Locale 'C'

1998-11-20 Thread Trevor Glen
Hello Everybody, I am having this error message come up when I start Netscape (4.05) netscape: locale `C' not supported. And then some blurb about the $XNLSPATH. An error similar to this is occuring in my .xsession-errors file Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C Warning: X loc

Re: ftp daemon

1998-11-20 Thread Carey Evans
Lawrence Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oh? I am running two FTP servers with the 2.1.12* kernels... what is the > security feature? [snip] > auth.log:Nov 16 12:53:28 ns proftpd[29299]: module linuxprivs: capabilities > '= cap_net_bind_service+ep' I'm not especially familiar with what's

Re: PPP daemon has died

1998-11-20 Thread Jonathan Crowe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jon writes: > > When I try to start up pppd from the root prompt I get a message saying > > "This system lacks kernel support for ppp." > > Don't believe it. This one of pppd's favorite error messages, and it is > almost always wrong. > > > When I try to start up pppd

finding dependent libraries/pgplot

1998-11-20 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I think I can draw what I need with pgplot, but I'm having trouble compiling. I know that I need to use the -lpgplot option (i'm using absoft f90), but it has unsatisfied dependencies from who-knows which libraries. So the very simple program ! program to make exampble bubbles for dynamic pro

net connection lost

1998-11-20 Thread Robert Rati
I have somehow lost my ether connection through my network card. I can execute the commands in /etc/init.d/network as root (after doing a modprobe ne io=0x240) and my network card is found and configured. So why is it not working at boot time? In my daemon log there's this line: insmod /lib/mod

Re: Compressed epsfigures (LaTeX)

1998-11-20 Thread Paul Huygen
"J. Lawson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to store postscript images (ps,eps) in compressed >form and have them decompressed for use during my LaTeX run. Use the graphics or the graphicx package. 1) Suppose you have a postscript picture stored in "picture.ps" 2) Create a file

Re: ftp daemon

1998-11-20 Thread Lawrence Walton
Oh? I am running two FTP servers with the 2.1.12* kernels... what is the security feature? Linux version 2.1.127 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #3 SMP Thu Nov 12 06:41:24 PST 1998 and Linux version 2.1.126 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #8 SMP Mon Oct 26 17:46:37 PST 199

libc and staroffice 5

1998-11-20 Thread Peter Bartosch
hello debians! after upgrading libc on my hamm-box to slink´s 2.0.7u-4 my apt won´t install anything further! i´ve installed the new libc´s for staroffice 5. would installing slink´s apt (0.1.7 iirc) fix such problems? using "dpkg -i" directly doesn´t give any error-message here´s the apt-error:

Re: ftp daemon

1998-11-20 Thread Carey Evans
Robert Rati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I upgraded the proftp package, and now when I boot, I get this error > messaage: > > module: linuxprivs: kernel does not support capabilities, disabling. > > What capability is it talking about and when do I need to inlcude in the > kernel? Tia. "capab

Re: SQL Database performance

1998-11-20 Thread Carey Evans
Jeff Noxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Postgresql runs like greased lightning. In some tests involving > 0.5 million records of a few K in size, it blew away MS SQL Server. > I think it was version 6. Postgresql runs well, although it does have > some limitations. ODBC was the main weakness I

Randomish floppy failures during installation..

1998-11-20 Thread Ryan King
Hey Debianites... I'm trying to install Debian on an IBM Laptop (ThinkPad 755C). I'm using the standard disk sets: resc1440.bin, drv1440.bin, and base14-x.bin. (By the way, I have installed Debian before, on a Desktop, and had no real problems.) The installation goes along fine until it gets to

Re: Problem starting X for first time

1998-11-20 Thread Carey Evans
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > But to answer your question: I've found that you can generally do a > Shift-PgUp to recall the last 2 or 3 screens of info. It's a really handy > feature. But it stops working when X starts, because the VGA memory the scrollback buffer uses gets use

Re: Downloading the Linux file from ftp -Help!

