Re: are there "old" bo packages mirrored anywhere

On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 03:21:36PM +0200, Jan Menzel wrote: > Hello all, > congratulations for finishing hamm, but I'm not interested > in updating because my 486er is working als firewall with IP-masquerading, > ftp-, www-, mail-, X11 and smb-file-server and is doing that very well. > So,

Re: New to debian -- question about shells & unused accounts

On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 11:39:38AM -0500, Adam Keys wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 01:33:29AM -0700, Chris Ulrich wrote: > > I recently got tired of taking care of my own installation of linux > > and decided to install debian. So far, I've been pretty happy with it. > > > > I'm sure I'll h

Re: Going back to slackware...

On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 01:56:00PM +0100, Peter Weiss wrote: > Hello, > > sorry, but that debian 2.0 with the apt-package isn't quite the thing for > me. > > I upgraded to an early pre hamm using a self burned cd round about in > april this year. Some packages needed a configuratio

hardware purchase advice: modems

Ok... I am using a 33.6 kbps modem and it works pretty good...the main problem is now I am running a masquerading firewall for my girlfriend and me...and it can get bogged downa bit by us... I want to alleviate this abit by getting a 56k modem. I plan to do this within the next month or so...abou

Re: dists/sid subdirectory?

On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 09:14:12AM -0400, Randy Edwards wrote: > Does anyone know what the sid subdirectory in dists is? > > I'm guessing that this is the follow-on version after slink, but that > idea seemed a bit strange as slink is unstable. Anyone know for sure? no... sid is for "non-mature"

Re: hardware purchase advice: modems

On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 10:57:46AM -0400, David Parmet wrote: > > > > On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > > (since this is not really "on topic" (not that this list has much of a topic > > as it is just general for al "debian users&qu

Re: Strange thing ...

On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 12:20:59PM +0100, Mario Filipe wrote: > > On 03-Aug-98 Ana Graca Silva wrote: > > > > Hello All > > I was trying to upgrade my installation of debian, using apt. When I do > > apt-get update it gives me the folowing output : > > Really! You shouldn't do that it's

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 08:25:30AM -0400, Mike Barton wrote: > >Just to add my experiences of win95 into the frey, i have also done the > MB > >swap thing and while after a lot of rebooting in managed to recover, on > the > >other hand my bro's machine is almost identical to mine (only minor > >dif

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 08:55:00AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Joey Hess wrote: > > : George Bonser wrote: > : > No, LSB would not dictate Debian's version but Debian could say that > : > Debian-2.0 is LSB-1.2 compliant and someone looking at Red Hat 5.2 might > : > see tha

Re: hardware purchase advice: modems

On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 10:07:41AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > : Ok... > : I am using a 33.6 kbps modem and it works pretty good...the main problem > : is now I am running a masquerading firewall for my girlfriend and me...and

Re: BTS

On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 12:39:33PM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > Hi, > I have sent a bug report to the BTS. Now I see this on the www: > > Your message specified a Severity: in the psuedo-header, but the severity > value 'normal ' was not recognised. The default severity 'normal' > is bein

Re: Strange thing ...

On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 09:02:30AM +0100, Ana Graca Silva wrote: > On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > >> Really! You shouldn't do that it's dangerous! > > > >hmm "apt-get update" only gets the list of new packages from the se

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on

On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 07:11:47AM -0700, Marcus Johnson wrote: > As a newbie to Linux and Debian I have to say I almost entirely agree > with George, and had even thought about writting something on this > subject myself. Before I understood about the numbering system it > really threw me for a lo

Re: No Debian Erratas page ?

On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 08:55:28PM +, Akop Pogosian wrote: > I was just wondering if Debian has something like Redhat > erratas or updates page for hamm. > Is there one ? I don't think there was one prior to thge releace of 2.0 (I looked once when I first migrated form RedHat) but... http://ww

Re: xfstt bug in slink

On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 01:49:34AM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: > Oops...it's not xfstt. It's the script in init.d. > Stephen...? ;-) Hope this helps. > > Art Well this has already been reported... what version are you installing? it SHOULD be fixed in the latest version xfstt_0.9.9-5 in

Re: Strange thing ...

