slrn and attachments

1999-02-24 Thread Debian Mail
> slrn is very mutt-like (or is it the other way around?) > It handles attachments well and I am using it right now to read these lists. OK, I started it and had a look trough the documentation. If I understood it right, I have to save an attachment to a posting first, and then open the saved file

Re: changing irq of eth0

1999-02-24 Thread Peter Berlau
Hi, [..] > The card is already set to 10 but GNU/Linux seems to want it at 15. > So where do I say > it's 10? > you must change the entry in '/etc/conf.modules' for a novell ne 2000 clone, (I have this one) You need a entry like options ne io=0x240 irq=10 You must io setting to Your needs. if You

leafnode and expiration of articles

1999-02-24 Thread wax_man
I there anyway to set the expiration time on read articles? I have texpire running every midnight, but it is not expiring many articles. I would like read articles to expire after a week or so. TIA, Chris

Re: partitions for sun sparc 10

1999-02-24 Thread Phil Nitschke
> "AW" == Armin Wegner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AW> I would like to install debian on a sun sparc 10 with 64 megs and AW> 4 gigs of disk space. AW> How many partitions can I create? Are there primary and extended partitions? AW> There are following partitions on the system now.

Re: Apache and public_html directories

1999-02-24 Thread Paul Miller
Jonathan Guthrie wrote: > > Is the file /home/mark/public_html readable by the user or group that > Apache runs as? I set the home directories of my users up to have > permissions of 710 and membership in the group that Apache runs as > ("wheel" on my main computer, "www-data" on every Debian ins

Re: IRC

1999-02-24 Thread Dave McFadden
At 02:03 PM 2/23/99 -0800, you wrote: > >I would like to give the on line irc at debian a try. What software >package would I use, and how to set it up to access the debian channel? > After trying some of the IRC packages, I have settled on BitchX. If you are not familiar with IRC, BitchX comes

Installing nntp?

1999-02-24 Thread Debian Mail
I want to install nntp. It depends on cnews. When I want to install cnews, it conflicts with inewsinn. But inewsinn is needed for my newsreaders to work, isn't it? What do I have to do? Stef

Re: AHA-2940 SCSI won't boot

1999-02-24 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 05:45:34PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > >As a recap, I have a Gateway2000 P5-200 with an Adaptec AHA-2940 > >Ultra/Ultraw SCSI host adapter with four 2GB Seagate ST32155W drives. DOS > >does fine with it; Win95 does fine; WinNT does fine. Try the new boot disks, 2.1.8, availa

what happened to irc.debian.org?

1999-02-24 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I've been trying to connect to irc.debian.org for some time now. It appears to be down. Does anyone have the lowdown on this? I have a feeling the developers are busy getting slink ready. -- NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://o

nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
I don't know how to get NFS working on Debian though I used it on OpenLinux. I tried FTP and that failed too, and now I find that I am unable to get my network card on the Laptop to work. The indicator is on but still, it is dead. -- Andrew

need help about bind and dns

1999-02-24 Thread Ramiel Givergis
@ Home I have a 5 computer LAN so that I share files, internet etc. with my sibling and parents. Currently to connect to the internet I use my Debian 2.1 using pon and then I run another script I made called ipon which runs the ipfwadm stuff... then when I disconnect I use poff and then ipoff wh

Re: what happened to irc.debian.org?

1999-02-24 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > I've been trying to connect to irc.debian.org for some time now. > > It appears to be down. Does anyone have the lowdown on this? > > I have a feeling the developers are busy getting slink ready. For some reason, irc.debian.org doesn't work thru an IPMASQ connec

fetchmail doesn't put email...

1999-02-24 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
Fetchmail downloads my email apparently. But it does not, put the email in a place where mutt can find it. After running fetchmail, mail is downloaded, but then when I start mutt, there is nothing there. What do I need in my ~/.fetchmailrc file to make it put the mail in the right place? -- Nat

Re: tecra disk seems to work on my ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Dale E. Martin
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am still looking for that package. Do I install it after I finish > installing the base system? Yes. It's in the "admin" section. Later, Dale -- +- pgp key available --+ | Dale E. Martin | Clifto

Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Dale E. Martin
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know how to get NFS working on Debian though I used it on OpenLinux. > I tried FTP and that failed too, and now I find that I am unable to get my > network card on the Laptop to work. The indicator is on but still, it is > dead. If you run "ifconfi

smb.conf and preexec

1999-02-24 Thread tony mollica
Hi. I'm running samba 1.9.18p8 on a Debian 2.0, 2.0.34 system connected to a winnt4sp3 network. Most everything works nicely, but I can't get the cdrom's (2 scsi) on the Linux box to automount with "preexec = ". The fstab is set as follows and as recommended in the smb.conf file: /dev/scd0 /cd0

Re: CD recorder problem

1999-02-24 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
On 23 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cdwrite is not as full-featured as cdrecord. Unless you have a special reason to use cdwrite, I suggest cdrecord -v -dummy -xa2 dev=3,0 speed=2 cdimage.raw ^ for testing so you don't kill a disc. if that doesn't work,

Re: tecra disk seems to work on my ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 Dale E. Martin wrote: > Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I am still looking for that package. Do I install it after I finish >> installing the base system? > > Yes. It's in the "admin" section. You mean on the CDROM? Yes I think I have seen it there, but if I cannot put

Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 Dale E. Martin wrote: > Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I don't know how to get NFS working on Debian though I used it on >> OpenLinux. >> I tried FTP and that failed too, and now I find that I am unable to get my >> network card on the Laptop to work. The indicator is on

RE: fetchmail doesn't put email...

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > Fetchmail downloads my email apparently. But it does not, put the email > in a place where mutt can find it. After running fetchmail, mail is > downloaded, but then when I start mutt, there is nothing there. > > What do I need in my ~/.fetchmailrc file to

/home/ftp directory question

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
I just noticed that I have a /home/ftp directory but no subdirectories (no pub, etc, bin or anything else). Is this normal? thanks -- Andrew

keboaard prooblems :)

1999-02-24 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
Hi, I've been having some keyboard problems on a newly installed hamm system. Often when typing some characters are repeated twice as in the subject heading. Also sometime the shift key will act as if it's held down even though it is physically up. I was wondering if anyone has had any experience

Re: CRASH: filesystem went read only

1999-02-24 Thread Chuck Stickelman
Frederick Page wrote: > Hi Richard Harran, > > you wrote on Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 05:14:30PM +: > > >I just had a huge panic, when my file system 'spontaneously' turned read > >only! > > man tune2fs > While this is a very useful manpage, I'm not sure it's addressing the real issue. Richard's

Re: what happened to irc.debian.org?

1999-02-24 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > I've been trying to connect to irc.debian.org for some time now. > > > > It appears to be down. Does anyone have the lowdown on this? > > > > I have a feeling the developers are busy getting slink ready. > > For some reason, irc.debian.org doesn't

Re: where is telnetd?

1999-02-24 Thread dyer
Frankie wrote: > Eliezer Figueroa wrote: > > > > Is telnetd part of the of the official debian 2.0 CD'S because I failed > > to find it? > > yes it is - its in net. [snip] > > actually, in 2.0 it's part of netstd package with ftpd etc... it was > seperated out in slink. dyer

fetchmail sending mail back to ISP

1999-02-24 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I have sendmail set to forward mail to an smtp host (i.e., my.isp.net). Fetchmail, seems to be downloading my email from my mail.isp.net account, and then sendmail sends it back to my isp which then their postmaster sends me the "Delivery Failure" message. How do I correct this so that I can stil

Re: Linux Educational Needs Posting Pages

1999-02-24 Thread Chuck Stickelman
Randy Edwards wrote: > > I am passing around a link to a new page > > designed for the purpose of helping > > LINUX move into the classroom. > >Sounds like a great idea. Linux is a "natural" for education. Yes!! So much so that I've convinced the department head at the local technical colle

Re: How to make Netscape use Debian mailcap ?

1999-02-24 Thread Frozen Rose
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lars Steinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >does anybody know why Netscape does not use /etc/mailcap and >/etc/mimetypes ? It is rather annoying that Netscape won't startup >gv for .ps files even though we have such a nice mime-type >definition for every package. That

xbiff for remote mail?

1999-02-24 Thread Rob Mahurin
Question: I would like to have an xbiff-type mail alert on my desktop, but I read my mail off of a remote server. Is there an easy way to do this? The only ways I can think of are to set it up to check through fetchmail (though I don't want to download my mail; that's why I set up IMAP in the fi

Re: fetchmail doesn't put email...

1999-02-24 Thread Chuck Stickelman
Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > Fetchmail downloads my email apparently. But it does not, put the email > in a place where mutt can find it. After running fetchmail, mail is > downloaded, but then when I start mutt, there is nothing there. > > What do I need in my ~/.fetchmailrc file to make it put th

apt-get downloading packages question

1999-02-24 Thread Preston Landers
Hey there... Finally got apt-get to download slink packages for me. I don't know exactly how I fixed it. I did two things: download + install slink base manually, and install apt-get 0.3.0. Anyway, I still have about 50 mb of packages to download and apt-get annonyingly gives up the whole pro

Junkbuster and Mail Problems

1999-02-24 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
So I set the http proxy to localhost with a port of 5865 and the security proxy to localhost with a port of 5865. I am able to surf around but now I cannot retrieve mail through Netscape unless I reset the proxy back to Automatic detection. What's up with this? Anyone know? Lance

Re: cd-writer: no /dev/sg0, sr0, or scd0 working

1999-02-24 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
Do a ./MAKEDEV sgall in /dev directory... Regards, Vaidhy On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 06:36:09AM +, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > I typed MAKEDEV sgall, but command not found. Do I need a > package? I'm in su mode too. > > Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 11:00:07

Re: The usual reboot problems

1999-02-24 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Mon, 22 Feb, 1999 à 01:30:25PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote: > > > > > That might explain why I am unable to use my Debian boot disk on that > > machine. > > I forgot the correct procedure for copying a kernel to a floppy, but when I > > find it, I will tr

Re: apt-get downloading packages question

1999-02-24 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Preston Landers wrote: > Anyway, I still have about 50 mb of packages to download and apt-get > annonyingly gives up the whole process with a single bad transfer or > connection. all I have to do is press enter about three times to get it It should give up the file it is do

Re: cd-writer: no /dev/sg0, sr0, or scd0 working

1999-02-24 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 09:50:49PM -0500, Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: > Do a ./MAKEDEV sgall in /dev directory... > > Regards, > Vaidhy > On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 06:36:09AM +, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > > I typed MAKEDEV sgall, but command not found. Do I need a > > package? I'm in su

Re: keboaard prooblems :)

1999-02-24 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: > Hi there Daniel, > How much do you use your computer? I find i go through a new > keyboard at least once a year and this is a regular symptom of it going. I > often find my Shift and Ctrl keys going and they are simply worn out. > Test

Re: Web email packages question

1999-02-24 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
Quoting Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > What packages are available that would allow me to get > > to my email from the web server on my system? > Run -- don't walk! -- to http://www.tdyc.com/~rkrusty/Debian/ and grab > Ivan Moore's IMP setup. When I did an overview of all the web-based s

Std. Serial ports beyond 115K?

1999-02-24 Thread Kevin Traas
I want to connect an external ISDN to my system using the MB's standard serial ports.  However, everything's telling me I can only push 115K through these serial ports - far less than the theoretical max of an ISDN TA that does V.42bis.   Any comments/suggestions on "overclocking"  ;-)  bui

Re: AHA-2940 SCSI won't boot

1999-02-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Kent West wrote: : I asked this a week or two ago, but am still having trouble. : : As a recap, I have a Gateway2000 P5-200 with an Adaptec AHA-2940 : Ultra/Ultraw SCSI host adapter with four 2GB Seagate ST32155W drives. DOS : does fine with it; Win95 does fine; WinNT do

Re: ROOT created chaos !

1999-02-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 23 Feb 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: : In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, : Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : >On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Bal K. Paudyal wrote: : > : > : As root, I typed the following: : > : : > : "chsh /bin/usr/tcsh" when I meant "chsh /usr/bin/tcsh". : > :

Re: GNOME 0.99.8 debs anywhere?

