> Due to some reasons, mostly funincial, I need to establish wireless
> connection between home and lab. I have read a little about HAM radio and
> it sounds nice in that sense. Is there anybody who can share his
> experience about this topic? Expected speed should be of order ~9600 bps
> and dist
> I am interested in downloading Debian, but I am running into problems...
>
> I am running Windows NT 4 currently, and have tried to download from
> ftp.debain.org and ftp.cdrom.com.
I've successfully used WSFTP as a Windows FTP client to download from both
of these sites. (Right now, I've got
> Hi,
>
> I am interested in downloading Debian, but I am running into problems...
>
> I am running Windows NT 4 currently, and have tried to download from
> ftp.debain.org and ftp.cdrom.com.
>
> The ftp client I am using is CuteFTP v1.8
>
> The problem is that I can not download the "links" to
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> I can't login into my box the ftpd denies access to everyone! I check the
> files /etc/hosts.deny /etc/hosts.allow /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess and they are
> all fine! what else could it be? I am using wu-ftpd..
You probably used ftpshut. This program will creat
Hi,
I am interested in downloading Debian, but I am running into problems...
I am running Windows NT 4 currently, and have tried to download from
ftp.debain.org and ftp.cdrom.com.
The ftp client I am using is CuteFTP v1.8
The problem is that I can not download the "links" to the actual files (a
If you can do so, please try running your system with the date in the year
2000 for a while. Richard Stallman asked if we had tested that GNU software
is free of year-2000 problems, and I think it's a good idea. Fortunately
we don't have too many COBOL programs :-) .
To do this, you'll probably ne
> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: "Kevin Traas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: dpkg-ftp Error - Suggestions?
> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 09:49:53 -0700
> [Kevin is quoted below: problem with dpkg-ftp]
I'd try a different ftp site.
ftp.us.debian.org, debian.crosslink.net are two good
LinuxBOX wrote:
>
> I recently configured my linux box to act as a Dialup PPP Server. However
> I can only see the linux box itself. THe Linux box has an ethernet
> conection to the internet and I would realy like to be able to acces the
> rest of the net with the dialup ppp sesion. Could anyon
I figured it out. Another brain cramp on my part. I forgott to change
the fstab entry for /. The right partition was mounted but at boot time
e2fsck wouldn't check it and reported it as hda1. df reported it as hda1
as
well.
Funny that it didn't give me some specific error concerning this, or t
I found out that the Debian uucp package I have still uses a.out format:
$ file /usr/sbin/uucico
/usr/sbin/uucico: setuid setgid Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC),
stripped
$ ldd /usr/sbin/uucico
libc.so.4 (DLL Jump 4.6pl27) => /lib/libc.so.4
As far as I know, I'm up-to date wit
Hi everybody,
I have downloaded Debian Linux 1.2.9 from ftp.uni-mainz.de, but failed
to get it installed on my machine.
Reasons:
First, the dselect-setup asks me for a /local/binary-i386-path and
package-list. But there isn´t such a subdirectory (or a symbolic link to
another dir), or more exact
On 25 Apr 1997 14:48:58 -0500, Rob Browning wrote:
>Eugene Sevinian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Due to some reasons, mostly funincial, I need to establish wireless
>> connection between home and lab. I have read a little about HAM radio and
>> it sounds nice in that sense. Is there anybody w
Eugene Sevinian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Due to some reasons, mostly funincial, I need to establish wireless
> connection between home and lab. I have read a little about HAM radio and
> it sounds nice in that sense. Is there anybody who can share his
> experience about this topic? Expected
Edward McKnight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> chmod uses these values to confir privelege so giving read-write to
> owner but total lockout to group & world is
>
> % chmod 600 file.foo
I also find it easier sometimes to use (recall) the symbolic options.
So you could also say:
% chmod u=rw,g=
Due to some reasons, mostly funincial, I need to establish wireless
connection between home and lab. I have read a little about HAM radio and
it sounds nice in that sense. Is there anybody who can share his
experience about this topic? Expected speed should be of order ~9600 bps
and distance ~ 1km
I recently configured my linux box to act as a Dialup PPP Server. However
I can only see the linux box itself. THe Linux box has an ethernet
conection to the internet and I would realy like to be able to acces the
rest of the net with the dialup ppp sesion. Could anyone tell me what I
failed to
I know I could use LBA mode. I originally used LBA mode for months but
noticed a couple of possible problems. I say possible since I can't prove
they were caused by using LBA mode.
