Re: SB PCI 128 & Volume

1999-09-02 Thread Alexis Maldonado
Hello! On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 06:38:21PM +, Cheshire wrote: > Well I finally got around to compiling a new kernel with sound support.. > I have my PCI 128 working with the ess1730 (err, I think, don't remember > those numbers exactly but it's the one of two that doesn't end with 1.. > probabl

Re: Obscure ethernet/IDE trouble

1999-09-02 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, rick wrote: > I was getting the 'DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest' error and > related hard drive problems after I selected the 'use DMA when > available' when configging the kernel source. Although I don't I get this all the time when I try to access a drive that is in sl

Re: pascal for linux

1999-09-02 Thread Patrick Olson
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Johann Spies wrote: > I have a program called PTOC which I have downloaded more than a year ago. > The README provides an email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I did > not use it a lot, but it was a lot better than a program called p2c which > was available as a debian package lon

Re: Obscure ethernet/IDE trouble

1999-09-02 Thread rick
"In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:" > Greetings, > > I'm having bizarre troubles with the base 2.1 system (2.0.36-scsimod) on > an Abit BP6 dual-celeron system with Triton IDE DMA chipset and twin > 3C905 ethernet cards. After my first net access (via eth0), be it ping > or apt-get update

Re: smbumount doesn't

1999-09-02 Thread Kent West
Ari Sigurðsson wrote: > > if rebooting the puter is a solution to samba problem then > perhaps a restart of samba is enough? > try > > /etc/init.d/samba > Usage: /etc/init.d/samba {start|stop|restart} > > HTH > Ari Sigurðsson > > -Original Message- > From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Another try - help to fix arrow keys in X

1999-09-02 Thread Kent West
"Richard E. Hawkins" wrote: > > kent kalled, > >Anyone know how to fix my non-functioning arrow keys, page-up/down > keys, > > etc in X? They work fine in the console mode. Not having these keys is > > pretty crippling. > > The first step is to use xev, which will tell you what events are happeni

Configuring Logitech mouse buttons

1999-09-02 Thread B. Szyszka
Hello, I have a Logitech Trackman MarbleFX trackball and I was wondering if it's possible in Linux to configure one of the extra buttons (there are four) to do double-clicking. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.

Re: Another try - help to fix arrow keys in X

1999-09-02 Thread Kent West
Brian Servis wrote: > > *- On 23 Mar, Kent West wrote about "Another try - help to fix arrow keys in > X" > > Another try > > > > Anyone know how to fix my non-functioning arrow keys, page-up/down keys, > > etc in X? They work fine in the console mode. Not having these keys is > > pretty crip

Re: have problem with samba

1999-09-02 Thread Jim
As the error message suggests, you might wish to try the -I option: smbclient -L skrappur -I ip_address where ip_address is the address of the machine you're trying to connect to. Apparently the machine does not realize that its NetBIOS name is "skrappur." On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, [iso-8859-1] Ari

Re: Another try - help to fix arrow keys in X

1999-09-02 Thread Kent West
Brian Servis wrote: > > *- On 23 Mar, Kent West wrote about "Another try - help to fix arrow keys in > X" > > Another try > > > > Anyone know how to fix my non-functioning arrow keys, page-up/down keys, > > etc in X? They work fine in the console mode. Not having these keys is > > pretty crip

Re: WordPerfect libXpm

1999-09-02 Thread Kent West
Brian Servis wrote: > > *- On 23 Mar, Kent West wrote about "WordPerfect libXpm" > > Yeah, I know, search the archives, but the archives aren't working for > > me (see previous post). > > > > Anyone know the answer to a freshly installed WP8 not running because of > > failure to load libXpm.so.4?

