Re: Outlook doesn't send over linux dialup gateway

1999-10-25 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 12:51:24AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I have a little pc running as a dialup gateway to the internet. i hooked my > stuff up with dynip.com to > get a static ip and run my own mail server ... > > pop3 & sending mail from linux pc does all work. > but i can't

Netscape 4.5 has black icons...

1999-10-25 Thread Andrew Clark
I run X in 24bit colour and netscape has black icons, if I run in 16bit colour, netscape has nice colourful icons, is there anyway to get the coloured icons running in 24bit or is netscape 4.5 broken? Regards, Andrew Clark. pls CC me.

kernel causing mild panic

1999-10-25 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, Tried to go to 2.2.9 today and the system just won;t reboot. It seems that a directory /lib/modules/2.2.9 is missing. Things like the second NIC don't get modules loaded. Has anyone any suggestions on how to deal with this? All help appreciated. Patrick

Re: Outlook doesn't send over linux dialup gateway

1999-10-25 Thread Sebastian Stark
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > pop3 & sending mail from linux pc does all work. > but i can't send from outlook express to the sendmail on the linux pc. > > Error Message : > > "Relaying denied" you have to explicitly activate relaying for each domain or run an open relay

Warning: Q < 10.66666667

1999-10-25 Thread Sebastian Stark
what means Q in the last lines ?? I use debian 2.1 (**) XKB: rules: "xfree86" (**) XKB: model: "pc102" (**) XKB: layout: "de" (**) Mouse: type: PS/2, device: /dev/mouse, buttons: 3 (**) Mach64: Graphics device ID: "Primary Card" (**) Mach64: Monitor ID: "Primary Monitor" (**) FontPath set to "/u

Re: xemacs20 and default font

1999-10-25 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to set up a default font under xemacs20. I've changed > the default font to my tastes with the Options menu, but even after using > the same menu's "Save Options" option, my font doesn't come back after > relaunching xemacs. Please type

Outlook doesn't send over linux dialup gateway

1999-10-25 Thread hypnotic
Hi, I have a little pc running as a dialup gateway to the internet. i hooked my stuff up with dynip.com to get a static ip and run my own mail server ... pop3 & sending mail from linux pc does all work. but i can't send from outlook express to the sendmail on the linux pc. Error Message :

Re: Two problems after reinstalling.

1999-10-25 Thread Justin Settle
Nick Phillips wrote: > > > One of them is that gpm and X won't work at the same time. To move the > > mouse in X I need to gpm -k. This I didn't need to do before. > > I don't know how the setup normally deals with this, but if you RTFM on > gpm, you will see that it mentions that problem; if y

Re: X-WINDOW FREEZE

1999-10-25 Thread Lee Maguire
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Camiel Coenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >> I sometimes run into the problem of an X-Window freeze [..] >> annoying because I have to reboot my system by using the reset button >> Is there a solution to prevent or avoid such a freeze ? > I can't help you

Re: C programing

1999-10-25 Thread John Carline
Stephan Engelke wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 01:30:34PM +0200, Benak Istvan wrote: > > Someone tell me how can I find a doc about C programing (I downloaded > > the Programmer's Guide, but I can't programming under C, so I want to > > learn it!) > > So I need a doc for lammers! > > How

Re: ATI Mach64 mouse woes!

1999-10-25 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... [...] > Does any one know what might be happening? I'd be more than happy to > provide you with further information (file listings and stuff like that). > The motherboard is a Pentium MMX compatible with PCI and ISA bus and with an >

Can someone explain this kernel panic error message? [fwd]

1999-10-25 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
Hello folks. This is not Debian-specific, but my brother-in-law got a kernel panic while booting of a Linux installation CD: >I got the following booting off of a CD while installing on a new >machine. > > VFS: Cannot open root device 08:21 > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:2

disc-cover error

1999-10-25 Thread Jocke
Hi all, I just downloaded the latest debs from disc-cover homepage and installed with dpkg -i. Now when I run it is give the following error. slayer:~$ disc-cover Error (while reading cddb): 500 Command syntax error. at /usr/bin/disc-cover line 87 Error: could not fetch cdrom information. M

question about this mailing list

1999-10-25 Thread jh
I am going on vacation. In order to stop mail while I am away do I need to completely unsubscribe and then re-subscribe when I return? Thanks, Jeff

