Debian & Old Toshiba Laptop

2006-10-11 Thread Kai
I have a very old Toshiba laptop and I am looking to put Debian or some other form of linux on it. Details: CPU: Pentium I HD: ~700MB RAM: 16MB 2 PC Card slots, but some newer cards (such as wireless cards) do not fit Linksys EtherFast PC Card A wireless router, however I can not seem to set up a

Re: GNOME2 Learning Experience... and Fonts....

2003-03-10 Thread Kai Hendry
think) gtk based pysoulseek app. http://db.cs.helsinki.fi/~hendry/log/pyblosxom.cgi/debian/gnome2/font-woes.html If I have such many font problems with my western charset, I hate to think what pain the Chinese are experiencing. ;) Regards, -Kai Hendry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: pyslsk on woody

2003-02-04 Thread Kai Weber
* Rodrigo Gruppelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I noticed that woody does have python2.2, and I tried to install this and > some other libs that pyslsk requires, but I had no success running pyslsk > on woody. In what way does it fail? Error messages? BTW, maybe your problem has to do with the not av

Maintain X11 config with CFengine?

2002-11-17 Thread Kai Großjohann
s there a file where debconf gets the corresponding XF86Config-4 snippet from? Can I have CFengine just edit that file? kai -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn(Frank Nobis) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to install Gnome2 into SID

2002-11-17 Thread Kai Weber
+ Patrick Brunier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > still no Gnome2 shows up in the dselect lists. apt-get install gnome2 doesn't > work. What am I doing wrong ? How do you install Gnome2 ? http://people.debian.org/~walters/gnome2.html apt-get install gnome kai* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: getting an address from DHCP without an interface

2002-11-18 Thread Kai Großjohann
n better, whenever the IP of the lease changes. The normal dhcp-client package includes a script /etc/dhclient-script which is invoked to do all the work. It provides hooks. And also, you can of course replace the file with your own. kai -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn(Frank Nobis)

Re: getting an address from DHCP without an interface

2002-11-19 Thread Kai Großjohann
;t, either. I gather that "not reconfiguring the interface" is what you would like to do. kai -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn(Frank Nobis) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: calendar formats

2002-11-19 Thread Kai Großjohann
in the C preprocessor, since the calendar file is > processed through cpp. > >[...] > > If it's too tricky, you'd need to do programming... in Emacs, you can > use lisp expressions for the "date" of an item. Most other calendar > programs won't let you

Re: getting an address from DHCP without an interface

2002-11-20 Thread Kai Großjohann
curs in the /sbin/dhclient binary on my system. But the docs don't say. kai -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn(Frank Nobis) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Automatic creation of VMware kernel modules?

2002-11-26 Thread Kai Großjohann
put the VMware kernel modules into a *.deb for easy installation (or to teach CFengine to install them to the right location). Suggestions? kai -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn(Frank Nobis) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Abstain from bringing eth0 up on boot? (cf. laptop-net)

2002-11-28 Thread Kai Großjohann
I installed laptop-net, and it appears that this will bring up an interface when I plug in a cable. So I'm thinking that it's not necessary to bring up eth0 on boot -- laptop-net will take care of that. So I commented out the "auto eth0" statement in /etc/network/interfaces, but it seems that eth

Ready-made initrd setup?

2002-11-29 Thread Kai Großjohann
I've read the howto on initrd, and it looks fascinating. But it also looks intimidating to set it all up from scratch. So maybe someone else has done it already? I'm using sarge and I'd like to use initrd to be able to boot the same kernel on different hardware. So, for example, I don't need to

Re: Ready-made initrd setup?

2002-11-29 Thread Kai Großjohann
Raghavendra Bhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kai posts : > >>> I hear good stuff about the hw detection facilities in Knoppix, >>> could they be pilfered for my purpose? > > The hw detection is done by kudzu, GPLed stuff. Ah, and there are even Debian p

Re: Ready-made initrd setup?

2002-11-30 Thread Kai Großjohann
Oliver Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > See also man make-kpkg and option --initrd: That's nice. I think I've got to try it first, before asking more questions. (I'm wondering whether it's possible/necessary to modify the initrd setup thus created.) -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn(Fran

Re: Cups

2002-12-05 Thread Kai Großjohann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (sdownes) writes: > Printing from Abiword to lp does nothing > command line (lp -d lp@rm "filename") returns:- > lp unable to print file server-error-service-unavailable > from a remote host or:- > job queued but cant start daemon > (it isn't queued in cups) /etc/pri

Re: Cups

2002-12-05 Thread Kai Großjohann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Großjohann) writes: > /etc/printcap has to do with the lpr, not lp, program. (You need to install the cupsys-bsd (or similar) package.) -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn(Frank Nobis) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Abwesenheitsnotiz: Approved

2003-08-30 Thread Esbold, Kai
Vielen Dank für Ihre Mail. Ich bin jedoch bis zum 1.9.2003 im Urlaub. Bitte kontaktieren Sie in dringenden Fällen Jochen Olig (Tel.: 09131-7701-120). Thank you for your e-mail. Sorry, but I am on holidays until 1.9.2003. In urgent cases, please contact Jochen Olig (Tel.: +49-9131-7701-120)

Vaio PCG-Z505F install (fwd)

1999-07-06 Thread Kai Martens
Hi there, got no response from the laptop list - so I try again here... -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 19:03:50 +0900 (JST) From: Kai Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Subject: Floppy on Vaio PCG-Z505F Hi there, Just bought

Kai's mail setup seriously hosed

1998-10-06 Thread Kai Grossjohann
tober 1st, please ignore this mail. Thank you very much. kai -- OOP: object oriented programming; OOPS: object oriented mistakes

Why mailing-lists? Usenet have been invented, I hear. ;-)

2002-09-09 Thread Kai Olsen
her newsservers, they will not get obnoxious groups as alt.sex or comp.microsoft..   Anyway. This is unworkable for me. Don't reply - I'm off.   Kai

Re: is this the end of debian?

1998-03-20 Thread Kai Henningsen
se. (Of course, that's not really new, either. We've had hot air like this before.) MfG Kai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I am leaving Debian

1998-03-20 Thread Kai Henningsen
t. I even expect him to do more good things in the future, and I wish him well for that. But he should sure find a better way of handling stress. > The question I ask myself is how far will the net-based distributioon go > before personality problems overcome it. It shows no signs of s

Re: barking dogs and i18n

1997-12-31 Thread Kai Grossjohann
>>>>> On 31 Dec 1997, Kai Grossjohann said: Kai> Franklin is writing pop3-biff.el. Of course, it is only appropriate Kai> to have this thing bark. Now, barking in English is easy: "woof!" Kai> will do just fine. But nowadays, some i18n is called for. So

barking dogs and i18n

1997-12-31 Thread Kai Grossjohann
what about other ones? Surely people on this list can help? I think Klingon and Esperanto as well as maybe Swahili are very important in order not to alienate a significant user population! PS: Franklin, I hope you didn't mind me posting here. tia, kai -- Kai Grossjohann, Informatik VI

Re: Meta key: what's the right/best way?

1997-03-16 Thread Kai Grossjohann
as Emacs has no way to tell the difference between Backspace and C-h in a terminal where that is the same. As you can see, you can use "?" in places where you used C-h to get help, before. You can also use F1. And the help command is bound to C-x ?. hth, kai -- I fell in love with you the first time I looked at you them there eyes.

Re: debian and ISDN?

1997-03-16 Thread Kai Grossjohann
nux or isdnutils package (or whatever it's called). I'm a happy camper now. kai -- I fell in love with you the first time I looked at you them there eyes.

Re: turning off computer

1997-03-16 Thread Kai Grossjohann
y shut down your computer who has an account. kai -- I fell in love with you the first time I looked at you them there eyes.

Re: Chmodding a whole directory tree

1997-03-20 Thread Kai Grossjohann
ht> permissions to the group and other's permissions? Thanks this approach. Type "chmod -R g=u ." regards, kai -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio)

Re: XWindows .deb package for debian gnu linux

1997-03-20 Thread Kai Grossjohann
ure). You can use Linux fdisk or cfdisk to delete the old E partition and to create two new partitions in its place. I've done this myself for primary partitions, so I know it works there, but not for extended partitions, so YMMV. kai -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio)

Re: dpkg and shadow

1997-03-20 Thread Kai Grossjohann
tent-based search. freeWAIS-sf has operators for phonetic similarity, for example, and does stemming (so searching for "base" will find "bases", as well as "based", maybe even "basic"). regards, kai -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio)

Re: Problems working with bash.

1997-03-28 Thread Kai Grossjohann
and I'm happy ever since 8-) ,- | M-p: history-search-backward | M-n: history-search-forward `- kai -- I wish my mouth had a backso^Hpace key.

Re: Finding files not present (challenge to your intelligence)

1997-03-28 Thread Kai Grossjohann
t;*" and "?" wildcards. Read the man page for details.) Does this get you closer to the solution? kai -- I wish my mouth had a backso^Hpace key.

Re: Problems working with bash.

1997-03-28 Thread Kai Grossjohann
>>>>> Pete Harlan writes: Kai> ,- Kai> | M-p: history-search-backward Kai> | M-n: history-search-forward Kai> `- Pete> In bash it's ^R for reverse, and ^S for forward search, just Pete> like in emacs. Perhaps if you select vi rules

Re: Problems working with bash.

1997-04-03 Thread Kai Grossjohann
starts with that. This combines Gertjan> the two functions that bash uses (and needs two keys for) Gertjan> into one. [...] The function history-search-backward which I bound to M-p does exactly this. (Similar for M-n, history-search-forward.) kai -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio)

Re: Problems working with bash.

1997-04-03 Thread Kai Grossjohann
>>>>> Kai Grossjohann writes: Kai> The function history-search-backward which I bound to M-p does exactly Kai> this. (Similar for M-n, history-search-forward.) I must have been out of my mind :-( Sorry, of course the Bash 1.X history-search-{for,back}ward don't

Re: Open Look GUI

1997-04-04 Thread Kai Grossjohann
tscript and you can't display it on your Linux X11 display, I don't know what's wrong. kai -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio)

Re: dftp without dselect?

1997-04-06 Thread Kai Grossjohann
"dftp --help", and I had no problems. kai -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio)

Re: bi

1997-04-14 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Windoze users will love it instantly. For my part, I use Emacs and I think that simple things are easy to do in Emacs so Emacs isn't unsuited for beginners at all. kai -- Two caf\'e au lait please, but without milk. (American tourist in paris.)

Re: vi

1997-04-14 Thread Kai Grossjohann
; repeat C-x e ; repeat C-x e ; repeat Nothing to do with "modeless". kai -- Two caf\'e au lait please, but without milk. (American tourist in paris.)

Re: so sorry to intrude, but i need help

1997-04-18 Thread Kai Grossjohann
ek. It's the search engine you used to get when you use the "Internet Search" button of your Netscape browser. Now they provide pointers to a number of search engines. There you go. kai -- because I couldn't think of a good beginning. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAIL

Re: AccelX and Xfree together

1997-04-30 Thread Kai Grossjohann
e X86 config file (forget the exact name) and changed the name of the server there. As Debian package installations are careful not to overwrite your config files, you won't have any problems. kai -- because I couldn't think of a good beginning. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: Debian as a server.

1997-05-14 Thread Kai Grossjohann
>>>>> Nathan E Norman writes: Nathan> [...] The biggest difference is the price tag. An unlimited Nathan> BSDI 3.0 license is $2995. An unlimited Linux licenses Nathan> costs about $0. [...] Of course, BSDI isn't the only BSD out there and there are se

Re: How can i port files from dos to linux?

