exmh inc failure (was: Should I be concerned about /etc/nmh/maildelivery?)

1999-03-31 Thread Mark Phillips
> > The reason I am even thinking about it is that the presort Inc > > method of my exmh sometimes get stucked. To be more specific, It > > seems that there are so me messages, which I can't fully > > characterize, that cause Inc to terminate its action. Where this > > termination does not seem to

Re: xntp3 on dialup - how?

1999-03-31 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Christian Dysthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hi, | | I have installed xntp3 (running slink). However, the daemon is stared from | init.d and I am not yet online. The log tells me that the network is not | available (what a surprise!;). | | How do I best utilize xntp on a dialup box? Could I put s

Raid issues

1999-03-31 Thread Chris Brown
Hello all, We've been having some problems with our software RAID-1 implementation. Our machine is being transported out of town soon, so we've been trying to give our drives a workout. What we did was making a shell script that constantly cats the drives contents to /dev/null. We ran th

Creation of Device for CD-ROM

1999-03-31 Thread Russell Rademacher
Hello guys. I need a little refresher here. I need to make a new device to hook up the CD to the fstab. Basically... I have 4 IDE Drives which is basically used by hdax, hdbx, hdcx and hddx. I have a old model LaserMate CD Drive hooked up though the antique Packard Bell Sound Galaxy Sou

RE: -HUP question

1999-03-31 Thread Ted Harding
On 31-Mar-99 Pollywog wrote: > I changed my /etc/inetd.conf and then ran 'killall -HUP inetd' but my > logs don't show that inetd restarted. Will I have to reboot instead, > or maybe go to single user mode and exit? If, as root, you simply type inetd that should restart it. Ted. --

Re: wine.deb

1999-03-31 Thread John Bagdanoff
Let me know how you fare with the new wine.deb, Andrew. I have a shareware check balancing program in win95 that I dearly love, and every time another window overlays it, my checking program will freeze. I think there was another version after 1/31/99, but I'm not sure. Does anyone know if there

[off topic] Opti 930 Sound card

1999-03-31 Thread jfoltz
Hello, Would anyone happen to know if an Opti 930 sound card can be used with Linux? -- Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ACORN techie AOL/IM Jim Foltz

wine.deb- back to old version

1999-03-31 Thread Pollywog
I tried the new version of Wine and it did not work well, so I am going back to the 1/31/99 version. I have it saved, so I won't need to d/l it again. -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]

Re: What happened to "put -C" option in ncftp?

1999-03-31 Thread David B. Teague
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > > I used to be able to continue an interrupted ftp upload in ncftp just > by typing "put -C filename". It would continue the upload where it > left off. But since upgrading to slink, ncftp no longer seems to have > this option. Does anyone know what

Re: color with tcsh

1999-03-31 Thread Mike Bucciarelli
Here is a piece of my .cshrc file: set term=linux eval 'dircolors' alias ls 'ls --color=auto'; alias ll 'ls -l'; alias dir 'ls --color=auto --format=vertical'; alias v 'ls --color=auto --format=long'; This got me colors in tcsh... -- Mike - Mike Bucciarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wine.deb

1999-03-31 Thread Pollywog
On 31-Mar-99 John Bagdanoff wrote: > And a search in the unstable gets me the version of 3/28/99 which I > already have and do not want. I want the version that was in potato > before the 3/28/99 one showed up. I think it was 2/??/99 > John It seems to have disappeared, and I did not know that

Star office S3 server fix

1999-03-31 Thread Shawn Nguyen
Hi, Does anyone know where I can download the S3 video server fix? I've been trying to look for it but didn't have any luck looking on the star office site. Thanks, Shawn

RE: Where can I find ps and top

1999-03-31 Thread Alan
On 31-Mar-99 Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > > I seem to have lost the 'ps' and 'top' commands. What package contains these > files? Go to the packages section at www.debian.org and at the bottom there is a 'search for files in current dist' where you can find out just this info. Good luck! --- A

Re: Mount for normal user

1999-03-31 Thread shaul
Alternatively, use sudo. [02:39:19 shaul]$ grep cdrom /etc/fstab /dev/hdc/cdrom iso9660 -oasync,noauto,ro 0 0 [05:31:13 shaul]$ grep cdrom /etc/group cdrom:x:24:shaul [05:31:59 shaul]$ su Password: [05:32:36 shaul]# grep cdrom /etc/sudoers /bin/mount /bac

Re: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!!!!!!!!!!

