Re: Kernel 2.0.34

1998-06-16 Thread timothy
What is the significance of packages being in Incoming? Is it safe to d/l and use them from there, or do things in Incoming have further processing to undergo before being ready for use? Thanks, Timothy On 15-Jun-98 Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Do

libc.so.5.44 ?

1998-06-16 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Hi, at blackdown site (http://www.blackdown.org), the site that holds most of the information on java and linux, they say that their libc5 jdk depends on libc.so.5.44 or above. I looked for it in the debian archives, but found that libc5 only goes till 5.38 in debian. Is there a solution to tha

Re: Kernel 2.0.34

1998-06-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the significance of packages being in Incoming? > Is it safe to d/l and use them from there, or do things in Incoming have > further processing to undergo before being ready for use? If I have it straight: New packages are uploaded to /incom

Re: xkoules locked my system

1998-06-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 07:37:12PM -0400, Tom Malloy wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > This sounds bad. What version of koules are you running? What state is your > > system (Debian 1.3, 2.0 or what). What Xserver do you use? > > Koules version 1.3-2 > Debian 1.3.1 > XF8

Re: xkoules locked my system

1998-06-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 07:37:12PM -0400, Tom Malloy wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > This sounds bad. What version of koules are you running? What state is your > > system (Debian 1.3, 2.0 or what). What Xserver do you use? > > Koules version 1.3-2 > Debian 1.3.1 > XF8

Apple II Emulator

1998-06-16 Thread Carlos Figueroa
Do you have a Apple IIgs emulator?  E-Mailme at [EMAIL PROTECTED] .  

Re: Holy Water in my system? Daemons keep dying . . .

1998-06-16 Thread John Goerzen
Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > privately...) > > > > My system information: > > > > lpr 5.9-26 > > Fixed: > ii lpr 5.9-27 BSD lpr/lpd line printer spooling system > > Or, just put a 2 second sleep between the kill and start in the > /etc/init.d/lpd resta

Re: Holy Water in my system? Daemons keep dying . . .

1998-06-16 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On 15 Jun 1998, John Goerzen wrote: > > Or, just put a 2 second sleep between the kill and start in the > > /etc/init.d/lpd restart section. > > Why would this make a difference? Wouldn't this signify a race > condition? Worse, on a heavily-loaded system, wouldn't 2 seconds be > too little a wa

Re: wav to mp3

1998-06-16 Thread tko
Jens Ritter writes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Beattie) writes: > > > On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Norbert Veber wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 10:31:59AM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote: > > > > "Timothy C. Phan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > I'd like

ipfwadm

1998-06-16 Thread Ben Szyc
i'm running Debian 1.3. i have 2 Windowz95 machines connecting to my Debian box across a LAN then out on the net using ipfwadm. IRC (except for DCC chat & send) and web browsing works ok but usenet ,cuseeme, ICQ, real audio don't want to function at all. I've also got Squid running as a proxy serve

Re: Newbie needs help connecting to isp

1998-06-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
Stephanie Bloodworth wrote: > > I have recently installed the base distribution of hamm and ran > pppconfig. Now when I run pon the modem dosn't dial. Two processes are > created pppd and chat but I am not connected to my isp any help as to the > cause of this problem would be appretiated. >

Re: Install/Uninstall dramas (novice user)

1998-06-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 08:39:41PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > I have been running Linux for some two years and Debian for more than one, > > > and certainly haven't required MC yet. Even standard would be > > > inappropriate > > > I think --

Re: ipfwadm

1998-06-16 Thread Paul Miller
Load the ip_masq_* modules... That fixed my problem w/ sending DCC (I could receive, which is kinda odd). Look in /lib/modules/2.0.34/ipv4 for all the possible modules (assuming you compiled them) and run: insmod ip_masq_irc etc. -Paul On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Ben Szyc wrote: > i'm running Debia

