Re: Intel740 graphic accelerator

1998-10-20 Thread Jeremiah Cornelius
Your timing couldn't be better! RedHat has been working in a couple of partnerships to turn out some binary-only servers for XFree (the XBF project.) They just yesterday announced a new beta release of their i740 driver (the first beta had been tested with only 1 mfrs card.) This is at: ftp:/

Re: SOLVED: 2 XServers on 1 terminal?

1998-10-20 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 06:16:40PM -0500, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > Hi, > > Disregard my previous message. I already learned how to do it. > > > Could I run 2 X servers on one comupter? So that Alt-F7 correspond to > > first > > session, and Alt-F8 for the second session? There are 2 p

Re: Step 1 for Seyon and ISDN

1998-10-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "RB" == Remo Badii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RB> I have read the ponderous documentation about ISDN, but did not RB> configure any of the device.ippp0, ipppd.ippp0, etc. files in RB> /etc/isdn. This is not neccessary for the thing you want to do. RB> As a first step, I'd like to know how

SOLVED: 2 XServers on 1 terminal?

1998-10-20 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Disregard my previous message. I already learned how to do it. > Could I run 2 X servers on one comupter? So that Alt-F7 correspond to first > session, and Alt-F8 for the second session? There are 2 people working on > one > computer, and we don't want to mess each other X sessions. S

Re: dvi viewer in 2.0

1998-10-20 Thread David S. Zelinsky
xdvi is in tetex-bin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I have just upgraded to 2.0. Previously I could view .dvi files with xdvi. > It is no longer present. Is there a .dvi viewer (preferably for x) that > does not require a tetex installation? > Thanks >

Re: 2 XServers on 1 terminal?

1998-10-20 Thread servis
*- Alexander Kushnirenko wrote about "2 XServers on 1 terminal?" | Hi, | | Could I run 2 X servers on one comupter? So that Alt-F7 correspond to first | session, and Alt-F8 for the second session? There are 2 people working on one | computer, and we don't want to mess each other X sessions. |

Re: Offtopic: Applix as Netscape Helper?

1998-10-20 Thread servis
*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Offtopic: Applix as Netscape Helper?" | | Howdy all. | | I've been trying to setup Netscape such that Applix is used to view | MS-Word formatted documents, but don't know one bit of info. | | I can get Applix started when I click on a MS-Word doc by adding | "ap

dosemu probs

1998-10-20 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, I got the dosemu .deb and installed it. When I run an lredir, it always returns an error (the command is an exact copy of that given in the lredir help): C:\ LREDIR X: LINUX\FS\tmp Error 5f00 redirecting drive X: to LINUX\FS\TMP what am I doing wrong? Matthew -- Elen sila lum

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-10-20 Thread M.C. Vernon
> Hi everyone! > All of a sudden my root account seems to be quite broken. When I su to > root and type in the password and hit enter, it just stops and doesn't do > anything. I have to press Ctrl+C. > If I try to login as root in another VC, it gets I suspect this is the (now ca

Re: Admin tool needed

1998-10-20 Thread Ralph Winslow
When Michael Beattie wrote, I replied: > > On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Clovis Sena/Servicos Recife wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > is there some admin tool for X ?? > > package: xadmin dselect didn't find this for me in stable - do I need to go to frozen? > >Michael Beattie ([EMA

Re: dvi viewer in 2.0

1998-10-20 Thread CHUCK
Thanks Paul. I'll try them right away. Chuck Kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Realplayer only works as root

1998-10-20 Thread Eric
Oh...silly me. The problem was that I couldn't find rvplayer.deb. Why's it in "net?" Wouldn't it make more sense for it to be in "sound" or "graphics?" Thanks for the help. Eric. > > Can anyone make this thing work? > > Put the realplayer .rpm file in /tmp. Install rvplayer 5.0-6 from slink.

