netscape 4.5

1998-07-17 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
is there a debian package for this version netscape, already? (Don't be confused: it's not the old 4.05. It is the new 4.5!) Thanks -- Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella Product Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.conexware.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PR

Re: KDE in deb format?

1998-07-17 Thread Ian Eure
After some investigation, it seems that the KDE 1.0 debs are missing quite a lot of files from /usr/share/toolbar. I unpacked the kdebase b4 package, and just copied them over. FYI, you extract from the .deb with ``ar x filename.deb'' and then un tar-gzip the binary.tar.gz to get the files. I repor

Re: hdparm

1998-07-17 Thread tko
Gary L. Hennigan writes: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | Martin Oldfield writes: > | > > | > > | > I'd like to improve the IDE performance of my system. The IDE > | > controllers are on a newish Intel motherboard; /proc/pci says: > | > > | > IDE interface: Intel 82371AB 430TX PIIX4 (rev 1).

Re: The last latex2e question.........

1998-07-17 Thread King Lee
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Benoit Goudreault-Emond wrote: > > "phillip" == phillip Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > phillip> Hi, Im a little desperade, becasue i have to insert a > phillip> graphic in my latex2e document. I have search the guides, > phillip> but i didnt find so

Re: you or redhat?

1998-07-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
Ken Gray wrote: >im concidering putting linux on my system at home (who am i kiding? i >will be putting linux on my system) but im kind of lost between the >outdated info in various sources on which dist is going to help me. > >this is what i need: >1 easy installation Installation of

Re: NAT

1998-07-17 Thread Keith Alen Vance
Here are a couple of urls regarding nat? I have never set up nat on Linux only Novell, this is the best I can do? http://www.radionet.com/geek/geek19980115.html http://www.netsys.com/firewalls/firewalls-9705/0523.html Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] You only get one chance at life, but if you do it r

NS and mail

1998-07-17 Thread Jim Foltz
Hello: Can I get Netscape to use mutt instead of its Composer when using mailto: links on the Internet? Thanks, jim -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: crc error ( install )

1998-07-17 Thread Keith Alen Vance
I was curious about the problem that you people were having with crc errors. I recently recompiled my linux kernel on a machine that has been running the same kernel for about 4 months now. I have recompiled it several time without any trouble. But the last time I recompiled the kernel it gave

Re: Cross-compile to Windows NT

1998-07-17 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
You might be interested in the Cygnus GNU/win32 project. It's possible both setting up a cross linux->NT and building gcc+binutils for native NT operation. Check out http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ -- GNUwin32 project home http://www.lexa.ru/sos/ -- Sergei Okhapkin's home pag

Re: HOWTO on setting up NFS?

1998-07-17 Thread dpk
/etc/exports already has a few entries in it, yet dmesg doesn't reveal that the init scrip's been called. When I call it manually it tries to launch the daemons yet none of them starts up. At least they're not there according to 'ps -a'. When I launch rpc.nfsd manually I get th

Re: LOST /dev/zero file. HELP!!!

1998-07-17 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > We have accidentally lost our entire /dev directory. Many commands now > return the following type of message: > > dynamic linker: ls: Cannot open /dev/zero for file /lib/libprot.so.1 > Killed > > Can we somehow restore this directory and all the

Re: hdparm

1998-07-17 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> >> I'd like to improve the IDE performance of my system. The IDE >> controllers are on a newish Intel motherboard; /proc/pci says: >> >> IDE interface: Intel 82371AB 430TX PIIX4 (rev 1). >> >> The drives are older: >> >> Model=QUANTUM FIREBALL ST6.4A, FwRev=A0F.0800, SerialNo=15672304 >> M

Re: netscape-help!!

1998-07-17 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> I've recently hit a snag with netscape: >> >>I can't get it to download pop mail. >> >> Netscape in WIn95 works, and so does fetchmail, but >> not netsape in linux. I tried a complete reinstall, and >> even erased my user-specific netscape directories. What could be >> causing this?

