Re: Forcing Netscape to use MTA

1999-11-20 Thread Brian May
> "Matthew" == Matthew W Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthew> This has to be a Netscape thing, though, because Mutt Matthew> works just fine. I have also set the exim configuration Matthew> file to accept localhost. I will assume you mean here that you have configured ex

Re: Can't "make menuconfig"

1999-11-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Ribamar FS wrote: : Hello! : : Menuconfig require ncurses! More to the point, it requires libncurses4-dev -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (

Re: recommend mp3 encoder

1999-11-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 20 Nov 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: : Hi all: : : I'm looking for the highest compression quality possible. I don't care : about speed (nor about interface) at all. Is there anything compareable : to Fraunhoffer encoder under win32 for Linux? : : I'll be encoding wavs into 256 KBps mp3's

Re: Mgetty not connecting at 56 Kbs

1999-11-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : : On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: : : >Hi, : >I'm building an ISP and I have 56 Kbs modem's and configured mgetty but : > I cant connect with my clients above 31200 kbs. : >What can be wrong? :

lic-0.71-3 segfault

1999-11-20 Thread
Licq segfaults on startup when I try and register. I've removed .licq, purged and reinstalled licq and licq-plugin-qt2, tried copying over parts and all of the old .licq. The register window starts to come up, then it segfaults. This problem seems to be my own as I haven't seen other complaints

Re: mixviews or mix?

1999-11-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Ian Stirling wrote: : Nathan E Norman wrote: : : > The jernel sources have the kernel headers. Debian used to have (and : > still has, I presume) a kernel-headers package for those who don't wish : > to download 16MB of source. : : OK Nathan. I altered the 'Makefile

Re: Subject: Can Debian users install the new Corel packages?

1999-11-20 Thread Joey Hess
Kenneth Scharf wrote: > As corel's packages are glibc2.0 based they should > work well in slink. I downloaded the cd and installed > wxftp from the .deb using dpkg -i. WXFTP is a real > nice graphical front end to ftp, though I don't think > it is free, it might make the contrib section. You mea

procmail

1999-11-20 Thread GECOS
Hi, I am trying to filter my mail with procmail. I gues in debian you need a forward file. Every time I try to use the .forward file all my mail disappears. I will attach jmy .forward file with this message. It is called rick right now since I do not want it to work. -- Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTEC

user edit

1999-11-20 Thread GECOS
Hi, I know how to add and selete users but how do you edit an existing user? Thanks Rick -- Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Netatalk works/doesn't work

1999-11-20 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I'm using netatalk on three machines on my LAN: my workstation (PII/350, Realtek 8139), the server/gateway (PII/400, Realtek 8139) and the printer server (486DX50, 3Com 509). All are running current potato and 2.2.13. There appears to be a problem with atalkd on bootup on the two PII machines: St

Re: kerneld won't go away!

1999-11-20 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 09:57:20PM +, Stuart Ballard wrote: > Why is it that, even after religiously running update-rc.d -f kerneld > remove and /etc/init.d/kerneld stop, kerneld keeps coming back every > time the modutils package is upgraded? > Leave at least one kill link behind. So... 'upda

test

1999-11-20 Thread GECOS
test -- Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: kerneld won't go away!

1999-11-20 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
I added a line "noauto" in /etc/modules file -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stuart Ballard Sent: Saturday, November 20, 1999 1:57 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: kerneld won't go away! Why is it that, even after religiously run

test

1999-11-20 Thread GECOS
test -- Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can't "make menuconfig"

1999-11-20 Thread Frank Copeland
Kent West wrote: >I can "make config" and "make xconfig" but I can not "make menuconfig". >When I try, I get the following: > >westk03:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig >rm -f include/asm >( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) >make -C scripts/lxdialog all >make[1]: Entering directory >`/usr/src/kernel

Re: Can't "make menuconfig"

1999-11-20 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 20 Nov, Kent West wrote about "Can't "make menuconfig"" > I can "make config" and "make xconfig" but I can not "make menuconfig". > When I try, I get the following: > > westk03:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) > make -C scripts/lxdialo

Re: Can't "make menuconfig"