1998-11-20 Thread Carey Evans
Alan Tam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ ] text/plain [*] text/html > > Hi David, > >     Use your browser (Netscape) to download it and save the page as *.txt. > But normally Linux is an image file, if you save it as a text file you can't > boot your system in text forma

Re: TeTeX and language.dat

1998-11-20 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 02:54:02PM -0600, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > I'm russifing my tetex, and have a problem. When i change language.dat, >and then run in texconfig rehash and hyphen, i t doesn't add russian >hyphenation pattern in babel. Can you help, guys? > > What do you use? T2?

Re: TeTeX and language.dat

1998-11-20 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi! I'm russifing my tetex, and have a problem. When i change language.dat, and then run in texconfig rehash and hyphen, i t doesn't add russian hyphenation pattern in babel. Can you help, guys? What do you use? T2? OK

TeTeX and language.dat

1998-11-20 Thread Peter Novodvorsky
Hi! I'm russifing my tetex, and have a problem. When i change language.dat, and then run in texconfig rehash and hyphen, i t doesn't add russian hyphenation pattern in babel. Can you help, guys? Peter.

kde: libkdeui.so.2 ... not found

1998-11-20 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hi, recently I installed the debian-kde-packages. Almost everything works fine, except ksysv and some tools, which write to my console: Cannot find libkdeui.so.2 Does anyone know this, or give me a hint. (I dont have this shared object). Marcs

Re: snmpd and 2.1.12x and mrtg

1998-11-20 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 11:38:36AM -0800, Lawrence Walton wrote: > The combo of snmpd and 2.1.12x and mrtg, is causing a small problem, snmpd > is not reporting outgoing information on my servers just incoming. Does > anyone have ideas to why? /proc/net/smnp is giberish to me. Well, it is bete

Re: Advice on Hardware

1998-11-20 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Paul! General comment - ask your supplier to provide specs :) > * The supplier wasn't 100% clear on the exact video card spec - it's a > Jetway make, using S3 ViRGE chipset. Is this likely to be OK? Yes, it should be OK. > * The video card is an AGP model. All I can find in the HOWTO and t

Re: Compressed epsfigures (LaTeX)

1998-11-20 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, > Hello everyone, > I would like to store postscript images (ps,eps) in compressed > form and have them decompressed for use during my LaTeX run. I have to > date been unable to figure out if this can be done and if so, how to do > it. Yes you can download and unzip compressed *.ps.gz

Re: can't make Linux bootable

1998-11-20 Thread Richard Hall
I did try to run the commands as you describe, and still got 'not found', so, if you suspect the shell, what does that mean? What can I do about it? Thanks On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: > On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Richard Hall wrote: > > > I have made it almost all the way through an in

Re: sorting russian text

1998-11-20 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Torsten Hilbrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | On: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 22:17:09 +0400 (AMT) Eugene Sevinian writes: | > | > Hi, | > As I am working now on a multilingual text proccesing system I tried | > to use 'sort' for this purpose. From "man bash" I have read that the | > LANG variabale is responsi

Re: PPP daemon has died

1998-11-20 Thread john
Jon writes: > When I try to start up pppd from the root prompt I get a message saying > "This system lacks kernel support for ppp." Don't believe it. This one of pppd's favorite error messages, and it is almost always wrong. > When I try to start up pppd from the root prompt I get a message sayi

2.0.36.tgz with make-kpkg

1998-11-20 Thread Mário Olímpio de Menezes
Hi, Can I use the kernel-package (make-kpkg) with a non-deb 2.0.36.tgz? Thanks, []s, Mario O.de Menezes | "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP | is the Lord's purpose that prevails" Prov. 19.21

RE: xmkmf?

1998-11-20 Thread Shaleh
It is SUPPOSED to be xlib6g-dev. On 20-Nov-98 Amanda Shuler wrote: > Which Debian package would include xmkmf? > > - > Amanda Shuler | I don't want to start any > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | blasphemous rumours, but... > ---

Re: xmkmf?

