list server finally changing

1996-09-24 Thread Bruce Perens
Special instructions if you want to un-subscribe: send the word "unsubscribe" to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . The Debian mailing list server is changing over now. I changed the name "lists.debian.org" in the DNS database, and not every site will get this change immediately because DNS data is cached at e

Scsi errors

1996-09-24 Thread mattice
Can anyone help me here? I've got an AHA1542 with a quantum XP32150W as the only device on the chain. I keep getting errors like the following: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 198, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 27 88 b0 00 00 76 00 scsi : aborting command d

Re: can't seem to get internalmodem running

1996-09-24 Thread Chris R. Martin
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Rob Hanson wrote: > Hey there everyone, > > I am a bit new to the linux thing, and I seem to be having some trouble > locating my modem. It is an internal 33.6 cardinal voice modem, and it > uses com3 on my win95 setup. Being an internal com port, I don't think > it was con

Re: samba problems

1996-09-24 Thread Behan Webster
> > > >Domain=[workgroup] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 1.9.15p4] > I believe two or three loop bugs were found in the earlier releases > of SAMBA. The current release is 1.9.16p2, you should probably install > that release. I have been running it for a few weeks (on IRIX 5.3) and > it seems quite stabl

/usr/sbin/start-stop-daemons

1996-09-24 Thread Joe Manarolla
On startup and shutdown I have been receiving messages which read as follows: /etc/rc2.d/S10sysklogd :/usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: no such file or directory. Being relatively new to Debian, I do not understand the meaning of these messages. It could be that they are not relative to my particular s

csh logout - shutdown (solved)

1996-09-24 Thread Joe Manarolla
Many thanks to Syrus Nemat-Nasser and all who provided the solution to this problem. Joe

Re: server sides in apache.

1996-09-24 Thread Remco van de Meent
At 14:56 24-09-96 +1000, Fundamental wrote: >Hi, ive solved all my web server related problems since i changed from NCSA >to apache - accept this one... All my server side includes are now failing >with an error message [an error occured trying to process this directive] .. >is there something ive

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1996-09-24 Thread Steve Stuart
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Re: adobe acrobat viewer in debian?

1996-09-24 Thread Winfried Truemper
Matthew D Moss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : I found Adobe's beta3 of their Acrobat viewer, but they claim it is only : for the yggdrasiL (sp?) distribution... >>From the reports in "linux.dev.kernel" (awful it's used for this) it's likely the Reader will work under all distributions. A drawback:

Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)

1996-09-24 Thread Winfried Truemper
Paul Seelig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Updating of the ls-lR database should only be allowed to root anyway and : not to other users of the system as well! So i don't see the point in : this! The last time I used teTeX it was necessary to allow ordinary users to re-build the database so new pk-

Re: LaTeX and 8bit input

1996-09-24 Thread Erick Branderhorst
> In a previous version of debian (believe it was 1.1 beta), it worked > to include the style `t1enc', but doing this under 1.1-fixed, tries to > generate some fonts such as dcr1000m, but this process fails rather > quickly. And that is the thing where it goes wrong. You need to install the prope

Re: samba problems

1996-09-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
> About 90% of my /var/log/smb* log files are the line: > Added interface ip=192.168.1.1 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 > > It seems that smbd prints this as it starts up. I just don't Possible temporary workaround: run smbd/nmbd as daemons, not from inetd. This means it'll only start u

hint on handling mail volume: sortmail

1996-09-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
To deal with the high volume of mail on this list I set up filter to move the debian-related mail to an elm folder. Unfortunately, filter, or at least my configuration, seemed very buggy; not all the debian mail was noticed and moved to the special folder, and forwarded messages (for debian or not

Re: STB Powegraph graphics card problem (was:HELP: Probs configuring X)

1996-09-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
> Justin> My hardware: STB Powergraph 64 Video(S3 Trio64V+ Chipset) MAG DX17F > Justin> Monitor(30-64kHz Horizontal, 50-100Hz Vertical) > I still get a 2mm brighter line on the left, so that's where I put Goodstuff > buttons and Icons, and put Emacs safely on the right. The solution is to upgrad

Re: Unidentified subject!

1996-09-24 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> I have no idea why the 'non-free' set is not included on the [Infomagic] > CD set, > other than for space reasons, as most of the programs in that set are > included in the other distributions. Probably because we are considerate :-( In Debian, all packages that cannot be freely redistributed

Re: need help: error opening terminal con80x25 during instal

1996-09-24 Thread Lazaro . Salem
change "console" to "linux". As you can check that is the entry in the terminfo database. I think the change occurred in the 1.3.x development stage of Linux. lazaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ Reply Separator _ Subject: need help: error ope

Re[2]: Am I the Only One Waiting??

