Re: More on mutt losing its keymap

2001-06-27 Thread Daniel Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > That's what I get for being a command-line freak: everyone else is using > xterms and xterm termcaps seem to work fine between linux, irix and > solaris. I guess I have to sit down and set up linux termcaps on our sun/sgi > boxen -- using vt100 as I do now is clearly

Re: More on mutt losing its keymap

2001-06-26 Thread Daniel Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi all, > I whined before about mutt losing Up and Dn keys seemingly at > random. Well, it looks like it's not random after all: keymap gets > screwed after I telnet/ssh to other boxen on the network. Just now > it happened after I telnetted to an irix machine and that

Re: apt-get, upgrade, /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-05-21 Thread Daniel Martin
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 19 May 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > 1:) What is the best way to make apt-get use the /archives folder to > > perform the upgrade and return the system to stage 2. above? > > cp /archive/*.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/ > Specifically,

Re: /dev/fb not there?

1999-03-04 Thread Daniel Martin
Steve Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can use mknod to make them yourself. Ick. Inevitably, if you get used to doing things this way, you'll slip up at some point and create things with the wrong permissions. A much better solution is to use /dev/MAKEDEV to do it: /dev/MAKEDEV -v fb (t

Re: Removeing N lines from a file

1999-02-12 Thread Daniel Martin
Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I use gawk or some other program to remove a number of lines > from a text file. Initially, I only need to delete the top 10 lines > from a file but it might be useful to know how to delete lines from any > part of the file. The top 10 lines

Re: fetchmail, why does it do this?

1999-02-12 Thread Daniel Martin
Ingo Hohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 12:01:16AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > > > > Well, maybe fetchmail gives up completely at the first > > broken message? > > At least, thats what it does here. > > > > But debian.virtual.de.host is my own system, and I am able

Re: apt

1999-02-08 Thread Daniel Martin
Robert Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way to make apt not delete the .deb files after it installs > them? > > -bob I assume you mean when using apt from dselect; otherwise, apt doesn't delete them automatically. There's no easy way. The non-easy way is to modify /usr/lib/dpkg/me

Re: minimum X packages?

1999-02-08 Thread Daniel Martin
Paul Nathan Puri <"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"@office.law-counsellor.com> writes: > I recently upgraded to potato. > > Now X starts and immediately dies. Why would this be? What are the > minimum packages necessary to run X under potato (or in general)? It would probably be because the X maintainer l

Re: docbook-stylesheets

1999-02-08 Thread Daniel Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Folks, > > I'm trying to use the docbook-stylesheets (v. 1.07-1). I've got a > simple outline and I've managed to get jade to accept it (after a > little struggling). I have two big problems though: > > When I try to use HTML output, I don't get anything generated (

Re: A downright wierd Netscape problem

1999-02-08 Thread Daniel Martin
Curt Daugaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When trying to open certain documents in Netscape--for example, the > Printing-HOWTO at sunsite.unc--the document is not displayed right > away but starts to download. When it's done a dialog box appears with > this message: > >Netscape: subprocess

Re: GNUcash/Libs

1999-01-27 Thread Daniel Martin
Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > libXm.so.1 => not found > This is a motif library. Some versions of Lesstif will work. > > > libXmHTML.so.1.1 => not found > XmHTML doesn't exist as a debian package. Read the GNUCash readme and get > the source. > > I've been working on packag

Re: GNUcash/Libs

1999-01-26 Thread Daniel Martin
Timothy Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello! I am trying to get GNUCash to work; the binary distribution (1.1.23); > converted with alien from rpm gives > libXm.so.1 => not found > libXmHTML.so.1.1 => not found > libreadline.so.3 => not found > Can anyone tell me what packages I

Re: diald is eating packets

1999-01-26 Thread Daniel Martin
"Kenneth F. Ryder III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) how to keep diald from eating the first packet it sees coming across the > dummy link, and instead hold it and send it down the PPP link once > established. I think diald does this with UDP packets - with TCP packets there are other rather

Re: doom (sorry)

1999-01-19 Thread Daniel Martin
Frankie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Daniel Martin wrote: > > > > Frankie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I have just d/l doom shareware version, unfortunately, it wants > > > libXt.so.3 for the X version, and the svga version want

Re: doom (sorry)

