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Re: xcdroast

1999-11-01 Thread stick
Hans Gubitz said > xcdroast (0.96e) starts with the messages: > ERROR at listbox.tcl line 179: bad event type or keysym "MouseWheel" > ERROR at text.tcl line 455: bad event type or keysym "MouseWheel" > > In the Setup-menu Defaults has no entries. > Thes are two separate issues. The first is bec

Re: backing up IMAP mailboxes

1999-08-26 Thread stick
Daniel Quinlan said > hi, Howdy Daniel. > I need to backup the IMAP mailboxes on one of our clients servers. It has a > local DAT drive and i'm familiar with using tar. > I have a couple of horror stories related to using tar to save important data... I now use BRU... as do all of my clients..

Re: /etc/environment

1999-06-19 Thread stick
Content-Length: 2937 Lines: 74 Howdy All! This question - though simply stated - does produce an intereting problem. Namely that there exists no *one* place a person can set system-wide environmanet variables. So far we've seen responces that indicate that Bourne-like shells will use /etc/profil

Re: Drop-in-Debian

1999-03-18 Thread stick
First, I'd like to thank everyone who responded to my request - Ray, Dale and Bob Hilliard. This list is great! Dale Scheetz said > On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 09:54:54 -0500, Chuck Stickelman wrote: > > > I've spent way too much time looking for a ref

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

LPRng (again)

1999-01-31 Thread stick
Howdy all! A much humbler me again. While playing with my system, trying to get the remote printer working, I seem to have royally screwed-up may local mail delivery. I got that fixed now... However, it means that I don't know where all my mail went since last night. So, if anyone responded to

[Off-Topic] Anyone else seeing huge problems on 'Net?

1999-01-07 Thread stick
Howdy folks! Hey, I'm trying to upgrade a syste across the internet and am having one heck of a time with packet loss and stalled transfers and time-outs. really an issue. Is anyone else seeing this? Ping is reporting anywhere from 13% to 55% packet loss between me and my clients system in Myrtl

Re: Billy has nothing to worry about.

1999-01-05 Thread stick
Robert Wilderspin said > > > That's an unfair comparison. Computers in general are more evolved > > > these days, so it stands to reason that any new operating system will > > > appear to get further in a shorter amount of time. Perhaps one should > > > compare Windows NT to big-box Unices? NT i

Re: uninstalling smail when a self compiled MTA is present

1998-12-30 Thread stick
Marc Haber said > On Tue, 29 Dec 1998 12:56:37 -0500, you wrote: > >The necessary package for telling Debian that you've got a locally > >built mail-transport-agent installed is "equivs". > > Thanks. > > >The "equivs" package only seems to be available from http://www.debian.org > >and not from

Re: SMP & SCSI resets

1998-12-30 Thread stick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > On 30-Dec-98, [EMAIL PROTECTED] took time to write : > > Setting up LILO isn't going to be a problem...just couldn't remember the > > option... > > i didn't know the option either before your post. > > >> Ps: to

Re: SMP & SCSI resets

1998-12-30 Thread stick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > On 30-Dec-98, [EMAIL PROTECTED] took time to write : > > I seem to remember reading somewhere a LILO/boot command-line option > > to turn-off SCSI reset. Unfortunately, I've not been able to locate > > the referenc

Changing(forcing) Alt-Fn to Ctrl-Alt-Fn

1998-12-30 Thread stick
Again Howdy! When using the VT's I'd like to block Alt-Fn from being interpreted as a change to antother VT so that the key sequence would be available to the applications. How would that be done? Specifically, I have some DOS apps that I run locally and remotely (via SSH). When the applicatio

SMP & SCSI resets

1998-12-30 Thread stick
Howdy All! I've finally got my SMP machine spinning both CPU's. (Seems that the MB was jumpered wrong...) However, when I boot the system the Adaptec SCSI Controller gets stuck while resetting. I seem to remember reading somewhere a LILO/boot command-line option to turn-off SCSI reset. Unfortu

Re: Cleaning my /usr/lost+found

1998-12-23 Thread stick
Carey Evans said > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Well it's just gone from a weird, bothersome pain to a real problem. > > I was upgrading some packages when I got some familiar error messages about > > some file operations - "operation not allowed" or whatever... [...] > > So someone ***PLEASE**

