Re: Help transfering data....

1997-07-10 Thread Jesse Goldman
Hi, /proc (and things like /dev/audio and /dev/hda1) aren't regular files and so can't be copied using "cp". To copy things like this successfully, you could use tar. Here's an example: Suppose you want to copy your / directory from one disk to another. I'm assuming the new disk is empty but has a

PPP hanging - USR sportster modem

1997-07-10 Thread Casey Feskens
I do in fact have a USR sportster 56k. I'm sifting through the digest on www.debian.org. Anyone have direct experience with that problem? Please give me an email. Casey -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Help transfering data....

1997-07-10 Thread Kevin J Poorman
Hi. I just got a new hard drive and wish to transfer my root fs to this new drive as it is larger now to the hard part ... I Tryed to do a cp -a * /mnt (where the new hd was mounted) but it sat there cp'ing files for an hour and never got past the proc directory did I do something wron

Re: PPP connection dying out

1997-07-10 Thread Casey Feskens
> >My PPP connection seems to be working well except that certain > >things keep hanging it. My dial-in works fine. I can run ping or > >telnet sessions for any amount of time without a problem. Problems > >occur with FTP and Netscape. > > > Is your sample sufficient for you to be able

Re: Problem with Samba, PAM and NT

1997-07-10 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 10 Jul, Dean Carpenter wrote: > There appears to be a problem with Samba in the stable distribution I > think. > > I have a small debian box named aeidns here configured to use an NT > domain controller for authentication, which doesn't appear to be > working. here are the relevant /etc/sm

Debian vs RedHat

1997-07-10 Thread Travis Cole
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I know this will start a holly way so please reply to my by mail so we don't follood the list. I currently run RedHat 4.2 but I am considering Debian 1.3.1 What are the important differences? What made you choose Debian over RedHat or some other Distribution? H

Re: Problem with Samba, PAM and NT

1997-07-10 Thread dpk
I get these same errors, and I am just using the linux box for authentication, however it will let me connect. I am interested likewise why this happens, because this didn't happen until I upgraded to Debian 1.3. Dennis + dpk <

CD-Writing again

1997-07-10 Thread Mike Patterson
Ok, my 4020i is working swimmingly in Linux, but now the big question: Does anyone know of any software that reads/writes Multisession CDs? (Thanks for everyone's time and patience) --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-- Michael K Patterson

Re: [Off-topic] Anyone using a Compaq Proliant server?

1997-07-10 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, I know, I know but the problem is that I don't have access to a Compaq Proliant 800 server. If I had I'd would do the "smoke test" as you call it and would even open the box and see the chipset by myself. Thanks for your response. E.- > On 10 Jul 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > > > Anyone out

Re: PPP connection dying out

1997-07-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: >I sent this message out this morning but our backbone was down so I'm >pretty sure it didn't get out. > It didn't get to me. >My PPP connection seems to be working well except that certain >things keep hanging it. My dial-in works fine. I can

Re: [Off-topic] Anyone using a Compaq Proliant server?

1997-07-10 Thread Aldrin L. M. Leal
On 10 Jul 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > Anyone out there is running Linux (Debian) in a Compaq Proliant 800 > server? My main concern are the SCSI and Ethernet adapters this server > has integradted into the motherboard. I looked at all available > specs. available at www.compaq.com and could not f

Problem with Samba, PAM and NT

1997-07-10 Thread Dean Carpenter
There appears to be a problem with Samba in the stable distribution I think. I have a small debian box named aeidns here configured to use an NT domain controller for authentication, which doesn't appear to be working. here are the relevant /etc/smb.conf lines ... /etc/smb.conf -

Re: emacs and xemacs

1997-07-10 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just installed Debian 1.3.1 and it wouldn't let me install emacs AND > xemacs... one or the other. How can I get both on my system? The cleaner way is to install the new versions from hamm. You can also install xemacs then install emacs with dpkg --fo