1999-11-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
Install libncurses4-dev On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 02:17:26PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > I can "make config" and "make xconfig" but I can not "make menuconfig". > When I try, I get the following: > > westk03:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) >

inst 2

1999-11-20 Thread luis
hello everybody i have changed the kernel compressed image to a 2.2.13 in the rescue disk, but obviously the kernel can not mount any root fs, because i am trying to install debian using an athlon processor, trying to install debian how can i make a rescue disk with a 2.2.13 kernel? or more gen

Re: problem with slink --> potato

1999-11-20 Thread Ron Farrer
Joost Witteveen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Did you try --force-overwrite ? Thanks, that fixed that probem. Now: Setting up xonix (1.4-13) ... Use of uninitialized value at /usr/sbin/suidregister line 92. suidregister: bartw: no such user dpkg: error processing xonix (--configure): subprocess

Re: Can't "make menuconfig"

1999-11-20 Thread Dave Baker
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Kent West wrote: > I can "make config" and "make xconfig" but I can not "make menuconfig". > When I try, I get the following: I'm going to make the connection and presume you're trying to compile the kernel. It'd normally help if you say which kernel you're compiling since t

Re: recommend mp3 encoder

1999-11-20 Thread Remco van 't Veer
GOGO: http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~shigeo/gogo_e.html BladeEnc: http://hem.bredband.net/tord/ encode: ftp://wopr.campus.luth.se/pub/mpeg_layer_3/ I am sure BladeEnc can do it. HTH, Remco On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 15:55, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Hi all: > > I'm looking for the highest compress

Re: Can't "make menuconfig"

1999-11-20 Thread Ribamar FS
Hello! Menuconfig require ncurses! Kent West escreveu: > > I can "make config" and "make xconfig" but I can not "make menuconfig". > When I try, I get the following: > > westk03:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) > make -C scripts/lxdialog

Re: Can't "make menuconfig"

1999-11-20 Thread Remco van 't Veer
>From Packages.gz: Package: kernel-source-2.0.36 [snip] Suggests: ncurses-dev, tk-dev My apt says: Package ncurses-dev is a virtual package provided by: libncurses4-dev 4.2-3 So you should install libncurses4-dev. HTH, Remco On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 14:17, Kent West wrote: > I ca

Re: Can't "make menuconfig"

1999-11-20 Thread Eric G . Miller
You need the ncurses package installed. I believe you need libncurses4-dev (in potato) or ncurses-dev (in slink). -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +---

RE: eth0: promiscuous

1999-11-20 Thread gsublett
On 20-Nov-99 Alberto Maurizi wrote: > > What does "eth0: Setting promiscuous mode" mean? > And where to find information about? > > Thanx > Alberto Basically if the interface is set to promiscuous mode, the interface listens to all packets on the network instead of only

Re: Can't "make menuconfig"

1999-11-20 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Kent West wrote: > I can "make config" and "make xconfig" but I can not "make menuconfig". > When I try, I get the following: > > westk03:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) [...] > In

kerneld won't go away!

1999-11-20 Thread Stuart Ballard
Why is it that, even after religiously running update-rc.d -f kerneld remove and /etc/init.d/kerneld stop, kerneld keeps coming back every time the modutils package is upgraded? I get a warning that I almost certainly shouldn't be running it, and then it starts it back up and installs it back into

Re: Forcing Netscape to use MTA

1999-11-20 Thread Matthew W. Roberts
Hi Dave, Sorry it took so long to get back to you. Netscape says this: -- The mail server responded: relaying to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> prohibited by Administrator Please check the message recipients and try again. --

Re: Mgetty not connecting at 56 Kbs

1999-11-20 Thread iehrenwald
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi, > I'm building an ISP and I have 56 Kbs modem's and configured mgetty but > I cant connect with my clients above 31200 kbs. > What can be wrong? Right. You cannot do 56k <-> 56k using modems. You have to h

Re: login script

1999-11-20 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 02:05:56PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > after fixing my keyboard settings with xkeycaps, it told me to modify my > login script to contain a line like > xmodemap~ ... etc > Where is my login script? I already learned to vi a text file (from > windows to unix-linux there

Re: instalation

1999-11-20 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 08:58:42PM +0100, luis wrote: > hello everybody: > > i am installing debian in the following box: amd athlon 550 mhz, 13.6 > gb hd, 128 mb ram > > when i give to the rescue floppy (at installation) the process > stops at: > > "md driver 0.36.3 MAX_HD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8" >

Re: eth0: promiscuous

1999-11-20 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > What does "eth0: Setting promiscuous mode" mean? And where to find > information about? During normal operation, all ethernet traffic on the local ethernet segment is seen by everyone on the segment. By default ethernet card discards a

Subject: Can Debian users install the new Corel packages?