Re: ADSL and Linux (or specificly Debian)

1998-10-20 Thread Dimitri P.
All you are doing really as far as the linux box is concerned is changinf the masqarading from a dynamic ip to a specific static one. Depending on how your masquarading is set up, you need to tell it what one of the two static IPs assigned to you is. At least in hamm the masquarading config is i

Re: Nescape 4.5 for SWim Motif 2.1?

1998-10-20 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
AlexY wrote - > > Is there a package of Netscape 4.5 compiled for SWiM Motif 2.1 ? > Most probably not. Netscape always used Motif 1.2 for linking. > May be glibc2 version uses Morif 2.1 - but unlikely. You are right. Navigator / Communicator 4.5 glibc dynmotif is linked against 1.2. $ ldd /usr

Exim and MX

1998-10-20 Thread Tony Schonfeld
hello ! i need to use in Exim the mx_domains or non_mx_domains function. i've only add a line in exim.conf like : non_mx_domains = *.ampr.org , but i've a configuration error. Please can you help me to this point ? Many thanks, Tony Tony Schonfeld - F5GIT - GRENOBLE - Voice/Data

ADSL and Linux (or specificly Debian)

1998-10-20 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, I've just called my telco and ISP to set me up the ADSL connection. I'd like to know if I need to do something on the Linux box to provide something similar to IP Masquerad as I've done for 56K modem connection? My currently setup is: 1 Linux box (Debian bo distribute Intelligen

Offtopic: Applix as Netscape Helper?

1998-10-20 Thread stick
Howdy all. I've been trying to setup Netscape such that Applix is used to view MS-Word formatted documents, but don't know one bit of info. I can get Applix started when I click on a MS-Word doc by adding "applix -wp" in Netscape's Edit->Preferences->Navigator->Applications window, but the Appli

Step 1 for Seyon and ISDN

1998-10-20 Thread Remo Badii
Dear Debs, I have an ISDN card which is supported and recognized by the kernel/modules. As a first try, i'd like to start Seyon and connect to a server at my institute which provides a text-only connection, which I am already using under DOS (with the communication program Reflection). I have read

Re: dvi viewer in 2.0

1998-10-20 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Paul Seelig wrote: > On Tue, 20 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have just upgraded to 2.0. Previously I could view .dvi files with xdvi. > > It is no longer present. Is there a .dvi viewer (preferably for x) that > > does not require a tetex installation? > > > Yes,

Unidentified subject!

1998-10-20 Thread timothy
Hi everyone! All of a sudden my root account seems to be quite broken. When I su to root and type in the password and hit enter, it just stops and doesn't do anything. I have to press Ctrl+C. If I try to login as root in another VC, it gets -- E-Mai

Re: Realplayer only works as root

1998-10-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Eric wrote: > I downloaded and installed the latest version of realplayer recently. I > got the Redhat package and used alien to convert it to a deb. It seemed > to install fine, but when I run it as a normal user and try to play > something (even the welcome.rm) it says "Fi

Re: Realplayer only works as root

1998-10-20 Thread Eric
Maybe this is a dumb question, but where would I go about getting this deb? If you're referring to the one which alien produced for me, well, I did install it. Thanks, Eric. On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 11:14:00AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Use rvplayer.deb to install it. > > Eric wrote: > > I downlo

Re: FVWM - Not all modules included?

1998-10-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MP" == Moore, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MP> It provides a window into which you can type Fvwm configuration MP> commands. I use it for testing out the effect of commands (Style "Xterm" MP> Sticky) without needing to edit the config file and restart every time. Isn't this FvwmTalk?

