Re: writing a letter in LaTeX

1998-12-01 Thread M.C. Vernon
FWIW, here is a letter that works fine. Matthew \documentclass[a4paper]{letter} \usepackage{fullpage} \begin{document} \address{Selwyn College \\ Cambridge \\ CB3 9DQ} \signature{Matthew Vernon} \begin{letter}{The Most Revd. and Rt. Hon. Dr. David Hope \\ The Palace \\ Bishopthorpe \\ Yor

problems+suggestions

1998-12-01 Thread Ben Jorgensen
I'll take the suggestion first :) Wouldn't it be nice if a configuration of all installed packages could be saved in some data file that you could put on a disk and whenever you want to install a new machine or go back to this good configuration you just load the data-file into dselect or whatever

Re: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-12-01 Thread Ed Cogburn
Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Previously Mitch Blevins wrote: > > One problem with auto-deinstallation of support packages is that > > you may have other packages that also use the same support package. > > You would have to grep the dependency database to ensure you > > weren't removing a library/

Re: gcc 2.8.1

1998-12-01 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Richard Deighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Is anyone working on debs for gcc 2.8.1? It'd be nice to have soon. It'd have to be an extra option, similiar to egcs, because Linus won't be upgrading anytime soon and he and some of the other kernel developers have reported problems compiling parts

Re: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-12-01 Thread Ed Cogburn
Mitch Blevins wrote: > > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > One problem with auto-deinstallation of support packages is that > > > you may have other packages that also use the same support package. > > > You would have to grep the dependency database to ensure you > > > weren't rem

gcc 2.8.1

1998-12-01 Thread Richard Deighton
Is anyone working on debs for gcc 2.8.1? It'd be nice to have soon. Regards, Richard -- Rich Deighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Samba

1998-12-01 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Somebody wrote a cgi which would give you a web interface to the network which I believe included the "network neighborhood" type of functionality. You may want to check out the samba web site to find out about this, it doesn't look like the .deb includes this contributed piece of software. Patr

Re: DNS-DHCP solution for linux?

1998-12-01 Thread Ben Jorgensen
> I'm not quite sure what you mean. For me, dhcpcd does assign a DNS server > via the /etc/dhcp/resolv.conf which it generates. However, it does not By a quick look at your script it looks like you're fixing your own /etc/hosts file. I'm talking about updating the dns server (BIND) for two c-net

Re: Samba

1998-12-01 Thread wb2oyc
> >I've just installed the Samba-server (and read the man-pages). >I might be missing something but I can't figure out how to get a list >of what Wimpdos calls "the entire network". Can this be done without >knowing >any server-names? > I expect you're on a wimpdos 95 box, but you didn't say. Yes

Re: Interesting Problem (PCMCIA ethernet and modem)

1998-12-01 Thread Obi
Ciao, you shouldn't use /etc/init.d/network with the PCMCIA package but /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. I think you are getting routing problem that is the packages are sent to the wrong interface: what does route -n say? graziano On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 08:30:58PM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote: > After

configuring X for a laptop...

1998-12-01 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i looked at the laptop site referenced from the linux.org pages, looked into the database, found a config file for my chipset, tryed it without success... before that i tryed to use the different X-configurators is know of, but with all i had a problem: what do i tell them when it comes to

which package for C++

1998-12-01 Thread JonesMB
Hello all, I am trying to build kpilot for my Palm Pilot and I get this error when I run .configure "configure: error: no acceptable C++-compiler found in $PATH" AFAIK I already have the gcc package. The following is listed by dpkg -l. ii libc5 5.4.38-1.1 The Linux C library vers

How to use a ramdisk?

1998-12-01 Thread Eric House
The HOWTOs talk about ramdisks as part of the install process, but not as something I can use every day. Assuming that I *can* have a ramdisk on hamm, how do I set it up? So far, I've: put 'ramdisk=2000' in my /etc/lilo.conf file (and run lilo). dmesg tells me that 16 2000K ramdisks were set up,

recommendations for an X news client?

