Re: hamm dist sites

1999-06-23 Thread aidanc
Robert Rati wrote: > Are there any ftp sites with the hamm dist still on them? All ther ones > I've found only have slink and potato. Thanks. > > Rob > > === > [EMA

Debian not talking to network

1999-06-23 Thread Robert Rati
I'm setting up a network at home and have gotten the router setup and given the IP addresses to their machines, but my debian box won't talk to the network. Oddly enough, the windows box will, so I know the router is setup correctly. In order to do that though, I had to change the frame type from

Re: POP3 server

1999-06-23 Thread debian
apt-get install qpopper -Original Message- From: Algernon NG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, 24 June 1999 1:01 Subject: POP3 server >Help! > >I want to set up a mail server. Can you tell me where can I find a good >POP3 server? >(Source or Debian Pac

Re: Wmaker Problem

1999-06-23 Thread Greg Starkes
Will Lowe wrote: > > > I'll assume you are talking about the app icons. Except modifying the > > attributes for every app to not show an app icon, you cannot get rid off > > them. Here's what I do to at least make it `look' like the aren't there: > > Can you get rid of miniwindows? Sure. Just do

Re: Wmaker Problem

1999-06-23 Thread Didi Damian
Greg Starkes wrote: > > Didi Damian wrote: > > > > Greg Starkes wrote: > > > > > This issue has come up on the wmaker mailing list. After choosing > > > Attributes..., choose Window Specification. Previous versions of wmaker > > > would default to the first one. Now it doesn't default to any. So,

info su linux per ppc

1999-06-23 Thread Salvatore Comito
Cari amici, sono molto interessato a Linux. Posseggo un apple Performa 6400 (ppc 603e) e vorrei sapere se esiste una vostra distribuzione per questo computer ed eventualmente come acquistarla e quali programmi ci sono di corredo al sistema. Scusate se sbaglio indirizzo, ma sono un neofita e ancor

Re: apt 0.3.7 breaks dselect?

1999-06-23 Thread Serge Gavrilov
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 08:49:44PM +, Brian Greenfield wrote: > Hi > > I've just installed apt 0.3.7slink0 from netgod.net and I > can no longer use the apt method of dselect. Update and > Select work OK, and Install will fetch the required files > but won't configure them. The error message g

Calling Brian Greenfield

1999-06-23 Thread Brian Servis
Brian Fix your headers!!! Please don't use address that will bounce!!! If anything send it to /dev/null on your end, save the bandwidth. >From your orginal post to which I replied: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Greenfield) Subject: apt 0.3.7 breaks dselect? Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 20:49

Re: Wmaker Problem

1999-06-23 Thread Will Lowe
> I'll assume you are talking about the app icons. Except modifying the > attributes for every app to not show an app icon, you cannot get rid off > them. Here's what I do to at least make it `look' like the aren't there: Can you get rid of miniwindows?

Re: Wmaker Problem

1999-06-23 Thread Greg Starkes
Didi Damian wrote: > > Greg Starkes wrote: > > > This issue has come up on the wmaker mailing list. After choosing > > Attributes..., choose Window Specification. Previous versions of wmaker > > would default to the first one. Now it doesn't default to any. So, if > > you want to set attributes,

Re: [Linux] where is tip or cu?

1999-06-23 Thread John Hasler
Stephen A. Witt writes: > If you're dialing a modem, then I would suggest minicom. If you need dumb > terminal emulation then I use kermit. For that I like to use 'dip -t'. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: xroastcd fails to verify

1999-06-23 Thread Johann Spies
On 23 Jun 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Cdrecord's website (as well as cdrdao's) states that it won't work with > the drive if it has firmware <4.14, because it isn't compliant with > SCSI standards or smth to that effect. You have 4.10. If I were you, > I'd upgrade the firmware to start with. >

