Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-27 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Darxus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 27 Oct 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: | | > | > I felt like checking. Oops. When I reinstalled & tried to | > | > restore it, I | > | > found out that gzip can't seek to the end of the file (dies | > | > around 2gb?). | > | | > | You can force gzip to h

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-27 Thread Darxus
On 27 Oct 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > | > I felt like checking. Oops. When I reinstalled & tried to restore it, I > | > found out that gzip can't seek to the end of the file (dies around 2gb?). > | > | You can force gzip to handle it as a stream. Try something like: > | > | cat tarfile.t

Re: My mail doesn't work at all :((((((((((((((( (fwd)

1998-10-27 Thread M.C. Vernon
> > I just installed Exim on a new system. The fix is this: > > sender_host_accept_relay=127.0.0.1 This still doesn't work :(( Help? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841

There is one. (Was: SpeakerPhone software?)

1998-10-27 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Just FYI. There indeed is Linux SpeakerPhone Software which works fine on my Debian Hamm system. Program is now maintained by Christopher Lansdown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ftp://screech.alfred.edu/pub/spk/interim/spk-march.19.1998.tar.gz http://www.cs.alfred.edu/~spk/ You need to compile it

ZMODEM: Resume file transfer

1998-10-27 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi, I would like to know why file transfering via diffrent terminal programs like minicom, hyperterm (w95) with option -r does not work for me. I use sz -br command on server side, while having the "rz -vvrC" in minicom config file as a zmodem command. I am getting something like that: Receiving:

Reroute printer, bounce queue

1998-10-27 Thread Kent West
With much help from this list, I've almost got it. Goal: to capture a print job from a Windows PC, send a copy of the print job to an alpha pager via email, and then send the print job on to a network printer. Problem: If I print to "beeper", I get the email message and the logfile, but I don't g

Re: Script help...............

1998-10-27 Thread Phillip Neumann
Michael Beattie wrote: > On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: > > > Hi debian world... > > > > > > > > > > Im not know very much about scripts so i need some help with one.. > > > > Here my situation: > > > > A script will be executed when i call to my linux box... here it is: > > > > /etc/

Re: lynx colours

1998-10-27 Thread wtopa
Hear, Hear. I too am bugged by that color combination. Just keep forgetting to ask about it. Subject: lynx colours Date: Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 05:06:03PM + In reply to:Dave Swegen Quoting Dave Swegen([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Is there anyone out there who could enlighten me

Re: clearing screen after logout & login screen

1998-10-27 Thread Dean Allen Provins
> How do I clear the screen after logout? so...instead of walking up on > the remnants of the X server terminating and a login prompt, all that > shows on the screen is the login prompt... what script is it? In your home directory, create a file called '.bash_logout' (assuming that you are usin

DNS woes

1998-10-27 Thread Gregory Dickinson
Greets all! Here's my (somewhat strange) situation, I hope someone can help. I have a 2.0 box configured as a DNS for our intranet. Said Debian box has 2 NIC's in it, one for the public side (internet) and one for our provate side (intranet.) I was wondering (mainly) how to make the DNS only

Re: colors in text-mode

1998-10-27 Thread Juergen Fornoff
> I was wonderinghow might I get the login prompt to use some colors? > nothing fancy...just the text in a color other than white. in your home-dir modify .bashrc, try e.g.: export PS1='\e[0;5;36m\h:\e[0;42;30m\w>\e[1;40;35m' and see what happens. those esc-sequences should work: \e[2J

postgresql and plain passwd.

