Re: NB package screw up

2004-01-01 Thread Will Lowe
> POP). By cleanup, I mean I deleted all the courier related files and > folders. > Not a good idea! Indeed. Next time let Debian do it for you: # find the installed packages matching *courier* dpkg --list '*courier*' | grep "^ii" apt-get remove > So what's my best course of action in unsc

Re: woody, nsswitch.conf/hosts.conf ignoring /etc/hosts

2003-02-25 Thread Will Lowe
> So there are probably some apps out there that do something > similar, so I wouldn't rely on such behavior. Perhaps it's I've checked the source code (and via strace) and they use gethostbyname(), which should respect the nsswitch.conf and host.conf settings. It almost looks like a bug in glibc

woody, nsswitch.conf/hosts.conf ignoring /etc/hosts

2003-02-25 Thread Will Lowe
On my woody box, I have an entry in /etc/hosts that looks like this: 10.1.1.1 foo.bar.com foo There's also a record in dns for "foo.bar.com" that instead points to 10.1.1.2 -- I'm trying to explictely OVERRIDE that by making the /etc/hosts entry, so I have "hosts: files dns" in nsswitch.conf an

Re: vpn recommendation?

2003-02-04 Thread Will Lowe
> another guy firmly reccomended CIPE, haven't tried it myself, but it's > probably good too. CIPE is very stable and performs well, but is best for static links -- e.g., tying a pair of offices together over the internet, or tying your house to work in a setup where the IP address of $your_house

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-01 Thread Will Lowe
> > space shuttle Columbia tragedy. I believe that they were using Debian GNU > > Linux for the first time onboard the shuttle :-( > > My understanding is that it was Red Hat. Either way, not the most If Debian was involved, it wasn't the first time. Debian flew on the space shuttle in 1997:

dpkg and setuid

2002-09-21 Thread Will Lowe
I'd swear I used to know the answer to this question: Is there a way to get dpkg to list all the setuid files it has installed on a system? Or more generally, the permission bits on any file installed from a .deb? -- thanks,

Re: finger

2000-05-22 Thread Will Lowe
> I may have misspoken on this. I believe that there are exploits involving > finger and executable code, but I'm not sure of the details since it's been > a while. I gave the issue some thought last night after I posted this and There have also been buffer overflows in _every_ version of finger

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-19 Thread Will Lowe
> So, it is not so much that Debian doesn't have permission to distribute > a modified binary package, it is that doing so would open up a whole > can'o'worms w.r.t. redistribution... so why go there and possibly cause > problems for Debian's distributors, eh. That's exactly why it doesn't pass th

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-18 Thread Will Lowe
> Can I ask why debian doesn't include pine? Just curious. I know Debian The license for pine doesn't allow you to redistribute "modified binaries" (e.g., fix a bug in the source, compile it, and redistribute the executable you get from this). Therefore, it can't be included as part of Debian

Re: hd to hd copy?

1999-09-28 Thread Will Lowe
> > On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 10:27:31AM +0200, Andrew Hately wrote: > > > # ( cd / ; tar cf - bin boot dev lib sbin usr var ) | tar xf - > > xfp - > > I forgot etc in the list. better: rsync -av / --exclude=/proc --exclude=

Re: music notation software for Linux

1999-07-22 Thread Will Lowe
> > Does anyone know of any decen music notation software for Linux??? I'm > > looking for something with a good GUI and that is easy to learn. Any > > suggestions are appreciated!!! There's rosegarden. It's buggy, but there is a debian package. http://www2.bath.ac.uk/~masjpf/rose.html

Re: DHCP and DNS

1999-07-15 Thread Will Lowe
> How can I tell the nameserver which IP addresses DHCP has assigned to > the hosts so the names get resolved to the correct IP? Probably the only way I can think of is to remake the dns databases and restart named every time you renew a DHCP lease. I don't know if dhcpd allows you to run a comma

Re: Thanks

1999-07-06 Thread Will Lowe
> Jesse-- Actually, I am installing entirely from the Debian 2.1 CD-ROM. I Where'd you get the CDROM? Sounds like the copy of base2_1.tgz on the CD is busted. > installation procedure onto Linux hardrive partitions hda2 (root), hda3 > (swap), and hda5. Everything works fine until I get to the "

Re: windowmaker menu went away

1999-06-28 Thread Will Lowe
> now I'm lost. I guess if I can start the gnome windowmaker thats all > I need. If anyone knows anything about this I'd appreaciate any > insite. Default menus in Debian are handled by the automatic menu system ... e.g., Xemacs "registers" with the menu system when it is installed (and "unregis

Re: I need some info/piece of mind before installing linux

1999-06-24 Thread Will Lowe
> floppy. The only thing i can think of is keeping them on the second > drive while the first drive makes the conversion to linux, then im > hoping that in linux i can still access the non-linux second drive, Sure. Linux can read disk drives that have been formatted under Windows, no problem. >

Re: What is xpm.h?

1999-06-24 Thread Will Lowe
> I'm trying to compile some WindowMaker applets and they all complain that > they are unable to find X11/xpm.h. Obviously, I'm missing some .deb - which > one? hit http://packages.debian.org and search for "xpm.h" with the "Search the Contents of the Current Release" option.

Re: Wmaker Problem

1999-06-23 Thread Will Lowe
> I'll assume you are talking about the app icons. Except modifying the > attributes for every app to not show an app icon, you cannot get rid off > them. Here's what I do to at least make it `look' like the aren't there: Can you get rid of miniwindows?

Re: NFS server

1999-06-23 Thread Will Lowe
> Please choose the NFS server and the mount path of the NFS filesystem > that contains the Debian archive. > Enter them in this way: server:/ftp/debian > > What I don't understand is: > (1) does Debian have a standard NFS from which I can access the > archive? Do I need to use my own 'local

Re: potato wmaker (0.53.0-2)

1999-06-22 Thread Will Lowe
> I know that this version of wmaker is in unstable, but can anybody else > use it? Works fine fer me. Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: apt-get is correcting dependencies--still!

1999-06-10 Thread Will Lowe
> Selecting previously deselected package dotfile-rtin. > (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing dotfile-rtin_0.02-5.1.deb > (--install): > files list file for package `dotfile-rtin' is truncated I *think* this is /var/lib/dpkg/info/dotfile-rtin.list ... see what's going on with that f

Re: X

1999-06-09 Thread Will Lowe
> is there an easy way to update my X server to the newest version? ie.. > something i can add to my apt get file?? run apt-get update then apt-get install This'll, of course, only work if you're following "unstable". Will --

Re: apt-get is correcting dependencies--still!

1999-06-09 Thread Will Lowe
> Will, > files list file for package `dotfile-rtin' is truncated > Errors were encountered while processing: > dotfile-rtin_0.02-5.1.deb > Processing was halted because there were too many errors. before we get too much farther, check and make sure that the /var filesystem isn't full.

Re: apt-get is correcting dependencies--still!

1999-06-09 Thread Will Lowe
> # dpkg --configure -a > > and got everything but three packages configured. So I did a I've noticed similar things once in a while; apt will get stuck sometimes if you interrupt it while it's working. This usually works for me: kill apt (via CTRL-C or "kill" or whatever) Run # dpkg -- co

Re: LaTeX

1999-06-08 Thread Will Lowe
> I need to use LaTeX for a project in one of my classes, and was > wondering whether anyone could recommnd a particular type that does > mathematics-related things (integrals etc..), i'm quite a newbie to > LaTeX (understatement), so a GUI-based version would be cool. Try Lyx. And the Debian tex

Re: I am impressed with Debian!

1999-06-08 Thread Will Lowe
> "locate" command. It walks through the entire filesystem, so thats why > the disk runs for so long. :) > > > > Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its > > > > never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was It's probably worth mentioning at thi

Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far.

1999-06-08 Thread Will Lowe
> I install Debian with a 14.4 modem. Trust me, it only takes patience. Or CDs. They're cheap. Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTE

Re: cannot mount CD-ROM! - Pls help

1999-06-07 Thread Will Lowe
> But, now during boot, it does not detect the CD-ROM drive and as root I > could not mount the drive either. I tried both these commands: > > % mount /dev/hdc /cdrom (I do have /cdrom as the mount point) > or > % mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt Try mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc1 /cdrom

Re: Help: EtherNet Mentor

1999-06-07 Thread Will Lowe
> I am so far failing at step 1? > Trying to get my ethernet card recognized as a device (NE2000 Clone). Well, what hasn't worked? Will -- | [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: pack/compress?

1999-06-07 Thread Will Lowe
> 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 I think lzw is still under copyright, which means that it's illegal to distribute them without a copyright license.

Re: Mission critical Debian

1999-06-03 Thread Will Lowe
> > Is there any list of people using Debian for mission critical > > applications? Such a list wouldn't necessarily have to include > Not that I have seen. There is the general linux-biz website and m-tech.ca Ummm ... master.debian.org (and most (all?) of the other debian.org boxes) run Debian,

Creative Labs DXR3 DVD decoder?

1999-05-25 Thread Will Lowe
Does anybody know if this works under linux, or if the specs are available so I could write a driver? Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: GNOME vs. KDE

1999-05-21 Thread Will Lowe
> 1.Is Debian more leaning towards KDE or is this just 'news' from the > Corel folks? Is there a reason why they chose KDE and not GNOME? We don't lean either way. Corel is creating their own distribution based on Debian -- they'll take stock Debian and stuff to it. They picked KDE (you'd hav

Partition Type A0 ??

1999-05-12 Thread Will Lowe
My girlfriend just bought a laptop. On first booting it, it asked if we'd like to set up the hard disk for Windows95 or Win98. She'll need to dual-boot 95 and Linux, so we let it install Win95, which it proceeded to do _without_ asking for a Win95 cd. I booted it from the 2.1 CD, and

Re: HOWTOs to txt..

1999-05-04 Thread Will Lowe
> Just wondering if anyone has printed off howto pages? Is there any quick > way to convert a full howto (ie.. all the pages) to a single file and > print it off? Why don't you just download the text versions? ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/

Re: Using linux to protect a DSL connection.

1999-05-04 Thread Will Lowe
> How should I protect these systems from outside hack attacks? Use Bridging http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Bridge.html http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Bridge+Firewall.html and IPChains http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/IPCHAINS-HOWTO.html > If I add a second network card to the linu

Re: IP forwarding for 2.2.x kernels

1999-05-02 Thread Will Lowe
> Is there some magic involved with IP forwarding for the 2.2.x kernels? Are you using IPCHAINS at all? Are you trying to do NAT? Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Sound

1999-04-25 Thread Will Lowe
> I got it to work, after I reset the computer! I think that it is a problem > with gnome. After I ran the Gnome Control Centre it seemed to lock the > /dev/audio device, and even after I killed, or exited the program it still > returned the Device or Resource..etc. Yeah, gnome is still a little

Debian, laptops, and X

1999-04-25 Thread Will Lowe
I'm looking at buying a pair of laptops which will need to dual-boot Windows and Debian. I'm not concerned that they be Pentium IV 600 Ghz machines or be huge number-crunchers, but I would like them to run X enough that I can use emacs and font-lock mode, netscape (with something more that 256 col

Re: Sound

1999-04-25 Thread Will Lowe
> > cat file.au > /dev/audio > I run the command below, and this is the output! > $ cat /usr/lib/games/crossfire/sounds/magic.au > /dev/audio > bash: /dev/audio: Device or resource busy Are you sure that the IRQ settings and stuff you gave the kernel sound config were right?

Re: Quicktime viewer

1999-04-25 Thread Will Lowe
> > I'm sure it is a particularly stupid question but I wonder if > > there is an Apple QuickTime plug-in available for Linux Netscape ? > > > > I suspect that writing to Apple would publicly announce my > > heretical status and result in the MS goons^H^H^H^H PR staff > > arriving in short order t

Re: Sound

1999-04-24 Thread Will Lowe
> I have a problem with sound. I can't play any sounds. I have tried using > rplay and nmaker, both the same results. The annoying thing is that I > can play CDs with no probs!!! I am a member of the group audio and > sounds are compiled into the kernel. It's likely that your CD drive works somewh

Re: The case of the missing 64 meg...

1999-04-22 Thread Will Lowe
> I have a system with 128 meg. of memory but I believe Linux only > sees half of it and the rest is wasted. The kernel will only autodetect 64 megs (apparently there was a bug in some older PCs which caused problems if you probed beyond 64 megs). You need to pass an argument to the kernel at boo

Re: Help!

1999-04-13 Thread Will Lowe
> floppy/cdrom/extra hard drive/sound stuff. > Could someone help me out? > what should my fstab say? I have: /dev/fd0 /floppyfat16 user,noauto0 0 /dev/sonycd /cdrom iso9660 user,ro,noauto 0 0 In mine. Obviously you'll need to change "/d

Re: Kmod not functioning correctly with 2.2.3 kernel

1999-04-11 Thread Will Lowe
> Apr 11 13:59:43 valis modprobe: can't locate module char-major-14 Alias this in /etc/conf.modules. For my SoundBlaster16, I have: alias char-major-14 sb post-install sb /sbin/modprobe "-k" "adlib_card" options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 options adlib_card io=0x388 # FM sy

Re: Xauth, how to get rid of it?

1999-04-07 Thread Will Lowe
> >I may be missing something here. But is xhost + what you want?? > Ah, my savior. xhost +[machine name] worked nicely. Thanks for the > help. How about ssh? Do ssh remote_machine remote_app and ssh will set up the xauth stuff _for_ you.

modules package

1999-03-30 Thread Will Lowe
dselect lists the "modules" package as obsolete/local -- I sure didn't package it, so it must be obsolete. But "dpkg -r modules" reports "Kernel was compiled with module support! Can't remove modules package!". Is it ok to --force this one?

Re: WinNT and Linux install question

1999-03-30 Thread Will Lowe
> I do not know how to configure the PC to boot from the CD-ROM. Reboot the machine. After the screen goes blank and it beeps, it'll probably count memory and they'll be a note on the screen that says "Press DEL to enter SETUP" or something. Some computers use "CTRL-ALT-F1" instead of delete or

Re: Convert FAT32 to FAT16 with windows 98.

1999-03-29 Thread Will Lowe
> NT dos not see FAT32 for one. But unfortunatly you can't convert from > FAT32 to FAT16. ;bog microsoft not reading their own filesystem ... Will -- | [EM

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Installation

1999-03-28 Thread Will Lowe
> "... iso9660 not supported by kernel" is there. Why? iso9660 is a filesystem type. The kernel's complaining that it doesn't have that module installed, and so can't read the filesystem. > . configuring device driver modules > . fs modules : hpfs, ncp, smbs, umsdos, vfat Select iso9660

Re: Convert FAT32 to FAT16 with windows 98.

1999-03-28 Thread Will Lowe
> yes i have only windows 98 installed on my computer. I was wondering if > there was any way that i could convert FAT 32 back into FAT16 without > reinstalling windows. I don't think so. Why would you want to? Will --

Re: (no subject)

1999-03-28 Thread Will Lowe
> I am fed-up with MS and its products and OS. I've looked to see how to :) > get Linux. Unfortunately, I am not familiar at all with files, > extensions, what how to download and zip, unzip. Can someone tell how > does this work? Under Debian, you'll download a set of basic installation file

Re: XFree86 & dselect questions

1999-03-28 Thread Will Lowe
> doing soemthing wrong, but was something as simple as Pine left out of > the distro? Anywho, basically, I guess dselect is the easier way to do > things, but I can't even find Netscape in there. Is there a page onthe Both of these don't fit Debian's idea of free (see http://www.debian.org/intr

Re: what is flex ?

1999-03-28 Thread Will Lowe
> What is flex ? Flex is the gnu clone of "lex", one of the original unix lexical analysis tools. A lexer (that's what you get when you run flex on a flex file) is used to break up input into "tokens", which are the atomic units of programming languages or other specifications. In english, to

Re: How to Email a Binary file from the command line

1999-03-26 Thread Will Lowe
> I am wondering if anyone knows how to send a binary (.tar.gz) file from > the command line? I am trying to write a "batch" (Sorry my old DOS how 'bout: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] < foo.tar.gz Will ---

Re: tclmidi (again)

1999-03-26 Thread Will Lowe
> It doesn't build from the source. It stops with something like: ld: -lg++: > no such file or directory. I tried to build it from the source, and discovered that it now needs a dependency on libg++2.8.2. You can build it if you install libg++2.8.2 and libg++2.8.2-dev. It's now giving me an "Out

Re: tclmidi

1999-03-26 Thread Will Lowe
> Does anyone here use tclmidi? I have not been able to get it to work. I > am using recent potato, glibc2.1. I package it, but only because it's used by rosegarden (which I also package). I've not tried to actually use it for much -- what's in the package is pretty much a straight-out-of-the-tarba

out of ptys

1999-03-23 Thread Will Lowe
Can anybody tell me what this means, and how to fix it? rivendell[502] [~]> rsh gondolin rlogind: Out of ptys. rlogin: connection closed. Will -- | [EMAI

Re: SAMBA

1999-03-23 Thread Will Lowe
> I was wondering if it was possible to use SAMBA connect WIN95 and LINUX on > the same machine sort of a pseudo network thing? Has anyone tried this. Not unless you can run both of them at the same time (actually, you can ... see http://www.vmware.com). Linux can mount Windows drives, so wha

Re: Linux Boot Disk (needed)

1999-03-21 Thread Will Lowe
> Can someone drop in an email, either a disk image or a site to get a disk > image for a Linux boot disk(OS on ramdisk that is), that supports mounting > a vfat drive? The Debian boot disks should. Try: ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current/resc1440.bin (you'll ne

Re: apt-get question

1999-03-20 Thread Will Lowe
> What exactly do you mean "it rolls through every single package > on the dist"? If you mean what it sounds like, you only have to I think what he means is that when you install from CD, it rolls through the CD and checks every packages against the list of selections, like: Skipping deselected

Re: HELP! need a shell not linked against libncurses.so.4

1999-03-15 Thread Will Lowe
> ash. You can copy it off the rescue disk if you can't install it. Thanks. Saved my night ... Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTE

HELP! need a shell not linked against libncurses.so.4

1999-03-14 Thread Will Lowe
I've managed to seriously bung up my system, and libncurses.so.4 is causing problems. Are there any shells in debian _not_ linked against this library? ATM even root can't do anything, because nobody can get a shell started ... Will ---

Re: external midi on SB16

1999-03-11 Thread Will Lowe
> Have you tried playmidi -e ??? Yup. I get nothing. But I _can_ play to hte external midi port in Windows95. > > > > > OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130 > > Load type: Driver compiled into kernel > > Kernel: Linux gondolin 2.2.1 #4 Sun Feb 14 18:21:24 EST 1999 i586 > > Config options: 0 > > > > Inst

Re: external midi on SB16

1999-03-11 Thread Will Lowe
> playmidi -e blues.mid Doing this doesn't work. I just don't get any sound. Everything's plugged in, turned on, and works fine from windows. > if You automatically `postinstall` the 'sfxload-command' > this will not work. I installed the debian playmidi package. I don't think it asked me if

external midi on SB16

1999-03-11 Thread Will Lowe
Has anyone had any luck connecting an external midi device (say, a tone generator) to the midi port on an SB16? I've got the card working ok, but I can't get any programs to send output to it. Sending anything to /dev/sequencer or /dev/sequencer2 results in the crappy SB FM midi synthesis, rathe

Re: Ethernet connection to Windows98

1999-03-10 Thread Will Lowe
> Hello Debian-mentors, I've moved this post to debian-users. The debian-mentors list is for people who need help creating debian packages; -users is for questions about how to get the system working, etc. ... > I have a NE2000 compatible Ethernet card installed and detected by > my kernel.

Re: Cheap pnp ne2000 Lan cards

1999-03-05 Thread Will Lowe
> The cards are made by LanStar. They were only $12 each so it won't > break me if they are junk. But any help is appreciated. > By the way I only have or use Gnu/Debian, so a solution involving other > os's is not viable. Thanks Did you try isapnptools?

Re: Please HELP ME!!!

1999-03-04 Thread Will Lowe
> I really need some help here. > How can I have Linux to mount automatically my hard drives > at boot. Because every time I run Linux, I have to mount all Put them in /etc/fstab and they'll automatically get mounted at boot. try "man fstab" for more info.

Re: Gnome programs crash

1999-02-27 Thread Will Lowe
> After installing gnome programs from slink, the programs won't run. I > get the following error message > > gnome-session: error in loading shared libraries > /usr/lib/libgnome.so.31: undefined symbol: poptHelpOptions Somebody's already filed a bug on this.

Re: /etc/hosts on one machine

1999-02-26 Thread Will Lowe
> Is it possible to have /etc/hosts on only one machine > on the lan and have the other machines use it? Either make that one host a DNS server and point all the other machines to it, or make it a YP server and ypbind them to it. Will ---

Re: HP DeskJets

1999-02-08 Thread Will Lowe
> can somebody tell me, how HP DJs work in Linux? Which of them works > well? I want to buy one, but I don't know what are doing nice results > (690C, 880C, ...???). Thanks a lot, Martin I've got a 672C (under $200 when I bought it a few months back) which works great with the DJ550 magicfilter fi

NFS file locking (was: broken apt-get)

1999-02-07 Thread Will Lowe
> There is something you have to do to setup working NFS file locking under > slink, or 2.2 or something but I don't know what it is :< Any idea where I'd start to look? Debian doesn't seem to have a lockd... Will

broken apt-get: can't open lockfile

1999-02-07 Thread Will Lowe
I've done two things in the last few days, and one of them has broken apt-get. First, I've moved to kernel 2.2.0-pre8 (I know 2.2.0 is out, but I've not had time to download that huge bugger, and I already had a copy of -pre8). I've also moved /usr off of one of my machines, and it's being sh

Re: kernel source

1999-01-28 Thread Will Lowe
> > *- On 28 Jan, Robert B Geary wrote about "kernel source" > > > I just installed Debian Linux and can't find the kernel source > > > code anywhere. There is no /usr/src directory on my system. > Accodring to other posts here, 2.2.0 will likely be in potato, > but not slink, because slink

Re: Soundblaster 16 & Midi Problems...

1999-01-28 Thread Will Lowe
> go to play a Midi file, It sound like the reverb is set to max and bass > is set to almost none...I have to turn the speakers up to hear the bass > parts in my music > For Reference: I'm using KMIDI (or KMID) either produces the same > results... And kernel 2.0.34 Try using timidity. I

Re: A pipe dream?

1999-01-27 Thread Will Lowe
> If anyone can see something wrong with such an idea - or, better still, if > someone is well on the way to producing such a tool - I would be pleased to > hear about it. Nope. Makes perfect sense. You can also do dpkg --get-selections >some_file_name to back up your list of installed/selecte

Re: GNUcash/Libs

1999-01-26 Thread Will Lowe
> 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 packaging Gnucash (which means packaging XmHTML and nana, al

Re: seek help with cheap network card

1999-01-23 Thread Will Lowe
[This really belongs on -user, so I've moved it there.] > The network card in my machine is a Winbond 89c940. I admit it's a $20 > special. I have been unable to locate any Linux drivers for the card, With ethernet cards it's generally a matter of chipset. If you can figure out what chipset i

Re: Gnome

1999-01-22 Thread Will Lowe
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Patrick Colbeck wrote: > I want to install Gnome on Slink but don't want to scatter new versions of > the libraries (eg gtk) arround anywhere. Does anyone know if you can compile > it like KDE where it looks for all libraries relative to a partciular > install path (eg /usr/lo

Re: Gnome default dir is /usr/src

1999-01-22 Thread Will Lowe
> Mine *is* slink! > > I think that this is either a configurable option that I could not > find where to configure, or something like: "from the dir where you > ran dpkg to install gnome"... Should I report this as a bug? Sure. But make it one with a pretty low priority. :)

Re: Gnome default dir is /usr/src

1999-01-22 Thread Will Lowe
> I installed gnome in my computer, and, I don't know why, every program > that I start within the gnome-panel has the current dir = "/usr/src". Similarly, the slink version starts everything in /etc. Boy, is that a pain in emacs. Will

Administrating a network of debian machines?

1999-01-21 Thread Will Lowe
What tools do people here use to administrate a network of Debian machines? I can handle normal system/network administration, but what problems does dpkg introduce? Eg: If machine B mounts /usr from machine A, how do I keep dpkg from screaming at me when I dpkg -i something on machine B that

Re: Package-Building-Howto?

1999-01-15 Thread Will Lowe
> So, is there anything like a Debian-Packaging-Howto which explains the > internal structure of .debs and how to build packages oneself? In > /usr/doc/dpkg/packaging.html/* there is nicely explained, what everything > does, but it's not clear, HOW to do things... http://www.debian.org/~elphick/ma

Re: Ugrading using apt-get?

1999-01-08 Thread Will Lowe
> 3. Execute 'apt-get dist-upgrade' > > I see that all of the packages to be updated are simply held back. > Essentially nothing gets upgraded at all. Why is this? I have tried to > use the -f parameter in step three as well to no avail. Do you have them marked "hold" in dselect? (they'll have a

Re: mounting a sunos filesystem?

1999-01-07 Thread Will Lowe
On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Allan M. Wind wrote: > > I've got a SCSI disk with a solaris 4.1.4 filesystem on it. Is there any > > way I can get linux to mount this? > > Did you try the (kernel) UFS driver? Is it still read-only? Will ---

mounting a sunos filesystem?

1999-01-06 Thread Will Lowe
I've got a SCSI disk with a solaris 4.1.4 filesystem on it. Is there any way I can get linux to mount this? Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [

Network Neighborhood and IPmasquerading

1998-12-30 Thread Will Lowe
Hello all, I've got a machine, A, that connects to network N via a ppp link to machine M. I'm planning to masquerade machine B through A (A will have masq installed and run ipfwadm, B will talk to the world through it). If net N has some windows machines, and B is a windows machine, is ther

Re: GNUcash

1998-12-23 Thread Will Lowe
> Does anyone know how far we are from a debianized package of GNUcash? (I > couldn't find it on the package search on www.debian.org). > Or even any other debianized alternative? > You can use xacc. I was going to debianize gnucash a few months back, but at the time it didn't build with our gtk

Re: Good Linux Book For Christmas

1998-12-19 Thread Will Lowe
> I'm wanting to get my father a good linux book for Christmas. I will > be installing linux on his system while I'm down there for Christmas. > What would be the best book for him? He does have some unix > experiance, but hardly any administration. Matt Walsh's "Running Linux" (O'Reilly, www.

Re: Utility to set PC clock

1998-12-17 Thread Will Lowe
> (Greenwich Meantime or however you spell it) on your system clock. > Then you can set the timezone in software so that time shows up > properly. Yes, this is generally considered teh "right" way to run a *nix box. > Secondly, I think there is some way of getting your machine to automatically >

Re: switch off Debian

1998-12-15 Thread Will Lowe
> And, what else, I have a question: > When I successfully logout, a knew login appears. Know I switch off the > computer. When I switch it on again, there is a check for some stuff. > Is this right? Or have I not correctly finished it? No. Linux (therefore Debian), like all Unix operating syst

Re: Compress

1998-11-30 Thread Will Lowe
> Anyone know where I can get 'compress' program? Probably nowhere for linux. The algorithm it uses is patented, so it's not legal to write Free Software versions of it (although gzip can _un_compress files that have been compressed with compress). Your best bet is to either use gzip (it works

Re: Window Maker

1998-11-29 Thread Will Lowe
> this every time i want to work on netscape. How would i add Netscape to > the Window Maker menu (the menu that pops up when you right click > :Apps|Games|System etc...). Thanx guys edit your ~/GNUStep/Defaults/WMRootMenu file. This defines the menus that WindowMaker shows.

Re: Netscape - Newbie Linux User

1998-11-29 Thread Will Lowe
> Wuz up all? Not me. It's 1 am local time ... > Alright here is my problem. I have Debian 2.0 installed. I downloaded > [navigator-v45-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar] from ftp6.netscape.com. I > installed it and everything. Now when ever I go to the installed dir ^^^

Staroffice 5.0 freezing on right-click

1998-11-22 Thread Will Lowe
Has anyone else here had trouble with StarOffice 5.0 freezing when you right-click in it's window? I'm using the patch they provided for the X3V xserver problem. Every time I right-click the mouse anywhere in the Staroffice window, staroffice hangs. Everything else works fine -- I eventually ha

Re: staroffice 5.0 still hanging

1998-11-19 Thread Will Lowe
> s3. And even with the svga server it's hanging. I didn't know what > is causing this. Some more hint? > thanks. Nope. sorry -- the only problems I've had were conflicts with S3V. Why don't you try contacting stardivision? Will

Re: staroffice 5.0 still hanging

1998-11-18 Thread Will Lowe
> Where should I look for incompatibilities? The app. just freeze, > didn't answering to anything but kill -1/9. > I switched from xserver-s3 to xserver-svga hoping something good ^^ -s3 or -s3V? there are known problems with s3v, and a patch at www.sta

Re: linux operating system

1998-11-16 Thread Will Lowe
> We are a group of students doing an assignment on LINUX operating > system. We hope that you will be able to give us some information on > the LINUX installation and comparison with windows or DOS. Um, yeah, we probably could, but you'll need to ask more specific questions I'd suggest y

Re: StarOffice 5 - S3 fix available

1998-11-15 Thread Will Lowe
> Those of you who have an S3V video card might like to know that while > looking at the StarDivision web site yesterday I notice they have posted > a fix .. > > http://www.stardivision.com Has anyone sucessfully gotten this patch? If you visit the website, click "Support" and then "Download",

Re: StarOffice 5 - S3 fix available

1998-11-14 Thread Will Lowe
> Those of you who have an S3V video card might like to know that while > looking at the StarDivision web site yesterday I notice they have posted > a fix .. Where? I hit their website but didn't see anything about a fix ... Will ---

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