Re: DPKG

1999-02-28 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 17:54:12 +, Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > I've downloaded libstdc++2.9-dev and g++ 2.91.61. > They Depend on each other. That's correct. > When I run dpkg i libstdc++2.9-dev, it says depends on g++. > And when I run dpkg i g++, it says depends on libstdc... . >

Re: Changing From: in Exim

1999-02-28 Thread mark david mcCreary
>I have configured Exim. Only one thing does not work the way I want it to. >When I send a message, my local username is filled in in the From: line >instead >of my username at my ISP ([EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED]). > >Which setting do I have to change? Robert-Jan You need to

Installation tips for Thinkpad 770?

1999-02-28 Thread leegross
I am in the process of upgrading from a Thinkpad 760C to a 770 and have been experiencing problems installing Debian on the 770. I have tried installing from DOS but the system panics when it tries to mount the root filesystem: . . . Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 >

Re: Help with Procmail configuration

1999-02-28 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 08:20:30AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I am running fetchmail and procmail to get my mail off of a ppp. I am a > single user and I wish for my mail to go into a global directory I setup > for mail '/Mail.and.New/Mail/Inbox'. In the procmailrc I setup the > following v

Acrobat as a helper/plugin

1999-02-28 Thread Christian van Enckevort
Hi, I am trying to get acroread and netscape to work together. It should be possible to use acroread as a plugin (it is listed as a plugin for PDF in netscape). However, if I select that plugin (nppdf.so, which apparently should run acroread), netscape crashes when I try to view a PDF-file. In fac

Remote upgrade RedHat 5.1 => Debian 2.1

1999-02-28 Thread Erik Forsberg
A friend of mine has a RedHat 5.1 machine running at a remote location, and now he's thinking about installing Debian on it. Is it possible to do that on remote, without anyone sitting feeding the machine with a CDROM and telling it how to partition disks and such things ? \EF

SOLVED: Re: what is Xconsole and how can I get rid of it...

1999-02-28 Thread surak
> Alan > > I'm not sure what you are refering to re: aversion to security, > but in any case I seem not to have a xdm.options file. Perhaps you > could be less accusatory and more helpful; after all, we're all here to > enjoy the benefits of the global knowledgebase, rather than picking on >

Re: Problem with MPEG3s

1999-02-28 Thread Stefan Baums
I just rechecked the situation: In fact, "simply" killing my sound apps, removing the modules, going into suspend, coming back, reinserting the modules, restarting the sound-apps does the trick. But still, you wouldn't want to do that after every MPEG3 title you play... (BTW, even if I start, say,

Re: mouse is not working in console mode

1999-02-28 Thread wtopa
Subject: mouse is not working in console mode Date: Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 09:22:20PM +1100 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi, > After I upgrade my system to slink, my mouse is not working in the > consol mode anymore. Any ide

Re: Acrobat as a helper/plugin

1999-02-28 Thread Patrik Hagglund
I had also problems with acroread (the rendered image looked scrambled), but never investigated it futher. But a quick look in the bug tracking system (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/) gave me a bug report with a workaround added that might help: > Package: acroread > Version: 3.02-0.1 > > This is wh

Re: SOLVED: Re: what is Xconsole and how can I get rid of it...

1999-02-28 Thread Jesse Evans
Alan, Point taken; sorry about coming off so hot at first. :-) Thanks for offering the solution. On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, you wrote: > >I'm sorry that my response upset you, but try not to overreact next time. > >Alan >[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse

Re: Managing multi display hosts

1999-02-28 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 10:22:38AM -0600, Chris Frost wrote: > I have a quick question that I hope ya'll might be able to answer for > me... > > I'd like to setup a second box as an X server that would allow me to treat > it like another desktop (ala workspace in window maker). I know of the > -di

Re: help for samba.conf

1999-02-28 Thread Dan Pomohaci
illusion writes: > I just managed to fix a similar problem myself. I could see the Samba > server from > the Windows machines, but couldn't browse the shares, although i thought > everything > was set up right. > I had to add encrypted password support for the Win98 boxen on the network.

