Re: Mozilla

1999-12-08 Thread Oki DZ
aphro wrote: > If your running slink your only way to run Mozilla is by running a much > older build, due to a bug in glibc2.0 they are not supporting glibc2.0 > only glibc2.1 unless someone can come up with a fix for the bug. I'm running potato. Would redownloading the package fix the problem?

Re: need help with gdb

1999-12-08 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello > http://www.cs.utah.edu/~hamlet/lib/lessons/gdb/gdb/gdb.html [btw. thanks for this hint] > BTW: How come that there is a gdb dir under /usr/doc/ but there is not one > under /usr/share/doc/ ? What is the exact policy about /usr/doc/ and > /usr/share/doc/ ? /usr/doc was the traditional lo

Re: is kde/gnome able to use unicode?

1999-12-08 Thread Hasso Tepper
Ulrich Hansmair wrote: > hi folks, > > simple question: ist kde/gnome able to deal with unicode? no information > on the web-page availible. has anybody an idea? KDE 1.1.2 - no KDE 2 - yes Hasso -- _ Hasso Tepper <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [OT] Re:

1999-12-08 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 09:06:02AM +, Paul Keenan wrote: >> > Jason Winters wrote: >> > >> > does anyone know why packages would install right, then when I try to >> > run them nothing happens? >> >> Could you be any more vague ? > i could! > "Why does

Re: Mailing list archives search always fails?

1999-12-08 Thread Kent West
Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > Hello all, > > Has anyone else noticed that lately the mailing list archive search > function always seems to fail? I've been getting the file not found error > on every search, it seems. > > Thanks. Syrus. > > -- > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: SB PCI 128

1999-12-08 Thread aphro
to make it easy, get a new soundcard :) can get one for maybe $15-20 bux or $10-12 bux if you want areal cheap one (sb16 or s3 sonic vibes.. nate On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Kent West wrote: westk >Ian Stirling wrote: westk > westk >> Jon Hughes wrote: westk >> westk >> > has anyone managed to get a SB

Re: Mailing list archives search always fails?

1999-12-08 Thread Kent Brede
On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Art Lemasters wrote: > I have not even seen such a search engine. Go to http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ and you'll see one:) kent > In the meantime, > though, you might try searching the archive of your choice page by > page. In Netscape you can use , then ,

Re: [OT] Re:

1999-12-08 Thread Art Lemasters
Try entering commands on the command line to start these programs. Enter the commands with a "-v" or "-V" following each command in order to get verbose error reporting. Maybe someone else on this list can offer perameters that give good error reports in many programs. Then send the

Re: SB PCI 128

1999-12-08 Thread Kent West
Ian Stirling wrote: > Jon Hughes wrote: > > > has anyone managed to get a SB PCI 128 to work? any > > help would be appreciated, thanks > > PCI 128 cards come in various types. I used a Gateway > OEM version which has an es1373 on it. The es1371 > driver works. You might have to use the es1370 dr

Re: Mailing list archives search always fails?

1999-12-08 Thread Art Lemasters
I have not even seen such a search engine. In the meantime, though, you might try searching the archive of your choice page by page. In Netscape you can use , then , and in lynx you can use (the foreslash, for search), then enter keywords. Art On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 12:10:35PM -0800, Syr

Re: Tulip network card not working

1999-12-08 Thread aphro
which driver(s) have you tried? i am using 2 of those cards using the tulip driver on kernel 2.0.36 for about a year now with no trouble. eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:30:FF:19 inet addr:208.222.179.31 Bcast:208.222.179.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST R

Re: hosts.allow and hosts.deny

1999-12-08 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 03:15:37PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > A plea to debian-user readers > = > > Please, please, please if you are going to install things, especially from > unstable, extra-especially if you rely upon them for important things, > > READ THE FIN

Re: Tulip network card not working

1999-12-08 Thread Paul J. Keenan
Gary Hennigan wrote: > http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html > > For information and source code for the driver, tulip.c > > There's lots of info there for the tulip-based cards. > > Of course if you do decide to get an updated the driver you'll have to > rebuild the kernel. >

Re: More details: PDF wont work with Potato and Acrobat... Anyone?

