kpilot and linux ...

1998-05-09 Thread Adam Shand
howdy. has anyone managed to get this to compile successfully with debian. i have an up to date hamm system and am having a whole bunch of problems getting it compiled. the kdelibs pacakges on ftp.debian.org were missing libraries that were required by kpilot so i installed the .deb's off off o

Re: Funneling a donain's mail to one account.

1998-05-09 Thread Pete Harlan
> On Fri, 8 May 1998, R. Chris Ross wrote: > ... > > Something like this: > > > > church.org local:pastor > > I'd probably do it with a virtusertable entry: > > @church.org pastor@ Yup, that's the way to go. Read all about it at: http://www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html The o

Unidentified subject!

1998-05-09 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Remco van de Meent wrote: > : Why when i call the w command get that message ? > : > : $ w > :bad data in /var/run/utmp > : > : What would be the reason ? I already deleted that file and it still the > : same ! > > Maybe you're half-way an upgrade from a libc5 system to a 'full' li

Re: Imlib -- X11/imlib.h and -LIm

1998-05-09 Thread Shaleh
That program uses a very very very old Imlib. The one I package for Debian will not work. If you are interested in a program to put pictures in the background of your term windows look into Eterm. It also uses Imlib -- but it works with the current version and is under development. rxvt-imlib i

Imlib -- X11/imlib.h and -LIm

1998-05-09 Thread Asher Haig
I installed the Im-lib non-free libraries (same thing happened when I tried the standard Im-libs libs) and tried to compile rxvt-imlib from the tarball that was on the E site. When I was compiling it, I find that there is no X11/imlib.h. Where is that supposed to come from? If I symlink /usr/X1

Re: Connecting to a different LAN

1998-05-09 Thread Ian Lynagh
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ian Lynagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >Once I install Debian I hope to set my laptop up so that the network >card has IP 192.168.37.mumble, mask 255.255.255.0. It will also connect >to the 'net via the modem. > >However, if I take it to a friends LAN which uses IPs

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-05-09 Thread Liran Zvibel
On Fri, 8 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well... > On Sat, May 09, 1998 at 03:15:10AM +0300, Liran Zvibel wrote: > > Hello, > > I would like to add some user interface to my programs, till now all I do > > is write to stdout and stderr, and read from stdin, but it doesn't look > > good. > >

Re: ppp setup issues..

1998-05-09 Thread john
Gregory Guthrie writes: > My system calls /etc/init.d/ppp, which seems to do the same general thing > as /usr/bin/pon. Right. > The sequence would be (??) calls ppp-on, it calls pppd,... init calls /etc/init.d/ppp which calls pppd with appropriate options. > ...which [automatically] consults pp

:include: and /etc/aliases in smail

1998-05-09 Thread Derek Tam
Sorry, can't find the original mail to quote, nor did I see a reply. This comes from the majordomo README file... I ran into the same problems you did trying to create aliases and probably spent as long as you looking for the answer. I am able to confirm that it works with Smail 3.2-3 Derek >>

Re: Deb-1.3/ncFtp/ftpwatch

1998-05-09 Thread Shaleh
For bo, both xfmail and ncftp exist in "non-free". You have to get them from ftp -- they are not on the CD's. xfmail depends on the "forms" library -- it is not GPL or open in any way. ncftp was the same way. more recent releases are now GPL. Darren wrote: > > I tried installing the ftpwatch

Deb-1.3/ncFtp/ftpwatch

1998-05-09 Thread Darren
I tried installing the ftpwatch application. It said that ftpwatch requires ncftp and ncftp isn't available...? is ncftp not bundled with debian? How about xfmail? I didn't see that one, either. -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS d+(-) s:+ a29 C

New kernel 2.0.32 rebooting during boot up

1998-05-09 Thread Jack Kern
I compiled a kernel using kernel-source-2.0.32_2.0.32-5.deb. With this new kernel the machine reboots after the line following this line (read from a working 2.0.30 kernel dmesg output) hda: ST3491A, 408MB w/120kB Cache, LBA, CHS=899/15/62 It is very hard to read the next line because it

