Re: xconsole transparency

1999-09-07 Thread dyer
Emil Soleyman-Zomalan wrote: > > Hi, > > I have seen screenshots of themes at Themes.org with their > xconsoles being transparent. I went ahead and got wterm through > apt but do not know how to "exactly" go about doing it. I was > wondering if anyone can guide me

Re: xconsole transparency

1999-09-07 Thread Emil Soleyman-Zomalan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I know how to get wterm to become transparent, but what I should have said was how can wterm's transparency and other options be applied to xconsole. I'm looking for some way to alter the command /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole - -notify . -file /dev/xconsole to inc

Re: How to fully utilise a 10 GB harddisk

1999-09-07 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Seth R Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > [WinNT] ... cannot install onto a partition larger > than two gigs That can't be right. I created, formatted, and installed onto a 4GB partition with Windows NT. Daniel

Re: library lost - need help, please

1999-09-07 Thread dyer
Peter Mickle wrote: > > hello readers, > > NEW USER question/problem, need help if possible. in trying to solve one > shared libraries problem, i unintentionally removed the following library: > > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/egcs-2.91.60/libstdc++.so > > i don't know how to "reinstall"

Re: hard disks more than 8gb

1999-09-07 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Fdisk reported my 17.2 maxtor (which the bios > sizes as about 16.8gb, so maxtor lies a little). Why are so many computer users so ignorant of international standards? Daniel

Re: xconsole transparency

1999-09-07 Thread dyer
Emil Soleyman-Zomalan wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > I know how to get wterm to become transparent, but what I should have said > was how can wterm's transparency and other options be applied to xconsole. > I'm looking for some way to alter the command /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole >

problem instaling debian

1999-09-07 Thread strahil peskov
hi, I have a linux debian distribution from a VIDI cd  , it's a croatian magazin, but I dont have instalation guide. please send me an instalation guide Strahil Peskov mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED],mpt.com.mk    Macedonia  

Automounting CD-ROMs and Samba 2.0.5a

1999-09-07 Thread Alec Smith
I've got a Debian 2.2 machine running Samba 2.0.5a that I'd like to share a CD-ROM drive from. Basically I'd like to have the CD-ROM mount and unmount before and after usage. So far I can get the drive to mount automatically using the exec option in Samba, however no files are visable from Windows

console-apt's interface to dependency information

1999-09-07 Thread Miles Bader
Does anyone know if there are plans to make console-apt deal with presenting dependency information to the user in a way analogous to that of dselect? Right now, the UI basically seems to ignore such information, and depends on apt-get (or the equivalent library) to `automatically' make everything

Re: hard disks more than 8gb

1999-09-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
Daniel Barclay said: > > From: Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Fdisk reported my 17.2 maxtor (which the bios > > sizes as about 16.8gb, so maxtor lies a little). > > Why are so many computer users so ignorant of international > standards? What do international standards have to do

ssh

1999-09-07 Thread zdrysdal
Hi Does anyone know where i can download the debian package ssh (secure shell) thanx

Re: ssh

1999-09-07 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> Hi > > Does anyone know where i can download the debian package ssh (secure shell) > > thanx Its not availible from debian or any other distro. You needto do a quick search on the net.it's somewhere in Finland :) Andrew -

Re: ssh

1999-09-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: : > Hi : > : > Does anyone know where i can download the debian package ssh (secure shell) : > : > thanx : : Its not availible from debian or any other distro. You needto do a quick : search on the net.it's somewhere in Finland :) Absolutely

Re: ssh

1999-09-07 Thread Pollywog
On 07-Sep-99 Andrei Ivanov wrote: >> Hi >> >> Does anyone know where i can download the debian package ssh (secure >> shell) >> >> thanx > > Its not availible from debian or any other distro. You needto do a quick > search on the net.it's somewhere in Finland :) Isn't it available from Deb

Re: ssh

1999-09-07 Thread Andrei Ivanov
My mistake. When I was looking for it 2 weeks ago, the links were broken. I guess they are back up now. Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 h

