getting started in Xwin (Help)

1997-12-26 Thread Rick
Hi I am a compleate newbie to this whole linux thang(but am making some progress - but not much), i have just recived the 'official' cd, and am wondering about how to get this xwin thing to work. i have read loads of docs (etc) but am having very little joy can somebody please help me get xwin run

Re: grep

1997-12-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 26 Dec 1997, George Bonser wrote: : : I don't know about your system but on mine they are all hard links. These : look like regular files in a listing as opposed to symbolic likns which : show as links in a long directory listing. I'll bet you're using bo ... and I'll bet the other syste

Re: grep

1997-12-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks for your answer (I have now 133 more free blocks) but on my system they were really taking space. I guess it should be report as a bug if it causes no problem now. /home/dodo# df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hda3 762938 6563

Re: How do I use the source package disributions?

1997-12-26 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Dec 25, 1997 at 08:30:05PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > > Sounds liek a stupid question I know. First the reason. I am trying to > > get amanda to work on my debian box. I am still on bo and there is no > > .deb binary, so I think simp

grep

1997-12-26 Thread desbiensd
I have grep version 2.1-3. In looking in the bin directory, I have found out: /home/dodo# ls -l /bin/*grep -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root67760 déc 16 11:21 /bin/egrep -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root67760 déc 16 11:21 /bin/fgrep -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root67760 déc 16 1

Re: Setting up a PPP Server

1997-12-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 26 Dec 1997, G. H. wrote: : I've been searching 2+ days in information on setting up Debian as a : Dial-In PPP Server and have found NOTHING! : : Sure there's plenty of info on hooking up Debian to an ISP. But I want : Debian to BE an ISP. : : All I need is support for 2 incoming lin

Setting up a PPP Server

1997-12-26 Thread G. H.
I've been searching 2+ days in information on setting up Debian as a Dial-In PPP Server and have found NOTHING! Sure there's plenty of info on hooking up Debian to an ISP. But I want Debian to BE an ISP. All I need is support for 2 incoming lines to connect us to our TCP/IP Network and Inter

video capture card

1997-12-26 Thread Dan Pomohaci
Can you recomand me a video capture card Linux compatible and applications (debianized) I could use for it. Thanks. Merry Christmas -- | Dan N. Pomohaci | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Lecturer - Biote

Re: Perl & dpkg

1997-12-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I am working on a pre-alpha software that uses CPAN.pm, downloads the sources, and creates a .deb package for the sources. It does require the user to input a control file that contains information about dependencies, a package description, section, priority (standard, optional, ex

Re: How do I use the source package disributions?

1997-12-26 Thread Martin Schulze
On Thu, Dec 25, 1997 at 08:30:05PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > Sounds liek a stupid question I know. First the reason. I am trying to > get amanda to work on my debian box. I am still on bo and there is no > .deb binary, so I think simple i'll just grab the hamm source stuff. > >

debian 1.3.1 apache

1997-12-26 Thread Berni Ernst
Hello, I have an debian box with version 1.3.1 where I want to run apache as a http server. Works! But I am unable to run any cgi scripts or SSI in my html documents. I commented out the described parts in srm.conf. What else can I do or where should I have a special look for ? thx berni ma

Re: a hypothetical, some questions and merry christmas...

1997-12-26 Thread hawk
> If I wanted to connect 2 debian machines together with ethernet cards ... > How would I set it up so that the 2 computers can share files and > printers... use NFS to export home directories and the like from one of the machines. Eithr use the print-server software (i forget the name), or pu

Re: upgrading to libc6 --> xlib6g

1997-12-26 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Tim Ferrell wrote: > I have begun upgrading my system to libc6 and am now wanting to upgrade > xlib6 to xlib6g. You have first to upgrade xlib6 to the latest version in hamm, then you should be able to install xlib6g and all the other packages that depend on it.

dselect CDROM directory (was Re: Unidentified subject!)

1997-12-26 Thread David S. Zelinsky
>> I have a little problem with the installation of Debian Linux. >> When I start dselect and go to the Access section, I can chose cdrom. My >> drive spinns up and the dialog beginns. But now I could not chose the right >> Directory. Evrytime I do so, dselect says Dir don´t exists. I have checked

Re: UPS

1997-12-26 Thread Michael Stutz
On Thu, 25 Dec 1997, David Stern wrote: > Is a UPS good protection or is it "fluff"? It's well worth it. My UPS has saved my system at least four times in the past year. > Are there any Linux UPS resources out there other than the HOWTO ? I'd > like to find out which models have "intelligent" U

Re: Dselect problem after upgrading....

