Re: Web access to /usr/doc?

1999-09-15 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 12:34:22 -0500, you wrote: >I wish dwww would just be fixed to not munge links for html docs. I'd agree with that one. And I think that dwww desparately needs a way to support /usr/local/doc for locally installed packages. Greetings Marc -- --

Mount question

1999-09-15 Thread zdrysdal
I have created a directory off root called /share and then mounted a second drive to it. I then shared it using samba... what will happen if /share is not mounted to the second drive and someone writes to it using a samba connection?? how can i tell samba to stop allowing access to /share if it

Re: X Login Fails

1999-09-15 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: > > However, from your question, it sounds like you might be a bit > (understandably) confused about the term "server". With X Window, there > are basically two parts: the server (or "engine"), and the client. If > you're coming from the world of MS-Windows, you can think of the s

Re: where is what? - clarification (hopefully)

1999-09-15 Thread Jari Aalto+mail.procmail
* Wed 1999-09-08 Keith Harbaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thanks to all who have replied. [[ please keep me on CC since I'm not subscribed to this list ]] Hi Keith, I've read all the replies by Ernest Johanson, Jim Foltz, Mark Buda, Seth R Arnold and closest to the original spirit comes to Mark's ex

Re: X Login Fails

1999-09-15 Thread Kent West
j way wrote: > > Kent West wrote: > > > j way wrote: > > > > > > I have installed X windows for the first time on slink. The X login > > > prompt box appears, but after keying the password the system reports > > > login incorrect. I'm locked out. Suggestions? (short of reloading > > > linux &

Re: sb live card under debian

1999-09-15 Thread Rev. DeFiLEZ
you should open the sblive.o in vi do a search for 2.2.10 ( /2.2.10) and replace it with 2.2.11 (cw 2.2.11 or r 1) then you dont have to force and you dont get that mess "this isnt what i was made for " message now for my question is there a better way to do multiple configs right now i have

Re: spreadsheet?

1999-09-15 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> GNUmeric is arguably one of the best if not the best spreadsheet. ??? Unless I'm missing something big, it's missing most of the features one expects in a spreadsheet. It has the dispaly, a handful of buttons, and apparently some functions. It doesn't even pretend to be closeto finished.

Re: Minor inittab/serial console question...

1999-09-15 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Paul McHale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Can you boot Linux without a video card installed ? I would have thought > >the BIOS would have had a problem with that ... > > Yup, works just fine. In fact, if you h

Re: spreadsheet?

1999-09-15 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
john jabbed, > Rob Mahurin wrote: > > Are there any good, free spreadsheet programs out there? Anywhere? > http://www.wingz.com/wingz/index.html but it's not free; it asks for $50 as shareware. rick --

Mouse input corrupted under X 3.3.3.1 with kernel 2.2.12

1999-09-15 Thread Alec Smith
I tried to run kernel 2.2.12 on a system with X 3.3.3.1 and the Creative Banshee server installed. Under 2.2.12, mouse behavior was erratic in that as I move the mouse left or right, the pointer would move in random directions. Also, the fvwm2 menus would appear as if a mouse button was being press

Re: amd and security

1999-09-15 Thread Obi
Well, they explicitly told me it was through amd. I don't even think that ftpd is enabled on those machines ... graziano On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 08:54:16PM -0500, Marcin Kurc wrote: > Dont know about amd, but are you sure it wasn't something else? like ftpd for > example, there was quite some pu

Connection in Brazil

1999-09-15 Thread Helcio Rodrigues
Dear Sir, We are a assocation fo software developers companies from Rio de Janeiro,Brasil with a business office in Boston. I woul like to know abou your plans for Brasil. Please contact us. Thank you Helcio Rodrigues Helcio Rodrigues Chief Executive Officer RioBoston Software Connection Bos

Re: spreadsheet?

1999-09-15 Thread NatePuri
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 06:20:36PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > 18:15 ~ $ /usr/bin/gnumeric > /usr/bin/gnumeric: error in loading shared libraries: > /usr/lib/libgnomeui.so.32: undefined symbol: gdk_imlib_get_cache_info GNUmeric is arguably one of the best if not the best spreadsheet. What you sh

Re: spreadsheet?