RE: ssh

1999-09-07 Thread B. Szyszka
> Does anyone know where i can download the debian package ssh (secure shell) You can get it through 'apt-get install ssh', but I'm not sure what you should do if you're outside of the U.S. You can probably download it manually from here: http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/non-us/ssh.html --

gpm2

1999-09-07 Thread zdrysdal
Hi thanx for the info for ssh... now i need the .deb for gmp2 as ssh requires it. Thanx

Re: How to uninstall X

1999-09-07 Thread Kent West
Brad wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > > > > Since I'm having so much trouble getting the extended-half of my > > > > keyboard to work (arrow keys, pg-up/dn, etc), I'm thinking it might be > > > > good just to purge all X-related files

Re: problem instaling debian

1999-09-07 Thread Kent West
> strahil peskov wrote: > > hi, > I have a linux debian distribution from a VIDI cd , > it's a croatian magazin, but I dont have instalation guide. > please send me an instalation guide > Strahil Peskov mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED],mpt.com.mk > Macedonia > http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/ Onc

umask question

1999-09-07 Thread Pollywog
What should the umask be in /etc/profile and also in the root user's .bash_profile and .bashrc ? I accidentally deleted /root a few days ago and I am not sure I have these correct. thanks -- Andrew - GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681

Re: How to fully utilise a 10 GB harddisk

1999-09-07 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 08:45:14PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > > From: Seth R Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > [WinNT] ... cannot install onto a partition larger > > than two gigs > > That can't be right. I created, formatted, and installed > onto a 4GB partition with Windows NT.

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Release names

1999-09-07 Thread Urban Gabor
Just a slightly offtopic question, what are the names Debian chooses for the releases? I mean, bo, hamm, slink and potato? Gabor Urban --- Lufthansa Systems Hungaria KfT mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : (36)-1-431-2949 Fax :(36)-1-431-2977 I am not a cat to play with the mouse.

Dselect vs apt

1999-09-07 Thread Urban Gabor
Which tool is recommanded for a box not connected to the internet. I am isntalling from CDs. Gabor Urban --- Lufthansa Systems Hungaria KfT mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : (36)-1-431-2949 Fax :(36)-1-431-2977 I am not a cat to play with the mouse.

File system questions

1999-09-07 Thread Tamas . GAIDOSCH
> Hi everybody, > > Is there a way to read/write an NTFS drive in slink? > (I coud not find a driver in modconf.) > > How can I use the nls_* file system types? I guess I need > nls_cp852 and/or nls_iso8859_2 for Hungarian nls support, > but I found no difference after I installed them. > > T

Re: Release names

1999-09-07 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi Urban, On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 07:22:30AM +0200, Urban Gabor wrote: > Just a slightly offtopic question, what are the names Debian chooses for > the releases? I mean, bo, hamm, slink and potato? for the price of only $49.95 + tax + shipping/handling I give you ... the Debian-FAQ. Dive deep

Re: Automounting CD-ROMs and Samba 2.0.5a

1999-09-07 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 09:21:25PM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: > I've got a Debian 2.2 machine running Samba 2.0.5a that I'd like to share > a CD-ROM drive from. Basically I'd like to have the CD-ROM mount and > unmount before and after usage. So far I can get the drive to mount > automatically using

Re: Automounting CD-ROMs and Samba 2.0.5a

1999-09-07 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya Nils http://www.linux-consulting.com/Amd_AutoFS/autofs-HOWTO.html have fun alvin > --4LwthZj+AV2mq5CX > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 09:21:25PM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: > > I've got a Debian 2.2 machi

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libstdc++.2.8.so

1999-09-07 Thread Gilles Molinie
HI, an error occured when I launched netscape on a Linu xplatform. The error message is : "libstdc++.so.2.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" could you say me what to do? Thank you very much.

Re: speaking of qpopper...