1997-12-26 Thread jebstar
Thanks. Your advice was right on target. JEB > > I also get a strange message when I connect by either a remote telnet > > connection or a console. The message is: > > > > configuration error - unknown item 'ISSUE_FILE_ENAB' (notify > > administrator) > > The handling of /etc/issue was chang

PPP to CE machines

1997-12-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Anyone had any luck running PPP to a Windows CE machine? I set up mgetty and ppp on my desktop machine, and set up a dial-up connection on my HPC (because a direct serial connect is assumed to be to the H/PC explorer, argh), but I get LCP timeouts. Once I got as far as PAP authentication but it fai

Re: virtual hosts with Apache

1997-12-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 25 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: : I just setup Apache and I want to be able to have virtual hosts. My : host name is speedy and I want it to show up in netscape as : amwalker.speedy.net. How do I do this. I read the docs at the apache : site,but it did not work. Thanks for your help. :

Re[2]: Help Backpack CD-ROM

1997-12-26 Thread BRIAN SCHRAMM
Well, I am at work today and I do not see any mention of a backpack driver. Any Ideas? Brian __ Reply Separator _ Subject: Re: Help Backpack CD-ROM Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] at INTERNET Date:12/25/97 5:48 PM Adam

Re: a single command

1997-12-26 Thread Jeffrey Velez
Just use rm -R (directory name) Where directory name, put the name of the directory. --- Jeffrey Velez * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://jvelez2.med.miami.edu UM, MNS * 165 Dominion Garage * Miami, FL 33136 * 305/243-3664 On Wed, 24 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: > Is there a command to de

Re: How do I use the source package disributions?

1997-12-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Stan Brown" wrote: > Sounds liek a stupid question I know. First the reason. I am trying to > get amanda to work on my debian box. I am still on bo and there is no > .deb binary, so I think simple i'll just grab the hamm source stuff. > > I found the .orig file and a .dif

Re: Amanda for Debian?

1997-12-26 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can't seem to find a debian package for amanda (backup software from > University of MD), so I thought I would just build it. Unfortuntely it > core dumps during configure with the folowing error message: > > checking whether /s

Re: UPS

1997-12-26 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, > Thanks, I was unfamiliar with Exide/Deltec and LanSafe. I got a lot of > good hits with a search and I see they're rated very highly. We have a Deltec PowerRite 1500VA UPS here and it is a really nice product. I haven't try the LanSafe III Linux version but the NetWare version is very nic

Re: UPS

1997-12-26 Thread David Stern
On 26 Dec 1997 03:41:08 GMT, "Eloy A. Paris" wrote: > > Uhhmmm, the UPS-HOWTO is an excellent document, but if you want an > "out of the box" solution instead of a "do it yourself" one Exide > Electronics (same as Deltec Power) sells UPS's that come with LanSafe > III, a software that runs on NT,

Perl & dpkg

1997-12-26 Thread William R Ward
I'm really unhappy with the way Perl and dpkg interact. I would like to use CPAN.pm to maintain my Perl distribution, rather than using dselect/dpkg, but some of the Debian modules require the .deb files for Perl modules such as libnet or libwww-perl. Does anyone have a solution to this? I'd lik

mirror script

1997-12-26 Thread William R Ward
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I wrote a Perl script that sucks down a mirror of the latest copy of hamm. If you would like a copy, send me e-mail. It uses HTTP from www.cdrom.com since www.debian.org doesn't appear to offer the .deb files via HTTP. I use HTTP so that I can only download t

Re: Matrox Millenium II vs. #9 Revolution 3D

1997-12-26 Thread Lawrence
Alex Yukhimets wrote: > > Hi. > > I am about to get a new P II system and had to decide on many > alterantives available. My current concern is what video card > would suit me the best. I have no doubt that I would go with AGP one > (even not for the sake of performance, but to save PCI slot :) >

Setting up gs and magicfilter

1997-12-26 Thread Carl Fink
I'm trying to set up an NEC SuperScript 100 inkjet printer under Debian Linux. (Kernel 2.0.29, but mostly off the 1.3.1 CD-ROM.) I'm using magicfilter 1.2.10 and LPRng 3.2.1-1. Since I haven't found specific support for the NEC color printers, I'm using it in DeskJet 500 emulation mode. It work

Adaptec 2842

1997-12-26 Thread John Kuhn
I am trying to install the latest stable version of Debian on a machine with an Adaptec AHA-2842VL SCSI adapter. The system has a SCSI hard disk, CD-ROM and Exabyte tape drive. I have tried the rescue disks with the 2.0.29 and 2.0.30 versions of the kernel. The machine hangs while booting from t

Re: NFS

1997-12-26 Thread Tim Sailer
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 25, 1997 at 09:01:38AM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote: > > Comment the ALL:PARANOID line in /etc/hosts.deny and try it again > > You put me on the right track with that; once I added > portmap, rpc.nfsd and rpc.mountd to /etc/hosts.allow, it works. > > The manual p

Re: Dselect problem after upgrading....

