Re: Windows Hyperterm alternative for Linux

2001-01-12 Thread Shawn D'Alimonte
On January 12, 2001 10:02 pm, Frank Rocco wrote: > will trillich wrote: [SNIP] > I site is a banking institution and requires me to dial in. > tcpip will not work for this. You probably want minicom. This is a telix style vt100 emulator. -- Shawn D'Alimonte [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X development packages broken in woody?

2001-01-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 03:50:08PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You wouldn't have these problems if you would ignore the damn code names > > and track the appropriate distribution. If you want to track unstable > > point to unstable, not woody. > > > > _Don't_ _use_ _code_ _names_. > > Bu

Re: Kernel 2.4.0 on Debian 2.2 R2

2001-01-12 Thread Jeff Weatherford
I had the same problem with my 3c905b. what i ended up doing was upgrading the modutils (i was running potato b4) to the "unstable" version. then i re-make modules and re-make modules_install. once i did this, i had to add the compiled mods to /etc/modules. If there is an easier way, let me k

Re: X development packages broken in woody?

2001-01-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 03:39:15PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You contradict yourself - if you were tracking woody you were tracking > > unstable. Since you were tracking unstable before I don't see why > > it's such a big deal to track it now ... > > Maybe it's not worth a discussion, b

Re: Windows Hyperterm alternative for Linux

2001-01-12 Thread Frank Rocco
John Hasler wrote: > Frank writes: > > I site is a banking institution and requires me to dial in. > > Use minicom. > -- > John Hasler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dancing Horse Hill > Elmwood, Wisconsin > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
It's also in potato. Bob On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 05:49:31PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 02:40:13AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > > Seriously, maybe it's time to introduce the inclusion of grub to > > debian woody/unstable :) > > It's been there for a long time now...

Re: Windows Hyperterm alternative for Linux

2001-01-12 Thread John Hasler
Frank writes: > I site is a banking institution and requires me to dial in. Use minicom. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

[OT] Bash Script won't work in fvwm menu.

2001-01-12 Thread ktb
I've written the following script which works just fine at the command line (xterm) but doesn't work when I use it in .fvwm2rc in a menu - + "myNetscape" exec mynet Netscape starts just fine but the lock file and pid aren't killed. The permissions of /usr/local/bin/mynet - -rwxr-xr-x1 root

Kernel 2.4.0 on Debian 2.2 R2

2001-01-12 Thread Michael Madden
I've got 2 Debian 2.2 R2 systems. One has a NE2000 ISA NIC, and the other one has a 3Com 3C509 ISA card. I've recently updated the kernel to 2.4.0, and I'm having a great deal of trouble getting the network cards working. When it is booting up I get errors indicating the device /dev/eth0 doesn'

Re: [0T] need a url that crashes netscape

2001-01-12 Thread Jens Gecius
Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This may be a strange request but I'm trying to write a little > > wrapper of sorts for Netscape that removes the lock file > > automatically after killing the browser when it hangs. The > > problem

Re: save msgs to default mailbox in Mutt

2001-01-12 Thread mike
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 03:02:28AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > Ah, but you could use a macro! ...off reading...trying...like > > unset confirmappend > unset confirmcreate > macro index s \n > That does the trick, in a flash! I am learning...Thanks for the help.Now back to reading

Graphical tools & Why choose Debian?

2001-01-12 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
Matthew said: > It's not easy to learn, but all linuxi have a steep learning curve. I > just really love the ability to know exactely why something is > happening, and the power of being able to change so much and edit > everything by hand. Relatedly, it is frustrating to see new linux users with

Re: Windows Hyperterm alternative for Linux

2001-01-12 Thread Frank Rocco
will trillich wrote: > On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:01:09PM -0500, Frank Rocco wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Can someone point me to a program that does the same thing as the > > Windows HyperTerm program? > > um, in case i misunderstood on the first round... > > if you wanna use linux to log in to

apt-proxy configuration

2001-01-12 Thread Robert Guthrie
Can anyone send me a working configuration for apt-proxy that contains the standard distribution sections ( / /non-US /non-free)? Or perhaps you can tell me what I've done wrong; here are the "backend" entries for /etc/apt-proxy, stored on my box called "wolf": add_backend /kde/