Re: nobody is running find at too high a priority

1997-07-10 Thread Jim Pick
> In one of the DES or RC5 challenges, there was a simple C program that > would check the current system load, and if it got to high, stop a > program. Once it got low enough, it would be restarted. Does anyone > remember where this program is, and if so, could you compile it (I > remember

Re: g++ / ld / publib linking problem

1997-07-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writ es: >On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote: > >> No-one has attempted an answer to this yet; if you have any ideas, >> please let me know! >> >Don't know what this publib stuff is (just running dpkg -S >/usr/include/publib [ah see, high-level

emacs and xemacs

1997-07-10 Thread Paul Miller
I just installed Debian 1.3.1 and it wouldn't let me install emacs AND xemacs... one or the other. How can I get both on my system? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

PPP connection dying

1997-07-10 Thread Casey Feskens
Still having problems keeping ppp from dying out. Telnet works without any problems whatsoever. So does ping. FTP and Netscape seem to be the biggest problems. FTP works fine until I begin downloading files. It works for awhile, then my whole ppp connection begins to hang. Same with netscape

Re: Debian on Compaq Deskpro 6000

1997-07-10 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I had to make a special install boot disk with a recompiled kernel. The probing for stuff disturbs the Adaptec SCSI card. See text below... "Jaldhar H. Vyas" wrote: > Has anyone tried installing Debian 1.3 on a Compaq Deskpro 6000? It loads > the rescue disk then spontaneously reboots. There

Re: XF86 3.3-3

1997-07-10 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: > > > On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: > > > Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: > > > > > [ Problems, "help!" ] > > > > > > > > This also reflects my experience exactly. HELP!! > > It works fine for me. I also did an upgrade from 1.2 to 1.3 a

Re: Mailers

1997-07-10 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"David R. Kohel" wrote: > Or is there a good text-based user interface > to mh which would be programmable and have a compatible system of > directories and mail handling tools? Before getting too deeply > into mh and (e)xmh, and chopping up my current mail folders, I > wou

Re: 1.3.1 upgrade: getting rid of the package base 1.1.0-13 -- dselect and downgrading dosemu

1997-07-10 Thread jdassen
On Jul 10, Laurent Bonnaud wrote > > "Igor" == Igor Grobman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Igor> > Igor> NO NO NO!! Don't try removing this package. It owns all of your > device > Igor> files. Removing it will leave your system in a completely unusable > state. > Igor> Just leave that pa

colors with xterm and ncurses

1997-07-10 Thread David ROCHER
Xfree: 3.3-3 ncurses-base: 1.9.9g-2 Before upgrade ncurses-base, I had TERM=xterm-color and all text softwares (ncurses or slang) run well with colors into a xterm. After this upgrade, I don't have colors with ncurses softwares like dselect into a xterm. For Slang softwares, I export COLORTERM bu

Re: Certification

1997-07-10 Thread George Bonser
On Thu, 10 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There are many models that could be used to set up the certification; > it could even be an application that could be downloaded. As for > studying for it -- one approach would be to select questions from a > large database of possible questions. Th

Re: X11 libraries do not load, link problem?

1997-07-10 Thread Joey Hess
Britton: > Many X11 programs (9wm, xmix) fail to execute complaining that they can't > load library (libXaw.so.6, libXext.so.6). I think I heard at one point > that one release of Debian (1.2 here) had a problem with a link in one of > the X directories. If anyone has any idea about how to fix th

X11 libraries do not load, link problem?

1997-07-10 Thread Britton
Many X11 programs (9wm, xmix) fail to execute complaining that they can't load library (libXaw.so.6, libXext.so.6). I think I heard at one point that one release of Debian (1.2 here) had a problem with a link in one of the X directories. If anyone has any idea about how to fix this I would great

Re: Certification

1997-07-10 Thread sfuqua
I've been daydreaming about linux or bsd certification lately, since people in my office are in the process of getting solaris certified. I wish that if I am going to jump through the hoops to get certified, I could do it with an OS I'm excited about. Of course, real experience is more important,

Re: 1.3.1 upgrade: getting rid of the package base 1.1.0-13 -- dselect and downgrading dosemu

