Re: ide for java?

1997-08-26 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 26 Aug 1997 16:28:37 -0700, Jim Pick wrote: > >> hi is there any Java IDE interface to Linux? >> >> warnning: I'm loocking for an IDE diferent as JAVA WORKSHOP. > >You might try Vibe from Visix (www.visix.com). I've never tried it, but >it is available for Linux. > >There is also the

Re: ide for java?

1997-08-26 Thread Jim Pick
> hi is there any Java IDE interface to Linux? > > warnning: I'm loocking for an IDE diferent as JAVA WORKSHOP. You might try Vibe from Visix (www.visix.com). I've never tried it, but it is available for Linux. There is also the FreeBuilder project: http://www.techno-link.com/clients/ivo/

Re: Green monitor functions

1997-08-26 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > You may need the line: > > Option "power_saver" > > in Section "Device" in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file. In fact, you can configure the whole thing in /etc/XF86Config. Some lines from mine are: Section "Screen" Driver "accel"

Re: Anybody in for helping a new debian user with aic7xxx ?

1997-08-26 Thread Stephan Pfab
Dieter Rohlfing wrote >The 2 PCs are SCSI-only systems, HDs and CDROM are SCSI-2. Here are the >main hardware components: Hi May be this is a hint. I am trying to install Debian 1.3.1 on a SCSI only system right now. For me only booting from the cd-rom doesn't work. (LDLoadlin ... something and

dpkg xlib6 --- Problem with missing files

1997-08-26 Thread Charles Blair
I am trying to upgrade from debian 1.1. I installed ldso, libc5, dpkg, and dpkg-ftp without problems. However, I am running into trouble with dpkg --install xlib6(etc).deb I am getting the errors: ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (No such file or

Re: cfni mirror of debian

1997-08-26 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Due to financial bungling by the money wizards here, our mirror of > debian will disappear anytime as of Sept. 1. I will quit updating the > mirror that morning. Nathan, It's OK. You provided a great service in getting the Official CD program bootstrap

cfni mirror of debian

1997-08-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
Due to financial bungling by the money wizards here, our mirror of debian will disappear anytime as of Sept. 1. I will quit updating the mirror that morning. This means that our mirror of the Official Debian CD set will also go away. I feel very bad about this but I can't afford to buy the serve

Re: [Off-topic] Spam is killing me

1997-08-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
Take a look at http://spam.abuse.org ... they have pointers to the information you need. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Voice: (605) 334-4454 Fax: (605) 335-1173 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key avail

Re: shadow and nis

1997-08-26 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Behan Webster wrote: > > Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > > as the last line of /etc/passwd. Now, the Sun also has shadow passwords, > > and it's NIS (NIS+ actually) is set up to handle this. To get it to > > work I had to build the maps *with* passwd info included, like thus > > on the sun: > > > >

Re: telnet with debian 1.3.1

1997-08-26 Thread Daniel Dooher
Try: export EDITOR=vi stty rows 24 That should fix it. You can add this to your ".bash_profile" so it will take effect whenever you log in. --Dan Jim Westveer wrote: > > OK, I am a dummy, wiht that despensed with > > I just put up debian 1.3.1, on a host that I had been running slack

Re: shadow and nis (ps.)

1997-08-26 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Behan Webster wrote: > > > I guess we'll just have to wait for the nis+ support coming with glibc. > > Doh. > > I understand that someone is also working on an nis+ deiban package? > I look forward to nis+ support in Debian too! I hope so! I dl'd the source to libc 5.4.33 and looked at the code.

StarOffice installation

1997-08-26 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi! I managed to install StarOffice via its own installation routine, but not via the Debian installer package. If I try dpkg-i-ing the installer packages it fails to find the StarOffice *.tar.gz files. But this files are in the same directory I started the installation from. Where do I have to

Re: telnet with debian 1.3.1

1997-08-26 Thread Kevin Traas
Use anything but the Win95 telnet. It ***really*** sucks! You can get by with it in a scrape using the hjkl keys as arrow keys when in command mode within vi. A great alternative that I use under Win95 is the latest version of Hyperterminal (version 3.0) which has Winsock capabilities and great

Re: telnet with debian 1.3.1

1997-08-26 Thread Brandon Mitchell
> SI try TERM=vt100;export TERM;tput intit...etc.. to no > avail. stty erase Brandon - Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7877/home.html PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]

telnet with debian 1.3.1

1997-08-26 Thread Jim Westveer
OK, I am a dummy, wiht that despensed with I just put up debian 1.3.1, on a host that I had been running slackware. All is fine, except when I telnet to that host and try to use vi, my telnet client (windowz95) seems to have formating problems (not evident with the slakware installation)

ide for java?

