shaul wrote:
> I tried to install cnews at the first place becuase it is a pre requierment
> for NNTP. And the reason I want NNTP is becuase I want to be able to read
> (and
> post) news without the need for downloading large files from my ISP. Does
> NNTP
> a reasonble solution ? Are there be
Hello,
I'm trying to get a Multi-CD player Pioneer DRM-602X to work on a Debian
1.3.1 system (kernel 2.0.33 custom-compiled using make-kpkg) with
an Adaptec 2940AU SCSI controller, but without luck...
The various CD-ROM drives get different LUNs at boot-up, but then I get
timeout errors while tryi
On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 03:49:09PM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > same spam to them, please leave it to the Debian Team to take appropriate
> > action. The mail you receive from the list mailer is useless for AOL, as
> > they can't verify the origin of the spam, because the list mailer pl
Anybody using this printer with linux? It claims to be PCL3 compliant,
but I don't know if dvilj can convert from .dvi to pcl3...
Will
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Can someone *please* tell me where to find giflib3g or a suitable
replacement? several packages refer to it as a depend, and I can't
find it or something that will provide it.
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Hello,
I'm planing to buy a printer, and I don't know whether to choose Epson
Stylus color 800 or HP LJ 4L. I know that the Epson has PS level 2 as an
option, but the one at my store doesn't have it. Are there any other good
printers to choose from?
Does anybody have experience with those?
Thank
I'm planing to buy a printer, and I don't know whether to choose Epson
Stylus color 800 or HP LJ 4L. I know that the Epson has PS level 2 as an
option, but the one at my store doesn't have it. Are there any other good
printers to choose from?
Does anybody have experience with those?
I have an HP LJ 6L which I'm very satisfied with. $400 or less for the
machine (probably less now, sigh ... ). Used magicfilter to get it working
with linux (took about 5 seconds to do, no configuring really). I do
mostly postscript printing (latex to postscript using dvips, and
ghostscript to pri
Igor, I took the freedom to forward this to debian-user, mainly because I
stated that the email adress is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (my fault, it is
[EMAIL PROTECTED]). I think the information is interesting for the user list,
too.
Thank you,
Marcus
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First, the '_' character is illegal in host names. RFC 952 contains the
requirements for hostnames:
1. A "name" (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string up
to 24 characters drawn from the alphabet (A-Z), digits (0-9), minus
sign (-), and period (.). Note that periods are onl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Elliot) writes:
> the hostname, but won't let me get mail. I changed my computer name to
> mail.inxpress.net(my mail servers provider), and used fetchmail... I told
> it to send my root mail to my main user(alfor). When it downloaded it, it
> appeared to delete the mess
Is there a dpkg command to veryify the integrity of a package too make
sure it downloaded okay? I skimmed through the manpage and documentation, but I
didn't find anything like that.
Thanks,
Timothy
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Help!!
:-)
when I try to dpkg --install gcc.deb, I get the following error
message:
trying to overwrite ' /usr/bin/g++ ', which is also in package g++
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
what do I do now?!
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Could someone tell me what the base1 3.tgz is for and what the base.bin
files are for...
i am just kinda getting into linux and wanted to know...
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Hi, Will,
This printer is exactly the same as the HP 660 repackaged with a different
model number (I know this for a fact because I work for Mac/PC Zone :) ).
Make sure to install the gs or gs-alladin and magicfilter packages and
choose the 'dj550c' filter when prompted.
I have a 660Cse and perfo
Hello Liran,
I believe the PS L2 option for the Epson 800 is a software option that is
proprietary for either windoze or mac.
Ciao,
Matt
On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm planing to buy a printer, and I don't know whether to choose Epson
> Stylus color 800 or HP LJ 4L. I kn
Matt Thompson wrote:
> This printer is exactly the same as the HP 660 repackaged with a different
> model number (I know this for a fact because I work for Mac/PC Zone :) ).
