Re: quake2 / gl problems

1999-09-07 Thread Ben Lutgens
> > As a side note, isn't the Fusion a Banshee-based, and not > Voodoo2-based card? > Actually you are exactly right! I did some more checking at diamondmm.com and saw this! What a dipshit. As a result I am installing the voodoo3 glide stuff. And am gonna try your script. Thanx -- Ben Lutgens

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1999-09-07 Thread jchristensen
Does anyone know where I can find a Debian binary package of glibc 2.1.1 for x86. I want to downgrade from potato's glibc 2.1.2 due to some problems with the threading. I had not luck at ftp://ftp.debian.org/. I've tried archie and only come up with packages for m68k and sparc. I would rather

Re: apt + squid

1999-09-07 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 04:56:22PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: > > How can I tell if apt is using my squid proxy? Here is my apt.conf file: > > That isn't quit the right syntax, and you have a spelling error.. The > simplest thing to put is this: >

Re: Can't install emacs on potato

1999-09-07 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> Hi, > > I can't install emacs 20 on my potato box with dselect. This conflict > stops me: > > emacs20 depends on liblockfile0 > liblockfile0 does not appear to be available > emacs20 depends on liblockfile0 (>= 0.1-1) > liblockfile0 does not appear to be available > > What can I do? liblockfi

laptop/docking configuration

1999-09-07 Thread Koyote
Okay- This removeable modem at ttyS2 brings up some other questions and ponderables: (And damn again, I've just realized that the mwave modem doesn't work unser linux, but is it detected?)(PS- anyone know ehre to get the cables for pcmcia modems?) I've got a laptop with a formatted 512 meg

Can't install emacs on potato

1999-09-07 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I can't install emacs 20 on my potato box with dselect. This conflict stops me: emacs20 depends on liblockfile0 liblockfile0 does not appear to be available emacs20 depends on liblockfile0 (>= 0.1-1) liblockfile0 does not appear to be available What can I do? TIA -- --

Full Duplex Sound...

1999-09-07 Thread Ashley Clark
Is it possible? I have a full duplex card and I'd like to be able to record and play through it at the same time. Is this a pipe dream or do I need something like ALSA? I'd rather not have to fork over the money for the OSS drivers but what would be involved in switching over to ALSA? How would tha

Am I missing something??

1999-09-07 Thread Philip Thiem
I'm having trouble with the newest installment of telnet-ssl /telnetd-ssl I veiwed the package file list on my machine several files were "diverted" by ssl-telnet or telnet-ssl.. THe diverted files appear to be there with the .nossl but not the other files: telnet.nossl is but not telnet for exa

re: re: Re: init id S

1999-09-07 Thread Koyote
> ttyS2 is there, plugged into the pcmcia slot. It is removeable, so I guess I > should make this a mountable device? Wait a minute: wvdial finds the modem as ttyS2, but the boot process finds only ttyS1 with a 16550A UART Now, I did go through and setup serial support in this install (i

Re: apt + squid

1999-09-07 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: > How can I tell if apt is using my squid proxy? Here is my apt.conf file: That isn't quit the right syntax, and you have a spelling error.. The simplest thing to put is this: APT::Acquire::http::Proxy "http://sarnold:3128/";; Notice the ; on the end, t

re: Re: init id S

1999-09-07 Thread Koyote
> > INIT: id "S" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > Look at your /etc/inittab what has id "S". Looks like it's either a sulogin or: S:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS2 ttyS2 is there, plugged into the pcmcia slot. It is removeable, so I guess I should make this a mountable device?

KDE 2.0

1999-09-07 Thread B. Szyszka
Hi, I was wondering if anyone here has tried KDE 2.0. If so, how stable was it? Especially compared to Windows9x? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

Re: font-lock-mode in Xemacs

1999-09-07 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Lance Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone know how to quickly add .php3 extension to the C++ mode in > Xemacs? Try the following in your .emacs: (append '( ("\\.php3$" . c++-mode) ) auto-mode-alist) HTH, Colin -- Colin Marquardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: quake2 / gl problems

1999-09-07 Thread Brian Kidder
Ben Lutgens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > O.k. it seems that no matter how I try I can't seem to get quake2 to utilize > my voodoo2 card. It's a diamond monster fusion, I am using the xbanshee server > that I aliened from an rpm. I have installed the glide deb, mesa4g, and the > /dev/3dfx BS. When

Promise Ultra33 troubles

1999-09-07 Thread Carey Jones
Hello, I am trying to install slink on a machine that is using a Promise Ultra33 as its primary IDE controller. Searching the mailing lists, I found that others were having the same trouble that I am having (HDDs detected as hde and hdf, no hde or hdf in /dev). In the article found at http://ww

Re: Debian, NT

1999-09-07 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Low!! On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 02:36:40PM -0600, Robert Kerr wrote: > The NT machine is on a network, and automagically mounts our userspace > when we log in. I'd like to be able to do this automagically too. > So, what, in the consensus of the list, do I need to do for this to work > nicely? Wel

Re: 2.2.* on slink

1999-09-07 Thread Pete Harlan
> Check out this page for the list of things you need to update > from potato: > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/running-kernel-2.2 Appletalk disk-serving to our Macs stopped working around 2.2.10 or so. I went back to 2.0.37 and it works again. The above URL didn't mention netatalk. I

Re: Revisit Large Hard Drives

1999-09-07 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Hi, On Mon, 06 Sep, 1999 à 05:39:31PM -0400, Edward S. Baiz Jr. wrote: > Well I have made alot of headway in installing Linux on my Atari Hades, but I > have run into a snag. Just need some advice. Right I have been able to > create and activate Swap and Linux partitions using my Jaz drive. The

Re: How do we restart X?

1999-09-07 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 08:24:21PM +0800, Ling Alexander wrote > hi, > I have this problem with X. I am running both Potato and Slink on > different machines but they both have this problem with X (and a lot of > times when this happens, I happen to be running Netscape). > > The pro

Re: psnup creating faulty PS?

1999-09-07 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 12:29:42PM +0200, Debian Mail wrote > I have a PDF document which I printed to a PS File on windows NT. I > used fixps to repair the NT errors. Then I used psresize to scale the > document to a4. The resulting file can be viewed with gs without > problem. But when I use psnu

Samil relay setup

1999-09-07 Thread zdrysdal
Hi I have just upgraded to smail 3.2.0.102 for the soul reason of using it's anti-spam-relay option "smtp_remote_allow". I have set it to the default "smtp_remote_allow=localnet" which seems to do the trick as i can see in the logfile that it is rejecting the spam relays. So this is good :) The p

Re: offtopic: bttv

1999-09-07 Thread R. Brock Lynn
Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > > Hi all, > > I need help with bttv! This summer I was using Slink. At the beginning, > when I 'insmod bttv card=6' linux crashed completly. Then, at the end of > the summer, insmod worked fine and I was able to see the TV. I don't know > what was happening. Now,

Re: X crashes on start-up

1999-09-07 Thread Taupter
> I have Debian 2.1. After installation the console works fine but X does not. > When I startx, I will get a teal screen at a very low resolution, with the > mouse pointing to the left. Then everything freezes. If I hit a key, I get a > beep. I must go to a virtual terminal to shutdown. > All ot

X crashes on start-up

1999-09-07 Thread David Kanter
I have Debian 2.1. After installation the console works fine but X does not. When I startx, I will get a teal screen at a very low resolution, with the mouse pointing to the left. Then everything freezes. If I hit a key, I get a beep. I must go to a virtual terminal to shutdown. I have run xf86

RE: Entry in apt/sources.list to install StarOffice

1999-09-07 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
On 07-Sep-99 Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > Hello, > > Can someone tell me what entry must I add to my apt/sources.list in > order to install StarOffice? You don't. There are no debian packages for StarOffice. What you have to do is download Staroffice (all 70MB of it!) from www.stardiv.com, get

RE: Server

1999-09-07 Thread Paul McHale
Dan, Not sure what remote means. Telnet works pretty good. All windows platforms ship with a passable telnet client. Debian starts telnet on it's own. One windows, start -> run and type "telnet IP_Number". Do note your password is cleartext. I recommend upgrading to Teraterm and SSH for debi

Server

1999-09-07 Thread Dan Smith
How do I set up my computer as a server-not for http or ftp or irc or anything, just like you were at the terminal typing at the login prompt, only from a remote location? __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com

RE: building a package

1999-09-07 Thread Pere Camps
Sean, > a) debian/rules binary > b) dpkg-buildpackage -us > > That will make the deb for you. Be prepared to install other debs to meet > compile time depends. Got it. Thanks for such a quick reply. -- p.