1999-09-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am finding these messages in my logs. I use Exim with fetchmail and >qpopper. Debian Potato. > >Sep 6 22:35:19 lilypad in.qpopper[18514]: @localhost: -ERR Too few >arguments >for the auth command. So fetchmail is sending a

Re: Release names

1999-09-07 Thread Seth R Arnold
I forget which of the various FAQs has it, but they ar all characters from the movie Toy Story. (No, I don' know about potato, but I bet it is. :) On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 07:22:30AM +0200, Urban Gabor wrote: > Just a slightly offtopic question, what are the names Debian chooses for > the releases?

Re: Dselect vs apt

1999-09-07 Thread Seth R Arnold
It is your choice. I understand that using apt-cdrom will let you use entries for apt to read off of CD, but dselect has its nice features too -- eg, you can see multiple packages at a time (not enough for my tastes, but you really only need it while instlaling.. :) On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 07:24:0

Modules

1999-09-07 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, this is not a question about debian, but... I've readed the Module Programming Guide in LDP but it doesn't explain how to create filesystem modules. Where can I read about it ? Thanks. Juli-Manel Merino Vidal [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://jmmv.cjb.n

Can't Log into FTPD

1999-09-07 Thread Harlan Crystal
I'm currently using the most updated unstable. Whenever I attempt to FTP into my machine, it won't authorize me to log in. Even when I ftp localhost, using my username/pw, it denies access. I've removed and reinstalled the ftpd package 3 or 4 times.. and its the same. nothing in the man page sai

Re: Can't Log into FTPD

1999-09-07 Thread Seth R Arnold
If it bugs you that much, you could install proftpd. :) On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 04:24:00AM -0400, Harlan Crystal wrote: > I'm currently using the most updated unstable. > > Whenever I attempt to FTP into my machine, it won't authorize me to log in. > Even when I ftp localhost, using my username/

Re: How to fully utilise a 10 GB harddisk

1999-09-07 Thread Taupter
> 240 heads x 63 sect/track x 1023 cyls = 15467760 total sectors > How can I use the missing 2.5 GBs? > The machine is a rather up-to-date PIII. It came with NT Wstn preinstalled, > and that saw all 10 GBs. After I erased NT and tried to reinstall it > (surptise, surprise), the NT installer only

Re: No me funciona bien.

1999-09-07 Thread Taupter
> Mi problema es que cuando empieza a preparar el testeo, parte del > testeo lo > ejecuta pero al llegar a las lineas donde se detecta el Disco Duro > (HD) Y el > CD-ROM (CD), se queda bloqueado, no sige cargando hasta llegar a la > inteface de preparacion de particiones, etc,etc. > > Total que me

qpopper

1999-09-07 Thread Levente Hársfalvi
Hi all! I'm trying to set up a Linux box on an old SparcServer. However, qpopper tricks me; whatever I try, I can't download letters from the beast by pop3. It says something like a maillock error, and the /var/spool/mail/pop directory actually contains the mentioned files but all of them are of

efax package

1999-09-07 Thread Kenneth F. Ryder III
I just installed the E-fax package , but the man pages are missing, the 2 .gz files in /usr/doc/efax talk about extensive help in the man pages.. any one know what happened? (I am using Debian 2.0.2 cds) Thanks, Ken

samba: cannot change password from Windws NT

1999-09-07 Thread Debian Mail
I setup samba as a PDC for Windows NT. It works. But when I want to change the password from the Win NT machine I get: The User name or old password is incorrect. Letters in... And in the smb logfile I get: smbd/chgpasswd.c:check_oem_password(699) check_oem_password: incorrect password length (44

PDC in samba

1999-09-07 Thread Debian Mail
> How did you configure Samba as a PDC? Last I heard Samba didn't yet handle > NT Domain logins since the code was under heavy development. samba can be a PDC since version 2 Stef

getright or netvampire for Debian?

1999-09-07 Thread Jure
Is there any similar software for Debian?   Jure

Re: getright or netvampire for Debian?

