Re: GNOME Installation

1999-06-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "M" == Morgoth3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: M> I'm trying to install GNOME by hand, and I need to install M> libgnome32 to continue. When I try to install it, I am told that M> it depends on having libgnomeui32 installed. But when I try to M> install that, it says i need to already have lib

Re: Missing gtk-config for building GnomePGP

1999-06-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JHM" == J Horacio MG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JHM> checking for gtk-config... no JHM> checking for GTK - version >= 1.1.1... no install libgtk1.1.2-dev The package you have is for runtime only, this is the package if you want to compile something. Ciao, Martin

Re: libjpeg.so.6 and KDE

1999-06-01 Thread Daniel González Gasull
Hi! Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry if I was unclear. Try, as root, 'ldconfig > -v /' to refresh the library list. Then, do "ldd > programname", where programname, is the KDE > program you are trying to run. Check for any > "not found messages". I didn't get any. > Also, try t

Re: GNOME Installation

1999-06-01 Thread Pollywog
On 01-Jun-99 Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Good grief, is this true? If AOL doesn't allow this kind of > internet access then what the hell is AOL good for? Not good for much. I read that AOL will run on Wine, though. -- Andrew

Re: pppd / pon problem

1999-06-01 Thread John Hasler
Robert writes: > Is it [/etc/ppp being root.root] a bug? Yes. It should be root.dip . > Seems like the default for allowing a ppp dial out would be up to the > admin and not users? It is. The admin decides which users to put in the dip group. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Da

Re: problem su'ing

1999-06-01 Thread Pollywog
On 01-Jun-99 Pollywog wrote: > > On 01-Jun-99 Pollywog wrote: >> >> I did not know it had to be gid root. > oops I meant suid gid Wait a minute. What is the correct term there, guid, right? -- Andrew

Re: what is

1999-06-01 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: what is Date: Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 02:25:46PM -0500 In reply to:Craig Hancock Quoting Craig Hancock([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I need information on FBCON and GGI what I am trying to so is get > ATI Rage 128 card to work what I was told was to use GGI or fbcon but > what I di

Re: I'm really confused by bash, .bashrc, .bash_profile, .profile, etc, etc, etc

1999-06-01 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: I'm really confused by bash, .bashrc, .bash_profile, .profile, etc, etc, etc Date: Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 11:25:46AM -0500 In reply to:Mark Wright Quoting Mark Wright([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Is there a good system for setting variables, aliases, etc that need to be > set fo

Re: problem su'ing

1999-06-01 Thread Pollywog
On 01-Jun-99 Pollywog wrote: > > I did not know it had to be gid root. oops I meant suid gid My laptop has /bin/su suid root and > both use shadow passwords. I did install the newest shellutils today. > > thanks > > -- > Andrew

Re: GNOME Installation

1999-06-01 Thread Bruce Sass
Try: dpkg -i pkg1.deb pkg2.deb ... -- On Tue, 1 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to install GNOME by hand, and I need to install libgnome32 to > continue. When I try to install it, I am told that it depends on having > libgnomeui32 installed. But when I try to install

Re: Netscape 4.6 crashes

1999-06-01 Thread Hartmut Figge
Matthew Gregan wrote: > > On Mon, May 31, 1999 at 07:29:48PM +0200, Andreas Voegele wrote: > > The faulty behaviour is most obvious if you've got more than one > > Navigator window opened. Instead of closing the selected window only > > the whole application crashes sometimes. > > I've been havin

Re: Help!!! Linux plus IBM! again :(

1999-06-01 Thread Hartmut Figge
Gancho Tenev Tenev wrote: > > Hi !!! > I did not speak about Debian Linux Instalation ! :) > ( nor for rescue nor bootup diskette !!! ) > Some IBM computers ( may be all ) have got setup ( for their hardware ) on > their HDD > ( on separate hdd partition ). > On other computers I press "DEL" and e

