Re: Date in mail headers

1997-09-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Orn" == Orn E Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Orn> On 04-Sep-97 Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> The RFC are all the rules that actually apply to the >> internet. And if we all start ignoring the rules, the cooperative >> process that is the internet (and, indeed, Linux itself is the >> p

Re: Building Debian Packages

1997-09-04 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Will Lowe wrote: [...] > Things that probably ought to be included but aren't: > Specific instructions on what to change in the control, rules, > etc. files. This isn't very clear, and requires a lot of hacking around > with source to figure out. While hacking is good

Re: Date in mail headers

1997-09-04 Thread Orn E. Hansen
On 04-Sep-97 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > The RFC are all the rules that actually apply to the > internet. And if we all start ignoring the rules, the cooperative > process that is the internet (and, indeed, Linux itself is the > product of a similar cooperative process). > > If you

Re: Who knows stuff about WAN cards?

1997-09-04 Thread Dave Cinege
On Thu, 4 Sep 1997 14:13:30 -0400 (EDT), Pete Templin wrote: > >Hi there!! > >I'm doing some network consulting for a computer store, and we'd like to >connect the store LAN to the Internet through a 56k or T1 connection. If >possible, we'd like to save the expense of the router and perhaps the >

Re: Date in mail headers

1997-09-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I do not know what the debate seems to be about, but I must take exception to this statement. >>"Orn" == Orn E Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Orn> The RFC are just guidelines... and not rules. The RFC are all the rules that actually apply to the internet. And

Re: SCSI Host Adapter (+ Re: 2 CPU servers)

1997-09-04 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
THANK YOU SO MUCH for all infos, I won't miss the doc and WEB site you suggested (I also think they will deal with possible/real transfer rates, of course related to the kind of hard disk or other device you connect to the card). Cheers. Nicola Bernardelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --

Re: ppp connection a little too slow...

1997-09-04 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! > I think my ppp conection is a little too slow ... I have a 33.6 modem > (but only a 8250 uart) and when I access a webpage from Linux, it > . > Does someone know how to boost the speed a little ? Have I made som > settings wrong ? No way. Not with that UART. To operate your

Re: Colors in the prompt like in slackware ?

1997-09-04 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
See /usr/doc/fileutils/color-ls.gz which describes how to get colors in the directory listings. The quick answer is: ls --color or alias ls='ls --color=auto' in sh type shells. I hope this helps. // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Tech

WantWEB/Linux/IP Masquerading

1997-09-04 Thread Mike Patterson
Howdy all! Just wanted to get some information from those of you out there that might have some... I recently purchased a house, and I would like to get some sort of internet hookup that my friends and I could use. There are 5 computers, each either running Linux or Win95 all connected to a co

Colors in the prompt like in slackware ?

1997-09-04 Thread Michael Jensen
Hi ! Just wondering if it is possible to put some colors on the directory listings ... like there is in Slackware ? It sure makes it easyer to see which of the object that are directories, and which are files... Regards, badpixel of bad sector michael legart -- [EMAIL PROT

ppp connection a little too slow...

1997-09-04 Thread Michael Jensen
Hi ! I think my ppp conection is a little too slow ... I have a 33.6 modem (but only a 8250 uart) and when I access a webpage from Linux, it loads most of the pictures at about 500 bytes/sec. Thats SLOW ! If it is a little bigger files, it can get to about 1.9-2 kb/sec, which is what the speed

Re: MPEG doesn't work from any gr browser; Netscape probs.

1997-09-04 Thread James D. Freels
On the recommendation of a colleague, I fixed the netscape-plugin problem by directly editing the netscape executable using emacs [just search for the error message]. This eliminates the need to use bash 2.01 which I could not install consistently (did fix the plugin problem but created new prob

Re: Who knows stuff about WAN cards?

