Re: [Fwd: I: messaggio assoleader]

On Fri, 05 Nov 1999 16:57:07 +0100, Gianmario Nava wrote: >irreparabilmente l'hard disk e RUBA LE VOSTRE PASSWORD!Non scaricatelo > Interessante, mi sta facendo proprio paura.. sentite allora prima di diffondere le password con il virus.. faccio prima .. eccovi il file ;DD Come non ci c

Re: lprng help

> dont you need SAMBA installed/configed to print to a printer shared out > over SMB(be it win9x nt or some other form of SMB sharing) > > i think so. could be wrong tho In this case, you are. The TCP/IP print services for NT are a sort of lpd for NT, so if you set lprng up right, it should work.

Re: Running X-Displays of win9x

It can be found at http://www.microimages.com/www/html/freestuf/mix/. There are certanly better Xservers for Windows out there but this one cheap at $25. The Starnet one is really quite good but a little pricey at $200 for a single use license. See http://www.starnet.com/product.htm for more info.

Re: Running X-Displays of win9x

Do you have a URL? I personally think that this would be a good GPL project as this is a great way to get users used to comfortable with running X Window applications in an environment that they are used to. Then once they are finding all the functionality they need with X Window application, it wo

Re: /dev/audio

*- On 8 Nov, Brian Schramm wrote about "/dev/audio" > I have a problem with my speekers. They are in my monitor and every time > I turn off my monitor they adjust the volume down to a point that is not > herable. Is there a way that I can set up my profile or login script to > adjust the volume

RE: Cannot umount cdrom

On 09-Nov-99 denis miller wrote: > I have a cdrom mounted as "mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom" > When I am finished with it as either a local mount or nfs mount I cannot > umount it. > I get the message it is busy. > I cd / to get out of the directory but no go! > Somewhere there is a comma

Cannot umount cdrom

I have a cdrom mounted as "mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom" When I am finished with it as either a local mount or nfs mount I cannot umount it. I get the message it is busy. I cd / to get out of the directory but no go! Somewhere there is a command to override this error message but I cannot

Regular Segmentation Fault: HELP!!!

Hi, I've been running Debian Linux for one year now on my P200MMX (mainboard FIC VA-502, chipset VIA 580VPX, AWARD BIOS, memory 2x32MB SDRAM, ATI Mach64 RageII+DVD, harddisks Quantum Bigfoot 2.1GB on /dev/hda, Seagate ST3491A 428MB on /dev/hdc, 24xCDROM on /dev/hdb, soundcard SB16 clone). The syst

win95/netscape/smartupdate over ipmasq failure

Hi all, I am trying to use the Netscape SmartUpdate feature to upgrade a few Win9x boxes that access the net through my Debian box using ipmasq. Everything goes fine until the actual download is supposed to start. The 'SmartUpdate Download Manager' comes up but then it just sits there swipping i

RE: HELP: how to tell dselect where to download the .deb???

On 08-Nov-99 Bruno Boettcher wrote: > hello, > > for apt i was able to make a symbolic link to a place where there is enough > place, but since apt isn't working anymore i am trying to make an upgrade > using the ftp method > > unfortunately i do not find any config file where i can tell whe

Re: lprng help

On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 01:00:29PM -0800, tjm wrote: > Hi. I'm trying to us lprng to print to a remote printer, > an HP870, on an nt network. nt is running the tcp/ip > print services and I can get plain text to print just fine. > However, it seems that the if= is not being used for > other docum

How do I boot Debian GNU/Linux for PowerPC (Macintosh)?

Could someone help me with this problem? When I install Debian GNU/Linux on a PC (IBM compatible), I create the "rescue boot floppy disc" stored in the install directory on the first official CD called binary-i386. The filename for the rescue disc is resc1440.bin. I have downloaded the potato ver

[off-topic] setrlimit()/C++ new() seg fault

Hi, I've been experimenting with limiting the amount of memory available to a process by setting its data segment resource limit from within the process by using setrlimit(). I've been testing if this technique would work by attempting to allocate more memory on the heap than the limit set in set

Re: ejecting last page from printer?