SoundBlaster 16 and midi

1999-02-28 Thread Roy-Anders Larsen
I have a Creative Labs Soundblaster 16 PnP, or model SB4171 (I believe it is referred to as model CT4171 by the user manual), and I cannot figure out how to make midi work. It works fine in DOS/WfW3.11 and WAV files work in linux. It seems to get detected fine with isapnp. My system is a 486DX33 w

Changing From in exim

1999-02-28 Thread mcclosk
Hello. |> I have configured Exim. Only one thing does not work the way I want |> it to. When I send a message, my local username is filled in in |> the From: line instead of my username at my ISP |> ([EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED]). In the file /etc/exim.conf (at the very end of

root.bin doesn't work

1999-02-28 Thread Werner Reisberger
I tried to install debian over NFS on a systems without any OS but failed. I installed several times Linux (suse and redhat) without problems but I don't know how to solve my problem with debian: I am able to start booting with the rescue disk (2.0.34) on my PC (P II, Adaptec 2940 UW) but after i

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-28 Thread Ed Cogburn
Mark Brown wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 08:36:38PM +1000, Peter Ludwig wrote: > > > Now, I have a few problems with it. > > 1) No "IDE" for the compiler. > > Try Emacs or XEmacs. Don't be mislead by the fact that they call Emacs > an editor - it's far, far more than a mere editor. It has

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-28 Thread Christian Kurz
Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 08:36:38PM +1000, Peter Ludwig wrote: > > Now, I have a few problems with it. > > 1) No "IDE" for the compiler. > Try Emacs or XEmacs. Don't be mislead by the fact that they call Emacs > an editor - it's far, far more than a mere ed

Re: Acrobat as a helper/plugin

1999-02-28 Thread Christian van Enckevort
Hi Patrik, I tried your suggestion of adding /usr/lib/libc5-compat to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but it did not help. Note also that I do not experience any problems with acroread when I start it independently (not from within netscape). I do use a libc6 version of netscape (version 4.07 from slink), so I

RE: Sound Access

1999-02-28 Thread illusion
Dave, If I recall correctly, it's "adduser audio username" I had the same prob when i set up my machine Dave Harden wrote: > Hi guys - > > I'm a old linux junkie [slackware then Redhat], but new Debian user. > Looks like by default the audio devices are only accessible by root - > what's th

RE:

1999-02-28 Thread illusion
The source tarball (from www.samba.org) comes with a script (mksmbpasswd.sh) to do so. In 2.0.2, the default location for this file is /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd. I may have just gotten lucky, but the samba 2.0.2 debs from potato installed the smbpasswd file by default (I think). As for

Re: SoundBlaster 16 and midi

1999-02-28 Thread wtopa
Subject: SoundBlaster 16 and midi Date: Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 02:01:32PM -0600 In reply to:Roy-Anders Larsen Quoting Roy-Anders Larsen([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I have a Creative Labs Soundblaster 16 PnP, or model SB4171 (I believe it > is referred to as model CT4171 by the user ma

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-28 Thread Ed Cogburn
George Bonser wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > In other words, the value is the process and not the content. > > > > > > What do mean by content here? The software? > > > > I'm saying the 'process' has been positively influenced by the > > 'politics' (the Soc

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-28 Thread Ed Cogburn
Christian Kurz wrote: > > Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 08:36:38PM +1000, Peter Ludwig wrote: > > > > Now, I have a few problems with it. > > > 1) No "IDE" for the compiler. > > > Try Emacs or XEmacs. Don't be mislead by the fact that they call Emacs > > an e

What is LINX?

1999-02-28 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
What is LINX? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Date Problems

1999-02-28 Thread D Richards
Hello I've just reinstalled debian hamm on my new 2.5 gig HD with no problems. Except I can't seem to understand the correct syntax for setting my system date and time using 'date'. Can anyone give me an example with an explanation TIA Duane Richards

What is a NIS Server?

1999-02-28 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
What is a NIS Server? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: Acrobat as a helper/plugin

1999-02-28 Thread Jozef Skvarcek
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Christian van Enckevort wrote: > I tried your suggestion of adding /usr/lib/libc5-compat to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, > but it did not help. Note also that I do not experience any problems with > acroread when I start it independently (not from within netscape). > You may try to edit

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-28 Thread King Lee
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, George Bonser wrote: > On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, King Lee wrote: > > > Sorry, bad choice of words. I hope that if debian gains "market share" > > Red Hat may not be so dominant. > > Well, I am not sure that Red Hat being so dominant is anything Debian can > change unless the

Re: Acrobat as a helper/plugin

1999-02-28 Thread Patrik Hagglund
> But certainly it should work as a helper application (if not as > a plugin). Yes, if it works on the command line I think it should work as an helper application. Maybe you can do some debugging by specifying `strace acroread %s 2> acroread.log' as your application in netscape. If you don't find

A menu like tool to admin debian?

