users/assign trouble (qmail 1.02)

1998-06-12 Thread Paul Miller
I'm having trouble with the users/assign working .. I'm not even sure that the assign file is even being read. here is one line: =webmaster:paul:1000:50:/home/staff/paul:-:webmaster: emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be delivered to paul-webmaster, right? .. the logs say [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn

RE: Windows Managers

1998-06-12 Thread Ted Harding
On 12-Jun-98 Dennis Dai wrote: > For a good comparison of window managers, take a look at > http://www.PLiG.org/xwinman The URL is in fact http://www.PLiG.org/~xwinman Cheers, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Da

ISDN setup

1998-06-12 Thread Robert de Forest
I told my boss it's easy to use Linux as an ISDN modem/router/gateway/firewall. After days of telling him this, he finally let me go ahead and set it up, and I've been unable to do it. I've been trying to setup a USR Courier I-Modem (internal) on a debian 2.0 machine. I've found many verbose we

Re: Silly little swap question

1998-06-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 07:06:15PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > Forgive me if this is a FAQ, but can bo and hamm share the same swap > partition? Can't think of a problem, really. Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god."Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann

Re: Silly little swap question

1998-06-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Bob Bernstein wrote: > Forgive me if this is a FAQ, but can bo and hamm share the same swap > partition? > > My ISP has finally got a 56K connect up and running and I'm thinking of using > a 300 meg partition on this machine (currently holding OpenDOS - which I > haven't tou

Silly little swap question

1998-06-12 Thread Bob Bernstein
Forgive me if this is a FAQ, but can bo and hamm share the same swap partition? My ISP has finally got a 56K connect up and running and I'm thinking of using a 300 meg partition on this machine (currently holding OpenDOS - which I haven't touched in months ) to take hamm for a spin, only I don't

Re: Windows Managers

1998-06-12 Thread Stuart Krivis
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Brian Morgan wrote: > Could anyone suggest some good windows manager packages and where to get > them? I'm using debian 2.0, kernel 2.0.33-9, x11R6. I'd like to be I prefer Afterstep 1.42, I'm using it right now on a RH 5 system and it is very functional, plus it is good-lo

Re: Windows Managers

1998-06-12 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998 16:38:03 -0400, Brian Morgan wrote: >Could anyone suggest some good windows manager packages and where to get >them? I'm using debian 2.0, kernel 2.0.33-9, x11R6. I'd like to be >able to use something that would be compatible with the upcoming release >of GNOME for debian. (

RE: Windows Managers

1998-06-12 Thread Dennis Dai
For a good comparison of window managers, take a look at http://www.PLiG.org/xwinman. Dennis > -Original Message- > From: Brian Morgan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 12, 1998 1:38 PM > To: Debian User group > Subject: Windows Managers > > Could anyone suggest some go

apt weirdness

1998-06-12 Thread timothy
I am doing 'apt-get update' and it dies saying: Get ftp://ftp.debian.org frozen/contrib Packages 31% [Packages 2920/21.4k 13%]Uncaught exception from user code: Timeout at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 334 Carp::croak('Timeout') called at /usr/lib/perl5/

Re: Windows Managers

1998-06-12 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Brian Morgan wrote: > Could anyone suggest some good windows manager packages and where to get > them? Well... I'd suggest you to use icewm... it is small, fast, and it will be one of the gnome-aware window managers. Version 0.8.16 is available in hamm, 0.9.5 in slink. 0.9.

Re: Windows Managers

1998-06-12 Thread Shaleh
Debian GNOME packages are in the finalization process and will appear in slink RSN (Real Soon Now). This includes ALL GNOME apps we can get our hands on from CVS. If any are missed, I am sure the debian-user community will inform us (-: Brian Morgan wrote: > > Could anyone suggest some good win

Windows Managers

1998-06-12 Thread Brian Morgan
Could anyone suggest some good windows manager packages and where to get them? I'm using debian 2.0, kernel 2.0.33-9, x11R6. I'd like to be able to use something that would be compatible with the upcoming release of GNOME for debian. (Midnight Commander?) Is gmc available for debian? (ref. to

Re: HELP: w/ grep on a log file.

1998-06-12 Thread Steve Mayer
Dave, Try grep "`date \"+ %a %b %d\" | sed 's/ //'`" arch.log Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] dave oswald wrote: > > Hello all... > Thanks in advance for looking at this - please reply to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I have a log file that I need to extract some data from... > the lines I am lookin

HELP: w/ grep on a log file.

