HP Pavilion 3100

1998-01-06 Thread Richard Sevenich
I have a friend with the subject machine and may try to install debian. However, there are two warning labels on the box: * intel inside * Designed for Microsoft Windows 95 and the second label has me concerned (e.g. software drivers unique to W95). Has anyone experience with this m

Unix qulifications...

1998-01-06 Thread Robert Moody
Hi there, This might be a little off topic but it is on the subject of Unix based system and I thought you helpfull Debian users might be able to help me. What I want to know is if there are any Unix based qulifications, similar to Novells CNA, CNE and Microsofts MCSE. If there are could someon

Re: Weird /tmp permission/ownership problem

1998-01-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 01:09:48PM +0100, Mario Fabiano wrote: > Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > realized that the permissions of /tmp were no longer: > drwxrwxrwt > > but: > drwxr-xr-x > > and Afterstep was no longer able to write into that directory. > I have no idea about who or what coul

Re: ppp and ip-up

1998-01-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 10:24:56AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I understand that $2 could include /dev/ as well,... > The tty-device is passed to ip-up exactly as received by pppd (this is a > bug, IMHO). Use basename to scrape off the '/dev/'. A simple fix. Thanks. > > Or is ip-up not r

Re: Lynx: proxy server

1998-01-06 Thread Martin Schulze
On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 07:59:49AM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > how do I set up Lynx to use my ISP's www proxy server? There's nothing > obvious in either the man page or the online help. On my machines lynx is a shell script that sources /etc/www.conf and executes lynx.bin afterwards. w

Suspending a laptop in debian

1998-01-06 Thread Asher Haig
I'm trying to set my laptop up (Dell Latitude 166M) so that I can use the standard suspend feature to put it into suspend mode. (Fn-suspend) I have already installed APMD. Anyone have any idea how to do this? TIA --Asher -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

Re: Smail Question.

1998-01-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin J Poorman) writes: > this? has anyone have any idea how to fix it? ... I saw a post earlier on > this list about a bug in Smail and inetd and they said to comment out the > smail line in inetd (I configured it to run from Inetd) and HUP it ... > How do you HUP it...(what i

Re: some problems

1998-01-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Volker Bauer) writes: > On my system I don't find the Hisax modul. So how can I select it? With > modconf there is no Hisax selection possible (no hisax.o under modules/ > or elsewhere). So I tried to built the "hisax.o" out of the "dummy.o" to > get Hisax available, but it does

Re: a count-down timer?

1998-01-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Fabio Olive Leite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ) on a specific day but I want to be able to say "five minutes from now" > ) without a lot of hassle. > > I recall a program named "leave" that does exactly that. What I do not > remember is wether there is a .deb pack for it. > There is. hi leav

Re: ppp and ip-up

1998-01-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 12:48:16PM -0500, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > Um, just how are you starting up ppp? If it's being done with a > script, you might try using the "ipparam" option for pppd to pass > another parameter to /etc/ip-up. You'd probably want to be very > careful security-wise if

Re: Something You Might Be Able to Use (possible flamebait)

1998-01-06 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
Before you go flaming [EMAIL PROTECTED], note a few things: 1. Spammers almost never really include a valid email address. All it does is draw flame mail, multi-megabyte mail bombs, etc, and spammers know it. 2. The email was not sent from "accessatlanta.com". It apparently originated from

Problems with X-Windows & Riva 128

1998-01-06 Thread Mischa Brose
Who knows how to get Debian and x-windows working with a Diamond Viper V330 or any other graphics-adapter with nVidia Riva 128 - Chip? I found a driver at S.u.s.e., but don´t know if it´s possible to use it. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: ppp and ip-up

1998-01-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > break my script; I haven't checked this out yet. Or is ip-up not run at all > for incoming connections? > Don't know. Why don't you check it out ? Put something like "touch /tmp/ip-up.on.incoming.has.been.executed" in ip-up and dial in. Ciao,

Re: Something You Might Be Able to Use

1998-01-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hello! Could you write down a nice flame mail for me? One that I can send along with a complaint about unsolicited commercial and *offtopic* mail on a mailing list? Thank you! Marcus On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 09:11:49PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Words Lines & Phrases > creative and ed

Re: "last","w","who" not working !

