RE: PPP-connection slowing down. Please help!

On 16-Nov-96 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>When I use the Linux box, my ppp-connection is becoming so slow that I have >difficulty in handling a few email messages. I cannot think of ftp or other >internet services. > >Ping produces the following results (only while using Linux. On winsock >{windows

X is painful? Maybe V will help!

Hi All! The December '96 issue of Linux Journal (pp. 31-33) has an interesting article entitled "V - A Free C++ GUI Framework for X" by Dr. Bruce E. Wampler. Maybe this will be of help with some of the problems outlined in this thread? It is GPLed software. Looks pretty interesting. Wampl

Re: kerneld and pppd and ip masquerading

Hi John, You wrote: John> John> Adam Heath writes: > I setup /sbin/request-route to run pppd... John> John> Where can I find documentation on request-route? I never heard John> of it before this, and now I find that I have it. /usr/doc/modules/README.ppp-slip borik -- Boris D. Beletsky [

Re: JDK and JDK

Why didn't you use the available netscape and jdk packages? Just pick up jdk-static, jdk-common, and netscape from non-free and try again. That's what I did and it works beautifully! -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proudly running Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 on an Int

[OFF TOPIC]Re: X is painful

Is there a debian-talk list? This is surely a candidate. > > Bill> So far the 'differences' have primarily been comprised of > Bill> just plain crappy UI. Some apps let you double-click to > Bill> select a word, some don't. Some let you triple-click to > Bill> select a paragrap

last date for frozen upload (was: Re: bo, rex?)

Hi Brian, You wrote: Brian> Rex has been frozen so only bug fixes are going there. It Brian> should be released as stable in a couple weeks. Bo is the new Brian> unstable tree. Can smbd tell me the exact date that is a limit for bug fux upload into frozen? My hard disk blew up and it will take s

Re: WinNT OS loader

From my experiences beta-testing NT 4.0 (That was before I discovered how buggy Micro$oft betas are! :-), I discovered that you can just put lilo on /dev/hda and make an entry for NT booting off of /dev/hda1 and Linux booting off of /dev/whatever. NT is just as happy because it doesn't know its bei

Re: Can't seem to replace sendmail with smail.

Do this: 1. Backup all config files for sendmail(usually only /etc/sendmail.cf) 2. With the smail deb file in the current directory, type: 'dpkg -r -force-depends sendmail; dpkg -purge -force-depends sendmail; dpkg -i ; -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proudly r

Re: kernel-source-2.0.23_0.deb corrupted

That is a known bug in kernel-source-2.0.23. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proudly running Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 on an Intel Pentium 150 Send a message with "Send PGP Key" in the subject to get my PGP key. Visit http://www.onekey.com for OneKey: The Smart Sea

Re: dbackup

Just because dbackup is in experimental doesn't mean that it is unsupported, it just means that it is untested. Kind of like beta, or alpha code. I use dupload in experimental all of the time, and it isn't unsupported. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proudly ru

Re: kerneld and pppd and /sbin/request-route

Just make a batch file with a ping command in it and call the file 'startinet.bat' Just ping your providers domain. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proudly running Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 on an Intel Pentium 150 Send a message with "Send PGP Key" in the subject to

Re: X11 bashing

> "Larry" == Larry 'Daffy' Daffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Larry> Martin Konold writes: -> In contrast to motif Qt is fully C++ OO. Larry> Buzzword bingo. Just because it's written in C++ doesn't Larry> mean it's better. -> Qt comes with source. Larry> My mistake.

T130 driver for win95

How does a guy find a driver for A Trantor SCSI T130 controller card for Win95. Regards Dave Fulton -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Laptop and PCMCIA

I'm trying slowy to get my whole office over to Debian , and the next machine I'm going to tackle is the TI-Extensa 560CD laptop. Is there a page/FAQ for Debian on laptops? Also I'm using a Xircom Creditcard Ethernet/28.8 pcmcia card, has anyone had any experience with this card? I'd lo

Re: Crack and cops

On Tue, 19 Nov 1996 17:04:52 EST "Joe Feenin" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Pardon my ignorance but what exactly are "crak" and "cops"? Crack: password cracker. Cops: security checker. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble

Re: rdist as root?