1997-07-10 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Note that it is possible to remove base (see one of my messages in the -user > or -devel archive), but I don't recommend it if you don't know what you're > doing. > > You can by installing al the replacement packages first (make sure you have > the makedev package), then --for

PPP connection dying out

1997-07-10 Thread Casey Feskens
I sent this message out this morning but our backbone was down so I'm pretty sure it didn't get out. My PPP connection seems to be working well except that certain things keep hanging it. My dial-in works fine. I can run ping or telnet sessions for any amount of time without a problem. Proble

Re: XF86 3.3-3

1997-07-10 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: > Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: > > [ Problems, "help!" ] > > > > This also reflects my experience exactly. HELP!! It works fine for me. I also did an upgrade from 1.2 to 1.3 and noticed the following: XFree86 3.2 servers are not exactly the sam

Re: standard file system/directories/files/etc

1997-07-10 Thread Christian Kauhaus
Hi, On 10-Jul-97, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > Debian uses the Linux File System Standard. There are links to this > project's pages but I don't have them. Perhaps a search at > http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/ will give you the links you need. You can find the FSSTD an http://www.pathname.com/fhs Chri

Re: how to get linux on the first disk and win95 on the second with lilo???

1997-07-10 Thread Lalo Martins
On Jul 10, Carlos A. M. Carvalho wrote > I'm trying to configure lilo so that I can boot linux from the first disk, > and win95 from the second. put this in the end of your /etc/lilo.conf: - other=/dev/hdb1 label=win95 loader=/boot/any_d.b - > Also, how can I install win9

Re: can't configure man-db, Long.pm missing

1997-07-10 Thread James Troup
Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've installed 1.3.1 on a small (40MB) partition on my laptop. I did > the base install, exited immediately from dselect, and have used > dpkg to install just the packages I feel I need to have a real OS > available. > > Configuration of man-db fails for

down to just X wild

1997-07-10 Thread Rick Hawkins
OK, commenting out the lpd entries solved the wild modprobes. But X is still showing 33-40% cpu usage. This didn't use to be the case (at least i don't think it did). It's a 486/33. rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Troubl

Re: nobody is running find at too high a priority

1997-07-10 Thread jghasler
I wrote: > I guess the Debian developers are all nightowls. 7AM is *not* early enough > to be scheduling this sort of thing. Kevin Dalley writes: > Since this is an entirely individual item which cannot please everybody, > I suggest that you change /etc/crontab to meet your needs. I already have

Re: Is there a french "release" of Debian Linux?

1997-07-10 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Mathieu Legrand wrote: > I heard about 2 month ago about a french release of RedHat Linux. > Is such a release exist in Debian distribution? I know that a lot > of GNU packages (.tar.gz) are translated by a GNU translation team. > Why not

Re: g++ / ld / publib linking problem

1997-07-10 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 16:49:31 +0100 > From: Oliver Elphick > To: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org > Subject: g++ / ld / publib linking problem > Resent-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 16:47:47 + > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org > Resent-cc: re

Re: Problem with mouse and X on TI Extensa 575CD laptop

1997-07-10 Thread Paul McDermott
hi, what is the problem exactly. do you have errors? What is happening? Paul ps need more information before i can help you. On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Daniel J. Mashao wrote: > > I have tried to install Debian 1.2.4 on a laptop computer. Everything > seems to be okay except that I cannot get X and t

can't configure man-db, Long.pm missing

1997-07-10 Thread Pann McCuaig
I've installed 1.3.1 on a small (40MB) partition on my laptop. I did the base install, exited immediately from dselect, and have used dpkg to install just the packages I feel I need to have a real OS available. Configuration of man-db fails for lack of Long.pm (which is _not_ on my system, althoug

Re: apcupsd, genpower, and PowerShute(TM) "Black" cable.

1997-07-10 Thread Brian White
> Sorry to ask for a recap, but I missed the beginning of this thread... > So to ask probably already answered questions: What is the correct > genpower (or... dangit can't rememebr the other UPS package) cable-type > for the PowerShute "Black" cable that comes with the APCs? Genpower does not su

Re: /var/log/messages not world-readable anymore?

