Re: graphical tool for network design/illustration

2001-10-03 Thread Immanuel Yap
Maybe dia will be to your liking. It's quite similar to Visio, if you're familiar with that. There are both Debian and Ximian packages for it: Package: dia Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: graphics Installed-Size: 10836 Maintainer: Ximian, Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version

Re: superformat?

2000-09-15 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Thu Sep 14, 2000, Michael Soulier wrote: > On 14 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote: > Yeah, I suppose. Out of curiousity, what format is used on zip > drives running under Linux? I've never used one. Do they have their own > format, ala CDROMS with iso9660? ZIP drives are treated as hard drives

Re: Using AucTeX with XEmacs 21

2000-04-28 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Apr 28, 2000, Joseph Martin wrote: > Hello All, > I have xemacs21.1.9 installed. I cannot install AucTex as it > conflicts with xemacs21. The description with the auctex says that > auctex is included with xemacs. When I open LaTeX files the buffer is > in LaTeX mode and the file is

Re: A quickie-2.2.XX kernel compile-/usr/include links?

1999-09-10 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Fri Sep 10, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm about to compile 2.2.10 for my work machine, and as usual simply follow > the Fine manual which comes with the package. This time around, though, I > noticed no reference to linking /usr/include/{asm||linux||scsi} to dirs > under the source. Is

Re: graphic login does not allow choice of wm

1999-09-10 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Thu Sep 9, 1999, John wrote: > Have installed 2.1 from Official CDs: this took 2hrs as program continually > spent long periods searching sectors and 'resetting atapi' and made it > difficult > to recall what options I selected. After completion XF86Setup was run > successfully and startx fv

Re: Samba and /etc/passwd

1999-08-17 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Tue Aug 17, 1999, Debian Mail wrote: > > > I'm quite puzzled since I cannot find the answer to what seems to be a > > > faq: I want that samba uses /etc/passwd and not /etc/smbpasswd to > > > authenticate a user. How do I do that? > > > > You can't. > > So every user has to use passwd AND smbp

RE: bash & color

1999-08-16 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Mon Aug 16, 1999, Pollywog wrote: > > On 16-Aug-99 Pollywog wrote: > > This is what I have in my .bash_profile in order to get colors: > > > > export LS_OPTIONS='--color=auto' > > eval `dircolors` > > The last line is apparently superfluous, so I removed it. It's useful if you want to change

Re: Samba and /etc/passwd

1999-08-16 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Mon Aug 16, 1999, Debian Mail wrote: > I'm quite puzzled since I cannot find the answer to what seems to be a > faq: I want that samba uses /etc/passwd and not /etc/smbpasswd to > authenticate a user. How do I do that? You can't. Noel

Re: Terminal errors

1999-08-10 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Mon Aug 9, 1999, John Carline wrote: > Immanuel Yap wrote: > > > On Mon Aug 9, 1999, John Carline wrote: > > > Executing 'dselect' now gives me the error 'Error opening > > > terminal: unknown', and in addition many other commands give >

Re: Terminal errors

1999-08-10 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Mon Aug 9, 1999, John Carline wrote: > Executing 'dselect' now gives me the error 'Error opening > terminal: unknown', and in addition many other commands give > similar messages. For example, if I use a pipe to less (ls | > less) I get the following: WARNING: Terminal is not fully > functiona

Re: Good HTML editor for debian Linux?

1999-07-22 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Wed Jul 21, 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jul 1999 15:47:02- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >I would not mind something that could: > >1. Gives color coding > >2. Be good for perl AND html AND cgi AND javascript (I doubt I'll get all 4) > >3. Let me save to a web server. > >4. The only

Re: Refusing to deliver mail

1999-06-18 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Fri Jun 18, 1999, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: > Is there a way to configure the email server (sendmail 8.9.3) so that it > refuses mail coming from a specified address to a specific email. Let me > clarify: > > My user A doesn't wan't to receive mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it > possible

Re: grep "\" ... how

1999-06-11 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Fri Jun 11, 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > I need to write a script to replace '\'s with '/', but how can I get > grep to accept '\' as a regular expression (it assumes it to be line > continue character, at least from the sh prompt)? Put the expression in single quotes? Noel

Re: screen 'savers'

1999-06-10 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Thu Jun 10, 1999, Judith E Bush wrote: > I'm looking for what might be blanking out the screen on several linux > systems. On all three systems, power management in the bios is set to > 'always on.' All three systems have dramatically different monitors. > I'm running metrox's Xwindows and hav

Re: pack/compress?

