Re: Help. How do I reconfigure my the network?

1999-02-24 Thread Jens K. Olsen
William Schwartz wrote: > You are correct. If you IP Address is within the local network, but your > default router is incorrect, your machine will not know how to get off the > local network. Any time you move a machine in an IP network, you really need > to change the IP address / subnet-mask an

help with remote modem

1999-02-24 Thread Obi
Hi all, a friend of mine has a machine with both an ethernet and a modem and he'd like to use it to dial in from home. I tried to help him out but I got problem with the modem and the machine is about 1000 miles away ... I used minicom to talk to the modem. The modem is there but it's weird: it g

Re: Help. How do I reconfigure my the network?

1999-02-24 Thread Jens K. Olsen
Mitch Blevins wrote: > Look in /etc/init.d/network This is what my /etc/init.d/network looks like. Please advise what I need to change. #! /bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 > Also, check your mailer. It seems to be sending html. Sorry. That's because I use Netscape.

Re: AHA-2940 SCSI won't boot

1999-02-24 Thread Kent West
At 09:38 PM 2/23/1999 -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: >On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Kent West wrote: > > : I asked this a week or two ago, but am still having trouble. > : > : As a recap, I have a Gateway2000 P5-200 with an Adaptec AHA-2940 > : Ultra/Ultraw SCSI host adapter with four 2GB Seagate ST32155W d

I have PINE .debs...

1999-02-24 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I have pine .debs if anyone wants them, let me know. I post them to my web site or email them to you, however you like. I was running mutt. But I have a soft spot for pine. It was the first email app I ever learned back in 92 when I started college. I realize that it is not GPL. But if you wa

Re: fetchmail doesn't put email...

1999-02-24 Thread Matt Folwell
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 11:25:14PM +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 21:35:45 +, Matt Folwell wrote: > > [...] > >> That leads to the question: Is the fetchmail package broken in that it > >> (erroneously) doesn't depend on an MTA? I would verify this myself if I > >> wasn

lpr and text formatting

1999-02-24 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I want to know what lpr options can be used to format ascii text docs. Specifically, I want to have my docs print with normal 1 inch margins. I'm running lprng, magicfilter, and gs-aladdin. Thanks NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] htt

Boot errors

1999-02-24 Thread Chris Boersma
I'm installing debian-potato, and i'm incountering some errors.  I have a AIC7890 scsi card taht is built on to my asus m/b, and for some reason i get scsi errors when booting of the boot disk.  I installed the base2_1.tgz from a dos partition and when it used the kernel image then it had n

Re: /home/ftp directory question

1999-02-24 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Wed Feb 24, 1999, Pollywog wrote: > > On 24-Feb-99 Jesse Jacobsen wrote: > > I missed the first part of this thread, but was wondering... do you have > > separate /home/ftp/bin and /home/ftp/lib/ and /home/ftp/etc directories? > > You need those under /home/ftp/ because the ftpd automatically c

Re: fetchmail doesn't put email...

1999-02-24 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I think I fixed my problem. Fetchmail is behaving itself now. NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 21:35:45 +, Matt Folwell wrote: > > [...] > >

Re: fetchmail doesn't put email...

1999-02-24 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
Hey thanks for the info in this. I seem to have solved my dilemma. PEACE. NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com

Re: Any good & free SSL enabled WWW browser for debian?

1999-02-24 Thread Sergey Imennov
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Re: /home/ftp directory question

1999-02-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote: : : On 24-Feb-99 Jesse Jacobsen wrote: : > I missed the first part of this thread, but was wondering... do you have : > separate /home/ftp/bin and /home/ftp/lib/ and /home/ftp/etc directories? : > You need those under /home/ftp/ because the ftpd automatic

Re: fetchmail doesn't put email...

1999-02-24 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 21:35:45 +, Matt Folwell wrote: [...] >> That leads to the question: Is the fetchmail package broken in that it >> (erroneously) doesn't depend on an MTA? I would verify this myself if I >> wasn't under NT right now writing a CD. :-) > >No, you can use it with procmail.

