Re: Install CD rom drive

1998-02-05 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > My system is a Debian/Gnu Linux 1.3, Kernel 2.0.29. I can´t install the > CD-Rom drive. It is a Mitsumi Atapi IDE CD-Rom connected to the > Soundblaster 16 card (IRQ 11, address 0x1e8). I´ve used the CD-Rom > installation utility for Soundblaster Pro "sbpcd" with comman

Re: [Q] Multi-instalation procedure?

1998-02-05 Thread Carey Evans
Pedro Quaresma de Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I whant to install debian linux in six (6) PCs (all have the same > hardware). > > It is possible to copy an instalation? (This is just my opinion of the best way to do it.) If you get everything set up as you want on one PC and the hard d

Re: Install CD rom drive

1998-02-05 Thread James Dietrich
On Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 11:16:10PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > My system is a Debian/Gnu Linux 1.3, Kernel 2.0.29. I can´t install the > CD-Rom drive. It is a Mitsumi Atapi IDE CD-Rom connected to the > Soundblaster 16 card (IRQ 11, address 0x1e8). I´ve used the CD-Rom > installation

Re: Redirecting to a tcp port

1998-02-05 Thread sawitt
A TCP port is not a "port" in the sense that a serial device is a port. An application may access the transport layer (TCP & UDP) using the "sockets" API in which the TCP ports of the client and server machines are specified among other things. There is no way that I

Re: /dev/cua? and /dev/ttyS?

1998-02-05 Thread robert havoc pennington
On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, John Kloss wrote: > It is NOT obsolete. The only way that I can connect to my modem (which is > a pcmcia card) is through /dev/cua1. I tried many times to connect to my > ISP through /dev/ttyS1, 2, 3 (it should be 1 because that is what the com > port is) and nothing happened.

Re: wget and refused connections

1998-02-05 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> > If wget gets a refused connection, it seems to quit, even with the > > "-c" option. Does anyone know a way around this? > Please read the manual page: > >-t num --tries=num > Set number of retries to num. Specify 0 for infi­ > nite retrying. > I hop

Re: mac & linux

1998-02-05 Thread Eric Green
On Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 04:14:15PM -0500, Paul McDermott wrote: > hello eric and everyone else. I looked at the web-page but could not find > a way to make bootdisks and then use them. Any more help woud be greatly > appreciated. I subscribed to the 68k mailing list (that is debian's) but > have

Re: Two semi-simple questions...

1998-02-05 Thread Ian Keith Setford
> > Where is the setting which inhibits the addition of the equivalent of > 'uname -a' at the start of /etc/motd ?? I have found it before... now I > cant. Try /etc/issue.net and /etc/issue. -Ian _ .__.

Re: /dev/cua? and /dev/ttyS?

1998-02-05 Thread John Kloss
On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, robert havoc pennington wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, impale wrote: > > What is the difference between /dev/cua? and /dev/ttyS? ? > > > > See the PPP HOWTO for one explanation. Essentially cua? is obsolete, > ignore it and use ttyS?. > > Havoc Pennington > Okay, I'm p

Re: Hamm & LaTeX: regmar.sty?

1998-02-05 Thread Paul Huygen
Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to set my margins to >normal US default ones; I used to do this with regmar.sty in >previous/other versions of latex. How do I do this in tetex -- I can't >find "regmar.sty" anywhere ... Nearly everything for TeX can be found at the Comprehensive Te

Install CD rom drive

1998-02-05 Thread Emanuel . Finger
Hi, My system is a Debian/Gnu Linux 1.3, Kernel 2.0.29. I can´t install the CD-Rom drive. It is a Mitsumi Atapi IDE CD-Rom connected to the Soundblaster 16 card (IRQ 11, address 0x1e8). I´ve used the CD-Rom installation utility for Soundblaster Pro "sbpcd" with command line options sbpcd=0x1e8,11.

Two semi-simple questions...

1998-02-05 Thread Michael Beattie
Hi, Where is the setting which inhibits the addition of the equivalent of 'uname -a' at the start of /etc/motd ?? I have found it before... now I cant. Secondly, trying to start squake as a non-root user, Svgalib gives the error: Cannot get I/O Permissions. any ideas?? It only happens with squak

Re: perl5.004_04 && bo?