On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 12:25:21PM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote: > On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Mario Filipe wrote: > > > > > On 05-Aug-98 Daniel Mashao wrote: > > > I had the same problem until I was told I needed to upgrade the perl > > > library to the newer one in bo/unstable. That solved my problem. >

Re: messages that jam mail readers

On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 05:21:52PM -0700, Patrick Olson wrote: > > Unfortunately, the script I created (ppp-mail) calls ppp-on, waits until > ip-up creates a file (as a signal that the connection is up), does > "fetchmail &", sleeps for 5 minutes then does a killall fetchmail and > ppp-off doesn't

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 12:25:40PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> "GB" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > GB> Debian is, quite frankly, too small to dictate to the rest of the linux > GB> community how things should be done. On the other hand, it is too good for > GB> the o

Re: naming of newt package

On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 02:36:53PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi- > > i've been wondering...why is newt named things like 'newt0.21' or > 'newt0.25' instead of 'newt_0.21' or 'newt_0.25'? > > looking at the answer to question 6.3 in the debian faq, it appears > that 'newt0.21' and 'new

Re: naming of newt package

On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 04:43:07PM +0200, Frock wrote: > Stephen J. Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What this doe sis make the version name part of the package. This is done > > because often differnt versions are incompatible with eachother. > > It i s

Re: xfstt 0.9.9-5 is not serving for some reason.

On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 11:49:02AM -0700, Christopher Barry wrote: > Adding FontPath "unix/:7101" solved the problem. I don't know why the > xfstt installation doesn't put this in there for you automatically, well...as the xfstt maintainer I will say this... adding the fontpath to XF86Config would

Re: minimal files essential for booting ?

On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 01:02:55AM -0700, G. Crimp wrote: > > Sorry to be a pain with this, but I want to try one more time for > help. I recently copied my file system over to a new bigger disk, but I > can't boot to the new disk. Question and hypothesis first, explanation > following. [s

Re: True Type fonts??

On Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 10:16:07AM +0200, Peter Granroth wrote: > > Has anyone got true type fonts to work in X? > > > > > > [snip] > > > Xfstt serves *ttf fonts to one X11 server. Start xfstt > >then tell X11 about the font server with xset fp+ > >unix:/7100 or (

Re: What xfsft is.

On Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 01:21:42PM +0200, Jan Vroonhof wrote: > Christopher Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > As far as advantages of xfsft over xfstt go, > > The main advantage of xfsft for me is that it could be linked into the > XServer so that I do not need to run a seperate fontserver

Re: True Type fonts??

On Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 04:18:51PM +0200, Peter Granroth wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 10:16:07AM +0200, Peter Granroth wrote: > > > > Has anyone got true type fonts to work in X? > > > [snip] > > > > Xfstt serves *ttf fonts to one X11 server. Start xfstt > > > >then tell X11 ab

Re: Dumb X terminals

On Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 09:18:19PM +, Matt Kopishke wrote: > Hi all, Here's the story: > > We (A high school) just received a bunch of 486/66 Compaqs. The idea is > to turn them in to dumb X terminals (running StarOffice, and Netscape). > They have small hard drives (200mb), 16 md of RAM,

Re: xfstt not working

On Sat, Aug 08, 1998 at 02:41:51PM -0400, Keith Vance wrote: > Prior to installing Debian 2.0 my xfstt font server worked fine. I > understand that I need to load xfstt with port 7101, but it still > doesn't work. hmmm what version of xfstt are you installing? did you get i tfrom Debian 2.0 (hamm

Re: xfstt not working

On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 06:58:16AM -0400, Keith Vance wrote: > Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > xfstt 0.9.7 is the version in hamm. That was before I became maintainer. > > ONLY version sprior to 0.9.9-3 (or so) need to be on port 7101. > > > > I am running