RE: building a package

1999-09-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Sep-99 Pere Camps wrote: > Hi! > > I trying to learn to build packages from their source packages and > I've run into trouble. > > I've just downloaded an source package from my mirror and now I'm > triying to make a compiled package. The package is ppp from the unstable > tree

Re: limiting NIS access

1999-09-07 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 04:31:13AM +1000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > How could I limit an access to debian box to only some account. I still would > like to use NIS because of passsword maintenaince for user. > Is there a method in limiting NIS access. Now every user who has account on > Sun mach

Re: quake2 / gl problems

1999-09-07 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Ben Lutgens wrote: > O.k. it seems that no matter how I try I can't seem to get quake2 to utilize > my voodoo2 card. It's a diamond monster fusion, I am using the xbanshee server > that I aliened from an rpm. I have installed the glide deb, mesa4g, and the > /dev/3dfx BS. When

Re: Problem with open_1.40-10_i386.deb

1999-09-07 Thread Joey Hess
Big Gaute wrote: > I'm a fairly satisfied Debian 2.1 user. I recently installed the > open_1.40-10_i386.deb That's your problem. You need at least open_1.4-10.1_i386.deb. It is in debian 2.1r3. The older version is seriously broken. -- see shy jo

Debian, NT

1999-09-07 Thread Robert Kerr
Hi all, I just got permission to install Debian on a Windows NT machine here at my college. I'd like to get this installation working really nicely, partly to show off the possibilities of Linux to those in my office, but also so I can develop properly. To that end, I plan on resizing the hard dr

Re: cracklib

1999-09-07 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, John Davis wrote: > I get messages in my root mailbox about cracklib. It always prints the > same two numbers. What does this mean? This is the output from the /etc/cron.daily/cracklib file. I've fixed this in the potato release of cracklib-runtime so you could try installin

building a package

1999-09-07 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I trying to learn to build packages from their source packages and I've run into trouble. I've just downloaded an source package from my mirror and now I'm triying to make a compiled package. The package is ppp from the unstable tree. After downloaded I've executed:

Entry in apt/sources.list to install StarOffice

1999-09-07 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
Hello, Can someone tell me what entry must I add to my apt/sources.list in order to install StarOffice? Thanks.

[ Off Topic ] Yecch

1999-09-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
Just got an invoice from ARIN ... it's in Excel 97 format. Does it bother anyone else that an Internet Standards body uses a non-standard file format in their email? It sure bothers me. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http:

quake2 / gl problems

1999-09-07 Thread Ben Lutgens
O.k. it seems that no matter how I try I can't seem to get quake2 to utilize my voodoo2 card. It's a diamond monster fusion, I am using the xbanshee server that I aliened from an rpm. I have installed the glide deb, mesa4g, and the /dev/3dfx BS. When I try to run quake2 from console all I get is so

offtopic: bttv

1999-09-07 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, I need help with bttv! This summer I was using Slink. At the beginning, when I 'insmod bttv card=6' linux crashed completly. Then, at the end of the summer, insmod worked fine and I was able to see the TV. I don't know what was happening. Now, I've removed debian completly, and installed p

Re: hard disks more than 8gb

1999-09-07 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>> Fdisk reported my 17.2 maxtor (which the bios >> sizes as about 16.8gb, so maxtor lies a little). > > >Why are so many computer users so ignorant of >international >standards? Yeah I know 16.8 x 1.024 = 17.2 Only I have a maxtor 5.4gb drive that IS reported by the bios as 5400mb. Seems

Mail from MS Outlook systems undecipherable.

1999-09-07 Thread John Foster
Hi All! I am wondering how to get netscape or some mail reader to negotiate mail that is forwarded as attachments from MS Outlook. The attachment says it is "application/ms-tnef" base 64 encoded. How do you open these in netscape on linux? -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do you apt-get WORDVIEW?