Re: SB PCI 128 & Volume

1999-09-02 Thread David Blackman
A utility called vol, or a debian package called aumix (which you can apt-get). --dave On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Cheshire wrote: > Well I finally got around to compiling a new kernel with sound support.. > I have my PCI 128 working with the ess1730 (err, I think, don't remember > those numbers exactly

have problem with samba

1999-09-02 Thread Ari Sigurðsson
smbclient -L skrappur Added interface ip=192.168.0.2 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Session request failed (131,130) with myname=HRAPPUR destname=SKRAPPUR Called name not present Try to connect to another name (instead of SKRAPPUR) You may find the -I option useful for this this did work

Re: Another try - help to fix arrow keys in X

1999-09-02 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
kent kalled, >Anyone know how to fix my non-functioning arrow keys, page-up/down keys, > etc in X? They work fine in the console mode. Not having these keys is > pretty crippling. The first step is to use xev, which will tell you what events are happening. If you post what it tells you keys are

Re: Mouse configuration

1999-09-02 Thread David Blackman
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Ron Stordahl wrote: ps > I am doing a fresh install and get to the point where the install asks: > > Do you want to run gpm's mouse-test program (Y/n)? (to which I respond) > y > Where is your mouse [/dev/ttyS0]? (to which I respond) > /dev/psaux (since I have a Micros

Re: smbumount doesn't

1999-09-02 Thread Ari Sigurðsson
if rebooting the puter is a solution to samba problem then perhaps a restart of samba is enough? try /etc/init.d/samba Usage: /etc/init.d/samba {start|stop|restart} HTH Ari Sigurðsson -Original Message- From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Users Date: 2. september 1999 20:30

Re: WordPerfect libXpm

1999-09-02 Thread Aaron Solochek
Yeah, its sort of silly that there arn't .debs or something almost guarenteed to work, seeing as they are using debian for their new distro. Anyways, because of new found hope I've gotten from the past few messages on this list I tried again, downloaded everything fresh, and even got the graphica

Re: Killing 'undestructable' processes

1999-09-02 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> > Hi there, > > this time I have a pretty quick and direct question: > > is there a way to kill those processes that refuse to die (for > instac,e netscape will behave that way after a crash - and not even a > kill -9 does the trick)??? > > TIA > > Guilherme Zahn Use kill -s SIG

Re: Another try - help to fix arrow keys in X

1999-09-02 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 23 Mar, Kent West wrote about "Another try - help to fix arrow keys in X" > Another try > > Anyone know how to fix my non-functioning arrow keys, page-up/down keys, > etc in X? They work fine in the console mode. Not having these keys is > pretty crippling. > > Thanks! > > What does

Re: #!/Perl question

1999-09-02 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 2 Sep, Jonathan Markevich wrote about "Re: #!/Perl question" > On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 03:04:49AM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote: >> I'm trying to learn some Perl. I found an on-line book which is Unix >> biased, but the scripts all start with #!/usr/local/bin/perl (which makes >> sense i

Re: WordPerfect libXpm

1999-09-02 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 23 Mar, Kent West wrote about "WordPerfect libXpm" > Yeah, I know, search the archives, but the archives aren't working for > me (see previous post). > > Anyone know the answer to a freshly installed WP8 not running because of > failure to load libXpm.so.4? > > Thanks. > > Do you have th

Another try - help to fix arrow keys in X

1999-09-02 Thread Kent West
Another try Anyone know how to fix my non-functioning arrow keys, page-up/down keys, etc in X? They work fine in the console mode. Not having these keys is pretty crippling. Thanks!

WordPerfect libXpm

1999-09-02 Thread Kent West
Yeah, I know, search the archives, but the archives aren't working for me (see previous post). Anyone know the answer to a freshly installed WP8 not running because of failure to load libXpm.so.4? Thanks.

Re: #!/Perl question

1999-09-02 Thread Jonathan Markevich
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 03:04:49AM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote: > I'm trying to learn some Perl. I found an on-line book which is Unix > biased, but the scripts all start with #!/usr/local/bin/perl (which makes > sense if you have compiled and installed it yourself). However, on my > Debian s

Debian Mail archives are coming up 404

1999-09-02 Thread Kent West
I'm trying to search the mail archives for information on WordPerfect failing to run because of a problem loading libXpm.so.4, but all the hits result in a "404 Can't find page" when I click on them. Is it something on my end, or is there something wrong with the search engine?