1998-01-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi ! > >Since updating to the hamm (libc6) version (and maybe also before) my >"last", "w" and "who" do not work !!! 1. You need to update ALL your packages to hamm 2. Reboot if you haven't done that already 3. You nee

diald problems

1998-01-06 Thread Steve Witt
I'm trying to get diald working and am having some problems. I have a working ppp connection using the pon, poff scripts. I installed diald and configured the /etd/diald/diald.options file and rebooted to test. It wouldn't dial my modem. Turned on the debug options in diald to try to get a hint

"last","w","who" not working !

1998-01-06 Thread Christian Hammers
Hi ! Since updating to the hamm (libc6) version (and maybe also before) my "last", "w" and "who" do not work !!! It seems that something happend to the utmp or wtmp file ? Or has it changed in the last kernel releases ? I'm using 2.0.32 and 2.1.75. Which packages must I update/install to get

Re: last

1998-01-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >is it possible to make command "last" to list the all commands as well >as their arugments? No, last only shows logins. What you want is "lastcomm", for that you need to install the acct package. Note that the logfile can become pretty b

Re: Debian, xfree86 and netscape...

1998-01-06 Thread smorrill
Doh!! Of course you're right...(that large whooshing sound you heard must have been my brain fart) Guess I'll keep thrashing at this one. I can get ppp going but can't seem to get netscape to connect. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated -- Steve Morrill Reply to <[EMAIL PRO

KDM laesst mich nicht rein

1998-01-06 Thread Karlheinz Nolte
Hi, ich habe die Debian-KDE Pakete (Beta2-1.1) von der CHIP-Extra-"Linux"-CD auf mein Debian 1.3.1 (bo) installiert . Zwar nicht mehr ganz aktuell, doch zum probieren wollte ich erstmal die fertigen Pakete nehmen. Es laeuft soweit ganz gut. Nur als ich den kdm mit kdmconfig aktivieren hatte, wurd

IP-Masq (was Re: ms exploer anyone?)

1998-01-06 Thread John Spence
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > My list of things to do is: > > 1. Get IP-Masqerading working properly > > what's your problem w/ ip-masq. My linux box works nice since (~Jan/97) > with 3 net cards: 1 for the optical fibre from my gateway; 2 for the > internal lan, each w

last

1998-01-06 Thread ychim
is it possible to make command "last" to list the all commands as well as their arugments? -- Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Lynx: proxy server

1998-01-06 Thread Fabio Olive Leite
Hi there, ) > how do I set up Lynx to use my ISP's www proxy server? There's nothing ) > obvious in either the man page or the online help. ) ) Open up /etc/lynx.cfg (the system-wide configuration file) and search ) for "proxy". I learned the hard way that you can also set the http_proxy enviro

Re: a count-down timer?

1998-01-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This may be a leading candidate in the "dumbest question ever asked on >debian-user" contest but does anyone know of a program in some package >that provides a count-down timer? "leave" does exactly what you want. (It's in

Re: a count-down timer?

1998-01-06 Thread Fabio Olive Leite
Hi there, ) bell or do something to alert me when the five minutes is up. There ) are many programs such as rclock that can alert me at a specific time ) on a specific day but I want to be able to say "five minutes from now" ) without a lot of hassle. I recall a program named "leave" that does e

Re: ms exploer anyone?