Re: Cleaning my /usr/lost+found

1998-12-19 Thread stick
Hamish Moffatt said > On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 10:25:17AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hamish Moffatt said > > > On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 04:53:33PM +0100, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote: > > > > > Here's what's in /usr/lost+found/ (I promise to only print this > > > > > list once.) > > > > > > >

Re: Cleaning my /usr/lost+found

1998-12-18 Thread stick
Hamish Moffatt said > On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 04:53:33PM +0100, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote: > > > Here's what's in /usr/lost+found/ (I promise to only print this list > > > once.) > > > > > > > > > Ok. I like a good challenge, but this is ridicules!! > > > > This shows your disk is severly scre

Re: Cleaning my /usr/lost+found

1998-12-18 Thread stick
Mike Touloumtzis said > On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 03:56:37PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 04:53:33PM +0100, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote: > > > > Here's what's in /usr/lost+found/ (I promise to only print this list > > > > once.) > > > > > > > > Ok. I like a good challenge

Re: Cleaning my /usr/lost+found

1998-12-17 Thread stick
E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) said > > > > > > Howdy all! > > > > total 176014862730 > > b-w-r-xrw- 1 1259717448199, 228 Jun 6 2010 #85683 > > sr-x---r-T 1 382255288418446744073400402084 Jan 4 1966 #85688 > > cws--T 1 4753112439159, 161 Mar 19 2003 #85731 > > [...]

Cleaning my /usr/lost+found

1998-12-17 Thread stick
Howdy all! Recently I attempted to install some .deb's when I received error messages that /usr was mounted read-only. I know that this *is* the desired state for /use, and will be once my system settles into a pattern where I'm not always installing/de-installing packages. In other words...RSN.

Re: Stupid Telnet question.

1998-12-11 Thread stick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I don't think this is it. > > I've tried telnetting to other ports on this server from the workstation > > in question. Ports w/ a listener connect, ports w/o a listener say > > Connection refused. Telnet's port says no route to host. > > Ha

Re: Stupid Telnet question.

1998-12-10 Thread stick
Keith Beattie said > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I've seen this before, but don't remember what I did to make it work. > > Have a remote user wanting access to a Linux system. That user used > > to just telnet with no problem. > > > > Now they are getting: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: telnet 205

Stupid Telnet question.

1998-12-08 Thread stick
Howdy all! I've seen this before, but don't remember what I did to make it work. Have a remote user wanting access to a Linux system. That user used to just telnet with no problem. Now they are getting: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: telnet 205.242.10.73 Trying 205.242.10.73... telnet: Unable to connect to

Re: ANSI Color Escapes in $PS1.. heh.

1998-12-03 Thread stick
Ryan King said > I don't quite get it... I tried replacing my \e's with ^['s and surrounding > all escapes with /[/] pairs, and it wouldn't work at all (just the > "source" were displayed.. IE the same as typing `echo $PS1`) > I'm sorry. I wasn't as clear as I should have been. the two-char ^[ w

Re: ANSI Color Escapes in $PS1.. heh.

1998-12-02 Thread stick
Ryan King said > Just how stupid an idea did I have when I did this: > > $PS1="[\e[31m\h\e[m:\e[34m\u\e[m:\e[31m\w\$\e[m]" > > in my /etc/profile? > Not stupid at all!! > It looks really nifty until I try to do commands that wrap around, in which > case the first line returns, but keeps going o

Re: Ifconfig

1998-11-23 Thread stick
Amanda Shuler said > I have a question about ifconfig. > I have a machine that I am trying to configure to put onto a local > network. > I'm an assigning it IP address 192.168.76.76 > I type: > ifconfig eth0 192.168.76.76 > > then I check it with ifconfig and everything is correct. I reboot

Re: SMP

1998-11-22 Thread stick
Rainer Clasen said > Hi! > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > The motherboard is an AMI Titan 3 - w/ two 166MHz Pentiums - 64MB RAM. > > Here's what I know: > > > Linux version 2.1.123 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #3 SMP Fri > > Oct 16 10:22:12 EDT 1998 > > oSo I know I've

SMP

1998-11-14 Thread stick
Howdy All!! I have a client system that I have not been able to get SMP working. The motherboard is an AMI Titan 3 - w/ two 166MHz Pentums - 64MB RAM. Here's what I know: Howdy All!! I have a client system that I have not been able to get SMP working. The motherboard is an AMI Titan 3 - w/ two