1998-10-27 Thread Jens Ritter
Dear Users and Developers, today I tried to setup the passwd authentication of postgresql and failed miserably. I edited /etc/pg_hba.conf and added this line: (note: not copied from the file) host tablename 137.x.x.x 0.0.0.0 password passwd I then add a new user as DBA using "createuser" (say j

amaya

1998-10-27 Thread hubert . fauque
I have tried to use amaya but it doesn't work; when I open an html document it just put the title and the document appears blank; I can't write anything and sometimes it prints thot error thanks for helping me Hubert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /etc/host.deny and co

1998-10-27 Thread Linh Dang
Thank you very much! Another question if you don't mind? Someone mentionned ipfwadm. What do you think about it, how does it compare to tcpwrapper? Does one has to recompile the kernel to use ipfwadm ? Thanks again -- Linh Dang Daniel Martin wrote: > > Linh Dang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >

Re: Quake2/3dfx

1998-10-27 Thread Jeff Katcher
Dave Swegen wrote: > > I don't know if it would be of any help in this case, but there is a > quake for linux FAQ floating about on the net (sorry, don't know the URL http://www.linuxquake.com and work from there (there's a link to the howto) ,,^..^,,

xterm broken

1998-10-27 Thread Richard Hall
I just upgraded my system to glibc6, and it went smoothly for the most part. I used autoup and followed the instructions in the Mini-HOWTO. I am pretty much running as usual, but xterm doesn't work anymore, so I have to use rxvt. I'm having trouble figuring out the problem. I reinstalled xbase

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

1998-10-27 Thread Greg Frye
I have been able to connect to a postgresql database on a linux machine from MS Access97 with the postODBC driver on a NT 4 workstation. I had to redo my ODBC and try it again before I answered because problems on my NT workstation required a re-install. 1 - I installed postODBC versio 6.30.0249

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-27 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Antti-Juhani wrote on debian-user: > On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 11:05:42AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: ... > > I would agree however, that a good description of each package would > > help you decide what to install. > > Please tell me, what you would consider a good description! Feel free

colors in text-mode

1998-10-27 Thread jim r
Once more the newbie asks a question: I was wonderinghow might I get the login prompt to use some colors? nothing fancy...just the text in a color other than white. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

NETENV vs network.conf in PCMCIA-CS

1998-10-27 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, I tried to install NetEnv (from Slink) on ThinkPad running Debian hamm. Package look very nice - during boot time nice window pops up and asks what network configuration would you like to use. But afterward it still read configuration from /etc/pcmcia/network.conf Removing netowork.conf

Re: /etc/host.deny and co

1998-10-27 Thread Miller Paul
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Linh Dang wrote: > I want to deny telnet, ftp and smtp connection from ANY other sites. > But I want to accept http connection, pull down pop3, imap and > send out mail (smtp). > > How do I setup /etc/host.deny, /etc/host.allow and CO. I will RTFM > but since security is so i

Re: dselect can't download Packages.gz

1998-10-27 Thread Paul Quinn
Here's what I get from dselect using the ftp method: Enter ftp site [ftp.us.debian.org]: Use passive mode [y]: Enter username [anonymous]: If you are using anonymous ftp to retrieve files, enter your email address for use as a password. Otherwise enter your password, or "?" if you want dpkg-ft

Characters Disappearing on virtual consoles

1998-10-27 Thread Miller Paul
This problem is not like a messed up terminal after 'catting' a binary file. What I see is the bitmaps of characters not being fully displayedin my virtual consoles. At first everything is OK, but I leave the terminal unattended for say about 20 minutes, I see the bad bitmapped characters. This doe

quake 2 on debian

1998-10-27 Thread Vincent Murphy
exactly what packages will i need? i got all the quake2 packages from slink/non-free/binary-i386/quake* and hamm/non-free/binary-i386/libglide*. what else will i need which is not on the hamm cd? i'm getting all the extra stuff i need in college and bringing it home on sneakernet :) regards, vinny

Re: xf86setup_3.3.2.3a-6

1998-10-27 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 07:33:06PM +, Ruud de Bruin wrote: > I am having problems in using xf86setup from slink. I am starting from > scratch and have choosen a "complete development environment" during the > initial setup. I am trying to get all the programs from slink via apt. > > I am havin

