Hi,
I was wondering, who do you set up sz to resume a download? I
use minicom and when I go into setup, file transfer protocols, then the
program is uses to download it sz. And right now the it says sz -vv.
When I try it like that and try to resume download. How can I set it up
to r
Hi folks, I'm still having some difficulty with my setup, but I trudge on.
No questions this time, just a request for some files so I can compare and
see for myself what I'm doin' wrong.
If you dial up to your ISP, with PPP, and your not on a network, please
send me the following.
/etc/init.d/n
>
> Have you tried daVinci? (it is on the sunsite somewhere)
> Allegedly, it was created specifically to make block diagrams.
No, I haven't, but I'll take a look.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James W. Lynch) writes:
> I've been trying to replace the kernel on the original boot disk.
**snip** I've noticed a big problem on the latest boot disk --
The rdev.sh script looks for a /dev/ram to tell the kernel which
device to make the
zsh can be used as sh instead of bash for almost everything. I have
two machines here where /bin/sh is a link to /bin/zsh. This makes
apsfilter work. bash gives an error in a pipe, complaining about some
signal. It's a bash bug; with zsh it works. The only problem is that
some packages, such as gzi
On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, val.tamarov wrote:
> Hi there!
> Thanks for reading this!
> Need help !!!
> I just got myself GNU/Linux 1.2 from sunsite.unc.edu and I was trying to
> install it on my computer.
> I have Pentium Pro 200Mhz, 2.12GB, 452Kb hard drives and 40 Mb of RAM. I am
> currently using Sys
From: "Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization: Business Data Services
X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (WinNT; I)
Mime-Version: 1.0
To: Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org, "val.tamarov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GNU/Linux 1.2,
Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> From: "val.tamarov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > So I created 50KB partition on drive D as root and I marked it "Bootable",
> > 350KB partition as /usr, 52KB partition as swap
>
> Your file /etc/lilo.conf should look like this, given that drive D is on
> the first IDE controlle
I havent had much X experience under Linux, but the Solaris system we run
at school I've always had to run xli -onroot and other options to make it
look pretty.
joe
Joseph Palicke
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/palicke
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Karlheinz Nolte wrote:
>
I've been trying to replace the kernel on the original boot disk. The one
I marked boot when instructed to rawrite boot, root, base 1, base 2,
and base 3. I read over the instructions on the disk, copied my zImage
file that boots fine from ldlinux on the dos C: drive, ran the
rdev commands that
Karlheinz Nolte wrote:
>
> Dennis Lundstr%F6m wrote:
> >
> > >Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 12:08:44 +0100
> > >From: Karlheinz Nolte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >To: Debian User List
> > >Subject: Background for fvwm2
> >
> > >Hi Debians,
> > >
> > >I have here a Debian GNU/Linux 1.2.2. It works fine for m
From: "val.tamarov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> So I created 50KB partition on drive D as root and I marked it "Bootable",
> 350KB partition as /usr, 52KB partition as swap
Your file /etc/lilo.conf should look like this, given that drive D is on
the first IDE controller (most systems don't have a second
On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, val.tamarov wrote:
> [clip]
> currently using System Commander to separate operating systems. I had
> win95, DOS 6.22 as my boot options before installing Linux. Then I
> installed Linux on drive D (452Mb), and everything was fine. After
> rebooting I got new boot option : "
Hi there!
Thanks for reading this!
Need help !!!
I just got myself GNU/Linux 1.2 from sunsite.unc.edu and I was trying to
install it on my computer.
I have Pentium Pro 200Mhz, 2.12GB, 452Kb hard drives and 40 Mb of RAM. I am
currently using System Commander to separate operating systems. I had
win9
On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ w
> 2:10pm up 1 day, 22:32h, 1 user, load average: 1.05, 1.07, 1.01
> USER TTYLOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$
>
>
> Strange, isn't it?
> When I do 'last -10', there ARE users logged i
Excuse me, I was wrong the Xresource file:
*MenuButton*translations: Any: PopupMenu()
instead of
*MenuButton.translations: Any: PopupMenu()
Excuse me again.
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Date: Thu, 13
Chris Brown writes:
>
>
>I was looking at the man pages HOWTOs etc. for GostScript with
>the intent of using it with my HP 660C printer. It looks like the
>standard distribution esecutable won't work for me so I got the
>source and was going to compile it. It looks like the best option
>f
On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Michael Stoia wrote:
> HELP!!!