1998-02-05 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> Would perl 5.004_04 break debian 1.3.1? No. Works fine here (the version from bo-unstable). > Or should I upgrade to 'hamm'? > I've seen some comments about 'hamm', apparently stable now. Probably, it is true, but I failed to create proper environment for libc5 Motif development, failed to ins

Re: xterm: no available ptys

1998-02-05 Thread Carey Evans
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know if `gnuserv' was doing this, however... I exited Emacs-20.2 > and it asked whether to kill a running process (with it doesn't usually do > for gnuserv). I did. After that `rxvt' and `xterm' worked correctly! Emacs will use a pty to co

Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Re: Which Linux distribution???

1998-02-05 Thread James Gray
Hi! This is James from S.u.S.E.. Thanks to Tom Schaefer for the good rundown. [...] I have found a great use for every distribution I have encountered and > they're all good. ANY of the Linux distributions makes an excellent choice. > (see > http://www.linux.org check the distributions page) R

Re: fetchmail 4.3.6 vs. m$ exchange

1998-02-05 Thread Scott McDermott
On Tue, Feb 03, 1998 at 01:59:16PM -0600, D. W. Wieboldt wrote: > I am trying to run fetchmail in imap mode with a m$ exchange server. > > Does anybody know if this a bug, or am I doing something wrong, like > failing to bow toward Redmond? I'm not sure about your problem, but I can tell you tha

perl5.004_04 && bo?

1998-02-05 Thread Joergen Haegg
Would perl 5.004_04 break debian 1.3.1? Or should I upgrade to 'hamm'? I've seen some comments about 'hamm', apparently stable now. /Jörgen Hägg -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: /dev/cua? and /dev/ttyS?

1998-02-05 Thread robert havoc pennington
On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, impale wrote: > What is the difference between /dev/cua? and /dev/ttyS? ? > See the PPP HOWTO for one explanation. Essentially cua? is obsolete, ignore it and use ttyS?. Havoc Pennington -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PR

Re: mac & linux

1998-02-05 Thread Paul McDermott
hello eric and everyone else. I looked at the web-page but could not find a way to make bootdisks and then use them. Any more help woud be greatly appreciated. I subscribed to the 68k mailing list (that is debian's) but have not heard of anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Paul [EM

Monitor for proc usage for SMP systems

1998-02-05 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Anything out there that will breakdown %usage PER PROCESSOR (on Multi Proc systems). top, xmcpustate, ps all sort of assume single proc. Top will imply usage (cpu states: 95.3% user 302.4% system..) But I need to know how it's being broken down Any one got anything! Bruce Dobrin Mu

Re: Maildir support

1998-02-05 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > [ do some changes, for example, removing -lcrypt somewhere ] > > what kind of changes? why remove the -lcrypt? I'm using the lastest > debian/hamm, so I do have glibc. O

Re: bitchx and xterm

1998-02-05 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > > Is there a way to make bitchx (irc client) work "properly" under a > xterm? > > It sorta works, but the color and special chars mess some things... IIRC there is an xbitchx script in the latest bitchx package which starts xterm with a corre

Re: Maildir support

1998-02-05 Thread Paul Miller
On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Santiago Vila wrote: > -BEGIN PGP DECRYPTED MESSAGE- > On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > > > I got the copy from the unstable tree to compile, but the binary file is > > well over 2 megs... which is 4 times the size of the distributed copy! Do > > I need to dis

Re: /dev/cua? and /dev/ttyS?

1998-02-05 Thread Tim Sailer
impale wrote: > > What is the difference between /dev/cua? and /dev/ttyS? ? ttyS? is the correct device to use.. :) The cua device use has been depricated. All code should now use the ttyS? devices. If not, they are considered obsolete or broken. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMA

Re: Which Linux distribution???

1998-02-05 Thread Paul Miller
What package is the Millenium II support under? SVGA? Paul On 5 Feb 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: > > > Lal Dissanayake Jnr wrote: > > > > > > Also, which X windows server would go best with a Millenium 2 card? > > > > The last version of XFree86 supports the Millenium II card! > I

MANPATH etc

1998-02-05 Thread Dave Mallery
thanks much... the MANPATH problem is history. i wonder if you can use the FTP option of dselect to get the secure shell (and the other encryption materials) since it seems to be located in /debian-non-US rather than the usual /stable location. dave -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+

Re: mac & linux

1998-02-05 Thread Eric Green
> hello everyone, I have installed debian on 486, 586. was wondering if > you can install debian or any linux for that matter on a mac ii si? > Any help would be greatly appreciated. Linux does run on several models of m68k based Macs now, including the Mac IIsi. You'll need a math coprocesso

bitchx and xterm

1998-02-05 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Is there a way to make bitchx (irc client) work "properly" under a xterm? It sorta works, but the color and special chars mess some things... -- Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella Product Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.conexware.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIS

/dev/cua? and /dev/ttyS?

