Repartition Format

1997-07-28 Thread PATRICK DAHIROC
Hi I've just finished repartition my hard drive using FIPS and have confirmed that the partition was done, but the new partition doesn't seem to be formatted. I am a little bit confused how to format the new drive. Do I: (a) - Format the new drive first in DOS then boot Linux from the

Re: bind

1997-07-28 Thread Francois Gouget
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, dada wrote: > I instaled "bind" pakage to make an DNS server to my local area network > (to learn how setup it). > > Before install it, Netscape works fine. But now,ie: when I open and web > page in my hardisk,Netscape don't work fine (it wait too much time and I > have to k

Re: ICQ

1997-07-28 Thread jghasler
Mind letting us non-Win95 users know just what Mirabilis ICQ is, that we should all want it on Linux? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood,

Debian in Dominican Republic or Puerto Rico!!!

1997-07-28 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
I want to get the Debian 1.3.1 2CDs set but I do not want to pay a mail service and I do not want to Download it. Does any want know about a resaler in Dominican Republic or Puerto Rico? I am very interesting!!! Thanks. __ Get Your Private, F

Disappointment with Debian

1997-07-28 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
I have been the user of Debian for quite sometime. Most of the time it works fine but there are some critical times when the system fail when I am not expecting it. For example I just received a CD from lsl for Debian 1.3.1 and I tried to update my debian 1.2 system. Now the Xserver is mixed up and

Re: fetchmail problem?

1997-07-28 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Jul 28, Joey Hess wrote > I think you need to replace "%M %N" with "%{%b %d}" and it'll work as you > expected. At least, I had to make this change to my hdr_format. I don't > include the date in my attributions, but I expect that uses the same escape > sequences. Well as you can see - that fi

Re: fetchmail problem?

1997-07-28 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Jul 28, Adrian Bridgett wrote > On Jul 28, Joey Hess wrote > > > I think you need to replace "%M %N" with "%{%b %d}" and it'll work as you > > expected. At least, I had to make this change to my hdr_format. I don't > > include the date in my attributions, but I expect that uses the same escape

Re: Read/write VFAT filesystems?

1997-07-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Christopher Ray Martin wrote: > > For some reason, vfat filesystems on my box seem to set to read-only for > ordinary users. root can write as well. How can I set it up so the > filesystems are writable for all users (or users in a certain group)? Here's what I have in /etc/

Re: Bugs in 1.3.1 Debian packages

1997-07-28 Thread Carl Fink
> :Another bug for the maintainer: the new ppp package prevented me from > :running the pon script as non-root. It happens that I knew how to fix > :this (chmod the pppd executable to make it runnably by mere mortals), > :but a beginner would be stumped. > > A better idea, read the docs and make

running a program on x logout

1997-07-28 Thread robert havoc pennington
Hi, I want to run a program when I log out of my X session (specifically, "kill $SSH_AGENT_PID") and I can't figure out how. Xreset runs as root, and this should be run by the user. fvwm2's ExitFunction also runs when you restart, and I don't want to do this if I just restart the window manager

Re: adduser and quota

1997-07-28 Thread Rob Browning
Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Unfortunately the adduser.local file is executed after the adduser > file... the mail file needs to be touched when the skel dir is copied > (or at least before the passwd program is executed)... How about using adduser's --disable-password option, then d

Read/write VFAT filesystems?

1997-07-28 Thread Christopher Ray Martin
For some reason, vfat filesystems on my box seem to set to read-only for ordinary users. root can write as well. How can I set it up so the filesystems are writable for all users (or users in a certain group)? thanks, Chris. Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Engineering

Re: ICQ

1997-07-28 Thread Travis Cole
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 28-Jul-97 Luke Bussanmas wrote: >On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Travis Cole wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> >> I hope this is an appropriate posting for this list. >> >> I have used the ICQ program from Mirabilis LTD http://www.mirabilis.com >> In W

Re: running a program on x logout

1997-07-28 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
robert havoc pennington wrote: > > Hi, > I want to run a program when I log out of my X session (specifically, > "kill $SSH_AGENT_PID") and I can't figure out how. > Xreset runs as root, and this should be run by the user. > fvwm2's ExitFunction also runs when you restart, and I don't want to

atd - at daemon?