>
> I am a veteran Slackware Linux user, but I recently decided to wipe
> Slackware out and go with Debian. I decided to recompile the kernel
> myself with support
> for PS/2 mice. In addition to that I deleted the psaux module that
> Debian i
In your email to me, Mike Patterson, you wrote:
>
>
> First of all, thanks to everyone who helped me with my last problem. I
> now have a system that acts as a fileserver for both my linux and win95
> machines, and the install for it took <100 megs, easy!
>
> Now on to the questions
>
> *
Larry 'Daffy' Daffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This has been hashed through a few times. There is not, has never
> been, and probably will never be an official Debian package based on
> the XFree Beta releases, since they do not provide source for the
> betas.
Understandable.
But i think, i
I was looking at the man pages HOWTOs etc. for GostScript with
the intent of using it with my HP 660C printer. It looks like the
standard distribution esecutable won't work for me so I got the
source and was going to compile it. It looks like the best option
for monocrome wonld be to set
First of all, thanks to everyone who helped me with my last problem. I
now have a system that acts as a fileserver for both my linux and win95
machines, and the install for it took <100 megs, easy!
Now on to the questions
* I have a promise VL4030-1 controller (currently it has the original
Have you tried daVinci? (it is on the sunsite somewhere)
Allegedly, it was created specifically to make block diagrams.
I have found Xfig to be pretty useful for diagrams. The gif export doesn't
seem to work that good for me, so I output to postscript and use XV to
convert
to gif or
You did follow the documentation _exactly_ in /usr/doc/nis didn't you? I
did and it worked perfectly. However, I believe the latest libc from
unstable breaks NIS - hopefully it'll be fixed soon. In the mean time you
can degrade to 5.4.20 and it should work.
At 12:10 PM 3/13/97 +0100, Magic wro
I have found Xfig to be pretty useful for diagrams. The gif export doesn't
seem to work that good for me, so I output to postscript and use XV to convert
to gif or jpeg
> I am using tkHTML to create a WebCourse and now need to include some block
> diagrams. Is anyone aware of a utility that wi
Dennis Lundstr%F6m wrote:
>
> >Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 12:08:44 +0100
> >From: Karlheinz Nolte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: Debian User List
> >Subject: Background for fvwm2
>
> >Hi Debians,
> >
> >I have here a Debian GNU/Linux 1.2.2. It works fine for me so far.
> >
> >Yesterday I tried to apply
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Heikki Vatiainen wrote:
> I have noticed almost the same behaviour. When I change from a VC back to X
> and right after that use the accelerator keys (Alt-Left, Alt-Right) to change
> between virtual desktops I usually get thrown back to a VC.
[...]
> I use Matrox Mill. 4MB
Jean-Paul Lacharme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Hi,
> I configured a HPLaserJet Serie II printer in text mode. My /etc/printcap
> entry is :
I have an HPLJ II which was configured using magicfilter and works
just fine. The good thing about magicfilter (and apsfilter) is that
the set up filter
Hi,
I configured a HPLaserJet Serie II printer in text mode. My /etc/printcap
entry is :
# /etc/printcap: printer capability database. See printcap(5).
# You can use the filter entries df, tf, cf, gf etc. for
# your own filters. See /etc/filter.ps, /etc/filter.pcl and
# the printcap(5) manual page
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Sevenich) writes:
>
> I am using tkHTML to create a WebCourse and now need to include some block
> diagrams. Is anyone aware of a utility that will let me efficiently create
> such diagrams in gif or jpeg format? I am currently using tgif, but am
> wondering if somethin
On 13 Mar 1997, Graeme Stewart wrote:
> This is a problem with the `lpr' package. My solution (the solution?)
> was upgrade to lprng (in the unstable tree, but I've had no
> problems). Some people have reported that it messes up Samba
> configurations, but that seemed to be surmountable too (and i
On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Paul Rightley wrote:
> I have heard a mention here of a (Debian?) install script that might convert a
> .fvwmrc file to a .fvwmrc2 file. Where can I find such a utility? I have
> Debian 1.2 going well, and I want to transition to fvwm2, but don't have the
> time to recreate
I have heard a mention here of a (Debian?) install script that might convert a
.fvwmrc file to a .fvwmrc2 file. Where can I find such a utility? I have
Debian 1.2 going well, and I want to transition to fvwm2, but don't have the
time to recreate the whole rc file.
