Re: Compute Farm

1998-02-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Gergely Madarasz wrote: > On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > Tim, from my experiences with (much smaller scale but still essentially > > the same) mass-duplication of debian, all you need to do is duplicate the > > hard disk and change half a dozen (or less) file

curiosity

1998-02-11 Thread creative
This is just a curiosity... I have debian 1.3.1.r6 when is going to be a new realise? that is almost 4 months old I see lot of programs that need an update... Thank you Joaquin Grech -- --- ! C r e a t i v i t y M u s tS u r

Re: UPS again

1998-02-11 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote: > William R. Ward wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, " Raymond A. Ingles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > writes: > > > The UPS-HOWTO has a lot of info about using a UPS under Linux. I'd check > > > there before returning it. I know that genpowerd is pret

[General Q] Filtering mail from IMAP server with procmail

1998-02-11 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Sorry for this non Debian question. I usually find that my questions to this mailing list get answered very fast. My mail is stored on a remote IMAP server. How do I use procmail to filter my mail? The documentation on procmail that I have read applies to mail on the local system (ie. /var/spoo

nmh configuration

1998-02-11 Thread David Stern
Hi, I've got a hamm system running with smail(3.2.0.100-4), exmh(2.0-1), and would like to configure nmh(0.17-1) so that it uses smail as the local SMTP server (called by inetd), as was implemented in my bo system. I specifically do NOT want nmh to act as the SMTP server, because I have a cus

RE: /usr/spool and related links...

1998-02-11 Thread Kristian Strickland
Hi, In all fairness to the authors, is it accurate to call a program's "incorrect" behaviour a bug when the "incorrect" behaviour is caused be the standards being changed _after_ the software was released? Fine, I agree that using the bug-reporting channel is a useful way to send n

Modem

1998-02-11 Thread Pete Poff
Dear Supporters, I have the program minicom on my computer and I need to know how to tell what the name of my modem is under the /dev or how I can find it. The default that came with the program was something like /dev/cua1 but it couldn't find that file name. Also can any of you tell me where

rpc.portmap, ethernet-card prob

1998-02-11 Thread Florian Attenbergerhphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Hi, My "rpc.portmap" is away (/usr/sbin/rpc.portmap) and I don't know, why. What is its use?? How can I get it again? I have no /dev/eth0: Because the CARD is not correct installed or Do I have to create this file??(with mknod??) thanx so much florian attenberger

Re: Modem

1998-02-11 Thread Jeremy Tregunna
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Pete Poff wrote: > Dear Supporters, > I have the program minicom on my computer and I need to know how to > tell what the name of my modem is under the /dev or how I can find it. > The default that came with the program was something like /dev/cua1 but it > couldn't find

Re: Modem

1998-02-11 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
The device equivalent to /dev/cua1 is /dev/ttyS2. (In linux, as in other unices, the serial device numbering starts at 0, so /dev/ttyS1 is the same serial port as COM2 in DOS.) The use of the /dev/cua? devices is deprecated, I believe because of locking inconsistencies. Bob On Tue, 1

RE: /usr/spool and related links...

1998-02-11 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Kristian Strickland wrote: > In all fairness to the authors, is it accurate to call a program's > "incorrect" behaviour a bug when the "incorrect" behaviour is caused be the > standards being changed _after_ the software was released? Actually, your statement is incorre

Re: UPS again

1998-02-11 Thread William R. Ward
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Like a dummy, I bought a UPS without bothering to check if genpowerd >> supports it (I don't think it does). But before taking it back (I >> believe I have a week to do so and it's real stormy now, so I'm glad >> to have i

Re: UPS again

1998-02-11 Thread William R. Ward
Yikes that sounds like a chore. I hope it doesn't come to that. --Bill. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ralph Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > William R. Ward wrote: >> >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, " Raymond A. Ingles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> writes: >> > On 5 Feb 1998, William R Wa

Printers and printing

1998-02-11 Thread Robert LaGrasse
Hi Group, Im new to Linux, so bear with me. A point in the right direction is all that is required here -- well, maybe to spawn more questions. I have a debian 1.3.1 system setup, and I'm running X with a fair amount of success. I've decided to go ahead and install some applications, starting wit

Re: Modem

1998-02-11 Thread Ruth Corran
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Pete Poff wrote: > I have the program minicom on my computer and I need to know how to > tell what the name of my modem is under the /dev or how I can find it. > The default that came with the program was something like /dev/cua1 but it > couldn't find that file name. i

Re: Using hamm? READ THIS about /usr/spool and related links...