1999-09-15 Thread John Foster
Rob Mahurin wrote: > > Are there any good, free spreadsheet programs out there? Anywhere? ___ http://www.wingz.com/wingz/index.html -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 19460173

Re: dpkg-dev / dpkg broke?

1999-09-15 Thread Bob Billson
Seth R Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There are still four packages left that it isn't upgrading, due to this > error. I assume the maintainer will fix this thing soon enough, but is there > any way to get to the other packages until then? :) I had the same problem. I solved it by doing: dpk

Re: "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0"

1999-09-15 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 01:45:46PM -0500, ray wrote: > Gary Young wrote: > > > > In attempting to install Debian 2.1 from resc1440 > > floppy onto an HP intel box with SCSI disks that > > had run Windows-NT, I get the error: > > "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0" > > and the boot

Re: picture as background in xterm or other?

1999-09-15 Thread Seth R Arnold
John, a quick list that I know do it: Eterm. Maybe aterm too. On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 03:17:25PM -0700, John Miskinis wrote: > Hi, > > It doesn't appear that "xterm" allows this from what I can find. > > I tried "gnome-terminal". It allows a picture to be placed, but > when I do this the displa

Re: sb live card under debian

1999-09-15 Thread wim
On 15-Sep-99 Rob Browning wrote: > "Jim Ruby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Is there a driver for the sound blaster live card? >> I have the sb.o module installed but don't quite get how to get it started, >> it says i/o icq and dma is required. >> >> so I'm not show to do the i/o as it don't

Re: what are the "standard" programming tools available in Debian?

1999-09-15 Thread rich
Thanks a lot for the great information - I was wondering about what I needed to give my cheesy little programs a GUI. ncurses will probably work just fine for me. As far as "make", that's pretty much not useful for a program using only a single source file, right? Also, what about LINT? I'm not

Re: picture as background in xterm or other?

1999-09-15 Thread Aaron Solochek
Eterm There is simply a dir somewhere that holds pics for it, and afile that contains all the names, either tiled or scaled, but they might need to be a special format to work. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Miskinis wrote: > Hi, > > It doesn't appear that "xterm" allows this

XEamcs -- how to assign keys to Cut, Copy, Paste?

1999-09-15 Thread Brian Boonstra
Hi How can I assign keys to Cut, Copy, and Paste in XEmacs. Ideally, they would not be lots of keystrokes combined. On a related note, my frien Bill Bumgartner once gave me the included function for my .emacs file...it causes the paste command to replace the selection. Ho

spreadsheet?

1999-09-15 Thread Rob Mahurin
Are there any good, free spreadsheet programs out there? Anywhere? I had thought that I might have finally decided to use gnumeric, but it didn't use my NumLock key and I thought I'd grab the one from unstable and see if it worked. So I got it with apt --- and apt decided to install 18 new packa

picture as background in xterm or other?

1999-09-15 Thread John Miskinis
Hi, It doesn't appear that "xterm" allows this from what I can find. I tried "gnome-terminal". It allows a picture to be placed, but when I do this the display gets all messed up when it needs to scroll. I would be curious to know if this is a problem with MY system, or everyone's. I would

Re: Minor inittab/serial console question...

1999-09-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul McHale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Can you boot Linux without a video card installed ? I would have thought >the BIOS would have had a problem with that ... Yup, works just fine. In fact, if you have the serial console support compiled in, the kernel will dete

Re: Minor inittab/serial console question...

1999-09-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I'd really like is some little >daemon on the machine connected to the headless machine that watches >and logs the serial port output, and that you could connect to >whenever you wanted (access would be exclusive) to co

Re: apt-get / overwriting common files

1999-09-15 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > --force-overwrite, but it is still annoying. How can I configure apt so that > it can resolve such issues itself? Or is it a bug in the package? The relevent APT option is dpkg::options {"--force-overwrite";}; in /etc/apt/apt.conf using a 0.3.x ve

Re: "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0"

1999-09-15 Thread Craig H. Block
>In attempting to install Debian 2.1 from resc1440 >floppy onto an HP intel box with SCSI disks that >had run Windows-NT, I get the error: > "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0" >and the boot stops. > That is a normal message stating that the kernel has found a root image which is what you

Re: dpkg-dev / dpkg broke? - POTATO - OOPS, My Mistake

1999-09-15 Thread Art Lemasters
...sorry, but the "better way" of fixing the upgrade problem is at the bottom of this message (from David). I was mistaken, and dpkg-dev was possibly _not_ unpacked to my system before I used the nasty fix of forcing the dpkg install here (although I did not notice any error message pertaining

Re: dpkg-dev / dpkg broke? - POTATO

1999-09-15 Thread Art Lemasters
This appeared to be an overwrite issue to me, so I downloaded dpkg_1.4.1.8.deb via netscape (found it through "packages" on the debian www site) and did dpkg --force-overwrite -i dpkg_1.4.1.8.deb to install it. It worked, although there might be a better way now (through apt, maybe?). And BT

scp trying to launch netscape???

