man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread Barry White
I have just installed Debian 1.3. I am at present reading through the Tutorial which I downloaded from the debian www site. Not having any previous experience of Linux I need the Manual. However if I enter say man cp I get back Bash: man: Command not found. I presume this means the manual

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
Debian 1.3 is somewhat obsolete, but I think you need to install the man-db package, which is where the man command in 2.x is located. Bob On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Barry White wrote: > I have just installed Debian 1.3. I am at present reading through the > Tutorial which I downloaded from the debi

What owns a piece of postgresql...

1999-01-26 Thread Chris Frost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What package own /usr/lib/postgresql/dumpall/6.3/psql, libpq.so.1 and libpq.so.2? Reason being, I have the posgresql from hamm and am trying to upgrade to the version in potato (which has python support) and to dump my databases I need these files. ti

Re: What owns a piece of postgresql...

1999-01-26 Thread John Goerzen
Two ways to find this: 1. grep or zgrep through Contents-i386, located in dists/unstable/ or dists/stable; 2. use dpkg -S libpq.so.1 John On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 06:21:47PM -0600, Chris Frost wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > What package own /usr/lib/postgresql/d

ok, where'd xterm go? and what else is missing

1999-01-26 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I just moved to slink again (i don't seem to learn quickly :). the xterm command ceased working, and there now seems to be a separate xterm package for "those without the xwindows system." I've installed it, and it seems to work, but what else is missing? I'm afraid to restart now; my webserve

Re: Would like to drop Pine for Mutt

1999-01-26 Thread Daniel González Gasull
Hi Daniel! (Also my name :-)). Daniel Mashao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to drop pine to move to mutt but my > main problem is that mutt does not seem to have a > folder listing like pine. I like the folder listing > as it allows me to move through all my folders and > see if they

Browser for a slow computer?

1999-01-26 Thread Daniel González Gasull
Hi! I already asked it some days ago. But I never saw my message or the answer in the list. I don't know why. I'm looking for a browser for my computer, an old i486 DX2 66 MHz with 8 MB RAM. I.e. a very slow machine. Now I use Lynx, but I want a graphic browser with HTML 4.0, Java and images.

storage hardware

1999-01-26 Thread Daryl Williams
can anyone recommend a raid storage or fibre channel storage device for linux? i am looking for 75-150 GB of storage and would love to run it on a linux system. i would prefer a fibre channel solution if it exists and the price is right. thanks in advance, //daryl -- Daryl Williams Network Adm

Re: What owns a piece of postgresql...

1999-01-26 Thread Chris Frost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, John Goerzen wrote: > Two ways to find this: > > 1. grep or zgrep through Contents-i386, located in dists/unstable/ or > dists/stable; > > 2. use dpkg -S libpq.so.1 Guess I should have been more specific, but I'm trying to fin

Re: Browser for a slow computer?

1999-01-26 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Daniel González Gasull wrote: > I already asked it some days ago. But I never saw my > message or the answer in the list. I don't know why. Possibly because there is no easy answer. > I'm looking for a browser for my computer, an old i486 > DX2 66 MHz with 8 MB RAM. I.e.

num lock in X

1999-01-26 Thread ktb
I posted a while back about getting my num lock to default on while in X. Someone wrote back that setleds worked for console and xset worked for X consoles. I have the num lock working in console but not in X yet. At the command line when I try, ~$ xset led on no led lights come on. It mak

Running fvwm95

1999-01-26 Thread Tom Persons
I am trying to use fvwm952 as my window manager but I can't seem to get it to work. When I type "startx" at the prompt twm comes up. I followed the installation instructions to the letter which told me to add some lines in the xinitrc file. Here are the instructions: This is a new version of

Re: Running fvwm95

1999-01-26 Thread ktb
I'm new to Linux and I don't know for sure that this will help but assuming you installed fvwm952 correctly; you could try editing your /etc/X11/window-managers file putting your newly installed window manager name at the top of the list. That should make it your default window manager. Hope

Re: Sound Blaster 128 Detection

1999-01-26 Thread Rene Hojbjerg Larsen
Thomas MANGIN wrote: > > I am now facing another nice problem : my SB 128 isn t detected. I was > befdore using a Crystal card which was perfecltly working but now my > "Standard" Sound > Blaster is not working. The SoundBlaster PCI cards are not hardware compatible with the ISA based SoundBlaste

Re: 3Com/USR modem and firmware upgrade??

