Re: stable or not stable?

1997-05-09 Thread Brian N. Borg
I am in fact using 2.1.36 and it seems pretty stable, a lot more so than 2.1.31 or 2.0.30. All my modules load without complaining about missing symbols. The only problem is that kerneld won't load them on demand. --Brian Rick Jones wrote: > > I agree. I thought I'd seen someone using 2

Re: deselect

1997-05-09 Thread G.V.Livingston II
I know the ZIP drive mounts properly with "-tmsdos" so I'm not sure what fs it 'really' has on it. I'm going to test mounting it with "-tvfat" tonight. I do have vfat support in linux but my original problem stems from the fact that the home machine doesn't have Win/95 on it, so I can't jus

Re: dpkg question

1997-05-09 Thread Igor Grobman
On May 9, Ryan Shaw wrote > Check our new domain names! > http://www.netforward.com > v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v > > in redhat there are source packages and binary packages. one may > download the source package and use `rpm --rebuild ' to > build binary packages fr

dpkg question

1997-05-09 Thread Ryan Shaw
in redhat there are source packages and binary packages. one may download the source package and use `rpm --rebuild ' to build binary packages from that. quite easy, and useful in my case. the gcc that shipped with redhat didn't function correctly on my AMD K5 so i had to recompile it and then i

Mutt Segmentation Fault at certain messages?

1997-05-09 Thread adavis
I am using Mutt 0.61, mostly happily. I don't understand why very infrequently, mutt stops loading with a segmentation fault error. In a number of cases, I noted this happens near a message that is a notification or warning of undeliverable mail. Can anyone shed a clue? Alan -- Alan Eugene

Re: deselect

1997-05-09 Thread Rick Jones
Did you put VFAT in the kernel so dselect can read the partition correctly? On Fri, 9 May 1997, G.V.Livingston II wrote: > If I plan to use the deselect program to install packages from a > mounted MSDOS partition (mounted at /e) and I have the packages in > /e/linux/stable, /e/linux/contr

Re: Backspace in rxvt SOLVED

1997-05-09 Thread Rick Jones
On Fri, 9 May 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Rick Jones wrote: > No, you want Delete to "do" backspace. When you hit the delete key > the x client (in this case rxvt) receives the Keysym, which is > Delete. > > > > My backspace does what it should but delete just beeps at me. > > You put my ab

problem with "halt" command to shutdown

1997-05-09 Thread Dany Dionne
Hi, i used the "halt" command to shutdown my linux box and i receive a message like: "unable to find the runlevel, using hard halt" After that, my computer was totally frozen. So, i used the reset to reboot my computer. My partition appear wasn't properly unmounted and a check was needed. Fortunal

Re: Log-in prompt question

1997-05-09 Thread Rick Jones
On Fri, 9 May 1997, Dirk Bernhardt wrote: > > Lu Jimmy Chenji writes: > > > Can someone tell me how to put a word before the Log-in prompt? Maybe I just fell off the turnip truck or something, but doesn't the ~/.profile get

deselect

1997-05-09 Thread G.V.Livingston II
If I plan to use the deselect program to install packages from a mounted MSDOS partition (mounted at /e) and I have the packages in /e/linux/stable, /e/linux/contrib, & /e/linux/non-free should I edit the 'Packages" files to refelect the new path information? Or will deselect figure it out

Re: Another Netscape Question

1997-05-09 Thread Ralph Winslow
Jim Smith wrote: > > Does Netscape (4.0b3) hog the colormap on everyone's system or just > mine? Have they not heard of sharing? Is there a fix for this, I would > like to see colored screensavers when netscape is running among other > things. Nope, it hogs the colormap for me, too. I don't like

Re: Backspace in rxvt SOLVED

1997-05-09 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Rick Jones wrote: > > On Fri, 9 May 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > A little digging around shows that setting the proper resources for > > rxvt should fix this. Here's an excerpt from the man page Resources > > section: > > > >keysym.sym: string > > Associate string wi

Re: Log-in prompt question

1997-05-09 Thread Ralph Winslow
Lu Jimmy Chenji wrote: > > Hello all, > Can someone tell me how to put a word before the Log-in prompt? > E.g. Mypcname:# or Mypcname:$. I know there a lot of fancy > things I can do. Is there a HOWTO I can look? > Thanks in advance, > Jimmy I don't know that there's a HOWTO, but you can set th

