Re: SCSI Controller

1998-07-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Stephen A. Witt wrote: : On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Timothy C. Phan wrote: : : > Hi, : > : > Didn't Adaptec bought out BusLogic? I thought I heard some news like : > that a while back! : > : : No, Mylex (whoever they are) bought BusLogic. Yup, and Adaptec bought Future D

Re: SCSI Controller

1998-07-30 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > Hi, > > Didn't Adaptec bought out BusLogic? I thought I heard some news like > that a while back! > No, Mylex (whoever they are) bought BusLogic. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Which debian?

1998-07-30 Thread Adam Keys
Stephen E. Collins wrote: > > I have given up trying to get PHP3 running as a module in Apache 1.3.1 > with sybase-ct support on my RedHat 5.1 machine. Apache gives me a > segmentation fault upon startup. I believe that glibc is at fault. I'd > like to try another distribution instead of going

Re: Using two mice under X at once.

1998-07-30 Thread Christopher Barry
Thank you very much. I got both of them running alongside each other perfectly now. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > *- Christopher Barry wrote about "Using two mice under X at once." > | Hi all, > | > | I just today bought a really nifty keyboard with a built-in touchpad and > | the touchpad part o

Anyone Read the Articles on Free Software In Forbes

1998-07-30 Thread Allan Bart
Hi, I just received the august 10th issue of forbes and guess who is on the front page? Linus himself, in a semi hippie pose. the articel is very favorable and I think it presents the beginning of a nightmare for microsoft and co. when the big time capitalists start to recognize free software- wha

Re: Using two mice under X at once.

1998-07-30 Thread servis
*- Christopher Barry wrote about "Using two mice under X at once." | Hi all, | | I just today bought a really nifty keyboard with a built-in touchpad and | the touchpad part of it uses a serial interface, while my existing mouse | is PS/2. I can switch between them by killing X and quickly editing

Re: Dumb Terminals

1998-07-30 Thread debian-user
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have some old computers that I would like to use as dumb terminals. I > was wondering if someone could point me to a good howto or faq on how to > set this up or perhaps give me some tips and or help. Among a zillion other things t

Re: Using two mice under X at once.

1998-07-30 Thread Shaleh
To my knowledge you are only allows ONE pointer. The exception to this is the XInput devices for items like drawing pads. The xset should go in your .xinitrc or its equivalent. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: American Cancer Society Email... HOAX! (fwd)

1998-07-30 Thread Norbert Bottlaender-Prier
Richard L. Alhama a écrit: >... > DEATH TO SPAMMERS! > >Aardvark Daily > >"Spam not ours" says American Cancer Society >... Not only that, but think seriously : If they think about giving money, WHY WOULD THEY WASTE THEIR TIME AND ENERGY COUNTING E-MAILS for

Re: gnome-card-games

1998-07-30 Thread Joey Hess
B. Bell wrote: > > well, since nobody has yet helped me, let me make it real simple for you: > if you have gnome-card-games installed, and it actually works, could you > please go into one of those things what some folks call a "shell", and > type the following text in: > > dpkg -S require.scm >

Using two mice under X at once.

1998-07-30 Thread Christopher Barry
Hi all, I just today bought a really nifty keyboard with a built-in touchpad and the touchpad part of it uses a serial interface, while my existing mouse is PS/2. I can switch between them by killing X and quickly editing XF86Config and then restarting X, but I'm wondering if there is way to get X

gnome-card-games

1998-07-30 Thread B. Bell
well, since nobody has yet helped me, let me make it real simple for you: if you have gnome-card-games installed, and it actually works, could you please go into one of those things what some folks call a "shell", and type the following text in: dpkg -S require.scm and then, write me back, and i

Re: log file rotation in hamm...

1998-07-30 Thread Steve Reeves
Alan Su <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it seems to me that there should be a way to do this, but currently it > requires an act of god, or at least some really gross changes to > /etc/syslog.conf which will probably change the way stuff gets logged. > (i admit, i don't really understand what faciliti

Re: chroot in passwd? (WAS: Re: Trouble With Simple Thing.)

