Re: Questions regarding dynamic IPs and dhcpcd

1997-06-11 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote: > So what I want to do is write a script that waits until > /var/run/dhcpcd.cache-eth0 is created and then mails me > /etc/dhcpc/hostinfo-eth0. The waiting part is the part I do not know how > to do unless I just use an infinite loop (with perhaps a 10 m

Re: erroneous messages at bootup?

1997-06-11 Thread W Paul Mills
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Jun 1997 11:26:39 PDT Nick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >On Tue, 10 Jun 1997 02:37:02 PDT Nick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > >> How do I get diald to hang up after a period of idle connection? I've > > >> had no trouble getting

Re: Best e-mail approach for discon. sites

1997-06-11 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Jun 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : > ... but what about sending messages from a disconneted site to the world? : : Do what all us poor smucks who have only part-time dial-up connections do: : configure smail with smart_host= and queue_only, and : run smail -q from ip-up. IMHO the very best solu

Re: Setting up UUCP over TCP

1997-06-11 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Jun 11, Chris Brown wrote : : When setting up Taylor uucp over tcp it looks to me that the : only configuration files that are needed are. : : 1. config: : : hostname foo : : 2. sys: : : system foo2 : address foo2.bar.com : timeAny : porttcp-conn :

Quirky X server

1997-06-11 Thread John Telek
Hi all and thanks for reading this. I am running Debian 1.1 and the W32 (et4000/et6000) X server. When I run X11 perf on my slacware box (kernel 1.2.13) the test runns smoothly and I get impressive results. But with the Xserver on the debian machine (X11R6, W32 Xserver Ver 3.2), the blit test

Re: Debian generic kernal w/umsdos?

1997-06-11 Thread Robin Rowe
Chuck, >This may be a trade-off you're willing to make - it just needs (IMNSHO) to >be an informed decision. I think I can live with it. This is for a primarily Win95 box, not a unix server. If umsdos will work decently I should be able to be happy w/o ext2. I'm not having much luck with the UMS

NIS Problem ... about to be solved? (I hope)

1997-06-11 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, A few days ago I reported the problem of NIS not working in Debian 1.3. It still does not work and unfortunately no one seems to have an answer. However, I just read the following from H.J. Lu regarding his new release (5.4.33) of libc: ... 4. I have modified the NIS support in libc, which

SGVAlib/SVGAdummy

1997-06-11 Thread Rick Jones
If SVGAdummy replaces SVGAlib why are there dependancy prblems with gs etc? Will these SVGAlib dependant programs run without SVGAlib if the dummy is installed? What is the scoop on that? L8R, --Rick Unsolicited commercial/propaganda email subject to legal action. Under US Code Title 47, Sec.

Re: modem speed

1997-06-11 Thread Douglas Bates
If you use xisp to connect to your ISP, the modem connect speed is displayed in a field of the xisp window. There is a Debian package for xisp in contrib/net. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Phan) writes: > Anyone knows how to determine the modem speed after the PPP has > connected to the ISP?

Speak-Freely 6.1b-2 problem

1997-06-11 Thread Rick Jones
(SB16 card Debian 1.3 current) I have decided to get speak freely working but when I run sfmike it takes over /dev/audio after the first talk. It switches to pause but retains controle of the device which sfspeaker tries to use when receiving but can't because it's busy. I've RTFM's but see no

Re: connectix quickcam difficulties

1997-06-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Paul McDermott wrote: :Hello everyone, I just got my connectix quickcam working with debian. It :takes really good pictures. I plan to use the quickcam as a web camera. :For an experiment I took a picture of my self and tried to put it on my :website. The quickcam man p

Re: Q on AccelX, does not install

1997-06-11 Thread Civ Kevin F. Havener
I am using the (10-minute) demo on my machine until my official copy gets here. It works fine for me. Broke temporarily when I upgraded to 1.3, but a config file change put it all back in order for me. Not much help...but it may be reassuring that someone else is having some success with it.