Re: LOST /dev/zero file. HELP!!!

1998-07-17 Thread Will Lowe
> We have accidentally lost our entire /dev directory. Many commands now > return the following type of message: You can try this: Tell me which Debian version you're running (hamm, bo, or by number -- 1.2, 1.3, 2.0). I'll send you a copy of the MAKEDEV script which belongs in /dev ... put i

Re: new xbase -- no window manager started

1998-07-17 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 12:53:46PM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > I assumed "Xsession" was the one at /etc/X11/Xsession... > > It worked as a charm. Thanks. Can you tell me what is this all about? > Is it a bug I should report? I don't know exactly where the bug is, but it has been repo

LOST /dev/zero file. HELP!!!

1998-07-17 Thread wmoniz
We have accidentally lost our entire /dev directory. Many commands now return the following type of message: dynamic linker: ls: Cannot open /dev/zero for file /lib/libprot.so.1 Killed Can we somehow restore this directory and all the device listings including the apparently crucial /dev/zero W

you or redhat?

1998-07-17 Thread Ken Gray
im concidering putting linux on my system at home (who am i kiding? i will be putting linux on my system) but im kind of lost between the outdated info in various sources on which dist is going to help me. this is what i need: 1 easy installation 2 robust/easy to use graphical enviroment such as i

Re: new xbase -- no window manager started

1998-07-17 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Marcelo E. Magallon writes: > On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 11:28:40AM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > > > Any clue? > > $ ln -s ../Xsession /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc > > > Marcelo I assumed "Xsession" was the one at /etc/X11/Xsession... It worked

your or redhat?

1998-07-17 Thread Ken Gray
im concidering putting linux on my system at home (who am i kiding? i will be putting linux on my system) but im kind of lost between the outdated info in various sources on which dist is going to help me. this is what i need: 1 easy installation (i.e. auto recognition) 2 robust/easy to use graphi

RE: nsswitch.conf & host.conf

1998-07-17 Thread Jeff Schreiber
"Lewis, James M. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >The discussion on named brought up a question or two. I went looking for >documentation on nsswitch.conf and couldn't find any (in man, anyway). Guess I will send it! :) Found the man page for nsswitch.conf on a Sun system: nsswitch.conf

Re: xbase broken?

1998-07-17 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"Michael B. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I am trying to install hamm on a friend's system. All went well till | I started on X. The xbase install script fails with the following: | mv: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit : no such file or directory | | Is there some work around, or should I just w

Re: hdparm

1998-07-17 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Martin Oldfield writes: | > | > | > I'd like to improve the IDE performance of my system. The IDE | > controllers are on a newish Intel motherboard; /proc/pci says: | > | > IDE interface: Intel 82371AB 430TX PIIX4 (rev 1). | > | > The drives are older: | > | > Mo

Re: connecting debian to win98

1998-07-17 Thread peloy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] You should also check out the Samba web pages. There > is a modification you need to do to the Win98 registry to change the > password encryption behavior, it should be in the docs > somewhere. Or better yet, configure Samba for encrypted passwords. Read ENCRYPT

Re: HOWTO on setting up NFS?

1998-07-17 Thread Eric House
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > > I'm trying to set up NFS on my 1.3.1 systems in order to share files > > with a couple of Solaris machines and more. An article in the June '98 > > _Linux Journal_ describes the procedure for Slackware, but since that > > distribution has the rpc

Re: [meder@isr.uni-stuttgart.de: What's left to do for Hamm ?]

