Kernel panic error on startup

1998-05-22 Thread Paul Mackinney
Booting for the first time from recovery disk, I get the following error just after it resets the SCSI bus: aic7xxx: (aic7xxx_isr) Encountered spurious interrupt. scsi0: BRKADRINT error(0x1): Illegal Host Access Kernel panic: scsi0: BRKADRINT, error 0x1, segaddr 0x0. The system is an HP NetSer

SCSI Emulation for IDE ???

1998-05-22 Thread Kevin Traas
Someone once mentioned to me that there was a package available that would configure an IDE device (i.e. CDROM) to appear as a SCSI device to the kernel - or at least any running applications If you know what this is, or where I can find more info on it, I would much appreciate it. Regards, K

Re: Problems configure'ing programs....

1998-05-22 Thread Shaleh
If you do not also have the -dev packages they will not be useful to compile anything. Christopher Fury wrote: > > I've tried to configure several programs that require libraries like > libjpeg, libtiff, and libpng But none of the programs seem to > recognize the fact that > I *have* these l

Re: ppp, PII/P90, ioctl(SIOCADDRT) device route: Network is down(100)

1998-05-22 Thread Lindsay Allen
Hello Joost, You will most likely get more expert advice than I can offer, but this might help. muso The two ends agree that muso is to be 195.64.69.173. The remote wants to be 195.64.64.1 but muso declines. No IP number is negotiated and the connection fails. stelo negotiates Mar 19 12:0

X11 HELP!

1998-05-22 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello & help! I hope someone can help me with this problem that is getting worse and worse... I tired to install fvwm95 and all I got was a plain login screen that would log into a plain window with a single xterm. I tried to remvoe the window manager and install another using dserver... Now I C

ipforward'ing on in kernel?

1998-05-22 Thread Gregory Guthrie
We want to setup a local simple router-pair, to create a LAN-remote subnet segment. 1) To support this, we need routing enabled in the kernel. Does the default kernel on the 1.3.1 CDROM have this enabled? rrouter# uname -a Linux rrouter 2.0.30 #1 Sun Jun1 09:14:11 EST 1997 i586 rrou

Fix my broken bo or go to hamm.

1998-05-22 Thread R. Chris Ross
Last night, when I booted my system it came up and asked to go into single user mode. After running e2fsck there were several hundred files and quite a few directories in lost+found. My dilemma is whether to fix the system of upgrade to hamm. I have been forced to uninstall sendmail then

Re: ipforward'ing on in kernel?

1998-05-22 Thread Rick Macdonald
Gregory Guthrie wrote: > 2) How do we tell what options are compiled into the Kernel? What if you just try giving ipfwadm commands to see if they're accepted or not? -- ...RickM... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Gregory Guthrie
Given the volume of traffic on this list, I would certainly find a newsgroup more convenient. 1) it maintains threads, and thus has MUCH better organization and access. 2) the linear, header and footer interspersed format of the digested list is very noisy, and hard to read. IMHO. Note that new

Re: Help on installing Deb 1.3.1 on Toshiba laptop

1998-05-22 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 21 May, Philip Restuccia wrote: > Hello. > > I sent a request for help on this topic a few days ago, but have > received no responses > as of yet. In case I wasn't clear enough on my needs the first time, > I'm trying again. > If you saw the first request and just don't know of anything that w

Re: X11 HELP!

1998-05-22 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 21 May, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > Hello & help! > > I hope someone can help me with this problem that is getting worse and > worse... > > I tired to install fvwm95 and all I got was a plain login screen that > would log into a plain window with a single xterm. I tried to remvoe > the windo

RE: get mail from unixserver to client(win95)

1998-05-22 Thread ogata
A. Treacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > There is a lockfile set up on the server and it is possible the old one > wasn't deleted. If there is a ~/.fetchmail.pid file on the server, delete > it and your problems should go away. If one doesn't exist you will have to > talk to the sysadmin to find out how t

Re: X11 HELP!