1997-05-20 Thread Kai Grossjohann
the partition like this: mkdir /dos mount /dev/hda1 /dos Of course, you should choose the right name instead of /dev/hda1. h means IDE, s instead of h means SCSI. a means the first disk, use b for the second. 1 means first partition. hth, kai -- Life is hard and then you die. -- TO UN

How to tell dpkg a package is installed though it isn't?

1997-06-16 Thread Kai Grossjohann
I compiled Emacs myself and put it in /usr/local. How do I tell dpkg that it's OK to install packages that depend on Emacs though it's not a Debian package install? tia, kai -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM TH

Re: [DEBIAN] Standardization?

1997-09-16 Thread Kai Grossjohann
linuxconfig can be told not to do that. So we can attack this problem right there -- convince the linuxconfig people not to use their own /etc/rc* scheme, and all will be fine. For this problem. Have I been talking foolish things? kai -- I like both kinds of music. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM T

Re: Best e-mail approach for discon. sites

1997-06-25 Thread Kai Grossjohann
I'd imagine that all that fetchmail can do is look at the To and Cc headers which aren't very useful for mailing lists. kai -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Best e-mail approach for discon. sites

1997-07-02 Thread Kai Grossjohann
>>>>> Carey Evans writes: Carey> For example, my ISP adds X-Envelope-To: and Return-Path: Carey> headers which is all the extra OOB information. You've got a very nice ISP :-) kai -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio

Re: X-capable mail reader

1997-07-28 Thread Kai Grossjohann
ader. It handles large amounts of mail very nicely. Gnus can sort incoming mail into different folders (aka "groups"). You can a nice overview of which groups have new mail. Gnus groks threads. And you can click on a URL with the middle mouse button and have Netscape show you the page.

Re: Mailers

1997-07-28 Thread Kai Grossjohann
grouped in so-called topics. A folder can be in more than one topic if you like. Topics can be nested. kai -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: GNUS and Mail

1997-07-28 Thread Kai Grossjohann
led rmail, but RMAIL is also an Emacs mail reader. kai -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: X-capable mail reader

1997-07-28 Thread Kai Grossjohann
t; ""))) This means, that mail with the specified X-Loop header goes in the auto.bbdb folder, mails sent by owner-ctwm goes in auto.ctwm and so on. All mail that doesn't match anything else goes in mail.misc. I just use the simple mechanism, there is a "fancy" mechanism, t

Re: ftp web pages updating in apache?

1997-07-29 Thread Kai Grossjohann
root. People who use anonymous ftp to connect to your machine can only see the ~ftp subtree. But people who use non-anonymous ftp can see all of your machine! (Unix file permissions permitting.) kai -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio) -- TO UNSUBSC

Re: What is '/etc/emacs/site-start.d' for?

1997-07-29 Thread Kai Grossjohann
rt.d/'; sca> but emacs doesn't seem to automatically load it. I think there is supposed to be an Emacs Lisp script that runs on Emacs startup and loads all files in /etc/emacs/site-start.d. But I don't use the Debian Emacs installation, so I don't really know. kai --

Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-04 Thread Kai Grossjohann
em that . all others are to send the answer by email . the user is to post a summary later on. - Frequent "policy" posting to the list saying how things ought to be handled. Whatcha think? kai -- Signature? What signature? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the wor

Re: Debian-Lite : The Project

1997-08-05 Thread Kai Grossjohann
ct is developing something that has this capability. The URL was mentioned earlier in this thread: http://www.verisim.com/~behanw/deity/deity-ui_0.10.html See Section 6 "Profile Screens". kai -- Signature? What signature? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-11 Thread Kai Grossjohann
s) done in the sun-managers list. kai -- Signature? What signature? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Best mode for uucp over tcp.

1997-08-11 Thread Kai Grossjohann
p/ip? Both ends of a connection must support UUCP for this to work. You seem to be saying your ISP does NOT support UUCP, so you can't use it either. kai -- Signature? What signature? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Why Debian?

