Re: can I change the font of default "xterm"?

2000-04-13 Thread john smith
yes. actually what I meant to ask was the fonts for the terminals when you press alt+f1,f2 etc.. From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], john smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Debian Users Subject:

Plotting Program?

2000-04-13 Thread SCOTT FENTON
Hello all. Does anyone know of a free package (preferebly in Debian) that does what graphviz (http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/), that is, draws family-tree like diagrams? TIA Scott Fenton

Re: Upgrade to 500MHz problems

2000-04-13 Thread Bruce Stephens
William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > On AMD CPUs Windows 95 falls over at clock speeds exceeding 350 MHz. > You can download a patch from Microsoft that will fix the problem, > but to install it you will have to drop your system speed down to > slow. Try setting your system multi

Re: Trying to run one process as root, how?

2000-04-13 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Jim Breton wrote: > On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 06:17:00PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: > > > since I believe if you use "+root" you would be allowing the root user > > > on any other system to connect to your X server as well. > > > > Actually, you will be allowing any user on

Re: ...diald.fifo -- can I use this...?

2000-04-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >When 'diald' runs, it creates /var/run/diald.fifo and diald.pid. > >The accompanying X monitoring/control program, 'dctrl', evidently gets >its information by way of diald.fifo. > >Is there some way I can engage in conversation (or eavesdropping) with >dia

Re: can I change the font of default "xterm"?

2000-04-13 Thread Kent West
Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: > > "Kent" == Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > John wrote: > >> > > I'd like to know if I can change the font of xterm. xterm > >> is the default >pty > > terminal on the initial boot right? or > >> am I mistaken? I would like to >use my >

Re: Upgrade to 500MHz problems

2000-04-13 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, John wrote: > Not wanting to put Debian at risk, I tried to boot Windows - no go and > I could not use safe mode. I re-studied the M/Board Manual and checked On AMD CPUs Windows 95 falls over at clock speeds exceeding 350 MHz. You can download a patch from Microsoft that wil

Upgrade to 500MHz problems

2000-04-13 Thread John
I've attempted to upgrade using 100MHz FSB for the first time. The new CPU is an AMD500K2, the Motherboard a Gigabyte GA-5AX (Rev5.2.x) (with ALi Aladdin chipset and Award bios) and a 64MB DIMM (100MHz). The machine is a standalone one with Win95 on a small partition on hda, Debian 2.1 (kernels 2.

Re: can I change the font of default "xterm"?

2000-04-13 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
> "Kent" == Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > john smith wrote: >> thanks. mind telling me the "other ways" that you have said >> before?. I tried fontser but I don't like the way how it >> handles things. >> >> >From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To:

Re: Fatal X server error

2000-04-13 Thread Charles Lewis
After saving the settings and exiting, it kicks us back to the prompt, so I was assuming the server was indeed dead. Charles Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > However, after saving > > the settings and type startx we get the following error: > > > > -

Re: Trying to run one process as root, how?

2000-04-13 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Jim Breton wrote: > That should work, but what I usually do is: > > xhost +localhost > > since I believe if you use "+root" you would be allowing the root user > on any other system to connect to your X server as well. Actually, you will be allowing any user on system 'root

Re: Trying to run one process as root, how?

2000-04-13 Thread Kent West
Bryan Walton wrote: > Greetings to the list, > I have a situation where I need to run one program as root, > through an x terminal, while my x windows session is being run as > non-root. When I open up an x terminal in this environment, become > superuser, and then execute the program, th

Re: can I change the font of default "xterm"?

2000-04-13 Thread Kent West
john smith wrote: > thanks. mind telling me the "other ways" that you have said before?. I tried > fontser but I don't like the way how it handles things. > > >From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: john smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >CC: debian-user@lists.debian.o

Re: Fatal X server error

2000-04-13 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> However, after saving > the settings and type startx we get the following error: > > -- > _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateList > ener() failed > _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already > running > did you shut d

Re: Trying to run one process as root, how?

