Re: Error: undelivered email - recipient email storage limit exceeded

2000-09-09 Thread brian moore
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 10:57:09PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 12:50:18PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dear Sir/Madam > > > > Your message cannot be delivered to the recipient because his/her mail box > > storage limit has exceeded. > > Is everyone else getting boun

Re: Error: undelivered email - recipient email storage limit exceeded

2000-09-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 10:03:42PM -0700, brian moore wrote: > On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 10:57:09PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 12:50:18PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Dear Sir/Madam > > > > > > Your message cannot be delivered to the recipient because his/her mail

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-09 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 10:18:41PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > and (getting back to the original question of red hat vs. debian) > does red-hat have anything comparable? I think Redhat has something called rpm-update, but I have never tried it. That service you have to pay for, I think. Ther

Re: mutt & gpg

2000-09-09 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 10:47:06PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > I've been looking into gpg and mutt. I read on the mutt faq to "include" > gpg.rc "with" my muttrc. Thing is I don't know what they mean "include"? > Does mutt accept #include like c++? I think they mean put the source keyword

RE: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-09 Thread Paul McHale
> > and (getting back to the original question of red hat vs. debian) > > does red-hat have anything comparable? > > The big difference, AFAIK, is that Debian store a lot more packages. > With Redhat, you can get the base install (that comes with the CD), > but for the rest, you would have to go f

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-09 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 12:05:32PM -0500, Wayne Sitton wrote: > OK guys, I think you've gotten off the subject that I needed. Although > what you have given me is great, what I need now is kind of like stories > of thing that have happened to show why Debian would be better. Or, > even links to s

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-09 Thread CaT
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 02:41:57AM -0400, Paul McHale wrote: > BTW. It's remarkable how similar in functionality windows update is to > debian's apt-get. It is more twinkified (which isn't always bad ...) but > functionally very similar. It is, of course, limited to Microsoft products. Indeed.

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-09 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 02:41:57AM -0400, Paul McHale wrote: > The largest difference I know of is the dependency resolution. Maybe Redhat > will do this as well. Well, I don't know how dpkg works yet, but rpm is limited by what the author wants. Sometimes it give really frustrating depencies

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-09 Thread Gregg C
That is fine for some workstations and very non-critical servers, but otherwise I would never allow cron to run apt-get and just pull down things from security.debian.org. I don't mean to impune the reputation of debian or the security patches and their writers, but on any important production

Re: Wierd messages during bootup...

2000-09-09 Thread Gregg C
Plus you might need to edit /etc/modules. First time I compiled certain drivers into my kernel, which had been modules, that file will then cause the kernel to load modules that no longer exist. It was pretty funny. I thought I had really screwed things up! From: "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECT

installation problems

2000-09-09 Thread Screwy Squirrel
Howdy all! I've been having some problems installing Debian 2.2. When the installation reaches the point where it is installing the kernel from the rescue disk, it hangs and give one error message actually there are teo error messages that alternate with each further attempt. The error message

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-09 Thread Jeff Green
-Original Message- From: Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: 09 September 2000 04:17 Subject: Re: Debian VS. Red Hat >On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:41:59PM +0100, Jeff Green wrote: >> I resent the implication that we sysadmins ever think at all! And tha

Re: kde or gnome?

2000-09-09 Thread Frank Copeland
On 5 Sep 00 19:05:33 GMT, Felix Natter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Namely, Gnome does not include its own window manager; KDE does. >> Gnome depends on hooks for Gnome support compiled into an external >> window manager, and at present the only window manager with full >> support for Gnome seems

console-apt and absolute paths

2000-09-09 Thread Christoph Gaitzsch
Hi, everytime I try to install something with console-apt (and aptitude) I get the message Package manager (dpkg) failed: * Internal Error, Pathname to install is not absolute 'bash-doc_2.03-6_all.deb' apt-get install works. Greetings Christoph

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-09 Thread kmself
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 10:18:41PM -0500, Will Trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:41:59PM +0100, Jeff Green wrote: > > I resent the implication that we sysadmins ever think at all! And that > > even if we did we had brains with which to accomplish the task. > > Jeff >

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-09 Thread Jeff Green
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > A cronned apt-get upgrade might be a bit much, and I myself only do > "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade --download-only". This parks updates > in /var/cache/apt/archives, but doesn't install packages until > requested manually by me on the command line. > Now th

Re: pppd changes permission to /dev/ttyS1 (my modem)

2000-09-09 Thread Piotr Krukowiecki
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote: > Piotrek writes: > > So say how it should be, but don't say me how i should do it. > > When you ask for free help on a mailing list or newsgroup you get the > answers people see fit to give you. Statements such as this just might > result in someone who c

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-09 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Add to that that if you apt-move it afterwards, you can get your own partial upgrade repository (even on CD)! Jeff Green wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > A cronned apt-get upgrade might be a bit much, and I myself only do > > "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade --download-only". This

Re: Free X Server for WinDos

2000-09-09 Thread Jonathan Markevich
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 06:03:38PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > The subject says it all. I found MI/X, but that seems not to be free > > > anymore. Isn't there anything that's good *and* free? > > > > An older version of MI/X? > > Try VNC rather than X, unless you're trying to local

Re: slightly OT: short in video?

2000-09-09 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 04:32:18PM -0700, Ron Farrer wrote: [video problems] > If this is the problem, what would be the best way of fix it? FYI the > video is integrated on the motherboard, so simply replacing it won't > work. :( Or is the sucker toast? A videocard onboard in a 486-system? We

Re: Debian on Dell?

2000-09-09 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 06:11:21PM -0500, Jay Ford wrote: > Can anybody verify that Debian runs on a Dell Precision 420? Debian runs on about everything ;) > It has an integrated dual-channel (Ultra 160 & Ultra Wide) SCSI controller. > Does Debian support it? Which vendor? > There are sever

Re: logging interaction between minicom and modem - solved

2000-09-09 Thread alice
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000 18:11:13 PST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hmm, that's odd I tried to set up wvdial just now and it's saying > that > /dev/mouse is linked to ttyS0, and sure enough it does seem to could > this be causing some of my problems? Is that something that's safe to > manually unl

German keys on console

2000-09-09 Thread Peter Malewski
To: Cc: Bcc: Subject: Reply-To: I just installed debian, potato, on a new comp. Now I cannot use the German keys "a "u "s (latex-babel notation) neither on the console nor with X. I've choosen qwertz-nodeadkeys at installation and several time with "kbdconfig". Curiously the "z" and "y" key

Re: Error: undelivered email - recipient email storage limit exceeded

2000-09-09 Thread Dale Morris
I've received one.. s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 12:50:18PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dear Sir/Madam > > > > Your message cannot be delivered to the recipient because his/her mail box > > storage limit has exceeded. > > Is everyone else getting bounc

Re: please help updating calendar

2000-09-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 08, Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Their list is much more comprehensive than mine, but mine contains far >more detail. So it's worth merging them, but I'm not quite sure how >you'd like to do this. There is also the implicit assumption in their If there are no fixed events

exim and local MX records

2000-09-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
Does exim have a setting similar to relay_domains_include_local_mx, but for local delivery instead of just relaying? I host services for a couple groups, and one of them now wants to augment its .org domain with the corresponding .com and .net. I, being lazy, would like to be able to set this up

Re: kde or gnome?

2000-09-09 Thread Preben Randhol
Ian Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/09/2000 (10:38) : > Read the quote again. I wrote "the only wm with _full_ support" etc. > If sawfish is "Most integrated", the others are necessarily "less > integrated", or not? I don't want the wm and the desktop to step over > each other, and that

Re: kde or gnome?

2000-09-09 Thread Preben Randhol
Felix Natter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/09/2000 (13:02) : > Sawfish is highly scriptable via lisp, so it probably isn't fast, either. It is faster than the default Enlightenment at least. Neither does it require that you have the latest video card with Open-GL and 128Mb RAM. -- Preben Randh

Re: Free X Server for WinDos

2000-09-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
Jonathan Markevich said: > > Try VNC rather than X, unless you're trying to locally serve X apps. > > Or if you want to be multiuser. IIRC, vncserver will serve the current > display, right? The Win32 vncserver serves the current display. (It essentially tricks Windows into thinking the remote

Re: audio/x--mp3 and other associatetions

2000-09-09 Thread Dale Morris
I'm pretty new to this so take my advice accordingly: In netscape you would go to edit->preferences->Navigator->applications Click on the 'Applications' selection from the menu. Click 'New' Description - MPEG URL MIMEType - audio/x-mpegurl Suffixes - m3u

Re: exim and local MX records

2000-09-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
Dave Sherohman said: > Does exim have a setting similar to relay_domains_include_local_mx, but for > local delivery instead of just relaying? > > I host services for a couple groups, and one of them now wants to augment > its .org domain with the corresponding .com and .net. I, being lazy, > woul

Psion S5

2000-09-09 Thread Andre Berger
I have a Psion S5 and would like to mount it on my potato box, which sould be more elegant than minicom/Comms single file ymodem transfers. p3nfsd should do, but I can't get it to work. I simply don't understand the documentation. I'm even unsure if I would have to install nfs in order to use p3nfs

hdparm

2000-09-09 Thread Jamie Raymond
Hi, Where's the best place to put a call to hdparm so that it gets invoked upon booting? (would inserting it into an existing file in /etc/init.d be appropriate?) Thanks, Jamie

Family proofing a Debian box

2000-09-09 Thread Bryan K. Walton
This is a general question for the list. I have a computer at home that I want to make availble for the family to use. However I want to try and ensure that they won't be able to do anything that could cause damage to the OS. What is the list's thoughts regarding what should I make sure is of

Re: German keys on console

2000-09-09 Thread Vee-Eye
The keymap that should be loaded is /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys.kmap.gz Normally with kbdconfig you can browse through the directory of /usr/share/keymaps/ and choose the one you need. If you are using console-tools after the installation it should get your /etc/console-t

Debian for kids

2000-09-09 Thread Leonardo Dutra
Hi, Somebody would know to say me where can find information about the Debian for kids project ? I would like to install it so that my son uses Linux since small :) Thanks Leonardo Dutra Porto Alegre -RS - Brazil

a pb w/ restrict rules in diald

2000-09-09 Thread GINTRU
Hi, when i use restrict rules to make the line available from 7am to 2pm, i have this problem : the line can't be setted up beetween 7am and 2pm if u mind take a look at my /etc/diald/standard.filter file i would appreciate ... is it a bug in woody diald version ? ... i gonna feel bad in can't

Re: hdparm

2000-09-09 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 09:44:15AM -0500, Jamie Raymond wrote: > Where's the best place to put a call to hdparm so that it gets invoked > upon booting? (would inserting it into an existing file in /etc/init.d > be appropriate?) Perhaps /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh? Otherwise, just create your own scrip

multiple SMTP servers with exim

2000-09-09 Thread Christoph Groth
Hello, I'd like exim to send my mail via more than one smarthost as I am using several providers and every provider has its own SMTP server that accepts mails only when logged in by `his' provider. I have tried to set route_list in /etc/exim.conf to "* first.server:second.server bydns_a" Now wh

highlight *.cc files as *.cpp in xemacs

2000-09-09 Thread Attila Csosz
How to get the same syntax highlight for *.cc files as for the *.cpp files (default) in XEmacs? Thanks Attila -- -- - Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Debian 2.2 Linux / 2.2.13 / exim- - Get my PGP key: gpg --keyserver keys.pgp.c

Re: Family proofing a Debian box

2000-09-09 Thread Christoph Groth
"Bryan K. Walton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If they don't have root, are there things that I should make > off-limits that might not be on a stock Debian 2.2 system? I don't know how technically sophisticated your family is but I assume that your sister is not a cracker and your father not a

Re: Debian for kids

2000-09-09 Thread ktb
On Sat, 09 Sep 2000, Leonardo Dutra wrote: > Hi, > > Somebody would know to say me where can find information about the Debian for > kids project ? > > I would like to install it so that my son uses Linux since small :) Maybe not exactly what you were looking for but. http://www.linuxforkid

c++ compiler problem

2000-09-09 Thread Johann Spies
I get the following error when I try to compile a short c++ program: --- c++ allvehic.cpp -o voertuig cpp: -lang-c++: linker input file unused since linking not done c++: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1plus': No such file or directory - and the following error when I

Re: German keys on console

2000-09-09 Thread Peter Malewski
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 05:24:55PM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote: > The keymap that should be loaded is > /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys.kmap.gz it is there: Uranus:/home/peter# ls /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/de* /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys.kmap.gz /usr/sha

Editor for rescue disks/ floppy distros

2000-09-09 Thread USM Bish
"Everthing's the same except the name". This is a re- post, just for change of thread for reasons as below. Yes, I clean forgot that there are people on our list who are on threaded mail readers .. I posted this on the thread of "Joe editor" yesterday. Thanks Curt for reminding me. USM Bis

Re: kde or gnome?

2000-09-09 Thread USM Bish
Just a small clarification sought : What exactly is meant by Gnome or KDE compliance ? Is it the capability of running Gnome or KDE apps ? I'm on fvwm2 and blackbox. I've both qt (for KDE) and necessary libs for running gnome apps installed. I am able to run kmail, kedit (and other kde pa

Re: Family proofing a Debian box

2000-09-09 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 09 Sep 2000, Christoph Groth wrote: > > If they don't have root, are there things that I should make > > off-limits that might not be on a stock Debian 2.2 system? > > I don't know how technically sophisticated your family is but I assume > that your sister is not a cracker and your father

Re: c++ compiler problem

2000-09-09 Thread Chris Gray
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 12:58:54PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > I get the following error when I try to compile a short c++ program: > > --- > c++ allvehic.cpp -o voertuig > cpp: -lang-c++: linker input file unused since linking not done > c++: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1plus':

Re: German keys on console

2000-09-09 Thread Vee-Eye
> thats what i have done. sveral times, with several latin-1 packages. > Everytime the same: The testing works o.k. but the console doesn't want it.. What does that mean? When configuring the keymap with kbdconfig

Re: PGP and Mutt

2000-09-09 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 8 Sep 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > If it helps, my .muttrc is attached. Note that I've got gpg, not pgp, > installed. I'd recommend you use the same. There is only one tag in my > muttrc which appears relevant, that's the "pgp_autosign" hook. >

Re: hdparm

2000-09-09 Thread Krzys Majewski
I worried about this too a few days ago and came to the conclusion that adding a line to an existing script might be unreliable, since package installations may replace said script.. so I added my own script. I then put this script in /etc/rc.boot/, a directory whose infinite mysteries I have yet t

/etc/rc.boot

2000-09-09 Thread Krzys Majewski
What's the story with /etc/rc.boot/? Is it deprecated? Is it good? Should its files be run by /etc/inittab via /etc/rcS? The contents of my /etc/rc.boot: 0setserial* hdparm* kbd* update-modules* -chris

how to turn off auto-fill-mode in XEmacs21?

2000-09-09 Thread Attila Csosz
Hi, I'd like to turn off the line wrappping (xemacs truncates the long lines at the end of line). I think this is the variable 'auto-fill-mode' but I can't turn it off. How to turn it off? If it possible send me a working .emacs file for XEmacs21. Thanks Attila -- ---

Re: German keys on console

2000-09-09 Thread Peter Malewski
Dear Vee-Eye, On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 07:05:14PM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote: > > thats what i have done. sveral times, with several latin-1 packages. > > Everytime the same: The testing works o.k. but the console doesn't want it.. >

Re: /etc/rc.boot (new Q: 'outputting' manpage)

2000-09-09 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 10:41:06AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > What's the story with /etc/rc.boot/? Is it deprecated? Is it good? Taken from "man rc.boot": [snip] The /etc/rc.boot directory is obsolete. It has been super­ seded by the /etc/rcS.d directory. At boot time, first the

X won't start

2000-09-09 Thread Ray Percival
Just installed 2.2 when it boots it looks like xfs and xdm both start up. When I type startx I get. x: exec of /usr/bin/x11/xf86_svfg failed. I used xf86config to build a config file this is a Diamond Viper 770 and I used the card definition that came with x. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance. Ray

Re: Error: undelivered email - recipient email storage limit exceeded

2000-09-09 Thread Cam Ellison
On Sat, 9 Sep 2000 06:30:18 -0700, Dale Morris wrote: >I've received one.. Me too. Cam Ellison, Ph.D., R.Psych. [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From the lovely Sunshine Coast, where it only SEEMS to rain.

LILO: Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk

2000-09-09 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Can anybody shed some light on the error message above? I get it whenever I run LILO now, and the system won't boot from the hard drive. The only change to this system was a new network card (there are now 2) and the new kernel. The kernel works fine, as I hav

Re: Error: undelivered email - recipient email storage limit exceeded

2000-09-09 Thread Ray Percival
This is going to suck before they fix this. :) -- Original Message -- From: "Cam Ellison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Cam Ellison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 11:52:28 +0800 >On Sat, 9 Sep 2000 06:30:18 -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > >>I've r

Compile issue with linux-2.4.0-test8 and gcc 2.95.2-14

2000-09-09 Thread ^chewie
I sent this one off to the linux-kernel email list as well, but figured that since Debian is the environment I work in, I'd let you have a crack at it. Suggestions? -- ^chewie - Forwarded message from ^chewie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 12:23:12 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vg

Where/what is net-pf-18?

2000-09-09 Thread Cam Ellison
I got this error message in syslog: Can't locate module net-pf-18. Anyone know what this is? Would it have something to do with the fact that I cannot ping my kids' machine any more? (nor vice versa, even though ping seems to work within both systems. TIA Cam Cam Ellison, Ph.D., R.Psych. [

Re: LILO: Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk

2000-09-09 Thread Nate Amsden
"Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Can anybody shed some light on the error message above? I get it whenever > I run LILO now, and the system won't boot from the hard drive. The only > change to this system was a new network card (there are now 2) and the new

Re: LILO: Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk

2000-09-09 Thread brian moore
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 02:48:02PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > Can anybody shed some light on the error message above? I get it whenever > I run LILO now, and the system won't boot from the hard drive. The only > change to this system was a new network card (there are now 2) and the new > k

Re: hdparm

2000-09-09 Thread Tom Pfeifer
The package hwtools installs a script at /etc/init.d/hwtools, which is where I invoke hdparm from. I think the default script, when installed, has a commented out section for hdparm. Tom Jamie Raymond wrote: > > Hi, > > Where's the best place to put a call to hdparm so that it gets invoked > up

Re: /etc/rc.boot (new Q: 'outputting' manpage)

2000-09-09 Thread Christoph Groth
Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do I properly print out the contents of a manpage? > When I do ":r! man blabla" in vi, I get funny characters at some places. > > Using man's --ascii option didn't help. You can use Emacs (Even if this is hard for vi users ;-) ). Just type M-x man

Re: Compile issue with linux-2.4.0-test8 and gcc 2.95.2-14

2000-09-09 Thread Krzys Majewski
You probably already know this but, apparently the recommended gcc for compiling 2.4.0-test* is 2.7.2.3. I did see something like "gcc 2.95 may give problems" in one of the readme files in the kernel sources. -chris ^chewie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I sent this one off to the linux-kernel em

Re: PGP and Mutt

2000-09-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
Brian and others, thanks for the replys, I guess I can't solve all without reading:) On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 07:09:34PM -0700, brian moore wrote: > On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 03:21:58AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > now I get the following error message once I open a signed mail: > > > >[--

Re: /etc/rc.boot (new Q: 'outputting' manpage)

2000-09-09 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 09:59:55PM +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: > Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > How do I properly print out the contents of a manpage? > > When I do ":r! man blabla" in vi, I get funny characters at some places. > > Using man's --ascii option didn't help. > You can

Re: /etc/rc.boot (new Q: 'outputting' manpage)

2000-09-09 Thread Krzys Majewski
Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Another way would be to directly use troff/nroff. > > Which is how? Never done this so please help me out a little. Well you can do something like this: 13:27:57$ zcat man.1.gz | nroff -man > ~/tmp/woo but this still puts funky characters in the ou

kernel 2.4.0-test7

2000-09-09 Thread lbredeso
I upgraded from potato to woody and installed the newest kernel. However, when I boot from the new kernel, it locks up when it tries to start inetd. If I try to boot the old kernel, there are no problems. Does anyone know what this could be? luke

informazioni

2000-09-09 Thread Ercole Francavilla
SPETT.LE DEBIAN MI SONO CONNESSO ALL'FTP PER SCARICARE IL VOSTRO SISTEMA OPERATIVO... MA NON SO QUALI FILES SCARICARE. PREMETTO CHE DI LINUX NON SO ASSOLUTAMENTE PARLARE, ANCHE SE VOGLIO ADDENTRARMI IN QUESTO MONDO.   IN FTP HO TROVATO: dists doc indices project tools IS-IR. IS-IR.gz IS-IR.pa

Re: /etc/rc.boot (new Q: 'outputting' manpage)

2000-09-09 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 01:29:32PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Another way would be to directly use troff/nroff. > > > > Which is how? Never done this so please help me out a little. > > Well you can do something like this: > > 13:27:57$ zcat

Re: /etc/rc.boot (new Q: 'outputting' manpage)

2000-09-09 Thread Krzys Majewski
Oh haha, the parameter is actually called "-m" ("macro"), the "an" is an argument to the parameter. -chris > That seems to do a fine job. I cannot find a documentation of that > "-man" parameter anywhere. Where would that be? (checked the man > page of *roff) >

Re: informazioni

2000-09-09 Thread Krzys Majewski
My italian is bad but maybe this will help you: http://www.debian.org/international/Italian -chris

Re: /etc/rc.boot (new Q: 'outputting' manpage)

2000-09-09 Thread Glyn Millington
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 10:12:40PM +0200, thus spake Sven Burgener: > On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 09:59:55PM +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: > > Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How do I properly print out the contents of a manpage? > > > When I do ":r! man blabla" in vi, I get funny chara

Re: Free X Server for WinDos

2000-09-09 Thread kmself
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 07:52:15AM -0400, Jonathan Markevich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 06:03:38PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > The subject says it all. I found MI/X, but that seems not to be free > > > > anymore. Isn't there anything that's good *and* fre

Re: /etc/rc.boot (new Q: 'outputting' manpage)

2000-09-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 09:59:55PM +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: > Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How do I properly print out the contents of a manpage? > > When I do ":r! man blabla" in vi, I get funny characters at some places. > > > > Using man's --ascii option didn't help. >

Re: c++ compiler problem

2000-09-09 Thread Johann Spies
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 12:49:16PM -0400, Chris Gray wrote: > On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 12:58:54PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > I get the following error when I try to compile a short c++ program: > > > > --- > > c++ allvehic.cpp -o voertuig > > cpp: -lang-c++: linker input file unused sin

Re: /etc/rc.boot (new Q: 'outputting' manpage)

2000-09-09 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 11:41:32PM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > OK. The trick is to get "man" to output in PostScript format: > man -t will do it. > > Then use the utility "psnup" (one of the GNU pstools package.). > It will print two or more pages of the man output onto one page, > thus savi

Re: Q: 'outputting' manpages

2000-09-09 Thread Raja R Harinath
Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ** Now I have a question: ** > > How do I properly print out the contents of a manpage? > When I do ":r! man blabla" in vi, I get funny characters at some places. > > Using man's --ascii option didn't help. If you really want to print the contents:

RE: German keys on console

2000-09-09 Thread Christian Pernegger
That's got nothing to do with the keymap (which is fine.) Two things are important: 1) in /etc/inputrc set 'convert-meta off' must be uncommented (it maybe by default in 2.2r1, it wasn't in tc3. The metakey still works fine, BTW) 2) The environment variable 'LANG' must be set to, i.e., 'd

Re: please help updating calendar

2000-09-09 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 03:11:48PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Sep 08, Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Their list is much more comprehensive than mine, but mine contains far > >more detail. So it's worth merging them, but I'm not quite sure how > >you'd like to do this. Ther

webcache/port 8080

2000-09-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
I've been getting webcache connection attempts showing up in my logs for the last couple days, always from the same IP. So I got sick of it and sent him a nastygram and, in the process of composing it, tried telnetting to port 8080 on the machine in question. I connected. The only response I was

matroxfb.o module

2000-09-09 Thread Parrish M Myers
Hi, Does anyone know how to pass the "video=..." argument to the matroxfb module? I have tried the following: options matroxfb video=matrox:vesa:0x1BB and then some variations of that. Every time I try to do this the matroxfb module complains that "param_video" is a non-valid argument. Does a

kernel update?

2000-09-09 Thread Dale Morris
I just did an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade and apt downloaded the kernel2.2.17 sources. I've been running 2.2.16 because I had some trouble with the 2.2.17 kpkg that I set up. Question is, did apt configure 2.2.17 kernel to be the one that executes when I reboot? If so will it have configured

Re: webcache/port 8080

2000-09-09 Thread Nate Amsden
what i do in situations like this is run lsof | grep LISTEN or lsof | grep 8080 or lsof | grep LISTEN | grep 8080 nate Dave Sherohman wrote: > > I've been getting webcache connection attempts showing up in my logs for the > last couple days, always from the same IP. So I got sick of it and s

Re: webcache/port 8080

2000-09-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
Nate Amsden said: > what i do in situations like this is run > > lsof | grep LISTEN > > or lsof | grep 8080 > > or lsof | grep LISTEN | grep 8080 Thanks for the reminder... I knew there was another fuser-like command, but couldn't remember its name. It agrees with fuser, though - grepping for

Re: LILO: Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk

2000-09-09 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Nate Amsden wrote: > /dev/hda is the first disk. to boot off of /dev/sda you need to > probably reconfigure your BIOS or something to do it, or install LILO to > the MBR on /dev/hda. Yeah, I actually did that before I received this email, b

Re: Free X Server for WinDos

2000-09-09 Thread Jonathan Markevich
> > > > > The subject says it all. I found MI/X, but that seems not to be free > > > > > anymore. Isn't there anything that's good *and* free? > > > > > > > > An older version of MI/X? > > > > > > Try VNC rather than X, unless you're trying to locally serve X apps. > > > > Or if you want to be

Re: matroxfb.o module

2000-09-09 Thread Brendan Cully
On Saturday, 09 September 2000 at 16:02, Parrish M Myers wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know how to pass the "video=..." argument to the matroxfb > module? I have tried the following: > > options matroxfb video=matrox:vesa:0x1BB > > and then some variations of that. Every time I try to do this t

Re: installation problems

2000-09-09 Thread kmself
Can you provide more context? I'm not sure exactly where in the installation this is (I don't have to reinstall Debian regularly ), or if your system is *entirely* nonresponsive. Have you tried switching to another virtual console? On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 12:35:25AM -0700, Screwy Squirrel ([EMAI

Re: matroxfb.o module

2000-09-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 07:33:02PM -0400, Brendan Cully wrote: > On Saturday, 09 September 2000 at 16:02, Parrish M Myers wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Does anyone know how to pass the "video=..." argument to the matroxfb > > module? I have tried the following: > > > > options matroxfb video=matrox:ves

xpilot - rplay - no sound

2000-09-09 Thread Peter Garrone
Hi, I have installed the latest stable xpilot rplay client debian package version 4.1.0-4.U.4. I cant get any sound. I have not configured rplay, or xpilot, in any way. I can play all the individual sounds in /usr/share/games/xpilot/sound, using rplay and rptp. When the client starts, it emit

Re: ClassyTcl

2000-09-09 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hello the List: > > Has anybody installed this package? > [03:06:24 /tmp]$ grep-available -i ClassyTCL [03:06:41 /tmp]$ Does it has a deb? What does it do? > Thanks, > Bill Barnes > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- -- Shau

Re: Socks and apt/dselect

2000-09-09 Thread Shaul Karl
> > I have dante installed, my system is sockafied, but i can't apt-get > doesn't seem to care for socks. In reading debbugs, it would appear that > jason isn't too interested in fixing support for that. Which is a pain, > as socks is very usefull, and is in very wide use. I do not know what y

Phone-answering software?

2000-09-09 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
Is there any software available for Linux that can intercept phone calls (to a phone that's connected to a modem), and... 1) Serve as an answering machine when the modem isn't in use, and/or 2) Inform me when I'm on-line and there's an incoming call? Any help would be appreciated, since I'm goin

Re: matroxfb.o module

2000-09-09 Thread Parrish M Myers
Thanks! It worked. Here is the method I used... in /etc/modutils/ I made a file named: matroxfb the information I included in it was: options matroxfb pixclock=1 left=170 right=70 upper=21 lower=11 hslen=96 vslen=15 xres=1024 yres=768 depth=24 #options matroxfb vesa=0x1BB mind you the

Weird messages after kernel compiling...

2000-09-09 Thread Gutierrez Family
Hi again, everyone.I forgot to mention that after compiling my new kernel, I now get manymodules-related error messages.  If I remember correctly, I did thefollowing:make mrproper (cleaned everything right out)make xconfigmake depmake clean (don't know if this was really necessary, since I'

RE: ClassyTcl

2000-09-09 Thread Bill Barnes
Have not found a deb for ClassyTcl. I'm running 2.2 woody and have problems compiling the source. ClassyTcl looks like a robust GUI builder. Installed the Windoze binary to evaluate it, but only interested in Linux version. >= Original Message From Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = >> Hel

Re: kernel update?

2000-09-09 Thread ktb
Dale Morris wrote: > > I just did an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade and apt downloaded the > kernel2.2.17 sources. I've been running 2.2.16 because I had some > trouble with the 2.2.17 kpkg that I set up. > > Question is, did apt configure 2.2.17 kernel to be the one that executes when > I rebo

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