Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-21 Thread Michael Beattie
> Well, IE 4 with Active Desktop is a piece of sh*t. I installed it on the > machine of my girl friend,and she wanted me to remove it instantly. With all > those circles and orange buttons, you can't find the folders and files any > more... Whoa... hey, A little exploring yeilds options to turn th

Exabyte Eagle TR-4i IDE tape backup

1998-04-21 Thread Randy Edwards
Does anyone have any info on the Exabyte Eagle TR-4i IDE tape backup? Specifically, I'm wondering if it'll work with Linux. (Any other stories/experiences with these would be appreciated too.:-) -- Regards,|Debian GNU/__ o http://www.debian.org . |

X: competition for colours

1998-04-21 Thread G. Crimp
Hi, I have a generic S3 Trio64V+ card. Until recently it had only the stock 1 M of memory. With that, if I had, Netscape running and then tried to run something else that used a lot of colour, occasionally, the second app would fail to start up with a message like `Not enough colours'.

DialD/PPPD Problem....

1998-04-21 Thread Kevin Traas
I'm currently running DialD using a USR Sportster 33.6 Modem. I want to "upgrade" this modem to a K56Flex Motorola; however, when I swap out the USR for the Motorola, strange things happen After enabling full debug and watching the logs, all I could find was that DialD's connect script would

modems

1998-04-21 Thread Tom Zelazny
Please advise how I can get my modem set up(com2irq3),I can't seem to find specific info at debian,and the sunsite documentation list commands which don't seem to work with debian. Also what program do I use to connect to my ISP(TCP/IP)? After I connect, I would be happy with the Lynx text browser.

freshmeat repository

1998-04-21 Thread Aria Prima Novianto
>From freshmeat page: -- freshmeat RPM repository As you might already know, freshmeat tries to keep up with the latest software releases and builds RPM packages for them. All this work is done by Obituary, feel free to mail him questions or comments. A change invented with the move of fres

Re: Debian GNU/Linux: Best of the Web! (fwd)

1998-04-21 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 11:33:49AM -0400, James A.Treacy wrote: > For those few of you who don't read http://slashdot.org, the > Mining Co has posted their Linux "Best of the Net" site awards. > Debian was number 1. I'd never heard of this company before, > but am not adverse to any good publicity

SVGATextMode and Cirrus card

1998-04-21 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, I have read messages earlier on this list (e.g. from Irmund Thum on 14.01.1998) on using SVGATextMode. I have a Cirrus 5426 graphics card and according to the TextConfig file it does not need clock lines. How do I then change the resolution on my screen? When SVGATextMode -a is run, it

Re: Telnet Proxy anyone?

1998-04-21 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 04:39:23PM +1200, Richard L Shepherd wrote: > Has anyone heard of a telnet-proxy package (especially for linux and > Debian of course)? > > We have some people who have (and want to keep) their subnet blocked for > offsite access (so they do all their WWW browsing via a WWW

Re: inconsistent X security?

1998-04-21 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 10:52:15PM -0500, pgarcia wrote: > I'm currently not using xdm; I'm using startx to start X. > When I don't have an .xserverrc file, X uses magic cookies. > When I do have one (that simply says X -bpp 24), the security > is completely disabled. What gives? How do I use an

Re: Debian list `From' line (Re: exim & mutt, weird)

1998-04-21 Thread Stephen Carpenter
ahhh OOPS! I tottally forgot about that one! I still prefer ^X-Mailing-List: . since you know debian-user puts it in...(also that way if a messgae is sent to you directly AND to the list...the version that went through the list get ssorted in the list folder and the copy directly to you goes in

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-21 Thread Petra
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Petra wrote: > > > On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > > > > I was told that XFSTT had a new maintainer when I asked to adopt it... so > > I guess we are both to late. > > > Where i

motifnls problem

1998-04-21 Thread Usman Roshan
Hi everybody, I can't seem to configure the motifnls package. I get an error that says .X11.tmp file not found and then dselect says that it was unable to configure motifnls. Basically I need it to run netscape and without I'm stuck. Help please ? Usman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

