Re: PON on REQUEST

1998-09-14 Thread Daniel Martin
Jim Crumley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I pretty much copied my setup from > http://www.math.jhu.edu/~martind/mybox.html . > I think Daniel Martin still reads this list. He also > has a link to the Dynamic IP Hacks Mini-HOWTO, > which has more suggestions. Oh my. I&#

Re: diald and ppp

1998-09-14 Thread Daniel Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith) writes: > [1 ] > I am trying to set up diald and ppp. I thought it would be easy like it > was with Debian 1.3, but I guess Debian developers or someone wanted to > keep me on my toes so they changed stuff. Here are my problems. > I have attached /etc/diald/diald.optio

Re: analog 3.0.3 "home grown scripts"

1998-09-14 Thread Daniel Martin
"William R. McDonough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > could someone please show me where to access these "home grown scripts" > I have analog on my web server but it's FreeBSD not Debian... > > I'd love to have my analog show me email and FTP stats. ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/so

Re: FTE editor

1998-09-15 Thread Daniel Martin
"Paul M. Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Debs: > Two questions: > > 1) Is this a dangerous thing (I know of no other Linux editors that > access the terminal this way)? Accessing the terminal in this way? In itself no; in fact, if all access is done through /dev/vcsa*, there's not the cha

Re: FTE editor

1998-09-15 Thread Daniel Martin
"Paul M. Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In my case, it isn't a problem, since it is a single user machine on a > network, with my wife running Win95 on the other machine. But I see the > point. So presumably, if someone could write something to /dev/vcsa*, it > would show up on my screen. H

Re: FTE editor

1998-09-16 Thread Daniel Martin
(I'm copying so much text because the original didn't make it to debian-user) Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/15/98 > at 10:08 AM, Daniel Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >"Paul M. Foster" <

Re: X-modes other than the defaults.

1998-09-16 Thread Daniel Martin
Mrpeabody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My X-windows automatically loads in 8dpp mode and I have a card that is > capable of much better how do I tell x to try other modes instead. > -jeff Two ways: If you're starting X with startx, you can do: startx -- -bpp 16 (or 15, 24, or 32) If you're s

Re: Debian 2.0: pon works, diald gets PAP authentication failure

1998-09-16 Thread Daniel Martin
Ken Westerback <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a working ppp connection, using PAP, available through pon or > wmppp as evidenced by the console messages: > When I try to enable diald by filling out the diald.options files as > follows: > > fifo /etc/diald/diald.ctl > mode ppp > connect "/u

Re: Easy X exit manager....

1998-09-21 Thread Daniel Martin
"Person, Rod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey all, > > My wife has taken a liking to KDE's kpoker. I added her as a user, but > she can't grasp the shutdown process. She is very computer impaired (I'm > being nice...she just plain computer stupid.) Anyway is there a exit > manager available to

Re: this is probably too easy

1998-09-22 Thread Daniel Martin
Are you certain that your chatscript is going far enough? That is, are you certain that after sending PPP your ISP doesn't ask for a username and password? (or do you perhaps need PPP in lowercase?) This error looks like your ISP isn't responding to pppd at all; this often happens when there's so

Re: printer advice

1998-09-22 Thread Daniel Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Norris) writes: > As near as I can tell it's not a winprinter, and it's print-language is > "Enhanced HP PCL 5" (which I believe is a superset of postscript, but > might well be mistaken on that point). No; it's a superset of HP's PCL (Printer Control Language) - a proprie

Re: Voice Chatscript

1998-09-25 Thread Daniel Martin
David Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I'd like my computer to call up one of those automated voice business > information systems, then execute some transactions by entering my user > account information and make some selections from the menu. I'll need > to execute this task r

Re: PON dials out, but PPP connection dropped

1998-09-27 Thread Daniel Martin
David Karlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > I've been messing around with Debian/Linux for about 3 months now. I > recently acquired a modem for my hamm box and am trying to set up my > system for a ppp/pap connection. > > I have run pppconfig, and now when I do "pon", the system waits a

Re: RESCUE DISK |& X ICONS

1998-09-28 Thread Daniel Martin
"BOB'S MAIL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2. How do I install incons for applications in X -- or set a desk top > etc.? You need to install a window manager other than the basic twm which comes with X. I'd recommend fvwm2 or fvwm95 for people just starting out. You can customize these relati

Re: Free debugger that can do source debugging without executable.

