Re: ftp (client?) problem

1998-12-12 Thread okushi
> > My suspicion is on the ftp client program as I can upload a > > file fine from a PC running Win95 which the Linux box > > masquarades for. (Is that the correction expression??) > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Try using "passive" mode of ftp client. (Just type "passive" before "put

Re: X11 and Voodoo Banshee

1998-12-12 Thread Dave Swegen
On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 11:54 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know what server to use with a Creative labs 3D Blaster > Banshee (Voodoo Banshee)? Also, does anyone have any experiance with > it in linux. Go to freshmeat.net and search for banshee. HTH Cheers Dave --

Re: ftp (client?) problem

1998-12-12 Thread aqy6633
> I'm having a problem where I can download a file to my Linux > box but not upload in the opposite direction. (BTW, the > remote machine is a Unix box running Digital Unix or > Solaris.) When I do a "put", ftp (the program) will simply > sit there doing nothing. Sometimes, I'm lucky (?) and it

ftp (client?) problem

1998-12-12 Thread okushi
I'm having a problem where I can download a file to my Linux box but not upload in the opposite direction. (BTW, the remote machine is a Unix box running Digital Unix or Solaris.) When I do a "put", ftp (the program) will simply sit there doing nothing. Sometimes, I'm lucky (?) and it uploads a

Re: WindowMaker 0.20.3 on hamm

1998-12-12 Thread Peter Granroth
On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 04:32:13PM -0500, Tun Yang wrote: [snip] > the 'g' at the end...It still gives the same error... > ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory > > I suspect I'm missing some X development package? Are there any others? > hmm I had the same error when compiling xani

Re: diald setup problem

1998-12-12 Thread okushi
> > I'm having trouble setting up diald on my Linux box. The problem I have > > right now, which I haven't been able to figure out for the last couple of > > hours, is that ppp0, when the link comes up, assumes the IP address > > assigned to eth0. I just cannot figure out how it gets it! > > ...

automatic login?

1998-12-12 Thread Gossamer
I'm SURE this is a faq, but I can't find the answer ... can I set up things so all the virtual consoles I have set up are automatically logged into a certain username? I'm aware of the security risks but live by myself so physical access to the console isn't as issue (anyway, I have a dvorak keyb

Re: Problem compiling the kernel

1998-12-12 Thread Peter Granroth
On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 08:06:56PM +, Allens wrote: > Hi, > I am at the moment trying to build the kernel (2.0.34) I have configured it > (make xconfig, then ran make mrproper as advised by a post in the mail > archives > on this problem, and then done make zImage, and it comes up with this e

Matrox Marvel G200 TV AGP 2X, 8MB SDRAM

1998-12-12 Thread Larry Venable
Has anyone used this card, and can anyone tell me if Debian will support this high end version of the Matrox G-200 card? It's listed as the: MARVEL G200 TV 8MB AGP2X SDRAM THE MARVEL G200-TV IS THE ALL-IN-ONE GRAPHICS SOLUTION THAT REALLY DOES HAVE IT ALL. THIS HIGH PERFORMANCE AGP OR PCI* VIDEO C

Something strange happening with hwclock

1998-12-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm getting a strange problem with hwclock on my toshiba laptop (Satellite 4000CDT). I set the hardware and system clocks correctly and everything is working properly. As long as I don't reboot, all is well. As soon as I reboot my /etc/adjtime file is rewritten and the date is changed (i.e. to Sat

Re: /etc/init.d startup file for CFS

1998-12-12 Thread David Coe
Attached is the /etc/init.d/cfsd I'm using -- I think it's based on the one from the redhat distribution, because (like you) I used that to get a working cattach. I don't know that this is perfect, but it works reliably for me. If you can't get it to work, or if you find a way to improve it, plea

Re: Navigator standalone and pine [was: Re: Pine & Netscape]

1998-12-12 Thread Peter Kovacs
On 10 Dec 1998, Paul Seelig wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Kovacs) writes: > > Anybody figure out how to get navigator standalone to launch a pine > > session when you click on a mailto? With the help of Paul Seelig I figured this out. (It was pretty easy) If anybody else is interested in thi

Re: X11 and Voodoo Banshee

1998-12-12 Thread Jim Pick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Does anyone know what server to use with a Creative labs 3D Blaster > Banshee (Voodoo Banshee)? Also, does anyone have any experiance with > it in linux. http://www.uno.edu/~adamico/banshee/ I got it to work using the VESA framebuffer device (console and X server)

Re: Network cards.