Python curses import error

1998-10-27 Thread Mike Orr
I'm trying to write my first Python curses program. The "Curses Programming with Python" HOWTO (A.M. Kychling, April 1998) says there are two modules, "curses" (Lance Ellinghouse) included with the Python distribution, and the enhanced "cursesmodule" (Oliver Andrich, http://www.fga.de/andrich/cre

xf86setup_3.3.2.3a-6

1998-10-27 Thread Ruud de Bruin
I am having problems in using xf86setup from slink. I am starting from scratch and have choosen a "complete development environment" during the initial setup. I am trying to get all the programs from slink via apt. I am having problems with xf86setup. This programs refuses to start because many pr

Re: lynx colours

1998-10-27 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Dave Swegen wrote: > > Is there anyone out there who could enlighten me on the topic of colours > in lynx? IMHO the default colours are dreadful (dark-blue on black, > anyone?). I have rtfm, but to little avail. This is something that has > been bugging me for ages, and I would like to sort it out

installation problem

1998-10-27 Thread Artin Nebel Rebekale
while installing hamm to my thinkpad laptop i had this odd problem. I've already checked the linux/laptop resource pages and they had no solution for this. Basically i get to the screen to partition the drive, /dev/hda is the only drive i have (and therefore the only one available) but when i c

Re: Procmail and smail

1998-10-27 Thread Michael Grimm
Mika Fischer wrote: [snip] > For me, the following works well. > But I changed it only a few days ago and it may be incorrect. > I got it from some kind of procmail-doc (don't remember exactly) > > ---snip--- 'local' part of /etc/smail/transports > local: driver=pipe, > from, >

Re: Linux on 4Mb

1998-10-27 Thread Jens Ritter
Bostjan JERKO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it possible to install Linux on machine with 4 Mb and of course > it should work. I am doing it right at the moment. This little 4 MB 486sx notebook swaps to death but it works. And as I don't have a CDROM, I have to use the rather sloww LapLin

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-27 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
" Raymond A. Ingles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Darxus wrote: | | > I felt like checking. Oops. When I reinstalled & tried to restore it, I | > found out that gzip can't seek to the end of the file (dies around 2gb?). | | You can force gzip to handle it as a stream. Try

lynx colours

1998-10-27 Thread Dave Swegen
Is there anyone out there who could enlighten me on the topic of colours in lynx? IMHO the default colours are dreadful (dark-blue on black, anyone?). I have rtfm, but to little avail. This is something that has been bugging me for ages, and I would like to sort it out once and for all. Cheers

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-27 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Darxus wrote: > I felt like checking. Oops. When I reinstalled & tried to restore it, I > found out that gzip can't seek to the end of the file (dies around 2gb?). You can force gzip to handle it as a stream. Try something like: cat tarfile.tgz | gunzip -c | tar xvf -

Re: Experience with IBM Thinkpad 300CSE

1998-10-27 Thread Anders Arnholm
> Does anyone have experience installing Debian (Hamm/Slink) on an IBM > Thinkpad 300CSE? My father got me an early xmas present. 486-50(?), 20Mb > RAM, 350Mb HD. It has Win95 on it now. I don't really need X, just curious > as to how well Linux will like such a beast. I have installed i

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-27 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 07:16:55PM +0100, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: : If I understand well our Debian policy, you should be able to install ALL : packages having priority >= optional, i.e. all packages but those having : "extra" priority. : : Therefore if you find one optional package that

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-27 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
Hi. If I understand well our Debian policy, you should be able to install ALL packages having priority >= optional, i.e. all packages but those having "extra" priority. Therefore if you find one optional package that conflicts with another optional package, then it is a bug and you may report it

Re: Crash

1998-10-27 Thread John Maheu
I just looked at "last" on my system and noticed the same thing. Some reboots and shutdowns appear as crash. Yet I know everything was umounted correctly. WHY? John John Maheuphone (403) 492-2049 University of Alberta e

