pdf2ps problem

2000-10-19 Thread Andre Berger
I had to convert a 114 MB pdf-file to ps. This took several hours on my P133, the result is 908 MB... The command I used was 'pdf2ps -dPSLevel1 name.pdf name.ps' But I can't use the .ps file! Can I fix the following gv error? I have gs-aladdin, potato. -- Andre Error: /undefinedAladdin Ghostscr

Re: pdf2ps problem

2000-10-19 Thread John Griffiths
At 01:20 AM 10/19/2000 +0200, Andre Berger wrote: >I had to convert a 114 MB pdf-file to ps. This took several hours on >my P133, the result is 908 MB... The command I used was >'pdf2ps -dPSLevel1 name.pdf name.ps' > >But I can't use the .ps file! Can I fix the following gv error? I have >gs-ala

Re: pdf2ps problem

2000-10-19 Thread John Griffiths
At 01:20 AM 10/19/2000 +0200, Andre Berger wrote: >I had to convert a 114 MB pdf-file to ps. This took several hours on >my P133, the result is 908 MB... The command I used was >'pdf2ps -dPSLevel1 name.pdf name.ps' > >But I can't use the .ps file! Can I fix the following gv error? I have >gs-ala

Re: Anti-spam system

2000-10-19 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 15:46:47 PDT, "John L. Fjellstad" writes: >On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 11:25:40PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > >> or down-/upgrade to 8.9.3, my current potato 8.9.3-21 isn´t vulnerable >> to this (or to any other from http://www.abuse.net/relay.html) relay >> attack. > >I wou

Perl Scripting Help

2000-10-19 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello, I have been trying to run a perl script that I was told requires Extended Tcl/Tk to be installed. Im very new to perl and have now idea what this is. I need Tcl/Tk v8.0. for this to work. When I installed debain I didnt included perl. What will I need to get for the to work? Sorry if this is

Re: Help! I upgraded ssh, it doesn't work, I want to go back to an earlier version.

2000-10-19 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Eric Hanchrow say > > Foolish me: I'd been happily running ssh 1:2.2.0p1 on my Potato > system, and then I upgraded to ssh 1:2.2.0p1-1.1. (I got both of > those versions from "unstable".) Well, that newer version doesn't > work on potato, because it requires a newer li

Creating kernel packages with make-kpkg

2000-10-19 Thread Klaus Reimer
Hi, I have created some kernel packages with make-kpkg and now I want to build the alsa- and pcmcia-modules for these kernels. For example I have two different kernel packages: kernel-image-2.2.17-mamba - This is a standard kernel with no additional patches kernel-image-2.2.17-adder

Re: Help! I upgraded ssh, it doesn't work, I want to go back to an earlier version.

2000-10-19 Thread Joe Emenaker
> Foolish me: I'd been happily running ssh 1:2.2.0p1 on my Potato > system, and then I upgraded to ssh 1:2.2.0p1-1.1. (I got both of > those versions from "unstable".) Well, that newer version doesn't > work on potato, because it requires a newer libc. I don't care to > upgrade libc, and ssh is

Re: pdf2ps problem

2000-10-19 Thread Andre Berger
John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 01:20 AM 10/19/2000 +0200, Andre Berger wrote: > >I had to convert a 114 MB pdf-file to ps. This took several hours on > >my P133, the result is 908 MB... The command I used was > >'pdf2ps -dPSLevel1 name.pdf name.ps' > > > >But I can't use the .ps

Re: pdf2ps problem

2000-10-19 Thread John Griffiths
> >I just can't print it otherwise. The document contains faksimiles of >historic newspapers, and I don't need to print all ~1000 pages, just >about 50. I definitely need the highest quality I can get. > >Thanks for your assistance in "skinning that cat" (to lpr)! > >-- Andre if you can open the P