Re: Wmaker Problem

1999-06-23 Thread Didi Damian
Greg Starkes wrote: > This issue has come up on the wmaker mailing list. After choosing > Attributes..., choose Window Specification. Previous versions of wmaker > would default to the first one. Now it doesn't default to any. So, if > you want to set attributes, you must first choose a window spe

Re: Wmaker Problem

1999-06-23 Thread Didi Damian
Dennis Persson wrote: > > Hello, > I've just installed windowmaker-0.60.0 from potato, and discovered a > quite big problem. Wmaker doesn't save window attributes when I edit > them in the Attributes dialog. I can edit the file WMWindowAttributes > by hand and save it and then it works perfectly,

Re: Testing the system

1999-06-23 Thread Sami Dalouche
Yes, but with RPM, you can configure properly your system and rm a file after. dpkg -C won't se that while rpm will. On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 05:25:11PM -0400, David Teague wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Sami Dalouche wrote: > > > Is there a way to test all the files on a sytem like the RPM can ? >

Re: apt 0.3.7 breaks dselect?

1999-06-23 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 23 Jun, Brian Greenfield wrote about "apt 0.3.7 breaks dselect?" > Hi > > I've just installed apt 0.3.7slink0 from netgod.net and I > can no longer use the apt method of dselect. Update and > Select work OK, and Install will fetch the required files > but won't configure them. The error mess

Re: Autofs for root only??

1999-06-23 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 23 Jun, Gertjan Klein wrote about "Autofs for root only??" > I am trying to convince autofs to allow others than root to access the > automounted filesystems, and I'm failing miserably. I can find no > information on this subject in the man pages. It appears the problem is > not directly r

How do I modify the Debian install disk?

1999-06-23 Thread Mark Wright
I'm trying to install Debian on an HP Vectra PC. When I put in the (slink) rescue disk, it loads root.bin, and the linux kernel and starts booting. It freezes right after the line that says "md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4 MAX_REAL=8". I'd like to try to remove the offending code from the rescue dis

Re: Hardware support

1999-06-23 Thread Konstantin Machow
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html - Original Message - From: Rolf Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian User List Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 8:25 AM Subject: Hardware support > Hi, all you Linux users out ther

apt 0.3.7 breaks dselect?

1999-06-23 Thread Brian Greenfield
Hi I've just installed apt 0.3.7slink0 from netgod.net and I can no longer use the apt method of dselect. Update and Select work OK, and Install will fetch the required files but won't configure them. The error message given is: >/usr/lib/dpkg//methods/apt/install: /usr/bin/dpkg/: Not a directory

Debian hierarchy : changing it

1999-06-23 Thread Sami Dalouche
I think the Debian hierarchy is very out of date and unappropriated. 1 ) I'm not sure but I think the content of non-free should be splited : there should be a non-free which is non-free because of non-free features : e.g. : converting to gif. These software could be moved to a new section, cou

SecureID & ( Shiva | Gandalf) modems

1999-06-23 Thread Greg Vence
Has anyone got clues on getting SecureID going dialing into Shiva or Gandalf modems? TIA -- Greg. -- Build an On-line Store http://www.Countdown9199.com/ Referral: Greg Vence IBO: 2712303 If you like it, lets talk & get you an IBO.

Re: [MTA] Problems using sendmail and exim...

1999-06-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "SC" == Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SC> $ echo "Testing. Please ignore." | sendmail -v SC> [EMAIL PROTECTED] SC> LOG: 0 MAIN SC> <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=thaths P=local S=295 SC> www:~ $ Exim version 2.05 debug level 1 uid=8 gid=8 SC> probably Berkeley DB version 1.8x (

Re: [MTA] Problems using sendmail and exim...

1999-06-23 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 02:57:09PM -0500, did Brad write: > On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > * Sendmail acting as the MTA. Any mail to the vsnl.net.in domain is > > bouncing. > > > > www:~ $ echo "testing. Please ignore" | sendmail -v > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Warning: a

Autofs for root only??