Re: DOSEMU: lredir fail everytime

1998-11-06 Thread stick
Carl Fink said > Note: copied to both Helge and the mailing list. > In linux.debian.user, helge.hafting wrote: > > >lredir always fail with an error code. > > Are you using Novell DOS or DR-DOS? At this time, lredir doesn't work > with those DOS flavors. I ended up deciding to boot off an hdima

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-06 Thread stick
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. said > chuck asked, > > > Me too! I'm usually a very cautious person...How do we *know* that this > > has even originated from MicroSoft? So there is the issue of whether or > > not it's from MS, and if it is it it truly "confidential"? > > Is the Wall Street Journal a g

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-05 Thread stick
Vera Lucia Mazzocchi said > > Hi, > > I was thinking if this document wasn't released purposely, that > is, "let them know only what we want they know" and "let's see what they > think about". Seems to me that M$ might be playing with us, releasing > such document, or allowing somebody to

Re: UPS systems and Debian/Linux?

1998-11-03 Thread stick
Mitch Blevins said > Chris R. Martin wrote: > > I am looking to get a couple UPS units to protect my (2) Debian 2.0/Linux > > boxes. I don't need a lot of running time; I just want to be able to > > shutdown in case of a short power outage. I need a unit with uses a serial > > port to communicate i

Re: .Xresources?

1998-11-01 Thread stick
Ole J. Tetlie said > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | > | In general, how does one find out about what resources an X app understands > | if its not listed in the man page? > > I don't know about gEdit specifically, but you can try a program called > editres. > Editres will list the reasources an applicati

Re: clearing screen after logout & login screen

1998-10-28 Thread stick
jim r said > How do I clear the screen after logout? so...instead of walking up on > the remnants of the X server terminating and a login prompt, all that > shows on the screen is the login prompt... what script is it? > Personally, I don't like the shell-specific solutions. As system adminis

pppupd vs. pppd, persist

1998-10-24 Thread stick
Howdy all! What's the connection between pppupd and the persist option of ppp? Does one interfere with the other? Do they do the same thing? Should I choose one over the other? oThanks ina dvance. Chuck -- Chuck Stickelman, Owner E-Mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Practical Network D

Re: HP Laser Jet 5L anyone?

1998-10-21 Thread stick
Jose L Gomez Dans said > Hiya! > Howdy!! > I've been tinkering around with debian for the past two weeks, and > everything seems to be working fine. Unless the printer is taken into > account. The printer is an HP LaserJet 5L, and even though it can print > simple text, it won't print PS f

Re: help

1998-10-21 Thread stick
Einaras said > help > Could you be a little more specific? There are many folks here who are willing to help most Debian or Linux problems...but we gotta know with what you're having problems. Chuck -- Chuck Stickelman, Owner E-Mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Practical Network Design

Offtopic: Applix as Netscape Helper?

1998-10-20 Thread stick
Howdy all. I've been trying to setup Netscape such that Applix is used to view MS-Word formatted documents, but don't know one bit of info. I can get Applix started when I click on a MS-Word doc by adding "applix -wp" in Netscape's Edit->Preferences->Navigator->Applications window, but the Appli

Re: Help! FAT magic number corrupted!

1998-10-17 Thread stick
Michael Beattie said > On 16 Oct 1998, Rene Hojbjerg Larsen wrote: > > I would agree here, every time I see 81, 82 and 83, I instantly associate > them with linux/minix Partition ID's. > > Since your hda1 appears to be set to 81, (Linux/MINIX) I would worry. > Maybe changing it back? I dunno... J

Re: Help! FAT magic number corrupted!

1998-10-16 Thread stick
me said > On Fri, 16 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > me said > > > On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > > > > > and exits. fdisk /dev/hda1 won't give me a partition table because it's a > > > dos disk. > > > > > Huh. Fdisk should be able to read the device regardless of

Re: Changing partition type

1998-10-16 Thread stick
M.C. Vernon said > Dear all, > > I want to change the type of hda1 from hurd to swap (or hurd swap > if such a beast exists). Will doing this erase all the data on my disk? > As some on this list recently discovered - YES! Working with the partition table can cause the loss of data. Best,

Re: Any Debian aware folks in Myrtle Beach, SC, USA?

1998-10-16 Thread stick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said > > Howdy all. > > I have a user in Myrtle Beach/Seaside area of South Carolina, USA > who needs some help. System disconnected while downloading packages, > ppp-pam is installed, but not libpam. > > Now they can't get connected to their ISP so I can finish the install. >

Re: Help! FAT magic number corrupted!

