Re: problems with dselect/dpkg

1998-06-23 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, hrdluk wrote: > Im having a problem with the installation of debian. This is my first > install of debian, though I have installed/used slackware for a little > while. I have gotten through everything with no problems untill I hit > deselect. I believe I managed to get man

Re: 2 ethernet cards

1998-06-23 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Philippe BARBELET wrote: > Hello, > > On my PC (Compaq), I have installed 2 ethernet cards to communicate > whith > 2 distinct networks. But my system detects just 1 card during the boot > process. In a first time I have declared in the /etc/lilo.conf file > my two card as follow : > > append="eth

HELP! can't get my email!

1998-06-23 Thread Brian Morgan
I've posted this message a few times, but with no replies. Here it is again: When trying to get my mail (in netscape or anything else), I get the following error: Report from server Err Maillock: 'var/spool/pop/bmorgan.pop' I've gone in and renamed bmorgan.pop to something else, and it creates

mouseman+ with linux

1998-06-23 Thread servis
Hi all, Does anybody have any info on using the 4-button/1-wheel logitech mouseman+ mouse with linux? I see that the X 3.3.2.1 has a protocol for it but it doesn't say anything about its bindings, etc. What about gpm? Thanks, Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAI

RE: ftp.debian.org

1998-06-23 Thread Michael Merten
Thanks for the info, Dennis. I'll change my config accordingly. Mike > -Original Message- > From: dpk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 7:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Debian User List > Subject: Re: ftp.debian.org > > > On Mon, 22 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTE

2 ethernet cards

1998-06-23 Thread Philippe BARBELET
Hello, On my PC (Compaq), I have installed 2 ethernet cards to communicate whith 2 distinct networks. But my system detects just 1 card during the boot process. In a first time I have declared in the /etc/lilo.conf file my two card as follow : append="ether=0,0,eth1" In a second time I changed t

Re: Mounting 2nd Partition

1998-06-23 Thread David Z. Maze
Dennis Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DD> The first issue, do I have a swap partition activated and mounted? DD> When I boot I get the message "activating swap partition" but DD> shouldn't it be in 'etc/mtab', 'proc/mounts', and 'mount -t swap'? Swap partitions don't get "mounted" the way part

Re: Linux Commands

1998-06-23 Thread robert havoc pennington
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Dennis Dixon wrote: > When I read the man pages, or any zip file that I have for that matter, I > use the command: 'zmore .tar.gz'. This obviously is not the right > command to view these files, in that the files have all sorts of control > characters in them. > .tar.g

Re: Mounting 2nd Partition

1998-06-23 Thread Nathan C. Burnett
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Dennis Dixon wrote: > The first issue, do I have a swap partition activated and mounted? When I > boot I get the message "activating swap partition" but shouldn't it be in > 'etc/mtab', 'proc/mounts', and 'mount -t swap'? no it shouldn't. swap partitions aren't really files

RE: Date-stamp in filename for a script

1998-06-23 Thread BARBELET Philippe
You can do some shell like that : phil.sh === #! /bin/sh prefix=$1 suffix=$2 buffer=`date +%y%m%d' file=${prefix}${buffer}${suffix} cat > $file = and use it like that : ls | phil.sh backup .tar.gz Phil. BARBELET French Guiana -

Re: Linux Commands

1998-06-23 Thread Nathan C. Burnett
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Dennis Dixon wrote: > When I read the man pages, or any zip file that I have for that matter, I > use the command: 'zmore .tar.gz'. This obviously is not the right > command to view these files, in that the files have all sorts of control > characters in them. man Or

Re: How to read a word 7 file?

