Re: ... ldbm ???

1999-08-15 Thread King Lee
Just a guess: they are looking for the Berkeley dbm packages. In think it is the package libdbm1-altdev in the section under oldlibs. king lee On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Oliver wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to compile the fastcgi module for apache but the linker can't found > th

Re: RedHat = MS-Linux

1999-03-29 Thread King Lee
t provide source) had a tree (like teTeX) and have envionmental variables point to parts of tree, it seems that any distro can easily include the software in a packge. Is it that simple? If so, are the vendors doing this? King Lee

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-28 Thread King Lee
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, George Bonser wrote: > On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, King Lee wrote: > > > Sorry, bad choice of words. I hope that if debian gains "market share" > > Red Hat may not be so dominant. > > Well, I am not sure that Red Hat being so dominant is a

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-28 Thread King Lee
original post I am troubled by one distro becoming so dominant. King Lee

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-28 Thread King Lee
can Debian do? If I'm right and Debian addresses the above points, Debian may gain "market share". It's going to be tough because once IBM, etc, sign up with Red Hat, it's going to be hard for them to change. My two cents worth King Lee

IBM netfinity PCs

1999-02-21 Thread King Lee
card chip set I think I can get it with Red Hat, but I may want to compile my own kernel, and install Debian. If you have experience, how do you like them? Thanks in advance King Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: slashdot poll

1999-02-11 Thread King Lee
ee the day when a single binary package can be installed on Red Hat, Debian, Suse, Slackeware FBSD, etc; The binary package should come with its own uninstall script. The issue of GUI's, administrative interfaces, etc. is IMHO much less important. King Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rotating log files

1998-12-18 Thread King Lee
Oops please excuse previous message. I thought it was a personal email; I know author King On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I believe that in Debian 1.3 (or was it 1.2?), the cron > package came with crontabs that will rotate the log files in > /var/log. This does not appear to

Re: Latex - let me make clear

1998-12-09 Thread King Lee
How about \begin{tabbing} \>xxx\>\kill \>Name: \>Shoa Zhang\\ \>Address: \>Debian, org\\ \>Email:\>[EMAIL PROTECTED] \>Health: \>Excellent\\ \end{tabbing} On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi all, > Thanks for all the kind answers abo

Unidentified subject!

1998-11-03 Thread King Lee
Hello, I got a hold of a 486 PS/2 with a microchannel bus and installed Hamm. I have no docs. I plan to use it as an X11 terminal. GA, and the 8514 X11 server, but I can't get it configured. The default server is VGA16. When I type XF86Configure, the screen does funny things and then the scre

Re: about latex and tables

1998-11-02 Thread King Lee
Hello, I'm not a Latex expert, but I think the current versions of Latex (known as Latex2e) should have a package called longtable or supertab that may do what you want. See the Latex Companion for more documentation. There is also a TeX newsgroup. Hope this helps King lee On Sun,

Re: Security problem

1998-10-24 Thread King Lee
s and looked for the new package number in package-updates. I didn't find it so I looked in current distribution and found it with correct version number. On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Lukas Eppler wrote: > On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, King Lee wrote: > > > The bug is real, and Debian ha

Re: Security problem

1998-10-23 Thread King Lee
security hole. There was also security problems with bind. The fixes appear in the current distributions (2.0.2 I think) not in package-updates. King Lee On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernkon wrote: > > > At our school our system administrator (who is very good) was > > running Red Hat

Security problem

1998-10-22 Thread King Lee
Hello, At our school our system administrator (who is very good) was running Red Hat 5.1 and someone broke in and got root privileges. Since he had written a Lan watch, we think we know how it happened. The Lan Watch showed someone form Israel send a very long packet to mountd. Shortly after, tw

RE: IBM W/"MCA" Board

1998-10-13 Thread King Lee
I am having trouble installing Debian on MCA computer. >From DOS, I go to cdrom, in boot directory, I boot up (using loadlin). I install, have some trouble writing to floppies, and eventually get a bare system working. I want to mount the cdrom which I think is scsi, but I can't seem to find i

Re: debian 2.0.2 cd from lsl

1998-10-06 Thread King Lee
Hello, I was about to order the debian 2.0 version from LSL, but noticed they were selling Debian 2.0.2. The Debian News does not mention a 2.0.2 version, so is this a beta version? what's going on? Thanks in advance. King Lee

Re: Samba

1998-09-25 Thread King Lee
demon is not accepting print requests over the network. I have the hostname of the remote linux machine in /etc/hosts.lpd. My smb.conf has a [printers] section Thanks in advnace. King Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: backup using hard disk - any ideas

1998-09-22 Thread King Lee
$backup I wont know how good it is until one of disks dies, but I think it should work. King Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, JonesMB wrote: > Hello, > > I recently had a hard drive die on me causing me to lose lots of data. I > have rebuilt my system (a K6/233 wit

Re: Samba

1998-09-22 Thread King Lee
to work - I can use it as a print server. However, I am puzzled about why don't see a smbd process running when enter ps -aux | grep smbd If smbd is called by nmbd, then do I have to run it in the rc.d scripts as suggensted in documentation. King Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Samba

1998-09-21 Thread King Lee
n port 139 socket_addr=0 (Address already in use) When I type nmbd -D and do ps -aux | grep nmbd I see the demon running. Also, I am able to see sharred directories on other machines. Can someone explain why smbd does not seem to work. Thanks King lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Unidentified subject!

