Exim... can't get outgoing mail off my machine

1999-09-28 Thread kvaughan
Sorry, but I cannot figure out how to get mail to other people on our LAN using exim. Those I send are booted back saying they don't exist on my machine. Mail should go to a server, but it treats all with the same domain as being on my machine. Have gone through the manual but I guess I'm blind.

Re: ppp how to use ppp for a normal user?

1999-09-28 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brad) writes: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hmmm... ugly long lines. Fix the MUAs to use lines < 76 characters at > maximum. > > On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > > I did a fresh install of Debian 2.1r3 last night. Accessing the internet > > via wvdi

Problems with lilo?

1999-09-28 Thread Jason Murray
I think this problem is with lilo. I am riding the bleeding edge upgrading roughly every night. Well yesterday when I upgraded there was an update for lilo. Now I can't boot from the HD. It tells me this: LILO boot: Lodaing Linux Uncompressing Linux... crc error -- system halted Now I've manag

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-28 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 06:20:36PM -0400, B. Szyszka wrote: > > Personally, I find it difficult to troubleshoot problems when the only > > data I'm given is "These things cost money". Give us something to work > > with. > > Well "buy something else" isn't exactly a very good solution to a problem

Re: Kernel upgrades = security upgrades

1999-09-28 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 05:19:24PM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote: > I realize the kernel is a very special piece of software but still see no > reason why it is treated differently from normal software. Perhaps the > upgrade process depends on the virtual package kernel-image which I don't > seem t

Re: Best API for g++?

1999-09-28 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > What's the best API (GUI) for writing/generating C/C++ > code in Linux X Windows, in your opinions? I need some suggestions > or recommendations from those of you who have used them. Two of the most popular these days seem to be Q

Re: X for Win95

1999-09-28 Thread Gareth
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Jon Hughes wrote: > I've been working on my Linux box here at work from my windows computer > (easier to telnet into rather then move around and stuff). This is fine and > dandy, but I've been told there is a way you can actually get the X > server/KDE stuff to work remotly, t

RE: txt 2 ps?

1999-09-28 Thread Ted Harding
On 28-Sep-99 erasmo perez wrote: > hello everybody > > which package can i use in order to convert a text file (as created by > emacs) to a postscript file, but in a way i ould have control over > factors like: type and size of the font, spacing, identation, > justification, etc. > > thanks a lot

Re: Root password

1999-09-28 Thread Seth R Arnold
Well, in multi-user mode, it does NOT prompt for root password (on my potato anyway... :) Single user mode MIGHT be different, but I would be suprised. On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 06:50:11PM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote: > Seth R Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I haven't tried this myself... b

Re: txt 2 ps?

1999-09-28 Thread Jordan Howarth
erasmo> hello everybody which package can i use in order to convert a text erasmo> file (as created by emacs) to a postscript file, but in a way i ould erasmo> have control over factors like: type and size of the font, spacing, erasmo> identation, justification, etc. The long way

Re: Installing debian to another hard drive

1999-09-28 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 10:42:15PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > Hello, > > How can I install the debian "base" system to another hard drive in the > same computer? I have a working Debian / DOS+Win95 dual boot system, and > would like to install Debian to a laptop, whose floppy disk drive is

Re: Flat-panel monitors?

1999-09-28 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 05:57:27PM -0400, B. Szyszka wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering what luck, if any, you guys have had with flat panel > monitors in Debian. Has everything worked as it should? not right from the start... X docs are your friends :) don't ask me where have i found the right inf

Re: Kernel upgrades = security upgrades - a possible solution?

1999-09-28 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 05:05:21PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 28 Sep, Fraser Campbell wrote about "Re: Kernel upgrades = security > upgrades" > > Brian Servis wrote: > > > >> Notice that the version is part of the package name. Thus a > >> kernel-image-2.0.34 and kernel-image-2.0.36 are

Re: timezone

1999-09-28 Thread Jean-Philippe Guérard
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 03:07:51PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How does one change the timezone setting? Use "tzconfig". -- Jean-Philippe Guérard

Re: txt 2 ps?