1998-06-23 Thread Ted Harding
On 23-Jun-98 Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 11:26:18AM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: >> A rough-and-ready way to do just what you're asking is to use the "strings" >> command: >> >>strings wordfile.doc > wordfile.txt > > It's not quite so simple; Word's "fast save" mechanism actu

Linux Commands

1998-06-23 Thread Dennis Dixon
When I read the man pages, or any zip file that I have for that matter, I use the command: 'zmore .tar.gz'. This obviously is not the right command to view these files, in that the files have all sorts of control characters in them. Along the same lines, I downloaded a tar.gz file which was

Mounting 2nd Partition

1998-06-23 Thread Dennis Dixon
My debian system is Debian version 1.3. Apparently, when I initially installed the o/s I didn't activate/mount my partitions correctly. When I type '/etc/more fstab' I get this result: dev/hda2/ ext2 defaults 0 1 dev/hda3none swap sw0

nextawg/xaw3dg

1998-06-23 Thread timothy
Hi, I am trying to make the editor, sex, look better. As instructed by the /usr/doc/README.Debian files for nextawg,xaw3dg I tried: "export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d/libXaw.so.6" Also: "export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/X11R6/lib/neXtaw/libXaw.so.6" In both cases, while the output of "ldd sex" change

Re: Story: How Linux Could Kill Windows NT

1998-06-23 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 02:07:37PM -0400, Brian Morgan wrote: > Below is a story by ZDnet about Linux that just came out today. Thought > you might be interested in reading it. Coincidentally, another story > came out from ZDnet today about Microsoft "winning one" in the DOJ > battle. Sounds lik

Re: Date-stamp in filename for a script

1998-06-23 Thread Mike Miller
> "Jay" == Jay Barbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > TIMESTAMP='date +backup%y%m%d.tar.gz' > tar czvf $TIMESTAMP Try reversing the quotes: TIMESTAMP=`date +backup%y%m%d.tar.gz`. That will do the trick. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Installing 95 & NT w/out frying Linux. [Important]

1998-06-23 Thread timothy
Hi, I have Win95,WinNT5 and Debian 2.0 installed across two drives - (from Mount): /dev/hda2 on / type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda5 on /home type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda6 on /usr type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda1 on /MSC type vfat (rw) /dev/hdb1 on /MSD type vfat (rw) /dev/hdb5 on /MSE type vfat (rw) hda3 is linux swap.

Re: Need help running man on newly installed Debian system

1998-06-23 Thread Ed Cogburn
Fungame Game wrote: > > I have recently installed Debian using the instructions on the web site. > (I used a 5 floppy set). Everything seems to work fine. But man is > missing (or so I think). I cannot access the manpages (am i doing it > incorrectly by using man?) and whatis also doesnt work. I h

Story: How Linux Could Kill Windows NT

1998-06-23 Thread Brian Morgan
Below is a story by ZDnet about Linux that just came out today. Thought you might be interested in reading it. Coincidentally, another story came out from ZDnet today about Microsoft "winning one" in the DOJ battle. Sounds like a good time for MS-ers to switch! Brian http://www.zdnet.com/anchord

Re: Apache and CGI

1998-06-23 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
There are many necessary things for CGI to work. First, you have to enable it for the directory the cgi exists in. Also, you may have to add a handler if the CGI is in a directory along with regular HTML files. Ordinarily the server is configured to only run CGI scripts if they exist in /usr/lib

2.0 Beta Party...

1998-06-23 Thread Jay Barbee
I heard about the Debian 2.0-beta IRC party on slashdot.org... I was wondering at what stage is this debian group going to create the "Official CD" for 2.0? Will 2.0-beta be included? I would love a Hamm CD ASAP! And how does its frozen state differ from being beta software. After all, both

Re: using dhcpcd's -c option

1998-06-23 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Eric House wrote: > dhcpcd takes as a option a script that gets run when an IP address is > assigned, and I could use this script to put the IP address in some > known place on the network. But I can't figure out how dhcpcd is > getting called -- or rather, in which of the my

