Console display - font & line sizes

hi all Does anyone know how to set the number of characters per line & number of lines per screen for the console?? thanks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph

Re: ran out of input data

> Andrew Martin wrote: > > I am trying, to no avail, to install Debian 2.2 thru Windows. I > haven't been able to get my CD drive to work since it is not a > conventional IDE drive. It attaches to its own sound card. > Anyhow > > 1: I have defrag'ed the drive > 2: I turned off the virtual m

Re: Routing Problem

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 11:04:27AM +0100, Sian Leitch wrote > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 02:27:47AM +0930, John Pearson wrote: > > > > I'd check your ipchains/ipfwadm rules. > > > > If you're running kernel 2.0.x, what does the output of > > # ipfwadm -I -l -e > > # ipfwadm -O -l -e > > # ipfwadm -F

ran out of input data

I am trying, to no avail, to install Debian 2.2 thru Windows.  I haven't been able to get my CD drive to work since it is not a conventional IDE drive.  It attaches to its own sound card.  Anyhow   1: I have defrag'ed the drive 2: I turned off the virtual memory in win 95 3: I fips to sp

I need driver Relisys Avec easy 3

Do I have a scanner Relisys Avec easy 3, but did I lose the controller (driver) and cannot I install it, How could it get it?

I need driver Relisys Avec easy 3

  Do I have a scanner Relisys Avec easy 3, but did I lose the controller (driver) and cannot I install it, How could it get it?  Thanks

printing with SLRN

I configured printing in my 2.2 potato version using redhat's printtool. Everything prints fine, messages print from mutt without error, but when I try to print using slrn, I get an error: Printing article...sh: lp: command not found Printer process returned error code 127 I've looked through the

RE: Debian Linux on Sun UltraSparc IIi

hi Where did you fail in the boot process? ie. did the Sun access the floppy and spit out an error message, or did it simply say something like "can't find boot image" off the HDD? Andrew -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Wilson Yau Sent: M

Re: can't ftp through IP Masq

I've got IP Masq compiled into the kernel, but I don't remember a selection for that in the kernel config. What was that? Also, I've tried both passive and non-passive in the clients (both mac and windows). >At 19:28 2000/08/14 -0500, you wrote: >>I am not able to ftp from my private network, thr

Re: can't ftp through IP Masq

At 19:28 2000/08/14 -0500, you wrote: I am not able to ftp from my private network, through IP Masqerading. I now have Debian 2.2, and I had Debian 2.1 before. As far as I can tell, I have set up IP Masq the same way as I did before. You need the ip_masq_ftp.o module installed, OR you need to

Problem with upgrade and xterm

OK, I had a working Debian slink system that allowed 2 Sun Xterminals to work off of it. I had a problem with my hd so I rebuilt the system from scratch not knowing what has been damaged (yes I am running with no backups). Since the Potato reliese is close to done, I desided to take this time and

Re: still unable to get kernel source

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 02:27:26PM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:21:43PM -0500, John Reinke wrote: > > > > Dumb question: should all the documentation within > > /usr/share/doc/kernel-package be .gz files? Is there an easier way to view > > all the documenation here w

apologies if this is rtfm

apologies if this is rtfm if it is can someone please tell me *which* FM i should be RT'ing is there an easy way to bring a stormix box over to full debian? i know there is a howto on doing this with corel... last time i tried simply changing the sources.list and things got ugly but that might

can't ftp through IP Masq

I am not able to ftp from my private network, through IP Masqerading. I now have Debian 2.2, and I had Debian 2.1 before. As far as I can tell, I have set up IP Masq the same way as I did before. Before, I could use ftp clients on any machine in my local network to access anything outside my netwo

Re: Routing Problem

On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 02:27:47AM +0930, John Pearson wrote: > > I'd check your ipchains/ipfwadm rules. > > If you're running kernel 2.0.x, what does the output of > # ipfwadm -I -l -e > # ipfwadm -O -l -e > # ipfwadm -F -l -e > > look like? > > If you're running kernel 2.2.x, what does the ou

using outgoing smtp server with mh (where's the fm? :)