Re: pdf2ps problem

2000-10-19 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 05:47:44PM +1000, John Griffiths wrote: > > > >I just can't print it otherwise. The document contains faksimiles of > >historic newspapers, and I don't need to print all ~1000 pages, just > >about 50. I definitely need the highest quality I can get. > > > >Thanks for your as

sunrpc on port 111 and domain on port 53

2000-10-19 Thread Aaron Brashears
I'm making some efforts to tighten up security on my home server. I've been closing some services that I don't need, and after thinking I'd cleared everything out, I did an nmap scan of the box. Everything was as it should be except for sunrpc on port 111 and domain on port 53. I couldn't find any

RE: sunrpc on port 111 and domain on port 53

2000-10-19 Thread Marc Wilson
Port 111 is the portmapper (for NFS and other RPC services) and port 53 is BIND (DNS). If you're not running NSF, you really don't need the portmapper for much (although you can protect it with TCP Wrappers), and you don't need BIND unless you're either providing name service for a domain, or runn

Re: sunrpc on port 111 and domain on port 53

2000-10-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 12:01:50AM -0700, Aaron Brashears wrote: > I'm making some efforts to tighten up security on my home server. I've > been closing some services that I don't need, and after thinking I'd > cleared everything out, I did an nmap scan of the box. Everything was as > it should be

Re: Creating kernel packages with make-kpkg

2000-10-19 Thread Brian May
> "Klaus" == Klaus Reimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Klaus> make-kpkg --bzImage --flavour adder --revsion 2.2.17-1 Klaus> buildpackage [...] Klaus> Second problem: The kernel-image does install its modules Klaus> in /lib/modules/2.2.17. But if I compile the additional

Re: sunrpc on port 111 and domain on port 53

2000-10-19 Thread Aaron Brashears
Ok, I guess the uninstall of portmap didn't kill the process. After killing it, and doing another portscan, all is better. I am running bind, so I guess I want 'domain' running on 53. Thanks :) Marc Wilson wrote: > > Port 111 is the portmapper (for NFS and other RPC services) and port 53 is > BI

Help: Command to search & replace word in file?

2000-10-19 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Is there a way from the console to use a grep like command to search a file for, say the word "blue" and replace it with "red"? The key is console and not within Vim, etc. I'm trying to set up a way to automate changing .Xdefault setups with a simple Bash script. Thanks, Jonathan

For those who want to switch wallpapers easily

2000-10-19 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, This is trying to give something back to the Debian community which has already helped me a great deal. It's a small Bash script which allows you to easily switch backgrounds (root window/desktop). It's obviously for non-experts such as myself. It works, but if there's suggestions from the pro

Re: Help: Command to search & replace word in file?

2000-10-19 Thread Russell Davies
; Is there a way from the console to use a grep like command to search a file ; for, say the word "blue" and replace it with "red"? The key is console and ; not within Vim, etc. I'm trying to set up a way to automate changing ; .Xdefault setups with a simple Bash script. man sed r.

Re: X Server can't find font `fixed'

2000-10-19 Thread Ian Stuart
Michael Abraham Shulman wrote: > > Hi, > > I just upgraded a bunch of packages to unstable and now my X server > dies saying I have a similar problem, except I'm using XFree 4, and the font has rotated to be a huge point-size... Upgrade potato to woody and bang! No amount of re-installing or ch

RAID Alpha

2000-10-19 Thread list
Les agradecería me informaran si en una máquina ALPHA DS10, Debian soporta la tarjeta controladora RAID KZPAC-AA. Gracias por su atención, Alfonso Torras TUNING Asesoría Informática c./ Antonio Maura, 8, 1º Tf. . : 915.32.19.93 Fx. .: 915.21.92.97 Mv. .: 649.96.08.18 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt-move update skipping .debs

2000-10-19 Thread David Karlin
Hello, I have recently set up a local mirror with apt-move and am using it to upgrade machines on the LAN. It seems to be working fine, except that when performing an "apt-move update", a number of .debs are skipped, and not moved to the local mirror (/mirrors/debian). Other .debs, however, are

Help please - gnuplot runaway processes

2000-10-19 Thread Cyrus Patel
Hello, I'm using gnuplot to create webplots on the fly. I call gnu

