Re: Audio

1998-09-17 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Helge Hafting wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/14/98 >at 04:56 PM, " Raymond A. Ingles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] > > Unfortunately, the PC ISA DMA controller can't address memory beyond the > >first 16MB. So, when a DMA buffer is requested, the kernel has to

re: netscape 4 mail reader

1998-09-17 Thread dsb3
On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote: >Shaleh wrote: >> >> 3) click the communicator menu and chose mailbox > >Thanks for your prompt replies, Shaleh. Unfortunately, I don't seem >to have any icons at all in the lower right hand corner nor any >communicator menu. I guess I chose the wrong pa

scsi hard drive

1998-09-17 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, I have just purchased a mylex(buslogic) ultra wide scsi adapter and am in the market for a 4.5 gig ultra wide scsi drive. Could some give me an opinion as to the most dependable, most reasonably priced, and exactly where to buy it. Thanks Alot Rick -- ---

Re: Debian and two more OS's

1998-09-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 07:09:43PM +0100, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 11:29:24PM +0200, Jan Krupa wrote: > > Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. > > Syncing disks. > > Re-read table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy. > > Reboot your system to ensure the part

Re: Bounce-queues with LPRng

1998-09-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 04:02:25PM +0300, Mika S. Marjamäki wrote: > Does anyone here have a filtered bounce queue for remote printer set up > with LPRng? I could never get it running here. Call me stupid but I just couldn't get it to work. I use lpr and messy shell scripts to achieve the same. /

Re: TCPIP stack needs work?

1998-09-17 Thread Tod Detre
I'm not really sure. I haven't seen it myself, but they claim that thier ping times (where quake2 ping times are 2 things put together. One the ping between the server and the client. Two it adds simething with the frames per second) get worse as the more clients join. This is understandable, but t

(forw) [q2servers] Re: Best option for performance

1998-09-17 Thread Tod Detre
Ok this is the best message I could find from the list I'm still searching for the one that said he'd done the linux/nt check, bu theres the message - Forwarded message from Rhomboid Goatcabin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Received: from arthur.INS.CWRU.Edu ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [129.22.8.215])

How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread Kent West
Okay; I give up on the documentation. Maybe someone on the list can help. I've got a minimal Debian 2.0 system up and running (base install from the floppies and that's it). I've run pppconfig and told it to create a connection named "bub". I haven't found any documentation that tells me how to us

(forw) [q2servers] Re: Best option for performance

1998-09-17 Thread Tod Detre
Here's what I must have been thinking of. I must have confused the qw/q2 tests. I'll forward again if I here of a pure linux/NT test. Thanks for putting up with my massive posts. - Forwarded message from "Carl E. Mankinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Received: from cornelius.INS.CWRU.Edu (

Re: TCPIP stack needs work?

1998-09-17 Thread A. M. Varon
On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Tod Detre wrote: > I'm not really sure. I haven't seen it myself, but they claim that their ping > times (where quake2 ping times are 2 things put together. One the ping between > the server and the client. Two it adds something with the frames per second) > get worse as the m

Re: into the breach^h^h^h^h^h ppp once more

1998-09-17 Thread john
shaul writes: > Adding \q before the password like (\qpassword) in > /etc/chatscripts/provider will stopped the password being displayed in > the log even if the debug is set. Or did I missed something ? It doesn't work with pap. If you put \q in front of the password in pap-secrets pppd will st

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread john
Kent West writes: > I've got a minimal Debian > 2.0 system up and running (base install from > the floppies and that's it). I've run pppconfig and told it to create a > connection named "bub". I haven't found any documentation that tells me > how to use this connection. 'pon bub' . This is a bug

Re: scsi hard drive

1998-09-17 Thread servis
*- Rick Knebel wrote about "scsi hard drive" | Hi, | I have just purchased a mylex(buslogic) ultra wide scsi adapter and am in | the market for a 4.5 gig ultra wide scsi drive. | | Could some give me an opinion as to the most dependable, most reasonably | priced, and exactly where to buy it. | I

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread Jack Kern
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 08:11:51PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Okay; I give up on the documentation. Maybe someone on the list can help. > > I've got a minimal Debian 2.0 system up and running (base install from the > floppies and that's it). I've run pppconfig and told it to create a > connection n

support for AGP

1998-09-17 Thread AJT60
Does Linux (or, more specifically, XFree86) support AGP video boards? The specific one in question is an ASUSTEK V3000 or something of the sort. Andrew Tarr "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate"

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread Kent West
At 11:34 PM 9/16/1998 -0300, you wrote: >On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 08:11:51PM -0500, Kent West wrote: >> Okay; I give up on the documentation. Maybe someone on the list can help. >> >> I've got a minimal Debian 2.0 system up and running (base install from the >> floppies and that's it). I've run ppp

Re: Q: Why Midhight Commander stopped working on text console?