1999-06-23 Thread Gertjan Klein
I am trying to convince autofs to allow others than root to access the automounted filesystems, and I'm failing miserably. I can find no information on this subject in the man pages. It appears the problem is not directly related to autofs, though, because I fail with standard mount as well. He

Re: [Linux] where is tip or cu?

1999-06-23 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > Howdy, > > I need to talk to my serial port. On other Unices I would > use tip or cu. Any idea which package contains these tools? > (I know they both exist for Linux since I used them before, > unfortunately I reinstalled Debian and I can't fin

Re: [MTA] Problems using sendmail and exim...

1999-06-23 Thread Brad
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > Note: I am sending this email from home. Please Cc me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > in your replies. > > * Sendmail acting as the MTA. Any mail to the vsnl.net.in domain is > bouncing. > > www:~ $ echo "testing. Please ignore" | sendmail -v > [E

Re: Wmaker Problem

1999-06-23 Thread Greg Starkes
Dennis Persson wrote: > > Hello, > I've just installed windowmaker-0.60.0 from potato, and discovered a > quite big problem. Wmaker doesn't save window attributes when I edit > them in the Attributes dialog. I can edit the file WMWindowAttributes > by hand and save it and then it works perfectly,

Re: [MTA] Problems using sendmail and exim...

1999-06-23 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 12:34:57PM -0700, did George Bonser write: > On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > LOG: 0 MAIN > > <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=thaths P=local S=295 > > www:~ $ Exim version 2.05 debug level 1 uid=8 gid=8 > > probably Berkeley DB version 1.8x (native mode) > >

Wmaker Problem

1999-06-23 Thread Dennis Persson
Hello, I've just installed windowmaker-0.60.0 from potato, and discovered a quite big problem. Wmaker doesn't save window attributes when I edit them in the Attributes dialog. I can edit the file WMWindowAttributes by hand and save it and then it works perfectly, but I want to edit the Attributes

[MTA] Problems using sendmail and exim...

1999-06-23 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Note: I am sending this email from home. Please Cc me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) in your replies. I run a couple of mailing lists that get pretty decent traffic. I used to use Exim as my MTA. I came across a pretty strage problem using Exim a couple of weeks ago. Mails to cyberspace.org started bounc

Upgrading to a 2.2.x kernal and glibc 2.1 on a hamm system

1999-06-23 Thread peter . schuller
Hello, I am currently considering upgrading my hamm system to kernel 2.2.x and glibc 2.1 (because of IBM's JVM port :). My questions is, has anyone tried this? Which packages can I expect to have to upgrade? What might brake? The kernel is no biggie, I know (since I can just boot the old one if t

Re: SVGA/NVidia patches (Re: Text cursor disappears in Emacs)

1999-06-23 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Paul D. Smith wrote: > Andreas Voegele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Since the last update of my systems the text cursor disappears in GNU > > Emacs 20.3-8 under X11. The problem maybe has something to do with the > > syntax highlighting. Above colored parts of the text

Re: Diamond SupraExpress 56i V PRO Modem and Debian

1999-06-23 Thread Brad
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > I seem to be having some difficulty setting up my modem under Debian; > > wvdial gives an input/output error and dies, and ppp, which I've set up > > with all the appropriate parameters, doesn't do much at all. Any ideas, > > please? > > wvdial does

Re: NFS server

1999-06-23 Thread Will Lowe
> Please choose the NFS server and the mount path of the NFS filesystem > that contains the Debian archive. > Enter them in this way: server:/ftp/debian > > What I don't understand is: > (1) does Debian have a standard NFS from which I can access the > archive? Do I need to use my own 'local

Re: Problem with Netscape dependencies in .deb packages

1999-06-23 Thread Brad
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Qux Foobar wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a problem getting Netscape off the ftp.debian.org site. I'm using > dselect and have both stable and unstable distributions as sources. > Basically, all Netscape stuff depends on netscape-base-4, but there is no > such thing (as ds

Re: /etc/environment

1999-06-23 Thread Brad
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Frank Barknecht wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > What if /etc/environment comprised of a series of variable=value statements > > that each shell would read and use to set the environment? Doing it that > > way would require each shell

Re: Accidentally deleted mouse! Please help!