1998-05-22 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, 21 May 1998, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > Hello & help! > > I hope someone can help me with this problem that is getting worse and > worse... > > I tired to install fvwm95 and all I got was a plain login screen that > would log into a plain window with a single xterm. I tried to remvoe

Re: Release Date Debian 2

1998-05-22 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Thu, 21 May 1998, Mark Messer wrote: > Is Debian 2 defently going to be release this month.. and when. Maybe, as the developers say, it will be released when it is ready. It's my job to report to upper management when I think it's ready. Right now, there are lots of release critical bugs

SCSI Emulation for IDE???

1998-05-22 Thread XRDLAB
I too had faced this problem when I wanted to burn a cd on my ide cd-rw (hp7100i). One of the suggestions was to use a kernel later than 2.1.74. Since I could not compile the kernel 2.1.94 on my bo system, I compiled the 2.0.32 kernel with scsi emulation enabled. If you are planning to burn the cd

Re: [saioa@jet.es: hamm,bo...?]

1998-05-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
Liran Zvibel wrote: ... >non-free -- (I'm not sure whether I'm correct) Are packages that can not >be freely distributed, but can be used by individuals. Packages that do not meet the Debian Social Contract Guidelines; they may or may not be free to use, or even distribute. If a package is in

Re: Kernel panic error on startup

1998-05-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 21 May 1998, Paul Mackinney wrote: : Booting for the first time from recovery disk, I get the following : error just after it resets the SCSI bus: : : aic7xxx: (aic7xxx_isr) Encountered spurious interrupt. : scsi0: BRKADRINT error(0x1): : Illegal Host Access : Kernel panic: scsi0: BRKADRINT

Re: seg faults /core dumps (hamm)

1998-05-22 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Thu, 21 May 1998, Christian Zander wrote: > hi, > I recently upgraded parts of my bo system to the latest hamm versions, > including > libc6 (obviously). > Since I did so some things have been running better than before - some ran for > the first time (kde beta4) and unfortunately some things

AMD K6

1998-05-22 Thread Matt Thompson
I just bought the above and when attempting to compile a kernel, I get a message along the lines of "internal compiler exited with error 4" or some such. Sorry for not copying down the error exactly. I just re-installed my P166 and the compile finished fine. Is anyone familiar with this? Is thi

Re: AMD K6

1998-05-22 Thread robert havoc pennington
The only problem with the K6 I've read about is with some made before September of last year, they occasionally bomb in large compiles with over 32 MB of RAM in the machine. Do a web search and you should be able to find out if your K6 is one of the broken ones by looking at the serial #. AMD will

hamm: libstdc++-dev: regex class?

1998-05-22 Thread Benedikt Eric Heinen
Hi there, has anyone found a good regexp class to use with the libstdc++ package (preferably one that works rather well with the basic_string class provided in libstdc++). Since libg++-dev "seemingly" no longer is a viable option, where will I find such a class then? Benedikt Windows 95: n

Re: XF86_S3V Problems

1998-05-22 Thread Pierre Blanchet
"TB" == Tim Buller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TB> I have a hamm system with a STB Nitro 3D / 4MB video card, using the S3V TB> server from XFree86 3.3.2.1-1. The display is managed by xdm. TB> The problem is the about 75% of the time when I end a session (normal WM TB> is afterstep, b

!!! URGENT !!! Can't boot back to Win95

1998-05-22 Thread Ionut Borcoman at musa
Hi, It's a little bit humorous, but I'm unable to boot back to WIn95. And my boss is in a hurry ! I've played a little with the kernel and now it didn't recognize the vfat2 partition. Anything else is working, just this is not. I have installed the lilo and I cannot remove it. The method with boot

Re: Kernel reboots at startup

1998-05-22 Thread Ulisses Alonso
Hello! > > On my intel p100 when I try to boot the resq1440.bin I get a quick screen > of pci error messages and then an instant reboot. > > The motherboard is Intel-Triton TX. Award bios v.4.51PG > This is a problem with some revisions of TX chipsets The solution: On the file /usr/src/ker

