non-us server

1998-06-19 Thread Michael Beattie
I dont know if it is me, but when I tried downloading pgp-i with apt, I got a 404 Not Found error. Sure enough, the .../dist/... directory structure is not on the non-us server (non-us.debian.org). Was it ever? I just downloaded the file manually, and stuck it in /var/cache/apt/archives which work

Problems when installing netscape 4.05 (bo) debs on a bo system.

1998-06-19 Thread Shaul
Isn't *bo*.deb means that they can be installed on a bo system ? If so, why is communicator4-smotif_4.05-0bo0.11_i386.deb depends on ldso (>= 1.9.7-0) ? My bo has only 1.8.10-2. Or do I completly missed something ? Thank you. Script started on Sat Jun 20 01:37:21 1998 rakefet# dpkg -i ne

jdk-common_1.0.2-7.deb

1998-06-19 Thread Marcus Johnson
Hi Dennis, I don't have a direct answer to your jdk question, but if you don't get the info you need there is another mailing list that is focused on Java on Linux. You might have better luck there. The engineer who did the port actually hangs out on the list. There are also archives of that li

Re: jdk-common_1.0.2-7.deb

1998-06-19 Thread Keith Beattie
Dennis, First, when you have this many (likely unrelated) questions, it is probably best to make separate posts so they can be handled one at a time by those who might be able to help. You risk your X questions going unanswered since the subject only mentions jdk. :) Here's my attempt tho... D

Re: jdk-common_1.0.2-7.deb

1998-06-19 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
* Dennis Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I ran the command 'dpkg -i jdk-common_1.0.2-7.deb' to install the Java | libraries on my computer. The program succesfully installed I believe. When | I typed 'java' on the command line I got the message 'bash> java: command | not found'. | | Why doesn't thi

Re: staroffice

1998-06-19 Thread Ian Eure
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 01:35:17PM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 01:13:49PM -0400, Brian Morgan wrote: > > Where is that Staroffice4 that you're talking about? I can only find 3.1-8 > > in > > hamm/contrib/binary-i386/editors. > > StarOffice 4 is commercial -- i.e. not free.

RE: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #504

1998-06-19 Thread Carpenter, Dean
I've been seeing a problem with NFS on 2.0 here. I have several machines set up with Debian, both the stable and frozen releases. The stable ones are running 2.0.33 while the frozen ones are running either 2.0.33 or 2.1.106. I've mirrored the site to a few of the machines here, both 2.0.33 and 2

Re: staroffice

1998-06-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Brian Morgan wrote: > One more question on Staroffice (I finally found it and am currently > downloading > it.) It only comes in a tar.gz version for Staroffice 4. It says it's for > OpenLinux. Anyone know anything about putting it on a Debian machine? I'm > running hamm.

ldconfig warnings

1998-06-19 Thread Douglas Bates
When installing packages that include libraries I often get warnings from ldconfig about "no such file". These look like dangling symlinks to some shared object files that have been removed. Is it safe to kill those symlinks? 519# dpkg -i apt_0.0.16-1_i386.deb (Reading database ... 50512 files

endless reboot loop

1998-06-19 Thread James D. Lowenthal
I'm trying to install Debian 1.3.1 on my Tecra 520 CDT (Pentium 166, 32MB, 4GB); I want to keep Windows95 in a 417MB partition as well. I used the Tecra kernel from the ftp site (debian/bo/disks-i386/1997-10-13/special/tecra/resc1440.bin) and went through the installation menu, performing the foll

Re: Dvorak keyboard in X?

1998-06-19 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 02:00:33PM -0700, Keith Beattie wrote: > Ian Keith Setford wrote: > > > > I was wondering if the current xbase has support for a "dvorak" type > > keyboard. If so, is it an option within xf86config? > > > [snip] > Perhaps there is another way to compensate for a "Dvoraked

Re: Dvorak keyboard in X?