1999-09-28 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 23:26, erasmo perez wrote: > which package can i use in order to convert a text file (as created by > emacs) to a postscript file, but in a way i ould have control over > factors like: type and size of the font, spacing, identation, > justification, etc. Have a look at enc

Re: what modem

1999-09-28 Thread David Blackman
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > [Debian-doc is for discussion and development of Debian documentation - > moved to debian-user which is the general list for support questions] > > On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 08:46:14 -0700, O'Driscoll wrote: > > what modem works best for 2.0.2 & 2.1

RE: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-28 Thread B. Szyszka
> Personally, I find it difficult to troubleshoot problems when the only > data I'm given is "These things cost money". Give us something to work > with. Well "buy something else" isn't exactly a very good solution to a problem either. I cited two error messages and asked what they could be cause

Re: Best Solution for PPP?

1999-09-28 Thread John Hasler
Mike Werner writes: > Putting the line demand idle 600 holdoff 5 along with a dummy set of IP > addresses into my /etc/ppp/peers/provider file never got my modem to > dial. I tried ping, traceroute, telnet and connecting to a website with > lynx - all with no success. You have to start pppd (pon

Re: LiLO and Multi distributions

1999-09-28 Thread Dave Baker
> Hello all, > > I have isntalled two distributions of Linux (Reh Hat 6 and Debian 2.1) on > two hard disks, just like the following: > > hda1: Win98 > hda3: Debian > hdc5: Red Hat > > I have the joined lilo.conf file, and when I run "lilo" I get the message > "/boot/bzImage-2.0.37 not found". L

Re: upgrade 1.3 -> 2.1 question

1999-09-28 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 01:57:44PM -0600, Bruno Melli wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > I just upgraded (from CD) my 1.3 system to 2.1. > After installing 1.3 a couple of years ago I haven't done much > sysadmin so I'm a little rusty when it comes to kernel > configuration... > > Everything seems to hav

Re: Printing restart (lpr)

1999-09-28 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 28 Sep, Andreas Piesk wrote about "Re: Printing restart (lpr)" > ok, you could try "/etc/init.d/lpr restart" if the lpr-skript support > restart. > (don't know, i use lprng). you can kill lpr manually and start it again. but All script in /etc/init.d/ must support the following, according

Re: ppp how to use ppp for a normal user?

1999-09-28 Thread John Hasler
Brad writes: > This bug was discussed a while back on the list. Wonder why no one fixed > it...? The permissions bug was fixed. I don't think that's his problem. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dancing Hor

Diamond Viper V770 Ultra

1999-09-28 Thread Peter Ludwig
I am trying to help someone setup their Diamond Viper V770 Ultra under Linux (not sure exactly which distro they use, but I'm a debian person myself). They are having problems with X-windows (what else?) description of problem :- 1) Window appears to be four times it's correct size. 2) Unable to

RE: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, B. Szyszka wrote: : > > Well I can't afford to just go out and get a new harddrive, especially since : > > the two that I have no have more than enough space. Is there a way to : > > run a check on the harddrive that could prove whether or not the harddrive : > > itself

locking over NFS

1999-09-28 Thread Max
I'm currently using kernel 2.2.10 with the kernel-space NFS server and all the NFS patches from /usr/doc/knfs. However, I'm still having problems with NFS locking. Recently, WindowMaker on NFS client machines started segfaulting because it was apparently trying to lock some files over NFS. Mutt

Re: txt 2 ps?

1999-09-28 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 28 Sep, erasmo perez wrote about "txt 2 ps?" > hello everybody > > which package can i use in order to convert a text file (as created by > emacs) to a postscript file, but in a way i ould have control over > factors like: type and size of the font, spacing, identation, > justification, etc.

