Re: Newbie Lookin' for Libraries

2000-02-08 Thread Shaul Karl
1) Perhaps you should install libc5-compat? [01:23:03 /tmp]$ dpkg -S libXpm xpm4g-dev: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so xpm4.7: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4 xpm4.7: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4.11 xpm4g-dev: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.a xpm4g: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4.11 xpm4g: /usr/X11R6/l

Re: Install problem

2000-02-08 Thread AU,SCOTT CHUONG
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Charles O. Hartman wrote: > But I can't get (for example) the man command to get installed. When I > got back to dselect to try to get it by hand, dselect shows it marked > for installation; but no matter how many times I put in one and the > other CD, it never does get instal

Re: Unstable kernel question

2000-02-08 Thread dan
> timshel:~$ gcc272 -v > Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.7.2.3/specs > gcc version 2.7.2.3 > timshel:~$ gcc -v > Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.2/specs > gcc version 2.95.2 2116 (Debian GNU/Linux) > > However, I just recompiled the 2.2.14 kernel (had to ch

Potato network problems

2000-02-08 Thread Randy Edwards
I've got a potato box which just broke on a recent update. This machine is a IP masquerading gateway, it has ipmasq and the various other potato networking tools installed. The machine's been running fine, but when I did an update Monday evening it stopped talking to the net sometime during

Re: LaTeX Package documents?

2000-02-08 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
> It does though, not seem asif any .dtx files are installed with the > Debian LaTeX installation... Where could I find thes files, or at > least the documentation for them? You should be able to find more than you want to read by pointing your web browser of choice to (assuming you have tetex-do

Re: Which Boot Manager?

2000-02-08 Thread Sean Johnson
I don't understand why anyone using Linux would resort to 3rd party proprietary software to manage their boot-up. LILO will allow for as many different OS boots as you are able to make partitions for. If you have some beef with LILO, then there is always grub. Personally I've always been well serv

xrdb preproccessing linux

2000-02-08 Thread Neilen Marais
Hello I use the VGA font with rxvt, and to get the high-ascii type chars to be handled properly, I need to set my termtype to linux. But it seems that xrdb translates linux to 1. If I use the -nocpp option when doing the merge it seems to solve the problem. Now would it be safe to set up my glo

LaTeX Package documents?

2000-02-08 Thread Neilen Marais
Good day I am currently trying to learn how to use LaTeX, and have read the not so short introduction to LaTeX2e, and in one part they refer to packages, with documentation contained in some dtx file. eg exscale -> ltexscale.dtx. It does though, not seem asif any .dtx files are installed with the

x-server connections

2000-02-08 Thread marchart
Hi! I'd like to execute an application on a remote host, controled by my x-server. How can I connect from a remote machine to my local x-server? Say, I'd like to execute emacs on a remote machine. Thanx, Joe

Re: Mail Server Migration

2000-02-08 Thread aphro
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Paul Kallstrom wrote: paul >I am migrating our mail server from a RedHat box to a Debian box. Is there paul >a way to migrate the user info, mailboxes, and passwords? I'd hate to paul >recreate all of that by hand. paul > provided the 2 machines are suing the same encryption

Install problem

2000-02-08 Thread Charles O. Hartman
(newbie problem!) I'm using the two-CD set to install Debian on a 486. I choose one of the standard (C devel) packages during install. When I'm dumped into dselect, I go through Access, Update, and Install as instructed (including putting both CDs in in turn and rerunning Install, and including fo

Mail Server Migration

2000-02-08 Thread Paul Kallstrom
I am migrating our mail server from a RedHat box to a Debian box. Is there a way to migrate the user info, mailboxes, and passwords? I'd hate to recreate all of that by hand. Thanks, Paul

