Re: multifunction device support? HP LaserJet 3100

1998-06-10 Thread Lee Bradshaw
I looked at one of those too and as far as I could figure out it's a winprinter. It supposedly has the HP6L print hardware, but it doesn't support PCL or postscript. I think all the intelligence was moved to the windows driver. There is a web page about a group trying to get linux to support the Of

Help: green smail and hamm

1998-06-10 Thread Roy Pluschke
Just got a new computer and decided to do a new (not an upgrade) install of hamm(frozen) by using dselect with ftp. So far I have gotten all the "Standard" files and everything went smoothly with the following exceptions: 1. the smail and lynx files on the ftp server were different than those i

Printer (port) Problems

1998-06-10 Thread Mark Yobb
>Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 07:35:22 -0400 >From: Bob Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Organization: Very little, if any. >To: Mark Yobb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Printer (port) Problems >References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Mark Yobb wrote: >> >>Hi, I would really a

Re: HTTP Proxy for dselect

1998-06-10 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Chris wrote: > Does anyone know if it is possible to get dselect to use a http proxy for > connecting to ftp sites? I am behind a firewall which restricts ftp, > except via a squid proxy server (ie. normally via netscape). The APT dselect method works well over a proxy seve

Re: Realtek rtl8029 PCI Network card installation

1998-06-10 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
I have one of these cards, it works fine with the standard NE driver, no need for those files. There are two techiniques, #1) Use 2.0.34 and enable the PCI NE-2k support and then either load the ne2k-pci module or compile it into the kernel #2) Use 'cat /proc/pci' to determine the IO

Re: Help: green smail and hamm

1998-06-10 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 05:38:36PM -0700, Roy Pluschke wrote: > > - local mail sent immediately > - if connected have internet mail sent immediately > - if offline queue the internet bound mesages and send them >when anyone initiates an internet connection. # smailconfig Option (1), then

Re: Printer (port) Problems

1998-06-10 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 06:38:48PM -0700, Mark Yobb wrote: > Anyway, I used "modprobe -a" and loaded all modules. Maybe not the best idea. Try "modconf". > I then got a stepped text output from my printer after issuing the command > "lpr > textfile". This is good. I am getting somewhe

Re: auctex not happening

1998-06-10 Thread Mark Phillips
> > .emacs file. I believe this qualifies as a Debian bug (for the auctex > > package?). > > AFAIK it is not. AUCTeX is separate package for Emacs, and there is > "native"(?) tex-mode in Emacs. In other words, if someone wants to use > AuCTeX, she/he should put require tex-site in .emacs. The f

Re: XFree86 + Netscape

1998-06-10 Thread Mark Phillips
> I am presently attempting to install both XFree86 and Netscape to a > Debian O/S which I recently setup. My lack of knowledge in this area > leaves me with a huge amount of questions, as you can see below. Are you using dselect to install your debian system? It should tell you automatically wh

looking for a X-based Tcl/Tk FTP browser

1998-06-10 Thread Paul Miller
I'm looking for an attractive X-based Tcl/Tk FTP browser that I could modify to use smbclient instead of ftp. Any names, or even ideas? Thanks -Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ISO 9660 support in Hamm?

1998-06-10 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm running a clean Hamm installation. Since the default kernel doesn't have > support for the ISO 9660 file system used in CD-ROMs (shouldn't it be there > by default?) I am recompiling the kernel. > > However the "make config" menus never ask if I

Re: A debian-user question.

1998-06-10 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote: > Karsten Bolding wrote: > > > > This is not a debian specific question - but its asked by a debian user > > and will be used on a debian system... > > > > I'm in the process of writing a frontend to a turbulence modelling > > system. > > For the GUI I'm

slrnpull stopped pulling.

1998-06-10 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, I have used slrn and slrnpull to read 4 newsgroups (comp.lang.python.announce, comp.lang.python, comp.os.linux announce, comp.os.linux.answers) for a few months and then it just happened that no new articles were collected anymore for the last two or three weeks. Even when I run slrnpull

Re: Shutdown messages not visible after xdm stopped

1998-06-10 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Gerd Bavendiek wrote: > Hi, > > I recently set up a hamm-system running xdm. When shutting down, there > are no messages from the moment xdm disappears and the console comes > back until to the final "system halted". > > I disabled xdm and used startx. After beeing back from

How to copy partition?

