Re: Why Debian?

1997-08-08 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Aug 07, George Bonser wrote: > > I will say this to ANYONE. Debian is the very BEST linux distribution > once you get to know it. I would not use any other. The two things that > is needs polish on are the package management interface (being worked on) > and a nice default X setup with some

Re: man gives segmentation fault

1997-08-08 Thread Falk Hueffner
On Fri, 8 Aug 1997 05:50:27 +1000 (EST), you wrote: >> > I am running Debian 1.3.1, and recently trying to run man gives a >> > segmentation fault when run as a normal user (but not when run as root): >> > >> > % man man >> > Segmentation fault >> >> This happened to me too. I did not try any

disabling user mail

1997-08-08 Thread Paul Miller
I want all users in the 'mail' group to be able to send/recieve mail. So, for example, if someone sends a message to someone not in the group, it will be returned as unknown. -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail t

Re: disabling user mail

1997-08-08 Thread Martin Schulze
> > I want all users in the 'mail' group to be able to send/recieve mail. > So, for example, if someone sends a message to someone not in the group, > it will be returned as unknown. Write your own local transport or try to work with procmail as local delivery agent. Joey -- Individua

Re: Modprobe error and kerneld question

1997-08-08 Thread Shaleh
> Don't get me wrong, but maybe you don't use the mount command the right > way ? > > To mount a CD-Rom you have to use something like mount -t iso9660 > /dev/hdb /cdrom > > To mount a fat Partition mount -t fat /dev/hda6 /mnt You are right to ask -- no offense taken. My understanding is that b

Re: Modprobe error and kerneld question

1997-08-08 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi, everyone -- I am having the same problem as the original poster; my kerneld (yes, I _do_ have _only_ auto enabled in /etc/conf.modules) doesn't want to mount the floppy in msdos automagically. However, when I do (as root) insmod /lib/modules/2.0.30/fs/fat.o ;followed by insmod /lib/modules/2.0

Why Is PPP Restarting Cron?

1997-08-08 Thread Paul Serice
Every day, cron is restarted twice. Once by the file that is supposed to restart it and once by /etc/cron.daily/ppp. Is this the right behavior? Paul Serice -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Running GIMP as a user

1997-08-08 Thread Michael Stutz
Certain X apps like GIMP only seem to like being run as root (in this case I can run GIMP as a user but I cannot open any files, nor can I perform editing tasks on a new one). What is the reasoning behind this? Also, is there a way to change this so that I can run this software as a user? Thanks.

Re: Basic networking setup

1997-08-08 Thread Paul Wade
I have 2 cards of that type, but what I did was boot dos from floppy and then run the card setup utility to turn off pnp and set the ioport and irq values. Then I ran modconf to install the ne module. They work fine that way. I only use isapnp on devices that don't allow you to explicity set the va

Video card info

1997-08-08 Thread Shaleh
I have a Diamond Stealth with an ET4000/W32p chipset. Does anyone have the X settings I need?? It was given to me and I can not find any documentatiopn for it. Is there some other way to get this info?? Thanks for all the help everyone has given me and the other Linux first timers. There is a

Re: disabling user mail

1997-08-08 Thread John F
On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > > I want all users in the 'mail' group to be able to send/recieve mail. > > So, for example, if someone sends a message to someone not in the group, > > it will be returned as unknown. > > Write your own local transport or try to work with procmai

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #593

1997-08-08 Thread Mikko Väkiparta
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A few general Debian questions.

1997-08-08 Thread Michael Stutz
1. What's the current status of deity, the replacement for Debian's dselect? Are there any documents available that I can find out more on it? I haven't seen anything on debian.org about it. 2. Does anyone know at this point what the upgrade to 2.0 will be like -- like, will it require a complete

colons (:) in package version numbers mucking up dselect?

1997-08-08 Thread m*
went to upgrade the packages on the trusty old 386 and after i got the list of available packages dselect reported: - dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 13565 package `cdda2wav': empty value for version update available list script returned error exit status 1. - a

Re: colons (:) in package version numbers mucking up dselect?

1997-08-08 Thread Martin Schulze
> > went to upgrade the packages on the trusty old 386 and after i got > the list of available packages dselect reported: This is a feature and you're Yafcot(*) It's called epoch and you first have to upgrade your dpkg before you read in the new Packages file... you didn't... try dpkg --clear-a

modprobe and kerneld: fixed?

