Re: wwwoffle - how do I use it?

1998-09-27 Thread Carl Fink
Note: copied to original poster and the list. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I do not understand how wwwofle works. When online I try to go to a >specific site on the web (using lynx), I get the message "wwwofle will >get". That is nice for reading ofline, but how do

misc. printer question

1998-09-27 Thread Fred Yankowski
Paul McDermott writes: > I have a couple of questions about the hp deskjet 890c. First does > magicfiler have a filter for this particular printer (or anyother > filter) Can I get the "printer command language" (pcl 3) code to > make a filter. I just set up my HP Deskjet 870Cse. Magicfilter

modem problems

1998-09-27 Thread Tracheotomy Bob
I am damned if I can get my modem to work under linux. Here's the general situation. While I installed from the floppies and selected to do an ftp install, the modem seemed to work. I say seemed because I was having problems with it under Windows 98 that have now been resolved. However on the lates

XEmacs on laptop BEEPING

1998-09-27 Thread Wayne Cuddy
I have xemacs20.x loaded on my Toshiba laptop. Everything seems to be working fine except when I move the mouse over the button bar. There is an error that appears on the bottom line that says "can't instantiate image" and the thing beeps like crazy while I move the mouse over the button bar. Ha

Configuring mail in DNS

1998-09-27 Thread Tomas Petersson
Hello, I have a my Linux box connected to the LAN in the office I work in. I have entered it into the DNS and everything works fine except mail. All mails sent to my Linux box as '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' winds up in the company's mailserver where an error is generated. How do I configure DNS so that ma

Re: wmppp and ISDN

1998-09-27 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: 27 Sep 1998 12:34:17 +0200 Torsten Hilbrich writes: > Does anybody managed to get the following behavior? > > - if I press the checkmark, I want the yellow light to appear to > indicate, that my connection is in dial-on-demand state (i.e., the > default route is set to ippp0 and the inter

Re: wwwoffle - how do I use it?

1998-09-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JS" == Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JS> I do not understand how wwwofle works. When online I try to go to a JS> specific site on the web (using lynx), I get the message "wwwofle will JS> get". That is nice for reading ofline, but how do I go the site directly? wwwoffle knows a

Re: wwwoffle - how do I use it?

1998-09-27 Thread dsb3
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Johann Spies wrote: >Hallo, > >I do not understand how wwwofle works. When online I try to go to a >specific site on the web (using lynx), I get the message "wwwofle will >get". That is nice for reading ofline, but how do I go the site directly? > It appears you have your h

wwwoffle - how do I use it?

1998-09-27 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, I do not understand how wwwofle works. When online I try to go to a specific site on the web (using lynx), I get the message "wwwofle will get". That is nice for reading ofline, but how do I go the site directly? Johann --

Solved [Re: Problem with communicator]

1998-09-27 Thread Christopher Fury
> Have you installed libc5 or libc6 (glibc2) version of 4.06 ? > > If libc5 one then you need to install all the libc5 compatibility libraries > (xlib6 package, in addition to xlib6g package). Okay, I'm an idiot. :) I've found a glibc2 version. Thanks, Alex. :)

Re: Problem with communicator

1998-09-27 Thread aqy6633
> I'm currently running communicator v4.5b1, but it's buggy and I'd like > to move > to pr2 or back to 4.06... > > However, when I try to install either of these I get "netscape: can't > load library 'libXt.so.6'" I have that library, but communicator won't > see it. v4.5b1 runs > fine. > > Any

wmppp and ISDN

1998-09-27 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
I currently investigating into using wmppp together with the isdnutils package that comes with debian. I use the following rcfile: speed: /usr/local/bin/getmodemspeed start: /home/torsten/bin/isdnon stop: /usr/local/bin/isdnoff ifdown: /usr/local/bin/isdnon isdnon and isdnoff puts the ipppd in d

Problem with communicator

1998-09-27 Thread Christopher Fury
I'm currently running communicator v4.5b1, but it's buggy and I'd like to move to pr2 or back to 4.06... However, when I try to install either of these I get "netscape: can't load library 'libXt.so.6'" I have that library, but communicator won't see it. v4.5b1 runs fine. Any ideas?

