Re: setting up DNS

1999-04-13 Thread debian
No offense taken, but notice your keyword, I updated bind.. This machine I have is not a updated version of bind, and the distro did not include any such named-bootconf.pl, so you can see why I asked for a little help. I did however have the file close, just required an extra }; Regards, Michael

help with final setup...

1999-04-13 Thread Jayson Baird
To finalize my debian installation, I've installed KDE and the newest version of XFree-SVGA, but now I need to get sound setup, my CD-ROM recognized, and my modem setup. I'm new to linux and alot of the sites I've travelled to have explanations that I would say are way over my head (i.e. isapnp) or

Help!

1999-04-13 Thread Jesse Leemail.pc.centuryinter.net
I cant seem to understand the man pages very well so I'll ask my questions here :-) I once saw a post about how to let normal users access the floppy/cdrom/extra hard drive/sound stuff. Could someone help me out? what should my fstab say? better yet. How do I create a new "group", add things to t

Re: Windows NT && Samba

1999-04-13 Thread Shao Zhang
I wouldn't install samba just for storing mp3 in NT partition. I will make a separate partition with FAT system, then I can just copy them over in Linux. Wayne Topa wrote: > Subject: Windows NT && Samba > Date: Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 12:35:58AM -0500 > > In reply to:Chris Hoover >

Re:[SOLVED] ipmasqadm question

1999-04-13 Thread Jay Barbee
At 3/5/99 07:46 AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Quoting "Ralf G. R. Bergs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On Thu, 04 Mar 1999 19:52:34 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >I checked with dselect and found I have ipmasq 3.3.1 installed already. >> >There is NO sign of ipmasqadm on my system anywhe

Re: help with final setup...

1999-04-13 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> > To finalize my debian installation, I've installed KDE and the newest > version of XFree-SVGA, but now I need to get sound setup, my CD-ROM > recognized, and my modem setup. I'm new to linux and alot of the sites I've Ok, lets take it one thing at a time: 1. CD-rom: For CD support you need to

scroll bar resource?

1999-04-13 Thread John
Hi Folks, I've got two distributions of Debian running on separate hard drives (hamm and slink) and have noticed that the scrollbars for the xterm box (among others) is different even though the xterm configuration seems to be the same. My hamm distribution has an up/down arrow at the bottom of th

Re: Help!

1999-04-13 Thread Will Lowe
> floppy/cdrom/extra hard drive/sound stuff. > Could someone help me out? > what should my fstab say? I have: /dev/fd0 /floppyfat16 user,noauto0 0 /dev/sonycd /cdrom iso9660 user,ro,noauto 0 0 In mine. Obviously you'll need to change "/d

identd!

1999-04-13 Thread Pall Magnusson
Can sumone tell me why a package of identd isn't available in the stable section?? Thanx! __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: Slink PPP with no defaultroute

1999-04-13 Thread John Hasler
Jay Barbee writes: > Yes I do, and that [not overriding an existing defaultroute] is the error > I got in the log about not over writing the default route. That has always been the behavior of pppd, and IMHO it is correct. > However, hamms pppd and now potato's pppd do not have that problem! ver

Re: Help: serial port/minicom

1999-04-13 Thread daishi
Thanks for the reply, Unfortunately, that didn't work ("auto" was in /etc/modules, and I commented it out). Do you know if statserial would fail if the serial device wasn't happy? (if so, how?) I'm trying to isolate where the brokenness is, and statserial seems to indicate that the serial port is

Re: identd!

1999-04-13 Thread Dpk
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Pall Magnusson wrote: Can sumone tell me why a package of identd isn't available in the stable section?? It is included in the package netstd. Dennis -- Dennis Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU 353-4844 (phone) 222-5875 (pager)

Re: Help: serial port/minicom

1999-04-13 Thread daishi
Actually, this is getting weirder. I've managed to get minicom to work when invoked from an xterm, but it still *doesn't* work when invoked from console. What does this mean? Is/was this all some terminal problem? (How might I go about fixing the problem is that's the case?) Thanks, d

An idea...