1998-06-12 Thread dave oswald
Hello all... Thanks in advance for looking at this - please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a log file that I need to extract some data from... the lines I am looking for; are the lines that contain the output from the command: date "+ %a %b %d" | sed 's/ //' or "Fri Jun 12" I am using se

Re: gcc: libs/scicos.a: No such file or directory

1998-06-12 Thread Wojciech Marek Zabolotny
I'm using Scilab 2.3 (not 2.3.1!) on my two Debian boxes. It is compiled from the original scilab-2.3-src.tar.gz file (length 5186183, md5 sum: d4fc8537ffdb3b355841c737b26b4877). Just before a minute I've checked it once again - I've untarred the source file in the temporary directory, typed the '.

Re: VIM

1998-06-12 Thread Steve Mayer
Timothy, The ~ files are backup files of the file that you just edited. To turn this ability off, edit your .vimrc file (or /etc/vimrc if you don't have a local copy) and change the "set backup" option to "set nobackup". Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Whenever I u

Re: Printing on the stairs

1998-06-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Matthew Myers wrote: > How do I prevent the stairstep effect when printing? Install magicfilter. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: Help w/ Linux install

1998-06-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Mark A. Zottola wrote: > I have a question which I can not seem to find an answer from the online > documentation, FAQs, etc. > > I would like to install Linux on a PC which has 3, 2-GB partitions. > Partition C contains my required corporate (ugh) Microsoft Software. > > Pa

VIM

1998-06-12 Thread timothy
Whenever I use vim to edit files, when I am done there is a "whateverfilename~" file in the directory. What are these files with the tilde for? If they aren't important, how do I make vim not leave them lying around all the time? Because its insanely annoying to have to delete zillions of filename~

Re: startx giving error message

1998-06-12 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : This might sound like a dumb question, but how do you check where a symbolic link : points to? I understand what you're talking about, and I can see X in the : /usr/X11R6/bin directory, but I don't know what to do from there to get it to point : to my

FTP File system

1998-06-12 Thread fealvar
Hi, does anyone know about a kernel based FTP-file system, a mean something like nfs or smbfs but against an ftp server. Thanks. __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CompaƱia de Telecomunicaciones de Chile. Telefono: 691.30.56 Licenciado

can't load library 'libf2c.so.0'

1998-06-12 Thread Jan Krupa
When I invoke 'scilab' I got the warning: can't load library 'libf2c.so.0' , but the library libf2c.so.2 exists but does not exist libf2c.so.0. When I tried to install f2c: dpkg -i f2c_960717-0.deb (Reading database ... 78820 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace f2c

Re: Infos ?!

1998-06-12 Thread sjc
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 11:18:07AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Max Lawson wrote: > > > > Hi ! > > > > I'm going to install Debian Gnu/Linux on three boxes. But I don't want to > > upgrade from r1.3 to the incoming r2.0. (I'm far from beeing an > > install-guru) > > > > I was told that I

Re: where is slink ?

1998-06-12 Thread Chris Reed
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "G. Kapetanios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi all, > > I have been trying for a number of days now to find a site that contains > slink as I am looking for new packages such as apt to try them out > but can't seem to find it. Any ideas ?? (www.deb

Re: Incoming ppp calls

1998-06-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "RN" == Ramon Nieva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RN> Recently I upgraded my bo system to hamm. Since then, my incoming RN> ppp/pap connections are refused. [...] RN> When using the standard pap-secrets file I get, using an account in RN> /etc/passwd, authentication refused. I believe in t

Re: Help w/ Linux install

1998-06-12 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : I have a question which I can not seem to find an answer from the online : documentation, FAQs, etc. : : I would like to install Linux on a PC which has 3, 2-GB partitions. : Partition C contains my required corporate (ugh) Microsoft Software. : : Parti

gcc: libs/scicos.a: No such file or directory

1998-06-12 Thread Jan Krupa
I would like to compile scilab-2.3.1 under Linux machine, Debian-1.3.1, kernel 2.0.34 (32). I unziped and and untared the file scilab2.3.1-src.tar.gz (tar xzvf scilab*.tzr.gz). Then typed './configure -with-gnu' and next 'make all'. The compiling process failed with the following message:

Re: user can delete kernel images

1998-06-12 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : Something very strange has happened to my system. I have my kernels in : /boot (the usual setup ) with permission 644. I have never touched that : after they are created by the kernel-package. I am doing some experiments : concerning security. So I tried

Re: user can delete kernel images

1998-06-12 Thread sjc
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 06:02:47PM +0100, G. Kapetanios wrote: > > Hi, > > Something very strange has happened to my system. I have my kernels in > /boot (the usual setup ) with permission 644. um 644...thats um... owner: rwx group: r other: r ? I don't know my octal modes..forgive me :) anyw

Re: gnus

1998-06-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "BH" == Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BH> However, it appears that gnus wants the opposite from the Debian BH> standard. BS will scroll back one page. Now that I know that, I BH> don't care if gnus thinks it's backwards - it will work for me. Add this to your .gnus . Sorry, don't

Re: startx giving error message

1998-06-12 Thread Brian Morgan
> Check where the symbolic link /usr/X11R6/bin/X points to. According > to your error, it looks as though it is pointing to XF86_NONE which > isn't a valid X server. It should be linked to an X server such as > XF86_SVGA, XF86_S3, etc... > > What type of video card is installed in the machine?

Re: Printing on the stairs

1998-06-12 Thread Steve Mayer
Matthew, This would usually depend on the type of printer you have. Download the magicfilter package and install for your type of printer. This should help out. Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matthew Myers wrote: > > How do I prevent the stairstep effect when printing? > > -- > To UNSUBSC

I cannot install nntp, cnews under debian1.3.1 :(

1998-06-12 Thread Jan Krupa
I have installed debian 1.3.1 (stable) on my Pentium machine. I cannot install 'nntp' server. I have tried: #dpkg -i nntp_1.5.12.1-1.deb Selecting previously deselected package nntp. (Reading database ... 81776 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking nntp (from nntp_1.5.12.1-1.deb

Re: startx giving error message

1998-06-12 Thread Steve Mayer
Brian, Check where the symbolic link /usr/X11R6/bin/X points to. According to your error, it looks as though it is pointing to XF86_NONE which isn't a valid X server. It should be linked to an X server such as XF86_SVGA, XF86_S3, etc... What type of video card is installed in the machine?

quotas

1998-06-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
The `quota' command isn't quite doing what I think it should. I've added the appropriate lines to /etc/fstab, run `quotacheck -av', run `quotaon -av' and `edquota' for the users who need them, but typing `quota ' (as root) always results in the message "Disk quotas for user (uid UID): none". I g

startx giving error message

1998-06-12 Thread Brian Morgan
After installing xwindows CORRECTLY this time, I'm now unable to start it using startx. It gives me the following error message: X: exec of /usr/bin/X11/XF86_NONE failed I've already gone through the XF86Setup interface, and everything seemed to configure correctly there. It appears now that i

Printing on the stairs

1998-06-12 Thread Matthew Myers
How do I prevent the stairstep effect when printing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Help w/ Linux install

1998-06-12 Thread Mark A. Zottola
I have a question which I can not seem to find an answer from the online documentation, FAQs, etc. I would like to install Linux on a PC which has 3, 2-GB partitions. Partition C contains my required corporate (ugh) Microsoft Software. Partition D holds the Debian distribution and Partition E is

Re: Tape drive "sense" errors

1998-06-12 Thread Ossama Othman
Great! Thanks! I was afraid something might be wrong. Although I can't get information from "mt" any more. I'll probably have to reboot. Thanks again. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- PGP Keys --- Public: h

Re: Tape drive "sense" errors

1998-06-12 Thread Bernt T. Hansen
Ossama, I get similar errors on my system when the tape heads are dirty. I do nightly backups and about every two months I need to clean the tape heads to get rid of errors like these. Hope this helps, Bernt. -- Bernt T. Hansen- Norang Consulting Incorporated --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comput

Re: user can delete kernel images (cont)

1998-06-12 Thread Steve Mayer
George, I noticed this on my one remaining bo machine. Hamm seems to have taken care of this bug. Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] G. Kapetanios wrote: > > Following to my previous email I have to say some things. > > the /boot directory in my machine is > > drwxrwsr-x 2 root disk

user can delete kernel images (cont)

1998-06-12 Thread G. Kapetanios
Following to my previous email I have to say some things. the /boot directory in my machine is drwxrwsr-x 2 root disk 2048 Jun 12 17:58 boot the user who can do that belongs to the disk group but the file which was deleted (/boot/vmlinuz.2.0.0) does not belong to the disk group i

Re: Mirroring hamm for install...

