Mozilla 1.3 and Java plugin

2003-03-28 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I can't get Mozilla 1.3 to recognize the java plugin that I install in my PC. I'm running Sid, and I've tried the Blackdown Java and Sun's Java run times, both 1.4.1. With both Java implementations, after doing the install, I go to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and do a soft link to the libj

Ximian Evolution and keyboard mappings

2001-09-17 Thread Pedro I. sanchez
Hello, The mail composer in Evolution has a bizarre key binding and I can't figure out how to change it. For example, HOME/END take me to the begining/end of the document rather than to the beginning/end of the line, CTL-X doesn't cut the selection, CTL-V doesn't paste the selection (seems to take

How to create /usr/share/fonts/fontmap?

2001-08-30 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
My Debian/unstable box is missing the file /usr/share/fonts/fontmap and Gnumeric is complaining about it. But I can't find this file in the distribution so I guess some utility is supposed to create it. How can I do it? Thank you, -- Pedro

CUPS: "The Document contained no data"

2001-05-13 Thread Pedro I. sanchez
Hello, I'm running unstable with cups 1.1.6 and can't get the menus at http://localhost:631 to work. If I click on "Do Administration Tasks" I get the subject error message. The same happens with the other menu entries except "help" and "download software" which work OK. I have the default cupsd.

mozilla and .mailcap (and realplayer)

2000-12-31 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, Does Mozilla read .mailcap? It looks to me that it doesn't. I am trying to incorporate support for the realplayer and a few other applications and I want to believe that there is an automatic way of doing this other than manually adding each mime type entry using the mozilla dialogs. Is

Locale annoying warning

2000-12-28 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I have a fresh unstable install and every time I operate on the packages with apt-get I get the following: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "c" are supported and installed on

Help with setxkbmap

2000-11-26 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I am running Debian 2.2 (stable) plus some helix-gnome stuff. I want to use setxkbmap to switch the keyboard mapping but always get the following error: # setxkbmap Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property What does this mean? Any ideas on how to fix it? -- Pedro

Help with setxkbmap

2000-11-25 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I am running Debian 2.2 (stable) plus some helix-gnome stuff. I want to use setxkbmap to switch the keyboard mapping but always get the following error: # setxkbmap Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property What does this mean? Any ideas on how to fix it? -- Pedro

Who uses my floppy drive?

2000-10-27 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I am running a Woody box and I have the problem that whenever I try to use the floppy drive (mount it or using mtools) I get the error "device already mounted or device busy." But /dev/fd0 is not mounted (as reported by df); also if I type "fuser -m /dev/fd0" I get a null answer which I gue

Re: ps2pdf and LaTeX's seminar style

2000-10-07 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
I do this with XFig. Open a new document and import your landscape PS file using the "picture" tool (the photo camera button). When doing this use any picture size you want. You'll get a dialog where you can browse and pick up the desired file. Just before clicking "done" click "use original size"

Mozilla doesn't run under Woody

2000-10-05 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I'm running woody and installed the mozilla package (M17-3). However, this is what I get when running it: bash-2.04$ mozilla Starting Mozilla Could not obtain CmdLine processing service I "apt-get upgraded" today so I guess something is broken in woody? Thanks, -- Pedro

How to compile kernel 2.0.36 on Potato

2000-08-20 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I need to compile the old kernel 2.0.36 on a Potato machine (gcc 2.95.2-14). I know that gcc versions 2.8 and up won't compile these old kernels unless a patch is applied to them. I patched the 2.0.36 kernel with the patch file found at http://www.suse.de/~florian/kernel+egcs.html but stil

Missing modules.dep in root boot up floppy disk (Potato)

2000-08-13 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I'm trying to install debian (Potato) in an old PC using floppy disks (I'm using disk images version 2.2.16-2000-07-14). The PC boots up from the "rescue" disk, I hit to proceed and after a few messages I'm asked to enter the "root" diskette. The PC reads this diskette and then enters the

Missing /lib/modules/ in root boot up floppy disk

2000-08-12 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I'm trying to install debian (Potato) in an old PC using floppy disks. The PC boots up from the "rescue" disk, I hit to proceed and after a few messages I'm asked to enter the "root" diskette. The PC reads this diskette and then enters the installation menus as expected. The problem is th

Re: Applixware 5 on Debian slink, potato or woody?