1999-01-26 Thread Gregory T. Norris
For some of the 3Com/USR modems (Courier V.Everything, probably others as well), they have a "XModem update" file available on their website. Supposedly you just feed the modem a specific command-string, followed by an xmodem transfer of their update file. From the way it sounds, Minicom can proba

boot floppies -- thanks!!

1999-01-26 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I wanted to thank Robert Woodcock and everyone who helped me (sorry, I don't recall their names :( ) for helping me figure out how to boot my Dell PowerEdge Server 6300. I am now the proud user (not owner, I wish! :) of a Quad-CPU Xeon Dell system with a gig (960MB with linux lim) of memory r

Help (again~!!) and then some...

1999-01-26 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy y'all :) Sorry I've been off the air for so long (I've been waiting for my debian Cd's to get here).. I finally got them :) Okay here's the scoop... I was running kernel 2.0.32, and I custom compiled 2.0.34 for sound using make menuconfig...Here's the problem... Under kernel 2.0.32, I co

Re: Help (again~!!) and then some...

1999-01-26 Thread Andrew Ivanov
> Now, under 2.0.34, I have good sound... but I can't mount my fat16 > partition or my cdrom... I get the 'you must specify partition type'... > I try vfat for the /dev/hda1 , and it tells me it is not supported... > Help You may have excluded the vfat support from the kernel when you compi

Re: What owns a piece of postgresql...

1999-01-26 Thread John Goerzen
Ahh, no ideas then. Try writing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to reach the maintainer; he may be able to help, or it may be a bug in the package. -- John On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 07:18:23PM -0600, Chris Frost wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, John Goerzen

Re: diald is eating packets

1999-01-26 Thread Daniel Martin
"Kenneth F. Ryder III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) how to keep diald from eating the first packet it sees coming across the > dummy link, and instead hold it and send it down the PPP link once > established. I think diald does this with UDP packets - with TCP packets there are other rather

GNUcash/Libs

1999-01-26 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Hello! I am trying to get GNUCash to work; the binary distribution (1.1.23); converted with alien from rpm gives libXm.so.1 => not found libXmHTML.so.1.1 => not found libreadline.so.3 => not found Can anyone tell me what packages I need to get these libs? And has anyone successfully compil

My gimp does print correctly

1999-01-26 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Hi, gimp, instead of printing the image, ends up printing the postcript text... Netscape prints fine... Any clue? slink Debian GNU/Linux 2.0.35 -- Luiz Otavio L. ZorzellaComputer Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

linux 2.2.0: "System is 666kB"

1999-01-26 Thread Johnie Ingram
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hm, now theres a worrisome compile message. :-) Anyway, for you early adopters, I've made source and debs available at: ftp.netgod.net/linux/v2.2 Heres the checksums: ca629746d5baa1f3024a780312c96e28 kernel-doc-2.2.0_2.2.0-1_all.deb 40d6ddb94ac0c0

Re: Help (again~!!) and then some...

1999-01-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Andrew Ivanov wrote: : > Now, under 2.0.34, I have good sound... but I can't mount my fat16 : > partition or my cdrom... I get the 'you must specify partition type'... : > I try vfat for the /dev/hda1 , and it tells me it is not supported... : > Help : : You may

help

1999-01-26 Thread Moshe Tarko
Can someone help me set up a dual boot Linux Debian win98 system? I have 5 Gig of space and plan to partition 1 Gig for Linux. Also have AMD 300 mhz and 64 RAM. I guess I need a mentor cause I don't have that much Know how. I have read "The Complete Linux Kit" by Tauber and Running Linux by

Re: Running fvwm95

1999-01-26 Thread Alfie Costa
On 25 Jan 99 at 18:22, Tom Persons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: {on having a bad install of fvwm95...} > ...This is a new version of fvwm95, based on fvwm95-2.0.43a, with a > few patches applied and with a few new or modified modules > (FvwmTaskBar,FvwmWharf,FvwmScript...) > > Installation should b

Re: Browser for a slow computer?

