Re: "idled" the thing that wouldn't die

1998-12-28 Thread Rafael Kitover
As the other reply said, daemons are in /etc/init.d. You can do stuff /etc/init.d/daemon (stop|start|restart|reload) or whatever it supports. If a package failed to remove its functionality when you removed it, please file a bug. Install the bug package (apt-get install bug) and see the man page fo

Re: [Where can I ge Debian stickers?]

1998-12-28 Thread servis
*- rathon wrote about "Re: [Where can I ge Debian stickers?]" > I would even buy a Debian Hat or a T-shirt if there was any.. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anyone know where I can get "Powered By debian" stickers? > You can get a lot of stuff with any image you want on it at http://www.my

Re: upgrade to slink

1998-12-28 Thread Ralph Winslow
When Alexander Kushnirenko wrote, I replied: > > Hi, Ralph! > > I'm sorry for such a long delay in answering, Holidays really took over me. > Briefly I don't know what your problem is. I tried your > /etc/apt/sources.list, it works for me just fine. Please don't apologize; this is a very busy

RE:Adding memory

1998-12-28 Thread John Greer
I have just purchased some more memory for my machine so that i can upgrade it to 64megs. Is there anything that i need to do so that Debian will recognize it or should I just put it in and start the machine up??? /\ /\/\ /\/\ MONTANA- Home of the "Reason

Re: X questions

1998-12-28 Thread Rafael Kitover
On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 11:18:41AM +0100, Marcus Geiger wrote: > > Hi, > > I want to know, with which X-toolkits some of the traditional X applications > are implemented: ghostview, offix-files. (isn't it the athena widget set ???). Easy :) ldd `which ghostview` will show you what dynamic lib

Re: AWE 64 setup ?

1998-12-28 Thread Peter Berlau
On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 11:42:24AM +0100, Didier Verna wrote: > > Hi! > > Is there a simple way to setup my SoundBlaster AWE 64 for debian ? please install: Package: awe-drv Status: install ok installed Priority: extra Section: sound Installed-Size: 462 Maintainer: Tom Lees <

Re: xterm not found in slink

1998-12-28 Thread Peter Berlau
On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 10:28:31AM +0100, Gernot Bauer wrote: Hi Gernot, > There are many "obsolete" packages (like xbase-client and others - when > I try to de-install them, I get dependency-errors...) but no xdm or > xterm-package. :( > > Is it a problem of my debian-mirror? I dont' know, but i

Re: X won;t start after partial slink upgrade :-(

1998-12-28 Thread Ed Cogburn
Stan Brown wrote: > > In an attempt to get the siag office automation suite set up, I have > been partialy upgrading my hamm system to frozen. > > I have installed xbase, which warned me that I would need othe > packagse > now. I added xter, and xbas-clients, but

RE: more on the remote access server

1998-12-28 Thread pat
[ you should post to debian-isp i think ] On 28-Dec-98, ivan took time to write : > So as to gain as much experience and knowledge as I can I want to set up > the home system so that it emulates a major ISP as closely as possible. I > have 3 486 machines and 1 pentium 133 and 1 pentium 200. i'm

Re: [Where can I ge Debian stickers?]

1998-12-28 Thread rathon
I would even buy a Debian Hat or a T-shirt if there was any.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know where I can get "Powered By debian" stickers? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] 770-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Windows 98: n.

Re: upgrade to slink

1998-12-28 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Ralph! I'm sorry for such a long delay in answering, Holidays really took over me. Briefly I don't know what your problem is. I tried your /etc/apt/sources.list, it works for me just fine. > > > E: Line 8974 in package file > > > /var/state/apt/lists/ftp1.us.debian.org_debian_dists_slink_m

Re: _very_ reproducable WP8 X client lib error.

1998-12-28 Thread Ted Harding
On 28-Dec-98 Havoc Pennington wrote: > On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Stan Brown wrote: >> >> This bug is 100% reproducable. >> >> Sugestions? >> > > Email Corel. It's almost certainly a WordPerfect bug, and since > WordPerfect is not free software there's nothing anyone else can do > about it.

Re: Fujitsu Dynamo errors

1998-12-28 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I just bought a Fujutsu DynaMO 640SE magneto optical disk and am > having trouble getting it to work. I have made progress by moving > from a 2.0.33 to a 2.0.34 kernel and am now able to partition it, but > it gets errors partway into mke2fs when writing inode tables.