Re: Cannot get Philips CDRW PCRW80 4K17 - 800 Series to write

2001-01-12 Thread David B . Harris
To quote hanasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I Cannot seem to get debian to recognize the CDRW as anything other than # a CD-ROM. Any input would be appreciated You need 'cdrecord' and friends. I would suggest using XCDRoast as a front-end. Maybe 'gcombust'. Very nice GUIs. The problem is, you can't

Re: Windows Hyperterm alternative for Linux

2001-01-12 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:01:09PM -0500, Frank Rocco wrote: > Hello, > > Can someone point me to a program that does the same thing as the > Windows HyperTerm program? um, in case i misunderstood on the first round... if you wanna use linux to log in to a windows command-line (or some other

Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-12 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "Steve R. Hastings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I am interested in why people prefer Debian to other Linux # distributions. Please explain the top few reasons why you chose Debian # rather than something else. Let me just explain a bit of my philosophy :) Don't worry, I'm not talking religi

Re: Windows Hyperterm alternative for Linux

2001-01-12 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:01:09PM -0500, Frank Rocco wrote: > Hello, > > Can someone point me to a program that does the same thing as the > Windows HyperTerm program? hop over to download.com or tucows.com and search for "ssh client" or if you're brave/stupid, "telnet client". -- See, if

Re: Windows Hyperterm alternative for Linux

2001-01-12 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Frank Rocco wrote: > Can someone point me to a program that does the same thing as the > Windows HyperTerm program? You probably want Minicom. It resembles the old DOS program Telix; should be a package for it already.

Re: save msgs to default mailbox in Mutt

2001-01-12 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 08:19:48PM -0500, mike wrote: ... > OK i'll agree with your fine reading of the terse descriptions, but > since Mutt lets me delete as many messages as i want without a prompt, > (set delete=yes); you think it would let me save just one message without > the prompt if

Re: Problems w/ adduser... says user 'root' doesn't exist!

2001-01-12 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, January 11, Monte Milanuk did write: > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:38:21PM -0700, Monte Milanuk wrote: > > > I'm a bit confused here... I used dselect to install CUPS and it's > > > dependent packages, but no config program, which seemed odd. I used >

Windows Hyperterm alternative for Linux

2001-01-12 Thread Frank Rocco
Hello, Can someone point me to a program that does the same thing as the Windows HyperTerm program? Thanks Frank

Re: save msgs to default mailbox in Mutt

2001-01-12 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 05:59:39PM -0500, mike wrote: > Since at least half-this list uses Mutt i thought i would ask > my Mutt question here. >I set up a save-hook to save any message to a default mailbox. > So when i press 's' to save a message i get a prompt to save to the default

Cannot get Philips CDRW PCRW80 4K17 - 800 Series to write

2001-01-12 Thread hanasaki
I Cannot seem to get debian to recognize the CDRW as anything other than a CD-ROM. Any input would be appreciated Thank you

Intel EtherExpress Pro / 10 not recognized.

2001-01-12 Thread hanasaki
Support was added to the kernel when Potato was installed. The system does not seem to see the card. Any input would be appreciated. Thank you

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-12 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 02:40:13AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > Seriously, maybe it's time to introduce the inclusion of grub to > debian woody/unstable :) It's been there for a long time now... It's not quite automated like the use of LILO, but it doesn't take too much to get it set-up. -- Er

Re: default route

2001-01-12 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 11:31:58AM +1100, Matt Chipman wrote: > Hi all > > Just getting used to debian and need to add a default route at boot time. i > have the route but what file do i need to add it to? > > Currently i add it manually after the machine boots. > > Lucky its not windows or i'd

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-12 Thread Svante Signell
Sorry for stepping in at this point, but this is really amazing. I've counted 20 postings with the subject lilo vs grub. When posting recently to the mandrake list I did get _two_ replies( relevant ones though), and earlier on fewer than that (with the same subject). What do you think of the number

Re: woody and stability (Just 1 thing !)