1999-11-20 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>I am interested in trying out some of the new Corel >apps like the file >manager. Is it possible to get hold of individual apps >from the new >ditribution without downloading the whole iso file? I >assume I would be >legally permitted to use individual components like >this . . As corel's packag

Re: Freezing a package on Debian installation

1999-11-20 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 20 Nov, Bart Szyszka wrote about "Freezing a package on Debian installation" > Hello, > > I'm having trouble finding a command that would allow me to > specify to not allow Debian to upgrade a specific package or > to install it if it doesn't exist. I thought it might be at apt-get > -h or

Rather annoying apt problem

1999-11-20 Thread Robert Rati
Is there a way to tell apt to go ahead and upgrade packages without worrying about conflicts? Right now, it wants to remove any kde package installed because they all depend on qt1g, and potato has switched to libqt1g which I have installed. Does anyone know of a way to continue upgrading and not

Re: eth0: promiscuous

1999-11-20 Thread aphro
i dont know how to explain it fully it its a mode where the network card tries to listen to everything it can.. network analysis tools turn this on when they are running, turning this on may not have much effect if your on switched ethernet(if any) some network admins get mad if they see a machine

Re: Mgetty not connecting at 56 Kbs

1999-11-20 Thread aphro
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: baptis >Hi all, baptis >I'm having a hard time to configure mgetty on a 56 Kbs modem that can baptis >only connect at 38.400 bps. you may not know that you cannot connect to a 56k modem on an analog line. it must be

Re: Mgetty not connecting at 56 Kbs

1999-11-20 Thread charlesiii
Move closer to the isp and get the phone company to install better lines ? On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi all, > I'm having a hard time to configure mgetty on a 56 Kbs modem that can > only connect at 38.400 bps. > What I can do? > Tha

Re: Mgetty not connecting at 56 Kbs

1999-11-20 Thread Marcin Pacyna
Sometime that's all you can get - in one of the offices that I set up this was the max connection rate they could achieve and I tried lots of things. Marcin Pacyna I.D. Internet Direct (Toronto) Entry Level System Administrator On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: >

Re: Mgetty not connecting at 56 Kbs

1999-11-20 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi, I'm building an ISP and I have 56 Kbs modem's and configured mgetty but I cant connect with my clients above 31200 kbs. What can be wrong? Thanks for your help. Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi all, > > I'm having a hard time to confi

recommend mp3 encoder

1999-11-20 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi all: I'm looking for the highest compression quality possible. I don't care about speed (nor about interface) at all. Is there anything compareable to Fraunhoffer encoder under win32 for Linux? I'll be encoding wavs into 256 KBps mp3's. Thanks for any input. -- Arcady Genkin

Re: instaling debian

1999-11-20 Thread aphro
you need the new kernel, 2.2.13 to run linux on athlon may have to make your own bootdisk to do it..dunno nate On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, luis wrote: luis >hello everybody: luis > luis >i am installing debian in a new box (athlon 550 MHz, 13.6 gb hd, 128 luis >mb ram), but when i give to the rescue

Can't "make menuconfig"

1999-11-20 Thread Kent West
I can "make config" and "make xconfig" but I can not "make menuconfig". When I try, I get the following: westk03:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.1/scripts/lxdi

instalation

1999-11-20 Thread luis
hello everybody: i am installing debian in the following box: amd athlon 550 mhz, 13.6 gb hd, 128 mb ram when i give to the rescue floppy (at installation) the process stops at: "md driver 0.36.3 MAX_HD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8" it seems to me that the machine hangs when looking for some SCCI card h

Re: ipchains

1999-11-20 Thread Sven Esbjerg
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 11:54:39AM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote: > I am trying out debian for the first time and have a couple of questions. > In RedHat I put my ipchain rules in rc.local so they start up at bootime. > Where in debian can I put these. The correct place for bootscripts in Debian is /et

Re: What's gone in Corel Linux

1999-11-20 Thread aphro
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Tom Pfeifer wrote: mailmi >The web page says "Corel LINUX OS - based on Debian 2.2 Kernel". Huh? mailmi >http://linux.corel.com/products/linux_os/inside.htm ouch, i can see where that would throw debian users off..non linux people would automatically assume 2.2 kernel i bet .