1996-09-24 Thread Lazaro . Salem
Guy Maor writes: >Date:24.09.96 08:31 > > >>On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Paul T. McNally wrote: >> I've been dying to read this list in the archive version for the >> month of July. I know it is probably huge and I can wait, I >> just wanted to know about when it will be accessible via

386 Dx-40

1996-09-24 Thread C . J . Lawson
Hi folks, A Q. Q. is anyone out there using still using a 386 dx-40 (running Linux) and if so could you let us know what problems you are having if any I am considering the purchase of one.. Jonathan

Re: Problem with GIMP

1996-09-24 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996 17:09:37 +0200 Thomas Schiex ([EMAIL PROTECTED] a.fr) wrote: > Package: contrib/binary/gimp-smotif_0.54.1-3.deb > > Very often, when I use the so-called "intelligent scissors" in GIMP (with a > bulb lamp icon), on a complex image, the process catch a SIGSEGV after 4 or > 5 po

Re: special boot disks

1996-09-24 Thread Lazaro . Salem
It is true. only a brief description is given. but you may want to read the config files with which the special kernels were created. They are in the same directory as the special-kernel packages. I also remember reading some (brief) info in the FAQ (not too much) lazaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re[2]: Filename case - the simple solution ...

1996-09-24 Thread Lazaro . Salem
somebody wrote (Sorry, I don't get always the original poster address ): >Resolving the case problem can also be solved VeRy simply by typing >the one magical word... case >- NEXT TIME - when you do your FTP'ing don't forget to use the "case" >statement. It may not be

Re: adobe acrobat viewer in debian?

1996-09-24 Thread David Puryear
Hi Matthew, You wrote: > > I found Adobe's beta3 of their Acrobat viewer, but they claim it is only > for the yggdrasiL (sp?) distribution... Has anyone got this setup under > Debain (packaged or not) and can explain how to do it? > > Thanks... It works under Debian. I don't know if it is able

Trashed disk

1996-09-24 Thread Bill Wohler
Folks, I've just noticed that I've been getting the following messages for the last couple of weeks. Sep 24 00:00:28 gbr kernel: scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 2, lun 0, CDB: 0x03 00 00 00 10 00 Sep 24 00:00:28 gbr kernel: Current error sr08:11: sns = f0 3 Sep 24 00:00:28 gbr kernel:

Script to produce bug reports?

1996-09-24 Thread Lazaro . Salem
Hi, I was planning to write a script to make the bug reporting process semiautomatic. With a standard form, and leaving place for an "Additional comments" field would be IMO a step forward for the project: Std form+Script -> Fast&Easy to report -> -> Easier to read/bounce duplicates/fix ===> B

Anyone got a microcom working with diald?

1996-09-24 Thread Christian Lynbech
> "Mark" == Mark Warburton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> Recently, I purchased a 28800 Microcom Deskporte 28.8S to speed Mark> things up a bit. Now diald will not work. I have such a modem working just fine, though I do not use diald currently. But I have used diald back with 0.93R6 with

LaTeX and 8bit input

1996-09-24 Thread Christian Lynbech
How can I get LaTeX to accept 8bit input and display the full isolatin1 character set. Currently, it (seems as it) simply discards the extensions, displaying a word such as t.st as tst (substitute your favorite non-ascii 8bit isolatin1 character for the dot abov). Here at depa

Re: LaTeX

1996-09-24 Thread branderh
> A format file is a binary version of a TeX-macro collection. First of all you > should get the macros themself: Hookup to the net and then type > ncftp ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/base.tar.gz > This works because those FTP-servers pack and compress directory trees. > Maybe you'll

Re: Anyone got a microcom working with diald?

1996-09-24 Thread Paul Christenson \[N3EOP\]
Mark Warburton wrote: > I have been using a 14400 modem with debian for some time now using > the diald system. Recently, I purchased a 28800 Microcom Deskporte > 28.8S to speed things up a bit. Now diald will not work. I find it > dials the number and then refuses to talk to the computer on th

Re: can't seem to get internalmodem running

1996-09-24 Thread Paul Christenson \[N3EOP\]
Rob Hanson wrote: > I am a bit new to the linux thing, and I seem to be having some > trouble locating my modem. It is an internal 33.6 cardinal voice > modem, and it uses com3 on my win95 setup. You need to use the 'setserial' command to tell the system about your modem. You should be able to

Re: Unidentified subject!

1996-09-24 Thread Paul Christenson \[N3EOP\]
Fernando Tadeu Caldeira Brandt wrote: > > I just just installed Debian from the August 96 release of > Infomagic's 6 CD set and I would like to know how to access > (using dselect) the local and non-free packages. > Are they in the CD set? No, they are not. The 'local' set is just that; ones tha

Re: dosemu 0.60.3-1 won't run

1996-09-24 Thread Paul Christenson \[N3EOP\]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I just want to report that I got dosemu 0.60.3-1 to work (or > whichever the version is in the Debian 1.1 stable tree is) when > booting from the hdimage instead of booting from the floppy. > > I must also admit that I got the message > > > ERROR: can't get floppy

Re: System hangs on SCSI reset (AHA 1522).

