Re: install debian

1998-09-30 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 02:01:24PM -0700, Zheng Wang wrote: > Did someone successfully install Debian on Dell's workstation? I get > trouble in doing that. I try to install from the hard disk. When I run > install, it give me the following information: > > D:\>loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=r

Re: rc3.d

1998-09-30 Thread Christopher Barry
When I got wmnet some time ago I wanted to have the following commands run every time I booted so that wmnet would display properly: $ ipfwadm -A in -i -S 0.0.0.0/0 $ ipfwadm -A out -i -D 0.0.0.0/0 I had no idea how to do this, but by looking in /etc and how things were structured I kind of gues

SATAN deb?

1998-09-30 Thread Max
Does anyone know the reason why SATAN is not available as a deb package, even in the contrib or non-free sections? Has anyone been able to find it as an RPM? Thanks, Max

Re: HP Laserjet 6L for Linux?

1998-09-30 Thread Greg Norris
I just installed a 6L on my system last week, and it's working beautifully... got to admit, I was pretty impressed with it (I did up the memory to the full 9M). I configured it via magicfilter as a 4L, which seems to work flawlessly. On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 10:43:40AM -0500, Mrpeabody wrote: > I'

lp1:device not configured

1998-09-30 Thread Stephen August Korbett I
I have a scanner hooked to a parallel port, and from the scanner, to my printer. This setup used to work in Redhat on my older system. Someone on a IRC chat told me to email you about it. Whoever you are. I have lp integrated in the kernel, I do not have it as a module. I used to, and it still

navigator 3 binary?

1998-09-30 Thread Michael Stutz
Anyone know where to get a copy of the Netscape Navigator 3.x binary? They took it off their ftp sites; archive.netscape.com does not allow anon ftp logins. I downloaded and installed 4.0x but find it to be terrible -- it crashes roughly 4x as much as 3.x for me (ie., twice a day instead of three t

Re: lost "dir" in /usr/info

1998-09-30 Thread John Forest
Obi wrote: > Well I got a dir from another machine (I didn't have the dir.old either) and I > tried to manully add the node I have that wasn't already in there. And now I > can't look into the libc nodes. I mean, it shows up in the dir (so if I do > info it shows up) but the libc menu page is with

RE: X server problems

1998-09-30 Thread Fred Yankowski
Braden N. McDaniel writes: > Now when I boot the machine, my monitor goes to sleep as soon as the boot > sequence has completed. I *think* this is because I elected to being xdm up > at bootup when I initially installed everything, and now that setting is > kicking in. I suspect the problem may

install debian

1998-09-30 Thread john
One (?bizzare?) way around this is to set the shortcut properties in W95 for loadlin to "Use MS-DOS Mode" and specify a config.sys containing himem.sys and emm386.exe. copy the kernel from the CD to the hard disk so that loadlin picks it up without the DOS cd drivers or MSCDEX. I found this to wo

nn & local news spool

1998-09-30 Thread mwb
I'm using suck and inn to run a local news spool. Trn works fine, but I'd prefer nn. However when I try nn on my local spool it spits out could not fetch active file and quits. Nn works using my isp's news server, and trn works fine. Does nn not work with the default setup for inn? Can I conf

Do PCI modems need something special?

1998-09-30 Thread Eric G. Stern
Hi, I have a generic 56K PCI modem supplied with my system. I was assured by the vendor that this was not a winmodem. The documentation that was supplied with the modem is not for a PCI modem so I can't trust anything it says. The only thing I know about this modem is that it has Lucent chipset

smail delays delivering mail from fetchmail

1998-09-30 Thread Fred Yankowski
I use fetchmail to download my mail from a POP3 server, and until recently the local smail/in.smtp process that gets that mail from fetchmail would immediately deliver the messages to my mailbox. Now it queues the mail for delivery, but doesn't actually deliver it until some minutes later. If I r

pine warning

1998-09-30 Thread D'jinnie
So I finally cobbled pine 4.05 together...except now it keeps giving me a "Mailbox vulnerable - directory must have 1777 protection". I don't know which directory it's talking about and what exact permissions it wants... --- If love is blind, then why do they make lingerie? D'jinnie/Jinn, encount

Re: navigator 3 binary?

