Re: really simple format question

1999-02-05 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 5 Feb 1999 18:52:03 -0500 (EST), Robert Rati wrote: >I've been looking all over my system to find a floppy disk formatting >command, but have come up empty. Superformat doesn't appear to be in the >slink dist nor can I find any kind of floppy

really simple format question

1999-02-05 Thread Robert Rati
I've been looking all over my system to find a floppy disk formatting command, but have come up empty. Superformat doesn't appear to be in the slink dist nor can I find any kind of floppy formating command with apropos. Can someone help me out with this real quick?

X crashes after upgrade to slink

1999-02-05 Thread Marko Loparic
Hi, Apparently X can't start my window manager (fvwm2) using startx. It quits after showing the X screen for a second. Using xinit another window manager is activated (I strange one, I can't tell what it is...) The X messages shows no fatal errors, but the .xsession.errors says something which se

Re: Kernel configurations

1999-02-05 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 05 Feb 1999 23:18:37 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I have trouble keeping track of what options are compiled into which >kernels and I'm beginning to be frustrated. Can anyone suggest a way >of doing this? >Ideally, I'd like to keep a fil

Kernel configurations

1999-02-05 Thread formasic
Folks, I now have several networked Linux boxes; but they all have different hardware and do different things and they have different kernels. I have trouble keeping track of what options are compiled into which kernels and I'm beginning to be frustrated. Can anyone suggest a way of doing this?

Dual Boot Woes

1999-02-05 Thread Philip Thiem
I recently reinstalled linux and a second drive. I have debina running off my second harddisk and windows of the master. I partitioned and formated everything with partition magic. My problem is when windows has the mbr on the master it boots fine, but if lilo takes over it will not boot, and m,

Dial in Server Problem

1999-02-05 Thread Jorge Sousa
Hi all I'm trying to use Debian Linux as a ppp dial in server for Win95 clients. I'm able to login into the linux box only if I have the - Bring terminal window after dialing - check box checked. If this checkbox is off the line goes down after a while. If I login using the terminal window I'm s

Re: off topic - Assembler using GCC

1999-02-05 Thread Richard Lyon
> I don't need it, but just out of curiosity, is there a more low-level > interface available? Or would one have to write a kernel module? > > I'm thinking, if you need to do non-standard things with the control lines > (say for a dongle). > In theory it is possible to do things like redirectio

Re: X-windows not working anymore...

1999-02-05 Thread Kelly Corbin
I recompiled the kernel putting the Unix domain sockets directly IN the kernel (not in a module) and it doesn't give me that error message anymore. Xwindows still doesn't work though and quits immediately after starting just like there is no window manager. I have Afterstep, Enlightenment, and TW

Re: ppp not working...

1999-02-05 Thread Kelly Corbin
Paul Miller wrote: > > Kelly Corbin wrote: > > > Question: > > > > I have slink installed, and after upgrading my kernel from 2.0.36 to > > 2.2.1, my ppp says it is not configured in the kernel or as a module. I > > don't know a whole lot about ppp and just use pppconfig to setup my > > dialup.

Re: /usr vs. /usr/local

1999-02-05 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 05 Feb 1999 16:55:30 -0500, Ted Behling wrote: >What's the recommended usage difference between /usr and /usr/local? I >understand that it's up to me, but what do most people use each of these >for? To date, I've put a couple things in /usr/

HP Omnibook

1999-02-05 Thread Robert Kerr
Hi all, I just got an HP Omnibook 5700 and am in the midst of installing debian 2.1 on it. I've gotten to the point where I'd like to install XFree86 and have run into a snag. I need to know the horizontal scan rate for the LCD, but can't seem to find it anywhere. Any ideas on where I can look?

Re: /usr vs. /usr/local

1999-02-05 Thread servis
*- On 5 Feb, Ted Behling wrote about "/usr vs. /usr/local" > What's the recommended usage difference between /usr and /usr/local? I > understand that it's up to me, but what do most people use each of these > for? To date, I've put a couple things in /usr/sbin and my source has gone > into /usr/

/usr vs. /usr/local

1999-02-05 Thread Ted Behling
What's the recommended usage difference between /usr and /usr/local? I understand that it's up to me, but what do most people use each of these for? To date, I've put a couple things in /usr/sbin and my source has gone into /usr/src . Ted Behling - Hilton Head Island, SC [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http

Re: mutt with pgp support?

1999-02-05 Thread Rafael Kitover
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 12:08:01AM -0800, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > Does mutt have a nice built in address book like pine? Does mutt do the Mutt has aliases, which are really easy to grab based on current message, and stuff like that. > IMAP thing like pine? Is mutt able to lookup email addresses

Re: dual boot?

1999-02-05 Thread Bob Wilkinson
Joo, You can install Linux into partition(s) on your disk (using NT's disk administrator tool). You can then boot using a floppy, or use the NT loader to startup Linux. This involves stripping some bootsector record and putting on your c: drive. This is well documented in the mini-HOWTO called "NT

Re: Install to another hdd?

1999-02-05 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> Dear all, > > I have a machine which I want to install debian on. Unfortunatly, > it has not floppy drive; I can see a couple of possibilities: > > 1: put the hdd into my working linux box, and use the rescue disks to > install onto /dev/hdc (Can I then install LILO onto that hdd, and hav

OFF TOPIC: is this abuse of mmap()?

1999-02-05 Thread Britton Kerin
I have been trying to read() audio data into an mmap()ed region (from a file just created and empty before the mmap call. I know that read() normally puts the data in a buffer and not a file, but with mmap() you get back a caddr_t pointer which I am hoping read() can use. Here is the relevant c

RE: upgrading to slink

1999-02-05 Thread Shaleh
On 05-Feb-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just out of curiosity, as I upgrade to slink, I'm wondering if I need to > upgrade all my packages as well. For example, if there is a package in hamm > and slink with the same name and version, are they in fact the same exact > package? Or is one only for

Re: upgrading to slink

1999-02-05 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, as I upgrade to slink, I'm wondering if I need to > upgrade all my packages as well. For example, if there is a package in hamm > and slink with the same name and version, are they in fact the same exact > package? Or is one only for slink, the

Re: off topic - Assembler using GCC

1999-02-05 Thread Jiri Baum
Helge Hafting: > Linux has device drivers doing this for you already! No problem! The > device drivers handles irq's, io-addresses and buffering. A linux > program simply open a serial device as if it were a file and reads from > it and writes to it using normal stuff like fread(), fwrite(), fpr

Re: S1 Spawning problem ..

1999-02-05 Thread Jiri Baum
john.d.smith: > Very new to Linux, ... > periodically i.e. every 5 minutes I get a cascade of bad command faults > and the last line reads, S1 spawning to fast .. pausing for 5 minutes. The `spawning too fast, pausing 5 minutes' message means that the command at the end of the S1 line in inittab

Re: Can a keyboard pretend to be a mouse?

1999-02-05 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 5 Feb 1999 10:15:43 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>I'm looking for a bit of software that'll let me use a combination of >>>key strokes (in X) where a mouse is called for. Numberpad '6' moves >>>pointer to the right; '5' simulates a

DSelect and ftp

1999-02-05 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
I have formatted a harddisk (to make it 100% microsoft-free) and installed debian linux 2.0 from floppy disks. Then I tried to install packages using dselect with ftp access. The problem is that dselect fails to connect. Dselect shows the following message: Connecting to ftp.debian.org Failed t

Re: How to upgrade sendmail ?

1999-02-05 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Ryszard, you wrote on: 05 Feb 99 at 15:26 (received 05.02.99) about : _How to upgrade sendmail ?_ >Could anyone explain me, how to upgrade in Debian sendmail ? I'm using Debian >2.0 and I would like to upgrade my sendmail to version 8.9. How can I do that >having only sendmail's sources?

Re: exim: socket bind () failed

1999-02-05 Thread Frederick Page
Hi George, you wrote on: 04 Feb 99 at 17:01 (received 05.02.99) about : _Re: exim: socket bind () failed_ >Looks like more than one exim is running or tries to run. Do you happen >to have exim running as both a daemon and in inetd? Do you have a cron job >that runs the queue that tries to

upgrading to slink

1999-02-05 Thread MallarJ
Just out of curiosity, as I upgrade to slink, I'm wondering if I need to upgrade all my packages as well. For example, if there is a package in hamm and slink with the same name and version, are they in fact the same exact package? Or is one only for slink, the other for hamm? My guess is they a

RE: Install to another hdd?

1999-02-05 Thread Shaleh
Easiest solution: 1) put the hard drive from "bad floppy" into "working floppy" as the master drive, in place of the current drive 2) install debian like normal 3) take drive and put it back in "bad floppy" Now both machines work. Have done this once or twice for various reasons.

Re: pon permission problems

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Sun, Nov 30, 1997 at 10:27:47PM -0800, michael wrote: > The pon command works from the root account but not from the 'michael' > user account (mine's a single user system). Michael is a member of > group pid and dialout. > > When michael executes pon the system issues the following complaint:

Re: Anarchy! Yes, Anarchy!

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 21, Paul Wade wrote > > Long live anarchy! Long live the Revolution and the Counter-Revolution! > Long live the Dedicated Diehard Debianist! > > I will be running a special on 1.3.whatever_it_really_is binary CD's > starting this weekend and continuing for at least one month. Longer if > t

Re: fstab question

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Thu, Oct 02, 1997 at 12:11:53AM -0400, Shaleh wrote: > is there a way to specify an item without listing a fs type. I have an > external parport device that I have both msdos and ext2 formatted disks > for. > I have separate lines in fstab corresponding to different directories. /dev/sda1

Re: Looking for Talk - HOWTO

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 8, Frank Barknecht wrote > Mike Schmitz hat gesagt: // Mike Schmitz wrote: > > > Rewrite your hosts file from /etc/ppp/ip-up, keeping the same name as > > is set in hostname. Here is an example: > > >I have tried this now, but used an example from > the Dynamic-IP-Hacks-mini-HOWTO like

Re: finger return "No one logged on." and I am logged...... (fwd)

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 14, Andrea Arcangeli wrote > Anybody can report my same problem? > > Andrea Arcangeli > > -- Forwarded message -- > Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 16:22:17 +0200 (CEST) > From: Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: David Fries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subj

Re: Looking for Talk - HOWTO

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 7, Frank Barknecht wrote > Igor Grobman hat gesagt: // Igor Grobman wrote: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > > > So my question is: > > > How can I be talked at my local Debian-machine?? > > > > > > You need to set your hostname to the one that resolves into your ip > > address. > > For

Re: cdrom

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 07:41:00PM +0100, Tao Lu wrote: > Hi: > > I first time try Linux. After install base system and boot up, I use > dselect to set package. Although the cdrom is installed succefully > during driver disk, the dselect ask me following: > > Insert the CD-ROM and enter the block

Re: qmail

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 5, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote > Hi there > I took this file in www.qmail.org and doesn't seem to work: > taz# tar -xzf qmail-1_01_tar.gz > tar: Skipping to next file header > > gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error > I couldn't descompress it. > Does someone know

Re: LILO Problems, Groan

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 22, Paul Lange wrote > Joy. I've installed Debian 1.3.1 fresh on a 486/66 with ~4 megs of ram. > This machine is to be a router for home, but right after the install when I'm > to reboot and see how my system goes, I get this as an error message when LILO > won't load: > > 3FA: >

Re: simple questions

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 22, Robert S. Ross wrote > I didn't get a satisfactory answer before, so I will try again. I know > about LILO, it is on my boot diskette. How do I get it into the > partition so my System Commander can call it? > My Red Hat installation offers the option of booting from the partition, > if

perl script

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
I upgraded my system to hamm recently, and I am having trouble with a script I have been using to create invoices. The error message is: -- Snip -- mike:~$ invoice -n Illegal character \015 (carriage return) at /home/mschmitz/bin/invoice line 3. (Maybe you didn't strip carriage returns af

Re: perl script

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Jul 17, Ben Gertzfield wrote > > "Mike" == Mike Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Mike> I upgraded my system to hamm recently, and I am having > Mike> trouble with a script I have been using to create > Mike> invoices. The error message is: > > Mike> -- Snip -

Re: dselect woes

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 19, Brandon Mitchell wrote > On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Alfonso E. Urdaneta wrote: > > > I'm trying to use dselect to no avail. First I tried to tell dselect to > > read the cdrom. > > > > chose option a, saw the following > [ error sniped ] > > Is it recognized at boot up (try "more | dmesg"

Re: pgp 5.0 for Linux beta 11!

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 6, George Bonser wrote > On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > When you delete a message, doesn't Eudora delete the attachment? I've > > never used Eudora before, Netscape handles them real well. > > > > - -Paul > > Eudora

Re: dpkg and dselect

1999-02-05 Thread homega
E.L. Meijer Eric" dixit: > > > > well, a front end, or whatever it is, but I can see it runs dpkg for > > installing, removing,... so it's an interface for dpkg? > > Yes, but the `g' of gui stands for `graphical'. Anyway, I was just I used graphical as anything that's not strictly command line.

RE: Install to another hdd?

1999-02-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
> 1. is easily doable. lilo should be happy (make sure you write to the correct > hdd). How? By putting boot = /dev/hdc in lilo.conf, and then specifying /dev/hda1 as root (which is what the disk will be when it gets put in the other machine) > But why not just move the floppy over to the flop

Re: $ tar lcf - / | ( cd /mnt ; tar xvfpS -)

1999-02-05 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> I'm using this to copy a filesuyem to another partition: > > $ tar lcf - / | ( cd /mnt ; tar xvfpS -) Consider using something like find . -depth -xdev -print | cpio -dumpv /mnt Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7

RE: Install to another hdd?

1999-02-05 Thread Shaleh
On 05-Feb-99 M.C. Vernon wrote: > Dear all, > > I have a machine which I want to install debian on. Unfortunatly, > it has not floppy drive; I can see a couple of possibilities: > > 1: put the hdd into my working linux box, and use the rescue disks to > install onto /dev/hdc (Can I then in

Install to another hdd?

1999-02-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, I have a machine which I want to install debian on. Unfortunatly, it has not floppy drive; I can see a couple of possibilities: 1: put the hdd into my working linux box, and use the rescue disks to install onto /dev/hdc (Can I then install LILO onto that hdd, and have it boot co

$ tar lcf - / | ( cd /mnt ; tar xvfpS -)

1999-02-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I'm using this to copy a filesuyem to another partition: $ tar lcf - / | ( cd /mnt ; tar xvfpS -) When comparing the new and original files, I notice these differences: 1- All soft links have the current time as the date; the date was not preserved: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root

RE: how to mount remote file system?

1999-02-05 Thread Shaleh
On 05-Feb-99 Kenneth Scharf wrote: > I have a linux box serving as a web server. This computer has no > monitor on it and is stashed in a remote corner. I administor it via > telnet. (Maybe the wrong way...). I'd like to mount part of it's > filesystem on the linux box at my desk, so I can upd

Re: how to mount remote file system?

1999-02-05 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 09:25:29AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > I have a linux box serving as a web server. This computer has no > monitor on it and is stashed in a remote corner. I administor it via > telnet. (Maybe the wrong way...). ssh is much better :-) You want it. > I'd like to mount

Re: cti-ifhp question on duplex printing

1999-02-05 Thread dpk
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Thomas Adams wrote: I use cti-ifhp in order to print on an HP4000N network printer. This device has a duplexing unit installed and I wonder if I can use it somehow from Linux? printername :if=/path/to/ifhp -Zduplex Fyi, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Extreme Security Suggestions?

1999-02-05 Thread John Kuhn
Timothy, There are a few encrypted filesystems for Linux. Ones aimed at distributed filesystems (NFS replacements): - "CFS", which has been packaged and is available from non-us.debian.org. - "TCFS", http://tcfs.dia.unisa.it/ I used CFS several years ago and it seemed to work well. My only comp

Re: Where is KDE in slink?

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 11:17:45AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Go to KDE's site and look for the debian/potato dir - they're in there. ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/1.1pre2/distribution/deb/potato -- Mike Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.bend-or.com/~mschmitz Don't blame

Re: KDE: libkde0?

1999-02-05 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote: > OK, I did so. I had a look into > http://www.kde.org/documentation/en/general/userguide/index-3.html#ss3.3 > There it says, that I need libkde0 which should be in > /pub/kde/unstable/distribution/dpkg > But th

Re: KDE debs

1999-02-05 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 5 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Curious about something... > > I didn't know there was a qt-1.42.deb available, so yesterday I downloaded the > qt source and compiled my own. I have libc6.2.0.7t - do I need to upgrade to > a new version to get th

inst debian on compaq proliant adaptec 2940 scsi drives

1999-02-05 Thread marc
can someone guide me to the docs to install debian on compaq proliant with adaptec 2940 with scsi drives i do not understand the directions following the F5 key i can see the drives in dos but debian can not find the card or drives thanks

how to mount remote file system?

1999-02-05 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I have a linux box serving as a web server. This computer has no monitor on it and is stashed in a remote corner. I administor it via telnet. (Maybe the wrong way...). I'd like to mount part of it's filesystem on the linux box at my desk, so I can update the web pages. How can I do this? I ha

cti-ifhp question on duplex printing

1999-02-05 Thread Thomas Adams
I use cti-ifhp in order to print on an HP4000N network printer. This device has a duplexing unit installed and I wonder if I can use it somehow from Linux?

KDE: libkde0?

1999-02-05 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> They're on KDE's ftp site. Debian won't distribute KDE binaries based on OK, I did so. I had a look into http://www.kde.org/documentation/en/general/userguide/index-3.html#ss3.3 There it says, that I need libkde0 which should be in /pub/kde/unstable/distribution/dpkg But this directory does no

Re: xterm configuration

1999-02-05 Thread John Bagdanoff
Rafael Thanks for the tip for using shift pgup-pgdn. That helped in retrieving my banking stuff. I still have the problem of getting X to recognize settings I want to change, such as XTerm *ScrollBar, xset settings, starting xscreensaver. It's just like ~/.Xresourses, is ignored. (read belo

Re: Minicom problem

1999-02-05 Thread John Hasler
ktb writes: > I feel bad that I can't get this figured out but I have reread the > minicom man page and I can't figure out how to log on to my isp with > minicom. You *are* successfully logging in to your isp with minicom. That garbage you get is ppp starting up at the isp. Minicom, of course, d

Re: KDE debs

1999-02-05 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 2/5/99 6:08:11 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Sorry Noah, but the potato qt1g_1.42-1.deb depends on libc6 (>= 2.0.7u), > which is not standard on a Hamm System. You've got at least to use a > Slink-System (which is not available on CD, so let

RE: dns/bind question

1999-02-05 Thread pat
On 03-Feb-99, Mário Olímpio de Menezes took time to write : > I need to configure this guy so that I have a working dns that be > able to answer correctly requests for its name (paracleto). ... > My problem arose when I tried to install sybase ASE. It work only > with TCP communicatio

Re: mgetty: AutoPPP Failure

1999-02-05 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Frank Barknecht wrote: > > Hello Debianites, > > I am struggling to get the AutoPPP feature of mgetty to work. > I want to connect two Debian Maschines running (mostly) Hamm. I have a working configuration. DISCLAIMER: This runs on RedHat 5.1. I'm just about to set one up for Hamm, so it will

RE: my kernel does not assemble!

1999-02-05 Thread Shaleh
> then the make zImage falls out on me after trying to run 'as86 ...', as86 > being some program that's not on my machine! YOu need bin86 package.

Re: my kernel does not assemble!

1999-02-05 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 5 Feb, Mike Marsman wrote: > Hey all ... I think I have a question for ya (hopefully it's not > completly stupid) > > I'm running deb w/ the 2.0.34 kernel installed -- I want to recompile the > kernel so I can add network support, but I've come accross a problem. > > I can switch to /usr/src

Re: Where is KDE in slink?

1999-02-05 Thread MallarJ
Go to KDE's site and look for the debian/potato dir - they're in there.

Re: KDE & Toolbar icons...

1999-02-05 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Brant Wells wrote: > With KDE, the KDE Icons (like in the kfm) appear as black blocks or > trashy images...I'm using KDE 1.0, off of the Debian Archive 1 cd > (August 98)... can anyone help? Install kdelibs0g-dev. There was an error made

Re: Where is KDE in slink?

1999-02-05 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote: > I can't find the kde* packages in slink or in potato. Where are they? > They're on KDE's ftp site. Debian won't distribute KDE binaries based on pre-2.0 (read: all) versions of Qt. Qt 2.0 is currently in be

my kernel does not assemble!

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Marsman
Hey all ... I think I have a question for ya (hopefully it's not completly stupid) I'm running deb w/ the 2.0.34 kernel installed -- I want to recompile the kernel so I can add network support, but I've come accross a problem. I can switch to /usr/src/linux and run 'make config' ... the I run 'm

Tracking changes made by installation of software

1999-02-05 Thread MallarJ
A few days ago I asked about packages that tracked installations of software. What I was looking for is something that will keep a record of all files added, deleted, or changed during software installation, and show you what was changed via a report. Several of you responded with ideas, I thought

Where is KDE in slink?

1999-02-05 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I can't find the kde* packages in slink or in potato. Where are they? Thanks a lot Stef

Re: KDE debs

1999-02-05 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 2/5/99 6:05:58 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> > >> Will they run on hamm systems? > >> > > Noah> The only dependency that isn't satisfied by hamm is the Qt package. > You > Noah> need Qt 1.42 from potato. That Qt package will install on a ham

Re: ppp not working...

1999-02-05 Thread Paul Miller
Kelly Corbin wrote: > Question: > > I have slink installed, and after upgrading my kernel from 2.0.36 to > 2.2.1, my ppp says it is not configured in the kernel or as a module. I > don't know a whole lot about ppp and just use pppconfig to setup my > dialup. When booting, it doesn't say "ppp line

Re: dpkg and dselect

1999-02-05 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > E.L. Meijer Eric" dixit: [...] > > > > Dselect and dpkg and apt all use the same db. It is very nice of you to > > call dselect a gui :) Then replied Horacio: > > well, a front end, or whatever it is, but I can see it runs dpkg for > installing, removing,... so it's an interface for dpkg?

Re: dpkg and dselect

1999-02-05 Thread homega
E.L. Meijer Eric" dixit: > > You are trying too hard :) The package is elm-me+, the version is > 2.4pl25ME+39-1. You don't need to tell dpkg which version to uninstall, > there can only be one version installed, and dpkg knows which one that > is, so just type: Thanks. > > Dselect and dpkg and

Re: Can a keyboard pretend to be a mouse?

1999-02-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 10:15:43AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- On 4 Feb, Steve Lamb wrote about "Re: Can a keyboard pretend to be a > mouse?" > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:54:49 -0800 (PST), Eric House wrote: > > > >>I'm looking for

Re: Can a keyboard pretend to be a mouse?

1999-02-05 Thread servis
*- On 4 Feb, Steve Lamb wrote about "Re: Can a keyboard pretend to be a mouse?" > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:54:49 -0800 (PST), Eric House wrote: > >>I'm looking for a bit of software that'll let me use a combination of >>key strokes (in X) where a

RE: apt-get update failing

1999-02-05 Thread Dean . Carpenter
Yup. I've removed the Packages.gz files and had mirror reget them several times. I also tried right from the ftp site ... # cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/binary-i386/ # deb file:/

How to upgrade sendmail ?

1999-02-05 Thread Ryszard Lach
Hi! Could anyone explain me, how to upgrade in Debian sendmail ? I'm using Debian 2.0 and I would like to upgrade my sendmail to version 8.9. How can I do that having only sendmail's sources? I can't uninstall debianized version of sendmail because of dependency on "mail-transport-agent". How can

Re: dpkg and dselect

1999-02-05 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hi, > > I'm having some trouble using dpkg for removing packages: > > ~# dpkg -l > > ii elm-me+ 2.4pl25ME+39-1 MIME & PGP-aware interactive mail reader > > which means the package is installed, but: > > ~# dpkg --remove elm-me+_2.4pl25ME+39-1 > dpkg - warning: ignoring request to

Re: SAMBA question

1999-02-05 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 10:49:43PM +1100, Andrew Loughhead wrote: > Actually I'm not sure if that option changes who > the user is authenticated as, it may just change who their actions are done > as. The latter one. > In any case, without doing strange things, you cannot get the parrallel of > th

Mail && Users

1999-02-05 Thread Chris Hoover
I have a simple mail question. Is it possible for me to use my local mail server on my debian box for my mail? Here is why I'm asking: I'm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adduser tells me that wax_man is a bad name, so I created a user called choover. So, if I use fetchmail or what ever to get mail, and se

dpkg and dselect

1999-02-05 Thread homega
Hi, I'm having some trouble using dpkg for removing packages: ~# dpkg -l ii elm-me+ 2.4pl25ME+39-1 MIME & PGP-aware interactive mail reader which means the package is installed, but: ~# dpkg --remove elm-me+_2.4pl25ME+39-1 dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove elm-me+_2.4pl25ME+3

Xemacs & Chinese

1999-02-05 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, How do I use the chinese support in Xemacs 20.2? What input method do they support?? And how do I turn on this support in xemacs?? Where can I get more info on this?? Thx. Regards, shao.

Re: KDE debs

1999-02-05 Thread Peter Weiss
> On Tue, 2 Feb 1999 11:49:00 -0500 (EST), "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: Noah> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Noah> On Tue, 2 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Will they run on hamm systems? >> Noah> The only dependency that isn't satisfied by hamm is the Q

Re: Slink CDs available -> Australia

1999-02-05 Thread Richard Lyon
Hi Tyson, As a satisfied customer, I would rather wait until there is an official release of Slink. I don't have any burning desire to run the cutting edge, but place more emphasis on a bug free complete distribution. Hopefully we will still be able to pick up the CDROMs in Fitzroy when they b

Re: Extreme Security Suggestions?

1999-02-05 Thread homega
Jolyon Suthers dixit: > > > The best option that I know about is the Cryptographic File System. When > mounted > you can't tell the difference between it and any other type of file system; > but if you > haven't got it mounted - the data is encrypted (equivilent to PGP I think in > quality) > > Yo

Re: SAMBA question

1999-02-05 Thread Andrew Loughhead
-Original Message- >At 11:02 PM 2/3/1999 +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: >>Hi. I would like to create one public and one password-protected samba >>share on my computer. I managed to create a public one with: >> >>[Public] >> comment = Public Stuff >> path = /home/samba/pub >> public =

Extreme Security Suggestions?

1999-02-05 Thread John Gay
Hi, I am wondering what is the recommended way to secure a sizeable volume (0.5-2GB ) of confidential data such that it is non-retreivable/unusable even in the event that a hacker has gained user level or root access? I have thought of some kind of encryption; but I haven't seen anything fast e

Re: mutt with pgp support?

1999-02-05 Thread Graham Ashton
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 12:08:01AM -0800, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Chris Frost wrote: > > > Does the mutt included with debian (hamm) include support for pgp v5 (or > > gpgp)? I'm not sure. Certainly does pgp2 and pgp3 (whatever that means). > > I'm thinking of switching over

Re: SAMBA question

1999-02-05 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 01:39:12PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > At 11:02 PM 2/3/1999 +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: > >Hi. I would like to create one public and one password-protected samba > >share on my computer. I managed to create a public one with: > > > >But how do I create the private share? Wh

RE: KDE & Toolbar icons...

1999-02-05 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
Hello, There was a problem with this package. I remember you could solve it by installing some kde?-dev_.deb (I believe it was kdesupport0g-dev_980306.deb). A better solution would be to fetch the KDE 1.1 pre2 packages. Take a look at the kde page (www.kde.org). Have fun. Paulo. Bran

RE: Extreme Security Suggestions?

1999-02-05 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
Hi, Probably isn't a goot idea (I really believe that there is a better software solution), but have you considered some removable storing device, like jazz drive from iomega? I only saying this since you have considered having a dedicated hard drive. Paulo. Timothy Hospedales writes: > Hi,

debian installation on HP netserver LH3

1999-02-05 Thread Philippe BARBELET
How can I install the debian distribution on a HP netserver LH3 whith 3 disks under HP Netraid system ? Thanks. -- Philippe BARBELET R&D IT Manager Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : +33 (0)2 99 84 20 91 Lucent Tech

IRC

1999-02-05 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
Hi All. I have to set up an IRC server. That's all right. But I also have to let a channel open in this same server, because I want my students to log in this channel as soon as they enter irc (bitchx -c or irc -c ). "Once upon a time", it was done using someth

Networking Debian and Win 95

1999-02-05 Thread Peter Ludwig
I am trying to setup IPX networking on my main system at home, and I have run into a few major problems. 1) While my network card is detected and setup by ifconfig, it's address is not being used as the address for network traffic (i.e. squake seems to like 127.0.0.1 and I can't force it to use an

Re: Can a keyboard pretend to be a mouse?

1999-02-05 Thread Åsmund Ødegård
Thu, 04 Feb skrev Steve Lamb: > >I'm looking for a bit of software that'll let me use a combination of > >key strokes (in X) where a mouse is called for. Numberpad '6' moves > >pointer to the right; '5' simulates a click -- that kind of thing. > > X does this already. I'm also interested in

Re: Minicom problem

1999-02-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Feb 1999q, ktb wrote: > > > > I feel bad that I can't get this figured out but I have reread the minicom > man page > and I can't figure out how to log on to my isp with minicom. I have rerun > pppconfig > I put in "binary.net" in the first line, which is my default. Using "chat" as >

Re: Printing a landscape postscript file. How?

1999-02-05 Thread Frank Barknecht
Mark Phillips hat gesagt: // Mark Phillips wrote: > I have a 2 page postscript file, each page is A4 size, but lying on > its side, ie landscape mode. When I try and print, it doesn't work > properly --- it is printed the wrong way round causing part of it to > be chopped off. Ie, it thinks the

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