1997-07-28 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, just for curiosity: in Debian versions prior to 1.3 there was not at daemon (atd). After I upgraded to 1.3 there is an atd process hanging around. Does anyone know why? I guess at processing was done by crond in previous version, why did it change? Thanks, E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #537

1997-07-28 Thread Harald Helfgott
The Cheap*bytes CD is bootable. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ICQ

1997-07-28 Thread Luke Bussanmas
On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Travis Cole wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > I hope this is an appropriate posting for this list. > > I have used the ICQ program from Mirabilis LTD http://www.mirabilis.com > In Windows 95 and I would love to be able to use this great software with > Linux.

Work-Needing and Prospective Packages

1997-07-28 Thread Philippe Troin
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Philippe Troin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.50 1997/07/28 15:49:22 phil Exp $ 1. Note I've taken over the maintenance of the "Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux" from Sven Rudolph starting version 1.

Re: Mail Config

1997-07-28 Thread Al Youngwerth
The preferred MX record for uniserve.com is corp-mail.uniserve.com. That machine is running sendmail 8.8.5. There are lots of different methods for skinning this cat with sendmail but there's a good explantation described at: http://www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html Hope that points you in the

Re: fetchmail problem?

1997-07-28 Thread Joey Hess
Adrian Bridgett wrote: > On %M %N, Tim Sailer wrote > > In your email to me, Adrian Bridgett, you wrote: > > > > > > On %M %N, Victor Torrico wrote > > ^ > > > > I bet you are using mutt out of hamm, right? This seems to be a bug.. > > Yep - version 0.79-1. I'd noticed it before, but ha

Re: Installing tonight -- a question or two

1997-07-28 Thread dpk
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Shaleh wrote: > Did you have to do anything special with the kernel? How is the > performance of it? I haven't done anything special to my kernel, except for compile in sound support. When I first got my cyrix 200+, I used my same harddrive/kernel that I had built on a P75.

Re: Installing tonight -- a question or two

1997-07-28 Thread Shaleh
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Re: Installing tonight -- a question or two

1997-07-28 Thread dpk
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Shaleh wrote: > I finally get my CD drive tonight!!! Is there anything special I have > to do with my Cyrix 150+ chip on a VX-PRO motherboard? I have Debian running fine on a cyrix 150+ and 200+ without any problems or installation quirks. You should be all set. Good luck!

Installing tonight -- a question or two

1997-07-28 Thread Shaleh
I finally get my CD drive tonight!!! Is there anything special I have to do with my Cyrix 150+ chip on a VX-PRO motherboard? Does anyone know if the cheapbytes CD is bootable? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EM

Re: title bar terrorism

1997-07-28 Thread Tessa Lau
> This is not useful as general advice. Regrettably there are other programs > like 'pine' or 'vim' which are loading the title bars with silly messages as > well, but one can't turn it off as easy as in MC. To turn off title bar terrorism in vim, add the line 'set notitle' to your ~/.vimrc ... -

Re: fetchmail problem?

1997-07-28 Thread Christian Kauhaus
Hi! On 07/28/97, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > On %M %N, Tim Sailer wrote > > > On %M %N, Victor Torrico wrote > > Yep - version 0.79-1. I'd noticed it before, but hadn't got round to > investigating. I'm sure it used to work, but I'm not sure quite when it I just had to deal with the same problem. O

Re: fetchmail problem?

