Re: One more convinced Linux newbie.

On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Robert Cloud wrote: > Yada, yada, yada ... therefore I think Linux is > great: however ... > > 1) My system has a 2.5 hard disk (with all my goodies installed). > > 2) I've used FIPS to partition (successfully) said HD. > > 3) I've downloaded your distribution and stat to

One more convinced Linux newbie.

Yada, yada, yada ... therefore I think Linux is great: however ... 1) My system has a 2.5 hard disk (with all my goodies installed). 2) I've used FIPS to partition (successfully) said HD. 3) I've downloaded your distribution and stat to "install." 4)CFDSIK starts. I get throught the keyboard s

RE: Debugging multithreaded program on Debian

What you are doing wrong is compiling an app to debug it w/ optimizations. This may not be causing your problem (I have never tried to use ddd). However -g and -O? is not guaranteed to work well. It works, but the results are not well defined. To debug just use -g, then once it is working turn

Re: Debian on Notebooks

Hi, :> The Acer notebook uses a very nice Neo magic video card. The only thing :> that is not nice about this video card is that it is not supported by :> Xfree 3.3.2. :> :> The Neo magic card is supported by Xfree 3.3.3 but that is not generally :> avaiable in distributions.

Debugging multithreaded program on Debian

Hi, as the subject tells I would like to debug a multithreaded programm on debian. I upgraded gdb (to 4.17-4.m86k.objc.threads.hwwp.fpu.gnat.2), libc6 (2.0.7.u-4) and ddd-smotif (3.0-1) and after my program starts the threads (pthread_create) I am unable to see these tasks (when clicking on the

Re: Debian on Notebooks

:> The Acer notebook uses a very nice Neo magic video card. The only thing :> that is not nice about this video card is that it is not supported by :> Xfree 3.3.2. :> :> The Neo magic card is supported by Xfree 3.3.3 but that is not generally :> avaiable in distributions. : :xserver-neomagic is

Can I make modules w/o remaking the entire kernel?

Dear Debian User, Do I need to re-compile the entire kernel if I really just need to, for example, update the sound module? -- Linux: Powerful Source-ery (I just now made that up) Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Changing domain

You can see all the instances of the FQDN by running find /etc -type f | xargs grep yourFQDN that will show all the files that need to be changed (you could use the previous output filtered with "uniq" and modified with "sed" to do the whole thing in one step) Hope this helps, lazaro -Orig

Q: Problems to get network connection up (Debian 2.0 + NE2000 on HP Vectra 7)

Hi, For some (unknown to me) reason I cannot get the net connection to work. I have done this many times before without any problem (on other systems, installling debian 0.96 to 1.3) but now I cannot figure out what's wrong: I am using the disks for i386 of July 1998, with a ne2000 (recogni

Mozilla segfaults

Dear all, I'm using E0.15. I've just installed mozilla (I have netscape intalled...), and it segfaults. No error, no nothing. Just a segfault. An strace produces tons of output, but the last few lines before the segfault aren't anything helpful. Any ideas? Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sil

Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

>> On Sat, Nov 07, 1998 at 07:38:16PM +0200, Jaakko Niemi wrote: >> > >> Actually my NT installation from February is still working fine, >> > >> as is my 95 installation (but that's because all I use it for is >> > >> Total Annihilation. :-) >> > >> > Note: at work I see at least 2 boxes per day

Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

>> On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote: >> >> > Note: at work I see at least 2 boxes per day that can be fixed >> > only by reinstalling 95/98/NT. It's mildly put SICK. >> >> As a tech support person for a university, I say "AMEN!" >> >> > >> > >> Goodness knows if it is possible to trans

Adaptec 7890Ultra2 prob

I've got a new SuperMicro P6DBU with onboard Adaptec-7890 Ultra-2. I've tried the aic7xxx instruction set, but it fails to recognize the drives. It's got a Cheetah Ultra2/LVD drive and SONY DAT tape drive. Should the aic7xxx drivers work? Are there any changes I should make to the Adaptec BIOS?

Using sound on Debian?

