Block highlight in elvis

1998-11-03 Thread Chris Leishman
Hi all, In the recent slink version of the elvis editor, a default action was modified, which now causes the editor to block select phrases found during a matching search. This is really, really annoying, as now the standard search and modify key strokes have changed. Does anyone know how to t

Re: about latex and tables

1998-11-03 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Hi, Thanks to all that answered to my question about latex and tables. The 'longtable' was the first one I've try and it worked from the beginning. I'll look over the others also to see which is best for my needs, but longtable seems to be exactly what I need. And was on my computer, installed by

Re: exim questions

1998-11-03 Thread Gregory T. Norris
> > 1. Is there any way to have exim rewrite headers for only outbound > > messages? I need to "correct" the headers for my ISP, but I don't > > really want local messages to appear as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". > > Absolutely. exim.conf has a header rewrite section. You might use the > online manual a

why won't my modules work?

1998-11-03 Thread roadrun37
i just finished recompiling the kernel to configure my sound card. now my hpfs, vfat, and most importantly psaux modules won't work.!! should i use kerneld, what should i do?

Re: exim questions

1998-11-03 Thread Gregory T. Norris
> > What is the ownership and permissions on that .forward file? Does the mail > > user have permission to read it? What does /var/log/exim/mainlog or > > /var/log/paniclog say about it? > > It is owned by myself and group "users", with mode 644. The error-message > coming out of mainlog is: > >

Re: why won't my modules work?

1998-11-03 Thread Nathan C. Burnett
What error does it give you, if any? Do the modules load at all? (use lsmod to see what modules are loaded). If you just rebuilt the kernel I would suspect that your problem is that you didn't remember that you need to rebuild the modules to go with the new kernel. Nate On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, road

Re: Haunted PPP daemon.....

1998-11-03 Thread Ryan Kirkpatrick
On 1 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ryan Kirkpatrick writes: > > They never specified what authentication protocal to be used (chap or > > pap), while I was. > > You need to understand that ppp is a peer to peer protocol. There is no > server and no client: it works exactly the same way whe

xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Gossamer
I've just installed xfstt and a bunch of truetype fonts. When I run 'xfstt --sync' it works fine, and startind the daemon from the /etc/init.d/xfstt script works. But I can't get the server to talk to it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/cs3/ai> ps aux | grep xfstt root 227 7.4 1.3 1332 520 ? S

First-time Linux setup - questions

1998-11-03 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
I've just got the basic Linux 2.0.35 working and have been busily adding packages. Among them is the olvwm package. When I try to invoke olvwm, I get a library missing error message. When I look in /usr/lib, the file olvwm complains about is there. Apparently, the environment setup is not compl

Sml-nj requires libc6 , will this have problems with libc5?

1998-11-03 Thread Kenneth F. Ryder III
Hi A while ago I wrote about setting up ML on my system. I am running 1.3.1 and have libc5 installed (ver 5.4.33-3). In trying to install sml-nj, dpkg tells me that I need libc6 (>=2.0.7u). Will I have problems if I install libc6? Will this conflict with libc5, will it over write it? Ho

Re: ppp problems continue! (long)

1998-11-03 Thread john
Chris Evans writes: > I suspect from the proxyARP message... No. This message is harmless and irrelevant. > I have a sense that I need to change /etc/init.d/network to bind ppp0... Can't be done: ppp0 does not exist until the ppp link comes up. > Acting on advice from my last posting I have ch

cracklib mail

1998-11-03 Thread Max
I keep on getting bizarre mail from cracklib every single day with the following message: /etc/cron.daily/cracklib: 45375 45375 Looking in /etc/cron.daily/cracklib doesn't tell me why it's mailing me with those two numbers, and neither do the cracklib man pages. Any clues? Thanks, Max

wmaker

1998-11-03 Thread Debian-User
can anyone tell me how to make images your background in wmaker? I dloaded some of those themes from e.themes.org which are .jpg format then i converted them to xpm with the gimp. But i can't figure out how to set it to my background. Can anyone help? Am I doing anything wrong? Thanks in adva

netdate

1998-11-03 Thread Steve Lamb
I use netdate to sync my machine's clock to several other clocks. However, netdate does not change the BIOS clock along with the system clock so each time my machine is rebooted (which is often right now, nasty memory leak somewhere) the clock is out of sync again. This is also happening on m

Re: netdate

1998-11-03 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I use netdate to sync my machine's clock to several other clocks. > However, netdate does not change the BIOS clock along with the system clock > so each time my machine is rebooted (which is often right now, nasty memory > leak somewhere) the clock is

Re: netdate

1998-11-03 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998 22:00:12 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: >hwclock --systohc >You might want to add a --utc if your clock is set to GMT. I don't know >of a time program that does this. It shouldn't be a big deal to add this >to your shutdown routine. Great, thanks for the information. :) --

Re: Haunted PPP daemon.....