1998-02-05 Thread impale
What is the difference between /dev/cua? and /dev/ttyS? ? -- Regards, impale e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.dlc.fi/~back/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: books and debian distribs

1998-02-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, T-SNAKE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I want to buy another book to be sort of a guide, when I don't have time to >wait on a list answer or for good nighttime reading. ALL the book I saw, >though, all come with RH or Slackware distribs. Are these CDs usefull to a >debi

Re: Maildir support

1998-02-05 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > I got the copy from the unstable tree to compile, but the binary file is > well over 2 megs... which is 4 times the size of the distributed copy! Do > I need to disable debugging or change the optimization? If so, how?

Re: following hamm upgrade dselect can't find Packages file

1998-02-05 Thread David Stern
On Thu, 05 Feb 1998 14:18:18 EST, Scott Ellis wrote: > http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.5 Well, you helped me to figure it out. The problem was my preceeding forward slash before the directory name. It doesn't seem to matter if I use hamm or dists/unstable, just

Re: Maildir support

1998-02-05 Thread Paul Miller
I got the copy from the unstable tree to compile, but the binary file is well over 2 megs... which is 4 times the size of the distributed copy! Do I need to disable debugging or change the optimization? If so, how? Thanks Paul On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > -BEGIN PGP DE

Re: Gimp

1998-02-05 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Zach" == Zach Wilkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Zach> I installed The Gimp from the debian ftp site via dselect, Zach> and it installed properly.. no errors all was good.. but Zach> when I attempt to run the program I get the error cannot Zach> find libXpm.so.2 I have xpm i

Re: Redirecting to a tcp port

1998-02-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Yeah, install "netcat" and pipe to it. It's the perfect tool for this. Dale Smith wrote: > Hi All, > > This isn't really a Debian question, so please forgive me if I am offending > anyone. > > Is there a way to redirect standard out to a tcp port? Piping to telnet > doesn't > seem to work. Thi

Re: wget and refused connections

1998-02-05 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
"Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If wget gets a refused connection, it seems to quit, even with the > "-c" option. Does anyone know a way around this? Please read the manual page: -t num --tries=num Set number of retries to num. Specify 0 for infi­

books and debian distribs

1998-02-05 Thread T-SNAKE
Yup, I chose debian, but mainly because I got that distrib CD from boot magazine, which I think grabbed hold of tons of people. Anyway, I like it so far, though I don't have a lot or "other" linux experience. Anyway, my point... I want to buy another book to be sort of a guide, when I don't have t

Re: following hamm upgrade dselect can't find Packages file

1998-02-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
I don't know why that didn't work, but all is well if you use /dists/unstable instead of /hamm: Connecting to ftp.debian.org... Login as anonymous... Setting transfer mode to binary... Cd to /debian... Getting Packages file from dists/unstable/main/binary-i386... Getting Packages file from dists/

Re: Which Linux distribution???

1998-02-05 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
> Lal Dissanayake Jnr wrote: > > > > Also, which X windows server would go best with a Millenium 2 card? > The last version of XFree86 supports the Millenium II card! If you choose Debian you must install the libc6 system. I have this card with a Debian Box and they work nicely. See the foll

Redirecting to a tcp port

1998-02-05 Thread Dale Smith
Hi All, This isn't really a Debian question, so please forgive me if I am offending anyone. Is there a way to redirect standard out to a tcp port? Piping to telnet doesn't seem to work. This is probably a job for expect or something. Anyway, anyone have any ideas? Thanks! Dale -- Dale P.

Re: single user mode

1998-02-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If shadow passwords have been fouled up, the correct password may be none at >all. >> Would a better approach be to boot off the Rescue disk to run fsck?k > >If this doesn't work, I don't think you have a choice.

Re: following hamm upgrade dselect can't find Packages file

1998-02-05 Thread Scott Ellis
http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.5 On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, David Stern wrote: > Hi, > > I used the auto-upgrade script to upgrade to hamm, then used dselect | > ftp to upgrade a couple hundred packages in /hamm/hamm, then after I was > through I rebooted and life was

Re: even further off topic [was Re: Way off topic: humor

1998-02-05 Thread sawitt
CONGRATULATIONS !! My son, now 5, was 5 weeks early too, and in the first year he was a little sickly, but after that he just took off and is as healthy as a horse. __ Reply Separator

Re: Which Linux distribution???