Re: cron and timezones

1999-10-25 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 02:16:17PM -0700, brian moore wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 09:48:38PM +0100, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 01:36:21PM -0700, brian moore wrote: > > > > > > I'll assume you're in the UK: You are mistaken in believing your time > > > zone is set co

Re: cron and timezones

1999-10-25 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > I've just noticed that cron takes no notice of the current > timezone: all my cron jobs were running an hour late and I didn't > know why until recently. Restart cron, cron only reads the timezone file when it starts up first .. Jason

Re: getting sysclock to match hwclock

1999-10-25 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Mon, 25 Oct, 1999 à 08:26:09PM +0200, Patrik Magnusson wrote: > >> On 25 Oct 1999, Patrik Magnusson wrote: > >> > My system clock has been keeping time rather poorly. The > >> > hardware-clock on the other hand hasn't lost a second in > >> > over two months. > >> > > >> hwclock --hctosys > >>

Re: Exim and mail

1999-10-25 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > You need to add localhost to a list in /etc/exim.conf, specifically > the "local_domains" line. > > It should look something like: > > local_domains = hostname:hostname.junk.org:localhost > > This should fix you up. One other thing, if you to

Re: Exim and mail

1999-10-25 Thread Richard Clarke
That doesn't make any difference at all. root-/home/clarker8:fetchmail -u clarker8 t8.cs.man.ac.uk Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1 message for clarker8 at t8.cs.man.ac.uk. reading message 1 of 1 (1608 header octets) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction e

Re: Good News Reader?

1999-10-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I run gnus on emacs (not xemacs), I have not had an emacs crash in years, and it is integrated with mailcrypt (on certain groups, I have gnus hiding the pgp/gpg signature in the article buffer, while verifying the signature _automatically_). I also like the adaptive word s

Re: passwd

1999-10-25 Thread aphro
8 characaters is normal for unix passwords nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336

Re: Exim and mail

1999-10-25 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Richard Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, I want to use exim to deliver mail to local users and I would like to > use fetchmail to deliver mail from a pop3 server to a particular user. > However I am having problems getting it to work. > > I chose, > (4) Local delivery only: You are not

eth0 not working on remote machine (outch!)

1999-10-25 Thread Stefan Langerman
Hello everyone, I'm in deep trouble: Yesterday, I updated my remote server, which is sitting in Belgium (I'm in NJ,USA), using dselect. My box is a P100 running potato. I then rebooted, and nothing came up! This morning I called someone over there, who told me the machine boots, but says eth0 is

Re: X-WINDOW FREEZE

1999-10-25 Thread Paul Huygen
Camiel Coenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I sometimes run into the problem of an X-Window freeze [..] > annoying because I have to reboot my system by using the reset button > Is there a solution to prevent or avoid such a freeze ? I can't help you with a solution to the freeze problem. However,

Re: passwd

1999-10-25 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Vincent Deffontaines wrote: > now I tried something else > I set my password to a 9 characters one > lets say "poipoipoi" which is 9 charaters > you can type "poipoipoi" followed by anything... you just get in as > well... I believe that, by default, the library function cryp

Re: X-WINDOW FREEZE

1999-10-25 Thread Sebastian Stark
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Camiel Coenen wrote: > > I sometimes run into the problem of an X-Window freeze (keyboard stops > working as does the touchpad on my laptop). This is very annoying because I > have to reboot my system by using the reset button, which in turn is a > dangerous way of restarting

Re: X-WINDOW FREEZE

1999-10-25 Thread Andrei Ivanov
It is hard to diagnose a problem without knowing anything about circumstances. Is it happening at random or while you run a particular program? Check the logs after the restart, and ~/.xsession-errors file to see what can be potentially wrong. Andrew ---

Re: passwd

1999-10-25 Thread dyer
Vincent Deffontaines wrote: > I just found out something I find freak on my debian 2.1 system > > My root password used to be "panoramix2021"... > Today by mistake I typed "panoramix", and got in!!! > > how comes? is that normal? I dont find it normal actually > is that a bug? is that supposed t