1997-07-10 Thread Brian White
> Dum> and voila! I could no longer tail -f my logs. Bummer. > > Can't you just add yourself to the log (or whatever) group, then? It's actually "adm", but this seems the best solution. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) -

timezone question.

1997-07-10 Thread Adam Shand
I've been playing with the Frontpage extensions which I now have working properly with apache 1.2.1 and suexec with a couple minor glitches. Frontpage only understands timezones in certain formats (GMT-12 -> GMT+12) so I need to set the time on my debian system to match. I had a play with /usr/sb

Re: Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 works fine

1997-07-10 Thread Joergen Haegg
But have anyone tried https? I only get a blank window where there should be certificate information. (Maybe it is a general Netscape problem and doesn't concern this list.) -- /Jörgen Hägg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROT

[somewhat off topic] Javascript bug

1997-07-10 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
I just found out about this javascript bug that affects both IE and NS. They say it works on all versions on NS (linux/unix/windows/mac) I have checked it on the mac.. and it does work there. Will check the linux version once I get home tonight. Unless someone beats me to it. This is more a sec

Re: X & modprobe gone wild

1997-07-10 Thread Rick Hawkins
> I should have said it's the parallel port. Network printers should > work without anything on the parallel port. For a few common > protocols, Linux should be able to print to them. Make sure there's > no local printer in your /etc/printcap if you don't have one attached. I find lp|Generic

Re: standard file system/directories/files/etc

1997-07-10 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Debian uses the Linux File System Standard. There are links to this project's pages but I don't have them. Perhaps a search at http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/ will give you the links you need. The main tool to install/maintain packages in Debian is called dselect. It is text based. A new tool is being

Re: g++ / ld / publib linking problem

1997-07-10 Thread Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd
On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote: > No-one has attempted an answer to this yet; if you have any ideas, > please let me know! > Don't know what this publib stuff is (just running dpkg -S /usr/include/publib [ah see, high-level functions]), but the problem is shining from your descriptio

[Off-topic] Anyone using a Compaq Proliant server?

1997-07-10 Thread Eloy A. Paris
I am sorry (again) for the off-topic question but I am under big pressure to give a recommendation for a production server that is going to run Debian and will be practically unattended (reachable by me only through an international modem call.) Anyone out there is running Linux (Debian) in a Comp

Re: nobody is running find at too high a priority

1997-07-10 Thread Brandon Mitchell
> jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I don't know debian well enough to know which process is running > > find at 7AM in the morning, but, I suspect it is rebuilding the > > locate database. The problem is that it is being run at normal > > priority which REALLY puts a dent in performance. I

Re: nobody is running find at too high a priority

1997-07-10 Thread Kevin Dalley
Since this is an entirely individual item which cannot please everybody, I suggest that you change /etc/crontab to meet your needs. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I guess the Debian developers are all nightowls. 7AM is *not* early enough > to be scheduling this sort of thing. -- Kevin Dalley [EM

Re: nobody is running find at too high a priority

1997-07-10 Thread Kevin Dalley
This is a valid complaint. I have to determine whether this problem should be solved by findutils, which is my responsibility, or by cron. My preference is for cron. This will not be fixed in Debian-1.3, but perhaps in the next release. jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know debian we

g++ / ld / publib linking problem

1997-07-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
No-one has attempted an answer to this yet; if you have any ideas, please let me know! --- Repeated Message Date:Fri, 04 Jul 1997 22:21:39 +0100 From:"Oliver Elphick" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Problem linking with publib library and g++ I have a linking problem

how to get linux on the first disk and win95 on the second with lilo???

