Re: Newbie

1997-06-07 Thread J.P.D. Kooij
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Rick Morrison wrote: > 2. Any tips as to how to start NFS services for mounting from my PC /Win95 > client? If you want to interface linux with MouseDriver95 then forget NFS and install the samba suite; it does SMB aka MS LanManager aka "Microsoft Networking" over TCP/IP.

Re: Vid card memory

1997-06-07 Thread Ralph Winslow
Dima wrote: > > >>Ralph Winslow wrote: > >I've recently added a 1Mb memory module to my Trident TGUi 9440 vid > >card, giving a totla of 2Mb. I'd done this with the expectation that I > >could then use 600x800x2 (16-bit color = 2 bytes) = 96 which is < > >1Mb. But when I try this (forci

Re: Non-interactive modem hangup

1997-06-07 Thread gvl
How about a trick I use in M$DOS frequently to test modem response: ECHO ATH0>/dev/modem (or COMx: in DOS) Toss that in right after the pppd kill in your script. On 7 Jun 97, debian-user@lists.debian.org wrote regarding: __ Non-interactive modem hangup __ > Does anyone know a simple command

Non-interactive modem hangup

1997-06-07 Thread branden
Does anyone know a simple command or tool to hang up the modem? Just hang it up, not stay connected to the tty and await more commands. What I'm after is something simple I can put into a script for sudo to kill the ppp daemon and also hang up the line, freeing /dev/ttyS1 immediately (rather than

Re: was Netscape Communicator: now programs that will crash your LInux box

1997-06-07 Thread jghasler
stephen farrell writes: > My take on it was that it took the X server down in some nasty way. The > X server, of course, is running as root and thus should be more capable > of buggering the whole system. > Shouldn't happen, however... The X server also has I/O privileges to the video card. If

Getting mail fro ISP, and mime mail setup

1997-06-07 Thread Stan Brown
I have hadan account with Netcom faor a long time. It is a shell account, and provides elm as a mail reader. I also use elm as a mail reader at work. Letley I have had the need to receive and send email with mime inclusions. I beilieve that I need to do 2 th

Re: Vid card memory

1997-06-07 Thread Dima
>>Ralph Winslow wrote: >I've recently added a 1Mb memory module to my Trident TGUi 9440 vid >card, giving a totla of 2Mb. I'd done this with the expectation that I >could then use 600x800x2 (16-bit color = 2 bytes) = 96 which is < >1Mb. But when I try this (forcing 600x800 in XF86Config)

why so many broken links when installing 1.3?

1997-06-07 Thread Lawrence Chim
Tried to install debian 1.3 but dselect displayed broken links error message: Installing Communicator Java files... ==> moving existing '/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/ifc11.jar' to '/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/ifc11.jar.old' ==> moving existing '/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/iiop10.ja

InfoMagic Apriil 97 LDR Installation

1997-06-07 Thread David R Baker
I have gotten around the problems of the April 97 LDR and done a fresh Debian 1.2 installation by downloading 7 missing files and creating a directory with correct symbolic links. If anyone else is trying to install from this CD and would like more details, I will try to supply. Otherwise, this i

Re: trouble with MH

1997-06-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: >Hello, > >I sent this message several days ago, but saw no responses so I'm >suspecting I mailed it improperly. If the original message was posted, >then sorry for the double post. > I saw it the first time >The problem is that I get the foll

Re: trouble with MH

1997-06-07 Thread Dima
>>Ken Lauffenburger wrote: >Hello, > >I sent this message several days ago, but saw no responses so I'm >suspecting I mailed it improperly. If the original message was posted, >then sorry for the double post. I've seen it several days ago -- probably nobody knows the answer. :-( Perhaps try

debian 1.3 upgrade: my first success with one minor problem

1997-06-07 Thread James D. Freels
I just installed the 1.3 upgrade. I have to say this is the cleanest major Debian upgrade ever! This particular machine is only a print server, and does not have much installed. Nevertheless, Debian is getting better all the time! Many more packages than I will ever need! I did have one minor

Re: was Netscape Communicator: now programs that will crash your LInux box

1997-06-07 Thread stephen farrell
W Paul Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > > > On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, James D. Freels wrote: > > > > > > > There is another program that will crash your Linux box: wordIMperfect. > > > > Yes I'm talking about the native Linux wordIMperfect. For exampl