1999-12-08 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Alan Eugene Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One of the main problems I have with acroread is that fonts are > not displaying correctly. That's the best I can make of it---two > words are overlaid on each other; a whole line may only be an inch or > two wide, but in letters 14 or 18 points h

Re: streaming audio? (Re: wav <-> conversion utility)

1999-12-08 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Frank Barknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The fastest LAME-spinoff I know is href="http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~shigeo/soft/gogo2/";> GOGO , > that is optimized by using 3DNow, MMX and ISSE assembler. About 4 times > faster than LAME at the same quality. Why does it say I should combin

is kde/gnome able to use unicode?

1999-12-08 Thread Ulrich Hansmair
hi folks, simple question: ist kde/gnome able to deal with unicode? no information on the web-page availible. has anybody an idea? uli

Re: SB PCI 128

1999-12-08 Thread Ian Stirling
Jon Hughes wrote: > has anyone managed to get a SB PCI 128 to work? any > help would be appreciated, thanks PCI 128 cards come in various types. I used a Gateway OEM version which has an es1373 on it. The es1371 driver works. You might have to use the es1370 driver depending on what's on your ca

RE: Tulip network card not working

1999-12-08 Thread Alex
I recently purchased a couple of the new EtherFast cards, and yes the default tulip driver didnt work. http://www.linksys.com actually has tulip.c files for their cards, and they're on the linksys floppies too. After doing a kernel/module compile they work great for me. found at http://www.l

RE: Tulip network card not working

1999-12-08 Thread Alex McCool
I recently purchased a couple of the new EtherFast cards, and yes the default tulip driver didnt work. http://www.linksys.com actually has tulip.c files for their cards, and they're on the linksys floppies too. After doing a kernel/module compile they work great for me. found at http://www.links

SB PCI 128

1999-12-08 Thread Jon Hughes
I'm assisting my brother with getting his sound working in Slin. he has a SB PCI 128 sound card. The kernel (2.2.12) does appear to detect it using one of hte ES drivers (the exact number escapes me, sorry), and the devices are all there. When i type play soundclip.wav, the computer appears to

Installing Potato over RH6.1

1999-12-08 Thread Alex
Hi folks,   I've got a firewall setup using RedHat6.1 and while it works its difficult to maintain. i would prefer to use Potato instead of the redhat. Has N1 installed debian over RH?  is there a reverse "alien"?   Alex McCool  

Re: CD burning problems

1999-12-08 Thread David Blackman
Please try mkisofs, iy's better maintained, more up to date, and most frontends prefer it. mkisofs -rva -o thanks, dave

Re: Foiltex not available in potato tetex distibutions?

1999-12-08 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > Hello! > > I recently upgraded several machines to potato, but just noticed to my > dismay that foiltex is no longer installed. Has it been removed from the > tetex packages? > > Thanks. Syrus. I can answer my own question: Foiltex has a "you must

Re: Tulip network card not working

1999-12-08 Thread Gary Hennigan
Jose Roberto de Chermont Teixeira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does someone have already had problems with the DEC PCI Ethernet DC21142 > network card? I thought it was defective, but on Nt it works. I have > isntalled Debian and FreeBSD to see what was the problem but both can't > use them. The c

Re: Gnome & E [Re: Font in GNOME]

1999-12-08 Thread Steve George
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 10:53:50AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > I use Gnome & Enlightenment and I'm wondering why Gnome doesn't > recognize the virtual desktop and virtual screen; ie: if you have > several Gnome terms on separate v. screens and then you save the > session, > the next time you logged

[OT] Re:

1999-12-08 Thread Brad
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 09:06:02AM +, Paul Keenan wrote: > > Jason Winters wrote: > > > > does anyone know why packages would install right, then when I try to > > run them nothing happens? > > Could you be any more vague ? i could! "Why does it not work?" -- finger for GPG public key.