1998-02-11 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
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Re: Modem /dev/cua vs /dev/ttyS

1998-02-11 Thread Steve Hsieh
Use of /dev/cua? may be deprecated, but I can't get scripts to work with /dev/ttyS?, only /dev/cua?. Can anone explain why? For example, if you use the /usr/doc/ppp/examples/secure-card expect script, it uses redirection to /dev/cua? to communicate with the modem: system "stty 19200 -echoe -echo

weird tcp/inetd problem

1998-02-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
My syslog is full of Feb 11 16:30:13 yodeller nmbd[16708]: connect from dialup-2.rising.com.au Feb 11 16:30:13 yodeller inetd[16659]: /usr/sbin/tcpd: exit status 0x1 Feb 11 16:30:14 yodeller nmbd[16709]: connect from dialup-2.rising.com.au Feb 11 16:30:14 yodeller inetd[16659]: /usr/sbin/tcpd: exi

Compute Farm, Part II

1998-02-11 Thread Tim Sailer
I guess I didn't explain real well the first time, although I enjoyed the thread.. On this compute farm, they want to make changes to 1 machine, as in adding a package, changing a config file, etc and having the resultant changes reflected on the other 199 machines, without having to go to each ma

Re: Compute Farm, Part II

1998-02-11 Thread Steve Hsieh
If they are all pretty similar configs, then it sounds like a very easy solution is to use rdist or rsync. On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: > I guess I didn't explain real well the first time, although I enjoyed > the thread.. > > On this compute farm, they want to make changes to 1 machi

Re: rpc.portmap, ethernet-card prob

1998-02-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Feb 11, 1998 at 02:51:58AM +0100, Florian Attenbergerhphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de wrote: > My "rpc.portmap" is away (/usr/sbin/rpc.portmap) and I don't know, why. > What is its use?? > How can I get it again? > > I have no /dev/eth0: > Because the CARD is not correct installed??

Re: libc5 (not libc6) by default? (was: CDE)

1998-02-11 Thread Carey Evans
Alex Yukhimets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm sure there is not the problem that the package is not *.deb. > The problem here is that it was not linked with specific major version > of libc. If you try to do "ldd /path/to/some/CDE/executable/or/library" > I bet that you'll get dependence on lib

Re: UPS again

1998-02-11 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William R. Ward) (William R. Ward) (William R. Ward) (William R. Ward) (William R. Ward) writes: > They sell controller software for SCO Unix; is Debian > binary-compatible enough to run SCO binaries? I seem to recall > hearing it is. Barring that, I'll have to see if I can't

Re: Compiling w/shadow support

1998-02-11 Thread Carey Evans
"Mark A. Bialik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've recently switched over to Debian, and have shadow support installed. I > seem to have a reacurring problem when I need to compile my own software. > I've figured out that I need to add -I/usr/src/linux/include to many of my > CFLAGS, There shoul

Re: rpc.portmap, ethernet-card prob

1998-02-11 Thread Carey Evans
"Florian Attenbergerhphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My "rpc.portmap" is away (/usr/sbin/rpc.portmap) and I don't know, why. > What is its use?? > How can I get it again? rpc.portmap moved to portmap recently in unstable. It's generally only used for NFS on

Re: Compute Farm, Part II

1998-02-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: > I guess I didn't explain real well the first time, although I enjoyed > the thread.. > > On this compute farm, they want to make changes to 1 machine, as in > adding a package, changing a config file, etc and having the resultant > changes reflected on the

Re: Compute Farm, Part II

1998-02-11 Thread Lindsay Allen
Tim, IIRC Brian White has advocated cfengine for this task. HTH Lindsay =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 248632.0125S 115.8445Evk6lj Debian Unix =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

cdwrite and cd writers

1998-02-11 Thread mfrattola
Hi all, not really a debian question, so please excuse me if someone's bothered. Is there any other SCSI cd writer supported by cdwrite (I have 2.0, any new release?) except hp, yamaha, philips and kodak? I have a teac r55s and it seems it's not supported. Is it really unsupported? Since it's so di

Want to spice-up your web-cam?

