> I have the same problem with my OEM USR Sportster 28.8! However, I only
> have problems under Debian and not Win95. I get pauses and hang-ups
> very frequently that are about to drive me insane! I have the S12=0 set
> on both platforms as has been mentioned in past threads. Is the Linux
> P
I'm running a Debian 1.3 system on a fairly small hard drive, so I don't want
to install X. However, many console-based programs require that xlib6 be
installed. What should I do?
Adam Klein
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> rxvt
rxvt: can't open pseudo-tty
rxvt: aborting
I get this error under a non-root account, and then 10 minutes
later the command works again.
Ideas?
BTW, I'm also alwqays still getting this error keeping from using xterm:
> xterm
xterm: unable to find usable termcap entry.
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>
> Thanks for the info. Will keep my eyes open for a future debian kde
> package.
Does this mean that there is a kde-package for the pre-alpha-release?
Thanks in advance!
Bye,
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On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> W Paul Mills wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Britton wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > I have a US Robotics Sportster 28,800, and it works, sort of. However,
> > > every two or three minutes (give or take a minute or more) it hangs for
> > > about
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I wnat to run a side by side comparison of two linux distributions--Debian
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(monolithic) partitions. What does LILO need to recognize this set up?
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On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Johann Spies wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> My ppp-off script at one stage worked well, but now it will no longer
> reset my modem while removing the ppp-link. I do not know what I did
> to cause it. It will run and give the message "ppp0 link terminated",
> but it would not reset the
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> > I think you need to add S12=0 to your init string.
> >
>
> That's odd, a quick look at my Sportster manual says S12 sets the
> 'guard time for the escape code'. Where did you get this info about
> the init string?
PC Magazine. Do not remember
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Amidst all my problems, I had long ago turned off my Exabyte tape drive
> residing at the end of my scsi daisy chain, EXPECTING THE SCSI DAISY CHAIN
> WOULD ACT AS IF I HAD TERMINATED AT THE LAST DISK DRIVE.
> I NOW KNOW THIS IS NOT TRUE.
Don't do that. Active terminati
Try this:
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/debian-faq-14.html
The second question on the page that is answered is: 14.1 How can I become
a Debian software developer? So I think that is what you are looking for.
Dennis
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Mike Wiegand - Non HP wrote:
> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 13:
Hallo,
My ppp-off script at one stage worked well, but now it will no longer
reset my modem while removing the ppp-link. I do not know what I did
to cause it. It will run and give the message "ppp0 link terminated",
but it would not reset the modem so the telephone line stays
connected. How can
Brian K Servis wrote:
>
> Jens B. Jorgensen writes:
> >
> >W Paul Mills wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Britton wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > I have a US Robotics Sportster 28,800, and it works, sort of. However,
> >> > every two or three minutes (give or take a minute or more) it hangs
Joey Hess wrote:
> Victor Torrico:
> > The newest kde window manager 0.10.01-1 locks up whenever any of the
>
> > functions in the right-mouse-button pop-up are selected. Must do a
> > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to login again to cure situation. Any help
> > appreciated.
>
> I noticed this when I was te
Hi,
I was unable to access www.debian.org/FAQ. I wanted
to check here before bugging you. My question is
how do I go about becomming a debian developer?
Thanks...
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Victor Torrico wrote:
> Thanks for clearing up what's going on. Looking forward to -10.3
> version of fvwm95 window manager.
Will it be based on fvwm95-2.0.43a-Autoconf ?
Peter
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I'm trying to set up a machine as an xterm, so I want it to run the chooser
on bootup and then xdm... the Xaccess file seems to indicate that if you
make it contain just this line, it'll work:
* CHOOSER BROADCAST
But if I make that change, xdm still just comes up and I don't see the
chooser
My install problem resided in an "ultra" [ie, fast-20, 20 MHz, not wide-scsi]
speed scsi drive.
Ultra-scsi worked, tape drives worked, but an ultra-scsi disk drive and
a scsi tape drive would not work on the same daisy chain.
