Re: Eterm --console

2000-03-09 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Jonathan Lupa, > That sounds just geeky enough to work. :) I just love the effect you get when people walk past my workstation at work and say "hey, cool... how did you do that?" :) > Can you point me to some such program? Searching for "log" and "color" > in dselect didn't cut it. That's

Re: vi wrap=?

2000-03-09 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Patrick, > Doesn't work in mutt though. I guess that mutt is still using nvi so > better read man mutt on how to change this. You should be able to find an example .vimrc in: -rw-r--r--1 root root 1812 Sep 15 1998 /usr/share/doc/vim/examples/mail Which you can whack in

Re: Setuid scripts with Apache?

2000-03-09 Thread Adam Shand
> I'd like to run without suexec, if possible, since I have absolutely no > need for it.. How would one arrange that with the debian Apache > install? you have to explicitly enable suexec for each virtual domain you host. if you have a directive in your config called "user" and/or "group" then

Re: ethernet on laptop

2000-03-09 Thread Patrick
[...] > A low tone instead of a beep indicates an error. I heard no tone at all. > > As root type cardctl info (I believe, check the help) will tell you about the > cards it sees. I got the message open_sock(): operation not supported by device I have no idea what this means but to help I'll att

RE: The IMG library not for Debian?

2000-03-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Mar-2000 Christian Dysthe wrote: > Hi, > > I use Postilion installed from a deb. On the Postilion home page it is > recommended to install the IMG library for increased functionality, but I > can't find this packaged for for Debian, nad I have problems having it > compile on my machine. >

Re: no /user/.xsession found

2000-03-09 Thread marc
Jaume Teixi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Xssesion: unable to start X session: no /user/.xsession found, no window > manager, and no terminal emulators found > why ? Hum, have you one of these installed ? Check /etc/alternatives for a x-window-manager file and a x-terminal-emulator file. If you ca

RE: Tkrat obsolete?

2000-03-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Mar-2000 Jason Christensen wrote: > Does anyone know why tkrat is marked obsolete within dselect? My > /etc/apt/sources.list points apt to frozen. > this means it had bugs which the maintainer either would not or could not fix in time for potato's release. If you can help, mail the mainta

Re: Setuid scripts with Apache?

2000-03-09 Thread Ted Cabeen
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adam Shand writes: >> >>following error in my error.log: Can't do setuid > >are you running under suexec? that is the only apache security mechanism i >am aware of which restricts suid scripts/binaries. if you are there is no >way around this, disable suexec. I'd

Re: New Mozilla (M14-1) causes seg fault

2000-03-09 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Thanks to all who offered up suggestions for fixing the seg fault with Mozilla M14. The first email I got suggested creating the sym link, and that fixed the problem. Thanks! Bryan *** Bryan K. Walton Network Operations Center A

RE: ethernet on laptop

2000-03-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
You should hear two beeps when you insert a pcmcia card (make sure your speaker is not covered and if possible turn up its volume). A low tone instead of a beep indicates an error. As root type cardctl info (I believe, check the help) will tell you about the cards it sees.

Tkrat obsolete?

2000-03-09 Thread Jason Christensen
Does anyone know why tkrat is marked obsolete within dselect? My /etc/apt/sources.list points apt to frozen. Jason

Re: Setuid scripts with Apache?

2000-03-09 Thread oneiros
Thus spake Ted Cabeen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have a perl CGI that calls a suidperl script that broke in the update to > slink. What is suppoed to happen is the CGI gets the data from the web page, > rigorously checks it for safeness and then system()'s a root suidperl script > to do the work

Re: Partitioning with On track disk manager

2000-03-09 Thread dan
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 10:26:07AM +1100, David Soo generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > Hi all, > Hoping that someone might be able to help me out here in Australia. > > I have a 13.5GB IBM HD and partitioned it with On track. I now wish to > partition it again so that I can install Linux but don'

Re: Fancy features of Storm Linux

2000-03-09 Thread dan
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 04:39:41PM +, Phillip Deackes generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > As I said before, Storm in *much* better than Corel Linux from the > Debian point of view as it appears to have broken nothing. You end up > with a very easy-to-install Debian Slink system with a few Stor

Re: Configuring Pine for multiple ISPs

2000-03-09 Thread Jason Christensen
How handy are you with text processing scripting languages (i.e. Perl, awk, etc.)? My thought is that you could create a script that edits your .pinerc file prior to starting pine. The script could look at another file (/etc/resolv.conf maybe) for domain info that was set by your connection softwa

Re: mailman auth

2000-03-09 Thread Adam Shand
> Did anybody have problems with mailman 1.1? It won't let me login as the > list admin, and it doesn't give any error. make sure you have cookies enabled, and you aren't using any sort of filtering proxy like junkbuster. adam.

