Re: fetchmail / s10/10.0.2.15

2000-04-10 Thread ktb
OK getting closer. I ran-- $ fetchmail -c mail.inebraska.com Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: fetchmail: Authorization failure on [EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: authorization error while fetching from mail.inebraska.com fetchmail: Authentication failed for [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was prompted for

Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?

2000-04-10 Thread Armin Wegner
Most web sites are designed for Microsoft. To see them like the author would like you to see them use Windows fonts. So, install the true type font server and copy the Windows true type fonts to the appropriet directory. That's fine.

Re: fetchmail / s10/10.0.2.15

2000-04-10 Thread Mike Werner
On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 07:02:30PM -0500, ktb wrote: > OK getting closer. I ran-- > > $ fetchmail -c mail.inebraska.com > Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > fetchmail: Authorization failure on [EMAIL PROTECTED] > fetchmail: authorization error while fetching from mail.inebraska.com > fetchma

Re: no wonder...

2000-04-10 Thread Oki DZ
On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Engelen wrote: > Apt is cool for web-installs and installing something when you exactly know > what package you want installed. If you have the CDs and a web server, you can change your sources.list to point to the server; then you'd get a web-install environment. (I don't h

Re: Voodoo 2 in Linux

2000-04-10 Thread Oki DZ
On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Cameron Matheson wrote: > My friend is thinking about buying a Voodoo 2, but I told him I should > make sure it will work in Linux. I had heard that the Voodoo 3 is hard > to set up in X Windows. Will the Voodoo 2 work? I think the question should be whether a particular c

Re: ppp

2000-04-10 Thread Oki DZ
On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > why does pppconfig save the nameserver entries in a separate file > /etc/ppp/resolv and not as reported in /etc/resolv.conf? So that you can have more than one ISP with different DNS servers; and the connect scripts would set up /etc/resolv.conf c

Mounting root on a diskless using NFS

2000-04-10 Thread david . cureton
Hi All, With some struggling I have managed to get a diskless workstation running and requesting the root from the NFS server. I am now stuck because whatever I do the NFS server blocks the request from the booting workstation to mount its root. I have tried many configuration of /etc/expo

Re: ppp

2000-04-10 Thread John Hasler
> Does that mean, if I have a local network configured with my machine > being a local nameserver, that it ceases to function as such, when I > start to dial in? :-/ You can edit the files in /etc/ppp/resolv and add anything you need. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse H

Iomega DITTO drive

2000-04-10 Thread Tom Warfield
I have a Iomega DITTO Drive with the Ditto Dash XJ (Card isnt plugn pray. its jumpered). Wondering if anyone has ever gotten this thing to work on Linux. Its a piece of junk and i dont recommend it to anyone, but i have it left over so im wondering if i can get it to work on Linux. Thanks, Tom

Re: fetchmail / s10/10.0.2.15

2000-04-10 Thread ktb
I don't think the last message I sent went through due to me changing some things in the rc files. Ayway I will start over. I changed the "poll" section in .fetchmailrc and now I get: $ fetchmail -c mail.inebraska.com 8 messages for xyf at mail.inebraska.com (17181 octets). So it seems I am clos

Re: fetchmail / s10/10.0.2.15

2000-04-10 Thread Mike Werner
On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 08:54:20PM -0500, ktb wrote: > I don't think the last message I sent went through due to me > changing some things in the rc files. Ayway I will start over. > > I changed the "poll" section in .fetchmailrc and now I get: > $ fetchmail -c mail.inebraska.com > 8 messages for

RE: usb keyboard + mouse and xfree86

2000-04-10 Thread ferret
On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Kendall Shaw wrote: > > From: Ron Rademaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000 2:53 AM > > > > USB is not supported in the 2.2.x kernels, however it is supported in the > > 2.3.x (I don't know in any version, but the newer ones support usb). You > > sh

Re: Simple text screen editor

2000-04-10 Thread Damon Muller
>I need to give a couple of users a simple editor that works > within a virtual terminal (not X). These people are not really computer > literate and would have trouble with vi or vim. They would be following > written instructions to edit a couple of config files. Has anyone any >