1998-07-17 Thread Thomas Apel
> >* the press release: Nils Lohner manages press releases, Jay Treacy > >manages the website. Is there a prototype for the press release > >available ? > > I was going to use Brian White's Beta announcement as a prototype > and work from there. I'll post one beginning of next week. Just curious

Re: Cross-compile to Windows NT

1998-07-17 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Michael Laing wrote: > I have a large utility program that I need to run under NT - is there a > cross-compiler for this purpose? > > Thanks, > Michael > > Yeah, 'gcc' (assuming it is written in C). Cross-compiling really means compiling a set of source files into an exe

Re: setting dynamic rxvt titles with Xresoures/Xdefaults

1998-07-17 Thread joost
On 17 Jul 1998, Christophe Broult wrote: > In my .bashrc I have: > > PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w \$ ' > > So I get a prompt including a tilde in the prompt when the current > directory is under my home directory, ie ~/foo instead of > /home/broult/foo Use PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]:$PWD \$ ' in

Re: new xbase -- no window manager started

1998-07-17 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 11:28:40AM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > Any clue? $ ln -s ../Xsession /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc Marcelo -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: nsswitch.conf & host.conf

1998-07-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Lewis, James M. wrote: > Hi, > > The discussion on named brought up a question or two. I went looking for > documentation on nsswitch.conf and couldn't find any (in man, anyway). But, > I did find host.conf. Looks like host.conf and nsswitch.conf have very > similar > functions. What's the di

Re: [off-topic?] real audio capture?

1998-07-17 Thread aqy6633
> > I am running a debian frozen system and would like to capture a real audio > > stream for future use. That may sound silly, but I find that ra is > > somewhat at the mercy of the speed of the net and it wobbles and bobbles > > sometimes. does anyone know how I can capture the stream into an .ra

Re: setting dynamic rxvt titles with Xresoures/Xdefaults

1998-07-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Christophe Broult wrote: > "Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [snip] > > > with your user name, current directory, etc. then what you need to do is > > use the bash > > PROMPT_COMMAND. bash runs the contents of this variable each time the > > prompt is > > printed (you could ach

Re: Linux run from Cyrix-GX200MMX CPU PC

1998-07-17 Thread Mark Panzer
Alex Kwan wrote: > > Does the Linux can run on a > Cyrix-GX200MMX CPU PC? Yes it does, in fact that's what I'm using right now :-) You also might want to get the set 6x86 program which allows a slight speed-up and greatly reduces the temp. of your processor. (I can say that on my system the proc

xbase broken?

1998-07-17 Thread Michael B. Taylor
I am trying to install hamm on a friend's system. All went well till I started on X. The xbase install script fails with the following: mv: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit : no such file or directory Is there some work around, or should I just wait for it to be fixed? Mike -- Unsubscribe? mail -s

Re: Linux run from Cyrix-GX200MMX CPU PC

1998-07-17 Thread Shaleh
Like Nate said (-: w/ set6x86 my CPU is at room temperature. and uses less power than an Intel would. The kernel patches are not needed for the 2.0.34 or 35 series or the 2.1 or greater. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Linux run from Cyrix-GX200MMX CPU PC

1998-07-17 Thread Nathan C. Burnett
Yes, I have one. It works peachily. I do reccomend installing and using set6x86 and patching your kernel with the cyrix patch (the new kernels, I believe) don't need this. So as to turn on some specific features of the CPU and so Linux will recognize it and lists it's name correctly in the logs.

Re: Linux run from Cyrix-GX200MMX CPU PC

1998-07-17 Thread Shaleh
I see no reason why it would not. I have installed, run, and seen Linux and Debian on many Cyrix CPUs. I personally have a 150+. Alex Kwan wrote: > > Does the Linux can run on a > Cyrix-GX200MMX CPU PC? > > Does anybody have installed Debian or > others Linux on this PC? > > Thank You! > > -

new xbase -- no window manager started

1998-07-17 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Hi, as I use to keep my system up-to-date, I upgraded yesterday my xbase (along with libc6 and other things) to the new "hamm/frozen" versions, and suddenly my afterstep is not automatically loaded anymore with startx. I have to type "afterstep" in the terminal opened, instead. I'm not sure this

Re: [off-topic?] real audio capture?

1998-07-17 Thread Rick Macdonald
> On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 08:44:41PM -0400, Colin Telmer wrote: > > I am running a debian frozen system and would like to capture a real audio > > stream for future use. That may sound silly, but I find that ra is > > somewhat at the mercy of the speed of the net and it wobbles and bobbles > > some

Re: Long text file to edit..

1998-07-17 Thread Keith Beattie
Carlos Marcos Kakihara wrote: > > I want to edit a 700MB text file. vi tells that the file is > too long, and xemacs tells that "maximum buffer size something.." :) > There is a way to view this file? > If you simply want to view the file and not edit it, I'd try something like "more

Linux run from Cyrix-GX200MMX CPU PC

1998-07-17 Thread Alex Kwan
Does the Linux can run on a Cyrix-GX200MMX CPU PC? Does anybody have installed Debian or others Linux on this PC? Thank You! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

nsswitch.conf & host.conf

1998-07-17 Thread Lewis, James M.
Hi, The discussion on named brought up a question or two. I went looking for documentation on nsswitch.conf and couldn't find any (in man, anyway). But, I did find host.conf. Looks like host.conf and nsswitch.conf have very similar functions. What's the difference? When do you use one and not

Re: setting dynamic rxvt titles with Xresoures/Xdefaults

1998-07-17 Thread Christophe Broult
"Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > with your user name, current directory, etc. then what you need to do is use > the bash > PROMPT_COMMAND. bash runs the contents of this variable each time the prompt > is > printed (you could achieve similar effect using the PS1 variable

Re: Freetype

1998-07-17 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Sat, Jul 18, 1998 at 12:24:03AM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 11:18:30PM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote: > > > I installed freetype and I don't know how to use it. Help me! I'm lazy > > > rtfming! > > > I have to

Bug encountered while attempting to configure Device Drivers Modules

1998-07-17 Thread David Karlin
Hello, While installing Debian (Oct. '97 release) I encountered the following error MSG while configuring device driver modules: "This line should never be reached. This indicates a bug in this program. You might want to write the error messages before you continue. Press ENTER when you are rea

Re: [off-topic?] real audio capture?

1998-07-17 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 08:44:41PM -0400, Colin Telmer wrote: > I am running a debian frozen system and would like to capture a real audio > stream for future use. That may sound silly, but I find that ra is > somewhat at the mercy of the speed of the net and it wobbles and bobbles > sometimes. doe

Re: named setup problems

1998-07-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Jeff Schreiber wrote: > "Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >I believe it makes a lot more sense to find out *what* names are being looked > >up and *why* and solve the real problem rather than shoehorn in some kludge. > > I knew there was something I was forgetting to mention! >

Re: Freetype

1998-07-17 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 11:18:30PM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote: > > I installed freetype and I don't know how to use it. Help me! I'm lazy > > rtfming! > > I have tons of TTF Fonts that I would like to use with GIMP. > > I have never used free

Re: setting dynamic rxvt titles with Xresoures/Xdefaults

1998-07-17 Thread joost
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > if [ "$TERM" = "xterm" -o "$TERM" = "xterm-color" -o \ > "$TERM" = "rxvt" -o "$TERM" = "vs100" ] You might want to add "xterm-debian" to the possible TERM values when you use this with the latest xfree86 packages in hamm. And s/vs100/vt10

Re: exmh configuration.

1998-07-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I changed my smail configuration so that it will change the From: field > on an outgoing mail to be my account on my ISP machine > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > This setting is working when I use the mail command. For example, > $ echo `date` | mail -s test [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [linux-security] Re: Chrooting bind 8.1.2 under debian 2.0

1998-07-17 Thread Cougar
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Carlos Barros wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Cougar wrote: > > > > try changing only the line that start the bind daemon eg: > > > > > > chroot /chroot-dns/ /bin/named > > > > What this chroot gives You? Actually this is protection against simple > > exec("/bin/s

Re: Freetype

1998-07-17 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 11:18:30PM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote: > I installed freetype and I don't know how to use it. Help me! I'm lazy > rtfming! > I have tons of TTF Fonts that I would like to use with GIMP. I have never used freetype...but maybe what you want is xfstt? it is a "TrueType fon

Re: hdparm

1998-07-17 Thread tko
Martin Oldfield writes: > > > I'd like to improve the IDE performance of my system. The IDE > controllers are on a newish Intel motherboard; /proc/pci says: > > IDE interface: Intel 82371AB 430TX PIIX4 (rev 1). > > The drives are older: > > Model=QUANTUM FIREBALL ST6.4A, FwRev=A0F.0800, Seria

Re: setting dynamic rxvt titles with Xresoures/Xdefaults

1998-07-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Deniz Dogan wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to dynamicly set rxvt titles, using > ...Xresources/.Xdefaults ? If it got the title from .Xresources then it wouldn't be dynamic, would it! I'm guessing the resource for the rxvt title is looked at only once when rxvt runs. On top of that, your .Xreso

mt and Colorado Jumbo 250 problems

1998-07-17 Thread Will Lowe
I'm trying to use mt to move a tape in my Colorado Jumbo 250 so that I can put an archive behind the one already on the tape ... I'm using mt -f /dev/ftape fsf 1 where /dev/ftape is a symlink to /dev/rft0. I know the link works ok, because I use it with tar. I'm getting mt: /dev/ftape: Input

Re: problems with X in hamm

1998-07-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Carlo U. Segre" wrote: > I have been trying to install a new machine with the frozen hamm > distribution and I am running into 2 problems with X11. > > 1. No user outside root is allowed to start X11. This may be a > configuration issue but I know that this did not happen in Debian 1.3 > > 2.

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-17 Thread C.J.LAWSON
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Brian White wrote: > > Assuming that forking a "kamakazi" child is not an acceptable > > solution, is there some way of capturing the image of the process from > > the kernal? > > Hmmm... That's interesting. Assuming there is no library/system call > to force a core dump,

Re: Dead keys in X.

1998-07-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I had this in my ~/.Xmodmap file to test out dead keys and the compose key... !!See /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-2/Compose for keysym names. !! F9 is a dead key: => é keycode 75 = dead_acute !! F11 is a Compose key: <'> => é keycode 95 = Multi_key To figure out wha

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-17 Thread C.J.LAWSON
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Keith Beattie wrote: > C.J.LAWSON wrote: > > > I guess the next logical question would be how to get a program to > > backtrack and reload the core file .. and then contiue executing > > > > Here's a wild shot at it... > > Assuming that forking a "kamakazi" child is not

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-17 Thread C.J.LAWSON
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 12:13:44PM -0400, Brian White wrote: > > > Yes. use CTRL-\ > > > > I've never heard of that. > > neither have II just tried it...it makes programs exit fast but > I have yet to produce a core dump with it I tried it

Re: [linux-security] Re: Chrooting bind 8.1.2 under debian 2.0

1998-07-17 Thread Carlos Barros
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Cougar wrote: > > try changing only the line that start the bind daemon eg: > > > > chroot /chroot-dns/ /bin/named > > What this chroot gives You? Actually this is protection against simple > exec("/bin/sh") but every cracker may put chroot("/") before this and a

Re: Long text file to edit..

1998-07-17 Thread Nelson Posse Lago
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Carlos Marcos Kakihara wrote: > I want to edit a 700MB text file. vi tells that the file is > too long, and xemacs tells that "maximum buffer size something.." :) > There is a way to view this file? I never tried, but you may want to check the "beav" or the "le" e

Re: named setup problems

1998-07-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 03:28:21PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 10:17:45AM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > > Hack is the word alright. My opinion is that you're attacking this > > > > problem the

RE: Long text file to edit..

