Re: Home Network TCP/IP with PPP ?

1998-06-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
want to install the Debian diald package, so when the Windows 95 computer tries to access the internet, the Linux computer will automatically dial up the connection. You will find much of the information you need in the IP-Masquerade mini-HOWTO and the NET-3-HOWTO (both in the doc-

Wine configuration error

1998-06-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
in DOS partitions But it does exist: $ ls -al /dos/windows/win.ini -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 6782 Mar 2 13:46 /dos/windows/win.ini Copying win.ini to /dos didn't help. Editing /etc/wine.conf by hand works, of course. Bob Bob Nielsen Inter

Re: Running new programs

1998-06-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games" PS1="\\$ " export PATH PS1 ulimit -c unlimited umask 002 Or you can give the path to the game, '/usr/games/' Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh

Re: Kernel 2.0.34

1998-06-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
ng anything on their computer which wasn't installed from a package, but I can't see any real advantage to using kernel-source packages, unlike 2.0.33, which had a lot of patches applied to kernel-source (at least the latest version). Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMA

Re: gnome for debian

1998-06-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
installed. There are several gnome packages in slink (I haven't tried it yet). Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: PPP dial-up in HAMM

1998-06-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
e a /etc/resolv.conf file with one or more lines like (replace the xxx with your nameserver's ip address): nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx You don't need to reinstall anything. If you need to reconfigure ppp, use pppconfig (as root). Bob Bob Nielsen Inter

Re: Kernel 2.0.34

1998-06-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
t safe to install packages from unstable? Sometimes. Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: POP 3 daemon in /etc/inetd.conf

1998-06-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
bin/in.qpopper > Also, where is the apt package? www.linux.org/~jgg/ or in project/experimental Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- To UNS

Re: wu-ftpd-academ question ?

1998-06-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
. If not: cp /lib/libc-2.0.6.so /home/ftp/lib/libc.so.6 cp /lib/ld-2.0.6.so /home/ftp/lib/ld-linux-so.2 I think the installation script for wu-ftpd-academ should have done this for you. cheers, Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ A

Re: staroffice

1998-06-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
a while and it worked fine, although I noticed that the display font sometimes made it hard to see if there was a space between words. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http

Re: PPP Routing ??

1998-06-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
roxy is necessary, but you will need to install some modules for ftp, real audio, irc, quake, etc. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen --

Re: plog not working

1998-06-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
t; about my ppp connection. But then it stopped logging to /var/log/ppp.log > and just put everything into syslog, which is not nearly so easy to use. > How can I get it back to logging in ppp.log? In /etc/syslog.conf, have a line: local2.*-/var/log/ppp.log

Re: How to download a free Linux?

1998-06-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
. These are listed in README.mirrors in the /pub/Debian directory on ftp.debian.org. Version 1.3.1 is also available on CD-ROM quite inexpensively from numerous vendors, such as www.cheapbytes.com, www.lsl.com, www.linuxmall.com, etc. I hope this helps you. Bob Bob Nielsen

Re: Need help upgrading to hamm (libc6)

1998-06-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
x27;. All of the above methods will upgrade to the correct libc5 and do several other installations in the correct order. If you just try to install libc6 to a bo system, you will certainly fail! Depending on the state of the hamm packages, even the above methods can sometimes result in (usually minor

Re: Window Maker

1998-06-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Matt Kopishke wrote: > Would any one happen to now were I might find Window Maker > (windowmaker.org) in a debian pakage (.deb). Thanks, > There is a wmaker package (plus some supporting packages) in hamm. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL

Re: How to use apt-get to get "New" packages...

1998-06-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
wondering if > there was another method available. Yes, that is the answer, at least for now. I understand there is a GUI interface for apt, but it is not yet functional. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: printing man pages

1998-06-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Tiago Severina wrote: > Can anyone explain me how can i print a man page? Is there any utility > program for this? man -t |lpr Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wu-ftpd-academ question ?