Thank you for any help,
Paul Ri
"St. Johns Computer Center" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> How do you view the log of the past logins?
>
>
>
> St. Johns Computer Center
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
`last' should do the trick. `last ' for a specific user.
Graeme
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim O'Brien) writes:
>
> but not over the network. Locally, lpr produces a text output quite nicely.
> But over the network, nothing appears to happen.
>
> Using lpc and issuing stat, I find that the pritjob has queued locally, and
> says it's waiting for the other machine to
I like keeping a screen saver on sometimes but I see that Debian still
blanks the display after a few minutes if I'm not using the system.
Where is this option in Debian ? I want to disable it during the day.
Matthew
Remco van de Meent wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ w
> 2:10pm up 1 day, 22:32h, 1 user, load average: 1.05, 1.07, 1.01
> USER TTYLOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$
>
>
> Strange, isn't it?
> When I do 'last -10', there ARE users logged in. But they don't s
On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Pure Energy wrote:
> [annoying ASCII art .sig Bobbitted]
Say adren,
Are you a regular on alt.fan.warlord or something? Lose the nasty art. A
full page .sig is a bit excessive, don't you think?
Jason Costomiris | Finger for PGP 2.6.2 Public Key
[EMAIL PROTE
Hi,
I have been trying to compile gnuplot to work without X. I have managed to
get is working but, only if I log on as root. Apparently in the
"./term/linux.trm" file there is a piece of code that disables linux vga
(?svga) mode if 'uid' does not indicate root. When I commented this out it
compil
> "Magic" == Magic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Magic> Hi! I have some computers in the laboratory with RH 4.1
Magic> One of tem is a nis server, a the rest - clients. Now i
Magic> would like to have one PC with Debian on my desk :)
Magic> and... i've a problem...
Magic>
Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> I want to use rsh, but I found:
>
> $ rsh localhost ls
> Permission denied.
>
> What I must change (for example in hosts.allow) to run it?
>
Hi Andrea,
you have to create the file .rhosts in the users home directory on the
remote host (with permission rw-). Thi
Daniel Karlsson wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> Now I've almost got the mouse to work in X. It's only the middle button that
> doesn't want to work. How do I make it work?
>
> I've also tried to mount my floppy drive. I wrote the following at the
> command line:
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
> and I g
Hi Debians,
I have here a Debian GNU/Linux 1.2.2. It works fine for me so far.
Yesterday I tried to apply a background picture (a GIF File) for the
fvwm window manager. As you can read in the file
/usr/doc/fvwm2/debian.README.sysrc you have only to put a file
background.gif either in the director
Hey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ w
2:10pm up 1 day, 22:32h, 1 user, load average: 1.05, 1.07, 1.01
USER TTYLOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$
Strange, isn't it?
When I do 'last -10', there ARE users logged in. But they don't show up with
w/who.
Anyone hints how thi
I am using postit since last few minutes when I recived the message
==
$ xpostit
Warning: MenuButton: Could not find menu widget named [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Warning: MenuButton: Could not find menu widget named [EMAIL PROTECTED]
every time I press a mouse bu
I have just noticed that I have got a message in the Q
that has been waiting to be delivered for 2 months
(Trying every 20 mins).The reason for failure is that the
host is responding connection refused.
Does anyone know why this is still in the Q, and hasn't been
bounced back to the sender? How
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On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Magic wrote:
> I have some computers in the laboratory with RH 4.1 One of tem is a nis
> server, a the rest - clients. Now i would like to have one PC with Debian on
> my desk :) and... i've a problem...
>
> I instaled:
> nis-2.10-1
>
> ot
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On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, hogendoorn r.a. wrote:
> While playing with flex 2.5.4, I discovered that libfl.a was stripped.
> Consequently, linking fails because the symbol yywrap is not defined in
> the library.
You are right.
I have uploaded flex-2.5.4-2 two hours a
Use the last command. For example
last -100 will give you the last 100 logins.
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St. Johns Computer Center wrote
How do you view the log of the past logins?
St. Johns Computer Center
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi!