There's probably an easy, stock answer for this, but I'm not finding it. To keep the network folks happy, this machine needs to be incapable of sending mail on its own. I've reconfigured exim to deliver locally only, but I can't find what I need to do to have mail from mh sent to my outgoing smtp

Re: apt-get help

Did you try: apt-get -f install, as it says?? It looks like you got exim installed, exim depends on some stuff and this is giving trouble... Ron Rademaker On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Ted Roden wrote: > this is a pretty dumb question, but its driving me > crazy... > > I'm trying to install software wi

Re: Arghh! Can't compile the kernel!

Subject: Arghh! Can't compile the kernel! Date: Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 10:43:30AM -0700 In reply to:Karl Matheson Quoting Karl Matheson([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Alright, > > I finally got Slink installed and running on my new computer, but I need > more help. When I try to compile

apt-get help

this is a pretty dumb question, but its driving me crazy... I'm trying to install software with apt-get and i'm getting errors for packages I didn't try to install. Not the dependancies of the package i want, but a totally unrelated package... ie: $ apt-get install lynx Reading Page lists... Don

need to constantly force-reload networking

I have just turned off telnet, wu-ftpd, and apache. I now lose my router rapidly--loading some pages does it, apt-getupdate does it, some webpages do it. My connection was stable for weeks before this. I've tried to go to the search at www.debian.org, but it is one of the pages that seems to kill

Re: [Quake-user] Re: IO permission problem

On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 12:42:20AM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote: > No it's not, it's a defect in the way gpm hands the mouse to svgalib. ie, > it doesn't unless svgalib goes into graphics mode. Mercury oughtta fix > that with another hack.. =p Put svgalib into some pathetic VGA mode and > it wil

Re: Proxy servers in Linux

Specifically, I need to access Oracle on a machine that is only accessible through a web server. The web server has two network cards, one is for the net, the other connects to the Oracle server through a switch. The Oracle server and the second NIC are on a private local network (through 198.162

Re: Dual-Boot Win2K & Debian

Its my experience that you cannot use lilo per se with the win2k and debian combo. What I do is have the triple boot of debian, windows ME and windows 2000. I use the dd utility to get an image of the bootsector. I then add the entry of the linux sector to the boot.ini file for nt5. Windo

Re: stymied by Deb, went FreeBSD instead

i have 13gb hd and have installed FreeBSD, Mandrake, and SuSE...but the best for me is Debian/Stormix. I use Partion Magig to create the linux ext2 and swap. Then go to Stormix.com and d/l the newest iso named hail. Its really Debian potato with 2.16 kernel and helix-gnome for re

RE: LILO & Kernel Image too big --> make-kpkg

I've successfully accomplished what I needed, but I ended up doing everything as root. I use xconfig, and that wouldn't work unless I logged into X as root. So: a) How "bad" is it doing everything as root? b) How/where is this done that files can be created and xconfig run without being root? I'v

Re: procmail - filtering already received mails

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 03:54:22PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > for i in `ls`; do > > > echo -n "$i: "; > > > procmail < $i && rm $i; > > > echo "done."; > > > done > > > > I still don't understand what was going on, but with this one i

Re: Proxy servers in Linux

The question is a bit vague, but I would suggest looking at rinetd. On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Kelly Corbin wrote: > Any one know how to set up a proxy server for a particular port in > Debian? Couldn't find any info in the archives. Any help would be > appreciated. > > Thanks! > > > Kelly Corbin

Re: 2.2.12 potato and extern controller Promise ATA 66 ultra

Patches can be obtained from the IDE Linux project at: http://www.linux-ide.org/ or http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ I have use the patches here and everything works flawlessly. Kelly Mark Walter wrote: > > It's about the ext controller from Promise ( ATA 66 ultra ). >

Proxy servers in Linux

Any one know how to set up a proxy server for a particular port in Debian? Couldn't find any info in the archives. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Kelly Corbin -- -- Kelly Corbin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- On the web @ http://www.theiqgrou