2000-04-13 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > Error: Can't open display: :0.0 > Any ideas? xhost localhost -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll eve

Re: mount & ownership problem (newbie, maybe)

2000-04-13 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> That works fine. The only problem is, after that the /mnt/cdrom dir's > ownerships will be (root/root) and thus inaccessible by members of the cdrom > group. If I unmount it, everything is back to normal... > > How do I allow a group to access a mountpoint when the device is mounted? > "man mou

Fatal X server error

2000-04-13 Thread lewisc
Trying to install X (3.3.6) Have tried 3 different video cars (S3 Trio64/DX, S3d Virge DX, Matrox Millenium PCI), so I\'m pretty sure the problem is our ignorance. With the Matrox e were able to use XF86Setup to start up, did a vidtune, etc. However, after saving the settings and type startx w

Re: woody smbmount smbmnt mount

2000-04-13 Thread Brad
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 02:19:15PM -0700, Lawrence Walton wrote: > I can't mount samba shares anymore, somthing happened in woody not > sure when maybe Sunday, > > mount -t smbfs //server/share /mountpoint -o username=elmo > > > mount error: Invalid argument > Please refer to the smbmnt(8) manua

Re: Was WordPerfect Opinions?--Now FreeWWWeb

2000-04-13 Thread Jonathan Markevich
This is why! Grr... debian-user@lists.debian.org: SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:: host smtp.smartworld.net [216.70.64.25]: 550 ... Relaying denied [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Trying to run one process as root, how?

2000-04-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
Bryan Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings to the list, > I have a situation where I need to run one program as root, > through an x terminal, while my x windows session is being run as > non-root. When I open up an x terminal in this environment, become > superuser, and then execu

Re: Trying to run one process as root, how?

2000-04-13 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Bryan Walton wrote: > Greetings to the list, > I have a situation where I need to run one program as root, > through an x terminal, while my x windows session is being run as > non-root. When I open up an x terminal in this environment, become > superuser, and then exec

mount & ownership problem (newbie, maybe)

2000-04-13 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hello I created the following mountpoint directories under /mnt name(user/group)device (user/group) floppy (root/floppy) /dev/fd0(root/floppy) cdrom (root/cdrom)/dev/scd0 (root/cdrom) burner (root/cdrom)/dev/scd1

Trying to run one process as root, how?

2000-04-13 Thread Bryan Walton
Greetings to the list, I have a situation where I need to run one program as root, through an x terminal, while my x windows session is being run as non-root. When I open up an x terminal in this environment, become superuser, and then execute the program, the program fails with the follow

RE: newbie question.

2000-04-13 Thread Christian Pernegger
>> On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 01:45:00PM +0200, Robert Varga wrote: > The debian cd should contain the rtl8139.o file. It should install it, if > you select the rtl8139 module during the kernel module configuration phase > of the installing. If you want to reconfigure the installed modules of the >

woody smbmount smbmnt mount

2000-04-13 Thread Lawrence Walton
I can't mount samba shares anymore, somthing happened in woody not sure when maybe Sunday, mount -t smbfs //server/share /mountpoint -o username=elmo mount error: Invalid argument Please refer to the smbmnt(8) manual page smbmnt failed: 255 mount.smbfs: ioctl failed, res=-1 Could not umount /mo

Re: Converting text to Word

2000-04-13 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Paul Huygen wrote: > Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there a utility to convert a text file into the format used by MS's > > Office 2000? > > Yes. It is part af a software package called Office 2000, and it's > sold by Microsoft. (Un)fortunately they have not

Re: Converting text to Word

2000-04-13 Thread Paul Huygen
Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a utility to convert a text file into the format used by MS's > Office 2000? Yes. It is part af a software package called Office 2000, and it's sold by Microsoft. (Un)fortunately they have not ported it to Linux. So, there are two possibilities: 1

Re: receiving emial

2000-04-13 Thread Nick Barron
hello list: i am getting the following error when attempting to send email to my server: Error reading SMTP packet. ( this comes in the return of email) i have exim installed and the following line in etc/inetd.conf smtp stream tcp nowaitmail /usr/sbin/exim -bs --from your friend b

Re: Gnome/Enlightenment Setup.