Re: Data Storage

1999-02-24 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Stephen Lavelle wrote: > We are soon going to be installing a Linux Box on our Win98 network as a > file server - > and i want to know of a good back up media supported by debian and easy to > configure: > something like - zip or jazz drives. > Any suggestions? What about CD-r

Re: Plog

1999-02-24 Thread John Hasler
Andrei Ivanov writes: > I've tried doing that, but still nothing gets written into the file, when > pon is called. I can write into it by piping the output to the file just > fine, and then plog just shows me the right output (whatever I piped into > the file), but pon refuses to send any data into

hostname & domain name changing

1999-02-24 Thread caa
hello, when i installed my debian box, i only put in some out of nowhere hostname and domain names, now it seems that i need to give it some real hostname and domain name that really exists. can someone direct me please as to what files (all necessary files) that i should change for me to go

RE: SLOW boot disk?

1999-02-24 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
> > Curiosity question here: I dual-boot Debian and Win95 by using a boot > disk > > for Debian (it's partition is the last 1.2GB on a 6.4GB disk, so LILO > > doesn't like booting it). The book disk takes a LONG time to boot - 2 or > 3 > > minutes just to do the initial load, then it starts loading

Re: Segmentation Fault with Netscape Communicator 4.5

1999-02-24 Thread Kirk Hogenson
> This has been answered over a dozen times in the last two months. > Could I suggest that you check the mail archives on www.debian.org > before asking questions here. Many of the European readers have to > pay big bucks to get mail off this list and a lot of your questions > have been asked befo

Re: xbiff for remote mail?

1999-02-24 Thread Jim Crumley
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 04:26:55PM -0500, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 01:43:09PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 12:32:52PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Rob Mahurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Question: I would like to have an xbiff-type

Re: Networking Win98 and Linux

1999-02-24 Thread Andrea Novara
All you need is a SAMBA server. Samba is a suite of program which implements the SMB/CIFS protocol for Unix. The package includes the servers ( Samba is also capable -- even if in alpha state -- to manage WinNT Domains ) and several clients which help manage the network and verify the functionality

Re: Networking Win98 and Linux

1999-02-24 Thread Alec Smith
You probably want to run a Windows NT-style file and print service on your Linux box... Only this works better than the real Winblows. Take a look at Samba -- http://www.samba.org At 08:09 AM 2/25/99 +1100, Stephen Lavelle wrote: >Where can I get info about how to network windows to linux (spec

RE: Networking Win98 and Linux

1999-02-24 Thread Shaleh
On 24-Feb-99 Stephen Lavelle wrote: > Where can I get info about how to network windows to linux (specifically > from the windows side - software required, using linux as a file server?) > Regards, > Stephen Windows has all you need. Just tell it the IP, gateway, DNS if it exists and off you run

Re: fetchmail doesn't put email...

1999-02-24 Thread Matt Folwell
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 09:43:49PM +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 20:52:49 +0100, Jens Ritter wrote: > > [...] > >fetchmail delivers to your MTA (Mail Transport Agent --- read smail, > >sendmail, exim, whicheveryouuseplacedhere). The MTA is responsible for > >placing the mail

Re: /home/ftp directory question

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 Jesse Jacobsen wrote: > I missed the first part of this thread, but was wondering... do you have > separate /home/ftp/bin and /home/ftp/lib/ and /home/ftp/etc directories? > You need those under /home/ftp/ because the ftpd automatically changes > the root directory to /home/ftp. Ther

RE: problem networking after a reboot

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 Shaleh wrote: > Make sure there is a link in either rc.boot or rc2.d pointing to the network > script (there should be). > > The script should set up the IP via ifconfig and set the route if you are > running a 2.0.x kernel. Since it works when you run it by hand, all is > probably

Re: endless loops on ThinkPad install

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 George Bonser wrote: > Yeah emacs sucks for a network install. I have never been able to get it > to install properly and since nobody at home or at work uses it, I just > delete it. You will PROBABLY want to install python after the network > install is complete. It is pretty handy

Using LILO to boot Win95 of /dev/hdb1?

