Re: WP 8 Suite

1998-10-19 Thread Ted Harding
On 18-Oct-98 Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, D'jinnie wrote: >> A while ago, there was a buzz about Corel releasing a WP Suite 8 for >> Linux. It was slated to come out mid-summer...I can't find any mention >> of it anywhere on Corel's site. Did they give up on the idea, or what? > > All

Re: WP 8 Suite

1998-10-19 Thread Ted Harding
On 19-Oct-98 Ted Harding wrote: > On 18-Oct-98 Bob Nielsen wrote: >> On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, D'jinnie wrote: >>> A while ago, there was a buzz about Corel releasing a WP Suite 8 for >>> Linux. It was slated to come out mid-summer...I can't find any >>> mention >>> of it anywhere on Corel's site. Did

compiling 2.0.35 kernel for Hamm?

1998-10-19 Thread Chris Evans
It seems I need to upgrade the 2.0.34 kernel I have for Hamm with a 2.0.35 kernel which has better support for the dawicontrol SCSI controller I've now got which uses an ncr53c875 chip. At the moment the system seems to hang from time to time and one occasion showed a scsi abort on a timeout s

HELP: Repair of tar.gz files??

1998-10-19 Thread Albert Hurd
I dwnloaded newsletr.tar.gz from the CTAN site. On attempting a tar xvfz, I got: icarus:~/writing/newsletter> tar xvfz newsletr.tar.gz tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next file header Is there anything I can do to recover the file, or am I out of luck for a Tex

Re: HELP: Repair of tar.gz files??

1998-10-19 Thread Egon Schmid
Thats wrong. The four letter contains only one option with an additional paramter (the filename). I bet Albert had only forgotten to switch in binary mode before download. -Egon On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, George Bonser wrote: > > Make sure that f is the LAST option just before the filename. Try it th

ipfwadm error

1998-10-19 Thread Collin Rose
When I boot my system it says ipfwadm: setsockopt error protocol not available or something like that. What is the problem? cc replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] please

Re: diald auto-dial bug/feature

1998-10-19 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Michael Beattie writes: > > I imagine you have no NIC? If so, then for people that do, probably dont > > need to do this. e.g.: > > No Sir, I do have a NIC installed. I'm using an unrouted address (192.168.x.x) > And diald was doing the dirty deed 8-

Re: Debian's recommendation for the size of the swap.

1998-10-19 Thread Kenneth Scharf
For now I probably don't need that much. But my plans include setting my system up as a server for two windows machines, that should increase the demands on virtual memory. Attached is a free run. (with X, Netscape (reported to need 64M available), xterm fvwm95, xconsole running. ---sha

Re: permission denied in root.

1998-10-19 Thread Brent McMillan
I can't even get "hello world" to run from that directory. I suppose I could move everything to another directory and try it, but I'd like to know why root can't run it's programs from that directory. On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Ben Collins wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On S

Re: New motherboard (and processor)

1998-10-19 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Michael Beattie dixit: > > On Sun, 18 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Hi there, > > > > > > I recently had the motherboard changed in my machine. There's nothing > > > I've > > > changed in Debian since, and it seems it had no problems

Re: HDD sleep

1998-10-19 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Dave Swegen wrote: > I'm trying to set my system up so that I can leave the computer on while I > sleep. I discovered that a fair amount of the noise was caused by the > HDDs, and sending them to sleep made things a lot quiter. However, whilst > I can spin down the secondary H

Re: Can't login as root

1998-10-19 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998 13:48:45 -0400, Shin Ogino wrote: >After updating a few packages with dselect and rebooting my machine, I >am not able to login as root any more. When I type root and its >password on login prompt, I do not get any response. I have to use CTR-c >to kill process. Downgrade

Re: test Exim header rewrite

1998-10-19 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, George Bonser wrote: > > Looks like it worked ... no Reply-To header, though. If its not there to rewrite, does exim put one in? > On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Russell Cook wrote: > > > a test of header rewrite > > from should be [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > reply-to should be [EMAIL

Re: compiling 2.0.35 kernel for Hamm?

