Re: c include libreries

1998-05-26 Thread Liran Zvibel
I think you mean the headre files that can be found at /usr/include. Liran Zvibel. --- http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ On Mon, 25 May 1998, Micha Feigin wrote: > > I am looking for the c and c++ include libraries to > so i can write and compile source code. i wondered where > i could get th

Re: XDM autostart question

1998-05-26 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Doug Thistlethwaite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the tip. My /etc/X11/config files ihas the following two > lines in it... > > xdm-start-server > start-xdm > > My guess is that the problem is in a system init file somewhere. Any > idea what file calls the xdm stuff at boot time? >

Re: CONFIRM s052521174026177

1998-05-26 Thread Andy Wettstein
On Mon, 25 May 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >You have requested that the following address: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >be added to the debian-user mailing list. > >You have NOT yet been subscribed to the mailing list. >To subscribe you need to confirm your subscription >request by sending ema

Re: XDM autostart question

1998-05-26 Thread David A. Bandel
Bonard B. Timmons III wrote: > > Doug Thistlethwaite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thanks for the tip. My /etc/X11/config files ihas the following two > > lines in it... > > > > xdm-start-server > > start-xdm > > > > My guess is that the problem is in a system init file somewhere. Any > > idea

Ideal hardware for dual p2 linux server

1998-05-26 Thread Asher Haig
I'm looking at setting up a dual pentium II linux server with debian. What hardware would all of you suggest that I buy? I need scsi -- thinking about Adaptec 3940UW and Seagate Cheetah. Will that adaptec work easily? What's the best stuff to choose that will be easily supported? Network, scsi,

Re: Ideal hardware for dual p2 linux server

1998-05-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 25 Apr 1998, Asher Haig wrote: > I'm looking at setting up a dual pentium II linux server with debian. > > What hardware would all of you suggest that I buy? > > I need scsi -- thinking about Adaptec 3940UW and Seagate Cheetah. > Will that adaptec work easily? I've noticed that the mot

cgi-scripts package

1998-05-26 Thread James Vahn
Has anyone had any luck in getting the html 'counter' working? I keep getting errors in the apache.log: [Mon May 25 19:32:38 1998] access to /usr/lib/cgi-bin/count failed for localhost, reason: Premature end of script headers ..any clues appreciated.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Status of an E(nlightenment) .deb?

1998-05-26 Thread Asher Haig
What's the status on .deb packages to install E? == | Asher Haig[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Pager/Voice Mail (972) 328-9247 | == "It was like a visit by Don Carleone. I expected to

Unidentified subject!

1998-05-26 Thread King Lee
Hello, I installed debian and it doesn't print. The printcap file is unchanged and looks allright. The machine prints with Red Hat, so it isn't hardware. The message I get is lpr: unable to get official name for local machine If I enter hostname I get the hostname (debian). Wh

Re: Quake

1998-05-26 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 22 May 1998, Joey Hess wrote: > Michael Beattie wrote: > > > > My squake has recently started making A lot of static instead of sound... > > > > The only change I can remember making was FAT16 -> FAT32 on my win95 > > drive, (and up to 2.0.33 for FAT32 support) > > > > Oh, and a new mot

problem w/ upgrade to hamm (+ mach64 x server....)

1998-05-26 Thread Rich Hartman
Hello all... I'm relatively new to the whole linux thing, but I've been running debian 1.3.1 for about 1 month now with no problems, EXCEPT that I haven't been able to get X running smoothly with my ATI 3d rage II +DVD video card... could only get 640x400 with very lame picture quality. I trie

Re: angband save problems

1998-05-26 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 24 May 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sun, 24 May 1998 16:48:33 +0100 (BST), M.C. Vernon wrote: > > >-rwxr-sr-x 1root games 494780 Mar 9 19:28 angband > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 gamesusers 427012 Mar 29 07:09 angband > > >-rw-r--r-- 1 apc27 games34406 May24 14:18 1002.Apc27 >

Re: Is there any program like ICQ ? Thanks ! ;)

1998-05-26 Thread Michael Beattie
Yup, try http://www.mirabilis.com There is a linux version there for X, you also need to get the JDK. use this method to install: (I got this from the list early this year, I have not tried it, coz I havent had time :) ) == With

Re: angband save problems

1998-05-26 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, 26 May 1998 18:08:58 +1200 (NZST), Michael Beattie wrote: >You have each of the users that play it in the games group dont you? >Check the Directory permissions too, I had to change _some_ to group >write, and I think I had to change owners too.. Wouldn't it just be easier to set the