1998-01-06 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, John Spence wrote: > My list of things to do is: > 1. Get IP-Masqerading working properly what's your problem w/ ip-masq. My linux box works nice since (~Jan/97) with 3 net cards: 1 for the optical fibre from my gateway; 2 for the internal lan, each w/ 15+ PC (Win, Linux, DOS

Re: Lynx: proxy server

1998-01-06 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > how do I set up Lynx to use my ISP's www proxy server? There's nothing > obvious in either the man page or the online help. Open up /etc/lynx.cfg (the system-wide configuration file) and search for "proxy". -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "

Best way to save fvwm2 desktop

1998-01-06 Thread Michael Stutz
Is there a Debian-centric approach to dealing with the fvwm2 config files? What I want to do is save my desktop so that every time I start X again I can get the applications I want to load in exactly the same place; using the FvwmSave command I get the .fvwm2desk file, but that doesn't include pos

Re: a count-down timer?

1998-01-06 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Douglas Bates wrote: > Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 12:51:49 -0600 (CST) > From: Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org > Subject: a count-down timer? > Resent-Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 18:40:40 + > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org > Resent-cc:

Lynx: proxy server

1998-01-06 Thread AJT60
how do I set up Lynx to use my ISP's www proxy server? There's nothing obvious in either the man page or the online help. Andrew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

zmailer vs. qmail

1998-01-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
Anyone using Zmailer? Is it indeed "better" than qmail? Pros, cons, otherwise? I ask because I'd like to implement a mail hub, and I want it to be able to handle a good sized load. Not interested in Smail, and I'm told sendmail doesn't scale well. We currently use sendmail because we like the

Re: a count-down timer?

1998-01-06 Thread Tim Sailer
Douglas Bates wrote: > > This may be a leading candidate in the "dumbest question ever asked on > debian-user" contest but does anyone know of a program in some package > that provides a count-down timer? That is, I want to set a time of 5 > minutes and start the timer then have it pop up a windo

Re: ms exploer anyone?

1998-01-06 Thread John Spence
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Paul McDermott wrote: > hi everyone, happy belated holidays. Has anyone got the new micro$oft > internet explorer to work yet. Does anyone want to? I never knew such a beast existed. I'd give it a try as I'm only using Netscape because it works. I'm using 3.01 with bo and h

a count-down timer?

1998-01-06 Thread Douglas Bates
This may be a leading candidate in the "dumbest question ever asked on debian-user" contest but does anyone know of a program in some package that provides a count-down timer? That is, I want to set a time of 5 minutes and start the timer then have it pop up a window or ring the bell or do somethi

Re: some problems

1998-01-06 Thread Volker Bauer
Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > However I tried to built the telesmodul in the kernel but the system > > refuses to load it with irq 15, and I don't know how to change the > > irq.(command line doesn't worked either. Under Win95 the setting is > okay > > with irq 2.) I have downloaded the HiSax dok

Re: ms exploer anyone?

1998-01-06 Thread Tim Sailer
Paul McDermott wrote: > > hi everyone, happy belated holidays. Has anyone got the new micro$oft > internet explorer to work yet. Does anyone want to? I was just asking. > Please don't flame me. I hate micro$oft and especially that bill guy who > runs it about as much as the next debian user.

pcmcia 2.9.6: broken?

1998-01-06 Thread Fabio Olive Leite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi there, I use a Debian notebook, and recently upgraded from pcmcia-* 2.9.5 to 2.9.6, recompiled the modules and was very confused when I noticed the card manager would allocate _only_ already used IRQs... It was real funny: The pcmcia controller sits on IRQ 1

Re: todos

1998-01-06 Thread Fabio Olive Leite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi there, > In which debian package lurk the conversion utilities 'todos' and 'fromdos'. > Thanks, Richard which todos: /usr/bin/todos which fromdos: /usr/bin/fromdos dpkg -S /usr/bin/todos: sysutils dpkg -S /usr/bin/fromdos: sysutils Install the sysutils pac

Re: exmh questions

1998-01-06 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Bradshaw) writes: > Hi, > > I'm considering using exmh for my mail reader. I want to filter mail > into different folders and be able to see which folders have messages in > them. Suggestions of other mail readers with this feature would be > welcome. > > However I'm cur

todos

1998-01-06 Thread Richard Sevenich
In which debian package lurk the conversion utilities 'todos' and 'fromdos'. Thanks, Richard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ppp and ip-up