Re: Hardware Compatibility

1999-09-02 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > linux sound architecture). ALSA is not free, but it may support the > sound card. ALSA *is* most definitely free -- in fact, it will be the Linux sound architecture of the future. See http://www.alsa-project.org. http://www.opensound.com is sharewar

Re: Some keys aren't working in X

1999-09-02 Thread Kent West
Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > > We have several GW machine here. But I haven't had a hand on new PIII with > Rage128 yet. > > How do you set up XF86Config. Have you check XKB enable/disable in > XF86Config? > > That's the point I'll look into first. > > On Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 03:53:18AM -0600, Ke

Mouse configuration

1999-09-02 Thread Ron Stordahl
I am doing a fresh install and get to the point where the install asks: Do you want to run gpm's mouse-test program (Y/n)? (to which I respond) y Where is your mouse [/dev/ttyS0]? (to which I respond) /dev/psaux (since I have a Microsoft Intellimouse 1.2A PS/2 compatible) What type is your m

Re: time conversions

1999-09-02 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 3 Sep, Chad A. Adlawan wrote about "time conversions" > hello everyone !!! > this is a non-debian specific question and i hope ull bear w/ me on this ... [long line wrapped] > can someone suggest to me any nice documents re converting time for major timezones ? UTC, PDT, PST (whate

Re: Apache modules etc

1999-09-02 Thread Andreas Piesk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- on Thu, 02 Sep 1999, Stephen Kelly wrote: > Hi All, > > I have problems getting some perl scripts to run on my apache server. > Anyone know what needs to be runnign with apache for the "request" method > to be available. I have most things running as modules, but

Killing 'undestructable' processes

1999-09-02 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Hi there, this time I have a pretty quick and direct question: is there a way to kill those processes that refuse to die (for instac,e netscape will behave that way after a crash - and not even a kill -9 does the trick)??? TIA Guilherme Zahn

Re: Kppp for "normal" users

1999-09-02 Thread Jonathan Markevich
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 07:14:59PM -0700, John Hall wrote: > I've been able to set up and use Kppp as root, but of course I don't > want to surf the web as root. How do I use pppd as a normal user. Do I > need to write a special setuid. If so, how do I? Thanx I've really been impressed with wvdial

RE: Kernel 2.2.9 compiled

1999-09-02 Thread Shevin, Avraham \(A.N.\)
Check dmesg (dmesg|less). Which 3Com card do you have? (which driver?) I use the 3c95x as a module with 2.2.9, and I don't have that problem. Also, manually insmoding if it's a module will tell you. Did you run depmod -a after compiling? Avi Shevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Fro

Re: failed network stuff

1999-09-02 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Jim Warren wrote: > I did a cold boot and it fixed the problem > > You'ved saved me again. Zeen. No problem. :-) It's funny- I had just subscribed to debian-user that very morning, and asked one question, and for every one I ask I like to try to answer one, so yours was it. :-) On one of those

blink the Numlock

1999-09-02 Thread Oliver Larisch
Hallo all, today I have only two (2) questions 4U . They're are small by nature. (And not very urgent.) the first: how to blink the "numlock-LED" in every Linux-boot. (not only blinking, I want to type numbers direkt after boot ; )Windoze does !! the second: how to start staroffice 5.0 a