> Make sure to install the gs or gs-alladin and magicfilter packages and
> choose the 'dj550c' filter when prompted.
Matt -
Ok, I'm running full hamm, and just updated (about 20mb worth). Now xdm
won't work at all, even with the /etc/init.d/xdm start command as root (I
have the same xdm file in /etc/init.d I had before). And, when I do
'startx', it uses mwm instead of AfterStep, which I have called as the
last line of
How can I configure sendmail under Debian 1.3 so that it can
send my outgoing mail to my ISP on demand (when I have
established a PPP link with my modem)?
I wanted to configure /etc/smail/routers myself but I did
not find the information I was looking for in the
smailconf(5) manpage nor in the HOW
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> Matt Thompson wrote:
>
> > This printer is exactly the same as the HP 660 repackaged with a different
> > model number (I know this for a fact because I work for Mac/PC Zone :) ).
> > Make sure to install the gs or gs-alladin and magicfilter packages an
On Sat, Apr 04, 1998 at 04:06:13AM +0300, Liran Zvibel wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm planing to buy a printer, and I don't know whether to choose Epson
> Stylus color 800 or HP LJ 4L. I know that the Epson has PS level 2 as an
> option, but the one at my store doesn't have it. Are there any other good
> pr
"Christopher J. McNicholas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can someone *please* tell me where to find giflib3g or a suitable
> replacement? several packages refer to it as a depend, and I can't
> find it or something that will provide it.
The source for it is in project/orphaned - so you'll nee
I first want to say that I am very pleased with the hamm release.
It had a latest version of everything that I needed with no
need to put any programs in usr/local thanks.
However...
I am having a problem with grep. I can't get it to output ANYTHING!
No matter what I try it just returns to me in
"Gnoh, Chee Seng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> When I install Debian packages (from diskette) using dselect, I am
> asked for the packages.gz. Where can I get this file?
If you want to install single packages you should use the
dpkg -i
command. Dselect should only be used
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> Hi all,
>
> Somehow several directories on my 1.3.1 system have had their
> permissions changed. So far I have found /tmp and /var/spool. Is
> there some list somewhere that lists all the default permissions of
> these directories? Maybe a file in /etc or something?
Hello!
I installed grep_2.1-6 and /etc/init.d/xdm didn't work
until downgrade to 2.1-4.
It seems
grep -q ^start-xdm /etc/X11/config
doesn't work more with grep_2.1-6.
Where is the problem and how to fix it?
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(..)
> However, it is possible that the pstree will be longer then the number of
> lines in an xterm of default size (24 lines). What then? We can always
> increase the size of the xterm but that wouldn't be a solution since there
> i
On Sun, May 03, 1998 at 09:21:28PM -0500, Chris wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have been reading about Debian, and I am eager to try it out.
> However, I seem to have a problem that I have not found an answer for
> yet, even after searching through all of the FAQ's and help documents I
> could find. The p
> "AV" == Alexey Vyskubov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AV> Hello! I installed grep_2.1-6 and /etc/init.d/xdm didn't work until
downgrade to
AV> 2.1-4.
Have the same problem, but don't have the package to downgrade.
Can anybody give me a hint where I can find the
old version of grep
On Sat, Apr 04, 1998 at 12:25:38PM +0200, Stefan Ratschan wrote:
> > "AV" == Alexey Vyskubov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> AV> Hello! I installed grep_2.1-6 and /etc/init.d/xdm didn't work until
> downgrade to
> AV> 2.1-4.
>
> Have the same problem, but don't have the package to d
Brandon wrote:
>
> Could someone tell me what the base1 3.tgz is for and what the base.bin
> files are for...
> i am just kinda getting into linux and wanted to know...
>
Hi,
The 5 base-?.bin files are for writing to floppies. They contain the
base system which has enough utilities to install
On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 09:56:27PM -0800, Matt Thompson wrote:
> I also got these errors regarding lesstif:
[prerm failure]
Can you please tell me what version of grep you have installed. I'm still
not sure if this is a lesstif problem or a result of grep-2.1-6 being
broken.