1997-08-08 Thread shaleh
I moved isofs alias further up the conf.modules (before the char-major-10-130 aliases to softdog). Now mount works like it is supposed to. Go fig. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Running GIMP as a user

1997-08-08 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Michael Stutz wrote: > Certain X apps like GIMP only seem to like being run as root (in this case I > can run GIMP as a user but I cannot open any files, nor can I perform > editing tasks on a new one). > > What is the reasoning behind this? Also, is there a way to change this

signify

1997-08-08 Thread Mohammad Rizal Othman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Does anybody know how to use signify with pine? I've copied one example as my .signify in my $HOME dir., but I'm clueless on how to make it work with pine. TIA. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM+qdrr/GcdV9lkiFAQGbYwQAm9

sendmail v/s smail

1997-08-08 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
Hello, >From the discussions on this list (I still haven't got my Debian CD), I gather smail is by default installed as the mail system for Debian; even if this is not the case, I have the following question: I'm now using (Slakware and) sendmail, and it works OK, though I'll be damned if I ever u

Off-line news spool?

1997-08-08 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
Hi, A few months ago, I started looking into setting an off-line news spool on my (Slakware) machine. I read all the documentation for INN, and I think I finally understood how to use it (after a LONG while). In the end, I never implemented the thing for lack of time. Now that I'm switching to De

Re: Running GIMP as a user

1997-08-08 Thread David Puryear
Hi, On 08-Aug-97 Will Lowe wrote: On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Michael Stutz wrote: > Certain X apps like GIMP only seem to like being run as root (in this case I > can run GIMP as a user but I cannot open any files, nor can I perform > editing tasks on a new one). >

Sound Config

1997-08-08 Thread PATRICK DAHIROC
Hi I have a Sound Blaster 16 card in my computer and as I was doing my configuration, I came across these options with no help Choice Setting [Default] Sound Blaster IRQ 7 I/O base for SB 220 Sound Blaster DMA

exim: doesn't work! can't send mail..

1997-08-08 Thread Paul Miller
I just installed the Debian package exim and it doesn't work! In pine when I try to send a message I get "421 STMP connection went away!" Any ideas? It worked perfectly w/ smail... -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Video card

1997-08-08 Thread Karsten Bolding
Hi Does anybody know if this card woks with XFree. Matrox MGA PowerDocEd 2MB PCI grafikkort Karsten -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: bind

1997-08-08 Thread Rob Browning
Francois Gouget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - Change the named.boot file depending on whether you are connected > or not. When not connected don't use forwarders. The solution I came up with was to have my /etc/ppp/ip-up and /etc/ppp/ip-down scripts switch between two /etc/host.conf files (I s

Re: Off-line news spool?

1997-08-08 Thread Adam Shand
>> Now that I'm switching to Debian, I may give it another try. And I've >> been reading about leafnode, which (if I understand right) would serve >> the same purpose as INN. Is this correct? > >Actually, I might suggest newsx over leafnode. It provides a tiny nntpd >(atually nnrpd) for readers to

inetd.tab/exim

1997-08-08 Thread Paul Miller
The exim package aparently doesn't add a line in the inetd.tab to load exim. What should I have in this file? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

please reply

1997-08-08 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hey For some reason I don't get any messages from debian-user-mailinglist anymore. I resubscribed, but didn't get a confirmation of the subscription. If anyone gets this message, would you please reply, and cc to the list, so the others know anyone replied ;) Thanks Remco -- // Remco van de

exim: problems receiving mail

1997-08-08 Thread Paul Miller
Even since I installed the exim package I haven't been able to receive mail. Has anyone else installed the exim package and had this problem? More importantly, is there a web page where I can read about exim? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMA

Re: please reply

1997-08-08 Thread Nico De Ranter
> Hey > > > For some reason I don't get any messages from debian-user-mailinglist > anymore. I resubscribed, but didn't get a confirmation of the subscription. > > If anyone gets this message, would you please reply, and cc to the list, so > the others know anyone replied ;) Yep got the message

install problem: aic7xxx encountered spurious IRQ / aborting command due to timeout