Looking for virus scanning solutions

2000-02-08 Thread Ernest Johanson
Does anyone know of virus scanning software that will scan incoming email, web pages, etc. and run on Debian Linux? If it would run on the Alpha platform so much the better. I have looked at Trend Micro's Virus Wall, but it is hard-wired to Red Hat, and since we have all Debian systems here I would

libc6 upgrade fails on unstable: devpts.sh error

2000-02-08 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
the file /etc/init.d/devpts.sh in the new libc6 on unstable has a syntax error that halts installation. I changed an unbalanced left "{" near the top of the file to "}" and the installation proceeded fine. >make_devpts() >{ >[ -d /dev/pts ] || mkdir --mode=755 /dev/pts >{ ^ This bracket s

Re: Unstable kernel question

2000-02-08 Thread markm
Hi, 1. The processor type option is to allow for a) some optimizations and b) using extensions to the cpu's instruction set that comes with the processor eg. amd k6 stuff or pentium stuff. The practical upshot of all this is that you can compile for a 486 and it should work on an amd k6 or an a

Re: List threads

2000-02-08 Thread markm
On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 08:05:30PM -0200, Alexandre Pereira da Silva wrote: > I'm on debian-user-digets and threads look bad. Procmail splits messages so > mutt can do some sort of trheads on message titles, but this is not good as > havin it reading Mail-Followup-To and References. Its much faster

xfs vs xfstt vs native

2000-02-08 Thread Kent West
Not exactly Debian-specific Can anyone point me to some layman's=style docs concerning xfs vs xfstt vs using native Linux fonts? I've read the DeUglification mini-Howto, but it didn't make clear whether you'd want to use xfs or xfstt or both or what. It seems to me that the use of xfs/xfstt f

Re: `unable to open console' afteinstall on Dell Optiplex GX1

2000-02-08 Thread ferret
I couldn't install slink at all on my Optiplex DGX. The machine locked completely during the ramdisk image load. I bootstrapped the CD installer from a DOS boot disk. Maybe the Potato boot floppies would work better for you? On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > I'm trying to install

Problems with some special keys under xterm

2000-02-08 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi. Since some time now (it might be one or two weeks now, but I don't remember exactly anymore), two special keys from the numerci keyboard aren't workink anymore with some applications (for example bash, pine, dselect) started in an xterm. The keys in question are the 'Pos1' and 'End' key (I hop

Re: Mail & PGP

2000-02-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Sven Gaerner wrote: > Hi, > > does anyone know which mail programm can access imap postoffices and also > encrypt mail with pgp? I've been told that Mutt speaks some dialect of IMAP. Mutt is famous for being able to sign & encrypt mails with gpg and pgp2/pgp5. Regards, Joey -- The go

Mail & PGP

2000-02-08 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi, does anyone know which mail programm can access imap postoffices and also encrypt mail with pgp? Thanks. Sven -- ++ | Please reply only to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Other email addre

Bash question

2000-02-08 Thread Andreas Sliwka
Hi, where or whom should I ask not-so-easy bash questions? The one special question or problem is: I want to start a program in a shell script, get the filedescriptor for its standard input and let other programs, which I want to start after the first program, writer there standard output

Re: Soundcard Configuration

2000-02-08 Thread aphro
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, [iso-8859-1] Ivo Alves C. J?nior wrote: ivoacj >Hello! ivoacj >Some days ago I wrote to this list to get some answers to my problem, but I didn't explain it very well. ivoacj >I installed the soundcard Soundblaster PCI64 in my Linux. Now it works, but not properly. I can pla

Soundcard Configuration

2000-02-08 Thread Ivo Alves C . Júnior
Hello! Some days ago I wrote to this list to get some answers to my problem, but I didn't explain it very well. I installed the soundcard Soundblaster PCI64 in my Linux. Now it works, but not properly. I can play all the audio formats, but not audio CD's. I'm sure that there isn't any probl

Off-topic NEWS Release: I found this interesting!

