Re: debian vs redhat

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Re: Toshiba Satellite 2520CDS

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Re: StarOffice 5.1 segfaults

> Yes the last libc upgrade; it seems to of killed > Star Office 5.1 for me. :< Luckily I have old libc6 and libc6-dev debs (you might be able to dig them up in your /var/cache/apt/archives/ directory). I'll just keep these in a safe folder just in case this happens again. === ___

Re: SV: burning potatoe on cd's

On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 04:55:55PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > dists/potato/contrib/binary-i386/, dists/potato/main/binary-i386/ and > > > dists/potato/non-free/binary-i386/. Is this correct? What do I put > where, > > > since this won't fit om a single cd...? > > Take a look at the sli

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Re: Toshiba Satellite 2520CDS

> "Stanley" == Stanley J Benes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stanley> The toshiba laptops require special (kernel?) install Stanley> called the tecra. I think it's on the 2.1 slink CD, but I Stanley> don't have my machine by me right now to check. Try Stanley> looking for and us

Re: telnet access control

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Re: lost the root password

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Re: .xsession not being read?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Carl Fink wrote: > > I know I am asking a stupid question, but is the file executable, as it > > should be? > > First thing I checked. Yes. > -- OK, yet another stupid question. THis may have already been anwered, but I didn't read the

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Re: lost the root password

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lost the root password

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Re: [Solved] Re: Getting Realtek8139 chipset network card to work

John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Where do I enable experimental drivers? > __ > I normally use "make xconfig" but its the same in "make menuconfig" or > "make config" its the very first item offered on the menu along with the > ch

Re: Toshiba Satellite 2520CDS

> >Hoi, > > > >You need to use the Tetra disks (or cd) then everything should work. > ^ > ? > > Tetra disks? What do you mean by that? The toshiba laptops require special (kernel?) install called the tecra. I think it's on the 2.1 slink CD, but I

Re: [Solved] Re: Getting Realtek8139 chipset network card to work

Arcady Genkin wrote: Hi, John: > > Where do I enable experimental drivers? __ I normally use "make xconfig" but its the same in "make menuconfig" or "make config" its the very first item offered on the menu along with the choice of CPU to c

SV: burning potatoe on cd's

> > I though I'd try potatoe, but there are no iso's available (duh..). What do > > I need to burn to install from bootfloppy + cd's? I've found potatoe at a > > fast local ftp site, and my guess is that what I need is att the files in > > the dists/potato/ dir, and also all the packages in the di

Re: burning potatoe on cd's

On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 02:59:34PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I though I'd try potatoe, but there are no iso's available (duh..). What do > I need to burn to install from bootfloppy + cd's? I've found potatoe at a > fast local ftp site, and my guess is that what I need is att the files in >

Re: IglooFTP goes commercial. Violation of GPL?

%% Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> This is _exactly_ why the FSF requires copyright assignment. Done >> this way there is absolutely no question who owns the entirety of >> the program. If you care about this, that's the only way to go. psg> I'd like the FSF to _not_ do

Re: Toshiba Satellite 2520CDS

>Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 12:53:33 +0200 (GMT-2) >From: Geordy Korte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> I have a Toshiba Satellite 2520CDS (with DSTN screen), and I am trying >> to install Debian on it without any sucess. >> >> I put the Debian CD-ROM, I switch the computer on, the Debian boot >> program begi

RE: micron laptop install problem

> My boot from the rescue disk hangs after the md driver. This > problem was discussed in Dec 1998 on this list, and a modified > boot disk was posted as a > fix, but which I can not find at present. Does anyone have this > disk or some other way to solve the problem? > Which micron do you have?

Re: .xsession not being read?

Does /etc/X11/config contain the following line? allow-user-xsession -- *** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines (ITP)

Colin Marquardt wrote: > Dale Scheetz´ book which can also be had online > (lost the bookmark, maybe www.linuxpress.com is a starting point), maybe > also http://www.debian.org/%7Ejoey/linx.html Packaged as tdlug (The Debian Linux User's Guide) in potato. -- Peter Galbr

Re: IglooFTP goes commercial. Violation of GPL?