1998-09-17 Thread Dave Thayer
I had a similar problem caused by having the line eval `resize` in my .bashrc . Apparantly it conflicted somehow whith the concurrent subshell process (whatever that is). Starting mc with the -u switch disables the concurrent subshell. I ended up just commenting out that line in my .bashrc. HTH

netscape & mail

1998-09-17 Thread Tod Detre
Ok I don't want to use netscape's mail program. Is there anyway to tell it to launch mutt/pine when you click on a mail-to link? -- Tod Detre |"If the women don't find you handsome, they should at | least find you handy." -Red Green |"It is TOD not TODD! Do you see God spell

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread Kent West
At 09:22 PM 9/16/1998 -0500, you wrote: >Kent West writes: >> I've got a minimal Debian > 2.0 system up and running (base install from >> the floppies and that's it). I've run pppconfig and told it to create a >> connection named "bub". I haven't found any documentation that tells me >> how to use

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread Jack Kern
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 10:13:35PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > At 11:34 PM 9/16/1998 -0300, you wrote: > >On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 08:11:51PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > >> Okay; I give up on the documentation. Maybe someone on the list can help. [...] > >> "provider" files aren't properly configured -

(forw) [q2servers] Re: Best option for performance

1998-09-17 Thread John Larkin
[snip everything] In the first test, I noticed they were using intel etherexpress pro cards. I don't mean to start a verbal holy war, or say anything about the cards themselves, but I've heard from many people that the linux driver support for these cards is (much) less than optimal. My recomend

Re: support for AGP

1998-09-17 Thread LUK ShunTim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does Linux (or, more specifically, XFree86) support AGP video boards? The > specific one in question is an ASUSTEK V3000 or something of the sort. > > Andrew Tarr > I don't know about V3000 but I have an Asustek V264GT AGP video card and it is using the ATI Rage 3D

Re: GTKICQ

1998-09-17 Thread Brian Almeida
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 06:56:11AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't understand how much of these configuration things are supposed > to work, but I got the impression that it didn't configure itself properly for > our debian system and is still for the authors? redhat system. So I

Re: are there (X)emacs20-no-mule debian packages

1998-09-17 Thread Richard Hoskins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ole J. Tetlie) writes: > *-Richard Hoskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | > | The 20.3 Mule is better behaved than the 20.2 Mule. You might want to > | consider using it. > | > | AFAIK, there is no Emacs 20.3 Debian package yet. > > Perhaps someone should make a emacs20-mbsk. Erik N

Netscape Downloads

1998-09-17 Thread Default Debian Reader
Does anyone else ever have trouble when trying to download files from hyperlinks in netscape? When i click the link and the download window pops up and then once the file is dloaded i look in my dir and it has saved a file named something_different_that_what_i_dloaded??. Has anyone see

Re: Netscape Downloads

1998-09-17 Thread Matt Garman
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 12:24:08AM -0500, Default Debian Reader wrote: > Does anyone else ever have trouble when trying to download files from > hyperlinks in netscape? When i click the link and the download window > pops up and then once the file is dloaded i look in my dir and it has > saved a f

/var/adm/messages

1998-09-17 Thread Default Debian Reader
I am used to Solaris boxes that log things like failed su attempts to /var/adm/messages and other console things like that...What is the equivalent file in debian? Also i use icewm for a window manager, is there a console that i can see these messages on before they get logged to /var/adm/messages

Re: /var/adm/messages

1998-09-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998 00:31:24 -0500 (CDT), Default Debian Reader wrote: >What is the equivalent file in debian? Also i use icewm for a window manager, /var/log/messages? -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main

Re: Suck and INN

1998-09-17 Thread Azog
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Thomas Behrndt wrote: > > So it seems that INN is just rejecting the posts for some reason. Any ideas? > Your host doesn't have permission to post news articles. You need to give > access for posting in /etc/nnrp.access. Add a line like: > hostname:Read Post:::* > at th

Re: WMAKER...Quick how do you make icons.....