Kernel 2.2.9 compiled

1999-09-02 Thread Michael Konrad
I have recently compiled the kernel 2.2.9 and I am getting errors undefined symbols on the my 3com card. The messages flash by and I'm not sure which log file to look in to get them. Any suggestions. TIA -Michael Michael Konrad Computer Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED]

time conversions

1999-09-02 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
hello everyone !!! this is a non-debian specific question and i hope ull bear w/ me on this ... can someone suggest to me any nice documents re converting time for major timezones ? UTC, PDT, PST (whatever those are), GMT, PHT (my timezone, the only one i know) ... thanks a lot ... Chad

smbumount doesn't

1999-09-02 Thread Kent West
I can smbmount-2-2.x a WinNT share to a local mountpoint without any problem. But at night, our NT administrator has a script running that logs off everyone that is connected to the NT box, so that the NT's backup program will run without running into "File open" errors. When I get back in the off

Franklin Institute Science Museum on Debian

1999-09-02 Thread Jack Wilkinson
Pretty big backing for debian/linux, especially in this area.. http://linuxpr.com/releases/321.html Not on the lists, but thought you might be interested... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- M. Jackson Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: 215-491-0801 Voicemail: 877-832-9021

Apache-SSL problem....

1999-09-02 Thread Jon Marler
I'm having trouble getting Apache-SSL to NOT bind to every address on the box. I have removed the BindAddress * configuration line, and replaced it with "BindAddress AAA.BBB.CCC.XXX", but this changed nothing. In a nestat -a I still see a "*:www LISTENING" and I am unable to launch any other pro

Re: allowing simpler passwords

1999-09-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Marc Mongeon wrote: : How do I disable the password-checking feature of passwd? I'm willing : to accept moderately complex passwords that passwd wants to throw : out. `man passwd` gives me nothing, and I'm not certain where else to : look-- is this the doings of PAM? Run

Re: cfdisk big-disk warning

1999-09-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
Duggan Dieterly said: > while cfdisk will work with big disks, it will not work with the > partition table created by windows 98. in order to use partitoions bigger > than 2GB with windows 98, you must use the FAT32 partition scheme. Again, it seemed to work fine for me. On an ~8 Gb drive with

Rvplayer

1999-09-02 Thread Shane Wegner
Hi, I have been trying to get the RealNetworks' real video player working for some time now. The g2 player in potato just segfaults and the realplayer5 deb does not seem to be available anymore. I am wondering if anyone knows either a) how to get g2 to work or b) where I can find a rvplayer 5.0

Re: Kppp for "normal" users

1999-09-02 Thread Jonathan Heaney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 05:29:09PM +, Jonathan Heaney wrote: > > John Hall wrote: > > > > > I've been able to set up and use Kppp as root, but of course I don't > [...] > > > > add yourself to the group pid eg > > adduser jon pid > > as root > > > > that should let y

#!/Perl question

1999-09-02 Thread Hans van den Boogert
I'm trying to learn some Perl. I found an on-line book which is Unix biased, but the scripts all start with #!/usr/local/bin/perl (which makes sense if you have compiled and installed it yourself). However, on my Debian system Perl was of course put in /usr/bin/perl. So how can I write a Perl scrip

allowing simpler passwords

1999-09-02 Thread Marc Mongeon
How do I disable the password-checking feature of passwd? I'm willing to accept moderately complex passwords that passwd wants to throw out. `man passwd` gives me nothing, and I'm not certain where else to look-- is this the doings of PAM? It is particularly annoying because it reminds me of the

latex not finding the .tfm file after making it

1999-09-02 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
*arghg* this new installation is driving me nuts. This all used to work with a 600dpi laser printer, tehn successfully converted to freebsd, and now it won't work again. I have the environmental variables set as follows in .cshrc: setenv TEXINPUTS "~/isuthesis/:" setenv PKFONTS ":/home/hawk/f

Re: cfdisk big-disk warning

1999-09-02 Thread Duggan Dieterly
while cfdisk will work with big disks, it will not work with the partition table created by windows 98. in order to use partitoions bigger than 2GB with windows 98, you must use the FAT32 partition scheme. (windows calls this 'large disk support'.) i could not get cfdisk to work with this parti

Re: cfdisk big-disk warning

1999-09-02 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
> Duggan Dieterly said: > > just to let everyone know, cfdisk does not work with window FAT32 > > file partition tables. use fdisk instead. > > What happens? I've been able to create partitions extending beyond cylinder > 1023 with (the current as of one week ago Potato) cfdisk, although the > ve

