Re: pop3 problem

1997-11-25 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Michael Roark wrote: > > I have a debian box that serves mail for a large group of people (off > site). I was using in.qpopper for the pop3 daemon until the trouble > started. Now, when they try to check mail they get the following error: > > Could not log in to the POP3 server. > The server resp

RE: upgrade debian1.2 to 1.3

1997-11-25 Thread Bill Leach
Hi Marc; You ldconfig warning message is probably NOT the reason why your upgrade is not succeeding. That is just a message from ldconfig saying that one of the library directories that it wants to process does not exist and as the warning indicates, it skips and goes on. Not successfully ins

Re: I need help with internic registration process!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1997-11-25 Thread Chad A. Owens
since I'm not an internic pro, all I can say is go to their web site and see if they can help you http://www.internic.net/ds/dspgwp.html --gimpel (i doubt you can register without a domain and an ip) On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: > I am building a webserver to use it for my com

pop3 problem

1997-11-25 Thread Michael Roark
Udate: on the pop3 problem - I got a log file going. It does check /var/spool/mail as it should, but reports 0k for the user when checking. If you go to the directory, there is a mail file for the user. Any Ideas? Michael -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe

RE: PPP Dialup

1997-11-25 Thread Ralph Winslow
I use an "at" modem command that makes the modem give audible dialing and negotiation. With very little practice I know when it's connected, busy, screwed up during handshake, etc. This works great for me, YMMV. On 25-Nov-97 Andrew Akins wrote: >I was wondering what people use for handling their

Re: mp3 debian/linux

1997-11-25 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Curtis" == Curtis Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Curtis> Is there a debian package for a mp3 ENcoder? Try the 'l3' package in non-free. Unfortunately, the package is currently useless, as the period for evaluating l3 has expired. So, unless you register it or obtain a code somehow

Re: cannot open /dev/cua2

1997-11-25 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Adalberto da Silva wrote: > I'm trying to set my modem under Linux. I've made a few tests as root > with minicom and it's working fine for AT commands and for dialing and > transferring files with zmodem protocol. > > But it reffuses to work with common users and gives me this

followed links in netscape?

1997-11-25 Thread Rick Hawkins
I finally have netscape 3.01 installed and working. But my links don't show as followd; there is no difference between used & new links. Expiration is set at 9 days. any ideas? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: Heck, Debian is POPULAR!

1997-11-25 Thread Sten Anderson
Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Polls are cool, but when you get 100 messages on debian-user between > midnight and 2 P.M. (California time) you have to figure that there's > somebody using the software. Just out of curiosity: How many subscribers are there to this list? - Sten Anders

Re: mp3 debian/linux

1997-11-25 Thread Curtis Brown
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Nov 25, 1997 at 03:27:21PM -0600, Timothy Phan wrote: > > Is there a mp3 player on Linux? > > mpg123 is available as a package, and was the best I could > find in source form too. > > Is there a debian package for a mp3 ENcoder? --Curt

pop3 problem

1997-11-25 Thread Michael Roark
I have a debian box that serves mail for a large group of people (off site). I was using in.qpopper for the pop3 daemon until the trouble started. Now, when they try to check mail they get the following error: Could not log in to the POP3 server. The server responded: maillock: '/var/spool/pop/

Re: ISDN PAP and Debian

1997-11-25 Thread Batista, M.
Iztok Umek wrote: > Hello! > > I have trouble with authentification it seems. > > Nov 19 21:29:30 stealth ipppd[589]: Local number: 0611421240, Remote > number: 1691140, Type: outgoing > Nov 19 21:29:30 stealth ipppd[589]: PHASE_WAIT -> PHASE_ESTABLISHED, > ifunit: 0, linkunit: 0, fd: 7 > Nov 19 2

Re: Crash! (help)

1997-11-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Udjat the BitMeister..." wrote: > >What is device 03:01 ( see the syslog below. I assume its the swap partition >) $ ls -l /dev | grep ' 3, *1 ' brw-rw 1 root disk 3, 1 Dec 9 1996 hda1 It's this one. >

Re: KDE team doesn't like Debian dist.?