R: funziona con ati rage futy maxx

2000-10-19 Thread marco frattola
we speak english here. i translate your question for the list and those of us who don't speak italian > Scusate il disturbo volevo sapere se io ( avendo unas skeda > video ati rage > fury maxx) posso utilizzare l'installazione grafica con debian 2.2 i have an ati rage fury maxx video board. can

Re: Creating kernel packages with make-kpkg

2000-10-19 Thread Klaus Reimer
Hallo, > You shouldn't be using the --flavour option unless you > have patched the kernel using the patch supplied in > /usr/doc/kernel-package/Flavours.gz Ah, haven't known that. Thanks. > Klaus> the modules? And are these module packages compatible with > Klaus> all kernel 2.2.17

apt-move update skips .debs

2000-10-19 Thread David Karlin
Hello, I've recently set up a local mirror using apt-move to use in upgrading machines on the LAN. It seems to be working reasonably well, except that when performing an "apt-move update" a number of .debs are skipped, and not moved to the local mirror (/mirrors/debian). Other .debs, however, are

Re: capture ipchains -M -L

2000-10-19 Thread Mike . Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick) wrote:- > can anyone suggest how to > > capture a terminal session (equivalent to print screen button for windows) > to paste to a text document > > or capture a screen in GNOME to send via email?? > > thanks list. > > nick I don't know of any way to capture a terminal se

Creating kernel package with IPSEC support

2000-10-19 Thread Klaus Reimer
Hi, Finally I figured out that my last problem (Modules are not working and make menuconfig shows me an empty kernel menu) has something todo with the Freeswan-Patch. If I don't use it, all is working fine, but if I apply it to the kernel I have the mentioned problems. I have tried two ways to

Re: Two Completley unrelated questioins

2000-10-19 Thread John Travis
> > I installed from the .deb I still have 4.73 (for somereason its flaged > > not to upgrade, thats my next project.) I dont remember having to do > > anything like choosing options. I just did apt-get install netscape. Then > > it selected some aditional packages as i recall. Any ideas? Should i

Re: pdf2ps problem

2000-10-19 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 01:20:41AM +0200, Andre Berger wrote: > I had to convert a 114 MB pdf-file to ps. This took several hours on > my P133, the result is 908 MB... The command I used was > 'pdf2ps -dPSLevel1 name.pdf name.ps' > > But I can't use the .ps file! Can I fix the following gv error?

understanding internals

2000-10-19 Thread Omar Shuja Siddiqui
hi!! i have done programming in Borland C and little bit of java. is it possible that with this experience i can understand the internals of linux. is linux completely written in C. where can i find beginning information on understanding the source code of linux. __

Re: Help: Command to search & replace word in file?

2000-10-19 Thread Olivier Billet
Hi, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way from the console to use a grep like command to search a file > for, say the word "blue" and replace it with "red"? > with a simple Bash script. If you accept Perl script, it's really easy since you just have to do a s/blue/red/ Olivier.

Re: Help: Command to search & replace word in file?

2000-10-19 Thread Paul Seelig
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 09:26:59AM +0200, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Is there a way from the console to use a grep like command to search a file > for, say the word "blue" and replace it with "red"? The key is console and > not within Vim, etc. I'm trying to set up a way to automate changing > .Xdefau

Re: Printing from browser

2000-10-19 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Mark A. Bialik wrote: > Fetch magic-filter and configure it for your printer. I use Mozilla and cannot print either, although my printer otherwise is working fine. It is a postscript printer, so I do not have magic-filter configured. I use a2ps for printing ASCII text a

Re: RAID Alpha

2000-10-19 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
He wants to know if Debian (Linux???) supports controller card RAID KZPAC-AA for architecture ALPHA DS10. (Si no lo mandas en ingles muy pocos te contestaran...) Alfonso Torras wrote: > Les agradecería me informaran si en una máquina ALPHA DS10, Debian soporta > la tarjeta controladora RAID KZPAC

Re: understanding internals

2000-10-19 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 02:15:31AM -0700, Omar Shuja Siddiqui wrote: > where can i find beginning information on > understanding the source code of linux. If you are looking for a book, how about this one: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxkernel/ Phil