Re: first script executed

1998-05-22 Thread nico
Thanks for all your answers. I tried to look in the base files, but i didn't see anything ??? I've tried to run ps ... at the begin, but nothing appears ( it only show adduser, dselect, but not the prog which call them ???) I'm a bit confused and i'm still trying to fing some clue. Another ques

manually install KDE beta 4 and parallel ZIP drive

1998-05-22 Thread Mario J. Barchein Molina
Hello, just a couple of questions 1) What are the directories I have to change in KDE packages makefiles (such as ktop) to compile them in Debian? (I have installed the .deb KDE b4 distribution succesfully) 2)Is there any way to speed up parallel port ZIP drive? In my system (PII 233 o/c 266) goe

From Bo to Hamm. Emacs and FVWM2 seg faults but no core

1998-05-22 Thread Daniel Mashao
Any help how to get my emacs and fvwm2 to work. - /---/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel Rondebosch, 7700, S.

Re: seg faults /core dumps (hamm)

1998-05-22 Thread jdassen
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 08:04:19AM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote: > Yes I have similar problem and no I have not solved them. Actually I have > no problem with soffice but I cannot run fvwm2 and emacs so far. Old versions of fvwm2 (pre 2.0.46-BETA-1 I think) had a hardwired search path for the X libr

Where I can find KDE

1998-05-22 Thread Mauro Mazzieri
As you can understand reading the subject of this letter, my question is: where I can find a KDE distribuition, better if in .deb format? I prefer CDs, but any help is useful... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where I can find KDE

1998-05-22 Thread Michael Acklin
At 01:24 PM 5/22/98 +0200, Mauro Mazzieri wrote: >As you can understand reading the subject of this letter, my question is: where >I can find a KDE distribuition, better if in .deb format? I prefer CDs, but any >help is useful... > I just did a search of the packages at http://www.debian.

Can't use rsh + netgroup alias...

1998-05-22 Thread Kevin Squire
I tried to ask this once, but didn't get a response, so I'll try one more time... After upgrading one of our machines to hamm, I can no longer rsh to the machine. /etc/hosts.equiv consists of one line containing an nis netgroup alias (e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED], where local_hosts are hosts in our lo

A WinNT 4.0 registry editor for Un*x?

1998-05-22 Thread Ulisses Alonso
Hi all Does such thing exist? regards, Ulisses - "Computers are useless. They can only give answers."Pablo Picasso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

slow telnet over ppp (28800 bps)

1998-05-22 Thread Ulisses Alonso
Hi all, using http to a remote host works ok, but telneting to the same host is horrible slow and not quite interactive friendly Maybe this is an mtu/mru parameter issue? I did not found anything on telnet rfcs (quick search) Any addvice will be greatly appreciated... Ulisses

Re: !!! URGENT !!! Can't boot back to Win95

1998-05-22 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 22 May 1998, Ionut Borcoman at musa wrote: > Hi, > > It's a little bit humorous, but I'm unable to boot back to WIn95. And my > boss is in a hurry ! I've played a little with the kernel and now it > didn't recognize the vfat2 partition. Anything else is working, just > this is not. I have

Re: !!! URGENT !!! Can't boot back to Win95

1998-05-22 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 11:50:09PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Fri, 22 May 1998, Ionut Borcoman at musa wrote: > > It's a little bit humorous, but I'm unable to boot back to WIn95. And my > > boss is in a hurry ! I've played a little with the kernel and now it > > didn't recognize the vfat2

Re: !!! URGENT !!! Can't boot back to Win95

1998-05-22 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
I think that LILO anyway saves the old boot sector, so maybe not everything is lost ... >From 'man lilo': -s save-file When lilo overwrites the boot sector, it preserves the old contents in a file, by default /boot/boot. where

Re: A WinNT 4.0 registry editor for Un*x?

