Dial-up problem

1998-12-11 Thread eferen1
This is a follow up to my previous message. I guess I should have been more specific about this problem. I installed FreeBSD 3.0 to see if it would connect, but it didn't either. Here are the details; 1. I have MS Network. The local provider provides the IP address. 2. I cannot get the IP address

Re: Piping unpipable output.

1998-12-11 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Christian Lavoie wrote: > I need to write down the output (actually, I need the error message) that > the startx command gives me. (The nice 'startx >err' doesn't work...) That's because errors go to stderr rather than stdout. All you need is: startx > err 2>&1 > I installed the Xserver_agx (an

Re: WISHLIST: Let us select a mirror site from a menu or list...

1998-12-11 Thread David Coe
Joe (and anyone else interested), Very nice idea, and I have an idea to make it even nicer: There's a package called 'netselect' which describes itself thusly: ...netselect determines several facts about all of the hosts given on the command line, much faster you would if you manually tried to

Re: New User with possible BIOS prob

1998-12-11 Thread Paul Miller
Frankay wrote: > > I am not an expert, but... > > 1FA: should not be a problem, it is perfectly correct: it is the lilo loader > prompt. Actually the prompt belongs to 'mbr'. According to the docs for 'mbr', the prompt shows up when there is keyboard activity or a problem loading the first secto

Re: WISHLIST: Let us select a mirror site from a menu or list...

1998-12-11 Thread servis
*- Joe Emenaker wrote about "WISHLIST: Let us select a mirror site from a menu or list..." > It sure would be great (and it sure would take some load off of > ftp.debian.org) if dselect could ftp a list of mirrors and then let us > select one. > > I like using the mirrors because they're faster a

Re: Segmentation faults

1998-12-11 Thread Tom
Thank you for the assistance. I am getting the segmentation faults when executing 1) arena 2)xquake 3)squake There may be others. When squake faults it gives the message " svgalib: Signal 11: segmentatin fault recieved". The vast majority of programs. both x and non x, run fine. I suspect that

Re: (off topic) UPS recommendation

1998-12-11 Thread Mitch Blevins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I am in the market for a UPS to use with my PC that will provide power > just enough power to get a shutdown finished in case of total power > lost. I have looked at the Hardware Compatibility HOWTO and the UPS > HOWTO but I wanted to first hand experience f

SANE install catch-22

1998-12-11 Thread Ted Llewellyn
Well, this is very pretty.I'm running Debian 2.0 with the default SANE--the doc says v0.71 but I think it's v0.74. I was going to upgrade to version 1.0. To do that, I have to install the new libc6, and to do that I have to upgrade libstdc++2.8, and apparently to do THAT, dpkg has to unconfig

RE: QUantifiable reasons to use debian instead of redhat...?

1998-12-11 Thread Jon Burchmore
> > I find that my Debian systems are easier to maintain than RedHat systems > > because there isn't any confusion with some programs placing > > configuration files in /etc, some in /usr/etc, some in /usr/local/etc, > > some in /usr/share, some in /opt/stupid_package/etc. > > Do you see these pro

Why sudo does it ?

1998-12-11 Thread shaul
[01:50:34 shaul]# cat /etc/sudoers # sudoers file (/etc/sudoers). # # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. # # See the man page for the details on how to write a sudoers file. # # Host alias specification # User alias specification ## # Cmnd alias specification ## Cmnd_Ali

Re: Zip drive problem

1998-12-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "AC" == Attila Csobonyei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AC> I have just installed Debian 2.0 slink and tried to remake the AC> kernel with the Zip drive. Not being an expert in these things I AC> first did a make zdisk which worked fine, the Zip drive was AC> working without any problems. Next I

Install problem at partition check

1998-12-11 Thread Michael Procario
I am trying to install hamm on Pentium 120 MHz system with 48 Meg that is currently running Redhat 5.0. When I boot with the rescue disk, I get the boot prompt and return. Things proceed ok for awhile. Until I get this error: Partition check: hda:hda: dma_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekCo

X Server Slowww

1998-12-11 Thread Larry Venable
After setting up and configuring Debian, I started having problems when I installed the 3_D Lab x-server (v 3.3.3). (I have a Fire GL 1000 8mb (AGP) card, so I need support for the permedia chip set). While it does run. I'm wondering if I can rebuild my usr diectory without redoing my install. I a

Re: (off topic) UPS recommendation

1998-12-11 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: > I like the Best Patriot UPS's. They are dirt cheap and work well. > Best will mail you a cable free of charge (or at least they did for me > several times) if you know which one your want. Dang, wish I knew that about the cable. I went out and got my

Exchange Client

1998-12-11 Thread Matthew Jensen
Howdy, I am after an microsoft exchange client that will run under linux. I know you can use a pop mail client but I need access to the public folders on the Exchange server. Is there anything out there that will do this? Thanks Mat -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nethack

1998-12-11 Thread surak
Two things: 1) /usr/lib/games/nethack/nethack should be chmod-ed 2755, owned by root and belonging to group games. I suspect this is where your problem lies. /usr/games/nethack is just a wrapper shell script to execute the nethack binary. 2) Are you running hamm (Debian 2.0) or slink (frozen)? I'

Re: (off topic) UPS recommendation]

1998-12-11 Thread Mitch Blevins
Brandon Mitchell wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > Debian has a bpowerd package which will monitor the UPS and shutdown > > when the battery get's low. The part number of the cable to order > > is in the bpowerd package. The schematics for the cable are also there > > in case

Re: Why sudo does it ?

1998-12-11 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, shaul wrote: > [01:53:38 shaul]$ sudo -l > You may run the following commands on this host: > (root) /sbin/halt > (root) /sbin/shutdown -r "now" > (root) /sbin/shutdown -h "now" > [01:55:14 shaul]$ sudo reboot > Sorry, user shaul is not allowed to execute "/sbin/re

Re: WISHLIST: Let us select a mirror site from a menu or list...

1998-12-11 Thread Joe Emenaker
>Joe (and anyone else interested), > >Very nice idea, and I have an idea to make it even nicer: There's >a package called 'netselect' which describes itself thusly: Cute. However, I'd be heasitant to make dselect depend upon yet another package. Keep in mind that dselect has to fit on the instal

ISDN on linux

1998-12-11 Thread Chris Leishman
Please CC relies as I don't watch this list as well as I should :) --- Hi all, I am going to try setting my machine up to do ISDN, however I can't seem to find any reasonable docs. I don't have very much experience with modems or isdn, so I need as much info as I can! So if anyone knows of

kdm troubles

1998-12-11 Thread Justin Maurer
i converted the red hat packages and installed them on a computer in our lab. however, when logging in via kdm, the login attempt always fails. iirc, there is nothing in the syslog about it either. any thoughts? fwiw, i did have to install the pam packages... -

Re: ISDN on linux

1998-12-11 Thread Ben Bucksch
>Please CC relies as I don't watch this list as well as I should :) Could B interesting 4U >So if anyone knows of some reasonable docs conserning linux and isdn, I would >greatly appreciate the information. >seem to mention internal ISDN cards... Anybody have any ideas? Can anyone >give me a bi

Re: (off topic) UPS recommendation]

1998-12-11 Thread Joe Emenaker
>I haven't looked at a recent version of the Best supplied software, but >bpowerd is better in that it is a proper daemon and uses the syslog >correctly. Also, it communicates with sysvinit thru a direct pipe >(/dev/initctl) rather than using messy (and standards non-compliant) >status files in

Re: KDE

1998-12-11 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Jeff Browning wrote: > Yes there are .deb packages for KDE. Go to > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and do a search for "kde". I've > had KDE for about a day now and am loving it! Good luck! > Those .debs are old. I believe they'