Re: URL for StarOffice is here

1997-06-07 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Paul Serice wrote: > Plenty of people have asked for the URL after I posted a > "Debian Success Story". So, here it is > ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/staroffice Can anybody give a report of the StarOffice word processor compared to Lyx? ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM TH

URL for StarOffice is here

1997-06-07 Thread Paul Serice
Plenty of people have asked for the URL after I posted a "Debian Success Story". So, here it is ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/staroffice I got it out of the mini-HOWTO which should be in your /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini directory if you keep it up to date with the latest Debian Packages. :-) I hope it wor

Re: Stupid Question: Striping Dos ^M From Texts

1997-06-07 Thread Vadim Vygonets
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Curt Howland wrote: > Somewhere in the dank recesses of my mind, I recall a utility that > would strip the extra ^M's from a text file copied to a unix > box. Well, it seems that Linux also considers these ^M's extranious, > is there such a standard utility or do I have to dige

Re: depmod failure (fwd)

1997-06-07 Thread branden
Forgot to CC this to the list. -- G. Branden Robinson Purdue University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 10:49:34 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ralph Winslow <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: was Netscape Communicator: now programs that will crash your LInux box

1997-06-07 Thread W Paul Mills
On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, James D. Freels wrote: > > > > > There is another program that will crash your Linux box: wordIMperfect. > > > Yes I'm talking about the native Linux wordIMperfect. For example try > > > paging through a document that has alot of

depmod failure

1997-06-07 Thread Ralph Winslow
I've just built a new 2.0.30 kernel from source in stable and as the last step ran depmod -a. This produced: get_kernel_sys failed: Cannot find Kernel symbols. I built as follows: cd /usr/src/linux; make mrproper;make menuconfig;make dep;make clean;make zlilo;make modules;make modules_install;de

Vid card memory

1997-06-07 Thread Ralph Winslow
I've recently added a 1Mb memory module to my Trident TGUi 9440 vid card, giving a totla of 2Mb. I'd done this with the expectation that I could then use 600x800x2 (16-bit color = 2 bytes) = 96 which is < 1Mb. But when I try this (forcing 600x800 in XF86Config) X tries to start and dies over

trouble with MH

1997-06-07 Thread Ken Lauffenburger
Hello, I sent this message several days ago, but saw no responses so I'm suspecting I mailed it improperly. If the original message was posted, then sorry for the double post. The problem is that I get the following error message when I try to send a message using MH: post: problem initiali

Mail problem

1997-06-07 Thread Dirk Allard
Hi, I have problems with sending mails from my linux machine. Here is a description of the circumstances: System: Debian Linux 1.3 Linux Kernel 2.1.29 linuxm68k 14 MB, 12 MB Swap Mailprograms: smail as mta mailx, elm or pi

Re: video card driver (fwd)

1997-06-07 Thread Gernot
> Hi There, > I am installing linux debian on dell machine and it has a Matrox > MGA Millennium PowerDesk video card and I haven't found any Matrox Video > Cards in the database provided by the linux. If you please tell me which > one in the closest match for the Matrox Video Card's driver, I

Re: Setting limit on mailbox size with smail

1997-06-07 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 05:43 PM 7/06/97 +0800, A. M. Varon wrote: >> Anyone know how? >> >> I want to put a 2/3 Meg limit on mailbox size on a mail server. > >Install quota on your system. There's another solution that can be implimented along with quotas which means that it saves bandwidth (if you just install quot

Re: Setting limit on mailbox size with smail

1997-06-07 Thread A. M. Varon
On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, John Foster wrote: > Anyone know how? > > I want to put a 2/3 Meg limit on mailbox size on a mail server. Install quota on your system. regards, =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Andre M. Varon Lasaltech, Incorported

Re: was Netscape Communicator: now programs that will crash your LInux box

1997-06-07 Thread joost witteveen
> On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, James D. Freels wrote: > > > There is another program that will crash your Linux box: wordIMperfect. > > Yes I'm talking about the native Linux wordIMperfect. For example try > > paging through a document that has alot of EPS graphics figures. If > > you do it "too fast", i

Re: Problems with xfig

1997-06-07 Thread joost witteveen
> 1) in the option "Picture Object" I load an encapsulated > Postscript file. Everything works fine. > The next time I attempt to open this .fig file, > xfig quits without doing anything and gives the following > message in xterm > > xfig3.1.4b: SIGSEGV signal trapped > xfig: figure empty or not m

Re: Install Stopped

1997-06-07 Thread joost witteveen
> Hello, > > I was installing the new 1.3 version onto a 486 based PC when the > install stopped progressing. After formatting a second new floppy, > using rawrite2 again to create a second new rescue disk, then rebooting, > the exact same thing happened. I got as far as seeing a number of >

Re: [Q] update-menus broken in 1.3?

1997-06-07 Thread joost witteveen
> > Sudhakar Chandrasekharan: > > That worked. As you said, there *should* be another way to specify > > local packages. Though I can understand why update-menus does not add > > an item if the package is not installed. > > My preference is that a new test be added (or it might already exist, f

Re: was Netscape Communicator: now programs that will crash your LInux box

1997-06-07 Thread W Paul Mills
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, James D. Freels wrote: > There is another program that will crash your Linux box: wordIMperfect. > Yes I'm talking about the native Linux wordIMperfect. For example try > paging through a document that has alot of EPS graphics figures. If > you do it "too fast", it will crash

Re: Ricoh CDRW (CD-ReWritable) drive

1997-06-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jun 06, 1997 at 11:20:50PM +1000, Lawrence Chim wrote: > Does Linux support the new Universal Disc Format (UDF)? > > ISO9660 have several limitations: >File names must be only in capital letters , A - Z. >File names are limited to the DOS 8 + 3 format. >No more than 8 directo

Re: Netscape Communicator Beta3/4/5

1997-06-07 Thread W Paul Mills
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, W Paul Mills wrote: > > > I have not had good luck with this one. ( Netscape Communicator 40b3, > > 40b5 ) > > > Sometimes when it crashes, it causes a reboot! Not cool! I have never > > had a linux program bring linux to it's knees

Re: Setting up news

1997-06-07 Thread W Paul Mills
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Tim O'Brien wrote: > I'm trying to set up a news server on my LAN. I have IPmasquerading running > to allow the other computers access to the Internet through one 28.8 modem > and a standard PPP account, as well as diald for demand dialing at night > and constant connection dur

Re: Installing Debian over Slackware Linux

1997-06-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Joseph B. Ottinger writes: > Hi, all. I'm currently running a version of Slackware Linux (3.2, > updated with the new kernel+libc and some other things). I'm still > relatively new to Linux, so my question may be something that's already > been answered or addressed. If so, please tell me where to

Re: Lyx figures and mice

1997-06-07 Thread Carey Evans
"Kingsley G. Morse Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > The User Guide says that the user should click with the center mouse button > to popup a dialog box which allows you to insert a postscript figure, but > it doesn't work for me. In my case, pressing the middle mouse button > dumps out

Re: Network setup question again

1997-06-07 Thread Kevin Traas
> > Install the package tcpdump, and run `tcpdump -i eth0` to get a view of the > > packets being sent/received on the eth0 interface. .. > > > Thanks for the advice. This time it really shows something! > The IP setting on computer has no problem. Below is the > output of 'tcpdump -i eht0':

Re: Network setup question again

1997-06-07 Thread cheng
On Apr 25, Kevin Traas wrote: > > Install the package tcpdump, and run `tcpdump -i eth0` to get a view of the > packets being sent/received on the eth0 interface. .. > Thanks for the advice. This time it really shows something! The IP setting on computer has no problem. Below is the output

Setting limit on mailbox size with smail

1997-06-07 Thread John Foster
Anyone know how? I want to put a 2/3 Meg limit on mailbox size on a mail server. John F. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: StarOffice and Fvwm95

1997-06-07 Thread Nick
>> Anyway, it runs fine. The only thing is I'm having a difficult time >> creating a menu item for fvwm95 minding, though, that it executes >> properly when I just type in "swriter3" in an xterm. >> >> The entry in .fvwm95 I'm using looks like all the rest: >> >> + "StarWriter"