1998-12-01 Thread Rob Collins
I'm looking for something better than knews and netscape's news client -- any suggestions? -- quiet rob --- "Just keep telling yourself you are immortal" --Albert Hofmann

Re: X authentication problen

1998-12-01 Thread Gregory T. Norris
On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 05:36:45PM +, richard wrote: > X is running fine apart from one problem involving the > .Xauthentication file. If I login as user bob and startx everything is > fine. I happily compiled vim-5.3 for the graphical interface. Now, if > I su to root and try to run gvim I get

RE: Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-01 Thread Jon Burchmore
> > I can't believe no one else has recommended netscape. netscape 4 does > > support IMAP and > > in fact I think it's a pretty sweet mail client. (No, I'm not a unix > > newbie. I've been > > writing unix software for over five years and used various character-mode > > mail > > clients.) These

Re: Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-01 Thread Dale P. Smith
"Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote: > > I can't believe no one else has recommended netscape. netscape 4 does support > IMAP and > in fact I think it's a pretty sweet mail client. (No, I'm not a unix newbie. > I've been > writing unix software for over five years and used various character-mode mail > cl

Re: Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-01 Thread Anthony Rossini
On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > clients.) These days I have to write NT software but with netscape I can > just copy all > my folders and address book from machine to laptop and in fact use *the > same files* on > my laptop whether I'm booted in Windoze or Linux. Now that is cool

Re: Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-01 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 03:41:47PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Wonder how you feel about Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service... A complete PoS, why? -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my http://www.calweb.com/~morpheus| employer's

Re: About network daemons in a multi homed workstation

1998-12-01 Thread Damon Buckwalter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > I have Debian 2.0 in a PC with three different Ethernet interfaces, each > interface > in a different subnet. I notice that network daemons like telnet, ftp and NFS > only > work via the first interface (eth0) and completely ignore the other two > interfa

Re: Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-01 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I can't believe no one else has recommended netscape. netscape 4 does support IMAP and in fact I think it's a pretty sweet mail client. (No, I'm not a unix newbie. I've been writing unix software for over five years and used various character-mode mail clients.) These days I have to write NT soft

Re: DNS-DHCP solution for linux?

1998-12-01 Thread Eric Jensen
I'm not quite sure what you mean. For me, dhcpcd does assign a DNS server via the /etc/dhcp/resolv.conf which it generates. However, it does not update several other things I would like it to and it does change some things I would like it to leave alone. In order to update these things, I use the

Re: Partition Magic 4.0

1998-12-01 Thread Tom Pfeifer
PM 4.0 seems to work fine with ext2 partitions themselves with one exception - and that exception actually involves only Lilo and not ext2 itself. When you move or resize an ext2 partition that has Lilo installed in the boot sector of the partition, PM 4.0 attempts to rewrite that boot sector to

Re: Network Configuration

1998-12-01 Thread Erik Maxwell
Have you added lines to your /etc/resolv.conf? ex. nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP of your DNS server. Erik >By the way, we have a machine in our subnet that recently >was installed linux in. We have had some problems with the >network confi

Re: writing a letter in LaTeX

1998-12-01 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
roy rattled, > I tried using Lyx to write a letter and, in the end, had to resort to > Star Office 5 because of an apparent bug in LaTeX. The Lyx output > looked fine, but LaTeX did not include either the 'from' or 'to' > addresses in the output DVI file. I was pretty shocked by this, since > a

Re: Network Configuration

1998-12-01 Thread ivan
Hi, folks !!! By the way, we have a machine in our subnet that recently was installed linux in. We have had some problems with the network configuration in order that the linux box doesn't recognize its DNS. It's possible to execute telnet from it only to IP addresses, and a ping to the D

Re: Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-01 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Jon Burchmore wrote: > Hello All, > > I currently use MS Outlook 98 on a Windows PC to read my Email (I get > about 600-700 messages/day from various mailing lists). I would *really* > like to switch over to a Debian-based solution, but I haven't been > able to find a mail cl

Re: Netscape...

1998-12-01 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Matt Garman wrote: > Did you get the *.tar.gz (or *.tgz) file from Netscape? Debian does > not have a package, as such, for Netscape. Potato does (maybe even slink?). Having said that, I don't know if the poster is using the hamm package or not. Peter

Re: Netscape...

1998-12-01 Thread Erik Maxwell
At 09:05 PM 12/1/98 +, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: >Þann 01. desember 1998 reit Brant Wells svohljóðandi: >> Hey all! >> >> I downloaded the *.deb packages for NETSCAPE...when I try to install it >> using dselect, it won't install... Help!!! >> >> Thanx, >> Brant >> ... >download netscap

Re: writing a letter in LaTeX

1998-12-01 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Roy C Bixler wrote: > On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Try adding the \opening{} command like so: > > I added the appropriate section in Lyx and it worked. Any ideas why Latex > acts this way? I'm no real expert. I guess it's just how latex.cls was coded up. The newcommand \o

Re: Netscape...

