Re: Regarding How to Start X

2000-09-19 Thread Nate Amsden
Charles wrote: > > I have just completed my install of Debian Potato. > > I would like to get to the Gui, Gnome, X, or whatever. > > I have tried startx, but it does not work > > How do I start the GUI first make sure whatever "GUI" you want is installed, then configure X, either by anXiou

Regarding How to Start X

2000-09-19 Thread Charles
I have just completed my install of Debian Potato. I would like to get to the Gui, Gnome, X, or whatever. I have tried startx, but it does not work How do I start the GUI

Re: Netscape errors??

2000-09-19 Thread Nate Amsden
"Christopher W. Aiken" wrote: > > I did it!! I finally got Debian 2.2 installed. > I now have a triple boot, W98, FreeBSD 4.1, and Debian 2.2. > > Question for you. I just installed, using apt-get, Communicator 4.73 > from my Official CD's. When I fire up Netscape I get the following > errors

Re: Printing--what am I missing? -- solved!

2000-09-19 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
Disregard my last post on this subject--I rebooted my machine and now I can print ps files just fine! :) Michael, thank you again for all your responses, I appreciate it immensely. :) Finally, I can write my English essay in peace. -- Tom "It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live

Re: Debian 2.2

2000-09-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
Solfa, Magazine CDs are usually cheapest quality due to its free bee status. Most CD press houses do not inspect CD for that category. (No Quality control) Professionals inspect CD by looking under / through strong light. I bet there are pin holes on Al sputter coating or silver streak on the CD

Re: why no iceconf?

2000-09-19 Thread Pollywog
On 20-Sep-2000 Tal Danzig wrote: > Hello, > > IIRC iceconf doesn't fully support IceWM 1.0.x (I think it may no longer be > in > development) > Icepref does though. > That's what I use. I believe you are right, because it (iceconf) did not work for me. -- Andrew

Re: Disk Partitioning for Newbies (everything you always wanted to know)

2000-09-19 Thread Nate Amsden
i still do that :) except on severs..all the desktops/laptops i build pretty much just have 1 root and 1 swap partition. although it can be nice having multiple partitions i can remember many times getting frustrated that /usr/local was almost full yet /var had gigs and gigs free..or something to t

Netscape errors??

2000-09-19 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
I did it!! I finally got Debian 2.2 installed. I now have a triple boot, W98, FreeBSD 4.1, and Debian 2.2. Question for you. I just installed, using apt-get, Communicator 4.73 from my Official CD's. When I fire up Netscape I get the following errors printed out. Anyone know why?? ls: /usr/li

Re: apt-get problems

2000-09-19 Thread Neil L. Roeth
Is there any way to add something to kernel-pkg.conf to achieve this? I know I'll forget to use the --revision option someday. On Sep 18, Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Apparently kernel-image-2.2.17-1 uses an epoch, so apt (or dselect) > wants to replace your image with that one. Thi

Re: sound on pc speaker

2000-09-19 Thread Nate Amsden
John Anderson wrote: > > I have downloaded a patch for pc speaker support and added it into kernel > 2.2.15 on potato. Do I have to configure another program in order to get > sound support? I have tried playing audio CD's and games with no sound. > How do I get sound, It is supposed to be just

Re: Installing individual unstable packages

2000-09-19 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 02:45:05PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > What is the best practise for obtaining and installing the odd > unstable package in to a stable system? Hmm I think there was a thread on that very recently... I think the best answer was: Make your /etc/apt/so

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-19 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:23:11PM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ lpr test.ps > > lpr: connect: No such file or directory > > jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. >^^^ > That's the problem there is no daemon so you can't even connect to you

Re: file ownership

2000-09-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 09:44:45PM +0100, john gennard wrote: > In Potato, I'm installing qt-2.0.1 from a tar.gz. After uncompressing, > unpacking and re-naming the directory 'qt', I checked its permissions > and found owner and group given as '508'. On a previous occasion, > when compiling some

Re: sound on pc speaker

2000-09-19 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 09:44:39PM -0400, John Anderson wrote: > I have downloaded a patch for pc speaker support and added it into kernel > 2.2.15 on potato. Do I have to configure another program in order to get > sound support? I have tried playing audio CD's and games with no sound. > How do

Re: why no iceconf?