Re: problem su'ing

1999-06-01 Thread Pollywog
On 01-Jun-99 Brad wrote: > The same thing happened to me. It appears that in the latest shellutils > package, someone forgot to mark that su should be suid root (or sgid > shadow when using shadow passwords). > > "chmod 4755 /bin/su" fixes it. You'll have to login as root to do so > though ;) I

Re: GNOME Installation

1999-06-01 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 6/1/99 3:46:16 PM Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > For future reference, why are you installing GNOME by hand? Is it not > easier > > to > > just do an "apt-get install task-gnome-desktop "? > > Am I correct in assuming apt

Re: apt & ftp can't download

1999-06-01 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
Oops -- sorry to trouble you. I had some other difficulty and had renamed the destination directory. On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote: > > Could not open file > > /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/libpng2_1.0.2b-0.1_i386.deb - open (2 No > > such file or directory)^M

Re: problem su'ing

1999-06-01 Thread Brad
The same thing happened to me. It appears that in the latest shellutils package, someone forgot to mark that su should be suid root (or sgid shadow when using shadow passwords). "chmod 4755 /bin/su" fixes it. You'll have to login as root to do so though ;) On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Pollywog wrote: > I

RE: why make partitions?

1999-06-01 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: > I used to wonder the samething. When I started using Linux, I always wonder > why partition a disk to use the same OS on all the partitions. Then I made a > big boo boo and hosed system and re-installed all 500MB of downloads again, > that took over a

Re: SVGA server

1999-06-01 Thread Brad
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Paul Nesbit wrote: > Hi, > I 'm a newbie to linux, and have chosen Debian (slink?) as the > distribution that I will learn from. Welcome! (: > My install was successful, and now I have a long list of things to do: > Configure XF86 > Configure PPP > Rebuild an

Re: GNOME Installation

1999-06-01 Thread Morgoth3
In a message dated 6/1/99 3:46:16 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > For future reference, why are you installing GNOME by hand? Is it not easier > to > just do an "apt-get install task-gnome-desktop "? Am I correct in assuming apt-get needs a connection to the internet in

Re: libjpeg.so.6 and KDE

1999-06-01 Thread Bruce Sass
Hmmm, it looks like you may have installed the hamm version of KDE. If you have a slink or potato system then try the .debs from: http://snowcrash.tdyc.com/debian/dists/ -- On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Daniel González Gasull wrote: > Hi! > > Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > debian-u

Re: SVGA server

1999-06-01 Thread Morgoth3
Go to the main FTP for Debian, and you can find the package for SVGA. Colin Winters

RE: problem su'ing

1999-06-01 Thread Pollywog
On 01-Jun-99 Pollywog wrote: > I just started having a problem with su. It tells me "wrong password" but I > can log in from a console as root with the same password. > > I just upgraded the /etc/pam.d stuff and I wonder if this is the cause of > this > problem. > > thanks > > btw, should /bi

Re: SVGA server

1999-06-01 Thread Kent West
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Paul Nesbit wrote: > Hi, > I 'm a newbie to linux, and have chosen Debian (slink?) as the > distribution that I will learn from. My install was successful, and now > I have a long list of things to do: > Configure XF86 > Configure PPP > Rebuild and customize Ke

Re: ISPs

1999-06-01 Thread Michael Procario
I use Netcom (now Mindspring) they have pages on using Linux buried in their support site, but you do not even need those. You need the DNS server addresses and the phone number. I use wvdial (its comes with Debian) to do the dialup and it is very simple. _

Thanks for help with my "Newbie Questions"

1999-06-01 Thread Andrew J Fortune
A big thanks to everyone who helped me out with getting off the ground with Linux !! Everyone has been very friendly, helpful and approachable. I can see that I have a mountain of stuff to learn yet ... ! kind regards, Andrew

problem su'ing

1999-06-01 Thread Pollywog
I just started having a problem with su. It tells me "wrong password" but I can log in from a console as root with the same password. I just upgraded the /etc/pam.d stuff and I wonder if this is the cause of this problem. thanks btw, should /bin/su have the suid bit set? It does not. -- And

Re: ping duplicate packets

1999-06-01 Thread Remco van 't Veer
First I pinged from redhat to my debian box. Later that day I pinged it from a BSDI server. I saw duplicate packets on both occasions. On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 20:12, Jim B wrote: > Note that you also could get dupes as a result of the client PC, i.e. the > one FROM which you are pinging your L

Re: why make partitions?