1999-04-13 Thread John Galt
Perish the thought--I'm going to originate a thread! I was just messing with /etc/apt/sources.list for the umteenth time to make sure that I could apt-get this package or that one, when it struck me: wouldn't it be nice if there were a web page or somewhere all valid sources.list lines for mirror

Re: An idea...

1999-04-13 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 12 Apr, John Galt wrote about "An idea..." > > Perish the thought--I'm going to originate a thread! I was just messing > with /etc/apt/sources.list for the umteenth time to make sure that I could > apt-get this package or that one, when it struck me: wouldn't it be nice > if there were a we

Re: lock and ppp options?

1999-04-13 Thread John Hasler
Jayson Baird writes: > Using KDE and it's Kppp dialer, what does it mean when it says that it > sees a lock option in /etc/ppp/options? Just what is says: /etc/ppp/options contains the 'lock' option, telling pppd to lock the serial port so that another program will not try to use it. This as it s

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?

1999-04-13 Thread Navindra Umanee
Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > when building. It thinks it needs root to set the ownership of files to > root (among other things), but in actual fact dpkg will do the right thing Ahh, that actually makes sense. > What package building does is very much like installing using a tool > l

perl question

1999-04-13 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I want to use perl to display a list a directories in the tree format, so that I can display them on the web. What is the best way to do it. Later on, I want to make the users be able to click on these tree nodes and to be able to set the permission on each directory. Thanks for any he

problems w/pppd 2.3.7

1999-04-13 Thread Jeremy
Last night, I ran "apt-get dist-upgrade" before I went to sleep. When I got up today, I logged in and tried to execute "pon". I received an error, which I think had something to do with .ppprc. This file didn't exist, so I did 'touch .ppprc' to create it. Also, I had to make pppd setuid root ag

Re: Help: serial port/minicom

1999-04-13 Thread Bruce Sass
Hmmm, I don't do X, and therefore don't know about any differences between an xterm and the console. The only way I can get minicom to fire up without error messages, yet not work, is if I tell it to use a serial port that doesn't have a modem attached to it. i.e., I have modems on ttyS0 and tty

Re: scroll bar resource?

1999-04-13 Thread ktb
John wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > I've got two distributions of Debian running on separate > hard drives (hamm and slink) and have noticed that the > scrollbars for the xterm box (among others) is different > even though the xterm configuration seems to be the same. My > hamm distribution has an up/d

kern pkg 2.0.34 doesn't offer is09660 fs

1999-04-13 Thread David B.Teague
Hi Debian Folk, Carl and Jason: My system is a 486-66, 16 MB RAM, SCSI only 1Gig HD, SCSI CD ROM, SCSI tape. Runs Debian 1.1 I crashed this 1.1 system Good Friday. I HAD to have it back up quickly, so I installed from 2.0 CDs I have, since I only had slow phone connection to the outside world.

DHCP routing - HELP!!

1999-04-13 Thread Jim Campbell
Hi, folks -- I have successfully set up DHCP client (dhcpcd) on my Debian Linux box. I was then able to make a connection to my Road Runner service through my cable modem, and reached machines on the server's network. However, I was not able to reach beyond the immediate network - I could not se

Re: identd!

1999-04-13 Thread Shaleh
On 13-Apr-99 Dpk wrote: > On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Pall Magnusson wrote: > >Can sumone tell me why a package of identd isn't available in the >stable section?? > > It is included in the package netstd. > In potato there is also midentd and oidentd.