1998-11-03 Thread john
Ryan Kirkpatrick writes: > As for the authentication protocal, I understand now. The ISP was > demanding an auth protocol and I was demanding one as well. Guess it does > not work even when both demand the same auth protocal... Actually, it would work fine as long as both sides are willing to auth

Re: wmaker

1998-11-03 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 2 Nov, Debian-User wrote: > can anyone tell me how to make images your background in wmaker? I dloaded > some of those > themes from e.themes.org which are .jpg format then i converted them to xpm > with the gimp. > But i can't figure out how to set it to my background. Can anyone help? Am

GTKICQ doesn't do ANYTHING

1998-11-03 Thread Mark Panzer
I d/l'ed and installed all the files for GTKICQ from SLINK to use it on my HAMM box. The only problem is it says "connecting to server..." then the moving scroll-bar freezes and it never connects. Is this package broken? There are no real docs with it. Thanks in advance, Mark Panzer

dpkg-perl help

1998-11-03 Thread Kalvinder Kang
I've installed Debian Linux ver 2.0 as an alternative os to Windows on my PC with a view to making this a permanent arrangement and learning Unix as part of my studies. However, on running dselect and trying to install Standard Packages (or updates, etc.) I constantly get the following message:

XF86Setup on Debian2.0 - help

1998-11-03 Thread rathon
Hi, I was installing Debian2.0 on a new PC and I have two question: 1) While in deselect, I would see the follwoing EIOM *** etc etc *** etc etc How can I tell that the above pkg has already been installed ? Is that by that last asterik under 'M' ? 2) While trying to setup the XServer, I

Re: XF86Setup on Debian2.0 - help

1998-11-03 Thread Andrew Ivanov
On 3 Nov 1998, rathon wrote: > Hi, > > I was installing Debian2.0 on a new PC and I have two question: > > 1) While in deselect, I would see the follwoing > > EIOM > *** etc etc > *** etc etc > How can I tell that the above pkg has already been installed ? Is that > by that last asterik u

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
Use "ps aux" to check that xfstt is actually running. I've encountered a wierd problem today that xfstt by itself works, but xfstt --daemon does not. Very strange - it worked yesterday. I don't think I've changed anything important. Anyone got a similar problem ? Sergey. On 3 Nov 1998, Gossamer w

Re: rawrite2 & NT

1998-11-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Nov 02, 1998 at 11:57:45AM -0800, Jeff Katcher wrote: > Greg Vence wrote: > > It appears that rawrite2 doesn't work with NT. Is there one that does? > > I didn't see it going 0-1-0-1-... on side. Is there something I'm > > missing? > > No, I had the same results - EXCEPT that my disks wo

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 02:06:33AM +, Gossamer wrote: > I've just installed xfstt and a bunch of truetype fonts. When > I run 'xfstt --sync' it works fine, and startind the daemon from > the /etc/init.d/xfstt script works. But I can't get the server > to talk to it: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/c

Re: GIMP plugins

1998-11-03 Thread Peter Granroth
"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear all, > > I want some plugins :). > > a) are any debian packages? > b) if not, where will the gimp debian package look for them? just get the plugin (e.g from the plugin registry at gimp.org) then 'man gimptool': == quote == DES

how to install slink netscape?

1998-11-03 Thread Eric
I am really confused and I feel like I shouldn't be. I recently upgraded to slink so I figured I would go from the old netscape deb package (netscape4) to the new format (netscape-base-45b2). So I ended up removing netscape4 (since it conflicts with the new netscape package) and installing netsca

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 12:07:05AM -0500, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: > Use "ps aux" to check that xfstt is actually running. I've encountered a > wierd problem today that xfstt by itself works, but xfstt --daemon > does not. > Very strange - it worked yesterday. I don't think I've changed anything >

Re: how to install slink netscape?