1998-09-17 Thread King Lee
Hello, I am going to set up a mail server on Debian (1.3) and have read some conflicting reports on the various pros and cons of sendmail, qmail, and smail. Can someone give me a recommendation on one of those MTAs and why? Thanks King Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SMC Ethernet Problem

1998-08-12 Thread King Lee
Hello I'm using an SMC card (EtherPower I think) with the DEC chip, and it seems to be running fine under bo. Did you configure the kernel to use tulip driver? King On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: > > I have always used 3Com ethernet cards but I recently got a PCI SMC card > with a

Re: The last latex2e question.........

1998-07-17 Thread King Lee
rom a .ps file generated by dvips--don't try to use, say, I think that if you bring document up in gostview, you can print or marked pages. > dvilj2p, as it knows nothing about postscript specials (I wish it did > like xdvi and called gs to render, but it's too old). That's why I > have a postscript printer. :{) King Lee > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: a simple drawing program?

1998-07-13 Thread King Lee
How about xfig King Lee On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > nikolai suggests, > > On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > > > > Is there a simple, easily usable, drawing package that's been debianized? > > >

Re: [Fwd: List of default installed files]

1998-07-11 Thread King Lee
ld sort on each field to produce files sorted by name, priority, etc. I wrote lots of other scripts too. If anyone is interested, email me. I prefer to install packages with scripts rather than on the fly with a GUI application. King Lee -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: What's a good video card?

1998-07-09 Thread King Lee
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: > Well on Alan Cox's web page for TV in Linux he has a pretty GIF that has > the red circle w/ the slash on an ATi logo and specifically states that > until ATi gives out specs their all-in-wonder card will not do anything Sorry to bother you, but could you giv

Re: What's a good video card?

1998-07-09 Thread King Lee
deo ram for larger virtual screen. I don't care about 3D as I don't play games. I am now leaning to toward the Matrox Mystique even though PCI Matrox Mystique comes with 4 MB and the 4MB memory upgrade brings price slightly above my $100 limit and I would rather not have

Re: What's a good video card?

1998-07-07 Thread King Lee
version is < $100. Does anyone have any experience running this card with Linux. Thanks King Lee -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Sybase With Debian?

1998-06-30 Thread King Lee
This is a vague recollection of a conversation a long time ago and it may be incorrect. Sybase has not been ported to Linux, but it has been ported to SCO. There is a essentially free one user version of SCO. King On Tue, 30 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please send replies t

RE: NT and Linux

1998-06-02 Thread King Lee
> be a hit. Does anyone know about CPU hit of software raid. > > Why would anyone buy expensive raid hardware if software > > does the same without too much penalty? > > > > King Lee > > First, the CPU not only checks for errors on reading, it must also > calculat

Re: NT and Linux

1998-05-29 Thread King Lee
On Thu, 28 May 1998, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > King Lee wrote: > >1. Has anyone here had any experience or knowledge > > about software raid. How good is it? > >2. Does Linux support hardware raid 5 > > Just (re)found

NT and Linux

1998-05-27 Thread King Lee
for an excuse not to use Linux. King Lee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-05-26 Thread King Lee
On Mon, 25 May 1998, George Bonser wrote: > > Is there a /etc/hosts or DNS entry for your local machine? Just setting > the hostname is not enough, it must resolve because lpd is checking its > /etc/hosts.lpd file. > > That did it. Thanks! King Lee -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Unidentified subject!

1998-05-26 Thread King Lee
Hello, I installed debian and it doesn't print. The printcap file is unchanged and looks allright. The machine prints with Red Hat, so it isn't hardware. The message I get is lpr: unable to get official name for local machine If I enter hostname I get the hostname (debian). Wh

Network problme

1998-05-08 Thread King Lee
what can the problem be. I think those values are set correctly. Thanks in advance King Lee ultrix6.cs.csubak.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Rescue Disks

1998-05-05 Thread King Lee
info. Also look in initrd package or howto. Also, at Sunsite under , I think, system/recovery there are rescue disks images. King Lee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lilo woes

1998-05-01 Thread King Lee
.ps.Z. Most intro books on Unix have intro chapter. > 2. Can anyone suggest how I could restore NT as the default boot? did you try fdisk /MBR to restore original MBR. I don't know anything about NT, but this may fix up MBR King Lee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Betr.: Re: Linux + Win95 + Win NT on one HD

1998-04-29 Thread King Lee
Sorry, I hit wrong button and previous message got sent before it was supposed to On Tue, 28 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > thanks for your help on this topic. Now it works! I did it this way: You're welcome > > 1. Delete any existing partitions (have you all backed up??) > 2

Re: Betr.: Re: Linux + Win95 + Win NT on one HD

1998-04-29 Thread King Lee
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > thanks for your help on this topic. Now it works! I did it this way: You're welcome > > 1. Delete any existing partitions (have you all backed up??) > 2. Create with fdisk (MSDOS program) one primary Win 95 partition (1.6 GB) > This pr

Re: Linux + Win95 + Win NT on one HD

1998-04-23 Thread King Lee
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to install three OSs on one HD: Win 95, Win NT and Linux. I was > partially succesfull; th eonly problem at the moment is, that I can't boot > linux without a boot floppy. > > Here is what I did: > 1. Partition my hard disk ( 3

Re: Running XDVI from netscape

1998-04-21 Thread King Lee
broke. I took Michael Tempsch suggestion, got latest version of bash (from ftp.cdrom.com), compiled, linked it in, and it works. I am curious as to where the problem is - not to place blame but to avoid future problems. After all Linux is not Windows. King Lee > > > I have

Re: Running XDVI from netscape

1998-04-20 Thread King Lee
et another error message; now the parens are not balanced. Hmm... will another shell give me still different error messages? I load ash from cdrom, and /bin/sh -> /bin/ash - and IT WORKS. A problem with shells seems more serious than one with application; should I report this to someone? if s

Running XDVI from netscape

1998-04-20 Thread King Lee
; sh -c line 1: ((/hda8/Tex/bin/xdvi /tmp/M...dvi);rm /tmp/Mdvi)& The relevant .mailcap entry is application/x-dvi;/hda8/Tex/bin/xdvi %s Can anyone help fix problem. King Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: why debian?

1998-04-15 Thread King Lee
d, and by and large seem to prefer Debian. Both are fine. King Lee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Netscape and Mozilla both choke on bookmark operations

1998-04-15 Thread King Lee
interesting (to me links). This supplements my book mark file. Useful maybe B if you do not constantly add and delete bookmarks. King Lee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sgml authoring

1998-04-10 Thread King Lee
d use. I do know a little > HTML. > > I know that SGML can be converted to LaTex and lots of other stuff, LaTex > to HTML, RTF all that stuff, so either would prolly be alright. > I would recommend Latex to be safe. I know lots of people have already written thesis with Latex

Re: Green Monitors

1998-04-01 Thread King Lee
On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Chris wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > Does anyone know how to get linux to shut off "green" monitors after a > certain time of inactivity? > > With X Windows try under xset dpms see man pages for more details. King Lee [

Re: Non-Free Software

1998-03-31 Thread King Lee
ion that is not too onerous. Create a non-free-1 (shareware) and non-free-2. If several people (including the maintainer) read the license and agree it is OK to distribute, put in non-free-1; if no one has read the license or if there is doubt put in non-free-2. Not optimal, but a start. ki

Re: non-free software

1998-03-31 Thread King Lee
On 30 Mar 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"King" == King Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > King> I hope you continue to support packages like xv and netpbm. I > King> think there are too many good packages out there for the > King> f

Re: non-free software

1998-03-31 Thread King Lee
Thanks for the tip. I will probably replace xv with imagemagik. Netpbm contains a number of programs that can be called from a script. If imagemagik is an X11 program, I may not be able to pipe images. King Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, G John Lapeyre wrote: > > > O

Re: non-free software

1998-03-31 Thread King Lee
legally. As I said in another post (which I won't repeat) I think there's too much good non-free software out there for Debian, or Linux, to ignore. Linux needs all the applications it can get, and the applications should be easy to install. A newbies 2 cents worth King Lee [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: non-free software

1998-03-31 Thread King Lee
thers, will use ultra-free software before the semi-free software, and commercial software as a last resort. King Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi, > > >>"Bob" == Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >

Re: non-free software

1998-03-31 Thread King Lee
-free_2 would contain packages with more restrictive licenses.B Some of stuff in non-free is, in my opinion, rather basic and cdrom vendors should be encouraged to include it. Especially since other vendors include it with their distribution. King Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 30 Mar 1998

non-free software

1998-03-31 Thread King Lee
one advantage of Debian over Red Hat, is that one does not have to get X11 up before installing packages. In Red Hat, the primary package installer is glint which depends on X11. If one can't get X11 running, one may have lots of work. King Lee ultrix6.cs.csubak.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema