On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Pere Camps wrote:
>Hi!
>
> I'm running pine 3.96 and debian 1.3.latest with smail.
>
> Sometimes when I send messages from pine it tells me:
>
> [Sending mail | 100% |]
>
> But the program is blocked and it takes anything from 2 m
On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote:
>Shaleh wrote:
>>
>> 3) click the communicator menu and chose mailbox
>
>Thanks for your prompt replies, Shaleh. Unfortunately, I don't seem
>to have any icons at all in the lower right hand corner nor any
>communicator menu. I guess I chose the wrong pa
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, EGRET Lures wrote:
>Just got the Debian CD's this week and installed a new drive (D) for the
>Linux installation. (Homebulit K-6 233 w\64mb)
>
>With the bios set to boot from D all that appears is "LI" and the
>systems hangs.
>
from the lilo documentation (actually taken fro
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
>Even better, we could bring our list technology into the '80s and do a
>multipart/alternative message format with an HTML alternative which provided a
>sophisticated mailto: tag and include the subject, body, and the whole thing
>in the
>link.
Pleas
On 18 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I got a problem when I installed debian-linux according to the installation
> guide.
>
>Hardware: 32 RAM/2 GB disk/IBM compatable 586
>
>1. Installation with disk
>
> I copied files:resc1440.bin,drv1440.bin,base2_0.tgz,linux,install.bat and
> loadin.e
On 19 Sep 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
>I'm thinking about making the upgrade to slink since it has a couple
>of additions I'd like to try. After hearing all the great things about
>apt-get I thought I'd give it a try. I have a local mirror of the
>Debian ftp site and I'm having trouble figuring
On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Richard Heller wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I just installed Debian Linux and have some questions about lilo. I used
>Linux a few years ago and the way lilo worked then was that when you
>booted the machine, you got a LILO: prompt and then could type linux, dos,
>or whatever to boot the de
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Selim Issever wrote:
>Why dont you just edit /etc/motd?
>
>Selim
>
>Sean Johnson wrote:
>>
>> This certainly isn't a serious problem, but I've been a little perplexed
>> at not being able to get rid of the little blurb about Debian/GNU
>> software not being responsible for yo
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, D'jinnie wrote:
>There seems to be a general consensus that if you have a dual NT/Linux
>machine you have to use the NT loader. However, I have a 95/NT/Linux
>machine and haven't had any problems booting any of them from lilo. Was I
>just lucky or what?
>In case this matters,
> I
>certainly wish
>to use Zip, and eventually Jaz with Linux, and in my extreme desire to
>completely
>seperate myself from the Microsoft dictatorship, I also wish to toss
>the Fat16
>format these disks have in favor of the far superior ext2.
Unless my memory fails me, I've formatted a zip disk
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Marco Frattola wrote:
>> Hi Marco
>>
>> On my system, I have a 2840 which I understand to be close to the same
>> firmware as 2940. The lowest scsi id is the boot drive.
>
>my disks have the following ids:
>
>disk on 2940UW - id 0
>disk on 2940AU - id 0
> - id
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Frederic Breitwieser wrote:
>Then I got a little "clever", and installed a second 1 gig hard drive (now
>the machine has two 1 gigs). I soldered some wires and DPDT switch to the
>SCSI ID lines on both drives, and in the up position, the original drive
>becomes SCSI 0, and th
On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, David Karlin wrote:
>Hello,
>I have done a hamm diskette installation and now a have a base (but
>incomplete) system. My hamm box is built from recycled parts (collected for
>free), and the modem is slow. I'd like to complete the installation via ftp
>using a proxy-server so
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Collin Rose wrote:
>I cannot network my win98 and linux machine. I put linux on the 98 machine
>to check the net connection. It works fine. Any ideas on this?
>I cannot even ping the other computer. I do have TCP/IP installed on the 98
>system.
can you give a brief descriptio
On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Familien Bolding wrote:
>I have problems mounting my CD.
>
>Here is a snip of the boot process:
>
[... snip ...]
>
>When I the try: mount /cdrom with proper settings in /etc/fstab after a
>while I get
[... snip ...]
>And after 10-15 minutes the mount process core-dumps.