Re: Libc5 and libc6 conflict

On Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 03:05:26PM +0200, Yves Van de Weyer wrote: > Hello, > > I installed Debian Linux 2.0.29 and wanted to add support for ppp. 2.0.29 is NOT a "debian version" it is the version of the Linux kernel itself. However...if your kernel version is 2.0.29 and you havn't upgraded it o

Re: Xwrapper & Netscape problems

On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 01:26:12PM -0700, Jeremiah Cornelius wrote: > > I just installed Debian 2.0 on my new Dual PentiumPro box. > > IMHO, It's got some real plusses, and some definite minuses as cmpared > to RH 5.x... > > My real problem right now, is that X seems to have installed itself > w

Re: where's the new xfstt

On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 08:51:54PM -0400, Keith wrote: > Where is the latest xfstt? I have my dselect set to get files from > dists/slink/main dists/slink/contrib dists/slink/non-free > dists/stable/main dists/stable/non-free dists/stable/contrib just checked "my favorite mirror"... it is indeed i

Re: Debian full bootable backup. Howto ?

On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 09:49:23AM +0200, Robert J. Alexander wrote: > What would be the smartest approach to have a full bootable backup of a > Debian customized system ? > > As backup media I could use : 4mm SCSI tape, SCSI CD-R, vfat parition on > other disk, the network. > > On AIX there a mk

Re: xterm problems

On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 01:52:22PM +0200, Michael Sicher wrote: > hello, > > i like debian 2.0 very much but now i have problems with xterm: > > - i am not able to log into some systems using telnet (connection closed > by foreign host). > > - on some systems i cannot start vi when logged in v

Re: xdm starts local server

On Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 12:50:47AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 03:20:30PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > no-run-xconsole > > > obey-nologin > > > allow-user-resources > > > allow-user-modmap > > > allow-user-xsession >

Re: new to networking question

On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 02:06:46PM -0500, Asher Haig wrote: > Shaleh, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 8/12/98 11:33 PM > > >Hi, I just bought a "network in a box" kit: hub, two 10/100 ethernet > >cards, cable. Could someone please point me to FAQs, HOWTOs etc. for > >getting machines connected and using one

Re: Installing XFSTT on HAMM

On Sat, Aug 15, 1998 at 11:48:16PM -0400, Noel Yap wrote: > The xfstt package that comes with hamm is very minimalistic in terms of > documentation and user setup. yes it is...thats one of the main reasons I took over maintenance of it > You might be better off installing the > more up-to-date

Re: Installing XFSTT on HAMM

On Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 08:08:32AM +, Robert Wilderspin wrote: > On 15 Aug 98 09:13:51 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Thistlethwaite) > wrote: > > >I have been trying to dig up information on installing XFSTT on my > >upgraded HAMM system so my Netscape will look better. > > > >I downloaded the

Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?

On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 02:46:11AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 12:10:15PM -0500, the lone gunman wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 05:32:06PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Does that mean that "intel byte order" is the same as "host byte > > order"? > Yes.

Re: Installing XFSTT on HAMM

On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 06:36:08AM +0200, Peter Granroth wrote: > > [stuff snipped] > > > > "bring over the windows fonts and put them in /var/lib/ttfonts > > > > yikes no...ok=20 > > package version 0.9.7 : /var/ttfonts > > > > latest packages of 0.9.9: /usr/share/fonts/truetype > > > > > the

Re: Little/Big endian discussion (was: Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?)

On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 09:38:54AM +0200, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > On: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 00:43:23 -0400 Stephen J Carpenter writes: > > >> Little endian = intel byte order = host byte order (if its an intel) > >> big endian = network byte order = host byte order (on 6

Re: Big-endian/little-endian (WAS: Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?)

On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 02:03:11PM +0200, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > Hi! > > Some of my programs have to work on big-endian and little-endian systems, > knowing what kind of system they are runing on (they are exchanging data > in binary format). To recognize the kind of the system I use the foll

Re: Big-endian/little-endian (WAS: Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?)