Re: help: vi ESC sequence entry used in PCL codes

1998-06-23 Thread aqy6633
> This can be generated in MS-DOG edit by: > > hold down the Ctrl+V, and press [ > > BUT - I must do this in vi So that my scripts will generate a > readable report. To enter any non-printable charachter in vi just do Ctrl-V and _then_ charachter to enter (like Esc). Alex Y. -- _ _(

Date-stamp in filename for a script

1998-06-23 Thread Jay Barbee
Excuse my ignorance in shell scripting, but I wanted to create a file that actualy had a filename that contains the date in the format: backupYYMMDD.tar.gz I can do: date +backup%y%m%d.tar.gz which give the correct output for the filename. If I assign that to an environment variable such as

Need help running man on newly installed Debian system

1998-06-23 Thread Fungame Game
I have recently installed Debian using the instructions on the web site. (I used a 5 floppy set). Everything seems to work fine. But man is missing (or so I think). I cannot access the manpages (am i doing it incorrectly by using man?) and whatis also doesnt work. I have combed the distribution

CVSup

1998-06-23 Thread Rajesh Vaidheeswarran
Hi: I would like to know if you guys have a CVSup server that debian fans can connect to keep uptodate with the latest and greatest debian sources or distributions (or both)? Thanks rv -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

help: vi ESC sequence entry used in PCL codes

1998-06-23 Thread dave oswald
Hey all... I'm generating a report utilizing PCL print codes - where I need to page break by enter the string: Ec&10H Where "Ec" is the escape sequence. This can be generated in MS-DOG edit by: hold down the Ctrl+V, and press [ BUT - I must do this in vi So that my scripts will generate

How to read a word 8 file? (was: How to read a word 7 file?)

1998-06-23 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > *-Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella (23 Jun) > | > | Well, maybe it is a 8.0 format, then. All I know is that So complains > | "This is not a word 6.0 file", so I guessed it was a 7.0. > | > | BTW, how can I find out which version is it? > | > > strings | grep 'Word\

using dhcpcd's -c option

1998-06-23 Thread Eric House
I've installed dhcpcd (off of the 1.3.1 CD) and it's working beautifully to connect my Linux box (still running NT as far as the sysadmins are concerned) with my UltraSparc and the rest of the office network. But in order to connect to the Linux box from outside I need to know its (temporary) IP a

Apache and CGI

1998-06-23 Thread kent
Is there a CGI/apache/guru out there that can tell me why my CGI doesent work on my apache. I have tried just about every configuration that I can think of to get it to work. in a nutshell I can get CGI to work at a prompt but when I put it in My HTML, nothing happens. it acts as though its not the

Re: printing man pages

1998-06-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Tiago Severina wrote: > Can anyone explain me how can i print a man page? Is there any utility > program for this? man -t |lpr Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh

Re: How to read a word 7 file?

1998-06-23 Thread servis
*-Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella (23 Jun) | Hamish Moffatt writes: | > On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 11:26:18AM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: | > > A rough-and-ready way to do just what you're asking is to use the "strings" | > > command: | > > | > >strings wordfile.doc > wordfile.txt | > | > It's not

Re: gnome v.20

1998-06-23 Thread Bob Bernstein
Brian Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to simply install it using the tarballs on the gnome site? > Or will there be mucho configuration I need to do? Call me crazy but I have Gnomeified this Debian 1.3 (libc) system with the 0.20 source. Here's what I recall as to pitfalls. (I

Re: How to read a word 7 file?

1998-06-23 Thread servis
*-Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella (23 Jun) | | Well, maybe it is a 8.0 format, then. All I know is that So complains | "This is not a word 6.0 file", so I guessed it was a 7.0. | | BTW, how can I find out which version is it? | strings | grep 'Word\.Document' examples: % strings chap1.doc | grep 'Wor

Re: printing man pages

1998-06-23 Thread aqy6633
> Can anyone explain me how can i print a man page? Is there any utility > program for this? Sure. You may convert the source of the man page to postscript file and then print it, like: zcat /usr/man/man1/ls.1.gz | groff -tmandoc -T ps > ls.ps You may also convert man page to a plain test f

RE: scsi patch

1998-06-23 Thread The Gecko
On 23-Jun-98 Jesse Goldman wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a patch out yet for the scsi driver for kernel 2.0.34? I've got > an Adaptec with an AIC-786x chipset which had some problems last I > checked. If such a patch exists, where can I find it? Heard there was a pre-release patch for 2.0.35 out...