*- On 8 Nov, Ron Farrer wrote about "ejecting last page from printer?" > > I have my printer (Epson Stylus Color Pro) configured with magicfilter > and it prints PS fine, but when it prints text it doesn't eject the > final page. This means I have manually go to the printer and push the > eject b

Re: ip tunnel 10.10.10.0 network

On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, esl wrote: esl >It can be done. For a detailed procedure of doing it, please get the Advanced Linux esl >Reference recently published by Walnut Creek (I bought mine from Borders Bookstore) esl >and you will see it under a discussion on IP-IP tunnel. thanks! i'll see if i can

Re: ip tunnel 10.10.10.0 network

On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Joe Block wrote: jpb >Look into vpnd and vtun jpb > jpb >They're both secure - there is no particularly good reason not to secure jpb >the vpn. thanks i'll read into em. if its secure thats great too. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]--

Re: lprng help

dont you need SAMBA installed/configed to print to a printer shared out over SMB(be it win9x nt or some other form of SMB sharing) i think so. could be wrong tho nate On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, tjm wrote: tmolli >Hi. I'm trying to us lprng to print to a remote printer, tmolli >an HP870, on an nt netw

Re: Code Freeze for Potato

no i read that its been pushed back to jan 15-16 with reelease in mid feb. i for one am in no rush to upgrade my debian boxes :) its well worth the wait im sure. nate On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Account for Debian group mail wrote: debian > debian > debian >Did Potato go into code freeze on Nov 7 as

Re: Clock problems

On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Robert Kerr wrote: kerrr >Okay, so what do we do if the system time loses time when the computer is kerrr >on? The hwclock is fine, but the system time keeps losing it. kerrr >Thanks run a cron job for ntpdate, have it run every 30 mins, or every 60 mins..or every minute..xnt

Re: 486 and printing

On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: alisda > alisda >tried that already. alisda >-- you using 2.2.x kernels? did u enable the parallel printer device support in character devices during config (i config my kerenels on my own never used the pacakged ones) nate

Re: Code Freeze for Potato

No, see, http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/11/07/1611205&mode=thread kent Account for Debian group mail wrote: > Did Potato go into code freeze on Nov 7 as planned? > > Thanks, > > Ken Rea > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Running X-Displays of win9x

Peter Ludwig wrote: > > Just a quick note, has anyone know a program that can be easily setup that > will allow win9x to connect to the x-windows server on a linux box? > > I'm trying to set this up in two places one isn't really important, just > my place, but the other one is for a business, we

Psion & Outlook integration on Linux?

Hi, So finally, after a year+ my gf has started to come round to the fact that MS is crap. She's a convert to be except that she uses her Psion 3MX to integrate with the dreaded Outlook for calendering. So, is there any equivalent application(s) with this functionality under Linux?? All I ca

lprng help

Hi. I'm trying to us lprng to print to a remote printer, an HP870, on an nt network. nt is running the tcp/ip print services and I can get plain text to print just fine. However, it seems that the if= is not being used for other document formats. The printcap file is this: hp870|filt-Remote hp

/dev/audio

I have a problem with my speekers. They are in my monitor and every time I turn off my monitor they adjust the volume down to a point that is not herable. Is there a way that I can set up my profile or login script to adjust the volume to make it usable? Thanks. Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ip tunnel 10.10.10.0 network

It can be done. For a detailed procedure of doing it, please get the Advanced Linux Reference recently published by Walnut Creek (I bought mine from Borders Bookstore) and you will see it under a discussion on IP-IP tunnel. ESL aphro wrote: > i was wondering (assume it is, but just incase) if

Code Freeze for Potato

Did Potato go into code freeze on Nov 7 as planned? Thanks, Ken Rea

Re: Getting GNOME to start from Enlightenment

*- On 8 Nov, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote about "Re: Getting GNOME to start from Enlightenment" > On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 12:36:15PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: >> *- On 8 Nov, Patrick Kirk wrote about "Getting GNOME to start from >> Enlightenment" >> > I want to elegance of E with the usefulness of