On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 10:34:39AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > Quoting Stephen J. Carpenter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > The authors concern was that on a big endian system network order and > > byte order are the same so hton* and ntoh* do nothingso how do you > > d

Aplixware and debian hamm/slink

I have been thinking of getting some sort of "Office Suite" for my own use at home...and have an early version of StarOffice 4 and have had mixed sucess with it (ok little to no success but...I could play with it more too...) Anyway... Has anyone here tried Applixware from RedHat? I understand its

X and keymaps weirdness

I have been working on a HOWTO fo rusing linux to turn old computers into XTerminals. I know this has been done before so I read up on it before I started. My doc is really comming along great...and for i386 systems...so far works grand! I have run into a snag tho...but it may just be part of the

Re: Big-endian/little-endian (WAS: Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?)

On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 01:22:53PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > Quoting Stephen J. Carpenter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 10:34:39AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > > The solution is to always run hton before putting stuff on the wire and > > > runn

Re: Big-endian/little-endian (WAS: Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?)

On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 02:11:15PM -0400, Lewis, James M. wrote: > I may be speaking out of turn here. nah ;) > I don't know much about X fonts > but they used to be server specific. That was back when the fonts > were .snf files. If you used different versions of the xserver on the > same sy

Re: To Upgrade or Reinstall completely?

On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 03:31:12PM -0400, Chris Fury wrote: > What do you think? Is the upgrade process to 2.0 solid? Or should I > start with a fresh disk? I dunno about hamm stable but...before stable I had to do the upgrade a few times...worked great every time (except those few times... but

Re: Linux security

On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 11:46:43AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was having a discussion with my ISP about Linux. He said he uses > Windows NT because it is much more secure than Linux. He stated that > since the source code was available that it was very unsecure. He mentioned > someth

Re: Little/Big endian discussion (was: Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?)

On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 10:54:52AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 08:46:20AM -0400, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > currently xfstt bombs out if it gets a connection of a differnt > > "endianess" than the system it is on...I have been meaning to f

Re: Linux security

On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 11:22:37PM +, George R wrote: > On 08/18/98 at 11:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, George R wrote: > > >> I know you are talking about NT vs Linux; but does anyone know how well > >> Win95 password protection works? It doesn't the morons made th

Re: Designing a Linux lab.

On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 09:46:00AM -0300, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > Liran Zvibel wrote: > > > > I have one question, though, NT has an option to be installed and > > configured from the network (I don't mean installing via NFS, but > > actually get all the installation profi

Re: CDE

On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 10:57:47PM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote: > On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Joe Stewart wrote: > > > Chris, Try xfce . It > > does include the window manager xfwm, but does not require it. It is a > > toolbar which resembles cde.

Re: Apt how, why, where

On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 11:14:37AM -0500, Mark Panzer wrote: > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > Mark Panzer wrote: > > > > > > Question, > > > > > > Apt is supposed to be a better replacement for dselect/dpkg right? Can > > > you install it on a HAMM system, and if so how? I guess I kinda got > > > lef

Re: Which MTA?

On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 12:24:00AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Ken Chew wrote: > > > Also would it be possible to create email account without actuall adding > > user account on the system. Currently what we do is 'adduser' for every > > user account. Is this necessary? > >

Re: identd

On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 09:10:20AM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > -> > > This mail will be forwarded to all IRC operator lists and all sites > using > -> > > such identd will be K:-lined. > -> > > -> > hey that's not very nice. Besides, it appears that changing the ident is > -> > not poss

Re: CD-RW experiences?

On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 02:04:41AM -0700, Dan Hugo wrote: > I am thinking about getting a CD-RW drive to archive things, and maybe > even to maintain an up-to-date Debian CD set. > > Does anyone have any experience with these drives? > > Since I happen to work at Philips, I would most likely be ge

Re: Connection Refused

On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 08:20:52AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Kennedy Mutio writes: > > I have just installed debian linux onto a machine and added it to my > > network but I cannot telnet frm any other machine on the network to this > > new machine. I have checked the hosts.allow and hosts.

