Re: using xfig + latex

> 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 think the best and simplest way to export diagrams to latex is to use encapsulated postscript. Regards ...

Re: [OFFTOPIC]Gnu Utils For AIX

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

Re: DPKG

On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 06:44:09PM +, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Christian Lavoie wrote: > >I was wondering... (And this probably already has been mentioned but > >anyway), why wouldn't DPKG/APT/DSELECT use a real database server like > >mySQL/mSQL/PostgreSQL/... to keep it's own database?

Re: Kernel Compile

On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 10:44:17PM +, Nidge Jones wrote: > Pann McCuaig Writes.. > > > The packages I've listed above are required to compile (using make-kpkg > > and make menuconfig) a 2.0.34 kernel on a libc6 system. > > Right I have 2.0.34 compiling now. Using the source code from the Debi

Re: Kernel Compile

Pann McCuaig Writes.. > The packages I've listed above are required to compile (using make-kpkg > and make menuconfig) a 2.0.34 kernel on a libc6 system. Right I have 2.0.34 compiling now. Using the source code from the Debian CD ...well at least on ONE of my boxes. (It's a start) However, using

Re: sound in netscape

You are not actually in the audio group. You want to (as root) edit /etc/group, and add your login name (and the names of anyone else who should be able to access the audio device, seperated by commas) onto the end of the line beginning with "audio". eg, on my system, my login is ieure, and my /etc

Re: C++ book.

shaul wrote: > > Can you recommend a good C++ book ? > How about the 3rd edition of Stroustrup's book ? Is it better then the new > edition of the C++ Primer ? > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null I use C++: How to program by H.M. Deitel and P.J. Deitel I

C++ book.

Can you recommend a good C++ book ? How about the 3rd edition of Stroustrup's book ? Is it better then the new edition of the C++ Primer ?

Re: Learning more/Linux programming books

> But I think Pascal is somewhat easier language to start with. I am aware to the fact that this is the common attitude. But I wonder if this is still valid these days. I mean, today using the computer and even programming is much more embedded in every days routines, especially when young peo

Reply... in my exmh is not working properly.

Package: exmh Version: 1:2.0.2-1 When using the Reply... in exmh, Reply all does not give me a Cc field and it does not list the one that the mail was sent to (only the one that sent it). This was not like this in the past so I probably was not aware to the fact that somehow I managed to change

Re: RH vs Debian (Switch to Red Hat ?)

> I used RedHat through version 5.1 before switching to Debian. Here are a few > of the reason I stuck with Debian and continue to do so. > > - More packages distributed with the base system. > - I believe the dpkg package management is much better than RedHat > (especially fo

Re: day planner/scheduler program

> Hi, > > I'm looking for a simple program (like plan) that would send me reminders > about meetings and things like that (paying apartment rent in time turns out > to be quite challenging for me). I was using plan, but it's daemon can > spontaneously stop working without no apparent reason.

Re: New hard drive

You can keep your old drive installed, and have it function as a backup device. Or am I completely missing something ? > I broke down and bought a larger hard drive for my system. My system > contains windows and a partition for Debian. I would like to copy > everything over and then remove the

Re: dosemu and freedos

The following is based on my hamm system. Is there much different between hamm and slink from dosemu and mtools points of view ? > 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 > th

Re: dosemu and freedos

> > 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 It works this way. > or is it possible to use my lin

Re: Intent to package mh-book

> I intend to package the html version of the book > > MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmers > > ISBN 1-56592-093-7, written by Jerry Peek, and published by and > is copyright © 1991, 1992, 1995 by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. > > The book is under the GPL, so will go into main. > > I suppo

Re: inetd web server.

On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 04:53:35PM -0500, Sergey Imennov wrote: Among other things, I use my Debian system to develop web pages. For a while I'm looking for a web server ( preferably as 'light' as possible), that would work^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H was designed to

Re: file managers

"tkdesk does not conform to X11 ... and cannot be restored at the next session" What does it mean ?? It conforms just fine to X11, it doesn't employ KDE's session management. That's all it's saying -- a harmless message (and plug for you to switch to KDE apps, of course). ==

inetd web server.