2000-04-13 Thread Jason Christensen
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Henry Kleynhans wrote: > I'm pretty new to Debian, still used to Redhat's click and it's all > installed > method of doing things. Can someone please enlighten me on how to > get Gnome and Enlightenment setup together ? > Create or edit the .xsession file in the user's hom

Converting text to Word

2000-04-13 Thread Bruce Sass
Is there a utility to convert a text file into the format used by MS's Office 2000? Snooping around in the editors, misc, text processing, and utils sections of the package tree didn't turn up anything, and a search of the ML archive for Word or Office 2000 was equally revealing (but maybe I was s

Re: apt-get upgrade <=> potato?

2000-04-13 Thread Ron Rademaker
No reboot, no new kernel. Just use apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade to potato. Ron Rademaker On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, w trillich wrote: > hi ("it's me again, margaret--i'll bring the weedwhacker, the > rubber chicken and the peach preserves!"). > > if a debianist were to do a whole > # ap

postgresql-test... NOT

2000-04-13 Thread w trillich
# su postgres > cd /usr/lib/postgresql/test/regress > make runtest MULTIBYTE=UNICODE;export MULTIBYTE; \ /bin/sh ./regress.sh linux 2>&1 | tee regress.out ./regress.sh: ../../config.guess: No such file or directory === Notes... = postmaster m

Re: postgresql 6.5.3 vs. debian--THE WINNER

2000-04-13 Thread kmself
(on-list again) On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 02:26:03PM -0500, w trillich wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > (off list) > > > > While it's always rewarding to get something that was broken to work, > > it's usually more illuminating for the rest of the world to find out > > some details of

Auto-Login

2000-04-13 Thread Fish Smith
A while back I inquired as to how I would go about setting my machine to automatically login on startup and start and X console. Somebody said to use wdm and configure it to automatically login. I know have wdm installed and I would like to know specifically what line in the config file to change

Re: newbie question.

2000-04-13 Thread Robert Varga
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Sunil Pandey wrote: > On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 01:45:00PM +0200, Robert Varga wrote: > | > | Have you compiled a new kernel or you are using the kernel provided with > | the installation? If you are using the kernel with the installation, then > | put a line containing rtl81

Re: exim.conf: mail delivery notices go to bjb@isp instead of bjb@localhost

2000-04-13 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 05:59:25PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Brenda J. Butler said: > > qualify_domain = achilles.net # my isp > > You need to also set qualify_recipient to either "localhost" or a name that > your machine recognizes as referring to itself. If qualify_recipient is not > set,

apt-get upgrade <=> potato?

2000-04-13 Thread w trillich
hi ("it's me again, margaret--i'll bring the weedwhacker, the rubber chicken and the peach preserves!"). if a debianist were to do a whole # apt-get update (with /etc/apt/sources.list indicating frozen) and then an entire # apt-get upgrade (iterating thru hell and back ironing out

Re: debian on newer kernel

2000-04-13 Thread John Kuhn
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 08:52:34PM +0200, Meinolf Sander wrote: > On Thu, Apr 13, 2000, Sunil Pandey wrote: > > I am trying to install debian 2.1r5(slink) on my comp. One > > question that I want to ask is.. is it possible to get debian for a > > newer version of kernel (say like

Re: debian on newer kernel

2000-04-13 Thread Meinolf Sander
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000, Sunil Pandey wrote: > I am trying to install debian 2.1r5(slink) on my comp. One > question that I want to ask is.. is it possible to get debian for a > newer version of kernel (say like kernel 2.2.1). You can run 2.1r5 with a e.g. 2.2.14 kernel without an