Exim and mail

1999-10-25 Thread Richard Clarke
Ok, I want to use exim to deliver mail to local users and I would like to use fetchmail to deliver mail from a pop3 server to a particular user. However I am having problems getting it to work. I chose, (4) Local delivery only: You are not on a network. Mail for local users is delivered. I

Re: passwd

1999-10-25 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 09:35:23PM +0200, Vincent Deffontaines wrote: > I just found out something I find freak on my debian 2.1 system > > My root password used to be "panoramix2021"... > Today by mistake I typed "panoramix", and got in!!! > > how comes? is that normal? I dont find it normal a

Re: getting sysclock to match hwclock

1999-10-25 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 10/25/99, Patrik Magnusson scribbled about "getting sysclock to match hwclock": > My system clock has been keeping time rather poorly. The > hardware-clock on the other hand hasn't lost a second in > over two months. > I just want the system clock to match the hardware clock. > Please help.

Getting Netscape to work on potato

1999-10-25 Thread Mark M
Hi, Despite Potato being based on a 2.2 kernel, downloading the unsupported/linux22netscape doesn't work to well. However, the supported/linux20libc5 version seems to be very stable even on my 2.2 kernel Potato system. Perhaps this is the reason for the conflicting reports?? YMMV Mark.

Re: Menu gone after blackbox update

1999-10-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 09:35:19AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > After updating blackbox to 0.51.3-2, the Debian menu system is no > longer accessible. A right-click brings up a menu with only xterm, > Restart and Exit as options. > > The changelog refers to looking for the menu in /etc/X11 and the

passwd

1999-10-25 Thread Vincent Deffontaines
I just found out something I find freak on my debian 2.1 system My root password used to be "panoramix2021"... Today by mistake I typed "panoramix", and got in!!! how comes? is that normal? I dont find it normal actually is that a bug? is that supposed to be working that way? how many charactee

X-WINDOW FREEZE

1999-10-25 Thread Camiel Coenen
I sometimes run into the problem of an X-Window freeze (keyboard stops working as does the touchpad on my laptop). This is very annoying because I have to reboot my system by using the reset button, which in turn is a dangerous way of restarting linux. Is there a solution to prevent or avoid such

Re: getting sysclock to match hwclock

1999-10-25 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Mon, 25 Oct, 1999 à 03:37:28PM +0200, Patrik Magnusson wrote: > My system clock has been keeping time rather poorly. The > hardware-clock on the other hand hasn't lost a second in > over two months. > > I tried to use adjtimex to get the system clock to match the > hardware clock, unsuccessfu

cron and timezones

1999-10-25 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I've just noticed that cron takes no notice of the current timezone: all my cron jobs were running an hour late and I didn't know why until recently. My timezone is set correctly, using tzconfig, so date gives: Mon Oct 25 20:35:42 BST 1999 Unfortunately, cron thinks this means 19:35:42 GMT, and

Two problems after reinstalling.

1999-10-25 Thread jus10
Hello, I had potato up and running fine but I needed to repartition this drive so I reinstalled. Everything is working well with two small problems that didn't come up the first time. One of them is that gpm and X won't work at the same time. To move the mouse in X I need to gpm -k. This I did

proxyarp

1999-10-25 Thread esl
Help, please. How do I enable proxyarp on my ethernet interface? I know how to do this in PPP. Thanks. E.LL

Re: Mutt and /var/spool/mail

1999-10-25 Thread Paul
Paul wrote: > > > What are the permissions and group/ownership of /var/spool/mail? > > > > I have drwxrwsr -x root mail > > > > Anthony > > > > -- > > Thanks for your help. These are the permissions, they don`t look that > similar, has the install of mutt changed something it shouldn`t have >

Re: Diskless and Stare Office??