1999-06-01 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Lazarus Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Tuesday, June 01, 1999 at 14:46:01 -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: | > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) | > X-UIDL: e4da9602a16b12e6fe1dfa928c15b9e8 | > | > The best reason I can ever come up with for creat

Re: ICQ programs for Debian GNU/Linux

1999-06-01 Thread Pollywog
On 01-Jun-99 Christian Lavoie wrote: >> For GnomeICU, I would have to switch to Gnome, from KDE, correct? > > As far as I recall, Debian allows for havin' both KDE and GNOME > installed at the same time. And anyway, you shouldn't need all of > gnome. Most probably the basic libs, and of course

gnomeicu error

1999-06-01 Thread Pollywog
It is not very important, but if there is an easy fix, I would like to know. When I try to start gnomeicu in KDE, I get this: gnomeicu type = 0 exid = (null) ** CRITICAL **: file applet-widget.c: line 655 (gnome_panel_applet_corba_init): assertion `panel_client != ((void *)0)' failed. ** CRITIC

Re: ICQ programs for Debian GNU/Linux

1999-06-01 Thread Christian Lavoie
> For GnomeICU, I would have to switch to Gnome, from KDE, correct? As far as I recall, Debian allows for havin' both KDE and GNOME installed at the same time. And anyway, you shouldn't need all of gnome. Most probably the basic libs, and of course gnomeICU itself. You shouldn't *need* to switc

modem

1999-06-01 Thread Craig Hancock
Hello all I am curious how do I configure a pcmcia modem it is a Etherlink III Lan+33.6 Modem PC Card

Re: dselect woes

1999-06-01 Thread Ron Hale-Evans
> > I am currently trying to install some packages in Debian 2.0 (using the CD > Rom), using dselect. I can select them without any problem, however when I > choose the option to actually install them, I get the following error > message : > Any help appreciated !! Just a thought: try cleaning th

Re: why make partitions?

1999-06-01 Thread Remco van 't Veer
This extra hdd is mounted on /home. :) My concern is the the integrity of the filesystem and hdd driver in this case. Does a filesystem like this use the location the partition table uses? If so how big are the odds that Linux will choke on a corrupt (unknown) partition table? I guess it's not

SVGA server

1999-06-01 Thread Paul Nesbit
Hi, I 'm a newbie to linux, and have chosen Debian (slink?) as the distribution that I will learn from. My install was successful, and now I have a long list of things to do: Configure XF86 Configure PPP Rebuild and customize Kernel Upgrade to most recent dist. Does this order

apt & ftp can't download

1999-06-01 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
Good day. I can't upgrade. I've tried both apt and ftp access methods and several mirror sites. I'm getting messages like this saying that there is no file, but (script session below) I can do Update from all sites. > Could not open file > /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/libpng2_1.0.2b-0.1_i386

Re: XF86Setup

1999-06-01 Thread Brad
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > By default you can have 4 desktop screens. You switch between them with > Ctrl+arrow keys (You start at top left, if you Ctrl+left, you will go to > next one. Not sure if twm (I assume you are starting with the default twm) > even supports it, but my Afte

RE: why make partitions?