1998-10-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Chris Evans wrote: > It seems I need to upgrade the 2.0.34 kernel I have for Hamm with > a 2.0.35 kernel which has better support for the dawicontrol SCSI > controller I've now got which uses an ncr53c875 chip. At the > moment the system seems to hang from time to time and

Can I upgrade hamm to slink via ftp?

1998-10-19 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all- By the term "slink freeze", is it meant that slink is ready to go? I've seen many mention slink here, so I was wondering if it's possible for me to upgrade my hamm installation to slink via ftp? If so, can someone point me in the right direction for documentation on upgrading debian instal

Re: test Exim header rewrite

1998-10-19 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, George Bonser wrote: > On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > > > On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, George Bonser wrote: > > > > > > > > Looks like it worked ... no Reply-To header, though. > > > > > > If its not there to rewrite, does exim put one in? > > Nope. That is the ma

Bad Sector

1998-10-19 Thread David Stern
Hi Debianeers, Today I moved some scsi partitions around and now fdisk, cfdisk and sfdisk complain that sector 3,672,497 cannot be read, and they won't allow access to that drive. My linux root partition is on the affected drive, but so far linux is running along quite well (and I've rebooted

RE: Can I upgrade hamm to slink via ftp?

1998-10-19 Thread Shaleh
Slink was the current/unstable branch. it is now "frozen". What this means is that no new packages will appear and all possible packaging bugs are getting fixed. Consider it pre-release now. In a month or so it should go "deep freeze". This means that only packages in dire need of an update wi

ntpd freezing when computer goes into suspend...

1998-10-19 Thread e-van
Hrrm, an interesting problem here: When my computer goes into suspend mode, the clock freezes, litterally, so that it is mis set when it unfreezes... usually off by several hours so that my ntpd daemon won't change it(because the skew is so large)... is there any way to keep this from happening?

Re: [Dual boot] dual boot NT and debian?

1998-10-19 Thread Richard Alhama
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan wrote: > On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Mrpeabody wrote: > > > I currently have debian running on a ide drive on my computer and I have > > recently purchases a scsi drive so that I can boot windows from the > > scsi. Can I use lilo to tell it to boot the scs

Re: permission denied in root.

1998-10-19 Thread Mitch Blevins
Brent McMillan wrote: > I can't even get "hello world" to run from that directory. I > suppose I could move everything to another directory and try it, but I'd > like to know why root can't run it's programs from that directory. > > > On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Ben Collins wrote: > > > -BEG

Re: exim: never stop Mail delivery failed

1998-10-19 Thread ing.Bubulac Angela Tatiana
There is one alias for root and that is maric and is real. The host 193.231.157.5 exists in the DNS database. On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, ing.Bubulac Angela Tatiana wrote: > > : Ok. It work but now I receive in that user a lot of messages like that: > :

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

1998-10-19 Thread fantomas
-> >Basic Unix Secruity 101 - If the person has physical access to the -> >machine, there *IS* *NO* *SECURITY*. Want proof? -> > -> >I pop the HD out, place it as slave on my machine, mount what I want, end -> >of story. Before this thread goes any further I recommend that anyone who ->

Re: compiling 2.0.35 kernel for Hamm?

1998-10-19 Thread Remo Badii
You can create a directory /usr/local/src in it you unpack the kernel-source-2.0.35.tar.gz which goes into a subdir /usr/local/src/linux cd to it make menuconfig (or xconfig) make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image if you have modules in /usr/src/modules which you want to compile with this ke

Re: GDB and ADA.