1998-06-12 Thread sjc
On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 11:46:40PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Reply-To: > Hi, > I've been installing hamm on a test partition a couple of times and have > some questions now. First, my situation: > 1. Nightly running: > wget --mirror ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/hamm -a /root/wget.log

user can delete kernel images

1998-06-12 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, Something very strange has happened to my system. I have my kernels in /boot (the usual setup ) with permission 644. I have never touched that after they are created by the kernel-package. I am doing some experiments concerning security. So I tried as a user with no root privileges and no ro

Re: Infos ?!

1998-06-12 Thread Max Lawson
Thanx for the infos. Max > > I'm going to install Debian Gnu/Linux on three boxes. But I don't want to > > upgrade from r1.3 to the incoming r2.0. (I'm far from beeing an > > install-guru) > > > > I was told that I could order CDs from 'Hamm'. > > > > My question is: does somebody kn

Re: where is slink ?

1998-06-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > G. Kapetanios wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I have been trying for a number of days now to find a site that contains > > slink as I am looking for new packages such as apt to try them out > > but can't seem to find it. Any ideas ?? (www.debian.org seems

Re: where is slink ?

1998-06-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
G. Kapetanios wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have been trying for a number of days now to find a site that contains > slink as I am looking for new packages such as apt to try them out > but can't seem to find it. Any ideas ?? (www.debian.org seems to have only > hamm). > > George > Apt isn

Tape drive "sense" errors

1998-06-12 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Does anyone know what the following means: Jun 12 05:47:54 squall kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Current error st09:00: sns = f0 4 Jun 12 05:47:54 squall kernel: ASC=44 ASCQ=ad Jun 12 05:47:54 squall kernel: Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x04 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3c 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0

where is slink ?

1998-06-12 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi all, I have been trying for a number of days now to find a site that contains slink as I am looking for new packages such as apt to try them out but can't seem to find it. Any ideas ?? (www.debian.org seems to have only hamm). George --

Re[2]: route anon ftp requests how?

1998-06-12 Thread Bob Bernstein
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are some tools like "redir" and "socket" that do this in the > net section. I have had good results with redir. Thanks for these tips. I'll pass along a URL sent me by another list subscriber, which seems promising in this regard: http://www.monm

Re: KHOROS on Debian Problems

1998-06-12 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > So my question is: what is and where or how do I get libfl.a? libfl.a is a fast lexical analyzer library meaning that it should be part of the flex (Fast Lexical Analyzer) package. The function yywrap is in libfl.a I can't help you witht the other two problems you mentioned, sorry. -Os

Re: cd writers & linux

1998-06-12 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 9 Jun 98 00:43:44 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Miller) wrote: >hmmm... I think rewritable discs are magnetic and they can only be read on >other CD-RW drives or DVD drives. No, they still use a laser like conventional CD-R drives. As far as I understand it, the layer that the pits are burned

Re: Infos ?!

1998-06-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Max Lawson wrote: > > Hi ! > > I'm going to install Debian Gnu/Linux on three boxes. But I don't want to > upgrade from r1.3 to the incoming r2.0. (I'm far from beeing an install-guru) > > I was told that I could order CDs from 'Hamm'. > > My question is: does somebody know when the rel

Re: Help, I've messed up my system

1998-06-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Adrian Monk wrote: > > Err, this is embarassing. > > I had a perfectly working 2.0 system, but because I have now opened a > second ISP account with Demon I decided to have a look for scripts on > the Demon ftp site. I duly found a package for Slackware, and decided > to unzip and untar it to

Re: route anon ftp requests how?

1998-06-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 11:04:04AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You could run a port redirector on the FTP control port (21) on the dialup > > machine, which redirects connections to your FTP server. > > Sorry, but I'm not familiar with the term "port

Re[2]: route anon ftp requests how?

