A problem

1997-05-20 Thread Wen Ling Feng
We use the Linux as a Gateway. But in the gateway, we in Win95 couldn't see other workgroup outside the gateway. And we can see the workgroups in the gateway. I am a new user. Could you help me? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trou

Re: Driver compiled under kernel 2.0.29 says it was compiled under 2.0.28

1997-05-20 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Harmon Sequoya Nine wrote: > > Hi. I have this alpha-release driver for a PCI ethernet card that I compiled > under > kernel 2.0.29 (my current kernel). However, when I try to install it in the > kernel with > "insmod", insmod reports that the driver was compiled under ke

Re: I'm also looking for a C function to convert EBCDIC to ASCII

1997-05-20 Thread Gith
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Russell Ross wrote: > I'm web surfing lookng for a C function to convert EBCIDIC to ASCII and I > stumbled across the e-mail from Walter L Preuniger II, asking the same > question. > > If anyone out there has found such a C function, please e-mail it to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: Installing Debian Linux on a new system w/out MSDOG

1997-05-20 Thread J.P.D. Kooij
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Mon, 19 May 1997, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > > > I'd recommend creating a partition for MS-DOS right away. > > No need to actually install it till required. > > Agreed. Dos/Win/NT want the first partition of the first drive to be > "their" boot fil

Re: where is xload?

1997-05-20 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 19 May 1997, Andree Leidenfrost wrote: > Hi Dirk, > > funny thing! The same happened to me when switching to frozen. It's in > the xproc package. I do not understand what is happening there because > xload definitely is in the package. It seems that it

Re: Removing stubborn package

1997-05-20 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 18 May 1997, lars wrote: > Thank you all for your pointers to TeX/LaTeX references, but can > someone now tell me how to force the removal of the xypic package? > dpkg -i tetex-base_etc tells me what to do to remove it, but it > doesn't work at all. Here is t

Majordomo w/Smail ?

1997-05-20 Thread Matthew Tebbens
Anyone using majordomo with smail ? I'm looking for help to set it up... Matthew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: A problem

1997-05-20 Thread Jim Pick
> We use the Linux as a Gateway. But in the gateway, we in Win95 couldn't see > other workgroup outside the gateway. And we can see the workgroups in the > gateway. > > I am a new user. Could you help me? How do you not see them? Do you mean in network neighborhood (ie. using Microsoft SMB net

Re: Majordomo w/Smail ?

1997-05-20 Thread Joey Hess
Matthew Tebbens: > Anyone using majordomo with smail ? > I'm looking for help to set it up... I am. Read /usr/doc/majordomo/README.debian, it has something that needs to be added to the smail config files. Feel free to ask me if you have any questions. -- See shy Jo. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THI

Re: Re[2]: Can't start xsession, help

1997-05-20 Thread Rick Jones
Also check /var/log/xdm-errors errors prior to the xsession actually starting are in this log. Once the xsession is initiated logging errors goes to ~/.xsession-errors. On Mon, 19 May 1997, Zachary Payne wrote: > Good question, ask your dog!, I always ask my dog my computer > questio

Re: Driver compiled under kernel 2.0.29 says it was compiled under 2.0.28

1997-05-20 Thread Kari Davidsson
Hopefully this one gets through 8-) Harmon Sequoya Nine wrote: > > Hi. I have this alpha-release driver for a PCI ethernet card that I compiled > under > kernel 2.0.29 (my current kernel). However, when I try to install it in the > kernel with > "insmod", insmod reports that the driver was co

Re: A problem

1997-05-20 Thread Andree Leidenfrost
Hi Feng, though I am no real network specialist this looks pretty much like a routing problem to me. If I understand you correctly your win95 clients see other members of there own subnet but no machine in the other subnet with which you are connected via the gateway. I think you should check the

Re: modprobe warning

1997-05-20 Thread Carey Evans
"G. Kapetanios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Today I upgraded the menu package to 1.3-2 . Since then I get every half > minute a > syslogd warning saying that modprobe can't locate the char-major-6 module. > I have a custom kernel ( 2.0.29 ) and no such module. Anybody can tell me > what is goin

Re: Majordomo w/Smail ?

