to be correct on my Debian 1.3.1 and 1.2 > system. Initially after installing it, whenever I tried to run it, the > message: > > GCC installation problem: > cannot find cc1: no such file or directory > > cc1 (and cc1plus, and libgcc.a...) were in > /usr/l

Re: Dselect database reset?

1997-10-01 Thread ychim
I think all marked remove packages are shown in dselect and you may reverse the it by pressing '+' key. Ricardo Muggli wrote: > > Is there some way to reset dselect so it knows what is currently > installed? The problem is that I de-selected some items that I didn't want > to remove. They had som

Dselect database reset?

1997-10-01 Thread Ricardo Muggli
Is there some way to reset dselect so it knows what is currently installed? The problem is that I de-selected some items that I didn't want to remove. They had some dependency problems so I de-selected them too. I didn't want to remove them so I cancled out of dselect. Now I want to install somethi

Re: Advice printing on a network Laserjet 4L (fwd)

1997-10-01 Thread Dr. Daniel Mashao
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Pete Harlan wrote: > Some folks run into the problem that none of their input filters get > used because lpd expects that the remote system will do the input > filtering. Since your remote "system" is the printer itself, there's > nowhere to specify an input filter (e.g., mag

Re: midi software

1997-10-01 Thread David Stern
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in the middle of learning to play keyboard/piano. I'd like to > know if there is any MIDI software on Linux that can help me. > > I've AWE32 soundblaster card. I'd like to know what driver do I > need. Currently, my Debian/Linux

man pages...

1997-10-01 Thread jd?
Greetings all, two quick questionsi installed debian on my box and when i'm running a shell & trying to look up stuff on man pages, i can not. Did i miss something in the installation process How can i remedy this And how can i get a standard ppp-connectioni've downloaded all t

Re: Is there a tool to mirror web sites?

1997-10-01 Thread ychim
Oops...please ignore my previous post:) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > yup...install the mirror package. > > R Chris Ross wrote: > > > > I have some users that heavily use a couple of web sites that > > contain documentation and manuals. The standard mirror package is > > only for FTP fro

Re: Is there a tool to mirror web sites?

1997-10-01 Thread ychim
yup...install the mirror package. R Chris Ross wrote: > > I have some users that heavily use a couple of web sites that > contain documentation and manuals. The standard mirror package is > only for FTP from what I see. Is there a tool to mirror web sites > too? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FR

Re: fw:[oclug] moving an open file

1997-10-01 Thread ychim
why you need this capability??? Todd Harper wrote: > > I'm forwarding this question from a local linux user group list. > I thought someone could help. > -- > Todd Harper4 out of 5 dentists agree that 1 out of 5 dentists > [EMAIL PROTECTED]is an idiot. > > ---forwarded-messag

Iomega Ditto Tape drive on parallel port?

1997-10-01 Thread Johann Spies
I want to by an external tape drive and am considering an Iomega Ditto that connects to the parallel port. However, the Howto's say that such drives (that use the parallel port) are unsupported. Is that also the situation with the 2.0.30-kernel? I do not have space in my computer box for another

Re: Is there a tool to mirror web sites?

1997-10-01 Thread m*
R Chris Ross wrote: > > I have some users that heavily use a couple of web sites that > contain documentation and manuals. The standard mirror package is > only for FTP from what I see. Is there a tool to mirror web sites > too? > yup. try wget_1.4.4-6.deb ! m* -- "The Shining One"

Multiple PPP Configurations

1997-10-01 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Is there a way to have more than one pppd configuration? Getting another modem is not an option. What I would like is something along these lines: pon work poff pon internet where work has the ppp options/chatscript for dialing up the of

Re: How to multitask in X-windows?

1997-10-01 Thread Lee Bradshaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Actually your both right because my question can go both ways it doesnt >matter they both are helpful BUT,i tried both ways and they dont work for >example if i enter X and start netscape and then go back to Xterm i cant >enter any commands its locked until i kill netscape

Is there a tool to mirror web sites?