1998-07-30 Thread Adam Lazur
On Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 02:08:00AM -0700, Chris Wong wrote: > That's exactly what I want.. in ftp, I'm stuck.. I thought it would be > nice > so users don't get lost in the filesystem if they changed to the root dir. Quoted from http://yahanbi.snu.ac.kr/study-archive/security/8.html 5. Res

Re: log file rotation in hamm...

1998-07-30 Thread Alan Su
Shaleh wrote (Thu, 30 Jul 1998 16:58:18 -0400 ): |>Have you tried man on syslogd-listfiles?? It should give you a |>pointer. If not, contact the packages maintainer and ask him. He/she |>will know the correct way to do this. If the script needs editing or a |>conf file he can either make his ow

Re: More Urgent HAMM Install help needed

1998-07-30 Thread David B. Teague
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: More Urgent HAMM Install help needed > > In a reply to an installation question you said (in part) With Debian > you "With Debian you only have to keep a minimum of configuration > data stored on a couple of flop

Best thing I've read all week

1998-07-30 Thread Kent West
"Women are more enigmatic than linux :-" from Samuele (Count Zero) in a reply -- "Re: Linux vs. Windows" === Kent West | Technology Support/Customer Service | Abilene Christian University| Voice: 9

Re: Is this expected ssh behavior?

1998-07-30 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 01:32:24PM -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > And you do set your path in the .bash_profile and can verify that it is > > being run? > > I do set the path, but it doesn't look like it is being run. (Other > statements should print

Re: SCSI Controller

1998-07-30 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, Didn't Adaptec bought out BusLogic? I thought I heard some news like that a while back! Anders Hammarquist wrote: > > > Which motherboard has the BusLogic on board? Thanks! > > I don't know of any, or if they even exist (I suspect not). You should > check with the manufacutrer Mylex

Re: log file rotation in hamm...

1998-07-30 Thread Shaleh
Have you tried man on syslogd-listfiles?? It should give you a pointer. If not, contact the packages maintainer and ask him. He/she will know the correct way to do this. If the script needs editing or a conf file he can either make his own or ask for help. If this is not resolved, I will look

HP DeskJet 890C: poor performance on Linux vs. Windows

1998-07-30 Thread Martin Weinberg
Dear Folks, I have benchmarked the performance of both the cdj550, hp850, and hpdj drivers in gs on my Debian box and the HP provided Windows driver. I used both photographs and scientific "visualized" data. I'm using magicfilter and the parameters to gs were set as recommended in the various gs

Re: Is this expected ssh behavior?

1998-07-30 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 01:32:24PM -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > And you do set your path in the .bash_profile and can verify that it is > being run? I do set the path, but it doesn't look like it is being run. (Other statements should print to the screen as an earlier example you ran showed.)

Re: SCSI Controller

1998-07-30 Thread Anders Hammarquist
> Which motherboard has the BusLogic on board? Thanks! I don't know of any, or if they even exist (I suspect not). You should check with the manufacutrer Mylex http://www.mylex.com/ - they should know if there are any motherboards out there with BusLogic controllers on them. Regards /Anders

Re: Debian, SunSoft, and dselect

1998-07-30 Thread Pete Payne
On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Will Lowe wrote: > > Here's the trouble. I start dselect, and tell it to use an already > > mounted NFS partition for Access. I then begin to give it the specifics > > it needs regarding file locations. During this time, it will read the CD. > > After a few moments however,

Re: Debian, SunSoft, and dselect

1998-07-30 Thread Will Lowe
> Here's the trouble. I start dselect, and tell it to use an already > mounted NFS partition for Access. I then begin to give it the specifics > it needs regarding file locations. During this time, it will read the CD. > After a few moments however, it will return and say that there were no > *.

