re: for making /var bigger

2003-01-26 Thread Sean
o indicate that the new partition gets mounted onto /var/log and tada. More drive space. I used to do the symlink thing, but that often lead to spaghetti symlinks, becoming more of a headache to manage than the lack of space was. Anyway, that's just my 2c. Sean On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 02:34, A

Re: Building an IMAP server

2003-02-01 Thread Sean
Flag:} {!eq {$received_protocol}{spam-scanned}} {!eq {$received_pr otocol}{local}} } {1}{0}}" driver = smartuser transport = spamcheck Everything else was just apt-get install and go. Sean On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 08:08, Hans Wilmer wrote: > Hi! > > Currently I'm tryi

Re: Ongoing named trouble

2003-02-09 Thread Sean
, but oftentimes when I start to get annoyed with a certain piece of Linux based software, I just pull up freshmeat and find something else that might give me more of the solution that I'm looking for. Sean On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 14:07, Dave Sherohman wrote: > I have, for quite some time, had trouble

Re: Ext3 vs. ReiserFS

2002-11-23 Thread Sean
Vi Rocks! Emacs Sucks! Oh wait wrong flame war. On Saturday 23 November 2002 03:40 pm, Aedificator wrote: > What are the differences between the Ext3 filesystem and ReiserFS? Which > one is better in terms of speed, efficency ...? > > Zee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Desperate for Mplayer apt sources

2003-01-04 Thread Sean
the main site http://www.mplayerhq.hu and compile it. Sean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Easiest Nameserver

2003-01-16 Thread Sean
; I use dnscache from djbdns (apt-get install djbdns-installer) .. it's a piece of cake to get setup, and very very memory efficient. BIND was chewing up 4-5 MBs of RAM just to be a caching nameserver, and dnscache sits there using around 200k, while performing faster. Just my 2c. Sean --

Re: glibc2.1 with slink... will stuff break?

1999-06-08 Thread Sean
If you really need glibc2.1, upgrade to potato. Just sticking glibc2.1 into slink will undoubtedly do nasty things. Sean Craig McPherson wrote: > Can anyone point me towards a document on installing glibc2.1 > under slink? I could have sworn that I found such a reference > somewhere

Re: 8MB PCI 1600x1200@76Hz video card suggestion?

1999-06-09 Thread Sean
I've often wanted to go with a TNT card, but I'm concerned about the card's heat output. Every query I've ever made about "just how hot does this card run" has been left largely unanswered, which has just increased my trepidation about the card in general. Sean

Scanner, Win95, Samba

1999-06-10 Thread Sean
uld be one more reason not to have to reboot. Thanks. Sean

Re: RPM packages

1999-06-11 Thread Sean
t's worked very well for the few times that I've needed it. It will convert DEB <=> RPM <=> TGZ. > > > Is it really possible? If so, it will cause any damage to my system? If you're concerned about an alienized package, just be sure to view its contents before installing. Sean

Re: HTML Map maker?

1999-06-11 Thread Sean
If it's an ImageMap that you're wanting, check out the ImageMap plugin for the GIMP. A search at http://www.freshmeat.net should uncover it. Sean Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Anyone know of an HTML Map maker utility? > (Give it an image file as input, then click at your hot spots

Re: problems with egcc

1999-06-26 Thread Sean
Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > I've installed egcc as in potato, I get this error message, while > trying to compile linux: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux # make xconfig > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) > make -C scripts kconfig.tk > make[1]: Entering directory `/scratc

Re: Allowing non-root users to start pppd.

1999-06-26 Thread Sean
Brad wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Marshal Wong wrote: > > > I use linux on a home computer, so I'm the only user, pretty much. It's > > just a pain to always type the root password to start my internet > > connection with pon. I was wondering what would be the best way to > > allow normal users

Re: Wine x slink

1999-07-02 Thread Sean
en my experience. Sean Valdemir Melechco Carvalho wrote: > Is there a more recent (>981018) wine slink package? If so, where I could > find it? > Thanks in advance. > Valdemir > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: update-menus not working? A bug?

1999-07-13 Thread Sean
so on. Sean Phillip Deackes wrote: > Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > => > => You may need to restart windomaker to get it to notice the changes. > => > > Thanks, but that doesn't work either. > > -- > Phillip Deackes > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Potato upgrade and Perl warnings...

