Smailconfig prompt

1998-08-05 Thread Randy Edwards
Could someone explain this smailconfig prompt to me please: "You have to tell me where to send all locally-generated mail. Using colebrook.k12.nh.us will result in mail for local users being sent to whatever system the rest of the world thinks deals with mail for that address - that had better not

Re: libc6 upgrade

1998-08-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 10:27:36AM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Should I be wary of ubgrading from libc6 2.0.6 to 2.0.7? Or can I just > blithely replace the library? There is an upgrade path to the Debian 2.0 distribution, which you have to follow or things may break. There are several a

Re: MCA debian Thinkpad

1998-08-05 Thread Lee Bradshaw
If you're still looking, check the mailing list archive or web pages for mirrors that still have 1.3. 1.3 was wiped off the main site when 2.0 was released. On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 05:07:34PM -0500, Alan Maciel Salcedo. wrote: > hi I am a debian-user-wannabe because I have a > thinkpad 720 4mb ra

Upgraded to 2.0 now xwindows doesn't start

1998-08-05 Thread Keith
I upgraded to Debian 2.0 now I get this message when I try and start xwindows. Any suggestions. (--) SVGA: XAA: Caching tiles and stipples (--) SVGA: XAA: General lines and segments _FontTransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 failed to set default font path '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts

Debian backup software.

1998-08-05 Thread David Welton
Hi, I need to back up 4 or 5 local Debian boxes, and am wondering which of the various backup programs included in Debian have worked well for people. I've had a look at afbackup and tob, and they seem *ok*, but nothing spectacular. I am more interested in something that is safe and simple... I a

Re: Debian backup software.

1998-08-05 Thread sjc
On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 05:45:52PM -0700, David Welton wrote: > Hi, I need to back up 4 or 5 local Debian boxes, and am wondering > which of the various backup programs included in Debian have worked > well for people. I've had a look at afbackup and tob, and they seem > *ok*, but nothing spectacu

Re: LILO: Map segment is too big.

1998-08-05 Thread sjc
On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 05:16:28PM -0500, John Marter wrote: > > The rescue disk has LILO v17. I figured out that I could do > > lilo -r /mnt try this ... cd /mnt/etc lilo -C lilo.conf other than that I dunno...(I already replied about a "better" resue disk in this thread) -Steve -- ** Step

AIM, Netscape 4.05

1998-08-05 Thread McGill
Hello, I've recently moved to Debian 2.0 from slackware 3.2 (kernel 2.0.29), and I am having trouble getting AOL's instant messenger (AIM) and netscape 4.05 running. When I am in X (using WindowMaker wm... if that makes a difference...) and type ./aim or ./netscape in a xterm, I get "Segmentatio

Re: Upgraded to 2.0 now xwindows doesn't start

1998-08-05 Thread servis
*- Keith wrote about "Upgraded to 2.0 now xwindows doesn't start" | I upgraded to Debian 2.0 now I get this message when I try and start | xwindows. | | Any suggestions. | | (--) SVGA: XAA: Caching tiles and stipples | (--) SVGA: XAA: General lines and segments | _FontTransSocketINETConnect: Can

Re: Palm Pilot software

1998-08-05 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 11:31:21PM +0200, Joerg Plate wrote: > > http://www.moshpit.org/pilotmgr/> > There is a debian-pilot mailing list. I think the .debs for pilot-link and pilotmanager are available in project/experimental or slink. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (prefer

Re: Upgraded to 2.0 now xwindows doesn't start

1998-08-05 Thread sjc
On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 09:10:03PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- Keith wrote about "Upgraded to 2.0 now xwindows doesn't start" > | I upgraded to Debian 2.0 now I get this message when I try and start > | xwindows. > | > | Any suggestions. > | > | (--) SVGA: XAA: Caching tiles and stipple

Market Debian? (was Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?)

1998-08-05 Thread George R
On 08/04/98 at 05:34 PM, Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Technical excellence is about doing something well, and coming up with >a system which is highly capable. One measure of capability is how >much software runs on the system. If RedHat runs a greater variety of >commercial applicat

MAJOR installation troubles :)

1998-08-05 Thread James Patrick Galvin, Jr.
Hey, I'm currently trying to install Debian Linux on my machine.  It is definatly more than adequate to install it on, but of course I'm haveing technical problems which hopefully someone can help me resolve.  I have a 10 gig HD on 1 partition running Windows 98.  I ran FIPS and split my HD

Re: KDE games problem...