Re: Setuid scripts with Apache?

2000-03-09 Thread Adam Shand
> >>following error in my error.log: Can't do setuid are you running under suexec? that is the only apache security mechanism i am aware of which restricts suid scripts/binaries. if you are there is no way around this, disable suexec. > >Why don't you system() that perl script without the suid

Re: unzipping .exe files

2000-03-09 Thread Adam Shand
> Is there any program which is able to unzip the "self-extracting" > archives that end with .exe? unzip does not work. I'm not even sure > that it's not one of those install-shield applications, in which case I > guess I'd be up the creek. typically if they are just pkzip exectucables you can

Re: New Mozilla (M14-1) causes seg fault

2000-03-09 Thread Jonathan Vaughan
>Hi everyone, >This morning I performed my daily distribution upgrade on > frozen, and to my delight, my Mozilla was upgraded from M13 to > M14! BUT > WAIT! . . . I can't get Mozilla to start. When I run it, this > is what I > get from the shell startup: Try

Re: Eterm --console

2000-03-09 Thread Parrish M Myers
Thanks for your help in the matter. It turns out that the version of eterm I was using did not have the patch in it to look at /dev/xconsole instead of /dev/console. I contacted the maintaner and he hooked me up. I didn't quite get to the point of changing the structure of syslog.conf... but I

Re: Eterm --console

2000-03-09 Thread Parrish M Myers
Here are the two I found... I think logcolorize will be eazier to use... but I haven't tried either yet. logcolorise: http://www.linuxsupportline.com/~pgp/linux/scripts.html and Generic Colouriser http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk

Re: unzipping .exe files

2000-03-09 Thread Christian Surchi
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 12:30:21PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: > Is there any program which is able to unzip the "self-extracting" > archives that end with .exe? unzip does not work. I'm not even sure > that it's not one of those install-shield applications, in which case > I guess I'd be up the cr

Re: Fw: error message

2000-03-09 Thread Bruce Sass
> > > if i want to change the time to > > > Wed Mar 8 6:16:00 PST 2000--what do i do? In order to keep proper time you need to make sure /etc/default/rcS has the correct settings, /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh has been tweaked to your liking, and you've run tzconfig. Except for the tweaking of hwclo

Re: installing SCSI HD

2000-03-09 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hmm... still not a lot to go on, but if that's the way it is, then that's the way it is. The diag messages that I'd like to see have to come from software (drivers) and if the software was running and could o/p msgs, then it should output some diag stuff about what's mak

Re: unzipping .exe files

2000-03-09 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 12:30:21PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: > > Is there any program which is able to unzip the "self-extracting" > > archives that end with .exe? unzip does not work. I'm not even sure > > that it's not one of those install-shield appl

Configuring Pine for multiple ISPs

2000-03-09 Thread Dale Scheetz
I just added a second ISP to my resources, and I can seem to manage everything but smtp for pine. In the pine configuration there is a slot to put the smtp server, but I can only use the server provided by the ISP that I am logged into at the time, as neither one allows relays. I can reconfigure ev

Re: rxvt wouldn't run - solved

2000-03-09 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Looks like you're defining a boatload of resources somewher. > > Try parsing the output of the following: > > xrdb -query | grep -i term > > or if that doesn't give you any clues: > > xrdb -query Thanks. I did not know about xrdb. In

Re: What is a "memmory overflow"error at BOOT

2000-03-09 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 02:13:35PM -0600, Max Young II wrote > When I boot one of my computers, I get a "memory overflow" > error "please insert another disk". Can you help me? > At what stage in the boot process, and what CPU (and how much RAM) do you have? It may be an A20 gate problem, espec

Re: remote printer via Windows

2000-03-09 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 12:04:02PM +0200, Dan Pomohaci wrote: > Hello, > > I have a Debian potato computer but the printer (HP Laserjet 6L) is > conected to a Windows box. > I instaled smbclient and Samba, and took the example from the doc > (modified a litle). My printcap have this record: > lp|r