1998-12-12 Thread Jim Pick
Brent McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'll be setting up a network between my linux box and 2 other > machines for a cable modem. I hear that there are some network cards > that just don't work for linux. Crazy I know, but that's the rumour. > Does any one know off any cards I

Re: WindowMaker 0.20.3 on hamm

1998-12-12 Thread Tun Yang
>> Hi... I was trying to install WindowMaker 0.20.3 that I got from >> www.windowmaker.org >> >> Alright... so I don't think I can build any X program at this point... but I >> can't find any X header/development stuff I didn't installcan someone >> tell me the packages? >> >> Also, I can't

HELP: Netscape freezing on get-msg

1998-12-12 Thread Albert Hurd
When I try to get new messages, the get-msg popup appears and then NS freezes at the 1st message. Any ideas??? Help much appreciated. Albert Hurd

Useful utils, builtins and command tricks?

1998-12-12 Thread KJ Peters
I'd like to comprise a library of docs relating to Linux/Unix for a non-commercial idea of utilizing gaia.net as a storehouse for information and a means to find it. Along with the standard FAQ'sand HOWTO's, I'd like to list those time saving tricks categorically, from less to truss. Anything tha

Re: [fsck]: file system errors ...

1998-12-12 Thread wb2oyc
> > Is anything going wrong !? It happens, sometimes, even when not having >failure power or mounted disks. > Nino, Are you actually shutting down with "shutdown -h now" and waiting for the System Halted message, or are you just killing power? paul

Re: dwww: how to include /usr/local/doc

1998-12-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MH" == Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MH> I have compiled some programs myself, such as a testing release of MH> exim. These programs went into /usr/local, so I have a MH> /usr/local/doc with quite some documentation that I'd like to MH> include into dwww. Could you clearify a bit?

Re: Debian installed in Virtual PC

1998-12-12 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 09:19:02PM +0100, Magnus Lewan wrote: > I try to install Linux in Virtual PC for Macintosh, but I get in an infinte > loop after booting from the resc1440 diskett. I've actually heard of some one succeeding with this. One, make sure you are using Virtual PC 2.x (1.x wont wo

Re: KDE 1.0.....

1998-12-12 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Rich Hartman wrote: > Is KDE 1.0 available anywhere in *.deb format - does anyone know if > debian is going to continue releasing KDE? I have the "old" KDE > installed, and it's a little buggy - if debian is vetoing them, maybe > I should think about switching to Gnome? But

Debian installed in Virtual PC

1998-12-12 Thread Magnus Lewan
I try to install Linux in Virtual PC for Macintosh, but I get in an infinte loop after booting from the resc1440 diskett. >From a screen saying: "I had trouble checking the choice of root device. I'll assume that the root fs is still "". Press enter to continue." I have no other choice than pres

Re: X is giving me a headache.

1998-12-12 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 12/11/98 4:44:21 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > There is a web page dedicated to window managers for X. There you can > see most of them in action. I don't have to URL handy, but a search > should find it. I'll dig it up if anyone asks. I found that pa

gpm segmentation fault

1998-12-12 Thread pat
Hi, I think i have something very strange with gpm handling my mouse. First: the mouse is working _correctly_ under X, so there is definitively no problem with the mouse. But with gpm it's another story... It launches ok (of course it's configured with the same parameters as in X) and as soon as

Problem compiling the kernel

1998-12-12 Thread Allens
Hi, I am at the moment trying to build the kernel (2.0.34) I have configured it (make xconfig, then ran make mrproper as advised by a post in the mail archives on this problem, and then done make zImage, and it comes up with this error after a long time: ./xtract /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/vml