1997-11-25 Thread Ted Harding
On 25-Nov-97 Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: >> Indeed. I never quite understood this strategy of putting things >> under /opt. Once I had problems on a SUN because the system >> couldn't handle the length of the PATH an MANPATH variables anymore: >> every package gets its ow

Re: REDHAT 4.1 && SONY CDU-33A

1997-11-25 Thread Kevin Traas
You're asking this on a *Debian* Linux mailing list? Sorry, buddy, but there aren't too many people here that are going to be able to help you out I've never used RedHat. You're going to want to check out http://www.redhat.com for RedHat support. They've got mailing lists too - and you'll be

RE: installation question

1997-11-25 Thread Bill Leach
Assuming that you have IDE or EIDE disks; The first physical drive (master) on you IDE or first EIDE controller is Linux device "/dev/hda"; The second drive (slave) is then "/dev/hdb". For EIDE the first drive on the secondary controller is "/dev/hdc" EVEN if only one drive is on the first con

RE: Communicator 4

1997-11-25 Thread Bill Leach
Hi Tony; In addition to the excellent reasons already given, by using the debian installer you also set yourself up for "painless" installation of packages that use, support or interact with netscape. best, -bill Tony wrote: I've installed communicator 4.03 successfully on my debian 1.3.1, 2.

RE: xterm

1997-11-25 Thread Bill Leach
Hi Zach; You have received a number of good answers to your question but I did not notice anyone telling you some of the really basic stuff (that I admit you might already know). Do a "ls -A" in your home directory (which you can get to from anywhere by doing a "cd" without any arguments) and

RE: mp3 debian/linux

1997-11-25 Thread Isaac Richards
You may want to check out http://www.icom.net/~smelecat/emp3 for a rather new X-based player... Isaac Richards On 25-Nov-97 Timothy Phan wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a mp3 player on Linux? > > > -- > Timothy C. Phan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > --

RE: Eth0

1997-11-25 Thread Bill Leach
Greg; first under Linux there will not be and should not be a device file in /dev for your ethernet card. From what you have NOT said, I would like to be sure that the module IS installed so do a cat /proc/modules and look for a "3c509" entry. Whether the kernel says that it has the module or

Re: mount /floppy

1997-11-25 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
Timothy Phan wrote: > > What do I suppose to put in the /etc/fstab so that any > user can mount the floppy disk with just 'mount /floppy' > and all user can access it. > I have in my /etc/fstab : /dev/fd0/amsdos user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0/fd ext2

Re: REDHAT 4.1 && SONY CDU-33A

1997-11-25 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Michael" == Michael S Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> Does anyone know the option that I need to supply to get Michael> the REDHAT modules to load? No, but we can help you with this nifty Linux distribution called 'Debian' :) -- Brought to you by the letters A and S a

Re: bash syntax

1997-11-25 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
"Eloy A. Paris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Witold Grabysz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > : the following phrase doesn't work in bash: > : ((ls);(ls)) > : Why? Is it not allowed by the shell syntax or there is a bug in it? > > Yup, you're right; it's probably a bug. This does work: > > ( (ls)

IBM 6091-23 Monitor

1997-11-25 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello all: Does anyone happen to know how to get an IBM 6091-32 fix freq monitor to work with Xfree. I've fiddled with XF86Config to no avail. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Peter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PPP Dialup

1997-11-25 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Daniel Martin wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: > > > You might want to look into DialD (Dial-on-Demand). This package > > automatically makes and breaks connections to the Internet as needed. You > > just start up NetScape, etc. and the modem dials... After an inactivity > >

Re: permissions and ownership

1997-11-25 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Martin Bialasinski wrote: > [ lengthy helpful information truncated ] > > PPS Where do people learn to "xauth +"? Would having a file that explains > what the Right Thing (tm) to do is be a good idea? Something that would get > installed with Debian's X11 packages, or something... Even better,

Re: ppp help

1997-11-25 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Your problem is that you're requiring-pap from the *peer*. In other words in your options file you need: #require-pap # allow only pap authetication instead of: require-pap # allow only pap authetication pppd will agree to do PAP with the other side automatically if your

Re: mount /floppy

1997-11-25 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Timothy Phan wrote: > > Hi, > > What do I suppose to put in the /etc/fstab so that any > user can mount the floppy disk with just 'mount /floppy' > and all user can access it. Put "user" in the options section. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: mp3 debian/linux

1997-11-25 Thread dpk
There are serveral... I use the mpg123 package because I'm not much into the hassle of click and poke. You can search for it at http://www.debian.org/packages.html. I'm sure you will find others there too. Thanks, Dennis -- dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Systems/Network | work: 353.4844 Divi

