Re: ethernet hookup

1999-11-01 Thread Jules Bean
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, raymond ferrari wrote: > I have a 3com 3C905-TX card(Parellel Tasking chip) with a Lucent > 40-0336-004chipset. At bootup eth0 is not being recognized. Please > explain to me what I need to do to connect up to my isp. I am using a > COM21 cable modem to connect to my isp by P

Re: enlightenment conflicts with enlightenment-theme?

1999-11-01 Thread Charles Lewis
Problem solved... I added this line to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://www.debian.org/~ljlane/downloads enlightenment/ === Charles Lewis, Director of Administrative Computing Southwestern Adventist University, Keene, TX (817)556-4720 [EMAIL PROTECTED] F

Re: ProFTPd; how to set up write access for home dirs

1999-11-01 Thread aphro
give me your /etc/proftpd.conf i'd advise against usin proftpd btw its still not prooven to be secure yet. i use the openbsd ftpd ported to linux v0.2.2 http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/madore/programs/#prog_ftpd-BSD nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]--

scsi boot install

1999-11-01 Thread Joe Miklojcik
I'm trying to bring up a Debian system from CDROM. I have a CDRW that boots and gets me into the installer. I get to the "Install Operating System and Kernel modules" step, I pick "cdrom" and "SCSI" and it claims "No SCSI adapter was detected, so I cannot access a SCSI CD-ROM drive...". I go t

Re: mysql root password

1999-11-01 Thread Dave Baker
> Sometime, when i installed mysql ( don't know why exatcly ) the configure > script advised me to set a root password. I yelled for the ghosts ( is it > correct? ) and set one with > myswladm password XXX > ok, so far so good. > > Every time when some apt script touches the database, it tries it

Re: Pine question

1999-11-01 Thread aphro
hmm, i'm at a loss here :( can you forward, or better yet redirect the message to me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) so i can check it out (use whatever mailer you want) i have yet to see this problem but then again i dont recieve many attachments via email nate [mai

Re: any need to upgrade kernel

1999-11-01 Thread aphro
is that security hole that packet thing , shit i forget the name, it was in 2.0.35 then backed out of .36 because of compadiblity issues ?? please specify the hole..i use 2.0.36+securelinux. am testing 2.0.38+ow4 (http://www.openwall.com/linux/) as a replacement for 2.0.36+securelinux. i am very

Re: ProFTPd; how to set up write access for home dirs

1999-11-01 Thread aphro
proftpd, like most ftpds use filesystem permissions when dealing with normal users, proftpd has the option to deny overwrites, which i (think?) is default(see /etc/proftpd.conf) for the anonymous user permissions it is treated as the user 'ftp' in most cases, and the root directory for anonymous

Re: Wordperfect 8 seg fault

1999-11-01 Thread David Blackman
you need xpm***-altdev, I generally just install everything with xpm in the name on a debian box that's going to have wp8. --dave On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, aphro wrote: > i had that problem and it was due to libc5 libs being either not installed > or misconfigured (my /etc/ld.so.conf was all screwed u

Re: hi everybody

1999-11-01 Thread Sean Johnson
I've found potato to be quite stable via upgrading from slink. Of course this stability of only an 'average'. There have been moments when things were very ugly (i.e. the whole perl upgrade mess), but on the whole it's been pretty smooth for my home machine. I don't think I'd trust potato with a

Re: Pine question

1999-11-01 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, peter karlsson wrote: > Johann Spies: > > > I get the following error mentioned in the subject line when I want to > > read or save a html-attachment from a local electronic newspaper: > > > > [Error: Formatting error: Non-hexadecimal character in QP encoding] > > What does

Re: Pine question

1999-11-01 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, aphro wrote: > what is the character(s) in your QP encoding ? > > that would help debug the prob :) > > [Error: Formatting error: Non-hexadecimal character in QP encoding] I am not sure what you mean. With Pine there is no way in which I can view or even save the .html att

Re: any need to upgrade kernel

1999-11-01 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am running slink with kernel 2.0.36. Is there any advantage to upgrading > the kernel. If so, which kernel would be best? Your kernel has a well known security hole. You should at least upgrade to 2.0.37. -- see shy jo

