dear master:
I'm very sorry to ask for
this.But can you help me to stop messages from sending to my mailbox? It's
filled with mails about "debian".
thanks!
Georg
Thanks, I am looking at the docs now. There are a lot! I have not yet
understood the smartuser so I think I will start by using the aliases (I
found out how to do them when looking at the docs for smartuser ;-).
Dave
Georg Bauer wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECT
I am using Debian 1.3.1 Linux, connected to the net via cable with an
ethernet card.
I just downloaded Communicator 4.06 and also 4.5, and am having the same
problems in both of them. They seem to work ok for a variable amount of
time (3 or 4 minutes), bringing up a few sites, bringing up Help
Con
For recompiling the kernel, you need to have the kernel package and kernel
source installed, I think -- you can do this with dselect.
Then, take a look at the FAQMatic on the Debian web site under Installation,
to see how to build a new kernel. The instructions there are clearer than
the others I
On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Matt Kopishke wrote:
: I have a question, not a problem. At the bottom of my message is my
: config file (/etc/mirror/mirror.default) for mirror. First off, I no it
: works, it d/l about 273 megs of packages, then died. I am trying to set
: up a unofficial debian mirror,
Thanks to Alan Su and Marcus Brinkman for correcting
me in regards to g++. I did not have it installed on this
system (only had gcc installed). What can I say, but that
I am a newbie. ;-)
g++ is downloading here now, and the status after
the download will be reported.
Art, who is in t
Oops! I need to reinstall g++. Evidently, I was
mistaken and did not install it to this slink system.
...terrible sorry for the distraction, and thank you
for the replies!
Art
On Sun, Sep 06, 1998 at 11:34:17PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 06, 1998 at 03:38:19PM -060
I was going to search for any mentions of the SIOCADDRT error when trying
to set up routing (I recall seeing something, but stupidly deleted it),
and for some reason www.debian.org now takes me to a French page...much as
I like French, and though I do know it reasonably well, I would REALLY
prefer
On Sun, Sep 06, 1998 at 03:38:19PM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 06, 1998 at 11:23:06PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 06, 1998 at 02:01:25PM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote:
> > > I am trying to run "make" in slink. It's using
> > > c++ instead of g++. I'm new to compi
On Sun, Sep 06, 1998 at 11:23:06PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 06, 1998 at 02:01:25PM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote:
> > I am trying to run "make" in slink. It's using
> > c++ instead of g++. I'm new to compiling on this
> > system. What am I doing wrong?
>
> Nothing. c++ is a
On Sun, Sep 06, 1998 at 02:01:25PM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote:
> I am trying to run "make" in slink. It's using
> c++ instead of g++. I'm new to compiling on this
> system. What am I doing wrong?
Nothing. c++ is a link to g++, they are the same. If you want to make g++
explicit, you have to
Hi,
I've been having some problems on my isdn connection. When i'm working
on net, sometimes
the connection just stop from send/receive packets and I need to hangup
and start again. :(
My syslog file:
Aug 10 23:23:48 cavern kernel: pcbit: invalid frame length -> TT=7364
Aug 10 23:23:48 cavern
> > Does anybody know what I should do to get my beloved backspace back again
> > (yes, I want backspace to delete the char left to the curser, as it does
> > in the VC's).
>
> Make sure the following is present in your /etc/X11/Xresources:
Thanks. But unfortunately, it _is_ already present!
> *
I have a question, not a problem. At the bottom of my message is my config
file (/etc/mirror/mirror.default) for mirror. First off, I no it works, it d/l
about 273 megs of packages, then died. I am trying to set up a unofficial
debian mirror, I pretty much I wasn¹t every i386 package (hamm, s
Rick Knebel wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> What is the difference between slink and unstable on the debian ftp site.
Currently, nothing; `slink' is the code name for the unstable
distribution, just as `hamm' is the code name for the stable
distribution. When slink becomes ready for beta testing, it will be
fwd,fyfun, from a leader of the Colorado Linux Users & Enthusiasts
forum...a little humor-rumor here.