2000-08-09 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Aplixware 5.0 runs well for me under Potato. No problems at all with the installation. -- Pedro

Zope 2.2 on Woody broken?

2000-07-22 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I installed the Zope 2.2.0-1 Debian package from Woody with no problems. But when I try to access the web pages (localhost:9673) I get the following Zope error: Zope Error Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource. Error Type: TypeError

Re: IMAP (Netscape?) hiccups in Woody

2000-07-14 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Well, this is bizarre: # ls -l /var/spool/ total 20 ... lrwxrwxrwx1 root root7 May 5 09:59 mail -> ../mail ... # ls -l /var/ total 72 ... drwxrwsr-x2 root mail 4096 Jul 14 18:04 mail ... What created this symlink? I didn't. I have quite a lot of mess

Re: ProFTPd and NIS problems in Woody [Solved]

2000-07-12 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Ernest Johanson wrote: > > Not sure about woody since I'm not running it, but one thing to check is > whether the proftpd.conf fine contains the PersistentPassword > directive. It needs to be set to off to recognize NIS accounts. > Thank you for the hint. This in fact fixed the problem. I wonder

IMAP (Netscape?) hiccups in Woody

2000-07-12 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I upgraded from Potato to Woody and now I'm experiencing problems (non fatal fortunately) with the IMAP server when using the Netscape mail client: 1. 9 out of 10 times, when I try to delete a message from the INBOX I get an error window saying something like "IMAP message copy failed." I

ProFTPd and NIS problems in Woody

2000-07-12 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, ProFTPd doesn't recognize NIS accounts and says "(Login failed): Can't find user" in the log file. It works fine with local (non NIS) accounts. This has been reported as bug #62197 which is over 90 days old already. Does anyone know of a workaround (other than scraping ProFTpd which is what

RE: gigabit solutions

2000-05-31 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hi Marc, I have debian (Potato) running with 3Com GE adapters and have no troubles at all with them. Support for them is available already in the standard 2.2.x kernels. -- Pedro

Netscape and MS Intellimouse

2000-05-19 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, Netscape used to have support for the Intellimouse in my Debian 2.1 box. Now I have a fresh Potato install (new hard drive), only a few days old, and the old ¨tricks¨ don´t work anymore. So far I have the line ZAxisMapping4 5 in my /etc/X11/XF86Config file. I also have some blurb i

Null Login Password and X Windows

2000-05-07 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I have an account in my Debian box that has no password assigned to it (empty password field in /etc/passwd). I can login from the console (any virtual terminal) or from a telnet session and as expected no password is required. However, when I´m logged in as some other user under X and I ty

Re: latex and xemacs

2000-04-27 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
>I use latex and xemacs like editor. On my previous installation, xemacs >recognizes automatiquely the tex file (yet latex appears in the tools >bar) and for example Control CC automatiquelly compile. > I don't know how to configur xemacs to obtain this result. May i >install emacs also? is any any

Python broken in Potato?

2000-03-10 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, Trying to install python in Potato fails due to libdb1.85 "not installable" (whatever that means). Any solutions? Thank you, -- Pedro # apt-get install python-base Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that yo

How to install Zope products in Debian

2000-02-28 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I'm trying to install some Zope products, particularly Squishdot, following the install instructions of untaring the tar file in zope's root directory (/var/lib/zope) and then restarting zope (zopectl restart). However, the products never show up in zope (not even under "product management"

IMAP authentication is broken

1999-12-10 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I´m running potato and up to yesterday Wednesday I was happily accessing my mail from netscape using imapd. But with the latest update I made to the system imapd always refuses to authenticate my account (however imap was not updated). From the syslog: allegro imapd[1330]: AUTHENTICATE LOG

debian-user-digest list down?

