Re: gnome-ppp someone?

1999-05-27 Thread John Hasler
> I didn't manage to get connected with gnome-ppp, because of 2 > problems: > 1. There seems to be no possibility to use pap without setting 'noauth' > in the /etc/ppp/options file... ... It was impossible to me to connect > without changing this to noauth A bug in gnome-ppp, I'd say. > 2. Aft

Re: Replacement for Netscape

1999-05-27 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
hi -> Even as a work station linux works fine on 486 hardware. Your basing your -> argument on what you view as a "workstation." Howeve, without X a -> 486/66 does fine depending on it's purpose. You certainly don't need -> pentium power to run vi, lynx, and elm. What else do you n

Monitoring FTP connections -- is it possible?

1999-05-27 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi all: Can I monitor 1. how many and which users are connected via ftp? 2. which files are downloaded and which files are uploaded? Another question: if I can't do that in real time, is there a log file the contains this info? Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in th

KDE mail client problems

1999-05-27 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm having problems getting KDE's mail client to delete mail that are in folders. I currently have my system set up to sort my mail using exim's filtering capablity. All of the filtered mail goes into various folders in my ~/Mail dir. KDE see's the files with the mail fine, and I'm able to re

Re: CD Burner

1999-05-27 Thread Arcady Genkin
"Christopher J. Morrone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Just to add to everybody's whining, I should say that I haven't been > > able to get my CDR (Panasonic 7502 SCSI) working for about 6 weeks > > now. Yes, Me Too (tm), I have to boot into Windows to burn CDs and > > scan. Lucky I don't play g

Re: Replacement for Netscape

1999-05-27 Thread add|ct|on
phew what a thread we got going here... my only addition to this is to say that one of the reasons i prefer linux over windows is that you don't NEED excessively fast or "modern" hardware to run linux efficiently. one of my many complaints about windows in general as an OS is that in order to run

Re: CD Burner

1999-05-27 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On 27 May 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: > The FreeStuff Web Ring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have a Sony 928 CD Burner. I'm being told by my computer that it has > > 384kb of buffer cache, anyone know why it's saying such a weird number? > > One of my friends has a different burner, but his

java

1999-05-27 Thread moron
To whom it may concern or interest I opted for Debian for the same reason (okay, even more so) that I decided some time ago to try programming in java. (I'm not a professional programmer, it's for my own amusement and for an amateur(ish) website.) Guavac seems to work, but I'm writing things blin

Re: OFFTOPIC: How about a /dev/clipboard ?

1999-05-27 Thread John Hasler
Brian Boonstra writes: > For what it's worth, my OpenStep machine at work has command line directives > "copy" and "paste", so you can do things like >paste | wc > or > cat myfile.txt | copy A fairly simple script, if I understand you correctly. -- John HaslerTh

Re: CD Burner

1999-05-27 Thread Jean-Yves Barbier
The FreeStuff Web Ring wrote: > > I have a Sony 928 CD Burner. I'm being told by my computer that it has > 384kb of buffer cache, anyone know why it's saying such a weird number? > One of my friends has a different burner, but his says he has 512kb > buffer cache. Yeah! that's the Intel setting:

Re: CD Burner

1999-05-27 Thread Arcady Genkin
The FreeStuff Web Ring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a Sony 928 CD Burner. I'm being told by my computer that it has > 384kb of buffer cache, anyone know why it's saying such a weird number? > One of my friends has a different burner, but his says he has 512kb > buffer cache. Just to add

Re: CD Burner

1999-05-27 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Thu, 27 May 1999, The FreeStuff Web Ring wrote: > I have a Sony 928 CD Burner. I'm being told by my computer that it has > 384kb of buffer cache, anyone know why it's saying such a weird number? 128kb X 3 Not too weird, I've seen it before. Not a power of 2, so its not one of my favorite nu

XF86Setup segmentation fault

1999-05-27 Thread Sean
I just upgraded to potato the other day, and have been pretty impressed so far. The only hang-up I've had that I haven't a clue as to what's causing it or as to how to fix it is with XF86Setup. Whenever I run it, it cranks the screen where it asks me if I want to use the defaults, and I say no, a

CD Burner

1999-05-27 Thread The FreeStuff Web Ring
I have a Sony 928 CD Burner. I'm being told by my computer that it has 384kb of buffer cache, anyone know why it's saying such a weird number? One of my friends has a different burner, but his says he has 512kb buffer cache. The FreeStuff Web Ring [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://chebucto.ns.ca/~fsweb/

cd writer woes

1999-05-27 Thread Aaron Solochek
I have a plexwriter 4/12 and I'm running debian 2.2 with a 2.2.7 kernel. My system is entirely scsi. I am a windows native and due to intense peer pressure (and curiosity) I installed linux this past year. Now I find my self booting into windows for two reasons, to play games, and to burn cd's.