1998-05-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 11:19:39AM +, Ulisses Alonso wrote: > Does such thing exist? What a perverse idea! REGEDIT (for Win95 at least) can dump your registry to a text file from the DOS command line; if your system is hosed and you're trying to recover it from Linux, maybe you could dump it

Re: !!! URGENT !!! Can't boot back to Win95

1998-05-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 11:50:09PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: > I dont want to upset you, but I _think_ you have fried your win95 > partition... I believe that your 'boot=/dev/sda1' has killed the windows > loader... I dont know how to best explain how it works, as I dont know for > sure... I u

Re: !!! URGENT !!! Can't boot back to Win95

1998-05-22 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Michael Beattie wrote: > On Fri, 22 May 1998, Ionut Borcoman at musa wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > It's a little bit humorous, but I'm unable to boot back to WIn95. And my > > boss is in a hurry ! I've played a little with the kernel and now it > > didn't recognize the vfat2 partition. Anything else is

Re: A WinNT 4.0 registry editor for Un*x?

1998-05-22 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Ulisses Alonso wrote: > Hi all > > Does such thing exist? nothing exists that I know of...however...I do have a file which describes the registryit gives byte offsetts...all sorts of info possibly enough info to write an editor (somebody decided to spend a few sleepless nights and compile

Re: Kernel panic error on startup

1998-05-22 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Nathan E Norman wrote: > On 21 May 1998, Paul Mackinney wrote: > > : Booting for the first time from recovery disk, I get the following > : error just after it resets the SCSI bus: > : > : aic7xxx: (aic7xxx_isr) Encountered spurious interrupt. > : scsi0: BRKADRINT error(0x1): > : Illegal Hos

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
>Given the volume of traffic on this list, I would certainly find a >newsgroup more convenient. > >1) it maintains threads, and thus has MUCH better organization and access. Try a threading mail reader: mutt or gnus. I use gnus and I cannot imagine anything better. Bake -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

RE: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Goetzke, Christopher L
> -Original Message- > From: Gregory Guthrie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 21, 1998 10:16 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: recipient list not shown > Subject: newsgroup, instead of mail list? > > > Given the volume of traffic on this list, I would certainly fi

RE: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Goetzke, Christopher L
> -Original Message- > From: George Bonser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 21, 1998 10:24 PM > To: Gregory Guthrie > Cc: recipient list not shown > Subject: Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list? > > Many people DO read debian-user by newsreader. As a matter of > fact, there

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Chris Fury
I don't know about you folks, but my newserver (news.vt.edu) has the group, but I've never seen a single message in it Am I broken? Goetzke, Christopher L wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: George Bonser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, May 21, 1998 10:24 PM > > T

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Gregory Guthrie wrote: > Given the volume of traffic on this list, I would certainly find a > newsgroup more convenient. > > 1) it maintains threads, and thus has MUCH better organization and access. Not so. News servers no nothing about threads. News clients do. What's more, I believe they use t

Diagnostic tool recommendations?

1998-05-22 Thread Richardson,Anthony
First, kudos to the Debian and Linux developers. I was given a PS/2 Model 80 (386 - Microchannel (MCA) machine) with an MCA IDE controller. I added a 2 GB IDE drive and an ATAPI CDROM. The debian installation went flawlessly!!! Both the hard disk and CDROM were recognized and usable. I'm impre

Re: slow telnet over ppp (28800 bps)

1998-05-22 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Ahhh yes. Once again we are reminded that bandwidth != latency. Is the response time slow even when telnet is the only thing running over the wire? Ulisses Alonso wrote: > Hi all, > > using http to a remote host works ok, but telneting to the same host > is horrible slow and not quite interactive

