Problems installing Debian (2)

1998-10-12 Thread Alexander Bugeja
Just to clarify my previous post, I'm installing on a desktop not laptop, and in any case i tried the tecra rescue disk, also without any luck. I've been going through this list's mail archives and it seems other people managed to clear up problems similar to mine using those disks, but not me

Re: Problems installing Debian

1998-10-12 Thread Michael B. Taylor
I have never seen this particular behavior before. However, strange problems during installation from floppys is often attributable to corupt floppys. The rawwrite or dd process usually used to make installation floppys from downloaded images does not tolerate bad media very well. I suggest rem

Re: Problems installing Debian

1998-10-12 Thread Alexander Bugeja
Thanks for your reply. However I tried 3 different floppies, all without success - none of them has bad sectors either. I really don't think this is a floppy problem. Alex. > I have never seen this particular behavior before. However, strange > problems during installation from floppys is ofte

Solved [I'm an idiot] Re: compiling mod_perl

1998-10-12 Thread Christopher Fury
DOH! I needed to install the libgdbm-dev package. Stupid, stupid, stupid... Christopher Fury wrote: > > I'm trying to compile mod_perl and it doesn't seem to see my gdbm > library > in /usr/libs: [... blah blah ...] -- Christopher Fury Aerosoft, Inc ... a tale told by an idiot, full of sou

Printer Problems

1998-10-12 Thread lanceh
I try and print and get an error lp: Driver configured but no interfaces found What does this mean and what do I need to do to print? Thanks Lance

unattended ftp

1998-10-12 Thread Rahul Sood
Excuse if this is a FAQ, but how can I set up a shell script to ftp to a host and retrieve a file? -R. Sood [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: worse off with debian 2.0?

1998-10-12 Thread W. Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- No answers, but I have noticed problems with huge load averages when using suck with debian 2.0. Load averages 25 & up!! - -- /*** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten So

Re: network disconnect

1998-10-12 Thread W. Paul Mills
Sounds like an irq problem. > X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 11:14:17 -0700 (PDT) > From: Zheng Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > X-Mailing-List: archive

Dosemu problems

1998-10-12 Thread lanceh
I have read the HOWTO and followed the instructions. IN my /etc/dosemu.conf I have a line disk {partition "/dev/hda3"} and added a line lredir d: /linux/fs\dos in autoexec.bat both on my dos partition and in /usr/lib/dosemu/commands. When I go into dosemu and type d: I get a directory of ap

Re: Problems installing Debian

1998-10-12 Thread PJBarbera
Had this problem with the Solaris 2.6, I ended up playing with the memory timing settings, set them slower. Just an idea... Peter Barbera Michael B. Taylor wrote: > > I have never seen this particular behavior before. However, strange > problems during installation from floppys is often attri

Re: Setting size that windows start as

1998-10-12 Thread W. Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- emacs -geometry 80x35 or add to your .Xresources file -- *Emacs.geometry: 80x35 this eliminates having to type the argument every time you use emacs > > Dear debian people, > > When I launch emacs in X, it comes up just a little too big for my > scree

kernel manpages?

1998-10-12 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everyone, does anyone know where the kernel manpages are. they are the ninth section. debian only supports the following: This package contains the Linux man pages for these sections: * 4 = Devices (e.g. hd, sd). * 5 = File formats and protocols, syntaxis of several system files (e.