This may sound as a stupid question, but I cannot figure out how to use sound on debian 2.0 system. I never used debian before and I installed it only recently. When I run 'saytime', logged in as root, I get error message: opening /dev/audio: Operation not supported by device and /dev/audio is:

Re: Debian 1.2.125 kernel source

On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 10:58:00AM -0800, George Bonser wrote: [snip] > Other than that minor change, the 2.1.125 kernel seems to work pretty > well. Now to patch it up to 2.1.127 :) What about Alan Cox's 2.1.127ac1 patch? Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett

Re: standardising X

On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Jiri Baum wrote: > Hello, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (richard): > > This is purely an asthetic question, so all coments are welcome. I'd > > like to standardise > > my X Windows, so that they all look and operate the same. > > In X, any window can look any way it likes. That

Re: newbie diff question

On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 04:03:50PM -0500, Jeff Miller wrote: > is there an automatic way to update the applicable files based on > the diff content or do I have to apply the changes manually? patch < your.diff This may or may not work, depending on the type of the diff. If you experience proble

newbie diff question

Hello, I was wondering how to *use* a diff file. I understand what is in the diff file, but is there an automatic way to update the applicable files based on the diff content or do I have to apply the changes manually? Thanks!

bash ulimit (was swap space ...)

what I thaught was a swap space problem comes in fact from the bash ulimit data segment size set to 20480 Is this hardwired in bash? Can it be change system-wide? For the time beeing, I'm only able to change it in a shell run by root. Thanks Michel ---

Re: Is there any FREE alternative for l

Richard L. Alhama writes: > What if the author died ? Then his heirs own the copyright. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood,

Re: standardising X

Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (richard): > This is purely an asthetic question, so all coments are welcome. I'd > like to standardise > my X Windows, so that they all look and operate the same. In X, any window can look any way it likes. That said, though, most X apps are written using one of

which fax?

Hello, Which fax sending/receiving package should I get, please? efax, mgetty or ? Are there any advantages or disadvantages to one or the other? I have a generic faxmodem. If I'd be able to serve it as a PostScript (or other) printer to a Windows box, that'd be nice (I have samba working OK), b

Re: Debian 2.1, Adresses

http://www.debian.org/distrib/vendors John Maheuphone (403) 492-2049 University of Alberta email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Economics Edmonton, Alberta Canada, T6G 2H4 -

Debian 2.1, Adresses

Hi, can anyone please mail me a address where I can buy GNU-Debian Linux in U.S.A or order via Internet Thanks a lot Grüße, Peter

Re: exim queue

On Mon, Nov 09 1998, Leon Breedt spake thus: i just noticed something else. > i'm running exim on a dialup box, with some success. i can get > local messages (via fetchmail) delivered fine. or maybe not so fine. after running fetchmail, i see local messages aren't all delivered immediately, som

Let's hunt the oldest bug!

+-+ | You don't have the time or experience to become a Debian developer? | | Nevertheless you want to help? | | or | | You are

exim queue

hi i'm running exim on a dialup box, with some success. i can get local messages (via fetchmail) delivered fine. i'm not sure how to deliver message to remote hosts though. because i have a ppp net connection, i want to send my messages, and disconnect upon completing. how can i determine wheth

Re: Netscape 4.5 and "locale C not supported"

Hi, I found a temporary work around. There were some messages in the archives about the problem that indicated that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale got wiped out by some X package. A "dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale" indicated that it should have been installed by xlib6g so I downloaded and reinstal

RE: malloc and swap space

shaleh writes > Michel, malloc() allocates memory that is given it by the kernel. It does not > care where it comes from. The kernel actually does the swap allocation, not > malloc. > OK, thanks, so let me reword it: what would cause the kernel (2.0.34) to refuse to allocate swap space and tri

unable to restart X after bad crashes

It's nice that it's only X that crashes, rather than linux, but I've discovered a family of crashes that require a reboot anyway. Typically these come from running RealPlayer. Particularly, in 16bpp rather than 8. THe problem is far worse when the realplayer server is badly loaded. netscape

RE: malloc and swap space

Michel, malloc() allocates memory that is given it by the kernel. It does not care where it comes from. The kernel actually does the swap allocation, not malloc. On 09-Nov-98 Michel Juillard wrote: > Why would malloc work with one program and use swap space and > not work with an other (like eg

Re: VAIO notebooks

> is someone successfully running Debian on one of Sony's VAIO-series > notebooks? > I am thinking about getting one ... I tried and failed about a year ago. Couldn't get X running. But if they use the NeoMagic chipset that problem should have been fixed, as the information necessary to write th

malloc and swap space

Why would malloc work with one program and use swap space and not work with an other (like egcs or emacs) and report memory exhausted while there is plenty of space on swap. (The amount to be allocated is quite small, 80KB, while there is 100MB of free swap space). Can it be caused by librarie

Re: dselect for GNUbies

Hello again, I've found the answer to my second question, re: installing libc5 and libc6, browsing the 'upgrading' section of the 2.0 distribution. Boy does this process look messy! -Daniel