Re: elm email gets through, exmh email doesn't

1998-12-11 Thread Mark Phillips
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Emile Carcamo wrote: > > I can now successfully send email to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" using > > elm, but when I try and send a similar message using exmh, it complains > > that: > > > > mark at ist.flinders.edu.au: loses; [USER] 550 relaying to > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> prohibite

Re: (off topic) UPS recommendation]

1998-12-11 Thread Mitch Blevins
Joe Emenaker wrote: > I haven't tried bpowerd. How configurable is it? Right now, I'm using a > tricked-up version of the backupsd or apdc or whatever it was called. It > communicates with init via the status files in /etc... which I don't mind > all that much. However, one thing that I altered it

Re: elm email gets through, exmh email doesn't

1998-12-11 Thread Padraic Renaghan
> > > I can now successfully send email to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" using > > > elm, but when I try and send a similar message using exmh, it complains > > > that: > > > > > > mark at ist.flinders.edu.au: loses; [USER] 550 relaying to > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> prohibited by administrator > > > post:

Re: Dial-up problem

1998-12-11 Thread Kent West
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, eferen1 wrote: > This is a follow up to my previous message. > I guess I should have been more specific about this problem. I installed > FreeBSD 3.0 to see if it would connect, but it didn't either. Here are the > details; > > 1. I have MS Network. The local provider provide

sendmail, smail & exim

1998-12-11 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi all, Could someone recommend which mail server I should use? Which one is the best one?? I am currently using smail. But I want to forward all my debian emails to a different folder. I read the entire manpage of smail & smailtrns, still don't have an idea how to do it...

Newsgroup & Pine

1998-12-11 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi all, How do I set up a newsgroup in pine?? I put in the proper news server name. when I subscribe the newsgroup, it says I don't have the permission!! Could anyone help?? Thx Shao.

emacs & font lock

1998-12-11 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi all, How do I set up my emacs, so that everytime I run it, it will automatically detect the file type(*.tex, *.c, *.pro) and do the global font lock?? Thx Shao.

rvplayer

1998-12-11 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, When I use rvplayer to play a file with both audio & video, I always get a msg slow system performance, dropping frame. i.e the video is not playing... I am using P166 with 64MB ram. I also tried to use nice, but didn't help... Can anyone please help me?? Shao.

Re: Debian very slow to get latest releases?

1998-12-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 08:42:24PM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: > I used to use RedHat and when any software was updated it appeared on > the redhat ftp sites very quickly. I notice that already there are rpms > of the new XFree release (3.3.3) available. It's in the way Debian works. We have at

No Glidepoint tapping after 2.0 upgrade

1998-12-11 Thread Fred Martin
I have recently upgraded my system to Debian 2.0 (r2) and I can no longer get Glidepoint tapping (button 4) in X-Windows. I'm using xserver-s3 which reports that it is XFree86 Version 3.3.2.3. I've have Section "Pointer" Protocol "GlidePoint" Device "/dev/ttyS0" EndSection in my XF86Config fi

Re: SANE install catch-22

1998-12-11 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Jan 01, 1996 at 20:12:48 +, Ted Llewellyn wrote: > Well, this is very pretty.I'm running Debian 2.0 with the default > SANE--the doc says v0.71 but I think it's v0.74. I was going to upgrade > to version 1.0. To do that, I have to install the new libc6, and to do > that I have to

two smarthosts in exim?

1998-12-11 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, is there an easy way to give two smarthosts to exim? I use two ISPs alternately, and I need to use the correct smarthost for each (anti-relaying measure). If the wrong one gets used by mistake, mail returns to sender as rejected. Should I: * set something in exim.conf (that I missed the

XFree86 3.3.3

1998-12-11 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Reply-To: Hi To change my main PC at work from RedHat 5.1 ro Debian 2.0 I need to be able to run XFree86 3.3.3 as I have a Matrox G200 graphics card (currently I am running the SUSE special xserver for this card). Are there and debs available for 3.3.3 unstable or whatever or do I just go get the

RAID with Debian ?