1999-07-02 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
Something wrong with this digest list? I haven't received anything lately! -- Pedro I. Sanchez Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com

Help me get apt-get through this ftp firewall

1999-06-15 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
right docs (for some reason, after upgrading apt to version 0.3.6 I no longer have the man pages for apt). I'd appreciate any help, Thank you, Pedro I. Sanchez Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com

Help me get apt through this ftp firewall

1999-06-02 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
:empPW (there is a space in the first line before empID) I'm interested in remote anonymous login so remote_userid can be "anonymous" and remote_password can be "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Can this be done? how? Thank y

Communicator 4.5 and LDAP

1999-05-12 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
LDAP support in Comm 4.5? any work arounds? Thank you, Pedro I. Sanchez Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com

pppd can't find Ethernet address for proxy ARP

1999-04-30 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
is proxy ARP problem with ppp. I don't recall seeing this message before debian 2.0, when my home network was happily connected to the Internet. Any ideas? Thank you, Pedro I. Sanchez Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com

Buggy kernel-sources package in Debian 2.1?

1999-04-30 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
g I see is an untared tar file with the kernel sources. Has anyone experienced this? If I untar the tar file manually, what are the required simlinks I need to create (like /usr/src/linux)? Thank you, Pedro I. Sanchez Get your

Re: Redirecting display output to multiple monitors

1999-02-10 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
Thank you for your suggestions. VNC seems to be the coolest thing to try. Pedro I. Sanchez Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com

Redirecting display output to multiple monitors

1999-02-08 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
Hello, I have three computers on a LAN. I want to run an application in one of them and have the display output showing on the other two at the same time. I guess what I'm trying to do is something like MS netmeeting. Is this possible? Thank you, Pedro I. Sa

Re: About network daemons in a multi homed workstation

1998-12-11 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
the network daemons? and why? Pedro I. Sanchez > > Hello, > > I have Debian 2.0 in a PC with three different Ethernet interfaces, each interface > in a different subnet. I notice that network daemons like telnet, ftp and NFS only > work via the first interface (eth0) and comple

Re: About network daemons in a multi homed workstation

1998-12-01 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
(just comments). Any other ideas? Thank you, Pedro I. Sanchez On Mon, 30 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I have Debian 2.0 in a PC with three different Ethernet interfaces, each > interface in a different subnet. I notice that network daemons like > telnet, ftp a

About network daemons in a multi homed workstation

1998-11-30 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
work in all interfaces? Even more, is it possible to tell, say NFS, to work on two of them and ignore the third one? Thank you, Pedro I. Sanchez Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com

RIP on Debian?

1998-11-24 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
Hello, Is the routing protocol RIP available as part of a debian package? If so, which package? Thank you, -- Pedro I. Sanchez Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com

Problems with transfig

1998-11-10 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
ain is GIF, but I get an empty file. As far as I can say I have installed all the packages transfig depends on. I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thank you. Pedro I. Sanchez Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com

Support for PC2TV on ATI Xpert@Play?

1998-09-22 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
Hello, I have an ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED] video card that I've been unable to connect to my TV. Is this feature supported by the Xfree86 project? (I haven't found any specific reference to this feature in the docs). Thank you, -- Pedro

Puzzled with segfault in the "speakfree" package

1998-09-17 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
g the same config file for my custom kernel (2.0.34). Still I get sementation fault on one PC when running sfspeak or sfmike. All other applications run well on both PCs. Can you suggest a possible cause for this to happen? Thank you in advance, Pedro

AGP Video Cards?