Re: wrong From: and/or Return-Path:

1998-09-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "HMG" == Horacio Menezo Ganau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: HMG> The problem is with the stuff you sent... I get an "/etc/smail/transports HMG> unexpected end of string" message. OTH, am I supposed to rewrite smtp, or HMG> just add the smtp-remap? and... agr30... is that a variable or a consta

instructions for setting up Wacom ArtPad?

1998-09-27 Thread Eric House
I've borrowed a Wacom Artpad for use with the Gimp (1.0) on bo. But all the searches I've tried for information on configuring my system to use the tablet have turned up nothing. Surely there's an article or HOWTO or FAQ on the subject. Pointers please! Thanks, --Eric House PS I've ordered ha

Re: wrong From: and/or Return-Path:

1998-09-27 Thread Horacio Menezo Ganau
echo "Reply-To: Horacio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL39 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1576 Martin Bialasinski dixit: > > > [Headerrewriting with smail] > > Well, I send it to the l

RE: PON dials out, but PPP connection dropped

1998-09-27 Thread dsb3
On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, David Karlin wrote: > >I have attached some of some related files. Also, this computer is on >a LAN (in case that makes any difference). > as a non modem related issue, since the linux host is already on a LAN it quite possibly has a default route established. it could be t

Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wojciech Zabolotny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi >There was a lot of noise about the y2k problem in old COBOL and M$ >applications, but what about the "Y2K+38 disaster" in the POSIX world? >I was pretty sure that the new libc6 library implements 64 bit time_t, It's

Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-27 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Sun, Sep 27, 1998 at 02:55:08PM +0200, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > Hi > There was a lot of noise about the y2k problem in old COBOL and M$ > applications, but what about the "Y2K+38 disaster" in the POSIX world? > I was pretty sure that the new libc6 library implements 64 bit time_t, > but just

Re: X-Win S3 setting error

1998-09-27 Thread Anatol Quabach
>Yes. Here is my /etc/X11/Xserver file for reference: > > /usr/bin/X11/XF86_S3 > Console Yup, works. Thanks. Anatol -- Anatol Quabach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Keys - RSA: 0x7D6E8B8D - DH/DSS: 0x733A542C

Re: PON dials out, but PPP connection dropped

1998-09-27 Thread Daniel Martin
David Karlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > I've been messing around with Debian/Linux for about 3 months now. I > recently acquired a modem for my hamm box and am trying to set up my > system for a ppp/pap connection. > > I have run pppconfig, and now when I do "pon", the system waits a

Re: wrong From: and/or Return-Path:

1998-09-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "HMG" == Horacio Menezo Ganau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [Headerrewriting with smail] HMG> Please, send any answers to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" since I don't think a HMG> reply to this message will work (in fact, if I try to make a reply to any of Well, I send it to the list. Shouldn't be a pro

Defualt X fonts

1998-09-27 Thread Oz Dror
Hi I have a 21" monitor at 1600x1200 resolution. the default fonts on various X clients is too small to read. Is there a way to make it larger as in win95 when selecting large v.s. small font. I use a default 100 dpi directory. thanks Oz Dror -- <

Segmentation Faults

1998-09-27 Thread Mike Acklin
Sorry to bother everyone here, but I have been getting a lot of segmentation faults lately and I was wondering what causes them. I think I have heard on this list before that it is causes by bad memory chips and just wanted to verify this. Also have been getting general protectio

Re: misc. printer question

1998-09-27 Thread mwb
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Paul McDermott wrote: > Hello everyone, thanks to everyone who helped with my ppp questions. I > have a couple of questions about the hp deskjet 890c. First does > magicfiler have a filter for this particular printer (or anyother filter) > Can I get the "printer command lang

wrong From: and/or Return-Path:

1998-09-27 Thread Horacio Menezo Ganau
Hi there, I recently had ppp, smail, and fetchmail configured for the first time ever. Everything seems to be working fine except for a few details. One such is the fact that the "From:" line in my outbound messages appeard as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (my email address is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"). Then

Re: Debian Installation Problem

1998-09-27 Thread Bruce Walzer
On Sun, Sep 27, 1998 at 10:59:06AM +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > Stefan, > > On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 02:54:32 +, Stefan D. Schwarz wrote: > > >I guess the Debian Installation program that lets you select the > >selections is located somewhere on my system, so I simply have to start > >i

Flicking in xterms when using vi

1998-09-27 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
Hi guys, Sorry for asking the same question again.. when I use vi in an xterm, and when I reached the EOF, my xterm started flicking. Someone kindly advised me to set the visual bell off. So I used the command xterm +vb +mb, but it does not work. I then edited my

Re: SB16 PnP

1998-09-27 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 21:55:01 +1000 (EST), Shao Ying Zhang wrote: >Could anyone tell me where I did wrong? Well, you DID do a "make modules", did you? A "make zImage" or "make zlilo" JUST gets you a new kernel!! -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-

Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-27 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi There was a lot of noise about the y2k problem in old COBOL and M$ applications, but what about the "Y2K+38 disaster" in the POSIX world? I was pretty sure that the new libc6 library implements 64 bit time_t, but just yesterday, during the testing of my new application I've stated, that when I e

SB32 PnP & Midi

1998-09-27 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
Hi all, I finally managed to insert the sound module. Now I have another problem, and I never get it work under redhat before. After recompile the sound kernel as a module and installed isapnp tools, now wave and cd is working fine. But midi is not working. I trie

mdutils

1998-09-27 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Forget about it. It was a silly mistake on my part. Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Ratio Regum 2:343/108.91 - _`\<;_mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available --- (_)/ (_) http://casal.upc.es/~pere/

Re: SB16 PnP

1998-09-27 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 20:46:10 +1000 (EST), Shao Ying Zhang wrote: > > > I rebooted with the new kernel and everything seems fine. > > Did you do a "make modules_install"? virge:/usr/src/linux# make modules_install ls: *.o: No such file

Re: SB16 PnP

1998-09-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "SYZ" == Shao Ying Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [compiling a kernel] Hi, save yourself much trouble and do it the debian way. Install the package kernel-package (it is in admin or misc) and read /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz You may also have to install the fakeroot package if you

Re: Question about installing the non-free pakages

1998-09-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "CMW" == Chan Min Wai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CMW> How to install this pakages and all the other pakages with .deb dpkg -i package.deb Ciao, Martin

Re: Debian Installation Problem

1998-09-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "RB" == Ralf G R Bergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RB> On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 11:21:12 +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: >> Debian is harder to install then other distribution. RB> Hear, hear. And I thought it's only "idiots" who fail installing it :-} No. But Debian is not for people who ha

Re: Debian Installation Problem

1998-09-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "RB" == Ralf G R Bergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RB> Did YOU make it past this filter? In this case you probably can easily answer how RB> to make dselect aware of BOTH "main" and "contrib" (or even "non-free"), can't RB> you??? I think so. What medium do you use? FTP, NFS, CDROM? Wit

Re: SB16 PnP

1998-09-27 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 20:46:10 +1000 (EST), Shao Ying Zhang wrote: > > > I rebooted with the new kernel and everything seems fine. > > Did you do a "make modules_install"? > > > virge:/usr/src# insmod sound > >insmod: sound: no module

Re: Debian Installation Problem

1998-09-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Sep 27, 1998 at 10:59:06AM +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > Myself I'm very fed up with it. I'm a Linux user since 1991, and Hamm is my > first > contact with a distribution other than SLS/Slackware. I had to face a load of > problems since I installed Debian, and I'm really considering

Re: Debian Installation Problem

1998-09-27 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 11:26:00 +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: >>> "RGRB" == Ralf G R Bergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >RGRB> Sorry for these harsh words, but if there is something that must be >idiot proof >RGRB> it's the installation system. > >Maybe it is a selection filter to prevent us f

