Help: Repeat Error in inst.

1999-02-25 Thread Sky Goodhew
Sorry for what may seem to be a stoopid Q. But, I am trying to install deb on a secondary HD, the HD has the files need for install. + I am booting from that drive, D: But after expanding linux I got this message repeated for 3/4 hour, before I rebooted: hda: unexpected_intr: status=0x51 {Drive

size of kernel too big?

1999-02-25 Thread rich
Hello everybody, I recently compiled kernel 2.2.1 (my 1st attempt), and everything seems to be going smoothly (except for playing .wav files, but that's another story...) Anyway, did not put anything into "modules" (is that bad?)... Now, when I look at my /var/log/messages, I see this... monkeyho

Getting X-Windows to recognize Truetype fonts...

1999-02-25 Thread rich
Howdy all, I'm having trouble getting Netscape and Wordperfect to recognize my TTFs... I've installed xfstt (it's loaded during boot-up), but when I do a "xlsfonts | grep ttf" I get nothing... I've also done "ln -s /dos_c/windows/fonts /usr/share/fonts/truetype/winfonts" as per xfstt documentatio

Re: Segmentation Fault with Netscape Communicator 4.5

1999-02-25 Thread Sam Franc
I second your reply. I mostly just lurk on this list because I don't know enough to ask a ?. But I also find it very difficult to search archives. I did it last week and the first 5 times the robot returned zero answers. I had to keep rewording the search to get anything. I finally got some replys

PHP3 debugger

1999-02-25 Thread Christian Lavoie
How come I can't use the PHP3 debugger??? Everytime I try I get: "Fatal Error: Call to unsupported or undefined function debugger_on() in /url on line 10" Here's a snippet from my php3.ini file and the actual code I'm using... where's the semi-colon I forgot? ;) [Debugger] debugger.host =

PHP3 debugger

1999-02-25 Thread Christian Lavoie
How come I can't use the PHP3 debugger??? Everytime I try I get: "Fatal Error: Call to unsupported or undefined function debugger_on() in /url on line 10" Here's a snippet from my php3.ini file and the actual code I'm using... where's the semi-colon I forgot? ;) [Debugger] debugger.host =

Re: ThinkPad actually reboots into new kernel

1999-02-25 Thread Pollywog
On 25-Feb-99 Steve Lamb wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 22:10:57 - (UTC), Pollywog wrote: > >>I am just wondering why I can get away with 'make zImage' on the laptop when >>a larger machine can't handle it. > > Most likely you're not comp

Re: Using LILO to boot Win95 of /dev/hdb1?

1999-02-25 Thread mike shupp
Someobe here wrote: > > I've got two drives in a machine. One has Win95 on it, the other has WinNT > > and Linux. Using LILO, I can boot Linux and whichever Windows OS is on the > > first hard drive. I am unable, however, to boot the one on the second > > drive, hdb. > > > > My lilo.conf looks li

Re: ThinkPad actually reboots into new kernel

1999-02-25 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 22:10:57 - (UTC), Pollywog wrote: >I am just wondering why I can get away with 'make zImage' on the laptop when >a larger machine can't handle it. Most likely you're not compiling as much into your laptop kernel as you do

Re: Removal of idle telnet connections?

1999-02-25 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Thu Feb 25, 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: > Dear all, > > One of my users is complaining that if he leaves sessions idle > for more than about 30 mins the connection that gets dropped. I don't > recall running any idled or whatever; is this a feature, and if so, how > might I disable it? If h

ThinkPad actually reboots into new kernel

1999-02-25 Thread Pollywog
Can anyone tell me why on my ThinkPad, I can compile a kernel with 'make zImage' instead of 'make bzImage'? I cannot do this with my other machine which has 64MB RAM; it won't be able to load the kernel because it is too large. I was surprised that I actually got my ThinkPad to boot into the new

Transmitting Telex Directly to email ..

