vi won't work with any TERM setting

hello Problem is that no matter what TERM setting I use, and I've tried everyone listed in terminfo, I cannot get vi to operate correctly. The closest TERM value is 'sun' which will use the full screen idea ok but neither the cursor keys nor h/j/k/l will move about the page. Other TERMs produce ra

RE: vi won't work with any TERM setting

... when you log into the potato box, what's the value of the TERM environment value (get this by typing "env"). tks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61

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On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:39:27PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was going to suggest the same. I've got a cheap-ass KVM -- it's ok for console mode but *really* doesn't cut the mustard with X, crap bleeds all over the place. I'm not sure about what the specifics of cables are, but I know my

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On Aug 13 2000, Michael Soulier wrote: > On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: > > There is, in a way. You need to add the non-us archive section and install > > fortify which enables 128bit encryption in Netscape. > > Just tried that. (...) > Anyway, what should I be running

Re: Port No. 1032 - iad3

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 12:36:55PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote: > hi all > > Does anyone know what port 1032 is used for on a Windows machine (or > any machine for that matter)? Running a port scan on my computer shows > this port open and labelled as supporting "iad3"?? $ grep 1032 /etc/service

Re: cd burner

On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 11:07:51PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 13:22:54 MDT, Nate Duehr writes: > >The Yamaha at work burns at 8X while copying directly from the other 20X > >CD-ROM on the same IDE chain without running the buffer empty or even > >close to empty. Machine has

RE: vi won't work with any TERM setting

try this to set the TERM variable (this is for bash, similar syntax in others shells - check sys admin guide for details): [EMAIL PROTECTED]> sh // change to bash shell [EMAIL PROTECTED]> TERM=vt100 // set TERM to generic vt100 [EMAIL PR

Re: Mailbox Formates (was: Expiring mail)

On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 07:02:52PM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: > On Aug 13 2000, Nate Duehr wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, anyone ever seen any good documentation on > > the advantages/disadvantages (even if it's biased, since we're *ALL* > > biased...) of the different mailbox formats? > >

RE: Port No. 1032 - iad3

rl alerted me to this mail thread on that port (yep, I noticed it's not in /etc/services): http://www.securityportal.com/list-archive/firewalls/1999/Feb/0303.html tks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MU

RE: Port No. 1032 - iad3

... it's listed as supporting "BBN IAD" on this list: http://members.toast.net/kmfahey/ports.html A - 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

Re: lpr|lprng & apsfilter & deskjet 400 ... Solved!

On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 12:35:51AM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > This used to work. I became annoyed that the listing header was > printed as "Printed by from" instead of "Printed by $USER from > $HOSTNAME". Discussing it on apsfilter.org, the solution appeared to > be replace lpr with lprNG. lpr +

RE: install of slink

Slink doesn't support installing the base system via http. (but once base is installed you can use apt-get/dselect to install packages via http) You can however make about 10 floppies (rescue + drivers + 7 * base disks IIRC) There are other ways, but that depends on what sort of other machines

Re: still unable to get kernel source - solved

On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 11:55:28PM -0500, John Reinke wrote: > My problem: I could never decompress any kernel source file I > downloaded without it aborting with errors. > > My solution: I uninstalled the bzip2 package and then reinstalled it. > That fixed the problem, so I'm on to xconfig, which

Re: Installing Debian on 486

On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:18:11PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 07:50:33PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 03:12:13PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 12:52:27AM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: > > > Agreed wrt the am

Re: A possible problem with x-terminal-emulator?