Re: Help with libc6/libstdc++2.8

1998-12-12 Thread Charles Collicutt
On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 02:13:28 +, Charles Collicutt wrote: > > Any ideas anyone? > Yes. Make a habit out of reporting precise version numbers when you complain > about packages. Oh, sorry, it was late/early... > The combination of dpkg 1.4.0

WINE

1998-12-12 Thread Jeff Browning
Hey all, When I try to run whine, it says: "Could not stat /dos, ignoring drive C: Invalid path 'c:\windows' for windows directory" Uh, help. Jeff __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

sorting russian text; perl

1998-12-12 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi all, about one month ago there were posting about locale's usage under perl. I tried to use it for sorting russian, but it did not work for me. Is there any additional tricks beside setting LANG=ru_RU; export LANG? I used /usr/share/keytables/ru.map for inputing some russian text. Hope this c

KDE 1.0.....

1998-12-12 Thread Rich Hartman
Is KDE 1.0 available anywhere in *.deb format - does anyone know if debian is going to continue releasing KDE? I have the "old" KDE installed, and it's a little buggy - if debian is vetoing them, maybe I should think about switching to Gnome? But is that anywhere near ready for prime-time? Th

Help, I think my compilers are broken

1998-12-12 Thread timothy
All of a sudden when trying to compile stuff I get weird errors. Eg: g++ helloworld.cc -o hello gives /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lstdc++: No such file or directory collect2: ld returned 1 exit status (Where helloworld.cc is #include void main(void) { cout << "Hello World!"; } ) My relevant p

Mutt and automatic archiving

1998-12-12 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
Hi all - I've finally got my system back up. Now, I'm trying to put into place a more sophisticated mail subsystem. The one thing I want to do is to move all old messages in ~/mail/ to an equivalent place in ~/mail/arch/, in the maildir format. However, mutt continually complains about suc

Re: diald setup problem

1998-12-12 Thread john
Fumi Okushi writes: > I'm having trouble setting up diald on my Linux box. The problem I have > right now, which I haven't been able to figure out for the last couple of > hours, is that ppp0, when the link comes up, assumes the IP address > assigned to eth0. I just cannot figure out how it gets

Re: X is giving me a headache.

1998-12-12 Thread Michele Bini
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 03:22:21PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Then, I thought I'd take a stab at compiling the source code for KDE. BIG > mistake. Evidently, I don't have all the X includes it needs, and damned if > it'll tell me what they are - it (./configure) just says they aren't there

Re: C++ no more...

1998-12-12 Thread Peter Kovacs
On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: > gcc is not the c++ compiler used in Debian. Egcs (g++) is. > Change your configure.in (or just configure, if you wont/cant regenerate > it) so that it uses g++ as the c++ compiler. Also, change the Makefile > if needed to do the same thing. I think th

Re: rvplayer

1998-12-12 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
shao shouted, > When I use rvplayer to play a file with both audio & video, I > always get a msg slow system performance, dropping frame. i.e the video is > not playing... > I am using P166 with 64MB ram. I also tried to use nice, but > didn't help... nice on rvplayer will make matt

Re: WindowMaker 0.20.3 on hamm

1998-12-12 Thread Graham Ashton
On 12 Dec, Tun Yang wrote: *** Opt graphics libtiff3g-de 3.4beta037- 3.4beta037- tiff development files [libc6] > Hi... I was trying to install WindowMaker 0.20.3 that I got from > www.windowmaker.org > > Alright... so I don't think I can build any X program at this point... but I > can't find an

X11 and Voodoo Banshee

1998-12-12 Thread wax_man
Does anyone know what server to use with a Creative labs 3D Blaster Banshee (Voodoo Banshee)? Also, does anyone have any experiance with it in linux. Thanks, Chris