1997-10-01 Thread R Chris Ross
I have some users that heavily use a couple of web sites that contain documentation and manuals. The standard mirror package is only for FTP from what I see. Is there a tool to mirror web sites too? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PR

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1997-10-01 Thread JACE159
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Debian 1.3 problems

1997-10-01 Thread bao . ha
I installed Debian 1.3. Now, I am having problems logging in as a normal user. When logging in root, I got a message about "delay bypassed, root allowed to log in". Also, when I shutdown, I got a prompt about logging in for maintenance mode, or control-d to shutdown. Pressing control-d does not

Re: Menu errors [fixed]

1997-10-01 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > On Sep 29, Will Lowe wrote > > On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > > You seem to have a number of executable menu files. Look in /usr/lib/menu > > > and /etc/menu - remove the executable permissions of any files there that > > > are executab

Re: Menu errors [fixed]

1997-10-01 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sep 29, Will Lowe wrote > On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Joey Hess wrote: > > > You seem to have a number of executable menu files. Look in /usr/lib/menu > > and /etc/menu - remove the executable permissions of any files there that > > are executable (and file bugs on the packages that placed them there.

fw:[oclug] moving an open file

1997-10-01 Thread Todd Harper
I'm forwarding this question from a local linux user group list. I thought someone could help. -- Todd Harper4 out of 5 dentists agree that 1 out of 5 dentists [EMAIL PROTECTED]is an idiot. ---forwarded-message> In Slackware, I could be downloading a file in minicom then

Re: How to multitask in X-windows?

1997-10-01 Thread Ted Harding
( Re: Message from ImmortaL ) > > Actually your both right because my question can go both ways it doesnt > matter they both are helpful BUT,i tried both ways and they dont work for > example if i enter X and start netscape and then go back to Xterm i cant > enter any commands its locked until i k

Deity Access

1997-10-01 Thread Brian White
Thanks to Jason building a libc5 verison of the new CVS (with read-only patches), I've now made the Deity source archive available to everyone. To get it, go to the directory you want to place the source and do the following: cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cvs login (password: anonymo

midi software

1997-10-01 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, I'm in the middle of learning to play keyboard/piano. I'd like to know if there is any MIDI software on Linux that can help me. I've AWE32 soundblaster card. I'd like to know what driver do I need. Currently, my Debian/Linux box can not play any sound and I guessed that I do no

Re: xdm problem

1997-10-01 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Christopher Judd wrote: > > I recently installed 1.3.1 from CDROM; this is my first linux > installation. Most of it went pretty smoothly, but I still have a > couple of problems. One of that I can't get xdm to work. > (If I reconfigure to use startx everything works fine).

Re: Pascal question

1997-10-01 Thread joost witteveen
> > Hi, > > I have installed the pascal package and downgraded my gcc to 2.7.2.1 > for compatibility reasons. In the beginning I got some errors concerning > files the package could find By linking then I got through that stage > .Now I am getting the following errors > > > garfield:/usr/home/

Re: How to multitask in X-windows?

1997-10-01 Thread joost witteveen
[Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Actually your both right because my question can go both ways it doesnt > matter they both are helpful BUT,i tried both ways and they dont work for > example if i enter X and start netscape and then go back to Xterm i cant > enter any comman

Re: PVM packaging

1997-10-01 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > I'm interested in packaging PVM for Debian. First, let me say that > > > * Directory structure > > This thing wants to be installed with a tree structure like this: > > $PVM_ROOT > +- bin/LINUX > +- console/LINUX >

Re: How to multitask in X-windows?

1997-10-01 Thread Brian K Servis
ImmortaL writes: > >Actually your both right because my question can go both ways it doesnt >matter they both are helpful BUT,i tried both ways and they dont work for >example if i enter X and start netscape and then go back to Xterm i cant >enter any commands its locked until i kill netscape,i tri

Re: problem installing debian

1997-10-01 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Hasibul Haque wrote: > I have a quantum fireball ST6 IDE hardrive with Pentium II 233 cpu. I > have 1 primary partion with win95 and 2 logical drives - one of them > is empty for linux install the other one has windows nt. > I am able to boot the rescue floppy but at the men

Re: How to multitask in X-windows?