Art
- Forwarded message from Lynn Danielson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -
Subject: Fwd: [humorix] Indian Legends Predicted Linux Revolution
>From: James Baughn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject:
I am trying to run "make" in slink. It's using
c++ instead of g++. I'm new to compiling on this
system. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks
Art
On: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 18:15:15 +0200 Pere Camps writes:
>
> Hi!
> Simple question:
>
> Does anybody know of a way of making winNT use the usernames and the
> passwords of a debian machine?
The only way I know would be running Samba as PDC. Go to the Samba
Homepage to read more about,
Hi,
What is the difference between slink and unstable on the debian ftp site.
Thanks Alot
Rick
--
Rick Knebel
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://rknebel.csrlink.net
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On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 05:17:04PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote:
> Does anyone know of any virtual poohsticks software, or is anyone
> working on some at the moment?
What is a virtual poohstick??
On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, DMDP wrote:
> I am reading this massive Walnut Creek Linux book backwards and forwards. I
> followed the ISP FAQ to the letter.
>
> I got to the point where I can now send e-mail. However, my address shows
> up as Super-User, rather than my actual address. If I was harassin
Hank Fay writes:
> This was the message I got when I had tried to put my local IP address in
> the LOCAL_IP in my ppp config file. When I fixed that by setting to
> 0.0.0.0 (it's dynamically assigned) all went well, to a point.
Why are you trying to set your local IP at all? Why not use noipdefa
I am reading this massive Walnut Creek Linux book backwards and forwards. I
followed the ISP FAQ to the letter.
I got to the point where I can now send e-mail. However, my address shows
up as Super-User, rather than my actual address. If I was harassing people,
this would be great.
The other p
> OK, looking at your /dev/sndstat again, I see that you didn't configure
> any audio devices.
Yes, I think this is the problem. But I have no idea what kind of audio
devices the on motherboard YAMAHA OPL 3-SAx chip belongs to. All the info
I have is that it's "audio device for YAMAHA OPL 3-SA
On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, spOOL wrote:
> I have mounted my dos partition in Debian and can see all of the files but
> can't use any of them.
>
> I should be able to use Wordview to view Word docsright. Someone said
> that I need to have fat/vfat compiled into the kernel.how do I do
> this??
I have mounted my dos partition in Debian and can see all of the files but
can't use any of them.
I should be able to use Wordview to view Word docsright. Someone said
that I need to have fat/vfat compiled into the kernel.how do I do
this??
Also, what would be the X equivilant of a wi
On Sun, 6 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Another idea, the simplest one I could think of: in your startx script, add
> the line ``cat ~root/.Xauthority >> ~/.Xauthority'' just after
> ``serverargs="$serverargs -auth $HOME/.Xauthority"''. First startx as root
> to
> create the ~root/.Xauth
Hi!
Is there a strategy for the above problem? Simply mounting the other
CD-ROM and just running apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't work,
although the update fetches the distribution lists (after changing
/etc/apt/sources.list to include contrib and non-free, of course).
I know that I a
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David
Warnock) wrote:
>this behaviour so that instead all messages that are not to a valid
>account get sent to a named account and do not get rejected.
You should look up the description of the smartuser director in the exim
documentation. That
The following message was sent to webmaster. Can someone help this
person. Maybe someone who lives near them can even give them a call.
Personally I find asking someone to send snail mail when getting free
support rather rude.
Please don't include me in any replies.
Jay Treacy
- Forwarded me
This was the message I got when I had tried to put my local IP address in
the LOCAL_IP in my ppp config file. When I fixed that by setting to 0.0.0.0
(it's dynamically assigned) all went well, to a point. I can now Ping, but
get nothing back.
The PPP.log shows
sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x16 magic=.
Here is some more info from syslog, it seems like everything is loaded fine,
and then one of these hits:
Sep 5 21:11:36 ankle kernel: 3c589_release(0x0027cce4)
But it loads back up immediately after it finishes unloading.
