[Fwd: [INSTALL]:novice questions]

1997-04-27 Thread Pavel Galynin
Pavel Galynin wrote: > > Hello, > > It is a widspread misconception, that Jason Ish wrote: > > > I don't know about they keyboard, but the best way for you to install > > would be to set up your PPP connection to your isp and with dselect > > choose to install by ftp and once the files start dow

Re: WINE AND SHARE.EXE

1997-04-27 Thread Joey Hess
Harmon Sequoya Nine: > > Hello. I'm trying out the windoze emulator "wine", and can get games like > minesweeper and solitaire to run fine. However, whenever I try to run > microsoft word, a message is displayed telling me that I must run "share.exe". > > "share.exe" is under my /dos and /windo

ANNOUNCE: New Logo and Feedback Page for the Debian Logo (v12)

1997-04-27 Thread Christian Schwarz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi folks! I just installed the new Debian Logo Page (v12) today. You can have a look at it via http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-logo/ The new page contains 11 new and 13 old logos and uses HTML forms to make it easy for you to t

Re: year-2000 testing

1997-04-27 Thread Sam Ockman
Message from Bruce Perens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > If you can do so, please try running your system with the date in the year > 2000 for a while. Richard Stallman asked if we had tested that GNU software > is free of year-2000 problems, and I think it's a good idea. Fortunately > we don't have too ma

Re: INSTALL:dual-boot

1997-04-27 Thread Pavel Galynin
Hello, Jason Ish wrote: > > When you are installing Debian just make sure all your Linux partitions > are on hdb(whatever) then make a boot floppy, but don't try to make it > boot from the hard disk until you know more about Lilo. I've using > Linux/Win95 for months now like this, if I want Linu

Some minor post-install TUNINGs

1997-04-27 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
As I told in my previous posting, I think Debian is great. But this does not imply that only _gurus_ may want to use it. It took some time to me to find out how to do some tunings after installing from scratch, nothing so important but anything unuseful I think. Here I give four att

Thinkpad 701CS

1997-04-27 Thread David S. Jackson
Hi, I'm installing debian 1.2 on a Thinkpad 701CS, and I'm having a few problems maybe you could help with. I got the base system installed ok, but now I'm having trouble completing the installation via ftp. I connected once, but the second time is proving to be a challenge. Here's the latest

Re: debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup

1997-04-27 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 10:23 AM 27/04/97 -0700, Jim Pick wrote: >I remember reading somewhere that the gateway from the mailing lists >to the linux.* newsgroups was shutting down. Unfortunately, I can't >find the message here anywhere. > >I suppose we could create our own debian.* newsgroups -- but I prefer >getting

Re: INSTALL:dual-boot

1997-04-27 Thread Klaus Hergerschiemer
I dont know if they revised it, but last time i looked at it it was really incomplete. joe | joseph robert palicke [EMAIL PROTECTED] |.|--| .| [_] [] \

Re: Error: Too Many Open files

1997-04-27 Thread Troy Hanson
> : /usr/share/games/fortunes/art.dat: Too many open files > > Did you installed lshell? > I just checked, lshell was installed, so I purged it and it works. Thanks Much! Troy -- Psychiatrists say that one in four people are mentally ill. Check three friends, if they're okay, you're it. t r

WINE AND SHARE.EXE

1997-04-27 Thread Harmon Sequoya Nine
Hello. I'm trying out the windoze emulator "wine", and can get games like minesweeper and solitaire to run fine. However, whenever I try to run microsoft word, a message is displayed telling me that I must run "share.exe". "share.exe" is under my /dos and /windows/command directories on my dos

Re: debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup

1997-04-27 Thread Jim Pick
> Is there a mailing list gateway from debian_user to linux.debian.user? > > I subscribe both of those, because some messages does not seem appear in > both in the mailing list and the newsgroup. > > I remember reading something about this a month ago or so, but I can't > really recall what the

