RE: PPP connection problem

1997-07-13 Thread wb2oyc
On 02:07:28 Lazar Fleysher wrote: > >send (ATDT) >Serial Connection established >Using interface ppp0 >Connect:ppp0<-->/dev/ttyS2 >LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests >Connection terminated >Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean >Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0 > >Does anyone know what the p

adding ipfwadm rules

1997-07-13 Thread Randy Edwards
I've been playing around with masquerading (which has been going surprisingly smoothly -- great!:-). Well, I've got enough confidence in this that I want to have it come up whenever the machine is up. Being the Linux newbie that I am, I was wondering there the most appropriate place to add

Re: Problems with xauth & PAM

1997-07-13 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> Juan Jose Quintela writes: Juan> And when I try to launch a window in a remote machine I Juan> obtain the following message: Juan> ~$ xterm & [1] 5939 ~$ Xlib: connection to "krilin:0.0" Juan> refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect Juan> to Server

Re: Off-topic: Making ALT be the META key

1997-07-13 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "David" == David R Kohel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> Did anyone come up with a solution to this one? Is this David> controlled by emacs of X keymapping (or both)? I've found `xkeycaps' to be invaluable for setting X Windows keysyms. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST

Re: Non-interactive HTTP retrival *with* POST verb ?

1997-07-13 Thread Mark Boyns
12 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I posted a few days back asking about a non-intercative way to fetch > stuff using HTTP. Some kind soul pointed me to wget. Neat stuff, but it > only took a couple of dys to reach it's limits :-( I am trying to fetch > a daily weather

Re: adding ipfwadm rules

1997-07-13 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Randy Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: :I've been playing around with masquerading (which has been going : surprisingly smoothly -- great!:-). Well, I've got enough confidence in : this that I want to have it come up whenever the machine is up. : :Being the Linux newbie that I am, I wa

Re: adding ipfwadm rules

1997-07-13 Thread A. M. Varon
On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, Randy Edwards wrote: >Being the Linux newbie that I am, I was wondering there the most > appropriate place to add the ipfwadm lines would be. > >I'm thinking they'd be a "natural" for adding to /etc/init.d/network, but > I was wondering if this is a good place for suc

Re: Netconfig isnt available

1997-07-13 Thread A. M. Varon
On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, K.Y.Lo wrote: > Hi > > I cant find 'netconfig' on Debian Linux 1.3. I am going to set up > my ethernet TCP/IP but I need 'netconfig' to install so much easier. > > do you know where is 'netconfig'? netconfig is a script file used in slackware. It's not compatible with debia

Enlightment packaging

1997-07-13 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, I though I saw that someone was packaging the Enlightment window manager (http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~s2154962/enlightenment, US mirror at http://www.kickit.org/enlightenment/), but I can't find it in hamm's Packages list. Does anyone know anything about this? Thanks, --Amos --Amos Shapira

probem going bash 1.14.7-2 to 2.0-3

1997-07-13 Thread Douglas Stewart
> Preparing to replace bash 1.14.7-2 (using .../base/bash_2.0-3.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement bash ... > Setting up bash (2.0-3) ... > sh: can't resolve symbol 'rl_filename_quoting_function' > dpkg: error processing bash (--install): > subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Segme

syslogd / hostname -> mismatch?

1997-07-13 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hey When syslogd starts up (/etc/init.d/sysklogd), it uses in de logfiles 'cal052204'. But I want it to use 'oloon'. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ hostname oloon [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ hostname --fqdn cal052204.student.utwente.nl [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 130.89.230

Re: probem going bash 1.14.7-2 to 2.0-3

1997-07-13 Thread Lindsay Allen
I had the same experience, but on a headless machine. Once I shut it down I could not log in again. The installation was just a test bed so I reinstalled from scratch. Lindsay =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perth, Wes

Re: probem going bash 1.14.7-2 to 2.0-3

1997-07-13 Thread Lindsay Allen
I must correct my earlier message on this subject. I certainly did get that error message, but I was not upgrading bash. I was working through .../disks-i386/1997-05-30/Upgrading except that I did it slightly out of order, like this. dpkg -i dpkg.deb dpkg --clear-avail

Dual Pentium Machines

1997-07-13 Thread Greg Vence
Hello, Its time to upgrade... What dual Pentium machines do people like and what have known problems? I looked in LDP and didn't see anything regarding this topic. Thanx -- Greg. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail t

fte

1997-07-13 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hey Is it true that /usr/bin/fte is missing in the fte-package? I have /usr/X11R6/bin/xfte and /usr/bin/{c,v}fte, but no /usr/bin/fte. Is that correct? Remco -- // Remco van de Meent // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www: http://oloon.student.utwente.nl // " Never make any mistaeks. " -