1999-10-25 Thread aphro
diskless..i assume everything is mounted over nfs ..so what stops you from loadin staroffice over nfs like any other app. (make sure to do a multiuser install with the /net option, then run a workstation install for each user) nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apache authentication

1999-10-25 Thread aphro
what does your access.conf show ? depending on your config will depend wether or not htaccess files are read. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited

Re: Mutt and /var/spool/mail

1999-10-25 Thread Paul
> What are the permissions and group/ownership of /var/spool/mail? > > I have drwxrwsr -x root mail > > Anthony > > -- Thanks for your help. These are the permissions, they don`t look that similar, has the install of mutt changed something it shouldn`t have done? $ ls -l /var/spool/mail tot

Re: Diskless and Stare Office??

1999-10-25 Thread Philip Lehman
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Benak Istvan wrote: >Someone please tell me, if I want to use a Diskless clients (p200 with >64 MB ram) and a strong server and 10 Mb ethernet cards, how will run >the StarOffice 5.1 on the clients?? >Have anyone any experience with this?? Not with loading off the network in

Re: Intention to NMU MRTG

1999-10-25 Thread Joey Hess
Michael-John Turner wrote: > The primary reason is that the default SNMP configuration for ucd-snmp > 4.0 doesn't supply the network stats MRTG monitors - do an snmpwalk and > you'll see what I mean. I ran into this too. Is there a way to add those stats back in? -- see shy jo

ATI Mach64 mouse woes!

1999-10-25 Thread Jose L Gomez Dans
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problems with ATI Mach64 card Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.x Organization: Summary: Keywords: Hi! This is the second SVGA/PCI card i try on my computer, and the second time I encounter this problem. First of all, gpm stops working. The mouse is on t

Re: [TEST] Ignore

1999-10-25 Thread Joe Block
Wim Kerkhoff wrote: > > You shouldn't be reading this! You shouldn't be sending this. When did it become acceptable behavior to use mailing lists that go to hundreds of users as test mail recipients? jpb -- Joe Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet

Menu gone after blackbox update

1999-10-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
After updating blackbox to 0.51.3-2, the Debian menu system is no longer accessible. A right-click brings up a menu with only xterm, Restart and Exit as options. The changelog refers to looking for the menu in /etc/X11 and the desired menu exists in /etc/X11/blackbox. Bob -- Bob Nielsen

Re: How to copy the Debian-CD (with short 8.3 FN's) to my Harddiskwith LFN

1999-10-25 Thread Joe Block
Michelle Konzack wrote: > > MK>> The other Thing is, how can I get a full FTP-Mirror (SLINK stable + > src) ??? > MK> > MK>Use wget, it had be designed for that. > > Hello, > > wget does download ALL !!! > It is too much !!! > > I like to get only the stable bin+src SLINK for i386 and not more.

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Art Lemasters
/etc/modules.conf and /etc/modutils were replaced on this machine (potato) two days ago. /etc/modules.conf.old was made on the 19th (six days ago). Art

Re: getting sysclock to match hwclock

1999-10-25 Thread Patrik Magnusson
>> On 25 Oct 1999, Patrik Magnusson wrote: >> > My system clock has been keeping time rather poorly. The >> > hardware-clock on the other hand hasn't lost a second in >> > over two months. >> > >> > I tried to use adjtimex to get the system clock to match the >> > hardware clock, unsuccessfully.

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Art Lemasters
On a most recent upgrade, I noticed that there was a question posed by the system on modutils, along with a prompt to say no or hit "enter." ...sorry, but although I remember there was a notice about involved config files being replaced, I did not jot it down. I chose "enter," to make the cha

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1999-10-25 Thread Laurent Deschaintres
unsubscribe -- __ _"Storm Linux, it's time to close the windows !" / /(_)_ __ _ ___ __ / / | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / Laurent DESCHAINTRES, CNRS - LMA - A3 / /__| | | | | |_| |> <31 ch. J. Aiguier 13402 MARSEILLE CEDEX 20 \/_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\_\

Re: Stateful Packet - Firewall

1999-10-25 Thread Harald Weidner
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Well there is Sinus - http://www.sinusfirewall.org/ The official homepage of the SINUS firewall is http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/ikm/SINUS/firewall/ Note that the developers work with Debian themselves, so the firewall

xemacs20 and default font

1999-10-25 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I'm trying to set up a default font under xemacs20. I've changed the default font to my tastes with the Options menu, but even after using the same menu's "Save Options" option, my font doesn't come back after relaunching xemacs. I'm very new to xemacs (and emacs too) and I'd