Re: paths (/usr/this, /usr/that)

2000-04-13 Thread kmself
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 02:36:35PM +0200, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Hi, > > On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, John Stevenson wrote: > > > /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lbin are the apps/libraries that are specific to > > one > > machine, i.e. an application that is installed but is not part of the debian >

Re: encrypted files system

2000-04-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 10:24:42 -0700, Michael O'Brien wrote: > I would like to have a portion of my filesystem encrypted. Probably the easiest way is to build a kernel with encrypted filesystem support using the 'kernel-patch-int' package available from non-US. If you only need to encrypt part

Re: cleaning lost+found on boot

2000-04-13 Thread kmself
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 06:02:55PM +, Jim Breton wrote: > Is there a real good reason for cleaning the files out of /lost+found on > bootup? > > In /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh: > > # Wipe /tmp (and don't erase `lost+found', `quota.user' or `quota.group')! > # Note that files _in_ lost+found _are_

Re: Success story: potato on Sparc Classic

2000-04-13 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 09:00:40AM +0200, BAUDIN Maxime wrote: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 05:08:24PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote: > > is that X doesn't work yet (I get a white screen, and the server says > > something about not being able to load PEX fonts), but I'll first check > > the mailing list arch

Re: JavaScript and JAVA

2000-04-13 Thread Angus Claydon
I can corroborate this too; Actually just now Netscape got further than last time in legitimately getting to my online bank account, even so far as accepting the verisign certificate needed for authentification. The documentation with the account doesn't list linux or any of the Unixes in system r

Re: php3-pgsql module not loading?

2000-04-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
Andrew Sullivan wrote: >Hi, > >I'm looking to see if anyone has php3-pgsql working against postgresql 7 >(from the unstable tree). I had it all working nicely under potato, but I >saw that postgresql 7 was out, and I _really_ need foreign keys. (A lack of ... >Does the module need to

Re: OT: perl/processes

2000-04-13 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 10:45:35AM -0400, Brian Clark wrote: > Would any of the perl users in this group know an easy way, with perl, to > check to see if a certain process is present? Say, httpd? > > I was going to parse the output of ps but that just seems stupid.. ---end quoted text--- It's O

encrypted files system

2000-04-13 Thread Michael O'Brien
Hola~ I would like to have a portion of my filesystem encrypted. I've got a laptop, and I'd like to protect a portion of the filesystem on the off chance someone steals my laptop. Essentially, I'd like to have a password required to access a dir and all subdirs. The dir contains code, so it's not

Re: sources of debian apps: is there a standard place?

2000-04-13 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 10:54:17AM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > Why do you want the source packages? For almost evry package you can find > a .deb, which is a lot esier then compiling. I'm a programmer. I compile for fun :-) I've already installed from .deb; I wanted to look at the source code f

Was WordPerfect Opinions?--Now FreeWWWeb

2000-04-13 Thread Robert Kerr
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > > Has anyone tried WordPerfect Office 2000? I have three days to > > decide or lose a $15 discount. I am using 8 download edition and > > am relatively happy, but it's obviously missing some useful > > features like templates and a manual. > > It

Re: HELP: proc mounts itself on /dev????(addition)

2000-04-13 Thread Bruno Boettcher
> /dev is destroyed on every reboot, and what may be found inside seem to be > parts of /proc, /proc beeing empty. thus the kernel stops booting > remaining this seems not true, i suspect that /proc is mounted on /dev since the same happens when i modify the content on /dev and make a hard res

debian on newer kernel

2000-04-13 Thread Sunil Pandey
I am trying to install debian 2.1r5(slink) on my comp. One question that I want to ask is.. is it possible to get debian for a newer version of kernel (say like kernel 2.2.1). -- Sunil Pandey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Doubt is a programmer's BEST enemy. pgpQo4utCet04.pgp Descript

Laptop PPP/Ethernet

2000-04-13 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I've installed potato on a laptop and want it to be able to have a PCMCIA Ethernet connection and be capable of a direct PPP connection (without a modem). During the installation, I configured PCMCIA and then the network parameters for the Ethernet interface. I included PPP when configuring the dri

HELP: proc mounts itself on /dev????