SmartList Trailer

1998-04-21 Thread Mark Sailer
I'm looking to add a trailer to a mail list I'm running. I haven't been able to figure out how to add this. The other thing I want to add is in the Subject: I want it to read: [listname] actual_subject Any ideas?? Thanks Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Super.tab syntax--solved

1998-04-21 Thread C.L.Daugaard
In case anyone's interested, here's the piece that was missing from the scripts (from the super man page :o) ): prog=`basename $0` test "X$SUPERCMD" = "X$prog" || exec /usrq/bin/super $prog ${1+"$@"} The user is able to execu

Re: Telnet Proxy anyone?

1998-04-21 Thread Adam Shand
> Has anyone heard of a telnet-proxy package (especially for linux and > Debian of course)? socks is probably your best best. the only hassle is that they then have to run socks-ified applications to get through the firewall. however with free socks-ified winsock.dll (provides transparent socks

Re: Comments on Debian 'frozen' release, wvdial

1998-04-21 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 12:50:18PM -0600, Andy Rabagliati wrote: > > On Monday 20 April, Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > You can install pppconfig. It is not in the base disks, though. I will > > suggest that to the boot floppy maintainer. > > I did. Much better, thanks !

Re: Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ ISA card

1998-04-21 Thread Joel Klecker
At 16:05 +0200 1998-04-21, Fabian Knittel wrote: >On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 01:33:11PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I can get some Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ ISA and/or PCI cards for free, and >> I'm asking myself, if these cards are making any problems with Linux. I > >> found the dr

Re: Debian GNU/Linux: Best of the Web! (fwd)

1998-04-21 Thread G John Lapeyre
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, James A.Treacy wrote: > For those few of you who don't read http://slashdot.org, the > Mining Co has posted their Linux "Best of the Net" site awards. > Debian was number 1. I'd never heard of this company before, > but am not adverse to any good publicity for Debian. > The aw

Re: Debian list `From' line (Re: exim & mutt, weird)

1998-04-21 Thread Joel Klecker
At 10:14 -0400 1998-04-21, Stephen Carpenter wrote: >Nils Rennebarth wrote: >> * ^TOdebian-user.* >> debian-user >I used to use that also but a number of them got through >I don't think that handles cc: to the list >From procmailrc(5): If the regular expression contains `^TO' it will be

Micron Transport XPE

1998-04-21 Thread Mike Roberts
I'm trying to install Debian on a Micron Transport XPE laptop and I'm having problems with the video chip not being recognized correctly and the screen is being blanked as described in the Linux Laptop Homepage. I can't seem to find any rescue disk boot prompt options to help me get around this pro

Re: Comments on Debian 'frozen' release, wvdial

1998-04-21 Thread Andy Rabagliati
On Monday 20 April, Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > You can install pppconfig. It is not in the base disks, though. I will > suggest that to the boot floppy maintainer. I did. Much better, thanks ! > I will suggest pppconfig in the base disks. I'm not sure about the > nameserv

Mozilla Package?

1998-04-21 Thread Tres Hofmeister
Where can I find the latest Mozilla package? There was a reference in one of the debian-devel archives, but the archive disappeared from debian.org. Various searches haven't turned it up. Thanks... -- Tres Hofmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.rap.ucar.edu/staff/tres/ Research App

Linux DRAW or Linux ILLUSTRATOR

1998-04-21 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Leonardo Ruoso writes: > My problems all are simple to undertend.. as I work to a medium > Newspaper (http://www.opovo.com.br) I have to solve some problems like > machines to slow with Corel Draw 7, QXpress 3.32, Photoshop 4 and > reinstalling it every day... There are 300 machines here...