VAIO notebooks

Hi there, is someone successfully running Debian on one of Sony's VAIO-series notebooks? I am thinking about getting one ... So long, Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Coffee not found: Operator halted ***

was: Network-card unoprational

Hi everyone, first of all thanks for all the suggestions - I've got my problem narrowed down to a PnP-problem. I have the following cards installed in my system: 3C509 - PnP disabled, irq 15, iobase 0x210 (both supported by the card) SB AWE 32 PnP (everything but the IDE-interface enable

dconfig for GNUbies

Hi there, This is my first debian install. I am installing from the "official" debian CD set, version 1.3.1 (necessary for compatibility reasons). I have read the dselect man page, /usr/doc/debian/FAQ, the online debian installation guide (including the dselect first-time user's guide), the help

Debian Base Install - Stuck in beginning

Hello, I've installed Debian before with no problem, so I didn't expect trouble with the Base installation - just with XFree86 ;^). However, I'm stuck. Booted on resc1440.bin floppy, no boot parameters. It recognized my hard drive, Zip, and CDROM. No error messages that I can see. Chose Color, and

Help...

Hi, After using RedHat for the past couple years, I've decided to broaden my horizons and use Debian. Actually, I got sick and tired of RedHat always shipping with ancient versions of programs that often caused other applications to not work. I was installing the distribution off

sparc slowdown bug?

I have a SPARCStations 1 running debian (potato) with the 2.0.35 kernel from the distribution (recompiled, but with all the source patches). It is currently ust sitting at home connected to my pc via ethernet, it is only running about 7 process including kernel process - basically the bare minumum.

Setting up My Modem

I am unsure how to set up my modem under Debian. It is attached to COM 2 in DOS (WIN98 actually) and is a 56K V.90 and K56Flex dual-mode modem running on a P2 system. When installing, wvdial was unable to detect the modem, although it has run perfectly under Win. The modem is a Zoomtel Mode

Problems with IBM "Home and Away" 14.4 PCMCIA modem

I have an HP OmniBook 800 running Debian 2.0 and an IBM "Home and Away" combo Ethernet/modem PCMCIA card. The Ethernet side of things works brilliantly, but the modem doesn't work at all. A borrowed 3com ethernet/modem combo card worked, so I think the PCMCIA side of things is set up correctly.

RE: USB Mouse

USB is not supported in Linux *YET*. It is under development. The new Macintoshes use USB as do new PC's, so expect the desire to go up. And as desire for code increases, so does its chance of existing. On 09-Nov-98 Jeff Miller wrote: > Hello, > > Can anyone tell me if my M$ USB Port mouse is

Network Card

Hi, I have a Network Card PCI, HP 10/100TX J1371A, how can I configure my Debian Linux to use this card? Thanks in advance Ernesto Gonzalez

Re: Crontab

On Mon, 9 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am slowly moving from Slackware to Debian. I have finally figured > out that I can't use crontab -e in Debian. I have found the eh? crontab -e works fine here. > /etc/crontab file and added items to this 'new' way of doing things. > I now

Re: Crontab

On Mon, 9 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : I am slowly moving from Slackware to Debian. I have finally figured : out that I can't use crontab -e in Debian. I have found the : /etc/crontab file and added items to this 'new' way of doing things. : I now have 2 questions, I think you ar

Changing netcard

Hello, I have to change my netcard. The current card is a NE2000 compatible ISA, but the new card is PCI of (yet) unknown brand. What do I have to reconfigure? /Tomas Petersson

HELP! Rescue disks?

Hi, All looks like i got a problem - system (Deb 2.0) hangs running /etc/rc.boot scripts. Therefore i do have few questions: 1. How to create rescue disk(s)? 2. How to boot in order to avoid /etc/rc.boot running? Any help is greatly appreciated thank you OK

Re: Crontab

Hello Dennis: I believe you are mistaken about crontab -e. I use it all the time. Firstly make sure the cron or anacron package is installed. The documentation is in /usr/doc. There is also a HOWTO directory you may want to check out. Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am slowly moving from S

Crontab

I am slowly moving from Slackware to Debian. I have finally figured out that I can't use crontab -e in Debian. I have found the /etc/crontab file and added items to this 'new' way of doing things. I now have 2 questions, 1. How do I get _that_ /etc/crontab to run? 2. Where do I find docs on th

Re: deb for ssh v2.x

ssh 2.x is mostly alpha/prebeta right now as far as i can see, most of the options that are in 1.2.x are not implemented yet. last time i checked the libwrap support was ust a stub. also there is very little documentation. so i doubt it would be very usable in a distribution sense. On Mon, 9 Nov 1

Re: Netscape 4.5 and "locale C not supported"

>> I tried to export XNLSPATH and didn't work. >> I have the new X slink packages. Is this a problem? >> Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique I'm using hamm. I thought that X under slink was broken? >> On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 11:23:22AM -0400, Douglas Guptill wrote: >> >

The evil Dymanic Drive Overlay..