Re: kde toolbar buttons

1998-12-28 Thread Eric Jensen
try installing kdelibs0g-dev _ _ | |(_) http://www.iit.edu/~jenseri | _| | | Page me via ICQ at | |___ | | http://wwp.mirabilis.com/19022931 |__/ | or by mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] |__/ On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Madarasz Karoly wrote: > Hello! > > My KDE toolbar

Re: _very_ reproducable WP8 X client lib error.

1998-12-28 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Stan Brown wrote: > > This bug is 100% reproducable. > > Sugestions? > Email Corel. It's almost certainly a WordPerfect bug, and since WordPerfect is not free software there's nothing anyone else can do about it. Havoc

speaking of unofficial lyx . . .

1998-12-28 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
there is a mailmerge package available. I think that it's somewhere as a contrib package on the site, but I'd have to look. If that fails & you need it (or want to code more of it :), I can send the most recent version. It's not done, and a couple of the options don't work yet (seems to me

RE: Suggestion for a simple Perl X-Toolkit?

1998-12-28 Thread Shaleh
> I figure my current options are Perl/Tk and Xforms4Perl. > There is also a perl gtk+ package. The tk one is fairly easy. The forms version will be non-free and if you are using these apps in a business, you are suppoed to pay for the forms lib. To my knowledge there is no GUI developer too

RE: Eterm

1998-12-28 Thread Shaleh
On 25-Dec-98 Phillip Neumann wrote: > Hello, > > When typing Eterm in a xterm, that will bring a transparent Eterm. Thats ok > becouse i have alias Eterm='Eterm -O'... But When invoking it from the gnome > panel or from an E button that will not bring a trans Eterm as i wishIs > it normal th

Suggestion for a simple Perl X-Toolkit?

1998-12-28 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I'd like to get into creating some simple Perl-driven X apps (I don't code C++). I figure my current options are Perl/Tk and Xforms4Perl. Any experience with any of them? Do they both have GUI builders to lay out the application look, buttons and stuff? Any good docs out there? (Or are t

_very_ reproducable WP8 X client lib error.

1998-12-28 Thread Stan Brown
I am having a reproducable problem with WP*. It must be a clinet side library problem, since it ccurs even on remote X servers. If you go to "Format", and select "Labels" then select a label, and press "OK" WP says an X server error has occured. "Popushell must have

[off topic] Stacking machines together

1998-12-28 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Hello everyone, Please excuse the intrusion... I have a load of old machines (or rather bits and pieces of them) and would like to stack them into a network (an then one parallel machine) ... The problem is space ... can anyone advise me as to a way of stripping out the innards of each mach

Re: NIS and /etc/hosts

1998-12-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Simon Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Folks, > >I get the most bizarre problem with NIS. > >If I put "ypserver 192.168.1.2" in /etc/yp.conf everything works just >fine. If I put "ypserver mynishost" in there, I get lots of >"YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound" er

Re: rpms

1998-12-28 Thread servis
*- Rick Knebel wrote about "rpms" > Is there any way to install a redhat rpm on a debian system? > > Thanks > Rick > Install the alien package. Read the man page and have fun. Package: alien Status: install ok installed Priority: extra Section: admin Installed-Size: 89 Maintainer: Joey Hess <[

Re: rpms

1998-12-28 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 10:51:06AM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote: : Is there any way to install a redhat rpm on a debian system? Convert them using alien to .deb format: Package: alien Priority: extra Section: admin Installed-Size: 109 Maintainer: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Vers

X won;t start after partial slink upgrade :-(

1998-12-28 Thread Stan Brown
In an attempt to get the siag office automation suite set up, I have been partialy upgrading my hamm system to frozen. I have installed xbase, which warned me that I would need othe packagse now. I added xter, and xbas-clients, but now my system will not start

Re: rpms

1998-12-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 10:51:06AM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote: > Is there any way to install a redhat rpm on a debian system? alien. flora:~# dpkg -s alien Package: alien Status: hold ok installed Priority: extra Section: admin Installed-Size: 107 Maintainer: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version:

Re: Some newbie questions

1998-12-28 Thread Martin Wheeler
On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, CJ wrote: >->But there isn't any boot.bat file under the \boot directory on my CD, Aha! Welcome to the wonderful world of Debian. You have successfully smashed head-on into the first obstacle placed in your path. Cunning newbie test #1 -- see if the poor unfortunate

rpms

1998-12-28 Thread Rick Knebel
Is there any way to install a redhat rpm on a debian system? Thanks Rick -- Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Some newbie questions