Re: off-topic - netscape

1998-05-26 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 01:05:12AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As it stands with the latest version, it installs, and it adds scripts et al > to start and stop through init (ie it starts on boot now) but, if there are no > fonts, it is all for naught - it will fail to run at startup et al bec

Re: angband save problems

1998-05-26 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 25 May 1998 23:37:46 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: >Wouldn't it just be easier to set the executable to GUID games and have >all the game files owned by games? That way there is no need to keep adding >people as they start playing the game. Or am I missing some fundimental >security probl

Re: How to tell if I'm logged on from console?

1998-05-26 Thread Norbert Veber
On Wed, May 13, 1998 at 06:58:45AM -0400, Kenneth Sims wrote: > Will, > > I think Mr. Moffatt is on the right track. Won't `tty` actually be ttyp# if > you are connected via ethernet? Similarly, I think it will be different when > you are connected via serial port. > > I've used: x = `tty | grep

Re: changing default screen manger in x

1998-05-26 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 10:04:38PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > MF> I am tring to change my default screen manager under X. > MF> It s on a server and i am using it throuh a terminal (on a PC), > MF> so i need to change it only for me. > > Make sure you have "allow-user-xsession" in /etc/X11

Re: Xwindows not working

1998-05-26 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 02:42:44PM -0400, Keith Alen Vance wrote: [..] > Mystique 220 and I am trying to get it work with Xfree86 and AfterStep. I > downloaded the files for Xfree86 3.3.1 and installed them and then setup [..] You need 3.3.2 for the the Mystique 220. That means hamm or finding bo

Re: How to print on a Win3.x/Win95 machine ?

1998-05-26 Thread Ionut Borcoman at musa
Hi, I was able to mount other Win3.x and Win95 drives with something like the line below. Thanks. This, after I've recompiled the kernel with samba support. I will see when I have time to work for connecting the printers, as these weeks we have to prepare a local conference and my colleagues don't

Re: xfig not exporting

1998-05-26 Thread Christophe Broult
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hallo, > > When I try to export something from xfig I get the message: > > Error during EXPORT (check standard error output) > > How do I check "standard error output" to determine what is wrong? > Assuming that you started xfig from an xterm window

Re: xfig not exporting

1998-05-26 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Saturday 25 May 1998, at 15 h 33, the keyboard of Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I try to export something from xfig I get the message: Try with fig2dev, you may be have a better chance to see the messages: fig2dev -L ps file.fig file.ps ^^ Export to Pos

Re: angband save problems

1998-05-26 Thread M.C. Vernon
> You have each of the users that play it in the games group dont you? > How do I check? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward-elect of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies

Re: problem w/ upgrade to hamm (+ mach64 x server....)

1998-05-26 Thread M.C. Vernon
> ...so, I figure I'll try to upgrade to hamm (?). Ran the autoup.sh > program (seemed to work except for a reported error with "slang"), > then tried to run dselect via ftp (which has worked great for me > several times) updated using the frozen_main (etc) - worked fine, > updated info on app

ISDN and Debian.

1998-05-26 Thread Johan Berglund
Telia (operator of telecom services in Sweden) is having a "drive" on ISDN equipment and I´m thinking of buying a "ISDN-box". But before I make my decision I need to know how Debian handles ISDN, if it manages "Bandwidth On Demand" and so on. I also need to know what adapters I could use and if t

Re: ISDN and Debian.

1998-05-26 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tuesday 26 May 1998, at 10 h 6, the keyboard of "Johan Berglund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But before I make my decision I need to know how > Debian handles ISDN, if it manages "Bandwidth On > Demand" and so on. Debian is Linux so just check the Linux documentation. The FAQ contains every

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-05-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 10:11:55PM -0700, King Lee wrote: > Can anyone explain > > 1. what the error message means and why lpr doesn't work? > 2. why does lpc report no daemon is present when lpd is running? Not sure I can explain #1, but re: #2 -- don't worry about it. It says that her

How to upgrade from smail to exim?