X, middle mouse,Artec, do see output in /dev/mouse

1999-11-20 Thread joost witteveen
Hi, I've two mice here who's middle mouse button I cannot get to work under X. However, cat-ing /dev/mouse shows that i do get output: left button: muso:/dev# cat mouse |od -x 000 0060 4000 0060 4000 0060 4000 Middle button: muso:/dev# cat mouse |od -x 000 0040 4000 004

Re: What's gone in Corel Linux

1999-11-20 Thread Bart Szyszka
> I think the point of confusion here may be that Corel Linux is based on > *kernel* version 2.2, not *Debian* 2.2. > The web page says "Corel LINUX OS - based on Debian 2.2 Kernel". Huh? > http://linux.corel.com/products/linux_os/inside.htm That still doesn't sound entirely clear, though. It cou

Re: ipchains

1999-11-20 Thread aphro
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Rick Knebel wrote: rknebe >Hi, rknebe >I am trying out debian for the first time and have a couple of questions. rknebe >In RedHat I put my ipchain rules in rc.local so they start up at bootime. rknebe >Where in debian can I put these. i put them in /etc/init.d/network rkn

Re: errors

1999-11-20 Thread aphro
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Jon Hughes wrote: jonrhu >ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d (No jonrhu >such file or directory), skipping jonrhu >ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libXpm.so.4 is not a jonrhu >symlink jonrhu >is this serious, or something i shouldn't bother with? don't worry

eth0: promiscuous

1999-11-20 Thread Alberto Maurizi
What does "eth0: Setting promiscuous mode" mean? And where to find information about? Thanx Alberto

login script

1999-11-20 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
after fixing my keyboard settings with xkeycaps, it told me to modify my login script to contain a line like xmodemap~ ... etc Where is my login script? I already learned to vi a text file (from windows to unix-linux there is a lot to learn!!!), but first I need to find the script. Please help. Tha

Slrnpull error

1999-11-20 Thread David J. Kanter
For some reason, when I try to run slrn --spool, I get this error message: slrn fatal error: slrn: pid 1549 is locking the newsrc file. For this reason, I guess, nothing shows up in the spooled slrn window. What can I do to fix this? Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have an

Mgetty not connecting at 56 Kbs

1999-11-20 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I'm having a hard time to configure mgetty on a 56 Kbs modem that can only connect at 38.400 bps. What I can do? Thanks, Paulo Henrique -- Abraços,PH Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Technology Con

Re: mixviews or mix?

1999-11-20 Thread Ian Stirling
For the archives just in case anyone else is ever interested in compiling 'mix' and 'ceres' and others, the audio header files and libraries are in a package called 'tichstuff' and they are included in 'ceres'. Ian Stirling

problem with slink --> potato

1999-11-20 Thread Ron Farrer
I'm trying to upgrade from slink to potato. Most of the packages are upgraded, but there is about 190MB worth of stuff that gets hung up. I tried doing 'dpkg -i' on the package it fails on to see what the problem is and here is what I get: mustang:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -i libsane_1.0.1-19

Re: /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda4 with ZIP disks

1999-11-20 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Andresito del Hierro wrote: > I have read everywhere that all the ZIP disks are formated /dev/sda4 > but I got a bunch of ZIPs that are /dev/sda1, that is no problem at > all, but only curious about that. I also saw that JAZIP does not read > them, but I guess is only that I have not set up the c

instaling debian

1999-11-20 Thread luis
hello everybody: i am installing debian in a new box (athlon 550 MHz, 13.6 gb hd, 128 mb ram), but when i give to the rescue floppy the instlation process stops at the line: md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 which is the md driver? how can i fix this problem? thanks a lot

Potatos modutils & ksymoops

1999-11-20 Thread Martin Koch
I just upgraded my ALSA and lm_sensors packages via ´apt-get´ which also gave me a new modutils version (2.3.6-8). Everything went fine except that i am getting the following errors on boot-up now: ... Loading modules: joystick /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/joystick.o: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/1

little www svr

1999-11-20 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi folks, I'm on a cable connection, and my isp changed its upolod limit from 150 to 500 MB [ better than nothing :( ]. So I intend to have a small www svr, BUT I would like to be able to contain it within my limits: stop the svr if my upload is > 400 MB; and I don't know which svr I must use (isn