1999-01-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 05:15:25AM +0100, Daniel González Gasull wrote: > I already asked it some days ago. But I never saw my > message or the answer in the list. I don't know why. > > I'm looking for a browser for my computer, an old i486 > DX2 66 MHz with 8 MB RAM. I.e. a very slow machine.

Re: Help (again~!!) and then some...

1999-01-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 10:33:40PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > If that DOES solve the problem, you should look into kerneld, which > automagically loads (and unloads) modules for you when needed. To > enable it, uncomment the "auto" line in /etc/modules . You don't have to enable "auto" to ge

MogoBIPS.

1999-01-26 Thread Chris Wong
Hmm, Is there a certain # I should get from different CPUs? I mean, my P200MMX is getting like, 400 or so, and my dual P2-300 is getting a total of like 700 or so. Is this right? Chris Wong | [EMAIL PROTECTED] AD Digital Media Inc. (c) 1998 http://addm.com/

Re: MogoBIPS.

1999-01-26 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 25 Jan, Chris Wong wrote: > Hmm, > > Is there a certain # I should get from different CPUs? I mean, > my P200MMX is getting like, 400 or so, and my dual P2-300 is > getting a total of like 700 or so. Is this right? > > Chris Wong | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > AD Digital Media Inc. (c) 1998 > htt

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Re: 1 swap vs. 2 swap partitions

1999-01-26 Thread Helge Hafting
> On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 11:06:18AM -0600, Andrew Ivanov wrote: > > > Hi. > > I recently added a new HD to my system, and I have a chance to put an > > additional swap on it. > > The question is: is there any gain in speed of accessing swap memory if > > instead of one big swap on one disk I hav

Re: fvwm2 and xterm placement

1999-01-26 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 05:41:01PM +, ktb wrote: [snip] > Hey, "+ I exec xterm -geometry +154+137 &" worked! Now how do I get > rid of > my > initial xterm window that pops up when I first log in? I copied my > /etc/profile > file to ~/.bachrc to get the new xterm window to behave like the >

Re: Would like to drop Pine for Mutt

1999-01-26 Thread Patrick Colbeck
And if you start mutt with "mutt -y" it will startup showing a list of mailboxes along with how much mail is in them. Pat On Sun Jan 24, 1999 at 02:47:39PM -0700, JD wrote: > Quoting Peter Berlau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 11:19:45PM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote: > > Hi Daniel

Re: getting list of newsgroup

1999-01-26 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am actually trying to configure my linux box in order te get news. > I am using suck+inn+knews. > > In documentation, I see I have to put in the config files the names of the > lists I want to subscribe. > The problem is : I don't know the name of the newsgroup. >

Basic Quastions

1999-01-26 Thread Nuno Donato
I am a begginer in Linux, and I would like to make some basic questions. 1st - How can I change the WindowMaker or XShell that runs when I start X. 2nd - How can I change the menus. To remove or add some apps or games. 3rd - Can I have some shortcuts in the desktop? How? Thanks! Nuno Donato (

Re: Moddep -a and Co

1999-01-26 Thread Thomas MANGIN
Thanx for the suggestion but no Luck I made modules-install and worse I done a: rm -rf /lib/module(s)/2.* to get rid of the previous version I have all in my /lib/module(s)/2.1.130 !! thomas --    Today's thinking : I'am not able to think Today .. (Recursively)  Thomas MANGIN

scsi cd drive locking up

1999-01-26 Thread Graham Ashton
I'm having trouble mounting CDs in my Toshiba SCSI CD drive. As soon as I put a CD in (data or audio), the little green light on the front flashes about 10 times, and then lights up permanently. The LED only goes out when I eject the disk. When I attempt to mount a (perfectly good) CD, I get; h

Re: Self referencing

1999-01-26 Thread Ove Kaaven
On 25 Jan 1999, Henning Makholm wrote: > Missy Batt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Everything for both Debian and Red Hat seems self referencing. How do I > > start using debian packages?... install the package dpkg. How do I > > install that? > > Well, simply put, you don't convert your s

rtin: ... illegal character in hostname

1999-01-26 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
When I reply to an author of an usenet posting using rtin, I get the following error message from our Mailserver: |- Message log follows: -| no valid recipients were found for this message |- Failed addresses follow:

Is DOMEX SCSI controller 436P supported by debian Linux?