1998-09-30 Thread tony mollica
Try this for the archived Netscape stuff... ftp://archive:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/archive/index.html#3.04 -- tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: some WindowMaker questions ...

1998-09-30 Thread Stefan Nobis
Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Every time I start X (with windowmaker) it opens a xterm session ! ;( > How can I disable it !? Look in /etc/X11/Xsession and maybe /etc/X11/wdm/Xsession. At the end of these files there is the line which starts xterm. -- Until the next mail..., Ste

test

1998-09-30 Thread Phillip Neumann
this is a test. -- __ / / / Phillip Neumann / / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / _/_

dpkg: "fgets gave null string"?

1998-09-30 Thread Michael Stutz
When I tried to install a package today, dpkg gave me a weird error about a different package. This came out of the blue -- the package in question had not been installed or played with in quite some time. The error message was, "fgets gave an empty null-terminated string from /var/lib/dpkg/info/k

QUESTION

1998-09-30 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hello, I have send 2 iqual messages to the list and they dont apear, so here come a 3th: 1.- I have compile a program: 1) configure --prefix=/phillip 2) make 3) make install So the program is now installed in /phillip. Now i want to uninstall it. (i have remove the

Re: smail delays delivering mail from fetchmail

1998-09-30 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Fred Yankowski wrote: > I use fetchmail to download my mail from a POP3 server, and until > recently the local smail/in.smtp process that gets that mail from > fetchmail would immediately deliver the messages to my mailbox. Now > it queues the mail for delivery, but doesn't a

Re: rc3.d

1998-09-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christopher Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In /etc/init.d/ I made a file called wmnetstartup.sh that contains: > >#!/bin/sh >ipfwadm -A in -i -S 0.0.0.0/0 >ipfwadm -A out -i -D 0.0.0.0/0 > >and then in /etc/rcS.d/ I made a symlink to that script called: >S60wmnet

Re: DAWICONTROL DC-2975 U

1998-09-30 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 03:32:48PM +0200, Felix E. Klee wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to install Debian 2 on my computer. > > However when I select "Next: Partition a Hard Disk" > from the installation menu I get a message that > no hard disks where found. > > I have a DAWICONTROL DC-2975 U SCSI

Re: There is necesary libc5-altdev to compile ld.so?

1998-09-30 Thread jdassen
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 08:36:18PM -0300, Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez wrote: >I am having problems with the ld.so and/or with the libc6. I released my >"bo" linux to "hamm" 2 week ago. I used the "cd-autoup.sh" program. > >The upgrading was fine and without big problems. However the myself >co

Re: QUESTION

1998-09-30 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: > Hello, > > > I have send 2 iqual messages to the list and they dont apear, so here > come a 3th: Your two messages did appear on the list...are you subscribed? > 2.- How can i check that a compilation has 0% errors, and so the program > will 100%

Re: DAWICONTROL DC-2975 U (2)

1998-09-30 Thread Harald Schueler
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Felix E. Klee wrote: > I have a DAWICONTROL DC-2975 U SCSI Controler with a CDROM > and an IBM UW HD connected to it. The HD is connected via > an U to UW adapter. > > loadlin.exe linux ro ncr53c8xx=wide:0 initrd=root.bin root=/dev/ram wide:0 is surely necessary because of t

Re: Printing Problem

1998-09-30 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: Hi all, Thanks for all the help... But I still cannot print! I have actually done it in debian before. But after I reinstall the debian 2.0, then it stopped working... I have compiled the parallel port within the kernel and

Re: DAWICONTROL DC-2975 U (2)