1998-01-06 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 09:03:39AM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > > > Does ppp run the ip-up and ip-down scripts for incoming connections > > > as well as outgoing? I added some commands to my ip-up on the server > > > to set up extra routes when I dial

Re: dselect thru SOCKS4 firewall

1998-01-06 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Stephen P. Serafin wrote: > > I have not found a way to use dselect through a socks 4.2beta server. > Can anyone help me get it working? > > I do have dftp_3.2-1 working through the firewall. If I cannot get > dselect to work directly is it possible to: > use dftp to get the new Packages files

Re: Smail config for a ppp box

1998-01-06 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Kenneth Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I also have problems understanding smail. My guess is that the debian > package dont contain all documentation. Or that documentation for what you need doesn't exist. > I have the almost the same problem as didier belot wrote about. > I cal

Re: IRQ and Sound

1998-01-06 Thread Raymond Rusk
>> Could some one tell me how to change the default irq settings for sound >> card. Default is 7, mine is 5. >> It is impossible to do it from make menuconfig... > >Use "make xconfig" or edit .config file directly. > >Alex Y. My guess is that the content of .config is alright but it is ignored. W

Re: IDE CD-ROM-Driver

1998-01-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Weinrich, 383, NL CE" wrote: >After booting from a: with the rescue disk, my CD-ROM device is not >detected. It's installed through the Adaptec (former FUTURE DOMAIN) >IDE-16002 - Card on the second controller. Is there any driver for this >card avaiable? And how could I install it when I'

Re: exmh questions

1998-01-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
Lee Bradshaw wrote: >I'm considering using exmh for my mail reader. I want to filter mail >into different folders and be able to see which folders have messages in >them. Suggestions of other mail readers with this feature would be >welcome. I use procmail to write -- Oliver Elphick

Re: ppp and ip-up

1998-01-06 Thread john
Hamish Moffatt writes: > Does ppp run the ip-up and ip-down scripts for incoming connections as > well as outgoing? I can't see how it can do otherwise. The last thing that ipcp_up() does after successfully configuring the interface is call ipcp_script(). It just passes pppd's arguments to /etc/p

ms exploer anyone?

1998-01-06 Thread Paul McDermott
hi everyone, happy belated holidays. Has anyone got the new micro$oft internet explorer to work yet. Does anyone want to? I was just asking. Please don't flame me. I hate micro$oft and especially that bill guy who runs it about as much as the next debian user. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THI

Re: IRC for Linux

1998-01-06 Thread Will Lowe
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Dana M. Epp wrote: > > Does somebody know some user friendly program to use IRC , like mIrc , for You might try zircon. Will -- | [EMAIL

Re: IRC for Linux

1998-01-06 Thread Dana M. Epp
Try Kirc. http://x.unicom.net/kirc Best MDI client I've seen out there for X. Still in development phase, but the developer is working hard on it. Bruno Simoes wrote: > > Hi all; > Does somebody know some user friendly program to use IRC , like mIrc , for > Linux? > Thank you > Bruno > > -

Re: exmh questions

1998-01-06 Thread Norris Preyer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Bradshaw) writes: > Hi, > > I'm considering using exmh for my mail reader. I want to filter mail > into different folders and be able to see which folders have messages in > them. Suggestions of other mail readers with this feature would be > welcome. > -- > Lee Bradshaw

Re: Yet Another libc5->libc6 question..

