Re: slink: pppd & libcrack problem with last night's download?

1998-10-08 Thread john
Art Lemasters writes: > /usr/sbin/pppd: error in loading shared libraries libcrack.so.2 cannot > open shared object file: no such file or directory PAM is hosed. Downgrade ppp, if possible. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do

Simple Installation?

1998-10-08 Thread Adrian Gudas
I'm on a conservative disk space budget, and I want to know which packages I have to get to get the base XFree86 system running (after a floppy installation of Debian). Only the ones I have to get. I'll use the standard SVGA server. Adrian

Sound Card

1998-10-08 Thread Collin Rose
How do I configure my sound card in linux? io=220 i=5

RE: X Windows: Installation questions

1998-10-08 Thread Christian Lavoie
> > My relevant system specs are: > > > > Logitech FirstMouse 3buttons > > Logitech mice rule ;) There is something else? =) > > > S3 ViRGE 325 PCI video card > > Canopus Pure3D 3Dfx accelerator 3D card > > Azura JEN0B00 monitor > > > > Here are my questions: > > > > 1) Running xf86config, How ca

Re: IP Masq and debian

1998-10-08 Thread Dimitri P.
Hi there... I stumbled on the same problem and I am now running it with the scipt in /etc/rc.boot/ipmasq disabled, and a startup file similar to what you are using. It seems to be the simplest way to run IP masq. I ahaven't tried deciphering the script that uses /etc/ipmasq.conf to see what it d

Re: Do I have a win-sound card?

1998-10-08 Thread Jeff Noxon
Try using isapnptools to configure the sound chip. It's probably an ISA PnP device. Jeff

IP Masq and debian

1998-10-08 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Hi, How am I supposed to use the ipmasq package with ppp? Is it possible? I tried using 0.0.0.0 as the external ip address, but I received a few error messages when booting and I couldn't telnet to the machine anymore. I couldn't find any documentation in /usr/doc/ipmasq and the man pages just sai

Re: Debian blues

1998-10-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Leo Lincourt wrote: > Hi all, > > I just received the Debian CD's from Linux-Central, in addition to the > Linux-Central Archive Discs and must admit to being to confused by a few > things. Any help for a Linu newbie would be greatly appreciated. > > Issues: > 1) The installa

Do I have a win-sound card?

1998-10-08 Thread Paul Rightley
I just bought a new machine (at work) and it came with both video and sound on the motherboard. I tried (briefly) to get XFree to work with the on-board video controller, but to no avail (other than at standard VGA resolutions). I used instead the video card from my 'old' machine. I did not have

Debian blues

1998-10-08 Thread Leo Lincourt
Hi all, I just received the Debian CD's from Linux-Central, in addition to the Linux-Central Archive Discs and must admit to being to confused by a few things. Any help for a Linu newbie would be greatly appreciated. Issues: 1) The installation goes well, up to the point where dselect attempts to

slink: pppd & libcrack problem with last night's download?

1998-10-08 Thread Art Lemasters
Last night, I did an upgrade download. Today, the power went down while I was at work, so this box rebooted. I tried "sudo pon," and no dialin. The following message was displayed: /usr/sbin/pppd: error in loading shared libraries libcrack.so.2 cannot open shared object file: no suc

Re: DOCUMENTATION: Tutorial/FAQ for APT?

1998-10-08 Thread Jeremiah Cornelius
Thanks much. libc6 (glibc2) is no problem, but I shall have to check the c++ libs. These would be runtime and not dev? I'm sure I have these! Thanks, Jeremiah ---Ian Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jeremiah Cornelius wrote: > > I understand that an Apt command-line and gui client are ava

exmh : audio/basic for all kinds of files ?

1998-10-08 Thread shaul
Whenever I am trying to attach a file to a message using exmh, it says that its default type is audio/basic. When I used to do the same thing under bo, it used to show the correct type of the file. does anybody else exprienced it ? Is it a matter of some settings that has to be changed ? I tried

Re: Off Topic: Translating upcase filenames to lowercase filenames

1998-10-08 Thread Bill Wohler
Paulo, The following script works nicely to do many transformations on filenames. In your case, invoke as: rename 'tr/A-Z/a-z/' * #! /usr/bin/perl # # rename perlexpr [files] # # from "Programming Perl" by Larry Wall and Randall Schwartz, p309. # # Examples: # rename '\.bak$//' *.b