Re: Automate UPPER to lower case directory

1998-10-20 Thread Joerg Plate
1> cat /usr/local/bin/rename #!/usr/bin/perl -Tw use locale; # usage: rename perlexp [files] ($op = shift) || die "Usage: $0 perlexp [filenames]\n"; if ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) { @ARGV = ; chop(@ARGV); } for (@ARGV) { $old = $_; eval $op; die $@ if $@; $new = $_; next if $old eq $new; next

LS120 problems

1998-10-20 Thread James G. MacKinnon
A few weeks ago, I got a new office computer (a P II) with an ATAPI LS120 installed. The kernel (2.0.34, Debian 2.0) had no trouble detecting it as an ide-floppy, and I was able to mount it as type vfat with no problems. Since a single LS120 is not much use, I next had one installed in my home mac

2 XServers on 1 terminal?

1998-10-20 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Could I run 2 X servers on one comupter? So that Alt-F7 correspond to first session, and Alt-F8 for the second session? There are 2 people working on one computer, and we don't want to mess each other X sessions. Thanks, Sasha.

Re: X11: HELP for ATI 3DChar 4MB RageIIC AGP

1998-10-20 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
Hi. For an ATI Mach64 3D RAGE II C, I use: ChipId 0x4755 and it seems to work, more or less. I found this in the XFree86 FAQ. Hope this helps.

Re: Realplayer only works as root

1998-10-20 Thread Joey Hess
Use rvplayer.deb to install it. Eric wrote: > I downloaded and installed the latest version of realplayer recently. I > got the Redhat package and used alien to convert it to a deb. It seemed > to install fine, but when I run it as a normal user and try to play > something (even the welcome.rm)

Re: Cam I turn off portmap?

1998-10-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
Thanks to all for replies. It seems that I can turn off portmap without anything terrible happening. It also seems that I might turn off inetd since I don't log in remotely and I am the only user. However, man inetd says that it is providing several `trivial' services internally, some of which I pr

Re: Automate UPPER to lower case directory

1998-10-20 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Thanks guys, got the job done. I love ths little script, fits well in my /usr/bin too! Tell you, you don't get help like this from Microsoft! Thanks again, Anthony Landrenea Infinity Data Systems >I think this is from some HOWTO but I forget which one: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]$less up2lo >#!/

Realplayer only works as root

1998-10-20 Thread Eric
I downloaded and installed the latest version of realplayer recently. I got the Redhat package and used alien to convert it to a deb. It seemed to install fine, but when I run it as a normal user and try to play something (even the welcome.rm) it says "File compression not supported. Cannot locat

PGCC, GCC, EGCC, SCC (Swarc), ARGH!!

1998-10-20 Thread Adam Greene
Which compiler is best, recommended, etc. Does one compiler optimize for Pentium, PentiumMMX, PentiumII, K6, K6-2, Cyrix 6x86MX, Cyrix MII, IDT Winchip6(-2). I know Swarc does the different MMX flavours and is working on 3Dnow! (by using a variant on C). But will EGCC / PGCC ever support these??

Re: dvi viewer in 2.0

1998-10-20 Thread Paul Seelig
On Tue, 20 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have just upgraded to 2.0. Previously I could view .dvi files with xdvi. > It is no longer present. Is there a .dvi viewer (preferably for x) that > does not require a tetex installation? > Yes, there is tmview-98.06, which is split into the two .de

Re: Exim for local mail?

1998-10-20 Thread Tom Pfeifer
George Bonser wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > > > > > qualify_domain = newdebian.pfeifer.home > > # qualify_recipient = > > local_domains = olddebian.pfeifer.home > > local_domains_include_host = true > > local_domains_include_host_literals = true That is the file on newde

dvi viewer in 2.0

1998-10-20 Thread CHUCK
I have just upgraded to 2.0. Previously I could view .dvi files with xdvi. It is no longer present. Is there a .dvi viewer (preferably for x) that does not require a tetex installation? Thanks Chuck Kaufman

xterm: select and paste query

1998-10-20 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Hello: I recently installed Debian 2.0 from the Cheapbytes CD (July 21 record date). After the usual 'monkeying around', I got X up and running, using my favourite windowing system - OpenLook (virtual) Window Manager (olvwm). I observed two differences from what I expected: firstly, 'xterm' cut