On bootup, I entered my Adaptec 2940UW setup to disable ultra-scsi spe
Jens B. Jorgensen writes:
>
>W Paul Mills wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Britton wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > I have a US Robotics Sportster 28,800, and it works, sort of. However,
>> > every two or three minutes (give or take a minute or more) it hangs for
>> > about 30-200+ seconds. It did on
On 30 Jun 1997, Chris Brown wrote:
>
> I am trying to test some portions of an email system and want to
> determine weather one of my mail servers is picking up mail to
> forward. The recieving host is currently off and there is a MX route
> to my server so mail should be queued there ri
jim wrote:
> Since I get on average about 10 fatal crashes of netscape a
> day, when combined with the flaky behavior, I'd say that
> Netscape for linux is the most unstable but working application
> I've ever seen.
>
> Is anyone out there running netscape communicator 4.0b5 and
> having a good ti
The command "mailq" should be on your system. It essentially runs
"sendmail -bp" which prints the queue. You may wish to use "mailq | head"
or "mailq | less" depending on the size of the current queue.
Hint: read up on sendmail timeouts and how to move mail to a separate
queue. I had to test m
On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, System Account wrote:
[...]
#
# Any other suggestions???
#
# -Rob
#
Yes. Install Proftpd. It's very easy to setup such account with it
(no dir hierarchy for each account or passwd mess). It's in unstable
(or http://www.proftpd.org).
Marcelo.
Marcelo Zacarias - CIA
> Since I get on average about 10 fatal crashes of netscape a
> day, when combined with the flaky behavior, I'd say that
> Netscape for linux is the most unstable but working application
> I've ever seen.
I run netscape 3.01 for days at a time without problems. (Hint: never
hit "get new mail" whi
On 30 Jun 1997, Chris Brown wrote:
>
> I am trying to test some portions of an email system and want to
> determine weather one of my mail servers is picking up mail to
> forward. The recieving host is currently off and there is a MX route
> to my server so mail should be queued there ri
I am trying to test some portions of an email system and want to
determine weather one of my mail servers is picking up mail to
forward. The recieving host is currently off and there is a MX route
to my server so mail should be queued there right now. All I need to
do is check the queue
Hi,
I have a PC on loan from work, which I would really, really like to
install Linux on. I successfully installed Debian on the last two
PC's they gave me, but am having trouble with this one.
The problem comes when I start the rescue disk (1997-05-30) right at
the beginning of installation. I
I am having so much problems
I just flat have not been able to get past DSELECT.
I have totally re-installed everything.(about 5 times)
Everytime I bring up dselect and select FTP. (My Machine is connected
to the net via ethernet). I get up to the point of installtion...
Here is my f
Victor Torrico:
> The newest kde window manager 0.10.01-1 locks up whenever any of the
> functions in the right-mouse-button pop-up are selected. Must do a
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to login again to cure situation. Any help
> appreciated.
I noticed this when I was testing it, but it is pre-alpha sof
> On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
>
> > > Hi,
> > > kernel 2.0.30 supports the 'noatime' option for a filesystem, right?
> >
> > If compiled with that option, yes. Did you answer "yes" to
> > that question? (I don't think (though I'm not sure) the default
> > debian kernel has it comp
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997 13:35:59 BST Matthew ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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[snip]
> I compiled the 'module' and did an insmod. Lo and Behold my CDROM drive
> worked. I'm impressed. It took some digging, but I got it to work.
