Re: Slink [was: Re: Debian Hamm & Dselect]

1998-04-01 Thread William R. Ward
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 1 Apr 1998, William R Ward wrote: >> "Andreas Mueck \(Stud.93\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > > Is it ok to set dselect to use the package files in /debian/hamm/ yet? >> > > I was using /debian/dists/unstable before

Re: Slink [was: Re: Debian Hamm & Dselect]

1998-04-01 Thread Scott Ellis
On 1 Apr 1998, William R Ward wrote: > "Andreas Mueck \(Stud.93\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is it ok to set dselect to use the package files in /debian/hamm/ yet? > > > I was using /debian/dists/unstable before now, and I noticed the other > > > day that my package list went to nothing.

Re: Microsoft buys TeX! Knuth sells out! (fwd)

1998-04-01 Thread Ralph Winslow
When Aria Prima Novianto wrote, I replied: > > Did anybody else see this news item today? Thought it might be of > interest. Boy, Am I glad that it's April 1 !!! > -- > *) Aria > > -- Forwarded message -- > ===

Greets

1998-04-01 Thread lanebob
Hi, I have been working with debian hamm for several months, and thought perhaps I should get involved on a more offical level... Netgod steered me toward this addy, so yell at him if this is the wrong place to apply. :-) So, I have a mirror of the binary-i386 hamm, contrib, and non-free. I have

Re: I love Bill!

1998-04-01 Thread Bob Hilliard
"' ALLAN W. BART" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I dont understand the madness that is going on in this group. > > allan > > On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Ian Keith Setford wrote: > > > > > Yo- > > > > I have had a moment of clarity this morning and I have "seen the light"!! > > No longer will I be a p

Re: compiling kernel 2.0.33, libc6-dev

1998-04-01 Thread David Stern
On Wed, 01 Apr 1998 15:11:41 PST, David Stern wrote: > > I didn't mean to imply that it was that important, but according to that READ > ME (see "Debian's libc6 method"), it looks like that should've been changed b > eginning with kernel-[headers,source]-2.0.32 . That seems like such a minor > is

Re: X11R6.4 and Debian

1998-04-01 Thread Jim Pick
Marco Anglesio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >From comp.os.linux.development.system > > >This is from the official announce of X11 R6.4: > > > > With the release of X11R6.4 there will be a commercial use licensing > > fee associated with the X Window System technology. This new licensing > > st

Re: Grabbing sockets with bind???

1998-04-01 Thread Ralph Winslow
When Jens B. Jorgensen replied to Stephen Carpenter thusly, I replied: > > Shut down samba on your linux box before doing this. It is already bound to > those > ports. Also yes, you must run nc as root if you want to bind to those ports. And you might like to have a look at /etc/services and /et

1) Problem when installing cnews 2) Do I need it ?

1998-04-01 Thread shaul
1) rakefet# dpkg --configure cnews Setting up cnews (cr.g7-4) ... Using existing cnews configuration. dpkg: error processing cnews (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: cnews After comparing the postinst script

Re: I love Bill!

1998-04-01 Thread Roberto Magana
Look at the date. On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, ' ALLAN W. BART wrote: > I dont understand the madness that is going on in this group. > > allan > > On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Ian Keith Setford wrote: % <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Roberto Magan

Re: compiling kernel 2.0.33, libc6-dev

1998-04-01 Thread David Stern
On 01 Apr 1998 16:00:51 CST, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"David" == David Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > David> Then does the kernel-* package information (whatever it's > David> called) needs to be updated? > --8> - > David> Description: Linux kernel source. This pack

Re: mozilla.deb, get it while its hot

1998-04-01 Thread Anthony Fok
On Wed, Apr 01, 1998 at 08:35:36AM -0500, Carroll Kong wrote: > Wow.. is mozilla the "web browser" of choice for linux? (like... less > bugs?). Hm... I do not have a lot of those libs you mentioned, can I install > them without replacing my libc5 libs? Or will I definately get a conflict?