1998-06-19 Thread Keith Beattie
Ian Keith Setford wrote: > > I was wondering if the current xbase has support for a "dvorak" type > keyboard. If so, is it an option within xf86config? > If your "Dvorak" type keyboard is one that was made specifically to have the Dvorak layout, then there shouldn't be any problems - the keyboar

Re: cleaning up

1998-06-19 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Zachary DeAquila wrote: > can I remove the 'base' package? it claims to be obsolete, and contains > mostly /dev/* and the root dir structure... If it contains files in /dev/*, it is better not to remove it... Devices are now created by the

Re: ISDN w/Debian

1998-06-19 Thread Shiraz Sayani
matthew tebbens wrote: > > Is anyone running Debian -> Internet via ISDN ?? > Please mail me, I'd like to ask a few questions > about the setup. > I'm running Debian with a Teles 16.3 internal card connected to my ISP in the Netherlands. It was working fine with bo, but I seem to have broken som

Re: staroffice

1998-06-19 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 03:56:00PM -0400, Patrick Ouellette wrote: > Ok, I messed that up. Version 5 is scheduled for the second quarter. > (It has only been 6 or 7 years since I had to *use* my poor excuse for > German) Second quarter of 97 or 98? (Or if they were truly emulating Microsoft it w

Re: ISDN w/Debian

1998-06-19 Thread Scott Hanson
matthew tebbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is anyone running Debian -> Internet via ISDN ?? > Please mail me, I'd like to ask a few questions > about the setup. > > Thanks ! > Matthew Lot of folks are! isdn4linux is in the the kernel, and there's an excellent isdnutils package for Debian (wit

Re: fvwm2: seems to be reading some hook files twice?

1998-06-19 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "BR" == Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BR> [1 ] BR> On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 01:13:13AM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: >> You did check, that you don't have a ~/.fvwm2/main-menu-pre.hook ? BR> Uh, the main-menu-pre.hook I included WAS from $HOME/.fvwm2. >> Disable the line an

Re: drm-1804x

1998-06-19 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 19 Jun, Babs wrote: > Hiya People, > > I work for an isp and am fairly new to linux still, but have some > experience with recompiling the kernel and module installation and > configuration. I'm looking for a drv and/or module for a drm-1804x scsi

jdk-common_1.0.2-7.deb

1998-06-19 Thread Dennis Dixon
I ran the command 'dpkg -i jdk-common_1.0.2-7.deb' to install the Java libraries on my computer. The program succesfully installed I believe. When I typed 'java' on the command line I got the message 'bash> java: command not found'. Why doesn't this work? When I go to 'usr/lib/jdk/' I find a 'cl

quake2 freezes(crashes) machine

1998-06-19 Thread servis
Hi gamers, I have installed the hamm quake2 package on my hamm system. When I run it it runs for a little while and then locks my machine up hard. No three finger salute, no telneting in, nothing. This happens under both X and svgalib. I end up having to do a cold reset!! Not what I like to do

RE: staroffice

1998-06-19 Thread Patrick Ouellette
Ok, I messed that up. Version 5 is scheduled for the second quarter. (It has only been 6 or 7 years since I had to *use* my poor excuse for German) Pat > -Original Message- > From: Patrick Ouellette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 19, 1998 3:29 PM > To: Brian Morgan; Jeff

unsubcribe

1998-06-19 Thread McCune, Andy
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Re: staroffice

1998-06-19 Thread Brian Morgan
One more question on Staroffice (I finally found it and am currently downloading it.) It only comes in a tar.gz version for Staroffice 4. It says it's for OpenLinux. Anyone know anything about putting it on a Debian machine? I'm running hamm. Speak easy. I've only been using Debian Linux a we

drm-1804x

1998-06-19 Thread Babs
Hiya People, I work for an isp and am fairly new to linux still, but have some experience with recompiling the kernel and module installation and configuration. I'm looking for a drv and/or module for a drm-1804x scsi external. Have not had much luck finding even a hit of info. Hoping someone know

