Driver compiled under kernel 2.0.29 says it was compiled under 2.0.28

1997-05-19 Thread Harmon Sequoya Nine
Hi. I have this alpha-release driver for a PCI ethernet card that I compiled under kernel 2.0.29 (my current kernel). However, when I try to install it in the kernel with "insmod", insmod reports that the driver was compiled under kernel 2.0.28 and that it won't install it (at least not witho

False alarm on "mount" command

1997-05-19 Thread Harmon Sequoya Nine
Turns out it just pays to scan the docs more closely. The problem I encountered was due to the "user" option implying noexec, nosuid, and nodev (unless overridden by later options). I had placed all of my options in alphabetic order, i.e. dev,exec,user so "user" overided exec and dev.

Re: 'w' works, 'who' does not...

1997-05-19 Thread Raja R Harinath
Jon Valesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a set of servers running debian 1.2 as downloadable from a mirror > site today. There are two servers, using NIS to distribute user > information. > > >From either system, if I type 'who', all I get back is a command prompt. > > If I use 'w', I get

SGML2TXT

1997-05-19 Thread Rick Jones
Does anybody know why I might get the following error? Making intro.txt from intro.sgml. :252: warning: can't find font `C' Could this have anything to do with the change to the /usr/share directory for the groff etc files? I tried to grep all the files for any references to a font `C' with no l

Re: libc6 question

1997-05-19 Thread Christian Hudon
On May 20, joost witteveen wrote > > I don't want to > > install libc6 yet because of possible glitches. Thanks > > As far as I know, there are *no* glitches, at least not with > the old libc5 programmes still on your system. The only thing > that *might* go wrong, in case there are bugs in libc6

Re: Network mounting problems

1997-05-19 Thread joost witteveen
> Hello All: > > I have been running into a vexing problem with a cluster of 8 Debian > machines I am using for a Course in Computational Physics. > > All of the machines are running Debian 1.2 as installed in December 1996. > I have not wanted to do much upgrading during the course of the semest

Re: libc6 question

1997-05-19 Thread joost witteveen
> > Hi, > > I have a quick question about libc6. I see from the email describing the > new packages available that many are now built with libc6. Does this mean > that I need to have libc6 installed to run these packages. Well, uhm, let's say yes. > I don't want to > install libc6 yet because

Re: INN 1.5.1 problem

1997-05-19 Thread Francois Gouget
On Sun, 18 May 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote: > On Sun, 18 May 1997, Francois Gouget wrote: [...] > > 441 Can't set system "NNTP-Posting-Host" header [...] > You're getting these errors because the NNTP-Posting-Host header isn't > filtered out. > Just write your own script to do that, instead of

Re: JPEG utilities

1997-05-19 Thread joost witteveen
> I see that there are many JPEG utilites/viewers for both SVGAlib and X. > However, what I need is a command line program that will return the > dimensions, # of colors, etc. for an image. Is there such a beast? I > know it's readily available if you understand the file format but I > don't yet

Re: I'm also looking for a C function to convert EBCDIC to ASCII

1997-05-19 Thread Anders Hammarquist
>I'm web surfing lookng for a C function to convert EBCIDIC to ASCII and I >stumbled across the e-mail from Walter L Preuniger II, asking the same >question. Have a look at GNU recode - it does conversions to/from most imaginable character sets (including EBCDIC). >--=_NextPart_000_01BC6479.A

I'm also looking for a C function to convert EBCDIC to ASCII

1997-05-19 Thread Russell Ross
I'm web surfing lookng for a C function to convert EBCIDIC to ASCII and I stumbled across the e-mail from Walter L Preuniger II, asking the same question.If anyone out there has found such a C function, please e-mail it to[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apache no longer starting at boot.

1997-05-19 Thread m*
> check to ensure you have a /home/www-data/webspace/logs directory > and a access.log file in that directory. > > i've seen people "break" their config by unwittingly removing > the access.log file. > all, i didn't mean to imply that Chris might have 'unwittingly' broke his config or anything

'w' works, 'who' does not...

1997-05-19 Thread Jon Valesh
Hello, I have a set of servers running debian 1.2 as downloadable from a mirror site today. There are two servers, using NIS to distribute user information. >From either system, if I type 'who', all I get back is a command prompt. If I use 'w', I get the correct data. I accedentally installed

JPEG utilities

1997-05-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
I see that there are many JPEG utilites/viewers for both SVGAlib and X. However, what I need is a command line program that will return the dimensions, # of colors, etc. for an image. Is there such a beast? I know it's readily available if you understand the file format but I don't yet and was ho

Re: DOSEMU drive access problem

1997-05-19 Thread Rick Jones
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Ken Lauffenburger wrote: > On May 18, 6:54pm, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > Subject: Re: DOSEMU drive access problem > > On Sun, 18 May 1997, Ken Lauffenburger wrote: > > > > >DOS-C version 0.92 [FreeDOS Release] (Build 37). > > > > Is freedos compatible with MS-DOS? Accor

libc6 question

1997-05-19 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I have a quick question about libc6. I see from the email describing the new packages available that many are now built with libc6. Does this mean that I need to have libc6 installed to run these packages. I don't want to install libc6 yet because of possible glitches. Thanks

Re: Xwindows running finally!! what's next?

1997-05-19 Thread Pete Templin
On Fri, 16 May 1997, Tan Wee Yeh wrote: > > twm & > [background processes snipped] > > xterm -title "Measun10" -geometry 80x40+30+200 -ls > > Just a little comment (for discussion). Normally, I > will prefer to put twm (or whatever windows manager) > as the last process (let the others be backg

Re: deselect warnings

1997-05-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Christian Hudon wrote: > On May 19, Bob Nielsen wrote > > Recently I have started getting the following message when running > > dselect: > > > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories: > > LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE > > perl: warning: Please check that your

Re: lynx 2.7.1-1 update

1997-05-19 Thread Andree Leidenfrost
Hi Bob, I just reported this as a bug. Probably you can just install the slang package from frozen which has a sufficient version. Regards, Andree -- | Institute of Geophysics phone: +49 40 4123 4389 ANDREE LEIDENFROST | University of Hamburg fax: +49 40

Re: where is xload?

1997-05-19 Thread Andree Leidenfrost
Hi Dirk, funny thing! The same happened to me when switching to frozen. It's in the xproc package. I do not understand what is happening there because xload definitely is in the package. It seems that it just isn't copied to it's place... Perhaps you could file a bug report on this?1? By the way,

Re: apache no longer starting at boot.

1997-05-19 Thread m*
Chris Brown wrote: > > Any ideas or suggestions as to log > files to check back on would be greatly appreciated. > check to ensure you have a /home/www-data/webspace/logs directory and a access.log file in that directory. i've seen people "break" their config by unwittingly removing the access.

apache no longer starting at boot.

1997-05-19 Thread Chris Brown
I have apache instilled on my home machine to do some testing. It was in anticipation of setting it up at work. Over the last few days, when I boot the machine apache doesn't load any longer. Trying to start it manually by doing "/etc/init.d/apache start" doesn't work either. None of

Re: deselect warnings

1997-05-19 Thread Christian Hudon
On May 19, Bob Nielsen wrote > Recently I have started getting the following message when running > dselect: > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories: > LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LC_ALL = (unset), > LC_

deselect warnings

1997-05-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
Recently I have started getting the following message when running dselect: perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories: LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset), LC_CTYPE = (unset), LC_COLLATE = (unset)

lynx 2.7.1-1 update

1997-05-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
I checked for package updates and it showed lynx 2.7.1-1. The dependencies show that slang >= 0.99.38 is required, but 0.99.34 is the one available. Will 0.99.38 be added to rex? Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Installing Debian Linux on a new system w/out MSDOG

1997-05-19 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 20 May 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > What about a bootable CD and install it directly from the CD? > Redhat allows installation without using floppies. > A bootable CD is fine for those system that have that support (with a "proper" cd of course). If your CD drive is on a scsi device you c

Re[2]: Can't start xsession, help

1997-05-19 Thread Zachary Payne
Good question, ask your dog!, I always ask my dog my computer questions! He always answers I know it sound silly but it really works!!! __ Reply Separator _ Subject: Re: Can't start xsession, help Author: "Jens

Re: Real Audio

1997-05-19 Thread Zachary Payne
I dont know, but it shouldn't be to hard to figure out, just go to the real audio page, or email the support guys! __ Reply Separator _ Subject: Real Audio Author: Remco van de Meent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Internet-SMTP Date:

Re: Can't start xsession, help

1997-05-19 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Sergey Avvakumov wrote: > > Hi > > I have the following problem - after "successful" > login in the xdm login window xdm starts xsession > but it immediately terminates and I see xdm welcome > again. I'm running Debian linux, installed less > than month ago from one of mirror-debian ftp sites. >

Re: Picky format of "/etc/fstab" according to "mount" command

1997-05-19 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Harmon Sequoya Nine wrote: > > Didn't know where to report this. I looked at the source code, and it's full > of different names and email addresses -- so the Debian users list seemed like > a safe bet ... > > The "mount" command seems to be rather picky about the format of the > /etc/fstab fil

Re: Installing Debian Linux on a new system w/out MSDOG

1997-05-19 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm waiting for parts to arrive for a new system. I can probably get a copy > of MSDOG, but I'd like to avoid this. Eventually it will perhaps be > necessary to install Windows 95 or Windows NT and MSDOG, but to begin with, > I will install Linux. > > I expect to be

Re: mgetty for PPP; Need help

1997-05-19 Thread Eugene Sevinian
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > > > > Presen state is following: > > Dailing from the w95 box side I see > > > > Connected at 14400 bps > > Duration: 000:06:15 > > > > Details: > > Server type: PPP: Windows95, Windows NT 3.5, Inte

Re: mgetty for PPP; Need help

1997-05-19 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> > > After few attempts to compile the new binary of mgetty with ppp support > I was adviced to go back to the initial point and try again with old > binary. It became clear ( to "Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > not to me :-) that there were a propblem with IP address. When the last >

Can't start xsession, help

1997-05-19 Thread Sergey Avvakumov
Hi I have the following problem - after "successful" login in the xdm login window xdm starts xsession but it immediately terminates and I see xdm welcome again. I'm running Debian linux, installed less than month ago from one of mirror-debian ftp sites. I was trying to set up PPP with dynamic

Re:mgetty for PPP; Need help

1997-05-19 Thread Eugene Sevinian
After few attempts to compile the new binary of mgetty with ppp support I was adviced to go back to the initial point and try again with old binary. It became clear ( to "Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not to me :-) that there were a propblem with IP address. When the last item if IP was

Class of machine needed for DNS & router.

1997-05-19 Thread Chris Brown
I have to set up a primary DNS that will also route between two 10base2 ethernets with packet filtering. The line to the Internet will be a 128 K ISDN line so that bandwidth will be limited there. What class of machine is necessary for such a task? I have 3 machines laying around, a 38

Re: Installing Debian Linux on a new system w/out MSDOG

1997-05-19 Thread Lawrence Chim
What about a bootable CD and install it directly from the CD? Redhat allows installation without using floppies. Lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: May 13 instalation disk's problem (vfat)

1997-05-19 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 19 May 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > Dale Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > : The current debian-user distribution list contains 874 email addresses. > > How do you know? > I let vi count the lines in the distribution list. This isn't something "anyone" can get to. I maintain the debian-

Re: Installing Debian Linux on a new system w/out MSDOG

1997-05-19 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > I'd recommend creating a partition for MS-DOS right away. > No need to actually install it till required. Agreed. Dos/Win/NT want the first partition of the first drive to be "their" boot file system. So decide what you want for DOS and build the p

Re: DOSEMU drive access problem

1997-05-19 Thread Ken Lauffenburger
On May 18, 6:54pm, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > Subject: Re: DOSEMU drive access problem > On Sun, 18 May 1997, Ken Lauffenburger wrote: > > >DOS-C version 0.92 [FreeDOS Release] (Build 37). > > Is freedos compatible with MS-DOS? > > Try using msdos boot disk first. > Aw, do I have to? I was jus

Metrolink Motif

1997-05-19 Thread Gernot
I already bought a motif-version from Metrolink. How can I tell Debian that I have Motif installed (to install the motif-apps)? Thanx, Gernot -- -- Gernot Bauer University of Linz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe

Re: Installing Debian Linux on a new system w/out MSDOG

1997-05-19 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
I'd recommend creating a partition for MS-DOS right away. No need to actually install it till required. -- Jean Pierre On Mon, 19 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm waiting for parts to arrive for a new system. I can probably get a copy > of MSDOG, but I'd like to avoid this. Eventually

Re: net-acct and a ppp dial-in server

1997-05-19 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 19 May 1997, John Foster wrote: > I tried this script from mgetty instaed of just the call > to pppd: > > #!/bin/bash > /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap +pap login defaultroute proxyarp > whereisuser=`w | grep $1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 2 ` > addressuser=`grep $whereisuser /etc/hosts | expa

Re: May 13 instalation disk's problem (vfat)

1997-05-19 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Dale Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : The current debian-user distribution list contains 874 email addresses. How do you know? E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9430323 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: May 13 instalation disk's problem (vfat)

1997-05-19 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > On Mon, 19 May 1997, Eugene Sevinian wrote: > > > P.S. Just for curiosity ... > > HOw many people are participating in this mailing list? > The current debian-user distribution list contains 874 email addresses. Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_-

Installing Debian Linux on a new system w/out MSDOG

1997-05-19 Thread adavis
I'm waiting for parts to arrive for a new system. I can probably get a copy of MSDOG, but I'd like to avoid this. Eventually it will perhaps be necessary to install Windows 95 or Windows NT and MSDOG, but to begin with, I will install Linux. I expect to be able to create the installation disks

LaTeX to SGML?