1999-01-18 Thread Daniel Martin
Frankie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have just d/l doom shareware version, unfortunately, it wants > libXt.so.3 for the X version, and the svga version wants libc.so.4. > > What packages are these in? > I had a look in oldlibs, but I'm not entirely sure what I should look > for, so O didn't fi

Re: Soundblaster under Debian 2.0

1999-01-13 Thread Daniel Martin
Ramesh Natarajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I just installed Debian 2.0 and compiled kernal (2.0.34) with Sound as > module. I seem to get something working, but not all. I configured my > /etc/isapnp.conf, did a isapnptools /etc/isapnp.conf followed by > $insmod sound trace_init=1. On

Re: [offtopic] Dont't ECHO

1998-12-23 Thread Daniel Martin
Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I'm trying to, using socket programming, ask the remote user for login > and password. I would like that password won't appears on remote machine > when user is typing it. I already saw RFC's but it doesn't worked ! :((( > > Could someone

Re: refused connect from 'unknown'

1998-12-08 Thread Daniel Martin
Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > Can somebody explain me what this is? > > Dec 7 13:52:11 casal in.telnetd[27798]: warning: can't get client address: > No route to host > Dec 7 13:52:12 casal in.telnetd[27798]: refused connect from unknown > > If my machine has a

Re: ANSI Color Escapes in $PS1.. heh.

1998-12-02 Thread Daniel Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > How would one check to make sure the terminal is capable of ANSI escape > sequences? > > -brad I'd do this by not coding in the escape sequences directly, but by using tput: export PS1="\[`tput setaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] sgr0`\]:\[`tput setaf 4`\]\w\[`tput sgr0`\]\$ "

Re: No more C++ ?

1998-12-02 Thread Daniel Martin
Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > robinson:~/uni/c++/src$ c++ hello.C > > > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lstdc++: No such file or directory > > > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > > > > > > > I heard some people ha

Re: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info

1998-11-29 Thread Daniel Martin
Eric Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently installed Slink on a laptop. I have the latest versions of all > the signifigant packages. When I try to run dselect, groff, or many many > other things, I get this: > > error in loading shared libraries > /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2: u

Re: Linux shutdown

1998-11-25 Thread Daniel Martin
Tun Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello ... > I was wondering if there was a way for linux to make use of the ATX soft > power switch... > For example, shutdown ... totally, power and all just like win9x. > or, suspend to disk by pressing the momentary button? Recompile your own kernel (ins

Re: diald time restriction

1998-11-24 Thread Daniel Martin
Peter Bartosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi debians > > i´ve got only a short question: > > is it possible to restrict diald only to work at e.g. one hour per day? Yes. > and how? (config file, cron-job, etc.) Whatever. You can restrict certain portions of the config file to be operative

Re: DEL key in Xemacs

1998-11-24 Thread Daniel Martin
Daniel Elenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have this problem that has been bugging me for quite some time: > I can't get my DEL key working properly in Xemacs. I want it to always > generate delete-char, but it works like backspace, i.e. generates > delete-backward-char. I have a swedish key

Re: Ifconfig

1998-11-23 Thread Daniel Martin
Amanda Shuler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a question about ifconfig. > I have a machine that I am trying to configure to put onto a local > network. > I'm an assigning it IP address 192.168.76.76 > I type: > ifconfig eth0 192.168.76.76 > > then I check it with ifconfig and everythi

Re: How to enable DPMS monitor poweroff?

1998-11-22 Thread Daniel Martin
Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Hardware-HOWTO just says: > > 20.1. VESA Power Savings Protocol (DPMS) monitors > > Support for power savings is included in the Linux kernel. Just use > setterm to enable support. > > but setterm insists: > > timshel:~$ setterm -powers

Re: more X in slink stuff...