1999-07-16 Thread Sean
that cannot be upgraded without changing the install status of another package will be left at their current version ...." Sean Bob Nielsen wrote: > > apt-get upgrade won't list which packages it wants to upgrade, but will > list new packages, packages it will remove and pack

Re: Good HTML editor for debian Linux?

1999-07-21 Thread Sean
ery often. I also don't know about the template or preprocessor abilities of either editor, as these are features that I don't yet require. Sean Chris Beaumont wrote: > Hello, > > I'm just curious what people are using to write HTML with on Debian, > > The ava

Re: kde sources.list entry

1999-07-22 Thread Sean
I'm running potato and have the following line in my /etc/apt/sources.list file for kde stuff: deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato kde kde2 contrib sean egm2@jps.net wrote: > I need a kde sources.list entry so I can use dselect/apt to get/update > kde packages in the U.S. The ftp

Re: Good HTML editor for debian Linux?

1999-07-22 Thread Sean
ugh! Halis Osman Erkan wrote: > Why do not you try to use Netscape Composer? > > Halis Osman ERKAN > Ege University Dep. Of Comp Eng. > Sophomore >

RE: Transparent xterms under Debian

1998-10-02 Thread Sean
On 02-Oct-98 Shao Ying Zhang wrote: > > Hi All, > > When checking out a few screenshots of enlightenment, I saw xterms that > appeared to be transparent. > > Does anyone know how I could set this up in Debian. Zhang, it is no Xterm, rather it is a program called Eterm. I am working on getting

Re: Debian CDROMS

1999-03-29 Thread Sean
And a 20GB hard drive is selling for what? . . . about $350 . . . Seems that distribution size shouldn't be much of an issue. Sean > :-> "George" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have noticed that a lot of FTP sites are dropping Debia

Re: TrueType Fonts

1999-03-29 Thread Sean
using the $HOME/.xinitrc, which gets used first by X unless it is missing. In my .xinitrc file I have: xfstt --sync & xset fp+ unix/:7100 startkde Sean Doug Dine wrote: > > Thank you. We're on a roll here now. Only question now is, how do I > start xfstt u

Re: hamm to slink with upgrade

1999-03-29 Thread Sean
"/cdrom", then type: mkdir /cdrom umount /mnt/cdrom (assuming you're already mounted on the cdrom . . if not then skip this line) mount /cdrom Sean

Re: Mount for normal user

1999-03-29 Thread Sean
Add users to the appropriate line in your /etc/fstab file. e.g. /dev/hdc /cdromiso9660noauto,ro,users00 Sean Sami Dalouche wrote: > How can I mount devices (CDrom / HD) as a normal user. > For example : > $ mount /dev/hdb /mnt/hdb > > mount: only root can mo

Re: not booting into Xwindows

1999-03-30 Thread Sean
Remove the xdm script from your runlevel directory. If you're using runlevel 2 (most probably), then go to /etc/rc2.d, and delete the S**xdm package where ** will be some number. Sean Lev Lvovsky wrote: > can anyone tell me how to keep my computer from booting into Xwindows? >

Re: Using powersave Features on monitor

1999-03-30 Thread Sean
But does that really send it into powersave mode? When setterm blanks the screen, the CRT guns are still running, as the back of the monitor is still warm to the touch, whereas when Windows puts the monitor into powersave mode, the back of the monitor becomes cool. Sean Hamori Andras wrote

Re: RedHat -> Debian

1999-04-02 Thread Sean
bian after backing up things like user profiles, etc. Sean Alex toropov wrote: > Hi, > > Has anybody successful experience in moving > from RedHat dist. (with only base packages installed) to debian > without full reinstalling ? > > May be you can give just some basic tips (st

Re: netscape ignore's clicks

1999-04-04 Thread Sean
doesn't seem to go above that, and will even occasionally release some of it. Sean John Leget wrote: > Dang , id hoped this problem would dissapear, guess not. > > Netscape v4.51 ( 4.5 prior) on 2.2.5 , potato, windowmaker > > I occasionally find that netscape gets 't

Re: What do I do with tarballs?

