Re: setting variables under an X11 session

1999-07-30 Thread Brett Carlane
Micha Feigin on Thu 29 Jul: > How can i set an environment variable under an x11 session If you set environment variables in your .xsession file they should be inherited by the session and thence by any program it executes. If you want environment variables to persist only for a specific program,

dselect woes

1999-07-30 Thread Dean
Hi all, Having just downloaded a user profile, dselect seems to hang just when it should be ready to install. Going through the options the install shows a quick message I think is: cksum 5md. It flashes so fast and goes right back to the choice menu's so I'm not sure. TM for dselec

Re: debian vs redhat

1999-07-30 Thread Bob Nielsen
1) Ease of upgrade was a big decider for me (I switched over 2-1/2 years ago--I can't speak for recent Red Hat releases). With Debian you can upgrade a running system. Red Hat required booting with the equivalent of a rescue disk in order to upgrade. 2) In spite of all the complaints it gets, I

Re: Removing alsalib

1999-07-30 Thread Levi
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Min Xu wrote: > Hi, > > You maybe able to remove it by reinstalling it first and then try. > > :-) I tried that, but when it tries to remove the old version to replace it with the new version it runs into the same error and gives up. -Levi

Re: Logitech mouse M-S48

1999-07-30 Thread egm2
On 29 Jul, virtanen wrote: | Which kind of device driver module should I install to get that beast | working? Or what should I do? | | It makes no effect at all with any of the possible protocols available | with XF86Setup. Perhaps you're not using the correct device (not driver)

Re: Problems encrypting with GnuPG and decrypting with PGP

1999-07-30 Thread Brian May
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 09:02:28PM +0200, J Horacio MG wrote: > > > Why does the following not work? If I don't get any reply from > > debian-user, I will post to debian-devel, as I am reasonably certain I > > got these packages from potato. > > I reported a bug a while ago about gpg-rsa2 and gpg

Inport Mouse

1999-07-30 Thread Terry Page
I have been trying for weeks now to get my Microsoft Inport Mouse to work without success. I have been back through the last four months archives hoping to find an answer and have read all the documentation on Mice I can find. Is there someone using a Microsoft Inport Mouse who can tell me their s

Re: Problems encrypting with GnuPG and decrypting with PGP

1999-07-30 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Brian May wrote: > > You need libc6 2.1.x - or you can grab the sources and recompile using > > libc6 2.0. > > Thats what I did. However, the same problem also occurs on non-Debian > archictures that don't have glibc. signing works fine - it is just > encryption that I have

Re: Gnomeicu problems

1999-07-30 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 06:37:10PM -0500, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > just installed gnomeicu and while trying to > run it i got > > > reboot ~ $ gnomeicu > type = 0 exid = (null) > > ** CRITICAL **: file applet-widget.c: line 655 > (gnome_panel_applet_corba_init): assert

MD5Sum mismatch in potato

1999-07-30 Thread A. M. Varon
Hi, When running apt-get upgrade, I get this error: E: MD5Sum mismatch for package menu Running Debian potato. regards, = = Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated = = == Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836 = == = = = = E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] = WebPage : http://andre.lasalt

Re: MD5Sum mismatch in potato

1999-07-30 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, A. M. Varon wrote: > Hi, > > When running apt-get upgrade, I get this error: > > E: MD5Sum mismatch for package menu > > Running Debian potato. Assuming you have 0.3.11, just run it again and/or switch mirrors. It should automatically erase the downloaded file when it sho

using AUI port of 3c529 (MCA) network card

1999-07-30 Thread Matthew Munsey
I've been unsuccessful in getting my 3Com 3c529 MCA Ethernet card to communicate with the network using the AUI port, although the 10baseT (twisted pair) connection with the card works fine. The 3c529 is the MCA (IBM's proprietary microchannel architecture for the PS/2 and other machines) version

RE: debian vs redhat

1999-07-30 Thread Bryan Scaringe
My reason for moving from RedHat (5.2) to Debian was configurability. I have a cable modem, and connect to the internet via a DHCP client. Redhat uses "dhcpcd" for this, as does most of the rest of the linux world. Hoverver, after going to 2.2.x kernels, dhcpcd 0.70 croaks. I couldn't get

Re: Problems encrypting with GnuPG and decrypting with PGP

1999-07-30 Thread Brian May
On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 08:29:30PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > You need libc6 2.1.x - or you can grab the sources and recompile using > > > libc6 2.0. > > > > Thats what I did. However, the same problem also occurs on non-Debian > > archictures that don't have glibc. signing works fine - i

Anyone Use the New Riders Book/CD?