1998-08-31 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
if this new card is supported? Any advice on any other AGP card? Thank you, -- Pedro I. Sanchez ---\r\nGet your free email from altavista.iname.com

Help me get dselect through this firewall

1998-07-09 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
answering "Name" I have to type two things in the same line. Is there some place where the login procedure to the firewall can be customized? (Note, I tried apt also with no success :( Thank you, Pedro I. Sanchez -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Unidentified subject!

1998-06-10 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
; Thank you, >Remember to say yes to NLS, then you'll get it. > > > Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thank you, it works. I only hope when hamm is finally released support for ISO 9660 will be already there. I can't think of any reason why we have to recompile the kernel ju

ISO 9660 support in Hamm?

1998-06-09 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
I'm running a clean Hamm installation. Since the default kernel doesn't have support for the ISO 9660 file system used in CD-ROMs (shouldn't it be there by default?) I am recompiling the kernel. However the "make config" menus never ask if I want support for this file system or not. I remember

adduser and NIS

1997-08-13 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
es in those files. Pedro I. Sanchez >Hi all ! > > Can somebody tell me if there is a bug in adduser? I tried >to use it yesterday to add some new users to my system when, to my >surprise, iut failed. As a matter of fact, adduser had problems with &

New Install 1.3.1: /etc/init.d/xdm empty

1997-07-18 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
dm is empty so my PC doesn't boot into X automatically. If I execute xdm manually everything is ok. Are these well known bugs in xfree 3.3-3? -- Pedro I. Sanchez -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Serious problem with adduser_3.4

1997-07-14 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
eradd: unknown group adams adduser: `useradd -d /home/adams -g adams -s /bin/bash -u 1037 adams' returned error. Aborting. # tail -2 /etc/group +::: adams:x:1037: As you can see, "adams" is added after the NIS entry and then "useradd" can't see it. Is this a

Xemacs vs. Emacs

1997-06-17 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
ld friend Emacs! -- Pedro I. Sanchez -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: NIS is broken in Debian 1.3!

1997-06-14 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
n NIS package. For me nothing works, not only the system utilities like su and ls, but also my MTA (smail and exim) which cannot see the users and aliases defined in the NIS maps. -- Pedro I. Sanchez -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: NIS Problem ... about to be solved? (I hope)

1997-06-12 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
27;t have any /etc/shadow file on my systems. So, I'm back to nothing. My only hope is that the new libc is released soon and will solve my problem. By the way, will it be released to the stable tree? -- Pedro I. Sanchez -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: NIS Problem ... about to be solved? (I hope)

1997-06-12 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Karl Ferguson wrote: > At 05:28 PM 11/06/97 -0400, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: > >Hello, > > > >A few days ago I reported the problem of NIS not working in Debian 1.3. > >It still does not work and unfortunately no one seems to have an answer.

NIS Problem ... about to be solved? (I hope)

1997-06-11 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
is happening to me after my signature. Thank you, -- Pedro I. Sanchez Here is what happens to me. I have two Debian 1.3 boxes. One runs the NIS server, the other is a client. What follows is a transcript of a two-command session in the client machine: ~>ypmatch rover passwd rover:V/8DB9s

Re: NIS is broken in Debian 1.3!

1997-06-02 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
sion of libc5 are you using? > > Cheers, > > - Jim > > --- > > Part 1.2 Type: application/pgp-signature -- Pedro I. Sanchez -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

NIS is broken in Debian 1.3!

1997-06-01 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
e to the server. So, Does anybody have a NIS installation running ok with Debian 1.3? I would appreciate if any one can help me figure out what's going on. -- Pedro I. Sanchez -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

How to see the group and aliases file on the NIS server

1997-05-20 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
fined in the master. If you have an idea of what I may be missing please drop me a note. Thank you, -- Pedro I. Sanchez -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Lyx: Where is Xforms?

1997-05-14 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
-any but it didn't work). Paul McDermott wrote: > > yes lyx depends on xforms0 > > On Wed, 14 May 1997, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to install LyX version 0.10.7-2 but it fails because the > > Xforms package is not i

Lyx: Where is Xforms?