Re: What's gone in Corel Linux

1999-11-20 Thread Tom Pfeifer
aphro wrote: >, Corel Linux is based on Debian 2.2. > 2.2? wow ..they went from slink to potato from beta 2 to final..unless i > read the package listing wrong i'll check it again i coulda swore it was > glibc2.0.7 I think the point of confusion here may be that Corel Linux is based on *kernel*

ipchains

1999-11-20 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, I am trying out debian for the first time and have a couple of questions. In RedHat I put my ipchain rules in rc.local so they start up at bootime. Where in debian can I put these. I also have to put the command FORWARD_IPV4=true in the etc/sysconfig/network file. Is there a place in debian to

Freezing a package on Debian installation

1999-11-20 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hello, I'm having trouble finding a command that would allow me to specify to not allow Debian to upgrade a specific package or to install it if it doesn't exist. I thought it might be at apt-get -h or dpkg -h, but I didn't find anything there. Debian gets messed up on my end before I get a chance

errors

1999-11-20 Thread Jon Hughes
I've been gettign errors with the following a lot, when i installed netscape, wine, and now Mesa stuff. ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libXpm.so.4 is not a symlink is this serious, or something

Cannot create ksymoops*.ksyms?

1999-11-20 Thread David J. Kanter
Everything was fine until yesterday. GIMP crashed my X-session, so I had to kill the X-server with contrl+alt+backspace. Now when I reboot I get many errors that /var/log/ksymoops/foo.ksyms cannot be created. What can I do to fix this? It's giving me errors for modules like ppp, slhc, unix.o, etc.

ethernet card irq

1999-11-20 Thread paul . walton
I`ve been trying to communicate with a Win95 machine via thin ethernet but can`t seem to ping from or to either machine. Noticeably if I try to ping from the win95 box I can see the network card lights working as it attempts to connect, but from Linux no lights appear at all. The card (at1700BT

Re: apsfilter vs. magikfilter and hp printer

1999-11-20 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 20 Nov, Carl Greco wrote about "Re: apsfilter vs. magikfilter and hp printer" > >> I have a Deskjet 660c and have been very happy with magicfilter and >> gs-aladdin.(which includes the hpdj patch)(see the man page for gs-hpdj >> when you install gs-aladdin.) The hpdj driver doesn't support

Re: X-Windows keyboard control

1999-11-20 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I personally don't know of any keyboard for an Intel based computer > that has a Meta key - do they exist? The keyboards for NCD terminals have PS/2 connectors and I´ve found on the Net that someone has it working on a normal PC. They have actual Meta key

OSS from 4Front Tech problems

1999-11-20 Thread John Foster
I have sound working fine as the root user, but it is screwed as any other. I am using commercial OSS as I have NEVER been able to get any of the other stuff to work. I presented this problem to the tech folks at 4Front and their answer was to change the permissions on /dev/dsp by using the command

Re: apsfilter vs. magikfilter and hp printer

1999-11-20 Thread Carl Greco
> I have a Deskjet 660c and have been very happy with magicfilter and > gs-aladdin.(which includes the hpdj patch)(see the man page for gs-hpdj > when you install gs-aladdin.) The hpdj driver doesn't support your > printer specifically but you should be able to get almost all of the > features si

Re: xconsole problem

1999-11-20 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 20 Nov, Chia-Sheng Chang wrote about "xconsole problem" > Hi, all, > I run xdm on my computer but every time I login, xconsole always > responses "can not open console". How to solve this?? > % ls -l /dev/xconsole 0 prw-r-1 root adm 0 Nov 20 08:30 /dev/xco

Re: What's gone in Corel Linux

1999-11-20 Thread Onno
"Don't fix it if it isn't broken" I hope you know what the implications of this can be... Regards, Onno

Re: What's gone in Corel Linux

1999-11-20 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 11:30:28PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 10:21:09PM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote: > > > from what i saw in beta 2 it was a VERY stripped version of slink. > > Well apparently Corel made some major changes in the final because > > according to this p

Re: ipchains and DNS problem

1999-11-20 Thread Onno
Your sever must be the DNS for the LAN. Just setup a forwarding/caching DNS on your server, it come's out of the box when you install BIND. Regards, Onno At 06:05 PM 11/19/99 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have ipchains working, but my workstations cannot get out to the internet because of

Can Debian users install the new Corel packages?