>
> Now. The only problem I have is that when I insmod the 'module' I get a
W Paul Mills wrote:
>
> On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Britton wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > I have a US Robotics Sportster 28,800, and it works, sort of. However,
> > every two or three minutes (give or take a minute or more) it hangs for
> > about 30-200+ seconds. It did on each of these last two lines *scream*
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, dpk wrote:
> With my many recent problems with my machine, I have decided to upgrade to
> 1.3. I think the developers have done a nice job with the instalation
> disks, because I noticed a few added features that might help out new
> users to debian/linux. Anyway, I decided
Hi,
I've installed 'suck' on my Debian/box over the weekend and
run it to get news OK. However, I'd like to know how should
I make it to save the news articles in some directory according
to the news group. I.e.:
for news group:
'comp.os.linux.announce'
I'd like to have
A one way Gateway has been set up a while ago at news.fuller.edu. It takes
mailing list traffic from Debian Mailing lists and puts it into the
linux.debian.* groups. Posting into the usenet groups is not sent back to
the linux.debian.* groups to keep mailing lists clear from Usenet junk.
news.full
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > kernel 2.0.30 supports the 'noatime' option for a filesystem, right?
>
> If compiled with that option, yes. Did you answer "yes" to
> that question? (I don't think (though I'm not sure) the default
> debian kernel has it compiled in).
I've
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, dpk wrote:
: With my many recent problems with my machine, I have decided to upgrade to
: 1.3. I think the developers have done a nice job with the instalation
: disks, because I noticed a few added features that might help out new
: users to debian/linux. Anyway, I deci
John wrote:
> I have the following problem:
>
> I can telnet, ftp and rlogin from my debian 1.3 box to other machines
> but can't telnet or rlogin from other machines to mine. I can only ftp,
> I am using wu-ftpd 2.4-27. If I try to telnet, I get the following:
> telnet : Unable to connect to remot
With my many recent problems with my machine, I have decided to upgrade to
1.3. I think the developers have done a nice job with the instalation
disks, because I noticed a few added features that might help out new
users to debian/linux. Anyway, I decided to go with shadow passwd this
time around
joost witteveen wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have the following problem:
> >
> > I can telnet, ftp and rlogin from my debian 1.3 box to other machines
> > but can't telnet or rlogin from other machines to mine. I can only ftp,
> > I am using wu-ftpd 2.4-27. If I try to telnet, I get the following:
>
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, jim wrote:
> Since I get on average about 10 fatal crashes of netscape a
> day, when combined with the flaky behavior, I'd say that
> Netscape for linux is the most unstable but working application
> I've ever seen.
>
> Is anyone out there running netscape communicator 4.0b
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Britton wrote:
>
>
> I have a US Robotics Sportster 28,800, and it works, sort of. However,
> every two or three minutes (give or take a minute or more) it hangs for
> about 30-200+ seconds. It did on each of these last two lines *scream*.
> Same thing under Win95. I kno
Shaya Potter writes:
>
>
>
>On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
>>
>> Can you get Matlab for Debian? Someone told me that Matlab is
>> only supported by RedHat. Does anyone know?
>>
>
>In many cases, the companies ship the products as .rpm's. Therefore they
>only "support" it on RedHat
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Darren Renaud wrote:
> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 09:31:01 -0400
> From: Darren Renaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Sound
> Resent-Date: 30 Jun 1997 14:21:04 -
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Resent-cc: recipient.list.not.show
Hi
I bought a USR 33.6 sportster (same modem as is giving problems, only
the firmware is different) that had exactly the problem you all
describe.
The init string mentioned by one poster sets one of the registers (s12)
to 0. The command to do this is: ATS12=0 It is said to help _some_ of
the
I know this has probably been beat to death, but What happened to
module sound support? It was there about a year ago, and I haven't had
a need for it till recently, but now I can't seem to find it. Is there
a quick method for getting support installed without buying a commercial
driver. Thi
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Ronald van Loon wrote:
>
> > In a message to me, Hamish Moffatt, you wrote:
> > |"Unfortunately, LSL (and similar companies like CheapBytes)
> > |"have outrageous overseas shipping policies, which will see
> > |"me pay $4.95 for two
I'm a bit of a Linux & Debian Newbie, so excuse me if this is a bit of a
dumb question.
I've recently changed the setup if my machine. I have two IDE hard disks
and an IDE CD-ROM drive (Oh I wish I could afford SCSI).
My motherboard is a Pentium Triton type thing with two on-board IDE
channels. I
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Ronald van Loon wrote:
> In a message to me, Hamish Moffatt, you wrote:
>
> |"> Linux Systems Labs is offering the Debian Official 2-CD Set for $4.95,
> |"> or for $9.95 . The product is identical in both cases, and the $9.95
> |"> version includes a $5 donation to Software i
joost witteveen wrote: >
> > Guess I will also downgrade to -10.deb which works fine for me.
> Perhaps
> > the FvwmTaskbar and FvwmPager will be packaged seperately in the
> near
> > future.
>
> No, sorry to say you're wrong here.
>
> > There must be a reason they were omitted from -10.2.
>
> And
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
> Can you get Matlab for Debian? Someone told me that Matlab is
> only supported by RedHat. Does anyone know?
>
In many cases, the companies ship the products as .rpm's. Therefore they
only "support" it on RedHat, but since we both conform to the
> Hi,
>
> I have the following problem:
>
> I can telnet, ftp and rlogin from my debian 1.3 box to other machines
> but can't telnet or rlogin from other machines to mine. I can only ftp,
> I am using wu-ftpd 2.4-27. If I try to telnet, I get the following:
> telnet : Unable to connect to remote
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> Oleg Krivosheev wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Victor Torrico wrote:
> >
> > > Installing -10.deb version of fvwm95 gives me a taskbar. Installing
> >
> > > -10.2.deb version of fvwm95 gives no taskbar.
> > >
> > > How does
Hi,
I have the following problem:
I can telnet, ftp and rlogin from my debian 1.3 box to other machines
but can't telnet or rlogin from other machines to mine. I can only ftp,
I am using wu-ftpd 2.4-27. If I try to telnet, I get the following:
telnet : Unable to connect to remote host: Connection
The newest kde window manager 0.10.01-1 locks up whenever any of the
functions in the right-mouse-button pop-up are selected. Must do a
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to login again to cure situation. Any help
appreciated.
Cheers,
Victor
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On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Antonio M. Roldan wrote:
> I've upgraded to xfree3.3 using the packages located in "bo-updates"
> and found the following error messages when installing scalable fonts:
>
> ---
> # dpkg -i xfntscl_3.3
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>
> Can you get Matlab for Debian? Someone told me that Matlab is
> only supported by RedHat. Does anyone know?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Mathworks sell Matlab for Linux. It would probably work o
What is easiest way to enable NIS shadow map lookups for Debian 1.3.0?
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> "LC" == Lawrence Chim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
LC> I just bought my CDR. I burned several CD in win95 successfully.
LC> Can anyone tell me how to burn a CD in Linux? In particular, I have
LC> a mirror of Debian in my harddisk and want to make a copy of it to
LC> CD.
You use the program
There is a nice trick to avoid cut/copy/paste of large text portions:
cat filename > /proc/1234/fd/3
while 1234 is the process number of a telnet process. fd/3 is the file
descriptor for the channel linked to the keyboard. Works perfectly on a
suse distribution, seems not to work with debian! I g
I have upgraded to Debian 1.3 and compiled/installed a 2.0.30 kernel. Now
sendmail and innd seem to have a problem:
$ telnet localhost nntp
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to io.
Escape character is '^]'.
then nothing happens for hours. the same with sendmail, but only if I'm
disconnected (I connec
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
Philippe Troin, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
$Id: packages.sgml,v 1.45 1997/06/30 07:45:11 phil Exp phil
$
1. Note
I've taken over the maintenance of the "Work-Needing and Prospective
Packages for Debian GNU/Linux" from Sven Rudolph starting versi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
> I conclude that my info dir/database is curupt :-(
> This have occured when I was doing a minor upgrade and my computer locked up
> causing me to reset the computer
[snip]
> Basically I think that I need only the *.list files from the info directroy
> whi
We have matlab 5 working on our Debian system.