Xfree86 installation a.out/ELF

1998-06-16 Thread Psychotron
Hi All, Well, I decided to use Linux two months ago and as you may see, I'm quite still a layman on the subject. Anyway, I'm trying to find anyone who could help me installing and get running the Xfree86. I downloaded the other day the files that would install xfree86 version 3.32

Re: Apple II Emulator

1998-06-16 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 08:22:33PM -0400, Carlos Figueroa wrote: > Do you have a Apple IIgs emulator? E-Mailme at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . There is one, xgs. At this time, there is not a .deb of it and you need a ROM image for it. It will take 00, 01, and 03 ROMs which can be found places you would

Re: XF86Setup/Mouse Device

1998-06-16 Thread Jimmer ENDRES
Dennis Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) I have succesfully installed XFree86 and am now attempting to run the > XF86Setup routine. In trying to get the mouse to work it appears to me all I > should have to do is select one of the 'devices' and hit 'apply'. However, > I tried all possible de

hostname problem (?)

1998-06-16 Thread Michael Roark
I posted earlier today about configuring smail . . . well, I gave up and went back to my original problem with sendmail. As it turns out, it may not be sendmail at fault. In my mail.log file, I get the following message whenever I try to send mail to my main domain or receive mail from there wi

Re: wav to mp3

1998-06-16 Thread Michael Beattie
On 15 Jun 1998, Jens Ritter wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Beattie) writes: > [snip] > > the package has disappeared, along with l3enc off of the web... But its > > successor, mp3enc, is available at the home page... cant remember where... > > put "+mp3enc +download +linux" into altavista an

Re: Top doesnt work on a terminal

1998-06-16 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Michael Stone wrote: > Quoting Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I am trying to use top on an old wyse terminal, but it will not display > > the processes below the column header. Also, when quitting, the prompt > > appears in the middle of the system info at the top of

Netscape does not know the right time

1998-06-16 Thread Shaleh
I am using the latest Communicator package from hamm along with the latest Communicator from NS. It shows my BIOS time (set to Greenwich), rather than the correct time here. Any suggestions?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: Parallel port scanner

1998-06-16 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Peter Paluch wrote: > I've just bought a Primax Colorado D600 scanner, and I'd like to use it > under Linux. However I don't know where to find a software for it. It is > a TWAIN compatible scanner, and it is connected to the parallel port (so > no SCSI stuff). Could anybody t

Re: XF86Setup/Mouse Device

1998-06-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
Dennis Dixon wrote:... >1) I have succesfully installed XFree86 and am now attempting to run the >XF86Setup routine. In trying to get the mouse to work it appears to me all I >should have to do is select one of the 'devices' and hit 'apply'. However, >I tried all possible device options an

xv

1998-06-16 Thread Mark Yobb
Hi everybody. I am quite new to this and I think that my previous exposure to UNIX might to confusing me on this one? I always knew xv or xview as a graphics viewing package with alot of cool options. In my current bo 1.3.1 installation xview is included but apparently I just ha

Compiling with gcc

1998-06-16 Thread Mark Yobb
Hello. I am not sure what is wrong so I will just tell what happened. I wrote a litte C++ with the following preprocessor directive at the top of the file: #include When I went to compile (gcc prog.C) I got the error message: prog.C:1:iostream:No such file or directory. I then tried

Need artistic type to create a Debian ad for LJ (fwd)

1998-06-16 Thread James A . Treacy
If you want to help Debian, but don't feel comfortable maintaining a package, this is your chance. In making enquiries to LJ about the cost of advertising, Debian was given an offer of 2 one-half page ads if we do some work on some Linux docs that the LJ is maintaining. This is an opportunity we s

Re: xv

1998-06-16 Thread Shaleh
XView is a development toolkit for X windows (olvwm uses it I think). xv is a non-free package. It is not on your CD. You must get it from a debian ftp site. xv is shareware, we can/will not give it out on CD. It is in non-free/graphics as "xv". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: smail set-up