1998-07-17 Thread Lewis, James M.
If vi said lines were too long, then you can not use vi to see all of the file. If vi ran out of tmp space, then try setting TMPDIR env var to point to a place that has up to ?? amount of space. I can't remember if vi needs double the original file space or not. That would mean either 700M or 1.4

Freetype

1998-07-17 Thread Richard L. Alhama
I installed freetype and I don't know how to use it. Help me! I'm lazy rtfming! I have tons of TTF Fonts that I would like to use with GIMP. /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \--, .o` /===

Re: named setup problems

1998-07-17 Thread Jeff Schreiber
"Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I believe it makes a lot more sense to find out *what* names are being looked >up and *why* and solve the real problem rather than shoehorn in some kludge. I knew there was something I was forgetting to mention! >As I said, logically you only

Hard drive spindown settings

1998-07-17 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
I was looking at the hdparm package yesterday... a while back I set my stystem up to issue hdparm -S 240 /dev/hda at boot...but I am realizing that my drive never spins down. in fact it seems liek every few seconds I hear it access... I was wondering... is this a side effect of "update" running? (

Re: [linux-security] Re: Chrooting bind 8.1.2 under debian 2.0

1998-07-17 Thread seifried
>On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Carlos Barros wrote: > >> On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, cfb wrote: >> >> > The main problem seems to be with the way that debian starts bind using >> > the script /etc/init.d/bind. I thought it would be really neat to just >> > change the #!/bin/sh at the top of the script to so

netscape-help!!

1998-07-17 Thread Phil
I've recently hit a snag with netscape: I can't get it to download pop mail. Netscape in WIn95 works, and so does fetchmail, but not netsape in linux. I tried a complete reinstall, and even erased my user-specific netscape directories. What could be causing this? User permissions for a

Long text file to edit..

1998-07-17 Thread Carlos Marcos Kakihara
I want to edit a 700MB text file. vi tells that the file is too long, and xemacs tells that "maximum buffer size something.." :) There is a way to view this file? Carlos Marcos Kakihara (bacate) Escola de Engenharia de Piracicaba (EEP) Departamento de Informatica e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: named setup problems

1998-07-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 03:28:21PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 10:17:45AM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > > Hack is the word alright. My opinion is that you're attacking this > > > > problem the

Re: [linux-security] Re: Chrooting bind 8.1.2 under debian 2.0

1998-07-17 Thread Jon Lewis
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Cougar wrote: > [mod: It is slightly less trivial than 'chroot("/")', but if you can > execute arbitrary code as root, you can break out of the chrooted > environment. --REW] > > My idea is to run named non-root UID/GID. As named needs to bind port 53 > which is below 1024 th

Re: Debian w/ Win95?

1998-07-17 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Marcus Johnson wrote: > I've got a rank beginner question for y'all: I'm thinking of installing > Debian on a machine I've got that has Winduhs95 on the primary 4.3 gig > drive. I don't want to disturb what I've got there (Windoze is so touchy > as you know), and I'm thinking

Re: Dead keys in X.

1998-07-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Paulo Jose da Silva e Silva wrote: > First, thank you for all the help. > > Well, today I decided to read more carefully about what does XKB > support. > > The main texts where I got information (after digging the net) were: > > http://www.tux.org/~balsa/linux/deadkeys/ > http://web.fdn.fr/~tquino

Re: cfdisk problem during installation

1998-07-17 Thread joost
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Jonathan Hester wrote: > During installation of Debian Linux 1.3, I am getting the following error > message when the installation software tries to partition my hard drive: > > FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition > Press any key to exit fdisk Hi, Sometimes, cf

Re: crc error ( install )

1998-07-17 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"Amanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I have just started to install Debian Linux. I don't think I got past first | base. | After making my floppies I rebooted with the resc1440.bin disk firmly in the | drive. On the first screen I pressed Enter heres what I got : | boot: | Loading root.bin.

cfdisk problem during installation

1998-07-17 Thread Jonathan Hester
Friends, a question: During installation of Debian Linux 1.3, I am getting the following error message when the installation software tries to partition my hard drive: FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition Press any key to exit fdisk I understand that this error message migh

Re: KDE in deb format?