1999-02-24 Thread Joe Emenaker
I've got two drives in a machine. One has Win95 on it, the other has WinNT and Linux. Using LILO, I can boot Linux and whichever Windows OS is on the first hard drive. I am unable, however, to boot the one on the second drive, hdb. My lilo.conf looks like: root=/dev/hda image=/dev/vmlinuz

Re: xbiff for remote mail?

1999-02-24 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 01:43:09PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 12:32:52PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Rob Mahurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Question: I would like to have an xbiff-type mail alert on my > > > desktop, but I read my mail off of a remote se

Networking Win98 and Linux

1999-02-24 Thread Stephen Lavelle
Where can I get info about how to network windows to linux (specifically from the windows side - software required, using linux as a file server?) Regards, Stephen Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd. ~ Australian Tanned Wet Blue Leather ~ 110 Heales Road, Lara, Geelong, Australia 3212 Tel:++(03)52742232 F

Data Storage

1999-02-24 Thread Stephen Lavelle
We are soon going to be installing a Linux Box on our Win98 network as a file server - and i want to know of a good back up media supported by debian and easy to configure: something like - zip or jazz drives. Any suggestions? Regards, Stephen Lavelle Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd. ~ Australian Tanne

Re: Segmentation Fault with Netscape Communicator 4.5

1999-02-24 Thread wtopa
Subject: Segmentation Fault with Netscape Communicator 4.5 Date: Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 08:46:55PM +0100 In reply to:Anthony GGP Quoting Anthony GGP([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi everybody, 1[ snip ] This has been answered over a dozen times in the last two months. Could I suggest

No dselect or dpkg

1999-02-24 Thread Chen Xu
Kent, Thanks for your reply. > > I believe you have to be logged in as root to run dselect/dpkg. If you are > and you still can't run it, something is wrong beyond my knowledge level. > Yes, I logged in as _root_, just no such programs installed as 'dselect' or 'dpkg' Actually when I did inst

Re: fetchmail doesn't put email...

1999-02-24 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 20:52:49 +0100, Jens Ritter wrote: [...] >fetchmail delivers to your MTA (Mail Transport Agent --- read smail, >sendmail, exim, whicheveryouuseplacedhere). The MTA is responsible for >placing the mail in the right place. > >> What do I need in my ~/.fetchmailrc file to make it

Re: 2 questions

1999-02-24 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 02/24/99 at 09:33:16, Andrei Ivanov wrote concerning "Re: 2 questions": > > 2) For some reason pppd disconnects after some amount of time all by > > itself. I want it to stay up 24/7. I did see in dmesg that the PPP has > > demand dialing. I do not want this. I want it to go up and come down w

Re: /home/ftp directory question

1999-02-24 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
I missed the first part of this thread, but was wondering... do you have separate /home/ftp/bin and /home/ftp/lib/ and /home/ftp/etc directories? You need those under /home/ftp/ because the ftpd automatically changes the root directory to /home/ftp. There should be a list somewhere in the docs as

Re: Plog

1999-02-24 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> > I've , for whatever reason I had (dunno why I did this), deleted > > /var/log/ppp.log > > SInce then none of the plog messages appear. > > I don't know the correct solution to your problem, but you could try this: > > Do "touch ppp.log" to create the file, then use chown and chmod so > that t

Re: problem networking after a reboot

1999-02-24 Thread Dale E. Martin
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I installed Debian 2.0 to a ThinkPad, and each time I reboot the machine, the > network card will not work until I do: > > /etc/init.d/network start > > It works after that. Should I edit the script and give my interfaces and > routes expicitly or is there