1997-05-14 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
orms0? Thank you, -- Pedro I. Sanchez Product Manager CTI Datacom Inc. 514.683.6363 x31 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Xservers ... always empty?

1997-05-14 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
ed version 3.2-5 and again my Xservers file was empty and manual editing was required. Is this a bug? -- Pedro I. Sanchez Product Manager CTI Datacom Inc. 514.683.6363 x31 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Adaptec 2940 and 3940 PCI/SCSI adapters

1997-04-21 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
I need to know if these two adapters are supported by Linux. For the 2940, the SCSI HOWTO says "294x support requires a new version of the driver", what does this mean? About the 3940 I found no reference. I'd appreciate any info you can give on this. Thank you, -- Pedro I.

dselect "deity" and "debian in the lab"

1997-04-14 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
bian packaging system one further step ahead of competition! Cheers, -- Pedro I. Sanchez Product Manager CTI Datacom Inc. 514.683.6363 x31

RE: error in bind.postinst with froze

1997-04-09 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
bash. That might help. -- Pedro I. Sanchez Product Manager CTI Datacom Inc. 514.683.6363 x31

Suggestions on NFS strategy

1997-03-24 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
if required. Is this the right way of doing things? How would do you do it? I'd appreciate your comments very much, thank you, -- Pedro I. Sanchez

Where is modutils? & bind syntax error

1997-03-12 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
d of something like "echo done". I changed this but I got an error then on line 125 so I decided to stop looking into it. Has this been fixed in another version? Thank you, Pedro I. Sanchez

What happend to the debian-user-digest list?

1997-03-10 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, Two weeks ago I was subscribed to the list debian-user-digest and suddenly I stopped receiving messages. I tried to re-subscribe but there is no menu to do that in www.debian.org. Is that list still alive? If so, how can I subscribe to it again? Thank you, Pedro I. Sanchez

Olicom PCI Ethernet 10/100 and NEC 4x4 CD-ROM

1997-02-21 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, Does anyone know if the following two elements ar supported under Linux? - Olicom Ethernet PCI 10/100 Adapter, Model OC-2315 - NEC Multispin 4x4 CD-ROM unit (4 CD's in one unit) (I believe this is an IDE unit). If so, what are the appropriate drivers? So far, I h

Weird dselect

1996-12-19 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I finished installing 1.2 and after some minor hi-cups everything is ok. However, now when I run the "Access" option of dselect I get double options like this: dselect - list of access methods Abbrev.Description cdrom Install from a CD-ROM. cdrom Install fro

Can't load the nfs module

1996-12-05 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I am trying to set up an NFS client in my PC, but when I issue the command "modprobe nfs" I get the following: ~> modprobe nfs nfs_mknod undefined nfs_sillyrename_cleanup undefined nfs_create undefined nfs_mkdir undefined nfs_lookup_cache undefined nfs_rename undefined nfs_lookup undefined

Missing files in the TeX directory

1996-12-02 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I can't find several files that used to live in the TeX directory, for example mflib_1.0-8.deb and mfbasfnt_1.0-7.deb. I've looked in buzz, rex, unstable to no avail. The symlinks do not exist. Still with problems at ftp.debian.org? Regards, Pedro Ivan -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FRO

Missing files in the TeX directory

1996-12-02 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I can't find several files that used to live in the TeX directory, for example mflib. I've looked in buzz, rex, unstable to no avail. The only things I get are misssing links. Still with problems at ftp.debian.org? Regards, Pedro Ivan -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST

Re: Pine and fvwm2

1996-11-26 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: > > > > Hello, > ... > > In a separate issue, I liked the little virtual (sticky) desktop that used > > to show up in my screen allowing me to navigate from one virtual desktop > > to anot