1998-07-17 Thread Tom Pfeifer
I did the same, although I actually got them from the sunsite ftp site. I also have the missing pixmaps for the title bar, and also have no screensavers. All else seems OK so far. I uninstalled beta 4 first. I couldn't find the admin deb package at sunsite, but that's fairly minor anyway. Tom Ia

Re: [linux-security] Re: Chrooting bind 8.1.2 under debian 2.0

1998-07-17 Thread Filipe Jorge Marques de Almeida
On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 11:30:32AM +0300, Cougar wrote: > What this chroot gives You? Actually this is protection against simple > exec("/bin/sh") but every cracker may put chroot("/") before this and all > the protection is destroyed. > > [mod: It is slightly less trivial than 'chroot("/")', but

Cross-compile to Windows NT

1998-07-17 Thread Michael Laing
I have a large utility program that I need to run under NT - is there a cross-compiler for this purpose? Thanks, Michael -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: [linux-security] Re: Chrooting bind 8.1.2 under debian 2.0

1998-07-17 Thread Wolfgang Ley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Cougar wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Carlos Barros wrote: > > > On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, cfb wrote: > > > > > The main problem seems to be with the way that debian starts bind using > > > the script /etc/init.d/bind. I thought it would be really neat to just >

setting dynamic rxvt titles with Xresoures/Xdefaults

1998-07-17 Thread Deniz Dogan
Hi, Is there a way to dynamicly set rxvt titles, using .Xresources/.Xdefaults ? Thanks in advance. -- Deniz Dogan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: [linux-security] Re: Chrooting bind 8.1.2 under debian 2.0

1998-07-17 Thread Leigh Porter
Carlos Barros wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, cfb wrote: > > > The main problem seems to be with the way that debian starts bind using > > the script /etc/init.d/bind. I thought it would be really neat to just > > change the #!/bin/sh at the top of the script to something like : > >#!/u

Re: X fonts

1998-07-17 Thread jdassen
On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 09:49:39AM +1000, Chris wrote: [finding usable fonts for terminals in X] Sorry, I don't have time to write out a nice answer; here's a dump of my notes: !! ! ! Fixed width fonts ! ! Useful programs

Re: [linux-security] Re: Chrooting bind 8.1.2 under debian 2.0

1998-07-17 Thread Cougar
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Carlos Barros wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, cfb wrote: > > > The main problem seems to be with the way that debian starts bind using > > the script /etc/init.d/bind. I thought it would be really neat to just > > change the #!/bin/sh at the top of the script to somethin

[avandor@intergate.bc.ca: crc error]

1998-07-17 Thread Martin Schulze
- Forwarded message from Amanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Return-Path: Received: at Infodrom Oldenburg (/\##/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.12 Joey) by finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE id ; Fri, 17 Jul 98 05:51 MET DST Received: from murphy.debian.org (murphy.novare.net [205.229.104.6])

Re: X fonts

1998-07-17 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Friday 17 July 1998, at 1 h 24, the keyboard of Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the moment I am selecting fonts from the list generated by xlsfonts, > however most of these do not appear to work for terminals (resulting in a > very distorted - usually streached - terminal). Also, the se

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-17 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 12:13:44PM -0400, Brian White wrote: > > > Yes. use CTRL-\ > > > > I've never heard of that. > > neither have II just tried it...it makes programs exit fast but > I have yet to produce a core dump with it > > > Actua

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-17 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: > Yes. use CTRL-\ Nope, that would kill the program... Maarten _ | TU Delft, The Netherlands, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems | | Departm

Re: CD vendors in Europe?