1998-06-10 Thread kriol
Hi, All i had 330M old segate disk as my /. Now i'm getting 2Gig disk, but the question is - how to copy the system from old seagate to the new disk (or to the new disk partition). I don't want to reinstall/reconfigure everything... Is there Debian way/package for such things? Any help is grea

Debian GNU/Linux and e-Commerce ??

1998-06-10 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Hello out there, since I believe that there are not only a few ISP's among the Debian users are there any projects to create a GPL'd or otherwise free e-Commerce solution? If not -- what about starting a free e-Commerce project for (Debian) Linux? Heiko -

Re: Re[6]: pop3 mail problem

1998-06-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 09:43:07AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Tue, 09 Jun 1998 09:36:04 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > >Well, that depends. I'm not sure if cucipop impliments the nonstandard > >POP send protocol. I do believe that is proprietary to qpopper and not part > >of the formal RFC.

Re: 2.0.34

1998-06-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 08:30:36PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >bash-2.00# ifconfig eth0 203.14.18.1 netmask 255.255.255.128 broadcast > >203.14.18.127 > >SIOCSIFNETMASK: Invalid argument > > > >It doesn't

LinuxConf

1998-06-10 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
Hi all, I friend of mine is running RedHat 5.1 (i have tried to convert him, but without any luck) and he was telling me that RedHat is now using the Linuxconf package, and I was wondering how compatiable Linuxconf is with Debian 1.3.1(bo) and 2.0(hamm)? And is there a .deb package for the latest

Re: Re[6]: pop3 mail problem

1998-06-10 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 18:29:10 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >A few messages back you said that you found qpopper unacceptable because >the POP send is buggy, so you preferred cucipop. Now you say cucipop >doesn't even have POP send. Am I missing something here? Yes. You must read the *WHOLE* m

Re: Re[6]: pop3 mail problem

1998-06-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 01:41:59AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 18:29:10 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > >A few messages back you said that you found qpopper unacceptable because > >the POP send is buggy, so you preferred cucipop. Now you say cucipop > >doesn't even have POP sen

Re: How to copy partition?

1998-06-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Hi, All > >i had 330M old segate disk as my /. > >Now i'm getting 2Gig disk, but the question is - >how to copy the system from >old seagate to the new disk >(or to the new disk partition). I don't want >to reinstall/reconfigure everything... > >I

Re: looking for a X-based Tcl/Tk FTP browser

1998-06-10 Thread Alan Cox
> I'm looking for an attractive X-based Tcl/Tk FTP browser that I could > modify to use smbclient instead of ftp. Attractive and Tk. Strange pairing. TkDesk is probably the nearest. However you might be better of playing with midnight commander as this has both multiple output ends (gnome-gtk,tk,o

Hamm upgrade to Slink

1998-06-10 Thread Randy Edwards
Now that hamm has been frozen I'm starting to miss the routine of playing with new packages on my home system. :-) So I was playing with the idea of upgrading to slink and running that. Unlike the upgrade from bo to hamm, I can find no docs/readme's on a hamm to slink upgrade. Can someone who is

Re: Re[6]: pop3 mail problem

1998-06-10 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 18:51:41 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 01:41:59AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: >> On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 18:29:10 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >> >> >A few messages back you said that you found qpopper unacceptable because >> >the POP send is buggy, so you pre

Re: Re[6]: pop3 mail problem

1998-06-10 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 18:51:41 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 01:41:59AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: >> On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 18:29:10 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >> >A few messages back you said that you found qpopper unacceptable because >> >the POP send is buggy, so you prefer

Re: A debian-user question.