1999-03-31 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 11:40:40AM -0300, franco catena wrote: > hi, > > i got a file and I'd installed it but all the time I tryed to run dpkg -i > kdebase I receive a msg taht tolme that qt1g is not installed. > > In the "env" command I got : > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/qt/lib > QTDIR=/usr

Re: star office

1999-03-31 Thread William R Pentney
On 31 Mar 1999, Bud Rogers wrote: > Daniel Mashao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 2. (The simplest) Define a variable in your start-up files eg. .tcshrc of > > .bashrc. > > > > setenv SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50 true > > > > or > > > > export SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50=true > > > > and everything

Re: Win 95 and Linux Authentication

1999-03-31 Thread Ares
Samba works quite well for this sort of thing. You can get all the info you want from www.samba.org/samba. There is a Debian package of version 1.9.18p10 somewhere (I'm not sure at the moment), with a filename of samba 1.9.18p10-7.deb. JDM Jason D. Michaelson | Debian GNU/

Win 95 and Linux Authentication

1999-03-31 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi I'm currently working on a Univeristy. All our servers are running Linux. We have a server where the students have their homes. There a few public rooms for students using win 95. I would like to know if there is a way to simulate the wn 95 authentications through Win NT with our linux servers

Re: wine.deb

1999-03-31 Thread John Bagdanoff
And a search in the unstable gets me the version of 3/28/99 which I already have and do not want. I want the version that was in potato before the 3/28/99 one showed up. I think it was 2/??/99 John > > Go to www.debian.org and click the "packages" link, then search there for the > unstable wine

Where can I find ps and top

1999-03-31 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I seem to have lost the 'ps' and 'top' commands. What package contains these files? Lance

Re: wine.deb

1999-03-31 Thread John Bagdanoff
That's the one in slink which is 10/18/98. What I'm looking for was the version that was in potato just before the one that's there now. I think the version I want is 2/??/99. John > > Go to www.debian.org and click the "packages" link, then search there for the > unstable wine packages. That i

xntp3 on dialup - how?

1999-03-31 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I have installed xntp3 (running slink). However, the daemon is stared from init.d and I am not yet online. The log tells me that the network is not available (what a surprise!;). How do I best utilize xntp on a dialup box? Could I put something in ppp-up and ppp-down? If this is the case, wha

Re: color with tcsh

1999-03-31 Thread scratch
Fethi, You can find this in the xterm man pages: -/- -ls This option indicates that the shell that is started in the xterm window will be a login shell (i.e., the first character of argv[0] will be a dash, indicating to the shell

-HUP question

1999-03-31 Thread Pollywog
I changed my /etc/inetd.conf and then ran 'killall -HUP inetd' but my logs don't show that inetd restarted. Will I have to reboot instead, or maybe go to single user mode and exit? I am guessing that restarting inetd would show in the logs. It did under OpenLinux. thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Ke

kernel.org mirror[oops]

1999-03-31 Thread Chris Brown
Hello everyone, Sorry about that last message, I had a little glitch with my computer. Anyway, my question has to do with mirroring. We are using slink's fmirror package to mirror "ftp.us.kernel.org". We realize that ftp.us.kernel.org often fowards ftp requests to other servers. Our pro

color with tcsh

1999-03-31 Thread Fethi A. Okyar
I spent about 2-3 hours trying to figure out how to get color into my xterm running tcsh. I was previously using bash and had no problem with colors. I remember there used to be a file called DIR_COLORS in the /etc, in my previous SUSE installation, and it was pretty easy to manipulate colors f

kernel.org mirror

1999-03-31 Thread Chris Brown
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Re: adduser with shared /home

1999-03-31 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
The traditional way to do this is YP (aka NIS). The network database system exports /etc/passwd, /etc/group, etc. You have to run an NIS server (there are debian packages for NIS) and run NIS client software on the client machines. frameb wrote: > Hi. I have two machines running Slink, that sh

Re: Installing Netscape

1999-03-31 Thread Kent West
Christian Dysthe wrote: > Hi, > > I donwloaded Netscape from the Netscape site. Ran the install script and > everything works fine. This is version 4.03 so I had to install the > appropriate > oldlibs. > > Is there any benefits installing the Debian packages instead (except for the > fact I get 4