X-Windows xf86config setup for Gloria Synergy monitor

1999-04-13 Thread Jim Campbell
I can see from http://www.xfree86.org that for the ELSA Gloria Synergy monitor, they've recommended the use of the X3DL server. I was able to download this. However, I am still stuck getting my xf86Config file set up. Can anyone give me some information about this? I am using Debian Linux. Than

OT: Need help with Makefile definitions

1999-04-13 Thread kaynjay
I apologize for this note but this list has been far better to me than Usenet, and I'm hoping someone knowledgable with programming could make some suggestions. I need to compile parts of a program which requires appropriate modifications to the Makefiles' lines setting the various options for c

POP3 Server? HOWTO?

1999-04-13 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
How do I set up a pop3 server? What software do I use? Is there a HOWTO? I couldn't find one on http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP. Secondly, I'm running exim as my mta, and while I can use linux based email clients to send mail on my LAN, my windows clients will not send email to the server. Or the

RE: OT: Need help with Makefile definitions

1999-04-13 Thread Shaleh
On 13-Apr-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I apologize for this note but this list has been far better to me than > Usenet, and I'm hoping someone knowledgable with programming could make some > suggestions. > Hmm, are these supposed to work on Intel machines? Seems to be mostly mips and other n

RE: POP3 Server? HOWTO?

1999-04-13 Thread Pollywog
On 13-Apr-99 Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > How do I set up a pop3 server? What software do I use? Is there a HOWTO? > I couldn't find one on http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP. > > Secondly, I'm running exim as my mta, and while I can use linux based > email clients to send mail on my LAN, my windows cli

RE: OT: Need help with Makefile definitions

1999-04-13 Thread kaynjay
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/13/99 at 01:10 AM, Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Hmm, are these supposed to work on Intel machines? Seems to be mostly mips >and other non-Intel hardware options. It has reportedly been compiled under Linux. I (perhaps mistakenly) believe that to be the Int

RE: POP3 Server? HOWTO?

1999-04-13 Thread Shaleh
On 13-Apr-99 Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > How do I set up a pop3 server? What software do I use? Is there a HOWTO? > I couldn't find one on http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP. > > Secondly, I'm running exim as my mta, and while I can use linux based > email clients to send mail on my LAN, my windows cli

Laptop clock skews after suspend

1999-04-13 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
After I bring my laptop out of suspend or (sometimes) when I reboot my laptop either the clock or the date will skew. How do I fix this? Right now is skewed two hours. I'm not sure if the skew is always the same. I haven't been keeping tally. Thanks. NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GN

Re: lock and ppp options?

1999-04-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: lock and ppp options? Date: Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 06:05:27PM -0400 In reply to:Jayson Baird Quoting Jayson Baird([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Using KDE and it's Kppp dialer, what does it mean when it says that it sees > a lock option in /etc/ppp/options? any ideas? thanks. > >

Re: urlview always uses Lynx

1999-04-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: urlview always uses Lynx Date: Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 09:55:24AM +0200 In reply to:Daniel González Gasull Quoting Daniel González Gasull([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi! > Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Quoting Daniel González Gasull([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > >

Time problem

1999-04-13 Thread Mans Joling
Hi, The time under linux and win is different under linux +2h. How do I make them both the equal. Mans

Re: pgcc Debian package?

1999-04-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 07:43:55PM -0500, Matt Garman wrote: > First question: I've noticed there are several replacement gcc > compilers, and I'm not sure what the differences are (if any). egcc, > egcs, pgcc, perhaps more. I've seen that there is a egcc Debian > package, but not a pgcc one. >

Re: Time problem

1999-04-13 Thread John Galt
>From Linux tzconfig would be where I would start, from Windoze, the config.sys call that you use setting up pgp would be where I'd start (pgp is timezone dependent, so the installation for pgp has a part that tells you how to configure the timezones on startup, but it's been years since I tried p

help on finding information on codepages

1999-04-13 Thread Giuseppe
A friend of mine needs some help to write a codepage. Does someone know how to do it or where to find informations about it? Thanks a lot, Giuseppe >original message How do I write a new codepage for 2.2 I went through the sources of the kernel and i see that there are codepages for various lang

PHP3 and Solid?