2001-01-12 Thread Leen Besselink
Maybe it's a bad idea to update to 2.4 kernel if your using certain videocards (which perform best with binary-drivers) and XFree 4 ! But trying doesn't harm you ofcourse. :)

Re: woody and stability

2001-01-12 Thread Leen Besselink
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Jerrud wrote: > Hey all, > > I do lots of 3D animations w/ blender (all hail NaN ;-), and while i`m > satisfied w/ using potato (solid as a rock for me), there are a few apps > that I could use that would make my life a lot more simple. But they > are in the unstable t

Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-12 Thread Terry Carney
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Francisco M. Neto wrote: > > I am interested in why people prefer Debian to other Linux > > distributions. Please explain the top few reasons why you chose Debian > > rather than something else. I started with Slackware and looking back I am glad because of the necessary l

Re: save msgs to default mailbox in Mutt

2001-01-12 Thread mike
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 01:12:29AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 05:59:39PM -0500, mike wrote: > > Since at least half-this list uses Mutt i thought i would ask > > my Mutt question here. > > I'm no mutt guru, but I've learned that Mutt's Fine Manual is > extremely a

woody and stability

2001-01-12 Thread Jerrud
Hey all, I do lots of 3D animations w/ blender (all hail NaN ;-), and while i`m satisfied w/ using potato (solid as a rock for me), there are a few apps that I could use that would make my life a lot more simple. But they are in the unstable tree. My question is this: How would it affect me

Re: Desktopless StarOffice for 486?

2001-01-12 Thread Andre Berger
Veit Waltemath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 02:30:32PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 12 Jan 2001, Andre Berger wrote: > > > > > I have a 486 with less than 1 GB total HDD space (on three HDDs). Is > > > there still an older, smaller, desktop-free version of

Re: proper, debian location of latex files

2001-01-12 Thread Andre Berger
Giulio Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the proper location in a debian system for files obtained from CTAN? > Should there be a /usr/local/share/texmf tree in addition to the > /usr/share/texmf tree, or should files obtained from sources other than debian > be put in some logical plac

Re: default route

2001-01-12 Thread Defresne Sylvain
* Matt Chipman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all > > Just getting used to debian and need to add a default route at boot time. i > have the route but what file do i need to add it to? Add it in /etc/networks/interface ... (man interfaces) > Currently i add it manually after the machine

default route

2001-01-12 Thread Matt Chipman
Hi all Just getting used to debian and need to add a default route at boot time. i have the route but what file do i need to add it to? Currently i add it manually after the machine boots. Lucky its not windows or i'd have to do it every day at least! :) thanks -Matt

Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-12 Thread Nate Bargmann
My story. Back in August '96 I had just performed major brain surgery on my computer which brought it from an AMD386DX-40 to a 486DX4/100 (which it still is). I was reading the Def Leppard newsgroup and there was a posting touting Linux (true!), so I decided to pursue further. I asked a good fri

Re: save msgs to default mailbox in Mutt

2001-01-12 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 05:59:39PM -0500, mike wrote: > Since at least half-this list uses Mutt i thought i would ask > my Mutt question here. I'm no mutt guru, but I've learned that Mutt's Fine Manual is extremely accurate in its description of actions and what have you, but terse terse an

Re: testing and proposed updates

2001-01-12 Thread John Hasler
Jim writes: > Does the existence of `testing' mean that `proposed-updates' is (in > effect anyway) redundant? As I understand it they have nothing to do with each other. 'Proposed updates' is for proposed updates to stable: security fixes, critical bug fixes, etc. Packages are uploaded to it when

Re: testing and proposed updates

2001-01-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 03:43:46PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > |> So will testing always be available? I like the idea. I'm just not > |> used to packages being rolled back in a release. But if I have > |> apt-get always looking at testing, maybe that's what will make me > |> happy. > > Does

Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-12 Thread Monte Milanuk
"Steve R. Hastings" wrote: > > I am interested in why people prefer Debian to other Linux > distributions. Please explain the top few reasons why you chose Debian > rather than something else. > It's almost embarrasing. I've been putzing around w/ Linux since around '95 or so, and I still have

RE: testing and proposed updates

2001-01-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 12-Jan-2001 Jim McCloskey wrote: > >|> So will testing always be available? I like the idea. I'm just not >|> used to packages being rolled back in a release. But if I have >|> apt-get always looking at testing, maybe that's what will make me >|> happy. > > Does the existence of `testing' mea

testing and proposed updates

2001-01-12 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> So will testing always be available? I like the idea. I'm just not |> used to packages being rolled back in a release. But if I have |> apt-get always looking at testing, maybe that's what will make me |> happy. Does the existence of `testing' mean that `proposed-updates' is (in effect anyway)

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-12 Thread Brian May
> "Bob" == Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bob> # For booting Windows95 title WIN95 on /dev/hdb1 unhide Bob> (hd1,0) hide (hd0,0) map (hd1) (hd0) map (hd2) (hd1) Bob> rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 I didn't think Windows could boot from a slav

Re: X development packages broken in woody?