Re: Y2K / contact address needed /wsb SPARC-Solaris 2.0b01

1999-09-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 19:54:07 +0200, Marcel von Ranson wrote: > Ref.: > wsb SPARC-Solaris 2.0b01 > To ensure y2k compliance of our hardware/software partners we would like > to ask for information. The Debian project does not deal with Solaris in any way. If you are interested in running Debia

SB PCI 128 & Volume

1999-09-02 Thread Cheshire
Well I finally got around to compiling a new kernel with sound support.. I have my PCI 128 working with the ess1730 (err, I think, don't remember those numbers exactly but it's the one of two that doesn't end with 1.. probably not important anyway) and the volume coming out of the card is terribly

Re: Kppp for "normal" users

1999-09-02 Thread kaynjay
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 05:29:09PM +, Jonathan Heaney wrote: > John Hall wrote: > > > I've been able to set up and use Kppp as root, but of course I don't [...] > > add yourself to the group pid eg > adduser jon pid > as root > > that should let you dial in as a normal user Isn't that "dip"

statically linking libc6

1999-09-02 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Hi there, SInce I upgraded my system to glibc2.1, there's some vital software that refuse to run, even if I compile it again from scratch... Now, I'm willing to try some desperate moves before I give up and try to downgrade my whole system (that, by now, is 100% potato)... So, as I'm not

Re: cfdisk big-disk warning

1999-09-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
Duggan Dieterly said: > just to let everyone know, cfdisk does not work with window FAT32 > file partition tables. use fdisk instead. What happens? I've been able to create partitions extending beyond cylinder 1023 with (the current as of one week ago Potato) cfdisk, although the version on th

Y2K / contact address needed /wsb SPARC-Solaris 2.0b01

1999-09-02 Thread Marcel von Ranson
Ref.: wsb SPARC-Solaris 2.0b01 Dear Sir/Madam, To ensure y2k compliance of our hardware/software partners we would like to ask for information. Maybe you know where I can contact the author. Thank you in advance for your support! Yours sincerely

Re: ipchains firewalling question

1999-09-02 Thread Patrick Olson
> > I have the following specific questions: > > 1. Have I made any mistakes that could cause really annoying problems? > >(perhaps unintentionally blocking something that shouldn't be blocked) > > if you use dhcp for anything, you must enable source/destination for > 255.255.255.255 as well

Re: ipchains firewalling question

1999-09-02 Thread Patrick Olson
> > if you use dhcp for anything, you must enable source/destination for > > 255.255.255.255 as well as the routes for this. This caught me some time > > ago :( > > Make sure you're allowing ident connections. Even if you don't answer > them, you want to refuse connections rather than dropping t

Re: Netscape (wishlist/ buglist & such)

1999-09-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 02:34:44PM -0300, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: > > Just a comment on this one. Netscape (and other browsers) do exactly that. > > However, if the image tags are not accompanied by "width" and "height" > > parameters, Netscape can not render the page until the image headers a

Re: pppconfig - bug or feature?

1999-09-02 Thread John Hasler
Anthony writes" > When I run pppconfig it always replaces my /etc/aliases file. *huh*? > Is this what is supposed to happen? No. Pppconfig has no reason to touch /etc/aliases. The string 'aliases' does not appear anywhere in pppconfig. Can you tell me *exactly* in detail what you do when this

Re: Netscape (wishlist/ buglist & such)

1999-09-02 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
> Just a comment on this one. Netscape (and other browsers) do exactly that. > However, if the image tags are not accompanied by "width" and "height" > parameters, Netscape can not render the page until the image headers are > downloaded and known. It would be really slow for it to re-render the pa

Having upgraded, which kernel?? 2.2.10, or 11, or ...