1997-05-20 Thread John Foster
I set it up a while back. I seem to remember that some of the paths were not as the docs indicated. It wasn't on a handy machine, but I seem to remember that majordomo expected some things to be in /var/lib/majordomo that were actually in /usr/lib/majordomo. There was also a problem with the @LIB

How can i install new packages?

1997-05-20 Thread The Good ol' tavo =\)
  Hello to all I am a Linux newbie trying to figure out how to install packages for my system, i downloaded the debian linux by ftp on 7 disks the rescue floppy, the custom boot one, the base ones and the drivers one, then during the installation process i didn't use dselect i just cont

partition busy during shutdown

1997-05-20 Thread tomk
I recently moved my Debian to a larger hard drive. I reorganized the partition allocation from a splintered arrangement to a 2 partition arrangement: /dev/hda4 - /var /dev/hda3 - / (and all other stuff) Up until this change, 'shutdown' worked ok. Recently, I've been getting a message: .. mou

Re: Majordomo w/Smail ?

1997-05-20 Thread tomk
John Foster writes: > > I set it up a while back. I seem to remember that some of the paths > were not as the docs indicated. It wasn't on a handy machine, but I > seem to remember that majordomo expected some things to be in > /var/lib/majordomo that were actually in /usr/lib/majordomo. > > Ther

Beginner: Where are error messages of dselect saved?

1997-05-20 Thread Hossein Movahhedian
Hi Finally I installed debian 1.2 from InfoMagic 6 CD April 1997. But when I use deselect (with its default selected packages) to install the packages I get a lot of messages, error messages and can't messages. As these messages scrolls fast, I can not read them to understand what is wrong?

Re: Class of machine needed for DNS & router.

1997-05-20 Thread Jason Costomiris
On 19 May 1997, Chris Brown wrote: > > I have to set up a primary DNS that will also route between two > 10base2 ethernets with packet filtering. The line to the Internet > will be a 128 K ISDN line so that bandwidth will be limited there. > What class of machine is necessary for such a

make-kpkg, ?

1997-05-20 Thread Bjoern-Bernhard Schad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I read the instructions in /usr/doc/kernel-source-2.0.27 on how to compile and install a new kernel in debian. The file debian-README.gz mentions to use the command make-kpkg to compile and install the kernel (and its modules?) seemingly by producing a new k

Re: Beginner: Where are error messages of dselect saved?

1997-05-20 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 20 May 1997, Hossein Movahhedian wrote: > > Hi > > Finally I installed debian 1.2 from InfoMagic 6 CD April 1997. But when I use > deselect (with its default selected packages) to install the packages I get a > lot of messages, error messages and can't messages. As these messages scr

Re: partition busy during shutdown

1997-05-20 Thread Eloy A. Paris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I recently moved my Debian to a larger hard drive. I reorganized the partition : allocation from a splintered arrangement to a 2 partition arrangement: : /dev/hda4 - /var : /dev/hda3 - / (and all other stuff) : : Up until this change, 'shutdown' worked ok. Recently, I'

Linux on Compaq Proliant 800

1997-05-20 Thread Constantin Teodorescu
Hello, I need to install a Linux on a Compaq Proliant 800 for a small Intranet server. Please, is anywone who has succesfully installed a Linux on this machine who could give me some help in order to guide me through that strange installation procedures ? The machine that I have is simple, with

Re: make-kpkg, ?

1997-05-20 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
It is in package kernel-package under section misc. Very nice. -- Jean Pierre On 20 May 1997, Bjoern-Bernhard Schad wrote: > I could not find make-kpkg. So my question is: where is it? > As nobody seems to do it as described in the documentation, > maybe there is a different way to compile a n

changing file perms. in single user mode

1997-05-20 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hello Debian users, I guess this is a dumb question but I just can't see the answer: Yesterday a added another hard disk to our production server that is proudly running Debian 1.2. I wanted to have /tmp and /var/tmp mounted in a second disk so I created my ext2 filesystems and mounted them unde

How can i port files from dos to linux?

1997-05-20 Thread The Good ol' tavo =)
how can i port the gnu or tar or gzip or .deb files that i download using MSIE30 to linux? and how can i install all the packages that come with the debian system that i downloaded from the internet without causing conflicts between each other?