1998-01-06 Thread Wiria A Kusuma
go and get the latest 2.0.32-3 from dists/unstable/main/binary/devel and give you a nice install good luck kusuma Damir J. Naden wrote: > > Yes, I did exactly that: put both packages on the same dpkg --install > line (thanks to Scott Ellis for responding within an hour of my original > post). E

exmh questions

1998-01-06 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Hi, I'm considering using exmh for my mail reader. I want to filter mail into different folders and be able to see which folders have messages in them. Suggestions of other mail readers with this feature would be welcome. However I'm currently having some problems. exmh seems to deliver mail d

Permissions of VC-ttys

1998-01-06 Thread Tommi Kaariainen
What are the correct permissions and attributes for /dev/tty8, /dev/tty9, ... /dev/tty63 (the virtual console ttys) if the said tty has no getty and I intend to use them for additional X-sessions and for running other programs on them using the "open" program. Thanks in advance, Tommi -- TO

IDE CD-ROM-Driver

1998-01-06 Thread Weinrich, 383, NL CE
Hi! A first question about installing Debian-Linux on a former DOS/WINDOWS-PC: After booting from a: with the rescue disk, my CD-ROM device is not detected. It's installed through the Adaptec (former FUTURE DOMAIN) IDE-16002 - Card on the second controller. Is there any driver for this card avaiabl

IRC for Linux

1998-01-06 Thread Bruno Simoes
Hi all; Does somebody know some user friendly program to use IRC , like mIrc , for Linux? Thank you Bruno -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Weird /tmp permission/ownership problem

1998-01-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
Mario Fabiano wrote: >Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > >> I'm using relatively current hamm. >> All of a sudden my /tmp is owned by user 1000, group 1000 permission 755 >> That led to discovery of unfixed bug with dpkg & dpkg-dev (all their files >> are owned by user/group 1000/1000). >>

Re[2]: Quick Question

1998-01-06 Thread BRIAN SCHRAMM
OK Sten Anderson; Thanks for the idea, how would I copy the disks from the cd to the hard drive? Or can I tell LILO to boot the cd files? I am assuming that the cd has anything I would need to get this to work. Also, just for kicks, is there a way to just get the boot i

Re: ppp and ip-up

1998-01-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 09:03:39AM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > > Does ppp run the ip-up and ip-down scripts for incoming connections > > as well as outgoing? I added some commands to my ip-up on the server > > to set up extra routes when I dial in, but they don't seem > > to get run. > > They D

Re: ppp and ip-up

1998-01-06 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> Does ppp run the ip-up and ip-down scripts for incoming connections > as well as outgoing? I added some commands to my ip-up on the server > to set up extra routes when I dial in, but they don't seem > to get run. Hi. They DO run here. As for ttyS? or /dev/ttyS? you'd better find this out experi

Re: Smail config for a ppp box

1998-01-06 Thread Kenneth Johansson
> I also have problems understanding smail. My guess is that the debian package dont contain all documentation. I have the almost the same problem as didier belot wrote about. I call my home network localnet an my prvider is canit.se. I can send mail to everyone but them on canit.se.so it's a ver

Xwindow

1998-01-06 Thread David Bosque
Hello, I'm installing the Linux Debian GNU 1.3.1 system in my PC and my graphic card is the VGA MENTOR with one MB of memory. This is based on Tseng's ET4000. Also, I'm installing the Xwindow with xsever-svga and xserver-vga16 of the packeges in the CD, but I have an a fatal server error when I m

Smail Question.

1998-01-06 Thread Kevin J Poorman
Hi, I have the latest Smail packages installed from hamm and just recently runq has stoped working ... I have know Idea why... has anyone else seen this? has anyone have any idea how to fix it? ... I saw a post earlier on this list about a bug in Smail and inetd and they said to comment out the sm

Re: Weird /tmp permission/ownership problem

1998-01-06 Thread Mario Fabiano
Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > I'm using relatively current hamm. > All of a sudden my /tmp is owned by user 1000, group 1000 permission 755 > That led to discovery of unfixed bug with dpkg & dpkg-dev (all their files > are owned by user/group 1000/1000). > But that doesn't explain the mysterious ch

Re: Debian, xfree86 and netscape...