1998-11-15 Thread Daniel Martin
Zack Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using slink. When I run startx, I get the following errors: > > xauth: error in loading shared libraries > libXmu.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > xauth: error in loading shared libraries > libXmu.so.6: cannot open shar

Re: dual boot Linux/NT question

1998-11-08 Thread Daniel Martin
"Damir J. Naden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Rakesh Mohan; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > BTW, I can now use lilo for branching to NT and linux, this works fine. > > > That is interesting. I was never able to do this. Maybe because my NT > partition was NTFS.. > > damir I just tod

Re: /etc/host.deny and co

1998-10-28 Thread Daniel Martin
Linh Dang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thank you very much! > > Another question if you don't mind? > > Someone mentionned ipfwadm. What do you think about it, how does it > compare > to tcpwrapper? Does one has to recompile the kernel to use ipfwadm ? Yes, your kernel has to be compiled to su

Re: /etc/host.deny and co

1998-10-27 Thread Daniel Martin
Linh Dang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > > I want to deny telnet, ftp and smtp connection from ANY other sites. > But I want to accept http connection, pull down pop3, imap and > send out mail (smtp). > > How do I setup /etc/host.deny, /etc/host.allow and CO. I will RTFM > but since security

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-26 Thread Daniel Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lance Arsenault) writes: > I just would like to know if Debian 2.0 has conflicting software > in it like Debian 1.3.1 . > > Background: Debian 1.3.1 would not let you install all the software > in the release. Installing all the software in the release saves a > lot of time

Re: root - password wiped ?? how ??

1998-10-25 Thread Daniel Martin
"Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thanx but nope, thats not the problem, sysklog 1.3-30 is installed and > > permissions > > > Any other takers >;0) > > I'll take another swing :) > > Could something have switched you to/from shadow passwrds? This > is another popular w

Re: Pine Attachment Associations

1998-10-24 Thread Daniel Martin
"Stephen A. Witt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using Pine 4.05 on a Debian 2.0 platform at work. MS Office is the > standard desktop automation application around here except for a small > band of Unix enthusiasts. I've just installed Star Office, mostly so I > can read the MS Word document

Re: Removing ^M in files--in bulk?

1998-10-21 Thread Daniel Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have a bunch of files (est. 200) which were brought over from OS/2 after > being detached from emails (I've not got Debian networked yet here at > work--subject of another post). > > All of them have this control character (^M) at the end of each line, as > seen in

Re: legality of mailing Debian CDs from US to overseas?

1998-10-05 Thread Daniel Martin
"John B. Fink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now -- my question is, can I get into any trouble by "exporting" CD-R of > Debian Linux? I'm just sending burns of the "binary-i386.raw" images that > I get via rsync. My primary worry (all of a sudden -- I guess I should've > thought of this beforeh

Re: access to iso9660 raw image

1998-10-03 Thread Daniel Martin
Eugene Sevinian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi All, > > Today a friend of mine gave me a CD with raw binary image of hamm on it. > MD5 sum is correct. Would it be possible to use this CD as a hamm > distribution without burning new CD. May be using loopback device or > something like that? >

Re: can any user have the right of root and can lunch Netscape

1998-10-03 Thread Daniel Martin
Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 09:31:53AM +0800, Chan Min Wai wrote: > > Hai, > > I'm asking about that can a user have the rithr of root and can > > lunch netscape as well in Xwin.. > > Any user can start X windows if it is intalled properly. Any user can sta

Re: Free debugger that can do source debugging without executable.

1998-09-30 Thread Daniel Martin
Christopher Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a debugger or a way to get ddd to load and interpret a C source > file and step through it a step at a time without requiring the > debug-symbol compiled executable? I seem to remember doing something > like this a long time ago with one of

Re: RESCUE DISK |& X ICONS

1998-09-28 Thread Daniel Martin
"BOB'S MAIL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2. How do I install incons for applications in X -- or set a desk top > etc.? You need to install a window manager other than the basic twm which comes with X. I'd recommend fvwm2 or fvwm95 for people just starting out. You can customize these relati

Re: PON dials out, but PPP connection dropped

1998-09-27 Thread Daniel Martin
David Karlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > I've been messing around with Debian/Linux for about 3 months now. I > recently acquired a modem for my hamm box and am trying to set up my > system for a ppp/pap connection. > > I have run pppconfig, and now when I do "pon", the system waits a

Re: Voice Chatscript

1998-09-25 Thread Daniel Martin
David Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I'd like my computer to call up one of those automated voice business > information systems, then execute some transactions by entering my user > account information and make some selections from the menu. I'll need > to execute this task r

Re: printer advice

1998-09-22 Thread Daniel Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Norris) writes: > As near as I can tell it's not a winprinter, and it's print-language is > "Enhanced HP PCL 5" (which I believe is a superset of postscript, but > might well be mistaken on that point). No; it's a superset of HP's PCL (Printer Control Language) - a proprie

Re: this is probably too easy

1998-09-22 Thread Daniel Martin
Are you certain that your chatscript is going far enough? That is, are you certain that after sending PPP your ISP doesn't ask for a username and password? (or do you perhaps need PPP in lowercase?) This error looks like your ISP isn't responding to pppd at all; this often happens when there's so

Re: Easy X exit manager....