1998-11-20 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Amanda Shuler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Which Debian package would include xmkmf? % dpkg -S xmkmf xlib6g-dev: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xmkmf.1x.gz xlib6g-dev: /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf Looks like xlib6g-dev is the package you want. Gary

Re: xmkmf?

1998-11-20 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
Hi Amanda : $ dpkg -S xmkmf xlib6g-dev: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xmkmf.1x.gz xlib6g-dev: /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf > > Which Debian package would include xmkmf? > > - > Amanda Shuler | I don't want to start any > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | blasphe

Re: your mail

1998-11-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Wilson's Lan Connection wrote: : Hi : I can't find my own domain name on my dns server using nslookup and : traceroute. : : Here is what happens : ++ : > douala1.com : server: ns1.douala1.com : Address : 207.8.232.130 : : ns1.douala1.com can't find douala

RE: ldconfig can't find libgtk.so etc.

1998-11-20 Thread jarregui
I had a similar problem when upgraded from libgtk1 (1.0.4) to (1.0.6). In the /usr/lib directory, I had the same symlinks as you, but the files pointed to weren't in that dir. I had: libglib.so.1.0.6 libgtk.so.1.0.6 libgdk.so.1.0.6 That was the reason of the warning. But, why did I have those b

xmkmf?

1998-11-20 Thread Amanda Shuler
Which Debian package would include xmkmf? - Amanda Shuler | I don't want to start any [EMAIL PROTECTED] | blasphemous rumours, but... -

thoughts on VM folders

1998-11-20 Thread Daniel Elenius
I have the following problem: I use fetchmail to get mail from a mail server. I use procmail to put some mail in separate folders, for example all debian-user mail goes to a debian folder. So far so good. When I start VM (in xemacs) my 'normal' mail (from /var/spool/mail) is moved to ~/INBOX. Fin

RE: ldconfig can't find libgtk.so etc.

1998-11-20 Thread jarregui
I dont't think the best solution is to make new symlinks. In my short experience with Debian, when something looks strange, there is a problem behind, mainly because of my own mistakes. Then, the right thing is to guess which is the source of the problem, and correct it. As I have said in my prev

snmpd and 2.1.12x and mrtg

1998-11-20 Thread Lawrence Walton
The combo of snmpd and 2.1.12x and mrtg, is causing a small problem, snmpd is not reporting outgoing information on my servers just incoming. Does anyone have ideas to why? /proc/net/smnp is giberish to me.

Configuring Xf86.

1998-11-20 Thread Bret Craw
With Debian, there is a configuration program that I use by typing /usr/sbin/xbase-configure force at the prompt. It goes through the configuration and then takes you to Vidtune, where you adjust the image to fit your screen. If it is able to display in the vidtune, why is it that after I get out

spell checking

1998-11-20 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Hi Does any one know of an editor which can check for typos as I type along? ... I am getting caught out all too often --- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfor

Re: Driver Disk

1998-11-20 Thread Kent West
At 08:47 PM 11/20/98 -0400, Jeff Browning wrote: >Thanks. That's all I wanted to know. > >Jeff > You could also clean up some space on your hard drive, defrag it so all the data's at the front of the drive, then use something like Partition Magic or fips (free, on many Linux sites) to shrink your

Re: can't make Linux bootable

1998-11-20 Thread Richard Hall
I'm not a newbie, and I tried ./lilo before I even posted, but thanks. Richard Hall Network Services University of Tennessee

looking Wm that can emulate mac windows...........

1998-11-20 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hello, Where can i find a good mac-like w-manager??

Re: How to work with dpkg --set-selections?

1998-11-20 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Joachim Trinkwitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have saved my current package selections with `dpkg > --get-selections' and now I thought I could use this set to configure > a new workstation. Unfortunately, there seemed already to be some > preset selections from the installation procedure, whi

RE: Configuring Xf86.