Re: monitor rates for X

1998-04-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Kenneth F. Ryder III" wrote: >># /etc/gpm.conf - configuration file for gpm(1) >># >>device=/dev/ttyS1 >>responsiveness= >>type=mman >>append="-B 321 -R" >> >>Then, in X use /etc/gpmdata in MouseSystems mode. The -B 321 swaps the >>mouse buttons. ... > > >I have a PS/2 mo

Re: pcmcia install help

1998-04-21 Thread Michael Stutz
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Michael Stutz wrote: > (Now can someone tell me why it's dumping me directly into a root shell > after bootup? The other virtual consoles have login gettys running as > normal.) Replace /etc/inittab with /etc/inittab.real. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: pcmcia install help

1998-04-21 Thread Michael Stutz
On 21 Apr 1998, Mike Miller wrote: > First, I installed base system with floppies. Then I copied the > pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules packages from the debian archive to > a different linux machine and put them on a floppy. Since you've > got a cd, you might not need to do that. On the other hand

Re: Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ ISA card

1998-04-21 Thread dg
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Fabian Knittel wrote: > On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 01:33:11PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I can get some Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ ISA and/or PCI cards for free, and > > I'm asking myself, if these cards are making any problems with Linux. I > > > found the

Re: Install disks for PowerPC

1998-04-21 Thread Joel Klecker
At 23:23 -0400 1998-04-19, Alain Toussaint wrote: >> where are they? I see a directory for disks-i386 and several other >> platforms (alpha, sparc and m68k) but no disks-powerpc. >> >> So how does one get started installing Debian on a PowerPC MAC, and where >> are the instructions? >> > >i don't

Re: Install disks for PowerPC

1998-04-21 Thread Joel Klecker
At 14:59 +1200 1998-04-20, Richard L Shepherd wrote: >where are they? I see a directory for disks-i386 and several other >platforms (alpha, sparc and m68k) but no disks-powerpc. There aren't any, the port is not quite to the point that install disks can be made. We are very close, however. >So h

Re: [tcsh] disabling autologout?

1998-04-21 Thread Joel Klecker
At 12:17 -0400 1998-04-20, Peter S Galbraith wrote: >$ cd [tab] > -> shows and completes to directory names only >$ latex [tab] > -> shows and completes to .tex files only >$ emacs -[tab] > -> shows and completes to available options for that command. > >Who would want to live without it? >Can bash

Re: laptop install help

1998-04-21 Thread Michael Stutz
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > In addition to the pcmcia-cs package you also need the pcmcia-modules-2.0.?? > .deb > package which matches your kernel version. 'uname --release' will tell you > which > one you've got. You'll have to ftp this package from the debian archive, put

Re: pcmcia install help

1998-04-21 Thread Michael Stutz
On 21 Apr 1998, Mike Miller wrote: > > "Michael" == Michael Stutz writes: > > I'm ready to conclude that you cannot install Debian on a > > laptop that uses a pcmcia modem as its primary interface to > > the world. I would really love it if somebody proved me > > wrong. > >

Re: laptop install help

1998-04-21 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
In addition to the pcmcia-cs package you also need the pcmcia-modules-2.0.?? .deb package which matches your kernel version. 'uname --release' will tell you which one you've got. You'll have to ftp this package from the debian archive, put in on a floppy, then install it on your laptop with 'dpkg

Looking for info on XKB

1998-04-21 Thread Lorens Kockum
When I installed Bo, I answered yes to the question "do you want to use XKB to configure your keyboard?". Now I want to use that... I've done a locate xkb on my machine, and I can find no useful documentation whatsoever (there are four manpages and one README), and the sources I've looked at are

Re: Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ ISA card

1998-04-21 Thread Fabian Knittel
On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 01:33:11PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I can get some Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ ISA and/or PCI cards for free, and > I'm asking myself, if these cards are making any problems with Linux. I I only now of my own privat use (not much traffic), but for me, they

Re: Linux DRAW or Linux ILLUSTRATOR

1998-04-21 Thread Marco Anglesio
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 11:03:45AM -0400, Ben Pfaff wrote: >Can someone tells me about some apps thats do the work of Corel Draw in >Linux, Like Corel Draw? O heard about GIMP that can substitute Corel >PhotoPaint and Photoshop! And about substitute Corel Ventura, Adobe >Pagemaker