HELP!! problem installing Linux will not recognize scsi HD

1998-10-08 Thread David Sherow
I have a IBM PS/2 486dx with a 200 mg hd Debian will not recognize that the hd is there. Cfdisk gives me an error like this FATAL ERROR Can not open hard disk. With fdisk it says it can not access the hard disk but it knows that it is a scsi hard disk. This all happens at the third step: Partition

Re: Off Topic: Translating upcase filenames to lowercase filenames

1998-10-08 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "PO" == Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PO> I need to translate 800 filenames from upcase to lowercase. PO> I remember that I can do this with tr, but I don't know very well. This is a job for Superman. If he is not available, create the Bat-Symbol in the sky

diald

1998-10-08 Thread tko
How do I get diald to ignore a non-routable lan address like 192.168.x.x ? I had a situation were I was pinging the nodes in my 192.168.x.x lan and one machine was off-line. Diald started dialing when IMHO, it should have ignored the packet. So, I must have something not correctly configured. The m

Re: Greenbush?

1998-10-08 Thread Geoffrey L. Brimhall
I had the same problem - ordering from them was like ordering into an empty void... Try LSL - I've had pretty good luck with them, even though they sometimes are a little behind in updating the latest binaries and source on thier CDs (but unfortunately, I've not found anyone else to be much better

Re: ApplixWare

1998-10-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
On 8 Oct 1998, Ruud de Bruin wrote: > I have bought the latest version of ApplixWare and I would like to add > ApplixWare to WindowMaker so I can start it from there. > > I've created an entry in /etc/menu like: > > ?package(applix):needs="x11" section="Apps/Editors" icon="none" > title="APPLIX"

Greenbush wants happy customers

1998-10-08 Thread paulwade
Debian user community: If anyone is missing product or has any other problems with Greenbush Technologies Corporation, please email me immediately at [EMAIL PROTECTED] so we can resolve it. I will do everything I can to speedily resolve any customer dissatisfaction and all I ask is that you give

Re: dselect error

1998-10-08 Thread Jeff Katcher
Leon Breedt wrote: > > hi > > am getting weird error messages with dselect under hamm: > > --PASTE--- > > internal error - no filename at -e line 12, chunk 13. > > installation script returned error exit status 1. > Press RETURN to continue. > > --END PASTE-- > > erm, anyone know wot i'm do

Re: ApplixWare

1998-10-08 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 06:51:33PM +, Ruud de Bruin wrote: > I have bought the latest version of ApplixWare and I would like to add > ApplixWare to WindowMaker so I can start it from there. > > I've created an entry in /etc/menu like: > > ?package(applix):needs="x11" section="Apps/Editors" ic

Re: Off Topic: Translating upcase filenames to lowercase filenames

1998-10-08 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 03:49:00PM -0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi debian users, > I need to translate 800 filenames from upcase to lowercase. I remember > that I can do this with tr, but I don't know very well. > Any hints? > Have a nice day,

Re: Strange replies to postings to this list

1998-10-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Andy Spiegl wrote: > Hi Martin, s/Martin/Joey/ > > Thaks Ray. > Ray? Ray knows why. :-) > > Please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a forward including > > *all* header of such a mail so we can track it down. > Oh, okay, good to know. I suppose it's "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > not "listmastere", right

Re: xdm replacement?

1998-10-08 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 02:13:24PM -0400, joseph evan porter wrote: > > > Anyway, is there a replacement for xdm. I know about kdm but I want to > > > use windowmaker so I don't want to take up all the space with kdebase > > > and libs and support... > > > > > > Can I use kdm without all that or

Re: Strange replies to postings to this list

1998-10-08 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi Martin, > Thaks Ray. Ray? > Please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a forward including > *all* header of such a mail so we can track it down. Oh, okay, good to know. I suppose it's "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" not "listmastere", right? > The only stupid question is the unasked one. Thanks for the enco

backup programs

1998-10-08 Thread Max
I just set up my system to use Amanda only to discover that it cannot append to tapes, thus wasting a ton of space on every run (imagine putting a 90MB incremental backup on a tape that can store 24GB and then using a brand new tape the next night). Is there another package with a similar level of

Re: Off Topic: Translating upcase filenames to lowercase filenames

1998-10-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi debian users, > I need to translate 800 filenames from upcase to lowercase. I remember > that I can do this with tr, but I don't know very well. In tcsh: $ foreach F (*) foreach? mv $F `echo $F | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'` foreach? end In b