1998-11-20 Thread Kent West
At 09:34 AM 11/20/98 -0800, Bret Craw wrote: >Appreciate all the help. I really want to use Linux. I tried running the >Xf86setup, but it apparently isn't installed. > Capital "f" and "s" in XF86Setup; Linux is case-sensitive.

problem with gnome debs

1998-11-20 Thread Fred McDavid
Hi, The gnome 0.30 debs installed flawlessy, but when i try to run execute gnome-session I get: > SESSION_MANAGER=local/homer:/tmp/.ICE-unix/18492,tcp/homer:23907 > > Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_type_create(): type `GtkCalendarDisplayOptions' already > exists. i> > ** ERROR **: file gnometypes.c: line

Re: can't make Linux bootable

1998-11-20 Thread Kent West
At 11:35 AM 11/20/98 -0500, Richard Hall wrote: >I did try to run the commands as you describe, and still got 'not found', >so, if you suspect the shell, what does that mean? What can I do about >it? > >Thanks > >On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: > >> On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Richard Hall wrot

Re: 2.0.36.tgz with make-kpkg

1998-11-20 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Mário Olímpio de Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Can I use the kernel-package (make-kpkg) with a non-deb | 2.0.36.tgz? | Thanks, Yes. In fact, I haven't used a Debian kernel in a long time. I almost always use the raw source from kernel.org, either the 2.1.x branch or the 2.0.x b

Re: Configuring Xf86.

1998-11-20 Thread Kent West
At 08:43 AM 11/20/98 -0800, Bret Craw wrote: >With Debian, there is a configuration program that I use by typing >/usr/sbin/xbase-configure force at the prompt. It goes through the >configuration and then takes you to Vidtune, where you adjust the image to >fit your screen. If it is able to displ

Valid values for LC_ALL and LANG?

1998-11-20 Thread Daniel Elenius
Does anyone know what values you might have for the environmnt variables LC_ALL and LANG (I sometimes get a warning that I should set these). I have set LC_CTYPE (to ISO8859-1), I use a swedish keyboard. I haven't found the specs for these variables anywhere.

Re: spell checking

1998-11-20 Thread Peter S Galbraith
>Does any one know of an editor which can check for typos as I type > along? ... I am getting caught out all too often Emacs-20 M-x flyspell-mode Peter

"simple" three-d graphs

1998-11-20 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I'm not finding, in the list of usual suspects, a program to do the type of simple graphing I need. I only need this to make illustrative diagrams, not for real data. What I'd like is a 3D plot of a handful of cubes, with a line connecting their center. Ideally, each cube could show itself sl

Re: LateX - CV

1998-11-20 Thread Dave Swegen
On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 12:36 +0100, Groumpheux wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a package with LateX to make Curriculum Vitaes ? I looked in > /usr/doc/textx-* and /usr/doc/texmf, I could not found anything. Try searching at CTAN for "resume" rather than "CV". I found a couple of packages this way.

Re: Modem finetuning.

1998-11-20 Thread Kent West
At 10:04 AM 11/20/98 -0600, Kent West wrote: >I don't have any definitive errors, but there was a thread on this issue a >couple of weeks ago; you might want to check the mail archives at >www.debian.org. Oops, that was supposed to be "definitive answers". Where is my mind?

Slow mail delivery

1998-11-20 Thread wax_man
Can someone tell me why my mail delivery on my local machine is so slow? When I d/l my mail using fetchmail from my isp, the mailer daemon takes over 5 minutes to deliver it. Why, and how do I fix it? Chris

Re: where'd my cd go?