Tulip network card not working

1999-12-08 Thread Jose Roberto de Chermont Teixeira
Hi! Does someone have already had problems with the DEC PCI Ethernet DC21142 network card? I thought it was defective, but on Nt it works. I have isntalled Debian and FreeBSD to see what was the problem but both can't use them. The card is detected and the module correctly loads, but I have no net

Re: E-mail (POP) not working

1999-12-08 Thread aphro
On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: baptis >Hi all, baptis >I have working in a ISP that POP stopped to work for the clients baptis >with modem. Altought I can telnet port 110 the clients with modem baptis >receive the following error baptis > baptis >Error: Your

netfilter

1999-12-08 Thread Marcin Kurc
Does anyone compiled netfilter on debian? (0.1.11 or 0.1.12) -- Marcin Kurc Indiana Institute of Technology System Administrator http://me.indtech.edu http://www.indtech.edu

Re: ISP says bad passwd

1999-12-08 Thread John Hasler
aphro writes: > what does /var/log/messages tell you when its connecting? pppd should be > printing out messages there. Look in /var/log/ppp.log for ppp messages. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: hosts.allow and hosts.deny

1999-12-08 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
A plea to debian-user readers = Please, please, please if you are going to install things, especially from unstable, extra-especially if you rely upon them for important things, READ THE FINE DOCUMENTATION which can be found in /usr/doc/ or /usr/share/doc/ particularly

E-mail (POP) not working

1999-12-08 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I have working in a ISP that POP stopped to work for the clients with modem. Altought I can telnet port 110 the clients with modem receive the following error Error: Your server closed the connection. This could be problem with server, network or large inativity period. I have

Foiltex not available in potato tetex distibutions?

1999-12-08 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
Hello! I recently upgraded several machines to potato, but just noticed to my dismay that foiltex is no longer installed. Has it been removed from the tetex packages? Thanks. Syrus. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>UCSD Phys

delete does not work properly under X Window

1999-12-08 Thread Jan Krupa
I debian2.0 on Pentium. The key delete works (under X Window) the same way as backspace does I mean both keys erase a letter on the left side of cursor. The key delete works O.K. on the console (it erases a letter on right side of cursor). I have tried to put in .Xmodemap the following keycode

Mailing list archives search always fails?

1999-12-08 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
Hello all, Has anyone else noticed that lately the mailing list archive search function always seems to fail? I've been getting the file not found error on every search, it seems. Thanks. Syrus. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Apache local cgi-bin

1999-12-08 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
I have been installing Apache on a potato based system. I cant get cgi-scripts working, I want the local users to have their cgiscripts in /home/user/public_html/cgi-bin/ At first a link to the *.cgi program, just outputed the source of the perl program, then after a while i changed something in sr

Re: effect of having stable and unstable listed in sources.list

1999-12-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 4 Dec 1999 16:16:24 -0500 (EST), you wrote: >I would not recomend mixing slink and potato sources. Early in the >potato development this was possible as slink and potato were not too >different and only a few files were updated. But now most files depend >in some way on libc6 v2.1 or perl

Re: hosts.allow and hosts.deny

1999-12-08 Thread aphro
On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote: patric >The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected by the server. The rejected e-mail address was '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Subject 'Unlimited surfing from BT', Account: 'tele2', Server: '212.19.67.118', Protocol: SMTP, Server R

Netscape time == GMT (UTC)

1999-12-08 Thread mheyes
The time and date are correct everywhere on my system, it seems, except for the time stamp Netscape (Commnicator 4.7) puts on my mail. The time stamp shows the time with a -0 appended to it. I think it should be -5. Any help appreciated! Thanks, Michael Heyes

Re: hosts.allow and hosts.deny

1999-12-08 Thread Patrick Kirk
Yes. Adding the usernames and passwords fixed things. What is this? Where does it come from and do I need to manually update it? Thanks for making the system work at least! Patrick

Re: dpkg doesn't work offline?