1998-12-11 Thread Andreas Rapp
We are using a Debian system at our company as eMail and Internet Gateway. To make it more reliable I would like to add RAID. Has anyone experience with RAID controllers or software solutions ? Andy

Any one using voice modems (mailbox) on Debian with US Robotics Modem

1998-12-11 Thread Daniel Mashao
I am looking for tips of how to get US Robotics Sportster Voice modem to work as a voicemail system. I have to software to get it work in Windows but I do not want to go that route. /--/ Daniel J. Mashao E

Re: (off topic) UPS recommendation]

1998-12-11 Thread Joe Emenaker
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: > Of course you can change these scripts to do anything you want. If you > want to tweak the polling timing, you must recompile from source. > However, I think the default scripts/values are reasonable and will suit > most user's needs. I've had momentar

kdm - no keyboard

1998-12-11 Thread Tamas Nyitrai
Hi there! I have just upgraded a system to the latest binaries from slink (xbase, xlib, xdm, libc, etc...). This is a workstation where kdm starts at boot time (from the 9803sthng debian package) and that enables users to login to the box. After upgrading the following occured: Kdm starts, the lo

Re: K6-2 and debian ?

1998-12-11 Thread ray
I just set up a Debian system with one of theses CPUs and I'm not getting any such error. One thing that strikes me as odd is that most of the k6-2 chips use a 2.2V core voltage and most of the HX based motherboards can't go that low so I'd double check that your motherboard and cpu really are com

Re: dselect-help!!!!!!!

1998-12-11 Thread Frank Gerhardt
Dear Patrick! On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 18:00:46 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > if you cdrom is on the secondary controller first drive you should mount > /dev/hdc > first controller = hda, hdb (first, second drive) > second controller = hdc, hdd (first, second drive) That worked ;-) > they

Re: recommendation on presentation software

1998-12-11 Thread Randy Edwards
> i need to make a presentation, and i'd like to do it with my laptop "a la" > Powerpoint. (ie video output of laptop plugged on LCD retroprojector) Go to ftp://narnia.mit.edu (or http://www.stardivision.com) and download a copy of StarOffice5. The StarOffice office suite has a presentation gr

Re: Unsure of how Debian is updated

1998-12-11 Thread Randy Edwards
> One thing I can't quite work out though is how Debian handles updated > packages. For example XFree86 3.3.3 is out now, will this eventually be > integrated into the 2.0 release or are the packages in this release frozen > except for bug fixes? Hamm (Debian 2.0) is presently "stable" it will

Re: XFree86 3.3.3

1998-12-11 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi > To change my main PC at work from RedHat 5.1 ro Debian 2.0 I need > to be able to run XFree86 3.3.3 as I have a Matrox G200 graphics > card (currently I am running the SUSE special xserver for this > card). Are there and debs available f

Re: (off topic) UPS recommendation]

1998-12-11 Thread Mitch Blevins
Joe Emenaker wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > Of course you can change these scripts to do anything you want. If you > > want to tweak the polling timing, you must recompile from source. > > However, I think the default scripts/values are reasonable and will suit > > most

Re: two smarthosts in exim?

1998-12-11 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 07:55:55PM +1100, Jiri Baum wrote: > I use two ISPs alternately, and I need to use the correct smarthost for > each (anti-relaying measure). If the wrong one gets used by mistake, mail > returns to sender as rejected. Personally, I'd look to see if Exim could use an inc

Re: KDE

1998-12-11 Thread Jeff Miller
>Those .debs are old. I believe they're from the beta 4 release of KDE. >The 1.0 version was released with version 980710. Unfortunately, those >.deb files seem to have completely vanished! Nobody seems to be able to >find them! I You can find the KDE 1.0 (980710) deb files at: ftp.kde.org/pub

xterm key mapping problem?

1998-12-11 Thread Ted Llewellyn
I did something stupid in dselect. I'm going to treat that as a learning experience and try to fix it on my own, but I'd like a hint on one thing. Both backspace and delete do nothing but beep in xterm windows now. I thought I'd removed the kbd stuff while I was thrashing around so I put it ba

re UPS recommendation

1998-12-11 Thread Kenneth Scharf
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, I am in the market for a UPS to use with my PC that will provide power just enough power to get a shutdown finished in case of total power lost. I have looked at the Hardware Compatibility HOWTO and the UPS HOWTO but I wanted to first hand experience fro

transferring to sendmail 8.9 while still using hamm

1998-12-11 Thread Chris Evans
I'm using Hamm happily (well, almost, see "LI but no LO" if you're on the debian-user list!) I want to move my sendmail on my two working machines up to 8.9 for the improved and built-in antispamming facilities there. That looks as if it will require a move to a more recent libc6, netbase and

LI but no LO

1998-12-11 Thread Chris Evans
I had to change the SCSI controller on my home Debian machine (had to cannibalise the Dawicontrol NCR chip card to use it on another machine urgently). I found I couldn't get the same and put in an Adaptec 2940U. The Adaptec shows me all the devices on the chain correctly. I've told its bios

less shows fortune

1998-12-11 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
Since I put these lines echo "\n" fortune -a echo "" in /etc/profile and /etc/csh.cshrc, less gives me a fortune and the newlines instead of the contents of a file: sos:~> less ei The two party system ... is a triumph of the dialectic. It showed that two could be one and one could be two and

switch of Debian

1998-12-11 Thread Michael Wahl
Hello out there, After all I finally installed DEBIAN. And, what else, I have a question: When I successfully logout, a knew login appears. Know I switch of the computer. When I switch it on again, there is a check for some stuff. Is this right? Or have I not correctly finished it? Please help a

Re: LI but no LO

1998-12-11 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> Now booting shows lilo getting through "LI" but then nothing. I > assume something is going wrong in the loading of linux but I'm not > sure what's likely to be wrong and how I should deal with it. I found > one report of something similar in the archives but no answer there. In the lilo ma

Install Problems from CDROM

1998-12-11 Thread bill piasecki
I have Debian 2.0 binary CD. I fdisked my machine and formatted C. I do not have a dos disk but did a rawwrite of boot1440.bin from CD to floppy (on another computer) I put this floppy into the A drive and rebootted. I now have boot: prompt. I put CD  in cd drive and push enter hopeing the

RE: switch of Debian

1998-12-11 Thread Chang, FKK
> Never turn off the computer just like that. (It's just like Win 95 :)) > > Log in as root and issue a 'shutdown' command. The system > has to do some administrative tasks before shutting down, the most > important of which is to flush the filesystem buffers. > Be careful, you might lose data an

Re: LI but no LO

1998-12-11 Thread Peter Berlau
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 01:35:52PM -, Chris Evans wrote: Hi Chris [..] > Now booting shows lilo getting through "LI" but then nothing. I > assume something is going wrong in the loading of linux but I'm not > sure what's likely to be wrong and how I should deal with it. I found > one repor

Configuring X

1998-12-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Ok, I'm very frustrated with X right now. Could someone who is going to be online for awhile email me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and lend a hand with setting things up. Thanks. Tom

Re: switch of Debian

1998-12-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 06:00:20AM -0800, Michael Wahl wrote: > Hello out there, > > After all I finally installed DEBIAN. > And, what else, I have a question: > When I successfully logout, a knew login appears. Know I switch of the > computer. When I switch it on again, there is a check for some

Re: switch of Debian

1998-12-11 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hello out there, > > After all I finally installed DEBIAN. > And, what else, I have a question: > When I successfully logout, a knew login appears. Know I switch of the > computer. When I switch it on again, there is a check for some stuff. > Is this right? Or have I not correctly finished i

??? XF86Setup while running X ???