Greetings, Have an old machine I am looking to load up with Debian, problem is the original DOS drive had Ontrack's Dymanic Drive Overlay installed on it. I do not have the original Ontrack disk. Tried re-partioning the disk with Linux's fdisk, no luck, the evil overlay continues. Your th

Re: Is there any FREE alternative for l

> The point here is that even if theoretically possible, it can be very > difficult to un-GPL a piece of code if you are not the sole author of > it. If there are authors uncooperative with your will to change the > licensing terms, or even too many authors, your program will be > effectivel

Debian and Win32?

Hello all, As I am forced to work with Dos 95 at work here - after a fruitless crusade to be at least *allowed* to use Debian/TeX, I stumbled upon the Cygnus win32 - GNU - thing. Nice, since I now can use Xfig, my favourite drawing program and bash, my favourite shell on this stupid 95 machine

USB Mouse

Hello, Can anyone tell me if my M$ USB Port mouse is going to work with Linux? If so, how straightforward is it? I am about to install Linux on my main() computer and want to be prepared as_much_as_possible. The reason I even ask is because I couldn't get it to work under the Boot to DOS opt

Re: bellsouth.net

Chris Hoover wrote: > > Does anyone know what bellsouth.net is using for connect strings? I > tried to connect with the standard pppconfig stuff, but it is exiting > out right after dialing the number. The ppp.log file has a line with > alarm followed by the line(s) stating that it is exiting. >

Re: Netscape 4.5 and "locale C not supported"

>> I downloaded and installed (with the netscape4 installer package) >> Navigator standalone 4.5 today. Running it gives: >> >> netscape: locale `C' not supported. >> Perhaps the $XNLSPATH environment variable is not set correctly? >> >> help? In my .bash_profile, I have: XNLSPATH=/usr/X

Re: using 2 graphics cards and screens

Groumph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hi, | | I have a computer with an ATI XPERT graphic card that works fine under | debian. I have also an old screen and a Cirus logic graphic card. I'd | like to know, is it possible to have a x server running on both cards, | on two different screens, in the

Re: deb for ssh v2.x

On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Pere Camps wrote: : Hi! : : Is there any .deb available for ssh v2.x? No. : I searched for it in ftpsearch but I didn't find anything. It's not fully backwards compatible, it's non-free as you can get, and there's controversy as to whether it's legal at all (i

Re: Is there any FREE alternative for l

Polacco Fabrizio (NTC/He) wrote: > > > From: Wojciech Zabolotny > > > > I thought, that the main goal of GPL license is to give a warranty that > > the source of the software and derived works will be ALWAYS freely > > available. > > You cannot see such warranty even in the GPL. > The owner of t

"Unable to open an initial console" error

I am trying to transplant a Debian Linux disk to another formerly Debian machine. Actually it is from a dual pentium to a single pentium machine. I have been experiencing a lot of crashes with the dual pentium machine so I now decided it is time I moved to a single pentium machine. The kernel loads

Re: Help, with Debian 2.0 install from CD-ROM not part of HDD card

It looks like your cdrom is one of the early ones that runs off a propitary interface and reqires a special driver. Later cdroms run off the ide controller and use a common driver, regardless of brand. Later drives are recognized automatically by Debian, yours will require just a little more wor

Re: Debian on Notebooks

On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 02:02:50PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [reformatted to 80 columns. *sigh*] > The Acer notebook uses a very nice Neo magic video card. The only thing > that is not nice about this video card is that it is not supported by > Xfree 3.3.2. > > The Neo magic card is support

Re: Debian on Notebooks

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > }-> On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 03:23:44PM +0200, Lukas Eppler wrote: > > }-> > possible with a nice resolution with SVGATextMode. > }-> > > }-> > Most information I get is on 'how can I run X on my laptop', I look for > }-> > information the other way 'round. > }-