Re: Q on AccelX, does not install

1997-06-11 Thread Scott Hanson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Koch) writes: > > Hi. > > I just unpacked AccelX and started Xinstall, everything works fine. > [ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/AcceleratedX/ ] > > Now when I start Xsetup or XAccel -setup it just returns to the prompt > _immediately_ - nothing's happening. > > startx says to

Urgent help needed...

1997-06-11 Thread Maria Rightley
Please help me, I am in a pickle here... I have a Debian 1.3 system and I decided to try to be more secure. I installed ssh, ssleay, ssltelnet and pgp-us last night. I noted that ssh is supposed to deal securely with Xauth type issues. I successfully got ssh to pipe xclock over the link. It wo

Urgent help needed...

1997-06-11 Thread Maria Rightley
Please help me, I am in a pickle here... I have a Debian 1.3 system and I decided to try to be more secure. I installed ssh, ssleay, ssltelnet and pgp-us last night. I noted that ssh is supposed to deal securely with Xauth type issues. I successfully got ssh to pipe xclock over the link. It wo

xforms, offix: what are they?

1997-06-11 Thread Randy Edwards
I've got two packages installed which dselect reports are obsolete. They're xforms 0.81-4 and offix 2.3a1. Does anyone know what they are and whether it's safe to remove them? I also have a copy of linuxdoc-sgml 1.5-4 installed which dselects also reports as obsolete. Does anyone know what

connectix quickcam difficulties

1997-06-11 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everyone, I just got my connectix quickcam working with debian. It takes really good pictures. I plan to use the quickcam as a web camera. For an experiment I took a picture of my self and tried to put it on my website. The quickcam man pages say that the format is a portable pixilmap

Re: frequently paused modem connection

1997-06-11 Thread Bruce Perens
Pauses usually happen because of re-training (modems stop to re-do equalization and decide what speed they will use on the line). Matt's suggestion to upgrade your FLASH (if possible) is correct. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL P

Re: can't load modules after -> 1.3

1997-06-11 Thread Philippe Troin
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997 14:57:38 -0300 Mario Olimpio de Menezes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > After upgrade to 1.3.0, I can't get modules loaded at boot time. > Strangely, depmod -a didn't create modules.dep but a empty file. > The /etc/conf.modules seems ok, as well as, /etc/module

Re: Best e-mail approach for discon. sites

1997-06-11 Thread jghasler
Randy writes: > I'd love to queue outgoing messages up and have ip-up send them off with > a smail -q command but looking through the man page and > /usr/doc/smail/guide/config I cannot find anything about this queue_only > option. Where should it go... Put 'queue_only' in /etc/smail/config. Thi

Re: Questions regarding dynamic IPs and dhcpcd

1997-06-11 Thread Joey Hess
Colin R. Telmer: > The dynamic-hacks mini-HOWTO really only deals with ppp. pppd outputs the > new ip address in $4. Is there anything similar to this for dhcpcd? I > can't find anything in the man page and I assume that I will need to > extract this from /etc/dhcpc/hostinfo-eth0. > > Given this,

X Windows stability problems

1997-06-11 Thread Stuart Charlton
HI everyone, I usually won't go around asking for help with ambiguous problems, but this one has me really stumped. X windows freezes. A lot. This isn't something that seems too normal, i mean I figure that Linux will be able to handle any software related problems, so it really is annoying to

Re: Rogers Cable Access..a follow-up

1997-06-11 Thread Stuart Charlton
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > By that you mean 10Mb _to_ your house, and 768Kb _from_ your house, > right? > > I usually hear the upstream/downstream terms used the other way, much > like download/upload. That's _to_ my house. The actual media (hybrid fibre-coaxial) runs at 50

can't load modules after -> 1.3

1997-06-11 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, After upgrade to 1.3.0, I can't get modules loaded at boot time. Strangely, depmod -a didn't create modules.dep but a empty file. The /etc/conf.modules seems ok, as well as, /etc/modules. I can load the modules with insmod. My kernel was compiled with modules

Re: Japanese characters

1997-06-11 Thread dwata
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997 13:39:16 +1000 Michael Solomani Mifsud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can I get pine or elm or other shell email programs to display Japanese > characters correctly on a Linux box? Of course you can. There are a few mailer ".deb" packages which can manage Japanese characte