Re: XOSVIEW

Monday, November 08, 1999, 10:28:14 AM, SGaerner wrote: > I think this is the problem... I'm using 2.2.13. > It is possible to use only the "potato version" of xosview with the slink > distribution? That all depends on the dependencies involved. On all three of my machines I'm running various

Re: Getting GNOME to start from Enlightenment

On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 12:36:15PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 8 Nov, Patrick Kirk wrote about "Getting GNOME to start from > Enlightenment" > > I want to elegance of E with the usefulness of GNOME. But > > when I try to start GNOME from an eterm, I get this... > > > > $ panel > > /dev/d

Re: replacing the standard mta with qmail (Re: Question about dselect)

On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 12:47:12PM +0100, Joost Kooij wrote: > 1. get qmail source and build a deb: > > apt-get install qmail-src > cd qmail-src-* > fakeroot debian/rules binary > cd .. sudo apt-get install qmail-src && build-qmail, you mean. -- Havo

Re: ppp + ip-up.d + fetchmail + multiple polls

*- On 6 Nov, Colin Marquardt wrote about "ppp + ip-up.d + fetchmail + multiple polls" > Hi, > > the subject shows that I have no clue where to look :-) > > My problem is this: my ~/.fetchmailrc specifies four different > accounts to poll mail from. When I´m running fetchmail by hand, all > four

ejecting last page from printer?

Hello all; I have my printer (Epson Stylus Color Pro) configured with magicfilter and it prints PS fine, but when it prints text it doesn't eject the final page. This means I have manually go to the printer and push the eject button. If I don't manually eject the page the next print job starts pr

Re: Running X-Displays of win9x

Reflection-X and Reflection Suite for X are from WRQ. In my experience Reflection-X was a major resource drainer on the Windows systems, and was prone to crashing. Of course that was a few versions ago, so they may have gotten things together by now. On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Magnus Hacker wrote: >

Re: Getting GNOME to start from Enlightenment

I added the user (myself) to the systemgroup 'audio'. I think it's not the best idea but it works... ;-) If anyone has a better idea solving this problem, please let me know. Bye, Sven Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, I want to elegance of E with the usefulness of GNOME. But when I try > to star

Re: XOSVIEW

I think this is the problem... I'm using 2.2.13. It is possible to use only the "potato version" of xosview with the slink distribution? Thanks! Bye, Sven Steve Lamb wrote: > Sunday, November 07, 1999, 9:52:15 AM, SGaerner wrote: > > I'm running slink and GNOME 1.x with e-15.x. When I call xos

Re: 486 and printing

On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 06:22:04PM -0800, aphro wrote: > > try going to /dev and typing ./MAKEDEV lp > > that should make the lp devices. tried that already. -- alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [funny how everything i swore i wouldn't change is different now]

Re: enlightenment themes

On Sun, 07.11.99 17:51 -0600, Justin Hagemeier wrote: > I have the unstable version of enlightenment install. It does not however > want to use the backgrounds when I select a new theme. can anyone think of a > reason for this. IIRC a selected background image overrides a theme image. Set backg

Re: Creating contrib/non-free/non-us cd

On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 04:24:10PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? > I do not know, why do you want to create it, because I had bought the > 4-CD-Distribution from Debian 2.1 SLINK and there are all on it. > Two CD's are

Shouldn't debian be configured better by default ?

Hello everyone, While I was cleaning my home directory, I saw this program that I compiled. After that, I launched it and... My X became frozen and then crashed ( I executed the program in an Xterm). I think it's because it used all the memory available... I don't want to try but what could happ

Re: Pine

on 07 Nov 99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... > >> Which web page are using? If http://debianpine.tripod.com, don't >> bother. Use http://members.mint.net/frodo/pine the .debs there are known >> to be good. I'm inexperienced with Debian, but had no problem getting Pine from this web page. However,

Re: PPP working now! Recommended browsers for slink?