1998-06-16 Thread Obi
Hi, I'm using smail on a laptop, and I came from sendmail :-). I'm using hamm. > 1. change the name of any outgoing mail to another username (i.e. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I used the visible_name option in config. Actually you can set it up throught the configuration script (s

Truning off shadowed password file

1998-06-16 Thread Ramon Nieva
Ok, I installed my system (bo) with shadowed. Just for testing purpose, I want to get rid of them, how do I do this? Ramon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Compiling with gcc

1998-06-16 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 12:44:07AM -0700, Mark Yobb wrote: > When I went to compile (gcc prog.C) I got the error message: ^^^ Please use the appropriate compiler driver (for bo it doesn't really matter, for hamm it matters a lot). In the case of C++, that's `g++'. (For ha

Re: Truning off shadowed password file

1998-06-16 Thread G. Kapetanios
Use shadowconfig off | on On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Ramon Nieva wrote: > Ok, I installed my system (bo) with shadowed. > Just for testing purpose, I want to get rid of them, how do I do this? > > > Ramon > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: A pleasant cron surprise

1998-06-16 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 10:58:40 -0500 Igor S Livshits writes: > > Hello, > Well, I left my hamm system half set up when other things distracted > me. I had cron running, but no functional MTA fully installed. > > I was thus plesantly surprised that cron actually managed to get an > email message to

URGENT e2fsprogs problem

1998-06-16 Thread G. Kapetanios
I decided to upgrade to e2fsprogs 1.10-17. Mistake.. It wants an newer version of dump which requires libe2p2. I can't find this package anywhere. Can anyone help ?? George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambri

serving a win95 box

1998-06-16 Thread Gerald V. Livingston lI
Can a linux box be used to serve a Win95 box the same way two Win95 boxes can be hooked up together? Eg. -- can linux be set up in such a way that an ethernet connected Win95 box can 'see' some of the linux drives in its "Network Neighborhood" box, map them with drive letters, and run to progr

Re: serving a win95 box

1998-06-16 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Gerald: There is a package called samba. It is from what I understand equivalent to NT. You can share printers, CDROMs, directories etc. Peter -Original Message- From: Gerald V. Livingston lI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 6:20 AM

Re: Debian and Fat32

1998-06-16 Thread Anthony Fok
On Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 01:05:48AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Phlip wrote: > > > > I've seen where Debian has a Linux Kernel 2.0.33 that will allow access > > to Fat32 partitions but I can't find the Debian package. Is it available > > yet? > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-

Re: URGENT e2fsprogs problem

1998-06-16 Thread David Z. Maze
G Kapetanios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GK> I decided to upgrade to e2fsprogs 1.10-17. Mistake.. It wants an GK> newer version of dump which requires libe2p2. I can't find this GK> package anywhere. Can anyone help ?? Running 'dpkg -s e2fsprogs' shows that e2fsprogs Provides: libe2p2, so it sho

KPCA Speaker Search3

1998-06-16 Thread rsvp
Greetings, KPCA is currently searching for potential speakers for future meetings, and hope you might be able to assist us. The Kansai Professional Computing Association (KPCA) is THE English language computer organization for Western Japan. We meet monthly to exchange news, ideas, and trends in

Re: Top doesnt work on a terminal

1998-06-16 Thread W Paul Mills
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > > I am trying to use top on an old wyse terminal, but it will not display > the processes below the column header. Also, when quitting, the prompt > appears in the middle of the system info at the top of the screen, and > when using commands such as "

MTA suggestions

1998-06-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I have a hamm box, call it A, and a bo box call it B, and another box, call it C. B and C communicate via UUCP to exchange mail. A and B are usually not permanently connected, so I get A to route mail to both B and C to B. A knows the full route to C so that B does not have to process the mail on

compiling sendmail on libc6: redefinitions in socket.h

1998-06-16 Thread Lutz Kotoll
Hi, i'm trying to compile sendmail 8.9.0 on a libc6 system, but all i get is tons of error like the following: - snip - In file included from /usr/include/linux/if.h:23, from /usr/include/net/if.h:1, from conf.c:4200: /usr/include/linux/socket.h:38: warn

new install: bo or hamm?