1999-06-23 Thread Robert Pintarelli
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 05:50:59PM +1000, Revenant wrote: > I managed to accidentally delete the files "mouse" and "psaux" in > the /dev directory. > > How do I get these back, please? > > -- Revenant [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- > "The whole principle is wrong; it's like dem

New Install -- No Operation System found

1999-06-23 Thread Jeremy Gunter
Hello, I have just installed slink onto a new 4GB hard disk (the 2GB that was in it failed last week). Lilo does not seem to write the boot sector to the disk, however. When I try to boot from the disk it says that there is no operation system. When I run Lilo it appears to function cor

Re: Amanda questions

1999-06-23 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 01:05:50PM -0400, Pete Templin wrote: > > > ERROR: charlie: [access as backup not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ERROR: alpha: [access as backup not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ERROR: bravo: [access as backup not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > echo

Re: Amanda questions

1999-06-23 Thread Pete Templin
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Tommi Virtanen wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 03:28:03PM -0400, Pete Templin wrote: > > A few questions about amanda, for anyone who might be familiar with it: > > > ERROR: charlie: [access as backup not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ERROR: alpha: [access as backup not

Re: Problem with Netscape dependencies in .deb packages

1999-06-23 Thread Aldenor Falcao
It's called netscape-base4. Bye, Aldenor - Aldenor Falcao Martins, M Sc ETFAL Internet Admin - Protect privacy, boycott Intel: http://www.bigbrotherinside.org On W

NFS server

1999-06-23 Thread Pete Vanderburgh
Hey all. Much thanks for the references for installation procedures. I'm in danger of actually making progress. ;-) I am completely stuck in part of the system installation, however. I have the prompt: --- Please choose the NFS server and the mount path of the NFS filesystem that contains the

Re: Configuring PPP

1999-06-23 Thread John Hasler
Isabelle Poueriet writes: > I then type: > pon > plog > I get the error: > pppd:Connection failed > pppd:Exit We need more information. When you ran pppconfig did you give the connection a name other than the default of 'provider'? If so, you must type 'pon isp1' if you gave the connectio

libc5-compat

1999-06-23 Thread Nikolaus A Siegfried
I am trying to use a statistical package, XploRe, which uses libc5. the program is only available as a binary from www.xplore-stat.de. On the current Debian release it finishes with Regex Error: Memory exhausted Aborted ldd gives # ldd xpl4.exe libXpm.so.4 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm

Re: Diamond SupraExpress 56i V PRO Modem and Debian

1999-06-23 Thread Robert Rati
Is it a PCI modem? If so, it's probalby a winmodem and won't work in Linux. Rob On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Dan Hatton wrote: > > I seem to be having some difficulty setting up my modem under Debian; > wvdial gives an input/output error

Re: Diamond SupraExpress 56i V PRO Modem and Debian

1999-06-23 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> I seem to be having some difficulty setting up my modem under Debian; > wvdial gives an input/output error and dies, and ppp, which I've set up > with all the appropriate parameters, doesn't do much at all. Any ideas, > please? > > Ta > > Dan Hatton wvdial does that when you are supplying the

Re: Large .deb packages..