1999-09-07 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi, On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 01:28:28PM +0200, Jure wrote: > Is there any similar software for Debian? wget. It's part of the GNU progject and it comes with the Debian distribution. So long, Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Meddle not i

Re: 2.2.* on slink

1999-09-07 Thread Kristopher Johnson
Pere Camps wrote: > > Hi! > > Can I run 2.2.12 on slink without problems or do I have to update > some packages from potato? Check out this page for the list of things you need to update from potato: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/running-kernel-2.2 I'm running Linux 2.2.12. Be

dselect question

1999-09-07 Thread Alberto Maurizi
Hi all, I use dselect for (un)installation of Debian Slink/Potao and I wonder how the message "dpkg -warning: while removing directoty `/usr/doc/' not empty ...'" can be avoided i.e., how can I obtain that "doc" directories of removed packages will

Enlightenment pager

1999-09-07 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, How can I disable the Enlightenment pagers that appere when I run it ? I'm tired closing them, because I use the gnome pager instead. Thanks. --- ** Powered by Debian/GNU Linux **

Re: console-apt's interface to dependency information

1999-09-07 Thread Stephen R. Gore
Miles Bader wrote: > at least a lot prettier (having the entire screen available for > showing the package list is great -- just changing dselect to do that > would be a great improvement!). But as it stands, it seems too ---end quoted text--- err.. dselect already does this... Try shift+i to to

Possibility of Booth at Alternative Linux, Montreal.

1999-09-07 Thread Fabien Ninoles
[ Notes: This e-mail is cross-posted, please, edit the to and ] [ CC lines before sending it.] I will give a conference about Debian at Alternative Linux at Montreal, Canada, November 1st, 2nd and 3rd. There's also a possibility to buy a 10x10 booth w/ electricity a

Re: library lost - need help, please

1999-09-07 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 07:05:14PM -0400, Peter Mickle wrote: > hello readers, > > NEW USER question/problem, need help if possible. in trying to solve one > shared libraries problem, i unintentionally removed the following library: > > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/egcs-2.91.60/libstdc++.so

Re: xconsole transparency

1999-09-07 Thread Marcin Owsiany
> I know how to get wterm to become transparent, but what I should have said > was how can wterm's transparency and other options be applied to xconsole. are you sure it was really xconsole that was transparent? Maybe it was just an eterm with "tail -f logfilename" running in it? Marcin -- ---

Re: ssh

1999-09-07 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 10:41:11PM -0400, B. Szyszka wrote: > > Does anyone know where i can download the debian package ssh (secure shell) > > You can get it through 'apt-get install ssh', but I'm not sure what you should > do if you're outside of the U.S. You can probably download it manually fr

Re: File system questions

1999-09-07 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 08:46:48AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > Is there a way to read/write an NTFS drive in slink? > > (I coud not find a driver in modconf.) You need to recompile the kernel. I'm not sure about 2.0.x, but 2.2.x has NTFS support for sure - AFAIK only

init id S

1999-09-07 Thread Koyote
I'm showing this periodically, and I haven't a clue what it is: INIT: id "S" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Anyone know what this is? K

How do you apt-get WORDVIEW?

1999-09-07 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
It is very interesting to be able to view Microsoft Word files under Linux. What must I include in my apt/source.list in order to install the program "wordview"? What is the name of the corresponding package? On the other hand, is there any program to edit and generate Microsoft Word files under L

Re: Reading Word format files?

1999-09-07 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
Anthony Campbell wrote: > Thanks to all for replies. I've now found two apps that will do this: > word2x and mswordview. Both are available for slink; I found word2x to > be the more convenient. > Where can you install these aplications from? Via apt-get?

Re: Release names

1999-09-07 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 7 Sep, Seth R Arnold wrote about "Re: Release names" > I forget which of the various FAQs has it, but they ar all characters from > the movie Toy Story. (No, I don' know about potato, but I bet it is. :) > Mr. Potato Head. > On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 07:22:30AM +0200, Urban Gabor wrote: >>

Re: Sound Woes

1999-09-07 Thread Tobias Zimpel
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 05:15:37PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I have successfully configured sound on a couple of Debian boxes, but > only as a result of hit&miss luck. On this box with an AudioPCI 64 > (Ensonique 1371 I believe), I haven't had any success. > > When I run "make menuconfig", I speci

Re: getright or netvampire for Debian?