2000-09-19 Thread Tal Danzig
Hello, IIRC iceconf doesn't fully support IceWM 1.0.x (I think it may no longer be in development) Icepref does though. That's what I use. Tal On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 02:05:33 +0100, Colin Watson said: : cls-colo spgs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : >i use icewm (with "liquid" theme). back in the g

Re: What config file

2000-09-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 07:40:26PM -0600, Ray Percival wrote: > do I need to edit to make e and gnome my defaults for X. echo "gnome-session" > $HOME/.xinitrc Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like e

sound on pc speaker

2000-09-19 Thread John Anderson
I have downloaded a patch for pc speaker support and added it into kernel 2.2.15 on potato. Do I have to configure another program in order to get sound support? I have tried playing audio CD's and games with no sound. How do I get sound, It is supposed to be just like using a sound card? --

What config file

2000-09-19 Thread Ray Percival
do I need to edit to make e and gnome my defaults for X.

Re: RAID Support

2000-09-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya rob first problems - raid0/raid1 support is usually "built-in" with no tricks needed... - you will need the software-raid howto to get more info http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/Software-RAID.HOWTO.html ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Software

Re: why no iceconf?

2000-09-19 Thread hashao
Hello cls-colo, On Wednesday, September 20, 2000, cls-colo spgs wrote: ccs> debs, ccs> i use icewm (with "liquid" theme). back in the good ccs> ole slink days, dlinux had "iceconf" (which is a great ccs> configuration tool for setting up a background image, ccs> default theme, etc.). ccs> is

Re: why no iceconf?

2000-09-19 Thread Colin Watson
cls-colo spgs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i use icewm (with "liquid" theme). back in the good >ole slink days, dlinux had "iceconf" (which is a great >configuration tool for setting up a background image, >default theme, etc.). > >is "iceconf" still available? if not, why? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]

Re: exim howto newbie ?

2000-09-19 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: exim howto newbie ? Date: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 10:00:27AM +1000 In reply to:christo Quoting christo([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > hi to all that are able to shed some light with this problem i am having. > > i have 3 domains on my system > > dom-one.com > dom-two.com > dom-thr

RAID Support

2000-09-19 Thread Rob
Hey I'm an owner of an Abit KT7 RAID motherboard,with two 30 gig IBM ATA-100 7200rpm deskstars. I want to configure these deskstars on RAID-0 Striping. Is this compatible with the current linux kernels? If not are there any available addons? If so how can I install debian on my RAID Array before n

Re: exim howto newbie ?

2000-09-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya christo... my first tests for proper dns setup for the virtual domains... http://www.dom-one.com http://www.dom-two.com http://www.dom-three.com should all work.with difffernet results... than try to solve the emails and user name issues i know t

exim howto newbie ?

2000-09-19 Thread christo
> hi to all that are able to shed some light with this problem i am having. > > i have 3 domains on my system > > dom-one.com > dom-two.com > dom-three.com > > and 3 users on my system > > userA > userB > userC > > * at this point in time, exim is a fresh install on the system. i have > been

exim howto newbie ?

2000-09-19 Thread christo
hi to all that are able to shed some light with this problem i am having. i have 3 domains on my system dom-one.com dom-two.com dom-three.com and 3 users on my system userA userB userC * at this point in time, exim is a fresh install on the system. i have been through the eximconfig and entere

why no iceconf?

2000-09-19 Thread cls-colo spgs
debs, i use icewm (with "liquid" theme). back in the good ole slink days, dlinux had "iceconf" (which is a great configuration tool for setting up a background image, default theme, etc.). is "iceconf" still available? if not, why? ia, t. bentley taylor (potato on 2.2.17) //

Re: Using RSA authentication with SSH - mini HOWTO

2000-09-19 Thread kmself
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 03:20:15PM -0400, S . Salman Ahmed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "kms" == kmself writes: > kms> > kms> The following is a brief howto on using RSA key authentication > kms> for SSH sessions which I wrote for use at OpenSales. Note that > kms> the re

Re: X launchbar?

2000-09-19 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 04:13:05PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > You should be able to launch apps remotely to X if you ssh with X > forwarding enabled. If you're not ssh'ing to systems I am aware of all of that. In fact SSH makes no difference as long as the authority on X is set

Re: X launchbar?

