Re: Ability to read MS Word files

1999-06-02 Thread Robert . King
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, adasoft wrote: > I need to read the text content in a MS Word file on NT from outside of > MS-Word in a batch program to create a list of all the words contained in > the document. Any suggestions ? > > Supriyo Sircar Assuming that the files are MSWord 8 files, try to WordTo

ipchains and firewalls

1999-06-02 Thread debian
Anyone prepared to give me a hand with my ipchains firewall, or show me an example of one of there firewalls. I have an old ipfwadm firewall I wrote, but I think it needs work, and plus it stops dns zone xfers to my secondary dns server on the net, when I lock it down tight. Thanks in advance, als

help! install with DOS-lost HD on boot

1999-06-02 Thread kaynjay
Home with the school computer for summer... I wanted to redo my drive layout due to very limited space, squeezing out OS/2 and Windows for Linux. I've lost my Linux drives, though. I am hoping someone could point out where I screwed up, and suggest a way to avoid reinstalling (or doing it right ;

Re: Death of a 2nd WD hard drive

1999-06-02 Thread John
Douglas Federman wrote: > I have experienced the death of 2 new WD Caviar drives after installing and > running Debian Linux. Each drive started with a clicking noise, several > weeks later read errors appeared and now completely dead. WD replaced the > first drive without question. Before I

Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-02 Thread debian
I am running a PC100 128mb SDRAM dimm on a 300a Celeron machine which is only at 66mhz bus speed by normal. And it runs fine. -Original Message- From: Andrei Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Debian user list Date: Thursday, 3 June 1999 5:05 Subject: OFFTOPI

Re: Firewall's and Real*

1999-06-02 Thread vandeveb
On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 04:33:57PM +0100, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: > Hi > > With kernel 2.0.x and ipfwadm it was necessary to compile something into > the kernel so that it would allow real* traffic to go by. Is the same > still valid for kernel 2.2.x with ipchains? > I assume by real* yo

Can't read /floppy/type.txt

1999-06-02 Thread ktb
I'm trying to install on an IBM ps/2 model 70. I'm using an MCA Slink rescue disk. The computer reads the floppy fine until I get to the point in the install that says, "Install operating system kernel and modules." I then get an error that reads, Cannot read /floppy/type.txt : Invalid argument

Re: GNOME vs KDE

1999-06-02 Thread Ed Cogburn
Daniel González Gasull wrote: > > Hi! > > Yep, I know. This is a old flame war. But I don't > want your personal opinions. What I want is some > links about comparisons between GNOME and KDE. > > Please send me some links about this comparisons. > And do not begin a flame war. Thank you in a

Re: PPP problems

1999-06-02 Thread John Hasler
> I have configured the CHAP/PAP chatscript to connect ISP with dynamic ip. Which are you using? PAP or CHAP? > dont have no clue what does 'last messge repeated 11 times' mean? Just what it says: the message "sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 ]" has been repeated 11 times. If you are using pppcon

Re: Is there a PPPoE client for Linux?

1999-06-02 Thread John Hasler
Arcady Genkin wrote: > My ISP is going to implement that crap for my ADSL connection. They'll > of course be only supporting WinXX. Should I start looking for another > ISP? I just researched PPPoE a bit. Looks like a bad idea whose time has come. It should be possible to write a PPPoE client f

mouse button in java

1999-06-02 Thread moron
Does any java programmer out there have the same problem as I have with jdk 1.1.1? It recognises a mousePressed() but doesn't return the correct value in getModifiers() for the left button - for the right button it works all right. David

Offer for apt improvements at the Free Software Bazaar

1999-06-02 Thread Laurent Martelli
Dear Debian lovers, I've just made an offer on the Free Software Bazaar (http://visar.csustan.edu/bazaar/bazaar.html) for improvements to apt. So I invite all of you would like to have those improvements to increase my offer. The request is : apt-get should try the various FTP sites listed i

Re: error executing gnome update for slink 2.1

1999-06-02 Thread scratch
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Renzo Bagnati wrote: > After installing the GNOME update for debian 2.1 (using apt-get as described > in > http://www.gnome.org/start/getting_debian.shtml) and trying to run the gnome > desktop, I got the following errors in the file .xsession-errors: try pointing your source

Re: glibc 2.1, gdb 4.18 and MT debugging ?