1998-09-30 Thread Harald Schueler
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Felix E. Klee wrote: > > loadlin.exe linux ro ncr53c8xx=wide:0 initrd=root.bin root=/dev/ram Try: loadlin.exe ... ncr53c8xx=wide:0,verb:2 ... and see if wide mode is reported as disabled. Harald Schueler Universitaet Essen Tel +49-201-183-2456/2566 Fach

NFS simple question

1998-09-30 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I'm trying to setup a NFS server(machine 10.0.0.132) and a client(10.0.1.222). I read the NFS-HOWTO: I wrote in /etc/exports at 10.0.0.132(Server) the line: /home 10.0.1.222(rw) Then I add the line in /etc/fstab at 10.0.1.222(Clien

Re: NFS simple question

1998-09-30 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi Debian users, > I'm trying to setup a NFS server(machine 10.0.0.132) and a > client(10.0.1.222). I read the NFS-HOWTO: > I wrote in /etc/exports at 10.0.0.132(Server) the line: > /home 10.0.1.22

pine-4.05

1998-09-30 Thread Ferdinand Schinagl
Is there anybody working on a port of pine version 4.05 or any other version later than 4.0? I want to use pine for reading emails from a pop server, but unfortunately the currently available debian package of pine is 3.96 or so and does not yet enable me to read from pop servers. Regards, Ferdina

Q: qpopper error

1998-09-30 Thread ing.Bubulac Angela Tatiana
hello, I received these messages in messages file: Sep 30 09:49:55 alpha2 in.qpopper[11785]: @imate.infim.ro: -ERR Too few arguments for the auth command. Sep 30 09:49:55 alpha2 in.qpopper[11785]: @imate.infim.ro: -ERR POP EOF received Sep 30 09:53:04 alpha2 in.qpopper[11790]: (v2.3) Unable to get

Re: pine-4.05

1998-09-30 Thread M.C. Vernon
> Is there anybody working on a port of pine version 4.05 or any other > version > later than 4.0? in /project/experimental, there are the relevant files to build-it-yourself. Debian is not allowed to distribute modified pine binaries. HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of

Re: X server problems

1998-09-30 Thread Chris Fury
Braden N. McDaniel wrote: > Now when I boot the machine, my monitor goes to sleep as soon as the boot > sequence has completed. I *think* this is because I elected to being xdm up > at bootup when I initially installed everything, and now that setting is > kicking in. I suspect the problem may be t

NIS Server and Clients

1998-09-30 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I'm trying to setup a NIS server with some clients. I'm following the steps of /usr/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz. I begun with the server. At step 3.6: Setup the server by typing "/usr/lib/yp/ypinit -m" The following error occurs and

Re: X server problems

1998-09-30 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "CF" == Chris Fury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CF> This link in /etc/rc2.d is what causes xdm to be launched on startup. CF> Removing it from this directory will cause xdm NOT to be started on CF> boot. Actually it would be easier to edit /etc/X11/config and change start-xdm to no-start-xdm

Re: X Server problems

1998-09-30 Thread Chris Fury
Martin Bialasinski wrote: > Actually it would be easier to edit /etc/X11/config and change > start-xdm to no-start-xdm and xdm-start-server to no-xdm-start-server. Yeah, but my option has less keystrokes... :P :) Elegence? What's that? -- balderdash.

Filter for HP5L

1998-09-30 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
Hi all, Thanks for your help. I finally managed to get my printer working. Now, I have a new problem. I am using HP5L. I tried to use the filter laserjet-filter, but it gives me error when printing the last page. I have tried out most of other laser* filters, but just waste

Re: Free debugger that can do source debugging without executable.

1998-09-30 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 04:57:49PM -0700, Christopher Barry wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a debugger or a way to get ddd to load and interpret a C source > file and step through it a step at a time without requiring the > debug-symbol compiled executable? I seem to remember doing something > like this

Error - - Where the hell adobe - Helvetica font!!