Re: debian <- NFS -> Solaris

1999-02-24 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Jean Pierre LeJacq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My experience is that the Linux NFS server is broken when working with > Solaris NFS clients. You are aware that there is a bug in the Solaris NFS clients when interacting with the Linux 2.2 NFS deamon? Sun apparently has a patch for that you shoul

Re: A question about HP DeskJet 710C

1999-02-24 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 13:18:33 -0600, Matt Garman wrote: [...] >I believe the 710c is the same series of the 712c. I accidentally >bought a 712c, which _IS_ a Windows-only printer. I returned it for a >697c, which I'm very happy with, and works great under Linux. You're right. According to the HP

RE: problem networking after a reboot

1999-02-24 Thread Shaleh
On 24-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote: > I installed Debian 2.0 to a ThinkPad, and each time I reboot the machine, the > network card will not work until I do: > > /etc/init.d/network start > > It works after that. Should I edit the script and give my interfaces and > routes expicitly or is there a bette

Re: Segmentation Fault with Netscape Communicator 4.5

1999-02-24 Thread Ed Cogburn
Anthony GGP wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > I have Communicator 4.5 installed on my Debian system. Right after > installation, calling netscape resulted in the program not being able to > find certain libraries. These libraries are: > > -libXpm.so.4 > -libg++.so.27 > -libstdc++.so.27 > > What I di

Re: debian <- NFS -> Solaris

1999-02-24 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, File Server Admin wrote: > does anyone know how to solve the problem with NFS incompatibility > between Solaris (2.5) client and Linux (Hamm) NFS server? > Here Linux box exports /home and /var/spool/mail. > Problems are: > - mailx and elm hang, > - tar and make demonstrat

problem networking after a reboot

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
I installed Debian 2.0 to a ThinkPad, and each time I reboot the machine, the network card will not work until I do: /etc/init.d/network start It works after that. Should I edit the script and give my interfaces and routes expicitly or is there a better way to get things working when I reboot, w

Re: SLOW boot disk?

1999-02-24 Thread Jens Ritter
"Hogland, Thomas E." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Curiosity question here: I dual-boot Debian and Win95 by using a boot disk > for Debian (it's partition is the last 1.2GB on a 6.4GB disk, so LILO > doesn't like booting it). The book disk takes a LONG time to boot - 2 or 3 > minutes just to do th

Re: IRC

1999-02-24 Thread Jens Ritter
Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to give the on line irc at debian a try. What software > package would I use, and how to set it up to access the debian channel? ircii, bitchx, zircon, etc. are irc clients. The #debian channel is hosted by irc.*.openprojects.net (* = us

GNU time (was Re: how much processor time is allocated to a program)

1999-02-24 Thread Jens Ritter
Eric Leblanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 05:30:30PM +, Oliver Elphick wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# /usr/bin/time --verbose runq > Command being timed: "runq" > User time (seconds): 0.03 > System time (seconds): 0.02 > Percent of CPU t

Re: fetchmail doesn't put email...

1999-02-24 Thread Jens Ritter
Paul Nathan Puri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Fetchmail downloads my email apparently. But it does not, put the email > in a place where mutt can find it. After running fetchmail, mail is > downloaded, but then when I start mutt, there is nothing there. fetchmail delivers to your MTA (Mail Tra

Re: FAT32

1999-02-24 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I realize that this question has probably been asked extensively in > the past but where might I find the proper module to read a FAT32 > hard drive. Fat 32 support is part of debian standard kernels. HTH, Jens --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 2

Segmentation Fault with Netscape Communicator 4.5

1999-02-24 Thread Anthony GGP
Hi everybody, I have Communicator 4.5 installed on my Debian system. Right after installation, calling netscape resulted in the program not being able to find certain libraries. These libraries are: -libXpm.so.4 -libg++.so.27 -libstdc++.so.27 What I did was to make symbolic links in /lib. The li

Re: Autostart application from console

1999-02-24 Thread Jens Ritter
John Plate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > > How can I have a console start up an application automatically when > the system boots? Look at the "open" package and the scripts in /etc/init.d and have a look at /etc/inittab, too. HTH, --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 2048/E4