Debian, SunSoft, and dselect

1998-07-30 Thread Pete Payne
Hi. I've been trying for the past few days to get deselect to work with nfs. Specifically, I am using an evaluation copy of SunSoft's PC-NFSPro (an nfs server) to create an NFS export on my Windows 95 machine. In that export, which is actually the Windows 95 CD-ROM, I have the Debian 1.3.1 distr

Debian & Digital Celebris GL5120

1998-07-30 Thread dave oswald
Hello all, Got me a Digital Celebris GL5120 donated for a web prject Im working on. It has an onboard 10-base-t port, and I want to use it if I can. Can anybody out there tell me what to select as an ethernet card when installing debian? thanks in advance ... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsub

Re: linux software for verifying printer.

1998-07-30 Thread Geoff Brimhall
Create a binary file, that contains the bit you want. The on the shell command line, execute the following command: cat binary_file_name > /dev/lp1. or whichever device is your printer. This is actually a standard way of verifying that your printer works - or can print postscript or ASCII file

Re: Which debian?

1998-07-30 Thread Geoff Brimhall
Probably the most significant difference between Hamm and Bo is that almost all binaries in Hamm use glibc, and all the critical system binaries are glibc. Personally, I've found debian to be a *much* better designed distribution than Redhat. The only difference is the initial installation of De

Re: log file rotation in hamm...

1998-07-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Alan Su wrote: : OK, both Norman and Shaleh didn't understand my question. i can only : conclude that i'm an idiot. =) here's a second shot: No, you're no idiot. I may be, however, for not understanding the question completely. : these are the output of 'syslogd-listfile

Debian CD Creation

1998-07-30 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
I downloaded an image of the Debian 2.0 CD, but am not sure how to burn it in Windows. The documentation talks of changing the .raw file to a .iso file, but my system does not recognize the extension. Can the CD be created using Adaptec's DirectCD? Thanks, Dinesh == ~~

Which debian?

1998-07-30 Thread Stephen E. Collins
I have given up trying to get PHP3 running as a module in Apache 1.3.1 with sybase-ct support on my RedHat 5.1 machine. Apache gives me a segmentation fault upon startup. I believe that glibc is at fault. I'd like to try another distribution instead of going back to RH4.2, which uses libc5. I k

Re: log file rotation in hamm...

1998-07-30 Thread Alan Su
OK, both Norman and Shaleh didn't understand my question. i can only conclude that i'm an idiot. =) here's a second shot: these are the output of 'syslogd-listfiles' and 'syslogd-listfiles --weekly': alsu# syslogd-listfiles /var/log/syslog alsu# syslogd-listfiles --weekly /var/log/mess

Re: Problem with SCSI CD-ROM

1998-07-30 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Jens Ritter; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > Did you grab an image from the mirror and burned that, or did you > generate your own images for burning? Where did you get it from? I haven't done it myself, but one of the debian maintainers did it for me. Don't know the answer to that one. s

Re: simple driver

1998-07-30 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Dan, Sending your message repeatedly (I've noticed 3 already) does little more than irritate people. Your question is not debian specific and is therefore inappropriate for this list. Finding this info on the web is a snap. The code you want is at http://www-ugrad.cs.colorado.edu/~rkirkpat/softwa

Unidentified subject!

1998-07-30 Thread keatingjp17
Has anyone or does anyone know how to, set up dumb terminals that are not X terminals? I have read a few docs that some have pointed me to (greatly appreciated) but they describe installing a unix on them I was wondering if there was a way to just plug a few monitors into 1 box kind of like an old

Re: PCMCIA modem problems after hamm upgrade

1998-07-30 Thread Julian Gilbey
Just a little more info on this one: I have compiled all of the requisite parts of the kernel, and I even compiled them in directly rather than as modules, as I thought that might be part of the problem. > I have just upgraded from bo to hamm (which was quite a task -- I put > in the wrong directo

simple driver

1998-07-30 Thread Dan Golosovker
Hi, I'm looking for a simple driver that will send a one-bit signal through a parallel port. The reeson I need this is that I would like to control 8 independant relay switches with a computer program. Dan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

PCMCIA modem problems after hamm upgrade

1998-07-30 Thread Julian Gilbey
I have just upgraded from bo to hamm (which was quite a task -- I put in the wrong directory structure into dpkg-ftp and it completely corrupted my status file -- thank Gd for backups...). I've now updated all my packages to the versions in the stable hamm release, and have recompiled my kernel (2

Re: log file rotation in hamm...