1999-02-28 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
I want a tool in wich I can use menus to add and delete users, and maybe to do other administrative tasks. I need that because I will have some new administrators in my land and they do not understand UNIX. So it will be esier to teach them a menu driven tool. What I am looking is for somethin

Problems with my HD

1999-02-28 Thread Larry Shields WD9ESU
Hello everyone, I used Fdisk which showed me this below, and would like to know if someone can tell me what cause's this type of a problem, and how to eliminate it from happening again... My HD is a Western Digital 6.4gb drive... /dev/hda: 784 cyls, 255 heads, 63 sectors units = cylinders of

there is something like Syscom in debian?

1999-02-28 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
I want a tool in wich I can use menus to add and delete users, and maybe to do other administrative tasks. I need that because I will have some new administrators in my land and they do not understand UNIX. So it will be esier to teach them a menu driven tool. What I am looking is for somethin

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 03:44:55PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 08:36:38PM +1000, Peter Ludwig wrote: > > > 1) No "IDE" for the compiler. > > Try Emacs or XEmacs. Don't be mislead by the fact that they call Emacs > Hm, but there

samba 2.0 troubles

1999-02-28 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
I'm having problems with samba 2.0 (the .deb in potato) that I was hoping someone could help me with. My win95 box cannot be seen by smbclient, and my linux box cannot be seen by my win95 box. Both can ping each other, however, so I don't think it's an ether problem. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~]$ smbcl

Re: Date Problems

1999-02-28 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 01:10:08AM -0500, D Richards wrote: > Hello > > I've just reinstalled debian hamm on my new 2.5 gig HD with no problems. > Except I can't seem to understand the correct syntax for setting my system > date and time using 'date'. > > Can anyone give me an example with an

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-28 Thread Mark Phillips
> Were you a Linux user back when Slackware (or SLS) was the ONLY > distribution? Corel has now announced that they are going to produce > their own distribution. That might put a bit of a hurt on Red Hat. Has anyone suggested to Corel, that they base their new distribution on Debian? Cheers,

Re: What is LINX?

1999-02-28 Thread thomas lakofski
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, George Bonser wrote: > I have never heard of linx hugely off-topic, LINX is a big network access point (like mae-[east|west]) in the u.k. (london internet exchange?) .. please forgive my abrupt ending hre - but my conection is xtrememleyyhiclmelyey BAD hiccuppy e

Debian Kills Disks

1999-02-28 Thread Jerry Human
Hello Debian Geeks: Before you get upset let me declare that I'm a Linux/Debian newbie geek wannabe. I've only recently (a month ago) became interested in Linux. I've spent most of the time reading everything I could find. I have d/led a few distros to get a feel of Linux. I have two computers, a

Help

1999-02-28 Thread Pat Neumann
Hi I am new to Linux, and am learning fairly quick. But I am having problems getting my Xserver to work at a higher color depth then 8. If I try and remove that particular setting in the XF86Config file then it tells me that it cannot find the 8 bpp color setting and there for am unable to start

Re: Last gasp at CD-RW

1999-02-28 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
OK, I put that line in my lilo.conf file. When I tried to mount /dev/sr0, it mounted my cd-rom drive; I couldn't mount my cd-rw with sr0, sr1, or scd0, or scd1. So I unselected the scsi cdrom option in menuconfig. Thus, only scsi emulation and generic scsi were selected. At boot it appeared to r

Fw: Mitsumi FX001D CD-ROM drv. Need help...

1999-02-28 Thread Larry Shields WD9ESU
This is my second request for HELP! with a FX001D Mitsumi CD-ROM drive, mabe this time I will catch the right person or users that can help me out here... I am hopeing that someone that also has a CD-ROM drive the FX001D can help me out here, in configuring the cd-rom drive, so that when at bootu

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