2.2.12 potato and extern controller Promise ATA 66 ultra

It's about the ext controller from Promise ( ATA 66 ultra ). My Kernel doesn't seem to recognize it. As I'am trying to change my Server from SuSE to Debian and therefore the $HOME-Directory is needed. Is there a patch available or do I need to download a new kernel ? cu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

netatalk nits

Hi, I installed netatalk on a potato system (which is also a Samba server). When I try to copy a folder from a share to a Mac, the folder itself is created OK but for every file foo in the folder the Mac displays the following message: The file "foo" couldn't be read, because it is in use. Do yo

Re: Older hardware running newer software (was: Re: Installing Debian on 486)

Hi! I'm also a 386etc. fan and I can tell you that in fact many stores still sell 4MB simm (=30pin) modules (at least here in Germany), so that quite every old machine (if it has four or eight slots) can be upgraded to 16 or 32 MB of RAM. Sometimes you can also get these modules for a very cheap p

Re: installation problem

Is there an error?? My guess is that 60 meg is just not enough... Switch to another tty (ALT+F2) and type df, to see how much free space is left. Ron Rademaker On Mon, 14 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear sirs: > > I bought the Debian installation book by Thomas Down with the CD and fol

Re: filtering spam with procmail

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 14 Aug 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: > :0: > * !^TO.*sandia.gov > * !^TO.*glhenni > * !^TO.*[hH]ennigan > * !^TO.*[Gg]ary > Spam.spool Thanks, Gary, that is *exactly* what I was looking for! Yay! noah ___

Re: 2.2 Cds

Also try [EMAIL PROTECTED] May be has a better price - Original Message - From: Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 4:11 PM Subject: Re: 2.2 Cds > I am going to order mine with [EMAIL PROTECTED] You just have > to send an email and

Re: 2.2 Cds

I am going to order mine with [EMAIL PROTECTED] You just have to send an email and the guy will answer. - Original Message - From: Ray Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 3:47 PM Subject: 2.2 Cds > Does anyone know somewhere where 2.2 cds can be preordered? Tha

Re: procmail - filtering already received mails

Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > for i in `ls`; do > > echo -n "$i: "; > > procmail < $i && rm $i; > > echo "done."; > > done > > I still don't understand what was going on, but with this one it worked fine. > > (for i in `ls`; do echo -n "$i: "; procmail < $i && rm $i; ec

2.2 Cds

Does anyone know somewhere where 2.2 cds can be preordered? Thanks

Re: Expiring mail

Christopher Mosley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm looking for something that would be able to: > > 1. Delete messages older than a specified date. > > 2. Move messages older than a specified date (i.e. archive them > > away). > > This would be quite easy if your mail is in Maildir form

Re: filtering spam with procmail

Richard Klinda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hoi Noah! > > Noah> Hey all. Over the past couple weeks or so the volume of > spam to my inbox has grown by a disturbing amount (I should > have been more careful...). > > Noah> I'm not sure what to use for such a procmail rule, though. > Do

RE: Internet only for root

Thanks a lot for all your help. I'll put my users in "dip". -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 2:51 AM To: Debian-User Mailing List Subject: Re: Internet only for root Add the users who are to be able to bring up ppp to the

Re: still-extant potato boot problems (kmod/runany modprobe loop)

On Sun 13 Aug, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > Are there any fixes (or even diagnoses) yet for the following problem? > Has anyone else even seen these symptoms? >- "start ppp0: SIOCSIFMETRIC: Operation not supported" > (asynchonously, after something had triggered diald) This is a 'standard'

installation problem

Dear sirs: I bought the Debian installation book by Thomas Down with the CD and followed the instructions for installation on the CD. I have a 486-8MB mother board with an 80 MB hard drive. I allocated 60 MB for Linux, 20 for DOS. I can follow thru the steps all the way to installing BASE sys

Re: SOLVED: RE: LILO & Kernel Image too big --> Make error

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 10:02:39AM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > Uh, no. The bin86 package is needed to compile 16-bit 8086-compatible > source code. This pretty much means that it's only needed to compile > the kernel boot loader itself (I wouldn't be surprised if the LILO > source needed it to