Re: Defining a new LaTeX-counter (off-topic)

1999-02-24 Thread Jens Ritter
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to define a new counter in LaTeX and as I understand The LaTeX > Companion page 446 it can be done with the command > > \newcounter{mynecounter} > > However the following file results in an error message when I run LaTeX: > > \documentclass[11p

Re: compiling debian source

1999-02-24 Thread Jens Ritter
"E.L. Meijer (Eric)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Finally, > > How do I compile up Debian source code safely so that it doesn't > > upset dpkg? > > Specifically, I want to recompile VIM to use the X version, but > > I don't want to upgrade to Slink and have to do the job all over a

Re: Transfering mail from netscape

1999-02-24 Thread Stuart Miles
Or from the tkrat menu select - Take mail from Netscape -- Stuart Miles[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: (Oops. Again with no HTML) Std. Serial ports beyond 115K?

1999-02-24 Thread Chuck Mead
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Kevin Traas wrote: > I want to connect an external ISDN to my system using the MB's standard > serial ports. However, everything's telling me I can only push 115K through > these serial ports - far less than the theoretical max of an ISDN TA that > does V.42bis. > > Any comm

Re: burning cd question

1999-02-24 Thread Jens Ritter
"Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --A7BCFE73A6DB2FC44BAE5362 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Matt Garman wrote: > > > Linux. Doesn't Windows support Rock Ridge? I'm not about to burn a > > "Joliet" cd. Why not? >

Re: A question about HP DeskJet 710C

1999-02-24 Thread Matt Garman
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 08:19:34PM +0100, Peter Paluch wrote: > does any of you have some information about printing using Hewlett-Packard > DeskJet 710C or 720C under Linux? Is it possible to use those printers > under Linux? A friend of mine would like to buy one of those types but he's > afraid

Re: Rescue disk woe; floppy is OK !?

1999-02-24 Thread Kent West
At 10:04 AM 2/24/1999 -0600, Brendel, Rob wrote: > >> I'm trying to install debian's stable linux distribution from floppies on >> an old 486 machine. But it always stalls at the installation of the >> kernel. I'm prompted to insert the Rescue disk, but the system doesn't >> recognize it. I've t

A question about HP DeskJet 710C

1999-02-24 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello everybody, does any of you have some information about printing using Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 710C or 720C under Linux? Is it possible to use those printers under Linux? A friend of mine would like to buy one of those types but he's afraid that it can be a Windows-only print

Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-02-24 Thread Kent West
At 08:49 AM 2/24/1999 -0800, Chen Xu wrote: > > >Dear all, > >I am new to linux world. Here are my first questions. > >1) I installed Debian2.0 from a official CD. Installation seemd OK. But >after got base installed, I could not find some tools like 'dselect' and >'dpkg' which i need to install mo

RE: SLOW boot disk?

1999-02-24 Thread Kent West
At 08:29 AM 2/24/1999 -0900, Hogland, Thomas E. wrote: >> > Curiosity question here: I dual-boot Debian and Win95 by using a boot >> disk >> > for Debian (it's partition is the last 1.2GB on a 6.4GB disk, so LILO >> > doesn't like booting it). The book disk takes a LONG time to boot - 2 >> or 3 >

leafnode expiring news groups

1999-02-24 Thread Stephen A. Witt
leafnode seems to stop fetching articles from news groups that haven't been read after 2 days. This is too short for me, I can't always read all of the groups I follow at that rate, seems I do a lot of reading on the weekends. This doesn't seem to be configurable, at least I wasn't able to find any

Re: xbiff for remote mail?

1999-02-24 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 12:32:52PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Rob Mahurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Question: I would like to have an xbiff-type mail alert on my > > desktop, but I read my mail off of a remote server. Is there an easy > > ssh remote.server.com xbiff I can think of m

Re: rm /var -> dpkg ???