1997-07-10 Thread Carlos A. M. Carvalho
I'm trying to configure lilo so that I can boot linux from the first disk, and win95 from the second. Also, how can I install win95 on the second without a win95 partition on the first disk? Carlos -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Tr

Re: How to get colors working with RXVT

1997-07-10 Thread dpk
That's all I had to do for it to work, I don't know if capitalization counts (doesn't in my case) but examples show it as: XTerm*customization:-color Dennis > On 09-Jul-97 dpk wrote: > >Put this in your .Xdefaults or the global Xdefaults: > > > >xterm*customization:-color > > >

I have the same problem: getting rid of old base

1997-07-10 Thread James D. Freels
-- ... stuff deleted > - dselect reports the package base 1.1.0-13 as obsolete but will not > purge it (neither will dpkg --purge) because it is an essential > package. It does not stop me from working but it would be cleaner > if i could remove it. Removing its

Re: 100 Mbit Ethernet

1997-07-10 Thread dpk
> Not quite. I have a machine with two DEC 21140 chip ethernet cards in it. > I wish to have one at 100Mb and the other at 10Mb. I have the first one > plugged into a port on a Cisco Catalyst 5000 switch. The switch detects > 100Mb full-duplex, however ifconfig still says 10Mb and I get huge > p

Re: Problems with fdisk (Sorry, misleaded mail)

1997-07-10 Thread Dr. Andreas Wehler
Sorry for the last german misleaded mail. Andreas. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Problems with fdisk

1997-07-10 Thread Dr. Andreas Wehler
: da starnews.stardivision.com ein Newsserver fuer "nichtoeffentliche" : ^^^ : Newsgruppen stardivision.com.public.announce zu sein scheint, : bleibt leider nur die Moeglichkeit, Netsc

Re: 1.3.1 upgrade: getting rid of the package base 1.1.0-13 -- dselect and downgrading dosemu

1997-07-10 Thread Laurent Bonnaud
> "Igor" == Igor Grobman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Igor> Igor> NO NO NO!! Don't try removing this package. It owns all of your device Igor> files. Removing it will leave your system in a completely unusable state. Igor> Just leave that package as it is. Yes, that's what i see when i

Re: Debian 1.3 problems

1997-07-10 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> Hi > > I own an 386sx with 4mb of RAM, installed debian 1.3 on 386 at least 4MB > it was a problem, the machine goes stopping, I dont know what happened > something wrong. I try installed debian 1.2 on my machine with at least > 4MB so it works done to appear the menu installation thats fine. >

Re: Problems with fdisk

1997-07-10 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> Hi, > while moving my debian system to a bigger disk I ran into some weird problem. > The new disk is CHS 4956/16/63. If I boot from the old disk and check the > partition table, it seems to be OK. but if I boot from the new disk, cfdisk > refuses to run and fdisk complains about physical and log

Re: 1.3.1 upgrade: getting rid of the package base 1.1.0-13 -- dselect and downgrading dosemu

1997-07-10 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, Laurent Bonnaud ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : i first installed Debian 1.1 (how was it called btw ?) Buzz (Lightyear) was the name of Debian 1.1. Cool name. : - dselect reports the package base 1.1.0-13 as obsolete but will not :purge it (neither will dpkg --purge) because it is an esse

Re: How can i non-interactively fetch a web document?

1997-07-10 Thread Dale Martin
"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So that leads to the question. How can I non-interactivley (IE in a > script) fetch a web document? I have used "snarf", which is a debian package. I was displaying a current satellite image as my background in X (updated every hour via cron)

Apache 1.2.1 and Apache-SSL

1997-07-10 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, Are there any plans to provide Debian packages for Apache 1.2.1 and Apache-SSL? www.apache.org sounds pretty clear about its recommandation to move to the latest version, and I need a stable Proxy implementation. Thanks, --Amos -- --Amos Shapira | "Of course Australia w

Re: POP3 Mailing List

1997-07-10 Thread Aldrin L. M. Leal
On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Alexander Gieg wrote: > I know this isn't a Debian specific question, but I don't > know another place where I could ask. I was looking for > about 3 hours for the mailing list of the developers of the POP3 > daemon, and don't found it. I've searched in Altavista, Infoseek, >