2000-02-08 Thread John Foster
This was sent to me via a posting from another list that I subscribe to. I found it interesting and feel that it is worth a read, if you are interested in promoting free/open source software. http://www.latimes.com/news/front/2204/t11344.html -- AdVance-Computing Systems We sell fine

Re: scsi support

2000-02-08 Thread Matt Taggart
> i'm trying to install linux (first red hat, now debian) and in both > instances they fail to see my hard drives. My suspicion is that my onboard > scsi controller on my Abit BP6 is not supported as of now. If you could > please either verify or refute this suspicion i would be most gracious. >

Re: igerman-package with new german spelling

2000-02-08 Thread Frank Barknecht
Jan Ulrich Hasecke hat gesagt: // Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: > I just downloaded igerman from potato, to see that it does not > support the new rules. It's called "ingerman" and "wngerman". -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ t

Re: [pann@ourmanpann.com: Incoming PPP, slink]

2000-02-08 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Pann McCuaig wrote: > The Win95 box sees only itself and the server---it can't reach any other > boxes on the ethernet network. The reverse is also true---the server can > ping the Win95 box when it's connected but none of the other boxes on > the network (either Win95 or Linux

[Q] history list in bash

2000-02-08 Thread Boryeu Mao
According to ''man bash'', the builtin 'history' can be used to display or modify the history list -- however I can't seem to find any description on how to modify an entry in the list. In my history list, I'd see some entries marked with an '*' which according to ''help history'' indicates a his

oracle 8i

2000-02-08 Thread Tiago Antao
Hi! Does anybody has instaled oracle 8i ee in debian? I'd really prefer to install it in debian, but the docs talk about redhat only, and I'm a bit afraid of installing a production oracle on debian. I've already tried for development and tests, and had some problems (with awk and gmake), both s

Re: IPmasq woes

2000-02-08 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I'm running potato with two nics (netgear FA310s, Tulip driver, modular) > runnign IP masquerading on them. The machine is a celeron/466 with 64 MB orf > RAM. > > The problem I get is this: the network drops away often. Usually, the > e

Re: `unable to open console' afteinstall on Dell Optiplex GX1

2000-02-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Forget it! Sorry! I had forgotten to run `configure base' ! I wrote: > I'm trying to install slink on Dell Optiplex GX1. Strangely, > during initial installation [...] > boots okay until the > end where I get the error `unable to open console' and the

Re: Mailbox converter? - solution found, I think

2000-02-08 Thread Marc Sherman
I wrote: > > Does anyone know of a script or program (for linux > > or windows) that will convert an outlook express 5 > > .dbx file to a standard linux mailbox format? From: davidturetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What a great thought! > > And is there a script to convert Outlook Express Addressbook

IPmasq woes

2000-02-08 Thread Glen S Mehn
Folks: I'm running potato with two nics (netgear FA310s, Tulip driver, modular) runnign IP masquerading on them. The machine is a celeron/466 with 64 MB orf RAM. The problem I get is this: the network drops away often. Usually, the external interface (eth0) is fine, but the internal network goes

Re: Unstable kernel question

2000-02-08 Thread José Luis Gómez Dans
> Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 08:51:17 -0800 (PST) > From: aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Unstable kernel question > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > On Tue, 8 Feb 2000,

regframe, XFCom_Rage128, LD_PRELOAD and acroread interaction

2000-02-08 Thread Mike Miller
I've installed the redhat xrage and regframe packages so that I can run the XFCom_Rage128 X server on a slink machine. The server needs the regframe library to be preloaded, so I've added "/lib/libregframe.so" to /etc/ld.so.preload. A consequence of this is that acroread segfaults when started.

Workaround for broken Gnus

2000-02-08 Thread Eric Hanchrow
As of version: 5.8.3-4, the newsreader Gnus is broken: when you start it, instead of doing anything usefule, it simply reports an error. There are a few bug reports on this already; here's one: http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=57340. Anyway, if you usually use Gnus to read and send

Re: Unstable kernel question

2000-02-08 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, aphro wrote: > On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > rickma >I wonder if this is my problem? I just built 2.2.14 on potato, but it > rickma >fails to boot. It just hangs after saying "OK, boot kernel now". I > built > rickma >it with 2.95. Maybe I'll see if the gcc272