1998-05-26 Thread Ulisses Alonso
Hi all! If I try to install exim I get the following: exim conflicts with mail-transport-agent smail provides mail-transport-agent and is installed. I found this ok, but If I try to remove smail other packages also depends on it, what is the right way to upgrade? Thanks in advance,

Re: angband save problems

1998-05-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 11:39:09PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Mon, 25 May 1998 23:37:46 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > >Wouldn't it just be easier to set the executable to GUID games and have > >all the game files owned by games? That way there is no need to keep adding > >people as they sta

Intel Redwood(?) motherboard

1998-05-26 Thread Nico De Ranter
Hi, I need to buy a couple PCs featuring an Intel Redwood (I'm not sure this is the correct name) motherboard with onboard 100MB Ethernet and fast SCSI-2. However I need to be absolutely sure Linux will run on it. Does anybody have any experience with this motherboard? Thanks in advance, Nico

why can't i compile things ???

1998-05-26 Thread Mario Filipe
Hi Yesterday i (think i) did a mess of my system. I accidently made a strip * on a lib directory. Today when i try to compile anything I always get the following : gcc -O -o poster poster.c -lm ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 080485e0 Can anyone please expalin me how

ATM support

1998-05-26 Thread Nico De Ranter
Gawdy, are there any ATM boards supported under Linux other than the Efficient networks? Thanks in advance, Nico -- -- Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (PSDC-B/DNSE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32

HELP! Installing Packages From Another Drive...

1998-05-26 Thread James A. Bates
Hello everyone!      I have a 4.0 GB drive running Windows95 and a 514 MB drive with Debian (no packages installed yet, just the base). The 514 MB is a slave to the 4 GB. I downloaded several packages onto my Windows drive (C:\Debian), but I haven't a clue how to get them to install into Li

Re: c include libreries

1998-05-26 Thread Mario J. Barchein Molina
> I am looking for the c and c++ include libraries to > so i can write and compile source code. i wondered where > i could get them and under what name. > I am also looking for the imake utility which some program > require in order to compile You must obtain the -dev packagen in order to "dev"elo

Re: How to tell if I'm logged on from console?

1998-05-26 Thread Greg Norris
Here's a little snippit I've used... -- case $(tty) in /dev/tty[1-9]) setleds +num;; esac -- Probably overkill using a case statement for no more than that, but it works. On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 02:45:51AM -0400, Norbert Veber wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 1998 at 06:58:45AM -040

Dead keys and X11 3.3.2 & svgalib and mouse I/O permissions...

1998-05-26 Thread Ignacio Más Ivars
Hi everybody: I have two problems I think I know the solution but I don't know how to apply it. First is the eternal problem of the dead keys under X11. I had it solved using Thomas Quinnot modified libX11.so.6.1, but as I have upgraded to hamm and to X11R6 3.3.2 it doesn't work anymore. I

Re: HELP! Installing Packages From Another Drive...

1998-05-26 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
"James A. Bates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I have a 4.0 GB drive running Windows95 and a 514 MB drive with = > Debian (no packages installed yet, just the base). The 514 MB is a slave = > to the 4 GB. I downloaded several packages onto my Windows drive = > (C:\Debian), but I haven't a clue

EtherPowerII (SMC9432TX)

1998-05-26 Thread Bernard
Hello, A friend of mine asked me how could he install this card with bo... He should get the drivers first and then? R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: c include libreries

1998-05-26 Thread jdassen
On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 05:46:37PM -0400, Norbert Veber wrote: > I assume you are using hamm. Imake is in the xlib6g-dev package, as for > c/c++ headers, they are in libc6-dev (for c) and libg++272-dev (for c++). > I'm not sure about this last one, so someone correct me if I'm wrong. The preferre

Re: I burned hamm on NT and now all the files end with ~1.

1998-05-26 Thread Rainer Clasen
Kevin Traas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > You probably burned it as a Joliet filesystem... not supported under 2.0.x > kernels yes, but at least the current debian 2.0.33 kernel is already patched for joliet. > To burn it for use under Linux, you have to burn it as iso9660 with > RockRidge Extensio

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

1998-05-26 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
>> If you downloaded it not in .deb form, the patch for FAT32 support is not >> included... The .deb version does... I had to figure that out about 3 >> weeks ago.. >> >I would really suggest not using .deb kernels. The reason they have FAT32 >support is because they are just the standard default

ppp, chat finaly works but....

1998-05-26 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
I finally got pon to start pppd and chat to connect to the internet via modem. The first time I typed pon it dialed out, but this was after playing with the commands manually from the command line. The next time I booted the system and tried it again nothing happened. I typed ps and saw that bo

RE: why can't i compile things ???

