Re: Question about libc6

1998-09-07 Thread Igor Grobman
Some time around Mon, 07 Sep 1998 01:12:28 +0200, Fernando =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hern=E1ndez?= Caso wrote: > > Hello: > I´m an user of the debian linux distribution and I was download the > libraries "libc6" which are necesaries to install the x-windows window > manager "KDE". But when I

2.1.120 Kernel, Eterm and X user access

1998-09-07 Thread Eric Jacoboni
Hi, Today, i've download the 2.1.120 kernel sources, untarred them in /usr/local/linux, do a make xconfig and a make-kpkg then a dpkg --install... So far, so good. Some lines added to lilo.conf to have access to my pristine 2.0.34 Hamm kernel, just in case... Reboot : all seems ok, dmesg just s

Re: is onboard aic7890 supported?

1998-09-07 Thread rir
On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Ali A. Kooshesh wrote: > I have an ASUS motherboard with on board AIC7890 SCSI controller. > Both, my hard disk and > CD ROM are SCSI. Is there a kernel that supports this device? I have just booted on this controller for the first time. There was a reference to: ftp:ftp.d

Question about libc6

1998-09-07 Thread Fernando Hernández Caso
Hello: I´m an user of the debian linux distribution and I was download the libraries "libc6" which are necesaries to install the x-windows window manager "KDE". But when I execute the command "dkpg -i libc6_2_0_7t-1.deb", it give me a dependency error of libc5. I would like to know how can I inst

installation problem: driver for Eiger labs eithernet pcmcia card

1998-09-07 Thread Daniel E. Hollis
I'm trying to install the latest Debian on a TI Extensa 610CD. My problem is with my Eiger Labs EPX-10BT ethernet pcmcia card. The pcmcia howto lists thiis card as having worked under the fmvj18x_cs driver, but I have had no luck installing it with the modconf script. I've run modconf and t

Searching for software

1998-09-07 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hi, Im searching for a software that can do telephone stuff. I want to be able to make a telephone call, speak into the computer-micofon and listen to the speakers... Someone knows where can i find somthing like that? Or a name of such software ?? In windows95 i use winfax 8. I found that an exc

Re: Database Client

1998-09-07 Thread Kent West
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi All. > > I'd DEARLY love to get Linux established on my university campus, but > >one of the stumbling blocks is that one of our major apps is based on an > >SQLServer 6.5 database runnin

Re: Database Client

1998-09-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi All. > I'd DEARLY love to get Linux established on my university campus, but >one of the stumbling blocks is that one of our major apps is based on an >SQLServer 6.5 database running on an NT Server. The clients are all >Win95

Re: Database Client

1998-09-07 Thread Nicolai Guba
> "Kent" == Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kent> Organization: Abilene Christian University Kent> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.34 i586) Kent> Okay. I found the pgsql file (although I wonder why locate didn't find Kent> it, even after I did an updatedb). Still, since I

Re: Your friends...... whatever.

1998-09-07 Thread Jens Ritter
Igor Grobman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some time around Mon, 07 Sep 1998 18:44:35 +1200, > Michael Beattie wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Igor Grobman wrote: > > > > Having said that there is one exception to this rule ;-) and that is > > aol.com . > > > It has been establish

Re: apt-get just the packages

1998-09-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
apt-get -d install wmaker This will retrieve the file (by default to /var/cache/apt/archives) and you can copy it to the zip drive. You could link this to /zip. On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Vincent Murphy wrote: > Hi. I'd like to be able to type in > > apt-get > > and have apt-get instead of instal

Re: X is hosed

1998-09-07 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 7 Sep 98 14:34:34 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I stuck my neck out and upgraded X11 to the packages in slink. Just >previous to that I had upgraded wmaker to 0.19.1-1, also new on slink. >At first, wmaker crashed the session. I purged wmaker. > >Now, for some reason I cannot fathom, xdm s

Re: domain name

1998-09-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
Yes, but it looks like you are already set up for this. Ping and traceroute both work, although a reverse lookup shows x192.ntx.net. www.knebel.com takes me to your web page (not much there yet!). Bob On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, > I have a registerd domain name and have a stati

apt-get just the packages

1998-09-07 Thread Vincent Murphy
Hi. I'd like to be able to type in apt-get and have apt-get instead of installing the packages, stick them in /zip, my zip drive, so i can take them home. Is this possible? thanks, vincent murphy

