Re: debianizing SRPMS

On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, George Bonser wrote: > > Actually it is pretty simple. Get the debian rpm package and the > kernel-package package. Now, use RPM to unpack the SRPM. Configure it how > you want it then use make-kpkg to make a kernel-image or kernel-source or > kernel-headers or whatever pac

debianizing SRPMS

Is there a way to do this? I have an RH5.1 source cd and I would like to use the kernel-source there. the one I've d/l'd from ftp.debian.org is broken (is it?). I can't find any config for vfat, nls, iso9660, msdos, umsdos under filesystems. TIA k e c h i e

smail again

Hi. The FAQ-O-MATIC entry #137 doesn't work. I'm getting errors. can someone send me their /etc/smail/* files for a dial-up ppp. I can d/l mails but I can't send mail to my domain csi.com.ph I've changed the following lines in /etc/smail/config visible_name=iln.csi.com.ph (used to be my hostn

Re: mailtools filter

On 13 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Richard L. Alhama writes: > > does anyone here have a working mailtools filter for debian-user? > > I'm fairly happy with mailagent. Sorry, I mean mailagent (is this the mail-filter tool that uses perl?) ciao admiral charah

Re: mailtools filter

On 13 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Richard L. Alhama writes: > > does anyone here have a working mailtools filter for debian-user? > > I'm fairly happy with mailagent. Sorry, I mean mailagent (is this the mail-filter tool that uses perl?) ciao admiral charah

Re: mailtools filter

On 13 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Richard L. Alhama writes: > > does anyone here have a working mailtools filter for debian-user? > > I'm fairly happy with mailagent. Sorry, I mean mailagent (is this the mail filter that uses perl?) ciao. admiral charah

Re: Running seperate eth0 & ppp0 networks

On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Ian Stuart wrote: > I'm trying to set up my machine to use two networks: > > I occasionally access an ISP (who requires that all non-web access is > done only through their modem-banks) on my workstation which is connected > to my academic LAN. > > what I wish to do is set u

Re: fetchmail + procmail setup

On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Graham Ashton wrote: > humbug% cat .forward > "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f || exit 75 #ashtong" > humbug% ll .forward Thanks, I was setting ~/.forward the wrong way ;-) r i c h a r d l. a l h a m a technical support group cyberspace laoag, isp 2900 phils.

Re: fetchmail + procmail setup

I used to have a working sendmail/fetchmail/procmail setup until I reinstalled hamm on my machine(used to be 1.3) after I've messed up init. But when I choosed smail as my MTA, my used to be working ~/.procmailrc could not sort mail anymore. I forgot how I set things up before, maybe a little of

mailtools filter

does anyone here have a working mailtools filter for debian-user? I gave up on smail/procmail. TIA

Re: ack! I've hosed init

On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Pere Camps wrote: > Rich, > > > Everything looks fine 'cept that the init process is doing itself twice > > everytime I boot. > > How do I fix this? > > Stupid question on my side: have you checked /etc/inittab? Yep they're similar, almost, except I'm on runlevel

ack! I've hosed init

seems like I'm in big trouble here. I've experimented update-rc.d and now init doesn't know it's runlevel. Well, I can boot but when I issue "reboot" it coughs up something like: couldn't determine runlevel... doing soft reboot instead. then it reboots. Everything looks fine 'cept that the i

Re: libXt.so.3 & DOOM

On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, jim r wrote: > I just downloaded the linux doom binary and .WAD. Running the linuxxdoom > results in "can't find library 'libXt.so.3'". I tried making a symlink > to libXt.so.6 (ln -s libXt.so.6 libXt.so.3), and it still didn't work, > although 'libXt.so.3' is listed in the

Re: Is there any FREE alternative for l

> The point here is that even if theoretically possible, it can be very > difficult to un-GPL a piece of code if you are not the sole author of > it. If there are authors uncooperative with your will to change the > licensing terms, or even too many authors, your program will be > effectivel

Re: xfstt + xset

On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > Now that xfstt is tackled on this thread, why can't I see any TTfonts > > when I run an xsession? > > > > I have copied some TTfonts on /var/ttfonts/, xfstt is running as a daemon > > tho' I have to manually enter the entries into /etc/rc?.d. D

Re: xfstt + xset

On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > Ok well...as xfstt maintainer I have to say I have never seen this before :) > > Usually if there is a problem...xfstt wont even run. > > ok found the problem :) > > xset fp+ unix:/7101 <--- wrong :) > > try: > xset +fp unix/:7101 > > Whjew...