Re: Themes in mozilla

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 12:03:40PM -0400, Stuart Ballard wrote: > The current debian package of mozilla (M17-1) seems to fail to bring up > any entries in the Themes list. I can't reproduce that with the upstream version of M17, but I remember hearing people complaining about it during the M17 de

Re: [Quake-user] Re: IO permission problem

On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 03:27:35PM -0500, Jeff Epler wrote: > On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 10:02:34PM +0200, Attila Csosz wrote: > > Ok, I fixed the permissions, currently I have: > > -rwsr-xr-x1 root root 872936 AUG 11 12:57 > > /usr/local/bin/qw-client-svga > > In this way I'm able to s

Re: LILO & Kernel Image too big

> I've just compiled a 2.2.12 kernel on a test machine here, and when I try to > update LILO to boot the new kernel image I get the following message: > > "Fatal: Kernel /vmlinuz is too big" > > The new kernel is bigger than I expected it to be, ls -l lists it as 1.8MB > (the old kernel is about

Re: Protecting single files via .htaccess ?

On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Oliver Schoenknecht wrote: > I want to protect single files from accessing them from outside. I am > aware that .htaccess does quite well in protecting directories but can > I protect single files as well, for example the "passes.php3" ? > > Any help is appreciated very well

Re: Themes in mozilla

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 12:03:40PM -0400, Stuart Ballard wrote: > The current debian package of mozilla (M17-1) seems to fail to bring up > any entries in the Themes list. It also seems to not have mail and news, > even though there is no mozilla-mailnews package (I even looked in > Incoming...). >

forcing app to use smaller colormap?

Hello; Is it possible to force an app to use 16 bpp on a 32 bpp display? I don't want to reconfigure X and I do not want to run more then one X server. Any ideas? TIA, Ron -- Email: Home: ICQ: pulsar 26276320 Alpha News Network:

Re: non xfree-related question about installing xfree4

On 14-Aug-2000 Ron Rademaker wrote: > The easiest way would be waiting for debian packages of xfree 4.0.1 ;) There are xfree 4.0.1 debian packages (very experimental, though) available at http://www.debian.org/~branden/.

Re: cannot get all the galeon files

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 10:00:16AM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > That's great! Except it doesn't seem to contain all the necessary > headers... specifically gtkmozembed.h and all the nsI stuff I haven't tried the package myself, but I know that there is also a libnspr4-dev package. That's

Re: newer version of pilot-link for palm Os 3.5

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 04:18:17PM + Adam Kwok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Debian developers, > I am personally using a linux OS and I am wondering if debian > offers a newer version of pilot-link that works on PALM OS 3.5 as well. > Pilot-link is a software provided by debi

Arghh! Can't compile the kernel!

Alright, I finally got Slink installed and running on my new computer, but I need more help. When I try to compile the kernel, I got the following errors (I think when it's almost done): kernel is compiling fine xdr.c: In function 'nlmsvc_decode_lockargs': xdr.c:271: internal error--unrecogniz

Re: Protecting single files via .htaccess ?

i am just saying there might be better luck in finding ananswer to questions asked if they look on the program specific mailing lists and forums. and most of the software questions that come across this mailing list do not have such exstensive FAQs and online documentation as apahce does. so yes it

Re: cannot get all the galeon files

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 01:27:21AM +0200, Andr? Dahlqvist wrote: > If you guys are using Woody there's now a new package called mozilla-dev > that probably contains what you need. That's great! Except it doesn't seem to contain all the necessary headers... specifically gtkmozembed.h and all th

Re: filtering spam with procmail

Hoi Noah! Noah> Hey all. Over the past couple weeks or so the volume of spam to my inbox Noah> has grown by a disturbing amount (I should have been more careful...). Noah> I'm not sure what to use for such a procmail rule, though. Does anybody Noah> here do anything similar to this? I