1999-09-02 Thread kaynjay
I'm ready to compile a new kernel, moving up from 2.0.36 after just upgrading to potato. Searching the archives showed one letter recently espousing 2.2.11, but little else was found. I'm on a home system with no fancy stuff (486-66, SB16Vibra and an HP scanner/Adapt. 152x card). When (IF) I u

Re: Kppp for "normal" users

1999-09-02 Thread Jonathan Heaney
John Hall wrote: > I've been able to set up and use Kppp as root, but of course I don't > want to surf the web as root. How do I use pppd as a normal user. Do I > need to write a special setuid. If so, how do I? Thanx > > -J (beggining linux user) > > P.s. This subject really should be more user f

Re: a2ps using too big of paper on dj500, and magicfilter eats text

1999-09-02 Thread Ashley Clark
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > I briefly had magicfilter working, but now it simply spins the desket, > draws no paper, and prints nothing. a2ps is being just as > uncooperative, making pages that are a bit too long. I found a default > setting to change in gv (now it's lette

Ethernet

1999-09-02 Thread Morgoth3
I got a new computer and brought it to my college, and installed Debian on it. However, when i installed it, i couldn't get the module for my NE2000 compatible driver to install correctly. Does anyone know how to reinstall? I couldn't find a package for it. I do have the driver disk for dos,

Loosing keyboard w/switching X & console!

1999-09-02 Thread John Foster
This is wierd! I recently upgraded by system bios to the one recommended on the web site of the manufacturer. Ever since I did, I have been intermittently loosing my keyboard connection when I use the CTRL-ALT-F2 to switch from Xwindows to the Console screens. It does not seem to follow any pattern

slow transmission speed

1999-09-02 Thread Shevin, Avraham \(A.N.\)
I have a strange problem on my home lan... My linux box is acting as an IP-Masquerading gateway to my cable-modem connection. I have a couple 100Mbit NICs in my machine, and a 100Mbit NIC in each of the other pcs (a win95 and win98 box). The problem is that transfers FROM my machine to either of th

cfdisk big-disk warning

1999-09-02 Thread Duggan Dieterly
just to let everyone know, cfdisk does not work with window FAT32 file partition tables. use fdisk instead. -- Duggan Dieterlyvoice: (970) 898-7906 Software Design Engr fax: (970) 898-3684 Hewlett-Packard Co.

Re: TrueType fonts, xfstt and freefont

1999-09-02 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 11:37:25AM -0400, Aaron M. Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > right, there is a "font deuglification mini-howto" i came across that > mentions that. unfortunately, i can't remember where i found it. thanks, > http://members.aa.net/~swear/pedia/fonts.html This page has a

Re: Netscape (wishlist/ buglist & such)

1999-09-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 01:46:51PM -0300, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: > > - Both in the browser & in the mail subsystems, images should be loaded > AFTER the whole text/HTML code has been loaded (and displayed) > Just a comment on this one. Netscape (and other browsers) do exactly that. How

Netscape (wishlist/ buglist & such)

1999-09-02 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Hi there, I know this isn't the most appropriate place for that, but... What's the 'right' way to send bugs and/or wishlists about Netscape, posting it straight to Netscape or sending them to the Debian netscape package administrator? As I've noticed there's a lot of people talking about

Re: Hardware Compatibility

1999-09-02 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Matthew Dalton wrote: > [cut] > > The modem will probably work as long as its not a winmodem. > Are there any onboard ones that aren't?

Re: Disk Druid

1999-09-02 Thread Keith G. Murphy
"B. Szyszka" wrote: > > Hello, > > >From Win98 with Partition Magic, I have resized my partition and > made room for a partition I'll use for /var . In Red Hat, I had the option > to use Disk Druid, format the partitions I wanted as Linux partitions, > and set their mount points. I'm having troub

Re: [ make install CD of debian ]

1999-09-02 Thread Marc Mongeon
Start at http://cdimage.debian.org Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hubbins and

a2ps using too big of paper on dj500, and magicfilter eats text

1999-09-02 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I briefly had magicfilter working, but now it simply spins the desket, draws no paper, and prints nothing. a2ps is being just as uncooperative, making pages that are a bit too long. I found a default setting to change in gv (now it's letter), and /etc/paper reads "letter". How in the world

Re: TrueType fonts, xfstt and freefont

1999-09-02 Thread Aaron M. Stromas
right, there is a "font deuglification mini-howto" i came across that mentions that. unfortunately, i can't remember where i found it. thanks, -a John Foster wrote: "Aaron M. Stromas" wrote: > > thanks to all responders. xlsfonts shows that freefonts are installed. > i didn't have to use 'type1in

Re: Apt & Firewall variable

1999-09-02 Thread Andreas Piesk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- on Thu, 02 Sep 1999, Jon Hughes wrote: > I'm reading a Debian Installation & Guide to use book and it states that I > can put in a variable to let apt know that you have a firewall/proxy between > you and the outside world. > > The variable (# export http_proxy=h

RE: Apt & Firewall variable

1999-09-02 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, ^chewie wrote: > From: Jon Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "I'm reading a Debian Installation & Guide to use book and it states > that I can put in a variable to let apt know that you have a > firewall/proxy between you and the outside world. > > "The variable (# export http_

Re: Using one maildrop for multiple accounts

1999-09-02 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi, Try http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue43/stumpel.html. It has a great explanation of how to set up Exim and Fetchmail. Patrick - Original Message - From: Colin Brough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 9:36 AM Subject: Using one maildrop

RE: Apt & Firewall variable

1999-09-02 Thread Jon Hughes
Three responses in thirty minutesand my friends say Linux has no support. Thanks all! :b -Original Message- From: ^chewie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 11:09 AM To: Debian User's Li

DVIPS is Generating Bad Postscript!

1999-09-02 Thread Ryan Kirkpatrick
Ok, I have a wierd problem here and I am about at wits in trying to solve it. At some point along the line in the last few months dvips stopped generating correcting postscript files from dvi files. Specificly, bullets are getting lost, and worse, any type of equations or mathematical symb

RE: Apt & Firewall variable

1999-09-02 Thread ^chewie
From: Jon Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "I'm reading a Debian Installation & Guide to use book and it states that I can put in a variable to let apt know that you have a firewall/proxy between you and the outside world. "The variable (# export http_proxy=http://gateway:1234/) is to be typed into the

Re: Apt & Firewall variable

1999-09-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 10:14:54AM -0400, Jon Hughes wrote: > The variable (# export http_proxy=http://gateway:1234/) is to be typed into > the command line...but is there a file where I can put that into so I don't > have to type it whenever I want to apt-get something? Put it in a shell script

Re: light spreadsheet for stable?

1999-09-02 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 01:18:41PM -0500, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > I need to find as light as possible a spreadsheet that still works > reasonably will for stable. I'll recall Thumper's daddy's advice, and > not say anything at all about oleo and siag. Staroffice 5 in 16mb is > out of the

Re: TrueType fonts, xfstt and freefont

1999-09-02 Thread John Foster
"Aaron M. Stromas" wrote: > > thanks to all responders. xlsfonts shows that freefonts are installed. > i didn't have to use 'type1inst' which is not currently on my machine > but, i'm guessing, debian package added > > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/" > > to my /etc/X11/XF86Con

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-02 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Mark Brown wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 06:11:13PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > [Slow releases] > > This is a fallacy. The longest Debian release cycle I could find on > > record was 7 months. In fact, that is the average. Red Hat and Slackware > > have both had 7 month long releas

Re: SCSI Tape Drive

1999-09-02 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Pann McCuaig wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 07:34:44AM -0500, Anthony Landreneau wrote: > > Greetings, > > I have recently installed a SONY SCSI tape drive onto my linux box. I > > would like to use the Taper program to back up my hard drive to tape. But > > I seem to be having a probl

Apt & Firewall variable

1999-09-02 Thread Jon Hughes
I'm reading a Debian Installation & Guide to use book and it states that I can put in a variable to let apt know that you have a firewall/proxy between you and the outside world. The variable (# export http_proxy=http://gateway:1234/) is to be typed into the command line...but is there a file whe

Re: No cut/paste on lynx

1999-09-02 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Pann McCuaig wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 08:46:15AM -0500, Bruce Walzer wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 12:26:55PM +0200, Debian Mail wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > Hold down the SHIFT key when you select text in lynx. Works for me > > > > either in a text console (gpm) or X. > > > > >

Re: ipchains firewalling question

1999-09-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 09:48:01AM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Patrick Olson wrote: > > I have the following specific questions: > > 1. Have I made any mistakes that could cause really annoying problems? > >(perhaps unintentionally blocking something that shoul

Re: Yamaha sound

1999-09-02 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
> i got a Yamaha sound card but I can't manage to load sound as a module, > because i don't know exactly which card it is... Is there a way to get > the irq, dma, and such things it uses ? I also run NT but I neither can > find these informations there... Hi! Well... it seems it is either a o

Re: Setting up Soundcard

1999-09-02 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, B. Szyszka wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a Sound Blaster AWE64 sound card and am looking for > pointers on what I need to do to set it up on Debian Linux. What > programs would I need? I have the latest KDE version (1.1.1 I > believe) with the various programs for playing mult

Re: ipchains firewalling question

1999-09-02 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Patrick Olson wrote: > > > I am thinking of using IP chains to tighten security a little on my Debian > 2.1 box. Currently, I have it set up as follows: > > ipchains -P forward DENY > ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.9/255.255.255.255 -j MASQ > > Below is a much more invol

Re: System defaults: user enviroment

1999-09-02 Thread Laurent Martelli
> "Manuel" == Manuel Arenaz Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Manuel> Hello, Manuel> I would like to know where the default user enviroment is Manuel> configured. What do you mean with environment ? If you're talking about environment variables, they are usually set in .bashrc or .bash

Re: is malloc() reentrant ?

1999-09-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 17:41:01 -0400, Seong Hoon Kim wrote: >> is malloc() reentrant ? > >I strongly suspect it is. Read "info libc 'Feature Test Macros'" on how to >compile for threadsafety. "Thread safe" and "usi

Re: ipx problem with 2.2.x

1999-09-02 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote: Hi Gregory, > Judging from some posts to the linux-kernel mailing list, it's also > possible to get a flood of directed (i.e. non-broadcast) IPX packets > when running slist. That's what I think I ran into... unfortunately it > seems to be difficult

System defaults: user enviroment

1999-09-02 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
Hello, I would like to know where the default user enviroment is configured. Thanks in advance. Manuel Arenaz

Japanese debian?

1999-09-02 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, we have a japanese guest scientist and he would like to read his japanese email here. I bet it is possible to do this with debian, debian-jp. Can somebody please tell me what packages to install to allow reading japanese mail with debian? (and maybe send a mail in japanese for testing?) Thanks

Ooops! [was: Re: Hi all and a question]

1999-09-02 Thread Marcin Owsiany
> > Ah! the name was "perforate" > > I have Debian Hamm and this program is really undocumented :( my apologies. The perforate package does not contain the needed program. It is in package binstats :) and as for perforate, i've got slink, and it has some mans Marcin -- -

Apache modules etc

1999-09-02 Thread Stephen Kelly
Hi All, I have problems getting some perl scripts to run on my apache server. Anyone know what needs to be runnign with apache for the "request" method to be available. I have most things running as modules, but do some services require a compile into apache to work properly? The error is below. I

Printer configuration

1999-09-02 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
Hello, I would like to know what I have to do to configure a printer. I need to configurations: 1) A local printer attached to a parallel port. 2) A remote printer that is accesed through a local area network. ¿Is there any tool to configure printers (as there is in RedHat)? Thanks in advance.

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