1999-01-26 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All! I have got a SCSI scanner UMAX Astra 1200S, which was provided with proprietary SCSI controller DOMEX 436P (Below the model code there were additional characters: 9819 002-D436P-001 The whole controller board was marked as DMX3181LE (additionally on the sticker there was another number:

GLX extension

1999-01-26 Thread Gregory Vandenbrouck
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display "groumph:0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display "groumph:0.0". Does someone knows where/if I can add a GLX extension to my X server ? I'm running on the latest debian with this: ii xserver-mach64 3.3.2.3a-8 X server for ATI Mach64-based grap

LILO and two disks...

1999-01-26 Thread John Carter
Greetings Debians, I have got LILO up an working on 3 different PC's no problem. But this one gets me totally bamfoozled Its quite simple. The guy has two hardisks in his PC. The PC is brand new with latest and greatest bios that knows about LBA etc. WinNT is on /dev/hda1, Linux is on /dev/

Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-26 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 12:48:47 +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > (BTW: TANSTAAFL was Larry Niven, not Heinlein IIRC) I think you're confusing TANSTAAFL with "tanj" (there ain't no justice) here. > i better stop now before debian-devel detours into an sf crit list for a > while. Some detours are in

Re: help

1999-01-26 Thread Tom Pfeifer
If you haven't already, I would also read over the Debian install documentation that can be found here: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/install.html If you have not done much partitioning, that is usually the toughest step for most new users. The install document

Unsual system check

1999-01-26 Thread homega
This is an unusual checking by my machine (this is all I could cut&paste), has anything gone wrong here? /dev/hda2 has reached maximal mount count, check forced. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Deleted inode 33194 has zero dtime. Fix? yes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3:

password security: john, cops, etc

1999-01-26 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Is there any debianized program to check the 'strictness' of passwords. Something like john, cops, etc. I'm also looking for a passwd replacement that enforces 'strict' passwords. TIA! -- p.

Re: rtin: ... illegal character in hostname

1999-01-26 Thread Remco van de Meent
Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote: > When I reply to an author of an usenet posting using rtin, I get the > following error message from our Mailserver: > > |- Message log follows: -| > no valid recipients were found for this message > |-

Re: Unsual system check

1999-01-26 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > This is an unusual checking by my machine (this is all I could cut&paste), > has anything gone wrong here? [ output of regular fsck check ] This is not a bug, it is a feature. After a number of reboots, your hard disks are checked by the fsck program. The same thing happens if you do not s

Re: linux 2.2.0: "System is 666kB"

1999-01-26 Thread Peter Eades
Thanks for the binary but... when trying to boot with it the kernel uncompreses, gives the message booting kernel and then stops. My machine is a cyrex 686 200. Does the binary only work for intell chips? I noticed that specific suport for non intell chips is a feature of 2.2.0. I guess this means

Re: Would like to drop Pine for Mutt

1999-01-26 Thread Johann Spies
I am also a Pine user and last year tried out Mutt for a while. What I found was that Mutt did not handle mail sent to a lot of users at the same time very well. I regularly send mail out to 20 or thirty people and I could not do as easily with Mutt as with Pine. Johann ---

Re: 1 swap vs. 2 swap partitions

1999-01-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 09:02:48AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > Any IDE setup with drives on different cables will improve > when you split swap over several drives. this because such drives > can be accessed simultaneously. > > Don't bother spreading swap across drives on the *same* IDE cable,

Re: LILO and two disks...

1999-01-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 11:50:28AM +, John Carter wrote: > I have got LILO up an working on 3 different PC's no problem. > But this one gets me totally bamfoozled > > Its quite simple. The guy has two hardisks in his PC. The PC is brand > new with latest and greatest bios that knows about

Re: Unsual system check

1999-01-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 01:42:25PM +0100, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote: > > > > This is an unusual checking by my machine (this is all I could cut&paste), > > has anything gone wrong here? > > [ output of regular fsck check ] > > This is not a bug, it is a feature. After a number of reboots, your >

Re: Would like to drop Pine for Mutt

1999-01-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 02:36:22PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > I am also a Pine user and last year tried out Mutt for a while. What I > found was that Mutt did not handle mail sent to a lot of users at the same > time very well. I regularly send mail out to 20 or thirty people and I > could not

Re: Re-Partition Ext2?