Re: working apt line for unoffical X 3.3.3.1 debs

1999-03-31 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
It doesn't work because there's no Packages file. You can still download all the debs and install them by hand. Brian Servis wrote: > Does anybody have a working sources.list line for apt for the > unofficial X 3.3.3.1 debs at > http://master.debian.org/~vincent/xfree-3.3.3.1, if at all possible

Re: Kernel Panic SOLVED Questions concerning incident

1999-03-31 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I went into OS2 and used e2fsck on the partition and fixed the structure. I > now have two questions regarding this incident: > > Why didn't Linux fix the file system at boot? Why did I have to do it from > OS2? Becuase there's a chicken and egg problem. You need the

CGIWRAP logging problems

1999-03-31 Thread Alan
Hi there. I'm using the cgiwrap package from stable, and am having some problems. I hope that someone whose used this package can give me a hand with it. Basically I installed the package, and then, as user alan created the directory /home/alan/public_html/cgi-bin In there I stuck a simple '

alsa

1999-03-31 Thread Craig Hancock
Hello everyone I just recently downloaded alsa and I used the alsaconf program and it works beautifully now I am stuck I am not sure what to do next or what command I need to run if some can assit I would greatly appricate it

Re: Star Office 5 & Potato/Glibc2.1??

1999-03-31 Thread David Stern
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999 09:36:23 CST, wrote: > Hello: > Well, now that we've all got Star Office 5.0 running on the latest > cutting-edge potato systems, can anyone print from it?? When I try, I get > the following messages: > [..] > sh: /home/myuser/Office50/glibc2/libdl.so.2: no version information

Something about netscape...

1999-03-31 Thread jfoltz
makes my PPP connection SIGHUP. I have been experimenting with my problem and here is what's happening: I can connect to my ISP from the console, and stay connected all day if I want to (and I do some days). I can connect to my ISP in Xwindows and stay connected all day, if I want to. When I th

adduser with shared /home

1999-03-31 Thread frameb
Hi. I have two machines running Slink, that share a /home filesystem (nfs mounted). I can only run the adduser command from the machine that has /home on its disk. How do I share a list of users between two machines? What other files are changed when the adduser command is executed aside from t

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-31 Thread Kent West
Bob Wilkinson wrote: > - Original Message - > From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Debian users Listserv > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 10:37 PM > Subject: Re: What DO you lose with Linux ??? > > >everything, provided I was willing to sacrifice o

Re: star office

1999-03-31 Thread Bud Rogers
Daniel Mashao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. Use the SVGA drivers instead of the S3 drivers for X11. > > 2. (The simplest) Define a variable in your start-up files eg. .tcshrc of > .bashrc. > > setenv SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50 true > > or > > export SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50=true > > and ever

working apt line for unoffical X 3.3.3.1 debs

1999-03-31 Thread Brian Servis
Does anybody have a working sources.list line for apt for the unofficial X 3.3.3.1 debs at http://master.debian.org/~vincent/xfree-3.3.3.1, if at all possible? I have tried several including, deb http://master.debian.org/~vincent xfree-3.3.3.1/ and I think this one should work according to the

Installing Netscape

1999-03-31 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I donwloaded Netscape from the Netscape site. Ran the install script and everything works fine. This is version 4.03 so I had to install the appropriate oldlibs. Is there any benefits installing the Debian packages instead (except for the fact I get 4.08 or even 4.5)? It just seemed so easy

RE: wine.deb

1999-03-31 Thread Pollywog
On 31-Mar-99 John Bagdanoff wrote: > I just got and installed the latest (3/28/99) wine.deb from potato and > now my little windows program dies a horrible death. I'd like to > download the previous version (I think 2/99) and reinstall that. Anyone > know where I can find it? > Thanks > John >

wine.deb

1999-03-31 Thread John Bagdanoff
I just got and installed the latest (3/28/99) wine.deb from potato and now my little windows program dies a horrible death. I'd like to download the previous version (I think 2/99) and reinstall that. Anyone know where I can find it? Thanks John -- * Window

exim -> forwarding mail

1999-03-31 Thread Graham Ashton
I'm running exim on my mail server, which is fully DNS registered, and has proper connectivity to the outside world. I'll call it server.domain1.com One of my mates wants me to set it up so that mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] gets directed to his workstation (which doesn't have an MX record), w

Re: Kernel Panic SOLVED Questions concerning incident

1999-03-31 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I went into OS2 and used e2fsck on the partition and fixed the structure. I now have two questions regarding this incident: Why didn't Linux fix the file system at boot? Why did I have to do it from OS2? When I booted back into Linux I got /dev/hda5 reached maximal mount count, check forced

Re: dselect.... missing the obvious?