1998-12-28 Thread ivan
Hi Tam, binary CD is correct. the file you want is in /install Any more questions - just ask ! Ivan. At 09:41 AM 12/28/98 -0500, you wrote: >Hi, > > I just bought an official Debian CD. But my computer does not >boot from CDs. > ->What do I do? > I read the installation guide

Re: need g++ 2.8 and g++ 2.7

1998-12-28 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Sat, Dec 19, 1998 at 11:25:07 -0700, Zooko wrote: > A company that i am working for insists that the software i'm writing has > to compile with g++ 2.8 (that's right, the "official", GNU one, _not_ > egcs). The only visible FSF gcc development is that once in a while someone on the gnu.* groups

Some newbie questions

1998-12-28 Thread CJ
Hi, I just bought an official Debian CD. But my computer does not boot from CDs. ->What do I do? I read the installation guide and it says: "In the case that your computer does not support bootable CDs, you should boot into DOS, and execute boot.bat file which is located in

Re: uninstalling smail when a self compiled MTA is present

1998-12-28 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, my question must have a quite easy answer, however I have not been able to find it yet. Did that mail get through to the list in the first place? On Sun, 20 Dec 1998 15:57:15 -0500, you wrote: >On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 08:52:41PM +, Marc Haber wrote: >> How do I tell dpkg that mail-transpor

Re: upgrade to slink

1998-12-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
I believe the safest method of upgrading to slink is to use 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. I upgraded a system last week with this method and it was almost uneventful. Bob On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Matus "fantomas" Uhlar wrote: > HEllo, > > just a q: > won't I mess up my hamm when just set up dselect to

Re: AWE 64 setup ?

1998-12-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi Didier, hi Britton! On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 01:46:38AM -0900, Britton wrote: > > Marcus Brinkman (my regrets if I've butchered your name Marcus) It's tow "n", but beside that, fine! Nice to see you still around, Britton! > has a > spiffy mini-HOWTO on setting up the AWE32/64 on his web page

more on the remote access server

1998-12-28 Thread ivan
Thanks for the help. Perhaps you would be able to help with some other matters ? The background is that I and some friends intend to purchase a permanent connection to the 'net - somewhere between 128K & 512K depending on how much money we can come up with - and I will set up a dial-in system at

NIS and /etc/hosts

1998-12-28 Thread Simon Read
Folks, I get the most bizarre problem with NIS. If I put "ypserver 192.168.1.2" in /etc/yp.conf everything works just fine. If I put "ypserver mynishost" in there, I get lots of "YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound" errors. mynishost is definitely, explicitly in /etc/hosts as 192.168.1.2. What

Re: Installation on a separate hard drive

1998-12-28 Thread Jim Foltz
If you did want to use the same drive with Windows, you would need to create a partition with FIPS or a similar partition making program. You would then create a Linux partition and install there. Many people do this and this is no problem, except when they need more space, which will always happen

Re: Installation on a separate hard drive

1998-12-28 Thread John Galt
Not until they fix LILO to install on the MBR of /dev/hda instead of the MBR of the drive linux is on. On Sun, 27 Dec 1998, Gordon von Miller wrote: > Hello, > > Would installation be any easier on a separate hard drive? > > TIA > > Gordon > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAI

upgrade to slink

1998-12-28 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
HEllo, just a q: won't I mess up my hamm when just set up dselect to install from slink directory and run update and install ? is it good way tp uograde to slink ? -- Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, sysadmin at NETLAB+ Kosice, Slovakia BIC coord for *.sk; admin of netlab.irc.sk; co-admin of irc.felk.

X questions

1998-12-28 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hi, I want to know, with which X-toolkits some of the traditional X applications are implemented: ghostview, offix-files. (isn't it the athena widget set ???). Please give me some hints where to find information about those topics (books, tutorials...) Thanks Marcus

Re: AWE 64 setup ?

1998-12-28 Thread Britton
Marcus Brinkman (my regrets if I've butchered your name Marcus) has a spiffy mini-HOWTO on setting up the AWE32/64 on his web page, the address of which I unfortunately forget, but a search with his name in there would probably turn it up. It'll probably help you and give you an idea what's going

kde toolbar buttons

1998-12-28 Thread Madarasz Karoly
Hello! My KDE toolbar buttons are displayed without the images in it. They appeare as blue squares. At startup I get something like: Can't load (find) pixmap files. Thanks, Karesz.

