PPPD Not working?

1998-05-17 Thread Carroll Kong
27; then it hangs up instantly! Any ideas guys? Oh yeah... on kernel bootup, it says PPP loaded, with BSD PPPD compression (is this what is causing problems, the PPP compression?) Thanks in advance guys! -Carroll Kong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&

-i- Thanks

1998-05-05 Thread Carroll Kong
Thanks guys for the ftp sites. ssh is being compiled as we speak... Carroll Kong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

-I- where? is source for sshd?

1998-05-05 Thread Carroll Kong
site where sshd is located? Thanks in advance. Carroll Kong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sshd and utmp

1998-05-05 Thread Carroll Kong
ed in libc5? Thanks in advance guys. Carroll Kong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installation Millenium2

1998-05-02 Thread Carroll Kong
Carroll Kong On Sat, 2 May 1998, Olivier wrote: > Hye , I want to install my Millenium 2 video card , and my Linux version > don't support it ( Linux Mnis octobrer 97 kernel 2.0.30 / 2.1.56 ). > I don't find the drivers for it . > So , i want to know how do to get it

Re: text mode IDE?

1998-04-28 Thread Carroll Kong
I use xwpe myself.. but try wpe. xwpe is very close to borland's dos ide, and wpe is just... well weird. :) (you need X for xwpe). Carroll Kong On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Dave Elliot wrote: > I was wondering if there's a decent text mode IDE for debian/linux. > Some

Re: bugs in latest ncftp package?

1998-04-28 Thread Carroll Kong
I think you can compile back in name completion. I got a bug where it would resume files improperly and append MORE data than the original file was supposed to have. (ncftp 3.0 beta 9) Carroll Kong On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Ted Cabeen wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Linux + Win95 + Win NT on one HD

1998-04-22 Thread Carroll Kong
that fails to work... odds are you need to make a /hda3 as your "/" root. Carroll Kong On Wed, 22 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to install three OSs on one HD: Win 95, Win NT and Linux. I was > partially succesfull; th eonly problem at the m

Xlock with shadow passwords

1998-04-21 Thread Carroll Kong
execute for non-root users. "(chmod 2755 xlock may be better if shadow has group read for root group)" How can I make the shadow group have read for root group? Thanks in advance. Carroll Kong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: question about kernel

1998-04-20 Thread Carroll Kong
nel source tree and recompile it... Carroll Kong On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Maarten Bezemer wrote: > > Hi! > A lot of the people here are running RH linux, and this morning all of 'em > crashed. RH seems to have a patch available, Debian doesn't. > Question: is Debian

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-20 Thread Carroll Kong
aster response times on some windows vs my X all oses have their purposes, I personally favor Linux with X11 rather than MS for my general internetting pleasure. I only tried a few betas of Windows 98, like I said.. needs more ram. :) Carroll Kong On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote:

Thanks... but.. need to reset dpkg

1998-04-19 Thread Carroll Kong
change the date of this file so I can let ftp.debian.org update it? Carroll Kong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cannot login?

1998-04-18 Thread Carroll Kong
is an "operator error" in the sense that I do not know anything about permissions. (error operator in the sense that I should never have mounted ext2fs with freebsd. :( ) In the end it seems like a permission error, does anyone know what kind of files are required to do such a thing

-I- Re: email sendmail problems?

1998-04-15 Thread Carroll Kong
Ignore this.. i think i may have fixed it. :( Sorry about the flood of 'newbie' questions. Heheeh :) Carroll Kong On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Carroll Kong wrote: > For odd reasons, I cannot send email to one user on my college network. > Pine immediately says, blahb

email sendmail problems?

1998-04-15 Thread Carroll Kong
For odd reasons, I cannot send email to one user on my college network. Pine immediately says, blahblah username not found. Not sending. I thought it is supposed to send it with sendmail?!?! Have I configured sendmail improperly? Carroll Kong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: why debian?

1998-04-15 Thread Carroll Kong
rong since red hat has a lot of patches. Try them yourself and get a feel for it. Carroll Kong On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Chris de Weth wrote: > Hi! > > I was just wondering if anyone can tell me why so much people use Red > Hat linux? To me it seems that they have a far greater communit

Re: Upgrading to hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Carroll Kong
ully reconfigure and feel happy about the system again. (it takes me a while for these things). Hope this helps. (no unstablility yet...) Carroll Kong On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Chris wrote: > > Hi, > > I am currently running a debian bo system, and I am considering upgrading > (or

Another Debian 2.0 Question - GMT

1998-04-15 Thread Carroll Kong
with /usr/lib/zoneinfo/localtime but it is a weird binary? Can I turn my clock back to Eastern Standard Time? Or does anyone know why it is doing this? Does hwclock -a $GMT have anything to do with it (this is in my /etc/init.d/boot). Carroll Kong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Dselect fails?