RE: wmaker

On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Person, Rod wrote: > Does anyone no how to center the background. I was playing with the gimp > and converted my old NT backgrounds to wmaker, but the tile and there is > no need for them to. Add this line on your ~/GNUstep/Defaults/Windowmaker -->WorkspaceBack = (cpixmap,any-

Re: lilo

On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Debian-User wrote: > Hi > I forgot the var in lilo to set in order to tell the kernel > 128M Ram. Can any one clue me in? > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null append = "MEM=128M" Admiral Charah Technical Support Group Cybersp

Hybrid CD's

How does one mount those hybrid MAC/PC CD's? How can one read the Mac Files? PC Files? TIA Admiral Charah Technical Support Group Cyberspace Laoag, ISP

Re: Big Fat Thank You !! - Cannot run executables issue

On 13 Oct 1998, Paul Crowley wrote: Didn't everyone noticed that the "system wide" profile (/etc/profile) includes "."? I haven't changed my /etc/profile IIRC. > instead. Really, it's very easy to get into the habit and it improves > your security. It used to be the case that people put "."

debianized themepacks?

are there any debianized themepacks (e.g Alien) it would be much easier if we could dpkg those themes then uninstall them if we don't like it. TIA and Ciao. Admiral Charah Technical Support Group Cyberspace Laoag, ISP

Re: multiple problems

On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, spOOL wrote: > 1. what packages do I need to download to get X to work??? I would like to > use the Win95 look alike window manager xbase*.deb xserver-yourcard*.deb a-window-manager.deb some-apps.deb xlibg6*.deb is your card an ATI MACH64?, then d/l xserver-mach64*.deb. FVWM

Re: debian vs others

On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, > I know it is kind of silly to ask what is better debian vs redhat on a > debian list but here goes anyway. > I have used various distro including redhat, caldera and suse and have not > been really happy with any of them. Debian is my first Lin

Re: Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?)

On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Imagine "Debian GNU/FreeBSD" ... that would send some people straight > over the edge. Uhhmmm why not. So that we can all multiple boot to these OS's ( Linux /HURD/FreeBSD/Win32/fooOS) without learning any other packaging systems. I love OS's!

Re: Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?)

On Mon, 24 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The Hurd is a kernel not an OS. My take on this is that Debian is a > collection of apps and their philosophy of package managment and the > DFSG. The real name of Debian is 'Debian GNU/Linux', with the Hurd > kernel it will just be 'Debian GNU/Hurd

Re: CDE

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > > > or FVWMCDE. No debianized package for this. And the server is located in > > here in the Philippines which may take some time to d/l. > > hmm sounds cool... > > > http://lilith.mozcom.com/~orly > > um...is this the right url? > I check

Re: Help with debian

On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Adrian Collings wrote: > Can u please to tell me how i can install X??? > where do i get it from??? > I have the 3 debian CD's > THANX You can install X by determining what kind of video card you have and installing the x*, etc. packages on the x11 directory of your CD'

Re: meta key in emacs

On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Michael Symalla wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > can anyone help me to let my Alt-key be the metakey in emacs? Now I am > using the ESC key, which works fine but is not as comfortable as the ALT > key. Install xkeycaps and edit the keyboard layout to your liking. If you have

Re: OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)

On 19 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, > > Yes, no, and not unless you want to. Even without enabling the > generic command server and the @SH processing, the rules file for > mailagent is a full fledged state machines, and one can apply the > rules recursively, and the actio is idf

Re: OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)

On 19 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > It is possible to extend the mailagent filtering commands by > implementing them in perl and then having them automagically loaded > when used. Thanks. Does mailagent use some kind of rc-file (rules?) like procmail? Or do I have to write some perl pro

Re: CDE

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Joe Stewart wrote: > Chris, Try xfce . It > does include the window manager xfwm, but does not require it. It is a > toolbar which resembles cde. The binaries are in rpm. Just run alien on > them and install with dpkg. >

OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)

How do you guys sort all this mail? This list is actually the first discussion-list that I've subscribed to. I'm at my wits end trying to sort all this incoming mail. I need to be able to put all the emails from debian-users to a folder (file?). I'm using pine as my MUA. What packages do I need

netscape 4 installer

will NS Communicator 4.06 work with netscape4.deb or can I just mv the NS tarball to NS Communicator 4.05? Thanks all! Admiral Charah Tech Support, Cyberspace Laoag, ISP http://www2.csi.com.ph/~keyoz "Overuse of the smiley is a mark of loserhood" --The Jargon File V4.0.0

Re: warnings running man?

