Re: Iomega Ditto tape unreliable?

1998-07-13 Thread alexander e dukat
What version of ftape and zftape are you using? I myself am using version 3.04d with the Iomega Ditto 2G and so far have not had any problems. I have backedup several times and verified them along with doing some restoring. I haven't taken the total plunge yet because I need to set up a special

Help me...urgent please.

1998-07-13 Thread Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam
Hi All, I deleted my mail folder (unintentionally).. How to create another one in /var/spool/mail.. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /

Re: a simple drawing program?

1998-07-13 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
dale wrote >[i wrote] > > MacDraw 1.0 would more than meet my needs. I've looked at gimp, which is > > overkill (and annoying on an 8 bit display due to colormap demands), and > > tgif, > > which seems to want to rotate my text and do other fancy stuff, as well as > > being a bit awkward in th

Re: Loadable Modules and Configuration

1998-07-13 Thread Michael B. Taylor
Running modconf as root will prolly fix your problems/answer your questions Mike On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 06:20:29PM -0500, Len Cumbow wrote: > Hi, > > I am running Debian 1.3.1. I have a 3c509B that USED to work > in a previous installation of Debian. I have obviously hosed > things in the n

Loadable Modules and Configuration

1998-07-13 Thread Len Cumbow
Hi, I am running Debian 1.3.1. I have a 3c509B that USED to work in a previous installation of Debian. I have obviously hosed things in the new install. The card is no longer detected during boot. How do I get the card detected at boot? I think a loadable module (3c509.o?) is involved. How

Re: can't set quotas bigger than about 3.8GB

1998-07-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carlos Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've got a filesystem of about 13GB, on a raid5 array. I'm trying to >set a quota of about 6GB for a user, but edquota produces "random" >values. When I use repquota or enter edquota again the values are much >lower! > >Is

can't set quotas bigger than about 3.8GB

1998-07-13 Thread Carlos Carvalho
I've got a filesystem of about 13GB, on a raid5 array. I'm trying to set a quota of about 6GB for a user, but edquota produces "random" values. When I use repquota or enter edquota again the values are much lower! Is the quota system limited at 4GB?? What am I doing wrong? This is with quota 1.65

Re: MUA configuration for correct From address.

1998-07-13 Thread Shaul
1) I tried to change my configuration files according to your suggestions (qouted at the end of this letter), but although it gave me no erors, it kept using the "wrong" from header. Can you send me all your configuration files (the whole /etc/smail directory), both its contents and the files' p

Debian 2.0 release

1998-07-13 Thread matthew tebbens
Does anyone know when the 2.0 release will actually be released ? Matthew -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

libc6 Netscape form problems

1998-07-13 Thread servis
I am running the libc6 version of Netscape 4.05 and am experiencing some strang problems when entering text into text fields. Something keeps appending random binary bits to the end of the strings and it really screws things up. Sometimes it isn't even apparent in the field and other times it is

Re: sound recording under linux

1998-07-13 Thread Ian Eure
On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 09:00:08PM -0500, the lone gunman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 11, 1998 at 04:46:58PM -0700, Ian Eure wrote: > > Hi. I do a lot of this kind of thing, so let me tell you what my setup is. > > Hey, thanks for the info -- it's very helpful! > np :) > > I have two boxes that I use

Re: a simple drawing program?

1998-07-13 Thread Dale E. Martin
"Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a simple, easily usable, drawing package that's been debianized? > > I really don't need anything more complicated than venn diagram type stuff. > MacDraw 1.0 would more than meet my needs. I've looked at gimp, which is > overki

Re: pascal.+development

1998-07-13 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998 17:13:01 -0400, Michael B. Taylor wrote: >So that the vi lovers dont flame me too badly, I have to point out that vim >has "modes" too, but I dont know if it has one for Pascal. JED has modes as well. Perl, C and pascal are the ones I use from time to time. --

Re: a simple drawing program?