1999-02-25 Thread Mike Rae
Have any of you heard of transmitting telex data directly into outbound email (SMTP)? Is this possible? Any utils I should look at ? Thanks and Best Regards Mike Rae

Disk-Disk

1999-02-25 Thread Jerry Human
Hello Debians: I've got a little problem. I've got two computers, one has Win95, AWE32, NEC 40x, 32 meg ram. The other has ... 8 meg ram and Debian. Ok, gotta get Debian up and running before it gets the goodies. Anyway, I pulled the HD from the other and put it in the one so I could boot Debian a

adduser

1999-02-25 Thread pat
Hi, if someone can explain this to me... I'd like to create a login which has a dot in it. adduser doesn't want to, telling me to force with --force-badname but even with that switch it doesn't work, adduser doesn't want to create it at all. why is that ? what's wrong with a dot in a login name

Re: Oracle in dba group

1999-02-25 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Eric Wayte wrote: > I was scanning the archives at www.debian.org and may have a solution > for you! When installing Oracle on Solaris/SPARC, you have to edit > /etc/group by hand and make sure that the oracle account is listed in > the dba group: > > dba::101:oracle Yes, t

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Re: minimum size for root partition

1999-02-25 Thread Jozef Skvarcek
For such small disk I recommend only few partitions, perhaps / and /home (/var, if you `must' have one). The fewer partitions the lower probability you guess the sizes wrong... Jozef Skvarcek ___ Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

Dependency problem with libc6

1999-02-25 Thread crp
I'm using Debian 2.0 which comes with libc6_2.0.7t-1. I also had to install libc6-dev_2.0.7t-1 and libc6-pic_2.0.7t-1. Later I needed the 2.0.7u version (for some packages which I can't remember - WindowMaker was probably one of them) so I downloaded libc6_2.0.7u-4 (just that one) from the Debia

Re: Segmentation Fault with Netscape Communicator 4.5

1999-02-25 Thread Anthony GGP
>Instead of using www.debian.org, I'd suggest using dejanews to search >the debian-user archives. > >Using dejanews's "power search" option, you can require that your >search look in the group "linux.debian.user", which is this list. Thanks for the tip! Anthony

Re: Segmentation Fault with Netscape Communicator 4.5

1999-02-25 Thread Anthony GGP
> It sounds like you are running hamm (Deb 2.0), or better, and >have not installed the libc5 libraries. You are probably using >the old libc5 based NS versions. So you'll need to install libc5, >libXpm, libg++, and libstdc++, all from the oldlibs section in >Deb's distribution. > You can also ge

Re: Segmentation Fault with Netscape Communicator 4.5

1999-02-25 Thread Anthony GGP
> This has been answered over a dozen times in the last two months. > Could I suggest that you check the mail archives on www.debian.org > before asking questions here. Many of the European readers have to > pay big bucks to get mail off this list and a lot of your questions > have been asked be

Re: Debian user friendly

1999-02-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 07:56:39 -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > [21:09:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$xfig > Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C > X Error of failed request: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) > Major opcode of failed request: 54 (X_FreePixmap) >

Re: laptop lacks /sbin/setup.sh

1999-02-25 Thread David Z. Maze
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pollywog> I wanted to put '/etc/init.d/network start' in my Pollywog> /sbin/setup.sh on my ThinkPad, but it does not have this Pollywog> file. Where can I put this command to see if it can get my Pollywog> network recognized after I start the machine? /etc/rc

Re: Hypermail 2.0b3 ?

1999-02-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 22:03:16 +, Ryan Finnesey wrote: > Hi is Hypermail 2.0b3 that best way to archive a mailing list? I recommend you always keep an archive of the list in plain mbox format, in case you want to switch tools, or need to regenerate a web archive. In the past, hypermail had

Re: Emacs and vertical split

1999-02-25 Thread Frozen Rose
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Err, this problem is tricky. In Emacs I splitted the screen vertically, >which should work with 132 coloums, I thought. (C-x 3 or C-x Shift-3). > >Then I tried to display a text in both windows but some lines are wider >t

Re: I built the pine 4.10 .debs...