Re: Voodoo 2

1998-10-27 Thread Phillip Neumann
Alvaro Reguly wrote: > Hello .. > > I've set up q2 and installed libglide2_2.4-3.deb but i can't get my > monster II to work .. q2 works only in 320xsomething in > +vid_ref soft not vid_ref gl. > > I've read somewhere that i need to run q2 with a script called > quake2.3dfxgl or something like th

Re: Debian Menu Methods & WMaker Menu Config

1998-10-27 Thread Greg Starkes
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Lukas Eppler wrote: > On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, jim r wrote: > > > I've installed several non-debian packages (some RPMs and what not). How > > do I safely update my Window Maker menus? If I hand-jam the changes, > > will the results be wiped out the next time I install a .deb?

RE: SATAN

1998-10-27 Thread Darren Benham
try ./reconfig.sh On 27-Oct-98 Mike Holliday wrote: > Hi, > I'm having a slight problem installing Satan..when I go to the reconfig > script..I'm not sure of the command I've used "sh > /my/satan/directory/reconfig.sh But it's not moving or showing that it > is working. > > Mike H. > > > -- >

Re: Linux on 4Mb

1998-10-27 Thread Joseph Hartmann
I installed the SLACKWARE (2.0 I think -- about 2 years ago) on a 2MB-RAM, 40MB Hard drive system. It worked fine from the diskettes. (No CD-ROM on the 386SX laptop I had. After putting on emacs-nox I still had about 18 MB free. joeh

Voodoo 2

1998-10-27 Thread Alvaro Reguly
Hello .. I've set up q2 and installed libglide2_2.4-3.deb but i can't get my monster II to work .. q2 works only in 320xsomething in +vid_ref soft not vid_ref gl. I've read somewhere that i need to run q2 with a script called quake2.3dfxgl or something like that, but i can't find this script.

Re: /etc/host.deny and co

1998-10-27 Thread Daniel Martin
Linh Dang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > > I want to deny telnet, ftp and smtp connection from ANY other sites. > But I want to accept http connection, pull down pop3, imap and > send out mail (smtp). > > How do I setup /etc/host.deny, /etc/host.allow and CO. I will RTFM > but since security

Re: XWindow broken :(

1998-10-27 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 01:46:14PM -0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > 1) The pixmaps of wmaker isn't working anymore Update your pixmap path. I'll bet you have wmaker-data 0.7; put /usr/share/icons in your IconPath. Marcelo

RE: Procmail and smail

1998-10-27 Thread Moore, Paul
>From: Pann McCuaig[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >This document helped me do exactly what you want. Nice step-by-step >instructions that include tests along the way. > >Email: > Send mail to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Containing the following in the body of the message: >send usenet/news.answers/

Samba troubles

1998-10-27 Thread Giuliano P Procida
Using the lastest unstable/frozen package of Samba I have run into a curious problem with Win98. I have finally got profiles and netlogon working to my satisfaction with one serious exception: all Explorer windows no longer automatically update when I add, remove or rename files (that are local).

offix

1998-10-27 Thread H C Pumphrey
Hello Debian Gurus: Just a small one: I tried installing the offix suite several times from my Debian 2.0 CD. It never worked, presumably because of bug #27078:( libdnd1 does not run ldconfig in the postinst!). None of the offix commands appeared except for offix-editor and that didn't work, pro

Starting-problems with a new Ethernet adapter

1998-10-27 Thread Benjamin Langmann
Hello, my computer breaks when he starts. He says:Configureing Serial Ports ... and then nothing happends. I think it has sth. to do with my new ethernet adapter (noname PCI), because when I remove it everything is right. I compiled a new Kernel, but the problem is still there. The ethernet adapter

Re: More than one question....

