RE: SQL packages

1999-01-21 Thread joshua . kaldon
All, Does anyone know if there are any SQL database servers that are MS SQL 6.5 compatible and work with Debian? Also, would it support integrated security and if not how hard do you expect it to be to write something like that?(I assume most of the work has already been done by the samba

Perl version

1999-01-21 Thread wb4mle
I have perl 5.005.02-2 on my potato system, but the latest is shown as 5.004 something. Perl-suid is not on my system and dselect will not let me select it. Should I take the perl 005 off and install .004 or try to find the perl-suid 5.005.whatever to match it? Thanks! -- Eddie Seymour, WB4MLE E-M

Re: printers

1999-01-21 Thread Mark W. Blunier
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > Is there a way to get my LaserJet 6L to work? > > APSfilter and magicfilter do not have modules/drivers that work. The most > they have is LaserJet 4L. The problem with this printer is that it is in > sleep mode all the time, and the driver mus

Re: making symlinks in cvs

1999-01-21 Thread Remco van de Meent
Joey Hess wrote: > I know cvs doesn't do symlinks, but I need some symlinks to be created > when a cvs directory is checked out, and I know that's possible because > Manoj told me how once... but I've forgotten the details. Could anyone > fill me in on how to do it? I haven't tried it myself, but

Gnome problems

1999-01-21 Thread Gregory Vandenbrouck
Hi, I have a problem with all gnome programs: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> gnotes Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_type_create(): type `GtkCalendarDisplayOptions' already exists. ** ERROR **: file gnometypes.c: line 30 (gnome_type_init): assertion failed: (type_id != GTK_TYPE_INVALID) aborting... Abort Here is

Re: AMD K6-2 / Bogomips problem

1999-01-21 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Peter Bartosch wrote: > > On 19-Jan-99, Peter Bartosch took time to write : > > >> bogomips should only depend on hardware no ? > > > > > > only on cpu (and clock) > > > > that's what i thought too, but it doesn't seem true in my case > > as with exactly the same hardware an

Re: Video card

1999-01-21 Thread debian
>On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, slack wrote: > >> If you are going to go with the PCI bus, you can't really go wrong with the >> Matrox Millenium I or II. Both very fast cards and well supported. >The Martox Mill II screams; I'm using it on my box now. The G200 costs >about the same and is even faster (suppo

RE: Learning more/Linux programming books

1999-01-21 Thread William Park
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Bruce Sass wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:01:35 +0100, Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren wrote: > > > > >>You can start with any language. For a complete beginner, I would advocate > > >>Scheme. Even if you don't want to do big projec

jdk1.1

1999-01-21 Thread tracheotomy bob
Hallo all, I tried to install the JDK1.1 from hamm but I've hit a wall. I assume you don't just run dselect and have it completely instal itself? The accompanying documentation describes setting up the CLASSPATH and other stuff about finding the classes folder in /usr/lib/jdk1.1 but it

inword() charset in X

1999-01-21 Thread Bob Hilliard
/etc/gpm.conf has an option, -l, that defines the characters that may be included in a word for selection. Where is the equivalent option or variable for selection in X? Is the selection function built into xbase, or is it a separate program? Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Rober

Re: Video card

1999-01-21 Thread Chris Frost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, slack wrote: > If you are going to go with the PCI bus, you can't really go wrong with the > Matrox Millenium I or II. Both very fast cards and well supported. The Martox Mill II screams; I'm using it on my box now. The G200 costs

Re: configuring X

1999-01-21 Thread Kirk Hogenson
Brian Morgan wrote: > > Can someone help me find the xf86setup graphical setup for X? I'm > having trouble getting the mouse just right, and would like to use the > graphical setup to make this work. It is called "XF86Setup", and not "xf86setup". You can use "locate XF86Setup" if its not in

Re: large disk with Ontrack disk manager

1999-01-21 Thread oneiros
Thus spake Benoit Joly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > hi, > > I just bought a quantum fireball ide ex 12.7 gig but my bios dont support > large > drive. Flash your motherboard with the current bios. If you cannot flash your motherboard, then order an updated bios, if possible. But most decent motherb