1997-10-01 Thread Jack Holt
If you're starting a new xterm from the shell, type "xterm &" instead of just "xterm". This will run the new xterm in the background, so you will be able to execute more commands in that same window later. Many window managers allow you to start a new xterm from their menus, too. At 10:06 AM 10

Re: How to multitask in X-windows?

1997-10-01 Thread David B. Teague
Hi ImmortaL: I have your problem with Netscape. I hope we both get an answer. I hope this helps part of your other window problem: It sounds a little like you have a 'focus' problem. I can click the mouse and create X windows that work if I move the mouse pointer into the window to get "focus" i

Re: problems posting news

1997-10-01 Thread john
Tim Bell writes: > When I post news from my machine, I get mail back with inews: No valid > newsgroups in misc.test > ... > and I'm trying to send news to an nntp server. Are you trying to post directly to a remote nntp server, or are you trying to post to your local server and have it feed the ar

RE: pascal

1997-10-01 Thread Waller Martin MEJ
Isn't gpc in the optional development section gnu's pascal compiler? Martin >Hi, > >Could someone tell me which debian package provides pascal support ? > > Thanks very much >George > > > >--

GCC setup problem

1997-10-01 Thread Waller Martin MEJ
Hi, My GCC setup doesn't appear to be correct on my Debian 1.3.1 and 1.2 system. Initially after installing it, whenever I tried to run it, the message: GCC installation problem: cannot find cc1: no such file or directory cc1 (and cc1plus, and libgcc.a...) were in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486

Re: Loading multiple GNU/Linux machines

1997-10-01 Thread John Lines
> > I am looking for methods to efficiently load many (up to > 200) Debian GNU/Linux machines. The machines are to > be configured identically. TCP/IP connectivity is available. > > Any help will be appreciated. > > Tnx, > Nick Gilliam > Lockheed Martin > For the IP configuration BOOTP is ve

Xntp and GMT

1997-10-01 Thread mike
I'm looking for advice on how to set one of my Debian 1.3 servers to GMT time. We are a smaller ISP and recently we've had a problem with theft of service. The clock on our RADIUS accounting needs to be synced with our telco's clock in order to make tracking of this sort of thing easier.

Re: mke2fs

1997-10-01 Thread David Stern
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, David Wright wrote: > On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, David Stern wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 23:32:21 PDT David Stern wrote: > > > > > > > I tried changing the beginning and ending cylinders, to no avail. Why > > > > does mke2

Re: No Debian updates?

1997-10-01 Thread Jim Pick
> Hi, > > I think the company/ group of people who are supposed to > create this distribution are called the quality control/testing > group. This is theoretically composed of people who are not > necessarily maintainers, so they do not have to worry about new > software. > > May

Re: what is the sticky bit?

1997-10-01 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Paul Miller wrote: > > I know this is a really stupid question.. but what is the sticky bit? > The sticky bit overcomes a problem with file permissions in Unix. Specifically, the ability to create/delete a file in a given directory depends on the *directory permissions*. When the sticky bit is s

Re: No Debian updates?

1997-10-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I think the company/ group of people who are supposed to create this distribution are called the quality control/testing group. This is theoretically composed of people who are not necessarily maintainers, so they do not have to worry about new software. Maybe this should

Re: what is the sticky bit?

1997-10-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, From TFM: File: fileutils.info, Node: Mode Structure, Next: Symbolic Modes, Up: File p\ ermissions Structure of File Permissions = [...] A file's permissions have three special components, which affect only executable files (programs) and, on some sy

Re: what is the sticky bit?