1998-11-20 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> Hi! hello :) Rainer wrote, > > cooperate under drdos, either, though I have no idea whether my drdos=20 > > installationis in good shape or not. I think i tampered with the silly= > > config files several times. > Uhhm, neither DRDOS nor Linux read any CD? Maybe the drive got broken? swel

Re: 2.0.36.tgz with make-kpkg

1998-11-20 Thread Peter Berlau
On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 03:15:17PM -0200, Mário Olímpio de Menezes wrote: > Hi Mario O.de Menezes > > Can I use the kernel-package (make-kpkg) with a non-deb > 2.0.36.tgz? You've ga a kernel as .tar file this file is zipped are this file include the kernel-header and also the kernel-source,

RE: Problem starting X for first time

1998-11-20 Thread Kent West
At 10:09 AM 11/20/98 -0600, Kent West wrote: >At 07:50 AM 11/20/98 -0800, you wrote: >>I have been able to get it working in VGA mode, but am still unsuccessful in >>getting any more color depth. How do I get to the information above what I >>printed? My screen blanks out and then I see the last

Re: sorting russian text

1998-11-20 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 22:17:09 +0400 (AMT) Eugene Sevinian writes: > > Hi, > As I am working now on a multilingual text proccesing system I tried > to use 'sort' for this purpose. From "man bash" I have read that the > LANG variabale is responsible for local language setting. Assuming > ru_RU is

RE: looking Wm that can emulate mac windows...........

1998-11-20 Thread Shaleh
Try www.plig.org/xwinman --> most wm's are there. There have been at least two mac like wm's plus two or three E themes. On 20-Nov-98 Phillip Neumann wrote: > Hello, > > Where can i find a good mac-like w-manager?? > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null

RE: Problem starting X for first time

1998-11-20 Thread Kent West
At 07:50 AM 11/20/98 -0800, you wrote: >I have been able to get it working in VGA mode, but am still unsuccessful in >getting any more color depth. How do I get to the information above what I >printed? My screen blanks out and then I see the last screen. Is there >some way to scroll up to see t

Re: Configuring Xf86.

1998-11-20 Thread Kent West
At 08:43 AM 11/20/98 -0800, Bret Craw wrote: >If it is able to display in the vidtune, why is it that >after I get out of the program and type startx, it is unable to start up? PS. This is a question that has baffled many of us. The basic answer is that vidtune (and XF86Setup) use a default VGA s

Re: where'd my cd go?

1998-11-20 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Richard E. Hawkins Esq. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > does this happen with any CD? Or only with this newly purchased ones? > > Do you have another drive handy for testing the readability of the discs? > > All of the CD's, even the one's i've already installed. And it doesn't > cooperate under d

Re: emacs, PATH, trailing /

1998-11-20 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 14:54:49 -0500 (EST) David S Zelinsky writes: > > Ever since upgrading from bo to hamm, my PATH environment variable > as seen from inside emacs (with (getenv "PATH")) has a trailing / on > each entry: > > /usr/local/bin/:/bin/:/sbin/:/usr/bin/:/usr/sbin/:/usr/X11R6/bin

Re: Problems updating squid ?

1998-11-20 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:32:48 +0100 fskale writes: > > I have installed squi V 2.0Patch2 (debian package) on my proxy. > Today i wanted to update squid to a newer version. > I configured and compiled the source then i finally installed it. > After restarting squid, the tasks ran normally but i wa

Re: autofs

1998-11-20 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 22:40:32 +1100 (EST) Jiri Baum writes: > > Hello, > I tried to use autofs, but it says "Error: autofs support not available". > > I assume it can't find /lib/modules/2.0.34/fs/autofs.o which is correct > because it doesn't exist. > > Where would I get one, please? You need

Re: Modem finetuning.

1998-11-20 Thread Kent West
I don't have any definitive errors, but there was a thread on this issue a couple of weeks ago; you might want to check the mail archives at www.debian.org. At 06:16 PM 11/19/98 -0600, Andrew Ivanov wrote: >Evening all. >I got a quick question about modem finetuning.it feels like my >connectio

ldconfig can't find libgtk.so etc.