Re: "bitmap" to outline postscript

1998-10-20 Thread Carl Johnson
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: He seems to occationally reply on comp.lang.postscript, or you can try his web page at http://www.tinaja.com. > Where is Don Lancaster when you need him? > > > On 20 Oct 1998, Jens Ritter wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted Harding) writes: > > > > >

Re: Network adapters (speed 100MB)

1998-10-20 Thread Jens Ritter
jrivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anybody knows some network adapter (speed 100MB) which supports linux > drivers? We use Lantronics 100 Mb with tulip chipset on the routers of our network successfully. Jens -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] KeyID: 2048/E451C639 1998/01/28 Print:

Re: just shoot me

1998-10-20 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, 20 Oct 1998 19:17:11 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 04:40:02PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: >> Personally, on production machines that you don't have access to easily >> enough (for me that is walking into the next room) I'd not even think of >> upgrading from a stab

Re: two things

1998-10-20 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Shane Wegner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 2) When I installed slackware, I did it over a null-modem serial > connection to an ms-dos machine running a program called telix. I do this > because I use screen reading software to read the screen and as of yet, > there is nothing available under Linux

Exim for local mail?

1998-10-20 Thread Tom Pfeifer
This is a really basic question on setting up exim for local mail, which is eluding me. I have a two machine home network, both running Hamm. The machines are named/addressed as follows: newdebian.pfeifer.home (192.168.1.1) olddebian.pfeifer.home (192.168.1.2) pfeifer.home(192.168.1

Re: Problem duplicating system

1998-10-20 Thread Andy Spiegl
According to Ole J. Tetlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm not sure if the cp on the floppies is different from the normal cp. > Have you tried 'cp -a source destination'? Unfortunately it is very different. It can hardly do anything. According to "cp -h" it accepts "-r" for recursive copying, but

Re: xmkmf generates bad Makefiles

1998-10-20 Thread Andy Spiegl
Would someone please be so kind to comment on this? Thank you! Andy. | Hi! | | whenever I do a xmkmf to get a Makefile from an Imakefile I have | to do manual editing of the Makefile before I can use it. All the | comment lines start with | XCOMM | instead of | # | | I don't have this probl

Re: (UK question) Help with diald and ISP demon.co

1998-10-20 Thread john
G. Kapetanios writes: > I was wondering whether anyone on the list has managed to use diald with > the UK ISP demon. If so could you help help with the setup of the connect > script ? The chatscripts generated by pppconfig work fine with diald. Just replace the default 'connect' line in /etc/dial

RE: Automate UPPER to lower case directory

1998-10-20 Thread Andrew Chittenden
WARNING: I have had files disappear on me when using such a script when the target filesystem is on a Win32 machine. It is safer to rename them via an intermediate name: for file in $* do to=`echo $file | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]` mv $file $to.newone;mv $to.newone $to done Rgds, And

Re: Automate UPPER to lower case directory

1998-10-20 Thread Mitch Blevins
Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Anthony Landreneau wrote: > > : Greetings, > :Trying to automate work done by some WIN95/NT people who don't > understand > : upper/lower case. I have a directory of files that are upper case and need > : to be brought to lower case. Does any

Re: Automate UPPER to lower case directory

1998-10-20 Thread Blazej Sawionek
> Trying to automate work done by some WIN95/NT people who don't > understand > upper/lower case. I have a directory of files that are upper case and need > to be brought to lower case. Does anyones have a program or script that > could help me do about 400 files? man mmv B.

Re: Network adapters (speed 100MB)

1998-10-20 Thread Blazej Sawionek
> Anybody knows some network adapter (speed 100MB) which supports linux > drivers? Kingston KNE100TX B.

