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

1999-09-06 Thread Kent West
Brian Servis wrote: > > *- On 3 Sep, Kent West wrote about "Re: Another try - help to fix arrow keys > in X" > > > > > >> So it looks like your keymap is all messed up. Are you running xmodmap > If you are not modifying the defaults in any way as you stated then I > can only guess that

Re: Logitech Trackman and imwheel?

1999-09-06 Thread Steve George
Hi Aaron, Thanks for the reply! Can you tell me a few things please: - Are you using stable or unstable? - Are you running imwheel? - Could you copy me the 'Pointers' section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config Mebbe I can work out what the difference between your and my system is from that - thanks,

Re: syslogd mail

1999-09-06 Thread Jon Leonard
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 12:21:21AM +0200, Pere Camps wrote: > Hi! > > How can I make syslogd mail somebody an incident (aka log) when it > happens? There isn't support for email in syslogd, though the remote logging feature (line with @hostname as the action in syslog.conf) may be close eno

Re: allowing simpler passwords

1999-09-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Daniel Barclay wrote: : > From: Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > : > 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

Re: Logitech Trackman and imwheel?

1999-09-06 Thread Aaron Solochek
My logitech mouseman's wheel just works, I didn't do anything special at all. It works in less, and it works in netscape. I believe it also works in other things but I can't recall right now. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Steve George wrote: > Hi, > > I bought a new

xconsole transparency

1999-09-06 Thread Emil Soleyman-Zomalan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I have seen screenshots of themes at Themes.org with their xconsoles being transparent. I went ahead and got wterm through apt but do not know how to "exactly" go about doing it. I was wondering if anyone can guide me through

Re: Potato with StarOffice 5.1

1999-09-06 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Yes, I just tried installing personal set up again. It used to work a while ago, ~ 1 month, on the same machine running potato. To day it just freeze X up tightly. No Idea how to fiz this :( May be it's the library. regards Chanop On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 12:20:47PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Ron Stordahl wrote: : Richard said: : : > That puts you a cd behind :) The single-floppy is a downloaded floppy, : which then sucks the rest off the net without even having a cd drive. And : the floppy costs a lot less :) : : True, but incredibly slow, unless you hav

Logitech Trackman and imwheel?

1999-09-06 Thread Steve George
Hi, I bought a new Logitech Trackman Marble+ today and was wondering if anyone knows how to get the middle button wheel working. I have the trackman installed and using the Intellimouse protocol fine - all three buttons work. I thought that I might be able to get the wheel running by using the

library lost - need help, please

1999-09-06 Thread Peter Mickle
hello readers, NEW USER question/problem, need help if possible. in trying to solve one shared libraries problem, i unintentionally removed the following library: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/egcs-2.91.60/libstdc++.so i don't know how to "reinstall" that file. i do not know the exact pack

Re: Help needed with Xwindows on PB Linux box

1999-09-06 Thread Kent West
David Hass wrote: > > Hi > > I'm having trouble getting XWindows running on my Packard Bell Force > 480CD with 8 MB ram, Cirrus CL-GD5434 chipset, 1024 kb video ram and > Debian linux. > > I've tried many settings with XF86Setup and xf86Config. No luck. > > I type startx and it starts up, give

Re: Potato with StarOffice 5.1

1999-09-06 Thread jchristensen
Ian is experiencing a similar problem when attempting the /net install. He successfully completes the network install using the /net argument. When attempting to do a user installation using /bin/setup, the same problem occurs where the installation script hangs upon clicking 'Complete'. Looking a

xemacs - efs ftp connection password problem

1999-09-06 Thread Micha Feigin
When I try to download packages in xemacs 21, It first tries to connect to the ftp server. It the gives me an error: efs is unable to determine a fully qualified domain name for the local host to send as an anonymous ftp password. The function `system-name' is not returning a fully qualified domai

speaking of qpopper...