1998-08-05 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Kent West wrote: > I'm too new at this to be much help, but I ran into similar problems > running apps as root outside of X. A friend told me that root doesn't have > the current directory in its path, (unlike DOS). So in order to run an app > that is in your current directory,

anyone got debian working on a thinkpad 770 ed

1998-08-05 Thread sen_ml
hi- has anyone got debian installed and working on a thinkpad 770 ed? -sen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Kernel 2.0.31 won't compile

1998-08-05 Thread Mark Phillips
On 3 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > in make menuconfig, turn off anythig you do not need > immediately, like any unknown drivers. (look at makefiles and .config > to know what to turn off). > > I too have a hinote vp 575 laptop and a Xircom ehternet/modem > card, but I have no

RE: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-05 Thread George R
On 08/04/98 at 08:49 PM, George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Debian has things like pre-depends that Red Hat lacks the last time I >looked. Also, Debian tends to "do the right thing" more often with >regard to such things that should got into /etc or /usr/X11R6/lib where >Red Hat and other st

Re: MAJOR installation troubles :)

1998-08-05 Thread Akop Pogosian
> James Patrick Galvin, Jr. wrote: > > Hey, I'm currently trying to install Debian Linux on my > machine. It is definatly more than adequate to install > it on, but of course I'm haveing technical problems > which hopefully someone can help me resolve. I have a > 10 gig HD on 1 partition running

PalmPC

1998-08-05 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, I'm thinking to get the Casio Cassiopeia E-10. I'd like to know if there is any software on Linux that supports the E-10. Secondly, is there any development kit in in Linux for it? Thanks! -- Timothy C. Phan Intelligence Quest Research, INC. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscrib

Building debian packages under Solaris?

1998-08-05 Thread Dale E. Martin
Just curious if anyone had done it. I'm going to be setting up some Solaris boxes (on loan from Sun - installing linux isn't an option :-)) and I'm definitely going to want to install stuff like emacs and other GNU software on them - doing it from packages would be nice, even though I'll be limit

Re: messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-05 Thread Patrick Olson
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Taren wrote: > I just went through the same exact situation with sendmail/procmail. The > problem isn't with your system, or any software you're running on it. What > is happening is that you're receiving email from either spoofed addresses > which can't be resolved by your

Re: anyone got debian working on a thinkpad 770 ed

1998-08-05 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > has anyone got debian installed and working on a thinkpad 770 ed? Have you tried the tecra boot disks and the floppy=thinkpad options at the boot prompt? (No I don't use a thinkpad, I just know the two common problems.) Brandon

naming of newt package

1998-08-05 Thread sen_ml
hi- i've been wondering...why is newt named things like 'newt0.21' or 'newt0.25' instead of 'newt_0.21' or 'newt_0.25'? looking at the answer to question 6.3 in the debian faq, it appears that 'newt0.21' and 'newt0.25' are package names for different packages -- that is, '0.21' and '0.25' app

samba: encrypted passwords

1998-08-05 Thread Chris
Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to configure samba to do the following: - Accept unencrypted login passwords - Update the smbpasswd file by encrypting unencrypted passwords - Accept enrypted passwords that are in the smbpasswd file Thanks, Chris ---

Re: anyone got debian working on a thinkpad 770 ed

1998-08-05 Thread sen_ml
At around Wed, 5 Aug 1998 01:31:51 -0400 (EDT), Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> may have mentioned: > On Wed, 5 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > has anyone got debian installed and working on a thinkpad 770 ed? > > Have you tried the tecra boot disks and the floppy=thinkpad option

Installation Help Needed Please :)

1998-08-05 Thread James Patrick Galvin, Jr.
Okay, I've got most of the stuff figured out, but I'm still a little confused.  I ran FIPS and split my primary DOS partition and then I formated the new partition (D:).  I then booted from the floppy which I wrote resc1440.bin to and attempted to install Debian, but the Patrition Your Hard

Re: messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-05 Thread Taren
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/04/98 >at 02:15 PM, Taren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >I just went through the same exact situation with sendmail/procmail. The > >problem isn't with your system, or any software you're running on it. > >What is happening is that you're receiving email from

trafshow

1998-08-05 Thread Azog
Hello. I'm using a hamm/slink combonation and a 2.1.114 kernel. When I start trafshow, i get the following error message in messages: kernel: trafshow uses obsolete (PF_INET,SOCK_PACKET) how can I fix it? -- -Josh Co-Admin of California.ZUH.net (Azog) ..and always remember..."arf is god spelled f

Re: Strange thing ...