1998-07-13 Thread King Lee
How about xfig King Lee On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > nikolai suggests, > > On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > > > > Is there a simple, easily usable, drawing package that's been debianized? > > > have you tried xpaint? I did some pixmap, bitma

Re: pascal.+development

1998-07-13 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Michael B. Taylor wrote: > I think there are some IDE's for Linux, but none seem to be as popular > as Emacs/Xemacs. Emacs is not an integrated development environment per > se, but it has many of the capabilities of one plus other things. latest vim has some similar featurs.

Re: pascal.+development

1998-07-13 Thread Michael B. Taylor
I think there are some IDE's for Linux, but none seem to be as popular as Emacs/Xemacs. Emacs is not an integrated development environment per se, but it has many of the capabilities of one plus other things. Emacs has modes for C, C++, LaTeX, shell scripts, Matlab, and yes, even Pascal. font-lo

Re: Virtual provides?

1998-07-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 13 Jul 1998, Edvard Majakari wrote: [ snip ] : I think it is not possible to create a file containing so called : 'virtual provides', which would contain strings like 'mta, httpd, : news-server' etc. This way, I can install Qmail on my own, put the : appropriate string somewhere and debian wou

There is something weird with Debian's partition boot setup.

1998-07-13 Thread Christopher Barry
Hi, Since you can't get your system to the root prompt I suppose this won't help you much, but I to have encountered problems with how Debian sets up itself to boot from a partition during an install. I have encountered this problem with both my 1.3 install from long ago and my recent hamm insta

Re: a simple drawing program?

1998-07-13 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
nikolai suggests, > On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > > Is there a simple, easily usable, drawing package that's been debianized? > have you tried xpaint? I did some pixmap, bitmap, gif and jpeg > manipulation a couple of years ago and found it easy to use. I've tried it,

Re: a simple drawing program?

1998-07-13 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > Is there a simple, easily usable, drawing package that's been debianized? have you tried xpaint? I did some pixmap, bitmap, gif and jpeg manipulation a couple of years ago and found it easy to use. Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscr

RE: pascal.+development

1998-07-13 Thread Patrick Ouellette
You can find a new version of gpc in experimental. It uses egcs. GPC should fit your needs quite well. The version there is "alpha" code, but is much more stable than the version that you found using libc5. There are a few bugs that are keeping it from being released as the gpc 2.1 beta softwa

Eterm path question

1998-07-13 Thread Adrian Monk
I have installed the .deb Eterm DR0.7 package, however when I fire it up in X (via an Xterm at present) I get the error messages shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories job-working-directory: How do I fix this? I have tried putting /usr/X11R6/lib/Ete

a simple drawing program?

1998-07-13 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Is there a simple, easily usable, drawing package that's been debianized? I really don't need anything more complicated than venn diagram type stuff. MacDraw 1.0 would more than meet my needs. I've looked at gimp, which is overkill (and annoying on an 8 bit display due to colormap demands), a

Re: Unknow pci device

1998-07-13 Thread Michael B. Taylor
Ignore it for now. It is harmless. As you suspect, it is kernel related. Both bo and hamm have 2.0.34 kernel packages. You can select a more recent kernel later in your installation process, or compile your own. Mike On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 08:27:26PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'

pascal.+development

1998-07-13 Thread Alexander Gutfraind
Hello fellow users! It's a weird newbie question I'm about to ask. but what about Pascal? you all seem to write in C or PERL, but I like pascal. when I checked the pascal compiler I found it required all types of libraries, libc5. but shouldn't it cause some problems to libc6? I am not an experienc

Re: Unknow pci device

1998-07-13 Thread Shaleh
This is not a big problem. It will not affect you in anyway. What it means is that the PCI detection routine could not identify either your motherboard PCI controller or a device on the PCI bus. It will still work, just not have a name. Look in /proc/pci to see what I mean. This error is from