Re: LILO cylinder problem

1997-04-27 Thread Perry Piplani
On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, David Pfitzner wrote: > > > > So why in the hell does lilo report cylinder 2312 which I'm fairly sure is > > in hda3 when I'm setting up hda2 which starts at 817? > > I seem to recall reading that you can have problems with > partitations where are not _entirely_ within 1023

popclient .poprc file

1997-04-27 Thread troop/chiparus^mono
Hello, I just edited my .poprc file so it looks like this: defaults proto pop3 localfolder /var/spool/mail/troop server mail.chiparus.org user blah pass secret server mail.chiparus.org user blah pass secret server pop.pi.net user blah pass secret Problem is, as soon as i start popclient it exits

Re: problem ftpd

1997-04-27 Thread Perry Piplani
On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Comet Mercantile wrote: > > > On 22 Apr 1997, Rob Browning wrote: > > > Comet Mercantile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I can't login into my box the ftpd denies access to everyone! I check the > > > files /etc/hosts.deny /etc/hosts.allow /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess and the

Re: smartlist question

1997-04-27 Thread Richard Morin
On Sat, 26 Apr 1997, Giuseppe Vacanti wrote: > Anybody who could help? > > FYI, I haven't integrated procmail in the mail delivery system. > > Thanks, > > Giuseppe Vacanti > > According to the procmail docs, you need the following line in your /etc/smail/transports: local: return_path, loc

Re: INSTALL:dual-boot

1997-04-27 Thread Brian K Servis
Pavel Galynin writes: > >Hello, > >Well, I looked at it already, but it caused my question: > >How to dual-boot reliably? > >Paul > > >Bob Nielsen wrote: >> >> Get the LILO+Win95 mini-HOWTO. >> > I personally like the LOADLIN option better. For me it seems safer than modifying the MBR. I just h

how to make ppp die after only 4 rings?

1997-04-27 Thread Lawrence Chim
Since my ISP will answer the call after 2 rings, it is possible to set the pppd to die after 4 rings, otherwise, it keeps the line 'til 60s pass. Lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ACM 4.7-3 with Debian Linux 1.2.4 // xlock -mode rotor ???

1997-04-27 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
Sad to say, I'm not replying to my own question about Air Combat Maneuvers under Debian 1.2.4. And I'm not forwarding it again unless required, and possibly by private e-mail, being that a rather big message. I just have to point out a couple of things. 1) Ian Murdock is not the maint

Re: Filter

1997-04-27 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Sat, 26 Apr 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Where can I get A FILTER to stop SPAM http://spam.abuse.net Jason Costomiris | Finger for PGP 2.6.2 Public Key [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "There is a fine line between idiocy My employers like me, but not| and genius. W

[INSTALL]:novice questions

1997-04-27 Thread Pavel Galynin
Hello, I am now a proud owner of a Debian Linux box! I just finished installing the base system, everything went almost flawlessly, cool. Now I have a copule of novice/lame, whatever you like, questions: 1. For some reason, my up/down left/right keys produce weird output to the screen. Wh

strange ifconfig output..

1997-04-27 Thread Paul van Berlo
Heya.. I finally got my ISDN running.. but now I'm experiencing some strange ifconfig output, something like this: ippp0 Link encap:Point-Point Protocol inet addr:194.109.15.56 P-t-P:194.109.31.5 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1

Bug-or-feature: top & 'xxxK shrd'

1997-04-27 Thread Benedikt Eric Heinen
Hi there, I haven't found any better explanation, but somehow I have a strange feeling on top's output: 1:22pm up 17 days, 21:17, 4 users, load average: 2.26, 0.59, 0.19 80 processes: 70 sleeping, 8 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 93.9% user, 6.0% system, 0.0% nice, 0.5% idle

Re: /sbin/clock not ticking

1997-04-27 Thread Alexandre Lebrun
On 27 Apr 1997, Rob Browning wrote: > Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I don't know what /dev/rtc is, but it seems that on my brother's computer > > it can't be opened. It seems that this in turn allows clock to work. > > Most likely it can't be opened because that device was n

debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup

1997-04-27 Thread Stefan Eriksson
Is there a mailing list gateway from debian_user to linux.debian.user? I subscribe both of those, because some messages does not seem appear in both in the mailing list and the newsgroup. I remember reading something about this a month ago or so, but I can't really recall what the message said.