Re: Help with cdwrite

1998-05-09 Thread mwb
On Sat, 9 May 1998, XRD Lab wrote: > Machine: Pentium 166MHz MMX, 32MB RAM, swap 40MB > OS : Debian linux, kernel 2.0.29 > CD-Writer:HP 7100 (internal model), (IDE interface, not scsi) > > cdwrite -v -s 2 -D /dev/hdd cdimg I have a Mermorex CRW-1622. Its not supported

Re: Smail aliases include file

1998-05-09 Thread Tim Thomson
On Thu, 7 May 1998, Peter Prohaska wrote: > > I'm trying to get smail to work with an include file for aliases. > > My line in my aliases is as follows: > > > > everybody::include:/etc/smail/blobs > > If I´m correct, there is one ":" too much. Hmmm, with only one it complains it c

Re: Debian dead?

1998-05-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, May 09, 1998 at 01:45:33AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > Will there ever be another release of debian or will there be a succession > of frozen but never released attempts? Yes, I would say so. > I know, I know ... Bonser, get off your ass and contribute but the truth > is I have alre

Re: Still can't sort out MBR -- Linux and NT

1998-05-09 Thread tony mollica
You may have already come across this link for multibooting Linux and ???. http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~sedmison/directboot.html -- tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: (no subject)

1998-05-09 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
"srczkwrn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is where I run into trouble. After issuing dpkg-buildpackage an > error is returned. The debian/rules file include some of the > following commands that are not found on my system. > dh_clean -k > dh_testdir > dh_testroot > dh_i

Re: Still can't sort out MBR -- Linux and NT

1998-05-09 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Sat, May 09, 1998 at 05:54:08PM +0100, Tristan Day wrote: > When I load from a boot disk (created by "format /s" at dos prompt in > Win95), fdisk doesn't work because it doesn't exist, thus > > fdisk /MBR > > doesn't work. If I try this in linux, it says MBR not found case too> Of course. Y

Re: ppp setup issues..

1998-05-09 Thread Gregory Guthrie
John, thanks for the information on ppp setup. At 11:01 PM 5/8/98 -0500, you wrote: >Gregory Guthrie writes: >> what is the relation of the /etc/ppp.options_out and >> /etc/ppp/options.ttyXX ? > >/etc/ppp.options_out is used by the 'pon' command and by init.d. >/etc/ppp/options.ttyXX is read by pp

Still can't sort out MBR -- Linux and NT

1998-05-09 Thread Tristan Day
When I load from a boot disk (created by "format /s" at dos prompt in Win95), fdisk doesn't work because it doesn't exist, thus fdisk /MBR doesn't work. If I try this in linux, it says MBR not found =( Tristan -- one unhappy WinNT4 and Debian dual-booter. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: problem...

1998-05-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 8 May 1998, Kevin Brackett wrote: : Problem : : : I always get inodes counted wrong in blocks, and timeout/reset : errors from my hdd, can this be fixed by a low level format? Or any ideas : what is causing this, and what steps I should take to fix it? What are the errors, specif

Re: Outdated Wget 1.5.0 manual

1998-05-09 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Sat, May 09, 1998 at 05:07:10PM +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > > I am not acquainted with the Debian system's policy in cases like this, > > The relevant part of Debian's policy is > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch5.html#s5.1 According to the section 5.1,

Re: Outdated Wget 1.5.0 manual

1998-05-09 Thread jdassen
On Sat, May 09, 1998 at 05:07:10PM +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > I am not acquainted with the Debian system's policy in cases like this, The relevant part of Debian's policy is http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch5.html#s5.1 HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by

Re: Thanks and X problems

1998-05-09 Thread Ossama Othman
I think your problem was caused by compiling the kernel with gcc 2.8.1. This is a known issue. Don't use gcc 2.8.1. Either use a bug fixed release later or use an earlier release such as gcc 2.7.2.x. I believe some versions of egcs cause this bug to appear, too. I know that this doesn't seem re