Re: fetchmail / s10/10.0.2.15

2000-04-10 Thread ktb
I tried changing to 'fetchmail --quit' but got an error and fetchmail wouldn't work. So I changed the daemon number to 3 seconds. I still get nothing. I see nothing in my "/var/spool/mail/fkent" permisions are: -rw-rw 1 fkent mail It seems to me if I use the -v flag such as "fetchmail -v ma

Re: fetchmail / s10/10.0.2.15

2000-04-10 Thread John Hasler
Get rid of the 'daemon' line. You don't want that: it makes fetchmail go into the background and poll periodically. Also, you don't need to specify the server on the command line when you have it in your .fetchmailrc. Your .fetchmailrc is too complicated. Make it like this: poll mail.inebraska

Re: usb keyboard + mouse and xfree86

2000-04-10 Thread Gerhard Schromm
* "Kendall" == Kendall Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do you think it's possible to use usb keyboard + mouse in xfree? The > keyboard and mouse are unresponsive in XF86Config under 3.3.6. First, you need the USB-Patch for the 2.2.x Kernel. You can get it from http://www.linux-usb.org. There is

help 2 probs

2000-04-10 Thread DESTROYERBOOOM!!!
Hi am have Windows and well did have Debian on on hard drive.  I installed it with out a problem.  Then I installed my pacakegs.  eg: games, firewall, internet, dial up,x windows, typical installition or something like that adn then after who knows how long it was done.  I logged in and I ty

Re: fetchmail / s10/10.0.2.15

2000-04-10 Thread ktb
It is sooo close. I made the changes John has suggested and now I get this error when I use "fetchmail -av" -- fetchmail: SMTP< 220 fire.one ESMTP Exim 2.05 #1 Sun, 9 Apr 2000 22:55:42 -0500 fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost fetchmail: SMTP< 250-fire.one Hello fkent at localhost [127.0.0.1] fetchma

Re: help 2 probs

2000-04-10 Thread Erik Ryberg
> "DESTROYERBOOOM!!!" wrote: > > Hi am have Windows and well did have Debian on on hard drive. I > installed it with out a problem. Then I installed my pacakegs. eg: > games, firewall, internet, dial up,x windows, typical installition or > something like that adn then after who knows how long i

Re: fetchmail / s10/10.0.2.15

2000-04-10 Thread ktb
I got it figured out. I just added -- local_domains = :localhost to my /etc/exim file. Thanks to all for your help:) I have a ways to go but getting there. kent - Original Message - From: ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000 11:17 PM Subject: Re: fetchmail / s10/

Questions about Debian

2000-04-10 Thread Lachlan Robinson
To whom it may concern, I am considering using Debian on my computer, but I have a question, is Debian a GUI (Graphical User Interface)? I have installed and are using the 'basic' installation (from the 7 1.44 meg images), and it resembles an x-term or DOS environment, and I was wondering (bef

Re: apache_1.3.9-12_i386.deb

2000-04-10 Thread Marek Andricik
On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 08:51:43PM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > I guess you should use cgi-bin to store al your cgi's, you can set which > one to use in /etc/apache/ > Ron Well, this is a workaround, not solution of the problem. Marek -- ,:||:,:||:, Marek Andricik iRC Nevedko PhD s

OT: Video cards? Creating Athlon Debian box..

2000-04-10 Thread kaynjay
I'm putting together my first machine (upgrading from a 486, so it should be interesting :) and have trouble deciding on a video card. I thought 3dfx was supposed to be a good choice (looking at the 3000), as was Matrox (the G400). But older posts on the archives seem to indicate trouble with bot

Anyone using the ConTeX package in tetex? Is broken?