1998-09-17 Thread justin honold
open an application you want to iconify from an xterm double-click on the nextstep icon (the yin-yang looking icon that is first on the dock) click 'grab' and then click on the targetted app click 'create icon' drag the newly created icon to the dock hold the right mouse button over the newly

Re: ssl-telnet vs ssh

1998-09-17 Thread jdassen
SSL-telnet: + free - not employed in many places - authentication is host-based only - only remote shell (there's SSL-ftp(d), but they're not packaged) +- supports unencrypted connections by default (if you want all connections to use encryption, add "-z secure" to the telnetd line in /et

Hard mpeg?

1998-09-17 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
Hello! Is there a way to make videocard with hardware mpeg decoding work under Linux? -- Alexey Vyskubov

NEW: XF86Config CREATION FAILURE

1998-09-17 Thread BOB'S MAIL
I have installed Debian 2. four times this evening. I am trying to install the Office version, [not 'home' or 'development' selections] when I answered correctly the cryptic prompt asking how I want to select the packages to install on the CD. After the Install of dselect, it goes to configure an

Re: ssl-telnet vs ssh

1998-09-17 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Thanks for your comments! about ssltelnet > - authentication is host-based only I think users can also use certificates... regards, Ulisses Oracle and Informix will be ported to Linux!! http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/di

smail and domains

1998-09-17 Thread Max
For some reason, I can't convince smail to expand hostnames to contain the complete host and domain name. For example, I want to send mail to a user on leland.stanford.edu from my Debian box which is also in the stanford.edu domain. I should be able to mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it should go thro

new dosemu

1998-09-17 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Does anyone have an idea on when will the next version of dosemu (0.98.1) be debianized? Thanks. -- Luiz Otavio L. ZorzellaComputer Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

fwd NetBIOS

1998-09-17 Thread Ben Jorgensen
How do I get NetBIOS through my router? I know it's not routable but needs a bridge. Some tunneling mechanism? What package/software do I need to get? //ben -- http://surf.to/anTiX

Re: SVGALib, Xpert@Play and sQuake/Quake II

1998-09-17 Thread Chris Whitworth
I forgot to mention that I'm a little new to this Linux admin business (as in running my own box; I've been using other ppls for ages) >I don't suppose "ldconfig" (as root) helps? You are runnning the programs >as root aren't you - they need direct access to the video card (OTOH plain >vga pro

Remote mail broken - what is wrong?

1998-09-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
Local mail works OK but I can't either send or receive mail remotely in debian (this is sent from redhat). The logfile says: 09/17/1998 07:46:51: remote punt-21.mail.demon.net[194.217.242.6]: '<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> recipient for sender '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' not matched: (ERR_104

Re: changed hostname, hosed smail

1998-09-17 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 01:21:42PM -0400, Jim Foltz wrote: > I changed my hostname recently but forgot to change my smail config file > before using fetchmail to get my email from a pop3 server. Use formail (in the procmail package) this way: cat | formail -b -f -s /usr/sbin/sendmail if all sho

Re: Suck and INN

1998-09-17 Thread Thomas Behrndt
> I got that fixed, but it now marks all the newsgroups Suck tries to post > (to) as unwanted. In the daily news report, it listed all the articles as > unwanted... so how do I make them 'wanted' and get Suck to work? ideas? Do you have the groups defined as active? To do this, use: ctlinnd newgro

Kernel questions

1998-09-17 Thread Remo Badii
Dear Debs, I have just succeeded in compiling a new kernel using make menuconfig make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image dpkg -i ../kernel-image... and I have a couple of questions, just to understand things better: in /boot, I have vmlinuz-2.0.34 and no ``old'' vmlinuz has been saved; I had

Re: being dropped from the list

1998-09-17 Thread Hanno Wagner \(Debian-Listmaster-Mails\)
Hi, On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 09:37:04PM -, Darren Benham wrote (sorry for that account, but it's the one where my listmaster-mails are coming to me) On 16-Sep-98 Ralph Winslow wrote: > It seems that everytime my ISP has the slightest interrruption of > e-mail service, I get unsubscribed to t