Re: Beginner: Where are error messages of dselect saved?

1997-05-20 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
> Finally I installed debian 1.2 from InfoMagic 6 CD April 1997. But when > I use deselect (with its default selected packages) to install the > packages I get a lot of messages, error messages and can't messages. As > these messages scrolls fast, I can not read them to understand what is > wrong?

Re: How can i port files from dos to linux?

1997-05-20 Thread Kai Grossjohann
> The Good ol' tavo =) writes: orojas> how can i port the gnu or tar or gzip or .deb files that i orojas> download using MSIE30 to linux? and how can i install all orojas> the packages that come with the debian system that i orojas> downloaded from the internet without causing conflict

www chat system

1997-05-20 Thread Tim Sailer
I have been asked to provide a web based chat system for a client at my ISP. I tried to talk him into IRC or a MUD/MOO, but they want it web based. Does anyone know of a set of programs/scripts/whatever that will do this? Thanks, Tim PS: If this works, I may package it up as a Debian package. --

Re: Beginner: Where are error messages of dselect saved?

1997-05-20 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 20 May 1997, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > Finally I installed debian 1.2 from InfoMagic 6 CD April 1997. But when > > I use deselect (with its default selected packages) to install the > > packages I get a lot of messages, error messages and can't messages. As > > these messages scrolls

Help with IP masquerading

1997-05-20 Thread Benjamin T. White
Hello all, I have an interesting problem. I have a small LAN based on ethernet with a Linux box with a ppp connection to the internet acting as a gateway for two Macintosh computers: --- | Linux ||---Powermac with OpenTransport

How to see the group and aliases file on the NIS server

1997-05-20 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I installed NIS on a Debian server and I'm trying to set up another Debian as a NIS client (latest Debian versions from the unstable tree). In the latter, I added the line "+:::" to the /etc/group file and the line "+" to /etc/aliases. Then, I started the ypbind daemon. In the client machi

RE: Latest rescue disk locks up Thinkpad

1997-05-20 Thread Carpenter, Dean \(MS Mail\)
-- From: Chris Osicki Sent: Sunday, May 18, 1997 3:24 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:RE: Latest rescue disk locks up Thinkpad I have just manage to boot and load the base system (debian 1.2) on a ThinkPad 760E, which doesn't boot from standard rescue floppy.

Re: 'w' works, 'who' does not...

1997-05-20 Thread Eric G. Stern
Here's the situation: My debian system is running as an NIS client from a master which happens to be an SGI. I can log into my debian linux system, so it sees my user name from the passwd map. I can do a ypcat passwd.byname ypcat passwd.byuid ypcat group.byname ypcat group.bygid and see all t

Re: partition busy during shutdown

1997-05-20 Thread m*
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I recently moved my Debian to a larger hard drive. I reorganized the partition > allocation from a splintered arrangement to a 2 partition arrangement: > /dev/hda4 - /var > /dev/hda3 - / (and all other stuff) > > Up until this change, 'shutdown' worked ok. Recently,

Re: www chat system

1997-05-20 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 20 May 1997, Tim Sailer wrote: > I have been asked to provide a web based chat system for a client at > my ISP. I tried to talk him into IRC or a MUD/MOO, but they want it > web based. Does anyone know of a set of programs/scripts/whatever > that will do this? > Funny you should ask. I

Re: Debian as a server.

1997-05-20 Thread Kevin Traas
> The only people who have reasonably stable Windows machines are the tech > heads and geeks who have the time, ability, and the inclination to mess > about it with it for days and weeks on end. Funny. Sounds like most Linux people I know However, I resent being called a "geek" (Just t

automatically tracking just a few unstable packages

1997-05-20 Thread Roderick Schertler
My system is mostly bo, but I've installed a couple of packages out of hamm. I have my dselect access method set to ftp and pointing at the bo Packages files. I'd like a way to know when the hamm packages I'm tracking are updated. Does the system have a way to do that? If not I'll write a scrip

Re: Class of machine needed for DNS & router.