1999-09-15 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
What in the world have I done that causes this? (the file doesn't copy, either) smithttyp1:lynx2-8-3>scp INSTALLATION hawkins.cba.uni.edu: Enter passphrase for RSA key '[EMAIL PROTECTED]': [1] 4569 smithttyp1:lynx2-8-3>netscape: Command not found. Write failed flushing stdout buffer. write stdo

Re: emacs or xemacs ?

1999-09-15 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 02:17:53AM -0400, Rob Mahurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use emacs when I'm in a text terminal (like right now) because I > haven't figured out how to use Xemacs' menus from the text terminal > and some of the functions of Xemacs (e.g., syntax highlighting) seem > inacce

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Re: Undeliverable Mail

1999-09-15 Thread Steeve Lennmark
> Admitedly not 100% positive, but when I've had that error before, it means > that I had the wrong X server.had to go and select another one from > XF86Config I've tried running XF86Setup and it works just fine.. But i still gets the same error when trying to start X. // Jaster -- D

Re: Mailing problems

1999-09-15 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Nagy Gergely wrote: > I have installed Debian potato last week (i had a slink box before). Since > then, i have serious mailing problems. I can send mail, but no one can > send mail to me. After a day, an error message comes telling that it

Re: glimpseindex

1999-09-15 Thread Martin Oldfield
Thanks for your note. I tried glimpseindex -o but got the same error. gdb gives this stack trace: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x4004f848 in free () (gdb) where #0 0x4004f848 in free () #1 0x4004f7f1 in free () #2 0x804eaf0 in my_free () #3 0x8052802 in build_hash () #

Re: dselect updating when Debian config changes

1999-09-15 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote: [[[COPIED FROM BOTTOM]]] > Thank you for the self-satisified blindness of your response. It's things like this that make people not want to help. Try being polite. [[[BACK TO TOP]]] > > config files, menu entri

Re: route, 2.2.x and slink

1999-09-15 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 10:29:32AM -0700, tjm wrote: > cause harmless warning messages". The 'route > add -net' seems not to work and there are > some warning messages both during boot and > when trying the route commands. For instance, > > route add -net 127.0.0.0 > yields a response of > SIOC

Re: "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0"

1999-09-15 Thread ray
Gary Young wrote: > > In attempting to install Debian 2.1 from resc1440 > floppy onto an HP intel box with SCSI disks that > had run Windows-NT, I get the error: > "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0" > and the boot stops. > > Apparently the computer had a compressed C: drive or >

Re: modem prob: cannot open /dev/tty2...input/output error

1999-09-15 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> my modem was working fine to dselect (with pon), but after i downloaded > and dpkg'd tons of files, i can no longer pon nor can i wvdial (which > gives the "cannot open /dev/tty2...imput/output error" message). > > i installed a new modem, thinking the other was fried, but i still get > the same

Re: a sendmail puzzle

1999-09-15 Thread Adam Shand
> How about setting the attribute to always append the domain name. (can't > remember the option but it's around somewhere) done that, it doesn't help in this case. i believe the reason is because it only add's the domain when it goes through the smtp mailer. and since you're delivering mail on

Re: error's when starting X

1999-09-15 Thread Steeve Lennmark
> Admitedly not 100% positive, but when I've had that error before, it means > that I had the wrong X server.had to go and select another one from > XF86Config I've tried running XF86Setup and it works just fine.. But i still gets the same error when trying to start X. // Jaster -- Deb

RE: Minor inittab/serial console question...