1997-07-28 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On %M %N, Tim Sailer wrote > In your email to me, Adrian Bridgett, you wrote: > > > > On %M %N, Victor Torrico wrote > ^ > > I bet you are using mutt out of hamm, right? This seems to be a bug.. Yep - version 0.79-1. I'd noticed it before, but hadn't got round to investigating. I'm sure

Mail Config

1997-07-28 Thread Kevin Traas
I've got fetchmail up-and-running on my local system. It is configured for multi-drop - i.e. all incoming mail for my domain goes into one account at my ISP which fetchmail receives and then "resends" to smail on my box for delivery to the individual accounts. All's well. Everything's great.

Re: X-windows/Trio64/16 bit colours

1997-07-28 Thread dada
x wrote: > > Please, is there someone here that has an Debian box, whith X-Windows > (Xfree 3.3) and an Trio 64 video card, runing whith 16 bit colours? > > I ask becouse I have problems to work whith that configuration (in eight > bit colours I have not problem) :the resolution go down very much

Re: PPP: PAP Problems

1997-07-28 Thread Kevin Traas
> Peter> Another question is: There are more then one number to > Peter> dial to my ISP. So same resolv.conf but different chat > Peter> scripts. Would you solve this using a shell based dialer > Peter> script to dial in or are there security risks? > > Ben> Why not just make a copy of /usr/bin/po

Re: fetchmail problem? now fixed!!!

1997-07-28 Thread Paul Serice
> Eureka !!! I used your .fetchmailrc format and this did the trick. I still > have not figured out why I cant post to the local SMPT connection (still same > error message) but can into exim. Another of lifes mysteries. I should look > into this. Anyone have any clues? > > Many thanks to all

Re: X-capable mail reader

1997-07-28 Thread Kai Grossjohann
> mark powers writes: mark> [...] GNUS has a lot of nice things about it, though I mark> don't think it does any sorting functions for MH mark> mail. (correct me if I'm mistaken here) Though, the nnmh mark> method works quite well if you have an external mail sorting mark> app (such

Re: PPP: PAP Problems

1997-07-28 Thread Peter Weiss
> On 28 Jul 1997 09:40:47 -0500, Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > "Peter" == Peter Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> Hello out there, trying to set up PPP I run in the Peter> following problem: Chat dials, connection is Peter> established. But the authentification fails.

Re: PPP: PAP Problems

1997-07-28 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Peter Weiss wrote: > > Hello out there, > > trying to set up PPP I run in the following problem: Chat dials, > connection is established. But the authentification fails. > > My ISP-sysop says it tries to connect using CHAP, though only PAP is > available. So where to tell pppd to

Re: why kernel 2.0.29 in Debian 1.3.1?

1997-07-28 Thread Dima
>>Stefan Baums wrote: > ># insmod msdos >/lib/modules/2.0.30/fs/msdos.o: unresolved symbol fat_get_entry_R1dbb54c9 >... >[plus about twenty other "unresolved symbol" errors] Looks like you're using a wrong kernel. Did you compile it yourself? :) I've no problems with msdos module and 2.0.30

Re: xdm configuration

1997-07-28 Thread W Paul Mills
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: > > ... > > >Now I try to run xdm and it doesn't start. I have a xdm-start > > >line in my /etc/X11/config and on boot it reports that it is > > >starting up xdm. Manually `xdm start` or `xdm`

Re: why kernel 2.0.29 in Debian 1.3.1?

1997-07-28 Thread Stefan Baums
> SCO emulation. Perhaps there are other stories of Ibcs2 or other > 2.0.30 failures the Debian users would like to share? # insmod msdos /lib/modules/2.0.30/fs/msdos.o: unresolved symbol fat_get_entry_R1dbb54c9 ... [plus about twenty other "unresolved symbol" errors] Greetings, Stefan -- Ste

Re: xdm configuration

1997-07-28 Thread Wesley Hart
And David R. Kohel spake, saying: > I chose not to start xdm at the initial configuration because my > laptop has an unsupported (by XFree86) video card (Neomagic), and > I needed to set up Xinside's (= Xi Graphics now) server. > > Now I try to run xdm and it doesn't start. I have a xdm-start

Re: Q. about vic-ccam ...

