re: sblive and smp

1999-09-19 Thread Kjohn Sasitorn
Has anyone been able to get the sblive drivers to work in SMP? I don't care what version kernel as long as it's 2.2.x or greater. It really sucks to go into uniprocessor mode. -ks

Re: mail and security

1999-09-19 Thread Seth R Arnold
Drat. I wanted a package to maintain. And, since I like slocate, I figured that it would be a good one to maintain. Back to the wnpp for me I guess. :) On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 12:33:28AM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > > Which reminds me -- why does debian still use the gnu locate, rather than > >

Re: mail and security

1999-09-19 Thread peter karlsson
> Which reminds me -- why does debian still use the gnu locate, rather than > slocate (secure locate) -- It's there all right: slocate 2.0-1 H 25KB 59KB utils +-[slocate]---+ | a secur

Re: Kicstart in Debian-Linux

1999-09-19 Thread Seth R Arnold
Within the last month, someone on the debian-devel mailing list mentioned he had such a system that worked for him. Look for a thread involving recent magazine reviews of various linux distros. :) On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 08:46:41PM +0200, Jan Smith wrote: > I've been looking around for different

Re: mail and security

1999-09-19 Thread Seth R Arnold
Nope -- that is the locate program updating the list of files on your harddrive. If you don't like this, you can uninstall locate, but I suggest you just start to like it instead. :) Which reminds me -- why does debian still use the gnu locate, rather than slocate (secure locate) -- it will only s

Re: latex

1999-09-19 Thread shaul
> Hi all, > > where can I found a latex tutorial ? > http://bluesky.ecas.ou.edu/~bfiedler/tips/latex.html http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/ http://sunsite.auc.dk/auctex/ http://la1ad.uio.no/lyx/ ftp://granroth.ml.org/pub/Latex/short_intro.ps

re: sblive & smp

1999-09-19 Thread Kjohn Sasitorn
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Re: checking integers in scripts?

1999-09-19 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 10:24:17PM +0100, Steve George wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to write a script to check if ipforwarding is running on my > access box but I can't work out how to check for an integer in a script. It > may be clearer what I am trying to

Re: "signal 11 caught by ps"

1999-09-19 Thread Alberto Maurizi
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Sean Cazzell wrote: > I'm getting this error under potato now also. I'm running kernel > 2.2.10 (compiled with gcc 2.95.2 10906 (prerelease)). Have > you found a solution for this problem yet? I'll let you know if I figure > it out :) Have you tried with

RE: Kicstart in Debian-Linux

1999-09-19 Thread Fraser Campbell
On September 19, 1999 you wrote: > Does anybody have a solution? > I want to install from a fileserver and hopefully only need to use a > boot-discette when I start each PC. I have put together a collection of .debs and an install script that basically gives you a running X without answering anyt

Re: startx (after upgrade) dials modem before running X

1999-09-19 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 10:35:15AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings: > > After upgrading some X-window packages last night I cannot start X without > waiting for the modem to dial out and connect. It seems to be doing a name > lookup since, if I get back out of X and hang up the modem a

checking integers in scripts?

1999-09-19 Thread Steve George
Hi, I am trying to write a script to check if ipforwarding is running on my access box but I can't work out how to check for an integer in a script. It may be clearer what I am trying to do for the bit of the script: #Check if ipfwadm is on IPFORW = `cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward` if [ IPF

Re: netscape error (won't display images)

1999-09-19 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 08:04:18PM -0700, David Karlin wrote: > Hello, > I just debianized a friend's old '486 (16MB ram) with a fresh slink > installation. Everything seems to be running fine, except for netscape. > > I did 'apt-get install navigator-smotif-45', and navigator comes up fine, > di

Re: pr command

1999-09-19 Thread Jocke
-snip- > So my question is how to use pr (or some other text reformating > program) to add margins to my text output (for printing). > > The pr -o command works nicely but when I print long lines the > text efter the linebreak will not be indented. Like this: > > This is a very long line

RE: Kicstart in Debian-Linux

1999-09-19 Thread Paul McHale
If the PCs are identical, you might try drive image. It will just copy the hard drives ... -Original Message- From: Jan Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 19, 1999 2:47 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Kicstart in Debian-Linux I've been looking around fo