1998-06-10 Thread David Wright
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Karsten Bolding wrote: > For the GUI I'm thinking of either perl-tk or using the visual tcl > package - any opinions? The GUI will contain radio-buttons, > entry-fields, file-browser etc. to specify the different parameters for > the model. Don't choose either of these without

Re: Multiple IP numbers, one for each Subnet

1998-06-10 Thread David Wright
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Ian Stuart wrote: > I'm using a i386 portable with 2.0.34 installed. I have a requirement to > plug this machine into various subnets, depending on where I'm working > within my organisation. > > Is there a way to configure the system so that I can use > (a) 4 or 5 different

pppd-2.3.5 pap authentification does not work

1998-06-10 Thread Peter Weiss
hello debians, after upgrading my machine to hamm I got problems using my old ppp configuration. The connection establishes but pppd doesn't send the pap-password from the pap secrets file. I read a bug report on ppp-2.3.5-0.1 that pap authentification does not work with this

Re: Re[6]: pop3 mail problem

1998-06-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 04:25:30AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > >It is probably a simple oversight. > So simple it should not have been there in the first place. That's exactly what an oversight is. > >Had you reported it, it could no doubt be fixed easily (Miquel has > >>indicated that he has

Re: Re[6]: pop3 mail problem

1998-06-10 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 21:50:21 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >So your advice to avoid qpopper is not necessarily relevant to Debian? It is as relevant to Debian as a message containing advice to avoid cucipop is. Or advice to use qpopper is. Or advice to use cucipop is. Or even a message aski

Re: 2.0.34

1998-06-10 Thread David Wright
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > bash-2.00# ifconfig eth0 203.14.18.1 netmask 255.255.255.128 broadcast > 203.14.18.127 > SIOCSIFNETMASK: Invalid argument > > It doesn't work on 2.0.32 either, I just discovered. > > > Thanks to everyone who has replied. Any other ideas? It's a long

Re: Debian and Afterstep1.4.5.3-1

1998-06-10 Thread dpk
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > > 1.4.x doesn't use .steprc, look in /usr/share for the things that go in > ~/GNUstep/Library/Afterstep I think. And good luck configuring that mess. > I've given up. Join the club! I successfully configured 1.4 to function like my old .steprc, h

Re: Hamm upgrade to Slink

1998-06-10 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Both hamm and slink are libc6-based so the upgrade should be quite painless. If a package does not work for you, you always can revert to the version in hamm easily. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNX55WSqK7IlOjMLFAQFXQAP/

Re: Debian and Afterstep1.4.5.3-1

1998-06-10 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 08:15:37 -0400 (EDT), dpk wrote: >I,... what are people switching to? Any recommendations for a fast, >slick, and easily configurable wm? Why not just stick with the 1.0 series? -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my http://

Unidentified subject!

1998-06-10 Thread FRANCK . F . L . LEGALL
Since I have got afterstep ugraded to 1.4, my system go slowler. Do I dream ? Is it another problem ? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Unidentified subject!

1998-06-10 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: ISO 9660 support in Hamm? >> I'm running a clean Hamm installation. Since the default kernel doesn't have support for the ISO 9660 file system used in CD-ROMs (shouldn't it be there by default?) I am recomp

adduser and permissions

1998-06-10 Thread Carr, Daryl B.
Hello, I'm new to this list and to Debian Linux. When I add a user with 'adduser', there seems to be a permission problem. This manifests itself in various ways. Two significant ways are: 1) calling the 'mail' program I get the response: "Bad address" 2) calling the 'man' program I get

LyX

1998-06-10 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
I have an old version of LyX on my bo system that I know I loaded off the official 1.3.1 CD. I wanted to get the source package for LyX off the hamm directory on the ftp site but I can't find it. If fact LyX doesn't seem to be listed in the packages file for hamm, slink, or even bo! What happene

Re: Debian and Afterstep1.4.5.3-1

1998-06-10 Thread dpk
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 08:15:37 -0400 (EDT), dpk wrote: > > >I,... what are people switching to? Any recommendations for a fast, > >slick, and easily configurable wm? > > Why not just stick with the 1.0 series? Probably just me being picky... but 1.0 s

Re: Debian and Afterstep1.4.5.3-1

1998-06-10 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 09:47:22 -0400 (EDT), dpk wrote: >Probably just me being picky... but 1.0 series is not going to have >maintenance or developement done on it. Last time I read the Afterstep mailing list there were murmers of someone picking up the 1.0 tree and maintaining it. >I also do

Re: Re[6]: pop3 mail problem

1998-06-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: : On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 21:50:21 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: : : >So your advice to avoid qpopper is not necessarily relevant to Debian? : : It is as relevant to Debian as a message containing advice to avoid : cucipop is. Or advice to use qpopper is.