2000-09-19 Thread kmself
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 08:29:15AM -0700, Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Does anyone know of a basic X launchbar? Basic as in doesn't > depend on too many libraries to run. Gets to be a pain to launch > programs from differ

mail sorting

2000-09-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In netscape communicator use the message filter. Ivan

Re: c2perl ??

2000-09-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 11:04:22PM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > Anybody knows if there's something like c2perl, which converts c source to > perl ?? Not likely. ;-) At least, I'll be surprised if there is one. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as

Re: Internet Cafe

2000-09-19 Thread ChrisHellberg
Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > > ChrisHellberg<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > So it can be done over ethernet? Sweet. So I spose if I'm not going to > > do down the radius path, and a simple app to boot them off the PC, would > > it be a matter of killall -9 , including > > the NFS mount? > > Wh

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:23:11PM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ lpr test.ps > > lpr: connect: No such file or directory > > jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. >^^^ > That's the problem there is no daemon so you can't even connect to

Re: Off Topic - putty, RH, debian, title changes upon login

2000-09-19 Thread Andre Berger
William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi guys, > > I found this little bit of trivia interesting but I cannot figure out how it > is happening. Under a friends RH box when I ssh into it from PuTTY it will > change the titlebar to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /directory. That's very cool, > however

Re: mail sorting

2000-09-19 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 07:53:39PM +0200, Olivier Billet wrote: > Hi evrybody ! I wonder if it's possible to sort mails with sender's > name as key and for example put the result in different folders. use procmail. :] -moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * http://hp9001.fh-bie

Re: Linux programming book

2000-09-19 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:03:08AM -0500, Cantoni, Mike wrote: > I am looking for a book on Linux Programming. Does anyone have a preference > between Linux Application Development or Beginning Linux Programming or > something else. well, not a book but there you get many information about Linux

Re: Turning DMA on

2000-09-19 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 12:01:27PM -0300, Leonardo Dias wrote: > How do I turn DMA on in Debian? does your kernel have (U)DMA support for your chipset? BTW: there's a kernel option "Use DMA by default when available"... if it doesn't get turned on automatically and your kernel supports it, use hd

Re: gpm and X and mouse (fwd)

2000-09-19 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 05:29:41PM -0700, Chris Majewski wrote: > It's been three computers and four mice already, and I've never > had this working, so I'm curious if anyone has got it to work and > under what circumstances, so that maybe the next time I spend money > I can make duplication of

Re: Linux programming book

2000-09-19 Thread David Teague
Mike There is a review of Linux Programming Bible by John Goerzen, from IDE press in the new Linux Journal. Ben Crowder liked the book. --David On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Cantoni, Mike wrote: > I am looking for a book on Linux Programming. Does anyone have a preference > between Linux Application De

Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > "Thomas J. Hamman" wrote: > > > Okay, I thought I had my printer working just fine (albeit without > > color); I've printed dvi's fine in xdvi, and I can print text files fine > > with lpr. > > > > But now I'm writing an essay in kword and when I try to print, it ju

Re: this beeping makes me sick

2000-09-19 Thread s. champ
hi. not sure if this has been answered yet, but this works for me: ( for inclusion in ~/.bashrc ) echo -e "\\33[10;20]" the '-e' has something to do with getting bash to understand escape-sequences such as the \\33 apparently indicates. ( 33 is the

CRUZIO ISP

2000-09-19 Thread Jacob Hunter
has anyone here ever been able to successfully configure Santa Cruz, CA's Cruzio ISP with Corel Linux (Debian) using KDE? jacob

Re: isdn + sb live

2000-09-19 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 07:11:28PM +0200, Fehér Csaba - Egyetem wrote: > I'm very beginner in Linux. I'm using the Slink with 2.0.36 kernel. i don't know, wether the SB Live is supported by Linux 2.0.36. > I'd like to use ISDN, but the hisax answers: 'resource busy' when I > try to install it.

modul installation problems

2000-09-19 Thread Atila Nemet
Why is it that, when installing the kernel moduls in debian 2.1 I had no problem installing the network card (3c509) and the printer (lp); I just hit the "enter" and the modul was installed, and now can not install the printer port, no metter what I do, the modul installation always fails. Az for t

real.com's realproducer and ipmasq

2000-09-19 Thread A. Demarteau \(sysadmin\)
hiya, I know it's not opensource, bot ok. I have troubles runnign realproducer wiht a live stream to a realserver where the realproducer is on a 2nd box behind my firewwall/masquarading host and the server is on the net. Now I'm not sure if it is ipmasq that bugs me mere, bandwith isn't the issue o