1998-09-21 Thread Daniel Martin
"Person, Rod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey all, > > My wife has taken a liking to KDE's kpoker. I added her as a user, but > she can't grasp the shutdown process. She is very computer impaired (I'm > being nice...she just plain computer stupid.) Anyway is there a exit > manager available to

Re: Debian 2.0: pon works, diald gets PAP authentication failure

1998-09-16 Thread Daniel Martin
Ken Westerback <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a working ppp connection, using PAP, available through pon or > wmppp as evidenced by the console messages: > When I try to enable diald by filling out the diald.options files as > follows: > > fifo /etc/diald/diald.ctl > mode ppp > connect "/u

Re: X-modes other than the defaults.

1998-09-16 Thread Daniel Martin
Mrpeabody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My X-windows automatically loads in 8dpp mode and I have a card that is > capable of much better how do I tell x to try other modes instead. > -jeff Two ways: If you're starting X with startx, you can do: startx -- -bpp 16 (or 15, 24, or 32) If you're s

Re: FTE editor

1998-09-16 Thread Daniel Martin
(I'm copying so much text because the original didn't make it to debian-user) Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/15/98 > at 10:08 AM, Daniel Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >"Paul M. Foster" <

Re: FTE editor

1998-09-15 Thread Daniel Martin
"Paul M. Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In my case, it isn't a problem, since it is a single user machine on a > network, with my wife running Win95 on the other machine. But I see the > point. So presumably, if someone could write something to /dev/vcsa*, it > would show up on my screen. H

Re: FTE editor

1998-09-15 Thread Daniel Martin
"Paul M. Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Debs: > Two questions: > > 1) Is this a dangerous thing (I know of no other Linux editors that > access the terminal this way)? Accessing the terminal in this way? In itself no; in fact, if all access is done through /dev/vcsa*, there's not the cha

Re: analog 3.0.3 "home grown scripts"

1998-09-14 Thread Daniel Martin
"William R. McDonough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > could someone please show me where to access these "home grown scripts" > I have analog on my web server but it's FreeBSD not Debian... > > I'd love to have my analog show me email and FTP stats. ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/so

Re: diald and ppp

1998-09-14 Thread Daniel Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith) writes: > [1 ] > I am trying to set up diald and ppp. I thought it would be easy like it > was with Debian 1.3, but I guess Debian developers or someone wanted to > keep me on my toes so they changed stuff. Here are my problems. > I have attached /etc/diald/diald.optio

Re: PON on REQUEST

1998-09-14 Thread Daniel Martin
Jim Crumley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I pretty much copied my setup from > http://www.math.jhu.edu/~martind/mybox.html . > I think Daniel Martin still reads this list. He also > has a link to the Dynamic IP Hacks Mini-HOWTO, > which has more suggestions. Oh my. I&#

Re: changed server name, how-to change back

1998-09-10 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith) writes: > I somehow changed the name of my server back copying files from > another server onto this one. Which files sets the name of the > server? It took me a moment to figure out what you were asking. The file you're looking for is /etc/hostname, which is used in th

Re: ppp connection with Demon

1998-09-07 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
4 for /dev/ttyS0 (aka com1) and 3 for /dev/ttyS1 (aka com2). However, some machines (like mine) have BIOSes which can alter this, so that the built-in com ports use IRQ's 4 and 12. Check your BIOS's setup menu. DANIEL MARTIN p.s. What are all these settings: IRQ, io port (sometimes c

Re: xdm starts local server

1998-08-13 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
(This is being resent, as I have had to reconfigure my mail program to get around internic's objection to the debian.org name) Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Aug 12, 1998 at 03:20:30PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Why you get different behaviour from xdm and start might

Re: resolv.conf, PPP and multiple providers

1998-08-13 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
(This is being resent because it was mercilessly bounced... :( ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > *- Damon Muller wrote about "resolv.conf, PPP and multiple providers" > | > | However, anyone have any hints on how to set up the resolv.conf file > | when you have multiple ISPs? I guess I could have an

Re: fvwm95 after hamm upgrade

1998-08-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Doug Thistlethwaite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I upgraded my bo system to hamm last night. Everything went pretty > well, though I did have the run the "install" portion of dselect > several times for it to get through without errors... Well, I'm impressed - I made a slight error

Re: minimal files essential for booting ?