1998-10-19 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 08:21:26AM +0200, shaul wrote: > I tried to look for slink's gdb. All I could find is some m68k staff. (I > did find some relevant lines in Contents-i386.gz) What did I miss ? dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/devel/gdb_4.17-4.m68k.objc.threads.hwwp.fpu.gnat.deb Note the "gn

Re: ipfwadm error

1998-10-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Collin" == Collin Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Collin> When I boot my system it says Collin> ipfwadm: setsockopt error protocol not available Collin> or something like that. What is the problem? Chances are, you moved to a 2.1.1XX kernel. The never kernels reuire ipchains

Re: permission denied in root.

1998-10-19 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > I'm trying to get the wordPerfect demo up and running, but when I > try to run the setup executable (./Runme) I get a permission denied. the > file is executable, I own it, I own the directory, I tried as root and > non-root alike. The directory is not mounted on my main partition (if

Re: Debian on Notebooks

1998-10-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 02:00:19PM +0400, Alexey Vyskubov wrote: > On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 10:45:49PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > Really? The SVGA server in hamm admits that it doesn't really support > > the chip (not the NeoMagic 128 or something in a friend's Acer notebook > > anyway) and

Re: Debian on Notebooks

1998-10-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 09:25:05AM -0500, D'jinnie wrote: > it. From other comments I've read, it seems prudent to stay away from IBM > and Toshiba, but YMMV... ?? Toshiba 310CDS works fine here. A few install hassles with the Tecra disks but after that, just make sure you build the kernel as zIma

Re: Need a HOT system. K7 and Linux?

1998-10-19 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > I hope this is not too far OT for the list ... > > I teach chemistry at a local community college and am seeking grant monies > for the creation of a hub of high power PC's to perform heavy quantum > mechanical calculations using GAMESS and the like (for you chemists out > there .. ;). I re

Hello, problems with installing

1998-10-19 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

Re: wierd problem with ppp; need help!

1998-10-19 Thread Eugene Sevinian
On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Jim Foltz wrote: > You need to give more information about your connection to get a more > precise reply. Try including log files, /var/log/ppp.log and use the debug > option in the /etc/ppp/peers/provider file. > Hello, Below I had tried to supply all information which mig

Re: Dialup ISDN performance

1998-10-19 Thread Dimitri P.
Thanks for the replies so far... Here is what I did over the weekend: I went and bought a NETGEAR RT328. ISDN in/ 10MB/s ethernet out. My highest transfer rate ( reported by Netscape was 14.9 KB/s) It takes care of IP masquarading , dhcp, dial on demand and will use 1 or 2 B channels dynamicaly

ISDN Sedlbauer speed card

1998-10-19 Thread Martin Oldfield
Does anyone know if the isdn support in either hamm or slink supports this beast ? Cheers, -- Martin Oldfield.

Problem duplicating system

1998-10-19 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi! I got a problem here without a solution. (as usual) I want to duplicate a debian system from one (remote) pc to a new one. So I made a cd-image on a jaz drive medium and had it send to me via normal mail. I booted the new machine with the rescue floppy and went through the install menus up t

Re: ISDN Sedlbauer speed card

1998-10-19 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 11:13:19AM +0100, Martin Oldfield wrote: > Does anyone know if the isdn support in either hamm or slink supports > this beast ? No, you will need a patch for pcmcia-cs to support the card. Unfortunately, I couldn't made mine to work even with this patch. The author couldn't

Re: permission denied in root.

1998-10-19 Thread john
Brent McMillan writes: > I can't even get "hello world" to run from that directory. I suppose I > could move everything to another directory and try it, but I'd like to > know why root can't run it's programs from that directory. Do you have the partition mounted 'noexec'? -- John Hasler

Re: ISDN Sedlbauer speed card

1998-10-19 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi Martin, On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 11:13:19AM +0100, Martin Oldfield wrote: > > Does anyone know if the isdn support in either hamm or slink supports > this beast ? the Sedlbauer cards are supported as part of the HiSAX-ISDN driver. It's part of the recent kernels. Check your kernel configuratio