1999-11-20 Thread Phillip Deackes
I am interested in trying out some of the new Corel apps like the file manager. Is it possible to get hold of individual apps from the new ditribution without downloading the whole iso file? I assume I would be legally permitted to use individual components like this . . Cheers. -- Phillip Deac

sh: /dev/tty: Device not configured

1999-11-20 Thread Phillip Deackes
I am running the latest vesion of unstable (as of Friday 20 November) and for some time have been getting the following messages appearing in my mailbox /etc/cron.daily/slrnpull: sh: /dev/tty: Device not configured sh: /dev/tty: Device not configured Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/5.

Re: Thanks! Re: secure pop3 via ssh

1999-11-20 Thread Onno
Please share your findings. Regards, Onno At 08:08 AM 11/19/99 -0200, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: Hi, Thanks you all! I've enough material to study. I think I'll be able to do this soon. []s, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but

Re: Dual-ethernet

1999-11-20 Thread Onno
At 12:10 PM 11/19/99 +1030, John Pearson wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 03:25:00PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote > > Hi, > > I'm wondering whether it's possible to load ne.o module for a dual > ethernet machine. Can it be done? I have tried to load the same module > twice (with different iobase's), but it

Re: ipchains and DNS problem

1999-11-20 Thread aphro
i never got DNS to masq right under 2.2 my solution was to run a DNS on the box doing the masq and point the clients to it nate On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fairfa >I have ipchains working, but my workstations cannot get out to the internet because of a DNS problem. (When I tr

Re: Fw: Well, Corel is out

1999-11-20 Thread aphro
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Bart Szyszka wrote: bart >> try www.winimage.com it can open isos bart >Too bad it crashes a minute after I get it to start doing something. bart >It looks like I'll just need to burn Corel on a CD, although I wish bart >there would be some way for me to open ISOs in case I m

Re: Truetype font sizes and Netscape

1999-11-20 Thread Charles Gates
jack wrote: > > In my case, I did it in this way: > > cp /.netscape/preferences.js preferences.my > edit preferences.my: > change ==> monotype-times new roman-140-scale-prop-iso-8859-1 (netscape > automatically change it to -0-, when it exits) > write a short script for start netscape > > #!/bin

xconsole problem

1999-11-20 Thread Chia-Sheng Chang
Hi, all, I run xdm on my computer but every time I login, xconsole always responses "can not open console". How to solve this?? Thanks. -- Chia-Sheng Chang Institute of Communications Engineering College of Electrical Engineering National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan 10617 E-Mail: [E

Re: What's gone in Corel Linux

1999-11-20 Thread lists
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 10:21:09PM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote: > > from what i saw in beta 2 it was a VERY stripped version of slink. > Well apparently Corel made some major changes in the final because > according to this page: > http://linux.corel.com/products/linux_os/inside.htm > > , Corel Lin

Re: How to install pine on slink from source

1999-11-20 Thread lists
On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 03:39:10PM -0800, aphro wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Brian Servis wrote: > > servis >Wouldn't it be better to use the pine*-src and pine*-diff Debian > servis >packages? I believe that these create the necessary patches to fit it > in > servis >a Debian system and then bu

Re: dselect vs apt

1999-11-20 Thread lists
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 11:28:25AM +0100, Urban Gabor wrote: > Though it might be a lamer question, I would like to know the major > differences between dselect and apt. I do not upgrade my boxes via ftp, I > allways (more or less :-)) ) wait till the new release is assembled in CD > images. Why wo

DPMS problem solved

1999-11-20 Thread John Dalbec
The problem where clicking on a tile in xhexagons would cause DPMS to shut off the monitor was fixed when I upgraded XFree86 to 3.3.3.1-2 (from netgod). Thanks for your help. John

Re: ipchains and REDIRECT

1999-11-20 Thread Jonathan Lupa
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 02:57:08AM +, Chris Schleifer wrote: > I found the post linked to below on deja.com which explains it all. > Basically REDIRECT is only for forwarding between ports on the _local_ > machine. You need ipmasqadm to forward to another machine. Yes, this was it. Problem sol

Re: howto run a process which respawn after death.