1997-09-05 Thread Kai Grossjohann
n come in RedHat format only, but Debian can install RedHat packages, too). Debian has the largest developer team, >200 people. kai -- I like both kinds of music. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Debian really best?

1996-11-05 Thread Kai Grossjohann
rent programs providing the same functionality (eg sendmail and smail), so to a mail reader it won't matter if you install sendmail or smail. kai -- I wonder why nobody don't like me, or is it de fact dat I'm ugly? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "uns

Re: non frees on CD

1996-11-08 Thread Kai Grossjohann
p drive. There used to be a time when you could select a special menu entry which would allow you to specify a directory for every kind of package: contrib, non-free, ... I haven't used dselect for a long time now so I don't know if it disappeared. kai -- I wonder why nobody don't like

Re: how to download in the background?

1996-11-12 Thread Kai Grossjohann
n Lawrence> logout and ncftp still downloading the file for me. Is there Lawrence> an equivalent command for downloading from http? Boris> `ncftp ftp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/abc.gzip &` Boris> will do it This does ftp but not http. kai -- I wonder why nobody don't like me,

Re: X is painful

1996-11-18 Thread Kai Henningsen
ror. It's nice to be able to configure how the system looks. But the X window manager system doesn't actually do that, it only handles a very small part of the system (window decorations, window focus, and similar stuff). Had that interface only been richer ... MfG Kai -- This messa

Re: Useing $HOME in .fvwmrc file ?

1997-01-03 Thread Kai Grossjohann
ss your .fvwmrc file and use their way of referring to environment variables. I'm not sure if (1) works but (2) works. kai -- I wonder why nobody don't like me, or is it de fact dat I'm ugly? -- Harry Belafonte -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "un

Re: xemacs, vm and the "FROM"adress line?

1997-01-09 Thread Kai Grossjohann
r-mail-address, like so: (setq user-mail-address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") Please note that this *must not* contain you real name, nor any "<" or "(". kai -- I wonder why nobody don't like me, or is it de fact dat I'm ugly? -- Harry Belafonte -- TO UNSUBS

automatic mounting of CDs

1997-01-13 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Hi there, Sun Solaris has vold which watches the CD-ROM drive and mounts the CD when you insert one. Is there a similar program for Debian? tia, kai -- I wonder why nobody don't like me, or is it de fact dat I'm ugly? -- Harry Belafonte -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Problems with isdn4linux and network connections

1997-01-15 Thread Kai Grossjohann
later without any problem, as long as I leave the newsreader running. What's the story? tia, kai -- I wonder why nobody don't like me, or is it de fact dat I'm ugly? -- Harry Belafonte -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Matrox Millenium Video Card Problem

1997-02-18 Thread Kai Grossjohann
rent XFree has a server for the MGA? kai -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problem with tar/sendmail/ls

1996-05-02 Thread Kai Henningsen
m not an yp expert, so I can't tell exactly what. b. You don't want to use yp, maybe don't even know what it is. It seems it's enabled, though. I _think_ you'll find a special entry in /etc/groups indicating to getgrid() that it should do a yp lookup, and removing that entry will stop your problem. (Similar entries can exist for /etc/passwd.) Something looking weird like "+:*::" or similar. MfG Kai

Re: problems compiling with R0.93

1996-05-14 Thread Kai Henningsen
ary `libc.so.4' > gcc: Internal compiler error: program ld got fatal signal 6 > make: *** [hello] Error 1 I seem to remember that one from some time ago on (I think) the linux-gcc list. Just remove the -g. It's a problem in the binutils, but AFAIK you don't really need that -g anyway *in the link step*. MfG Kai

Re: find question (and xargs)

1996-05-15 Thread Kai Henningsen
unction. Anyway, I'd probably try something like this: find / -size +459976c -noleaf -type f -name '*.deb' -exec split.sh {} \; #! /bin/sh dpkg-split -s "$1" && rm "$1" MfG Kai

dselect and dpkg

1996-05-15 Thread Kai Grossjohann
unstable/binary-i386, contrib, non-free) and then do whatever you tell me is best. Please reply by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], as well, as my subscription to the list doesn't seem to have been processed already. Thanks a lot in advance for your patience, kai -- Life is hard and then you die.