1998-06-16 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi! A friend of mine asked me to install Debian on his new web and mail server. Now I am trying to decide whether I should install bo or hamm. Bo has some pretty old packages and a later upgrade to hamm would probably require to shut the system down for a while. But is hamm stable enough yet???

Re: new install: bo or hamm?

1998-06-16 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On 16 Jun 1998, Andy Spiegl wrote: > A friend of mine asked me to install Debian on his new web and > mail server. Now I am trying to decide whether I should install > bo or hamm. Bo has some pretty old packages and a later upgrade > to hamm would probably require to shut the system down for a >

ZIP & ZIP+ drives

1998-06-16 Thread Max Lawson
Hi, I know the ZIP drive is supported in the kernel; and I would like to know if the ZIP+ drive is supported too. Thanx in advance, Max -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Install problem (can't install kernel + modules)

1998-06-16 Thread Derek S. Brown
I'm having trouble midway through the install of Debian 1.3.1. Everything runs OK until I get to "install kernel and modules." Whether I try this step from files on my hard drive or from files on floppy, it doesn't seem to work. The step generates no error messages, but I'm prompted that "instal

Re: www.debian.org/Packages/stable/

1998-06-16 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:34:08 -0400, rs202 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've been scoping the various distributions of Linux for a few weeks, >reading and so forth. I've just discovered Debian's Packages directory. >This distribution looks like it would be incredibly simple to maintain >with the wa

Please clarify...

1998-06-16 Thread Neil Cheshire
Hi, Could someone please clarify for me about all the Debian releases. I currently run Debian 1.3 which is bo , right? I haven't really done much to my system so was going to reinstall with Debian 2.0 which is hamm , ok so far? So what is slink? Is this what is coming out in June, ie. a stable

Re: Please clarify...

1998-06-16 Thread David Z. Maze
Neil Cheshire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: NC> Could someone please clarify for me about all the Debian NC> releases. I currently run Debian 1.3 which is bo , right? I NC> haven't really done much to my system so was going to reinstall NC> with Debian 2.0 which is hamm , ok so far? All good so far

TV tuner fuction (novice question)

1998-06-16 Thread Weimin LI
Hi gurus! If running Debian 2.x on a PC with an ATI ALL-IN-WONDER video card, is there any way to make the TV tuner fuction work? regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please clarify...

1998-06-16 Thread servis
On 16 Jun, David Z. Maze wrote: > > Neil Cheshire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > NC> Could someone please clarify for me about all the Debian > NC> releases. I currently run Debian 1.3 which is bo , right? I > NC> haven't really done much to my system so was going to reinstall > NC> with Debian 2.0

Re: TV tuner fuction (novice question)

1998-06-16 Thread joost
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Weimin LI wrote: > If running Debian 2.x on a PC with an ATI ALL-IN-WONDER video card, > is there any way to make the TV tuner fuction work? Bad luck for you! Due to ATI's refusal to release any specs to potential driver developers, a driver for that card is nonexistant.

Re: TV tuner fuction (novice question)

1998-06-16 Thread Weimin LI
At 05:49 PM 6/16/98 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Bad luck for you! > >Due to ATI's refusal to release any specs to potential driver developers, >a driver for that card is nonexistant. > > http://roadrunner.swansea.uk.linux.org/v4l.shtml > >(look at the bottom of the page.) > >Of course, feel f

Re: Install/Uninstall dramas (novice user)

1998-06-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I use less to peek into tarballs; and deb files, and so on. I am appending my version of the lessopen script (look at /usr/bin/lesspipe and /usr/doc/less/LESOPEN.gz). No fuss, no muss, and I don't have to learn how to use mc ;-) manoj #!/bin/sh # Decode directories: if [ -

Unidentified subject!

