Free debugger that can do source debugging without executable.

1998-09-29 Thread Christopher Barry
Hi, Is there a debugger or a way to get ddd to load and interpret a C source file and step through it a step at a time without requiring the debug-symbol compiled executable? I seem to remember doing something like this a long time ago with one of Borland's IDEs, but I might be mistaken. Thanks,

RE: X server problems

1998-09-29 Thread Braden N. McDaniel
> -Original Message- > From: Fredrik Ax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 1998 8:42 AM > To: Braden N. McDaniel > Cc: Debian User Mailing List > Subject: Re: X server problems > You must install the VGA server in order to use it. > > dpkg -i dists/stable/main/binary-

Re: rc3.d

1998-09-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "DDR" == Default Debian Reader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DDR> I want ppp to start at boot time so I made a script that does has the DDR> following lines [...] Why don't you just touch /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot ? See /etc/init.d/ppp Ciao, Martin

Re: printcap rerouted filter

1998-09-29 Thread Jim Foltz
On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 04:41:06PM +, Kent West wrote: > Maybe I just don't understand how printcap/lpc/filters work (very > likely). > > I've got a printcap entry like this: > > beeper:\ > :if=/etc/magicfilter/beeper-filter:\ > :lp=/dev/null:\ > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/beeper:\

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

1998-09-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "RC" == Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [smail setup] What is the problem with this? RC> Also, I use fetchmail and Pine to read my mail. Fetchmail connects, and RC> retrieves my mail - RC> I have verbose set, so I know it connects and transfers messages, and I RC> have the keep option

Re: rc3.d

1998-09-29 Thread Mike Acklin
Just rename the file in /etc/ppp/no_ppp_on_boot to ppp_on_boot Mike Acklin Debian User On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 05:22:32PM -0500, Default Debian Reader wrote: > I want ppp to start at boot time so I made a script that does has the > following lines > #!/bin/sh > pon MY_ISP > i saved this file t

Re: rc3.d

1998-09-29 Thread Kent West
Default Debian Reader wrote: > > I want ppp to start at boot time so I made a script that does has the > following lines > #!/bin/sh > pon MY_ISP > i saved this file to /etc/init.d/pppstuff* > then in /etc/rc3.d/ i did ln -s /etc/init.d/pppstuff /etc/rc3.d/S20pppon > this doesn't start my ppp conn

rc3.d

1998-09-29 Thread Default Debian Reader
I want ppp to start at boot time so I made a script that does has the following lines #!/bin/sh pon MY_ISP i saved this file to /etc/init.d/pppstuff* then in /etc/rc3.d/ i did ln -s /etc/init.d/pppstuff /etc/rc3.d/S20pppon this doesn't start my ppp connection at boot..why not? can anyone help me

Re: install debian

1998-09-29 Thread Kendall P. Bullen
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Zheng Wang wrote: > Did someone successfully install Debian on Dell's workstation? I get > trouble in doing that. I try to install from the hard disk. When I run > install, it give me the following information: I had no problems installing on Dell. I booted to a diskette wit

Re: install debian

1998-09-29 Thread Jack Kern
On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 02:01:24PM -0700, Zheng Wang wrote: > Hi, > Did someone successfully install Debian on Dell's workstation? I get > trouble in doing that. I try to install from the hard disk. When I run > install, it give me the following information: > > D:\>loadlin linux root=/dev/ram ini

printcap rerouted filter

1998-09-29 Thread Kent West
Maybe I just don't understand how printcap/lpc/filters work (very likely). I've got a printcap entry like this: beeper:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/beeper-filter:\ :lp=/dev/null:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/beeper:\ I've got a filter named beeper-filter that looks like this: #!/usr/bin

Re: PPP Connection Speed

1998-09-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "SYZ" == Shao Ying Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Geez, why does your mailer fill your line with whitespace until they are 100 chars wide... But back to your question about low connection speed in debian. 1. If yu have a Pentium (-> fast serial port) and at least a 28.800 modem, check if

install debian

1998-09-29 Thread Zheng Wang
Hi, Did someone successfully install Debian on Dell's workstation? I get trouble in doing that. I try to install from the hard disk. When I run install, it give me the following information: D:\>loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin LOADLIN v1.6 (C) 1994..1996 Hans Lermen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Routing

1998-09-29 Thread Wayne Cuddy
I think this would be easier if you have the Debian machine connect to the internet. Right now if the 98 machine receives a request for services (telnet) it will think the client what to speak to itself and deny the request, which is the correct behavior. Since the internal network numbers you ar

Re: Vi problem!