Hello, problems with installing

1998-10-12 Thread Craig M. Kimmer
Hello, I am having problems installing the kernel images and source from the CD-ROM. The reason that I want this section, is due to the fact that the present kernal from the intial install does NOT recongnize the CD-ROM drive, thus I can not add or upgrade any of the packages that reside

Hello, problems with installing

1998-10-12 Thread Craig M. Kimmer
Hello, I am having problems installing the kernel images and source from the CD-ROM. The reason that I want this section, is due to the fact that the present kernal from the intial install does NOT recongnize the CD-ROM drive, thus I can not add or upgrade any of the packages that resid

Newbie: Excess Idle Time

1998-10-12 Thread zhaoway
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 10:20:50AM +0800, root wrote: > Logged off - excess idle time - zhaoway Mon Oct 12 10:20:50 1998 > > tty = tty2 Please, what's the problem? How to avoid this? Why I'm forced to log off when I'm just reading? Please, please help! zhaoway, confused newbie

Re: help(newbie): emacs20 install

1998-10-12 Thread zhaoway
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 02:06:35PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > MCV> I think the problem is partly that you're trying to > > MCV> install emacs19 and emacs20: this will make things unhappy. > > MCV> Purge one or the other. Installing the emacs20-el package > > MCV> should created those

Re: ***HUGE*** security hole??!! (Re: Lost root passwd)

1998-10-12 Thread Helge Hafting
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/10/98 at 01:13 PM, Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >But people can always yank the power cord. Follow Paul's advice -- make >the machine physically in-accessible. Lock it, fence it in, whatever. >Locking racks is also nice. That way people can't even see the

Re: Newbie: Excess Idle Time

1998-10-12 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please, what's the problem? How to avoid this? > Why I'm forced to log off when I'm just reading? > Please, please help! This is not a problem it is a configureable behaviour. Did you install idled? this would cause idle users to be logged off. if yo

WP 7.0 on Db 2.0

1998-10-12 Thread Bostjan JERKO
Hello ! Thank all who responded to my mail about missing libraries for WP 7.0. I have different problem now. At the end of installation of WP 7.0 I get message "Segmentation fault Idir/$SHBIN/$DSTEXC -f " (I don't remember the rest). After installation I tried to start the program anyway

Re: ***HUGE*** security hole??!! (Re: Lost root passwd)

1998-10-12 Thread Helge Hafting
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/11/98 at 01:15 AM, Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] >However, I said that the power chord should be removed. the reason is >that I think you can get the monitor screen, user input etc from >radiation led through the power chord. This may be hard

localhost and missing DNS

1998-10-12 Thread Remo Badii
Dear Debs, I rarely use Netscape (4.06) on my Notebook, except when connected to my institute's net via an ethernet card. I tried to run dhelp while at home (i.e., standalone machine) and got the error: localhost does not have a valid DNS entry (or similar). This is certainly an easy thing to fix.

Re: Cannot run any executables under Debian2.0 - Help(newbie)

1998-10-12 Thread Helge Hafting
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/09/98 at 07:48 PM, rathon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Hi, >let me explain this as best as I can - >Problem: >-- >I had installed Yggdrasil Linux long time ago and everything on that >setup worked ok. >Recently, I upgraded to Debian2.0 and none of my execu

Re: Newbie: Excess Idle Time

1998-10-12 Thread M.C. Vernon
> > Logged off - excess idle time - zhaoway Mon Oct 12 10:20:50 1998 > > > > tty = tty2 > > Please, what's the problem? How to avoid this? > Why I'm forced to log off when I'm just reading? > Please, please help! There are various packages that log off idle sessions. YOu probably have one insta

Re: Issues in switching to Debian

1998-10-12 Thread Helge Hafting
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/09/98 at 01:16 PM, " Raymond A. Ingles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] > No, a boot-sector virus essentially runs under the BIOS. This *can* >infect a Linux machine but I find it difficult to believe that Linux >would still boot in such a circumstance. A boot vi

Re: Oracle

1998-10-12 Thread Helge Hafting
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/09/98 at 11:27 AM, Jeff Noxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] >I wish decisions were made on technical merit alone, but this is the real >world. For that reason, it would be nice if Debian had a marketing >interface to corporations like Sybase, Oracle, etc. And

Re: Oracle

1998-10-12 Thread Helge Hafting
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/09/98 at 04:36 PM, Martin Oldfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> "Alex" == Alex Yukhimets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Alex> Debian is not a company to "sign up with". You can use >Alex> Oracle on Debian with no problems whatsoever. It is even >Ale

Re: Do I have a win-sound card?