1999-09-07 Thread David Blackman
No, abiword isn't stable yet. Use wordperfect (It's full wordperfect, for free, for linux, It's stable and fast, supports .doc and .rtf) or staroffice (a ms offfice clone taht's huge and bloated and slow, but also free) --dave On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 04

RE: bash prompts question

1999-09-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Sep-99 Hamish Moffatt wrote: > I'm (experimenting with) converting my interactive > environment from tcsh to bash. One thing I miss: tcsh supports > a %B token in the prompt to go bold, and it expands it to something > terminal-specific at run time. Any way to do this in bash, > besides some

Re: getright or netvampire for Debian?

1999-09-07 Thread David Blackman
Also try iglooftp (it's free & beta, or shareware & stable), or greed, which is kindof like a console based getright. --dave On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi all, > what about downloader for X? > http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/ > I

Re: Missing functions in debian's packaging system

1999-09-07 Thread John Foster
Scott Barker wrote: > > As good as debian's package system is, I can't find any way to find out what > packages depended upon a package which has been removed. For example, if I > remove the communicator-smotif package, I'd like to be able to also remove the > packages it depended upon. I know I c

Re: limiting NIS access

1999-09-07 Thread Marcin Kurc
Read NIS-howto, for example you can create group and give them /bin/false as a login shell. On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 04:31:13AM +1000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > Hi, > > This is not Debian secific question. My system use NIS on all Sun machine. I > have a dew debian boxes running on the same net

limiting NIS access

1999-09-07 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Hi, This is not Debian secific question. My system use NIS on all Sun machine. I have a dew debian boxes running on the same network which use NIS from Sun machine. How could I limit an access to debian box to only some account. I still would like to use NIS because of passsword maintenaince for

Re: getright or netvampire for Debian?

1999-09-07 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, what about downloader for X? http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/ It looks good. I translated its potfile to pt_BR last weekend. It's free to use but restricted? Any developer could package it? Thanks, Paulo Henrique Quoting Juli

cracklib

1999-09-07 Thread John Davis
Hello I get messages in my root mailbox about cracklib. It always prints the same two numbers. What does this mean?

memcpy/memcmp type warnings

1999-09-07 Thread rir
I am running slink with a 2.2.11 kernel, with minimal changes to support the kernel as per the Debian web page. Using gcc 2.7.2.3 I get the following on an app's compilation: In file included from hbb.c:15: /usr/include/string.h:38: warning: conflicting types for built-in function `memcpy' /u

Re: init id S

1999-09-07 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 09:12:30AM -0500, Koyote wrote: > I'm showing this periodically, and I haven't a clue what it is: > > INIT: id "S" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > > Anyone know what this is? > Look at your /etc/inittab what has id "S". -- o--o ___ |L

Missing functions in debian's packaging system

1999-09-07 Thread Scott Barker
As good as debian's package system is, I can't find any way to find out what packages depended upon a package which has been removed. For example, if I remove the communicator-smotif package, I'd like to be able to also remove the packages it depended upon. I know I could check the 'Depends:' line

Re: How do you apt-get WORDVIEW?

1999-09-07 Thread Kent West
Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > > Kent West wrote: > > > Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > > > > > > It is very interesting to be able to view Microsoft Word files under > > > Linux. What must I include in my apt/source.list in order to install the > > > program "wordview"? What is the name of the corres

Re: How do you apt-get WORDVIEW?

1999-09-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 04:05:47PM +0200, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > It is very interesting to be able to view Microsoft Word files under > Linux. What must I include in my apt/source.list in order to install the > program "wordview"? What is the name of the corresponding package? There's msword

Re: qpopper

1999-09-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
I've had a similar problem with qpopper on a P-150, so it is probably not a function of architecture. I tried deleting the lockfile on the server, but as soon as I tried to retrieve the mail, it created a new lockfile on the server and I get the same error. I installed cucipop (non-free, unfortun

Re: 3 things: exim, isdn, login.defs

1999-09-07 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 09:37:39PM +0200, Peter Palfrader aka Weasel wrote: > I check every 5 minutes wheter there is something in exim's queue ( if > (exim -bp | grep -q '.*'; ); then...) and if this is the case I go > online and force a queue run. Afterwards I go offline. > The problem I encou

Re: How to uninstall X

1999-09-07 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Greg Vence wrote: > Brad wrote: > > > > You can tell dselect to ignore the dependancies. Just use 'Q' (that's > > shift-q) instead of enter to exit the package selection screen, then > > choose Remove from the dselect menu. > > > > You shou

xdm problem

1999-09-07 Thread Lex Chive
Hello people... I am having a strange problem here with xdm. When I start it it kills the keyboard (no input possible at keyboards, numlock led is dead, but the mouse is still working). However, X runs perfectly fine. I first thought it was a hardware problem, but: I copied my system configuration

Having a couple of odd problems...