Re: Automate UPPER to lower case directory

1998-10-20 Thread servis
*- Anthony Landreneau wrote about "Automate UPPER to lower case directory" | Greetings, | Trying to automate work done by some WIN95/NT people who don't understand | upper/lower case. I have a directory of files that are upper case and need | to be brought to lower case. Does anyones have a

Re: simple GTK programs don't compile

1998-10-20 Thread M.C. Vernon
On 20 Oct 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > *-"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | > | DEar all, > | > | I donwloaded a really simple GTK program, and tryed to build it: > | > | ld: cannot open -lXi: No such file or directory > | > | What is going wrong, please? > > You probably haven't got xl

Re: Automate UPPER to lower case directory

1998-10-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Anthony Landreneau wrote: : Greetings, : Trying to automate work done by some WIN95/NT people who don't understand : upper/lower case. I have a directory of files that are upper case and need : to be brought to lower case. Does anyones have a program or script that

Re: source install tracking

1998-10-20 Thread Mitch Blevins
Leon Breedt wrote: > hi > > is there a program to let me monitor any source installs i make? i'm a > bit reluctant to do a 'make install' if i dont know what gets dumped on > my system, and where. > > whats the best way to install programs from source? installwatch does this... http://appindex.

Re: simple GTK programs don't compile

1998-10-20 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | DEar all, | | I donwloaded a really simple GTK program, and tryed to build it: | | ld: cannot open -lXi: No such file or directory | | What is going wrong, please? You probably haven't got xlib6g-dev installed. If you do, something is boroken, but y

Automate UPPER to lower case directory

1998-10-20 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Greetings, Trying to automate work done by some WIN95/NT people who don't understand upper/lower case. I have a directory of files that are upper case and need to be brought to lower case. Does anyones have a program or script that could help me do about 400 files? Thanks, Anthony Landr

Re: Network adapters (speed 100MB)

1998-10-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, jrivas wrote: : Anybody knows some network adapter (speed 100MB) which supports linux : drivers? Netgear FA-310TX does, and does it transparently - plug the card into a 10Base hub, it runs 10 Mbps ... plug it into a 10/100 switch and it switches to 100 Mbps full-duplex ...

Re: Debian and K6-2

1998-10-20 Thread Frank Barknecht
Paulo J. da Silva e Silva hat gesagt: // Paulo J. da Silva e Silva wrote: > Hello, > > I am planning to do an upgrade from a Pentium 233MHz to an K6-2 350MHz. I > really like the idea of a faster processor combined with a faster bus. Maybe > I'll manage to compile the kernel in less than 3 minute

Re: Network adapters (speed 100MB)

1998-10-20 Thread Graham Ashton
On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, jrivas wrote: > Anybody knows some network adapter (speed 100MB) which supports linux > drivers? I never expected my first post to the debian list after having just switched from Red Hat would be an answer(!), but... Drivers exist for quite a few of them. I use 3com 3c905 ca

Re: Desperately in need of a Database app....

1998-10-20 Thread Damon Muller
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998 16:58:25 -0400 "Person, Rod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for recommendations on a database. Nothing extravagant it > mainly for home use right now. I'm looking for something to use in X > along the lines of Access of Claris' db (I always forget the name - and > I

Re: StarOffice -or- Applixware 4.4.1

1998-10-20 Thread Damon Muller
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998 12:38:13 -0700 "Bob Barth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Should I keep my Applixware 4.4.1 suite or replace it with the StarOffice > suite? This isn't an answer to your question, sorry, but something I thought was a little interesting... I've been doing some research down at

Re: Can I turn off portmap?

1998-10-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Peter Iannarelli: > I am sure you are right. I'm running xinetd for the added security. > When I read my /etc/init.d/xinetd --> stop) It shuts down the > portmapper. start) starts up the portmapper. It is true that > it does not have to be run however, and correct me if I'm wrong > it

source install tracking

1998-10-20 Thread Leon Breedt
hi is there a program to let me monitor any source installs i make? i'm a bit reluctant to do a 'make install' if i dont know what gets dumped on my system, and where. whats the best way to install programs from source? regards leon -- Leon J. Breedt : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Valderen Sysadmin

RE: Network Puzzle

1998-10-20 Thread Michael Montz
This is Linux to Linux. Haven't tried it with Win95. On 20 Oct, David Karlin wrote: > Hi Michael, > You wrote: >> I have a Linux server setup with a hybrid cable modem (down cable/up >> phone line)using ip masqurading. Works great. >> >> The puzzle is that whenever I telnet to the server from

Re: Can I turn off portmap?