1998-02-05 Thread sawitt
Debian Linux, of course, is the best distribution :). But I really do believe that or I wouldn't be using it. To determine whether your hardware is supported or not you should consult the HOWTOs. A HOWTO index is located at http://www.linux.org/help/howto.html.

Re: single user mode

1998-02-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Doug Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >During the boot process the system stops and queries the user for >a password. This happens when checking root (/dev/hda3 check forced... >and root is mounted read-only. >Aparently, the root file system has been corrupted as

Re: Which Linux distribution???

1998-02-05 Thread John Spence
On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 04:34:52AM +1100, Lal Dissanayake Jnr wrote: > Could you guys suggest which Linux distribution I should install on my > system. Ive been using UNIX with X11 for quite a while now, so Im looking > for the best, not something for newbies. If you aren't a newbie then you'd al

following hamm upgrade dselect can't find Packages file

1998-02-05 Thread David Stern
Hi, I used the auto-upgrade script to upgrade to hamm, then used dselect | ftp to upgrade a couple hundred packages in /hamm/hamm, then after I was through I rebooted and life was good. Good work, Debian Team. :-) Then I restarted dselect and decided to upgrade /hamm/non-free and /hamm/contrib, b

Hamm & LaTeX: regmar.sty?

1998-02-05 Thread Will Lowe
I'm using the tetex distribution in hamm. I need to set my margins to normal US default ones; I used to do this with regmar.sty in previous/other versions of latex. How do I do this in tetex -- I can't find "regmar.sty" anywhere ... Will

Re: Two Monitors

1998-02-05 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
(Sorry for the delayed reply; I haven't been reading the Debian lists for a while.) There's a package in hamm called x2x which will take two separate X displays (e.g. :0 and :1) and allow you to move the mouse and keyboard focus between the two. You can either have a button to click which warps t

Re: Matrox Mystique or Diamond 3d 3000?

1998-02-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
Maybe go with the Matrox (but I am ignorant if it is supported at all). The Millenium II works fine here. I am using the XSuse server for it available at http://www.suse.de. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

Re: single user mode

1998-02-05 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> During the boot process the system stops and queries the user for > a password. This happens when checking root (/dev/hda3 check forced... > and root is mounted read-only. > Aparently, the root file system has been corrupted as it contains an > unattached inode. My question: what is the passw

Re: mac & linux

1998-02-05 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> > hello everyone, I have installed debian on 486, 586. was wondering if > you can install debian or any linux for that matter on a mac ii si? > Any help would be greatly appreciated. Isn't the IIsi one of the ones with no coprocessor? I used macbsd (www.macbsd.com) on a IIci for a few mon

C++ Profiler

1998-02-05 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
Hi, is there such a thing in Debian (Linux awaiting packaging)? 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 "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mai

Re: Which Linux distribution???

1998-02-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Tim Sailer wrote: > Lal Dissanayake Jnr wrote: > > > Could you guys suggest which Linux distribution I should install on my > > system. Ive been using UNIX with X11 for quite a while now, so Im looking > > for the best, not something for newbies. > > Since you are asking on a Debian list, no on

RE: Matrox Mystique or Diamond 3d 3000?

1998-02-05 Thread Paul Rightley
I cannot startx X more than once (per reboot) with my Diamond 3D 3000 card. If I do, the machine locks up hard. Another person mentioned this same problem when I last commented upon it. I am running the latest hamm. Maybe go with the Matrox (but I am ignorant if it is supported at all). Paul O

Re: libc6 <-> libc5

1998-02-05 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Selim Issever wrote: > Dear all, > > I upgraded to libc6,.. but now I need to compile libc5 o-files and link > them together with other libc5 o-files,.. there is no possibility to > recompile the old o-files, as I dont have the sources,.. Look at altgcc and the various -altde

Re: Which Linux distribution???

1998-02-05 Thread Tim Sailer
Lal Dissanayake Jnr wrote: > > Hi all, > > Could you guys suggest which Linux distribution I should install on my > system. Ive been using UNIX with X11 for quite a while now, so Im looking > for the best, not something for newbies. Since you are asking on a Debian list, no one is going to point

Which Linux distribution???