RE: staroffice

1998-06-19 Thread Patrick Ouellette
The web site is www.stardivision.com Also from the site: StarOffice 4.0 for OpenLinux (Linux) ServicePack 3 The new version of StarOffice 4.0 for OpenLinux (Linux) based on ServicePack 3 is now available for download. As in the past StarOffice 4.0 for OpenLinux (Linux) is free fo

RE: staroffice

1998-06-19 Thread Dennis Dai
http://www.stardivision.com > -Original Message- > From: Brian Morgan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 19, 1998 11:10 AM > To: Jeff Noxon; Debian User group > Subject: Re: staroffice > > All very helpful info. on Staroffice so far, but WHERE can I get it. > What's the >

Re: staroffice

1998-06-19 Thread Brian Morgan
All very helpful info. on Staroffice so far, but WHERE can I get it. What's the address for their site. I've found version 3 on debian's ftp site, but I would like to get version 4 to "evaluate" for myself. Brian Jeff Noxon wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 11:59:53AM -0700, Brian Weiss wrote:

Re: staroffice

1998-06-19 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 11:59:53AM -0700, Brian Weiss wrote: > > StarOffice 4 is commercial -- i.e. not free. IMHO it's well worth the $100 > > since it's virtually a clone of MS Office. It's a bit sluggish though. > > > > Jeff > > That's not correct. I downloaded the full software package from

Re: staroffice

1998-06-19 Thread Brian Weiss
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 01:13:49PM -0400, Brian Morgan wrote: > > Where is that Staroffice4 that you're talking about? I can only find 3.1-8 > > in > > hamm/contrib/binary-i386/editors. > > StarOffice 4 is commercial -- i.e. not free. IMHO it's well wo

Re: email to a group of people

1998-06-19 Thread Johann Spies
Thanks to everybody responding. Be assured I will not use this knowledge for creating spams. Johann -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]3201 Pie

Re: Printing

1998-06-19 Thread ssnow
Hello Did you make sure that you have printer support in kernel. Once I had the problem then I recompiled kernel with printer support and everything was fine... Nikhil On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Tod Detre wrote: > I'm having problems printing. I have a laserjet compatible. I can get it > to work by ru

Re: staroffice

1998-06-19 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 01:13:49PM -0400, Brian Morgan wrote: > Where is that Staroffice4 that you're talking about? I can only find 3.1-8 in > hamm/contrib/binary-i386/editors. StarOffice 4 is commercial -- i.e. not free. IMHO it's well worth the $100 since it's virtually a clone of MS Office.

staroffice

1998-06-19 Thread Brian Morgan
Where is that Staroffice4 that you're talking about? I can only find 3.1-8 in hamm/contrib/binary-i386/editors. Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 12:52:14PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 18 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jun 18,

Re: The juggernaught expands?

1998-06-19 Thread joost
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I tried StarOffice4...downloaded it..burned it to CD and brought it home. > I can't get it to work. It installsit loads comes up with a nice window > and seg faults. I believe a work-around was found on this list a while > back...I never tried i

Re: The juggernaught expands?

1998-06-19 Thread Ian Eure
On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 07:59:36PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Derek Tam wrote: > > > I dunno if this is related, but http://linus.microsoft.com/ was spotted > > the other day up and running Redhat 5.1. nslookup showed that the > > domain indeed resolved to a Microsoft netb

Dvorak keyboard in X?

1998-06-19 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I was wondering if the current xbase has support for a "dvorak" type keyboard. If so, is it an option within xf86config? Thanks, -Ian _ Ian K. Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Install disks for Debian/PowerMac?