1999-06-01 Thread Person, Roderick
I used to wonder the samething. When I started using Linux, I always wonder why partition a disk to use the same OS on all the partitions. Then I made a big boo boo and hosed system and re-installed all 500MB of downloads again, that took over a week to get!! So, I decided to try the partition and

RE: 2 lingering probs

1999-06-01 Thread Person, Roderick
I'm having the same types of problems with different modules. Myself my cdrom & sound modules. I was thinking it was caused due to my change in kernels, but after reading your message I did exaclty the same with libc6 upgrade and the downgrade. This has beening going on with me for sometime, so I

RE: pppd / pon problem

1999-06-01 Thread Person, Roderick
Check /etc/group file and make sure that your user account has the permission in the dial group. > -Original Message- > From: Christian Dysthe [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 3:08 PM > To: Debian-user > Subject: pppd / pon problem > > Hi, > > I run potato.

Re: XF86Setup

1999-06-01 Thread Brad
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, moron wrote: > I've run XF86Setup a dozen times in the last day or two, but I wasn't aware > of being invited to do anything I would call 'configuring the order of > modes'. Certainly, nobody asked me if if I wanted virtual desktop. But > you've got three desktop screens runn

Re: why make partitions?

1999-06-01 Thread Lazarus Long
On Tuesday, June 01, 1999 at 14:46:01 -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) > X-UIDL: e4da9602a16b12e6fe1dfa928c15b9e8 > > The best reason I can ever come up with for creating separate partitions is > to > allocate space w

Re: XF86Setup

1999-06-01 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, moron wrote: > I've run XF86Setup a dozen times in the last day or two, but I wasn't aware > of being invited to do anything I would call 'configuring the order of > modes'. Certainly, nobody asked me if if I wanted virtual desktop. But > you've got three desktop screens runn

Re: Floppy Mounting Problems

1999-06-01 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 02:45:21AM -0500, Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did you try umounting /floppy? i had this problem when i was playing > around with smbmount (stupid !@)#' $(%^&* characters in the sharenames) > (literally those characters, especially &, ', and space) and it would > fai

Re: XF86Setup

1999-06-01 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> > Von: Andrei Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >This is called a virtual desktop. When you are configuring the order of > >modes, it asks you whether you want virtual desktop or not. Since you > >don't want it, say No. I can't stand it either...but I use 3 out of 4 > >desktop screens. > > I've run

Re: Installing separate packages / graphical login

1999-06-01 Thread Ioannis Aggelakopoulos
1)just do: dpkg -i packagename don't forget also "man dpkg". 2)remove "xdm" from /etc/rc2.d and /etc/rc6.d On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, pfau wrote: > hello, folks > > as I´m a debian newbie (coming from suse), may be the following > questions are stupid, but I got stuck with them. > > 1) Is there a wa

Re: Creating device sr0

1999-06-01 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 03:16:31PM +0100, Graham Lillico +44 1785 782329 wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone please tell me how I can create /dev/sr0 as my cd writer > wants to use that device. I have tried the man pages and the MAKEDEV > command etc but to no avail. > > Any ideas? > > Regards > > G

Re: libjpeg.so.6 and KDE

1999-06-01 Thread Stephen Pitts
Sorry if I was unclear. Try, as root, 'ldconfig -v /' to refresh the library list. Then, do "ldd programname", where programname, is the KDE program you are trying to run. Check for any "not found messages". Also, try the libjpeg62 package. I just checked and that is the one Enlightenment is li

Re: pppd / pon problem

1999-06-01 Thread Robert
Is it a bug? Seems like the default for allowing a ppp dial out would be up to the admin and not users? Robert At 04:00 PM 6/1/99 -0500, John Hasler wrote: >Phillip Deackes writes: >> Just had the same problem. The ownership of /etc/ppp had been set as >> root.root > >Have you filed a bug report y

Re: ISPs

1999-06-01 Thread Kent West
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Robert wrote: > Dont forget your small neighborhood ISP's. The smaller they are the better > the service and the more knowledgeable (most of the time?) the employees. > Robert Just a mention My sister, who lives in my house, had an AOL account, but once I pretty much bann