A philosophical investigation of Linux Communities

2000-02-08 Thread Christoph Lameter
This might be slightly off topic but have a look at Ko's writing -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 23:27:14 -0800 From: Ko Kuwabara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: my thesis on linux First of all, thank you very much, once again,

Re: [Fwd: db2 installation]

2000-02-08 Thread Vincent Morlot
I have found From Jani Laakso<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in comp.databases.ibm-db2 and i have test it successfully Packages as rpm, pdksh, ncompress are needed ldd must exist (/usr/bin/ldd) use alien to convert .rpm in .deb alien --to-deb --scripts *.rpm install .deb packages dpkg -i *.deb make some s

Re: Unstable kernel question

2000-02-08 Thread José Luis Gómez Dans
On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 07:20:44AM -0800, aphro wrote: > 2.2.14 should work with the athlon, what cpu arch are you telling the > config program you have? you probably need to tell it Pentium (unless > there is an athlon option). from what i saw 2.3.x didn't have all the > athlon patches from 2.2 y

Re: Apache FrontPage Extensions

2000-02-08 Thread aphro
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Sven Gaerner wrote: sgaern >Hi, sgaern > sgaern >I installed Apache with this Extensions. sgaern >The best way would be to download the Debian Apache source and apply the patch which sgaern >can be found on www.rtr.com or on www.microsoft.com. sgaern >You just have to add '--a

`unable to open console' afteinstall on Dell Optiplex GX1

2000-02-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I'm trying to install slink on Dell Optiplex GX1. Strangely, during initial installation I was not able to install LILO or even a kernel on a floppy, getting failure messages for each. I created a boot floppy and unpacking resc1440.bin unto another floppy, copying `linux' (the kernel) to disk and

Re: [*] about x

2000-02-08 Thread aphro
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Kent West wrote: westk >As a general rule, if I want to temporarily de-activate westk >something like xdm, I just rename the link to "no.S99xdm" westk >instead of removing/recreating-later. Being relatively new westk >to Linux/Unix, is there anything "wrong" (bad habit, westk >

Re: 3COM905B 10/100 Ethernet Config

2000-02-08 Thread aphro
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Todd Suess wrote: tsuess >does not tsuess >seem to be sensed at all, and no eth0 device gets created. I can do a tsuess >lspci on the tsuess >card, and this is the output, if that is helpful at all. try using the linux drivers at www.3com.com i have the same card in a few ma

Re: Beep?

2000-02-08 Thread rick
Pavel Epifanov wrote: > > On 6 Feb 2000, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > >>=> Many things make the system beep when >>=> you type the "wrong" thing in. Typically, pressing up- or down-arrow >>=Please tell us which commands will do that -- I've looked after such a >>=soluti

Re: Unstable kernel question

2000-02-08 Thread aphro
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Rick Macdonald wrote: rickma >I wonder if this is my problem? I just built 2.2.14 on potato, but it rickma >fails to boot. It just hangs after saying "OK, boot kernel now". I built rickma >it with 2.95. Maybe I'll see if the gcc272 package can co-exist with the rickma >gcc (2.9

Re: Apache FrontPage Extensions

2000-02-08 Thread Sven Gaerner
Patrick Kirk wrote: > Actually the MS site has decent documentation on the extensions. > > - Original Message - > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 10:33 PM > Subject: Apache FrontPage Extensions > > > I need info on the Apache FrontPage Extensions under po

Re: Apache FrontPage Extensions

2000-02-08 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi, I forgot something... With the frontpage Package comes a compiled Apache server (httpd). DO NOT use this because it does not support loadable modules, custom logs and some other nice config options. The build ist also configure to use /usr/local/httpd/htdocs als wwwroot. You have to crea

Re: 3COM905B 10/100 Ethernet Config

2000-02-08 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Greetings, > > I installed a new 3COM Ethernet Card into my Debian Box in preparation > for the install of my cable modem in a week or so, and after > recompiling the kernel (2.2.14) with the correct Ethernet Driver, > during bootup the

Re: Mailbox converter?