1998-07-30 Thread Shaleh
I did not see the full scope of the question. I am away from my Debian box. Alan, would you send a very clear, concise e-mail back to the list that better explains what you want? If the current scrpt fails in some respect then it can be updated -- that is the Debian way (-: Post a bug, make an

Re: log file rotation in hamm...

1998-07-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Alan Su wrote: : Nathan E Norman wrote (Thu, 30 Jul 1998 12:51:59 -0500 (CDT) ): : |>On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Alan Su wrote: : |> : |>: I just installed hamm, and I noticed that the log file rotation in : |>: /etc/cron.{daily,weekly}/sysklogd now uses a facility called : |>: syslo

Re: log file rotation in hamm...

1998-07-30 Thread Alan Su
Shaleh wrote (Thu, 30 Jul 1998 14:00:56 -0400 ): |>Alan Su wrote: |>> Well, this is only half the solution; if i simply exit the script |>> without doing anything, i don't get the daily rotations. however, i |>> don't get the weekly ones either (which is what i want). |>> |>> -alan |> |>So move t

Re: log file rotation in hamm...

1998-07-30 Thread Shaleh
Alan Su wrote: > Well, this is only half the solution; if i simply exit the script > without doing anything, i don't get the daily rotations. however, i > don't get the weekly ones either (which is what i want). > > -alan So move the script from daily to weekly. Then it gets run when you want i

Re: log file rotation in hamm...

1998-07-30 Thread Alan Su
Nathan E Norman wrote (Thu, 30 Jul 1998 12:51:59 -0500 (CDT) ): |>On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Alan Su wrote: |> |>: I just installed hamm, and I noticed that the log file rotation in |>: /etc/cron.{daily,weekly}/sysklogd now uses a facility called |>: syslogd-listfiles. does anyone know how to change the

Re: log file rotation in hamm...

1998-07-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Alan Su wrote: : I just installed hamm, and I noticed that the log file rotation in : /etc/cron.{daily,weekly}/sysklogd now uses a facility called : syslogd-listfiles. does anyone know how to change the periodicity : with which logs are rotated? most notably, i want to rotat

Re: 'killall' in hamm?

1998-07-30 Thread Shaleh
Richard Kaszeta wrote: > > What happened to 'killall' in hamm? It's no longer in procps. > Has it been relocated to another package? Yes, psmisc. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: 'killall' in hamm?

1998-07-30 Thread Richard Kaszeta
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes ("Re: 'killall' in hamm?"): >% dpkg -S killall >psmisc: /usr/man/man1/killall.1.gz >psmisc: /usr/bin/killall >sysvinit: /usr/man/man8/killall5.8.gz >sysvinit: /sbin/killall5 Okay, thanks. I didn't install anything in 'base' since all that stuff is supposedly in base.tar.g

Re: 'killall' in hamm?

1998-07-30 Thread Julian Gilbey
> What happened to 'killall' in hamm? It's no longer in procps. > Has it been relocated to another package? Yes -- psmisc. Julian =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of

Re: 'killall' in hamm?

1998-07-30 Thread servis
*-Richard Kaszeta (30 Jul) | What happened to 'killall' in hamm? It's no longer in procps. | Has it been relocated to another package? | | % dpkg -S killall psmisc: /usr/man/man1/killall.1.gz psmisc: /usr/bin/killall sysvinit: /usr/man/man8/killall5.8.gz sysvinit: /sbin/killall5 -- Brian

BO Lockup problems

1998-07-30 Thread Matthew D. Myers
I am running Bo on a Dell Laptop. I am using Kernel 2.0.33, I get random lockups with no warning, rhyme, or reason. I don't know what it could be exactly. I think it is related to APM, because it is usually after I take my computer out of suspend. I will unsuspend it, type maybe 5 or 6 letters

log file rotation in hamm...

1998-07-30 Thread Alan Su
I just installed hamm, and I noticed that the log file rotation in /etc/cron.{daily,weekly}/sysklogd now uses a facility called syslogd-listfiles. does anyone know how to change the periodicity with which logs are rotated? most notably, i want to rotate syslog on a weekly, not daily basis, but it

'killall' in hamm?