1997-07-28 Thread Lawrence
you must be root or member of group 'cqcam' lawrence cqcam & vic-cqcam maintainer Richard G. Roberto wrote: > > I can't get this to work. My QuickCam works under windows, > but not linux. I can't seem to get to www.crynwy.com to do > any research. There aren't any failure symptoms, just no >

Re: educational software on Debian

1997-07-28 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi Alan and Nancy, On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > I would appreciate hearing from you about any success. I too am > interested in educational use of linux. Debian or not, though I use > debian. I think you saw the reply from Carlo Segre at Debian-user list. He mentio

Re: PPP: PAP Problems

1997-07-28 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Peter" == Peter Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> Hello out there, trying to set up PPP I run in the Peter> following problem: Chat dials, connection is Peter> established. But the authentification fails. Peter> My ISP-sysop says it tries to connect using CHAP,

Re: nmh and mail spool permissions

1997-07-28 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Sun, 27 Jul 1997 11:46:30 -0400, "Kevin M. Bealer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > After looking at the "strace" I see [inc] is trying to create lockfiles > in /var/spool/mail/ which is forbidden by the permission bits. [...] > what is the correct permissions for /var/spool/mail? /var/spool/mai

Odd situation with netware and netatalk

1997-07-28 Thread Barrington King
First, thanks to Lindsay Allen for getting me started on this and his patience with a cranky kernel compile: I had orignially been using a debian box as a file server with Netware and Appletalk clients. On upgrade to 1.3, that functionalilty was left out of the precompiled kernel, forcing me to

RE:netatalk: afpd breaks when incorrect password entered

1997-07-28 Thread Barrington King
> > and took the install from there and all worked fine. Hope this helps! I ran into the same broken afpd as well. When I went back to rex and used that package, which for some reason does not depend on the appletalk libraries, the problem went away. Perhaps it is the libraries (libatalk 1.4)

Re: why kernel 2.0.29 in Debian 1.3.1?

1997-07-28 Thread James D. Freels
I commend the Debian development team for choosing the 2.0.29 kernel rather than the 2.0.30 kernel in the v 1.3.1 release. My experience with the 2.0.30 kernel is that it caused the latest stable release of the Ibcs2 emulator software (970513) to fail. This was important to me in order to run

Re: smartlist

1997-07-28 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, dada wrote: > Hi..I installed Smarlist and I create and list called "test" (as is > explain in Quick Start file).The last step in this process must be > execute "newaliases"...but when I doing the shell answer me that > "command not found"..

PPP: PAP Problems

1997-07-28 Thread Peter Weiss
Hello out there, trying to set up PPP I run in the following problem: Chat dials, connection is established. But the authentification fails. My ISP-sysop says it tries to connect using CHAP, though only PAP is available. So where to tell pppd to use PAP? I put comments around +pap

Signal 11... Its Back

1997-07-28 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
I recently recieved my i-Connect Debian 1.3 cd (binary only), and recieved the signal 11 internal error in cc1. gcc is 2.7.2.1-8 kernel source is 2.0.30 This happens on a P166 with 48M and a P100 with 16M. Both of these systems compile kernels just fine under Debian 1.1. Ideas? -- Walter L. Pr

Re: /usr/bin/which: unset: `run-mailcap': not a valid identifier

1997-07-28 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On %M %N, H Huang wrote > > Got this error when typed: > >$ which run-mailcap > > although it did find out run-mailcap is in /usr/bin. > > bash: version 2.01 > debianutils : version 1.5 > > Any idea what's wrong? It worked fine here (bash 2.0-3, debianutils 1.5), no idea what's wrong thou

Re: update-menues 1.5

1997-07-28 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On %M %N, Alex Yukhimets wrote > Hi. > > While installing (recompiled for libc5) menu_1.5 package I got the > following error messages: > /usr/lib/menu/fvwm95: wm: command not found > /usr/lib/menu/fvwm95: fvwm95module: command not found > /usr/lib/menu/fvwm95: fvwm95module: command not found > ..