1999-06-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 04:53:46PM -0500, Oleg Krivosheev was heard to say: > > Hi, All > > just tried to debug my MT stuff using latest potato stuff and > did not succeed. Is MT debugging lost in transition? I was able > to debug my stuff on slink with glibc 2.0.7 and gdb 4.17 > > What package

Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-02 Thread Colin Marquardt
* shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The question is: if I buy a SDRAM PC100 chip, will it work on a >> computer with bus speed of 66Mhz ? > Nope. What? Why shouldn´t they run with a *slower* clock? The only thing that makes me think is that a 3-year-old computer has already SDRAMs... Coli

Re: ISPs

1999-06-02 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Michael Procario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > support site, but you do not even need those. You need the DNS server > addresses and the phone number. I use wvdial (its comes with Debian) to do > the Starting with pppd-2.3.7, you don´t even need the DNS addresses. Search for the option "use

Re: Sudden problem with root password

1999-06-02 Thread Brad
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Pollywog wrote: > I had this problem yesterday and the cause is a faulty package, the one > containing the su executable. It needs to be reset suid root. There's a fix available now. From the changelog: shellutils (1.16-6.5) unstable; urgency=high * Fix su not-suid-ro

Re: Sudden problem with root password

1999-06-02 Thread Pollywog
On 02-Jun-99 Steve Lamb wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 17:59:56 -0400, David Gaudine wrote: > >>power failure. (i.e. while I'm still logged in and don't have to >>work from a rescue disk.) > > Have you looked at the password/shadow entries f

RE: Sudden problem with root password

1999-06-02 Thread Pollywog
On 02-Jun-99 David Gaudine wrote: > I just telnetted to my potato system and tried to su to root. > (I know I should be using ssh, but it's my ssh problem that > I was trying to fix, thanks Brad.) I got the message >su: incorrect password > Surely I didn't forget my own root password, but jus

Re: Sudden problem with root password

1999-06-02 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 17:59:56 -0400, David Gaudine wrote: >power failure. (i.e. while I'm still logged in and don't have to >work from a rescue disk.) Have you looked at the password/shadow entries for root? - -- Steve C. Lamb |

Sudden problem with root password

1999-06-02 Thread David Gaudine
I just telnetted to my potato system and tried to su to root. (I know I should be using ssh, but it's my ssh problem that I was trying to fix, thanks Brad.) I got the message su: incorrect password Surely I didn't forget my own root password, but just in case, I went physically to the system wh

glibc 2.1, gdb 4.18 and MT debugging ?

1999-06-02 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, All just tried to debug my MT stuff using latest potato stuff and did not succeed. Is MT debugging lost in transition? I was able to debug my stuff on slink with glibc 2.0.7 and gdb 4.17 What package to blame: gdb 4.18, glibc 2.1 or kernel 2.2? thanks a lot for any help regards OK

Re: Groups

1999-06-02 Thread Carl Mummert
>From message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : >How can I ad a user into the dip group ??? as root # adduser user group Carl

Re: Death of a 2nd WD hard drive

1999-06-02 Thread Carl Mummert
At my former place of employment, we had quite a few 1.6 WDs die. They would usually have that clicking problem. My advice: download from WD their disk diagnosis program. You put it on a DOS floppy, boot the floppy, and run the program. If the program says the drive is dead, WD will replace it

Re: [Fwd: Gnome panel doesn't lock the screen]