Help. Can't login

1998-10-19 Thread Victor Torrico
Running a pentium all slink box. Been working fine for months. Can't login when in console. It just stops at a blank line when I login and hit return. Runlevel 1 works OK. Xwindows comes up OK but "su" and "pon" wont work. They also stop at a blank line when I hit return. Control C gets the

Re: Midnight Commander

1998-10-19 Thread Alan Tam
Thank you all very much. I found the mc files and installed it by dpkg according to your path. Thanks alot. Alan Christian Lavoie wrote: > Where can one find the Midnight Commander (GNOME version) 4.1.35 .deb files? > > > Christian Lavoie > UIN: 947212 > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- >

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

1998-10-19 Thread Paul Crowley
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My problem with encrypted filesystems is that if you loose the key, you > might as well mkfs the drive. There are ways around this. You could, for example, break the key into five pieces using a secret sharing scheme and put them in five different secur

ppp vs windows dialup networking

1998-10-19 Thread Kenneth Scharf
when I connect to my isp in windows I get a dialog box showing the progress of the connection. It finally reports the connection speed that the modem achieved. Is there any way to get this information when connecting via ppp? Also, I have had a problem where the first time I ran pon it would fai

Sound and Hamm Home setup?

1998-10-19 Thread lanceh
When I setup up Hamm I selected the 'Home-User' option believing that it compiled the kernel with the sound drivers. I don't appear to have sound. How can I check to determine if the driver was compiled in the kernel? Lance

Re: I can config man-db, the man command is unavaliable.

1998-10-19 Thread Alan Tam
I've just installed man-db and manpages from the following URL http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/doc/ follow the instructions, then man command IS avaliable with comfort. Alan Tam. ayin wrote: > Dear Sir > > When I install the man-db package , the dselect utility tell me that I > should ha

Re: ppp vs windows dialup networking

1998-10-19 Thread marvin stodolsky
Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > when I connect to my isp in windows I get a dialog box showing the > progress of the connection. It finally reports the connection speed > that the modem achieved. Is there any way to get this information > when connecting via ppp? > > Also, I have had a problem where

netscape

1998-10-19 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I have read many posts to this list about netscape not working, what version to use, etc. Not knowing any better I loaded the '.rpm' from redhat 5.1 figuring that it was a libc6 version (I converted the rpm to a deb using alien and then just dpkg -i on the deb.) I did not use the debian netscape

Juliet image.

1998-10-19 Thread Liran Zvibel
Hello. How can I create an iso9660 with Juliet extensions? (It has to have Juliet, would be nice to add RR) Usually I do it with mkisofs, but it (my version at least) doesn't have any switch for Juliet. Thanks, Liran. --- http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/

PnP in the kernel

1998-10-19 Thread Adam Greene
Is PnP in the production kernels yet?? (I've asked about 3 times and no responses. I am preparing to sell a line of Office (Corel WP8.0, etc), Graphics (GIMP, NeoGeo Blender, etc), Server (Samba, POP, SMTP, Apache), Development (EGC, Perl, etc) computer systems, and I would love to know if PNP wor

Need a HOT system. K7 and Linux?

1998-10-19 Thread Kenneth Scharf
9) Please don't shoot me, but is anything bigger than a 17" monitor worth it? - Depends on how myopic you are. X seems to eat more resolution than windows. (XMille needs > 1024x768 to fit on the screen!!!) I am interested in running cad/eda

FVWM - Not all modules included?

1998-10-19 Thread Moore, Paul
I've just got FVWM2 set up and running on my Debian 2.0 system. I wanted to play with some options, and I looked for the FvwmConsole module which comes with Fvwm2 (at least it did on my previous SuSE setup). But it doesn't seem to be included... Have I missed something, or is FvwmConsole not inclu

Re: permission denied in root.