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Re: plog

John writes: > Turn off debug and kdebug after you get things working proper. I > believe it is kdebug that puts the userid and password in the log if I > remember correctly. Plain old 'debug' does it. It's a known bug in pppd. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain.

Re: Repairing a HD with fsck?

On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 09:22:37AM -0700, Scott J. Geertgens wrote: > > I recently posted a message about GCC not being able to compile due to > dma_intr and/or read_intr errors. After receiving a response here and > scouring the net I've realized that the problem lies on the drive itself > (bad

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

Hi! > [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

RE: Debian's public image

Hello all, I also am thankfull for trying to get Debian "official status": After my rant a couple of days ago on the "Debian going corporate issue", I went forth to research and educate myself on the Linux community as a whole. I found that as I had thought but not confirmed, almost all of thos

Re: Kernel Compile

On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 07:59:15PM +, Nidge Jones wrote: > > Pann McCuaig Writes.. > > > Make sure the following packages from _hamm_ are correctly installed: > > > > bin86 > > binutils > > gcc > > libc6-dev > > ncurses3.4-dev > > make > > patch > > kernel-package > > kernel-source-2.0.34

How to get fonts out of .exe !

Hi, All i wanted to use true type fonts on my slink computer: - installed xfstt. Fine, but no fonts - got gratis fonts from Microsoft, bunch of *.exe files - tried to unzip - doesn't work, claiming that cannot find zipfile directory - unzipsfx gives me message reboot ~ $ unzipsfx arialb32.e

TCP/IP Printing

Hi, I have a question about printing over a TCP/IP network from Linux. The printer I want to use is a HP LJ3 with and Axis MIO card. The current print server for this printer is win 3.11. I was wondering if, 1) This is possible, 2) How to do it. I've found documentation about how to set up a las

Re: Kernel Compile

Pann McCuaig Writes.. > Make sure the following packages from _hamm_ are correctly installed: > > bin86 > binutils > gcc > libc6-dev > ncurses3.4-dev > make > patch > kernel-package > kernel-source-2.0.34 I will try this. However, perhaps you could enlighten me to what packages *MUST* be ins

Re: Adding NEW Apache Modules: Completely confused.

"Lyndon" == Lyndon Fletcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lyndon> file. They also don't seem to have documented this process. So Lyndon> you see I have the Apache way, which is documented, and the Lyndon> Debian way, which isn't. The Debian way is now the Apache way, documented in the 1.3.x Manual

Re: substitute strings in text files (links in html files)

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/15/99 at 12:39 PM, "Oliver Thuns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Hello! >How could I substitute a string (links) in html files with standard Linux >(debian) tools? >i.e. I want to change every http://one.domain.com in >http://two.domain.com in some files and files i

Re: ssh

On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 12:28:32 -0500, Wayne Cuddy wrote: > Is there a .deb/.dsc package for the latest version of ssh floating around > nywhere? Packages of the latest version of SSH1 can be found on nonUS.debian.org. Noone has stepped forward to package SSH2, mainly because it's licensing is mo

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

Another approach would be to install a Mac version of Linux or NetBSD. If its a powerpc, use MkLinux, available through apple's website. If its a 68k mac, use NetBSD. See www.netbsd.org. There's a very helpful mailing list for this. All you have to do is repartition your hard drive and put the

Re: DPKG

> Christian Lavoie wrote: > >I was wondering... (And this probably already has been mentioned but > >anyway), why wouldn't DPKG/APT/DSELECT use a real database server like > >mySQL/mSQL/PostgreSQL/... to keep it's own database? > Because a database has to be set up, as well as taking a sig

Re: Netscape4.5 cannot find libraries

Moises Quinto Vargas wrote: > > ...new to linux, runing 2.0.34, > my problem is that netscape 4.5 does not know where the libraries are: > 1) ldd netscape gives me the following: > What version of Netscape are you running? Is it the glibc version or the libc5 version? Mine is the glibc version o