Re: making sound module

1997-06-11 Thread stephen farrell
stephen farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm still kind of interested in any answers to why this has to be so much of a pain, but I just went back and configured the kernel from scratch the way I'm used to doing and so it's not such a big deal... > > > >On 10 Jun 1997 21:37:03 CDT stephen far

Setting up UUCP over TCP

1997-06-11 Thread Chris Brown
When setting up Taylor uucp over tcp it looks to me that the only configuration files that are needed are. 1. config: hostname foo 2. sys: system foo2 address foo2.bar.com timeAny porttcp-conn chatogin: login_name word: pass_word 3. port:

Re: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again from ifconfig eth0 up

1997-06-11 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
I ran across this message when there was an IRQ conflict. Try changing the PCI slot of the network card. -- Jean Pierre On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Zachary DeAquila wrote: > I just installed debian 1.3 on a new machine. Config is: > ppro 200 w/72MB RAM, ET6000 PCI vidcard, 3c509b ethernet > running

Re: Diald won't function after 1.2->1.3

1997-06-11 Thread Philippe Troin
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997 23:58:28 +0800 Lu Jimmy Chenji ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just upgraded my Debian packages from 1.2 to 1.3. It went > quite smoothly but diald won't function any more. I used my > previous "connect" script and diald.conf file. I just added > "include /etc/diald/standar

Re: Disk usage and des-solnet client

1997-06-11 Thread Jim Pick
I just discovered an additional problem with my new des-solnet_1.03-4 package - on two of my systems, the "lwatchd" daemon (which I wrote) died last night, but the desclient-x86-linux client kept running, which is sort of good. I'm not sure why. So keep this in mind before you upgrade -- if l

Re: Disk usage and des-solnet client

1997-06-11 Thread Jim Pick
> If anyone is running the des-solnet daemon from non-us, be aware that you > should stop and restart it daily or you might find your disk space being > eaten up. > > The problem is that it rolls the logs without stopping the program. The > program continues writing to the rolled logfile UNTIL t

Re: Setting up news

1997-06-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Jun 10, Joey Hess wrote > Marcus Brinkmann: > > Would you mind to give an explanation how I can post with leafnode? > > It is not documented at all > > Just post as you would to any news server. Then when you run fetch to > download news from the upstream news server, fetch also posts queued n

Diald won't function after 1.2->1.3

1997-06-11 Thread Lu Jimmy Chenji
Hello all, I just upgraded my Debian packages from 1.2 to 1.3. It went quite smoothly but diald won't function any more. I used my previous "connect" script and diald.conf file. I just added "include /etc/diald/standard.filter" to diald.conf file. Here is the log messages before diald was worki

Xfree 3.3

1997-06-11 Thread Will Lowe
Is this located in the unstable/x11/ section of the webpage? I looked at it, and the version numbers are 3.3 but the descriptions of the packages are the same as the old 3.2 versions. Will [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: modem speed

1997-06-11 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: > Anyone knows how to determine the modem speed after the PPP has > connected to the ISP? I do the following after the connection is made: grep CONNECT /etc/ppp/connect-errors ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the wo

Re: modem speed

1997-06-11 Thread George Bonser
You might set the modem to report the link data rate rather than the serial port rate then tail /var/log/messages and grep for CONNECT after login. On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone knows how to determine the modem speed after the PPP has > connected to the ISP? >

modem speed

1997-06-11 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, Anyone knows how to determine the modem speed after the PPP has connected to the ISP? -- Timothy C. Phan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) NEC America, Inc. ASL 1525 Walnut Hill Ln. Irving, T

Re: frequently paused modem connection

1997-06-11 Thread George Bonser
I have had problems along these lines when the serial port is set to a rate >19.2Kbps and the serial port was not a buffered FIFO. On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Eugene Sevinian wrote: > I use USR14400 modem and it works fine with mgetty. The only bad thing > which I noticed so far are the short pauses (~