1999-02-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > Now I'm running 4.10. It has some nice new features. And a few strange ones, as I recall (probably why it has not moved out of project/experimental.) > > I'll post the tentatively legal and approved unofficial *.debs to my web > site soon. > >

Re: istaling xfstt - and tt fonts patch for X11

1999-02-25 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Micha Feigin wrote: > I managed to start xfstt from inside x using: > as root - xfstt --sync (do i need this every time ?) > then as normal user: > xfstt & > xset +fp unix/:7100 (I get an error - bad path #48 if i try this before i > start xfstt) > questio

Fw: Squid Crash

1999-02-25 Thread ken
Can somebody please help me. The squid proxy server dies on me every now and again and I can't find out why. It looks as though it tries to restart itself for some reason but why I don't know. There are times when it will run for days on end and then suddenly die. Sometimes it won't even restart w

migrating from Redhat

1999-02-25 Thread steve latif
I have a laptop with redhat 5.2 on it. I would like to upgrade (!) to debian. Is there a way of doing this without losing all my workfiles (in /home/*) and some custom apps I have in /usr/local. I also have Oracle installed in /u01 /u02 etc thanks Steve -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is

laptop lacks /sbin/setup.sh

1999-02-25 Thread Pollywog
I wanted to put '/etc/init.d/network start' in my /sbin/setup.sh on my ThinkPad, but it does not have this file. Where can I put this command to see if it can get my network recognized after I start the machine? I don't understand the initialization scripts, so I don't want to fool around with th

Re: Emacs and vertical split

1999-02-25 Thread Richard Harran
You can use '-x <' and '-x >' to scroll horizontally, or '-x {' and '-x }' to make that window wider / narrower. Rich Martin Schulze wrote: > > Err, this problem is tricky. In Emacs I splitted the screen vertically, > which should work with 132 coloums, I thought. (C-x 3 or C-x Shift-3). >

PINE(TM) 4.10: Go get 'em

1999-02-25 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
Ok. Go here: http://ompages.com/debian/pkgs/pine/pine.html *.debs for the new pine(TM) version 4.10 I'm in the process of talking with debian and UW. I'll keep y'all posted. NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com

Emacs and vertical split

1999-02-25 Thread Martin Schulze
Err, this problem is tricky. In Emacs I splitted the screen vertically, which should work with 132 coloums, I thought. (C-x 3 or C-x Shift-3). Then I tried to display a text in both windows but some lines are wider than 65 characters. I don't seem to be able to view what is hidden on the right

Re: lpr and text formatting

1999-02-25 Thread Chuck Stickelman
Mark Wagnon wrote: > Guenter Schmidt wrote: > > > > If you use an HP printer, you may use PCL commands at the end of the > > magicfilter-script. mine looks like that: > > > > # Original default entry > > #defaultcat \eE\e&k2G\e(0N \eE > > # My default to change Font an

I built the pine 4.10 .debs...

1999-02-25 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
Now I'm running 4.10. It has some nice new features. I'll post the tentatively legal and approved unofficial *.debs to my web site soon. I'll keep everyone posted. Like I said before, I'm not a maintainer, just a screwer-arounder. PEACE. In all seriousness, I'll jibe the legal end with UW a

Removal of idle telnet connections?