1997-10-01 Thread Anders Hammarquist
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >I know this is a really stupid question.. but what is the sticky bit? It's the tenth bit of the 12 bits of permission flags that are part of an inode (or file, though they're not really interchangable). The bits are Set uid, set gid, Sticky, read,write,

Pascal question

1997-10-01 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I have installed the pascal package and downgraded my gcc to 2.7.2.1 for compatibility reasons. In the beginning I got some errors concerning files the package could find By linking then I got through that stage .Now I am getting the following errors garfield:/usr/home/guest$ gpc program~p

xdm problem

1997-10-01 Thread Christopher Judd
I recently installed 1.3.1 from CDROM; this is my first linux installation. Most of it went pretty smoothly, but I still have a couple of problems. One of that I can't get xdm to work. (If I reconfigure to use startx everything works fine). Running xdm -debug 2 gives the following output and th

Re: Advice printing on a network Laserjet 4L

1997-10-01 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Dr. Daniel Mashao wrote: > I have read all the man pages and HOWTO but I still have a problem > printing on a novel network laserjet. I have finally found a way to print > postscript documents but I cannot print plain text or dvi format. Any

Re: losing keys in fvwm2

1997-10-01 Thread Paul Rightley
I have found that, whenever I exit Netscape (3.01 in my case), I cannot alt-arrow to shift virtual screens. However, if I user the page and click into another virtual screen, the alt-arrow keys will again work. I have not tried other fvwm2 keystrokes and I am sure that I only see this happen when

PVM packaging

1997-10-01 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, I'm interested in packaging PVM for Debian. First, let me say that I'm aware that Drake Diedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on it, but I've had the intention to package "something big" for Debian for couple of months (I've packaged small stuff locally) and I think this is be a good

Re: what is the sticky bit?

1997-10-01 Thread TENCC01.LEWIS01
Forwarded with Changes --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] at ~AMSCCSSW Date: 10/1/97 9:57AM To: James M. Lewis at ~TENCCT1 *To: debian-user@lists.debian.org at ~AMSCCSSW Subject: Re: what is the sticky bit? --

/msdos partition

1997-10-01 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi I'd like to know is it true that read/write file on a /msdos partition is slower than on the linux partition? I've a 60MB tar file that I tried to untar under both /msdos and linux ext2fs and the /msdos was extremely slow. Thanks! -- Timothy C. Phan

RE: problems posting news

1997-10-01 Thread George Bonser
On 01-Oct-97 Tim Bell wrote: > >Do I have to have an up-to-date /var/lib/news/active file? I guess I'd >rather that the server looked after all that, since I have no local >newsgroups (as yet...). Yes, you will need an active file. Inews can not post to a group that is not found in the active f

Re: mke2fs

1997-10-01 Thread David Wright
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, David Stern wrote: > On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 23:32:21 PDT David Stern ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > > > I tried changing the beginning and ending cylinders, to no avail. Why > > > does mke2fs think /dev/sda16 is the entir

Re: mke2fs

1997-10-01 Thread David Wright
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: > On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 23:32:21 PDT David Stern ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > I'm having an irregular experience with mke2fs. I'm attempting to > > format /dev/sda16 and message says: > > > > > debian# mke2fs -v /dev/sda16 > > > mke2fs 1.10, 24-

Re: X And Video

1997-10-01 Thread David Wright
On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Syd Alsobrook wrote: > I am having an interesting problem now. I finally got my new machine > to boot up and I reset my X configuration for my new video card. X > works great but when I exit back to a stand tty the video is trashed > (misc. characters, garbage, and general

pascal (cont)

1997-10-01 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, Thanks to all who replied to my question. I have juct installed gpc on my system . However, it requires gcc << 2.7.2.2 So I downgraded gcc to 2.7.2.1 I was wondering whether it would be possible to have the newest gcc ( 2.7.2.3 ) together with gpc . Does anyone know if this is possible or w

Re: How to multitask in X-windows?