1999-07-30 Thread reallocate
Just curious if anyone has succesfully installed Debian using the CD that comes with the recent New Riders "Debian/GNU Linux" book? Booting from the CD, my install fails at the "Install Operating System Kernel and Modules" point. The install program seems to want to load a laptop kernel, which app

Potato

1999-07-30 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
Account for Debian group mail writes: > Anyone using the Potato release on a machine that needs to be up. How > stable is it at this point? > > Thanks, > > Ken Rea There are a few *big* changes happening in potato right now. Changes to key parts of just about every Linux system. I'd hold

Streaming Media

1999-07-30 Thread Ben Crocker
Hi, I'm just enquiring about whether there is any streaming video and audio software for Debian, or Linux in general.   Email me back at [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Thank you.

Re: Logitech mouse M-S48

1999-07-30 Thread virtanen
It started working. Thank you. (I just had to install the whole system again because it crashed for some reason, which I still don't understand. Suddently the power goes off sometimes while booting. It breaks the whole system, if it decides to do that...) I installed psaux driver and while in

Re: 'Inverse' chmod?

1999-07-30 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Bob Bernstein wrote: > Is there a command that will do (so to speak) the inverse of chmod, i.e. > if given the name of a file return its current permissions in octal? kpsestat = FILE You can also get `hypothetical' permissions by replacing the `=' with a mode modification a la chm

Matrox Productiva G100 and Xserver?

1999-07-30 Thread virtanen
Somebody might know how to configure xserver for this: Matrox Productiva G100 Accelerator MGA G100 Memory 8M Board mapping 0800 Ramdac speed 230 MHz VGA Bios 1.1 The monitor it a Hyundai 17" (in that mO$ it is 1024x768) I managed to get Xserver working in a way, but most of the information

Re: PPP woes (again)

1999-07-30 Thread Paul
John Hasler wrote: > > Paul writes: > > The pon command works much better but seems to disconnect if left alone > > too long, though it`s fine as long as information is being transferred > > constantly. > > Either your ISP is dropping your connection when it is idle too long, or > you have someho

Re: Matrox Productiva G100 and Xserver?

1999-07-30 Thread andreas pålsson
Hello. In v3.3.3.1 of XFree86 there is support for the Productiva G100 AGP and it works well. You should use the SVGA-server for this card. Just select the card (341 if I remember right) and the only thing you should enter, besides manufacturer and model, is the amount of memory which in your cas

Re: using AUI port of 3c529 (MCA) network card

1999-07-30 Thread andreas pålsson
Hello. I had a similar problem, but solved it in another quick & dirty way. Instead if meddling with the module-parameters I simply took the 3Com Utility-disk, which was delivered with the card, booted it and used their setup-program to switch to the Coax-port and not go by autodetect. It might b

Installing X

1999-07-30 Thread Anders . ohrt
I'm going to use slink, but I need X 3.3.3 (I have a Matrox G200), so I'm getting the 3.3.3.1 svga server right now... What more do I need? Can there be problems with mixing different versions?

Re: sblive,'n debian, one more time...

1999-07-30 Thread Marcus Johansson
> reboot or anything. then I switched to debain and tried to run the > install script again to re-install the sound drivers (after compiling > the proper kernel of course). the script thought everything went > allright, but xmms (and mtv and anything else that wanted to use sound) > thought othe

Re: Anyone Use the New Riders Book/CD?

1999-07-30 Thread Walter Logeman
> Also noticed that the standard Debian install package comes on 2 CD's, > while the New Riders book has only a single CD. Is anything missing? I'd say so, unless it is an older version, 2.1 has 2 discs. Walter __ Walter Logeman

Re: Toshiba Satellite 2520CDS

1999-07-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
I've put some information about using Linux on a Toshiba 4000CDT on my website: http://www.achc.demon.co.uk/linux/ Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: http://www.achc.demon.co.uk/bookreviews/ "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Mo

[no subject]

1999-07-30 Thread Martin Waller
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Re: sblive,'n debian, one more time...