Q. about vic-ccam ...

1997-07-28 Thread Richard G. Roberto
I can't get this to work. My QuickCam works under windows, but not linux. I can't seem to get to www.crynwy.com to do any research. There aren't any failure symptoms, just no picture. I don't have a /dev/cqcamX device, nor can I make one with MAKEDEV. Anyone have this working? What else besid

Re: exmh mail?

1997-07-28 Thread Francis Swasey
exmh uses mh to actually process mail. The mh that comes with debian requires sendmail. If you want to get your mail directly from your ISP, you have to do it manually with mh (due to a BUG in mh dealing with .netrc files) -- However, there is a version of nmh that has been packaged for debian (al

Apache

1997-07-28 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hey I'm using Apache 1.1.2 shipped with Debian 1.3. I have a virtual host 'hostname-old' which should view just one page, thr 404 ErrorDocument. It doesn't matter which page is requested at 'hostname-old'. I setup the ErrorDocument in the part of httpd.conf, and it works perfectly. But now, I

Re: ICQ

1997-07-28 Thread Shaya Potter
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, JASON WESTERVELT wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Travis Cole wrote: > > Mirabilis has plans to migrate to other platforms.. there is a Java > version in the works.. or so they say.. =) > > Yes, ICQ is really neat, its direct IP to IP file transfer is REALLY fast, > and it allo

RE:netatalk: afpd breaks when incorrect password entered

1997-07-28 Thread Shawn Caron
I had the same problem with the Debian install of this also. I just downloaded the netatalk-1.4b2.tar.z file from a netatalk mirror web site... http://thehamptons.com/anders/netatalk/ and took the install from there and all worked fine. Hope this helps! Shawn Caron St. Paul's School Network M

Re: title bar terrorism

1997-07-28 Thread Paul Seelig
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > I sometimes use the gnu midnight commander. It scribbles all sorts of > more or less useful things in the title bar of the xterm it is running > in. I usually have meaningful titles for my windows, and > "mc - Thank you for using GNU Midnight Comm

compiling apache 1.2.1 - where is -lcrypt??

1997-07-28 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I'm trying to build Apache 1.2.1 as a debian package based on the .diff.gz found in project/experimental, and the compilation process ("./debian/rules build" as root) bombs because the loader can't find a library for -lcrypt used when linking htpasswd. Could someone please point me to the

title bar terrorism

1997-07-28 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi, I sometimes use the gnu midnight commander. It scribbles all sorts of more or less useful things in the title bar of the xterm it is running in. I usually have meaningful titles for my windows, and "mc - Thank you for using GNU Midnight Commander" isn't one of them. Is there a way to preven

Re: bind

1997-07-28 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, dada wrote: > I instaled "bind" pakage to make an DNS server to my local area network > (to learn how setup it). > > Before install it, Netscape works fine. But now,ie: when I open and web > page in my hardisk,Netscape don't work fine (it wait too much time and I > have to

Re: xdm configuration

1997-07-28 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: > ... > >Now I try to run xdm and it doesn't start. I have a xdm-start > >line in my /etc/X11/config and on boot it reports that it is > >starting up xdm. Manually `xdm start` or `xdm` do nothing. > >What else do I need to configure? > > Th

Re: Setting up mail.

1997-07-28 Thread Rob MacWilliams
Try the following: One other thing you need to do: add a blank line, followed by the following lines to /etc/smail/directors. THIS SHOULD BE THE LAST LINES OF THE FILE. Otherwise, mail loss is a definite possibility. smartuser: driver=smartuser; new_user=$user@, well_formed_onl

Setting up mail.

1997-07-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I have given it another shot. Mail escapes me. I now have to ask for help on this. Mail must be my nemesis, as it took six months to get it right on my now defunct former system (as some readers may remember?). I have run the smail setup script, a couple of times, and think I have more or less

Re: xdm configuration

1997-07-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: ... >Now I try to run xdm and it doesn't start. I have a xdm-start >line in my /etc/X11/config and on boot it reports that it is >starting up xdm. Manually `xdm start` or `xdm` do nothing. >What else do I need to configure? This is my /etc/X11/c

Re: fetchmail problem? now fixed!!!