1998-08-05 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Ana Graca Silva wrote: > On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > I tryed to run apt-get update > > I've got the following: > > 0% [Forking]Can't locate File/stat.pm in @INC at /usr/lib/apt/methods/ftp > line 21 (#1) > (F) You said to do (or require, or use)

Installation problems (adaptec 2940)

1998-08-05 Thread Helge Hafting
I am trying to install debian 2.0 on my machine, and run into 3 disk-related problems. I also have os2 on the machine and that works, so I don't believe the hardware is broken. I have 2 ide drives for data files, and 3 scsi drives connected to an adaptec 2940 controller. I was able to install th

xfstt bug in slink

1998-08-05 Thread Art Lemasters
Has anyone reported the xfstt bug in slink, yet? While trying to install it via dselect, I saw: /etc/init.d/xfstt: line 19: syntax error near unexpected token `exit(0)' /etc/init.d/xfstt: line 19: ` test -x "/var/run/ xfstt.pid" && (echo "xfstt already running" && exit(0));' I'll do a b

Re: xfstt bug in slink

1998-08-05 Thread Art Lemasters
Oops...it's not xfstt. It's the script in init.d. Stephen...? ;-) Hope this helps. Art On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 01:39:37AM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: > Has anyone reported the xfstt bug in slink, yet? > While trying to install it via dselect, I saw: > > /etc/init.d/xfstt: line 19: s

Re: [Debian]: Wann kommt die Debian 2.0 - CD

1998-08-05 Thread Jens Ritter
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 01:28:04PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> "MB" == Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Sie werben mit einer "official" alpha cd (alpha ist noch gar nicht > > > released), und ---viel schlimmer--- "of

Re: PalmPC

1998-08-05 Thread Oskar Liljeblad
From: Timothy C. Phan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Hi, > > I'm thinking to get the Casio Cassiopeia E-10. I'd like to know > if there is any software on Linux that supports the E-10. A few weeks ago there was a thread about porting Linux to Windows CE machines on linux-kernel. Linux supports the MIPS

Multiple copies of messages in digest

1998-08-05 Thread Johann Spies
I have complained about this in the past to the listmaster: I get up to 5 copies of some messages at times. I subscribed to the digest because I wanted to shorten my download time. Today I deleted 66 duplicate copies before I started reading the mail. Im I the only one who experience this? Johan

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-05 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 04-Aug-1998, Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: > : > : That is the point that I create a slightly modified subset of Debian that > : does conform to the standard and sell the sucker for $100 a pop to > : businesses needing a better Linux than

Installation Problem

1998-08-05 Thread James Patrick Galvin, Jr.
Ok, I've got this problem.  I defraggmented my harddrive and then used FIPS to split my primary partition.  Then I booted off a floppy which I wrote with resc1440.bin using rawrite2.exe.  I hit enter to boot and then I selected the color scheme then the US keyboard, but when I hit next to p

Re: Strange thing ...

1998-08-05 Thread Mario Filipe
On 05-Aug-98 Daniel Mashao wrote: > I had the same problem until I was told I needed to upgrade the perl > library to the newer one in bo/unstable. That solved my problem. Yes! But do you know where to get these packages nowadays! In other words does anyone know of a bo packages archive!

Mac CX and Debian Linux

1998-08-05 Thread Andreas Tobler
Hello, I heard about Linux for m68k yesterday, and I saw installation instructions for atari and amiga. Are there also instructions available for mac's (68k)? The right link is enough. Thanks, Andreas -- | Andreas Tobler | CH-8004 Zuerich

Re: ASUS P2B-S and Debian

1998-08-05 Thread Matthias Klose
have a look at http://swt.cs.tu-berlin.de/~doko/aic7xxx/ for Debian boot disks that support the 7890. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Diald doesn't do proper pap athentication

1998-08-05 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Hello, I am trying to setup Diald on my Debian Linux system. The system dials my provider and connects up but refuses to do pap authentication. The pon/poff works properly and does do pap authentication. I used the same dial script used with pon as suggested in the diald example documentation.