Outdated Wget 1.5.0 manual

1998-05-09 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Hi! I am the author of the `Wget' utility, that has been a Debian package for some time now. It has been brought to my attention that a new package for 1.5.0 version has been created, so I downloaded it from ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/web/wget_1.5.0-1.deb>. One

Thanks and X problems

1998-05-09 Thread G.Dale Miller
Thanks to all of your who helped with the Symbios disk problems I had. I was choosing the first option 7xx,8xx and not seeing the proper one. Now I have a second problem. I am trying to get Xwindows to work. I fire up X with startx and it core dumps and gives the following message. [EMAIL PROTE

Re: elf-x11r6lib

1998-05-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, May 09, 1998 at 02:29:53PM +0200, Merlin wrote: > I such expected the same problems so i can help you :) > > Elf-x11r6lib is a virtual package (a package who is provided by a same > group of programs (exemple : the virtual package mail-transport-agent is > provided by smail mailx or sendm

Re: irc and that Free Software thing

1998-05-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, May 09, 1998 at 11:38:13PM +1200, Andrew wrote: > Well, my university doesn't seem to want me to use irc (spoilsports :[), > at least that is what I presume "no route to host" means (I've tried > several servers). > > So... can I configure ircII or any of the other clients to use a telnet

irc and that Free Software thing

1998-05-09 Thread Andrew
Well, my university doesn't seem to want me to use irc (spoilsports :[), at least that is what I presume "no route to host" means (I've tried several servers). So... can I configure ircII or any of the other clients to use a telnet proxy? Or does anyone know of a telnet service (I tried the ones

cdwrite

1998-05-09 Thread XRD Lab
Hi, One more question about cd's written under windows95 using HP7100i writer. After the writing is over in Win95, I get a message telling that the cd is readable only under Win95/NT service pack 2.0. My older version of Win95 cannot read the CD. Well, it is not a bother. My problem is that I can

Help with cdwrite

1998-05-09 Thread XRD Lab
Hi, I am facing a problem with cdwrite. Before going further, my machine specs are as below: Machine: Pentium 166MHz MMX, 32MB RAM, swap 40MB OS : Debian linux, kernel 2.0.29 CD-Writer:HP 7100 (internal model), (IDE interface, not scsi) I wanted to burn some cd's with the

Re: elf-x11r6lib

1998-05-09 Thread Merlin
Well, I such expected the same problems so i can help you :) Elf-x11r6lib is a virtual package (a package who is provided by a same group of programs (exemple : the virtual package mail-transport-agent is provided by smail mailx or sendmail and some else), But in this case it seems to have a l

Re: WMF to Gif or Jpg

1998-05-09 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, 8 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know about a filter to convert WMF (Windows meta file) to Gif > o Jpg, or to a format suported by NetPbm or ImageMagick?? I know only of Staroffice. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsor

(no subject)

1998-05-09 Thread srczkwrn
Ive just installed Debian 1.3.2 (bo) from a CD and would like to use KDE Beta 4. I can only find .deb files related to hamm not bo. I have therefore decided to compile the package from sources. After unpacking the sources I noticed a /debian directory, so I've tried to compile using the debian ut

Re: Mouse

1998-05-09 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 06:51:02PM -0600, Chris Betz wrote: > My mouse is currently a "Microsoft Serial Mouse with Wheel", at least > according to windows. I have it plugged into the Com1 port on my > computer. I'm a newbie, and I can't seem to get xwindows to recognise my > mouse even if I go thro

Re: Problems with time settings and tzconfig

1998-05-09 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Hi, Alex Romosan wrote: > >I have had the same proble with the time, both with bo and with hamm. > >I am from Romania which is GMT+2. I had set the PC CMOS time to GMT and > > > romania is gmt+3 during the summer (daylight savings time). Thanks for pointing this out. I did'n thought at this. 8-(