1997-08-08 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
hi everybody, my name is Dieter and I'm having problems to install the debian Linux distribution. My hardware: - Mobo Shuttle HOT-419 (VLB with Opti chipset), AMD486/133, 32 MB RAM - Adaptec AHA2842 (IRQ 11) - ATI Graphics Turbo (Mach32 mit 2 MB VRAM) - NE2000 compatiple card IRQ 15 IO 0x300 - IO

ttestt

1997-08-08 Thread Victor Torrico
Kindly ignore this test. I'm going nuts trying to get mail working right. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Proposal and questions about chemistry Debian packages

1997-08-08 Thread Frits Daalmans
Hello all, I have some questions regarding Debian's attitude towards scientific programs. First an introduction: In the Computational Chemistry mailing-list (listserv is [EMAIL PROTECTED], archived at ccl.osc.edu and http://ccl.osc.edu/chemistry.html) there are lately more and more questions a

[DPKG] Integrity checking?

1997-08-08 Thread Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd
Hi! Is dpkg can do integrity checking based on the MD5 hashes it uses? Our machine has been cracked, and we want to know which binaries have been compromised. It is rather urgent. Actually I'm not sure yet if we have been cracked :) A lamer administrator has made a passwordless account, and it ha

Re: install problem: aic7xxx encountered spurious IRQ / aborting command due to timeout

1997-08-08 Thread Paul Seelig
On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Dieter Rohlfing wrote: > Now I tried the debian distribution 1.2 (with kernel 2.0.27) I found > on my Infomagic Linux Developer's Resource (6-CD-set inluding > Slakware 3.2, RedHat 4.1). > I'd suggest getting a more recent Debian release based on the official CD set because the

RE: Debian-Desktop

1997-08-08 Thread Alec Clews
> >My major interest in the -Desktop and Diety projects is the provision for >user-friendly "basic installs" ... so that the average non-linux user can Sounds what a lot of us are after. >migrate to debian in a way that doesn't require them to understand unix as >a guru . Has there been any effo

Re: RAID5 controller

1997-08-08 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Markus Diesmann wrote: > However I have to warn you. > There is currently no support of the rpc.lockd daemon > under linux. > > So using a Linux system as a file server for SUN and SGIs > will bring you into trouble. > file locking is expected in some later kernel versions whi

Motorola Bit Surfer Pro and BONDING

1997-08-08 Thread Peter Iannarelli
For those of you who are using Motorola Bit Surfer Pros for ISDN internet access and have been unsucessful in getting Bonding to work. I have got it working. Following is a description of what I've got and what I did. My internet gateway is a 100Mhz 486 running Debian 1.3.1 with the 2.0.30 kern

Re: RAID5 controller

1997-08-08 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: > On Thu, 7 Aug 1997 11:23:13 -0700, Kevin Traas wrote: > > > >can anyone recommend a couple of tried and true RAID5 controllers > >>i could price out? > > > >I've used the Mylex DAC960 PCI (3 and 5 channel). Very happy with them - > >but pricy. However, I

RE: Debian-Desktop

1997-08-08 Thread Lindsay Allen
In my practise run the other day I noted that I had to use my dselect skills to deselect all except required packages. Then I exited dselect and ran dpkg --set-selections before running dselect again. I also noted that the --set-selections acted only on those packages specified in the file. It

Re: RAID5 controller

1997-08-08 Thread Markus Diesmann
I am not sure what problems you actually had, but I think so. I heard that people are working on kernel support for proper file locking. Unfortunately we do not have the knowledge and resources to help them. We have found an acceptable indermediate solution, where main file serving is done by a Li

Re: Modprobe error and kerneld question

1997-08-08 Thread David Wright
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Shaleh wrote: > Do not quote me, but my fstab reads something like: > > ... > /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 user,noauto If /dev/cdrom is a link to /dev/hdX you may find that umount won't work properly. Mount will follow the link and mount the right device, but put the real n

Re: Modprobe error and kerneld question

1997-08-08 Thread Frits Daalmans
>On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Shaleh wrote: >> Do not quote me, but my fstab reads something like: >> >> ... >> /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 user,noauto > >If /dev/cdrom is a link to /dev/hdX you may find that umount won't work >properly. Mount will follow the link and mount the right device, but put >t

Re: Proposal and questions about chemistry Debian packages

1997-08-08 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Frits Daalmans wrote: > Hello all, > > I have some questions regarding Debian's attitude towards scientific > programs. [...] > Now my questions are these: > - there is no section for chemistry or quantum chemistry yet in the > Debian distribution. Do you think there would