1997-07-28 Thread Victor Torrico
Adrian Bridgett wrote: > On %M %N, Victor Torrico wrote > > Hello all, > > > Am using fetchmail to move mail from my ISP's POP3 server to my > > machine. Cannot move POP3 mail, using fetchmail, from the ISP server > > to my client machine. Here's the error message when executing the > > fetchma

Re: exmh mail?

1997-07-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: >Hello All, > >I'm using the debian package exmh. Only connected to an ISP with pop3 >mail using PPP. Do not get incoming mail into the ~/Mail/inbox >directory. Haven't tried outgoing mail. > >Mail works fine using Netscape Communicator but I

Re: kernel support to NE2000?

1997-07-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Jason Costomiris wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Today, I was recompiled my kernel 2.0.29 (debian 1.3.1) and I don't see > > suport for my PCI NE2000 network card. > > > > I see support to ISA NE2000, but I have an PCIwhere is it? > > Use

Re: ICQ

1997-07-28 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Travis Cole wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > I hope this is an appropriate posting for this list. > > I have used the ICQ program from Mirabilis LTD http://www.mirabilis.com > In Windows 95 and I would love to be able to use this great software with > Linux.

Can you talk to a enet device with just the hardware address?

1997-07-28 Thread Rob Browning
I have a (LexMark) black box print server I picked up surplus (cheap), and it has an ethernet interface, a serial interface (for a printer), and two parallel interfaces (for more printers). It supports telnet, ping, etc. It has the LAN hardware address printed on the back, but I don't know what

Sendmail broken (Debian 1.3)

1997-07-28 Thread D. W. Wieboldt
I just built a new Debian 1.3 system from cdrom. Lots of things are running just fine, but somehow sendmail doesn't work. I want sendmail on this one so I can build a beeper gateway :-) Does anybody have any clues about what I should be looking for? Upon startup, sendmail hangs for a couple of

Re: taper/can't type

1997-07-28 Thread Joey Hess
Paul Miller wrote: > I installed taper 6.8.0a10.deb from the master the other day and > everything works except I can't type in any of the prompts - anything in > the configuration, archive tilte, etc.. what is wrong? It seems to be a problem this version of taper has when compiled with libc6 or w

Re: ftp web pages updating in apache?

1997-07-28 Thread Beauvalot Erik
Normally the web pages of the users are like that http://www.yourweb.com/~username In the user directory you should have a public_html directory (It's the default) and all the pages of the user are in this directory so if the user connect himself with his userid via FTP, he will be able

Re: kernel compilation problem

1997-07-28 Thread dada
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > After intalling, the system is OK (I think). > > > > Today I recompile the kernel 2.0.29 and here is when problems arose: > > > > When I boot whith new kernel, I see that during booting procces the > > kernel try setup my NE2000 network card TWO TIMES: the frist one

bind

1997-07-28 Thread dada
Hi... I instaled "bind" pakage to make an DNS server to my local area network (to learn how setup it). Before install it, Netscape works fine. But now,ie: when I open and web page in my hardisk,Netscape don't work fine (it wait too much time and I have to kill it,becouse it newer open that page).

ftp web pages updating in apache?

1997-07-28 Thread dada
Hi How can I do to permit that one user, that have count in my computer (attached to and TCP/IP local network),can actualice your web pages? I want the next: 1.- If the user make an authenticated ftp access,he must go to directory where is his web pages (but *only* to thats directory). 2.-

smartlist

1997-07-28 Thread dada
Hi..I installed Smarlist and I create and list called "test" (as is explain in Quick Start file).The last step in this process must be execute "newaliases"...but when I doing the shell answer me that "command not found"...why? I have intalled "Smail" and when I don't see "newaliases" in nowhere. W

aumix display not right

1997-07-28 Thread Paul
Hi folks, aumix has some strange result when trying to run on a non x console. The screen is unreadable, there are control characters all over the screen and we can't see what we are doing. We can adjust things but can't tell what we are adjusting. Can you help us. Any other information please

Help Linux does not like me new P120 MBoard.