Re: HELP: More Problems Configuring Email

1998-09-07 Thread Jack Kern
On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 04:13:06PM -0300, Ralph Winslow wrote: > When Jack Kern wrote, I replied: > > For reference my .fetchmailrci, as previously attached: > > poll mail.my_isp.net protocol pop3 username rjw password secret_word > > > > On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 10:33:11AM -0300, Ralph Winslow w

domain name

1998-09-07 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, I have a registerd domain name and have a static IP address from my ISP. Is there any way I could call my home box my registered domain and use the nameservers that I get from my ISP. I have a small web site on my home computer and when someone types www.knebel.com I wouls like it to show my we

Re: Commandline FTP

1998-09-07 Thread Lazar Fleysher
What about $ ftp -n hostname < script.name & > /dev/null and the script.name is just: user username password put local.file remote.file quit Would it solve your problem? ZORO

Re: HELP: More Problems Configuring Email

1998-09-07 Thread Ralph Winslow
When Jack Kern wrote, I replied: For reference my .fetchmailrci, as previously attached: poll mail.my_isp.net protocol pop3 username rjw password secret_word > > On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 10:33:11AM -0300, Ralph Winslow wrote: > > When Art Lemasters wrote, I replied: > [...] > > wasn't much help.

Re: Database Client

1998-09-07 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: > > Hi All. > I'd DEARLY love to get Linux established on my university campus, but > one of the stumbling blocks is that one of our major apps is based on an > SQLServer 6.5 database running on an NT Server. The clients are all > Win95/98/NT based. Is there anyway for me to conn

Database Client

1998-09-07 Thread Kent West
Hi All. I'd DEARLY love to get Linux established on my university campus, but one of the stumbling blocks is that one of our major apps is based on an SQLServer 6.5 database running on an NT Server. The clients are all Win95/98/NT based. Is there anyway for me to connect to the SQLServer data usin

users starting with digits?

1998-09-07 Thread Ben Jorgensen
Why shouldn't I create users starting with digits? //Ben -- http://surf.to/anTiX

database

1998-09-07 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, I use access at work for some really simple database work. Is there anything in linux I could start using so i can be using one less app in NT. I know there is nothing real similiar but maybe a little bit alike. Most of the databases i have looked at in linux are very hard to set up and do w

Re: Runs linux on a partition with fat32 and win98

1998-09-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, [iso-8859-1] Bernhard Hödl wrote: > I have win98 with fat32 installed on my pc and I want to know if it is > possible without the formating of the hard disk to install Debian 2.0 Yes. You will need to get the program fips15c.zip. This is on ftp.debian.org in /pub/debian/tool

Runs linux on a partition with fat32 and win98

1998-09-07 Thread Bernhard Hödl
I have win98 with fat32 installed on my pc and I want to know if it is possible without the formating of the hard disk to install Debian 2.0 Thanks!

Re: HELP: More Problems Configuring Email

1998-09-07 Thread Jack Kern
On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 10:33:11AM -0300, Ralph Winslow wrote: > When Art Lemasters wrote, I replied: [...] > wasn't much help. My current state is: > > when I rune fetchmail, it responds: > fetchmail: 36 messages at mail.my_isp.net > reading message 1 of 36 (1732 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP connect

Re: window sizing

1998-09-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Try a variation of these: -~/.xsession or .xinitrc--- default_dir=/home/srivasta userresources=$default_dir/.Xresources if [ -f $userresources ]; then xrdb -merge $userresources fi

jdk 1.5 -> 1.6 incompatibilities? (was Re: ICQ Does Not Match the JDK?)

1998-09-07 Thread Jens Ritter
Art Lemasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm running slink. The JDK available appears to > conflict with the ICQ available. Is this the case, > and if so, is there an update for this on the way? > Thanks. I'm running this here without problems: ii jdk1.1-runtime 1.1.5v5-1 JDK 1.