Re: DPKG

Christian Lavoie wrote: >I was wondering... (And this probably already has been mentioned but >anyway), why wouldn't DPKG/APT/DSELECT use a real database server like >mySQL/mSQL/PostgreSQL/... to keep it's own database? Because a database has to be set up, as well as taking a significant

RE: Debian's public image

> First, thank you for trying to get a Debian port "official". > Now for my opinions (= > Linux is Linux. I get tired of seeing people say they will support Slackware, > or SuSE or whomever. Make a decent linux product, give a tar.gz or a static > bin, and move on. There should be no reason

Re: DPKG

> All of the dpkg info is in /var/lib/dpkg. All of the files are plain text files, use less to look at them. APT stores its cache in /var/cache/apt. The files appear to be binary. There is a debian-dpkg and a mailing list, try checking out the archives of that. Also, there is a mailing list fo

Re: Kernel Compile

On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 05:42:33PM +, Nidge Jones wrote: > > I posted this once, but am not sure if it went OK As I am still getting > requests for the info below ?? Best plan when you're this frustrated is to go back to ground zero. Make sure the following packages from _hamm_ are corre

Re: plog

Jim Foltz wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 10:39:25PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 08:32:47PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: > > > When I type plog I get this: > > > > > > tail: /var/log/ppp.log: Permission denied > > > > > > the attributes for ppp.log are > > > -rw-r-

Re: Kernel Compile

I posted this once, but am not sure if it went OK As I am still getting requests for the info below ?? The problem with kernel compiles is as follows... The 'make dep' and 'make clean' go OK. But upon the 'make zImage' this is what happens... make zImage gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/

Re: D-Link DE 220 Ethernet Card

hi Ship's Log, Lt. Kent West, Stardate 080199.2151: > Some time ago I got a DE-220 working; had to turn off the PnP feature of > the card (using D-Link's DOS-based SETUP22P utility). > Following the same advice of you when I asked, the card worken imediately. When doing so, don't 4get to set um

RE: Debian's public image

First, thank you for trying to get a Debian port "official". Now for my opinions (= Linux is Linux. I get tired of seeing people say they will support Slackware, or SuSE or whomever. Make a decent linux product, give a tar.gz or a static bin, and move on. There should be no reason to specifica

ssh

Is there a .deb/.dsc package for the latest version of ssh floating around nywhere?

Re: dosemu and freedos

virtanen wrote: 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?   I

Adding NEW Apache Modules: Completely confused.

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

man page for hwclock

Simple question: Where did it go? I'm running the latest from potato. util-linux 2.9g-3 /usr/man/man8/clock.8.gz -> hwclock.8.gz ls: /usr/man/man8/hwclock.8.gz: No such file or directory /var/catman/cat8/hwclock.8.gz does exist, so it used to be there. Thanks for your help! James

Re: plog

On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 11:00:24AM -0500, Jim Foltz wrote: > > You have to run plog as root. The reason that ppp.log isn't world > > readable is that your ppp password is more than likely in the log file. > > Under what conditins does the password show up? I just grep'd my > /var/log/ppp.log for

Repairing a HD with fsck?

I recently posted a message about GCC not being able to compile due to dma_intr and/or read_intr errors. After receiving a response here and scouring the net I've realized that the problem lies on the drive itself (bad blocks or similar). My question is how do I go about fixing the problem? W

Debian's public image

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- The company I work for produces visual development tools for several Unix platforms, and is currently working on an official Linux port (the developers have been doing some work under Linux for some time). Redhat will be the primarily supported distro, which is

Re: plog

On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 10:39:25PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 08:32:47PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: > > When I type plog I get this: > > > > tail: /var/log/ppp.log: Permission denied > > > > the attributes for ppp.log are > > -rw-r- 1 root adm 8305 Jan 14

How to read/interpret X server output (Matrox G200) ?