1999-06-02 Thread David Coe
For me, the panel's error messages go to .xsession-errors; they probably do for you too. I have the same problem, and see this when I click 'Lock screen': sh: xscreensaver-command: command not found I guess that's why it recommends xscreensaver. Personally I prefer xtrlock, so I just added a

Re: Groups

1999-06-02 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
hi On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > How can I ad a user into the dip group ??? > > > > I've set etc/ppp to root dip > > When i ad a user to the dip group, can this user make a connection to > > the internet, using pon ??? > > > > type vigr at the command prompt

Re: ssh and libgpm2.so (potato)

1999-06-02 Thread Brad
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, David Gaudine wrote: > I'm trying to install ssh (not ssh2) on potato. It can't find libgmp2.so. > That sounds suspiciously like something that should be in the > libgmp2 package, but that package is installed. I'm not sure if it's a bug in ssh or in libgmp2, but creating a s

Re: Death of a 2nd WD hard drive

1999-06-02 Thread Douglas Federman
Thanks for the replies. The most recent crash was in a new computer and the drive was less than 2 months old. The clicking started only when active at first, but then it started during startup as well. The drive was delivered directly from WD as a warranty replacement for the 1st dead drive.

XF86Setup

1999-06-02 Thread moron
I've been trying a lot of things, with help from you out there, and come to the following conclusions. Am I right? 1: The so-called 'default' in 'Xserver' is more than that. If you try 'startx -- -bpp 16' and the default doesn't have this depth it doesn't look for it in any of the other sections

Gnome-terminal: secure keyboard?

1999-06-02 Thread David Coe
Does gnome-terminal have a "secure keyboard" option like xterm? (I can't find it, but haven't checked the source yet.) If not, anybody know why not?

Re: Debian menus I am lost

1999-06-02 Thread Brad
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Chris Flipse wrote: > Your problem is in the first line: "?package(local.staroffice):" ... > if you don't have the package in the ?package(...) section of the menu > declaration installed, then update-menus skips this entry. >From the manpage: (In a menu-entry you can spec

Re: Groups

1999-06-02 Thread shaleh
> > Hi, > > How can I ad a user into the dip group ??? > > I've set etc/ppp to root dip > When i ad a user to the dip group, can this user make a connection to > the internet, using pon ??? > type vigr at the command prompt. Scroll down to the dip group. After the colon write the users name.

Installation Bug?

1999-06-02 Thread James 'Kiyote' Littlefield
First, thanks to everyone who answered the last question. It's much appreciated. But.. is there a bug in the 'Select Devices' part of the instalation? Even though they've been selected, ppp, slip, vfat, and other options never get installed, leaving a crippled system.

Help me get apt through this ftp firewall

1999-06-02 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
Hello, To connect via ftp to the outside world I have to ftp first to a firewall (ftpFW) and respond to the prompts using my employee id (empID) and internal employee password (empPW) as follows: $ ftp ftpFW Name: [EMAIL PROTECTED] empID Password: remote_password Account:

Re: Removing a pid

1999-06-02 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
How about: $ kill `pidof gtt`

Re: Funkgerät

1999-06-02 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 10:23:50PM +0200, christian wrote: > gibt es eine Möglichkeit, mit Hilfe eines Funkgerätes, Daten von PC's zu > übertragen? Ohne English an diese Liste, bitte. Das Volk hier, viele mehr schlecte Deutsche dann mich haben. (Und meiene Deutsch ist sehr schlect, Sie sehen.

Groups

1999-06-02 Thread Cuno Sonnemans
Hi, How can I ad a user into the dip group ??? I've set etc/ppp to root dip When i ad a user to the dip group, can this user make a connection to the internet, using pon ??? Cuno

Re: libjpeg.so.6 and KDE

1999-06-02 Thread Jaroslaw Berezowski
Daniel González Gasull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Just get KDE linked against libjpeg62. > >How can I do that? > >I realize how newbie I am. I don't what to do with >such information. Binaries that you have installed have been compiled and linked on system with libjpeg6-dev. > >Here is my $ld

Re: Help...Linux on Low Level

1999-06-02 Thread Peter Allen
Use lilo, then you can boot either. Just set up your /etc/lilo.conf for duel boot. (I haven't got a sample handy, but man lilo to get the format, and if all else fails look in the archives for one, as I know many people have posted there lilo.conf files many times. Peter Allen >

Available packages for apt

1999-06-02 Thread Christophe Clapp
Recently, after a lot of apt-get dist-upgrade, I noticed that my /var/cache/apt/archive had many copies of the same packages. So, I tried a man apt-get and found the option clean. I tried it but it removed everything. I just want it to remove the old packages, keeping the most recent in their p

Re: Help!!! Linux plus IBM! again :(

1999-06-02 Thread Peter Allen
I think I have read somewhere it is ctrl-alt-del then possibly some other ctrl-alt combination. If all else feels, disconect the keyboard, and something in the bios definatly comes up then. (I'm not sure whether you can get in the bios itself from that though, but its worth a try.)

Re: ipautofw not working

1999-06-02 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: ipautofw not working Date: Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 11:08:03AM -0700 In reply to:George Bonser Quoting George Bonser([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > To make it clear, I can use ipfwadm ok, but I can't use ipautofw. > > > > > > Any cl

Different mailer called from netscape??

1999-06-02 Thread Michael Procario
When I click on a mailto link in Netscape Communicator 4.5, it brings up its mailer but I would prefer that it bring up exmh which I use for everything else. I have looked for a way to do this but I have not found one. At home I still use Navigator instead of Communicator and it would be there t

Re: socket programming in c++

1999-06-02 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1999-06-02 11:06, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Why yes it does. If you'd like something a little more OOish check > out the ACE library (created by Doug Schmidt). Where to get it? > Can't think of it at the moment, but I think Doug did this at the > Univ. of Washington so maybe try there. The lib

Re: Death of a 2nd WD hard drive

1999-06-02 Thread Bob Billson
Sounds like you got a bad batch of drives. I've used Western Digital drives in 4 Linux boxes I've put together. All machines run 24/7. My own primary home machine has been running Linux 24/7 for the last 4 years. The only problem I had was last month when a WD 1.6 GB drive died a sudden and ver

Re: ipautofw not working

1999-06-02 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: ipautofw not working Date: Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 11:08:03AM -0700 In reply to:George Bonser Quoting George Bonser([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > To make it clear, I can use ipfwadm ok, but I can't use ipautofw. > > > > > > Any cl

X problems in Slink

1999-06-02 Thread harsh
Hi, I've been having problems with my system, It's a long story bugut to make it short I have a new mother board and have installed Slink on a freshly partioned drive. Every thing I've tested so far works except my routines that use Lesstif. I stripped the code to a minimun to demostrate the prob

Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-02 Thread Leen Besselink
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The question is: if I buy a SDRAM PC100 chip, will it work on a > > computer with bus speed of 66Mhz ? > > Nope. Although there should be still some of this older stuff around. try: www.pricewatch.com hope this helps.

Re: ps/2 model 90

1999-06-02 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Peter Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Ok, I give up, | having found an old ps2 90 lying around I decided to set it up to | do all the dogs body tasks like email etc. I have got everything | working except X. What graphics card is the default one in this | baby, as I cannot find it anywhere o

Re: su is broken on potato?

1999-06-02 Thread shaleh
> > I potato-fied (French fried) my system yesterday, and ity seems that su is > broken. > I am not getting any error messages in /var/log/*, and it appears not to be > Segfalting. > Hints would be greatly appreciated. Seems it lost its setuid bit. New release is expected soon. In the interim

Re: Firewall's and Real*

1999-06-02 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Firewall's and Real* Date: Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 04:33:57PM +0100 In reply to:Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe Quoting Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi > > With kernel 2.0.x and ipfwadm it was necessary to compile something into > the kernel so that it would all

Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-02 Thread shaleh
> The question is: if I buy a SDRAM PC100 chip, will it work on a > computer with bus speed of 66Mhz ? Nope.