Re: Pine and fvwm2

1996-11-26 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Thank you, Cut and paste functions work well with the shift key. Pedro Ivan -- On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote: > Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: > > > I used to run pine under an xterm or rxvt while using fvwm and I had full > > cut/paste support (I mean, I could

Pine and fvwm2

1996-11-26 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I used to run pine under an xterm or rxvt while using fvwm and I had full cut/paste support (I mean, I could copy from the pine screen and paste into any other X-application and viceversa). Now that I am using fvwm2 the pine screen ignores the cut/paste events even though they work fine on

Keyboard mess

1996-11-02 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I have problems with backspace, delete, and function keys and others under X windows. 1. Under rxvt, the shell prompt (bash) doesn't understand any of them (I get the character ~ and a beep for the backspace and delete keys. Under ae, that simple editor, F10 works but Shift-F10 gives ^[[34

Help with LaTeX permissions

1996-11-02 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I just install the latest release from Debian and I decided to try (again) the LaTeX packages. But again I am running into problems. I compile a test document with no problems, but whe I try dvips (or xdvi) I get the following: [ Text on font metrics generation deleted] Font metrics w

Need advise on repartitioning

1996-09-20 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I have two hard disks, /dev/hda and /dev/hdb. The latter has only two primary partitions assigned to swap and /home. I want to create a third partition in /dev/hdb and asign it to /var, which currently lives in /dev/hda in the same partition of / (no separate partition for /var). I am thi

Re: Anonymous ftp and the "ls" command.

1996-09-14 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Mark Eichin wrote: > > doesn't wu-ftpd use builtin code for simple ls? I don't know but I haven't installed wu-ftpd myself, only the standard ftpd that comes with the netstd package. Maybe the solution to my problem is just to install this package. Pedro Ivan --

Re: Anonymous ftp and the "ls" command.

1996-09-12 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
This is exactly my problem. The _anonymous_ users still can use the "ls" command even though there is no ~ftp/bin/ls binary! How's that possible? Pedro Ivan -- Brian C. White wrote: > > > I have debian 1.1 and I installed an anonymous ftp service. It works fine > > except for an annoying

Anonymous ftp and the "ls" command.

1996-09-12 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I have debian 1.1 and I installed an anonymous ftp service. It works fine except for an annoying problem: ftp users can always see the files in the ftp site even though there is no "ls" binary under the bin directory of ~ftp. I understand that ftp users will only be able to execute command

Need an 8 mm tape recommendation

1996-08-19 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I need to buy and install an 8mm tape system for our debian systems. If you happen to have one up and running, could you drop me a note telling me things like: - Tape system brand name, - Connection type (serial/parallel port, internal, etc.), - Software used to acc

I can't configure my Ethernet card

1996-06-19 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
le to work? (where is lance.o?) 2. How do I configure this driver? (My ethercard is set to use irq=5, dma=3, address=0x2E0). Thanks for any help on this matter. ___ Pedro I. Sanchez|Phone:(514) 683-6363 x31 |2250 Pl.

Where is net-modules.txt

1996-06-19 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
preciate if someone can e-mail me the net-modules.txt file instead. (Shouldn't this file leave in /usr/doc/module, after the base system is installed?) Thank you, ___________ Pedro I. Sanchez|Phone:(514) 683

Re: Where is net-modules.txt

1996-06-19 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
I received already a copy of this file. Thank you very much! ___ Pedro I. Sanchez|Phone:(514) 683-6363 x31 |2250 Pl. Transcanadienne Internetworking Systems |Fax: (514) 683-7997 |Dorval, QC., Canada CTI Datacom

Can't find my Ethernet card

1996-06-18 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
your help. _______ Pedro I. Sanchez|Phone:(514) 683-6363 x31 |2250 Pl. Transcanadienne Internetworking Systems |Fax: (514) 683-7997 |Dorval, QC., Canada CTI Datacom Inc.| |H9P 2X5 ---