Re: !!! URGENT !!! Can't boot back to Win95

1998-05-22 Thread Ionut Borcoman at musa
Hi, Unfortunately, I've panicked and reinstalled all Win95. Fortunately, all my personal data and files are on a different partition (sda5 and sda6) so nothing important was lost, excepting my time and yours. With this occasion I have also changed sda1 from FAT32 to VFAT as my newly 2.0.33 kernel

netscape4 and long keys

1998-05-22 Thread Douglas Bates
Is it possible to get a copy of netscape4.05 with hard encryption (128 bit keys) for Linux 2.0? I would like to install this if possible. I am in the U.S. and qualify to obtain such a version if it is available. I seem to a recall discussion of methods of modifying the 48 bit version to create a

RE: slow telnet over ppp (28800 bps)

1998-05-22 Thread Goetzke, Christopher L
> -Original Message- > From: Ulisses Alonso [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 22, 1998 6:22 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: recipient list not shown > Subject: slow telnet over ppp (28800 bps) > > > Hi all, > > using http to a remote host works ok, but telneting t

Re: netscape4 and long keys

1998-05-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On 22 May 1998, Douglas Bates wrote: > Is it possible to get a copy of netscape4.05 with hard encryption (128 > bit keys) for Linux 2.0? I would like to install this if possible. I > am in the U.S. and qualify to obtain such a version if it is > available. > > I seem to a recall discussion of m

Re: Where I can find KDE

1998-05-22 Thread Chris Zander
The official spot to look for KDE is www.kde.org. The latest stable release is KDE Beta 4, available for hamm on the kde ftp server: ftp.kde.org. There are (I think ) 9 packages, two of which are essential (kdelibs, kdebase), however, you ought to get the others as well. Chris -Original Mess

Diagnostic tool recommendations?

1998-05-22 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
>First, kudos to the Debian and Linux developers. I was given a >PS/2 Model 80 (386 - Microchannel (MCA) machine) with an >MCA IDE controller. I added a 2 GB IDE drive and an ATAPI >CDROM. The debian installation went flawlessly!!! Both the >hard disk and CDROM were recognized and usable. >I'm

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Many people DO read debian-user by newsreader. As a matter of fact, there >is more traffic in the Usenet version because posts are not gatewayed back >to the mailing list. Oh that's great. Not. >Look for linux.debian.user o

Re: ppp, PII/P90, ioctl(SIOCADDRT) device route: Network is down(100)

1998-05-22 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> May 21 13:15:07 muso pppd[1020]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x6 > 00> ] >> May 21 13:15:07 muso pppd[1020]: sent [IPCP ConfRej id=0x6 > 195.64.64.1>] >> May 21 13:15:07 muso pppd[1020]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x7 > 195.64.64.1 195.64.69.173> ] >> May 21 13:15:07 muso pppd[1020]: sent [IPCP ConfRej id=

Re: !!! URGENT !!! Can't boot back to Win95

1998-05-22 Thread Ionut Borcoman at musa
Hi, The lilo.conf it's working. So, if you have time, please just tell me how to configure the memory. TIA, Ionutz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

new ncurses and loss of terminfo files

1998-05-22 Thread Howard S. \('Sherm'\) Ostrowsky
Hi: I recently updated to the latest set of ncurses packages in my (mostly) "frozen" debian system. When installation finished, my system no longer understood "linux" or "rxvt" as terminal types! A search showed that the directory /etc/terminfo had been completely gutted -- all the old files had

Re: slow telnet over ppp (28800 bps)

1998-05-22 Thread Ulisses Alonso
On Fri, 22 May 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Ahhh yes. Once again we are reminded that bandwidth != latency. Is the > response > time slow even when telnet is the only thing running over the wire? Yes it is regards, Ulisses --

Re: A WinNT 4.0 registry editor for Un*x?

1998-05-22 Thread Ulisses Alonso
Hi Hammish! Thanks for you reply! On Fri, 22 May 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 11:19:39AM +, Ulisses Alonso wrote: > > Does such thing exist? > > What a perverse idea! > REGEDIT (for Win95 at least) can dump your registry to > a text file from the DOS command lin

where's the 'man'?