Paul D. Smith wrote: > %% Carl Mummert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > cm> If, as you suggest, patch code remains the property of the patch > cm> author, then the 'ownership' of the entire program comes into > cm> question. > > Precisely. > > Sometimes no one cares. Does Linus actuall

Re: telnet access control

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Re: How to divide a .ps file in another .ps file with two pages by pages

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Re: Potato

Quoting Nate Duehr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > It's not all that stable if you're keeping up with the upgrades and > changes constantly being released. Major stuff has been broken (and then > later fixed) recently by updated packages. > > If you get one up and running with *exactly* what you need and

Re: bad login tracking

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burning potatoe on cd's

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Re: StarOffice 5.1 segfaults

On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 10:36:51PM -0700, Dave Dash wrote: > I am running potato and during the last week Star > Office fails to run and gives a segmentation fault. > Anybody else get this? > > > === > > Dave Dash > http://www.ftmax.com/ > ___

Re: telnet access control

look at /etc/login.defs and /etc/seuretty

Re: .xsession not being read?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink) writes: > Thanks to everyone for the answers on installing KDE or GNOME on a > 2.0 box. I appreciate it. > > Installing GNOME brought something to mind I hadn't thought about, > although I noticed it months ago: my .xsession file is never read. > I had to edit the

RE: micron laptop install probe

> My boot from the rescue disk hangs after the md driver. This problem was > discussed in Dec 1998 on this list, and a modified boot disk was posted as > a > fix, but which I can not find at present. Does anyone have this disk or > some > other way to solve the problem? > > Which micron do yo

Re: telnet access control

it's something to deal with "securetty" for the "root" thingy, but for simultaneous login.. sorry, forgot :~ ¦b Thu, 29 Jul 1999 16:52:38 +0530, »Õ¤U¼g¹D... >hi all !! > >the default config on most unices restricts "root" login via telnet... >how is this done ? i have done it once before.. but

telnet access control

hi all !! the default config on most unices restricts "root" login via telnet... how is this done ? i have done it once before.. but don't remember how...is it thru inetd.conf ? and if i need to restrict number of simultaneous logins (total and for a particular user).. how do i do it ? thanks in

Re: SB live for linux.

Hi! > I remember someone saying something about a linux driver for SB live > sound card available. http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/ This webpage contains a module for the sb-live soundcard. But in the README it states that one must use a non-SMP kernel, and that is not very good news f

Re: Toshiba Satellite 2520CDS

> I have a Toshiba Satellite 2520CDS (with DSTN screen), and I am trying > to install Debian on it without any sucess. > > I put the Debian CD-ROM, I switch the computer on, the Debian boot > program begins to work > > ... > loading root.bin ... > loading Linux .. > Hoi, You need to use

Re: .xsession not being read?

> I know I am asking a stupid question, but is the file executable, as it > should be? First thing I checked. Yes. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum

Re: A4 in LaTeX

>Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 21:32:38 +1000 >From: Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I've be playing around with LaTeX, after having successfully avoided it >for years, and I've run up accross a little problem. To many years inded :) > >I start my document as follows: > >\documentstyle[a4]{article}

Toshiba Satellite 2520CDS

Hi I have a Toshiba Satellite 2520CDS (with DSTN screen), and I am trying to install Debian on it without any sucess. I put the Debian CD-ROM, I switch the computer on, the Debian boot program begins to work ... loading root.bin ... loading Linux .. And then it stops :( I have to shutt-

Re: [Solved] Re: Getting Realtek8139 chipset network card to work

On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 06:44:37PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Where do I enable experimental drivers? In the first dialog of the kernel configuration "Include experimental/development drivers?" or the like Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To

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Re: no NFS connection

Noah L. Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Wolfgang Hlawatsch wrote: > >> >> I installed the NFS in the pentium. But when I try to use the pentium >> (obelix.whlnet) as a server for installing the operating system to the >> 486 (troubadi

Re: StarOffice 5.1 segfaults

Dave Dash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running potato and during the last week Star > Office fails to run and gives a segmentation fault. > Anybody else get this? > > > === > > Dave Dash > http://www.ftmax.com/ Yep. I got it to partially work, but not well, by doin

Re: tail -f /var/log/messages and top

Hi Patrick, On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 04:02:43PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Thanks for the answers on this. It seems the top problem is due to the NT > telnet client. Could someone recommend a decent telnet client for NT. It > needs to be something that the techies at work won't be horrified by

Re: slave symlink?

On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Carl Mummert wrote: > With the alternatives sytstem, there are two links per executable: > > > /usr/bin/executable -> /etc/alternatives/executable -> /real/executable > > Apparently, the develoepr of update-alternatives calls > the link in the middle a 'slave symlink' Actu

Re: Update-menus hanging during dselect / apt-get

Laurent Martelli wrote: > I saw something about this in debian-devel, and I think there's a bug > report now. Yes, I've been in contact with the package maintainer and here was his response to me. Since I had the problem last night, it has not happened again, which I don't really understand, but

StarOffice 5.1 segfaults

I am running potato and during the last week Star Office fails to run and gives a segmentation fault. Anybody else get this? === Dave Dash http://www.ftmax.com/ _ Do You Yahoo!? Free instant messaging and more a

xfstt on potato

I have just installed the new version of xfstt on potato. when I run xfstt --sync it does not generate a for dir file on /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ thus ? I do not have true type fonts on. xfstt starts by the init process ( I do have unix/:7100 in my font path) Any help will be appreciated than

Re: X11amp for 2.1?

I have xmms on my 2.1 system, and as far as I can remember I had no problems at all. I believe I downloaded a .rpm of it from somewhere and just used alien, then dpkg -i. It works perfect now. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, John Gay wrote: > > > I know I've seen a fe

Re: Setup a Proxy or Ipmasq

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OT: Need Good HTML/Javascript Book

Sorry for a some what off topic posting, but I have a friend who is looking for a good book(s) that cover html and javascript. Since I'm not up on books in this area, I was wondering if maybe one of you could suggest a couple good ones. Thanks, chris -- The Government just announced today the

RE: .xsession not being read?

On 29-Jul-99 Carl Fink wrote: > > This is irritating. Why would .xsession not be read? Any ideas? I > have three Unix books and four Linux books here, and not one > describes the X startup process even well enough for me to figure out > which program actually reads Xsession and .xsession files

Re: .xsession not being read?

chmod 700 ~/.xsession It must be executable. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

.xsession not being read?

Thanks to everyone for the answers on installing KDE or GNOME on a 2.0 box. I appreciate it. Installing GNOME brought something to mind I hadn't thought about, although I noticed it months ago: my .xsession file is never read. I had to edit the global /etc/X11/Xsession file to force X to load m

Re: X11amp for 2.1?

*- On 29 Jul, John Gay wrote about "Re: X11amp for 2.1?" > > > Actually, I installed from CD with dselect. I haven't set up my internet > connection, as phone service here in Ireland is a bit expensive. I usually copy > anything I need to floppy at work and bring it home. I suppose I could do t

Re: X11amp for 2.1?

On 28 Jul, Steve Udell wrote: | First of all x11amp is now XMMS www.xmms.org | Second of all potato has a nice .deb of xmms | Third of all StarOffice 5.1 (the 40 doller version on CD) gave me no problems |installing on a potato system, no I didn't even need to put thoes old lib

Re: slave symlink?

** "Carl" == Carl Mummert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Carl> With the alternatives sytstem, there are two links per Carl> executable: /usr/bin/executable -> /etc/alternatives/executable Carl> -> /real/executable Carl> Apparently, the develoepr of update-alternatives calls the link Carl> in the mid

Re: slave symlink?

On 29-Jul-99 Carl Mummert wrote: > > With the alternatives sytstem, there are two links per executable: > > > /usr/bin/executable -> /etc/alternatives/executable -> /real/executable > > Apparently, the develoepr of update-alternatives calls > the link in the middle a 'slave symlink' oic, well

Setup a Proxy or Ipmasq

I have two ethernet cards. One connected to the cable modem the other to my internal network. I want all the boxes on the internal network to be able to use netscape, real player etc. What is the best way to go about it and how is it done? -tom-

Re: slave symlink?

With the alternatives sytstem, there are two links per executable: /usr/bin/executable -> /etc/alternatives/executable -> /real/executable Apparently, the develoepr of update-alternatives calls the link in the middle a 'slave symlink' Carl

Re: X11amp for 2.1?

*- On 29 Jul, John Gay wrote about "X11amp for 2.1?" > > > I know I've seen a few comments about X11amp before, but most of the > suggestions > were to upgrade to 2.2. I tried installing the .deb from unstable, and had to > upgrade a few other packages before it would work, but this caused many,

Re: X11amp for 2.1?

Thanks for the pointer to xmms, but that is for potato, I.E. 2.2 I'm running slink, 2.1 I tried installing x11amp from potato and it called for newer libs, this, I believe was the reason Star Office 5.1 wrecked my system when it installed. My question was, is it possible to compile the sources to