1997-05-20 Thread Jim Pick
> On 19 May 1997, Chris Brown wrote: > > > > > I have to set up a primary DNS that will also route between two > > 10base2 ethernets with packet filtering. The line to the Internet > > will be a 128 K ISDN line so that bandwidth will be limited there. > > What class of machine is neces

Re: www chat system

1997-05-20 Thread Rick Macdonald
Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > On Tue, 20 May 1997, Tim Sailer wrote: > > > I have been asked to provide a web based chat system for a client at > > my ISP. I tried to talk him into IRC or a MUD/MOO, but they want it > > web based. Does anyone know of a set of programs/scripts/whatever > > that will

Re: automatically tracking just a few unstable packages

1997-05-20 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 20 May 1997, Roderick Schertler wrote: > My system is mostly bo, but I've installed a couple of packages out of > hamm. I have my dselect access method set to ftp and pointing at the > bo Packages files. I'd like a way to know when the hamm packages I'm > tracking are updated. Does the

dpkg 1.4.0.5 to 1.4.0.7 upgraded

1997-05-20 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, I'd like to know how to upgrade the dpkg 1.4.0.5 to 1.4.0.7? Would be be the same as upgrade the other packages? Thanks! -- Timothy C. Phan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) NEC America, Inc. ASL

Re: May 13 instalation disk's problem (vfat)

1997-05-20 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Mon, 19 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > > > On Mon, 19 May 1997, Eugene Sevinian wrote: > > > > > P.S. Just for curiosity ... > > > HOw many people are participating in this mailing list? > > > The current debian-user distribution list contains

Re: can't umount /usr(/dev/hdb3)

1997-05-20 Thread Leslie Mikesell
> The other asnwers in this list are all very usefull, but sometimes > I find that whatever I do, I cannot unmount for example /usr. > In such cases, it's best to do > > mount -o remount,ro /usr > > i.e. remount it read-only, so that all data is written do the partition, > and you can now safel

file system problem

1997-05-20 Thread D. W. Wieboldt
Some time ago, e2fsck had problems and filled up my /lost+found. I have searched high and low for guidance on how to straighten out this mess, but I still don't know what to do. It looks like this: bash$ ls -Flas /lost+found total 4076008347 193694604 pr---wSrwt 1 5911 59110

Re: dpkg 1.4.0.5 to 1.4.0.7 upgraded

1997-05-20 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
Yes On Tue, 20 May 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to know how to upgrade the dpkg 1.4.0.5 to 1.4.0.7? > Would be be the same as upgrade the other packages? > > Thanks! > > -- > Timothy C. Phan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >

login installation weirdness?

1997-05-20 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Sorry about the subject line, but I don't know how to briefly describe this problem. Anyway, I have just finished installing 1.2 and everything went perfectly except that on the first virtual terminal (ALT-F1) when any user exits, /etc/issue is not read and the f

Re: libc6 question - application/pgp-signature

1997-05-20 Thread John Rimell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Christian > > --- > >Part 1.2 Type: application/pgp-signature Does anyone know of a netscape plugin or something which can automatically check pgp signatures within Netscape

Multiple NE2000 cards

1997-05-20 Thread Scott
I am having a hard time getting LINUX to recognize that I have two NIC's in my computer. I have two Novell NE2000 cards installed. I have already tried the 'append = "ether=0,0,eth1" ' without any luck. On boot-up LINUX probes and finds the first card - but not the second. Thanks Scott. -- T

Re: Debian as a server.

1997-05-20 Thread Paul Rightley
On 01-May-97 Kevin Traas wrote: >> The only people who have reasonably stable Windows machines are the tech >> heads and geeks who have the time, ability, and the inclination to mess >> about it with it for days and weeks on end. > >Funny. Sounds like most Linux people I know However, I rese

Connecting linux to an ISP

1997-05-20 Thread The Good ol' tavo =\)
Anybody knows exactly how do i configure my modem, my dialup connection, and the password and user name to connect to my isp and surf the internet?

Re: Connecting linux to an ISP

1997-05-20 Thread Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro
>Anybody knows exactly how do i configure my modem, my dialup connection, and the password and user name to connect to my isp and surf the internet? Yup. I found the answer sitting at http://www.linux.org, HOW TO connec to an ISP provider. It was very helpful and it covered everything I

Re: Connecting linux to an ISP

1997-05-20 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, The Good ol' tavo =\), you wrote: > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > --=_NextPart_000_01BC6536.025203E0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Anybody knows exactly how do i configure m

Re: How can i install new packages?