DEC 433 installation - SCSI and partitioning concerns

Hi all, Slink does not recognize SCSI controller? I am trying to install Slink on a newly acquired DEC 433 Workstation. It is an old 33 mhz 486 with an Adaptec AHA 1510 AIC 6260 SCSI controller built into the motherboard. I think the IRQ is 11 and the port address is 340h. In any event, this Sl

Re: Invisible pointer under X

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 10:29:32PM +1000, Robert Norris wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having a problem with a new machine I'm setting up. I've set up > XFree, and for some reason, the mouse pointer doesn't appear. I know > its working because I can click on stuff, select, do all the normal > mouse thin

Re: Invisible pointer under X

Robert Norris wrote: > I'm having a problem with a new machine I'm setting up. I've set up > XFree, and for some reason, the mouse pointer doesn't appear. I know > its working because I can click on stuff, select, do all the normal > mouse things, but I just can't see the pointer. A quick and dirt

newer version of pilot-link for palm Os 3.5

Dear Debian developers, I am personally using a linux OS and I am wondering if debian offers a newer version of pilot-link that works on PALM OS 3.5 as well. Pilot-link is a software provided by debian that transfers data between a palm pilot and a linux OS. the fuction I use pilot-x

Re: Protecting single files via .htaccess ?

Dear On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 08:00:14AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > as this is the debian mailing list ad not theapache list you might have > better luck reading throught the extensive online documentation for > apahce and othere apache related user groups and forums. but to answer > your qu

Themes in mozilla

The current debian package of mozilla (M17-1) seems to fail to bring up any entries in the Themes list. It also seems to not have mail and news, even though there is no mozilla-mailnews package (I even looked in Incoming...). Does anyone else see these problems or is it something in my installatio

(fwd) Debain 2.2

Hi there, Maybe someone could help this lady... Cheers, Remco. - Forwarded message from Amanda Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: "Amanda Heath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Debain 2.2 Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 16:17:10 +0100 Hello I have a customer with Debain

Re: Debian Linux on Sun UltraSparc IIi

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 03:52:30PM +0100, Wilson Yau wrote: > Hi! Do anyone have the experience of successful installation of Debian > Linux on a Sun UltraSparc IIi? > I download the 1.44 floppy image for sparc (rescue, root, driver and > base) rom a mirror site, but the box did not boot the rescu

Re: Problem with swapping - computer crash.

Marko Cehaja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have serious problem with swap file, since I changed from potato > to slink. [snip] In the future please refrain from starting a new thread by replying to an old one and just changing the "Subject:". In this case you replied to a "Mr. Smith's" post abou

Gateway Select 750

I am try to bring up Debian Linux on my new Gateway Select 750. It has an IBM-DTLA-307030 ATA100 hard disk, which it doen't recognize. Does anybody have any suggestions on how to get it up and running? Thanks, Dave Broughton

Re: Problem with swapping - computer crash.

Marko Cehaja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have serious problem with swap file, since I changed from potato > to slink. [snip] In the future please refrain from starting a new thread by replying to an old one. In this case you replied to a "Mr. Smith's" post about how Corel wasn't conforming to

Re: Apache -- SSL and normal on same system?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Ackermann) writes: > > You just made the light go on, I think. I was trying to run both > secure and normal sites using apache-ssl. I thought that the ssl > version could do both, and it was a matter of configuring each virtual > site to use one or the other. What yo

Debian Linux on Sun UltraSparc IIi

Hi! Do anyone have the experience of successful installation of Debian Linux on a Sun UltraSparc IIi? I download the 1.44 floppy image for sparc (rescue, root, driver and base) rom a mirror site, but the box did not boot the rescue disk. Thanks for all your sharing.