WindowMaker 0.20.3 on hamm

1998-12-12 Thread Tun Yang
Hi... I was trying to install WindowMaker 0.20.3 that I got from www.windowmaker.org In the INSTALL file, it said: The following is required to build Window Maker: -Basic Obvious Stuff If you will build Window Maker, make sure you have gcc (or some other ANSI C compiler) and the X header files i

qmail on dial-up ppp

1998-12-12 Thread Richard Alhama
Hi every1. I've reinstalled hamm on my machine (after I've hosed init) and I decided to give smail a try for a change (from sendmail8.8) but when I procmail it gets bounced. I exactly can't describe it but I think it has something to do with permissions. I've check the permissions on /var/spoo

Re: getting asp to work

1998-12-12 Thread Zack Brown
> On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Zack Brown wrote: > > > I have had no luck getting 'asp' to work. I connect to my provider using > > ppp, figure out my new dynamic ip number from grepping /var/log/debug, > > create a ~/.asp/debian (my hostname is 'debian') file with legal metaip > > numbers that include t

Re: getting asp to work

1998-12-12 Thread Nuno Carvalho
On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Zack Brown wrote: > I have had no luck getting 'asp' to work. I connect to my provider using > ppp, figure out my new dynamic ip number from grepping /var/log/debug, > create a ~/.asp/debian (my hostname is 'debian') file with legal metaip > numbers that include the ip number

Re: apache: "httpd: cannot determine local host name."

1998-12-12 Thread Nuno Carvalho
On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Zack Brown wrote: > I installed apache, but at the end of the configuration stage it failed to > start, giving an error. I ran "apacheconfig", and got the following output > (essentially the same error): I already had such error. On /etc/apache/httpd.conf change the line fr

Re: C++ no more...

1998-12-12 Thread Mitch Blevins
Damon Muller wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Dec 1998 14:30:28 +0100 > "J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You don't quote the relevant part of the "config.log" configure generates, > > so it's very difficult for anyone to tell you what's wrong. > > Opps... sorry. > > rei$ cat confi

Re: C++ no more...

1998-12-12 Thread Damon Muller
On Sat, 12 Dec 1998 14:30:28 +0100 "J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You don't quote the relevant part of the "config.log" configure generates, > so it's very difficult for anyone to tell you what's wrong. Opps... sorry. rei$ cat config.log This file contains any messages p

Re: backpack CD on Toshiba laptop

1998-12-12 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
> Anyone willing to educate me on how to mount a parallel port CD in > Linux? I use a cd writer connected to a parallel port on a toshiba laptop. what I usually do is: 1. plug the cable (!) 2. modprobe paride 3. modprobe epat(this is the protocol I am using) 4. modprobe pg (parall

Re: apache: "httpd: cannot determine local host name."

1998-12-12 Thread Graham Ashton
On 12 Dec, Zack Brown wrote: > I installed apache, but at the end of the configuration stage it failed to > start, giving an error. I ran "apacheconfig", and got the following output > (essentially the same error): > I don't know why it should have trouble finding my hostname. It's right > there

Re: wine problem in slink

1998-12-12 Thread Rick Macdonald
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I recently upgraded to slink. But I have problem using wine. > Everytime it starts, I see the message > > wine: error in loading shared libraries > /usr/X11R6/lib/libwine.so.0: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info > > The lib in the system are >libwine0.0.97

Re: dselect-help!!!!!!!

1998-12-12 Thread pat
On 11-Dec-98, Frank Gerhardt took time to write : >> you are installing a dual boot system aren't you ? > > Not yet. I still boot from a floppy. I was a bit confused about the you could also boot to dos, and then use loadlin to boot linux. > 1024 cylinder limit and wanted to avoid that issue a

apache: "httpd: cannot determine local host name."

1998-12-12 Thread Zack Brown
I installed apache, but at the end of the configuration stage it failed to start, giving an error. I ran "apacheconfig", and got the following output (essentially the same error): Save these changes to the configuration files? [Y/n] Rotated `/etc/apache/httpd.conf' at

getting asp to work

1998-12-12 Thread Zack Brown
I have had no luck getting 'asp' to work. I connect to my provider using ppp, figure out my new dynamic ip number from grepping /var/log/debug, create a ~/.asp/debian (my hostname is 'debian') file with legal metaip numbers that include the ip number returned by my grep. But when I run 'asp debian'

[fsck]: file system errors ...

