Re: gzipped readmes in /usr/doc/*

2000-08-02 Thread Kent West
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:25:25PM -0700, "S. Champ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > i'm admittedly frustrated at the fact that, from all i know about it right now, > i'll have to un-gzip any of these packages before i'm actualy able to read > them.  there's more to

Re: gnapster won't download: "fopen: No such file or directory"

2000-08-02 Thread Jos Lemmerling
On 2 Aug 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Anybody else have this problem with gnapster? Everything works except, > gah, the downloading part. If I try to d/l something I get > > fopen: No such file or directory > > on stderr, several times, and nothing happens. This is Gnome gnapster > 1.3.10 >

e-mail errors

2000-08-02 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I have a domain (domain.com) and want redirect all e-mail errors from inexistentes e-mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to my mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). I'm using exim and potato. Thanks, Paulo Henrique

X windows update

2000-08-02 Thread Ed Murray
Can anybody help please? I have an on-going problem starting my X Server each morning. I get the following error: X:  Server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting: I change the ownership on the /tmp/.X11-unix directory to root.root each time but when I reboot the problem is ba

X windows update

2000-08-02 Thread Ed Murray
Can anybody help please? I have an on-going problem starting my X Server each morning. I get the following error: X:  Server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting: I change the ownership on the /tmp/.X11-unix directory to root.root each time but when I reboot the problem is ba

RE: X windows update

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 03-Aug-2000 Ed Murray wrote: > Can anybody help please? > > I have an on-going problem starting my X Server each morning. > > I get the following error: > > X: Server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting: > > I change the ownership on the /tmp/.X11-unix directory to root.roo

Re: X windows update

2000-08-02 Thread Kjetil Ødegaard
* Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On 03-Aug-2000 Ed Murray wrote: > > Can anybody help please? > > > > I have an on-going problem starting my X Server each morning. > > > > I get the following error: > > > > X: Server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting: > > > >

Re: Lexmark 5700

2000-08-02 Thread Mike Werner
cam wrote: > I have a Lexmark 5700 inkjet printer. I was wondering if this printer > works under Linux (woody version) and if it works...how might I get it > working? any help would be appreciated. http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=62016 -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is

Re: X windows update

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > What seems to happen is that /tmp/.X11-unix gets group ownership from > the user starting X. If the X server is started by gdm, /tmp/.X11-unix > is owned by the `gdm' group, if I stop gdm and do > when gdm exits, the .X11-unix dir should go away. If not, this is a bug in gdm.

RE: Installing packages without manpages and docs

2000-08-02 Thread Kenrick, Chris
IIRC Slink minimum install is circa 30 MB Would it be worth a try installing minimal Slink first, then apt-get upgrade;apt-get dist-upgrade ? - Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 2 August 2000 5:53 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.o

Re: noise from monitor, HELP!

2000-08-02 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:57:12AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote > On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:24:59PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, Ron Farrer wrote: > > > > > > > > > I've been running Debian for years and my monitor (20" IBM P200) has > > > been working fine wit

Re: X windows update

2000-08-02 Thread Kjetil Ødegaard
* Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > What seems to happen is that /tmp/.X11-unix gets group ownership from > > the user starting X. If the X server is started by gdm, /tmp/.X11-unix > > is owned by the `gdm' group, if I stop gdm and do > > > > when gdm exits, the .X11-unix dir sh

cos() in math.h ?

2000-08-02 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hi all, According to the man page, if I want to use `cos' in a program, I simply need to include `math.h'. However, when I compile, I got the error: /tmp/cc9WOsLC.o(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `cos' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status I got the necessary packages to comp

Re: OT: less v. more & CCing

2000-08-02 Thread Bolan Meek
Ben Pfaff wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David N. Welton) writes: > > > Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > more offers backwards paging, it is in the man page I am suprised that you > > > missed it. > > > > ps auxw | more > > > > How do you scroll backwards? b doesn't work. > > `m

Re: X windows update

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > The directory is also created when running `startx', so I don't really > think it is a gdm problem. > right, the directory is created, but only while X is running. When X exits, the dir should go away with it.

Re: cos() in math.h ?

2000-08-02 Thread Robert Norris
> /tmp/cc9WOsLC.o(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `cos' > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status You need to link against the math library, libm, eg. gcc -o myprog myprog.c -lm Regards, Rob. pgpUKraBeXZBU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: cos() in math.h ?

2000-08-02 Thread Kjetil Ødegaard
* Christophe TROESTLER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi all, > > According to the man page, if I want to use `cos' in a program, I > simply need to include `math.h'. However, when I compile, I got the > error: > > /tmp/cc9WOsLC.o(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `cos' > collect2: ld ret

Re: X server

2000-08-02 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:29:16AM -0700, Nianwei Xing wrote: > Hi, debians: > I have a problem about X server: after I login from my > account and type "startx", it give me the following > error message: > Authentication failed--cannot startx X server > -X11 TransSocketUNIXConnect: can't connect:

Re: cos() in math.h ?