> On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 08:18:25PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > > A few days ago I reported here that I have a problem with text apps > > (top, mc, pstree and such) that are being launched in X using the menu > > system (that is, with something like apps->System->Top). To be more > > specific, it a

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I originally installed debian w/ dhcp. I am now going through a firewall. I can't seem to find the files that contain the correct information so I can modify them to use the new information. Right now I have to type 'ifconfig eth0 down' then bring it up with the correct information. When I mo

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I ve done this change a few weeks ago. Both worked fine for me. I believe that (xfs + xfstt) use less memory than xfs-xtt, right now on my system RSS of xfs-xtt is ~3.5K but this seems to depend on configuration and usage (how many TTF requests from your apps) Main advantages for me: - I can use f

Re: Port No. 1032 - iad3

>On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 12:36:55PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote: >> Does anyone know what port 1032 is used for on a Windows machine (or >> any machine for that matter)? Running a port scan on my computer shows >> this port open and labelled as supporting "iad3"?? Port Type Descripti

LILO & Kernel Image too big

hi I've just compiled a 2.2.12 kernel on a test machine here, and when I try to update LILO to boot the new kernel image I get the following message: "Fatal: Kernel /vmlinuz is too big" The new kernel is bigger than I expected it to be, ls -l lists it as 1.8MB (the old kernel is about 500K). Any

Protecting single files via .htaccess ?

Hello everyone, I want to protect single files from accessing them from outside. I am aware that .htaccess does quite well in protecting directories but can I protect single files as well, for example the "passes.php3" ? Any help is appreciated very well ! Thanks in advance ! -- Mit freundliche

Re: Installing Debian on 486

Hi, If your 486 has a ethernet card, you can put cdrom in another machine and using 2 floppies you can put debian in it. I have done it with slink on a 486 with less than 100mb harddisk Best of luck Suresh - Suresh Kumar.R

RE: LILO & Kernel Image too big

Hi.. Did you make a 'make zImage' or a 'make bzImage'? With make bzImage you will get a compressed kernel. Bye. * Juan Ramón Jiménez García Analista Programador O.N.C.E. Dep. I+D Nuevas Tecnologias Telf: 91.589.02.93 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: LILO & Kernel Image too big

bzImage :) 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: LILO & Kernel Image too big

Juan Ramon Jimenez Garcia wrote: > Hi.. > Did you make a 'make zImage' or a 'make bzImage'? > > With make bzImage you will get a compressed kernel. Actually, it gets compressed with either of those two methods. I'm guessing that he copied the wrong file from ... wherever it is that the files

RE: LILO & Kernel Image too big --> Make error

hi again I just ran bzImage again, and the last few lines of output show this error: "make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12/arch/i386/boot" as86 -0 -a -o bbootsect.o bbootsect.s make[1]: as86: Command not found make[1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127 make[1]: Leaving directory '

Fixing Monitors Frequency

Hi, is it possible to start X with a fixed monitor frequency? My monitor is able to do more than 100Hz but then the display is not as good as with 85Hz. Where can I say: use alway 85Hz for my modes? Kai. -- + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/~bond/

Re: LILO & Kernel Image too big --> Make error

Andrew McRobert wrote: > hi again > > I just ran bzImage again, and the last few lines of output show this error: > > "make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12/arch/i386/boot" > as86 -0 -a -o bbootsect.o bbootsect.s > make[1]: as86: Command not found > make[1]: *** [bbootsect.o]

Re: LILO & Kernel Image too big

"Andrew McRobert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi > > I've just compiled a 2.2.12 kernel on a test machine here, and when I try to > update LILO to boot the new kernel image I get the following message: > > "Fatal: Kernel /vmlinuz is too big" > > The new kernel is bigger than I expected it to

SOLVED: RE: LILO & Kernel Image too big --> Make error

thanks to Mike. I've installed the bin86 package, run 'make bzImage' & lilo again and set the system up to boot. Is the bin86 package only needed for compressing the kernel image, or is it needed to "make dep", "make modules" etc? thanks Andrew - An

Re: crontab

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 01:25:13AM -0400, Jacob Stowell wrote: > > i read many pages about how to set the crontab, which seems pretty > straight forward, but i seem to be missing something. this is what i > have done so far: > > crontab -e > > #test to make sure the dns is current > 30 6 * * *