Re: minicom..

1996-05-16 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) wrote on 15.05.96 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Edit /etc/group and add yourself to the "dialout" group. I believe the easiest way to do that is to do, as root, # adduser yourself dialout MfG Kai

Re: X Windows

1996-05-16 Thread Kai Henningsen
ment ^S, ^D, ^E, ^X; word movement ^A, ^F; page movement ^R, ^C; scrolling ^W, ^Z; just look at an US keyboard layout to find out which is which). Joe is a fine editor, though. MfG Kai

XFree and ATI-Mach-64 cards

1996-05-17 Thread Kai Grossjohann
sadly that doesn't work.) Thanks a lot in advance, kai -- Life is hard and then you die.

Re: dselect and dpkg

1996-05-17 Thread Kai Grossjohann
>>>>> On 15 May 1996 12:15:39 +0200, Kai Grossjohann >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Kai> Hi there, I'm trying to install Debian 1.1 (I know that it's Kai> unstable and maybe I should start with a stable release first, Kai> but I ha

Re: Two X questions

1996-05-20 Thread Kai Grossjohann
t a kludge but it may work. I'm not sure if such an option exists for fvwm. kai -- Life is hard and then you die.

Re: dselect complaints

1996-05-20 Thread Kai Grossjohann
x27;' and dselect used that information? I think that could be done without too much restructuring in the dselect code (though I know none of it). Disregard if you don't like this suggestion, kai -- Life is hard and then you die.

Re: Root login is waiting

1996-05-21 Thread Kai Grossjohann
ot-up. How do I make one? (I know about mknod, but I don't know the parameters.) (Please excuse me if /dev/MAKEDEV can be used for this, just tell me and I'll find the place.) kai -- Life is hard and then you die.

Re: problems with psnfss and (separately) bind

1996-05-23 Thread Kai Grossjohann
ackage archive I got the same problem. Just get the file from the stable tree, it's got the same version on it, is the same size, but works. kai -- Life is hard and then you die.

netscape*.deb installation problem

1996-05-24 Thread Kai Grossjohann
When I dpkg -iGBE netsc*.deb, I get the message that Netscape wants to see the archive netscape*.tar.gz in /tmp. Nothing further seems to happen. The obvious thing to try was to cd /tmp, then run dpkg, but alas, no joy:-( What's the story? tia, kai -- Life is hard and then you die.

Re: netscape*.deb installation problem

1996-05-25 Thread Kai Grossjohann
>>>>> On 24 May 1996 13:25:40 +0200, Kai Grossjohann >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Kai> [[ Can't install netscape*.deb ]] Thanks to everybody who answered. I know understand that I need to get Netscape itself from ftp.netscape.com. Sill

Re: ~/.saves-6702-hostname.domainname

1996-05-25 Thread Kai Grossjohann
s -- most of the time you don't need them at all but you still do them (you do make backups, don't you?) because you know when you need them you need them bad! Many regards, kai -- Life is hard and then you die.

Re: Self-Built Kernel Packages

1996-06-02 Thread Kai Henningsen
n make one yourself. > But neither I nor some others install the Debian kernels. We like > building our own. Again, there's no conflict. Really. Just have a look at it. MfG Kai

Re: POP forwarding

1996-06-15 Thread Kai Grossjohann
d never seen before, learned to use Python on the way). kai -- Life is hard and then you die.

Re: Ok where are the disks?

1996-06-16 Thread Kai Grossjohann
think is in the tools directory). On the WWW site there is a document explaining the installation process. hth, kai -- Life is hard and then you die.

Re: rlogin localhost

1996-06-17 Thread Kai Grossjohann
see if you have the executables in the right paths. kai -- Life is hard and then you die.