Re: pppd / pon problem

1999-06-01 Thread John Hasler
Phillip Deackes writes: > Just had the same problem. The ownership of /etc/ppp had been set as > root.root Have you filed a bug report yet? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Floppy Mounting Problems

1999-06-01 Thread Brad
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, [iso-8859-1] Daniel Gonz?lez Gasull wrote: > Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Did you try umounting /floppy? i had this problem > > when i was playing around with smbmount (stupid > > !@)#' $(%^&* characters in the sharenames) > > (literally those characters, especially &

Re: XF86Setup

1999-06-01 Thread moron
I'm trying to set up X to give me several screen sizes which don't require panning to see them all, and I've had a lot of welcome help, among which: Von: Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >In the XF86Config file, in Section "Screen", add a "Virtual" parameter to >> >each subsection, and set it

Re: ICQ programs for Debian GNU/Linux

1999-06-01 Thread Pollywog
On 01-Jun-99 Daniel González Gasull wrote: > Hi! > > Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> For GnomeICU, I would have to switch to Gnome, >> from KDE, correct? > > As far as I know you don't need so. But it's > recommended. If not you won't be able to drag and > drop between GnomeICU and o

Re: GNOME Installation

1999-06-01 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 03:42:56PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to install GNOME by hand, and I need to install libgnome32 to > continue. When I try to install it, I am told that it depends on having > libgnomeui32 installed. But when I try to install that, it says i need to >

Re: ICQ programs for Debian GNU/Linux

1999-06-01 Thread Daniel González Gasull
Hi! Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For GnomeICU, I would have to switch to Gnome, > from KDE, correct? As far as I know you don't need so. But it's recommended. If not you won't be able to drag and drop between GnomeICU and other apps. Hope this helps. Bye :-) -- Daniel González Ga

Funkgerät

1999-06-01 Thread christian
Hallo, gibt es eine Möglichkeit, mit Hilfe eines Funkgerätes, Daten von PC's zu übertragen? cu christian

Re: libjpeg.so.6 and KDE

1999-06-01 Thread Jaroslaw Berezowski
>Hi! > >I have installed KDE in my Debian system. But now >I cannot run almost any KDE application. I get the >following error: > > $ kfm > kfm: error in loading shared libraries > libjpeg.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory slink contains libjpeg62

Removing a pid

1999-06-01 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
When I try to run gtt(from gnome) I get the message : "There seems to be another GtimeTracker running. Please remove the pid if that is not correct." I cannot find a pid for gtt. The /var/run directory looks like this: drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Jun 1 16:29 ./ drwxr-xr-x 18

KDE 1.1.1 Debs now available for Debian/Sparc (slink)

1999-06-01 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
Hey all, For those of you running the SPARC version of Debian 2.1 (slink) this is for you. The latest KDE 1.1.1 .debs I've been working on are now available for you via apt. Just add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file and be on your way.: deb http://snowcrash.tdyc.com

Re: ISPs

1999-06-01 Thread Robert
Dont forget your small neighborhood ISP's. The smaller they are the better the service and the more knowledgeable (most of the time?) the employees. Robert At 10:59 AM 6/1/99 -0700, George Bonser wrote: > >1. AOL is not an ISP. They are an "Online Content Provider" that also >allows their users so

Re: web cameras and video conferencing

1999-06-01 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I've got video only working from the web (uses pushed images). This setup uses fhttpd and qcwebcam. I'd point you to the site but the camera is unhooked at the moment. Shaleh wrote: > Hi all, I am looking for hardware and software to allow me to video conference > with Windows and Linux machine

Re: pppd / pon problem

1999-06-01 Thread Phillip Deackes
Christian Dysthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: => Hi, => => I run potato. Just did an ppp update using dselect, and now I can not => use pon => from my user account, I have to su to root to dial or I get the => message: => => /usr/sbin/pppd: Can't open options file /etc/ppp/peers/provider: => Permis