Re: LILO & Kernel Image too big

Pontus Lidman wrote: > 2) use 'make bzImage' instead of 'make zImage' to make a bz compressed > image. The bz compression makes it smaller. The b does not stand for bz compression. It stands for big zimage. A quote from the kernel docs (/usr/src/linux/Documentation/kbuild/commands.txt as came w

RE: crontab

... it's also worth noting that there's two competing cron systems under Debian ... the normal one (invoked through crontab command etc.) and the /etc/crontab file ... and they actually work independently of each other. For example, I run a bunch of backup scripts etc from /etc/crontab, and just ru

Re: SOLVED: RE: LILO & Kernel Image too big --> Make error

Andrew McRobert wrote: > thanks to Mike. I've installed the bin86 package, run 'make bzImage' & lilo > again and set the system up to boot. Is the bin86 package only needed for > compressing the kernel image, or is it needed to "make dep", "make modules" > etc? For the most part, the bin86 package

fyi: Linux Office Suite Consortium - NY Times

fyi guys from: http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/08/biztech/articles/14linux.html "SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13 -- A group of key Linux software developers and major computer manufacturers are planning to announce on Tuesday at a Silicon Valley computer conference the first effort to compete direc

Re: fetchmail configuration

Quoth S.Salman Ahmed, > "fetchmail -v -d0" produces too much output to be useful. I guess I'll > look into procmail. If you are running X, and are using an MTA on your system to do local deliveries (ie., using fetchmail to pass the mail off to port 25 on the local machine), then you could probab

Re: Location of eth0 files

In Slink (2.1) you can find what you're looking for in /etc/init.d/network, in Potato (2.2) and Woody (2.3) you can find it in /etc/network/interfaces. Ron Rademaker On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, cxpx wrote: > I originally installed debian w/ dhcp.I am now going through a > firewall. I > can't

Re: Fixing Monitors Frequency

It'll probably work if you remove all the frequently lines from /etc/X11/XF86Config you don't wish to use... Ron Rademaker On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Kai Weber wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to start X with a fixed monitor frequency? My monitor is > able to do more than 100Hz but then the display is

max file sizes and filesystems

Hi How big can a single file be in the filesystems FAT32, ext2, and NTFS? My question comes from an idea to create one or more files and mount them as loopbackdevices after formatting them. This is a standard operation and there are some FAQs describing the procedure on the LDP web pages for exam

Re: gnus in GNU Emacs 20 in Potato does not start

Jan Ulrich Hasecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hallo Debs! > > Because xemacs is a little bit big, I want to use GNU Emacs instead. > > Two days ago I dist-upgraded to potato with no problems, so I now run > emacs 20.7.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu, X toolkit) and gnus v5.8.3 > > Starting guns I g

Re: JDK1.2 debianised?

"J.T. Wenting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > not likely. It would require special licensing by Sun. there are (at least) two complete jdk's for linux: the (original) blackdown-version: http://www.blackdown.org, sun's: http://java.sun.com (both are ports of sun's open-sourced solaris-version, but

Re: motherboards

Goeman Stefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now, I am only running Windows98 on it (at home). I haven't come to > the point of installing Linux on the PC. I have not even decided which > Linux distro I should take. At work I am running Debian (potato) and > I am getting to like it a lot ... > >

Re: g++

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I upgraded my machine to potato but in compiling a c++ > program which before used to work with > > g++ -lg++ filename.cc, > > now I need > > g++ -I/usr/include/g++-2/ -lg++ filename.cc -lg++ links libg++, which are auxiliary, non-standard convenience-classes that

Re: kde or gnome?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, John Griffiths wrote: > LET THE FLAME WARS COMMENCE > This list has pretty much gotten over flaming about GNOME/KDE. We prefer to flame about licensing and social-contract wording here. 8^) > if you hae the QT and GTK libns in place the

Re: Protecting single files via .htaccess ?