2001-01-12 Thread David Z Maze
debuser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DU> So will testing always be available? I like the idea. I'm just not DU> used to packages being rolled back in a release. But if I have DU> apt-get always looking at testing, maybe that's what will make me DU> happy. To my knowledge: -- Testing will always b

save msgs to default mailbox in Mutt

2001-01-12 Thread mike
Since at least half-this list uses Mutt i thought i would ask my Mutt question here. I set up a save-hook to save any message to a default mailbox. So when i press 's' to save a message i get a prompt to save to the default mailbox. I have not yet found a way to eliminate the prom

Re: why use Debian?

2001-01-12 Thread James W. Lindenschmidt
Two (one?) words: apt-get I too just migrated from Red Hat. Debian rules. > I am interested in why people prefer Debian to other Linux > distributions. Please explain the top few reasons why you chose Debian > rather than something else.

Re: X development packages broken in woody?

2001-01-12 Thread debuser
> You wouldn't have these problems if you would ignore the damn code names > and track the appropriate distribution. If you want to track unstable > point to unstable, not woody. > > _Don't_ _use_ _code_ _names_. But I did not want to track unstable, I wanted to track woody. That is, I didn't wa

Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-12 Thread matthew
On 12 Jan, Steve R. Hastings wrote: > I am interested in why people prefer Debian to other Linux > distributions. Please explain the top few reasons why you chose Debian > rather than something else. > > Perhaps we can collect the responses together, edit them, and put the > result up on the d

Re: X development packages broken in woody?

2001-01-12 Thread debuser
> You contradict yourself - if you were tracking woody you were tracking > unstable. Since you were tracking unstable before I don't see why > it's such a big deal to track it now ... Maybe it's not worth a discussion, but when I started using woody before, the stability of this machine was much

Re: [WOT] sh script to relace chars in #1 w/ chars in #2?

2001-01-12 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:46:36AM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > Hi, > > I have written about 5 successful low-level scripts to do various things, > and want to learn more about the ways, but I'm in a time crunch (classes > are starting next week) and I can't begin to grok what's needed for thi

Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-12 Thread Rob VanFleet
Oh wow, there are quite a few reasons to use Debian. I've use several distributions, including SuSE, Caldera, Redhat, Mandrake, TurboLinux, and Slackware. Each one of them could not even come close to Debian in terms of stability. Granted that stability comes with the price of older packages, but

Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-12 Thread Francisco M. Neto
» Steve R. Hastings said this and I say that: > I am interested in why people prefer Debian to other Linux > distributions. Please explain the top few reasons why you chose Debian > rather than something else. > > Perhaps we can collect the responses together, edit them, and put the > result

Re: Gcc, Objective-C

2001-01-12 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 05:21:26PM -0500 or thereabouts, D-Man wrote: > I haven't heard much about Objective C. I would guess that it is > dying, but maybe I'm just not listening in the right groups. No, ObjC is not dying, it's just not getting the attention it deserves in a C/C++/Java world. So

Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-12 Thread Bud Rogers
On Friday 12 January 2001 15:59, Steve R. Hastings wrote: > I am interested in why people prefer Debian to other Linux > distributions. Please explain the top few reasons why you chose > Debian rather than something else. I cut my teeth on Slackware. It was a wonderful learning experience, but

Re: WOT: Hotmail mail servers

2001-01-12 Thread kmself
on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 04:26:07PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:41:13PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > > As far as I remember they run on *BSD-boxes mostly but are migrating > > their stuff to Win??(Enterforaprize|Dataloss)Server or whatever i

libstdc++2.10-dev install problem in testing/woody?