Re: ISDN modem problems

1998-04-21 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I use a Zyxel OMNI TA 128U (almost the exact same beast) with a single 64K channel. It has no problems. My server machine is a P90 overclocked to 100 with 40MB of memory. Perhaps you're getting buffer overruns on your serial port. What baud rate are you running your serial port at? Christian Lynb

Re: KDE Problem

1998-04-21 Thread Oz Dror
> In article <0847151421041998/A06349/GCSSTF/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Oz Dror wrote: > >>> > >>> > I have installed the latest version of kde from hamm > >>> > > >>> > when I type kde > > > Why are you typeing this, KDE should be started from startx

Re: pcmcia install help

1998-04-21 Thread Michael Stutz
On 21 Apr 1998, Mike Miller wrote: > > There is also the question of whether or not it will work > > on this kernel, which is 2.0.32. So I went to > > www.debian.org and downloaded > > pcmcia-modules-2.0.32_3.0.0-5k5.deb. > > How did you get a 2.0.32 kernel while installing Debian

Re: pcmcia install help

1998-04-21 Thread Mike Miller
> "Michael" == Michael Stutz writes: > I'm ready to conclude that you cannot install Debian on a > laptop that uses a pcmcia modem as its primary interface to > the world. I would really love it if somebody proved me > wrong. Well, it is certainly possible to do the installati

Re: "man" fails -- segmentation fault

1998-04-21 Thread Jack Kern
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 04:08:27PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 11:09:00AM -0300, Jack Kern wrote: > > Yesterday "man" failed: e.g., > > > > $ man man > > Segmentation fault > > Looks like man's database is corrupt. "mandb --create" ought to fix this. >

Re: pcmcia install help

1998-04-21 Thread Cleto Pescia
Hi, I happened to experience problems similar to yours while trying to install a NE2000-compatible Ethernet PC Card, and I solved them by downloading the source package for pcmcia-cs_3.0.0 and compiling it on the notebook. (I used Win95 to download it to the notebook, and then copied it to the Lin

Re: monitor rates for X

1998-04-21 Thread Kenneth F. Ryder III
At 05:17 PM 4/20/98 -0600, S. keeling wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth F. Ryder III) writes: > >> >> I Do not have a manual for my monitor, but I want to push my >> resolution in X higher. I have searched the net, but I can't find >> the horizontal and vertical rates for it. my monitor i

Re: Linux DRAW or Linux ILLUSTRATOR

1998-04-21 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: > Can someone tells me about some apps thats do the work of Corel Draw in > Linux, Like Corel Draw? O heard about GIMP that can substitute Corel > PhotoPaint and Photoshop! And about substitute Corel Ventura, Adobe > Pa

Debian GNU/Linux: Best of the Web! (fwd)

1998-04-21 Thread James A . Treacy
For those few of you who don't read http://slashdot.org, the Mining Co has posted their Linux "Best of the Net" site awards. Debian was number 1. I'd never heard of this company before, but am not adverse to any good publicity for Debian. The awards page is at http://linux.miningco.com/library/awar

Re: possible intrusion in my box ??????

1998-04-21 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Paul, > > On the systems that I run, I have disabled all incoming telnets, ftps, > > rsh/rlogin/rexec/etc, finger, rusers, ident, etc. The only way in is via > > I already use ssh, but would like to exclude access by other means just > as you describe. How do I go about doing this? Is ther

Re: Linux DRAW or Linux ILLUSTRATOR

1998-04-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
Can someone tells me about some apps thats do the work of Corel Draw in Linux, Like Corel Draw? O heard about GIMP that can substitute Corel PhotoPaint and Photoshop! And about substitute Corel Ventura, Adobe Pagemaker or QuarkXpress? xfig might fit your needs for a Corel Draw-like pro

Linux DRAW or Linux ILLUSTRATOR

1998-04-21 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
Can someone tells me about some apps thats do the work of Corel Draw in Linux, Like Corel Draw? O heard about GIMP that can substitute Corel PhotoPaint and Photoshop! And about substitute Corel Ventura, Adobe Pagemaker or QuarkXpress? I don't know if I am just wondering... but its possible

Re: possible intrusion in my box ??????