1997-07-28 Thread Brian Sheaff
I have upgraded my PC with a new P120 motherboard with onboard PCI IDE controllers. The problem is that Linux/Debian 1.2 (kernel 2.0.27) doesnot correctly probe the IRQ for the PCI IDE controllers. (Intel 82371SB Natoma/Triton II PIIX3) It finds IRQ=5 ??? OK, so I pass the correct values at boot u

Re: Slow PLIP

1997-07-28 Thread Rob Browning
Lazar Fleysher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The connection can be established but it is very very slow. > If I use dos on both and connect them using interlnk, intersrv, > I get about 60Kb/sec transfer rate, whereas via the plip packet > driver and ftp: only 3Kb. Could be that you don't have th

Re: update-menues 1.5

1997-07-28 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > > It looks like it is trying to execute /usr/lib/menu/fvwm95. > > How comes? > > It has execute permission on, do "chmod -x /usr/lib/menu/fvwm95" > > I had this problem with one of my packages - maybe menu should

HELP: 1.3 Installation Problem: unable to find swap-space signature

1997-07-28 Thread tbrannon
I tried to create a stable 1.3 system today. It worked fine until I rebooted and got the following during bootup: running /etc/init.d/boot... Activating swap... Unable to find swap-space signature ll_rw_block: device 03:02: only 4096-char blocks implemented (1024) ll_rw_block: device 03:02: only

Re: device access (specifically ttySx)

1997-07-28 Thread Paul Miller
George Bonser wrote: > > Onw way is to have those ports owned by certain groups. You then > place > the users that you want to allow access into the group for that port. > how do you do that? mc won't make any changes.. should I just use chown/grp/mod? Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILIN

Re: kernel support to NE2000?

1997-07-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 25 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi > > Today, I was recompiled my kernel 2.0.29 (debian 1.3.1) and I don't see > suport for my PCI NE2000 network card. > > I see support to ISA NE2000, but I have an PCIwhere is it? > > I so extrange; when I frist install my Debian system

FAX?

1997-07-28 Thread Paul Miller
I didn't see any how-to's on configuring Linux to send/receive fax.. where can I start? -- programs, info, etc? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Removing packages

1997-07-28 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Vitor Beires Nogueira wrote: > dpkg --purge --force-depends babel latex > > I get these errors: > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/latex.prerm: install-fmt-base: command not found > /var/lib/dpkg/info/babel.postrm: install-fmt-base: command not fou

Re: mgetty fax

1997-07-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Paul Miller writes: > I have a couple of questions about using mgetty-fax/sendfax Please look at /etc/mgetty > 1) how do I set the "fax station id" Either /etc/mgetty/config or /etc/mgetty/sendfax.conf > 2) how do I add to the modem reset string? ditto Regards Joey -- / Martin Sc

Possible security troubles and the 'new' Debian way...

1997-07-28 Thread Paul Rightley
I like the new way of making releases into stable (i.e. holding them in bo-updates and testing them and then moving them into stable when everything checks out). The only concern that I have with this method regards security updates. For those of us who are lazy (and brainless?) we do not always

Re: kernel support to NE2000?