Re: unzipping .exe files

2000-03-09 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 12:30:21PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any program which is able to unzip the "self-extracting" > archives that end with .exe? unzip does not work. I'm not even sure > that it's not one of those install-shield applications, in which case > I guess I'd b

Re: New Mozilla (M14-1) causes segfault

2000-03-09 Thread Cédric Charest
Just 'rm -rf ~/.mozilla' and it will work after. Cédric Charest

Re: unzipping .exe files

2000-03-09 Thread kmself
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 12:30:21PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any program which is able to unzip the "self-extracting" > archives that end with .exe? unzip does not work. I'm not even sure > that it's not one of those install-shield applications, in which case > I guess I'd b

Re: loadkeys es.kmap.gz

2000-03-09 Thread kmself
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 05:39:41PM +0100, Jaume Teixi wrote: > Hi, > On Debian 2.2.14 by doing a loadkeys es.kmap.gz i get my spanish keyboar > work... > ...but doesn't works accents nor special characters on my keyboard like > the spanish typical "ñ" > how to solve that ? Not sure, but what is yo

Re: New Mozilla (M14-1) causes seg fault

2000-03-09 Thread Davide
On 9 Mar 2000, "Bryan K. Walton" wrote: > Date: 9 Mar 2000 14:20:12 - > To: Debian-User Mailing List > From: "Bryan K. Walton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: New Mozilla (M14-1) causes seg fault > > Hi everyone, > This morning I performed my daily distribution upgrade on > frozen, an

unzipping .exe files

2000-03-09 Thread Chris Gray
Hello, Is there any program which is able to unzip the "self-extracting" archives that end with .exe? unzip does not work. I'm not even sure that it's not one of those install-shield applications, in which case I guess I'd be up the creek. TIA, Chris Gray -- The reason that every major univer

Re: Fancy features of Storm Linux

2000-03-09 Thread Phillip Deackes
Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Storm also uses the .deb debian packages which you can install using > dpkg, > dselect or apt, so you can either download the package for that boot > loader or edit your /etc/apt/sources.list to install them (a lot > easier > then compiling). (By the way t

The IMG library not for Debian?

2000-03-09 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I use Postilion installed from a deb. On the Postilion home page it is recommended to install the IMG library for increased functionality, but I can't find this packaged for for Debian, nad I have problems having it compile on my machine. Does anyone know why this lib isn't packaged for Debi

loadkeys es.kmap.gz

2000-03-09 Thread Jaume Teixi
Hi, On Debian 2.2.14 by doing a loadkeys es.kmap.gz i get my spanish keyboar work... ...but doesn't works accents nor special characters on my keyboard like the spanish typical "ñ" how to solve that ? bests!

Re: How to get glibc 2.1 on slink

2000-03-09 Thread Phillip Deackes
Ron Hale-Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Haven't heard anyone speak up yet. I too have a machine that cannot > afford > much downtime, so I don't want to mess with potato. Does anyone have a > recommendation for safely getting the latest glibc running under > slink? What I have done a few ti

Re: Automagic boots

2000-03-09 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
This may sound silly... but what when the computer is shutdown at night, what time is being stored in the BIOS? It could be timezone thing... I don't know, just an idea On 09-Mar-2000 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > "S. Salman Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > "OM" == Olaf Meeuwissen <[

Re: Potato Broke My X

2000-03-09 Thread David Wright
Quoting Mike Werner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 01:20:37AM -0600, Brad wrote: > > > Another important change in the xfree86-common package is that all > > support for the /etc/X11/window-managers file has been removed. Window > > managers should now use the alternatives system.

mailman auth

2000-03-09 Thread Marcin Kurc
hi there, Did anybody have problems with mailman 1.1? It won't let me login as the list admin, and it doesn't give any error. -- Marcin Kurc Indiana Institute of Technology System Administrator http://me.indtech.edu http://www.indtech.edu

Re: Q: ssh/ssh-nonfree, also xterm

2000-03-09 Thread David Z. Maze
Daishi Harada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DH> 2. If I use ssh-nonfree (1.2.27-5), I can use ssh, but I get the DH> following warnings: DH> % ssh DH> Agent parent directory is not sticky, mode is 40777 it should be 041777 DH> [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: DH> Cannot

remote printer via Windows

2000-03-09 Thread Dan Pomohaci
Hello, I have a Debian potato computer but the printer (HP Laserjet 6L) is conected to a Windows box. I instaled smbclient and Samba, and took the example from the doc (modified a litle). My printcap have this record: lp|remote-smbprinter:\ :lp=/dev/null:sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/hpl

Re: New Mozilla (M14-1) causes seg fault

2000-03-09 Thread Martin Fluch
I have the exact same problem on my woody box, too. Martin On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > Hi everyone, > This morning I performed my daily distribution upgrade on > frozen, and to my delight, my Mozilla was upgraded from M13 to M14! BUT > WAIT! . . . I can't get Mozilla to

Re: HELP! Install problem. How to free I/O locked by "reserve=..." in boot params?