1999-06-23 Thread John Foster
> Maybe having another section of debian would be better: eg > main,contrib,non-free,non-US,marginal. [I'm sure someone could come up with a > better > name than marginal :-)] > Marginal would contain really large packages, or packages that very few > people might > want to use. If their popular

Re: POP3 server

1999-06-23 Thread Alec Smith
Take a look at the 'qpopper' package. Its a POP3 server developed by Qualcomm (famous for Eudora Light/Pro). I've been using it on my machines without any problems. If you feel like building from source, you might check out 3.0b18 on ftp.qualcomm.com. I'm now using that version with no troubles so

Re: POP3 server

1999-06-23 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 23 Jun, Algernon NG wrote about "POP3 server" > Help! > > I want to set up a mail server. Can you tell me where can I find a good > POP3 server? > (Source or Debian Package preferred) > Use the package search at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages.html Package: qpopper Status: install

Diamond SupraExpress 56i V PRO Modem and Debian

1999-06-23 Thread Dan Hatton
I seem to be having some difficulty setting up my modem under Debian; wvdial gives an input/output error and dies, and ppp, which I've set up with all the appropriate parameters, doesn't do much at all. Any ideas, please? Ta Dan Hatton

Re: Hardware support in Debian ?

1999-06-23 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Rolf Edlund wrote: > > Hi, all you Linux users out there! > > I'm wondering, is there any info of what hardware support there is in > Debian (like thare are for SuSE) ? > This is more a function of the Linux kernel than a distribution per se. I can't think of any exceptions. Since Linux folks

Re: POP3 server

1999-06-23 Thread Varga Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Algernon NG wrote: > Help! > > I want to set up a mail server. Can you tell me where can I find a good > POP3 server? > (Source or Debian Package preferred) qpopper 2.53 is a good enough option, I think there is a debian package of it in unstable. or if you use qmail with

Re: How to pronouce "Debian"?

1999-06-23 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Many native english speakers aren't sure at first either because this is a made-up word. debian's founder Ian Murdock named it thus because his wife's name is Debbie. So, if you know how to pronounce Debbie (short e as in 'bed') and Ian then you can say Deb-Ian. tboy wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm no

Re: switched ppp to ethernet and lost web connectivity (again)

1999-06-23 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
This almost certainly does not have to do with your ethernet setup if you can ping the windows box. What sort of proxy is the Winproxy? Are you sure the things you're trying to run are capable of using this proxy? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (let me try that again) > > I am having problems conve

Re: SVGA/NVidia patches (Re: Text cursor disappears in Emacs)

1999-06-23 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Oleg Krivosheev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ok> downloaded compiled server from ftp.xfree86.org and replaced ok> XF86_SVGA which came with .deb. Now it works just fine Doh! *smacks self*. I actually thought of this about an hour ago as I was doing a Google search for old xserver-svga Deb

Re: xroastcd fails to verify

1999-06-23 Thread Arcady Genkin
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Vendor_info: 'MATSHITA' > Identifikation : 'CD-R CW-7502 ' > Revision : '4.10' Cdrecord's website (as well as cdrdao's) states that it won't work with the drive if it has firmware <4.14, because it isn't compliant with SCSI standards or smth to

POP3 server

1999-06-23 Thread Algernon NG
Help! I want to set up a mail server. Can you tell me where can I find a good POP3 server? (Source or Debian Package preferred) Thanks, Algernon NG of The MadHouse Project

Re: How to pronouce "Debian"?

1999-06-23 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, tboy wrote: > I'm not a native english speaker so i don't know how to pronouce > "Debian" --- it seems somewhat strange to me. When i introduce Debian > to my friends i have to spell it out letter by letter. Any help from > native english speakers? The name comes from two peo

Re: How to pronouce "Debian"?

1999-06-23 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 23 Jun, tboy wrote about "How to pronouce "Debian"?" > Hi all, > > I'm not a native english speaker so i don't know how to pronouce "Debian" --- > it seems somewhat strange to me. > When i introduce Debian to my friends i have to spell it out letter by > letter. Any help from native englis

Re: Debian Installation

1999-06-23 Thread mctech
I installed mine via the instructions on http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install and it worked great. > Hello all. > I must admit that I'm a newbie at this. I've been trying to install > Debian (base 14) onto a Compaq P133. Since I don't want to bog down the > list with rudimentary qu

Re: SVGA/NVidia patches (Re: Text cursor disappears in Emacs)

1999-06-23 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Andreas Voegele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since the last update of my systems the text cursor disappears in GNU > Emacs 20.3-8 under X11. The problem maybe has something to do with the > syntax highlighting. Above colored parts of the text the cursor is > visible. I see t

How to pronouce "Debian"?