1998-05-22 Thread Jonah Kuo
Hello, I'm new to debian GNU/Linux, I've just installed debian base system into my notebook, but I found there's no 'man' command, doesn't 'man' come with base command? Jonah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: slow telnet over ppp (28800 bps)

1998-05-22 Thread Ulisses Alonso
Hi Goetzke! > Some of my co-workers have had good luck using ssh with maximum > compression over a dial-up link instead of telnet. I don't know if > that's possible for you, but it's something to consider. > > Although there is probably a more fundamental problem that should be > addressed. Tha

ppp

1998-05-22 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
Thanks to everyone who replied. I'm sure my problem was the /dev/ttys1 instead of /dev/ttyS1. I'll try this tonight. I'd like to connect my modem to the linux machine and then have my two windows computers access the internet via a local network to the linux box using IP - Masquerading. Current

Re: where's the 'man'?

1998-05-22 Thread Will Lowe
> I'm new to debian GNU/Linux, I've just installed debian base system > into > my notebook, but I found there's no 'man' command, doesn't 'man' come > with > base command? No -- it's not on the base disks because the actual manpages are big and would take several more disks. Just install the m

A tough file to delete

1998-05-22 Thread Paul Rightley
I have a file (actually a few files - all on the same drive) that I cannot delete. They all report in at about 3.3GB in size (all on a 2.1GB partition). [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.33/arch/m68k# rm console rm: remove `console', overriding mode 6467? y rm: console: Operation not

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Gregory Guthrie
>I don't know about you folks, but my newserver (news.vt.edu) has the >group, but I've never seen a single message in it > >Am I broken? > -- Mine has 6 messages total; I get 10x that each day in the mail list! Situation? Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: ppp

1998-05-22 Thread CTech
> Thanks to everyone who replied. I'm sure my problem was the /dev/ttys1 > instead of /dev/ttyS1. > I'll try this tonight. > > I'd like to connect my modem to the linux machine and then have my two > windows computers access the internet via a local network to the linux box > using IP - Masquera

I can't get tar to exclude files!!

1998-05-22 Thread Admaster Communications
I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 and I've tried many permutations of tar -zcvf test.tar * --exclude=leave_me_out.txt The file I ask to be excluded is reliably INcluded!! What is the correct syntax??? Thanks. Adam Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: ppp

1998-05-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 22 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks to everyone who replied. I'm sure my problem was the /dev/ttys1 > instead of /dev/ttyS1. > I'll try this tonight. > > I'd like to connect my modem to the linux machine and then have my two > windows computers access the internet via a local

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
> "MvS" == Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MvS> Gating mail to news is NOT a good idea. Why? Because a lot of people MvS> do it. But it does work well, if it is centralised. de.alt.comm.isdn4linux is a (both-sided) gateway to a mailinglist. For me, it doesn't matter (I u

gateway to linux.debian.user

1998-05-22 Thread Otavio Exel
hi all, this list used to be gatewayed to linux.debian.user and now it seems that's not true anymore; is this correct? am I missing something? please reply to me directly as I'm NOT subscribed (I used to access it through linux.debian.user) to the list; thanks! -- Otavio Exel /<\oo/>\ [EMAIL

Re: PCMCIA card problems (Hamm)

1998-05-22 Thread Ian Lynagh
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Ian Lynagh wrote: > >> I have fixed this by reinstalling and this time not using the updated >> debs. > >Since the modules in pcmcia-modules-2.0.33 need to match the kernel >exactly, releases of this package must keep pace with

Overriding fvwm95 buttons in the post.hook?