REDHAT 4.1 && SONY CDU-33A

1997-11-25 Thread Michael S. Howard
I just got another Puter, a 486 66MHz && 16MB RAM the works just fine with good old Slackware 3.0 (yes it's old). Anyway, I am trying to install REDHAT 4.1 and it cannot autoprobe the SONY CDU-33A 2x CDROM (it was found under Slackware 3.0) Does anyone know the option that I need to supply to get

Re: mp3 debian/linux

1997-11-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Nov 25, 1997 at 03:27:21PM -0600, Timothy Phan wrote: > Is there a mp3 player on Linux? mpg123 is available as a package, and was the best I could find in source form too. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science

Re: mp3 debian/linux

1997-11-25 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: : Is there a mp3 player on Linux? mpg123... bye, Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: KDE team doesn't like Debian dist.?

1997-11-25 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > Indeed. I never quite understood this strategy of putting things > under /opt. Once I had problems on a SUN because the system > couldn't handle the length of the PATH an MANPATH variables anymore: > every package gets its own bin, lib and man directory. We should

mp3 debian/linux

1997-11-25 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, Is there a mp3 player on Linux? -- Timothy C. Phan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) NEC America, Inc. ASL 1525 Walnut Hill Ln. Irving, TX 75038 tel: (214)-518-34

Heck, Debian is POPULAR!

1997-11-25 Thread Bruce Perens
Polls are cool, but when you get 100 messages on debian-user between midnight and 2 P.M. (California time) you have to figure that there's somebody using the software. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.d

Re: "infinite loop in interrupt"

1997-11-25 Thread Bruce Perens
I suspect an analog problem on your network - what is causing the constant interrupts is noise on the net. This wastes some CPU time. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Peren

Re: imake error

1997-11-25 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> hi, > > i try to compile afterstep 1.0 but when i did it, > imake returned an error: unable to find imake.tmpl... > > what's wrong?? > > and what should i do?? Install xlib6-dev package. Good luck. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +--

Why libc6?

1997-11-25 Thread Carl Fink
I'm certain this has been asked before, but since the search engine for the mailing list archive down, please excuse me. Why? Why have this enormously difficult and disruptive move from libc5 to libc6? I'm basically unable to install any new .deb packages until such time as Debian 2.0 is release

Re: imake error

1997-11-25 Thread dpk
Why are you trying to compile afterstep? There is already a Debian package for it... but maybe you need to do so for a specific reason. Just fyi. Thanks, Dennis -- dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Systems/Network | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875

Re: XISP package problem...

1997-11-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Andrew Akins wrote: > I install the xforms package, which xisp depends on. However, it > installs as xforms0, and so xisp isn't finding it (I'm getting a > dependency error). > This should not happen. This is what I have installed. As you can see xforms is not installed, but

Re: Icon Conversion

1997-11-25 Thread csmall
Paul Serice wrote: > What do you use to convert Win95 icons into XPM format? There is a great set of graphics converters in netpbm. bmptoppm (1netpbm) - convert a BMP file into a portable pixmap ppmtoxpm (1netpbm) - convert a portable pixmap into an X11 pixmap If it is not a bmp file, then th

ppp help

1997-11-25 Thread Iztok Umek
Hello! I am trying to dial in with my linux box to cisco with PAP. I get authorized etc... but my syslog says this: Nov 24 21:13:22 stealth kernel: ippp0: dialing 0 1691140... Nov 24 21:13:22 stealth kernel: isdn_net: ippp0 connected Nov 24 21:13:22 stealth kernel: isdn_net: chargetime of ipp

imake error

1997-11-25 Thread Benoit Joly
hi, i try to compile afterstep 1.0 but when i did it, imake returned an error: unable to find imake.tmpl... what's wrong?? and what should i do?? Benoit -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Icon Conversion

1997-11-25 Thread Paul Serice
What do you use to convert Win95 icons into XPM format? Paul Serice -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Annoying boot-up messages

1997-11-25 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: > >What I'm concerned about, of course, are the lines like this: > >modprobe: /proc/modules: No such file or directory > > > Try creating the file manually > > As root, just type "> /proc/modules ; chmod 444 /proc/modules" (without the > quotes, of co

mount /floppy

1997-11-25 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, What do I suppose to put in the /etc/fstab so that any user can mount the floppy disk with just 'mount /floppy' and all user can access it. Thanks! -- Timothy C. Phan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) NEC America, Inc.