1998-10-16 Thread stick
me said > On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > and exits. fdisk /dev/hda1 won't give me a partition table because it's a > dos disk. > Huh. Fdisk should be able to read the device regardless of what filesystem types are on it. As far as I know all i386 systems build and use the

Any Debian aware folks in Myrtle Beach, SC, USA?

1998-10-16 Thread stick
Howdy all. I have a user in Myrtle Beach/Seaside area of South Carolina, USA who needs some help. System disconnected while downloading packages, ppp-pam is installed, but not libpam. Now they can't get connected to their ISP so I can finish the install. Need someone familiar w/ Debian who can

Re: debian network workstation

1998-10-14 Thread stick
Stephen J. Carpenter said > On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 08:12:21AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > I have an old 386-25 computer with 8m of memory, a 100mb hd, et4000 > > based video card with 1m of display memory. The mb has no cache, and > > only ISA slots. I would like to use this machine as a ne

TALK: socket error

1998-10-06 Thread stick
Howdy all! Does anyone know what this error is telling me? [Couldn't bind to control socket : Cannot assign requested address (99). Press a ny key...] I'm running netstd version 3.07-2 on the system that's having the problems. Most of the other systems I manage are on netstd_3.07-1...if that he

Re: backup using hard disk - any ideas

1998-09-22 Thread stick
Ralph Winslow said > When JonesMB wrote, I replied: > > I assume that your 2Gb. is on a different spindle, 'cause if it isn't, > it won't do you a hell of a lot of good in the event of a disk failure. > > I've enclosed the perl that I use to backup some essentials that I'd > need to re-build from

Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???

1998-09-21 Thread stick
Ryan King said > > >Using the dinstall system I'd go in and say "activate existing swap > partition" > >(or whatever the actual wording is...) and then I'd do the same with your > >root partition. Using existing partitions is not destructive and it > should > >then write the proper information to

Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???

1998-09-21 Thread stick
Ryan King said > Okay, I took a closer look at the partition table, and, you were right... > WinNT DID switch hda3 (my main) with hda2 (my swap). > Ok. A starting point. > (So now, hda2 is the main partition and hda3 is the swap) > > After I realized that they were switched, I then realized I w

Re: Backups

1998-09-21 Thread stick
Stephen J. Carpenter said > On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 11:22:29AM +0100, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > > Hi, > >This is a bit off topic (and sorry I cannae answer any of your > > questions) ... Is tar ever used for backing up and if not why not .. if it > > is why is it not the defacto standard > > > > --

Re: No Backspace in X

1998-08-09 Thread stick
"\033[4~") ! The function keys still need to be dealt with. > thanks, > Hamish > -- > Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au

Re: color prompts

1998-07-16 Thread stick
\007\033]1;$PWD\007"' > > Wouldn't want someone to be lost trying a command that replies with a > > prompt :-) Quite right! Thanks for catching the error! I was a little click with the click of my touchpad... > > Pat > Stick -- Chuck Stickelma

Re: color prompts

1998-07-16 Thread stick
; else > COLOUR=45 > fi > > if [ $USER = 'root' ] ; then > COLOUR=41 > fi > I've tried running the fllowing from login and non-login shells bash > echo $USER $LOGNAME stick stick The results have always been the same - are we using the

Re: How to clear screen before login prompt

1998-07-01 Thread stick
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Re: Upgrade to hamm ! Should I do it !? :)

1998-06-30 Thread stick
y personal opinion is that Hamm is quite usable and that some of the packages it uses are an improvment over those in Bo. I even have a couple of client systems running Hamm... > > Best regards, >Nuno Carvalho > As they say...Your Milage May Vary...yadda, yadda... Stick --

Re: Explain /etc/alternatives to me

1998-06-30 Thread stick
s - They should point to executables that are already in your path. > Thanks, > > Brian > -- > Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis > Stick -- Chuc

Re: diald w/ dynamic ip address

1998-06-25 Thread stick
and I can't find enough hints to make things > work correctly. > This one seems to be working fine - let me know if you need more help. > TIA, > Pann > stick -- Chuck Stickelman, Owner E-Mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Practical Network Design

Re: /etc/init.d/network

1997-11-13 Thread stick
> > Well... > > in the /etc/init.d/network file is the following lines inserted? > > /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up > /sbin/ifconfig eth0 host_name netmask 255.255.255.0 > > Add the kernel routing table > > /sbin/route add -net 198.168.1.0 dev eth0 > /sbin/route add -host host_name dev eth0 > Here's

Re: /etc/init.d/network

1997-11-13 Thread stick
> > > Hi Chuck, > > This sort of thing can happen if you have a domain name in .../networks > instead of an IP number. Another time it happened to me when I did a > "tidy-up" of /etc/hosts and removed an important domain-IP pairing. > When you say ".../networks" you mean "/etc/networks" - rig

Re: /etc/init.d/network

1997-11-13 Thread stick
> > On Thu, 13 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I've had two network cards in this machine: first, an HP 100VG PCI and > > then an Eagle NE2000 ISA. Both exhibit the same problem. Which is... > > Are you using them as modules or did you compile the drivers in? > Just a random guess.. >

/etc/init.d/network

1997-11-13 Thread stick
Howdy all. I've got one machine that's really got me stumped. I've been with Debian since before 0.91 was released - I've installed Debian on several systems, many times. Yet this one's tough... The systems is running on an AMI Titan III M/B w/ 32MB RAM. Dual Pentium Processors (so I guess the

Re: Are there any efficient backup programs for Linux?

1997-11-07 Thread stick
> > Hallo, > Howdy! > I would like to hear whether there is a successful backup program for > Linux which can compare in efficiency with the DOS backup software coming > with the Iomega Ditto 2Gb. > I don't know about this device specifically, I would think it just needs to be recognized prope

[X Resources] Which Debian packages?

1997-11-04 Thread stick
Howdy all! I've been playing around w/ X Resources - have made xcalc look sweet! But I now have a rather general question. How do you determine what values for a resource are valid? I've used editres to see the resource tree and to even change some values. I've used appres to display the resour

Re: termcap

1997-11-04 Thread stick
> > Thanks I will try ncurses. The termcap-compat says it only works for > pre-compiled binaries. Is this not the case? > That's right. termcap-compat for pre-compiled binaries that need termcap, or you can use the -lncurses option in the source code to make the new binaries that don't need th

Re: Just starting - looking for references

1997-10-30 Thread stick
> > > There are two main differences: > > 1) The init directories -- RedHat uses the /etc/rc.d/rcN.d type of layout > while > Debian uses the /etc/rcN.d structure. > > 2) Debian packages tend to work and work with each other. They are better > integrated as a total distribution than RedHat's

Re: Applixware

1997-10-26 Thread stick
I've been using Applixware under Debian for several months. > > > I, too, am interested in the compatability especially when it comes to power > point and word. > There have only been a few times I've tried reading MS Word files, it worked once, failed once. I've output RTF files that were som

Re: /dev files

1997-10-14 Thread stick
Howdy! There are a couple of places you can reference to learn more about the devices: man {devinfo,MAKEDEV,makedev.cfg} #Assuming you have installed /usr/doc/makedev#the binary MAKEDEV package. source-code > > Is there a list explaining what

Re: Is Debian Compatible?

1997-10-01 Thread stick
> > On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Michael Manlief wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm for the most part a unix novice. I would like to try the Debian > > package, but still be able to to use win95 on my machine (not > > simultaneously, of course). I would like Win95 to be my main operating > > system, and just

Re: Debian + PC with multi RS... port -> n x (text dumb terminal + printer)

1997-09-12 Thread stick
> > If you were willing to go with 386 class PC's, you could strip them down to > a special ethernet card with the kernel in ROM (or, a normal ethernet card > and a floppy disk drive), a video card, a printer port, and 2 to 4 MB of > memory (plus keyboard, screen, and printer, of course). That ca

Re: Quick eth question

1997-09-05 Thread stick
Howdy Mike! Networking doesn't use devices in /dev. As Root try: ifconfig You'll see that the device is there and has the values shown in /var/log/messages. If that's the case, then everything should work. Give it a try and let us know what you find. Chuck > > > Just a quickie question I c

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-29 Thread stick
> > Chuck writes: > > I can only think of one business need that Linux based systems don't > > support - OCR. Everything else is available. > > General ledger accounting? We got that! Recently, Appgen ported their database to Linux (Caldera). They have written a complete finance application us

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-29 Thread stick
> > IMO, microsoft should get out of the operating system game and leave it > to those who actually have a clue about OSeslike linux or bsd kernel > hackers and unix programmers for example. > IMNSHO, MS should write a libwin95.so and a win95wm for Linux. That way we'd have the application s

Re: simple questions

1997-08-22 Thread stick
Howdy! Let's tackle the LILO question first. After we get your system booting the way you want, then we can deal with X. > > I didn't get a satisfactory answer before, so I will try again. I know > about LILO, it is on my boot diskette. How do I get it into the > partition so my System Commander

Re: Forking debian-user?