More help, pls Re: simple interface/low-power users

1998-06-10 Thread G. Crimp
On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 08:16:52PM -0700, Darren Benham wrote: > > On 27-May-98 G. Crimp wrote: > > I thought it would be great if I could set up their accounts so that > > when they logged in a button bar greated them. They could invoke xpat2, > > logout, shutdown, or call up a graphic mai

Re: Help on Debian

1998-06-10 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra
Josh Jackson wrote: > > Sorry, about that comment on "crackers". :) No need to be sorry! Alas, the media is really strong... they can change the meaning of words -- hey, wasn't this what Hitler did all the time??? > debian if you would be so kindly to answer. First off I need a o

Re: Re[6]: pop3 mail problem

1998-06-10 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 09:15:42 -0500 (CDT), Nathan E Norman wrote: >: None at all. It is a general Linux question which really isn't >: specific to Debian at all. >Not to hack on you for "not reading the thread", but had you done so you >might have noticed that Miquel van Smoorenburg not only

Re: Re[6]: pop3 mail problem

1998-06-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: : On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 09:15:42 -0500 (CDT), Nathan E Norman wrote: : : >: None at all. It is a general Linux question which really isn't : >: specific to Debian at all. : : >Not to hack on you for "not reading the thread", but had you done so you : >m

Re: procmail woes

1998-06-10 Thread Paul McDermott
hell santiago, [paul:~]$ mail -v paul Subject: test procmailrc test testing tested failed! Cc: write_log:Received FROM:paul PROGRAM:send-mail SIZE:121 director user matched user paul transport local uses driver appendfile appendfile: write to file /var/spool/mail/paul write_log:Delivered TO:paul

libstdc++ : unresolved ref... 'errno_location'

1998-06-10 Thread Stelios Parnassidis
I'm boxing myself hard through same progs, written for HP and Solaris, many things in C++. I have somehow brought it to compile error-free, but then on calling the executables i get this unresolved 'errno_location'. Allthough i see it in a file, and realize it might have to do with threa

FW: adduser and permissions

1998-06-10 Thread Carr, Daryl B.
I've found the solution to my problem. The owner.group permissions on the /tmp directory were wrong. I've set this to rwxrwxrwt root.root. I looked at a RedHat Linux system and copied the attributes. > -- > From: Carr, Daryl B.[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, Ju

Trying again

1998-06-10 Thread Matthew Myers
Having trouble sending to this list with NS Mail, testing again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian and Afterstep1.4.5.3-1

1998-06-10 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 05:19:45AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > >I,... what are people switching to? Any recommendations for a fast, > >slick, and easily configurable wm? > > Why not just stick with the 1.0 series? Upstream bugs, no libc6 version, the package was upgraded kinda by accident (wa

Re: Re[6]: pop3 mail problem

1998-06-10 Thread Igor S. Livshits
At 3:51 AM -0500 on 6/10/98, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >It is probably a simple oversight. Had you reported it, it could no doubt >be fixed easily (Miquel has indicated that he has already fixed some things >as necessary). I don't think a simple bug such as this is sufficient >to comment on the quality

NS Mail is kinda screwy.

1998-06-10 Thread Matthew Myers
I sent this letter using Netscape Mail under a standard user account. If I try to send from Netscape Mail to this server as root, it never makes it. Does anyone know why? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NS Mail is kinda screwy.

1998-06-10 Thread Nathan C. Burnett
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Matthew Myers wrote: > I sent this letter using Netscape Mail under a standard user account. > If I try to send from Netscape Mail to this server as root, it never > makes it. Does anyone know why? > The server might be rejecting it because it's from root. Sending mail as

RE: Hamm upgrade to Slink

1998-06-10 Thread timothy
Thus far I have simply installed any slink packages that were not available for my hamm system (tya, karpski, xteddy, libc6-dev etc), and everything has worked fine. Does anyone know otherwise? Timothy On 10-Jun-98 Randy Edwards wrote: > Now that hamm has been frozen I'm starting to miss the rout