TIA,
Ray
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On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Nick Busigin wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, [iso-8859-1] Marcelo E. Magallón wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Michael Beattie wrote:
> >
> > > Cant help jumping in, is there an easy way to add/subtract times from the
> > > output of "date"???
> > > Or do you mean that the ti
Since getting hamm updates today, nothing wants to compile.. everything
ends up with a few pages of errors after hitting the first file. Are
there any fixes out for this?
libg++27-dev was not initially installed, but I tried plugging it in to
see if it would make a difference, to no avail. (lib
After loads of problems with LSL ( after 2 weeks they wrote back to me
saying my credit card was out of date because 1/10/98 in England means 1st
October and over in America it's 10th Jan, and I wrote back correcting them
but they said that I have to use another card)
I am facing a real dilemma wi
Hi,
I'm trying to install KDE Beta3 but when I try "kdelibs" a get the
following message:
- cut here ---
(Reading database ... 16596 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace kdelibs Beta3-1 (using kdelibs-Beta3-1.i386.deb)
...
Unpacking replacement kdelibs ...
dpk
On Sat, Apr 04, 1998 at 06:07:23AM -0700, ninjaz wrote:
> The lines it are complaining about are:
> 90 typedef int bool;
> 91 #ifdef __cplusplus
> 92 const bool false = 0;
> 93 const bool true = 1;
> 94 #else
This is evil; there is a built in bool type with the new g++
and
> Has someone already installed KDE Beta3 ?
Nuno, where did you find this new KDE beta? I'm running hamm and the latest
I've seen at ftp.debian.org is packages requiring Beta2-2. Either way, to
answer
your questions, the hamm KDE package has dependency problems which make it not
function (at
"Tristan Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> After loads of problems with LSL ( after 2 weeks they wrote back to me
> saying my credit card was out of date because 1/10/98 in England means 1st
> October and over in America it's 10th Jan, and I wrote back correcting them
> but they said that I have
Hi all
I notice alot of you use pgp signed messages. I would like to set this up
myself (just for the hell of it) - but to be honest I can't figure out
how.
I tried to install the package pinepgp from my local debain mirror, but it
complains that it can't find the package pgp.
Any ideas ho
On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Chris wrote:
> I tried to install the package pinepgp from my local debain mirror, but it
> complains that it can't find the package pgp.
>
> Any ideas how I can set this stuff up?
You need to download the pgp package which is in a non-US based
distribution. Go to www.debian
> I am facing a real dilemma with Distribution disks. If X becomes non-free,
> there will be no point buying a Debian distribution CD if I am correct
> I mean, if X isn't on there, I'll have to dnld everything anyway, or buy Red
> Hat
It is the *next* release of X that will be non-free. The pre
Hi!
Just in case you didn't yet notice, it seems that the spam mail
on the debian-user list is coming from only ONE sender.
I'm not saying this really is true, but examining all headers of the
spam mail, I noticed that the following line:
X-Mailer: AOL 2.5 for Windows sub 2
(by the way, isn't t
I'm getting alot of Protocol-Reject entries in syslog. What would cause this?
pppd 2.3.3 (hamm/frozen)
Apr 4 11:40:37 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol
0x8a6c
Apr 4 11:40:37 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol
0x4c1
Apr 4 11:41:37 stasis p
the good address for postgreSQL is http://www.postgresql.org/ it's not a
comercial organisation.
Alain
> Take a look at postgresql.. You can find it on the web at
> www.postgresql.com.
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On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 01:33:24PM -0500, Nebu John Mathai wrote:
>
> Is there any performance loss to making swapfiles (large ones), as opposed
> to having a static swap partition?