1997-08-26 Thread dada
hi is there any Java IDE interface to Linux? warnning: I'm loocking for an IDE diferent as JAVA WORKSHOP. thanks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: shadow and nis

1997-08-26 Thread Behan Webster
Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > as the last line of /etc/passwd. Now, the Sun also has shadow passwords, > and it's NIS (NIS+ actually) is set up to handle this. To get it to > work I had to build the maps *with* passwd info included, like thus > on the sun: > > /usr/lib/nis/nisaddent -p -f /etc/pas

Re: shadow and nis

1997-08-26 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Behan Webster wrote: > > Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues wrote: > > > > Yes, apparently the clients don't bother to look up the shadow map (or maybe > > there's a protocol error), the error messages are something like "user foo > > doesn't have a password". > > It sure seems that way to me too. >

Re: Green monitor functions

1997-08-26 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Randy Edwards wrote: > >While running X, Debian blanks my screen just fine. However, what I'd > like to do is to convince Debian to handle the "green" power-saving > functions of my video system. This functions well under Win95 and OS/2, but > for some reason doesn't seem to work with Debian

ipfwadm question

1997-08-26 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm trying to set some rules for an output firewall, denying access to some sites. My linux box acts as a ip-masq for the internal sub-net of Windows machines. It has 3 cards: one for output to Internet, with a valid IP address and 2 for the internal sub-net. IP-Masq i

q-mail: setup problem

1997-08-26 Thread dada
Hi. I just installed qmail in my system to replace smail. When the configurarion script runs, here is that it return me: ** qmailconfig Your hostname is antinoo --here the script stop for a while-- soft error Sorry,I couldn't find your host's

Re: Green monitor functions

1997-08-26 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On 26 Aug 1997, Michael Harnois wrote: > Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >While running X, Debian blanks my screen just fine. However, what I'd > > like to do is to convince Debian to handle the "green" power-saving > > functions of my video system. This functions well under W

Re: Knowing what to update on my Debian system?

1997-08-26 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Adam Klein wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Gonzalo A. Diethelm" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > By the way, the CDs I got from Cheapbytes have the following printed > > on them: > > > "Official" Debian 1.3 1 This is the binary portion of the distribution. You use this C

Re: Green monitor functions

1997-08-26 Thread Michael Harnois
Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >While running X, Debian blanks my screen just fine. However, what I'd > like to do is to convince Debian to handle the "green" power-saving > functions of my video system. This functions well under Win95 and OS/2, but > for some reason doesn't seem

setting up CLX through a Baycom modem?

1997-08-26 Thread Pat Masterson
The docs show lots of good examples to set up CLX, but they are all based around a KISS tnc. I only have a baycom modem, so I need some pointers on setting up parameters for a bc0 device. Thanks. -Pat *-* * Pat Masters

Re: char-major-6 module?

1997-08-26 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Wensheng Lin wrote: : I tried to install a Lexmark Medley 4c printer, after I install the apsfilter, : I got the messgae "Can't locate module char-major-6", do you have any idea what : is this about. char-major-6 is the range of /dev/lp* ... your printers ;) It seems li

Re: Another package setup problem

1997-08-26 Thread joost witteveen
[Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Hello Debian users, > > Setting up a .deb package still doesn't work: > > Scenario: > Config files go to /etc/X11//, and are accessed by > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11//config/... through symlinks. > > The configfiles are introd

Re: Problems with bash 2.01

1997-08-26 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Travis Cole wrote: > > Could some one with an FTP site please let Hong upload his bash packages to > it. > And if you do could you please tell me the address. I really would like to > have a working copy of Bash 2.01 as I can't seem to get one I have compiled to > work. > You can get bash 2.