Re: GNUS and Mail

1997-07-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Mark" == Mark Lever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> Hi, I use gnus and rmail. I've been using rmail for so long Mark> now, and it is limited. Someone mentioned here that they Mark> use gnus for their mail and different folders contained Mark> different types of mail. Co

Re: 1.3.1 upgrade: getting rid of the package base 1.1.0-13 -- dselect and downgrading dosemu

1997-07-10 Thread Igor Grobman
> > Hi, > > i first installed Debian 1.1 (how was it called btw ?) and then > upgraded some packages from rex, bo and hamm. I did not upgrade the > whole system with deselect as i had neither a CD reader nor a network > connection. So i could only use floppy disks to get and install some > pack

POP3 Mailing List

1997-07-10 Thread Alexander Gieg
Hello! I know this isn't a Debian specific question, but I don't know another place where I could ask. I was looking for about 3 hours for the mailing list of the developers of the POP3 daemon, and don't found it. I've searched in Altavista, Infoseek, Dejanews, www.linux.org, www.gnu.ai.mit.edu et

Debian 1.3 problems

1997-07-10 Thread K.Y.Lo
Hi I own an 386sx with 4mb of RAM, installed debian 1.3 on 386 at least 4MB it was a problem, the machine goes stopping, I dont know what happened something wrong. I try installed debian 1.2 on my machine with at least 4MB so it works done to appear the menu installation thats fine. Debian 1.3 i

Problems with fdisk

1997-07-10 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez Hernandez
Hi, while moving my debian system to a bigger disk I ran into some weird problem. The new disk is CHS 4956/16/63. If I boot from the old disk and check the partition table, it seems to be OK. but if I boot from the new disk, cfdisk refuses to run and fdisk complains about physical and logical parti

Re: X & modprobe gone wild

1997-07-10 Thread Allan Black
Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jul 8 14:45:09 eyry modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-6 > > The char device with major number 6 if the printer. Do you have one? > Stopping the printer daemon helped somewhat. No, I don't have > a printer, although there's a couple on the netw

Re: a question abou mail?

1997-07-10 Thread Philippe Troin
On Wed, 09 Jul 1997 18:55:00 PDT "Eliezer Figueroa" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Someone can explain me what is POP3 mail and what I can do with it. It's a protocol which allows someone to fetch mailbox contents remotely (without logging in and soing `mail' or 'elm'). Phil. -- TO UNSUBS

Re: a questions about networking!!!

1997-07-10 Thread Philippe Troin
On Wed, 09 Jul 1997 18:22:35 PDT "Eliezer Figueroa" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 1. What is IP Masquerading? It's having a machine doing forwarding while pretending all the connections it forwards comes from itself. It serves hinding subnets or machines from the ouside (for example because yo

Re: bash won't see existing binaries

1997-07-10 Thread Philippe Troin
On 09 Jul 1997 22:18:10 +0200 Joachim Trinkwitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED] onn.de) wrote: > No, definitively not ("file /usr/sbin/wn" shows "/usr/sbin/wn: ELF 32-bit LSB > executable, Intel 386, version 1, stripped") -- BTW, it's a web server. > > I got another tip to look after a missing library and tr

Re: PCMCIA packages cause X problems and emacs problems

1997-07-10 Thread Dale Martin
Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any ideas, or things I can tell him to try? Hi. I don't really have any experience with the problem that your friend is having, but I was just reading the other day about using PCMCIA on Toshiba Notebooks (http://www.cck.uni-kl.de/misc/tecra710) and ma

APC/apcd

1997-07-10 Thread adavis
I am posting regarding the recent thread about APC interface software, in particular apcd. Does your package deal with the APC Back-UPS Pro? I recently purchased one of these, and my explorations have brought to light that this system uses a different language than the APC Back-UPS to talk back a

Re: PPP dial-up script

1997-07-10 Thread Richard G. Roberto
Try the latest dunc package (2.1). This provides a dialog based PPP setup and a dialog based ppp connection launcher (dppp). 2.1 is available in hamm/admin but it should be OK for 1.3 as well (as long as the dependencies are met). Let me know if this works out for you. On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, David

dpkg on non-debian systems?