Where is qcrack and staroffice.deb packages

1997-08-08 Thread Paul
Hi folks, I want qcrack and staroffice packages any help would be muchly appreciated. I can't find them anywhere. I thought that staroffice was available over in europe. Thanks in advance. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Tro

Re: sendmail v/s smail

1997-08-08 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Thu, Aug 07, 1997 at 11:48:37PM -0400, Gonzalo A. Diethelm wrote: : >From the discussions on this list (I still haven't got my Debian CD), : I gather smail is by default installed as the mail system for Debian; : even if this is not the case, I have the following question: I'm now : using (Slakw

Re: Where is qcrack and staroffice.deb packages

1997-08-08 Thread Paul
try this again. On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Paul wrote: > Hi folks, I want qcrack and staroffice packages any help would be muchly > appreciated. I can't find them anywhere. I thought that staroffice was > available over in europe. Thanks in advance. > Paul > > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILI

Re: install problem: aic7xxx encountered spurious IRQ / aborting command due to timeout

1997-08-08 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Hello Paul, thanks for your quick answer. I've already ordered Debian 1.3.1 at JFL in Berlin. I hope to have more luck with the more recent version. Have a nice day! Dieter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EM

Re: sendmail v/s smail

1997-08-08 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
>smail should be your choice if you are serving <100 users with average >mail volumes. The upcomming version of smail will be a bit faster and >handle more users. > >The configurations are MUCH easier but you need to get all sendmail >thought out of your head. If you are going to be smtp ONLY, yo

Re: RAID5 controller

1997-08-08 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Markus Diesmann wrote: > I heard that people are working on kernel support for > proper file locking. > Unfortunately we do not have the knowledge and resources > to help them. > We have found an acceptable indermediate solution, where > main file serving is done by a Linux sys

Re: Looking for Talk - HOWTO

1997-08-08 Thread Frank Barknecht
Mike Schmitz hat gesagt: // Mike Schmitz wrote: > Rewrite your hosts file from /etc/ppp/ip-up, keeping the same name as > is set in hostname. Here is an example: > I have tried this now, but used an example from the Dynamic-IP-Hacks-mini-HOWTO like another user here suggested. Basically it is t

disk activities on a notebook..

1997-08-08 Thread David Puryear
Hi all, Does anyone know what is accessing the hard drive every 3 or four seconds? I'm using debian 1.3.1 with 2.0.29 on a laptop, so I trying to make the battery last as long as possible. But with constant accessing of the disk when I'm just typing is draining the battery way too fast.:( Hope so

More on....disk activities on a notebook..

1997-08-08 Thread David Puryear
Hi, I just noticed that this happens only when running X. Thanks, David On 08-Aug-97 David Puryear wrote: Does anyone know what is accessing the hard drive every 3 or four seconds? I'm using debian 1.3.1 with 2.0.29 on a laptop, so I trying to make the battery last as

Re: RAID5 controller

1997-08-08 Thread Dave Cinege
On Fri, 8 Aug 1997 07:34:41 -0400 (EDT), Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > >I've been using the DPT controller with Debian but only for RAID 1. >I've had no trouble except for the e2fsprog bug. The RAID >functionality is implemented in hardware and appears as a normal disk >to Debian. I should also m

Re: Modprobe error and kerneld question

1997-08-08 Thread Shaleh
It works now. I ran a depmod -a and reorganized my conf.modules. The kerneld/module docs all say they are going to be removed -- so I had no where to turn for info. The only two problems left are my char-major-10-130 (which is an alias to softdog, whatever that is) and I can not load binfmt_java

Re: Proposal and questions about chemistry Debian packages

1997-08-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > I think that the section should be for scientific programs in > general. Yes, with GIS packages included: - Vis5d -> available in Red Hat I think. - grass - ... Peter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAI

Re: Modprobe error and kerneld question

1997-08-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
Softdog is the software implemetation of the watchdog, I believe. If you're not using that then you probably don't need to alias .. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Voice: (605) 334-4454 Fax: (605) 335-1173 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] P

Re: Use Joystick to reboot.

