Re: Cannot su.

1999-05-21 Thread Rob
> The only time i can recall seeing those errors is when the cwd is moved or > removed. Just now, i created a dir 'test', cd-ed to it as root, removed it > from another tty, and su-ed to a normal user. Sure enough, there's the > error. Even if it's removed and remade from the other tty before su-in

Re: new wmaker package?

1999-05-21 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 05:03:52PM -0300, Paulo J. da Silva e Silva wrote: > > Or is a, maybe unofficial, 0.53.x package out there, somewhere? > > > > Take a look at Gnome's site: www.gnome.org. The gnome .debs for slink were > released today and I am almost sure that there is a wmake 0.53 the

Re: Cannot su.

1999-05-21 Thread Brad
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent > > directories. > > Check your permissions on . and .. directories. They should be > chmod'd and chown'd as below. > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 2 19:2

[serge.francois@wanadoo.fr: Intallation of the packages]

1999-05-21 Thread Hanno 'Rince' Wagner
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Re: new wmaker package?

1999-05-21 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 10:13:19PM +0200, Philip Lehman wrote: > On Fri, 21 May 1999, Thomas Keusch wrote: > > >Or is a, maybe unofficial, 0.53.x package out there, somewhere? > > I downloaded 0.53 weeks ago from debian... dante:~ $ grep ^deb /etc/apt/sources.list deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian

Re: strange msg in bootup

1999-05-21 Thread Graham Ashton
On Friday 21 May, Dan Willard wrote: > The route command now requires a netmask. Just add one in to both of the > route commands and it should go away. if you read the 2.2 docs in /usr/src/linux/Changes (or whatever it's called) then you should find a bit that tells you that routes for local int

Re: Resolution in X

1999-05-21 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> When installing Linux I configured X for three screen resolutions -640*480, > 800*600 and 1024*768. (ATI mach 64). How can I select which one is actually > used and change from one to another? Quite ok to ask that in the beginning of Linux use. Check my page (first URL below in .sig file ) for

Re: Cannot su.

1999-05-21 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent > directories. > > Best wishes, > Chip Check your permissions on . and .. directories. They should be chmod'd and chown'd as below. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 2 19:21 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root roo

Re: Unsupported protocols??

1999-05-21 Thread Sean
The goofy thing is that this only happens with one of two dial-ups that I use. The one that is giving me the messages described almost always works fine w/ Windows ,is intermitent at best with Linux (although it didn't used to be), and is to a 56K modem pool, while my other connection has always

Resolution in X

1999-05-21 Thread moron
When installing Linux I configured X for three screen resolutions -640*480, 800*600 and 1024*768. (ATI mach 64). How can I select which one is actually used and change from one to another? I'm sure this is very elementary, but I'd be grateful for help. Idiot

Re: Cannot launch WordPerfect.

1999-05-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "FC" == Fu-Dong Chiou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: FC> But I already installed it. To make sure I did not mess up FC> anything, I remove xlib6 and libc5 and reinstall them again; same FC> result. You also need xpm4.7 Ciao, Martin

Cannot su.

1999-05-21 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Hi, Can anyone tell me why I get the following message after su to a user from root? Thanks! shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories. Best wishes, Chip

Re: new wmaker package?

1999-05-21 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 09:06:01PM +0200, Thomas Keusch wrote: > Now that I've updated, I found out WindowMaker in slink and potato are the > same version, so my problems still persist. nope, they are not. Slink has 0.20.3; potato has 0.53.0. The version in potato is compiled on a slink system,

Re: problem with my system includes

1999-05-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "P" == Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: P> Am I correct in assuming that I no longer even need P> /usr/include/linux /usr/include/net /usr/include/scsi and P> /usr/include/asm ? You need them. They are used when you compile some programms. Therefore libc6-dev provides a known good set of

Re: new wmaker package?

1999-05-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "PJdSeS" == Paulo J da Silva e Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PJdSeS> Take a look at Gnome's site: www.gnome.org. The gnome .debs PJdSeS> for slink were released today and I am almost sure that there PJdSeS> is a wmake 0.53 there. Do *NOT*, I repeat *NOT* use these packages yet. I don't kn

Re: Cannot launch netscape

1999-05-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 21 May 1999, Fu-Dong Chiou wrote: > I downloaded and installed netscape binary, but when I tried to run it, > it said 'unknown command. I am positive that /usr/X11R6/bin is in the > path in .profile, but still, I tried /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape again.

