Re: xload

1998-01-14 Thread csmall
William R. Ward wrote: > > It moved to a different package. Look in Packages for 'xload' - I > don't remember which package it's in, but you'll find it. xcontrib -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Icon Conversion

1997-11-25 Thread csmall
Paul Serice wrote: > What do you use to convert Win95 icons into XPM format? There is a great set of graphics converters in netpbm. bmptoppm (1netpbm) - convert a BMP file into a portable pixmap ppmtoxpm (1netpbm) - convert a portable pixmap into an X11 pixmap If it is not a bmp file, then th

Re: Linux for Amiga

1997-11-20 Thread csmall
Torsten Jonas wrote: > here are Torsten from Hamburg, Germany. I have Interest on a Linux Package > for the Amiga 1200. G'day Torsten, First of all, I don't have anything to do with the Debian Amiga group, so what you are getting are observations from a user, not the "offical party line". AFAI

Re: less than useful dselect/dpkg error msg

1997-11-17 Thread csmall
Bill Leach wrote: > Receiving error messages such as the following: > > Linux# dpkg --configure fvwm2 >dpkg: error processing fvwm2 (--configure): >package fvwm2 is not ready for configuration >cannot configure (current status `installed') > Errors were encounte

Losing colors in X

1997-11-10 Thread csmall
G'day All, I think this is a bug, but I am unable to track down what program is causing it, so I thought I would try here first. I am finding in X that I am missing colors. I find that xcolors crashes and that xcolorsel says unable to allocate any colors. When a launch xterm from another xterm

Re: xdm3d_xpm

1997-11-06 Thread csmall
> Has anyone been able to compile xdm3d_xpm? I get this error when I try > to compile: > > server.c: In function `_SysErrorMsg': > server.c:71: conflicting types for `sys_errlist' > /usr/include/stdio.h:221: previous declaration of `sys_errlist' > make: *** [server.o] Error 1 > > I've tried inst

Re: modem

1997-11-04 Thread csmall
> My modem picks up every 10 secs and dials 0. I think it has something > to do with mgetty. Can anyone help? It's probably due to the initialisation script or perhaps mgetty thinks the line is busy and tries to pick up the incoming call. Looking in the mgetty log should tell you what is going

Re: xdm broken during package additions.

1997-10-13 Thread csmall
> I'd like to be able to run xdm to start X but it seems that it starts > in some wrong mode. I believe when I originaly installed debian, it > asked me if I wanted to use xdm to start x and it recommended it. Is > there a script or some parameters I can pass to have xdm start X in the > same mode

Re: user cron question

1997-10-07 Thread csmall
> I have cron installed and it works fine. However, I need to run a backup > script as a user since I mount a novell network acount with the same > username and save my data. So I tried to set up a cron job as a user. > I created a file called allow in /var/spool/cron which contained > only my us

Re: Network Configuration

1997-07-08 Thread csmall
Robert D. Hilliard is rumoured to of said: > During the base installation, as part of configuring the network, > the configure script asks for the netmask and the IP address for the > network and/or the default gateway. Where is this information stored? You will find this information at the

Re: Problem with Smail

1997-03-20 Thread csmall
Marcus Brinkmann typed: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > Lars Hallberg writes: > > > I think smail refuses to rewrite the from: field. > > > > Putting > > > > from_field="From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ($fullname)" > > > > in /etc/smail/c

Re: Security Issue

1997-03-20 Thread csmall
Matthew Tebbens typed: > > I'm not sure if this is normal, but it seems that any file owned by > someone else and in one of my directories can be deleted by me even > if I don't have the proper permissions to do so. I also can rename the > file, but I can't alter the file. This holds true even if

Re: Problem with Smail

1997-03-20 Thread csmall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: > Lars Hallberg writes: > > I think smail refuses to rewrite the from: field. > > Putting > > from_field="From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ($fullname)" > > in /etc/smail/config works for me. With some versions of smail, you cannot do any substitution. I suspect you have a

Re: Strange network problems

1997-03-14 Thread csmall
Brian Freeze typed: > If I telnet out or ftp out I wait long periods of time for the username to > be excepted then the passwd. From there it is the same for "ls" or any other > command. For example. System www2.deltastar.nb.ca is the system with the new > debian release on it and www.deltastar.nb.

Re: Dos & Linux

1997-03-06 Thread csmall
David Stein typed: > How can I download .tar and .gz compressed files on a Dos system copy them > over > to my linux system and uncompress them? Is the uncompression built into > unix? > Also can I interlink my Linux and my Dos system? (my modem is on my Dos > system). mount -t msdos /dev/

Re: xt?

1997-03-06 Thread csmall
David Stein typed: > Can debian Linux run on an xt? If not is there another linux that can run on > an > xt? a http: link in the right direction would be appreciated. No Linux will ever work on an xt or a 286. They are missing neccessary bits of hardware called a MMU which protects the memory.

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

1997-03-05 Thread csmall
CoB SysAdmin typed: > Yes, I've read the Serial HOWTO. I've read the PPP HOWTO. I've even read the > PPP RFC. I know what IPCP does and I know what LCP does. > > But I shouldn't have to. > > I didn't have to read the LILO HOWTO to get my machine to boot Linux. I > didn't have to read anything abo

Re: Procmail recipe.

1997-03-02 Thread csmall
ed procmail off. But is it a bug or have I done something wrong. If it is a bug, I'll put a bug in for it. The procmailrc file looks like PATH=/bin:/usr/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail DEFAULT=/usr/spool/mail/csmall LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from :0: * ^X-Mailing-List: .*debian-user.* $MAILDIR/deb - C

Re: ldp and samba

1997-02-23 Thread csmall
Remco van de Meent typed: > At 10:16 21-2-97 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Remco van de Meent typed: > >> Anybody any idea how to config smb.conf and lpd.*/printcap for adding > >> printer services to samba? > >I assume this means it is not working? This is strange as I just used the > >defau

Re: ldp and samba

1997-02-21 Thread csmall
Remco van de Meent typed: > Anybody any idea how to config smb.conf and lpd.*/printcap for adding > printer services to samba? I assume this means it is not working? This is strange as I just used the default parameter and it worked fine. What's happening/not happening, what does the logs say?

Re: missing/non-functional identd service?

1997-02-20 Thread csmall
Pete Templin typed: > > Hi there. > > I've been learning about PGP, and was in the process of taking a look at a > few public keys, when I ran into a small stumbling block. You see, I was > fingering [EMAIL PROTECTED] when I ran into a small obstacle: > > tcsh> finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [maste

Re: /usr/include/linux, /usr/include/asm, ...

1997-02-20 Thread csmall
Manoj Srivastava typed: > Hi, > > I'll reverse the question: why are you using the links? > The links are ignored anyway while compiling the kernel, so that's > not it. However, you may totally confuse some other program (during > compilation) that does not expect changes that are made in

Re: Smail and slip dialup (2nd request)

1997-02-20 Thread csmall
Brian Skreeg typed: > I'm trying to setup smail the operate over my dial-up slip account. > I installed smail (and it's dependants) using dselect and ran smailconfig. > I chose option 1: Internet site sending and receiving mail using smtp : > This seemed to me to almost setup smail correctly.

Re: What's wrong with Debian User List

1997-02-19 Thread csmall
Mikael Hallendal typed: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Hi! > > I have a question. The same messages are dropping in over and over again. > I've > got the > same messages for about 25 times now. I'm so glad someone else said that, I just thought I was going mad over get

Re: Linux -> Win NT 4.0 with Samba

1997-02-18 Thread csmall
Daniel Stringfield typed: > I'm having a problem. Not a big one, just annoying. > > I'm running the Samba server to export my home directory to my Windows > NT 4.0 workstation. I'm having problems when it comes up for my password. > It's not accepting the password the first time, when I attach i