Re: sound programs part 2

1997-10-16 Thread Britton
Hmm, I thought Debian bplay was compiled with buffer lockdowns out, since they can cause crashes. So my guess is that even as root, you are not really getting them, but the check isn't made so you don't see that message. It probably doesn't matter, since I have been able to do pretty cpu intensi

Re: problem with leafnode and gnus

1997-10-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Oct 16, 1997 at 02:54:59PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > leafnode is a program, you don't need care about - just install it and > > that's it (ok, change one or two lines in config file). > > > > But you have to install inews, too. Otherwise you cannot post. > > No

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Oct 16, 1997 at 10:58:12PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: > On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: > > > On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Oct 11, 1997 at 10:14:40PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: > > > > > > > > BTW, why does the sound module say

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Oct 16, 1997 at 09:33:40PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: > > Tons of e-mail and attached files passed... Marcus and I spared those > things to others, here's what survives of the message I had started > writing for the list... Yupp. Now the fine work can begin -> sorting out :)

Re: Netscape's Stale Lock Files -- Automatic Removal

1997-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Paul Serice wrote: > I grew weary of starting Netscape after it crashed only to get the > message about there being a stale lock file. So I added this small > script to my Netscape wrapper. It seems to work. Is there a better > way of doing this? I'm much more brutal - my wrapper just does

shared /usr

1997-10-16 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! I have two linux boxes here, sharing the /usr filesystem via NFS. It all works well, more or less, trouble starts when I want to upgrade the software on both machines. I would very much appreciate your suggestions on how to handle this situation. feri. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FRO

Converting ascii to ebcdic

1997-10-16 Thread mlemke
I am looking for the name of the file that dd uses to perform its ascii to ebcdic conversion. I would like to make some changes to the translation table but don't know where to find it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Marc Lemke [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

[no subject]

1997-10-16 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! Someone asked where the xload program is. It's in the xproc package. feri. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

dpkg & slackware?

1997-10-16 Thread Rick Hawkins
I've just been given the goahead to take over a project, in which there are linux boxes being used about the state as mail servers and mail monitors. Currently, it all works, but is a set of kluges running slackware. Ultimately, the machines will be switched over to debian (or possibly redhat, b

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-16 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: > On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 11, 1997 at 10:14:40PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: > > > > > > BTW, why does the sound module say what follows at each startup, when I > > > have the default 4megs on the soundcar

Re: majordomo list server

1997-10-16 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On 16 Oct 1997, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: > test-list: :include:/var/lib/majordomo/lists/test > > it is not the correct one!? I think that's ok (don't take my word for this). But probably the configuration of some director in smail is not... in /etc/smail/directors. I don't remember, it

Re: Where is xload program?

1997-10-16 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Daniel J. Mashao wrote: > Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 21:02:25 +0200 (SAT) > From: "Daniel J. Mashao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Where is xload program? > Resent-Date: 16 Oct 1997 18:51:20 - > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Re

Re: Help with xserver

1997-10-16 Thread Matt Thompson
yes, if you have AccelX (i do), this could be the solution: Subject: Re: default fonts and the x server Kevin wrote: >Guys, I've seen the answer to this recently. Don't know how current the >archive is--so you may not be able to search it for the exact answer. > >AccelX can't do compressed fon

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-16 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
Tons of e-mail and attached files passed... Marcus and I spared those things to others, here's what survives of the message I had started writing for the list... On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 1997 at 10:14:40PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: > > > > BTW,

Re: Serial TTY's

1997-10-16 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Richard Kaszeta wrote: > > Okay, I've got a fairly out-of-the-box Bo system, and I wanted to hook > up a dumb text terminal to it (in addition to the standard console). > I've done this before on Linux and Debian machines, no problem, but > now it's not working. > > For starts, I tried uncommenti

Re: problem with leafnode and gnus

1997-10-16 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Gustaf Erikson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > However, after subscribing to c.o.l.misc and c.o.l.advocacy with gnus, > I run fetch. It takes a long time. I check /var/spool/news, and see > lots of directories for alt, gnu, soc, and uk. I don't want this. If you want comp.*.advocacy and do not not want cros

Re: problem with leafnode and gnus

1997-10-16 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I now use inn and newsx [ ... ] INN uses the same technique that you dislike, too - lots of hardlinks everywhere. May be ugly, but it's about the only way to store USENET using a Unix-like file system. --Arnt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mai

Re: several problems with a new installation (hey, I'm learning)

1997-10-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Richard A. Guay wrote: > > > Okay, I will look into that. Where is the Sound-HOWTO? Where are all of > > the howto's? > > Try ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO > > > Sorry for dumb questions. > > S'Okay. This one is a fa

Re: Very weird behaviour - hardware failure ?