2000-04-10 Thread Eric G . Miller
I've been trying to figure out the ConTeX package in TeX and I ran into a few troubles. First, it wasn't even enabled or built -- so I had to edit the config files and then build it. But it's still missing some set up files. When I run LaTeX on anything, I now get this warning: (/usr/share/texmf/t

Re: Questions about Debian

2000-04-10 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
You need to download the X server to get a GUI. Marshal > "Lachlan" == Lachlan Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To whom it may concern, I am considering using Debian on my > computer, but I have a question, is Debian a GUI (Graphical User > Interface)? I have installed and

Re: Mounting root on a diskless using NFS

2000-04-10 Thread Tolga KILICLI
We had your problem with our diskless clients too. This could be due to these ; - We tried /remote/xw1, /remote/xw2 etc. to export but all were denied. I don't know why when we changed /remote with /tftpboot all of our problems were gone. - For the client part also you have to compile a new ke

Re: Documentation for Newbies (was: win and linux)

2000-04-10 Thread Serkan Ýnci
Hi Joe, thank you very much for your suggestions... - Original Message - From: Joe Bouchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 4:52 PM Subject: Documentation for Newbies (was: win and linux) > On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 03:43:22PM +0300, Serkan

Re: Linux only sees half my RAM

2000-04-10 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Maybe if you would the question u would see that I dont use lilo. if you would look closer at my answer, then you would discover some irony in it ... > I tried adding it to loadlin and that didn't work. hmm - that's bad. if even that does not work, then ... ** sorry ... greetings > > > ok,

Re: PLIP configuration

2000-04-10 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 05 Apr 2000 20:28:59 CDT: > I am looking to use PLIP to network 2 machines together. > I'm running kernel 2.2.14, and have the PLIP module available, along with the > other obvious modules like TCP/IP, firewalling, etc. > > However, upon modprobe plip, i get th

Help with GDM

2000-04-10 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
I've just upgrade from Debian 2.1 to unstable, and i have everything working except gdm. X comes up, and i can see that /etc/gdm/Init/Default is being run because the xsetroot command there turns the background blue, but this script does not complete because the xterm it's supposed to run never app

Re: Help with GDM

2000-04-10 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 02:35:45AM -0500, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > I've just upgrade from Debian 2.1 to unstable, and i have > everything working except gdm. X comes up, and i can see that > /etc/gdm/Init/Default is being run because the xsetroot command > there turns the background blue, but t

Re: Help with GDM

2000-04-10 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 12:58:07AM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > What xterm? There shouldn't be any xterm until after you've logged in Sorry, should've been more clear. For testing purposes, i started an xterm from /etc/gdm/Init/Default. > I suspect a deeper X problem first. Kill gdm and make

reselling and distributing

2000-04-10 Thread root
Dear sirs, we are company from Lithuania and the are looking for new products to our market. We are very interested in Linux operating systems and software for it. PLease contact us via e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or telephone : +370 87 89 417 PLease send us your full catalogue with prices, di

Re: password

2000-04-10 Thread kmself
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 04:47:40PM -0700, Beavis wrote: > how do u change passwords? Generally for information on how to do something, try the apropos command, with a keyword: apropos password ...will list password-related commands. -- Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) What part of

Re: Ted RTF editor

2000-04-10 Thread kmself
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 10:47:19AM -0700, Davina Armstrong wrote: > Do any of you use Ted, the RTF editor? I'm researching using it as a > basis for a project, and I'm interested in any feedback you might have. > As I do not subscribe to this mailing list, please cc: me on your > responses. What

Re: apache_1.3.9-12_i386.deb

2000-04-10 Thread Robert Varga
On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Marek Andricik wrote: > Hello, > > I have the problem with the apache_1.3.9-12_i386.deb package. Before the > latest > upgrade I did not experienced the problem. I have .cgi programs in directories > which are directly there or symlinked. > > After upgrade .cgi programs s

New Install causes reboot

2000-04-10 Thread Jim Foltz
Hello,   I am trying to install Debian potato on my PC. Before the past weekend, it was already running Debian potato, but I decided I didn't like the way my HD was partitioned, so I re-partitioned and now I can't get the Linux kernel to boot.   I have tried the boot set from potato, slink, a

RE: reselling and distributing

2000-04-10 Thread C. Falconer
Dear Sir/Madam Linux is free, almost every item of software is free. There are no charges for the operating system. Licensing - you can not charge more than a nominal fee for a disk/cd/tape - I don't think there has ever been a maximum price suggested, but if you're charging more than twice t

Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?