2000-03-09 Thread David Wright
Quoting Wojciech Zabolotny ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Today everything started fine, without any problems. I don't know why, > maybe someone has changed the BIOS setup, and the busy resource was really > an interrupt? The failing machine is my friend's workstation which is used > by many people, mai

Re: Setuid scripts with Apache?

2000-03-09 Thread Ted Cabeen
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marc Haber writes: >On Wed, 08 Mar 2000 17:32:58 -0600, you wrote: >>I have a perl CGI that calls a suidperl script that broke in the update to >>slink. What is suppoed to happen is the CGI gets the data from the web page, > >>rigorously checks it for safeness and

Re: HELP! Install problem. How to free I/O locked by "reserve=..." in boot params?

2000-03-09 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 09:14:27PM +0100, Bjoern Brill wrote: > > > Have you tried to insert the wd module with parameters (io=0x280 etc.)? > > > I think it doesn't care if resources are reserved or not in this case. > > > > Hmmm, I used the "insmod wd io=0x280", and it resulted in the mentioned >

New Mozilla (M14-1) causes seg fault

2000-03-09 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hi everyone, This morning I performed my daily distribution upgrade on frozen, and to my delight, my Mozilla was upgraded from M13 to M14! BUT WAIT! . . . I can't get Mozilla to start. When I run it, this is what I get from the shell startup: $ mozilla Profile Manager : Profile Wizard an

Re: [bug?] df and du -s output inconsistent?

2000-03-09 Thread David Wright
Quoting Olaf Meeuwissen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Yesterday I got an I/O error telling me that the /home file system was > full. Bummer! Checked with df and sure 0% free in /home. Looked all > over /home to find disk hogs and removed a really big .xsession-errors > file---still have to find out

Re: AGP S3 Trio 3D 8MB video card

2000-03-09 Thread Horacio MG
El mié, 08 de mar de 2000, a las 05:14:22 -0600, James Sasitorn dijo: > Use 4MB. Theres a bug in the server. Use the SVGA server. So either use 4MB > or set the option for SW_CURSOR what's that SW_CURSOR option and where can it be set? El mié, 08 de mar de 2000, a las 07:48:17 -0500, David Z. Maz

Re: wrong default-window-manager

2000-03-09 Thread Massimo Dal Zotto
> > Hi! > > After updating to the latest "xserver-common" in frozen, X started up with > fvwm > as the default window-manager. I´ve checked /etc/X11/window-managers and > there´s fvwm95 with correct path and all as the first window-manager in there. > > While I can switch to fvwm95 on-the-fly

no /user/.xsession found

2000-03-09 Thread Jaume Teixi
Using Debian 2.2.14, after setup with xf86config, when running startx, X doesn't works and appears: Xssesion: unable to start X session: no /user/.xsession found, no window manager, and no terminal emulators found why ?

Re: [bug?] df and du -s output inconsistent?

2000-03-09 Thread Patrick
Have you changed your partition table? When I did this, I first did a cp -a /usr /newusr on a seperate partition. Then I editted fstab and rebooted. The system worked fine but the old usr directory was still there just not visible. I rebooted using Toms Repair Disk and it showed the "missing" f

Re: Help Required

2000-03-09 Thread Ron Rademaker
Changing the subnet mask, just go to the /etc/init.d/network file and change it after that do /etc/init.d/network and your with the new submask. Upgrading... easiest would be using apt, install it if you haven't installed it yet, edit your /etc/apt/sources.list so that you are using servers that y

ANNOUNCE: Sharesecret

2000-03-09 Thread Stefan Karrmann
There is a new program `sharesecret' which enables you to split a secret into parts given a threshold. You can only recalculate the secret from the parts if you know more parts than threshold. The program is licences under the terms of the GNU General Puplic Licence (GPL) version 2 or later. See

Re: [bug?] df and du -s output inconsistent?