1999-09-07 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Jure wrote: > Is there any similar software for Debian? > > Jure > Use wget... it's not graphical but you can resume downloads easily. wget -c http_file_or_ftp It allows a lot of options, as getting entire sites, doing mirrors, etc. If you want a ftp client with res

Re: init id S

1999-09-07 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On 7 Sep 1999, Koyote wrote: > I'm showing this periodically, and I haven't a clue what it is: > > INIT: id "S" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes In which console ? Look at /etc/inittab, where the gettys are run. Perhaps one of them has the path wrong or something. If init can't find t

RE: ssh

1999-09-07 Thread B. Szyszka
> > You can get it through 'apt-get install ssh', but I'm not sure what you > > should > > do if you're outside of the U.S. You can probably download it manually from > > here: > > http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/non-us/ssh.html > no, no, no > I'm outside US (Poland) and apt-get install ssh

font-lock-mode in Xemacs

1999-09-07 Thread Lance Levsen
Anyone know how to quickly add .php3 extension to the C++ mode in Xemacs? -- Cheers, Lance Levsen Web Development, PW Group (306)665-3588, (306)477-3166

Re: recs1440.bin boot fails in SCSI init

1999-09-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Jim Ziegler wrote: : On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, Tom Kuiper wrote: : > While booting an AST Premmia LX P/60 from a resc1440.bin or resc1440-safe.bin : > disk (images from the official 2.1 CD-ROM) the booting hangs during the SCSI : > initialization. It gets this far: : > ...

Re: samba: cannot change password from Windws NT

1999-09-07 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Debian Mail wrote: > I setup samba as a PDC for Windows NT. It works. But when I want to > change the password from the Win NT machine I get: > The User name or old password is incorrect. Letters in... > And in the smb logfile I get: > smbd/chgpasswd.c:check_oem_password(699) >

Re: Reading Word format files?

1999-09-07 Thread Kent West
Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > Thanks to all for replies. I've now found two apps that will do this: > > word2x and mswordview. Both are available for slink; I found word2x to > > be the more convenient. > > > > Where can you install these aplications from? Via apt-

Re: Sound Woes

1999-09-07 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
> I have the same card, but I compiled the ES1371-driver not as module. IIRC > you have to define aliases for the sound driver in /etc/conf.modules if you > want to use it as module. > > Here, with the driver compiled directly into the kernel it works fine with no > other configuration at all,

Re: How do you apt-get WORDVIEW?

1999-09-07 Thread Kent West
Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > > It is very interesting to be able to view Microsoft Word files under > Linux. What must I include in my apt/source.list in order to install the > program "wordview"? What is the name of the corresponding package? Your normal location for .deb packages should work I

Re: Can't Log into FTPD

1999-09-07 Thread Ernest Johanson
You might want to check your /etc/inetd.conf file. If the line for ftpd is commented out, remove the comment character and restart inetd. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Harlan Crystal wrote: > Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 04:24:00 -0400 > From

Re: How do you apt-get WORDVIEW?

1999-09-07 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
Kent West wrote: > Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > > > > It is very interesting to be able to view Microsoft Word files under > > Linux. What must I include in my apt/source.list in order to install the > > program "wordview"? What is the name of the corresponding package? > > Your normal location fo

Having a couple of odd problems...

1999-09-07 Thread Tim Miller
First (running potato updated this morning, 7-Sep-99 0800 CDT: There's a postscript printer hanging off an NT server. I can print ASCII to it just fine via smbclient. However, every postscript job I send to the printer is printed on legal-size paper. I have explicitly sized the

xdm problem

1999-09-07 Thread Lex Chive
Hello people... I am having a strange problem here with xdm. When I start it it kills the keyboard (no input possible at keyboards, numlock led is dead, but the mouse is still working). However, X runs perfectly fine. I first thought it was a hardware problem, but: I copied my system configuration

Re: How to uninstall X

1999-09-07 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Greg Vence wrote: > Brad wrote: > > > > You can tell dselect to ignore the dependancies. Just use 'Q' (that's > > shift-q) instead of enter to exit the package selection screen, then > > choose Remove from the dselect menu. > > > > You shou