2000-04-10 Thread kmself
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 02:14:52AM +0200, Armin Wegner wrote: > Most web sites are designed for Microsoft. To see them like the author would > like you to see them use Windows fonts. So, install the true type font server > and copy the Windows true type fonts to the appropriet directory. > That's f

Help installing Netscape

2000-04-10 Thread J. Hartzelbuck
Dear friends, I have hesitated to ask this simple question here, but after quite along time, my head is sore from banging it against the wall . . . Several problems: * I downloaded 16 MB from ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicaotr/english/4.72/unix/supported/linux20_glibc2/complete_install

Two modems

2000-04-10 Thread Camilo Alejandro Arboleda
Hi! I have two modems and I want to increase my bandwidth. There are some way to share Internet trafic through two ppp interfaces? Thanks, Camilo Alejadro -- * De simio la conoci y he visto hombres que la añoran. * En lo que a mi se refiere, ni entonces ni ahora * perdi mi libertad. Infor

Re: apache_1.3.9-12_i386.deb

2000-04-10 Thread Marek Andricik
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 11:32:40AM +0200, Robert Varga wrote: > > Do you have suexec enabled? (It is enabled by setting it suid, and is > located at /usr/lib/apache[-ssl]/suexec . If it is, and I usually get > error messages like that when suexec rejects the cgi, then you can look at > its quite e

welcome

2000-04-10 Thread veny
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Re: running shell in emacs

2000-04-10 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
Hi Sven, On 04/09/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] addressed "running shell in emacs": > I've got a problem with emacs. When I run "M-x shell" all escape characters > for setting colors in ls are expanded. That looks a little strange... I'm > running potato and emacs 20, my shell is bash. Try M-x term inst

boot prob

2000-04-10 Thread pplaw
debs, my only stable lapbox won't boot slink anymore. (i hit the off button before a complete "halt" was achieved--( a bonehead move, i know)).here's the last portion of the script before it hangs: /dev/had5 was not cleanly unmounted; check forced. /dev/hda5: unattached inode 37071

Re: boot prob

2000-04-10 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> from there, i log in as root and type "fsck," i'm prompted to > run "e2fsck."when i do, i get this message: > > e2fsck 1.12, 9-Jul-98 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 > Using EXT2FS Library version 1.12, 9-Jul-98. > > // > > at this point, i'm stumped. but my suspicion is that inode >

Re: Java IDE

2000-04-10 Thread John Stevenson
You could try using the Blackdown JDK from www.blackdown.org, get the Release Candidate 4 (RC4), this uses native threads and has the sun JIT compiler in it. This make a noticable improvement of speed on my machine. It seems to work fine with all Java apps I have tried, with the exception of Tog

Re: reselling and distributing

2000-04-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
"C. Falconer" wrote: >Please don't send email messages ad-hock - its called spam, and gives you a >*very* bad name. > >(cc'd to the list cos it might start a topic) I don't think an enquiry like this is spam. Spam is unwanted advertising, whereas this is a relevant enquiry, even though

Re: Help installing Netscape

2000-04-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
"J. Hartzelbuck" wrote: >Dear friends, > >I have hesitated to ask this simple question here, but after quite along >time, my head is sore from banging it against the wall . . . > >Several problems: > > * I downloaded 16 MB from > ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicaotr/english/4

bootup message and ppp

2000-04-10 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi! What does the message "S30.serial: Permission denied" during bootup mean? The ppp dial-in is still unreliable. Usually the first attempt fails, but sometimes the following attempt does not work either. Communication with the serial interface seems to work, but sometimes it does not establis