1997-09-04 Thread Tim Sailer
Pete Templin wrote: > > > Hi there!! > > I'm doing some network consulting for a computer store, and we'd like to > connect the store LAN to the Internet through a 56k or T1 connection. If > possible, we'd like to save the expense of the router and perhaps the > CSU/DSU if possible. Very possi

Re: Date in mail headers

1997-09-04 Thread Orn E. Hansen
On 03-Sep-97 Clare Johnstone wrote: > >If not sorted at all, listed as they arrive, the threads are in good >order. For example the date on >Orn's mail as received just now is: >Date: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mi=F0,?= 03 Sep 1997 23:00:14 +0200 (CET DST) Which is: Date: Mið, 03 Sep 1997 23:00:14 +0200 (

Re: Date in mail headers

1997-09-04 Thread Orn E. Hansen
On 03-Sep-97 Olaf Weber wrote: > >RFC822 would be the appropriate one here, and it does impose some >restrictions regarding what can and cannot be a date header: > > 5. DATE AND TIME SPECIFICATION > > 5.1. SYNTAX > > date-time = [ day "," ] date time; dd mm yy >

Who knows stuff about WAN cards?

1997-09-04 Thread Pete Templin
Hi there!! I'm doing some network consulting for a computer store, and we'd like to connect the store LAN to the Internet through a 56k or T1 connection. If possible, we'd like to save the expense of the router and perhaps the CSU/DSU if possible. I think I've seen some adds in network magazine

Re: ethernet card suggestions

1997-09-04 Thread Simon Karpen
I've had extremely good luck with the Kingston Tulip based cards. They're fairly cheap ($50 or so for 10mb, $90 or so for 100mb), and i've found them to be very fast, reliable, and well-supported by Linux. The 10mb card is a combo card (aui, utp, coax all on one card). Simon Karpen [EMAIL PR

Re: SCSI Host Adapter (+ Re: 2 CPU servers)

1997-09-04 Thread Jeff Noxon
Nicola Bernardelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There was mention of a specific model, Buslogic BT-948: is it such a > "low-end" card or one with that CPU onboard? The BT-948 and all other "MultiMaster" models have onboard CPUs. The 948 is BusLogic's equivalent to the Adaptec 2940U. The 95

Re: Date in mail headers

1997-09-04 Thread Orn E. Hansen
On 03-Sep-97 George Bonser wrote: > >I STRONGLY disagree. I want to know when you wrote it ... not when it >arrived here. If a mail was delayed a day or two in route, it might >completely change how I look at the information in the email. Example, a >put-down of Princess Diana might be viewed in

Re: Is PPP helping me?

1997-09-04 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Aldrin Leal wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > You must be passing the defaultroute option to pppd. This option may > > be specified on the pppd command line or in the /etc/ppp/options > > file. Remove this option. > > I trie

Re: xfs doesn't seem to be working

1997-09-04 Thread Rick Hawkins
> Xfs is running, but have you configured your xserver to use it? I did it by > modifying my XF86Config, commenting out my old FontPath, and adding: > > # Use font server. > FontPath "tcp/localhost:7100" This seems to do it. Shouldn't the configuration program have done this when it a

Re: Segfault in free(), electric-fence for C++ ?

1997-09-04 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> Alex Yukhimets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have some strange problem with my C++ code: I get a segmentation fault > > in destructor's delete[] operator. GDB says it happend in free(). > > What could be the cause of that? The only place I touch the pointer > > I pass to delete[] is in the

Re: xfs doesn't seem to be working

1997-09-04 Thread Joey Hess
Rick Hawkins wrote: > The solution for this is xfs, which is supposedly running. However, looking > at top from a regular console, it is X taking all the cycles, while xfs is > idle. Xfs is running, but have you configured your xserver to use it? I did it by modifying my XF86Config, commenting

Re: a problem

1997-09-04 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Martin Bees wrote: > > I would be very grateful if anyone could help me with a > small problem concerning the boot disk of Debian/Linux > (+all other Linux versions). > Simply, version 2.0.29 boot disks crash on my Laptop > shortly after it probes for the PCI devices. > It says unrecognized PCI de

libX11.a

1997-09-04 Thread Matthew Tebbens
I'm trying to compile a program and it's asking for libX11.a What package contains this ?? Thanks, Matthew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Radius

1997-09-04 Thread Dave Cinege
On Wed, 3 Sep 1997 17:15:20 -0500, Tony Koehn wrote: >Merit Radius 2.4.23C Hmm then I can't help much since I never used that one. What are you're logs showning? Anything? - http://www.psychosis.com/emc/ Elite Mi

MPEG doesn't work from any gr browser; Netscape probs.