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: > > I have the same problem. I upgraded my potato machine yesterday. I had > > a bunch of unresolved symbols. I did a update-modules. Now my machine > > is complaining about /etc/modules.conf being older t

Mutt and /var/spool/mail

1999-10-25 Thread Paul
Third time lucky with this one. After uninstalling a perfectly serviceable version of Mutt in order to install Mutt-ja I now find that my mailbox is read only. I`ve RTFM and think that this may have something to do with the -homespool option and setgid but to be honest I`m still a bit of a newbie a

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Pollywog
I have had this problem on Potato for at least a week. I was able to eliminate it by recompiling my kernel, but that did not work after my most recent upgrade about three days ago. -- Andrew On 25-Oct-99 Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: > I have the same problem. I upgraded my potato machine y

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: > I have the same problem. I upgraded my potato machine yesterday. I had > a bunch of unresolved symbols. I did a update-modules. Now my machine > is complaining about /etc/modules.conf being older than > /lib/modules/2.2.5/modules.dep. It's a warning

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread Daniel Haude
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, jack wrote: > It crashes Netscape (Navigator) on my machine. There's nothing to > protect. Everybody knows netscape sucks for now. > However, fact is fact. Haven't had netscape trouble under Linux yet (I don't use it much), but on an IRIX 6.4 system it dumps core the insta

Re: getting sysclock to match hwclock

1999-10-25 Thread Daniel Haude
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Patrik Magnusson wrote: > My system clock has been keeping time rather poorly. The > hardware-clock on the other hand hasn't lost a second in > over two months. > > I tried to use adjtimex to get the system clock to match the > hardware clock, unsuccessfully. First i tried

How to force reconfiguring of a package?

1999-10-25 Thread Daniel Haude
Hi folks, I have two questions related to Debian package management. 1) My apache server doesn't start up. When I manually try to start it, it complains that it can't figure out the hostname of the local system. Weird, because "hostname" returns the correct name. Anyway, I suspect that something

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread jack
> > > Please check this one for me (I don't see how this can be anything other > > > than a Netscape bug, but if it is something else, I'd like to know): > > > > > > On any Unix (X11) version of Communicator: > > Alas, I use only Navigator, not the whole Communicator package. > > > - - open the boo

Software (was Re: trashing Netscape)

1999-10-25 Thread David Teague
On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, John wrote: > Fortunately my car runs without software, i wouldnt go near it otherwise :) Hi John However, unless your car is very old (before early 1970s) your car has a computer, and software, in it that does ignition timing at the very least. On my car, the computer

Re: make to dep package?

1999-10-25 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 12:18:34PM +0200, Benak Istvan wrote: > Hi again! > > I've a short question: > If I download a tar.gz file and if I want to compile it, can I make from > the source a deb package? Because If I install it from the source I > can't purge it, not? But If I can make a deb from

apache authentication

1999-10-25 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, Suddenly my apache server (Slink) stopped asking for authentication with .htaccess files. Any hint what could be going wrong here? I have no idea since this was working ok. Thanks, []s, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-C

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Patrick Kirk
Many thanks!

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Jerry Lundström
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 13:43:22 +0100, "Patrick Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi Jerry, > >I used moved from slink to potato as well. Is there a howto on how to get >and compile a 2.2 kernel? > Not realy, there is HOWTO's on the basic things about compileing the kernel. Check you /usr/doc/HOWTO

Re: C programing

1999-10-25 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi, On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 01:30:34PM +0200, Benak Istvan wrote: > Someone tell me how can I find a doc about C programing (I downloaded > the Programmer's Guide, but I can't programming under C, so I want to > learn it!) > So I need a doc for lammers! How 'bout "Kerninghan, Ritchie: The C Prog

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi Jerry, I used moved from slink to potato as well. Is there a howto on how to get and compile a 2.2 kernel? Thanks in advance, Patrick