1999-07-30 Thread Bernhard Rieder
Marcus Johansson wrote: > I've not tested the sb-live driver yet, havent bought a card yet, so this is > just what i've read in the driver archive. Some companies will never learn .. I do not like companies that don't suplly information to developers! The only think the users can do is NOT TO

test

1999-07-30 Thread Gerhard Kroder
excuse me, i don't get mail from list, so testing

dhcpcd (0.70) under Debian - some problems...

1999-07-30 Thread Martin Waller
Hi, I have Debian 2.1 (dual boot with another OS...) sitting on a network here at work. Under win95, dhcpcd always gives me the same IP address, but when I boot under Debian, it always gives me a different IP which is annoying as it makes it hard to find by others and myself on the network.

hard disk size

1999-07-30 Thread Brian J. McHugh
Hi, I have a IBM PS/2 77-OUA 486SX with a 212 MB HD (I accept condolences). It appears that cfdisk only detects 200 MB of the 212 MB. Is this normal? Thanks,     Brian

errors when printing with samba

1999-07-30 Thread hubert . fauque
I have already sent this message to the list but I don't know if it has arrived because of problems with my subscription address, so I resend it: I have a debian machine with an epson 900 printer; I use samba to print from another machine with windows98; here is the problem: when printing a lar

A doubt...

1999-07-30 Thread Mahendra D. Khandkar SBO
Respected Sir, I have installed Debian Linux 2.0 on a Pentium 90 Mhz machine. I am trying to configure so many things as I can . The major problem I am facing is about the network. After configuring the network, machine can connect to other machines on the network but

Re: errors when printing with samba

1999-07-30 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello: What I find amazing about M$95/98 is that if you turn off the screen saver, many problems disappear. Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have already sent this message to the list but I don't know > if it has arrived because of problems with my subscription > address, so I resend it: >

Re: A doubt...

1999-07-30 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello: edit /etc/hosts.deny and comment out the PARANOID line. Bounce your portmap deamon or reboot your system and it should work. Peter "Mahendra D. Khandkar SBO" wrote: > Respected Sir, > > I have installed Debian Linux 2.0 on a Pentium 90 Mhz machine. > I am trying

Re: A doubt...

1999-07-30 Thread venu
hi mahendra ... congrats on getting ur debian system up and going !!! > I am facing is about the network. After configuring the network, > machine can connect to other machines on the network but it is not allowing ok..so ur networking is working fine.. > other machines to connect to itself.

Re: errors when printing with samba

1999-07-30 Thread hubert . fauque
Peter Iannarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello: > > What I find amazing about M$95/98 is that if you turn off > the screen saver, many problems disappear. thanks for your answer, Peter, but I had already tried that; the screen saver is disabled; Hubert

Re: dselect woes

1999-07-30 Thread Dean
Since no one has responded will add a few more comments. I now see the message is md5sum. I was new installing using apt I downloaded a user profile. It looked like apt drew all files from stable main. Just got to the end of all the downloading when dselect now shows the message md5sum. Have cke

Re: Problem: can't log in/su with any non-root user

1999-07-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jul 25, 1999 at 03:11:40PM -0500, Brad wrote: > Now, the only question is "Which package did this?"... Back in the 1.1 or 1.2 days there was this magic bug where the permissions on /tmp would get screwed up -- they would become -rwxr-xr-x or something like that. A lot of apps don't handle

re:HP LaserJet 2100TN question

1999-07-30 Thread Peter Pregler
Hi, have a look at the package psputils. You will need a ppd-file for your printer but that should be on the CDROM shipped with the printer. -Peter Subject: HP LaserJet 2100TN question Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Date: 26 Jul 99 04:02:41 GMT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Hugo) I have this pr

Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA

1999-07-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 08:06:51PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 12:27:57PM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote: > > It still needs an MTA to send mail :-) > Not necessarily on the same machine. Imho no mua should bepend on amta, > just recommend. Dselect will make you install re

Re: lost the root password

1999-07-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 11:42:44AM -0400, Carl Mummert wrote: > Get 'tom's unix on a floppy' or any other linux boot disk. The debian > rescue disk may work, but I never use ti so I don't know. > > Boot that floppy in your machine, and mount the partition of your > hard disk that contains /etc on