1998-06-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
I'm not having any problem with wu-ftpd-academ and 2.0.34. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Problems upgrading a2ps (hamm)

1998-06-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
doesn't work. This should only happen for required, not recommended packages. Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Problems upgrading a2ps (hamm)

1998-06-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 11:20:01PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > The latest packages update includes a2ps_4.10.2-4. When I try to upgrade > > > from 4.10-4 using dselect, it says that tetex

Re: Problems upgrading a2ps (hamm)

1998-06-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
tex-bin, psutils' to debian/control to reflect the need for other programs used by a2ps in its 'automatic delegation' mode for file conversion (fixes #23352) Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMP

Re: man pages problem

1998-06-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
behind the files actually on the mirrors. This morning I had a similar problem with xnft75 and xfnt199. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -

Re: alternative ftp sites

1998-06-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
led, plus those sites which mirror /incoming. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &quo

Re: Once burned...

1998-06-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
/ \ > | O _ O | LINUX LIVES! > / \_/ \ > .' / \ `.in Gorham, Maine >/ _| |_ \ > (_/ | | \_) > \ / > __\_>-<_/__ > ~;/ \;~ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: Apt problems

1998-06-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
; "greaterthan or equal to". > > Something was posted on this list a few days ago about this being > fixed in apt_0.0.17 (or some version like that). I have not yet seen > this available anywhere though. > It's just out: http://www.debian.org/~jgg/apt_0.0.17_i386.deb ---

Re: Upgrade problems

1998-06-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
or whatever mirror you prefer) directory: /debian distributions: dists/frozen/main dists/frozen/non-free dists/frozen/contrib This works consistently. You might want to try apt (http://www.debian.org/~jgg/apt_0.0.17-1_i386.deb), which adds another method to dselect as well as provi

Re: Stable vs. Frozen

1998-06-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
AQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html For a more complete discussion, see http://www.debian.org/news#19980624 Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen --

Inoperative ls in wu-ftpd-academ

1998-06-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
into /home/ftp/lib and everything started working again. The current installation has the correct lib files reported by ldd, but ls still doesn't work. What is missing this time? Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL

Re: installing a modem under debian 1.3

1998-06-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
I get Linux to install my modem as a dev. Currently, > pppd recognizes my modem as ttys2, but minicom gives me the message 'I/O > Error' when it tries to open ttys2. Any help is greatly appreciated. That should be ttyS2, not ttys2. Bob Nielsen Internet:

Re: glibc / libc6

1998-06-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
shared library handling. The Makefiles of GNU libc will automatically generate the needed symbolic links which the linker will use. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.pr

Re: Where is Netscape?

1998-06-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Shaul wrote: > > If you want a v4 version, get the v4 version of the .deb installer. > > Is there a .deb v4 installer for Bo ? It seems to me that the ftp sites are > only keeping the one for Hamm ? Supposedly this also works for bo. -

Re: How to enable pop3?

1998-06-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
exist in Debian (checked the Contents-i386 file) You will need to install a pop server package. Hamm has both qpopper and cucipop and I believe at least qpopper is in 1.3.1. Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PR

Re: Where is Netscape?

1998-07-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
| grep Depends > Depends: motifnls, ldso (>= 1.9.7-0), libc5 (>= 5.4.0-0), libc6, libg++27 > (>= 2.7.2.1-1), xlib6 (>= 3.3-0), xpm4.7 (>= 3.4j-0) This is strange. There are both libc5 and libc6 versions of Netscape 4.0.5, but it should be either one or the other, not both

Re: Deselect won't connect via ftp

1998-07-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
obably lucky when you tried the manual ftp connection. Since hamm went beta the load has been consistently high. I've had better luck with mirrors, although some of them tend to be a day or so behind at times. Using dselect with the apt method on a mirror which supports htt

Re: ran autoup, need deselect clarification

1998-07-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
re not in my bo installation (like both emacs19 and emacs20). I wouldn't recommend adding anything additional at this step, however. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www

Re: Compiling the kernel?

1998-07-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
it's no problem as far as running, but does > anyone have an idea what the problem might be, or where to read up on > it? Use 'make bzImage' instead of 'make zImage'. To ease compilation and automate the lilo setup, install kernel-package and read its documentation. B

Re: Compiling the kernel?

1998-07-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
confused about that and it didn't look right so I removed > it. This whole setup isn't very clear, but I think you've got me headed > in the right direction. > > Tom > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null &g

Re: dos partition long filenames

1998-07-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
ED] Compile with vfat enabled. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Compiling the kernel?