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
I have the same problem. I upgraded my potato machine yesterday. I had a bunch of unresolved symbols. I did a update-modules. Now my machine is complaining about /etc/modules.conf being older than /lib/modules/2.2.5/modules.dep. Somehow, the depmod -a from init.d script seems to be not writing t

getting sysclock to match hwclock

1999-10-25 Thread Patrik Magnusson
My system clock has been keeping time rather poorly. The hardware-clock on the other hand hasn't lost a second in over two months. I tried to use adjtimex to get the system clock to match the hardware clock, unsuccessfully. First i tried adjtimex --adjust resulting in the system clock losing mor

C programing

1999-10-25 Thread Benak Istvan
Hi! Someone tell me how can I find a doc about C programing (I downloaded the Programmer's Guide, but I can't programming under C, so I want to learn it!) So I need a doc for lammers! Thx the help! Sorry about offtopic! -- Best regards! | Debian GNU/Linux Potato 200MMX/32MB/1.7Gb/S3Vir

Re: Installing nedit and xmbase-grok

1999-10-25 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Unfortunately, there was an incompatible API change in the new version of lesstif so all the packages that were compiled with lesstifg will have to be recompiled with the new lesstif1 package. Some maintainers have updated their packages faster than others. If there isn't one already, you should

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-25 Thread Jerry Lundström
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 01:36:18 -0700 (PDT), George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Well, I THINK it is modutils that is causing the problem. Two machines, >both upgraded yesterday. Now neither one can properly depmod. All modules >report unresolved symbols and refuse to load. > >NOTE this onl

make to dep package?

1999-10-25 Thread Benak Istvan
Hi again! I've a short question: If I download a tar.gz file and if I want to compile it, can I make from the source a deb package? Because If I install it from the source I can't purge it, not? But If I can make a deb from the source i can remove it with the dpkg. Have any solution? -- Best reg

Diskless and Stare Office??

1999-10-25 Thread Benak Istvan
Hi! Someone please tell me, if I want to use a Diskless clients (p200 with 64 MB ram) and a strong server and 10 Mb ethernet cards, how will run the StarOffice 5.1 on the clients?? Have anyone any experience with this?? -- Best regards! | Debian GNU/Linux Potato 200MMX/32MB/1.7Gb/S3Vir

Re: offtopic: perl question about dialog.pl

1999-10-25 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Eric G . Miller wrote: > For a count of elements in an array > > $count = $#array; ^ this is the subscript of the last element in array, one less than the length, since there is a 0th element; $count++; # number of elements in array @array; you could als

Re: rpm package broken ? Hotfix

1999-10-25 Thread Ingo Reimann
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 12:39:04AM -0400, Darxus wrote: > > I just did > > apt-get update > apt-get install rpm > rpm -i Device3Dfx-2.2-3.src.rpm > > And got "rpm: error in loading shared libraries: libbz2.so.0.1: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory" > > Did a "locate

Re: Where are gmp2?

1999-10-25 Thread Ingo Reimann
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 11:58:54PM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: > Hi, > > I need gmp2 to compile some software. I went to the Debian pages and > found that the package I need are to be found under devel. Then I tried > to run dselect, but gmp2-dev was not not be found. I went back to the > web a

Re: Where are gmp2?

1999-10-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 23:58:54 -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: > What gives? They've been renamed to 'libgmp2' and 'libgmp2-dev'. HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig

re: Netscape Installation Problem "segmentation fault

1999-10-25 Thread alf . krause
I got binary distribution of Netscape Communicator 4.61 version for Linux 2.0, export encription standard from ftp.netscape.com. I installed it on my Debian 2.1 system. Everything seemed to be fine with installation until I tried to run "./netscape". The first problem I got was that netscape "can

Isn't IP Forwarding the default?

1999-10-25 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
Folks, I am replacing a CISCO router with a Linux box running 2.0.34. I have an Emerging Technologies Card, which connects to the V.35 "modem" my ISP gave. The machine refuses to forward packets accross interfaces. My configuration: Linux earth 2.0.34 #19 Sun Oct 17 17:03:59 IST 1999 i586 unk

Re: Just went tp potato

1999-10-25 Thread Darren O. Benham
reloads the inetd.conf file... On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 07:34:07AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > What does restarting inetd do? > -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. = * http://benham.net/index.html<[EM

Re: Just went tp potato

1999-10-25 Thread Patrick Kirk
What does restarting inetd do?