And still, the machine goes for long periods of successful network activ
On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Johann Spies wrote:
[ snip ]
: I have upgraded about two weeks ago and I lost a lot of time trying to
: figure out new configurations and recompiling older /usr/local programs -
: some of them unsuccesfully so far. My system does not seem to be as
: stable as it was under
On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Pere Camps wrote:
: Hi!
:
: I've just read some postings complaining that their systems crash too
: often with debian 2.0
:
: Is debian 2.0 stable or should I stick with 1.3? The machine serves
: e-mail and web services for about 300 people...
10+ systems he
On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Jim McCloskey wrote:
>
> Forgive me for reintroducing a topic which has probably been done to
> death on the list in recent months, but I had to unsubscribe for most
> of the summer-months and haven't seem recent postings.
>
> I'm currently running Debian 1.3. I have the 2.0
I have a Hamm box set up with a cable modem driver for the SB-1000
(courtesy of Franco Venture, [EMAIL PROTECTED]), and so far am connecting
to the ISP just fine. However, being networking challenged, I am getting
"Host name lookup failure" -- but of course it's a "user setup failure"
also.
I h
I usually try to start up xdm when booting, and with new X I started
having a problem - xdm will not let non-root users login if they have a
.xsession file in their directory. In .xsession-errors I get
"setegid(100): Operation not permitted" (and other connect to .0:0 errors)
xdm and X are not suid
I think I had this same problem and solved it after someone in IRC
(#debian) told me to disable XKEYBOARD extension (but I am not sure
this was the problem, though).
Try disabling XKEYBOARD in XF86Config...
peloy.-
Joost Witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, here I am agian.
>
> I upgraded
: I have just gotten the latest (I think) version of pine and seemed to
:have compiled it OK (with '000's of warning messages ... what did I do
:wrong).. The matter is: I was under the impression that it automatically
:highlighted html text within an email so one could follow the link .. I
:have
I am a first time installer of Debian Linux 2.0 with Win 98 on the
computer.
What to I enter when on the installation program so I can get Emacs, X
etc. when installing from
the Binary i386 CD I read:
Insert the CD Rom with the block device name:
I enter:
/dev/hda3, (have tried /dev/h
I do not recall who posted a problem with the mouse not working in X but
what fixed it for me is changing the options gpm runs as - it seems
instead of running 'gpm -t ps2' it now runs 'gpm -R -m ps2' (-R -m is
really an option for busmice and shouldn't be a default one anyway).
So just change the
On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Jim McCloskey wrote:
> I'm currently running Debian 1.3. I have the 2.0 binary CD and also
> the CD_autoup.sh script written by Craig Sanders. I'm hesitating about
> the upgrade though and I was wondering if someone could take the time
> to answer two questions:
>
> 1. What
> Does anybody know what I should do to get my beloved backspace back again
> (yes, I want backspace to delete the char left to the curser, as it does
> in the VC's).
Make sure the following is present in your /etc/X11/Xresources:
*Text.translations: #override ~Shift ~Meta Delete: delete-next-cha
>> Has anyone ever seen the Subject: line's message before?
>>
>> I just compiled 2.0.34 to get ip masqing going, and I appear in the process
>> thereof to have trashed something really basic. Ecch! I get this whether I
>> ping a local host, a remote host, or the machine itself.
>>
>> The system'
I have a problem with Exim that I am unable to solve.
My domain is foo.com and I want to send mail as [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I use the -f option to set the From: field. Everything seem ok but when I
receive the test mail the From: field is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have tried to change the qualify_domain a
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi!
>
> I've just read some postings complaining that their systems crash too
>often with debian 2.0
I think they have a library problem, or a ld.so problem. Don't know what
causes this though.
> Is debian 2.0 stab
Hi!
I've just read some postings complaining that their systems crash too
often with debian 2.0
Is debian 2.0 stable or should I stick with 1.3? The machine serves
e-mail and web services for about 300 people...
TIA!
Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Ra
I never had such a lot of segmentation faults before I have upgraded to
Debian 2.0. I even had te push the reset-button after pine made the
computer hang and there was no response to the keyboard or the mouse. The
past few weeks reminded me of the time I was using Windows 3.1 for a lot
of my work
Hi,
I've a Cyrix P166+ with 96 EDO Ram on an Asus motherboard
PI55T2P4C and a Matrox Millenium MGA video card. My system runs under
Debian Hamm.