Re: Sound problem after upgrading to woody

2000-04-10 Thread Florian Bartels
On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > :: On Sun, 9 Apr 2000 18:47:28 +0200, Florian Bartels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > > I' have installed a new woody some time ago but I have the same > > problem now. > > (it worked fine for a long time) > > Did you upgrade some gnome, enlight

Re: slink and /usr/share/man/

2000-04-10 Thread John Kuhn
I made the following changes in /etc/manpath.conf MANDATORY_MANPATH /usr/share/man MANDB_MAP /usr/share/man /var/catman/share I did not add a MANPATH_MAP for this. This has worked for me. John Kuhn On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 10:20:08AM -0700, Pann McCuaig

svga modes

2000-04-10 Thread Mark Small
Yesterday I tried using vga=ask as a bootup option (from loadlin) and chose a different video mode (80x28 instead of 80x25). It looked fine when I was booting, but after I switched from a x (auto started with XDM) to a VT, I was back in standard text mode. Also, I couldn't see the bottom thre

Re: [*] GDB question

2000-04-10 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Zhang, On 10 Apr 2000, maths wrote: > by the way, where can i find good tutorial of GDB? > IMHO the info pages provide a pretty good introduction to gdb. But there may be far better documentation about it somewhere on the web. Regards, Daniel

Re: Do I need modify lilo.conf after install new kernel image ?

2000-04-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Alex Kwan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > After I using dpkg -i to install kernel image > (kernel-image-2.2.14-ide_2.2.14-3.deb), > Do I need modify the /etc/lilo.conf to config the system to use this new > kernel? Only if the parameters are now wrong, and need changing. What *is* important is

Re: want only 1 lp

2000-04-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Kenneth Scharf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've posted this question before, but the digest lists > went down for a few weeks before I could get any > answers to this question. > > I have 3 lp cards in my computer at dos addresses > lpt1, lpt2, and lpt3. I only want the one at lpt1 to > be att

Re: welcome

2000-04-10 Thread sauer
Was soll diese SCHEISSE? si ju Mischel S aus P /\ __/\ ___/ \/\ ___/\ _ \/ \ / \/ \/ \/ _ __...---'-`---...__

Re: apt-get and personal data

2000-04-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Oki DZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Does it mean that if I want to download software -- like Sybase or Oracle, > dev. version -- from the Internet in which I have to provide my personal > information on their websites, basically the procedure is unlawful. Or > there _is_ a difference between p

apt-get error ("Couldn't configure a pre-depend")

2000-04-10 Thread Chris
Hi, this is my first post (fresh-off-the-farm newbie). Hope someone can help. I'm trying to upgrade from slink to the latest unstable using apt-get dist-upgrade, and after a 180MB download (14 hours!) I got this error message: "E: Internal Error, Couldn't configure a pre-depend." What does this

Dial on demand (pppd, diald, ???)

2000-04-10 Thread Manuel Zabelt
ello! I managed to get pppoe working, so I can uses ADSL. Now i want to use the demand option of pppd or the diald. Can anyone helb me getting one of these two progs to work? I think diald is what I need. I need a programm, that creates a dummy-networkdevice (e.g. sl0) and listens an this devic

Re: /etc/gateways

2000-04-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Kent Nyberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I just found the file "/etc/gateways" in my debian slink system. > What is that file for? man gateways is in potato. It's to do with routed, so I'd not bother. > Im just a Linux beginner.. but shouldn't gateways be configured > with the command "route ad

RE: Two modems

2000-04-10 Thread Tom Warfield
Its called Multi PPP. I am working on doing the same thing and have been told by several people that it can be done. Here are dome links; http://mp.mansol.net.au http://www.xteamlinux.com.cn/lxr/source/Documentation/networking/eql.txt http://linux-mp.terz.de/ There are some posting on FreshMe

kernel panic: unable to mount root fs...

2000-04-10 Thread John Kiff
Help!!! I got the following messages when I was booting up: "EXT2-fs: group descriptors corrupted:" followed a few lines later by: "kernel panic: unable to mount root fs on 03:02" after which everything stops. The same thing happened when I tried using my boot floppy. What should I do? My fi

Re: Alternative to dselect?