John Miskinis wrote: > > > SO, now I am looking for recommendations on downloading a browser > that will run under slink. I figured since it will be a BIG download > I would be best to ask for advise first. This will also help people > who look at the mailing list archives I hope. > It's proba

Re: Sources of linux documentation (solved)

Thanks to everyone, I have solved the problem. I succeeded by installing the package "latex2html", which includes the file "html.sty". NOTE THAT THE FILE "html.sty" LISTED IN A PREVIOUS MAIL IS NOT VALID BECAUSE I GOT THE FILE "typehtml.sty" FROM ANOTHER SYSTEM AND RENAMED IT TO "html.sty" TO CH

Re: Creating contrib/non-free/non-us cd

peter karlsson wrote: > > You can fetch the non-free and non-us structure using a tool such > > as wget. > > Yes, but will it then be in a way that can be used in a simple way together > with dselect/apt? Yes, if your wget also brought in the Packages file. If not, recreate the Packages file w

Re: ip tunnel 10.10.10.0 network

aphro wrote: > > i was wondering (assume it is, but just incase) if it was possible to > establish an IP tunnel between 2 locations for a 10.10.10.0 network (or > btw this tunnel does NOT have to be secure..no encryption needed. i just > need 2 way IP communications through it through the interne

Re: managing multiple ISPs

John Hasler wrote: > > I have been configuring my resolv.conf for DNS servers that do not belong > > to my ISP all the time. > > This will work, but it is a bit discourteous to use servers you aren't > helping pay for. > > Finally, you can always run your own basic nameserver on your computer to

Re: Getting GNOME to start from Enlightenment

*- On 8 Nov, Patrick Kirk wrote about "Getting GNOME to start from Enlightenment" > Hi all, > > I want to elegance of E with the usefulness of GNOME. But when I try to > start GNOME from an eterm, I get this... > > > $ panel > /dev/dsp: Permission denied > > Anyone seen it before? > I do

Re: Seperate DEB package for pico

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Bart Szyszka wrote: > I could have sworn that a few weeks back someone posted about > a DEB package for just pico (the text editor that comes with pine) > that was separate from pine, but I can't find that post in the archives. > Am I imagini

HELP: how to tell dselect where to download the .deb???

hello, for apt i was able to make a symbolic link to a place where there is enough place, but since apt isn't working anymore i am trying to make an upgrade using the ftp method unfortunately i do not find any config file where i can tell where to put the downloaded deb files. /var is a 1

Re: audio cdrom broken in 2.2 kernels???

On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 11:59:56AM -0500, Rob Mahurin wrote: > I think I must be missing something incredibly obvious here. My cdrom > won't play audio CDs under the 2.2 series kernel; I get kernel errors > output like the attached. I can mount data CDs just fine. I just > checked my old 2.0.34

Re: Running X-Displays of win9x

On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Peter Ludwig wrote: >Just a quick note, has anyone know a program that can be easily setup that >will allow win9x to connect to the x-windows server on a linux box? If I understand you correctly, you are looking for a X server to run on the Win9x machine? (You need this to dis

Re: ppp + ip-up.d + fetchmail + multiple polls

Colin: My first guess is that pppd is not executing the script with the correct $HOME environment variable set. I suggest explicitly specifying the rc file on the fetchmail command line. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloo

drive not ready...

Hi, this is for those who met the same errors I just have this kind of problem; I was scared about a HD failure, as many mails are talking about. Since it is an 8 months HD, I was quite sure is was not a failure. So I opened the beast and had a look: it was simply the power supply connector of th

audio cdrom broken in 2.2 kernels???