multi dialing solution

1998-08-05 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi Debians, Sometimes it is difficult for me to decide does my question fit to this mailing list. This time I also have such feelings... However, here is my question(s). I want to gather some info abbout possible hardawre/software solution about using linux for comunications via modem (or modems

gnuserv & xauth

1998-08-05 Thread Deniz Dogan
Hi, How can I use a normal user`s gnuserv process as root? What I want to do is: as root to use a normaluser`s emacs to edit some conf files. I tried: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# xauth -f /home/deniz/.Xauthority extract - :0.0 | xauth merge - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# export DISPLAY=:0.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installation Help Needed Please :)

1998-08-05 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
No panic, it's all right ... > James Patrick Galvin, Jr. wrote: > > Okay, I've got most of the stuff figured out, but I'm still a little > confused. I ran FIPS and split my primary DOS partition and then I > formated the new partition (D:). Don't format the new partition under DOS: you need nat

libc6 compatability

1998-08-05 Thread Jeremy Cook
Hello, I just upgraded to Debian 2.0. Now I'm not sure whether I will regret this. I will be developing/compiling applications that need to run painlessly on earlier Debian installations, or even RedHat Linux. What is the story on libc6/libc5 compatability and compatability with other Linuxes? Re

Re: Strange thing ...

1998-08-05 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Mario Filipe wrote: > > On 05-Aug-98 Daniel Mashao wrote: > > I had the same problem until I was told I needed to upgrade the perl > > library to the newer one in bo/unstable. That solved my problem. > > Yes! But do you know where to get these packages nowadays! In ot

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "GB" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GB> Debian is, quite frankly, too small to dictate to the rest of the linux GB> community how things should be done. On the other hand, it is too good for GB> the other distributions to ignore.I think they all secretly desire to be GB> as well

Re: Market Debian? (was Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?)

1998-08-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "GB" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GB> On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, George R wrote: GB> locations every time it is run. Even if you run it Red Hat's UUCP package GB> through alien, it will continue to look in /usr/lib/uucp for its configs GB> rather than the proper /etc/uucp directory.

Re: [Debian]: Wann kommt die Debian 2.0 - CD

1998-08-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JR" == Jens Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JR> Please: This is an englisch speaking mailing list. Thanks, Yes, I know. My fault. I read the german and international list in one folder and choose the wrong function to reply. It went to -users by accident. Ciao, Martin -- U

Re: Building debian packages under Solaris?

1998-08-05 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 5 Aug 1998, Dale E. Martin wrote: > Just curious if anyone had done it. Christoph Lameter compiled some Debian packages for Solaris some time ago. You may look in the debian-devel mailing list archives. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset

Re: AIM, Netscape 4.05

1998-08-05 Thread Brian Almeida
On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 09:23:12PM -0400, McGill wrote: > I've recently moved to Debian 2.0 from slackware 3.2 (kernel 2.0.29), and > I am having trouble getting AOL's instant messenger (AIM) and netscape > 4.05 running. When I am in X (using WindowMaker wm... if that makes a > difference...) and

Re: AIM, Netscape 4.05

1998-08-05 Thread Dirk Bonne
McGill wrote: > > Hello, > > I've recently moved to Debian 2.0 from slackware 3.2 (kernel 2.0.29), and > I am having trouble getting AOL's instant messenger (AIM) and netscape > 4.05 running. When I am in X (using WindowMaker wm... if that makes a > difference...) and type ./aim or ./netscape i

user limits

1998-08-05 Thread Paul Miller
Is there any way to limit background processes? Thanks -Paul -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Epson Stylus Color at 720 dpi ?

1998-08-05 Thread Lars Steinke
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Akop Pogosian wrote: > If you have epson stylus color 400 or epson stylus color > please let me know. Also,a few months ago, I found a great > site on Espon Printers under linux, but I lost it. If you > know such a site, please let me know. I am using the Epson Stylus Color 60

Installing contrib, non-free.

