I recently tried to install Win95 over a DOS partition hoping it would
leave my Linux partition alone. It didn't. Linux starts booting, then
starts spitting out errors. If I boot from a floppy, then try to mount, I
also get the errors. Running e2fsck on the partition gives me _many_
messages su
On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Nelson Posse Lago wrote:
> > of the security leaks that appear every day; hopefully qmail/smail are
> > better or, at least, less popular among hackers.
>
> From what I know of mailers in general, qmail or smail is still
> susc
Currently, there are two versions of Lyx (one in contrib and one in
section tex). Is there any reason for this?
Also, there are two version of gs (Aladdin and GNU versions). While I see
the need for two versions here, perhaps they should be named differently
(gs_alladin and gs_gnu both providing
I recently downloaded Crack_4.1 from Sunsite (I couldn't find a Debian
version, there isn't one is there?). When I ran it, I got "Version of
crypt() being used internally is not compatible with standard.
Terminating...".
Is this true that Debian crypt() is non-standard? Has anyone got this to
wor
On Mon, 14 Oct 1996, David Puryear wrote:
> Does anyone know the performance cost of modules? I just
> compiled kernel 2.0.22 without modules and one with modules. I
> noticed that kernel without modules run noticeably faster.
I've never heard of this problem before. What modules are you lo
On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Marty Leisner wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you w
> rite:
> >I know that at least one of the 2.0.x kernels has major problems when
> >running Apache. Sorry, I don't remember which one. So you might want to
> >try another kernel and see if that fixes your problem.
On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, Brian C. White wrote:
> > > I am using the latest version of Debian (brand new system installed
> > > yesterday). Is there something to be done to properly set up X?
> >
> > I found that Debian/XFree86/whoever by default maps both the BS and Del
> > keys to , which is irritati
On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> I'd like to hear more about what breaks with 2.0.24 .
Some people have reported that X is slower in 2.0.24. Linus is looking
into the cause.
Gerry
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On 9 Dec 1996, Norman Walsh wrote:
> I'm using the S3 X server and the display doesn't map quite right. It
> seems to be off by a small number of pixels (leaving a slim vertical
> bar across the far right of the display). This is sporadic behavior,
> sometimes it "snaps" into proper alignment an
On Sat, 21 Dec 1996, John Goerzen wrote:
> I have been having problems with talk and ytalk under Linux. Any help would
> be greatly appreciated!
I had trouble with this too. I believe one problem is that the host name
of your machine must match the IP address of your machine. Otherwise,
other
On 26 Dec 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
> Gerry Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > And lastly, Sun's talk seems to be incompatible with just about every
> > other OS's talk that I've tried, including Linux.
>
> Unless you use ytalk. ytalk can
On Tue, 30 Apr 1996, Michael Harnois wrote:
> modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-3
> modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-4
> modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5
I get this too but haven't a clue as to why. I get this whenver I connect
with either SLIP or PPP. I'm using k
On Wed, 1 May 1996, Scott Barker wrote:
> Lars Wirzenius said:
> > Don't do that. Mail bombing is worse than junk mail.
>
> But it's not a bomb. You're just helping the spammer along by showing him a
> bunch of examples of other people's junk mail :) You're providing them a
> service, and should
Sometimes, a telnet or FTP session to our Debian system does not end
correctly. I think this usually happens when someone's network connection
dies while they are still connected. When this happens (I don't think it
happens every time), their shell or FTP process does not die, but lives on
foreve
It's interesting that people are having problems now with Motif apps,
because suddenly, my problems with Motif apps have been magically solved.
That is, the backspace key now works correctly for both Motif and
non-Motif apps. Previously, if I wanted the backspace key to work
correctly with Motif
Does anyone know of an easy way to make it so that
cron.daily/weekly/monthly jobs get executed even if the system is not on
at the specified time?
For instance, I typically only run my home system an hour or two per
day. How could I make it so that the first time I boot my system each
day, /e
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
> I would say that Debian needs a FAQ for this, but after the new
> release is out it'll be irrelevant. The upcoming 1.1 release has
> which. It's just a bash shell script that calls bash's built in type
> command:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> type -path $*
I'm g
I recently upgraded several packages in the unstable directory including the
modules package. I am running kerneld. After the upgrade, when I tried
to execute pppd I get "Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support".
When I try to do insmod ppp I get:
slhc_free undefined
slhc_init undefined
I remember seeing a *long* time ago that dftp 1.5 had been uploaded to
the Debian FTP site. Yet, I still only see 1.4. What happened to 1.5?
Gerry
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On Tue, 28 May 1996, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
> Never compile PPP into the kernel. Always compile it as a module and load
> it via /etc/modules. This is because slhc.c says it needs to be compiled
> as a module and ppp relies on it.
I have ppp compiled into my kernel (not as a module) and it's wor
On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Shawn Asmussen wrote:
> I use my debian machine for connecting to the internet via ppp,
> however I also want to set it up to use the ppp access at work (We're
> behind a firewall at work, so I can't just connect to my ISP and telnet to
> work.) I can configure it for ei
I remember seeing in the kernel mailing list that pre2.0.13 breaks
incoming telnets. Are you by chance using this kernel?
Gerry
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On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Brian Sulcer wrote:
> I recently upgraded one of our machine's base packages and other packages
> to the latest 1.1 versions.
On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Michael Meskes wrote:
> Sven Rudolph writes:
> > 4. Packages that someone is working on
> >
> > Programs listed in this section aren't yet available as Debian
> > packages, but someone is working on providing a package.
> > [...]
> > o Xemacs
>
> Has been releas
On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Rick Hawkins wrote:
> Under the beta releases with 1.3.9x, the following file is created:
>
> #! /bin/sh
> ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
> route add 127.0.0.1
> IPADDR=129.186.31.38
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> NETWORK=129.186.31.38
> BROADCAST=129.186.31.255
> GATEWAY=129.186.31.
HELP! I just upgraded to Debian 1.1 from .93. Now whenever I try to
run anything that requires any terminal capabilities, I get something
like "xterm: unable to find usable termcap entry", or "Terminal type
vt100 is unknown". I have ncurses-base-1.9.9e-1,
ncurses-bin-1.9.9e-1, and ncurses3.0-1.9
> HELP! I just upgraded to Debian 1.1 from .93. Now whenever I try to
> run anything that requires any terminal capabilities, I get something
> like "xterm: unable to find usable termcap entry", or "Terminal type
> vt100 is unknown". I have ncurses-base-1.9.9e-1,
> ncurses-bin-1.9.9e-1, and ncu
I see that the xforms library is listed in the Packages file under section
x11. But, when I look under the x11 subdirectory, I don't see it. Does
anyone know what happened to it?
Gerry
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I recently upgraded our system to 1.1. Now, when I run xbiff, I get:
Warning: Cannot convert string "flagup" to type Pixmap
Warning: Cannot convert string "flagdown" to type Pixmap
And a silly pixmap of shelves or something is shown instead of the
mailbox pixmap. I had this same problem on my h
When trying to run mc (Midnight Commander) I get:
mc: can't load library 'libgpm.so.1'
Gpm is only listed as suggested under mc. However, since mc won't even
run without gpm, shouldn't mc be changed to depend on gpm rather than just
suggest gpm?
Gerry
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I downloaded ncpfs. It depends on ipx. However, ncpfs will work fine
without the ipx tools if you are running the Mars netware server and you
set it up to configure your ipx network. In fact, the ipx package will
break your ipx configuration if you are using Mars to configure your ipx
network.
> > I recently upgraded our system to 1.1. Now, when I run xbiff, I get:
> >
> > Warning: Cannot convert string "flagup" to type Pixmap
> > Warning: Cannot convert string "flagdown" to type Pixmap
> >
> > And a silly pixmap of shelves or something is shown instead of the
> > mailbox pixmap.