Re: lost the root password

1999-07-30 Thread Peter Makholm
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Instead of loading init, bash is loaded, giving you a root shell. > Mount the root file system read/write, run passwd, then reboot. Couldn't this break the filesystem? Isn't a sync or remount as read-only needed? -- I congratulate you. Happy goldfis

Re: clnt_call errors in NIS

1999-07-30 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > People think that the NIS package does far more than it actually does; > the only thing it does is keeping an eye on the current nis server (ypbind). > All NIS access is actually handled by glibc > Okay, but which version of libc6 is supposed

Re: using AUI port of 3c529 (MCA) network card

1999-07-30 Thread David Wright
Quoting Matthew Munsey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've been unsuccessful in getting my 3Com 3c529 MCA Ethernet card to > communicate with the network using the AUI port, although the 10baseT > (twisted pair) connection with the card works fine. The 3c529 is the MCA > (IBM's proprietary microchannel ar

Re: setting variables under an X11 session

1999-07-30 Thread Andreas Voegele
Micha> How can i set an environment variable under an x11 session Micha> (not a specific xterm under x) so that they work for Micha> programs not opened through a terminal ( for example the Micha> CVSROOT var for tkcvs) > /etc/environment should do it. How do you export varia

Re: dselect woes

1999-07-30 Thread David Wright
Quoting Dean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Since no one has responded will add a few more comments. I now see the > message > is md5sum. I was new installing using apt I downloaded a user profile. > It looked > like apt drew all files from stable main. Just got to the end of all the > downloading when

Gnome

1999-07-30 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 782329
Hi, I would like to set up the latest version of GNOME on my debian 2.1 (slink) box. However I do not know what is the best way to go about it. Can someone please point me to the best way to install gnome without using apt. Would the it be best for me to use apt (as described on the gnome pages

Re: hard disk size

1999-07-30 Thread Evan Van Dyke
"Brian J. McHugh" wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a IBM PS/2 77-OUA 486SX with a 212 MB HD (I accept condolences). > > It appears that cfdisk only detects 200 MB of the 212 MB. Is this normal? > > Thanks, > Brian This may be your standard Manufacturer Calling 1,000,000 bytes a MB when it's reall

Re: help with socket programming[OFF TOPIC]

1999-07-30 Thread David Wright
Quoting Shao Zhang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > while (1) { > if ((NewHandle = accept(CGIHandle, (struct sockaddr > *)&CGI_addr, \ > &sin_size)) == -1) { > perror("cannot accept"); > continue; > } > >

Re: A doubt...

1999-07-30 Thread Evan Van Dyke
"Mahendra D. Khandkar SBO" wrote: > I have installed Debian Linux 2.0 on a Pentium 90 Mhz machine. > I am trying to configure so many things as I can . The major problem > I am facing is about the network. After configuring the network, > machine can connect to other machines on the n

RE: debian vs redhat

1999-07-30 Thread Bob C. Ruddy
->> who have administered both dists. I have administered both boxes. As mentioned with redhat you can not use both linuxconf and edit the scripts by hand. As far as the scripts with redhat once you inderstand how they are put together you can edit them by hand just as easy as another dist. My big

Re: kernel read/write

1999-07-30 Thread David Wright
Quoting Michael Edward Christman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm trying to write between the application level and the kernel. I am > using version 2.0.34 and am attempting to use memcpy_tofs and > memcpy_fromfs, but am having some trouble. If I use these functions in > the application level, what do

RE: thank you

1999-07-30 Thread Michele Banza
Michael, Thank you for the follow up. I will make a note of your new address. Michele A. Banza Access Data Consulting 1-888-878-2322 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Merten Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 8:49 PM To: Michele Banza Subje

Re: Streaming Media

1999-07-30 Thread A. M. Varon
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Ben Crocker wrote: > Hi, I'm just enquiring about whether there is any streaming video and > audio software for Debian, or Linux in general. Realaudio 5.0 works pretty well. There is wrapper/installer for debian. regards, = = Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated = =

Re: MD5Sum mismatch in potato

1999-07-30 Thread A. M. Varon
On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > When running apt-get upgrade, I get this error: > > > > E: MD5Sum mismatch for package menu > > > > Running Debian potato. > > Assuming you have 0.3.11, just run it again and/or switch mirrors. It > should automatically erase the downloaded file w

Ms Netshow..