1999-02-25 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, One of my users is complaining that if he leaves sessions idle for more than about 30 mins the connection that gets dropped. I don't recall running any idled or whatever; is this a feature, and if so, how might I disable it? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of

Re: minimum size for root partition

1999-02-25 Thread David Wright
Quoting Chuck Stickelman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Ben Frame wrote: > > > I have 2 linux machines (486's) that I want to work > > together. They each have a single 325mb hard disk, so I > > would like them to share diskspace and filesystems, > > using NFS. Since I need to make the most out of every

Re: Pine update (Re: I have PINE .debs...) (fwd)

1999-02-25 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
Thanks for the url. I'm gonna give a crack at packaging this just for the hell of it. I'll also spend some time (later) analysing the legal texts; I'm going to get some professors to help me out. This sounds like some fun experience. NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeor

Pine update (Re: I have PINE .debs...) (fwd)

1999-02-25 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, George Bonser wrote: > On 25 Feb 1999, Peter Makholm wrote: > > > But then it may conflict with the DSFG > > Which is why it would go in non-free with all the rest of the stuff that > conflicts with the DFSG. *** *

Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

1999-02-25 Thread Dale E. Martin
> I had trouble with network.opts because for one thing, "network address" is > unknown to me, the way it is used there. I will have to look at the > Networking HOWTO and see if I can make any sense of it. It's the same as NETWORK in /etc/init.d/network, right? That's how I have it and it seems

psaux module won't auto-install

1999-02-25 Thread Eric House
I've compiled both sound support and psaux as modules in my kernel and have enabled kerneld to (as I understand it) load them when needed. And the sound module is getting loaded. If I use xaudio at a time when /sbin/lsmods says sound isn't installed the sound card works and a subsequent call to l

Re: lpr and text formatting

1999-02-25 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > Thank you for forwarding me this information. > > I have one problem. I'm not sure where in my /etc/printcap file to put > this line. My file looks like this: > > lp|hplj6l|HP LJ 6L:\ > :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj6l:\ > :sh

Totally OFFTOPIC: tournament scheduler program

1999-02-25 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Sorry to bug you with this, it is totally off topic. I'm looking for Linux program to build a basketball tournament schedule, several rounds, so that teams would have same number of back-to-back games, with different opponents in different rounds etc. With number of teams greater than 10

Re: lpr and text formatting

1999-02-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
It goes in the filter (/etc/magicfilter/ljet4l-filter in your case,) not /etc/printcap. Bob On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > Thank you for forwarding me this information. > > I have one problem. I'm not sure where in my /etc/printcap file to put > this line. My file looks like t

help needed w/ smbmount

1999-02-25 Thread Daniel Elenius
I'm having serious difficulties getting smbmount to work. smbclient works as it should, and I have smbfs installed. Here's what I want to do: smbmount //netbiosname/share /mydir -I real.host.name Then a password prompt comes up, and after I've entered the correct password, it says: "mount error:

Re: lpr and text formatting

1999-02-25 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
Thank you for forwarding me this information. I have one problem. I'm not sure where in my /etc/printcap file to put this line. My file looks like this: lp|hplj6l|HP LJ 6L:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj6l:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/ljet4

Re: AHA-2940 SCSI won't boot

1999-02-25 Thread Helge Hafting
The aic7xxx driver (driving the adaptec 2940) have been updated a lot lately. So make sure you run a recent kernel, 2.0.36 or even better 2.2.2 2.0.34 is buggy, some earlier kernels work but don't take advantage of 2940 features. 2.2.2 (and possibly 2.0.36) will use tagged queuing, which may i

Re: lpr and text formatting

1999-02-25 Thread Mark Wagnon
Guenter Schmidt wrote: > > If you use an HP printer, you may use PCL commands at the end of the > magicfilter-script. mine looks like that: > > # Original default entry > #defaultcat \eE\e&k2G\e(0N \eE > # My default to change Font and Margins: > default

Re: I cant DL linux image

1999-02-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
Shift-click, instead of click. On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Sky Goodhew wrote: > I am trying to download the /linux from the FTP sites, but I get a > screen dump of the program on my browser. Iam using a 80386. > Trying to downlod with netscape 3.0. > > Ihave been able to download the other HD in

Re: istaling xfstt - and tt fonts patch for X11

1999-02-25 Thread servis
*- On 25 Feb, Micha Feigin wrote about "istaling xfstt - and tt fonts patch for X11" > I managed to start xfstt from inside x using: > as root - xfstt --sync (do i need this every time ?) > then as normal user: > xfstt & > xset +fp unix/:7100 (I get an error - bad path #48 if i try this before i >

My apps are displaying windows too big for the screen!

1999-02-25 Thread MallarJ
Hello all, I'm running on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 400CDT with slink installed. I'm having a problem with my X apps; at first I thought it was KDE, now that I have also used TWM, FVWM, FVWM2 and FVWM95, I'm not so sure. The problem is that whenever I start an app, the window that is created is of

Re: I cant DL linux image

1999-02-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Sky Goodhew wrote: > I am trying to download the /linux from the FTP sites, but I get a > screen dump of the program on my browser. Iam using a 80386. > Trying to downlod with netscape 3.0. Hold down the "shift" key when you mouse cli

I cant DL linux image

1999-02-25 Thread Sky Goodhew
I am trying to download the /linux from the FTP sites, but I get a screen dump of the program on my browser. Iam using a 80386. Trying to downlod with netscape 3.0. Ihave been able to download the other HD install images but not linux. Please help, Thanx -

Re: new grep breaks cnews

1999-02-25 Thread John Hasler
George Bonser writes: > The grep in potato breaks cnews but I am not sure if I sould submit a bug > against grep or cnews. Probably cnews. There is a new upstream grep that includes changes that would be expected to break some things. I saw the announcement in one of the "announce" newsgroups so

Re: minimum size for root partition

1999-02-25 Thread Chuck Stickelman
Ben Frame wrote: > I have 2 linux machines (486's) that I want to work > together. They each have a single 325mb hard disk, so I > would like them to share diskspace and filesystems, > using NFS. Since I need to make the most out of every > megabyte, I was wondering if anyone might be able to >

Re: istalling lprng

1999-02-25 Thread wtopa
Subject: istalling lprng Date: Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 03:09:01PM +0200 In reply to:Micha Feigin Quoting Micha Feigin([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Anyone know where i can find documentation on how to install lprng (or is > wiling to explain); > I intalled the package, > i can print text

AWE 64 problems.

1999-02-25 Thread jeff
this is the error i get when i try to play bong.wav: # xwave XWave: Device doesn't accept 1 channels ! XWave: Error ! Cannot set dsp ! When I try to play a midi device using TkAWEMidi i get this error: /home/jeff/ttdtheme.mid: can't open sequencer device I attached the bong.wav I tried to play.

Bootable backup cd ?

1999-02-25 Thread Marcel Burggraeve
What I'd like to do is to make a backup of my debian system on a bootable cd-rom. The idea is to boot from the cd and have it 'copy' all data to a harddisk so I can run debian again within short time if I ever mess up. I've found a utility which should do this named backup linux at http://ny.us.mir

Re: lpr and text formatting

1999-02-25 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: lpr and text formatting Date: Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 06:36:31AM -0800 In reply to:Paul Nathan Puri Quoting Paul Nathan Puri([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > What file is this, i.e., what file in the /etc/ directory are you > referring to? Thank you... > > NatePuri > Certi

Re: new grep breaks cnews

1999-02-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
This might be related to the problem I reported earlier with kernel-package (which was really a grep problem). There's a new grep in /incoming which works with kernel-package, at least. Bob On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, George Bonser wrote: > > The grep in potato breaks cnews but I am not sure if I sou

Re: A question about HP DeskJet 710C

1999-02-25 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Look at http://www.rpi.edu/~normat/technical/ppa/index.html On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Peter Paluch wrote: > Hello everybody, > > > does any of you have some information about printing using Hewlett-Packard > DeskJet 710C or 720C under Linux? Is it possible to use those printers > un

Re: lpr and text formatting

1999-02-25 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
What file is this, i.e., what file in the /etc/ directory are you referring to? Thank you... NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Guenter Schmidt wrote: > Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > > > > I want

URL for PINE

1999-02-25 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
For the (possibly) violative PINE *.debs, go here: http://www.ompages.com/debian/pkgs/pine/pine.html. I've contacted UW to get permission. Until they tell me I can't do this, I've made the binaries available. If you think you are doing something wrong by downloading these, the go here: ftp://ft

verifying dpkg databases?