2001-01-12 Thread Daniel P. Katz
Hi. I pointed my apt sources.list at testing and did an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' which did it's job for the most part but left me with the following error messages (modulo some formatting): Preparing to replace libstdc++2.10-dev 1:2.95.2-13 (using .../libstdc++2.10-dev_1%3a2.95.2-20_i386

--configure debconf

2001-01-12 Thread Jacob Davis
Hi all, I recently installed a base potato dist, changed my sources.list to unstable and did a dist-upgrade wich went well. I then tried to apt-get install xserver-xfree86 (4.0.2) but I can't get it to work. It seems to die due to a debconf dependancy and debconf will not install. Here is the outpu

Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Steve R. Hastings" wrote: >I am interested in why people prefer Debian to other Linux >distributions. Please explain the top few reasons why you chose Debian >rather than something else. In the beginning, there was Slackware; I got it off a magazine CD. After a couple of years I got fed

Why choose Debian?

2001-01-12 Thread Steve R. Hastings
I am interested in why people prefer Debian to other Linux distributions. Please explain the top few reasons why you chose Debian rather than something else. Perhaps we can collect the responses together, edit them, and put the result up on the debian.org web page. I have looked and looked,

Re: pon permissions

2001-01-12 Thread matthew
All you need to do is to make your four users members of the dip group. If you used pppconfig to set up your dial up networking then this has the options to add users to dip, or just issue 'adduser dip'. Matthew On 12 Jan, Thomas H. George wrote: > On a stand-alone system four users need access

Getting Gnome desktop on woody

2001-01-12 Thread Steve R. Hastings
Hello. I am a brand-new Debian user. I have another computer running Mandrake with the full Helix Gnome installed. (These days it's Ximian Gnome but I haven't updated in a while.) I'd like to get my Debian system running the same desktop environment as my Mandrake computer. But my understa

Re: sources.list for testing?

2001-01-12 Thread Bud Rogers
On Friday 12 January 2001 09:55, David B. Harris wrote: > To quote Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # I have woody installed on my Thinkpad, but it hasn't been upgraded > in # quite a while and I want to bring it up to date. I rummaged > around # www.d.o for quite a while but didn't find a clear

Re: Machine/Domain Name

2001-01-12 Thread Bud Rogers
On Friday 12 January 2001 09:51, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > My Debian system has a name of "darkstar.localdomain" > When I'm at home I can no longer send email to my office > because of "spam" filters that were setup to reject any > mail from rdsomains that are unresolvable. > > I have exim setu

Re: X development packages broken in woody?

2001-01-12 Thread John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Uggh, they removed X4 from Woody? I'm not sure I like this testing > distribution thing. If I'm pointing at woody the whole time (which I > have), I don't expect packages to be rolled back unless something is > really wrong. You wouldn't have these problems if you would

Re: /etc/resolv.conf not there with potato

2001-01-12 Thread Xucaen
--- Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:58:17AM +1000, Lyall > Ward wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am just learning how things work in debian > and have come across a > > problem. There is no resolv.conf. I have > tried just creating it and while that is strange. I

Re: Running fetchmail as daemon - mail goes to postmaster

2001-01-12 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 09:43:19 -0600 "Keith G. Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I couldn't get that to work when I used 'on this system', nor can I see > those as allowed 'noise' words in the documentation. What works for me > is just plain old: > > username to > > Where did you get the '

Re: [WOT] sh script to relace chars in #1 w/ chars in #2?

2001-01-12 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:46:36AM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... Though you ask for a sh script, this problem is easily solved with a higher level scripting language like Perl or Python. As I can't get my mind to grog Perl, I'll go ahead with Python: #/usr/bin/python # expected use cleanup

Re: New Gimp 1.2 in pool is...?

2001-01-12 Thread Jonathan Gift
Colin Watson wrote: > > 'dpkg -I foo.deb' will show you information about a package you've > downloaded. In this case, though, it depends on sid's glibc, so you'll > have to 'apt-get source gimp1.2' and compile it yourself. > I thought so, just holding out hope someone had done it. Have you the

RE: X development packages broken in woody?

2001-01-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 12-Jan-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Uggh, they removed X4 from Woody? I'm not sure I like this testing > distribution thing. If I'm pointing at woody the whole time (which I > have), I don't expect packages to be rolled back unless something is > really wrong. So now that X has been removed

Re: Machine/Domain Name

2001-01-12 Thread Terry Boon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:51:17AM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > I have exim setup with my ISP's smtp server for outgoing > mail. Mail gets delivered to everyone I send to except > to my office. > > How do I change the name of my machine to d

Re: X development packages broken in woody?

2001-01-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 12:58:39PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Uggh, they removed X4 from Woody? I'm not sure I like this testing > distribution thing. If I'm pointing at woody the whole time (which I > have), I don't expect packages to be rolled back unless something is > really wrong. So no

Re: GRUB [Was: Grub vs LILO]

2001-01-12 Thread Cliff Sarginson
There have been lots pf questions about grub. My experience of it is that it is easy to install and remarkably powerful. I suggest you get hold of it and read the supplied documentaion (which is good) a couple of times - it answers all your questions :) Cliff

Re: MUAs and timestamps, was Re: how to grep without changing timestamps?

2001-01-12 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 07:58:00PM -0500, D-Man wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 07:35:06PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: > | > D-Man writes: > | > | d> | How is mutt (or any other MUA) meant to do it then? > | d> | > | > | d> By checking the file itself for new messages, rather than

Re: /etc/resolv.conf not there with potato

2001-01-12 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:58:17AM +1000, Lyall Ward wrote: > Hi, > > I am just learning how things work in debian and have come across a > problem. There is no resolv.conf. I have tried just creating it and while > this fixes the problem of the file not being there, nothing seems to use > it(Eg I

Re: X development packages broken in woody?

2001-01-12 Thread Peter S Galbraith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Uggh, they removed X4 from Woody? I'm not sure I like this testing > distribution thing. If I'm pointing at woody the whole time (which I > have), I don't expect packages to be rolled back unless something is > really wrong. When they implemented testing, they started

how to make festival louder

2001-01-12 Thread Felix Natter
hi, how can I make festival louder ? it's hardly hearable even if I set the sound card's volume to the maximum (using aumix). thanks, -- Felix Natter

how to make dosemu hdimage.first larger ?

2001-01-12 Thread Felix Natter
hi, I'd like to run a dos game which requires 1.5Mb of hard disk space, but dosemu's default hdimage (hdimage.first) is only 1.2Mb large. Is there a way to create a hard-disk image of a specified size ? (does not need to have anything in it, because it will be the secondary drive, not the boot-dri

debugging svgalib-programs

2001-01-12 Thread Felix Natter
hi, I wrote an svgalib-program which gives me segmentation faults (SIGSEGV) or makes the whole system halt. The svgalib man-page mentions two debugging solutions: 1. textmode < /dev/ttyX 2. execute vga_flip in the debugger but I have no program called textmode (can I write this ?) and when tryin

Re: 3c905c-txm driver problems

2001-01-12 Thread Casey Webster
just use the driver already included in the kernel. The driver you want to build into the kernel/make as a module is 3c90x. -casey On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, benny k wrote: > hey, > > i'm having trouble getting the 3com driver (3c90x) to work with potato r2, > i386. i downloaded the driver from: >

RE: X development packages broken in woody?

2001-01-12 Thread debuser
Uggh, they removed X4 from Woody? I'm not sure I like this testing distribution thing. If I'm pointing at woody the whole time (which I have), I don't expect packages to be rolled back unless something is really wrong. So now that X has been removed from Woody, I must either roll back to X3 also, o

Re: Debian Image

2001-01-12 Thread Xucaen
. well, now... how about that... .. thanks! --- Diego Biurrun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Clicking the Debian logo on the top of the main > page takes you there. > > Diego Biurrun > > > Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >How come there is no link to this from the > main page??? __

Re: update to 2.2r2 from 2.2r0

2001-01-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 12:16:03PM +0100, Fernando Carvajal wrote: > > I have a Debian 2.2r0 + Xfree 4.01 installed and i want to update to 2.2r2. > it`s the first time. So i have read at debian the update page. As want to > use cd-rom i suppose i have to modify source.list as indicated. My quest

Re: Debian Image

2001-01-12 Thread Diego Biurrun
Clicking the Debian logo on the top of the main page takes you there. Diego Biurrun Colin Watson wrote: > > Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >--- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> MBDNSumedha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >I would like to include the Debian Image on my Software

3c905c-txm driver problems

2001-01-12 Thread benny k
hey, i'm having trouble getting the 3com driver (3c90x) to work with potato r2, i386. i downloaded the driver from: http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/linux/3c90x-1.0.0i.tar.gz i have a 3c905-txm card. what follows is what i did and how it failed. './compile_UP' <-- this a compile

Re: vi - what happened to set wraplen ?