Re: xwindows

1999-11-01 Thread Kent West
raymond ferrari wrote: > > Kent West wrote: > > > raymond ferrari wrote: > > > > > > I was in xwindows today reading the information under Debian online help > > > and specifically the ethernet Howto, clicked on 3com to read > > > documentation and that's when nothing happened. Everything froze,

ProFTPd; how to set up write access for home dirs

1999-11-01 Thread Kent West
I checked the docs and the archives, but I'm not understanding what I need to do. I've got proftpd running, and I can ftp into my box as both anonymous and a normal user. As each I can "get" files, put I can't "put" files. For teh anonymous user, that's great. But how do I specify that a normal us

X11 wierdness

1999-11-01 Thread Chris Flipse
(i'm not currently subscribed to debian-user; please cc me) About a week or two ago, I started getting some really wierd behavior under X. A couple of different things, I'm not really sure if they're related or not. Netscape starts at an exceptionally small size, ignores any -geometry options, a

Re: Slashdot colours (was Re: Debian Linux vs BSD)

1999-11-01 Thread robbie
Hi I always use lynx for slashdot, and it works fine. I don't think I get junk mail because of it, but it's hard to tell. Regards -- Rob Murray

Re: list problems?

1999-11-01 Thread Art Lemasters
Yes. Either the Debian listserver has a problem (although I've received posts from it...very few posts over the past day, though), or the rootservers are being reconfigured, or many users are having DNS problems, or there are telephone service line problems somewhere,... I'm running through

Re: enlightenment conflicts with enlightenment-theme?

1999-11-01 Thread Art Lemasters
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 07:24:21PM +, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > nope. i think the new version of e includes BrushedMetal theme as > default, as well as dox and stuff. that's why they're conflicting > packaged. I spoke too soon. :-) After upgrading again, the e-packages work as you sa

Re: enlightenment conflicts with enlightenment-theme?

1999-11-01 Thread SGaerner
Yes... I installed the October GNOME Binaries (www.debian.org/~vincent) and can not run elightenment. I get the error message that the wm find a problem with its default theme. Charles Lewis wrote: > Is anyone else having conflict problems with enlightenment? > >

Re: enlightenment conflicts with enlightenment-theme?

1999-11-01 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 01:11:59PM -0600, Charles Lewis wrote: > Is anyone else having conflict problems with enlightenment? nope. i think the new version of e includes BrushedMetal theme as default, as well as dox and stuff. that's why they're conflicting packaged. apt-get install enlightenment

Re: enlightenment conflicts with enlightenment-theme?

1999-11-01 Thread Art Lemasters
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 01:11:59PM -0600, Charles Lewis wrote: > Is anyone else having conflict problems with enlightenment? Yes...and most likely the same problem. I am running potato and am upgrading with apt in dselect. To remedy the situation here, I have been selecting the desired enli

Re: run level in debian

1999-11-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Hongyu Lu wrote: : Thanks a lot. : : Hongyu : : On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: : : > On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Hongyu Lu wrote: : > : > : I am a new user to Debian. After configuring the X Window, Debian seems : > : to like starting with a very high run-le

Re: can I list just the directories, executables?

1999-11-01 Thread Ookhoi
> > I have > > alias dir='ls -al | grep ^d | grep -v grep' > > > > I take it you copied that alias from one involving ps, > where you need the last bit to stop it seeing itself. > You don't want it here. Shit ;-) Thanx! Ookhoi

Re: list problems?

1999-11-01 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- This is regarding some problems I've had receiving messages from the debian-user and debian-devel lists over the past 30 or so hours. On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, aphro wrote: > sounds like some delays on your mail server, i have been recieving a > steady stream of mail

enlightenment conflicts with enlightenment-theme?