Re: mail and security

1999-09-19 Thread William T Wilson
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, tf wrote: > but I have a better question first. I was online a few minutes ago, > when I noticed alot of disk activity. I checked top and saw that user > nobody issued a find command. I just disconnected. Guess I should > change my password. Nope, that's normal. Don't wo

Re: manual use of e2fsck to repair dev/hdbx

1999-09-19 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 04:45:43PM +, John wrote: > At this stage root password is asked for, and a prompt '(none):~# appears. > > Remounting read-write using the commands given results in a warning > recommending > running e2fsck, and showing the following errors which I do not understand a

Re: tailing rotating log files

1999-09-19 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Jim B wrote: > Brad: thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for. > > The version of tail included with "slink" does not have this functionality. > What would be the recommended means of upgrading? > > b) get potato source deb and make

pr command

1999-09-19 Thread Jocke
Just a quick one. I have some vague memory about a mail on this list a couple of weeks ago about printing with margins(indentation) but I can't find it again. So my question is how to use pr (or some other text reformating program) to add margins to my text output (for printing). The pr -o comm

Re: tailing rotating log files

1999-09-19 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 19 Sep, Jim B wrote about "Re: tailing rotating log files" > Brad: thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for. > > The version of tail included with "slink" does not have this functionality. > What would be the recommended means of upgrading? > > a) obtain gnu source and compile? This

Re: xemacs &

1999-09-19 Thread Johann Spies
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Matthew Guenther wrote: > On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 12:01:17PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've a problem with the key in xemacs. If I press it does > > the same as , so deleting the character before the cursor > > position. It happens in the con

Re: tailing rotating log files

1999-09-19 Thread Jim B
Brad: thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for. The version of tail included with "slink" does not have this functionality. What would be the recommended means of upgrading? a) obtain gnu source and compile? This would work but would mean I would have to play games with dpkg (perhaps using

Kicstart in Debian-Linux

1999-09-19 Thread Jan Smith
I've been looking around for different ways of installing a big number of PC's with Debian. I want a way to do more or less automatic. I like the way Redhat has solved it but I want to install Debian instead of Redhat. Does anybody have a solution? I want to install from a fileserver and hopefully

Re: Installing/Debianizing WindowMaker themes

1999-09-19 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 02:45:11AM -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote: > > > How can I either install WindowMaker theme tarballs > or debianize them and then install via dpkg/apt ? > > Running slink + some potato debs (WindowMaker-0.60). To debianize them you can use theme-converters. The advantage to t

Help with screen

1999-09-19 Thread Shane Wegner
Hi all, I have been user the Screen program for over a year now and have encountered a problem I am having trouble getting around. I am using the screen-3.9.4-1 deb found in potato. I am using a dos telnet client which is a dec vt102 terminal emulator. Screen handles this fine but I recently ex

Re: 17.2 gb drive

1999-09-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 09:35:24AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > . > I know that many recommend using multiple partitions. But if you have > no idea about how large /usr, /home, need to be it's hard to guess how > many partitions and how large each should be. You hit the spot! My manner is

Re: manual use of e2fsck to repair dev/hdbx

1999-09-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
John wrote: >Am a newbie thinking things were going quite well, when my psu cut out whils >t >booting >(this I do from a floppy). After changing the psu, booting gets only to dev/ >hdbx >(which >contains the root filesystem), and presents error messages saying 'contains >fil

Re: Installing/Debianizing WindowMaker themes

1999-09-19 Thread Luis M. Garcia
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 02:42:55AM -0600, Adrian Thompson wrote: > Hello, Windowmaker makes a dir in your home dir called > GNUstep/windowmaker/library. > Under this dir is the dir "Themes" > "gunzip theme.tar.gz | -xvf"IN the theme dir. Your theme will be added. > > -=Adrian=- > > Salman

Re: tailing rotating log files

1999-09-19 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Jim B wrote: > Hi, I generallly keep some of my log files open ni a terminal via tail -f. > For example: > tail -f /var/log/messages > > However, tail does not "move" to the new "messages" (or whatever) log file > when they are rotated by s

Re: mail and security

1999-09-19 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 04:36:30PM -, Pollywog wrote: > > May be wrong, but it was probably cron running your locate database > > update. > Isn't that locate database updated with 'updatedb' and not with 'find'? > I do think it was *something* in cron.daily or other cron. updatedb is a shell

Re: Newbie needs help on X win!!!