1998-10-12 Thread Oleg E.Krivosheev
Hi, Paul On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Paul Rightley wrote: > I just bought a new machine (at work) and it came with both video and > sound on the motherboard. If it's SiS 5578, then you can check out SuSe X server - www.suse.com > I tried (briefly) to get XFree to work with > the on-board video contr

Re: unattended ftp

1998-10-12 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Rahul Sood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Excuse if this is a FAQ, but how can I set up a shell script to ftp to a | host and retrieve a file? If you install ncftp, you get a program called ncftpget that can be used to get files non-interactively (eg in a script). -- ...Unix, MS-DOS, and MS Windows (

Re: Sound Card

1998-10-12 Thread Helge Hafting
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/10/98 at 09:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >. >> >>some generic modules could be included in the installation section, but >>the module code would have to be adjusted so that io/irq info can be >>passed as parameters. >> >I must be totally missing something. I use

Re: Diamond Stealth 220 and (no) X

1998-10-12 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > I got the Permedia2 server from there and I found that I had to > link the 'X' file to the XFCom_3DLabs file myself before it would > work for me. You should not do this, since it destroys the debian X11 setup. In debian X is a suid wrapper program, not a link. To understand how this works

Re: unattended ftp

1998-10-12 Thread A. M. Varon
On 12 Oct 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > *-Rahul Sood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Excuse if this is a FAQ, but how can I set up a shell script to ftp to a > host and retrieve a file? wget. no shell script necessary to get a file. Handles anonymous and password protected FTP sites. regards, == ===

Python

1998-10-12 Thread Ruud de Bruin
I am trying to install some packages from the slink arcive with apt-get. I receive an error message that python-examples is dependent on python-base. But after installing python-base from slink, the message remains. Installing python-base from stable gives me a more error messages. How can I solve

ncurses segmentation fault

1998-10-12 Thread Ingo Brueckl
Package: ncurses3.4 Version: 1.9.9g-8.8 The following program, compiled with egcs 1.0.3, causes a segmentation fault at the mvwinch statement: #include int main () { WINDOW *win; initscr(); refresh(); win = newwin(0, 0, 10, 10); getch(); chtype r = mvwinch(win, 1, 1); getch(); en

vnc x-windows server looking for "xauth"

1998-10-12 Thread David Karlin
Hello, I just installed the vnc x-windows server (.deb) and when I fire up vncserver, it says: vncserver: couldn't find "xauth" on your PATH. First I checked my hard-drive for "xauth" (find / -name "xauth"); the file does not exist on my drive. Then I checked in packages.gz (from hamm), and co

xserver for Matrox Productiva?

1998-10-12 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi, my new PC has a Matrox Productiva AGP graphics card, and I'm installing Debian on it. There doesn't seem to be a xserver in hamm or slink by now -- or is anybody running X-win on such a beast? I know that SuSe has developped a special server for the Productiva, but how to install this one in

How to post with slrnpull and GNUS?

1998-10-12 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi, I get my news with slrnpull and read it with xemacs/GNUS, but don't know how to post articles _offline_ with such a combination. When I write an article and send it, xemacs says that all's okay, but the article disappears without leaving a trace in the file system. However, sending news online

Re: xserver for Matrox Productiva?

1998-10-12 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hi, > > my new PC has a Matrox Productiva AGP graphics card, and I'm > installing Debian on it. There doesn't seem to be a xserver in hamm or > slink by now -- or is anybody running X-win on such a beast? > > I know that SuSe has developped a special server for the Productiva, > but how to i

CD ROM BURNER

1998-10-12 Thread Kenneth Scharf
CompUSA has an Acer 2x6 CD-RW drive on sale for $199.99 after mail in rebate. If you buy this drive you can get an Acer 40X cd rom reader for FREE (after mail in rebate). Is there any possibility that this drive (probably ide, model number not given) supported by Linux?

using apt with kde pkgs?