1999-11-01 Thread Charles Lewis
Is anyone else having conflict problems with enlightenment? === Charles Lewis, Director of Administrative Computing Southwestern Adventist University, Keene, TX (817)556-4720 [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAX (360)397-7952 ===

Re: run level in debian

1999-11-01 Thread Hongyu Lu
Thanks a lot. Hongyu On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Hongyu Lu wrote: > > : I am a new user to Debian. After configuring the X Window, Debian seems > : to like starting with a very high run-level with X Window support. But I'd > : like to stay at a low-level

Re: run level in debian

1999-11-01 Thread Hongyu Lu
Thanks a lot. Hongyu On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Martin Fluch wrote: > On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Hongyu Lu wrote: > > > I am a new user to Debian. After configuring the X Window, Debian seems > > to like starting with a very high run-level with X Window support. But I'd > > like to stay at a low-level withou

RE: hi everybody

1999-11-01 Thread Ulrich Hansmair
Hi John, I just installed slink on my pc and tried to get on the internet. obviously it worked. now I subscribed this mailing list. it worked too, wonderful... :-)) first question: how about potatoe ? Is it rather stable or just for the real experts??? I had a few compiling problems with slink,

Re: can I list just the directories, executables?

1999-11-01 Thread David Wright
Quoting Ookhoi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I have > alias dir='ls -al | grep ^d | grep -v grep' I take it you copied that alias from one involving ps, where you need the last bit to stop it seeing itself. You don't want it here. > in my /etc/profile. I

hi everybody

1999-11-01 Thread Ulrich Hansmair
hi, is there anybody out there?? Uli

Re: xcdroast

1999-11-01 Thread stick
Hans Gubitz said > xcdroast (0.96e) starts with the messages: > ERROR at listbox.tcl line 179: bad event type or keysym "MouseWheel" > ERROR at text.tcl line 455: bad event type or keysym "MouseWheel" > > In the Setup-menu Defaults has no entries. > Thes are two separate issues. The first is bec

Re: run level in debian

1999-11-01 Thread aphro
no idea how redhat works but im sure ..(comment cut out here) debian defaults to runlevel 2 (which is a low runlevel no doubt) to disable XDM for starting erase /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm (it may be named something else like S98xdm but the 'xdm' is the key here) next time you enter that runlevel, X won'

Re: Wvdial and non-root access

1999-11-01 Thread John Hasler
Cory Snavely writes: > Yeah, but since pppd runs setuid root, just membership in dip won't let > you kill pppd Your ability to kill a pppd you started has nothing to do with group membership. Pppd knows who started it and will obey a kill from that user. > ... unless you set poff setuid root

RE: Fixing the Master Boot Record

1999-11-01 Thread Bryan K. Walton
I wanted to clarify regarding what I said below, > Thanks to everyone on this simple issue. Turned out to be two problems, > I didn't have a bootable floppy, and the IBM program needed to be > extracted (something that I never saw mentioned on their download page). I PERSONALLY missed the note a

RE: BUG

1999-11-01 Thread Paul McHale
My experience with debian was identical. I started with slackware beta way back when (20 something floppies). Then went Redhat. Haven't used either in a long time. I don't think it would have mattered much. The Debian install is unique. I had a working system and re-installed anyway when I re

Re: Fixing the Master Boot Record

1999-11-01 Thread John_J_Neff
Your problem sounds like the BIOS program. More than anything else. Try formatting a disk in a windows machine and making it bootable (format a: /s) then boot the laptop from it. If this works then download the BIOS update again and extract to the same disk. Also check to see if the extracted

Re: run level in debian

1999-11-01 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Hongyu Lu wrote: > I am a new user to Debian. After configuring the X Window, Debian seems > to like starting with a very high run-level with X Window support. But I'd > like to stay at a low-level without starting X automatically. I tried to > edit the inittab(like in Redhat),

Re: Fixing the Master Boot Record

1999-11-01 Thread Ernest Johanson
On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > perform the upgrade, I need to boot up the computer with this diskette in > the floppy drive. When I do that however, the computer gives me an error > message saying that there is an invalid system disk in the floppy drive.