2000-02-08 Thread davidturetsky
What a great thought! And is there a script to convert Outlook Express Addressbook too? David - Original Message - From: Marc Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 7:01 AM Subject: Mailbox converter? > Does anyone know of a script or program (for linux > or

scsi support

2000-02-08 Thread Jaysen Mellgren
package: scsi Version: unknown i'm trying to install linux (first red hat, now debian) and in both instances they fail to see my hard drives. My suspicion is that my onboard scsi controller on my Abit BP6 is not supported as of now. If you could please either verify or refute this suspicion i wo

Re: 3COM905B 10/100 Ethernet Config

2000-02-08 Thread Clyde Wilson
If you are using Frozen from January 27 the boot disks had problems. They have now been corrected. Try switching slots... On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Todd Suess wrote: > Greetings, > > I installed a new 3COM Ethernet Card into my Debian Box in preparation > for the install of my cable modem in a week o

Re: [*] about x

2000-02-08 Thread Kent West
aphro wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > =?ISO- >hello everybody: > =?ISO- > > =?ISO- >i had used redhat for some time, and now i turn to debian(2.1r4).i > found my debian run > =?ISO- >xdm auotmatic, i don't like this, how can i change it? when use > redhat,edit the fil

Has anyone gotten TechExplorer / MathML for Netscape working?

2000-02-08 Thread Brian Boonstra
Hi I've got a system I keep up with unstable. I'd like to view MathML in Netscape. Yesterday, I tried to get IBM's TechExplorer (it's a standalone and plugin) for Linux working. The standalone just exited each time I ran it, and the plugin for Netscape either didn't instal

Re: Unstable kernel question

2000-02-08 Thread Paul Biciunas
> Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 08:43:23 -0700 (MST) > From: Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Unstable kernel question > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > On Tue, 8 Feb 2000,

Remote apt

2000-02-08 Thread John Travers
This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "John Travers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Be sure to reply to that address. I understand how to upgrade a system remotely using apt and wget. But it always depends on having the apt package files up to date. How do I achieve this. (The system I use to downl

3COM905B 10/100 Ethernet Config

2000-02-08 Thread Todd Suess
Greetings, I installed a new 3COM Ethernet Card into my Debian Box in preparation for the install of my cable modem in a week or so, and after recompiling the kernel (2.2.14) with the correct Ethernet Driver, during bootup the card does not seem to be sensed at all, and no eth0 device gets creat

Re: Unstable kernel question

2000-02-08 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, aphro wrote: > also check the compiler you are using (gcc -v) it is reccomended to use > 2.7.2.3 when compiling a kernel, although there is some reports of success > with egcs 1.1 and very few success reports using egcs 2.95. I wonder if this is my problem? I just built 2.2.14

Re: Running X on a Toshiba Tecra 8000

2000-02-08 Thread Gilbert Laycock
Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I cannot seem to get X running on my Tecra 8000. I have installed Debian > 2.1r3. I run XF86Setup and select the NeoMagic card. For the rest I have > tried a lot of different combinations for screen and the like, but non > give me a decent 1024x786

Re: Unstable kernel question

2000-02-08 Thread aphro
2.2.14 should work with the athlon, what cpu arch are you telling the config program you have? you probably need to tell it Pentium (unless there is an athlon option). from what i saw 2.3.x didn't have all the athlon patches from 2.2 yet but it was on alan cox's to-do list. if the kernel doesn't d

Re: Apache FrontPage Extensions

2000-02-08 Thread aphro
aha, i finally remembered the url for this site www.rtr.com readytorunsoftware is MS's partner for frontpage extensions on apache..they got tons of docs and shit. good stuff if frontpage is yer thing. nate On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Onno wrote: Onno >At 12:36 PM 2/8/00 -, Patrick Kirk wrote: On

Re: MIMENCODE (mgetty+sendfax)

2000-02-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 07:41:20AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: : On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 11:41:53AM +0100, Sven Gaerner wrote: : > where is the programm mimencode that is needed by mgetty+sendfax (script : > new_fax). : : : $ dpkg -S mimencode : metamail: /usr/bin/mimencode : metama

Mailbox converter?