2000-04-10 Thread Kent West
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > > Wow! I just installed [console-apt] and it looks MUCH nicer than > dselect. However, > > after marking something for installation, how do you actually tell capt > > to install it? Neither the man pages nor the help screen indicated this > > (or at least I didn't

Re: usb keyboard + mouse and xfree86

2000-04-10 Thread Gary Hennigan
Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe somehow linux can use the keyboard, but I am SURE usb is NOT > supported in the 2.2.14 kernel, so you will NOT be able to use that mouse > under X using a 2.2.14, about the keyboard: I don't think you can use > it in X but I'm not sure. You can als

Re: kernel panic: unable to mount root fs...

2000-04-10 Thread Ron Rademaker
Where is your root partition, try booting with the boot option root=/dev/ (possible /dev/hda1). And see what happens. Ron Rademaker On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, John Kiff wrote: > Help!!! > > I got the following messages when I was booting up: > > "EXT2-fs: group descriptors corrupted:" > > followed

Re: reselling and distributing

2000-04-10 Thread Peter S Galbraith
root wrote: > we are company from Lithuania and the are looking for new > products to our market. > PLease send us your full catalogue with prices, discounts, and > license conditions. "C. Falconer" wrote: > Linux is free, almost every item of software is free. There are no charges > for the

Re: reselling and distributing

2000-04-10 Thread John Hasler
C. Falconer writes: > Licensing - you can not charge more than a nominal fee for a > disk/cd/tape... This is entirely wrong. You can charge whatever the market will bear. Read the DFSG and the GPL. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Web Browser

2000-04-10 Thread Dan Hutchinson
Does anyone know of a web browser that displays jpg and gif images? I like the speed of lynx and don't like netscape. I am looking for something as fast as lynx that allows frames, gif images, etc.. Dan ___ To get your own FREE ZDN

apt-get usage

2000-04-10 Thread Peter S Galbraith
This is silly, I should know this. How do I tell apt-get to forget about a past forced installation. For example, I install `smtm' from potato on slink. It depends on perl5 but I know it'll mostly work anyway. But then, any later usage of apt-get tells me: # apt-get install eperl Reading Packa

PERL or grep help pls (search replace)

2000-04-10 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
hello, i have like 10 thousand small files, some containing the text "http://209.155.163.97/smile.gif"; inside it while some dont. can someone please help me with a script w/c views all these files and if it sees a "http://209.155.163.97/smile.gif";, will replace it w/ a "http://www.cprod

[no subject]

2000-04-10 Thread ak
  Bonjour ça fait un bon moment que  j’entends parler de LINUX par la LINUX pas si .  J’essaye  de faire  l’installer sur mon système, et voilà les problèmes qui commence . J’es essayé plusieurs version dont :  Est rien ne marche. meme que j es perdu tout mes partition a deux reprise .  Tout

Re: bootup message and ppp

2000-04-10 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> What does the message "S30.serial: Permission denied" during bootup > mean? > that means, that a boot script cannot be executed. you have to "chmod u+rx /etc/init.d/serial" (the file names may be a bit different. i'm not sure ...) > The ppp dial-in is still unreliable. Usually the first attemp

Re: Web Browser

2000-04-10 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 08:45:27AM -0800, Dan Hutchinson wrote: > Does anyone know of a web browser that displays jpg and gif images? > I like the speed of lynx and don't like netscape. I am looking for something > as fast as lynx that allows frames, gif images, etc.. Well, Lynx will show graphi

Re: Questions about Debian

2000-04-10 Thread Kent West
Lachlan Robinson wrote: > To whom it may concern, > I am considering using Debian on my computer, but I have a question, is > Debian a GUI (Graphical User Interface)? I have installed and are using the > 'basic' installation (from the 7 1.44 meg images), and it resembles an > x-term or DOS enviro