I think I must be missing something incredibly obvious here. My cdrom won't play audio CDs under the 2.2 series kernel; I get kernel errors output like the attached. I can mount data CDs just fine. I just checked my old 2.0.34 kernel, and it played audio and mounted data both. I built a 2.2.1

Exim PPP localhost and me

Hello, I am running Debian Potato with Exim version 3.03 #1 built 04-Aug-1999; my problems stem from local mail delivery. Whenever I try to send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], exim seems to strip the localhost and replace it with the remotehost-- making it [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because I am using

Re: Running X-Displays of win9x

Quoting Kecskemethy Zoltan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (who answered a question about an Xwindows server for Windows: > ps: i apologize i think this is offtopic but i cant answer his mail addr. I think it is not off-topic. Usually, people who ask questions do not give a summary of the answers they got

ip tunnel 10.10.10.0 network

i was wondering (assume it is, but just incase) if it was possible to establish an IP tunnel between 2 locations for a 10.10.10.0 network (or any of the 'non registered' networks) the owner of one of the companies i work for wants more ips but the ISP won't sell them to him "for any price" (and for

Re: Clock problems

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Martin Fluch wrote: > On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Robert Kerr wrote: > > > Hi all, > > Whenever I boot to debian, my computer's clock gets set to some other > > time. This morning I turned it on and all of a sudden it told me it was > > three hours and 45 minutes earlier than my al

Lock up on Boot at XFS?

I just attempted to install X3.3.5 from the TGZ files I DLed from xfree86.org. This has worked once before but this time when the computer reboots it stops on bootup. The last thing itw as attempting to start was the X Fonts Server: XFS. I get no error messages or anything that might be more he

Re: Creating contrib/non-free/non-us cd

Peter S Galbraith: > contrib is on the official CDs. Hmmm, okay. > You can fetch the non-free and non-us structure using a tool such > as wget. Yes, but will it then be in a way that can be used in a simple way together with dselect/apt? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

Re: Creating contrib/non-free/non-us cd

??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? Hello, I do not know, why do you want to create it, because I had bought the 4-CD-Distribution from Debian 2.1 SLINK and there are all on it. Two CD's are binaries and two CD's are source codes. Oh yes, I have payed US$

Getting GNOME to start from Enlightenment

Hi all,   I want to elegance of E with the usefulness of GNOME.  But when I try to start GNOME from an eterm, I get this...     $ panel/dev/dsp: Permission denied   Anyone seen it before?   Help please.   Patrick    

Seperate DEB package for pico

Hello, I could have sworn that a few weeks back someone posted about a DEB package for just pico (the text editor that comes with pine) that was separate from pine, but I can't find that post in the archives. Am I imagining things? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://ww

Re: replacing the standard mta with qmail (Re: Question about dselect)

On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Joost Kooij wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Bastard Operator From Hell wrote: > > > I recently replaced exim with qmail as that is what I have to administer at > > work and I would rather glitch something up at home vs on-the-job. > > There is some additional effort r

Re: building openssh on slink

> > Sue me - that's because some ssh clients/servers in non-Linux world > >didn't support blowfish, and 3des is .. hm. untrustworthy, in my eyes. > > *shuffle* phew, TeraTerm ssh can do blowfish ;-) > SecureCRT can also do blowfish. By the way, which transfer encoding should be selected ov

Re: Problems printing from one box to another

Quoting Alec Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > In the past I've been able to print from one Debian 2.1 box to another > Debian 2.1 box without difficulty. However I recently reinstalled > Debian 2.1 on the server machine, and can't do any printing from > remote machines unless I'm using Samba. I'd like

Re: fvwm beta packages

Dale Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know if the beta fvwm2 2.3.x have been packaged for Debian. ^ Shao Zhang wrote: > It is already in potato... > > shao:/home/shao$ apt-cache show fvwm > Package: fvwm > Version: 2.2.3-1 ^

Re: stdio.h: no such file or directory

The libc6-dev package contains the file /usr/include/stdio.h "T.V.Gnanasekaran" wrote: > > hi, > > i upgraded to potato from slink thru apt-get method. > when i try to compile my kernel, i get > stdio.h: no such file or directory > and other header files are missing. I thoroughly searched > the

Re: Running X-Displays of win9x

ReflectionX A perfect soft but it is not free! see http://www.wrq.com/products/rxinfo.html _oO" Kecsi "0o_ ps: i apologize i think this is offtopic but i cant answer his mail addr.