Re: Kpackage

1998-07-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, ... wrote: > No sorry for being unclear :> I meant KPackage as in the KDE > package management program. It is supposed to handle > installation, configuration, and removel of RPM's and DEB's > If all it does is install the .deb's t

Re: the time

1998-07-13 Thread Shaleh
Set your system BIOS correctly. David Parmet wrote: > > dumb newbie question > > I got everything up and running (still working on X but that's another > story) but when i ask for date it gives me May 25th. > > How do i change the date and time? > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [

Re: the time

1998-07-13 Thread servis
*-David Parmet (13 Jul) | | dumb newbie question | | I got everything up and running (still working on X but that's another | story) but when i ask for date it gives me May 25th. | | How do i change the date and time? | %man date DATE(1)

Re: the time

1998-07-13 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, David Parmet wrote: > I got everything up and running (still working on X but that's another > story) but when i ask for date it gives me May 25th. try [machine#] rdate -s your.local.time.host or adjtime or just set the bios clock to the right time :) Nikolai -- Unsubs

the time

1998-07-13 Thread David Parmet
dumb newbie question I got everything up and running (still working on X but that's another story) but when i ask for date it gives me May 25th. How do i change the date and time? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Unknow pci device

1998-07-13 Thread anderson.fernandes
I'm having a problem with debian install disks. Although the last kernel stable version is 2.0.34, the installation disks comes with 2.0.27 that causes an error in my computer. Unknow pci device: 'address' : Read include/linux/pci.h With slackware 3.5 boot disks, the kernel version is 2.0.34 and

Re: Kpackage

1998-07-13 Thread ...
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: > do you mean kernel-package? If so I have used it for a long time on > both bo and hamm boxes. It is fully Debian complaint. No sorry for being unclear :> I meant KPackage as in the KDE package management program. It is supposed to handle installat

Re: Kpackage

1998-07-13 Thread Shaleh
do you mean kernel-package? If so I have used it for a long time on both bo and hamm boxes. It is fully Debian complaint. ... wrote: > > I'm wondering if anybody has used this program on a Hamm system. > Does it adhere(sp?) to all of Debians standards? > > TIA,

Kpackage

1998-07-13 Thread ...
I'm wondering if anybody has used this program on a Hamm system. Does it adhere(sp?) to all of Debians standards? TIA, mike... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Iomega Ditto tape unreliable?

1998-07-13 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 10:59:29AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > > A lot of errors start showing. Over the weekend I was trying to restore > > from a recently made backup which was made using dump. Restore ran for a > > few hours without resto

Re: Virtual provides?

1998-07-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "EM" == Edvard Majakari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "KV" == Kenneth Valentine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: EM> I think it is not possible to create a file containing so called EM> 'virtual provides', which would contain strings like 'mta, httpd, EM> news-server' etc. This way, I can ins

Two Questions

1998-07-13 Thread Mike Harmon
Hi Everyone, I am a Debian newbie. Actually I'm ALMOST a Linux newbie. My system environment is as follows: IBM Mod 365 200 MHz Pentium Pro system (32 MB RAM) HD 0 is a 2.5 GB IDE (NT 4.0 loaded) HD1 is a 540 MB IDE (Linux) Network Card is an IBM Auto 16/4 Token Ring ISA card I'm using B

Re: ssh for debian

1998-07-13 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> Is there a port of ssh for debian? If so, where is it? I'm using hamm. ftp://nonus.debian.org/debian-non-US/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Mail configuration

1998-07-13 Thread Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam
Hi All, I have three small problems with my mail configuration. 1. I just set up exim with mutt and tkrat. I am able to send mail through mutt, but tkrat gives '550 Permission denied'. 2. All mails sent from my machine have From address as my machine name. Will adding return-path to muttrc e

Re: 2.0 installation

1998-07-13 Thread Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam
I think you selected 'Previously mounted partition' when it asked for the base files. Select another harddisk partition, select the partition and then the directory. I feel that the installation unmounts a partition after it uses it. Regards, Vaidhy > I am trying to install Debian for the first