Re: ApplixWare

1998-10-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Ruud de Bruin wrote: > I have bought the latest version of ApplixWare and I would like to add > ApplixWare to WindowMaker so I can start it from there. > > I've created an entry in /etc/menu like: > > ?package(applix):needs="x11" section="Apps/Editors" icon="none" > title="APPLIX" command="..." >

Re: Strange replies to postings to this list

1998-10-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Andy Spiegl wrote: > Hi, > > everytime I send a mail to the list I get a mail back from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject: > SMTP import error #-5 finlandia!joey(tty6):~> telnet genesis.ispace.com smtp Trying 208.143.216.13... Connected to genesis.ispace.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220

Re: Strange replies to postings to this list

1998-10-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Thaks Ray. Andy Spiegl wrote: > Hi, > > everytime I send a mail to the list I get a mail back from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject: > SMTP import error #-5 Please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a forward including *all* header of such a mail so we can track it down. > Yesterday I even

Re: mc - tioctl - problem

1998-10-08 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Whenever I return from a subshell of 'mc' I get the following > error: > > TIOCLINUX (0/8/9) ioctl is gone - use /dev/vcs > > And then mc hangs. > I've the same problem, but only in single user mode. Then not only mc hangs, but the whole mach

ApplixWare

1998-10-08 Thread Ruud de Bruin
I have bought the latest version of ApplixWare and I would like to add ApplixWare to WindowMaker so I can start it from there. I've created an entry in /etc/menu like: ?package(applix):needs="x11" section="Apps/Editors" icon="none" title="APPLIX" command="..." However, after running update-menus

Off Topic: Translating upcase filenames to lowercase filenames

1998-10-08 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi debian users, I need to translate 800 filenames from upcase to lowercase. I remember that I can do this with tr, but I don't know very well. Any hints? Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique

Re: xdm replacement?

1998-10-08 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
joseph evan porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The easiest way to restart it from there is to (heavens, no!) reboot. I > don't keep my machine on all the time, so this is easiest for me. Others > might have a safer solution. > Try '/etc/init.d/wdm start' (if xdm is running, you should do '

Re: Gnus doesn't start

1998-10-08 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I did all of that, and now it says no more unread newsgroups, even though | if I then read trn there's quite a lot of unread news :(( This isn't the same as the previous email where you said it wouldn't connect. Have you subscribed to any groups within

Re: SupraMax 56i Voice PCI modem

1998-10-08 Thread joseph evan porter
Once again, I must be the bearer of bad tidings... The SupraMax PCI (and all of the Supra series PCI modems) will not work with Linux. Please search the mailing list archives for my more detailed explanations. Several people have had trouble with these modems (including myself). You'll either n

Re: xdm replacement?

1998-10-08 Thread joseph evan porter
> > Anyway, is there a replacement for xdm. I know about kdm but I want to > > use windowmaker so I don't want to take up all the space with kdebase > > and libs and support... > > > > Can I use kdm without all that or is there something else I can > > use instead of xdm? > > Perhaps you shou

Strange replies to postings to this list

1998-10-08 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi, everytime I send a mail to the list I get a mail back from [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject: SMTP import error #-5 Yesterday I even got a mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] notifying me that my fax hasn't been sent! I didn't even mention faxaway anywhere. What's going on here? When I post a

Re: [Debian] Installing debian on a Toshiba 490XCDT

1998-10-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Nico De Ranter wrote: : : Howdy, : : I'm trying to install Debian on a Toshiba 490XCDT. unfortunately : the machine keeps rebooting after "Linux..". I tried creating : a Tecra rescue disk (resc1440tecra.bin) but that doesn't help. : : Any other ideas? Hi, I

Re: Gnus doesn't start

1998-10-08 Thread M.C. Vernon
> "M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > What's the value of your NNTPSERVER environment variable? What about > | > the value of gnus-default-nntp-server in Emacs after you start gnus? > | > You can add the following to your ~/.gnus file: > | > | Hmm...NNTPSERVER isn't set :(. Where do I

Re: completely strange system time....

1998-10-08 Thread Rene Hojbjerg Larsen
Bruno Boettcher wrote: > i recently installed a debian system, and since then have a completely strange > system time: my clock reports: > 09:13:43 yoda:~$ date > Thu Oct 8 09:14:23 MST 1998 > and a correctly working host: > 16:17:21 erm6:~$ date > Thu Oct 8 16:17:29 CEST 1998 > > that's a bit

Re: xdm replacement?