1999-04-13 Thread Cees Dekker
Dear reader,   In the PHP3 manual Solid is mentioned extensively, but in the php3.ini file one finds nothing. Even a dll (I work under NT) is present in the PHP3 package.   As a result I get (of course): Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function solid_connect() ...   What must

PHP3 and Solid?

1999-04-13 Thread Cees Dekker
Dear reader,   In the PHP3 manual Solid is mentioned extensively, but in the php3.ini file one finds nothing. Even a dll (I work under NT) is present in the PHP3 package.   As a result I get (of course): Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function solid_connect() ...   What must

Re: Mail system all fouled up

1999-04-13 Thread John Pearson
On %M 0, Pollywog wrote > > On 10-Apr-99 Pollywog wrote: > > > > On 10-Apr-99 Chris Hoover wrote: > >> > >> sender_host_reject_relay = * > > Bingo!! > > > > unset that guy. > > I have it set, but like this: > > relay_domains = *.shadypond.com:pollywog.sunset.net > I don't know if it should

Re: Document processing? (TeX/SGML?)

1999-04-13 Thread Dr. Paul E.M. Huygen
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Jeff Noxon wrote: > I'm looking for the best tool to create a professional-looking document > once, and then render it in the following formats: > > HTML > Postscript > PDF > ASCII > > I'm not concerned so much about a learning curve as I am about flexibility > and resu

Any way to convert Word 7 files?

1999-04-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
I've a nasty feeling the answer is going to be "no", but I wonder whether there is any way to convert or read a Word 7 file on linux? Or do I have to borrow a Windows machine and convert it to txt? -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: www.achc.demon

Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?

1999-04-13 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
I believe that WordPerfect8 StarOffice5.0 (both for Linux) could do it. Did you tried? Bye, Giuseppe Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I've a nasty feeling the answer is going to be "no", but I wonder whether > there is any way to convert or read a Word 7 file on linux?

How do you re-install dpkg?

1999-04-13 Thread David Nelson
Hullo there, 1) How does one re-install dpkg? Can I use dselect (which itself uses dpkg) or should I use dpgk-deb? 2) If I'm getting "segmentation errors" each time I use dpkg and apparently only when I use dpkg, is it likely to be due to dpkg being corrupted in some way or is the format of my en

latex cannot typeset a german \SS

1999-04-13 Thread Conrado Badenas
Hi! I have installed version 0.9.981113-2 of packages tetex-{bin,dev} and version 0.9.981113-1 of packages tetex-{base,doc,extra,nonfree}. Last week I printed a bibliography and one of the authors of one article didn't printed OK. I typed in the .bib entry: author="J. Straka and Kloko\v{c}ník and

Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?

1999-04-13 Thread David Nelson
I had heard that StarOffice is able to read them. In any case, text format would be a pity: you'd lose all the formatting. I haven't done it myself yet, but I expect HTML or RTF would be a better choice 'cause you'd keep the formatting (I expect StarOffice could handle RTF). David Anthony Campb

Re: POP3 Server in LAN?

1999-04-13 Thread Tony Crawford
Bob Nielsen wrote (on 12 Apr 99, at 11:37): > drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 1024 Jan 25 16:03 pop > > qpopper created this with the right permissions. /etc/inetd.conf should > specify that qpopper is run by root, so you shouldn't be getting the > error: > > pop-3 stream tcp

Re: problems w/pppd 2.3.7

1999-04-13 Thread John Hasler
> Now, only root can run pon, even though my users are in the dip group. What are the permissions on /etc/chatscripts, /etc/chatscripts/provider, /etc/ppp, and /etc/ppp/peers? What is in your /etc/ppp/options file? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?