Flat-panel monitors?

1999-09-28 Thread B. Szyszka
Hi, I was wondering what luck, if any, you guys have had with flat panel monitors in Debian. Has everything worked as it should? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/p

Re: LiLO and Multi distributions

1999-09-28 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 10:19:38PM +0100, Joao Pissarro wrote: > Hello all, > > I have isntalled two distributions of Linux (Reh Hat 6 and Debian 2.1) on > two hard disks, just like the following: > > hda1: Win98 > hda3: Debian > hdc5: Red Hat > > I have the joined lilo.conf file, and when I run

Re: Lilo V22dev0-1

1999-09-28 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 28 Sep, Evan Van Dyke wrote about "Lilo V22dev0-1" > My LILO was recently upgraded with a standard potato run. I didn't > notice anything wrong at the time, as I didn't reboot the computer. > However, I did so today, to find that I am unable to boot any 2.2.x or > 2.3.x kernel. I am current

Re: Kernel upgrades = security upgrades

1999-09-28 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 28 Sep, Fraser Campbell wrote about "Re: Kernel upgrades = security upgrades" > Brian Servis wrote: > >> Notice that the version is part of the package name. Thus a >> kernel-image-2.0.34 and kernel-image-2.0.36 are two totally different >> packages as far as Debian is concerned, except th

Re: Printing restart (lpr)

1999-09-28 Thread Andreas Piesk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- on Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > My printer is an HP DJ870. I use lpr, have not made the change to > lprng. When I have a long queue, as well as perhaps for other > reasons, the output stream goes garbage, perhaps skips some bytes. > I have tried

Re: ra to wav

1999-09-28 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 11:38:26AM +0100, Rainer Sand wrote: > > Does someone know a program or a procedure to convert .ra to .wav? I only > found a win program > (Ra2Wav, www.2bsys.com). Or is it possible to stream the output of the real > player somehow into a converting program? > I think

Re: txt 2 ps?

1999-09-28 Thread Martin Fluch
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, erasmo perez wrote: > hello everybody > > which package can i use in order to convert a text file (as created by > emacs) to a postscript file, but in a way i ould have control over > factors like: type and size of the font, spacing, identation, > justification, etc. a2ps at

Lilo V22dev0-1

1999-09-28 Thread Evan Van Dyke
My LILO was recently upgraded with a standard potato run. I didn't notice anything wrong at the time, as I didn't reboot the computer. However, I did so today, to find that I am unable to boot any 2.2.x or 2.3.x kernel. I am currently running off of a 2.2.12 kernel on floppy (which works ok) but

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1999-09-28 Thread erasmo perez

txt 2 ps?

1999-09-28 Thread erasmo perez
hello everybody which package can i use in order to convert a text file (as created by emacs) to a postscript file, but in a way i ould have control over factors like: type and size of the font, spacing, identation, justification, etc. thanks a lot

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-28 Thread Stephen R. Gore
B. Szyszka wrote: > > > Well I can't afford to just go out and get a new harddrive, especially > > > since > > > the two that I have no have more than enough space. Is there a way to > > > run a check on the harddrive that could prove whether or not the harddrive > > > itself is the problem? > > T

Re: Serial connection to windoze box

1999-09-28 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! I've now got the inf file, and I'm trying to use the dial-up-networking (German: short: DFUE) to get a PPP connection over the serial line. Now, although I've read some chapters of the PPP FAQ, I've got some problems (don't know which one is the cause of that it doesn't work) First of all

Re: Kernel upgrades = security upgrades

1999-09-28 Thread Fraser Campbell
Brian Servis wrote: > Notice that the version is part of the package name. Thus a > kernel-image-2.0.34 and kernel-image-2.0.36 are two totally different > packages as far as Debian is concerned, except that they both provide > the virtual package kernel-image and that fact is not determined unti