1999-12-08 Thread John Hasler
W. Borgert writes: > The problem is with a PC somewhere in the desert connected via ISDN/PPP: > A friend wants to update the ISDN package. Of course, if he tries to > dpkg -i isdnutils_xyz.deb, the connection to the PC would drop. Why are you sure the connection will drop? Have you tried it? I

Re: hosts.allow and hosts.deny

1999-12-08 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > In a misguided effort to loosen up the system, > I edited hosts.allow to read All: All and commented > out the All: PARANOID line in hosts.deny. > > Now the IMAP server no longer works...all attempts > to pick up mail get refused. I see Net

RE: Adaptec 2940 UW

1999-12-08 Thread Paul McHale
> yep..internal 50 & 68 and external 68 .. only 2 out of 3 of the connectors > can be used at one time. its also good for overclocking(opposed to the > 2940) This is true of the 2940UW but not the newer 2940UW Pro. It can support all three simultaneously. Only drawback is expense. paul -- Pa

Re: Adaptec 2940 UW

1999-12-08 Thread Gary Hennigan
aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 8 Dec 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: > > a.genk >Gary, thanks a lot for your reply. I'd like to seek another advice > a.genk >then. For what I'll be using the card, a simple SCSI2 card would > a.genk >suffice just fine (I'll have 3 devices on it: CD-R, CDROM, and

Re: Adaptec 2940 UW

1999-12-08 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > [off-topic alert] > > Does it have internal 50-pin connector as well? I'm thinking of bying > this card second-hand, and can't find this info on Adaptec's web-site. Yep - it has 50 pin narrow and 68-pin wide (don't have one but I've se

Re: Can't install gnome-apt? Also zipping .deb file on Win98

1999-12-08 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 12:41:09PM -0500, Tam Than Ma wrote: > > Also. I download a 12.1MB or so .deb file yesterday my window 98 box. My > intention was to download and zip it up using WinZip 7.0 so that it would > fit on a floppy and I can transfer that file to my Linox box, but WinZip > would N

Can't install gnome-apt? Also zipping .deb file on Win98

1999-12-08 Thread Tam Than Ma
Hi, I install Gnome 1.x yesterday and every everything went alright except for gnome-apt. Dpkg told me that I need the "libapt-pkg2.6" package (which isn't installed on my system), but I could NOT find this "libapt-pkg2.6" package anywhere, keep in mind that I have a Slink system. Can anyone tell

Re: hosts.allow and hosts.deny

1999-12-08 Thread Patrick Kirk
hosts.allow reads ALL: ALL hosts.deny reads #ALL: PARANOID POP pickup works. POP cannot send - error message from a machine with OE reads: The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected by the server. The rejected e-mail address was '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Subject 'Unlimi

Re: Undo in dselect

1999-12-08 Thread Jean Orloff
Thanks for caring! On 7 déc, Shaul Karl wrote: > Perhaps by trying to diff the uncompressed > /var/lib/dpkg/status.yesterday.3.gz > with current /var/lib/dpkg/status and running dpkg --downgrade (do not sure > the exact option)? > Me neither, not quite sure really exists. The problem is: ho

Re: Adaptec 2940 UW

1999-12-08 Thread aphro
On 8 Dec 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: a.genk >Gary, thanks a lot for your reply. I'd like to seek another advice a.genk >then. For what I'll be using the card, a simple SCSI2 card would a.genk >suffice just fine (I'll have 3 devices on it: CD-R, CDROM, and a a.genk >scanner). I believe the 2940UW (

Re: Adaptec 2940 UW

1999-12-08 Thread aphro
On 8 Dec 1999, Gary Hennigan wrote: glhenn >My only complaint isn't with the 2940UW, but with the UW spec glhenn >itself. It's pretty finicky about things like cable-length and glhenn >termination. Quite a pain to keep it within spec. yeah, best to have at least 1 drive on each cable that support