2000-04-13 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i have a machine that is in a strange state since i conjunctily upgraded to a 2.3.99-3 kernel and a second ethernet card /dev is destroyed on every reboot, and what may be found inside seem to be parts of /proc, /proc beeing empty. thus the kernel stops booting remaining in single

Re: WordPerfect Office 2000: Opinions?

2000-04-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 08:02:38AM -0700, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > >Yes, but it's faster than StarOffice. > > Excellent! On what sort of machine? Cyrix M2-300 wth 128 MB of RAM. Potato system, kernel 2.2.13. According to the WINE newsgroup, it isn't fully compatible with XFree86 4.0, so if

...diald.fifo -- can I use this...?

2000-04-13 Thread Jeff Gordon
When 'diald' runs, it creates /var/run/diald.fifo and diald.pid. The accompanying X monitoring/control program, 'dctrl', evidently gets its information by way of diald.fifo. Is there some way I can engage in conversation (or eavesdropping) with diald.fifo, so that I can see on a designated tty sc

Re: installation problem

2000-04-13 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Serena Peters wrote: > I have only the following error (ALT_F3) error in archive format ! > > What can I do ? How can I change the archive format ? Hmmm, that'll teach me to respond when I'm in a hurry, maybe. :/ Installing from a CD, but getting an error about a floppy, co

Re: ppp check.

2000-04-13 Thread Mike Thompson
Kent perhaps you want something like this # # ###/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/up-time-sh #!/bin/sh rdate -s timelord.uregina.ca #use your own timeserver echo -e "#\nOnline: `date`" >> /var/log//online echo -e "`date +%s%t`\c" >> /var/log//online #

Re: Gnome desktop

2000-04-13 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sandy Shapiro) writes: > I think I am already doing that, althought I may not have done it > correctly. I edited "Xsession" and added the lines: > fvwm2 & > exec /usr/bin/gnome-session > I also tried adding the line: > gmc & > but that didn't make any difference. > Did I leave s

Re: Gnome desktop

2000-04-13 Thread Felix Natter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sandy Shapiro) writes: > I installed Debian (slink) and the X Window system. My "manual" that came > with the CD, "Learning Debian Gnu/Linux" has a section on using GNOME. > > Most of the things they refer to are there, but two are missing: home > directory icon and File Manage

Re: generating changelog files

2000-04-13 Thread r3ck
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > I briefly looked at the man page for cvs-buildpackage and it does a lot > of stuff! The only thing is that I am not interested in building debian > packages but maybe in building source tarballs. Can cvs-buildpackage > build source tarballs and manage

Re: perl is bent (not broke; just bent)

2000-04-13 Thread Keith G. Murphy
w trillich wrote: > > install_driver(Pg) failed: Can't load > '/usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.so' for module > DBD::Pg: /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.so: > undefined symbol: Perl_markstack_ptr at > /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 169. >

Re: Dial In Server setup

2000-04-13 Thread Keith G. Murphy
"Denis J. Cirulis" wrote: > > Hello ! > > I'm running Debian 2.2 frozen and want to set up dial in server both for > shell logins and ppp. > > I've edited /etc/inittab and all the stuff in mgetty.conf , login.conf > When i'm dialing the server modem is answearing but nothing happens. > > Where

RE: paths (/usr/this, /usr/that)

2000-04-13 Thread Christian Pernegger
The (F)ilesystem (H)ierarchy (S)tandard tries to standardize the various paths and offers exhaustive explanations. It makes an interesting read, I think. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ Christian > -Original Message- > From: w trillich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2

Gnome/Enlightenment Setup.

