> "Richard" == Richard Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, I'm using the out of the box VALinix/SGI/Gnu Debian at work,
> I installed X and it will not work with the logitech mouse, you
> have to play with gpm and X and get the right combination, I
> installed it at home a
Ian Zimmerman writes:
> Whoever is responsible for update-alternatives in Debian, please consider
> merging this into the official version.
That would be Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : update-alternatives
is part of the dpkg package. The way to get him to consider your patch is
to file a
On Sunday, 16 April 2000 at 03:05, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote:
> I'm trying to use courier-imapd with SSL and mutt, but they don't
> seem to get along very well. Sometimes, mutt displays no subject,
> no author, and a 0 message size. Other times, it displays the
> information from the wrong message.
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 12:35:55PM -0400, Paul McHale wrote:
>
> 3. The only additions is virtual hosts. If you use them, make sure to
> replace all occurrences of:
>
> AllowOverride X with
> AllowOverride All
Of course, this means you can't control the Options directive anymore...
Things lik
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 11:47:13AM +, Steve White wrote:
>
> I have been trying most of the morning to obtain the KDE distribution
> from ftp.linuxberg.com and have thus far been unsuccessful. I am using
> apt in dselect and cannot seem to find the right combination of strings
> to enter so tha
After convincing myself by a browse of the perl code that none of the
existing options to update-alternatives will make it do what I want, I
wrote the following. Whoever is responsible for update-alternatives
in Debian, please consider merging this into the official version.
begin 755 sane-update
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 03:29:57PM +0200, Vitux wrote:
> Johann Spies wrote:
>
> > Is it worth while to download 12 meg of files to upgrade to Netscape
> > 4.7.2 on a dialup-connection?
> > --
> I have pretty good experiences w/ 4.72. It's almost stable.
> Some (few) websites will cause it to cras
Is there a tool available that can do a site to site ftp? I need to
transfer a few files from one ftp site (via anonymous ftp) to another
site (via user ftp). Unfortunately the destination site does not allow
users to ftp out, but you can ftp in. So basically I am looking for a
tool like flashfxp
Mike Werner wrote:
>
> On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 08:13:26PM -, Pollywog wrote:
> > What exactly is vaporware?
>
> >From the Jargon File:
>
> :vaporware: /vay'pr-weir/ /n./ Products announced far in
>advance of any release (which may or may not actually take place).
>See also {brochure
Kofa writes:
> What mail and news software do you recommend?
Gnus has all the features you list.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 08:13:26PM -, Pollywog wrote:
> What exactly is vaporware?
>From the Jargon File:
:vaporware: /vay'pr-weir/ /n./ Products announced far in
advance of any release (which may or may not actually take place).
See also {brochureware}.
:brochureware: /n./ Planned
What exactly is vaporware?
--
Andrew
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 08:14:02AM +0200, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote
>
> Hi!
>
> I've gotten in trouble again, bragging about how good Debian is and that I
> write all my reports in Latex. Well now I might gone under. I'm supposed
> to produce a booklet i A6 (folded A5) with students songs.
> I hav
montefin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I planned to watch this thread because
>
> a.) I want to install Netscape 6 this weekend too. Though I have
> libstdc++2 libs, if it really wants ++1.6* libs I'd like to know where
> to d/l them, and...
I'm not sure if you can run Netscape 6 with slink becau
Tony, et al,
I just went through problems with the CD-ROM during install myself. I was
trying to install the Debian O'Reilly\SGI\VA Linux distribution. The boot
kernel didn't recognize my SCSI CD-ROM. I was afraid I was going to have to
make lots of floppies to install the base system. Install
Hello!
What mail and news software do you recommend?
The ideal software would be able to handle both mail and news in an
integrated manner, place incoming and outgoing messages into folders
automatically using header info, integrate with PGP/GPG, handle UU/MIME
attachments, thread messages, fetch
Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How about downloading base2_1.tgz (or base2_2.tgz if you want to go
> straight to frozen) and untarring that into the new partition before
> chrooting into it?