On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Lee Bradshaw wrote: > > > > I'm having problems with some man pages. The warnings about "bad symlink > > or ROFF `.so' request" sometimes show up when typing "man somecommand". > > Is there a way to get rid of these warnings? Here are some of the > > relev

Apache Problem

Hope this isn't much of a trivial question but I would like to ask what causes this error in the debianized apache. It works on my box which is a debian 1.3 upgraded to 2.0 box. I get this errors when I try a fresh install on a friend's 486. He wishes to use it as a standalone web development bo

Re: Afterstep Configuration

On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Ana Graca Silva wrote: > > To everyone who was thinking respond to my previous mail: > > About how to configure afterstep, i've solved my mistery : > > Copied all the files from /usr/share/afterstep to the directory AfterStep > on my home. Played with some files, and now I h

Re: gnome 0.20

On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Mike Nachlinger wrote: > > Hi, > > Where would I find libgnome0 and libgtkxmhtml0 for gnome 0.20 > Not shown in Contents-i386 and have scrambled up & down the tree. GNOME 0.20 is on slink. it's somewhere in debian/dists/slink/x11 I think > tia, > Mike > > Admiral Chara

Gnome 0.20 is great

whooopeee!!! got all gnome-apps working, gnome-panel works great!!! Gnome_0.20+E14 rocks!!! Thanks and congratulations to the debianizers of these packages and to the Debian-Developers. Hope to be a Debian-Developer someday! Ciao -- /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support

Re: GNOME 0.20

On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sun, 2 Aug 1998 23:34:06 +0800 (PHT), Richard L. Alhama wrote: > > >How can I make GNOME 0.20 working? I installed all the necessary > >packages. Now what file do I need to edit? /etc/X11/window-managers or > >my $HOME/.xin

GNOME 0.20

How can I make GNOME 0.20 working? I installed all the necessary packages. Now what file do I need to edit? /etc/X11/window-managers or my $HOME/.xinitrc? The apps are working fine (e.g. Eeyes, gnome-help-browser) Thanks in advance. /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support

User interface (was Re: Linus Torvalds interview)

tes or less to implement their UI. regards. /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \--, .o` /=" ,,'' \/ Cyberspace Laoag,ISP ``

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

e to live my computing life rebooting everytime I change settings That's all I can say about this. /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \--, .o` /=" ,,'&

Re: more linus!

On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, David Parmet wrote: > > > Linus on the cover of this weeks Forbes! Do you slashdot? I do and I had the slashdot effect when I tried to connect to Forbes.com HTTP/1.0 Server too busy hhrrmpp. /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support /vvv

American Cancer Society Email... HOAX! (fwd)

t; type of deals. By claiming the involvement of ACS, this is clearly case of fraud and hopefully will be treated as such by the authorities. The advice of Aardvark and The American Cancer Society is - if you get a copy of this email - ignore it, don't send any email to the ad

Re: Can only play mp3 files as root.

On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: > Richard L. Alhama wrote: > > > > On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: > > > > > > Can you decode any mp3 files using mpg123? I'm having some troubles with > > X11Amp myself. So I'm usi

Re: Can only play mp3 files as root.

de any mp3 files using mpg123? I'm having some troubles with X11Amp myself. So I'm using eMusic or mpg123 for an mp3 decoder. > Thanks for any help, > Chris /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \--,

Strange happenings

#x27;t get this. It only happens when I make wmaker and icewm the default wm on /etc/X11/window-managers. If anyone has also experienced it please let me know. To be sure I'm not alone with this. Is this a Mandelbug? or what? /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support

Re: dot files

t want to subscribe to > debian-docs and see what they have to say. The /usr/doc/HOWTO directory > is FULL of great info. Read some of it. Thanks for the reply /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \--