Re: Video card

1999-01-21 Thread slack
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 03:59:36PM +1000, Peter Eades wrote: > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 05:21:29PM +1000, Peter Eades wrote: > > > I am thinking of upgrading my current s3 trio 1 mg video card to sothing > > > a bit nicer (Feed up with "unable to alocate default backgr

RE: configuring X

1999-01-21 Thread Brian Morgan
Can someone help me find the xf86setup graphical setup for X? I'm having trouble getting the mouse just right, and would like to use the graphical setup to make this work. Thanks, Brian > -Original Message- > From: Anthony Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 21,

boot failure

1999-01-21 Thread Thomas P. Egloff
Hi all, I happily installed Debian 2.0 on my i586/133 yesterday. After rebooting and logging in everything worked fine until I wanted to start the xserver, what failed because I missed to install it. During the following setup of the xserver I lost my normal screen and the fonts reverted to a cr

large disk with Ontrack disk manager

1999-01-21 Thread Benoit Joly
hi, I just bought a quantum fireball ide ex 12.7 gig but my bios dont support large drive. I read the mini-howto about Large disk and lilo seems to work with ontrack... but the use lilo and fdisk is nebulous. what should i do and not should do. I want to have some fat32 (win98), beos and li

DeskJet 870

1999-01-21 Thread Alec Smith
Could anyone tell me how to make my DeskJet 870 operate under Debian? For example, a filter for Magicfilter or whichever. Thanks.

making symlinks in cvs

1999-01-21 Thread Joey Hess
I know cvs doesn't do symlinks, but I need some symlinks to be created when a cvs directory is checked out, and I know that's possible because Manoj told me how once... but I've forgotten the details. Could anyone fill me in on how to do it? -- see shy jo

Desktop manager for X Window in a slow computer?

1999-01-21 Thread Daniel González Gasull
Hi! I have a potato i486 DX2 66 MHz with 8 MB RAM running X with Linux Debian 2.0. Which desktop manager for X Window may/must I use? TIA. -- ___ Daniel González Gasull __|_|__"Un sólo muerto es mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (o o) ya demasi

Windoze Printer and Linux Box Setup Woes

1999-01-21 Thread Russell Rademacher
Okay... seems I still cannot get anything working right with this as far getting it to print. Here is the three different files which I would like all to look at and see what I have screwed up since it refuses to print. Here is the setup of the network: HP 5L connected to Win95 - 192.168.0.1 Linu

Re: MD5sum in Packages (was: No ldd?)

1999-01-21 Thread Riku Saikkonen
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Note that I am using the apt method of dselect using the round-robin >mirrors so I have no idea which site I was really connected to when I got >the bad .deb Does apt check the MD5sum of the package against that in the Packages file? Does dpkg do that (I

RE: Learning more/Linux programming books

1999-01-21 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Harrison, Shawn wrote: > >> How does Python rate as a beginners language? > > >From the little I've looked at it, I'd say it's a good starting place. > The syntax is clean, the organization logical, and the new learner can > begin using OOP in his or her programming career.

Re: AMD K6-2 / Bogomips problem

1999-01-21 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! > On 19-Jan-99, Peter Bartosch took time to write : > >> bogomips should only depend on hardware no ? > > > > only on cpu (and clock) > > that's what i thought too, but it doesn't seem true in my case > as with exactly the same hardware and no change in bios > i have > 700 bogomips with ker

Re: Windows95 and Linux Installation

1999-01-21 Thread Michael Stenner
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >*- Michael Stenner wrote about "Re: Fwd: Re: Windows95 and Linux Installation" >> On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: >>>On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Harrison, Shawn wrote: >>> But, LILO will be installed on the slave drive? So you can't use it a

Re: configuring X

1999-01-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Jan 1999q, Brian Morgan wrote: > I'm trying to get X up and running on a laptop, but I don't know the specs > for the video. I do know that it's capable of running 800x600 in 16bit > color (not sure about refresh rate). Isn't there a simpler way than running > the xf86config script to setup

Re: Entpacken von Dateien im .deb-Format

1999-01-21 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi John, > for general information, the translation services at alta vista translated = > the message as: > >I know the files in the deb format also in a Windows surface > = > unpack? And if, how? > =09 Which doesn't quite fit the original meaning... it's just no real babel

Re: What happened to ldd?