2000-03-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 06:34:29PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > Uhm, the figures concerned are 0.6, 1, 1.6 and 2 gigabytes. I see no > (sensible) way of getting 5% out of those even without doing any math. > Closest I come is 20% ;-) well i said i was too lazy to bother with any calculation

Q: ssh/ssh-nonfree, also xterm

2000-03-09 Thread Daishi Harada
Hi, I have a potato/frozen system, on which I have the following problems. Any help would be appreciated (please reply via mail in addition to through the list). 1. If I install the current ssh (1:1.2.2), and try to ssh to as a regular user, I get the following error: You have no contro

Help Required

2000-03-09 Thread Border Internet
We "Border Internet" are running Debian 1.3 as our mail and DNS Server. How do we change the subnet mask from 255.255.255.0 to 255.255.255.128? Can we upgrade to 2.1 and where can we get it from. Regards Dean

Re: Potato Broke My X

2000-03-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 12:50:20AM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 12:07:10AM -0600, Brad wrote: > > rm /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager > > ln -s /usr/bin/blackbox /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager > > Isn't that backwords? no that is correct: [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ l

Re: [bug?] df and du -s output inconsistent?

2000-03-09 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:24:41AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > > There is something funny about the output of df and du -s. Just take > > a look at the typescript below: > > > > bash-2.03$ df /home > > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used

Re: Automagic boots

2000-03-09 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
"S. Salman Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "OM" == Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OM> Hi all, I've set up a part-time server for our group. Every > OM> morning at 7:30 it automagically boots up and at 8:30 in the > OM> evening it shuts itself down. Works li

Re: Setuid scripts with Apache?

2000-03-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 08 Mar 2000 17:32:58 -0600, you wrote: >I have a perl CGI that calls a suidperl script that broke in the update to >slink. What is suppoed to happen is the CGI gets the data from the web page, >rigorously checks it for safeness and then system()'s a root suidperl script >to do the work.

Re: March 9, 1999

2000-03-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 09 Mar 2000 00:15:11 +0100, you wrote: >March 9, 1999 saw the birth of Slink. Where is my Potato? I want it on a >dish (oh sorry, disk that is...) --hans How many bugs did you report or fix in the last two weeks? I am pretty sure the developers are doing great work as usual. Greetings Ma

Re: free c compiler 8051

2000-03-09 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 09:17:53PM -0600, Jorge Arturo Colorado wrote: > i will apreciate if you can send me a c compiler(8051) and instruccion > i devoloped project in assembly languaje ,but i think that this c > compiler can help me to develope the program quickly. > Sincerily yours Check the S

Re: Potato Broke My X

2000-03-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 12:07:10AM -0600, Brad wrote: > rm /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager > ln -s /usr/bin/blackbox /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager Isn't that backwords? $ ln --help Usage: ln [OPTION]... TARGET [LINK_NAME] or: ln [OPTION]... TARGET... DIRECTORY > (this puts it in man

upgrading just libc on a slink system

2000-03-09 Thread eloki
Hey all.. I've already asked this on IRC, so apologies to those who are now seeing me repeat my question. Has anybody just tried doing an 'apt-get install libc6' to upgrade their slink machine to libc 2.1 from frozen, but leave the rest of their machine as is? I'm interested in whether anythin

Re: g400 framebuffer-update

2000-03-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 02:38:15AM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: > Apparently, my g400max, with kernel 2.2.14, doesn't like videomodes over > 8bit color. The computer boots with whatever video mode I want, but > will not sync if the color depth is greater than 8 bits. I can drive > the monitor at

Re: How to get glibc 2.1 on slink

2000-03-09 Thread Ron Hale-Evans
>From rwhe Thu Mar 9 03:10:10 2000 Return-Path: Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by apocalypse.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA12524; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 03:10:08 -0500 From: Ron Hale-Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: How to get glibc 2.1 on slink To: [

Re: wrong default-window-manager

2000-03-09 Thread Brad
See the "Potato Broke My X" thread. the latest X removed all support for the /etc/X11/window-managers, using the alternatives system instead. On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 07:45:12AM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > > Hi! > > After updating to the latest "xserver-common" in frozen, X started up with >

g400 framebuffer-update

2000-03-09 Thread Aaron Solochek
Apparently, my g400max, with kernel 2.2.14, doesn't like videomodes over 8bit color. The computer boots with whatever video mode I want, but will not sync if the color depth is greater than 8 bits. I can drive the monitor at 1600x1200 no problem, also at 1024 I have it set to use 100mhz mode, als

