Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...

1999-01-14 Thread Kent West
At 05:36 PM 1/14/1999 -0600, Kent West wrote: >Wait. Weren't both drives working before you ran LILO? If so, then the >master/slave jumper should be okay. Above you say you "do have such a >configuration". Do you mean you have an overlay, or do you mean you've "got >2 drives, on primary and seconda

Re: Problem with intallation on a wierd PC/MAC combo

1999-01-14 Thread Kent West
At 12:34 PM 1/14/1999 -0800, Nathan Vegdahl wrote: >Greets, >My computer is a wierd combination of a Mac and a PC. >I am wondering if there is anyway to >manually install Debian Linux, because it seems that is my only way out. > If I could, I'd just buy a real PC computer, but presently I

Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...

1999-01-14 Thread Kent West
At 02:29 PM 1/14/1999 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >Andrew Ivanov wrote: >> >> > If it's not an overlay problem, I don't have a clue. >> >> >> >> Wouldnt it be the problem only when he was trying to boot to an OS >that > is > located >beyong 1024th cylinder? >> >> He's got 2 drives, on primar

Re: [OFFTOPIC]Gnu Utils For AIX

1999-01-14 Thread st0136
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Keith Beattie wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 02:18:01PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: > > > > I was wondering if anyone knows if there are any GNU (or other no > > cost) utils that work with AIX. Specifically, I'm hoping to find > > something like top. So we can find out whic

The Gimp and gif

1999-01-14 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
HI! I can load gifs into The Gimp but I can't save them. What am I missing? I thought I only need the gimp-nonfree package installed for saving gifs to work. feri.

Compiles

1999-01-14 Thread Nidge Jones
Now I run Debian 2.0, I fiond a lot of my old stuff won't compile ! What packages do i need to install from the oldlibs section to allow this. In particular to allow my kernel compile to work again, as at the moment it refuses to do just such. Is there anything else I need to do too ! Thanks in

Mathematics 3.0 and Debian 2.0

1999-01-14 Thread Francis Valentinis
I am having a lot of trouble getting Mathematica 3.0 to work under Debian 2.0. I have installed it in the past on both Slakware and RedHat systems and have never had problems before, so I am a little confused as to what could be going wrong. The front end (Notebook) interface works well, but the k

Re: Later and surepimposing a text.

1999-01-14 Thread Paul Huygen
Sergey Imennov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: > How can I [ superimpose an image over a page, something similar to > "DRAFT" or "COPYWRITED"] Will I need some additional package? You can do this using the postscript driver dvips (and ghostscript). Tomas Rockicki gives the following \special statement

Re: Alternative to xntp?

1999-01-14 Thread servis
*- Dale E. Martin wrote about "Alternative to xntp?" > > I've got the following problem. I have ADSL and in general my Cisco 675 > router doesn't forward udp packets from one subnet to the other. I know > how to configure it to on a per session basis, but that's a pain because > I'd have to conf

Re: using xfig + latex

1999-01-14 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 20:36:30 +0100 (MET) From: LOPARIC Marko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 476 On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > >Do you k

Re: CR and VT100 problem

1999-01-14 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 14 Jan 1999 21:54:37 + (GMT), Nidge Jones wrote: >So what is broken here, how do I make the CR work again when the term type >is set to VT100. And why is it OK in Screen.. Is Screen setting some sort of >stty variable or something which is

Re: Adding ftp users?

1999-01-14 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 04:36:10PM -0400, Timothy Hospedales wrote: : How should I add a "real" user to my wu-ftpd server? Make sure you have a class containing 'real' in your /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess file. Now everyone who has a valid login shell (that is, their shell according to /etc/passwd is li

CR and VT100 problem

1999-01-14 Thread Nidge Jones
Since upgrading to 2.0 from 1.3.1 I have a problem with remote VT100 terminals and the Carriage Return Key. That is too say, if you access Debian 2.0 from a VT100 terminal (Not Console), or VT100 emulators via Ethernet, the CR fails to work in such things as JOE etc. However, if one was to expo

Re: [OFFTOPIC]Gnu Utils For AIX

1999-01-14 Thread Edmund Lau
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Adding ftp users?

1999-01-14 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Hi, I have what is probably a stupid question. :). How should I add a "real" user to my wu-ftpd server? I suppose I could just copy my /etc/passwd to the ~ftp/etc/passwd, but is this secure? And will I have to do it again everytime I add a new real user? I can't hardlink

Alternative to xntp?