I have some computers in the laboratory with RH 4.1 One of tem is a nis
server, a the rest - clients. Now i would like to have one PC with Debian on
my desk :) and... i've a problem...
I instaled:
nis-2.10-1
other:
libc5 5.4.23-2
libgdbm11.7.3-19
netbase 2.10-1
In
How do you view the log of the past logins?
St. Johns Computer Center
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
While playing with flex 2.5.4, I discovered that libfl.a was stripped.
Consequently, linking fails because the symbol yywrap is not defined in
the library.
I got the source of flex and rebuild my own copy of the debian package.
It turned out that debstd strips all libraries, except the ones endin
Hi Michael:
Simple do a MAKEDEV busmice and it will create all the
bus mice device files with the applicable majors and minors
in /dev.
Michael Stoia wrote
HELP!!!
I am a veteran Slackware Linux user, but I recently decided to wipe
Slackware out and go with Debian. I decided to recompile the k
Hi,
I've got a PC with a P166+ cyrix processor and Debian 1.2
installed on it. Since I've got a matrox mystique video card, I have
also AcceleratedX.
I tried to have Matlab 5.0 installed on it but when I run
matlab, I get the error:
/usr/local/matlab/bin.lnx86/matlab:
I have a PS/2 mouse (Go ASUS! :) too. Why don't you just install psaux
and "Support for mouse (Not serial mice)" fully instead of installing as
modules? But if you really want to, you should just be able to make
config and put psaux back in as a module and then make dep;make clean;make
zimage;mak
HELP!!!
I am a veteran Slackware Linux user, but I recently decided to wipe
Slackware out and go with Debian. I decided to recompile the kernel
myself with support
for PS/2 mice. In addition to that I deleted the psaux module that
Debian installed. I didn't think both would be needed. Well ...
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997 23:49:16 +0100 Mathieu LEGRAND
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Just to thank you all and to tell you were right :
> my keyboard was not well configured. My AltGr key on
> my french keyboard doesn't work. Therefore, this is a
> bug of the Debian distribution ;-). Does someone kno
Dear Fellow Debianers,
My apology is directed to my 2 previous postings. It was a mistake
that they were sent to this list. This will not happen again.
-Rob
Howdy, glad to be back after being away for a while.. Hope I haven't missed
much :)
A quick question regarding LPD and remote printing: I have two Debian boxen,
both running kernel 2.0.6. One has a printer on it that functions locally,
but not over the network. Locally, lpr produces a text output
you had better fuckin work this time
/ \ _-' `-_ /\
_/| \-''- _ / \ _ -``-/ |\_
__-' { | \ / | } `-__
-/ \ Rob MacQuar
/ \ _-' `-_ /\
_/| \-''- _ / \ _ -``-/ |\_
__-' { | \ / | } `-__
-/ \ Rob MacQuarrie / \-
Thought:
> Woah, check this out: I just installed Debian a couple days ago, and
> 'thought' is my first user with UID 1000 and GID 1000. Look at what I
> found when I was poking around:
These are all bugs, but all of them seem to have been fixed by the latest
version of the packages (from unstab
Woah, check this out: I just installed Debian a couple days ago, and
'thought' is my first user with UID 1000 and GID 1000. Look at what I
found when I was poking around:
[21:35:35]/etc# find / -gid 1000
/usr/doc/procmail/HISTORY.gz
/usr/doc/procmail/README.gz
/usr/doc/procmail/FAQ.gz
/usr/doc/p
To follow up my own problem, isn't it funny how sending the message
triggers your mind
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Richard Morin wrote:
> The strangest thing in all of this, is that I can, now at least, connect
> with minicom and start pppd manually, which is fine, but I can't get my
> mail with f
Maybe either the scripts are so old that they were never updated when
newer shells besides bash came out, or maybe they assumed that all newer
shells would be bash-compatible, or maybe the people who wrote them are
just stupid :) Not everyone's a genius you know :)
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Steve wrot
/ \ _-' `-_ /\
_/| \-''- _ / \ _ -``-/ |\_
__-' { | \ / | } `-__
-/ \ Rob MacQuarrie / \-
Eugene H. Sevinian wrote:
>
> This version of Netscape which I have installed recently works very
> bad. I am getting this error very often.
>
> Will be thankfull for any advice.