1998-10-08 Thread Rene Hojbjerg Larsen
Person, Rod wrote: > Anyway, is there a replacement for xdm. I know about kdm but I want to > use windowmaker so I don't want to take up all the space with kdebase > and libs and support... > > Can I use kdm without all that or is there something else I can > use instead of xdm? Perhaps you

Re: Ne module forgot its parameters

1998-10-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- : : Hi again Matthew : : On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: : : > : > : > Hmmm...as a crude hack, I edited /etc/modules: : > : > ne io=0x300 : > : > Is this OK (it seems to have worked), o

mc - tioctl - problem

1998-10-08 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Whenever I return from a subshell of 'mc' I get the following error: TIOCLINUX (0/8/9) ioctl is gone - use /dev/vcs And then mc hangs. I'm using Debian 2.0 with the latests packages installed. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Salutacions, Pere __o

Re: Can't reach the list

1998-10-08 Thread Kent West
At 10:01 AM 10/8/1998 -0400, Brent McMillan wrote: >I have the exact thing happen, but I think my message gets through any >way. Ditto. > >On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Andy Spiegl wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> everytime I send a mail to the list I get a mail back from >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with the subject:

Re[2]: Safe rm available?

1998-10-08 Thread zuwi
According to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> I am using a program called safedelete that you alias to rm. >> It is not a Debian package but is found on Sunsite. It saves >> the files in a directory in your home directory for a >> configurable amount of days. It sounds good, but I don't think alias i

bash: fdesign: command not found

1998-10-08 Thread Jan Krupa
I have installed xforms (libforms0.88, the debian2.0 stable package) and I cannot find fdesign. When I type fdesign bash: fdesign: command not found fd (TAB) does not show fdesign. Is fdesign separate package ? I cannot find it in ftp site /debian/dists/stable/.. Thanks in advance for help

lynx postinst

1998-10-08 Thread CHUCK
I have just tried to install lynx 2.7.1-3. My system is 1.1 which I am trying to upgrade to 1.3 . The postinst fails because it needs awk and I don't have awk installed. Is there any workaround short of installing awk? Chuck Kaufman

X runlevel

1998-10-08 Thread ivan
Hi, folks I would like to know where I must define the runlevel to enter directly in X after boot. Thanks.

Re: can´t start Netscape

1998-10-08 Thread Ed Cogburn
Vasili Goutas Kernel Hacker wrote: > > I´m running debian Linux 2.0 and try to start Netscape, but I get the > message > ´can´t load library libXpm.so.4´. I have added the path to this lib in > the environment variable LIBRARY_PATH but its still the same. > I can´t find any readme or howtos w

Re: Gnus doesn't start

1998-10-08 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > What's the value of your NNTPSERVER environment variable? What about | > the value of gnus-default-nntp-server in Emacs after you start gnus? | > You can add the following to your ~/.gnus file: | | Hmm...NNTPSERVER isn't set :(. Where do I set it (I gu

Re: Fwd: [lug] recompiling kernel and not loosing sound support

1998-10-08 Thread Jeff Katcher
Try This edit the Makefile and uncomment the SMP lines make mrproper make menuconfig (select Sound Support with a 'Y') -Select the correct drivers -(If sound blaster set io, irq etc.) -in the 2.0.34 kernel there is a setting to "Use the old sound configuration script--U

Re: can´t start Netscape

1998-10-08 Thread chadi
please take note that netscape requires a lot of lib's , specially the ones from section /oldlibs/ ... go to the debian homepage > packages and try to see what those packages are ok ? ... and when u install netscape use the netscape???.deb installer, put the 9mb something netscape package in /tm

bootp or dhcp?

1998-10-08 Thread Vincent Murphy
I want to set up a lab of machines here at college. I would like these machines to not know their own IP address when they're booting, but have it assigned to them by another machine based on their ethernet addresses. bootp and dhcp are two systems I've heard of that apparently can be used for this

Re: Gnus doesn't start

1998-10-08 Thread M.C. Vernon
> What's the value of your NNTPSERVER environment variable? What about > the value of gnus-default-nntp-server in Emacs after you start gnus? > You can add the following to your ~/.gnus file: Hmm...NNTPSERVER isn't set :(. Where do I set it (I guess .bash_profile isn't much good, and won't help t

can´t start Netscape

1998-10-08 Thread Vasili Goutas Kernel Hacker
I´m running debian Linux 2.0 and try to start Netscape, but I get the message ´can´t load library libXpm.so.4´. I have added the path to this lib in the environment variable LIBRARY_PATH but its still the same. I can´t find any readme or howtos which describes what env. variab. Netscape needs