Hi, Can anyone help me how I have to interpret the output of the (Matrox) X-server. I start but crashes. but how to interpret all the messages it produces?. Is there a document that explains this ?? I have attached the output of my Matrox X-server as an example. Many thanks. Regards, Marc __

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

"Nathan Vegdahl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >The problem is that both of them share the same hard drive!!! The > way they share it is by the MAC having over all power over the hard > drive, and the PC uses allocations of the hard drive (called drive > files) that appear as files on the MA

Re: SLINK installation question

On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 10:49:58AM -0500, William Schwartz wrote: : If I'm installing SLINK (frozen) from scratch and APT asks me if I want to : get packages from "STABLE FROZEN or UNSTABLE" I should normally choose : "FROZEN" right? Those match SLINK installation? Yes, currently the symlinks

SLINK installation question

If I'm installing SLINK (frozen) from scratch and APT asks me if I want to get packages from "STABLE FROZEN or UNSTABLE" I should normally choose "FROZEN" right? Those match SLINK installation? Thanks will

Re: irc.debian.org - No DNS

On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 08:56:56AM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: : It appears that the dns for irc.debian.org is fscked up. When I try to : ping it, I get unknown host. Does anyone know of another irc server I : can use to get on the #debian channel? I don't have problems resolving that hostnam

Re: shell scripts.

On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 11:37:23PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > Where can I learn how to write the shell scripts?? Is there any > good documentation to read?? > > Thx. > > Shao. > I would recommend O'Reilly "Learning the bash Shell". (http://www.ora.com) and "Beginning Linux Pr

Thanks for X help and Smail help

Thanks for the help with X: changing the permissions of /dev/null worked. I hadn't had other problems with this, 'cos I'm wasn't using normal user operation very much. I've also been trying to get my mail through fetchmail + smail from a pop3 server. I type : smail -bd fetchmail

Re: plog

On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 10:08:15PM +, ktb wrote: > Ben Collins wrote: > > I looked at the file /var/log/ppp.log itself as a regular user using > "cat" and > found my password there. So if I don't have to use plog as root do I have a > security > problem? I'm confused. > Thanks, > Ken

Re: shell scripts.

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Re: Getting X to run as a normal user

On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 02:38:23PM +, Rich Harran. wrote: : /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc: /dev/null: permission denied : : repeated three times. Apparently, /dev/null doesn't have the proper permissions. Issue a 'chmod 666 /dev/null' and try again. You might have problems with ot

Re: irc.debian.org - No DNS

I get there via: irc.ca.us.openprojects.net There is a list of sites on their WWW site http://web.openprojects.net/ I have had the same problems with irc.debian.org... http://web.openprojects.net/services/irc.html <= is the list of IRC servers... will -Original Message- From: Chris Ho

Re: The Gimp and gif

Ferenc Kiraly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. Did you tried to convert the image to index colors prior? GIF is a 256 color format only and

Re: using xfig + latex

Hi! It is working now! Thank you all very much. Below some information I got: On 15 Jan 1999, Christophe Broult wrote: > The following is a document on how to import xfig figures in latex along > with a few tips to make your life easier. I wrote this quite a while > back but it still applies. >

Getting X to run as a normal user

I one of those people who've moved from windows, and use their computers as a single user. Thus I've always done everything as root. I'm finally trying to get out of this habit, but it's not so easy once everything is set up. I'm having problems getting X running properly as a normal user: it lo

Re: irc.debian.org - No DNS

Took me a while to find it, but the (main) #debian channel is now on irc.linpeople.org. SJG On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Chris Hoover wrote: > It appears that the dns for irc.debian.org is fscked up. When I try to > ping it, I get unknown host. Does anyone know of another irc server I > can use t

X apps and windowmaker

Hey all, I'm using windowmaker 0.20.3 and some apps that I run Maxwell, xmaddressbook, amaya and xpaint are larger then my virtual screen. When this happens I can get either to the title bar to Kill the app or to the bottom of the app to resize it. I set windowmakers to keep apps inside the screen

Re: rich text format

On 15 Jan 1999, Harald Weidner wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Rich Harran. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >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 w

Re: GCC Compile problems relating to DMA

Thanks for the reply. I booted off of the rescue disk (I only have one partition, so I couldn't have it mounted while I tried to fsck it). Running fsck simply came back with device clean... do I need to send any flags? Someone also suggested that I disable DMA on the drive via hdparm -d 0

Re: shell scripts.