One of my users complained that Netscape would "bus error"
whenever he tried to use it to send email. I found this
>> You are using Cyclades boards? I believe (in a FAQ somewhere) that the
>> device names can only be 2 chars, like ttyC0. If you go over C9,
>> you'll have to use Ca, Cb, etc.
>
>The problem was that the 1.x kernels could not support device names over 5
>characters; the 2.x kernels can handle at l
In your email to me, Adam Shand, you wrote:
>
> >> /var/adm/addtold/wtmp.2:69: problem: missing login record for `ttyC12'
> >> /var/adm/addtold/wtmp.2:364: problem: missing login record for `ttyC10'
> >>
> >> All I can think of is that somehow the way that we rotate the wtmp file is
> >> corrupti
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Tim Sailer wrote:
> You are using Cyclades boards? I believe (in a FAQ somewhere) that the
> device names can only be 2 chars, like ttyC0. If you go over C9,
> you'll have to use Ca, Cb, etc.
The problem was that the 1.x kernels could not support device names over 5
character
I am using tkHTML to create a WebCourse and now need to include some block
diagrams. Is anyone aware of a utility that will let me efficiently create
such diagrams in gif or jpeg format? I am currently using tgif, but am
wondering if something better is out there.
Thanks,
Richard
Hello all:
I have recently upgraded my debian system from 2.1.2 to 2.1.28
because of the SMP support and found the following problems.
1. Masquerading doesn't work in 2.1.28
2. The pppd reports a netmask error once LCP negotiation is
complete even if a netmask is provided in e
Hi Peter,
It's on master.debian.org and hasn't made it to ftp.debian.org yet. I
got through and snagged a copy if you wouldn't mind it as a mail
attachment or some such...
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Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lawrence Chim writes:
> In a previous message Lawrence Chim said:
> > These are the files in modules_2.1.23-1.deb. It seems that all
> > binaries and manpages are missing.
>
> modules_2.1.23-1 is a dummy package used when upgrading from modules to
> the newer modutils. Unfortunately modutil
I'm running into some sort of filesystem corruption when I dump one of the
filesystems on my spare machine. Anyone got any ideas? The machine runs
real well, and came up A-OK after a reboot the other morning.
Thanks in advance,
--
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Finger [EMA
On Mar 03, 1997 at 06:39:16PM -0500, Rob MacWilliams wrote:
> > Okay, but how about this one. I'm on hamishpc.rising.com.au,
> > accessing a web page (http://www.silcom.com/~tonkin/pointless/),
> Maybe finger. It seems you can CGI for the OS and if it's *nix run finger,
> or just run finger and s
On Mar 03, 1997 at 01:45:37PM -0800, Steve wrote:
> > I set my system shell to zsh as well, and replaced all the /bin/bash in
> > /etc/passwd to /usr/bin/zsh, but when I tried to move /bin/sh to point to
> > /usr/bin/zsh, all of the /etc/init.d/* scripts blew up.
>
> If those scripts actually requ
Has anyone installed dosemu? How do you get it to boot off of
the hdimage? Can you then access your partitions from this hdimage?
I've got it so far that i can start up with opendos on a floppy, but
that takes ages. Any info would be appreciated.
johannes martinez
> > If those scripts actually require bash then why isn't the first line
> > #!/bin/bash? Is this a bug, or is it written in stone that /bin/sh and
> > /bin/bash are equivalent?
>
> /etc/init.d/* do, in fact, all start with "#!/bin/sh" as they should.
> I believe that bash was written to be a free
Greetings! When running a program from the shell under a directory
automounted with amd, I often get the following error:
shell-init: could not get current directory: \getwd: cannot access
parent directories
The actual mount directory on my system is /a and the automount point
is /mnt. This er
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Okay, but how about this one. I'm on hamishpc.rising.com.au, accessing
> a web page (http://www.silcom.com/~tonkin/pointless/), but I'm IP
> masquerading via silly.rising.com.au, which isn't really called that
> at all because I'm on via my ISP who's g
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Pete Poff wrote:
> Hi,
> before I changed over to linux, I was MS-DOS and had two
> hardrives installed. They both worked fine. When I changed i didn't
> install the second hard drive and now I need to. How can I. I tryed to
> find some docs but couldn't. Also af
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