1999-01-26 Thread ulisses
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Frederick! On 23 Jan 1999, Frederick Page wrote: > > Hi all, > > sorry for the probably dumb question: is there any tool to re-partition a > HD formatted with ext2 and without loosing data? Kind of a fips (DOS-util) > or the commercial tool Partition M

Re: LILO and two disks...

1999-01-26 Thread wb2oyc
John, If I were you, I'd get that "linear" attribute outta there! Try it. Paul

rtin and <>

1999-01-26 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> The \'s are not supposed to be there, and the 2nd one causes the bounce. > > It's known that rtin isn't that good in handling From: lines in some cases > when replying. Just edit the To: line of your message to contain just "To: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]", without those quotes and without the full nam

fetchmail/procmail tears mail apart

1999-01-26 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, I have a little trouble with fetchmail (hamm, 4.3.9-1), procmail (hamm, 3.10.7-6) tearing mails apart. I think I tracked it down, when I fetch a mail containing a line with "From" in the text, procmail sorts everything before "From" in the correct folder, everything after "From" (the line with

Re: Unsual system check

1999-01-26 Thread Henning Makholm
"E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If there are any `lost files', they will be put in the `lost+found' > directory on the disk. In this case it looks as if some file (at inode 33194, spanning the blocks 134439--134447) was a little more more lost than usually, since the inode ha

Re: fetchmail/procmail tears mail apart

1999-01-26 Thread Henning Makholm
"Christian T. Steigies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a little trouble with fetchmail (hamm, 4.3.9-1), procmail (hamm, > 3.10.7-6) tearing mails apart. > I think I tracked it down, when I fetch a mail containing a line with "From" > in the text, It is a common phenomenon with mail system,

Re: GLX extension

1999-01-26 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Gregory Vandenbrouck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display "groumph:0.0". | Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display "groumph:0.0". | | Does someone knows where/if I can add a GLX extension to my X server ? The best you can currently do is about at the alpha leve

Re: Synchronizing Windows NT to Debian.

1999-01-26 Thread Jay Barbee
At 1/25/99 08:36 PM +0100, Rainer Clasen wrote: >Hi! > >Greg Frye ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), >"Re: Synchronizing Windows NT to Debian.": > >> There is a precompiled binary of xntp3 for NT if you want the NT box to >> be a time server that sync's to the Debian box. It you just want the NT >> box to be a

Re: Would like to drop Pine for Mutt

1999-01-26 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 02:36:22PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > I am also a Pine user and last year tried out Mutt for a while. What I > > found was that Mutt did not handle mail sent to a lot of users at the same > > time very well. I regularly sen

Re: boot floppies -- thanks!!

1999-01-26 Thread Rene Hojbjerg Larsen
Ossama Othman wrote: > > I wanted to thank Robert Woodcock and everyone who helped me (sorry, I > don't recall their names :( ) for helping me figure out how to boot my > Dell PowerEdge Server 6300. I am now the proud user (not owner, I wish! > :) of a Quad-CPU Xeon Dell system with a gig (960MB

Re: fvwm2 and xterm placement

1999-01-26 Thread Michael E. Touloumtzis
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 05:41:01PM +, ktb wrote: > Hey, "+ I exec xterm -geometry +154+137 &" worked! Now how do I get > rid of my initial xterm window that pops up when I first log in? I had that problem until I created a .xsession file in my home directory, like this: #!/bin/sh

gnome menus

1999-01-26 Thread Brian Morgan
I've successfully installed the latest gnome packages, and it looks pretty good. I'm running it in conjunction with icewm and slink. I'm having difficulty using the menu items, however. Most of the menu items in the gnome menu are not working. If I click on them, nothing happens. Only a few se

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 1/25/99 6:19:30 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Debian 1.3 is somewhat obsolete, but I think you need to install the > man-db package, which is where the man command in 2.x is located. > Why on earth isn't man part of the standard dist? I'd th

GNOME 0.93?

1999-01-26 Thread Vincent Murphy
has anybody built .debs of GNOME CVS recently? -vinny -- Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405 "Never put off 'til tomorrow that which can be done the day after tomorrow." --Mark Twain

Re: GNUcash/Libs

1999-01-26 Thread Daniel Martin
Timothy Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello! I am trying to get GNUCash to work; the binary distribution (1.1.23); > converted with alien from rpm gives > libXm.so.1 => not found > libXmHTML.so.1.1 => not found > libreadline.so.3 => not found > Can anyone tell me what packages I

Re: Browser for a slow computer?