1999-07-30 Thread qxm
Where? can I get this beast? Freshmeat tell me to go to microsoft, but they don't have it.. -- Matthew McFarlane -

Re: Ms Netshow...

1999-07-30 Thread srs25
> Where? can I get this beast? Not likely. For over a year I think, Microsoft's site has said that netshow for linux would be available "in a few weeks". Can we say "vaporware"?

Re: PPP woes (again)

1999-07-30 Thread John Hasler
Paul writes: > Here it is. Looks normal, except for 'passive' being enabled (that doesn't account for your problem). > I still find it curious however that I if this is an ISP problem and I > need to ping every so often that a week or so ago I had Wvdial working > fine without doing so. ISP's do

Re: Soffice

1999-07-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"thomas" == thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: thomas> Hi, not sure were this email should go but i give thomas> [EMAIL PROTECTED] a try... The most appropriate list, in this case, would have been debian-user@lists.debian.org, where there is a greater chance of more people list

Re: thank you

1999-07-30 Thread Michael Merten
LOL! how the heck did this get to the list? Must've been in the wrong folder when I e-mailed her. Sorry for the wasted bandwidth :/ On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 08:17:34AM -0600, Michele Banza wrote: > Michael, > > Thank you for the follow up. I will make a note of your new address. > > Michele A

Re: Installing X

1999-07-30 Thread egm2
On 30 Jul, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I'm going to use slink, but I need X 3.3.3 (I have a Matrox G200), so I'm | getting the 3.3.3.1 svga server right now... What more do I need? Can there | be problems with mixing different versions? | | I upgraded to potato for this very r

Re: Installing X

1999-07-30 Thread Robert Rati
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 egm2@jps.net wrote: > On 30 Jul, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | > | I'm going to use slink, but I need X 3.3.3 (I have a Matrox G200), so I'm > | getting the 3.3.3.1 svga server right now... What more do I need? Can > there > | be problems with mixing different vers

Re: Installing X

1999-07-30 Thread egm2
On 30 Jul, Robert Rati wrote: | I'm running Xfree 3.3.3.1 on my slink system without any problems at all. | I just got the debs from ftp://ftp.netgod.net/x and they work fine. | Really, well when I last checked, there were no drivers for the Matrox Millenium G200 8MB AGP card in XFree

XEmacs and W3

1999-07-30 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Hi, launching w3 en XEmacs version 20.4 from packages 20.4-13 gives the followin error: Invalid regexp: "Invalid preceding regular expression" That happens with M-x w3 and M-x w3-fetch as well. Any Idea Thanks. -- __ Felipe Alvarez Ha

Re: using AUI port of 3c529(MCA) network card

1999-07-30 Thread Jonathan Hankins
Hey, (sorry if this isn't threaded right -- I am on the digested version of debian-user) I will have to check my 3c529 at home, but I think you have to boot off the reference disk and select the transceiver before the driver will use it. Good luck, -Jonathan ---

Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA

1999-07-30 Thread John Galt
Pine can do quite well with the MTA on a remote machine as well (simply set the smtp server in setup/config), so let's not throw this on Messenger only, real MUAs have the capability to check POP/IMAP mail without a local copy of a MTA as well. IIRC you could use elm to check POP mail without a l

Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA

1999-07-30 Thread robbie
Hi On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 10:09:51PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 08:06:51PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 12:27:57PM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote: > > > It still needs an MTA to send mail :-) > > Not necessarily on the same machine. Imho no m

Re: PGP and verifying ids / emails

1999-07-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, [cross posted to debian-user, since this has gone beyond the charter of the -mentor list] ;-) >>"Joseph" == Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>"Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> So we agree. You wouldn't sign the key without checking the Brian> f

C++ functions help

1999-07-30 Thread Micha Feigin
Where can i find help for the c++ functions? exept for the info page on iostream i couldn't find any info on the other libraries or functions of c++. Thanx [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hard disk size

1999-07-30 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 09:43:35AM -0400, Evan Van Dyke wrote: > "Brian J. McHugh" wrote: > > It appears that cfdisk only detects 200 MB of the 212 MB. Is this normal? > > This may be your standard Manufacturer Calling 1,000,000 bytes a > MB when it's really 1048576 bytes so they can call their >