1998-06-16 Thread Jon Skelton
info debian-user -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

netscape 4 configuration

1998-06-16 Thread Brian Morgan
I've installed netscape 4 from dselect, but when I try to configure it (also in dselect), I get the following error messages: The netscape archive must be in /tmp, owned by root, and under a name matching one of the following: communicator-v4*.x86-*-linux*.tar* navigator-vr*.x86-*-linux*.tar* Am

chat will not send password

1998-06-16 Thread Chip Grandits
I have been attempting for some time to establish a ppp connection with my internet service provider. There are many ways to do this depending upon which document I consult (NET-3-HOWTO, ISP-Hookup-HOWTO, DIP man pages, Debian User's Guide, ad nauseam). Currently I am trying to directly invoke

Re: Please clarify...

1998-06-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 07:48:26AM -0700, Neil Cheshire wrote: > Hi, > > Could someone please clarify for me about all the Debian releases. I > currently run Debian 1.3 which is bo , right? Yes. > I haven't really done much > to my system so was going to reinstall with Debian 2.0 which is hamm

8 GB limit on cfdisk?

1998-06-16 Thread Mark H. Mabry
I'm having a problem partitioning my 9.6 GB harddrive on my Dell P-II 400. This is an EIDE drive. When I use cfdisk, it sees only 8 GB. I believe that this is due to a limit in cfdisk which sets the max number of sectors to 1024. Mine should have 1227 (approx). When I boot Linux it identifie

Where has logwrites gone?

1998-06-16 Thread Hannu Koivisto
Greetings, I have noticed that a package logwrites hasn't been available for a long time anymore. Any ideas why it has disappeared and whether it will come back or not? Some time ago I hacked up some administration tools that allow me to keep all (/usr/)local installations under the control of D

Re: Please clarify...

1998-06-16 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998 18:50:15 +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: >Yes, but *there is no need for a re-install*! Debian has a great and >superior upgrading mechanism, and your system will update cleanly through >every version, even major version changes. Rght, that is why we see people in here

Re: Please clarify...

1998-06-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 09:52:12AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jun 1998 18:50:15 +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > >Yes, but *there is no need for a re-install*! Debian has a great and > >superior upgrading mechanism, and your system will update cleanly through > >every version, even ma

Re: Please clarify...

1998-06-16 Thread Nick Moffitt
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Yes, but *there is no need for a re-install*! Debian has a great and > superior upgrading mechanism, and your system will update cleanly through > every version, even major version changes. I was told that there was a way to auto-upgrade. Th

Re: Please clarify...

1998-06-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 10:15:07AM -0700, Nick Moffitt wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > Yes, but *there is no need for a re-install*! Debian has a great and > > superior upgrading mechanism, and your system will update cleanly through > > every version, even major versio

Re: netscape 4 configuration

1998-06-16 Thread Gregory T. Norris
The netscape package is only an installer. You need to download the tarball from Netscape's site, place it in /tmp (owned by root, as the message says), and then try the installation again. At 11:20 AM 6/16/98 -0400, you wrote: >I've installed netscape 4 from dselect, but when I try to configure

Re: Please clarify...

1998-06-16 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998 19:07:27 +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: >there are two cases where an upgrade can fail: A monty Python fan there, eh? >1) You waited to long. It may be hard to upgrade a rexx system (although >2) You changed the system in places unknown to dpkg. I'm not sure how much >3)

Re: Please clarify...

1998-06-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 10:20:02AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jun 1998 19:07:27 +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > >there are two cases where an upgrade can fail: > > A monty Python fan there, eh? I study mathematics --- I can neither count nor calculate :) > >1) You waited to l

Re: Please clarify...