1998-10-19 Thread Brent McMillan
Yup, that was the problem. My /etc/fstab didn't specify to mount it 'noexec' but I guesse that's what happens when you leave out 'defaults' from the line. Problem solved. Thanks all for the help. > > Run the `mount' command and check if the disk the script is running on > is mounted with the `n

Re: StarOffice

1998-10-19 Thread joseph evan porter
> > A while ago, someone mentioned that it was possible to d/l a version of > StarOffice. I've looked at the (rather feeble) www.stardivision.com and > couldn't find any mention of it. Could someone please post the location of > it? Thanks! > Look at ftp.stardivision.com/pub/so4/linux/sp3/01/so40

Hi/True Color mode for X ! please help

1998-10-19 Thread Linh Dang
I have just installed ham from SLS. Everything is fine except X in Hi (16bits) or True (24bits) color. I have a Sony CPD 200sf and a PCI ATI 3D Rage II+ with 8Mb on board. I have an excellent [EMAIL PROTECTED] in 8bits depth but when I switch to a 16/24/32 bits mode, I get an 1-inch-wide column of

taper fails to finish under cron

1998-10-19 Thread servis
Hi all, I can't get taper to finish its run when called from roots crontab. When I run it from roots command line it works just fine. My crontab entry is: 38 0 * * 0,1,3,5 /sbin/taper -U @full It starts and selects the fileset that is defined in 'full'. But then it errors with the following er

Re: Help me setup dynamic DNS server address.

1998-10-19 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 06:11:25PM +0200, Noam Gordon wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am a Linux newbie. I have installed Debian 2.0 successfully. I would like > to set up ISDN dial-up to my ISP. > My ISP asigns me an IP address AS WELL AS DNS server address , dynamically > (In my win95 setup, I di

Re: screen and window

1998-10-19 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 12:43:15PM -0700, Zheng Wang wrote: > Thanks. I got it. > > I have another problem. Except the bash shell , I can not let the > backspace work properly. I don't know how to config it. Could you help me > out? Run XF86Setup and use the Xkb extensions. -- Lee Bradshaw

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

1998-10-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 09:51:43AM +0100, Paul Crowley wrote: > George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > My problem with encrypted filesystems is that if you loose the key, you > > might as well mkfs the drive. > > There are ways around this. You could, for example, break the key > into five

How big can an install get?

1998-10-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
When I used slackware a few years ago, my installation used up 140 MB. My Debian installation is up to 650MB on a 700MB root partition. I'm about to get a new disk (and a chance to more stuff and repartition). How big does Debian get with _everything_ installed? I may make it 1.5 GB, but I thin

Re: New motherboard (and processor)

1998-10-19 Thread homega
Michael Beattie dixit: > On Sun, 18 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm just checking on it... now, the old m'board is an AT based on the UMC > > UM8498F... (made in Taiwan... ops, like faked watches, no wonder...). > > The new one is: Pentium 571 TXPROII VGA/3D SO (whatever this all means)

Re: screen and window

1998-10-19 Thread Zheng Wang
Thanks. Actually, I have Diamond permedia 2 graphic card. It is not support by XF86Config. Is there some way to edit the config file directly. Thanks Zheng Wang, Ph. D Department of Statistics and Applied Probability University of California, Santa Barbara E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://www.ps

Re: Problem duplicating system

1998-10-19 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Spiegl) | | I could not figure out how to copy the contents from /cdrom to /target. | The simple "cp" on the root image couldn't do it. The simple tar "star" | I didn't know how to use (is there any documentation anywhere) and | trying to use the cp command on the cd-image

Re: Sound and Hamm Home setup?

1998-10-19 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | When I setup up Hamm I selected the 'Home-User' option believing that it compiled the kernel with the sound drivers. I | don't appear to have sound. How can I check to determine if the driver was compiled in the kernel? Try 'cat /dev/sndstat'. -- ...Unix, MS-DOS, and MS

Re: wierd problem with ppp; need help!

1998-10-19 Thread john
Eugene Sevinian writes: > /etc/ppp/options: > asyncmap 0 > auth > crtscts > lock > modem > proxyarp > lcp-echo-interval 30 > lcp-echo-failure 4 > noipx Try commenting out lcp-echo-interval and lcp-echo-failure. If that helps, puth them back in and experiment with different values for lcp-echo-fa

Re: Need a HOT system. K7 and Linux?