1998-12-01 Thread Matt Garman
On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 12:01:07PM -0800, Brant Wells wrote: > Hey all! > > I downloaded the *.deb packages for NETSCAPE...when I try to install it > using dselect, it won't install... Help!!! Did you get the *.tar.gz (or *.tgz) file from Netscape? Debian does not have a package, as such, for N

Re: writing a letter in LaTeX

1998-12-01 Thread Roy C Bixler
On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > I tried using Lyx to write a letter and, in the end, had to resort to > > Star Office 5 because of an apparent bug in LaTeX. The Lyx output > > looked fine, but LaTeX did not include either the 'from' or 'to' > > addresses in the output DVI file. >

Re: Netscape...

1998-12-01 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 01. desember 1998 reit Brant Wells svohljóðandi: > Hey all! > > I downloaded the *.deb packages for NETSCAPE...when I try to install it > using dselect, it won't install... Help!!! > > Thanx, > Brant > This *.deb file is only the frontend for installing netscape (i think) if you take a l

Help! I need to de-install a custom kernel

1998-12-01 Thread Alex McCool
ae, I created a kernel package for another machine. To create installation floppies I used dpkg -i .deb But that installed the wrong kernel into my good machine. How do I de-install my custom kernel

Re: writing a letter in LaTeX

1998-12-01 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Roy C Bixler wrote: > Hi: > > I tried using Lyx to write a letter and, in the end, had to resort to > Star Office 5 because of an apparent bug in LaTeX. The Lyx output > looked fine, but LaTeX did not include either the 'from' or 'to' > addresses in the output DVI file. Try adding the \opening

Re: NFS mounted /home area from SGI computer, good idea?

1998-12-01 Thread Chris Fury
George Bonser wrote: > Yes. Linux uses different UID/GID assignments than SGI does for some > things. For example, if your home directories are owned by the staff > group, you might find them owned by the uucp group when mounted on your > Linux box. As long as your linux box has the same UID for

Re: Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-01 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Dave Swegen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 13:52 -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: | > Jon Burchmore wrote: | [stuff deleted] | > > 1. IMAP support | > > 2. PGP integration | > > 3. X (preferably gtk) based UI | > > 4. The ability to support multiple mail servers/accounts. | >

Re: Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-01 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 02:29:19PM -0500, Colin Telmer wrote: > > Unfortunately, this would eliminate the major advantage of IMAP. I read > > my mail from two different locations (home and work) and up to 5 different > > computers. Storing the mail locally really isn't an option, although I > > s

about the HOWTO's

1998-12-01 Thread Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd
Can I read the HOWTO's in html or text on the www somewhere, I cannot as yet get them on my linux system? Regards, Steve Lavelle   Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd.~ Australian Tanned Wet Blue Leather ~110 Heales Road,Lara, Geelong, Australia3212Tel:++(03)52742232Fax:++(03)52742350mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-01 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Hope you've got your flame-resistant suit on! :-) Steve Lamb wrote: > Personally I use PMMail98 on my WinNT machine. Since The unix > programmers approach things from a different viewpoint there isn't a mail > client worth a hill of beans on Linux yet as they are fail in at least > one maj

fsck cdrom?

1998-12-01 Thread Christopher D. Judd
Hi, all, Is there a program to check an iso9660 file system and report the errors found. I recently wrote a cdrom (debian-image to use at home) from a Win95 box at work and there are some errors on it. I would like to find out more info, i. e. how badly corrupted it is and if possible which

about the HOWTO's

1998-12-01 Thread Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd
Can read the HOWTO's in html or text on the www somewhere, I cannot as yet get them on my linux system? Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd.~ Australian Tanned Wet Blue Leather ~110 Heales Road,Lara, Geelong, Australia3212Tel:++(03)52742232Fax:++(03)52742350mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-01 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 07:05:40PM +, Dave Swegen wrote: > saying that they had mutt sorting a mailfolder with 20k+ messages without > any problem (if memory serves me correctly). Yup, that was me. Not that I am recomending mutt for his needs since it fails on IMAP in a big way. --