Re: [Debian] Intel Etherexpress Pro 82557

1998-07-13 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> >> Howdy, >> >> >> can anybody tell me how to get the Intel Etherexpress Pro (82557 chipset) >> running. I tried the Intel Etherexpress Pro driver (which resorts under >> ISA?) >> but that doesn't seem to work. I'm using an Intel Redwood motherboard >> with on-board 10/100TX ethernet contr

Re: killall

1998-07-13 Thread m*
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 10:06:29AM -0700, Alexander wrote: >Hi... > >I just downloaded (well, am downloading...) the debian 2.0 beta (hamm) >release and noticed that my killall command is gone. I dug it up out of an >old procps package, but why was it deleted? Can I expect it back? It's an >excelle

Re: remote print-server

1998-07-13 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sat, Jul 11, 1998 at 06:46:37PM -0500, Greg Norris wrote: > I was wondering if anyone can give me a quick rundown on what's needed > to make debian a remote print-server for another unix system? We have 2 > AIX boxes at work (versions 4.1 & 4.2), and as the unofficial > administrator of our sin

killall

1998-07-13 Thread Alexander
Hi... I just downloaded (well, am downloading...) the debian 2.0 beta (hamm) release and noticed that my killall command is gone. I dug it up out of an old procps package, but why was it deleted? Can I expect it back? It's an excellent admin tool as well as program (respawn loop...) control tool,

Re: Fujitsu 520T boot: prompt parameters ...

1998-07-13 Thread How we gonna settle this, guns or litigation? The Trail Rider
To answer my own query, RTFM suggests turning off caching. SO, Press to enter SETUP, shows Memory Cache L1 and L2 Enabled, but with Memory Cache Disabled its onto installation step 1: > (i.e., I cannot get to the initial choice menu of the install script). -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubs

Re: ssh for debian

1998-07-13 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Robert Kerr wrote: > Is there a port of ssh for debian? If so, where is it? I'm using hamm. yes there is. Try the debian-non-US directory on your ftp.debian.org mirror. Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

ssh for debian

1998-07-13 Thread Robert Kerr
Is there a port of ssh for debian? If so, where is it? I'm using hamm. -bob UNIX _IS_ user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are. ** * Robert Kerr, The morphing guy. *MS 0441 Sandia National Labs * * [EMAIL

My 'h' key is unusable

1998-07-13 Thread Stelios Parnassidis
Just had the base system installation of Hamm, and wanted to type 'which superformat'. 'h' beeps and beeps ... i have to type Ctrl-V h to use it. I looked into the /etc/terminfo/l/linux via ... (untic) could find nothing. What's wrong with my very 'h'? Heh? :( -- Unsubscribe? mail

Re: use *.rpm and *.tar.gz packages on Hamm

1998-07-13 Thread David Z. Maze
Alex Kwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AK> the alien needs the "rpm" and the "rpm" needs the libc5, (I AK> checked these on www.debian.org/Packages) Hamm is using the libc6, AK> Will the libc5 and libc6 happy to-gather? If you install the Hamm libc5 package, everything will be happy. In many case

Re: Virtual provides?

1998-07-13 Thread Edvard Majakari
Oh, please ignore the first line of the message (my apologies) -- # Ed GSM: 040 5960810 URL: http://lodge.ton.tut.fi/%7Eed/ "What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?" --Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Virtual provides?

1998-07-13 Thread Edvard Majakari
> "KV" == Kenneth Valentine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Using dselect is awful, because I use Qmail as my MTA. However, dselect always recommends me to install smail, or any other MTA which is understandable, and even as it is easy to press 'Q' always when it recommends smail, it is quite frus

Re: proxy services what is available?