1999-01-14 Thread Dale E. Martin
I've got the following problem. I have ADSL and in general my Cisco 675 router doesn't forward udp packets from one subnet to the other. I know how to configure it to on a per session basis, but that's a pain because I'd have to configure the router every time it connects. So, my question is if

Re: Printing on win95

1999-01-14 Thread tko
Brant Wells writes: > Howdy all... > > I've got samba set up to where I can print to a shared printer... But > the files have to be text files, and I have to do it manually from the > smb:> prompt :( > > WP8 will go through the motions, but will not print to the printer... > > I created a

libc5 docs

1999-01-14 Thread Scott Scriven
Is there any documentation on getting old libc5 programs to work? It took me a long time to stumble across the information that I need files from the "oldlibs" section to make things work, but I still can't get many programs to run. Specifically, I can't get libc5 X programs to work (like acrorea

Re: How to mail a file?

1999-01-14 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Or mail email_address < file That works with mailx installed. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ:

Problem with intallation on a wierd PC/MAC combo

1999-01-14 Thread Nathan Vegdahl
Greets, I have neglected to give this info in fear of being rejected, but I hope that somone will still help. I have a Macintosh computer... WAIT! DON'T STOP READING!!! I'm not an idiot trying to install Debian on a Mac, ok? So, my problem is that Debian won't install because it doesn't k

Re: How to mail a file?

1999-01-14 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 14 Jan 1999 13:28:48 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I believe there's a command for e-mailing a file without having to use an >MTU, but directly from the command line. mailx, smail,... any ideas? Yes, it is called FTP. - --

Re: StarOffice 5.0 on Debian

1999-01-14 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Danny R. Gray wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Does anyone use StarOffice and is there something simple that I'm > missing? > Hi, I installed it (with some problems:-)). It works. I did it as follows: instead of installing it as root and using 'net'-installing I run the setup

Re: [OFFTOPIC]Gnu Utils For AIX

1999-01-14 Thread Keith Beattie
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 02:18:01PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone knows if there are any GNU (or other no > cost) utils that work with AIX. Specifically, I'm hoping to find > something like top. So we can find out which process is trying to > kill the machine here at wor

Re: using xfig + latex

1999-01-14 Thread Rene Hojbjerg Larsen
LOPARIC Marko wrote: > Do you know how to export xfig figures with latex commands and insert them > in latex files? I was unlucky with pictex, eepic and pstex_t. [snip] > 3. pstex_t: That is the format suggested in the documentation of tranfig > package. But I was unnable to find the file psfig.

Re: StarOffice 5.0 on Debian

1999-01-14 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> I ran ./setup > from the command line again and the same x server error came up. I did > not start X and try the command line again. > Does anyone use StarOffice and is there something simple that I'm > missing? You *must* run the install from within X, as it uses X. Do *not* try installing

Later and surepimposing a text.

1999-01-14 Thread Sergey Imennov
Hi, With a sudden influx of LaTeX-related questions, and tetex-list being quiet for some time now, I decided to ask a question on debian-user... I want to superimpose an image over a page. Something similar to "DRAFT" or "COPYWRITED". How can I do

StarOffice 5.0 on Debian

1999-01-14 Thread Danny R. Gray
Hello everyone, I have tried thus far a few times to get star office installed on the Debian 'hamm' distribution. The readme file states that the libc6 libraries needed are already there. I followed the instructions to verify that the library files exist on the machine and they do. I ran the .

Re: using xfig + latex

1999-01-14 Thread LOPARIC Marko
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > >Do you know how to export xfig figures with latex commands and insert them >in latex files? I was unlucky with pictex, eepic and pstex_t. > > i usually export from xfig into encapsulated PS and it fits into > laTeX files perfectly (using g

[OFFTOPIC]Gnu Utils For AIX

1999-01-14 Thread Chris Hoover
I was wondering if anyone knows if there are any GNU (or other no cost) utils that work with AIX. Specifically, I'm hoping to find something like top. So we can find out which process is trying to kill the machine here at work. TIA, Chris

Re: How to mail a file?