1997-10-16 Thread G. Crimp
Updated reflection: I am beginning to wonder if all this psychadelic stuff isn't related to the initial install and physical and logical disk geometry. My first experience with Linux was Slackware. I got nothing but a suite of hda: errors when I tried to make the ext2 fs checking for

Re: RealAudio 5.0b1: NO sound under linux 2.x

1997-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Oz Dror wrote: > I have just installed the new version of RealAudio, but there is no sound. > > I get the following message in /usr/adm/messages: > > Oct 16 09:25:32 OZ kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer > > sound does work for me in RealAudio 3.0 and other application. > > Any

SCSI CDROM, ID 0, not recognized or driveable

1997-10-16 Thread Terrence Brannon
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted as well. I have a Toshiba 4X Internal CDROM. Upon booting my PC, the scan of controller 0 reveals that the CDROM is indeed on SCSI controller 0. However, when Debian Linux 1.3 boots up, it says scsi: detected 0 hosts a

Re: problem with leafnode and gnus

1997-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > leafnode is a program, you don't need care about - just install it and > that's it (ok, change one or two lines in config file). > > But you have to install inews, too. Otherwise you cannot post. Not really. You can use inews if you like. Or you can use a news reader lik

Where is xload program?

1997-10-16 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
I am looking for xload package and I don't know where it is? How can I find out where it is w/o having to waste bandwidth? and secondly why don't they just leave xload alone? There is no need for xload to be part of another program. My 2 cents. /

Re: Help with xserver

1997-10-16 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, I Brake for Moths wrote: > I had this problem recently, and I believe that the solution may be to > reinstall the X fonts. The new xserver expects to find gzipped fonts, > and it is probably finding .Z files instead. Just download the various > xfnt*.deb packages, install

Linux as a Terminal Server and Router

1997-10-16 Thread Tony D. Koehn
Anyone use Linux as a Router & Terminal server to a 56K Frame Relay Tony Koehn -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Serial TTY's

1997-10-16 Thread Richard Kaszeta
Okay, I've got a fairly out-of-the-box Bo system, and I wanted to hook up a dumb text terminal to it (in addition to the standard console). I've done this before on Linux and Debian machines, no problem, but now it's not working. For starts, I tried uncommenting the line in inittab T1:23:respawn:

Re: several problems with a new installation (hey, I'm learning)

1997-10-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Oct 16, 1997 at 12:07:28PM -0500, Richard A. Guay wrote: > > On 16-Oct-97 Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 15, 1997 at 03:04:47PM -0500, Richard A. Guay wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have a list of problems that I need help with: > > > >> 2) I can not get the sound to work! If I e

Re: several problems with a new installation (hey, I'm learning)

1997-10-16 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Richard A. Guay wrote: > Okay, I will look into that. Where is the Sound-HOWTO? Where are all of > the howto's? Try ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO > Sorry for dumb questions. S'Okay. This one is a faq, but the faq is in the same place as the howtos, so if

Re: fetchmail & multiple hostname (was laptop in different places)

1997-10-16 Thread Stephen Zander
Obi wrote: > I tried with the smtphost option in the fetchmailrc, but after the list I'm > giving fetchmail always add the 2 hosts ... Now the workaround is to add a > dummy interface with the IP address of the host.domainA, but I'd like to > instruct fetchmail to do the right thing: that is for

Re: Compiling the Kernel

1997-10-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi! What Manoj wants to give you a pointer to is his grandious kernel-package. It does an excellent job at kernel-compile (reduces the possible mistakes enormously), please give it a try and install it along with the other packages needed. Marcus On Thu, Oct 16, 1997 at 11:19:29AM -0500, Manoj

CDR drive replacement.

1997-10-16 Thread Dale Scheetz
I have used Philips CDRs exclusively and have not been satisfied. For the usual reasons, I am replacing my current CDR and want something that will last a while. I can get an "HP SureStore CD-Writer 6020" for a "reasonable" price. I am curious if anyone has had any first hand experience with this d

Re: Anyone getting jdk1.1 working?