>
>Re your need for Novell connectivity, I'm acquainted with two
> packages of interest (neither Debianized yet):
>
>ncpfs (Netware Core Protocol Filesystem) makes your Linux box a
> Novell client. I got version 0.21 running with minimial hassle last
> week, on my 0.93R6 box; I think the c
On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Michael Meskes wrote:
> Gerry Jensen writes:
> > This is a problem for your NT machine, not the Linux machine. If you have
> > a valid Internet IP address for the Linux machine, then the NT machine
> > needs to be set up to act as a router for the rest
On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Berntsen wrote:
>
> > I've now recompiled the kernel, and I answered yes
> > to PPP support in 'make config'.
> > I've also installed the PPP package.
> > Anyway, when I now try to use pppd, I get an error
> > message saying that PPP
On Fri, 2 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am installing debian linux from CDROM.
> My CDROM is panasonic CR-562 CDROM. I select
> the "sbpcd" module. Is that correct? When the system
> boots, the busy light in CDROM flashes. But when I use
> "dselect", it ask me the block device name. How
On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Christian Lynbech wrote:
> I upgraded to 2.0.0 and found much to my pleasant surprise that my
> soundblaster card had started to work. Then I upgraded to 2.0.6 and it
> stopped working again (I haven't had time to properly report it yet,
> so I haven't the error message at ha
On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Douglas Bates wrote:
> `dmesg' shows a lot of messages about two sectors on my disk. For
> example
> hda: read_intr: error=0x01 { AddrMarkNotFound }, LBAsect=1097170,
> sector=48787
> hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
...
>
> Shoul
On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Derek Lee wrote:
> I have been seeing something strange on my system. The autoloading of
> the sound module works most of the time. The problem is with the CD
> playing programs (cdplay from cdtool 1.0 or workman). They do not send
> a request the sound module to kerneld. But
Recently, another company approached us requesting to take our domain name
from us. They claim they have it trademarked which we haven't really
investigated yet. Anyway, if we do have to change our domain name, we
might want to change it to 'opti-med.com'. Does anyone know if it is
legal to have
Recently, I posted that I got these errors with my hard drive:
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2342358,
sector=2342294
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01, sector 2342294
It also crashed on occasion. Running "e2
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Anyone here on the Debian-L know the secrets of using the ipfwadm
> utility to set up masquerading? I've built a kernel with the proper
> options but I'm concerned about whether I'm really masquerading, or
> just forwarding packets. How do I prove i
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On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, David Sewell wrote:
> As a new Debian user who migrated from Slackware, one of the
> few things I find a comparative disadvantage is being dropped
> back to earlier releases of certain programs.
If you have not done so, you might want to check out the unstable
directory to se
Linus' attempt to fix the serial/interrupt problem that some systems
experience is now in the 2.0.15 kernel. For those of you that are using
these systems where irqtune does makes a difference, try this new kernel
and see if it has the same effect.
Gerry
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On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote:
> Linus' attempt to fix the serial/interrupt problem that some systems
> experience is now in the 2.0.15 kernel. For those of you that are using
> these systems where irqtune does makes a difference, try this new kernel
> and see if it ha
On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Philippe Troin wrote:
> Test I was done on a 2.0.14 kernel with a 100kb nul file (dd
> if=/dev/zero...)
> Test II was done on a 2.0.14 kernel with irqtune and a 100kb nul file.
> Test III was done on a 2.0.15 kernel with a 100kb nul file.
> Test IV was done on a 2.0.15 kernel
> > - How do you manage updates?
> > I've copied the debian distribution to CD. How to perform any updates,
> > when you cannot change the files on CD. Is it possible use a second
> > distribution on the harddisk, where I put only the files I want to
> > upgrade?