1997-09-04 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I have installed both the ucbmpeg player and mtv player, and set up netscape for each. I have consistently not been able to view mpegs. Each time an mpeg file comes over the line, this message is displayed in a dialog box, from Netscape as well as from Mosaic: Using private color-map Bad M

How to upgrade a package safely?

1997-09-04 Thread Luka Pravica
Hi, this happened to me for the second time, and I don't want to reinstall the whole system again in the future: Everythig worked fine, I was quite happy not to use win95. Then I decided to update some packages. I downloaded some newer packages, run dselect, and selected only xbase (X was not ru

Front page

1997-09-04 Thread Tony Koehn
Does anyone know where I can go to get some help on Front Page for Unix?? Don't seem to know what I am doing here I am looking for any kind of help or list server or newsgroup. Tony -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e

[X] Changing input focus in X

1997-09-04 Thread Will Lowe
I have my fvwm desktop set up to be nine times the size of the actual monitor. I've got a little pager in the bottom of my screen that lets me see all the desktops. I'm a keyboard person, as opposed to a mouse person. I'd like ALT-TAB to change focus *only* on the current desktop. Righ

Is PPP helping me?

1997-09-04 Thread Aldrin Leal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello! I was building a proxy system yesterday, and i had a strange trouble. I've installed Linux, set up everything. A Dream of a Intranet. I can ping back and forth between the ether. Set up pppd. But, when firing up, it messes up my routes. I

Re: Date in mail headers

1997-09-04 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, George Bonser wrote: > > I STRONGLY disagree. I want to know when you wrote it ... not when it > arrived here. If a mail was delayed a day or two in route, it might > completely change how I look at the information in the email. Example, a > put-down of Princess Diana migh

Re: MPEG doesn't work from any gr browser; Netscape probs.

1997-09-04 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > > I have installed both the ucbmpeg player and mtv player, and set up > netscape for each. I have consistently not been able to view mpegs. > Each time an mpeg file comes over the line, this message is displayed > in a dialog box, from Netscape as well as from Mosaic: >

Re: Segfault in free(), electric-fence for C++ ?

1997-09-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Sep 03, 1997 at 05:07:11PM +0200, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > I have some strange problem with my C++ code: I get a segmentation fault > > in destructor's delete[] operator. GDB says it happend in free(). > > What could be the cause of that? The only place I touch the pointer > > I pass t

Re: Front page

1997-09-04 Thread Adam Shand
>Does anyone know where I can go to get some help on Front Page for Unix?? Yep. >Don't seem to know what I am doing here Welcome to hell. It gets worse from here. On the plus side the new version of Frontpage (FP98) is by all accounts much better. >I am looking for any kind of help or lis

Re: can't locate module char-major-10

1997-09-04 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
--- Begin Message --- By the way, there is something wrong with your mailer as replying to you doesn't work. Luis. -- Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Fingerprint = F8 B1 13 DE 22 22 94 A1 14 BE 95 8E 49 39 78 76 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubsc

Newbe question...

1997-09-04 Thread Swanson, Glenn, KB1GW
Greetings, I'm trying to install Debian (latest release) from floppies onto a '386 system that has only 4 Meg of RAM. (I'm going to try using lmemroot.bin on floppy2.) 1) Is this "too little" RAM for such a system? 2) Will I have a "usable" system if I can pull this off? Apologies to the g

Installing the official CD

1997-09-04 Thread Tom Malloy
I have 3.1 installed from floppys. There were some problems with some of the packages I tried to install. Most of these were caused by modem errors I think. It was certainly a mistake to try to install so many packages simultaniously. Anyway I decided to order the 3.1.1 cd and work from there.

Re: How to upgrade a package safely?