Re: Broken ftp; can't purge proftpd

1999-11-01 Thread Pollywog
On 01-Nov-99 Kent West wrote: > Somehow or 'nother I've lost my ftp client in all of this, and > neither apt-get nor dselect knows of just plain ftp. They know of > cftp and lftp, etc. What do I need to install in order to get a > plain ftp client reinstalled? Did you try 'apt-get install ftp'

Re: Fixing the Master Boot Record

1999-11-01 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Thanks to everyone on this simple issue. Turned out to be two problems, I didn't have a bootable floppy, and the IBM program needed to be extracted (something that I never saw mentioned on their download page). Thanks, Bryan ***

[walton@berbee.com: Fixing the Master Boot Record]

1999-11-01 Thread Rev GRC Sperry
Make sure to have the necessary dos system files like command.com on that floppy since you need to boot your computer into dos to be able to run the bios upgrade. You'll want to format that floppy with the option to install the "system files" on it and then copy the bios upgrade software and boot u

Re: run level in debian

1999-11-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Hongyu Lu wrote: : I am a new user to Debian. After configuring the X Window, Debian seems : to like starting with a very high run-level with X Window support. But I'd : like to stay at a low-level without starting X automatically. I tried to : edit the inittab(like in Redh

Re: Broken ftp; can't purge proftpd

1999-11-01 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: > > I don't know how long it's been, 'cause I seldom ftp into my box, > but recently I noticed that I can't ftp in anymore. > > I suspect there's some sort of conflict between ftpd and proftpd, > so I've tried to "dpkg --purge proftpd" (and "apt-get remove > proftpd") but this re

run level in debian

1999-11-01 Thread Hongyu Lu
I am a new user to Debian. After configuring the X Window, Debian seems to like starting with a very high run-level with X Window support. But I'd like to stay at a low-level without starting X automatically. I tried to edit the inittab(like in Redhat), but didn't work. Can anybody help me? Thanks.

Re: PPP to ISP

1999-11-01 Thread aphro
sounds like a routing problem, i remember this one well from my 8 hours strugglign to get online with slackware a few years back. try adding the default gateway route add default gw where the ip of the gateway is that other ip you can ping. nate [mailto

Re: Wordperfect 8 seg fault

1999-11-01 Thread aphro
ldd may show all the libraries but there may be conflicts.. hard to explain cuz i hardly understand myself, but i will say that my wordperfect8 was broken for several months(as was realvideo player and other libc5 apps) because of misconfiguration of libc5, eventually i started playing with it, and

Re: list problems?

1999-11-01 Thread aphro
sounds like some delays on your mail server, i have been recieving a steady stream of mail. sometimes i do get bursts though with a lot of messages. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Fi

Re: list problems?

1999-11-01 Thread Bryan K. Walton
I don't know how this list is set up, but some lists are set up so that if your email address ever bounces, you are automatically removed from the list. Therefore, maybe the list has unsubscribed you? I might try subscribing again and see if that works. Bryan ***

Re: list problems?

1999-11-01 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- This makes me wonder even more. The list must be up, or you wouldn't have received my email. However, when you responded to it, I only got the response that went to me, not the cc to the list. I have subscribed another account that I have on a different networ

Broken ftp; can't purge proftpd

1999-11-01 Thread Kent West
I don't know how long it's been, 'cause I seldom ftp into my box, but recently I noticed that I can't ftp in anymore. I suspect there's some sort of conflict between ftpd and proftpd, so I've tried to "dpkg --purge proftpd" (and "apt-get remove proftpd") but this results in: (Reading database ...

Re: Giving up on Slink, moving to potato?

1999-11-01 Thread Sebastien KALT
Florian Lohoff a écrit : > On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 06:58:54PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > > If it works with Red Hat then why not just copy the Red Hat > > /etc/X11/XF86config file? I've done that, and it worked perfectly. > I have not tried to use the FBDEV XFree server on the 390E - I am usi

Re: Do I have a virus?