1999-01-14 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 05:45:11PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : The below responses to my initial question just left me with a few doubts: : : - How would I gzip and/or tar the file? Would this process take place : before encoding? (OTH tar'ing would be a way of sending several files a

Help needed with laptop

1999-01-14 Thread tracheotomy bob
Hallo all, I relly hope you can help me with this REALLY annoying problem. I recently bought a Sony VAIO 747 (impulse) and I want to put Debian on it (I have 2.0 (hamm)). I can put Red Hat 5.1 on it easily. But Debian is a bitch. Sometimes it starts and sometimes it doesn't. It

Re: using xfig + latex

1999-01-14 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi! Do you know how to export xfig figures with latex commands and insert them in latex files? I was unlucky with pictex, eepic and pstex_t. i usually export from xfig into encapsulated PS and it fits into laTeX files perfectly (using graphics, graphix or epsfig). OK

Re: using xfig + latex

1999-01-14 Thread Mamoun Alissali
LOPARIC Marko wrote: > > Hi! > > Do you know how to export xfig figures with latex commands and insert them > in latex files? I was unlucky with pictex, eepic and pstex_t. [...] I usually export them in encapsulated Postscript (.eps) and include them with \includegraphics from the graphicx pac

Re: problem with xdm

1999-01-14 Thread Eric Hagglund
I want to be able to start xdm from my user account, instead of from root. I have tried changing permissions and ownership, but neither of these works and have checked permissions in higher level directories to which I have access, but nothing seems wrong. Any idea what is going on here?

Re: autofs and timeouts

1999-01-14 Thread ulisses
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Brian! Thanks for your reply, > You can use different timeouts for top level mount directories > (mountpoint in auto.master(5)). You put options in the /etc/auto.master I read the manpage but I did not see that :-( regards, Ulisses -

Re: Help with CRON

1999-01-14 Thread Deniz Dogan
"William" == William Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: William> I put the following entry into my "crontab" file. (Yea, i William> used "crontab -e" to edit the file as root) William> 0-55/5 * * * * root mrtg /mrtg-2.5.4c/mrtg.cfg You need a blank line at the end. Regards. -- Deniz Dogan

using xfig + latex

1999-01-14 Thread LOPARIC Marko
Hi! Do you know how to export xfig figures with latex commands and insert them in latex files? I was unlucky with pictex, eepic and pstex_t. 1. pictex: I was used to pictex format some years ago, but now the latex commands get commented (I get a $ when I put a $ in the picture...) 2. eepic: I

Re: Free SQL Server for Linux?

1999-01-14 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
PostgreSQL: http://www.postgresql.org MySQL: http://www.tcx.se Both have Debian Packages. Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique PS: Voce nao e brasileiro, nao? Se sim, responda Quoting Eliezer Figueroa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Does any body know about

Free SQL Server for Linux?

1999-01-14 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
Does any body know about a free SQL Server for Linux? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: removing/updating a stuck package

1999-01-14 Thread Peter Granroth
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 12:54:32PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Ben Messinger wrote: > > > While using apt-get to update my packages (144mb worth) I lost my ppp > > connection. I re-connected and resumed the update, but the package that > > was being downloaded when the connection was lost got corrup

Re: printing to a win95 shared printer *sigh*

1999-01-14 Thread Richard A Nelson
Thanks... I can now print text to the printer - two problems: 1) The hp dj870 doesn't complete the page, must need some kind of EOF 2) I can only print text - If I send PS, it is printed as text! I guess this means I really need to be able to use magicfilter - but can I send output from

Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...

1999-01-14 Thread Mamoun Alissali
Nils Rennebarth wrote: > > It explains that your disks are scsi disks, where there is no master/slave > distinction. > > It ist not clear however what the BIOS thinks about the order of the > devices. The adaptec also has a setup program to specify what should be the > boot device. > > When you

"Can't load libc5.so.m" when starting XFree 86 (3.3.2)(matrox G200 card)

1999-01-14 Thread Marc Fleureck
Hi, Configuration: XFree 86 3.3.2 and Matrox G200 video card I downloaded xmatrox-2.2-0.i386.rpm from XSuSE, converted it to debian package with alien and unpacked xsuseconfig. Then I ran xf86config but it dies wirh "can't load libc5.so.m" (same with startx). I have mostly SLINK packages and l

Re: Lyx problems - of topic

1999-01-14 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> Dear Debian user's > > I could not compile the source for lyx 1.0.0pre6. There were some linking > problems which I could not figure out you need libforms-dev and xpm4g-dev. Also, if you have previously had a debianized lyx, you need to use the --prefix=/usr/local or it gets confused tr

Re: How to mail a file?