1998-07-30 Thread Richard Kaszeta
What happened to 'killall' in hamm? It's no longer in procps. Has it been relocated to another package? -- Richard W Kaszeta Graduate Student/Sysadmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of MN, ME Dept http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta -- Unsub

Re: find -exec

1998-07-30 Thread Jens Ritter
Ulisses Alonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all > > I would like to know if there is a way to make something like this > > find -exec command1 {} | command2 \; > xargs? HTH, Jens --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 2048/E451C639 Jens Ritter Key fingerprin

Re: AGP video card

1998-07-30 Thread Jens Ritter
Brian Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 28 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have a Fire GL 1000 , or also called Diamond Permidia 2 8MB AGP 2d/3d > > combo video card. I didn't see this in the list of video cards to select. > > Could someone please help me in setting up the co

Re: Problem with SCSI CD-ROM

1998-07-30 Thread Jens Ritter
"Damir J. Naden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Raymond A. Ingles; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Andreas Nolda wrote: > > > > > trying to install Debian 2.0 from a Sony PCMCIA-Discman (PRD-250) using > > > pcmcia-cs_3.0.0-9, I constantly get error messages of the

Re: Netscape and wwwoffle

1998-07-30 Thread Alan Tate
On Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 05:06:55PM +0200, Dirk Bonne wrote: > Alan Tate wrote: > Where the devil are the proxy settings hidden? > > Click on the arrow left of advanced, you'll see a popup menu... > > Dirk Sheesh, how stupid can one get? And I always clicked on the word Advanced, never on th

Re: advice on a portable

1998-07-30 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Chris Evans wrote: > Anyone spare a moment to recommend a good portable on which > to run Debian? > > > I am changing jobs to a split job and can order a portable. I do > research support as well as psychotherapy (weird huh?!) and am > transferring from windoze/M$ to Deb

Re: Dumb Terminals

1998-07-30 Thread keatingjp17
I read the document on dumb terminals for X but what if i just want them to sit with getty login instead of being dumb X terminals? Any chance anyone knows a good doc on that? "If I had known this before I"

Re: upgrading form lib5 to lib6

1998-07-30 Thread Bob Nielsen
All I can say is that I have upgraded one system with apt-get and didn't break anything. I have also done three upgrades using autoup.sh and one clean ftp install of hamm without any major problems. There have been a few minor glitches, but nothing which broke anything. One of these upgrades (th

Re: 2.0 CD images and symlinks...

1998-07-30 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On 29 Jul, Tyson Dowd wrote: > >> > Try mounting them with -onojoliet > >> > >> Yes! That did it. Thank you! > >> > >> My man-page for mount (nor fstab) says nothing about -onojoliet (or > >> joliet at all), maybe I need a newer version of mount? (2.7l) > >> Or is th

Re: Wintel CD burner apps to create Debian CDs?

1998-07-30 Thread Kevin Traas
>The last time I checked there was no such thing... Just curious if >there is now a program for an NT/95 machine which will correctly burn >the Debian 2.0 CD images (ISO-9660 + RRE, IIRC...). I just got a >nice new box with some actual horsepower! (PII-300). Forget trying to get the files them

Dosemu & Wordperfect 5.1

1998-07-30 Thread Johann Spies
If there are any debian users using WordPerfect 5.1 on dosemu, I would like to have a copy of their /etc/dosemu/conf. I could not succeed in getting Wordperfect 5.1 running successfully on Dosemu. Thanks. Johann -- | Johan

Re: DHCP and hostname

1998-07-30 Thread E. S. Venkatraman
Thanks for all of you who have helped me. I solved the hostname problem by using the "-c commandfile" option in the "dhcpc" init script in /etc/init.d. Now if I can make the rest of the init scripts (particularly xdm) wait for the hostname to be set (it takes the DHCP server about 15 seconds to c

Re: Dumb Terminals

1998-07-30 Thread E. S. Venkatraman
If you want to set them up a X-terms you can look at: http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta/unix/xterminal/index.htm Venkat On Thu, 30 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have some old computers that I would like to use as dumb terminals. I > was wondering if someone could point me to a good

RE: HELP: Just upgraded and now i don't have X - An update

1998-07-30 Thread Mario Filipe
On 30-Jul-98 Mario Filipe wrote: > Hi > > The subject just about says it all doesn't it? > > Everything went smooth except for X, mor exactly xbase. Whenever i try to > compile it i get this: I've been doing some research i definitely believe the problem is with either xbase or xlib6g.