xterm weirdness

1998-04-01 Thread William R Ward
When I resize an xterm that has been running for a while, it shrinks down to a very tiny size. I am using some of the nifty features of xterm so that may be the cause, but it looks like a bug to me. Has anyone else seen this? I'm using hamm, but I haven't updated it in a while yet. Has there b

Re: the "Bill" lover

1998-04-01 Thread Ralph Winslow
Ossama Othman wrote: > > I thought it was funny that the Win95 lover even bothered to mail his > stupid message. :) I suspect it was sent VERY tounge-in-cheek. I was tempted bid a fond adieu and "We'll miss all your past contributions, ..." but I forbore (which I should probably do now, too).

Re: Help with X

1998-04-01 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Carroll, > happy. :) I use Accelerated X, but since that is a mere XServer binary, > (right?) can I install a glibc2 or libc5 version of XFree86 3.3.2 into > /usr/X11R6 and re symlink my Accelerated X binary to "X" and still expect it > to > work? Debian's "X" is not a symbolic link. It

Slink [was: Re: Debian Hamm & Dselect]

1998-04-01 Thread William R Ward
"Andreas Mueck \(Stud.93\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is it ok to set dselect to use the package files in /debian/hamm/ yet? > > I was using /debian/dists/unstable before now, and I noticed the other > > day that my package list went to nothing. > > hamm is now dists/frozen, the new 'unstab

Re: Help with X

1998-04-01 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Carroll Kong wrote: > I ran this > > " > /home/damascus% xset r rate > Xlib: extension "XFree86-Misc" missing on display ":0.0". > server does not have extension for "r rate" option > " > > I get this odd error... when i try to run xset r rate? Not sure if I ran it > improperly... but the idea o

Killing NetBios Network Connections

1998-04-01 Thread Carroll Kong
How exactly do I kill an active Network Connection (NETBIOS) so they are forced to reconnect to me? (reauthenticate themselves)? netstat -kill? hehehe? Basically something analagous to MS's net use /delete IPC$ Thanks! Carroll Kong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Reverse name resolution.

1998-04-01 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Taken from http://www.apache.org/docs/misc/perf-tuning.html:   HostnameLookups Prior to Apache 1.3, HostnameLookups defaulted to On. This adds latency to every request because it requires a DNS lookup to complete before the request is finished. In Apache 1.3 this setting defaults to Off. However

Re: Grabbing sockets with bind???

1998-04-01 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Ok, well make sure you stopped samba *and* any running nmbd or smbd processes. Then do a 'netstat -at' and look for bindings to the addresses. Then you should be able to run (as root). Note that land can probably do it because it sets the proper socket option for reusing ports. I wouldn't think

Re: ftape question

1998-04-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 1 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The status command didn't provide much info on the tape, in fact it was > the same for both types of tapes, regular and extended. > > % mt -f /dev/ftape status > drive type = 8423552 > drive status = 0 > sense key error = 0 > residue count = 0 > file

Help with X

1998-04-01 Thread Carroll Kong
I ran this " /home/damascus% xset r rate Xlib: extension "XFree86-Misc" missing on display ":0.0". server does not have extension for "r rate" option " I get this odd error... when i try to run xset r rate? Not sure if I ran it improperly... but the idea of me missing an extension in X-Free doe

Re: Grabbing sockets with bind???

1998-04-01 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Shut down samba on your linux box before doing this. It is already bound to > those > ports. Also yes, you must run nc as root if you want to bind to those ports. well...ok...I stopped samba...then I took it out of inetd.conf (commented out) then I tried again (after r

Re: Microsoft buys TeX! Knuth sells out! (fwd)

1998-04-01 Thread Nebu John Mathai
Isn't it bad luck to send out april fool's jokes after 12? I hope that was a joke ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Non-Free Software

1998-04-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Peter" == Peter Prohaska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> The idea of keeping up a list of files from non-free which can Peter> be burnt on CD without hesitating would be a very good Peter> thing. It might be just a directory with symlinks to packages Peter> in non-free. So there would no

Re: non-free software

1998-04-01 Thread Robert Moody
Hi there, I usually stay away from these types of discusion but I thought I had better step in on this one and provide some possible solutions. Most people seem to want to be able to get hold of the the non-free software however not everyone has access to a connection which is fast or reliable. L

Re: Legal -> A4

1998-04-01 Thread Yann Dirson
Oleg Krivosheev writes: > i need to reformat my Latex paper from > legal(US) to A4. >What i have to do in order to > get all stuff A4 aware: dvips, ghostscript, These are already A4-aware, AFAIK (I use them for A4) As for the LaTeX option, "a4paper" is a class-option for standard LaTeX doc-

Re: X11R6.4 and Debian

1998-04-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Alex" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alex> Turning the other cheek won't do any bad to us. On the contrary. The sting on the cheeks, the bruises bespeaking of smashed capillaries, are a mere token of what happens if you do not take a stand. Alex> Turning to destructive positio

Reverse name resolution.

1998-04-01 Thread fealvar
Hi, is it possible to turn off reverse name resolution in a global way or at least for the apache web server?? Thanks. __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Compañia de Telecomunicaciones de Chile. Telefono: 691.30.56 Licenciado en Matemá

Re: compiling kernel 2.0.33, libc6-dev

1998-04-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"David" == David Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> Then does the kernel-* package information (whatever it's David> called) needs to be updated? --8> - David> Description: Linux kernel source. This package provides the David> source code for the Linux kernel, as well a

Re: FTP and Hamm (again)

1998-04-01 Thread Wiria A Kusuma
I got the same error as well...neither have luck with harddisk installation. :) install process exits with a status of 1. Mike Patterson wrote: > > I've gotten to the point where I have selected files I want to install, but > then when I select "install", I get the following message: > > Can't l

Microsoft buys TeX! Knuth sells out! (fwd)

1998-04-01 Thread Aria Prima Novianto
Did anybody else see this news item today? Thought it might be of interest. -- *) Aria -- Forwarded message -- == MICROSOFT BUYS TEX, PLANS NEW PRODUCTS STANFO

Re: compiling kernel 2.0.33, libc6-dev

1998-04-01 Thread David Stern
On 01 Apr 1998 12:27:13 CST, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > The kernel is delibrately independent of any kernel related > header files you may have installed (or that libc6 uses). It is OK to > compile 2.0.33 on your machine. That's good. > The newer kernel-source packages do not provide kern

Re: Grabbing sockets with bind???

1998-04-01 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Shut down samba on your linux box before doing this. It is already bound to those ports. Also yes, you must run nc as root if you want to bind to those ports. Stephen Carpenter wrote: > Ok... > I have had a problem under debian linux..and I just can't figure out WHY > I am > a while back the "la

Re: block device name for cd-rom

1998-04-01 Thread Will Lowe
> Insert the CD-ROM and enter the block device name What sort of CD-ROM do you have? Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: block device name for cd-rom

1998-04-01 Thread Christopher Judd
> I have installed debian on hard drive. Now I am trying to use deselect. I > chose > access method as cd-rom. I am being prompted the following: > > Insert the CD-ROM and enter the block device name > > > what should I enter here? /dev/hdc ^

block device name for cd-rom

1998-04-01 Thread HHaque
I have installed debian on hard drive. Now I am trying to use deselect. I chose access method as cd-rom. I am being prompted the following: Insert the CD-ROM and enter the block device name what should I enter here? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: request for Debian 2.0 features

1998-04-01 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Graham Pople wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Scott Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, pgarcia wrote: > > > >> Could someone please summarize the main changes in the upcoming Debian 2.0 > >> release? Does it include the filesystem changes in FHS

Mozilla dynamic against lesstif -- how??

1998-04-01 Thread shaleh
How do I make Mozilla link dynamically against lesstif. I want a smaller binary. Thnkas. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Unidentified subject!

1998-04-01 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
>>On Wed, Apr 01, 1998 at 02:04:27AM -0700, Rob Goodwin wrote: >> excuse me if this is a FAQ but I can't find a HOWTO on it. Is there away >> to run an IMAP server for Linux? can someone point me in the right >> direction? >install the imap-4 package. > >Nils Actually you should use the imap_4.B

randomly losing focus

1998-04-01 Thread David Stern
Beginning about three weeks ago I've been randomly losing focus in X-windows. The way this usually occurs is that I'm navigating a menu and suddenly the (netscape, fr, exmh ..) menu disappears (usually the app will remain in focus, but not always). Further, that menu will not re-open until I

Re: Non-Free Software

1998-04-01 Thread Peter Prohaska
On Tue, Mar 31, 1998 at 03:43:42PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, King Lee wrote: > > > I want Linux to become a viable alternative to Microsoft, not > > because I hate Microsoft, but because Linux is better in many > > circumstances. I would like corporate information technology

Re: HP DAT drives

1998-04-01 Thread Peter Prohaska
On Tue, Mar 31, 1998 at 10:40:01AM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote: >Any, just a datapoint. If you want some pointers to cheap sources of used > (have >you looked at the prices for new DAT drives?) drives, let me know. > > Right: $881 is lowest I found for a 12/24 GB. If you'd pass along > those

Grabbing sockets with bind???

1998-04-01 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Ok... I have had a problem under debian linux..and I just can't figure out WHY I am a while back the "land" attack was posted on bugtraq...and just for "Shits and giggles" I decided to see if I could make a version of it using a shell script and the "netcat" program. I did and it worked fine under

Problems with AccelX4.1 / Debian 2.0 [frozen]

1998-04-01 Thread Vaibhav Goel
Hello; I had Debian 2.0 frozen running just fine with XFree and my ATI Mach64 card. I recently purchased a Diamond FireGL1000Pro card and AccelX 4.1 which supports this card. Upon doing a "Minimal Install" of AccelX, I cannot run X at all. When I type startx, I get some "symbol not found" erro

Re: I love Bill!

1998-04-01 Thread Adam Klein
On Wed, Apr 01, 1998 at 02:25:42PM -0500, ' ALLAN W. BART wrote: > I dont understand the madness that is going on in this group. > It's April Fools Day! > On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Ian Keith Setford wrote: > > > > > Yo- > > > > I have had a moment of clarity this morning and I have "seen the light"

Re: the "Bill" lover

1998-04-01 Thread Ossama Othman
> I think that it's funny that people took this April Fool's joke > seriously. Troll! DOH! Damn this day! :) -Ossama -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: the "Bill" lover

1998-04-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
I thought it was funny that the Win95 lover even bothered to mail his stupid message. :) I think that it's funny that people took this April Fool's joke seriously. Troll! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: the "Bill" lover

1998-04-01 Thread Ossama Othman
I thought it was funny that the Win95 lover even bothered to mail his stupid message. :) IMHO, it seems that many people on the list get riled up somewhat easily. Let's take things with a grain of salt, not only about "Bill loving" comments but with "controversial" topics in general. Getting ang

Re: request for Debian 2.0 features

1998-04-01 Thread Graham Pople
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, pgarcia wrote: > >> Could someone please summarize the main changes in the upcoming Debian 2.0 >> release? Does it include the filesystem changes in FHS 2.0? I noticed >> that on the ftp doc/package-devel

Re: I love Bill!

1998-04-01 Thread ' ALLAN W. BART
I dont understand the madness that is going on in this group. allan On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Ian Keith Setford wrote: > > Yo- > > I have had a moment of clarity this morning and I have "seen the light"!! > No longer will I be a part of the Debian community because its purpose is > flawed. I will r

Re: exim for intermittent ppp connection? Also fetchmail bombs out.

1998-04-01 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> I have installed exim because of the difficulty I've had learning to >> configure sendmail, and because of suggestions by other posters here. >> Can anyone give me a succinct procedure to configure exim to change my >> debian user name to my isp user name, and change my debian domain to my isp >

squid-1.1.17

1998-04-01 Thread Wiria A Kusuma
I had installed in my debian 1.3.1 smoothly and running flawlessly, after I rebooted my server, it prompts me for password authentication while I do not want this feature, in my squid.conf file I had had proxy_auth points to /dev/null, after /etc/init.d/squid reload, I got this message "FATAL: can

I love Bill!

1998-04-01 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I have had a moment of clarity this morning and I have "seen the light"!! No longer will I be a part of the Debian community because its purpose is flawed. I will run Microsoft Win95 from now on! So Win95 crashes all the time, at least I can through to their tech-support when I need to. Som

Re: compiling kernel 2.0.33, libc6-dev

1998-04-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, The kernel is delibrately independent of any kernel related header files you may have installed (or that libc6 uses). It is OK to compile 2.0.33 on your machine. The newer kernel-source packages do not provide kernel-headers anymore, since the kernel-source package is archi

Re: X11R6.4 and Debian

1998-04-01 Thread aqy6633
> Alex> let's not start the war, please... May be it is time to realize > Alex> the existence of "non-free" software and try to live in peace > Alex> with that, not try to ignore as much as possible its existence, > Alex> adjust our policy and practice to the changing > Alex> world. Proprietary sof

Re: X11R6.4 and Debian

1998-04-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Alex" == Alex Yukhimets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ray> I suspect that the result of making the "Open Group"'s X non-free Ray> is that development of that version will start to fall behind the Ray> free version quickly. If the commercial folks don't want the Ray> freeware folks to have the

Re: ftape question

1998-04-01 Thread Randy Stocking
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On 1 Apr, Randy Stocking wrote: > > George Bonser writes: > >> > >> How do I determine the maximum capacity? I have inherited a drive > >> destined to the scrapper. It appears to work just fine after making > >> a test backup using taper. The kernel reports this on bo

Re: XFree86 gamma correction

1998-04-01 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Mar 31, 1998 at 02:35:49PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: > My XFree86 stuff looks much darker than on PCs or Macs... sounds like a > gamma problem to me. > > Anyone have any pointers to docs on setting up gamma on XFree86? Doesn't > seem to be a how-to on it. I've seen someone else has answer

Re: X11R6.4 and Debian

1998-04-01 Thread James Troup
Alex Yukhimets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > let's not start the war, please... Pot. Kettle. -- James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ftape question

1998-04-01 Thread servis
On 1 Apr, Randy Stocking wrote: > George Bonser writes: >> >> How do I determine the maximum capacity? I have inherited a drive >> destined to the scrapper. It appears to work just fine after making >> a test backup using taper. The kernel reports this on bootup: >> >> QIC-117B drive @1MB/sec >

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #73

1998-04-01 Thread comte
-- > 送件者: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 收件者: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 主旨: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #73 > 日期: 1998年3月27日 AM 09:23 > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LILO err

1998-04-01 Thread Gary Kline
According to Hamish Moffatt: > On Tue, Mar 31, 1998 at 05:29:45PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > Trying to install lilo, I see this warning: > > ``Must specify LOADER for BIOS device 0x81'' > > What does this mean? > > Apparently you want to boot from your second hard drive > (the first is 0

Re: frivolity: the joystick

1998-04-01 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> >> OK, I had to do it. Radio shack had $15 joysticks with a $15 rebate, and I >> took one for the kids machine at home, which runs the darkside (and for >> which >> I have a flight simulator). >> >> About 3 days later, the plug was pulled on my consulting project, and the >> machine went

Re: X11R6.4 and Debian

1998-04-01 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> I suspect that the result of making the "Open Group"'s X non-free is that > development of that version will start to fall behind the free version > quickly. If the commercial folks don't want the freeware folks to have their > contributions at all, it is very likely the freeware folks don't want

Re: ftape question

1998-04-01 Thread Randy Stocking
George Bonser writes: > > How do I determine the maximum capacity? I have inherited a drive > destined to the scrapper. It appears to work just fine after making > a test backup using taper. The kernel reports this on bootup: > > QIC-117B drive @1MB/sec > QIC-80 tape > > Where would I look to f

Re: mozilla.deb, get it while its hot

1998-04-01 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Carroll Kong wrote: > Wow.. is mozilla the "web browser" of choice for linux? (like... less > bugs?). Hm... I do not have a lot of those libs you mentioned, can I install > them without replacing my libc5 libs? Or will I definately g

Re: X11R6.4 and Debian

1998-04-01 Thread jdassen
On Wed, Apr 01, 1998 at 10:38:36AM -0500, Marco Anglesio wrote: > >From comp.os.linux.development.system > > >This is from the official announce of X11 R6.4: [commercial use licensing fee] > How will this influence the composition of future versions of Debian? Not very much. > IIRC, a current

using an alternate XF86_SVGA

1998-04-01 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
My video card, a diamond stealth 2500, uses a screwball chipset, the AT-24 from alliance. It works with the base SVGA server, but with lots of artifacts. Enough that I'm limited to 1024x768; they get really bad beyond that. THe manufacturer provides a replacement driver, but it's a year or tw

Re: X11R6.4 and Debian

1998-04-01 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Marco Anglesio wrote: > How will this influence the composition of future versions of Debian? > IIRC, a current topic on debian-user has been that non-free works are not > included in the official debian distribution; if X11R6.4 becomes non-

FTP and Hamm (again)

1998-04-01 Thread Mike Patterson
I've gotten to the point where I have selected files I want to install, but then when I select "install", I get the following message: Can't locate DirHandle.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/ 5.004 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/local/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/perl .) at /usr

X11R6.4 and Debian

1998-04-01 Thread Marco Anglesio
>From comp.os.linux.development.system >This is from the official announce of X11 R6.4: > > With the release of X11R6.4 there will be a commercial use licensing > fee associated with the X Window System technology. This new licensing > structure will continue to provide the research, application

Debian, Notebook, and Parallel CDROM

1998-04-01 Thread gunfried geiger
Dear Debian Community, Could anybody give me a hint on where to find a 'notebook-howto' or the like? Actually i'm trying to install Debian Linux version 1.3.1 from CDROM unto a Siemens-Nixdorf PCD-5ND 75MHz Pentium Notebook. The first obstacle: how can i get the external parallel port CDROM driv

Re: mozilla.deb, get it while its hot

1998-04-01 Thread Rick Macdonald
Johnie Ingram wrote: > > A Mozilla 5 package by Joey Hess is now in our master Incoming, and > will be soon at an Incoming mirror near you. :-) You can already get > it from: > And yes, its actually usable, and has at least one convenient new > feature in the Window menu. There are some glitche

Re: Legal -> A4

1998-04-01 Thread LeRoy D. Cressy
Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > Hi, All > > i need to reformat my Latex paper from > legal(US) to A4. What i have to do in order to > get all stuff A4 aware: dvips, ghostscript, > magicfilter...? > > I already put [a4] modifier in latex > doc.class preambule > Good Morning, ;-) Are you just trying

Re: Hard Drive partition

1998-04-01 Thread Arunas Norvaisa
On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, gunfried geiger wrote: > > > On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Angelo La Pegna wrote: > > > Hello > > > > I would like to know if it's possible to install Debian Linux without > > partitioning the Hard Disk. > > > > Thank you > > > > Perhaps you should tr