1999-09-19 Thread Tam Ma
hi, more on X window info. I am install from cdrom. Thanx, Tam On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, John Foster wrote: > Tam Ma wrote: > > > > Hi guys, > > > > Hi guys, > > > > I just install "slink" and all of the packages that I need. Now I want > > installl X window but I don't know which packages to insta

Re: IPX woes-want old module and new kernel-possible?

1999-09-19 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Manually applying the rejects for the oltr driver is a fairly trivial operation. If you'd like, I can email you a cleaned-up version of the patch which applies to 2.2.12. On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 08:34:02PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Also, I have a dilemma. My token-ring card (Olicom) will

Re: mail and security

1999-09-19 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Pollywog wrote: > Isn't that locate database updated with 'updatedb' and not with 'find'? > I do think it was *something* in cron.daily or other cron. And updatedb is a script calling find... :-) -- If the box says 'Windows 95 or better', it should run on Linux, right?

tailing rotating log files

1999-09-19 Thread Jim B
Hi, I generallly keep some of my log files open ni a terminal via tail -f. For example: tail -f /var/log/messages However, tail does not "move" to the new "messages" (or whatever) log file when they are rotated by savelog. So for example, I will still see the last lines from the old messages file

Re: mail and security

1999-09-19 Thread Pollywog
On 19-Sep-99 dyer wrote: > tf wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> I'm reading with intrest several threads, and have a bunch of questions >> about mailing (like, what exactly is exim or sendmail actually doing...) >> >> but I have a better question first. I was online a few minutes ago, >> when I noticed

Re: 17.2 gb drive

1999-09-19 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>Don't you partitioned your HD on a computer, and move >it to another? >(or activated LBA on one and not on the other?) No, I partitioned using the Stormix linux installer, then poped the debian CD into the SAME computer and re-booted. I just tried different linux distro's till I found one that

startx (after upgrade) dials modem before running X

1999-09-19 Thread markzimm
Greetings: After upgrading some X-window packages last night I cannot start X without waiting for the modem to dial out and connect. It seems to be doing a name lookup since, if I get back out of X and hang up the modem and then do a startx immediately, there is no dial-out since the name lookup i

Re: Netscape

1999-09-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 11:57:30PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 06:25:17AM +, Art Lemasters wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 12:31:08AM -0500, Brad wrote: > > [...] > > > For the curious, i'm using the navigator from the navigator-smotif-461 > > > package (i don't n

Re: mail and security

1999-09-19 Thread Levi
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, tf wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm reading with intrest several threads, and have a bunch of questions > about mailing (like, what exactly is exim or sendmail actually doing...) > > but I have a better question first. I was online a few minutes ago, > when I noticed alot of disk a

Re: Newbie needs help on X win!!!

1999-09-19 Thread John Foster
Tam Ma wrote: > > Hi guys, > > Hi guys, > > I just install "slink" and all of the packages that I need. Now I want > installl X window but I don't know which packages to install. Can you guys > give me a list of packages I should Install to get X window working. I > don't want anything fancy yet

Re: labels

1999-09-19 Thread John Foster
On 18 Sep 1999, eric k. wolven wrote: > > Greetings: > > > > I am running potato with an hpdeskjet 540c installed as my printer. > > > > I would like to find out how to print labels under Debian linux. > > > > I am a hobbyist bee-keeper and give labeled honey jars to friends. > > Last year I pr

Re: Colors configuration in mutt. How to do it?

1999-09-19 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 09:46:42PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: > Wojciech Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi All! > > > > A few months ago I used PINE and I love'd it because of the wonderfull > > black-on-white layout which it used on my xterm (though still white-on-black > > on my console).