1998-04-15 Thread Carroll Kong
mm contrib non-free". Is this wrong? Any ideas guys? I am pretty sure the links really do work and exist, I tried to trace them myself. Not that I mind running around in ncftp and dpkg -i deb.deb packages myself.. but it would be nice. :) Carroll Kong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Grep... in Debian 2.0

1998-04-14 Thread Carroll Kong
fine that way before Carroll Kong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian "2.0"

1998-04-14 Thread Carroll Kong
?!?! Thanks again. Carroll Kong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian 2.0

1998-04-13 Thread Carroll Kong
fix the X problem... that is the main thing. Plus.. it would be bad if any of the apps I mentioned above fail or act oddly in Debian 2.0. If there is ANY oddity... please tell me. I do not want to upgrade if that is the case... Thanks in advance guys, this will save me a lot of trouble! Ca

Re: Default FTP installation

1998-04-13 Thread Carroll Kong
s usually started up. Carroll Kong On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Will Smith wrote: > Hello, > Could anyone clarify whether or not the FTP daemon is configured and > enabled automatically upon a default installation of Debian (<2.0)? Thanks > for your reply. > -- > Will Smith > [

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Paul Atreides

1998-04-13 Thread Carroll Kong
Actually Paul Atreides becomes a blind super prophet while his son, Leto II becomes the actual Worm of Lore. He then dies at the hands of his sister's troops as Leto II breaks in and slaughters everyone. But... hehehe I guess either way they are in a different category. :) Ca

CD-Rs In Linux

1998-04-13 Thread Carroll Kong
umper enabled), but I was also wondering... I have a .raw or .bin file... it is a raw extraction of a CD image. Can cd-record successfully burn this type of file? Thanks in advance guys. Carroll Kong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [pwink@ibm.net: telnet does not allow login as "root"]

1998-04-12 Thread Carroll Kong
the system remotely...) Carroll Kong On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > -Forwarded message from Paul Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>- > > This is my first experience setting up a Debian (or UNIX) server. > > The server is running Debian 1.3.1. I am not ab

Setting transparent xterms

1998-04-12 Thread Carroll Kong
am typing directly into the background.) Thanks in advance. Carroll Kong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

-I- Re: lesstif not motif

1998-04-10 Thread Carroll Kong
Oh yes, sorry, I stand corrected. Carroll Kong On Fri, 10 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 08:00:05PM -0400, Carroll Kong wrote: > > Motif is not freeware. Lesstif is.. but you need Motif to run XMCD. > > No you don't. The xmcd package in

Re: Motif

1998-04-10 Thread Carroll Kong
Motif is not freeware. Lesstif is.. but you need Motif to run XMCD. There is a statically compiled version somewhere... Carroll Kong On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Helmut Leinfellner wrote: > Hi ! > > I was trying to install XMCD and I think what I'm lacking is ... Motif. >

Re: CD-R, CD-RW

1998-04-08 Thread Carroll Kong
but I cannot see why it would not work. :) Carroll Kong On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Martin Oldfield wrote: > > Has anyone any experience of using a CD-R, or preferably a CD-RW drive > with Linux ? I'm particularly interested in SCSI based drives. > > Cheers, > -- > Ma

Re: Need help with da requirements

1998-04-08 Thread Carroll Kong
It should work. My friend runs Red Hat 5.0 with a Pentium II. Carroll Kong On Wed, 8 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey, > No, in the installation readme file it says that Linux works on Pentium, > Pentuim Pro, now, what about Pentium II? > > > -- >

Re: mill 2

1998-04-05 Thread Carroll Kong
You do not need hamm for mill ii support. Xfree86 3.3.1 supported mill ii just had lots of bugs with it. XFree86 3.3.2 is all you need. Carroll Kong On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Robert Rozman wrote: > Hello ! > > I'm new in the Linux field. I've i

Glibc2

1998-04-02 Thread Carroll Kong
What kind of success would I get if I simply got a "tarball" of the glibc2 libs and ran the mozilla package? It should work... right? Carroll Kong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Killing NetBios Network Connections

1998-04-01 Thread Carroll Kong
How exactly do I kill an active Network Connection (NETBIOS) so they are forced to reconnect to me? (reauthenticate themselves)? netstat -kill? hehehe? Basically something analagous to MS's net use /delete IPC$ Thanks! Carroll Kong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Help with X