1998-02-11 Thread Holly Woodsen
Now you can really catch the eye of your web visitors! Make your webcam really move! Give your visitors the ability to aim your webcam at almost anything within a wide field of view. Using the VideAll, visitors to you webcam site can remotely aim your webcam using the arrow keys on their own keyb

KING INK

1998-02-11 Thread NOWHERE
Header: SAVE up to 90% on your PRINTING NEEDS! IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR PLEASE CALL US AT 1-888-248-0837 THIS IS NOT A REPLY ADDRESS Let us show you how to

Re: Printers and printing

1998-02-11 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert LaGrasse) writes: > I attempted to print a document I created with StarOffice, but discovered I > only had a few post script printers available to me. I can only assume this > is because I don't have the proper printer drivers installed for my hardware > (an old HP laserj

Re: Modem

1998-02-11 Thread Carey Evans
Ruth Corran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i have been playing the same game, getting minicom to actually > find my modem, and just succeeded. however now although > the modem will dial up, the connection is so slow that i > get timed out before the login screen of my provider has > appeared! any

PPP problems still

1998-02-11 Thread Charles
Hello, I am probably getting on peoples nerves, but I still dont have my ppp working on my linux box. I have followed the howto's and have tried what advice has been given me. None of this has worked so far. :( So I am still hoping that someone can shed some light on what I am doing wrong. I

xmkmf and imake

1998-02-11 Thread Ryan Tracey
Hi Which package does xmkmf come with. I used to have it on an unstable Debian installation, however, since re-installing and using the stable installation I can longer find it - I'm pretty sure I installed all the packages I had with the unstable one. Thanks -- Ryan Tracey smime.p7s Descript

apache .htaccess seem not to be read

1998-02-11 Thread Tony
Hello, I have been trying to configure apache to have a few password protected directories. I have .htaccess files in the directories that worked with my previous installation, but seem not to with the default debian config files. Is there an extra directive I should be adding to the /etc/apach

Re: rpc.portmap, ethernet-card prob

1998-02-11 Thread Florian Attenberger
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 1998 at 02:51:58AM +0100, Florian > Attenbergerhphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de wrote: > > My "rpc.portmap" is away (/usr/sbin/rpc.portmap) and I don't know, why. > > What is its use?? > > How can I get it again? > > > > I have n

Re: xmkmf and imake

1998-02-11 Thread jdassen
On Wed, Feb 11, 1998 at 11:12:08AM +0200, Ryan Tracey wrote: > Which package does xmkmf come with. For unstable, it's in "xlib6g-dev"; for stable, it's in "xlib6-dev". HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive imaginations in order to ensure t

Re: PPP problems still

1998-02-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Feb 10 21:07:56 charles pppd[100]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 > Feb 10 21:07:56 charles pppd[100]: tcgetattr: I/O error > Feb 10 21:07:56 charles pppd[100]: Exit. > Feb 10 21:08:35 charles pppd[116]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 > Feb 10 21:08:35 c

Re: nmh configuration

1998-02-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
David Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've got a hamm system running with smail(3.2.0.100-4), exmh(2.0-1), > <= 450 defer '<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>', sender address target > 'localhost.localdomain' cannot be verified at this time: > verify_sender(): BIND server failure: : Connection refused. (T

Re: rpc.portmap, ethernet-card prob

1998-02-11 Thread Florian Attenberger
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 1998 at 02:51:58AM +0100, Florian > Attenbergerhphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de wrote: > > My "rpc.portmap" is away (/usr/sbin/rpc.portmap) and I don't know, why. > > What is its use?? > > How can I get it again? > > > > I have n

how to update

1998-02-11 Thread Martin Pelikan
Hi, what is the fastest way to update from libc5 to libc6? Many packages are dependent on these libraries and I have no debian CD, everything I do I use ftp or www. It would be enough if I could get all the packages I need to update everything I guess. But I cannot see other way of doing this as t

Re: rpc.portmap, ethernet-card prob

1998-02-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Feb 11, 1998 at 10:57:29AM +0100, Florian Attenberger wrote: > I think the /etc/init.d/* files where not updated, when I updated to > debian 2.0 (The files are still looking for rpc.portmap instead of > portmap, as its name is in the new release > > Maybe the new network packeges should ca

Re: cdwrite and cd writers

1998-02-11 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
> Hi all, not really a debian question, so please excuse me if someone's > bothered. Is there any other SCSI cd writer supported by cdwrite (I have > 2.0, any new release?) except hp, yamaha, philips and kodak? I have a > teac r55s and it seems it's not supported. Is it really unsupported? > Sin