1999-09-06 Thread Pollywog
I am finding these messages in my logs. I use Exim with fetchmail and qpopper. Debian Potato. Sep 6 22:35:19 lilypad in.qpopper[18514]: @localhost: -ERR Too few arguments for the auth command. thanks -- Andrew

apt + squid

1999-09-06 Thread Seth R Arnold
Hey guys -- I have setup squid on my masquing box (sarnold.resnet.willamette.edu, sarnold is in the hosts file on amidala..) to run on port 3128, and netscape seems to like that just fine (well, it runs blazing fast these days.. :) How can I tell if apt is using my squid proxy? Here is my apt.conf

PERL 5.005 install (was: RE: Dumb package install question)

1999-09-06 Thread Paul McHale
I found my proftpd install problem. When I try to install the latest proftpd from the unstable section of debian, it requires PERL5.005. So I downloaded PERL5.005 and tried to install it. It can't install because the base install has a previous version of PERL. I tried to uninstall the previou

RE: qpopper

1999-09-06 Thread Paul McHale
use dselect. I think it comes with the distribution. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 5:16 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: qpopper > > > Hi > > Where can i find the debian compiled package qpopp

qpopper

1999-09-06 Thread zdrysdal
Hi Where can i find the debian compiled package qpopper?? thanx

Re: Potato with StarOffice 5.1

1999-09-06 Thread Eric G . Miller
Well, this might not help with the setup hanging, but you should probably install with the \net (or is that /net) flag, if your installing as root. There should be a README about this.

syslogd mail

1999-09-06 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! How can I make syslogd mail somebody an incident (aka log) when it happens? TIA! -- p.

Potato with StarOffice 5.1

1999-09-06 Thread jchristensen
Hello, I am having a problem when attempting to install StarOffice 5.1 on my potato system and am hoping that one of you may know the solution. I have posted a support request to nntp://starnews.sun.com/staroffice.com.support.install.linux/ without a response (so far). Another Debian user, Ian van

Sun's StarOffice Release: Is It Really What You Think?

1999-09-06 Thread bruce
I've written a short paper discussing the implications for Linux of Sun's StarOffice release, and upon the fact that it's not really Open Source, which most of the press got wrong. Debian is mentioned. Please see http://perens.com/Articles/StarOffice.html . Thanks Bruce Perens

Re: Revisit Large Hard Drives

1999-09-06 Thread Edward S. Baiz Jr.
Well I have made alot of headway in installing Linux on my Atari Hades, but I have run into a snag. Just need some advice. Right I have been able to create and activate Swap and Linux partitions using my Jaz drive. The problem comes when the Debian INSTALLATION PROGRAM gets to the next step of

Re: Help needed with Xwindows on PB Linux box

1999-09-06 Thread Phil Brutsche
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, David Hass wrote: > Hi > > I'm having trouble getting XWindows running on my Packard Bell Force > 480CD with 8 MB ram, Cirrus CL-GD5434 chipset, 1024 kb video ram and > Debian linux. No offense, but eek! > > I've tried many settings with XF86Setup and xf86Config. No luck. >

Re: 2.2.* on slink

1999-09-06 Thread Phil Brutsche
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Pere Camps wrote: > Hi! > > Can I run 2.2.12 on slink without problems or do I have to update > some packages from potato? I'm currently running 2.2.12 on slink, largely without problems. Some programs need to be updated - be sure to read Documentation/Changes to see wh

ftpd difficulty

1999-09-06 Thread Olaf Conradi
Hello, I'm having some troubles with the standard ftp daemon. It runs from inetd on a non standard port (5222, i added that to /etc/services) and has the following line: #:OTHER: Other services dixostream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.ftpd -dl but when I try to

Help needed with Xwindows on PB Linux box

1999-09-06 Thread David Hass
Hi I'm having trouble getting XWindows running on my Packard Bell Force 480CD with 8 MB ram, Cirrus CL-GD5434 chipset, 1024 kb video ram and Debian linux. I've tried many settings with XF86Setup and xf86Config. No luck. I type startx and it starts up, gives me the coarse screen with the X, and

Re: How to uninstall X

1999-09-06 Thread Greg Vence
Brad wrote: > > You can tell dselect to ignore the dependancies. Just use 'Q' (that's > shift-q) instead of enter to exit the package selection screen, then > choose Remove from the dselect menu. > > You should of course fix the situation quicky, so as not to leave your > machine in a broken st

RE: excel under Wine?

1999-09-06 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
Ok, I haven't gotten Excel 4 to run, but I have had Excel 97 running. Check http://www.canadianhomes.net/wim/screenshots.shtml. Since most Windows 3.1 programs work under Windows 95, couldn't you run Excel 4 under -winver win95 ?? Just a guess, perhaps worth a try l-) On 05-Sep-99 [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Fw: Fetchmail--SMTP connect to localhost failed

1999-09-06 Thread Kent West
bwarsing wrote: > > Is that an anti-spam dot in your address? It makes it hard to send you > mail. Anyway, please let me know if this works. No, the address really is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does this cause problems with some email systems? If so, I guess I'll either need to get a new alias or stop u

Re: /tmp permissions?