1998-04-01 Thread Carroll Kong
) So... is hamm "frozen" safe to get and install. The idea of having a frozen distro... if there are bugs, sounds like there will be fixes... ? Carroll Kong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mozilla.deb, get it while its hot

1998-04-01 Thread Carroll Kong
me, do you know of any mirrors with ISO images?!?! Hm... when you say "glitches in html rendering" is there any glitches like netscape' dreaded 'bus error'? (critical "fatal" errors?) Carroll Kong On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Johnie Ingram wrote: > > A

Re: SAMBA w/ TCP/IP

1998-03-31 Thread Carroll Kong
I thought SAMBA uses Netbios which can be tunneled through any protocol? Tcpi/ip, ipx/spx, or netbeui? Carroll Kong On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: > I've heard about SAMBA! SAMBA uses NetBeui to do "Network > Neighborhood"? > >

Re: Samba config/password problem; Win95 OEMSR2

1998-03-31 Thread Carroll Kong
Carroll Kong >Aha, this is an interesting angle I haven't thought of! I tried it, > here's what > happens; I get the error message of: > > ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password pair in a Tree Connect or > Session > Setup are invalid.) >

Re: More on XDM?

1998-03-30 Thread Carroll Kong
color load on my Accelerated X and hope that it will go? Carroll Kong On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: > > > I use Accelerated X which defaults to 24 bit color. Did you misread my > > message? Or does xdm not use accelerated X? I never installed xf86config, > &g

Re: Samba config/password problem; Win95 OEMSR2

1998-03-30 Thread Carroll Kong
windows 95 clients, but maybe windows 95 now forces encrypted passwords by default as well. And how do you setup "plain text passwords" through NetBios in windows 95? Can you browse the network at all? Carroll Kong On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Randy Edwards wrote: >I'm running my L

Re: More on XDM?

1998-03-30 Thread Carroll Kong
gives me less color than logging in locally. via xdm. Carroll Kong On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Carroll Kong wrote: > > Where do I go to > >increase color depth allocation per user? I want to have maximized > resource > >s > >alloca

More on XDM?

1998-03-29 Thread Carroll Kong
.Xresources but all it seems to talk about is how to setup the "login" screen. Where do I go to increase color depth allocation per user? I want to have maximized resources allocated Thanks in advance guys! Debian 1.3R6 running XDM-Shadow Carroll Kong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

-I- XDM Works Great.. Thanks!

1998-03-29 Thread Carroll Kong
Hey thanks a lot guys, XDM is working great. I just need to make a few modifications since the remote system's video card can't handle high res and high color depth so my background looks.. heheh crappy. Nonetheless, thanks to everyone to helped me out here! Carroll Ko

Re: Frozen Hamm...

1998-03-29 Thread Carroll Kong
it IS stable? Or they are testing it.. if they find bugs, then they will fix it, then release it? Carroll Kong On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote: > "Stan Brown" wrote: > > I noticed on my local mirror, that some subdirectories called "slin: ar > >e

Re: Mouse Driver?

1998-03-29 Thread Carroll Kong
It is a lot faster than the default. Carroll Kong On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Carl Brown wrote: > Greetings! > I am new to Debian & Linux, so I'll be asking lots of dumb questions. In > Win-xx and OS/2, the mouse movement can be accelerated, so the speed of cursor > movem

Re: XDM with Debian 1.3E6

1998-03-29 Thread Carroll Kong
, but there does not seem to be any. Thanks! Carroll Kong On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Carroll Kong wrote: > re xdm ... > > Everytime I try to login with a valid user account, it says, login > >failed. I have a .xsession in the users'

XDM with Debian 1.3E6

1998-03-28 Thread Carroll Kong
d" even with valid user logins (telnets works fine). Thanks in advance guys! Carroll Kong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: long filenames in M$Dos partition

1998-03-12 Thread Carroll Kong
Did you try mounting as vfat? Carroll Kong On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Arunas Norvaisa wrote: > Dear list, > > Can anybody of you please explain to me (hopeless newbie) why > when I can't see long filenames on mounted msdos partition? This > causes me some pain in

Re: X at higher resolutions, and embedding lower resolutions

1998-03-11 Thread Carroll Kong
I heard that XFree86 3.3.2 has default color depth options during setup. Carroll Kong On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > edit /etc/X11/XF86zConfig (on a hamm system) or /etc/XF86Config (on a bo > system) > and add the following line in the "Screen&quo

Re: Kernel compilation

1998-03-09 Thread Carroll Kong
them into the /etc/modules and you reboot, and it should have everything working 100%. I did miss the earlier part of this thread, so sorry if this info is not helpful or redundent. Carroll Kong On Sun, 8 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thank you. > mv /lib/modules/2.0.29 /li

Upgrade...