1998-12-11 Thread Rich Hartman
Howdy everybody, I'm trying to tweak my X setup by running XF86Setup while in X... However, I get the message: xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server xlib: client is not authorized to connect to server couldn't connect to display ":0.0" I also tried running as su root same thing. Any

Re: switch of Debian

1998-12-11 Thread Peter Berlau
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 06:00:20AM -0800, Michael Wahl wrote: Hi Michael > Hello out there, > > After all I finally installed DEBIAN. > And, what else, I have a question: > When I successfully logout, a knew login appears. Know I switch of the > computer. When I switch it on again, there is a che

??? playing cd's in cdplayer ???

1998-12-11 Thread Rich Hartman
Hello everybody, I just got my cdrom setup by modifying my fstab file (thanks for the help!) so that it is user-mountable... Now I can mount it and read a data-type cd... However, when I try to mount it when an audio cd is in, it says it's not a proper filesystem (which I guess it's not...) bu

??? seeing color (bpp) mode while in X ???

1998-12-11 Thread Rich Hartman
Is there any program or way to look at your video setting while in X - for instance to see what color mode (bpp) you're in (I guess xvidtune doesn't do that...) I'm running an ATI 3d rage II card, but can only seem to use 8 bpp without getting these annoying vertical "lines" of sketchiness on t

Re: Piping unpipable output.

1998-12-11 Thread tko
Christian Lavoie writes: [problem with capturing error messages from X server] Christain, invoke 'script' before running 'startx'. When you get back to the command line prompt (from startx), invoke 'exit' and everything which appeared on your screen will be captured in a text file called 'typescr

Re: recommendation on presentation software

1998-12-11 Thread Blazej Sawionek
"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote: > Take a look at MagicPoint (the "mgp" package). Where can I find it? Dselect (in hamm) asked for `Magic' finds only `libmagick4g'. Blazej

Re: ??? seeing color (bpp) mode while in X ???

1998-12-11 Thread Kirston Akos
Hi! Switch to the text console where you started X and you can read one of the line what the X server write to the console. Best krisah On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Rich Hartman wrote: > Is there any program or way to look at your video setting while in X > - for instance to see what color mo

Re: less shows fortune

1998-12-11 Thread Florian Kalb
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 02:45:26PM +0100, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote: > lesspipe.sh: Command not found. > > > When I take out the three lines from /etc/csh.cshrc, I still get this > lesspipe.sh: Command not found. error message, but after that the > contents of the file are displayed. > > Wha

Re: Converting TTF fonts to PCF

1998-12-11 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Peter Paluch wrote: > Hello friends! > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > I'd like to ask - is there any software for converting TrueType fonts to > PCF or to Type1? I need to convert those fonts for StarOffice - it works > only with PCF or Type1. I have great opportunity to use fonts from >

New mailing list: debian-hams

1998-12-11 Thread Joop Stakenborg
We have a new mailing list: debian-hams. It is supposed to be for debian ham developers and users. Some things I can think of which can be discussed on the list: - Make more hamradio software DFSG free. - Supply debian with a ham-ready kernel. - Give hams better support for debian packages. HAM

Re: LI but no LO

1998-12-11 Thread joseph evan porter
> > I had to change the SCSI controller on my home Debian machine > (had to cannibalise the Dawicontrol NCR chip card to use it on > another machine urgently). I found I couldn't get the same and put > in an Adaptec 2940U. The Adaptec shows me all the devices on > the chain correctly. I've

Re: ??? XF86Setup while running X ???

1998-12-11 Thread Andrew Ivanov
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Rich Hartman wrote: > > xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > xlib: client is not authorized to connect to server > couldn't connect to display ":0.0" > > I also tried running as su root same thing. > Login as a root, and then run setup. Su won't do ANdrew _

Re: ??? playing cd's in cdplayer ???

1998-12-11 Thread John Stevenson
IN order to use audio CD's with debian you need to add yourself to two groups. First the audio group to get access to /dev/dsp etc so you can hear sound. Secondly you need to be part of the disk group to get access to disks other than the linux partions. So as root, use the following commands:

Strange PPP server problem

1998-12-11 Thread Gopal Narayanan
Dear Fellow Debianites, Thanks in advance for any help with this strange problem I am having. I am trying to set up a PPP server at work. It is a Debian machine running hamm with ppp version 2.3.5-2. Same setup at my home-machine as well. I am setting this up in the server with mgetty and AutoPPP.

Re: RAID with Debian ?

1998-12-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Andreas Rapp wrote: : We are using a Debian system at our company : as eMail and Internet Gateway. To make it : more reliable I would like to add RAID. : : Has anyone experience with RAID controllers : or software solutions ? The DPT RAID controllers are excellent pe

Re: ??? playing cd's in cdplayer ???

1998-12-11 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"Rich Hartman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I just got my cdrom setup by modifying my fstab file (thanks for the | help!) so that it is user-mountable... Now I can mount it and read a | data-type cd... However, when I try to mount it when an audio cd is | in, it says it's not a proper filesyste

less still shows fortune...

1998-12-11 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> > When I take out the three lines from /etc/csh.cshrc, I still get this > > lesspipe.sh: Command not found. error message, but after that the > > contents of the file are displayed. > > > > What could that be? > ( -> man less ) > less tries to run lesspipe.sh. just remove the environment variabl

Re: Any one using voice modems (mailbox) on Debian with US Robotics Modem

1998-12-11 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 12:45:27PM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote: > I am looking for tips of how to get US Robotics Sportster Voice modem to > work as a voicemail system. I have to software to get it work in Windows > but I do not want to go that route. vgetty -- Mike Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTE

Building package

1998-12-11 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I want to build a hamm source package under bo. After saying ./debian/rules binary I get the following: test -f src/smail.h test root = "`whoami`" rm -rf debian/tmp install -g root -o root -m 755 -d debian/tmp/DEBIAN \ debian/tmp/etc/{smail,cron.daily} debian/tmp/var/log{,/smail} \ debian/tmp/u

Re: Debian Hamm used for a Linux Cluster and nobody noticed?

1998-12-11 Thread joost
Hi, On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Joerg Friedrich wrote: > CLOWN - The CLuster Of Working Nodes Projekt built a Cluster of more than > 512 Computers (IMHO 536). They used a Mini-Distribution derived from > Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 aka hamm :-) Great publicity! > Seems that nobody has noticed here :-) No, I

Re: Linking Machines

1998-12-11 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: > Sean P. Mason wrote: > > I was wondering. . . I have a bunch of old machines, and I was wondering > > if it was possible to link them all together to act as a single machine > > under Linux. I can't seem to find any information elsewhere thus far. > > I

Re: Install Problems from CDROM

1998-12-11 Thread Kent West
At 05:59 AM 12/11/1998 -0700, bill piasecki wrote: > > I have Debian 2.0 binary CD. I fdisked my machine and formatted C. I do not > have a dos disk but did a rawwrite of boot1440.bin from CD to floppy (on > another computer) I put this floppy into the A drive and rebootted. I now > have boot: pro

Re: Dial-up problem (fwd)

1998-12-11 Thread Kent West
I thought I sent this last night, but apparently it didn't go through. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 23:28:06 -0600 (CST) From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: eferen1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org, "recipient.list.not.shown": ; Subject: R

Re: switch of Debian

1998-12-11 Thread MallarJ
Or, You can hit CTRL-ALT-DEL - this calls the shutdown routine on my box. I've got hamm installed, and this feature came as a default. -Jay

Re: ??? XF86Setup while running X ???

1998-12-11 Thread Kent West
At 08:30 AM 12/11/1998 +, Rich Hartman wrote: >Howdy everybody, > >I'm trying to tweak my X setup by running XF86Setup while in X... > >However, I get the message: > >xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server >xlib: client is not authorized to connect to server >couldn't connect to display "

Re: Configuring X

1998-12-11 Thread Kent West
At 09:15 AM 12/11/1998 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, > >Ok, I'm very frustrated with X right now. Could someone who is going to >be online for awhile email me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and lend a hand with >setting things up. Thanks. > >Tom I may not be much help, but what're the issues?

Staroffice

1998-12-11 Thread MallarJ
I have a couple of quick questions for those of you using Star Office, and I couldn't find answers on their website: 1) I'm really only interested in pieces of the package, Star Writer, for example. Do you have to install the full package or can you install just the parts you want? 2) If you c

xserver-svga 3.3.2.3 messes virtual terminals

1998-12-11 Thread Jean Orloff
Hi! I just switched X11 server from s3v to svga (the staroffice install freezes otherwise). Now I get the rather annoying problem: whenever I start X, all the virtual terminals get scrambled. I tried the allmighty "reset" inside one of the terminals with no success. I also tried "stty sane < /dev

Re: SANE install catch-22

1998-12-11 Thread Alexander N. Benner
Hi Ship's Log, Lt. Ted Llewellyn, Stardate 010196.2012: > Date: Mon, 01 Jan 1996 20:12:48 + WOW .. a 2 Year old Email ... :-) did this mail get lost or is your date set a bit wrong ? greetings -- Alexander N. Benner - The Seven Promises of a Promise Keeper: -7- A Promise Keeper is co

Re: ??? seeing color (bpp) mode while in X ???

1998-12-11 Thread Kent West
At 03:34 PM 12/11/1998 +0100, Kirston Akos wrote: >Hi! > >Switch to the text console where you started X and you can read one of the >line what the X server write to the console. > >Best > > krisah > >On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Rich Hartman wrote: > >> Is there any program or way to look at your vi

Re: switch of Debian

1998-12-11 Thread Kent West
At 10:49 AM 12/11/1998 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Or, > >You can hit CTRL-ALT-DEL - this calls the shutdown routine on my box. I've got >hamm installed, and this feature came as a default. > >-Jay But be aware that not all systems are so set up (although I believe this is the default in Debi

Re: Stupid Telnet question.

1998-12-11 Thread stick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I don't think this is it. > > I've tried telnetting to other ports on this server from the workstation > > in question. Ports w/ a listener connect, ports w/o a listener say > > Connection refused. Telnet's port says no route to host. > > Ha

Re: Staroffice

1998-12-11 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> 1) I'm really only interested in pieces of the package, Star Writer, for > example. Do you have to install the full package or can you install just the > parts you want? It's a single program; there aren't packages. And it has it's own yuckky windows-like "desktop", and is confined to a sin

Re: SANE install catch-22

1998-12-11 Thread wtopa
Is the list catching up on OLD mail or has someone forgotten to set their clock up? Subject: SANE install catch-22 Date: Mon, Jan 01, 1996 at 08:12:48PM + In reply to:Ted Llewellyn Quoting Ted Llewellyn([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Well, this is very pretty.I'm running De

Re: ??? seeing color (bpp) mode while in X ???

1998-12-11 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"Rich Hartman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Is there any program or way to look at your video setting while in X | - for instance to see what color mode (bpp) you're in (I guess | xvidtune doesn't do that...) I'm running an ATI 3d rage II card, but | can only seem to use 8 bpp without getting these

Network cards.

1998-12-11 Thread Brent McMillan
I'll be setting up a network between my linux box and 2 other machines for a cable modem. I hear that there are some network cards that just don't work for linux. Crazy I know, but that's the rumour. Does any one know off any cards I should avoid or any they would recomend? Thanks.

Funky mouse.

1998-12-11 Thread Brent McMillan
I recently picked up an old (circa 1986) Digital, DEC VSXXX-AA mouse. I picked it up because it didn't use a track ball, but rather an horizontal and vertical roller on the underside. It look kinda like it had a PS/2 connection, but it doesn't. What are the odds I could get this to work on m

Re: Staroffice

1998-12-11 Thread Peter S Galbraith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a couple of quick questions for those of you using Star Office, and I > couldn't find answers on their website: > > 1) I'm really only interested in pieces of the package, Star Writer, for > example. Do you have to install the full package or can you install ju

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