Wintel CD burner apps to create Debian CDs?

1998-07-30 Thread Kendrick Myatt
The last time I checked there was no such thing... Just curious if there is now a program for an NT/95 machine which will correctly burn the Debian 2.0 CD images (ISO-9660 + RRE, IIRC...). I just got a nice new box with some actual horsepower! (PII-300). If so, then I'd be willing to make as many

RE: advice on a portable

1998-07-30 Thread Ted Harding
On 30-Jul-98 Chris Evans wrote: > I am changing jobs to a split job and can order a portable. I do > research support as well as psychotherapy (weird huh?!) and am > transferring from windoze/M$ to Debian. I think you're cured. You can go home now. Ted.

Re: Netscape and wwwoffle

1998-07-30 Thread Dirk Bonne
Alan Tate wrote: > > Sorry, this question is not Debian-specific: I am trying to set up > wwwoffle with Netscape 4.05. Apparently there shoud be, in the (Netscape) > Edit/Preferences/Advanced menu, a section relating to proxies. All I have > there are settings for Java and Cookies etc. Where the d

Ignore: New install of Hamm 2.0.10_1998-07-21

1998-07-30 Thread Chris Evans
An hour or so ago my moron self sent a message to the list that started: I am installing Hamm anew on a machine that I had managed to Scrap it -- sorry! I was being dumb and mounted a drive as /etc when I meant to mount it as /home. I presume that /etc has to be on the root drive. Things se

Re: Hamm problem. (XDM, maybe)

1998-07-30 Thread Michael B. Taylor
Boot with your rescue disk. Mount the partition that contains your /etc directory. Edit /etc/X11/config, commenting out the line "start-xdm". Reboot normally. Mike On Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 04:44:39PM -0700, James Brown Ender/Gcc" wrote: > Hi, >I've just upgraded my system to Hamm, but

HELP: Just upgraded and now i don't have X

1998-07-30 Thread Mario Filipe
Hi The subject just about says it all doesn't it? Everything went smooth except for X, mor exactly xbase. Whenever i try to compile it i get this: running dpkg --pending --configure ... Setting up libtool (1.0h-5) ... Configuring libtool... dpkg: error processing libtool (--configure): subproce

Debian News

1998-07-30 Thread Nils Lohner
We are currently trying to add a section to our News on the web page that references articles that are published in which Debian is mentioned. If you come across such an article, please drop the URL for it in an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Nils. -- Nils Lohner

linux software

1998-07-30 Thread Dan Golosovker
Does anyone know where I could get a linux program that would send a one bit signal accross a printer port? Dan Golosovker [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

New install of Hamm 2.0.10_1998-07-21

1998-07-30 Thread Chris Evans
I am installing Hamm anew on a machine that I had managed to get Bo on (but only recently so I had nothing much to lose by zapping it). Everything seems to go fine. I have reinitialised all the drives with the bad block checking and done the full install. When it comes to the final reboot ev

linux printer software

1998-07-30 Thread Dan Golosovker
Does anybody know if there is a linux program that will send a 1 bit signal through the printer port? Dan Golosovker [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Dumb Terminals

1998-07-30 Thread keatingjp17
I have some old computers that I would like to use as dumb terminals. I was wondering if someone could point me to a good howto or faq on how to set this up or perhaps give me some tips and or help. "If I had known th

Re: dselect "parse" error in HAMM release

1998-07-30 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 00:39:01 -0500 Craig Slusher writes: > > I'm new to the LINUX world and need some help solving this problem. > When I run dselect, and update, I get the message; > > Checking for Packages file... FTP ERROR - Cannot parse > yeeaar-or-time at > /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DpkgFtp

Re: Mounting Win95 Shares with samba

1998-07-30 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 11:53:10 +0800 (WST) Lindsay Allen writes: > > Have you any ideas on what this is trying to tell me? > elm# smbmount //gum/h /mnt > Password: > SMBFS: need mount version 6 > mount error: Invalid argument > Please look at smbmount's manual page for possible reasons > > Runnin

Re: emacs/xemacs conflict?

