Re: Resizing ext2 filesystems

1999-04-15 Thread Bernd Mayer
Max schrieb: > > I have a problem in that I'm quickly running out of space in /usr but > I have tons of space left in /home. Here's what df shows: > > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 497667 35357436608 7% / > /dev/sda5

CD-ROM and KDE

1999-04-15 Thread Jayson Baird
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cyillic only) http://www.concentric.net/~jsbaird ICQ UIN: 19560609

Re: Resizing ext2 filesystems

1999-04-15 Thread Max
Thanks to all for your suggestions on how to go about this without resize2fs! It turns out that I was able to get an rpm of resize2fs, so I would rather use this instead of all the other methods. Once again, here's what df shows right now: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use%

Re: Cheapbytes CDs

1999-04-15 Thread Assad Khan
-Original Message- From: Pedro Guerreiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Assad Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Debian Users Mailing List ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, April 14, 1999 7:35 PM Subject: Re: Cheapbytes CDs >On Tue, Apr 13

where is crypt command in linux?

1999-04-15 Thread John Foster
I have some encrypted files sent to me that I want to use. They were encrypted by using a program called enigma. I have the source code for the program but it will not compile properly. Well enigma seems to but the Makekey does not. Probably because it is a generic distribution, not specefic to De

Re: Diald Setup

1999-04-15 Thread dyer
Russell Rademacher wrote: > Well... from the documenations, it seems that diald.options, and > diald.conf is missing. Everything else seems to be in the right place except > for those two. Is there a diald.options in /usr/doc/diald/examples ? YOu could copy that to /etc/diald/ and edit t

TEST POST

1999-04-15 Thread John Foster
Just checking the list mail features> Please ignorebegin:vcard n:Foster;John x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:AdVance-Computing Systems;WHQ adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:President x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Foster end:vcard

VFS: No free dquots, contact mvw@planets.elm.net

1999-04-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
Uh, what does the above message mean? I get it when I'm copying large numbers of files from one machine to another with rsync ... kernel 2.1.125 if that matters. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [

Re: Diald Setup

1999-04-15 Thread Russell Rademacher
Well... from the documenations, it seems that diald.options, and diald.conf is missing. Everything else seems to be in the right place except for those two. Secondly, I tried to get it to work from my little editing and it does not work at all. Heck.. I fired up lynx and got th

Re: Debian installation

1999-04-15 Thread Sean
I don't know, but you might want to look into how a UMSDOS installation works. Sean Marie-Theres Geller wrote: > Can I install Windows on one disk and linux on another disk that is free, > without formating it? > Would be great if you could help me! > > -- > so long > ->g

Re: Resizing ext2 filesystems

1999-04-15 Thread Sean
You might want to try switching them. I've done this successfully, but it can get kinda hairy if something screws up. First you'll want to tar up everything in home (go ahead and compress it with gzip or bzip2 as well), and move this file somewhere else. Unless your /home directory is full of bi

Re: Diald Setup

1999-04-15 Thread John Hasler
Russell Rademacher writes: > I would appreciate some assistance on getting the Diald working. It > seems that some files are missing to make it a complete installation from > the debian file. What seems to be missing? I had to edit /etc/diald/options, but everything was present. -- John Hasler

Re: Kernel: Make config errors (First time compile)

1999-04-15 Thread homega
This is what I've got installed (and think I need): bin86 0.13.0-4 binutils 2.9.1-0.2 gcc 2.7.2.3-4.8 kernel-package 4.11 kernel-source-2 2.0.34-4 libc6-dev 2.0.7t-1 make 3.76.1-8 ncurses3.4 1.9.9g-8.8 patch 2.5-2 but I thought the kernel-package was required to install with kpkg, I'll upgrade th

Re: How to install Pine

1999-04-15 Thread Alan Tam
Hi John, I've installed the package. From the /usr/src/pine396 directory I found the *.dsc file and read the README file, and done the dpkg-source -x *.dsc. With these, there are some errors coming up saying patch and pico not found. And I don't know how to do with "debian/rules

Re: How to install Pine

1999-04-15 Thread Alan Tam
Hi Bruce, Thanks for your nice link. Bruce Sass wrote: > Try: > http://www.ompages.com/debian/pkgs/pine/pine.html > > -- > On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Alan Tam wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > How do I install Pine from the > > pine396-diffs 2 > > pin

Re: Solved: Re: HELP! All SCSI, no is09660 fs

1999-04-15 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Thu, 15 Apr, 1999 à 08:09:22AM -0400, David B.Teague wrote: > On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > Subject: Re: HELP! All SCSI, no is09660 fs > > > Now: Please, someone explain why code pages are needed > for the iso9660 file system. This was not true for > kernels 2.0.27, and w

Re: Resizing ext2 filesystems

1999-04-15 Thread homega
Max dixit: ~> I have a problem in that I'm quickly running out of space in /usr but ~> I have tons of space left in /home. Here's what df shows: ~> ~> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on ~> /dev/sda1 497667 35357436608 7% / ~> /dev/sda5

Re: file system vfat

1999-04-15 Thread Alan Tam
Hi, The kernel comes with Debian was not configured with vfat support. During boot time mount is processed before kerneld, therefore you can't mount vfat file systems before kerneld is processed. After login (before login, kerneld is processed) then you can mount the vfats. To ha

Re: Kernel: Make config errors (First time compile)

1999-04-15 Thread Alan Tam
Hi, Have you installed all the packages mentioned according to the dependencies and recommends of kernel-package 6.05 and don't forget the bin86 package as well on intel x86 platforms. Cheers. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I've just started to try compiling

Re: exim: FQDN != RFC1035

1999-04-15 Thread John Hasler
Paul Sargent writes: > OK, so my FQDN doesn't match RFC1035 (the 3 at the start of 3Dlabs is > non-compliant), but that is my FQDN and I can't do anything about it. Any > suggestions? a) Figure out how to make exim accept it anyway (I don't use exim). b) File a bug against exim and use a different

X window lockup

1999-04-15 Thread Doug Hespe
I have just (4 times so far) installed Debian 2.1 on a PentiumII 400 with 128M Ram and an S3 ViRGE/GX2 video card. There are, however, a couple of problems. (1) After loading X windows with startx the windows are generated as expected and everything runs as it should for a minute or two but

Re: Debian installation

1999-04-15 Thread Andrei Ivanov
i > Can I install Windows on one disk and linux on another disk that is free, > without formating it? > Would be great if you could help me! In order to install Linux you need to have an ext2 file system partition. If you have a blank HD , you can fdisk it, create several partitions, and then put

Diald Setup

1999-04-15 Thread Russell Rademacher
Hello guys. I would appreciate some assistance on getting the Diald working. It seems that some files are missing to make it a complete installation from the debian file. I wanted it to work so that the diald can dial out on demand by using Lynx and other network tools for testing purpos

Re: Help! Kernel woes. -- SoundBlaster

1999-04-15 Thread Richard Harran
This link from Marcus Brinkmann helped me a lot when I did my soundblaster setup: it's nice and easy to follow: http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/soundblaster.html (hope he doesn't mind me posting his ref.) HTH Rich Jonathan J. Lupa wrote: > > Hello! > > I just went through

RE: Help! Kernel woes. -- SoundBlaster

1999-04-15 Thread Jonathan J. Lupa
Hello! I just went through this fight with my AWE32... there are some docs out there that will really help. For reference: zless /usr/doc/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO.gz And the big gun: zless /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Soundblaster-AWE.gz All the stuff in there about ISA PnP should apply. ( I'm not sure how kern

Debian installation

1999-04-15 Thread Marie-Theres Geller
Can I install Windows on one disk and linux on another disk that is free, without formating it? Would be great if you could help me! -- so long ->gila< http://fast.to/gila_gsg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Resizing ext2 filesystems

1999-04-15 Thread Max
I have a problem in that I'm quickly running out of space in /usr but I have tons of space left in /home. Here's what df shows: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 497667 35357436608 7% / /dev/sda5 497667385312

Re: Again: Problems with Diamond Viper V550

1999-04-15 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Sebastian Lindenmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hi! | | XFree 3.3.3 is on the 5. CD of my debian-distribution, but I can't install | it. Could anyone please help me by writing a short manual how to install a | new program with DSelect? I'm trying it since 9 hours now. Personally I didn't bo

Re: procmail: two actions on a mail

1999-04-15 Thread news: news
>> "AW" == Andrew Waltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AW> Try: AW> :0 AW> * ^X-Mailing-List:.*debian-user\@ AW> { AW> :0c: AW> ! debian-user AW> :0: AW> mail/incoming/mail.debian-user.in AW> } Thanks, I have just added this. I will see, how this article is handled :-) And it seems I have to che

Re: Help! Kernel woes.

1999-04-15 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 01:43:29AM -0400, William R Pentney wrote: > > Did you compile it in kernel or as modules. I also have a SB16, and > > found that it was a bit unobvious how to configure it in > > menuconfig... Did you get to the step of specifying the DMA, IRQ > > etc.etc.? Which driver did

Re: XVT with a .jpg background?

1999-04-15 Thread James Mastros
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 03:02:08PM -0500, Ian Keith Setford wrote: > I am looking for a terminal emulator (xterm,rxvt, etc..) that will display > a .jpg as a background. I read the docs on rxvt, xterm, and aterm but > they will only display pixmaps (.xpm). Problem is that when I convert a > 20K .

Re: sony vaio 505 cdrom linux install problems

1999-04-15 Thread Adam Klein
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 02:49:10PM -0400, Lindsay Morris wrote: > I'm trying to install from the debian GNU/Linux release 2.1 CDROM. > > The CDROM is the Sony PCGA-CD5, the vaio-branded PCMCIA CDROM. > > The Vaio boots from the CDROM with the Linux install CD in it, and > starts the installation

Again: Problems with Diamond Viper V550

1999-04-15 Thread Sebastian Lindenmüller
Hi! XFree 3.3.3 is on the 5. CD of my debian-distribution, but I can't install it. Could anyone please help me by writing a short manual how to install a new program with DSelect? I'm trying it since 9 hours now. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: S

Modem troubles

1999-04-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
greetings all... i've been having a blast with 2.1 but have run into some troubles with two modems... one is an internal zoom faxmodem 56k dual mode. i was trying to do the basix as the modem howto explains with kermitthe modem is found with setserial and i set it up with kermit but upo

Linux talk in Reykjavik, April 20

1999-04-15 Thread bruce
See www.sky.is for information about the Linux talk there on April 20. Alan Cox and I will speak, and there will be a number of Icelandic speakers. Thanks Bruce

Re: procmail: two actions on a mail

1999-04-15 Thread Andrew Waltman
> Hi, > this may not be the best forum, but anyway: I want to perform two > actions (saving to a folder and forwarding) on a mail via procmail. > Some doc I found has two possibilities for this. Either the "c" > option, but then I have to duplicate the condition, which looks ugly. > Another thin

XVT with a .jpg background?

1999-04-15 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I am looking for a terminal emulator (xterm,rxvt, etc..) that will display a .jpg as a background. I read the docs on rxvt, xterm, and aterm but they will only display pixmaps (.xpm). Problem is that when I convert a 20K .jpg to a .xpm the size jumps to 1MB! That is too much so I am looking for

Re: Problems with Diamond Viper V550

1999-04-15 Thread Sean
Get the latest version . . . xfree86 3.3.3.1 And by the way, HTML mail sucks ;) Sean Sebastian Lindenmüller wrote: > Hi everybody! Does anybody know how to configure the Diamond Viper > V550 with XF86Setup? In the list of supported Grafik-Cards is only the > Viper V330. -SLind [EMAIL PROTECTED

Problems with Diamond Viper V550

1999-04-15 Thread Sebastian Lindenmüller
Hi everybody!   Does anybody know how to configure the Diamond Viper V550 with XF86Setup? In the list of supported Grafik-Cards is only the Viper V330.   -SLind   [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

Re: linux usage by well known sites

1999-04-15 Thread Eugene Sevinian
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam wrote: [...] > Approximatly 37% of the web runs on Linux amd 50% of web on Apache. I forgot > the URL, but some site counts the web servers. Methinks there should be some > well known sites with 375 of market :). The important thing is how much ove

Re: linux usage by well known sites

1999-04-15 Thread news: news
>> "ES" == Eugene Sevinian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ES> It would be more preferable to present non-linux related ES> sites. However, thanks again and send me more such links ! Please :) ES> BTW, how many hits usually occur at these sites? Is such info is ES> available? For real.com, here is w

4CnmB AAA

1999-04-15 Thread Tim Thomas
I guess I'm done upgrading. When I run dselect using apt, I get the following: apt-get: error in loading shared libraries libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory update available list script returned error exit status 127. Press RETURN to continue. S

procmail: two actions on a mail

1999-04-15 Thread news: news
Hi, this may not be the best forum, but anyway: I want to perform two actions (saving to a folder and forwarding) on a mail via procmail. Some doc I found has two possibilities for this. Either the "c" option, but then I have to duplicate the condition, which looks ugly. Another thing is to use

Re: linux usage by well known sites

1999-04-15 Thread vaidhy
slashdot.org www.theregister.co.uk Approximatly 37% of the web runs on Linux amd 50% of web on Apache. I forgot the URL, but some site counts the web servers. Methinks there should be some well known sites with 375 of market :). > It would be more preferable to present non-linux related > sites

Re: linux usage by well known sites

1999-04-15 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 23:45 (+0400), Eugene Sevinian wrote: > BTW, how many hits usually occur at these sites? Is such info is > available? Typically we get between 300,000 and 500,000 hits per day total. This can spike (significantly) if one of the sites is mentioned on slashdot. We also get a

RE: linux usage by well known sites

1999-04-15 Thread Small, Bradley
if I am not mistaken, (it may be rumors) Hotmail is run on Apache on Linux... but I don't know that for a fact. -Original Message- From: Eugene Sevinian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 15, 1999 3:45 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: linux usage by well known

file system vfat

1999-04-15 Thread Jelmar Andree
hello, when booting I get the message vfat not supported by the kernel. when I'm logged in and do as root mount /dosc there is no problem. I've ofcourse in my fstab mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /dosc etc. how is that possible and what to change so by booting the windows-partities will be mounted? J

sony vaio 505 cdrom linux install problems

1999-04-15 Thread Lindsay Morris
I'm trying to install from the debian GNU/Linux release 2.1 CDROM. The CDROM is the Sony PCGA-CD5, the vaio-branded PCMCIA CDROM. The Vaio boots from the CDROM with the Linux install CD in it, and starts the installation - but when it gets to the "Install Base OS Kernal" step, it asks me where th

Re: linux usage by well known sites

1999-04-15 Thread Eugene Sevinian
It would be more preferable to present non-linux related sites. However, thanks again and send me more such links ! Please :) > > well known sites which are running linux? > > I need some statistics to persuade some decision makers > > to consider linux for a crusial task machine to provide > > d

Re: SMBMOUNT won't

1999-04-15 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: SMBMOUNT won't Date: Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 01:21:34PM -0400 In reply to:Alec Smith Quoting Alec Smith([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > The smbmount-2.1.x thing is for the 2.1/2.2 kernels. > Yes, I am running 2.2.5. > Using the info from Mirek works great for me -- With the thi

Printer problem.

1999-04-15 Thread Jim Lynch
I reinstalled my system from hamm a while back and am having trouble with remote printing. I've run magicfilterconfig and set my old laserjet series II printer up to work locally. When I print files from the Linux machine all is well. I'm trying to print from a remote machine and things aren't

Re: support for multiple network cards?

1999-04-15 Thread Arcady Genkin
Carlo Robazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone tell me if there is a standard way that Debian handles > multiple network cards with respect to configuration files, network > scripts, etc.? All I had to do is enter all appropriate configuration commands for the second card to /etc/init.d/

Re: support for multiple network cards?

1999-04-15 Thread Ian Keith Setford
If you have support for the card in your kernel it should be detected on bootup. The cards start at eth0...eth1..ethN (N being 1 less than the physical number of cards). You can then use ifconfig to add/bind IP's to cards to suit your needs. When you have a working setup you might add it to /et

Re: Can not mail to myself

1999-04-15 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Can not mail to myself Date: Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 06:01:05PM +0200 In reply to:Armin Wegner Quoting Armin Wegner([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've configured exim with eximconf to local delivery and edited > ~/.fetchmailrc by hand. I have added "is [EMAIL PROTECTED]". > fe

Re: WordPerfect for Linux installation problem...

1999-04-15 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/15/99 12:54:58 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Do you think I can delete all the directories it created for the > installation? (not the WordPerfect directory of course.) I suppose these > might have been left behind because of my multiple attempts to

Re: linux usage by well known sites

1999-04-15 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 22:12 (+0400), Eugene Sevinian wrote: > Hi ppl, > I would like to know if there are any > well known sites which are running linux? > I need some statistics to persuade some decision makers > to consider linux for a crusial task machine to provide > different internet serv

Re: Screen capture program?

1999-04-15 Thread William Park
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 10:42:03AM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > I'm putting together a Linux presentation for a communications class, > and I'd like to be able to show some images of my desktop running > several different apps. > > Dows anyone know of any programs that will allow me to capture what

Re: Screen capture program?

1999-04-15 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 15 Apr, Mark Wagnon wrote about "Screen capture program?" > I'm putting together a Linux presentation for a communications class, > and I'd like to be able to show some images of my desktop running > several different apps. > > Dows anyone know of any programs that will allow me to capture w

support for multiple network cards?

1999-04-15 Thread Carlo Robazza
Hi everyone, Can anyone tell me if there is a standard way that Debian handles multiple network cards with respect to configuration files, network scripts, etc.? Thanks, Carlo.

Re: Screen capture program?

1999-04-15 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: > I'm putting together a Linux presentation for a communications class, > and I'd like to be able to show some images of my desktop running > several different apps. > > Dows anyone know of any programs that will allow me to capture what's on > the desktop?

Starting KDE...

1999-04-15 Thread Sebastian Lindenmüller
Hi!   Bad English version:   I'm using Debian for the first time today. Writing text without using my mouse is boring, so I tried to install the KDE. My problem now is that I don't know how to install the KDE with DSelect. Which CD do I have to insert etc.   German version:   Heute habe ich zu

Re: WordPerfect for Linux installation problem...

1999-04-15 Thread David Nelson
A big thanks to you for all the help. I installed the said libraries, etc, etc, and WordPerfect is now installed and up and running. For the information of other beginners, the installation files should be dumped in a subdirectory, not the root directory, and then all goes fine. Do you think I ca

Re: WordPerfect for Linux installation problem...

1999-04-15 Thread David Nelson
A big thanks to you for all the help. I installed the said libraries, etc, etc, and WordPerfect is now installed and up and running. The installation files should be dumped in a subdirectory, not the root directory, and then all goes fine.

Screen capture program?

1999-04-15 Thread Mark Wagnon
I'm putting together a Linux presentation for a communications class, and I'd like to be able to show some images of my desktop running several different apps. Dows anyone know of any programs that will allow me to capture what's on the desktop? TIA -- __

Re: linux usage by well known sites

1999-04-15 Thread news: news
>> "ES" == Eugene Sevinian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ES> I would like to know if there are any ES> well known sites which are running linux? How about dejanews (they have even a paper describing their setup on their website) or real.com? Ciao, Martin

Modules loading problems.

1999-04-15 Thread Person, Roderick
Hi All, I 've been very busy and haven't had much time to read the group lately but I'm back. Anyway, I have a problem with loading my modules for 2.2.3. I had to compile the modules for the GSCD driver. It seem to have gone fine. I did make install and still seemed good. But, when I modconfig or

Re: SMBMOUNT won't

1999-04-15 Thread Alec Smith
The smbmount-2.1.x thing is for the 2.1/2.2 kernels. Using the info from Mirek works great for me -- With the third backslash of course. I do run only WinNT SP4 though -- If I get a chance later I'll try mounting a share off a Win9x machine using the same method that works for NT... Maybe then I c

linux usage by well known sites

1999-04-15 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi ppl, I would like to know if there are any well known sites which are running linux? I need some statistics to persuade some decision makers to consider linux for a crusial task machine to provide different internet services. Thanks a lot for any links. Eugene Sevinian ---

Kernel: Make config errors (First time compile)

1999-04-15 Thread homega
Hi, I've just started to try compiling kernel 2.0.35 on a Debian 2.0 (2.0.34) machine, and just tried `make config' and got the following error(s): consolemap.c:303: uni_hash.tbl: No such file or directory consolemap.c: In function `con_set_default_unimap': consolemap.c:404: `dfont_unitable' unde

Re: SMBMOUNT won't

1999-04-15 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: SMBMOUNT won't Date: Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 01:56:16PM +0200 In reply to:Mirek Kwasniak Quoting Mirek Kwasniak([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 10:25:52AM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: > > Got a sample syntax? I use > > > > smbmount-2.1.x "\\CONDOR\NTC" -c 'mo

Re: What is x11amp?

1999-04-15 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 18:29:32 +0200, Armin Wegner wrote: >What is the program x11amp good for? It's most probably an MP3 player for X. MP3 is a format for storing music on your PC. It uses lossy compression to reduce the size of the file by a factor of about 8-12 compared to the "raw" dump (unc

Re: What is x11amp?

1999-04-15 Thread Richard Harran
Playing .mp3 music files (it's very much like winamp but for X) Rich. Armin Wegner wrote: > > What is the program x11amp good for? > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: What is x11amp?

1999-04-15 Thread Sean
Playing mp3s from a cutesy windowed app that looks like winamp. Sean Armin Wegner wrote: > What is the program x11amp good for? > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- That's what she said.

Re: spreadsheet that can open CSV files?

1999-04-15 Thread John Galt
If you want to go outside of GNU, Corel is rumored to be porting quattro to Linux any time now. On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, rich wrote: > Hello all, > > I would also like to be able to use a GUI-based spreadsheet that can > import tab- or comma-delineated files (as far as I can tell, gnumeric > canNOT

HELP! My computer behaves very evil!

1999-04-15 Thread Norbert Nemec
Hi there, after several days of fighting I´m utterly convinced that my computer hates me. This is what he does: - Ever so often, programs simply quit without any error message. Once in a while it is the X-server, but it seems, no programs are excepted from this. There is no regularity when the pro

What is x11amp?

1999-04-15 Thread Armin Wegner
What is the program x11amp good for?

Installing slink from a Zip drive

1999-04-15 Thread David Wright
One of the nice things about installing hamm was that I could do it with one floppy and a zip drive. So I was really looking forward to putting slink on a couple of new boxes which are, as far as possible, MS-free. So I partitioned a disk, got to "Install Operating System Kernel and Modules", popp

Re: latex cannot typeset a german \SS

1999-04-15 Thread Armin Wegner
Hi, add \usepackage{german} to your document head and use "s to generate a ß. If your document is in an other language you can use the babel package. Add \usepackage[german,english]{babel} instead of \usepackage{german} English is the normal style then. If you l

RE: exim: FQDN != RFC1035

1999-04-15 Thread Paul Sargent
OK, so my FQDN doesn't match RFC1035 (the 3 at the start of 3Dlabs is non-compliant), but that is my FQDN and I can't do anything about it. Any suggestions? Paul > -Original Message- > From: John Hasler [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: exim: FQDN != RFC1035 > > Paul writes: >

Re: Can not mail to myself

1999-04-15 Thread Armin Wegner
> > I can't send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (that's my login). > > That's not good, because fetchmail likes to do so. > > What must I do to bring this in order? > > Too little information. Try again, and list all your mail software, > beside fetchmail. Do you run sendmail, exim, or some other pa

Re: Dell Poweredge 1300 can't boot kernel 2.0.36

1999-04-15 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, On 15 Apr, Pete Templin wrote: > > I'm trying to set up a Poweredge 1300 (with integrated Adaptec 7890 Ultra2 > LVD SCSI controller) on a custom kernel v2.0.36 (added support for the > AIC-7xxx, of course), and I get the following error messages: [snip] > Any hints on getting it up and r

Re: SMBMOUNT won't

1999-04-15 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 10:34:05AM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: > Thanks... Problem appears to be solved. By the way, it seemed to work as > \\\Condor\NTC -- Note the third \ Yes, I didn't notice that you wrote "\\CONDOR\NTC" I use syntax like '\\CONDOR\NTC' It's so because shell interprete

Re: WordPerfect for Linux installation problem...

1999-04-15 Thread David Nelson
Thanks for all the help. So libc6 does not in anyway replace libc5, meaning I have to install both libraries and not just libc6 then? David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The libraries Jan menionted (included at the end of this post) are the files > you need to make the install work. You need t

Re: exim: FQDN != RFC1035

1999-04-15 Thread John Hasler
Paul writes: > Error: system's FQDN hostname (rook.3dlabs.com) doesn't match RFC1035 > syntax; cannot configure the mail system. > What is RFC1035 syntax? See /usr/doc/doc-rfc/Standard_Protocols/rfc1035.txt.gz. >From RFC1035: The labels must follow the rules for ARPANET host names. They mus

Re: Citrix ICA and Debian Linux 2.0

1999-04-15 Thread Jeff Noxon
Try running 'ldd' on the executable to see what is missing. I.e., ldd winframe Or whatever the name of the executable is. Follow up here. Regards, Jeff On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 04:59:41PM +0200, Peter Niessink wrote: > I'm a novice linux user, coming the spoiled-brat world of M$ ;-) > > Has

autoload of fs modules from userland

1999-04-15 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Since switching to 2.2, I can no longer mount floppies as a user unless root has caused the msdos module to be loaded. I'm guessing that I need something similar to the "auto" that went in modules somewhere in modutils, but i don't know where. I'm also about to run into this as I start taking

Re: WordPerfect for Linux installation problem...

1999-04-15 Thread MallarJ
The libraries Jan menionted (included at the end of this post) are the files you need to make the install work. You need the xlib, xpm, and licb5 installed. The xlib and xpm need to be libc5 versions - you may already have then libc6 versions installed as well. -Jay In a message dated 4/15/9

Re: WordPerfect for Linux installation problem...

1999-04-15 Thread William R Pentney
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, David Nelson wrote: > At one point it complains it doesn't find libm.so.5. This doesn't appear > to be installed, it doesn't apparently form part of the debian > distribution (no entry for it in the dselect packages list), and > WordPerfect says nothing about some extra needed

Re: SMBMOUNT won't

1999-04-15 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 15 Apr, Alec Smith wrote about "Re: SMBMOUNT won't" > > Since you seem to know what's going on, there is a not-fatal error about > /etc/lmhosts not existing during the mount. What is the format of this > file and how is it used? > man lmhosts DESCRIPTION This file is part of the Sa

Re: WordPerfect for Linux installation problem...

1999-04-15 Thread David Nelson
Hi again, Thanks for the info, although I had a good look at the page on linux.corel.com where I got the file from, and really didn't see anything (nothing like reading the instructions before doing something!). However, I just looked again and they posted the following update: DO NOT INSTALL Core

Citrix ICA and Debian Linux 2.0

1999-04-15 Thread Peter Niessink
I'm a novice linux user, coming the spoiled-brat world of M$ ;-) Has anyone gotten Citrix ICA (as avaliable from http://www.citrix.xom) for Linux running succesfully on Debian 2.0 ? So far i'm getting problems installing it because it is missing obscure libraries (i've already gott libc5 installed

RE: cdrom - no response

1999-04-15 Thread Lewis, James M.
Try putting append="hdc=cdrom" in /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo. I had problems with 2.0.33 and later 2.0.3x kernels thinking my cdrom was an atapi floppy. jim >-- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, April 15, 1999 8:09 AM >To:debian-user@lists.debian.org >Cc:

sgid bit on dirs Was: Re: problems w/pppd 2.3.7

1999-04-15 Thread rir
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Jeremy wrote: > On 14 Apr 1999, John Hasler wrote: > > > Jeremy writes: > > > drwxr-s--- 2 root dip 1024 Apr 12 08:17 /etc/chatscripts > > > ... > > > > Set group ID on execution on a directory does nothing useful that I know > > of. The group needs execute pe

printer problem

1999-04-15 Thread harsh
Hi All, I've been mucking about setting up a Tek printer and have lpd confused. I f I go into lpc and ask for status lp2 I get lpc> status lp2 lp2: queuing is enabled printing is enabled no entries no daemon present lpc> If I enter just status I get: lp:

Re: ppp / route / ping

1999-04-15 Thread Alex toropov
-Original Message- From: Steven Merrifield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: 15 апреля 1999 г. 15:20 Subject: ppp / route / ping >Hi, > >I can dial the ISP and make a PPP connection, but cannot route any >packets. The link is up, and the routing table looks good

Re: SMBMOUNT won't

1999-04-15 Thread Alec Smith
Thanks... Problem appears to be solved. By the way, it seemed to work as \\\Condor\NTC -- Note the third \ Since you seem to know what's going on, there is a not-fatal error about /etc/lmhosts not existing during the mount. What is the format of this file and how is it used? On Thu, 15 Apr 1999

Re: X windows and ModeLines

1999-04-15 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> Well I finally got X windows to come up. Kind of stark and doesn't > do much :) I guess I must install other packages to make it actually > interesting.. But I digress. The question is this: after finally getting to > run the right server and XF86Setup and xf86config and all that jazz I

Dell Poweredge 1300 can't boot kernel 2.0.36

1999-04-15 Thread Pete Templin
I'm trying to set up a Poweredge 1300 (with integrated Adaptec 7890 Ultra2 LVD SCSI controller) on a custom kernel v2.0.36 (added support for the AIC-7xxx, of course), and I get the following error messages: (scsi0) found at PCI 11/0 (scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs (scsi0) Downloadi

Re: WordPerfect for Linux installation problem...

1999-04-15 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/15/99 7:46:00 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I downloaded WordPerfect for Linux (an X application), gunzipped it to a > tar file and then ran tar on it to extract about 8 or 9 files plus Runme > (the installer script) and readme (the info and instruct

Re: X windows and ModeLines

1999-04-15 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 15 Apr, David Nelson wrote about "Re: X windows and ModeLines" > 1) You won't get anything out of the mouse wheel. Don't think anyone > wrote a special driver for it, so... > Wrong. >From 'man XF86Config' ZAxisMapping N M Some mouse devices have a wheel or a roller.

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