1999-02-24 Thread servis
*- On 22 Feb, Paul Nathan Puri wrote about "GNOME 0.99.8 debs anywhere?" > The mirrors only have the new GNOME in the rpm format. Does > anyone know where I can find the new GNOME release in the > favorite format (i.e., deb)? Thanks... Try ftp://ftp.jimpick.com/pub/debian/pkgs/. Jim is the main

Re: cd-writer: no /dev/sg0, sr0, or scd0 working

1999-02-24 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 07:19:33PM -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 09:50:49PM -0500, Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: > > Do a ./MAKEDEV sgall in /dev directory... > > > > Regards, > > Vaidhy > > On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 06:36:09AM +, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > > > I t

make-kpkg funny

1999-02-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
I just compiled 2.2.2 using make-kpkg (kernel-package 6.07) and using the command 'make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image' it created a file kernel-image-.._custom.1.0_i386.deb Where does make-kpkg get the kernel version? Makefile shows: VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 2 SUBLEVEL = 2 EXTRAVERSIO

(Oops. Again with no HTML) Std. Serial ports beyond 115K?

1999-02-24 Thread Kevin Traas
I want to connect an external ISDN to my system using the MB's standard serial ports. However, everything's telling me I can only push 115K through these serial ports - far less than the theoretical max of an ISDN TA that does V.42bis. Any comments/suggestions on "overclocking" ;-) built-in ser

Re: The usual reboot problems

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: I got Debian installed (base only) bit my network card (PCMCIA) is not working. I will have to reinstall OpenLinux on the ThinkPad so the network card will work. -- Andrew

Re: Std. Serial ports beyond 115K?

1999-02-24 Thread Dimitri Patakidis
Hi there Kevin :) The best way to get the most bang for your ISDN buck is to use an ISDN router. ISDN IN ---> ETHERNET OUT No RS-232 translation in between. Now if I could find someone to sell my external BitSurfer, I would probably go with that :) Dimitri At 07:34 PM 02/23/1999 -0800, you

Plog

1999-02-24 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I've , for whatever reason I had (dunno why I did this), deleted /var/log/ppp.log SInce then none of the plog messages appear. I know that plog gets the data from ppp.log, but whenever ppp is working, it no longer seems to write to ppp.log (doesnt create it/write to it when its created). Syslog sho

Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Dale E. Martin
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It says the card is UP and route shows normal, but they are lying. Can you ping a host on your network? Does the light on the card blink? Why do think it's lying? -- +- pgp key available --+ | Dale E. Martin

Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 Dale E. Martin wrote: > Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> It says the card is UP and route shows normal, but they are lying. > > Can you ping a host on your network? Does the light on the card blink? > Why do think it's lying? dmesg shows that the network card is not recog

Re: The usual reboot problems

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 George Bonser wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote: > >> >> On 24-Feb-99 Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: >> >> I got Debian installed (base only) bit my network card (PCMCIA) is not >> working. >> I will have to reinstall OpenLinux on the ThinkPad so the network card will >> work.

Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 Dale E. Martin wrote: > Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> It says the card is UP and route shows normal, but they are lying. > > Can you ping a host on your network? Does the light on the card blink? > Why do think it's lying? Also, I can ping localhost but that is all. -

Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 George Bonser wrote: > On 23 Feb 1999, Dale E. Martin wrote: > >> Can you ping a host on your network? Does the light on the card blink? >> Why do think it's lying? >> > > I wonder if he went through modconf and installed the driver for the card. > > I do not specifically recall

Re: Plog

1999-02-24 Thread Mark Phillips
> I've , for whatever reason I had (dunno why I did this), deleted > /var/log/ppp.log > SInce then none of the plog messages appear. I don't know the correct solution to your problem, but you could try this: Do "touch ppp.log" to create the file, then use chown and chmod so that the file has the

SGMLtools and the Debian tutorial

1999-02-24 Thread Chuck Peters
Hi, I would like to put some documents in SGML and decided to try converting the Debian tutorial at http://www.debian.org/~hp/tutorial/debian-tutorial.sgml as an example. Well it did not go so well. Going by the document at http://www.us.sgmltools.org/guide/guide-4.html, I tried: bash-2.01$ sg

networ card up on ThinkPad :)

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote: > > On 24-Feb-99 George Bonser wrote: >> On 23 Feb 1999, Dale E. Martin wrote: >> >>> Can you ping a host on your network? Does the light on the card blink? >>> Why do think it's lying? >>> >> >> I wonder if he went through modconf and installed the driver for the

networ card up on ThinkPad :)

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote: > > On 24-Feb-99 George Bonser wrote: >> On 23 Feb 1999, Dale E. Martin wrote: >> >>> Can you ping a host on your network? Does the light on the card blink? >>> Why do think it's lying? >>> >> >> I wonder if he went through modconf and installed the driver for the

networ card up on ThinkPad :)