1998-09-30 Thread Person, Rod
Hey all, I keep getting this error not from one app but numerous apps (i.e. wmaker's WPrefs, afterstep(won't boot because of it) and various others). For some reason I keep getting the error can't find -adobe-Helvetica-font. (I may have spelled this wrong but that not the reason for the error.

Re: NFS simple question

1998-09-30 Thread joseph evan porter
> > > And used the comand mount -a in 10.0.1.222 and the error was: > > mount: RPC: Program not registered > > and the NFS-HOWTO says the this error was caused because neither nfsd > > or mountd was running on the server, but: > > > > We already had this kind of "problem", but

Re: nfs & "mount: RPC: Program not registered"

1998-09-30 Thread joseph evan porter
Look at the replies to "NFS Simple Question" posted above -- it looks like the same problem. Joe > > > When I try to mount an nfs export, I get the message: > > mount: RPC: Program not registered > > for example, something like > > mount eyry.econ.iastate.edu:/mountabledirectory mountpoin

Re: some WindowMaker questions ...

1998-09-30 Thread joseph evan porter
> > Everytime I install a program, windowmaker menu is updated and I like it. > My problem is that I would like to change some option on windowmaker menu > and I don't find the "menu" file! :( > It's not on GNUStep directory and theirs subdirectories nor in > /etc/X11/WindowMaker directory ! W

Re: more modem

1998-09-30 Thread joseph evan porter
> > > >> Just as a test, I'd try the following command: > >> > >> echo ATDT(some_phone_number) > /dev/ttyS0 > >> > >> and see if you hear the modem pick up and dial. If you've got a second > phone > >> line (or cell phone, etc), you can dial it and answer it and hear yourself > >> talking to your

Re: X server problems

1998-09-30 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 07:47:15AM -0400, Chris Fury wrote: > Braden N. McDaniel wrote: > > Now when I boot the machine, my monitor goes to sleep as soon as the boot > > sequence has completed. I *think* this is because I elected to being xdm up > > at bootup when I initially installed everything,

Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-30 Thread Philip Thiem
Why would 32-bit apps be limited to 32 bit integers?? Didn't we have 32 bit avallible to us on the 286?? If not, I'm certain we were able to get around it then. Also if any one wants to make use of MMX registers there is even a 64-bit ASM MOV command avalible. In fact on my (nonmmx)k6-processo

Re: NFS simple question

1998-09-30 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> We already had this kind of "problem", but I believe the answer is > quite simple: try restarting the 'nfs daemon' on '/etc/init.d'. I \t > should suffice. What do you mean with try restarting the 'nfs daemon' on '/etc/init.d'? Stef

No GIF in gimp?

1998-09-30 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
Why can't I save my pictures as GIF in the gimp? Stef

Re: rc3.d

1998-09-30 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 08:43:25AM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Christopher Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >In /etc/init.d/ I made a file called wmnetstartup.sh that contains: > > > >#!/bin/sh > >ipfwadm -A in -i -S 0.0.0.0/0 > >ipfwadm -A out -i -D

Re: No GIF in gimp? / xv core dumps

1998-09-30 Thread H C Pumphrey
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote: > Why can't I save my pictures as GIF in the gimp? Did you install the package gimp-nonfree from the non-free part of the distribution? Gimp requires this to view .gif and .tif files While I'm here, has anyone else noticed that xv dumps core if

Re: No GIF in gimp?

1998-09-30 Thread jdassen
On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 04:04:54PM +0200, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote: > Why can't I save my pictures as GIF in the gimp? Thanks to the joy of software patents? http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/Gif/Gif.html You could perhaps consider using "gimp-nonfree" in non-free/graphics . HTH, Ray -- Obsig:

Re: smail delays delivering mail, not just for fetchmail

1998-09-30 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I've noticed a similar behavior with smail with no fetchmail involved. Even mail on my own system is delayed several minutes. rick --

Re: No GIF in gimp?