1999-09-07 Thread Tim Miller
First (running potato updated this morning, 7-Sep-99 0800 CDT: There's a postscript printer hanging off an NT server. I can print ASCII to it just fine via smbclient. However, every postscript job I send to the printer is printed on legal-size paper. I have explicitly sized the

Re: How do you apt-get WORDVIEW?

1999-09-07 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
Kent West wrote: > Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > > > > It is very interesting to be able to view Microsoft Word files under > > Linux. What must I include in my apt/source.list in order to install the > > program "wordview"? What is the name of the corresponding package? > > Your normal location fo

Re: Can't Log into FTPD

1999-09-07 Thread Ernest Johanson
You might want to check your /etc/inetd.conf file. If the line for ftpd is commented out, remove the comment character and restart inetd. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Harlan Crystal wrote: > Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 04:24:00 -0400 > From

Re: How do you apt-get WORDVIEW?

1999-09-07 Thread Kent West
Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > > It is very interesting to be able to view Microsoft Word files under > Linux. What must I include in my apt/source.list in order to install the > program "wordview"? What is the name of the corresponding package? Your normal location for .deb packages should work I

Re: Sound Woes

1999-09-07 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
> I have the same card, but I compiled the ES1371-driver not as module. IIRC > you have to define aliases for the sound driver in /etc/conf.modules if you > want to use it as module. > > Here, with the driver compiled directly into the kernel it works fine with no > other configuration at all,

Re: Reading Word format files?

1999-09-07 Thread Kent West
Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > Thanks to all for replies. I've now found two apps that will do this: > > word2x and mswordview. Both are available for slink; I found word2x to > > be the more convenient. > > > > Where can you install these aplications from? Via apt-

Re: samba: cannot change password from Windws NT

1999-09-07 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Debian Mail wrote: > I setup samba as a PDC for Windows NT. It works. But when I want to > change the password from the Win NT machine I get: > The User name or old password is incorrect. Letters in... > And in the smb logfile I get: > smbd/chgpasswd.c:check_oem_password(699) >

Re: recs1440.bin boot fails in SCSI init

1999-09-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Jim Ziegler wrote: : On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, Tom Kuiper wrote: : > While booting an AST Premmia LX P/60 from a resc1440.bin or resc1440-safe.bin : > disk (images from the official 2.1 CD-ROM) the booting hangs during the SCSI : > initialization. It gets this far: : > ...

font-lock-mode in Xemacs

1999-09-07 Thread Lance Levsen
Anyone know how to quickly add .php3 extension to the C++ mode in Xemacs? -- Cheers, Lance Levsen Web Development, PW Group (306)665-3588, (306)477-3166

RE: ssh

1999-09-07 Thread B. Szyszka
> > You can get it through 'apt-get install ssh', but I'm not sure what you > > should > > do if you're outside of the U.S. You can probably download it manually from > > here: > > http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/non-us/ssh.html > no, no, no > I'm outside US (Poland) and apt-get install ssh

Re: init id S

1999-09-07 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On 7 Sep 1999, Koyote wrote: > I'm showing this periodically, and I haven't a clue what it is: > > INIT: id "S" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes In which console ? Look at /etc/inittab, where the gettys are run. Perhaps one of them has the path wrong or something. If init can't find t

Re: getright or netvampire for Debian?