1999-04-05 Thread Sean
will be in /usr/local/bin, and assuming that is in your path (if it isn't it should be), simply typing the filename will run the software. It's possible to get fancier with this, but that will come with time and after you've read more documentation. Sean Stefan Langerman wrot

Re: upgrade to slink

1999-04-05 Thread Sean
hours to a day or so. After it's done downloading all the stuff, it will install it, and you'll be ready to roll. You don't even have to reboot. This utility alone would be enough to make me stay with Debian, even if there weren't a thousand other reasons as well. Sean

Re: poff wont poff

1999-04-06 Thread Sean
All poff does is execute a killall pppd command, therefore it requires no arguments, as it will take down any pppd link, regardless of how that link was established. Sean John Leget wrote: > Hi, > > Running kernel 2.2.5-ac3 , potato ( unstable ). poff version 0.9.4 > > "po

RE: K6-2 and debian ?

1998-12-10 Thread Sean
> > Anyone on this list running a K6-2/300: please do a dmesg and look for that > "386/387" line. Any differences ? > > (i suspect the FPU to be broken) gestalt $ dmesg|grep coupling Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting This is on a virgin Hamm system running

RE: KDE

1998-12-10 Thread Sean
Once the QPL (QT's new license) gets sorted out, I expect to see KDE back in Debian fully. Until then a few developers keep KDE on their web sites, a quick search thru the mailing list archives on www.debian.org will show you the way to go.

Lowmemory Installation Help

1998-12-13 Thread Sean
27;ve also tried making a boot floppy, but the installation program seems to hang when creating a filesystem on that floopy. I don't know what is happening being new to this system, but I would appreciate any advice or help you could give me. Thanks, Sean McIlwain

RE: 'Segmentation Fault' - how do i find out what thr problem is

1998-12-16 Thread Sean
Sorry if this is too basic . a segmentation fault (seg fault) is a UNIX app crashing. The most common cause is a pointer writing or reading an incorrect memory location. Possibly you are not compiling the bin correctly (leaving off a libray or a define). to find out why you can use gdb (gnu

RE: X Windows

1998-12-16 Thread Sean
> > Which X Windows package would you suggest I load and install ? Are there any > special drivers I should load? > Beyond the standard X (x-base, fonts) tseng labs cards either run on the svga or the w32 server. Most use the svga, a few benefit from the w32.

Re: Netscape 4.61 - ???

1999-08-14 Thread Sean
++2.7, xpm4.7 I was using the 4.61 package(s), but after switching to the libc5 version I've had no more problems. You can get the libc5 version here: ftp.netscape.org/pub/communicator/4.6/english/unix/supported/linux20_libc5 Sean Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > Ok, is there anyone actually u

Re: [OT] Best sound card for Linux

1999-08-14 Thread Sean
en to MIDI and on the odd occasions when I do, timidity does a fine job. Sean Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > Has anyone got a card they're happy with?

Re: Netscape Error

1999-08-15 Thread Sean
the libc5 version, you will probably have to do the same. Sean Cheshire wrote: > ..I'm confused. Netscape is telling me that I'm missing something I'm > pretty sure I've got. cheshire:/usr/local/netscape# ./netscape > ./netscape: can't load library '

Re: OFF-TOPIC: hardware advice needed.

1999-08-15 Thread Sean
Go for the cheapest option, definately (I'm assuming that's the Celeron-option). And get as much RAM as possible. Just my 2c. Sean Hans van den Boogert wrote: > Next week I'm going to buy a notebook (Acer Travelmate 510 series). If you > could choose, what would you

Re: light spreadsheet for stable?

1999-09-01 Thread Sean
eighs in after compilation at around 700k, although if you stripped the binary this would probably be a good deal smaller. I haven't really messed with either one enough to be able to say which is better, but from what you describe, one or the other might fit the bill for you. Good l

Re: 3dfx module and Quake 3 Arena

1999-09-21 Thread Sean
You might want to check out http://www.linux3d.org for some more information. Sean Marshal Wong wrote: > I was wondering what the 3dfx module form 3dfx-source does. I have a > Voodoo3 and I installed the module, but I don't know what it is used > for. Any help? > > I guess in

Re: GoZilla for Linux

1999-09-21 Thread Sean
he directories you ftp to. Sean Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone knows I there is an ftp client for Linux Debian with, more > or less, the same functionality as GoZilla for Windows? > > Some of the more interesting caracteristics of GoZilla are: > > *

Re: Mathematica

1999-10-01 Thread Sean
package, but SMP support would be cool. Sean Nathan Smith wrote: > Hello all, > > We're (I'm) setting up a computer lab here at Univ. Texas at Tyler > (nevermind the address above), and I'd like to run Debian as the OS in the > lab. We're going to need to have Math

Re: Why am I getting ? instead of apostrophe in Netscape?