1999-03-31 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Chris Brown wrote: > Second, once I have a "favorite" base system, can I integrate that > into the dselect program for future installs? > Use dpkg --get-selections once you have dselect configured the way you want it. In future installs,

Re: OT?: What to install for Python??

1999-03-31 Thread kaynjay
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/31/99 at 02:46 AM, Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >That depends on what you want to do with Python. >If you are interested in Python then install _everything_, >think of it as lots of coding examples. Thanks, Bruce. I guess the question was pretty stu

Choice of X fonts in Emacs

1999-03-31 Thread Zack Weinberg
I'm using emacs19 with slink (2.1). I use font-lock mode to syntax highlight C. When font-lock wants an italic font, it uses -adobe-courier-medium-i-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1, which looks hideous; this is because -adobe-courier-medium-i-normal only exists as a scalable font. I'd much

Re: How to open xterm with and a program at once

1999-03-31 Thread David Wright
Quoting Christian Dysthe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > how do I open xterm with a program? Let's say I want an icon on my desktop > opening mc or mutt. What would the command be to have an xterm with one of > these programs open automatically with xterm? Another way from those already mentioned is of cou

Re: dselect.... missing the obvious?

1999-03-31 Thread Kevin Lee
Chris, When you choose option number 2 in dselect, press the space bar to clear the help screen and then press the slash key (/). This will put you in a search mode. Just type in the name of the package you wish to install at the Search for ? prompt. At 11:01 AM 3/31/99 -0500, you wrote: >Hello

Re: Netscape Installer??

1999-03-31 Thread Richard Harran
As I understand it, Netscape have changed their licencing rules, to the effect that Debian can now distribute Netscape binaries. Thus you no longer have to get the binary from netscape and then use the installer, you just need the correct packages. I think the packages you want are: netsc

dselect.... missing the obvious?

1999-03-31 Thread Chris Brown
Hello again and thanks for all the help this debian-newbie is getting! I've done several (custom) installs of slink using dselect, and each time I waste a bunch of time searching for certain packages I want for instance ntp, sendmail, snmp, pine, joe I am getting a little more familiar wit

RE: How to open xterm with and a program at once

1999-03-31 Thread Alexandre DEVAURE
Hello To start a program with an xterm, you need to use the -e option: xterm -e . I am sorry my PC at office run m$ os but it's changing : our system administrator want to use Linux boxes first to read mail and then as file server. Alexandre Devaure -- De :Christian Dysthe[SMTP:[EMA

Re: Kernel Panic

1999-03-31 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I had my system hang last night while running a statistical process. I used > Ctrl-Alt-Delete to > reboot. Now I get a kernel panic. > > UMSDOS: msdos_read_super failed, mount aborted ... > > HPFS: hpfs_read_super: Not HPFS ... > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unabl

about xwindow

1999-03-31 Thread khadija.boumahdi
i try to excute startx, but following errors occured: ld.so failed: can't find shared library libXmu.so.6.0 but this file exist in /usr/X11R6/lib what can i do please??

problem with xwindow

1999-03-31 Thread khadija.boumahdi
hi, when i try to execute startx; following message of errors occured: ld.so failed: can't find shared library "libXmu.so.6.0"; but ythis file exist in /usr/X11R6/lib what i can do?

Re: Anybody have the time to help a newbie?

1999-03-31 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Daniel Mashao wrote: : On Tue, 30 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : > Hello. : > : > Ok. I have a copy of Debian on disk. I am attempting to install it on an : > IBM PS/2 386. When I boot up using the rescue floppy, I can set up to the : > point where it asks m

Re: Star Office 5 & Potato/Glibc2.1??