Re: script doesn't work (renaming files)

2000-09-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
Lars Grobe wrote: >Hi there, > >I have to rename a lot of files containing special >characters. I've got a script to do that, but it >doesn't work here (unexpected end of file etc..). > >BTW: How do I get a list of files containing some >special characters (äÄöÖüÜß)? Will the "find"

Re: Missing modules and the sound of silence

2000-09-19 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Missing modules and the sound of silence Date: Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 05:39:49PM +0100 In reply to:Glyn Millington Quoting Glyn Millington([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hello! I've been compiling a new kernel (2.2.17 on Potato)to > allow for sound support; I've done it three t

Re: gpm and X and mouse (fwd)

2000-09-19 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: gpm and X and mouse (fwd) Date: Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 08:49:55AM -0500 In reply to:W. Paul Mills Quoting W. Paul Mills([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I have had 3 or 4 computers, and many different pointing devices. > All have worked fine this way. Mostly Logitech mice, but

Unidentified subject!

2000-09-19 Thread Ernest Johanson
I have set up the Apache JServ (v. 1.1.2) with the debian Apache package (1.3.9, potato). The jserv distibution comes with a configure script that was easy to use. It asks you for parameters, and placed everything where it needed to go. The instructions say you *have* to use the jsdk2.0, solaris ve

Re: Linux programming book

2000-09-19 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Linux programming book Date: Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:03:08AM -0500 In reply to:Cantoni, Mike Quoting Cantoni, Mike([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am looking for a book on Linux Programming. Does anyone have a preference > between Linux Application Development or Beginning Linu

Re: this beeping makes me sick

2000-09-19 Thread QBA
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 02:10:54PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > xset b off & > > I have that in my .xinitc and it works like a charm. > I run this xset b off & and still beeping. I even disabled 'Keyboard Bell' in my Gnome control center and either no result. Where can it be written? Thanks fo

Re: Printing

2000-09-19 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 05:53:50PM +0100, Stephen J . Thompson wrote: > Hello all, > > Can anyone point me in the correct direction to find out how to set up a > printer that is on a windows 95 machine? Have a look at: [http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/umnaintained/mini/Print2Win] Th

file ownership

2000-09-19 Thread john gennard
In Potato, I'm installing qt-2.0.1 from a tar.gz. After uncompressing, unpacking and re-naming the directory 'qt', I checked its permissions and found owner and group given as '508'. On a previous occasion, when compiling some other software (forgotten what), I noticed its owner and group was sho

Re: Turning DMA on

2000-09-19 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 12:01:27PM -0300, Leonardo Dias wrote: > How do I turn DMA on in Debian? Look at hdparm. Read the docs but I think puting something like "hdparm -d1 /dev/xxx" in /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh should do it. Run this command at your own risk... > -- > Leonardo Dias > Analista P

c2perl ??

2000-09-19 Thread Ron Rademaker
Anybody knows if there's something like c2perl, which converts c source to perl ?? Ron Rademaker

Re: Apache with Servlet support

2000-09-19 Thread Ernest Johanson
I have set up the Apache JServ (v. 1.1.2) with the debian Apache package (1.3.9, potato). The jserv distibution comes with a configure script that was easy to use. It asks you for parameters, and placed everything where it needed to go. The instructions say you *have* to use the jsdk2.0, solaris ve

Re: Exim and DomainZero

2000-09-19 Thread Daniel Lesage
Thanks a lot, guys, I knew this was something stupid and that one of you would get it right away. Robert put me on the right track with this: On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Robert Waldner wrote: > bash-2.03# telnet 24.201.62.169 25 > Trying 24.201.62.169... > Of course, all my telnet tests were made *in

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-19 Thread Vee-Eye
Hi Tom! > > So I tried switching to lprng to see if that would fix it, but no: it > won't even configure, dpkg tells me: > > Setting up lprng (3.6.24-2) ... > Starting printer spooler: dpkg: error processing lprng (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status

