Re: Linux documentation

1999-10-23 Thread M.K.Pai
Dear Manuel, If you want to take prints of books put out on the web, I would recommend is using netscape with a -remote option. Check out man netscape. PAI

Need help configuring postfix

1999-10-23 Thread Raul Miller
Hi, I'm probably just being stupid, but I can't figure out how to configure postfix. How do you configure postfix so that most of the time mail is delivered directly, but some of the time it's delivered to a specific smtp server. Also, it must deliver most mail in my primary mail domain remotely

errors installing postgresl

1999-10-23 Thread Pollywog
Does anyone know what these errors are all about? I can't get this installed. Now installing the PostgreSQL database files in /var/postgres/data su - postgres -c PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bi n:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/bin/X11/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/root/bin:/

Install debian from a remote CDROM

1999-10-23 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, I have the slink CD's and two machines. One machine has potato installed and a CDROM drive. The another one don't. Is it possible to install slink on the second machine by using the CDROM drive from the first machine ? How can I do that ? Thanks. Best regards, Nuno Carvalho P.S. I'

Re: Install debian from a remote CDROM

1999-10-23 Thread Sven Esbjerg
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 10:37:27PM +0100, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > I have the slink CD's and two machines. > One machine has potato installed and a CDROM drive. The another one > don't. > Is it possible to install slink on the second machine by using the > CDROM drive from the first machine ? How

Re: non-us apt-get config

1999-10-23 Thread Todd Suess
I use these lines in sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US deb-src ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US At 07:48 AM 10/23/1999 -0700, Uurcus the Swale wrote: Hi, can

Re: errors installing postgresl

1999-10-23 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 09:37:59PM -, Pollywog wrote: > Does anyone know what these errors are all about? > I can't get this installed. > > Now installing the PostgreSQL database files in /var/postgres/data > su - postgres -c > PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:

Re: adding win 95 partition

1999-10-23 Thread Kent West
James Ruby wrote: > I'm wondering if this can be donw with out re-installing debian? > > I have a 20 gb drive with 5 gb for root and 5 gb for user and 128 mb swap > they are all primary partitions. > > Now I have a little over 9 gb left, I would like to devide this in half and > make partitions th

libc6 >=2.1 on slink, without apt-get possible?

1999-10-23 Thread John Miskinis
Hi, At this time I can't use apt-get, as I can't connect to my ISP under linux. If possible, I was hoping to find a site that has the lib6c >= 2.1 and dependency packages, that I could install with dpkg on top of a slink CD based system. If this is a very extensive effort (many packages/problem

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
I can not log in and the passwd function still give me a segmentation fault. I will remove pam-apps. Do I need to do anything else to get the changes I've made to be recognized? Doug Ben Collins wrote: > On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 11:44:27AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > > Ok, I modified t

Re: errors installing postgresl

1999-10-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Oct-99 Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 09:37:59PM -, Pollywog wrote: >> Does anyone know what these errors are all about? >> I can't get this installed. >> >> Now installing the PostgreSQL database files in /var/postgres/data >> su - postgres -c >> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:

postgresql problem, continued

1999-10-23 Thread Pollywog
This is where the potato packages for postgresql get messed up: Enter default encoding (UNICODE): Now installing the PostgreSQL database files in /var/lib/postgres/data su postgres -c cd /var/postgres; . ./.profile; initdb -e UNICODE -l /usr/lib/postgresql/lib -r /var/lib/postgres/data -u postgre

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Ben, I could not find pam-apps at all using dselect. While I was there, I removed all obsolete packages (there were several, and this did not have any other affects). dselect did want to install several other packages but this did not help either. I am not sure why my system ended up with sha

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Oct-99 Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > Ben, > > I could not find pam-apps at all using dselect. While I was there, I > removed all obsolete packages > (there were several, and this did not have any other affects). dselect did > want to install several > other packages but this did not help e

Re: automated md5sum checks

1999-10-23 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 06:25:27PM -, Pollywog wrote: Hello Andrew, > Is there an app which can perform md5sum checks of binaries on an automated > basis, like once a week or so? Would doing this just slow down my machine? During its nightly/weekly/whatever run, for sure. Have a look a the

Re: Debian and M$ Outlook

1999-10-23 Thread aphro
not sure if debian's sendmail includes the legal warning on connection but i had a LOT OF PROBLEMS with that on outlook. that piece of shit would just dump crap to the SMTP server without looking for a response then puke when it didnt work right. i.e. it would try to send mail before the server e

Help! Gimp 1.1.10 Upgrade (dependencies)

1999-10-23 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, I'm about to upgrade to Gimp 1.1.10 (potato), and don't understand some of the dependencies: Well, the dependencies look fine, unless I want support for gifs, for which I downloaded giflib-bin_3.0-5.2 (and giftrans). But giflib-bin says it depends on: giflib3g (>=3.0-5.2) libungif3g (>=3.0-

Parallel port problem - No printing possible

1999-10-23 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I am struggling getting my printer to work (Epson SC 740). I am now pretty sure my problem is that the printer doesn't receive anything because documents are spooled, and it looks like the documents are sent to lp0. Still, the printer is dead (It prints in Windows though). I am pretty sure tha

Looking for fetchmail program

1999-10-23 Thread Alexander P. Barkey
Hi, i'm running a little Linux Server (400 Celeron) as a Internet Gateway for my Dialup System.   Now I'm looking for a way, to get my mail from my POP3 account to my server and send mail over my linux server to the POP3 account...   Is there any way to do this? with automatically dialing i

Re: Parallel port problem - No printing possible

1999-10-23 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 07:08:15PM -0400, Christian Dysthe wrote: > I am running potato with kernel 2.2.9. I have tried to recompile the > kernel also without auto detect of the parallel port, but no go. When > compiling with auto detect I can see the printer detected, but on > parport0 (or somethi

putting packages on hold from cmd line

1999-10-23 Thread Jacob Schmude
Hello Is there a way to put a package on hold from the command line? I'd prefer not to go into dselect just to find one package, (emacs20_20.3-11) which is giving me problems. I want to put it on hold to a new version comes out as this only causes problems when installing.

packaging question

1999-10-23 Thread Ron Farrer
Hello all, I was trying to find a newer version of a package and was looking in potato then realized that the potato version is quite old. I find this very strange since potato isn't even released yet! I started looking at some of the other packages and most of them were this way. So my questi

What is causing the segmentation fault?

1999-10-23 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
I think my biggest problem with this is the segmentation fault I get every time I try to use the 'passwd' or 'su' commands. Does anybody know if this is caused by PAM, or are these commands corrupted? If I need to replace them, how do I go about doing this? Doug Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: >

Stateful Packet - Firewall

1999-10-23 Thread Paul McHale
Does anyone know of a Stateful packet inspection firewall for Linux (preferably debian) ? thanks, paul - Double E Solutions Attn: Paul McHale 4912 Effingham Dayton, Ohio 45431 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: 937-253-7610 Mobile

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