2000-04-13 Thread Henry Kleynhans
Hi all, I'm pretty new to Debian, still used to Redhat's click and it's all installed method of doing things. Can someone please enlighten me on how to get Gnome and Enlightenment setup together ? Thanks in advance, Regards, Henry.

Re: lm-sensors: can't access /proc file

2000-04-13 Thread Marc Haber
On 04 Apr 2000 15:52:28 +0200, you wrote: >* "Marc" == Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I was missing sensors and w83781d. On the P5A, it now works. However, >> the temperature values are grossly off, reporting a "temp3" of 208.5 >> Centigrade... > >Same here. I think, temp3 is the connect

FontSet problem

2000-04-13 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, When I run gv, I got the following warning message. I think I am missing some package, but I don't know what it is. [23:46|pts/[EMAIL PROTECTED] % gv ass1_report.ps Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Unable to load any us

php3-pgsql module not loading?

2000-04-13 Thread Andrew Sullivan
Hi, I'm looking to see if anyone has php3-pgsql working against postgresql 7 (from the unstable tree). I had it all working nicely under potato, but I saw that postgresql 7 was out, and I _really_ need foreign keys. (A lack of referential contraints is what got the old database here in trouble.)

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2000-04-13 Thread Schroeder, Aaron
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Dialin using ppp and using ipx and ip protocol. cant get it to work.

2000-04-13 Thread Chris Gielen
Hi,   I want to use my linux box to provide a dailup and providing an ipx stack to talk to the novell resources on my local network.   IP works fine but having trouble with the ipx protion. I have ipxd running and configured the option file for the dialin port. I also compiled my kernel with

Re: WordPerfect Office 2000: Opinions?

2000-04-13 Thread Jonathan Markevich
> Has anyone tried WordPerfect Office 2000? I have three days to > decide or lose a $15 discount. I am using 8 download edition and > am relatively happy, but it's obviously missing some useful > features like templates and a manual. It's okay. Very buggy, but with more features, including some

OT: perl/processes

2000-04-13 Thread Brian Clark
Sorry for the extra mailbox trash.. Bone-headed question of the week: Would any of the perl users in this group know an easy way, with perl, to check to see if a certain process is present? Say, httpd? I was going to parse the output of ps but that just seems stupid.. Brian

Re: installation problem

2000-04-13 Thread Serena Peters
I have only the following error (ALT_F3) error in archive format ! What can I do ? How can I change the archive format ? Serena -Original Message- From: Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Serena Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org ; debian-testing@lists.debian.org

Re: postgresql 6.5.3 vs. debian

2000-04-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
w trillich wrote: >just like star wars, rebel fighters in the trench heading towards >the exhaust port: "almost there almost there" > >the "apt-get --reinstall" worked really well. > >now there's something weird with the initlocation script, probably >a setting i've got going

Re: postgresql 6.5.3 vs. debian--THE WINNER

2000-04-13 Thread w trillich
i was beginning to think it'd never get to this: _/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/

Segmentation Fault?

2000-04-13 Thread chris mc.
Hello. I'm a new user. Installed Debian 2.1r5 base and loaded XFree86 (unsure of version...I got the one from the "current" folder on freesoftware.com). Whenever I try to run X, or SuperProbe, or any other item in the /usr/X11R6/bin folder, I get a Sementation Fault error. What am I doing wrong?

Re: newbie question.

2000-04-13 Thread Sunil Pandey
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 01:45:00PM +0200, Robert Varga wrote: | | Have you compiled a new kernel or you are using the kernel provided with | the installation? If you are using the kernel with the installation, then | put a line containing rtl8139 into /etc/modules.conf. | Also make sure that the t

Re: postgresql 6.5.3 vs. debian

2000-04-13 Thread w trillich
just like star wars, rebel fighters in the trench heading towards the exhaust port: "almost there almost there" the "apt-get --reinstall" worked really well. now there's something weird with the initlocation script, probably a setting i've got going someplace. as the initlocation script

Re: Potato Installation Bug ?

