r* commands don't work

1998-02-27 Thread Richard G. Roberto
le of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: AW: r* commands don't work

1998-02-27 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Richard G. Roberto asked: > [...] > > However, I still can't get the r* commands to work. > [...] > > I opened up .rhosts for root, hosts.equiv for everyone else, > > and even .rhosts for myself, but to no ava

Re: r* commands don't work

1998-02-28 Thread Richard G. Roberto
were 644 (default umask I guess). Oh well. Thanks anyway. -- "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

Re: making room

1998-03-04 Thread Richard G. Roberto
quot;; or anything similar. Cheers, -- "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: subscription problem

1998-03-11 Thread Richard G. Roberto
will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: dunc pppd configuration script

1997-12-04 Thread Richard G. Roberto
writing it from scratch. Cheers, -- "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: dunc pppd configuration script

1997-12-05 Thread Richard G. Roberto
ic. Because its basically safe to try out, you can add a lot of value to it by using it -- at pretty much no risk ot your system. I'm tempted to say at absolutely no risk, but I know better than that ;) Sorry for the long post. Cheers, -- "Until we extend the circle of our co

Re: dunc pppd configuration script

1997-12-07 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > On 05 Dec 1997 16:24:10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Richard G. Roberto writes: > > > I also want to address this issue about "standard" options file > > > locations. It is impossible to manage multiple

[off topic] partially related news items??

1998-01-19 Thread Richard G. Roberto
circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

[off topic] PPP over ISDN ???

1998-01-25 Thread Richard G. Roberto
assion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: HOW? Xwindows Clients

1998-02-02 Thread Richard G. Roberto
ot;Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

more ?s on ISDN and PPP ...

1998-02-14 Thread Richard G. Roberto
xxx CONNECT Any help would be appreciated. Thanks -- "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to

Re: more ?s on ISDN and PPP ...

1998-02-16 Thread Richard G. Roberto
Thanks to all who responded. There were numerous correct answers, with the chat file being the cleanest. Cheers, -- "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Y2k != millenium compliance

1997-10-24 Thread Richard G. Roberto
of the web site, please get back to me if there's any interest. Cheers, -- "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the wor

On Bruce Perens and Dave Cinege, etc.

1997-10-27 Thread Richard G. Roberto
a huge asset to debian as a computer scientist and as project leader. Thanks -- "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

knews Q.

1997-11-04 Thread Richard G. Roberto
not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

RE: knews Q.

1997-11-05 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, George Bonser wrote: > On 04-Nov-97 Richard G. Roberto wrote: > > Can anyone explain to me in plain, simple english, what I > > need to do to get knews to only subscribe to the 5 news > > groups I've subscribed to? > > You will need to downl

Re: dpkg won't remove nfsroot

1997-11-06 Thread Richard G. Roberto
o problems a few months ago. What part of the functionality breaks without bind? If its just the prerm script, maybe just the prerm script needs fixin'. Just a thought. Cheers, -- "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace&quo

Re: Using source code for debian; compiling debian

1997-11-06 Thread Richard G. Roberto
ted to the Subject, of course. I'll shut up now :) Cheers, -- "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Proposal on PPP

1997-11-19 Thread Richard G. Roberto
y interested parties though. Anyway, please give dunc a try, and let me know about any oddities. Thanks -- "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

remote shell command authentication ...

1997-06-27 Thread Richard G. Roberto
pear to be working. Also, the archives are pretty old. Thanks in advance. Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan -- *** Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitatio

fetchmail problem ...

1997-06-29 Thread Richard G. Roberto
OK, actually fetchmail sucks. Is there any chance of getting the original popclient program back? I realize fetchmail is more suave and sophisticated, but it doesn't deliver my mail! I had a very simple command line working with popclient that gags under the fetchmail link because fetchmail wont

Re: fetchmail problem ...

1997-07-02 Thread Richard G. Roberto
still rather just dump it to STDOUT. Maybe I'll try an mda definitiopn of "/bin/cat >>/home/mydir/%s" and see if it works. Thanks -- Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: rsh authentication ... (fwd)

1997-07-09 Thread Richard G. Roberto
M. Hegbloom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: rsh authentication ... > > >>>>> "Richard" == Richard G Roberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Richard> I have (after some fr

Re: PPP dial-up script

1997-07-10 Thread Richard G. Roberto
ROTECTED]> > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- > -- "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to a

Re: NIS/AMD questions

1997-07-12 Thread Richard G. Roberto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: > I know this is not related to debian, but... > > 1) If the NIS server is down for a NIS domain, root cannot log on the > console. This is annoying, accounts which are in /etc/passwd (like > root) should be always ac

Q. about vic-ccam ...

1997-07-28 Thread Richard G. Roberto
working? What else besides the vic-cqcam package is needed? Do I need to kernel module to run this? Where do I get it? Thanks in advance. -- "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto

Re: Q. about vic-ccam ...

1997-07-31 Thread Richard G. Roberto
e difference is, but there are three settings in my BIOS: AT, ECP, and EPP. It only works with EPP. I get video now. Thanks > > Richard G. Roberto wrote: > > > > I can't get this to work. My QuickCam works under windows, > > but not linux. I can't seem to

splitting the lists ...

1997-08-04 Thread Richard G. Roberto
e circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ppp configuring with dunc

1997-08-04 Thread Richard G. Roberto
lease upgrade to version 2.2. $ dpkg -f dunc_2.2_i386.deb Package: dunc Version: 2.2 Architecture: i386 Depends: ae, ed, ash (>= 0.2-0), dialog (>= 0.9a-8), shellutils (>= 1.12), ppp (>= 2.2.0f-20), gzip, findutils Installed-Size: 79 Maintainer: Richard G. Roberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Distributing a procmail filter (was: Re: splitting up the...)

1997-08-05 Thread Richard G. Roberto
. Case in point? Debian-* may be the first mailing list(s) in history that you need to _learn_ how to read (the mailing list, not the words -- of course you'd have to know how to read those too!) Cheers, -- "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will n

Re: Distributing a procmail filter (was: Re: splitting up the...)

1997-08-06 Thread Richard G. Roberto
th the filters and the newbies! No wonder I keep getting the "wrong" idea. On a side note, I think we should call newbies "dave" and gurus "liza" from now on. ;) You can call me "heathcoat", but I probably won't know your talking to me ;) Cheers, -- "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: How to use dip or ppp connect to Win NT

1997-08-12 Thread Richard G. Roberto
end the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBM/BQNw8SkEXoH6BBAQHbjgQAiVMjhsGB+8qg0P5GvyjxsS0tqEEhR5sH a7aS4rr3wnT4wi6EPOzIlPQdbVCPw1EEDdIOEjTEnYKXwCM

Re: [DEBIAN] Standardization?

1997-08-12 Thread Richard G. Roberto
mat? It has a lot of things we have -- including dependencies and extra meta-info, etc. Oh well. Cheers, -- "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THI

Re: /etc/init.d structure [long rant]

1997-08-13 Thread Richard G. Roberto
to just adopt the "standards" of current commercial practice? And no, SCO doesn't count. Industry leaders currently means Solaris, HP(Hitachi)/UX, AIX, Irix, and maybe DU. -- "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ppp configuring with dunc

1997-08-14 Thread Richard G. Roberto
et address for proxy ARP" also, it doesn't affect my system though. Outside of this, I'm afraid I'm out of ideas. Good luck. -- "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: /etc/init.d structure [long rant]

1997-08-14 Thread Richard G. Roberto
uot;secret" so there's no danger in adopting commercial practice for it. That may not be true of driver interfaces, etc. -- but this ain't a driver interface. Also, I want to apologize if the language in these past mails has been harsh. I got one mail complaining about it. I had

Re: /etc/init.d structure [long rant]

1997-08-15 Thread Richard G. Roberto
ble is attractive, but not as easy as it sounds. Cheers, -- "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ppp configuring with dunc (solved)

1997-08-15 Thread Richard G. Roberto
what was actually wrong, and what fixed it. But that doesn't matter I suppose, as long as it works now. Cheers, -- "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCR

Re: /etc/init.d structure [long rant]

1997-08-15 Thread Richard G. Roberto
email advertisements to this address. > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- > -- "Until we extend the

Re: Sudo vs. Super

1997-08-16 Thread Richard G. Roberto
usera. This normally amounts to the same thing as having the password for userb. Thus, no discrimination between methods. Just my 2.36 JPY DISCLAIMER: I haven't seen recent versions of these programs and some of the above issues may have been addressed by now, but its not likely. Chee

Re: Is this the Debian Philosophy? (or.... $#@!@#$ bash 2.0!)

1997-08-17 Thread Richard G. Roberto
Private mail is OK if this topic is being dubbed "unfit for public discussion". I'm still a "debian developer" in that I still maintain a debian package. I am only subscribed to this list and admintool (low traffic, but still no digest :-( ) Cheers, -- "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Blocking spam by IP number

1997-08-17 Thread Richard G. Roberto
PROTECTED] . > > ------ > -- "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Is this the Debian Philosophy? (or.... $#@!@#$ bash 2.0!)

1997-08-17 Thread Richard G. Roberto
eers, -- "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: PPP ?

1997-08-18 Thread Richard G. Roberto
nts (which is likely), dunc will get you up and running in no time (assuming you find out what COM port your modem is on.) Good luck. -- "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto --

Re: Is this the Debian Philosophy? (or.... $#@!@#$ bash 2.0!)

1997-08-18 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > From: "Richard G. Roberto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sounds above board to me. > > That's some careless wording. One would think you'd know I'm one of the > good guys by now. :-) > > Bruce

New Debian Derived OS! [was] Re: Show me the money

1997-08-22 Thread Richard G. Roberto
othing bad, and have the potential to do enourmous good (like having babies, getting tax write offs, etc.) In the future, Mike "user-vote" Hill, try to keep the language civil, lest I get all riled up and give you a serious taunting! ;-) Sheesh! -- "Until we extend the circle o

Re: New Debian Derived OS! [was] Re: Show me the money

1997-08-22 Thread Richard G. Roberto
me. :-) Cheers, -- "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Release naming ...

1997-08-23 Thread Richard G. Roberto
exception to this rule, but rather an example of it. As for the lawyers in the crowd, you guys are out of control! I always knew you guys were back yard sociologists at heart ;) Paul Serice, if you're ever in Tokyo, lets discuss politics, and beating people senseless, over a few beverages ;) Chee

Re: DUNC

1997-08-23 Thread Richard G. Roberto
_2.2_i386.deb". Cheers, -- "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: /usr/people/robertor/mail/junk

1997-08-23 Thread Richard G. Roberto
_PASSWRD "ion >" ppp Try that. Also, you can have a look at /var/adm/ppp.log and /var/adm/messages for clues as to what's going on. The new dunc package doesn't really do this part any differently, but its better in other ways. You might want to check it out (from hamm) if

Re: Release naming ...

1997-08-23 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: > On Fri, 22 Aug 1997 20:42:21 -0400 (EDT), Richard G. Roberto wrote: > > >A while ago I posted my feelings on this to Debian private, > >but it was _very_ ill received at the time. I'll restate it > >now. Commercial products

Re: killing a process

1997-08-23 Thread Richard G. Roberto
locking. I'm sure there must be some way to gdb a running kernel into "removing" the process and have init (or the parent) reap its data structures, but I don't know of it off hand. If anyone has any ADB macros to do this on Solaris, let me know. Cheers, -- "Un

[off topic] Q on CVS

1997-08-31 Thread Richard G. Roberto
for the non-debian specific question. Cheers, -- "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

OFF TOPIC [was]Re: FTP/NFS install via 3COM 3C589C?

1996-10-14 Thread Richard G. Roberto
idea what may be wrong? The Xircom card works in the same slot, with the samce network cabling. Thanks in advance Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan -- *** Bear Stearns is not re

PCMCIA problems ...

1996-10-29 Thread Richard G. Roberto
that comes with the card) and it says I'm at IRQ 11 and BASE 140h. does anybody know how I can get the cardmgr to use these values? I can provide my .opts files as well as the output from diagnose if needed. Thanks in advance. Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011

Problems installing Tex,Latex, etc.

1996-11-07 Thread Richard G. Roberto
uninstalling latex and all related components (dselect kicks ass). I got this stuff from stable. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Richard G. Roberto -- *** Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, soli

Fixed: Latex, Tex, PCMCIA

1996-11-08 Thread Richard G. Roberto
etc/pcmcia/network.opts (thanks Brian). The rest of the problems regarding latex, tex, etc. were resolved when I upgraded to libc5_5.4*. Now I just need to get X working with this laptop docked! Thanks everybody. Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL

Re: pppsetup

1996-11-09 Thread Richard G. Roberto
s brand spankin' new, so give me some time and your suggestions. Thanks Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan pppconf.tar.gz Description: ppp configuration utility (tar+gzipped)

[semi-off topic]I need a little help ...

1996-11-10 Thread Richard G. Roberto
the number pad. guess what, I don't have a number pad! Any help would be appreciated. Also, anybody have one of these working with the built in modem? Thanks in advance. Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437

A couple things I noticed with rex packages ...

1996-11-10 Thread Richard G. Roberto
That's pretty wierd. Thanks. Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan -- *** Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreement or any i

Re: A couple things I noticed with rex packages ...

1996-11-11 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, Christian Hudon wrote: > On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote: > > > Also, most refuses to run in an xterm or rxvt complaining the > > terminal isn't strong enough! That's pretty wierd. > > > > Do you have the TERMCAP

Re: Deselect issues(was R: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?)