1998-06-19 Thread Igor Grobman
Some time around 17 Jun 1998 17:51:39 PDT, Tor Slettnes wrote: > > The Debian Hamm tree contains binaries for i386, alpha, m68k, sparc > and powerpc; but only install disks for the first four of these > architectures. > > How does one obtain install disks or a pointer to an ins

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-19 Thread Don
You can use shift pageUp on the KB, after it bootup is complete. -Original Message- From: Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, June 19, 1998 5:09 AM Subject: Re: /etc/init.d/boot message? >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Mark Yobb <

Re: package installs

1998-06-19 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
* "m.underwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I have downloaded from an FTP site, a couple of .deb files that i want to | install on my | debian package. when i use the dpackage command, and i advise that i have | these files on floppy discs, it finds my .deb files and has them as | dselected, therefore

Re: package installs

1998-06-19 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > I have downloaded from an FTP site, a couple of .deb files that i want to > install on my > debian package. when i use the dpackage command, and i advise that i have > these files on floppy discs, it finds my .deb files and has them as > dselected, therefore it will not install them. this

Printing

1998-06-19 Thread Tod Detre
I'm having problems printing. I have a laserjet compatible. I can get it to work by running gs and having it directly output to /dev/lp1 so I know the print/port is set up right, but when I try to use lpr I get nothing. I'm using magicfilter and at this point I'm just trying to get postscript to wo

package installs

1998-06-19 Thread m.underwood
I have downloaded from an FTP site, a couple of .deb files that i want to install on my debian package. when i use the dpackage command, and i advise that i have these files on floppy discs, it finds my .deb files and has them as dselected, therefore it will not install them. this appears to be b

Re: wu-ftpd-academ question ?

1998-06-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Peter Shtinkov wrote: > I have hamm and wu-ftpd-academ ver 2.4.2.16-9 installed, but when I log > as anonymous i can't see directory listings. > Can anybody help me with this ? > Thanks. I thought this was fixed (there was a bug report on this which I believe has been close

Re: The juggernaught expands?

1998-06-19 Thread sjc
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 12:52:14PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Thu, 18 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 10:12:02AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > > On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Shaleh wrote: > > > > > Oh gee just what we need. I will admit, I could use a goo

package download problem - all downloaded packages currupt

1998-06-19 Thread Micha Feigin
I treid to lode some packages from the debian home page and from a mirror. On all the package from both servers i got a message that they where currupt and it looks like they where downloaded as ascii. I've downloaded packages before on this computer and they worked fine. The difference is that usu

Re: compiling sendmail on libc6: redefinitions in socket.h

1998-06-19 Thread Igor Grobman
Some time around Wed, 17 Jun 1998 13:05:50 +0200, Lutz Kotoll wrote: > Hi, > > On 16 Jun 1998, Jens Ritter wrote: > > > Have a look at the slink sendmail package. > > debian/dists/slink/main/source/mail/sendmail_8.9.0-3.diff.gz > > etc. > > ahh, nice to have it as a package.

Re: ISDN w/Debian

1998-06-19 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > Is anyone running Debian -> Internet via ISDN ?? > Please mail me, I'd like to ask a few questions > about the setup. If you have questions regarding an ISDN router I could probably help but if you have an ISDN modem or internal adapter my knowledge is more limited. -Ian __

ISDN w/Debian

1998-06-19 Thread matthew tebbens
Is anyone running Debian -> Internet via ISDN ?? Please mail me, I'd like to ask a few questions about the setup. Thanks ! Matthew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fvwm2: seems to be reading some hook files twice?

1998-06-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 01:13:13AM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > You did check, that you don't have a ~/.fvwm2/main-menu-pre.hook ? Uh, the main-menu-pre.hook I included WAS from $HOME/.fvwm2. > Disable the line and see what happens. > > The main-menu-pre.hook you sent was from /etc/X11/fvw

Re: The juggernaught expands?

1998-06-19 Thread ssnow
On Thu, 18 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 10:12:02AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Shaleh wrote: > > > > > Well. I like that we are mentioned (-: Looks like IE for Linux is > > > coming our way. > > > > > > > I hope they are not wasting

Re: Debian and Afterstep1.4.5.3-1

1998-06-19 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 08:27:10AM +, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > Dock appears to do nothing but be a place to dock things to. Fiend does > this too, but it's not glued to a side and I can't get the window manager > to move it to an out of the way place. you can collapse the Fiend (renamed to

Re: Bug#23695: fvwm2: seems to be reading some hook files twice?

