NFS Problem

1997-05-11 Thread John Foster
I get the error mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on mars:/home, or too many mounted file systems when trying to mount mars:/home as pluto:/home2. Pluto has a mars:/home /home2 nfs soft0 0 in /etc/fstab. The kernel has nfs support. nfsiod

Re: magicfilter entry for pdf files?

1997-05-11 Thread Mark W. Blunier
On Sun, 11 May 1997, Colin Telmer wrote: > Does anyone have a magicfilter entry to print pdf files using acroread or > gv? I added the following two lines to my /usr/sbin/dj500-filter to print pdf files: # PDF files added by MWB 0 %PDFpipe/usr/bin/acroread -toPostScript

linuxdoc-sgm

1997-05-11 Thread Rick Jones
I'm trying to install linuxdoc-sgm with dselect but it's not showing up in the list to be installed after being marked for install. Also. None of these files are properly named in the packages list, or are actually missing. This has been for a few days at least, when do the packages files get u

xscreensaver 1.27-2 lockout xlock

1997-05-11 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
I have launched xscreensaver -nolock. Then I have started xlock. After some minutes xlock was running as started with -nolock option. Is normal for xscreensaver to lockout xlock or is a bug of xlock? Should xlock test if another xlock was running before starting itself? xlockmore is version 4.0

Re: ncsa ServerName problem (fwd)

1997-05-11 Thread Dima
You wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >A colleague of mine is having some trouble installing ncsa on a dialup >debian machine to use for dwww. Given it is a dialup machine and therefore >has no valid DNS entry, how can he get around this? Any help is gratefully >appreciated. Cheers, Coli

Re: magicfilter and smbprint together?

1997-05-11 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Colin" == Colin Telmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> One other note, I could not find Colin> a reference to $@ in my manpage for magicfilter. Try the `bash` manual for that one. -- Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Deb

Re: Message for Dale Scheetz and sendmail question for list

1997-05-11 Thread Rick Jones
On Sun, 11 May 1997, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > Sounds like you don't have a domain set in sendmail config file. > > Ok, I thought as much. How do I change it? I tried running > /usr/sbin/sendmailconfig again but that didn't help. And one look at the > size of the O'Reilly sendmail book was

Re: New to Debian

1997-05-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 10 May 1997, W.D.McKinney wrote: > Greetings, > > Anyone here just moved from Red Hat to Debian ? > Just signed up on the is list. I've been moving over for the past month. I see a lot of advantages in Debian, but still haven't gotten everything running like I had it in Red Hat. One th

Re: New to Debian

1997-05-11 Thread W.D.McKinney
On 11-May-97 Douglas L Stewart wrote: >On Sat, 10 May 1997, W.D.McKinney wrote: > >> Anyone here just moved from Red Hat to Debian ? >> Just signed up on the is list. > >I've used RedHat 2.x, 3.x, and 4.0, and I'm running Debian now. What's >your question? > >-douglas I'm still using RHCL 4.1 an

Re: Message for Dale Scheetz and sendmail question for list

1997-05-11 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
> > Sounds like you don't have a domain set in sendmail config file. Ok, I thought as much. How do I change it? I tried running /usr/sbin/sendmailconfig again but that didn't help. And one look at the size of the O'Reilly sendmail book was enough to put the fear of God in me! > Pine > woul

Re: Speak-Freely with a half-duplex sound card

1997-05-11 Thread Joey Hess
David Nowak: > I tried to use Speak-Freely but it is compiled for a full-duplex sound > card. How can I use this package with my half-duplex sound card without > to have to recompile it ? It should work fine. I use it with my half-duplex card. You run sfspeaker first, then sfmike. Sfspeaker only u

Re: DOS Fdisk doesn't see Linux partitions

1997-05-11 Thread Ken Gaugler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 10 May, Ken Gaugler wrote: > > > > [partition problems] > > Hello! > > Sad to say I can only offer this very general advice (which you may > already have heard and followed; in that case ignore me ;-) > > Always delete and create partitions with the correspondin

magicfilter entry for pdf files?