Re: Adaptec 2940 UW

1999-12-08 Thread aphro
On 8 Dec 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: a.genk >Does it have internal 50-pin connector as well? I'm thinking of bying a.genk >this card second-hand, and can't find this info on Adaptec's web-site. yep..internal 50 & 68 and external 68 .. only 2 out of 3 of the connectors can be used at one time. its

Re: Adaptec 2940 UW

1999-12-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 8 Dec 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: [ snip ] : So, which way should I go: : : - save a few bucks and get a 2940U (which will be sufficient : speed-wise) Given this choice in your situation I'd get the 2940U : I'm being a bit paranoid, because I can't use my current SCSI card : with a C

Re: Adaptec 2940 UW

1999-12-08 Thread Arcady Genkin
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My only complaint isn't with the 2940UW, but with the UW spec > itself. It's pretty finicky about things like cable-length and > termination. Quite a pain to keep it within spec. Gary, thanks a lot for your reply. I'd like to seek another advice then.

Re: Can't type in X

1999-12-08 Thread Raphael Clancy
I reconfigured my mouse using xf86config(XF86Setup won't work with the SiS530) and still no change. I thought for a while it might be my font server, but all the screen fonts show up fine. I was able to produec a single "9" by banging on the keyboard, but was unable to repeat it even with much m

Re: Adaptec 2940 UW

1999-12-08 Thread Gary Hennigan
Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does it have internal 50-pin connector as well? I'm thinking of bying > this card second-hand, and can't find this info on Adaptec's > web-site. Yes, if it's a 2940UW it has 3 connectors: an internal wide connector, an internal narrow connector and an ex

Adaptec 2940 UW

1999-12-08 Thread Arcady Genkin
[off-topic alert] Does it have internal 50-pin connector as well? I'm thinking of bying this card second-hand, and can't find this info on Adaptec's web-site. Does this card have a solid reputation? My current SCSI card is not very well supported under Linux, so this is a "forced" upgrade. I'm go

Re: ISP says bad passwd

1999-12-08 Thread aphro
Maybe your ISP requires PAP or CHAP? You may have it configured for something it doesn't support. I've never used/heard of wvdialconf so im not sure how it is (i use pppconfig) what does /var/log/messages tell you when its connecting? pppd should be printing out messages there. nate On Wed, 8 D

Re: locking the console

1999-12-08 Thread aphro
I find it useful to just run stuff in screen, then detach & logout when/if I need the machine secured. frees up the box for other people to use and at the same time keeps my process(s)( running. could leave for a month and they'd still be going:/ nate On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Rob Mahurin wrote: robm

Re: Upgrade to slink killed telnet

1999-12-08 Thread Evan Moore
thats the one, for somereason the upgrade deleted all of my devices. I am manually creating them right now. The upgrade even killed my tty* and i had to reboot from rescue create those devices, but i still can't log in, and i am pretty sure it has to do with the rest of the devices not there. thank

Re: dpkg doesn't work offline?

1999-12-08 Thread aphro
you could try the same in screen load screen (type screen) then type something like sleep 90 ; dpkg -i and 90 seconds after you press enter it will run that command..for a 1 time deal i find screen/sleep much easier then cron :) and it has never failed for me. nate On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, W. Bo

Re: hosts.allow and hosts.deny

1999-12-08 Thread aphro
On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote: patric >It reads imap2 stream tcp nowaitroot/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/imapd does that binary exist ? check the daemon.log in /var/log to see whats going on. when you telnet to the machine on port 143 something like this should show: [EM

Re: Mozilla

1999-12-08 Thread aphro
On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Oki DZ wrote: litban >Hi, litban > litban >How do you run Mozilla? litban >Typing "mozilla" gives me segmentation fault. litban >I downloaded the application from www.debian.org. If your running slink your only way to run Mozilla is by running a much older build, due to a bug