1998-10-12 Thread Vincent Murphy
does anybody have a line for /etc/apt/sources.list which allows one to download the hamm kde packages from ftp.kde.org or one of its mirrors? regards, vinny

***HUGE*** security hole??!! (Re: Lost root passwd)

1998-10-12 Thread Kenneth Scharf
This is a security hole ONLY if someone has access to the machine itself. I bet many UNIX machines have a similar problem. Thats why I've seen PDP mini computers where the power switch was under lock and key, and the front panel on these machines was also lockable. Most PC's used to have a keybo

ls-120 drives

1998-10-12 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Anyboy had any success installing an ls-120 drive into a debian system? --- YES I have an ls-120. Compile 'ide floppy support' into your kernel. My LS120 is the slave on the second IDE interface, so it is /dev/hdc. I can boot from the LS120 (my

Re: ncurses segmentation fault

1998-10-12 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Ingo Brueckl wrote: > Package: ncurses3.4 > Version: 1.9.9g-8.8 > > The following program, compiled with egcs 1.0.3, causes a segmentation > fault at the mvwinch statement: > > #include > int main () > { > WINDOW *win; > initscr(); > refresh(); > win = newwin(0, 0,

Re: ***HUGE*** security hole??!! (Re: Lost root passwd)

1998-10-12 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998 05:21:25 -0700 (PDT), Kenneth Scharf wrote: >This is a security hole ONLY if someone has access to the machine >itself. This is not exactly uncommon, especially in computer labs. >>What's wrong with giving LILO a kernel command line of "init=/bin/sh"? >This way >>you boot st

Re: unattended ftp

1998-10-12 Thread David S. Zelinsky
Rahul Sood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Excuse if this is a FAQ, but how can I set up a shell script to ftp to a > host and retrieve a file? Some have suggested using ncftp or wget to do this. That may be the best way to go. However, it is also possible to do it with plain-old ftp. You have t

Re: ncurses segmentation fault

1998-10-12 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting M.C. Vernon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Do you not need to include stdio.h for getch? man getch. It's an ncurses function, not a std library function. Mike Stone

Reading rtf

1998-10-12 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
I have unfortunately come into possession of some files in the rtf format. Is there any way to read these on Linux, or even better, is there a cleaner to just extract the text? -- A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee to theorems (Martin

Re: network disconnect

1998-10-12 Thread Zheng Wang
Thanks Paul, Could you give me some clue to solve it? Thanks again. Zheng Wang, Ph. D Department of Statistics and Applied Probability University of California, Santa Barbara E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://www.pstat.ucsb.edu/~zwang On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, W. Paul Mills wrote: > > Sounds lik

Re: Cannot run any executables under Debian2.0 - Help(newbie)

1998-10-12 Thread tko
Helge Hafting writes: [snip] > Note that your PATH does not contain the current directory (.) This is > default for Debian, and is considered a security feature. I believe you > can run standard executables like "ls" and such? > > To run the a.out file, use "./a.out" instead of only "a.out" > The

look up process

1998-10-12 Thread tko
I was having trouble with diald bringing up the line. A dump of the /var/log/ppp.log showed something connecting to local (127.0.0.1) and sending a DNS request (port 53 on destination IP). Is there a way to query a connection to find out which process is doing the connection? I'd sure like to know

Re: ncurses segmentation fault

1998-10-12 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Ingo Brueckl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: ncurses3.4 > Version: 1.9.9g-8.8 > > The following program, compiled with egcs 1.0.3, causes a segmentation > fault at the mvwinch statement: Looks like an ncurses bug. Works fine with the libncurses4-dev package from slink. Mike Stone

Unidentified subject!