2001-01-12 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 07:45:19PM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: > omg i'm using pico :( > > i have woody installed and have just "apt-get upgrade"-ed and > was answer some emails when i noticed that the current vi > doesn't support "set wraplen". i tried "set wrapmargin" but > it doesn't seem right.

RE: X development packages broken in woody?

2001-01-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 12-Jan-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to install lesstif-dev on my woody (testing) box. It says it > depends on xlib6g-dev but xlib6g-dev conflicts with xlibs which is already > installed and is required by other packages. I don't see an xlibs-dev > either. Where are the development

Re: Desktopless StarOffice for 486?

2001-01-12 Thread Veit Waltemath
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 02:30:32PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > On 12 Jan 2001, Andre Berger wrote: > > > I have a 486 with less than 1 GB total HDD space (on three HDDs). Is > > there still an older, smaller, desktop-free version of StarOffice > > around? I'd actually mainly need the StarW

Re: new boot disk?

2001-01-12 Thread paulm
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/11/01 at 09:43 AM, D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:08:55AM -0500, James W. Lindenschmidt wrote: | >Greetings, everyone. >| >| I just migrated from RedHat over to Debian potato and I'm thrilled so >| far. >| >| But, I think my boot dis

[WOT] sh script to relace chars in #1 w/ chars in #2?

2001-01-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Hi, I have written about 5 successful low-level scripts to do various things, and want to learn more about the ways, but I'm in a time crunch (classes are starting next week) and I can't begin to grok what's needed for this. I was hoping some kind, (bored?) soul could throw clues this way.. ?? :

X development packages broken in woody?

2001-01-12 Thread debuser
I'm trying to install lesstif-dev on my woody (testing) box. It says it depends on xlib6g-dev but xlib6g-dev conflicts with xlibs which is already installed and is required by other packages. I don't see an xlibs-dev either. Where are the development packages for X (4.01) in woody now? Do they exis

Re: Machine/Domain Name

2001-01-12 Thread mike
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:51:17AM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > > My Debian system has a name of "darkstar.localdomain" > When I'm at home I can no longer send email to my office > because of "spam" filters that were setup to reject any > mail from rdsomains that are unresolvable. > > I h

Re: Software for making phone calls?

2001-01-12 Thread John Foster
Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Any software for Linux to let you make phone calls via the computer? >- check out speak-freely and speaker at debian.org available via apt or dselect :-) -- We specialize in multi-processor computing systems!

Booting problem

2001-01-12 Thread Bolemányi Attila
HI! I have an Abit BE6-II motherboard with HPT370UDMA/ATA 100 raid cintroller. When I try to install the Potato, I have a message, so I have not a hard disk. How can I install the Potato to my computer? I just found a HPT366 floppy images. Attila

Re: Debian Image

2001-01-12 Thread Colin Watson
Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >--- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> MBDNSumedha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >I would like to include the Debian Image on my Software Application >> >report. Would you mind giving me permission to so? This is purely >> >academic. >> >> See http://www.

Re: sources.list for testing?

2001-01-12 Thread Colin Watson
"Arthur H. Johnson II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Friday 12 January 2001 10:55, David B. Harris wrote: >> Woody is now testing, as you probably know. All of your old Woody >> sources.list lines are now pointing to testing, instead of unstable. So, >> your current Woody sources.list is the corre

Re: Debian Image

2001-01-12 Thread Xucaen
How come there is no link to this from the main page??? --- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MBDNSumedha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I would like to include the Debian Image on my > Software Application > >report. Would you mind giving me permission to > so? This is purely > >academic.

pon permissions

2001-01-12 Thread Thomas H. George
On a stand-alone system four users need access to the internet. At present only root can run pon. I have changed file permissions, commented auth in /etc/ppp/options, and executed adduser dip. Now, when a user tries to start pon, the user gets the message: must be root to run /usr/sbin/pppd

Re: GDM dont work

2001-01-12 Thread Colin Watson
Olivier Billet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've the folowing issue : when I loggin under gdm I blinks like it's >going to launch a window manager, but it dont do anything and then goes >back to the login prompt. Look in /var/log/gdm for the relevant log files, which should be helpful (though possi

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