Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-11 Thread Christian Lynbech on satellite
> "Greg" == Greg Strockbine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> You can also browse tarballs, gzips, bzips, gzipped tarballs, bzipped >> tarballs, and zips as well, providing that the attendant gzip, bzip, tar, Greg> well, gee, its starting to sound like emacs :-) Just to make the note: emacs is

Re: apt-get & byte compile problem

2000-08-11 Thread Christian Lynbech on satellite
What packages are we talking about? (You can use `dpkg -S' to match a particular file to its package). Some of the larger emacs packages has the .el files in separate packages in order not to needlessly swamp the system. This includes emacs itself. ---+--

Problems running fetchmail in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d

2000-08-11 Thread alan
Fetchmail is not fetching my email properly when invoked from a script in the /etc/ppp/ip-up.d /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/fetchmail reads ... #!/bin/sh # run fetchmail test -r /etc/fetchmailrc && // fetchmail --syslog --invisible --fetchmailrc /etc/fetchmailrc Syslog contains the following ... Au

Re: Exim

2000-08-11 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 03:51:10PM -0300, Alberto Pereira wrote > I see the question Q0432 but, my problem is in Q0401. But my versionof Exim > is .2.05-2 > I put this on the exim.conf: > > system_aliases: > driver = aliasfile > domains = z10.com.br > file = /etc/aliases > search_type = lsearch*

A few misc. problems

2000-08-11 Thread cxpx
A couple of minor things: 1. I installed xfstt which works fine but I am not able to change the font size in netscape when using true type fonts. Anybody ever have that problem? Are there some better fonts I could use instead? 2. I did a ftp install using the disks from the 2.2.16 directory.

Re: Applixware 5 on Debian slink, potato or woody?

2000-08-11 Thread Pap Tibor
Hi! I'm using applixware 4 on a Debian Potato system. I have an old Pentium 100 with 64Mb RAM only. It looks fine, can read files coming from MS office, and very fast. It takes only few seconds to startup om my machine. So I don't know any good reason to upgrade it, or change it to another office

Re: Missing class member in stl_vector?

2000-08-11 Thread John L. Fjellstad
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 09:23:34PM -0400, Neil L. Roeth wrote: > Is there a comprehensive list of the non-compliant portions somewhere? The libstdc++ website is at http://sources.redhat.com/libstdc++/ They have a TODO list of known bugs and non-implemented features. Also, there are also a maillin

Has Corel been violating the GPL for approx 6 months?

2000-08-11 Thread Mr Smith
Has former copies of the Corel LinuxOS Open Circulation CD-ROM violated the General Public License? This seems like a straight forward question but one that Corel has beat around the bush in answering. This is going to be a rather lengthy email so I will break it into six major parts: 1) Questi

video/audio Streaming software

2000-08-11 Thread bhaskar
could u tell me the software name. with that we can stream audio and video ?   bhaskar

Re: Applixware 5 on Debian slink, potato or woody?

2000-08-11 Thread Stefan Bellon
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pap Tibor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using applixware 4 on a Debian Potato system. I have an old > Pentium 100 with 64Mb RAM only. It looks fine, can read files coming > from MS office, and very fast. It takes only few seconds to startup > om my machine. So

icewm won't open

2000-08-11 Thread David C Bahler
I've installed debian on a 486-33 Compact. After the base install I added icewm. When I try and run it it fails with the following error message: _X11TransSocket INETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 icewm: Can't open display: debian:0.0 Any ideas??? Dave Bahler

Re: restricting user in HOME using ProFTP

2000-08-11 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Marko Cehaja, > I think proftp has configuration files in /etc with limits to users. Try something like the following in /etc/proftpd.conf # Put all except admin users in a chroot jail DefaultRoot ~ !adm Then when user ftp in, their home directory will be set as their root directory (ie.,

debbugs -- won't process bugs/respond to queries

2000-08-11 Thread kmself
I realize there's a debbugs mailing list but it's seen a total of four posts for this year, I thought debian-user might be more useful. I'm maintining a debbugs installation inhereted from another admin. Following a server move, after which it initially *did* work, the system hasn't been processin

Re: icewm won't open

2000-08-11 Thread kmself
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 03:02:15AM -0400, David C Bahler wrote: > I've installed debian on a 486-33 Compact. After the base install I added > icewm. > When I try and run it it fails with the following error message: > > _X11TransSocket INETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 > > icewm: Can't open