1998-09-30 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> Why can't I save my pictures as GIF in the gimp? Because I didn't install gimp-nonfree... Stef

Re: pine warning

1998-09-30 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, D'jinnie wrote: > So I finally cobbled pine 4.05 together...except now it keeps giving me a > "Mailbox vulnerable - directory must have 1777 protection". I don't know > which directory it's talking about and what exact permissions it wants... I assume its talking about: /v

Re: remote X apps

1998-09-30 Thread Lee Bradshaw
I've used two approaches in the past. 1. Log into the alpha system with ssh. ssh should modify your DISPLAY variable to something like alpha:10 (as long as you don't modify it in your .profile,...) Run your X app. ssh has permission to draw on your DISPLAY, so you don't need to open the system wit

Re: smail delays delivering mail from fetchmail

1998-09-30 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 08:55:19PM -0500, Fred Yankowski wrote: > I use fetchmail to download my mail from a POP3 server, and until > recently the local smail/in.smtp process that gets that mail from > fetchmail would immediately deliver the messages to my mailbox. Now > it queues the mail for de

RE: X server problems

1998-09-30 Thread Kent West
At 08:41 PM 9/29/1998 -0500, Fred Yankowski wrote: >Braden N. McDaniel writes: > > Now when I boot the machine, my monitor goes to sleep as soon as the boot > > sequence has completed. I *think* this is because I elected to being xdm up > > at bootup when I initially installed everything, and now t

Re: Help ppp

1998-09-30 Thread Kent West
mr anonym wrote: > > Hmm, pppconfig doesnt work, there is no command named pppconfig on > my comp (?) :/ > > >mr anonym wrote: > >> > >> Hello, i have just installed Linux, how do i do to get > connected(ppp)? > >> =) > >> > > > >As root, run pppconfig. It'll ask a bunch of questions, such as pho

Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-30 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Philip Thiem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Why would 32-bit apps be limited to 32 bit integers?? Didn't we have 32 > bit avallible to us on the 286?? If not, I'm certain we were able to > get around it then. Also if any one wants to make use of MMX registers > there is even a 64-bit ASM MOV com

Re: Printing Problem

1998-09-30 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi again Shao! On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: > On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: > Hi all, > Thanks for all the help... But I still cannot print! don't worry, it will! ;-) > I have actually done it in debian before. B

Re: Printing Problem

1998-09-30 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Kent West wrote: > > > > What printer daemon does I have? (lpr or lprng) -- I suggest lprng > > To check this: dpkg -i | grep lpr > > > > > > regards, > > > > Ulisses > > This question is from Kent, not Shao. > > So, ca

Dewbie Question: How can I install rpm package

1998-09-30 Thread Jianbo Zhang
Hi all, I just download sybase ase, it is in rpm format. I do not know how to install it in Debian. I am using Debian 2.0. Any help would be highly appreciated. Jianbo

bugs and bug reports

1998-09-30 Thread Alexander Gutfraind
Hello fellow users! I was just scanning the new packages and wondered: How are bugs cathegorized, numbered and bug reports submitted? Most bug fixes are around "bug #26600", does it mean that 26600 is the total number of bugs discovered in all packages? I this case, When did the count started? I

Re: printcap rerouted filter

1998-09-30 Thread Kent West
Jim Foltz wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 04:41:06PM +, Kent West wrote: > > Maybe I just don't understand how printcap/lpc/filters work (very > > likely). > > > > I've got a printcap entry like this: > > > > beeper:\ > > :if=/etc/magicfilter/beeper-filter:\ > > :lp=/dev/null:\

Re: Dewbie Question: How can I install rpm package

1998-09-30 Thread Matt Garman
On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 10:08:36AM -0500, Jianbo Zhang wrote: > Hi all, > > I just download sybase ase, it is in rpm format. I do not know how to > install it in Debian. I am using Debian 2.0. Any help would be highly > appreciated. There is a debian package of rpm (RedHat package manager) that y

Re: Error - - Where the hell adobe - Helvetica font!!