1998-06-19 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 12:08:04PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: > Branden Robinson writes: > > Package: fvwm2 > > Version: 2.0.46-BETA-3 > > Severity: normal > > > > After a recent upgrade of fvwm2, the window manager seems to be processing > > at least some of my $HOME/.fvwm2/*.hook files twic

Re: real audio for slink?

1998-06-19 Thread Igor Grobman
Some time around Mon, 15 Jun 1998 11:19:48 EDT, Paul McDermott wrote: > hello my debian user friends, i got my soundcard to work. It was a pnp > awe64. ok, is there an installer for the realaudio player for the slink > version. I now there is one for bo and hamm. The one under sli

Re: xman

1998-06-19 Thread Ed Cogburn
Mark Yobb wrote: > > Hi folks! > > I am running Debian 1.3.1 (bo) and I can't seem to find xman. I know it > comes with my CD because I had it installed at one time. What .deb package > is xman included in? > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubs

re: palmpilot III and ibm thinkpad 760xl

1998-06-19 Thread SEGV
I just got a Palm Pilot Professional two days ago. Last night I got pilot-link running, no problems whatsoever, hardly read the README. Managed to install some drawing programs, and the getrom program, and downloaded my ROM, and got the xcopilot emulator running. Now I use it to test programs befor

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-19 Thread Ed Cogburn
David Wright wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Mark Yobb wrote: > > > > I know how to use `dmesg` but I would really like to be able to get > > the info that scrolls across my screen (on bootup) when /etc/init.d/boot is > > executing. Is this message sent to a log file or something? How ca

RE: [URGENT] Setting up the Xserver w/ an ATI XPERT@WORK card . T hanx

1998-06-19 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
I am using a Rage Pro card in my Compaq - you need the latest Mach64 server - it's 3.3.2 or 3.3.4 or something like that (I'm at work and can't check right now!). The 3.3 server doesn't work with the Rage Pro chip... I used dselect at ftp.debian.org to update - I was referred to xfree86.org, but ch

Re: in.qpopper problems

1998-06-19 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
The qpopper wants to log the fully qualified domain name of anyone who accesses it. If you can find out who's doing it you can add an entry for them in /etc/hosts and make sure that /etc/host.conf says 'order hosts,bind'. dwhite wrote: > Hi, > I am experiencing problems on our linux gat

Re: How to get started?

1998-06-19 Thread M.C. Vernon
> > I've got an old computer currently running Win95 that I want to delete > > Win95 completely and make just Linux box. > > Are you already a Unix user? if yes go on, if not I discourage you on > delete Win95, quite probably you will miss some utilities/apps I disagree. I took up Debian from

Re: smail errors

1998-06-19 Thread joost
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Zachary DeAquila wrote: > Hi, I've got > Linux zachs 2.0.32 #1 Tue Nov 25 17:21:48 CST 1997 i686 unknown > running > ii smail 3.2.0.92-3 Electronic mail transport system. > and smail has started exiting apparently randomly; I'm wondering if > 1) anyone has su

Re: How to get started?

1998-06-19 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Marcus! On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Marcus Johnson wrote: > Howdy all, > > I've got an old computer currently running Win95 that I want to delete > Win95 completely and make just Linux box. Are you already a Unix user? if yes go on, if not I discourage you on de

How to get started?