1997-10-01 Thread ImmortaL
Actually your both right because my question can go both ways it doesnt matter they both are helpful BUT,i tried both ways and they dont work for example if i enter X and start netscape and then go back to Xterm i cant enter any commands its locked until i kill netscape,i tried it only with Xterm i

Re: Advice printing on a network Laserjet 4L

1997-10-01 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
HI! > I have read all the man pages and HOWTO but I still have a problem > printing on a novel network laserjet. I have finally found a way to print > postscript documents but I cannot print plain text or dvi format. Any > ideas? Convert anything you want to print to PostScript first, the

Re: Advice printing on a network Laserjet 4L

1997-10-01 Thread joost witteveen
> I have read all the man pages and HOWTO but I still have a problem > printing on a novel network laserjet. I have finally found a way to print > postscript documents but I cannot print plain text or dvi format. Any > ideas? Well, if you can print postscript, you can - use a2ps (from contrib/non

Re: Is Debian Compatible?

1997-10-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Sep 30, 1997 at 09:09:08PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: > On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Michael Manlief wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm for the most part a unix novice. I would like to try the Debian > > package, but still be able to to use win95 on my machine (not > > simultaneously, of course). I would

X and gpm mouse problem

1997-10-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
I'm not sure if it's a bug, but it is an annoyance: When xdm is launched, and I do not move the mouse, i have no pointer on the virtual console. In fact, gpm is not working. When I switch back to X, I have to move the mouse. At the first time, there is a shortdelay, then the pointer follows. Swi

Re: wu-ftpd and Shadow Passwords

1997-10-01 Thread joost witteveen
> > Greetings, > > Does the compiled version of wu-ftpd have support for shadow passwords. For > some reason, as soon as anyone tries to log in (not anonymous) it says > there are too many users and dumps you. ii wu-ftpd 2.4-27 A powerful replacement for the standard ftpd Work

Re: ifconfig

1997-10-01 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
At 12:51 PM 9/30/97 -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: >Jimmy Lu wrote: >> >> Hi, >> Can someone tell me how to setup a machine with one network >> interface card(eth0) to respond to more than one IP address? >> FreeBSD seems to be able to do something as follows: >> ifconfig ep0 192.168.123.

Re: pascal

1997-10-01 Thread joost witteveen
c> > Hi, > > Could someone tell me which debian package provides pascal support ? devel/gpc-doc_2.0-3.deb@ devel/gpc_2.0-3.deb@ -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsu

Re: Advice printing on a network Laserjet 4L

1997-10-01 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Dr. Daniel Mashao wrote: > I have read all the man pages and HOWTO but I still have a problem > printing on a novel network laserjet. I have finally found a way to print > postscript documents but I cannot print plain text or dvi format. Any > ideas? a2ps and dvips will do the

Re: bo-updates

1997-10-01 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > > ... > > This would be a good solution, stable stays stable! And creating these > > sub-directories wouldn't be _that_ hard... or am I missing something? > > Yes, you are :) > You don't need those subdirectories, but just one plain Packages.gz file > i

Re: Printer-setup

1997-10-01 Thread Marco Pistore
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Lucas wrote: > I am presently using a2ps and gs-alladin to format text files into > postscript and then > print them using gs. If I create a script containing the gs command, this > could be > my print filter in the printcap file (don't remember if it's "if" or "of"). > > My

Re: Advice printing on a network Laserjet 4L

1997-10-01 Thread Jan Ramon
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Dr. Daniel Mashao wrote: > I have read all the man pages and HOWTO but I still have a problem > printing on a novel network laserjet. I have finally found a way to print > postscript documents but I cannot print plain text or dvi format. Any > ideas? text: some printers (e.g. h

Re: wu-ftpd and Shadow Passwords

1997-10-01 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Timothy G. Wells wrote: > I recently switched to shadow passwords and didn't know if there was a > known problem. Also, I noticed the shadow file had a different group then > root and I changed it ... perhaps that had something to do with it but I > forgot what the group was.

problems posting news

1997-10-01 Thread Tim Bell
Hi, I can't find anthing in the docs about this, and I'm sure it's something simple I've just overlooked... When I post news from my machine, I get mail back with inews: No valid newsgroups in misc.test The setup is my local machine, with: ii nntp1.5.12.1-1 A NNTP server

Re: SVGALIB and S3 Virge.