1999-04-13 Thread dyer
David Nelson wrote: > I had heard that StarOffice is able to read them. In any case, text format > would be a > pity: you'd lose all the formatting. I haven't done it myself yet, but I > expect HTML > or RTF would be a better choice 'cause you'd keep the formatting (I expect > StarOffice > coul

Re: latex cannot typeset a german \SS

1999-04-13 Thread Egon Schmid
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Conrado Badenas wrote: >roman: \ss (beta)\SS (two SS with a one character width) > smalcaps: \ss (two ss one character width) \SS (as above) > > My questions are? > > a) Why? > b) What is the right way to typeset a caps german SS? A big beta? > > Until I get these

Latex Envelope

1999-04-13 Thread Richard Harran
Since there seems to be a bit of a document processing theme on the list at the moment, I thought I'd jump on the bandwagon and ask: how do I produce an envelope using Tex/LaTeX (pref. LaTeX) so that it will print correctly. (I had to do this with MS Word by printing at the top in the middle of a

mount partition or disk

1999-04-13 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, is there an easy (or canonical) way of (auto)detecting whether a disk is partitioned, please? What I have is a SCSI magneto-optical disk drive (230MB removable disks) and a bunch of disks. With some of the disks, I need to mount /dev/sda1, with others /dev/sda directly. (The disks have ex

Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?

1999-04-13 Thread Ookhoi
> I've a nasty feeling the answer is going to be "no", but I wonder whether > there is any way to convert or read a Word 7 file on linux? > > Or do I have to borrow a Windows machine and convert it to txt? strings document.doc > document.txt works fine and fast. Groetjes, Ookho

Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?

1999-04-13 Thread John Galt
Won't WP for Linux convert it? WP is usually pretty good at converting all file formats released before a given release of WP, and WP-linux is pretty new. On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I've a nasty feeling the answer is going to be "no", but I wonder whether > there is any way

Re: latex cannot typeset a german \SS

1999-04-13 Thread Thomas Ruedas
>It is strange because in the document "LaTeX2e for authors (11 june >1997)" (usrguide.dvi.gz) in pages 19-20 (section 3.14 Text commands: >all >encodings) I can read: "\SS: This command produces a German `SS', >that is a >capital `beta'. This letter can hyphenate differently from >`SS', so is ne

Re: Latex Envelope

1999-04-13 Thread Thomas Ruedas
There is a package called envlab on CTAN; I'm not sure if it is included in teTeX, but it might be. -- Thomas Ruedas Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics, J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt/Main Feldbergstrasse 47 D-60323 Frankfur

rxvt in windowmaker

1999-04-13 Thread homega
Hi, how can I have a console program opened running in a rxvt as in an x-term on windowmaker? ie. I have the following in menu.hook: "Mutt" EXEC xterm -T "Mutt" -e /usr/bin/mutt how can have the same program opened with rxvt instead? "Mutt" EXEC rxvt -d "Mutt" -e /usr/bin/mutt and othe

Re: Latex Envelope

1999-04-13 Thread Jim Foltz
There is an envelope package at the CTAN site somewhere, it may be a place to start. I have attached a quick and dirty perl script that I use sometimes (try not to laugh). On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 11:06:53AM +, Richard Harran wrote: > Since there seems to be a bit of a document processing the

Re: Latex Envelope

1999-04-13 Thread Jim Foltz
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 07:52:03AM -0400, Jim Foltz wrote: > There is an envelope package at the CTAN site somewhere, it may be a > place to start. > > I have attached a quick and dirty perl script that I use sometimes > (try not to laugh). Opps, no I didn't. -- Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: package dependencies

1999-04-13 Thread Frank Barknecht
Bogus User hat gesagt: // Bogus User wrote: > If I download the source code for something, compile it, and install > it, how do I get dpkg to know that it's there? I downloaded a new > version of qt from trolltech's web site and installed it on my > machine. Then I downloaded kde debian packa

Re: junkbuster

1999-04-13 Thread Frank Barknecht
Bruce Sass hat gesagt: // Bruce Sass wrote: > nobody's home dir is /home on my slink box. But not on mine: $ grep nobody /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.dpkg-dist /etc/passwd:nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/tmp:/bin/sh /etc/passwd.dpkg-dist:nobody:*:65534:65534:nobody:/tmp:/bin/sh --

Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?