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
Not so lucky. I can ping the netcard on the laptop but not the other machine. I think I have to set a gateway or something. I don't know where the scripts are in Debian. -- Andrew

Re: cd-writer: no /dev/sg0, sr0, or scd0 working

1999-02-24 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 10:50:44PM -0500, Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 07:19:33PM -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 09:50:49PM -0500, Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: > > > Do a ./MAKEDEV sgall in /dev directory... > > > > > > Regards, > >

Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Mark Ciciretti
Try running '/etc/init.d/network start' after the PCMCIA services are started. IIRC this is what I had to do when I installed Debian on a friend's laptop. On 24-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote: > > On 24-Feb-99 Dale E. Martin wrote: >> Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> It says the card is UP a

ThinkPad problem continues

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
When I got to modconf in the installation, my network card was not one of the choices. I did set up PCMCIA and the card manager is installed, but things are still not working correctly. -- Andrew

Re: ThinkPad problem continues

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 George Bonser wrote: > > Well, what is the problem exactly? WHat is not working? Your network card > might not be a module, it might be in the kernel or you might have to > build the module. That is what I am thinking, that I must build it, but that is a problem since I need to inst

Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 Mark Ciciretti wrote: > Try running '/etc/init.d/network start' after the PCMCIA services > are started. IIRC this is what I had to do when I installed Debian on a > friend's laptop. > ummm.. I am not sure, but I think that worked. I am pinging the laptop from here now and it did

Re: Std. Serial ports beyond 115K?

1999-02-24 Thread Kevin Traas
My big thing is that I want/need Dial- & Bandwidth-on-Demand support - very big requirements.   I don't think these little ISDN routers provide the level of control that I want.  (If you know different, please let me know.)   Later, Kevin   -Original Message-From: Dimitri P

Re: ThinkPad problem continues

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 George Bonser wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote: > >> I can do: >> >> ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.11 >> route add 192.168.1.11 dev eth0 >> >> but that only lets me ping the machine by hostname or localhost. >> I cannot ping the other machine. > > THat is the problem! It onl

Re: ThinkPad problem continues

1999-02-24 Thread Mark Ciciretti
To find out which module it is run lsmod. Then run rmmod MOD_NAME to remove each module one by one. When the network stops working run insmod to install the last module that you removed. After you have found the module, run modconf and select that module under the network section. It will then

Re: ThinkPad problem continues

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 Mark Ciciretti wrote: > To find out which module it is run lsmod. Then run rmmod MOD_NAME to > remove each module one by one. When the network stops working run insmod > to install the last module that you removed. After you have found the > module, run modconf and select that modu

pcnet_cs on ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Pollywog
My network card module is pcnet_cs, just as I thought (same as OpenLinux installed). I believe I should have only installed the module that is marked as being automatically loaded, i82365. That probably is the module for pcnet_cs and not the one I was guessing was the correct one (similar name).

slrn

1999-02-24 Thread ivan
I have just started trying to use slrn - looks good and seems it will do everything that I require BUT ... Both when downloading the groups list and when decoding a file an error appears bsd_decomp0: bad sequence # 11, expected 77 The numbers 11 & 77 change but I get several of these errors. Wh

Best partitionscheme 2 ?

1999-02-24 Thread F. Frijns
OK guys (girls maybe too) Reading the mails I learned a lot about Debian (I'm just switching from RedHat 5.1due to lack of support for MCA PC's. This RedHat version only runs with a Debian! kernel in DOS completed with LOADLIN. The Debian version however uses the MCA-architecture perfectly!) Q

Re: make-kpkg funny

1999-02-24 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:58:24 -0700 (MST), Bob Nielsen wrote: >I just compiled 2.2.2 using make-kpkg (kernel-package 6.07) and using the >command 'make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image' it created a file > >kernel-image-.._custom.1.0_i386.deb > >Where does make-kpkg get the kernel version?

Re: Best partitionscheme 2 ?