Re: dselect and updating the system

1997-05-09 Thread Rick Jones
On Sat, 10 May 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > Gernot wrote: > > > > When I start dselect (using the ftp-method) I get a list of available > > "Updated Standard packages". This list tells me that there are new > > versions of my installed components available, they are marked with the > > asterix (*

Re: DNS question

1997-05-09 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Rick Jones wrote: > > I think I know the answer to this already, BUT is it possible to run a > secondary DNS through an IP masq firewall? > > Just wondering since I'm about to network my home systems via an IP masq > firewall and would rather use one of my other systems as secondary. > > I haven

Re: Debian at Home

1997-05-09 Thread Rick Jones
On Fri, 9 May 1997, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > On Fri, 9 May 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: > > > I assume that dial-up ppp can still be configured after I answer 'no' > > to the network question ? > > I've set up many such systems, but off the top of my head, I'm not 100% > sure. I believe it

Re: Debian at Home

1997-05-09 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Matthew" == Matthew Tebbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthew> I assume that dial-up ppp can still be configured after I Matthew> answer 'no' to the network question ? I found that you can get ppp working by simply editting the "/etc/ppp.chatscript", using `ae` (Anthony's Editor

Re: Backspace in rxvt SOLVED

1997-05-09 Thread Rick Jones
On Fri, 9 May 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > A little digging around shows that setting the proper resources for > rxvt should fix this. Here's an excerpt from the man page Resources > section: > >keysym.sym: string > Associate string with keysym sym (0xFF00 - 0x). >

A note on dpkg release engineering

1997-05-09 Thread Klee Dienes
[ I posted this to debian-devel a few minutes ago, and just realized I should have sent it to debian-user as well. My apologies to those of you who are seeing it twice. ] I'd like to thank all of the people who have been downloading and testing the versions of dpkg I have been uploading to '

Re: Unidentified subject!

1997-05-09 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 9 May 1997, it was written: > HI > My name is Carlos Camargo how i can unsubscribe of this list? > tahnks > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > See above. Dwarf -- _-_-_

Re: Another Netscape Question

1997-05-09 Thread Rick Jones
On Fri, 9 May 1997, Brian White wrote: > > Does Netscape (4.0b3) hog the colormap on everyone's system or just > > mine? Have they not heard of sharing? Is there a fix for this, I would > > like to see colored screensavers when netscape is running among other > > things. > > I'm running X11R6 in 1

Re: motherboard

1997-05-09 Thread Richard Morin
On Fri, 9 May 1997, John Maheu wrote: > Hi all: > > I'm in the market for a new motherboard. I want to run a P100 and > eventually a P166. Any suggestions? What about Gigabyte? > > thanks > John > Hi John, I have a Gigabyte GA 586 ATE here. I suppose it is kinda dated now, being over a year

Re: Another Netscape Question

1997-05-09 Thread Rick Jones
This would be "-install" which makes it use it's own color map. On Fri, 9 May 1997, Rick Rutledge wrote: > I have not tried the new version of netscape but the old version was less > than gentle with the color maps. Check the docs for a command line switch > that tells netscape to go into a col

DNS question

1997-05-09 Thread Rick Jones
I think I know the answer to this already, BUT is it possible to run a secondary DNS through an IP masq firewall? Just wondering since I'm about to network my home systems via an IP masq firewall and would rather use one of my other systems as secondary. I haven't researched IP masq firewalling y

Re: sysklogd dumps core

1997-05-09 Thread Victor Torrico
Victor Torrico wrote: > > Alex Romosan wrote: > > > > i think the problem is with the latest dpkg packages (1.4.0.14). i've > > downgraded to 1.4.0.8 from unstable and it works fine. it seemed to > > have worked fine up until 1.4.0.13 but i could be wrong. > > > > --alex-- > > > > You hit the nai

su vs. su - -- ignore

1997-05-09 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Sorry, I stupidly did not check if DISPLAY was set (which is wasn't) when "su -"ing. Cheers. - -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies, Queen's University Kingston, Onta