1997-10-16 Thread Richard A. Guay
On 16-Oct-97 Lawrence wrote: > make sure you are in 256 colour mode, at first. > Are you saying that the jdk will not run in other graphics mode but 256 colour? I sure hope that that is not the case. Richard A. Guay Network Administrator ASIC International Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.as

Netscape's Stale Lock Files -- Automatic Removal

1997-10-16 Thread Paul Serice
I grew weary of starting Netscape after it crashed only to get the message about there being a stale lock file. So I added this small script to my Netscape wrapper. It seems to work. Is there a better way of doing this? -BEGIN-- for lockfile in `find $HOME/.nets

Re: several problems with a new installation (hey, I'm learning)

1997-10-16 Thread Richard A. Guay
On 16-Oct-97 Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 1997 at 03:04:47PM -0500, Richard A. Guay wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a list of problems that I need help with: > >> 2) I can not get the sound to work! If I execute "cat bong.au >/dev/audio" >> I g >> et "zsh: no such device: /dev/audio" (

Re: Compiling the Kernel

1997-10-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
Steve Koop wrote: >I'm compiling the kernel for the first time a having some problems, > >Avery thing up to the " make zImage ", it works to the end and then has some > error msg's: > > >the last few lines are: > > >as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsec.s > >Make[1]: as86: Co

fetchmail & multiple hostname (was laptop in different places)

1997-10-16 Thread Obi
I traced (I think!) down what was (actually is) my problem. The responsible is (my poor administration :-)) and fetchmai trying to forward the fetched mail to port 25 on *two* hosts: host.domainA and localhost. Of course, since I'm not on domain_A, this is a problem because no hosts is going to

Re: RealAudio 5.0b1: NO sound under linux 2.x

1997-10-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Oz Dror wrote: > I have just installed the new version of RealAudio, but there is no sound. > > I get the following message in /usr/adm/messages: > > Oct 16 09:25:32 OZ kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer > > sound does work for me in RealAudio 3.0 and other

Re: ghostview

1997-10-16 Thread Wiria Amadja Kusuma
you are right Lukas, I had included the url in my previous post, thanks kusuma >Oops, This is a bit too big for an attachment, in my opinion. > >Gruss >-- >Lukas Eppler (godot) > http://www.fear.ch > telnet://soil.fear.ch: >

sound programs part 2

1997-10-16 Thread Shaleh
I now have bplay and timidity installed. Thanks for the help. When I run bplay as a user I get the following: bplay: setpriority: Permission denied: continuing anyway bplay: shmctl: Operation not permitted: continuing with unlocked buffers it still plays though. Does not happen as root. -- T

Re: ghostview

1997-10-16 Thread Wiria Amadja Kusuma
>Are you sure it's PostScript and not PDF? The URL where you got it from >would be most helpful. I had d/l the latest 5.03 from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html , but I have not tried it out, busy doing my accounting, I will try it again later. About the sysadm_book.ps, I d/l from ftp:/

Re: problem with leafnode and gnus

1997-10-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Oct 14, 1997 at 11:30:14PM +, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > On Oct 13, Frank Barknecht wrote > > Gustaf Erikson hat gesagt: // Gustaf Erikson wrote: > > > > However, after subscribing to c.o.l.misc and c.o.l.advocacy with gnus, > > > I run fetch. It takes a long time. I check /var/spool/new

Re: several problems with a new installation (hey, I'm learning)

1997-10-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Oct 15, 1997 at 03:04:47PM -0500, Richard A. Guay wrote: > Hi, > > I have a list of problems that I need help with: > 2) I can not get the sound to work! If I execute "cat bong.au >/dev/audio" > I g > et "zsh: no such device: /dev/audio" (I did the cat at root level, so it is > not >

Re: Strange smail core file..

1997-10-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Oct 15, 1997 at 04:26:41PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Anyone know what this is or means? Has my copy of smail been > playning nethack/rogue without me knowing? This is the so-called rogue-mode (see man page). Try 'smail -bR' (without the quotes of course) to see it life.

Re: Anyone getting jdk1.1 working?