1998-06-19 Thread Marcus Johnson
Howdy all, I've got an old computer currently running Win95 that I want to delete Win95 completely and make just Linux box. I've never installed Debian before and want to make this fairly painless. How do I go about doing this? Which version of Debian would you recommend and how can I get a CD-R

cleaning up

1998-06-19 Thread Zachary DeAquila
I've been running debian on a certain system since about v0.93 or so; It's a great system and I've loved beinga ble to just keep upgrading it wihtout having to go in for long downtimes. However, I now have some packages listed int eh Obslete section that I think should be gotten rid of, but I'm

Re: lpr versus lprng

1998-06-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 10:00:44AM +, Ulisses Alonso wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Mark Yobb wrote: > > What is the difference? Please be verbose! > lprng is 100% compatible with lpr (the same features, commandline, > programs and basic configuration) > > It's design and implementation is muc

Re: AFIO usage...

1998-06-19 Thread Michael Acklin
Jay, I just picked up a package called KBackup and it uses AFIO. I had never heard of AFIO until I installed KBackup. I is somewhat like Taper, but a lot more in depth. It will allow you to define INCLUDES and EXCLUDES in the configuration. Very simple to set up and real easy to

Download speed

1998-06-19 Thread Sture Palminger
Hi all Have installed a BOCA 56K Internet Modem. When downloading from Win95 i normally get a speed of 4.5-5.2 Kb/s but with Linux (hamm) only 2.5-3.0 Kb/s. When running Win95 the RD led is glowing almost all the time. With Linux the led is often blinking and is black for longer periods < 10 sec.

smail errors

1998-06-19 Thread Zachary DeAquila
Hi, I've got Linux zachs 2.0.32 #1 Tue Nov 25 17:21:48 CST 1997 i686 unknown running ii smail 3.2.0.92-3 Electronic mail transport system. and smail has started exiting apparently randomly; I'm wondering if 1) anyone has suggestions on how/why it might do so 2) whether debian 2.0 i

old scsi controller

1998-06-19 Thread Jens Lisner
Hi all! is it possible to make linux work with an old ADAPTEC AH 1505 SCSI controller? (it has no bios) i found that 152x controllers are supported, but they dont seem to work. Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: internal gcc error

1998-06-19 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Jens Lisner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hi! | | I've tried to compile the kernel-source (-2.0.33 && -2.0.34) with | make-kpkg. I've got some messages i cant explain to me. [hopefully someone else can help you with the make-kpkg stuff] | And final | make-kpkg -revision=custom.1.0 kernel-image re

[URGENT] Setting up the Xserver w/ an ATI XPERT@WORK card . Thanx

1998-06-19 Thread Max Lawson
Hi, I've a box freshly installed and running Debian Gnu/Linux 1.3.1. I can't run the Xserver. Here are the concerned specifications: -> Card ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED] (4Mo) -> Screen: + Scanning frequency: H<30KHz-86KHz>/ V<50Hz-120Hz> + Resolution: 1280x

Re: xman

1998-06-19 Thread sjc
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 10:02:15AM +, Ulisses Alonso wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hi Mark! > > On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Mark Yobb wrote: > > > > > Hi folks! > > > > I am running Debian 1.3.1 (bo) and I can't seem to find xman. I know it > > comes with my CD because

AFIO usage...

1998-06-19 Thread Jay Barbee
I was wondering how I would use AFIO to replace they way I use tar. Here is a sample: tar c -X /root/backup/exclude -f /mnt/scratch/linux/backup.tar / What I do not know how to do is exclude several file which are listed in the file "exclude" which looks like: --- /cdrom /home/public/old-syst

mail notifiers

1998-06-19 Thread Brian Morgan
Are there any good mail notification programs available for Debian? I'm especially interested in big flashy packages with lots of bells, whistles, etc. One that could run as a screensaver would be cool. Thanks, Brian Morgan PS: I'm having trouble sending / receiving messages to this listserv

Re: libc.so.5.44 ?

1998-06-19 Thread Bjoern Fischer
On Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 05:07:02PM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > > Hi, > > at blackdown site (http://www.blackdown.org), the site that holds most > of the information on java and linux, they say that their libc5 jdk > depends on libc.so.5.44 or above. > > I looked for it in the debian

Re: The juggernaught expands?