Re: motherboard

1997-05-09 Thread System Account
Hi John, I have just built my own system. The mainboard i bought is a Tyan S1563D Tomcat IIID. I got the duel but there is also a single one. you can use a 75-200 MHz processor in it. the chipset is Intel 430HX. For slots it has 4 32-bit PCI and 5 16-bit ISA. It works great and can be fou

Re: chmod 640 and not 644 /var/log/messages*

1997-05-09 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
In the global /etc/profile or in the "personal" ~/.bash_profile put (or change its arg from the usual 022 value) the command: umask 027 Nicola Bernardelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Please use <[EMAIL PROTECT

su vs. su -

1997-05-09 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- When I am logged in as telmerco and "su" to root in another rxvt, I can run emacs in either the foreground or the background (ie. "emacs" or "emacs &"). However, when I use "su -" rather than "su" I can only run emacs in the foreground. What can I do to get it to

motherboard

1997-05-09 Thread John Maheu
Hi all: I'm in the market for a new motherboard. I want to run a P100 and eventually a P166. Any suggestions? What about Gigabyte? thanks John -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Debian at Home

1997-05-09 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Fri, 9 May 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: > I assume that dial-up ppp can still be configured after I answer 'no' > to the network question ? I've set up many such systems, but off the top of my head, I'm not 100% sure. I believe it goes as follows: Answer 'yes' to the general network connec

Re: Linuxthreads and MySQL

1997-05-09 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Dirk Herr-Hoyman, you wrote: > > And since we are on the subject of MySQL... > > I'm trying to install directly from the source distribution at www.tcx.se. > This version want Linuxthreads and I'm not quite clear on what I need to > install. You can get linuxthreads from the

Re: Debian at Home

1997-05-09 Thread Matthew Tebbens
I assume that dial-up ppp can still be configured after I answer 'no' to the network question ? Matthew On Fri, 9 May 1997 10:38:33 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >On Fri, 9 May 1997, dcypher wrote: > >> I would like to install Debian on a system I have at home. >> Are there any packages that should not

laptop advice

1997-05-09 Thread David Perkinson
Hi, I am new to this list. I apologize in advance for asking a question that is probably fairly common. I will buy a laptop sometime soon and would like it to run X windows under Debian Linux. I am trying to set up something that is as much like the sun sparc 2 I have at work as possible (but s

Mutt and aliases

1997-05-09 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
Hi, I have been trying to get mutt to recognise the aliases but after quitting, even thought it has saved them, it doesn't re-read the file because I can't use them. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Luis. -- Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Fingerprint = F8 B1 13 DE 22 22 94

Linuxthreads and MySQL

1997-05-09 Thread Dirk Herr-Hoyman
And since we are on the subject of MySQL... I'm trying to install directly from the source distribution at www.tcx.se. This version want Linuxthreads and I'm not quite clear on what I need to install. >From MySQL configure: checking LinuxThreads... Not found configure: error: This is a linux sys

ftp dselect for unstable/non-free

1997-05-09 Thread Douglas Bates
Recently Tim Sailer mentioned that the mysql package is in hamm. When I ran dselect from ftp.debian.org using the ftp method I did not see any trace of it. I then looked a bit more closely and discovered that it was in hamm/non-free. If I want to see the development versions of the non-free pa

Re: Debian at Home

1997-05-09 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Fri, 9 May 1997, dcypher wrote: > I would like to install Debian on a system I have at home. > Are there any packages that should not be installed when > I install Debian ? I'm thinking that some packages might > require DNS services or other services, and would hang > Debian if the services w

Debian at Home

1997-05-09 Thread dcypher
I would like to install Debian on a system I have at home. Are there any packages that should not be installed when I install Debian ? I'm thinking that some packages might require DNS services or other services, and would hang Debian if the services were not found. I guess my question is: Can

Re: mailcap 'view' type conflicts

1997-05-09 Thread Bill Wohler
Brian K Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think the maintainers of xv, xanim, imagemagick, etc. need to agree > on the description fields that go in the mailcap file. A hearty second! I am so sick of xv and xanim continuously toggling this field needlessly. Installations would go a lot

Re: sysklogd dumps core

1997-05-09 Thread Rick Jones
On Fri, 9 May 1997, Alex Romosan wrote: > i think the problem is with the latest dpkg packages (1.4.0.14). i've > downgraded to 1.4.0.8 from unstable and it works fine. it seemed to > have worked fine up until 1.4.0.13 but i could be wrong. Along these lines, does anybody know why syslogd in pack

Re: stable or not stable?