1999-04-13 Thread Arcady Genkin
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Or do I have to borrow a Windows machine and convert it to txt? StarWriter can read it. Also, if you have an access to a windows machine, Word can convert it into postscript. :) For that, install any postscript printer driver on Windows, and print

Re: mount partition or disk

1999-04-13 Thread ktb
Jiri Baum wrote: > > Hello, > > is there an easy (or canonical) way of (auto)detecting whether a disk is > partitioned, please? > > What I have is a SCSI magneto-optical disk drive (230MB removable disks) > and a bunch of disks. With some of the disks, I need to mount /dev/sda1, > with others /d

Time problem [SOLVED] with tzconfig

1999-04-13 Thread Mans Joling

Re: X-Windows xf86config setup for Gloria Synergy monitor

1999-04-13 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> > I can see from http://www.xfree86.org that for the ELSA Gloria Synergy > monitor, they've recommended the use of the X3DL server. I was able to > download this. However, I am still stuck getting my xf86Config file set up. > Can anyone give me some information about this? I am using Debian L

java + potato

1999-04-13 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
hello, when I type java in a shell, I get : bash-2.02$ java /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/../bin/i686/green_threads/java: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/../lib/i686/green_threads/libjava.so: undefined symbol: _dl_symbol_value I have : potato+linux2.0.36 thanks.

Re: mount partition or disk

1999-04-13 Thread Jiri Baum
Jiri Baum: > > is there an easy (or canonical) way of (auto)detecting whether a disk is > > partitioned, please? > > > > What I have is a SCSI magneto-optical disk drive (230MB removable disks) > > and a bunch of disks. With some of the disks, I need to mount /dev/sda1, > > with others /dev/sda di

Cheapbytes Debian 2.1

1999-04-13 Thread Allen Wong
Has anyone successfully installed Debian 2.1 from a Cheapbytes CD? I keep getting error messages with dselect stating that some of the packages are out of date and I need a newer version. I am a newbie with Debian but not with Linux, having installed redhat and Slackware many times. Allen -- Li

Re: mounting floppy disk

1999-04-13 Thread Jiri Baum
Daniel Gonz_lez Gasull: > > I have problems mounting /dev/fd0: > > > > # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > > mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/fd0 as a block device > >(maybe `insmod driver'?) Jens B. Jorgensen: > This would seem to indicate your kernel

printing problem

1999-04-13 Thread Mans Joling
Hi, I have installed my printer hp deskjet 500 with magicfilterconfig The device is assigned to /dev/lp0. When I try printing with : lpr file nothing happens. I have looked in HOWTO printing but I can not found what's wrong. Every minute the printer is initialize and further nothing happens. Any h

printer won't print

1999-04-13 Thread Mark Phillips
I'm trying to print on a canon bubblejet printer. I've set it up and got it working previously, but for some reason (since an upgrade to slink), it no longer works. I had lprng installed, and when I sent something to the printer it would happily pretend to do it, but after a while it gives the m

Re: Document processing? (TeX/SGML?)

1999-04-13 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> Quoting Jeff Noxon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > What tools can tackle this kind of chore and what are their relative > > merits? Should I be looking at TeX or SGML tools? Or should I just stick > > with plain HTML? > I would look into using LyX. It's a frontend for LaTeX. Not any more :) Now

help: php3

1999-04-13 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
Hello, could someone help me to make php running on potato+apache+kernel2.0.36. I can't make a simple code writing a web page. I select the php module in apache, write a simple html page on my locahost and in netscape : http://localhost/~user/php3_test.html but all my php code do nothing

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?