1997-05-11 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Does anyone have a magicfilter entry to print pdf files using acroread or gv? I am printing to a HP ljet3 but I can figure out the ljet3 specifics myself. Is there more than one offset/magic combination for various pdf files? I looked into /etc/magic for entries

Re: DNS question

1997-05-11 Thread Rick Jones
I should have been more specific, sorry. I wanted to know if this secondary that is behind the firewall, IP masq'd, can be used as far as internic is concerned, or if they will reject it because of the IP masqing? Does any body know? I have solved my need for a secondary but am still curious ab

Re: magicfilter and smbprint together?

1997-05-11 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 11 May 1997, Carey Evans wrote: > Something like the following should work better. Also, are you sure > you want to do CR/LF translation in this case? ljet3-filter doesn't. > The "$@" passes on the options from lpd to magicfilter, as documented > at the top

Speak-Freely with a half-duplex sound card

1997-05-11 Thread David Nowak
'lo I tried to use Speak-Freely but it is compiled for a full-duplex sound card. How can I use this package with my half-duplex sound card without to have to recompile it ? Thanx. --  David E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.mygale.org/06/nowak/

/home, /usr/local, / and /whatelse?

1997-05-11 Thread Brent Hutto
Thanks to pointers from replies to my earlier messages about "dselect", I now understand how to install software on Debian. The key is to use "dpkg" and install things without the whole "dselect" rigamarole. The biggest discovery I've made is the "list of packages" on the Debian web site. That

Re: debian mirrors

1997-05-11 Thread Pete Templin
On Sat, 10 May 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: > What are some good up-to-date mirrors of ftp.debian.org? I am > continuously having problems connecting because of the 100 anonymous user > limit. I have tried some mirrors, like ftp.infomagic.com, but not > everything is there. I've got a twice-a-day

Re: DNS question

1997-05-11 Thread R. Chris Ross
I set up a DNS on my FreeBSD box which is behind my Debian box and it worked fine. At the time I didn't think to ask the question I just added the secondary line to my named.boot for my ISP and restarted named. > >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: Debian User List > >cc: "Jens B. Jorge

ncsa ServerName problem (fwd)

1997-05-11 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- A colleague of mine is having some trouble installing ncsa on a dialup debian machine to use for dwww. Given it is a dialup machine and therefore has no valid DNS entry, how can he get around this? Any help is gratefully appreciated. Cheers, Colin. - --

how do i install the devian linux to my network

1997-05-11 Thread Daniel
please help I want to install linux at work, I want a network ready for internet access. please can you help I would like simple instructions as to what i need to download thank you Daniel -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Troubl

Re: core dump disable

1997-05-11 Thread Rick Jones
I don't think it's possible to disable core dumps, but I'm not sure. I just thought I'd give you an idea I thought of when reading your post. Why don't you run this program from a RAM disk? Mount a ramdrive and copy the program that dumps core to it. Make sure the program saves the product to

Re: core dump disable

1997-05-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, 11 May 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote: > [...deleted...] > However, the core dumps are large since the workfile of the program > is dumped ( around 60 Mb ). Getting the commercial company to do > something about this didn't achieve much. So I would like to know if > there is away to disable cor

Kernel compilation problems - solved

1997-05-11 Thread Johann Spies
Thank you to everyone responding. I discovered at one stage that the compilation process was looking for as86 and that I did not have it. After installing bin86 the problem was solved. Johann. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Piete

core dump disable

1997-05-11 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I have a commercial package for statistics installed on my debian system. This is primarily for interactive use but because my programs take a long time I run it using the nohup command in the background. The problem is that after the program finishes its calculations and before it exits it d