Re: PPP Dialup

1997-11-25 Thread Kevin Traas
>> You might want to look into DialD (Dial-on-Demand). This package >> automatically makes and breaks connections to the Internet as needed. You >> just start up NetScape, etc. and the modem dials... After an inactivity >> timeout, DialD drops the link (to save you money... ...). It's really >>

Crash! (help)

1997-11-25 Thread Udjat the BitMeister...
What is device 03:01 ( see the syslog below. I assume its the swap partition) I did: swapoff /dev/hda2 mkswap -c /dev/hda2 swapon -a That should have reset a corrupt swap partition correct? here is the messages from the syslog: Nov 25 00:50:00 bitgate /USR/SBIN/CRON[247

zip boot disk?

1997-11-25 Thread Rick Hawkins
TO my happy surprise, this old fdomain 1610 scsi controller is happy as a peach at an 83mhz bus (it's an EISA card). And it happily talks with the scsi zip drive I bought for a mac last year.The floppy drive didn't seem to survive the transistion to the new board (they're old, wiht unabled

Re: Q: Web Based Admin

1997-11-25 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
"Dean C. Sullinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there currently any Web Based Admin for Debian Linux? I recently saw an announcement in c.o.l.a. Wait a moment (shorted announcement): Webmin is a web-based user interface that simplifies Unix system administration. All you need is Perl v

Re: problems with mouse and ghostview

1997-11-25 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
"Ronan LEBREF - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/RTO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > I installed ghostview from the debian package. > > My mouse doesn't seem to work very well with ghostview. I can zoom > but I can't reach "Menu File Page Magstep...". None of my 3 buttons > mouse has effects on

Re: MSDOS files...what to do...

1997-11-25 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Andrew Akins wrote: > > > I have copied some MSDOS text files (documents, java source files) to my > > Linux box. So, of course, they all have ^M at the end of each line. At > > our SCO box at work, we have a dos2unix command that would

Re: Rebuilding the kernel

1997-11-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Andrew Akins wrote: > Basically, I'm considering rebuilding the kernel to add in some things > I'm missing (sound) and removing some things that I don't need (SCSI > support, for one). > > I've read all the howtos and got all the files, so I'm pretty sure I > have a good idea

Re: PPP Dialup

1997-11-25 Thread Daniel Martin
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: > You might want to look into DialD (Dial-on-Demand). This package > automatically makes and breaks connections to the Internet as needed. You > just start up NetScape, etc. and the modem dials... After an inactivity > timeout, DialD drops the link (to sa

Re: MSDOS files...what to do...

1997-11-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Andrew Akins wrote: > I have copied some MSDOS text files (documents, java source files) to my > Linux box. So, of course, they all have ^M at the end of each line. At > our SCO box at work, we have a dos2unix command that would fix > these...does Linux have a similar tool, an

Re: PPP Dialup

1997-11-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Andrew Akins wrote: > I was wondering what people use for handling their PPP dialups. I've > been using simple pppd, which works well. But, it has no feedback - I > have to simply wait, and run ps to see if it makes the connection. What > tools or programs (if any) would provi

Re: permissions and ownership

1997-11-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
I dug up an old message which might be interesting as well. Ciao, Martin --- On Jun 21, Gernot Bauer wrote > > Hi, > > I recently upgraded my Xfree setup to 3.3 from unstable. But now I seem > > to have some problems.

Re: Annoying boot-up messages

1997-11-25 Thread Kevin Buhr
Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This started happening weeks ago when I upgraded from rex to bo. It seems > to have no real effect other than the annoying boot-up messages. [ . . . lots of "modprobe: /proc/modules: No such file or directory" problems . . . ] What's probably h

(Fwd) Re: parallel zip and scsi-kontroller conflict

1997-11-25 Thread Jay Barbee
> Joerg Plate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > a scsi-controller and a harddisk are recognized as "/dev/sda". > > If I try to use the zip-drive "insmod ppa" fails (maybe > > because it wants to be "/dev/sda", too). > > I had similar problems when having the zip driver as a module. After > compi

XISP package problem...