1998-12-12 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, What would be the reason that almost the times I start linux i had errors on my file system !? -- fsck version 1.12 (9-Jul-98) /dev/hda2 contains a file system with errors, check forced. .. . . . .. - Is anything going wrong !? It happens, sometimes, ev

Re: recommendation on presentation software

1998-12-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 14:40:54 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 03:41:33PM +0100, Blazej Sawionek wrote: > > "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote: > > > Take a look at MagicPoint (the "mgp" package). > > Where can I find it? Dselect (in hamm) asked for `Magic' finds only > > `libma

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-12 Thread Robert Vollmert
> > Look at the message just before the md driver message for the > > problem. It will probably turn out to be the disk controler doesn't > > like being probed at boot time and is locking up. Some systems will > > require an entry on the "boot line" or use the tecra rescue disk like the > > lap t

Re: recommendation on presentation software

1998-12-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 03:41:33PM +0100, Blazej Sawionek wrote: > "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote: > > Take a look at MagicPoint (the "mgp" package). > Where can I find it? Dselect (in hamm) asked for `Magic' finds only > `libmagick4g'. Just as he said, search for "mgp". Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no E

Re: Help with libc6/libstdc++2.8

1998-12-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 02:13:28 +, Charles Collicutt wrote: > Any ideas anyone? Yes. Make a habit out of reporting precise version numbers when you complain about packages. The combination of dpkg 1.4.0.31 (or newer), libc6 2.0.7u-7.1 (or newer), libstdc++2.8 2.90.29-2 (or newer), libstdc++2

Re: QUantifiable reasons to use debian instead of redhat...?

1998-12-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 01:02:33 +0100, Thomas Adams wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 03:11:52PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: > > Debian is not motivated by profit, so when a new Debian release cometh, > > you can be sure it's been tested to a full extent. I think > > Sorry, but I want to disagree h

Dosemu Help

1998-12-12 Thread Remo Badii
Dear Debianers, I need some basic help on dosemu. I use Debian 2.0, kernel 2.0.36, and this is my /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # /dev/hda1/c msdos defaults0 2 /dev/hda2/ ext2

/etc/init.d startup file for CFS

1998-12-12 Thread Damon Muller
Greets gang, I've been playing around with CFS (the cryptographic file system, found in non-us in Debian). It's a little broken. The cattach command doesn't work, but I've found a way around that one (snatched the binary out of a redhat rpm). The other thing it's missing is an /etc/init.d file

Re: C++ no more...

1998-12-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 22:35:31 +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > I don't know how or why, but when I try and run a ./configure script for > a few different programs, it tells me c++ cannot create executables. You don't quote the relevant part of the "config.log" configure generates, so it's very diff

Re: X is giving me a headache.

1998-12-12 Thread Graham Ashton
On 11 Dec, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > X is totally confusing me at the moment. Or rather, how to get it all > working, where are the good window managers, etc. I had problems getting xbase configured, but my previous experience with Red Hat meant I knew how to frig it. I have a security problem

ipmasq rules in ip-up.d

1998-12-12 Thread Sibuyas Bombay
hello everyone ! i placed the following ip masquerading rules in my /etc/ip-up.d/masqrules : #! /bin/sh /sbin/ipfwadm -F -p deny /sbin/ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.1.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0 my question is, with those masq rules automatically run everytime my ppp link comes up, do i also have to

Re: ncftp visual mode

1998-12-12 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 10:18:24AM +, Gossamer wrote: > in the Debian version I have (3.0.0). > Am I going nuts? No, just need to RTFM. IIRC it is explained that the visual mode was removed from ncftp 3.x. Personally, lftp is a much better client. It doesn't have visual mode, either,

Re: two smarthosts in exim?