1999-09-06 Thread Seth R Arnold
Traditionally, /tmp should probably be chmod 1777, owned by root.root. (The 1 makes it impossible to delete other user's files..) On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 01:58:01PM -0500, Robert Rati wrote: > I was running xdm and kde just happily and I decided to kick up to xdm > windows. No problem. Well, for

Re: nas???

1999-09-06 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 10:15:23AM -0700, Patrick Olson wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, John Gay wrote: > > > there is an easier way, but as I said, I'm new to all this. I have > > noticed that several ftp sites won't let me connect because they can't > > resolve my address, or something like that

Re: vfat filesystem mysteriously becomes read-only

1999-09-06 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 08:06:05AM -0700, Eric Hanchrow wrote: [snip] > Directory sread (sector 0x8000100b) failed > attempt to access beyond end of device > 03:01: rw=0, want=1073743878, limit=1048288 > Directory sread (sector 0x8000100b) failed > attempt to access beyond end

Re: Why can't I run my program (how do i set ./ on the path permanently)

1999-09-06 Thread Seth R Arnold
If you want to add ./ to *everyone*'s path (probably not a good idea) you can put it in /etc/profile -- change a line that looks like this: PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games" to read something more like this: PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:." Y

Re: Why can't I run my program (how do i set ./ on the path permanently)

1999-09-06 Thread Alvin Oga
hi wendell.. > > I indeed needed to type "./hello"! I knew it was simple! Now, another > > stupid question for you... How do I add "./" to my path on startup? Also, > Assume you are using bash, put the following line in ~/.bash_profile > > export PATH=${PATH}:. I explicity define PATH in ~/.

Re: 3 things: exim, isdn, login.defs

1999-09-06 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Peter Palfrader aka Weasel wrote: > 3) login.defs > - > > I set SU_WHEEL_ONLY to yes in login.defs but somehow I can still su to > root as a normal user. Is there something I missed? Read the info file on the su command. Basical

Fw: Fetchmail--SMTP connect to localhost failed

1999-09-06 Thread bwarsing
Is that an anti-spam dot in your address? It makes it hard to send you mail. Anyway, please let me know if this works. - Original Message - From: bwarsing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-USER Sent: Sunday, September 05, 1999 4:38 PM Subject: Re: Fetchmail--SMTP con

3 things: exim, isdn, login.defs

1999-09-06 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
Hello everybody. I set up a mail server last week in our office and stumbled accross a few items wher eyou can perhaps help me. 1) exim --- I check every 5 minutes wheter there is something in exim's queue ( if (exim -bp | grep -q '.*'; ); then...) and if this is the case I go online and for

Re: How to uninstall X

1999-09-06 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > > Since I'm having so much trouble getting the extended-half of my > > > keyboard to work (arrow keys, pg-up/dn, etc), I'm thinking it might be > > > good just to purge all X-related files and do a clean install of th

RE: XDM startup?

1999-09-06 Thread B. Szyszka
> How can I get apps to start automatically with X if its using XDM? > Before I used to use .xnitirc, but this doesnt seem to work any more since apt > installed xdm. :(. If you're using KDE, all you have to do is make an icon to the program and put it into the Autostart folder. -- Bart S

Re: Why can't I run my program (how do i set ./ on the path permanently)

1999-09-06 Thread Kent West
Wendell Buckner wrote: > > Thanks for responding to message: > > Stephan Hachinger > Seth R Arnold > Alvin Oga > Ben Collins > > I indeed needed to type "./hello"! I knew it was simple! Now, another > stupid question for you... How do I add "./" to my path on startup? Also, > what is the EASI

Re: apt-get source [was soundblaster...]

1999-09-06 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: > On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 10:22:57PM +1200, Matthew Gregan wrote: > > If you have a new enough apt-get that supports the 'source' command but > > don't have it set up correctly, you need something like this added to > > y

Re: /tmp permissions?

1999-09-06 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 01:58:01PM -0500, Robert Rati wrote: > I was running xdm and kde just happily and I decided to kick up to xdm > windows. No problem. Well, for some reason, KDE now complains that it > needs write permissions to the /tmp dir. What are the permissions and > ownership suppos

Re: Problems building book from source, Debian GNU/Linux: Guide to Installation and Usage

1999-09-06 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
I think it's a bug in one of tex package. My work around is in /usr/local/lib As root ln -s /usr/lib/texmf texmf At least it works for me, Chanop On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 09:07:49PM +0200, Christian Ericsson wrote: > Hi, > > I have downloaded the source from http://www.newriders.com/0914-9.htm,

Re: What driver do i use for a 3com Etherlink XL pci

1999-09-06 Thread David Blackman
Bell ATlantic does do DHCP based on the MAC address, so I'll give them my win98 side fo my box, then import teh DHCp settings into linux. I have a couple of Etherlink III (ISA) lying around, but have no more isa slots, i just realized, my modem is ISA, if i get DSL, I can ditch my modem and now hav

Re: /tmp permissions?

1999-09-06 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Robert Rati wrote: > I was running xdm and kde just happily and I decided to kick up to xdm > windows. No problem. Well, for some reason, KDE now complains that it > needs write permissions to the /tmp dir. What are the permissions and > ownership supposed to be for /tmp and

No me funciona bien.

1999-09-06 Thread JESUS ANTONIO MARTINEZ PEDRERO
Hola!   Mi nombre es Jesús Pedrero. Hace unos dias compre SOLO LINUX, donde se encuentra Debian 2.0 lite, el problema que me surge es que al arrancar desde el CD-ROM, Me aparece el menú de informacion y acontinuación la posibilidad de empezar la instalación de Debian 2.0 lite.     Mi problema

Problems building book from source, Debian GNU/Linux: Guide to Installation and Usage

1999-09-06 Thread Christian Ericsson
Hi, I have downloaded the source from http://www.newriders.com/0914-9.htm, but I have problems building the book from the source. LaTeX keeps complaining about some fonts that are missing. The following fonts are missing: - ecrm0700, ecrm0800, ecrm0900, ecrm1000, ecrm1200, ecrm1440, ecrm2488 - ec

2.2.* on slink

1999-09-06 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Can I run 2.2.12 on slink without problems or do I have to update some packages from potato? Thankx! -- p.

/tmp permissions?

1999-09-06 Thread Robert Rati
I was running xdm and kde just happily and I decided to kick up to xdm windows. No problem. Well, for some reason, KDE now complains that it needs write permissions to the /tmp dir. What are the permissions and ownership supposed to be for /tmp and does anyone know HOW the permissions could've g

RE: Why can't I run my program (how do i set ./ on the path permanently)

1999-09-06 Thread Paul McHale
For security reasons, please don't do this on your root account. Users can add another ls or commonly used program to their own directory. This program doesn't have the ability to perform some insidious task when run by a user. When root changes into their directory and innocently types ls, thei

Re: * importing files into a Postgresql table *

1999-09-06 Thread The Cat
Look at the copy command. Note that there are two different versions. Anyway, your files will have to be in a delimited text format, such as csv, tab, |, etc.

Re: XDM startup?

1999-09-06 Thread The Cat
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 11:36:17AM -0400, Timothy Hospedales wrote: > > How can I get apps to start automatically with X if its using XDM? > Before I used to use .xnitirc, but this doesnt seem to work any more since apt > installed xdm. :(. XDM usually looks at /etc/X11/Xsession w

* importing files into a Postgresql table *

1999-09-06 Thread rich
Howdy all, I am in the process of trying to learn SQL and have installed Postgresql onto my system. Is it possible to import a spreadsheet file (in any number of formats: CSV, excel, quattro, whatever) into a Postgresql table? It would be a drag to have to re-enter everything by hand. I have not b

Re: xauth

1999-09-06 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 08:55:21AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Seth R Arnold said: > > On a whim I added a .rhosts file with the one word "amidala" in it. No > > change. > > If you want to grant global access for another machine to use your display, > use the xhost command: xhost amidala Hah

Re: fmware

1999-09-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 13:46:36 -0500, Kent West wrote: > A week or two ago I saw a posting on Wired or /. or Linux.com or etc > about fmware being developed as a free alternative to vmware. ITYM FreeMWare: http://freemware.org/ . HTH, Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if

Re: Meta key

1999-09-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 13:19:01 -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote: > Is there another way to map the Meta key rather than xmodmap? I suspect there's a way to do it with the XKB configuration; unfortunately, it's very badly documented. What's wrong with xmodmap? It's a bit low-level, but if that's w

fmware

1999-09-06 Thread Kent West
A week or two ago I saw a posting on Wired or /. or Linux.com or etc about fmware being developed as a free alternative to vmware. However, I can no longer find any info on it and a couple of web searches have come up empty for me. Does anyone know where I can find more info on fmware? Thanks!