1999-02-25 Thread hpv
Hi, My "/var" filesystem dropped some files on the floor the other day, including /var/lib/dpkg/*. I could run e2fsck and dig out most of the stuff from lost+found, but the question remains: Did I get all the files back in the right place? Can I in any way verify that /var/lib/dpkg/{status,avai

Re: Segmentation Fault with Netscape Communicator 4.5

1999-02-25 Thread Kirk Hogenson
> >after you do the search you can't click on any of the messages that > >were found -- you just get "Not Found" errors. > > Hmmm ... haven't found this problem yet - I wonder why it happens for > you and not me ? Oops, I just tried it again and it worked! Perhaps they've fixed it, or maybe it

developers in Houston/login length limitations

1999-02-25 Thread Marina Gandelsman
{ please Cc: me on all replies } Hi - I've two unrelated questions. One is: are there any developers living in Houston? I will be there for spring break (mid-March) and would like to meet and exchange keys. Two: there is a limit of 8 characters for login length. Where did that come from? Can it be

Re: man-pages

1999-02-25 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Man pages package is under Documentation section in stable on www.debian.org, and is called manpages Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://member

Re: istalling lprng

1999-02-25 Thread dpk
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Micha Feigin wrote: Anyone know where i can find documentation on how to install lprng (or is wiling to explain); I intalled the package, i can print text files using ' lpr ' when i tried to print from the kde editor it just did nothing when i tried to print from g

support? Firewire,DVD,USB

1999-02-25 Thread Alexander N. Benner
Hi I just wanted to ask whether Linux supports the following: - Firewire (IEEE1396) - DVD playing/burning - USB As I am frequently asked by a new convert to Linux who is still much using Mac I'd like to give him soon a positive answer :-) Greetings -- Alexander N. Benner This Email is Chari

Re: I have PINE .debs...

1999-02-25 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > I have pine .debs if anyone wants them, let me know. I post them to my > web site or email them to you, however you like. > > I was running mutt. But I have a soft spot for pine. It was the first > email app I ever learned back in 92 when I starte

Re: StarOffice 5

1999-02-25 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Frankie wrote: > Is there a recommended way of installing SO5 under debian? > > there doesn't seem to be an install Package for it (like there is for > SO3)? If its like staroffice 4, Then use the setup supplied with staroffice, and then install it with the net option as r

istalling lprng

1999-02-25 Thread Micha Feigin
Anyone know where i can find documentation on how to install lprng (or is wiling to explain); I intalled the package, i can print text files using ' lpr ' when i tried to print from the kde editor it just did nothing when i tried to print from ghostview, it just sent out the raw postscript to the p

istaling xfstt - and tt fonts patch for X11

1999-02-25 Thread Micha Feigin
I managed to start xfstt from inside x using: as root - xfstt --sync (do i need this every time ?) then as normal user: xfstt & xset +fp unix/:7100 (I get an error - bad path #48 if i try this before i start xfstt) question is how do i automate the stuff? also i ran into a pat

Re: where is Tex-xeT

1999-02-25 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > I am looking for Tex-xeT in order to write Tex documents in hebrew. Anyone > know where can i find it? Practically everything related to TeX can be found in the ctan archive. A quick browse got me this: ftp://ctan.org/pub/ctan/language/hebrew/ Check it out (I have no experience whatsoever

Major System Hangup problem (hamm)

1999-02-25 Thread Micha Feigin
I am running hamm (2.0.34) on a 486DX2/66; I am also running dos+windows 3.11 on another partition. Linux is on the first partition, and I'm am using lilo. My computer has a strange problem. First it will start working only after worming up (it neads to be on for about a minute bifure i can reset

Extract sit archives?