1998-12-12 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 06:33:16PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > Get rid of one ISP George... What if he is like me (you're going to love this)? I work at an ISP but try not to use the connection since I want my personal netlife seperate from my professional netlife. However, I use it as a

Re: What's using my harddisk? or, how to silence my computer

1998-12-12 Thread john
That's syslogd writing '--MARK--' lines to /var/log/messages to assure you that it is still alive. Starting syslogd with the '-m ' option controls this. I think that '-m 0' will turn it off. You could also just turn off syslogd. man syslogd. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Danci

SOT: Networking/DEC tulip 21140 board/was: 3C905B

1998-12-12 Thread Bernd Kreimeier
Bernd Kreimeier writes: > misc. posters pointing out trouble with dual boot Thanks! I got a 3Com905B for the Linux server, drivers seems to work (no second box for testing yet). However, the other machine is an ATX NT/Linux dual boot, and I might switch several times daily, so I decided to heed t

Re: less shows fortune

1998-12-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Since I put these lines > >echo "\n" >fortune -a >echo "" > >in /etc/profile and /etc/csh.cshrc, less gives me a fortune and the >newlines instead of the contents of a file: > >sos:~> less ei > > >The two party sys

dwww: how to include /usr/local/doc

1998-12-12 Thread Marc Haber
Hi! I think dwww is a good thing especially for those of us who don't have X running on their Linux router in the closet. Accessing documentation via the WWW browser running on the local desktop machine is quite convenient. I have compiled some programs myself, such as a testing release of exim.

C++ no more...

1998-12-12 Thread Damon Muller
Hi list, I hope this isn't a stupid question (I've been a bit busy to follow this increasingly busy list closely lately), but my C++ seems to be broken :( I don't know how or why, but when I try and run a ./configure script for a few different programs, it tells me c++ cannot create executables.

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-12 Thread Mark Weston
On 10 Dec 98, at 11:17, John C. Ellingboe wrote: > Look at the message just before the md driver message for the > problem. It will probably turn out to be the disk controler doesn't > like being probed at boot time and is locking up. Some systems will > require an entry on the "boot line" or us

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-12 Thread Mark Weston
On 10 Dec 98, at 10:23, David Stern wrote: > > I tried booting with SoundBlaster, CD-ROM and SyJet disabled, but it > > seem to help. And all the devices work fine under another O/S (that > > speak its name on this list), so I don't think the actual hardware's > > You'll find the Debianeers have

Re: Configuring scsi controller on ISA bus

1998-12-12 Thread David Herbert
No typo I can see..?..? David Kent West wrote: > > It looks like either a typo in this posting, or you made a typo at the > boot prompt. See Damir's last few lines below. > > On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, David Herbert wrote: > > > I tried your suggestion, it did not return an e

Re: Configuring scsi controller on ISA bus

1998-12-12 Thread Kent West
It looks like either a typo in this posting, or you made a typo at the boot prompt. See Damir's last few lines below. On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, David Herbert wrote: > I tried your suggestion, it did not return an error but also did not > work I continued on and also tried your suggestion using a shell

Re: What's using my harddisk? or, how to silence my computer

1998-12-12 Thread Kent West
On Sat, 12 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ps. go to sleep it is 4 in morning in the UK!(unless of course you work > nights then that would not be a good thing) It's 4:50 here in the US. Are we geeks or what? -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] KC5ENO - Amateur Radio: When all else fails. Linux

ncftp visual mode

1998-12-12 Thread Gossamer
I'm -sure- I remember ncftp having a visual mode, where there was a line for the command input at the bottom and a status line and the rest of the screen for output ... but it doesn't exist in the Debian version I have (3.0.0). Am I going nuts? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-G