Re: Off Topic - putty, RH, debian, title changes upon login

2000-09-19 Thread Leen Besselink
> is happening. Under a friends RH box when I ssh into it from PuTTY it will > change the titlebar to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /directory. That's very cool, > however, when I ssh into my debian box it just puts up domain.com - PuTTY. > Does > anyone know why/how this is happening for the RH box or h

Re: Exim and DomainZero

2000-09-19 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:15:15 EDT, Daniel Lesage writes: >I'm not too sure what the MX Pref entry is. You can (and, mostly, should) have multiple MX-records for your domain. The lower the preference the more the record is preferred, eg the record with the lowest preference should get all the ma

Re: Exim and DomainZero

2000-09-19 Thread Robert Waldner
bash-2.03# host -t mx dlesage.com dlesage.com MX 10 dlesage.dyn.dhs.org bash-2.03# host dlesage.dyn.dhs.org dlesage.dyn.dhs.org A 24.201.62.169 bash-2.03# telnet 24.201.62.169 25 Trying 24.201.62.169... bash-2.03# ping 24.201.62.169 PING 24.201.62.169 (24.201.62.169): 56

Re: Exim and DomainZero

2000-09-19 Thread Daniel Lesage
DNS should be configured correctly; I've also signed up with DHS to provide me with a dynamic DNS entry. Here's what I've got at DZ's end: Host Name : @.dlesage.com Record Type : MX (Mail) MX Pref: 10 Address: dlesage.dyn.dhs.org. I'm not too sure what the MX Pref entry is. Dan. On Tue, 19 Se

Re: Exim and DomainZero

2000-09-19 Thread Ray Percival
Do you have the right DNS entries somewhere for your domain. In other words who is providing DNS for you? -- Original Message -- From: Daniel Lesage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:07:19 -0400 (EDT) >Hi debianers. > >I've recently signed up w

Exim and DomainZero

2000-09-19 Thread Daniel Lesage
Hi debianers. I've recently signed up with DomainZero to register my own domain (dlesage.com). Since I've got a cable connection at home, I figured I'd try to set up exim to receive emails sent to (user)@dlesage.com. Outgoing messages work fine, but messages sent to (user)@dlesage.com never show u

Re: mail sorting

2000-09-19 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 19:53:39 Olivier Billet wrote: > Hi evrybody ! I wonder if it's possible to sort mails with sender's name as key and for example put the result in different folders. > > Thanks in advance, > > Olivier. > Entirely. I'm personally using procmail but there are other scripts

Re: mail sorting

2000-09-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
Procmail can be configured to do this. See 'man procmailrc' and 'man procmailex'. On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 07:53:39PM +0200, Olivier Billet wrote: > Hi evrybody ! I wonder if it's possible to sort mails with sender's name as > key and for example put the result in different folders. -- Bob N

Off Topic - putty, RH, debian, title changes upon login

2000-09-19 Thread William Jensen
Hi guys, I found this little bit of trivia interesting but I cannot figure out how it is happening. Under a friends RH box when I ssh into it from PuTTY it will change the titlebar to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /directory. That's very cool, however, when I ssh into my debian box it just puts up domain.c

Re: html2ps

2000-09-19 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:14:30 -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I've had my own problem with this package, namely that rendered pages > typically don't include page breaks. > ...down the middle of a page. Essentially, an entire web page is being > fit to a single logical sheet of paper, a

Re: Message saying this lists's mailbox is full

2000-09-19 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 09:10:20AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Yesterday I posted three messages to this list. All arrived (I received > them today), but I also got 3 notifications (one attached) saying that > they couldn't be delivered because the recipient's mail box was full. > > Has anyon

[OT?] Linux Volume Manager (was: Re: Disk Partitioning for Newbies (everything you always wanted to know))

2000-09-19 Thread Leen Besselink
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Nils Kassube wrote: > Backup everything. (You do backups, don't you?) Re-partition > your hard drive. Have more fun :-) With kernel 2.4 soon, you won't have to really repartition anymore... you can just resize them and create new ones... and so on (on the fly, no reboot, no

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-19 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 08:13:12AM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote: Thanks for your continued advice, Michael. > From man lpr (woody): > -V Verbose mode. Additional -V flags increase verbosity. > Use debug flags for extreme verbosity. That's very interesting... I'm usi

Keybindings in Netscape

2000-09-19 Thread Kai Weber
Hi, any idea how I can change Netscape behaviour on keypress? Pressing space for example should skip the page and backspace should have the Back-button's behaviour. It has something to do with .Xressources I guess. -- + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/~bond/