1998-10-12 Thread Bostjan JERKO
>> Hello ! >> >> Thank all who responded to my mail about missing libraries for WP 7.0. I >> have different problem now. >> At the end of installation of WP 7.0 I get message >> "Segmentation fault Idir/$SHBIN/$DSTEXC -f " (I don't remember the >> rest). >> After installation I tried t

Re: unattended ftp

1998-10-12 Thread Vincent Murphy
I would definitely recommend wget for this. Excellent utility, with excellent docs (use info). It'll work through http proxies and everything. regards, vinny

Re: WP 7.0 on Db 2.0

1998-10-12 Thread W. Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Sounds like you are still missing some needed libs. what is your output of ``ldd xwp'' mine shows -- /lib/nfslock.so.0 => /lib/nfslock.so.0 (0x4000c000) libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 (0x4000e000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/li

Re: vnc x-windows server looking for "xauth"

1998-10-12 Thread Immanuel Yap
David Karlin wrote: > > Hello, > I just installed the vnc x-windows server (.deb) and when I fire up > vncserver, > it says: > > vncserver: couldn't find "xauth" on your PATH. > > First I checked my hard-drive for "xauth" (find / -name "xauth"); the file > does not exist on my drive. Then I c

emacs20 woes

1998-10-12 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi all, I'm having trouble to get emacs 20 properly installed on a hamm system. If I try to (re-)install the emacs-package, I get: pollux# dpkg --install emacs20_20.2-7.deb Selecting previously deselected package emacs20. (Reading database ... 24424 files and directories currently installed.) P

Re: unattended ftp

1998-10-12 Thread aqy6633
> | Excuse if this is a FAQ, but how can I set up a shell script to ftp to a > | host and retrieve a file? > > If you install ncftp, you get a program called ncftpget that can be > used to get files non-interactively (eg in a script). Not necessaraly with ncftp, plain fto will do. In a script: #

Re: LS-120

1998-10-12 Thread David Wright
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > Are there any utilities for formatting 1.44m floppies in an LS-120 (on > /dev/hdd)? Dunno. Ironically, Windows NT SP3 can't format floppies in the LS-120 unless you downgrade ATAPI.SYS back to the SP2 version. > Also I have a custom kernel, how can I c

xfsft and Microsoft fonts

1998-10-12 Thread Simon Read
Folks, I'm keen on being able to use scalable fonts on my Linux box. I have a collection of fonts from Win95 (I dual boot sadly). Unfortunately, when I try to use these fonts only some of them appear. The fonts.scale file I generate automatically doesn't contain them either. I've used both tti

Re: Cannot run any executables under Debian2.0 - Help(newbie)

1998-10-12 Thread David Wright
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, tko wrote: > Helge Hafting writes: > [snip] > > Note that your PATH does not contain the current directory (.) This is > > default for Debian, and is considered a security feature. I believe you > > can run standard executables like "ls" and such? > > > > To run the a.out fil

lp in printer but no print!

1998-10-12 Thread Bob Barth
I have installed my Okidata OL-410e printer as an HP3 Laser Jet; both use the PCL5 printer language.    It prints ASCII from the command line 'lp filename' .   From words in Applixware 4.4.1 I select 'lp' printer and PCL5 class and the document goes to the printer, but is NOT PRINTED; it st

problems compiling the kernel after upgrade to 2.0

1998-10-12 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
After I upgraded to Debian 2.0 I haven't been unable to compile the linux kernel and also some other stuff (GIMP and related libraries are an example) Here's what I get: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux # make xconfig rm -f include/asm ( c

Re: Linux and AOL

1998-10-12 Thread David B. Teague
On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Stephen Gore wrote: > Is it possible to connect to the Internet through AOL? I'm installing > Debaian v2.0 via floppy and ftp, and need internet access to complete > the installation. Any alternative suggestions welcome. Thanx! Hi Stephen My son is a programmer for AOL. H