Re: Gateway name servers IP addresses

1999-12-08 Thread aphro
do a whois on the domain and you get them Domain Name: GATEWAY.NET Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC. Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com Referral URL: www.networksolutions.com Name Server: DNS-03.NS.AOL.COM Name Server: DNS-04.NS.AOL.COM nate On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Rick Dunn

Re: upgrading 2.1r2 to glibc2.1

1999-12-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Ethan Benson wrote: [ snip ] : >c) What is the preferred method of taking my 2.1r2 through an unstable : >upgrade? Specifically, how do I do it? : : edit /etc/apt/apt.sources and change all instances of `stable' with `unstable' : : then run apt-get update ; apt-get di

Re: Joysticks

1999-12-08 Thread Tom Allard
> Tom Allard hat gesagt: // Tom Allard wrote: > > What version of xmame are you using? Here xmame 0.36b6.1-1 runs without > problem, but the xmamerc has another syntax than earlier releases. Upgrading to xmame-x 0.36b6.1-1 has solved my josytick problems. Thanks to all. rgds-- TA ([EMAIL PRO

Re: dpkg doesn't work offline?

1999-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >is it possible to install a package using dpkg without >sitting at the console, i.e. offline? The system is >"stable". > >The problem is with a PC somewhere in the desert connected >via ISDN/PPP: A friend wants to update the ISDN package. >Of course, if he tries to dpkg

Re: streaming audio? (Re: wav <-> conversion utility)

1999-12-08 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Frank Barknecht wrote: > aphro hat gesagt: // aphro wrote: > > > On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, byoung wrote: > > > > b- >i tried to get the LAME, but wasn't able to. i'll try that again. > > > > its a good player, and check into not-lame its a breakoff(?) of lame, > > and has a differen

help i bombed my server

1999-12-08 Thread Evan Moore
i found out why telnet is not working after i upgraded from debian 1.3 ... I can't login at all anymore even on a vc. the ttys are not respawning and the available logins tell me that they are Unable to determine my tty name. i am emailing the list from some other account that i have so please repl

ISP says bad passwd

1999-12-08 Thread Rick Dunnivan
I just bought a Jaton 56K internal modem. wvdialconf set everything up for me. When I use wvdial to attempt a connection, It says "looks like a login prompt... sending login... looks like a password prompt... sending **BAD PASSWD**" several times then gives up. I have ensured the passwd liste

Re: Mozilla warnings

1999-12-08 Thread mheyes
I just downloaded M11 last night. mike Marshal Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/07/99 04:13:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org (bcc: Mike Heyes/LincolnFP/BerisfordPlc) Subject: Re: Mozilla warnings I think it's expected. The Mozilla you're using is M9, w

Re: xconsole placement

1999-12-08 Thread ktb
To reply to my own message, what I figured out is I needed to move "-file /dev/console" to the beginning of the command like so, "+ "I" exec xconsole -file /dev/console" now it's working fine. kent ktb wrote: > > I have a line in my ~/.fvwm2/init.hook file, > > + "I" exec xconsole -geomet

Re: Finding left-over libraries

1999-12-08 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 7 Dec, peter karlsson wrote about "Finding left-over libraries" > Is there any way in Debian to find out what packages no other packages > depend on? > > When I install a couple of packages, all the libraries they depend on are > installed as well, which is quite nice, but the reverse doesn

Re: streaming audio? (Re: wav <-> conversion utility)

1999-12-08 Thread Frank Barknecht
aphro hat gesagt: // aphro wrote: > On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, byoung wrote: > > b- >i tried to get the LAME, but wasn't able to. i'll try that again. > > its a good player, and check into not-lame its a breakoff(?) of lame, > and has a different homepage, although the lame page links to it. The fastest

Re: An open letter to the debian community

1999-12-08 Thread Jillian-Beth Stamos-Kaschke
[lots of stuff snipped] > I haven't visited www.linuxchix.com lately; I'm just wondering whether > any of them runs Debian. As far as I know, there are plenty of Linuxchix members around that use Debian, myself included. I first started using Linux in 1995, mucked around with a couple of distri