1998-04-21 Thread Paul Rightley
On 14-Apr-98 Ossama Othman wrote: > > On the systems that I run, I have disabled all incoming telnets, ftps, > rsh/rlogin/rexec/etc, finger, rusers, ident, etc. The only way in is via > Secure Shell. Note that outgoing telnets and ftps would still work. If > > -Ossama > I already use ssh,

PDF and Linux

1998-04-21 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
How can I print PDF collor files to a linotronic 530 Image Setter with command line. Yeah... there are a few questions inside this... where can i find the linotronic 350 drivers for linux; how can i print CMYK separations from adobe acrobat reader or other; how c

Re: Debian list `From' line (Re: exim & mutt, weird)

1998-04-21 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Santiago Vila Doncel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > I have a procmail recipe to catch the Debian mailing list traffic : > > > > :0 > > * ^From [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > debian > > I would not trust the From line. > Why don't you just use the Resent

Re: I have a pppd connection problem.

1998-04-21 Thread Carlos Barros
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Szomor Attila wrote: > --ppp not replacing existing default route to eth0[0.0.0.0] > --Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP > I do not have idea what is a solution if you know it please send me an > e-mail. > > /etc/ppp/options > asyncmap 0 > cr

Re: pcmcia install help

1998-04-21 Thread Ian Stuart
Michael Stutz wrote: > Now, I have no idea what I should do to get Debian working. I'm ready to > conclude that you cannot install Debian on a laptop that uses a pcmcia modem > as its primary interface to the world. I would really love it if somebody > proved me wrong. Not sure about the modem pa

Re: KDE Problem

1998-04-21 Thread Erv Walter
In article <0847151421041998/A06349/GCSSTF/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Oz Dror wrote: >>> >>> > I have installed the latest version of kde from hamm >>> > >>> > when I type kde > Why are you typeing this, KDE should be started from startx or xinit (maybe > xd

Re: Problem with NE2000 Card not working after kernel compile.

1998-04-21 Thread Vaibhav Goel
I do have that in the file...here is what it looks like: ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST} its basically the default nework file that comes with debian...i do have all the variables defined. Thanks On 21 Apr 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: >messages. Upon exploring

Re: Problem with NE2000 Card not working after kernel compile.

1998-04-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
messages. Upon exploring around, I see that these messages are being caused when the file /etc/init.d/network is run the 2 lines are: route add -net ${NETWORK} [ "${GATEWAY}" ] && route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1 You also need an ifconfig command. See the ifconfig man pa

Re: "man" fails -- segmentation fault

1998-04-21 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 11:09:00AM -0300, Jack Kern wrote: > Yesterday "man" failed: e.g., > > $ man man > Segmentation fault Looks like man's database is corrupt. "mandb --create" ought to fix this. HTH, Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven y

Re: Debian list `From' line (Re: exim & mutt, weird)

1998-04-21 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I used to use that also but a number of them got through I don't think that handles cc: to the list -Steve Nils Rennebarth wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 09:22:16AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > I have a procmail recipe to catch the Debian mailing list traffic : > > > > :0 > > * ^From [EM

Problem with NE2000 Card not working after kernel compile.