Re: Passwords longer than 8 chars

On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 01:48:04AM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: > On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 07:05:36PM -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira > wrote: > > > I want to setup a Debian server and abilitate passwords wih more than 8 > > chars. Where I have to setup this? > > Potato asks yo

Re: Dual-Boot Win2K & Debian

On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 12:29:11PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > The question I have is, how to properly dual-boot Win2K and Linux? Does > 2K act more like 95/98 which is easy to dual-boot from LILO, or is it > more like NT in which you edited the boot.ini file and could boot Linux > from the NT boot

Very strange error

Hi, I had such luck asking a question earlier, so I am trying again with something else. Thanks to everybody who did answer my previous one. This time what happens is: I have dial on demand with ISDN. One other machine is currently hooked up to the network and that is a Windows 95 machine with In

changing IMP/Horde database in a production server

Hi, I would like to change the IMP/Horde database from MySQL to PostgreSQL in a production server. How can I do this in a smoothly way without breaking my system? Thanks! []s, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP

Re: still unable to get kernel source

On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:21:43PM -0500, John Reinke wrote: > > Dumb question: should all the documentation within > /usr/share/doc/kernel-package be .gz files? Is there an easier way to view > all the documenation here without having to gunzip them first? > I think zless displays either gzippe

Re: SOLVED: RE: LILO & Kernel Image too big --> Make error

Mike Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MW> Andrew McRobert wrote: AM> thanks to Mike. I've installed the bin86 package, run 'make AM> bzImage' & lilo again and set the system up to boot. Is the bin86 AM> package only needed for compressing the kernel image, or is it AM> needed to "make dep", "

Re: Apache -- SSL and normal on same system?

kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Not necessarily, AFAIK [1]. Regular-mode apache and apache-ssl don't share > address space, and if configured properly, are working from different > document roots. The "risk" is about the same as having multiple accounts > on the same system. Apache is pretty bull

Re: still unable to get kernel source - solved

on Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:56:42PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman spewed forth on stone tablets: > After reading your previous mail I was going to suggest that maybe you > have a corrupted bzip2, or corrupted RAM. I'm glad it's not the RAM! Most RAM problems manifest themselves during compilation, so y

RE: cd burner

Greetings, Since this came up, I thought that I would ask a similar question. I've been using an HP CD-Writer Plus 8200 Series which has worked like a dream with one exception: I can't burn those credit-card/business-card size CDR's. I have heard that the Memorex burners will, and I was wo

Re: recompiling gcc & g++

On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 07:59:31PM -0300, Jan Pfeifer wrote: > gcc & g++ are the programs I use most, and often I'm waiting for them > to compile a big project I'm currently working on. > is it worth to recompile them using more "agressive" optimizations > options (-O3, -funroll-loops, and -marc

Re: non xfree-related question about installing xfree4

The easiest way would be waiting for debian packages of xfree 4.0.1 ;) But if you don't want to wait, you could make something like this: - backup your current x-stuff (copy /usr/X11R6 to /usr/X11R6.3 and /etc/X11 to /etc/X11.3) - install xfree 4.0.1 to /usr/X11R6.4 and /etc/X11.4 - make symlinks

non xfree-related question about installing xfree4

Hi, I was thinking about installing xfree4.0.1 on my debian system, but then I started worrying about how it would interfere with the debian package management. For instance, say I just install XF4, overwriting all the older stuff that debian has put there. What will happen when debian thinks it

Stor Office 5.2

Does anyone have it running? I'm having problems getting to delete email from my IMAP server. But then maybe there's a FAQ out there. Michael P.S.: To those who read my mail about OpenMail last week, yes, I intend to compare all server based groupware or personal information management systems av

Invisible pointer under X

Hi all, I'm having a problem with a new machine I'm setting up. I've set up XFree, and for some reason, the mouse pointer doesn't appear. I know its working because I can click on stuff, select, do all the normal mouse things, but I just can't see the pointer. Has anyone had any experience with t

recompiling gcc & g++

hi, gcc & g++ are the programs I use most, and often I'm waiting for them to compile a big project I'm currently working on. is it worth to recompile them using more "agressive" optimizations options (-O3, -funroll-loops, and -march=pentiumpro) ? anyway, I tried it, using apt-get to get the so

Re: gnome-terminal

Michael Soulier wrote: > > One of the reasons why I overall prefer xterm is because it > conforms to X protocols. To my knowledge, gnome apps don't do this. The > gnome-terminal has its own menu built-in for configuration. I'm not sure > if you can rebind keys with it though. To