Re: wmaker 0.19

1998-09-07 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sun, Sep 06, 1998 at 01:20:33AM +, Robert Wilderspin wrote: > 1. As root, run ldconfig. If that fixes it, please report it back to > me. (I *hope* it doesn't fix it) [note: look at the bug-reporting > system to find out who "me" is]

Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-...." to type FontStruct

1998-09-07 Thread jc
Hi! I always get the above warning/error messages when I invoked some applications like Netsape, emacs, acroread... How can I solve this problem? Thank you Joseph

Re: deb for StarOffice 4

1998-09-07 Thread Jens Ritter
David Warnock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have downloaded StarOffice 4. I have not seen a package to install > this (there is one for StarOffice 3.1). > > a) Is there a package somewhere that will install so40sp3_lnx_01.tar.gz AFAIK: no. The installer of SO is rather good (It installs everyt

Re: Commandline FTP

1998-09-07 Thread Jens Ritter
Darren Benham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When looking at the ncftp, I didn't see any place to specify a > command line.. but I didn't look deeply into it. I eventually just > ended up writing a python script (and getting it to work :) In bash: ncftp <

Re: HELP newbie find specific shared libraries

1998-09-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
You probably should get the Debian packages, not the tar files. 1. The easy way (the Debian way): If you download communicator 4.06 (not the glibc version) and put it in /tmp, then use dselect or apt-get to install the netscape4 package, it will examine the dependencies and install all the neces

Re: HELP newbie find specific shared libraries

1998-09-07 Thread servis
*- Albert Hurd wrote about "HELP newbie find specific shared libraries" | Could anyone tell me where to find the following shared libraries (not | just site location, but specific tar files). I need them to hopefully | get Communicator 4.06-4.5 working (they are suggested in release notes) | |

2.0 SCSI_HOSTADATER, st0, Zip, vs depmod ?

1998-09-07 Thread Ken Westerback
When I originally installed Debian 2.0 from CD I could swear that my SCSI tape drive on my ncr53c8xx SCSI host adapter was seen and reported at boot up time. I eventually compiled up a custom kernel and since I never use the tape drive (I mean, what could happen to my files on disk anyway?) I stopp

Re: Audio

1998-09-07 Thread Jens Ritter
Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was going through my .wav file collection, and after a while (250 odd > playings) bplay died reporting there was "no room left on device". I tried > starting quake after this... segfault, like I predicted. DMA allocation > failed. I am nowhere near a

Re: HELP newbie find specific shared libraries

1998-09-07 Thread jdassen
On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 10:16:00AM -0700, Albert Hurd wrote: > Could anyone tell me where to find the following shared libraries (not > just site location, but specific tar files). I need them to hopefully > get Communicator 4.06-4.5 working (they are suggested in release notes) Any particular rea

Re: Virtual Poohsticks

1998-09-07 Thread M.C. Vernon
On 7 Sep 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > *-"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | > | On 7 Sep 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > | > | > Pooh was playing with Piglet, Rabbit and Roo when suddenly a big, grey > | > stick came floating. Upon closer inspection they found out that it was > | > Eeyore that cam

HELP newbie find specific shared libraries

1998-09-07 Thread Albert Hurd
Could anyone tell me where to find the following shared libraries (not just site location, but specific tar files). I need them to hopefully get Communicator 4.06-4.5 working (they are suggested in release notes) libXm.so.1.2.4 libICE.so.6.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: window sizing

1998-09-07 Thread jdassen
On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 11:36:35AM -0500, Kathy Miles wrote: > Hi, hopeing someone can help me. I'm adjusting to using debian linux and > still finding things a challenge. I'm running X and have been using > various windows managers like fvwm95, icewm, and window maker. The problem > is my display

Re: Virtual Poohsticks

1998-09-07 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | On 7 Sep 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: | | > Pooh was playing with Piglet, Rabbit and Roo when suddenly a big, grey | > stick came floating. Upon closer inspection they found out that it was | > Eeyore that came down the stream. He had been bounced into by a ve

Re: chmod help

1998-09-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: : > : > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Default Debian Reader) : > | : > | How can i change the perms on a directory so that a file that is copied into that directory is automatically owned by another user and group? : > [ snip ] : Don't know if anyone m

Error Initializing swap partition on lowmem install

1998-09-07 Thread Tercero
Hello Debian users! I'm hoping you can solve my problem. I am installing debian 2.0 on a 386sx/20. The system has 4Mb RAM w/ a 125Mb HDD, partioned as follows: Partion# Size Type - 1 16M Linux Swap 2 4MMinix/Old Linux 3

can smail change the Envelope?