1999-01-14 Thread homega
Hi again, The below responses to my initial question just left me with a few doubts: - Both commands, mail and mailx, seem to work pretty much the same way, are there any differences? and, will they send the files to the mailing queu (sp?)? - How would I gzip and/or tar the file? Would this p

Adding NEW Apache Modules: Completely confused.

1999-01-14 Thread Lyndon Fletcher
Hi, I have a non standard Apache Module that I need to add to a server on a Debian system. I have the current 1.3.1 Apache on the server at the moment but would like to upgrade to 1.3.3 + this new module. According to Apache I modify some config files and recompile the server after running th

SoundBlaster Vibra16 card

1999-01-14 Thread tko
Sorry about getting in the tail end of this thread. I just went round and round with this very same card. I have it working under Debian. This is what I had to do: 1) Go into the BIOS - PNP/ISA menu and turn off the "Is there a PNP OS installed?" option. Doing this forces the BIOS to assign defaul

Re: printing to a win95 shared printer *sigh*

1999-01-14 Thread tko
Richard A Nelson writes: > > Has anyone setup lprng to print to a win95 shared printer? > The printer in question is a HP DeskJet 870. > > I've been printing to the printer locally, but had to move the printer > to a box that runs mostly lose 95. If you haven't already installed SAMBA, you shoul

Re: Re: timezone = 1168 ???

1999-01-14 Thread David Wright
Quoting Eric Gillespie, Jr. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Edwin Martin wrote: > > > The variable timezone doesn't seem to work right. It should give > > the timedifference between GMT and the local timezone. > > > > I live in Amsterdam, so the difference should be (-)3600 seconds. >

CR and VT100 problem

1999-01-14 Thread Nidge Jones
Since upgrading to 2.0 from 1.3.1 I have a problem with remote VT100 terminals and the Carriage Return Key. That is too say, if you access Debian 2.0 from a VT100 terminal (Not Console), or VT100 emulators via Ethernet, the CR fails to work in such things as JOE etc. However, if one was to expo

Boa zombie

1999-01-14 Thread Martin Saturka
I've got httpd boa, but it doesn't run in user nobody:nogroup. (In /etc/boa/boa.conf that's well) It runs 0:0. And it gives daily (by cron) a zombie (that zombie is unkillable nor by kill -9 ... ). Thanks. Martin

Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...

1999-01-14 Thread Mamoun Alissali
Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > > > Did you check the jumpersettings at the disks? > > > You have to tell a haddisk, whether it's a slave or the primary disk. > > > Only primary disks can be bootable. > > > > This is something I was wondering about (I'm new to PCs and Linux): > > BIOS doesn't show a

Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...

1999-01-14 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 02:29:16PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > BIOS doesn't show any information about master/slave disks. I played > around with the setup but with no result. > > I've got an ASUSTEK P2B-S mothercard with Ultra-2 SCSI contoller (SCSI > storage > controller: Adaptec AIC-789

Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...

1999-01-14 Thread Mamoun Alissali
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > No > The jumpersettings are hardware-settings. Take the harddisk out. Look at > it. Perhaps you can see > some small things, that can be moved. And an explanation to it printed > directly on the harddisk: Slave: one setting: Primary: another setting. > Usually it's eas

XF86Config format changed?

1999-01-14 Thread M.C. Vernon
I've just upgraded to slink, and the XF86Config file parser doesn't like my config file, so xdm won't start. I fiddled the hsync OK, but it doesn't like the pointer section either: Emulate3Buttons set in pointer, but 3 pointer buttons specified the pointer section is: Section"Pointer" Pr

Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...

1999-01-14 Thread Brandon Mitchell
> > Did you check the jumpersettings at the disks? > > You have to tell a haddisk, whether it's a slave or the primary disk. > > Only primary disks can be bootable. > > This is something I was wondering about (I'm new to PCs and Linux): > BIOS doesn't show any information about master/slave disk

flashing LEDs: LILO & keyboard

1999-01-14 Thread Major A
Hi there! This is a serious problem I have had in the past few days. After installing the latest Debian distribution on a PC, I recompiled a new kernel, and installed it with LILO. Now the machine boots correctly, but when the LILO prompt appears, the keyboard LEDs start to flash, and no keyboard

suexec

1999-01-14 Thread Oliver Thuns
How could I use suexec with the Apache Debian-package (1.3.3)? The webpages are in $HOME/www. Oliver

Security of Samba

1999-01-14 Thread Oliver Thuns
Hello! Are there any security risks with samba? It would be nice if my users could update their webpages via SMB. Or is FTP the more secure alternative? Oliver

dosemu and freedos

1999-01-14 Thread virtanen
one more question about dosemu and freedos. It is maybe very stupid not knowing this... but wondered long time: If I run some dos-programs using freedos and dosemu, do I need to install my dos-programs on a dos-formatted partition, or is it possible to use my linux-partitions? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to mail a file?