1999-04-13 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Navindra Umanchioned, > > Personally I always found dpkg easier than RPM for building packages, > > but perhaps it's just me. > IIRC all it took to build SRPMS is one single rpm command. I've never used redhat (or anything else with rpms), but I kind of like the *bsd method, which gives you a s

Re: mount partition or disk

1999-04-13 Thread ktb
Jiri Baum wrote: > > Jiri Baum: > > > is there an easy (or canonical) way of (auto)detecting whether a disk is > > > partitioned, please? > > > > > > What I have is a SCSI magneto-optical disk drive (230MB removable disks) > > > and a bunch of disks. With some of the disks, I need to mount /dev/sd

Re: primenet.com rejects mail from ibm.net

1999-04-13 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > Prof. Feedlebom wrote: > > > > First of all, why are you sending this to the Debian list? *shrug* It > > seems a bit off-topic. > > > How and/or why did Branden's original message get to the list in the > first place? Here's the E-mail header I have from what I assume

Re: java + potato

1999-04-13 Thread ANShevin
I have the same problem. The cause is that the java runtime uses private symbols from libc6 (glibc2) that are no longer visible in glibc2.1. There is no fix that I know of, short of downgrading to glibc2 (which breaks tons of dependencies in potato). Avi Shevin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: printing problem

1999-04-13 Thread Sean
What does your /etc/printcap look like? When you used magicfilterconfig, did you exit by typing done, or did you control-C . . . (had a friend who kept control-C-ing to exit magicfilterconfig . . . he never mentioned that point, and I was baffled for weeks) Sean Mans Joling wrote: > Hi, > I

Re: mount partition or disk

1999-04-13 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hello, > > is there an easy (or canonical) way of (auto)detecting whether a disk is > partitioned, please? > > What I have is a SCSI magneto-optical disk drive (230MB removable disks) > and a bunch of disks. With some of the disks, I need to mount /dev/sda1, > with others /dev/sda directly.

Re: ATI RAGE IIC PCI

1999-04-13 Thread Matus fantomas Uhlar
-> > that page knows IIC (not 2C but that's the same...) -> > however my installed xserver-mach64 doesn't know it :( -> > -> > (--) Mach64: PCI: unknown ATI (0x4756) rev 58, Aperture @ 0x8000, Block -> > I/O @ 0x3000 -> > -> > hmmm would be enough to upgrade xserver-mach64 ? -> Myself, I just

Re: Latex Envelope

1999-04-13 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> Since there seems to be a bit of a document processing theme on the list > at the moment, I thought I'd jump on the bandwagon and ask: how do I > produce an envelope using Tex/LaTeX (pref. LaTeX) so that it will print > correctly. (I had to do this with MS Word by printing at the top in the > mi

Re: java + potato

1999-04-13 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
To make me more clear : Today someone in a previous mail speak about potato+jdk1.2. I had believe that there is a official way to solve the problem. In the use of jdk1.2 instead of jdk1.1.7

Re: rxvt in windowmaker

1999-04-13 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 01:42:21PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > how can I have a console program opened running in a rxvt as in an x-term > on windowmaker? > > ie. I have the following in menu.hook: > > "Mutt" EXEC xterm -T "Mutt" -e /usr/bin/mutt > > how can have the same program opene

Re: help: php3

1999-04-13 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 04:09:21PM +0200, Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: > Hello, > > could someone help me to make php running on potato+apache+kernel2.0.36. > > I can't make a simple code writing a web page. > > I select the php module in apache, write a simple html page on my > locahost and in netscape

Re: java + potato

1999-04-13 Thread Seth M. Landsman
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 04:33:29PM +0200, Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: > To make me more clear : > > Today someone in a previous mail speak about potato+jdk1.2. > > I had believe that there is a official way to solve the problem. In the use of > jdk1.2 instead of jdk1.1.7 That fix is of limit

ftp.debian.org

1999-04-13 Thread Lawrence Walton
Is ftp.debian.org down? is there a mailing list for the ftp admins? I do a mirror of slink and potato i386. -- *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - -

netatalk - nbplkup

1999-04-13 Thread Dpk
When I execute 'nbplkup |more' to view all the AppleTalk devices on my network, my terminal becomes corrupted after the first page of devices. I must kill the window since 'reset' won't fix it. 'nbplkup :Workstation' or 'nbplkup :LaserWriter' work fine, but since none of those generate anything lo