Re: How to read a word 7 file?

1998-06-23 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Hamish Moffatt writes: > On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 11:26:18AM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: > > A rough-and-ready way to do just what you're asking is to use the "strings" > > command: > > > >strings wordfile.doc > wordfile.txt > > It's not quite so simple; Word's "fast save" mechanism actua

RE: How to read a word 7 file?

1998-06-23 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
(Ted Harding) writes: > On 22-Jun-98 Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > > > > Hi, folks. > > > > Is there any way to read in my linux box a word 7 .doc file? > > Mantaining the "indents" and "bolds" would be a plus, but mainly I > > just need to read the text in it. > > > > I use StarOffi

printing man pages

1998-06-23 Thread Tiago Severina
Can anyone explain me how can i print a man page? Is there any utility program for this? Tiago Severina. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://khonan.sc.uevora.pt/~ts/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: How to read a word 7 file?

1998-06-23 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Thomas Apel writes: > Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > > > > Hi, folks. > > > > Is there any way to read in my linux box a word 7 .doc file? > > Mantaining the "indents" and "bolds" would be a plus, but mainly I > > just need to read the text in it. > > > > I use StarOffice to read docs

why no web update?

1998-06-23 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- How come the Debian 2.0 Beta has an article on slashdot.org but not even so much as a mention on www.debian.org? I think that such an important release should have a whole page describing why it is so *awesome* but I guess that isn't a common feeling. Anyway, how about someone updating the "

Re: How to read a word 7 file?

1998-06-23 Thread Paul Reavis
catdoc and wordview both work for me - isn't word 7 the one in orifice 95? The both work on a doc I got from Those Who Manage in such a format. -- Paul Reavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Design Lead Partner Software, Inc.http://www.partnersoft.c

19980623 Work-Needing and Prospective Packages

1998-06-23 Thread wnpp
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 23 Jun 1998 12:01:27 -0400 This document is intended to identify areas that could use your contributions, and to avoid duplication of work. It s

Re: Voodoo2 under Hamm

1998-06-23 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> I also have just become the proud owner of a Voodoo II card, an Orchid >> Richous >> 3D. >> >> Is anybody doing any development for this board, it is sooo cool, I would >> love to >> make use of it inside Debian. First you need the Glide library, and I don't think the 2.51 version has been

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, E.L. Meijer Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Neither dmesg, nor messages, nor the other log files are complete. You >could get the output of the rc scripts to both the screen and a file >using the tee command: > >[...] >l3:3:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 3 2>&1 | /usr/bin/tee

RE: How to read a word 7 file?

1998-06-23 Thread Dennis Dai
As far as I know, word 7 is part of Office 95 and has the same file format with word 6 (which is part of Office 4.2). The latest version of word is 8 (which is part of Office 97) and they changed the file format again. So if you can read word 6 format (like in StartOffice 4.03), you should be able

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-23 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ulisses Alonso Camaro writes: > > On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > > > > > > > As the data is available (via Shift-Pageup) then there surely must be a > > > way of getting to it and saving it. I tried with /dev/vcs* but got only > > > the current screen.

memory usage and Netscape

1998-06-23 Thread Mark Panzer
Dear debian users, While running netscape ver 4.05 I commonly run out of memory after two hours. I have 32Mbytes of RAM and a 50Mbyte swap. I just have two windows of Netscape open at a time and normally one. If I type "free" in an xterm I see my free memory and swap getting eaten up without ev

debian-user

1998-06-23 Thread Stephan Goll
Hi there. I´m a german user of debian 1.3.1 on a microchannel IBM model80. In your distribution is a driver for the depca-ethernet- cards. It says, it contains support for the DE210, but in fact, the io-space is coded to EISA over 0x400. While the DE210 is 16-bit MCA, but it´s io is 0x2c00, it will

posix procs: where is it gone ?