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1997-07-13 Thread jmgray
Hi, I'm trying to install a patch for my D-Link D600 ethernet adapter, but am getting the following error. Has anyone run into these types of errors when doing this install? Thanks in advance! Error msg: "loading device 'eht1'... eth1: D-Link DE-600 pocket adapter: not at I/O 0x378 /lib/mo

Questions from a future user

1997-07-13 Thread Shaleh
What are Debian's pro's and con's? How hard is its PPP setup and how stable are its PPP connections. I will be using my box to dial an ISP and do school work. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Problems with Debian 1.3 new installation and ThinkPad 365XD.

1997-07-13 Thread Noel Yap
On Fri Jul 11 17:03:41 -0500 1997, Timothy J. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm attempting a new install on the ThinkPad 365XD w/800x600 > display, 40Mb RAM, CDROM and external floppy; at boot, the system reports > root.bin loaded, then linux, then it simply halts. I have a similar sys

Re: 1.3.1 font problem in X

1997-07-13 Thread Noel Yap
On Fri Jul 11 19:29:26 -0400 1997, digger vermont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I upgraded from 1.3.0 to 1.3.1 which was mostly an X upgrade to 3.3-3. > Now, none of the upgraded and important (misc, 75dp1, and 100dpi I believe) > font paths are recognized. I tried running mkfontdir

Re: Questions from a future user

1997-07-13 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Sun, 13 July 1997, Shaleh wrote: > What are Debian's pro's and con's? How hard is its PPP setup and how > stable are its PPP connections. I will be using my box to dial an ISP > and do school work. Well, here is my 2 cents : Pros: Large, competent volunteer development staff

Re: Off-topic: Making ALT be the META key

1997-07-13 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
"David R. Kohel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Did anyone come up with a solution to this one? > > Is this controlled by emacs of X keymapping (or both)? > > I had the same problem (with emacs) until it spontaneously corrected > itself. > > David > > > I recently installed XEmacs, and would

Re: PPP dial-up script working at last.

1997-07-13 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
David Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I finally got my PPP dial-up script working. Thanks to everyone who > responded to my request for help. > > My real problem was simple ignorance - I thought all of the ppp files were > in /etc/ppp, which is why I didn't know about /etc/ppp.chatscript

Slow PLIP

1997-07-13 Thread Lazar Fleysher
HI I am trying to connect my linux computer with dos one using plip On dos machine I use plip packet driver form ftp://ftp.crynwr.com/drivers/plip.zip The connection can be established but it is very very slow. If I use dos on both and connect them using interlnk, intersrv, I get about 60Kb/sec

md5sum failure

1997-07-13 Thread Chris Smith
Recently downloaded the Debion Official CD 1.3.1. When I ran the md5sum program against it, I received a failure in all 85 files. Since I haven't experienced any other corruption problems I am at a loss to explain this. Newbie at Linux, used NT4 to download and ran the posted DOS md5sum (md5sum.

Re: PPP dial-up script working at last.

1997-07-13 Thread mark powers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > -- after there is a directory /etc/ppp all the files _should_ > be there, IMO. As it is now, the configuration of ppp is not easy to > understand. Agreed, though a simple question-and-answer PPP configuration script ought not to be too difficult. I have one from Suns

Re: nobody is running find at too high a priority

1997-07-13 Thread W Paul Mills
On 10 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wrote: > > I guess the Debian developers are all nightowls. 7AM is *not* early enough > > to be scheduling this sort of thing. > > Kevin Dalley writes: > > Since this is an entirely individual item which cannot please everybody, > > I suggest that you

XTerm on XFree86 3.3-3 trouble

1997-07-13 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
Hi, I have a strange XTerm behaviour after upgrading to XFree 3.3-3. When I start mc in a xterm I have trouble with the F-Keys: F1 gives P F2 gives Q F3 gives R F4 gives S F5 - F10 work just fine. When I start mc in a rxvt, all F-Keys work just fine. Has someone else encountered this proble

Re: md5sum failure

1997-07-13 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Chris Smith wrote: > Recently downloaded the Debion Official CD 1.3.1. When I ran the md5sum > program against it, I received a failure in all 85 files. Since I haven't > experienced any other corruption problems I am at a loss to explain this. > Newbie at Linux, used NT4 to

Re: Questions from a future user

1997-07-13 Thread Karlheinz Nolte
Shaleh wrote: > > What are Debian's pro's and con's? How hard is its PPP setup and how > stable are its PPP connections. I will be using my box to dial an ISP > and do school work. > Hi, I think Debian biggest advantage is the intelligent package handling. PPP is very good pre-configured. I