Re: 1.1 problems

1996-06-17 Thread Kai Grossjohann
on system is 5.2.18-9 Get a newer libc5-dev (5.2.18-9 rather than -8) and install that. kai -- Life is hard and then you die.

Re: PPP link kills routing table

1996-06-19 Thread Kai Grossjohann
actually ever tried something like this, nor that I know anything about routing :) kai -- Life is hard and then you die.

Re: PPP link kills routing table

1996-06-19 Thread Kai Grossjohann
n there. I assume you know how to `route' manually as you said you have done this in the past. Sadly, I *don't* know how to use `route'. hth, kai -- Life is hard and then you die.

Re: Debian-1.1 "Packages" file sync problem

1996-06-19 Thread Kai Grossjohann
s telling dselect to update its info based on the actual contents of the directory. People have been hit too often by that problem, I think. Whatcha all think? kai -- Life is hard and then you die.

Re: Compose characters in X

1996-08-08 Thread Kai Grossjohann
(iso-accents-customize "german"))) But I think the default value of iso-languages has a value for french, just German was missing -- let this be for the benefit of the German readers of this mailing list... kai -- What's a signature?

Re: Compose characters in X

1996-08-08 Thread Kai Grossjohann
se it as a Compose key for Motif programs. (For me, Multi_key worked just fine for Emacs, too. On a SPARC Solaris 2.5 machine, though.) kai -- What's a signature?

Re: IP forwarding and/or Masquerading

1996-08-08 Thread Kai Grossjohann
bstitute the right device for ippp0 -- I'm using ISDN. You probably want modem or cua0 or ttyS0 or something, which ever device you have specified in /etc/ppp/options. kai -- What's a signature?

Re: So which email package do you ,use

1996-08-08 Thread Kai Grossjohann
>>>>> W " "Bart," "Jr writes: W> so which email package do you folks like? For high-volume email users, I recommend Gnus which is a combined mail/news reader package for Emacs. Emacs is a Debian package and contains Gnus. kai -- What's a signature?

Re: Term colors / Logging on ttys ?

2000-08-28 Thread Kai Weber
look at /etc/syslog.conf. There is a commented part ( "I like to have ...") which shows you an example like this: *.=debug/dev/tty10 Kai. -- + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/~bond/

Re: access to /var/log/messages

2000-09-02 Thread Kai Weber
a. Ok, if it is your machine at home and you are the only user it could be ok. But I recommend you to add you to the groups you need access to: adduser Groups I belong to are: adm, cdrom, audio, dip and video. Kai. -- + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/~bond/

Debian Menu with Sawfish (Helix)

2000-09-10 Thread Kai Weber
Emacs, Netscape and others. Any idea, what went wrong? Or is it the supposed behavior? How can I get the Debian menu structure back at this place? P.S. I tried to remove all my sawfish/sawmill settings in $HOME, because I thought I did something with my config. No effect. Kai. -- + mailto:[

Re: Debian Menu with Sawfish (Helix)

2000-09-11 Thread Kai Weber
+ Julio Merino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The middle mouse button, which brings up sawfish's root menu contained > > under "programs" the whole Debian menu with apps ... Since some days I > > miss it! There are only some entries: xterm, Emacs, Netscape and others. > > You maybe removed the "menu"

Re: Debian Menu with Sawfish (Helix)

2000-09-17 Thread Kai Weber
+ Ian Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't have the potato version of sawfish - the last one I saw was > still sawmill. In sawmill the important file which made the menu to > be read was /usr/share/sawmill/site-init.jl (or maybe it was in a > subdirectory of that called something like lisp or

SOLVED: Debian Menu with Sawfish (Helix)

2000-09-18 Thread Kai Weber
+ Rino Mardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > This is exactly the displayed menu. Shouldn't it be something dynamicly > > loaded code? I will ask in the sawfish mailinglist, too. But could > > someone inform me, whether his sawfish like packaged from Helix displays > > the Debian Menu? > > mine does I s

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