1998-09-30 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"Person, Rod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Hey all, | | I keep getting this error not from one app but numerous apps (i.e. | wmaker's WPrefs, afterstep(won't boot because of it) and various | others). For some reason I keep getting the error can't find | -adobe-Helvetica-font. (I may have spelled

can't install Debian

1998-09-30 Thread Nir
Hi every one i am so new user,  I didn't even install Debian on my machine. :-)   Every time I boot from the rescue disk (resc1440.bin) or from my dos partition; the system reboots itself after the:  Loading linux . message there are some aditional messages after that but they are d

Re: printcap rerouted filter

1998-09-30 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: > > Jim Foltz wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 04:41:06PM +, Kent West wrote: > > > Maybe I just don't understand how printcap/lpc/filters work (very > > > likely). > > > > > > I've got a printcap entry like this: > > > > > > beeper:\ > > > :if=/etc/magicfilter/bee

Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-30 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 11:01:22AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > Quoting Philip Thiem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Why would 32-bit apps be limited to 32 bit integers?? Didn't we have 32 > > bit avallible to us on the 286?? If not, I'm certain we were able to > > get around it then. Also if any one

Re: Dewbie Question: How can I install rpm package

1998-09-30 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 10:08:36AM -0500, Jianbo Zhang wrote: > Hi all, > > I just download sybase ase, it is in rpm format. I do not know how to > install it in Debian. I am using Debian 2.0. Any help would be highly > appreciated. There is a debian rpm package but...it doesn't work on its own (

Re: printcap rerouted filter

1998-09-30 Thread Kent West
Okay, I'm getting closer to my goal of routing a printjob to both an email message and a printer. My beeper-filter looks like this: #!/bin/sh (originally /usr/bin/perl) my $MAIL open (MAIL, "|mail -s \"911 Call\" [EMAIL PROTECTED]"); while (<>) { print MAIL; print; } close (MAIL);

Re: bugs and bug reports

1998-09-30 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Alexander Gutfraind wrote: > How are bugs cathegorized, numbered and bug reports > submitted? See http://www.debian.org/Bugs > Most bug fixes are around "bug #26600", does it mean that > 26600 is the total number > of bugs discovered in all packages? Yes, but many of them

Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-30 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Stephen J. Carpenter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 11:01:22AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > 2) 64 bit math is _very_ slow on a 32 bit machine. Since time_t is used > > all over the place (e.g., the filesystem) you'd seriously slow things > > down by making it 64 bits. >

Re: unable dependence...

1998-09-30 Thread Phillip Neumann
Chan Min Wai wrote: > you can find it at the www.debian.org on the pakages selection > > Phillip Neumann wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Im about to installing libmagick4g wich depends on `freetype1'. Whew can > > i find > > this pagacke? In the libmagick4g debian-package web-page, stand freetype > >

crypt++el 2.84-2 mistakenly identifies file as Mac format

1998-09-30 Thread Fred Yankowski
Greetings, I wasted a lot of time today figuring out why I couldn't read pgp-encrypted files into emacs any more, even though pgp works fine from a shell command line. The problem is that the 'Mac pattern in crypt-encoding-alist is far too general, apparently causing my encrypted files to be inte

Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Michael Stone wrote: [ snip ] : If you're using a pentium-class machine in 2038, you deserve what you : get. I can't believe it would be operative after that long. I know people still sing PDP-11s -today- ! Who would have thought they'd still be around? Their cost of own

Re: simple password

1998-09-30 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hello, Well thanks, i didnt knew that `password' was so a simple password. I had my roots password insecure too, anyway i have no much interesting over here... I would like to try security. I have create an account here for user `secure'. For the password i have insert a word of 8 word-characte