as this is the debian mailing list ad not theapache list you might have better luck reading throught the extensive online documentation for apahce and othere apache related user groups and forums. but to answer your question look at this: http://www.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#location i beleive

Re: gnome-terminal

Michael Soulier wrote: > > One of the reasons why I overall prefer xterm is because it > conforms to X protocols. To my knowledge, gnome apps don't do this. The > gnome-terminal has its own menu built-in for configuration. I'm not sure > if you can rebind keys with it though. To

recompiling gcc & g++

hi, gcc & g++ are the programs I use most, and often I'm waiting for them to compile a big project I'm currently working on. is it worth to recompile them using more "agressive" optimizations options (-O3, -funroll-loops, and -march=pentiumpro) ? anyway, I tried it, using apt-get to get the so

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Hi all, I'm having a problem with a new machine I'm setting up. I've set up XFree, and for some reason, the mouse pointer doesn't appear. I know its working because I can click on stuff, select, do all the normal mouse things, but I just can't see the pointer. Has anyone had any experience with t

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Does anyone have it running? I'm having problems getting to delete email from my IMAP server. But then maybe there's a FAQ out there. Michael P.S.: To those who read my mail about OpenMail last week, yes, I intend to compare all server based groupware or personal information management systems av

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Hi, I was thinking about installing xfree4.0.1 on my debian system, but then I started worrying about how it would interfere with the debian package management. For instance, say I just install XF4, overwriting all the older stuff that debian has put there. What will happen when debian thinks it

Re: non xfree-related question about installing xfree4

The easiest way would be waiting for debian packages of xfree 4.0.1 ;) But if you don't want to wait, you could make something like this: - backup your current x-stuff (copy /usr/X11R6 to /usr/X11R6.3 and /etc/X11 to /etc/X11.3) - install xfree 4.0.1 to /usr/X11R6.4 and /etc/X11.4 - make symlinks

Re: recompiling gcc & g++

On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 07:59:31PM -0300, Jan Pfeifer wrote: > gcc & g++ are the programs I use most, and often I'm waiting for them > to compile a big project I'm currently working on. > is it worth to recompile them using more "agressive" optimizations > options (-O3, -funroll-loops, and -marc

RE: cd burner

Greetings, Since this came up, I thought that I would ask a similar question. I've been using an HP CD-Writer Plus 8200 Series which has worked like a dream with one exception: I can't burn those credit-card/business-card size CDR's. I have heard that the Memorex burners will, and I was wo

Re: still unable to get kernel source - solved

on Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:56:42PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman spewed forth on stone tablets: > After reading your previous mail I was going to suggest that maybe you > have a corrupted bzip2, or corrupted RAM. I'm glad it's not the RAM! Most RAM problems manifest themselves during compilation, so y

Re: Apache -- SSL and normal on same system?

kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Not necessarily, AFAIK [1]. Regular-mode apache and apache-ssl don't share > address space, and if configured properly, are working from different > document roots. The "risk" is about the same as having multiple accounts > on the same system. Apache is pretty bull

Re: SOLVED: RE: LILO & Kernel Image too big --> Make error

Mike Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MW> Andrew McRobert wrote: AM> thanks to Mike. I've installed the bin86 package, run 'make AM> bzImage' & lilo again and set the system up to boot. Is the bin86 AM> package only needed for compressing the kernel image, or is it AM> needed to "make dep", "

Re: still unable to get kernel source

On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:21:43PM -0500, John Reinke wrote: > > Dumb question: should all the documentation within > /usr/share/doc/kernel-package be .gz files? Is there an easier way to view > all the documenation here without having to gunzip them first? > I think zless displays either gzippe

changing IMP/Horde database in a production server

Hi, I would like to change the IMP/Horde database from MySQL to PostgreSQL in a production server. How can I do this in a smoothly way without breaking my system? Thanks! []s, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP

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Hi, I had such luck asking a question earlier, so I am trying again with something else. Thanks to everybody who did answer my previous one. This time what happens is: I have dial on demand with ISDN. One other machine is currently hooked up to the network and that is a Windows 95 machine with In

Re: Dual-Boot Win2K & Debian

On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 12:29:11PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > The question I have is, how to properly dual-boot Win2K and Linux? Does > 2K act more like 95/98 which is easy to dual-boot from LILO, or is it > more like NT in which you edited the boot.ini file and could boot Linux > from the NT boot

Re: Passwords longer than 8 chars

On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 01:48:04AM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: > On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 07:05:36PM -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira > wrote: > > > I want to setup a Debian server and abilitate passwords wih more than 8 > > chars. Where I have to setup this? > > Potato asks yo

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Hi! Do anyone have the experience of successful installation of Debian Linux on a Sun UltraSparc IIi? I download the 1.44 floppy image for sparc (rescue, root, driver and base) rom a mirror site, but the box did not boot the rescue disk. Thanks for all your sharing.

Re: Apache -- SSL and normal on same system?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Ackermann) writes: > > You just made the light go on, I think. I was trying to run both > secure and normal sites using apache-ssl. I thought that the ssl > version could do both, and it was a matter of configuring each virtual > site to use one or the other. What yo

Re: Problem with swapping - computer crash.

Marko Cehaja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have serious problem with swap file, since I changed from potato > to slink. [snip] In the future please refrain from starting a new thread by replying to an old one. In this case you replied to a "Mr. Smith's" post about how Corel wasn't conforming to

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I am try to bring up Debian Linux on my new Gateway Select 750. It has an IBM-DTLA-307030 ATA100 hard disk, which it doen't recognize. Does anybody have any suggestions on how to get it up and running? Thanks, Dave Broughton

Re: Problem with swapping - computer crash.

Marko Cehaja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have serious problem with swap file, since I changed from potato > to slink. [snip] In the future please refrain from starting a new thread by replying to an old one and just changing the "Subject:". In this case you replied to a "Mr. Smith's" post abou

Re: Debian Linux on Sun UltraSparc IIi

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 03:52:30PM +0100, Wilson Yau wrote: > Hi! Do anyone have the experience of successful installation of Debian > Linux on a Sun UltraSparc IIi? > I download the 1.44 floppy image for sparc (rescue, root, driver and > base) rom a mirror site, but the box did not boot the rescu

(fwd) Debain 2.2

Hi there, Maybe someone could help this lady... Cheers, Remco. - Forwarded message from Amanda Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: "Amanda Heath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Debain 2.2 Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 16:17:10 +0100 Hello I have a customer with Debain

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The current debian package of mozilla (M17-1) seems to fail to bring up any entries in the Themes list. It also seems to not have mail and news, even though there is no mozilla-mailnews package (I even looked in Incoming...). Does anyone else see these problems or is it something in my installatio

Re: Protecting single files via .htaccess ?

Dear On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 08:00:14AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > as this is the debian mailing list ad not theapache list you might have > better luck reading throught the extensive online documentation for > apahce and othere apache related user groups and forums. but to answer > your qu

newer version of pilot-link for palm Os 3.5

Dear Debian developers, I am personally using a linux OS and I am wondering if debian offers a newer version of pilot-link that works on PALM OS 3.5 as well. Pilot-link is a software provided by debian that transfers data between a palm pilot and a linux OS. the fuction I use pilot-x

Re: Invisible pointer under X

Robert Norris wrote: > I'm having a problem with a new machine I'm setting up. I've set up > XFree, and for some reason, the mouse pointer doesn't appear. I know > its working because I can click on stuff, select, do all the normal > mouse things, but I just can't see the pointer. A quick and dirt

Re: Invisible pointer under X

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 10:29:32PM +1000, Robert Norris wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having a problem with a new machine I'm setting up. I've set up > XFree, and for some reason, the mouse pointer doesn't appear. I know > its working because I can click on stuff, select, do all the normal > mouse thin