Re: Alt Key no longer functions

Just as a follow-up... If I put back my original /etc/X11/Xmodmap file (which has settings to make keyboards with the "Windows" keys work), then emacs recognizes the Alt keys (emacs wants the Meta keysym). Tcsh still doesn't recognize it properly, though... Alt-Backspace prints a garbage charact

Re: Adaptec Newbie Problem

Yo must specify 'linux aha=.' not just aha=

Win95/Linux network problem

Hi all! I've got a Win95 machine and a linux machine connected via ethernet cards (Realtek in both) but cannot 'ping' from one to another. This is the configuration I've got: Windows->hostname: windows.cyllan.com IP address: 192.168.1.2 Subnet mask: 255

Installing Debian 2.0 with ISDN-Support

Hi, I have a Pentium 100 with 64 MB 1GB SCSI-Disk AVM-Fritz-Card(ISDN) Matrox - Mystique Wangtek-Streamer CD-ROM Novell NE 2000 compatible card and will install Debian 2.0 on this box. I plan to use this box in ethernet and configure it in the way that my second box(debian 2.0 also running on th

Expect sciptr simple doubt.

Hi All. I have the following script to correct the delete and backspace keys under pico/pine: -Begin--- #!/etc/alternatives/expect eval spawn -noecho $argv interact { \177 {send "\008"} "\033\[3~" {send "\004"} } # Now # picofix pico # should work

Re: Is there any FREE alternative for l

> From: Wojciech Zabolotny > > I thought, that the main goal of GPL license is to give a warranty that > the source of the software and derived works will be ALWAYS freely > available. > I can't see such warranty in the libdb2 license :-(. > I hope I'm wrong. You cannot see such warranty even in t

Re: Shell script not found!

On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > Hi all! > > I am trying to compile last sources from GNOME CVS and am getting the > following error: > > $ cd glib > $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr > bash: ./autogen.sh: No such file or directory > > There is a autogen.sh file with mode -rwxr-

Re: install-disks w/aic7xxx (Adaptec) support

That would probably suffice, then - at least once slink becomes stable... I'm afraid I don't know how difficult (or trivial) it would be to use the slink images for installing hamm. In any event, when I first put those images together I don't think that the versions in slink were yet available.

Re: Writing CD from W95

-- > Van: Leonard Ong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Aan: Hubert-jan Schaminee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Onderwerp: Re: Writing CD from W95 > Datum: zondag 8 november 1998 18:37 > > > I am using Phillips 2600 ( is it old stuff ? ). I want to ask the wayout > of following condition : > > Say I down

Re: Network-card unoprational

Stephan Engelke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi everyone, > > after installing Debian 2.0 on my system I am facing the following problem: > whenever I use a 2.1.x-Kernel the network-card driver module for my > 3Com 3c509B (ISA, irq=15, iobase=0x210) will not load. The driver error > message >

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

Stefan Nobis wrote: > > Dave McFadden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If MS is successful at 'embracing and extending' Java, then HTML, TCP/IP > > and the OSS world will soon feel the suffocating arms of MS wrapped around > > them. How does HTML and TCP/IP depends on Java? Java will o

Re: standardising X

Frank Barknecht wrote: > > You can move xman's scrollbar with the middle mouse button if you have one. You can always emulate the middle button clicking the right and left ones together... -- Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra Amdocs Brasil Ltda

deb for ssh v2.x

Hi! Is there any .deb available for ssh v2.x? I searched for it in ftpsearch but I didn't find anything. TIA! Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Ratio Regum 2:343/108.91 - _`\<;_mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available

Shell script not found!

Hi all! I am trying to compile last sources from GNOME CVS and am getting the following error: $ cd glib $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr bash: ./autogen.sh: No such file or directory There is a autogen.sh file with mode -rwxr-xr-x and I am trying to run it as root. I've had this problem

Re: bellsouth.net

Hi, Try a simple string like AT&F1, that usually works. Mike Chris Hoover wrote: > Does anyone know what bellsouth.net is using for connect strings? I > tried to connect with the standard pppconfig stuff, but it is exiting > out right after dialing the number. The ppp.log file has a line with

Re: standardising X

richard hat gesagt: // richard wrote: > xman however has the scroll bar at the left hand side and buttons > that are defined by dots. The scroll-bar can only be moved by repeated > left and right mouse button clicking. which is pretty poor really. Though it won't help you dealing with the differe

off-topic /proc/cpuinfo

Way off-topic, but I can't find any documentation on what all of the fields mean in /proc/cpuinfo. What is the model #? -- where is a listing of what these models are? What do all of the cpu flags mean? I did find the mini howto regarding bogomips, but that's it. Does any helpful Debian per