1999-09-15 Thread Paul McHale
Can you boot Linux without a video card installed ? I would have thought the BIOS would have had a problem with that ... paul -Original Message- From: Rob Browning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 1:02 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Minor in

error's when starting X

1999-09-15 Thread Steeve Lennmark
Hi, when i rebooted for the first time in months, i got this error starting X. $ startx _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. I dont know if you nee

Re: cannot connect to win98 using samba

1999-09-15 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > I have installed the latest samba from potato. > when I do something like this: > > smbclient -L xxx.xxx.xxx.xx > > I got the following: > > session request to xxx.xxx.xx.xx failed >

Fectchmail message: X-Fetchmail-Warning: no recipient addresses matched declared local names

1999-09-15 Thread Phillip Deackes
I recently changed Internet Provider. I use a GMX free email account which bounces all my mail to my true email address (like Bigfoot). Since changing IP I get an error message from Fetchmail at the end of the headers of each incoming message. MY IP uses POP3, my mail is downloaded by Fetchmail (v

Re: vim 5.3, gzip files, and Debian Slink

1999-09-15 Thread Seth R Arnold
Minor magic -- look in /etc/vimrc on your stock debian box. Roughly line 57-104 will be useful to you. :) On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 09:46:28AM -0400, John Davis wrote: > Hello > > I recently discovered that vim allows editing of gzip'd files. However, > in my case, this capability is only availab

Re: Debian Install on 386 floppy

1999-09-15 Thread Stephan Hachinger
- Original Message - From: Ton Hamerslag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 2:22 PM > Dear debian-user. I have a IBM 386sx 55 machine with 4 MB RAM and > a harddisk of 80 MB. I want to make a linux server of that machine. > The only thing this machine also has is a

[Mailer-Daemon@pingoo.linhax.org: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender]

1999-09-15 Thread Sami Dalouche
Hi, How can I avoid this type of behaviour ? When I tell exim to use the smtp.free.fr - I have rights to use it as a smarthost -, I receive a message like this. How can I repair this ? Thanks, sami - Forwarded message from Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - X-Failed-Recipients:

Re: unsubscribing

1999-09-15 Thread Seth R Arnold
Well, whenever I want to unsubscribe from a mailing list, I normally mail the address given with a subject of "unsub" and two lines of "unsub [EMAIL PROTECTED] end". Check that the capitalization is correct -- some mail servers are pickier about it than others. If all else fails, you can mail the

Re: emacs or xemacs ?

1999-09-15 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
rob rote, > "Richard E. Hawkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > also, using emacs on CCIE (*Control Key In Exile) keyboard, causing > > enough long reaches on my little finger sthat I had to see a quack, > > is probably part (put a minor part) of my avoiding either. > You probably know this, bu

Re: sb live card under debian

1999-09-15 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 06:09:15AM -0500, Jim Ruby wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a driver for the sound blaster live card? Jim, Creative offers a binary-only module for the Live! card -- you can download it form their webpage. I think it will work with kernel versions 2.0.36 and 2.2.5, but I could be

Re: Web access to /usr/doc?

1999-09-15 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I can't see any specific reason unless there was a path (link, otherwise) which would allow a web browser to get out of /usr/doc (and into, say, /etc/passwd). Of course this is a subtle subject and there may be others who could give a more confident answer (though none of them seem to be stepping

route, 2.2.x and slink

1999-09-15 Thread tjm
Hi. I've installed kernel 2.2.12 on a slink box and I appear to be having trouble with the route commands. According to the Debian page on using Linux 2.2.x on slink, under netbase, "some routes built by the netbase init scripts will cause harmless warning messages". The 'route add -net' seems

dpkg gives me an error

1999-09-15 Thread Geocrawler.com
This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Eduardo Silva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Be sure to reply to that address. I don't know what I did for this to happen, but when I make apt-get update, or try to install with dpkg -i a package the following error appears: "dpkg: failed to open package info f

Re: cfdisk hates me ("FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 1: Partition ends after end-of-disk"

1999-09-15 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Seth R Arnold wrote: > Jens, do you think it would be a good idea to try to fill my hard drive, so > that if things do start dissapearing, it is when I expect them to, rather > than .. some time in the future, when I likely forget about the problem? Yeah, that's not a bad strategy. At least then

Re: emacs or xemacs ?

1999-09-15 Thread Rob Browning
"Richard E. Hawkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also, using emacs on CCIE (*Control Key In Exile) keyboard, causing > enough long reaches on my little finger sthat I had to see a quack, > is probably part (put a minor part) of my avoiding either. You probably know this, but you can easily rema

Re: E-mail client for POP3?