Installing drivers

1998-10-12 Thread Briede, Tony
I downloaded a driver for a Xircom card ( xirc2p~1.gz ) from the web site ( k.shuttle.de/isil/xircom/xirc2ps.html ). Unfortunately they don't show how to load the driver onto the Linux system. Can you tell me the correct way to copy the file off the floppy diskette and load the driver in the correc

Re: unattended ftp

1998-10-12 Thread Rob Collins
You could write a script like: /home/foobar/ftp.script: user foobar foobars_password lcd /home/foobar get filename and then execute it whenyou want, or put it in cron... like this: /var/spool/cron/crontabs/foobar: ~~

Urgent Help needed please

1998-10-12 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi! trying to install new packages I just noticed that I can't write to /var/lib/dpkg anymore. The error I get is: "No space left on device". I took a look at /var/log/kern.log and found this: ... kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 08:07): ext2_new_block: Free blocks count \ corrupted for block

Re: ncurses segmentation fault

1998-10-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 11:54:14AM +0200, Ingo Brueckl wrote: > The following program, compiled with egcs 1.0.3, causes a segmentation > fault at the mvwinch statement: Why are you rehashing this on -user? You've already reported this problem as a bug, and as you can check in the bug log (http://w

Re: Urgent Help needed please

1998-10-12 Thread Jim Foltz
It's hard to answer when you don't include any other information. The obvious question is: Are you really out of disk space? and the answer is df. What does the output from df say? If you are out of disk space, do you have a spare partition available? If so you may be ok. If not, you may be screwe

IBM W/"MCA" Board

1998-10-12 Thread David Sherow
I need some help finding info on installing Debian on a IBM machine with a MCA board. Thank you much -- Best regards /-\ /***\ /***/ David Sherow \**\ /

Re: Urgent Help needed please

1998-10-12 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi Jim, first of all thanks for the fast answer! > It's hard to answer when you don't include any other information. You are right. I am sorry. I wanted to get my question out as fast as possible and stopped thinking. > The obvious question is: Are you really out of disk space? and the answer

screensaver-gl

1998-10-12 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hello, I just install 3dfx drivers. Now i can run the mesa 3dfx demos as normal user. So i want to use a 3dfx screensaver. Xscreensaver-gl does that isnit?? Well, how do i use it?? or test it?? I have gnome. But the gnome screen-propeties, only see the xlock screensaver so i can not select a

Re: FYI: DMA/33 and kernels

1998-10-12 Thread Sean Johnson
I get the same exact results with my PPro system (Intel 440FX chipset) and Maxtor 7.2GB UDMA drive. This even happens under the developmental kernel 2.1.122 which I use for the better SMP handling. I've asked questions before on newsgroups and such as to what could be causing this behavior, or if

SCSI controller and drive?

1998-10-12 Thread Mrpeabody
I'm looking to add a scsi hard drive and controller to my system which currently uses an ide drive. What is a good controller and drive to buy? Does only the controller matter or does the type of hard drive I get matter to? -jeff

Re: Urgent Help needed please

1998-10-12 Thread Paul Crowley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Spiegl) writes: > I took a look at /var/log/kern.log and found this: > > ... kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 08:07): ext2_new_block: Free blocks count \ > corrupted for block group 4 > ... last message repeated 207 times > ... last message repeated 133 times > and so on

Re: Urgent Help needed please

1998-10-12 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi Paul, > editing /etc/defaults/rcS > FSCKFIX=yes Thanks. Actually I did that last week, after some kind person in the list gave this as an answer to another question of mine. Well, I dared to do itandwas lucky! The system is up and running again. And I don't see any dubious messages

Re: ls-120 drives

1998-10-12 Thread Dave Swegen
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 05:32 -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > havn't done so yet). I also have yet to find a way to format floppies > on the ls120 under linux (works under windows). I am using the ls120 Umm, wouldn't a simple '/sbin/mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdc' do the trick (works for floppies under /dev

HELP!!!!! binaries not executed (fwd)

1998-10-12 Thread G. Kapetanios
I 'd like to thank you for all your help with my problem when the root partition on my box was deleted. The current situatrion is that I managed to install 2.0 from the dos partitiopn the system is minimally working. BUT i have no configuration files. No /lib libraries. I could reinstall but I

Fonts in X and other X problems

1998-10-12 Thread Alexander Gutfraind
Hello fellow users! A am a newbie. Not completely, but I have the following newbie problem: In netscape 4.06 and any other netscape I had on my Debian system, I have a _very_ limited selection of very poor fonts. How do I install/configure new fonts? I heard one can even import windows fonts. how

XWindows -- checking color mode?

