Re: Starting programs on local x through telnet

1999-05-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MF" == Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MF> Is it possible to start programs needing x to run through the net MF> (telnet, rlogin ...). How do i tell them to use my screen? Best way is to install ssh (from non-us) and connect to the other system with it. ssh will automatically do the

Re: how to install netscape

1999-05-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "p" == pedrob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: p> im having troubles installing netscape. so, i would like to know if p> there is any how-to explaining the install process of netscape p> (.deb) in debian Get intso dselect. Choose "select" press "/". Enter "communicator-smotif-45". Press Return. P

Re: qmail..

1999-05-16 Thread debian
Yes I have told qmail that relaying for my 192.168.1.x address range is allowed. Recreated the cdb file and then restarted it all. The 192.168.1.x addresses all have reverse delegations and all nslookup both ways correctly. Qmail is just being a right pain.. and I cannot figure out why Any more

Xemacs won't use setup files

1999-05-16 Thread Micha Feigin
When i change the setup from within xemacs it saves the .emacs file and .xemacs-options but it won't load them the next time around. _ Do You Yahoo!? Free instant messaging and more at http://messenger.yahoo.com

gnome applets froget setup on gnome-session exit

1999-05-16 Thread Micha Feigin
I am using gnome session ver 1.0.9 (the latest). The problem is that for the last few release when i set up panel applets and exit using the logout button on the gnome panel the applets won't remember the set up. Any solution to having to set up the applets everytime i log in? _

Re: How to Start Gnome at boot

1999-05-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JF" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JF> I seem to remember seeing somewhere (and I can't find it now) a JF> reference to starting the Gnome-session command with the xdm JF> display manager at boot up. Check http://www.gnome.org/gnomefaq/html/x441.html you can then specify your win

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #877

1999-05-16 Thread Jim Price
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re: qmail..

1999-05-16 Thread debian
I just installed qmail a few weeks back.. the machine then had just an eth0 and ppp0 connection. But recently I just installed an eth1 card, and now have another network running on it. I straight away redid my tcpserver file that allows machines of certain ip's to relay mail off my smtp server.

Re: We got '-dpkg-new'!

1999-05-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "BB" == Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BB> Now I notice syslogd has been stopped so I peek into /etc/init.d BB> and behold a bevy of new scripts eg 'whutever.dpkg-new'. Without BB> looking further into the matter, they mostly appear to be of BB> identical length to their 'old' foreb

Re: Wierd PPP Problems

1999-05-16 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Sun, 16 May 1999, Peter Ludwig wrote: > > You misunderstand. I'm not telling you or Mr. Hoover to ask the ISP what > > the problem is, only what a disconnect code (or however it's done on > > their system) is. > However, I would most certainly agree with Mr Hasler about the fact that > most I

International characters don't work in console mode

1999-05-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I'm using Debian Linux 2.1 and have tried to get international characters to work in console mode. But, it will not work! The characters that I especially want to display are from the swedish alphabet: the "a" character with a ring above the "a", and the "a" character with two dots above the "

Re: running scripts (manual and auto)

1999-05-16 Thread J Horacio MG
John Hasler dixit: ~> J Horacio MG writes: ~> > - start script - ~> > #/bin/sh ~> ~> > fetchmail -f /home/horacio/.fetchmailrc -a -u a4608456 ~> ~> > runq ~> > - end script - ~> ~> That first line should read #!/bin/sh . Sorry for the typo... the script is correct though (but do

telepath modem with x2 (making me crazy)

1999-05-16 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I've tried everything to make this modem work. I have two modems to use one is a Boca logic 33.6, it uses a Rockwell chip. The other is a USR Sportster clone with x2. I also have a NE2000 clone NIC card. I'm trying to make the modem work first. When the kernel boots is reports two devices 1.