2000-02-08 Thread Marc Sherman
Does anyone know of a script or program (for linux or windows) that will convert an outlook express 5 .dbx file to a standard linux mailbox format? Thanks in advance, - Marc

Re: cron not using new entry after crontab -e?

2000-02-08 Thread hawk
It turned out to be more subtle than I thought. I initially edited the file in /etc, which accomplished nothing. I then worked with the crontab command from user sace. Eventually, the command in /etc began executing, which is where my strangest result was coming from. Rick -- Prof. Richar

igerman-package with new german spelling

2000-02-08 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi! Is there in potato a igerman-package with the new german spelling-rules? I just downloaded igerman from potato, to see that it does not support the new rules. Ciao! juh -- juh's Sudelbuch --- Literatur und Satire per E-Mail http://www.sudelbuch.de

Re: Malformed packages in unstable

2000-02-08 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 03:11:05AM -0500, Harlan Crystal wrote: > I was trying to find out where to report this, but I couldn't.. > > Xshipwars reports that it cannot be installed because of dependancy > problems. Hi, apt-get -d install xshipwars Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency

dselect 192.168.1.1 -> Fool Cries Wolf...

2000-02-08 Thread Sean Moran
Attn: Readers, repliers... I posted a request for support on this list earlier today (Tuesday, Feb 8th), regarding dselect. I must apologise for overlooking the source of the problem, which was nothing to do with dselect, but the difference between home directories for various users of the FTP s

Re: SOLVED: MIMENCODE (mgetty+sendfax)

2000-02-08 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 08:20:30PM +, Sven Gaerner wrote: > Hi, > > dpkg -S mimencode did not show this imformation as i ran it last time. > I just installed metamail and now get this program. Yes, dpkg -S can inform only about installed files. In general you have to read file .../debian/dist

Unstable kernel question

2000-02-08 Thread José Luis Gómez Dans
Hi! I don't know if you remember some query about compiling a new kernel for Athlon based systems. Basically, my kernel just woudln't work. In the end, I found out that this wasn't due to a wrong processor or anything like that: it was due to the motherboard (WS-6167), and in particular of

Re: Apache FrontPage Extensions

2000-02-08 Thread Onno
At 12:36 PM 2/8/00 -, Patrick Kirk wrote: >Actually the MS site has decent documentation on the extensions. I've seen them, but I have to apply the extensions on a running server. When I see at the problems MS can create I get a little nervous... Anohter problem is that the patch script is pre

Re: ssl'ed / ssh'ed ftp ?

2000-02-08 Thread Robert Varga
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Joe Chung wrote: > On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 09:32:11PM -0800, t s a d i wrote: > > hello all, > > we use ssh (and ssl telnet) at our place to remotely admin some > > machines (we are on an untrusted network) ... > > our concern now is on ftp, is there such thing as a

Re: Apache FrontPage Extensions

2000-02-08 Thread Patrick Kirk
Actually the MS site has decent documentation on the extensions. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 10:33 PM Subject: Apache FrontPage Extensions > I need info on the Apache FrontPage Extensions under potato! > > Anyone? > > Regards, > > O

Re: .gz in Netscape

2000-02-08 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Junichi Uekawa, > > My personal solution to this problem is to middle-click to open a new window, > stop download, copy the address, paste it to xterm, type Ctrl-A then 'wget' > :) Why not either, open an xterm and type `wget ', then: 1) Right click on the link, select `Copy Link Location

delet key in gnome-terminal

2000-02-08 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, anyone knows why in gnome-terminal delete kery doesnt work. How to fix it? Another question is Eterm 0.8 from potato works with delete and Eterm 0.9 doesnt work! :( Thanks -- Abraços,PH Linux Solutions - Renovando Conceitos - http://www.linuxsolutio

Re: Network is unreachable. SOLVED!