1998-04-21 Thread Vaibhav Goel
Hello; I have had this problem for quite a while and am completely lost as to what to do to fix it. I have had this problem with both Debian 1.3.1 and Debian 2.0 unstable/frozen. Basically, I install Debian from scratch on my system. During the install process autoprobe for ne2000 card, it can

Re: UUCP :error with login

1998-04-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 02:21:27PM +0200, Nicolas Weinachter wrote: > > When i try to connect to my server, the server doesn't send me anything. > So, my login chat script doesn't work. I think more details are required. Firstly, is the server under your control? Are you trying to UUCP over direc

Re: Video Modes in X

1998-04-21 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >I am trying to get my X running 1152x862 at 16 bpp - Vertical scan = 60Hz, >Horizontal Scan = 56Hz. > >The only hastle is that there is no modeline for this in my XF86Config, >and I don't know how to write one. If you are your monitor are feeling lucky,

"man" fails -- segmentation fault

1998-04-21 Thread Jack Kern
Yesterday "man" failed: e.g., $ man man Segmentation fault (I also noted a possibly unrelated increase of about 9megs on the partition, for which I could not account. Today, the disk space is back -- presumably "cron.daily" took care of this.) I decided to try "gdb"

Re: Linux as a eMail/Internet server.

1998-04-21 Thread tko
Alistair Phillips writes: > > Hi there fellow Linux fans (Debian and the like!) > > About 6 months ago I stumbled upon the greatest find of my life. Someone > had told me about a wonderful OS that multitasked great, handled 100's of > users, had very little requiremets and was a all round OS for

Re: upgrade to libc6 script?

1998-04-21 Thread Stephen Carpenter
The one you link is the old version It is v.23 and I elieve from what I read this morning .25 was releaces According to the old versiont he latest version shoul dbe at: http://www.taz.net.au/autoup/autoup/ -Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 02:42:01PM +0200, E.L. Meijer (Eri

Re: Debian list `From' line (Re: exim & mutt, weird)

1998-04-21 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 09:22:16AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > I have a procmail recipe to catch the Debian mailing list traffic : > > :0 > * ^From [EMAIL PROTECTED] > debian > > It fails on mail from a few users, for which the `From' line is not > the Debian mailing list: > > "Rev. Jose

Re: Debian list `From' line (Re: exim & mutt, weird)

1998-04-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
I have a procmail recipe to catch the Debian mailing list traffic : :0 * ^From [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian I suggest you use the X-Mailing-List header instead. It's added by the mailing list manager, so it gets added to every mailing list message. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

pcmcia install help

1998-04-21 Thread Michael Stutz
Now I am thoroughly confused. I installed "pcmcia-cs_2.9.6-2.deb," which I found on my Debian 1.3.1 CD, and it complained that the actual modules were missing. The only pcmcia module package I could find on the CD were pcmcia-modules-2.0.29_2.9.5-2.deb and pcmcia-modules-2.0.30_2.9.5-3.deb; I tried

Re: Debian list `From' line (Re: exim & mutt, weird)

1998-04-21 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > I have a procmail recipe to catch the Debian mailing list traffic : > > :0 > * ^From [EMAIL PROTECTED] > debian I would not trust the From line. Why don't you just use the Resent-Sender field? -BEGIN PGP SIG

Re: KDE Problem

1998-04-21 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
>> >> >> On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Oz Dror wrote: >> >> > I have installed the latest version of kde from hamm >> > >> > when I type kde Why are you typeing this, KDE should be started from startx or xinit (maybe xdm/kdm even). Graham >> > I get the following error: >> > kde: error in loading sha

Debian list `From' line (Re: exim & mutt, weird)

1998-04-21 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I have a procmail recipe to catch the Debian mailing list traffic : :0 * ^From [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian It fails on mail from a few users, for which the `From' line is not the Debian mailing list: "Rev. Joseph Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nils Rennebarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Norbert Veber

KDE mouse-click strangeness

1998-04-21 Thread Thomas Lakofski
I've just upgraded my home system to the latest KDE available in hamm. Most of it seems fine, except that certain elements no longer respond to mouse clicks, or do not respond initially and can be 'coaxed' by lots of clicking. Unfortunately, ony of the elements which doesn't respond is the task ba

Re: upgrade to libc6 script?

1998-04-21 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 03:00:32PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's available from the "Developer's Corner" as > http://www.debian.org/devel/autoup.sh ; I'm not sure if it's the latest > version though (one was posted this morning I think). OK. According to the autoup.sh distributed by the b

Re: upgrade to libc6 script?