1998-05-26 Thread Mario Filipe
On 26-May-98 Mario Filipe wrote: > Hi > > Yesterday i (think i) did a mess of my system. I accidently made a strip * on > a > lib directory. > > Today when i try to compile anything I always get the following : > > gcc -O -o poster poster.c -lm > ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; de

Re: why can't i compile things ???

1998-05-26 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Mario Filipe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > > Yesterday i (think i) did a mess of my system. I accidently made a strip * on > a > lib directory. > > Today when i try to compile anything I always get the following : > > gcc -O -o poster poster.c -lm > ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _

Re: changing default screen manger in x

1998-05-26 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
"Rev. Joseph Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 10:04:38PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > Make sure you have "allow-user-xsession" in /etc/X11/config, then create > > the file .xsession in your homedir. It should be something like: > > > > xterm & # start a xterm

starting point doc abut regexp and perl

1998-05-26 Thread Ulisses Alonso
Hi all I would like some URLs to get an starting point about perl(I searched in www.perl.com) and it's regular expressions. The manual pages are huge and not very didactic for a novice (except the perlbook manpage), also the /usr/doc/perl/examples are not quite simple in the regexps that use Tha

Re: Dead keys and X11 3.3.2 & svgalib and mouse I/O permissions...

1998-05-26 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Ignacio Ms Ivars wrote: > I have two problems I think I know the solution but I don't know how to > apply it. First is the eternal problem of the dead keys under X11. I had > it solved using Thomas Quinnot modified libX11.so.6.1, but as I have > upgraded to hamm and to X11R6 3.3.2 it doesn'

X-windows and PPPD

1998-05-26 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
>From memory I think that ttyS0 (com1) and ttyS3 (com 4) share the same interrupt. That could be your problem. Go into your bios setup and insure that these comm ports do NOT share interrupts. Usually interrupt 5 or 7 can be used for the third comm port. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Status of an E(nlightenment) .deb?

1998-05-26 Thread Scott Ellis
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Asher Haig wrote: > What's the status on .deb packages to install E? The Enlightenment maintainer is waiting for v14 of E to package it, as v13 is reasonably FSSTND unfriendly. Most of the required libs for v13 are already packaged for hamm, it isn't too hard to compile your

re DDS2 -tape backup

1998-05-26 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
I may have the same tape drive as you. I find an IBM (made my archive corp) DDS2 scsi tape drive at a ham radio flea market for $10. It works fine thou it is slower than a QIC drive (but holds lots more). I am using tar. To put more than one backup on a tape use the /dev/nst0 device (no rewind

Re: Where is killall

1998-05-26 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 25 May 1998, Oz Dror wrote: > I have installed the new procps pakage and > the killall command is lost. > > I tried dpkg -S killall and I could not find it. > > Does any one knows where is it? killall is in the psmisc package. You could also take a look at the skill command, which is in

`ATI Rage Pro AGP' and `SMART drive' in Dell Optiplex? Ok for Linux?

1998-05-26 Thread Peter S Galbraith
A collegue needs a new desktop computer for Linux. He's looking at a Dell OptiPlex GXa. http://www.dell.com/intl/ca/products/desktops/optiplex/gxa/gxa_specs.htm Two concerns I have are: - High-performance AGP-enabled video. Integrated ATI Rage Pro video controller with up to 4MB 100MHz S

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

1998-05-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 26 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Use the kernerl-source-2.0.33-9.deb (latest) as the kernel source package > to recompile. The standard 2.0.33 source package (sunsite, tsx-11, etc) > does NOT have the latest patches. I made the mistake of trying to add the > patches to the debian s

call back for ppp

1998-05-26 Thread Daniel ANDRE
I am searching an implementation of PPP LCP Extension for debian (1.3.1) that allows call back fonctionality as in win95/winNT on MS Windows. OTOH Is www.debian.org still there? Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: I can't get tar to exclude files!!

1998-05-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
Norbert Veber wrote: > > On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 08:20:43AM +, Bart Maerten wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Admaster Communications) > > writes: > > |> I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 and I've tried many permutations of > > |> > > |> > > |> tar -zcvf test.tar *

Help: upgrade to Hamm not working!