1999-10-01 Thread Sean
's editing history. Sean Phillip Deackes wrote: > Recently I have noticed I am getting a question mark instead of an > apostrophe on web pages. The apostrophe works fine everywhere else (') > > Any ideas what is wrong? > > -- > Phillip Deackes > Debian Linux (Potato

Re: KDE/Qt Status in Debian dists

1999-04-07 Thread Sean
ed to recompile & install. Sean Terry Hancock wrote: > Hi, > I've installed the "Hamm" (=2.0) distribution of Debian Linux from CD, > and I intended from the > start to install KDE as quickly as I could, but Debian has since gone to > "Slink" (=2.1). > &g

Re: KDE/Qt Status in Debian dists

1999-04-07 Thread Sean
J.H.M. Dassen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 05:11:27 -0400, Sean wrote: > > Just bypass the whole package manager, download the source, compile and > > install. > > Bypassing the package manager is usually a bad idea, unless you compile the > source to install out

real player 5.0

1999-04-10 Thread Sean
real player will start up, but unfortunately that's all it will do. Anybody have any idea on how to fix this? Thanx. Sean

Re: real player 5.0

1999-04-10 Thread Sean
That did it, thanks a million!! Sean Igor Helman wrote: > Try putting this line in Netscape (under > Edit::Preferences::Navigator::Applications) > for the RealAudio type : > > rvplayer %s & > > Put this in the Application box. > Always worked for me before (but

Emacs

1999-04-11 Thread Sean
lay . . . but the size of this thing has made a little more than hesitant. Thanx. Sean -- Patageometry, n.: The study of those mathematical properties that are invariant under brain transplants.

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?

1999-04-12 Thread Sean
Yeah, but lyx wants stuff like libc6 from potato and other essentials that will break a working slink dist. Good point, tho. Sean Mark Brown wrote: > On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 06:34:03PM -0400, Jim Foltz wrote: > > > I don't want to run the unstable tree at this time,

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?

1999-04-12 Thread Sean
I did not realize this . . . thanks for pointing it out :) Sean dyer wrote: > Sean wrote: > > > Yeah, but lyx wants stuff like libc6 from potato and other essentials that > > will break > > a working slink dist. > > I have lyx 1.0 on my slink system. Lyx has a de

Re: printing problem

1999-04-13 Thread Sean
What does your /etc/printcap look like? When you used magicfilterconfig, did you exit by typing done, or did you control-C . . . (had a friend who kept control-C-ing to exit magicfilterconfig . . . he never mentioned that point, and I was baffled for weeks) Sean Mans Joling wrote: > Hi,

Re: printing problem

1999-04-13 Thread Sean
port instead of /dev/lp0. Sean Mans Joling wrote: > > The command as root : echo "text" > /dev/lp1 works. > Mans > -- Beggar to well-dressed businessman: "Could you spare $20.95 for a fifth of Chivas?"

Alan Cox's patches

1999-04-13 Thread Sean
Are the ac-kernel patches applied in order? For instance, if I wanted to apply patch #6, would I first have to apply patch 1->5? Thanx. Sean -- For an idea to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.

Re: Alan Cox's patches

1999-04-13 Thread Sean
Cool beans . . . thanx. Sean scratch wrote: > Nono, just apply patch #6, they're not sequential. Maybe make a copy of > your /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/linux.ac though. For safety. Then: > > cd /usr/src/linux.ac > patch -p1 < linuxacpatch > > That's it! >

Re: Help! Kernel woes.

1999-04-15 Thread Sean
ot;isapnptools" package? The only way I can ever get sound to work with soundblasters is to say M to sound, but say Y to all the drivers (OSS sound modules, etc). Please disregard if you've already done this. Sean -- Adler's Distinction: Language is all that separates us from the lower animals, and from the bureaucrats.