1999-01-14 Thread Carsten Schabacker
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I believe there's a command for e-mailing a file without having to use an > MTU, but directly from the command line. mailx, smail,... any ideas? If you want to send a textfile: $ mailx -s "Subjecttext" [EMAIL PROTECTED] < FILENAME

Re: How to mail a file?

1999-01-14 Thread Hanno 'Rince' Wagner
Hi, On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 02:46:49PM +0100, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote: > there a way to send more than one file in a mail this way? what about mutt? mutt -a -a -a -s < /dev/null works fine :-) Ciao, Hanno --

ETHERNET (3com) problems at boot: unknown interface

1999-01-14 Thread Ulrich Gruen mails again
Dear reader. I have an i386-25 with 4 Mb RAM with a 3COM 3c509 ethernet card. the problem: at boot I have the following messages: SIOCSIFADDR: operation not supported by device eth0: unknown interface SIOCSIFNETMASK: operation not supported by device SIOCSIFBRDADDR: operation not supported by d

Re: rich text format

1999-01-14 Thread M.C. Vernon
Rich, Sorry, it's xpw: Matthew Package: xpw Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: text Installed-Size: 377 Maintainer: Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: siag Version: 3.0.6-3.1 Replaces: pw Provides: pw Depends: siagoffice-common (= 3.0.6-3.1), siagoffice-plugins

Re: How to mail a file?

1999-01-14 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 01:28:48PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > : I believe there's a command for e-mailing a file without having to use an > : MTU, but directly from the command line. mailx, smail,... any ideas? > > For text files: > mail -s 'your subject' recipient < file.txt

Re: rich text format

1999-01-14 Thread Rich Harran.
I tried man pw but I don't have an entry. What is pw, and from where do I get it? Thanks Rich

Re: autofs and timeouts

1999-01-14 Thread servis
*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "autofs and timeouts" > > Does there is a way to use different timeout values for each mount point? > You can use different timeouts for top level mount directories (mountpoint in auto.master(5)). You put options in the /etc/auto.master # /etc/auto.master /misc

Re: How to mail a file?

1999-01-14 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 01:28:48PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I believe there's a command for e-mailing a file without having to use an : MTU, but directly from the command line. mailx, smail,... any ideas? For text files: mail -s 'your subject' recipient < file.txt For binary file

Re: rich text format

1999-01-14 Thread M.C. Vernon
> Can anyone tell me the easiest way to view a rich text format under linux, > preferably without installing staroffice / wp8, etc. In windows, it can > be read with word, but wordview just won't load it up pw should do the trick Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambrid

Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...

1999-01-14 Thread faoho
> > >Andrew Ivanov wrote: > >> > If it's not an overlay problem, I don't have a clue. > >> > >> Wouldnt it be the problem only when he was trying to boot to an OS that > is > located >beyong 1024th cylinder? > >> He's got 2 drives, on primary and secondary IDE's. And drive 1, > /dev/hda, > ho

How to mail a file?

1999-01-14 Thread homega
Hi there, I believe there's a command for e-mailing a file without having to use an MTU, but directly from the command line. mailx, smail,... any ideas? TIA -- Un saludo, Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED]

rich text format

1999-01-14 Thread Rich Harran.
Can anyone tell me the easiest way to view a rich text format under linux, preferably without installing staroffice / wp8, etc. In windows, it can be read with word, but wordview just won't load it up thanks rich

dosemu and freedos

1999-01-14 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Hi Looking through past messages of this list it seems that the freedos shipped with Debian (Slink) doesn't support lredir. Is their any point shipping it then as this seems to prevent any access to your hard drives. Also the "setup-dosemu" program appears to be missing, does anyone know if there

URGENT: Chat under Netscape.