1999-06-23 Thread tboy
Hi all, I'm not a native english speaker so i don't know how to pronouce "Debian" --- it seems somewhat strange to me. When i introduce Debian to my friends i have to spell it out letter by letter. Any help from native english speakers?

Unidentified subject!

1999-06-23 Thread Steven Colby
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Debian Installation

1999-06-23 Thread Pete Vanderburgh
Hello all. I must admit that I'm a newbie at this. I've been trying to install Debian (base 14) onto a Compaq P133. Since I don't want to bog down the list with rudimentary questions, can anyone recommend a FAQ, mailing list, or archive that touches on system configurations for Debian installatio

apt-get vs. xemacs20-support problem

1999-06-23 Thread Debian Mail
Every time I use apt-get to install packages, it stops while configuring xemacs20-support with the following error message: (Reading database ... 68943 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace xemacs20-support 20.4-5 (using xemacs20-support_20.4-13.deb) ... Unpacking repl

Re: [Linux] where is tip or cu?

1999-06-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 01:49:19PM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > Howdy, > > I need to talk to my serial port. On other Unices I would > use tip or cu. Any idea which package contains these tools? > (I know they both exist for Linux since I used them before, > unfortunately I reinstalled De

Problem with Netscape dependencies in .deb packages

1999-06-23 Thread Qux Foobar
Greetings, I have a problem getting Netscape off the ftp.debian.org site. I'm using dselect and have both stable and unstable distributions as sources. Basically, all Netscape stuff depends on netscape-base-4, but there is no such thing (as dselect is so nice to point out). There is netscape-b

dselect and contrib/non-free - DWN-6/22

1999-06-23 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> Wichert Akkerman has proposed splitting non-free and contrib out to a > new server, nonfree.debian.org. The impetus for this is to emphasize > that they are not part of Debian, since "the distinction isn't as > visible as it used to be; advances in searching in the distribution > and tools like a

Re: Hardware support

1999-06-23 Thread ktb
Take a look at the install manual for your architecture at, http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/ hth, kent Rolf Edlund wrote: > > Hi, all you Linux users out there! > > I'm wondering, is there any info of what hardware support there is in > Debian (like thare are for SuSE) ? > > /R > > --

Re: [Linux] where is tip or cu?

1999-06-23 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Nico: uucp package for cu. Peter Nico De Ranter wrote: > Howdy, > > I need to talk to my serial port. On other Unices I would > use tip or cu. Any idea which package contains these tools? > (I know they both exist for Linux since I used them before, > unfortunately I reinstalled Debian and I

Re: Distributed computing

1999-06-23 Thread Norris Preyer
You might want to check out the Beowulf project http://beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov/ and the many links from there. There is a *very* useful beowulf maillist: send "subscribe beowulf" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is also a debian-beowulf list, but it's pretty inactive, perhaps because there's nothing

[Linux] where is tip or cu?

1999-06-23 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I need to talk to my serial port. On other Unices I would use tip or cu. Any idea which package contains these tools? (I know they both exist for Linux since I used them before, unfortunately I reinstalled Debian and I can't find them anymore) Thanks in advance, Nico -- ---

SV: Getting there

1999-06-23 Thread vw
Hi C.D. Let's try to keep Debian/Linux free. It's probably an illusion to keep it that way, but I think it's worth trying. I'm a Debian newbie, and I switched to Linux for exactly the same reasons; I was tired of breakdowns, sick of seeing "Microsoft. document" every time I looked at a file-hea

Re: Accidentally deleted mouse! Please help!