Re: smbmount-2.2.x

1999-09-06 Thread Kent West
Thanks to all in helping me get my "smbumount" command working. The "umount" command seems to work when the "smbumount" command fails, but as Marc pointed out, you can 't have any file descriptors still "using" the mount point. In my case, I had Netscape storing it's profile/email stuff on the net

Re: Why can't I run my program (how do i set ./ on the path permanently)

1999-09-06 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 11:43:42AM -0700, Wendell Buckner wrote: > I indeed needed to type "./hello"! I knew it was simple! Now, another > stupid question for you... How do I add "./" to my path on startup? Also, > what is the EASIEST way to find the answers to my question before bothering > you

pap: font not found

1999-09-06 Thread Debian Mail
I used Adobe Acrobat to export a PDF File as PS. But whether I choose Font Inclusion: All Embedded or Font Inclusion: None pap always reports Arial-BoldItalic not found, using Courier. TimesNewRoman-Bold not found, using Courier. ... when sending the exported file to a LaserWriter. Why are th

XDM startup?

1999-09-06 Thread Timothy Hospedales
How can I get apps to start automatically with X if its using XDM? Before I used to use .xnitirc, but this doesnt seem to work any more since apt installed xdm. :(. Thanks, Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 06-Sep-99 Time: 11:

Re: nas???

1999-09-06 Thread Patrick Olson
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, John Gay wrote: > Thanks for the offer. I can ping between both PC's, it is just ftp and > telnet that only work one way. I don't know a lot about networking so I > read the net3 HOW-TO and set up some files for the I.P. Addresses and > route. I don't know what is configured a

Re: transfer of mail and (kernel)automounted homes

1999-09-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 06:08:04PM +0200, Ferdinand Schinagl wrote: > I'd need some advice on what to do with my mailing system on machines > with automounted home directories. As a fact my clients smail is not > able to read out ~/.forward files, at least not temporarily so that > there are alway

strange xkb problem

1999-09-06 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! While running X as root I get the following error: The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: > Error:Cannot open "compiled/server-0.xkm" to write keyboard > description > Exiting Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap An

Re: Xfree86 3.3.3 or 3.3.4 or 3.3.5

1999-09-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 08:50:45AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > I am installing slink from cd's. I so far have installed the base > system and have PPP working. I need to get X setup, but the 3.3.2 > version on the CD's does not have support for my Matrox G200 AGP card, > I know 3.3.4 does (may

Re: Reading Word format files?

1999-09-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
Thanks to all for replies. I've now found two apps that will do this: word2x and mswordview. Both are available for slink; I found word2x to be the more convenient. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux - Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: www.achc.demon.co.uk/bookreviews/ "Th

Re: Reading Word format files?

1999-09-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
Abiword (at least the version in potato) seems to handle this just fine (also .rtf). Bob On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 08:51:51AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I occasionally get email with files attached in Word format. > > > Is there any way to convert these to a readable format? (I don't want

Xfree86 3.3.3 or 3.3.4 or 3.3.5

1999-09-06 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I am installing slink from cd's. I so far have installed the base system and have PPP working. I need to get X setup, but the 3.3.2 version on the CD's does not have support for my Matrox G200 AGP card, I know 3.3.4 does (maybe 3.3.3 too). How can I get this from the netgod site (I don't have a

Debian 2.1 installation problems

1999-09-06 Thread Alberto Vecchi
Hi, I'm having lots of problems installing Debian 2.1, which are related to the installation program; I use the the "Custom" option in the profile list and then I select 4 or 5 profiles to use. The installation begins normally, but after few packages it hangs due to a failure in some install-scri

Re: Why can't I run my program (how do i set ./ on the path permanently)

1999-09-06 Thread Wendell Buckner
Thanks for responding to message: Stephan Hachinger Seth R Arnold Alvin Oga Ben Collins I indeed needed to type "./hello"! I knew it was simple! Now, another stupid question for you... How do I add "./" to my path on startup? Also, what is the EASIEST way to find the answers to my question bef