1. My drive seemed to fill faster as if the files were using more space
than they should have. I have the same in
Errr...I don't trust LBA. I ran LBA for several months and began to see a
little corruption in my file system which began to propigate. Even though
e2fsck came up clean programs began reporting missing files but an ls -al
would show the file in the right place. I don't know if it was LBA that
ca
On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Charles Morrison wrote:
> Looking at where Mr Hewson is coming from (wants a computer he can
> understand) He's right. He should get as far away from Linux as he
> can. To assume that the rest of the world shares his phobia of
> complexity (power in computing) is arrogant
Hi Kevin,
your problem looks slightly familiar to me. If I remember correctly, the
error is due to a faulty perl package. Which version of Debian are you
running? The fix would then be to download the respective perl
package(s) via ftp manually and install them manually with 'dpkg -i
'. After that
On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Christoph wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, William Burrow wrote:
>
> aa126 >Debian CDs seem to lack this feature. Even a small filesystem on the
> CD
> aa126 >would be useful, and when the ext2 compressed filesystem is
> incorporated
> aa126 >in the main kernel, a few more
On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > 2: Adjust the colors used. From what I remember, the Slackware used
> > green on keywords, and white on err... filnames? (The colors
> > aren't that important, but it _did_ improve readability.
>
> This is one problem which stops me from
Jason Ish:
> I saw in debian-announce that Qt 1.2 has been put into a debian package
> but I can not find it on any of the sites. Could someone please tell me
> where to find it.
It's in the new unstable nonfree section. On the debian mirrors, this is
debian/hamm/non-free/
--
See shy Jo.
--
T
3 digits: nnn for user, group, world (other)
Within each digit are three possible values which mush together:
0 = nothing
1 = eXecute
2 = Write
4 = Read
chmod uses these values to confir privelege so giving read-write to
owner but total lockout to group & world is
% chmod 600 file.foo
umas
I've just installed dpkg-ftp using dselect. Now, I want to update the
access method for FTP using dselect. When going through, I get the
following. Any ideas?
* *
Using FTP to check directories...(stop with ^C)
Connecting to ...
Net::FTP: Bad peer address at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm
Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote:
>
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>
> Hi.
>
> I moved from Slackware to Debian, but there's a couple of things I
> have not been able to figure out yet:
>
>
> 2: Adjust the colors used. From what I remember, the Slackware used
> green on keywords, and
On Apr 25, Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro wrote
> I bought Slackware a while back and installed it, but now I'd rather
> install Debian (from what I see it's more flexible in the
> installation). How can I install it? Should I reformat the HD and
> re install everything? Forgive the sillyness o
Hello.
I bought Slackware a while back and installed it, but now I'd rather
install Debian (from what I see it's more flexible in the
installation). How can I install it? Should I reformat the HD and
re install everything? Forgive the sillyness of this question,
unfortunately I am switch
Walt Tautz wrote:
>
> Apologies to those who get easily insulted, but
> is the article in question. Perhaps this
> should not be posted.
> -W.T.
>
thank you for posting this article. I couldn't get into the sunday times
site.
> April 20 1997SOUNDING OFF
>
Alexandre Lebrun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Serge Stinckwich wrote:
> >
> > I've got similar problems. I have Netscape 4.0b3 and disk cache doesn't
> > seems to work : the cache directory is empty, the index.db file is also
> > created...
> > Cheers,
>
> I supposed you miss
On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Eugene Sevinian wrote:
> I am trying to compile new kernel (2.0.27) to use with loadlin from w95.
> It seems that some things are working but some are not.
>
> Here is some of the bootup messages captured manualy. (I did not find it
> in the /var/log/messages. Why?)
> -
I am trying to compile new kernel (2.0.27) to use with loadlin from w95.
It seems that some things are working but some are not.
Here is some of the bootup messages captured manualy. (I did not find it
in the /var/log/messages. Why?)
---
Loading modules: vfat Initialization of vf
On Apr 25, Hamoperator SM7UGT Marcel bos wrote
: what happended. Then The gateway aderess is correct, and the IP adress
: is correct. But Hey, I never got an qestion about in the installation. DNS
: server?!
Probably you should send you /etc/init.d/network to this list. And
all available informa
On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Benedikt Eric Heinen wrote:
> > > On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> > [ all my config info deleted ]
>
> Let me comment: Except for one minor flaw, those configs are working. The
> only flaw in there was, that in the setup for icemark, the route to
> firefranc
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Jason Costomiris wrote:
> > why not just use the arguments passed to /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down} by pppd?
>
> Sure, I could do that, but suppose pppd changes the order in which it
> passes parameters with the next pppd upgrade... I'll still be running,
> if I used $4, and didn't k
Hi,
Have you tried command
eval `resize`
before running man.
Note that the quotes need to be ` not '. I have found this useful when there's
trouble with the size of the xterm.