1998-10-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> 9) Please don't shoot me, but is anything bigger than a 17" monitor > worth it? I wish I had bought one at work. I use [EMAIL PROTECTED] on a ViewSonic PT775 17 inch monitor with a Matrox Millenium video card. I can put an Emacs frame and an rxvt window side-by-side. Fonts? I use 9x15 fo

Intel740 graphic accelerator

1998-10-19 Thread Kirston Akos
Hi! I bought a vga card with Intel740 garphic accelerator. What kind of xserver can take the full advantages of it? Thanks, krisah

Admin tool needed

1998-10-19 Thread Clovis Sena/Servicos Recife
Hi all, is there some admin tool for X ??

users accounts and rights

1998-10-19 Thread Clovis Sena/Servicos Recife
Hi all, I'm instaling a Debian Linux server and need informations about users. I've created the users but did not understand some things. Need some explanation about users rights. Could some send me some help?? Also i need to know how this users will gonna login to my machine, i mean the client

Re: Help. Can't login

1998-10-19 Thread wtopa
Subject: Help. Can't login Date: Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 07:33:20AM -0400 In reply to:Victor Torrico Quoting Victor Torrico([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Running a pentium all slink box. Been working fine for months. > > Can't login when in console. It just stops at a blank line when

Re: Sound and Hamm Home setup?

1998-10-19 Thread wtopa
Subject: Sound and Hamm Home setup? Date: Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 07:14:24AM + In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > When I setup up Hamm I selected the 'Home-User' option believing that it > compiled the kernel with the sound drivers.

Re: test Exim header rewrite

1998-10-19 Thread Russ Cook
True, I didn't explicitly. I use Pine at home (I'm at work now). I'll check the configure options tonight, and look for something that sounds like it has to do with reply-to. Thanks again for the help, George. Russ Russell Cook, Engineering Branch WSR-88D Operational Support Facility (40

DPMS

1998-10-19 Thread K. Arun
Hi, I run xdm under Debian 2.0, using the S3 server. It seems Debian enables DPMS (don't even know what it stands for ;-() by default. However, I've changed the standby, suspend and poweroff timeouts to 120, 180 and 600 seconds respectively. Now, it quite often happens that I leave the sys

pros and cons for procmail as local mail delivery agent?

1998-10-19 Thread Michael Grimm
Hi - I have installed smail receiving mail via UUCP; runs perfectly well. I recently installed procmail in order to sort incoming mail into specific mail folders. And that works well with a .forward and .procmailrc file in my users home directories. But I'm a bit puzzeled by the docs in /usr/do

Re: permission denied in root.

1998-10-19 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Brent McMillan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm trying to get the wordPerfect demo up and running, but when I > try to run the setup executable (./Runme) I get a permission denied. the > file is executable, I own it, I own the directory, I tried as root and > non-root alike. The directory is

Re: mountd/nfsd

1998-10-19 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! David Boisvert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Ok, first, my mountd server always says that I can't mount the server > from the client. > cat /etc/exports: > > / 192.168.1.1(rw) #client side this is server's /etc/export, isn't it? > Here is the error in syslog: > > Oct 18 09:37:32 server mountd[14

Re: PnP in the kernel

1998-10-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Adam Greene wrote: > Is PnP in the production kernels yet?? (I've asked about 3 times and no > responses. I am preparing to sell a line of Office (Corel WP8.0, etc), > Graphics (GIMP, NeoGeo Blender, etc), Server (Samba, POP, SMTP, Apache), > Development (EGC, Perl, etc) comp

RE: How big can an install get?

1998-10-19 Thread Shaleh
Well, we are now pushing two CD's, I believe three w/ non-free. So that is around 900 megs of .debs --> 1 -> 1.2 gb installed. Plus room for home directories and what not. I have only accounted for about 300 to 350 mb of my hard drive uages being debian packages. The rest are downloads, logs, s

Re: Juliet image.