1998-07-13 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I would say SOCKS is easier than TIS. I have used both but have done limited configuration and maintenance of TIS while I've done lots with SOCKS. TIS is an "application level" proxy while SOCKS is a socket level proxy. TIS will give you more fine-tuned control. SOCKS allows you to control access

2.0 installation

1998-07-13 Thread Kenneth Valentine
Hello, I am trying to install Debian for the first time on my PC, and everything seems straightforward enough. Using the instructions for installing version 2.0, I wrote the rescue floppy and downloaded via web browser the files necessary for installation from DOS partition on a harddisk. During

Re: XF86Setup Error

1998-07-13 Thread vaidhy
> When trying to save the XF86Setup configuration, I am getting this error > message just after the "Attempting to start server..." message: > > "_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't Connect: errno = 111" > I had this problem and it went away after I recompiled my kernel with PSAUX.. Mmmm.. Does t

Re: Ethernet Question(Repost with more info)

1998-07-13 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Everthing looks good. ARP packets are most likely what you're seeing on your hub. Can you check out your NT machine's configuration? Tomt wrote: > Heres my previous message > ___ > Hi Everyone, > > I've managed to get tcp/ip network

XF86Setup Error

1998-07-13 Thread Kevin J. Imamura
When trying to save the XF86Setup configuration, I am getting this error message just after the "Attempting to start server..." message: "_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't Connect: errno = 111" I would appreciate any help in identifying and resolving the problem. BTW, the X Server does work (ini

Re: use *.rpm and *.tar.gz packages on Hamm

1998-07-13 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 11:00:08PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote: > Hi, > > the alien needs the "rpm" and > the "rpm" needs the libc5, > (I checked these on www.debian.org/Packages) > Hamm is using the libc6, > Will the libc5 and libc6 happy to-gather? > yes it works fine... hamm has kept libc5 and wor

Re: Adding non packages to menu?

1998-07-13 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 03:36:44PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Can someone explain how, if at all possible, one adds non-packages to the > > debian menu? > > This is descriped in /usr/lib/menu or /usr/doc/menu. > > > > I tried making a file 'soffice' in /usr/lib/m

Re: Tkdesk (was: File managers ??............)

1998-07-13 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 02:38:00PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Tkdesk looks fine but I don't know how to get rid off of the icons menu which > appear on the left of the screen. > Nasty hack: put the following in the last line of ~/.tkdesk/AppBar: set tkdesk(appbar) {{}} ;) -- Alexey Vy

Re: use *.rpm and *.tar.gz packages on Hamm

1998-07-13 Thread Christopher Barry
Yes, they will be happy together. At least they are on my system, because I found the glibc Netscape was in 'development' for good reason, so I run the libc5 version. You can get libc5 in section 'oldlibs'. Alex Kwan wrote: > Hi, > > the alien needs the "rpm" and > the "rpm" needs the libc5, >

Re: use *.rpm and *.tar.gz packages on Hamm

1998-07-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "AK" == Alex Kwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AK> the alien needs the "rpm" and AK> the "rpm" needs the libc5, AK> (I checked these on www.debian.org/Packages) AK> Hamm is using the libc6, AK> Will the libc5 and libc6 happy to-gather? Yes. There is a libc5.deb for hamm in the oldlibs director

Re: Thanks - any more suggestions ?

1998-07-13 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Ivan wrote: > I haven't tried telnetting but by export > http_proxy=http://proxy.vianet.net.au:80 I can reach the WWW through Lynx. technically it should be [Ukraine$] export http_proxy="http://proxy.vianet.net.au:80/"; > The error is generated fro FTP, http, goph

Re: netscape communicator for bo ?

1998-07-13 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > I'd like to have netscape communicator for bo, there's navigator 3.04 in > dist bud i couldn't install it... can anyone help me ? netscape will not allow people to re-distibute their software. What is in the dist is a debainized (I believe) instal

netscape communicator for bo ?