Questions regarding dynamic IPs and dhcpcd

1997-06-11 Thread Colin R. Telmer
After successfully setting up dhcpcd to connect to a cable modem, I have a few questions regarding dynamic ip addresses. First note that I have read through the dynamic-ip-hacks mini-HOWTO, but am still a little confused. Also, I will write up what ever information I find in a mini-HOWTO or a debi

Re: NFS and netgroups

1997-06-11 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Joerg Delker writes: > Does anyone define his nfs-exports access-permissions via netgroups? > What I meen is a exports entry like > > /usr/local @hosts(ro) > > I've defined netgroups in /etc/netgroups and serving them via NIS (yp). > > A 'ypcat netgroups' lists me all my groups, so the

Re: [tex] Re: babel and 8-bit files

1997-06-11 Thread Stefan Baums
Frederic Dumont wrote: > > On 11-Jun-97 Stephan Tassart wrote: > >But, when I run latex2e on a 8-bit file (with characters such as é, > >ö instead of \'e, \"o), I got nothing (for the 8-bit characters). Is > >it a misconfiguration from the Debian distribution or a problem which > >comes from inite

Re: frequently paused modem connection

1997-06-11 Thread M BAILEY
USR had problems with some 14400 and 28800 modems in the last 18 months if you have purchased it during that time or even prior I would look at USR's web site for a flash upgrade for your modem. -Matt On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Eugene Sevinian wrote: > I use USR14400 modem and it works fine with mge

Re: Debian 1.3 Release FAQ - Preliminary

1997-06-11 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
> From: Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've just volunteered to write a FAQ that will be specific to the Debian 1.3 > release. Sue Campbell will put it on the website once I've written > something. Why are we calling this a FAQ (actually, a FAQ _list_) instead of simply an installation guide?

Re: zip ECP/EPP driver?

1997-06-11 Thread Erv Walter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Steffen R. Mueller wrote: > Thus spake Karl M. Hegbloom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi, > > > Bruce Perens writes: > > > If I'm not mistaken, the ZIP parallel driver is in the main kernel source > > > now, and the Debian rescue floppy is zi

Re: web documentation

1997-06-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Jim Pick wrote: : :> Hmm. You want to have people run a web browser as root and run cgi :> scripts with root privilage. Please don't make this a default. I :> can't think of any way to make this secure. It would be better :> to hack together some kind of front end, or hack ly

Re: Best e-mail approach for discon. sites

1997-06-11 Thread Randy Edwards
> Do what all us poor smucks who have only part-time dial-up connections do: > configure smail with smart_host= and queue_only, and > run smail -q from ip-up. John, I've got a quick question for you. I'm running smail with Debian 1.3 and am using a similar part-time dial-up dynamic ISP link wi

netscape 4.0 full version but no Linux

1997-06-11 Thread Lawrence Chim
Just checked and the full version for most platforms are ready to download but Linux. Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

[tex] Re: babel and 8-bit files

1997-06-11 Thread Frederic Dumont
On 11-Jun-97 Stephan Tassart wrote: >But, when I run latex2e on a 8-bit file (with characters such as é, >ö instead of \'e, \"o), I got nothing (for the 8-bit characters). Is >it a misconfiguration from the Debian distribution or a problem which >comes from initex (and in that case, why having comp

Re: DSELECT question

1997-06-11 Thread Andy Mortimer
On Jun 3, Alexander Stavitsky wrote > On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Andy Mortimer wrote: > > > On Jun 3, Fredrik Ax wrote > > > I agree with you that it is a bit irretating that deselect scans for ALL > > > pakages ... I can see that it's done for consistency reasons, BUT it would > > > be great if there wa

Re: zip ECP/EPP driver?