Re: OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)

On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 09:22:52PM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote: > On 19 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Yes, no, and not unless you want to. Even without enabling the > > generic command server and the @SH processing, the rules file for > > mailagent is a full fledged s

Re: identd

On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 04:09:57PM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > -> > if anyone will find he's usiong fake identd ppl will k-line him... > -> > IRC is not made for putting bots and bots abuse IRC. if someone wants to > -> > abuse IRC he will be banned. > -> > -> Well I have to agree... > -

Re: OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)

On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 01:40:25PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"Stephen" == Stephen J Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Stephen> I missed most of this discussion but... whats wrong with > Stephen> the old standby procmail? >

Re: sendmail bug?

On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 09:03:42AM -0700, David Stern wrote: > $ man aliases > > [..] > Loops can not occur, since no message will be sent to any person > more than once. > [..] > > "Loops cannot occur, ..". So, if I make an alias for tsawyer to hfinn, > and an alias for hfinn to dstern

Re: diskless systems

On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 05:25:08AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was wondering if Debian supported diskless systems? My tests have worked well :) > I plan to get a very > high performance system for myself and wanted to set-up a diskless terminal > for my daughter that would have full acce

Re: Help with Kernel configuration

On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 02:40:06PM +0200, Hofman, J.A.M.H. wrote: > Hi All, > > Last week I installed Debian 2.0 on my system. All worked well and it > was possible to acces my VFAT partition on the harddisk. Yesterday I > installed the kernel-source-2.0.34 package to build a custom kernel and > t

Re: diskless systems

riting my docs initally very very good doc.. I planed on giving him credit (Richard Kaszta was the first person to offer me help when I anounced my doc!) I just need to "get around to it" much like everything else -Steve > Proinnsias > > > -Original Message----- > >

Re: QUESTION

On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 04:47:30PM -0700, Dimas Franco wrote: > HI :-) CAN I RUN PROGRAMS FOR WN95 ON LYNUX LIKE AUTOCAD 14 Hmm okthe short answer is "NO"...but fear not :) There is a DOS emulator for DOS programs and there is WINE (Wine Is Not and Emulator ;) ) which impliments the Windows

Re: QUESTION

On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 09:55:10PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- Stephen J. Carpenter wrote about "Re: QUESTION" > | On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 04:47:30PM -0700, Dimas Franco wrote: > | > HI :-) CAN I RUN PROGRAMS FOR WN95 ON LYNUX LIKE AUTOCAD 14 > | > | Hmm o

Re: Second drive for DOSEmu?

On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 01:34:24PM -0700, Paul Marxhausen wrote: > After reading through all the DOSEmu info, I'm sorta-kinda-nearly > grasping this issue, but I still want to ask: > > I'll be converting a utility PC from MS-DOS over to Hamm soon, > and will be running at least one DOS program und

Re: debian vs others

On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 09:00:17AM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, > I know it is kind of silly to ask what is better debian vs redhat on a > debian list but here goes anyway. Welldon't expect un-biased opinion :) I myself am very biased :) (but shouldn't you expect thatI am a package m

Re: What is a magic number?

On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 07:54:24PM +0800, htyj wrote: > I've seen the term "magic number" in many documents, I wonder what it is, and > how to get it(calculate it?)? TIA. A magic number is basically an identifier... for exampleif I am sniffing ethernet (ie taking in raw ethernet packets wheth

Re: telnet break-in

On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 10:35:12AM -0400, Ossama Othman wrote: > > > > Hence the One-Time Password suggestion. Either way, better to have/use > > > > SSH than use telnet/ftp/r{login,sh,exec}. > > > > > > I have both SSL-Telnet and SSH installed. I don't type root passwords over > > > clear connec

Re: What is a magic number?