Re: What is x11amp?

1999-04-15 Thread Sean
Playing mp3s from a cutesy windowed app that looks like winamp. Sean Armin Wegner wrote: > What is the program x11amp good for? > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- That's what she said.

Re: Problems with Diamond Viper V550

1999-04-15 Thread Sean
Get the latest version . . . xfree86 3.3.3.1 And by the way, HTML mail sucks ;) Sean Sebastian Lindenmüller wrote: > Hi everybody! Does anybody know how to configure the Diamond Viper > V550 with XF86Setup? In the list of supported Grafik-Cards is only the > Viper V330. -SLi

Re: Resizing ext2 filesystems

1999-04-15 Thread Sean
of two copies of the /usr directory, at least one would be recoverable. This is probably being over-cautious, but at the time I REALLY didn't want to have to do a reinstall, etc. Hope this works for you, it did for me. Sean Max wrote: > I have a problem in that I'm quickly running

Re: Debian installation

1999-04-15 Thread Sean
I don't know, but you might want to look into how a UMSDOS installation works. Sean Marie-Theres Geller wrote: > Can I install Windows on one disk and linux on another disk that is free, > without formating it? > Would be great if you could help me! &g

Re: Resizing ext2 filesystems

1999-04-16 Thread Sean
Max wrote: > su > cp /usr/sbin/resize2fs / #since I'll need to umount /usr Just a suggestion, but you might as well put it under /bin that way it will be in your path. Best of luck. Sean -- The man who sees, on New Year's day, Mount Fuji, a hawk, and an eggplant is

Re: corel on linux

1999-04-16 Thread Sean
a non-profit organization > Boy, I can already hear the non-free directory swelling. Sean -- The man who sees, on New Year's day, Mount Fuji, a hawk, and an eggplant is forever blessed. -- Old Japanese proverb

Re: RedHat need not apply

1999-04-21 Thread Sean
way by the OS remaining stable, and Debian benefits by financial and political backing by a powerful software company. Anyway, not that anyone really cares about what I think of all this. Just thought I'd throw in my 2-cents. Sean -- ... relaxed in the manner of a man who has no

Re: RedHat need not apply

1999-04-22 Thread Sean
. . I utterly despised Yast. Anyway, I guess all I really wanted to say was that I don't think the fact the Debian doesn't 'live on the edge' of development will be a real issue for either Corel or their Linux-software. Sean Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > One proble

Re: ISA vs PCI Modem

1999-04-24 Thread Sean
gt; That's okay, we can all migrate to external modems. "Das blinkenlights!!!" Sean -- The trouble with a lot of self-made men is that they worship their creator.

Re: Recommendation for best Linux book

1999-04-27 Thread Sean
h, so "Linux in a Nutshell" is never far from my desk. Sean Steve Gore wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 01:38:03PM -0700, Cliff Draper wrote: > > I'm looking for a good intro/intermediate Linux book for a friend. > > Any recommendations? Is the O'Re

Re: Scanner

1999-04-27 Thread Sean
So why is it that parallel port scanners don't tend to be supported, but their SCSI cousins are. I wouldn't think that there would be that much difference between the hardware on a SCSI scanner vs a parallel port scanner. Sean -- I never met a piece of chocolate I didn't like.

Re: Apps For Debian?

1999-05-11 Thread Sean
If you're using KDE, you might want to look at WebMaker. It's not a WYSIWYG, but it seems to be pretty nice anyway. http://www.services.ru/linux/webmaker/ Sean Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> "LW" == Lawrence Wickline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >

Re: QT for debian?

1999-05-11 Thread Sean
I think there's one in the unstable tree, but I've had great luck with compiling the source. I find that easier in the case of qt & kde than waiting for *.deb files. Sean Alan wrote: > > Hello, i'v been searching for a qt *.deb package for debian with no luck. Can

Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-11 Thread Sean
ne has any comments on how "stable" the unstable distribution is in general. Sean J Horacio MG wrote: > > ~> > I have some packages which require version 2.1.1 from libc6 (which I > ~> > expect it can be found in potato). My question is, do I have to expect > ~> &g

Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?