Re: Java JSP Tomcat

2000-10-19 Thread Marcus Crafter
Hi Aaron, On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Aaron Brashears wrote: > I just pulled down tomcat 4.0, which requires jdk1.3 (or 1.2.2 with > jndi), jsse, and jmx packages from sun which are all non-free. Won't > this relegate tomcat to the contrib section? Blackdown provides non-free > debs for jdk1.3 but jsse

Arghh.... glibconfig.h

2000-10-19 Thread John Travis
Okay, I am not able to compile a few things I want back after a new install. They all crap out at glibconfig.h (which is provided by libglib1.2-dev, which I do have installed). The file is located in /usr/lib/glib/include/glibconfig.h. But I get errors like... gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I

problem with LILO

2000-10-19 Thread Omar Shuja Siddiqui
hi i have recently installed linux. during installation it asked about creating a floppy disk of lilo or not. i cancelled since i wanted to install lilo on the master boot record. after completing the installation and restarting the lilo prompt did not come up and windows was automtically started

LILO

2000-10-19 Thread Ken M. Mevand
hi, just installed "slink". everything is ok, except that LILO is screwed. i installed LILO in the MBR of hda1. when i reboot the computer, i can't see the letters "LILO" because the entire screen is filled with strings of "01". and it just keeps showing "01". so i can boot to windows or linux.

Re: Can apt be steered?

2000-10-19 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:51:50AM -0700, Michael Epting wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 07:36:57PM +0200, Andre Berger wrote: > > Michael Epting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I didn't know about --dummy-run. I just searched man apt-get and man dpkg > > > and neither contains the word 'dummy

Re: fetchmail

2000-10-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Oct 2000, Jim Foltz wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 01:40:20PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > I still get problems intermittently with fetchmail pausing for a long > > time while getting the first messsage. I thought I'd fixed it by editing > > /etc/hosts but it still happens someti

Re: Creating kernel packages with make-kpkg

2000-10-19 Thread Brian May
> "Klaus" == Klaus Reimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Klaus> Yes, that's exactly what I wanted to know. I have read in Klaus> that Flavour-patch-file that klogd needs to patched to. Is Klaus> the klogd in Debian 2.2 already patched? I was told, just recently in debian-devel, that

ISDN and routing problems

2000-10-19 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
I'm having trouble with adapting the ISDN device to a 2.0.38 system. A helpful person told me that the routing table lacks of some information but he couldn't help me further. The kernel correctly detects the AVM ISDN PCI device . Hoping that Debian users have more knowledge in system internals and

Re: problem with LILO

2000-10-19 Thread Barry Dexter A. Gonzaga
since you can boot debian through floppy, enter debian and edit /etc/lilo.conf change boot=/dev/something to boot=/dev/hda for master boot record and remember to add windoze to ur lilo.conf or yull never gonna see it.(i think a good idea. ;) ) anyways good day, a note also observed

Re: LILO

2000-10-19 Thread Barry Dexter A. Gonzaga
me tinks you have to create a small partition < 20M and mount it "/boot" on ur 2nd harddrive, or u could use grub @ gnu.org/grub lilo cant boot from partitions greater that 1024th cylinder. hte_pagan On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 06:34:18PM +0800, Ken M. Mevand wrote: > hi, > just installed "slink"

Re: mouse not working in x

2000-10-19 Thread Matthias Mann
Hi! Do you have installed gpm, the consolse mouse driver? Then remove gpm or kill it with gpm -k before starting X cause the X mouse driver can´t work if gpm is running. Matthias - Original Message - From: Bob Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:51 AM Sub

LyX on woody crashes X server

2000-10-19 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi, has anyone else tried LyX with a recent woody? It crashes X and puts me back to the login screen when loading fonts in the server, f.ex. when I open the user manual from the Help menu. Any thoughts? Greetings, joachim

Re: pdf2ps problem [solved]

2000-10-19 Thread Andre Berger
Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had to convert a 114 MB pdf-file to ps. This took several hours on > my P133, the result is 908 MB... The command I used was > 'pdf2ps -dPSLevel1 name.pdf name.ps' > > But I can't use the .ps file! Can I fix the following gv error? I have > gs-aladdin

Re: LyX on woody crashes X server

2000-10-19 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Joachim Trinkwitz writes: > Hi, > has anyone else tried LyX with a recent woody? It crashes X and puts > me back to the login screen when loading fonts in the server, > f.ex. when I open the user manual from the Help menu. > Any thoughts? I opened LyX and the Manual from the Help menu here...