Re: BIOS upgrade

1999-05-27 Thread tjm
Try this site for some BIOS and motherboard info. http://www.ping.be/bios/ -- tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No screens found

1999-05-27 Thread Kent West
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Jens Vogel wrote: > Hi all! > ? > > Recently I've installed Debian Linux on my system (i.e. UNIX is a new > world for me) to get rid of the virus called "Windows" :-) > Everything was fine and easy and I've learned a lot about the prompt. But > I haven't been able to configur

Re: apt's sources.list

1999-05-27 Thread Kent West
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Ben Collins wrote: > > > According to the sources.list man page, "distribution can specify an exact > > > path, in which case the components must be omitted and distribution must > > > end with a slash". > > > > > > I must not understand what this means. I've used Netscape to

Re: No screens found

1999-05-27 Thread Robert Rati
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Jens Vogel wrote: > Robert Rati wrote: > > > I believe I've seen that error message before. It had to do with the > > Xserver not supporting the graphics card. Have you checked to see if > > there's an Xserver that matches you video card better? > > I've tried all servers

Replacing NT/Netware with Linux (LONG)

1999-05-27 Thread eric a. Farris
well, it's happening. my boss wants me to take the summer to evaluate using Linux to run our labs as an alternative to Novell Netware and Microsoft Windows NT. We currently have 55 Pentium IIs and 40 Pentiums running Windows 95, and 30 iMacs running MacOS 8.6 in our labs.there are 6 labs in all, a

Re: Netscape + rvplayer & xpdf

1999-05-27 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
Arcady Genkin wrote: > Hi all: > > Has anyone gotten Netscape call these with the right parameters when a > hyperlink for an appropriate file is clicked? > > I have the following in the Netscape's setup: > for RealAudio: rvplayer %h > try : rvplayer %s

Re: apt's sources.list

1999-05-27 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Brian Boonstra wrote: > it's really unclear how you get from the first to the second. What's the > criterion for splitting it that way? Why can't apt just deal with 2 fields? Everybody does it differently unfortunately. The criteria is that the concatination of the last

binfmt_002c (?)

1999-05-27 Thread Bob Bernstein
I have a linux kernel complaining of not being able to find 'module binfmt_002c' when I attempt to run a binary compiled (I think) for an old SCO Unix 3.2v4.2 operating system. At any rate it will run on that SCO system. Has anybody seen this animal, or is it a fig newton of the kernel's imaginati

Video Card Compatibility

1999-05-27 Thread The FreeStuff Web Ring
Hello, I am relatively new to the Debian mailing list, and to the Debian distribution. I have just recently ordered the Debian 2.1 4CD set from CheapBytes.com and am anxiously awaiting it's arrival. My own hardware is relatively universally compatible with most Linux distributions, however I

Re: No screens found

1999-05-27 Thread Jens Vogel
Robert Rati wrote: > I believe I've seen that error message before. It had to do with the > Xserver not supporting the graphics card. Have you checked to see if > there's an Xserver that matches you video card better? I've tried all servers except for "monochrome". > Also, what version > of X

Re: apt's sources.list

1999-05-27 Thread Brian Boonstra
Hi All Jason wrote: > man sources.list ? There are several examples at the bottom and the exact > line syntax is given in the section title 'The deb type'. Yeah, it's the only available resource, but it's really too obscure to be useful unless you already know the answer! Take it from

Re: No screens found

1999-05-27 Thread Jens Vogel
Evan Van Dyke wrote: > *SNIP* > > Judging from your message, you certianly seem to have read all the > documentation and > such... but I thought I'd set this out there: > > Have you tried running 'XF86Setup' or 'xf86config'? These two programs > are used to > reconfigure your XF86Config file for

gnome-ppp someone?