1998-10-27 Thread Mika Fischer
Hi, Vincent! On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 11:08:40PM -0500, Vincent Rosso wrote : > 4. Finally, how do I change the default resolution X windows starts up > at? Right now it starts up at 1280x1024. It could be much worse, I > guess, I could be starting at a resolution of 2 or something. But > 1280x

Re: Procmail and smail

1998-10-27 Thread Mika Fischer
Hi, On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 11:13:48AM -, Moore, Paul wrote : > Hi, > I have smail and procmail installed, and I want to get them working > together. I am currently using a .forward file to push my mail through > procmail, but what I'd like is if smail used procmail directly as the > local del

bttv

1998-10-27 Thread Mike Gerber
Hi Folks! Is there a solution to get BT848 (in my case BT878) based TV cards working under Debian 2.0 _and_ Kernel 2.0.35? Do I really need to switch to Kernel 2.1.x or compile my own version of the bttv-drivers? Not that would be a problem, but I like debs more. maybe someone (me :-)) should

Re: SATAN

1998-10-27 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Mike Holliday wrote: > Hi, > I'm having a slight problem installing Satan..when I go to the reconfig > script..I'm not sure of the command I've used "sh > /my/satan/directory/reconfig.sh But it's not moving or showing that it > is working. The command you need is perl /my/s

XWindow broken :(

1998-10-27 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I upgraded my XWindow System today morning with apt and the fonts went out and everything was very strange. I tried to reinstall the xbase, xfnt75, xfn100 from Hamm and now I have still some problems. 1) The pixmaps of wmaker isn't working anymore

Problem with xdm in a bo-hamm updated system

1998-10-27 Thread jarregui
Hello! I've upgraded my bo system to hamm, and have had some problems. Also, I have a clean new installed hamm system in another partition. When a try to start xdm, I get a core dump and I can see in /var/log/xdm-errors: sh: '-c' requires an argument I've removed, purged and re-installed xbase p

Re: HELP!! Slink hosed my system!!!

1998-10-27 Thread Steven Udell
Person, Rod wrote: > > Help! > > On the recommendation of others, I attempted to download some apps from > slink! I had done this before and everything worked fine! > > Not this time I need to download libc6 and libreadline2 from slink along > with mime-support from slink. I missed then dependen

installing .tfm files

1998-10-27 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 05:30:18PM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins |> Esq. wrote: |> [.tfm files] |> > But how in the world do I get latex to recognize these? I see a |> > number of places I can put them, |> |> Put them in a subdirectory of /usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/tfm/ |> (IIRC) and run texhash

Re: Procmail and smail

1998-10-27 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 11:13:48AM -, Moore, Paul wrote: > I have smail and procmail installed, and I want to get them working > together. I am currently using a .forward file to push my mail through > procmail, but what I'd like is if smail used procmail directly as the > local delivery agent

Re: kppp

1998-10-27 Thread john
> I installed kde on my Debian 2.0 and would like to use kppp to connect to > Internet. After installation and configuration I tried to connect to my > ptovider, but script expects OK after CONNECT message, but my provider > doesn't send any OK ater connection (in ppp it would be CONNECT "" ""). S

Re: modem connection speed

1998-10-27 Thread john
Hamish Moffatt writes: > Not really the same thing; you really need ATZ then ATW2 as a separate > command. Or do ATW2 and write the options to NVRAM with &W. You're right: 'ATZ OK ATW2' for belt & suspenders. But most modems don't need the ATZ at all. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasle

dselect can't download Packages.gz

1998-10-27 Thread Paul Quinn
I'm trying to use dselect with the ftp method for accessing debian packages. I use a correct site and dist names (the Access step complete successfully), but the Update step fails to retrieve the Packages.gz files. It complains that it can't find Packages or Packages.gz in any of the main/non-fr

Re: Security problem

1998-10-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 09:27:55AM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > I thought that 2.0 was _stable_, and therefore was the same as my CD. > > > > This is not the case? > > Proposed security fixes (from proposed-updates) are moved into the stable > tree at the