Re: hard drive not found

1999-12-08 Thread Peter Ross
On 08-Dec-1999, Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Rick Dunnivan wrote: > > > > I have a Gateway PC with a PIII 450 and a 9GB western > > digital hard drive. When I boot up with my Debian cd, > > my hard drive is not found. I see in the install > > documentation that IDE-SCSI drives are n

Re: locking the console

1999-12-08 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 08:22:35PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On 7/12/99 Rob Mahurin wrote: > > >vlock' (which is not > >really useful without the -a). > > which is annoying since -a is not very multiuser friendly, granted > this is often not to big a problem since usually there is only one >

RE: Why

1999-12-08 Thread Paul McHale
> > Its a part-time OS. Sometimes it works half-heartedly doing a > fraction of what is needed and sometimes it goes away for no > apparent reason. > No thats funny :) -- Paul McHale Work: 937-253-7610 Double E Solutions Mobile: 937-371-2828 4912 Effingham Fax:

Re: Error messages using Iomega ZIP

1999-12-08 Thread Martyn Pearce
| I've found that md5sum does a pretty exhaustive scan through a file | and it'll find CD write errors. I don't know if it actually searches | every byte / block though. It *does* search every byte of every file. One may safely assume that if two files md5sums the same, they're equal.

dpkg doesn't work offline?

1999-12-08 Thread W. Borgert
Hi, is it possible to install a package using dpkg without sitting at the console, i.e. offline? The system is "stable". The problem is with a PC somewhere in the desert connected via ISDN/PPP: A friend wants to update the ISDN package. Of course, if he tries to dpkg -i isdnutils_xyz.deb, the c

Re: hosts.allow and hosts.deny

1999-12-08 Thread Patrick Kirk
[snip]> > this would not affect IMAP in any way. If you get connection refused that > means there is no service listening on that port. check your inetd.conf > if you get a connection and then it closes, then inetd is listening but > there still may not be a service there, or tcp_wrappers is not

Re:

1999-12-08 Thread Paul Keenan
> Jason Winters wrote: > > does anyone know why packages would install right, then when I try to > run them nothing happens? Could you be any more vague ? Paul

Re: Why

1999-12-08 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 01:14:22PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Windows 98 is not an operating system. > > So, what is it? > "System (that) operating?" Its a part-time OS. Sometimes it works half-heartedly doing a fraction of what is needed and sometimes it goes awa

Re: emacs20 apt-get upgrde problem

1999-12-08 Thread Svante Signell
I managed to solve this problem by the following link: (parts of a mail sent Dec 3 to this list. I don't know if this problem formally has been reported as a bug.) >Upgrading from slink emacs or xemacs resulted in an unfinished >configure phase. This was solved by: >ln -s /usr/share/dpkg/site-lisp

Re: urgent

1999-12-08 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 08:26:58PM -0500, Evan Moore wrote > this upgrade has become a disaster. > dselect is trying to remove kernel-image-2.0.0 and kernel-image-2.0.6 > the ouput is as follows > > removing kernel-image2.0.0... > dpkg (subprocess):unable to execute pre-removal script: No such fi

Re: apt-get

1999-12-08 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 09:38:41PM -0600, Nathan York wrote > > > fixed:~# dpkg -P lm-sensors > > > dpkg: error processing lm-sensors (--purge): > > > Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should > > > reinstall it before attempting a removal. > > > Errors were encountered while proce

Can't mount /home/kent and /usr

1999-12-08 Thread ktb
I've recently installed Slink and Redhat on the same HD. I've been mounting back and forth between the two and have noticed that I can't access /home/kent. I 'cd' to /home but when I 'ls' it, it shows an empty directory. /usr is also shown to be empty. This is clearly not the case. I've been m