1997-11-25 Thread Andrew Akins
The xisp package (or perhaps the xforms0) has a problem... I install the xforms package, which xisp depends on. However, it installs as xforms0, and so xisp isn't finding it (I'm getting a dependency error). On a related note, when I installed xforms, I got the following when it was configuring:

Re: Rebuilding the kernel

1997-11-25 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: > Basically, you wanna run: > cd /usr/src/linux > make mrproper (the first time after you install a new kernel version) > make menuconfig OK up to this point -- but really, if you're running a Debian system it's stupid not to use the tools available (ie ke

Re: uninstall GMT

1997-11-25 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Marco Secli' CELINT wrote: > > 25/11/97 > > Hello, My name is Marco Secli' (CELINT S.R.L.) > I'm in trouble with GMT time and I'd like to remove it without repeating all > the installation of "DEBIAN linux". > > Waiting your kind answer. > Thank you Ok, here's the deal. Upon bootup, the system

Re: MSDOS files...what to do...

1997-11-25 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Andrew Akins wrote: > > I have copied some MSDOS text files (documents, java source files) to my > Linux box. So, of course, they all have ^M at the end of each line. At > our SCO box at work, we have a dos2unix command that would fix > these...does Linux have a similar tool, and what package is i

Re: Applying patches to linux 2.0.30

1997-11-25 Thread Daniel Martin
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, David Natkins wrote: > How do you apply patches to the kernel ? I tried it and got > rejections. I'm trying to bring my kernel up to 2.0.32. I have the > debian linux source for 2.0.30 installed (I believe it is level 9). > The problem that you're having is because the d

Re: "infinite loop in interrupt"

1997-11-25 Thread Kevin Buhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron Brick) writes: > > this may be more of a hardware question. i frequently see the error > message "eth0: Infinite loop in interrupt, status 2011." on my terminal; > however, the network connection is fine. what should i do to make whatever > is causing that error stop repor

Re: slashdot.org linux distribution poll - vote for debian

1997-11-25 Thread Wiria A Kusuma
great..., debian 328 compare to the nearest redhat 272 votes, good work debian, love you regards kusuma Joey Hess wrote: > > At http://www.slashdot.org/, there is a poll of favorite linux > distributions. I encourage you all to go vote for debian, which is currently > trailing redhat by about 50

Re: bash syntax

1997-11-25 Thread Stephen Zander
"Eloy A. Paris" wrote: > Witold Grabysz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > : the following phrase doesn't work in bash: > : ((ls);(ls)) > : Why? Is it not allowed by the shell syntax or there is a bug in it? > > Yup, you're right; it's probably a bug. This does work: > > ( (ls);(ls)) > > Try changi

Re: slashdot.org linux distribution poll - vote for debian

1997-11-25 Thread Kevin Traas
>> At http://www.slashdot.org/, there is a poll of favorite linux >> distributions. I encourage you all to go vote for debian, which >> is currently trailing redhat by about 50 votes. > >Has anyone advertized this on whatever Redhat (and the other >distributions) have as user lists? While it mig

Re: MSDOS files...what to do...

1997-11-25 Thread Toth Laszlo
Hi! It is one line tr -d "\015" < filename Corleone -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Found interesting diald info

1997-11-25 Thread Brian M. Rectanus
For those of you with dynamic ip's, problems with windows machines (random dialing) and other problems related to diald, check out this link: (english) http://personales.mundivia.es/personales/luca/diald-win-e.html (spanish) http://personales.mundivia.es/personales/luca/diald-win-s.html -Brian -

Re: MSDOS files...what to do...

1997-11-25 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> > I have copied some MSDOS text files (documents, java source files) to my > > Linux box. So, of course, they all have ^M at the end of each line. At > > our SCO box at work, we have a dos2unix command that would fix > > these...does Linux have a similar tool, and what package is it in? Hi. Deb

Re: slashdot.org linux distribution poll - vote for debian

1997-11-25 Thread richard
> At http://www.slashdot.org/, there is a poll of favorite linux > distributions. I encourage you all to go vote for debian, which > is currently trailing redhat by about 50 votes. Has anyone advertized this on whatever Redhat (and the other distributions) have as user lists? While it might be ni

Re: MSDOS files...what to do...