1998-06-19 Thread sjc
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 03:33:00PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 02:33:36PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > LIKE Word...but please NOT word! > > Let's not get hysterical. > > > I mean really...its a word processor...nice to have but...come on... > > they can't even ke

Re: 1021 cylinders(?), 8.4GB, and FreeBSD

1998-06-19 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
hamish wrote, > > Can I change my disk geometry now? Or will this kill everything? Or is > > there > > another way to boot FreeBSD? as near as I can tell, even with the floppy, > > it > > wants it's root partition in the first 1023, even when using the boot > > diskette; and in spite of m

Re: Mesa

1998-06-19 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 08:35:43PM +0300, Jaakko Niemi wrote: >> > >> Does anyone have any idea how long until Mesa3.0 libraries will be >> > >> debianized? >> > >> (Appararently it is req'd by the latest version of Blender. :(. ). >> > >> > When they are out of beta, I guess. It's pretty

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-19 Thread David Wright
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Mark Yobb wrote: > > I know how to use `dmesg` but I would really like to be able to get > the info that scrolls across my screen (on bootup) when /etc/init.d/boot is > executing. Is this message sent to a log file or something? How can I look > at this after booting

Re: Partitioning questions.

1998-06-19 Thread Max Lawson
Hi ! I thank you all for the informations you gave me about disk partitioning. I now have a running box :) with Debian Gnu/Linux 1.3.1, not Red Hat 5.0 :). The bad news are that I can't run the Xserver :( I'll put this question in an another thread. Regards, Max > From [EMAIL PRO

.maildelivery, "to:" line, exmh, & spam

1998-06-19 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
reading through a newsgroup, someone pointed out what should have been obvious: bulk emailings almost never have a "to:" or "cc:" in the header, and that mail could be filtered to a junk box in this manner. But looking through the exmh documentation about .maildelivery, this doesn't seem to b

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

1998-06-19 Thread Guido Bozzetto
E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) wrote: > It looks as though your system runs out of pid's (unlikely), or you hit > your maximum number of processes (not impossible). What does ulimit -a > say about your max user processes? How many processes are running? > (try top, or `ps ax'). > > ps ax | wc -l > > Eric

Re: ZIP & ZIP+ drives -Infos found

1998-06-19 Thread Max Lawson
> Hello Adrian, > > Thanx a lot for your answer. > > Below are other interesting > informations I've received > from Phillipe Anderson. > > Regards, Max > > > - Begin Included Message - > > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jun 16 17:33 MET 1998 > Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 17:33:57 +

wu-ftpd-academ question ?

1998-06-19 Thread Peter Shtinkov
I have hamm and wu-ftpd-academ ver 2.4.2.16-9 installed, but when I log as anonymous i can't see directory listings. Can anybody help me with this ? Thanks. begin: vcard fn: Peter Shtinkov n: Shtinkov;Peter org:Spectrum NET email;internet: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Yobb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I know how to use `dmesg` but I would really like to be able to get >the info that scrolls across my screen (on bootup) when /etc/init.d/boot is >executing. Is this message sent to a log file or something? How can I l

Re: Partitioning questions.

1998-06-19 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: [Klippa, klapp, kluppit prelude.] : How should I do the partition ? i've "read" the Partition : mini-Howto. Therefore I will anyway have: : : '/' <- a root partition, : '/swap' <- a swap partition (32Mo). : : -1- To achieve what I want

internal gcc error

1998-06-19 Thread Jens Lisner
Hi! I've tried to compile the kernel-source (-2.0.33 && -2.0.34) with make-kpkg. I've got some messages i cant explain to me. First make xconfig returned: WARNING - broken Config.in! CONFIG_ALPHA_BOOK1 was not declared! What is it and where can i select it?? make-kpkg clean returned ... te