1997-10-16 Thread Lawrence
make sure you are in 256 colour mode, at first. David Morris wrote: > > Yesterday I downloaded the jdk1.1 packages to a hamm machine. I also > recompiled my kernel for java binary support. Then I went to run some of > the demo programs using appletviewer and java spins into some sort of > endless

Re: Problems

1997-10-16 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Sat, 11 Oct 1997, Julien Pham wrote: > First : my xterm has no color. Or, no, it has colors (when I do a ls > --color in it, it works) but when I launch a text based appli (such as > deselect for example) in it, it in in B & W... Why ? I hassled a lot with this. I have no black-and-white-xter

Re: Login's source absent

1997-10-16 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Mon, 13 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wanted to see the source of a program login, and modify the greeting, > and responses, however, I didn't find it under > bo/source/base/[login] > Is there any reason for it's absence? > And where can I find the source for it? You don't need the

Re: man page for nsswitch.conf

1997-10-16 Thread Lukas Eppler
On 14 Oct 1997, Dale Martin wrote: > Hello. As I have mentioned on this list several times, I have > upgraded my machine to a fair amount of libc6 stuff. In general, it > seems to be working pretty well, but a lot of the NIS stuff is messed > up. I just wanted to remind you that libc6 is unstab

Re: Bug#9766: magicfilter and (pdf => postscript) problems

1997-10-16 Thread Marco Pistore
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, J.Sigbrandt wrote: > > Hi, > > Need to get pdf file printing working using magicfilter. > The printer is a LaserJet 4P (no postscript module) [SKIP] > > > use gs to print .pdf > [SKIP] Hi, first of all, thank you very much for yo

RealAudio 5.0b1: NO sound under linux 2.x

1997-10-16 Thread Oz Dror
I have just installed the new version of RealAudio, but there is no sound. I get the following message in /usr/adm/messages: Oct 16 09:25:32 OZ kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer sound does work for me in RealAudio 3.0 and other application. Any ideas? -Oz -- <

Re: Anyone getting jdk1.1 working?

1997-10-16 Thread Stephen Zander
"David Morris" wrote: > I'm sure I'm missing something in setting things up, but the settings I > can see in the various README files I've checked. But still nothing. Which applets specifically? I have jdk1.1.3 (from hamm) & it works just fine. However, I'm aware that the kind soul who ported j

Re: Q: gcc & cpp

1997-10-16 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Dean C. Sullinger wrote: > In the first place, thank you everyone for all > the help. Sorry if I ask so many questions. > > I have written a basic C program just to try > out gcc, the source code is: > > #include > > main() > { > printf("This is a test\n"); > } > >

Re: Q: gcc & cpp

1997-10-16 Thread Stephen Zander
"Dean C. Sullinger" wrote: > When I executed the application, it ran > yet I did not get the "This is a test" > message to show up on my screen. I have > read the doc's on gcc. Am I missing > something? I even tried using cpp and > I get the same results. I'm willing to bet you ran it as

Re: Compiling the Kernel

1997-10-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, From the kernel-package README file: -- INSTALLATION NOTES: Before you go any further, please allow me to point out that you need to have a few other packages installed before you can compile your own kernels (it is di

Q: How to add to X Mngr popup menu

1997-10-16 Thread Dean C. Sullinger
The subject line says it all. I am using Afterstep as my WinMngr. I would like to add menu items both to the menu that pops up when you left mouse click on the background and to the Afterstep menu. There must be a doc for this someplace, yet there are so many I am probably stumbling over it and m

Q: gcc & cpp

1997-10-16 Thread Dean C. Sullinger
In the first place, thank you everyone for all the help. Sorry if I ask so many questions. I have written a basic C program just to try out gcc, the source code is: #include main() { printf("This is a test\n"); } When I compiled it I ran: gcc test.c -o test When I executed the appli

majordomo list server

1997-10-16 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
>Aaron Walker >Has anyone successfully setup majordomo to have a list server? If >so, how do you set it up once you've installed the majordomo package? >Thanks for your time, I have installed majordomo and (following the NEWLISTS doc) I have ALMOST setup a list in majordomo. The list is set -

Re: ghostview

1997-10-16 Thread Thomas Baetzler
Wiria Amadja Kusuma wrote: :Actually I had d/l a system administrator book from The Ohio State :University, and I am sure that it is in postscript format, that is what I :intended to view, may be I should had upgrade to the 5.xx Are you sure it's PostScript and not PDF? The URL where you got it fr

[Q] HP LaserJet 6MP

1997-10-16 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi I want to set EconoMode (on and off) in a HP LaserJet 6MP from within Linux. It is possible? I have tried to set the EconoMode using dosemu but the dos program RCP (Remote Control Panel) does not work under dosemu (I have not succeed in doing it work). Thanks. -- At\'e breve