Re: Running X-Displays of win9x

Peter Ludwig wrote: > Just a quick note, has anyone know a program that can be easily setup that > will allow win9x to connect to the x-windows server on a linux box? Try www.starnet.com X-Win32 is the software you have to download and install. It's easy to use (at least to me). I have runned

gdb version in slink: 4.17-4.m68k.objc.threads.hwwp.fpu.gnat.3

What does the m68k mean in gdb? Is it only m68k, or what the heck does that mean??? Robert Varga

Re: Running X-Displays of win9x

I've had good luck with VNC - . On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 07:29:40PM +1000, Peter Ludwig wrote: > Just a quick note, has anyone know a program that can be easily setup that > will allow win9x to connect to the x-windows server on a linux box? > > I'm trying to s

HELP: apt = E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuraton ...

hello, long back since the last big problem with potato... :( tryed an update today, and after lots of errors got now into this state, apt reports back : Need to get 0B/10.3MB of archives. After unpacking 340kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] E: Internal Error, Could not perform im

Creating contrib/non-free/non-us cd

Hi! Since the official cd images only contain the 'main' archive, I would like to create a similar cd, useable by dselect/apt, for the contrib, non-free and non-us parts of Debian, since the machine that Debian is to be installed on does not have a network connection. How do I go about to do this

replacing the standard mta with qmail (Re: Question about dselect)

Hi, On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Bastard Operator From Hell wrote: > I recently replaced exim with qmail as that is what I have to administer at > work and I would rather glitch something up at home vs on-the-job. There is some additional effort required to install qmail, you have to compile your own deb

building openssh on slink

Taking this over to debian-user since I don't think this discussion has a place on debian-devel. Subject fixed, too. Cc: to Markus, just in case you don't read debian-user ;-) On 08 Nov 1999 08:47:56 +0200, Markus Stenberg wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Haber) writes: >> On 03 Nov 1999 03:19:00

1NetShop: EMAIL FROM 1NETSHOP

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Re: MiroPCTV and ATI 128

On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 06:19:56PM -0800, aphro wrote: > its best to avoid the video4linux drivers in the kernels, they are > somewhat outdated. try grabbing the latest bttv drivers from the homepage > > http://www.thp.uni-koeln.de/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html > > i use the latest driver with both a TN

Re: quicktime4 player for linux?

On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 06:10:32PM -0800, aphro wrote: > On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Phil Brutsche wrote: > > > pbruts >An out-of-date mirror. The one I listed above is much more up-to-date > pbruts >(and is the author's actual homepage). You should especially check > pbruts >http://xanim.va.pubnix.com

isos for potato

Could anyone tell me either a) When cd images for potato will be available and from where or b) if there is any way I can create these myself, as I do not wish to rsync to get an official cd image (which would be slink I presume)? Cheers for any help offered Sub

Re: Where's man?

On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 03:00:33PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I've been looking around for man package in www.debian.org to no avail. > Would anybody please tell me the package where man resides? In my version of slink, there is a man package in the doc section of debian main. However, on ww

Re: Where's man?

Oki DZ wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been looking around for man package in www.debian.org to no avail. > Would anybody please tell me the package where man resides? > > Thanks in advance, > Oki With potato, the package name is 'man-db', and the man pages themselves are in 'manpages' pac

Re: Lynx and .deb

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >Pressing d or D on the .deb file links downloads them fine, AS TEXT. >and alas, quite nonfunctional ... But I did get the source files and >compiled it eventually. For the Linux version, whats the difference? I am sure I have quite successfully downl

Running X-Displays of win9x

Just a quick note, has anyone know a program that can be easily setup that will allow win9x to connect to the x-windows server on a linux box? I'm trying to set this up in two places one isn't really important, just my place, but the other one is for a business, we'd like to be able to provide som

Re: updating of CMOS clock

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >> "LP" == Laurent PICOULEAU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >LP> For your BIOS : simply set your CMOS clock to the GMT time : > >I am being a bit daft but do you mean that I should go into my BIOS and >change the time to whatever the equivalent GMT tim

Re: installation and such

Mock Ko wrote: > > I'm pretty much now at the give-up point in trying to > install debian. No need to, IMHO. > This is indeed a very hard thing for me to do, since I > used to install 68k bsd systems manually (building > scripts to mknod all the devices and such). I used to install Linux usi

Where's man?