Re: hard disks more than 8gb

1999-09-06 Thread Ron Stordahl
Alexis Maldonado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said : I read a FAQ on www.westerndigital.com about hard drives bigger than 8.4GB, : and it gave a good explanation for the posibility of problems like this : happening. It is related to a limitation on the IDE standards, if you want : more info, check that arti

vfat filesystem mysteriously becomes read-only

1999-09-06 Thread Eric Hanchrow
I have a partition that has Windows 98 installed on it. When Linux is running, I have it regularly copy a few useful files onto the Windows 98 partition, as a simple backup. I do the copying with an entry in my crontab (this particular entry converts my .mailrc into a form that Outlook Express ca

bash prompts question

1999-09-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I'm (experimenting with) converting my interactive environment from tcsh to bash. One thing I miss: tcsh supports a %B token in the prompt to go bold, and it expands it to something terminal-specific at run time. Any way to do this in bash, besides something terminal-specific? (And what's a termina

Re: Reading Word format files?

1999-09-06 Thread Carl Fink
[This message has also been posted.] On 6 Sep 99 07:51:51 GMT Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I occasionally get email with files attached in Word format. > >Is there any way to convert these to a readable format? (I don't want to >use WordPerfect). StarOffice is free from Sun Microsy

Re: How do we restart X?

1999-09-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 09:20:39PM +0800, Ling Alexander wrote: > I've tried looking for the X-Server but all the processes from my previous > session (the one that hung) were no longer listed under ps or top. So > I've tried grepping for X but without any luck. It may be that the X server has d

Re: xauth

1999-09-06 Thread Nick Dyer
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Seth R Arnold said: > > On a whim I added a .rhosts file with the one word "amidala" in it. No > > change. > > If you want to grant global access for another machine to use your display, > use the xhost command: xhost amidala This is a bit of a securit

Re: How to uninstall X

1999-09-06 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> > Since I'm having so much trouble getting the extended-half of my > > keyboard to work (arrow keys, pg-up/dn, etc), I'm thinking it might be > > good just to purge all X-related files and do a clean install of the X > > Window System. > > > > Preferably someone can tell me how to fix my keys; al

Re: xauth

1999-09-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
Seth R Arnold said: > On a whim I added a .rhosts file with the one word "amidala" in it. No > change. If you want to grant global access for another machine to use your display, use the xhost command: xhost amidala

RE: psnup creating faulty PS?

1999-09-06 Thread QUANT-X Unix-Support
What may help is to use the acrobat reader on a linux box to do the conversion (pdf to ps) or the pdf2ps (or was it a pdftops) from the gs package. MS postscript drivers are... well, quite specific. Dejan Muhamedagic UNIX and Linux Support QUANT-X SERVICE & CONSULTING GMBH. A-9300 ST. Veit / Gl

Re: sis6326 vs. yo

1999-09-06 Thread Alexis Maldonado
Hola! On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 10:51:31PM -0300, garciaperez wrote: > Estoy en mis primeras armas con Linux y me he lorgrado instalar la > distribucion Slink que me mandaron de Linux central en Usa .consistente de dos > CD's. Para que te pida el segundo CD (y te aparezcan en dselect todos

Re: How do we restart X?

1999-09-06 Thread Ling Alexander
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Stephan Engelke wrote: > there should be a process for the X-Server (the binary is typically > called "X"). Try a "ps ax | grep X" (capital X) and kill or kill -9 > the X-Server. This is a brutal way, but it should get rid of the X for > you. I've tried looking for the X-

Sis 530 AGP and X

1999-09-06 Thread Chrisopher D. Judd
Hi, All, I recently upgraded by home computer and installed slink from CD. The install went smoothly except that I can't get X working (3.3.3 from netgod.net). The motherboard has a Sis 530 chipset with embedded 6326 AGP. I see from the XFree86 website that support for this was added/fixed

Re: How do we restart X?

1999-09-06 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi, On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 08:24:21PM +0800, Ling Alexander wrote: > When I telnet in from another machine, I always check see that > all the background jobs are running fine. The only problem is that my > previous login (the one that hung) is no longer listed under ps and top, > so I do

Re: NIS with LDAP

1999-09-06 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
This is why I like Debian. Someone post a message about a bledding edge thing (LDAP with NIS) and the main mantainer of LDAP packages (that know very about this thing) answers in the following post in -user. Thanks guys! :) Paulo Henrique Quoting Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTE

How do we restart X?