Re: error executing gnome update for slink 2.1

1999-06-02 Thread Luis M. Garcia
On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 10:17:16AM +0200, Renzo Bagnati wrote: > After installing the GNOME update for debian 2.1 (using apt-get as described > in > http://www.gnome.org/start/getting_debian.shtml) and trying to run the gnome > desktop, I got the following errors in the file .xsession-errors: > >

OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-02 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Sorry for the offtopic question: I need to upgrade ram on one of the computers. It's a 3 year old Gateway, and it's got only SDRAM slots. The bus speed is up to 66 only. I've been looking at the ram prices, and everywhere I see only SDRAM PC100. As far as I understood from the docs, it's for comput

dselect problem - can't install stuff

1999-06-02 Thread Erik Sandblom
Hello, I'm new to the list =) I just installed debian 2.1 slink for the first time; dselect doesn't seem to be working. Possible explanations: I didn't read the readme on the 4 CDs I have, where it says "If you wish to use the multicd installation method, as is the default for CD-based installs

ps/2 model 90

1999-06-02 Thread Peter Allen
Ok, I give up, having found an old ps2 90 lying around I decided to set it up to do all the dogs body tasks like email etc. I have got everything working except X. What graphics card is the default one in this baby, as I cannot find it anywhere on the net. Also which xserver is the one to use?

Re: Death of a 2nd WD hard drive

1999-06-02 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Did you buy your drive in a consumer box, or was it gray market? The only harddisks that I ever had a problem with (WD and Seagate) were purchased gray market (no box, just wrapped in antistatic plastic) from the local twaiwan row. I will NEVER buy a gray market HD again. === Amateur Radio, when

Re: Death of a 2nd WD hard drive

1999-06-02 Thread David B.Teague
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Douglas Federman wrote: > I have experienced the death of 2 new WD Caviar drives after > installing and running Debian Linux. Each drive started with a > clicking noise, several weeks later read errors appeared and now > completely dead. WD replaced the first drive with

su is broken on potato?

1999-06-02 Thread Lawrence Walton
I potato-fied (French fried) my system yesterday, and ity seems that su is broken. I am not getting any error messages in /var/log/*, and it appears not to be Segfalting. Hints would be greatly appreciated. -- *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP

Mail Relay for Debian

1999-06-02 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Greetings, I host several domains and would like to have my DNSs get and hold mail when remote WAN host drop off line. I had been using sendmail, but it has become MUCH to complicated for this task. I am looking for a simple, yet controllable, program that will relay mail for my hosted d

Re: Help...Linux on Low Level

1999-06-02 Thread Dennis Schoen
> Kyle Landon wrote: > > Help!! > > I need to get Linux out of my master boot record so I can load > windows. > > Kyle Try a DOS-Bootdisk and type ´fdisk /mbr´ dennis -- # Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is a user-friendly Operating System.# # It's just choosey about who its friends are.

Re: ipautofw not working

1999-06-02 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: ipautofw not working Date: Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 09:43:45PM -0700 In reply to:Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella Quoting Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi, > > I've been trying to use ipautofw in my debian box, but I've been > having trouble with that. I issue any

ssh and libgpm2.so (potato)

1999-06-02 Thread David Gaudine
I'm trying to install ssh (not ssh2) on potato. It can't find libgmp2.so. That sounds suspiciously like something that should be in the libgmp2 package, but that package is installed. ssh is 1.2.27-1 libgmp2 is 2.0.2-1.2 Perhaps I should mention that I previously installed ssh2 and had to remove i

Re: More Ethernet card problems.

1999-06-02 Thread Joost Kooij
[Dale, IMHO debian-user is the appropriate list] Hi, On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote: [hassle with peecee hardware] Maybe it's an interrupt conflict. I've actually seen interrupt problems with 3c509 cards a couple of times. Interrupt problems are often spurious and give you a hard ti

Re: Removing a pid

1999-06-02 Thread Ares
Either that or look under /var/run for a file like gtt.pid. JDM Jason D. Michaelson | Debian GNU/ o http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] | _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |/ /_ _ _ _ __ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | / /__ / / / \// //_//

glimpse and Debian doc

1999-06-02 Thread Fabien
If you have apache installed, you can do : http://localhost/doc/HTML/ and you can make a search, if you have installed glimpse I have tried it, but it give me no results. If I try to lauch the command that dsearch (the cgi used for that) by hand, it want me to make a database index with glimseind

PPP problems

1999-06-02 Thread K.Y.Lo
Hi I have configured the CHAP/PAP chatscript to connect ISP with dynamic ip. dont have no clue what does 'last messge repeated 11 times' mean? I config PPP for so long . I cant getting thru ISP. Jun 3 01:48:32 griz pppd[197]: Serial connection established. Jun 3 01:48:32 griz chat[200]: CONN

Re: YP problem.

1999-06-02 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I have seen this recently at our home office. There the server is unfortunately Redhat (5 I believe?). I've only seen this crop up recently and am still running Hamm on the machine up there which is the NIS client. Each time I see this happen I ssh in to the box and then when I run ypcat XXX it

RE: Death of a 2nd WD hard drive

1999-06-02 Thread Dan Willard
How old is the computer? It sounds more like a hardware issue then software. If the power supply is freaking it can kill hard drives or a good spike can cause damage to the hard drive's circuit board. The clicking noise is usually associated with the drive heads being reset (slaming into park),

Re: Is there a PPPoE client for Linux?

1999-06-02 Thread John Hasler
Jonathan Guthrie writes: > PPP over Ethernet is a truly stupid idea whose purpose is to allow DSLAM > manufacturers to sell equipment to both the telephone companies and ISPs. > (Why would you want to provide access to a packet-switched network over a > circuit-switched network simulated on a packe

Re: socket programming in c++

1999-06-02 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Why yes it does. If you'd like something a little more OOish check out the ACE library (created by Doug Schmidt). Where to get it? Can't think of it at the moment, but I think Doug did this at the Univ. of Washington so maybe try there. The library is supposed to be pretty good. I've never used

Re: Debian menus I am lost

1999-06-02 Thread Tommy Malloy
Thanks for the help. The backslash plus fixing a few loose quotation marks did the trick. I am punishing myself by writing on a blackboard 100 times " Syntax is my friend" I am now one big step closer to actually understanding the menu system, but I think I will delay my plans to teach myself C.

Re: Removing a pid

1999-06-02 Thread Clyde Wilson
Try ps auxw | grep gtt On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Johann Spies at Johann wrote: > On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Ralph Winslow wrote: > > > When Johann Spies at Johann wrote, I replied: > > > Try > > ps ax | grep gtt | grep -v grep > > I have tried that. It shows nothing. > > I have also removed gnome-u

Unidentified subject!

1999-06-02 Thread James 'Kiyote' Littlefield
Just a quick question, but I got no reply from the laptop list. Has anyone gotten Debian to run, modem and all, on a Compaq Presario 1610 Laptop? J'K'L

Help...Linux on Low Level

1999-06-02 Thread Kyle Landon
Help!!   I need to get Linux out of my master boot record so I can load windows.   Kyle

Firewall's and Real*

1999-06-02 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi With kernel 2.0.x and ipfwadm it was necessary to compile something into the kernel so that it would allow real* traffic to go by. Is the same still valid for kernel 2.2.x with ipchains? Thank you -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf

Re: Debian menus I am lost

1999-06-02 Thread Chris Flipse
I do not understand the debian menu system. Based on what I read in the manual /usr/doc/menu/html/ch4.html and other sources I took the following steps as a user (not as root) 1. Created ~/.menudirectory 2. in ~/.menu created the following file ?package(local.sta

Re: Death of a 2nd WD hard drive

1999-06-02 Thread Fabien
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > I have experienced the death of 2 new WD Caviar drives after installing and > > running Debian Linux. Each drive started with a clicking noise, several > > weeks later read errors appeared and now completely dead. WD replaced the > > first drive without ques

Re: Death of a 2nd WD hard drive

1999-06-02 Thread Alec Smith
I have been using Western Digital drives with Linux for a long time. None of them exhibits any sort of problem. One is a 3.1GB drive I've had for 3 years. Another is a 4GB drive I've had for 2, and a 10.1GB drive I bought last fall. I doubt its Linux causing the problems... Actually, I've never had

Re: Debian menus I am lost

1999-06-02 Thread Brad
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > Coincidently, I have the same entry for StarOffice in my Linux > box. It worked for me. Try it and let me know what happened. > - > ?package(local.StarOffice):command="/home/mario/Office50/bin/soffice" \ > icon="none" needs="

Re: Death of a 2nd WD hard drive

1999-06-02 Thread shaleh
> > I have experienced the death of 2 new WD Caviar drives after installing and > running Debian Linux. Each drive started with a clicking noise, several > weeks later read errors appeared and now completely dead. WD replaced the > first drive without question. Before I replace the second, c

RE: Death of a 2nd WD hard drive

1999-06-02 Thread Person, Roderick
I been using TWO WD Caviars for 6 or 7 month now. Without any problems at all. They run fine. I think it sounds more like a case of a bad batch of hardware. Rod.. > -Original Message- > From: Douglas Federman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 11:00 AM > To: debian

Re: Laplink and DOS?

1999-06-02 Thread Jack Versfeld
> On Mon, May 31, 1999 at 09:45:49PM +0300, virtanen wrote > > > > I've got a Debian-box, a small laptop with DOS, and a Laplink cable. > > > > What is an easy method to connet the Debian-box and DOS-box with the > > Laplink-cable so that I could easily at least copy files from the othe > > mach

Re: Further question re. dpkg and apt (was: Re: GNOME Installation)

1999-06-02 Thread shaleh
> > >M> I'm trying to install GNOME by hand, and I need to install > >M> libgnome32 to continue. When I try to install it, I am told that > >M> it depends on having libgnomeui32 installed. But when I try to > >M> install that, it says i need to already have libgnome32 in. > > > >You have to inst

Re: Dotlock vs Kernel lock

1999-06-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 10:33:56 -0400, Carl Mummert wrote: > Unfortunately, I can think of about 5 different ways of locking a file. For mail programs, this is standardised within Debian (http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch5.html#s5.5). They use liblockfile, or implement dot locking themse

Why doesn't DIRCOLORS work?

1999-06-02 Thread Lorne Williams
I'm just trying to do something simple. I want to change the color of listed directories from bright blue to bright white. I'm running slink. I've created my own config file, ~/.dircolorsrc, and changed one item - dir color - from 01;34 to 01;37. This is the result: # eval dircolors .dircolorsr

Death of a 2nd WD hard drive

1999-06-02 Thread Douglas Federman
I have experienced the death of 2 new WD Caviar drives after installing and running Debian Linux. Each drive started with a clicking noise, several weeks later read errors appeared and now completely dead. WD replaced the first drive without question. Before I replace the second, could Linux

Re: mpeg movies with sound?