1998-07-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
mm asap. I didn't seem to have any trouble with -3, but just installed the -5 stuff (libc6, libc6-dev, locales, timezones) to play it safe. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh

Re: What package has "patch"?

1998-07-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
s to not overlook: patch Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Debian Package Manager "Worthless Junk"???

1998-07-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
since 4.2 and it may have improved since then, but they severely mismanaged the conversion to glibc.) When apt is fully functional, that should blow away everything else. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: autoup.sh + deselect broke emacs

1998-07-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
ed as "obsolete/local". This only means that these packages are not part of the current distribution. I have several of these, such as apt, pine (the old pre-compiled version), my custom kernel-image, etc. Not to worry. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PRO

RE: autoup.sh + deselect broke emacs

1998-07-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
e apt method or apt-get. apt-get can determine dependencies and will get the necessary packages, which is an improvement over dpkg. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Idea behind HAMM?

1998-07-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
ching everything to libc6 was a much more significant change than, say, the change from 1.2 to 1.3 was. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Pine 4.00 termcap(Pine in Debian?)

1998-07-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
ch together will produce a legal debian package of pine 3.96. Hopefully the same process could be applied to 4.00. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~niels

Re: More repartioning

1998-07-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
to do this would be to backup any data on your Linux partition and reinstall, removing the existing partition and creating new ones at that time. It would probably be better to leave things as they are in that case. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ

Re: help: ethernet doesn't work

1998-07-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
modules) I choose... > > I am really absolutely stumped about this, and just can't live with just > accepting that it won't work :) Is there anyone experiencing the same > problems, and especially someone who can help me out? This looks like it might be a routing problem an

Re: Linux/WinNT dual booting

1998-07-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
ot.ini file. > > As an ugly work around, LILO boots Linux or MS-DOS. Then if MS-DOS, > WinNT's boot menu boots MS-DOS or WinNT... It's a bit involved, but is covered in the Linux+NT-Loader mini-HOWTO, which is included in the Debian doc-linux-text package. Bob Bob Nie

Re: PCI PNP was 56k Modems

1998-07-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
ne, but Linux picked that up from the BIOS with no problem (Win95 had a fit with it, however). Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Upgrade problems..

1998-07-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
hamm versions, have been selected for upgrading. At this point, you should probably run [I]nstall without changing anything, but you might want to see if anything you do not want/need is marked for installation (it does happen). You might have to run [I]nstall more than once to resolve things. Bob

Re: Upgrade problems..

1998-07-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
pgrades... The rexx->bo upgrade was nowhere near as complex as bo->hamm. Libc6 increased the complexity of the upgrade immensely. I would expect the upgrade to slink will go much more smoothly. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ

Re: wordperfect for bo?

1998-07-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
ed the directions. It was pretty straightforward. I did this with hamm, but it is linked with libc5, so should work with bo as well. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http:/

Re: dselect w/ two ftp sites?

1998-07-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
nting ftp sites? It should be possible with the apt method in dselect or with apt-get. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- Unsubscribe?

Re: Adding non packages to menu?

1998-07-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
---- > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Non-intuitive kernel config change

1998-07-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
gt; > - Can someone give a reason why one would want to generate a kernel > with CDROM support that *didn't* have ISO 9660 support? Other than > the fact that the fs code isn't required to play audio CDs? > > - Jim > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsub

Re: Problem with modules_install

1998-07-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
ke modules_install. > I have found that using make-kpkg is REALLY BIG help when compiling a kernel which uses modules for use on a system other than the one on which it is compiled. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EM

Re: Kernel (?) screen blanking

1998-07-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
t; Does anyone know how to configure/disable this? setterm -blank [0-60] ; setting this to 0 disables blanking. It's a bit more complicated in X, but take a look at 'man xset'. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ

Re: ncurses 4.2?

1998-07-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
needs at least ncurses 4.1. You could put it in /usr/local/ncurses and use the following in your Makefile: ICURSES = -I/usr/local/ncurses/include LCURSES = /usr/local/ncurses/lib/libncurses.a As an aside, I've never gotten taper to work successfully since upgrading to ftape-3.04d. B

Re: apt problems

1998-07-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
* > ********** > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet:

Re: Booting Debian from hd w/ boot manager?