Dirk Luetjens writes: -> -> How can I invoke a rdist command as root to distribute the /usr/local/ -> tree to the other computers in the network? First, make a file "distfile", which will look something like: = MACHINES = ( machine-a machine-b machine-c ) FILES= ( /usr/local ) ${FILES}

Re: Strange behavior of lpr+lpd

[ Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. ] "Karl M. Hegbloom": > With XEmacs and ViewMail, the problem becomes obvious! I've enclosed > a uuencoded screenshot to demonstrate: It is _not_ a good idea to post 140 kilobytes to a public mailing list. Please put it on a

Re: Dselect docs for beginners

Bruce asked me to come up with something to help those new to dselect when they come to install 1.2 . > > Are you serious? You want _me_ to document dselect? > Not being an expert might be an asset. The users have my installation > manual to get them up to the login prompt, and then nothing. S

Re: T130 driver for win95

From: "Arthur D. Fulton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > How does a guy find a driver for A Trantor SCSI T130 controller card for > Win95. This isn't really the right place to ask, but try www.microsoft.com . I know that NT comes with the Trantor driver. If you want to run Linux (which is what we do on thi

Re: syslog daemon is dying

Look in /etc/syslog.conf, and make sure all of the log files mentioned in that file, and their _directories_, actually exist. I hear stories of this happening when removing some package, because the log file and its directory disappears, and syslogd gets into a loop trying to open the log file.

Re: T130 driver for win95

"Arthur D. Fulton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How does a guy find a driver for A Trantor SCSI T130 controller card for > Win95. By posting to unrelated mailing lists of course!! Just in case the mailing list idea doesn't pan out, try standing outside your front door and shouting your request

Re: last date for frozen upload (was: Re: bo, rex?)

November 27, I think. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-m

Re: [OFF TOPIC]Re: X is painful

From: "Richard G. Roberto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm not a GUI programmer, so maybe its a neato devel platform, > but 99.99% of people using computers aren't writing GUIs. Yes, it was wonderful to develop for. > Again, I'm not a developer, but NeXT seems to have achieved > virtual bankrupcy.

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Invitation for testers of "frozen" distribution

Our various FTP sites carry three distributions these days: stable: Debian 1.1 frozen: Debian 1.2 pre-release unstable: Debian 1.3 development It's time for those of you who would like to help test Debian 1.2 to install packages from "frozen". We haven't yet uploaded the b

Re: hard disk recommendation

On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Paul Christenson wrote: > On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote: > > In an attempt to avoid a war, I'll simply say that Silicon Graphics is > using IBM SCSI drives exclusively. Given the nature of their products, I I am afraid you're wrong. I saw Seagate drives (in older

Re: syslog daemon is dying

> As of last Thursday I have been encountering problems with the syslog > daemon. I have posted to various newsgroups but have not received any answer > so far. > After booting the system, the syslog daemon seems to be dying. Whenever I > reboot the system the messages will state > starting /sbi

Re: syslog daemon is dying

> Look in /etc/syslog.conf, and make sure all of the log files mentioned in > that file, and their _directories_, actually exist. I hear stories of this > happening when removing some package, because the log file and its directory > disappears, and syslogd gets into a loop trying to open the log f

Re: Invitation for testers of "frozen" distribution

Is the 2GB partition install problem solved yet? > > Our various FTP sites carry three distributions these days: > > stable: Debian 1.1 > frozen: Debian 1.2 pre-release > unstable: Debian 1.3 development > > It's time for those of you who would like to help test Debian 1.2 to

Re: X11 bashing

> > > > Personally having looked at Qt and KDE I am waiting to see what comes > > out of the Hyperion project. > > > > For those who haven't heard of it, it is a multi platform development > > system written at the NCSA as is going to be used in the latest version > > of Xmosaic among other th

RAM > 64M ?