1997-11-25 Thread Brian K Servis
Andrew Akins writes: > >I have copied some MSDOS text files (documents, java source files) to my >Linux box. So, of course, they all have ^M at the end of each line. At >our SCO box at work, we have a dos2unix command that would fix >these...does Linux have a similar tool, and what package is it in

Re: Commands Manual

1997-11-25 Thread Bob Clark
Gertjan Klein wrote: > > Remco Blaakmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think his needs are far more basic than that. He seems to be wanting a > > list of utility-names, as most first-time Linux users (including me) want. > > There are not many things more frustrating than thinking "I know

Re: Rebuilding the kernel

1997-11-25 Thread Kevin Traas
>Basically, I'm considering rebuilding the kernel to add in some things >I'm missing (sound) and removing some things that I don't need (SCSI >support, for one). Good call ! >I've read all the howtos and got all the files, so I'm pretty sure I >have a good idea of how to do it (but I'm open to s

Re: X startup problems

1997-11-25 Thread Bob Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks for the help, guys. Seems I hosed the file I created with > xf86config during the installation. Re-ran that, added the line below, > and that fixed the problem. Now if I could find a replacement for that > ghastly login screen... You can design your own logi

RE: multiple X sessions

1997-11-25 Thread Ted Harding
On 25-Nov-97 E Papantoniou wrote: > Hi, > > when I am logged in as a user and I run X windows, I press Ctrl-Alt-F2 > and as expected a new terminal comes up. Then I log in as a different user > and I type startx. I get some errors: > > Fatal server error > Server is already active for display 0 >

Re: PPP Dialup

1997-11-25 Thread Kevin Traas
>I was wondering what people use for handling their PPP dialups. I've You might want to look into DialD (Dial-on-Demand). This package automatically makes and breaks connections to the Internet as needed. You just start up NetScape, etc. and the modem dials... After an inactivity timeout, Dial

RE: slashdot.org linux distribution poll - vote for debian

1997-11-25 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
Looks like a well-done site to me! I like the "torn-page" edges... Excerpt follows :-) Your Vote has Been Registered. Caldera 11 Debian 303 RedHat 259 Slackware 108 Othe

Re: How do people make backups on Linux?

1997-11-25 Thread Steve Kostecke
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Francesco Potorti`) writes: [snip] > I considered dump, but it does not compress, so I won't use it. I am [snip] If your backups are critical you might not want to compress them at all. Or, at least, be careful how the compression is perf

Re: PPP Dialup

1997-11-25 Thread dale . jones
I just gave up on trying to configure diald; thought it would make things easier but don't have enough time to mess with it. Started using pon and poff instead. To see when the connection has been established, use ifconfig. If you see a line starting with ppp0 (I'm guessing you are just usin

Re: MSDOS files...what to do...

1997-11-25 Thread Will Lowe
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Andrew Akins wrote: > I have copied some MSDOS text files (documents, java source files) to my > Linux box. So, of course, they all have ^M at the end of each line. At > our SCO box at work, we have a dos2unix command that would fix > these...does Linux have a similar tool, an

Re: multiple X sessions

1997-11-25 Thread Ettore Aldrovandi
E Papantoniou wrote: -> -> Hi, -> -> when I am logged in as a user and I run X windows, I press Ctrl-Alt-F2 -> and as expected a new terminal comes up. Then I log in as a different user -> and I type startx. I get some errors: -> Hi, you have to open another display. Try this: startx -- /usr/X

Re: pppd 2.3.1

1997-11-25 Thread john
Jon Lewis writes: > Does ppp 2.3.1 have documentation, or do you still have the read the > source to see what features are built in? The man page appears to be up to date. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-m

Re: PPP Dialup

1997-11-25 Thread Will Lowe
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Andrew Akins wrote: > I was wondering what people use for handling their PPP dialups. I've > been using simple pppd, which works well. But, it has no feedback - I > have to simply wait, and run ps to see if it makes the connection. What > tools or programs (if any) would provi

multiple X sessions (continued)

1997-11-25 Thread E Papantoniou
to add to my previous msg: when I try to get back to the first X session with Ctrl-Alt-F1 I get another error msg: AUDIT: X: client 11 rejected from local host Auth name MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: -1 any ideas what does this mean? thanks in advance Manos -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

multiple X sessions

1997-11-25 Thread E Papantoniou
Hi, when I am logged in as a user and I run X windows, I press Ctrl-Alt-F2 and as expected a new terminal comes up. Then I log in as a different user and I type startx. I get some errors: Fatal server error Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X