>
On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, DAVID B. TEAGUE wrote:
>Horacio writes:
>
>> > This maybe a stupid question, but i want to change my password. When
>> > putting `passwd' linux askme for the new password. I put it in, and
>> > linux said it is too simple what can i do for linux dont say me
>> > that? Curr
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Saisanthosh B wrote:
>> I am trying to setup my home LAN with a Win98 machine and a Linux machine
>> with ethernet. I have successfully setup the ethernet NIC but I am not
>> sure what to do next. I want to be able to copy files from the Win98
>> machine to the Linux hard dr
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, D'jinnie wrote:
>I've been trying to compile pine 4.05 (with the sl5 option, for shadowed
>pw) and it barfs on undefined references to crypt and can't find
>ltermcap...any ideas? P.S. What is it about the license that doesn't allow
>Debian to make a package out of it? They hav
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote:
>On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, dsb3 wrote:
>
>> from the pine CPYRIGHT file (actually looking at v3.96 which I have
>> installed)
>>
>> [snip]
>
>But this explains it:
>
>Although the above trademark and copyrigh
On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, LUK ShunTim wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have to add some database support so I get the source tar ball from
>apache and re-compile it. With some minor problems, I got it worked. I
>found the that the size of the binary file was much larger that the
>original one in the distribution. I su
On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, David Karlin wrote:
>
>I have attached some of some related files. Also, this computer is on
>a LAN (in case that makes any difference).
>
as a non modem related issue, since the linux host is already on a LAN it
quite possibly has a default route established. it could be t
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Johann Spies wrote:
>Hallo,
>
>I do not understand how wwwofle works. When online I try to go to a
>specific site on the web (using lynx), I get the message "wwwofle will
>get". That is nice for reading ofline, but how do I go the site directly?
>
It appears you have your h
On 27 Sep 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Wojciech Zabolotny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Hi
>>There was a lot of noise about the y2k problem in old COBOL and M$
>>applications, but what about the "Y2K+38 disaster" in the POSIX world?
>>I was pretty sure that
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Dont be so innocent ;-), of course i have not put my password as ``password''
>, it was just
>an example...
>
as far as an intruder is concerned, any dictionary word or close
companion is as easy to guess as "password". Any dictionary word
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote:
>Hi,
>
>
>Im wondering why is linux, after 10 min, turning my monitor black. I
>have only i
>nstall the base of the system. Is this couse by a software ? Which one ?
>Does this something to do woth enegry star?
>
>
this can be configured with the 'sette
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote:
>Hi,
>
>
>When telneting to my computer, i get this `boaried' message:
>"computron login: user
>password: x"
>
>How can i change it to for example
>`Welcome to the computron universe. Please enter your name so i can know
>whoy yo
>u are: usernam
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Michael Stone wrote:
>Quoting Richard E. Hawkins Esq. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>> the permissions on /dev/dsp may not be right. try
>[snip]
>> should be
>>
>> 0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 14, 3 Sep 18 19:11 /dev/dsp
>
>Umm, no, they should be 660 root.audio. On a s
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Shao Ying Zhang wrote:
>Somehow, I cannot get a fast ppp connection anymore.
>
>
>In redhat, my ppp connection is normally around 3K/sec.
>But
On 30 Sep 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote:
>The simplest approach: Get the encrypted password from
>/etc/passwd or /etc/shadow. (If you use shadow you shan't be
>able to read it without being root - a good thing).
>Then you just start generating all combinations of legal
>passwords, crypt'ing them and c
On 30 Sep 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote:
>*-Christopher Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>|
>| I read some email in the Debian list a few minutes ago that said you can
>| switch to a text mode virtual console from X by using Control-Alt-Fn and
>| thought "cool, I always wondered if there was a way to do that
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Pere Camps wrote:
>Hi!
>
>$ ps ax | grep S1
>
>11680 S1 S0:00 /sbin/getty -L -f /etc/issue.ttyS1 ttyS1 9600 vt100
>
>$ finger
>
>castor25 Jose Castor pbOct 1 17:40 (minxo.upc.es)
>ceo Cercle d'Estudis Orien S1 2 Oct 1 13:57
>david25 David
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Wilson Tuma wrote:
>Hi
>
>I need a utility that will automatically dectect my modem.
>
>How can I do it manually. I am totally at a loss about what to do.
>
take a look at the wvdial package. included is 'wvdialconf' which does a
pretty good job of probing serial devices and
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, G. Kapetanios wrote:
>1) pppd comes up on boot fine and I can telnet to a remote host as long as
>I use the ip numeric address. When I use the word address
>e.g. cus.cam.ac.uk instead of 131 I get a message saying there was a
>host lookup failure. This is not a ppp specific
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