Re: Hard Drive partition

1998-04-01 Thread gunfried geiger
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Angelo La Pegna wrote: > Hello > > I would like to know if it's possible to install Debian Linux without > partitioning the Hard Disk. > > Thank you > Perhaps you should try PartitionMagic to create a new partition without deleting the existi

Re: mozilla.deb, get it while its hot

1998-04-01 Thread Carroll Kong
Wow.. is mozilla the "web browser" of choice for linux? (like... less bugs?). Hm... I do not have a lot of those libs you mentioned, can I install them without replacing my libc5 libs? Or will I definately get a conflict? The site is down now... :( at least for me, do you know

Re: Installing Debian

1998-04-01 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Apr 01, 1998 at 01:59:05PM -0800, Matti Valkonen wrote: > Sorry for my stupidity, but: > > Olivetti 386 SX > Iomega Zip-drive What kind of ZIP? Parallel, SCSI or ATAPI/EIDE? > 1.44 diskette drive > > question is: how to avoid switching multiple diskettes and using the > zip-drive? Yo

Re: LILO err

1998-04-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Mar 31, 1998 at 05:29:45PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > Trying to install lilo, I see this warning: > ``Must specify LOADER for BIOS device 0x81'' > What does this mean? Apparently you want to boot from your second hard drive (the first is 0x80). LILO will normally let you off with a

Installing Debian

1998-04-01 Thread Matti Valkonen
Sorry for my stupidity, but: Olivetti 386 SX Iomega Zip-drive 1.44 diskette drive question is: how to avoid switching multiple diskettes and using the zip-drive? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IMAP for Linux

1998-04-01 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Apr 01, 1998 at 02:04:27AM -0700, Rob Goodwin wrote: > excuse me if this is a FAQ but I can't find a HOWTO on it. Is there a way > to run an IMAP server for Linux? can someone point me in the right > direction? install the imap-4 package. Nils -- *---

Re: Boot hang and debian hamm

1998-04-01 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, Mar 31, 1998 at 06:44:10PM +, Jeffery D. Collins wrote: > I have been unable to reboot the kernel. The only text printed > to the screen is "LI". > Here is lilo.conf: > > > $ cat /etc/lilo.conf > boot=/dev/hda1 > root=/dev/hda1 > compact > install=/boot/boot.b > map=/boot/map > vga=no

IMAP for Linux

1998-04-01 Thread Rob Goodwin
excuse me if this is a FAQ but I can't find a HOWTO on it. Is there a way to run an IMAP server for Linux? can someone point me in the right direction? thanks, rg <>

Re: AWE64, kernel 2.1.91

1998-04-01 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Olivier Abad wrote: > Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: > > > > However, when I boot up, it appears that only the awe_wave modules is > > being correctly installed. > > I had the same problems. I made the following modifications to my > modules configuration : Thanks! I alre

Re: Legal -> A4

1998-04-01 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > i need to reformat my Latex paper from > legal(US) to A4. What i have to do in order to > get all stuff A4 aware: dvips, ghostscript, > magicfilter...? > > I already put [a4] modifier in latex > doc.class preambule > > ps i have latest frozen installe

Re: Suggestion: Re: Hi I want to meet you im a model!

1998-04-01 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Brandon Mitchell wrote: > I should have been more descriptive when I said "digest mode". This was > done a while back on debian-devel when a poster was constantly posting > annoying messages that many didn't want filling up their mail box, but we > didn't want to completely remove their ability t

Re: pam, ppp broken after dpkg-ftp hamm upgrade

1998-04-01 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Britton wrote: > Is this the expected behavior? If so, what is the accepted way to tell > these packages to configure themselves, or each other, or whatever? > Thanks. Have you tried to put them on the same commandline like this: dpkg -i libs/libpam0g_0.57b-0.deb admin/li