1999-03-31 Thread Ryan Losh
Hello: Well, now that we've all got Star Office 5.0 running on the latest cutting-edge potato systems, can anyone print from it?? When I try, I get the following messages: sh: /home/myuser/Office50/glibc2/libdl.so.2: no version information available (required by sh) sh: /home/myuser/Off

Kernel Panic

1999-03-31 Thread lanceh
I had my system hang last night while running a statistical process. I used Ctrl-Alt-Delete to reboot. Now I get a kernel panic. UMSDOS: msdos_read_super failed, mount aborted ... HPFS: hpfs_read_super: Not HPFS ... Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 Does 03:05

NAG F95 compiler is broken after upgrade.

1999-03-31 Thread Karsten Bolding
I just ran dselect on my laptop taking both stable and unstable and realized that the NAG F95 compiler does not work anymore. Compilation works but linking fails: f95 -o model main.o initialise.o timeloop.o cleanup.o \ domain/domain.o /usr/local/lib/NAGWare/libf95.so: undefined reference

/etc/lynx.cfg -> ~/.lynxrc

1999-03-31 Thread homega
Hi, how can I have lynx to use each home user's configuration file instead of /etc/lynx.cfg? I mean to default to: $ lynx -cfg=~/.lynxrc TIA Horacio -- Claves - GnuPG/PGP - Keys : http://www.rediris.es/cert/keyserver o/or Envía un mensaje vacío a [EMAIL PROTECTED] con la línea de asunto: Send

Re: Printing:connection to 'localhost' failed - Connection refused

1999-03-31 Thread Ulrik Haugen
* Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > connection to 'localhost' failed - Connection refused > job 'cfA576Johann' transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed I had the same problem, I used the lprng package. This package I understand has more features for use in networks, however if you only use one local

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Re: How to open xterm with and a program at once

1999-03-31 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Try $xterm -e mutt & That should do it. Also try man xterm for a plethora of other options you can give to the xterm program. Might also want to take a look a RXVT. BTW, the command above is just a beginning, if you need a login shell, different colors, or title you should get thse parameters

Re: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!!!!!!!!!!

1999-03-31 Thread franco catena
hi, i got a file and I'd installed it but all the time I tryed to run dpkg -i kdebase I receive a msg taht tolme that qt1g is not installed. In the "env" command I got : LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/qt/lib QTDIR=/usr/local/qt MANPATH=/usr/local/qt/man PS1=\h:\w\$ USER=root CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr

How to open xterm with and a program at once

1999-03-31 Thread Frederic Parain
Christian Dysthe writes: > Hi, > > how do I open xterm with a program? Let's say I want an icon on my desktop > opening mc or mutt. What would the command be to have an xterm with one of > these programs open automatically with xterm? > > TIA Just read the xterm manuel with the 'man xterm

Re: How to open xterm with and a program at once

1999-03-31 Thread Dpk
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, how do I open xterm with a program? Let's say I want an icon on my desktop opening mc or mutt. What would the command be to have an xterm with one of these programs open automatically with xterm? This will execute mutt, setting the T

Re: How to open xterm with and a program at once

1999-03-31 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hi, > > how do I open xterm with a program? Let's say I want an icon on my desktop > opening mc or mutt. What would the command be to have an xterm with one of > these programs open automatically with xterm? xterm -e This, by the way, is in the man page of xterm. If you'd type `man xterm'

Re: what exactly is a "segmentation fault"

1999-03-31 Thread rich
>> When I tried to run the program (by typing multitrack), I get a >> "segmentation fault" error... I have heard this phrase before, but do >> not know what it means... can anyone help, or at least point me in the >> right direction? >A segmentation fault means that the program made an illegal m

Partitioning help

1999-03-31 Thread Network Admin
I am installing Debian and having problems partitioning the drive properly. During the bad block scan, it starts counting by '10' and is taking forever. Do I have my drive partitioned wrong? Is the drive bad perhaps? How should it be set in my bios?

How to open xterm with and a program at once

1999-03-31 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, how do I open xterm with a program? Let's say I want an icon on my desktop opening mc or mutt. What would the command be to have an xterm with one of these programs open automatically with xterm? TIA Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 01

Re: NSDIRSECUG: perldap on debian linux

1999-03-31 Thread David Boreham
"Aaron M. Stromas" wrote: > > i'd like to build perldap on debian linux. as it uses netscape c sdk i > decided that the fastest way would be to build it first. > unfortunately, the configuration failed because it didn't find > Xm/Xm.h. > > is there a debian package with that (motif?) include f

Netscape Installer??