2000-08-02 Thread iehrenwald
> /tmp/cc9WOsLC.o(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `cos' > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Try adding -lm to your compile command. That tells gcc to use the math lib. Ian

RE: cos() in math.h ?

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 03-Aug-2000 Christophe TROESTLER wrote: > Hi all, > > According to the man page, if I want to use `cos' in a program, I > simply need to include `math.h'. However, when I compile, I got the > error: > > /tmp/cc9WOsLC.o(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `cos' > collect2: ld retu

X Problems...

2000-08-02 Thread Troy Telford
OK, I've been having an... interesting problem... I'm using XF86 4.0.1, and have had no problems with it at all until about two days ago... Here's the list of the symptoms: In GNOME - desktop objects (Namely Icons) have a grey background - rather than showing the desktop bitmap underneath as i

Re: X windows update

2000-08-02 Thread Kjetil Ødegaard
* Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > The directory is also created when running `startx', so I don't really > > think it is a gdm problem. > > > > right, the directory is created, but only while X is running. When X exits, > the dir should go away with it. I just tested this rig

Re: X windows update

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > I just tested this right now, and the directory doesn't go away when X > exits. Also tested this with an older kernel (2.2.15), but it didn't > make any difference. Should I file a bug or something? > I have Version: 3.3.6-10, and it does when i use startx.

Re: X Problems...

2000-08-02 Thread Kjetil Ødegaard
* Troy Telford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > OK, I've been having an... interesting problem... > > I'm using XF86 4.0.1, and have had no problems with it at all until > about two days ago... Here's the list of the symptoms: > > In GNOME - desktop objects (Namely Icons) have a grey background - > rathe

Re: cos() in math.h ?

2000-08-02 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Thanks to all for answering my very simple question. Now, how was I supposed to know I had to link against `m'? I mean, given a header file, is the file I have to link against specified in the doc? Is there any info on that subject you can refer me to? Thanks from a C newbie, ChriS

Re: cos() in math.h ?

2000-08-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 03-Aug-2000 Christophe TROESTLER wrote: > Thanks to all for answering my very simple question. Now, how was I > supposed to know I had to link against `m'? I mean, given a header > file, is the file I have to link against specified in the doc? Is > there any info on that subject you can refe

Re: gnapster won't download: "fopen: No such file or directory"

2000-08-02 Thread Michael Soulier
On 2 Aug 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Anybody else have this problem with gnapster? Everything works except, > gah, the downloading part. If I try to d/l something I get > > fopen: No such file or directory > > on stderr, several times, and nothing happens. This is Gnome gnapster > 1.3.10

DPT SmartRAID V Millennium isn't detected

2000-08-02 Thread arn
Hi all, I'm running potato, booting off an IDE drive, and I'm trying to install a DPT SmartRAID V Millennium controller in the same box. I've downloaded the driver and patch from www.dpt.com, and sucessfully patched and compiled the kernel, but when I reboot I get scsi: 0 hosts. I use make menuc

Modem driver

2000-08-02 Thread Michael Wagman
Any luck on getting drivers for psuedo winmodems. Specifically MDP7800-U by aztec. I'm knew to Linux but very familar at fighting with computers - my ultimate goal is to find out what the video work potential for Linux is (I have a All-In-Wonder 128)

Re: Modem driver

2000-08-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/2802a.html has a listing of software based modems and wether or not they've been tested some have instructions(excellent list) also look at http://linmodems.org nate On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Michael Wagman wrote: Dramam >Any luck on getting drivers for psuedo winmo

samba problems

2000-08-02 Thread Joseph de los Santos
Hi, hoping that someone really nice can lend a helping hand...with configuring samba... 1. I always do an ifconfig eth0 <192.168.0.1> netmask < 255.255.255.0> everytime I boot to configure my network interface. I want to configure the interface permanently so I do not have to manu

autofs question

2000-08-02 Thread Brian Stults
Hello, I'm using the kernel-based auto mounter, autofs. I have all my mount points in the default /var/autofs/misc, and I have symbolic links to them in /mnt. However, whenever I do a listing of /mnt (either from an xterm, or from within an application such as StarOffice), all of the devices con

Getting debian CD to recognize SCSI disk(s)

2000-08-02 Thread Ed Burke
I found quite by accident that I can boot from CD but the procedure does NOT recognize my scsi drive(s). According to the logon message I have two drives but 1 doesn't seem to have been recognized under MS95. That's another issue the primary drive was partitioned using Partition Mag

Re: java

2000-08-02 Thread Thomas Kirsch
"Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote: > Goeman Stefan wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I know, this is not really a question about Debian. > > You got that right. > > > The question is actually very simple. I want to convert a > > string to a double. > > > > There is a method in the java.lang.Double named > > pa

Re: samba problems

2000-08-02 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi, > > hoping that someone really nice can lend a helping hand...with > configuring samba... Samba's not that hard. > 1. I always do an ifconfig eth0 <192.168.0.1> netmask < > 255.255.255.0> everytime I boot to configure my n

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