I often use Xemacs and Gnus (original deb packages) under X11
(3.3.2.3-1) and Wmaker (0.19 from slink).
Too often, the system freeze when under X11 and
Hallo,
I have compiled and used twin successfully on my older system (Debian
1.3.1) by just following the instructions coming with twin-src.tar.gz.
Now I have upgraded my system and the compilation failed.
configure; make depends; make results in (the last part of the output):
Hi, here I am agian.
I upgraded my system yesterday (OK to slink, but it appears the same problem
is present in hamm), and now my bacspace generates an delete again.
(in an xterm that is. Emacs (X11) and VC are OK)
I already asked this question once, but I seem to have lost the responce
I got the
On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 11:41:04AM +0200, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
> The hardware isn't the problem. This is an area where ISDN is the
> same all over the world (correct me someone if I'm wrong here)
Unfortunately yes. The primary difference between ISDN in different countries
is if the telco prov
> BOB'S MAIL wrote:
>
> I am a first time installer of Debian Linux 2.0 with Win 98 on the
> computer.
>
> What to I enter when on the installation program so I can get Emacs, X
> etc. when installing from the Binary i386 CD I read:
>
> Insert the CD Rom with the block device name:
>
> I e
qOn Thu, Sep 03, 1998 at 10:22:59AM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
> -> Every time I use tkdesk as a user it says permission denied to write to
> -> /dev/audio. As root I hear the sounds fine.
> -> What permissions do I have to cahnge.
>
> hmmm if you log on console you should be added to grou
Hello,
I hve some trouble upgrading from 1.3.1 to 2.0. I used the autoup.sh
script from www.debian.org and downloaded the required files
from ftp.debian.org this weekend.
All went well until the new bash took it's turn:
(Reading database ... 27298 files and directories currently installed.)
Prep
On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 10:13:07PM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote:
>
> (I forwarded this mail from the Faq-O-Matic. Please obey the reply-to!
> Thanks Grimaldi)
>
> Petr.Herman writes in http://www.debian.org/cgi-bin/fom?file=170 :
>
> I have the PCI Planet ENW-8300 Combo ethernet card (plugged into t
Another idea, the simplest one I could think of: in your startx script, add
the line ``cat ~root/.Xauthority >> ~/.Xauthority'' just after
``serverargs="$serverargs -auth $HOME/.Xauthority"''. First startx as root to
create the ~root/.Xauthority file and chgrp it so that only users in a group
w
I started having the following problem a couple days ago on one of my
slink-based i386 boxes when I try to start X via 'startx':
XFree86 Version 3.3.2.3 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
Release Date: July 15 1998
If the server is older than 6-12 mont
I am trying to compile xemacs 20.4 withOUT gpm support because of the
CTRL-Z error in the console.
I got the three xemacs 20.4 files pertinant to building a debian
package. I did a "dpkg-source -x xemacs20*dsc" then edited the
debian/rules file to remove gpm support.
For the actual build, I typ
I am a first time installer of Debian
Linux 2.0 with Win 98 on the computer.
What to I enter when on the installation program so I can get Emacs, X etc.
when installing from the Binary i386 CD I read:
Insert the CD Rom with the block device name:I
enter: /dev/hda3, (have tried /dev
On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Lennox Reid wrote:
: I am a first time user of Linux, and decided it would be nice to use the
: OS to try to save my old 386/33 (to some extent). I downloaded the system
: from the web, made the installation floppies, and seemed to have gotten
: Linux installed okay. How
Hi
all,
I am currently wondering what the best distribution of linux
to get next would be, as i am a big fan of S.u.S.E. , RH and
Debian
I am
looking for most advanced, and biggest.
-
currebtly i am running SuSE 5.2, but thaught i'd give a different dist a try
next time.
PS I
anyon
I am a first time user of Linux, and decided it would be nice to use the
OS to try to save my old 386/33 (to some extent). I downloaded the system
from the web, made the installation floppies, and seemed to have gotten
Linux installed okay. However, when I tried to boot from the hard drive,
it c
On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, DMDP wrote:
> If there anyway to have a normal user access PON?