1998-09-07 Thread Thomas Adams
I usually write email on the Debian box here, for which I installed UUCP and SMail, which works fine. I can change the From: line to whatever I like and my provider still accepts and delivers the emails. So far, so good. But there is a Mac here which communicates with my Linux box via Ethernet a

window sizing

1998-09-07 Thread Kathy Miles
Hi, hopeing someone can help me. I'm adjusting to using debian linux and still finding things a challenge. I'm running X and have been using various windows managers like fvwm95, icewm, and window maker. The problem is my display is 640 x 480 (due to visual impairment on my part) and I can't get wi

Re: Installation problems

1998-09-07 Thread Igor Grobman
Some time around Mon, 07 Sep 1998 03:19:22 EDT, Richard Heller wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having a couple of problems installing Linux on my machine. The problem > s are revolving around two pieces of hardware, my ethernet card and my video > card. > > My ethernet card is a 3com 3c9

Re: Your friends...... whatever.

1998-09-07 Thread Igor Grobman
Some time around Mon, 07 Sep 1998 18:44:35 +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Igor Grobman wrote: > > > Having said that there is one exception to this rule ;-) and that is aol.c > om . > > It has been established that 99.9% of the mail with @aol.com from field ha

ne2k_pci and other Modules question

1998-09-07 Thread Alex Kwan
My Ethernet Card was NE-2000PCI (Realtek RTL-8029) (1) When I install Hamm on my system, The Installation program asked me append command on the Command Line Agruments of ne2k_pci module, If I let it empty, this module installation will failed, also I can't find any inter

Re: xlogmaster

1998-09-07 Thread Arjan Scherpenisse
Ralph Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's rumored that this has been packaged for debian, but I don't see > it when I run dselect (I'm using apt, stable (hamm), main - contrib - > non-free - nonUS). Can anyone provide a clue? TIA I believe it is in unstable distribution (slink) -- Arja

proxy server blues

1998-09-07 Thread Hank Fay
John, thanks very much. I assume you mean in /etc/init.d/network ? I rem'd the last line, and I can now ping from that machine, but not from any of the others who have this set as gateway. Nor FTP, nor HTTP (the other machines are set with this machine as gateway, and the ISP's DNS ser

Re: X is hosed

1998-09-07 Thread M.C. Vernon
> > I stuck my neck out and upgraded X11 to the packages in slink. Just > previous to that I had upgraded wmaker to 0.19.1-1, also new on slink. > At first, wmaker crashed the session. I purged wmaker. > > Now, for some reason I cannot fathom, xdm starts but when a user logs > in, the sessio

X is hosed

1998-09-07 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I stuck my neck out and upgraded X11 to the packages in slink. Just previous to that I had upgraded wmaker to 0.19.1-1, also new on slink. At first, wmaker crashed the session. I purged wmaker. Now, for some reason I cannot fathom, xdm starts but when a user logs in, the session crashes. Roo

RE: hostname lookup failure

1998-09-07 Thread Hank Fay
Perplexing it is. My hosts also has a localhost (set to local machine, 127.0.0.1) -- should that be in there? Now, it happens I have a domain name I can use to put in here, but what would one do if one did not have one? Thanks, Hank -Original Message- From: Lindsay Allen [mailto:[EMAI

Re: wmaker

1998-09-07 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 11:22:13AM -0500, Michael Montz wrote: > Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > > (Before somebody asks: I *am* uploading -- or trying to -- 0.19.1-1 right > > now) > > Has this happen yet? I just checked. wmaker has been installed on slink and it's available on the incoming dire

Re: mutt error

1998-09-07 Thread jdassen
On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 10:54:54PM +1200, Andrew wrote: > when I try to run mutt I get: > Need to be running setgid 0 to lock mailbox! - ensure the mutt binary has the proper permissions: -rwxr-sr-x and ownership: user root, group mail - ensure /var/spool/mail has the proper permissions: drwxrw

Re: X Background

1998-09-07 Thread D. W. Wieboldt
On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 12:45:43PM +, David Warnock wrote: > I am using XFree86 with icewm. The desktop background is a distracting > pattern. So far I clear this (which has sort of difraction patterns at > high res) by using the fishtank application. I am quite a boring person > and wondered h

Re: Problems w/bash upgrading to libreadlineg

1998-09-07 Thread Frank Barknecht
Randy & Marianne Saint hat gesagt: // Randy & Marianne Saint wrote: > Howdy, I think I've really got my Debian Linux system messed up now. Yes, you REALLY did :( > I was trying to upgrade to: bash_2.01.1-3.1.deb, which requires > libreadlineg2 (2.1-10.1). Well, dselect would always fail with an