1998-06-12 Thread Bob Bernstein
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you have an IP from your ISP for the second machine, then you can do it, > and you don't need masquerading at all. If not, then it's trouble. I don't have one for it; I just get one dynamically assigned number for the dialup box. The ftp server box i

Re: [ debian-user-request ] libXpm and wine

1998-06-12 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> >> >> I am looking for libXpm in order to compile the source version >> od wine (its newer then the one in the debian package) >> is there a debian package of libXpm? because i couldn't find one. >> id not, does anyone know where i can find a binary version and how >> to install it? (i think t

KHOROS on Debian Problems

1998-06-12 Thread Jim Harsh
Hi, I think most of these problems are with my debian installation but thought I'd ask both groups. I have a AMD K6-233 running Debian 2.0.32(hamm). I've installed KHOROS 2.2 from the CD and cantata, craftsman and guise runs fine, almost. 1) When opening any khoros window with a dialog box, I g

Re: X11 libs problem

1998-06-12 Thread aqy6633
> I saw your message about libc5 and libc6 to another user. I've also had > trouble > with this. Everytime I try to install libc5, it says it conflicts with libc6, > and disables libc6 and all other packeages that depend on it when running > dselect. Is there a way around this? I'm still tryin

Re: Debian for the mac?

1998-06-12 Thread Brian Morgan
> Hi, > > Is there a debian distribution for the macintosh. A friend is trying to > install redhat on his mac - I'd recommend debian except I'm not sure there > is a debian version for the mac? > > If there is one, is it any good? Try going to ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-powe

Infos ?!

1998-06-12 Thread Max Lawson
Hi ! I'm going to install Debian Gnu/Linux on three boxes. But I don't want to upgrade from r1.3 to the incoming r2.0. (I'm far from beeing an install-guru) I was told that I could order CDs from 'Hamm'. My question is: does somebody know when the release will/should/may happen ?? Or

Re: Help, I've messed up my system

1998-06-12 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998 12:35:11 GMT, Adrian Monk wrote: >2) If I try to log in as user account atheris I get a column of >1000.1000 instead of atheris.atheris (although if I do ls -la ^ >Anyone know how to fix this self-inflicted grief? Obviously somewhere >Slackware has altered permissions

Help, I've messed up my system

1998-06-12 Thread Adrian Monk
Err, this is embarassing. I had a perfectly working 2.0 system, but because I have now opened a second ISP account with Demon I decided to have a look for scripts on the Demon ftp site. I duly found a package for Slackware, and decided to unzip and untar it to see what scripts it contained wh

Re: epic100

1998-06-12 Thread Dr. Juergen Schnack
Thank you for the hint, I got the same already. But I think, it is not the driver itself because that I had already, must be something with pci. Anyway, it is running with 2.0.34. Best regards, Juergen -- * *

Re: epic100

1998-06-12 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Dr. Juergen Schnack wrote: > I am running linux 2.0.30 on a dual pentium II machine. Last friday > I installed a smc ethernet card using the > SMC EPIC/100 83C170 Ethernet Controller. The driver epic100, see > http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/epic100.html > does fine,

Re: X11 libs problem

1998-06-12 Thread aqy6633
> There seems to be some sort of problem with the libraries in > /usr/X11R6/lib. Almost every program I install that isn't from a debian > package won't run because it can't find libraries from this directory. You are using hamm, right? My guess would be that the programs you install are l

Re: Debian vs. W95 (was: Money where mouth...)

1998-06-12 Thread Damon Muller
G'day, > The main issue is that of "controllability and observability"; > with W95 there is a hierarchy of pre-defined GUI interfaces to pre-defined > functionalities. Often the details of their functions, or constraints, are > not well defined (publically). Yeah, I know this feeling too... My m

Re: xserver and Matrox Mistique

1998-06-12 Thread dg
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Shaleh wrote: > I have a Mystique 220 4mb card. I have no problems w/ XFree86_SVGA. > Both bo and hamm/slink. This is probably a misconfigured monitor > settings problem. > > Michael Roark wrote: > > > > I have just finished an install (1.3.1) on a machine with a Matrox >

Incoming ppp calls

1998-06-12 Thread Ramon Nieva
Hi, Recently I upgraded my bo system to hamm. Since then, my incoming ppp/pap connections are refused. In bo I had to delete the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file but now, with the same configuration, when setting up the ppp connection, syslog sais that there is no valid pap-secrets file available. Whe