1998-08-07 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > I went nuts partitioning the new disk. I was mostly just > >experimenting. Many will think I have gone needlessly overboard. I won't > >disagree. The old disk has two partitions, one being swap. The new

Re: SHELL: duping stdout and stderr to another file

1998-07-29 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Ulisses Alonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all > > I would like to know _how to copy_ (not start a new shell, eg: script) > stdout and stderr _from a shell script_ to a file. Also It is interesting > for me if there is a way to stop copying stdout and stderr... > > Thanks in advance, > >

Re: Diald and Windows NT/95

1998-07-29 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Butch Kemper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. What is causing the link to yo-yo and how to change the Windows > boxes to stop the yo-yo from happening. Doesn't diald come with some sort of monitor program? (use 'dpkg -L diald' to see what comes with diald) I think it's called '

Re: xacc brings my laptop to a crawl

1998-07-29 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Mike Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to use xacc in the hamm release (xacc_1.0.17-2.deb), but > when I try to enter a number in the register window, the cursor blinks > exceedingly fast and it brings to X server to a near standstill. I > can still continue, but at a snail's pace,

Re: partition memory

1998-07-27 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Yanick MICHOU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > I would like to know what is the shell command to know what is the > available, used and free memory on the current partition ? You mean the available used and free disk space? The command is df - I believe it stands for something like "disk f

Re: no pon!

1998-07-27 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> "DP" == David Parmet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > DP> who is this pid 109 and what does it want with my life? > > pid = Process ID > > To check what prozess has ID 109 do a "ps ax|grep 109" Incidentally, if you have the process id already,

Re: Fvwm2 and Debian menu

1998-07-24 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Curt Daugaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I like the design of the Debian menu package, and I'm trying to > follow the docs to get auto-updating of menus under X, but I seem > to have hit a roadblock. > > I use Fvwm2, and according to the comments in system.fvwm2rc > and the Fvwm2 docs--in the

Re: No PINE debian package?

1998-07-20 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
jason and jill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's included in the distribution and available for download from > www.debian.org. > > Can't get much more available than that unless you contract Pam Anderson > to deliver it to your home. ;) > > He may have missed it because it's in non-free rather

Re: My 'h' key is unusable

1998-07-15 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Stelios Parnassidis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just had the base system installation of Hamm, and wanted > to type 'which superformat'. 'h' beeps and beeps ... i have > to type Ctrl-V h to use it. > > I looked into the /etc/terminfo/l/linux via ... (untic) > could find nothing. > > Wha

Re: Why does tty1 become the current VT on reboot/halt?

1998-07-15 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
"Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey all. Why is it that when I reboot or halt my machine, I'm > automatically switched to the first virtual console? I don't like this at > all, because all of the messages coming from the rc scripts get sent > whichever VC I was on when I typed

Re: Fvwm95: FvwmTaskBarAutoHide problems

1998-07-10 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Benno Overeinder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I am using the Fvwm95 window manager and has enabled the infamous > FvwmTaskBarAutoHide option. > > With Debian 1.3, the Fvwm95 taskbar appeared automagically if the > mouse hits the bottom of a virtual desktop (i.e., generated a certain > e

Re: -post_data

1998-07-10 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerald V. Livingston lI) writes: > This isn't debian specific, but what the hey. > > How does one find out the format needed to use the -post_data switch > in LYNX to feed data to a remote CGI using a script? The data format is exactly what's sent to the server, so any refere

Re: Xconsole vs "security"

1998-07-10 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If your password is in pap-secrets it is supposed to remain just that -- > a secret. I never see my password come wizzing by on xconsole and I use > pap too. So, now we need to figure out why. The \q only works in a > chatscript. Do you perhaps have the deb

Re: FVWM2 (New X user)

1998-07-10 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
ile ~/.fvwm2/background.color Finally, you can get it to choose a random background by creating a file called ~/.fvwm2/background.list, and listing one background file per line. DANIEL MARTIN P.S. One mistake people often make is to download a ~/.fvwm2rc file from the net or use a friend

Re: problem with libpam0 and libpam-util in stable

1998-07-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
"Chris R. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm probably missing something obvious here, but I can't seem to get > libpam0 and libpam-util to install, because aparently they depend on each > other. > > Do I need to use dpkg --force ?? > > Thanks, > Chris Try specifying both on the same dpkg

Re: Xconsole vs "security"

1998-07-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I'm using Debian 1.3.1 and KDE Beta4. > When I call the xconsole program I could almost activity on my machine > but I think there's something wrong ... > > Sometimes on xconsole I could see my login and password as when I write > them !

