Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work under X?

1996-10-07 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
> From: Arrigo Triulzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hello, > > > > sorry for writing to you direct but this is urgent: it seems > > that under the Debian X11 installation it is impossible to reboot the > > machine at the Xlogin prompt under xdm. I know this is a Good Idea > > (tm) but we are runnin

Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work under X?

1996-10-07 Thread Bruce Perens
I don't know terribly much about X. Someone else please help this user. Thanks Bruce From: Arrigo Triulzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello, > > sorry for writing to you direct but this is urgent: it seems > that under the Debian X11 installation it is impossible to reboot the >

Re: anyone interseted in pretty xa3wd scrollbars?

1996-10-07 Thread Joey Hess
> I like them a lot. -- exempt that, at least in 1.2, _they_don't_work_. > Especially with xterm, something (I don't quite remember what) goes > wrong (this used to bexplained in the README), and they become very, > very clumsy to use (although they do still look nice). Yes, well, I like them beca

Re: pine+netscape

1996-10-07 Thread Brian C. White
> > When i select my packages, i do pine+netscape. > > Pine (and I believe Netscape) are in the non-free section. Unless you have > downloaded this section from one of the mirrors, it is not likely to be on > any CDs. Plus, with netscape, you will only get an installation program. > You will need

Re: /dev/mouse

1996-10-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Le Tran wrote: > I have a ps/2 bus mouse and Debian-1.1. It seems that /dev/mouse > cannot be found. I tried it with gpm -t ps2 -R. Do i need to > recompile the kernel with ps2 mouse support? I would think this > should be included with the distribution. Any thought? Thanks.

Debian-1.1 and Latex

1996-10-07 Thread Le Tran
I install Tex and Latex with Debian-1.1. I could to Tex but I could not do Latex. When doing Latex, I got a message like: This is Tex, Version 3.1415 (C version 6.1) I can't find the default format file! I saw a similar note on the net regarding the same problem. Is it a bug and how to fix it?

/dev/mouse

1996-10-07 Thread Le Tran
I have a ps/2 bus mouse and Debian-1.1. It seems that /dev/mouse cannot be found. I tried it with gpm -t ps2 -R. Do i need to recompile the kernel with ps2 mouse support? I would think this should be included with the distribution. Any thought? Thanks. Le -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIS

Re: pine+netscape

1996-10-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, besnard wrote: > When i select my packages, i do pine+netscape. Pine (and I believe Netscape) are in the non-free section. Unless you have downloaded this section from one of the mirrors, it is not likely to be on any CDs. Plus, with netscape, you will only get an installation

Re: Question

1996-10-07 Thread Guy Maor
On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, George Bonser wrote: > I looked at one of the readme files and it told me that the 1.1.x dir > has updated stuff so I suppose a secondary question is, what is the > current revision? I bought a CDROM set this weekend (Infomagic) with a > 1.1.4 distribution on it. You should in

pine+netscape

1996-10-07 Thread besnard
When i select my packages, i do pine+netscape. But when i type pine at the prompt or netscape under X, those commands are unknown. I tried to install manually netscape but it doesn't work. Can someone help me? Franck BESNARD -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscrib

Re: System hangs on SCSI reset (AHA 1522).

1996-10-07 Thread Gerhard Schneider
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Paul Christenson [N3EOP] wrote: > Christopher R. Hertel wrote: > > > > This is with two flavors of Slacware and with Debian. It seems to be a > > problem that my SCSI adapter has with Linux in general. > > > > On Sep 22, 6:34pm, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > Subject: Re: Sys

Re: anyone interseted in pretty xa3wd scrollbars?

1996-10-07 Thread joost witteveen
> I've finally upgraded the arrow-style scrollbar to 3D Motif-like > scrollbar with arrows written by Dimitri P. Bouras. > > Well, it looks like xaw3d is going to have 3d scrollbars, like 'em or not, > as soon as it gets upgraded from version 1.2a. I like 3d Scrolbarrs I

Bug in UUCP package ?

1996-10-07 Thread Ronald van Loon
Dear Debian Users, Recently I installed de Taylor UUCP package and configured it for a friend of mine. It turns out that this package expects 'rmail' to be in the /bin directory, while the installed Sendmail installed its rmail in /usr/bin. A simple symbolic link fixed things, but this doesn't see

Re: subscribe slow@intergate.bc.ca

1996-10-07 Thread Ian Main
Hi, I've got some .deb packages that I've made here, and wanted to upload them to ftp.debian.org. When I tried, it asked me to try /home/Debian/something.. which I couldn't find. I would like to make more such packages but am discouraged by this. If someone could please let me know what I shou

Re: bash profile question

1996-10-07 Thread Lazaro . Salem
For the prompt, I have the following line in my ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc use: export PS1="[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\\n[\#]\\$ " which produces, for example [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/bin [3]$ ls -laR or [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux [4]# ls -laR \$ gives you a different pro

bug in apache-1.1.1-[56]

1996-10-07 Thread Alex Romosan
i think i found a bug in apache 1.1.1-[56]. when upgrading from 1.0.5 to 1.1.1 /usr/lib/httpd is created with the wrong owner: drwxr-x--- 4 root root 1024 Oct 5 18:10 httpd/ as a consequence the httpd server cannot read any of the subdirectories (cgi-bin, icons). shouldn't /usr/lib

Re: main-menu.hook, menudefs.hook?????

1996-10-07 Thread Lars Wirzenius
David Puryear: > I just like to know why when I installed package with > "..registers itself via install-fvwm2menu", it deleted my old > main-menu.hook and menudefs.hook. I like the ones I had. This is sort of my fault, sorry. I designed the new system.fvwm2rc and install-fvwm2menu. I'm not sure

main-menu.hook, menudefs.hook?????

1996-10-07 Thread David Puryear
Hi All, I just like to know why when I installed package with "..registers itself via install-fvwm2menu", it deleted my old main-menu.hook and menudefs.hook. I like the ones I had. Has any one else have this problem? I think this should be optional. When dpkg installs new setup files it should