Re: Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-01 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 01:52:19PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: > I would like to suggest that you split the retrieval/sorting/filtering > duties from the Email client (MUA). Which is exactly the problem with 99% of the clients out there. > You can use fetchmail to download all your email from

Re: help for a future user

1998-12-01 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > > > > Allmost debian list is about problems of installation. > > > > Would it be so difficult to install Debian? Note that some of those problems are from people who use unstable versions (eg, all the recent messages about __register_frame_info). Most people use the stable versions, re

writing a letter in LaTeX

1998-12-01 Thread Roy C Bixler
Hi: I tried using Lyx to write a letter and, in the end, had to resort to Star Office 5 because of an apparent bug in LaTeX. The Lyx output looked fine, but LaTeX did not include either the 'from' or 'to' addresses in the output DVI file. I was pretty shocked by this, since a long time back when

Re: Help needed with compressed files

1998-12-01 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > I wish to load some package files onto a laptop that has no CD-ROM drive and > is not networked. Some of the .deb files are 2+MB and I can compress them > using PKZIP,Winzip or rar but can linux unzip from spanned floppy disks? Any > suggestions? I wouldn't think the .deb files would rea

Re: Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-01 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 10:41:15AM -0800, Jon Burchmore wrote: > like to switch over to a Debian-based solution, but I haven't been > able to find a mail client that supports my needs under Linux: Good reason for it, there isn't one. > So, what does everyone here use? Should I just wait for

Re: Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-01 Thread Dave Swegen
On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 13:52 -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: > Jon Burchmore wrote: [stuff deleted] > > 1. IMAP support > > 2. PGP integration > > 3. X (preferably gtk) based UI > > 4. The ability to support multiple mail servers/accounts. > > I would like to suggest that you split the retrieval/

NFS mounted /home area from SGI computer, good idea?

1998-12-01 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, We would like setup 4-5 Debian boxes to be X-terminals. We plan to have 20-30 users on them. Having quite limited system management resources we don't want to backup user areas on those boxes. So we plan to NFS mount /home area from another cluster (it's a big SCSI backed up disk from la

Re: Network Configuration

1998-12-01 Thread Joe Emenaker
>How can I re-configure my network after installing linux? Well, assuming you're talking about changing the IP address... you need to change a couple of files: /etc/init.d/network - Shell script that sets up your ethernet interface. /etc/hosts - file that holds the IP's of "well-known" hosts..

Re: ISDN connection

1998-12-01 Thread Joe Emenaker
Well, Mitch did a darn good job of explaining all of this, but I'll still throw in my two cents... >Question 1. Is the calculation: = speed> div correct ? (ie. 512K / 33.6K = 15.238... >users) Like Mitch said, this assumes that everyone's going to be downloading at the same time. Since you sa

Samba

1998-12-01 Thread Patrik Magnusson
I've just installed the Samba-server (and read the man-pages). I might be missing something but I can't figure out how to get a list of what Wimpdos calls "the entire network". Can this be done without knowing any server-names?

Netscape...

1998-12-01 Thread Brant Wells
Hey all! I downloaded the *.deb packages for NETSCAPE...when I try to install it using dselect, it won't install... Help!!! Thanx, Brant __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: change a file from Dos to ext2

1998-12-01 Thread David Z. Maze
Cristian Carnutu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CC> 1) I have a file named wabi2.2.tar. CC> I made the commandtar -x wabi2.2.tar and nothing happens. This is because this invocation will try to extract a file named wabi2.2.tar from the default device, on Debian that being standard input. You w

Re: X authentication problen

1998-12-01 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Jon jabbed, > X is running fine apart from one problem involving the .Xauthentication file. > If I login as user > bob and startx everything is fine. >I happily compiled vim-5.3 for the graphical interface. from source, or debian source? I tried and failed on this . . . >Now, > if I su to r

Re: Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-01 Thread servis
*- Marcelo E. Magallon wrote about "Re: Recommendations for Email client?" > On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 10:41:15AM -0800, Jon Burchmore wrote: > >> 1. IMAP support >> 2. PGP integration >> 3. X (preferably gtk) based UI >> 4. The ability to support multiple mail servers/accounts. > > The ammoun

RE: Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-01 Thread Jon Burchmore
> > Unfortunately, this would eliminate the major advantage of IMAP. I read > > my mail from two different locations (home and work) and up to 5 different > > computers. Storing the mail locally really isn't an option, although I > > suppose I could make *copies* of it instead of moving it from t