1998-02-05 Thread Lal Dissanayake Jnr
Hi all, Could you guys suggest which Linux distribution I should install on my system. Ive been using UNIX with X11 for quite a while now, so Im looking for the best, not something for newbies. Also, which X windows server would go best with a Millenium 2 card? my system is as follows, Pentium 2

Re: help with SB AWE 64 !

1998-02-05 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Sorry for sending that to the list, message directly to Marcus bounced. - Forwarded message from Alex Yukhimets - >From alexy Thu Feb 5 12:31:37 1998 Subject: Re: help with SB AWE 64 ! In-Reply-To: From "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" at "Feb 5, 98 03:56:07 pm" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 5 Feb

Re: Lyx, StarOffice, & word [was Re: Win95 and Linux:

1998-02-05 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
>Type the LaTeX sequence in TeX mode (toggle the TeX button on the toolbar). >You can also select a sequence and click on TeX to put it into TeX mode. >TeX sequences show in red on the screen. oops, i should have mentioned this. You can insert *any* latex into lyx. I don't think that there are

Re: Lyx, StarOffice, & word [was Re: Win95 and Linux:

1998-02-05 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> It was with interest that I read Richard E. Hawkins Esq.'s comments about > Lynx and StarOffice. > I have tried Lyx a few times since I began using Linux about 2 years ago > and every time gave up on it because I could not find documentation gave > answers to a lot of questions on how to use it.

libc6 <-> libc5

1998-02-05 Thread Selim Issever
Dear all, I upgraded to libc6,.. but now I need to compile libc5 o-files and link them together with other libc5 o-files,.. there is no possibility to recompile the old o-files, as I dont have the sources,.. Anybody knows what to do now? ThanX in advance! Selim S E L I

Re: libc6 upgrade script?

1998-02-05 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, I sent a message to the testing list and to Craig noting that I had found two bugs that cause v0.17 of autoup to fail. I included diffs from v0.17 to my v0.18. As of yesterday, both Craig's ftp site and yours still had v0.17. If you wish, I can send these diffs to

Re: Changing HW clock to GMT?

1998-02-05 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Tim Thomson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > I want to set my hardware clock to GMT. I answered no in the question > when setting up my system, so my HW clock would be local time. I now want > to set it to GMT so I don't have to change it when daylight savings kicks > in. Look in /etc/init.d/b

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-02-05 Thread dpk
Have you read the install FAQ? ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/install.html Thanks, Dennis -- dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Network Administrator | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, David G. Deschenes wrote: >

Re: .forward and .procmailrc

1998-02-05 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Catalin Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- > 02/04/1998 22:36:19: [m0y0BYR-000I3ZC] Received FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > HO\ST:localhost PROTOCOL:smtp PROGRAM:sendmail ORIG-ID:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > SIZE:462 > 02/04/1

Re: Changing HW clock to GMT?

1998-02-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Thomson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, >I want to set my hardware clock to GMT. I answered no in the question >when setting up my system, so my HW clock would be local time. I now want >to set it to GMT so I don't have to change it when daylight savings kicks >i

single user mode

1998-02-05 Thread Doug Smith
During the boot process the system stops and queries the user for a password. This happens when checking root (/dev/hda3 check forced... and root is mounted read-only. Aparently, the root file system has been corrupted as it contains an unattached inode. My question: what is the password? It wo

Unidentified subject!

1998-02-05 Thread David G. Deschenes
I'm running a Hewlett Packard PC (166Mhz) looking for which set of directories to download. Could you help direct me to the correct section of your ftp site. thanks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTEC

sendmail HOWTO?

1998-02-05 Thread Charles Read
I cannot find a sendmail-HOWTO on the web? What's the next best resource for sendmail? Regards, Charles __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAI

Re: a MANPATH problem

1998-02-05 Thread Douglas Bates
Heikki Vatiainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have two possible solutions for the X problem. Lately I have been using > only the ssh version: ... > 2. Using ssh not su > === > % ssh -l root localhost > > # xterm & That latter version can be shortened to % ssh -f -l root loc

Re: Newbie question..