1997-07-10 Thread Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd
Hi! I'm new on the list, sorry if beating a dead horse, or going off-topic. I'm searching for opinions if dpkg would be useable on non-debian systems for package management. If the answer is yes, what are the bottlenecks of the process of porting? If no, what kind of other system would suffic

Re: Netscape: How about some Unix instructions (fwd)

1997-07-10 Thread Bob Clark
Matthew C. Thompson wrote: [ snip]-- > This is fixed in bash-2.01 which has not yet been > debianized. You can bash-2.01 from /pub/gnu at your > favorite mirror. > > This bug has already been documented. > See http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/10598.html > > --Bob > > *

Re: trouble installing xserver (solved)

1997-07-10 Thread Michael B. Taylor
Works. Thanks. Mike On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: > > Hi, > > As MAKEDEV reports an error in line 18 of /proc/devices: > > > MAKEDEV: syntax error: Unexpected 'C', line 18, column 13 in file > > and that line contains: > > > 20 Mitsumi CD-ROM > > the problem is very likely to be

Re: Debain 1.2 install and sony cdu33a... (fwd)

1997-07-10 Thread Carey Evans
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmm. Installing Debian 1.23 i have a major problem. Booting up, the > thing looks for loads of types of CD except cdu33a...which i have. It > says it finds asony 535 at 340 and prints rubbish characters (c-cedilla, > as in garcon). Autoprobing for the cdu31a and c

Re: Debian on Compaq Deskpro 6000

1997-07-10 Thread Carey Evans
"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alternative question: Is there a way to get the kernel to not probe for > an etherned card? That's where I suspect it is bombing. If you suspect a section of memory, you can pass a `reserve=' switch on the kernel command line. I think this would

1.3.1 upgrade: getting rid of the package base 1.1.0-13 -- dselect and downgrading dosemu

1997-07-10 Thread Laurent Bonnaud
Hi, i first installed Debian 1.1 (how was it called btw ?) and then upgraded some packages from rex, bo and hamm. I did not upgrade the whole system with deselect as i had neither a CD reader nor a network connection. So i could only use floppy disks to get and install some packages with dpkg.

locale settings questions

1997-07-10 Thread Victor Torrico
Let (a) = debian wg15-locale package, wg15-locale_2-5.deb Let (b) = debian locales package, locales_2.0.4-1.deb ** Using (a) wg15-locale there is no problem setting "LANG=XX_XX" to any XX_XX in the /usr/share/locale directory. No error mess

Re: a question abou mail?

1997-07-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Eliezer Figueroa writes: > Someone can explain me what is POP3 mail and what I can do with it. > Excuse me but I am a newbie. POP reads Post Office Protocol. This is a protocol that is used for retrieving mail from a mail server. Usually the clients are mutt, pine, or on pc basis eudora, pmai

Re: /var/log/messages not world-readable anymore?

1997-07-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Debian user mail writes: > > Any more examples of why this could be a security hole? > > I'm not sure why it is or isn't a security hole, but I think it might be a > change in the new(er) version of sysklogd. I upgraded that package > yesterday, and manually rotated my logs today, and voila! I c

Re: compiling with libc5

1997-07-10 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> |"Well, in my case I have one more line: > |" > |"libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 > |" > |"and don't have libXext one. What Motif distribution are you using? > > This is the Red-Hat Motif 2.0 distribution. That is so strange! I have Metrolink Motif 2.0.1 - _the_same_ RedHat is using. What makes dif

Re: compiling with libc5

1997-07-10 Thread Ronald van Loon
|"Well, in my case I have one more line: |" |"libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 |" |"and don't have libXext one. What Motif distribution are you using? This is the Red-Hat Motif 2.0 distribution. -- >>> Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >>> <<< I hold your hand

Re: compiling with libc5

1997-07-10 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> |"> Debian happily uses some derivatives of commercial developmental suits. > |"> The most obvious example would be -dmotif and -smotif packages in contrib. > |" > |"OK, point taken, -smotif libg++ packagres won't be possible without > |"a libg++27-altdev. (Do I care? no, but others may, I agree)