1999-01-21 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ldso 1.9.10 does not include ldd anymore! Where did it go??? It seems you have to reinstall ldso after updating to libc6_2.0.7.19981211-2. At least it worked for me. Look at the changelog of libc6. Torsten -- Homepage: http://www.in

Re: qpopper && quota

1999-01-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jens B. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >> > 3. Is there some other pop server that behaves different? >> >> No, unless you move to maildir format, which isn't supported >> by most of the debian mailers and none of the pop se

Re: configuring X

1999-01-21 Thread Kent West
At 02:00 PM 1/21/1999 -0600, Brian Morgan wrote: >I'm trying to get X up and running on a laptop, but I don't know the specs >for the video. I do know that it's capable of running 800x600 in 16bit >color (not sure about refresh rate). Isn't there a simpler way than running >the xf86config script

Re: Entpacken von Dateien im .deb-Format

1999-01-21 Thread John Cuson
for general information, the translation services at alta vista translated the message as: I know the files in the deb format also in a Windows surface > unpack? And if, how? > you can do this with a cut and paste at http://babelfish.altavista.com/cgi-bin/tra

Re: configuring X

1999-01-21 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 1/21/99 3:05:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I'm trying to get X up and running on a laptop, but I don't know the specs > for the video. I do know that it's capable of running 800x600 in 16bit > color (not sure about refresh rate). Isn't there a simp

Re: qpopper && quota

1999-01-21 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E1rio_Ol=EDmpio_de_Menezes?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a Debian box as a pop3 server for some users at the Dept. > >The server has one scsi disk, with three main partitions (/ /home /other). > >Th

configuring X

1999-01-21 Thread Brian Morgan
I'm trying to get X up and running on a laptop, but I don't know the specs for the video. I do know that it's capable of running 800x600 in 16bit color (not sure about refresh rate). Isn't there a simpler way than running the xf86config script to setup the Xserver? I seem to remember something t

Re: fetchmail problem

1999-01-21 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Andreas Rapp wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using fetchmail to collect the eMail for our domain, > occasionally I get an error message from cron Daemon: > "another foreground fetchmail is running" and have > to kill fetchmail manually. > > Any Idea ? Another copy hasn't finished running. Use fetchmail i

Re: qpopper && quota

1999-01-21 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Mário Olímpio de Menezes wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > Well, one great way is to go to qmail and use Maildirs. It makes you > > wonder why anyone would want to put a collection of email messages > > end-to-end in a file. Maildirs stores each message in a separate fil

Re: Lilo corrupted double-spaced Win95 drive

1999-01-21 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Kent West wrote: > Upon reboot, lilo came up and gave me my options of linux or Win95, and > linux starts just fine. Win95 however does a repeating "Loading Windows, > LILO, Loading Windows, LILO ". > > When I try to mount the Win partition in Linux, it says there's no ms

Lilo corrupted double-spaced Win95 drive

1999-01-21 Thread Kent West
This isn't exactly a Debian question, but maybe you can help. First off, DOH! Secondly, I've got two drives in my box; the master is running Win95 and is apparently double-spaced. I know, I know, doublespace is just asking for trouble, but it was the only option I had for more drive space. I had

Re: mount problems

1999-01-21 Thread Bob Hilliard
"E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Thanks to all. However this problem is not solved: > > > > /rex is an empty directory created as a mount point. > > > > "sudo fuser /rex" and "sudo fuser /rex" return nothing. > > > > There is no /dev/rex > > > But in

Re: gpm question

1999-01-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think you have to make sure that gpm starts AFTER SVGATextMode. > Otherwise gpm initializes with the standard 80x25 and then it doesn't > know about what SVGATextMode has done to the screen. No, you don't really

Re: gpm question

1999-01-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- Bob Nielsen wrote about "gpm question" > > I recently upgraded a system from hamm to slink and then to potato and > > notice that gpm will only recognize the first 25 lines of my screen. > > > > I'm running SVGATextMode with a 80x30 screen. I se

Re: Accessing CD Rom or Floppy

1999-01-21 Thread Andrew Ivanov
> How can I access with Xwindows, my CD Rom or my floppy, for > accessing some files, or installing a programme? I would CD: there is a CD-HOWTO on the sunsite.mdw.edu/HOWTO page Dewcribes how to get CD working with Linux. Floppy: Get mtools and fdutils. Netscape: download the installer from

Accessing CD Rom or Floppy

1999-01-21 Thread Nuno Donato
How can I access with Xwindows, my CD Rom or my floppy, for accessing some files, or installing a programme? I would like to install Netscape. And anybody knows where can I find a good word processor? Thanks! Nuno Donato ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___

Re: Windows95 and Linux Installation

1999-01-21 Thread servis
*- Michael Stenner wrote about "Re: Fwd: Re: Windows95 and Linux Installation" > On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: >>On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Harrison, Shawn wrote: >> >>> But, LILO will be installed on the slave drive? So you can't use it as >>> the boot loader. Win95 is on the primary dr

Re: qpopper && quota

1999-01-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E1rio_Ol=EDmpio_de_Menezes?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Debian box as a pop3 server for some users at the Dept. >The server has one scsi disk, with three main partitions (/ /home /other). >This is a poor design, but was done some ye

Re: Debian goes big business? [was: Re: Suggestion for RedHat (

1999-01-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
Paul Seelig wrote: >But talk is still cheap. Would the real future Debian entrepreneur >willed to make lots of money please stand up and just do it, please!? I would be happy to be part of this; I would happy for my existing (one-man) company to expand to take it on, or to be part of a new co

Re: gpm question

1999-01-21 Thread servis
*- Bob Nielsen wrote about "gpm question" > I recently upgraded a system from hamm to slink and then to potato and > notice that gpm will only recognize the first 25 lines of my screen. > > I'm running SVGATextMode with a 80x30 screen. I seem to remember gpm > working fine with this before. Is

Re: Debian goes big business? [was: Re: Suggestion for RedHat (

1999-01-21 Thread Harrison, Shawn
<<>> Linux, and Debian in particular, opposes everything B.G. and MS stands for. A kingdom at war with itself will collapse. A home divided against itself is doomed. --Mark 3:24-25 I think this saying applies in this case as well. I really don't think B.G. goi

Re: gpm question

1999-01-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > I shall file a bug report if I nobody knows the answer... > I think this is a known bug. Check out bug report number 31758, and there's also a mention (in that bug report) of 31815. A solution to the problem

Re: gpm question

1999-01-21 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 10:59:17AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I recently upgraded a system from hamm to slink and then to potato and > notice that gpm will only recognize the first 25 lines of my screen. > > I'm running SVGATextMode with a 80x30 screen. I seem to remember gpm > working fine wit

gpm question

1999-01-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
I recently upgraded a system from hamm to slink and then to potato and notice that gpm will only recognize the first 25 lines of my screen. I'm running SVGATextMode with a 80x30 screen. I seem to remember gpm working fine with this before. Is there something I missed? Bob Bob Nielsen

Sendmail

1999-01-21 Thread Briede, Tony
We use an Exchange Server for mail and a Linux system for the firewall. I am setting up a new Linux system 5.2 and trying to have SMPT to be able to send through it. The problem that I am having is that I get an error every time I try to sent mail through the Exchange Server. I have no DNS setup, b

Re: what cd-writer ?

1999-01-21 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Tim T. wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)") writes: > > > > [ about choosing a cd-writer ] > >> Stay away from IDE CDR's... I recommend Yamaha SCSI or Trax-Data SCSI units > >> etc.. The names that seem to be in the fore

Re: Fwd: Re: Windows95 and Linux Installation

1999-01-21 Thread Michael Stenner
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: >On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Harrison, Shawn wrote: > >> But, LILO will be installed on the slave drive? So you can't use it as >> the boot loader. Win95 is on the primary drive, so you'll use it as the >> bootloader and then run LOADLIN from within Windows

Re: root telnet

1999-01-21 Thread Nidge Jones
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 03:59:02PM +0100, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > -> How to make telnetd accept root login ? > > are you nuts ? > use ssh at least... If you really must allow root access, after adding the relevent entries to the /etc/securrity file. You *could* then restrict root access to

Re: Windows95 and Linux Installation

1999-01-21 Thread Andrew Ivanov
> Hello, please help Hi, ok > My computer has been setup with Windows 95 for a couple of years now > and I am very familiar with it. It has one 1.7GB IDE hard drive, all > as one partition. I wanted to setup Debian Linux on my machine without > having to repartition my harddrive and go through a

Re: qpopper && quota

1999-01-21 Thread Mário Olímpio de Menezes
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Well, one great way is to go to qmail and use Maildirs. It makes you > wonder why anyone would want to put a collection of email messages > end-to-end in a file. Maildirs stores each message in a separate file. > No need to make temp copies. Also, Ma

Re: root telnet

1999-01-21 Thread Armin Wegner
> > How to make telnetd accept root login ? > Do not do that. > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >

modem overflow and wierd ppp stuff

1999-01-21 Thread Frankie
Hi, When I turn my computer on or reboot it, I get lots of buffer overflow at ttyS3 messages. My modem is crrectly identified at startup by setserial and that as a 16550A. I know this is correct because win95 also identifies it as having some sort of FIFO. If I want to use ppp, (with pon) it just h

Re: No sound with xcdroast (fwd)

1999-01-21 Thread Tim T.
--- Begin Message --- > On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 08:49:42AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > This question is not directly debian related but I don't know how to > get my answer : > > When I burn audio CDs using xcdroast+cdrecord (last versions), all > seems to work fine but when the CD

Re: Fwd: Re: Windows95 and Linux Installation

1999-01-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Harrison, Shawn wrote: > But, LILO will be installed on the slave drive? So you can't use it as > the boot loader. Win95 is on the primary drive, so you'll use it as the > bootloader and then run LOADLIN from within Windows (DOS, really) t

Vim problems

1999-01-21 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, every time I open a file with vim as root, some errors occurs that I dont know what it is: jaca:/home/IA/baptista# vi /etc/apt/sources.list skipping 8 old session files missing rhs reading /etc/apt/sources.list I'm using the lastest vim and vimrc from Sve

Re: Windows95 and Linux Installation

1999-01-21 Thread Kirk Hogenson
Jay wrote: > > Mike Archer wrote: > > > When I get to the step Install Kernel and Modules, I can't find the > > original Win95 harddrive with the Linux files on it to continue. Do > > I need to make a DOS partition on the 814MB harddrive and copy the > > C:\Linux directory to that? or do I nee

Fwd: Re: Windows95 and Linux Installation

1999-01-21 Thread Harrison, Shawn
<<>> When I get to the step Install Kernel and Modules, I can't find the original Win95 harddrive with the Linux files on it to continue. Do I need to make a DOS partition on the 814MB harddrive and copy the C:\Linux directory to that? or do I need to make the 814MB hard the master disk? <<>> The

Re: Windows95 and Linux Installation

1999-01-21 Thread Michael Stenner
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Mike Archer wrote: > ...them in a directory called C:\Linux. I ran the install.bat and went >through the first few steps of the install, Keyboard setup,etc. Then >partitioned the second(814MB) physical drive in my harddrive like this: > >/dev/hdb1 type 83 Linux Swap 96MB Logic

Re: qpopper && quota

1999-01-21 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Well, one great way is to go to qmail and use Maildirs. It makes you wonder why anyone would want to put a collection of email messages end-to-end in a file. Maildirs stores each message in a separate file. No need to make temp copies. Also, Maildirs stores the email in the user's home directory

quake2 multiplayer (sorry)

1999-01-21 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, I've got quake2, and installed the potato versions of the debian packages. When someone tries to connect to my machine however, their quake2 (which is the same version as mine) fails: wrong version number Server is version 3.19 I've installed quake2, quake2-dm and quake2-ctf.

Re: what cd-writer ?

1999-01-21 Thread Tim T.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)") writes: > > [ about choosing a cd-writer ] >> Stay away from IDE CDR's... I recommend Yamaha SCSI or Trax-Data SCSI units >> etc.. The names that seem to be in the fore front on Technology > > Hmm, I know several p

Re: Windows95 and Linux Installation

1999-01-21 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 1/21/99 11:14:19 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > /dev/hdb1 type 83 Linux Swap 96MB Logical > /dev/hdb5 type 82 Linux 718MB Primary boot > > my first question is: is this correct? > This seems fine. The normal rule of thumb is that your swap

Re: UML Software for Linux

1999-01-21 Thread John Stevenson
Mamoun Alissali wrote: > > Hello, > > I'd like to know if there is any (free) software for UML under Linux. > For > the moment I'm using a commercial software under Windows. There is an application called Dia at the following web address: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/dia.html Here i

Windows95 and Linux Installation

1999-01-21 Thread Mike Archer
Hello, please help I've read all the other messages about Win95/98/NT and Linux together, but non of them answered my question. My computer has been setup with Windows 95 for a couple of years now and I am very familiar with it. It has one 1.7GB IDE hard drive, all as one partition. I wanted to

Re: what cd-writer ?

1999-01-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: : [ about choosing a cd-writer ] : > Stay away from IDE CDR's... I recommend Yamaha SCSI or Trax-Data SCSI units : > etc.. The names that seem to be in the fore front on Technology : : Hmm, I know several people who are using a Philips 3610 rewr

Re: root telnet

1999-01-21 Thread Lawrence Walton
Agreed most people login as a normal user and then SU. *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - - On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Matus "fantomas" Uhlar wr

Re: installing .tgz's

1999-01-21 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > I need to build and install some of the Afterstep as_ applications. Is there > a preferred way to do this with Debian? I tried running the "install.script" > but don't have xmkmf and can't find it in the package listing. This leads me > to believe I am doing something wrong. Thanks. In hamm,

Re: help me unbreak my box please

1999-01-21 Thread Thomas Adams
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 03:50:34PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > You can also try dpkg --configure mailcrypt auctex Thanks, that told me to install PGP and now everything works fine.

XFIG in Debian recent release

1999-01-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am having some trouble with editing a picture object file in the XFIG of the recent Debian release. This is the first time I have loaded Debian GNU/Linux. I have experience with the slackware and Redhat. The picture object does not fill the space to which it expands on "use original size" The r

installing .tgz's

1999-01-21 Thread Dan Furtney
I need to build and install some of the Afterstep as_ applications. Is there a preferred way to do this with Debian? I tried running the "install.script" but don't have xmkmf and can't find it in the package listing. This leads me to believe I am doing something wrong. Thanks. -Dan

Re: help

1999-01-21 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 03:52:31PM +0100, Manuel Salinas wrote: > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null no problem

printers

1999-01-21 Thread Kenneth Scharf
> >Is there a way to get my LaserJet 6L to work? > >APSfilter and magicfilter do not have modules/drivers >that work. The >most >they have is LaserJet 4L. The problem with this >printer is that it is >in sleep mode all the time, and the driver must wake >it up. > >Are there any plans for this p

ATAPI CDROM -- Aargh! Newbie problems

1999-01-21 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I've had some problems with cdroms too, but different. I have a cdrom made by Panasonic for IBM that is labeled as an 8X atapi. When it was connected as a master on a paddle card (aux ide card strapped as ide #2) the bios saw it correctly, but linux thought it was a tape drive! When strapped as

Re: root telnet

1999-01-21 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
-> How to make telnetd accept root login ? are you nuts ? use ssh at least... -- Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, sysadmin at Telenor Internet Kosice, Slovakia BIC coord for *.sk; admin of netlab.irc.sk; co-admin of irc.felk.cvut.cz "The box said 'Requires Windows 95 or better', so I bought a Macintosh

Re: help me unbreak my box please

1999-01-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "TA" == Thomas Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TA> On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 03:10:36PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: >> You should show us the output of dpkg --configure --pending TA> There is no output. Then check again in dselect, the two packages should have the "U" mark then. desel

help

1999-01-21 Thread Manuel Salinas

RE: Learning more/Linux programming books

1999-01-21 Thread Harrison, Shawn
>> How does Python rate as a beginners language? >From the little I've looked at it, I'd say it's a good starting place. The syntax is clean, the organization logical, and the new learner can begin using OOP in his or her programming career. One could argue that *any* programming language coul

Re: RE: Learning more/Linux programming books

1999-01-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Bruce Sass ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > How does Python rate as a beginners language? Excellent. The manuals are excellent, free and, for once, you can probably get away without the O'Reilly book. I find it much easier to code cleanly than Perl (which I came from because Perl was the only way o

Re: help me unbreak my box please

1999-01-21 Thread Thomas Adams
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 03:10:36PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > You should show us the output of dpkg --configure --pending There is no output.

Re: Help with Smail/Fetchmail/Mutt!!!

1999-01-21 Thread Patrick Colbeck
On Thu Jan 21, 1999 at 01:25:18PM +, J.L.Gomez Dans wrote: > Hi! > After some tinkering about, my university has duly informed me > that no mail will be delivered from outside our campus by smtp, that > I need to fetch it from a POP server. > > As this goes, I'd like to configure eve

Re: help me unbreak my box please

1999-01-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "TA" == Thomas Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TA> Since the installation of my hamm box, something is broken. I want TA> to fix it to make an upgrade to slink as painless as possible but TA> don't know how, i.e. how do I unbreak things here? You should show us the output of dpkg --configu

3Com/USR modem and firmware upgrade??

1999-01-21 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey All, I just acquired a 3Com/USR 33.6 modem. It came with the software to upgrade it to a 56k modem of course its for Win95 or Win3.1 My Box is 100% Debian. No DOS no Windows. Does any one no of a way to upgrade the modem. I assume that a linux version is not in existence. I know I need windows

help me unbreak my box please

1999-01-21 Thread Thomas Adams
Since the installation of my hamm box, something is broken. I want to fix it to make an upgrade to slink as painless as possible but don't know how, i.e. how do I unbreak things here? dselect says: --- Broken Optional packages in section contrib/mail --- U-- Opt contrib/

Re: what cd-writer ?

1999-01-21 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am currently using an IDE CDR's with no problem. The main point is to buy a > CDR with > as more as possible memory in it ! > franck > that only matters on IDE. With SCSI models, I've used drives w/ anywhere from 501k to 2MB(my own) and never o

Re: what cd-writer ?

1999-01-21 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
On 21 Jan 1999, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > > If you found a yamaha model that's affordable, _Get_it!_ Those are > > oh, by affordable I mean it's under 600 EUR... maybe I've seen also > non-rewritable models under 400 EUR, VAT included Sorry, I don't know the conversion factor yet, I paid 215$

Help with Smail/Fetchmail/Mutt!!!

1999-01-21 Thread J.L.Gomez Dans
Hi! After some tinkering about, my university has duly informed me that no mail will be delivered from outside our campus by smtp, that I need to fetch it from a POP server. As this goes, I'd like to configure everything so that my e-mail goes out with nice headers, and appears to be se

Re: root telnet

1999-01-21 Thread Remco van de Meent
UF Marpaung wrote: > How to make telnetd accept root login ? Have a look at the manual page securetty(5) and edit /etc/securetty. HTH, -Remco

Problems on StarOffice setup

1999-01-21 Thread Bruno Simoes
Hi; I´ve got the StarOffice4.0 tar file and discompressed it on /var/local. But I can´t go forward because it complains about the setup.ins script. The error is a kind of: "Line 1: Unexpected token ´I´ . i.e. Line..." I edited the file, and it looks to be ok, the very first statment is som

af uses nvi as a viewer?

1999-01-21 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
How can I change or disable the frequent startup of nvi by af, perhaps as a viewer? I am using af 2.0-4. This behavior is irritating, as I must quit vi in order to continue reading mail. This only happens on certain messages. May mailbox has many messages about files (the files displayed by nv

root telnet

1999-01-21 Thread UF Marpaung
How to make telnetd accept root login ? Thanks, UFM

Linux box as printer server

1999-01-21 Thread joop . vson
This is not a specific Debian question but I hope someone can help me. I am trying to set up a linux box as a printer server. Printing is to a LaserJet5 (jetdirect with IP-number NPIxx). I installed magicfilter and ghostscript, adjusted the printcap file according to the Printing-HOWTO and p

Re: hplaserjet6L/pcmcia questions

1999-01-21 Thread wb2oyc
> >I'm having trouble with my HP Laserjet 6L printer. APSfilter nor magifilter >have drivers for my printer. Is there any alternative? > Try HP IV. paul

Re: Kernel make config

1999-01-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 03:53:08PM +1000, Peter Eades wrote: > So that explains why a can never get the patches to apply cleanly does > it and I just thought I was stupid. In that case shouldnt the debian > pakages include patches that will alow an upgard from say 2.0.5 to 2.0.6 > without having to

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