Andy Mortimer wrote:
>
> On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote:
>
> > man :
> > How can I change th
This morning on my computer I found:
Stack segment:
CPU:0
EIP:0010[<3451>]
EFLAGS:00010246
eax:2000 ebx: ecx: edx:00012000
esi:0001 edi:01606e08 ebp:0003 esp:01606db0
ds:0018 es:0018 fs:0026 gs:0026 ss:0018
Process Savelog(pid:2842, prcess nr: 24,stackpage=0160
In your email to me, Luis Francisco Gonzalez, you wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I was wondering if somebody was using PAP and/or CHAP to connect to a ppp
> server using debian. I struggled with it for a week to no avail. I finally
> installed RedHat's ppp package using alien and it worked as advertised. I
> e
On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
> what is the umask to mount a partition that allows user and group "rwx"
> permission
> and other none, i.e. "---".
James Bond would know this: 007
Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAI
On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I moved from Slackware to Debian, but there's a couple of things I
> have not been able to figure out yet:
>
> man :
> How can I change the behaviour of man to do:
>
> 1: Adjust itself to the screen size in console and Xterm. It se
At installation of debian I had problems with the internet.
I have typed in all the figuers that shall be inside, still
it dosn't work. I checked twise at etc/inet.d/network all
seems to be correct. After that I even changed Ethernet
cards. from A ne2000 card to a 3com Ethernet link III card
bu
On Thu, Apr 24, 1997 at 02:44:08PM -0400, Rick Jones wrote:
> I moved all my files from hda1 to hda2 with the kernel being the last file
> moved. So ofcourse it is beyond the 1023 line. That would explain it. My
> mind is going and I'm only 32.
Errr, so what? My root partition starts after an 80
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On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Dima wrote:
>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>>I wish to be able to enable Java support in Netscape 3.01 without it
>>crashing whenever I try a java site. Is there a patch or fix for this?
>Here's my /usr/X11R6/bin/nescape:
>
>#!/bi
Luis,
I've used the +ua option since I worked out PPP for the first time in
Slackware; I've never had any trouble with it in Debian, under
ppp-2.2.0f-19, 23, and 24 (the very, very latest). I'm sorry to say I
don't know what your trouble could be, but I wanted to let you know it was
possib
Hi,
I was wondering if somebody was using PAP and/or CHAP to connect to a ppp
server using debian. I struggled with it for a week to no avail. I finally
installed RedHat's ppp package using alien and it worked as advertised. I ended
up installing debian's ppp back but substituing pppd for the versi
On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
> I'm reposting this since I haven't gotten any responses yet. Any ideas
> would be greatly appreciated.
If your motherboard is new, you could turn on lba in the bios of your
computer.
Linux has no problems accessing my 2.0 gb. EIDE harddisk.
regards,
>
> I moved all my files from hda1 to hda2 with the kernel being the last file
> moved. So ofcourse it is beyond the 1023 line. That would explain it. My
> mind is going and I'm only 32.
>
> Since I'm going to repartition this again I should give in and split it
> across partitions. You have a
Howdy,
I'm trying to reinstall Debian on my Toshiba Portable using a mirror on one of
our network servers. To do this I need PCMCIA facilities since my networkadaptor
is a PCMCIA card. What I did is:
* I first installed the base system using the regular set of disks I created.
* rebooted the com
At 10:30 AM 25/04/97 +0300, Daniel MOSMONDOR - Mosh wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I am kind of new to this mailing list, so please excuse me if this subject
>is running around for some time.
>
>I have a strange wtmp problem, and something suggests that is has something
>to do with different versions of important
Hi!
I am kind of new to this mailing list, so please excuse me if this subject
is running around for some time.
I have a strange wtmp problem, and something suggests that is has something
to do with different versions of important system files. I don't consider
myself as a linux guru (yet) so pl
> > Activating meta in X is in the XF86Config file.
> Here is an extract from my /etc/X11/XF86config:
>
> # To set the LeftAlt to Meta, RightAlt key to ModeShift,
> # RightCtl key to Compose, and ScrollLock key to ModeLock:
>
> LeftAlt Meta # this line was commented out before
> #
I saw in debian-announce that Qt 1.2 has been put into a debian package
but I can not find it on any of the sites. Could someone please tell me
where to find it.
Thanks
Jason
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Hi!
first of all, all three things are possible afaik.
> 1: Adjust itself to the screen size in console and Xterm. It seems
> to be 80 chars wide even when I run SVGATextMode and get 132x60.
I remember that I have encountered a similar problem but vice versa.
I found out (or ... hmm... I
what is the umask to mount a partition that allows user and group "rwx"
permission
and other none, i.e. "---".
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Hi.