Re: 3 things: exim, isdn, login.defs

1999-09-07 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 09:37:39PM +0200, Peter Palfrader aka Weasel wrote: > I check every 5 minutes wheter there is something in exim's queue ( if > (exim -bp | grep -q '.*'; ); then...) and if this is the case I go > online and force a queue run. Afterwards I go offline. > The problem I encou

Re: qpopper

1999-09-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
I've had a similar problem with qpopper on a P-150, so it is probably not a function of architecture. I tried deleting the lockfile on the server, but as soon as I tried to retrieve the mail, it created a new lockfile on the server and I get the same error. I installed cucipop (non-free, unfortun

Re: How do you apt-get WORDVIEW?

1999-09-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 04:05:47PM +0200, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > It is very interesting to be able to view Microsoft Word files under > Linux. What must I include in my apt/source.list in order to install the > program "wordview"? What is the name of the corresponding package? There's msword

Re: How do you apt-get WORDVIEW?

1999-09-07 Thread Kent West
Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > > Kent West wrote: > > > Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > > > > > > It is very interesting to be able to view Microsoft Word files under > > > Linux. What must I include in my apt/source.list in order to install the > > > program "wordview"? What is the name of the corres

Missing functions in debian's packaging system

1999-09-07 Thread Scott Barker
As good as debian's package system is, I can't find any way to find out what packages depended upon a package which has been removed. For example, if I remove the communicator-smotif package, I'd like to be able to also remove the packages it depended upon. I know I could check the 'Depends:' line

Re: init id S

1999-09-07 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 09:12:30AM -0500, Koyote wrote: > I'm showing this periodically, and I haven't a clue what it is: > > INIT: id "S" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > > Anyone know what this is? > Look at your /etc/inittab what has id "S". -- o--o ___ |L

memcpy/memcmp type warnings

1999-09-07 Thread rir
I am running slink with a 2.2.11 kernel, with minimal changes to support the kernel as per the Debian web page. Using gcc 2.7.2.3 I get the following on an app's compilation: In file included from hbb.c:15: /usr/include/string.h:38: warning: conflicting types for built-in function `memcpy' /u

cracklib

1999-09-07 Thread John Davis
Hello I get messages in my root mailbox about cracklib. It always prints the same two numbers. What does this mean?

Re: getright or netvampire for Debian?

1999-09-07 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, what about downloader for X? http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/ It looks good. I translated its potfile to pt_BR last weekend. It's free to use but restricted? Any developer could package it? Thanks, Paulo Henrique Quoting Juli

limiting NIS access

1999-09-07 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Hi, This is not Debian secific question. My system use NIS on all Sun machine. I have a dew debian boxes running on the same network which use NIS from Sun machine. How could I limit an access to debian box to only some account. I still would like to use NIS because of passsword maintenaince for

Re: limiting NIS access

1999-09-07 Thread Marcin Kurc
Read NIS-howto, for example you can create group and give them /bin/false as a login shell. On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 04:31:13AM +1000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > Hi, > > This is not Debian secific question. My system use NIS on all Sun machine. I > have a dew debian boxes running on the same net

Re: Missing functions in debian's packaging system

1999-09-07 Thread John Foster
Scott Barker wrote: > > As good as debian's package system is, I can't find any way to find out what > packages depended upon a package which has been removed. For example, if I > remove the communicator-smotif package, I'd like to be able to also remove the > packages it depended upon. I know I c

Re: getright or netvampire for Debian?

1999-09-07 Thread David Blackman
Also try iglooftp (it's free & beta, or shareware & stable), or greed, which is kindof like a console based getright. --dave On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi all, > what about downloader for X? > http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/ > I

RE: bash prompts question

1999-09-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Sep-99 Hamish Moffatt wrote: > I'm (experimenting with) converting my interactive > environment from tcsh to bash. One thing I miss: tcsh supports > a %B token in the prompt to go bold, and it expands it to something > terminal-specific at run time. Any way to do this in bash, > besides some

Re: How do you apt-get WORDVIEW?