1998-06-16 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998 19:39:36 +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: >> I love that term, FUD. It implies an untruth. It is true that people >> have complained about a bo->hamm upgade on this list. >But you draw the wrong conclusions. I already told you that hamm is not >released. If there are many

Re: Holy Water in my system? Daemons keep dying . . .

1998-06-16 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Brandon! My pland dies almost instantly, do you know about solution for that similar to lpr? Thanks, Sasha. > > Fixed: > ii lpr 5.9-27 BSD lpr/lpd line printer spooling system > > Or, just put a 2 second sleep between the kill and start in the > /etc/init.d/lpd restart

Re: Holy Water in my system? Daemons keep dying . . .

1998-06-16 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> Hi, Brandon! > > My pland dies almost instantly, do you know about solution for that similar >to lpr? But that seems to be different in nature. It terminates because it incorrectly things that the application calling it is done. rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pa

Re: serving a win95 box

1998-06-16 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 16 Jun 98 11:20:14 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Can a linux box be used to serve a Win95 box the same way two Win95 >boxes can be hooked up together? Eg. -- can linux be set up in such a >way that an ethernet connected Win95 box can 'see' some of the linux >drives in its "Network Neighbor

Mysterious frequent crashes at the same interval on three machines.

1998-06-16 Thread Autumn
I've tried throwing up my hands in frustration, but so far it hasn't helped. I have three Debian machines here, and they're rebooting quite frequently on almost exactly the same irregular schedule. The time between reboots has ranged from 11 to 70 hours over the past couple of weeks. There are o

utmp/wtmp problems

1998-06-16 Thread Troy Hanson
I just upgraded to hamm from 1.3r8, everything seemed to go smoothly, but now I have a bit of a problem with utmp/wtmp. [see below]. I remember seeing something about this in the past, however I cannot find the message. The rest of the system is functioning fine. Any help would be appreciated! th

Re: utmp/wtmp problems

1998-06-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Troy Hanson wrote: : I just upgraded to hamm from 1.3r8, everything seemed to go smoothly, but : now I have a bit of a problem with utmp/wtmp. [see below]. I remember : seeing something about this in the past, however I cannot find the message. : : The rest of the system is f

RE: Mysterious frequent crashes at the same interval on three ma

1998-06-16 Thread Ted Harding
On 16-Jun-98 Autumn wrote: > I've tried throwing up my hands in frustration, but so far it hasn't > helped. > > I have three Debian machines here, and they're rebooting quite > frequently on almost exactly the same irregular schedule. The time > between reboots has ranged from 11 to 70 hours over

Re: 8 GB limit on cfdisk?

1998-06-16 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : : I'm having a problem partitioning my 9.6 GB harddrive on my Dell P-II : 400. This is an EIDE drive. When I use cfdisk, it sees only 8 GB. : I believe that this is due to a limit in cfdisk which sets the max : number of sectors to 1024. Mine should h

pci problem with dell

1998-06-16 Thread Daryl Williams
i have installed debian 1.3 on a dell dimension xps 333 mhz system. everything appears to have gone well except for ta problem with the pci bus and the ethernet drivers. here is the error message i am getting: Warning : Unknown PCI device (8086:7111). Please read include/linux/pci.h i am also un

Mesa

1998-06-16 Thread timothy
Does anyone have any idea how long until Mesa3.0 libraries will be debianized? (Appararently it is req'd by the latest version of Blender. :(. ). Thanks, Timothy -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 16-Jun-98 Time: 15:06:20 This message was sent by XFMail. Powere

Re: Mysterious frequent crashes at the same interval on three ma

1998-06-16 Thread Autumn
> Are the machines rebooting simultaneously (i.e. at the same absolute clock > times, allowing for system clocks differing), or at quite different absloute > times (but with matching inter-reboot intervals)? > > If the former, consider your power supply. > > If the latter, then the Society for the