LiLO and Multi distributions

1999-09-28 Thread Joao Pissarro
Hello all, I have isntalled two distributions of Linux (Reh Hat 6 and Debian 2.1) on two hard disks, just like the following: hda1: Win98 hda3: Debian hdc5: Red Hat I have the joined lilo.conf file, and when I run "lilo" I get the message "/boot/bzImage-2.0.37 not found". Like this I can not boo

Re: imap

1999-09-28 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
BAK again, after the weekend :) Today I had some time to try further things and I succeded. I'm using the imapd that comes with slink (imap_4.5-0slink3.deb). procmail, which I use to deliver messages to different folders can write to directory folders. There are (at least) three different direc

RE: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-28 Thread B. Szyszka
> > Well I can't afford to just go out and get a new harddrive, especially since > > the two that I have no have more than enough space. Is there a way to > > run a check on the harddrive that could prove whether or not the harddrive > > itself is the problem? > The surest test would be to use it w

Re: Kernel upgrades = security upgrades

1999-09-28 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 28 Sep, Fraser Campbell wrote about "Kernel upgrades = security upgrades" > I am curious as to how the kernel upgrades in Debian are done. Recently I > set up a new slink system. The kernel installed was 2.0.34 (older boot > disk). I added "deb http://security.debian.org/ stable updates" t

Re: Gnome-print / Gnumeric

1999-09-28 Thread John May
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 11:51:57AM -0700, wrote: > try > #cd /usr/share/fonts > #gnome-font-install --afm-path=/usr/share/fonts/afms \ > --pfb-assignment=ghostscript,/usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts > > edgar I am almost certain that I tried some variation of that before. However, this tim

Installing debian to another hard drive

1999-09-28 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Hello, How can I install the debian "base" system to another hard drive in the same computer? I have a working Debian / DOS+Win95 dual boot system, and would like to install Debian to a laptop, whose floppy disk drive is disfunctional, and has no CD-ROM drive. I have connected the laptop's hard d

Re: S3 AGP Trio3D2x and X servers (SVGA vs FBDev)

1999-09-28 Thread Scott Henry
> "L" == Leszek Gerwatowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: L> On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 10:10:06PM +0100, Nuno Carvalho wrote: >> Leszek Gerwatowski wrote: >> >> > I've tried XFree 3.3.5 but it dosn't work for me too. Try Xserver 3.3.4 >> > from www.xfree86.org or packaged for Debian from: >> > >

Installing Debian to different hard disk

1999-09-28 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Hello, How can I install the debian "base" system to another hard drive in the same computer? I have a working Debian / DOS+Win95 dual boot system, and would like to install Debian to a laptop, whose floppy disk drive is disfunctional, and has no CD-ROM drive. I have connected the laptop's hard d

Kernel upgrades = security upgrades

1999-09-28 Thread Fraser Campbell
I am curious as to how the kernel upgrades in Debian are done. Recently I set up a new slink system. The kernel installed was 2.0.34 (older boot disk). I added "deb http://security.debian.org/ stable updates" to /etc/apt/sources.list. An "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" grabbed several package

Re: upgrade 1.3 -> 2.1 question

1999-09-28 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 28 Sep, Bruno Melli wrote about "upgrade 1.3 -> 2.1 question" > > I just upgraded (from CD) my 1.3 system to 2.1. > After installing 1.3 a couple of years ago I haven't done much > sysadmin so I'm a little rusty when it comes to kernel > configuration... > > Everything seems to have update

Re: Best Solution for PPP?