1999-02-24 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Bernhard Dobbels wrote: > Recently, i have done something really stupid: rm -r /var > and, yes, everything was away, including my /var/backup directory! > Yes, i know, it's no place for a backup. > Everyting is restored now. > > Just all the info that dpkg put there is away a

Re: Defining a new LaTeX-counter (off-topic)

1999-02-24 Thread Mark Wagnon
Johann Spies wrote: > > I want to define a new counter in LaTeX and as I understand The LaTeX > Companion page 446 it can be done with the command > > \newcounter{mynecounter} > > However the following file results in an error message when I run LaTeX: > > \documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}

Re: upgrading slink -> potato

1999-02-24 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > i am trying to upgrade to potato... > > first question, to stay on the safe side, in sources.list the line concerning > potato should come before or after the slink line? Mmm, I think there is not any difference, but to really stay on the safe side,

Re: KDE Configuration

1999-02-24 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 13:39 (+), Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote: > I have downloaded the KDE-Base using DSelect. However, dselect can't > configure KDE because the file qt1g is missing. DSelect can't find the > qt1g file in the package file. Here's what I used for a complete kde 1.1 installa

RE: SLOW boot disk - missing 'compact' option?

1999-02-24 Thread simonst
I had the same thing happen: 5+minute load for some boot floppies, others ran 'normally' (<60 seconds). Is this what the LILO "COMPACT" option addresses? -- From: Hogland, Thomas E. To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: SLOW boot disk? Date: Wednesday, Februar

endless loops on ThinkPad install

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
I installed Debian last night on a ThinkPad and this morning had to continue, but it kept going into loops, installing emacs and python again and again until I rebooted the thing. Now I will remove emacs and python, since I don't think I will need emacs and if I need python I can reinstalll it. -

Defining a new LaTeX-counter (off-topic)

1999-02-24 Thread Johann Spies
I want to define a new counter in LaTeX and as I understand The LaTeX Companion page 446 it can be done with the command \newcounter{mynecounter} However the following file results in an error message when I run LaTeX: \documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article} \begin{document} \newcounter{bepa

Re: IP Forwarding

1999-02-24 Thread wtopa
Subject: IP Forwarding Date: Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 05:07:34PM +0100 In reply to:Ries van Twisk Quoting Ries van Twisk([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Currently I'm working with my linux box > learning about proxy's and firewalls. > > How do I tell if IP_Forwading is turned off? > I do h

Re: xbiff for remote mail?

1999-02-24 Thread navindra
Rob Mahurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Question: I would like to have an xbiff-type mail alert on my > desktop, but I read my mail off of a remote server. Is there an easy ssh remote.server.com xbiff -N. -- "These download files are in Microsoft Word 6.0 format. After unzipping, these file

RE: SLOW boot disk?

1999-02-24 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
> > Curiosity question here: I dual-boot Debian and Win95 by using a boot > disk > > for Debian (it's partition is the last 1.2GB on a 6.4GB disk, so LILO > > doesn't like booting it). The book disk takes a LONG time to boot - 2 > or 3 > > minutes just to do the initial load, then it starts load

I think this is a atempted hack...

1999-02-24 Thread Lawrence Walton
Some one tried to hack couple of my systems I think, but there is no buffer-over-flow in telnet is there? daemon.log.0:Feb 19 04:53:24 ns in.telnetd[22276]: connect from usrtc1-61.midtown.net daemon.log.0:Feb 19 04:53:29 ns telnetd[22276]: ttloop: peer died: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wid

Re: SLOW boot disk?

1999-02-24 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 2/24/99 11:14:07 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Curiosity question here: I dual-boot Debian and Win95 by using a boot disk > for Debian (it's partition is the last 1.2GB on a 6.4GB disk, so LILO > doesn't like booting it). The book disk takes a LONG time

Unidentified subject!

1999-02-24 Thread Chen Xu
Dear all, I am new to linux world. Here are my first questions. 1) I installed Debian2.0 from a official CD. Installation seemd OK. But after got base installed, I could not find some tools like 'dselect' and 'dpkg' which i need to install more packages. What is this? 2) There is even no 'top'

SLOW boot disk?

1999-02-24 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
Curiosity question here: I dual-boot Debian and Win95 by using a boot disk for Debian (it's partition is the last 1.2GB on a 6.4GB disk, so LILO doesn't like booting it). The book disk takes a LONG time to boot - 2 or 3 minutes just to do the initial load, then it starts loading off the HD and ever

Re: smb.conf and preexec

1999-02-24 Thread wtopa
Subject: smb.conf and preexec Date: Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 01:17:33AM + In reply to:tony mollica Quoting tony mollica([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi. I'm running samba 1.9.18p8 on a Debian > 2.0, 2.0.34 system connected to a winnt4sp3 > network. Most everything works nicely, but

DPT SmartRaid IV vs Mylex DAC960-PL

1999-02-24 Thread Dean Carpenter
Has anyone done any performance comparisons between the DPT SmartRaid IV and Mylex DAC960PL scsi raid controllers ? I know the DPT drivers have been around for a long time, and the IV supports up to 64meg of cache, but I highly respect Leonards coding prowess, even though the DAC960PL only sup

Re: StarOffice 5

1999-02-24 Thread krosigk
With the SO5 comes a setup-script that installs SO5 for "every" Linux-Ditribution. I had to execute it with sudo (being logged in as root) because if not the script wasn´t able to write in /tmp/directories. Except this I´m still not experimenting any problems with this instalation form. Frankie wr

Re: KDE Configuration

1999-02-24 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 2/24/99 7:50:30 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have downloaded the KDE-Base using DSelect. However, dselect can't > configure KDE because the file qt1g is missing. DSelect can't find the > qt1g file in the package file. > If you have KDE 1.1, you ne

Re: burning cd question

1999-02-24 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Matt Garman wrote: I'm backing up some data for a friend with my CD burner.  Every burn I've done has been under Linux, and gone to perfection except in one respect: the filenames always get truncated to that nasty 8.3 format if the disc is used under Windows.  Under Linux it's fine. I haven't be

Re: lpr not installed

1999-02-24 Thread Remco van de Meent
Bal K. Paudyal wrote: > It looks like my old pc with Debian does not have lpr installed. What > package it is in? Any idea? /usr/bin/lpr is in both the lpr and the lprng packages. HTH. -Remco

Re: Std. Serial ports beyond 115K?

1999-02-24 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Yeah Kevin, you can get standalone boxes which do ether-isdn and will dial/bandwidth on demand, etc. However, these nice little jobs will run you at least $300. A waste suitable only for buying hardware with other people's money. I *have* used one (the Ascend Pipeline 50) and loved it at a previ

Re: CD recorder problem

1999-02-24 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Daniel J. Brosemer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 23 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > cdwrite is not as full-featured as cdrecord.  Unless you have a special > reason to use cdwrite, I suggest >   cdrecord -v -dummy -xa2 dev=3,0 speed=2 cdimage.raw > 

IP Forwarding

1999-02-24 Thread Ries van Twisk
Currently I'm working with my linux box learning about proxy's and firewalls. How do I tell if IP_Forwading is turned off? I do have a file called: /proc/net/ip_forward wich is empty. (I do also have /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward) Wich is also empty Is it one of these files I have to look for?

Rescue disk woe; floppy is OK !?

1999-02-24 Thread Brendel, Rob
> I'm trying to install debian's stable linux distribution from floppies on > an old 486 machine. But it always stalls at the installation of the > kernel. I'm prompted to insert the Rescue disk, but the system doesn't > recognize it. I've tried many different disks from different machines, > b

Re: Help. How do I reconfigure my the network?