1998-11-20 Thread Daniel Elenius
When running ldconfig, I get the following error message: "Warning: Can't open /usr/lib/libglib.so (no such file or directory), skipping" and the same for libgtk.so and libgdk.so But the thing is, these files exist in that dir. They are symlinks to, respectively: libglib.so -> libglib.so.1.0.4

Re: Driver Disk

1998-11-20 Thread Kent West
At 03:05 PM 11/20/98 -0400, Jeff Browning wrote: >Hey all, > >I'm new to Linux and for my first box, I think I'll try the Debian >distribution. Before I repartitioned my hard disk and wiped out all my >files, I thought I'd try out the floppys that I'm going to install >Debian with on about 1 meg

Re: Advice on Hardware

1998-11-20 Thread Richard Sevenich
No direct advice here - but we can hope in the not too distant future, that your vendor will preinstall linux and the hardware compatibility burden will be his. Make sure the modem is not a winmodem. Richard

Re: problems with locate

1998-11-20 Thread Jim Foltz
Bruno, The obvious answer is that the file you are searching for was created after the latest updatedb run. You are right in that the updatedb is run once per day from a cron job. However, your computer needs to be on at the time it is scheduled for that to happen. Unless you use anachron, which

Advice on Hardware

1998-11-20 Thread Moore, Paul
I'm thinking of buying a new PC. However, I want to be sure my hardware will be supported. I've read the Hardware HOWTO, and I *think* I understand it, but there are a number of things I am still concerned about: * The supplier wasn't 100% clear on the exact video card spec - it's a Jetway make, u

[no subject]

1998-11-20 Thread Wilson's Lan Connection
Hi I can't find my own domain name on my dns server using nslookup and traceroute. Here is what happens ++ > douala1.com server: ns1.douala1.com Address : 207.8.232.130 ns1.douala1.com can't find douala1.com: Server failed. > What is the problem? wilson Tuma

Re: Scilab

1998-11-20 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
Hello, I have debian 2.0 too. My window manager is WindowMaker. My scilab works well. I've compiled it myself. Have you tried to do that. Is really easy, once you have the development (gcc and g77) stuff installed. The only problem I get is that the graphic window doesn't pop up when it is crea

Re: resc1440.bin for slink?

1998-11-20 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Alex McCool wrote: > Is there a resc1440.bin image for slink? > All I can find is resc1742.bin ( whatever size that is) There will be one very soon.

Compressed epsfigures (LaTeX)

1998-11-20 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Hello everyone, I would like to store postscript images (ps,eps) in compressed form and have them decompressed for use during my LaTeX run. I have to date been unable to figure out if this can be done and if so, how to do it. Please if anyone can and would be of assistance in this

problems with locate

1998-11-20 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, just noticed a thing (i looked into the FAQ but didn't find it) there's a strange thing about locate, or the updatedb it never expires, meaning that the database is correctly build every day, it even seems to have a reasonable size (approx 10Mo), but when invocing locate on any file i k

Re: Scilab

1998-11-20 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
> Can you tell me the versions of Debian and windows manager. > > I have Debian 2.0 with kde windows manager and it works just fine. > Ok...I'm running Debian 2.0 with libc6 and libc5 and my windowmanager is Afterstep (I'm not sure about versions here and I dont have my machine internetconnect

Re: fstab values (was Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive)

1998-11-20 Thread W. Paul Mills
John Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello > > On a related matter, can anyone tell me what the numbers actually mean at the > end of each line in the fstab descritpions > > I know that they are labelled and but what does that actually > mean? > > What values should I be using ??

Re: fstab values (was Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive)

1998-11-20 Thread servis
*- John Stevenson wrote about "fstab values (was Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive)" > Hello > > On a related matter, can anyone tell me what the numbers actually mean at the > end of each line in the fstab descritpions > > I know that they are labelled and but what does that actually

Re: Compatability with Windows-only programs

1998-11-20 Thread David Warnock
Jessie, > I am thinking about changing over to Linux, but I am worried about > the time and money necessary for the changeover. I have recently moved my whole business to Linux. I keep 1 machine with the abilty to boot into Windows 95 for my kids to play games and I keep one machine able to bo

Re: kernel modules -- why are they incompatible?