1998-01-06 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
smorrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry all, if this is too far off topic... > > I've got debian 1.3 up and running on my amd 586, can get thru to my isp > via minicom and on the 'net with lynx. I just got netscape ver 3.04 > installed, but I've missed something.. I startx, connect to my i

Re: was wondering if you could help us

1998-01-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 05:13:14AM -0500, Fuzzy wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > > > is there an installer .deb for the current version? > > > > There's netscape4_4.0-6.deb in hamm, the current unstable release. > > > > I think it should install properly on a 1.3.x system th

Re: none

1998-01-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
dave mallery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > could someone explain where i can find an explanation for the fields > in /etc/ppp.options_out? > Do a "man pppd" Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

searching

1998-01-06 Thread DJr68
loking for dads email adress. hes with worldnet.att -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

ppp and ip-up

1998-01-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Does ppp run the ip-up and ip-down scripts for incoming connections as well as outgoing? I added some commands to my ip-up on the server to set up extra routes when I dial in, but they don't seem to get run. #!/bin/sh # # $Id: ip-up,v 1.1 1996/01/31 21:25:59 alvar Exp $ # # This script is run by

Bad bad dselect

1998-01-06 Thread lucier
Howdy all..:-) Have tried unsuccessfully to obtain ncftp via ftp dselect at the main debian and some mirror sites. Here's a session log output: Connecting to ftp.debian.org Login as anonymous Setting transfer mode to binary Cd to /debian/non-free/binary Checking ncftp/binary-i386 Warning: C

Debian, xfree86 and netscape...

1998-01-06 Thread smorrill
Sorry all, if this is too far off topic... I've got debian 1.3 up and running on my amd 586, can get thru to my isp via minicom and on the 'net with lynx. I just got netscape ver 3.04 installed, but I've missed something.. I startx, connect to my isp using minicom, but can't get netscape to "con

Re: Help: System time lags CMOS time

1998-01-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 08:08:40PM -0800, Oz Dror wrote: > My system time lags after the CMOS time. They start as the same time, but then > through the day the system time lags. By 12 hours it is about one hour behind. > > This started since I have added a new SCSI-UW disk, I have transfered the >

Re: IRQ and Sound

1998-01-06 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> Could some one tell me how to change the default irq settings for sound > card. Default is 7, mine is 5. > It is impossible to do it from make menuconfig... Use "make xconfig" or edit .config file directly. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---

IRQ and Sound

1998-01-06 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Hello everybody, Could some one tell me how to change the default irq settings for sound card. Default is 7, mine is 5. It is impossible to do it from make menuconfig... Thank you ZORO -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-m

Help: System time lags CMOS time

1998-01-06 Thread Oz Dror
Hi, My system time lags after the CMOS time. They start as the same time, but then through the day the system time lags. By 12 hours it is about one hour behind. This started since I have added a new SCSI-UW disk, I have transfered the linux root to the new disk, the old EIDE is still the master b

Re: diskless workstation?

1998-01-06 Thread Bob Clark
Rob, I have a laptop with no hard drive that boots from the floppy and automatically nfs mounts its filesystems from a Sun Solaris machine using "yard". Yard is not yet a debian package but is available from the usual places. --Bob Rob wrote: > > I have a spare 486 that I would like to utilise

ftp_proxy.h

1998-01-06 Thread Paul Miller
What package/program contains ftp_proxy.h? I couldn't find it using dpkg -S ... kdebase won't compile w/o it. Thanks --- Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, finger for public PGP key 100 MB web space for $10/month, http://www.3dillusion.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the wo

Re: Yet Another libc5->libc6 question..

1998-01-06 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Damir J. Naden wrote: > Yes, I did exactly that: put both packages on the same dpkg --install > line (thanks to Scott Ellis for responding within an hour of my original > post). Everything installed cleanly and the system works as expected. > Next hurdle seems to be installing

Re: Epson Stylus 400

1998-01-06 Thread Mr. Whipple
"Dana M. Epp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone tell me if the Epson 400 Color Stylus can work under Linux. I'm using the Epson Stylus Color 400 with Red Hat 4.2 and Ghostscript 5.0. I had to recompile Ghostscript because the stcolor driver is not compiled in the default. I still haven't

Re: Yet Another libc5->libc6 question..