Re: libc6 upgrade crash my machine!!!!!

1998-07-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > After running dselect and trying to upgrade all my old hamm packages > including libc6, nothing works now it seems the libc6 package is corrupted > or something, i've tried to mount the file system and run dpkg -i > --root=/mnt --admindir=/mnt/var/lib libc6xxx.deb b

Re: [Debian] Urgent: how to create Debian CD from non-debian UNIX system

1998-07-05 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
w.uk.debian.org/debian-cd/cd-images/ , where Phillip Hands has put his 2.0-beta CD images (I'd suggest only using the 2.0beta1 images on that site, however). I know this isn't exactly what you asked about, but it may be much easier to go get someone else's CD image than trying

Re: Is Netscape Navigator really only for 16-bit color?

1998-06-28 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Chip Grandits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've installed Netscape Communicator v4.05 on my bo system running > Xwindows with the FVWM manager. I don't have any Motif or Motif > clones. When I attempt to browse to a page which uses Java, > Netscape just crashes immediately and goes away. (No h

Re: what goes into .xinitrc and what into .xsession

1998-06-19 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i tried to figure out while setting up the system whats supposed to go > under the .xinitrc file and what into .xsession. Because I tried to > use .xinitrc first to initialise stuff (like chosing window manager) > but it won't work, so i put the things in

Re: how to make an intermediate machine receive mail while the destination is down?

1998-06-18 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Carlos Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to shutdown our main mail server for hardware changes, and I'd > like that another machine in our department receives the mail and hold > it until the main server is up again, and then sends the stored mail > to the server. How can this be done?

Re: No E 14 yet

1998-05-31 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I too like fvwm2, but I can't configure the menu - I've RTFM and looked at > the config pages, but I can't add things to sub-groups of the main menu - > whatever I try just ends up at the bottom of the main menu (i.e. the > `root' menu that comes up firs

Re: WindowMaker | Menu? - Xterms

1998-05-29 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Cool! Thanks alot! > Can you tell me where is the documentation for this .Xresources file? > man .xresources, man -k xresources etc don't have anything. :( > > Timothy > > > Three solutions: > > 1) decide that the default xterm isn't so ugly after all. > > 2) Modify

Re: jdk1.1-runtime

1998-05-29 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I managed to find the old jdk 1.1.3v2 .debs which can be installed on bo (libc5 systems). I've put them into my public_html directory on master.debian.org - note that although I am a debian maintainer, I do not maintain nor never have maintened the jdk packages.

Re: WindowMaker | Menu? - Xterms

1998-05-29 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Anyone know how to get something like, > "xterm -bg black -cr green -fg white &" > to be the command that gets spawned from WindowMaker's XShells->Xterm, instead > of the ugly default xterm? > Thanks in advance, > Timothy Three solutions: 1) decide that the default xte

Re: Q: How to get class String from libg++272 with Debian2.0

1998-05-29 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 02:31:29PM +0200, Waldemar ¯urowski wrote: > > I switched from Debian 1.3 to Debian 2.0 while I was writing a program for > > my final exam of my study. I used in many places class String, and class > > which implements regular expression. When I

Re: jdk1.1-runtime

1998-05-29 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What you are essentially trying to do here is to upgrade from libc5 to > libc6 (the JDK was compiled for libc6). This is not a trivial task. It is > the heart of the difference between Debian 1.3 and 2.0. There is a shell > script called autoup.sh

Re: xemacs splits mail

1998-05-29 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
"Stefan Gödel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using VM. Does this really matter? I always felt that reading and > writing / sending of mail are very distinct from each other (at least in > xemacs). I'm using the usual mail mode with mime extensions to write > my mail. My variable help gives m

Re: I can't get tar to exclude files!!