1999-09-28 Thread Mike Werner
Where exactly do those options go? Putting the line demand idle 600 holdoff 5 along with a dummy set of IP addresses into my /etc/ppp/peers/provider file never got my modem to dial. I tried ping, traceroute, telnet and connecting to a website with lynx - all with no success. Dialing manually wor

Re: X for Win95

1999-09-28 Thread Kenneth Scharf
The 1.x version that is on the S.U.S.E. distro is free (as in free beer cause the source isn't available). For what I wanted to do this was good enough. For $25 I would try the 2.0 version though. --- Kristopher Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > > See linux Gazzette

upgrade 1.3 -> 2.1 question

1999-09-28 Thread Bruno Melli
Hi Folks, I just upgraded (from CD) my 1.3 system to 2.1. After installing 1.3 a couple of years ago I haven't done much sysadmin so I'm a little rusty when it comes to kernel configuration... Everything seems to have updated OK but I'm puzzled that the machine was never rebooted during the up

Re: ppp how to use ppp for a normal user?

1999-09-28 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hmmm... ugly long lines. Fix the MUAs to use lines < 76 characters at maximum. On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > I did a fresh install of Debian 2.1r3 last night. Accessing the internet via > wvdial as a > normal user required all three of the foll

wierd errors

1999-09-28 Thread Ben Lutgens
It seems X is misbehaving on my potato box. I am using a Banshee Video Card with 16MB of ram and have just started getting these errors and don't know why. tell me what you crazy cats think this is from and where to fix it or find info. [EMAIL PROTECTED] allegro}$ rxvt rxvt: can't load color "Anti

Re: dselect/apt/cdrom

1999-09-28 Thread John
on 27 Sep 99, Colin Marquardt wrote... >* John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'm trying to configure /etc/apt/sources.list to use a 2CD 'Official' >> Debian 2.1 set and seem unable to get the right formulation. All the = > >> examples given relate to ftp and http. I want to use apt in dselect

Re: Gnome-print / Gnumeric

1999-09-28 Thread Edgar Alcaide
John P. May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is something which seems to have been broken for a while now. > In potato, when trying to start up gnumeric it complain about not being > able to find a suitable start up font, and to check the gnome-print=20 > installation. OK. So I look at gnome-pr

Re: what modem

1999-09-28 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
[Debian-doc is for discussion and development of Debian documentation - moved to debian-user which is the general list for support questions] On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 08:46:14 -0700, O'Driscoll wrote: > what modem works best for 2.0.2 & 2.1? Any modem that isn't a "winmodem" - i.e. any real modem.

Re: X for Win95

1999-09-28 Thread Kristopher Johnson
Kenneth Scharf wrote: > See linux Gazzette #45. Get the MIX xserver for > windows from microimages. It's on the SUSE distro > under dos utilities. BTW, the current version of MIX for Windows is not free, but it's only $25. http://www.microimages.com/mix/ I've been using it at work. It's not

Re: Best API for g++?

1999-09-28 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 12:09:23 -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: > What's the best API (GUI) for writing/generating C/C++ > code in Linux X Windows, in your opinions? I need some suggestions > or recommendations from those of you who have used them. Check out http://www.theoffice.net/guitool to

Re: dselect/apt/cdrom

1999-09-28 Thread Carel Fellinger
Martin Fluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should install the dpkg-multicd package and than choose the multi_cd > access methode in dselect. or you could do as I was advised, get apt-0.3.12, compile it your self and follow the apt-cdrom man page. works swell on debian-hamm. solved all the probl

About Diamond Viper V770

1999-09-28 Thread Liu Chung Him
Dear All, I just buy a Diamond Viper V770 video card and want to use it in linux. However, I can only open xwindow with 8 bits depth color. What can i do ??? Wilson

Re: ppp how to use ppp for a normal user?

1999-09-28 Thread Andrew L. Gould
John Hasler wrote: > Andrew L. Gould writes: > > chmod a+rwx /etc/ppp/* > > chmod a+rwx /etc/ppp > > You've just made your password world readable and world writable. > -- > John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will.

Best API for g++?