Re: LILO

2000-10-19 Thread Ken M. Mevand
thanks > lilo cant boot from partitions greater that 1024th cylinder. this is what is confusing me. Does this means that the partition must be entirely within the 1024th cylinder, or that the start of the partition must be before 1024?

PPP Problem (Timeout LCP ConfReq)

2000-10-19 Thread Michael Croon
Hi all, I'm stuck with a problem related to ppp that is similar to the one already brought up here by Ashby Gochenour's (see his post http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-0007/msg00157.html in July). Unfortunately, no solution working for me was given in the thread. Short description of the prob

Re: LILO

2000-10-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 07:26:35PM +0800, Ken M. Mevand wrote: > thanks > > > lilo cant boot from partitions greater that 1024th cylinder. > > this is what is confusing me. Does this means that the partition must be > entirely within the 1024th cylinder, or that the start of the partition must >

Multiple binary packages

2000-10-19 Thread Roger Leigh
I have debianised a few packages over the last few months using the excellent New Maintaingers Guide. However, now I would like to produce two packages from a single source tree. I have looked at some debianised source that does this, and the Packaging Manual, but I have not found the info I need.

Re: LyX on woody crashes X server

2000-10-19 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > :: Joachim Trinkwitz writes: > > Hi, > > has anyone else tried LyX with a recent woody? It crashes X and puts > > me back to the login screen when loading fonts in the server, > > f.ex. when I open the user manual from the Help menu. > > Any though

Re: Creating kernel packages with make-kpkg

2000-10-19 Thread Klaus Reimer
Hallo, > I was told, just recently in debian-devel, that only the kernel needs > to be patched (and only the top-level Makefile). Apparently, the > patch applies cleanly to 2.2.17, not sure about 2.4.x Looks like that's right. The kernel modules are now installed in /lib/modules/2.2.17-adder

Re: ISDN and routing problems

2000-10-19 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 12:49:57PM +0200, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > I'm having trouble with adapting the ISDN device to a 2.0.38 system. A > helpful person told me that the routing table lacks of some > information but he couldn't help me further. ... > GOOFY:[rland] #route -n > Kernel IP ro

Re: capture ipchains -M -L

2000-10-19 Thread Colin Watson
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 06:26:19PM -0700, Nick wrote: >> or capture a screen in GNOME to send via email?? > >use a screenshot utility, gimp can do it, but im sure there is >something smaller that can do it too. I always use import(1) from the imagemagick pa

Re: Help! I upgraded ssh, it doesn't work, I want to go back to an earlier version.

2000-10-19 Thread Michael Epting
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:42:55PM -0700, Eric Hanchrow wrote: > > Foolish me: I'd been happily running ssh 1:2.2.0p1 on my Potato > system, and then I upgraded to ssh 1:2.2.0p1-1.1. (I got both of > those versions from "unstable".) Well, that newer version doesn't > work on potato, because it r

RE: XF86Config

2000-10-19 Thread Ingles, Raymond
> From: Lazar Fleysher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I have a video card with small amount of memory and I was wondering > if it is possible to configure the xserver to change color depth > when I change resolution... Nope. Sorry. It's kind of complicated to do that, for many reasons. First, ap

Re: Arghh.... glibconfig.h

2000-10-19 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Stil have the same problem? Once upon a time, I heard John Travis say > Okay, I am not able to compile a few things I want back after a new install. > They all crap out at glibconfig.h (which is provided by libglib1.2-dev, which > I do have installed). The file is located in > /usr/lib/glib/

Tex/Latex problem

2000-10-19 Thread hormoz rebati
I have ported TeX/Latex onto my machine HP UX 10.20 But everytime I use tex/latex I get:- "I Can't find the format file 'tex.fmt'/'latex.fmt' What is wrong. Can someone help please? Thanks in advance Hormoz Rebati -- Hormoz Rebati BAS TETRA Engineering LMPS (smtp: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) (X400: [

Re: funziona con ati rage futy maxx

2000-10-19 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 08:03:20PM +0200, Salvatore Russo wrote: > Scusate il disturbo volevo sapere se io ( avendo unas skeda video ati rage > fury maxx) posso utilizzare l'installazione grafica con debian 2.2 > Translation : sorry, I'd like to know if I, with a video-card ATI-RAGE Fury MaXX, can

Re: understanding internals

2000-10-19 Thread Moritz Schulte
Omar Shuja Siddiqui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i have done programming in Borland C and little bit of > java. > > is it possible that with this experience i can > understand the internals of linux. That's up on you ;) > is linux completely written in C. Some parts are also written in Assemb

Re: Multiple binary packages

2000-10-19 Thread Colin Watson
Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have debianised a few packages over the last few months using the >excellent New Maintaingers Guide. However, now I would like to produce two >packages from a single source tree. I have looked at some debianised >source that does this, and the Packaging Man

Re: Tex/Latex problem

2000-10-19 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: The format files should be in the texmf/web2c subdirectory. Have you run texconfig? I did sometimes get this problem running latex2e files, and I was able to get around this by: 1. creating a link of tex in /usr/bin to a file called latex2e and 2. in texmf/webc copying latex.fmt to late

Re: Tex/Latex problem

2000-10-19 Thread T. Manegold
hormoz rebati wrote: > I have ported TeX/Latex onto my machine HP UX 10.20 > But everytime I use tex/latex I get:- > "I Can't find the format file 'tex.fmt'/'latex.fmt' > > What is wrong. Can someone help please? > > Thanks in advance > Hormoz Rebati > Hi! Did you run initex? I assume you ported

Re: sunrpc on port 111 and domain on port 53

2000-10-19 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 12:01:50AM -0700, Aaron Brashears wrote: > I'm making some efforts to tighten up security on my home server. I've > been closing some services that I don't need, and after thinking I'd > cleared everything out, I did an nmap scan of the box. Everything was > as it should be

Re: understanding internals

2000-10-19 Thread Colin Watson
Omar Shuja Siddiqui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i have done programming in Borland C and little bit of >java. > >is it possible that with this experience i can >understand the internals of linux. It's an iterative process. If you don't have any Unix experience then it will take you some time to ge

2.2 - install - cdrom_module

2000-10-19 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
I'm just in the procedure of installing potato on a virgin system. Everything seems to be ok, I'm just unsure when it comes to choose the appropiate modules. This box has a ATAPI CDROM which is currently used by the debian boot/install procedure. What are all those cdrom devices in the modules li

Re: ISDN and routing problems

2000-10-19 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Phil wrote: > > GOOFY:[rland] #route -n > > Kernel IP routing table > > Destination GatewayGenmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface > > 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0255.255.255.0 U 0 03 eth0 > > 127.0.0.00.0.0.0255.0.0.0 U 0 02 lo > > > > Would

Re: mouse not working in x

2000-10-19 Thread Walter Tautz
> > - Original Message - > From: Bob Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:51 AM > Subject: mouse not working in x > > > > > > Greetings! > > > > Thanks to a kind reply from an earlier question, > > I now have a running xserver, but I have a different p

Re: mgetty setup for terminal login

2000-10-19 Thread Keith G. Murphy
John Anderson wrote: > > I'm trying to set up mgetty to except logins through the modem. When I > dial from a terminal, all I receive is a connect speed but no login > prompt. How do I make mgetty issue a login prompt? > Put something like this in your /etc/mgetty/login.config file: /AutoPPP/

time

2000-10-19 Thread stefan goeman
Hello, I want to use the time command. From the man page I see that there is an option +-o (or --output=FILE). However, when I try this, it does not work. In fact, I +have the impression that only the -p option is really working. Is this a bug or+simply some options that are documented but not im