RE: Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-01 Thread Colin Telmer
On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Jon Burchmore wrote: > > I would like to suggest that you split the retrieval/sorting/filtering > > duties from the Email client (MUA). > > You can use fetchmail to download all your email from multiple accounts. > > Then you use smail/procmail or exim to sort and deliver it lo

Re: Mounting CDROM

1998-12-01 Thread Allens
Kent West wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Doug Dine wrote: > > > I am having trouble mounting my CDROM. I used the command line below. > > > > mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /cdrom > > > > It just lists about 10 lines of error messages. > > > > The CDROM is recognized when I boot to Linux. > > > > An

Re: Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-01 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 10:41:15AM -0800, Jon Burchmore wrote: > 1. IMAP support > 2. PGP integration > 3. X (preferably gtk) based UI > 4. The ability to support multiple mail servers/accounts. The ammount of messages saying "use mutt" should say something to you... :-) Your solution is f

Re: Howto: Printing Howtos?

1998-12-01 Thread Carl Johnson
David Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 30 Nov 1998 21:13:43 MST, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > Joachim, > > > > I usually do something like 'zcat XXX-HOWTO.gz | a2ps -4' (although you > > could pipe to lpr instead). > > I don't usually print HOWTO's, but something I do with similarly > form

RE: Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-01 Thread Jon Burchmore
> I would like to suggest that you split the retrieval/sorting/filtering > duties from the Email client (MUA). > You can use fetchmail to download all your email from multiple accounts. > Then you use smail/procmail or exim to sort and deliver it locally. > Then, all your MUA has to do is be able t

Re: More on that error...

1998-12-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
Curt Howland wrote: >ian$ cd /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/ >/usr/lib/i486-linuxaout >ian$ dir >libdb.so.1 >/usr/lib/i486-linuxaout >ian$ cat libdb.so.1 >cat: libdb.so.1: No such file or directory >/usr/lib/i486-linuxaout >ian$ ls -al >total 7 >drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1

mutt testimonial

1998-12-01 Thread Mitch Blevins
Daniel Podlejski wrote: > Jon Burchmore napisal(a): > : Hello All, > : > : I currently use MS Outlook 98 on a Windows PC to read my Email (I get > : about 600-700 messages/day from various mailing lists). I would *really* > : like to switch over to a Debian-based solution, but I haven't been > :

How to fix Kernel panic

1998-12-01 Thread TONY ANG
HI, good-day, I am Tony from Singapore. I must bought a Special Edition -Using Linux with 3 CD. Firstly, I have successful install >From CDs Linux to run on my New 4.3 G HDD. Because I am a new user, the system got hanged after a few session of practice.   Now,I cannot boot from HDD as I did

Re: Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-01 Thread Mitch Blevins
Jon Burchmore wrote: > Hello All, > > I currently use MS Outlook 98 on a Windows PC to read my Email (I get > about 600-700 messages/day from various mailing lists). I would *really* > like to switch over to a Debian-based solution, but I haven't been > able to find a mail client that supports my

Re: Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-01 Thread Daniel Podlejski
Jon Burchmore napisal(a): : Hello All, : : I currently use MS Outlook 98 on a Windows PC to read my Email (I get : about 600-700 messages/day from various mailing lists). I would *really* : like to switch over to a Debian-based solution, but I haven't been : able to find a mail client that suppor

Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-01 Thread Jon Burchmore
Hello All, I currently use MS Outlook 98 on a Windows PC to read my Email (I get about 600-700 messages/day from various mailing lists). I would *really* like to switch over to a Debian-based solution, but I haven't been able to find a mail client that supports my needs under Linux: 1. IMAP sup

Interesting Problem (PCMCIA ethernet and modem)

1998-12-01 Thread Daniel Mashao
After some struggles I was able to install a PCMCIA ethernet card. It is working wonderfully. Unfortunately intslling it affected my modem card. Now when I dial using the modem it makes a connection but I can no longer telnet of ping outside. I changed my /etc/init.d/networks file to the old one wi

Re: About network daemons in a multi homed workstation

1998-12-01 Thread Miller Paul
On Tue, 1 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The interfaces are well configured; I can ping on any of them, I have a > custom client/server application running on the second interface and the > routed daemon is aware of the third one. But still NFS, telnet and ftp don't > work. > > The /etc/h

X authentication problen

1998-12-01 Thread richard
X is running fine apart from one problem involving the .Xauthentication file. If I login as user bob and startx everything is fine. I happily compiled vim-5.3 for the graphical interface. Now, if I su to root and try to run gvim I get the following error; Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refus

remove mail periodically?