1999-09-28 Thread Art Lemasters
What's the best API (GUI) for writing/generating C/C++ code in Linux X Windows, in your opinions? I need some suggestions or recommendations from those of you who have used them. Also, what's the command and arguments for compiling "hello world" in Linux with g++ (just to get me started

Re: Root password

1999-09-28 Thread Marek Habersack
* Jens Ritter said: > Seth R Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I haven't tried this myself... but, I seem to recall that if you pass linux > > "single" on the boot line (at the lilo prompt, etc..) it will boot into a > > single-user mode; within that you should be able to "passwd root". >

Re: Printing restart (lpr)

1999-09-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Sep 1999, Laurent Martelli wrote: > > "Alan" == Alan Eugene Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > Alan> Is there any sequence of steps that will enable me to cleanly > Alan> recover to a known state between printer and spooler? I'd > Alan> rather not lose a job.

2.2.12, tr0, and X errors... kernel? or driver? or ??

1999-09-28 Thread kvaughan
I am using an IBM Auto 16/4 ISA card and have compiled 2.2.12 for that support (not as a module). The problems I'm having occur with or without pnp support for the card. I am using pump as a dhcp client. The system boots and experiences no slowdown when ipxd starts (which was the problem I had

Newbie to RAID

1999-09-28 Thread Evan Moore
Hi i am a newbie to Debian and to RAID. I have a Compaq Proliant with Compaq SMART2 Array controller. We have RedHat running on it, but we want to install Debian. I have been working on intalling Debian for a week now with little success. I first tried using the boot/root floppy, which booted, but

Re: Debian and Redhat

1999-09-28 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Craig H. Block" wrote: > If you are using APC UPS then you should check their website. I sent them > an email a couple months ago about PowerChute for Linux and they said it > should be available this quarter. http://www.apc.com/products/management/pcp_linux.cfm http://www.apc.com/tools/downlo

bug in xdm?

1999-09-28 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I have noticed that if I use to switch from an xwindow to a vconsole, the xsession sometimes restarts when I back. This never happens if I started the xwindow via startx, but will when I log in from xdm. All applications open in the xwindow are closed and I lose any data not saved. However if

Re: Root password

1999-09-28 Thread Jens Ritter
Seth R Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I haven't tried this myself... but, I seem to recall that if you pass linux > "single" on the boot line (at the lilo prompt, etc..) it will boot into a > single-user mode; within that you should be able to "passwd root". This will ask for a password, to

X for Win95

1999-09-28 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Date: >I've been working on my Linux box here at work from my >windows computer >(easier to telnet into rather then move around and >stuff). This is >fine and >dandy, but I've been told there is a way you can >actually get the X >server/KDE stuff to work remotly, through a Xwindow on >Win95 or >s

Re: Serial connection to windoze box

1999-09-28 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>Used ethernet cards cost pennies and Windows 95 >usually already has a >driver >for them. If you can track down some 50 ohm >terminators, these rest is >usually available for next to nothing. Make sure you get the kind of ethernet cards that have bnc coax connectors on them. RadioShack has coax

Re: Debian and Redhat

1999-09-28 Thread Craig H. Block
However, there are some software that these servers MUST have, right now it's Legato Networker and the UPS software (not sure which UPS system we will use yet). Both have support for Linux, but only RedHat. I'v made debian packages of Networker from the RPM package, and they works fine. I'll try t

Re: partition this thing!

1999-09-28 Thread Kenneth Scharf
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 09:17:09PM -0400, Chris Ruvolo wrote: > At 11:02 PM 9/26/99 +0300, you wrote: > >This is my first try at more than swap and /. tiny /boot, giant > >/home, right? Anyone feel like helping? > > I don't think a separate partition for /boot would be a good idea. /boot >

Re: Language of www.debian.org.....