1998-07-30 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
I didn't received the original message yet, so I answer to the followup of Alexander. >> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 20:04:47 -0500 >> From: the lone gunman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: Debian/GNU User's List >> Subject: emacs/xemacs conflict? >> Resent-Date

Re: dselect missing ftp option

1998-07-30 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 10:48:59 -0500 JonesMB writes: > > Thanks for the responses to my request. It turns out that I needed > to add the dpkg-ftp package. Is it possible to upgrade/update > individual packages on 1.3 systems or any upgrades that have to done > must be preceded by the 1.3 -> 2.0

advice on a portable

1998-07-30 Thread Chris Evans
Anyone spare a moment to recommend a good portable on which to run Debian? I am changing jobs to a split job and can order a portable. I do research support as well as psychotherapy (weird huh?!) and am transferring from windoze/M$ to Debian. I will have to retain a dual boot on the machine

Re: Netscape and wwwoffle

1998-07-30 Thread Christopher Wesneski
edit, prefs, advanced, proxies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry, this question is not Debian-specific: I am trying to set up > wwwoffle with Netscape 4.05. Apparently there shoud be, in the (Netscape) > Edit/Preferences/Advanced menu, a section relating to proxies. All I have > there are settings

Re: Linux vs. Windows

1998-07-30 Thread Christopher Wesneski
I recently installed Linux on my machine days after I upgraded to Win98. The only problem (not really a problem, just an inconvenience) was having to run defrag and then removing my swap file because I couldn't run defrag without the swap file (windows choked, go figure). [EMAIL PROTECTED] wro

RE: Can only run X as root

1998-07-30 Thread Steve Rothanburg
George R hat gesagt: // George R wrote: > Well, I managed to get X to run, but only as root. I've read manpages > and howto's until my eyes have crossed. > > When I try xdm as a user I get the message only root wants to run xdm. > If I try startx I get a message unable to open consol. > > I've

Netscape and wwwoffle

1998-07-30 Thread Alan Tate
Sorry, this question is not Debian-specific: I am trying to set up wwwoffle with Netscape 4.05. Apparently there shoud be, in the (Netscape) Edit/Preferences/Advanced menu, a section relating to proxies. All I have there are settings for Java and Cookies etc. Where the devil are the proxy settings

Re: OFF-TOPIC: fwd: Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 Tip of the Day [Downloading multiple files - 07/27/98]

1998-07-30 Thread Norbert Bottlaender-Prier
count zero a écrit: > > Frock wrote: >... > > > > This is a general problem with windows95/98, because the OS doesn't allow > > more than 4 (four!!) network connections!! > > > > Why is this ??Why do ppl have to suffer from this stupid limitation ?? > > I never understood that. Maybe someone c

Re: [FAQ] Re: HAMM: difference between beta-2 & final ?

1998-07-30 Thread Frank Barknecht
Martin Schulze hat gesagt: // Martin Schulze wrote: > Bernhard Treutwein writes: > > Sorry, if that is an FAQ, but I did not find any hint. > > > > What changed between the final and the beta-2, or where > > can I find that info ? > > Whoops. I believe the easiest ways to find out are: > > a)

Re: upgrading form lib5 to lib6

1998-07-30 Thread Mario Filipe
On 22-Jul-98 Bob Nielsen wrote: > 3. Install apt and run 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. The bo version of apt may > be found at http://www.debian/org/~jgg/apt_0.0.17-1bo0_i386.deb (be sure > to read the documentation in this package). You mean that if I do this on a bo system it will be ok! N