1999-11-20 Thread lists
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 06:49:12PM +0100, Roland Mas wrote: > Felipe Alvarez Harnecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is there a tool for start a proccess and after it dies the process > > respawn ? Just like init does but from the command line. > > $ while true ; do process ; done > > or >

Re: file of manage

1999-11-20 Thread ktb
> HU-LIAO wrote: > > Halleo, > > I am a new user of Debian. For keeping the system run better or > solving some problems occured, could anyone tell me what kinds of > files to manage the system and where there are, or where I could find > this kind information or books? I would suggest looking

Re: xemacs text-mode and gpm mouse issues

1999-11-20 Thread John Hasler
Brian Servis writes: > Upstream are the actual authors of the code. Not always. Sometimes the author is further upstream yet. That's why we say "upstream maintainer" rather than just "author". Think of the software as a stream originating with the author(s) and flowing from maintainer to maint

bootdisk problem

1999-11-20 Thread N. Thomas
Trying to install Debian 2.1 on a friend's Dell Optiflex 486-66. I was booting off the bootdisk and when the initial message and the boot: prompt comes up, I hit enter, and it loads the root.bin, prints 4 periods, and then hangs, like this: loading root.bin I tried all the boot images, r

Re: ipchains and REDIRECT

1999-11-20 Thread Chris Schleifer
Aargh, I'm really sorry to reply to myself twice. But I promise I'm done now ;-). I found the post linked to below on deja.com which explains it all. Basically REDIRECT is only for forwarding between ports on the _local_ machine. You need ipmasqadm to forward to another machine. The post: http://

Re: ipchains and REDIRECT

1999-11-20 Thread Chris Schleifer
Well now I'm confused I just looked a little more into this and it looks like you should be able to use the REDIRECT rule as long as you said yes to transparent proxy in the kernel config (according to the kernel help and man ipchains). Anyway I guess the best suggestion I can give after all is to

file of manage

1999-11-20 Thread HU-LIAO
Halleo,   I am a new user of  Debian. For keeping the system run better or solving some problems occured, could anyone tell me what kinds of files to manage the system and where there are, or where I could find this kind information or books?   Thanks   Daniel Hu

Re: Xfree-changing default

1999-11-20 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Worked great. Thanks Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 19 Nov, Antonio Rodriguez wrote about "Xfree-changing default" > > How do I change my default starting of Xserver to 32 from 8 or so? I > > have several modes avalable, but if I try from the command prompt: > > startx -- -bpp 32 it says: Xserver al

Re: Gnumeric

1999-11-20 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I run apt-get install phyton and it says: there are many, which package you want? Well, which do I want? Have no idea. Thanx Rainer Weikusat wrote: > Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > When I try to run gnumeric, it says > > Unable to open module file:/usr/lib/gnumeric/plugins/lib

Re: X-Windows keyboard control

1999-11-20 Thread Brian May
> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "wir95cgu" == wir95cgu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: wir95cgu> In X, Meta is bound to the "windows" key (between Ctrl wir95cgu> and Alt). If your keyboard doesn't have one, perhaps wir95cgu> changing your XkbModel from "pc104"

Re: ipchains and REDIRECT

1999-11-20 Thread Chris Schleifer
Hi, I just had to do the same thing as you and had no problems. I am using a 2.2 kernel w/ ipchains and had to forward port 80. The IP Masquerade HOWTO was really helpful to me (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO.html). Chapter 6 explains exactly how to do port forwarding with 2.2 k

Re: WDM troubles

1999-11-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On 19/11/99 Christian Dysthe wrote: I am trying to make WDM work on my Debian (potato) box. After having installed it I am not longer able to log in even though I know I type in the correct passwords. WDM "shakes it's head" as if the passwords are wrong. They aren't. It doesn't matter which acco

Re: A Question about Deb. 2.2

1999-11-20 Thread Shaul Karl
If you are considering downloading then you might simply download unstable. Although it is not officially ready for release, many Debian users use it successfully. --- Begin Message --- I know that you don't tell release date of Debian 2.2, but I'd like to know is it coming in next too months

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