Re: HELP: More Problems Configuring Email

1998-09-07 Thread Ralph Winslow
When Art Lemasters wrote, I replied: > > Denis, go to the "FAQ-O-MATIC" at the debian site > (www.debian.org), and find the FAQ about SMAIL configuration > for dynamic accounts (you _do_ have a single-user dynamic > account--right?) I have that, but chose sendmail rather than smail, so the FA

Problems w/bash upgrading to libreadlineg

1998-09-07 Thread Randy & Marianne Saint
Howdy, I think I've really got my Debian Linux system messed up now. I was trying to upgrade to: bash_2.01.1-3.1.deb, which requires libreadlineg2 (2.1-10.1). Well, dselect would always fail with an "internal error - filename not found...chunk 16" message. So, I decided to try to install with dpkg

wmaker

1998-09-07 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, Is there anyway in wmaker 0.91-1 to put something like slrn in the dock and assign an icon like news.xpm without changing every other xterm icon to this icon? Thanks Aot -- Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROT

RE: WindowMaker 0.19.1

1998-09-07 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
XRDLAB writes: > Hello, > > I am running hamm. To install the latest windowmaker, > I downloaded the following files for WindowMaker 0.19.1 from > http://master.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages (as was suggested by the > maintainer): > > libproplist0-dev_0.8.1-2.deb > libproplist0_0.8.1-2.

Re: Apple diskettes

1998-09-07 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 01:09:47PM +0200, Blazej Sawionek wrote: > How can I read Apple McIntosh dikettes on a Debian system? Get the hfsutils package. In additon you may look at macutils too. Nils -- *-* | Quotes from th

Re: Segmentation faults

1998-09-07 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > You might want to chech if you have enough memory (if not you may want to > do something about your swap space). Run free when you try and start one > of those 'seggy' programs > After your message I changed taper's memory configuration and at first it see

Apple diskettes

1998-09-07 Thread Blazej Sawionek
How can I read Apple McIntosh dikettes on a Debian system? Blazej

Re: X App Launcher?

1998-09-07 Thread Frank Barknecht
David Warnock hat gesagt: // David Warnock wrote: > Hi, > > I am using XFree86 (the suse one that supports Permedia 2 cards). I am > currently using icewm as my window manager. > > I am looking for an application launcher that will sit on my desktop and > provide direct access to applications.

Re: Fonts for Gimp

1998-09-07 Thread Frank Barknecht
Chris Hoover hat gesagt: // Chris Hoover wrote: > Thanks for the help. I went and installed both of these font packages, > but it did not seem to solve the problem. I still seem to be missing > the fonts that gimp wants to run many of the xtns. Especially the ones > under script-fu. Is anyone else

Re: Virtual Poohsticks

1998-09-07 Thread M.C. Vernon
On 7 Sep 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > *-Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | > | On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Thomas Adams wrote: > | > | > On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 05:17:04PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: > | > > | > > Does anyone know of any virtual poohsticks software, or is > anyone > | > > wo

Re: Virtual Poohsticks

1998-09-07 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Thomas Adams wrote: | | > On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 05:17:04PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: | > | > > Does anyone know of any virtual poohsticks software, or is anyone | > > working on some at the moment? | > | > What is a virtual poohst

psfixbb in Debian?

1998-09-07 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi Is there psfixbb (the program for fixing of bounding box in postscript) available in any debian package? TIA Wojtek Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Virtual Poohsticks

1998-09-07 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Thomas Adams wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 05:17:04PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > > > Does anyone know of any virtual poohsticks software, or is anyone > > > working on some at the moment? > > > > What is a virtual po

Audio

1998-09-07 Thread Michael Beattie
I was going through my .wav file collection, and after a while (250 odd playings) bplay died reporting there was "no room left on device". I tried starting quake after this... segfault, like I predicted. DMA allocation failed. I am nowhere near a sound guru, but this does not seem right, I mean qu

Re: chmod help

1998-09-07 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Default Debian Reader) > | > | How can i change the perms on a directory so that a file that is copied > into that directory is automatically owned by another user and group? > > You can't. Two suggestions: > > * Use chown -R to change ownership of all files i a directory

TEXINPUTS ?

1998-09-07 Thread Remo Badii
Dear Debian TeX/LaTeX users, I have just installed the revtex library under $HOME/tex/sty/revtex, as in my previous Linux system (2 years old, S.u.S.E. 4.2), under Debian 2.0. Although I have set the variable TEXINPUTS to include $HOME/tex/sty and $HOME/tex/sty/revtex, the system finds a file /usr

Re: chmod help

1998-09-07 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Default Debian Reader) | | How can i change the perms on a directory so that a file that is copied into that directory is automatically owned by another user and group? You can't. Two suggestions: * Use chown -R to change ownership of all files i a directory * Write a shell fu

Installation problems

1998-09-07 Thread Richard Heller
Hi, I'm having a couple of problems installing Linux on my machine. The problems are revolving around two pieces of hardware, my ethernet card and my video card. My ethernet card is a 3com 3c905TX card. During the boot messages, the card appears to be correctly detected, however I don't seem

quota

1998-09-07 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Hi all, I have a problem related to quota: I have just compiled the kernel for quota support and changed the fstab in that way: 1. /dev/hda4 / ext2 defaults,usrquota,grpquota,errors=remount-ro 0 1 2. /dev/hda4 / ext2 defaults,usrquota,errors=remount-ro 0 1 when I used the number 1. I found a fi

Re: debian 2.0 stable?

1998-09-07 Thread M.C. Vernon
> I've just read some postings complaining that their systems crash too > often with debian 2.0 > > Is debian 2.0 stable or should I stick with 1.3? The machine serves > e-mail and web services for about 300 people... pick:~$ w 8:43am up 79 days, 12:09, 1 user, load average: 0.0

Re: Whats the best Dist?

1998-09-07 Thread M.C. Vernon
> Hi all, > I am currently wondering what the best distribution of linux to get next > would be, as i am a big fan of S.u.S.E. , RH and Debian > > I am looking for most advanced, and biggest. Hmm - I'm sure you'll get lots of balence opinions round here ;) I think Debian is the best, because (e

Re: My system too often freezes

1998-09-07 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, PJ Barbera wrote: > May be it is just getting hot ? > Are you using at least the biggest meanest CPU > cooler you > could find ? > I run a Cyrix 166 and 233 and don't have any > problems. I use set6x86, and it has caused no problems for me. Like Peter said, make sure you have

Re: running root X programs

1998-09-07 Thread M.C. Vernon
> > I know this has been addressed before, I've tried searching the archives > for it, but without success. > > How do you run an X program as root whilst still in a user X session? > > Use either fakeroot, or run su in an xterm, and then launch apps in the background: su /usr/sbin/some_n

Re: Virtual Poohsticks

1998-09-07 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Thomas Adams wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 05:17:04PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > Does anyone know of any virtual poohsticks software, or is anyone > > working on some at the moment? > > What is a virtual poohstick?? I might be way off the beaten path here, but is

Re: Your friends...... whatever.

1998-09-07 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Igor Grobman wrote: > Some time around Thu, 03 Sep 1998 14:37:55 +1200, > Michael Beattie wrote: > > > > Isnt that a valid reason to filter out @hotmail.com, @lycos.com etc? > > I am the debian anti-spam person, and I don't like to blanketly filter on > from

Re: X Windows

1998-09-07 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Ken Westerback wrote: > 1. ... don't know (I'm still using dselect, haven't tried apt) Apt is good, and it is (apparently) the future to package installation, and It will (as I understand) have an X interface.. but it is still in the pipeline. > 3. ... haven't played with it

Re: My system too often freezes

1998-09-07 Thread PJ Barbera
May be it is just getting hot ? Are you using at least the biggest meanest CPU cooler you could find ? I run a Cyrix 166 and 233 and don't have any problems. Peter Barbera Eric Jacoboni wrote: > > Hi, > > I've a Cyrix P166+ with 96 EDO Ram on an Asus motherboard > PI55T2P4C and a Matrox Milleni

Re: Exim questions

1998-09-07 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Warnock) wrote: >Thanks, I am looking at the docs now. There are a lot! Yep. Exim is one of the rare programs, where you don't have to less documentation, but actually are a bit scared by the sheer mass of it ;-) But it is written well and

Re: How to use different domain in Exim

1998-09-07 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Chew) wrote: >My domain is foo.com and I want to send mail as [EMAIL PROTECTED] >I use the -f option to set the From: field. Uh - -f set's the _sender_, not the From: field (it set's the "from" in the envelope). For setting the From:-field,

CRC- Algorthim Details

1998-09-07 Thread isgindia
Hello ! This is sivakumar! When I was in search mode for CRC encoding/decoding , I found your address. Can you please mail me the above details ? Thank you! Sivakuamar. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

WindowMaker 0.19.1

1998-09-07 Thread XRDLAB
Hello, I am running hamm. To install the latest windowmaker, I downloaded the following files for WindowMaker 0.19.1 from http://master.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages (as was suggested by the maintainer): libproplist0-dev_0.8.1-2.deb libproplist0_0.8.1-2.deb libwings-dev_0.19.1-1_i386.deb libwmak

Re: g++ Is Fine. I Was Wrong

1998-09-07 Thread Art Lemasters
Yes, g++ works just fine. Please disregard my previous messages on this and sorry for the clutter. Art On Sun, Sep 06, 1998 at 04:00:04PM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: > Thanks to Alan Su and Marcus Brinkman for correcting > me in regards to g++. I did not have it installed on this > syst

Re: HELP: More Problems Configuring Email

1998-09-07 Thread Art Lemasters
Denis, go to the "FAQ-O-MATIC" at the debian site (www.debian.org), and find the FAQ about SMAIL configuration for dynamic accounts (you _do_ have a single-user dynamic account--right?) And if you have a dynamic IP account, also change the visible name to your ISP's domain name (for exampl

Re: Intel Pro 10/100 PCI ethernet adapter

1998-09-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
It would appear so. >From 'make menuconfig': < > Intel EtherExpressPro PCI 10+/100B/100+ support On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Bruce Jackson wrote: > Does this adapter work with Linux 2.0.35? > > -- > Bruce Jackson > > Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades! > > > -- >

Re: Intel Pro 10/100 PCI ethernet adapter

1998-09-07 Thread justin honold
On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Bruce Jackson wrote: > Does this adapter work with Linux 2.0.35? > > -- > Bruce Jackson > > Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades! > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > yes. running one fine here.

Re: Backspace in xterm (again)

1998-09-07 Thread A. M. Varon
On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Joost Witteveen wrote: > I upgraded my system yesterday (OK to slink, but it appears the same problem > is present in hamm), and now my bacspace generates an delete again. > (in an xterm that is. Emacs (X11) and VC are OK) > > I already asked this question once, but I seem to

HELP: More Problems Configuring Email

1998-09-07 Thread DMDP
Okay ... I have uninstalled SENDMAIL and reinstall SMAIL. I can send e-mail, however I cannot recieve e-mail. When I send it, the Return-Path line on the e-mail reads . In my SMAIL config file, I have changed the visible name to my full e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED], and change the hostdoma

Intel Pro 10/100 PCI ethernet adapter

1998-09-07 Thread Bruce Jackson
Does this adapter work with Linux 2.0.35? -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!

kernel problems

1998-09-07 Thread Default Debian Reader
Perhaps this isn't the proper list to send kernel problems to but I not sure where else to post it. Anyways, I have never been able to properly make a kernel...i dloaded the kernel-source kernel-headers .deb packages and then did unpack them...it created a kernel-sources and headers dir in my /us

Re: Backspace in xterm (again)

1998-09-07 Thread Jeremy Hinegardner
I had the same problem, I found a solution, it may not be the best solution but it works for me. I used xmodmap to make the backspace key work in the way you want. check your keymap table for X (xmodmap -pke). If BackSpace is not in it then add it using the command (xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = BackS

Re: ppp connection with Demon

1998-09-07 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Tom Bowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Incidentally it's not just receiving and sending data that is > slow. There is also a 20-30 second delay between sending the modem > initialisation (and phone number for that matter) strings and > getting any response. Could it be something to do with the s

Re: using debian passwords in NT.

1998-09-07 Thread Rainer Clasen
Pere Camps ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Does anybody know of a way of making winNT use the usernames and the > passwords of a debian machine? Maybe you can try NISGINA. It appears to turn your NT box into a NIS client. Can't tell more - I've never got to use it. Try this URL, I don't know if its

chmod help

1998-09-07 Thread Default Debian Reader
How can i change the perms on a directory so that a file that is copied into that directory is automatically owned by another user and group?