1998-10-12 Thread Rob Collins
just wandering if anyone knows how you can check how many colors your display is set to while active (while in xwindows)? -- quiet rob --- "Just keep telling yourself you are immortal" --Albert Hofmann

RE: XWindows -- checking color mode?

1998-10-12 Thread Shaleh
run xdpyinfo in an xterm. On 12-Oct-98 Rob Collins wrote: > just wandering if anyone knows how you can check how many colors your > display is set to while active (while in xwindows)? > > > -- > quiet rob > --- > "Just keep telling yourself you are immortal" --Albert Hofmann > > > --

Creating HTML

1998-10-12 Thread Ruud de Bruin
Are there any Debian packages available for creating HTML pages? (I've just started with this and I would like some recommendations...) Regards, Ruud.

RE: XWindows -- checking color mode?

1998-10-12 Thread Rob Collins
much thanks! -- quiet rob --- "Just keep telling yourself you are immortal" --Albert Hofmann On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Shaleh wrote: > run xdpyinfo in an xterm. > > On 12-Oct-98 Rob Collins wrote: > > just wandering if anyone knows how you can check how many colors your > > display is set t

Re: XWindows -- checking color mode?

1998-10-12 Thread Mitch Blevins
Rob Collins wrote: > just wandering if anyone knows how you can check how many colors your > display is set to while active (while in xwindows)? > xwininfo -root will give resolution and color depth (among other things...) -Mitch pgpiUF6XUQ6vk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ***HUGE*** security hole??!! (Re: Lost root passwd)

1998-10-12 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998 14:58:39 +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: >>This is a security hole ONLY if someone has access to the machine >>itself. >This is not exactly uncommon, especially in computer labs. Basic Unix Secruity 101 - If the person has physical access to the machine, there *IS* *NO* *S

Re: Creating HTML

1998-10-12 Thread maximill
vi? (x)emacs Netscape Composer? I manage three sizeable web sites, and I use emacs exclusively. -Brad On 12 Oct 1998, Ruud de Bruin wrote: > Are there any Debian packages available for creating HTML pages? (I've > just started with this and I would like some recommendations...) > > Regards, Ru

Re: Creating HTML

1998-10-12 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998 14:55:57 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >vi? >(x)emacs >Netscape Composer? joe is another. Unfortunately I'd like to see something on the caliber of Macromedia's Dreamweaver but there is nothing which comes close in the Linux world. -- Steve C. Lamb

Re: ***HUGE*** security hole??!! (Re: Lost root passwd)

1998-10-12 Thread Ralph Winslow
When Steve Lamb wrote, I replied: > > On Mon, 12 Oct 1998 14:58:39 +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > > >>This is a security hole ONLY if someone has access to the machine > >>itself. These techniques are useable on any computer running any operating system not just Linux or UNIX. Physical access

Re: Creating HTML

1998-10-12 Thread Ralph Winslow
When Ruud de Bruin wrote, I replied: > > Are there any Debian packages available for creating HTML pages? (I've > just started with this and I would like some recommendations...) I like vi for this; but I suspect that you'd prefer Netscape gold or something like that. > > Regards, Ruud. > > --

xinetd errors

1998-10-12 Thread David Frye
I recently installed the xinetd package on my Debian 2.0 system and started receiving the following errors during bootup: Oct 12 16:52:26 xena xinetd[137]: open of /dev/tty failed: Device not configured Oct 12 16:52:26 xena xinetd[137]: Server /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd is not executable [line=112] Oct 1

Re: SCSI controller and drive?