1998-05-26 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Admaster Communications <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 and I've tried many permutations of > > > tar -zcvf test.tar * --exclude=leave_me_out.txt > > The file I ask to be excluded is reliably INcluded!! What is the correct > syntax??? The problem is that --exclu

Re: changing default screen manger in x

1998-05-26 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
"Rev. Joseph Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 10:04:38PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > Make sure you have "allow-user-xsession" in /etc/X11/config, then create > > the file .xsession in your homedir. It should be something like: > > > > xterm & # start a xterm

Re: why can't i compile things ???

1998-05-26 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Mario Filipe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > > Yesterday i (think i) did a mess of my system. I accidently made a strip * on > a > lib directory. > > Today when i try to compile anything I always get the following : > > gcc -O -o poster poster.c -lm > ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _

Re: Xwindows not working

1998-05-25 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Keith Alen Vance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have recently been screwing up my system and I am about ready to trash > the whole thing and start over from scratch. I purchased a new video card > Mystique 220 and I am trying to get it work with Xfree86 and AfterStep. I > downloaded the files for

Re: Matrox Mystique 220 video card

1998-05-25 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Keith Alen Vance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently installed a Matrox Mystique video card and was wondering what > files I am missinf from my xfree86 and where I can get them. I don't have > a browser setup on this computer so if you could give me ftp servers that > would be great. Here is

Re: Overriding fvwm95 buttons in the post.hook?

1998-05-22 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have read the documentation on fvwm95 and on FvwmButtons but I am > still at a loss to decide how I would override definitions of buttons > in > /etc/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm95rc > > What I would like to do is to use rclock rather than

Re: Why fetchmail didn't download my e-mail ?

1998-05-22 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Ionut Borcoman at musa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > bash-2.01$ fetchmail > fetchmail: 1 message for borco at mail.mailbox.ro. > reading message 1 of 1 (2579 bytes) fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 > <@mail.mailbox.ro > > : colon expected after route > fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 : sender address m

Re: pppd 2.3.5: "peer refused to authenticate" problem

1998-05-16 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The answer is easy. The new ppp's set auth "on" by default. They did > not use to do so. Edit the provider script and add "noauth" near the > end. All will be happy. To be a bit more explicit - make certain that the keyword "noauth" is in /etc/ppp/peers/pr

Re: modprobe log entries

1998-05-14 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Daniel Martin at cush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know how to have the modprobe in hamm display more > descriptive log messages when it can't load a module? I've been > getting messages in my log like: > > May 14 13:27:41 cush modprobe: can

modprobe log entries

1998-05-14 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
s, yes I do have alias net-pf-3 off alias net-pf-4 off alias net-pf-5 off in my /etc/conf.modules. Hmmm... this may be a bug against modutils, as I'm almost certain that bo gave you a clue in the logs. -- Daniel Martin, who doesn't really have a good sig yet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: xdm and shutdown

1998-05-01 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
"Jorge Daniel Ruckj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all. > > How I do a shutdown if I use xdm? > > Thanks Are you aware that even while using xdm one can press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to a text console? I find a surprising number of linux users unaware of this fact. >From the text console, you c

Re: help w/ ttysnoop

1998-04-24 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can someone please help me setup ttysnoop?? I have set up the entry in > inetd.conf. > > /etc/inetd.conf > telnet stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd > /usr/sbin/in.telnetd -L/usr/sbin/ttysnoops > > /etc/snooptab > * socket

Re: chmod not working

1998-04-23 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Alain Toussaint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i was messing with some permission to directory but i think i found a bug > in chmod,i try to run "chmod 751" on my home directory (i put the content > of the home directory on another partition because of lack of space on my > root partition),but the

Re: off-topic autofs permissions

1998-04-23 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi! > I guess this it not a debian related problem, but: > I am setting up a small Network with a linux server and some linux, win95 and > nt-workstation clients. The clients shall be able to access the cd-rom and > zip-drive on the server using autofs. The problem is t

modprobe log entries

1998-04-22 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
ve alias net-pf-3 off alias net-pf-4 off alias net-pf-5 off in my /etc/conf.modules. Hmmm... this may be a bug against modutils, as I'm almost certain that bo gave you a clue in the logs. -- Daniel Martin, who doesn't really have a good sig yet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

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