Re: wrong default-window-manager

2000-03-09 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 09 Mar 2000 09:14:56 +0200, Martin Fluch writes: >Have you tried to set the x-window-manager link in /etc/alternatives to >point on fvwm95? Well, there wasn´t any x-* - link in /etc/alternatives :-( so I didn´t try anything there, but symlinking /usr/bin/x-window-manager to fvwm95 like in

Re: wrong default-window-manager

2000-03-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:14:56AM +0200, Martin Fluch wrote: > Re:Hi! > > Have you tried to set the x-window-manager link in /etc/alternatives to > point on fvwm95? > > I'm not quite sure wether the /etc/X11/window-managers file is still used. its not, the last traces of this file have been obl

Re: wrong default-window-manager

2000-03-09 Thread Martin Fluch
Re:Hi! Have you tried to set the x-window-manager link in /etc/alternatives to point on fvwm95? I'm not quite sure wether the /etc/X11/window-managers file is still used. Martin On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Robert Waldner wrote: > Hi! > > After updating to the latest "xserver-common" in frozen, X star

wrong default-window-manager

2000-03-09 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! After updating to the latest "xserver-common" in frozen, X started up with fvwm as the default window-manager. I´ve checked /etc/X11/window-managers and there´s fvwm95 with correct path and all as the first window-manager in there. While I can switch to fvwm95 on-the-fly my girl-friend, wh

Re: Potato Broke My X

2000-03-09 Thread Brad
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 06:38:22PM -0800, Jim Varney wrote: > > The alternatives database has no entries under x-window-manager. Which window managers do you have installed? -- finger for GPG public key. pgpeKGCAaHvqX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Potato Broke My X

2000-03-09 Thread Brad
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 10:21:18PM -0500, Mike Werner wrote: > > I checked and it is in auto. However, something puzzles me: > HAL9000:~# update-alternatives --display x-window-manager > x-window-manager - status is auto. > link currently points to /usr/bin/blackbox > /etc/X11/window-managers -

Re: Fw: error message

2000-03-09 Thread Kent West
Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > ok, that is a little too basic > > > > i run > > > > date Wed --nothing happens it says invalid date > > > > lets be practical > > if i want to change the time to > > Wed Mar 8 6:16:00 PST 2000--what do i do? > > date MMDDhhmmYY > so > date 0308061600 > MMDDhhmmYY

Re: Tranfer files from desktop to laptop.

2000-03-09 Thread mcclosk
|> what would be the easiest way to transfer (alot) of files from my |> desktop computer to my laptop? They both run Debian. The laptop |> does not have a network card. You can set up a PLIP (Parallel Line Internet Protocol) connection between the two, connecting the two parallel ports by way of

Re: fips won't move hidden

2000-03-09 Thread davidturetsky
I noticed something similar... I don't recall precisely how I dealt with it... check for options... perhaps it was Partition Magic which moved the upper files down to allow you to resize the partition in question David - Original Message - From: Constantin Vernicos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

I'm a moron!

2000-03-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
Ignore that last post about PacBell. Duh! That was my machine in that comment... -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +---

Re: [bug?] df and du -s output inconsistent?

2000-03-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:24:41AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Hi all, > > Yesterday I got an I/O error telling me that the /home file system was > full. Bummer! Checked with df and sure 0% free in /home. Looked all > over /home to find disk hogs and removed a really big .xsession-errors >

Re: Tranfer files from desktop to laptop.

2000-03-09 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Christian Dysthe say > Hi, > > what would be the easiest way to transfer (alot) of files from my > desktop computer to my laptop? They both run Debian. The laptop does > not have a network card. > Then plip shpuld be a good candidate. You'll need pararell laplink cable

Re: Automagic boots

2000-03-09 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > "Green" as in environmentally friendly? Maybe, maybe not. The > evidence I've seen is largely inconclusive. When management is shoving environmental regulations down your throat, I figured that shutting our server down during company `off' hours was not a bad idea

PacBell Webmaster uses Linux...