RE: X server problems

1998-09-30 Thread Fred Yankowski
Kent West writes: > At 08:41 PM 9/29/1998 -0500, Fred Yankowski wrote: ... > >Anyway, I had to boot from a Debian Rescue floppy to get in. ... > Could Braden not simply try Ctrl-Alt-F2 to switch to a non-X > virtual console? I thought I tried that at the time and it didn't work, but perhaps I

Re: simple password

1998-09-30 Thread Phillip Neumann
PS: tha 8 charachter passwords i have insert it without lokking in the keyboard, so i dont know it -- __ / / / Phillip Neumann /

Re: unable dependence...

1998-09-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: [ snip ] : Well i cannot find it. you can see at imagmakiks debian page: They're wrong. Use the debian packages instead :) ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/hamm/main/binary-i386/graphics/imagemagick_4.0.4-3.deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/ham

Okay then, incremental compiling and loading... Re: Free debugger that can do source debugging without executable.

1998-09-30 Thread Christopher Barry
How about incremental compiling and loading then? I've heard that there were Lisp environments that were doing this in the 1980s. Given C's popularity, and the fact that it's more than a decade later, is there an incremental compiling and loading environment for C? Robert Ramiega wrote: > > On Tu

RE: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-30 Thread Lewis, James M.
I think folks are giving too much credit to 64bit architecture hardware. time_t is still 32 bits on dec alpha (dec unix 4.0b). ... /* * test time_t */ #include #include void main (void) { printf ("size of time_t is: %d\n", sizeof (time_t)); } $cc -std1 junk.c $a.out size of time_t is: 4

Re: X server problems

1998-09-30 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"Stephen J. Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 07:47:15AM -0400, Chris Fury wrote: | > Braden N. McDaniel wrote: | > > Now when I boot the machine, my monitor goes to sleep as soon as the boot | > > sequence has completed. I *think* this is because I elected to being xdm

Getting back into X after C-Alt-Fn'ing out.

1998-09-30 Thread Christopher Barry
I read some email in the Debian list a few minutes ago that said you can switch to a text mode virtual console from X by using Control-Alt-Fn and thought "cool, I always wondered if there was a way to do that... I think I'll try it right now!" So I did and then I could not for the life of me figure

DATING SERIOUS ASIAN GIRLS

1998-09-30 Thread svwnlr
http://www.floor-kramer.nl Only for SERIOUS Dating.

Re: simple password

1998-09-30 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Phillip Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I would like to try security. I have create an account here for user | `secure'. For the password i have insert a word of 8 word-character. Now, how | can i login as secure?? How can i guess the password ?? I hope noone flogs me for this, but those already

Re: Getting back into X after C-Alt-Fn'ing out.

1998-09-30 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> I read some email in the Debian list a few minutes ago that said you can > switch to a text mode virtual console from X by using Control-Alt-Fn and > thought "cool, I always wondered if there was a way to do that... I > think I'll try it right now!" So I did and then I could not for the life > of

Re: navigator 3 binary?

1998-09-30 Thread Michael Stutz
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Michael Stutz wrote: > > > Anyone know where to get a copy of the Netscape Navigator 3.x binary? They > > took it off their ftp sites; archive.netscape.com does not allow anon ftp > > logins. > > Is there a reason why you can

Re: Getting back into X after C-Alt-Fn'ing out.

1998-09-30 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Christopher Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I read some email in the Debian list a few minutes ago that said you can | switch to a text mode virtual console from X by using Control-Alt-Fn and | thought "cool, I always wondered if there was a way to do that... I | think I'll try it right now!" So I

Another Dewbie question

1998-09-30 Thread John Watts
Hello all, I'm trying to do a stealth installation of Debian 2.0.34 on an old P75 system at work and am having some problems. 1) Network card - it has a EthernetExpress10 card. I got ahold of the source code for the driver and compiled it. Insmod says it's for kernel 2.0.33 and -f doesn't s

Re: DATING SERIOUS ASIAN GIRLS

1998-09-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >http://www.floor-kramer.nl > >Only for SERIOUS Dating. Sorry for this, as a service to our customers (and a convienience to the debian developers at cistron) we have local *only* newsgroups for several mailing lists. Unfortunately one o

Re: some WindowMaker questions ...