Scalable fonts in Netscape

1998-06-12 Thread Yury Onischuck
Hello, Problem: Netscape does not save font properties for fonts other then default two for every encoding. Environment: Linux-i386, Netscape Communicator 4.04, XFree86 3.3.1 X font server with xfsft add-ons (truetype rendering). By default, all fonts in the list are set as non-scalable. Let's s

Stealth 3D 3000 - solved

1998-06-12 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi everyone, I wrote: [...] > I reinstalled debian 1.3.1, using the XF86_S3V server. I am using xdm > to login. Every so many times the machine hangs when terminating the

Re: gnus

1998-06-12 Thread Bruce Mardle
Ugg. It's too early in the morning to think about Emacs vs BS/DEL issues. > My problem is if I start gnus when there is no new mail, I get an > empty Groups buffer. If I try C-u RET in that case, I get the > response "No group on current line". If I have new mail, I can go back > and look a

X11 libs problem

1998-06-12 Thread Jeff Shilt
There seems to be some sort of problem with the libraries in /usr/X11R6/lib. Almost every program I install that isn't from a debian package won't run because it can't find libraries from this directory. This is my ld.so.conf: /usr/local/lib /usr/lib/libc5-compat /lib/libc5-compat

Re: route anon ftp requests how?

1998-06-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 10:13:40PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > Needed: best method for directing inbound requests for anon ftp requests to a > server located on a box other than the one that dials up my ISP. > > I have two Linux machines ethernetted, and running IP masquerading with > ipfwadm. O

Siemens Celsius 1000 Motherboard and Matrox Millinium II (AGP)

1998-06-12 Thread Karsten Bolding
Before I order two new machines I would like be sure that I can actually use them. Does anybody have any experience with this motherboard. It has Audio and UW-SCSI on board. Also is a Matrox Millinium II using AGP supported by XFree. Yours Karsten Bolding -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

epic100

1998-06-12 Thread Dr. Juergen Schnack
Hi, I am running linux 2.0.30 on a dual pentium II machine. Last friday I installed a smc ethernet card using the SMC EPIC/100 83C170 Ethernet Controller. The driver epic100, see http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/epic100.html does fine, but the card reports Jun 12 07:36:45 obelix kernel: e

Debian for the mac?

1998-06-12 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, Is there a debian distribution for the macintosh. A friend is trying to install redhat on his mac - I'd recommend debian except I'm not sure there is a debian version for the mac? If there is one, is it any good? Cheers, Mark.

Re: Netscape

1998-06-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Michael Beattie wrote: > > hmmm, Please call me stupid, but how do I go about increasing the font > size in netscape? (Kinda hard to read at 1024x758 on a 14") > > I know this has been discussed before on the list, but I cannot for the > life of me find it in the archives. > >

Netscape

1998-06-12 Thread Michael Beattie
hmmm, Please call me stupid, but how do I go about increasing the font size in netscape? (Kinda hard to read at 1024x758 on a 14") I know this has been discussed before on the list, but I cannot for the life of me find it in the archives. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Mirroring hamm for install...

1998-06-12 Thread mike
Reply-To: Hi, I've been installing hamm on a test partition a couple of times and have some questions now. First, my situation: 1. Nightly running: wget --mirror ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/hamm -a /root/wget.log -X \ "*-alpha*,*-m68k*,*-powerpc*,*-sparc*,*source*" a. Because I'm run

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Mirror suggestion

1998-06-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
It would be helpful if the README.mirrors file, which lists the "official" Debian mirrors could provide information on NFS or HTTP sites as well as FTP mirrors. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh

Re: XFree86

1998-06-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Dennis Dixon wrote: > > Thanks to the numerous responses I received from my posting (June 9, 10:04) > regarding setting up XFree86 on my Debian 1.3 O/S. > > Below is what I think I'm supposed to do. Possibly, someone could verify if > this is correct. > > First, let's make sure I understand the

Re: X11 not installing on debian 2.0

1998-06-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Brian Morgan wrote: > I'm having trouble getting x11 to work properly in Debian 2.0. I did a > custom install of Debian, and selected all available options, including > xwindows. When I type xdm, or startx, I get the following message: > > can't load library 'libxmu.so.6' T

route anon ftp requests how?