In case anyone was following this thread, here are a couple of gotchas
that I ran into:
1. I couldn't
Going through the install process with Debian 2.1r4 on two new cdroms, I
get as far as Install the Base System. Some error develops while
extracting base2_1.tgz from the cd and I have so far found no way around
it. I've been looking forward to trying Debian so I hope there's an easy
fix for this
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I ran into same problem last night during up update. Running potato now
>and so I figured I would update a few times a week. Last night, it was
>KDE for me. one screen then back to dependency back and fourth.
>Finally, I used the "Q" to force it and it worked. Don't know m
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Zimmerman) wrote:
>When I run dselect last night, there was a bunch of important packages
>that had been upgraded. One of them was perl-5.005-doc.
>
>I accepted all the suggestions, but when I was ready to exit selection
>mode and start downloading, I was thrown into a confl
Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Maury R. Merkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> [How] can I get a listing of the files installed with a package?
>>
>> I.e., if package dork.deb was installed on my box last week, can I see
>> what files were installed? If so, how?
>
>You might be inter
"Paul McHale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>If you are interested in implementing Frontpage server extensions with
>apache, it isn't that bad. Here are a few pointers:
>
>1. Don't use apt-get. Download the source and compile yourself. This puts
>apache in /usr/local where most documentation I have
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> is there a way to match a pattern over more then one line in vi (i normally
> use vim)?
>
> i'm html formatting text documents and what i'd like to do is replace
> something like the below paragraphs:
> ___
Ron Stordahl wrote:
> Of the choices these 2 make sense:
>
> 4 PS/2 Mouse
> 9 Microsoft IntelliMouse
>
> Actually it is both, but that's not a valid choice. By choosing 9 will I be
> selecting a serial port rather than a PS/2 port?
Try installing the PS/2 mouse. Then manually edit
/etc/X11/
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Brad wrote:
> Aren't these being phased out in favor of http://incoming.debian.org?
>
Yes, you're right they are.
--
Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi all,
If you are interested in implementing Frontpage server extensions with
apache, it isn't that bad. Here are a few pointers:
1. Don't use apt-get. Download the source and compile yourself. This puts
apache in /usr/local where most documentation I have found expects it to be.
I am not sur
Thanks.
--- John Bagdanoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 06:28:55AM -0700, Eric
> Hagglund wrote:
> > I would like to upgrade to the frozen release 2.2
> from
> > the "official" 2.1 Where can I find the
> information
> > for doing this? I've looked on Debian's
> documentatio
man MAKEDEV
...
DESCRIPTION
MAKEDEV is a script that will create the devices in /dev
used to interface with drivers in the kernel.
...
hth,
&rw
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000 11:57:30 EDT, "Rob Lilley" writes:
>I've installed the "base" and standard" slink distributions, configured them
>an
> How then do I force apt to look at the Packages.gz file and download the
> appropriate .deb files knowing where on an ftp site these files reside?
> (It seems to me that apt is assuming a very specific underlying
> directory structure and I cannot figure out how to circumvent this
> assumption).
I've installed the "base" and standard" slink distributions, configured them
and then went to do a tar archive to my Seagate 4mm SCSI tape drive. Bless
me, there is no /dev/st0 to do this to. Are they not supported? Do I have
to add another package or rebuild the kernel to get this driver?
Rob
Greetings,
I have been trying most of the morning to obtain the KDE distribution
from ftp.linuxberg.com and have thus far been unsuccessful. I am using
apt in dselect and cannot seem to find the right combination of strings
to enter so that it can find the package file.
When prompted, I am provid
Hi Maury!
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Maury R. Merkin wrote:
> I finally (okay I'm slow but ...) figured out that the only apps which
> update-menus will find are those which have been installed using *.deb
> packages system. ('apt-get install' or 'dpkg -i' or however.)
>
> But I have several importan
I finally (okay I'm slow but ...) figured out that the only apps which
update-menus will find are those which have been installed using *.deb
packages system. ('apt-get install' or 'dpkg -i' or however.)