1999-09-07 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Jure wrote: > Is there any similar software for Debian? > > Jure > Use wget... it's not graphical but you can resume downloads easily. wget -c http_file_or_ftp It allows a lot of options, as getting entire sites, doing mirrors, etc. If you want a ftp client with res

Re: Sound Woes

1999-09-07 Thread Tobias Zimpel
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 05:15:37PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I have successfully configured sound on a couple of Debian boxes, but > only as a result of hit&miss luck. On this box with an AudioPCI 64 > (Ensonique 1371 I believe), I haven't had any success. > > When I run "make menuconfig", I speci

Re: Release names

1999-09-07 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 7 Sep, Seth R Arnold wrote about "Re: Release names" > I forget which of the various FAQs has it, but they ar all characters from > the movie Toy Story. (No, I don' know about potato, but I bet it is. :) > Mr. Potato Head. > On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 07:22:30AM +0200, Urban Gabor wrote: >>

Re: Reading Word format files?

1999-09-07 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
Anthony Campbell wrote: > Thanks to all for replies. I've now found two apps that will do this: > word2x and mswordview. Both are available for slink; I found word2x to > be the more convenient. > Where can you install these aplications from? Via apt-get?

How do you apt-get WORDVIEW?

1999-09-07 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
It is very interesting to be able to view Microsoft Word files under Linux. What must I include in my apt/source.list in order to install the program "wordview"? What is the name of the corresponding package? On the other hand, is there any program to edit and generate Microsoft Word files under L

init id S

1999-09-07 Thread Koyote
I'm showing this periodically, and I haven't a clue what it is: INIT: id "S" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Anyone know what this is? K

Re: File system questions

1999-09-07 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 08:46:48AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > Is there a way to read/write an NTFS drive in slink? > > (I coud not find a driver in modconf.) You need to recompile the kernel. I'm not sure about 2.0.x, but 2.2.x has NTFS support for sure - AFAIK only

Re: ssh

1999-09-07 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 10:41:11PM -0400, B. Szyszka wrote: > > Does anyone know where i can download the debian package ssh (secure shell) > > You can get it through 'apt-get install ssh', but I'm not sure what you should > do if you're outside of the U.S. You can probably download it manually fr

Re: xconsole transparency

1999-09-07 Thread Marcin Owsiany
> I know how to get wterm to become transparent, but what I should have said > was how can wterm's transparency and other options be applied to xconsole. are you sure it was really xconsole that was transparent? Maybe it was just an eterm with "tail -f logfilename" running in it? Marcin -- ---

Re: library lost - need help, please

1999-09-07 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 07:05:14PM -0400, Peter Mickle wrote: > hello readers, > > NEW USER question/problem, need help if possible. in trying to solve one > shared libraries problem, i unintentionally removed the following library: > > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/egcs-2.91.60/libstdc++.so

Possibility of Booth at Alternative Linux, Montreal.

1999-09-07 Thread Fabien Ninoles
[ Notes: This e-mail is cross-posted, please, edit the to and ] [ CC lines before sending it.] I will give a conference about Debian at Alternative Linux at Montreal, Canada, November 1st, 2nd and 3rd. There's also a possibility to buy a 10x10 booth w/ electricity a

Re: console-apt's interface to dependency information

1999-09-07 Thread Stephen R. Gore
Miles Bader wrote: > at least a lot prettier (having the entire screen available for > showing the package list is great -- just changing dselect to do that > would be a great improvement!). But as it stands, it seems too ---end quoted text--- err.. dselect already does this... Try shift+i to to

Enlightenment pager

1999-09-07 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, How can I disable the Enlightenment pagers that appere when I run it ? I'm tired closing them, because I use the gnome pager instead. Thanks. --- ** Powered by Debian/GNU Linux **

dselect question

1999-09-07 Thread Alberto Maurizi
Hi all, I use dselect for (un)installation of Debian Slink/Potao and I wonder how the message "dpkg -warning: while removing directoty `/usr/doc/' not empty ...'" can be avoided i.e., how can I obtain that "doc" directories of removed packages will

Re: 2.2.* on slink

1999-09-07 Thread Kristopher Johnson
Pere Camps wrote: > > Hi! > > Can I run 2.2.12 on slink without problems or do I have to update > some packages from potato? Check out this page for the list of things you need to update from potato: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/running-kernel-2.2 I'm running Linux 2.2.12. Be

Re: getright or netvampire for Debian?

1999-09-07 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi, On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 01:28:28PM +0200, Jure wrote: > Is there any similar software for Debian? wget. It's part of the GNU progject and it comes with the Debian distribution. So long, Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Meddle not i

getright or netvampire for Debian?