1998-04-21 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 02:42:01PM +0200, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > I tried to look up the url for the autoupgrade script to libc6, but > aparently the list archives on www.debian.org are hosed (i.e., not there). > Could anyone tell me where to find the most recent version of this script? > Would

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-21 Thread Stephen Carpenter
ahh thanx for the info It has been on that list saying it needed a new maintainer for a while now...oh well... hopefully now the documentation will be fixed :) -Steve Petra wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > > I was told that XFSTT had a new maintainer when I asked to ad

Xlock with shadow passwords

1998-04-21 Thread Carroll Kong
Hey guys, I recently lot a LOT of suid bit that slaughtered a lot of system functionality. I reinstalled xlock via package.. or at least i thought i did. It has perms 2755 xlock chowned to root.shadow. Problem is... for some odd reason the group shadow although it has suid (s)... cannot

upgrade to libc6 script?

1998-04-21 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hello everyone, I tried to look up the url for the autoupgrade script to libc6, but aparently the list archives on www.debian.org are hosed (i.e., not there). Could anyone tell me where to find the most recent version of this script? Wouldn't it be nice to put this on the web page under `support

Re: stuck with only 1 xterm in X

1998-04-21 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
>> a last question,does it possible in X to be logged on as several user at >> once (you see,have 2 xterm logged as root,one as alaint,etc...) after this >> is answered,i'll keep my mouth shut except when answering question (i >> found that i asked more than enough questions) ?? I do this quite al

UUCP :error with login

1998-04-21 Thread Nicolas Weinachter
Hello When i try to connect to my server, the server doesn't send me anything. So, my login chat script doesn't work. Have u an idea ? thanks -- Nicolas Weinachter -- EXTERN e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: [QUESTIONS] Using the same database on Linux and NT

1998-04-21 Thread Alexzander Blashko
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Johann Spies wrote: You can use Postgres ODBC. > Hallo, > > I use postgresql on linux and my colleage and our office uses NT. Is it > possible make a postgresql-database available to the other two computers > which does not operate on linux? > > Which will be the best way

Re: KDE Problem

1998-04-21 Thread Florian Attenberger
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Oz Dror wrote: > I have installed the latest version of kde from hamm > > when I type kde > I get the following error: > kde: error in loading shared libraries > /usr/X11R6/lib/libkdecore.so.0: undefined symbol: __ti8QListBox > > It is clear that one of the libraries that

Re: [QUESTIONS] Using the same database on Linux and NT

1998-04-21 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Johann Spies wrote: > Hallo, > > I use postgresql on linux and my colleage and our office uses NT. Is it > possible make a postgresql-database available to the other two computers > which does not operate on linux? I'd say the best way is to inter-connect them using

Re: PINE Debian Package

1998-04-21 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote: > Although the above trademark and copyright restrictions do not convey the > right to redistribute derivative works, the University of Washington > encourages unrestricted distribution of patch files which can be applie

Re: stuck with only 1 xterm in X

1998-04-21 Thread Fredrik Ax
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you wrote: > a last question,does it possible in X to be logged on as several > user at once (you see,have 2 xterm logged as root,one as > alaint,etc...) See man-pages for: su, rsh, rlogin, ssh > after this is answered,i'll keep my mouth shut except when > answe

Re: why?

1998-04-21 Thread C.J.LAWSON
> What? Do they forbid sending e-mail with bogus To: headers? I am once > again baffled by the stupidity of USA laws regarding electronic (1) Why would anyone intentionally want to send email to a bogus header? to wreak havoc?? ... to bounce spam messages??? (2) I wish you knew how much hassle bo

Re: stuck with only 1 xterm in X

1998-04-21 Thread Alain Toussaint
a last question,does it possible in X to be logged on as several user at once (you see,have 2 xterm logged as root,one as alaint,etc...) after this is answered,i'll keep my mouth shut except when answering question (i found that i asked more than enough questions) ?? Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-21 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Petra wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > > I was told that XFSTT had a new maintainer when I asked to adopt it... so > I guess we are both to late. > Where is xfstt*.deb? /---/ Daniel J.