1998-09-30 Thread Daniel Martin
Christopher Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a debugger or a way to get ddd to load and interpret a C source > file and step through it a step at a time without requiring the > debug-symbol compiled executable? I seem to remember doing something > like this a long time ago with one of

Re: can any user have the right of root and can lunch Netscape

1998-10-03 Thread Daniel Martin
Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 09:31:53AM +0800, Chan Min Wai wrote: > > Hai, > > I'm asking about that can a user have the rithr of root and can > > lunch netscape as well in Xwin.. > > Any user can start X windows if it is intalled properly. Any user can sta

Re: access to iso9660 raw image

1998-10-03 Thread Daniel Martin
Eugene Sevinian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi All, > > Today a friend of mine gave me a CD with raw binary image of hamm on it. > MD5 sum is correct. Would it be possible to use this CD as a hamm > distribution without burning new CD. May be using loopback device or > something like that? >

Re: legality of mailing Debian CDs from US to overseas?

1998-10-05 Thread Daniel Martin
"John B. Fink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now -- my question is, can I get into any trouble by "exporting" CD-R of > Debian Linux? I'm just sending burns of the "binary-i386.raw" images that > I get via rsync. My primary worry (all of a sudden -- I guess I should've > thought of this beforeh

Re: fetchmail, why does it do this?

1999-02-12 Thread Daniel Martin
Ingo Hohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 12:01:16AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > > > > Well, maybe fetchmail gives up completely at the first > > broken message? > > At least, thats what it does here. > > > > But debian.virtual.de.host is my own system, and I am able

Re: Removeing N lines from a file

1999-02-12 Thread Daniel Martin
Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I use gawk or some other program to remove a number of lines > from a text file. Initially, I only need to delete the top 10 lines > from a file but it might be useful to know how to delete lines from any > part of the file. The top 10 lines

Re: /dev/fb not there?

1999-03-04 Thread Daniel Martin
Steve Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can use mknod to make them yourself. Ick. Inevitably, if you get used to doing things this way, you'll slip up at some point and create things with the wrong permissions. A much better solution is to use /dev/MAKEDEV to do it: /dev/MAKEDEV -v fb (t

Re: [offtopic] Dont't ECHO

1998-12-23 Thread Daniel Martin
Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I'm trying to, using socket programming, ask the remote user for login > and password. I would like that password won't appears on remote machine > when user is typing it. I already saw RFC's but it doesn't worked ! :((( > > Could someone

Re: Soundblaster under Debian 2.0

1999-01-13 Thread Daniel Martin
Ramesh Natarajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I just installed Debian 2.0 and compiled kernal (2.0.34) with Sound as > module. I seem to get something working, but not all. I configured my > /etc/isapnp.conf, did a isapnptools /etc/isapnp.conf followed by > $insmod sound trace_init=1. On

Re: doom (sorry)

1999-01-18 Thread Daniel Martin
Frankie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have just d/l doom shareware version, unfortunately, it wants > libXt.so.3 for the X version, and the svga version wants libc.so.4. > > What packages are these in? > I had a look in oldlibs, but I'm not entirely sure what I should look > for, so O didn't fi

Re: doom (sorry)

1999-01-19 Thread Daniel Martin
Frankie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Daniel Martin wrote: > > > > Frankie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I have just d/l doom shareware version, unfortunately, it wants > > > libXt.so.3 for the X version, and the svga version want

Re: diald is eating packets

1999-01-26 Thread Daniel Martin
"Kenneth F. Ryder III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) how to keep diald from eating the first packet it sees coming across the > dummy link, and instead hold it and send it down the PPP link once > established. I think diald does this with UDP packets - with TCP packets there are other rather

Re: GNUcash/Libs

1999-01-26 Thread Daniel Martin
Timothy Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello! I am trying to get GNUCash to work; the binary distribution (1.1.23); > converted with alien from rpm gives > libXm.so.1 => not found > libXmHTML.so.1.1 => not found > libreadline.so.3 => not found > Can anyone tell me what packages I

Re: GNUcash/Libs

1999-01-27 Thread Daniel Martin
Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > libXm.so.1 => not found > This is a motif library. Some versions of Lesstif will work. > > > libXmHTML.so.1.1 => not found > XmHTML doesn't exist as a debian package. Read the GNUCash readme and get > the source. > > I've been working on packag

Re: A downright wierd Netscape problem

1999-02-08 Thread Daniel Martin
Curt Daugaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When trying to open certain documents in Netscape--for example, the > Printing-HOWTO at sunsite.unc--the document is not displayed right > away but starts to download. When it's done a dialog box appears with > this message: > >Netscape: subprocess

Re: docbook-stylesheets

1999-02-08 Thread Daniel Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Folks, > > I'm trying to use the docbook-stylesheets (v. 1.07-1). I've got a > simple outline and I've managed to get jade to accept it (after a > little struggling). I have two big problems though: > > When I try to use HTML output, I don't get anything generated (

Re: minimum X packages?