Re : I need help with my Gravis Ultrasound

1997-11-25 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
> Hi! > > I have trouble configuring the MPU-401 MIDI interface under Linux; > my sound card is a Gravis Ultrasound Extreme, which is just like GUS MAX, > mostly. I cannot also initialize it under Linux, so I have first to boot > with MS-D*S :-( and execute the init programs. > > Has

Rebuilding the kernel

1997-11-25 Thread Andrew Akins
Now that everything is working right, I was toying with the idea of screwing it all up :) Basically, I'm considering rebuilding the kernel to add in some things I'm missing (sound) and removing some things that I don't need (SCSI support, for one). I've read all the howtos and got all the files,

uninstall GMT

1997-11-25 Thread Marco Secli' CELINT
25/11/97 Hello, My name is Marco Secli' (CELINT S.R.L.) I'm in trouble with GMT time and I'd like to remove it without repeating all the installation of "DEBIAN linux". Waiting your kind answer. Thank you Marco Secli' (CELINT S.R.L.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: ATAPI NEC CDROM Changer

1997-11-25 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
Timothy Phan wrote: > I do not quite know how the ATAPI CDROM work. I've alread > gotten all the base install. Now, I need to do the dselect > and mount the cdrom. However, it seems that the CDROM is > not recognizable the the system. I did a manual mount: >$ mount -t iso966

PPP Dialup

1997-11-25 Thread Andrew Akins
I was wondering what people use for handling their PPP dialups. I've been using simple pppd, which works well. But, it has no feedback - I have to simply wait, and run ps to see if it makes the connection. What tools or programs (if any) would provide more information/feedback? I'm running X, so an

Thanks...

1997-11-25 Thread Andrew Akins
I would just like to offer thanks to everyone that has helped me over the last week in setting up my Linux box. I'm new to the Unix world, and so I had many questions that I'm sure were "simple" or "easy". On another mailing list, I might have gotten nasty emails about "RTFM" or "read the [EMAIL PR

MSDOS files...what to do...

1997-11-25 Thread Andrew Akins
I have copied some MSDOS text files (documents, java source files) to my Linux box. So, of course, they all have ^M at the end of each line. At our SCO box at work, we have a dos2unix command that would fix these...does Linux have a similar tool, and what package is it in? -- +---

Re: tar, cpio, or cp?

1997-11-25 Thread Frere Roy
>tar cf /path | ( cd other/path ; tar xvf -) >cp -a /path /other/path > Are there real differences between the three? What about symlinks, > hard links, empty dirs, devices? I know, I could read the manuals, Your question prompted me to think about the way I make backups of my Debian s

Re: How do people make backups on Linux?

1997-11-25 Thread Francesco Potorti`
> people on this list do their backups. I am switching from an AT&T > environment where I used bru, and am very satisfied with it. I know > it is available for Linux, too, but I was wondering if you can suggest > free alternatives. dump & restore I considered dump, but it does

Re: Default Screen Blanking

1997-11-25 Thread Udjat the BitMeister...
setterm -blank 0 On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Keith Holler wrote: > Does anyone know how to disable that annoying screen blanking? > > Keith -- When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried. ,, / ( "> ___ _(-}) B I T B U

Re: Commands Manual

1997-11-25 Thread Lorens Kockum
On Tue, Nov 25, 1997 at 09:40:30AM +0100, Gertjan Klein wrote: > > I made a file (by hand!) with one-line descriptions for each program I > found that way. Imagine how I felt when I heard about apropos! Tss ... apropos is actually just the -k option to the man(1) command, so by looking at the m

Re: Quitting pppd

1997-11-25 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
/usr/bin/poff Bob On Mon, 24 Nov 1997 14:16:46 -0900 me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After starting/quitting minicom, and then finishing internet connection, > what is the best way to kill pppd without doing a 'kill ' (or the pid > of pppd? I haven't found that answer anywhere, and I hav

Re: Applying patches to linux 2.0.30

1997-11-25 Thread David Natkins
How do you apply patches to the kernel ? I tried it and got rejections. I'm trying to bring my kernel up to 2.0.32. I have the debian linux source for 2.0.30 installed (I believe it is level 9). David Natkins Computer Group of Princeton Telephone: (609) 896-2239 Fax : (609) 896-2239 email

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