1997-07-28 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: > kernel-source and recompile to get the card working. The patch can be > found here: > http://rsphy1.anu.edu.au/~gpg109/ne2000.html > under section: "PCI NE2000 Cards and the v2.0 Kernel" > This one is from linuxhq, against pre-2.0.31: > http://www.linu

Re: Libc5: Idconfig error

1997-07-28 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, K.Y.Lo wrote: : I have the basic debian 1.2, installed Libc5 and Binutils but it was an error. : : install Libc5.deb then what happened? : : ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/local/lib (no such file or directory), : skipping. : : i know that, but i dont know what

Re: IP forwarding

1997-07-28 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Lalovic, Drazen wrote: : I have set up a Linux host with two ethernet cards. IP forwarding is : enabled in the kernel and it is in its default state (accept and forward : everything). Both ethernet segments, eth0 and eth1 are alive. : 1. From the Linux machine I can ping h

Re: Swap Space

1997-07-28 Thread Alex Romosan
>> I haven't had any problem with the 4 gig Barracuda I've been using >> in my Linux box, except for getting bitten by the glibc/fsck bug. > >> >What bug is that? Just curious, as I'm running glibc on a 4G >barracuda, and 2 2G Quantum Atlases. (With a large striped partition.) > if you have any pa

Re: X Windows

1997-07-28 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Randy Stocking wrote: > Are you sure it's X trying to access /dev/dsp and not your window > manager (e.g. FvwmAudio module)? Quite, this happend with twm and now with wmaker, it happens as the very first thing after I type startx. Jason -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILIN

Re: X Windows

1997-07-28 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > > > > > Quite, this happend with twm and now with wmaker, it happens as the very > > > first thing after I type startx. > > > > Checked .xinitrc lately? > > Don't have one, it's done this since I

Re: GNUS and Mail

1997-07-28 Thread Kai Grossjohann
> Eloy A Paris writes: Eloy> rmail??? Isn't this rmail the one that comes in the sendmail Eloy> package and is used for UUCP mail? I guess not... As it happens, rmail is a homonym (or is it polyseme?). Not only is the program that's used with UUCP called rmail, but RMAIL is also an Emacs

Re: Where is Netscape Communicator?

1997-07-28 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Matt Kazmar wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: > > > I'm trying to download the latest beta of Communicator (b6 I believe) > > but I can't find it in any of the ftp[12..].netscape.com sites (actually > > it seems I can't find any unix version at all!). Can

Re: IP forwarding

1997-07-28 Thread Kevin Traas
> I have set up a Linux host with two ethernet cards. IP forwarding is > enabled in the kernel and it is in its default state (accept and forward > everything). Both ethernet segments, eth0 and eth1 are alive. > 1. From the Linux machine I can ping hosts on both subnets an > vice-versa. > 2. From t

The Gimp?

1997-07-28 Thread Travis Cole
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Is there a Gimp-0.99.10 deb package that can be installed on a Libc 5 system? Or can I safely install Libc 6 on my Debian 1.3.1 system? I downloaded the Gimp files from ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/debian/Incoming and got a dependiancy error because I don't have Libc

Re: Mailers

1997-07-28 Thread Kai Grossjohann
> David R Kohel writes: David> This is not really Debian specific, but is relevant to David> handling the volume of mail from this mailing list. [...] David> Emacs? Are the mail handling tools of emacs worth looking David> into? I am an Emacs aficionado. I use the Gnus combined mai

Re: ICQ

1997-07-28 Thread JASON WESTERVELT
On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Travis Cole wrote: Mirabilis has plans to migrate to other platforms.. there is a Java version in the works.. or so they say.. =) Yes, ICQ is really neat, its direct IP to IP file transfer is REALLY fast, and it allows for many features that I'd like to see in Linux... i can

xemacs20

1997-07-28 Thread sjg
> > > Has anyone had success running the new debian xemacs20 package in hamm? > > > > Mine installs OK but dumps core when run and wont come up on the screen. > I have had the same problem with that version of xemacs running in X. When I tried running it from a terminal it worked fine. I ha

Re: why kernel 2.0.29 in Debian 1.3.1?

1997-07-28 Thread Kevin Traas
> why Debian 1.3.1 includes kernel 2.0.29 and not 2.0.30 (that is in this > Debian 1.3.1 but don't is preselect the first time that I install the > system).? > > Is there any problem whith 2.0.30 kernel? Apparently, there was some of the 2.1.x code that was introduced into 2.0.30 that caused some

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