Re: Super.tab syntax

1998-04-21 Thread C.L.Daugaard
On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 08:32:56AM -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, C.L.Daugaard wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 09:29:33PM -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > > I still get > > > > bash: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward: Permission denied > > I don't use super, but it

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-21 Thread C.J.LAWSON
> > I didn't know it, and I don't care. To me, this is worthless > information. > > This is not valuable information about debian or is it? > I happen to have some very valuable information on how to play the > classical guitar. Would you like me to post that to debian-user? > > The internet

Re: IDE CD writer

1998-04-21 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, XRD Lab wrote: > I am running Debian bo (1.3). We have recently purchased a HP cd writer > (Model 7100i, IDE interface). I just can say that one friend uses this (or 7200) happily under Linux indeed he never uses it under Win95 or N

Re: stuck with only 1 xterm in X

1998-04-21 Thread Alain Toussaint
> Hi, > > Firstly, you could try starting the second xterm inside the > first one like so: > % xterm & > See the `&' symbol? That send the xterm launched into the background, > and returns your command prompt on the first xterm. Voila! tow > command prompts ;-) i'll do it a try right n

Re: Hamm & FAT 32

1998-04-21 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 01:30:47AM -0500, Jesus Duran wrote: > just a quick question..does hamm have built-in support to read FAT-32 > Partitions The FAT-32 situation for hamm, AFAICT is: - A patched FIPS (fips15c) with support for resizing FAT32 partitions is available in the "tools" di

Using the same database on Linux and NT

1998-04-21 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, I use postgresql on linux and my colleage and our office uses NT. Is it possible make a postgresql-database available to the other two computers which does not operate on linux? Which will be the best way to do it? All three computers do have modems. Johann.

IDE CD writer

1998-04-21 Thread XRD Lab
I am running Debian bo (1.3). We have recently purchased a HP cd writer (Model 7100i, IDE interface). The cd-writer howto and other related docs talk of burning cd's, etc all give pointers to scsi drives. Can somebody point me to or assist me in writing a cd through the ide interface drive? Kindly

Re: stuck with only 1 xterm in X

1998-04-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Firstly, you could try starting the second xterm inside the first one like so: % xterm & See the `&' symbol? That send the xterm launched into the background, and returns your command prompt on the first xterm. Voila! tow command prompts ;-) Secondly, you should look into

Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?

1998-04-21 Thread Lorens Kockum
In debian-user Thomas Kocourek wrote: >Paul Miller writes: >> >> I have a 6.4 WD UDMA drive installed now, maybe I should try it out. Is >> it worth it? >> >> BTW- the hdparm -t values for those IDE drives are approximately 1.05 >> megs/sec, 3.27 megs/sec, 8.51 megs/sec, respectively. > >Yep, th

Re: Changing xterm titles to something more usefull than 'xterm'

1998-04-21 Thread Mike Brownlow
> this one has a color prompt.. :) heh. cewl. I'm using yours now. :) I noticed mine was really dumb because it executes all of those programs every time a new prompt is issued. I guess the first two should have been pointed toward env variables. Still, I like yours better. :) As for the current

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-21 Thread Petra
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: I was told that XFSTT had a new maintainer when I asked to adopt it... so I guess we are both to late. <> -K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Zen and the art of working with NT

1998-04-21 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hallo erstmal! Stephen Carpenter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > create a second extended filesystem in a file on the NT home dir > and then mount that filesystem (I need a filesystem that will hole my some time ago I tried the same, and somebody told me loop support doesn't work with any remote FS. Accor

Re: X11 setup

1998-04-21 Thread Alain Toussaint
> Xlib5 setup in deselect > > "ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (no such file or > directory), skipping > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (no such file or > directory), skipping" it did that when i installed a second time debian 1.3.1 (and basic

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