Help, with Debian 2.0 install from CD-ROM not part of HDD card

Hello, I am having problems with Debian 2.0 to install the the important, extra, and/ or packages, which include the kernal source and patches. I have got a operating system, but it does not recongize the CDROM drive, thus I can not add or upgrade any program packages to the system. I

Re: Menu access to /usr/doc

Helmut Metzdorf hat gesagt: // Helmut Metzdorf wrote: > Hi, > > considering myself still a novice to linux i spend lots of time > reading documentation. first i complained about most of it beeing > compressed text but soon i found a solution (zcat | xless). A even better solution is to setup les

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Re: Micro$oft decommoditizing things -- a solution?

On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 10:59:45PM +, Jiri Baum wrote: > > Also, if we stick it into open source, > > as we should, M$ *still* has access to it to do as they please. > Well, theoretically they don't. If they use GPL code, they have to > keep it GPL. In theory. In practice it is hard to p

RE: standardising X

The joy (and some people's grief) of X is that it allows for anything to look how it likes. The only real way to make it look standardized is to use apps that all use the same toolkit. Like pure GTk/GNOME -- which was the point of GNOME in the first place. The other thing you can do is read the

Netscape 4.5 and "locale C not supported"

I downloaded and installed (with the netscape4 installer package) Navigator standalone 4.5 today. Running it gives: netscape: locale `C' not supported. Perhaps the $XNLSPATH environment variable is not set correctly? help? Will

RE: search engines in html

Try looking into htdig, it is in the web section. On 08-Nov-98 richard wrote: > How do I build a seach engine for web pages? Where should I look for > information? > I want to construct something similar to the microsoft online support search > engine. (pet project 1) > Any suggestions? >

RE: slightly odd behaviour of X for a newbie and a request for h

Slink's X is not in an extremely usable state. Unless you feel like being a guinea pig, downgrade to hamm's version. On 08-Nov-98 Mikael Suomela wrote: > I did an apt-get dist-upgrade yesterday and slink is great! Except for > the fact that it did some wierd things for my X. > First off I c

apm - questions

I just installed debian 2 on a laptop and I have the apm -s command working to suspend the system but, 1. I want apm -s to work for users other than root. Currently it says apm: Operation not permitted Any ideas? 2. When it resumes, I have to restart the pcmcia network card using: /etc/init.d/

RE: linux partition

Hi Don, With 341mb to work with, you might want to go with a 24-32mb swap partition and leave the rest as one Linux partition. That way, you won't be wasting space in a partition that could've been smaller if you'd only known. It will also simplify installation. On your first run through dselect, y

test again

Sorry, this is a test again. Please ignore this message.

Re: DNS woes

Gregory Dickinson wrote: > > On a related note, I have something that is puzzling me regarding said DNS > server. I have the IP > address of the DNS in the /etc/resolv.conf files of two linux boxes (one > Debian, the other Red > Hat) that are behind the firewall. I can resolve host names using

Linux program = dos debug ?

I was asked a question today that I am not able to find the answer for. What is the linux equivilent of the dos debug program? I looked tru the package files and all I can find are program debuggers. Could someone point out what I am missing, please. Thanks Wayne -- Our OS who art in CPU,

debgrep

I'm using this to quickly search package names, thought I'd post it on the chance that someone else would find it useful, or that someone has a better method: alias debgrep 'egrep -i "Package:.*\!*" /var/lib/dpkg/available'

Re: ipchains?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You can get the source (or glibc binaries) from . This should be in linux/Documentation/Changes, I'll check to make sure it's still in there. Chris <- Visit Me At

bellsouth.net

Does anyone know what bellsouth.net is using for connect strings? I tried to connect with the standard pppconfig stuff, but it is exiting out right after dialing the number. The ppp.log file has a line with alarm followed by the line(s) stating that it is exiting. Any ideas on what to do next?

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

Dave McFadden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If MS is successful at 'embracing and extending' Java, then HTML, TCP/IP > and the OSS world will soon feel the suffocating arms of MS wrapped around > them. Hey, don't forget some people even managed to decode SMB for NT in the SAMBA project. If MS re

Re: Micro$oft decommoditizing things -- a solution?

Hello, Steve Lamb wrote: ... > Also, if we stick it into open source, > as we should, M$ *still* has access to it to do as they please. Well, theoretically they don't. If they use GPL code, they have to keep it GPL. Personally, I'd suggest doing the other things mentioned in the memo, like the e

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