1997-06-11 Thread Steffen R. Mueller
Thus spake Karl M. Hegbloom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, > Bruce Perens writes: > > If I'm not mistaken, the ZIP parallel driver is in the main kernel source > > now, and the Debian rescue floppy is zip-enabled. > > The parport and ECP/EPP ppa drivers are in the 2.1.xx kernels now. > I've been usi

frequently paused modem connection

1997-06-11 Thread Eugene Sevinian
I use USR14400 modem and it works fine with mgetty. The only bad thing which I noticed so far are the short pauses (~1-5 sec) during the sessions. Unfortunatly, to say the least of it, the quality of telephone lines is not very good. However I would like to know if there are some other ("soft") re

[tex] babel and 8-bit files

1997-06-11 Thread Stephan Tassart
(Sorry for the last post.. I missed the Subject :-() I've just installed the latex package (latex, babel, amslatex...) from the 1.2.10 Debian distribution: > dpkg -l latex babel ii latex 2e-7 ii babel3.6-4 But, when I run latex2e on a 8-bit file (with characters suc

Re: web documentation

1997-06-11 Thread Andy Mortimer
On Jun 10, Paul Wade wrote > On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > > > From: Paul Wade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > The apache/dwww/lynx combo doesn't need X. > > > > Try using "boa" instead of apache. It's _much_ smaller, and faster > > than apache. However, "lynx" itself can execute CGI scrip

Re: Please Help! Downgrading?

1997-06-11 Thread joost witteveen
> A friend of mine recently pointed dselect at unstable, instead of stable, > when frozen disappeared. Thus, nothing works anymore on his system. > > Is there any way, short of a complete re-install, that he can go > easily back to 1.3? He's really upset with Debian right now, and > will go back t

Re: Best e-mail approach for discon. sites

1997-06-11 Thread jghasler
George Bonser writes: > The disadvantage to fetchmail is that the sysadmin will need the > username/password of all of the pop3 boxes... These need not be the same as the usernames and passwords that the users use on the clients. > ...and they are fetched individually. You can put all the mail f

Re: Best e-mail approach for discon. sites

1997-06-11 Thread jghasler
> ... but what about sending messages from a disconneted site to the world? Do what all us poor smucks who have only part-time dial-up connections do: configure smail with smart_host= and queue_only, and run smail -q from ip-up. John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwo

Unidentified subject!

1997-06-11 Thread Stephan Tassart
Hi, I've just installed the latex package (latex, babel, amslatex...) from the 1.2.10 Debian distribution: > dpkg -l latex babel ii latex 2e-7 ii babel3.6-4 But, when I run latex2e on a 8-bit file (with characters such as é, ö instead of \'e, \"o), I got nothing (fo

Re: man hangs with less and more

1997-06-11 Thread Heiko R. Selber
> You probably have 'set -a' in /etc/profile or some of your bash startup > files. > For some reason 'set -a' causes this problem. It's also reported as bug #8390. > The only cure I have is to remove 'set -a' from the startup files and > logout/login again. > Mark Boyns wrote: > > > > When I r

Strange Behavior of smail?

1997-06-11 Thread Hubert Palme
Hi all, I installed isdn4linux and connect to our ISDN router via Euro ISDN/SyncPPP. IP addresses are assigned dynamically. When I establich a connection, smail appears to be unable to resolve domain addresses (but e.g. telnet does!). I get the sent mail back with "Unknown Host". If I understand

Re: Best e-mail approach for discon. sites

1997-06-11 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
> Right, the Debian box at the main office is full time connected to the > Internete. I want to do what you are saying: have this main server accepting > e-mail from the world to users in my UUCP domains and transfer them to > the remote servers when the UUCP link starts. This sounds like an intere

NFS and netgroups

1997-06-11 Thread Joerg Delker
Hi! Does anyone define his nfs-exports access-permissions via netgroups? What I meen is a exports entry like /usr/local @hosts(ro) I've defined netgroups in /etc/netgroups and serving them via NIS (yp). A 'ypcat netgroups' lists me all my groups, so the netgroups should be ok. If I try to

Re: debian-1.3 partition size limitation ?

1997-06-11 Thread Lawrence Chim
Markus Diesmann wrote: > > Hi, > > I tried to install debian-1.3 on a system with an > Adaptec AHA-2940 UW SCSI Controller connected to > a hardware raid IFT-3102U with 34GB avialable. > > - partitioning the computers internal disk (also connected > to the SCSI controller) works fine > > - pa

debian-1.3 partition size limitation ?