1998-06-23 Thread Stelios Parnassidis
Is the old (?) ps, the one with the PS_PEERSONALITY setting, to find under debian ? I'm running/poerting a huge package related to my job, which rely very heavy on the posix conform switches of 'ps'. One of a sudden sometime ago nothing goes anymore because in many cases system("ps -ef ...

"Super" and the "password" option

1998-06-23 Thread Jan P. Schier
I am using the "super" program to allow some selected users to shutdown their computers. To prevent an accidental shutdown, I used the "password" option. I think it's after the upgrade of "super" (currently version 3.11 pl6) that I get the following massage (before, it was OK): super: Command r

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-23 Thread servis
On 23 Jun, BARBELET Philippe wrote: > Please, don't do this because if you have a wrong boot sequence (or a > problem in it) > you won't see it and can be stopped whith no way to resolve your > problem. > Opps, your right. > Use the command "dmesg | more" to see you boot sequence after booting

GnuHoo a major BooHoo

1998-06-23 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi guys, For those of you who don't know about the GnuHoo web directory, keep on not knowing about it. :) GnuHoo is trying to recruit VOLUNTEER editors for the web directory. However, their copyright policy is downright anti-open-source. GnuHoo tries to make it appealing to become an editor but

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-23 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Please, don't do this because if you have a wrong boot sequence (or a > problem in it) > you won't see it and can be stopped whith no way to resolve your > problem. > > Use the command "dmesg | more" to see you boot sequence after booting > or go in the /var/adm directory. There, you'll find

Re: How to read a word 7 file?

1998-06-23 Thread Thomas Apel
Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > > Hi, folks. > > Is there any way to read in my linux box a word 7 .doc file? > Mantaining the "indents" and "bolds" would be a plus, but mainly I > just need to read the text in it. > > I use StarOffice to read docs, but it only reads up to word 6 files > :^< W

Date Disparities

1998-06-23 Thread Marsh Ray
I'm having an interesting experience with one of my Debian machines. I've got a few, all synchronized with ntp. One of them always reports the time as 20 seconds slow. As an example, I do this: --- radha# date ; date +%s Tue Jun 23 09:41:48 EDT 1998 898609308 --- and at the same time I do this

problems with dselect/dpkg

1998-06-23 Thread hrdluk
hello fellow linux users, Im having a problem with the installation of debian. This is my first install of debian, though I have installed/used slackware for a little while. I have gotten through everything with no problems untill I hit deselect. I believe I managed to get many of the packages

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-23 Thread BARBELET Philippe
Please, don't do this because if you have a wrong boot sequence (or a problem in it) you won't see it and can be stopped whith no way to resolve your problem. Use the command "dmesg | more" to see you boot sequence after booting or go in the /var/adm directory. There, you'll find the "messages" f

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-23 Thread servis
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Mark Yobb wrote: > > I know how to use `dmesg` but I would really like to be able to get > the info that scrolls across my screen (on bootup) when /etc/init.d/boot is > executing. Is this message sent to a log file or something? How can I look > at this after booting?

"Super" and the "password" option

1998-06-23 Thread Jan P. Schier
I was using the "super" program to allow some selected users to shutdown their computers. To prevent an accidental shutdown, I used the "password" option. I think it's after the upgrade of "super" (currently version 3.11 pl6), I get the following massage (before, it was OK): super: Command requir

Re: How to read a word 7 file?

1998-06-23 Thread sjc
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 11:26:18AM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: > On 22-Jun-98 Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > > > > Hi, folks. > > > > Is there any way to read in my linux box a word 7 .doc file? > > Mantaining the "indents" and "bolds" would be a plus, but mainly I > > just need to read the text

Re: How to read a word 7 file?