1997-08-08 Thread Nils Rennebarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 7 Aug 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On 7 Aug, Brian K Servis wrote: >> activity. I still could move the pointer though. My only solution at >> the time was to push the reset button. If I had had a joystick driver >> active I could have started a clea

Re: Where is qcrack and staroffice.deb packages

1997-08-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Paul wrote: > try this again. > > On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Paul wrote: > > > Hi folks, I want qcrack and staroffice packages any help would be muchly > > appreciated. I can't find them anywhere. I thought that staroffice was > > available over in europe. Thanks in advance. > >

File impossible to delete

1997-08-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Somehow, I got a corrupted file on my system: bash-2.00# ls -l /root/Mail/ total 269488144 c---r- 8240 8224 8224 32, 48 Aug 2 1995 drafts I can't delete it! bash-2.00# chown root drafts chown: drafts: Operation not permitted bash-2.00# rm -f drafts rm: drafts: Operation

Re: Sound Config

1997-08-08 Thread Will Lowe
On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, PATRICK DAHIROC wrote: > I have a Sound Blaster 16 card in my computer and as I was doing my > configuration, I came across these options with no help Um, simplest thing to do is (assuming you have win95 or dos or os/2 or something besides linux on your machine) boot to you'r

S/Linux

1997-08-08 Thread Eric Waldman
Any info available on when debian for the SPARCstations will be available. I use debian on all of my pentiums, 486's, and 386's. I have a sparcstation 1 and Sparc classic and would like to stick with debian. Thanks -- Eric Waldman EMC Corporation 171 So

File impossible to delete

1997-08-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I just wrote: > Somehow, I got a corrupted file on my system: > > bash-2.00# ls -l /root/Mail/ > total 269488144 > c---r- 8240 8224 8224 32, 48 Aug 2 1995 drafts > > I can't delete it! I just booted the rescue disk and ran `e2fsck -f' on the partition. After it fixed

(no subject)

1997-08-08 Thread Eric Waldman
debian-user@lists.debian.org -- Eric Waldman EMC Corporation 171 South Street Hopkinton, MA 01748-9103 508-435-1000 x4355 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

Re: colons (:) in package version numbers mucking up dselect?

1997-08-08 Thread m*
Pawel Wiecek wrote: > > Upgrade dpkg to newer version by hand before upgrading other packages. > The colon delimits epoch and version number - and epochs were added in some > newer version of dpkg/dselect (around Debian 1.1 or 1.2). > oh okay. my mistake. Yafcot:atj(*), mark -- * Yet another

Re: Threads information, book recommendation.

1997-08-08 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Thomas Baetzler wrote: > Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 11:45:36 +0200 (MET DST) > From: Thomas Baetzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "David B. Teague" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Threads information, book recommendation. > Resent-Date: Thu,

Re: Motorola Bit Surfer Pro and BONDING (Ignore if not interested in ISDN/PPP/Linux)

1997-08-08 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Peter Iannarelli wrote: > > For those of you who are using Motorola Bit Surfer Pros for ISDN internet > access and > have been unsucessful in getting Bonding to work. I have got it working. > Following is > a description of what I've got and what I did. > > My internet gateway is a 100Mhz 486 r

Re: Basic networking setup

1997-08-08 Thread Nils Rennebarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Dominic Davidson wrote: >The cards I am using are two NE2000 clones, manufactured by Trust and >with a RealTek chipset (according to Win95). They are PNP, but isapnp >seems to work, as does modprobe ne. ??? you need to give the io for modprobe

Driver installation problems

1997-08-08 Thread David_Neuer
Here's the situation: I am a web developer. I have a PowerMac 8500 at home, on which I do most of my development. My ISP is a pain to deal with regarding CGI scripts and stuff, so I decided to set up an intranet at home to do my development on. I got a used Packard Bell 486 machine with a flopp

undump, unexec

1997-08-08 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Hi. Some time ago someone (Mark ?) suggested to use unexec ability of emacs to create executables from the core files. Could someone please explain how I can do that. Is it a function of emacs and should be invoked within emacs or this is independent binary product of emacs source tree? Is there a

Re: undump, unexec

1997-08-08 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 12:40:46 -0400 (EDT) > From: Alex Yukhimets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org > Subject: undump, unexec > Resent-Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 16:40:37 + > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org > Resent-cc:

ET4000

1997-08-08 Thread Shaleh
I have an ET4000/W32p, does anyone have the X specs for this card?? If it helps it is a Diamond Stealth card. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: sendmail v/s smail

1997-08-08 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Aug 08, Jason Costomiris wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 1997 at 11:48:37PM -0400, Gonzalo A. Diethelm wrote: > : >From the discussions on this list (I still haven't got my Debian CD), > : I gather smail is by default installed as the mail system for Debian; > : even if this is not the case, I have the

Re: Wrong "From:" name

1997-08-08 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Aug 07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 7 Aug, Victor Torrico wrote: > > > > What must be changed and in which programs to make "From:" read > > properly? > > > Hi, > > I don't know how to do headerrewriting in smail. I simply specify a > from header in my mailprogramm. > > If this is not sui

Re: Off-line news spool?