1998-05-26 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade to hamm. I downloaded the upgrade script along with all the necessary packages and ran it. The first time I ran it, there were problems: dpkg: regarding dpkg_1.4.0.22.deb containing dpkg, pre-dependency problem: dpkg pre-depends on libstdc++2.8 l

Re: starting point doc abut regexp and perl

1998-05-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 12:53:19PM +, Ulisses Alonso wrote: > I would like some URLs to get an starting point about perl(I searched > in www.perl.com) and it's regular expressions. The manual pages > are huge and not very didactic for a novice (except the perlbook manpage), > also the /usr/doc/

Compiling mod_jserv.c for Apache 1.3b6

1998-05-26 Thread Nick Gilliam
I am attempting to get Java servlets running on Hamm. I have downloaded the most recent jserv and all Hamm Apache packages. According to the jserv README, I should copy mod_jserv.c into the Apache src/modules/extra/ directory, add the line AddModule modules/extra/mod_jserv.o to the Apache Conf

Re: X-windows and PPPD

1998-05-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 09:15:13AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >From memory I think that ttyS0 (com1) and ttyS3 (com 4) share the same > interrupt. That could be your problem. Go into your bios setup and insure > that these comm ports do NOT share interrupts. Usually interrupt 5 or 7 > ca

Re: angband save problems

1998-05-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > You have each of the users that play it in the games group dont you? > > > > How do I check? > > Matthew > The users can run 'groups' to see what groups they are in. See man adduser on how to add a user to a group, but being lazy, I just edit /etc/group usin

SOLVED (partly) Re: I can't get tar to exclude files!!

1998-05-26 Thread Rick Macdonald
Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > |> tar -zcvf test.tar * --exclude=leave_me_out.txt > > Seems to be broken here too. > > > > Ditto here. Note to previous thread respondant. The *order* of > arguments > makes *no* difference. This still fails: > > tar --exclude=xxx -zcvf test.tar Thi

Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?

1998-05-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
Ulisses Alonso wrote: > > Hi all! > > If I try to install exim I get the following: > > exim conflicts with mail-transport-agent > smail provides mail-transport-agent and is installed. > > I found this ok, but If I try to remove smail other packages also depends > on it, what is the right wa

Re: Upgrade From RH 5.0 to Debian 2.0

1998-05-26 Thread A. M. Varon
On Tue, 26 May 1998, David Lauder wrote: > Thanks to all for your excellent advice. I'm now running a Debian 2.0 > GNU/Linux system. The good news is the install went smoothly except Sorry, i have'nt read the debian mailing lists for a couple of weeks. Is there a HOWTO to convert a RH 5.0 to Debi

Re: off-topic - netscape

1998-05-26 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 01:05:12AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > As it stands with the latest version, it installs, and it adds scripts et al > > to start and stop through init (ie it starts on boot now) but, if there are > > no > > fonts, it is all for naught -

Re: Is there any program like ICQ ? Thanks ! ;)

1998-05-26 Thread John Goerzen
Nuno, There are several Linux solutions that provide an extended subset of the ICQ functionality. You may want to take a look at ytalk and IRC. Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: I can't get tar to exclude files!!

1998-05-26 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Admaster Communications <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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??? The problem is that --exclu

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-05-26 Thread King Lee
On Mon, 25 May 1998, George Bonser wrote: > > Is there a /etc/hosts or DNS entry for your local machine? Just setting > the hostname is not enough, it must resolve because lpd is checking its > /etc/hosts.lpd file. > > That did it. Thanks! King Lee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: samba

1998-05-26 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Greg Norris wrote: > Ok, with everyone's help I was able to get it working (thanx!). The main > problem turned out to be the "local master = yes" line under [global], > although there were a few other incidental changes which needed to be make > (such as the addition of a "mangle case" entry). >

Re: XDM autostart question

1998-05-26 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
David A. Bandel wrote: > Bonard B. Timmons III wrote: > > > > Doug Thistlethwaite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Thanks for the tip. My /etc/X11/config files ihas the following two > > > lines in it... > > > > > > xdm-start-server > > > start-xdm > > > > > > My guess is that the problem is i

Re: Booting stops since CD-Recorder is connected

1998-05-26 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Trying adding the boot parameter "max_scsi_luns=1". If you're booting from LILO you can add the line to your image section: append = "max_scsi_luns=n" Or just to get booting you can hit Scroll-Lock when "LILO" appears and then you can type the parameter on the lilo boot line. Note that you'll nee

Re: SOLVED (partly) Re: I can't get tar to exclude files!!