Re: dot files

ooks in my country. Maybe I'll just tell my relatives in the US to buy me one > Will > /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \--, .o`

dot files

How can I make GIMP show dotfiles? Thanks. P.S. I should get a book can someone recommend a good one? Not linux for dummies please. /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \--, .o

Re: startup info

On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Robert Rati wrote: > Can someone tell me where all the information at startup is logged? Dmesg > doesn't show me enough of the info. Thanks. see the files on /var/log /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support /v

Re: Enlightenment, Fnlib, and Imlib -> get 'em while they're hot

w manager (-: It's zlib1g that's broken. Thanks for the help. Package E15 again! > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \

Re: Enlightenment, Fnlib, and Imlib -> get 'em while they're hot

On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Maarten Boekhold wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Richard L. Alhama wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Damon Muller wrote: > > > > I'm getting errors on the e14 package. Seems like my imlib is broken > > > > Error message when I star

Re: Debian 2.0 Release later today!

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Re: Enlightenment, Fnlib, and Imlib -> get 'em while they're hot

large procession wave their torches > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, > Network Administrator | And was everyone dancing on the casket... > EmpireNET | - TBMG, "Dead" > > > -- > Unsubscribe?

Re: slink was (Re: Where's apt-get? Correction)

On 22 Jul 1998, David Z. Maze wrote: > > Richard L Alhama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > RLA> On 22 Jul 1998, David Z. Maze wrote: > DZM> apt-get is in the apt package, in slink. You shouldn't have any > RLA> > RLA> What is slink? Symlink? ftp

slink was (Re: Where's apt-get? Correction)

> | http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ | -- Abra Mitchell > \_/ > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \--, .o

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

gt; Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers > Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > /\

Re: upgrading form lib5 to lib6

since I am not subcribed to > the list. > > Thanks in advance. > > > Vicent Pla > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > /\ Richard L. Alhama,

Re: Unidentified subject!

On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: > Hi... > > What's blackbox? :) It's a new window manager from Brad Hughes. Kinda cool, but I can't compile it. So I'm asking for a debianized package. > Alex > > On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Richard L. Alhama wrote: >

Unidentified subject!

Has someone debianized blackbox yet? /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \--, .o` /=" ,,'' \/ Cyberspace Laoag,ISP ``,,

sfxload at boot-up

How can I make sfxload load synthgm.sbk at boot time. The account for myself can load synthgm.sbk. Thanks in advance /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \--, .o

Re: Freetype

On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 11:18:30PM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote: > > I installed freetype and I don't know how to use it. Help me! I'm lazy > > rtfming! > > I have tons of TTF Fonts that I would like to use wi

Freetype

I installed freetype and I don't know how to use it. Help me! I'm lazy rtfming! I have tons of TTF Fonts that I would like to use with GIMP. /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \

Re: Debian w/ Win95?

menudefault=Linux, 15 [linux] shell=c:\linux\loadlin.exe c:\linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro [win95] ========== /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support /v

Re: color-ls how do I use it?

On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Richard L. Alhama wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Andreas Mueller wrote: > > > Hi > > Try > > 'ls --color' > > If it works, set the alias ls='ls --color '. > woohoo! It worked > > > by > > -am > > &g

Re: color-ls how do I use it?

On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Andreas Mueller wrote: > Hi > Try > 'ls --color' > If it works, set the alias ls='ls --color '. woohoo! It worked > by > -am > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > Thank

color-ls how do I use it?

shall I do? /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \--, .o` /=" ,,'' \/ Cyberspace Laoag,ISP ``,,http://www2.cyberspace.com.ph/~keyoz "Overuse of the

Re: hamm and pon,pppd,chat

on of ppp. Anyway if it's needed I'll > > somehow try to figure out howto get it to my linux partition. I haven't > > downloaded that package though. > > > > I can live with manual connections, without the chatscripts, but show me > > how guys. I d

Re: hamm and pon,pppd,chat

Thanks guys but I had an ace in my pocket after all. As soon as I had sent this mail using IE mail, I booted to linux and to continue my installation. After browsing all those .deb files I noticed that I had pppconfig. Cool utility! Once again my Linux box was online. Thanks for these mails.

PPP and Ethernet

rate. I don't know much about networking and shell scripting. I need your help! BTW, Debian and Linux rocks!!! -- Richard L. Alhama Cyberspace Laoag, ISP Technical Support http://bgo.cyberspace.com.ph/~keyoz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe