Re: A pipe dream?

1999-01-26 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > That is basically what I do. I back up my /etc tree and my /home tree to a > zip. I do a complete backup once a week in a cron job and it still all fits > on > one zip. > > It does not require much of script > > tar -cf /zip/home.tar.gz -C /home . > tar -cf

Re: No ldd?

1999-01-26 Thread Raja R Harinath
Morgan Fletcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have no ldd executable. Please look at the `libc6' changelog.Debian. If it mentions that `ldso' needs to be re-installed, that is your problem. I think the `libc6' package provided the `ldd' binary for a short time. The fix is to re-fetch ldso*.de

Re: SCSI Installation Problem

1999-01-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "g" == griesbac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: g> detected. I have a Adaptec AHA-2940-U2W SCSI controller which is doesn't g> seem to find. I have tried booting with: linux aic7xxx=no_reset, but I g> get the following message when booting: scsi: 0 hosts g> What could I be doing wrong? Is t

Thanks!

1999-01-26 Thread Brant Wells
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Re: mutt trashes mail

1999-01-26 Thread homega
Alan Eugene Davis dixit: > I am afraid to try mutt again. After a long hiattus, I tried mutt again > after some version changes. > > I lost a large slug of mail. Just gone. I have just been leaving mail in > the mail spoon. Mutt has a habit of trashing that file. > > Can anybody corrobora

Re: ok, where'd xterm go? and what else is missing

1999-01-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "REHE" == Richard E Hawkins Esq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: REHE> I've installed it, and it seems to work, but what else is REHE> missing? There is a README file in /usr/doc/xbase I believe. Otherwise, check the archives of debian-devel. There is a thread about this. The first message also co

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
At 11:07 AM 1/26/1999 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >In a message dated 1/26/99 9:55:07 AM Central Standard Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> hello, very simple. Man-db is not necessary to run linux. it is nice to >> have but if you don't have man linux can still run. the other reason why

joining help

1999-01-26 Thread m n
hi, i'm new to Linux. i'd like to join your project. thanks. bye __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

kernel 2.2 / Potato

1999-01-26 Thread Mike Merten
Hi, I just upgraded my kernel from 2.0.36 to 2.2.0 and the only possible problems encountered so far are: The kernel reports "diald uses obsolete (PF_INET,SOCK_PACKET)", although diald seems to work ok. (diald v 0.16.5-3) chronyd (v 1.02) reports "Fatal error : kernel version not supported yet,

Uploaded util-linux 2.9g-6 (source i386) to master

1999-01-26 Thread Vincent Renardias
Ok, so if we really want a Debian 2.1 that is 100% kernel 2.2.x compatible it needs this package to be included in frozen. I've just uploaded it in Incoming/ 10 minutes ago. Non-developers can also access it at http://www.ldsol.com/~vincent/ (NB: there are _2_ binary packages to install: util-linu

When?

1999-01-26 Thread Jyrki Malinen
When Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 is ready? -- Jyrki "rootti" *ei vastaa kirotusviheistä* one of the project HALI leaders

Re: Try to install Debian Linux 2.0, computer resets after loading linux.kernel

1999-01-26 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 11:33:09PM +0100, David Peterson wrote: > It happens without any warnings, it loads root and linux image then "poof" > rebootwhat to do cant do anything, never comes to any install options > just loadlin and then it loads a bit and computer reboots..please help me! > > S

manual fsck

1999-01-26 Thread David B. Teague
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 01:42:25PM +0100, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote: > > > > > > This is an unusual checking by my machine (this is all I could > > > cut&paste), has anything gone wrong here? [snip -- Hamish's encouraging reply ] Hi Debian Folk: I h

mutt trashes mail

1999-01-26 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I am afraid to try mutt again. After a long hiattus, I tried mutt again after some version changes. I lost a large slug of mail. Just gone. I have just been leaving mail in the mail spoon. Mutt has a habit of trashing that file. Can anybody corroborate this behavior? Has this kind of pro

Re: A pipe dream? (a.k.a. File Backups)

1999-01-26 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Whoops, forgot to send this to the list. ==BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE== >From: "Steve Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Harrison, Shawn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 13:15:40 -0800 >Reply-T

Re: What owns a piece of postgresql...

1999-01-26 Thread Chris Frost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Oliver Elphick wrote: > If the files you need no longer exist on your system, you should reinstall > the old postgresql and libpgsql (versions 6.3.2-16, if your database > version was 6.3) and then load 6.4.2-3, which, as far as I

Try to install Debian Linux 2.0, computer resets after loading linux.kernel

1999-01-26 Thread David Peterson
It happens without any warnings, it loads root and linux image then "poof" rebootwhat to do cant do anything, never comes to any install options just loadlin and then it loads a bit and computer reboots..please help me! Sincerely, David P

Re:

1999-01-26 Thread Kent West
At 01:29 PM 1/26/1999 -0500, Michelle Coelho wrote: > > Hi , I'm the person whose mail you'd replied to regarding whether I'd have > problems > with my mouse since it wasn't plugged in at the time of installing Linux... > Anyway now, I'm having problems with my modem. As you advised me, I bough

Re: Graphics card

1999-01-26 Thread Allens
Sorry, spoke too soon. I have found the drivers after a search through dejavu. It still doesn't work, but then it doesn't on my windoze partition either (except in vga-16 mode, which is because it emulates standard vga), so it isn't really very supprising. Peter Allen Allens w

Re: A pipe dream? (a.k.a. File Backups)

1999-01-26 Thread Paul Huygen
"Harrison, Shawn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >Much of what is "customized" or specific in the system is found in the >/etc directory, and then all of your data files should be in the /home >directory. So if you back up those two trees, you'll be mostly there, I >would think. You should also cons

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread Kent West
At 11:39 AM 1/26/1999 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >In a message dated 1/26/99 10:36:52 AM Central Standard Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> PPP is essential if you install through a modem connection to the >> internet. PCMCIA is essential if that modem is a pcmcia card in a >> laptop. I

[HOWTO?] Configure ircd and get it running...

1999-01-26 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Hi, I just finished installing the ircd package. I want to run an irc server for my intranet (my machine is inside the firewall). I poked around /usr/doc/ircd and was unable to find out how exactly to configure ircd. I made some cursory changes in /etc/ircd/ircd.* 1. From the little that I hav

Re: A pipe dream?

1999-01-26 Thread Michael Procario
That is basically what I do. I back up my /etc tree and my /home tree to a zip. I do a complete backup once a week in a cron job and it still all fits on one zip. It does not require much of script tar -cf /zip/home.tar.gz -C /home . tar -cf /zip/etc.tar.gz -C /etc . _

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread Kent West
At 11:07 AM 1/26/1999 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >In a message dated 1/26/99 9:55:07 AM Central Standard Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> hello, very simple. Man-db is not necessary to run linux. it is nice to >> have but if you don't have man linux can still run. the other reason why

2.2 kernel okay, but bootpc fails

1999-01-26 Thread Matt Garman
I just installed a 2.2.0 linux kernel, and everything works except bootpc, which is used to give me an IP at startup. The boot process freezes when bootpc tries to startup, but dies with the message "no response from BOOTPC server" (or something to that effect). However, I booted with my old (2.

Re: libgcc.map: No such file...

1999-01-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Never mind, folks, this bug was already reported. I found it on the Debian web site. Incedentally, I seem to have been able to fix it by deleting the reference to the file in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/egcs-2.91.60/specs. I doubt this is a great idea, but I c

Re: nfs and 2.2.x

1999-01-26 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 03:25:06PM +0100, Rainer Clasen wrote: > IIRC knfsd's exports don't recurse mountpoints: If host1's /usr is a > different volume than /, mounting host1:/ on another box won't give you > access to host1:/usr. Hmmm... there's a compile time option (SUN NFS something) that ma

Re: OPL3SAx sound card

1999-01-26 Thread Michael Procario
Here is the configuration info I found http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/solo/216/yamaha.htm It discusses using isapnp to configure the card but the sound on my laptop is not on an isa card. isapnp does not see the sound card although it sees my modem. I got it to work with the commercial

SCSI Installation Problem

1999-01-26 Thread griesbac
Hi, I am trying to install Debian from floppies. I have downloaded the latest images and they seem to boot fine except my SCSI hard drive is not detected. I have a Adaptec AHA-2940-U2W SCSI controller which is doesn't seem to find. I have tried booting with: linux aic7xxx=no_reset, but I get t

Re: new kernel release

1999-01-26 Thread servis
*- Bob Nielsen wrote about "Re: new kernel release" > I've come across one problem in compiling, which did NOT occur with > 2.2.0-pre9: > > drivers/sound/sound.a(sb_ess.o): In function `ess_init': > sb_ess.o(.text+0xde2): undefined reference to `esstype' > sb_ess.o(.text+0xe77): undefined referenc

mod_auth_mysql

1999-01-26 Thread Christian Lavoie
Has anyone a working version of mod_auth_mysql? ./configure screws with the following: loading cache ./config.cache checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C...

Re: new kernel release

1999-01-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
I see that Documentation/CHANGES says that net-tools 1.49 is required. It says to use 'hostname -V' to determine the version, but this does not work. 'route -V' in both slink and potato that the net-tools version is 1.45. Is an upgrade needed here? Bob Bob Nielsen Internet

OPL3SAx sound card

1999-01-26 Thread James E. Starr
Hi Has anyone been able to get this card to work? I've tried every combination in the kernel and the best I've gotten is a series of four tones, each at a higher frequency than the last. If someone could point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it. TIA Jim

Re: new kernel release

1999-01-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
I've come across one problem in compiling, which did NOT occur with 2.2.0-pre9: drivers/sound/sound.a(sb_ess.o): In function `ess_init': sb_ess.o(.text+0xde2): undefined reference to `esstype' sb_ess.o(.text+0xe77): undefined reference to `esstype' make[1]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 It compiled succe

Re: A pipe dream? (a.k.a. File Backups)

1999-01-26 Thread Harrison, Shawn
Much of what is "customized" or specific in the system is found in the /etc directory, and then all of your data files should be in the /home directory. So if you back up those two trees, you'll be mostly there, I would think. == [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==

installing modules for parallel port

1999-01-26 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I'm trying to set up my parallel port so that my printer will work properly. I compiled 2.2 so that all this stuff is in modules that I would now have to insmod. How do I do this for the parallel port? How do I know what modules are currently running. If there is say a plip parallel port modu

A pipe dream?

1999-01-26 Thread G . B . Stott
Hi there, I have an idea and wondered if there was some vital flaw in my scheme that skilled folk like you could spot. My linux box is completely stand-alone and apart from a bit of ftp, most of my stuff comes from Debian CDs. I wondered whether I could cut down what I backup realising that much

Re: new kernel release

1999-01-26 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi Jim, > I see that the 2.2.0 kernel is now officially released. > > Does anyone know if there are any problems, or things to be wary of, in > compiling this kernel for Debian hamm? I compiled it today. But read Documentation/Changes first! I guess, you need some packages from potato, e.g. newer

Re: Unsual system check

1999-01-26 Thread homega
> > > > In a message dated 1/26/99 6:25:42 AM Central Standard Time, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > This is an unusual checking by my machine (this is all I could cut&paste), > > > has anything gone wrong here? > > > > > > > > > /dev/hda2 has reached maximal mount count, check forc

Re: new kernel release

1999-01-26 Thread Alec Smith
Yeah, it throws up an error with setserial that I have yet to get rid of... Looking at the code, its just to say setserial -W is no longer supported... However I changed that part of 0setserial and still have the error. Anyway, it doesn't appear to be anything too serious. Other than that, 2.2 wor

Re: Would like to drop Pine for Mutt

1999-01-26 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 02:36:22PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > I am also a Pine user and last year tried out Mutt for a while. What I > > found was that Mutt did not handle mail sent to a lot of users at the same > > time very well. I regularly sen

LILO Problems...

1999-01-26 Thread Steve Beitzel
Hi all, I recently switched my filesystem over to a SCSI Hard Drive, and now I want to use my old 9GB Drive for storage and for holding a small Windows partition. After I set this up in lilo.conf and tried to boot to Windows, my machine hung right at the message "Loading Windows". I have

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : In a message dated 1/26/99 10:06:20 AM Central Standard Time, : [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : > Every package in the base installation has to be potentially /necessary/ : > for the installation process itself, not just desirable, i.e. : > ess

Re: nfs and 2.2.x

1999-01-26 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Shaleh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), "nfs and 2.2.x": > I am prepping to setup NFS on a 2.2.x machine. I would like to use the kernel > based one as the docs point to it being faster/better. Is there support in > Debian for this? The package is in project/experimental. (I never had the time to actu

Kernel 2.2.0 on a 486DX2/66

1999-01-26 Thread Richard Kaszeta
Well, I've already used 2.2.0 with success on two of my pentiumII machines, so I figured I'd try it out on my 486DX2/66 that I am setting up as a home machine for my janitor. I'm building custom kernels with kernel-package 6.03, and using pristine 2.2.0 source. I've made sure I've built with with

RE: setting up Linux

1999-01-26 Thread Harrison, Shawn
Yes, you can run your current drive as a slave drive - but you need to be sure to install the driver for that when you are doing the installation process (during "Device Drivers" installation). It is commonly recommended that you use separate partitions for various parts of your linux system. T

Re: setting up Linux

1999-01-26 Thread Henning Makholm
scoobie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a 10 GB hard drive on order and I was wondering how many > partitions would be good for Linux. Personally I would do: 1. A small partition (50MB would be plenty) for booting Linux, also serving as / file system. 2. Whatever you want for Windows 3.

Re: new kernel release

1999-01-26 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> > I had a couple, though it was on the last pre that called itself 2.2.0: > > a) it was not possible to change the irq for soundblaster to the value=20 > > most cards use (5, and it defaults to 7? or is it vice versa). > You can pass parameters to modules when insmod'ing them, > ie insmod sb i

libgcc.map: No such file...

1999-01-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hey all. I'm trying to build KDE 1.1pre2 (on slink with the qt1g and qt1g-dev from potato), and to my surprise, the sources came in debian source format. So, I'm building the kdelibs package by running debian/rules build. Configure runs, and the source is comp

Re: new kernel release

1999-01-26 Thread Rafael Kitover
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 01:19:25PM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > > > I see that the 2.2.0 kernel is now officially released. > > > > Does anyone know if there are any problems, or things to be wary of, in > > compiling this kernel for Debian hamm? > > I had a couple, though it was o

RE: setting up Linux

1999-01-26 Thread scoobie
Hi, I have a 10 GB hard drive on order and I was wondering how many partitions would be good for Linux. Can I put Windows 95 or 98 on the same hard drive and run either Linux or Windows, choosing which I want to run from some type of BATCH file written in Linux. I am using a 1 GB hard drive n

Re: new kernel release

1999-01-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Jim McCloskey wrote: > I see that the 2.2.0 kernel is now officially released. > > Does anyone know if there are any problems, or things to be wary of, in > compiling this kernel for Debian hamm? Kernel 2.2.0 depends on certain package ve

Re: new kernel release

1999-01-26 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> > I see that the 2.2.0 kernel is now officially released. > > Does anyone know if there are any problems, or things to be wary of, in > compiling this kernel for Debian hamm? I had a couple, though it was on the last pre that called itself 2.2.0: a) it was not possible to change the irq for

Re: your mail

1999-01-26 Thread Paul McDermott
hello ttyS1 is comm2 ttyS0 is comm1. this should take care of the problem hope this helps. Paul On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Michelle Coelho wrote: Hi , I'm the person whose mail you'd replied to regarding whether I'd have problems with my mouse since it wasn't plugged in at the time of installing L

simple question

1999-01-26 Thread Darknight
Is there a way to change the port used on wu-ftpd-academ? If so, what is it? Thanks.

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread David Wright
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > In a message dated 1/26/99 10:36:52 AM Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > PPP is essential if you install through a modem connection to the > > internet. PCMCIA is essential if that modem is a pcmcia card in a > > laptop. I u

[no subject]

1999-01-26 Thread Michelle Coelho
Hi , I'm the person whose mail you'd replied to regarding whether I'd have problems with my mouse since it wasn't plugged in at the time  of installing Linux... Anyway now, I'm having problems with my modem. As you advised me, I bought a 56k External modem. It's a Cardinal Connecta V.34. I

new kernel release

1999-01-26 Thread Jim McCloskey
I see that the 2.2.0 kernel is now officially released. Does anyone know if there are any problems, or things to be wary of, in compiling this kernel for Debian hamm? Thanks for your time, Jim McCloskey

Re: Netscape Roaming Package

1999-01-26 Thread Daniel R. Allen
I don't know if you read freshmeat, but this was posted last night: mod_roaming 1.0.0 With mod_roaming you can use your Apache webserver as a Netscape Roaming Access server. This allows you to store you Netscape Communicator 4.5 preferences, bookmarks, address books, cookies etc. on the s

Re: PGP question

1999-01-26 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Daniel González Gasull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm still using PGP 2.6.3in, a modified version PGP > 2.6.3i. I'm gonna switch to GNU Privacy Guard. Now I > have no time. I think it's the best solution. You > can get it from http://www.d.shuttle.de/isil/gnupg . > Try the gpg Debian pac

Graphics card

1999-01-26 Thread Allens
Hi, Has anyone got the INTEL C740SG 8Mb AGP card working under x, and know of some drivers, as I can't find any. Thanks, Peter Allen

Sound problem

1999-01-26 Thread Florian Steffen
I installed a slink version on my machine, it works fine, great distribution. Now I want to enable the sound, but where are the sound drivers. Nothing in the kernel, nothing in the modules ! I tried to install the alsa library instead of using the sound system of the kernel, but here too, there is

Re: nfs and 2.2.x

1999-01-26 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 01:11:25AM -0500, Shaleh wrote: > I am prepping to setup NFS on a 2.2.x machine. I would like to use the > kernel based one as the docs point to it being faster/better. Is there > support in Debian for this? You have to install knfs from project/experimental

Re: GNUcash/Libs

1999-01-26 Thread Will Lowe
> libXm.so.1 => not found This is a motif library. Some versions of Lesstif will work. > libXmHTML.so.1.1 => not found XmHTML doesn't exist as a debian package. Read the GNUCash readme and get the source. I've been working on packaging Gnucash (which means packaging XmHTML and nana, al

Re: What owns a piece of postgresql...

1999-01-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
Chris Frost wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >What package own /usr/lib/postgresql/dumpall/6.3/psql, libpq.so.1 and >libpq.so.2? Reason being, I have the posgresql from hamm and am trying to >upgrade to the version in potato (which has python support) and to dump

Re: Basic Quastions

1999-01-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
Nuno Donato wrote: >I am a begginer in Linux, and I would like to make some >basic questions. >1st - How can I change the WindowMaker or XShell that runs >when I start X. a) If you mean the window manager: (As root) edit /etc/X11/window-managers and put the manager of your choice at the

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread Paul McDermott
hello, netbase and netstd allow for telnet and ftp access to your machine. the base disks allow for telnet and ftp out but not in. Paul On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/26/99 10:36:52 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > PPP is essential if you

X failure in potato

1999-01-26 Thread Matt Porter
This is what I get when starting up X with the latest X packages from potato. Anybody have an idea of what is wrong here? I've searched most of the bug lists for answers to no avail. (--) SVGA: XAA: Using 8 128x128 areas for pixmap caching (--) SVGA: XAA: Caching tiles and non-transparent stippl

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread Paul McDermott
hello, lets start with pcmcia, do you have a laptop? ppp do you want to get more packages then the ones on the base-disks, ie man and manpages. printer support, you can choose it in the modules section of the installation process. ZIP drive, are you going to be installing from this. if yes how do

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread Paul McDermott
Your new, to these boot disks, I remember when there was only five disks. Now there is seven not including the boot disk you made. the man-db would fit on a floppy, but what language are you going to put on it english? what about everyone else. how hard is it to get the man-db file and the manpage

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 1/26/99 10:36:52 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > PPP is essential if you install through a modem connection to the > internet. PCMCIA is essential if that modem is a pcmcia card in a > laptop. I use the ZIP drive support to save pumping floppies, but > I

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread David Wright
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > In a message dated 1/26/99 10:06:20 AM Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Every package in the base installation has to be potentially /necessary/ > > for the installation process itself, not just desirable, i.e. > > essentia

http proxy

1999-01-26 Thread Jeff Beley
I recently setup an authenticating proxy using squid, however whenever i run dselect it tells me proxy authentication required, how do i set this? I alredy have http_proxy set correctly... TIA Jeff -- --- Jeff Beley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Network Administrator PGP Key

Re: Compiling with X [bit off topic]

1999-01-26 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> I need to plot some graphs output from a C program, which I need to be > portable to a SGI unix machine. Thus I am trying to use the xlib library. > I have xlib6g-dev installed. My test program inludes the lines: This isn't the answer you're looking for, but i found the pgplot libraries did

Re: Compiling with X [bit off topic]

1999-01-26 Thread Rich Harran.
Thanks a lot, this is exactly what I wanted to know. Cheers Rich On 26 Jan 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > "Rich Harran." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | I need to plot some graphs output from a C program, which I need to be > | portable to a SGI unix machine. Thus I am trying to use the xlib l

Re: Compiling with X [bit off topic]

1999-01-26 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"Rich Harran." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I need to plot some graphs output from a C program, which I need to be | portable to a SGI unix machine. Thus I am trying to use the xlib library. | I have xlib6g-dev installed. My test program inludes the lines: | #include | And I compile with:

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 1/26/99 10:06:20 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Every package in the base installation has to be potentially /necessary/ > for the installation process itself, not just desirable, i.e. > essential rather than important. For more details, see > /usr/doc/

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 1/26/99 9:55:07 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > hello, very simple. Man-db is not necessary to run linux. it is nice to > have but if you don't have man linux can still run. the other reason why > man is not included in the base distribution is the spac

Re: LILO and two disks...

1999-01-26 Thread Mike Wood
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, John Carter wrote: > Greetings Debians, > > I have got LILO up an working on 3 different PC's no problem. > > But this one gets me totally bamfoozled > > Its quite simple. The guy has two hardisks in his PC. The PC is brand > new with latest and greatest bios that knows

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread David Wright
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > In a message dated 1/25/99 6:19:30 PM Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Debian 1.3 is somewhat obsolete, but I think you need to install the > > man-db package, which is where the man command in 2.x is located. > > Why

Re: password security: john, cops, etc

1999-01-26 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Pere Camps wrote: > > There's cracklib which is a proactive checker in that it checks > > passwords as the users set them. > > Currently there are several bugs for the package but I'm actively > > working on them. Should see a new upload in a few days. > > Please tell

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread Paul McDermott
hello, very simple. Man-db is not necessary to run linux. it is nice to have but if you don't have man linux can still run. the other reason why man is not included in the base distribution is the space issue. Paul On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/25/99 6:19:30

Re: Unsual system check

1999-01-26 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > In a message dated 1/26/99 6:25:42 AM Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > This is an unusual checking by my machine (this is all I could cut&paste), > > has anything gone wrong here? > > > > > > /dev/hda2 has reached maximal mount count, check forced. > > Pass 1: C

Compiling with X [bit off topic]

1999-01-26 Thread Rich Harran.
I need to plot some graphs output from a C program, which I need to be portable to a SGI unix machine. Thus I am trying to use the xlib library. I have xlib6g-dev installed. My test program inludes the lines: #include And I compile with: gcc -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib

Re: password security: john, cops, etc

1999-01-26 Thread Pere Camps
Jean, > There's cracklib which is a proactive checker in that it checks > passwords as the users set them. > Currently there are several bugs for the package but I'm actively > working on them. Should see a new upload in a few days. Please tell me when you do. Thank you very muc

Re: Unsual system check

1999-01-26 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 1/26/99 6:25:42 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > This is an unusual checking by my machine (this is all I could cut&paste), > has anything gone wrong here? > > > /dev/hda2 has reached maximal mount count, check forced. > Pass 1: Checking inodes, block

Re: password security: john, cops, etc

1999-01-26 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Pere Camps wrote: > Is there any debianized program to check the 'strictness' of > passwords. Something like john, cops, etc. > > I'm also looking for a passwd replacement that enforces 'strict' > passwords. There's cracklib which is a proactive checker in that i

Re: Browser for a slow computer?

1999-01-26 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 1/25/99 7:05:10 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Now I use Lynx, but I want a graphic browser with HTML > 4.0, Java and images. Netscape is too big to install > in my machine. Please, wich browser do you recommend > to me? > FYI - Your message did co

Re: GNUcash/Libs

1999-01-26 Thread Daniel Martin
Timothy Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello! I am trying to get GNUCash to work; the binary distribution (1.1.23); > converted with alien from rpm gives > libXm.so.1 => not found > libXmHTML.so.1.1 => not found > libreadline.so.3 => not found > Can anyone tell me what packages I

GNOME 0.93?

1999-01-26 Thread Vincent Murphy
has anybody built .debs of GNOME CVS recently? -vinny -- Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405 "Never put off 'til tomorrow that which can be done the day after tomorrow." --Mark Twain

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 1/25/99 6:19:30 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Debian 1.3 is somewhat obsolete, but I think you need to install the > man-db package, which is where the man command in 2.x is located. > Why on earth isn't man part of the standard dist? I'd th

gnome menus

1999-01-26 Thread Brian Morgan
I've successfully installed the latest gnome packages, and it looks pretty good. I'm running it in conjunction with icewm and slink. I'm having difficulty using the menu items, however. Most of the menu items in the gnome menu are not working. If I click on them, nothing happens. Only a few se

Re: fvwm2 and xterm placement

1999-01-26 Thread Michael E. Touloumtzis
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 05:41:01PM +, ktb wrote: > Hey, "+ I exec xterm -geometry +154+137 &" worked! Now how do I get > rid of my initial xterm window that pops up when I first log in? I had that problem until I created a .xsession file in my home directory, like this: #!/bin/sh

Re: boot floppies -- thanks!!

1999-01-26 Thread Rene Hojbjerg Larsen
Ossama Othman wrote: > > I wanted to thank Robert Woodcock and everyone who helped me (sorry, I > don't recall their names :( ) for helping me figure out how to boot my > Dell PowerEdge Server 6300. I am now the proud user (not owner, I wish! > :) of a Quad-CPU Xeon Dell system with a gig (960MB

Re: Would like to drop Pine for Mutt

1999-01-26 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 02:36:22PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > I am also a Pine user and last year tried out Mutt for a while. What I > > found was that Mutt did not handle mail sent to a lot of users at the same > > time very well. I regularly sen

Re: Synchronizing Windows NT to Debian.

1999-01-26 Thread Jay Barbee
At 1/25/99 08:36 PM +0100, Rainer Clasen wrote: >Hi! > >Greg Frye ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), >"Re: Synchronizing Windows NT to Debian.": > >> There is a precompiled binary of xntp3 for NT if you want the NT box to >> be a time server that sync's to the Debian box. It you just want the NT >> box to be a

Re: GLX extension

1999-01-26 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Gregory Vandenbrouck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display "groumph:0.0". | Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display "groumph:0.0". | | Does someone knows where/if I can add a GLX extension to my X server ? The best you can currently do is about at the alpha leve

Re: fetchmail/procmail tears mail apart

1999-01-26 Thread Henning Makholm
"Christian T. Steigies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a little trouble with fetchmail (hamm, 4.3.9-1), procmail (hamm, > 3.10.7-6) tearing mails apart. > I think I tracked it down, when I fetch a mail containing a line with "From" > in the text, It is a common phenomenon with mail system,

Re: Unsual system check

1999-01-26 Thread Henning Makholm
"E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If there are any `lost files', they will be put in the `lost+found' > directory on the disk. In this case it looks as if some file (at inode 33194, spanning the blocks 134439--134447) was a little more more lost than usually, since the inode ha

fetchmail/procmail tears mail apart

1999-01-26 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, I have a little trouble with fetchmail (hamm, 4.3.9-1), procmail (hamm, 3.10.7-6) tearing mails apart. I think I tracked it down, when I fetch a mail containing a line with "From" in the text, procmail sorts everything before "From" in the correct folder, everything after "From" (the line with

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