1999-01-26 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 1/25/99 7:05:10 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Now I use Lynx, but I want a graphic browser with HTML > 4.0, Java and images. Netscape is too big to install > in my machine. Please, wich browser do you recommend > to me? > FYI - Your message did co

Re: password security: john, cops, etc

1999-01-26 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Pere Camps wrote: > Is there any debianized program to check the 'strictness' of > passwords. Something like john, cops, etc. > > I'm also looking for a passwd replacement that enforces 'strict' > passwords. There's cracklib which is a proactive checker in that i

Re: Unsual system check

1999-01-26 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 1/26/99 6:25:42 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > This is an unusual checking by my machine (this is all I could cut&paste), > has anything gone wrong here? > > > /dev/hda2 has reached maximal mount count, check forced. > Pass 1: Checking inodes, block

Re: password security: john, cops, etc

1999-01-26 Thread Pere Camps
Jean, > There's cracklib which is a proactive checker in that it checks > passwords as the users set them. > Currently there are several bugs for the package but I'm actively > working on them. Should see a new upload in a few days. Please tell me when you do. Thank you very muc

Compiling with X [bit off topic]

1999-01-26 Thread Rich Harran.
I need to plot some graphs output from a C program, which I need to be portable to a SGI unix machine. Thus I am trying to use the xlib library. I have xlib6g-dev installed. My test program inludes the lines: #include And I compile with: gcc -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib

Re: Unsual system check

1999-01-26 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > In a message dated 1/26/99 6:25:42 AM Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > This is an unusual checking by my machine (this is all I could cut&paste), > > has anything gone wrong here? > > > > > > /dev/hda2 has reached maximal mount count, check forced. > > Pass 1: C

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread Paul McDermott
hello, very simple. Man-db is not necessary to run linux. it is nice to have but if you don't have man linux can still run. the other reason why man is not included in the base distribution is the space issue. Paul On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/25/99 6:19:30

Re: password security: john, cops, etc

1999-01-26 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Pere Camps wrote: > > There's cracklib which is a proactive checker in that it checks > > passwords as the users set them. > > Currently there are several bugs for the package but I'm actively > > working on them. Should see a new upload in a few days. > > Please tell

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread David Wright
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > In a message dated 1/25/99 6:19:30 PM Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Debian 1.3 is somewhat obsolete, but I think you need to install the > > man-db package, which is where the man command in 2.x is located. > > Why

Re: LILO and two disks...

1999-01-26 Thread Mike Wood
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, John Carter wrote: > Greetings Debians, > > I have got LILO up an working on 3 different PC's no problem. > > But this one gets me totally bamfoozled > > Its quite simple. The guy has two hardisks in his PC. The PC is brand > new with latest and greatest bios that knows

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 1/26/99 9:55:07 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > hello, very simple. Man-db is not necessary to run linux. it is nice to > have but if you don't have man linux can still run. the other reason why > man is not included in the base distribution is the spac

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 1/26/99 10:06:20 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Every package in the base installation has to be potentially /necessary/ > for the installation process itself, not just desirable, i.e. > essential rather than important. For more details, see > /usr/doc/

Re: Compiling with X [bit off topic]

1999-01-26 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"Rich Harran." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I need to plot some graphs output from a C program, which I need to be | portable to a SGI unix machine. Thus I am trying to use the xlib library. | I have xlib6g-dev installed. My test program inludes the lines: | #include | And I compile with:

Re: Compiling with X [bit off topic]

1999-01-26 Thread Rich Harran.
Thanks a lot, this is exactly what I wanted to know. Cheers Rich On 26 Jan 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > "Rich Harran." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | I need to plot some graphs output from a C program, which I need to be > | portable to a SGI unix machine. Thus I am trying to use the xlib l

Re: Compiling with X [bit off topic]