Re: dumps failing with "could not connect to data port"

1999-06-01 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On May 26, 1999, Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > driver: result time 258.024 from dumper0: TRY-AGAIN 01-3 [could > not connect to data port: Resource temporarily unavailable] This means the system run out of some resource and had to reject that particular function call (either socket(), bind

Re: pppd / pon problem

1999-06-01 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, this is the latest and greated ppp I beleive: ppp 2.3.7-4 It got updated yesterday...or was it the day before? You mean I should purge this one and reinstall the same package? On 01-Jun-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I run potato. Just did an ppp update using dselect, and now

Re: pppd / pon problem

1999-06-01 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi yes the user is added to 'dip' Permissions for etc/ppp is 40750 Permissions for /etc/ppp/peers is 42644 On 01-Jun-99 John Hasler wrote: > Christian Dysthe writes: >> I have trteid to change permissions for /etc/ppp/peers/provider, but no >> go. > > Is your user in the 'dip' group? What are

GNOME Installation

1999-06-01 Thread Morgoth3
I'm trying to install GNOME by hand, and I need to install libgnome32 to continue. When I try to install it, I am told that it depends on having libgnomeui32 installed. But when I try to install that, it says i need to already have libgnome32 in. This happens with a few other files, also. W

dpkg 1.4.1.3 segfaults

1999-06-01 Thread Victor Torrico
dpkg 1.4.1.3 segfaults when dselect is executed. 1.4.1.1 runs fine under same conditions. Am running latest of all in unstable. Help! -- Head Waters, Virginia USDA Zone 5 at 2100 feet Near the head waters of the James and Potomac Rivers

Re: why make partitions?

1999-06-01 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
The best reason I can ever come up with for creating separate partitions is to allocate space which can't be spared: eg. create a separate /home so users with accounts on the system can't screw up the system by filling up the disk or so that runaway log files can't fill up / and screw things up.

Re: pppd / pon problem

1999-06-01 Thread John Hasler
Christian Dysthe writes: > I have trteid to change permissions for /etc/ppp/peers/provider, but no > go. Is your user in the 'dip' group? What are the permissions on /etc/ppp and /etc/ppp/peers? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do w

what is

1999-06-01 Thread Craig Hancock
I need information on FBCON and GGI what I am trying to so is get ATI Rage 128 card to work what I was told was to use GGI or fbcon but what I did was installed frame buffer support for the cad that I had and used the standard SVGA xserver. My real question is is there a beneifit to using this inst

Re: pppd / pon problem

1999-06-01 Thread shaleh
> > Hi, > > I run potato. Just did an ppp update using dselect, and now I can not use pon > from my user account, I have to su to root to dial or I get the message: > > /usr/sbin/pppd: Can't open options file /etc/ppp/peers/provider: Permission > denied > > I have trteid to change permissions f

Fonts and Athena

1999-06-01 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I run potato. I did a dselect/apt update and some packages got updated, among them some font packages. What has happened now is that all my programs using Athena widgets has this crappy looking font on buttons and menus. How can I change this? TIA --- --- R

Re: Two glibc versions on one system ?

1999-06-01 Thread shaleh
> > Hello! > > I'm using slink and want to upgrade to libc6 2.1. > But I still need libc6 2.0 to compile my programs which > are based on the LEDA (www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/LEDA) library. > This library uses the __setfpucw function (fpu_control.h) > which isn`t (as far as I know) implemented in ver. 2

pppd / pon problem

1999-06-01 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I run potato. Just did an ppp update using dselect, and now I can not use pon from my user account, I have to su to root to dial or I get the message: /usr/sbin/pppd: Can't open options file /etc/ppp/peers/provider: Permission denied I have trteid to change permissions for /etc/ppp/peers/pro

Two glibc versions on one system ?