Re: Toshiba laptop resume mode

1997-07-13 Thread Mike Orr
On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Bill Moran wrote: > I am trying to install debian on a Toshiba laptop 410 CS and am having > trouble making resume mode work. When I try to resume the computer > hangs. I have a Toshiba Satellite T2130CT; I don't know how much that differs internally from yours. Suspend/resum

Re: PPP setup (was: Questions from a future user)

1997-07-13 Thread Brandon Mitchell
> On Sun, 13 July 1997, Shaleh wrote: > > > What are Debian's pro's and con's? How hard is its PPP setup and how > > stable are its PPP connections. I will be using my box to dial an ISP > > and do school work. I just did a test install using the 1.3 official disk (from lsl). I took some notes

Re: PPP dial-up script working at last.

1997-07-13 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 11 Jul, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > By the way, there is no solution for redialing of several phone numbers, as I > can see (not even with the dunc-package). > If you can use X, there is the xisp package. It can try several numbers, redail, handle multiple ISPs, multiple ip-up/down, easy to set

dpkg not installing modules

1997-07-13 Thread Barry King
Upgraded to 1.3 from 1.2 -- noticed the lack of appletalk and netware modules in the base distribution. dpkg would also have trouble getting the module .o files into the appropriate library directories. After a little work with dpkg, depmod and modconf, I got appletalk and ipx modules up and run

Re: PPP dial-up script working at last.

1997-07-13 Thread bash
On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, mark powers wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > -- after there is a directory /etc/ppp all the files _should_ > > be there, IMO. As it is now, the configuration of ppp is not easy to > > understand. > > Agreed, though a simple question-and-answer PPP configuration sc

Re: nobody is running find at too high a priority

1997-07-13 Thread jghasler
I wrote: > ...it is clear from the questions being posted that not everyone knows to > do this. Looks like a documentation problem. W. Paul Mills writes: > I am not so sure this is a documentation problem. More of a failure to > read. Any time more than a very small minority of users are unable

Re: nobody is running find at too high a priority

1997-07-13 Thread George Bonser
> Any time more than a very small minority of users are unable to get what > they need from the documentation it has failed. The failure may be due to > an insoluble problem (such as documenting all possible ppp schemes) but it > is failure nonetheless. Ok, then why not adopt some default standa

Mouse not responding (gpm)

1997-07-13 Thread Ty
Has anyone had any problems with the mouse not responding? The mouse was/is working fine, (MS serial mouse), however when I attempt to load-up x-windows, the mouse does not respond at all. I have checked the /etc/gpm.conf and tried other serial ports such as ttyS0 through ttyS3, and still nothing

uname -a on /etc/motd

1997-07-13 Thread Randy Edwards
Could someone tell me what process is putting what appears to be the output of a "uname -a" at the top of /etc/motd? I delete that regularly since IMHO it doesn't look very pretty, but try as I might, Linux seems to have more patience at putting it there then I do at removing it. :-) Regar

Re: uname -a on /etc/motd

1997-07-13 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sun, 13 Jul 1997 18:22:23 EDT Randy Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >Could someone tell me what process is putting what appears to be the > output of a "uname -a" at the top of /etc/motd? > >I delete that regularly since IMHO it doesn't look very pretty, but try > as I might, Linu

Re: uname -a on /etc/motd

1997-07-13 Thread joost witteveen
> > On Sun, 13 Jul 1997 18:22:23 EDT Randy Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > >Could someone tell me what process is putting what appears to be the > > output of a "uname -a" at the top of /etc/motd? > > > >I delete that regularly since IMHO it doesn't look very pretty, but try >

Re: Mouse not responding (gpm)

1997-07-13 Thread Igor Grobman
> Has anyone had any problems with the mouse not responding? > The mouse was/is working fine, (MS serial mouse), however > when I attempt to load-up x-windows, the mouse does not > respond at all. > > I have checked the /etc/gpm.conf and tried other serial > ports such as ttyS0 through ttyS3, and

Re: Toshiba laptop resume mode

1997-07-13 Thread Bruce Perens
The kernel we distribute doesn't have Advanced Power Management configured in because it crashes some systems. Install the kernel-source package and make a custom kernel, with APM enabled. That should handle resume just fine. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 F

Re: nobody is running find at too high a priority

1997-07-13 Thread jghasler
George Bonser writes: > Ok, then why not adopt some default standard (Say PAP like windows does) > that you MAY CHANGE but for newbies, asks them what the phone number is, > what their password is and username and then sets the darned thing up to > act like Win95 does on a PPP login so that any ISP