> Sure. I use the mirror progra
> Just at a guess (and I don't know ppp internals that well), it
> might be PPP escaping the zero as a control character. If the
> software had to handle the escape sequence for "N thousand"
> nulls, it might bog it down a bit, and those escape sequences
> might themselves take up more space, as t
On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On 28 Aug 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>
> > Probably a terminfo problem. Your terminal may have auto-wrap (auto-margins)
> > and terminfo says it doesn't, or vice verse. Also make sure that you do
> > have the right terminfo entry: if you set ter
On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, David Morris wrote:
> The browser works fine, but I can't get any java applets to work. I have
> the setting set right and used the package setup that Brian put together,
> but something still isn't working. I don't receive any errors when I aim
> at a page that I know has an
I recently tried Xemacs for the first time from the rex directory tree.
While for the most part I like it better than regular Emacs, I can't seem
to get the command-line switch -f to work. Under Emacs, I would do:
emacs -f auto-fill-mode filename
to start in auto fill mode. The same thing in Xe
On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Stoyan Kenderov wrote:
> you may want to know, that the package version 1.0.5-1 gives me
> on an ordinary machine, ordinary setup a lot of "oops"
What kernel are you using? I know there is a bad kernel which causes
apache to have big problems. I think it is 2.0.15 but don't
> There's a good document on making these adjustments. On a Slackware
> system, it's /var/X11R6/lib/doc/VideoModes.doc; don't know where it
> hides on a Debian system.
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/html/VideoModes.html
Gerry
> Yes. The blank signal after the horizontal sync may be to short for
> your monitor.
> You have to edit the file /etc/X11/XF86Config.
> Increase the fifth number of the modeline by about 32.
> (You can experiment which value yields the best result.)
> An example:
> Assume the modeline in questi
> > I have got 16MB of RAM on my machine. Could someone tell me if it would
> > still be necessary for me to create a Linux swap partition.
>
> The terse form of the formula is:
>
> swap needed = total memory need - physical memory size
>
> (Forget everything about "twice physical
On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Ed Down wrote:
> I'm trying to configure my modem and, as recommended in the Serial-HOWTO,
> I've been using kermit to test it out. Problem is that /dev/ttyS1, which
> is the serial port my modem is on, seems to only allow root access. Anyone
> recommend a fix? Also any tips o
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:
> ${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/cua2 ${AUTO_IRQ} skip_test autoconfig ${STD_FLAGS}
>
> If so, you need to change it to this:
> ${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/cua2 ${AUTO_IRQ} skip_test autoconfig ${STD_FLAGS}
> spd_vhi
>
> Or you could be more brute-force about it an
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Paul Christenson [N3EOP] wrote:
> To use 115200, you need to use setserial on the port with the spd_vhi
> flag, and tell diald/pppd to use 38400.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the spd_vhi flag is
really necessary anymore for most programs. The spd_hi and
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, alan davis wrote:
> I am able to send mail to distant sites fine, but mail to
> addresses at the domain of my ISP usually fails, from within Emacs
> (but seems to work from within Pine, at least some of the time).
> Actually, mail sometimes gets out from emacs
On Sat, 28 Sep 1996, Christopher L. Cousins wrote:
> at the command line.
> 4. Dials in fine. connects. authenticates.
> then hangs up.
The /etc/ppp/options file that comes with Debian contains the options:
lcp-echo-interval 30
lcp-echo-failure 4
This caused my connection to hang up at some r
This is probably a dumb question, but with cfingerd 1.2.2-3, I can't get
it to display my .plan file. I've made it world readable and the
configuration is supposedly set up to show .plan files (as the default).
However, I always get:
Plan:
This user has no plan.
Any thoughts on what I might
I have a PHP script I run from the command line
(rather than from a web page) that accesses a
PostgreSQL database. I've used it for over a year
without a problem. Today I upgraded all my packages
against the testing distribution. Now when I try to
run my script, I get:
Fatal error: Call to unde
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