1998-10-19 Thread Ze'ev Maor
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: > How can I create an iso9660 with Juliet extensions? (It has to have > Juliet, would be nice to add RR) > Usually I do it with mkisofs, but it (my version at least) doesn't have > any switch for Juliet. NAME mkhybrid - create a iso9660 filesystem

Re: test Exim header rewrite

1998-10-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
In Pine, you can set reply-to up as a custom header. Go to setup, configuration and enter it in "customized-hdrs". Bob On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Russ Cook wrote: > True, I didn't explicitly. > I use Pine at home (I'm at work now). > I'll check the configure options tonight, and > look for something

Re: ppp vs windows dialup networking

1998-10-19 Thread Ed Cogburn
Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > when I connect to my isp in windows I get a dialog box showing the > progress of the connection. It finally reports the connection speed > that the modem achieved. Is there any way to get this information > when connecting via ppp? > >[snip] For the moment, th

"bitmap" to outline postscript

1998-10-19 Thread Ted Harding
Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a package that can take a "bitmapped" black-and-white image and produce PostScript "outline" code which would draw the equivalent? Reason: I have an assortment of hieroglyhpic, cuneiform etc characters in ancient scripts which I want to be able to use as scalable cha

Re: Help. Can't login

1998-10-19 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Subject: Help. Can't login > Date: Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 07:33:20AM -0400 > > In reply to:Victor Torrico > > Quoting Victor Torrico([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > Running a pentium all slink box. Been working fine for months. > > > > Can't login when in

Eterm and X server

1998-10-19 Thread Leon Breedt
hi I installed Eterm from the hamm cd, but i cant get it to work on any account except root. These are the error messages I get when I try to run it from an xterm: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: client is not authorized to connect to server Eterm: can't open display :0.0 an

Newbie ? : mtab and X - viewports

1998-10-19 Thread Person, Rod
Hey All, Two Questions: 1)Why when I unmount my floppy using this command: umount /dev/fd0 why does it erase the /dev/fd0 line from mtab? 2) When I first used X I had a virutal screen at least 2 times the size of my display. I was using - twm I believe (what ever is standard X

Re: Juliet image.

1998-10-19 Thread Alex Shnitman
Liran Zvibel writes: > How can I create an iso9660 with Juliet extensions? (It has to have > Juliet, would be nice to add RR) > > Usually I do it with mkisofs, but it (my version at least) doesn't have > any switch for Juliet. Take a more recent mkisofs. Download the latest version of cdrec

Re: wierd problem with ppp; need help!

1998-10-19 Thread Eugene Sevinian
On 19 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Eugene Sevinian writes: > > /etc/ppp/options: > > > asyncmap 0 > > auth > > crtscts > > lock > > modem > > proxyarp > > lcp-echo-interval 30 > > lcp-echo-failure 4 > > noipx > > Try commenting out lcp-echo-interval and lcp-echo-failure. If that helps, >

Re: Eterm and X server

1998-10-19 Thread Brian Almeida
On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 06:46:19PM +0200, Leon Breedt wrote: > I installed Eterm from the hamm cd, but i cant get it to work on > any account except root. These are the error messages I get when > I try to run it from an xterm: > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: client is no

Re: HELP: Repair of tar.gz files??

1998-10-19 Thread David B. Teague
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Albert Hurd wrote: > I dwnloaded newsletr.tar.gz from the CTAN site. On attempting a tar > xvfz, I got: > icarus:~/writing/newsletter> tar xvfz newsletr.tar.gz > tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive > tar: Skipping to next file header > Is there anything

Re: How big can an install get?