Re: fwd NetBIOS

1998-09-17 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 10:23:16AM +0200, Ben Jorgensen wrote: > How do I get NetBIOS through my router? I know it's not routable but needs a > bridge. Some tunneling mechanism? What > package/software do I need to get? You don't want to route NetBIOS. It's an API, not a transport protocool. It c

How to access SCSI-tape and "Aiee: scheduling in interrupt 00125dd9"

1998-09-17 Thread Karsten Bolding
As the subject says I have two problems. 1: I have Linux running on a ACER, with and Advansys SCSI card installed. Now I want to connect a tape station and get access to it - how do I do it?.  This I get when I boot: Sep 16 14:00:38 beluga kernel: Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! Sep 1

Re: ATI Xpert-98 8MB video card

1998-09-17 Thread Lars Steinke
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: > dear all, > > anyone know if this is supported, and if so do I use the SVGA > server, a SUSE one, or something else? Of course I cannot garantuee that card to work, but as it features the RagePro chipset with builtin RAMDAC just like the [EMAIL PRO

Re: anonymous ftp

1998-09-17 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Eric Jensen wrote: > Ya, I can't get the uid/gid to work either. I too copied over group. > However, I can't find what they're talking about in the manpage for > in.ftpd in regards to the password database. What is pw_mkdb and where > can I find it? That's exactly what I wa

Emacs and ispell

1998-09-17 Thread Johann Spies
I have built a custom afrikaans dictionary with ispell. When I try to use it with emacs20, emacs wouldn't allow me. I could do it with emacs19.34 on Debian 1.3.1. When I try 'update-ispell-dicionary' it does not "see" all the dictionaries in my /usr/lib/ispell eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED](25)$ update-

ftape

1998-09-17 Thread Johann Spies
I have tried out ftape from the ftape archives without very much success on an Iomega Ditto 2Gb. Now I have removed that ftape from my system and want to see how the ftape that comes with Debian 2.0 works. I know it comes from the same source, but I have trouble configuring debian's version. Wha

Re: being dropped from the list

1998-09-17 Thread Ted Harding
On 17-Sep-98 Hanno Wagner \(Debian-Listmaster-Mails\) wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 09:37:04PM -, Darren Benham wrote > On 16-Sep-98 Ralph Winslow wrote: > >> It seems that everytime my ISP has the slightest interrruption of >> e-mail service, I get unsubscribed to this list. Might it be

COBOL for linux

1998-09-17 Thread K.Y.Lo
Hi Does anyone know where is COBOL for the Linux? thanks alot -- Cheers K.Y.Lo Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[slightly OFF TOPIC] digital audio in linux?

1998-09-17 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi, Suppose I want to do the following: 1) record music with my audio DAT-recorder 2) transfer it _digitally_ to the hard disk of a debian box 3) burn audio CD's of it I know how to do 1) and 3). Does anyone know what hardware/software combo would enable me to perform step 2)? Eric -- E.L.

netscape4 mail reader

1998-09-17 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Are you using the netscape communicator or the navigator package? Starting with version 4 the navigator package does NOT include the mail reader, ONLY the browser. The communicator package includes the browser, mail reader (icon is a little envelope at the lower right of screen), and a composer (

How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread Kenneth Scharf
1: the documentation for ppp is in the man pages, which you probably have not installed? 2: the correct way to start ppp is 'pon connect-name' where connect-name is the name of the service you gave when you ran pppconfig. 3. I seem to have a similar problem. The mystery became clear when I start

Re: Q: Why Midhight Commander stopped working on text console?

1998-09-17 Thread Oleksiy \(alex\) Bolgarov
Dave Thayer wrote: > > I had a similar problem caused by having the line > > eval `resize` > > in my .bashrc . Apparantly it conflicted somehow whith the concurrent > subshell process (whatever that is). Starting mc with the -u switch > disables the concurrent subshell. I ended up just commentin

Re: COBOL for linux

1998-09-17 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 12:06:14PM +0100, K.Y.Lo wrote: > Hi > > Does anyone know where is COBOL for the Linux? I searched through Debian package lists nothing even mentions COBOL. I personally doubt that sucha beast exists. Ive never actually heard of anyone who actually LIKES COBOL. If t

Boot Problem

1998-09-17 Thread Michael Vanecek
Well, I loaded Debian from floppy. However, while it boots from the boot floppy fine, when I try to boot from the hd, it doesn't appear to load anything, and stops at a 1FA: prompt (to which nothing can be typed). Also, do I have to load the drivers for the serial ports, or is that automatically

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread Kent West
At 05:34 AM 9/17/1998 -0700, you wrote: >1: the documentation for ppp is in the man pages, which you probably >have not installed? Correct; I don't yet have the man pages installed. >2: the correct way to start ppp is 'pon connect-name' where >connect-name is the name of the service you gave when

LPRng and banners...