Re: Debian 1.31

1998-05-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 09:20:59PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Work: LILO controlling Debian and Warp. Followed the simple example found This seems to be messy, as I noted in the Linux+OS2+DOS minihowto (now very out of date, my fault). Someone did tell me they got it to work once. I'm not

Re: There is a cat somewhere in my computer

1998-05-09 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 8 May 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > Hi, >I wonder if anyone knows what exactly is the matter with my linux box. > I have been running Linux now for well gone three years starting with a > 4mb DX2-66 and graduated to a 128mb DX4-133 (in textmode). > > Of recent, though I have lost two mic

Re: mgetty counting rings

1998-05-09 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sat, 9 May 1998, Bill Mitchell wrote: > > In New Zealand, the system is thus: > > > > One end : RING RING RING RING RING RING > > Other end: RING RING RING RING RING RING > > > > So that the same number of rings is not always heard at

Thinkpad 560 and the floppy module

1998-05-09 Thread Matt Thompson
I have Frozen installed and compiled the floppy driver as a module (fyi-this needs to be done on the 560 for some reason). I can 'insmod floppy' just fine from a prompt, but when I added a 'floppy' line to /etc/modules and rebooted, I got the following error: Loading modules: floppy no dependency

Re: Debian 1.31

1998-05-09 Thread kaynjay
It's worked both ways for me. At home, Debian and DOS on the 1st drive, Warp on the 2nd, Boot Manager controlling all. As I recall, I partitioned the 1st drive with Warp's fdisk (including BM), then installed Debian off the 1.3 custom CD. Chose to not have it default, but using LILO. Configured

RE: Unidentified subject!

1998-05-09 Thread Scott D. Killen
Where does one get this auto-up script? -Original Message- From: Ian Keith Setford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 08, 1998 11:43 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Unidentified subject! Yo- > I am trying to upgrade to hamm, but dselect doesn't see the .deb fil

Re: ppp setup issues..

1998-05-09 Thread john
Gregory Guthrie writes: > what is the relation of the /etc/ppp.options_out and > /etc/ppp/options.ttyXX ? /etc/ppp.options_out is used by the 'pon' command and by init.d. /etc/ppp/options.ttyXX is read by pppd when it is called with ttyXX as an argument. It usually is not needed. > I presume tha

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-05-09 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > I am trying to upgrade to hamm, but dselect doesn't see the .deb files when > it tries to download them. I ftp to ftp.debian.org and > the files are there. What am I doing wrong? Have you tried the "auto-up" script? That is probably the best route. Once that is done point dselect to the

Unidentified subject!

1998-05-09 Thread Scott D. Killen
I am trying to upgrade to hamm, but dselect doesn't see the .deb files when it tries to download them. I ftp to ftp.debian.org and the files are there. What am I doing wrong? Please Help! Thanks! -- Scott D. Killen Scott Killen Software http://www.scottkillensoftware.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Funneling a donain's mail to one account.

1998-05-09 Thread Pete's mailing list account
On Fri, 8 May 1998, R. Chris Ross wrote: > I am supplying web access for local church and would like to set > up simple email to go along with it. They have their own registered > domain and their mx records point to one of my hosts. The system runs > sendmail and has their domain in the

ppp setup issues..

1998-05-09 Thread Gregory Guthrie
Trying to get ppp setup; what is the relation of the /etc/ppp.options_out and /etc/ppp/options.ttyXX ? I presume that one is to either just edit options_out, which is used directly by /etc/init.d/ppp for the startup pppd options, or, change init.d/ppp to instead use /etc/ppp/options.ttyXX (XX ch

IRC Interview with Eric S. Raymond

1998-05-09 Thread Johnie Ingram
Saturday, May 9th at midnight UTC, 8 pm eastern, 5 p.m pacific, at irc.some.net -- be there or be square -- >From http://some.net/forums.html: * Eric Raymond of opensource.org and author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar will be answering general open source questions

problem...