But I have several important (to me) apps which I've accumulated over
time in /usr/local/bin
"Maury R. Merkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [How] can I get a listing of the files installed with a package?
>
> I.e., if package dork.deb was installed on my box last week, can I see
> what files were installed? If so, how?
You might be interested to know that:
If you install an app with ap
A common cause of this problem is that the floppy drive may
be of the newer ATAPI type common to newer laptops
especially, as constrasted to the older /dev/fd0 floppy
type. The install kernels come with ide-floppy support
needed for ATAPI compiled in, but the kernel installed has
ide-floppy servi
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 09:58, Maury R. Merkin wrote:
> [How] can I get a listing of the files installed with a package?
>
> I.e., if package dork.deb was installed on my box last week, can I see
> what files were installed? If so, how?
cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/dork.list
^^
Try with a better and larger cpufan.
My K6-2 400 was so hot that Linux crached all the time.
Nearly all those who sells computer with K6-2 and K6 use a to small
cpufan.
Sad but true..
Once upon a time someone wrote:
> Are you sure the K6 hasn't been over clocked by some bastard salesman ?
>
>
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 09:58:38AM -0400, Maury R. Merkin wrote:
> [How] can I get a listing of the files installed with a package?
>
> I.e., if package dork.deb was installed on my box last week, can I see
> what files were installed? If so, how?
dpkg -L packagename
--
Ethan Benson
http://www
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 05:43:10AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> if you go with *nix you should also check out the book "Practical Guide
> to Unix and internet security" (or very close to that, sorry don't
> have it handy at the moment) it does a good job pointing out
> historical mistakes and wha
** On Apr 28, Brad scribbled:
> > > i merely think i have a screwy setting here or there that's
> > > needlessly duplicating log messages. settings are the bane of
> > > my linux existence, still...
> > Now, stop right here for a while. syslog isn't Linux - it's a common
> > software, created qui
[How] can I get a listing of the files installed with a package?
I.e., if package dork.deb was installed on my box last week, can I see
what files were installed? If so, how?
Tia,
Maury
Hello,
I run debian GNU/Linux (slink, kernel 2.0.36) under console mode (it's an
older system) and am having problems with virtual consoles. I have logins
on the first two consoles and then spawn additional consoles (with the
`open' command) when I need them.
A few days ago I opened up console 3
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 06:28:55AM -0700, Eric Hagglund wrote:
> I would like to upgrade to the frozen release 2.2 from
> the "official" 2.1 Where can I find the information
> for doing this? I've looked on Debian's documentation
> as well as in the Faq-O-Matic and found nothing.
>
Use apt-get, he
I would like to upgrade to the frozen release 2.2 from
the "official" 2.1 Where can I find the information
for doing this? I've looked on Debian's documentation
as well as in the Faq-O-Matic and found nothing.
__
Do You Yahoo!?
Talk to your friends o
Johann Spies wrote:
> Any help would be welcome.
>
> Is it worth while to download 12 meg of files to upgrade to Netscape
> 4.7.2 on a dialup-connection?
>
> Johann
> --
I have pretty good experiences w/ 4.72. It's almost stable.
Some (few) websites will cause it to crash, saying "bus
error", (s
I had success with the linux version of RealPlayer. Still, I had to setup
netscape to use it for streaming. There was a url that I bumped into on my
searches through deja.com that had step by step instructions to setup the
netscape plugin.
Maybe someone here has the url?
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000
On 04/29/00, Nils-Erik Svangård addressed "Creating booklets with Latex":
> I've gotten in trouble again, bragging about how good Debian is and that I
> write all my reports in Latex. Well now I might gone under. I'm supposed
> to produce a booklet i A6 (folded A5) with students songs.
> I have rea
Johann Spies wrote:
> I am trying to download mp3-files from the internet, but netscape
> (4.7.1) quits when I try to do that. Although Netscape reports that it
> has the plug-ins to play streaming mp3-files, it also refuses to do that.
>
> Is there any cure to do this?