Re: Debian Installation Problem

1998-09-27 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 11:21:12 +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: >Debian is harder to install then other distribution. Hear, hear. And I thought it's only "idiots" who fail installing it :-} -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-8

Re: SB16 PnP

1998-09-27 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 20:46:10 +1000 (EST), Shao Ying Zhang wrote: > I rebooted with the new kernel and everything seems fine. Did you do a "make modules_install"? > virge:/usr/src# insmod sound >insmod: sound: no module by that name found Try "insmod /lib/modules/...", i.e. u

mail redirection ...

1998-09-27 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, I'd an POP3 mail server which is always online to receive my email. Meanwhile I also had an static IP. I would like to receive mail to my static IP even when I'm not online! Is there any program !? If I'm not online and send a email to my static IP, it can't not receive, as you know. Is

Question about installing the non-free pakages

1998-09-27 Thread Chan Min Wai
I want to install Kde from my contribe CD and the dselece said iit need the qtd1 so I look for it in the non-free site and then downloaded it. Now I have one question. How to install this pakages and all the other pakages with .deb Thank you.

Re: X-Win S3 setting error

1998-09-27 Thread Chan Min Wai
Thank all I have solved the problem and I now have another question How to set the resolution (physical and virtual) I want to set it to 800 x 600 16 bit color and don't want the virtual setting Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > On: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 02:52:56 -0400 Anatol Quabach writes: > > > > On 26.09

SB16 PnP

1998-09-27 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
Hi all, I just recompiled the kernel, and included sound as a module. I rebooted with the new kernel and everything seems fine. I then use isapnp tools to generate a isapnp.conf. But when I try to test my sound card, I got the following error: vir

Re: Problem apache - postgres

1998-09-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Sep 27, 1998 at 11:38:18AM +0200, Allan Jacobsen wrote: > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > If you're having this problem trying to use www-pgsql, you can change > > your connect command to > > Well, as I am trying to use php3 with postgresql > it is not a bug in www-pgsql. > I will try to get it

Re: Error when recompile the kernel

1998-09-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "SYZ" == Shao Ying Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SYZ> So what package do I need to get this as86?? Or can I just link as SYZ> to as86?? The package is bin86 Ciao, Martin

Error when recompile the kernel

1998-09-27 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
Hi all, I have got the following error when recompile the kernel, could anyone help me out please?? make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/arch/i386/boot' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/include -E -D__ELF__ -traditional -DSVGA_MODE=NORMAL_VGA bootsect

Re: Problem apache - postgres

1998-09-27 Thread Allan Jacobsen
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 11:39:15AM +0200, Allan Jacobsen wrote: > > Apache runs as user www-data, so to be able to > > access postgresql I wanted to create a postgres > > user "www-data", but createuser says "illegal > > character in user name". > > Does anyone know an ea

Re: Debian Installation Problem

1998-09-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "RGRB" == Ralf G R Bergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RGRB> Sorry for these harsh words, but if there is something that must be idiot proof RGRB> it's the installation system. Maybe it is a selection filter to prevent us from users who don't know where RETURN is or what the dselect HOWTO is

Re: Debian Installation Problem

1998-09-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "SDS" == Stefan D Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SDS> Afterwards "dselect" came up and I had to exit it. Now I'm sitting on my SDS> new system without being able to install the other stuff... :-/ dselect is the debian package selection tool. But it is not the one you can chose the presel

Re: X-Win S3 setting error

1998-09-27 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 02:52:56 -0400 Anatol Quabach writes: > > On 26.09.1998, at 14:37, Michael Beattie wrote: >> Edit /etc/X11/Xserver, and set the first line to the location of > XF86_S3, >> like so: >> >> /usr/bin/X11/XF86_S3 >> >> This should have been done by the xserver-s3 package's insta