1998-08-05 Thread Liran Zvibel
Hi. I mounted the debian tree through nfs. The server had main, contrib and non-free. I selected a lot of contrib and non-free packages, but in the install process they didn't get installed. What am I doing wrong? BTW: When configuring X window (using xf86config), it didn't change the file /etc/X

Re: user limits

1998-08-05 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Paul: Yes there is -- I think. -Original Message- From: Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian User Date: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 6:20 AM Subject: user limits > >Is there any way to limit background processes? Check out the ulimit command. More specifically ulimit -u >

Weird Rescue Disk problems

1998-08-05 Thread Matt Kopishke
Hello, I am trying to do a fresh install of Hamm (2.0 Beta cd from Cheap Bytes). My harware does not support cd booting, and I don't have dos drivers for my CD rom, so I need to use a Rescue Disk to get thing going. But I make the Disk from 1440.bin with Rawrite2, reboot, watch it load root.bin, t

Re: xfstt bug in slink

1998-08-05 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 01:49:34AM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: > Oops...it's not xfstt. It's the script in init.d. > Stephen...? ;-) Hope this helps. > > Art Well this has already been reported... what version are you installing? it SHOULD be fixed in the latest version xfstt_0.9.9-5 in

SNA-TCP/IP interface

1998-08-05 Thread Smith, Brian N.
Does anyone know of an SNA interface for Linux? We want to prototype a SNA-TCP/IP interface. Thanks Brian Smith -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

RE: Epson Stylus Color at 720 dpi ?

1998-08-05 Thread Ted Harding
On 05-Aug-98 Lars Steinke wrote: > I am using the Epson Stylus Color 600 and got it to print nicely using the > magicfilter package (via ghostscript, of course). Just a word of warning: > I did not succeed in printing via the 720 dpi filter, using the 360 dpi > one works fine though (actually I jus

Re: Strange thing ...

1998-08-05 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 12:25:21PM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote: > On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Mario Filipe wrote: > > > > > On 05-Aug-98 Daniel Mashao wrote: > > > I had the same problem until I was told I needed to upgrade the perl > > > library to the newer one in bo/unstable. That solved my problem. >

Re: apt?

1998-08-05 Thread Dominik Rothert
On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 05:07:01PM -0500, Robert Rati wrote ... > released in 2.0, but I can't seem to find a package for it? Is it to be > released in 2.1 or am I just looking in the wrong place? Hamm doesn't contain apt. You can find apt on a Debian FTP Site in /pub/de

SCSI woes

1998-08-05 Thread Mario Filipe
Hi Despite the fact that I've been working with linux (for real, in a job) for the past year there are still a few things that i do not handle very well. One of those things is SCSI! And right now i have a server to install with SCSI only disks and the thing doesn't want to work. I'll explain. T

FYI: PC Mag takes a look at RedHat 5.1

1998-08-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
(Not Debian, but it's still Linux coverage) http://www.zdnet.co.uk/pcmag/flooks/1998/09/redhat51.html -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-05 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 05:21:52PM -0700, Patrick Olson wrote: > > Unfortunately, the script I created (ppp-mail) calls ppp-on, waits until > ip-up creates a file (as a signal that the connection is up), does > "fetchmail &", sleeps for 5 minutes then does a killall fetchmail and > ppp-off doesn't

dpkg

1998-08-05 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
I am trying to install packages that came along with my Debian 2.0 CD (which is from one of the image CD). The installation utility program "dselect" confuses me with all the different screens. So I tried dpkg and it worked fine...for starters. I want to findout what are the different options that

Re: samba: encrypted passwords

1998-08-05 Thread servis
*- Chris wrote about "samba: encrypted passwords" | | I was wondering if there is a way to configure samba to do the following: | | - Accept unencrypted login passwords | - Update the smbpasswd file by encrypting unencrypted passwords | - Accept enrypted passwords that are in the smbpasswd file |

RE: FYI: PC Mag takes a look at RedHat 5.1

1998-08-05 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
This is an extract from the PC magazine article on RH 5.1: > "For most situations a fast Pentium with 32MB or more of RAM is advisable to > run Linux 5.1." My God... A fast Pentium with 32MB... Hmmm I don't need that... But the worst is "Linux 5.1", I afraid that there *is* people that can make

Re: dpkg

1998-08-05 Thread Greg Starkes
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > I am trying to install packages that came along with my Debian 2.0 CD > (which is from one of the image CD). The installation utility program > "dselect" confuses me with all the different screens. So I tried dpkg > and it worked fine...for starters. I

Re: Strange thing ...