1998-11-20 Thread Jeff Miller
Hamish, I have a feeling that the people working on the Kernel agree with you. The reason I say this is because last night when I was setting up my config for compiling 2.1.128, I noticed a new option that does allow you to use *other* kernel version modules. This is a step in the right direc

Re: Repeating Package Installation

1998-11-20 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 01:46:48PM +0100, John Stevenson wrote: : I was wondering if there is any way to install debian : with the same packages for a number of hardware : identical machines. : : I want to install a base set of useful packages for all : my fellow workers, based on the packa

Re: DE220 Ethernet Card

1998-11-20 Thread charles verge
Turn off the pnp and compile in ne2000 surport and the way you go. With out turning off pnp you can asign ip etc but the dhcp server or any packets if you have static ip are droped because the card is not working. I have not bothered to try to install as pnp (a waste of time) You should of got a

Re: upsd

1998-11-20 Thread Kenneth Scharf
---Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > [snipped long and interesting tale of ups woes..] > > > > Have you tried redirecting the output of shutdown or backgrounding it? > Do something like > > shutdown -c >/dev/null 2>&1 > or > shutdown -h +2 "message

Re: upsd

1998-11-20 Thread Kenneth Scharf
---Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > [snipped long and interesting tale of ups woes..] > > > > Have you tried redirecting the output of shutdown or backgrounding it? > Do something like > > shutdown -c >/dev/null 2>&1 > or > shutdown -h +2 "message

Repeating Package Installation

1998-11-20 Thread John Stevenson
Hello Debian Land... I was wondering if there is any way to install debian with the same packages for a number of hardware identical machines. I want to install a base set of useful packages for all my fellow workers, based on the packages I have installed on my machine at the moment. I know tha

Re: netscape woes

1998-11-20 Thread Roberto Ripio
El Fri, 20 Nov 1998, George Bonser escribió: >Just exactly what is the procedure now to install netscape? I made the >mistake of "upgrading" netscape from slink to 4.07 ... then tried 4.5 ... >I have no netscape program anymore. There is a wrapper, if I link to it >from, say, /usr/bin, it complain

Driver Disk

1998-11-20 Thread Jeff Browning
Hey all, I'm new to Linux and for my first box, I think I'll try the Debian distribution. Before I repartitioned my hard disk and wiped out all my files, I thought I'd try out the floppys that I'm going to install Debian with on about 1 meg of free space on my hard disk. I partitioned that spa

Re: LateX - CV

1998-11-20 Thread Cesare Tagliaferri
Hi, try looking at: http://tug2.cs.umb.edu/ctan/ I think that's the most complete LaTeX archive (I found a package to make french curriculums searching for cv). Hope this helps. Cesare On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Groumpheux wrote: >Hi, > > Is there a package with LateX to make Curriculum Vita

Re: netscape woes

1998-11-20 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 01:00:22AM -0800, George Bonser wrote: : WHat is the proper procedure after installing the deb to get a web : browser. You need to install these packages in order to get a working Netscape 4.5: dists/slink/main/binary-all/devel/dpkg-awk_0.7.1.deb dists/slink/contrib

LateX - CV

1998-11-20 Thread Groumpheux
Hi, Is there a package with LateX to make Curriculum Vitaes ? I looked in /usr/doc/textx-* and /usr/doc/texmf, I could not found anything. TIA ! vdb -- \\|// VDB g (O O) OOO~(_)~oOOO~~~ <:o) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :-xxx ooO~Ooo ~~:-)

fstab values (was Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive)

1998-11-20 Thread John Stevenson
Hello On a related matter, can anyone tell me what the numbers actually mean at the end of each line in the fstab descritpions I know that they are labelled and but what does that actually mean? What values should I be using ?? I have just coppied off others examples previously. Thanks.