DEC 433 installation - SCSI and partitioning concerns

Hi all, Slink does not recognize SCSI controller? I am trying to install Slink on a newly acquired DEC 433 Workstation. It is an old 33 mhz 486 with an Adaptec AHA 1510 AIC 6260 SCSI controller built into the motherboard. I think the IRQ is 11 and the port address is 340h. In any event, this Sl

Re: filtering spam with procmail

Hoi Noah! Noah> Hey all. Over the past couple weeks or so the volume of spam to my inbox Noah> has grown by a disturbing amount (I should have been more careful...). Noah> I'm not sure what to use for such a procmail rule, though. Does anybody Noah> here do anything similar to this? I

Re: cannot get all the galeon files

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 01:27:21AM +0200, Andr? Dahlqvist wrote: > If you guys are using Woody there's now a new package called mozilla-dev > that probably contains what you need. That's great! Except it doesn't seem to contain all the necessary headers... specifically gtkmozembed.h and all th

Re: Protecting single files via .htaccess ?

i am just saying there might be better luck in finding ananswer to questions asked if they look on the program specific mailing lists and forums. and most of the software questions that come across this mailing list do not have such exstensive FAQs and online documentation as apahce does. so yes it

Arghh! Can't compile the kernel!

Alright, I finally got Slink installed and running on my new computer, but I need more help. When I try to compile the kernel, I got the following errors (I think when it's almost done): kernel is compiling fine xdr.c: In function 'nlmsvc_decode_lockargs': xdr.c:271: internal error--unrecogniz

Re: newer version of pilot-link for palm Os 3.5

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 04:18:17PM + Adam Kwok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Debian developers, > I am personally using a linux OS and I am wondering if debian > offers a newer version of pilot-link that works on PALM OS 3.5 as well. > Pilot-link is a software provided by debi

Re: cannot get all the galeon files

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 10:00:16AM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > That's great! Except it doesn't seem to contain all the necessary > headers... specifically gtkmozembed.h and all the nsI stuff I haven't tried the package myself, but I know that there is also a libnspr4-dev package. That's

Re: non xfree-related question about installing xfree4

On 14-Aug-2000 Ron Rademaker wrote: > The easiest way would be waiting for debian packages of xfree 4.0.1 ;) There are xfree 4.0.1 debian packages (very experimental, though) available at http://www.debian.org/~branden/.

forcing app to use smaller colormap?

Hello; Is it possible to force an app to use 16 bpp on a 32 bpp display? I don't want to reconfigure X and I do not want to run more then one X server. Any ideas? TIA, Ron -- Email: Home: ICQ: pulsar 26276320 Alpha News Network:

Re: Themes in mozilla

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 12:03:40PM -0400, Stuart Ballard wrote: > The current debian package of mozilla (M17-1) seems to fail to bring up > any entries in the Themes list. It also seems to not have mail and news, > even though there is no mozilla-mailnews package (I even looked in > Incoming...). >

Re: Protecting single files via .htaccess ?

On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Oliver Schoenknecht wrote: > I want to protect single files from accessing them from outside. I am > aware that .htaccess does quite well in protecting directories but can > I protect single files as well, for example the "passes.php3" ? > > Any help is appreciated very well

Re: LILO & Kernel Image too big

> I've just compiled a 2.2.12 kernel on a test machine here, and when I try to > update LILO to boot the new kernel image I get the following message: > > "Fatal: Kernel /vmlinuz is too big" > > The new kernel is bigger than I expected it to be, ls -l lists it as 1.8MB > (the old kernel is about

Re: [Quake-user] Re: IO permission problem

On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 03:27:35PM -0500, Jeff Epler wrote: > On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 10:02:34PM +0200, Attila Csosz wrote: > > Ok, I fixed the permissions, currently I have: > > -rwsr-xr-x1 root root 872936 AUG 11 12:57 > > /usr/local/bin/qw-client-svga > > In this way I'm able to s