Re: Problems running fetchmail in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d

2000-08-11 Thread kmself
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 05:11:42PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Fetchmail is not fetching my email properly when > invoked from a script in the /etc/ppp/ip-up.d > > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/fetchmail reads ... > #!/bin/sh > # run fetchmail > test -r /etc/fetchmailrc && // > fetchmail --syslog

Re: A few misc. problems

2000-08-11 Thread kmself
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 10:39:03PM -0700, cxpx wrote: > > A couple of minor things: ...for large values of two. I've whittled it down to what I can tackle. > 1. I installed xfstt which works fine but I am not able to change the > font size in netscape when using true type fonts. Anybody ever h

Location of "/etc/rc.d" directory Debian v RHAT

2000-08-11 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all I'm trying to install a Rhat RPM (HP's "OpenMail") on a Debian system here. A bunch of files in "openmail-core-6.0.5-8.tar" need to go in the "/etc/rc.d" directory under Rhat ---> Under the Debian file hierarchy, there's the following directories in /etc: rc0.d, rc1.d, rc2.d, rc3.d, rc4.d &

kde or gnome?

2000-08-11 Thread Daniel Gebhardt
What's generally better, kde or gnome? Or is there something else out there? Thanks, -Daniel

Re: Location of "/etc/rc.d" directory Debian v RHAT

2000-08-11 Thread kmself
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 03:46:21PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote: > hi all > > I'm trying to install a Rhat RPM (HP's "OpenMail") on a Debian system here. > A bunch of files in "openmail-core-6.0.5-8.tar" need to go in the > "/etc/rc.d" directory under Rhat ---> Under the Debian file hierarchy, > t

Re: kde or gnome?

2000-08-11 Thread kmself
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 12:50:07AM -0700, Daniel Gebhardt wrote: > What's generally better, kde or gnome? Or is there something else out > there? Yes. -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of "G

Re: kde or gnome?

2000-08-11 Thread John Griffiths
LET THE FLAME WARS COMMENCE hello all, i am new.. i don't normally comment much but i've seen this one before in other places! as to window managers... if you hae the QT and GTK libns in place then u can run apps from either.. even in other window managers... i find icewm an easy place to ope

RE: Location of "/etc/rc.d" directory Debian v RHAT

2000-08-11 Thread Andrew McRobert
many thanks mate. Excuse my ignorance, but what are the rcN.d directories for? (I know about init.d, no so much about rc0.d etc.) cheers Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western

a new beginning & internet install

2000-08-11 Thread John Reinke
Ok. I've had way too many problems after going from Corel to potato. I think it would be best to just wipe my hard drive, and start from scratch. (This will give me a chance to make a smaller /, since Corel requires a Gig for the / partition, no matter how much it needs.) I don't have a CD. What w

Re: Location of "/etc/rc.d" directory Debian v RHAT

2000-08-11 Thread kmself
less /etc/init.d/README On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 04:04:47PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote: > many thanks mate. Excuse my ignorance, but what are the rcN.d directories > for? (I know about init.d, no so much about rc0.d etc.) > > cheers > Andrew > > -

RE: Location of "/etc/rc.d" directory Debian v RHAT

2000-08-11 Thread Andrew McRobert
thank you sir :) Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation

Re: Has Corel been violating the GPL for approx 6 months?

2000-08-11 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 06:12:35AM +, Mr Smith wrote: > format which where covered by GPL. But they only supplied > them in binary only format without anything which appeared > to be a written offer of source code. They where able to > supply a t-shirt and a "nurf" style blue cube with

Re: /etc/environment

2000-08-11 Thread Jacques Foury
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 03:19:13PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > > > > The only place I found LANG=C appeared to be /etc/environment, and > > changing this to LANG='' appears to have solved the problem. > > > > Why is LANG set to C from /etc/environment; which package puts this in? > > And

Re: debbugs -- won't process bugs/respond to queries

2000-08-11 Thread kmself
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 12:23:51AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I realize there's a debbugs mailing list but it's seen a total of four > posts for this year, I thought debian-user might be more useful. > > I'm maintining a debbugs installation inhereted from another admin. > Following a se

ssh2 by users

2000-08-11 Thread Jaume Teixi
how to restrict which users can access throught ssh2 ? thanks, jaume.