1999-03-31 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I'd like to re-install Netscape but I can no longer find the Debian installer script/package. Where did it go? What are all the "other" packages, now in Slink, that mention Netscape? I just want something to do what the older installer did: 1) Extract the .tar.gz from /tmp 2) Install in proper

Re: ISP Connection

1999-03-31 Thread John Hasler
Peter Ludwig writes: > ...not everything is connecting correctly, ftp has to be in PASSIVE mode, That implies that your ISP may be running proxies. > ...modified the PAP secrets file... What did you have to do to it? pppconfig should have set it up for you assuming that you chose PAP. Post you

Re: ISP Connection

1999-03-31 Thread John Hasler
Joop Stakenborg writes: > Have a look at your /etc/ppp/options file, uncomment the #debug line ... He needn't do this. pppconfig has already put 'debug' in /etc/ppp/peers/provider. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Linux on a large disk

1999-03-31 Thread Jens Ritter
Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Nowadays, it is very common to have a disk ranging from 6.4GB to > 10.1GB. It is also common lots people will install both windoze and > linux on the same disk. I am just about to install debian on three > computers for my friends. They all h

Re: Latex -- Plz help

1999-03-31 Thread Jens Ritter
Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > I know that I should not fight the layout against latex. But I > really like to do the following in latex for my resume. > I tried to use the tabular environment and not very pleased with the > outcome... > I want to do something like this in

Re: libraries documentations

1999-03-31 Thread Graham Ashton
On Wednesday 31 March, Armin Wegner wrote: > there are a lot of nice libraries in /usr, but where are the > documentations for the c/c++ libraries? humbug% dpkg --list "*" | grep libc | grep doc pn glibc-doc(no description available) un glibcdoc (no description a

SMTP Error

1999-03-31 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Greetings, After upgrading to the lastest greatest Debian Sendmail my sendmail doesn't work any longer. Using Qpopper is not a problem to retrieve the mail, but when I try to send something out I get an error: The recipient "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is not acceptable to your SMTP server. The

libraries documentations

1999-03-31 Thread Armin Wegner
Hi, there are a lot of nice libraries in /usr, but where are the documentations for the c/c++ libraries? Armin

writing c/c++ programs under debian

1999-03-31 Thread Micha Feigin
I am looking to start writing c/c++ programs under debian. The question is what utilitys are availble to maintain and write projects. also are there any online ducumentation about the options. I also interested about how to write graphical programs (not neseserily complicated ones, just to display

enlightenment/slink .xinitrc

1999-03-31 Thread Vincent Murphy
could someone who is running gnome on top of enlightenment on top of X send me their .xinitrc or .xsession please? i'm having trouble starting gnome. here's what i'm using: #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/X11/enlightenment exec /usr/bin/gnome-session i've tried putting '&' on the end of the enlightenme

Re: Star Office 5 & Potato/Glibc2.1??

1999-03-31 Thread Frank Rosendahl
David Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 30 Mar 1999 15:11:40 CST, wrote: > > Hello, > > I was the one who posted the original message for help with this. > > After reading your message, I played around with the "soffice" wrapper that > > calls soffice.bin. Here's how I got mine to work.

Re: Failed partition check

1999-03-31 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Robbie, I ran into this also the first time I compiled a 2.2.X kernel. You need to make sure that IDE/ATA-2 support is compiled into the kernel (not a module) if you are booting from an IDE hard drive. In the kernel config (I use xconfig), that feature is under block devices. Tom Robbie Huffman

Printing:connection to 'localhost' failed - Connection refused

1999-03-31 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, I made a mess of my printing. I have magicfilter installed and everything went well until I tried to install the printcap published by Wojciech Zabolotny on this list which he is using to print economy mode on a HP 5L. I could net get it working and I could not get my old configuration ba

Re: Bandwidth Control Program

1999-03-31 Thread Horacio J . Peña
¡Hola! > Hola, ¿ qué tal ? Muy bien, y tu? :-) > I think that this version is very old, and It's old, but work fine. > I don't know if this package has the 'tc' > utility, which is the > program to manage bandwidths. Yes. It has it... > PD: Argentina - Holanda ? Paso del futbol... > Saludos.