1998-05-22 Thread Douglas Bates
I have read the documentation on fvwm95 and on FvwmButtons but I am still at a loss to decide how I would override definitions of buttons in /etc/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm95rc What I would like to do is to use rclock rather than xclock for one of the buttons. (rclock can be confi

Re: ppp

1998-05-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
> "KS" == Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KS> I'd like to leave the KS> linux machine up and running all the time, KS> but not have to start PPP for my KS> wife when she sits down at the KS> windows computer and starts her browser. KS> And (of course) I only KS> want the PPP c

How do I find out who's using port # xxxxx

1998-05-22 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Hi, I wrote a small program that listened to a sokcet port. I wanted it to never conflict with anything, so I made it listen to a port above 6. Everything worked ok, but then, one day, it stopped working, complaining another process was using that port. I tryed to find out who was using it

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-22 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 01:08:11PM -0700, G John Lapeyre wrote: > > Does the stampede format even SUPPORT dependancies? > > > This is readily available from their web site. > > SLP Version 2.1 int value of 4. (Production release) [..] That is gross and at best hard to use by the end users

Installation

1998-05-22 Thread Karl Laping
All I am a LINUX newcomer and just trying to install DEBIAN Gnu/Linux 1.3.1 on a 486. As far I understood I can ask for help here. If not please tell me where to ask. The installation went very well until I came to DSELECT. First time DSELECT asked: "Insert the CD-ROM and enter the block name dev

Re: Why fetchmail didn't download my e-mail ?

1998-05-22 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Ionut Borcoman at musa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > bash-2.01$ fetchmail > fetchmail: 1 message for borco at mail.mailbox.ro. > reading message 1 of 1 (2579 bytes) fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 > <@mail.mailbox.ro > > : colon expected after route > fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 : sender address m

Unknown PCI Ethernet card

1998-05-22 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello everybody, in my school I want to install a PCI ethernet card into my Linux server box. I am not sure about it's type although I've read all manuals to it. It just says it is a Genius / KYE Corp. Ethernet Card which is NE2000 compatible, I think it is something like Genius 2

Re: Unknown PCI Ethernet card

1998-05-22 Thread Will Lowe
> It just says it is a Genius / KYE Corp. Ethernet Card which is NE2000 > compatible, I think it is something like Genius 2500. > > Who can advice me which driver should I use for this card? I don't know > which one to choose. If if says it's NE2000 compat., use the ne2000 driver. The newer dev

Re: PGP 262

1998-05-22 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 11:44:47AM -0700, The Gecko wrote: > > On 21-May-98 Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > Is there a specific reason that you need to build PGP yourself? It's > > available in .deb format at > > ftp://nonus.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US/bo/binary-i386/pgp-us_2.6.3a-1.deb > None, exc

RE: Unknown PCI Ethernet card

1998-05-22 Thread The Gecko
On 22-May-98 Peter Paluch wrote: > in my school I want to install a PCI ethernet card into my Linux server > box. I am not sure about it's type although I've read all manuals to it. > It just says it is a Genius / KYE Corp. Ethernet Card which is NE2000 > compatible, I think it is something like G

Re: Overriding fvwm95 buttons in the post.hook?

1998-05-22 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have read the documentation on fvwm95 and on FvwmButtons but I am > still at a loss to decide how I would override definitions of buttons > in > /etc/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm95rc > > What I would like to do is to use rclock rather than

Re: Unknown PCI Ethernet card

1998-05-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 22 May 1998, Peter Paluch wrote: > Hello everybody, > > > in my school I want to install a PCI ethernet card into my Linux server > box. I am not sure about it's type although I've read all manuals to it. > It just says it is a Genius / KYE Corp. Ethernet Card which is NE

Re: PGP 262

1998-05-22 Thread The Gecko
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 22-May-98 Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > PGP 2.6.2 is not ELF-ready. There's the non-us version as well as the > tarball source and diffs. The truly paranoid will want tarball and the diff > required to make a .deb out of it. 2.6.3 fixes many of the problems

Re: X windows, Dselect, and then some...

1998-05-22 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 02:10:29PM -0500, Goetzke, Christopher L wrote: > > (1) What is the graphical configuration utility for Xfree86 > > called ( and > > where is it)? > > It's "XF86Setup". I don't recall where it lives offhand (and my > computer is in an odd state at the moment, needing re-i

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 10:15:54PM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > Given the volume of traffic on this list, I would certainly find a > newsgroup more convenient. > > 1) it maintains threads, and thus has MUCH better organization and access. Mutt does this with mail. > 2) the linear, header and

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 08:35:53AM -0500, Goetzke, Christopher L wrote: > My local news server does indeed have linux.debian.user; I'm headed that > way now. Those of you staying email can argue about whether you want > posts gatewayed back to the list. ;-) I don't want news posts gateway'd back

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 22 May 1998 19:12:46 +, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: >I'm down to < 10 spam a day now. I don't want 30 again. Get some real filters in place, then. -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my http://www.calweb.com/~morpheus| employer's.

Re: Unknown PCI Ethernet card

1998-05-22 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 08:25:27PM +0200, Peter Paluch wrote: > in my school I want to install a PCI ethernet card into my Linux server > box. I am not sure about it's type although I've read all manuals to it. > It just says it is a Genius / KYE Corp. Ethernet Card which is NE2000 > compatible, I

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 12:14:21PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > >I'm down to < 10 spam a day now. I don't want 30 again. > > Get some real filters in place, then. Excuse me, but I have filters. The < 10 spam I get sli[p by the filters because of forged headers manipulated to get by filters.

Re: How do I find out who's using port # xxxxx

1998-05-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
> "LOLZ" == Luiz Otavio L Zorzella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LOLZ> complaining another process was using that port. LOLZ> I tryed to find out who was using it, but could not. Is there a way to LOLZ> find it? (Just a note: I changed the number, and it works, but I'd LOLZ> like to be able t

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 22 May 1998 19:32:52 +, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: >> Get some real filters in place, then. >Excuse me, but I have filters. The < 10 spam I get sli[p by the filters >because of forged headers manipulated to get by filters. I get 1 per month that slip by my filters... if that.

ftp install

1998-05-22 Thread Richard Sevenich
I am considering a fresh install of hamm from the floppy base diskettes etc. Does this give me network access and ftp so I can then complete the installation with dselect's ftp method? TIA Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: ftp install

1998-05-22 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 22 May 1998 13:08:50 -0700, Richard Sevenich wrote: >I am considering a fresh install of hamm from the floppy base diskettes >etc. Does this give me network access and ftp so I can then complete the >installation with dselect's ftp method? The floppies, along with the base2_0.tgz (or

Re: ftp install

1998-05-22 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Fri, 22 May 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Fri, 22 May 1998 13:08:50 -0700, Richard Sevenich wrote: > > >I am considering a fresh install of hamm from the floppy base diskettes > >etc. Does this give me network access and ftp so I can then complete the > >installation with dselect's ftp method?

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
> "RJC" == Rev Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RJC> On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 12:14:21PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: >> >I'm down to < 10 spam a day now. I don't want 30 again. >> >> Get some real filters in place, then. RJC> Excuse me, but I have filters. The < 10 spam I get sli[p b

Re: Installation

1998-05-22 Thread Merlin
Hi ! Well first i need to explain what is a block device, To access diferent media (hard disk partitions, CDROM, Zip, Sound card...) Linux use block device, they are just like drive (c, d, e, ...) on DOS. So their are name which define media for programs and user. ex : hdxz (x is a let

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"George" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: George> It is a lot easier to follow a high-traffic list with a George> newsreader than it is a mail reader. Yes. I agree. What does this have to do with gateways, though? Why *don't* people just read mailing lists with news r

I can't get tar to exclude files -- 2nd request

1998-05-22 Thread Admaster Communications
I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 on a 486 clone and I've tried many permutations of tar -zcvf test.tar * --exclude=leave_me_out.txt The file I ask to be excluded is reliably INcluded. Is my syntax wrong? Please help. Looking forward to the guidance that comes from experience... If I don't he

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