1998-09-29 Thread count zero
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: > Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 20:32:10 +1000 (EST) > From: Shao Ying Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: question > Subject: Vi problem! > Resent-Date: 29 Sep 1998 10:32:21 - > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Resent-cc: recipient.list.not.sho

Re: Test

1998-09-29 Thread Kent West
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 08:16:22PM +, Kent West wrote: > > I'm wondering if I've been dropped from the list. I haven't seen any > > messages in a while, even those I've posted. Could someone reply to to > > this message (to me) if this message makes it to the list?

Re: PPP Connection Speed

1998-09-29 Thread john
dave writes: > does redhat have bsdcompression turned on, and debian not? Debian does not have either bsdcomp or deflate in the distributed options file. However, I believe that pppd will agree to either if the other end offers it. Perhaps his isp is not offering compression: try putting 'bsdcom

Re: Test

1998-09-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: : On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 08:16:22PM +, Kent West wrote: : > I'm wondering if I've been dropped from the list. I haven't seen any : > messages in a while, even those I've posted. Could someone reply to to : > this message (to me) if this message

Re: Routing

1998-09-29 Thread Collin Rose
I have 3 computers, Windows 98, Windows 95, and Debian Linux 2.0. They are all connected through a coax network. My Windows 98 computer connects to the internet. When some when sends for instance a telnet request (port 23) to Windows 98 over the internet (local net address 192.168.1.2) I want the r

PS/VaulePoint Problem

1998-09-29 Thread Cap'n Fred
At the moment I am not able to install debian or any other linux distribution on my computer. I believe that this problem is do to my scsi hard drive, it is a AHA 2840VL, or maybe not. It sees the hard drive but the kernel panics and that is where it stops. I never get to the pretty ansi screens

Re: DEB vs RPM

1998-09-29 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 16:36:25 +0200 jdassen writes: > The .deb count is probably somewhere in the 2000-2500 range > (calculate from debian/dists/unstable/*/binary-i386/Packages.gz for > precise numbers). I just counted 2479 in unstable main, contrib, non-free, non-US. Torsten

Re: Test

1998-09-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 08:16:22PM +, Kent West wrote: > I'm wondering if I've been dropped from the list. I haven't seen any > messages in a while, even those I've posted. Could someone reply to to > this message (to me) if this message makes it to the list? Hello Kent, maybe you had bounced

Re: Routing

1998-09-29 Thread Wayne Cuddy
It is difficult to answer this question until you explain you network setup in more detail... What is external? How are you connected? What are you network addresses? In general, yes this is possible. On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Collin Rose wrote: > Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 14:46:41 -0400 > From: Colli

Re: Moniter screen is wavy.

1998-09-29 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> Stupid answer try moving the monitor and see if anything changes. > You can get a video cable extension cord if necessary. Try plugging > the monitor into a different outlet, could be a power problem (like > having the monitor on the same line as a motorized appliance for > example). If th

nfs & "mount: RPC: Program not registered"

1998-09-29 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
When I try to mount an nfs export, I get the message: mount: RPC: Program not registered for example, something like mount eyry.econ.iastate.edu:/mountabledirectory mountpoint -t nfs yields this result. I don't see anything in the manpages or /usr/doc that's useful here. rick --

Re: How do I get exim to work?

1998-09-29 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> Isn't there a howto on how to set up a single pc with a dialup connection >> to an ISP using exim, fetchmail and procmail? I know I do not need >> procmail if I use exim, but then I have to understand how exim works and I >> cannot get it working for a basic system. I have fetchmail feeding

Routing

1998-09-29 Thread Collin Rose
Is there a way to route external TCP/IP requests to my Win98 machine to my Linux machine?

Re: Redirect printer output to email?