1998-10-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> When I used slackware a few years ago, my installation used up Peter> 140 MB. My Debian installation is up to 650MB on a 700MB root Peter> partition. I'm about to get a new disk (and a chance to more Peter> stuff and repar

Re: Help. Can't login

1998-10-19 Thread Victor Torrico
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Subject: Help. Can't login > Date: Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 07:33:20AM -0400 > > In reply to:Victor Torrico > > Quoting Victor Torrico([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > Running a pentium all slink box. Been working fine for months. > > > >

Re: Help me setup dynamic DNS server address.

1998-10-19 Thread john
Noam Gordon writes: > They probably don't really _change_ the nameserver addresses > dynamically. So add these servers to your /etc/resolv.conf file and > things should work. Yes, but I would still like to support this 'dynamic' assignment of nameservers transparently. I could call nslookup from

Debian and K6-2

1998-10-19 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
Hello, I am planning to do an upgrade from a Pentium 233MHz to an K6-2 350MHz. I really like the idea of a faster processor combined with a faster bus. Maybe I'll manage to compile the kernel in less than 3 minutes :-)! But I would like to know if Linux behave well in such machines. I've heard th

dselect taking a _looong_ time

1998-10-19 Thread Erik Forsberg
When I use dselect, with the debian distribution mounted from a local nfs mirror, it really takes quite a horrible time telling me it's skipping deselected packages. I'm not so interested ! :) I think I've read somewhere there is a way to get dselect to just install the packages I've asked for, an

Re: dselect taking a _looong_ time

1998-10-19 Thread Rick Macdonald
Erik Forsberg wrote: > > When I use dselect, with the debian distribution mounted from a local > nfs mirror, it really takes quite a horrible time telling me it's > skipping deselected packages. I'm not so interested ! :) > > I think I've read somewhere there is a way to get dselect to just > ins

RE: dselect taking a _looong_ time

1998-10-19 Thread Shaleh
Get apt from slink and use the apt method in dselect. You should notice a few improvements. On 19-Oct-98 Erik Forsberg wrote: > When I use dselect, with the debian distribution mounted from a local > nfs mirror, it really takes quite a horrible time telling me it's > skipping deselected packages.

Is sysklogd OK now?

1998-10-19 Thread Max
Is the latest version of sysklogd in slink (-30) OK now? I saw all the warning about -29 and I'm hoping that those bugs were fixed. Thanks, Max

RE: Is sysklogd OK now?

1998-10-19 Thread Shaleh
On 19-Oct-98 Max wrote: > Is the latest version of sysklogd in slink (-30) OK now? I saw all > the warning about -29 and I'm hoping that those bugs were fixed. > Version -30 has been reported safe.

Re: Is sysklogd OK now?

1998-10-19 Thread Mitch Blevins
Max wrote: > Is the latest version of sysklogd in slink (-30) OK now? I saw all > the warning about -29 and I'm hoping that those bugs were fixed. > > Thanks, > Max sysklogd seems to be working for me with -30. However, the ppp.log hasn't been updated since the Day of the Great Syslog Breaka

netscape

1998-10-19 Thread Zheng Wang
Hi, One more problem about the netscape. I download the netscape from ftp.netscape.com and ran the ns-install to install it. But it just does not work. If I install it manually following the README.txt, the result is the same. But when I tried to install through dselect, it refered me to netscape.

Re: Is sysklogd OK now?

1998-10-19 Thread Shaleh
Mitch, check /etc/syslog.conf and see what it does w/ ppp. You may need to edit it. On 19-Oct-98 Mitch Blevins wrote: > Max wrote: >> Is the latest version of sysklogd in slink (-30) OK now? I saw all >> the warning about -29 and I'm hoping that those bugs were fixed. >> >> Thanks, >> Max

Re: Is sysklogd OK now?

1998-10-19 Thread Victor Torrico
Quoting Mitch Blevins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Max wrote: > > Is the latest version of sysklogd in slink (-30) OK now? I saw all > > the warning about -29 and I'm hoping that those bugs were fixed. > > > > Thanks, > > Max > > sysklogd seems to be working for me with -30. > However, the ppp.log

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