1999-09-06 Thread Ling Alexander
hi, I have this problem with X. I am running both Potato and Slink on different machines but they both have this problem with X (and a lot of times when this happens, I happen to be running Netscape). The problem is that the X server will hang. When it hangs, the keyboard also

Re: A message from VMware

1999-09-06 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Mark, Quoting Mark Pueschel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Dear Paulo Oliveira, > > > Greetings! It has been a few weeks and I wanted to follow up with you > and see how your evaluation of VMware for Linux is going. > Thanks for you letter. I'm using Debian Linux with VMWare bec

fetchmail bug ... or list bug?

1999-09-06 Thread J Horacio MG
I was fearing that either procmail or fetchmail were not delivering all mail every now and then, until now that I saw this message from fetchmail: fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself #*.***.

Re: elks-libc

1999-09-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 01:21:15PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > where can I get the sources of elks-libc package and debian patches ? I'm > not able to find them in ftp.debian.org... Their source package is linux86. You can find out which package provides the source for a given packag

Re: Reading Word format files?

1999-09-06 Thread David Blackman
Wordview, it's a program you can apt-egt --dave On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I occasionally get email with files attached in Word format. > > > Is there any way to convert these to a readable format? (I don't want to > use WordPerfect). > > Anthony > > > -- > Anthony Campbe

apt-get source [was soundblaster...]

1999-09-06 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 10:22:57PM +1200, Matthew Gregan wrote: > The source is available at ftp.debian.org (and mirrors), or if you have > apt-get set up correctly (you probably need the newer apt-get from > netgod.net if you're running slink): > > # cd > # apt-get source modconf > > And then h

elks-libc

1999-09-06 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, where can I get the sources of elks-libc package and debian patches ? I'm not able to find them in ftp.debian.org... Thanks. Juli-Manel Merino Vidal [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://jmmv.cjb.net >>> Runni

Re: What driver do i use for a 3com Etherlink XL pci

1999-09-06 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 05:43:25AM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: > On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, David Blackman wrote: > > > that's it, what driver do I use for a 3com etherlink XL pci, > > > > it's the card my DSL supplier supports > > I don't know, but you don't have to use their card. Unless they're

psnup creating faulty PS?

1999-09-06 Thread Debian Mail
I have a PDF document which I printed to a PS File on windows NT. I used fixps to repair the NT errors. Then I used psresize to scale the document to a4. The resulting file can be viewed with gs without problem. But when I use psnup -4 -d on the file, the resulting PS cannot be printed or viewed wi

Re: SoundBlaster 16 PNP WaveEffects help needed

1999-09-06 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 03:59:19PM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote: > Where do I find the source for modconf, and who is the maintainer? # dpkg -s modconf Package: modconf Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: base Installed-Size: 171 Maintainer: Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: "import"ing screenshots?

1999-09-06 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 01:19:25AM -0400, Harlan Crystal wrote: > I recently reinstalled my debian system, and the command which i had > been using to take screenshots ("import thepicture.jpg") no longer > works. I seemed to remember that import was associated with "xv" or > "imlib" but I have bo

Re: How to uninstall X

1999-09-06 Thread Stephan Hachinger
- Original Message - From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Users Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 12:18 AM Subject: How to uninstall X > Since I'm having so much trouble getting the extended-half of my > keyboard to work (arrow keys, pg-up/dn, etc), I'm thinking it might be > g

Re: Error opening terminal: xterm-debian.

1999-09-06 Thread Robert Varga
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Brian E. Lavender wrote: > When I telnet into another machine and I try to run a curses based > application I get the > below error. Say I run mutt > > $ mutt > > Error opening terminal: xterm-debian. Try copying /etc/terminfo/x/xterm-debian to the appropriate place on th

Re: sndcard

1999-09-06 Thread Stephan Hachinger
>- Original Message - >From: Kreshna >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 8:35 AM >Subject: sndcard > > >it is said that Debian doesn't have a soundcard support last time I saw the manual. Is there any patch for it now? >And can I download nettools or TNOS to

Re: WD drives was:IBM drives

1999-09-06 Thread Robert Varga
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote: > > WD has a utility on their website that you can run and actually repair the > drive. I've had drives with bad sectors that i've repaired with utility > that have lasted YEARS after the fact, without developing a single bad > sector. > >

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