1997-08-08 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Aug 08, Adam Shand wrote: > >> Now that I'm switching to Debian, I may give it another try. And I've > >> been reading about leafnode, which (if I understand right) would serve > >> the same purpose as INN. Is this correct? > > > >Actually, I might suggest newsx over leafnode. It provides a tin

Re: Proposal and questions about chemistry Debian packages

1997-08-08 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hello Frits! I don't know anything about quantum chem. at all. But I understand, that you want to become a Debian maintainer of chemical packages. First, you have to install, read and understand the debian-policy. It is a seperate debian package. Then you have to learn, how to build a debian pack

Problem with exim and fetchmail.

1997-08-08 Thread Rob Browning
I just switched over from sendmail to exim on one of my machines, and I was having a problem getting my mail from any other machine via fetchmail. If I put fetchmail in verbose mode I can see that exim is rejecting the SMTP command because there's no domain name: fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO: fetchm

Re: Proposal and questions about chemistry Debian packages

1997-08-08 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
--- Frits Daalmans wrote: ...have recently obtained a new program for molecular modelling. It was produced under the GPL and (very well) written in C (IMHO). ... - If I contact the author of this 'moldy' program, Keith Refson, and ask his permission to compile and package it for Linux (only i386 f

Re: Video card

1997-08-08 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
--- Karsten Bolding wrote: Hi Does anybody know if this card woks with XFree. Matrox MGA PowerDocEd 2MB PCI grafikkort --- end of quote --- Yes, it should. That's a Matrox Millenium PowerDoc Edition, which is supported by the SVGA server in XFree86 3.3 Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linu

Re: ET4000

1997-08-08 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Shaleh wrote: > I have an ET4000/W32p, does anyone have the X specs for this card?? If > it helps it is a Diamond Stealth card. Hi. You must have a Diamond Stealth 32. Have you searched through the XFREE86 documentation for info about your card? I used to have one, but the

Re: ET4000

1997-08-08 Thread Shaleh
I did not pay for it ;-) There is support for it in the svga server. I was unsure that the cards listed in the X docs were the right cards. I wsa wondering if maybe someone out there knew the settings for it or could point me towards somewhere to find it. I try diamond's web site but it was imp

urgent: I need all steps to setup an ppp server

1997-08-08 Thread crontab
Hi...I need urgently all posible information about how to setup and ppp server. Could some one teach me step by step? thanks to all. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: File impossible to delete

1997-08-08 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Somehow, I got a corrupted file on my system: > > bash-2.00# ls -l /root/Mail/ > total 269488144 > c---r- 8240 8224 8224 32, 48 Aug 2 1995 drafts > > I can't delete it! > > bash-2.00# chown root drafts > chown: drafts: Operati

Re: urgent: I need all steps to setup an ppp server

1997-08-08 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote: > > Hi...I need urgently all posible information about how to setup and ppp > server. > > Could some one teach me step by step? A good start can be found on my ISP page... http://www.buoy.com/isp look at the mgetty part or the portslave part.

Re: File impossible to delete

1997-08-08 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Somehow, I got a corrupted file on my system: > > > > bash-2.00# ls -l /root/Mail/ > > total 269488144 > > c---r- 8240 8224 8224 32, 48 Aug 2 1995 drafts > > > > I can't delete it! >

Re: File impossible to delete

1997-08-08 Thread Clint Adams
> On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > Somehow, I got a corrupted file on my system: > > > > bash-2.00# ls -l /root/Mail/ > > total 269488144 > > c---r- 8240 8224 8224 32, 48 Aug 2 1995 drafts > > > > I can't delete it! You're going to need to use debugfs to get