1999-02-25 Thread Debian Mail
I have a Mac Stuffit archive (ending .sit). How can I extract such a file within linux? Stef

where is Tex-xeT

1999-02-25 Thread Micha Feigin
I am looking for Tex-xeT in order to write Tex documents in hebrew. Anyone know where can i find it? Thanx

RE: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #344

1999-02-25 Thread :0\)~
unsubscribe debian-user -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 1999 9:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:debian-user-digest Digest V99 #344 << Message: ATT2.eml (1.04 KB) >> << Message: Re: I have PINE .de

Re: /home/ftp directory question

1999-02-25 Thread Thomas Adams
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 12:36:43PM -0600, Jesse Jacobsen wrote: > I missed the first part of this thread, but was wondering... do you have > separate /home/ftp/bin and /home/ftp/lib/ and /home/ftp/etc directories? Yes, as I said I followed the man page of ftpd to the letter. I have made sure that

DeskJet 320 and gs

1999-02-25 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Is it possible to use gs with this printer? At this moment my internet connection is very bad that is way I am unable to find the answer at Alladin's page. Probably someone can help me.. I tried to print with "deskjet" device but did not get right output. Thanks, Eugene Sevinian ---

problems after update to slink

1999-02-25 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I am now using slink, but I have found two little problems. 1. my lpd daemon has been starting twice every time the kernel boots up. 2. my mouse does not work anymore in the consol mode. Thanks for any help in advance. Regards, _

Re: How to build a dial-up server?

1999-02-25 Thread Frank Barknecht
Jim Power hat gesagt: // Jim Power wrote: > I've setup a www server using Apache but I have no idea on how to deal > with PPP & SLIP connections. What packages do I need to enable my > server to handle PPP connection? And how to configure? I'm sorry, but I think I don't understand exactly what yo

Debian user friendly

1999-02-25 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I've to draw some simple vector graphics. I started looking for options in Debian distribution. First I tried tgif but it loads with green and black colours only. Very strange. Anyone knows why? My tgif version is: Package: tgif Status: hold ok installed Pr

*** repost : slrn

1999-02-25 Thread ivan
I have just started trying to use slrn - looks good and seems it will do everything that I require BUT ... Both when downloading the groups list and when decoding a file an error appears bsd_decomp0: bad sequence # 11, expected 77 The numbers 11 & 77 change but I get several of these errors. Wh

Re: hostname & domain name changing

1999-02-25 Thread Frank Barknecht
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > when i installed my debian box, i only put in some out of nowhere > hostname and domain names, now it seems that i need to give it some > real hostname and domain name that really exists. can someone direct > me please as to what files

Re: upgrading slink -> potato

1999-02-25 Thread Stuart Miles
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 16:22:00 +0100, you said: >then selecting some gnome stuff i get: >gnome-gnometris depends on libaudiofile-cvs0 >libaudiofile-cvs0 does not appear to be available >gnome-gnometris depends on libesd-cvs0 >libesd-cvs0 does not appear to be available > >from where should those fil

Re: Help. How do I reconfigure my the network? PROBLEM SOLVED!