1996-11-16 Thread Richard G. Roberto
t really clear in the on line help though. It seems that you can go to any of these headings and take action on its contents in the same manner. This is the "missing" feature people want. It seems as though its there, been there, gonna be there, but we didn't kn

Re: Is .deb still better than .rpm?

1996-11-18 Thread Richard G. Roberto
ke something like this on. Just a thought. Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan -- *** Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreement or any

Re: WinNT OS loader

1996-11-19 Thread Richard G. Roberto
inux is installed in, but thats the usual default. The boot loader just points you to that partition and lilo takes it from there. God luck! Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan -- ***

[OFF TOPIC]Re: X is painful

1996-11-20 Thread Richard G. Roberto
Bill> So far, all signs indicate that software deployed within the > Bill> X community has made the same mistakes over and over > Thats no reason to panic start thinking that NeXT step is the answer! I don't pretend to know the Right Thing to do, but I sure don't

RE: Laptop and PCMCIA

1996-11-21 Thread Richard G. Roberto
s web site to the Linux Laptop Home Page. It has working configurations for a slew of specific laptop models, commentaries, technical links, etc. Very informative. Good luck. Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan -- ***

Debian logo?

1996-11-22 Thread Richard G. Roberto
ed in having a logo for my box ;) Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan -- *** Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreement or any information

Re: Will Caldera's WABI run on a Debian system?

1996-11-22 Thread Richard G. Roberto
ping to mount my ccdata directory via smbmount and use WABI to do CCMail. I don't kow about sending, but I should be able to read. We'll see. Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan -- **

[off topic?] need functionality

1996-11-23 Thread Richard G. Roberto
live in different groups at once under tkined, which isn't allowed. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan -- *** Bear Stea

Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

1996-11-24 Thread Richard G. Roberto
This was a _private_ email! How did this wind up on TWO mailing lists? On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Martin Konold wrote: > On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Martin Konold wrote: > > > On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > >

Re: Q: re: dpkg-ftp

1996-12-19 Thread Richard G. Roberto
ts file. I've overlooked that one myself at least once. Good luck. Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan -- *** Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitatio

Printing question ...

1996-12-20 Thread Richard G. Roberto
e function to turn this on or off and I'm the only one that gets it. Thanks in advance. Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan -- *** Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recom

Re: Printing question ...

1996-12-20 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, Martin Konold wrote: > On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote: > > > Does anybody know how to prevent a banner page from being > > printed? > > Try inserting ':sh:' in you /etc/printcap. This entry means 'suppress > heade

Re: Debian and Windows95

1996-12-27 Thread Richard G. Roberto
partition could be seriously hazardous as the partition boundry may not be honored! In my opinion, Win95 is clear proof that MS is interested in writing software that sells and couldn't care less if it works. The MBR will defintely be overwritten in standard MS form. Bruce's suggestion sound like

rescue disks for a tecra

1997-01-03 Thread Richard G. Roberto
s a 1.1 upgraded, so I don't even have an older working set of 1.2 floppies. Any help would be appreciated as I'm quite hosed at the moment :-) Thanks in advance. Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011

Re: Tecra Rescue Disk

1997-01-06 Thread Richard G. Roberto
r kernel (2.0.6) but I can't run lilo correctly. I tried to do a chroot, but it gives an error about not being able to resolve 'chroot' symbols. This is probably on account of the slimmed down libc on the recue set. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Rich

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-08 Thread Richard G. Roberto
That doesn't mean anything. I throw CDs against the wall all the time for no reason at all. Are you sure they were frustrated? Maybe they're just as fascinated as I with winging 'em across the room! ;-) Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A few questions.

1997-01-08 Thread Richard G. Roberto
modprobe: No dependancy information for module > /lib/modules/2.0.27/fs/isofs.o > what could cause this (& what would fix it :) I don't know what might have caused it, but try a "depmod -a". That may fix it. Manoj's answer to

Re: PCMCIA problem on Toshiba Satellite Pro 410 CDT

1997-01-09 Thread Richard G. Roberto
in the dinstall process. That will only confuse the pcmcia startup. Let the pcmcia package take care of configuring the network. Good luck. Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan -- ***

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-09 Thread Richard G. Roberto
Manoj?) are working on dselect back end type stuff that addresses this ordering issue. That would take the burden off of dpkg to do this when the new back end is in use anyway. Thanks Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan -- ***

Re: Multible search and replace?

1997-01-09 Thread Richard G. Roberto
s a global operation for each line specified (in this case all lines). The global specification is needed if you want all incidents of the search text on each line replaced. So, in vi just type: :%s///g Very simple. The text can contain pretty much anything, but some stuff may need to be esaped with

Re: A few questions.