Re: Web Browser

2000-04-10 Thread John Carline
Dan Hutchinson wrote: > Does anyone know of a web browser that displays jpg and gif images? > I like the speed of lynx and don't like netscape. I am looking for something > as fast as lynx that allows frames, gif images, etc.. > > Dan You might want to take a look at gzilla (name just changed to

Re: Web Browser

2000-04-10 Thread Peter Ross
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 08:45:27AM -0800, Dan Hutchinson wrote: > Does anyone know of a web browser that displays jpg and gif images? > I like the speed of lynx and don't like netscape. I am looking for something > as fast as lynx that allows frames, gif images, etc.. > I love lynx, but when I n

help on multiple search/replace

2000-04-10 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
hello, i dont know whether i successfully sent the first email i wrote. anyway. can someone please help me on writing a script or whatevers best in order for me to perform multiple search and replace on thousands of small files ? that is, these small files contain (some doesnt) the text

Re: Web Browser

2000-04-10 Thread Kent West
Carl Fink wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 08:45:27AM -0800, Dan Hutchinson wrote: > > Does anyone know of a web browser that displays jpg and gif images? > > I like the speed of lynx and don't like netscape. I am looking for > > something > > as fast as lynx that allows frames, gif images, etc.

Great work Xmame team!

2000-04-10 Thread Radim Gelner
I just couldn't keep myself from installing new release of xmame from woody. Although I have to install few new sound libraries, the result is worth it! Sound is incredibbly crisp, few games that segfaulted in a previous version (e.g. Robocop) now run without the flaw. Those who do not know what I

Re: Alternative to dselect?

2000-04-10 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: > Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > > > > > > Wow! I just installed [console-apt] and it looks MUCH nicer than > > dselect. However, > > > after marking something for installation, how do you actually tell capt > > > to install it? Neither the man pages nor the help screen indicated

Re: installing packages on Mac IIci

2000-04-10 Thread Bjoern Brill
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000 15:34:42 -0500, Joshua Holland wrote: > I'm very new to Debian and Linux. I got Debian running fine on my > Mac IIci. I downloaded the Debian base system install files, but I > don't want to install packages by download (my IIci is not connected > to net yet and this seems s

Re: Simple text screen editor

2000-04-10 Thread Steve Lamb
Thursday, April 06, 2000, 11:30:20 PM, Damon wrote: > him sit down and practice, and now both our lives are a lot easier (vi, > over the phone, is even less fun than vi in person!). Yeah, but in what other editor can you say "ou812" and have it be legal? :) -- Steve C. Lamb

Re: Web Browser

2000-04-10 Thread Dan Hutchinson
Do you need to run X windows inorder to use armodilla or mozilla,etc.. Dan John Carline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Hutchinson wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a web browser that displays jpg and gif images? > > I like the speed of lynx and don't like netscape. I am looking for > some

Potato Installation Bug ?

2000-04-10 Thread Shane
Hi, I am installing the Debian 2.2 over the network. Each time I select "Make a Boot Floppy" it fails with "Creation of a boot floppy failed..." I have tested this on two different machines and several floppy diskettes. This used to work few weeks ago. Has anyone seen this before? Is this a bug?.

Re: apt-get error ("Couldn't configure a pre-depend")

2000-04-10 Thread Chris
> (snipped) > > I'm trying to upgrade from slink to the latest unstable using apt-get > > dist-upgrade, and > > after a 180MB download (14 hours!) I got this error message: > > > > "E: Internal Error, Couldn't configure a pre-depend." > > > > What does this mean, and how can I fix it (or better yet

Re: I won't be asking another!

