Hi.
I thought I had everything sorted with FP and Linux ... yet I now
find that when I customer goes to upload a large web page I am getting this
error in the apache error file.
access to /var/web/electricity.co.nz/_vti_bin/_vti_aut/author.exe failed
for port45-athene.es.co.nz, reason: Prematur
Rick wrote:
>
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> This is from the NET-2-HOWTO. You can find more in the ppp-HOWTO and I
> believe the serial howto.
>
> Configuring a PPP server is similar to establishing a SLIP server.
> You can create a special `ppp' account, which uses an executable
I was worried yesterday that I would not be able to boot the box, but the
upgrade went quite well. Thanks, Debian.
On that box dselect shows:
-**modules
***modutils
and does not have a modules.prerm.
My box at home shows
***modules
***modutils
and modules.prerm has no ch
I am gonna install frozen from scratch in a machine and I would like to keep
all the messages printed in the installation. What can I do to log all
the messages?
Is there a way to use script for this purpose?
Is script in the base?
Is there another program I should know about?
It is my intenti
robert havoc pennington wrote:
> When I first installed debian I selected more packages than would fit on
> the disk, and so I ended up with tons of "broken packages" and had to
> install again. dselect recovered nicely (something other distributions
> don't do) but since each package has a pre
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997 15:29:58 -0700, Richard Sevenich wrote:
>I am getting questions from possible future Linux users. I'll post them
>to this list to tap into the extensive experience. Maybe we'll get more
>converts.
>Question of the day:
> Those of you who burn CD's from Linux - what softwa
On Apr 16, Richard Sevenich wrote
> I am getting questions from possible future Linux users. I'll post them
> to this list to tap into the extensive experience. Maybe we'll get more
> converts.
> Question of the day:
> Those of you who burn CD's from Linux - what software do you
> use?
I am getting questions from possible future Linux users. I'll post them
to this list to tap into the extensive experience. Maybe we'll get more
converts.
Question of the day:
Those of you who burn CD's from Linux - what software do you
use? Is it dependable and straightforward to us
Alexandre writes:
> The 'file names' are wrong in Package.frozen.
>
> A work around :
Thanks! That fixed it!
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I don't know why this is. They could fix it by creating a symlink unstable
- -> bo. I just used master.debian.org instead. It works fine.
On 16-Apr-97 Pete Harlan wrote:
>Hi,
>
>In trying to upgrade a 1.2.x system to 'frozen' (to see if this would
>fix my "I
The 'file names' are wrong in Package.frozen.
A work around :
- You tell deselect to Update the package list.
- Just after it has downloaded the list, you switch to another console
(or xterm) and, in the appropriate directory,
(/var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/)
type :
sed -e '/unstable/s//frozen/
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Are you involved in the development or just pkging for Debian?
I really only want wine for a few programs. ICQ in particular so I'll know
when friends and family logon and to send msgs etc...
www.mirabilis.com if you want to check it out.
I really don't see w
> Has wine been pkged for deb? If so where can I find it?
> Have a good one.
You can find a really old version of wine in project/experimental.
I have a newer version compiled on my machine and will be uploading
a new package before the release of 1.3.
Since Wine isn't really useful as a tool, y
Hi,
In trying to upgrade a 1.2.x system to 'frozen' (to see if this would
fix my "I can't receive smtp email from a M$ Exchange-based site"
problem). I recieve a bunch of these errors when telling dselect to
"install":
---
getting:
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Another battle won for Linux. I'm sending this to the driver developer as
soon as I find his email. In case they don't know yet.
Anybody know the email offhand?
(Ethernet cards)
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Ricky
Tracking # 322629
There are no dr
> what does it matter if one editor is faster than another? Or if one
> is more powerful than any other? Nothing! The particular user has
> to be familiar with at least one editor in that way that _he_ can
> use it for his purposes.
The issue relevant to this group is: what editor should someo
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Carpenter, Dean (MS Mail) wrote:
> Yup - I think it's called smb-NT-verify.1.1.tar.gz. I don't remember
> exactly where I got it, but here's the authors name from the
> nt-linux.readme file ...