1999-02-08 Thread Daniel Martin
Paul Nathan Puri <"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"@office.law-counsellor.com> writes: > I recently upgraded to potato. > > Now X starts and immediately dies. Why would this be? What are the > minimum packages necessary to run X under potato (or in general)? It would probably be because the X maintainer l

Re: apt

1999-02-08 Thread Daniel Martin
Robert Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way to make apt not delete the .deb files after it installs > them? > > -bob I assume you mean when using apt from dselect; otherwise, apt doesn't delete them automatically. There's no easy way. The non-easy way is to modify /usr/lib/dpkg/me

Re: Removing ^M in files--in bulk?

1998-10-21 Thread Daniel Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have a bunch of files (est. 200) which were brought over from OS/2 after > being detached from emails (I've not got Debian networked yet here at > work--subject of another post). > > All of them have this control character (^M) at the end of each line, as > seen in

Re: Pine Attachment Associations

1998-10-24 Thread Daniel Martin
"Stephen A. Witt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using Pine 4.05 on a Debian 2.0 platform at work. MS Office is the > standard desktop automation application around here except for a small > band of Unix enthusiasts. I've just installed Star Office, mostly so I > can read the MS Word document

Re: root - password wiped ?? how ??

1998-10-25 Thread Daniel Martin
"Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thanx but nope, thats not the problem, sysklog 1.3-30 is installed and > > permissions > > > Any other takers >;0) > > I'll take another swing :) > > Could something have switched you to/from shadow passwrds? This > is another popular w

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-26 Thread Daniel Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lance Arsenault) writes: > I just would like to know if Debian 2.0 has conflicting software > in it like Debian 1.3.1 . > > Background: Debian 1.3.1 would not let you install all the software > in the release. Installing all the software in the release saves a > lot of time

Re: /etc/host.deny and co

1998-10-27 Thread Daniel Martin
Linh Dang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > > I want to deny telnet, ftp and smtp connection from ANY other sites. > But I want to accept http connection, pull down pop3, imap and > send out mail (smtp). > > How do I setup /etc/host.deny, /etc/host.allow and CO. I will RTFM > but since security

Re: /etc/host.deny and co

1998-10-28 Thread Daniel Martin
Linh Dang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thank you very much! > > Another question if you don't mind? > > Someone mentionned ipfwadm. What do you think about it, how does it > compare > to tcpwrapper? Does one has to recompile the kernel to use ipfwadm ? Yes, your kernel has to be compiled to su

Re: dual boot Linux/NT question

1998-11-08 Thread Daniel Martin
"Damir J. Naden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Rakesh Mohan; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > BTW, I can now use lilo for branching to NT and linux, this works fine. > > > That is interesting. I was never able to do this. Maybe because my NT > partition was NTFS.. > > damir I just tod

Re: more X in slink stuff...

1998-11-15 Thread Daniel Martin
Zack Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using slink. When I run startx, I get the following errors: > > xauth: error in loading shared libraries > libXmu.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > xauth: error in loading shared libraries > libXmu.so.6: cannot open shar

Re: How to enable DPMS monitor poweroff?

1998-11-22 Thread Daniel Martin
Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Hardware-HOWTO just says: > > 20.1. VESA Power Savings Protocol (DPMS) monitors > > Support for power savings is included in the Linux kernel. Just use > setterm to enable support. > > but setterm insists: > > timshel:~$ setterm -powers

Re: Ifconfig

1998-11-23 Thread Daniel Martin
Amanda Shuler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a question about ifconfig. > I have a machine that I am trying to configure to put onto a local > network. > I'm an assigning it IP address 192.168.76.76 > I type: > ifconfig eth0 192.168.76.76 > > then I check it with ifconfig and everythi

Re: diald time restriction

1998-11-24 Thread Daniel Martin
Peter Bartosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi debians > > i´ve got only a short question: > > is it possible to restrict diald only to work at e.g. one hour per day? Yes. > and how? (config file, cron-job, etc.) Whatever. You can restrict certain portions of the config file to be operative

Re: DEL key in Xemacs

1998-11-24 Thread Daniel Martin
Daniel Elenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have this problem that has been bugging me for quite some time: > I can't get my DEL key working properly in Xemacs. I want it to always > generate delete-char, but it works like backspace, i.e. generates > delete-backward-char. I have a swedish key

Re: Linux shutdown

1998-11-25 Thread Daniel Martin
Tun Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello ... > I was wondering if there was a way for linux to make use of the ATX soft > power switch... > For example, shutdown ... totally, power and all just like win9x. > or, suspend to disk by pressing the momentary button? Recompile your own kernel (ins

Re: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info

1998-11-29 Thread Daniel Martin
Eric Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently installed Slink on a laptop. I have the latest versions of all > the signifigant packages. When I try to run dselect, groff, or many many > other things, I get this: > > error in loading shared libraries > /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2: u

Re: No more C++ ?

1998-12-02 Thread Daniel Martin
Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > robinson:~/uni/c++/src$ c++ hello.C > > > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lstdc++: No such file or directory > > > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > > > > > > > I heard some people ha

Re: ANSI Color Escapes in $PS1.. heh.

1998-12-02 Thread Daniel Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > How would one check to make sure the terminal is capable of ANSI escape > sequences? > > -brad I'd do this by not coding in the escape sequences directly, but by using tput: export PS1="\[`tput setaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] sgr0`\]:\[`tput setaf 4`\]\w\[`tput sgr0`\]\$ "

Re: refused connect from 'unknown'

1998-12-08 Thread Daniel Martin
Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > Can somebody explain me what this is? > > Dec 7 13:52:11 casal in.telnetd[27798]: warning: can't get client address: > No route to host > Dec 7 13:52:12 casal in.telnetd[27798]: refused connect from unknown > > If my machine has a

Re: XFree86 gamma correction

1998-03-31 Thread Daniel Martin
Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My XFree86 stuff looks much darker than on PCs or Macs... sounds like a > gamma problem to me. > > Anyone have any pointers to docs on setting up gamma on XFree86? Doesn't > seem to be a how-to on it. > > Jules The only pointers I can offer you are the

Re: we need to start setting up for a new computer

1997-12-04 Thread Daniel Martin
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Fuzzy wrote: > > I have slackeware more or less running on 386sx8 > > and want to install debian 1.3.1 (bo) on a new 6x86 p200+ based system > that will be a server. > > I have the 2 CD distribution from lsl.com and the contents of the > stable/non-free directory from an ftp

Re: we need to start setting up for a new computer

1997-12-04 Thread Daniel Martin
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Fuzzy wrote: > On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Daniel Martin wrote: > > (about installing the kernel-source package, etc.) > > I think the CDs have kernel 2.0.30? we've heard that 0.29 and 0.32 > were stable but 30 was a problem, but than again, .deb has loc

Re: Mail problem - smail

1997-12-04 Thread Daniel Martin
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > > Use the option "satellite system". > > > > No - DON'T. Satellite is useful if and only if all the usernames of > > any account that will ever receive any mail are either mentioned in > > /etc/aliases or match the usernames on your smarthost. A

Re: 'make config' issues.

1997-12-06 Thread Daniel Martin
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Christopher R. Barry wrote: > I installed Debian several days ago and just learned > today that the reason why my mouse doesn't work is because I need to > compile support into the kernel. Well, below I give you what I think is a full set of packages needed t

Re: smail won't send mail

1997-12-07 Thread Daniel Martin
On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Adam Klein wrote: > In the past few days, smail has stopped non-local mail. It returns a > message from MAILER-DAEMON saying something like > `551: Have you read DNS + BIND'. What's going on? > > Adam Klein > Well, since this problem apparently just came up, it's probably

Re: Standard header files.

1997-12-07 Thread Daniel Martin
On 6 Dec 1997, David Z. Maze wrote: > Christopher R Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > CRB> I've installed gcc and all the packages that dselect recommends > CRB> to go with it but whenever I try to compile anything, like the > CRB> kernel, I just get a bunch of error messages about missing *.h >

Re: November issue of Boot Magazine includes a 240MB subset of Debian 1.3.1 on CD

1997-12-07 Thread Daniel Martin
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Gareth Stewart wrote: > Hi, > I'm new to this and have had a few problems getting X-windows up and > running on my ATI Rage ii+DVD Chip set..:-( So I was hopping some > one might be able to shed some light on my problem. Does the 240MB > subset of Debian 1.3.1 on November i

Re: Existant Font isn't found!

1997-12-08 Thread Daniel Martin
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: > > I am trying to run a number of programs like filerunner and tkman, but get > errors like: > > font "-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*" doesn't exist > > However this font _does_ exist as can be seen when I execute the command: > Two

Re: smail won't send mail

1997-12-08 Thread Daniel Martin
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Adam Klein wrote: > On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Daniel Martin wrote: > > > On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Adam Klein wrote: > > > > > In the past few days, smail has stopped non-local mail. It returns a > > > message from MAILER-DAEMON saying something

Re: ip-up script in PPP package with 'persist' option

1997-12-08 Thread Daniel Martin
On 8 Dec 1997, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > The problem is, we don't know where to call this script from :) I > tried putting it in the /etc/ppp/ip-up script, which ostensibly is > called whenever ppp brings its connection up, but evidently is not > called with the persist option. Well, are you sure t

RE: Email only users, and Bulk User Adds/Removes

1997-12-09 Thread Daniel Martin
On 08-Dec-97 Darren Renaud wrote: > Is there a way to establish an email only account? Also is there a way > to add or remove a large amount of those accounts (if they can exist)? > I'm setting up a system for student email, and have to add or remove 40+ > accounts per semester. I'd like to limit

Faking out dpkg/dselect

1997-10-13 Thread Daniel Martin
on ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu is Sep 20) I can understand why the package maintainer hasn't issued one yet. DANIEL MARTIN -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: X server or window manager dies when changing virtual terminals.

1997-10-13 Thread Daniel Martin
.xsession-errors after this problem happens? Don't log back in via xdm, as that would zero it out; switch to a text console, log in, and copy the .xsession-errors file to some other name so that it won't be overwritten next time you log on via xdm. DANIEL MARTIN -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS M

Re: Nestcape and Errors

1997-10-13 Thread Daniel Martin
On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Mario Filipe wrote: > > Hi > > I have installed netscape 4.03 (non debianized)! > > When i run it i get a list of errors like > > /usr/lib/netscape/pluggins/jar is not an ELF file ... > > > Has anyone seen this before ? How is it solved

Re: using -l in gcc

1997-10-13 Thread Daniel Martin
On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Shaleh wrote: > How do I make a library available to gcc -l i.e. gcc -lX11 or gcc > -lmy_own_lib? Same question applies to -i as well I suppose. > If you only want it to happen for one command you can use the -I (that's a capital "i") and -L switches; for example, if your l

Re: sound programs

1997-10-14 Thread Daniel Martin
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Shaleh wrote: > > > what are good clients for running > .wav --- use bplay (available as a .deb) > .au --- I just do "cat file.au > /dev/audio" > .mid* --- use playmidi, again a .deb I find that timidity (which is in the standard D

Re: Changing mouse drivers

1997-10-14 Thread Daniel Martin
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Richard A. Guay wrote: > Hi, > > I just recently installed Debian 1.3.1 on a new system that has a PS/2 > mouse. I now want to change to using a serial mouse. What would be the > steps (I do not want to reload the OS.)? > Reload the OS? That's windows-world thinking. Fi

Re: ls colors

1997-10-20 Thread Daniel Martin
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Jason Bauer wrote: > Thanks for the alias settings help and the quick response! I've got > another question while i'm thinking of stuff. I used to run Slakware > linux until I heard about how much better Debian is. In Slakware, when I > did an ls it showed all of the files in

Re: More X setup fun!

1997-10-21 Thread Daniel Martin
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Shaul Peleg wrote: > I am having trouble getting X windows to run. I am *nix illiterate. The > documentation that I found did not help. My system is fairly simple - I > have a simple Trident Providia 9865 based board with 2 megs. After I > setup using generic VGA / VGA16 base

Re: Security questions

1997-10-21 Thread Daniel Martin
On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Shaleh wrote: > I am setting up a server to allow our customers shell access. I want > this sucker to be air-tight. We have a few hacker/phreaker wannabes. > Any suggestions? > 1: Tripwire. (I've never used it myself, but everything I hear about it sounds like you'd want t

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-24 Thread Daniel Martin
On 22 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yes, I'm fairly familiar with it, having used it to (among other things) > configure cnews since the early 1980's. However, I was responding to > someone who claimed that every Debian package includes a config tool. > Having read the original post, I was

Re: java-applets hang or kill netscape

1997-10-27 Thread Daniel Martin
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Gerhard Olejniczak wrote: > Hello! > > Recently I changed from S.U.S.E 4.4 to Debian 1.3.1. I think it was a > good decision but I have one problem. > If there are java-applets or java-scripts which are sent to my PC > netscape hangs or dies while running them. With my old >

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] C++ template question

1997-10-31 Thread Daniel Martin
On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Shaleh wrote: > How is the STL shipped then. We do not have access to its code do we?? > First off, since it's an official part of Debian, yes, we must have access to the code somehow. But aside from that, yes, _any_ template library that someone provides for developers to

Re: default Debian smail-fetchmail

1997-11-02 Thread Daniel Martin
On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Cullen wrote: > A question about the initial smail configuration for Debian 1.3 > > I have never setup mail with any Linux dist before so I'm trying to > work out what happens whenever. > > I was going to try to setup sendmail with fetchmail to get POP mail > but the defau

Re: vplay

1997-11-03 Thread Daniel Martin
e in /etc/modules.conf. So, if you really feel a need to put your /etc/modules.conf back the way it was (the memory you save by having the a.out module unload when not needed is piddlingly small), you can recompile your 2.0.31 kernel for kerneld support. DANIEL MARTIN -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FRO

Re: Dynamic IP Script??

1997-11-05 Thread Daniel Martin
On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Ian Keith Setford wrote: > > Hi- > I am interested in a script of some sort that would email me (at a given > address) whenever my ISDN connection is disconnected by my provider and > my IP is reassigned upon a new dial-up connection. I am(of course) trying I do something sim

Re: S3 versus S3V

1997-11-05 Thread Daniel Martin
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: > > On 04 Nov 1997 23:56:23 EST Ben Pfaff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Jan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Also I read about linking the file /usr/X11R6/bin/X to the server I am > > > using but that doesn't seem to work. I type ln --sf > > > /usr/X

Re: smail configuration

1997-11-05 Thread Daniel Martin
on this to the list a little while ago, but it doesn't quite do what I need) but in the meantime my MTA takes care of it -- that is, I use gnus to do all my mail from my machine at home, and my .emacs contains: (setq user-mail-address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") What are you using to send

ppp, smail, and apache configuration for a non-networked home debian , system

1997-11-08 Thread Daniel Martin
the current IP address) Hmmm... it seems a lot less impressive now that I write it out, but I was pleased at the time. Anyway, I've made up a web page describing what I did to my machine to make it behave this way, and have put it at: http://www.math.jhu.edu/~martind/mybox.html Enjoy. D

Re: Configuring xinetd- cannot telnet to self

1997-11-10 Thread Daniel Martin
inetd.conf that the install script generated for me available - I wouldn't use just this as your /etc/xinetd.conf; in particular, I'd leave in the "defaults" section that's in the default xinetd.conf. The /etc/xinetd.conf that the install script generated should be available

Re: CD mount

1997-11-10 Thread Daniel Martin
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Thomas Baetzler wrote: > Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH wrote: > :Recently, I wrote a CD under Win 95 using easy CD pro. > [...] > :But when I try to read it under Linux, it does the same thing > :as under dos: all the long filenames are translated to 8.3 >

Re: X server setup under 1.3.1 (Matrox Mystique + Sony 200sx)

1997-11-10 Thread Daniel Martin
-install xbase-3.3_OtherJunk.deb ) However, I also didn't have to reinstall xbase, so I don't know how that might mess things up. :) DANIEL MARTIN -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: pseudo-static IP for webserver?

1997-11-11 Thread Daniel Martin
hu.edu/~martind/mybox.html, which also describes something I did with my apache configuration to make it better deal with having a variable IP address - you may want to look into this. If the browser doesn't support those non-standard tags, then at least you can have a page sitting at a known

Re: More newbie setup stuff...