1998-07-13 Thread fantomas
Hello, I'd like to have netscape communicator for bo, there's navigator 3.04 in dist bud i couldn't install it... can anyone help me ? -- Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, sysadmin at NETLAB+ Kosice, Slovakia BIC coord for *.sk; admin of netlab.irc.sk; co-admin of irc.felk.cvut.cz -- Unsubscribe? mai

Re: use *.rpm and *.tar.gz packages on Hamm

1998-07-13 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi, the alien needs the "rpm" and the "rpm" needs the libc5, (I checked these on www.debian.org/Packages) Hamm is using the libc6, Will the libc5 and libc6 happy to-gather? >> (1) Can I use the Redhat (*.rpm) and >> Slackware (*.tar.gz) packages on >> Hamm? If can, How to? > >Yeah, yo

[Debian] Intel Etherexpress Pro 82557

1998-07-13 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, can anybody tell me how to get the Intel Etherexpress Pro (82557 chipset) running. I tried the Intel Etherexpress Pro driver (which resorts under ISA?) but that doesn't seem to work. I'm using an Intel Redwood motherboard with on-board 10/100TX ethernet controller. Any help would be gr

Re: window manager cofiguration

1998-07-13 Thread servis
*-Tom Malloy (13 Jul) | Some window managers require you to have a mouse in a window for it to be | active. Others allow you to click the mouse in the window and it stays | active even if you move the mouse away. This is probably adjustable in | the configuration files for each window manager. Wh

Re: window manager cofiguration

1998-07-13 Thread Michael Stenner
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Tom Malloy wrote: >Some window managers require you to have a mouse in a window for it to be >active. Others allow you to click the mouse in the window and it stays >active even if you move the mouse away. This is probably adjustable in >the configuration files for each windo

Re: window manager cofiguration

1998-07-13 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Tom Malloy wrote: > Some window managers require you to have a mouse in a window for it to be > active. Others allow you to click the mouse in the window and it stays > active even if you move the mouse away. This is probably adjustable in > the configuration files for each w

Re: use *.rpm and *.tar.gz packages on Hamm

1998-07-13 Thread Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam
> (1) Can I use the Redhat (*.rpm) and > Slackware (*.tar.gz) packages on > Hamm? If can, How to? Yeah, you can.. I suppose you have to install alien pacakge first.. > > (2) I have downloaded Netscape Communicator 4.05 > for Linux 2.0 from Netscape, does it will working > w

use *.rpm and *.tar.gz packages on Hamm

1998-07-13 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi, Debian Fans, (1) Can I use the Redhat (*.rpm) and Slackware (*.tar.gz) packages on Hamm? If can, How to? (2) I have downloaded Netscape Communicator 4.05 for Linux 2.0 from Netscape, does it will working well with Hamm? Thanks & Regards, -- Unsubscribe? mail -s un

Re: xfig not working in hamm?

1998-07-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MS" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MS> Is it just me or doesn't xfig in hamm do exportnig of files into MS> .gif, .png, .xpm etc? I'm only receiving empty files. Don't MS> need to tell ya that this suxx. No problem here. I just drew some objects, exported them to gif and xv

Re: last problem when upgrading to debian 2.0 beta

1998-07-13 Thread Joop Stakenborg
Paolo Sommaruga wrote: > Hi, > > I have upgradet to 2.0 Beta my Debian 1.1.3 system with autoup.sh adn I have > followed the hints in the README-autoup.sh regarding the fixing up wtmp and > utmp. > > The problem is that last output is yet broken, like > > *, ***5 ork.inet.it Thu

Re: Thanks - any more suggestions ?

1998-07-13 Thread Ivan
>> Yes - homepage no problem - other pages BIG problem !!! > >Your ISP is probably blocking connections to other sites unless >you use the proxy. My ISP does this too, it is cheaper for them >if they get any cache hits at all. Proxy performance here is excellent >so I don't mind so much. I have no

Re: Linux NFS question

1998-07-13 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, George Bonser wrote: > I have been digging around and it looks like lockd is not supported in > linux until 2.1.5? > > Can anyone verify this? A friend has a Linux filesystem that he wants to > mount from another OS and it seems to really want to see lockd on the > linux box.