Re: gcc not finding header / library files

1998-06-19 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hi. I asked this question once before. Unfortunately I did not > phrase the question properly so the answer I got was helpful but not useful. > Here goes again. > > I am running bo and I am have troubling compiling with gcc/g++. The > compiler does not find the prepocessor directiv

in.qpopper problems

1998-06-19 Thread dwhite
Hi, I am experiencing problems on our linux gateway in that it is constantly dialling out on our ISDN line and I get the following message constantly in /usr/adm/messages gate in.qpopper[355]: (v2.2) Unable to get canonical name of client, err = 110 If you have suggestions to what could

Re: Tutor on bit and bitmasks

1998-06-19 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 10:08:48AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I need to set bits 0,1,4,5,6,7,11 for port 0x201. I have NO IDEA how > to calculate the bitmask! Obviously I need to learn this stuff so were > can I read up on this. Read any book on analysis for undergraduates. The base n

Re: email to a group of people

1998-06-19 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Johann Spies wrote: > Hallo, > > Is there a way to configure the "To: " field of email sent out to a group > of people to hide the whole list of receivers from the people receiving > the message? Add another header - Bcc, and put all their addresses in it: Bcc: Some frie

email to a group of people

1998-06-19 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, Is there a way to configure the "To: " field of email sent out to a group of people to hide the whole list of receivers from the people receiving the message? e.g. If I send out a message it would look like this to the receiver: >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jun 19 09:52:13 1998 Date: F

Re: Bug#23695: fvwm2: seems to be reading some hook files twice?

1998-06-19 Thread Yann Dirson
Branden Robinson writes: > Package: fvwm2 > Version: 2.0.46-BETA-3 > Severity: normal > > After a recent upgrade of fvwm2, the window manager seems to be processing > at least some of my $HOME/.fvwm2/*.hook files twice. Used to be, the > attached main-menu-pre.hook file did the expected th

Re: xman

1998-06-19 Thread Ulisses Alonso
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Mark! On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Mark Yobb wrote: > > Hi folks! > > I am running Debian 1.3.1 (bo) and I can't seem to find xman. I know it > comes with my CD because I had it installed at one time. What .deb package > is xman included in? I suggest

Re: lpr versus lprng

1998-06-19 Thread Ulisses Alonso
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi! On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Mark Yobb wrote: > > What is the difference? Please be verbose! lprng is 100% compatible with lpr (the same features, commandline, programs and basic configuration) It's design and implementation is much much better It's more docum

palmpilot III and ibm thinkpad 760xl

1998-06-19 Thread John Kloss
so my parents gave me a palmpilot III for my birthday (which was nice). However, I can't get it to work with my thinkpad. here's what I have debian 1.3.1 pilot-link 8.9 & a palmpilot III here's what I did compiled pilot-link 8.9, no real problems install

/etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-19 Thread Mark Yobb
I know how to use `dmesg` but I would really like to be able to get the info that scrolls across my screen (on bootup) when /etc/init.d/boot is executing. Is this message sent to a log file or something? How can I look at this after booting? Thanks Ah! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: $ENV

1998-06-19 Thread Joop Stakenborg
Mark Yobb wrote: > Hay there! Is there any command that anybody know of that will > print to standard output all of the current environment variables? > > When using korn shell I think it is `echo $ENV`? I want to see what > environment variables are currently intialized and there valu

Re: $ENV

1998-06-19 Thread Åsmund Ødegård
Maybe you are searching for "env"? Fri, 19 Jun delte Mark Yobb følgende med meg: > > Hay there! Is there any command that anybody know of that will > print to standard output all of the current environment variables? > > When using korn shell I think it is `echo $ENV`? I want to see w

lpr versus lprng

1998-06-19 Thread Mark Yobb
What is the difference? Please be verbose! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Desperate for Optical Character Recognition

1998-06-19 Thread Carl Johnson
Don Berkich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Does anyone know of any OCR software available for Linux? Preferably > >something that will plug into gimp with SANE and xscanimage - but anything > >will > >do, console mode or X - I'm dying never to have to reboot to Windoze again! > >:). > > > Me t

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