1998-09-17 Thread Juha Ylitalo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I am trying to setup Linux printer spooler for our UNIX machines with latest stable debian and its LPRng and CTI-ifhp filters, all taken from debian packages (except 2.0.35 kernel, which I compiled myself to get automounter work). Basic printing appears to be wo

RE: Star Office 5/4 in english?

1998-09-17 Thread harsh
I got ver 4 from the german site about a week ago ftp://ftp.stardivision.de/pub/so4/linux/sp3/01 Good Luck Jim On 16-Sep-98 Mrpeabody wrote: > Can you get star office 5 in english? I used to have star office 4 in > english but it seems all that it is no longer available now that star > office 5

What DSELECT does?

1998-09-17 Thread Blazej Sawionek
I installed hamm via ftp. Now I needed to add one package. I added it in dselect and to my horror it downloaded some 20 packages, among them different Xservers. Said that now the default is a different Xserver than I in fact had as default, then it did byte-compling for different packages and so on

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread Kent West
I've just discovered the chat command (I'm a newbie). I can echo a command from the prompt to the modem, but when I try "chat "" ATZ OK ATDT(phonenum)" the system sits for a while displaying "ATZ" and then just returns me to the prompt. As mentioned below, apparently the echo command from the promp

Re: Bounce-queues with LPRng

1998-09-17 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 04:02:25PM +0300, Mika S. Marjamäki wrote: > Hi! > > Does anyone here have a filtered bounce queue for remote printer set up > with LPRng? > > I have my HP LaserJet 5L connected to my "home-server", and want to print > to it from my workstation using magicfilter through LA

Re: Apache mod_ssl

1998-09-17 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 05:32:49PM +0100, Oliver Thuns wrote: > >> No but there is apache-ssl, wich is also a debian package (in hamm), find > >> it at www.debian.org -> packages -> search I think it's in the non-US > >> section > > > >Does anyone know why it's such an old version of Apache? >

NIS & Shadow problem

1998-09-17 Thread Clemens Heuberger
I' m using a NIS and Shadow. Sometimes, I cannot login to the Client, and the syslog shows login[1860]: no shadow password for `cheub' on `ttyp7' from `thue' Sep 17 login[1860]: invalid password for `cheub' on `ttyp7' from `thue' If I issue a yppasswd (which is possible since I am logged in

Re: debian 2.0 install

1998-09-17 Thread Michael Below
Hi, Nathan wrote: >I don't believe Linux SMP code supports dual 486 processors (due to the >lack of standards for such machines). Pentium and above >multi-processor systems are supported. According to the Parallel Processing HOWTO, parallel processing is supported on 486DX, but not on 486SX.

Re: Boot Problem

1998-09-17 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> Well, I loaded Debian from floppy. However, while it boots from the boot > floppy fine, when I try to boot from the hd, it doesn't appear to load > anything, and stops at a 1FA: prompt (to which nothing can be typed). Hm, to me it sounds like a problem with lilo. What does it say, if you execute

Configuration files?

1998-09-17 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
There seem to be two independent system.fvwm95rc on my freshly installed Debian 2.0 system: sos:~> ls -i /etc/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm95rc 14384 /etc/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm95rc sos:~> ls -i /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm95rc 149639 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm95rc sos:~> ls -l /

Re: COBOL for linux

1998-09-17 Thread Curt Daugaard
Look here: http://www.ssc.com/lj/issue13/np13b.html HTH, Curt On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 12:06:14PM +0100, K.Y.Lo wrote: > Hi > > Does anyone know where is COBOL for the Linux? > > thanks alot > -- > Cheers > > K.Y.Lo > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe

About realplayer

1998-09-17 Thread Mario Filipe
HI I installed rvplayer on my machine (slink updated this morning) but everytime i try to run welcome.rm (provided with realplayer package) it tell's me this: File compression not supported. Cannot locate the requested RealAudio decoder. For more information, please see Error 38 at: http

Re: are there (X)emacs20-no-mule debian packages

1998-09-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Richard Hoskins wrote: > AFAIK, there is no Emacs 20.3 Debian package yet. It's in slink. $ dpkg -s emacs20 Package: emacs20 [...] Version: 20.3-1 [...]