1998-11-03 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Eric ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > seemed to go fine and I was very pleased. I went under the assumption > that the actual netscape binaries were now included in these packages...is > this wrong? When I tried to run netscape, it wasn't there. I don't have You also need to install either a navi

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Peter Granroth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gossamer) writes: > I've just installed xfstt and a bunch of truetype fonts. When > I run 'xfstt --sync' it works fine, and startind the daemon from > the /etc/init.d/xfstt script works. But I can't get the server > to talk to it: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/cs3/ai> ps aux | grep

Re: XF86Setup on Debian2.0 - help

1998-11-03 Thread Kent West
On 3 Nov 1998, rathon wrote: > Hi, > > I was installing Debian2.0 on a new PC and I have two question: > > 1) While in deselect, I would see the follwoing > > EIOM > *** etc etc > *** etc etc > > How can I tell that the above pkg has already been installed ? Is that > by that last asteri

Re: exim and bad Sender: header

1998-11-03 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 08:09:41PM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: > Lee Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 10:18:15AM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: > > > I ended up with the following fetchmail messages: > > > reading message 1 of 31 (1088 header bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP er

Re: potential smail security bug

1998-11-03 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998 00:31:33 -0800 (PST), George Bonser wrote: >Remote site connects to your mail server. In the reverse DNS lookup, the >remote admin has pointed the in-addr.arpa PTR record to your mailhosts >name. The forward and reverse lookups do not match, smail warns of the >discrepancy in th

A few questions

1998-11-03 Thread Karsten Bolding
Hi 1: If I use 24 bpp then Netscape doesn't look very nice and if I run 8 bpp idl, gimp and glade are not optimal. Is there a way to use 24 bpp with Netscape - also the fvwm95 icons looks starnge if I use 24 bpp. 2: Can Netscape 4.5 under Windows and Linux share address book and e-mail folders et

Re: A few questions

1998-11-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "KB" == Karsten Bolding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KB> 1: If I use 24 bpp then Netscape doesn't look very nice and if I KB> run 8 bpp idl, gimp and glade are not optimal. Is there a way to KB> use 24 bpp with Netscape - also the fvwm95 icons looks starnge if KB> I use 24 bpp. Some programms

Re: Build of xemacs-20.4-7 fails

1998-11-03 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /usr/src/XEmacs/xemacs20-20.4-5/lib-src/profile.c:51: too few arguments to > function `gettimeofday' This sounds like a configure failure. The source package is probably using some --with-bla-bla switches that are incompatible with your hamm install a

Re: kppp

1998-11-03 Thread Bostjan JERKO
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 27.10.98 04:45:00 PM To: Bostjan JERKO/si/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org@internet Subject:Re: kppp >Sounds like your chat script is garbled. Both 'OK' and 'CONNECT' are >messages that chat expects from the modem. >Send me a copy of your

creating CD images

1998-11-03 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! I want to create my own non-official Debian CD set using the debian-cd package. I have an intact mirror, including contrib , non-US and non-free. Is there an easy way to include ALL the non-free packages on the images, the hard way being listing each package separately in the 'Configur

Re: XF86Setup on Debian2.0 - help

1998-11-03 Thread WebMaster
The dselect screen is divided in three parts the top part is the one u describe with the list of packages, as your cursor moves thru each item is highlited. the b lue line in the middle gives u the status of the package highlited, i.e whether it is on your system and whether it is install. It al

Re: XF86 config - help

1998-11-03 Thread WebMaster
hi all   I have recently installed debian 2 on my PC and after a bit of tribulation and hours FTPing I got it working :)   I was playing around in Xwindows and there was an option on the menu for XF86 config and I thought I'd click on it and see what'd happen.  There was a lot of disk activi

[OFF TOPIC] Re: Linux kernel in breach of GPL ? (fwd)

1998-11-03 Thread C.J.LAWSON
I guess we should all be aware of this > I'm sure all of you are aware of the "Halloween Document", URLS: > > http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/halloween.html > http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,28215,00.html?st.ne.ni.lh > > Given the attention of Microsoft, I think it would be prudent if > the Lin

Re: dpkg/apt-get madness

1998-11-03 Thread Helge Hafting
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/02/98 at 05:10 PM, "E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I seemed to remember that the X11 maintainer specifically mailed to this >list that the slink X packages were severely broken and only to be used >by brave peoply meaning to help with the debuggi