1998-10-12 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Mrpeabody wrote: > I'm looking to add a scsi hard drive and controller to my system which > currently uses an ide drive. What is a good controller and drive to > buy? Does only the controller matter or does the type of hard drive I > get matter to? > -jeff > I have two

Re: Creating HTML

1998-10-12 Thread Darren Benham
On 12-Oct-98 Steve Lamb wrote: > Unfortunately I'd like to see something on the caliber of Macromedia's > Dreamweaver but there is nothing which comes close in the Linux world. I never did like Dreamweaver. In the end, I havn't found any HTML editor that didn't produce sloppy HTML. ===

Re: Creating HTML

1998-10-12 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:32:06 -0700 (PDT), Darren Benham wrote: >On 12-Oct-98 Steve Lamb wrote: >> Unfortunately I'd like to see something on the caliber of >>Macromedia's >> Dreamweaver but there is nothing which comes close in the >>Linux world. >I never did like Dreamweaver. In the end, I

man page probs

1998-10-12 Thread tracheotomy_bob
Hallo again, during my fiddling this weekend trying to get Quake to work, I've changed some permissions somewhere and I don't know where. If I do "man smail" as root I get the man page. If I do "man smail" as a normal user I get the message: Can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied

Re: Creating HTML

1998-10-12 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Ruud de Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Are there any Debian packages available for creating HTML pages? (I've | just started with this and I would like some recommendations...) Amaya (in package amaya) is a WYSIWYG HTML editor. -- The only way tcsh "rocks" is when the rocks are attached to it's

Re: segfault: yes. what?

1998-10-12 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 12:49:36AM -0400, Alexander Gutfraind wrote: > Hello Fello Users! > > I have a small completely newbie question: > What is segmentation fault AKA segfault? > > (I REALLY don't know) > > TIA for your help. > I see you've gotten some other replies, but I don't think this

Re: Setting size that windows start as

1998-10-12 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 11:47:29AM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: > Dear debian people, > > When I launch emacs in X, it comes up just a little too big for my > screen. Is there a command-line argument for setting the size of the > window, please? > > Thanks, > > Matthew > More info about the

Re: meskes@usa.net

1998-10-12 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 10:51:08AM -0500, D'jinnie wrote: > > : Dell offers such a configuration (about $1500 with a 17" monitor). > :This is what my OM will probably get. This machine comes with windows > :98 and microsoft home office software and a winmodem. If you only want > :to install linux

Re: man page probs

1998-10-12 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"tracheotomy_bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Hallo again, | during my fiddling this weekend trying to get Quake to work, I've | changed some permissions | somewhere and I don't know where. If I do "man smail" as root I get the man | page. If I do | "man smail" as a normal user I get the message:

Re: meskes@usa.net

1998-10-12 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998 15:52:46 -0700, Mike Touloumtzis wrote: >If you hunt around on the Web, you should be able to turn up a few more. Or if you ask nicely I'm sure there are a few people on this list who would do it for a nominal fee as a hobby. *cough, cough* -- Steve C. Lamb

Re: Urgent Help needed please

1998-10-12 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 06:10:24PM +, Andy Spiegl wrote: > Hi! > > trying to install new packages I just noticed that I can't write to > /var/lib/dpkg anymore. The error I get is: > "No space left on device". > > I took a look at /var/log/kern.log and found this: > > ... kernel: EXT2-fs err

Re: vnc x-windows server looking for "xauth"

1998-10-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 10:33:11AM -0400, Immanuel Yap wrote: > David Karlin wrote: > > > > vncserver: couldn't find "xauth" on your PATH. > > > Do you have X11 installed? > > ascus:~ $ dpkg -S xauth > xbase: /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth > xbase: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xauth.1x.gz Noel is right, I'm mis

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