Hi everyone, I'm running Linux (2.0.24 SMP) on a computer (PPro 180 MHz x 2) with 128M of RAM. But, it seems that only 64M of RAM are detected by Linux (I used free to look at that). If someone knows a solution to this problem, I am very interested... Thanks in advance

Re: Invitation for testers of "frozen" distribution

I hope the boot floppies for a cold install will be uploaded soon. I was just about to install Debian tonight, but I guess I'll have to wait a little. I finally got my new computer last friday and have a nice big partition reserved for Debian. Are there any special testing requests for those wh

Need a special boot disk?

Hi all, I have an old 386DX40 with 8MB and a CyCDROM 520ie. I've looked at the CDROM-Howto and it appears that I've to use the aztcd driver to make the CD work. So, when installing Debian 1.1, I need a special kernel onto the boot disk or it's enough to reply at boot "linux aztcd=0x170"? If yes,

Unidentified subject!

What would be the minimum number of packages to install in order to get a 3C589C-combo pcmcia-card up and running for further down-loading and installation. Karsten Bolding -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL P

Re: Invitation for testers of "frozen" distribution

Vatiainen Heikki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There are still known problems (see the bug list on our FTP site), so > > Where exactly is this bug list? I checked ftp.debian.org but did not find it. Oops. Bruce meant the web site. http://www.debian.org/ Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAI

Oleo - Any docs?

I've used a few spreadsheets in my time, but the Oleo docs do not give me enough info to use the program. Anyone know of any user-friendly Oleo docs, or maybe an easier to use X spreadsheet program? Ed -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RAM > 64M ?

On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Pierre Ferruit wrote: > I'm running Linux (2.0.24 SMP) on a computer (PPro 180 MHz x 2) with > 128M of RAM. But, it seems that only 64M of RAM are detected by Linux (I > used free to look at that). Use 'append="mem=128M"' in /etc/lilo.conf Some BIOSes can't

Re: rdist as root?

Larry Daffner writes: > > Dirk Luetjens writes: > -> > -> How can I invoke a rdist command as root to distribute the /usr/local/ > -> tree to the other computers in the network? > > First, make a file "distfile", which will look something like: > > = > MACHINES = ( machine-a machi

Re: Oleo - Any docs?

On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Ed Down wrote: > > I've used a few spreadsheets in my time, but the Oleo docs do not give me > enough info to use the program. Anyone know of any user-friendly Oleo > docs, or maybe an easier to use X spreadsheet program? > > Ed > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILIN

Mgetty

Hi, I'm having some trouble getting mgetty to work in the inittab file, if i do mgetty 38400 ttyS1 & it works fine but i have to manually reset it everytime a user calls. What line do i need to add to my inittab for it to automatically do it for me as i keep getting it wrong. Thanks, Chris.

Windows NTFS 4 Partitions

Does anybody know if its possible to mount a Windows NT NTFS 4 partition on your Linux drive, baring in mind its on the same machine so i can't use samba. Chris. Fingers <[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-

Newbie Question

Hi all, I have a very basic questions that I feel pretty silly asking but here goes I have just installed the Debian Linux system on a 386 machine for "experimental" purposes and have transferred and installed the gnuchess.deb package (I used "dpkg --install gnuchess.deb" because I am still t

Re: JDK and JDK

> Why didn't you use the available netscape and jdk packages? Just > pick up jdk-static, jdk-common, and netscape from non-free and try > again. That's what I did and it works beautifully! Netscape is actually in "contrib". If you're using the new libc5 and want to use Java, you'll have to wait f

Re: RAM > 64M ?