1998-10-20 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello: I am sure you are right. I'm running xinetd for the added security. When I read my /etc/init.d/xinetd --> stop) It shuts down the portmapper. start) starts up the portmapper. It is true that it does not have to be run however, and correct me if I'm wrong it controls the initiation of listen

Can someone send me patch for asus SCSI 7890 (aic7xxx) ?

1998-10-20 Thread Marc Fleureck
Hi, I have a PC with the ASUS + SCSI 7890. There is a debian patch dir for this. master.debian.org/~doko/aic7xxx developer's site seems very busy, so it is inmpossible to download the patch for aic7xxx. Is there a mirror ? Could someone send me the kernel-image- 2.0.34_aic7xxx... ?? Regard

Re: Can I turn off portmap?

1998-10-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Iannarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You can turn off the portmapper vi /etc/init.d/xinetd stop or >/etc/init.d/inetd stop. This however is not recommend because >any requests comming in on ports will not be serviced. Note. >portmaps are used to save system r

Re: Can I turn off portmap?

1998-10-20 Thread Peter Granroth
On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 09:51:50AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I don't think I nee the portmap daemon (I'm the only user) but there doesn't > seem to be any way to turn it off in debian (there is in redhat). > > Or am I missing something? > killall portmap If you want to permanently turn i

Re: Eterm and X server

1998-10-20 Thread Leon Breedt
On Mon, Oct 19 1998, Brian Almeida spake thus: > Are you running linux 2.1.x? yes, 2.1.125 > If so there was a bug in it that is now fixed > in the Eterm CVS... i'll get the new version then, thanks leon -- Leon J. Breedt : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Valderen Sysadmin Linux valderen 2.1.125 #1 SMP,

Re: smail problems (dial-up)

1998-10-20 Thread Leon Breedt
On Tue, Oct 20 1998, Moore, Paul spake thus: > I found a command "runq" which seems to push stuff through. Is that what > it's for? If so, how do I get this to happen automatically when I start > the PPP link? any scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ get run when the ppp link is established. so, in your

Mail (pop3) & IP Masquerasing..

1998-10-20 Thread Michael Beattie
I have had IP Masquerading running perfectly for the last 8-9 Months, but My friend got to his inevitable reformat of his Windows 98 Hard Drive, and he carefully asked me if I could install Linux for him... Fine by me, I could then make use of his 56k modem via IP Masquerading. Everything is insta

smail problems (dial-up)

1998-10-20 Thread Moore, Paul
Hi, I'm just getting smail set up, and I'm not sure what I need to do for the last stage (getting my dial-up setup working). I have local mail setup fine, including redirecting "postmaster" mail to my normal account. My ISP (Demon Internet in the UK) passes mail to me using SMTP when I am logged on

Network adapters (speed 100MB)

1998-10-20 Thread jrivas
Anybody knows some network adapter (speed 100MB) which supports linux drivers? Thank you Esper

Re: just shoot me

1998-10-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 04:40:02PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Personally, on production machines that you don't have access to easily > enough (for me that is walking into the next room) I'd not even think of > upgrading from a stable to a frozen. I'd just ride the stables out. Each to their

RE: FVWM - Not all modules included?

1998-10-20 Thread Moore, Paul
>From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> "MP" == Moore, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >MP> Have I missed something, or is FvwmConsole not included in the debian >MP> package? > >I don't know this module. What does it do? How does it look like? >Perhaps it is not a official part o

RE: Network Puzzle

1998-10-20 Thread David Karlin
Hi Michael, You wrote: > I have a Linux server setup with a hybrid cable modem (down cable/up > phone line)using ip masqurading. Works great. > > The puzzle is that whenever I telnet to the server from my computer, the > modem connects to the ISP. If the modem doesn't connect right away, the > te

Re: Can I turn off portmap?