1997-05-09 Thread Rick Jones
On Fri, 9 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >It's practically a moot point now with bo so close to release, but > in the future perhaps it would make sense to include the latest and > greatest (and thus presumably the most stable) 2.0 kernel in the stable > distribution, and the latest 2.1 ker

Re: Backspace in rxvt SOLVED

1997-05-09 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Andreas Tille wrote: > > On Wed, 7 May 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > > > > "Jens" == Jens B Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Jens> If typing Backspace on the shell command line prints "^H" > > Jens> rather than doing a backspace, type the command "stty erase > > Jen

Re: Log-in prompt question

1997-05-09 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Kevin Traas wrote: > > > > Can someone tell me how to put a word before the Log-in prompt? > > > E.g. Mypcname:# or Mypcname:$. I know there a lot of fancy > > > things I can do. Is there a HOWTO I can look? > > > Thanks in advance, > > > Jimmy > > > > That goes in the /etc/issue file. You can

Re: Another Netscape Question

1997-05-09 Thread Rick Rutledge
I have not tried the new version of netscape but the old version was less than gentle with the color maps. Check the docs for a command line switch that tells netscape to go into a color map sharing mode. I dont remember what it is or where I put the sticky note but I know that it can be done. Th

Re: Log-in prompt question

1997-05-09 Thread JoKeR
Instead of putting '\h' use the word you would like ex: PS1='vader :\w\$' JoKeR On Fri, 9 May 1997, Dirk Bernhardt wrote: > > Lu Jimmy Chenji writes: > > > Can someone tell me how to put a word before the Log-in prompt? > > If you use `bash' as your shell of choice, check out the

Re: debian-non-us archive

1997-05-09 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On May 9, Camm Maguire wrote : Greetings! Are the source files for pgp and ssh no longer : distributable? The mirror at os.inf.tu-dresden.de has the permissions : on these files set so that they are no longer available via anonymous : ftp. ... yup, I fixed the permissions in the binary dirs, bu

Re: Log-in prompt question

1997-05-09 Thread Kevin Traas
> > Can someone tell me how to put a word before the Log-in prompt? > > E.g. Mypcname:# or Mypcname:$. I know there a lot of fancy > > things I can do. Is there a HOWTO I can look? > > Thanks in advance, > > Jimmy > > That goes in the /etc/issue file. You can find the commands in the getty > ma

Re: Printing to Win95 printer via samba?

1997-05-09 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 8 May 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > The printer I am trying to print to is called HPLIII as listed > > from the output of "smbclient -L Main" where Main is the server: > >

Doing the "dselect" portion of an installation

1997-05-09 Thread Brent Hutto
I apologize in advance for asking a tedious newbie-style question, but a couple hours reading FAQ lists, newsgroup archives and the last couple months of the archive of this mailing list still doesn't help me put it all together. This week I've done test installations of RedHat 4.1, Slackware 3.

is the list still active?

1997-05-09 Thread Carlo U. Segre
Hello All: I haven't been receiving any list mail for the last 2-3 days, is the list server down or did I just get unsubscribed by accident? A few days ago our mailer was shut down due to a security problem and that is wehn the mail stopped coming in. If someone can reply to me directly, I will

Re: help: mount clntudp_create: RPC: Program not registered

1997-05-09 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Terrence M. Brannon wrote: > > I get the above error on my Debian system when I try to mount NFS > disks on a Solaris system. > > How can I possibly fix this? Are you sure rpc.mountd and nfsd are running on the remote system? Try 'rpcinfo -p slowlaris-system'. You should see mountd and nfsd in t

Re: latex/databases

1997-05-09 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 9 May 1997, Tim Sailer wrote: > In your email to me, Dirk Herr-Hoyman, you wrote: > > > > At 07:58 AM 5/9/97 -0400, Tim Sailer wrote: > > >In your email to me, Rob Browning, you wrote: > > > > >> I've kind of settled on postgress, partially because I w

Re: latex/databases

1997-05-09 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Dirk Herr-Hoyman, you wrote: > > At 08:58 AM 5/9/97 -0500, Rob Browning wrote: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Sailer) writes: > > > >> You should take a look at MySQL also. It should do what you want, > >> and is extremely fast too. Quite a few of us here on the mailing > >> list u