Diskette Basic Installation

1998-11-03 Thread Mitchell R. Pryor
I have downloaded the bin files for 2.0 and created diskettes (using rawrite2.exe). The following message appears after the install reads the 2nd Base diskette: Error reading from tempfile! Input/Output error. Any suggestions as to what could cause this? I redownloaded the bin file and

Linux diskettes

1998-11-03 Thread Bostjan JERKO
Hello ! Can anybody tell me how to create basic diskettes for Linux (e.g. Debian) to install on PC without CD-ROM and than install the rest over the network. I tried make-floppy or something like that (can't remember exact name) but it exits with an error. Bostjan

Disk problems

1998-11-03 Thread Biciunas, Paul John
Hello, all. I installed Debian 2.0 (2.0.34) Greenbush distribution. My disks are 2 IDE drives, a 540M and 2.5G slave. The partitions are (df output) /dev/hda1 99029 ... / /dev/hda3 348873 ... /home /dev/hdb1 495714 ... /var /dev/hdb2 1926659 ... /usr I had problems making a kerne

Re: Linux diskettes

1998-11-03 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Bostjan: Goto ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/install.html and it is all explained there. Peter Bostjan JERKO wrote: > Hello ! > > Can anybody tell me how to create basic diskettes for Linux (e.g. Debian) to > install on PC without CD-ROM and than insta

Font Frustration

1998-11-03 Thread Jeff Miller
Hello, I am trying to get AfterStep working and I keep getting the following error message: AfterStep: can't get font -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-* AfterStep: can't get font -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-* AfterStep: can't get font -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-8-*-

absolute beginner !

1998-11-03 Thread Alain Cadenat
Hy all, I am an absolute beginner in linux and Debian I have just download and (successfully) installed the base debian linux. It runs properly on the same hard disk of windows 95 ! (hmmm not too bad for a beginner no ?) But now.. I dont even know how to read the .gz files in /usr/do

Re: absolute beginner !

1998-11-03 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hay there absolute beginner: That pretty good for a first go around. To uncompress the .gz files. Use gunzip . Happy uncompressing. Peter Alain Cadenat wrote: > Hy all, > > I am an absolute beginner in linux and Debian > > I have just download and (successfully) installed the base debian li

RE: wmaker

1998-11-03 Thread Person, Rod
Does anyone no how to center the background. I was playing with the gimp and converted my old NT backgrounds to wmaker, but the tile and there is no need for them to. Rod Person "Humanity is the biggest cancer ever to be seen!" -Alx Hellid Contempt > -- > From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMA

xadmin. Where did it go?

1998-11-03 Thread Person, Rod
What happend to the xadmin package. when I first install Hamm via ftp I could find it now I can't. That's one of the few deb I did backup. Rod Person "Humanity is the biggest cancer ever to be seen!" -Alx Hellid Contempt > -- > From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:debian-user-digest-re > [EMAIL

RE: dpkg-perl help

1998-11-03 Thread Cristov Russell
I've had this problem as well. I had to manually install the file. It appears that the name of the file is slightly different than what is listed in the Packages.gz file. This will also happen if you download .deb files from a Win box and not change the last '_' to a '.' before saving it. To m

Re: absolute beginner !

1998-11-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Alain Cadenat wrote: > Hy all, > > I am an absolute beginner in linux and Debian > > I have just download and (successfully) installed the base debian linux. > It runs properly on the same hard disk of windows 95 ! (hmmm not too bad for > a beginner no ?) > But now..

Re: netdate

1998-11-03 Thread dpk
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: I use netdate to sync my machine's clock to several other clocks. However, netdate does not change the BIOS clock along with the system clock so each time my machine is rebooted (which is often right now, nasty memory leak somewhere) the clock

Re: Problems with network card IRQ conflicting.

1998-11-03 Thread Dale E. Martin
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Both PCI cards, right? And an Adaptec SCSI card I'll wager. > > Pull out the NIC, and boot. Shutdown, insert the NIC, and boot. The > BIOS should assign a different IRQ to the NIC. > > I had this exact problem recently with a 2940 and a Netgear FA-

Re: cracklib mail

1998-11-03 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Max wrote: > I keep on getting bizarre mail from cracklib every single day with the > following message: > > /etc/cron.daily/cracklib: > 45375 45375 > > Looking in /etc/cron.daily/cracklib doesn't tell me why it's mailing > me with those two numbers, and neither do the crackl

RE: wmaker

1998-11-03 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Person, Rod wrote: > Does anyone no how to center the background. I was playing with the gimp > and converted my old NT backgrounds to wmaker, but the tile and there is > no need for them to. Add this line on your ~/GNUstep/Defaults/Windowmaker -->WorkspaceBack = (cpixmap,any-

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > Ok well...as xfstt maintainer I have to say I have never seen this before :) > > Usually if there is a problem...xfstt wont even run. > > ok found the problem :) > > xset fp+ unix:/7101 <--- wrong :) > > try: > xset +fp unix/:7101 > > Whjew...

Re: absolute beginner !

1998-11-03 Thread Helge Hafting
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/03/98 at 01:59 PM, "Alain Cadenat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Hy all, >I am an absolute beginner in linux and Debian >I have just download and (successfully) installed the base debian linux. >It runs properly on the same hard disk of windows 95 ! (hmmm not too

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 10:32:47PM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote: > On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > > Ok well...as xfstt maintainer I have to say I have never seen this before :) > > > > Usually if there is a problem...xfstt wont even run. > > > > ok found the problem :) > >

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > Now that xfstt is tackled on this thread, why can't I see any TTfonts > > when I run an xsession? > > > > I have copied some TTfonts on /var/ttfonts/, xfstt is running as a daemon > > tho' I have to manually enter the entries into /etc/rc?.d. D

That Infamous Microsoft Memo

1998-11-03 Thread Allan Bart
Hello, Here is something that should bring joy to the heart of the free software community, microsoft is afraid of us. allan go to http://www.opensource.org/halloween.html == Allan W. Bart, Jr. Strategic Analyst _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get yo

can't link to termcap

1998-11-03 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I d/l the Pine 4.05 tarball and I am trying to compile it. Everytime I compile (using the ./build lnx command) it bails when trying to link to termcap (-ltermcap "File or directory does not exist"). Any idea how to fix this? TIA. -Ian __

Re: can't link to termcap

1998-11-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 09:29:40AM -0600, Ian Keith Setford wrote: > I d/l the Pine 4.05 tarball and I am trying to compile it. There's a pine-src package you might want to look at. > Everytime I compile (using the ./build lnx command) it bails when trying > to link to termcap (-ltermcap "File or

absolute beginner again

1998-11-03 Thread Alain Cadenat
Thanks to all for your answers I am ok with .gz files now ! But it appears I started the wrong way ! each time I want to read email or access to the web I have to reboot and goes back to windows, then go back to linux try etc.. So first thing is to get connected under linux. I tried to co

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Frank Barknecht
Stephen J. Carpenter hat gesagt: // Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > Do you mean you need to manually enter the font path every time you > start X? if that is the problem then I suggest the following: edit > /etc/X11/Xf86config and add to the fontpaths: > > FontPath "unix/:7101" I remember a thread

Re: Disk problems

1998-11-03 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 07:32:19AM -0500, Biciunas, Paul John wrote: > Hello, all. > > I installed Debian 2.0 (2.0.34) Greenbush distribution. > My disks are 2 IDE drives, a 540M and 2.5G slave. > > The partitions are (df output) > /dev/hda1 99029 ... / > /dev/hda3 348873 ... /home > /

Clustering and Fibre Channel Support

1998-11-03 Thread Adam Greene
With the sudden uprise in the desire for Server Clustering, and the advent of Fibre Channel devices, where will that place Linux on the Road map?? Is there any attempt to support Fibre Channel, for example 3Com has designed what they call a Storage Area Network (SAN), basically a Fibre Channel LAN

XWindow at Slink already good?

1998-11-03 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users and developers too, Last week I have upgraded XWindow and that was the worse thing that I ever did in Debian. I didn't have read the warning about XWindow in slink. I reinstalled XWindow that I have in hamm, but the things aren't stable yet. I would

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 12:07:05AM -0500, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: > > Use "ps aux" to check that xfstt is actually running. I've encountered a > > wierd problem today that xfstt by itself works, but xfstt --daemon > > does not. > > Very strange

Re: UPS systems and Debian/Linux?

1998-11-03 Thread stick
Mitch Blevins said > Chris R. Martin wrote: > > I am looking to get a couple UPS units to protect my (2) Debian 2.0/Linux > > boxes. I don't need a lot of running time; I just want to be able to > > shutdown in case of a short power outage. I need a unit with uses a serial > > port to communicate i

Re: how to install slink netscape?