1999-06-01 Thread Steinhauer Juergen
Hello! I'm using slink and want to upgrade to libc6 2.1. But I still need libc6 2.0 to compile my programs which are based on the LEDA (www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/LEDA) library. This library uses the __setfpucw function (fpu_control.h) which isn`t (as far as I know) implemented in ver. 2.1. Can I run the

Re: Floppy Mounting Problems

1999-06-01 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Eric Gillespie, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a stack of floppies that i'm sorting through, and i need to know what's > on them. Some of them, however, aren't formatted. I have know way to know > which ones aren't until i mount them. Every time i try to mount an unformatted > floppy, moun

Re: I'm really confused by bash, .bashrc, .bash_profile, .profile, etc, etc, etc

1999-06-01 Thread Marc Mongeon
"su - userx" will cause userx's profile to be executed, as in a login. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between clever and

Missing gtk-config for building GnomePGP

1999-06-01 Thread J Horacio MG
I'm trying to build GnomePGP-0.3 in Slink. I run the ./configure script and get: checking for gtk-config... no checking for GTK - version >= 1.1.1... no *** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found *** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or s

A thank-you regarding exim deb (fwd)

1999-06-01 Thread Ben Messinger
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 11:16:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Ben Messinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<--- oops, typo! Subject: A thank-you regarding exim deb Mark, I just installed/configured exim and it was refreshi

Re: Some Newbie Questions

1999-06-01 Thread Daniel González Gasull
Hi! "Robert V. MacQuarrie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have modify /etc/X11/window-managers and it > >worked the first time I do "startx". I didn't > >need to reboot. But perhaps you enter in X > >everytime you turn on your computer. Then exit > >from X (CONTROL-ALT-DEL) and restart X with >

Re: Some Newbie Questions

1999-06-01 Thread Daniel González Gasull
Hi. Andrew J Fortune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel, > > Thanks for replying ! You are welcome :-) > Is GNOME some sort of alternative to Debian ? Nope. It's an alternative to KDE. I've never used it. Now I'm installing KDE. KDE and GNOME are desktop environments for the X Window sys

Is there a PPPoE client for Linux?

1999-06-01 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi all: My ISP is going to implement that crap for my ADSL connection. They'll of course be only supporting WinXX. Should I start looking for another ISP? -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S

Re: I'm really confused by bash, .bashrc, .bash_profile, .profile, etc, etc, etc

1999-06-01 Thread Arcady Genkin
Mark Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a good system for setting variables, aliases, etc that need to be > set for user X, whether I log in at a login prompt or using su? I'm > confused by all the different .profile options (there are at least 3 for > bash, why is that?) Put all your

Adobe fonts

1999-06-01 Thread Payne-Tingleff, Sam
Running slink... My .xsession-errors fills up with missing fonts: Helvitica, Lucida, Times, maybe some others. I've installed all of the relevent packages (I think) from ftp.debian.org. Is there somewhere else I need to get these fonts? And could this be why Gimp is seg faulting? Thanks. Sam Pay

Creating device sr0

1999-06-01 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 782329
Hi, Can anyone please tell me how I can create /dev/sr0 as my cd writer wants to use that device. I have tried the man pages and the MAKEDEV command etc but to no avail. Any ideas? Regards Graham

Re: Problem after memory upgrade

1999-06-01 Thread Rune Linding Raun
your using a 2.0.x kernel right? On 01-Jun-99 Pedro Quaresma wrote: >Hi, > >I just upgraded my memory from 32Mb to 128Mb. >When I type 'free', linux seems to detect only 64Mb... > >do you know where it can come from ? > >thanx for help > > > If you use lilo you can do the

Re: I'm really confused by bash, .bashrc, .bash_profile, .profile, etc, etc, etc

1999-06-01 Thread Jean-Pierre Parent
Mark Wright wrote: > Is there a good system for setting variables, aliases, etc that need to be > set for user X, whether I log in at a login prompt or using su? I'm > confused by all the different .profile options (there are at least 3 for > bash, why is that?) I don't know if there is such a s