1997-05-20 Thread Rick Jones
On Tue, 20 May 1997, The Good ol' tavo =) wrote: > Hello to all > I am a Linux newbie trying to figure out how to install packages for my > system, i downloaded the debian linux by ftp on 7 disks the rescue floppy, > the custom boot one, the base ones and the drivers one, then during the > inst

Re: How can i install new packages?

1997-05-20 Thread Timothy Phan
Rick Jones wrote: : :On Tue, 20 May 1997, The Good ol' tavo =) wrote: : :> Hello to all :> I am a Linux newbie trying to figure out how to install packages for my system, i downloaded the debian linux by ftp on 7 disks the rescue floppy, the custom boot one, the base ones and the drivers one, the

Re: Beginner: Where are error messages of dselect saved?

1997-05-20 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
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Re: Beginner: Where are error messages of dselect saved?

1997-05-20 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
On Tue, 20 May 1997, Hossein Movahhedian wrote: > Are these messages saved anywhere? Or how can I save them? Start the script program 'script ' before entering dselect. It will save all screen output to . It makes a big, and often confusing file, but all of dselect's messges are there.

Re: How can i install new packages?

1997-05-20 Thread Rick Jones
On Tue, 20 May 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: > Rick Jones wrote: > : > :On Tue, 20 May 1997, The Good ol' tavo =) wrote: > : > :> Hello to all > :> I am a Linux newbie trying to figure out how to install packages for my > system, i downloaded the debian linux by ftp on 7 disks the rescue floppy, > t

Re: Re:mgetty for PPP; Need help

1997-05-20 Thread Eugene Sevinian
On Thu, 1 May 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: > Run "winipcfg" on the Win95 box to find out what addresses have been > configured on the client side. Report here. Here it is: Windows 95 IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . : GUK DNS Servers . . . . . . . . : 194.67.209.1

Re: automatically tracking just a few unstable packages

1997-05-20 Thread Aaron M. Johnson
>My system is mostly bo, but I've installed a couple of packages out of >hamm. I have my dselect access method set to ftp and pointing at the >bo Packages files. I'd like a way to know when the hamm packages I'm >tracking are updated. Does the system have a way to do that? I believe dftp has w

Which program 'owns' srm.conf?

1997-05-20 Thread Christian Hudon
Hi, During a recent cron run, I got a complain about the file "srm.conf"... Could someone tell me which program uses this file? There's no manpage for it and dpkg -S doesn't know about it. Thanks, Christian pgpvy6zb8hEKd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: login installation weirdness?

1997-05-20 Thread Rick Jones
On Tue, 20 May 1997, Colin Telmer wrote: > Sorry about the subject line, but I don't know how to briefly describe > this problem. Anyway, I have just finished installing 1.2 and everything > went perfectly except that on the first virtual terminal (ALT-F1) when any > user exits, /etc/issue is not

Re: Which program 'owns' srm.conf?

1997-05-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
Apache uses this file ... it contains directives about file types, access controls, etc. See the excellent documentation at www.apache.org. -- Nathan Norman:Hostmaster CFNI:[EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key and other stuff Key fingerprint = CE 03

*-* How to make dselect use local mirror for testing frozen?

1997-05-20 Thread J.P.D. Kooij
Hi, On my home lan I have a couple of machines that I am currently using to test the new frozen distribution on. Because I don't want to have to download all the packages that I want to test each time I try a new machine or method, I have made a little mirror of part of the distribution. I

loadkey problem after upgrade

1997-05-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Hi, I decided to give libc6 (without the dev) a try and upgraded a couple of progs (including the ones newly compiled with libc6). Now I don't get my german keybindings anymore (at startup). When I try loadkeys /etc/kbd/default.map at the console I get: /etc/kbd/default.map:1:parse error synta

Re: Help with IP masquerading

1997-05-20 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, 20 May 1997, Benjamin T. White wrote: > **I can not do domain name resolution with my new setup** The ip > masquerading seems to work with most network traffic. Packets sent by > IP number are forwarded appropriately. I can telnet and use my web > browser on my macs if I use IP numbers. DN