Re: problems with smbfsx and acct (potato)

1999-05-21 Thread Brad
On Fri, 21 May 1999, David Gaudine wrote: > Where is smbmount for the 2.2 kernel? It seems to be present in smbfs but > not in smbfsx which is the version intended for the latest kernels. But, > when I searched for smbmount / unstable using the web site, I got It's called 'smbmount-2.2.x', prob

"You have new mail" disappeared

1999-05-21 Thread Max
What happened to the "You have new mail" prompt on potato? It now says "You have mail" when I log in, regardless of whether it's new mail or old mail that I've already ready but just haven't deleted yet. Max -- The hopeful depend on a world without end Whatever the hopeless may say Neil Pe

Re: Color Bit Depth

1999-05-21 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 21 May 1999, dyer wrote: > > I have a small question about XF86 and color bit depths. I have my > > machine running a 32 bit color at the moment, but some times I I would > > like to change it to 16 bit for the ocational game of Quake, is there a > > easy way to do this with out editing t

RE: strange msg in bootup

1999-05-21 Thread Dan Willard
The route command now requires a netmask. Just add one in to both of the route commands and it should go away. --Dano > -Original Message- > From: Ali Onur UYAR [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 5:47 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: strange msg i

strange msg in bootup

1999-05-21 Thread Ali Onur UYAR
I have been using Linux for a year. I started with hamm and now I am using slink. I was running kernel 2.0.36 until last week. Then decided it was the time to tackle sound config. Then I realized it might had been a bit easier if I switched to 2.2 series kernels. Read a great deal of docs, installe

Re: Unsupported protocols??

1999-05-21 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Some kinda error I'd guess. I took a look at the assigned numbers RFC and the only one of those defined is 0x7f and its: 007freserved (compression inefficient)[RFC1662] I'm thinking there must've been some sort of corruption of the data. This shouldn't happen though since the pp

Re: Help! My computer thinks it is a name server

1999-05-21 Thread Marc Mongeon
I'll bet it has something to do with your reverse-lookup setup. nslookup -d2 yahoo.com to get some exhaustive debug information. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888

Re: Color Bit Depth

1999-05-21 Thread dyer
Matt Kopishke wrote: > I have a small question about XF86 and color bit depths. I have my > machine running a 32 bit color at the moment, but some times I I would > like to change it to 16 bit for the ocational game of Quake, is there a > easy way to do this with out editing the config file. I

Re: diald problem

1999-05-21 Thread Pollywog
On 21-May-99 David B.Teague wrote: > > On Mon, 17 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: > > >> I had to reinstall Linux, and I did not have everything I needed >> on my backup floppies. I thought I had backed up all my config >> files, so I believe I accidentally deleted stuff. > >> Anyhow, when my IS

Re: diald problem

1999-05-21 Thread Pollywog
On 21-May-99 David B.Teague wrote: > > On Mon, 17 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: > > >> I had to reinstall Linux, and I did not have everything I needed >> on my backup floppies. I thought I had backed up all my config >> files, so I believe I accidentally deleted stuff. > >> Anyhow, when my IS

problems with smbfsx and acct (potato)

1999-05-21 Thread David Gaudine
I just upgraded from slink to potato. This seemed like the best way to get support for my video card which has the "Rage 2 C" chipset. That works, but the upgrade affected a few other things, including; Where is smbmount for the 2.2 kernel? It seems to be present in smbfs but not in smbfsx whic

Re: PPP & Multicast

1999-05-21 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Oops. Sorry, you said 2.0.36. Well, in the source I've got for 2.0.34 the flag isn't set. I guess I'd just edit ppp_init in /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/ppp.c and add the code to set the flag when the device is created. "Stephen A. Witt" wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how to do multicast IP ov

Re: PPP & Multicast

1999-05-21 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
That's strange. All my ppp interfaces have multicast set on the interface. In fact, ppp.c shows: static int ppp_init_dev (struct device *dev) { dev->hard_header_len = PPP_HDRLEN; /* device INFO */ dev->mtu = PPP_MTU; dev->hard_start_xmit = ppp_dev_x

Re: Help! My computer thinks it is a name server

1999-05-21 Thread Matthew Wade Roberts
The IP is: 165.91.194.118 It doesn't make any sense to me, either... > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri May 21 15:34:57 1999 > From: sawitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Matthew Wade Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Help! My computer thinks it is a name server > > On Fri, 21 May 1999, Matthe