1998-07-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
g? Have you installed LILO on the boot sector of the partition containing Linux? Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Apt & Slink

1998-07-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
/etc/apt/sources.list Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: fetchmail not fetching

1998-07-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
ail than making a > .fetchmailrc file. That is all I did on my other Linux machine and it > worked fine. This is most likely a problem with smail or sendmail (or whatever you are using), not fetchmail. Look at the appropriate configuration file and you should find the problem. Bob --

Re: Printing

1998-07-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
c600-filter in magicfilterconfig. Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Fwd: LBA or not LBA

1998-07-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
it with DOS you will probably want to run LBA in any case. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: netscape and sh/bash

1998-07-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
bin/bash. > How do I fix this so that applications will be launched properly. You will need to upgrade to a later version of bash. If you are not ready to upgrade to hamm, there is a bash-2.01 package in bo-unstable which will fix this. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PR

Re: I lost my window managers!!!!!!!!!!!!

1998-07-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
> window-managers file and all of them are listed, how come it doesn't > start any?? Thanks for your help.. > > PS - windows look kinda neat without a window manager sometimes (except > you can move them) > > Mark > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsu

Re: Valid Baud Rate Values

1998-07-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
ses. A 16550A UART will operate fine at 115200. 57600 should be fast enough for a 28800 modem also. If you have a 16450 UART, you will probably not get better than 19200 without errors (sometimes even 9600 can give errors with these). Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMA

RE: getting RealPlayer 5 running

1998-07-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
m. The home of these projects > are: > > http://www.gnucash.org/xacc/ > http://www.gnucash.org > > As you can see they merged. > > Paulo Silva. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > Bob

Re: upgrading form lib5 to lib6

1998-07-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
Upgrading to libc6 the correct way will result in also having a working libc5 on your system as well. You will, in fact, be upgrading to Debian 2.0 (aka hamm) in this process. The "official" release of Debian 2.0 is now 51 hours away. Beat the rush. Bob Bob Nielsen

Re: Where's apt-get? Correction

1998-07-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
ll it (but if so, where > does the file need to be before I run dpkg?). Thanks for any help. That's exactly what you need to do. dpkg won't get a package for you (dselect will and apt-get will). The package can be in any directory when you run dpkg -i to install it. Bob Bo

Re: Time is still not right.

1998-07-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
e my timezone was wrong, here is what my timezone file has > in it: > > EST5EDT > > I live in Florida Eastern time zone -5:00 GMT. > > > I need some more help with this problem. > > Thanks, > Keith > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscri

Re: Time is still not right.

1998-07-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
Install timezones (hamm) or timezone (bo). These are flagged as required packages and should be installed by default. Bob On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, David B. Teague wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > 'man tzconfig' should explain it for you. > > I ha

Re: xloadimage needs libtiff - where?

1998-07-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
-s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Telnet

1998-07-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
n you absolutely need to so you won't accidently do 'rm -rf /' or such. I use su and sudo a lot when telnetting. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: boot-floppies

1998-07-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
ated by scripts). dpkg -s will tell you which package installed a file. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [

Re: upgrading to 2.0.35 or 2.0.36 under Hamm

1999-02-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
.old with the label "OldLinux" and you can choose either when booting. To be safe, I always opt to make a boot floppy for each kernel as well. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: Wordperfect fails to run

1999-02-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
nge. If I runn 'ldd xwp' it shows libXpm.so.4 (which is in xpm4g), not libXpm.so.6. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

RE: MAILER-DAEMON@telmer "DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE"

1999-02-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
ight be configured to expect imap even if you do not use it. It is not used for pop3. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Gnome and dependencies

1999-02-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
other packages (such as gnome-admin, gmc, etc.)? Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: WordPerfect: suddenly ending storing

1999-02-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: > Am I the only one who after exiting WP has a process called wpexc ruuning? > I have to manually kill off the darn thing... I have this also with both WP7 and WP8. Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucs

Re: Maxtor dynamic drive overlay

1999-02-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
sk I once used it on came with a DOS floppy that had a program to remove it. Possibly you could get this from Maxtor, On-Track (who wrote the program) or a distributor. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh

Re: fax software?