1997-12-26 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Thu, 25 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I upgraded from the bo to the hamm versions. I've encountered two > problems that I don't know how to fix. > > One is that dselect via ftp stopped working. As explained in the > HOW-TO, I've installed the required dpkg upgrades in the order > l

Re: UPS

1997-12-26 Thread Eloy A. Paris
David Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Are there any Linux UPS resources out there other than the HOWTO ? I'd : like to find out which models have "intelligent" UPS features working : with Linux, and which models ship with prefabricated RS-232 cables for : Linux. Uhhmmm, the UPS-HOWTO is an

Re: new release of debian?

1997-12-26 Thread Eloy A. Paris
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : I think it was said that the new release will not be ready till sometime : in late January or possibly later. Since they are going to a new libc, all : packages have to be recompiled and some have a few bugs that have popped : up with the new libc. I thi

Re: Dselect problem after upgrading....

1997-12-26 Thread Eloy A. Paris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Can't locate loadable object for module IO in @INC (@INC contains: : /usr/lib/perl 5/i386-linux/5.004 /usr/lib/perl5 : /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local /lib/site_perl .) at : /usr/lib/perl5/IO/Handle.pm line 241 BEGIN failed--compilation aborted : at /usr/l

Re: Unidentified subject!

1997-12-26 Thread John Spence
"Jan Francsi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > I have a little problem with the installation of Debian Linux. > When I start dselect and go to the Access section, I can chose cdrom. My > drive spinns up and the dialog beginns. But now I could not chose the right > Directory. Evrytime I do s

Re: NFS

1997-12-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Dec 26, 1997 at 01:51:08AM +, Lindsay Allen wrote: > How about posting hosts.allow so that we can all learn from this? My > tcp/ip skills are still somewhat limited so I can not really work out what > you have done. Certainly. My hosts.allow now reads in.telnetd, in.rlogind, smbd, nm

Dselect problem after upgrading....

1997-12-26 Thread jebstar
I upgraded from the bo to the hamm versions. I've encountered two problems that I don't know how to fix. One is that dselect via ftp stopped working. As explained in the HOW-TO, I've installed the required dpkg upgrades in the order listed. And I then used the 'ftp' method to upgrade many of

new release of debian?

1997-12-26 Thread Sebastián Amigo
I've a simple question: When will we have a new official release of Debian? The 1.3.1 is a "little" old... Thanks.. -- Sebastián Amigo Bascuñan. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] website:http://purl.oclc.org/net/samigo Por favor incluye una copia de este mensaje en tu respuesta. Un pingüino "univers

How do I use the source package disributions?

1997-12-26 Thread Stan Brown
Sounds liek a stupid question I know. First the reason. I am trying to get amanda to work on my debian box. I am still on bo and there is no .deb binary, so I think simple i'll just grab the hamm source stuff. I found the .orig file and a .diff file. I thought I cou

UPS

1997-12-26 Thread David Stern
Merry Christmas, Recently I had a fairly serious and complex problem which I tracked down through a process of elimination. I narrowed it down to my window manager, and then on the suspicion that I may have had file corruption due to a number of power outages which occurred shortly before the

Re: NFS

1997-12-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Dec 25, 1997 at 09:01:38AM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote: > Comment the ALL:PARANOID line in /etc/hosts.deny and try it again You put me on the right track with that; once I added portmap, rpc.nfsd and rpc.mountd to /etc/hosts.allow, it works. The manual page for portmap does mention that it is

Re: NFS

1997-12-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Dec 25, 1997 at 09:53:58AM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > On Thu, 25 Dec 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 24, 1997 at 10:48:48AM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > > > 1) What is in your /etc/exports? > > > > # /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be > > ex

? MOXA 104+ fourport serial

1997-12-26 Thread rir
Has anyone got a MOXA C104+ 4 port card up with the serial driver. This is a AST Fourport clone. Moxa literature indicates that there are various types of this card. The one I have as 4 16c550's not an ASIC. The card cannot be set to the I/O addresses that are indicated by the driver. I don