1997-08-22 Thread stick
> > The Debian watchword has been from early on, a system that can be painlessly > upgraded. At least twice, this watchword has failed---when a.out moved over > to ELF, and when libc5 moved over to libc6. In between these big changes, > have been an endless stream of smaller changes. > For th

Re: Anarchy! Yes, Anarchy!

1997-08-22 Thread stick
> > On Thu, 21 Aug 1997 22:14:05 -0700 (PDT), George Bonser wrote: > > >On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Mike Schmitz wrote: > > > >Oh, horsehockey. Bandwidth does not grow on trees. Neither do systems. > >It is impossible to plant a seed and grow a system, it takes money. If > >you can show that you are

Re: Administration question

1997-08-15 Thread stick
> > What would be the best way to enable her to run the shutdown command, without > creating a giant security hole which might bite me in the @*% should this > machine ever become a gateway? My thoughts up to this point: > > 1) Creating a group consisting of my wife and myself, and doing a setu

Re: /etc/init.d structure [even longer rant]

1997-08-15 Thread stick
I've been following the conversation on run-levels and /etc/rc?.d and have a couple of comments to make. First, we need to recognize that each approach has it's own strengths and weaknesses. No matter which solution is chosen, there will be some trade offs. Second, I think we need to separate i

Re: gettyps, uugetty etc?

1997-08-14 Thread stick
amen. > > Hi, > > Any pointer to info on the tty -vs- cua setup for modems? I just > installed Debian in place of Redhat (can I get an amen), and I used > to have to have two devices for one modem. ttyS1 for dial-in and cua1 > for dialout. For dialout, I need it for PPP which works great, but

Re: Virtual Console is garbaged

1997-08-14 Thread stick
> > hi, logout and login again > Paul > That might not be enough to fix it. If it's still hosed, try running 'reset' this is usually enough to clear-up most situations like this. Note: you may have to type it in "blind" since you won't be able to see the text as you're typing it. Also, I don't

Re: copying text files (unix to dos)

1997-08-06 Thread stick
> > UN*X doesn't use the ^M character at the end of each line. How can I > convert between formats? And is there a way to do it automatically when > a file is copied to/from a dos filesystem? > > -Paul There's always todos and fromdos. Also the mount command has the capabilities of doing the

Re: dosemu without dos being installed?

1997-07-28 Thread stick
> > Can dosemu be installed if DOS is not installed? DOS does not have to be installed on the hard-drive for dosemu to be installed. Some version of DOS must be available for dosemu to be able to "boot" thou It does *not* have to be MS-DOS. I've been running DR-DOS for years under dosemu. Calde

Re: How Linux (and Debian) compare?

1997-07-23 Thread stick
> > > > A "dfeedback" package would be a nice little project for someone to > > tackle, if they are comfortable with the issues. Having some statistics > > would definitely make it easier for people to make business decisions > > related to Debian products and marketing. I'm also interested in

How Linux (and Debian) compare?

1997-07-22 Thread stick
Howdy all! I was recently going through some back-issues of magazines in an attempt to get "caught-up" when I ran across a little table that got me thinking. >From Lan Times' June 23, 1997 Volume 14, Issue 13: "According to International Data Corp. (IDC) shipments of Windows NT Server licenses s

Re: security concern

1997-07-18 Thread stick
Howdy, Cheng! > > Someone has break in my machine (Debian 1.3) and > write a file in my home dir. There is no trace > in utmp and wtmp file. In dameon.log and syslog > file, there two seems to be like this: > Sorry to hear that your system has been compromised! One of the first things I'd do i

Re: /etc/issue file

1997-07-18 Thread stick
Hello, Paul. > > I know this doesn't totally relate to Debian... > Not everything on this list needs to be strictly Debian related. Many people get their first contact with Linux/*nix via Debian, so these questions are expected. > I want to add a clear screen character to the beginning of the