Re: Boot Problem

1998-09-17 Thread Michael Vanecek
Viola! Success. That was rather strange. After booting with the floppy, I went and executed lilo like you said (actually I went to bin rather than sbin, but it worked anyway), rebooted sans floppy, and it booted without hesitation. What did I miss? At the end of the install, where you were given a

Please Help me figure out this PPP -> NT RAS thing?

1998-09-17 Thread Mohan Kannapareddy
Greeting Folks, I have fresh Debian 2.0 installed with the ppp-2.35 package. I am desperately trying for the last two days to get my linux box dial up to our NT RAS server which has the domain\\username type setup. I have the "/etc/ppp/chap-secrets" file se

Re: LPRng and banners...

1998-09-17 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 03:56:07PM +0300, Juha Ylitalo wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > I am trying to setup Linux printer spooler for our UNIX machines with > latest stable debian and its LPRng and CTI-ifhp filters, all taken from > debian packages (except 2.0.35 kernel, which I co

Reading mail with Web-Browser?

1998-09-17 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, is there a Debian tool that provides http/html access to mail? (something like a "hotmail" service?). Yes, I know that netscape can fetch mails by pop and imap; I am looking for some utility that produces native http/html (maybe by fetching the mails itself with pop or imap). Thanks, Thomas

Re: Please Help me figure out this PPP -> NT RAS thing?

1998-09-17 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Mohan: I don't know if this is going to work but you can try it. In your /etc/ppp/options file put a line as follows: # Set the assumed name of the remote system for authentication purposes # to . #remotename name login-name That is the name to send to login. In your /etc/ppp/pap-secret

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-17 Thread Tim Thomas
> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 15:04:31 +0100 (WEST) > Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Organization: Universidade de Evora > From: Mario Filipe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To:debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: About realplayer > HI > > I installed rvplayer on my m

Re: ftape

1998-09-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
Johann, The version of ftape in the 2.0.x kernels is much older than that on the ftape archives. 3.04d is the first version to support the Ditto 2GB drive, but I understand there are still problems. The latest is 4.02. As Claus-Justus says on his web page: If you intend to use Iomega's Di

Kernel(-package) mysteries

1998-09-17 Thread Remo Badii
Dear Debs, this is my second list of questions about kernel compilation and modules mysteries. I apologize for repeating part of the content of the previous message, but I prefer to leave it for clarity. I have just succeeded in compiling a new kernel using make menuconfig make-kpkg --revision=cus

Network tracing software

1998-09-17 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, Are there any network tracing packages available for Debian? What I'm looking for is something that will keep track of network activity and keep a log of what connections are being made to my system (as well as where my systems are calling out to). I have a ISDN router that was activating

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 08:19:08AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I've just discovered the chat command (I'm a newbie). I can echo a command > from the prompt to the modem, but when I try "chat "" ATZ OK > ATDT(phonenum)" the system sits for a while displaying "ATZ" and then just > returns me to the pro

Re: Kernel(-package) mysteries

1998-09-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Remo Badii wrote: : Dear Debs, : this is my second list of questions about kernel compilation and modules : mysteries. I apologize for repeating part of the content of the previous : message, but I prefer to leave it for clarity. : : I have just succeeded in compiling a

control and mail on debian 2.0

1998-09-17 Thread Brian Schramm
I have a debian machine that is a firewall for my network. I would like to remove the monitor and keyboard on the machine so I need a way to control it by a secure shell from my internal network. Is there any way to do this? I looked for ssh and did not find it. Is it hidden in a package that I

Re: /var/adm/messages

1998-09-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Default Debian Reader wrote: : I am used to Solaris boxes that log things like failed su attempts to : /var/adm/messages and other console things like that...What is the : equivalent file in debian? Also i use icewm for a window manager, is : there a console that i can se

Avi,MPEG Textmode viewers

1998-09-17 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Hi, Please does anyone know of a package which I can use to view avi's, mpegs etc in textmode (svgalib). Regards -- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield,