1999-05-27 Thread joachim
Hello, I didn't manage to get connected with gnome-ppp, because of 2 problems: 1. There seems to be no possibility to use pap without setting 'noauth' in the /etc/ppp/options file -- I cite from this file's comments: # Please do not disable this setting. It is expected to be standard in # fut

Re: No screens found

1999-05-27 Thread Robert Rati
I believe I've seen that error message before. It had to do with the Xserver not supporting the graphics card. Have you checked to see if there's an Xserver that matches you video card better? Also, what version of XFree are you running? If it's from ftp.debian.org or a major minor, you're prob

Re: No screens found

1999-05-27 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Jens Vogel wrote: > > Hi all! > > > Recently I've installed Debian Linux on my system (i.e. UNIX is a new > world for me) to get rid of the virus called "Windows" :-) > Everything was fine and easy and I've learned a lot about the prompt. > But I haven't been able to configure the X-Server yet (

Re: No screens found

1999-05-27 Thread Jens Vogel
Jens Vogel wrote: > Dan Willard wrote: > > > Two things that would help, which version of debian are you running and > > which version of X? > > > > I run Debian 2.0r3 (hamm) and X11R6. More accurate: X11R6.3 > > > > --Dano

Re: apt's sources.list

1999-05-27 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Brian Boonstra wrote: > (1) Is the required format for such targets defined, exemplified, or > documented anywhere? man sources.list ? There are several examples at the bottom and the exact line syntax is given in the section title 'The deb type'. > (2) What is the deal w

Compaq Concerto /25

1999-05-27 Thread Sven Slavicek
Hello! I have Compaq Concerto /25 notebook with AVGA graphicsh card.My problem is how to run X system?. Somebody know the answer? Thanks.

Re: No screens found

1999-05-27 Thread Jens Vogel
Dan Willard wrote: > Two things that would help, which version of debian are you running and > which version of X? > I run Debian 2.0r3 (hamm) and X11R6. > --Dano > > > -Original Message- > > From: Jens Vogel [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, May 27, 1999 4:24 PM > > To: De

Re: how to make modem silent?

1999-05-27 Thread Karen Hu
> Yes, ATM0 can indeed make my moderm quiet as a baby. Thank you all for your help on and off this list. -P

RE: No screens found

1999-05-27 Thread Dan Willard
Two things that would help, which version of debian are you running and which version of X? --Dano > -Original Message- > From: Jens Vogel [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 27, 1999 4:24 PM > To: Debian-User Mailinglist > Subject: No screens found > > Hi all! >   >

No screens found

1999-05-27 Thread Jens Vogel
Hi all!   Recently I've installed Debian Linux on my system (i.e. UNIX is a new world for me) to get rid of the virus called "Windows" :-) Everything was fine and easy and I've learned a lot about the prompt. But I haven't been able to configure the X-Server yet (sorry if this is pretty old for y

Re: apt's sources.list

1999-05-27 Thread Brian Boonstra
Hi there Ben Collins and Jason Gunthorpe have helped me work out how to run apt to FTP debs from unusual places. Thanks guys! I'm an old Unix hand, but way too new to Debian to figure this out. Reading the documentation made me wonder: (1) Is the required format for such ta

Re: apt's sources.list

1999-05-27 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 02:37:09PM -0500, Robert Rati wrote: > I had this same problem and just concluded they had something screwed up > in their Packages.list file. ACtually, I got the list alright, but > dselect wouldn't d/l the files saying they weren't normal files or > something like that.

Re: apt's sources.list

1999-05-27 Thread Robert Rati
I had this same problem and just concluded they had something screwed up in their Packages.list file. ACtually, I got the list alright, but dselect wouldn't d/l the files saying they weren't normal files or something like that. Just d/l the debs manually and install them.

Re: apt's sources.list (Correction)

1999-05-27 Thread Kent West
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Kent West wrote: > !Newbie Alert! > > According to the sources.list man page, "distribution can specify an exact > path, in which case the components must be omitted and distribution must > end with a slash". > > I must not understand what this means. I've used Netscape to b

apt's sources.list

1999-05-27 Thread Kent West
!Newbie Alert! According to the sources.list man page, "distribution can specify an exact path, in which case the components must be omitted and distribution must end with a slash". I must not understand what this means. I've used Netscape to browse to the "Packages.gz" file at "ftp://ftp.us.kde.