Re: du -x

1999-04-13 Thread Jiri Baum
Chris Brown: > First off, I'm persuing this because I'd like to make my life a > little easier when reviewing drive usage; I'd like (need) a way to > list summerized directory space used on a single filesystem for one > level of directories (below the current, perhaps). du -x . | egrep

Re: laptop filesystem panic

1999-04-13 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Chris Brown: > Directory 825174: bad FAT > Filesystem panic (dev 03:03, mounted on 03:01:454739) > FAT error > Filesystem panic (dev 03:03, mounted on 03:01:454739) > fat_free: deleting beyond EOF I used to get the same messages! I'd go into DOS, run PC Tools DiskFix (which would find a w

Re: ftp.debian.org

1999-04-13 Thread Arcady Genkin
Lawrence Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is ftp.debian.org down? is there a mailing list for the ftp admins? > I do a mirror of slink and potato i386. Yes, it seems so. I've been unable to connect since last night. -- Arcady Genkin "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE

Switching pine to mutt - but...

1999-04-13 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I finally decided to switch pine to mutt. I went through the mutt documentation and have the following questions to ask: 1. I use vi for composing the mails, but ZZ does not save the message, I will have to use :wq. Is there a way to configure mutt to recognise this??

Re: help: php3

1999-04-13 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
Ben Collins wrote: > Find the phtml defines in httpd.conf and uncomment them, then renamethe page > with a > .phtml extension. If you want the server to parse all html pages (not > recommended), > then change phtml to html in httpd.conf thanks, in fact i have activated php3 by uncomment the a

printing problem

1999-04-13 Thread Mans Joling
Hi My printcap file look like this : lp|dj5|hp deskjet500:\ :lp:/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/dj5:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/.magicfilter/dj500-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: The command as root : echo "text" > /dev/lp

Current kernel configuration?

1999-04-13 Thread William R Pentney
I have not compiled my kernel yet, but I want to, and I want to see how it is currently configured. Is there any easy way to do this? Furthermore, do I really need to? I just want to add SoundBlaster support. Instead of upgrading the kernel, could I not just get the source for the current version

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink

1999-04-13 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"R. L. Kleeberger" wrote: > Quoting Jim Foltz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I am more concerned about my growing dependence on apt and dpkg. In the > > past I would have first tried to compile the source myself and install > > it. Now I seem to go out of my way to find a .deb package of the software.

SCSI modules won't autoload

1999-04-13 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi all: I have Deb2.1, 2.2.5 kernel with QlogicISP SCSI adapter support compiled as modules. I use with it Panasonic CDR (the only device on the adapter). I was hoping that whenever I mount a CD-Rom with $ mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/scsi neccessary modules would load automatically. However, mount comp

Re: Current kernel configuration?

1999-04-13 Thread Arcady Genkin
William R Pentney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have not compiled my kernel yet, but I want to, and I want to see how it > is currently configured. Is there any easy way to do this? I'm not sure. Look for file /usr/src/linux/.config. I'm not sure if it gets installed by Debian installer. > F

Re: Switching pine to mutt - but...

1999-04-13 Thread James Dietrich
On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 01:05:46AM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > I finally decided to switch pine to mutt. I went through the mutt > documentation and have the following questions to ask: > [snip questions 1-3] > > 4. Rather than reading the message page by page, I would like to

Library update failure continues...

1999-04-13 Thread Curt Howland
Hail and well met fine Debian fellows. Unfortunately, I have found (for the second time) that I cannot keep up with the debian-user list, so please address any replies to me personally as well as to the list. Several months ago, I tried to update to the "stable" distribution.It was more broken th

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