Re: Can only run X as root

1998-07-30 Thread Frank Barknecht
George R hat gesagt: // George R wrote: > Well, I managed to get X to run, but only as root. I've read manpages > and howto's until my eyes have crossed. > > When I try xdm as a user I get the message only root wants to run xdm. > If I try startx I get a message unable to open consol. > > I've

Re: Mutt, Exim, and the From: header

1998-07-30 Thread Curt Daugaard
On Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 04:45:47PM +1000, Tyson Dowd wrote: > On 29-Jul-1998, Curt Daugaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm still bothered by the fact a working mailer set up could break > > in the same way more than once--angering my respondents and > > all--without my so much as touching

Re: Ultra/DMA IDE controllers

1998-07-30 Thread Curt Daugaard
On Wed, Jul 29, 1998 at 03:19:38PM -0500, Nick Gilliam wrote: > > > Are Ultra/DMA IDE controllers and drives supported under Debian 2.0. > Yes and no. See the mini-HOWTO, Ultra-DMA (http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA.html) Hope this helps. (I have some experience getting the P

Re: HAMM: difference between beta-2 & final ?

1998-07-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Bernhard Treutwein writes: > Sorry, if that is an FAQ, but I did not find any hint. > > What changed between the final and the beta-2, or where > can I find that info ? Whoops. I believe the easiest ways to find out are: a) let mirror run over a mirror of beta-2 b) Check the archives of debian

Re: Trouble With Simple Thing.

1998-07-30 Thread Chris Wong
At 01:47 AM 7/30/98 -0400, you wrote: >> Chris Wong wrote: >> >Hello, >> > >> > I'm sorta new to Debian.. and I was wondering if anyone could help >> >me with limiting users to their own directory. I've read docs about it, >> >but still can't get it working. Anyone help? Thanks. >> > >

HAMM: difference between beta-2 & final ?

1998-07-30 Thread Bernhard Treutwein
Sorry, if that is an FAQ, but I did not find any hint. What changed between the final and the beta-2, or where can I find that info ? -- Bernhard Treutwein Tel. +49-89-5996-642, Fax -615 Institut f. Med. Psychologie Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

spam (was: Re: w18)

1998-07-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Keith wrote: > What's with the junk mail. Send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and let Igor complain. (is has been sent already) Regards, Joey -- There are lies, statistics and benchmarks. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Trouble With Simple Thing.

1998-07-30 Thread Adam Lazur
> Chris Wong wrote: > >Hello, > > > > I'm sorta new to Debian.. and I was wondering if anyone could help > >me with limiting users to their own directory. I've read docs about it, > >but still can't get it working. Anyone help? Thanks. > > > > I don't understand what you want to do.

Re: Hamm problem. (XDM, maybe)

1998-07-30 Thread John C. Ellingboe
James Brown (Ender/Gcc) wrote: > > Hi, >I've just upgraded my system to Hamm, but after a reboot the screen > flashs from text to graphics > mode, and back. I think it might be XDM, as X Windows doesnt load... > > Any suggestions on how I can stop this? I dont want to format my H/D, > and I c

Re: Trouble With Simple Thing.

1998-07-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
Chris Wong wrote: >Hello, > > I'm sorta new to Debian.. and I was wondering if anyone could help >me with limiting users to their own directory. I've read docs about it, >but still can't get it working. Anyone help? Thanks. > I don't understand what you want to do. The normal stat

Re: Mutt, Exim, and the From: header

1998-07-30 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 29-Jul-1998, Curt Daugaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 1998 at 03:42:28AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > > Why not just use the "set hostname" in mutt? EG: > > > > set hostname=calweb.com > > set hostname=teleute.dyn.ml.org > > set hostname=zippitydoda.com > > > > Thank

Hamm problem. (XDM, maybe)

1998-07-30 Thread James Brown \(Ender/Gcc\)
Hi, I've just upgraded my system to Hamm, but after a reboot the screen flashs from text to graphics mode, and back. I think it might be XDM, as X Windows doesnt load... Any suggestions on how I can stop this? I dont want to format my H/D, and I cant shutdown XDM because the keyboard doesnt wor

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