Re: compiling with libc5

1997-07-10 Thread Ronald van Loon
|"> Debian happily uses some derivatives of commercial developmental suits. |"> The most obvious example would be -dmotif and -smotif packages in contrib. |" |"OK, point taken, -smotif libg++ packagres won't be possible without |"a libg++27-altdev. (Do I care? no, but others may, I agree). I don't

Re: NIS/AMD questions

1997-07-10 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
> --pgp-sign-Multipart_Wed_Jul__9_23:00:25_1997-1 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 1) If the NIS server is down for a NIS domain, root cannot log on the > > console. This is annoying, accounts which are in /etc/passwd (like > > ro

Re: /var/log/messages not world-readable anymore?

1997-07-10 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
> "Dum" == Debian user mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dum> and voila! I could no longer tail -f my logs. Bummer. Can't you just add yourself to the log (or whatever) group, then? -- SSM - Stig Sandbeck Mathisen Trust the Computer, the Computer is your Friend -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM T

Re: X & modprobe gone wild

1997-07-10 Thread Carey Evans
Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > by aggressively grepping /etc, I found that char-major-6 was an alias > for lp. Stopping the printer daemon helped somewhat. No, I don't have > a printer, although there's a couple on the network and a deskwriter > (the mac version) availalbe that i'd l

Re: Is there a french "release" of Debian Linux?

1997-07-10 Thread Bruce Perens
Rather than make national-language releases of Debian, we try to integrate all of the national languages into the system. Install the wg15-locale, doc-linux-fr, and manpages-fr packages, and you'll get some French language support. Someone more experienced than I can help you set your locale. Ther

Re: STB Powergraph video card?

1997-07-10 Thread Rob Browning
Shaya Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe it's similar to the Diamond Stealth 64. I'm pretty sure it uses > an S3 chip (maybe the Trio64), so yes it should probably work in X with > the S3 server. The one on a machine here worked fine until I upgraded to X 3.3. Now all servers go imm

PPP dial-up script working at last.

1997-07-10 Thread David Densmore
I finally got my PPP dial-up script working. Thanks to everyone who responded to my request for help. My real problem was simple ignorance - I thought all of the ppp files were in /etc/ppp, which is why I didn't know about /etc/ppp.chatscript and /etc/ppp.options_out - can you believe it? Thanks

Re: Netscape: How about some Unix instructions (fwd)

1997-07-10 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
> > Netscape doesn't include any instructions for setting up helper > apps. w/ unix. For example, I want to run VRML directly from > netscape. Great! So, I go to preferences/Navigator/Applications > and create a new mime-type called x-world/x-vrml. I then tell it that > this is for extension w

Re: apcupsd, genpower, and PowerShute(TM) "Black" cable.

1997-07-10 Thread Zachary DeAquila
Nils Rennebarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I thouroughly hacked apcd for private use adding the following features: > - - Close and reopen logfiles on HUP signal. > - - Make shutdown dependent on the remaining battery load. > - - Slave uses init for shutdown. > - - Master uses shutdown code fro

GNUS and Mail

1997-07-10 Thread Mark Lever
Hi, I use gnus and rmail. I've been using rmail for so long now, and it is limited. Someone mentioned here that they use gnus for their mail and different folders contained different types of mail. Could they elaborate and explain to me how to get gnus to look at my mailbox and separate the mai

a question abou mail?

1997-07-10 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
Someone can explain me what is POP3 mail and what I can do with it. Excuse me but I am a newbie. ___ Get Private Web-Based Email Free http://www.hotmail.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PR

procps 1.12 compliled with glibc for [2.1.42] kernels

1997-07-10 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
I have patched procps_1.12.2.tar.gz source debian package to be compiled with libc6 (glibc) adding the meminfo patch. You can find it here: ftp://dida43.deis.unibo.it/pub/debian/local/patch/ If you have the file original procps_1.12.2.tar.gz from the debian tree you need only patch_2.1.x_procps.

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