1999-09-15 Thread Carel Fellinger
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Which boils down to this: fetching from the server is not a real > good solution for me. Is there a text-based email client that > uses IMAP rather than POP? Alternatively, if fetchmail had an you could consider using Pine. It's IMAP based, though not com

"RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0"

1999-09-15 Thread Gary Young
In attempting to install Debian 2.1 from resc1440 floppy onto an HP intel box with SCSI disks that had run Windows-NT, I get the error: "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0" and the boot stops. Apparently the computer had a compressed C: drive or partition when it had windows-NT as

Re: sb live card under debian

1999-09-15 Thread Rob Browning
"Jim Ruby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a driver for the sound blaster live card? > I have the sb.o module installed but don't quite get how to get it started, > it says i/o icq and dma is required. > > so I'm not show to do the i/o as it don't like i as an argument. > > modprobe i=650

Re: what are the "standard" programming tools available in Debian?

1999-09-15 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Kristopher Johnson wrote: > Seth R Arnold wrote: > > Venu, you speak the truth, the info pages are full of information, but > > honestly (and no offense to RMS) -- info isn't the easiest program in the > > world to master. I *do* wish info h

Re: what are the "standard" programming tools available in Debian?

1999-09-15 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, rich wrote: > Thanks Seth! It seems lately that many questions go unanswered, much > less answered in such a thorough manner... I'm sure that your advice > will help me... i sometimes let questions i know go unanswered because i don't know

Re: Minor inittab/serial console question...

1999-09-15 Thread Rob Browning
Seth R Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rob, why not do everything via telnet or ssh? two network cards can be had > for under $50 if the machines don't already have network cards.. The serial console is to handle cases where the machine can't even boot to the telnet or ssh stage. This machi

Question about PCI ports

1999-09-15 Thread John Foster
I have just installed a SIIG dual parallel port card in my Linux box. When linux sees the card, it seems to recognized and initialize it as a serial port as it assigns it ttyS1 and ttyS2. The serial port of my modem is ttyS0. Any thoughts on how to set these to lpt or is that necessary? I have a sc

i can't hear my cd's

1999-09-15 Thread pplaw
debs, using cdtool's cdplay, i can't hear my cd's. are there any special configs to get the audio? (there are no probs with the device (/dev/hdc).) ia,t. bentley taylor. //

Re: Is there any way to view MS Excel files under linux?

1999-09-15 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 10:57:28AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > Install StarOffice. And as a side note: since libc-2.1.2-1, StarOffice is working and even printing again. Nice to have. It segfaults on exit, but apparently not causing any harm by doing so. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfo

Re: PAM problems

1999-09-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 05:01:52PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 06:00:17AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 03:25:45PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have problems with PAM apps since the last upgrade forced them onto my > > > system. > > >

Mailing problems

1999-09-15 Thread Nagy Gergely
Hi all! I have installed Debian potato last week (i had a slink box before). Since then, i have serious mailing problems. I can send mail, but no one can send mail to me. After a day, an error message comes telling that it does not know how to deliver the message. Strange is , that I can acces the

Re: Is there any way to view MS Excel files under linux?

1999-09-15 Thread John Foster
Install StarOffice. -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 19460173

Re: dselect updating when Debian config changes

1999-09-15 Thread John R. Sheets
Bryan Scaringe wrote: > > OK, > If you wish to get a new package that is released WITHOUT updating > all existing packages that have new versions, just use apt-get to install > tha package directly. > > apt-get update #update the package DB > apt-get install Is it possible to use apt-g

Re: Need help configuring smail

1999-09-15 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, David Kanter wrote: > When getting mail via fetchmail, at one point I got this error from > fetchmail: > .fetchmail: SMTP doesn't like recipient address [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > In the message header of all remotely received mail, I get this err

"lillte" mistake ... cannot boot!