Re: KDE

1999-09-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 03:29:51PM +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm seeking for KDE (debianized version) stable version to > install. Do you know an URL from where I could apt-get it?? > > thanks in advance, Thanks to all of you, ans my apologies for not consulted the archives

manual use of e2fsck to repair dev/hdbx

1999-09-19 Thread John
Am a newbie thinking things were going quite well, when my psu cut out whilst booting (this I do from a floppy). After changing the psu, booting gets only to dev/hdbx (which contains the root filesystem), and presents error messages saying 'contains filesystem with errors', 'unattached inode 17870'

Re: Netscape

1999-09-19 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 06:25:17AM +, Art Lemasters wrote: > > > > Yeah, I'm running static 461 in potato and it's segfaulting on startup. > > Should I be running xlib6g-static with it, although no depends showe

Re: KDE

1999-09-19 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > deb http://kde.tdyc.com slink kde > > This question has been asked many, many times. Please check the archives > before > posting. There is also a new mirror site, which probably is not yet in the list archives. Jean-Yves, you might want to try deb http://suns

[pankubhai@yahoo.com: debian in india]

1999-09-19 Thread Hanno Wagner
Could please someone help this guy? Ciao, Hanno -- | Hanno Wagner | Member of the HTML Writers Guild | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Eine gewerbliche Nutzung meiner Email-Adressen ist nicht gestattet! | | 74 a3 53 cc 0b 19 - we did it! |Generation @ | #"Henning Schmiedehaus

more mail and security..

1999-09-19 Thread tf
Thanks a lot (Michael)... That makes sense. I tend to get a bit paranoid (as if I was blind and fearful of tripping). I've given myself alot of stuff to practice. Since I don't really understand mail, I just tried to work around it--now I've got lots of different mail packages installed th

Re: mail and security

1999-09-19 Thread Phil Brutsche
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, tf wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm reading with intrest several threads, and have a bunch of questions > about mailing (like, what exactly is exim or sendmail actually doing...) When you tell your email program to send a message, it uses the protocol SMTP to tell a program running

Re: mail and security

1999-09-19 Thread Jim Foltz
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 06:48:05AM +0300, tf wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm reading with intrest several threads, and have a bunch of questions > about mailing (like, what exactly is exim or sendmail actually doing...) > > but I have a better question first. I was online a few minutes ago, > when I n

Re: mail and security

1999-09-19 Thread dyer
tf wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm reading with intrest several threads, and have a bunch of questions > about mailing (like, what exactly is exim or sendmail actually doing...) > > but I have a better question first. I was online a few minutes ago, > when I noticed alot of disk activity. I checked to

Re: KDE

1999-09-19 Thread dyer
Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm seeking for KDE (debianized version) stable version to > install. Do you know an URL from where I could apt-get it?? deb http://kde.tdyc.com slink kde This question has been asked many, many times. Please check the archives before posting. http://www.de

Re: Guessing the date style from the timezone for postgresql postinst

1999-09-19 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 12:31:27AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 06:36:47PM +0200, Robert Vollmert wrote: > > With /bin/sh -> /bin/ash, I get the following error: > > > > guess.datestyle: 25: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")") > > > > It works fine with bash.

mail and security

1999-09-19 Thread tf
Hey all, I'm reading with intrest several threads, and have a bunch of questions about mailing (like, what exactly is exim or sendmail actually doing...) but I have a better question first. I was online a few minutes ago, when I noticed alot of disk activity. I checked top and saw that user nob

Re: for what it's worth (re: To the Debian Project...)

1999-09-19 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 02:40:05AM -0700, John Miskinis wrote: > I read great things about debian, and chose it, not knowing what > to expect. Perhaps the platform I am using (Thinkpad 560) is > making things overly complex, and my recent frustrations are to > be expected, and are warranted. Thi

Re: telnetd-ssl

1999-09-19 Thread peter karlsson
The problem has been found. The telnet daemon was set in inetd.conf to be started as user telnetd, which was something that telnetd-ssl didn't grok. After resetting it to root, it works just fine. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &

Re: netscape: booksmarks have changed

1999-09-19 Thread Remco van 't Veer
Oeps, had a couple of crashed netscape's running.. On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 12:03, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 18 Sep, Remco van 't Veer wrote about "netscape: booksmarks have > changed" > > Hi, > > > > Some weirdness.. Today I upgraded to navigator-46 (from netgod). > > Netscape reports, ever

Help with E and/or .xsession

1999-09-19 Thread Greg & Heather Vence
I've got X configured now it's complaining that it can't find an .xsession file. I thought that installing Enlightenment would be enough. Apparently not. Help? TIA -- Greg.

KDE

1999-09-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I'm seeking for KDE (debianized version) stable version to install. Do you know an URL from where I could apt-get it?? thanks in advance, JY

Re: for what it's worth (re: To the Debian Project...)