Re: Protecting single files via .htaccess ?

as this is the debian mailing list ad not theapache list you might have better luck reading throught the extensive online documentation for apahce and othere apache related user groups and forums. but to answer your question look at this: http://www.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#location i beleive

Re: kde or gnome?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, John Griffiths wrote: > LET THE FLAME WARS COMMENCE > This list has pretty much gotten over flaming about GNOME/KDE. We prefer to flame about licensing and social-contract wording here. 8^) > if you hae the QT and GTK libns in place the

Re: g++

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I upgraded my machine to potato but in compiling a c++ > program which before used to work with > > g++ -lg++ filename.cc, > > now I need > > g++ -I/usr/include/g++-2/ -lg++ filename.cc -lg++ links libg++, which are auxiliary, non-standard convenience-classes that

Re: motherboards

Goeman Stefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now, I am only running Windows98 on it (at home). I haven't come to > the point of installing Linux on the PC. I have not even decided which > Linux distro I should take. At work I am running Debian (potato) and > I am getting to like it a lot ... > >

Re: JDK1.2 debianised?

"J.T. Wenting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > not likely. It would require special licensing by Sun. there are (at least) two complete jdk's for linux: the (original) blackdown-version: http://www.blackdown.org, sun's: http://java.sun.com (both are ports of sun's open-sourced solaris-version, but

Re: gnus in GNU Emacs 20 in Potato does not start

Jan Ulrich Hasecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hallo Debs! > > Because xemacs is a little bit big, I want to use GNU Emacs instead. > > Two days ago I dist-upgraded to potato with no problems, so I now run > emacs 20.7.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu, X toolkit) and gnus v5.8.3 > > Starting guns I g

max file sizes and filesystems

Hi How big can a single file be in the filesystems FAT32, ext2, and NTFS? My question comes from an idea to create one or more files and mount them as loopbackdevices after formatting them. This is a standard operation and there are some FAQs describing the procedure on the LDP web pages for exam

Re: Fixing Monitors Frequency

It'll probably work if you remove all the frequently lines from /etc/X11/XF86Config you don't wish to use... Ron Rademaker On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Kai Weber wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to start X with a fixed monitor frequency? My monitor is > able to do more than 100Hz but then the display is

Re: Location of eth0 files

In Slink (2.1) you can find what you're looking for in /etc/init.d/network, in Potato (2.2) and Woody (2.3) you can find it in /etc/network/interfaces. Ron Rademaker On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, cxpx wrote: > I originally installed debian w/ dhcp.I am now going through a > firewall. I > can't

Re: fetchmail configuration

Quoth S.Salman Ahmed, > "fetchmail -v -d0" produces too much output to be useful. I guess I'll > look into procmail. If you are running X, and are using an MTA on your system to do local deliveries (ie., using fetchmail to pass the mail off to port 25 on the local machine), then you could probab

fyi: Linux Office Suite Consortium - NY Times

fyi guys from: http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/08/biztech/articles/14linux.html "SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13 -- A group of key Linux software developers and major computer manufacturers are planning to announce on Tuesday at a Silicon Valley computer conference the first effort to compete direc

Re: SOLVED: RE: LILO & Kernel Image too big --> Make error

Andrew McRobert wrote: > thanks to Mike. I've installed the bin86 package, run 'make bzImage' & lilo > again and set the system up to boot. Is the bin86 package only needed for > compressing the kernel image, or is it needed to "make dep", "make modules" > etc? For the most part, the bin86 package

RE: crontab

... it's also worth noting that there's two competing cron systems under Debian ... the normal one (invoked through crontab command etc.) and the /etc/crontab file ... and they actually work independently of each other. For example, I run a bunch of backup scripts etc from /etc/crontab, and just ru

Re: LILO & Kernel Image too big

Pontus Lidman wrote: > 2) use 'make bzImage' instead of 'make zImage' to make a bz compressed > image. The bz compression makes it smaller. The b does not stand for bz compression. It stands for big zimage. A quote from the kernel docs (/usr/src/linux/Documentation/kbuild/commands.txt as came w

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