Re: Debian Installation Problem

1998-09-27 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Stefan, On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 02:54:32 +, Stefan D. Schwarz wrote: >I guess the Debian Installation program that lets you select the >selections is located somewhere on my system, so I simply have to start >it again and pick the proper choice this time - I've been searching for >it, couldn't f

Re: PON dials out, but PPP connection dropped

1998-09-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "DK" == David Karlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DK> "" AT&F&C1&D2 DK> OK ATDT9494614 DK> CONNECT \d\c Change the last line to CONNECT without the \d\c Ciao, Martin

Re: misc. printer question

1998-09-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Paul McDermott wrote: > Hello everyone, thanks to everyone who helped with my ppp questions. I > have a couple of questions about the hp deskjet 890c. First does > magicfiler have a filter for this particular printer (or anyother filter) > Can I get the "printer command lang

RE: cheapbytes debian 2.0 installation problems

1998-09-27 Thread Cristov Russell
I found this a little confusing myself the first time. If you ordered the 4 disc set as I did, the Binary CD only has the main packages. The non-free and contrib packages are on the Extras 1 & 2. I would suggest starting from scratch and only select the base and package and let dselect install th

misc. printer question

1998-09-27 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everyone, thanks to everyone who helped with my ppp questions. I have a couple of questions about the hp deskjet 890c. First does magicfiler have a filter for this particular printer (or anyother filter) Can I get the "printer command language" (pcl 3) code to make a filter. Any help would

PostgreSQL with JDBC

1998-09-27 Thread Richard Heller
Hi, I want to write some Java database stuff using postgresql. Are there any simple examples laying around somewhere I could look at to see how it's done? Thanks, Rich

PageUp/Dn doesn't work

1998-09-27 Thread Jimen Ching
Hi all, The page up and down keys don't work in netscape and nedit. I'm using the stock Debian 2.0 release. Anyone else have this problem? Note, these keys work fine in xterm. So I know X is working ok. How do I get netscape and nedit to work? --jc -- Jimen Ching (WH6BRR) [EMAIL

Re: kernel 2.0.35

1998-09-27 Thread Tony Schonfeld
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Tony Schonfeld wrote: > > > Many thanks at all for the reply but another minor problem for me > > i want to install kde and can't found qtg1 ??? > > Tony, > > It's qt1g, not qtg1 and it is in non-free/libs thanks bob ! tony > >

Debian Installation Problem

1998-09-27 Thread Stefan D. Schwarz
Help! I just installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 on my new machine, but unfortunately I made a silly mistake: When the installation menu is displayed after rebooting the system, one can select a preset selection of packages to be installed with "dselect". I was going to choose "Dialup" to automatically

Re: printer advice

1998-09-27 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I am using an HP laser jet III that I got from a used computer store for $225. It was a reconditioned unit. Works great with ghostscript and magicfilter. For about $100 more I could have got the IIID version which prints on both sides of the paper (too bad, I wish I got a IIID before the last ba

RE: PON dials out, but PPP connection dropped

1998-09-27 Thread David Karlin
Hello, I've been messing around with Debian/Linux for about 3 months now. I recently acquired a modem for my hamm box and am trying to set up my system for a ppp/pap connection. I have run pppconfig, and now when I do "pon", the system waits about 1/2 minute, and dials the ISP's number. After th

rlogin as root

1998-09-27 Thread Wayne Cuddy
I have two debian hamm systems networked in my house. I want to use rlogin as root go access both machines. I also need this ability to use rmt so that I can do remote backups, this also requires rlogin authentication. I am trying to do it the simple way using the .rhosts file. I have removed t

Aztec PCI 338-A3D sound card

1998-09-27 Thread Richard Heller
Has anybody gotten this card to work? Thanks, Rich

Can't boot

1998-09-27 Thread Jim Foltz
Hello, After a communicator 4 crash, I hit the reset button because the pc was locked up and the drive was grinding away. I know this is bad but what else could I do? Anyway, when booting up I get messages logged to the console saying thngs like: can't create file: /var/lock/... read-only filesys