Re: NFS as root

1997-10-16 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > Can you explain why it doesn't work? > > cause I'm an incompetent, lazy and useless maintainer, that's why. > > Or, put it differently, because the /tftpboot/$IP/lib directories > are filled with libc5 versions of the libraries only, not the libc6

Re: ghostview

1997-10-16 Thread Wiria Amadja Kusuma
>But why do you want to view this file? As far as I know, this >is not a file inteneded for viewign (it's from /usr/lib/ghostview/*/). > >Actually, I don't know what this file exactly does. >Do you have any special reason for wanting to "view" this >file? > that is not the file I intended to view,

Orientation documentation please (was: Re: Changing mouse drivers)

1997-10-16 Thread me
(Hoping I have the attributions correct:) > On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Daniel Martin wrote: > > > On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Richard A. Guay wrote: > > > > > I now want to change to using a serial mouse. What would be the > > > steps (I do not want to reload the OS.)? > > > > Reload the OS? That's wind

Re: Compiling the Kernel

1997-10-16 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> I'm compiling the kernel for the first time a having some problems, > > Avery thing up to the " make zImage ", it works to the end and then has > some error msg's: > > the last few lines are: > > as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsec.s > Make[1]: as86: Command not found > Make[1]: *** [bootsec.o]

Anyone getting jdk1.1 working?

1997-10-16 Thread David Morris
Yesterday I downloaded the jdk1.1 packages to a hamm machine. I also recompiled my kernel for java binary support. Then I went to run some of the demo programs using appletviewer and java spins into some sort of endless loop. I can watch it on top eat up all the spare CPU cycles and just grow in m

Compiling the Kernel

1997-10-16 Thread Steve Koop
Hi There! I'm compiling the kernel for the first time a having some problems, Avery thing up to the " make zImage ", it works to the end and then has some error msg's: the last few lines are: as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsec.s Make[1]: as86: Command not found Make[1]: *** [bootsec.o] Error127 Ma

Re: ghostview

1997-10-16 Thread Wiria Amadja Kusuma
this is one of the files I had tried, see the attachment, but I can view pics well in the /ghostview/examples. >Strage. Are you sure your ".ps" file is postscript? Looks like it >isn't. > >> can somebody please help me out, I am desperate > >I don't think anybody will be able to give you any advic

majordomo list server

1997-10-16 Thread Aaron Walker
Has anyone successfully setup majordomo to have a list server? If so, how do you set it up once you've installed the majordomo package? Thanks for your time, Aaron Walker -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: Help with xserver

1997-10-16 Thread Kevin F. Havener
Or the reverse may be occuring if you are using a commercial X server like AcceleratedX. It expects to find *.Z fonts, not *.gz fonts. So if you did install new fonts when you upgraded you may hose up your commercial X server. kevni > Date:

Re: ghostview

1997-10-16 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Oct 16, 1997 at 02:58:41PM +0200, joost witteveen wrote: > > Error: /undefined Aladin Ghostscript: unrecoverable error, exit code 1 in > > currentdistillerparams. > > Operand Stack: > > Strage. Are you sure your ".ps" file is postscript? Looks like it isn't. I've seen this with ps files p

Re: Help with xserver

1997-10-16 Thread I Brake for Moths
I had this problem recently, and I believe that the solution may be to reinstall the X fonts. The new xserver expects to find gzipped fonts, and it is probably finding .Z files instead. Just download the various xfnt*.deb packages, install them, and you'll be back in business. Rikki Hall On

Help with xserver

1997-10-16 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
I was once again tempted to upgrade my xserver and all hell broke loose. Now I cannot get into X any more. The server fails with the message: __ Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' -- I am hoping that someone might speedily help me. This is a production machine and I need to ru

Re: Shared Libraries Howto?