1999-06-07 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Mon Jun 7, 1999, Jonathan P Tomer wrote: > it strikes me as odd that the standard potato doesn't seem to include the > pack huffman coder or compress lzw compressor. while these are fairly > obsoleted by gzip, especially as gunzip will read .z and .Z files, they > still are mildly useful. am i

Re: rvplayer working?

1999-04-30 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Fri Apr 30, 1999, Timothy Hospedales wrote: > Hi! Has anyone got the RealVideo player to work? > I got the .rpm package from www.real.com and debianized it with alien and then > installed it. Then I set it up with netscape as per instructions. (It didn't > come with the .class files for the plug

Re: is postgresql free?

1999-03-08 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Fri Mar 5, 1999, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: > can I have unlimited clients conected to postgresql with no licese > payment. Yes. See http://www.postgresql.org for more info. Noel

Re: Removal of idle telnet connections?

1999-02-25 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Thu Feb 25, 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: > Dear all, > > One of my users is complaining that if he leaves sessions idle > for more than about 30 mins the connection that gets dropped. I don't > recall running any idled or whatever; is this a feature, and if so, how > might I disable it? If h

Re: /home/ftp directory question

1999-02-24 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Wed Feb 24, 1999, Pollywog wrote: > > On 24-Feb-99 Jesse Jacobsen wrote: > > I missed the first part of this thread, but was wondering... do you have > > separate /home/ftp/bin and /home/ftp/lib/ and /home/ftp/etc directories? > > You need those under /home/ftp/ because the ftpd automatically c

Re: Crashing Install with Debian 2.0

1999-02-19 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Fri Feb 19, 1999, Tallon wrote: > Does anyone know what this means? I am trying to install Debian 2.0 > on a Cyrix MII 300 with 128Megs and 2 Fujitsu 4.3G drives. Has a > Genoa 3d Phantom Video Card and a SMC Ethernet card 1211TX. > > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address

Re: VM problem

1999-02-11 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Wed Feb 10, 1999, Daniel Elenius wrote: > I have a problem with the VM mail reader that has been annoying me for > a LONG time. I use an exim filter to put e.g. the debian-user mail in > a ~/mail/debian folder. Then when I open this folder, there will > usually be new mail coming into the folde

Re: debian-user trailer line: incomprehensible to those who need it

1999-02-01 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Mon Feb 1, 1999, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > So, shall we take this opportunity to reopen the discussion about the > debian-user > trailer line? The evidence just keeps indicating that the existing one is > useless to > those who could benefit from it and ignored by everyone else. > > "Thomas

Re: TK installation

1999-02-01 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Mon Feb 1, 1999, ktb wrote: > I've never attempted anything like this before so I really have no > clue. What I'm trying to do is ultimately install the aol instant > messenger program for unix. To do this I have to install Tcl/Tk. I > don't know what they are for but I followed the dire

Re: emacs & xemacs

1998-12-09 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Wed Dec 9, 1998, Keith Beattie wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > > > Ever since I started with Linux I've wanted a console-based graphical web > > browser, but kept running into a brick wall. Then I read that emacs could > > Uh, isn't "console-based graphical " an oxymoron? How could > your ever

Re: Repost - First-time Linux setup - questions

1998-11-03 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Tue Nov 3, 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: > I've just got the basic Linux 2.0.35 working and have been busily > adding packages. Among them is the olvwm package. When I try to > invoke olvwm, I get a library missing error message. When I look > in /usr/lib, the file olvwm complains about is

Strange Netscape font problem, '=?