1998-07-17 Thread Bruce Mardle
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ... and at least one of the vendors in Europe is strictly a reseller of > > CDs. > Perhaps you have his email or www address ? > > Does anyone knows other CD vendors in Europe ? I bought mine from http://www.polo.demon.co.uk/emporium.html (and was very happy with the

Re: Debian w/ Win95?

1998-07-17 Thread Karel Bemelmans
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Robert Henry Rati wrote: > Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:14:54 -0500 (EST) > From: Robert Henry Rati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Marcus Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org, linux newbie > Subject: Re: Debian w/ Win95? > > I have Debian and Winbloze

Re: ls - color by default

1998-07-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 11:21:08PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > Yeah, great point. Problem is I (for one) don't know HOW to compile > "--color" as the default. Same thing with "less" as the default pager > instead of "more", sure would be great to have that be standard. Maybe > someone could make

HP Omnibook 600C

1998-07-17 Thread S Brosseau
I have read the page at www.cs.hme.edu/iowa-lab/omnibook.html regarding Linux on the omnibook. I am looking for any updates concerning the mouse and floppy drivers. I would also like to install from the floppy; but Linux can't read the rescue disk in the floppy (apparently because the 600c requir

Re: Dead keys in X.

1998-07-17 Thread Paulo Jose da Silva e Silva
First, thank you for all the help. Well, today I decided to read more carefully about what does XKB support. The main texts where I got information (after digging the net) were: http://www.tux.org/~balsa/linux/deadkeys/ http://web.fdn.fr/~tquinot/dead-keys.en.html And the README file in the dia

Printing Mac PS files containing binary data

1998-07-17 Thread Richard Wraith
We have a problem with binary PS files (primarily from Adobe applications like Photoshop, Illustrator etc) where they get corrupted on the way to the printer with the result that hundreds of pages spit out of the printer with a few random characters on them rather than one page of the desired prin

[avandor@intergate.bc.ca: crc error]

1998-07-17 Thread Hanno Wagner
Hi, please read this one and answer :-) - Forwarded message from Amanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 17 Jul 1998 03:48:03 - X-From_: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 16 22:48:03 1998 X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Amanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

ls - color by default

1998-07-17 Thread Dave Jones
Yeah, great point. Problem is I (for one) don't know HOW to compile "--color" as the default. Same thing with "less" as the default pager instead of "more", sure would be great to have that be standard. Maybe someone could make a .deb package with all the cool "options" as defaults: less as pag

crc error ( install )

1998-07-17 Thread Amanda
I have just started to install Debian Linux. I don't think I got past first base. After making my floppies I rebooted with the resc1440.bin disk firmly in the drive. On the first screen I pressed Enter heres what I got : boot: Loading root.bin. Loading linux..

Re: color-ls how do I use it?

1998-07-17 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, Just an idea! Should 'ls --color' be compiled as default? I believe we all have color monitor Richard L. Alhama wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Andreas Mueller wrote: > > > Hi > > Try > > 'ls --color' > > If it works, set the alias ls='ls --color '. > woohoo! It worked > > > by

Re: Installing Debian on a Low-memory System

1998-07-17 Thread Lindsay Allen
The situation as I understand it:- You must boot from a floppy. Use the resc disk here. You need to put lmemroot.bin on a floppy for use during the install. When you get the "boot: " prompt tell it "floppy0" i.e.boot: floppy0 After this you just follow along as instructed. Be aware, t

Installing Debian on a Low-memory System

1998-07-17 Thread David Karlin
Hello, I am trying to install Debian Linux on a system which is built from 100% free, recycled parts. It has an AMD '386 DX/DXL-25 processor, and a 41 MB HDD. BIOS detects 640KB of Base and 4325KB of Ext. memory. I have repeatedly run the "RESC1440.BIN" diskette, and after Linux uncompresses, aft

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