1998-05-26 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 26 May 1998, Rick Macdonald wrote: > This fails: > > tar --exclude=xxx -zcvf test.tar * > > But this works: > > tar --exclude=xxx -zcvf test.tar ./ > > Go figure. Have you compared absolute and relative path names? The shell expands * to a full path name. Also, listing the file in t

Re: Is there any program like ICQ ? Thanks ! ;)

1998-05-26 Thread Stuart Krivis
On 26 May 1998, John Goerzen wrote: > There are several Linux solutions that provide an extended subset of > the ICQ functionality. You may want to take a look at ytalk and IRC. Or you could use ICQ for Java. I've used it with Solaris x86 and RedHat 5. It seems to be pretty stable. -- Stuart

Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?

1998-05-26 Thread Scott Hanson
Ulisses Alonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I try to install exim I get the following: > > exim conflicts with mail-transport-agent > smail provides mail-transport-agent and is installed. > > > I found this ok, but If I try to remove smail other packages also depends > on it, what is the

disk server?

1998-05-26 Thread Will Lowe
My personal linux network has been up and running for a while, but it's getting to be a pain to have several computers with home directories on each ... so I'm debating building a disk server. Any ideas how one goes about this on a small scale (I don't need a huge raid stack...)

Reading mailing list with gnus, but regular mail with MH

1998-05-26 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I can see the advantage of reading this mailing list threaded with gnus, specially after a two-week absence (when threads are more useful). I currently use procmail to filter all Debian traffic into a spool file (/var/spool/mail/debian) and use mh-e to read it like I do my regular mail spool. (I

Re: Booting stops since CD-Recorder is connected

1998-05-26 Thread tko
Stefan Kunkel writes: > > Hi > I have a little Problem with my Debian-Kernel since i have connected > my Yamaha CDR-102 ! > When i boot from DOS, the Kernel finds all SCSI-Devices (including > the Recorder), but then he tries to find something on the ID of the > Recorder with the LUN of 1 and t

Boot problem after installation

1998-05-26 Thread Tomas Petersson
Hello, I have just installed Debian Linux, everything went fine except I can't boot from the harddrive. If I boot from the 'Custom Boot Floppy' it works, but when I boot the harddrive I get the following prompt: '2FA:', and nothing happens. /Tomas Petersson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

RE: NFS mount problem

1998-05-26 Thread Bob McGowan
> -Original Message- > From: Nick Gilliam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 22, 1998 4:09 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: recipient list not shown; @[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: NFS mount problem > > > > When attempting to mount nfs I get the following error: > >

Re: off-topic - netscape

1998-05-26 Thread Chris Zander
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 26 May 1998, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: >>On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 01:05:12AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> As it stands with the latest version, it installs, and it adds scripts et al >> to start and stop through init (ie it starts on boot now) but, i

Re: I burned hamm on NT and now all the files end with ~1.

1998-05-26 Thread Chris Zander
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 25 May 1998, Kevin Traas wrote: >>I downloaded hamm at work and burned it on CD. >>When I can home, and mounted the CD-ROM drive as iso9660, all the files >>that are longer than 8 characters, ends with ~1. >>I tried mounting the drive again as vfat (with

Re: HELP! Installing Packages From Another Drive...

1998-05-26 Thread Chris Zander
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 26 May 1998, James A. Bates wrote: >>Hello everyone! > > I have a 4.0 GB drive running Windows95 and a 514 MB drive with Debian (no > packages installed yet, just the base). The 514 MB is a slave to the 4 GB. I > downloaded several packages onto my Wi

Networking with Novell and Win95

1998-05-26 Thread Shanta McBain
Hi I am in the process of setting up a Dabian Linux system. The root that I use to update the Dabian files is, download on Win95 to Novell server, boot Linux machine to Novell client move files to dos partition. reboot to Linux and use dselect. I have the Novell 2000 card activated now I would li

Booting problem after install (Same as Tommas)

1998-05-26 Thread a a
I 've installed debian on a p 166 with windows 95 on i split my HDD to make room for debian and i install lilo as it said in the installation menu.when i boot from my hdd win95 strart as default,when i press Tab to select i get 1FA: an the system waits.if i press down arrow or Tab again it displ

Re: Boot problem after installation

1998-05-26 Thread Norbert Veber
On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 08:27:09PM +0200, Tomas Petersson wrote: > Hello, I have just installed Debian Linux, everything > went fine except I can't boot from the harddrive. > If I boot from the 'Custom Boot Floppy' it works, > but when I boot the harddrive I get the following > prompt: '2FA:', and

Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?