1999-01-26 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> I need to plot some graphs output from a C program, which I need to be > portable to a SGI unix machine. Thus I am trying to use the xlib library. > I have xlib6g-dev installed. My test program inludes the lines: This isn't the answer you're looking for, but i found the pgplot libraries did

http proxy

1999-01-26 Thread Jeff Beley
I recently setup an authenticating proxy using squid, however whenever i run dselect it tells me proxy authentication required, how do i set this? I alredy have http_proxy set correctly... TIA Jeff -- --- Jeff Beley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Network Administrator PGP Key

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread David Wright
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > In a message dated 1/26/99 10:06:20 AM Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Every package in the base installation has to be potentially /necessary/ > > for the installation process itself, not just desirable, i.e. > > essentia

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 1/26/99 10:36:52 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > PPP is essential if you install through a modem connection to the > internet. PCMCIA is essential if that modem is a pcmcia card in a > laptop. I use the ZIP drive support to save pumping floppies, but > I

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread Paul McDermott
Your new, to these boot disks, I remember when there was only five disks. Now there is seven not including the boot disk you made. the man-db would fit on a floppy, but what language are you going to put on it english? what about everyone else. how hard is it to get the man-db file and the manpage

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread Paul McDermott
hello, lets start with pcmcia, do you have a laptop? ppp do you want to get more packages then the ones on the base-disks, ie man and manpages. printer support, you can choose it in the modules section of the installation process. ZIP drive, are you going to be installing from this. if yes how do

X failure in potato

1999-01-26 Thread Matt Porter
This is what I get when starting up X with the latest X packages from potato. Anybody have an idea of what is wrong here? I've searched most of the bug lists for answers to no avail. (--) SVGA: XAA: Using 8 128x128 areas for pixmap caching (--) SVGA: XAA: Caching tiles and non-transparent stippl

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread Paul McDermott
hello, netbase and netstd allow for telnet and ftp access to your machine. the base disks allow for telnet and ftp out but not in. Paul On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/26/99 10:36:52 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > PPP is essential if you

Re: Basic Quastions

1999-01-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
Nuno Donato wrote: >I am a begginer in Linux, and I would like to make some >basic questions. >1st - How can I change the WindowMaker or XShell that runs >when I start X. a) If you mean the window manager: (As root) edit /etc/X11/window-managers and put the manager of your choice at the

Re: What owns a piece of postgresql...

1999-01-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
Chris Frost wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >What package own /usr/lib/postgresql/dumpall/6.3/psql, libpq.so.1 and >libpq.so.2? Reason being, I have the posgresql from hamm and am trying to >upgrade to the version in potato (which has python support) and to dump

Re: GNUcash/Libs

1999-01-26 Thread Will Lowe
> libXm.so.1 => not found This is a motif library. Some versions of Lesstif will work. > libXmHTML.so.1.1 => not found XmHTML doesn't exist as a debian package. Read the GNUCash readme and get the source. I've been working on packaging Gnucash (which means packaging XmHTML and nana, al

Re: nfs and 2.2.x

1999-01-26 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 01:11:25AM -0500, Shaleh wrote: > I am prepping to setup NFS on a 2.2.x machine. I would like to use the > kernel based one as the docs point to it being faster/better. Is there > support in Debian for this? You have to install knfs from project/experimental

Sound problem

1999-01-26 Thread Florian Steffen
I installed a slink version on my machine, it works fine, great distribution. Now I want to enable the sound, but where are the sound drivers. Nothing in the kernel, nothing in the modules ! I tried to install the alsa library instead of using the sound system of the kernel, but here too, there is

Graphics card

1999-01-26 Thread Allens
Hi, Has anyone got the INTEL C740SG 8Mb AGP card working under x, and know of some drivers, as I can't find any. Thanks, Peter Allen

Re: PGP question

1999-01-26 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Daniel González Gasull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm still using PGP 2.6.3in, a modified version PGP > 2.6.3i. I'm gonna switch to GNU Privacy Guard. Now I > have no time. I think it's the best solution. You > can get it from http://www.d.shuttle.de/isil/gnupg . > Try the gpg Debian pac

Re: Netscape Roaming Package

1999-01-26 Thread Daniel R. Allen
I don't know if you read freshmeat, but this was posted last night: mod_roaming 1.0.0 With mod_roaming you can use your Apache webserver as a Netscape Roaming Access server. This allows you to store you Netscape Communicator 4.5 preferences, bookmarks, address books, cookies etc. on the s

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