1998-03-08 Thread Carroll Kong
I am using debian 1.3R6... but i wanted to upgrade the libc since supposedly the old 5.4.34? had a lot of problems. I went to 5.4.38. Now.. when I type in "who" .. no one comes up... not even ttys.. (my own). Is this somehow related? And if so, how do I fix it? Carroll K

Re: Debian 2.0 unstable

1998-03-08 Thread Carroll Kong
Fails to startup... says.. "cannot solved unresolved symbols X_global_lock XUnlockMutex_fn XlockMutex_fn I am seriously considering nuking the partition and starting over. Or... should I ... consider Red Hat instead? Carroll Kong On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, George Bonser wrote: > >

Debian 2.0 unstable

1998-03-08 Thread Carroll Kong
kill my Accelerated X? Carroll Kong -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: How to i check for deb 2.0

1998-03-07 Thread Carroll Kong
Ok. I seem to have the libc6 libs. But when i did a ldd /sbin/init , it showed libc5.0. This is odd, eh? Carroll Kong On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, Carroll Kong wrote: > > > How do I know if i have deb 2.0? I ran the auto

How to i check for deb 2.0

1998-03-07 Thread Carroll Kong
How do I know if i have deb 2.0? I ran the autoup.sh, and i ran the packages, although, i didn't see it do a bunch of mystical untarring or anything! Anyway I can check if I upgraded the system and binaries properly? Carroll Kong -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [

Re: deltree for linux

1998-03-07 Thread Carroll Kong
ll affect mount points? hopefully not.. heheh minimize dmg) Carroll Kong On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, Alain Toussaint wrote: > does exist a deltree lookalike for linux (or a good way to get rid of some > directory and their files) ??? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- &g

autoup.sh

1998-03-06 Thread Carroll Kong
Whoa... tried upgrading and I think I got confused. Shouldn't I erase my old packages via dselect? Then change my access to ftp and get all the hamm packages, then run autoup.sh? Carroll Kong -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM TH

Upgrading to glibc2

1998-03-06 Thread Carroll Kong
le?) I know they say they are unstable, but someone told me that debian 2.0 is close to release and that the unstable stuff is actually pretty stable now? Should I bother? My system is working great now what kind of other advantages should I see? Carroll Kong -- E-mail the word "u

Re: AccelX

1998-03-06 Thread Carroll Kong
installing term-cap compatibility or else the install might fail. Carroll Kong On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote: > How well does Accelerated X (a commercial X server from www.xig.com) work > with Debian GNU/Linux? Is there a Debian installer for it? Can I skip > installation

Re: Debian vs. FreeBSD

1998-03-05 Thread Carroll Kong
un Linux as my main personal os. :) Carroll Kong On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Y.A.Uvarov wrote: > Hi! > > Could somebody compare Debian with FreeBSD. > I currently work on FreeBSD and I want to > know if there are any reasons to try Debian. > > Thanks in advance, >

Re: [off-topic] not only a server, what hardware?

1998-03-05 Thread Carroll Kong
Carroll Kong On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > WD don't make SCSI disks, unless they have recently started. Buy > Seagate or IBM, Quantum aren't that good. > > > Hamish Yeah WD makes scsi. I think for a while now just never hit major po

Re: Kernel Install

1998-03-04 Thread Carroll Kong
My bad. Sorry for the misinformation then. I am new to Debian... used to old school Slackware. Although it says it will break compilations... it seemed to work fine for the most part. But from now on, I will not do it. Carroll Kong On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Scott Ellis wrote

-I- Re: mtools: mmove usage sorry, could not help...

1998-03-04 Thread Carroll Kong
I got around it by just mounting my drives and manually copying them mmove should ignore perms and multiple file systems, the mv command freaks out when i move from partition to partition because mved file retain old perms... so it makes sense that it'll 'fail' on a destination fa

Re: Zero Length Files on the CD...

1998-03-04 Thread Carroll Kong
ombo patch), and mount the cd-rom. Semi-primitive, but at least he'll get a lot of the default packages on a fast medium. Carroll Kong On 4 Mar 1998, Carey Evans wrote: > "P. D. Tisdale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >I'm not sure if this problem is normal f

Re: Kernel Install

1998-03-04 Thread Carroll Kong
Carroll Kong > tar zpfxv linux_2.0.33.tar.gz technically you forgot.. cd /usr/include rm -rf asm linux scsi ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-386 asm ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux linux ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/scsi scsi > cd linux > make mrproper > make menuconfig >