Re: procmail woes

1998-06-10 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Paul McDermott wrote: > hell santiago, > [paul:~]$ mail -v paul > Subject: test procmailrc > test testing tested failed! > Cc: write_log:Received FROM:paul PROGRAM:send-mail SIZE:121 > director user matched user paul > transport local uses d

aic6260, cdrom & linux

1998-06-10 Thread Chea Prince
hi ralph did you ever get linux to see your cdrom? i have an onboard aic 6260 scsi chip on an old zeos gosling motherboard that linux refuses to recognize. the bios can be set to autodetect scsi and i'ved tried bios SCSI ENABLED--no suucess with sutoprobe. disabled bios and forced detection usi

Re: LyX

1998-06-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
Look in contrib/text On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have an old version of LyX on my bo system that I know I loaded off the > official 1.3.1 CD. I wanted to get the source package for LyX off the hamm > directory on the ftp site but I can't find it. If fact LyX doesn't seem to

CD-rom and ZIP

1998-06-10 Thread Marc van der Vossen
Hi, A big thanks to all who have responded to my questions. I can now mount every thing I want. Is there an automatic mounter ? If I would like to mount three things, what should they be called? I know /mnt, but that is only one out of three. These are the things to be mounted: hda5: misc hdc4. Zi

Re: CD-rom and ZIP

1998-06-10 Thread Paul McDermott
hello, you can mount multiple devices by making directories in / ie mnt2 and mnt3 or what ever you want then mount them normally. I hope this answers your question. Paul On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Marc van der Vossen wrote: > Hi, > > A big thanks to all who have responded to my questions. I can now

Re: CD-rom and ZIP

1998-06-10 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 07:16:57PM +0200, Marc van der Vossen wrote: > Hi, > > A big thanks to all who have responded to my questions. I can now mount > every thing I want. Is there an automatic mounter ? If I would like to mount put entries in /etc/fstab > three things, what should they be call

Re: HAMM ftp proxy install / Hamm Installing / blah

1998-06-10 Thread Kenneth Johansson
The Darkling wrote:lots of good stuff deleted > choose FTP > > ftp.debian.org > (passive or not.. I don't go through a firewall so I use non-passive and > no proxie) well here we have the problem Iam behind a firewall and that was my original question. I have installed debian five times over ppp

Re: LyX

1998-06-10 Thread Raul Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PS when you tell me where it is on your ftp site, and I find it, I'll know > I went temporally insane. I haven't checked the ftp site, but my copy of lyx is marked as coming from "contrib/text". I expect that the copyright doesn't let us distribute

Re: pppd-2.3.5 pap authentification does not work

1998-06-10 Thread Stefan Frank
> Does the "" mean that a chap authentification is required? not necesserily, first the system asks for authentication using pap, but as your system denies, the remote system offers chap auth. I had the same symptom after upgrading to hamm. I solved it by putting my username in double quotes

Re: pppd-2.3.5 pap authentification does not work

1998-06-10 Thread Paul Miller
I had this problem. I fixed it by downloading the source for ppp-pam and copying the ppp.pam file to /etc/pam.d/ppp ... here is what that file contains (notice the libraries are different from Debian's ppp file): --- #%PAM-1.0 # Information for the PPPD process with the 'login' option. authr

xserver and Matrox Mistique

1998-06-10 Thread Michael Roark
I have just finished an install (1.3.1) on a machine with a Matrox Mistique. I followed the README on the cd (install the base, then the server in seperate sessions), but when I startx the screen goes blank, apparently after trying to contact the server. This is using the svga server. Is there a be

Apache

1998-06-10 Thread Michael Acklin
Hello, I have just installed Apache Web Server and keep getting the same message I try to start the server. What do I need to do get the server working. Here is the error.log [Wed Jun 10 13:59:35 1998] [alert] mod_unique_id: unable to gethostbyname("debian") [Wed Jun 10 14:08:11 1998] [

Installing network

1998-06-10 Thread Brian Morgan
I'm having trouble beginning setting up my debian system with an ne2000 card. During install, the card installed correctly, with correct i/o address and interrupt. I also entered all of the ip / host / domain info. correctly. Everytime I start up, though, I get the messages: SCOCADDRT: No such

3 questions

1998-06-10 Thread Dennis Dai
1. What's the difference between hamm (frozen) and slink? 2. Where is the xload package in hamm (frozen)? Several weeks before I could find it but when I selected, it gave me some kind of dependency error. And I can't even find it in my newly updated package list (in dselect). 3. I've read discus

Re: xserver and Matrox Mistique

1998-06-10 Thread Shaleh
I have a Mystique 220 4mb card. I have no problems w/ XFree86_SVGA. Both bo and hamm/slink. This is probably a misconfigured monitor settings problem. Michael Roark wrote: > > I have just finished an install (1.3.1) on a machine with a Matrox > Mistique. I followed the README on the cd (instal

telnetting to a host behind ip_masq

1998-06-10 Thread Paul Miller
Is it possible to telnet directly to a host behind ip_masq? -- Something like connecting to a different hostname at the same ip, and acting as a different computer. -- Apache does this with virtual hosting. --- Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public PGP key at http://paul.3dillusion.com/pgpkey.tx

Re: 3 questions

1998-06-10 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Dennis Dai wrote: > 1. What's the difference between hamm (frozen) and slink? Slink will eventually become Debian 2.1. It contains those packages which either aren't ready for prime time yet, or which contain additional features past the freeze date of Debian 2.0. > 2. Wher

[NC013@aol.com: New User]

1998-06-10 Thread Martin Schulze
- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: at Infodrom Oldenburg (/\##/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.12 Joey) by finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE from master.debian.org with smtp id ; Wed, 10 Jun 98 22:32 MET DST Received: from ([205.229.104.5]

Re: [NC013@aol.com: New User]

1998-06-10 Thread Brian Morgan
Try the following FULL TEXT versions of linux books online at: http://www.developer.com/reference/r_linux.html I'm a beginning Linux user as well, and would also appreciate any beginner's advice from others. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Martin Schulze wrote: > - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [NC013@aol.com: New User]

1998-06-10 Thread Michael B. Taylor
Check out the Linux Documentation Project at: http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/ There are many other mirrors of this site, you may wish to check the 'mirrors' section on the site to find one nearer to you. In particular, check out the on-line book "Installation and Getting Started Guide" If you want d

Re: telnetting to a host behind ip_masq

1998-06-10 Thread Stuart Krivis
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Stuart Krivis wrote: On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > > Is it possible to telnet directly to a host behind ip_masq? -- Something > like connecting to a different hostname at the same ip, and acting as a > different computer. -- Apache does this with virtual ho

Re: [NC013@aol.com: New User]

1998-06-10 Thread Gutraind
Hi! I've installed Debian 1.3 (bo) couple of month ago motivated by the same ideas you have. I hope I'll at some way helpful along more exerienced users' question to your answer. Linux indeed seems to be vert customizable, and the commands usually have long switches for even the basic functions

Re: Weird problem: normal user can't run bash in login

1998-06-10 Thread Ed Cogburn
Lorens Kockum wrote: > > In debian-user Ed wrote: > > > > No. Remember, the login process has already started, the user ('ed') > > has > >already gotten a tty, the system has printed to it (for example to tell him > >he has no mail), only when it tries to exec the default shell does the e

RE: 3 questions

1998-06-10 Thread Dennis Dai
Thanks a lot Scott. Now it's much clearer. Dennis > -Original Message- > From: Scott Ellis [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 1:36 PM > To: Dennis Dai > Cc: Debian User list > Subject: Re: 3 questions > > On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Dennis Dai wrote: > > > 1. Wha

[Hamm Install] Dselect/ftp, what is this error message ?

1998-06-10 Thread Francois Gouget
I'm installing a new Debian 2.0 on my PC using the ftp method to download it from ftp.mi.us.debian.org. During the download I got the following error message: > getting: dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/interpreters/perl_5.004.04-6.deb (3125884) > FTP ERROR > > Do you want to retry downl

Re: [NC013@aol.com: New User]

1998-06-10 Thread servis
> > I just downloaded and installed Debian on a computer for the first time. I > think the free software thing is a great concept, and I like the fact that > there is a legitimate alternative to the Microsoft ruled world of pc operating > systems. > > I have only one slight problem. I don't h

Re: Installing network

1998-06-10 Thread Greg Norris
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 02:53:38PM -0400, Brian Morgan wrote: > I'm having trouble beginning setting up my debian system with an ne2000 > card. During install, the card installed correctly, with correct i/o > address and interrupt. I also entered all of the ip / host / domain > info. correctly. >

support for NEC SuperScript 660plus?