1998-09-29 Thread Kent West
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > #!/usr/bin/perl > > my $MAIL; > > open MAIL, '|mail -s "Some subject" [EMAIL PROTECTED]'; > > while (<>) { > print MAIL; > print; > } > > close MAIL; > > Of course, you might need something more fancy to accomodate your pager's > needs. Also, the se

DAWICONTROL DC-2975 U (2)

1998-09-29 Thread Felix E. Klee
Sorry, if this was posted twice! Hi, I am trying to install Debian 2 on my computer. However when I select "Next: Partition a Hard Disk" from the installation menu I get a message that no hard disks where found. I have a DAWICONTROL DC-2975 U SCSI Controler with a CDROM and an IBM UW HD connect

umask / permission problems with FTP

1998-09-29 Thread Fraser Campbell
I'm having problems with setting the correct umask for files. All my users belong to the groups users. I am using hamm. I need their files to be 644 and directories 755. Their home directories are in /var/www and are serving virtual domains. Here's what I know: A. /var/www is umask 022 B. /var/w

Re: Redirect printer output to email?

1998-09-29 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 06:33:55PM +, Kent West wrote: > This sounds like a method I'd like to try, but I'm too new at Linux/Unix > to have much of a clue. Could you possibly give me a snippet of example of > what my /etc/printcap should look like for this, as well as a general idea > of what

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-09-29 Thread john
Britton writes: > I have problems starting ppp as a normal user also that I have not been > able to cure by mucking with permissiont in /etc and elsewhere. Put your users in the 'dip' group and set the permissions and ownership of /etc/chatscripts thusly: drwx--x--- root dip /etc/chatscri

Re: lost "dir" in /usr/info

1998-09-29 Thread Obi
Well I got a dir from another machine (I didn't have the dir.old either) and I tried to manully add the node I have that wasn't already in there. And now I can't look into the libc nodes. I mean, it shows up in the dir (so if I do info it shows up) but the libc menu page is without any link! I rein

Moniter screen is wavy.

1998-09-29 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Stupid answer try moving the monitor and see if anything changes. You can get a video cable extension cord if necessary. Try plugging the monitor into a different outlet, could be a power problem (like having the monitor on the same line as a motorized appliance for example). If there is a d

some WindowMaker questions ...

1998-09-29 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, Every time I start X (with windowmaker) it opens a xterm session ! ;( How can I disable it !? I didn't found any file such as startup neitheir any line on configuration files refering to it ! Everytime I install a program, windowmaker menu is updated and I like it. My problem is that I

Re: Moniter screen is wavy.

1998-09-29 Thread Matthew Tebbens
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Mrpeabody wrote: > > > My moniter screen has become wavy. When you look at it it seems to > > move. I have a 21 inch dell moniter and a stb nvidia video card. My > > moniter used to be fine but I recently moved it and now

Majordomo

1998-09-29 Thread Tomas Petersson
Hello, I'm trying to set up Majordomo, but get the error below. How do I set up which uid, Majordomo runs as? /Tomas Petersson MAJORDOMO ABORT (mj_majordomo)!! While running with an effective uid of 65534 and an effective gid of 65534, Majordomo ran into the following problems: Unable to write

Re: PPP Connection Speed

1998-09-29 Thread dsb3
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: >Somehow, I cannot get a fast ppp connection anymore. > > >In redhat, my ppp connection is normally around 3K/sec. >But

Re: Moniter screen is wavy.

1998-09-29 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Mrpeabody wrote: > My moniter screen has become wavy. When you look at it it seems to > move. I have a 21 inch dell moniter and a stb nvidia video card. My > moniter used to be fine but I recently moved it and now it is wavy like > a day after I moved it. Has perment damag

Re: [980928.0004] Re: june 1998 CDrom disk set - Debian

1998-09-29 Thread Tech Support Staff
The reason that we shipped the LDR with Debian 1.3 instead of waiting for 2.0 was that we were already a month past our estimated release date and the Debian guys told us that 2.0 wouldn't be released until the end of July. It had already been pushed back several times and we had no promis

Re: simple password

1998-09-29 Thread Ed Cogburn
Phillip Neumann wrote: > > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > > > I have now my password as `password123`. I still want to put it as > > > `password`.. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > If you are really unconcerned with security, then why use a > > password at > > all? Just hit Enter for t

Re: dpkg(install in /usr/local)

1998-09-29 Thread Ed Cogburn
Shao Ying Zhang wrote: > > Hi all, > Could anyone teach me how to use dpkg to install in a specific > directory, such as /usr/local/. > > Thanks! > That would defeat the purpose of dpkg. The maintainers of the deb packages decide (based on File System Standard and Debi

Re: HP Laserjet 6L for Linux?