Re: latex/databases

1997-05-09 Thread Dirk Herr-Hoyman
At 08:58 AM 5/9/97 -0500, Rob Browning wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Sailer) writes: > >> You should take a look at MySQL also. It should do what you want, >> and is extremely fast too. Quite a few of us here on the mailing >> list use it already. > >Thanks, but I wanted to stick to free software,

Re: Another Netscape Question

1997-05-09 Thread Brian White
> Does Netscape (4.0b3) hog the colormap on everyone's system or just > mine? Have they not heard of sharing? Is there a fix for this, I would > like to see colored screensavers when netscape is running among other > things. > I'm running X11R6 in 1024 x 768 24bpp, Linux 2.0.30, Cirrus clgd5426. T

Re: Printer Resolution Problem.

1997-05-09 Thread Mike Schmitz
On May 8, Jim Smith wrote > Forgot to mention that I'm using Magicfilter, maybe the resolution can > be reduced to 150 dpi there somewhere. > > Jim > -- > > Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! > Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.oz.net/~jim/

mailcap 'view' type conflicts

1997-05-09 Thread Brian K Servis
I think the maintainers of xv, xanim, imagemagick, etc. need to agree on the description fields that go in the mailcap file. Whenever I upgrade or install one of the packages they are always wanting to change the description from what one of the other packages set it to. Example, xanim suggests

Re: X configuration

1997-05-09 Thread Paul McDermott
hi, the problem seems to be your XF86Config file is not configured properly. email me the file (XF86Config) and I will take a look at it. do you have the horizontal and vertical sinc rates set properly? check those settings they are in the monitor manual. If you have any more questions email

Re: latex/databases

1997-05-09 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Sailer) writes: > You should take a look at MySQL also. It should do what you want, > and is extremely fast too. Quite a few of us here on the mailing > list use it already. Thanks, but I wanted to stick to free software, if possible, and my impression was that MySQL is not

Unidentified subject!

1997-05-09 Thread Carlos Camargo
HI My name is Carlos Camargo how i can unsubscribe of this list? tahnks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: latex/databases

1997-05-09 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Dirk Herr-Hoyman, you wrote: > > At 07:58 AM 5/9/97 -0400, Tim Sailer wrote: > >In your email to me, Rob Browning, you wrote: > > >> I've kind of settled on postgress, partially because I was curious > >> about SQL, and also because it appears to be capable of anything I > >>

debian-non-us archive

1997-05-09 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! Are the source files for pgp and ssh no longer distributable? The mirror at os.inf.tu-dresden.de has the permissions on these files set so that they are no longer available via anonymous ftp. Thanks! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Camm Maguire

Re: dselect and updating the system

1997-05-09 Thread Lawrence Chim
Gernot wrote: > > When I start dselect (using the ftp-method) I get a list of available > "Updated Standard packages". This list tells me that there are new > versions of my installed components available, they are marked with the > asterix (*) but they are not installed when I try to install them

Re: stable or not stable?

1997-05-09 Thread Lawrence Chim
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Fri, 9 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > > > On Fri, 9 May 1997, Eduardo Goyanes wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm writing to satisfy my curiousity on why the llinux kernel 2.0.30 is in > > > > > > the unstable archives. When a.b.c and b is even the file is stable

Re: latex/databases

1997-05-09 Thread Dirk Herr-Hoyman
At 07:58 AM 5/9/97 -0400, Tim Sailer wrote: >In your email to me, Rob Browning, you wrote: >> I've kind of settled on postgress, partially because I was curious >> about SQL, and also because it appears to be capable of anything I >> could want to do. It's probably overkill, but that's OK. > >You

Re: stable or not stable?