Re: curiosity

1998-02-11 Thread Jens Ritter
creative <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is just a curiosity... > I have debian 1.3.1.r6 > > when is going to be a new realise? that is almost 4 months old > I see lot of programs that need an update... The new release (on CD) will take a while, to come out. As far as I know, a code freeze

Re: cdwrite and cd writers

1998-02-11 Thread Stefan Berndtsson
Leszek Gerwatowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi all, not really a debian question, so please excuse me if someone's > > bothered. Is there any other SCSI cd writer supported by cdwrite (I have > > 2.0, any new release?) except hp, yamaha, philips and kodak? I have a > > teac r55s and it see

Re: cdwrite and cd writers

1998-02-11 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On 11 Feb 1998, Stefan Berndtsson wrote: > Leszek Gerwatowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Hi all, not really a debian question, so please excuse me if someone's > > > bothered. Is there any other SCSI cd writer supported by cdwrite (I have > > > 2.0, any new release?) except hp, yamaha,

Re: how to update

1998-02-11 Thread Jens Ritter
Martin Pelikan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what is the fastest way to update from libc5 to libc6? Many packages are > dependent on these libraries and I have no debian CD, everything I do I > use ftp or www. It would be enough if I could get all the packages I > need to update everything I guess

Re: Using hamm? READ THIS about /usr/spool and related links...

1998-02-11 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Colin R. Telmer wrote: > Santiago: Will further future upgrades of base-files again remove the > link? I would think that would be a good thing as it will root out buggy > packages. Actually, the package does not remove the symlink, it just

Re: samba/win95

1998-02-11 Thread Antonio Doldo
At 14.56 10/02/98 -0500, Paul Miller wrote: >On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Antonio Doldo wrote: > >> At 22.42 07/02/98 -0500, Paul Miller wrote: >> >When I set samba to USER mode, it doesn't accept passwords from windows >> >machines.. It works from linux machines.. I'm using encrypted password >> >and the

Re: cdwrite and cd writers

1998-02-11 Thread Stefan Berndtsson
Leszek Gerwatowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > cdrecord (including 1.6a9) is using illegal code, which makes it impossible > > to compile on all versions of linux. > > > > small example, found in lib/format.c > > > > > > va_list rargs; > > > > rargs = va_arg(args, v

Re: libc5 (not libc6) by default? (was: CDE)

1998-02-11 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > > I just tried installing the RedHat CDE package into a Debian unstable > > system. It was compiled with an oldish version of libc5 and not libc6 > > which the unstable release is based on. I was successful in > > converting the rpm files to deb files

Re: cdwrite and cd writers

1998-02-11 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On 11 Feb 1998, Stefan Berndtsson wrote: > Leszek Gerwatowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > cdrecord (including 1.6a9) is using illegal code, which makes it > > > impossible > > > to compile on all versions of linux. [...] > > > > Yes - it uses illegal code but it works (on Linux x86 mach

Debian 2.0

1998-02-11 Thread Fredrik Ax
Since I'm going to set up a couple of Linux hosts in the near future I wonder if there is a release date (fix or approximate) set for Debian 2.0? If not, how long will it maximum take before testing etc. is done? TIA /fax -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe

Re: Emacs Menu/Scrollbar Color

1998-02-11 Thread Frank Barknecht
Stefan Baums hat gesagt: // Stefan Baums wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to use GNU Emacs under X with a black background and white > foreground. > The problem is, this should be true of the menubar as well, but Xresources > background & foreground don't do the job. (It's possible, though: I saw a

RE: /usr/spool and related links...

1998-02-11 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Kristian Strickland wrote: > In all fairness to the authors, is it accurate to call a program's > "incorrect" behaviour a bug when the "incorrect" behaviour is caused be the > standards being changed _after_ the software was released?

Installing with low RAM

1998-02-11 Thread mr anonym
I need help from someone that has installed Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 with low RAM! __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: StarOffice and Debian (2)

1998-02-11 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi Dou you know how to update the menus in fvwm2 in order to incorporate Star Office 4? I already put in ~/.fvwm2/main-menu-pre.hook the line + "StarOffice" Exec soffice but I would like to put it in the main menu (maybe in the Shells section). Thank you. -- At\'e br

AGP Video

1998-02-11 Thread Greg Vence
Hello, What AGP cards are being used successfully with X? Specifically, I'm considering the Matrox Millenium II AGP. Thanx -- Greg. -- What do you want to spend today? Debian GNU/Linux (Free for an UNLIMITED time) http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html Greg VenceKH2EA/4 -- TO UNSUBSC

Re: Compute Farm, Part II

1998-02-11 Thread Tim Sailer
Craig Sanders wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: > > > I guess I didn't explain real well the first time, although I enjoyed > > the thread.. > > > > On this compute farm, they want to make changes to 1 machine, as in > > adding a package, changing a config file, etc and having the

Network

1998-02-11 Thread iquest
Hi, I'm fairly new in setup network. I'd like to know is there any document that describe how to setup a network that has Linux, Windows/NT boxes. I think I'd like to be able to share files, printers, CDROM, etc on all these machines. Many thank in advance! I think that I've gott

Re: Network

1998-02-11 Thread Tim Sailer
iquest wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm fairly new in setup network. I'd like to know is there > any document that describe how to setup a network that has > Linux, Windows/NT boxes. I think > > I'd like to be able to share files, printers, CDROM, etc on > all these machines. Many thank in ad

Re: StarOffice and Debian (2)

1998-02-11 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On 11 Feb 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: > Dou you know how to update the menus in fvwm2 in order to > incorporate Star Office 4? If you're using the menu package (see /usr/doc/menu), simply add an entry for staroffice in /etc/menu. If you don't have a Debian package, you may need

Re: [General Q] Filtering mail from IMAP server with procmail

1998-02-11 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
You should check out fetchmail - it connects to an IMAP or POP server and retrieves your mail, then delivers it via SMTP to localhost; essentially it takes mail on the server and causes it to become mail on the local system, so that any filtering you then have on the local system will work. Sudhak

Re: StarOffice and Debian (2)

1998-02-11 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
>Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:49:38 -0500 (EST) >From: Jean Pierre LeJacq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > >On 11 Feb 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: > >> Dou you know how

Re: cdwrite and cd writers

1998-02-11 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Hi Stefan, > cdrecord (including 1.6a9) is using illegal code, which makes it impossible > to compile on all versions of linux. > > small example, found in lib/format.c > > > va_list rargs; > > rargs = va_arg(args, va_list); > > > this is possi

Re: PPP problems still

1998-02-11 Thread David Wright
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Charles wrote: > I am probably getting on peoples nerves, but I still dont have my > ppp working on my linux box. I have followed the howto's and have tried > what advice has been given me. None of this has worked so far. :( I didn't find setting up PPP simple, partly b

Re: how to update

1998-02-11 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Martin Pelikan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> aksed: > > what is the fastest way to update from libc5 to libc6? and Jens Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> responded: > This script can: > http://taz.net.au/autoup/ > > It downloads all required packages and installs them in the right order. Craig Sanders' autoup sc

Re: StarOffice and Debian (2)

1998-02-11 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: > >On 11 Feb 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: > > > >>Dou you know how to update the menus in fvwm2 in order to > >> incorporate Star Office 4? > > > >If you're using the menu package (see /usr/doc/menu), simply add an > >entry for st

Re: Compute Farm

1998-02-11 Thread Paul Rightley
But I would suggest reading the article anyway. If RedHat makes it "easy" to install on many machines, the group in the article did NOT use such a solution. Instead, they spent time writing some scripts and setting up a generic hdd that they sent to their hardware vendor. The scripts were design

Re: StarOffice

1998-02-11 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Wiria A Kusuma wrote: > try this site, it is a lot more responsive > ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/linux/packages/staroffice4/final/01 That's where I got it from too. Be quick though if you want to get it from sunsite.uio.no, AFAIK they're not really allowed to mirror StarOff

Re: Compute Farm, Part II

1998-02-11 Thread Carlo U. Segre
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: > Craig Sanders wrote: > > > > isn't this sort of thing precisely what cfengine is for? cfengine is > > available as a debian package. > > Doh! I knew there was something out there to do this. That's why I asked > the list. Looks like my brain is full.. wh

Re: Compute Farm, Part II

1998-02-11 Thread Behan Webster
Lindsay Allen wrote: > > Tim, > > IIRC Brian White has advocated cfengine for this task. > If I may, he advocated it because we used it here at Verisim to manage our workstations and servers. Unfortunately we found although it did work, it was rather clumsy, and didn't scale well in our enviro

Re: Modem /dev/cua vs /dev/ttyS

1998-02-11 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
Maybe someone more knowledgable can answer this, I can't. I have never had any problems with /dev/ttyS? devices in a script. I have been hearing that /dev/cua? devices are deprecated for years, and they haven't been included in the debian distribution since rex. Bob On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, St

Re: StarOffice

1998-02-11 Thread Cedric Bapst
> > ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/linux/packages/staroffice4/final/01 Is this really the same file as on the original site? I'm asking this question beacause the file names are different. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: StarOffice and Debian (2)

1998-02-11 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
>Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:38:50 -0500 (EST) >From: Jean Pierre LeJacq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: > >> What is the problem? The fact that I say "?package(staroffice4)" when >> there is not any package staroffice4 instaled (i did the instalation >> fo

Re: PPP is still a disaster. :(. Please Help. :)

1998-02-11 Thread dA' Phucilage Phactory
God, this was a pain in my arse when i had to get chap working. /etc/ppp.chatscript for ME is as follows: "" ATDT*70,4214368 CONNECT ^^^ Connect here is important, because it then makes it WAIT before it sends authentication requests. /etc/ppp.options_out is as follows: +ua /e

Re: Compute Farm, Part II

1998-02-11 Thread Tim Sailer
Behan Webster wrote: > > Lindsay Allen wrote: > > > > Tim, > > > > IIRC Brian White has advocated cfengine for this task. > > > > If I may, he advocated it because we used it here at Verisim to manage > our workstations and servers. Unfortunately we found although it did > work, it was rather

Re: xauth for my wife:WOW, xdm & multi X-windows

1998-02-11 Thread Jameson Burt
Daniel Martin suggested a magical solution, one his mail prodded me to use. I now have an X-session for myself on F7, one X-session for my wife on F8, one X-session for my child on F9. WOW Mail to debian-users on January 4, 1998, by Remco Blaakmeer showed how to do this in xdm. He suggested a c

Re: nmh configuration

1998-02-11 Thread David Stern
On 11 Feb 1998 10:21:33 +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > David Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've got a hamm system running with smail(3.2.0.100-4), exmh(2.0-1), > > > <= 450 defer '<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>', sender address target > > 'localhost.localdomain' cannot be verified at this ti

Re: Compiling w/shadow support

1998-02-11 Thread Mark A. Bialik
>There should be very few packages you need to do this for. Is this >plain Debian 1.3.1? Well, it was. Since I went to libc6, it's now 2.0 or something :) >> ld: cannot open -lshadow: No such file or directory > >Try leaving it out, or using -lcrypt. The latter is for libc6, IIRC. But how do

Re: Modem /dev/cua vs /dev/ttyS (The Long, True answer to this reappearing question)

1998-02-11 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Serial device locking by convention uses files in a special directory which are named according to the name of the device. Unless all references to the device use the same name, this locking fails. That's why cua devices are no longer used. Why were they ever used? Because old versions of unix had

RE: Compute Farm, Part II

1998-02-11 Thread Stephen Carpenter
That shouldn't be hard Have you though tof using 1 or 2 computers as fileservers? After a quick read of teh FHS (filesystem standard) the setup is made to allow the shareing of large parts of the filesystem between computers. Then anytime you add a program to the system (usually in /usr/bin etc

Re: StarOffice

1998-02-11 Thread Wiria A Kusuma
I think so.., just check the file size, I have not done that thou, have no luck connecting to the stardiv site., but I installed in deb 1.3.1 and hamm system flawlessly, it is completely different beast comparing to the previous ver, have not work it out much... good luck kusuma Cedric Bapst wrot

Re: PPP is still a disaster. :(. Please Help. :)

1998-02-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
"dA' Phucilage Phactory" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /etc/ppp.options_out is as follows: > +ua /etc/ppp/chapchoice defaultroute /dev/modem 115200 persist > ^^^ > > /etc/ppp/chatchoice contains the login/pass info for choice.net, the > format is as follows: > > This won't

xlib6g

1998-02-11 Thread Richard Sevenich
I would like to install a software package that requires xlib6g. dpkg is loathe to install xlib6g with xlib6 already installed. Can I safely remove xlib6 i.e. will packages depending on xlib6 accept xlib6g ... or? ... I would appreciate hints. Regards, Richard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILI

My encryption

1998-02-11 Thread Martin Boros
Dear Representative, I see that you are interested in encryptions. Here is an other that offers you money as well. The page: http://www.cyberus.ca/~mbmb/dare.shtml Please get back. Martin Boros -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Tr

My encryption

1998-02-11 Thread Martin Boros
Dear Representative, I see that you are interested in encryptions. Here is an other that offers you money as well. The page: http://www.cyberus.ca/~mbmb/dare.shtml Please get back. Martin Boros -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Tr

Re: AGP Video

1998-02-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
What AGP cards are being used successfully with X? Specifically, I'm considering the Matrox Millenium II AGP. The XSuse Millenium driver from http://www.suse.de is reputed to work with AGP. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

lpr problem

1998-02-11 Thread Christopher Judd
I just reinstalled most of my system (from 1.3.1 cd) after a crash, and am trying to set up printing. lpr returns an error message "unable to get official name for local machine". Any pointers or info as to what causes this? -Chris -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail th

lpr problem - cont'd

1998-02-11 Thread Christopher Judd
Regarding my previous post about lpr problems, I am running DHCPD to obtain IP address, etc. -Chris -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: xlib6g

1998-02-11 Thread David Z. Maze
Richard Sevenich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RS> I would like to install a software package that requires RS> xlib6g. dpkg is loathe to install xlib6g with xlib6 already RS> installed. Can I safely remove xlib6 i.e. will packages depending RS> on xlib6 accept xlib6g ... or? ... If you install th

Re: AGP Video

1998-02-11 Thread Steve Hsieh
On 11 Feb 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: >What AGP cards are being used successfully with X? Specifically, I'm >considering the Matrox Millenium II AGP. > > The XSuse Millenium driver from http://www.suse.de is reputed to work > with AGP. And it does (at least on my system). :-) -- TO UNSUB

Re: Modem /dev/cua vs /dev/ttyS (The Long, True answer to this reappearing question)

1998-02-11 Thread Steve Hsieh
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Serial device locking by convention uses files in a special directory which > are named according to the name of the device. Unless all references to the > device use the same name, this locking fails. That's why cua devices are no > longer used. Why

Re: Modem /dev/cua vs /dev/ttyS (The Long, True answer to this reappearing question)

1998-02-11 Thread Tim Sailer
Steve Hsieh wrote: > > My problem is that if I use /dev/ttyS? instead of /dev/cua?, in the > /usr/doc/ppp/examples/secure-card expect script, it doesn't work. That > script has stuff like > > system "stty 19200 -echoe -echo raw < /dev/cua3 > /dev/cua3" > > When using /dev/ttyS? instead, it wo

Re: Compiling w/shadow support

1998-02-11 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Mark A. Bialik wrote: > > >There should be very few packages you need to do this for. Is this > >plain Debian 1.3.1? > > Well, it was. Since I went to libc6, it's now 2.0 or something :) > > >> ld: cannot open -lshadow: No such file or directory > > > >Try leaving it out,

Re: lpr problem

1998-02-11 Thread servis
On 11 Feb, Christopher Judd wrote: > I just reinstalled most of my system (from 1.3.1 cd) after a crash, and > am trying to set > up printing. lpr returns an error message "unable to get official name for > local machine". Any > pointers or info as to what causes this? > > -Chris > Yo

lchown(), libc6-2.0.7pre1, and 2.1.8x kernels

1998-02-11 Thread David Z. Maze
The lchown() function shows up in the most recent libc6 package. Is this on its own enough for dpkg to work happily with the 2.1.81+ kernels? -- _ / \ "The cat's been in the box for over | David Maze | 20 years. Nobody

wanted packages

1998-02-11 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Is there any address where we can send our "wishes" to debian packages we would like to see created? Is there any address to consult for programs that can't (for any reason) have a .deb package? For instance, I would like to have .debs of: QSeeMe (the only cuseeme client I know of for linux) htt

Re: lchown(), libc6-2.0.7pre1, and 2.1.8x kernels

1998-02-11 Thread Steve Hsieh
Doesn't appear to be good enough on its own... dpkg: error processing ssltelnet_0.11.1-2.deb (--install): error setting ownership of symlink `usr/man/man8/in.telnetd.8.gz': No such file or directory dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) ii libc6 2.0.7pre1-1The

Re: wanted packages

1998-02-11 Thread Tim Sailer
Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > > > Is there any address where we can send our "wishes" to debian packages > we would like to see created? Is there any address to consult for > programs that can't (for any reason) have a .deb package? > > For instance, I would like to have .debs of: > > QSeeMe

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