1998-09-29 Thread John Kloss
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Mrpeabody wrote: > I'm looking to get a printer for my linux box. I was wondering if the > HP Laserjet 6L would work with my linux machine? Most of the hardware > compatability lists seem kinda out to date and its hard to find out what > newer stuff is supported. > -jeff

HP Laserjet 6L for Linux?

1998-09-29 Thread Mrpeabody
I'm looking to get a printer for my linux box. I was wondering if the HP Laserjet 6L would work with my linux machine? Most of the hardware compatability lists seem kinda out to date and its hard to find out what newer stuff is supported. -jeff

Re: Printing Problem

1998-09-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "KW" == Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> What printer daemon does I have? (lpr or lprng) -- I suggest lprng >> To check this: dpkg -i | grep lpr KW> So, can I understand this to mean that lprng is a newer/better version KW> of lpr? I think it is rather another printdaemon. But ng is

Re: Printing Problem

1998-09-29 Thread M.C. Vernon
> > What printer daemon does I have? (lpr or lprng) -- I suggest lprng > > To check this: dpkg -i | grep lpr This is an error - it should be dpkg -l |grep lpr (that is a lower case L) > and then some help information. I double-checked the command and I had > the syntax the way you specified.

junkbuster busting *everything* not in cache

1998-09-29 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
hmm, junkbuster worked for a while, happily blocked the ads, but after a few minutess, *everything* gets blocked. If I click on a page I haven't opened before, i get a message saying that netscape's connection was refused by the server, and that i should try back later . all i've found to st

Re: Vi problem!

1998-09-29 Thread Steve Tremblett
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: > Hi all, > Does anyone aware of this situation: > When you run vi, if you are in the command > mode, and then resize your xterm, the text will not > be redisplayed unless you hit some keys.. > > When you in the input mode, it wi

Re: Printing Problem

1998-09-29 Thread Kent West
> > What printer daemon does I have? (lpr or lprng) -- I suggest lprng > To check this: dpkg -i | grep lpr > > > regards, > > Ulisses This question is from Kent, not Shao. So, can I understand this to mean that lprng is a newer/better version of lpr? When I tried the above co

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

1998-09-29 Thread Russ Cook
I need help with smail. I tried following the advice given below to another Debian user. It got me close, but not quite there. My ISP account is [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Debian account (home pc) is [EMAIL PROTECTED] My full name is (Russell Cook). Here is the result of my attempt to send mail from m

Re: slink release date?

1998-09-29 Thread C. R. Oldham
"E.L. Meijer (Eric)" wrote: > If there is anything in particular you need from slink, you can just download > it and > > install it on a hamm system most of the time. How can I do this with dselect/apt? I tried, and I think I've really messed up the list that tells dpkg what's installed on m

Re: MSS/WSS Recording?

1998-09-29 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
I have done it for my Aztech's WaveRider card. It required a change in driver's source: I have modified the dev_table.h file to define the second DMA channel for MSS compatible cards the patch follows: 19c19 < --- > #define MSS_DMA2 (0) 421c421 < {SNDCARD_MSS, {MSS_BASE, MSS_IRQ, MSS_

Re: Installation Issues

1998-09-29 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Brian Armstrong wrote: > I recently installed Debian Linux, the most recent version, and have had > difficulty installing Netscape and Staroffice. It seems to need Motif > or something similiar. Man pages and readme files have helped my setup > of Debian Linux and xwindows.

DAWICONTROL DC-2975 U

1998-09-29 Thread Felix E. Klee
Hi, I am trying to install Debian 2 on my computer. However when I select "Next: Partition a Hard Disk" from the installation menu I get a message that no hard disks where found. I have a DAWICONTROL DC-2975 U SCSI Controler with a CDROM and an IBM UW HD connected to it. The HD is connected via

Re: Printing Problem

1998-09-29 Thread Antal Ritter
Hi, On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 10:23:50PM +1000, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: > > OK! Here is an update on my system with regards to my printing problem: > > bash-2.01$ dpkg --list | grep lprng > ii lprng 3.4.2-5lpr/lpd printer spooling system > ii lprng-doc 3.4.1-3lpr/l