1998-09-30 Thread Adam Shand
> Try looking through the (many) files in /usr/lib/menu. It may take you > some time to find what you're looking for, but it should be in there. > You should also be able to use the newest Window Maker (in Debian, it's > 0.20.0) -- the program WPrefs lets you customize your personal menu. I > h

Re: simple password

1998-09-30 Thread dsb3
On 30 Sep 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: >The simplest approach: Get the encrypted password from >/etc/passwd or /etc/shadow. (If you use shadow you shan't be >able to read it without being root - a good thing). >Then you just start generating all combinations of legal >passwords, crypt'ing them and c

Re: Getting back into X after C-Alt-Fn'ing out.

1998-09-30 Thread dsb3
On 30 Sep 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: >*-Christopher Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >| >| I read some email in the Debian list a few minutes ago that said you can >| switch to a text mode virtual console from X by using Control-Alt-Fn and >| thought "cool, I always wondered if there was a way to do that

Re: Okay then, incremental compiling and loading... Re: Free debugger that can do source debugging without executable.

1998-09-30 Thread Hein Roehrig
Christopher Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about incremental compiling and loading then? I've heard that > there were Lisp environments that were doing this in the > 1980s. Given C's popularity, and the fact that it's more than a > decade later, is there an incremental compiling and loadin

Re: Okay then, incremental compiling and loading... Re: Free debugger that can do source debugging without executable.

1998-09-30 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 09:44:36AM -0700, Christopher Barry wrote: > How about incremental compiling and loading then? I've heard that there > were Lisp environments that were doing this in the 1980s. Given C's > popularity, and the fact that it's more than a decade later, is there an > incremental

Getting back into X after C-Alt-Fn'ing out.

1998-09-30 Thread Fred Yankowski
Christopher Barry writes: > I read some email in the Debian list a few minutes ago that said you can > switch to a text mode virtual console from X by using Control-Alt-Fn and > thought "cool, I always wondered if there was a way to do that... I > think I'll try it right now!" So I did and then

Re: can't install Debian

1998-09-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Nir wrote: > Hi every one > i am so new user, I didn't even install Debian on my machine. :-) > > Every time I boot from the rescue disk (resc1440.bin) or from my dos > partition; the system reboots itself after the: > Loading linux . message > there are some aditional messages after th

Tcl/Tk tutorials or manuals available on line?

1998-09-30 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi! Sorry, this question is not strictly debian related, but because debian is the reason why I have to use Tcl/Tk, I dare to send it here... Does anybody know about any GOOD Tcl/Tk tutorials or manuals available on line, except of http://hegel.ittc.ukans.edu/topics/tcltk/welchbook.ps.gz ?

Re: Getting back into X after C-Alt-Fn'ing out.

1998-09-30 Thread Kent West
Christopher Barry wrote: > > I read some email in the Debian list a few minutes ago that said you can > switch to a text mode virtual console from X by using Control-Alt-Fn and > thought "cool, I always wondered if there was a way to do that... I > think I'll try it right now!" So I did and then I

Hylafax

1998-09-30 Thread Vincent Murphy
Hi. I was wondering if it is possible to get Win95 clients to work with Hylafax? If so, how? regards, vincent murphy

gsumi sigsegv

1998-09-30 Thread Felix E. Klee
Hi, I am using Debian 2 and also I installed the Xinput extension with support for my Wacom Artpad. Using my stylus instead of my mouse works fine. However when I start gsumi (I also installed GTK) I get a "** ERROR **: sigsegv caught" Message. Does anyone know what might be causing this probl

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