1997-06-11 Thread Markus Diesmann
Hi, I tried to install debian-1.3 on a system with an Adaptec AHA-2940 UW SCSI Controller connected to a hardware raid IFT-3102U with 34GB avialable. - partitioning the computers internal disk (also connected to the SCSI controller) works fine - partitioning a small (2GB) partition on the rai

Disk usage and des-solnet client

1997-06-11 Thread George Bonser
If anyone is running the des-solnet daemon from non-us, be aware that you should stop and restart it daily or you might find your disk space being eaten up. The problem is that it rolls the logs without stopping the program. The program continues writing to the rolled logfile UNTIL the housekee

SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again from ifconfig eth0 up

1997-06-11 Thread Zachary DeAquila
I just installed debian 1.3 on a new machine. Config is: ppro 200 w/72MB RAM, ET6000 PCI vidcard, 3c509b ethernet running default debian kernel with 3c509 module installed. The network interface (eth0) gets configured okay... that is, it gets the right IP, Broadcast, and Mask, but it won't come

Re: xpilot.deb and Sound

1997-06-11 Thread DR . DEATH
11 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have a question concerning the xpilot-package in Debian 1.2.4 > (Cheapbytes Debian Release 1.2). > > I don´t understand the ins and outs of sound support with this game: > I have a recompiled kernel with Soundblaster-support running (and it > works perfe

Re: *Help!* Where is device partition info stored?

1997-06-11 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997 23:00:44 -0700, Philippe Troin wrote: > >On Wed, 11 Jun 1997 01:48:52 CDT "Dave Cinege" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > >> I was playing in fdisk, and like an idiot deleted an extended partition. >> >> This is a brand new set-up that I just finished, and I didn't save a map of

Re: *Help!* Where is device partition info stored?

1997-06-11 Thread Philippe Troin
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997 01:48:52 CDT "Dave Cinege" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I was playing in fdisk, and like an idiot deleted an extended partition. > > This is a brand new set-up that I just finished, and I didn't save a map of > the partitioning yet, so I need o layout to build rebuild. If

Japanese characters

1997-06-11 Thread Michael Solomani Mifsud
Can I get pine or elm or other shell email programs to display Japanese characters correctly on a Linux box? Thanks, Michael electric RAIN http://www.electric-rain.net/ "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answer

Re: making sound module

1997-06-11 Thread Philippe Troin
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997 00:48:11 CDT stephen farrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED] com) wrote: > >On 10 Jun 1997 21:37:03 CDT stephen farrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >wrote: > > > >> So I've got kernel 2.0.30 running[1]. And I've got the kernel sources > >> & headers for 2.0.30 installed[2]. Now I cd > >> /usr

stephen farrell: Re: making sound module

1997-06-11 Thread stephen farrell
> >On 10 Jun 1997 21:37:03 CDT stephen farrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >wrote: > >> So I've got kernel 2.0.30 running[1]. And I've got the kernel sources >> & headers for 2.0.30 installed[2]. Now I cd >> /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound. I run make config, and then I run >> make. I copy the resulting

*Help!* Where is device partition info stored?

1997-06-11 Thread Dave Cinege
I was playing in fdisk, and like an idiot deleted an extended partition. This is a brand new set-up that I just finished, and I didn't save a map of the partitioning yet, so I need o layout to build rebuild. Where does the kernel keep the partition info? I looked all in /proc and couldn't find

Re: making sound module

1997-06-11 Thread Philippe Troin
On 10 Jun 1997 21:37:03 CDT stephen farrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > So I've got kernel 2.0.30 running[1]. And I've got the kernel sources > & headers for 2.0.30 installed[2]. Now I cd > /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound. I run make config, and then I run > make. I copy the resulting sound.o

Re: web documentation

1997-06-11 Thread Adam Shand
>> Hmm. You want to have people run a web browser as root and run cgi >> scripts with root privilage. Please don't make this a default. I >> can't think of any way to make this secure. It would be better I think they said that lynx can run CGI's without a webserver... *if* that is true then there

Re: sendmail, procmail, slocal, mh folders

1997-06-11 Thread Philippe Troin
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997 12:12:52 PDT Brad Roberts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip] > So, I decided to try out slocal. I created a .forward file that looks like: > "| /usr/lib/mh/slocal -user braddr" > as well as > "| /usr/lib/mh/slocal -user braddr || exit 75" > > One definite problem that I noti

Re: erroneous messages at bootup?