Re: Printing Problem

1998-09-29 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi again! On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: > > OK! Here is an update on my system with regards to my printing problem: [...] > bash-2.01$ lpc status > cannot open connection to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' - Connection refused > > In the file /var/spool/lpd/

Re: X server problems

1998-09-29 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 29 Sep 98 07:12:15 GMT, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >I've just installed Debian 2.0. While I have some rather superficial >familiarity with Linux in general (have played with a few distributions), >this is my first crack at Debian. > >This is what I get when I run startx: > >X: exec of /usr/

Re: X server problems

1998-09-29 Thread Fredrik Ax
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Braden N. McDaniel wrote: > I've just installed Debian 2.0. While I have some rather superficial > familiarity with Linux in general (have played with a few distributions), > this is my first crack at Debian. > > This is what I get when I run startx: > > X: exec of /usr/bin/

Re: Printing Problem

1998-09-29 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
OK! Here is an update on my system with regards to my printing problem: bash-2.01$ dpkg --list | grep lprng ii lprng 3.4.2-5lpr/lpd printer spooling system ii lprng-doc 3.4.1-3lpr/lpd printer spooli bash-2.01$ ps ax | grep LPD 419 p1 S0:00 grep LPD bash-2

Recompile Kernel & Sound

1998-09-29 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
Hi all, I just recompiled my kernel. Probably, I missed out an option, or select the wrong option. My sound module can no longer be inserted properly when boots up. Before I had a line sound in my /etc/modules, and everything is fine. Now I will have to do insmod sound a

Re: Login from a Terminal

1998-09-29 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, G. Crimp wrote: > Hi, > > I've a friend who just installed Debian 2.0 on a 486. He reads > through a talking terminal. Under a Slackware (don't know what version) he > used to type "agetty 9600 ttyS0 vt100". He says this doesn't work with the > new installation. I d

dpkg --root

1998-09-29 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all again, using a directory as a test dir for installing some applications... I coppied /var/lib/dpkg into it in order to avoid dpkg complains... and then I install applications using the --root option of dpkg But this silly trick is not really right, dpkg

Re: can't get smartlist working under Debian

1998-09-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "s" == slist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: s> I assume that I've managed to get a permission wrong on a log file that s> procmail wants to log its actions to or that I've failed to create s> the file. Trouble is that I can't find any documentation mentioning s> logging when procmail is being i

Re: Novell and Linux (pam_ncp again)

1998-09-29 Thread Christoph Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira) writes: > > Hi Debian users, > In pratical terms, I have to do this until friday to my users login > into > Linux using Novell account. > I downloaded http://www.csn.ul.ie/~airlied/pam_ncp/pam_ncp.0.5.tgz, > com

Re: modem problems

1998-09-29 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Tracheotomy Bob wrote: > I am damned if I can get my modem to work under linux. Here's the > general situation. From your symptoms, it seems *very* doubtful that it's a Winmodem, but *just* for the sake of paranoia, are you sure it's not? Does it work under DOS? > Poking ar

Re: lost "dir" in /usr/info

1998-09-29 Thread John Forest
Obi wrote: > Hi all, > > sometimes ago I had a crash and I ended up loosing the dir file in the > /usr/info directory. How can I recreate it? > > thanks > graziano > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > Check for /usr/info/dir.old This might save some

Debian Troubleshooting Disk

1998-09-29 Thread timothy
Hi again, Can someone give me an overview of what I would have to do to make a debian bootdisk with Memtest and e2fsck etc. Just a general overview, so I can know which Manuals to RTFM. Thanx, Timothy -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 29-Sep-98 Time: 07:03:

OffTopic: PC BIOS Errors

1998-09-29 Thread timothy
Can anyone direct me to an online listing of what all of the PC BIOS error messages mean? Thanks, Timothy -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 29-Sep-98 Time: 07:02:22 This message was sent by XFMail. Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0.

PPP Connection Speed

1998-09-29 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
Hi all, Could anyone please help me with this? Somehow, I cannot get a fast ppp connection anymore.

Q: FTP install behind Netscape-proxy firewall

1998-09-29 Thread WERNER Péter
Hi! I tried FTP install beind a firewall. dselect can't connect to ftp.debian.org but I can do it by hand. Does anyone have any experience? I have to use @ @ with our firewall. WP

Re: How do I get exim to work?