1998-10-20 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello: You can turn off the portmapper vi /etc/init.d/xinetd stop or /etc/init.d/inetd stop. This however is not recommend because any requests comming in on ports will not be serviced. Note. portmaps are used to save system resources. It starts up listening daemons on an as required basis as oppo

Can I turn off portmap?

1998-10-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
I don't think I nee the portmap daemon (I'm the only user) but there doesn't seem to be any way to turn it off in debian (there is in redhat). Or am I missing something? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.achc.demon.co.uk

(UK question) Help with diald and ISP demon.co

1998-10-20 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I was wondering whether anyone on the list has managed to use diald with the UK ISP demon. If so could you help help with the setup of the connect script ? Thanks very much George --- George Kapetanios Churchill Co

can't access cdrom, no isofs after install

1998-10-20 Thread Jack Nutting
Hi all, I have a problem that's driving me a little nuts. I've installed debian2.0 (from cheap bytes), and I just can't get the cdrom to work properly. Here are the details: - When I try to mount, I get a message saying the kernal doesn't support iso9660. - I've reinstalled the base system

Re: netscape

1998-10-20 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hi, > One more problem about the netscape. I download the netscape from > ftp.netscape.com and ran the ns-install to install it. But it just does > not work. If I install it manually following the README.txt, the result is > the same. But when I tried to install through dselect, it refered me

Re: Admin tool needed

1998-10-20 Thread Eric Jacoboni
Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > is there some admin tool for X ?? > > > package: xadmin Bof The xadmin package is rather incomplete... On my hamm (and there is no updated package), there is only 4 tools : "User/Group editor", "Domain editor", "Network editor" and "Da

URGENT-problem with named

1998-10-20 Thread ing.Bubulac Angela Tatiana
hello, On 13 Oct I ask the maintainer of ro domain to change the name and IP address of my DNS. old: ; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> @ns.ici.ro ns citon.ro ; (1 server found) ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10 ;; flags:

Re: [Debian] support for Adaptec 2940UW2 ?

1998-10-20 Thread Greg Norris
Ok, I'm downloading the boot-floppies package at this very moment, and will shortly check into what's required to create an installation diskette. I may not have the chance to actually create it until after work tomorrow, so it could be about a day from now before you recieve it. I'll email you t

Re: Kernels from the 2.1 series

1998-10-20 Thread Helge Hafting
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/19/98 at 07:14 PM, Paul Crowley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I'm thinking of moving over to the 2.1 series kernels, since it seems >that they're pretty stable these days. Will this make life very much >harder for me? I don't think so. I am using 2.1.125 with no pa

Re: dselect taking a _looong_ time

1998-10-20 Thread Jens Ritter
Erik Forsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I use dselect, with the debian distribution mounted from a local > nfs mirror, it really takes quite a horrible time telling me it's > skipping deselected packages. I'm not so interested ! :) > > I think I've read somewhere there is a way to get ds

Re: "bitmap" to outline postscript

1998-10-20 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted Harding) writes: > Basically: given, e.g., the bit pattern > >000 > 0 0 > 00 00 > 00 00 > 0 0 >000 > > is there a program which would take this pattern and produce an > economical PostScript code which would operate by drawing two ellipses as > smooth

Re: netscape

1998-10-20 Thread Remo Badii
dselect asks for libc5 versions of those files: what you have is libc6 version. You need to search for theold ones in the list dselect offers you and install them as well. Remo __ | Dr. Remo |__ _ Debian User | Paul Sche

Re: Admin tool needed

1998-10-20 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Clovis Sena/Servicos Recife wrote: > Hi all, > > is there some admin tool for X ?? package: xadmin Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with "pgpkey" as subject. --

Re: New motherboard (and processor)

1998-10-20 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Michael Beattie dixit: > > > On Sun, 18 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Your manufacturers website: http://www.ability.com/ (I think thats right) > > They should have some specs on your MB, But as a stab in the dark, I would > > say that yes

Problems after upgrade! Please help.