2000-04-10 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 08 Apr 2000, Tim wrote: >After asking a simple yes or no question and geting >20 answers I'm sorry I even thought of using Debian!! >Now I'm geting unwanted e-mail of your members calling me >names because I asked them to please stop!! What follows >is the last unwanted e-mail that just ca

Re: Web Browser

2000-04-10 Thread sam
If you use KDE, you always have the option of using it's file manager (kfm) as a web browser. It's pretty speedy. I don't use KDE but I have it installed and sometimes use kfm with WindowMaker. ~Sam On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Dan Hutchinson wrote: > Does anyone know of a web browser that displays jpg

pseudo-image

2000-04-10 Thread John F. Davis
Hello I want to use pseudo image to make a cd image of debian i386. I tried using the binary-i386-1.lst file from one url, but it didn't seem to be correct and pseudo-image didn't get pulled correctly. There were way to many missing files. Now, I'm trying again. However, I'm looking at: ftp://

Video cards? - impressions, not necessarily facts

2000-04-10 Thread jin
> interesting :) and have trouble deciding on a video card. > I thought 3dfx was supposed to be a good choice (looking > at the 3000), as was Matrox (the G400). I would go foor 3dfx and Matrox based cards, when comes need to buy new videocard. 3dfx has good base, they have released specs, and ha

Re: Potato Installation Bug ?

2000-04-10 Thread Dan Hutchinson
I get the same error when trying to create a boot floppy. Your floppy disk may be bad? I usually skip this step and reboot the system. I would recommend making a boot disk of your finished system anyway. It is more valueable after your system is up and running. Dan I know this is just a wor

sending with 2 isp accounts

2000-04-10 Thread ktb
I have two isp accounts. I just got exim, fetchmail, mutt working last night. I've got fetchmail set up so I can download from both isp's ok but the problem I'm having is sending. I can send just fine from isp #1 (inebraska) but the messages I sent from isp #2 (peoplepc) didn't get out of my

sending mail with 2 isp accounts

2000-04-10 Thread ktb
I have two isp accounts. I just got exim, fetchmail, mutt working last night. I've got fetchmail set up so I can download from both isp's ok but the problem I'm having is sending. I can send just fine from isp #1 (inebraska) but the messages I sent from isp #2 (peoplepc) didn't get out of my sys

ftp.us.debian.org upgraded

2000-04-10 Thread Dpk
The host ftp.egr.msu.edu (or ftp.us.debian.org) has been upgraded to a Pentium Celeron 450 w/384 MB of RAM. An additional 18 GB of storage was added and it is now directly connected at 100 Mbps full-duplex to the MSU Gigabit backbone (with an OC-3 Internet link). The Debian archive is available v

Re: sending mail with 2 isp accounts

2000-04-10 Thread ktb
Sorry for the confusion and the double post. I don't know what happened but when I tried to send the messages mutt said "new message in outbox" not "message sent" so I thought the other message hadn't been sent. It took forever and then they came through. I don't get that. I sent a bunch of tes

PASS MCSE

2000-04-10 Thread PASS MCSE
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Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?

2000-04-10 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
> To fix this, and some related Netscape brain damage, create a file > /etc/X11/Xresources/netscape, with the following lines: > Netscape*documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 05 Thanks a lot for these X resources for Netscape. Do you have any idea how to control the fonts that Netscape uses for d

ftp but no apt

2000-04-10 Thread John Stevenson
Hello I have set up a partial mirror of debian on one of our machines. This was orignially on the same subnet x.x.1.x as all the laptops we use. Apt worked fine and we reduced d/l time emensly. Now we have moved the box to another subnet, x.x.3.x and now apt no longer works. It stalls at the fi

2 ?'s, Pon & normal users, colour in config programs.

2000-04-10 Thread John Anderson
I tried putting normal users in /etc/group under dip like this: dip:x:1000:1001 still, the computer says, permission denied to /usr/sbin/pppd. Did I configure it incorrectly? Is there anyway to get this working? If, not is there any text-mode dialers that don't need root clearance? Also, I wa

Re: 2 ?'s, Pon & normal users, colour in config programs.

2000-04-10 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I tried putting normal users in /etc/group under dip like this: > > dip:x:1000:1001 > > still, the computer says, permission denied to /usr/sbin/pppd. Did I > configure it incorrectly? Is there anyway to get this working? > you must use user names, not numeric id-s. at least my man-page says

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