On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 09:32:05AM -0700, Michael Rudmin wrote: > More specifically, a magic number is an identifier described in the > Point-to-point protocol. It is a specific packet that is > used to determine when a system is looped back to itself. hmm oh... that too :) same principal :) I d

Re: file-rc vs. sysV init (was: enabling bootpc at startup)

On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 02:20:28PM -0500, the lone gunman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 08:19:34AM +0200, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > > On: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 14:11:30 -0500 the lone gunman writes: > > > > > > On my Debian 1.3 system, I installed the package which removes the > > > sysV style init

Re: Beowulf cluster

On Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 09:22:00AM -0400, Greg Vence wrote: > M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > > Hmm - is beowulf a .deb? and if so, is it in /slink/non-free > > > It seems to be available as RPM's. You can use alien to get it > installed. I am tossing around the idea of a cheap beowulf cluster...junke

Re: X11 remains black (fwd)

On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 10:01:48AM -0400, Ossama Othman wrote: > Hi, > > > using the PCMCIA drivers), but if I start X (version included in Debian > > 2.0), the screen remains black. SuperProbe does not work neither. Screen > > black, machine locked ? > > When I reboot with 2.0.30, no problems,

Re: GPL'd/free driver for Ensoniq AudioPCI sound card

On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 09:53:30AM +0800, LUK ShunTim wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know where can I get a GPL'd or free driver for the > Ensoniq AudioPCI sound card for x86 architecture. I've checked out the > OSS/Free > page and it seems that their free version does not support this (and > o

Re: procmail

On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 06:42:30PM +0100, Vincent Murphy wrote: > What's the best recipe to use with this list for procmail? Depends :) I like mail through the list to go into one mailbox and mail directly to me (whether to thte list or not) to goto thje "list" box...so... :0 * ^X-Mailing-List:

Re: Debian manual -- printed.

On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 04:00:19PM -0400, Person, Rod wrote: > Since, I decided to use debian instead of Slackware or Red Hat. I have > noticed something. I can't find a book devoted to it. Well www.cheapbytes.com ...they sell the: "Debian User's Guide *ED1* Close-out price W/2 CDs" >From th

Re: 2.1 kernel

On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 03:12:46PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Kay Nettle wrote: > > > Is anyone using a 2.1 kernel? Which version is the most stable? We > > have people complaining about slow NFS service and we want to try NFS > > version 3. > > > > Thanks, > > Kay > >

Re: 2.1 kernel

On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 07:29:43PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > > > > > > Wait. 2.1 is supposed to be released RSN as 3.0. I think the latest devel > > > kernel > > > > um AFAIK it will be 2.2.0 N

Re: Apache / SSL

On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 07:43:38AM -0300, Carlos Marcos Kakihara wrote: > > Hi, I've compiled Apache with SSL support, but I'm > getting the follow message (when I start it): > > Skip first time initialisation > > What is it? > There is a apache.deb with SSL support? Check out

Boot problems with lilo

I decided since i was moving into a new apartment and planning on working towards that lofty goal of having my network connected to the net 24-7 (if I could only convince my girlfriend that $70/month is not too much $), It is time to move the modem out of MY workstation and into another box. I dug

Re: y2k (don't kill me!)

On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 12:03:28PM -0500, Stephanie A. Tomlinson wrote: > Ok, don't kill me.. i know you all are probably tired of/avoiding/irked with/ > frothing at the mouth because of the whole y2k compliance bruhaha. > > I just gotta find out... where might i find an official bullettin or who

Re: y2k (don't kill me!)

On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 01:52:38PM -0500, Stephanie A. Tomlinson wrote: > Actually, i did check the debian web page. Unfortunately, i don't have the > resources necessary to go on a long hunt for the information and it didn't > seem to be readily noticeable on the site. Perhaps i'm smoking crack.

Re: Boot problems with lilo

On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 01:06:18PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > [ snip ] > > : Any ideas why lilo is unwilling to work on this drive? > : The drive has about 8000 (aprox) cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors > (obviously)

Re: Net Auction Krizms?!!!!!!!!!

On Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 03:43:20PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What do you think of these online auction thingys? IT seems to me that > if you have abit of time to spend bidding you can get stuff ridiculously > cheap! > I saw a whole bunch of Digital Alphas Servers (Older ones, but s

Re: PON on REQUEST

On Fri, Sep 11, 1998 at 01:24:01PM -0700, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > Greeting everyone, > > Very often, I have to work on my home computer from other places and I do > not want to have my home computer on-line all the time. Hmm well personally I DO want my computer online all the time whether I

Re: {stupid pet tricks}blown Root passwd

On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 02:18:40AM -0600, Kent Andersen wrote: > I seem to have a problem changed my root password on one of my systems and > whamo when I later tried to su root my password doesent work... > went through the normal booting from a floppy but cant seem to mount the > harddrive so I c

Re: {stupid pet tricks}blown Root passwd

On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 04:27:41PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote: > "Stephen J. Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > #include > > > LILO: linux /bin/sh > > [...] > > > hopefully once you zap the root password...it SHOULD be sufficent >

Re: Legal issues with having Linux use Windows device drivers

On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 10:31:49PM -0700, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: > Aside from the technical issues of having Linux use windows device drivers > (such as the video card drivers), are there any legal reasons why a person > could not use the device drivers written for the MS Windows operating sys

Re: CDE for Debian

On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 01:03:44PM -0500, Matthew A. Reklau wrote: > Is there a version of CDE available for Debian releases and if so where > and cost please. Well The Debian Project is devoted to Free software and CDE is not free so it is not part of debian. ALso...There is no version which is e

Re: ACK! Help me restore my console!

On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 09:33:52AM -0600, John Larkin wrote: > > No... This is not the problem. As I said, X crashed. This makes the X > > server quit without restoring the display, so you just get your X > > desktop sitting there. You can restart X remotely, but when you exit, > > it restores the

Re: COBOL for linux

On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 12:06:14PM +0100, K.Y.Lo wrote: > Hi > > Does anyone know where is COBOL for the Linux? I searched through Debian package lists nothing even mentions COBOL. I personally doubt that sucha beast exists. Ive never actually heard of anyone who actually LIKES COBOL. If t

Re: Unified Unix Driver Standard

On Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 02:52:15PM -0300, Adam Greene wrote: > What will Linux (therefore Debian) do with the new Unix Driver Model > being pushed by Intel, Compaq, SCO, Hewlett-Packard, etc?? hmm well... I have no idea :) What is this standard? Is there a pointer to it? If the standard is wo

Re: Install problems

On Sat, Sep 19, 1998 at 12:55:58PM -0500, EGRET Lures wrote: Just a note... I use Mutt...and when it recives no messgae and an HTML attachment it runs lynx to read the message... this makes replies VERY hard and is a PITA. Please refrain from posting HTML to the group...text replies are apreciat

Re: Need help with resolution

On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 07:46:54PM -0500, Ken Archer wrote: > I currently have SuSE 5.2, Red Hat 5.1, Slackware 3.4 and Debian 2.0 on > seperate partitions on a 10 gig hd. As you can tell, I am constantly looking > for something better. From what I heard, I thought it might be Debian, but I > can

Re: Need help with resolution

On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 07:43:35AM -0500, Ken Archer wrote: > You are right. That SHOULD work, but I had already tried that and it didn't > solve the problem. From what I can see, it seems to be a problem with the > system only seeing 256k of videoram when it has 2 meg. I should normally be > ab

Q: MIPS machine + Linux?

I went to the MIT flea market yesterdy. (last one this year is next month!) I only bought 1 thing, a DECstation 5000/133. I was told this is a MIPS machine,it has some RAM (NFI how much) and no hard drive (yet). No video card but I got a vt320 terminal for it. I seem to remember that there is a

Re: Backups

On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 11:22:29AM +0100, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > Hi, >This is a bit off topic (and sorry I cannae answer any of your > questions) ... Is tar ever used for backing up and if not why not .. if it > is why is it not the defacto standard > > --Jonathan Well...I use tar... In fact I

Re: Backups

On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 03:26:10PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Stephen J. Carpenter said > > On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 11:22:29AM +0100, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > > > Hi, > > >This is a bit off topic (and sorry I cannae answer any of your > > > questions) ...

Re: Q:xfsft binary on debian system

On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 10:18:23PM -0400, Damir J. Naden wrote: > Hi, everybody -- > > has anbody tried to install the precompiled binary for xfsft (not xfstt) that > is available from this site: > http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/~pommnitz/xfsft.html I have NOT tried it (as the xfstt maintainer for d

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