1998-11-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Eric wrote: > > I am really confused and I feel like I shouldn't be. I recently upgraded > to slink so I figured I would go from the old netscape deb package > (netscape4) to the new format (netscape-base-45b2). So I ended up > removing netscape4 (since it conflicts with the new netscape package

/etc/ppp/ip-up not being run

1998-11-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- The ip-up script is not being run when I start a ppp connection using pon. I can run the script manually, and it works OK. I've read the pppd man page, but didn't find anything in it that mentioned anything about requiring this script to have certain permissions

Re: absolute beginner again

1998-11-03 Thread Brent McMillan
Have you tried using "pppconfig" (need to be root)? Your modem should be found at /dev/SttyX where "X" is (modem com port - 1). Eg, if your modem is on com 4, then you can reach it at /dev/Stty3. some people make a symbolic link ("ln -s /dev/SttyX /dev/modem") to make things easier. There's al

Re: absolute beginner !

1998-11-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Alain Cadenat wrote: > > Hy all, > > I am an absolute beginner in linux and Debian > > I have just download and (successfully) installed the base debian linux. > It runs properly on the same hard disk of windows 95 ! (hmmm not too bad for > a beginner no ?) > But now.. > I dont even

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
Even more wierd: I have a server and a client, the client mounts /usr via nfs from server; /var is local, the rest is syncronized via cfengine. /etc/init.d/xfstt start works on the server, does not on the client. Just xfstt works everywhere. Any idea what the so subtle difference between these ma

lprng and logs

1998-11-03 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Anyone got some decent logs for lprng? Something like puting: user someone printed somewhat on lp on Sat 5 Oct 12:23 at /var/log/lpr.log :-? Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Ratio Regum 2:343/108.91 - _`\<;_mailto:[E

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 11:39:43AM -0500, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: > > > On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 12:07:05AM -0500, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: > > > Use "ps aux" to check that xfstt is actually running. I've encountered a > > > wierd problem tod

Re: XF86Setup on Debian2.0 - help

1998-11-03 Thread M.C. Vernon
> I was installing Debian2.0 on a new PC and I have two question: > > 1) While in deselect, I would see the follwoing > > EIOM > *** etc etc > *** etc etc > > How can I tell that the above pkg has already been installed ? Is that > by that last asterik under 'M' ? dpkg -s packagename is

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 12:11:20PM -0500, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: > Even more wierd: > I have a server and a client, the client mounts /usr via nfs from server; > /var is local, the rest is syncronized via cfengine. > /etc/init.d/xfstt start > works on the server, does not on the client. Just xfs

Re: absolute beginner !

1998-11-03 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Alain Cadenat wrote: > Hy all, > > I am an absolute beginner in linux and Debian > > I have just download and (successfully) installed the base debian linux. > It runs properly on the same hard disk of windows 95 ! (hmmm not too bad for > a beginner no ?) > But now..

Re: XWindow at Slink already good?

1998-11-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > Hi Debian users and developers too, > Last week I have upgraded XWindow and that was the worse thing that I > ever > did in Debian. I didn't have read the warning about XWindow in slink. > I reinstalled XWindow that I

Re: A few questions

1998-11-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> "KB" == Karsten Bolding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > KB> 1: If I use 24 bpp then Netscape doesn't look very nice and if I > KB> run 8 bpp idl, gimp and glade are not optimal. Is there a way to > KB> use 24 bpp with Netscape - also the fvwm95 icons looks starnge

Re: xfstt + xset

1998-11-03 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 12:11:20PM -0500, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: > > Even more wierd: > > I have a server and a client, the client mounts /usr via nfs from server; > > /var is local, the rest is syncronized via cfengine. > > /etc/init.d/xfstt

Stopping apache at boot

1998-11-03 Thread Dave Swegen
How do I stop apache from starting at bootup? I have installed it for learning purposes (another item to put in my CV :) but I don't need it running all the time. Somehow I have a feeling the answer is going to be very simple... Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen <[EMAIL PROTE

xfstt font database should be in /var

1998-11-03 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
Package: xfstt Version: 0.9.10-1 Ok I am opening a bug report on this now..mostly as a note to myself to fix it the fix should be easy :) ill move it to /var/cache/xfstt unless anyone has a more apropriate idea -Steve On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 01:04:13PM -0500, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: > > > O