GUS PnP with isapnp & alsa-modules

1998-10-27 Thread Mike Gerber
Hi Debian Users! I'm trying to get my GUS PnP working under Debian 2.0 using Kernel 2.0.35, isapnp and the corresponding alsa-modules. My first question: Is the alsa-Driver OSS-compatible? I initialized my GUS using isapnp as I've done under my prev. distro(it worked there), but the alsa module

Re: Security problem

1998-10-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 09:27:55AM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > I thought that 2.0 was _stable_, and therefore was the same as my CD. > > This is not the case? Proposed security fixes (from proposed-updates) are moved into the stable tree at the request of the security team. Ray -- ART A

Re: /etc/host.deny and co

1998-10-27 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 09:52:28AM -0500, Linh Dang wrote: : I want to deny telnet, ftp and smtp connection from ANY other sites. But : I want to accept http connection, pull down pop3, imap and send out mail : (smtp). : : How do I setup /etc/host.deny, /etc/host.allow and CO. I will RTFM b

Re: Setting variables for menu access

1998-10-27 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, David Morris wrote: > ...CVSROOT... > Where do I need to set variables like that so my xdm-started session menus > have access to them? I have it in .bash_profile. better than .xsession in my opinion. If more than one user uses it, you could also place it in /etc/profile, i t

Re: apt-get broken?

1998-10-27 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 09:32:52AM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: : : Here's what happens when I try to `update' : : : # apt-get update : Get ftp://debian.crosslink.net dists/hamm/ Packages : Error ftp://debian.crosslink.net dists/hamm/ Packages : 550 /pub/linux/debian/dists/hamm/Package

Re: Security problem

1998-10-27 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Christian Hudon wrote: > ... > Well, you can also subscribe to debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org > Information about every security fix released by Debian is posted there. > (To subscribe, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the single word > 'subscribe' in the su

Re: **IMPORTANT** Slink sendmail and libdb2

1998-10-27 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 08:35:35AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: : Would it be possible for the sendmailconfig to update these databases? : It wouldn't be that hard, I think. Also, how about updating the defailts : so that they are stored in /etc/mail instead of /etc? They default to /etc/mail,

[stallkne@digger.scc.uni-weimar.de: fschk-error]

1998-10-27 Thread Martin Schulze
Please take care. Regards, Joey -- Unable to locate coffee, operator halted. -- Stefan Farsch --- Begin Message --- At the last boot-attempt I got an fschk error(8) (operational error) and was told by the program to fix this manually. What do I have to do now or where can I find some i

/etc/host.deny and co

1998-10-27 Thread Linh Dang
Hi I want to deny telnet, ftp and smtp connection from ANY other sites. But I want to accept http connection, pull down pop3, imap and send out mail (smtp). How do I setup /etc/host.deny, /etc/host.allow and CO. I will RTFM but since security is so important (that why I choose Debian) I'd like t

RE: Help with E-Mail

1998-10-27 Thread Martin Waller
Hi, I downloaded the .tgz file direct from ftp.netscape.com, stuck it in /usr/local/ (where all my non-.debs go), unzipped it, untarred it, ran the nsinstall script (instructions included in the .tgz file) and voila! it was ready to go. Remember to get the version corresponding to your libc (l

SATAN

1998-10-27 Thread Mike Holliday
Hi, I'm having a slight problem installing Satan..when I go to the reconfig script..I'm not sure of the command I've used "sh /my/satan/directory/reconfig.sh But it's not moving or showing that it is working. Mike H.

Re: **IMPORTANT** Slink sendmail and libdb2

1998-10-27 Thread John Goerzen
Would it be possible for the sendmailconfig to update these databases? It wouldn't be that hard, I think. Also, how about updating the defailts so that they are stored in /etc/mail instead of /etc? John Richard A Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The last update of sendmail switched from lib

Re: ppp problem

1998-10-27 Thread David Wright
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Chris Evans wrote: > I have moved my debian machine home from old workplace and am > trying to configure it for ppp access to my university ppp entry > point. I have used pppconfig to enter the basic parameters that > work for Win95 ppp access and I can see from plog (afte

apt-get broken?