2000-04-13 Thread tristan misseri
Hello, I also got the same problem does any one knows how to do? - Original Message - From: "Damon Muller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 3:13 PM Subject: Re: Potato Installation Bug ?

Re: Potato Installation Bug ?

2000-04-13 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Maurizio Mollicone, > I've got the same problem, I've tried with tons of new floppies, so > I cannot create a boot floppy... I'll second (or third, or whatever) that. It successfully formats the floppy, but as soon as it goes to create the boot floppy, it fails. This is consistent accros

ATI RAGEIIC AGP -X won't

2000-04-13 Thread Vitux
What a lot of cap's -sorry folks. I've set the damn thing up w/ both xf86config & XF86Setup, all to no avail, the Mach64-server refuses to work properly. On startx, I get loads of errors, all amounting to insufficient ram. X aborts with "no modelines available". So I take a look at it in vi, and it

Re: Help Reproduce a Bash Bug

2000-04-13 Thread Kirk Hilliard
I asked: > Please help us reproduce an elusive bash bug. Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied: > ask them if they are using kernel 2.3.99 (or maybe some earlier 2.3.* > kernel) there has been some notes about this on the kernel > list. apparently the kernel has a bug or `feature' where it ret

Re: postgresql 6.5.3 vs. debian

2000-04-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
w trillich wrote: >Oliver Elphick wrote: >> Aha; have you installed postgresql-client? I split the package, >> because it is possible to have the front-end on a different machine >> from the backend. However, postgresql ought to depend on >> postgresql-client. > >that sure looks p

Re: WordPerfect Office 2000 - Opinions?

2000-04-13 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Apr 13, Carl Fink scribbled: [snip] > > Or am I better off getting the commercial version of 8? > > Do you need a spreadsheet? A presentation program? Just a quick question - any luck with using non ISO-8859-1 fonts/keyboards with WP9?? I never succeeded installing ISO-8859-2 or whatever o

Re: paths (/usr/this, /usr/that)

2000-04-13 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, John Stevenson wrote: > /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lbin are the apps/libraries that are specific to one > machine, i.e. an application that is installed but is not part of the debian > distribution What about /opt? Regards, Kerstin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: postgresql 6.5.3 vs. debian

2000-04-13 Thread w trillich
Oliver Elphick wrote: > > w trillich wrote: > >that's somewhere else entirely! eureka! > > > > > ls -F1 /usr/lib/postgresql/bin > > cleardbdir* > > createlang* > > destroylang* > > do.maintenance* > > initdb* > > initlocation* > > ipcclean* > >

Re: Partitioning

2000-04-13 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Oswald Buddenhagen, > remark: kernel 2.4 will support ntfs write access (even though still > experimental, i think). so you would not need a "share partition" I'm by no means a kernel hacker, but I try to read Kernel Traffic pretty regularly. My impression was that NTFS support is currentl

RE: newbie question.

2000-04-13 Thread Robert Varga
Oops, my error there, of course it should be /etc/modules. Robert Varga On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: > Shouldn't modules be loaded via /etc/modules (or modconf, for that matter) in > Debian? > > My modules.conf says "do not modify" > > Christian > > > -Original Message

Re: paths (/usr/this, /usr/that)

2000-04-13 Thread John Stevenson
A very simplistic (and rough) answer would be: /lib /bin are to do with the real core of unix/linux, like the kernel modules live in /lib/modules /usr/lib /usr/bin are the applications/libraries that run on top of the core unix/linux, things that the users make use of, hence '/usr' /usr/local/

RE: newbie question.