1998-12-01 Thread Ben Jorgensen
I have around 10.000 mails in this folder now and it takes a while to open it so I'm wondering if there is some tool I can use to remove the old mails? Maybe periodically in a cron job? I'm using mutt with the Maildir format.. Thanks for any help!! //ben -- http://surf.to/anTiX

RE: Kernel 2.0.34 problems

1998-12-01 Thread Alex McCool
> -Original Message- > From: Nathan E Norman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I "grew up" with Slackware too; I find the ability to put the > kernel and > its associated modules in a deb file, but then I use one machine to > compile kernels for the various machines we have, since it's much > fa

Re: DNS-DHCP solution for linux?

1998-12-01 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Ben Jorgensen wrote: > Is there any such? It would be nice not having to update the DNS server by > hand all the time. And using DHCP to assign IP:s automatically could solve > this if there was a tool for updating the DNS server. > This is still in the protocol definition st

Re: [Off-topic] What happened to ORBS?

1998-12-01 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
ORBS lost it's ticket so to speak. They are looking for a new home. On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: -| Anybody know what happened to orbs.dorkslayers.com? I'd email them, but -| there are no address records for the domain - just ns and glue records. -| -| bohr:~ $ dig @ns1.orbs.org -

More on that error...

1998-12-01 Thread Curt Howland
ian$ cd /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/ /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout ian$ dir libdb.so.1 /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout ian$ cat libdb.so.1 cat: libdb.so.1: No such file or directory /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout ian$ ls -al total 7 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Sep 15 15:17 . drwxr-xr-x 34 root root

I don't think I should be getting this error...

1998-12-01 Thread Curt Howland
I'm getting a lot of errors like the following: ian# dpkg -i libc6_2.0.7u-6.deb (Reading database ... 23891 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc6 2.0.7u-6 (using libc6_2.0.7u-6.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc6 ... Setting up libc6 (2.0.7u-6) ... ldconfig: warn

HAMM-SLINK Upgrade Howto

1998-12-01 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
For those of you interested I have written a small howto document on upgrading to SLINK from HAMM. I still have some minor changes to make to it but it is still usuable. The only thing I am missing is the exact name of one package...but the system will tell you what that is anyways so it's no big

DNS-DHCP solution for linux?

1998-12-01 Thread Ben Jorgensen
Is there any such? It would be nice not having to update the DNS server by hand all the time. And using DHCP to assign IP:s automatically could solve this if there was a tool for updating the DNS server. //ben -- http://surf.to/anTiX

Adding a DNS entry to the /etc/NETWORKS file

1998-12-01 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy All :) Can someone tell me how to add a DNS entry into the /etc/networks file? I've got network access, but I have to know the IP addresses for access :( I know the IP of the DNS server, but I don't know how to set it up. Thanx Brant ___

Re: Network Configuration

1998-12-01 Thread wtopa
Subject: Network Configuration Date: Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 07:14:55AM -0800 In reply to:Brant Wells Quoting Brant Wells([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Howdy Y'all > > How can I re-configure my network after installing linux? > 1. find / -iname Networking-Overview-HOWTO.gz. 2. In the

Re: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-12-01 Thread Helge Hafting
Finding out if a package has no dependencies is done already, when you try to delete one. The flag I suggested would be a display-only thing in dselect, using this mechanism. Your counter may perhaps be a useful performance enhancement though. Note that you can't just delete packages as count go

Re: Adding a DNS entry to the /etc/NETWORKS file

1998-12-01 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Brant Wells wrote: > Can someone tell me how to add a DNS entry into the /etc/networks file? > I've got network access, but I have to know the IP addresses for access > :( I know the IP of the DNS server, but I don't know how to set it up

Adding a DNS entry to the /etc/NETWORKS file

1998-12-01 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy All :) Can someone tell me how to add a DNS entry into the /etc/networks file? I've got network access, but I have to know the IP addresses for access :( I know the IP of the DNS server, but I don't know how to set it up. Thanx Brant ___

Re: Question

1998-12-01 Thread virtanen
I had quite similar problems. My installation procedure didn't find dpkg-perl at all on the cd's. Finally I used dpkg -i to install that first before using dselect. I used resc-floppy to install the base first. For some reason dselect couldn't find dpkg-perl at all. It existed anyway on the righ

Re: [Off-topic] What happened to ORBS?