1997-10-01 Thread Carey Evans
Andrew Keen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My question, my only problem, the fly in the ointment of Linux, the > "black fly in my Chardonnay" is that when I want to run a svgalib > program (X works) at the console it doesn't recognize it and then > -screws- it up.. basically, it runs, but it doesn'

Re: what is the sticky bit?

1997-10-01 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Paul Miller wrote: > > I know this is a really stupid question.. but what is the sticky bit? > > -Paul The sticky bit allows a UID to be the owner of a file while that file is being accessed by that user. In essence if a user opens a file, that user will be the owner of that file until it is clo

Re: ssh going nuts!

1997-10-01 Thread jdassen
On Sep 30, Peyman Gohari wrote > In our group we have a single Debian machine surrounded by a bunch of > Redhats:( We have secure shell installed on all, but it behaves weird on > Redhats from time to time. The problem is that when you try to get a > remote shell using ssh, you may be denied acces

Advice printing on a network Laserjet 4L

1997-10-01 Thread Dr. Daniel Mashao
I have read all the man pages and HOWTO but I still have a problem printing on a novel network laserjet. I have finally found a way to print postscript documents but I cannot print plain text or dvi format. Any ideas? // D

what is the sticky bit?

1997-10-01 Thread Paul Miller
I know this is a really stupid question.. but what is the sticky bit? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

where is libjpegg

1997-10-01 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
Where I can found libjpegg (I installed the glibc compiled xv and I can' use it without these libs :). Thanks. Andreas Arcangeli -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Enlightenment setup

1997-10-01 Thread Frank Barknecht
Adrian Monk hat gesagt: // Adrian Monk wrote: > > When firing up X (startx) with Enlightenment as wm the following error > message appears: > > Cannot load root image: > /usr/local/enlightenment/images/default/background.jpg > Quitting... > > Any ideas, anyone? Background.jpg is in the specifie

wu-ftpd and Shadow Passwords

1997-10-01 Thread Timothy G. Wells
Greetings, Does the compiled version of wu-ftpd have support for shadow passwords. For some reason, as soon as anyone tries to log in (not anonymous) it says there are too many users and dumps you. I recently switched to shadow passwords and didn't know if there was a known problem. Also, I noti

pascal

1997-10-01 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, Could someone tell me which debian package provides pascal support ? Thanks very much George --- George Kapetanios

Enlightenment setup

1997-10-01 Thread Adrian Monk
When firing up X (startx) with Enlightenment as wm the following error message appears: Cannot load root image: /usr/local/enlightenment/images/default/background.jpg Quitting... Any ideas, anyone? Background.jpg is in the specified directory. Both ImageMagick and Imlib are on the system (which

Re: Disapearing /dev/tty0's

1997-10-01 Thread tko
Chad D. Zimmerman writes: > > > I have had an interesting problem rear it's ugly head two times now .. my > /dev/tty0's get SNAFUed for some reason. > > This is what they look like normally: > tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450 > tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A > tty03 at 0x02e8 (

Re: mono monitor with x (fwd)

1997-10-01 Thread Lawrence Lucier
Addressed to: Lazar Fleysher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> debian-user@lists.debian.org ** Reply to note from Lazar Fleysher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 13:16:14 -0600 (MDT) > > I have an old Hercules card and monitor. (I do not know whether being old > matters). In /etc/X11/XF86Conf

Re: Printer-setup

1997-10-01 Thread Lucas
I am presently using a2ps and gs-alladin to format text files into postscript and then print them using gs. If I create a script containing the gs command, this could be my print filter in the printcap file (don't remember if it's "if" or "of"). My problem is that whenever I issue the gs command

Re: Is Debian Compatible?

1997-10-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Michael Manlief wrote: > Hi, > I'm for the most part a unix novice. I would like to try the Debian > package, but still be able to to use win95 on my machine (not > simultaneously, of course). I would like Win95 to be my main operating > system, and just use debian when

Re: How to multitask in X-windows?

1997-10-01 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Tue, Sep 30, 1997 at 10:57:00PM -0500, Dave Cinege wrote: : On Tue, 30 Sep 1997 20:04:53 -0400, Jason Costomiris wrote: : : >On Tue, Sep 30, 1997 at 07:36:02PM -0400, ImmortaL wrote: : >: I need to know if there a way in x-windows for example in the shell itself : >: i would press the alt key a

Re: Printer-setup

1997-10-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, L. L. CoolAid wrote: > > > > On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Gernot Bauer wrote: > > > My printer prints all formats (ok, a printer is supposed to print ;) > > > > Thanx to all who replied. Especially Pat, Will and Lawrence. > > > > If others have the same problem: read the ho

Re: Announcing TIND: This Is Not Dselect

1997-10-01 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > Ahh yes, found it. The problem is that it depends on xlib6g, which > conflicts with xlib6. Is there a bad side to removing xlib6 in favor of > xlib6g? Yes, you'll break all your X packages. The proper solution is to upgrade to a version of xlib6 that xl

Re: mrouted?

1997-10-01 Thread Keith Beattie
Lawrence wrote: > what is mrouted? where to get it? > mrouted (multicast router daemon) is the daemon you run to enable your machine to be a part of the MBONE. It forwards IP multicast packets via a unicast "tunnel" past non-IP-Multicast-aware routers to another machine running mrouted or a ro

Re: ZIP IDE

1997-10-01 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote: > On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote: > > > Actually ... it is a scsi... parallel port is a kind of scsi and under > linux is seen as a true scsi device (and is faster than in dos) Are you talking about the same thing as everybody else? (Hint: l

Re: How to multitask in X-windows?

1997-10-01 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997 20:04:53 -0400, Jason Costomiris wrote: >On Tue, Sep 30, 1997 at 07:36:02PM -0400, ImmortaL wrote: >: I need to know if there a way in x-windows for example in the shell itself >: i would press the alt key and the F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 to open a new window is >: there a way to do t

email to pager software???

1997-10-01 Thread Pete Templin
Hello, I'm working on a project to handle email-to-pager service. I found a software tool to do so, but the C program segfaults. Can anyone suggest a software package, and/or volunteer to help me debug the problem? Thanks, Pete -- Peter J. Templin, Jr. Netwo

ssh going nuts!

1997-10-01 Thread Peyman Gohari
Hi, In our group we have a single Debian machine surrounded by a bunch of Redhats:( We have secure shell installed on all, but it behaves weird on Redhats from time to time. The problem is that when you try to get a remote shell using ssh, you may be denied access to the remote host and get the m

Re: bo-updates

1997-10-01 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> Hi! > > I may be wrong, but: > > When bo-updates had the same structure as stable, non-free and contrib, > one could in fact use dselect to install the bo-updates, just by typing > > Enter space seperated list of distributions to get > [stable non-free contrib]: stable non-free contrib bo-upda

Re: ZIP IDE

1997-10-01 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote: Actually ... it is a scsi... parallel port is a kind of scsi and under linux is seen as a true scsi device (and is faster than in dos) Here is how it comes up: scsi0 : PPA driver version 0.26 using 4-bit mode on port 0x378. scsi : 1 host. Vendor: IOMEGA

Re: ZIP IDE

1997-10-01 Thread Steve Hsieh
The zip IDE is not a scsi device; the scsi driver won't work with it. However, I believe there is support for it in the new developmental 2.1.x kernels, something having to do with having full IDE ATAPI support. I don't know what the status of it is though. On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Chad D. Zimmerm

Re: Is Debian Compatible?

1997-10-01 Thread stick
> > On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Michael Manlief wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm for the most part a unix novice. I would like to try the Debian > > package, but still be able to to use win95 on my machine (not > > simultaneously, of course). I would like Win95 to be my main operating > > system, and just

Re: Diald problem

1997-10-01 Thread Paul Serice
Michael Legart wrote: > Well, I just use the things scripts in /etc/diald. Not long ago, it > worket fine but it looks like my isp has changest something... > Before, the first question was : Annex username:, then Annex > password:, and then at last: annex. The last one is now removed, > but have h

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