1999-09-19 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, John Miskinis wrote: > I have only recently begun to "play" with linux, and have no > knowledge of how other distributions are setup. I am also > not familiar with the history or overall goals of debian. > > I read great things about debian, and chose it, not knowing what >

Re: Colors configuration in mutt. How to do it?

1999-09-19 Thread Shao Zhang
Wojciech Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All! > > A few months ago I used PINE and I love'd it because of the wonderfull > black-on-white layout which it used on my xterm (though still white-on-black > on my console). > Because of some licence inconveniences I've decided to switch to mutt,

Colors configuration in mutt. How to do it?

1999-09-19 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All! A few months ago I used PINE and I love'd it because of the wonderfull black-on-white layout which it used on my xterm (though still white-on-black on my console). Because of some licence inconveniences I've decided to switch to mutt, which is quite good (although lacks some features, eg.

Re: Installing/Debianizing WindowMaker themes

1999-09-19 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 02:42:55AM -0600, Adrian Thompson wrote: > Hello, Windowmaker makes a dir in your home dir called > GNUstep/windowmaker/library. > Under this dir is the dir "Themes" > "gunzip theme.tar.gz | -xvf"IN the theme dir. Your theme will be added. I am sure adrian meant some

Re: 17.2 gb drive

1999-09-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 07:30:50PM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > I've asked this before, but I'm still confused. I have a 17.2gb maxtor > which the bios reports as 31930 cyl, 16 h, and 63 s. Fdisk (ver 2.9g ^ > or whatever came with sli

Error with Postgres PL/pgsql

1999-09-19 Thread Eric G . Miller
Anyone using Postgres' PL language with success? Postgres apparently is having problems finding the pgplsql.so library. I can't figure out why. Is a bug report in order? I made sure the language was "installed" for the database and checked the library path setting. Here's the output of

Re: Where do I find *ALL* steps to use newly built kernels?

1999-09-19 Thread Martin Fluch
There is a very good mailing list about ThinkPads. It can be found at http://www.bm-soft.com/~bm/tp770x.html There can also be found some non TP770 related things. Martin On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, John Miskinis wrote: > Hi, > > I have been running the 2.1 debian release (well) on my TP 560 > for a w

for what it's worth (re: To the Debian Project...)

1999-09-19 Thread John Miskinis
Hi, I have only recently begun to "play" with linux, and have no knowledge of how other distributions are setup. I am also not familiar with the history or overall goals of debian. I read great things about debian, and chose it, not knowing what to expect. Perhaps the platform I am using (Thin

Re: How does it...

1999-09-19 Thread Patrik Magnusson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fredrick Schmitt) writes: > You knew what I meant. What is the most gutless system I could run it on > (weakest processor)? It has to be 32-bit or better, so 286 or worse won't work. (This is for x86, the other ports I don't know about).

Clocking Modem Speed

1999-09-19 Thread bwarsing
Hi, what is the way that most people clock their modem connection speeds? is there a specific script fo this? Thanks, bw

Re: mutt: help with saving a messge to a different folder

1999-09-19 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, This is the first thing that I come up with. But it still does not meet what I need... In mutt, when the first TAB pressed for changing the folders, it will read all the folders from $Mailbox varaible(good), but if I accidently press another TAB, it will

Re: mutt questions

1999-09-19 Thread Shao Zhang
Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've never saved my out-going email while I've used mutt (most of my > posts are to mailing lists and usenet, so I can always get a copy > when I need one), but this thread had inspired me to try to get a > default folder set up for out-going email. I've tried

xemacs html mode

1999-09-19 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, which are the differences between html-mode and hm--html-mode ? Why html-mode by default ? Can I change it ? And what about hm--html-minor-mode ? Thanks. PS: I'm looking for info about linuxdoc and latex... -- ---

Re: Installing/Debianizing WindowMaker themes

1999-09-19 Thread Adrian Thompson
Hello, Windowmaker makes a dir in your home dir called GNUstep/windowmaker/library. Under this dir is the dir "Themes" "gunzip theme.tar.gz | -xvf"IN the theme dir. Your theme will be added. -=Adrian=- Salman Ahmed wrote: > How can I either install WindowMaker theme tarballs > or debianiz

Re: Newbie needs help on X win!!!