1998-08-05 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 12:25:21PM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote: > On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Mario Filipe wrote: > > > > > On 05-Aug-98 Daniel Mashao wrote: > > > I had the same problem until I was told I needed to upgrade the perl > > > library to the newer one in bo/unstable. That solved my problem. >

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-05 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 12:25:40PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> "GB" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > GB> Debian is, quite frankly, too small to dictate to the rest of the linux > GB> community how things should be done. On the other hand, it is too good for > GB> the o

Re: naming of newt package

1998-08-05 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 02:36:53PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi- > > i've been wondering...why is newt named things like 'newt0.21' or > 'newt0.25' instead of 'newt_0.21' or 'newt_0.25'? > > looking at the answer to question 6.3 in the debian faq, it appears > that 'newt0.21' and 'new

Strange thing Solved, new problem

1998-08-05 Thread Ana Graca Silva
Remember me? Yes the one who had problems with apt! Everything is solved now (+/-)! I got other version of apt and used it to upgrade to hamm , it didn't whent very smothling but I'm up ... My new problem is the window manager - afterstep 1.4.5.3-1 . I was trying to configure my desktop when i

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-05 Thread Paul
On 5 Aug 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > OTOH, three friends of mine wanted to try Linux. I gave them Debian > and saw, that it *is* too complicated for the average Windoze user to > set up. X setup is a pain in the ass and we know it. Still one of them > wants to learn it, and I believe he w

Re: Strange thing ...

1998-08-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: : On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Mario Filipe wrote: : : > : > On 05-Aug-98 Daniel Mashao wrote: : > > I had the same problem until I was told I needed to upgrade the perl : > > library to the newer one in bo/unstable. That solved my problem. : > : > Yes! B

Installing contrib, non-free.

1998-08-05 Thread Liran Zvibel
I'm not sure whether it was sent well last time, so I'm sending it again. Sorry if you read it twice. Hi. I mounted the debian tree through nfs. The server had main, contrib and non-free. I selected a lot of contrib and non-free packages, but in the install process they didn't get installed. What

Re: gnuserv & xauth

1998-08-05 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Deniz Dogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I use a normal user`s gnuserv process as root? What I want to > do is: as root to use a normaluser`s emacs to edit some conf files. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# xauth -f /home/deniz/.Xauthority extract - :0.0 | xauth > merge - > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#

I need an explanation!

1998-08-05 Thread Mario Filipe
Hi Can someone explain why the folowing happens: 15:21:35$ gnomine gnomine: can't load library 'libX11.so.6' 15:29:22$ ldd /usr/local/bin/gnomine libgnomeui.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libgnomeui.so.0 (0x4000c000) libgnome.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libgnome.so.0 (0x40039000) li

Re: cd_autoup.sh broken... or is it me?

1998-08-05 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
I had the same problem, some files are in 'base', not in 'libs', so it is necessary to edit the cd_autoup.sh Wojtek Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: > Hello all, > > I am working from the Master CD

Re: Diald doesn't do proper pap athentication

1998-08-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
John C. Ellingboe wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to setup Diald on my Debian Linux system. The system dials > my provider and connects up but refuses to do pap authentication. The > pon/poff works properly and does do pap authentication. > > I used the same dial script used with pon as suggeste

Re: I need an explanation!

1998-08-05 Thread aqy6633
> Can someone explain why the folowing happens: > > 15:21:35$ gnomine > gnomine: can't load library 'libX11.so.6' > > ii xlib6g 3.3.2.2-4 shared libraries required by X clients > > Everything looks like it is installed! > This is hamm system converted recently (as I'm sure some of

RE: naming of newt package

1998-08-05 Thread Frock
Stephen J. Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What this doe sis make the version name part of the package. This is done > because often differnt versions are incompatible with eachother. > It i scommon with libraries > The problem is normally when you install a new version of a packag

Re: gnome 0.20

1998-08-05 Thread Richard L. Alhama
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

Re: naming of newt package

1998-08-05 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 04:43:07PM +0200, Frock wrote: > Stephen J. Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What this doe sis make the version name part of the package. This is done > > because often differnt versions are incompatible with eachother. > > It i scommon with libraries > > T

Re: I need an explanation!