Re: debbugs -- won't process bugs/respond to queries

2000-08-11 Thread kmself
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 01:19:39AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 12:23:51AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > I realize there's a debbugs mailing list but it's seen a total of four > > posts for this year, I thought debian-user might be more useful. > > > > I'm

docbook-stylesheet-doc problems

2000-08-11 Thread Jens Luedicke
hi there ... Setting up docbook-stylesheet-doc (1.56-1): cannot open dhelp file '/usr/doc/docbook-stylesheets-doc/.dhelp': at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 556 .. .. .. dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of task-sgml .. .. ..

Re: debbugs -- won't process bugs/respond to queries

2000-08-11 Thread kmself
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 01:50:15AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 01:19:39AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 12:23:51AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > I'm maintining a debbugs installation inhereted from another admin. > > > Fo

Re: kde or gnome?

2000-08-11 Thread Helgi Örn
Hi! Of course it depends on who you ask.:-) Generally I like KDE because it is locical in so many ways, but I don't like how big it is and therefore takes a lot of resources, and it's not 'free'. Gnome is faster (for me) but I got problems with using different keyboard layouts in Gnome, but i

Re: Kernel patching

2000-08-11 Thread dyer
Ronald Castillo wrote: > Greetings... > > When I apply a patch to my kernel (from 2.2.12 to 2.2.13), do I need to do > any other step after I do the "gzip -cd patchxx.gz | patch -p0"? > > Thanks.. > > The sources are now patched. (assuming you were in the /usr/src directory when you unzipped and

Re: ssh2 by users

2000-08-11 Thread kmself
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 10:36:01AM +, Jaume Teixi wrote: > how to restrict which users can access throught ssh2 ? man ssh | grep -i users -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" do

[off topic] Microsoft advertises for Linux team product manger

2000-08-11 Thread Andrew McRobert
Microsoft advertises for Linux team product manger Computer giant Microsoft has advertised for a product manger to drive its corporate Linux strategy. http://www.it.fairfax.com.au/breaking/2811/A63247-2000Aug11.html - Andrew McRobert IT

Re: Mouse stopped working in X

2000-08-11 Thread Morten Liebach
On 10, aug, 2000 at 09:42:25 -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 11:29:41PM -0500, John Reinke wrote: > > I've converted my Corel distribution to Debian potato. Although I had a few > > problems, most things seem to be fine, except my mouse now longer works in > > X. It doesn't

dselect after install

2000-08-11 Thread Pablo S. Torralba
I'm not sure if this is normal, or it is just something I'm doing wrong, but I need to rerun dselect after Potato installation in order to get every selected package correctly installed. I remember having read something about it, and someone who needed to rerun dselect four times to get everythin

Re: kde or gnome?

2000-08-11 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 11:19:43AM +0200, Helgi Örn wrote: > Gnome is faster (for me) but I got problems with using different > keyboard layouts in Gnome, but it's free. > I really love fvwm2 and icewm but there I got this problem with differet > keyboard layouts; I don't know how to configure use

Re: PC133 RAM doesn't work with Slink!?!

2000-08-11 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Karl Matheson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm still using 2.1 (If 2.2 does come out like it is expected to > (today), I will buy it), and I'm trying to install it on my new > computer. I've switched out various parts of my machine > (Hard-drive, CD-ROM, etc), Because it gives me weird memory >

Re: restricting user in HOME using ProFTP

2000-08-11 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 06:40:51AM -0700, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote > Hi all! > > I'm trying to restrict my FTP users in own directories using ProFTP. > > I used the configuration examples found in ProFTP's page but something > is wrong. > AFAICT, all you need to do is

Re: a new beginning & internet install

2000-08-11 Thread Dale Morris
If you copy the disk images for the frozen/potato distribution, you will end up with kernel 2.2.17 and you can select dhcp in initial configuration. I just did this, you need the rescue, root, and 3 driver disks for a total of 5 disks. Worked great for me. good luck On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 03:04:

Re: Has Corel been violating the GPL for approx 6 months?