Re: Installing Lahey fortran (libc5?) in Potato

2000-09-19 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote: <...> > If I create a quick hack (ln -s :D) libc.so.5 to the real libc, > the think segfaults (which is to be expected, I suppose). I have thought > about compiling an older libc for installation purposes (I can always > select which version o

Re: LILO 21.5-1 beta, LILO 21.4.32

2000-09-19 Thread Colin R. R. Johnson
Hi, I figured out the why I was having that compatability problem. I had installed from a Corel Linux CD, then upgraded to potato, and now to woody. Corel has it's own bootblock which was cboot.b This still doesn't explain the lilo version being different for the package and the binary containe

Installing Lahey fortran (libc5?) in Potato

2000-09-19 Thread José Luis Gómez Dans
Hi! I want to install Lahey's fortran 95 compiler in my debian box. This is a vanilla (ish!) potato box which works fine. However, there is a little catch: the installer (which takes a key and licences the software, copies the files and so on) is a shell script that calls some programs. The

Disk Partitioning for Newbies (everything you always wanted to know)

2000-09-19 Thread Nils Kassube
Guten Abend. In the last week I've seen a lot of question and recommendations about disk partitioning. However, one answer was missing: for your first install use only a swap partition and /. Play. Have fun. Learn Linux. Install stuff. Learn stuff. Get rid of stuff you didn't like. After a few we

mail sorting

2000-09-19 Thread Olivier Billet
Hi evrybody ! I wonder if it's possible to sort mails with sender's name as key and for example put the result in different folders. Thanks in advance, Olivier.

Re: Message saying this lists's mailbox is full

2000-09-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 19 Sep 2000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > >Yesterday I posted three messages to this list. All arrived (I received > >them today), but I also got 3 notifications (one attached) saying that > >they couldn't be delivered because the recipient's mail box was full. > > >

Re: gpm and X and mouse (fwd)

2000-09-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I posted correct /etc/gpm.conf to get it working in original thread. repeat_type=raw is the answer. osamu On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 12:26:48AM +0800, hashao wrote: > Hello W., > > WPM> : -- Original Message -- > WPM> : From: Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PRO

Re: How can I put a package on hold without using Dselect?

2000-09-19 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 09:00:46PM +0200, Richard Klinda wrote: > Hoi Ben, ALL! > > >> Dselect is slow on my old machine. How can I put a package on hold > >> without using Dselect? > > Ben> echo hold | dpkg --set-selections > > btw, How can I "unhold" a package? apt-get install > > -

Re: BeOs

2000-09-19 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 05:23:12PM +, stefan goeman wrote: > Hello, > > No, I don't have any boot problems (at least not at this moment). > > I just want to: > 1) Study the boot process in more detail because I don't know exactly > what happens and how I can influence (change) it Look into

Apache with Servlet support

2000-09-19 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello I'd simply like to know how easy it is to run Apache with Servlet support under Debian. Has anyone experiences with this? I am trying to compile Apache with Servlet support (JServ) and am having troubles with it. I use JDK and Sun's JSDK. (Intentionally not posting errors now) Anyone exper

Re: Printing

2000-09-19 Thread Ray Percival
linprinting.org and the online version of the oreilly samba book which you can get either off of their website or a tasty ps copy off of samba.org. -- Original Message -- From: Stephen J. Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 17:53:50 +0100

Re: Missing modules and the sound of silence

2000-09-19 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello Glyn, Take a peek at these notes my brother posts. I find it a lot easier to follow them then the man pages! http://outcast-consultants.redmond.or.us/files/linux.doc Good luck and happy compiling Regards On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Glyn Millington wrote: > Hello! I've been compiling a new

