Re: PGP signing in Exmh locks X

1997-03-29 Thread Clint Adams
Try typing your passphrase and hitting Enter. You may be experiencing a problem with the visibility of the dialog window (it may be off the edge of the screen).

PGP signing in Exmh locks X

1997-03-29 Thread Steve
When I try to PGP-sign a message before sending it in Exmh, everything under X (exmh, fvwm2) completely locks up until I switch to another terminal and kill the xterm that's trying to run PGP. The xterm with PGP never actually gets displayed, and I can't do _anything_ in X. This is not a problem o

TeX fonts

1997-03-29 Thread Ralf Comtesse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, When I use some of the not so common fonts in a TeX document, MakeTeX* of debian 1.2.7 cannot generate them automatically anymore. The *.tfm files are present and I think all paths in texmf.conf are correct. Is there a fix for that? These are the error mess

bug package

1997-03-29 Thread Francesco Tapparo
Hi, I'm a happy debian user: I have a bo installation. I have noticed that rxvt and emacs don't run automatically update-menus after the installation. I think that these are bugs, and I have reported thes using bug. Bug has mailed the message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I don't have received any answ

can't umount /usr(/dev/hdb3)

1997-03-29 Thread David Puryear
Hi all, I upgrade a lot of packages, don't know exactly which ones though, and now shutdown -h now and umount will not unmount /usr(aka /dev/hdb3). It gives me same error: umount: /dev/hdb3: device is busy Does anyone have any idea as to what is causing this? Thanks, David p.s. From no

Postgres95 - missing library

1997-03-29 Thread softcorp
Hi there, I've recently downloaded the latest stable POSTGRES95 package and installed it (Debian 1.2; kernel - 2.0.27). Apparently I'm missing a package, as postmaster keeps on complaining: "can't load library 'libbsd.so.1.0.0". I will appreciate advise as to the whereabouts of the above menti

bash keybindings

1997-03-29 Thread Christian Hudon
On Mar 28, Pete Harlan wrote > > > > I also came from tcsh, therefore I put this in my ~/.inputrc and I'm > > happy ever since 8-) > > > > ,- > > | M-p: history-search-backward > > | M-n: history-search-forward > > `- > [snip] > > Customization is great, but if you learn unmodified bash

Re: Setting up 10 486's with a server

1997-03-29 Thread Klee Dienes
> place to deal with passwords, rather than all 10 user machines. Even > better would be to use kerberos to verify passwords through the current > Project Vincent. Is this doable? There should be debian versions of both Kerberos 4 and Kerberos 5 available on the non-US site within the next week

Setting up 10 486's with a server

1997-03-29 Thread Rick Hawkins
Our department will be converting a pile of old 486/33 boxes to debian linux. They will have two (expected :) primary purpose: standalone to execute lyx for writing theses & dissertations, and as x-terminals to our larger alpha workstations. There is really no budget fo this; we're using oure

lost old pgp key

1997-03-29 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- This may not be the most appropriate place to ask this question but since debian was the reason I started using pgp, I thought that someone here may have some suggestions. Stupidly when I first started using pgp, I made a key pair and uploaded it to the public

Re: Perl On Linux Where?

1997-03-29 Thread Brian C. White
> I am a newbie, but i would like to install perl on my > debian system, can anyone tell me where it is located > and how much space will it take. Try debian/bo/binary-i386/interpreters/perl_5.003.07-8.deb It will take about 5MB installed. Brian

Re: Another dumb newbie question.

1997-03-29 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Jim Smith wrote: > At 12:42 3/28/97 -0800, you wrote: > >Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Jim Smith wrote: > >> > >> > I'm slowly getting this system to do what I want, but there are a couple > > > >> > >> I think

Re: Problems working with bash.

1997-03-29 Thread Paul Seelig
On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Pete Harlan wrote: > In bash it's ^R for reverse, and ^S for forward search, just like in > emacs. Perhaps if you select vi rules for bash it will use whatever > horror vi uses for searching. > ^S only freezes my xterm and i have to press ^Q to make it work again. How come yo

Perl On Linux Where?

1997-03-29 Thread butch
Hello, I am a newbie, but i would like to install perl on my debian system, can anyone tell me where it is located and how much space will it take. thanks allan i like to use the miami ftp site - Name: Allan W. Bart, Jr. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 3/29

debian on IBM ps/2's

1997-03-29 Thread @
Last week there was a question posted about installing debian on an IBM ps/2 with microchannel hard disksthere was also a response stating that debian did not support MCA(Micro-Channel Architecture...for all you newbies;)), there are people working on implementing linux on the MCA... more in

IRC #Debian

1997-03-29 Thread System Account
Hello all, I hope this isn't out of line posting here but it is related to debian linux. :) About 2 months ago #Debian was setup on the UnderNet Irc Network for debian linux users (or any linux user). The channel is open for anyone to join and could be a great way for users to hel

Strange ppp message

1997-03-29 Thread Jim Smith
Here is the latest entry from my /var/log/ppp.log file, only the last line was copied, but that's the one I'm questioning. Mar 28 22:07:29 jim pppd [414]: Cannot determine Ethernet address for proxy ARP Don't know what it means, but I remember something about ARP from the Kernel compilation. Jim

Re: Another dumb newbie question.

1997-03-29 Thread Jim Smith
At 16:57 3/28/97 -0600, you wrote: >Hey, > >1. Don't worry about PEX/XIE messages; they're not important. Thanks. > >2. /var/log/xdm-errors often has useful information in it about >problems xdm is having; perhaps you already knew that, but it never >hurts to mention it. I'll look there, truthful

Re: Another dumb newbie question.

1997-03-29 Thread Jim Smith
At 12:42 3/28/97 -0800, you wrote: >Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: >> >> On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Jim Smith wrote: >> >> > I'm slowly getting this system to do what I want, but there are a couple > >> >> I think you need both the line "start-xdm" and "xdm-start-server" in your >> /etc/X11/config file. >

Re: pentium Pros and what about the USB?

1997-03-29 Thread Joseph Skinner
On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, m* wrote: > heya, > > i was digging about looking for support for the Intel 8244xFx PCI > chipset that comes on Pentium Pro boards and found zip. this > includes the .29 kernel source. > > are the Pentium Pro 200 chipsets supported yet? > > and what about the Universal

Re: pentium Pros and what about the USB?

1997-03-29 Thread Michael Harnois
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: > I don't know about USB. Do you have any USB devices? I've never seen one. Compaq markets a USB camera. -- + Michael D. Harnois + If you want to follow Jesus, + + Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA + you better look good on w