2000-03-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
I was just looking into PacBell's DSL offerings out here in the west US. Anyway, I was annoyyed that their page rendered little text. Well, looking at the source (besides finding that having JavaScript turned off was the problem -- which I suspected), I found this in the first three lines: So

Re: The *sysinfo* command

2000-03-09 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shane) wrote: >Does any of the Debian packages contain the *sysinfo* command?. Not that I'm aware of ... last time I saw a program of that name was in DOS. >Are there any other commands that can display what hardwares your >system have?. Try looking at the various files in /pr

Re: Automagic boots

2000-03-09 Thread kmself
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:35:41AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Hi all, > > I've set up a part-time server for our group. Every morning at 7:30 > it automagically boots up and at 8:30 in the evening it shuts itself > down. Works like a charm, really, and is very `green'. Not? "Green" as in

Re: Potato Broke My X

2000-03-09 Thread Mike Werner
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 01:20:37AM -0600, Brad wrote: > Another important change in the xfree86-common package is that all > support for the /etc/X11/window-managers file has been removed. Window > managers should now use the alternatives system. You may want to check > that the /usr/bin/x-window-

free c compiler 8051

2000-03-09 Thread Jorge Arturo Colorado
i will apreciate if you can send me a c compiler(8051) and instruccion i devoloped project in assembly languaje ,but i think that this c compiler can help me to develope the program quickly. Sincerily yours Jose Antonio Molina

Re: Fw: error message

2000-03-09 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> ok, that is a little too basic > > i run > > date Wed --nothing happens it says invalid date > > lets be practical > if i want to change the time to > Wed Mar 8 6:16:00 PST 2000--what do i do? date MMDDhhmmYY so date 0308061600 MMDDhhmmYY MM month DD day hh hour mm minute YY year And

Re: Potato Broke My X

2000-03-09 Thread Jim Varney
On 7 Mar 00, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 08:20:46PM -0800, Jim Varney wrote: > > > > Updating my Potato system a few days ago with dselect broke my X windows. X > > starts up with the herringbone and shows a single shell window and prompt. > > X is working. However y

Re: Framebuffer console with a G400

2000-03-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 09:13:14AM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: > > Ok, I have a matrox g400, and all I want is the nice looking 1024x768 > console. I can get this using the append="video=matrox:vesa:280" in > lilo.conf. However, this stops working as soon as I enter X, and then > try to either

Tranfer files from desktop to laptop.

2000-03-09 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, what would be the easiest way to transfer (alot) of files from my desktop computer to my laptop? They both run Debian. The laptop does not have a network card. TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org

Re: Where to specify fonts for which apps?

2000-03-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 10:27:02AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > I find it to be odd also. I suspect that the default bland font > (whatever it is and wherever it's specified) is somehow broken, and is > using the cursive font instead. > > There's nothing in any Xdefaults or Xresources files (global o

Re: Fw: error message

2000-03-09 Thread Beavis
ok, that is a little too basic i run date Wed --nothing happens it says invalid date lets be practical if i want to change the time to Wed Mar 8 6:16:00 PST 2000--what do i do? > time: man date > ssh: its in non-us, or just search the net and get teh source. > Andrew > > > ok, thankx

Re: [bug?] df and du -s output inconsistent?

2000-03-09 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:24:41AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen spoke, and we > listened to: > > There is something funny about the output of df and du -s. Just take > > a look at the typescript below: > > > > bash-2.03$ df /home > > Filesystem

Re: fp_extensions

2000-03-09 Thread Adam Shand
> i am trying to run a script call fp_install.sh but my slink box says run > is not a command, what do i try change into the directory where the script is and then run: # ./fp_install.sh if that gives you an error like this: bash: ./fp_install.sh: No such file or directory check the first lin

Re: Fw: error message

2000-03-09 Thread Andrei Ivanov
time: man date ssh: its in non-us, or just search the net and get teh source. Andrew > ok, thankx i figured it out > > my next question is, how do i set up ssh on my slink box? > > i looked through all the dselect pachages and couldn't find anything. > > also, how do i change the time on my bo

Re: [bug?] df and du -s output inconsistent?

2000-03-09 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:24:41AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen spoke, and we listened to: > There is something funny about the output of df and du -s. Just take > a look at the typescript below: > > bash-2.03$ df /home > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/

Re: bin86 missing (was Re: compiling new kernel)

2000-03-09 Thread muggles
well, some people ( myself included ) rarely if ever use dselect and should not be bound to do so just get this "standard" package installed. i've compiled enough kernels and done enough installs and could argue that i myself would install this package by rote but that has yet to be the case and

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