Re: serving a win95 box

1998-06-16 Thread servis
On 16 Jun, Robert Wilderspin wrote: > On 16 Jun 98 11:20:14 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Can a linux box be used to serve a Win95 box the same way two Win95 >>boxes can be hooked up together? Eg. -- can linux be set up in such a >>way that an ethernet connected Win95 box can 'see' some of t

portamap messages filling my logfiles

1998-06-16 Thread Obi
Hi all, once in a while, mostly when new machine are added to the network, I start getting messages from my portmap: sport portmap[3612]: connect from 132.239.9.218 to callit(ypserv): request from unauthorized host and these messages fill my logfile. My machine is the only one in my lab

Re: pci problem with dell

1998-06-16 Thread Mark H. Mabry
> "Daryl" == Daryl Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote the following on Tue, 16 Jun 1998 12:03:26 -0700 Daryl> i have installed debian 1.3 on a dell dimension xps 333 mhz Daryl> system. everything appears to have gone well except for ta Daryl> problem with the pci bus and the ether

Re: Mysterious frequent crashes at the same interval on three ma

1998-06-16 Thread Autumn
> Sorry I didn't make that clear. It is the latter. The first machine goes, > and > six hours later the next machine goes, and ten minutes later, the last one > goes. > The interval between machines stays the same to within a minute. Whoops! It's not six hours, it's one hour. That was the ne

Re: pci problem with dell

1998-06-16 Thread Daryl Williams
mark, thanks for your reply. i am have a 3com 3c905B-TX card as well as a Kingston 10/100 card that is an NB2000 clone. they both show up in /proc/pci, however i was unable to install the drivers for either. i have just finished loading the base system from disk and was planning on using ftp to ge

Re: pci problem with dell

1998-06-16 Thread Mark H. Mabry
> "Daryl" == Daryl Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote the following on Tue, 16 Jun 1998 12:28:16 -0700 Daryl> mark, thanks for your reply. i am have a 3com 3c905B-TX card Daryl> as well as a Kingston 10/100 card that is an NB2000 Daryl> clone. they both show up in /proc/pci, howeve

Re: Mysterious frequent crashes at the same interval on three ma

1998-06-16 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Autumn wrote: > Sorry I didn't make that clear. It is the latter. The first machine goes, > and > six hours later the next machine goes, and ten minutes later, the last one > goes. > The interval between machines stays the same to within a minute. > > I'm not convinced th

PCMCIA again

1998-06-16 Thread M.C. Bezemer
Hi! I have compiled the pcmcia-source along with the kernel, but now i have another problem: the cardmgr doesn't quite do what it should... from the logs: initializing socket 1: Fujitsu FMV-J182 LAN Card executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.0.32/pcmcia/fmvj18x_cs.o' get dev info on socket 1 failed: N

Re: compiling sendmail on libc6: redefinitions in socket.h

1998-06-16 Thread Jens Ritter
Lutz Kotoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i'm trying to compile sendmail 8.9.0 on a libc6 system, but all i get is > tons of error like the following: Have a look at the slink sendmail package. debian/dists/slink/main/source/mail/sendmail_8.9.0-3.diff.gz etc. HTH, Jens --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TV tuner fuction (novice question)

1998-06-16 Thread Shaleh
Get a video card and a tuner. All in one cards tend to not be happy, especially in Linux. The ATI card should read "All-in-one, it's a wonder it works". I have heard WAY to many bad storries of ATI cards, Linux and Winblows. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Please clarify...