1999-11-01 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Don Galloway wrote: > > i thought /mbr was supposed to be /MBR ? > i could be wrong though. Remember, this is DOS; CaSE doEsn'T mattER. :-)

Fixing the Master Boot Record

1999-11-01 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hi everybody, In trying to get Slink installed successfully on my laptop (IBM Thinkpag 390E) I have learned that it is important to upgrade the Bios first. So, for the short term, I am taking some steps backwards. I downloaded a bios upgrade program on to a diskkette from IBM's website. T

PPP to ISP

1999-11-01 Thread Stephen . Murphy
Please bear with me guys - I am having a bit of trouble all in all, getting my Debian system to work nicely ( I love it though). I have set up a PPP connection to my ISP (Freeserve in UK). Connection gets established OK - ifconfig shows it's up and routing tables have sensible entries. However I

Re: New user

1999-11-01 Thread John Foster
Tim Bedding wrote: > > Hello. I am considering buying a GNU/Linux box with > Debian pre-installed to connect to a UK ISP (not sure > which one yet). > Are there any pitfalls I should be aware of or > watch out for? > > Is Debian 2.1 a reasonable version to use? > > Cordially > Tim > > freely-mo

Serial Port/Modem Configuration

1999-11-01 Thread Randy M . Kaplan
During installation of Debian, wvdial(conf?) tries to configure the serial ports by scanning the serial devices for a modem. I have my modem connection to serial A of a SPARC IPC. wvdial(conf?) does not find anything in its scan. Any ideas as to why this might not be working? Thanks for your he

RE: LDAP installations

1999-11-01 Thread Biciunas, Paul John
Have you investigated http://www.openldap.org ? -Paul Y2K? - What's so special about the year 2048? > -Original Message- > From: Chris Leishman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, October 31, 1999 7:47 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: LDAP installations > > Hi

Wordperfect 8 seg fault

1999-11-01 Thread Stephen . Murphy
Thanks for your reply - I've been thinking along those lines - I actually installed libc5 quite early on. Am I right in thinking if "ldd xwp" shows all the libaries can be found then that is not the problem? I understood that as long as the library path is listed in /etc/ld.so.conf then the libr

Re: list problems?

1999-11-01 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > I haven't seen any mail on this list since sunday morning. I can't > imagine all list traffic simply went away. Is there something wrong with > the list, or with my mail? I can't imagine it's a problem on my end since > I have no problem getting th

Re: package

1999-11-01 Thread Bill Goudie
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 01:16:29PM +0700, Kreshna D. Armand wrote: > How do I know the size of each packages which I want to install? > If I use SuSE or RH, you can query it. If I use Debian, by what way I > can do the query of the .deb packages? If you use apt and haven't already dowloaded the p

Re: BUG

1999-11-01 Thread virtanen
On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Daniel Haude wrote: > On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Kent West wrote: > > > smoothly as it should have (for whatever reason). Although this > > next idea is a child of the Windows mentality, you might want to > > redo the install from the beginning. A more experienced person > > would f

Re: New user

1999-11-01 Thread aphro
no pitfalls ..provided your not using an isp that requires a special client like say aol or compuserve or some of those free isps that have those banner ads and shit. if its a stadnard isp ..shouldn't have a problem. just remember to use the pppconfig command to configure ppp, i never found that co

Re: Wordperfect 8 seg fault

1999-11-01 Thread aphro
i had that problem and it was due to libc5 libs being either not installed or misconfigured (my /etc/ld.so.conf was all screwed up) .. check to make sure the libc5 and xlib6 packages are installed. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Networ

list problems?

1999-11-01 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I haven't seen any mail on this list since sunday morning. I can't imagine all list traffic simply went away. Is there something wrong with the list, or with my mail? I can't imagine it's a problem on my end since I have no problem getting the modperl list fro

Re: Pine question

1999-11-01 Thread aphro
what is the character(s) in your QP encoding ? that would help debug the prob :) nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/

Re: revisions of slink?