1998-06-12 Thread Bob Bernstein
Needed: best method for directing inbound requests for anon ftp requests to a server located on a box other than the one that dials up my ISP. I have two Linux machines ethernetted, and running IP masquerading with ipfwadm. One of the boxs is equipped with a modem to dial my ISP (for dynamic IP as

Re: libc5 vs. libc6

1998-06-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Brian Morgan wrote: > > I'm having trouble setting up xwindows in debian 2.0. I install > Xwindows as an option when installing debian 2.0 (kernel 2.0.33), but > get error messages all over the place about missing libraries when I > type xdm or startx. In running dselect, I see that I have libc6

PCI cards not found...

1998-06-12 Thread Rift
Okay, I'm not very experienced with linux... Here's my problem I have a Creative graphics blaster exxtreme, and a voodoo2. trying to run Xwindows. I found a XServer for the permedia2 chip on the exxtreme that specifically supports it, however when running startx I get ' NO GLINT/PERMEDIA CARDS

Re: upgrading to hamm from pre-bo

1998-06-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Kendrick Myatt wrote: > > I have one box that is still Debian 1.2, can I upgrade to hamm > directly, or should I go to bo first? Unfortunately this is not a > test machine, so I can't afford to have it crashed. What's the best > route for something like this? My personal opinion is not

Re: X11 not installing on debian 2.0

1998-06-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Brian Morgan wrote: > > I'm having trouble getting x11 to work properly in Debian 2.0. I did a > custom install of Debian, and selected all available options, including > xwindows. When I type xdm, or startx, I get the following message: > > can't load library 'libxmu.so.6' > > When I go to the

Re: upgrading to hamm from pre-bo

1998-06-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Kendrick Myatt wrote: > I have one box that is still Debian 1.2, can I upgrade to hamm > directly, or should I go to bo first? Unfortunately this is not a > test machine, so I can't afford to have it crashed. What's the best > route for something like this? I have simulate

RE: HTTP mirrors

1998-06-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Mark Mickan wrote: > I don't know how up to date it is, but there is another Australian > http mirror at http://ftp.it.com.au/ftp/ (I think). They also have > non-US. They used to be very fast, but I've been finding their ftp site > very slow lately, but YMMV. I can't vouch fo

Re: HTTP mirrors

1998-06-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Sorry to bring this up, but can someone suggest an up-to-date HTTP > mirror? http://www.debian.org/~jgg/mastersourcelist This has some of the mirrors I know about (~20) Try llug.sep.bnl.gov, and try ftp1 a bit later, johnie might not have it mirrori

Re: Missing packages?

1998-06-12 Thread Johnie Ingram
>> What missing package causes the following in source configure >> scripts?: 'checking for working makeinfo.. missing' The makeinfo comes in tetex-bin, part of the tetex suite. - PGP E4 70 6E 59 80 6A F5 78 63 32 BC FB 7A 08 53 4C __ _Debian GNU Johni

Kernel 2.0.34, mc 4.1.35

1998-06-12 Thread Eddie Seymour
Just installed kernel 2.0.34 (had 2.0.33-9) in hamm/frozen and nls_iso8859-1 failed to load. Finally put it ahead of cp_437 in "modules" and it loaded after this. Was fine in 2.0.33-9. Is there an oddity with my hamm/frozen? Also have Midnight Commander 4.1.35 with "Pause after run" active. If I ru

Re: HTTP mirrors

1998-06-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 10:03:55PM +0930, Mark Mickan wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > I don't know how up to date it is, but there is another Australian > http mirror at http://ftp.it.com.au/ftp/ (I think). They also have > non-US. They used to be very fast, but I've been finding t

Re: Permission problem with FTE

1998-06-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Matthew Myers wrote: > > I use the FTE editor quite a bit for programming and html, but I have to > use it as root. I would prefer to be able to use it in my normal > account. When I try to execute FTE as anyone else but root it gives me > this error message: > > open: Permission Denied > Faile

gnus

1998-06-12 Thread Bob Hilliard
Kai Grossjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BH> When I press DEL (from either buffer) I get an error message that > BH> the buffer is read only. How can I make the article scroll back one > BH> page? > > With the point in the summary buffer, this should work. What does C-h k > DEL say? You don

Re: X-windows on a Valuepoint

1998-06-12 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Alain Toussaint wrote: > check that your /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers look like this: > > # /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers [snip comments in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers] > :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X > > the last line is particularly important,also,check the location of X,it > may be different on