1999-02-24 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > OK guys (girls maybe too) > > Reading the mails I learned a lot about Debian (I'm just switching from = > RedHat 5.1due to lack of support for MCA PC's. This RedHat version only = > runs with a Debian! kernel in DOS completed with LOADLIN. The Debian = > version however uses the MCA-architect

Re: make-kpkg funny

1999-02-24 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:58:24 -0700 (MST), Bob Nielsen wrote: > > >I just compiled 2.2.2 using make-kpkg (kernel-package 6.07) and using the > >command 'make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image' it created a file > > > >kernel-image-.._custom.1.0_i386.deb > > > >Where does make-kpkg get the k

Re: CD recorder problem

1999-02-24 Thread hubert . fauque
"Daniel J. Brosemer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 23 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > cdwrite is not as full-featured as cdrecord. Unless you have a special > reason to use cdwrite, I suggest > cdrecord -v -dummy -xa2 dev=3,0 speed=2 cdimage.raw >^ >

Re: pdflatex problem

1999-02-24 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Johann Spies wrote: > When I run pdflatex on a document that compiles without a problem in > normal Latex, I get the following error (and it has happened on all the > latex documents I have tried so far - however not always referring to the > same font). > > ! Error: pdflatex

lpr not installed

1999-02-24 Thread Bal K. Paudyal
Hello friends, It looks like my old pc with Debian does not have lpr installed. What package it is in? Any idea? Thanks

Re: Where is pine?

1999-02-24 Thread Ian Stuart
Debian Mail wrote: > > I did a > zgrep pine Contents-i386.gz | grep bin > which shows no result (the Contents-i386.gz is from potato). > Where is pine? Stef, There isn't a .deb binary for pine (something about licencing or distributing binaries or something that Washinton Uni. put in.) What you

Re: [Debian] booting from CD

1999-02-24 Thread Patrik Hagglund
You put a bootable floppy disk on it. See the CD-Writing HOWTO section 4.11: http://www.guug.de/~winni/linux/cdr/ -- Patrik Hägglund

Re: CD recorder problem

1999-02-24 Thread Patrik Hagglund
> I am nom looking for technical info about CD writing, do you > know where I could find it? Have a look at the CD-Writing HOWTO: http://www.guug.de/~winni/linux/cdr/ -- Patrik Hägglund

Re: make-kpkg funny

1999-02-24 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > Read the mail again. Instead of 2.2.2 for the kernel-version, he gets > `..'. This is no good. Sorry, I misunderstood him. I thought he used ".." as an ellipsis to indicate that he left something out.

Help. How do I reconfigure my the network?

1999-02-24 Thread Jens K. Olsen
Please I need some help. I have Debian GNU/Linux running on my Sony VAIO PCG-505G which I carry around to different offices. I need to connect to the networks in the different offices so I can download my e-mail and stay in contact with the rest of the world. When I installed Linux I set up the

Re: fetchmail sending mail back to ISP

1999-02-24 Thread Jim Foltz
Paul, fetchmail doesn't put email anywhere. It connects to port 25, which is the port that your Mail Transfer Agent uses. Fetchmail connects to your mail server and downloads messages, and delivers them to port 25 where either smail or exim is listening. Then exim or smail is responsible for deliv

Any good & free SSL enabled WWW browser for debian?

1999-02-24 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi all! I'm looking for any good (at least 128b session key - the 40b in export version Netscape is just a joke) & free web browser for debian. I'd like to use it for students' scores database at my university. I don't know if mozilla supports SSL, or there is any simple method to add SSL support

Re: Help. How do I reconfigure my the network?

1999-02-24 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > Please I need some help. > > I have Debian GNU/Linux running on my Sony VAIO PCG-505G which I carry > around to different offices. I need to connect to the networks in the > different offices so I can download my e-mail and stay in contact with > the rest of the wo

Re: fetchmail sending mail back to ISP

1999-02-24 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 06:50:20AM -0500, Jim Foltz wrote: > Paul, > > fetchmail doesn't put email anywhere. It connects to port 25, which is > the port that your Mail Transfer Agent uses. Fetchmail connects to your > mail server and downloads messages, and delivers them to port 25 where > either

Re: pcnet_cs on ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread wb2oyc
>automatically loaded, i82365. That probably is the module for >pcnet_cs and not the one I was guessing was the correct one (similar name). Andrew, I think thats the controller for the PCMCIA slots (the i82365). The module used to drive the detected card is determined by the card id string tha

Re: apt-get downloading packages question

1999-02-24 Thread Stuart Miles
> you might want to use it.. (but not with gnome-apt) > Dare I ask why not with gnome-apt? -- Stuart Miles[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any good & free SSL enabled WWW browser for debian?