1999-06-02 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Brad wrote: > On Wed, 26 May 1999, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > > > On Wed, 26 May 1999, Robert Ramiega wrote: > > > > > > > Hi! > > > > Can someone point me to package that could play mpeg movies with sound? > > [...] > > > Hopefully someone else knows of a more free play

Gnome panel doesn't lock the screen

1999-06-02 Thread Pedro Sanchez
I installed the deb gnome 1.0 files for slink but the "lock screen" option in the panel does nothing. Does gnome write errors somewhere? Thank you, -- Pedro I. Sanchez

Re: SoundBlaster PCI64

1999-06-02 Thread robbie
Hi I don't know about the cd playing problem, but the es1370 driver is not part of oss, so it doesn't appear in /dev/sndstat. The cdrom drive is not controlled by the sound driver, it is only connected to an analogue input on the sound card. Regards -- Rob Murray

Re: NTFS support

1999-06-02 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 02 Jun 1999 08:58:25 -0500, Nadarajah, Dinesh wrote: >I am trying to findout how I can enable NTFS support on my Debian 2.1 >system. I am to access some files on my Windows NT partition but I am unable >to mount the partition. Any suggestions??? You need to mount it using filesystem type

Re: Dotlock vs Kernel lock

1999-06-02 Thread Carl Mummert
>What is the difference between these two lock methods, and which one would be >considered to be most "stable"? I do also have the option to use both, but why >would I want that? Kernel locking relies on a flag to the open() command which tells the krnel to reserve the file. dot-locking relises o

Further question re. dpkg and apt (was: Re: GNOME Installation)

1999-06-02 Thread Hans van den Boogert
>M> I'm trying to install GNOME by hand, and I need to install >M> libgnome32 to continue. When I try to install it, I am told that >M> it depends on having libgnomeui32 installed. But when I try to >M> install that, it says i need to already have libgnome32 in. > >You have to install these packa

Re: help, rogue file on hosed system

1999-06-02 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: > On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 00:09:04 +0800, Paul Harris wrote: > > chattr: Operation not supported by device while reading flags on > > /usr/lib/crt1.o > > > > can I run it while mounted as usual? do i need to move single run level > > and remount as read/wr

Re: /etc/ppp what permission should it be

1999-06-02 Thread John Hasler
> What should the permissions /etc/ppp be. The permissions are fine, but the ownership should be root.dip . > why have /etc/ppp/peers root/dip as group dip cant get in anyway. or can > it ? It's a bug. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: pppd / pon problem

1999-06-02 Thread John Hasler
John P. writes: > Maybe things have changed since I installed PPP, but on my home system > /etc/ppp is owned root:root and has permissions 700. Users who are in > the dip group can use PPP, because pppd is owned root:dip and has > permissions 4754 (suid root, executable by group). With /etc/ppp r

Re: Sierra Space Quest on WINE or DOSEMU?

1999-06-02 Thread Steve Rothanburg
Take a look at http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~entropy/agi/ There is a copy of sarien in unstable. Kent West wrote: > Sorry about the off-topic nature here > > Does anyone know if Sierra's Space Quest games will run on dosemu or > wine? About 10 years ago I played the first in the series but

Re: Is there a PPPoE client for Linux?

1999-06-02 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On 1 Jun 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: > My ISP is going to implement that crap for my ADSL connection. They'll > of course be only supporting WinXX. Should I start looking for another > ISP? PPP over Ethernet is a truly stupid idea whose purpose is to allow DSLAM manufacturers to sell equipment t

NTFS support

1999-06-02 Thread Nadarajah, Dinesh
Hi: I am trying to findout how I can enable NTFS support on my Debian 2.1 system. I am to access some files on my Windows NT partition but I am unable to mount the partition. Any suggestions??? Thanks. -Dinesh

RE: java

1999-06-02 Thread Person, Roderick
As far as I know there is not a port of JDK2 for Linux. Check www.blackdown.org to keep updated. What I did was download the Sun JDK2 .tars(for solaris) from www.javasoft.com (I think it changed to java.sun.com ???). The unpacked it in a safe? location and Now am reading the DOCs and all that fun

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