>
> I have also tried a b
Hi Nils-Erik. i am attaching instructions written by me for myself to work in
windows
environment using MikTeX (based on Tetex) , ghostscript and psutilities (which
we also
have in Linux). It uses usletter paper size, but should be easily adaptable if
you
follow the main ideas, which are well ex
> can't find "nls-iso-"
> can't find "someother module"
>
> i can't remember the specific ones, but they are only there when the windows
> partition is mounted at boot. can someone tell me what's up? thanks. jerry
>
the question is, whether you compiled an own kernel and removed the old
m
I am trying to download mp3-files from the internet, but netscape
(4.7.1) quits when I try to do that. Although Netscape reports that it
has the plug-ins to play streaming mp3-files, it also refuses to do that.
Is there any cure to do this?
I have also tried a beta version of opera, but without
Hi everybody,
this mail doesn't contain questions, is only to thank all of you which,
with their questions and answers, made possible for me to install and
maintain with very few (I repeat, very few) pain my debian machine.
It's been almost one year now, and I couldn't be more satisfied. I am
neit
The K6 says it's 533, it runs on 520, so I don't think that can be a
problem, or am I mistaken?
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, C. Falconer wrote:
> Are you sure the K6 hasn't been over clocked by some bastard salesman ?
>
> --
> From: Ron Rademaker[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Mo
i have an old windows partition that i have set to be mounted upon boot in
/etc/fstab...
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat defaults 0 2
as the partition is mounted, it hangs there for a bit, and just before that, i
get an odd error message.
can't find "nls-iso-"
can't find "someother module"
i c
Once upon a time, I heard Nils-Erik Svangๅrd say
>
> Hi!
>
> I've gotten in trouble again, bragging about how good Debian is and that I
> write all my reports in Latex. Well now I might gone under. I'm supposed
> to produce a booklet i A6 (folded A5) with students songs.
> I have read some docs
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 01:21:15AM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
>
> incoming = when packages are uploaded to the Debian archive they first go
> to the incoming directory on master.debian.org . This is off-limits to
> non-developers but there are public mirrors. A list of these can be
> found a
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Vitux wrote:
> I have a non-critical machine for testing, but you don't tell
> where to get your new debs from?
> Regards
> Vitux
I did say, it just didn't make any sense to you :-)
incoming = when packages are uploaded to the Debian archive they first go
to the incoming dir
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> i'm not an expert in these things, but i would send the changes to the
> upstream maintainers from aureal.
Are there any upstream maintainers? I've heard stuff about them
abandoning Linux development and possibly going out of business
altogether.
Hi!
I've gotten in trouble again, bragging about how good Debian is and that I
write all my reports in Latex. Well now I might gone under. I'm supposed
to produce a booklet i A6 (folded A5) with students songs.
I have read some docs on the web, it seems I can create a booklet by using
either lpr
The debain-user list appears to have been dropped from your reply, I've
added it again.
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 10:22:30PM -0500, Ron Stordahl wrote:
> I guess its XF86Setup, it runs automatically during the install process.
>
> In any case I am not getting any success with the mouse. Right aft
Vitux wrote:
>
> Richard Ingram wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using the out of the box VALinix/SGI/Gnu Debian at work, I installed X
> > and it will not work with the logitech mouse, you have to play with gpm and
> > X and get the right combination, I installed it at home about 3mnths ago and
> >
Add "ZAxisMapping 4 5" (without the quotes) to the "Pointer" section.
* Corey Popelier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [29-04-2000 12:29 PM +0800]
> My Intellimouse (PS/2) is on /dev/psaux.
> Haven't got the scroll bit working in X yet though, I recall this is some
> setting regarding the Z axis, but I haven
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 02:59:11AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> Matthew Quigley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Where can I find an archive to debian-user?
>
> Linked straight off the Debian home page,
> http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ has archives of all the Debian
> mailing lists.
just be s
I used to have a PS/2 Microsoft Intellimouse and it never work with the
Intellimouse protocol, only PS/2. Of course, YMMV.