1999-01-14 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
Hi All, I have to install a CHAT "program" under Netscape, but I have no idea of where to start (or How, or ... ;). I only think that it is a kind of cgi-script, but nothing else. Could somebody tell me something about it, or point me to somewhere where I can get info abo

thanks: printing to NT with smbclient

1999-01-14 Thread ulisses
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all again On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, John Stevenson wrote: > Our NT server (doh) is used by both Linux and windoze clients at > the same time, with out any problems (apart from the usual ones > with NT) thanks for your info regards Ulisses - ---

Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...

1999-01-14 Thread Mamoun Alissali
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Andrew Ivanov wrote: > >> > If it's not an overlay problem, I don't have a clue. > >> > >> Wouldnt it be the problem only when he was trying to boot to an OS that > is > located >beyong 1024th cylinder? > >> He's got 2 drives, on primary and secondary IDE's. And drive

thanks: printing to NT with smbclient

1999-01-14 Thread ulisses
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all again On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Alec Smith wrote: > No, there should be no problems with exporting to Winbloze and TCP/IP at > the same time. Just remember to reinstall the latest service pack after > you add the TCP/IP print services. again thanks for your

Re: Postgres and Foreign keys...

1999-01-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
Amanda Shuler wrote: >According to the postgres mailing list, postgres does not support foriegn >keys inherently. Apparently there is a little program that is included >in the contrib directory underneath the PostgreSQL source tree that will >fix this. It is called "refint". I can't seem

Re: SAMBA and shadowpasswd

1999-01-14 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999 10:21:11 +0100, you wrote: >Does anybody have any experience with SAMBA and Shadowpassd? >I mean, my samba server deos not recognize passwords as soon >as a service is passwd protected and I believe it has something >to do with the shadowpasswd. It might have something to do w

Re: SMS messges to GSM mobile phones/pagers with sms_client 2.05 and libmodem 1.0.0

1999-01-14 Thread Philippe_Andersson
Hi Frankie, I got sms_client working on my laptop (version 2.0.7k under RedHat 5.0, though). I also had a lot of trouble getting it to work from a "regular user" account, but finally succeeded. First thing I did, since I wasn't overly concerned with security on this machine, was to setuid the exec

Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...

1999-01-14 Thread faoho
>Andrew Ivanov wrote: >> > If it's not an overlay problem, I don't have a clue. >> >> Wouldnt it be the problem only when he was trying to boot to an OS that is > located >beyong 1024th cylinder? >> He's got 2 drives, on primary and secondary IDE's. And drive 1, /dev/hda, > holds >Windows, an

Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...

1999-01-14 Thread Mamoun Alissali
Andrew Ivanov wrote: > > If it's not an overlay problem, I don't have a clue. > > Wouldnt it be the problem only when he was trying to boot to an OS that is > located beyong 1024th cylinder? > He's got 2 drives, on primary and secondary IDE's. And drive 1, /dev/hda, > holds Windows, and /dev/hdb,

Re: SMS messges to GSM mobile phones/pagers with sms_client 2.05 and libmodem 1.0.0

1999-01-14 Thread Tapio Väättänen
Frankie wrote: > > Hi, > I want to be able to send Short Messages to my girlfriends mobile phone. > I couldn't find anything useful in dselect, so I searched the net. > > I found one program, at http://www.styx.demon.co.uk and downloaded the > source and compiled it (sms_client 2.05, libmodem 1

Re: SAMBA and shadowpasswd

1999-01-14 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 10:21:11AM +0100, Riccardo Tommasini wrote: : Does anybody have any experience with SAMBA and Shadowpassd? I mean, my : samba server deos not recognize passwords as soon as a service is passwd : protected and I believe it has something to do with the shadowpasswd. :

Re: printing to NT with smbclient

1999-01-14 Thread Alec Smith
No, there should be no problems with exporting to Winbloze and TCP/IP at the same time. Just remember to reinstall the latest service pack after you add the TCP/IP print services. On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, John Stevenson wrote: > Our NT server (doh) is used by both Linux and windoze clients at > the

Re: printing to NT with smbclient

1999-01-14 Thread John Stevenson
Our NT server (doh) is used by both Linux and windoze clients at the same time, with out any problems (apart from the usual ones with NT) John. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, John Stevenson wrote: > > > I took the easy way out of this situation by using rlpr instead > > of samba