1999-09-28 Thread peter karlsson
> Stranger - www.debian.org brings up the 'elvish' (Turkish...) version, yet > www.debian.org/index.html brings up the english version.. > er what? An old Apache bug. It is in the process of being fixed. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ When answering to mailing list or news posti

Re: ipmasq

1999-09-28 Thread lexchive
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 02:25:44PM -, Pollywog wrote: > > > Seems there is a package called "ipmasq". I am checking it out now. > This is only a collection of scripts to set up the firewalling rules. Works quite well for a basic setting but I found it hard to customize. -Lex pgplFuxkJhq

KDE clock voice stucked

1999-09-28 Thread Jean-Yves F. Barbier
Hi all, While setting up my clock in KDE 1.1.2, I asked it to say the time every hours. Every hours, it says: "The time is... The time is... The time is..." and that's all :(); is it a bug, or do I miss something? JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You had mail, but the super-user

Re: S3 AGP Trio3D2x and X servers (SVGA vs FBDev)

1999-09-28 Thread Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote: > Do you use Xserver-svga 3.3.4 from www.xfree86.org? I've used debian package > for it and xserver 3.3.5 in both formats and they didn't worked. But 3.3.4 > form www.xfree86.org works great. My is 3253081 bytes. Yes, I used xserver-svga 3.3.4 from

smail problem

1999-09-28 Thread David Kanter
After installing Netscape 4.61, via dselect using Slink, a message came up during the configuration of the packages that smail might have to be restarted . So I let smail restart. However, now when I run fetchmail I must runq in order for smail to pick up the mail fetchmail received and get it

Re: X for Win95

1999-09-28 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 09:16, Jon Hughes wrote: > I've been working on my Linux box here at work from my windows computer > (easier to telnet into rather then move around and stuff). This is fine and > dandy, but I've been told there is a way you can actually get the X > server/KDE stuff to work

Re: PPP

1999-09-28 Thread Andrew L. Gould
Petru NOTINGHER wrote: > Hi. > > I use ppp to connect to my provider. When it connects, I can do "ping", > everything's OK. > However, I can't do ftp or smtp or http; il lasts for years and nothing > happens. > When I run ftp, I get the message "Connected to xxx.xxx.xxx", and then > nothing happen

staroffice library redirection

1999-09-28 Thread Paul Harris
hi i'm trying to get staroffice to run on my potato system by pointing it towards slink libraries installed to my home dir. i've set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to the right dirs and it seems to go ok, except for one thing: /usr/share/Office51/bin/soffice.bin: error in loading shared libraries:

Re: interactive ppp session

1999-09-28 Thread John Hasler
Jianming writes: > Now my company uses ppp and one-time only password. This means I can not > put any password in the script. I have to type in the password each time > I connect to my company. What should I do? Take a look at /usr/doc/ppp/examples/scripts/secure-card . -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROT

Re: ppp how to use ppp for a normal user?

1999-09-28 Thread John Hasler
Andrew L. Gould writes: > chmod a+rwx /etc/ppp/* > chmod a+rwx /etc/ppp You've just made your password world readable and world writable. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make mone

Re: S3 AGP Trio3D2x and X servers (SVGA vs FBDev)

1999-09-28 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 10:10:06PM +0100, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > Leszek Gerwatowski wrote: > > > I've tried XFree 3.3.5 but it dosn't work for me too. Try Xserver 3.3.4 > > from www.xfree86.org or packaged for Debian from: > > > > http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/xfree86-334-slink/ > > > > (but

Re: dhcpcd error "sendto (init): Operation not permitted"

1999-09-28 Thread Jean-Yves F. Barbier
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 10:53:44PM -0400, Chris Ruvolo wrote: > . > With the following rules changes, I was able to successfully get an IP. I > need to run tcpdump and take a look at where the packets are actually going > so I can setup better rules though. > > --- > ipfwadm -O -p accept >

Re: Language of www.debian.org.....