> Hi, > Where can I learn how to write the shell scripts?? Is there any > good documentation to read?? There is some online documentation, like manual pages, which cover, in a bit of detail, all the built-in functions of hte shell. I'm currently going through a book called Unix shell progr

Re: how to format a flpooy with debian??????

> First of all, can you read the files on that floppy? more or less... > mdir a: and so on (mtools package) yep > > And to format it you need to use > superformat ah yeahhh great thanks a lot, that did it!!! ciao bboett == acount at

Re: substitute strings in text files (links in html files)

> Hello! > > How could I substitute a string (links) in html files with standard > Linux (debian) tools? > > i.e. I want to change every http://one.domain.com in > http://two.domain.com in some files and files in subdirs. sed -e "s/one.domain.com/two.domain.com/" originalfile > newfile Andrew _

irc.debian.org - No DNS

It appears that the dns for irc.debian.org is fscked up. When I try to ping it, I get unknown host. Does anyone know of another irc server I can use to get on the #debian channel?

Re: how to format a flpooy with debian??????

First of all, can you read the files on that floppy? mdir a: and so on (mtools package) And to format it you need to use superformat It's in the package with fdutils Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Iv

Re: substitute strings in text files (links in html files)

On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Oliver Thuns wrote: > Hello! > > How could I substitute a string (links) in html files with standard > Linux (debian) tools? > > i.e. I want to change every http://one.domain.com in > http://two.domain.com in some files and files in subdirs. > sed -e "s/two/one/g" f1.html

Re: Package-Building-Howto?

> So, is there anything like a Debian-Packaging-Howto which explains the > internal structure of .debs and how to build packages oneself? In > /usr/doc/dpkg/packaging.html/* there is nicely explained, what everything > does, but it's not clear, HOW to do things... http://www.debian.org/~elphick/ma

Re: substitute strings in text files (links in html files)

On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Oliver Thuns wrote: > Hello! > > How could I substitute a string (links) in html files with standard > Linux (debian) tools? use sed. It is very powerful for this sort of thing. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn Coll

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

>> Hmmm...What type of processor does the mac side >have? Couldn't you >> install debian for m68k or linuxppc on it? >Supposedly the m68k port of linux does not support >macintoshes because >Apple is being rather uninformative about the hardware >specs. There was an article about this in the lin

Re: using xfig + latex

Hi, Here's a description I have found one day. I think gives you everything you wanted to do. Chris -- Looking for a cutting edge | Christophe Broult software validation technology? | Check http://www.info.unicaen.fr/lpv | ``Smile, chu

Re: Humptey-Dumptey

Joseph Tiraco wrote: >... Xwindows will not start when logged on as a user. >Since my machine is a single user box, log ons, permissions and >authorizations boil down to mere troublesome convolutions. > However, the Debian system will not allow root to use the dial up ppp, >for sec

Re: rich text format

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rich Harran. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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 There is a nice tool

local web proxies

This might be a silly question, but what I want to do is extract information from possibly frame-based web sites, and reformat it, and offer it as a web page on the localhost. For example, I like to do a crossword on the web. Can I automatically download the grid and the clues from the web-page

Re: shell scripts.

-Original Message- From: Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian Date: Friday, January 15, 1999 5:33 AM Subject: shell scripts. > Where can I learn how to write the shell scripts?? Is there any >good documentation to read?? I recently went to purchase the Orielly book "tcsh" for so

Re: using xfig + latex

Because I'm Polish, I very offen face the problem of using "nonstandard" characters in Xfig figures (I hope that one day Xfig will support Unicode and then all Polish characters as well as other national characters will be standard...). Usually I use three methods: 1) Enter the text using the late

Vedr: New installation - Xserver failure

>The Xserver can's start. >It's looking for a file, that doesn't exist: /usr/bin/X11/XF86_NONE >It shouldn't look for that file - but for the XF86SVGA, I guess. > >I guess there is a configurationsfile somewhere, in which I have >to change the XF86_NONE to >XF86SVGA. > >What file is that???