There is one inconsistency with a library, but you can resolve
it with the information given on Mathworks web site and the
installation manual.
matlab 4 will not work, because there is no license manager.
Our license server is a SGI machine, so we do
That was quick!!
Thanks a lot to Remco and to Lindsay! Stupid me - that was rather
obvious!
Regards,
Andree
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Can you get Matlab for Debian? Someone told me that Matlab is
only supported by RedHat. Does anyone know?
Thanks.
-
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"They told me I was g
Hi,
A friend of mine wants to install Debian on his laptop. He recently
ordered the CDs and tried to install it using a CD drive attached to
his parallel port. He tells me that unfortunately linux didn't
recognise the parallel port, or atleast, couldn't access his CD through
it. Any ideas?
I'
In a message to me, Hamish Moffatt, you wrote:
|"> Linux Systems Labs is offering the Debian Official 2-CD Set for $4.95,
|"> or for $9.95 . The product is identical in both cases, and the $9.95
|"> version includes a $5 donation to Software in the Public Interest,
|"> Debian's non-profit corporat
hello !
could you help me a bit.
how can I setup anonymous FTP area to all users
I mean:
ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/users/user1
it means /home/user1/ftp
and anybody can upload to these are just like /Incoming but only the user
can read/delete ?
maybe set any quota for these directories to 2M onl
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Andree Leidenfrost wrote:
: domain dkrz.de
: nameserver 136.172.100.240 136.172.60.68 136.172.60.241
:
: So, am I missing something? Am I doing something wrong?
Hmm not sure, but try
domain dkrz.de
nameserver 136.172.100.240
nameserver 136.172.60.68
nameserver 136.172.6
I just managed to nail down a problem that appears every now and then
with name resolution. One of our name servers - the first listed in
resolv.conf - is currently down and I was not able to resolve anything
until I changed the order of the nameserver entries in resolv.conf.
Before I did that e.g.
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Antonio M. Roldan wrote:
: I've upgraded to xfree3.3 using the packages located in "bo-updates"
: and found the following error messages when installing scalable fonts:
[error sniffed]
: Has somoene suffered this problem?
I didn't experience this problem. Maybe you shou
I've upgraded to xfree3.3 using the packages located in "bo-updates"
and found the following error messages when installing scalable fonts:
---
# dpkg -i xfntscl_3.3-3_all.deb
(Reading database ... 23014 files and directories cur
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Talking about this, I have a question about the kbd package. When I ran
: Slackware, I could choose from a lot of nice and/or weird fonts. I miss
: those in Debian. I really liked the 'T' font. Currently I am using it, but
: only because I took it
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997 01:18:09 EDT jim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Since I get on average about 10 fatal crashes of netscape a
> day, when combined with the flaky behavior, I'd say that
> Netscape for linux is the most unstable but working application
> I've ever seen.
>
> Is anyone out there r
Since I get on average about 10 fatal crashes of netscape a
day, when combined with the flaky behavior, I'd say that
Netscape for linux is the most unstable but working application
I've ever seen.
Is anyone out there running netscape communicator 4.0b5 and
having a good time???
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From the file /usr/doc/kernel-package/Problems.gz
==
c) dpkg-gencontrol fails with the error message
failure: chown new files list file: Illegal seek
This is an error in older versions of dpkg-dev. Upgrading
Obviously I had my small cap on when I wrote earlier; I now have corrected my
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On Sun, 29 Jun 1997 18:45:48 -0500 , Gary L. Dolan wrote:
> I just dl'ed 1.3, and the default font on bootup needs to be changed. I barely
> recall that when I installed 1.2, there was a config question about the fonts,
> but I have no idea how or where to make the change in 1.3.
The setfont progr
There is a Flash update for this modem you will probably have to find it
on their web site or actually call tech support and ask for an RMA and I
beleive they are still sending 33.6 modems to fix the problem as well. My
suggestion for next time buy a motorola.. I have over 45 of them and am
ye
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