1997-05-09 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 9 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > On Fri, 9 May 1997, Eduardo Goyanes wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm writing to satisfy my curiousity on why the llinux kernel 2.0.30 is in > > > > the unstable archives. When a.b.c and b is even the file is stable. > > > > what is the best way to upgrad

X configuration

1997-05-09 Thread Kyriakos Nikos E. Gorogiannis
Hi. I have an EISA 486, with an ISA 16-bit TIGA gr. card, with and onboard Tseng ET4000 SVGA chip. I have configured XF86_SVGA, with the correct settings about monitor and graphics adapter (one can never be too sure, but i have tripple-checked the configuration). However, window borders leave tra

chmod 640 and not 644 /var/log/messages*

1997-05-09 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
How can I configure my box to chmod o-r the files: /var/log/messages* ? Thanks in advance. Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] HomePage: http://www.imola.queen.it/user/arcangeli/ Debian Mirror: ftp://dida43.deis.unibo.it/pub/debian/ Debian GNU _ _ _ | |(_)

Re: latex/databases

1997-05-09 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Rob Browning, you wrote: > > James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > "Colin" == Colin Telmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Colin> I am beginning a review of a literature on the relations > > Colin> between the governments of Canada and will be writing

Re: Backspace in rxvt

1997-05-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > > "Jens" == Jens B Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jens> If typing Backspace on the shell command line prints "^H" > Jens> rather than doing a backspace, type the command "stty erase > Jens> ^h" (make sure you type "^" and "h

Re: stable or not stable?

1997-05-09 Thread Tomislav Vujec
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >The latest Linux kernel versions available on ftp.funet.fi are 2.0.30 > (stable) and 2.1.36 (unstable). These two kernels (2.0 and 2.1) are > being developed in parallel, in an effort to avoid the stagnation we saw > with 1.2 when 1.3 got going. The 2.0 kernel gets

Re: sysklogd dumps core

1997-05-09 Thread Victor Torrico
Alex Romosan wrote: > > i think the problem is with the latest dpkg packages (1.4.0.14). i've > downgraded to 1.4.0.8 from unstable and it works fine. it seemed to > have worked fine up until 1.4.0.13 but i could be wrong. > > --alex-- > You hit the nail on the head and fixed my problem. I was

Re: stable or not stable?

1997-05-09 Thread Tomislav Vujec
"Eduardo Goyanes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I'm writing to satisfy my curiousity on why the llinux kernel 2.0.30 is in > > the unstable archives. When a.b.c and b is even the file is stable. Maybe version numbers suggests stable version, but 2.0.30 certanly isn't one. It introdu

Re: Printer Resolution Problem.

1997-05-09 Thread Dan Haskell
On Thu, 8 May 1997, Jim Smith wrote: [snip] > memory. I can work around this in Winders95 by reducing the print > resolution to 150 dpi, but I don't see any way to do this in Linux. Is > there a config file for either Netscape or Ghostscript(-Aladdin) that > will allow this? I read the online help

dselect and updating the system

1997-05-09 Thread Gernot
When I start dselect (using the ftp-method) I get a list of available "Updated Standard packages". This list tells me that there are new versions of my installed components available, they are marked with the asterix (*) but they are not installed when I try to install them (selection 3 in dselect)

Re: Log-in prompt question

1997-05-09 Thread Dirk Bernhardt
> Lu Jimmy Chenji writes: > Can someone tell me how to put a word before the Log-in prompt? If you use `bash' as your shell of choice, check out the PS1 environment variable. Mine is currently set to "[\h] \w\$". Check out /etc/profile or ~/.profile or... to find out where it's set. Ciao,

Re: stable or not stable?

1997-05-09 Thread kuzminsk
On Fri, 9 May 1997, Eduardo Goyanes wrote: ] I'm writing to satisfy my curiousity on why the llinux kernel 2.0.30 is in ] the unstable archives. When a.b.c and b is even the file is stable. ] what is the best way to upgrade the kernel for a linux Debian v1.2? On Fri, 9 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote

Another Netscape Question

1997-05-09 Thread Jim Smith
Does Netscape (4.0b3) hog the colormap on everyone's system or just mine? Have they not heard of sharing? Is there a fix for this, I would like to see colored screensavers when netscape is running among other things. I'm running X11R6 in 1024 x 768 24bpp, Linux 2.0.30, Cirrus clgd5426. Jim -- ===

help: mount clntudp_create: RPC: Program not registered

1997-05-09 Thread Terrence M. Brannon
I get the above error on my Debian system when I try to mount NFS disks on a Solaris system. How can I possibly fix this? -- oo Sending unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE) to this address Legal Notice is indication of your consent to pay me $120/hour for 1 hour oo mini

Re: stable or not stable?