1998-08-05 Thread Mario Filipe
On 05-Aug-98 Alex Yukhimets wrote: > > Though you converted to hamm, "gnomine" binary is still libc5-based and it > needs libc5-based X libraries. You would need to install "xlib6" package. Thank you very much! That solved it! Yepee Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

dwww and apache

1998-08-05 Thread vaidhy
Hi All, I just installed dwww and apache web server. I need to set up my system as a host. How do I do it? I know I have to edit resolv.conf. My resolv.conf has just the entries for my ISP nameserver. So how do I give my system a IP address..? Thanks, Vaidhy -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubsc

On A Mac 68k?

1998-08-05 Thread Dan Burke
I'm looking for some info on running Debian Linux on my Macintosh Quadra 605. I've tried http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/ but the server doesn't appear to be there. Can anyone help me out? Dan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

resolv.conf

1998-08-05 Thread Alexander Gutfraind
Dear fellow Debian users! Here is my problem: I have desently installed hamm. run pppconfig and it works smoothly. The problems I have is with the DNS. when I type known addresses with numbers they load. but with names they don't resolve. I have only an ISP connection so my resolv.conf has two na

Re: resolv.conf

1998-08-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
In /etc/host.conf you need to have something like: order hosts,bind "bind" is what makes DNS servers get used for lookups. Without it DNS servers will not be consulted. The order says where to look first, in this case first /etc/hosts, then DNS. Alexander Gutfraind wrote: > Dear fellow Debian

Re: gnuserv & xauth

1998-08-05 Thread Deniz Dogan
>>> "Jan" == Jan Vroonhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jan> Deniz Dogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> How can I use a normal user`s gnuserv process as root? What I >> want to do is: as root to use a normaluser`s emacs to edit some >> conf files. >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# xauth -f /ho

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "SJC" == Stephen J Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SJC> makes sense...the more upstream developers, the more exposure debian gets SJC> lets face it...when you look around and see "Linux Software" the SJC> first name you see is RedHat and the first package format (not SJC> counting tarbal

using make config

1998-08-05 Thread Kennedy Mutio
Hi, I'm trying to make my linux machinewh which has two ne2000 cards in i have ip forwarding. I tried this at the prompt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux# ls include [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux# make config make: *** No rule to make target `config'. Stop. My question is what do I need to d

Re: resolv.conf

1998-08-05 Thread Ossama Othman
You might also want to check /etc/nsswitch.conf. You should have something like the following for the "hosts" entry: hosts: files dns -Ossama -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: apt?

1998-08-05 Thread Ed Cogburn
Robert Rati wrote: > > I've heard of apt, but am not sure what it is. I thought it was supposed > to be the new graphical package manager for Debian and was going to be > released in 2.0, but I can't seem to find a package for it? Is it to be > released in 2.1 or am I just looking in the wrong p

another Xauthority problem?

1998-08-05 Thread Chris Evans
I have got Debian Hamm and X up and working and am really pleased. With help from the list I have got the recompile for SMP working and got X launching. However, I still have an X problem and can't work out the answer from the archives or the doc files I've found. The problem is under fvwm b

Re: libc6 upgrade

1998-08-05 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Should I be wary of ubgrading from libc6 2.0.6 to 2.0.7? Or can I just > blithely replace the library? > > Andrew Tarr > As long as you aren't talking about a libc5 to libc6 upgrade, then go ahead and let dselect/apt do their thing. -- Ed -- Unsubscr

Re: Debian backup software.

1998-08-05 Thread Ed Cogburn
David Welton wrote: > > Hi, I need to back up 4 or 5 local Debian boxes, and am wondering > which of the various backup programs included in Debian have worked > well for people. I've had a look at afbackup and tob, and they seem > *ok*, but nothing spectacular. I am more interested in something

Re: messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-05 Thread Patrick Olson
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Taren wrote: In my case, I don't think it's a problem with fetchmail itself, because any email that hangs fetchmail just happens to hang Hotmail when Hotmail tries to display it after retrieving it from my ISP via POP. > The situation where fetchmail hangs is something which

Re: using make config

1998-08-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Kennedy Mutio wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to make my linux machinewh which has two ne2000 cards in i > have > ip forwarding. I tried this at the prompt > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux# ls > include > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux# make config > make: *** No rule to make

Re: another Xauthority problem?

1998-08-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
First thing is: are you su-ing and then running emacs? When you su you lose your XAUTHORITY environment variable. The variables points to a file which is used to authenticate you to the X server. What's more, the permissions on xauthority files are set 600 so that only the user logged in can acces

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