Re: Mozilla

1999-12-08 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 12/08/99 02:07PM, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > How do you run Mozilla? > Typing "mozilla" gives me segmentation fault. > I downloaded the application from www.debian.org. > Does anyone have it running? Does it have a mailer with it? > I have Netscape 4.7 running, but it has no mailer. > > Actually,

CD burning problems

1999-12-08 Thread Alex V. Toropov
Hi all, I'm trying to burn data CD under linux using mkhybrid (ver 1.12a4.7-3) and cdrecord (ver 1:1.6final-0.2) on Traxdata CDR4120. I have to read this CD under Win so I used the following: mkhybrid -J -v -o cdrecord speed=4 dev=00,03,00 -v -pad This commands' output seems to be all right.

More details: PDF wont work with Potato and Acrobat... Anyone?

1999-12-08 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
One of the main problems I have with acroread is that fonts are not displaying correctly. That's the best I can make of it---two words are overlaid on each other; a whole line may only be an inch or two wide, but in letters 14 or 18 points high. I am now trying xpdf and gv also. Thanks for the s

Mozilla

1999-12-08 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, How do you run Mozilla? Typing "mozilla" gives me segmentation fault. I downloaded the application from www.debian.org. Does anyone have it running? Does it have a mailer with it? I have Netscape 4.7 running, but it has no mailer. Actually, what I need is an X mailer that can do threading; ba

Re: source build cluelessness (prc-tools && pppd)

1999-12-08 Thread Jonathan Lupa
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 07:47:07PM +1030, John Pearson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 10:40:37PM -0500, Jonathan Lupa wrote > > Which kind of leaves me in a bind because it seems to me that I might > > need that -no-68881 flag. :) > > Just a wild guess, but I think this is trying to build a bina

Re: Why

1999-12-08 Thread Oki DZ
Mark Wagnon wrote: > She might seek out a LUG in her area. Where I live, we have a great > LUG. There are frequent install-fests where new users are helped > through the installation process. What about www.linuxchix.com? Oki

Re: Why

1999-12-08 Thread Oki DZ
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Windows 98 is not an operating system. So, what is it? "System (that) operating?" Oki

Re: Why

1999-12-08 Thread Oki DZ
> Brigette Heffner wrote: > > Why is it so hard to get anywhere with Linux? Hard...? Well, it depends. In the beginning, it usually is. BTW, my window manager now defaulted to Ice, and users other than root will have gdm and no more. I believe that I'm quite familiar with Linux, but problems

Re: slink-only system, kernel version ceiling?

1999-12-08 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 02:35:08PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > At some point in the not-too-distant future I'm going to brave the wild > and wooly world of kernel recompilation. (mostly for sound card and > at some point a zip drive) If my system is still slink-only is there some > kernel v

A router with NAT behind a router with NAT

1999-12-08 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, Quite long time ago, I post a message about a LAN that couldn't connect to the Internet via two routers. The picture was almost like the following: [Internet] | | [NAT router](1 | | LAN 1 ---+-+ |

Re: Debian on a 386? Unlikely. (OT)

1999-12-08 Thread Sean Johnson
from "Marathon Man" : "..is it safe?..." Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > ha !!! i will !!! > > i even compiled kernel on that monster... > > OK > > ps lousy translation from Russian: > > " Do you feel the pain? > No, doctor, i enjoy it... > "

Re: locking the console

1999-12-08 Thread Ethan Benson
On 7/12/99 Rob Mahurin wrote: vlock' (which is not really useful without the -a). which is annoying since -a is not very multiuser friendly, granted this is often not to big a problem since usually there is only one person at a time using the console. (or preferably only trusted users...)

Re: Gateway name servers IP addresses

1999-12-08 Thread Art Lemasters
Here they are. Art - From whois gateway.net|mailx -s "ns" [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Registrant: Gateway 2000, Inc. (GATEWAY16-DOM) [address and other impertinent info ommitted] Domain Name: GATEWAY.NET Record last updated on 04-Nov-1999. Record created on 23-Sep-1997. Datab

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