Re: smbmount via /etc/fstab?

1998-11-20 Thread Jens Ritter
"Ralf G. R. Bergs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 19 Nov 1998 19:15:43 + (GMT), Marc Haber wrote: > > >How can I do smbmounts via /etc/fstab? > > To the best of my knowledge, this does not (yet) work. Mount doesn't know > about > smbfs, you *must* use smbmount. :-( But you can take

Re: slink: German Vendor

1998-11-20 Thread Jens Ritter
"Alexander N. Benner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way to optain the current version of Debian somehow on CD ? > It would take me about 6 to 8 evenings to download it over ISDN ... :) At the moment there do not exist unstable "official" CD's of the archive. What I could provide is a

PPP daemon has died

1998-11-20 Thread Jonathan Crowe
Hi folks. I installed Debian (Ham) from Linux Central cd's about a week ago. So far I have managed to bumble along through configuring X and such. I now seem to be stuck however. I have got wvdial set up so that it dials my ISP and logs in. However as soon as it starts pppd it comes right bac

Re: where'd my cd go?

1998-11-20 Thread Stuart Miles +44 1276 695931
You've got a dead CD drive I'm afraid. | | Rainer replied, | | | > does this happen with any CD? Or only with this newly purchased ones? | > Do you have another drive handy for testing the readability of the discs? | | All of the CD's, even the one's i've already installed. And it doesn't |

Re: web design question

1998-11-20 Thread Matthew Parry
I was wondering whether it was possible to overlay text on to an image in HTML... specifying a background image for a table cell or something like that. I think I've seen it done before, but of course I can't find the website now. You could use style sheets for this. Just define a

Thinkpad 360CSE questions

1998-11-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Does anyone have any of the following for the 360CSE? Working libvga.config Working X configs Working gpm config for the mouse-thingy -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my http://www.calweb.com/~morpheus| employer's. They hired me for my

Re: LaTeX and PDF question

1998-11-20 Thread Waldemar Żurowski
Maria Rightley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to get a paper, produced in LaTeX, into pdf form for a set of > proceedings. Everything is fine in doing that (I use pstoedit to > convert from ps to pdf) except for a few small things: As others said, I would suggest to use pdfTeX, it's in te

Re: resizing ext2 partitions

1998-11-20 Thread Cesare Tagliaferri
Hi all, there is a utility called resize2fs by powerquest to do that. It's an elf command-line utility. The only problem is that to download it you must have already registered PartitionMagic 3.x. The download page is: http://web.powerquest.com/resize2fs/ I hope this helps! Ces

Netscape4 -- Font Problem

1998-11-20 Thread Craig R. Hodges
I've installed communicator 4.5 with netscape4_4.0-14 (slink), xpm4g_3.4j-0.6, and motifnls_2.1-3 (slink). I get the following error mesg when Netscape loads... Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*--*" to type FontStruct (then same mesg repeated again) Nets

Re: Installation error.... AGAIN... *sheesh*

1998-11-20 Thread M.C. Vernon
> Yes,.. I can. the drive is accessible. > I am getting this error when it dies: > > /dev/loop0: Operation not supported by device > /dev/loop0: Operation not supported by device loop0 is a separate device. I have no idea what it does tho... Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo S

RE: Installation error.... AGAIN... *sheesh* (fwd)

1998-11-20 Thread M.C. Vernon
> > So are the jumpers set on the CDROM to tell it it's a master/standalone? > > > > Matthew > > Yep.. I double checked all the jumpers and the cables to make sure > everything was ok. This is really quite frustrating. OK - go to another console (alt-f2) and type dmesg | more Then look for

Re: Very very very sorry, but please help

1998-11-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
jason and jill wrote: ... >Last night I took over a listserv that basically had been left on cruise >control without a list owner for over a year. Out of 1000 subscribers, a >couple of hundred are deadwood set NOMAIL, some of whom have been set that >way for years. > >Using a query to

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