1998-09-29 Thread Johann Spies
Thanks George, I nearly got exim to work. But after waisting another 6 hours I do not know how further. I can now receive messages from the ISP into the /var/spool/exim/input directory and read them there with emacs. Mail rarely gets through to /var/spool/mail/jhspies and when that happens, I ca

vacation

1998-09-29 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I upgraded from Slackware to Debian 2.0. Now vacation does not work correctly anymre, and I get an e-mail from the MAILER-DAEMON telling me: |- Failed addresses follow: -| "|/usr/bin/vacation alpenr" ... failed: transport pipe: child returned status EX_

Re: Printing Problem

1998-09-29 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Shao! On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: > Hi all, > I used magicfilter to generate a printcap. > > when I tried to print something out, it gives me the following > error: >

Vi problem!

1998-09-29 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
Hi all, Does anyone aware of this situation: When you run vi, if you are in the command mode, and then resize your xterm, the text will not be redisplayed unless you hit some keys.. When you in the input mode, it will give you the message: Window resize interrupted the inpu

Re: Question about installing the non-free pakages

1998-09-29 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Chan Min Wai wrote: > 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

Re: viewing ansi graphics

1998-09-29 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: > Heh heh, I remember the days of DOS and BBSing and The Draw and DOOM II > and MODs and demos Oh, I miss those days. > I don't know how to display the higher-ascii characters in the text-mode > console, but if under X you start an xterm or rxvt

Re: Another PPP newbie.

1998-09-29 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
check out /var/log/messages, see what is the error. My guess is that you have to set the option noauth. try change the line from auth to noauth in your /etc/ppp/options. On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Monte Copeland wrote: > After having trouble using PPP to connect my new Linux O.S. so that I > could f

Printing Problem

1998-09-29 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
Hi all, I used magicfilter to generate a printcap. when I tried to print something out, it gives me the following error: connection to 'localhost' failed - Conne

instructions for setting up Wacom ArtPad

1998-09-29 Thread Ernest G Austin
Eric House wrote:- > 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. I found the following url useful:- www.gtk.org/~otaylor/xinput/ HTH

can't get smartlist working under Debian

1998-09-29 Thread slist
I tried sending this to the smartlist list but have had no response. Anyone here got smartlist working and can help? TIA++ Chris - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Sep 28 18:02:59 1998 Resent-Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 15:24:31 +0200 (MET DST) From: [E

Re: SAMBA: Help!!

1998-09-29 Thread Fredrik Ax
On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, bmorgan wrote: > This is a reposting of a previous message. I'm starting to get > desperate. Any help would be greatly appreciated! > > I'm having trouble connecting to my debian machine from my windows > machine using samba. I've successfully done this before, but now I've

Linux in the _near_ future

1998-09-29 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all Mozilla Free, X-Designer port, Oracle port, Informix port, IBM's DB2 port, Sybase port, X11 free again, Netscape and Intel joins to Redhat... Seems that Linux in last monts is getting lot of respect from major vendors, and the next step seems to be more

lost "dir" in /usr/info

1998-09-29 Thread Obi
Hi all, sometimes ago I had a crash and I ended up loosing the dir file in the /usr/info directory. How can I recreate it? thanks graziano

Re: Diamond 3D 2000 with S3V to display 24 bit color

1998-09-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Paul M. Foster wrote: > > I have a Diamond 3D 2000 video card. The chip is S3 Virge. The > > memory of the videocard is 4 meg. > > > I have an identical setup, and am running the XF86_SVGA server with 32 bit > color. I had some difficu

SLIP6 connects byt does nothihg

1998-09-29 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
After some diddling, I'm trying SLIP in addition to PPP (hardware flow control is killing me). I seem to be successfully making a SLIP6 connection, but it doesn't Given the troubles with my hardware flow control & PPP, I've tried SLIP. I've installed sliplogin & slirp at both ends, and both kern

Re: LPC error: Can't open connection

1998-09-29 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: > > Hi. > > I'm new to Linux/Unix; don't know what I'm doing. I'm trying to set up a > printer/beeper combo (see earlier messages), but I seem to have broken > my printing capability. To eliminate complications, I've commented out > everything except the following from my /etc/pr

There is necesary libc5-altdev to compile ld.so?