1998-11-02 Thread Immanuel Yap
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi all, > > I have a really strange font problem in Netscape. Some apostrophes(') > appear as question marks(?). This problem as been around since bo and > since Netscape 4.0 or so, I can't remember exactly. When I look at the > source it shows question marks as

Re: Y2K Compliant?

1998-10-14 Thread Immanuel Yap
Here's a link to Debian's Y2K statement: http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19980104 Noel

Re: vnc x-windows server looking for "xauth"

1998-10-12 Thread Immanuel Yap
David Karlin wrote: > > Hello, > I just installed the vnc x-windows server (.deb) and when I fire up > vncserver, > it says: > > vncserver: couldn't find "xauth" on your PATH. > > First I checked my hard-drive for "xauth" (find / -name "xauth"); the file > does not exist on my drive. Then I c

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-10-08 Thread Immanuel Yap
Wilson Tuma wrote: > > Hi > > Plase could you give the the files I have to download to be able to install > linux man pages so I can get help by typing say > > man rm > man cp Install the man-db package. Noel

Re: help getting started with postgreSQL

1998-10-08 Thread Immanuel Yap
Shaleh wrote: > > Hi, I just installed the postgreSQL packages. However I can not add users > because > > foo# createuser > Connection to database 'template1' failed. > FATAL 1: SetUserId: user "root" is not in "pg_shadow" > > createuser: database access failed. > foo# > > The docs are not he

Re: Kernel compiling error

1998-10-07 Thread Immanuel Yap
Ken Archer wrote: > > Came up with the following error trying to compile a development kernel. The > same kernel compiled fine on my Suse partition. > > as 86 -0 -a -o bboot sect.o bbootsect.s > make [1]: as86: Command not found > make [1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127 > make [1]: Leaving directo

Re: running X windows

1998-10-07 Thread Immanuel Yap
Bostjan JERKO wrote: > > I still have problem running X windows (Xfree86) on Debian 2.0 as ordinary > user. It works fine if I log on as root. > I use it on stand alone machine without network card and xdm is not running. > The messages I get are : > > _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ... So

Re: using RAM above 64 Mb as a swap area

1998-09-21 Thread Immanuel Yap
Default Debian Reader wrote: > > I have a question regarding RAM, does linux recognize anything over 64M > of ram? I have 128M on my machine and this is what top reports... > CPU states: 0.5% user, 1.1% system, 0.0% nice, 98.5% idle > Mem: 63344K av, 62092K used, 1252K free, 32960K shrd,

Re: xterm menu problem

1998-09-10 Thread Immanuel Yap
Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > > > When I try to change the font size, using the control+rightmouseclick then I > > get a menu showing me same font sizes. But this only happens if the user is > > root. Otherwise I get a menu that is really smaller and I can only see the > > first line of text in the menu

Re: Auc Tex not working

1998-09-01 Thread Immanuel Yap
Johann Spies wrote: > > After upgrading Debian 2.0 (emacs20) Auc Tex is not working. > > I have, as the auc tex info file indicated, included the following in my > .emacs - file: > (setq TeX-auto-save t) > (setq TeX-parse-self t) > (setq-default TeX-master nil) > > I have re-installed auctex bu

Re: Modules

1998-09-01 Thread Immanuel Yap
Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > |Just installed Debian 2.0, and now I have a question |about modules. > > |I have managed to get isapnp setup my network card |properly. When I > |manually > |give: > | insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ 8390.0 > | insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ne io=0x220 irq=11 > |I

Re: Font Servers

1998-08-28 Thread Immanuel Yap
Mike Nachlinger wrote: > > Is anyone aware of were to get a fontserver to run on > a Debian 2.0 system? xfs is included in the xbase package. Noel

Re: format a floppy ?

1998-08-19 Thread Immanuel Yap
Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > > Hello, > as i upgraded from bo to hamm (and on other machine I installed directly > hamm), I miss the fdformat command... where's that gone ? fdformat is obsolete; use superformat. Noel