1997-06-11 Thread Philippe Troin
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997 11:26:39 PDT Nick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >On Tue, 10 Jun 1997 02:37:02 PDT Nick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >> How do I get diald to hang up after a period of idle connection? I've > >> had no trouble getting it to dial on demand, but then it just stays > >> connect

Re: Debian generic kernal w/umsdos?

1997-06-11 Thread Roberto Ruiz Cantu
Robin, If you only want to do backup's, i can recomend you to have an ext2 partition, i do my backup's from dos too, but i generate the linux files with tar, what i do is the following: tar -cf archi.tar dir1 dir2 dir3 // this creates archi.tar with directories dir1 dir2 dir3 and all

Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters

1997-06-11 Thread Roberto Ruiz Cantu
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, George Bonser wrote: > > > A better approach could be to do a functional split, such as a > > debian-X11, debian-config or debian-dist. This would reduce volume on > > the main list without having people crossposting all over the place to > > be sure to get an answer. > > >

Re: 1.2 to 1.3 upgrade

1997-06-11 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Rob MacWilliams wrote: > I'm upgrading from Debian 1.2 to 1.3 and saw the following on the web page: > >"This section is only for people who are upgrading an older >Debian system... ...As root, run these commands: > > > dpkg -

Re: web documentation

1997-06-11 Thread Jim Pick
> Hmm. You want to have people run a web browser as root and run cgi > scripts with root privilage. Please don't make this a default. I > can't think of any way to make this secure. It would be better > to hack together some kind of front end, or hack lynx into some > kind of dedicated engine. The

Re: zip ECP/EPP driver?

1997-06-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jun 10, 1997 at 09:35:00AM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > If I'm not mistaken, the ZIP parallel driver is in the main kernel source > now, and the Debian rescue floppy is zip-enabled. It is, but it doesn't use the new bidirectional parallel port modes, and so it's rather slow -- quite a lot

debian meta-help?

1997-06-11 Thread David Pfitzner
What with recent talk about making dwww installed by default, and someone solving PPP after being pointed in the right direction, and other people complaining of not knowing which FM to read... I got to wondering: would it be useful to have a debian `help' package, which provided a command (eg `he

Re: Video confrencing.

1997-06-11 Thread Lawrence Chim
Rick Jones wrote: > > Is there any kind of video confrencing program, like CU-SeeMe, in deb > format? I can't find anything like this any place. > > L8R, > > --Rick Yes, it is vic-cqcam, but it needs Connectix Colour QuickCam. I think it is in non-free/contrib. There is a very alpha version o

Re: Setting up news

1997-06-11 Thread Joey Hess
Marcus Brinkmann: > Would you mind to give an explanation how I can post with leafnode? > It is not documented at all Just post as you would to any news server. Then when you run fetch to download news from the upstream news server, fetch also posts queued news. This is documented in the fetch

Re: Best e-mail approach for discon. sites

1997-06-11 Thread Rob MacWilliams
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > : Eloy A. Paris writes: > : > I want to do what you are saying: have this main server accepting e-mail > : > from the world to users in my UUCP domains and transfer them to the > : > remote servers when the UUCP link starts. > : > : Have you considered the multidrop op

Re: Setting up news

1997-06-11 Thread Rob Browning
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would you mind to give an explanation how I can post with leafnode? > It is not documented at all, and there are weired dependencies with trn and > inews, that I don't understand at all. If I recall correctly, you just install leafnode, and then poin

xpilot.deb and Sound

1997-06-11 Thread Marc Saric
Hi All, I have a question concerning the xpilot-package in Debian 1.2.4 (Cheapbytes Debian Release 1.2). I don´t understand the ins and outs of sound support with this game: I have a recompiled kernel with Soundblaster-support running (and it works perfectly with other programs like bplay, maels