I moved from Slackware to Debian, but there's a couple of things I
have not been able to figure out yet:
man :
How can I change the behaviour of man to do:
1: Adjust itself to the screen size in console and Xterm. It seems
to be 80 chars wide even
One trick that I have learned is to SELECT NOTHING the first time you run
dselect, simply let it install the PRESELECTED things only. THEN run
dselect again and choose your other software.
George Bonser
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On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Daeron wrote:
> Every time I've tried to run dselect I get down to 'install' and start
> it,
>
> after several screens (and seconds) it start list a bunch of selected
> options gives an error message. Below is the for of it
> == ==
> /debian/stable/binary-i386/admi
Every time I've tried to run dselect I get down to 'install' and start
it,
after several screens (and seconds) it start list a bunch of selected
options gives an error message. Below is the for of it
== ==
/debian/stable/binary-i386/admin/quota_1.55-4.deb
Processing was halted because t
"Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well, I wish I have a good partition map.
I believe that the Multiple-Disks-Layout HOWTO covers this very issue
(even if you don't have multiple disks).
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Sorry, that was the Multiple-Disks-Layout mini-HOWTO.
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Fooling around yesterday with the 2000 date, I managed to send
the system into a tailspin which caused the installed watchdog
to reboot due to a high load. No, I wasn't expecting this. ;-)
It would be nice if watchdog would run the shutdown scripts and
reboot cleanly, is there a way to do this?
I recently installed the frozen 1.3 Bo distribution. At first I couldn't
ftp in at all...I added a /etc/shells and that solved that. But now it
takes what seems like several minutes for me to connect to my machine
using ftp, while it is almost instantanous when telnetting. (BTW, this
might be th
Rick Jones writes:
> > New BIOS may support cylinders higher than 1023, but old BIOS doesn't.
> > Lilo may not make a distinction. I think you should check again what
> > cylinder hda2 starts on. The important fact is where the disk blocks for
> > your *kernel* are. With a large disk people oft
Every time I've tried to run dselect I get down to 'install' and start
it,
after several screens (and seconds) it start list a bunch of selected
options gives an error message. Below is the for of it
== ==
/debian/stable/binary-i386/admin/quota_1.55-4.deb
Processing was halted because t
> Hey, folks!
>
>
> I finally have a project in the wings that may actually pay $$$ for
> me to deploy a real live debian based solution... that would be cool in many
> ways and it would mean that I could finally have a debian environment on my
> desktop with some hope of having time
On 24 Apr, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> This raises questions in my mind about whether
> or
> not the kernel has to be in the root partition. My programmer instincts
> tell
> me it shouldn't have to be there. Past experience with making naive
> assumptions suggest that I not bet the ranch (and risk
Hey, folks!
I finally have a project in the wings that may actually pay $$$ for
me to deploy a real live debian based solution... that would be cool in many
ways and it would mean that I could finally have a debian environment on my
desktop with some hope of having time to contribu
Lu Jimmy Chenji wrote:
>
> Where can I get rawrite.exe? I want to try it because I am having
> problem with rawrite2.exe.
> Thanks in advance.
> Jimmy Lu
>
>Take a look at http://www.cdrom.com. They carry all distributions, but not
>necessarily the latest ones. You might have the most luck there
> Just thought I'd kick in my two cents on this.
Well said! That's the type of response that gets results. I just hope
it doesn't get lost in the myriad of flames that I'm sure were also sent.
Brian
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> I am aware that, for whatever reason, lilo won't look beyond cylinder
> 1023, the 540MB line that M$ drew out of ignorance years ago. (It might
> not have been Bill but I like blaming shit on him anyway.)
>
> Anyway. The point is that I took this into account and started hda2 at
> cylinder 817
I have tried to install the six disks(BASE14-1.BIN to BASE14-4.BIN
DRV1440.BIN and RESQ1440.BIN) to my 386PC without any success. But
about six months ago, I did install these disks into another machine.
At that time, I was using rawrite.exe. Now I only can get rawrite2.exe.
Where can I get rawri
Liem Bahneman wrote:
>
> This is what I do:
>
> (per the netscape/java howto)
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> export CLASSPATH="/usr/local/lib/netscape/java_301:."
> export LD_PRELOAD="/lib/gnumalloc.so"
> exec /usr/local/bin/netscape-3.01 "$@"
>
> gnumalloc.so is on java.blackdown.org I believe
>
> th
Richard Morin wrote:
>
> On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Jim Smith wrote:
>
> > I wish to be able to enable Java support in Netscape 3.01 without it
> > crashing whenever I try a java site. Is there a patch or fix for this?
>
> >
> > Thanks...
> >
> > Jim
> > --
>
> Hi Jim,
> Just re-install N
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