1998-01-06 Thread Damir J. Naden
Yes, I did exactly that: put both packages on the same dpkg --install line (thanks to Scott Ellis for responding within an hour of my original post). Everything installed cleanly and the system works as expected. Next hurdle seems to be installing of the libc6-dev to be able to compile my own kerne

Re: fetchmail fails with smtp error

1998-01-06 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
Thanks, Scott, it works as advertised now. I have now checked and find that it is Bug#16147. I would never have suspected smail of being the culprit. Bob On Mon, 5 Jan 1998 "Scott K. Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yep, the latest smail package messes up if you want it installed in

Something You Might Be Able to Use

1998-01-06 Thread jasperk
Words Lines & Phrases creative and editorial services Imagine this. You have a document. It might be an annual report, or your first novel, or even a series of article for a newspaper or magazine. But no matter what it is you need one good set of eyes to scrutinize those printed pages

Re: fetchmail fails with smtp error

1998-01-06 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert D. Hilliard) writes: > On my hamm system, fetchmail fails with the following message: > > bob:vc-2:bob>fetchmail > fetchmail: 29 messages at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > reading message 1 (4310 bytes) ..fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) > failed > fetchmail: SMTP transaction

Re: Smail config for a ppp box

1998-01-06 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Well, much as I prefer the smail configuration I have (on http://www.math.jhu.edu/~martind/mybox.html) on my machine, (although really your setup seems to be fine) here's how to do what you want: Put the following at the _end_ of your /etc/smail/directors file (it must be at the end; otherwise you

Re: none

1998-01-06 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
dave mallery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > could someone explain where i can find an explanation for the fields > in /etc/ppp.options_out? Look at what the command pon does: cush:~$ which pon /usr/bin/pon cush:~$ cat /usr/bin/pon #!/bin/sh if [ -r /etc/ppp.options_out -a -r /etc/ppp.chatscript ]

Re: diskless workstation?

1998-01-06 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Rob wrote: > I have a spare 486 that I would like to utilise in some form for debian. > Unfortunatly, it has no hard disc, although it does have a network card. > The rest of the network consists of an NT4 server, two W95 workstations, > and another debain (hamm) box, which cur

Re: Weird /tmp permission/ownership problem

1998-01-06 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Scott K. Ellis wrote: > On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > > You did "dpkg -x dpkg.deb /tmp" didn't you? That's what broke your /tmp I guess I did. Thank you for solving the mystery. > permissions, you need to make a subdirectory to extract into, the root of > th

Re: Weird /tmp permission/ownership problem

1998-01-06 Thread Bob Clark
Have you used tar to restore files lately? Don't forget to use the -p option or set your umask to zero when restoring from a tar archive. Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > > I'm using relatively current hamm. > All of a sudden my /tmp is owned by user 1000, group 1000 permission 755 > That led to di

Re: fetchmail fails with smtp error

1998-01-06 Thread Orn E. Hansen
> fetchmail: 29 messages at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > reading message 1 (4310 bytes) ..fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) > failed > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from > post.metrolink.net Upgrade the "netbase" and "netstd" packages. -

Re: Weird /tmp permission/ownership problem

1998-01-06 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > > I'm using relatively current hamm. > All of a sudden my /tmp is owned by user 1000, group 1000 permission 755 > That led to discovery of unfixed bug with dpkg & dpkg-dev (all their files > are owned by user/group 1000/1000). > But that doesn't ex

Weird /tmp permission/ownership problem

1998-01-06 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
I'm using relatively current hamm. All of a sudden my /tmp is owned by user 1000, group 1000 permission 755 That led to discovery of unfixed bug with dpkg & dpkg-dev (all their files are owned by user/group 1000/1000). But that doesn't explain the mysterious change of ownership/permission of /tmp.

Re: fetchmail fails with smtp error

1998-01-06 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > On my hamm system, fetchmail fails with the following message: > > bob:vc-2:bob>fetchmail > fetchmail: 29 messages at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > reading message 1 (4310 bytes) ..fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) > failed > fetchmail: SMTP transaction