2000-04-13 Thread Christian Pernegger
Shouldn't modules be loaded via /etc/modules (or modconf, for that matter) in Debian? My modules.conf says "do not modify" Christian > -Original Message- > From: Robert Varga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 1:45 PM > To: Sunil Pandey > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; De

Re: newbie question.

2000-04-13 Thread Robert Varga
Have you compiled a new kernel or you are using the kernel provided with the installation? If you are using the kernel with the installation, then put a line containing rtl8139 into /etc/modules.conf. Also make sure that the the rtl8139.o file can be found in the appropriate directory under /lib/m

Re: newbie question.

2000-04-13 Thread Sunil Pandey
okay, I am sorry for having provided incomplete details.. I am using Debian 2.1r5 (downloaded only yesterday) on my pentium III machine with realtek RTL8139 ethernet card. I had installed from floppy earlier.. but probably botched up a few things so decided to inst

Re: Help Reproduce a Bash Bug

2000-04-13 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 01:25:36AM -0400, Kirk Hilliard wrote: > Debian users, > > Please help us reproduce an elusive bash bug. > > Bug#62154 reports that Bash gives a "Permission denied" error when it > should complain "No such file or directory", but neither the Bash > maintainer nor I can rep

Re: paths (/usr/this, /usr/that)

2000-04-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
w trillich wrote: >my 2.1 cd installed a great deal of stuff under /usr/doc, >and the new potato (i.e. 'apt-get upgrade', with >/etc/apt/sources.list pointing to 'frozen') puts bunches >of stuff in /usr/share/doc. > >what's the functional or intellectual distinction: > /lib >

Re: Potato Installation Bug ?

2000-04-13 Thread Maurizio Mollicone
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 09:48:24AM -0800, Shane wrote: > Hi, > I am installing the Debian 2.2 over the network. > Each time I select "Make a Boot Floppy" it > fails with "Creation of a boot floppy failed..." > I have tested this on two different machines and > several floppy diskettes. This use

perl is bent (not broke; just bent)

2000-04-13 Thread w trillich
install_driver(Pg) failed: Can't load '/usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.so' for module DBD::Pg: /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.so: undefined symbol: Perl_markstack_ptr at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 169. this is just after a clean

RE: OT(sort of): hwclock w/ Compaq, playing ".ram"'s

2000-04-13 Thread Ron Rademaker
There is a debian package with a realplayer installation script (or something like that), I tried it once and it worked fine... Ron Rademaker On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > > Of Vitux >

Re: paths (/usr/this, /usr/that)

2000-04-13 Thread Vitux
w trillich wrote: > > my 2.1 cd installed a great deal of stuff under /usr/doc, > and the new potato (i.e. 'apt-get upgrade', with > /etc/apt/sources.list pointing to 'frozen') puts bunches > of stuff in /usr/share/doc. > > what's the functional or intellectual distinction: > /lib >

Re: hwclock w/ Compaq, playing ".ram"'s

2000-04-13 Thread Vitux
Lee Elliott wrote: > > Hello Vitux, > > On 12-Apr-00, you wrote: > > V> Hi There. > V> I can't seem to get the cmos clock set doing: > V> hwclock --set --date="foo/bar..." > V> I figure maybe my compaq mobo has some strangeness in it's > V> CMOS?? It's a EP 6350, PII/350, using (AFAIK) a proprie

majordom

2000-04-13 Thread webmaster
Hello, I have Debian Linux 2.0 witth Sendmail. I want to install majoromo. Know anyone how to install it quickly? What are the steps more important to do? The manual is obsoleted., where I can obtain other recently manual? Un saludo desde Madrid a todos los Debianeros.

paths (/usr/this, /usr/that)

2000-04-13 Thread w trillich
my 2.1 cd installed a great deal of stuff under /usr/doc, and the new potato (i.e. 'apt-get upgrade', with /etc/apt/sources.list pointing to 'frozen') puts bunches of stuff in /usr/share/doc. what's the functional or intellectual distinction: /lib /usr/lib /usr/local/lib

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