Re: ISPs

1999-06-01 Thread Alec Smith
Any ISP which can use plain vanilla Windows Dialup Networking ought to (in general anyway) work. Examples I've used Netcom / Mindspring Earthlink AT&T MCI IBM Baby Bells (regional phone company) On Tue, 1 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Are there any nationwide ISPs around for Linux users

Re: ISPs

1999-06-01 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 12:42:22PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Are there any nationwide ISPs around for Linux users? I'm using AOL, which > doesn't support Linux, and there aren't any Linux ISPs in my area. It'd make > it a lot easier on me for upgrading if I could get onto the internet.

ISPs

1999-06-01 Thread Morgoth3
Are there any nationwide ISPs around for Linux users? I'm using AOL, which doesn't support Linux, and there aren't any Linux ISPs in my area. It'd make it a lot easier on me for upgrading if I could get onto the internet. Does anyone know of anything like this? Colin Winters

dircolors

1999-06-01 Thread Lorne Williams
Dang computers anyway! I'm just trying to do something simple. I want to change the color of listed directories from bright blue to bright white. I'm running slink. I've created my own config file, ~/.dircolorsrc, and changed one item - dir color from 01;34 to 01;37. This is the result: # eval d

2 lingering probs

1999-06-01 Thread John Bagdanoff
Prob #1 I'm running slink, upgraded libc6.2.1.1 because wine needed it: ran into too many problems, so went back to libc6.2.0.7. Now, when I boot up, /etc/X/Xresourses/xterm is not read. So, I have to: xrdb -merge xterm to get the file read. What do I need to do to remedy this? Prob #2 Printi

SV: Help!!! Linux plus IBM! again :(

1999-06-01 Thread vw
Yo Gancho Think I know where you're at. The problem is accessing the IBM's bios/cmos w/out the special IBM system diskette. I used to have one for my ancient ibm laptop, but I can't find it right now, and I'm not even sure it works on a stationary system. A way of getting around it might be to inst

I'm really confused by bash, .bashrc, .bash_profile, .profile, etc, etc, etc

1999-06-01 Thread Mark Wright
Is there a good system for setting variables, aliases, etc that need to be set for user X, whether I log in at a login prompt or using su? I'm confused by all the different .profile options (there are at least 3 for bash, why is that?) Mark. --- Mark Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: getting out of fvwm

1999-06-01 Thread g
i get to see the textmode login after control alt backspace...and if i am fast enough i can log in there...but if i don't just another X wm to run...i find myself back at the login EVEN THOUGH it takes me away from a logged on session as ROOT...pulled me out of dselect to stare at that graphical

Re: Problem after memory upgrade

1999-06-01 Thread Pedro Quaresma
Hi, I just upgraded my memory from 32Mb to 128Mb. When I type 'free', linux seems to detect only 64Mb... do you know where it can come from ? thanx for help If you use lilo you can do the following boot=/dev/hda2 root=/dev/hda2 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal dela

Re: Floppy drive problem.

1999-06-01 Thread Morgoth3
If i recall,i had that problem. Just use the command "umount" with the same parameters as mount that you used, and then you can use mount again without a problem. Colin Winters

Re: Floppy drive problem.

1999-06-01 Thread Keith G. Murphy
"N. Raghavendra" wrote: > > Hi, > > I am a Debian newbie and have the following problem with my floppy drives. > There are two of them: a 1.44 MB floppy drive and an unused 1.2 MB floppy > drive. In the BIOS setup I have configured the 1.44 MB drive as A: and > the other floppy drive as B:. Are

Re: Binary Newsgroup extractor?

1999-06-01 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 1 Jun 1999 16:13:05 +0100, Andrew Holmes wrote: >How do I make AUB download single messages with attachments? AUB seems to do >filtering OK with the 'hook' keyword but it wouldn't get images from single >messages when I tried it :-( TIA I

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