> I'm running Linux (2.0.24 SMP) on a computer (PPro 180 MHz x 2) with > 128M of RAM. But, it seems that only 64M of RAM are detected by Linux (I > used free to look at that). > > If someone knows a solution to this problem, I am very interested... Add MEM=128M to the lilo command line. -- #!

Got unusable memory address 0x400cd008 (and libtermcap)

Would there be in simple reason, why the binary works in RedHat, but not in Debian ? From the strace of running my program: oldselect(5, [3 4], [], NULL, {0, 0}) = -1 EFAULT (Bad address) gettimeofday({848498578, 216602}, NULL) = 0 oldselect(5, [3 4], [], NULL, {0, 0}) = -1 EFAULT (Bad addre

Re: Dselect docs for beginners

I've read your document, and though I'm obviously no good at figuring out whether it'll be any good for beginners I've attached my one detailed comment about it. Thanks for your work ! Ian. In s.2, Select: > I suggest installing little more than a bare minimum at this point as > you will have am

Re: Floppy management?

>> However, the problem is that if you eject a disk before unmounting it, >> sometimes you get a nice frightening "kernel panic" error (even when being >> careful enough to wait for the floppy light to go off). On one occasion, >> putting the disk back in didn't help, and I had to reboot! >>

Re: RAM > 64M ?

On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Pierre Ferruit wrote: Hi there, > I'm running Linux (2.0.24 SMP) on a computer (PPro 180 MHz x 2) with > 128M of RAM. But, it seems that only 64M of RAM are detected by Linux (I > used free to look at that). > > If someone knows a solution to this problem, I am very interes

Re: cfengine?

This is a reply from Mark Burgess (esteemed author of cfengine) regarding your question on cfengine... Brian White wrote: This message was posted to the debian-user list. I thought you would be interested. > > I must admit, I've been a little lax in keeping the version of cfengine > that is av

spam on debian-user

If you don't like reading spam on debian-user, please write to Mr. Jerry Gilels at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and tell him so. Please be polite but firm, and don't do anything illegal. Please quote the message from his customer l-e-n.com so that he knows what you are talking about. Bruce -- Bruce

Re: Dselect docs for beginners

> Bruce asked me to come up with something to help those new to dselect > when they come to install 1.2 . > > > > Are you serious? You want _me_ to document dselect? > > > Not being an expert might be an asset. The users have my installation > > manual to get them up to the login prompt, and th

libc

Hi, I've installed the stable debian 1.1 release and noticed that my libc is defaulting to libc.so.4.6.27 Is there any reason why it's not using a later libc? Are there bugs with libc versions > 4.6 (either 5.x or 4.7)? I have another system running 4.7.x and it seems fine. Should I upgrade l

csh * expantion problem

Under csh (not a link to tcsh), when I do a "echo *", I get the following error: echo: No match. It work on other OSs. Thanks, Neal -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: netscape and locale?

Dirk Luetjens wrote: > Hello > > I get an interesting error when using netscape in combination with the > wg15-locale package and LANG set to de_DE. > > Does anybody has an idea, how to solve this, without losing the > support for the german language? If you don't need (as I think) the language

weird network perl problem

I seem to be having a really strange problem, although I'm sure it's something obvious. I was writing a simple program to verify if POP mailuser accounts exist on a server. When I specify the localhost as the server to connect to, everything works fine. However, if I specify a remote server I can't

Emacs and tcsh

In emacs-19.31, with in emacs shell, the ^Ms show up. In csh they don't. However, in csh the '*' didn't expand. Is there a fix? Is there a good TERM type for emacs shell, so things like passwds don't show up? Thanks, Neal -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsub

RE: Laptop and PCMCIA

>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, 19 November, 1996 22:15 PM >To:Debian Users mailling list >Subject: Laptop and PCMCIA > > > I'm trying slowy to get my whole office over to Debian , and >the next machine I'm going to tackle is the TI-Extensa 560CD laptop.