1999-09-19 Thread Adrian Thompson
Hello, Depending on what graphics card you have, install the required Xserver. ie. XF86_SVGA. < that one is very generic to most graphic card types. Install all the bins and then the rest is up to you... like apps and games. You will be required to configure a script called "/etc/XF86Con

Re: To the Debian Project, IMHO

1999-09-19 Thread Godric
Simon Martin wrote: >I am still adamant that any attempt to paint Linux as an out of the box >solution > with no prior knowledge is a real danger to the on-going comercial success of > Linux. I worked in tech-support for Xerox for about 7 > years (Xerox used to sell Apple Mac, IBM PS/2 and Dell

Re: Installing/Debianizing WindowMaker themes

1999-09-19 Thread wonglhg
Salman Ahmed wrote: > > How can I either install WindowMaker theme tarballs > or debianize them and then install via dpkg/apt ? > > Running slink + some potato debs (WindowMaker-0.60). Copy the WM theme tarballs to the directory /home/user_name/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker and # tar zxf theme_na

Re: Netscape

1999-09-19 Thread Art Lemasters
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 11:57:30PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > I just did an apt-get dselect-upgrade, and it seemed to fix whatever > was causing Netscape and Acrobat to segfault. Yes...same here. Thanks. The developers were right on it. Art > --

Re: Netscape

1999-09-19 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 06:25:17AM +, Art Lemasters wrote: > On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 12:31:08AM -0500, Brad wrote: > [...] > > For the curious, i'm using the navigator from the navigator-smotif-461 > > package (i don't need no steenkin' mail and news and wysinwyg html > > editor in my web brows

compiling/building unstable Eterm from sources

1999-09-19 Thread Salman Ahmed
I have upgraded my slink system to glibc2.1 to get some packages from unstable. After that, when I tried to use Eterm-0.89-9, it seg faults. Someone in an earlier email pointed me to the FAQ on how to build a debian package from source. Unfortunately, I need a bit more help. What goes into my /et

Installing/Debianizing WindowMaker themes

1999-09-19 Thread Salman Ahmed
How can I either install WindowMaker theme tarballs or debianize them and then install via dpkg/apt ? Running slink + some potato debs (WindowMaker-0.60). Thanks. -- Salman Ahmed ssahmed AT interlog DOT com

Re: Netscape

1999-09-19 Thread Art Lemasters
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 12:31:08AM -0500, Brad wrote: [...] > For the curious, i'm using the navigator from the navigator-smotif-461 > package (i don't need no steenkin' mail and news and wysinwyg html > editor in my web browser!). wmaker from the wmaker package, xserver-svga. > > Anyone else have

Re: Kppp

1999-09-19 Thread dyer
Eber de Castro Diniz wrote: > The I execute kppp, it shows the following message after connect: > ppp died unexpectly > Does anyone know how to fix it? > You may try using an empty /etc/ppp/options file. It fixed it for me. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAI

.htaccess file

1999-09-19 Thread Usef Saiful Ulum
Hi, I have created a .htaccess file and an associated passwd file: ---cut here--- $ cd /home/clinton/public_html/loser $ cat > .htaccess AuthName Rese Pisan Euy AuthType Basic AuthGroupFile /dev/null AuthUserFile /home/clinton/public_html/loser/

Re: Newbie needs help on X win!!!

1999-09-19 Thread j way
> I just install "slink" and all of the packages that I need. Now I want > installl X window but I don't know which packages to install. Can you guys > give me a list of packages I should Install to get X window working. I > don't want anything fancy yet, right now I just want ordinary X window a

Re: ppp failure under debian (slakware with pppd 2.2 patch level 0 works)

1999-09-19 Thread John Hasler
Robert writes: > I thought I was asking it to use ttyS1 Robert You are. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: ppp failure under debian (slakware with pppd 2.2 patch level 0 works)

1999-09-19 Thread John Hasler
Robert King writes: > The modem responds fine from cu. I get an OK back from AT&F. What does it do if you send it ATZ from cu? Try replacing ATZ with AT&F in /etc/chatscripts/provider. > I think it could be a problem with changes to pppd. At the point at which your problem occurs pppd isn't d

my last apt-get dist-upgrade broke X

1999-09-19 Thread Darxus
Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' how do I fix it ? __ PGP fingerprint = 03 5B 9B A0 16 33 91 2F A5 77 BC EE 43 71 98 D4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.op.net/~darxus Join the Great Inte