1998-02-05 Thread Adam Shand
> How do I cut or removed the lines of a file starting from the EOF (end > of the file) up to the 500th lines? If I am understanding you want to remove all lines after the 500th line? I would tend to use vi or pico and just highlight the unwanted text and delete it. > Will tr, cut or sed be use

http://www.de.debian.org/contact.html

1998-02-05 Thread Thomas Winterstetter
gentlemen, i am in desperate search of a QUALIFIED individual to build and configure a DEBIAN-based single work-station. i'm in frankfurt, germany and will be glad to offer good money for good assistance. pls. contact tom winterstetter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] thank you -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS M

Re: ImageMagick Guru

1998-02-05 Thread tko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > The problem is as follows: > the input file is a tiff image who has 1 bit/sample and after an=20 >mogrify -geometry x%=20 > i get an image with 8 bit/sample. > > I've search the man page without success. > Please Help. It's very critical. Tryman convert

Re: Sending email(smail)

1998-02-05 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Adam Heath wrote: > > On 5 Feb 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > > Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Sorry, but it doesn't. I use Pine, with the smtp host as localhost. Pine > > > comes back as saying it can't be delivered. I believe this is because > >

Re: help with SB AWE 64 !

1998-02-05 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > Hi. Hi! > I failed to configure my AWE64 sound card. Ok, lets have a look at the problems... > By following all the instructions in the min-HOWTO I come up with very > predictable result - system hangs solid on my attempt to insert sound > module.

Re: mac & linux

1998-02-05 Thread jdassen
On Wed, Feb 04, 1998 at 10:44:00AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Search on MkLinux to get current info on it, but I'm almost positive that > the only CPUs being supported are PowerPCs. Yes, but this applies to MkLinux only. Old macs are m68k-based, and there is a Debian port to m68k in progres

Re: xterm: no available ptys

1998-02-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> After 13 days of uptime, I can't open new `xterm's or `rxvt's (even > as root). > [...] > I have this from `ps aux' : > > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT ST START TIME COMMAND > rhogee 1500 0.0 0.5 812 320 p1 S Jan 30 0:00 /usr/local/bin/gnuserv I don't know if `gnuserv' was d

xterm: no available ptys

1998-02-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
My problem is back. I get this every few months. After 13 days of uptime, I can't open new `xterm's or `rxvt's (even as root): bash-2.01# xterm Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged xterm: no available ptys bash-2.01# rxvt rxvt: can't open pseudo-tty rxvt:

Re: mac & linux

1998-02-05 Thread sawitt
As far as I know, the only Mac processor being supported by MkLinux (the Mac Linux effort) is a PowerPC CPU. I had this running in the early beta distributions of MkLinux in the fall of '96 when I had a PowerPC at work. I had a Mac IIsi at home but MkLinux wasn't being

Re: libc6 upgrade script?

1998-02-05 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, dpk wrote: > I'm feeling kind of sassy today, and thought I might try upgrading to > hamm. I have seen a script posted that help do this. I still have it > somewhere, however I was wondering where I could find the most recent > version of this and instructions/tips for using

Failing to print using lpr and nprint

1998-02-05 Thread Kevin Scott
I'm trying to set up lpr to print to a remote netware printer. Following the instructions in /usr/doc/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO.gz I added the following entry to /etc/printcap: jeremy:\ :lp=/dev/null:sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/jeremy:\ :if=/var/spool/lpd/nprint-jeremy:\ :l

libc6 upgrade script?

1998-02-05 Thread dpk
I'm feeling kind of sassy today, and thought I might try upgrading to hamm. I have seen a script posted that help do this. I still have it somewhere, however I was wondering where I could find the most recent version of this and instructions/tips for using it? Dennis -- dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,

Gimp

1998-02-05 Thread Zach Wilkes
I installed The Gimp from the debian ftp site via dselect, and it installed properly.. no errors all was good.. but when I attempt to run the program I get the error cannot find libXpm.so.2 I have xpm installed but do not seem to have this file anywhere on my system.. where would I go about findin

Using Debian for a bastion host.

1998-02-05 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Hello, I am setting up a bastion host and packet filtering router and taking a crack at using Debian for this task. I figured the first job would be to pick the neccasary packages for such a system. I have appended my list of packages to the end of this message. _?_ means I don't know if I sho

struct utmp

1998-02-05 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
Hi, I'm programming under Linux 2.0 (debian 1.3.1) and when I get the utmp entry of the current session I get the utmp->ut_host correctly but I get "0" as utmp.ut_addr... doesn't mather where the conection comes from: the code looks like struct utmp *my_utmp; printf("\n%ld\n", my_utmp->ut_addr