1997-10-16 Thread ioannis
> to make this work? Is there a howto? Any info pages I should read? Yes! It may be helpful to look at the info pages that come with the libtool package. -- Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILI

Re: ppp

1997-10-16 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Last resort: killall -9 pppd On Thu, 16 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's me again. > > OK. Now and again, when I try to go online via pon (ppp), the > modem hangs up before I'm connected but pppd just sits there and never > goes away. Even as root, I'm unable to kill it with any signal

permission probs at os.inf.tu-dresden.de

1997-10-16 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! I think some of the permissions need to be reset at this mirror site. Here's my mirror output: Mirrored DebianNonUS (os.inf.tu-dresden.de:/pub/debian-non-US/stable/ -> /mnt/debian/local/) Mirror of parts of ftp.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US @ Wed Oct 15 21:21:06 EDT 1997 Failed to g

Re: ghostview

1997-10-16 Thread joost witteveen
> > GV works great, try that. > http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~plass/gv/ First: gv is a debian package, no need to build it yourselve. Second: gv is only a (very nice indeed) wrapper around gs. If gs cannot understand the file, the gv will also fail, as gv just calls gs. So, althoug

ppp

1997-10-16 Thread nels0988
It's me again. OK. Now and again, when I try to go online via pon (ppp), the modem hangs up before I'm connected but pppd just sits there and never goes away. Even as root, I'm unable to kill it with any signals, but going to single user mode does it. What is wrong and why can't I kill the proc

Re: nslookup failure due to "Connection refused"

1997-10-16 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote: > Using the latest versions of libc6, netbase and netstd 2.17-1, > and dnsutils 8.1.1-2, I can't seem to get nslookup working. > The error message is >*** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Server failed I've been using this set of pa

Re: ghostview

1997-10-16 Thread Matthew Tebbens
GV works great, try that. http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~plass/gv/ On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, Wiria Amadja Kusuma wrote: > Hi all, I got problem viewing files with ps extention, I had tried gs and > ghostview, no luck with both, yield me this error message in a pop up > windows: > > Error: /und

Re: ghostview

1997-10-16 Thread joost witteveen
> Error: /undefined Aladin Ghostscript: unrecoverable error, exit code 1 in > currentdistillerparams. > Operand Stack: > Strage. Are you sure your ".ps" file is postscript? Looks like it isn't. > can somebody please help me out, I am desperate I don't think anybody will be able to give you any

ghostview

1997-10-16 Thread Wiria Amadja Kusuma
Hi all, I got problem viewing files with ps extention, I had tried gs and ghostview, no luck with both, yield me this error message in a pop up windows: Error: /undefined Aladin Ghostscript: unrecoverable error, exit code 1 in currentdistillerparams. Operand Stack: Execution Stack: %interp_exit

Re: NFS as root

1997-10-16 Thread joost witteveen
> On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > > Note, that for hamm, the "not-perfectness" is somewhat extreme: it > > doesn't work at all, however hard you try. > > Can you explain why it doesn't work? cause I'm an incompetent, lazy and useless maintainer, that's why. Or, put it different

Re: mutt 0.84-0 [PGP-capable??]

1997-10-16 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Oct 16, 1997 at 11:39:17AM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Does this mutt-84-package support PGP? As of 0.68-1, mutt was moved from non-US to main following a policy decision that hooks to crypto don't prevent a package to go into the main distribution. The mutt package is the normal, non-

linuxthreads problems

1997-10-16 Thread Vitaly Belostotsky
Hi All! I'm trying to install debian/hamm and work with threads. First of all I've discovered that debian python_1.4.0-4 is compiled w/o threads, so I tried to rebuild it with. This had partial success (before hamm all my attempts were in vain: I was permanently getting SIGUSR1). Investigating the

Re: A quickie on telnet

1997-10-16 Thread ioannis
I am the author of "pass", which may well suit your needs. This software will be uploaded to sunsite a few weeks later; by then, the quatity of of documentation should improve beyond the draft stage. Right now, I am willing to email you a copy in .tgz format, or, if you prefer, a week lat

Re: scroll-back buffer

1997-10-16 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Pete Harlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > How can I clear the scroll-back buffer when a use logs out (other than > > changing tty's)? > > Echo four thousand spaces from .bash_logout? Another way: runvc false where runvc is the following script: #!/bin/sh # Run something on a V

Re: I can lock up machine. Why?

1997-10-16 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hey. > > I've been doing lots of programming lately and have noticed (how could I > not) that I am reliably able to cause my machine to lockup. > > [Delete some lines] > > open a document in xfte that is several pages long. > Quickly scroll through it using the page

Smail configuration, rewriting from line

1997-10-16 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
I configured smail using smailconfig using the following options: ail generated on this system will have `bln.de' used as the host part (after the @) in the From: field and similar places. Message-ID's, Received lines, etc. will use the system's canonical hostname, which is currently set

Re: libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21.deb

1997-10-16 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Matt Thompson wrote: > I was trying to install this package and came up with the following > errors: > > mattyt# dpkg -i libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21.deb > dpkg: regarding libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21.deb containing libgdbmg1: > libgdbmg1 conflicts with libgd

Re: mutt 0.84-0 [PGP-capable??]