1999-02-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Daryl Williams wrote: > folks, > > does anyone know if there are any fax server software that > will run on linux? I've had pretty good results with hylafax. There are separate packages for server and client. There's also efax and mgetty-fax.

Re: Lost libc5 stuff after upgrade from hamm to slink

1999-02-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
bet I > will find others as time goes by. xlib6 xpm4.7 libc5 Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: where is "rc.local"

1999-02-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
h anything in /usr/local, so you will be safe. If it's already a Debian package, just use 'dpkg -i '. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: RealTek 8029 PCI pnp Ethernet card

1999-02-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, David Webster wrote: > Any guesses as to what driver to use for this card since it is not > directly supported? It's an NE2000 clone and is supported since (I think) 2.0.34 and I used the ISA ne2k driver successfully before that. CONFIG_NE2K_PCI=y Bob

Re: pine4.deb?

1999-02-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
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Re: dselect and downloading kernel

1999-02-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
> I've looked all over the debian site, I can't believe it isn't listed > there. Thanks, Kent It is in unstable (maybe frozen--it's supposed to be part of 2.1, kernel-source only). You can just download the kernel-source package and install it with dselect. If you get

Re: patching one kernel only

1999-02-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
erstanding correctly should be, linux-2.0.34 -> > kernel-source-2.0.34/ which I guess will become 2.0.36. > How do I set this up so I can compile 2.0.36 only? This is my first > time so I may not be thinking about this correctly. > Thanks, > Kent > > > --

Re: Help. Trying to upgrade to hamm 2.0.36

1999-02-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
bootsect.s > make [1]: as86: command not found > make [1]:*** [bootsect.o] Error 127 > make [1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.36/arch/i386/boot' > make:*** [zImage] Error 2 > coyote:/usr/src/linux# Install the bin86 package. Bob Bob Niels

Re: RealTek 8029 PCI pnp Ethernet card

1999-02-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
ne2k-pci and for the 2.0.36 its NE2000. > BTW, in the config the PCI choice is below the ne200 & called ne2k. The ne2k-pci.c driver is in both 2.2.1 and 2.0.36. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: Wordperfect fails to run

1999-02-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
ed to have the libc5, xlib6 and xpm4.7 packages installed. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: Need help with new cable modem

1999-02-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
rd, the box > doesn't even have the manufacturers name on it) It's a ne2000 clone. This is supported in the recent (~>2.0.34) kernels. I used the ISA ne2000 driver with earlier kernels with no problems). Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ

Re: libm.so.#: where?

1999-02-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does anybody know in which .deb package libm.so.# is located? libm.so.5 --> libc5 libm.so.6 --> libc6 Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Question

1999-02-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
y Shields WD9ESU > AX25: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [IPGWWI] > AMPRnet: wd9esu.ampr.org IPaddr: 44.92.0.60 > ICQ# 6221703 > JNOS 1.11C -- TCPIP/TELNET/FTP > == > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

make-kpkg funny

1999-02-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
BLEVEL = 2 EXTRAVERSION = I'm a bit afraid to install, as I get a message that it wants to put the modules in /lib/modules/.. Any ideas as to what went wrong here? Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh

Re: make-kpkg funny

1999-02-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:58:24 -0700 (MST), Bob Nielsen wrote: > > >I just compiled 2.2.2 using make-kpkg (kernel-package 6.07) and using the > >command 'make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image' it created a file &

Re: make-kpkg funny

1999-02-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
I see that some has filed bug #33793 on this. Beat to the punch again! Bob On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > > > On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:58:24 -0700 (MST), Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > > >I just compiled 2.2.2 usin

Re: new grep breaks cnews

1999-02-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
t sure if I sould submit a bug > against grep or cnews. In particular, this line in checkactive: > > awk -f $NEWSBIN/canonsys.awk $NEWSCTL/sys | > egrep "^($me|ME)[:/]" ... > > fails to find the line in the sys file starting with: > > ME/ > > reverti

Re: I cant DL linux image

1999-02-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
ad the other HD install images but not > linux. > > Please help, Thanx Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: lpr and text formatting

1999-02-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
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