Re: Set-up My Apple Laser Writer on Debian Linux

1998-12-12 Thread Carey Evans
Bill Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to setup my Apple Laser Writer printer on my system, but > have been unsuccessful in getting it to work. Using the command ls /etc > /dev/lp, I'm able to get a light on the printer to blink on and off, but > no print follows. [snip] Install

diald setup problem

1998-12-12 Thread okushi
I'm having trouble setting up diald on my Linux box. The problem I have right now, which I haven't been able to figure out for the last couple of hours, is that ppp0, when the link comes up, assumes the IP address assigned to eth0. I just cannot figure out how it gets it! The local IP address in

Re: Configuring scsi controller on ISA bus

1998-12-12 Thread David Herbert
I tried your suggestion, it did not return an error but also did not work I continued on and also tried your suggestion using a shell from inside install program it return the error "couldn't find kernel image:aha152x=.0x3" Damir J. Naden wrote: > > Hi David Herbert; unless Mutt is confused, you

Re: how to create locales? [OFF TOPIC]

1998-12-12 Thread Carey Evans
Eugene Sevinian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am planing to do some job concering localisation of linux for my native > language (Armenian). I would like to know which steps should I do for it. > One thing which I need to know is how to create locale databse. Look at `man 5 locale', which is in

Re: elm email gets through, exmh email doesn't

1998-12-12 Thread Carey Evans
Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > mark at ist.flinders.edu.au: loses; [USER] 550 relaying to > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> prohibited by administrator > post: 1 addressee undeliverable > send: message not delivered to anyone > > > What on earth does this mean and why isn't it working??? Try

Re: recommendation on presentation software

1998-12-12 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > i need to make a presentation, and i'd like to do it with my laptop "a la" > Powerpoint. (ie video output of laptop plugged on LCD retroprojector) [snip] > I need very basic capacities, as i won't have much time to create the contents > of the presentation either. Wh

Re: auth port security

1998-12-12 Thread Carey Evans
Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anybody know if the auth port has any know security > compromises? A user has asked me to turn it on (I have almost everything > off) and I'm not sure. It will release the names of your users to anyone who is able to connect to it, unless you in

Re: firewall question

1998-12-12 Thread Carey Evans
Giuseppe Sacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Weel, we have all our data available in a web server, so we'd like to browse > the data in the same way. Maybe we can have something like: > > CLIENTFW SERVER > browser > authenticator-daemon firewallweb se

Re: emacs & xemacs

1998-12-12 Thread Carey Evans
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, last night while running lynx I clicked on a .gif link and > low-and-behold, the image appeared! So apparently lynx can handle some > types of graphics. All this time when I was asking for a graphical > console-based web browser because lynx can't h

Re: Mouse pointer

1998-12-12 Thread Carey Evans
Phillip Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > # Nifty root cursor > > xsetroot -cursor $HOME/.rootcursor $HOME/.rootcursor > > > All right.. that worked great... thanks... > > I have play with bitmap, and im only able to do black points for the > cursor... I can see the default `X' cursor, and

Re: 4 button Logitech MouseMan and XFree86

1998-12-12 Thread Allens
Unless I am very much mistaken XF86Setup has a logitech mouse type, so you should be able to use it for your mouse. This should work correctly. Peter Allen Paul Miller wrote: > > I have a 4 button Logitech MouseMan (has a thumb button) and my buttons > don't work correctly in X.

Re: exim rewriting rules

1998-12-12 Thread Daniel Elenius
>What version of exim are you using? I'm going to have to upgrade to >this, because this behavior is what I want. Currently, I use a >patched exim to get exactly this behavior. If exim now does this by >default (that is, local mail _doesn't_ get rewritten) I can stop using >my hacked together v

Re: libgtk-1.1 error

1998-12-12 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ole J. Tetlie) | | The maintainer of balsa and yagirc is a lazy bum, but he promises to | release new versions before he leaves for christmas on Sunday. Sorry, but he has to wait for new gnome libraries. :-( -- A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee to theorems

3D cards

1998-12-12 Thread Michael Meskes
Anyone using a Hercules Terminator 3D Beast with Debian? Does it work without a problem, or which card should I better use? Michael P.S.: Please CC me as I'm not subscribed. -- Dr. Michael Meskes, Manager of the Western Branch Office, Datenrevision GmbH work: Cuxhavener Str. 36, D-21149 Hamburg,