1999-11-01 Thread aphro
its just minor updates ..might as well do it if you got the time .. i use dftp getnew --ftpsite ftp.fuller.edu i'll play with apt someday .. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrai

Re: Pine question

1999-11-01 Thread peter karlsson
Johann Spies: > I get the following error mentioned in the subject line when I want to > read or save a html-attachment from a local electronic newspaper: > > [Error: Formatting error: Non-hexadecimal character in QP encoding] What does the string in question look like in "real life"? It might

New user

1999-11-01 Thread Tim Bedding
Hello. I am considering buying a GNU/Linux box with Debian pre-installed to connect to a UK ISP (not sure which one yet). Are there any pitfalls I should be aware of or watch out for? Is Debian 2.1 a reasonable version to use? Cordially Tim freely-modifiable software advocate

Re: Setting up LAN and ppp

1999-11-01 Thread aphro
sounds like the ipfwadm package acting up .. i'd suggest removing it. check your firewall rules when you ping i bet icmp is being blocked. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail I

Re: gimp segfault within script-fu

1999-11-01 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Ingo Reimann wrote: > Thanks for that hint, but i have been using the unstable releases of gimp > from the beginning on. Unstable and unusable is something quite different, > don't you agree? Yes, of course ... im using the "unstable" potato right now, and i know that ... nev

Wordperfect 8 seg fault

1999-11-01 Thread Stephen . Murphy
Any ideas why Wordperfect 8 seg faults immediately on start-up?

Re: gimp segfault within script-fu

1999-11-01 Thread Ingo Reimann
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 03:28:02PM +0200, Martin Fluch wrote: > On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Ingo Reimann wrote: > > > does anyone know, what happened with lovely gimp? > > > > Just now, it is not useable, due to segfaults in script-fu. Bugreport has > > been submitted (#48840) > > > > I need it... > >

Re: can I list just the directories, executables?

1999-11-01 Thread Ookhoi
> >> Hi. I would like to know if there is a command that will list just > >> directories? > > > > Do a > > > > man ls > > > > There, press / (for searching in the manual). > > > > Type -d (the text to search). > > Type n twice (for next occurence of the searchtext). > > > > See? The option

Re: revisions of slink?

1999-11-01 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > hey guys, > > my slink works fine, and I'm not in a hurry to upgrade, but I was > curious about which revision slink is on (3?) and whether I should worry > about updating to it. I would say there is one reason: security updates > if

Re: BUG

1999-11-01 Thread Daniel Haude
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Kent West wrote: > smoothly as it should have (for whatever reason). Although this > next idea is a child of the Windows mentality, you might want to > redo the install from the beginning. A more experienced person > would fix the problem rather than reinstall, but a newbie fr

Re: gimp segfault within script-fu

1999-11-01 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Ingo Reimann wrote: > does anyone know, what happened with lovely gimp? > > Just now, it is not useable, due to segfaults in script-fu. Bugreport has > been submitted (#48840) > > I need it... There is the same scheme for version numbering with gimp than with the kernel. If

Re: Slashdot colours (was Re: Debian Linux vs BSD)

1999-11-01 Thread David Wright
Quoting Onno ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >I frequently see references to Slashdot here, and when I point my > >browser at them, the page is always rendered in grey/dark grey on > >black. Am I doing something wrong? > > The background should be white maybe you changed your prefs??? Gosh, I wish the

Re: Wvdial and non-root access

1999-11-01 Thread Cory Snavely
> Cory Snavely writes: > > I just set up ppp on my slink workstation yesterday, and I used sudo to > > avoid setting scripts suid (although pppd installs as suid root). Even > > though I'm using pon/poff, I'll bet sudo can solve your problem, too, if > > suid scripts give you "the feeling". > > You

Pine question

1999-11-01 Thread Johann Spies
I get the following error mentioned in the subject line when I want to read or save a html-attachment from a local electronic newspaper: [Error: Formatting error: Non-hexadecimal character in QP encoding] Mutt does not cause the same problem on the same document. In the documentation I read EN

position of wm applets in enlightenment

1999-11-01 Thread Cyrus Patel
Hi guys, I want to use window maker applets in E, but when I run them they get placed in the top left corner of the screen and I cannot bring up the E window options that allow it to remember the location where I want the applet to be (unlike other X apps). Also, the applets don't seem to have a

revisions of slink?