AWE 64 setup ?

1998-12-28 Thread Didier Verna
Hi! Is there a simple way to setup my SoundBlaster AWE 64 for debian ? In my former redhat installation, it was configured automatically, and I had a sndconfig program to position the proper IRQs and the like. I didn't find the equivalent under debian. Do I have to assimi

remote access server

1998-12-28 Thread ivan
Hello again ! Am I right in thinking that a remote access server simply takes the place of a million modems for a dial-in setup ? When I was browsing the web recently I saw an advertisement for a RAS that is powered by a Pentium 166. That being so, I assume it is a specially configured PC. Is i

Re: Triple click: changing click interval: SOLVED

1998-12-28 Thread Jameson Burt
The parameter that can be changed is the "maximum click interval". This can be changed with xterm -mc 500 for 500 milliseconds. I believe the default is 250 milliseconds. This gives me time to make another click if all three clicks haven't been recognized. My problem probably did not demand a

emacs19, hamm and segmentation faults

1998-12-28 Thread Jim McCloskey
Hello. On Sunday, I finally upgraded my home system from bo to hamm (I've been postponing the upgrade because I had a lot of important work to finish, and I didn't want to risk breaking the system until that was done). I used apt-get and the official Debian CD (it came with the new edition of th

Re: xterm not found in slink

1998-12-28 Thread Gernot Bauer
Peter Berlau wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 27, 1998 at 06:52:00PM +0100, Gernot Bauer wrote: > Hi Gernot > xterm is in his own package at slink > therefore You must get the package > xterm > also > xmodmap, if You needed Thank you Peter (and all the others who replied me on debian-user), but unfortunat

Re: Matrox Xserver (again) and XFree86 3.3.3.3

1998-12-28 Thread Sean M Hollingsworth
Thanks. I had wondered if that would work. That sounds like it'll work much better than what I was getting ready to do ;-) Oh .. and I, of course, found the Matrox Xserver rpm and config file not too long after I sent my previous post; doesn't it always seem to work that way... -Original M

bison -d generates bad header?

1998-12-28 Thread Matt Miller
I'm learning bison and flex, and I'm trying to modify the calculator example in the bison tutorial to use a flex-generated scanner. Here's the contents of my compilation buffer: cd ~/calc/ make -k bison calc.y gcc -c calc.tab.c bison -d calc.y flex calc.lex.y gcc -c le

Re: Matrox Xserver (again) and XFree86 3.3.3.3

1998-12-28 Thread Ed Cogburn
Please don't use HTML for email; there are many who would appreciate that. :-) > Sean M Hollingsworth wrote: > > First off, I really appreciate everyone's response to my earlier post on the > Matrox Xserver. Of course, now that I have the card installed, I can no > longer find the X

Re: Can't send mail from my machine:

1998-12-28 Thread Britton
I would try exim instead of smail, I've found it easier to set up with nice docs. I'm trying to get address re-writing working now, but at least I can send messages (albeit with [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a From: address). The rewrite stuff has fairly good instructions. I think I got errors somethin

Can't send mail from my machine:

1998-12-28 Thread Matt Miller
The following attempt to contact the outside world fails: mail -s test [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null I immediately receive a message that includes the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... transport smtp: 553 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...unresolvable; rejected. Check your DNS All attem

Matrox Xserver (again) and XFree86 3.3.3.3

1998-12-28 Thread Sean M Hollingsworth
First off, I really appreciate everyone's response to my earlier post on the Matrox Xserver.  Of course, now that I have the card installed, I can no longer find the Xserver on SuSE's website.  All I can find is a message saying that the Matrox server is now included in the SVGA server in X

Re: close but no cigar

1998-12-28 Thread Ed Cogburn
KTB wrote: > > I installed Communicator 4.5 but got a couple of errors. > > tar: bookmark.htm: Could not create file: Is directory Where did you install NS, /usr/local/netscape? If thats the case do you have a directory (invalid symlink?) named bookmark.htm there? That seems to be wh

Re: ZyXEL omin128 ISDN Setup Q.