1997-05-19 Thread adavis
I am working on a project for which final output is expected in PageMaker format. I don't have PageMaker, but I am familiar with LaTeX. I saw a reference to an SGML to Lyx package---is there a LaTeX to SGML utility, or, alternately, a way to do this. RTF may be an option, I think. I have not h

where is xload?

1997-05-19 Thread Dirk Bernhardt
Hi, after upgrading to 1.3 I lost xload somewhere. Where is it? Ciao, - Krid - -- ungeduscht, geduzt und ausgebuht -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Installing TKnet - where to unpack it?

1997-05-19 Thread Sam Ockman
Message from Brent Hutto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm setting up my Debian GNU/Linux system "the hard way". By that I mean > that I'm adding just the packages that I need, one at a time using the > "dpkg" tool. It's worked OK for basic stuff like "man" and the Xwindows > packages. So far, I like the

modprobe warning

1997-05-19 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, Today I upgraded the menu package to 1.3-2 . Since then I get every half minute a syslogd warning saying that modprobe can't locate the char-major-6 module. I have a custom kernel ( 2.0.29 ) and no such module. Anybody can tell me what is going on ?? T

Re: May 13 instalation disk's problem (vfat)

1997-05-19 Thread Eugene Sevinian
> > It was impossible to install debian on my PC due to the fact I put > > distibution on w95 partition while vfat fs support was not done > > successfully. I got 2 string warning that it will tak up 1 > > minite in case that this device is not installed and stoped > > forever. Everything was fine

Re: May 13 instalation disk's problem (vfat)

1997-05-19 Thread Rick Jones
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Eugene Sevinian wrote: > It was impossible to install debian on my PC due to the fact I put > distibution on w95 partition while vfat fs support was not done > successfully. I got 2 string warning that it will tak up 1 > minite in case that this device is not installed and st

Debian 1.3 Download

1997-05-19 Thread Geir A. Bjune
Yesterday, I tried to download "bo" from ftp.funet.fi's debian-mirror. As it turned out, the symlinks were no longer symlinks when I got it down, and I believe it turned out to be around 800MB. How can I avoid this, when my ftp-client does not create symlinks when it should ?? What directories sho

Re: I have a problem...

1997-05-19 Thread Dima
>Hi Gabriele, > >although I don't own a cdrom drive with a proprietary interface I think >that the key might be to give the "coordinates" of the drive (i.e. io >port and interrupt) at boot time. > >Unfortunately I lack the knowledge to be more precisely. Perhaps someone >else can shed more light on

Re: net-acct and a ppp dial-in server

1997-05-19 Thread Adam Shand
>I've been trying to get nacctd to work with a dial-in server. > >To get traffic figures per user I need to create lookup files in >/var/run, each one is named with the remote IP and contains the >username of whoever is using that address. Unless the code has been patched I wouldn't bother with th

Re: Primary vs. Extended partitions

1997-05-19 Thread Brian N. Borg
The additional calculations would only be during mount of the filesystem on the partition. I prefer to only use primary partitions because I am always messing with them and they are easier to keep track of when they are all defined in one place, sector 0,0,0. I usually use Norton diskedit

May 13 instalation disk's problem (vfat)

1997-05-19 Thread Eugene Sevinian
It was impossible to install debian on my PC due to the fact I put distibution on w95 partition while vfat fs support was not done successfully. I got 2 string warning that it will tak up 1 minite in case that this device is not installed and stoped forever. Everything was fine in that sense with

Re:mgetty for PPP; Need help

1997-05-19 Thread Butch Kemper
At 06:47 -0500 on 5/15/97, Eugene Sevinian wrote: > > After this point I get the message > "...S1, too fast respawning mgetty. Suspended for 5 min" or something > like that. And that is all )-; I had this problem but it went away and the modem operations went much smoother when I took the modem o

net-acct and a ppp dial-in server

1997-05-19 Thread John Foster
Hi, I've been trying to get nacctd to work with a dial-in server. To get traffic figures per user I need to create lookup files in /var/run, each one is named with the remote IP and contains the username of whoever is using that address. pppd will delete the files after the user has logged off,

Re: Customizing environment

1997-05-19 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 18 May 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: > What is the preferred method of customizing the boot-up login environment? > I guess I could do it by adding lines to /etc/init.d/boot, but wondered if > there is an "official" file to add site-customized parameters, thi

Re: dosemu and OpenDOS

1997-05-19 Thread Gleb Arshinov
> "John" == jghasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> I just downloaded OpenDOS. Ironically, it comes in a John> self-extracting archive which requires MSDOS. No problem, Alternately, (if you haven't done so already) you may try unzipping the archive, since you can unzip self extr