1998-10-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Here's what happens when I try to `update' : # apt-get update Get ftp://debian.crosslink.net dists/hamm/ Packages Error ftp://debian.crosslink.net dists/hamm/ Packages 550 /pub/linux/debian/dists/hamm/Packages.gz: not a plain file. Get ftp://debian.crosslink.net dists/proposed-updates/ Packages

Re: Security problem

1998-10-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
King Lee wrote: > The fixes appear in the current distributions > (2.0.2 I think) not in package-updates. Now I'm really confused. I always thought that I'd have everything by installing 2.0 and then tracking proposed-updates. I thought that 2.0 was _stable_, and therefor

HELP!! Slink hosed my system!!!

1998-10-27 Thread Person, Rod
Help! On the recommendation of others, I attempted to download some apps from slink! I had done this before and everything worked fine! Not this time I need to download libc6 and libreadline2 from slink along with mime-support from slink. I missed then dependency of mime-support until after the d

Re: how to stop /dev/dsp being in use?

1998-10-27 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> I killed timidity (i can't remember why), and couldn't get it to play again > because "/dev/dsp" was "in use". How do I stop it being in use without > restarting? /var/lock contains the lock files; remove the appropriate file. rick --

Re: DayLight Saving - in Australia

1998-10-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 07:27:49AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > Quoting Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 07:53:00PM +0100, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > > > Linux will not change the clock at all (contrary to Windows). All > > > Linux does is to interpret the time in a

Re: kppp

1998-10-27 Thread Kirston Akos
Hi! I have the same problem on RedHat 5.0. Then I change the next beta version of kde. After this it's worked. Now I use debian and I don't use kde. May be if there is no other solution try this. By krisah On 27 Oct 1998, Bostjan JERKO wrote: > I installed kde on my Debian 2.0 and would

how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-27 Thread Darxus
Before I wiped redhat to install debian several weeks ago, I backed up my /etc, /root, and /home directories to .tar.gz's on another drive. Unfortunately I was overconfident that my syntax was correct, and that there were no other problems that could occur -- I think I verified that I could re-ope

Re: Linux on 4Mb

1998-10-27 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Once I did it with BO. All installation was done on another PC with 32M but after that the harddrive was placed on machine with only 4MB ROM and it was ok. On 27 Oct 1998, Bostjan JERKO wrote: > Is it possible to install Linux on machine with 4 Mb and of course it should > work. > > Bostjan

Re: exim filters and/or procmail

1998-10-27 Thread servis
*- Lee Bradshaw wrote about "exim filters and/or procmail" | | Does anyone have an example of exim filters which split list mail into | different files? Here are some chunks of my .forward file that deal with the debian-* lists traffic. # Exim filter if error_message then finish endif if $h_X-

Re: DayLight Saving - in Australia

1998-10-27 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 07:53:00PM +0100, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > > Linux will not change the clock at all (contrary to Windows). All > > Linux does is to interpret the time in a different way. > [...] > > If the CMOS clock is set to local time Linux

Re: Crash

1998-10-27 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Andreas Kahari wrote: > At work, if I reboot my Solaris workstation, the "last" command reports > something like > rebootsystem boot Fri Oct 23 09:54 > ... > but at home, with Debian 2.0, it simply states that my system has > "crashed" at a specific time

Re: Debian Menu Methods & WMaker Menu Config

1998-10-27 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, jim r wrote: > I've installed several non-debian packages (some RPMs and what not). How > do I safely update my Window Maker menus? If I hand-jam the changes, > will the results be wiped out the next time I install a .deb? orwill > the changes cause a .deb install (spec