1999-09-15 Thread Alberto Maurizi
For some reason I lost a valid kernel image. So, I mounted the disk in another machine, modified the 2nd machine lilo.conf and booted the 1st system. OK. But ... ... how should I reinstall lilo (in /dev/fd0 as this was the old way I used) to boot fro

Re: PAM problems

1999-09-15 Thread lexchive
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 06:00:17AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 03:25:45PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have problems with PAM apps since the last upgrade forced them onto my > > system. > > > Hmm...seems like you have basic functionality, just a few nitpicks. The

Re: SAMBA

1999-09-15 Thread Rune Linding Raun
dosent solve it we got smbpasswd in /etc/samba besides security = user is NOT enabled On 15 Sep, Peter Iannarelli wrote: > Samba can't find your smbpasswd file. If you just upgraded > the old one should be in /etc, it should be in /etc/samba. > > If you just upgraded you may have to run mksmbpass

Need help configuring smail

1999-09-15 Thread David Kanter
Last night I set up fetchmail and smail. At first smail bounced back all my remote messages (local messages were OK). But I made some changes and both are working, I think, but I have some questions so that I'll get less error messages. Perhaps someone could give me hints on how to ans

Re: mutt questions

1999-09-15 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 02:17:37PM +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > BTW, I use a 135x48 text screen, and I didn't find > any command to wrap my lines @ 79 Cars, instead of > the end of line - know some? > "fmt" wraps at about 75. You can even use it from mutt: if you get a message that's too l

SSMTP use for ISP email.

1999-09-15 Thread Christoph Lameter
I think this should make the message go into the archives and thus you will have some publicly available info re ssmtp. Thanks for the flowers ;-) -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 08:43:22 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: PAM problems

1999-09-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 03:25:45PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have problems with PAM apps since the last upgrade forced them onto my > system. > > First: pam_env.so outputs messages about non alpha-numeric variable names in > /etc/environment when i login. The funny things is, those varia

SAMBA

1999-09-15 Thread Rune Linding Raun
same problem: samba 2.05 kernel 2.2.12(same with 2.0.36) debian 2.1 suddenly it started to request a IPC$ password to our windows workstations when they try to access the printerbrowsing etc we have never used passwd and security=user is NOT enabled and our linux boxes dont need passwords to list

Re: vim 5.3, gzip files, and Debian Slink

1999-09-15 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 09:46:28AM -0400, John Davis wrote: > Does Debian somehow do something to the gzip files before vim edits them > or something? Is magic involved? Look at the vimrc file that comes with the Debian installation of vim. It has the following in it: augroup gzip " Remo

vim 5.3, gzip files, and Debian Slink

1999-09-15 Thread John Davis
Hello I recently discovered that vim allows editing of gzip'd files. However, in my case, this capability is only available on my stock debian installation where I installed the vim package and not on my custom debian installation where I installed/Make'd vim myself. I tried to rebuild/config/ma

PAM problems

1999-09-15 Thread lexchive
I have problems with PAM apps since the last upgrade forced them onto my system. First: pam_env.so outputs messages about non alpha-numeric variable names in /etc/environment when i login. The funny things is, those variables are still set (maybe by another mechanism?). Then, more important: I us

Re: Known Windows 98 and Linux partition problems

1999-09-15 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
noah noted, > As you can imagine, I quickly ran out of space on the Win98 partition, so, > using Linux's fdisk, I created a new FAT partition. Then I booted to > Win98 and formatted this new partition. Windows was fine with this. > However... > When I rebooted to Linux, all the logical partition

Re: what are the "standard" programming tools available in Debian?

1999-09-15 Thread Kristopher Johnson
Seth R Arnold wrote: > Venu, you speak the truth, the info pages are full of information, but > honestly (and no offense to RMS) -- info isn't the easiest program in the > world to master. I *do* wish info had vi-bindings. Maybe it is just me, but > the vi bindings seem very intuitive after only a

Re: Why can't GDB or DDD find my source code?

1999-09-15 Thread rich
That was it! Thanks a lot it's so nice when something turns out to be so simple! > Do you even have an executable file called 'foo' there? The -o option > should be immediately followed by the name (which, by your examples is > either -g or -ggdb). Try compiling with: > > $ gcc -g -o foo foo.

Re: emacs or xemacs ?