Cannot launch netscape

1999-05-21 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Hi all, I downloaded and installed netscape binary, but when I tried to run it, it said 'unknown command. I am positive that /usr/X11R6/bin is in the path in .profile, but still, I tried /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape again. This time it told me there is no such drectory or file, which is obviously

RE: Setup a network without network

1999-05-21 Thread Marc Mongeon
Oops, I thought I had "learned" that using "-net" in combination with a host IP address (not a network address) would cause the network address of that host to be added to the routing table. I experimented, and this is not the case. Guess I'll have to "unlearn" it. Don't use "route add 127.0.0.1

Re: Help! My computer thinks it is a name server

1999-05-21 Thread sawitt
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Matthew Wade Roberts wrote: > For some reason, my Debian box (lehi.tamu.edu) thinks it is the name > server. For instance: > > % nslookup yahoo.com > Server: lehi > Address: 0.0.0.0 > > *** lehi can't find yahoo.com: No response from server > > > > Here is my resolv.co

Re: gdm/xdm/login.app weirdnesses

1999-05-21 Thread Ryan Novosielski \[no vo sel skee\]
I have the same problem, however, with all display managers... If I don't go CTRL-ALT-F1 really fast, it'll be dead... * Ryan Novosielski - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.bergen.org/~ryanov + inSite e'zine - http://www.teenvoice.com - EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] + AAST Master 98 - http://www.bergen.o

Re: GNOME vs. KDE

1999-05-21 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 5/21/99 3:13:29 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > (Enlightenment is currenlty the only window-manager that fully supports > > GNOME). > > this might be true to a degree, but it is a gross overstatement to say > that GNOME requires one to use Enlighte

Re: GNOME vs. KDE

1999-05-21 Thread Bradley Bell
On Fri, 21 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (Enlightenment is currenlty the only window-manager that fully supports > GNOME). this might be true to a degree, but it is a gross overstatement to say that GNOME requires one to use Enlightenment. I'm using Gnome with icewm, and it runs well enoug

Color Bit Depth

1999-05-21 Thread Matt Kopishke
I have a small question about XF86 and color bit depths. I have my machine running a 32 bit color at the moment, but some times I I would like to change it to 16 bit for the ocational game of Quake, is there a easy way to do this with out editing the config file. I know you can set X up with mult

RE: new wmaker package?

1999-05-21 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
Thomas Keusch writes: > > Hello, > > I just updated some packages to unstable/potato, including some of my X11 > stuff, mainly because I have had some problems with slink's WindowMaker > package. > > Now that I've updated, I found out WindowMaker in slink and potato are the > same versi

Re: An 'ae' testimony

1999-05-21 Thread John Hasler
virtanen writes: > For a user, who knows about unix and/or linux any of well-known unix > editor will do, but for a new user, who knows only about > dos/windows7related products vi, emacs, joe, ae... are all the same > 'Chinese'? Many new users have heard that vi is the Linux editor and therefor t

new wmaker package?

1999-05-21 Thread Thomas Keusch
Hello, I just updated some packages to unstable/potato, including some of my X11 stuff, mainly because I have had some problems with slink's WindowMaker package. Now that I've updated, I found out WindowMaker in slink and potato are the same version, so my problems still persist. Thus I just co

PPP & Multicast

1999-05-21 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I'm trying to figure out how to do multicast IP over PPP. More specifically, how to get the MULTICAST interface flag set for a PPP network interface. I searched through the mailing list archives and found no direct answer to my question, but I did find numerous examples that had been sent in of 'if

Help! My computer thinks it is a name server

1999-05-21 Thread Matthew Wade Roberts
For some reason, my Debian box (lehi.tamu.edu) thinks it is the name server. For instance: % nslookup yahoo.com Server: lehi Address: 0.0.0.0 *** lehi can't find yahoo.com: No response from server Here is my resolv.conf: --- domain tamu.edu nameserver 128.194.178.1 names

Microfocus Cobol

1999-05-21 Thread Mike Garfias
Hi, Here at work I've been asked if I can make our accounting software run under Linux, and not SCO. The software requires a C compiler, and a Microfocus COBOL compiler. Has anyone made microfocus run on top of linux? Or know of a Linux port? TIA

Re: Installing Sound Module

1999-05-21 Thread Brad
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Nadarajah, Dinesh wrote: > the sound driver as a "module" was much easier. Is there a program that can > do this under Debian also (I mean without recompiling the Kernel - I would > like to be able to load it as a module). I have a SoundBlaster AWE32 card. To get modules, you

Unsupported protocols??

1999-05-21 Thread Sean
I was glancing at tail /var/log/messages, and noticed the following: pppd[1007]: Unsupported protocol (0x7f) received pppd[1007]: Unsupported protocol (0x88fc) received pppd[1007]: Unsupported protocol (0x67ec) received pppd[1007]: Unsupported protocol (0x7432) received pppd[1007]: Unsupported pr

Re: New install question

1999-05-21 Thread John Foster
John Hagemann wrote: > > I have downloaded and installed slink on an old pentium 60 with and isa > ethernet card to use as a proxy. > The problem I have is I cannot get the driver loaded for my ethernet card > (SMC Elite) > > The installation goes well and I can run linux, but cannot get my ether

Re: some questions...

1999-05-21 Thread Brad
On Fri, 21 May 1999, add|ct|on wrote: > one, has anyone else had problems with kernel 2.3.3 not reporting the > correct kernel version? i noticed in the makefile (after it reported 2.3.2 > to me still) that it said 2.3.2 there as well... i tried removing all old > kernels, anything you can th

Installing Sound Module

1999-05-21 Thread Nadarajah, Dinesh
I recently installed Slink have been quite happy with its performance except that I am unable to get the sound card working. I have tried a couple of other Linux distributions like Red Hat and Caldera's and have found loading the sound driver as a "module" was much easier. Is there a program that c

Re: Where is netscape?

1999-05-21 Thread Brad
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Fu-Dong Chiou wrote: > I installed netscape 4.5 base, communicator 4.5 base & communicator > spellchecker (which requires the previous two installed). But now I > cannot find netscape. It seems that everything else is there but > netscape. Did I miss anything? I actuall

Re: latex and memory related

1999-05-21 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Armin Wegner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 12:25:52PM +, Shao Zhang wrote: >> Hi, >> I drew a simple box in xfig and used it to generated a latex file. >> >> The file looks like this: [hacky lowlevel code deleted] > Add [*evil*] > to the document's head. > Put your

Re: help /var is filling up!!!

1999-05-21 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > logs appear in log.info and mail.log. how do i stop that? /etc/syslog.conf ? -- Colin Marquardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

some questions...

1999-05-21 Thread add|ct|on
hi all... ok this is probably not the place to ask these things, but i will anyway since i've seen the likes of them discussed here before... one, has anyone else had problems with kernel 2.3.3 not reporting the correct kernel version? i noticed in the makefile (after it reported 2.3.2

Re: pseudo tty & ssh

1999-05-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 10:19:08 -0500, Ian Keith Setford wrote: > Warning: Remote host failed or refused to allocate a pseudo tty. > > (and then the login hangs) > > I have UNIX98 ptys support in the kernel but I'm not totally sure if I > want/have to use them. Please check that you have devpts

Re: libssl09 conflicts with ssleay wich depends on

1999-05-21 Thread Brad
Supposedly openssl should be used in place of ssleay (i think the maintainer said so in reply to a bug report)... But unfortunately, certain packages still depend on ssleay! i even tried recompiling telnetd-ssl, but it gave several warnings during compilation, and wouldn't work when installed... Di

Re: *.deb vs. non "package" installs

1999-05-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Paul" == Paul Schwebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> Would I be better off taking my *.tar.gz file and making a *.deb out of Paul> it? Do I have to wait until I find an updated *.deb on the web? Or is Paul> there some way to update/install software with *.tar.gz installs and Paul> m

Re: Environment variables and X

1999-05-21 Thread add|ct|on
hey.. i don't know much about this, but i do know if you open most kind of terminals in x with the argument -ls (or sometimes -ln, depending on what you use) it forces the reading of the current user's .bash_profile or .bashrc. not sure where you'd set it otherwise... might try /etc/profile, althou

Re: UltraDMA disks and debian

1999-05-21 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Marant Jerome wrote: > So, I wonder if there are any problem with UltraDMA drive and linux > kernels. > > Does anyone have an answer to this ? It depends on the chipset of your motherboard. I know that some ALi chipsets aren't supported by default. Take a look in the kernel

Re: Cannot launch WordPerfect.

1999-05-21 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
But I already installed it. To make sure I did not mess up anything, I remove xlib6 and libc5 and reinstall them again; same result. Chip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 5/21/99 12:04:17 PM Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > I am having a problem runnin

Re: diald problem

1999-05-21 Thread David B.Teague
On Mon, 17 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: > I had to reinstall Linux, and I did not have everything I needed > on my backup floppies. I thought I had backed up all my config > files, so I believe I accidentally deleted stuff. > Anyhow, when my ISP drops me during long downloads, I am allowed > t

RE: Setup a network without network

1999-05-21 Thread Marc Mongeon
-- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of "Spinal Tap" >>> José_

Re: Cannot launch WordPerfect.

1999-05-21 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 5/21/99 12:04:17 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I am having a problem running WordPerfect for Linux. Specifically, it > says "can't load library libXmp.so.4", which seems to be a symlink to > libXmp.so.10. Would appreciate any help. Thanks! > Yo

RE: Setup a network without network

1999-05-21 Thread José L . Redrejo - ITAIS
I have configurated my hosts file with this line:127.0.0.1 localhost Trying to set up my DNS I've got the following messages First I add "ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1" and there is no error. Then If I type : "route add loopback" the answer is "loopback:host name lookup failure" and if i type "route a

Re: help /var is filling up!!!

1999-05-21 Thread Bruno Boettcher
> You really should find the real problem before you try changing > logging. Try something like the command 'find /var -xdev -size +5000k > -print'. This will print out the names of all files more than 5MB > (there probably shouldn't be any). Then look into the file and see if right found an

Where is netscape?

1999-05-21 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Hi, I installed netscape 4.5 base, communicator 4.5 base & communicator spellchecker (which requires the previous two installed). But now I cannot find netscape. It seems that everything else is there but netscape. Did I miss anything? I actually remove them and reinstall them again; same

Cannot launch WordPerfect.

1999-05-21 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Hi, I am having a problem running WordPerfect for Linux. Specifically, it says "can't load library libXmp.so.4", which seems to be a symlink to libXmp.so.10. Would appreciate any help. Thanks! Best wishes, Chip

Re: help /var is filling up!!!

1999-05-21 Thread Carl Johnson
Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > on a machine i administer i have a 100M partition for var, and since some time > now it fills up blocking the mail transfer done wtih qmail > > if i look into this partiton i see that the logs take 60M of place, which > seems excessive... It defi

Re: Setup a network without network

1999-05-21 Thread Dennis Schoen
> "José L. Redrejo - ITAIS" wrote: > > HI, > I would like to practice the Apache Setup both at work and at home. > At work I have a network but at home I have a standalone PC. > How can I setup my linux box to install and execute APache without a > network. > I've tried it using the dummy adapter

*.deb vs. non "package" installs

1999-05-21 Thread Paul Schwebel
What's the best way to manage installed software on a Debian system? Say, for example, I install a *.deb package for software that I use. I then find a newer version of the software that I can download from the writer in *.tar.gz form. But since this isn't a *.deb package, deselct/dpkg isn't "awar

Re: New install question

1999-05-21 Thread Dennis Schoen
John Hagemann wrote: > > I have downloaded and installed slink on an old pentium 60 with and isa > ethernet card to use as a proxy. > The problem I have is I cannot get the driver loaded for my ethernet card > (SMC Elite) > > The installation goes well and I can run linux, but cannot get my ether

Re: problem with my system includes

1999-05-21 Thread Pollywog
On 21-May-99 Martin Bialasinski wrote: > P> ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386 asm > P> ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux linux > P> ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/scsi scsi > P> ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/net net > > No. Debian stopped doing this for long. And with the 2.2 kernels, > Linus o

pseudo tty & ssh

1999-05-21 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I have Debian installed on a Sparc but I can't ssh in. Telnet'ing in works fine, as do most other services. I receive the following error: Warning: Remote host failed or refused to allocate a pseudo tty. (and then the login hangs) I have UNIX98 ptys support in the kernel but I'm not totally sur

Re: An 'ae' testimony

1999-05-21 Thread virtanen
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Richard Kaszeta wrote: > > THIS IS NOT VI. IT ONLY LOOKS SLIGHTLY LIKE IT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! > > For a user, who doesn't know much about computers, it would be nice to have ee (easy editor) instead of ae included? For a user, who knows about unix and/or linux any of

Setup a network without network

1999-05-21 Thread José L . Redrejo - ITAIS
HI, I would like to practice the Apache Setup both at work and at home. At work I have a network but at home I have a standalone PC. How can I setup my linux box to install and execute APache without a network. I've tried it using the dummy adapter and localhost name but I heven't been able. I

Re: Hdd install

1999-05-21 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Koyote wrote: > [cut] > Next step- I have a need to install from ground zero. For the 486 > boxes, I was consideing downloading the intallation to a hard drive in > this machine, then moving the hard drive to another machine and > running the install there. (Boot flom floppies, install from hdd)

Re: xf86config

1999-05-21 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> I'm completely new to Linux, so apologies if this is excessively thick ... > > I've been trying to get xwindows working. I've gone through xf86config, and > then when I try 'startx' it goes into what I assume is the xwindow > environment (blue screen, mouse cursor), beeps at me and appears to h

New install question

1999-05-21 Thread John Hagemann
I have downloaded and installed slink on an old pentium 60 with and isa ethernet card to use as a proxy. The problem I have is I cannot get the driver loaded for my ethernet card (SMC Elite) The installation goes well and I can run linux, but cannot get my ethernet card configured. Could someone

Re: GNOME vs. KDE

1999-05-21 Thread Will Lowe
> 1.Is Debian more leaning towards KDE or is this just 'news' from the > Corel folks? Is there a reason why they chose KDE and not GNOME? We don't lean either way. Corel is creating their own distribution based on Debian -- they'll take stock Debian and stuff to it. They picked KDE (you'd hav

Re: gdm/xdm/login.app weirdnesses

1999-05-21 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 12:56:45AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > (of course, replace vt7 with whatever it's ok for your system) > > > i will need to know what this vt7 thing means before i can know what's > okay for my system... vt7 is the 7th virtual console (what you get when you press A

Re: GNOME vs. KDE

1999-05-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 08:54:51 -0500, Nadarajah, Dinesh wrote: > 1.Is Debian more leaning towards KDE or is this just 'news' from the > Corel folks? There is still a license problem with KDE (due to interaction between KDE's license and Qt's) that prevents Debian from distributing KDE binari

Re: GNOME vs. KDE

1999-05-21 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 5/21/99 8:57:15 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > 1.Is Debian more leaning towards KDE or is this just 'news' from the > Corel folks? Is there a reason why they chose KDE and not GNOME? Debian doesn't "lean" toward either of them - in fact, it is stayi

help /var is filling up!!!

1999-05-21 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, on a machine i administer i have a 100M partition for var, and since some time now it fills up blocking the mail transfer done wtih qmail if i look into this partiton i see that the logs take 60M of place, which seems excessive... now where do i configure logrotate to specify less bac

Re: repairing the harddisk

1999-05-21 Thread David B.Teague
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: > I would like to know: if a hard disk died with a couple of bad > sectors, what is the best way to repair it?? > > I use badblocks, mkfs and fsck. Are there any other methods?? > > Also, when I mount this dead harddisk, the kernel

GNOME vs. KDE

1999-05-21 Thread Nadarajah, Dinesh
This is not meant to start a debate on "which is better" but I just want to find some facts about each one. 1. Is Debian more leaning towards KDE or is this just 'news' from the Corel folks? Is there a reason why they chose KDE and not GNOME? 2. Which is faster? 3. Which uses less m

Re: Environment variables and X

1999-05-21 Thread Marc Mongeon
Look in the wdm man pages for a profile that wdm executes on startup (I would be very surprised if there wasn't one), in that file, source your .profile or .bashrc or both: . $HOME/.profile Put the definition of HTTP_PROXY in .profile or .bashrc. Make sure you export it: export HTTP_PROXY=your.

Re: latex and memory related

1999-05-21 Thread Norris Preyer
Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > I drew a simple box in xfig and used it to generated a latex file. > Is this normal?? What is the recommanded way to export the stuff from > xfig to latex?? > > Thanks. > Shao. > I export files from xfig in encapsulated postscrip

Re: *.debs for GNOME, apps, Mozilla, KDE...

1999-05-21 Thread Patrick Kirk
Thanks. Apart form E, if there are other interesting desktops out there, please do let me know. Patrick - Original Message - From: Jens Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 12:09 PM Subject: Re: *.debs for GNOME, apps, Mozilla, KDE... > Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: An 'ae' testimony

1999-05-21 Thread Richard Kaszeta
Craig Sanders writes ("Re: An 'ae' testimony"): >i think that the solution is for ae to print the following in inverse >text on the top line of the screen: > > THIS IS NOT VI. IT ONLY LOOKS SLIGHTLY LIKE IT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! > >imo, ae's vi emulation is better than nothing...but can be qui

Re: Debian 1.3 and Y2K compliance

1999-05-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 13:28:47 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My company has just discovered that one of our branches is running Debian > version 1.3. The company is quite happy for them to do so, but needs to > know if vanilla Debian 1.3 is year 2000 compliant. For general information regar

repairing the harddisk

1999-05-21 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I would like to know: if a hard disk died with a couple of bad sectors, what is the best way to repair it?? I use badblocks, mkfs and fsck. Are there any other methods?? Also, when I mount this dead harddisk, the kernel sometimes will pop up some messag

Debian 1.3 and Y2K compliance

1999-05-21 Thread Richard . Heggs
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the correct forum to post this in. If not I apologise,and would ask for a pointer to the right place. Thanks :) My company has just discovered that one of our branches is running Debian version 1.3. The company is quite happy for them to do so, but needs to know if

libssl09 conflicts with ssleay wich depends on

1999-05-21 Thread John Leget
Right which came first the chicken or the egg. Potato: Non-US libssl09-dev conflicts with ssleay openssl conflicts with ssleay libssl09 conflicts with ssleay ssleay depends on libssl09 how the heck do i get ssleay installed with this kind of dependency >;0) cheers

Re: Shortcuts

1999-05-21 Thread JV2
> Sofar I'm pretty happy with Linux, except for X Window. I haven't found one > window manager which makes it easy for a user to put a shortcut on the > desktop or in the application menu. I talk mainly about shortcuts for > Netscape and WP. > > Sofar I've used fvwm95, icewm, qvwm and windowmaker

XML HowTo

1999-05-21 Thread Michael Laing
Ok, I'd like to use XML to: 1. Define a structured document. 2. Create documents that are valid according to 1. 3. Create an application to process the documents into a database. I would like to use Xemacs as my DTD and document editor. I can use any or all of C, awk, bison. flex, etc. to driv

Re: gtk-themes problems

1999-05-21 Thread Graham Ashton
On Thursday 20 May, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > GA> but GIMP still refuses to respond to the GTK themes - do I need to > GA> recompile GIMP to make it work? > > Check dpkg -s gimp. Themes don't work for programms compiled for > libgtk1.0 or libgtk1.1 earlier than 1.1.16 or such. okay, I did, and

Antwort: Re: Macintosh IIvx (Performa 600)

1999-05-21 Thread guido . dampf
I did nothing - and that's the main-problem, because the time until the system is completely up is to long - keyboard and screen die but the screen can be awaked again by NMI ! Guido Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> am 21.05.99 10:36:29

Re: *.debs for GNOME, apps, Mozilla, KDE...

1999-05-21 Thread Jens Ritter
Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > Just started a new job in a telecomms company today and to my > surprise found a CD recorder in my desktop workstation. It seems > there's no problem with my doing serious downloads so let the search > for toys begin! You are lucky! > I i

Re: Basic SCSI question

1999-05-21 Thread jean-Yves BARBIER
John Pearson wrote: >. > >Similarly, a cat of /proc/scsi/scsi reports: > > Attached devices: > > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00 > > Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW4416S Rev: 1.0f > > Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > > Host: scsi0 Chan

DOSEMU.help!!! Again... other problem :)

1999-05-21 Thread Gancho Tenev Tenev
Hi ! I already use Cyrillic in console :))) Linux do this for me realy good !!! :))) But I think that dosemu works just like native DOS ... And my colleague who works with dos want to fill like in native DOS environment, with usual cyrillic TSR, and usual printer TSR :(( For me and for

About backup's

1999-05-21 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi I'm setting things up arround here so that we can do a backup during this weekend. The boss want's me to put the machine where all the user accounts are in single mode before startting the backup to avoid corruptions !? Is this really necessary ? thanks -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL

Re: latex and memory related

1999-05-21 Thread Armin Wegner
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 12:25:52PM +, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > I drew a simple box in xfig and used it to generated a latex file. > > The file looks like this: > > \documentclass{article} > \begin{document} > > \setlength{\unitlength}{4144sp}% > % >

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