1997-05-09 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 9 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > On Fri, 9 May 1997, Eduardo Goyanes wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm writing to satisfy my curiousity on why the llinux kernel 2.0.30 is in > > > > the unstable archives. When a.b.c and b is even the file is stable. > > > > what is the best way to upgr

Re: Log-in prompt question

1997-05-09 Thread JoKeR
No no no. You want to set it like the following: PS1='\h:\w\$ ' What this means is '\h' is your hostname. '\w' is the working directory. '\$' is $ for users and # for root. JoKeR On Thu, 8 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > On Fri, 9 May 1997, Lu Jimmy Chenji wrote: > > > Hello all, > >

Re: sysklogd dumps core

1997-05-09 Thread Alex Romosan
i think the problem is with the latest dpkg packages (1.4.0.14). i've downgraded to 1.4.0.8 from unstable and it works fine. it seemed to have worked fine up until 1.4.0.13 but i could be wrong. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the min

Re: stable or not stable?

1997-05-09 Thread Rick Jones
On Fri, 9 May 1997, Eduardo Goyanes wrote: > Hello, > > I'm writing to satisfy my curiousity on why the llinux kernel 2.0.30 is in > > the unstable archives. When a.b.c and b is even the file is stable. > > what is the best way to upgrade the kernel for a linux Debian v1.2? A good question.

Re: latex/databases

1997-05-09 Thread Rob Browning
James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Colin" == Colin Telmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Colin> I am beginning a review of a literature on the relations > Colin> between the governments of Canada and will be writing small > Colin> summary reports on each article/book/etc. I

Printer Resolution Problem.

1997-05-09 Thread Jim Smith
Forgot to mention that I'm using Magicfilter, maybe the resolution can be reduced to 150 dpi there somewhere. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Printer Resolution Problem.

1997-05-09 Thread Jim Smith
I have a printing problem using Netscape under Linux. When I print a page, either from Netscape Mail or from the browser, my printer burps with a "Page Overflow" error. I believe this is caused by several things. First my printer is a Star LS-5 which is running as a clone of an LJ 2P. Problem with

stable or not stable?

1997-05-09 Thread Eduardo Goyanes
Hello, I'm writing to satisfy my curiousity on why the llinux kernel 2.0.30 is in the unstable archives. When a.b.c and b is even the file is stable. what is the best way to upgrade the kernel for a linux Debian v1.2? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

Re: Log-in prompt question

1997-05-09 Thread Rick Jones
On Fri, 9 May 1997, Lu Jimmy Chenji wrote: > Hello all, > Can someone tell me how to put a word before the Log-in prompt? > E.g. Mypcname:# or Mypcname:$. I know there a lot of fancy > things I can do. Is there a HOWTO I can look? > Thanks in advance, > Jimmy That goes in the /etc/issue file.

Log-in prompt question

1997-05-09 Thread Lu Jimmy Chenji
Hello all, Can someone tell me how to put a word before the Log-in prompt? E.g. Mypcname:# or Mypcname:$. I know there a lot of fancy things I can do. Is there a HOWTO I can look? Thanks in advance, Jimmy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: latex/databases

1997-05-09 Thread James LewisMoss
> "Colin" == Colin Telmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> I am beginning a review of a literature on the relations Colin> between the governments of Canada and will be writing small Colin> summary reports on each article/book/etc. Rather than just Colin> filling a directory with latex f

Re: Several stand-alone boxes

1997-05-09 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 8 May 1997, Brad Bell wrote: > On Thu, 8 May 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > On Thu, 8 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > 1.Maintaining uniform installations without nfs-mounting a > > > common filesystem. We'd rather have redundant /usr > > > filesystems than have our mach

Re: popclient .poprc file

1997-05-09 Thread James LewisMoss
> "mono" == mono writes: mono> Hello, I just edited my .poprc file so it looks like this: mono> defaults proto pop3 localfolder /var/spool/mail/troop server mono> mail.chiparus.org user blah pass secret server mono> mail.chiparus.org user blah pass secret server pop.pi.net user mono> b

Re: Printing to Win95 printer via samba?

1997-05-09 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Colin Telmer wrote: > > I have being trying to figure out how to print to a printer attached to a > networked win95 machine using samba for about 2 hours now and I don't seem > to be getting anywhere. I was hoping someone could shed some light on the > matter if I supply some details. > > First o