Re: File impossible to delete

1997-08-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Colin R. Telmer" wrote: > As root can you chmod 700 drafts and then try rm -f drafts? I've tried stuff like bash-2.00# chmod 666 drafts chmod: drafts: Operation not permitted bash-2.00# touch drafts2; chmod 777 drafts2; mv drafts2 drafts ; rm drafts mv: cannot move `drafts2' to `drafts':

Re: Proposal and questions about chemistry Debian packages

1997-08-08 Thread Ciccio
> > I think that the section should be for scientific programs in > > general. > > Yes, with GIS packages included: > > - Vis5d -> available in Red Hat I think. > - grass grass is huge and seems not to be maintained anymore (anybody willing to bring 100M source to our century?) Also, alm

Re: Installed perl-tk-400.202-2; now perl-tk is broken

1997-08-08 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can get the new pacakge to build, but it segfaults at "use > Tk;" every time. I've sort of convinced myself it might be a problem > with the mixed (libc5/libc6) X package, but it's a guess... Turned out that a new release (just today) of perl that was

Re: urgent: I need all steps to setup an ppp server

1997-08-08 Thread Kevin Traas
>Hi...I need urgently all posible information about how to setup and ppp >server. Check out the Howto's. Specifically, PPP-Howto. You can find these on your system under /usr/doc/HOWTO (if you have the linux-doc package installed). -Or- You can find these on the web at: http://www.li.org/Res

Re: ET4000

1997-08-08 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Shaleh wrote: > I did not pay for it ;-) There is support for it in the svga server. I > was unsure that the cards listed in the X docs were the right cards. I > wsa wondering if maybe someone out there knew the settings for it or > could point me towards somewhere to find i

Re: Proposal and questions about chemistry Debian packages

1997-08-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Ciccio wrote: > > > I think that the section should be for scientific programs in > > > general. > > > > Yes, with GIS packages included: > > > > - Vis5d -> available in Red Hat I think. > > - grass > > grass is huge and seems not to be maintained anymore (anybody > willing to bring 100M

Re: File impossible to delete

1997-08-08 Thread Rob Browning
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've tried stuff like What kernel version are you running? -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: [DPKG] Integrity checking?

1997-08-08 Thread Philippe Troin
On Fri, 08 Aug 1997 09:15:06 BST "Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is dpkg can do integrity checking based on the MD5 hashes it uses? > Our machine has been cracked, and we want to know which binaries have been > compromised. There are per-package md5 sums to check the integrit

Re: File impossible to delete

1997-08-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Rob Browning wrote: > What kernel version are you running? The pre-release to 2.0.31, but I have 2.0.30 on hand. The mess might have occurred when I tried 2.1.X kernels to get my IDE PD-CD to work, which is why I'm currently using 2.0.31-pre-release. Peter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: ET4000

1997-08-08 Thread Shaleh
The card is in the list. I was looking for RAMDAC info, clock settings, and any special switches people set in their XF86Config file. Thanks for the newsgroup suggestion -- maybe I'll try that if noone here has any suggestions. (Okay I like you Debian people better). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: File impossible to delete

1997-08-08 Thread Rob Browning
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The pre-release to 2.0.31, but I have 2.0.30 on hand. > The mess might have occurred when I tried 2.1.X kernels to get my IDE PD-CD > to work, which is why I'm currently using 2.0.31-pre-release. The kernels in the recent 2.1.4X past had serious ext

Re: File impossible to delete

1997-08-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
This is one for the books! Clint Adams wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > > Somehow, I got a corrupted file on my system: > > > > > > bash-2.00# ls -l /root/Mail/ > > > total 269488144 > > > c---r- 8240 8224 8224 32, 48 Aug 2 1995 drafts > > > >

Re: File impossible to delete

1997-08-08 Thread Brandon Mitchell
> ext2fs_close: Attempt to write to filesystem opened read-only Have you confirmed that the partition is mounted read write? Try to make another file in the same direcotry. Otherwise, I'd saylesystem is extremely corrupted and you probably need to recreate that filesystem and reinstall the

xautolock not working for me

1997-08-08 Thread James D. Freels
I just discovered that xautolock is no longer working for me. I immediately get an segmentation fault when executed. I suspect this started to occur when I upgraded to 1.3.1 from 1.3.0 using the newer version of Xfree86_3.3. Can anyone else confirm this before I file a bug report? I also tried

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