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-17 Thread John Larkin
> > I installed rvplayer on my machine (slink updated this morning) > > but everytime i try to run welcome.rm (provided with realplayer > > package) it tell's me this: File compression not supported. Cannot > > locate the requested RealAudio decoder. For more information, > > please see Error 38 a

ppp problems

1998-09-17 Thread Matt Porter
I've got two problems with ppp that have been ongoing for a while. My system started at Debian 1.3 and has been upgraded through the whole unstable hamm process to a stable 2.0 system and is currently up to date as of about a week ago. I just started to have the need to use the ip-up scripting ab

Re: control and mail on debian 2.0

1998-09-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Brian Schramm wrote: : I have a debian machine that is a firewall for my network. I would : like to remove the monitor and keyboard on the machine so I need a way : to control it by a secure shell from my internal network. Is there : any way to do this? I looked for ssh

Re: Boot Problem

1998-09-17 Thread Michael Vanecek
I think my ppp crapped out on me while I was sending my last email. Here it is again:--- Begin Message --- Viola! Success. That was rather strange. After booting with the floppy, I went and executed lilo like you said (actually I went to bin rather than sbin, but it worked anyway), rebooted sans fl

Avi,MPEG Textmode viewers

1998-09-17 Thread Kent West
I believe this was sent to me by mistake without making it to the list, so I'm forwarding it on to the list. At 04:19 PM 9/17/1998 +0100, you wrote: >Hi, > Please does anyone know of a package which I can use to view avi's, mpegs >etc in textmode (svgalib). > > Regards >-- >Jonathan L

Using MySQL as user database

1998-09-17 Thread Alexander List
Hi! I am thinking about using mysql for administering my user database, as it will probably be quite large (expected round 1 users). I thought about the following ways to do this: 1) using normal passwd/shadow files, dumped regularly from mysql I encountered the following difficulties

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-17 Thread Jim McCloskey
Mario Filipe wrote: |> I installed rvplayer on my machine (slink updated this morning) |> but everytime i try to run welcome.rm (provided with realplayer |> package) it tell's me this: |> |> File compression not supported. Cannot locate the requested |> RealAudio decoder. |> |>

X DSelect

1998-09-17 Thread Dan Hrabarchuk
Is there a DSelect type program for X? If not how can I get started on a GTK DSelect?

Re: Using MySQL as user database

1998-09-17 Thread Eric Calvert
With that many users, wouldn't it be best to just authenticate everything directly from the database? You've probably on got a handful of things that people need to be authenticated for way... dialup incoming/outgoing mail ftp Then, only those who really NEED shell access need be in

Re: X DSelect

1998-09-17 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Dan Hrabarchuk wrote: > Is there a DSelect type program for X? If not how can I get started on a GTK > DSelect? > I think debian-devel is the appripriate place for this. HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College

Re: Using MySQL as user database

1998-09-17 Thread Brian
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Alexander List wrote: > Hi! > > I am thinking about using mysql for administering my user database, as it > will probably be quite large (expected round 1 users). We do this now using PostgreSQL > > I thought about the following ways to do this: > > 1) using normal pa

Re: ppp problems

1998-09-17 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 08:21:53AM -0700, Matt Porter wrote: > I've got two problems with ppp that have been ongoing for a while. My > system started at Debian 1.3 and has been upgraded through the whole > unstable hamm process to a stable 2.0 system and is currently up to date > as of about a we

Re: X DSelect

1998-09-17 Thread servis
*- Dan Hrabarchuk wrote about "X DSelect" | Is there a DSelect type program for X? If not how can I get started on a GTK | DSelect? | Check out http://www.debian.org/~jgg/deity/ I am sure they would love your help. You should also ask on the debian-devel list. There is a deity-digest list tha

ftape

1998-09-17 Thread Kenneth Scharf
The latest ftape package (I'm not sure but I think the debian ftape package NOT THE DRIVER IN THE KERNEL supports the ditto 2g drive.) DO NOT ENABLE FTAPE IN THE KERNEL CONFIG AND TRY TO BUILD IT IN. ENABLE IT AS A MODULE BUT DON'T BUILD THE KERNEL MODULE. USE THE FTAPE PACKAGE. I read the sour

Access to floppy

1998-09-17 Thread Brian Schramm
I have autofs running and would like to use it to access the floppy and cdrom on my computer. I can see both from a user account but I do not have write access to the floppy from any other account exept root. I have set the group access on the /dev/fd0 to floppy group and the users that I want to

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