Re: KDE Questions

1998-10-27 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Cristov Russell wrote: > 2 - When I start the editor application, it opens 3 times. The first 2 > times it pops up an error message for a directory I have not loaded a file > from previously but from a directory I used in bash prior to running KDE the > first time!? Does any

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

1998-10-27 Thread Damon Muller
On Sun, 25 Oct 1998 14:05:30 -0600 (CST) "D'jinnie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have attempted to set up ODBC with Postgres, and I think I got the ODBC > part working (I'm doing this for my work, trying to come up with an > alternative to M$ SQL :) but I've no clue how to make Access talk to >

Re: Notification of incoming telnet sessions..

1998-10-27 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > > > > > >> "MB" == Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > MB> I want to be able to have some form of notification when a telnet > > MB> connection is made to my linux box, most likely in the form of playing > > an > > MB> appropri

Re: Notification of incoming telnet sessions..

1998-10-27 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Petter Adsen wrote: > Michael Beattie writes: > | I want to be able to have some form of notification when a telnet > | connection is made to my linux box, most likely in the form of playing an > [snip] > > You can probably do this with tcpwrappers. See the manpages for > hos

Re: clearing screen after logout & login screen

1998-10-27 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, jim r wrote: > How do I clear the screen after logout? so...instead of walking up on > the remnants of the X server terminating and a login prompt, all that > shows on the screen is the login prompt... what script is it? No script, just add `trap clear EXIT` to the end of

Re: clearing screen after logout & login screen

1998-10-27 Thread Juergen Fornoff
> How do I clear the screen after logout? so...instead of walking up on > the remnants of the X server terminating and a login prompt, all that > shows on the screen is the login prompt... what script is it? > > For that matter, how can I change the login prompt itself?both lines > (Debia

kppp

1998-10-27 Thread Bostjan JERKO
I installed kde on my Debian 2.0 and would like to use kppp to connect to Internet. After installation and configuration I tried to connect to my ptovider, but script expects OK after CONNECT message, but my provider doesn't send any OK ater connection (in ppp it would be CONNECT "" ""). Can an

Procmail and smail

1998-10-27 Thread Moore, Paul
Hi, I have smail and procmail installed, and I want to get them working together. I am currently using a .forward file to push my mail through procmail, but what I'd like is if smail used procmail directly as the local delivery agent (when I used the SuSE distribution, with sendmail and procmail, i

how to stop /dev/dsp being in use?

1998-10-27 Thread Andrew
Just a quickie: I killed timidity (i can't remember why), and couldn't get it to play again because "/dev/dsp" was "in use". How do I stop it being in use without restarting? -- Andrew Tarr "We were so close to heaven --- Peter came out and gave us badges, proclaiming us `The Nicest of the Da

Linux on 4Mb

1998-10-27 Thread Bostjan JERKO
Is it possible to install Linux on machine with 4 Mb and of course it should work. Bostjan

Re: Installation

1998-10-27 Thread Rodrigo Moya
I tried last night to set up everything as <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said yesterday, that is: controller 0, device 0: harddisk, STANDALONE controller 1, device 0: harddisk, MASTER controller 1, device 1: cdrom, SLAVE And now, the boot-up process hangs up a step forward. Now it shows: ... hd

Re: clearing screen after logout & login screen

1998-10-27 Thread chadi
edit /etc/issue if u are on the local machine or /etc/issue.net for telnet sessions ... that is, put a full screen of welcome messages on it and it will clear away all those funny characters hope this helps, Chad *** REPLY PARTITION *** On 10/27/98, at 1:31 AM, jim r wrote: >Ho

Debian Menu Methods & WMaker Menu Config

1998-10-27 Thread jim r
I've installed several non-debian packages (some RPMs and what not). How do I safely update my Window Maker menus? If I hand-jam the changes, will the results be wiped out the next time I install a .deb? orwill the changes cause a .deb install (specifically the menu update part) to screw up

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