Re: Installing X

1999-07-30 Thread Robert Rati
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 egm2@jps.net wrote: > On 30 Jul, Robert Rati wrote: > > | I'm running Xfree 3.3.3.1 on my slink system without any problems at all. > | I just got the debs from ftp://ftp.netgod.net/x and they work fine. > | > > Really, well when I last checked, there were no driv

Default editor at install

1999-07-30 Thread Robert Rati
It's been a while since I've last installed Debian from scratch. Is ViM the default vi clone installed? I thought it was another clone. Anyone know? Rob === [EMAI

Re: dselect woes

1999-07-30 Thread Dean
Thanks David, worked great. The dselect manual for beginners should definitely have this information. For some reason the manual assumes dselect will handle any and all installing and configuing. I'll leave David's response for manual maintainer. Dean > Presumably you have a lot of .deb fil

Re: debian vs redhat

1999-07-30 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 02:29:34PM -0400, Bryan Scaringe wrote: > I never did get the dhcpcd client (the new one, with 2.2.x support) under > either RedHat or Debian. But dhclient is a much cleaner program. Its in the dhcpcd-sv package in potato. The init script is really clever, it won't start dh

Re: Soffice

1999-07-30 Thread Marek Habersack
* Manoj Srivastava said: > thomas> when opening.. If you please could let me know which package > thomas> i shall downgrad or upgrade to get it work again i would be > thomas> very glad since i use soffice everyday.. > > I am not sure, but quite possibly the issue may be the libc > upg

Re: C++ functions help

1999-07-30 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 07:50:52PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > Where can i find help for the c++ functions? > exept for the info page on iostream i couldn't find any info on the other > libraries or functions of c++. > C++ implementations vary greatly between platforms, and even between differen

Re: Default editor at install

1999-07-30 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 11:59:39AM -0500, Robert Rati wrote: > It's been a while since I've last installed Debian from scratch. Is ViM > the default vi clone installed? I thought it was another clone. Anyone > know? Nope, nvi is, because it is bug-for-bug compatible with VI. Also, I believe tha

Re: minimum delay & maximum throughout

1999-07-30 Thread Lex Chive
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 11:03:28AM +0300, Halis Osman Erkan wrote: > > I want to learn more about > > minimum delay > maximum throughput > > in ftp and telnet > > there would be a way to make settings to provide them. > iphains TOS bit can do this ; i know ; > > But HOW? and whats the logic? >

IpcMemoryCreate: shmget failed

1999-07-30 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm trying to start postgres 6.5.1 just compiled in my slink system and I'm getting the above error. What could be the problem? How to fix it? I'm using 2.2.10 kernel with the updated netbase and lsof (from the Debian page). Thanks, Mario O.de Menezes"Many

Re: C++ functions help

1999-07-30 Thread Bernhard Rieder
Micha Feigin wrote: > > Where can i find help for the c++ functions? > exept for the info page on iostream i couldn't find any info on the other > libraries or functions of c++. There is avery good STL documentation in main/binary-i386/doc/stl-manual_.deb I haven't found any really good documa

Re: PGP and verifying ids / emails

1999-07-30 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 11:41:37AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: /* * keeping -mentors for this message only, replies are likely to get even * more off-charter for that group, so don't reply there. Note I'm not * subscribed to -user, however... */ > Yes, though now that you point it

DEBIAN/SAMBA/NT

1999-07-30 Thread Carlos Santos
Hi, I'm trying to share my Linux home directory so that i can maintain it from my NT box. I've installed Samba 2.0 with encrypted passwords. I can see the samba server from NT (nethood) but i can't get through NT's login dialog box when i try to map that directory. No matter what login i insert i

Re: minimum delay & maximum throughout

1999-07-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: minimum delay & maximum throughout Date: Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 11:03:28AM +0300 In reply to:Halis Osman Erkan Quoting Halis Osman Erkan([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I want to learn more about > > minimum delay > maximum throughput > > in ftp and telnet > > there would be a

Re: DEBIAN/SAMBA/NT

1999-07-30 Thread Nathan Duehr
Your Smaba passwords and your user passwords do no necessisarily match. Check out the "smbpasswd" command... On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Carlos Santos wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to share my Linux home directory so that i can maintain it from > my NT box. I've installed Samba 2.0 with encrypted pass

AnyOne using CUPS for printing

1999-07-30 Thread John Foster
I am interested in contacting anyone using CUPS Common Unix Printing System on a Debian Linux Slink box. I want to know how it stacks up against other print managment systems such as apsfilter, or magicfilter (my current one). I am trying to find some way to get my Canon LBP430 and old ExecJet IIc

ProFTPd configuration file?