Hi, I've been looking around for man package in www.debian.org to no avail. Would anybody please tell me the package where man resides? Thanks in advance, Oki

Can't print from one Debian machine to another

In the past I've been able to print from one Debian 2.1 box to another Debian 2.1 box without difficulty. However I recently reinstalled Debian on the server machine, and can't do any printing from remote machines unless I'm using Samba. I'd like to know what's going on so I can get back to a "norm

Re: [PHILADELPHIA] MIME Solutions: Using Debian's mime-support Package

On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 01:02:23AM -0500, Chris Fearnley wrote: > > The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) > (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) > > presents > > MIME Solutions: Using Debian's mime-support Packa

Re: AHA2940U2W...

This is an old bug in slink. There are boot floppies for the AHA 2940 U2W someware. Look in the mail archives. Regards, Onno At 03:33 PM 11/6/99 -0500, Daniel Ferrante wrote: Hi Folks, Is it possible for someone to give me a help with this issue? I am trying to install Deb

Re: AHA2940U2W... AND MAtrox G400...

On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 05:04:42PM -0500, Daniel Ferrante wrote: > I got the disks above and I was able to install my Debian (after > a while of strugle with NT... removed it... ;) Anyway, now I am getting a > warning message from LILO saying that my hard drive is not the first > drive! >

[PHILADELPHIA] MIME Solutions: Using Debian's mime-support Package

The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) presents MIME Solutions: Using Debian's mime-support Package When: Wednesday 17 November 1999, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Speaker: C

gpg bug/problem?

hi. a couple days ago i decided to change over from pgp5 to gnupgp. it's gone fairly painlessly except some keys that i try to import give me this error no matter what i do: heyzeus(larry)$ gpg --recv-keys E8DA6B27 gpg: requesting key E8DA6B27 from wwwkeys.us.pgp.net ... gpg: key E8DA6B27

Ok... I hate dselect. How can I fix this?

I remeber haveing heard something about timezone being an obselete package, but i wasn't sure. So, I stumbled upon it while looking for netdate, which disappeared, and I thought I could check to see if it was no longer used by selecting it and seeing what it said. Well, it said it conflicted with

[Solved] Re: Adding a style to TeX

Hi folks, thanks to those who replied to my question about adding a style to TeX. Turns out, the problem was that I'm an idiot, as I had commented out the line to use that package before I installed it, and never remembered to uncomment the line. :) Opps! Cheers, damon -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL

alsa, cs4236b and debian?

hi, I want to give alsa a shot for my cs4236b sound card. However, still no go. If you happen to have the same soundcard, pls give me some advice how to set it up right. thanks, jack // I have all alsa debian packages downloaded already.

Re: Potato's pon/poff

David J. Kanter writes: > pon works, but poff doesn't. poff complains that /bin/kill doesn't exist. > Looking at poff, KILL=/bin/kill, and sure enough there isn't a /bin/kill. > What am I missing here? Upgrade procps. There was a buggy one uploaded recently that was missing kill. It was promptly

Re: fvwm beta packages

It is already in potato... shao:/home/shao$ apt-cache show fvwm Package: fvwm Version: 2.2.3-1 Priority: optional Section: x11 Maintainer: Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1), libncurses4 (>= 4.2-3.1), libreadlineg2 (>= 2.1-12), bstdc++2.10, libxpm4, xlib6g (>= 3.3.5-1) Reco

Potato's pon/poff

pon works, but poff doesn't. poff complains that /bin/kill doesn't exist. Looking at poff, KILL=/bin/kill, and sure enough there isn't a /bin/kill. What am I missing here? Instead I've been typing killall -9 pppd. It works. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have an innate tendency to

Re: libslang.so and Set locale problems SOLVED

On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Gareth wrote: > When running the post instal scriupts and a few other things I get > the message > -- > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LANGUAGE = (

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