1998-06-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 11:26:18AM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: > A rough-and-ready way to do just what you're asking is to use the "strings" > command: > >strings wordfile.doc > wordfile.txt It's not quite so simple; Word's "fast save" mechanism actually appends changes to the document since th

Re: ftp.debian.org

1998-06-23 Thread dpk
On Mon, 22 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am perhaps asking this question in the wrong place, but here goes... > > I keep a local mirror of ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/hamm for > my personal use. I noticed a few messages about some sort of reorganization > of some of the mirror sit

2 ethernet cards

1998-06-23 Thread Philippe BARBELET
Hello, On my PC (Compaq), I have installed 2 ethernet cards to communicate whith 2 distinct networks. But my system detects just 1 card during the boot process. In a first time I have declared in the /etc/lilo.conf file my two card as follow : append="ether=0,0,eth1" In a second time I changed t

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-23 Thread tko
Ulisses Alonso Camaro writes: > On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > > > > As the data is available (via Shift-Pageup) then there surely must be a > > way of getting to it and saving it. I tried with /dev/vcs* but got only > > the current screen. Maybe in /proc/??? somewhere? A Linux g

Re: Apple II emulaton and svgalib/suid

1998-06-23 Thread James Troup
"Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmm, i installed it a month or so ago, and I could get it working. > I installed today, after reinstalling the system a couple of weeks > ago, and I can't get it working. [...] > Has something changed? Yes; apple2 use to _incorrectly_ defa

RE: How to read a word 7 file?

1998-06-23 Thread Ted Harding
On 22-Jun-98 Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > > Hi, folks. > > Is there any way to read in my linux box a word 7 .doc file? > Mantaining the "indents" and "bolds" would be a plus, but mainly I > just need to read the text in it. > > I use StarOffice to read docs, but it only reads up to word 6 f

Re: How to read a word 7 file?

1998-06-23 Thread Guido Bozzetto
> Is there any way to read in my linux box a word 7 .doc file? See: http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/MSWordView.html convert word 7 docs into HTML. Ciao. -- +++ | Guido Bozzetto | Office phone & Fa

Re: Star office font problem (was: Re: Anyone running StarOffice 4.03 on Hamm?

1998-06-23 Thread joost
On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Any fonts I'm missing? Any fonts too much? Try adding these lines to /etc/X11/XF86Config and see if it makes any difference when you restart the X server: FontPath "/usr/local/Office40/fonts/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/local/Office40/fonts/typ

Re: user can delete kernel images (cont)

1998-06-23 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
manoj wrote: > Safe or not, it is UNIX ;-). Deleting a file is not actually > modifying the file, you are really modifying the directory the files > reside in. So, if you have write permissions to a directory, you may > delete any other file that is in there, as you observed. This can't >

Re: 3Com Etherlink III doesn't work

1998-06-23 Thread W Paul Mills
On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Wim De Blay wrote: Sounds like you could have a routing problem. What does route return? Other things which might help. Exactly which card are you using. Model 3cxxx? Which driver? The 3c59x/3c90x series has had many driver revisions. In general it has been getting better wi

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-23 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Henrik Lindhe wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > >As the data is available (via Shift-Pageup) then there surely must be a > >way of getting to it and saving it. I tried with /dev/vcs* but got only > >the current screen. Maybe in /proc/??? somewhere? A

Large fonts with netscpae

1998-06-23 Thread Oz Dror
I have Netscape 4.05, I have a 1600x1200 resulotion in my monitor, the fonts are too small on netscape. I have installed the xfstt package, it works, but the fonts are still small, so now that I have the xfstt package working why I can get only some of the fonts to be larger not all. -Oz -- <

Re: X-tended input

1998-06-23 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 02:33:13PM +1000, Chris wrote: > Where are the extended input modules for X in hamm? > > I mean the files that lived in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules with bo, like > xf86Wacom.so? xext -- G. Branden Robinson | Purdue University | The noble soul