1997-09-04 Thread Brandon Mitchell
> Then during next booting, kernel complained about missing files and later > fsck started to fix the filesystem again. After that every command I typed, > printed file system error messages. And the worst thing was that e2fsck > couldn't even recognise the file system. Warning, the following sug

Re: Date in mail headers

1997-09-04 Thread Olaf Weber
Jason Gunthorpe writes: > On 8859 xxx 2001, Orn E. Hansen wrote: >> On 02-Sep-97 Jason Gunthorpe wrote: >>> Orn, your mailer is formatting dates in a way that pine doesn't understand >> HDate: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mi=F0,?= 03 Sep 1997 19:14:09 +0200 (CET DST) > I noticed that, why is your mailer putti

Re: Is PPP helping me?

1997-09-04 Thread Aldrin Leal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > You must be passing the defaultroute option to pppd. This option may > be specified on the pppd command line or in the /etc/ppp/options > file. Remove this option. I tried with/without defaultroute. tried the "

ethernet card suggestions

1997-09-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Tomorrow we're moving our company server machine to a new ISP. Right now it has a UTP SMC 8216 Ultra in it, but the new ISP only has coax (:-(), and we're not too sure what to do about an ethernet card. We would like to spend a little bit more than just a PCI NE2000 and get something we know is rel

Re: Building Debian Packages

1997-09-04 Thread Will Lowe
On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > > > I'd reccomend the "Makeing a debian Package" page, which is pretty good > As the author of that article, I am gratified that someone actually finds > it useful. Very! > > It's too easy. This is by desig

Re: [Common Lisp] I'm working on the clisp package...

1997-09-04 Thread Will Lowe
On 31 Aug 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > How does this differ from gcl (GNU Common Lisp)? > I haven't used GCL much. Clisp is GPL'd, so it's just as distributable as GCL. I'm using clisp because it appeared o be a little further along in the development stage. Clisp is also (now) available as a

Re: Private XF-Mail package available

1997-09-04 Thread George Bonser
On 02-Sep-97 Craig Sanders wrote: >anyway, that's all beside the point. what i'm really writing to say is: >if you'd like to maintain the package for debian, i'll send you what >i've done so far. Sure, I will take it. I will send you an address where you can put it by anon ftp via private email.

Red Hat's Xconfigurator for Debian?

1997-09-04 Thread Arthur Jerijian
Hi, I tried to install the XConfigurator and newt RPM packages from Red Hat onto Debian, using the alien program. I was able to start XConfigurator, but it was apparently looking for some Red Hat administrative files. Is there a version of XConfigurator for Debian? The default XF86Setup program

Re: Red Hat's Xconfigurator for Debian?

1997-09-04 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arthur Jerijian) writes: > I tried to install the XConfigurator and newt RPM packages from Red Hat > onto Debian, using the alien program. I was able to start XConfigurator, > but it was apparently looking for some Red Hat administrative files. Is > there a version of XConfigu

[OFF TOPIC] was: Segfault in free()...C++

1997-09-04 Thread E.L. Meijer (Eric)
Jeff Gunter: > FWIW, I have also had problems with SGI's C++ compiler and g++ (on the same > SGI) being incompatible. The incompatibilities are even to the level where > code will compile cleanly under one compiler and not compile at all under the > other. These two compilers are definitely not

Re: X11R6?

1997-09-04 Thread jdassen
On Sep 3, Britton wrote > I have one of these CD's also, with lots of problems with X. I am having > trouble upgrading via the ftp method. I choose pretty much the standard > options, and it hangs like this: > > Using FTP to check directories...(stop with ^C) > > Connecting to ftp.debian.org...

exim - smail - sendmail: my experience.

1997-09-04 Thread Johann Spies
I regard myself still as a newby as far as linux is concerned. I have been using smail for about a year now. After receiving a cd with Debian 1.3.1 on it, I decided to try out the exim as well. I have read somewhere that it is faster and easier to configure than the others. Not for me. I could

440LX chipset

1997-09-04 Thread Carl Flippin
I am considering buying a new computer and would like to get a Pentium II with the new 440LX chipset. My concern is over the AGP graphics. Would I be able to use debian with AGP? Are there any compatibility issues with 440LX? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscri

test, please ignore

1997-09-04 Thread Nico De Ranter
Hi, sorry for this mail but I don't seem to be receiving any mails from the debian-user list anymore :-(. Just testing. Nico. -- -- Nico De Ranter Sony Objective Composer (SOCOM) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Teleph

Re: Segfault in free(), electric-fence for C++ ?