1999-09-15 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
Kris Kried, > I honestly don't mean to start a holy war here, but I'd like to > know: Is there anyone who prefers Emacs to XEmacs, and why? If you change "prefer" to "dislike less," then me :) I still use emacs for some things that I haven't figured out how to get vim to do. Xemacs has extra b

Re: a sendmail puzzle

1999-09-15 Thread Simon Martin
How about setting the attribute to always append the domain name. (can't remember the option but it's around somewhere) __ _ Debian GNU User / /(_)_ __ _ ___ __ Simon Martin / / | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / Project Manager / /__| | | | | |_| |>

Re: To the Debian Project, IMHO

1999-09-15 Thread Ralph Winslow
Mark Brown wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 09:56:24AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > > Info keybindings are virtually identical to Emacs, and thus don't feel > > at all stupid to this Emacs user. In fact, I would be VERY annoyed if > > But consider what it used to be like - the curses info

Re: To the Debian Project, IMHO

1999-09-15 Thread Simon Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok, so this is my 2 cents worth. GUI utilities are ok, command line utilities are ok, simple dialogs are ok, this is not the issue. The real issue is not to fall into the Microsoft or RedHat paradigm. This is a flavour of Unix, Unix is not trivial, Un

unsubscribing

1999-09-15 Thread Private Man
Why can't I unsubscribe from this group with a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] And I'm putting unsubscribe in the subject __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: mutt questions

1999-09-15 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
> Hi lazy folks ;->>> Hi!!! ;-) > More lazy stuff: using the mc editor (very practical > to zap entire lines of the first mail when you reply, > or to copy similar lines) Well... this one is very good for us, old MS-DOS users (it's very similar to MS's EDIT ;-)... I also like A LOT the jstar ed

Re: Is there any way to view MS Excel files under linux?

1999-09-15 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi Alex, the StarCalc part of the StarOffice-suite is able to import Excel-files. Gnumeric also (partially) understands the Excel-format. So long -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] ***Die "10 Gebote": 27

Re: mutt questions

1999-09-15 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 12:11:27PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: > Guilherme Soares Zahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi lazy folks ;->>> More lazy stuff: using the mc editor (very practical to zap entire lines of the first mail when you reply, or to copy similar lines) set editor="/usr/bin/mc -e " BTW

Is there any way to view MS Excel files under linux?

1999-09-15 Thread Alex V. Toropov

Re: vrweb won't compile under potato

1999-09-15 Thread Paul Harris
thanks, i'd like try and fix it as i do like the program :) however i also don't have much time so don't expect too much yet! please send me the patches and any hints would be appreciated... thanks :) Paul On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Fabien Ninoles wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 01:15:59AM +0800, P

Re: apt-get / overwriting common files -- Disregard

1999-09-15 Thread lexchive
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 01:45:36PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am running potato and im doing upgrade quite often. Regularly I get this > kind of message when doing apt-get dist-upgrade: > > Preparing to replace dpkg 1.4.1.6 (using .../archives/dpkg_1.4.1.8_i386.deb) > ... > Unpacking repl

Re: dselect updating when Debian config changes

1999-09-15 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
> OK, > If you wish to get a new package that is released WITHOUT updating > all existing packages that have new versions, just use apt-get to install > tha package directly. > > apt-get update #update the package DB > apt-get install > > Note, this WILL download and install updates to

Re: apt-get / overwriting common files

1999-09-15 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 01:45:36PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I am running potato and im doing upgrade quite often. Regularly I get this > kind of message when doing apt-get dist-upgrade: > > Preparing to replace dpkg 1.4.1.6 (using .../archives/dpkg_1.4.1.8_i386.deb) > ... > Unpac

apt-get / overwriting common files

1999-09-15 Thread lexchive
Hi, I am running potato and im doing upgrade quite often. Regularly I get this kind of message when doing apt-get dist-upgrade: Preparing to replace dpkg 1.4.1.6 (using .../archives/dpkg_1.4.1.8_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement dpkg ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.4.1

Re: emacs or xemacs ?

1999-09-15 Thread Michael Stenner
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 02:17:53AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 07:32:22PM -0400, Kristopher Johnson wrote: > > I honestly don't mean to start a holy war here, but I'd like to > > know: Is there anyone who prefers Emacs to XEmacs, and why? > > I use emacs when I'm in a text

Re: vrweb won't compile under potato

1999-09-15 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 01:15:59AM +0800, Paul Harris wrote: > hi, > > i'm trying to find _any_ vrml viewer for my potato system (recently > upgraded from slink). vrweb was working fine, but now just segfaults. i > reinstalled it and have the same problem. i downloaded the source packages > from m

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