1999-07-30 Thread bruce
Can someone save me some time and send me an example of a ProFTPd configuration file that works correctly for both anonymous and local users. Currently mine lets anonymous FTP, but not me :-) Thanks Bruce

Creative TNT-1 card

1999-07-30 Thread bruce
I'm using a Creative Nvidia TNT-1 display card in one of my servers. It consistentently goes dark on reboot - I have to power-clear to see the display again. Does anyone know why? Thanks Bruce

apt-get

1999-07-30 Thread Paul Nesbit
I'm trying to install package man. When I `apt-get install man` I get a message that states "E: package man has no installation candidate." What does this mean? -- Paul Nesbit Algonquin College Computing Science / Computer Technology

Re: C++ functions help

1999-07-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 20:24:52 +0200, Bernhard Rieder wrote: > I haven't found any really good documantation about the rest of the C++ > library. If you have a good net connection, http://www.dinkumware.com/htm_cpl/ is nice. HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voya

Re: DEBIAN/SAMBA/NT

1999-07-30 Thread F. Fernandez
Carlos Santos wrote: > I'm trying to share my Linux home directory so that i can maintain it from > my NT box. I've installed Samba 2.0 with encrypted passwords. > > I can see the samba server from NT (nethood) but i can't get through NT's > login dialog box when i try to map that directory. No ma

Re: C++ functions help

1999-07-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 12:25:15 -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote: > A word of warning: In my (albeit limited) experience, C++ and > the STL has been more of a pain than a blessing. I wrote several > programs that used the STL for linked lists and sorting, and > found out that FreeBSD is not up to par wi

Re: DEBIAN/SAMBA/NT

1999-07-30 Thread F. Fernandez
Carlos Santos wrote: > I can see the samba server from NT (nethood) but i can't get through NT's > login dialog box when i try to map that directory. No matter what login i > insert it keeps refusing to connect. Another tip: You can also turn on the debug and look into smb.log on /var... -- Fern

Re: minimum delay & maximum throughout

1999-07-30 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: > > there would be a way to make settings to provide them. > > iphains TOS bit can do this ; i know ; > > > > But HOW? and whats the logic? Don't get too excited; the delay/throughput options don't do anything (anywhere on the Internet. It's not a Linux is

Re: apt-get

1999-07-30 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 30 Jul, Paul Nesbit wrote about "apt-get" > I'm trying to install package man. > > When I `apt-get install man` I get a message that states "E: package man > has no installation candidate." What does this mean? > It means there is not package called man. You want man-db. -- Brian ---

prefered database in debian?

1999-07-30 Thread esoR ocsirF
Greetings, I hope this is not to far off topic :-] I have to learn to use a database for a CS assignment. I have the choice of either postgres or MySQL. My question is this, are there any reasons that I should pick one over the other? I would like to learn something that I can eventually turn to g

Re: apt-get

1999-07-30 Thread Gwen Elizabeth Thomas
> I'm trying to install package man. I assume you mean you want the package that gives you the man command. This package is actually man-db, not man. > When I `apt-get install man` I get a message that states "E: package man > has no installation candidate." What does this mean? There is no De

Re: Potato

1999-07-30 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 10:57:11AM -0600, Nathan Duehr wrote: > No, security.debian.org is a relatively new thing and probably isn't as > documented as it should be. It's not the same as proposed-updates. Oh. OK. > I don't understand the question about sources.list -- if you mean is there > a l

i can't install gtk+

1999-07-30 Thread Wonko
i had 1.0.9 gtk and i wanted to upgrade (for gaim) that required a new version of glib, i installed 1.2.3 but gtk+ during ./configure still says i have an old version, anyone know how i can make it recognize? thanks

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