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-23 Thread Henrik Lindhe
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote: >As the data is available (via Shift-Pageup) then there surely must be a >way of getting to it and saving it. I tried with /dev/vcs* but got only >the current screen. Maybe in /proc/??? somewhere? A Linux guru is >needed. > >Then we could have a script

ftp.debian.org

1998-06-23 Thread ironfoot
I am perhaps asking this question in the wrong place, but here goes... I keep a local mirror of ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/hamm for my personal use. I noticed a few messages about some sort of reorganization of some of the mirror sites, and was wondering if this mirror path will remain vali

X-tended input

1998-06-23 Thread Chris
Hi all, Where are the extended input modules for X in hamm? I mean the files that lived in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules with bo, like xf86Wacom.so? I need to have that module to run my Wacom tablet! Please get back to me! Thanks very much, Chris ---

scsi patch

1998-06-23 Thread Jesse Goldman
Hi, Is there a patch out yet for the scsi driver for kernel 2.0.34? I've got an Adaptec with an AIC-786x chipset which had some problems last I checked. If such a patch exists, where can I find it? Jesse -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: .maildelivery, "to:" line, exmh, & spam

1998-06-23 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 22 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Richard E. Hawkins Esq. writes: > > > > > > reading through a newsgroup, someone pointed out what should have been > > obvious: bulk emailings almost never have a "to:" or "cc:" in the header, > > and > > that mail could be filtered to a junk bo

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-23 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, David Wright wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > David Wright wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Mark Yobb wrote: > > > > > > > > I know how to use `dmesg` but I would really like to be able to > > > > get > > > > the info that scrolls across

Re: user can delete kernel images (cont)

1998-06-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"G" == G Kapetanios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: G> So obviously although I hadn;t realised that before if a group you G> belong to owns a directory which is writable by the group you can G> delete stuff from it without owning the files and without G> belonging to the group which owns the

Re: WXftp .debs??

1998-06-23 Thread aqy6633
> I was wondering if Alex's WXftp program have been debianized. I scanned > the ftp.debian.org directories but haven't found any. Does anyone know if > they exist and if so where? No, it is not debianized. I received a request from Justin Burket to package WXftp with GTK+ interface. He is not an

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-23 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > As the data is available (via Shift-Pageup) then there surely must be a > way of getting to it and saving it. I tried with /dev/vcs* but got only > the current screen. Maybe in /proc/??? somewhere? A Linux guru i

Re: irqtune probs

1998-06-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "DS" == Darren Spiteri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DS> I've installed hwtools*.deb to make use of irqtune but it doesn't seem DS> to work DS> properly. When I run irqtune it responds: DS> irqtune: insmod failed on '/usr/lib/hwtools/irqtune_mod.o' DS> A manual insmod reports: DS> /usr/lib/hw

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-23 Thread Lindsay Allen
As the data is available (via Shift-Pageup) then there surely must be a way of getting to it and saving it. I tried with /dev/vcs* but got only the current screen. Maybe in /proc/??? somewhere? A Linux guru is needed. Then we could have a script run as the final boot-up process to save it to a

Re: How to read a word 7 file?

1998-06-23 Thread Shaleh
None that I am aware of. To my knowledge nothing reads word 7 except word 7, even in Windows land. However Wordperfect is coming, and it should be able to. I use the curent wp7 and it works nicely. Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > > Hi, folks. > > Is there any way to read in my linux box a wo

irqtune probs

1998-06-23 Thread Darren Spiteri
I've installed hwtools*.deb to make use of irqtune but it doesn't seem to work properly. When I run irqtune it responds: irqtune: insmod failed on '/usr/lib/hwtools/irqtune_mod.o' A manual insmod reports: /usr/lib/hwtools/irqtune_mod.o: couldn't find the kernal version the module was compiled fo