Re: Error: Too Many Open files

1997-04-27 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Apr 27, Troy Hanson wrote : I am running debian linux 1.2, when I log in from the console or telnet, : I get an error on running fortune: : : /usr/share/games/fortunes/art.dat: Too many open files Did you installed lshell? Heiko -- email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Setting Up btmp

1997-04-27 Thread Paul Serice
> I don't know anything about why the Debian crew decided to remove > btmp, but from my own experience a lot of people fumbles when they > log in, and as a result they type inn the password instead of the > username. > > Thus you can often find both the account-name and the password if, > you do "l

Re: Can't login to bo

1997-04-27 Thread Brian N. Borg
I had the same problem. I could only log in if I booted single, eg. loadlin zImage root=/dev/hda3 ro single. After a lot of trial and error, I determined that nis was the culprit. If you delete all start links to /etc/init.d/nis in your default runlevel, and any others that you use, and reboo

tcpdump: unknown data link type 0xc

1997-04-27 Thread Lawrence Chim
Hi, tcpdump 3.3-2 won't work for me. here is the error message: tcpdump: unknown data link type 0xc though I have no problem using PPP. Lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: wtmp problem

1997-04-27 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 12:56 AM 27/04/97 -0400, Eloy A. Paris wrote: >Probably it's nothing but I know for sure my utmp file got corrupted >when my /var partition got full after the guys here at the >office sent lots of e-mails with large attachments. > >I just started over with a zero length utmp and everything went

Error: Too Many Open files

1997-04-27 Thread Troy Hanson
I am running debian linux 1.2, when I log in from the console or telnet, I get an error on running fortune: /usr/share/games/fortunes/art.dat: Too many open files I also get this error whenever I try to run Netscape, except relating to the java library files (instead of art.dat): /usr/local/nets

Re: /sbin/clock not ticking

1997-04-27 Thread Rob Browning
Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know what /dev/rtc is, but it seems that on my brother's computer > it can't be opened. It seems that this in turn allows clock to work. Most likely it can't be opened because that device was not compiled into his kernel, but it was into yours.

Re: wtmp problem

1997-04-27 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Probably it's nothing but I know for sure my utmp file got corrupted when my /var partition got full after the guys here at the office sent lots of e-mails with large attachments. I just started over with a zero length utmp and everything went fine. E.- > OK, which log file gets corrupted - the

Re: LILO LBA mode.

1997-04-27 Thread A. M. Varon
On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Jim Pick wrote: > > > I know I could use LBA mode. I originally used LBA mode for months but > > noticed a couple of possible problems. I say possible since I can't prove > > they were caused by using LBA mode. hi, The problem is not with LBA. Few months ago i recieve err

Re: /sbin/clock not ticking

1997-04-27 Thread Mark Phillips
I wrote: > When I try and set the CMOS clock I get the following error: > > # /sbin/clock -u -w > ioctl: Invalid argument Someone kindly suggested I run "strace clock". I am not familiar with strace, but it did seem to give some potentially useful information. I tried running clock on my brot

hamm

1997-04-27 Thread edwalter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- What is the appropriate method of pointing the ftp method of dselect to the hamm distribution. I have tried the following. Each has it's own problem: ftpsite: llug.sep.bnl.gov debian base: /pub/debian distributions: unstable non-free contrib problem: these a

List active?

1997-04-27 Thread Rick Jones
I haven't recv'd anything from the list for hours, which is very unusual. Is it down or is something wrong at my ISP? Or is everyone at the club tonight? --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

Re: How do I remove gpm?

1997-04-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
gpm_1.10-2.deb from a Debian 1.2.5 installation. On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Martin Schulze wrote: > On Apr 26, Bob Nielsen wrote > > That took care of it. Thanks > > Can you tell me which version of gpm you used? I just spoke to > James Troup who is the new maintainer. He has a different solution >

/sbin/clock not ticking

1997-04-27 Thread Mark Phillips
When I try and set the CMOS clock I get the following error: # /sbin/clock -u -w ioctl: Invalid argument I would be most grateful if someone could tell me why it doesn't work. Thanks. - Mark Phillips

Problem with xlockmore

1997-04-27 Thread Michael Q. Le
When I lock the screen with xlock and I continuously click the middle mouse button on my Logitech mouse to cycle through the different screensavers, xlock exits with the following error: X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed request: 78 (X_Cr