1998-05-26 Thread Mark W. Eichin
actually, something like dpkg --remove smail dpkg --install exim*.deb --auto-deconfigure is more likely to work safely - force-depends really should only be a last resort, *and* should usually be accompanied by a bug report... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Debian on COMPAQ ProLine 2500 ???

1998-05-26 Thread kriol
Hi, All i will get access to COMPAQ ProLine 2500 - two PPro/200, 64M, SCSI etc... Now it's running UnixWare 2.1, but i'm going to install Debian 2.0 (or at least RH 5.x if there is problems with Debian) Is this model supported in Debian? What about SMP kernel? Does it work with COMPAQ (mb, BIOS

Enabling XDM on Debian Linux

1998-05-26 Thread Yugesh Ramsaha
Hi Igor, I've been trying in vain for days to enable xdm on my DEBIAN linux distribution and if today I'm contacting you ,it's because I'm in desperate need of some help.My problem is the following : I read the FAQOMATIC on about How to enable xdm and there it is said that I should unco

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

1998-05-26 Thread Mark W. Eichin
You can *also* do this with lsof: % sudo lsof -i tcp:25 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF INODE NAME sendmail 239 root4u inet 0x005bc810 0t0 TCP *:smtp (LISTEN) % using -i tcp:smtp works as well, "lsof -i :domain" is an example of finding either... -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: off-topic - netscape

1998-05-26 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 09:36:57PM +0200, Chris Zander wrote: > >> but anyway...once it has fonts...Netscape looks GREAT! > > > >Netscape won't let you use a TT font for fixed stuff though.. xfstt doesn't > >bother to report that fixed width fonts are I think. This is prolly an > >upstream issue.

Re: Enabling XDM on Debian Linux

1998-05-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
Yugesh Ramsaha wrote: > I read the FAQOMATIC on about How to enable >xdm and >there it is said that I should uncomment a few lines in the file >/usr/X11/config -- now this >file is not there on my system and moreover it does not seem to play a >major in the >booting process . Tha

Re: disk server?

1998-05-26 Thread Kevin Hill
I have a similar setup at home except instead of a dedicated disk server I just picked a machine that wasn't too busy and had some free space and exported /home and /var/spool/mail to my other two machines. I quickly realized I needed nis as well to keep uids/gids in sync. I just went by the NFS/N

Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?

1998-05-26 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, Why do you call that an "upgrade"? I have tried out exim several times without success. In my opinion smail is much easier to install and works with a lot less problems than exim. Johann. -- | Johann Spies

scsi tape devices?

1998-05-26 Thread servis
Can someone tell me what the *a, *l, and *m devices are/do for for my scsi tape drive? The Linux Device List was not very enlighting. 0 crw-rw 1 root disk 9, 128 May 28 1997 /dev/nst0 0 crw-rw 1 root disk 9, 224 May 28 1997 /dev/nst0a 0 crw-rw 1 ro

Re: off-topic - netscape

1998-05-26 Thread Chris Zander
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >I have yet to find a decent font that scales well enough to be useful to me >for an xterm. When you need a 12x20 or 12x22 font because you need to use >1024x768 on a 14" monitor with my vision, you'll have an appreciation for >what I mean. =p > >This is part o

Re: HELP! Installing Packages From Another Drive...

1998-05-26 Thread Harry Tuttle
Chris, Where do you find the options, ie. nonumtail, user, rw, exec, for the fstab file? I have looked in (man)fstab, mount, mfstab, etc, but have been unable to find anything. What I am really interested in is the "nonumtail" meaning. I think I can figure out the user, read/writ

Java JDK 1.15 on Debian?

1998-05-26 Thread Marcus Johnson
How do you install the Java JDK 1.15 on Debian? Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Java JDK 1.15 on Debian?

1998-05-26 Thread timothy
You download the jdk1.1-runtime debian package (And jdk1.1-dev if you want to do development) from non-free/devel. Then use dpkg as usual. Timothy >How do you install the Java JDK 1.15 on Debian? -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 26-May-98 Time: 18:54:53 This m

Re: off-topic - netscape

1998-05-26 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 01:50:36AM +0200, Chris Zander wrote: > Yes, I know what you mean - at the time that I though Linux was some sort > of light bulb (you laugh, it's not that long ago though) I was using win95 > with a 14" monitor @1024x768 with 60Hz. It turned out that my eyes would > fatigue