Re: cracklib mail

1998-11-03 Thread Max
-- Start of included mail From: Jean Pierre LeJacq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Max wrote: > > > I keep on getting bizarre mail from cracklib every single day with the > > following message: > > > > /etc/cron.daily/cracklib: > > 45375 45375 > > > > Looking in /etc/cron.daily/crackl

Re: lprng and logs

1998-11-03 Thread Max
> Anyone got some decent logs for lprng? Something like puting: > user someone printed somewhat on lp on Sat 5 Oct 12:23 > at /var/log/lpr.log Have you tried looking in /var/log/lp-acct? LPRng saves very detailed accounting info in there if you enable accounting. If it's not

Re: Stopping apache at boot

1998-11-03 Thread Peter Granroth
Dave Swegen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do I stop apache from starting at bootup? I have installed it for > learning purposes (another item to put in my CV :) but I don't need it > running all the time. Somehow I have a feeling the answer is going to be > very simple... should be as easy as

missing libcurses.so.1

1998-11-03 Thread Jeff Katcher
Hi all I am trying to experiment with the grass4.2 GIS software, and when I start it up I get the message /usr/local/grass42/etc/gis_set: can't load library 'libcurses.so.1' I (ass}u{me} ;>) that this means I need the "curses" library (as opposed to the "ncurses" library) is there a Debian pack

Re: cracklib mail

1998-11-03 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Max wrote: > -- Start of included mail From: Jean Pierre LeJacq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Max wrote: > > > > > I keep on getting bizarre mail from cracklib every single day with the > > > following message: > > > > > > /etc/cron.daily/cracklib: > > > 45375

Re: missing libcurses.so.1

1998-11-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Jeff Katcher wrote: > > Hi all > > I am trying to experiment with the grass4.2 GIS software, and when I > start it up I get the message > /usr/local/grass42/etc/gis_set: can't load library 'libcurses.so.1' > > I (ass}u{me} ;>) that this means I need the "curses" library (as opposed > to the "ncu

Re: XF86Setup on Debian2.0 - help

1998-11-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > I was installing Debian2.0 on a new PC and I have two question: > > > > 1) While in deselect, I would see the follwoing > > > > EIOM > > *** etc etc > > *** etc etc > > > > How can I tell that the above pkg has already been installed ? Is that > > by that last asteri

Re: absolute beginner again

1998-11-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Nov 1998q, Alain Cadenat wrote: > Thanks to all for your answers > > I am ok with .gz files now ! > But it appears I started the wrong way ! each time I want to read email or > access to the web I have to reboot and goes back to windows, then go back to > linux try etc.. > So first

Re: absolute beginner !

1998-11-03 Thread john
Alain Cadenat writes: > I dont even know how to read the .gz files in /usr/doc Download and install the dwww package. You will then be able to read all the docs on the system (man pages, info files, and everything in /usr/doc) with a web browser. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Da

Re: absolute beginner again

1998-11-03 Thread john
Brent McMillan writes: > Your modem should be found at /dev/SttyX where "X" is (modem com port - > 1). Eg, if your modem is on com 4, then you can reach it at /dev/Stty3. Make that '/dev/ttyS3'. If you have trouble getting your pp connection working with pppconfig email me. -- John Hasler [EMAI

Re: /etc/ppp/ip-up not being run

1998-11-03 Thread john
> The ip-up script is not being run when I start a ppp connection using > pon. Why do you say that it is not being run? Do you realize that stdout is redirected to /dev/null when ip-up is run? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Repost - First-time Linux setup - questions

1998-11-03 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
I've just got the basic Linux 2.0.35 working and have been busily adding packages. Among them is the olvwm package. When I try to invoke olvwm, I get a library missing error message. When I look in /usr/lib, the file olvwm complains about is there. Apparently, the environment setup is not compl

Linux - SMP

1998-11-03 Thread Daniel Mashao
Hi, I have had problems before but now I am running Debian Linux on an SMP machine and it crashes once a week or so. It locks real hard and all I can do is press the on/off switch to get started. I suspected the memory but all the tests I know of do not seem to indicate the problem is with the mem

Re: splitting up a MIME-digest

1998-11-03 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 17:53:10 + (UTC) Thomas Lakofski writes: > > I have a couple of messages with about 1200+ messages in each as > MIME-digests (thanks to the braindead forwarding of microsoft exchange > server) > > I was wondering if anyone had suggestions of a way to split these > digests

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