Re: Themes in mozilla

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 12:03:40PM -0400, Stuart Ballard wrote: > The current debian package of mozilla (M17-1) seems to fail to bring up > any entries in the Themes list. I can't reproduce that with the upstream version of M17, but I remember hearing people complaining about it during the M17 de

Re: SOLVED: RE: LILO & Kernel Image too big --> Make error

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 10:02:39AM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > Uh, no. The bin86 package is needed to compile 16-bit 8086-compatible > source code. This pretty much means that it's only needed to compile > the kernel boot loader itself (I wouldn't be surprised if the LILO > source needed it to

installation problem

Dear sirs: I bought the Debian installation book by Thomas Down with the CD and followed the instructions for installation on the CD. I have a 486-8MB mother board with an 80 MB hard drive. I allocated 60 MB for Linux, 20 for DOS. I can follow thru the steps all the way to installing BASE sys

Re: still-extant potato boot problems (kmod/runany modprobe loop)

On Sun 13 Aug, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > Are there any fixes (or even diagnoses) yet for the following problem? > Has anyone else even seen these symptoms? >- "start ppp0: SIOCSIFMETRIC: Operation not supported" > (asynchonously, after something had triggered diald) This is a 'standard'

RE: Internet only for root

Thanks a lot for all your help. I'll put my users in "dip". -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 2:51 AM To: Debian-User Mailing List Subject: Re: Internet only for root Add the users who are to be able to bring up ppp to the

Re: filtering spam with procmail

Richard Klinda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hoi Noah! > > Noah> Hey all. Over the past couple weeks or so the volume of > spam to my inbox has grown by a disturbing amount (I should > have been more careful...). > > Noah> I'm not sure what to use for such a procmail rule, though. > Do

Re: Expiring mail

Christopher Mosley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm looking for something that would be able to: > > 1. Delete messages older than a specified date. > > 2. Move messages older than a specified date (i.e. archive them > > away). > > This would be quite easy if your mail is in Maildir form

2.2 Cds

Does anyone know somewhere where 2.2 cds can be preordered? Thanks

Re: procmail - filtering already received mails

Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > for i in `ls`; do > > echo -n "$i: "; > > procmail < $i && rm $i; > > echo "done."; > > done > > I still don't understand what was going on, but with this one it worked fine. > > (for i in `ls`; do echo -n "$i: "; procmail < $i && rm $i; ec

Re: 2.2 Cds

I am going to order mine with [EMAIL PROTECTED] You just have to send an email and the guy will answer. - Original Message - From: Ray Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 3:47 PM Subject: 2.2 Cds > Does anyone know somewhere where 2.2 cds can be preordered? Tha

Re: 2.2 Cds

Also try [EMAIL PROTECTED] May be has a better price - Original Message - From: Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 4:11 PM Subject: Re: 2.2 Cds > I am going to order mine with [EMAIL PROTECTED] You just have > to send an email and

Re: filtering spam with procmail

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 14 Aug 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: > :0: > * !^TO.*sandia.gov > * !^TO.*glhenni > * !^TO.*[hH]ennigan > * !^TO.*[Gg]ary > Spam.spool Thanks, Gary, that is *exactly* what I was looking for! Yay! noah ___

Re: installation problem

Is there an error?? My guess is that 60 meg is just not enough... Switch to another tty (ALT+F2) and type df, to see how much free space is left. Ron Rademaker On Mon, 14 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear sirs: > > I bought the Debian installation book by Thomas Down with the CD and fol

Re: Older hardware running newer software (was: Re: Installing Debian on 486)

Hi! I'm also a 386etc. fan and I can tell you that in fact many stores still sell 4MB simm (=30pin) modules (at least here in Germany), so that quite every old machine (if it has four or eight slots) can be upgraded to 16 or 32 MB of RAM. Sometimes you can also get these modules for a very cheap p

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