1998-12-01 Thread Peter Makholm
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anybody know what happened to orbs.dorkslayers.com? I'd email them, but > there are no address records for the domain - just ns and glue records. I got this on third hand: Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 11:12:38 -0800 From: Alan Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTE

change a file from Dos to ext2

1998-12-01 Thread Cristian Carnutu
Hi, 1) I have a file named wabi2.2.tar. I made the commandtar -x wabi2.2.tar and nothing happens. I think because it is a DOS file type. It was on a DOS floppy. Which is the command to change it to a linux format ? 2) How do I disable the printing queue? For the moment I don't need it Bes

[Off-topic] What happened to ORBS?

1998-12-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
Anybody know what happened to orbs.dorkslayers.com? I'd email them, but there are no address records for the domain - just ns and glue records. bohr:~ $ dig @ns1.orbs.org -t any dorkslayers.com ; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> @ns1.orbs.org -t dorkslayers.com ; (1 server found) ;; res options: init recurs d

Re: No more C++ ?

1998-12-01 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > > robinson:~/uni/c++/src$ c++ hello.C > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lstdc++: No such file or directory > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > > > I heard some people have the same problem. > > But how can I fix it? > > You need libstdc++, install it. That's not the solution, at least

RE: Network Configuration

1998-12-01 Thread Leandro Dutra
> How can I re-configure my network after installing linux? You use the ifconfig command. Use the man ifconfig to learn about it. This only configures the running system. In order to keep the changes even if you reboot, you need to change the /etc/init.d/network file.

Network Configuration

1998-12-01 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy Y'all How can I re-configure my network after installing linux? Thanx for the help :) Brant Wells; a linux newbie __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re : Re: Re : RE: please help me: problems for users!

1998-12-01 Thread Patrick RICHARD
Hi, The files /etc/group and etc/passwd are OK. I use the shadow mode (password field = x in the file /etc/passwd). As I wrote it in my first mail when an user (except root) runs the editor "vi" one can read the message "Information on user id 1000 not found. M

Re: Kernel 2.0.34 problems

1998-12-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: : On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 12:43:32PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: : > : We'll find out shortly. I'm FTPing the sources from sunsite. Never did : > : like the Debian way of doing the Kernel. : : > Why not? : : Because I was a Slackware p

RE: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-12-01 Thread Leandro Dutra
> > This feature would, I fear, strain the dpkg system even more. I'm > > starting to see occasional failures under dselect/apt/dpkg that > > fortunately, for now, are transient (i.e. rerun dselect/apt and the > > failure doesn't reoccur). It suggests to me that we are pushing our > > package

Re: php 3.0.5 needs apache_common_1.3.3!!

1998-12-01 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On 1 Dec 1998, James Ryan wrote: > 1) I am in the US, the apache-common is a non-us package. Is it >legal for me to use it. I thought that SSLEAY was legal worldwide. There is a current apache-common in slink/main > 2) Where can I find the apache-common_1.3.3 debian package. Is there sli

Re: ISDN connection

1998-12-01 Thread ivan
Thanks for the complete and very speedy response Mitch - now I know why I use and preach Debian !!! Ivan.

RE: Monitor vs X servers

1998-12-01 Thread Leandro Dutra
> There is only one card, displaying the info through DOS MSD command > shows a subset of info for the VESA stuff, which I have no idea if > it's used or not. Oh... that S3 Trio is the chipset of the card. > The card is supported, my question is what X servers will both the > card and th

Re: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-12-01 Thread wtopa
Subject: Is this really the right thing to do? Date: Sat, Nov 28, 1998 at 03:16:07PM -0500 In reply to:Ed Cogburn Quoting Ed Cogburn([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > I've been watching the explosive growth of deb packages in slink, now > around 2700 packages. Recently, the s

php 3.0.5 needs apache_common_1.3.3!!

1998-12-01 Thread James Ryan
I need to install php3.05 but it has a dependency of apache common. The only version available from the debian web site is apache-common_1.3.0+1.19-1.deb. PHP 3.05 needs 1.3.3 or higher of the apache-common. Two questions: 1) I am in the US, the apache-common is a non-us package. Is i

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