PPP with IP masquerading over a null modem

1999-05-16 Thread tigerchild
I'm trying to connect two machines, near and far, via a null modem plugged in to /dev/ttyS0 on each, using PPP and IP masquerading so they can share my ethernet connection. For IP masquerading, I'd like the near machine to be 192.168.1.1 and the far machine to be 192.168.1.2. My lan is Class-C

Re: Starting programs on local x through telnet

1999-05-16 Thread Carl Mummert
>From message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : >Is it possible to start programs needing x to run through the net (telnet, >rlogin ...). How do i tell them to use my screen? >The program tells me its starting (it has a text output) and then doesn't >do anything else (it's suposed to have a graphical interfac

Re: URGENT to DEBIAN

1999-05-16 Thread add|ct|on
On Sun, 16 May 1999 08:47:21 Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz > > is empty. > > If I do a mistake excuse me. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > i noticed that last night. it had me worr

downloads...burst, then nothing

1999-05-16 Thread Lev Lvovsky
Hello, I'm having a problem with downloads from my machine (slink). On the network I have at home, I can upload at the regular high speeds, but downloading form the machine (to a Win98 machine), whether it be by ftp, or by http gives me a little bit of the file, and then slows down to a total

Re: Life at 4 bogomips

1999-05-16 Thread R. Brock Lynn
" Raymond A. Ingles" wrote: > > On Sun, 9 May 1999, George Bonser wrote: > > Well I got the old 386 put back together, figured I would use it for a > > firewall. 386SX33 with 10MB of RAM. Man, what an example to show what OS > > bloat has done! I used to install Win31 on it, even installed OS/2

RE: help on installing (starting) staroffice

1999-05-16 Thread Pollywog
On 16-May-99 Vladimir G Stanishev wrote: > i downloaded all the files and the installer package from teh debian site > adn everything seemed to install fine. everytime I type swriter hwoever a > setup program starts and it doesn't have the user installation option that > the readme mentions. jus

Re: GNOME minor problems

1999-05-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "SB" == Stuart Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> My best guess is that imlib-gdk doesn't depend on imlib-base (and SB> all the gnome stuff depends only on imlib-gdk). This is not the case. dpkg -s gdk-imlib1 [...] Depends: imlib-base, libc6 (>= 2.1), libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0), libjpeg62,

RE: help on installing (starting) staroffice

1999-05-16 Thread Pollywog
On 16-May-99 Vladimir G Stanishev wrote: > i downloaded all the files and the installer package from teh debian site > adn everything seemed to install fine. everytime I type swriter hwoever a > setup program starts and it doesn't have the user installation option that > the readme mentions. jus

Re: Mouse not recognized (but RedHat works fine)

1999-05-16 Thread Stuart Ballard
Wayne Topa wrote: > > Subject: Mouse not recognized (but RedHat works fine) > Date: Sun, May 16, 1999 at 11:24:25AM -0400 > > In reply to:Stuart Ballard > > Quoting Stuart Ballard([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I have a dual-boot RedHat 5.2 / Debian Slink system. The RedHat system > > h

lost+found or lost for good ???

1999-05-16 Thread Christophe Clapp
I had huge problems with my hard drive, fsck apparently put all the files on the ext2 partition in the lost+found directory, I have 1 file of 1GB and 1 of 650 MB. I accessed both of them just by doing something like 'cd \#14477323' which had my root directory. I then VERY STUPIDLY did a 'rmdir *

HAVE_WAITPID

1999-05-16 Thread Jor-el
Hi, The source code for fvwm95 has the following code in fvwm/misc.h : #ifdef HAVE_WAITPID #define ReapChildren() while ((waitpid(-1, NULL, WNOHANG)) > 0); #else #define ReapChildren() while ((wait3(NULL, WNOHANG, NULL)) > 0); #endif Now linux (atleast, for 2.0.36) does have th

Re: GNOME minor problems

1999-05-16 Thread Stuart Ballard
Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> "SB" == Stuart Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > SB> The only problem I had was a missing dependency somewhere that > SB> meant I was able to get the whole thing installed without ever > SB> installing (the right version of) imlib-base, so everything > SB> c

Help! Tar won't work!

1999-05-16 Thread Dan Smith
The first few archives I opened with tar worked fine, but then it stopped working. I installed cpio and the first few tars I opened with it worked fine too, but then it stopped functioning as well. I tried reinstalling both, to no avail. What happens is, I type the command to untar an archive, a

We got '-dpkg-new'!

1999-05-16 Thread Bob Bernstein
Having bulled my way through the extermination of emacs20, I went ahead with a massive apt-get update/upgrade, 129 meg all tolled. The cable modem is doing its thing with valor. Now I notice syslogd has been stopped so I peek into /etc/init.d and behold a bevy of new scripts eg 'whutever.dpkg-new'

Re: Re[2]: Dselect odd behaviour

1999-05-16 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Phillip Deackes wrote: > Dan Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > : I'm using dselect under potato using apt to ftp://sunsite.org.uk/ > > : and something strange seems to have happened. I did an 'update' and > > : now all the descriptions have disappea

Re: blocked SMTP port issue...