Re: Sending email(smail) **FIXED**

1998-02-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Smail: 3.2.0.100-4 > > Pine: 3.96L-2 > > > > This is the error message I get: > > [Mail not sent. Sending error: 450 defer '<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>', sender] > > > > Let me state this again. Sending mail on the cmd line will queue mail for > > later delive

Re: .forward and .procmailrc

1998-02-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Catalin Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's me again. I looked what's in the logfile of smail in an attempt to > see what is wrong with my .forward and .procmailrc files. I cannot figure > out what to do next, but it seems to me that it is something wrong > _before_ procmail, so procmail do

Re: why is the digest list all chopped up

1998-02-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Henry Hollenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to subscribe to the Debian users list in diogest form > but it's coming to me all chopped up in a bunch of attachments. > > Can I get it as one long email like other "digests"... This format is called MIME (RFC 1341) digest format. Actu

[Q] Multi-instalation procedure?

1998-02-05 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi I have the following problem. I whant to install debian linux in six (6) PCs (all have the same hardware). It is possible to copy an instalation? Something like i) install Debian Linux in PC1 ii) coppy the instalation to PC2, ..., PC6 Thank you. -- At\'e breve ===

Re: modconf and whiptail

1998-02-05 Thread Richard Kilgore
On Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 11:21:25AM +0100, Frere Roy wrote: > I am trying to install modconf_0.2.15.deb but I get the message > "whiptail is not installed" > > I have, however, installed newt0.21_0.21-3.deb which has installed > whiptail. > > Have I missed something? > > Thanks, Roy There's a

Re: procmail and smail

1998-02-05 Thread Soenke Lange
Hallo Catalin Popescu > Does anybody have any idea what should I put in my .forward file to get > procmail working. I've already put > > "|IFS=' '&&p=/usr/bin/procmail&&test -f $p&&exec $p -Yf-||exit 75 > #YOUR_USERNAME" > > in .forward and took a procmailrc from the examples, but it does not w

Re: modconf and whiptail

1998-02-05 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Frere Roy wrote: > I am trying to install modconf_0.2.15.deb but I get the message > "whiptail is not installed" > > I have, however, installed newt0.21_0.21-3.deb which has installed > whiptail. > > Have I missed something? Yes, newt0.21_0.21-4.deb which no longer contai

Re: modconf and whiptail

1998-02-05 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 11:21:25AM +0100, Frere Roy wrote: > I am trying to install modconf_0.2.15.deb but I get the message "whiptail > is not installed" > > I have, however, installed newt0.21_0.21-3.deb which has installed > whiptail. With a newer newt release, whiptail is now in a package of

Re: xemacs20 wd buffer too small??

1998-02-05 Thread Sen Nagata
at some point around Mon, 02 Feb 1998 13:05:23 +0100 Jens Christian Lisner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mentioned: > I've upgraded XEmacs from 19 to 20. When I try to start it, it returns > > XEmacs: `getwd' failed: errno 0 > > The point is that it can only be started from root directory. I've read > in

Please

1998-02-05 Thread Fabio Daniel Guerra
No quiero recibir mas correos, por favor. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

modconf and whiptail

1998-02-05 Thread Frere Roy
I am trying to install modconf_0.2.15.deb but I get the message "whiptail is not installed" I have, however, installed newt0.21_0.21-3.deb which has installed whiptail. Have I missed something? Thanks, Roy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PR

Re: Lyx, StarOffice, & word [was Re: Win95 and Linux:

1998-02-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
Johann Spies wrote: >I have tried Lyx a few times since I began using Linux about 2 years ago >and every time gave up on it because I could not find documentation gave >answers to a lot of questions on how to use it. The documentation in later versions is a lot better, though still incomplet

Re: Problems with dual boot NT/linux

1998-02-05 Thread Abdelrazak YOUNES
Richard Kilgore wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 04, 1998 at 11:36:00AM -0500, Richardson,Anthony wrote: > > I suspect that the NT boot sector was somehow corrupted. This > > code reads the NT boot.ini file and allows you to dual boot > > between DOS/NT. You can restore the NT boot sector. You'll > >

Re: Sending email(smail)

1998-02-05 Thread Daniel Mashao
This is what I was told and it works fine. Subject: Re: Offline Email > Does anybody have an idea of how to best set-up an offline email system? Put 'queue_only' in your /etc/smail/config and put '/usr/bin/runq' in /etc/ppp/ip-up. Don't run a mailer daemon. -- Daniel J. Mashao

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