1999-02-24 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 12:58:06 +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > I'm looking for any good (at least 128b session key - the 40b in export > version Netscape is just a joke) & free web browser for debian. You can use the fortify packages on non-US to upgrade it to 128bit. > I don't know if mozil

Re: keboaard prooblems :)

1999-02-24 Thread John Stevenson
I had a problem with my keyboard when I used the tleds package (which used the keyboard leds to indicate events). This stoped my laptop keyboard working. If you have a package like this installed, it may be causing the problem. John. "Daniel J. Brosemer" wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Robert

Re: Disk Partioning (FDISK)

1999-02-24 Thread Richard Lyon
superformat -Da: --dosverify /dev/fd0 > Using Fdisk on a Disk that has a working copy of Win 98 which i wanted to > put Debian on i get this error: > Checking Boot sector > Error: Number of Sectors > (long) does not match partition info > 2411873 instead of 3322305 > Please help!

StarOffice 5

1999-02-24 Thread Frankie
Is there a recommended way of installing SO5 under debian? there doesn't seem to be an install Package for it (like there is for SO3)? should I just use setup as per the Staroffice instructions, and if so, I don't want to have to install it once for every user, so would I use the network installa

sun sparc 10 /sda3 whole disk

1999-02-24 Thread Armin Wegner
Hi, I'm trying to install debian on a sun sparc 10. When I klick on "Initialize a Linux Partition", I'm set back to choose the color. I think that it has something to do with the third partition wich is of type "whole disk". I removed this partition to look what happens. Now I can initialize lin

Re: [SuSE Linux] 2 modems ?

1999-02-24 Thread Kester Clegg
Yes, I think it's called FRAD? It's in the documentation for kernal modules I believe... k. : Is it possible to set up two modems under Linux and use the bandwidth :as one entity... 2 x 56k modems to give 112k speed? : : : :Surjit. : : :I've have managed to get some web space (50mb) and a domai

Re: nfs install ftp install fail on ThinkPad

1999-02-24 Thread Dale E. Martin
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 24-Feb-99 Mark Ciciretti wrote: > > Try running '/etc/init.d/network start' after the PCMCIA services > > are started. IIRC this is what I had to do when I installed Debian on a > > friend's laptop. > > > > ummm.. I am not sure, but I think that worked.

2 questions

1999-02-24 Thread Ian Setford
Two things. 1) I keep fairly current and after dselect ran last week one time, no one except root can run ping. Was this done on purpose. If so, why? 2) For some reason pppd disconnects after some amount of time all by itself. I want it to stay up 24/7. I did see in dmesg that the PPP has dem

KDE Configuration

1999-02-24 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
I have downloaded the KDE-Base using DSelect. However, dselect can't configure KDE because the file qt1g is missing. DSelect can't find the qt1g file in the package file. Where can I get this file? TIA, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven

Re: /home/ftp directory question

1999-02-24 Thread Thomas Adams
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 01:37:07AM -, Pollywog wrote: > I just noticed that I have a /home/ftp directory but no subdirectories (no > pub, etc, bin or anything else). Is this normal? It seems to be normal, it's on my Debian systems, too. I think if you follow the ftpd manpage you can setup an

Re: CD recorder problem

1999-02-24 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
On 24 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "Daniel J. Brosemer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 23 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > cdwrite is not as full-featured as cdrecord. Unless you have a special > > reason to use cdwrite, I suggest > > cdrecord -v -dummy -xa2 dev=3,0 spe

Re: StarOffice 5

1999-02-24 Thread Peter Berlau
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 01:19:17PM +, Frankie wrote: > Is there a recommended way of installing SO5 under debian? first You must get a copy of so5. one way ist to download it from stardivision than You have to follow a obscure password-identification, however, this means You must be registred ,

Re: leafnode and expiration of articles

1999-02-24 Thread Randy Belk
Texpire does not expire by time but by threads. Do a search for "pexpire" on HotBot, it is a dropin replacement for texpire that expires by time. >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/23/99 06:08PM >>> I there anyway to set the expiration time on read articles? I have texpire running every midnight, but it

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