1996-09-24 Thread Paul Christenson \[N3EOP\]
Christopher R. Hertel wrote: > > This is with two flavors of Slacware and with Debian. It seems to be a > problem that my SCSI adapter has with Linux in general. > > On Sep 22, 6:34pm, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > Subject: Re: System hangs on SCSI reset (AHA 1522). > : > Problem: The system hangs

Re: debian startup scripts & dedicated ppp

1996-09-24 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Joey Hess wrote: > I have a dedicated ppp script, and it doesn't seem that debian's startup > scripts make any provisions for this. I've modified the init.d/ppp script > to start up ppp, and made it be run on boot and shutdown. > > There's a filesystem I always nfs mount ov

How do I use longtable in LaTeX

1996-09-24 Thread jhspies
I want to compare three documents in paralel columns in a report. The comparison will stretch over about 20 pages. I believe LaTeX have the possibility to do that. So far I could not find any documentation on how to use "longtable" that, according to one of the LaTeX-newsletters can do it. Can s

Re: Am I the Only One Waiting??

1996-09-24 Thread Guy Maor
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Paul T. McNally wrote: > I've been dying to read this list in the archive version for the month > of July. I know it is probably huge and I can wait, I > just wanted to know about when it will be accessible via www.debian.org! Until the issue with www.debian.org is cl

in.telnetd?

1996-09-24 Thread Fundamental
Hmmm, how come teknetd doesnt come with the base 1.1 set? Also, where can i get it from? Pachi, - mIcHaEl ///\ The Australian Internet Company c-00 ISP par Excellence \ > http://www.electric-rain.net/ (mine) |\_- http://www.aic.net.au/ (not mine) \ /

server sides in apache.

1996-09-24 Thread Fundamental
Hi, ive solved all my web server related problems since i changed from NCSA to apache - accept this one... All my server side includes are now failing with an error message [an error occured trying to process this directive] .. is there something ive missed? This is how i call serversides in my ht

Am I the Only One Waiting??

1996-09-24 Thread Paul T. McNally
Hello I've been dying to read this list in the archive version for the month of July. I know it is probably huge and I can wait, I just wanted to know about when it will be accessible via www.debian.org! I was trying to keep up with the list back then, but I was working for complete idiots

Re: Anyone got a microcom working with diald?

1996-09-24 Thread Paul Tanner
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Mark Warburton wrote: > Hi > > I have been using a 14400 modem with debian for some time now using the > diald system. Recently, I purchased a 28800 Microcom Deskporte 28.8S to > speed things up a bit. Now diald will not work. I find it dials the > number and then refuse

adobe acrobat viewer in debian?

1996-09-24 Thread Randy Gobbel
> On Mon, 23 Sep 1996 21:55:46 -0600 (CST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew D > Moss) said: > I found Adobe's beta3 of their Acrobat viewer, but they claim it is only > for the yggdrasiL (sp?) distribution... Has anyone got this setup under > Debain (packaged or not) and can explain how to do i

adobe acrobat viewer in debian?

1996-09-24 Thread Matthew D Moss
I found Adobe's beta3 of their Acrobat viewer, but they claim it is only for the yggdrasiL (sp?) distribution... Has anyone got this setup under Debain (packaged or not) and can explain how to do it? Thanks...

Re: debian startup scripts & dedicated ppp

1996-09-24 Thread Scott Barker
The simple solution to your problem is to put the 'noauto' option on your nfs directory entry in /etc/fstab, and then put an explicit mount command (and corresponding umount command) in the init.d/ppp script. You could also setup amd, but that could be overkill for your situation. -- Scott Barke

Re: can't seem to get internalmodem running

1996-09-24 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Hi Rob -- If your modem is on COM3, then it is referred to as /dev/cua2 during boot-up and as /dev/ttyS2 for most operations thereafter. If you are trying to get it to work at high speed, then I think what you need to do is to change a line in /etc/rc.boot/0setserial. I suspect you have a line

debian startup scripts & dedicated ppp

1996-09-24 Thread Joey Hess
I have a dedicated ppp script, and it doesn't seem that debian's startup scripts make any provisions for this. I've modified the init.d/ppp script to start up ppp, and made it be run on boot and shutdown. There's a filesystem I always nfs mount over ppp (it's in fstab), and when I'm booting up,

Re: [Q] file format?

1996-09-24 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Le Tran wrote: > Hello, > > I just downloaded the boot, root, and base disks. I wrote them out to > floppies using rawrite2. My question: when I download other packages, > what program do I use to write them out to floppies? rawrite2 or copy Once you have the base system ins

Re: mime? nslookup?

1996-09-24 Thread Brian C. White
> Are there mime and nslookup packages for debian? MIME is a transmission standard for email. What MIME package are you looking for? I maintain 'mime-support' which is basically /etc/mime.types and /etc/mailcap with a support program for installing new types into mailcap.

Re: ftp.debian.org

1996-09-24 Thread Bruce Perens
We recently decided to keep the master copy of the _entire_ WWW site on master.debian.org, rather than just a portion of it as previously. This meant that it would become very much larger. Rather than grow the mirror sites 300 MB, we moved it to its own separate directory. If you wish to mirror tha

Anyone got a microcom working with diald?

1996-09-24 Thread Mark Warburton
Hi I have been using a 14400 modem with debian for some time now using the diald system. Recently, I purchased a 28800 Microcom Deskporte 28.8S to speed things up a bit. Now diald will not work. I find it dials the number and then refuses to talk to the computer on the other side. I think it h