Re: libgtk-1.1 error

1998-12-12 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Charles Collicutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Adam Shand wrote: | > badger(larry)> gxsnmp & | > gxsnmp: error in loading shared libraries | > libgtk-1.1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory | | I thought that was just me, I get that too. Means I can't

Re: Cannon BJC-4100 printer

1998-12-12 Thread Brian May
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >On mar, 08 dic 1998 10:55:11 Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: >> Hi Debian users, >> I have a problem. >> I installed lpr and magicfilter from hamm and can't print in >> colors with >> my printer: Canon BJC-4100. I tried t

Re: Unsure of how Debian is updated

1998-12-12 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 07:22:26AM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: > (FWIW, XFree 3.3.3 is in slink.) No, it isn't. XFree86 3.3.3 hasn't been Debianized by me (the X maintainer) yet. I gave my blessing to anyone who wanted to try it and upload it to experimental, as long as they put "DON'T REPORT BU

Re: Configuring scsi controller on ISA bus

1998-12-12 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi David Herbert; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > I am installing the debian version of linux from cd rom. > > I have an adaptec scsi controller as my 2nd controller, it is an > AHA-1510. In windows(shhh) I found this info on it,AIC 6x60isa single > chip scsi controller, using irq 11

[Q] send/procmail permissions

1998-12-12 Thread Michael Ruebner
Hi, Could anyone with a working sendmail/procmail setup please help me out? I do understand that procmail is decidedly picky about mail spool permissions, but what are the correct settings? I've been trying every conceivable combination, but procmail keeps readjusting mailbox ownership and renamin

Re: What's using my harddisk? or, how to silence my computer

1998-12-12 Thread Charles Collicutt
On Sat, 12 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ps. go to sleep it is 4 in morning in the UK!(unless of course you work > nights then that would not be a good thing) Now we all know sleep is unnecessary and evil when you could be programming or reading newsgroups :) Uh-oh, completely irrelevant f

Re: QUantifiable reasons to use debian instead of redhat...?

1998-12-12 Thread Thomas Adams
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 03:11:52PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: > Debian is not motivated by profit, so when a new Debian release > cometh, you can be sure it's been tested to a full extent. I think Sorry, but I want to disagree here. After reading debian-devel for a while, I'm under the impressio

Re: Debian Hamm used for a Linux Cluster and nobody noticed?

1998-12-12 Thread Thomas Adams
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 04:50:22PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Heute ist nicht alle Tage, ich komme wieder, keine Frage!!! > Toll! Der Maus! (IIRC) Actually, most Germans know this from the Pink Panther cartoon show. I doubt that this was a reference to Der Maus. Hmm, does anybody out th

Re: KDE

1998-12-12 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Jeff Miller wrote: > >Those .debs are old. I believe they're from the beta 4 release of KDE. > >The 1.0 version was released with version 980710. Unfortunately, those > >.deb files seem to have completely vanished! Nobody seems to be able

SOLVED: install star-office5.0 on debian (slink)

1998-12-12 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Jim Pick; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > "Damir J. Naden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > b)alternatively, can I, temporary, make a link for /tmp to point to > > /usr/local/tmp and so trick the system long enough to install the so5 in my > > /home partition? Are there any side effec

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-12 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Robert Vollmert; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > The installation (CD or rescue floppy) loads the Linux kernel, and during > > the > > long series of hardware detection messages, successfully detects all the > > IDE > > devices and then hangs on the line. > > > > md driver 0.35 MAX_

Re: What's using my harddisk? or, how to silence my computer

1998-12-12 Thread servis
*- Stefan Baums wrote about "What's using my harddisk? or, how to silence my computer" > Hi all! > > I'm using Debian (the most recent packages) on a laptop with a pretty > noisy harddisk (a Toshiba harddisk inside an HP Omnibook), and I'm > sick to death of hearing it all the time I'm using my c

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