1999-09-28 Thread Martin Waller
Stranger - www.debian.org brings up the 'elvish' (Turkish...) version, yet www.debian.org/index.html brings up the english version.. er what? Something's not right, especially if some people aren't having probs. and some are. I'm connecting from the UK using IE4. Martin ___

Replacing exim with a source package of qmail

1999-09-28 Thread Bruce Z. Lysik
Hi guys. I installed exim because a mailer was required by some of the other packages I wanted. I promptly disabled it, and compiled my own version of qmail, and have been using that. But now I want to install the source package of qmail. A quick 'apt-get --build source qmail' and I've got the

PPP

1999-09-28 Thread Petru NOTINGHER
Hi. I use ppp to connect to my provider. When it connects, I can do "ping", everything's OK. However, I can't do ftp or smtp or http; il lasts for years and nothing happens. When I run ftp, I get the message "Connected to xxx.xxx.xxx", and then nothing happens. I can't access the remote machine. I

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1999-09-28 Thread Herbert Michael Rice
 

RE: ipmasq

1999-09-28 Thread Pollywog
On 28-Sep-99 Pollywog wrote: > > On 28-Sep-99 Jim Ruby wrote: >> I have my ipmasq all setup I think *chuckle*, but when I type >> ipmasq -d I see a different ip address then what the window machine >> uses, >> probably something I did wrong. >> >> How can I change the ip address to the windows m

RE: ipmasq

1999-09-28 Thread Pollywog
On 28-Sep-99 Jim Ruby wrote: > I have my ipmasq all setup I think *chuckle*, but when I type > ipmasq -d I see a different ip address then what the window machine uses, > probably something I did wrong. > > How can I change the ip address to the windows machine so it will forward > its packets?

Re: g77/fort77 and gdb

1999-09-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 01:42:37PM +0100, H C Pumphrey wrote: > Does anyone know whether it is possible to get gdb to work with Fortran? The free software support for running Fortran under a debugger is pretty poor. > (g77 or fort77) The documentation says it should work (with certain > caveat

Re: Language of www.debian.org.....

1999-09-28 Thread Marcin Kurc
yeah, it uses Netscape or IE settings, so check what is your prefered language. in netscape - edit > preferences > navigator > languages On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 10:10:33AM -0400, Paul McHale wrote: > Just tried it myself, wrong language ! IE 5.0 wants to load a european > language font ? > > -

RE: Language of www.debian.org.....

1999-09-28 Thread Paul McHale
Thanks for the info. Yngilizce from English ... Glad you knew that ! -Original Message- From: E.L. Meijer (Eric) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 9:31 AM To: debian Subject: Re: Language of www.debian.org. On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 06:11:15AM -0700, Martin

Re: imap

1999-09-28 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
"Jaldhar H. Vyas" wrote: > On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > Ah, but the latest version *does* support maildirs (I'm using it). > > Actually I did compile my own version to apply one patch that the > > maintainer hadn't yet applied. The bug caused a file to not be removed if > >

RE: Language of www.debian.org.....

1999-09-28 Thread Paul McHale
Just tried it myself, wrong language ! IE 5.0 wants to load a european language font ? -Original Message- From: Bruce Z. Lysik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 9:52 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Language of www.debian.org. > "M" == M

interactive ppp session

1999-09-28 Thread Jianming YOU
Hi, experts, I have ppp setup to connect to my ISP, using pon and poff and /etc/chatscripts/provider. Everything is perfect. Now my company uses ppp and one-time only password. This means I can not put any password in the script. I have to type in the password each time I connect to my company.

Re: X for Win95

1999-09-28 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 28 Sep, Jon Hughes wrote about "X for Win95" > I've been working on my Linux box here at work from my windows computer > (easier to telnet into rather then move around and stuff). This is fine and > dandy, but I've been told there is a way you can actually get the X > server/KDE stuff to wor

Re: hd to hd copy?

1999-09-28 Thread Will Lowe
> > On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 10:27:31AM +0200, Andrew Hately wrote: > > > # ( cd / ; tar cf - bin boot dev lib sbin usr var ) | tar xf - > > xfp - > > I forgot etc in the list. better: rsync -av / --exclude=/proc --exclude=

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