Re: non-free software

1998-04-01 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Bob Hilliard wrote (really): > > You ("E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Bob Hilliard wrote: > > Although my response to King Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > started this thread, the quotation you attribute to me was not written > by me. I believe, bu

pam, ppp broken after dpkg-ftp hamm upgrade

1998-04-01 Thread Britton
I had installed the essential files seperatly as per the instructions in libc6 HOWTO. I hope it was safe to then use dpkg-ftp (which stopped seg faulting after I removed a dangling ncurses sym link) to try to ease the upgrade of other packages, because this is what I tried to do. Many packages

I am getting a new computer.

1998-04-01 Thread Nagmier G. Quinton
In the coming weeks I am aquiring two hitachi laptops, both with built in cdroms, 1.0gig hds and 1 is a 100mhz pentium, and the other is a 120mhz. I don't have details of thier models yet but will let you know asap. What I am looking for is, 1. what modem would be best to use, 2. what network card

Legal -> A4

1998-04-01 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, All i need to reformat my Latex paper from legal(US) to A4. What i have to do in order to get all stuff A4 aware: dvips, ghostscript, magicfilter...? I already put [a4] modifier in latex doc.class preambule thanks OK ps i have latest frozen installed... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

mozilla.deb, get it while its hot

1998-04-01 Thread Johnie Ingram
A Mozilla 5 package by Joey Hess is now in our master Incoming, and will be soon at an Incoming mirror near you. :-) You can already get it from: ftp://ftp1.us.debian.org/pub/debian/Incoming/mozilla-smotif_5.0b1-0.0_i386.deb To run it you need libc6, libstdc++2.8, xlib6g, and xpm4g installed.

Re: AWE64, kernel 2.1.91

1998-04-01 Thread Olivier Abad
Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: > > However, when I boot up, it appears that only the awe_wave modules is > being correctly installed. I had the same problems. I made the following modifications to my modules configuration : In /etc/conf.modules, I added the following lines : # SB AWE64 PnP al

Boot problems with 1.31

1998-04-01 Thread Brian Schramm
OK, I know I have a strange configuration but I like it. Here is my configuration: HP Pavilion 7126 computer 32 meg ram 2 IDE hard drives with a IDE CD-ROM hda = 1.65 GIG IDE hdb = 500 Meg IDE hdc = CD-ROM 1 SCSI hard drive and 1 4 MM tape drive driven by an Adaptec 1520 card sda = 1 GIG SCSI ID

Re: Green Monitors

1998-04-01 Thread King Lee
On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Chris wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > Does anyone know how to get linux to shut off "green" monitors after a > certain time of inactivity? > > With X Windows try under xset dpms see man pages for more details. King Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

BIG thanks to all on bash* problem

1998-04-01 Thread Damir J. Naden
I just want to thank all of the people who were very quick and helpful in dealings with my broken upgrade of the hamm-based bash package (2.01.1-1). I have managed to install ash package, edit /etc/passwd to make ash a login shell for root and user, and than reinstall old, working bash_2.01-5.deb

Re: Applixware- user view needed

1998-04-01 Thread Damir J. Naden
Thanks to everyone who offered help on this matter. I had hoped this program would have been somewhat smaller...Sigh. I'm using Lyx on top of tetex for WP and experimenting with xesslite for SS (which is quite nice, actually). Xesslite takes up only about 4 Mb (with examples and html help files), a

Re: Green Monitors

1998-04-01 Thread Lindsay Allen
Here is a message on the subject which I saved some time back. >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Apr 1 11:28:51 1998 Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 22:40:05 +0100 From: Philipp Frauenfelder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: William R Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Energy Star screensaver

Re: Non-Free Software

1998-04-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Mar 31, 1998 at 04:04:15PM -0500, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > > > : I would like to see non-free debian packages on CDs... > > : it would make my life and the lives of many people easier... > > Of course it w

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