> Will it (this may sound silly, but my hard drive is old too ... 1993)
> increase the wear and tear on my hard driv
On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 10:40:55PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> Matt Thompson wrote:
>
> > This printer is exactly the same as the HP 660 repackaged with a different
> > model number (I know this for a fact because I work for Mac/PC Zone :) ).
> > Make sure to install the gs or gs-alladin and ma
On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 07:25:12PM -0600, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> First, the '_' character is illegal in host names. RFC 952 contains the
> requirements for hostnames:
>
>1. A "name" (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string up
>to 24 characters drawn from the alphabet (A-Z)
before changing boot=/dev/sda1 to boot=/dev/sda
I got 1FA: instead of LILO. Now I'm getting LI - I've had Suse on the
system and no problems at boot. I don't want to re-install Suse again
just to get this problem solved.
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On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Steve Kostecke wrote:
> I'm getting alot of Protocol-Reject entries in syslog. What would cause this?
>
> pppd 2.3.3 (hamm/frozen)
>
> Apr 4 11:40:37 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol
> 0x8a6c
> Apr 4 11:40:37 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reje
Whenever I use (i.e. install a package or use find- some read intensive
task) my SCSI cdrom, I get the message
"Warning: Running low on SCSI on SCSI DMA buffers"
Whenever I use (i.e. install a package or use find- some read intensive
task) my SCSI cdrom, I get the message
"Warning: Running low on S
This is probably off the topic, but I was wondering what the difference is
between the international and "America only" versions of pgp are? Which
is better? Why? (Not that I am allowed to use the america only version -
I'm just interested in why there is a difference)
Thanks for any info,
Ch
Hi. I just installed xemacs20 (I had xemacs19 before).
Previously I did Tools->VC->RegisterFile->FileName.java, and it would do syntax
highlighting and allow me to use indentation and stuff.
Now when I try that, it says "Searching for program: No such file or directory,
admin".
Any idea on how
I have two (non-swap) ext2fs partitions, /dev/hda8 and hda9. I had
hda9 mounted on /rep. The thing is, I've been running out of space so
I decided to move /usr to the new partition. What I did is do a
cd /
cp -av usr rep
Which resulted in a /rep/usr directory being created. Then I did
cd /
rm -r
The news about X11 is among the more disturbing items I've
heard in this realm--the unix-paradigm world. An X-guru
coworker mentioned this possibility to me a few months ago
but I never thought that corporate greed would sink to
this depth.
After I installed xlib6g, I get an error trying to startx:
can't load library libXmu.so.6
I reinstalled X332lib.tgz, but still no good. I peeked in the lib
directory and found these:
libXmu.a
libXmu.so
libXmu.so.6
libXmu.so.6.0
What should I do to fix X?
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Can anyone tell me how to start X-Windows at greater than 8bpp. I am
using XFree86 and using an X Server which is capable of this.
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I wrote:
> It is the *next* release of X that will be non-free. The present release
> will remain free and remain available, and XFree86 will continue to
> maintain and support it.
George Bonser writes:
> Stop!
Stop what?
> XFree will ALWAYS be free.
Yes, of course it will. 'X', however, refe
Take a glance at xinit or startx's man page. It boils down to a -bpp
option.
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Hi,
There have been previous discussions on this topic but I never quite
understood them. As near as I can tell, an "out of the box" hamm/frozen
system has the backspace key configured differently than it was in
Debian 1.3.
The particular example that concerns me most is under the application
"v
i got my diskettes (rawimage files) wrote to disk and i goto install base
it says unable to extract i redownload and got a fresh diskette out of
my newly bought box of disks and it says it still unable to extract..If it
helps i am using packerd bell legend supreme with win95 and a 56k modem a
z
> i got my diskettes (rawimage files) wrote to disk and i goto install base
> it says unable to extract i redownload and got a fresh diskette out of
> my newly bought box of disks and it says it still unable to extract..If it
> helps i am using packerd bell legend supreme with win95 and a 56k m
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