2000-08-11 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 06:12:35AM +, Mr Smith wrote > Has former copies of the Corel LinuxOS Open Circulation > CD-ROM violated the General Public License? > > This seems like a straight forward question but one that > Corel has beat around the bush in answering. > > This is going to be a ra

Problems with XF86Config

2000-08-11 Thread jamesdoyle_new . uk
James Doyle MA Maîtr.en Hist. 147 South Street, Armadale, BATHGATE EH48 3JT West Lothian, Scotland. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] uk Tel .Mobile: (++44) 07944 921915Fax (inwards) (+44) 0 845 281 2648 Hello, "OS can't find an XYF86Config file"

Re: dselect after install

2000-08-11 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 11:46:38AM +0200, Pablo S. Torralba wrote: > I'm not sure if this is normal, or it is just something I'm doing > wrong, but I need to rerun dselect after Potato installation in order > to get every selected package correctly installed. hmm. that sounds like something, i ha

Re: mailcap/slrn question

2000-08-11 Thread Christopher Mosley
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Christopher Mosley wrote: > > > On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Dale Morris wrote: > > > Does anyone have a working mailcap file that will display images from > > newsgroups in slrn? I can get mutt to display images using ee, but I've > > never been able to get slrn to display an im

Re: Mouse stopped working in X

2000-08-11 Thread Armin Wegner
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 11:29:41PM -0500, John Reinke wrote: > I've converted my Corel distribution to Debian potato. Although I had a few > problems, most things seem to be fine, except my mouse now longer works in > X. It doesn't work with any of the X servers, including within XF86Setup. > It us

Re: Problems with XF86Config

2000-08-11 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 04:07:09AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > > I want to install Linux on two HDs, one is an old 850 MB Conner, from which > all traces of Gates & Co.have been banished and this will be pure Linux, and > a new 6.5 GB HD which is dual-boot Win95 and Linux. I downloaded Star O

Tin or SLRN

2000-08-11 Thread Christopher Mosley
Just used slrn for a short time and was impressed.. I'd like opinions on slrn especially from people who have used tin. Is there any great advantage in using tin?

Re: /etc/environment

2000-08-11 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
which man page do i need to learn more about the LANG and LC_LANG variables? is there a comperhensive list of env variables? On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 10:20:31AM +0200, Jacques Foury wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 03:19:13PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > > > > > > The only place I foun

Re: Tin or SLRN

2000-08-11 Thread Christopher Mosley
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Christopher Mosley wrote: > > Just used slrn for a short time and was impressed.. I'd like opinions on > slrn especially from people who have used tin. Is there any great advantage > in using tin? Thanks I me

Re: Debian ISO

2000-08-11 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I don´t think any of these links work [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 9 Aug 2000 23:32:59 +0200 > Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > >There is also a Hungarian mirror (which I don't know the URL of - >think > >it's ftp.hu.debian.org or so) which carries ISOs. Place a search on > >go

Re: A few misc. problems

2000-08-11 Thread Spinfire Magenta
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 10:39:03PM -0700, cxpx wrote: > 1. I installed xfstt which works fine but I am not able to change > the font size in netscape when using true type fonts. Anybody ever > have that problem? Are there some better fonts I could use instead? X.themes.org, i beleive, has a goo

FW: Problems with XF86Config

2000-08-11 Thread Helgi Örn
-Original Message- From: Helgi Örn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 2:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Problems with XF86Config Hi James! That's an effort you go through to be able to send an e-mail! What you will have to do is get yourself acquainted wi

Re: Has Corel been violating the GPL for approx 6 months?

2000-08-11 Thread John Hasler
I tried to email Mr. Smith but the message bounced. He should contact Richard Stallman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) about this. The FSF retains attorneys for the purpose of enforcing the GPL. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: Has Corel been violating the GPL for approx 6 months?

2000-08-11 Thread Spinfire Magenta
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 08:01:22AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > He should contact Richard Stallman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) about this. The > FSF retains attorneys for the purpose of enforcing the GPL. Makes me wonder exactly how much power of enforcement the FSF has. No one has ever tested the GPL i

RE: Has Corel been violating the GPL for approx 6 months?

2000-08-11 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, As an avid fan on Linux, and especially Debian, I would like to see this pursued with vigor. A lot of people view Linux as a fad (a hoola-hoop or frisbee kind of thing). I think that it would go a long way towards getting Linux to be taken seriously by the Windows drones if thi

Has Anyone got Adabas D to work with StarOffice 5.2??

2000-08-11 Thread John Foster
There are no stand alone docs for Adabas D with StarOffice 5.2 I have been unable after several of hours to get it to run successfully. The install seems to be OK and I have set up all of the environment variables as the instructions say since the SO install did not do that correctly. The server is

Re: Has Corel been violating the GPL for approx 6 months?

2000-08-11 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Things neeed to be tried Spinfire Magenta wrote: > On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 08:01:22AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > > He should contact Richard Stallman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) about this. The > > FSF retains attorneys for the purpose of enforcing the GPL. > > Makes me wonder exactly how much p

HP OpenMail

2000-08-11 Thread Michael Meskes
Is there anyone out there running this on a Debian machine? I'd like to try it, but the download simply gives me a damaged rpm. Michael P.S.: Please CC me on replies. -- Michael Meskes Michael@Fam-Meskes.De Go SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire! Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL!

FTE source

2000-08-11 Thread somogyi lóránd
Hi, does anybudy knows, where can I find the source of FTE? Lori.

IO permission problem

2000-08-11 Thread Attila Csosz
I've downloaded and compiled the latest stable quakeforge project. I've a problem: I can run qw-client-svga only as root. I've the following permissions: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root7 AUG 10 15:19 /dev/mouse -> gpmdata prw-r--r--1 root root0 AUG 11 13:05 /dev/gpmd

Re: Transferring files between a windows machine and a Debian Li

2000-08-11 Thread USM Bish
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Lehel Bernadt wrote: > On 09-Aug-2000 USM Bish wrote: > > I am at this game for the last few years. There are two solutions to this: > > > > Solution 1: If you have multiple OSs (like me) with Debian 2.1, Slack-7, > > and Win-98, (and BeOS till recently): > > > >a) Create

Re: Transferring files between a windows machine and a Debian Linux machine

2000-08-11 Thread USM Bish
Not your fault. Its mine. I applogise for this goof-up since I did not understand the exact problem. Short of actual networking, I have not done or heard of any one doing this sort of thing in Linux. I have used parallel port cable to transfer my data from my laptop to my PC using pure DOS softw

Re: A few misc. problems

2000-08-11 Thread Aaron Brashears
Wow, I had over 100 new mail messages in my inbox this morning. I didn't notice an answer to your questions, so I'll try. > 3. How do I start postgres on startup? I'm confused with all the different > /etc/rc*.d directories. This is how I think it is supposed to go: > > 'su -c postgres postmast

Installation: error messages

2000-08-11 Thread Helgi Örn
Hello Debians! I just installed 2.1 slink (one more time) and got these messages at the end of the dselect package installation: Errors were encountered while processing gs gv pstotext pstoedit ghostview Installation script returned error exit status 1. mv: /var/lib/pdmenu//pd

Ensoniq Soundblaster PCI64D

2000-08-11 Thread Helgi Örn
Hello Debians! I have installed 2.1 several times but never managed to configure it to my satisfaction, no internet connection and no sound for example, and i have REALLY tried. I really would like to use Debian/GNU instead of SuSE which i otherwise have as my default OS. If anyone got this same

Slink but no Internet...:-(

2000-08-11 Thread Helgi Örn
Hello Debians! I have installed 2.1 several times but never managed to configure it to my satisfaction, no internet connection and no sound for example, and i have REALLY tried. I really would like to use Debian/GNU instead of SuSE which i otherwise have as my default OS. I've got a Diamond Supra

RE: Included debian packages

2000-08-11 Thread softarch
Hi, When I asked the first time I guess I did not appropriately addressed what I am looking for. So, is any of the products below available on the disks that Debian makes available for Intel systems and so available through Debian's distributors? - Secure Web Server - Any popular 3rd party server

Pine with Color

2000-08-11 Thread Jack Morgan
I just installed Pine and like it a lot better than Mutt. But Mutt can view mail in many different colors. How do the same in Pine? Thanks Jack Morgan Linux Enthusiast [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mandinka.org

Re: Has Corel been violating the GPL for approx 6 months?