Apache 1.3.3 rotating logfiles

1999-03-31 Thread Oliver Thuns
Hello! Most of my Apache logfiles don't rotate. I think all logfiles which are defined in external file which is included (via Include) in httpd.conf don't rotate. Is there anything I can do to fix this? Oliver

Re: RedHat = MS-Linux

1999-03-31 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: > The issue is not that the Linux kernel would still be available > as open-source, the problem is what happens when 85-95% of app > developers are writing their software only for RH. The 'open > source' community would not be terribly affected, and wou

RE: star office

1999-03-31 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Shawn Nguyen wrote: > I am using an S3 graphics card. I guess I'm out of luck huh? Thanks for > the info though even though I find it kind of strange that that would be > the case. I guess I should do some research to see if there's any kind of > fix for this problem. No

Re: perldap on debian linux

1999-03-31 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 14:24:22 -0700, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > Motif isn't free software. You'll have to purchase a copy from someone LessTif (http://www.lesstif.org) is an LGPL-ed implementation of Motif; it is part of Debian since 1996 and is currently used in the Debian packages for several

Re: ddd and glibc2.1

1999-03-31 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 21:25:30 -0600, Evan Van Dyke wrote: > Ever since upgrading to glibc2.1 my ddd has been segfaulting upon > startup... anyone know how this is doing in the 'fix' line? 3.1.3-2, which is built on a potato system, has been installed in the archive in yesterday's run; it should

Re: Bandwidth Control Program

1999-03-31 Thread Javier Castillo
Hola, ¿ qué tal ? I think that this version is very old, and I don't know if this package has the 'tc' utility, which is the program to manage bandwidths. PD: Argentina - Holanda ? Saludos. Horacio J. Peña wrote: > ¡Hola! > > >With the new kernel 2.2, you can use IPROUTE2. The problem is that

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-31 Thread Bob Wilkinson
- Original Message - From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian users Listserv Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 10:37 PM Subject: Re: What DO you lose with Linux ??? >everything, provided I was willing to sacrifice other things, such as other hobbies ^

Re: dselect "internal error"

1999-03-31 Thread Remco van de Meent
Pieter-Tjerk de Boer wrote: [dselect errors] > Since then, this error message pops up every time I try [I]nstall. I'm > telling all these details because I suspect that somehow this was not the > right way to cope with the two changes (newer NFS server, and newer > 'stable' distribution). As the

debian setup headaches

1999-03-31 Thread Lev Lvovsky
Hello, OK, in trying to iron out that problem that I was having with not being able to boot from my IDE disk instead of my (non-bootable) SCSI disk, I've run into a problem in even getting Debian running at all. I've started from scratch, repartitioned, and reformatted through the setup proce

Re: Latex -- Plz help

1999-03-31 Thread Mamoun Alissali
Shao Zhang wrote: > > Hi, > I know that I should not fight the layout against latex. But I > really like to do the following in latex for my resume. > I tried to use the tabular environment and not very pleased with the > outcome... > I want to do something like this in latex: > > Univers

Re: what exactly is a "segmentation fault"?

1999-03-31 Thread Frank Barknecht
rich hat gesagt: // rich wrote: > I have just tried my 1st attempt at installing a non-debian package > (multitrack-2.2.tgz). I followed the instructions... > > - place file in /usr/local > > - tar xvfz multitrack-2.2.tgz > > - cd multitrack-2.2 > > - make install > > When I tried to run the

Re: Can apt-get work via a proxy?

1999-03-31 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > export http_proxy="http://myproxy:port/"; > > apt-get foo.. > > You sent me this reply a while ago. Up till now I haven't had to use > it, but today I needed to, but had this problem with it: > > > Err http://www.au.debian.org stable/main stow 1.3.2-11 > 407

Re: Can apt-get work via a proxy?

1999-03-31 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > Err http://www.au.debian.org stable/main stow 1.3.2-11 > 407 Proxy authorization required > Failed to fetch > http://www.au.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/a > dmin/stow_1.3.2-11.deb > 407 Proxy authorization required > E: Unable to

Re: Anybody have the time to help a newbie?

1999-03-31 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello. > > Ok. I have a copy of Debian on disk. I am attempting to install it on an > IBM PS/2 386. When I boot up using the rescue floppy, I can set up to the > point where it asks me to partition the hard drive. I select next, and I > get an er

Re: star office

1999-03-31 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Shawn Nguyen wrote: > Hi, > > I am having some problem with Star Office 5.0, could someone shed some > light on the situation? Apparently when I try to update the mail box > Star Office start to freeze up my computer. What's happening is that my > CPU is being overloa

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