Re: Arghh.... glibconfig.h

2000-10-19 Thread John Travis
On Thursday 19 October 2000 09:04, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > > Stil have the same problem? Unfortunately yes :-(. Please excuse my lack of expertise on the subject and bear with me :-). I knew it wasn't in the include path. I just don't know EXACTLY what I have to do to get it to compile cl

Re: XFree 4.0.1 and Quake

2000-10-19 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Brandt Dusthimer wrote: > I'm having problems with XFree 4.0.1, NVidia drivers (I have a >TNT2 Elsa Erazor III, not available in the XF86Config), and Quake III. >Quake 3 runs fine until I try to start a game. It load game media and >all that othe

Re: fetchmail

2000-10-19 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-10-19 09:40:41, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I think I *may* have fixed it by changing the order of entries in > /etc/hosts. I had 127.0.0.1 local host first and other entries later; > now I have: > > 127.0.0.1 acampbell.cix.co.uk > 127.0.0.1 ac

Re: PPP Problem (Timeout LCP ConfReq)

2000-10-19 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Michael Croon wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm stuck with a problem related to ppp that is similar to the one already > brought up here by Ashby Gochenour's (see his post > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-0007/msg00157.html in July). > Unfortunately, n

Re: mouse not working in x

2000-10-19 Thread Ray Percival
What kind of mouse is it? -- Original Message -- From: Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 11:07:33 -0400 (EDT) >> >> - Original Message - >> From: Bob Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: >> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:5

Re: 2.2 - install - cdrom_module

2000-10-19 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > I'm just in the procedure of installing potato on a virgin system. > Everything seems to be ok, I'm just unsure when it comes to choose the > appropiate modules. > > This box has a ATAPI CDROM which is currently used by t

xcdroast permissions

2000-10-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
xcdroast claims that it _must_ run as root and needs to have suid set. The Debian xcdroast package installs in non-suid. Do the Debianites know something the program and its documentation don't? Is it possible to make xcdroast work non-suid? If so, how? If not, why is it installed in a nonwork

Re: time

2000-10-19 Thread Colin Watson
stefan goeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I want to use the time command. From the man page I see that there is an option >+-o (or --output=FILE). However, when I try this, it does not work. In fact, I >+have the impression that only the -p option is really working. Is this >a bug or+simply some op

PCI modems

2000-10-19 Thread Ken Januski
Hi Can anyone point me in the right direction to help in configuring a USRobotics internal modem? Unless I missed something the Hardware Compatibility list didn't mention PCI though the MODEM HOWTO docs indicate that they might not be supported. Dmesg reports: "ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 165

Re: time

2000-10-19 Thread stefan goeman
Hello, Just found this out myself at almost the same time when i received the mail. Thank you anyway. Greetings, Stefan Goeman On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 05:45:16PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > stefan goeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I want to use the time command. From the man page I see tha

How to learn fortran?

2000-10-19 Thread Stephan Kulka
What is the best possibillty to learn fortran? Which compiler should I use and where can I start reading (books and online). Thanks Stephan

Re: Problems setting DMA

2000-10-19 Thread Leonardo Dias
> Here's what I do on an IBM Deskstar 45GB > First some info: > # hdparm -i /dev/hdb > /dev/hdb: > Model=IBM-DTLA-307045, FwRev=TX6DA50C, SerialNo=YM0YMF43821 > Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs } > RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=40 > BuffType=3(DualPortC

Re: xcdroast permissions

2000-10-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 11:37:07AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > xcdroast claims that it _must_ run as root and needs to have suid set. The > Debian xcdroast package installs in non-suid. Since I've already gotten a couple off-list responses asking... Yes, I've read README.nonroot.gz. it start