Re: Thanks - any more suggestions ?

1998-07-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 09:51:38PM +0800, Ivan wrote: > At 11:47 PM 13-07-98 +1000, you wrote: > >On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 09:44:24PM +0800, Ivan wrote: > >> I haven't tried telnetting but by export > >> http_proxy=http://proxy.vianet.net.au:80 I can reach the WWW through Lynx. > >> > >> The error

Re: Thanks - any more suggestions ?

1998-07-13 Thread Ivan
At 11:47 PM 13-07-98 +1000, you wrote: >On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 09:44:24PM +0800, Ivan wrote: >> I haven't tried telnetting but by export >> http_proxy=http://proxy.vianet.net.au:80 I can reach the WWW through Lynx. >> >> The error is generated fro FTP, http, gopher,etc... >> >> I have tried ente

Re: Thanks - any more suggestions ?

1998-07-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 09:44:24PM +0800, Ivan wrote: > I haven't tried telnetting but by export > http_proxy=http://proxy.vianet.net.au:80 I can reach the WWW through Lynx. > > The error is generated fro FTP, http, gopher,etc... > > I have tried entering the proxy details for all and for one at

window manager cofiguration

1998-07-13 Thread Tom Malloy
Some window managers require you to have a mouse in a window for it to be active. Others allow you to click the mouse in the window and it stays active even if you move the mouse away. This is probably adjustable in the configuration files for each window manager. What is this feature called and

Re: Thanks - any more suggestions ?

1998-07-13 Thread Ivan
I haven't tried telnetting but by export http_proxy=http://proxy.vianet.net.au:80 I can reach the WWW through Lynx. The error is generated fro FTP, http, gopher,etc... I have tried entering the proxy details for all and for one at a time - the error just will not go away !!! As I have to discon

Re: Adding non packages to menu?

1998-07-13 Thread Martin Schulze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can someone explain how, if at all possible, one adds non-packages to the > debian menu? This is descriped in /usr/lib/menu or /usr/doc/menu. > I tried making a file 'soffice' in /usr/lib/menu like so: > ?package():needs=x11 command=soffice section=Apps/Editors title="

Thanks - any more suggestions ?

1998-07-13 Thread Ivan
At 11:28 PM 13-07-98 +1000, you wrote: >On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 06:23:17PM +0800, Ivan wrote: >> The error generated by Netscape is : >> >> Warning : >> FTP proxy host "http://proxy.vianet.net.au:80"; is unknown >> >> BUT this is the correct name for the proxy server at the ISP. >> The

Re: Web access woes

1998-07-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 06:23:17PM +0800, Ivan wrote: > The error generated by Netscape is : > > Warning : > FTP proxy host "http://proxy.vianet.net.au:80"; is unknown > > BUT this is the correct name for the proxy server at the ISP. > The same error is generated for http,gopher etc..

Re: last problem when upgrading to debian 2.0 beta

1998-07-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Paolo Sommaruga wrote: > Hi, > > I have upgradet to 2.0 Beta my Debian 1.1.3 system with autoup.sh adn I have > followed the hints in the README-autoup.sh regarding the fixing up wtmp and > utmp. Maybe you need to fix /var/log/lastlog as w

Re: Exim!

1998-07-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 11:03:34PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > One person may want procmail, but I dare say that if an ISP installs > exim after using sendmail/procmail they need it lest they break a couble > thousand procmailrc files from their users. In that case I doubt directing > them all

xfig not working in hamm?

1998-07-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, Is it just me or doesn't xfig in hamm do exportnig of files into .gif, .png, .xpm etc? I'm only receiving empty files. Don't need to tell ya that this suxx. Regards, Joey -- Experience is a useful thing. Unfortunately it is only acquired just after one could have used it. --

Re: Iomega Ditto tape unreliable?