Re: Debian Installation experience

1997-07-08 Thread stick
gt; > > that IS one of debian's policies. > > > > > It isn't interesting to use debian-packages without using the > > > package-system for example - so when the package-system is bloated, > > > it just isn't feasible to make a specialized &q

Re: Please but more bugs in Debian Linux ;-)

1997-07-07 Thread stick
> > > Hi! Howdy Martin! > > Hi, could you please put more bugs into Debian Linux? > You obviously need to install the xroach package! Chuck -- Chuck Stickelman, Owner E-Mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Practical Network DesignVoice: (419) 529-3841 9 Chambers Road

Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-03 Thread stick
> > I'm sure FIPS does a good job for a one off re-size of a partition, but > I've never used it, so I wouldn't like to comment. > I've used FIPS some a couple of years ago - I really liked what it can do. However, the is one caveat - when shrinking a partition with a FAT file system, remember t

Re: DAT vs. Travan

1997-06-28 Thread stick
> > Subject: Dat vs. Travan > > We're just looking at buying some tape backup drives for our servers. > I've used DAT's before, but now there's Travan too. > Can anyone explain the pros and cons of DAT versus Travan tape drives? > Personally, I think it's more a matter of budget and capacity. I'

Re: Problem with sendfax?

1997-06-27 Thread stick
> > Cool. Save trees! Why print to paper? Why print something in Word/Lyx > just to stick it in the fax machine and then toss the hardcopy? I've > been meaning to set up a "fax server" here where all faxes are received > via modem and then a thumbnail image is ge

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

1997-06-24 Thread stick
> > > > > I think this is a very good idea - imagine when Debian is ported to other > > hardware platforms and (dreaming maybe) other OS's - one JAVA application > > could handle the installation regardless of Hardware and OS. > > Wait: you've apparently missed the thread that I've been carryin

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

1997-06-24 Thread stick
> I was thinking that perhaps this might be a > decent Java application: you could write essentially the same code to > run locally in your Java-enabled kernel, and those with web sites that > mirror debian packages could use the same code (with a few modifications) > to run in Netscape acros

Re: Is it possible to force the serial port IRQ's?

1997-06-20 Thread stick
Howdy Carlo! Yes, there is a utility to manipulate the serial ports - it's called setserial. It's available of the Debian FTP server as: /debian/unstable/binary/base/setserial_2.12-4.deb Once installed, check out the man page: man setserial Also, check out: /usr/doc/setserial/README > > Hell

Re: URL for StarOffice is here

1997-06-09 Thread stick
> > Anyone want to give a comparison with Applixware? > I'm considering buying Applixware because it is only $100 AUD > student price, which is pretty good (MS Office 97 is $200 > for students I think, regularly nearly $500). > I tried Staroffice quite some time ago and couldn't get it to run rel

Re: Help! Weird console errors

1997-06-05 Thread stick
> > > Hi I have a mostly complete installation 1.2 about halfway > to 1.3 but anyway.. I was routing around in /etc and I'm not > sure what I did but suddenly it prints out the bell character > (it appears as a small circle) instead of actually beeping, and > it also prints out the tab character

Re: Cron setup

1997-06-05 Thread stick
> > > > >I know the basics of cron and its crontab file, but have a couple of > > questions about the specifics of how Debian implements cron. In other > > words, I've never seen cron divided with subdirs for daily, weekly, > > monthly, etc. I get the point of doing things daily or weekly,

Re: Internal ISDN TA ??

1997-05-28 Thread stick
I've not yet worked with one - though I plan on it RSN - but how about one of the PCMCIA ISDN Cards? There are a couple of companies that offer ISA adapters: one company has three products 1) ISA card that supports 1 PC Card accessible from the rear of the computer, 2) ISA card that supports 2 PC

Re: DOSEMU & mtools

1997-05-27 Thread stick
> > On Tue, 27 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > files in /usr/doc/dosemu and have visited the DOSEMU homepage and have > > seen a couple of references to mtools-3.6 having a utility called setup- > > hdimage. > > > > I've installed mtools_3.6-1 and don't see anything like that. > > setup

DOSEMU & mtools

1997-05-27 Thread stick
Howdy all, I'm wanting to setup multiple hdimages of various sizes for use in dosemu-0.66.3-1. I've tried using mkhdimage with little or no success. I can create the drive, but as soon as I copy 1 or more files to it, DOSEMU fails to recognize it as a valid drive. I've read all of the files in

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