1998-09-29 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
Dear Debian users : I am having problems with the ld.so and/or with the libc6. I released my "bo" linux to "hamm" 2 week ago. I used the "cd-autoup.sh" program. The upgrading was fine and without big problems. However the myself compiled programs, after the upgrading, do not r

Routing a print job to a temp file

1998-09-29 Thread Kent West
I asked this earlier, and got a few hints, but after trying everything I could think of (yes, including RTM), I'm not much closer than I was when I started. I need some way to capture a print job and reroute a copy of it to an email message. I would appreciate specific examples if you can provide

Re: Segmentation Faults

1998-09-29 Thread FRANCK . LEGALL
Hi, My experience : Some time ago I bought 2*16 Mo of 60ns memory. I had them to my 2*8 Mo of 60ns Memory. After reboot, the system send me error messages, especially concerning the harddisk. I tried a lot of thing as inverting memories, asking for new ones at my vendor, installing the setx86 pa

Re: viewing ansi graphics

1998-09-29 Thread Paul Kunysch
> I don't know how to display the higher-ascii characters in the text-mode > console, but if under X you start an xterm or rxvt or whatever and load > it with an ansi font (eg xterm -font vga or rxvt -fn vga, you'll need to > download the font first) then you can properly display all those col

Test

1998-09-29 Thread Kent West
I'm wondering if I've been dropped from the list. I haven't seen any messages in a while, even those I've posted. Could someone reply to to this message (to me) if this message makes it to the list? Thanks.

Re: encrypted passwords with pop3/imap/...?

1998-09-29 Thread Dale E. Martin
Ulisses Alonso Camaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know that one possibility is to use ssh to forward this connections... > but I can't be sure that users will make use of it... You can be sure if your firewall disables connections to your mail server, and then provide directions on how to use

X server problems

1998-09-29 Thread Braden N. McDaniel
I've just installed Debian 2.0. While I have some rather superficial familiarity with Linux in general (have played with a few distributions), this is my first crack at Debian. This is what I get when I run startx: X: exec of /usr/bin/X11/XF86_NONE failed _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect

Adaptec AIC-7890 SCSI under Debian?

1998-09-29 Thread James Brown \(Ender/Gcc\)
Hi All, I've been trying to install Debian on a P-II, with a ASUS P2B-LS Motherboard, and a Adaptec AIC-7890 Ultra2 SCSI chipset. My problem is that Debian's installation program doesnt seem to detect my SCSI harddrive! Has anyone else used a similar setup? Could someone PLEASE tell me ho

Re: Segmentation Faults

1998-09-29 Thread Mike Acklin
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 01:53:48AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > > This can indeed be the case. If you have more than one dimm, or more > > than two simms, you can test this by removing half of your memory, see > > if you get the same errors, the

Ctrl-E

1998-09-29 Thread Bostjan JERKO
Hello ! When I want to print *.eps files my printer (HP 4L) doesn't eject at the end of page. Is this normal or should I add something to printcap ? I use magicfilter and print with lpr command (on local printer). Bostjan

unable to connect to ttyS1

1998-09-29 Thread Packy Anderson
Hi. I'm currently running a Debian 1.3 system, and I'm working on putting together a Hamm system to replace it. I'm trying to get a ppp connection running on an external modem plugged into COM2 of the Hamm system and I'm having no luck. First, I defined the connection and then 'pon' to start the

Re: Login from a Terminal

1998-09-29 Thread G. Crimp
Hi, I've a friend who just installed Debian 2.0 on a 486. He reads through a talking terminal. Under a Slackware (don't know what version) he used to type "agetty 9600 ttyS0 vt100". He says this doesn't work with the new installation. I don't know anything about getty. A look at the m

XEmacs/VM with procmail

1998-09-29 Thread Paul Kunysch
Hi Procmail writes some of my mails into seperate files when they arrive. VM sometimes complains, that my Digest-Mailboxes were changed in background, and so I have to overwrite them with the old version or I'll lose my changes. What's the "official" solution to this problem? [ PS: Is the "X-Fac

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-09-29 Thread Britton
I have problems starting ppp as a normal user also that I have not been able to cure by mucking with permissiont in /etc and elsewhere. Mind firing off a quick ls -l /etc/ppp*? I'd really appreciate it. __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." Britton Kerin On 27 Aug 1998, Martin

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