2000-08-11 Thread John Hasler
Dan writes: > Makes me wonder exactly how much power of enforcement the FSF has. Ask Apple. > No one has ever tested the GPL in court,... Most copyright issues never go to court. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

RE: Slink but no Internet...:-(

2000-08-11 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Do you have the serial port drivers installed? if you do an 'lsmod' command, you should see 'serial' as a module if you haven't compiled it into the kernel. otherwise 'insmod serial' and 'insmod ppp' should get you a long ways towards your goal. If all else fails refer to http://www.linuxdoc.org

$9.95/ mo web hosting

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Re: Pine with Color

2000-08-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 11:59:42PM +0900, Jack Morgan wrote: > > I just installed Pine and like it a lot better than Mutt. But Mutt can view > mail in many different colors. How do the same in Pine? > Thanks You can't. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=

Re: HP OpenMail

2000-08-11 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi I downloaded the files the other day, and have just begun the process of trying to install this on our Debian server. I've only had time to get to the stage of converting the rpm's to .tgz files and extracting the files to a temporary directory. It looks like it could take a fair bit of hacking

Re: FTE source

2000-08-11 Thread Henk-Jan Kreuger
Hi Somogyi, somogyi lóránd wrote: > does anybudy knows, where can I find the source of FTE? In your Debian distribution? Under 'sources/editors'! At every Debian ftp site, for example ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/sources/fte_0.49.13.orig.tar.gz Or at the authors site at Sourcefo

Re: restricting user in HOME using ProFTP

2000-08-11 Thread Andrew McRobert
thanks for that ... On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, John Pearson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 06:40:51AM -0700, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira > wrote > > Hi all! > > > > I'm trying to restrict my FTP users in own directories using ProFTP. > > > > I used the configuration examples found in

Re: high characters in file names change in new potato vs. current slink

2000-08-11 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 01:04:06PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can someone tell me what I need to do to fix the following problem? > > ls --show-control-chars Actually, that's not the best choice. You should be able to see the characters if you have a

Re: IO permission problem

2000-08-11 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I've downloaded and compiled the latest stable quakeforge project. > I've a problem: I can run qw-client-svga only as root. > > I've the following permissions: > > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root7 AUG 10 15:19 /dev/mouse -> g

Re: Pine with Color

2000-08-11 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 11:59:42PM +0900, Jack Morgan wrote: > > > > I just installed Pine and like it a lot better than Mutt. But Mutt can view > > mail in many different colors. How do the same in Pine? > > Thanks > > You can't. Actually pine 4.21 sup

Re: Pine with Color

2000-08-11 Thread James Sasitorn
well you can specify a few color options.. and you can give quote text different colors (based on the reply depth). S (setup) -> K (kolor) james On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 11:59:42PM +0900, Jack Morgan wrote: > > > > I just installed Pine and like it a l

[Fwd: Ensoniq Soundblaster PCI64D]

2000-08-11 Thread Helgi Örn
--- Begin Message --- Hi David, I didn't know that 2.1 doesn't suppert the es1371 chip! The PCI64 card has got the ES1371 chip not ES1370. So i have to compile a new kernel! I've never done that before so i don't know how either. Thank you. HÖ David Vrabel wrote: > > On 11 Aug 2000, Helgi [i

Re: /etc/environment

2000-08-11 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 11-Aug-2000 Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > which man page do i need to learn more about the LANG and LC_LANG > variables? is there a comperhensive list of env variables? - man [1|5|7] locale. - the "Locales" chapter in the glibc manual Usable variables are in /etc/locale.alias and the directory nam

Re: pgp

2000-08-11 Thread USM Bish
All packages of debian are listed at this URL: http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/allpackages.html USM Bish On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Chris Nestrud wrote: > Greetings. I'm trying to find a Debian package for pgp. Other packages > requiring pgp have referred to such a package, but 'apt-cache search

Re: high characters in file names change in new potato vs. current slink

2000-08-11 Thread Nate Bargmann
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 11:51:53AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > Actually, that's not the best choice. You should be able to see the > characters if you have a locale set. (E.g., LANG=en_US or LANG=de_DE) Say, it pays to lurk around here! I've been driven nuts by Mutt not showing special chara

Re: pgp

2000-08-11 Thread Spinfire Magenta
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 09:54:21PM +0530, USM Bish wrote: > All packages of debian are listed at this URL: I beleive (from experience) that the problem he may be running into is trying to download the pgp packages from the US server. You need to set non-US.debian.org as a package source (or manua

Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-11 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 11 Aug 2000, Christian Lynbech on satellite wrote: > > "Greg" == Greg Strockbine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> You can also browse tarballs, gzips, bzips, gzipped tarballs, bzipped > >> tarballs, and zips as well, providing that the attendant gzip, bzip, tar, > > Greg> well, gee, its

Re: Has Corel been violating the GPL for approx 6 months?