3..2..1..0... boot off

1999-10-25 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I have successfully installed debian on my Sun Classic using floppies; the base system up 'till now. My question is: how do you configure the keyboard? The keyboard says that it is a model-5. I use the "sunkeymap" (not sure, but it is the US-English one) keyboard setting, but it doesn't work

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread Art Lemasters
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 12:13:01AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I use Communicator, not just Navigator; perhaps that's the clue. > The test that Daniel suggested crashed my Netscape. I've tried > running with and without Java/Javascript. I can expect Netscape > to crash at least once every time I sit

Re: Can't boot from floppies - HELP!

1999-10-25 Thread Oki DZ
Jake Griesbach wrote: > > I'm trying to boot from the Debian rescue disk to install linux for the > first time. I have an adaptec AIC-7890 scsi card, so I was typing > > linux aix7xxx > > to boot. > After the kernel loads, I get the following after the scsi driver loads: ... > Kernel panic: V

Re: How to log on an NT 4.0 Server

1999-10-25 Thread Oki DZ
Dirk Lother wrote: > I'm looking for a way to access an NT Server with a floppy Linux in > order to save data from broken down NT clients. > > Could you think of a way to do that ? The easiest way would be accessing the hardware; ie: removing the harddisk and mount it on your Linux (Linux can

cdrom lost

1999-10-25 Thread koyote
Well- I am running slink (2.1) on a thinkpad laptop. I use a docking station with a scsi card and cdrom to install, and wanted to add a couple of packages. I have done this before without difficulty, but this time I cannot get to the cdrom as scd0 or cdrom on mnt or dev. There is nothing in fs

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread Kent West
Pann McCuaig wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 16:17, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > You might not be using Netscape extensively enough to trigger the bugs. > > > > Maybe usage pattern differences are something to explore. > > > > Do you (and others): > > - - have Java enabled? > Yup. > > - - have Jav

Re: dselect error message

1999-10-25 Thread aphro
i read a while back(year?) that the multicd support in dselect was rather broken(i've never had a reason to use it) try using plain cdrom as the access point rather the multicd nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator ht

Re: Two different FTP problems

1999-10-25 Thread aphro
some ftp daemons check to see if the user has a valid login shell before allowing a ftp login. check /etc/shells to see if that user's shell is listed. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/

Re: 2 problems -- building the 2.0.36 kernel; login error

1999-10-25 Thread aphro
to override that delete the links to nologin in /etc/rc2.d althnough its best to see whats hanging the machine at boot. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited

Re: More sound problems...

1999-10-25 Thread aphro
you may not be able to get sound because there is not enough free memory below 16MB for the dma buffer. in more recent 2.2.x kernels you gotta enable the persistant DMA buffers in sound config and it will reserve the memory at boot. it may not solve this problem, but its an idea :) nate

Re: Network config problems - please help

1999-10-25 Thread aphro
looks like the driver for the card isnt loaded. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336

Where are gmp2?

1999-10-25 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I need gmp2 to compile some software. I went to the Debian pages and found that the package I need are to be found under devel. Then I tried to run dselect, but gmp2-dev was not not be found. I went back to the web and tried to download from there, but the deb's are not available. What gives?

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Pann McCuaig wrote: > On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 16:17, Daniel Barclay wrote: [[[snip]]] > > - - open a lot of windows using "open in new window" (middle mouse button)? > Nope. > [[[snip]]] > > How many Netscape windows is it useful to have o

Re: offtopic: perl question about dialog.pl

1999-10-25 Thread Eric G . Miller
For a count of elements in an array $count = $#array; -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++

Re: offtopic: perl question about dialog.pl

1999-10-25 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Olaf Conradi wrote: > Use of implicit split to @_ is deprecated at ./dialog.pl line 34. > > $message_len = split(/^/, $message);# <-- line 34 split always splits to an array. Here, you're trying to get the number of elements ge

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