CD-writing keeps failing

1999-05-27 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
I have been trying to get a HP7200i to successfully write CD's and had no success so far. I am beginning to doubt whether I will ever be able to write CD's with Linux. And I cannot do it with windows because I do not have windows95 or NT. I have even upgraded my kernel to 2.2.7 because I suspect

Re: Making Makefiles

1999-05-27 Thread Dennis Schoen
Brad wrote: > > i'm getting started writing C/C++ programs that are more than one file > long, so i decided it's about time i learn to make a makefile. The make > info page mentions automake, the automake manpage hints at configure.in... > i'm getting confused! > > What's a good way to learn to m

Re: apt through unusual FTP proxy?

1999-05-27 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Brian Boonstra wrote: > Begin > ftp > { > Proxy "ftp://147.113.146.220:21";; > > /* Required script to perform proxy login. */ > > ProxyLogin > { > // "USER $(PROXY_USER)"; > // "PASS $(PROXY_

apt through unusual FTP proxy?

1999-05-27 Thread Brian Boonstra
Hi I want to specify ftp sites for apt from behind my company's proxy, but I can't get it working. Does anyone have experience with "USER no PASS" proxies? The relevant portions of my sources.list and /etc/apt/apt.conf look like the following right now: Begin

Multicasting: found it..

1999-05-27 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Please ignore the previous message about multicasting. I should RTFM the HOWTOs or use the search engines before I post anything. Andrei --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 124023

Multicasting

1999-05-27 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Afternoon all. A project that I am working on (rather, will be) may require multicasting, and from what I know so far, it's not supported by all OS's. Does Linux support it, if so, what kernel version, and where would I find software for it (mrouted)? Thank you, Andrew -

Re: Solaris 7 and Debian

1999-05-27 Thread J Horacio MG
~> On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 07:32:46PM +0100, richard newton wrote: ~> > Does anyone know if it's possible to dual boot Solaris 7 and Debian GNU/Linux? ~> > Any tips or suggestions would be helpful. ~> ~> I do it using the NT boot manager. I too have nt, solaris and debian, but can't boot solaris

Re: Making Makefiles

1999-05-27 Thread Charles B \(Ben\) Cranston
> i'm getting started writing C/C++ programs that are more than one file > long, so i decided it's about time i learn to make a makefile... > What's a good way to learn to make good makefiles? Which packages do i > need, and where do i even start to learn to use them? There is also "Managing Proje

KOffice

1999-05-27 Thread Robert Rati
Anyone know where to get deb for FDE's koffice for slink? None of the sites I've found have koffice. Thanks. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fan

[wtopa@mindspring.com: Re: (Fwd) Re: Puzzling Problem with Parallel Port]

1999-05-27 Thread Wayne Topa
- Forwarded message from Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 13:25:24 -0400 From: Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David B.Teague" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: Puzzling Problem with Parallel Port Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; cha

Re: debian version conventions

1999-05-27 Thread Jens Ritter
"Fethi A. Okyar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello all, > > want to bring the insane naming convention into argument here > for one second. > > This remains to be a mystery for me, I don't know hw I ended up > confusing all the names, slink potato, hamm, beef, etc.. Now I > go down to the sou

Re: update-menus

1999-05-27 Thread Fabien
Wayne Topa wrote: > > Subject: update-menus > Date: Thu, May 27, 1999 at 06:00:34PM +0200 > > In reply to:Fabien > > Quoting Fabien([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hello. > > > > I have tried to use update-menus for local applications (not from debian > > package). > > > > In man menufil

Re: Debian cd cover

1999-05-27 Thread Jens Ritter
Chris Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Several months back I ran accross a debian cd tray cover made in > postscript by someone for slink but can't remember where it was (I have >

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

1999-05-27 Thread Carl Mummert
>$ external-package --installed perl 5.00502 There is a special package, named 'equivs', that lets you do this. That is, it allows you to specify to dpkg that a certain dependency is met. Carl

Re: update-menus

1999-05-27 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: update-menus Date: Thu, May 27, 1999 at 06:00:34PM +0200 In reply to:Fabien Quoting Fabien([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello. > > I have tried to use update-menus for local applications (not from debian > package). > > In man menufile, they say : > << Each menuentry specifi

SOLVED: clock resets on reboot

1999-05-27 Thread Rob Mahurin
Figured it out: no kernel build, no new battery. At some point I had acquired an /etc/adjtime file that was wrong, and /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh was kindly adjusting and resetting my clock for me every time I entered runlevels 0 or 6. The solution was: # hwclock --set --date="now" ; hwclock --h

Re: (Fwd) Re: Puzzling Problem with Parallel Port

1999-05-27 Thread David B.Teague
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: > Subject: (Fwd) Re: Puzzling Problem with Parallel Port > > In reply to:jeb > Quoting jeb([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Is there anyway I can check what IRQ or address space the module > > thinks it is supposed to be using? > > Why use(waste) an IRQ on t

Re: DHCP and debian

1999-05-27 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 08:20:42PM -0500, EXT Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > I believe there is a limitation with the 2.0.X kernel which prevents dhcp > from working > if you have more than one ethernet card. There may be a work-around (other > than > upgrading your kernel and everything else) but I

Xfig: no Indicator Panel?

1999-05-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
Xfig looks like a nice program but I can't get the Indicator Panel described in the docs to appear. Even using the "-showallbuttons" switch doesn't have any effect. Is anyone using Xfig and is there a way round this? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone) Bo

Question Concerning Firewalls

1999-05-27 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello all: Quick question about preventing http downloads. Using the ipchain linux firewall facility I can see how to stop allowing nodes on a LAN to download files via ftp. My question is using that same firewall how does one stop these nodes from downloading files via http? Thanks in advance.

Smail not working after initial install

1999-05-27 Thread Mark Wright
I'm relatively new to the unix world, so please forgive me if this is a stupid question. I keep getting messages that mail is being placed in the /var/spool/smail/error directory. When I look at the /var/log/smail/logfile, the errors say "Failed TO: ERROR:(ERR100) unknown user". Root definitely

Re: Newbie story --install

1999-05-27 Thread Robert
If someone comes along and says that you can run a winmodem under wine it will hurt. I was planning on looking into that sometime. What I did was the Win/Dos install as laid out on the website under installation and got the base system installed. Then I did the minimum package from the initial s

Trouble with sound under X

1999-05-27 Thread timm
I have, unsucessfully, for the past few weeks been trying to get sound working under X. The trouble is this, I have initialized the sound drivers (sound, uart401, and sb), and can get sound to work from the console. However, whenever I use an X program (xanim, RealPlayer, x11amp, etc.), I cannot g

Re: gqview error: ** WARNING **: cannot open display:

1999-05-27 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: gqview error: ** WARNING **: cannot open display: Date: Thu, May 27, 1999 at 12:02:36PM -0400 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > After answering Dan's question, I installed gqview to check it out. > > It sigsegv's on

Re: apt-get: did not finish the job?

1999-05-27 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > "Keith G. Murphy" wrote: > > > > Johann Spies at Johann wrote: > > > > > > Last night I installed libc6_2.1.1-7 and potato's xcdroast using apt-get > > > on my hamm system. During the process the ncurses package was also > > > upgraded. > > > > > > To

Re: OFFTOPIC: How about a /dev/clipboard ?

1999-05-27 Thread Brian Boonstra
For what it's worth, my OpenStep machine at work has command line directives "copy" and "paste", so you can do things like paste | wc or cat myfile.txt | copy - Brian

update-menus

1999-05-27 Thread Fabien
Hello. I have tried to use update-menus for local applications (not from debian package). In man menufile, they say : << Each menuentry specifies what pack­ age it depends on, if that package is not installed, the menuentry will be ignored by update-menus(1). (In a menu­

Re: Apache + Extras, need install advice

1999-05-27 Thread John Foster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I wanna set up a web server w/ Debian, and I wanted to get some quick > advice about that packages to grab and install. > > Basically, I want Apache, with SSL, PHP, and MySQL support. Also, I > would like to have MySQL (obviously), and SSH (for secure access). > > N

Re: gqview error: ** WARNING **: cannot open display:

1999-05-27 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: gqview error: ** WARNING **: cannot open display: Date: Thu, May 27, 1999 at 01:52:52AM -0700 In reply to:Dan Smith Quoting Dan Smith([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > NOTICE: I am not subscribed to the list, so please > send replies to ME, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thank you > I install

Re: gqview error: ** WARNING **: cannot open display:

1999-05-27 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: gqview error: ** WARNING **: cannot open display: Date: Thu, May 27, 1999 at 01:52:52AM -0700 In reply to:Dan Smith Quoting Dan Smith([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > NOTICE: I am not subscribed to the list, so please > send replies to ME, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thank you > I install

Debian Logo Vote & Debian Keyring?

1999-05-27 Thread John Foster
I just read the Debian news section on the Web Site and came across the vote posting for the Debian Logo. My question is: Is this vote for Developers only? The requirements for balloting seem to indicate that only those with current/valid PGP keys on the "Debian Keyring" are allowed to vote. I thou

Re: gnome-session + enlightenmet

1999-05-27 Thread A.J. Rossini
> "AMW" == Allan M Wind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AMW> On 1999-05-21 20:39, Oz Dror wrote: >> what is the relationship between gnome-session and >> enlightenment AMW> Here's my $HOME/.xinitrc which outlines the starting AMW> sequence: AMW>xrdb -load $HOME/.

Clients and Servers (Was: Re: Replacement for Netscape)

1999-05-27 Thread A.J. Rossini
> "KW" == Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KW> Guess I should have specified "as a workstation client". As a KW> server platform, I can understand advertising Linux as running KW> well on low-end PCs, but as a client machine for someone who KW> wants to run X and a web br

Re: HELP please !

1999-05-27 Thread David B.Teague
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Wolfgang Fink wrote: > everybody told me how easy to unsubscribe from this list. I > got very much mails with different instructions to > unsubscribe from this list and I try'd it all, but nothing > works. [snip] Wolfgang If you have sent an email message to [E

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

1999-05-27 Thread Eric E. Coe
Hello, This can be a big deal, especially with packages commonly placed in dependecy lists. For example: Perl. Debian-stable's version of Perl is 5.004xx and the upcoming release in unstable is essentially the same. :( But the current stable version of Perl on CPAN is 5.00502 - it's been out

Re: DHCP and debian

1999-05-27 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Yes, another reason dhclient (pachage dhcp-client-beta) is superior is that it doesn't immediately fork into the background. It stays in the foreground until your IP is gotten (or until a timeout expires) so you can pretty surely know that once it's been run the IP will be set. If you start dhcl

What's the latest standalone Netscape w/128 encryption?

1999-05-27 Thread Arcady Genkin
Subj? Was at netscape's site and it looks like 4.6 is only available with 56-bit encryption as a standalone browser. -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)

Netscape + rvplayer & xpdf

1999-05-27 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi all: Has anyone gotten Netscape call these with the right parameters when a hyperlink for an appropriate file is clicked? I have the following in the Netscape's setup: for RealAudio: rvplayer %h and similar for Adobe acrobat files, and it doesn't work. -- Arcady Genkin "... without money o

RE: Making Makefiles

1999-05-27 Thread Jonathan Lupa
I find myself referring to http://linuxcentral.com/catalog/tech/fsf/make/make.html quite a bit when playing around with cygwin at work. I can't comment on how it stacks up against the mans though. -Jonathan ~ jonathan lupa [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday, May 27, 1999 2:47 AM, Brad [SMTP:[EMAIL PRO

Re: DNS lookup with Netscape 4.5, 4.51 and 4.6

1999-05-27 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Stephan Engelke wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > on my slink system I have noticed the following behavoiur: > > Whenever I start Netscape (version >= 4.51) it tries perform a DNS lookup > of my local hostname (terra.local.universe.de). After approx. 5 minutes > the page finally loads. > > I am usin

Re: help: clock resets on reboot

1999-05-27 Thread John Foster
Rob Mahurin wrote: > > John Foster wrote: > > > Most modern Motherboards have a small rechargeable battery on them that > > hold enough power to keep the hardware clock set to the correct time, > > when the system is powered off. It appears that your battery is > > degrading and may need to be re

Re: dbootstrap and non-interactive install

1999-05-27 Thread Fabien
Fabien wrote: > > Hello. > > I want to make a personnalisated installation of debian, like we can do > with the kickstart in redhat. > Is there something similar to this in debian ? > > Maybe I have to use dbootstrap. > But where is the source ?? > I cant't find it anywhere in packages listing..

Re: Re: about Linux Books questions ?

1999-05-27 Thread David B.Teague
> On Tuesday 25 May, David B.Teague wrote: [snip] > > Running Linux just has commands. Useful to remind you about > > command syntax. No structure of Debian, little detail. On Wed, 26 May 1999, Graham Ashton wrote: > I think you're confused. "Linux in a nutshell" is basically commands and > a

Re: apt-get: did not finish the job?