1999-06-23 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 23 Jun, Revenant wrote about "Accidentally deleted mouse! Please help!" > I managed to accidentally delete the files "mouse" and "psaux" in > the /dev directory. > > How do I get these back, please? > As root: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV busmice ln -s psaux mouse -- Brian --

Re: Configuring PPP

1999-06-23 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, pon issued by itself will execute the connection "provider". so: pon pon provider do the same thing. Is this a permissions problem? pppd may only be run by root or a member of the group dip: -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip105884 Jun 18 1998 /usr/sbin/pppd Does your ppp log have any m

Re: Configuring PPP

1999-06-23 Thread Tim Nicholas
Unless the setup went in the default file (ie provider) which means that it will be invoked by 'pon' if nothing else is provided. On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 04:00:02PM +1000, Michael Fox wrote: > I thought one should do pon providername.. > > Ie when you create your scripts with pon, you give the

Re: X-Server for AGP-7410 (Intel740 chipset)?

1999-06-23 Thread Revenant
I've downloaded this package and installed it using alien. I tried modifying XF86Config as suggested by the README but when I do, startx won't run. XF86Setup doesn't seem to detect the driver. How do I get startx to use the i740 driver, please? Thank you. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Redhat has

Accidentally deleted mouse! Please help!

1999-06-23 Thread Revenant
I managed to accidentally delete the files "mouse" and "psaux" in the /dev directory. How do I get these back, please? -- Revenant [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak

xroastcd fails to verify

1999-06-23 Thread Brian May
Hello all, When I write a cdrom using xcdroast, everything works Ok, until the verification. The verification goes up to 99% (always!) and then complains of errors. This only occurs for some CD-ROM images (possibly > 500Mb, but I am not really sure). Any ideas? What is so bad about the last 1%

Re: Recompiling openldap for kerberos and slink...

1999-06-23 Thread Brian May
On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 09:10:59PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > Everything works OK until it tries to build the package. I don't have > any time right now to look into the segmentation fault (will do so > ASAP). Apart from openldap source which is from potato and kerberos > which is also from potato,

Re: WindowMaker and GNOME

1999-06-23 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Kristopher Johnson wrote: > > I've installed GNOME and the wmaker-gnome package (using apt and a > mirror of ftp.gnome.org). I can switch between IceWM and Enlightenment > without any problem, but if I try to switch to WindowMaker using the > GNOME Control Panel, it times out while trying to start

Re: /etc/environment

1999-06-23 Thread Gilbert Laycock
> Frank Barknecht writes: > I would like to add that ssh also reads /etc/environment and expects > name=value pairs there only. So if you have lines like: > PAGER=less > export PAGER > in /etc/environment, ssh complains about a bad syntax with this: > Bad line in /etc/environment: ex

Re: /etc/environment

1999-06-23 Thread Frank Barknecht
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What if /etc/environment comprised of a series of variable=value statements > that each shell would read and use to set the environment? Doing it that > way would require each shell maintainer to modify some of their scripts once > and o

3C905B 10/100 card "falls back" to 10MB

1999-06-23 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Hi My job is networks and I can give you a major piece of advice, autonegotiation sucks ! You can run into all sorts of problems especially if both end of a link try and autonegotiate. I would ask your network manager to hard set the port on the switch you are connecting to to 100Mb full duplex

Re: How to determine local IP

1999-06-23 Thread John Pearson
It may not be pretty, but this will be faster: ifconfig | \ awk '/inet addr:/ {sub(".*:","",$2) ; if ($2 !~ /^127/) { print $2 }}' On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 10:34:23PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote > What about this one?? > > ifconfig | \ > grep "inet addr" | \ > grep -v "127.0.0.1" | \ > awk '{print $2

Re: Install questions etc

1999-06-23 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 04:06:02AM -0500, Joakim Svensson wrote > This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Joakim Svensson" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > > Hi debian users, > > I am a very new user of Linux. I do have some 10+ year users experience > with different unixes th