2000-08-11 Thread brian moore
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 06:12:35AM +, Mr Smith wrote: > Has former copies of the Corel LinuxOS Open Circulation > CD-ROM violated the General Public License? > > This seems like a straight forward question but one that > Corel has beat around the bush in answering. You know I'd be more likely

Re: Installation: error messages

2000-08-11 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 04:43:41PM +0200, Helgi Örn wrote > Hello Debians! > > I just installed 2.1 slink (one more time) and got these messages at the > end of the dselect package installation: > > > Errors were encountered while processing > > gs > gv > pstotext > pstoedit > g

Re: Has Corel been violating the GPL for approx 6 months?

2000-08-11 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Mr Smith" wrote: > Has former copies of the Corel LinuxOS Open Circulation > CD-ROM violated the General Public License? What's the code you contributed to? Is the source somewhere under: ftp://ftp.corel.com/pub/linux/CorelLinux/source/corellinux-1.1/ If so, what's the problem? -- Peter Gal

Re: Transferring files between a windows machine and a Debian Li

2000-08-11 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 11-Aug-2000 USM Bish wrote: > On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Lehel Bernadt wrote: >> On 09-Aug-2000 USM Bish wrote: >> > I am at this game for the last few years. There are two solutions to this: >> > >> > Solution 1: If you have multiple OSs (like me) with Debian 2.1, Slack-7, >> > and Win-98, (and BeO

Lap link app

2000-08-11 Thread Carl Winbäck
Is there any laplink app for UNIX, so I can transfer files with my parallel cable? /Carl = -- Det var bättre förr. __ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/

Re: I can't ever boot-up with my new computer!!!

2000-08-11 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 10:46:32AM -0700, Karl Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I can't install Linux, because when I boot of the 2.1 CD, it dies, showing > me the stack. It looks like this: > > ... > scsi : 0 hosts > scisi : detected total > Partition check: > hda : hda1 hda2 >

Re: Slink but no Internet...:-(

2000-08-11 Thread Helgi Örn
"Brooks R. Robinson" wrote: > > Do you have the serial port drivers installed? if you do an 'lsmod' > command, you should see 'serial' as a module if you haven't compiled it into > the kernel. otherwise 'insmod serial' and 'insmod ppp' should get you a > long ways towards your goal. If all else

Re: I can't ever boot-up with my new computer!!!

2000-08-11 Thread Jason J
I thought this was a potential bad memory problem. When I get these kinds of errors consistently I grab my memtest86(check freshmeat.net) boot disk and check it out. But I could be totally wrong on this. Francesco Bochicchio wrote: > On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 10:46:32AM -0700, Karl Matheson wrot

Re: Installation: error messages

2000-08-11 Thread Helgi Örn
John Pearson wrote: Thank you! Nice web-site! HÖ > > On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 04:43:41PM +0200, Helgi Örn wrote > > Hello Debians! > > > > I just installed 2.1 slink (one more time) and got these messages at the > > end of the dselect package installation: > > > > > > Errors wer

Re: Has Corel been violating the GPL for approx 6 months?

2000-08-11 Thread Jason Quigley
Reading between the lines of everything our anonymous friend had to say, it looks like he's looking for an angle to squeeze some cash. He doesn't mention the software he supplied, but, I have a feeling it's probably called xambulancechaser or nogoodbrownshoessellmygrandmother! Cheers, Jason.

Re: Included debian packages

2000-08-11 Thread kmself
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 07:56:42AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > When I asked the first time I guess I did not appropriately addressed > what I am looking for. So, is any of the products below available > on the disks that Debian makes available for Intel systems and > so available th

Netscape 6 PR2 with Debian 2.2

2000-08-11 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
$ ./netscape-installer ./netscape-installer-bin: error in loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Is there a Debian package that provides this version of libstdc++? If not, does anyone have a recipe for building it? Please co

Re: Lap link app

2000-08-11 Thread kmself
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 10:23:04AM -0700, Carl Winbäck wrote: > Is there any laplink app for UNIX, so I can transfer files > with my parallel cable? You want to use PLIP, a protcol. No special software is required for the Linux side. Depending on your laptop OS you may have issues there. See the

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