1999-02-24 Thread William Schwartz
You are correct. If you IP Address is within the local network, but your default router is incorrect, your machine will not know how to get off the local network. Any time you move a machine in an IP network, you really need to change the IP address / subnet-mask and default router for it to work c

Re: cd-writer: no /dev/sg0, sr0, or scd0 working

1999-02-24 Thread vaidhy
Hope you did a MAKEDEV sr too.. you should be able to mount /dev/sr0 as your cd rom :) Regards, Vaidhy ** Alike for those who for Today prepare And those that after a Tomorrow stare; A Muezzin from Tower of Darkness cries, "Fools, your reward is nether

Re: 2 questions

1999-02-24 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> 2) For some reason pppd disconnects after some amount of time all by > itself. I want it to stay up 24/7. I did see in dmesg that the PPP has > demand dialing. I do not want this. I want it to go up and come down when > I tell it. Thats probably your ISP kicking you off. Mine has a 2 hour limi

Re: fetchmail doesn't put email...

1999-02-24 Thread stick
Paul Nathan Puri said > On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 09:18:07PM -0500, Chuck Stickelman wrote: > > Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > > > > > Fetchmail downloads my email apparently. But it does not, put the email > > > in a place where mutt can find it. After running fetchmail, mail is > > > downloaded, but

Re: vim has no color after moving uo to slink

1999-02-24 Thread Paul Slootman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >I found vim-rt on the debian site. It mentioned syntax highlighting in >the description. I downloaded it and installed it. The error is gone >(cuz I let it overwrite my /etc/vimrc), but I still get no syntax >highlighting :( Edit /etc/vimrc and remove t

RE: KDE Configuration

1999-02-24 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven writes: > I have downloaded the KDE-Base using DSelect. However, dselect can't > configure KDE because the file qt1g is missing. DSelect can't find the > qt1g file in the package file. > > Where can I get this file? > > TIA, > > Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven You shoul

Re: fetchmail sending mail back to ISP

1999-02-24 Thread Bob Bernstein
Your domain cannot be resolved (@office.natepuri.com) so your isp is treating all your mail as spam. It shows up in your X-Envelope-Sender header. Also, check the message id's you're generating. They seem to be wrong: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Good luck! Bob Bernstein at Esmond, R.I., USA Pine/Open

Re: KDE Configuration

1999-02-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote: > I have downloaded the KDE-Base using DSelect. However, dselect can't > configure KDE because the file qt1g is missing. DSelect can't find the > qt1g file in the package file. Which version of the kdebase pac

Re: make-kpkg funny

1999-02-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
I see that some has filed bug #33793 on this. Beat to the punch again! Bob On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > > > On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:58:24 -0700 (MST), Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > > >I just compiled 2.2.2 using make-kpkg (kernel-package 6

Re: make-kpkg funny

1999-02-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:58:24 -0700 (MST), Bob Nielsen wrote: > > >I just compiled 2.2.2 using make-kpkg (kernel-package 6.07) and using the > >command 'make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image' it created a file > > > >kernel-image-.._custom.1.0_

burning cd question

1999-02-24 Thread Matt Garman
I'm backing up some data for a friend with my CD burner. Every burn I've done has been under Linux, and gone to perfection except in one respect: the filenames always get truncated to that nasty 8.3 format if the disc is used under Windows. Under Linux it's fine. I haven't been concerned about

Re: /home/ftp directory question

1999-02-24 Thread Thomas Adams
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 02:41:32PM +0100, Thomas Adams wrote: > It seems to be normal, it's on my Debian systems, too. I think if you follow > the ftpd manpage you can setup anonymous ftp access to your machine. Why it Sorry, I was wrong. I followed man ftpd to the letter but anon access doesn't

Re: leafnode and expiration of articles

1999-02-24 Thread Randy Belk
Texpire does not expire by time but by threads. Do a search for "pexpire" on HotBot, it is a dropin replacement for texpire that expires by time. >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/23/99 06:08PM >>> I there anyway to set the expiration time on read articles? I have texpire running every midnight, but it

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