1997-01-10 Thread Richard G. Roberto
his would need to depend on kernel sources of course. Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan -- *** Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreemen

A Handful of problems ...

1997-01-10 Thread Richard G. Roberto
-lp2c" it still fails. It doesn't seem to be able to "find" the functions defined in the p2c.h header, although I don't know why. I have p2c 1.20-2, libc5 5.4.13-1, and gcc 2.7.2.1-2. Again I'd gladly provide more info to anyone interested. Thanks in

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-10 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: > When Chow Chi-Ming wrote, I replied: > > This seems easily addressed by honoring the Users' EDITOR environment > variable setting, so why not? Its not always set. Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-79

Re: improvements

1997-01-10 Thread Richard G. Roberto
one needs to decide on which packages go in the canned profile and which don't. This needs to be a dynamic list that requires active management much like the existing release and it would not replace any part of the existing release process, so it means more work. This really should be done b

Xnest ???

1997-01-10 Thread Richard G. Roberto
nts/100dpi/' Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' Any ideas? I haven't followed the 3.2 posts too closely and the archives only show me a couple of messages between oct and nov, all with no title. I think something is wrong there. Thanks in advance. Richard G.

Q: How can I change the xaw libs?

1997-01-11 Thread Richard G. Roberto
I installed the new xaw3d package out of curiosity. It has become the one used in X at the moment. I'd like to change back to xaw95 (which is still installed) but don't know how. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - To

Xnest problem

1997-01-11 Thread Richard G. Roberto
th in /etc/X11/XF86Config it'll work, but I don't know how to feed Xnest a font path. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan -- *** Bear

Problems with rex+bo mixed bag ...

1997-01-13 Thread Richard G. Roberto
ther info would be helpful here? Thanks in advance. Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan -- *** Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreement

RE: mime and elm (was RE: X-wm question and ZipDrive)

1997-01-14 Thread Richard G. Roberto
r" I can see the raw stream and the text is not encoded. Sometimes I do see a funky header though. Is this header what's confusing elm? Why don't you just put pine on the darned thing? MIME is one of those "good ideas" that got ignored long enough that it gained credibi

Re: Help with Laserjets

1997-01-14 Thread Richard G. Roberto
s makes this filter genarally useful for remote printing. Hope this helps. You should really read the howto docs though as there is a lot of valuable info in there. Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan -- ***

Re: mime and elm (was RE: X-wm question and ZipDrive)

1997-01-14 Thread Richard G. Roberto
ho has the mime-capable elm. We don't have pine on this server either. :-( Try talking the SA into installing Pine or making the above mods to the system wide mimetype or mailcap files. You should be able to read list mail under solaris 5.5.1! Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437

Re: Troubleshooting (was "Re: DEBIAN 1.2 DISKETTE PROBLEMS UPDATE")

1997-01-14 Thread Richard G. Roberto
newbie? Newbie questions should be asked on debian-user. Dumb questions should be asked on debian-devel. :-) Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan -- *** Bear Stearns is not responsib

Re: Sendmail redirects all *local* mail to domain MX ?????

1997-01-14 Thread Richard G. Roberto
ail that mentioned a sendmail.cw file. Sorry for ranting ... Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan -- *** Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or a

Re: Best Debian CD?

1997-01-14 Thread Richard G. Roberto
"disk 26 of the 43 cd internet bonanza!!" and it can't be a gold CDR with Debian scribbled on it in black marker. I need to be able to show it to other people (like my boss) ;-) Does anyone know of a CD for sale that looks presentable (i.e. has an actual screened or printed face)? Th

Re: Best Debian CD?

1997-01-16 Thread Richard G. Roberto
e and makes a "glass" master which is used to blow out the volume order ($2000US for 1000 CDs). This may be impracticle for Debian which changes frequently. Of course, once we're at a "stable" stable release ;-), it should be OK to pump a few out. Thanks for all the feedb

Re: Best Debian CD?

1997-01-16 Thread Richard G. Roberto
I don't think we need to choose between being geekware for universities or being commercially viable. We can be both technically superior _free_ software, and have commercial appeal. There's just more work involved :-( Again, my apologies to the list and to any individuals. Richard G. Rob

bash question ...

1997-01-18 Thread Richard G. Roberto
acters. Even on the command line: bash$ xplaycd & ; xmixer & bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;' Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan -- **

Re: bash question ...

1997-01-18 Thread Richard G. Roberto
-shell everywhere. The real solution is to use a more sophisticated backup and restore mechanism, but that's another war. The signal handling is also not working. I do some trapping in the script that gets ignored under bash for no apparent reason. Oh well. Richard G.

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