1998-12-28 Thread zhaoway
Cleto Pescia wrote: > > Hi, > > > Please, where can I find step by step HOWTO on isdn for Linux? > > Thank you! > > > > Or, if you're so kindly to read on: > > My boss ask me to setup my Linux box for ZyXEL omni128 ISDN > > externel modem to show him the power of Linux, or at least > ^^

Re: close but no cigar

1998-12-28 Thread KTB
That wasn't a typo. I went back in and tried "netscape &" I got the same message: command not found. Thanks, Kent "John C. Ellingboe" wrote: > KTB wrote: > > > > I installed Communicator 4.5 but got a couple of errors. > > > > tar: bookmark.htm: Could not create file: Is directory > > tar: e

Anyone have a good spredsheet icon?

1998-12-28 Thread Stan Brown
I am setting up a remote machine to use my Debian bx as an application server for office apps, for my wife. Using siag as my spreadsheet. Anyone have a good icon for a spreadsheet? Thanks. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]770

Re: where is xmem(hamm)?

1998-12-28 Thread Joey Hess
Peter Bartosch wrote: > the only thing my requirements nearly fill was xosview, except the size (i´ve > used xmem swallowed into an fvwm-panel) Procmeter is an excellent replacement for xload and xmem, and it can display about 20 other graphs about your system as well. -- see shy jo

close but no cigar

1998-12-28 Thread KTB
I installed Communicator 4.5 but got a couple of errors. tar: bookmark.htm: Could not create file: Is directory tar: error exit delay from previous errors Installing communicator Java files... Installing additional component files... Registering communicator 4.5 The Netscape com

Acroread & Hamm ???

1998-12-28 Thread Wayne Cuddy
Does Acroread work with hamm? It tells me it can't find libXt.so.6. If I set my LD_LIBRARY_PATH I get a SEGV. I do have libc5 installed. Thanks in advance, Wayne

Re: X library question.

1998-12-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
xlib6 is for libc5 clients, xlib6g is for xlib6 clients. The problem went away for me after I upgraded to slink, which has xlib6 3.3.2a-8. The X error I had previously was with hamm and xlib6 3.3.2.3-2, but it is different than the error you report: X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt

Re: to mirror or not to mirror

1998-12-28 Thread A. M. Varon
On Sun, 27 Dec 1998, Marco Frattola wrote: > i'd like to ask the nice debianers about mirror like programs. i need to > keep in sync two linux (debian of course) servers. they both share many > files to windows clients thru samba. one of the two server (call it the > master) periodically receive n

X library question.

1998-12-28 Thread Stan Brown
I am trying to track down why WP8dies with X errors on my machine, but not, acording to the single report I got, on all Debian hamm machines. I have, acording to dpkg -l a package called xlib6 3.3.2.3-2 installed. The person with the succcess story has xlib6 3.3.2.2

Re: where is xmem(hamm)?

1998-12-28 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Sun, Dec 27, 1998 at 06:49:51PM +0100, Thomas Keusch wrote: > I received an email from David Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who > provided an URL to the xmem source on sunsite: > > http://sunsite.uakom.sk/pub/linux/system/status/xstatus/xmem-1.02.tgz > > First I'll try that one (thanks David!), a

Re: spreadsheet

1998-12-28 Thread Richard Sevenich
ApplixWare has a spreadsheet - it's adequate for my needs, but is not free. Richard

Re: File download problem

1998-12-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 27 Dec 1998, KTB wrote: > Hi, I was downloading the Communicator file once again. I tried another > installation and came very close this time. Anyway I decided to remove > all the previous Communicator files I had downloaded and see if a fresh > one would work. I used "rm" to take out

File download problem

1998-12-28 Thread KTB
Hi, I was downloading the Communicator file once again. I tried another installation and came very close this time. Anyway I decided to remove all the previous Communicator files I had downloaded and see if a fresh one would work. I used "rm" to take out a communicator directory and all the file

sound in netscape

1998-12-28 Thread LOPARIC Marko
Hi, I am trying to put sound in netscape 4.5. Apparently the debian package doesn't install the sound interfaces (plugins?), or does it? I tried to install the ump plugin for midi files, but when I start netscape it says ERROR: /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/ump.so: undefined symbol: fstat Cant load

Re: spreadsheet

1998-12-28 Thread ivan
Stan, I'm not a big user of spreadsheets but I have looked at Siag which seems to be quite effective. IIRC functionality can be extended through scripting (as in Excel) although the scripting language is not built in. I think Perl is the language (but don't quote me on that :) Also from what I