1999-09-07 Thread Jure
Is there any similar software for Debian?   Jure

PDC in samba

1999-09-07 Thread Debian Mail
> How did you configure Samba as a PDC? Last I heard Samba didn't yet handle > NT Domain logins since the code was under heavy development. samba can be a PDC since version 2 Stef

samba: cannot change password from Windws NT

1999-09-07 Thread Debian Mail
I setup samba as a PDC for Windows NT. It works. But when I want to change the password from the Win NT machine I get: The User name or old password is incorrect. Letters in... And in the smb logfile I get: smbd/chgpasswd.c:check_oem_password(699) check_oem_password: incorrect password length (44

efax package

1999-09-07 Thread Kenneth F. Ryder III
I just installed the E-fax package , but the man pages are missing, the 2 .gz files in /usr/doc/efax talk about extensive help in the man pages.. any one know what happened? (I am using Debian 2.0.2 cds) Thanks, Ken

qpopper

1999-09-07 Thread Levente Hársfalvi
Hi all! I'm trying to set up a Linux box on an old SparcServer. However, qpopper tricks me; whatever I try, I can't download letters from the beast by pop3. It says something like a maillock error, and the /var/spool/mail/pop directory actually contains the mentioned files but all of them are of

Re: No me funciona bien.

1999-09-07 Thread Taupter
> Mi problema es que cuando empieza a preparar el testeo, parte del > testeo lo > ejecuta pero al llegar a las lineas donde se detecta el Disco Duro > (HD) Y el > CD-ROM (CD), se queda bloqueado, no sige cargando hasta llegar a la > inteface de preparacion de particiones, etc,etc. > > Total que me

Re: How to fully utilise a 10 GB harddisk

1999-09-07 Thread Taupter
> 240 heads x 63 sect/track x 1023 cyls = 15467760 total sectors > How can I use the missing 2.5 GBs? > The machine is a rather up-to-date PIII. It came with NT Wstn preinstalled, > and that saw all 10 GBs. After I erased NT and tried to reinstall it > (surptise, surprise), the NT installer only

Re: Can't Log into FTPD

1999-09-07 Thread Seth R Arnold
If it bugs you that much, you could install proftpd. :) On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 04:24:00AM -0400, Harlan Crystal wrote: > I'm currently using the most updated unstable. > > Whenever I attempt to FTP into my machine, it won't authorize me to log in. > Even when I ftp localhost, using my username/

Can't Log into FTPD

1999-09-07 Thread Harlan Crystal
I'm currently using the most updated unstable. Whenever I attempt to FTP into my machine, it won't authorize me to log in. Even when I ftp localhost, using my username/pw, it denies access. I've removed and reinstalled the ftpd package 3 or 4 times.. and its the same. nothing in the man page sai

Modules

1999-09-07 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, this is not a question about debian, but... I've readed the Module Programming Guide in LDP but it doesn't explain how to create filesystem modules. Where can I read about it ? Thanks. Juli-Manel Merino Vidal [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://jmmv.cjb.n

Re: Dselect vs apt

1999-09-07 Thread Seth R Arnold
It is your choice. I understand that using apt-cdrom will let you use entries for apt to read off of CD, but dselect has its nice features too -- eg, you can see multiple packages at a time (not enough for my tastes, but you really only need it while instlaling.. :) On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 07:24:0

Re: Release names

1999-09-07 Thread Seth R Arnold
I forget which of the various FAQs has it, but they ar all characters from the movie Toy Story. (No, I don' know about potato, but I bet it is. :) On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 07:22:30AM +0200, Urban Gabor wrote: > Just a slightly offtopic question, what are the names Debian chooses for > the releases?

Re: speaking of qpopper...

1999-09-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am finding these messages in my logs. I use Exim with fetchmail and >qpopper. Debian Potato. > >Sep 6 22:35:19 lilypad in.qpopper[18514]: @localhost: -ERR Too few >arguments >for the auth command. So fetchmail is sending a

libstdc++.2.8.so

1999-09-07 Thread Gilles Molinie
HI, an error occured when I launched netscape on a Linu xplatform. The error message is : "libstdc++.so.2.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" could you say me what to do? Thank you very much.

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