1997-09-04 Thread Carey Evans
Alex Yukhimets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have some strange problem with my C++ code: I get a segmentation fault > in destructor's delete[] operator. GDB says it happend in free(). > What could be the cause of that? The only place I touch the pointer > I pass to delete[] is in the constructor

Re: SCSI Host Adapter (+ Re: 2 CPU servers)

1997-09-04 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
BusLogic supports free software and is well supported under Linux? Very well. Probably I'll have one customer of mine buy new machines very soon, they will buy what I say. (Maybe me too - going to buy a new harddisk - will replace my Adaptec 2940 with a BusLogic instead of a 2940UW or 3940W o

Re: Date in mail headers

1997-09-04 Thread Carey Evans
Olaf Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > RFC822 would be the appropriate one here, and it does impose some > restrictions regarding what can and cannot be a date header: [snip] > So it certainly looks like Orn needs to fix his mailer. RFC2047 is also applicable - it's responsible to the mangled

Re: Date in mail headers

1997-09-04 Thread David Wright
On 4 Sep 1997, Carey Evans wrote: > Olaf Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > RFC822 would be the appropriate one here, and it does impose some > > restrictions regarding what can and cannot be a date header: > > [snip] > > > So it certainly looks like Orn needs to fix his mailer. I agree.

Re: Is PPP helping me?

1997-09-04 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Aldrin Leal wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hello! > > I was building a proxy system yesterday, and i had a strange trouble. > > I've installed Linux, set up everything. A Dream of a Intranet. I can > ping back and forth between the ether. > > Set up pppd. But,

Re: Newbe question...

1997-09-04 Thread Frits Daalmans
>Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 12:05:00 -0400 >From: "Swanson, Glenn, KB1GW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Newbe question... > >Greetings, > >I'm trying to install Debian (latest release) from floppies onto a '386 >system that has only 4 Meg of RAM. (I'm going to try using lmemroot.bin on >floppy2.) >

Re: Red Hat's Xconfigurator for Debian?

1997-09-04 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On 4 Sep 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arthur Jerijian) writes: > > > I tried to install the XConfigurator and newt RPM packages from Red Hat > > onto Debian, using the alien program. I was able to start XConfigurator, > > but it was apparently looking for some Red Hat administra

a problem

1997-09-04 Thread Martin Bees
I would be very grateful if anyone could help me with a small problem concerning the boot disk of Debian/Linux (+all other Linux versions). Simply, version 2.0.29 boot disks crash on my Laptop shortly after it probes for the PCI devices. It says unrecognized PCI device and then crashes, saying "

Re: libX11.a

1997-09-04 Thread joost witteveen
> > I'm trying to compile a program and it's asking for libX11.a > What package contains this ?? $ dpkg -S libX11.a xslib: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.a (You can view the Contents file on the ftp site to search for packages not on your system). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl

Re: a problem

1997-09-04 Thread Steffen Mueller
On Thu, Sep 04, 1997 at 02:32:27PM +, Martin Bees wrote: Hi Martin, > > I would be very grateful if anyone could help me with a > small problem concerning the boot disk of Debian/Linux > (+all other Linux versions). > Simply, version 2.0.29 boot disks crash on my Laptop > shortly after it p

can't locate module char-major-10

1997-09-04 Thread Aria Prima Novianto
Hi, Every time I connect using pppd, I got this message in my console after get connected: pppd[257]: remote IP address 128.10.16.110 modprobe: can't locate module char-major-10 I can't find char-major-10 module in my kernel source. Is it safe to put 'alias char-major-10 off' in /etc/conf.module

Re: can't locate module char-major-10

1997-09-04 Thread jdassen
On Sep 4, Aria Prima Novianto wrote > Every time I connect using pppd, I got this message in my console > after get connected: > > pppd[257]: remote IP address 128.10.16.110 > modprobe: can't locate module char-major-10 > > I can't find char-major-10 module in my kernel source. Is it safe to put