1998-10-20 Thread Luiz O. L. Zorzella
I'm in deep trouble. Yesterday I upgraded some packages from hamm to slink, and since then I've been unable to use my ppp link. I'm writing from a non-mantained win 95 I have in hand, because I can't do it under linux. pon stalls without dialing or returning the prompt, and at /var/log/messages th

smail problems

1998-10-20 Thread Patrick Olson
A problem has shown up all of a sudden on my Debian 2.0 system. Everything worked fine until yesterday. Now when I try to send mail, about half the time it spits out ROUTER:smart_host TRANSPORT:smtp ERROR:(ERR164) transport smtp: BIND server failure: : Connection timed out into /var/log/smail/l

Re: Hi/True Color mode for X ! please help

1998-10-20 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Linh Dang wrote: > I have just installed ham from SLS. Everything is fine except X > in Hi (16bits) or True (24bits) color. > > I have a Sony CPD 200sf and a PCI ATI 3D Rage II+ with 8Mb on board. > I have an excellent [EMAIL PROTECTED] in 8bits depth but when I switch to >

newbie d00d

1998-10-20 Thread Derek McCabe
What FTP, directory, and files are needed to get xwindows? I have Debian, and I'm a new user. The computer is a 486 20MBram and no modem. Attachments are welcome!

Re: Nescape 4.5 for SWim Motif 2.1?

1998-10-20 Thread aqy6633
> Is there a package of Netscape 4.5 compiled for SWiM Motif 2.1 ? Most probably not. Netscape always used Motif 1.2 for linking. May be glibc2 version uses Morif 2.1 - but unlikely. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7

gzip tar

1998-10-20 Thread Bob Barth
I have done TWO downloads using ncftp of StarOffice 4.0 from:    ftp://ftp.stardivision.com/pub/so4/linux/sp3/01/   I have tried decompressing installing it using:       gzip -dc  the_file_name.tar.gz | tar -xvf -   When I do, after a few files I get a CRC and drive seek etc. error.

Nescape 4.5 for SWim Motif 2.1?

1998-10-20 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Is there a package of Netscape 4.5 compiled for SWiM Motif 2.1 ? Thanks, Sasha.

Upgrade to Slink and custom kernel

1998-10-20 Thread Mark Panzer
Just wondering, I compiled a custom kernel (2.0.34) with kpkg a while back for my HAMM box. If (When) I upgrade to SLINK will APT wipe-out my custom kernel? I thought kpkg added a kernel-1 (or something similar) to the kernel version so DPKG/APT wouldn't upgrade it, I just wanted to know if I

Re: just shoot me

1998-10-20 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, George Bonser wrote: > On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan wrote: > > I just wonder when a freeze is announced, a lot of people load up > their systems from unstable to give it a good workout. You might consider > this a wide but not ubiquitous beta. At this p

simple GTK programs don't compile

1998-10-20 Thread M.C. Vernon
DEar all, I donwloaded a really simple GTK program, and tryed to build it: ld: cannot open -lXi: No such file or directory What is going wrong, please? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocitie

Network Puzzle

1998-10-20 Thread Michael Montz
I have a Linux server setup with a hybrid cable modem (down cable/up phone line)using ip masqurading. Works great. The puzzle is that whenever I telnet to the server from my computer, the modem connects to the ISP. If the modem doesn't connect right away, the telnet session will delay starting.

Re: HELP: Root login broken

1998-10-20 Thread M.C. Vernon
> Any ideas on where I should start trying to fix this? This is a problem with sysklogd-29 which has been covered on this and -devel recently. The fix is: boot in single user chmod -x sysklogd reboot. Install the newer version (-30) Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward o

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