Re: Configuring PPP

1999-06-23 Thread Michael Fox
I thought one should do pon providername.. Ie when you create your scripts with pon, you give them a name.. ie isp1 or ffx etc. So then I would use the following command to invoke it. pon ffx pon isp1 etc.. Try using the pon ispname(name you used when using pppconfig to create them) -Ori

Hardware support

1999-06-23 Thread Rolf Edlund
Hi, all you Linux users out there! I'm wondering, is there any info of what hardware support there is in Debian (like thare are for SuSE) ? /R

SOLUTION: can't get ircii to run

1999-06-23 Thread Monte Copeland
Well everyone, I'm embarrassed. I just figured out my problem. When ircii is installed it will run under the following command: % irc also the "man irc" and "man ircII" work also. I just made a sim link for ircii to irc. Simple! Sorry everyone. I should have tinkered a little bit more. Will do

Re: Flushing the slink question cache

1999-06-23 Thread Brad
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Enrico Zini wrote: > Hello! > > I've come up with a bunch of practical questions around the Debian Slink > distribution: Well, i'll answer the ones i can figure out... > 1) There isn't a group 'shutdown' to whom add people allowed to shutdown, > while I often find a ne

Configuring PPP

1999-06-23 Thread Isabelle Poueriet
Hello List. Please excuseme if this questions has popped up recently. I'm new to the list. I'm trying to configure PPP for Debian 2.1. My base system has been installed. I run pppconfig as root and answer the questions there and then make sure that the files specified in the PPP section 7.25

help

1999-06-23 Thread Mark M
-- %% Mark Mathson icq# 2806647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] %%

SVGA/NVidia patches (Re: Text cursor disappears in Emacs)

1999-06-23 Thread Paul D. Smith
Andreas Voegele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since the last update of my systems the text cursor disappears in GNU > Emacs 20.3-8 under X11. The problem maybe has something to do with the > syntax highlighting. Above colored parts of the text the cursor is > visible. I see this as well, since

can't get ircii to run (part2)

1999-06-23 Thread Monte Copeland
Sorry, but I failed to mention that the previous error message was the result of trying to "man ircii". When I try and run ircii, I get ircii: Command not found. That error message is printed right after I install the deb package for the 2nd, 3rd,.etc. -- Monte Copeland ICQ# 25869

ircii will not install

1999-06-23 Thread Monte Copeland
Today I tried to install gnupg using deselect, but it would not run giving me similar error messages to the one stated below. I then decided to forget it and uninstall gnupg using dselect. I thought everything was just find. Then tonight, when I tried to use the "man ircii", I get the same ty

Re: A little confused with Netscape .deb's

1999-06-23 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 22 Jun, Brian Servis wrote about "Re: A little confused with Netscape .deb's" > *- On 22 Jun, Jason Loll wrote about "Re: A little confused with Netscape > .deb's" >> >> I tried to install netscape-base4_14 to slink and this is what I got: >> ollollo:/home/jason# dpkg -i netscape-base-4_14

Re: A little confused with Netscape .deb's

1999-06-23 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 22 Jun, Jason Loll wrote about "Re: A little confused with Netscape .deb's" > > I tried to install netscape-base4_14 to slink and this is what I got: > ollollo:/home/jason# dpkg -i netscape-base-4_14.deb > (Reading database ... 46865 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing t

Re: Magicfilter from potato

1999-06-23 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 22 Jun, Didi Damian wrote about "Magicfilter from potato" > Hello ! > > I'm trying to print to my stupid HP DeskJet 722c [EMAIL PROTECTED] printer > using > the pbm2ppa conversion program (in short it takes PS and converts into > PPA,poor man's PCL). I've been printing successfully in RH an

Re: A little confused with Netscape .deb's

1999-06-23 Thread Jason Loll
Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 22 Jun, Tom Pfeifer wrote about "Re: A little confused with Netscape > .deb's" > > Arcady Genkin wrote: > >> > >> Hi all: > >> > >> Could someone tell me which .debs I should install to have Netscape > >> browser-only on a Slink machine? Is it the netscape-base package

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