1998-05-09 Thread Kevin Brackett
Problem : I always get inodes counted wrong in blocks, and timeout/reset errors from my hdd, can this be fixed by a low level format? Or any ideas what is causing this, and what steps I should take to fix it? Other information about the drive, ide 2.1 gb NEC, /dev/hda1 - 1.9 gb, linux nat

Re: hamm

1998-05-09 Thread James R. Van Zandt
>On Wed, 6 May 1998, James R. Van Zandt wrote: >> >..since >> >I saw this thread I couldn't resist to ask: what's the recommended way >> >(program) to keep an updated unstable distribution for a home user? >> >> I don't know of any easy way. > >There is an easy way. I do it at home. > > My

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-05-09 Thread sjc
Well... On Sat, May 09, 1998 at 03:15:10AM +0300, Liran Zvibel wrote: > Hello, > I would like to add some user interface to my programs, till now all I do > is write to stdout and stderr, and read from stdin, but it doesn't look > good. What types of programs are these? if they read form stdin and

Funneling a donain's mail to one account.

1998-05-09 Thread R. Chris Ross
I am supplying web access for local church and would like to set up simple email to go along with it. They have their own registered domain and their mx records point to one of my hosts. The system runs sendmail and has their domain in the sendmail.cw file so that that machine can pick up

Re: Getting mail via POP3 (Filtering to correct user?)

1998-05-09 Thread Art Lemasters
> I suppose a bit more explanation IS in order. I own the domain pandora.org > which is hosted by an IPP. I would like for users on my local system to be > able to use the e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] To my mind that involves > retrieving mail from my IPP's POP3 server to my local machine and then >

Re: Getting mail via POP3 (Filtering to correct user?)

1998-05-09 Thread Adam Edwards
At 08:07 PM 5/8/98 -0500, Art Lemasters wrote: >> Hi, >> Bo system. Tweaked 2.0.30 Kernel. Got Diald dialing on d and sendmail >> sending. The problem I'm having is with fetchmail (I think) I've run >> fetchmail from the command line and it has no problem finding my pop server >> but the mai

Re: Getting mail via POP3 (Filtering to correct user?)

1998-05-09 Thread Art Lemasters
> Hi, > Bo system. Tweaked 2.0.30 Kernel. Got Diald dialing on d and sendmail > sending. The problem I'm having is with fetchmail (I think) I've run > fetchmail from the command line and it has no problem finding my pop server > but the mail addressed to wolfatpandora.org doesn't get interpr

Re: Getting mail via POP3 (Filtering to correct user?)

1998-05-09 Thread Art Lemasters
> Hi, > Bo system. Tweaked 2.0.30 Kernel. Got Diald dialing on d and sendmail > sending. The problem I'm having is with fetchmail (I think) I've run > fetchmail from the command line and it has no problem finding my pop server > but the mail addressed to wolfatpandora.org doesn't get interpr

Mouse

1998-05-09 Thread Chris Betz
My mouse is currently a "Microsoft Serial Mouse with Wheel", at least according to windows. I have it plugged into the Com1 port on my computer. I'm a newbie, and I can't seem to get xwindows to recognise my mouse even if I go through all the options for Microsoft Mouse ports. It just doesn't respo

Hard Disk Question

1998-05-09 Thread Harry Tuttle
Hello Everyone, Did get the libc5-dev package installed and everything is working great now. Thanks fo Remco and everyone that responded. Now I have a quick question. Is there a way to expand / if I make more room on the partition? What I have is "/" (root) on my hda3 drive whic

Adding user Interface to programs.

1998-05-09 Thread Liran Zvibel
I accidently sent it without any subject... sorry, Liran. Hello, I would like to add some user interface to my programs, till now all I do is write to stdout and stderr, and read from stdin, but it doesn't look good. What I have in mind is two-tree lines of input, then some more lines for informat

Unidentified subject!

1998-05-09 Thread Liran Zvibel
Hello, I would like to add some user interface to my programs, till now all I do is write to stdout and stderr, and read from stdin, but it doesn't look good. What I have in mind is two-tree lines of input, then some more lines for information (one or two, that will have while backround and black t