1998-07-13 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 10:59:29AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > A lot of errors start showing. Over the weekend I was trying to restore > from a recently made backup which was made using dump. Restore ran for a > few hours without restoring a single file from the selection I made and in > the en

Re: More Web Woes

1998-07-13 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Ivan wrote: > Hi again. > > I am still trying to get Netscape 4.05 (installed using the ns_install > script rather than the .deb package) to accept that my ISP has a proxy > server that has to be manually configured within Netscape. > > When I try to put the details in (edit

More Web Woes

1998-07-13 Thread Ivan
Hi again. I am still trying to get Netscape 4.05 (installed using the ns_install script rather than the .deb package) to accept that my ISP has a proxy server that has to be manually configured within Netscape. When I try to put the details in (edit/preferences/proxies/manual proxy/view), the err

last problem when upgrading to debian 2.0 beta

1998-07-13 Thread Paolo Sommaruga
Hi, I have upgradet to 2.0 Beta my Debian 1.1.3 system with autoup.sh adn I have followed the hints in the README-autoup.sh regarding the fixing up wtmp and utmp. The problem is that last output is yet broken, like *, ***5 ork.inet.it Thu Jan 1 01:00 still logged in nimo.it

Re: Exim! Headers

1998-07-13 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, George Bonser wrote: > > > It is not going to work with the system header rewrite rules. You will > probably need a systemwide filter with the following logic: > > If the recipient is non-local then change the reply address to the ISP's > domain. > > You might need a combi

TV Cards.

1998-07-13 Thread Michael Beattie
There was a message a while ago refering to a KDE tv app. I have not been able to compile it on my hamm system. Has anyone else had better luck? Are there any libraries that I should install? I got the source from: ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Sources/misc/programs/kwintv-0.4.6.tgz TIA,

Video CD player

1998-07-13 Thread Michael Beattie
Someone else has asked in conjuction with another question, but the answer, if there was one :), was lost in the throng of answers for the other question... But anyway, does anyone know of a VCD player for Linux? Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key

Re: newbie ppp problem

1998-07-13 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello! > When I start 'pon', the modem beeps as if engaged but never dials > a number. 'plog' reports: > abort on (NO DIALTONE) > send (ATDT^M) > expect () ^^ Well, it SHOULD NOT expect your IPS's phone no, but it should expect a CONNECT answer from the modem. Check yo

Re: sound recording under linux

1998-07-13 Thread Frank Barknecht
the lone gunman hat gesagt: // the lone gunman wrote: > Hello: > > Are there any folks out there using Linux to do sound recording? If > so, what approaches have you taken? > > I've got a cheap hack of a sound studio on my pc -- only under windows > now, though, and I'd rather do this under lin

[psomma@mailserver.garda-access.com: last problem when upgrading to Debian 2.0 beta]

1998-07-13 Thread Martin Schulze
- Forwarded message from Paolo Sommaruga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: at Infodrom Oldenburg (/\##/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.12 Joey) by finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE from murphy.debian.org with smtp id ; Mon, 13 Jul 98 12:48 MET DST Received: fro

cirrus logic/sparklies (newbie)

1998-07-13 Thread Graham Seaman
Hi, I'm having problems setting up X which I think are due to my graphic card settings. I have what I thought was a pretty standard card which the drivers are there for. The card has a Cirrus CL-GD5446BV with 2 MB of ram. Superprobe identifies both ok. I used xf86config to set up the configuration

newbie ppp problem

1998-07-13 Thread Graham Seaman
Hi, Having problems setting up ppp. I think its actually a unix problem rather than a hardware one, but this is my first try with a Linux system so may be wrong. Here's the details anyway: I have a Sysprano internal modem with Rockwell chip set (uart is labelled RCV336ACF/SF). setserial reports:

Re: Web access woes

1998-07-13 Thread Ivan
The error generated by Netscape is : Warning : FTP proxy host "http://proxy.vianet.net.au:80"; is unknown BUT this is the correct name for the proxy server at the ISP. The same error is generated for http,gopher etc... Any more help you can give will be much appreciated. Ivan.

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