Re: Missing modules and the sound of silence

2000-09-19 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 05:39:49PM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > > Hello! I've been compiling a new kernel (2.2.17 on Potato)to > allow for sound support; I've done it three times and each time > it hasn't worked! The steps I've followed are these (having > unpacked the kernel source in a dir

isdn

2000-09-19 Thread Fehér Csaba - Egyetem
Hi, I'm very beginner in Linux. I'm using the Slink with 2.0.36 kernel. My first problem is: I'd like to use ISDN, but the hisax answers: 'resource busy' when I try to install it. My configuration is: AMD K6/233 + 64MB RAM + COM1 + LPT1 + S3Virge (4 MB RAM) (PCI) + Sony CD Rom CDU711 + 2 HDDs

isdn+sb live

2000-09-19 Thread Fehér Csaba - Egyetem
Hi, I'm very beginner in Linux. I'm using the Slink with 2.0.36 kernel. My first problem is: I'd like to use ISDN, but the hisax answers: 'resource busy' when I try to install it. My configuration is: AMD K6/233 + 64MB RAM + COM1 + LPT1 + S3Virge (4 MB RAM) (PCI) + Sony CD Rom CDU711 + 2 HDDs

OT: A question for those lucky souls who have a job with *nix

2000-09-19 Thread Ray Percival
What is the best way to present yourself when searching for a *nix job. This is what is on my resume. Any suggestions for better things to mention. Skills I might want to pick up etc. Yes I know this is not really what this list is for. If you don't like it please let me know and I won't do it a

Re: html2ps

2000-09-19 Thread kmself
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 08:46:53PM +, nw x ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, Debians: > I have a question about html2ps that is I just install it under my usr/local > directory and then I use the command > html2ps filename.html > filename.ps > however, it report the following warning message: >

isdn + sb live

2000-09-19 Thread Fehér Csaba - Egyetem
Hi,   I'm very beginner in Linux. I'm using the Slink with 2.0.36 kernel.   My first problem is: I'd like to use ISDN, but the hisax answers: 'resource busy' when I try to install it. My configuration is:     AMD K6/233 + 64MB RAM + COM1 + LPT1 + S3Virge (4 MB RAM) (PCI) +         Sony CD

Re: how to briefly disable mouse under X?

2000-09-19 Thread Krzys Majewski
Thanks, now that I've got the gpm fifo working, this solution works perfectly. -chris On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Krzys Majewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > What's a good way to programmatically disable the mouse under > > X, and re-enable it again, without restarting X. By >

Re: Message saying this lists's mailbox is full

2000-09-19 Thread Ray Percival
I would have to agree. BTW procmail is great. -- Original Message -- From: Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 11:06:48 -0600 (MDT) >On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: >> except this broken MTA helpfully neglects to mention WHO the u

Re: upgrade gnumeric to woody

2000-09-19 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:26:27AM +0200, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: > Hi Debians! > > Gnumeric 0.47 from potato is a little bit buggy, often the cell formats I > made are gone. So I would like to upgrade to woody. Now my questions. Is > this bug fixed in woody and can I risk an upgrade? > > apt-g

Re: deb packages not offered: lame xcdplay?

2000-09-19 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 12:36:01PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Michael Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > >> there are a few packages i like to have, like lame and xcdplay. > >> can't find any deb pkgs, though. > > > >There was an intent to package (ITP) lame awhile ago

Re: Message saying this lists's mailbox is full

2000-09-19 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > except this broken MTA helpfully neglects to mention WHO the user is > that has a full mailbox. so there is no way to know who to > unsubscribe. How many subscribers from my.netvigator.com does the list have... trash'em all (I don't have the luxury of

Printing

2000-09-19 Thread Stephen J . Thompson
Hello all, Can anyone point me in the correct direction to find out how to set up a printer that is on a windows 95 machine? Thanks, Stephen.

Re: How can I put a package on hold without using Dselect?

2000-09-19 Thread Richard Klinda
Hoi Ben, ALL! >> Dselect is slow on my old machine. How can I put a package on hold >> without using Dselect? Ben> echo hold | dpkg --set-selections btw, How can I "unhold" a package? -- ...sutongi tti olleh The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

Re: Begone, vile emacs!

2000-09-19 Thread Jonathan Markevich
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 05:42:28PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: > >> why not dpkg -l emacs ? > > jm> un emacs (no description available) > > It's probably "emacs19" or "emacs20", or one of the xemacs varieties. Neither! It's really strange. > The simplest way to find o

Re[2]: gpm and X and mouse (fwd)

2000-09-19 Thread hashao
Hello W., WPM> : -- Original Message -- WPM> : From: Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WPM> : Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 13:19:51 -0700 (PDT) :>>I've tried to tell X to use the fifo /dev/gpmdata as its :>>pointing device but it doesn't work. The mouse behaves

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