Re: Setting Prompt

1999-01-14 Thread John Stevenson
I use the following prompt which gives the hostname first, followed by the name of the current directory. #prompt PS1=`hostname`': ~\W ' export PS1 You should probably just try to cut and paste it, rather than type it. You have to make sure you get the right apostrophies etc... John. "M.C. V

autofs and timeouts

1999-01-14 Thread ulisses
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all Does there is a way to use different timeout values for each mount point? Regards, Ulisses - - "Computers are useless. They can only give answers."P

ignoring nfs timeouts

1999-01-14 Thread ulisses
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all, I would like to know if anybody here is using successfully the following nfs option: retrans=1, soft, bg I'm seems to me this options mostly retrnas,soft and bg are ignored I'm using 2.2.0pre5 and mount 2.7l-5 regards, Ulisses - --

SAMBA and shadowpasswd

1999-01-14 Thread Riccardo Tommasini
Does anybody have any experience with SAMBA and Shadowpassd? I mean, my samba server deos not recognize passwords as soon as a service is passwd protected and I believe it has something to do with the shadowpasswd. How is it possible to overcome this problem? Thanks, ric

SOLVED: man doesn't work (slink)---blank pages]

1999-01-14 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
This was caused by a broken installation of X11. Now, amazingly, at least the obvious things all work. Alan Davis > After upgrading to slink (using apt-get dist-upgrade from hamm) man > displays empty pages. Is there a font problem? -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High Schoo

Re: debian and IBM Thinkpad

1999-01-14 Thread Joern Sesterhenn
Dear Jason, I am running a Thinkpad 560 (0.8GB Hard Disk, TFT Screen) since two years exclusively with Debian/GNU Linux. There is always a bit of confusion if I use a Kernel with the floppy Disk enabled and the APM, so I boot a Kernel accordingly. Otherwise everything works perfect. Joern Ses

Re: Setting Up Newsgroups

1999-01-14 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > > How do I go about setting up newsgroups on my hamm box? I installed > > the news servers, but I'm unsure of what to do next. I just want to > > pull maybe 10 groups down to my local box. ... > The simplest news server is probably leafnode. I've never used it, so > can't give you spec

Lyx problems - of topic

1999-01-14 Thread Johann Spies
Dear Debian user's I could not compile the source for lyx 1.0.0pre6. There were some linking problems which I could not figure out and a question to the lyx mailing list did not produce an answer. After "upgrading" my lyx to 1.0.0pre6 with an unofficial debian binary package I found two problems

Re: Setting Up Newsgroups

1999-01-14 Thread Thomas Adams
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 11:42:50PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: > How do I go about setting up newsgroups on my hamm box? I installed the > news servers, but I'm unsure of what to do next. I just want to pull > maybe 10 groups down to my local box. Your article leaves many open questions: Which ne

Re: acroread problem

1999-01-14 Thread Adam Shand
i had this problem as well, and it magically went away. guessing (i didn't notice for a while) i would say it probably happened when i installed the oldlibs stuff to make word perfect work. i'd check in the oldlibs directory in slink and install the appropriate ones which acroread needs and see

acroread problem

1999-01-14 Thread twang
I installed acroread from slink and I got seg fault when I tried to run it. %ldd acroread libreadcore.so => /usr/lib/libreadcore.so (0x4000c000) libpfs.so => /usr/lib/libpfs.so (0x4015e000) libagm.so => /usr/lib/libagm.so (0x401e2000) libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/l

Re: bugs.debian.org

1999-01-14 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Raul Miller wrote: > Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At Jonhie's suggestion I have added a rewriting rule for bugs.debian.org, > > the following URLs now act as expected: > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/ --> To main bugs page > > http://bugs.debian.org/apt -->

Re: removing/updating a stuck package

1999-01-14 Thread Kent West
Ben Messinger wrote: > While using apt-get to update my packages (144mb worth) I lost my ppp > connection. I re-connected and resumed the update, but the package that > was being downloaded when the connection was lost got corrupted (all > other packages upgraded properly). This package (ftape) is

SMS messges to GSM mobile phones/pagers with sms_client 2.05 and libmodem 1.0.0

1999-01-14 Thread Frankie
Hi, I want to be able to send Short Messages to my girlfriends mobile phone. I couldn't find anything useful in dselect, so I searched the net. I found one program, at http://www.styx.demon.co.uk and downloaded the source and compiled it (sms_client 2.05, libmodem 1.0.0 with the patch). Luckily

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