1997-11-12 Thread Daniel Martin
t modules are included in the tiny perl included in the base install? DANIEL MARTIN -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #992

1997-11-12 Thread Daniel Martin
cape; you still have to download the appropriate file from netscape and place it in /tmp. DANIEL MARTIN -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Errors in compiling a source package

1997-11-13 Thread Daniel Martin
I'm trying to compile xemacs20_2.2-4 for my bo (read: libc5) system. I modified the portion of the debian/rules file that called the configure script so that it configured things the way I wanted them, and the make seems to go fine (well, actually there are quite a few "warnings" on compile, but n

Re: Errors in compiling a source package

1997-11-13 Thread Daniel Martin
On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Daniel Martin wrote: > I'm trying to compile xemacs20_2.2-4 for my bo (read: libc5) system. I > modified the portion of the debian/rules file that called the configure > script so that it configured things the way I wanted them, and the make > seems

Re: Errors in compiling a source package

1997-11-13 Thread Daniel Martin
On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > Now there's a rather strong warning against downgrading ldso to version > > 1.8.x, which is the option I'm looking at here, since I can't install > > libc6 without gutting my system, making it near impossible to do what I > > wanted to do in the firs

Re: ppp error question

1997-11-17 Thread Daniel Martin
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Dima wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > >I received this last night: > > > >Excessive lack of response to LCP echo frames > >connection terminated > > In /etc/ppp/options there's a number of lcp-echo* options. > Comment them out. > > >What does this mean?

Re: How to mirror the unstable debian distribution non-free included and make a debian-cd with it?

1997-11-18 Thread Daniel Martin
nto). See the man page for options. Once you get all the split-produced files onto your home machine, you can then use "cat" to reconstruct the original file - the command will be something like cat x* > hamm.tar.gz Then untar (with 'tar -xvzf hamm.tar.gz') and do what y

Re: local e-mail message delivery from isp

1997-11-18 Thread Daniel Martin
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, David Stern wrote: > > > > > Not one to leave well enough alone, I now want to setup my home Debian > > Linux box so that messages are transferred to my local mailspool and I > > can run a mail program locally. I've chosen sendm

Re: compile

1997-11-18 Thread Daniel Martin
ch larger limit) i.e. type make bzImage instead of make zImage DANIEL MARTIN -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: How to use dpkg -b ??

1997-11-19 Thread Daniel Martin
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Debian List wrote: > Hi!! > > Thanks again... > > Ok I tried the dpkg-source -x and here's the error I got: > dpkg-source: error: tarfile `./mgetty_1.1.8.orig.tar.gz' contains object > (mgetty-1.1.8/README.1st) not in expected directory (mgetty-1.1.8.orig) > > Help! ;) > >

Re: smail

1997-11-19 Thread Daniel Martin
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Gerald Livingston wrote: > OK -- I'm ready to properly configure smail on my single user dynamic > ip system. > >Who knows where the best FAQ for that is? Big thing is, I need to > manage mail accounts from several different addresses. ([EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PRO

Re: pppd

1997-11-20 Thread Daniel Martin
On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Zach Wilkes wrote: > okay.. I've gotten my chat script to dial and connect.. pppd gets my > ip and gets the ip of the remote system.. my resolv.conf looks good > (from what I can tell), hosts looks good according to the ppp-howto.. > but, after all this.. after I'm sure it sh

Re: Configuring Pine

1997-11-20 Thread Daniel Martin
->Setup->Config) and change the index-format value to: STATUS MSGNO DATE FROM(33%) SIZE SUBJECT(67%) I will repeat that in all likelihood it is better not to make this change, and that the difference between your mail and others' mail only is showing up in pine's index viewer; the rest

Re: can't load library

1997-11-20 Thread Daniel Martin
On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, B. Bell wrote: > when i try to start x i get the following errors: > $ startx > xauth: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6' > xinit: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6' > > > this error only happened after upgrading to libc6, which i did by > following the instructions in the mini

Re: one more on plan (fwd)

1997-11-21 Thread Daniel Martin
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote: > One of the packages that I maintain includes a daemon, pland, that is > recommended to be started in users' .xsession file. Previously, after > logout, the daemon just hung around and is therefore recommended to be > started as pland -k, where the -k k

Re: ownership and permissions

1997-11-23 Thread Daniel Martin
ost is an X command, and if root can't run X clients, it can't run xhost. So, the solution is either to run 'xhost +localhost' from an xterm as your regular user, or to (as root) do: cp ~username/.Xauthority ~root (where username is the username of your regular user) DANIEL MAR

Re: Text Format -iso- or -ascci-

1997-11-24 Thread Daniel Martin
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Daniel Mashao wrote: > I occasionally get the following message on my mail reader > > [The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set] > [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set] > [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly] > > I would l

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