1997-10-16 Thread Frank Barknecht
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 1997 at 03:08:12PM -0500, Joe Stewart wrote: > > Received this from debian-changes list - where can it be downloaded from? > > It is still in master's Incoming directory, presumably because it needs > manual processing. I

xmix

1997-10-16 Thread Matt Thompson
hello, again, y'all, well, i've got most of the hamm packages installed so far. RealAudio from Netscape, and the GIMP work great! thanks loads for all of your help. incidentally, it's stable so far, but i'll keep ya up to speed. now to the subject: i re-installed xmix from dselect (accessing ha

Re: Linux as a mail and intranetserver

1997-10-16 Thread Lorens Kockum
On Wed, Oct 15, 1997 at 10:36:11PM +0500, Dirk Kievith wrote: > > What I would need is a support for multiple email users on one or two > machines, like Pegasus Mail. The kind of thing they implement in a college > I suppose. Thus password protected login would also be necessary. Pegasus > does no

Very weird behaviour - hardware failure ?

1997-10-16 Thread G. Crimp
I wonder, if he were alive today, would Galileo have used my monitor and computer instead of an apple and a feather to experiment with gravity. I think I would. My system is behaving very strangely since I installed Debian. I had Slackware on my box before and it seemed to behave as one would e

Re: man-db ocassionally needs to be re-installed.

1997-10-16 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
Andy Spiegl wrote: > > This is a little off-topic, but related to man-pages, too. > > My problem is that - when running "man -a" as I always do - I often > get to see man pages multiple times. Yes, and if you skip one choosing Ctrl-D its entry disappear from the next run (and from the whatis dat

Re: man page for mkfs.ext2 ??

1997-10-16 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
Bob Nielsen wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Chris R. Martin wrote: > > > I'm in the process of copying my Debian system to a new (larger) > > partition and I want to tinker with the number of inodes, etc. > > The man page for mkfs refers me to the man page for mkfs.ext2... > > but I don't have i

Re: Linux as a mail and intranetserver

1997-10-16 Thread Carey Evans
Dirk Kievith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > Any idea where I can check out qmail? There's an experimental unreleased package under projects/experimental (or something) on most Debian mirrors. Also see http://www.qmail.org/> for more information in general. > >There's basically just one c

libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21.deb

1997-10-16 Thread Matt Thompson
I was trying to install this package and came up with the following errors: mattyt# dpkg -i libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21.deb dpkg: regarding libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21.deb containing libgdbmg1: libgdbmg1 conflicts with libgdbm1 (<= 1.7.3-20) libgdbm1 (version 1.7.3-19) is installed. dpkg: error processing libgdb

Networking Problem

1997-10-16 Thread Alfred Herbert
Problem getting debian 1.3.1 to work with network card. I have a Racal Interlan NI6510 chipset (AM7990) network card. During the debian install the card is detected and the driver is installed into the kernel, but when I reboot the machine, I am getting a -- Network not started -- message, and I c

Re: Login's source absent

1997-10-16 Thread Shaul Karl.
> Hi, > > I wanted to see the source of a program login, and modify the greeting, > and responses, however, I didn't find it under > bo/source/base/[login] > Is there any reason for it's absence? > And where can I find the source for it? > > Or should I fiddle with PAM? Using some agetty sw

Re: msdos file system

1997-10-16 Thread Shaul Karl.
> Sorry, I missed the original post. I think you are looking for mformat, > available in the mtools package. This may only work on floppies (not ^^ It depends on the configuration

Re: /dev files

1997-10-16 Thread Shaul Karl.
> Is there a list explaining what each /dev file is used for? I was > looking to cut down on my inode use by trimming /dev down some. I am > using Debian as a home workstation so I figured some of it wsa > superfluous. The Documentation/devices.txt under the linux src tree might help. -- TO

magicfilter and (pdf => postscript) problems

1997-10-16 Thread J.Sigbrandt
Hi, Need to get pdf file printing working using magicfilter. The printer is a LaserJet 4P (no postscript module) Looked at the bug reports and came across the suggestion to include this line in the ljet-filter file: # PDF - Added by CRT 97/05/12 0 %PDF

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