>
> Christopher Burke| Unique | Web: http://www.mindware.com.au
> Mind
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This is from the NET-2-HOWTO. You can find more in the ppp-HOWTO and I
believe the serial howto.
Configuring a PPP server is similar to establishing a SLIP server.
You can create a special `ppp' account, which uses an executable
script as its login shell.
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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 20:54:41 +
debian-user-digest Digest Volume 97 : Issue 117
Today's Topics:
Re: Install report, finally
Kernel panic
WINE
Re: Apache web server POSTing.
Di
Folks,
what does it matter if one editor is faster than another? Or if one
is more powerful than any other? Nothing! The particular user has
to be familiar with at least one editor in that way that _he_ can
use it for his purposes.
It doesn't make any sense discussing wether one particular ed
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>According to a posting in comp.mail.smail by Bruse Becker, relay control
>has been added to smail as of version 3.2.0.93
>
>This is a MOST WELCOME feature and a security asset to any site on the
>net running smail. Do we have this verison as a package y
Ok guys, ready for my comments on dselect? There are some doozies in here,
and some not-so-doozies. Also, there may be many points that can't work
simply because of the way packages are set up. The ideas are in no
particular order.
1) Allow "quick install" from floppies
It'd be really
On 16 Apr 1997, Alair Pereira do Lago wrote:
> Here, I was not saying anything about fastness or slowness of any editor, but
> about a powerful use of emacs.
Emacs is powerful, but in vi the work is faster not only because the
editor is faster, but also because you don't have to move your fingers
Running a machine with the frozen version of debian:
etc/init.d/xdm: Command not found.
host:/etc/init.d# /etc/init.d/xdm stop
no /usr/bin/X11/xdm found; none killed.
host:/etc/init.d# start-stop-daemon --stop --exec /usr/bin/X11/xdm
no /usr/bin/X11/xdm found; none killed.
host:/etc/init.d# ps -au
Hi,
When I first installed debian I selected more packages than would fit on
the disk, and so I ended up with tons of "broken packages" and had to
install again. dselect recovered nicely (something other distributions
don't do) but since each package has a predictable size it seems dselect
could
Vadim Vygonets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 15 Apr 1997, Alair Pereira do Lago wrote:
>
> > I do not know vi well but I do not see how it could be simpler than
> > ctr-alt-s
> > in emacs. There, while you are filling the regular expression you can see
> > the text that the incomplete regula
I like the consept of dselect as it is but som improvments are welcome.
The sugestions is sorted in thre cattegorys: 1) Small improvments to
dselects interface. 2) Bigger new featurs to dselect. 3) New / improved
featurs involving possably changes to the pakage managment system.
Lets start with 1)
If you type ping -c 5 www.microsoft.com
how long does it take before you see the first
line ?
This almost sounds like a DNS timeout.
--Jeff (just a guess)
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Brian C. White wrote:
> > > The latest mime-support (2.12) will work much better with lynx since
> > > it tries to
> In your email to me, Kevin Traas, you wrote:
> >
> > I would like to offer both normal terminal and PPP connections on my
> > dial-in modems for my end-users. If possible, I'd like it to be as
> > automated as possible - i.e. No user intervention.
> >
> > Is this possible? If so, any sugges
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Pilon wrote:
> I am getting this message while booting my Linux box:
>
> "VFS unable to mount root fs on 03:03"
>
> Can someone tell me what does it mean?
>
>
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In your email to me, Kevin Traas, you wrote:
>
> I've no idea if this is might be documented somewhere. If so, please point
> me to the right FM to RTFM Thanks.
>
> I would like to offer both normal terminal and PPP connections on my
> dial-in modems for my end-users. If possible, I'd lik
I've no idea if this is might be documented somewhere. If so, please point
me to the right FM to RTFM Thanks.
I would like to offer both normal terminal and PPP connections on my
dial-in modems for my end-users. If possible, I'd like it to be as
automated as possible - i.e. No user interve
I've already been baffled by this Sue... Here's what's basically in my
access.conf:
AllowOverride None
Options None
Order deny,allow
deny from all
Options All
AllowOverride FileInfo
order allow,deny
allow from all
Options All
And of course, the rest of the stuff like /var/www - default
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Has wine been pkged for deb? If so where can I find it?
Have a good one.
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I am getting this message while booting my Linux box:
"VFS unable to mount root fs on 03:03"
Can someone tell me what does it mean?
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On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Alexander Koch wrote:
> [...]
> 3. On the boot discs there were only /dev/sdb1 to /dev/sdb8, both 9 and 10
> were missing. Well, it's not difficult to have 10 partitions if you a) only
> use two primary, one to be an extended partition with the rest being logical
> ones and b
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Vadim wrote:
Vadim> > My beloved Vadik, :) there is nothing objectively "fast"
Vadim> > about slang and nothing "slow" about lisp. Emacs seems to
Vadim> > be alot more complicated then jed that's all. (maybe jed is
Vadim> > faster just because it meant to be "fast
Yes, passive option is used.
ppp.log says something like (sorry, my machine is at home so I don't
have the exact words).
terminating on signal 15
sent TermReq
recd TermAck <..>
>
> Yes, ppp.log says "terminating on signal ..."
>
> Perhaps the key piece of evidence is that eve
How about the ability to search(currenlty using /) all fields not just
the package name. It is sometimes helpfull if you are not sure what a
package is called to search the discription of the package.
Brian
Mechanical Engin
At 08:28 AM 16/04/97 -0600, Chad Zimmerman wrote:
>
>I had that when I first installed. Make sure the path callout for your
>cgi-bin in the .conf files is correst, and once that is done check the
>ownership of the directory and the access privilages of the cgi-bin
>directory.
>
>Here is how ine is
Yup - I think it's called smb-NT-verify.1.1.tar.gz. I don't remember
exactly where I got it, but here's the authors name from the
nt-linux.readme file ...
Christopher Burke| Unique | Web: http://www.mindware.com.au
Mindware | Custom | Info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PO Bo
Hello,
I use Emacs at the console (I have an 486/33 :-() and under X.
I've done some key bindings in my .emacs (more detailed in an
*.el file called from .emacs but this is not the point):
(global-set-key [C-left] 'backward-word)
(global-set-key [C-right] 'forward-word)
(global-set-key
Hello,
I installed the tmview_96.05-1.deb package which I got from
bo/binary/tex some days ago (it disapeared from there now,
like some other TeXrelated packages??).
At home it works fine at home (360 DPI fonts) but in the university
it produces only a very strange vertical pattern. Behind t
Hi
It would be nice to see links to the Bug Tracking
System (BTS) from the web pages the individual
packages can be downloaded on www.debian.org.
Those interested in upgrading individual packages
would so be able to check the reported bugs before
starting the process which might brea
> > The latest mime-support (2.12) will work much better with lynx since
> > it tries to use tests that lynx can recognize internally without forking
> > an external process.
>
> Where is 2.12 available. I can only find 2.11 on my nearest Debian
> mirror.
It was stuck in incoming until this mornin
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Portuesi Simone wrote:
> I've to install debian linux in 4 PCs here at the university (now they
> have an old slackware). My idea was to have one of them to export users
> and their directories plus a directory with apps not in the debian
> distribution (a sort of non-local).
I've to install debian linux in 4 PCs here at the university (now they
have an old slackware). My idea was to have one of them to export users
and their directories plus a directory with apps not in the debian
distribution (a sort of non-local). Up to here no problems arise.
But I'd like also to sh
> I'm trying to upgrade modules to modutils but dpkg says:
> Kernel was compiled with module support
> Modules package cannot be removed
>
> Ideas? I'm in the field at the moment.
What I did was to edit the modules.prerm file in /var/lib/dpkg/info and
delete the check described above. Then the
According to a posting in comp.mail.smail by Bruse Becker, relay control
has been added to smail as of version 3.2.0.93
This is a MOST WELCOME feature and a security asset to any site on the
net running smail. Do we have this verison as a package yet?
George Bonser
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Mark Phillips wrote:
>
> For many moons now, I have been using a primative method to establish
> a ppp link, namely: use minicom to login and start ppp at the other
> end, then exit minicom and run pppd manually.
>
> Though labour intensive, this method worked tolerably well. The only
> problem
I had that when I first installed. Make sure the path callout for your
cgi-bin in the .conf files is correst, and once that is done check the
ownership of the directory and the access privilages of the cgi-bin
directory.
Here is how ine is:
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 2048 Mar 17 11:08
This is a bug in the Configure script of the kernel package that has
been brought to the fore by the POSIXness of binutils/bash, as you
suspected.
The fix is to escape the POSIXly reserved characters in the script that
are used in 'expr' commands. The one you are tripping on checks for a
valid hex
Dale Scheetz writes:
[snip]
> Isn't this already available with get_selections and set_selections?
What about a fresh, "from scratch" installation? (like a newby would
encounter) 8-)
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Nicola Bernardelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm new to Debian. I've been waiting for one month to receive the
> 1.2.4 CD from Cheap Bytes (sent March 3rd arrived April 4th) and I'm
I received my 1.2.4 from them in one week or so. And I am in Brazil.
> trying with it these days... I wo
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Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Is legal if I copy the full DEBIAN distribution in a CD (ftp.debian.org)
> and I give the CD to my friend?
Short answer: Yes, perfectly legal.
Most programs in the main Debian distribution are covered by the GPL,
which states that if
On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Brian C. White wrote:
> > Why does it take so long for Netscape or Lynx to start?
>
> It takes forever because they both read the entire file and run every
> single test condition they encounter.
>
> The latest mime-support (2.12) will work much better with lynx since
> it
[ snip ]
>
> first type runlevel, and see what level you are booting in (runlevel
> is in /sbin/runlevel). Then, if runlevel says "N 4", you're in level
> 4, and type
> cd /etc/rc4.d
> mv S99xdm K99xdm
Just some minor nit picking: it should be
mv S99xdm K01xdm
This might be important when switc
Hi.
I've recently installed thelatest apache web package and found that I
cannot POST to it. We seems to be getting the error:
Method not implemented
POST to /~matt/cgi-bin/Formmail/formmail.pl not supported.
I've looked through all the apache documentation without much luck, an
On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Rick wrote:
> I assume that the unstable dir was removed since bo is no longer conciderred
> unstable.
>
> What's up with the packages file pointing to unstable?
>
There's some problem, apparently.
> How is it that others are installing bo and not run accross this yet?
> - I have Debian 1.2 installed with kernel 2.0.27, when I boot the system,
> the last thing the system do, before asking me for the user and password,
> is start the xdm program. Then the system change to the seventh tty and
> change the apperance from text to graphical. I move to the firs
On Wed, Apr 16, 1997 at 10:14:30AM +0800, A. M. Varon wrote:
>
> If possible, it could look, feel and function like a midnight commander.
> left pane are the .deb files, to the right could be the content, info,
> dependancies to other files etc. which you could toggle.
Hmmm. But more interesting
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Boris D. Beletsky wrote:
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> On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Vadim wrote:
>
> Vadim> Two reasons emacs is slow: 1. Lisp (jed is faster than emacs
> Vadim> because it uses S-Lang (however they spell it)).
>
> My beloved Vadik, :) there is
>
> It is generally agreed that any Unix user should be able to use
> vi, regardless of which editor he prefers to use regularly.
>
> Apparently vi doesn't exist in Debian - vim, nvi, and elvis
> (maybe others) all like to have a symlink named vi pointing to them.
> A year ago when I wa
On Tue, Apr 15, 1997 at 11:32:07AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Pro 200.
> 200 and 200 MMX will run it the same. MMX has extensions for multi-media,
> but no more raw processing power.
No but MMX 200 has a larger cache (L1) than the non-MMX,
which according to the usual benchmarks I saw in
When I get to configuring my sound card, and get to the SB base I/O field,
the default is 220. Whatever I seem to type, it returns "sorry, no help
is available for this option". I've tried typing 220 and just hitting
enter and both of them get me that response.
Anyone have an idea before I dig i
For many moons now, I have been using a primative method to establish
a ppp link, namely: use minicom to login and start ppp at the other
end, then exit minicom and run pppd manually.
Though labour intensive, this method worked tolerably well. The only
problem was that sometimes pppd believed th
Dear Debian users, I have two questions related to XF86 setup and boot
options:
- I have Debian 1.2 installed with kernel 2.0.27, when I boot the system,
the last thing the system do, before asking me for the user and password,
is start the xdm program. Then the system change to the
Syrus,
Many thanks - you got me out of a bit of a hole, there.
dpkg now says that modutils is installed, but I notice that
/dev/init.d/boot still refers to modutils. Hope this is OK.
Lindsay
On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote:
>
> >
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote:
> I'm trying to upgrade modules to modutils but dpkg says:
> Kernel was compiled with module support
> Modules package cannot be removed
>
> Ideas? I'm in the field at the moment.
Yes. This one can be solved by hand with dpkg. You need to ftp the
mod
I'm trying to upgrade modules to modutils but dpkg says:
Kernel was compiled with module support
Modules package cannot be removed
Ideas? I'm in the field at the moment.
TIA
Lindsay
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Regarding the "wish list" for the dselect replacement:
1 A "what if" command: Tell me what you would do if I said "do it".
I found with dselect I'd somehow told it to remove lots of
things I hand't meant to, so recently I've been using dpkg directly
rather than trying to figure out dselect.
Jason Ish writes:
> I connect to the internet using my school PPP account which gives me a
> user name not very close to my real name and chose to use my first name to
> logon to my personal linux box. I would like to send email but have it
> come from my school email name and not my localhost
> > > It is generally agreed that any Unix user should be able to use
> > > vi, regardless of which editor he prefers to use regularly.
> >
> > Apparently the people who generated the debian rescue disk don't agree
> > or the recent editor wars wouldn't have happened on this list.
>
> The
> My needs might be better served if there were an easy way to instruct dpkg
> to install the binaries on a different filesystem, like a zip disk. There
> is probably a way to do this easily, but I haven't figured it out. Have to
> do links by hand? THe config files, and so on, should go in the
Christoph,
> ..., I usually install [packages] ... in a directory
> /usr/local/packages/ ...
> I use a script to move files into the correct directories.
> The appeal of such an approach is [ability to] use any packages ... without
> [installing] anything locally except a set of well-defined link
If possible, it could look, feel and function like a midnight commander.
left pane are the .deb files, to the right could be the content, info,
dependancies to other files etc. which you could toggle.
regards,
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Andre M
I bet this has been debated before, but how does the Trinity Works' Stacker
133 perform with 2.0.30 of Debian? FYI, the Stacker 133 is a AMD 5x86/133
that fits in a 486 chip socket.
Discuss... :)
Jeff Greeson
http://mk.hotweird.com
The Realm of Mortal Kombat
Does anyone know if Debian has packaged the package which allows a Linux
box to participate in an NT domain? I read somewhere once that such a
package exists, but am very vague as to the details of what it did.
NB: it's not samba, it's do with sharing the user-space/passwords etc.
Any ideas?
8
Jeff Greeson wrote:
>
> At 07:31 PM 4/15/97 -0500, you wrote:
> >Jeff Greeson wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Stacker 133.. it's by Trinity Works.. here in dallas I think... but it's an
> >> AMD 5x86/133 CPU that uses the intel 486 chipset. Find some info before I
> >> spend the $99 on it.
> >>
try a post
My needs might be better served if there were an easy way to instruct dpkg
to install the binaries on a different filesystem, like a zip disk. There
is probably a way to do this easily, but I haven't figured it out. Have to
do links by hand? THe config files, and so on, should go in the regular
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