1998-06-16 Thread Jens Ritter
Neil Cheshire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Should I really wait for the stable release? Seeing as I am not > desperate to upgrade? In case it is expensive for you to get internet access, it is wise to wait for official cdroms. 1.3.1 -> hamm takes ~50 MB of downloads. Jens --- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Problems with ImageMagick in bo (Debian 1.3.r6)

1998-06-16 Thread Wojciech Marek Zabolotny
Hi All! Does anybody used successfully the "-draw" command with the "convert" program available in ImageMagick in bo distribution? The only graphic primitive it accepts is "circle". When I type: convert -pen "red" -draw "circle 5,5 10,10" image.gif im2.gif everything works fine, but wh

Re: utmp/wtmp problems

1998-06-16 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Troy Hanson wrote: > I just upgraded to hamm from 1.3r8, everything seemed to go smoothly, but > now I have a bit of a problem with utmp/wtmp. [see below]. I remember > seeing something about this in the past, however I cannot find the message. Package: xbase, program: xterm,

smail is not working (MY USERS ARE GOING TO KILL ME)

1998-06-16 Thread Edward Betts
I go on the net (ppp) static IP address, loads of e-mail comes in from my ISP by SMTP. smail does not deliever it, you have to run, runq, that does not work most of the time. it has not been delievering outgoing mails they just sit in the spool directory, why? I used option 3 in the config script

Re: Silly little swap question

1998-06-16 Thread danair
Bob Bernstein wrote: > > Forgive me if this is a FAQ, but can bo and hamm share the same swap > partition? > > My ISP has finally got a 56K connect up and running and I'm thinking of using > a 300 meg partition on this machine (currently holding OpenDOS - which I > haven't touched in months ) to

Re: Mysterious frequent crashes at the same interval on three ma

1998-06-16 Thread Autumn
> Hmm... anything in the syslogs(/var/log)? Run a ps ax and see if there is > a sleep running, perhaps anacron is going nuts? Is it a graceful > shutdown? (Keep the replies to the list as I will be of little help.) Nothing sleeping, and anacron is not installed. I have even removed things lik

Re: pci problem with dell

1998-06-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Mark H. Mabry wrote: : > "Daryl" == Daryl Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > wrote the following on Tue, 16 Jun 1998 12:28:16 -0700 : : Daryl> mark, thanks for your reply. i am have a 3com 3c905B-TX card : Daryl> as well as a Kingston 10/100 card that is an NB2000 :

Re: Scalable fonts in Netscape

1998-06-16 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra
Yury Onischuck wrote: > > Problem: Netscape does not save font properties for fonts other > then default two for every encoding. ... > Thanks in advance for any suggestion, link to look at, > whatever You can give/tell me news://netscape.communicator.unix can be accessed on the secnews.ne

Re: smail is not working (MY USERS ARE GOING TO KILL ME)

1998-06-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "EB" == Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: EB> I go on the net (ppp) static IP address, loads of e-mail comes in from my EB> ISP by SMTP. smail does not deliever it, you have to run, runq, that does EB> not work most of the time. it has not been delievering outgoing mails they EB> just s

passwd

1998-06-16 Thread Jorge Kinoshita
Hello, I would like to add many users and build a script to it. I have one problem with passwords. I would like that the users could alter their passwords by the web interface, so I have to write a script for it. My problem is: how can I set the password for some user using a simple command? Ev

Re: passwd

1998-06-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Jorge Kinoshita wrote: : Hello, : I would like to add many users and build a script to it. I have one : problem with passwords. I would like that the users could alter their : passwords by the web interface, so I have to write a script for it. My : problem is: how can I se

Netscape script: where is it?

1998-06-16 Thread Brian Morgan
I've downloaded netscape into the /tmp directory with the proper naming convention. When I run dselect to configure it, everything seems to be ok, but it doesn't do anything in Xwindows when I try to run it. Here's my question. Where is the install script that is supposed to come with netscape?

emacs and Read Net News problem

1998-06-16 Thread Jan Krupa
I have installed debian 1.3.1 and I would like to use emacs to read news groups but I have problem to configure (nntp, gnus, sendmail, ?). I have put the following in my .emacs file: setenv NNTPSERVER=news.icm.edu.pl (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.icm.edu.pl")) and also in file /etc/nnt

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