1999-09-07 Thread David Blackman
No, abiword isn't stable yet. Use wordperfect (It's full wordperfect, for free, for linux, It's stable and fast, supports .doc and .rtf) or staroffice (a ms offfice clone taht's huge and bloated and slow, but also free) --dave On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 04

Mail from MS Outlook systems undecipherable.

1999-09-07 Thread John Foster
Hi All! I am wondering how to get netscape or some mail reader to negotiate mail that is forwarded as attachments from MS Outlook. The attachment says it is "application/ms-tnef" base 64 encoded. How do you open these in netscape on linux? -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hard disks more than 8gb

1999-09-07 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>> Fdisk reported my 17.2 maxtor (which the bios >> sizes as about 16.8gb, so maxtor lies a little). > > >Why are so many computer users so ignorant of >international >standards? Yeah I know 16.8 x 1.024 = 17.2 Only I have a maxtor 5.4gb drive that IS reported by the bios as 5400mb. Seems

offtopic: bttv

1999-09-07 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, I need help with bttv! This summer I was using Slink. At the beginning, when I 'insmod bttv card=6' linux crashed completly. Then, at the end of the summer, insmod worked fine and I was able to see the TV. I don't know what was happening. Now, I've removed debian completly, and installed p

quake2 / gl problems

1999-09-07 Thread Ben Lutgens
O.k. it seems that no matter how I try I can't seem to get quake2 to utilize my voodoo2 card. It's a diamond monster fusion, I am using the xbanshee server that I aliened from an rpm. I have installed the glide deb, mesa4g, and the /dev/3dfx BS. When I try to run quake2 from console all I get is so

[ Off Topic ] Yecch

1999-09-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
Just got an invoice from ARIN ... it's in Excel 97 format. Does it bother anyone else that an Internet Standards body uses a non-standard file format in their email? It sure bothers me. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http:

Entry in apt/sources.list to install StarOffice

1999-09-07 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
Hello, Can someone tell me what entry must I add to my apt/sources.list in order to install StarOffice? Thanks.

building a package

1999-09-07 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I trying to learn to build packages from their source packages and I've run into trouble. I've just downloaded an source package from my mirror and now I'm triying to make a compiled package. The package is ppp from the unstable tree. After downloaded I've executed:

Re: cracklib

1999-09-07 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, John Davis wrote: > I get messages in my root mailbox about cracklib. It always prints the > same two numbers. What does this mean? This is the output from the /etc/cron.daily/cracklib file. I've fixed this in the potato release of cracklib-runtime so you could try installin

Debian, NT

1999-09-07 Thread Robert Kerr
Hi all, I just got permission to install Debian on a Windows NT machine here at my college. I'd like to get this installation working really nicely, partly to show off the possibilities of Linux to those in my office, but also so I can develop properly. To that end, I plan on resizing the hard dr

Re: Problem with open_1.40-10_i386.deb

1999-09-07 Thread Joey Hess
Big Gaute wrote: > I'm a fairly satisfied Debian 2.1 user. I recently installed the > open_1.40-10_i386.deb That's your problem. You need at least open_1.4-10.1_i386.deb. It is in debian 2.1r3. The older version is seriously broken. -- see shy jo

Re: quake2 / gl problems

1999-09-07 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Ben Lutgens wrote: > O.k. it seems that no matter how I try I can't seem to get quake2 to utilize > my voodoo2 card. It's a diamond monster fusion, I am using the xbanshee server > that I aliened from an rpm. I have installed the glide deb, mesa4g, and the > /dev/3dfx BS. When

Re: limiting NIS access

1999-09-07 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 04:31:13AM +1000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > How could I limit an access to debian box to only some account. I still would > like to use NIS because of passsword maintenaince for user. > Is there a method in limiting NIS access. Now every user who has account on > Sun mach

RE: building a package

1999-09-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Sep-99 Pere Camps wrote: > Hi! > > I trying to learn to build packages from their source packages and > I've run into trouble. > > I've just downloaded an source package from my mirror and now I'm > triying to make a compiled package. The package is ppp from the unstable > tree

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