2000-02-08 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
>Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; >X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 05:57:09 +1100 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> >The SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument, SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable >> >messages may be because the later ifconfig's no longer require: >> >route add -ne

deselect: apt -> 192.168.1.1

2000-02-08 Thread Sean Moran
Fellow Users, Apologies if this post ends up in the wrong list. First time in 18 months of Linuxaholism that I have had to seek group therapy. In the wee hours over the last six weeks, I have downloaded SLINK from ftp.aarnet.edu.au in an effort to save bandwidth over the numerous installs I plan

Re: Running X on a Toshiba Tecra 8000

2000-02-08 Thread John Gould
Afraid you need an update to the Xfree binaries. Go to 'http://www.debian.org/~vincent/' the Xfree86 3.3.6 dist by Vincent fits on top of Slink just fine. You can use 'dselect' and point it at the directory containing these deb's. Hope this helps... BTW I would avoid upgrading to 'potato' just at

Malformed packages in unstable

2000-02-08 Thread Harlan Crystal
I was trying to find out where to report this, but I couldn't.. Xshipwars reports that it cannot be installed because of dependancy problems. - Harlan PS - Where is the appropriate place to report this, so I know next time?

Debian and IDE66

2000-02-08 Thread Claus Brodersen
Jeg har købt Corel Linux men har et STORT problem. Jeg kan ikke få det til at køre med min IDE66 Controller som er uundverlig. Er det noget der vil blive lavet om på eller er der blevet lavet om på det? Hvis det er hvordan får jeg så optimeret mit Corel Linux til at køre med IDE66??? Venlig Hi

Re: Which Boot Manager?

2000-02-08 Thread Onno
I use System Commander. Regards, Onno At 01:05 AM 2/5/00 +, Lane Lester wrote: >I currently have Win 98 and NT along with Corel Linux on my system. >CL's lilo lets me go with either Linux or Windows, and NT's boot >manager lets me pick between 98 and NT. > >I just bought McCarty's _Learning

time

2000-02-08 Thread Kendall Shaw
Hello, I dual boot windows 98 and debian potato. In windows my clock is set to Pacific Standard Time. In linux, I've set UTC=no in /etc/defaults/rcS, and /etc/timezone to US/Pacific. Yet, in linux the time now is Feb 7 2:07pm, while in windows it's Feb 7 10:27pm (or there about). How do I fix this

Re: External CD-ROM drive

2000-02-08 Thread aphro
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Cameron Matheson wrote: mathes >Hey, mathes > mathes >I got a computer for Linux now, but I am using a Creative Proprietary mathes >External CD-ROM drive. It's not IDE or SCSI, so what should I do to mathes >install? Thanks, not that it answers your question, but how old is

Re: VMWare, 98 and Linux

2000-02-08 Thread Robert L. Harris
It turns out the best solution has been to use "hardware Profiles" and a single 6 gig partition. Robert > Em Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 09:13:31AM -0700, Robert L. Harris escreveu: > > Ok, > > Here's the scenario, I have a 6Gig windows drive and 4 Gig Linux. The > > 6 is divided into 1 and 6 (/de

Re: Beep?

2000-02-08 Thread Pavel Epifanov
On 6 Feb 2000, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: >=> Many things make the system beep when >=> you type the "wrong" thing in. Typically, pressing up- or down-arrow >=Please tell us which commands will do that -- I've looked after such a >=solution a long time. # for bash (tur

External CD-ROM drive

2000-02-08 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I got a computer for Linux now, but I am using a Creative Proprietary External CD-ROM drive. It's not IDE or SCSI, so what should I do to install? Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Has anybody gotten port forwarding to work with Debian?

2000-02-08 Thread Eric House
I'm running slink, and a 2.2.14 kernel (on a Dell Latitude laptop, though I doubt that matters.) And I can't get port forwarding working. I've rebuilt the kernel with all the required config options set except for CONFIG_IP_FORWARD, which doesn't exist anywhere in the sources for 2.2.14. Meanwhi

RE: building firewall, help

2000-02-08 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Firewall-HOWTO IPCHAINS-HOWTO also check out http://www.linux-firewall-tools.com On 08-Feb-2000 t s a d i wrote: > hello all, > > We want to build a Linux Firewall for our experimental site, to > basically look like this > > || > |

Re: help with sound config

2000-02-08 Thread john s jacobs anderson
> "S" == S Salman Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "jsja" == john s jacobs anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jsja> Following up for the list archives: The es1371 driver in the jsja> current kernel did not work for this card; Creative has jsja> apparently revved the codec, or t

Re: "Fake" package for Wordperfect 8?