Re: Debianizers

1999-09-19 Thread John Hasler
> I was wondering whether there is a group of people out there that just go > around debianizing programs. There's about 400 of us. We call ourselves Debian developers. > What goes into the making of .deb packages? Install and read 'developers-reference'. You might also want to install and rea

netscape error (won't display images)

1999-09-19 Thread David Karlin
Hello, I just debianized a friend's old '486 (16MB ram) with a fresh slink installation. Everything seems to be running fine, except for netscape. I did 'apt-get install navigator-smotif-45', and navigator comes up fine, displays text, background colors, etc., but does not display images (they sh

Newbie needs help on X win!!!

1999-09-19 Thread Tam Ma
Hi guys, Hi guys, I just install "slink" and all of the packages that I need. Now I want installl X window but I don't know which packages to install. Can you guys give me a list of packages I should Install to get X window working. I don't want anything fancy yet, right now I just want ordinary

17.2 gb drive

1999-09-19 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I've asked this before, but I'm still confused. I have a 17.2gb maxtor which the bios reports as 31930 cyl, 16 h, and 63 s. Fdisk (ver 2.9g or whatever came with slink) reports 1024 c, 255 h, 63 s (which adds up to 8.4gb). I was able to partition the drive using the installer from stormix (which

Re: ppp failure under debian (slakware with pppd 2.2 patch level 0 works)

1999-09-19 Thread Robert . King
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Jesse Jacobsen wrote: > --BwCQnh7xodEAoBMC > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > I wonder if you've set up Debian to use /dev/cua1. It should use > /dev/ttyS1 instead, since the cua- "callout" devices are being phased

Re: ppp failure under debian (slakware with pppd 2.2 patch level 0 works)

1999-09-19 Thread Robert . King
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > first thing: should there be any chat script at all if you authenticate > using cu? (i've never used cu, so i may be wrong) > Should the chat script try to reset the modem if it has already connected?? > (the ATZ and AT) This is using pon on the new

Re: ppp failure under debian (slakware with pppd 2.2 patch level 0 works)

1999-09-19 Thread Robert . King
On 18 Sep 1999, John Hasler wrote: > Robert King wrote: > > I'm fairly sure that the serial conifg is OK, as I can get out with cu -l > > /dev/ttyS1, but when I try to start pppd, it complains about cu having > > the serial line and won't let it at it. > > Odd. I just tried cu on this system and

Re: Guessing the date style from the timezone for postgresql postinst

1999-09-19 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> > Well.. the libc maintainers don't want to add the locale for my country for > >no reason, even if it is included in the package as source. > I use a target in the glibc makefiles to generate the locales, if it > doesn't generate the one for your country, there's nothing I can do > about it.

Re: Where do I find *ALL* steps to use newly built kernels?

1999-09-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 05:44:08PM -0700, John Miskinis wrote: > Hi, > > I have been running the 2.1 debian release (well) on my TP 560 > for a week or so. I have delved into building my own custom > kernel, to get around APM problems, add sound, SCSI etc. Hi John, your kernel will be easier to

Re: Guessing the date style from the timezone for postgresql postinst

1999-09-19 Thread Joel Klecker
At 20:58 -0300 1999-09-18, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: Well.. the libc maintainers don't want to add the locale for my country for no reason, even if it is included in the package as source. I use a target in the glibc makefiles to generate the locales, if it doesn't generate the one for your co

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1999-09-19 Thread Kjohn Sasitorn
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Where do I find *ALL* steps to use newly built kernels?

1999-09-19 Thread John Miskinis
Hi, I have been running the 2.1 debian release (well) on my TP 560 for a week or so. I have delved into building my own custom kernel, to get around APM problems, add sound, SCSI etc. I have read the kernel howtos, and read/printed the various things under /usr/linux/src that apply to the "comp

Debianizers

1999-09-19 Thread Marshal Wong
I was wondering whether there is a group of people out there that just go around debianizing programs. Like bleeding edge programs. I seems to me, since RedHat is probably the most popular, or at least most famous, distribution, only RPMs are made of many packages. Sure, you can use alien to d

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