>
Yes, but its been long enough that I don't remember all the the changes
that I made. I do remember that I added the 'normal user' to the dip and
dialout groups. After makingthese changes, check the /var/log/pp
Thanks, I want to do this because one card is an ATM card which is
155mb/sec but is in pre alpha stages in linux. I want the other card to be
there as a backup in case the ATM fails. I guess with that setup I could
just set both to the same IP and leave the ethernet car unconfigured
unless the ATM
David,
Thanks for your answer.
I am very new to Linux and Unix. I have read a bit about the diferent
libraries and I have created a couple of symbolic links but I am not
clear about this part of your message.
> mkdir /usr/local/StarOffice
> mkdir /usr/local/StarOffice/lib
> ln -s libc.so.5 libXp
Running hamm with 2.0.34 kernel. The sound card is YAMAHA OPL 3-SAx
on motherboard. It's an integrated chip, so description under Win95
only shows "audio device for YAMAHA OPL 3-SAx ..., midi device for
YAMAHA OPL 3-SAx ...". I tried to config with "Generic OPL2/OPL3 FM
synthesizer support" (don'
My fileserver (running Hamm) has 2 printers attached. The printcap and
everything is setup so I can print. This machine also runs samba and
both printers are made available across the lan by samba.
When I use Windows NT on a client I can print to either printer attached
to the server via samba.
W
Robert Wilderspin writes:
> Cut and pasted directly from the Debian bug-tracking system, where
> this has been reported. Try both of these things, which might (or
> might not) work. I'm having the same problem myself, but haven't
> tried the second option yet.
>
>
> 1. As root, run ldco
Forgive me for reintroducing a topic which has probably been done to
death on the list in recent months, but I had to unsubscribe for most
of the summer-months and haven't seem recent postings.
I'm currently running Debian 1.3. I have the 2.0 binary CD and also
the CD_autoup.sh script written by
How do I configure elm to connect to my local provider?
I have been reading and re-reading the LINUX Walnut Creek book and getting
nowhere.
Thanks,
Denis
On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 06:15:15PM +0200, Pere Camps wrote:
> Simple question:
>
> Does anybody know of a way of making winNT use the usernames and the
> passwords of a debian machine?
>
> If so, please tell me!
I think you would need to set up your Debian machine with sa
On 6 Sep 98 00:15:15 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Damir J. Naden) wrote:
>I can run windowmaker 0.19.1-1 package on a 2.0 system without problems. Di
>you install debian packaged version? Did you get any errors during the
>installation phase? I know that libproplist needed to be upgraded to 0.8*
>packa
Jan,
when you reboot after doing the 5 disks, etc., you should be in dselect.
If not, type dselect. Then pick the method, which will be FTP, and just
pick all the defaults, unless you want to pick an mirror site closer to
where you are. Then pick your packages, and you're off and running
On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 01:56:57PM -0400, Igor Grobman wrote:
>
> I am the debian anti-spam person,
(much deleted)
Debian-user is amazingly spam free. I could tell that someone was
doing something, but I had no idea who or what. Thanks, Igor
Mike
At first glance both Slang and ncurses seems to me comparable:
They both intend to help the programmer accomodate the terminal.
1) Is it correct ?
2) can someone give a short comparison of these 2 libraries ?
Thank you.
>does anyone know how to set up the routes to have 2 network
>cards(differtent ip's) on the same network?
The configs would be the same, except your default route would have to be
one of the cards. Then, if the card fails, you'd delete the default route,
and add it to the second card.
Typically,
Hi Paulo José da Silva e Silva; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Today I have dowloaded and isntaled wmaker 0.19 from slik (unstable)
> using apt.
>
> The instalation was OK, but I can not start wmaker now. I get the
> following error message:
>
> $ wmaker
> /usr/X11R6/bin/Windo
does anyone know how to set up the routes to have 2 network
cards(differtent ip's) on the same network?
Thanks,
Tod Detre
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