2000-02-08 Thread Alexandre Pereira da Silva
equivs Em Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 10:04:58PM +0100, Jonas Steverud escreveu: > I downloaded WP8 for some months ago and the idea struck my earlier > tonight that it would be a good idea to build a fake package for WP8 > that depended on those packages WP8 depends on (whatever those are, > I've forgo

Re: grub install

2000-02-08 Thread Alexandre Pereira da Silva
> because lilo couldn't boot my new drive (an IBM DNES 18 GB SCSI disk), > I began to try out grub, which can. However, I'm stuck halfway with > the installation: According to the info pages I made a boot disk and > installed grub on the hard disk with the command > > install (fd0)+1 (hd0) (h

Re: remote ip

2000-02-08 Thread Alexandre Pereira da Silva
I'm using the same setting here but I have added following lines to /etc/ppp/options ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote So each time I connect, local and remote ips gets changed. Em Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 05:25:39AM +0800, da Bobstopper escreveu: > hiyas > > i've been using the pppd implementati

Re: VMWare, 98 and Linux

2000-02-08 Thread Alexandre Pereira da Silva
Em Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 09:13:31AM -0700, Robert L. Harris escreveu: > Ok, > Here's the scenario, I have a 6Gig windows drive and 4 Gig Linux. The > 6 is divided into 1 and 6 (/dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 respectivly). I have > 98 on /dev/hda1. I run this one nativly(sp?) and don't want to run it

List threads

2000-02-08 Thread Alexandre Pereira da Silva
I'm on debian-user-digets and threads look bad. Procmail splits messages so mutt can do some sort of trheads on message titles, but this is not good as havin it reading Mail-Followup-To and References. Its much faster reading digest then message by message on a dialup modem and a slow machine. Can

Re: Is ppp still active when ip-down is called?

2000-02-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
Marc Sherman said: > When pppd is shutting down and calls ip-down, is the > ppp interface already dead, or can the network still > be used from that script? The man page for pppd > isn't explicit about it, but it sounds like it might > be too late already. If you're also using diald, it allows yo

XFonts?

2000-02-08 Thread Robert L. Harris
I finally got XF86 from the frozen Debian (3.3.6 I believe) installed and actually working right. When I start it up the graphics all look right, but all the text is garbase. My prompt looks like "|||\| ^" and such. Definitely nothing that looks like text. Even if I try to bring up the

Re: *.bin file

2000-02-08 Thread Jason Christensen
Make sure it's executable permissions are set and just run it: ./.bin You need to reference the current working dir unless you have it in your path. Putting the CWD in your path is however bad security! Jason On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I am downloading RealPlayer

libc6 broken?

2000-02-08 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hello, I tried doing an apt-get dist-upgrade at 8/9pm-ish today and am getting some problems. libc6 won't go through the configuration and it sits there when I try apt-getting something else. I tried doing apt-get autoclean and then apt-get clean and dpkg --clean-avail and all kinds of stuff, but

Re: Permission Needed to Use ttyS1?

2000-02-08 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > When I tried wvdial for the first time (it was set up for me during > the Dialup installation), it said, "Cannot open /dev/ttyS1: Permission > denied." > > I know a little something about permissions, but I don't know about > that one!

Re: Newbie Lookin' for Libraries

2000-02-08 Thread Colin Walters
> "Lane" == Lane Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lane> Before I do much of anything with my new Debian Linux, I Lane> need to get my favorite editor, nedit, going. I installed Lane> it, but when I tried to execute it, I was told that Lane> libXpm.so.4 was missing. Apt-get sa

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