Printing with gimp 1.0.1

1998-10-08 Thread Rene Hojbjerg Larsen
I installed gimp 1.0.1 from slink and can't make it print directly to the printer (through lpr). In the "Print" dialog, I can only choose to print to a file--no printers are accessible. I suppose I need to tell gimp which printer(s) I have but I can't find anything in the docs. I have noticed, h

Re: network

1998-10-08 Thread Zheng Wang
Hi, David, Thanks for the advice. I am doing a fresh install. My CD is on the way to my place, so I only download the 1440resc.bin, 1440driv.bin and those base*.bins. When I was asked to configure the module, I could not find anything with NIC or "Vortex/Boomerang" among the choice list. I am usin

Re: vi problems?

1998-10-08 Thread Jim Crumley
> Person, Rod wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > I was attempting to install siag, and the installition call for me to do > > the following... > > > > vi mktop.dr > > > > now this is the second thing I tried to install that called for me to > > use vi and everytime I do it print the file t

Re: xdm replacement?

1998-10-08 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Person, Rod wrote: > Anyway, is there a replacement for xdm. I know about kdm but I want to > use windowmaker so I don't want to take up all the space with kdebase > and libs and support... Aside from kdm, I don't know of a real replacement

Re: xdm replacement?

1998-10-08 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > Excuse my ignorance, but isn't xdm that program you need during the > twenty seconds it takes to log in? What does kdm do that would make a > person so much happier during that event? > Well, kdm actually does o

[Debian] Installing debian on a Toshiba 490XCDT

1998-10-08 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I'm trying to install Debian on a Toshiba 490XCDT. unfortunately the machine keeps rebooting after "Linux..". I tried creating a Tecra rescue disk (resc1440tecra.bin) but that doesn't help. Any other ideas? Nico -- -- Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (PSDC-B/DNSE-B) Sint Stev

Re: X Installation

1998-10-08 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
DeJay wrote, > > Did you have a coprocessor, and did you have xfs running? > yes, I had a coprocessor. > I believe you are referring to 'xdm', not xfs. i had xdm running as > well. xfs (dos-based nfs client) was running on my 286, while pcnfsd > nfsd and mountd were running on my 386. Nope, I

Installing Debian 2.0 from hard disk (machine has no CD)

1998-10-08 Thread Moore, Paul
Hi, I'm having trouble getting Debian 2.0 to install from a hard disk partition (the PC in question doesn't have a CD drive :-() I downloaded all the stuff I needed (according to install.html) from ftp.debian.org, and put it on my HD (DOS drive D:, subdirectory \debian) Then I started the install

Re: X Windows: Installation questions

1998-10-08 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 09:47:35AM -0400, Christian Lavoie wrote: > I've just started initiating myself to Linux, and I have a few questions > installing the XWindows system. > > My relevant system specs are: > > Logitech FirstMouse 3buttons Logitech mice rule ;) > S3 ViRGE 325 PCI video card >

Re: Will pointing dselect to slink hose hamm system?

1998-10-08 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 18:01:16 -0500 Kent West writes: > > If I go into the Method option of dselect and change my ftp source > from stable to unstable, in order for me to download one package > (gnome), will dselect try to download everything that's got a newer > version to what I've got installed

Re: Is PPP needed for ISDN?

1998-10-08 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 13:44:45 +0200 Remo Badii writes: > > Dear Debs, > 1) is PPP support needed for ISDN (which uses, as the documentation says, >syncPPP instead)? At the moment, I have PPP as a module in the >kernel and I am about to try an ISDN connection. You don't need PPP for ISDN.

Re: beginner, system questions

1998-10-08 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 14:01:03 -0700 Aldinga Library writes: [...] > The system clock is about two hours incorrect. > Logged in as root, I have tried setting the system clock with the date > command but the system clock goes back to the old time when I reboot. > How do I set the system clock and

Re: Hp deskjet

1998-10-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Mans Joling wrote: > Dear Sir, > How do I install my HP Deskjet500 under linux > Kind Regards > Mans Joling > Install the magicfilter package, run magicfilterconfig (I think this runs automatically when you install the package) and select "dj500". I would suggest that you g

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-10-08 Thread Immanuel Yap
Wilson Tuma wrote: > > Hi > > Plase could you give the the files I have to download to be able to install > linux man pages so I can get help by typing say > > man rm > man cp Install the man-db package. Noel

completely strange system time....

1998-10-08 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i recently installed a debian system, and since then have a completely strange system time: my clock reports: 09:13:43 yoda:~$ date Thu Oct 8 09:14:23 MST 1998 and a correctly working host: 16:17:21 erm6:~$ date Thu Oct 8 16:17:29 CEST 1998 that's a bit strange how do i get it corre

Re: help getting started with postgreSQL

1998-10-08 Thread Immanuel Yap
Shaleh wrote: > > Hi, I just installed the postgreSQL packages. However I can not add users > because > > foo# createuser > Connection to database 'template1' failed. > FATAL 1: SetUserId: user "root" is not in "pg_shadow" > > createuser: database access failed. > foo# > > The docs are not he

Setup problem--can't load network card driver

1998-10-08 Thread Gardner, Jon L
I'm trying to load 2.0 via NFS, so I have to install and configure the network card driver etc., and I can get all the way down the install list; however, when I try to install the NIC driver into the kernel, I get an error message: (yadda yadda) init_module: Device or resource busy I've tried us

Re: Can't reach the list

1998-10-08 Thread Brent McMillan
I have the exact thing happen, but I think my message gets through any way. On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Andy Spiegl wrote: > Hi, > > everytime I send a mail to the list I get a mail back from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject: > SMTP import error #-5 > > Yesterday I even got a mail from > [EMA

Re: [Debian] Installing debian on a Toshiba 490XCDT

1998-10-08 Thread Remo Badii
Maybe you have himem.sys installed (and loadhigh) in DOS. If yes, disable them. Remo | Dr. Remo Badii | Paul Scherrer Institute | | Nonlinear Dynamics and | 5232 Villigen PSI | | Stochastic Processes Group | Switzer

Can't reach the list

1998-10-08 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi, everytime I send a mail to the list I get a mail back from [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject: SMTP import error #-5 Yesterday I even got a mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] notifying me that my fax hasn't been sent! I didn't even mention faxaway anywhere. What's going on? Really confused, A

Re: dhcpcd

1998-10-08 Thread WERNER Péter
Hi! > I've also had problems dealing with this package: > > dpkg: error processing dhcpcd (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > dhcpcd > > Anyone have any ideas? Try to run the post-installation script b

Re: X Installation

1998-10-08 Thread Bedrock LAN Administrator
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > De Jay wrote > > FYI, when I tried running Netscape on my 386 with 8M RAM (30M swap), > > it locked up my machine every time. you've been warned. > > Did you have a coprocessor, and did you have xfs running? yes, I had a coprocessor. I believ

X Windows: Installation questions

1998-10-08 Thread Christian Lavoie
I've just started initiating myself to Linux, and I have a few questions installing the XWindows system. My relevant system specs are: Logitech FirstMouse 3buttons S3 ViRGE 325 PCI video card Canopus Pure3D 3Dfx accelerator 3D card Azura JEN0B00 monitor Here are my questions: 1) Running xf86con

Re: SOLVED Re: who exorcised my talk daemon?

1998-10-08 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 02:04:20PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: > On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > When I try and ytalk someone on my machine, I get: > > > > # No talk daemon on pick.sel.cam.ac.uk # > > #No such file or di

[Debian] Installing debian on a Toshiba 490XCDT

1998-10-08 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I'm trying to install Debian on a Toshiba 490XCDT. unfortunately the machine keeps rebooting after "Linux..". I tried creating a Tecra rescue disk (resc1440tecra.bin) but that doesn't help. Any other ideas? Nico -- -- Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (PSDC-B/DNSE-B) Sint Stev

Re: Greenbush

1998-10-08 Thread Linh Dang
That was in April... And I'm still waiting for ...11 PAID editions of Debian :-(( --- Start of forwarded message --- message: inbox_19980501 8 date: Mon Apr 6 14:38:00 1998 to:Linh (L.) Dang :6X21 (BNR) from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

HELP!! binaries not executed (fwd)

1998-10-08 Thread G. Kapetanios
This email explains the problems I had with my deleted root partition George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.

Re: xdm replacement?

1998-10-08 Thread Andy Spiegl
According to Person, Rod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > As a newbie, I guess I have reached the level of comfort with Debian > that now I want better, fast etc... > > Anyway, is there a replacement for xdm. I know about kdm but I want to > use windowmaker so I don't want to take up all the space with kdeb

RS6000 MCA distribution

1998-10-08 Thread Anton J . Gamel
Hi! Has ANYONE got a faint IDEA where to get A IBM RS6000 Microchannel - RISC linux ?? It is mentioned in the introduction to MCA linux in www.linux.org - I didnt find more .. ;-( Thanks Anton -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ :Anton J. Ga

Re: xdm replacement?

1998-10-08 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 09:08:49AM -0400, Person, Rod wrote: > As a newbie, I guess I have reached the level of comfort with Debian > that now I want better, fast etc... > > Anyway, is there a replacement for xdm. I know about kdm but I want to > use windowmaker so I don't want to take up all the

Re: xdm replacement?

1998-10-08 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > As a newbie, I guess I have reached the level of comfort with Debian > that now I want better, fast etc... > > Anyway, is there a replacement for xdm. I know about kdm but I want to > use windowmaker so I don't want to take up all the space with kdebase > and libs and support... > > Ca

meskes@usa.net

1998-10-08 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I don't know how much you want to spend, so I can't give you an exact idea but... I was just doing some looking for my father who wanted to buy a new computer for about $1500. You can get more computer for less money in this ball park from the K6-2 processors. The K6-2-350 benchmarks about the s

DebianNet.pm

1998-10-08 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I upgrade some packages yesterday and found a problem with the above module. Some *.postint script tried to include it from /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.005 but it's installed at /usr/lib/perl5. This broke my upgrade and was solved only with a ln -s to the right location. Is th

Re: Timeserver?

1998-10-08 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Jens: Yes -- see xntp3 Peter -Original Message- From: Jens Lisner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian-User-List Date: Thursday, October 08, 1998 7:48 AM Subject: Timeserver? > >Hi all! > >My provider gave me a timeserver adress. What can I do with it under >Linux? > >Jens > > > >-- >

ATI Xpert98 x setup

1998-10-08 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, I'm trying to get this setup properly, with only limited success ATM. Here is the devices section: Section "Device" Identifier "Primary Card" VendorName "Unknown" BoardName "ATI Pro Turbo+PC2TV, 3D Rage II+DVD" VideoRam8192 Is this right for

Re: Ne module forgot its parameters

1998-10-08 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi again Matthew On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > Hmmm...as a crude hack, I edited /etc/modules: > > ne io=0x300 > > Is this OK (it seems to have worked), or have I planted a timebomb? This trick may work now, but as it is not documented in the

Re: beginner, system questions

1998-10-08 Thread Jim Foltz
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 04:36:11PM -0700, Aldinga Library wrote: > I have an NEC powermate 486 sx-25i , 4mb ram, 120mb hd and floppy drive > only. > I use the internet at the local public library. > I have done a bare minimum install of 8 floppies by internet ftp. > > What commands do you use to v

xdm replacement?

1998-10-08 Thread Person, Rod
As a newbie, I guess I have reached the level of comfort with Debian that now I want better, fast etc... Anyway, is there a replacement for xdm. I know about kdm but I want to use windowmaker so I don't want to take up all the space with kdebase and libs and support... Can I use kdm witho

SOLVED Re: who exorcised my talk daemon?

1998-10-08 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: > Dear all, > > When I try and ytalk someone on my machine, I get: > > # No talk daemon on pick.sel.cam.ac.uk # > #No such file or directory# > > Where do I get the talk daemon from? Hmm - talk an

who exorcised my talk daemon?

1998-10-08 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, When I try and ytalk someone on my machine, I get: # No talk daemon on pick.sel.cam.ac.uk # #No such file or directory# Where do I get the talk daemon from? a grep of contents-i386.gz doesn't seem to help either. Sorry,

Re: Timeserver?

1998-10-08 Thread Michael Below
Hi Jens, you could use the time server to set your PC clock. Look in the man pages for xntpd (I don't know how to do it...) Ciao Michael

Re: Ne module forgot its parameters

1998-10-08 Thread M.C. Vernon
Hmmm...as a crude hack, I edited /etc/modules: ne io=0x300 Is this OK (it seems to have worked), or have I planted a timebomb? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http:

Timeserver?

1998-10-08 Thread Jens Lisner
Hi all! My provider gave me a timeserver adress. What can I do with it under Linux? Jens

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