1999-11-01 Thread tf
hey guys, my slink works fine, and I'm not in a hurry to upgrade, but I was curious about which revision slink is on (3?) and whether I should worry about updating to it. if so, it's apt-get update, then apt-get install? -- -t

mysql root password

1999-11-01 Thread Ingo Reimann
Hi Sometime, when i installed mysql ( don't know why exatcly ) the configure script advised me to set a root password. I yelled for the ghosts ( is it correct? ) and set one with myswladm password XXX ok, so far so good. Every time when some apt script touches the database, it tries it without a

gimp segfault within script-fu

1999-11-01 Thread Ingo Reimann
Hi does anyone know, what happened with lovely gimp? Just now, it is not useable, due to segfaults in script-fu. Bugreport has been submitted (#48840) I need it... Ingo I. Reimann [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: package

1999-11-01 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 01:16:29PM +0700, Kreshna D. Armand wrote: > How do I know the size of each packages which I want to install? If I > use SuSE or RH, you can query it. If I use Debian, by what way I can > do the query of the .deb packages? If you're using potato (or you feel like recompili

Re: package

1999-11-01 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Kreshna D. Armand wrote: > How do I know the size of each packages which I want to install? > If I use SuSE or RH, you can query it. If I use Debian, by what way I > can do the query of the .deb packages? In dselect you can press twice 'i' and then you will see something like

Setting up LAN and ppp

1999-11-01 Thread Taupter
Hello I'm trying to put two Linux boxes (my Debian Slink and a RH one) using LAN and connect both to Internet via DialUp. My /etc/init.d/network is: ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 I did not insert the line route add -net 192.168.1.0 cause it returns

Re: Wvdial and non-root access

1999-11-01 Thread Taupter
John Hasler wrote: > > Cory Snavely writes: > > I just set up ppp on my slink workstation yesterday, and I used sudo to > > avoid setting scripts suid (although pppd installs as suid root). Even > > though I'm using pon/poff, I'll bet sudo can solve your problem, too, if > > suid scripts give you

package

1999-11-01 Thread Kreshna D. Armand
How do I know the size of each packages which I want to install? If I use SuSE or RH, you can query it. If I use Debian, by what way I can do the query of the .deb packages?

Could you tell me some answers please?

1999-11-01 Thread Justin J. Kim
To: Mr. or Ms. expert, Hi, How are you? My name is Justin, a student at UMBC (University of Maryland Baltimore County). My major is computer networking track in Information System and Analysis. Recently, I was asked to survey about a specific interesting related to network (in my case, the Linu

cancel

1999-11-01 Thread Colin Watson
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1999-11-01 Thread Marco Giardini
- Forwarded message from Cron Daemon - how to solve this? Thanks .oesse. Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 06:25:02 +0200 From: root (Cron Daemon) To: root Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily /etc/cron.daily/cnews: shell-init: could not get current directory: get

Re: sound's (finally) fixed

1999-11-01 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Chris Mayes wrote: > Since I'm writing, here are two module-related questions: how do I get rid > of the "/etc/modules.conf is more recent..." messages? Check the archives of this list, this has been discussed before. Supposedly adding "ke

Re: Aztech Modem

1999-11-01 Thread Mike Werner
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > How do you install a MDP7800SP-U Modem (Aztech 56)? Haven't been > succesfull. And you probably never will be. According to http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html you've got a winmodem there, near as I can tell. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you w

LDAP installations

1999-11-01 Thread Chris Leishman
Hi all, I'm trying to learn how to set-up / use an LDAP server (and the LDAP network). I haven't done much yet, but I am running into difficulty due to lack of documentation and other guides. I was wondering if anyone would have pointers to good information, and/or be willing to answer a few ques

Re: Potato: MAKEDEV doesn't recognize ht device

1999-11-01 Thread aphro
I'm not using potato but maybe i can help .. you may be able to copy this to your MAKEDEV script and run it with the ht option .. ht) major=`Major ht0 37` || continue # Only one IDE tape drive is currently supported; ht0. makedev ht0 c $majo

sound's (finally) fixed

1999-11-01 Thread Chris Mayes
Well, I've finally gotten sound set up correctly using the tried-and-true technique of comparing my non-working setup to a similar one that works. I copied over the isapnp.conf from my Mandrake partition (which seems to do a ton more than the old one) and edited the modconf file by hand. Here's w