1999-02-25 Thread Jens K. Olsen
"Jens K. Olsen" wrote: > Please I need some help. > > I have Debian GNU/Linux running on my Sony VAIO PCG-505G which I carry > around to different offices. I need to connect to the networks in the > different offices so I can download my e-mail and stay in contact with > the rest of the world. > >

Re: Segmentation Fault with Netscape Communicator 4.5

1999-02-25 Thread ivan
>> This has been answered over a dozen times in the last two months. >> Could I suggest that you check the mail archives on www.debian.org >> before asking questions here. Many of the European readers have to >> pay big bucks to get mail off this list and a lot of your questions >> have been aske

dselect access methods

1999-02-25 Thread rnewton3
Hallo all, Whenever I try to run dselect I'm getting a message that says "No access methods available". It's a brand new installation on a 486DX2-50. The only problem was that I had bad inodes on the /usr partition. So I need to know has this affected dselect and how do I fix it? Where are the

Re: lpr and text formatting

1999-02-25 Thread Guenter Schmidt
Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > > I want to know what lpr options can be used to format ascii text docs. > Specifically, I want to have my docs print with normal 1 inch margins. > I'm running lprng, magicfilter, and gs-aladdin. Thanks > If you use an HP printer, you may use PCL commands at the end of

Re: A question about HP DeskJet 710C

1999-02-25 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 13:18:33 -0600, Matt Garman wrote: > > [...] > >I believe the 710c is the same series of the 712c. I accidentally > >bought a 712c, which _IS_ a Windows-only printer. I returned it for a > >697c, which I'm very happy with, and works great under Linux. > > You're right.

man-pages

1999-02-25 Thread F. Frijns
I think I sound very stupid but I can't figure out why, after a successful Debian install, I don't have man-pages installed. I downloaded Debian 2.0.34 from the net (including base2_0.tgz). I made a manual selection for dselect, accessed, updated and installed it and found that, although I have

Bootable backup cd ?

1999-02-25 Thread Marcel Burggraeve
What I'd like to do is to make a backup of my debian system on a bootable cd-rom. The idea is to boot from the cd and have it 'copy' all data to a harddisk so I can run debian again within short time if I ever mess up. I've found a utility which should do this named backup linux at http://ny.us.mir

Re: I have PINE .debs...

1999-02-25 Thread Peter Makholm
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Again, only partially true. If he sends the debian diffs to the pine team > and they approve them, he may distribute the binary within the pine > license and they will be within the debian package guidelines. But then it may conflict with the DSFG

Re: minimum size for root partition

1999-02-25 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 11:59:57PM -0500, Ben Frame wrote: > I have 2 linux machines (486's) that I want to work > together. They each have a single 325mb hard disk, so I > would like them to share diskspace and filesystems, > using NFS. Since I need to make the most out of every > megabyte,

How to build a dial-up server?

1999-02-25 Thread Jim Power
I've setup a www server using Apache but I have no idea on how to deal with PPP & SLIP connections. What packages do I need to enable my server to handle PPP connection? And how to configure? Could someone give me some detailed instructions? Telling me where to find related online reference wil

RE: minimum size for root partition

1999-02-25 Thread Shaleh
On 25-Feb-99 Ben Frame wrote: > I have 2 linux machines (486's) that I want to work > together. They each have a single 325mb hard disk, so I > would like them to share diskspace and filesystems, > using NFS. Since I need to make the most out of every > megabyte, I was wondering if anyone mi

Multi-Modem Cards for Debian

1999-02-25 Thread Peter Ludwig
Okay, not really on-topic for the debian user list, but because I'm running debian I wanted some input. I live in Australia and I'm looking at perhaps starting an ISP sometime within the next six to twelve months. At present I am unable to purchase a multi-modem card in Brisbane (where I live), b

Re: Data Storage

1999-02-25 Thread Peter Ludwig
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Stephen Lavelle wrote: > We are soon going to be installing a Linux Box on our Win98 network as a > file server - You'll notice a vast difference :) Plug here for Linux sponsored by no-one. > and i want to know of a good back up media supported by debian and easy to > conf

minimum size for root partition

1999-02-25 Thread Ben Frame
I have 2 linux machines (486's) that I want to work together. They each have a single 325mb hard disk, so I would like them to share diskspace and filesystems, using NFS. Since I need to make the most out of every megabyte, I was wondering if anyone might be able to suggest a minimum size fo

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