* kmself@ix.netcom.com [28-04-2000 04:37 PM -0700]
> The PS/2 setting should work with both types. An IntelliMouse will be
> somewhat more functional if used with teh Inte
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 04:30:21PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 06:49:02PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 09:21:43AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote:
> >
> > > BTW, does anyone use MD5 for /etc/shadow? I'd like to use it, but how do
> > > "migrate" from
There's a pretty good walk-thru ("newbieized help file") on configuring Samba
at:
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/network/samba/samba1.html
Give it a try.
* w trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [27-04-2000 06:12 AM -0500]
> i did the religious
> apt-get install samba
> and then
> ap
Chris Baker wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for good free (as in speech) 3d modeling tools.
>
> Any and all suggestions are welcome.
>
> TIA,
Don't know how good it is, but Moonlight Creator is on the Debian disk.
John
--
Powered by the Penguin
My Intellimouse (PS/2) is on /dev/psaux.
Haven't got the scroll bit working in X yet though, I recall this is some
setting regarding the Z axis, but I haven't played with it.
Cheers,
Corey Popelier
http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas
Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Ron
Hello,
I'm looking for good free (as in speech) 3d modeling tools.
Any and all suggestions are welcome.
TIA,
cbb
I have been unsuccessful in getting my Microsoft IntelliMous 1.1A PS/2
working.
Where I believe I am stuck is is not providing the correct device name. I
am using XF86Setup and I have selected the IntelliMouse, then I am asked for
the device in the form /dev/??, but I have no idea what to ent
Also, What, exactly, did you upgrade? What type of motherboard did you have
before? now? This is definately a HW issue, so we'll need details on the
system.
Bryan
On 29-Apr-2000 C. Falconer wrote:
> Are you sure the K6 hasn't been over clocked by some bastard salesman ?
> How do I solve a Ge
Are you sure the K6 hasn't been over clocked by some bastard salesman ?
--
From: Ron Rademaker[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 24 April 2000 5:57 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:General Protection Fault
How do I solve a General Protection Fault (Oops = 000
>When selecting the device driver module for lp (line
>printer) in potato
>I
>get this error:
>
>/lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: init_module: Device or
>resource busy
>/lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: insmod
>/lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o
>failed
>/lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: insmod lp failed.
>
John Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It would be great if the latest version of lilo could be droped into
>the potato boot flopies,
There's a thread on debian-devel about this. There doesn't seem to be
much opposition to the idea, so if the release manager agrees I guess
it'll make it in.
>
Matthew Quigley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Where can I find an archive to debian-user?
Linked straight off the Debian home page,
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ has archives of all the Debian
mailing lists.
--
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Earlier this week there was a discussion of trying to get an S3
graphics card to work with XFree86 and getting only black screens
after startx.
I had reported that some people said that S3 cards and LX motherboards
didn't mix. I had given up on this combination, though I didn't
understand why this
Where can I find an archive to debian-user?
Thanks
Matt
Hello Ian,
I ran into same problem last night during up update. Running potato now
and so I figured I would update a few times a week. Last night, it was
KDE for me. one screen then back to dependency back and fourth.
Finally, I used the "Q" to force it and it worked. Don't know much about
dsel
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, w trillich wrote:
> so if telnet is relatively secure, how about ftp? which server
> do y'all'uns recommend for best security?
replace telnet with secure telnet ( many flavors .. say ssh )
use sftp(client) and sftpd(daemon) for secure ftp xfers
c ya
alvin
Hi,
I'm using the out of the box VALinix/SGI/Gnu Debian at work, I installed X
and it will not work with the logitech mouse, you have to play with gpm and
X and get the right combination, I installed it at home about 3mnths ago and
got my Logitech trackball working OK. Trouble is I have forgoten w
Hello
I tried fetching mail using fetchmail in conjunction with SSH. My setup is as
follows: (replaced original FQDN)
poll mailhost.net via localhost port 1234 with proto pop3:
preconnect "ssh -f -L 1234:mailhost.net:110 mailhost.net sleep 20
/dev/null";
This corresponds to the what th
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