1999-05-16 Thread Sean
also put the proposed-updates link in my sources.list file, and upgraded to the packages present at that location. As I had not done this previously, I suspect this is where the problem is, so I'm thinking about reinstalling, upgrading, and then NOT upgrading again with the proposed-updates.

Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?

1999-05-17 Thread Sean
that) instead of ifchains(or something like that). I still don't understand why this works or why the problem has never happened to me before now with the 2.2 kernels under both hamm and slink, but thought this info might be of use to you. Sean >My next guess: incorrect serial port settings

Re: having trouble with kernel 2.2.5 and ppp

1999-05-17 Thread Sean
This sounds like the problem described in the "Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?" thread. I don't know why this happens or why this kludge works, but am actively trying to find out. Until then, if you want you can try to kill inetd, and see if that helps. Sean -Original Me

Re: How Can I install WindowMaker 0.53?

1999-05-17 Thread Sean
27;ve done with my Hamm installation. And when I upgrade to Slink everything still works (as far as Window Maker goes). I also like to compile things like Window Maker because of the fairly quick rate at which new versions can come out. Sean Rodrigo Viana Rocha wrote: > I got a GNU/Debian/

Re: stable "gnome" window manager

1999-05-18 Thread Sean
I don't know how well it works with gnome, but I think Window Maker is pretty stable. Sean Oz Dror wrote: > I am looking for a gnome "stable" (or almost stable) window manager > > any idea

Re: Groups: Howto and New?

1999-05-18 Thread Sean
group to something like users, and then add all the users accounts you want to have access to this folder to the users group in /etc/passwd. And of course then do the chmod thing just as above. Sean J Horacio MG wrote: > I have a directory within /home (ok, probably not the right place for >

Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-05-19 Thread Sean
I thought KDE 1.1.1 needed QT 1.44 . . . Sean Alec Smith wrote: > Look on ftp.debian.org and its mirrors under unstable. QT 1.42 can be > found there, and does work with Slink. > > On Tue, 18 May 1999, Michael Friddell wrote: > > > Does anyone know where I can get QT 1.4

Re: Separate list for newbies

1999-05-19 Thread Sean
do-advice from pounds of people who wish they knew what was going on. Sorry to rant, but I think the sequestering of newbies has pretty severe fundamental problems. Sean Pollywog wrote: > > > I was thinking the same thing a few days ago. debian-newbie sounds good to > me.

Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?

1999-05-19 Thread Sean
Like a dolt, I didn't even recognize this. I had the exact same problem that Kris has described, and after a reinstall, I noticed it went away "automagically". Of course, I don't have ipmasq installed this time. *doh!* BTW, HTML-mail SUCKS. :) Sean Johnny Thompson wr

Re: Separate list for newbies

1999-05-19 Thread Sean
Not true at all. I have many more questions now that I have a clue as to what I'm doing than I did when I first started using Linux and was pretty much clueless about what was going on. It's kinda like that saying: The more you know the more you realize how much you don't know.

Re: StarOffice 5.1 SOLVES Glibc 2.1 (potato) incompatibility

1999-05-20 Thread Sean
no it's not, I'm downloading SO5.1 right now . . . I'm at 75% -- woo hoo! Sean Pollywog wrote: > On 20-May-99 Bernard de Rubinat wrote: > > StarOffice 5.1 (just released) works with potato. When you install, it will > > complain that it does not find glibc 2.0.7,

Re: wvdial, pon ,poff

1999-05-20 Thread Sean
Sounds like you're just typing pon and that's it. You need to give it the name of a chatscript. If you run pppconfig, and then type pon it should work. Sean tf wrote: > hey all > > I need to be able to connect. until recently, pon dialed, but left my > connection

Re: A Linux CIA(Red Hat Bruhaha)?

1999-05-21 Thread Sean
Freshmeat is fine here. Sean George Bonser wrote: > On Fri, 21 May 1999, Jayson Baird wrote: > > > I say we form a watchdog committee called the Linux CIA :) it seems like > > slashdot's crash came from the grassy knoll and NOT the book > > depository...hmm

Unsupported protocols??

1999-05-21 Thread Sean
, etc Does anybody know what this stuff means? Sean

Re: Unsupported protocols??