Re: Kernel Compile

Can you give us more details about the errors messages ? Franck --- Franck Le Gall 147, rue basse - 14000 Caen tél. : 02-31-93-29-09 mobile : 06-62-34-03-52 e.mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: Compiles

On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 09:02:38AM +, Nidge Jones wrote: > > Stephen Pitts Writes.. > > > Whats wrong with the kernel compile? You shouldn't need anything from > > oldlibs to make that work. What version do you have? > > Version of what ! > The kernel. Sorry, I was unclear. > > In a nutsh

Re: looking for comment on HP-710 printer

> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hi all, > > anybody using this printer? > Is well supported with Linux? > Any Problems? > Any Cons? I have one. It is a windows printer, but somebody managed to reverse engineer the format for black and white printing. His program can be combined wit

shell scripts.

Hi, Where can I learn how to write the shell scripts?? Is there any good documentation to read?? Thx. Shao.

looking for comment on HP-710 printer

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all, anybody using this printer? Is well supported with Linux? Any Problems? Any Cons? Thanks in advance, Ulisses - - "Computers are useless. They ca

substitute strings in text files (links in html files)

Hello! How could I substitute a string (links) in html files with standard Linux (debian) tools? i.e. I want to change every http://one.domain.com in http://two.domain.com in some files and files in subdirs. Oliver

Humptey-Dumptey

I have a problem with the Debian Linux release; actually, the problem narrows down to the TK software. While Xwindows works just fine when logged on as root, Xwindows will not start when logged on as a user. Since my machine is a single user box, log ons, permissions and authorizations boil do

Re: pygres in slink/hamm?

On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Chris Frost wrote: > >A saw a thread on this a while back, but never saw an answer: Is pygres > >(the python interface to postgresql) available in either hamm or slink? > > > It should be shortly - I'm planning to put it in the next PostgreSQL >

Re: plog

ktb writes: > H, my ppp.log file shows the same: > ~$ ls -l /var/log/ppp.log > -rw-r- 1 root adm848182 Jan 14 16:04 /var/log/ppp.log > And as a regular user gives me this: > ~$ plog > Jan 14 16:03:25 crossyourfingers pppd[772]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x76 > magic=0x3f1d] Y

Mail client (POP3) for both linux and Windows NT ?

Hi, Can anyone advise me a good (POP3) e-mail client (for debian) which can read a mail box shared by both linux and Windows NT4 on the same PC ? Our mailserver is now Netscape Mail/Windows NT but in the future will be migrated to Qmail/Unix. Thank you very much. Regards, Marc ___

Re: Why not as a newsgroup?

On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:53:50 -0500, you wrote: > Newsgroups allow you to only download the subject lines of the >messages instead of have to download all messages whether you >would have read them or not. Well, Netscape 4.5 can obviously do it and there are more than one participant who rea

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

Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmmm...What type of processor does the mac side have? Couldn't you > install debian for m68k or linuxppc on it? Supposedly the m68k port of linux does not support macintoshes because Apple is being rather uninformative about the hardware specs. -- Hen

Suck and Inn problems

I'm having a little problems with my off-line news server. As said inte subject, I'm using inn as server and use Suck to get news to my machine and send them out. I use get-news script provided by Suck pakage. When I have written new articles get-news will send them out next time I run the script

USR Courier-I installation & gateway configuration

Hi, I have just subscribed to this mailing address, I'm not sure it's the right one to send this request? Anyway, on my local network I'd like to install an Internet gateway with an USR RNIS Courier-I modem card on a Linux station, and I must say I don't have at this time enough information

Re: Help with CRON

-> "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. nop

Re: plog

On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 01:35:09AM -0500, Rob Mahurin wrote: | |"adduser user group" will add user to group and give him all of the rights and privileges (sp?) |he is thereto entitled. | |as for removing a user from a group, I don't remember off the top of my head and couldn't |find the command

Package-Building-Howto?

Hi there, I'm using Debian for over three months now and I'm quite satisfied with it. :-) But as I could not find GNOME .debs, I figured out it would be great to build them myself. So, I digged through several dpkg-*-man Pages, read /usr/doc/dpkg/packaging.html/* and after all failed to figure out

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