Re: PCI modems

2000-10-19 Thread John Travis
On Thursday 19 October 2000 11:45, Ken Januski wrote: > Hi > > Can anyone point me in the right direction to help in configuring a > USRobotics internal modem? Unless I missed something the Hardware > Compatibility list didn't mention PCI though the MODEM HOWTO docs indicate > that they might not b

Re: 2.2 - install - cdrom_module

2000-10-19 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Thanks to Gustavo for informing me to skip the cdrom_modules section. But I have done something foolish. After 2.2 prompted me to reboot the system )I have done something kompletely wrong: I had forgotten the bootsequence A,cdrom,hda and not noticing the same questions as before - answered them up

Re: time

2000-10-19 Thread Moritz Schulte
stefan goeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to use the time command. From the man page I see that there > is an option +-o (or --output=FILE). However, when I try this, it > does not work. In fact, I +have the impression that only the -p > option is really working. Is this a bug or+simply s

Re: Wanted: Advice on Video Cards

2000-10-19 Thread csj
I'm also using "a cheap S3 Savage4 based AGP card" and it works for just south of fine. Note however that I'm not a gamer and all the graphics I do is GIMP (the default potato version). I use the SVGA server for it (available on the install CD). No crashes thus far here. On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Chris

isdn: what I've to do??

2000-10-19 Thread Daniele Cruciani
Hi all, I've installed debian package isdnutils (or such), but i've no idea of what i've to do in order to have a running ipppd. What do i have to configure? How it run? what I've to launch? what evil is that HOWTO? I'm reading the faq on web and I haven't still understand nothing. I've only

Re: PCI modems

2000-10-19 Thread Ken Januski
Thanks John, I went to table and found that my modem was in fact listed with an OK in left hand column. So I believe it should work with Linux. I did ask Dell to make sure that they sent me a hardware modem not a Winmodem but I was beginning to wonder when I couldn't get it set up. So now that I

Re: Java JSP Tomcat

2000-10-19 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 11:59 AM 10/19/2000 +0200, Marcus Crafter wrote: The package is already availabe at http://master.debian.org/~sgybas/tomcat/. Please read README.Debian and the Debian-Java mailing list archive for reasons why it's not yet in the official Debian archive. - I tried to install it, and get a lot

Re: Tex/Latex problem

2000-10-19 Thread USM Bish
I have exactly the same problem. This is the error I get for output: "This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.2) I can't find the format file `tex.fmt'! " The problem is texconfig is not being able to generate the .fmt files necessary (even when run in the batch mode). The first occurance of er

Re: Problems setting DMA

2000-10-19 Thread Lazar Fleysher
I have a similar problem. Maybe even worse.. If I change the way the hard drives are connected (like swap hda and hdb), changin the master/slave jumpers, the system does not boot at all... I had to find, what it seems a unique configuration in which it boots, but no DMA on the second IDE channel. I

Conexion a internet

2000-10-19 Thread Roberto Calvente
Hola, me llamo Roberto y soy un nuevo usuario de Linux. He conseguido instalar la version Linux Debian 2.2 que la conseguí en una revista. Quisiera saber como puedo configurar una conexion a internet mediante este sist. operativo. Estoy dando un curso de Linux y usamos esta version (Debian)

Re: Problem with '/etc/shutdown.allow'

2000-10-19 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
Carel Fellinger schrieb: > [...] > You see, shutdown really needs root privilege, soit. > So either you use the suid trick on /sbin/shutdown (better not, and if not > then there is no need to have shutdown (/sbin) in your path either), > or signal some process running with root privilege to call sh

strange error mail

2000-10-19 Thread Stephan Kulka
I am getting the same mail every day at the same time. touch: var/spool/news/control/.overwiew: Permission denied The mail goes on for another page with similar sentences. The error itself is no problem, but the mail sucks a little bit. I installed slrn and used it for some days, but the problem

RE: Perl Scripting Help

2000-10-19 Thread Wesley Wannemacher
You will need to install a few perl packages. I would start with the following: perl-base perl perl-tk For Extended Tcl/Tk you will need tclx If the above does not get you what you want, you can download just about any perl module under the sun from www.cpan.org (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network

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