1999-05-21 Thread Sean
n has always worked fine w/ Windows & Linux and is to a 33.6K modem pool. Sean "Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote: > Some kinda error I'd guess. I took a look at the assigned numbers RFC and the > only one > of those defined is 0x7f and its: > > 007freserve

Re:mail clients

1999-05-23 Thread Sean
I've been wanting to set up fetchmail/exim/mutt but I've been having a hell of a time figuring out the syntax for the .forward file. The docs talk about using the .forward file, but nowhere is there an example of what one should look like. Sean

Re: Staroffice 5.1 under slink

1999-05-23 Thread Sean
Personally I like lftp. It allows you to resume broken downloads among other nifty things. Sean Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > I don't understand why they don't split the one big tar into pieces. > With the daily use of the telephone, it is nearly impossible

Making personal packages

1999-05-23 Thread Sean
documentation must exist, but I don't know where to start looking. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Sean

Re: setting up a news server

1999-05-23 Thread Sean
I like slrn. It was simple for me to configure (which means it must be _real_ easy), and runs great. Sean Matt Garman wrote: > Hello: > > I want to set up a NNTP server for reading Usenet news offline. I was > reading in the ISP-Hookup-HOWTO about some possible solutions, >

Re: setting up a news server

1999-05-23 Thread Sean
Then you need to get slrnpull, as it allows you to pull down newsgroups either manually or as a cron job. Sean Matt Garman wrote: > On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 06:41:42PM -0400, Sean wrote: > > I like slrn. It was simple for me to configure (which means it must be > > _real_ easy

Re: File Manager?

1999-05-25 Thread Sean
check out /etc/lynx.cfg and scroll down till you find the part about Save Space. Sean shadowze wrote: > After 2 days of reading I cant find the following. Keeping in mind Im a new > user; > 1) Where is the default download path for Lynx so I can find files I have > downloade

Re: Web site shuts down Netscape

1999-05-25 Thread Sean
It works fine with Netscape 4.6 Sean Pollywog wrote: > On 24-May-99 Kent West wrote: > > My cousin sent the following link to me: > > > > http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Castle/7393/Police.html > > > > It shuts down my Netscape 4.51 also. > > --

Re: Debian applications - where to get them???

1999-05-25 Thread Sean
It's always seemed easier to me to just download the nescape binaries straight from Nescape's site instead of messing with Debian's multiple-nescape packages. That way you also get to keep up with the latest (hopefully increasingly bugfixed) versions. Sean Bob Nielsen wrote:

Re: Staroffice 5.1 under slink

1999-05-25 Thread Sean
you might want to look at lftp Sean Angus Claydon wrote: > Excuse me hopping on here, but I liked the hamm version of ncftp in > this regard. The beta version that comes with slink , ncftp3 if I > remember correctly, doesn't handle resuming downloads as yet. >

XF86Setup segmentation fault

1999-05-27 Thread Sean
to the command line, where the comment "Segmentation Fault" always awaits me. This isn't a super big deal for me personally as X is still functioning perfectly well with the config file that was left over from Slink, but I was wondering if anyone else was having this problem and/or if there was a fix. Sean

Re: Communicator 4.6

1999-05-29 Thread Sean
I downloaded the non-distribution-specific binaries from netscape's ftp site, and everything has worked so far. I'm using potato. Sean Robert Rati wrote: > Has anyone successfully installed Communicator 4.6? Dselect is insisting > on a dependency with netscape-base4 ver >

Re: Non-X11 jpeg viewer desired

1999-05-29 Thread Sean
check out the zgv program. Sean Dan Smith wrote: > Hi. Is there a package in Debian to view jpegs which > does NOT use X11, GNOME or any other stuff like that? > Please send replies to me directly, rather than to the >

Re: Non-X11 jpeg viewer desired

1999-05-29 Thread Sean
And that's a problem??? Sean Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 28 May, 1999 à 09:42:20PM -0700, Dan Smith wrote: > > Hi. Is there a package in Debian to view jpegs which > > does NOT use X11, GNOME or any other stuff like that? > > Please send replie

Debain and FAT32/UMSDOS

1999-06-03 Thread Sean
Can I install Debain/GNU linux on a FAT32/UMSDOS partition like Zip Slackware?

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