1999-05-16 Thread John Hasler
flip writes: > have the upstream server bundle all mail for meteu into one > /var/spool/mail file which I can grab via fetchmail and redistribute > locally? Just have him install a POP server. That's just what it does. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re[2]: Dselect odd behaviour

1999-05-16 Thread Phillip Deackes
Dan Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > : I'm using dselect under potato using apt to ftp://sunsite.org.uk/ > : and something strange seems to have happened. I did an 'update' and > : now all the descriptions have disappeared. Also most of the packages >

Re: Get thee behind me emacs20!

1999-05-16 Thread Bob Bernstein
Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's the 'dpkg -r' run; sorry about the length... snip > xemacs20 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-remove line 28. > dpkg: error processing emacs20 (--remove): > subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 29 snip

having trouble with kernel 2.2.5 and ppp

1999-05-16 Thread Seth Turner
Hello, I have recently installed slink from CD on my computer. With kernel 2.0.36, I can use ppp and get connected to the internet (pon ourtown), however when I upgrade my kernel to 2.2.5, I loose ppp. It complains that LCP times out on configuration requests. I will appologize in advance for t

Re: Dselect odd behaviour

1999-05-16 Thread Dan Nguyen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : I'm using dselect under potato using apt to ftp://sunsite.org.uk/ : and something strange seems to have happened. I did an 'update' and : now all the descriptions have disappeared. Also most of the packages : I don't have installed have gone. I've tryed u

Re: Starting programs on local x through telnet

1999-05-16 Thread Andrew Chung
> Is it possible to start programs needing x to run through the net (telnet, > rlogin ...). How do i tell them to use my screen? > The program tells me its starting (it has a text output) and then doesn't > do anything else (it's suposed to have a graphical interface). The remote > system is a unix

Title change in rxvt

1999-05-16 Thread Stefan Baums
Hi all, I am running tcsh in rxvt. Is there any way to have the title of the rxvt window change according to the program running in it? (There must be one, as right now as I am typing this I notice that vim has changed the title to "VIM - /tmp/mutt-sb51-12020-0".) TIA, Stefan pgp2z8kBWk7Mz.pgp

Re: blocked SMTP port issue...

1999-05-16 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, I have the same problem with my cabel modem provider. I am runing MDaemon on port 10025 and use my "Dynamic Domain-Name-Provider" at http://www.tzo.com/ to root the mail to another port. I think its port-rooting/forwarding. This works with dynamic and fixed IP addresses. Webmistre

Re: netscape, navigator, communicator...

1999-05-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "PC" == Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PC> Can somebody explain me what's in each package and what are their PC> inter-relationships? Basically it is netscape navigator communicator smotifdmotifsmotif dmotif qualified

Re: GNOME minor problems

1999-05-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "SB" == Stuart Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> The only problem I had was a missing dependency somewhere that SB> meant I was able to get the whole thing installed without ever SB> installing (the right version of) imlib-base, so everything SB> core-dumped. As you can't be more specif

Re: Cubic mouse cursor

1999-05-16 Thread Rene Hojbjerg Larsen
[x] Emailed to author [x] Sent to mailing list David R. Kohel wrote: > The x probe output is below. I'm using the SVGA server with a > Neomagic card. > > The cursor appears as a large square with upper left hand corner > at the mouse point, replacing the normal arrow symbol. I've got > no

Re: Partitioning hard disk

1999-05-16 Thread Carl Greco
> Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 21:41:21 +1000 > From: Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > > > ~> This is how I plan to partitiion the disks: > > ~> /hda1 40MB > > ~> swap hda2 8MB > > ~> /usr hda3

Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?

1999-05-16 Thread John Hasler
Kris writes: > # cat /etc/resolv.conf > domain globalnet.co.uk # <- Tried with, without, > search globalnet.co.uk # <- and combinations of. > nameserver 194.126.82.5 > nameserver 194.126.86.9 The 'domain' and 'search' directives won't affect your problem (In fact they are rarely needed at all).

Re: URGENT to DEBIAN

1999-05-16 Thread John Hasler
Khalid writes: > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz > is empty. Something went wrong with a dinstall run. The archive maintainers know about the problem. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: packages for dialing isp

1999-05-16 Thread John Hasler
Thorsten Manegold writes: > kppp does not like to have "lock" set in /etc/ppp/options. I'd call that a bug in kppp. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: running scripts (manual and auto)

1999-05-16 Thread John Hasler
J Horacio MG writes: > - start script - > #/bin/sh > fetchmail -f /home/horacio/.fetchmailrc -a -u a4608456 > runq > - end script - That first line should read #!/bin/sh . -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do w

Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?

1999-05-16 Thread Sean
It's not just you. A couple of days ago I decided that I had pretty much butchered my Debian installation (which I had installed close to a year previous), so I decided to do the whole reformat/reinstall maneuver (after backing up my /home directory, of course). As I now have the Debian 2.0 CDs,

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1999-05-16 Thread Michael Boehler
unsubscribe ...tschuess... Michael __ Michael Boehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mtv-kronberg.de/triathlon PGP (0x9D7D4D11): 4620 631A 7D0E F3DE F88F 379A 1BB7 E2D5 http://www.mtv-kronberg.de/pgp

Re: MP3 encoder

1999-05-16 Thread Frankie
"M.C. Vernon" wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > Things like cdgrip say "and your favourite mp3 encoder, or default > to lamer" - but I can find to evidence of a mp3 encoder in the archive. > Can anyone help me out? > > Thanks > theres always l3enc... cant remember where I got it from, but t

XKB problem - Please help

1999-05-16 Thread Micha Feigin
I have been trying to solve this problem for some time now but to no avail. When i use the XKB extentions for X and i try to set scroll-lock to mode-lock from XF86Config it doesn't do anything. xkeycaps doesn't have mode-lock at all. Also when i try to set up the keboard with xkeycaps to output heb

Starting programs on local x through telnet

1999-05-16 Thread Micha Feigin
Is it possible to start programs needing x to run through the net (telnet, rlogin ...). How do i tell them to use my screen? The program tells me its starting (it has a text output) and then doesn't do anything else (it's suposed to have a graphical interface). The remote system is a unix (one of t

asclock kills gnome panel

1999-05-16 Thread Micha Feigin
When i try to start the asclock aplet it kills my Gnome panel and when i restart it, it has forgoten all the settings (a new panel). I am running potato with kernel 2.2.5 and the latest version on gnome on a 486dx2 (it has been like this for about the last three updates (i think it was version 1.0.

Re: Cubic mouse cursor

1999-05-16 Thread David R. Kohel
Yes, thanks. That did it. --David > Hi, > From this line: > (--) SVGA: NM2070: Using hardware cursor > > Probably, you need the option using sw_cursor. Check out the > XF86Config man pages to find out exactly how to set it. > > I think you need to do something like: >

Re: DHCP small problem

1999-05-16 Thread Shaleh
On 16-May-99 Bob Bernstein wrote: > jean-Yves BARBIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm running under 2.2.7 kernel, using DHCP with my cable modem. Each time I >> forgot to remove the 'dhcp-client' file in /var/db, at reboot dhcp is very >> very slow and often can't get me my IP adresse. > >

Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE 2

1999-05-16 Thread Lazarus Long
On Friday, May 14, 1999 at 15:53:16 -0800, Adam Shand wrote: > so it looks like root isn't supposed to be able to do this. This may be because root account is intended only for certain administrative tasks. For everything else, one should (create and) use a normal user account. I don't believe

Re: Thanks: Installing on a SCSI HD

1999-05-16 Thread David B.Teague
On Sun, 16 May 1999, Davide Anchisi wrote: > Subject: Thanks: Installing on a SCSI HD > Hi David, > I hope your exams went well. Hi Davide My students' exams went well, thanks for asking. Mine was not as good as I want, but in playing double bass, I am my own worst enemy. I expect perfection a

font

1999-05-16 Thread Johan Pettersson
Hi! When I run in non X-mode I think my font is too big! How do I change it ? -- //thx Johan

Re: DHCP small problem

1999-05-16 Thread Bob Bernstein
jean-Yves BARBIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running under 2.2.7 kernel, using DHCP with my cable modem. Each time I > forgot to remove the 'dhcp-client' file in /var/db, at reboot dhcp is very > very slow and often can't get me my IP adresse. Help me out: I am using dhcpcd on a slink-leve

Re: Mouse not recognized (but RedHat works fine)

1999-05-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Mouse not recognized (but RedHat works fine) Date: Sun, May 16, 1999 at 11:24:25AM -0400 In reply to:Stuart Ballard Quoting Stuart Ballard([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have a dual-boot RedHat 5.2 / Debian Slink system. The RedHat system > has a symlink /dev/mouse -> /dev/cua1

Re: Sound

1999-05-16 Thread flip
Heh... :) Just went through almost the exact same installation myself a couple of days ago... All you really need to do is check your kernel...if you roll your own, go to the sound section, include sound support...Soundblaster stuff is under the "additional OSS modules" section... If you use one

GNOME minor problems

1999-05-16 Thread Stuart Ballard
I recently managed to get GNOME from potato installed onto my hybrid slink/potato system (despite the dire warnings I've heard, I have had no problems from the conflicting glibc versions - apt seems to have dealt with it very well). The only problem I had was a missing dependency somewhere that me

how to install netscape

1999-05-16 Thread pedrob - strm
hello all :) im having troubles installing netscape. so, i would like to know if there is any how-to explaining the install process of netscape (.deb) in debian thanks'

RE: DHCP small problem

1999-05-16 Thread Shaleh
On 16-May-99 jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running under 2.2.7 kernel, using DHCP with my cable modem. Each time I > forgot to remove the 'dhcp-client' file in > /var/db, at reboot dhcp is very very slow and often can't get me my IP > adresse. > How can I automatically remove this file

Sound

1999-05-16 Thread Ali Onur UYAR
Hello. I've got a running Debian Slink system, I've been using Debian since Hamm had become stable. Now that I have time for it, I would like to configure sound support. I have Sounblaster 16 sound card that works properly under NT, which I use quite rarely. >From some of the postings to this

Mouse not recognized (but RedHat works fine)

1999-05-16 Thread Stuart Ballard
I have a dual-boot RedHat 5.2 / Debian Slink system. The RedHat system has a symlink /dev/mouse -> /dev/cua1 and works fine with both gpm and X. However, gpmconfig and X both fail to recognize the mouse at all under Debian. I've tried both allowing gpmconfig to guess the device (it always guesses t

How to Start Gnome at boot

1999-05-16 Thread John Foster
I seem to remember seeing somewhere (and I can't find it now) a reference to starting the Gnome-session command with the xdm display manager at boot up. I want to start Gnome in the IceGnome window manager and possibly with Enlightenment. I need to know which files to edit specifically and the exac

blocked SMTP port issue...

1999-05-16 Thread flip
Have an interesting question here I live in On-Campus housing at RIT...my machine is on the Residential Networks with a full time net connection. Some time ago, RIT decided that it would be a good idea if they were to block off all SMTP connections to machines on the Residential Netowrk. I'v

majordomo

1999-05-16 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I'm trying to setup majordomo and I'm having difficulty with it. Can somebody please send me his configuration for a working list? Please send me /etc/aliases, /etc/majordomo.cf, and the contents of the /var/lib/majordomo/lists/sample-list* files? Thanks a lot in adva

Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?

1999-05-16 Thread Kris
At 08:32 16/05/1999 +, you wrote: >I have a working ppp on kernel 2.2.9. my pppd command is > >exec /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS0 115200 lock modem crtscts \ > asyncmap 0 defaultroute connect $DIALER_SCRIPT >pppd --version >(pppd version 2.3 patch level 5) > >egrep -v '#|^ *$' /etc/ppp/opt

Re: running scripts (manual and auto)

1999-05-16 Thread David B.Teague
On Sun, 16 May 1999, Kent (ktb) wrote on behalf of Horacio: Horacio: > > but how can I make it ran as a normal command (without "./"). Kent: > I place my Perl scripts in /usr/local/bin. I would think that would > work for you. I can't help you with the next one:( > hth, > kent Horacio: If y

Re: Cubic mouse cursor

1999-05-16 Thread David R. Kohel
The x probe output is below. I'm using the SVGA server with a Neomagic card. The cursor appears as a large square with upper left hand corner at the mouse point, replacing the normal arrow symbol. I've got no other problems with the xserver. If anyone has seen this and has a fix I'd appreci

wp8 and tab

1999-05-16 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Somehow, im my wordperfect, the TAB does not work. This is really holding me up. Does anyone know how to fix it?? Thx Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _

Re: Wierd PPP Problems

1999-05-16 Thread Peter Ludwig
On Fri, 14 May 1999, Jonathan Guthrie wrote: > > On 13 May 1999, John Hasler wrote: > < Snip out sections not of interest to my mail> > > > > Of course, I have no way of knowing if Mr. Hoover did this, but asking on > > > this list about ISP connection difficulties without consulting the ISP > >

Re: Cubic mouse cursor

1999-05-16 Thread Rene Hojbjerg Larsen
[x] Emailed to author [x] Sent to mailing list David R. Kohel wrote: > Anyone know how to get rid of this 2x2 cm mouse cursor under X? > > I just re-installed X (3.3.3.1) from potato. You REALLY need to give some more information. At the very least, we need to know which graphics card and wh

Re: PPP problems.

1999-05-16 Thread Daniel Sladic
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>John Hasler writes >Daniel Sladic writes: >> Anyone know offhand what is causing this problem or what I can do to >> figure out what is the problem? > >Did you run pppconfig? If so, post your /etc/chatscripts/provider, >/etc/ppp/peers/provider, and the output of the '

Re: font vga11x19, bitchx

1999-05-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 21:07:49 +0200, Johan Pettersson wrote: > Were can I find font vga11x19 ? As "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/vga11x19.pcf.gz" in the Debian "bitchx" package. HTH, Ray -- J.H.M. Dassen | RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: VIM questions

1999-05-16 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 16 May 1999 14:29:08 +0100, Dave Swegen wrote: >Just figured it out: the culprit is the ruler option. Turn it off and the >evil goes away...Bummer, really, as the ruler is slightly useful... Bugger. >> > 2) How do I make use the dark bac

Re: VIM questions

1999-05-16 Thread Dave Swegen
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 21:06 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 03:15:05PM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote: > > 1) For some reason vim inists on showing file stats at the bottom of the > > screen whenever I edit a file. It isn't too bad normally, but when I > > invoked from mutt it waits

Re: running scripts (manual and auto)

1999-05-16 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I cannot explain why your case does not work. But I think it is more convient to use the fetchmail in the following way. put a fetchmail, like your script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/. and then put a fetchmailrc mail in your root directory, and run fetchmail as root.

Re: packages for dialing isp

1999-05-16 Thread Thorsten Manegold
Hi! AFAIK kppp does not like to have "lock" set in /etc/ppp/options. Commenting it out made kppp work for me. HTH Thorsten Manegold On 14-May-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 5/13/99 5:24:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> How about x-isp or kppp (for

DHCP small problem

1999-05-16 Thread jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi, I'm running under 2.2.7 kernel, using DHCP with my cable modem. Each time I forgot to remove the 'dhcp-client' file in /var/db, at reboot dhcp is very very slow and often can't get me my IP adresse. How can I automatically remove this file at the shutdown? (beeing with Linux for less than a

Re: PPP woes

1999-05-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JH" == John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JH> David Teague writes: >> ppp has not been in default kernels I use. JH> Only if you did not select it as a module when you installed. And even than, I believe all modules are installed, you just select which modules should be loaded by defau

Re: running scripts (manual and auto)

1999-05-16 Thread ktb
J Horacio MG wrote: > > I usually download mail from my ISP by running the following command as > user horacio: > > $ fetchmail -v -a -u my_id > > and I just created a script with that line and named it > /home/horacio/getmail: > > - start getmail - > #!/bin/sh > > fetchmail -v -a -u m

URGENT to DEBIAN

1999-05-16 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz is empty. If I do a mistake excuse me.

dselect problem

1999-05-16 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
today I try to see if there's someting to install but running dselect with apt I found this in the select zone of dselect: I don't understand why this packages are in Obsolete. In fact I find the downloaded Packages list is empty. Waht have I to do ? my source_list : deb ftp://ftp.jussieu.fr/pu

running scripts (manual and auto)

1999-05-16 Thread J Horacio MG
I usually download mail from my ISP by running the following command as user horacio: $ fetchmail -v -a -u my_id and I just created a script with that line and named it /home/horacio/getmail: - start getmail - #!/bin/sh fetchmail -v -a -u my_id - end getmail - and gave it execu

Re: Why sendmail rather than qmail

1999-05-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 18:01:51 +0200, I wrote: > On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 21:10:13 +0530, M.K.Pai wrote: > > Even more puzzling, why does qmail go in as non-free ? > > qmail is not free software. The qmail license prohibits Debian from > redistributing binaries, as the require prior approval by t

Re: Partitioning hard disk

1999-05-16 Thread Rob
> ~> This is how I plan to partitiion the disks: > ~> /hda1 40MB > ~> swap hda2 8MB > ~> /usr hda3 68MB > ~> swap hdb1 8MB > ~> /usr hdb2 250MB > ~> > ~> where hda is the 116MB disk and hdb is the 258MB disk. > ~> Will the above

Re: Temporaly disable program

1999-05-16 Thread Michael Laing
I like to remove the execute flags from the startup script in init.d. in this case. Then when the system boots and when it shuts down, I get a console message that the daemon is not starting or stopping, reminding me that I have disabled it. For example, you could as root 'chmod a-x /etc/init.d/g

Re: Partitioning hard disk

1999-05-16 Thread J Horacio MG
~> This is how I plan to partitiion the disks: ~> /hda1 40MB ~> swap hda2 8MB ~> /usr hda3 68MB ~> swap hdb1 8MB ~> /usr hdb2 250MB ~> ~> where hda is the 116MB disk and hdb is the 258MB disk. ~> Will the above configuration work

Re: netscape, navigator, communicator...

1999-05-16 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
Pere Camps wrote: > > What's the bare minimum if I want to have just a 'lightweith' > netscape 4.5 browser? > if you want just a browser, use the netscape4.5 package. (there is now the 4.51 version) if you have motif, download the dynamic version else download the static. if you want to

Re: ZIP drive and kernel 2.2?

1999-05-16 Thread Debian Mail
> The only think I can think of is there's another program, more > specifically a TSR that's running resident in the background causing > modprobe to report with this error. Are you sure that you don't > have lpd running in the background and that you have unloaded any > other possibly conflicting

Re: Update ... Re: Ethernet newbee failure

1999-05-16 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> First I want to thank everyone who sent me a reply, both private and on >> the list. I now know 3 different way to create working routing tables. >> With regret, this has not resolved the problem. It was John Hasler who >> actually resolved things for me. I now have the following routing tables

Re: Temporaly disable program

1999-05-16 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
try as root : update-rc.d gpm remove see also : man update-rc.d

Re: How do I load CDRom driver?

1999-05-16 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
do you have an over OS (Win95,WinNT, BeOS) that found your cdrom ?

Re[2]: icewm-gnome config files

1999-05-16 Thread Phillip Deackes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Also, there's supposedly a way to add your own entries to the Debian > menus, but I don't yet know how exactly that works :-) Yes and usually it works very well. If you install a .deb then the menu item should appear on your menus automatically. If you want to add you

netscape, navigator, communicator...

1999-05-16 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Can somebody explain me what's in each package and what are their inter-relationships? What's the bare minimum if I want to have just a 'lightweith' netscape 4.5 browser? TIA! -- p.

RE: Temporaly disable program

1999-05-16 Thread Ted Harding
On 16-May-99 Urban Gabor wrote: > Hi, > > I've installed a program (gpm to more precise) and I want to > disable/enable it for the next booting. Remove/install every time I > want to experiment would be weird. Any ideas are wellcome Generically, the way to prevent a program from executing is to c

Re: Visual Basic type IDE/Compiler

1999-05-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "d" == deblists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: d> There are other IDE's, but those are the ones that include visual d> interface builders that I can think of right now. There are "code crusader", "sniff++" and "wipeout" as well. All aiming at c/c++/java. I don't know C, just perl and pike, b

Re: X desktop keys

1999-05-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "AI" == Andrei Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AI> I just ran into an interesting thing: On my desktop, I accidently AI> hit Shift+Alt+arrow key. I know that Alt+arry key switches between AI> screens, bbut what does Shift+Alt+arrows do? It switches me into AI> an empty screen, where I can o

Re: HELP! mail does not work (exim+fetchmail)

1999-05-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "SZ" == Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SZ> After a long time, I finally decide to replace smail with exim. I SZ> have sucessfully set it up on one machine. But the other one stops SZ> working... So I guess my late reply on settig upsmail is obsolete :-) SZ> After installing exim, my

Newbie & X (no @ on kbd)

1999-05-16 Thread jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I just succeed to start X under frame buffer (thanks to Geert Uytterhoeven!), bur I don't have the '@' available from my keyboard! (quite silly, isn't it?). Its a huge problem, because it oblige me to use windows. How can I recover it?? Regards, JY -- "Jean-Yves BARBIER" [EMAIL PROTE

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