1998-06-10 Thread Kiyan Azarbar
My dad returend the HP LaserJet 3100 multifunction devices, and got a NEC SuperScript 660plus. Of course everything will be fine and dandy in Windows, but I never boot into Windows anymore, nor do I want to. We have a little 3-node LAN set up here on coax with ancient SMC 8013 cards that works fo

Unidentified subject!

1998-06-10 Thread forest
I've installed Debian 1.3 but can't run many commands, including man. Why? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: aic6260, cdrom & linux

1998-06-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 12:59:28PM -0400, Chea Prince wrote: > did you ever get linux to see your cdrom? i have an onboard aic 6260 > scsi chip on an old zeos > gosling motherboard that linux refuses to recognize. the bios can be > set to autodetect scsi and i'ved tried bios SCSI ENABLED--no suuc

Re: CD-rom and ZIP

1998-06-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 10:34:47AM -0700, Mike Schmitz wrote: > I would use /mnt/misc, /mnt/zip, /mnt/cdrom with fstab entries: > > /dev/ /mnt/misc ext2defaults0 2 > /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zipvfatnoauto,user 0 0 > /dev/hdd/mnt/cdrom

Re: support for NEC SuperScript 660plus?

1998-06-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
The ghostscript printer compatibility web page (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html) doesn't mention that model, but does list the ljetplus driver as appropriate for the SuperScript 860, so you might have a chance with one of the HP drivers. It shouldn't hurt anything to try them, at least.

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-06-10 Thread Steve Mayer
forest, What packages did you install (was the man package one of them?)? What other commands can you not run? Does this change when logged in as root vs. a regular user account? Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] forest wrote: > > I've installed Debian 1.3 but can't run many commands, includ

Re: pppd-2.3.5 pap authentification does not work

1998-06-10 Thread Peter Weiss
[...] Thanks a lot, it works now. The reason was another one: Due to some trial and approaches I set the remotelogin name on the bo-version with the keyword "remotename", which isn't what the hamm version wants. After fiddling a little around with the pppconfig package which s

[Hamm Install] package dependency problems

1998-06-10 Thread Francois Gouget
Hi, I downloaded Hamm last night from fp.mi.us.debian.org and I got quite a lot of package download problems. Packages that seem to have moved between the ime I selected them and the time I downloaded them. Anyway, I have a lot of package problems, 58 packages are in th

key repeat in X

1998-06-10 Thread Craig Sanders
anyone know how to turn repeating keys back on after some stupid program (like quake) has screwed it up? i don't want to logout and restart X (i shouldn't have to anyway: this is unix, not 'doze :) after checking out the x11 quakeworld client, i find that my keys don't repeat if i hold them do

Re: [Hamm Install] Dselect/ftp, what is this error message ?

1998-06-10 Thread Ralph Winslow
=?us-ascii?Q?Francois_Gouget?= wrote: > > I'm installing a new Debian 2.0 on my PC using the ftp method to > download it from ftp.mi.us.debian.org. During the download I got the > following error message: > > > getting: > dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/interpreters/perl_5.004.04-6.deb > (3

Re: key repeat in X

1998-06-10 Thread David Keegel
] anyone know how to turn repeating keys back on after some stupid program ] (like quake) has screwed it up? Check out the xset program. "xset q" will query status (so you know what is going on without changing anything). "xset r on" might fix your key repeat problem. ___

Re: [Hamm Install] package dependency problems

1998-06-10 Thread Johnie Ingram
"Francois" == Francois Gouget?= writes: Francois> 5.004.04-2)'. I tried to find another package Francois> that would provide 'perl' but did not find Perl itself provides perl: ./hamm/hamm/binary-i386/interpreters/perl_5.004.04-6.deb Francois> 'libg++' not the one I expected. I could