1999-05-27 Thread Keith G. Murphy
"Keith G. Murphy" wrote: > > Johann Spies at Johann wrote: > > > > Last night I installed libc6_2.1.1-7 and potato's xcdroast using apt-get > > on my hamm system. During the process the ncurses package was also > > upgraded. > > > > Today when I ran "make menuconfig" in my kernel-source tree I get

Re: dbootstrap and non-interactive install

1999-05-27 Thread shaleh
> > Hello. > > I want to make a personnalisated installation of debian, like we can do > with the kickstart in redhat. > Is there something similar to this in debian ? > Not currently, but we are working on it.

Latest GNOME on Slink?

1999-05-27 Thread Jack Versfeld
Where can I get the latest GNOME compiled agains the slink libraries, since I don't want to go to potato yet... Thanx... Jack

dbootstrap and non-interactive install

1999-05-27 Thread Fabien
Hello. I want to make a personnalisated installation of debian, like we can do with the kickstart in redhat. Is there something similar to this in debian ? Maybe I have to use dbootstrap. But where is the source ?? I cant't find it anywhere in packages listing... This what I like : - beginning o

Re: KDE

1999-05-27 Thread Remco van 't Veer
They work on my slink, thought this was a hamm last year. Please note kdegraphics is missing. On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 12:10, Brian Schramm wrote: > I have found the deb files for version 1.1.1 on kde's site > for hamm. Will these work on slink? > > -- > Brian Schramm > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EM

smb.conf / security = DOMAIN (samba 2.0.0)

1999-05-27 Thread Cameron O'Connor
Title: smb.conf / security = DOMAIN (samba 2.0.0) Hi In smb.conf I wish to have security = DOMAIN When I try to access the specified shared directory I am asked for password authorization Of course no passwords will work. To support this I know I have to use smbpasswd and  -n and each use

Re: Solaris 7 and Debian

1999-05-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 07:32:46PM +0100, richard newton wrote: > Does anyone know if it's possible to dual boot Solaris 7 and Debian GNU/Linux? > Any tips or suggestions would be helpful. I do it using the NT boot manager. Actually I never use Solaris, as the console is hideous and it doesn't su

StarOffice 5.1 Segmentation fault on potato

1999-05-27 Thread Mike Hill
After breezing through the installation procedure (saying `y' to the glibc 2.0.7 warning -- I have 2.1.1), when I run `./soffice' or `./soffice.bin' I get a segmentation fault. Has anyone else seen this? Mike -- Mike Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DHCP and debian

1999-05-27 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Just for the record, my dhcpcd is having the same problem, with one ethernet card. Kernel 2.2.7, dhcpcd 1.3.16. I have to use dhclient (another DHCP client program) to connect to the internet. I had this problem under Redhat, too. In fact, it is part of the reason I switched. Trying to get

Re: gqview error: ** WARNING **: cannot open display:

1999-05-27 Thread shaleh
> > NOTICE: I am not subscribed to the list, so please > send replies to ME, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thank you > I installed gqview after first installing the proper > libs, and once it installed without dependancy > problems, attempted to use it. > The following commands: > gqview > gqview > gqview

Re: gqview error: ** WARNING **: cannot open display:

1999-05-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "DS" == Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DS> All resulted in this error: ** WARNING **: cannot DS> open display: You try to start it as root, but you use X as another user? Only the user opening the X display may use it by default. Try running gqview as this user. If you want to be ab

Re: please help - hdd activity control

1999-05-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JL" == Jarek Lewinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JL> Does anybody know about a tool that can help me monitor how my JL> drives are working. Well, at least for my host adapter, I find some stats in /proc/scsi. Ciao, Martin

Re: Replacement for Netscape

1999-05-27 Thread joop . vson
> I am running slink on 5x86/100, 32 megs of RAM and I quite like it. I'd like > to have 48 megs just because I run samba and NFS and wannna to have some > services on it. I use netscape (4.6 now) and i had staroffice installed but > i removed it cause i didn't like it... > > Now, the only one pr

Re: Making Makefiles

1999-05-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 01:47:29 -0500, Brad wrote: >i'm getting started writing C/C++ programs that are more than one file >long, so i decided it's about time i learn to make a makefile. The make >info page mentions automake, the automake manpage hints at configure.in... >i'm getting confused! Au

Re: Commercial mail client now free - source code availabl

1999-05-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 08:35:33 -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Sounds very non-free. If they close down shop and leave it > non-redistributable like this, it will die a horrible death. I contacted them for more info regarding the licensing terms, and recently received a rather non-commital re

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