Green monitor functions

1997-08-26 Thread Randy Edwards
While running X, Debian blanks my screen just fine. However, what I'd like to do is to convince Debian to handle the "green" power-saving functions of my video system. This functions well under Win95 and OS/2, but for some reason doesn't seem to work with Debian. Could someone suggest the

char-major-6 module?

1997-08-26 Thread Wensheng Lin
To whom it may concern: I tried to install a Lexmark Medley 4c printer, after I install the apsfilter, I got the messgae "Can't locate module char-major-6", do you have any idea what is this about. Thank you. -- Wen-Sheng Lin Mechanical Engineering Northwestern University [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: telnet sessions don't log off..

1997-08-26 Thread Glynn Clements
Paul Miller wrote: > When a user telnets to my computer and logs off, the user still shows up > in the users command (still on).. This isn't a huge problem because I'm > using timeoutd to kill idle users, but it still shouldn't happen. > > any ideas? The utmp entries for telnet sessions are ma

Re: shadow and nis

1997-08-26 Thread Behan Webster
Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues wrote: > > Yes, apparently the clients don't bother to look up the shadow map (or maybe > there's a protocol error), the error messages are something like "user foo > doesn't have a password". It sure seems that way to me too. > What I did was install shadow in _al

Re: shadow and nis

1997-08-26 Thread Behan Webster
Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > Behan Webster wrote: > > > > For the life of me I can not seem to get nis to work with shadow > > passwords. I can get each to work seperately, but not together. > > Can anyone with experience with using these two together please > > explain how to set it up properly?

Re: compatible hardware

1997-08-26 Thread Alfonso E. Urdaneta
Alfonso E. Urdaneta wrote: > > Where can I find the list of "ideal" hardware ( I'm in the process of > building a computer ) that will be 100% compatible with Linux, > including Lesstif and MesaGL ? > I found the answer to my own question. http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html A

getting latest .debs

1997-08-26 Thread Udjat the BitMeister...
latest tripwire on ftp.debian.org Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. debian:...istributions/debian/non-free/binary> ls trip* tripwire_1.2-4.deb I know there have been updates of this package but I cant ftp to master.debian.org to get them anymore (annon access denied!) When ca

Re: unsubscribe (fwd)

1997-08-26 Thread Kevin Traas
First off, Tim, I have a lot of respect for you. Please do not view this message as anything inflamatory - I only want to mention a personal observation and opinion. I think it is unfortunate that you've had to respond to Dave Cinege in this way. Although he's been somewhat "abusive" to the pe

compatible hardware

1997-08-26 Thread Alfonso E. Urdaneta
Where can I find the list of "ideal" hardware ( I'm in the process of building a computer ) that will be 100% compatible with Linux, including Lesstif and MesaGL ? Alfonso. -- Alfonso E. Urdaneta VOX: 407.729.3840 Harris Corp/Transcomm Division

Re: Knowing what to update on my Debian system?

1997-08-26 Thread Adam Klein
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Gonzalo A. Diethelm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By the way, the CDs I got from Cheapbytes have the following printed > on them: > "Official" Debian 1.3 1 > "Official" Debian 1.3 2 > Have I been ripped off? Is this the latest 1.3.1 CD, or an older > version? How coul

Re: dselect/dpkg -- status/available file problems

1997-08-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Looks like your status file has been corrupted. First, copy the status file to a safe place (% cp -a /var/lib/dpkg/status ~/.) Then look for line 12376 (using your favourite editor). I don't use quota, so I can't help with the spcifics; but what has happened is that some thing that

RE: upgrade tip

1997-08-26 Thread Alec Clews
>messages have come by this list concerning problems in 1.3. Is there a >summary >of the "gotchus/pitfalls" for upgrading from 1.2 to 1.3? I had trouble, I think the reason was that dselect wanted to install everything. There may be option to override this or just tell dselect to install nothing

*ES shell* where to get job control patch?

1997-08-26 Thread sca . bbs
Hi, I remember there's patch or else to make 'es' have job control ability. Do you know where to get it? thanks -mlt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: upgrade path

1997-08-26 Thread Dale Scheetz
Here is what the upgrading notes say on the subject. I believe that this will address all of your problems. Maybe it will help someone else avoid your difficulties. To get a smooth upgrade from 1.1 or 1.2 make sure to install the following, by hand after first clearing the available file as follow

Another package setup problem

1997-08-26 Thread Peter Weiss
Hello Debian users, Setting up a .deb package still doesn't work: Scenario: Config files go to /etc/X11//, and are accessed by /usr/X11R6/lib/X11//config/... through symlinks. The configfiles are introduced to dpkg as conffiles with the pathes in the /etc tree, whereas th

Re: I2O article

1997-08-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Aug 26, 1997 at 10:41:12AM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: > Assuming this assessment is correct (and why not?), I think the key > question is: > > Will it in due course become, for practical purposes, impossible > to practice computing without these I20 thingies? > [snip] > So what aug

Re: upgrade path

1997-08-26 Thread Gilbert Laycock
> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [Snip: there are problems upgrading direct from 1.1 to 1.3] Joost> If you or others can shed some light on what goes wrong, I will Joost> look into that. I have an Infomagic 1.1.something cd (september Joost> 96) and a 1.3.0 "oficial" cd.

XDM

1997-08-26 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
Hi all! A few days ago I tried to upgrade my Debian 1.2 -> 1.3.1 (According to Linux System Labs). As a matter of fact, I just upgraded some of the packages. Among theses, I upgraded X11, thinking that I was taking care of everything... I upgraded xbase and xserver_s3 and all ot

Re: Dave Cinege and Paul Wade

1997-08-26 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Humm!, you find it offensive that people shouldn't be allowed to offend others? This freedom and liberty that you so want to protect, does it include the liberty to deprive folk of the freedom not to be offended, or the freedom to choose what they would not tolorate in their mailboxes ... or i

Re: host to use $HOSTALIASES ?

1997-08-26 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Martin Schulze wrote: > Hi Joey! > > > I noticed in environ(5) and gethostbyname(5) that if the variable > > HOSTALIASES is set, the file it points to is used for host lookups instead > > of /etc/hosts. But I can't get it to work. Does this actually work in linux? > > I've a

Re: Building Your own Boot Disks

1997-08-26 Thread Nils Rennebarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Timm Gleason wrote: > I cannot get the modules to install. > >"modprobe: error reading ELF header: no such file or directory" The new modprobe will complain if informative files like BLOCK_MODULES and the like are contained in /lib/modules/2

Re: I2O article

1997-08-26 Thread Ted Harding
( Re Message From: Hamish Moffatt ) > > G'day Bruce. Thought you might be interested to know, > there was an article in the Australian Personal Computer magazine [ snip ] > "The most likely victim of this 'commercialised standard' would be > the many flavours of Linux, the public domain, freeware

Re: Looking for rpc.bootparamd

1997-08-26 Thread Elie Rosenblum
On Sun, 24 Aug 1997, Steve Philp wrote: > Howdy! > > I'm a recent convert to Debian, and it looks like I'm only missing > one package to make this installation complete. I need to find > rpc.bootparamd. I've attempted to look through the various pkgs > available in stable/no

Re: debian master - name/ip?

1997-08-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Paul Miller writes: > Whats the name or ip of the debian master (where the imcoming directories > are)? It's quite logical: master.debian.org, IP# is 205.229.104.5. For uploading anything you'll need an account on that machine. Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: host to use $HOSTALIASES ?

1997-08-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi Joey! > I noticed in environ(5) and gethostbyname(5) that if the variable > HOSTALIASES is set, the file it points to is used for host lookups instead > of /etc/hosts. But I can't get it to work. Does this actually work in linux? > I've always wanted a per-user $HOME/.hosts file. I've learned

Re: X newreader

1997-08-26 Thread Frank Barknecht
Shaleh hat gesagt: // Shaleh wrote: > Anyone know of a good X based news reader? Does not have to be a Debian > package. > knews is okay and even a debian package. -- Yours, Frank Barknecht --

Re: Problems with bash 2.01

1997-08-26 Thread Travis Cole
Could some one with an FTP site please let Hong upload his bash packages to it. And if you do could you please tell me the address. I really would like to have a working copy of Bash 2.01 as I can't seem to get one I have compiled to work. Thanks On 26-Aug-97 H Huang wrote: > >> Also is there

dselect/dpkg -- status/available file problems

1997-08-26 Thread Paul Miller
I keep getting errors like this (with other packages too) dselect: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 12376 package `quota': field name `4cb6de6e2e2f1350b0410cf1e47ff05b' must be followed by colon when I use dselect... when this happens, I usaully copy the backup file and it w

telnet sessions don't log off..

1997-08-26 Thread Paul Miller
When a user telnets to my computer and logs off, the user still shows up in the users command (still on).. This isn't a huge problem because I'm using timeoutd to kill idle users, but it still shouldn't happen. any ideas? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubsc

debian master - name/ip?

1997-08-26 Thread Paul Miller
Whats the name or ip of the debian master (where the imcoming directories are)? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

more samba troubles (des version)

1997-08-26 Thread Paul Miller
I finally got the public browsing to work with samba des... I still can't log on to any accounts. Heres what I've tried normal configuration - security = user, encrypted passwords = yes connect to \\server\homedir%username tried using passwords which were all lower or upper case security = share

Re: error message:shel-init: cannot get working directory

1997-08-26 Thread Tim Frost
This error occurs when a user shell task (from su -c ...) starts in a directory which it is unable to read. I traced the cron.daily example to the updatedb script, which runs the command 'su nobody -c "/usr/bin/updatedb . " '. cron runs in /var/spool/cron, which is readable only by root: $

Re: error message:shel-init: cannot get working directory

1997-08-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Aug 25, 1997 at 11:00:48AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Not too long after installing Debian 1.3.? from cheapbytes I now get : > > shel-init: cannot get working directory : getcwd: cannot access parent > directories > > This is only with user accounts. Root doesn't do this. I was

Star Office segmentation faults, and other failures

1997-08-26 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I was able to install Star Office. I was able to print a WinWord 2 document, and happily it looked much as it would originally. However, when trying the Thesaurus, and worse, when trying to convert the Winword file to any other format, a segmentation fault was experienced. There has been some

Re: Problems with bash 2.01

1997-08-26 Thread H Huang
> Also is there going to be a stable and safe way to upgrade to bash 2.01 > (by way > of a deb package) any time soon? Of is there already and I don't know > about it? > I would like to install as few programs from unstable as possible. I've built a dozen libc5 version deb's including bash 2.01

I2O article

1997-08-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
G'day Bruce. Thought you might be interested to know, there was an article in the Australian Personal Computer magazine ("Australia's top selling computer magazine") this month about I2O. Linux was said to be the main victim, since there was no way Linux could participate in the organisation. "Th

X newreader

1997-08-26 Thread Shaleh
Anyone know of a good X based news reader? Does not have to be a Debian package. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Bash upgrade,Netscape helpers...

1997-08-26 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Brian K Servis; unless Mutt is confused,on Aug 25, you wrote : > > Regardless of the status of libc6, the change over to 1.3.x or 1.3 Rev > x, the desire to keep changes to the stable tree to a minimum, or > whatever, this needs to be upgraded NOW. I have had a few other apps > crap out on this

Sparc Debian?

1997-08-26 Thread Michael Solomani Mifsud
Does Debian make a version of Linux (UNiX?) for sparc machines? If so, what kind of preformance comparison between solaris 2.5 and SunOS? Thanks. the man who can not wonder is but a pair of spectacles behind which there are no eyes -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "u

host to use $HOSTALIASES ?

1997-08-26 Thread Joey Hess
I noticed in environ(5) and gethostbyname(5) that if the variable HOSTALIASES is set, the file it points to is used for host lookups instead of /etc/hosts. But I can't get it to work. Does this actually work in linux? I've always wanted a per-user $HOME/.hosts file. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCR

Re: Weird network problem

1997-08-26 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
The Gardyan of Greyskull wrote: > > I have a very weird problem. > > I can connect to FTP servers but I can't "get", "dir" or "ls", although I > can "cd". > > I also just noticed that I cannot receive e-mail from any outside account, > although I can receive e-mail from an account inside prognet