Re: Message for Dale Scheetz and sendmail question for list

1997-05-11 Thread Rick Jones
Sounds like you don't have a domain set in sendmail config file. Pine would have nothing to do with this particular error since it uses the local transport (normally). You could also insure that you do have localhost set as smtp host in pine setup. If you have your ISP's host set in pine as s

Satan 1.1.1

1997-05-11 Thread Richard Zoni
Hi, can someone tell me where I can find the right patch to compile satan1.1.1 on my Debian1.2 ? TIA Richard Zoni !e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Via Emilia Ponente 28/3!homepagehttp://www.cs.unibo.it/~zoni 40133 Bologna(BO) ITALY!phone/fax ++39 51 380 327 *Public Key

RE: ET6000

1997-05-11 Thread Stig Are M. Botterli
On 11-May-97 Lawrence Chim wrote: >Anyone using ET6000? >I am going to sell my diamond stealth and buy a ET6000 >based card, e.g. Jaton 128. >I just want to be sure that X run fine :) Runs fine here. You should get the XF86_SVGA server from the 3.2A distribution featuring greatly enhanced ET6000 s

Re: ET6000

1997-05-11 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
Lawrence Chim wrote, > > Anyone using ET6000? > I am going to sell my diamond stealth and buy a ET6000 > based card, e.g. Jaton 128. > I just want to be sure that X run fine :) I have a machine running on ET6000. I'm using the SVGA drivers from X3.2 (available from debian 1.2). Just make sure y

Re: New to Debian

1997-05-11 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On Sat, 10 May 1997, W.D.McKinney wrote: > Anyone here just moved from Red Hat to Debian ? > Just signed up on the is list. I've used RedHat 2.x, 3.x, and 4.0, and I'm running Debian now. What's your question? -douglas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to

New to Debian

1997-05-11 Thread W.D.McKinney
Greetings, Anyone here just moved from Red Hat to Debian ? Just signed up on the is list. Thanks -Dee = |W.D. McKinney (Dee) |E-mail Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: [EMAIL PROT

Message for Dale Scheetz and sendmail question for list

1997-05-11 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Dale, Sorry for sending this to the whole list but when I tried replying to your mail to me about the pine bug (btw I had a lot of swap space free so that wasn't it but I think the problem is solved now anyway.) I got: 501: HELO Requires Domain Address and sure enough I'm sending out HELO i

A thousand apologies to the debian user list.

1997-05-11 Thread Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro
On This Day, In The Year of Our Lord 9 May 97, 20:56 "Re: deselect" By G.V.Livingston II: OOOpps, I apologize about that. I have a filter set up so that all incoming mail from usa.net is automatically answered. I keep on getting flooded from tons of spams by various usa.net addresses that

ET6000

1997-05-11 Thread Lawrence Chim
Anyone using ET6000? I am going to sell my diamond stealth and buy a ET6000 based card, e.g. Jaton 128. I just want to be sure that X run fine :) Lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: magicfilter and smbprint together?

1997-05-11 Thread Carey Evans
Colin Telmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > #!/bin/sh -x > ( > # NOTE You may wish to add the line `echo translate' if you want automatic > # CR/LF translation when printing. > echo translate > echo "print -" > cat > ) | /usr/sbin/ljet3-filter | /usr/bin/smbclient "\

Re: Kernel-compilation error no.2

1997-05-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, May 10, 1997 at 11:40:55AM -0400, Rick Jones wrote: > On Sat, 10 May 1997, Johann Spies wrote: > > > defxx.o(.text+0x15a): undefined reference to `pcibios_present' > > defxx.o(.text+0x188): undefined reference to `pcibios_find_device' > I'm not a developer, but it may be that you have PCI

DOS Fdisk doesn't see Linux partitions

1997-05-11 Thread Ken Gaugler
I recently asked for "ideas about moving Debian to another disk", and got some good suggestions. I decided to use Paul Serice's excellent procedure he has on his page at http://lac.laci.net/pweb/ugs/mini_howto.html Almost everything went well. I moved the Linux partitions from the second IDE di