Re: Best e-mail approach for discon. sites

1997-06-11 Thread George Bonser
> : Have you considered the multidrop option in fetchmail? > > Uhhmmm... no, I haven't. I haven't ever used fetchmail but I guess this > you are recommending would solve the problem of checking e-mail from > remote sites and saving bandwitdth and transfer time, but what about > sending messages f

Re: Best e-mail approach for discon. sites

1997-06-11 Thread Eloy A. Paris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Eloy A. Paris writes: : > I want to do what you are saying: have this main server accepting e-mail : > from the world to users in my UUCP domains and transfer them to the : > remote servers when the UUCP link starts. : : Have you considered the multidrop option in fetchm

making sound module

1997-06-11 Thread stephen farrell
OK--I've done this 1000 times... I'm building my sound module. I'm certain that if I d/l the normal kernel sources from ftp.kernel.org and build a new kernel that I'd get this to work no problem, as I have many times before moving over to debian. But I'm trying to do things the debian way b/c I

Re: Best e-mail approach for discon. sites

1997-06-11 Thread jghasler
Eloy A. Paris writes: > I want to do what you are saying: have this main server accepting e-mail > from the world to users in my UUCP domains and transfer them to the > remote servers when the UUCP link starts. Have you considered the multidrop option in fetchmail? John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (

Re: Setting up news

1997-06-11 Thread Tim O'Brien
At 12:17 AM 6/10/97 +0200, you wrote: >On Jun 8, Rob Browning wrote >Would you mind to give an explanation how I can post with leafnode? >It is not documented at all, and there are weired dependencies with trn and >inews, that I don't understand at all. >From what I've seen, once you've got leafn

Re: xfree86 3.3

1997-06-11 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 10 Jun 1997, Raja R Harinath wrote: > The `mkfontdir' from XFree86 3.2 appears not to handle *.gz files. > Rerun `mkfontdir' from XFree86 3.3 in all the font directories. Shouldn't the post-install script take care of this? ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Re: web documentation

1997-06-11 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Paul Wade ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I will also investigate the use of lynx directly with CGI. I hope that you > are hinting at something I need: If I run lynx as root and execute an > 'adduser' CGI script that cannot be executed by others, then I will start > writing a whole buncha sysadmin C

Re: rsh or ssh and rdist

1997-06-11 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Karl M. Hegbloom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On a related note, is there any way to make rdist use ssh? man rdist, look at the option for rsh path; replace the path to rsh with the path to ssh--they're functionally equivalent (although you might want to add parameters for compression, etc.) -

Re: Setting up news

1997-06-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Jun 8, Rob Browning wrote > "Tim O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm trying to set up a news server on my LAN. I have IPmasquerading running > > to allow the other computers access to the Internet through one 28.8 modem > > and a standard PPP account, as well as diald for demand dial

Re: Video confrencing.

1997-06-11 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi Rick, yes there is it is called vic-cqcam it is in the unstable/x11 directory. I've installed it but have not tried it. Give me a shout when you have it running. Description: vic-cqcam is a video conference over the Internet This is a version of vic with a driver for the Connectix Color Q

Re: list of names on the user list?

1997-06-11 Thread Mark W. Blunier
On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Max Stevens wrote: > I was wondering if there is a way to get the list of email addresses > that the user account gets sent out to. I'm interested in this partly > because I've had a few people from the list write me and I can't write > them back because their email address

Re: jdk1.1, jdk1.0.2, javalex and java-cup

1997-06-11 Thread Jim Pick
> Installed the jdk1.1 packages. I assumed they were mutually exclusive to > the jdk1.0.2 packages so purged the latter (even though dpkg didn't > report any conflict). In doing so I also had to purge java-lex and > java-cup. jdk1.1 isn't mutually exclusive with the old jdk package, so you can in

kernel with apm/pcmcia for 1.3 install

1997-06-11 Thread Stephen Zander
While attempting to install debian 1.3 on a IBM ThinkPad 760CD, I've run into a small problem. The inital install from the disk set went fine. Not having a Debian CD, however, I'm trying to do an FTP install. My problem is all my communications devices (modem, token-ring card) are PCMCIA & the

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