Re: LAN configuration problem?

1997-06-16 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Randy Edwards wrote: > /etc/init.d/network: > #!/bin/sh > # Configure the loopback interface: > ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 > route add -net 127.0.0.0 > > # Define some of my defaults: > IPADDR=192.168.1.1 > NETMASK=255.255.255.0 > NETWORK=192.168.1.0 > BROADCAST=192.168.

netscape version oddness

1997-06-16 Thread Rick Hawkins
I installed the netscape package, and the file from netscape from the 3.01 directory (netscape-v301-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz). The first time, netscape launched and happily ran. Now it says, $ netscape: program is version 3.01, but resources are version 3.0. This means that

How to tell dpkg a package is installed though it isn't?

1997-06-16 Thread Kai Grossjohann
I compiled Emacs myself and put it in /usr/local. How do I tell dpkg that it's OK to install packages that depend on Emacs though it's not a Debian package install? tia, kai -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e

Serial module hangs machine in 1.3 (Tri-Linux)

1997-06-16 Thread Ed Osinski
SHORT VERSION: I'm trying to install Debian 1.3 from the newest Tri-Linux CD, but my machine hangs whenever the serial module is loaded. I have two serial ports (COM1 and COM2 under DOS.) Only a reset has any effect. My system, including serial ports, works w/o problems with DOS, Win3.1, Win95,

Re: SMAIL/smarthost/BIND error

1997-06-16 Thread Hubert Palme
Heiko Schlittermann: > Reads as an DNS problem. Try to turn on more debugging in smail > (-v1000 or somewhat similar, see the manpage ...). This way you should > be able to find what actually is the BIND failure. No MX (but that > should'nt hurd), no response ... How is smail run? I neit

Re: Colors

1997-06-16 Thread Randy Edwards
> How do you make colors appear in a directory and BASH prompt? I played > with the values in dircolors, but nothing happened. What I did was to create an alias of "alias ls="ls -p --color" (you don't need the -p, but I like it:-) and stuck it into my ~/.bash_profile. If you don't like the

LAN configuration problem?

1997-06-16 Thread Randy Edwards
I've been playing around for a few days trying to get a network up between my Debian 1.3/2.0.30 box and a Win95 machine. I've read the Net-3 and IP-Masquerade HOWTOs and have set things up to what I think should be right. However, I can't even seem to get even a ping across the LAN. Of cou

Upgradeing using a windows box to get the files

1997-06-16 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
Hi, as I only have a modem and phone-cost will make you a poor man in germany, I'm looking for a good way to upgrade in the following manner: I want to determine the package I want to get via dselect. Make a sorted list of the packages to fetch. Get these packages from our local debian-mirror usi

setting & switching screen densities

1997-06-16 Thread Rick Hawkins
X is now running, but it seems to be ignoring options. It's a Diamond stealth vram (#124), which is an S3. I've set it for 432 under 8 bits, and 32 under 16 (1mb vram). But it seems to insist that the higher density modes don't exist. It's startup messages (the ones that are left) annnouce (

Re: Locales Problem?

1997-06-16 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
Hi, apparently, the locale problem is somewhat confusing. First of all: I didn't install staroffice, but installed libc6 (without -dev). Locale works just fine (from what I can see): bash$ locale LANG=POSIX LC_CTYPE="POSIX" LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" LC_TIME="POSIX" LC_COLLATE="POSIX" LC_MONETARY="POSI

Re: PCMCIA Cards

1997-06-16 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Rob MacWilliams wrote: > > I just purshased a Toshiba 430CDS Laptop that I plan to run Debian on. I > have been running > Debian on a desktop for about a year now, so I'm comfortable with it. > > My question has to do with the PCMCIA cards that are available now. I will > need to run a > mode

Re: X install under 1.2

1997-06-16 Thread Jim Michael
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: > There has been some useful info for you on this list, however that was > months ago. Let me guess, you have a Infomagic Linux Developers Resource > 6 cd set? It contains debian 1.2 aka rex, while debian 1.3 has just been Correct, dated April '97. > Uhmm,

Re: x & tty0

1997-06-16 Thread Rick Hawkins
> > xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (No such file or directory) ... > I don't know if this will help. I had a problem where I needed a device > but it watn't in the list. I used a program called makedev (I think it's a > package) and it created it. Syntax: makedev /dev/tty0 (im your case)

rlogin woes

1997-06-16 Thread Scott Smith
I am having a couple of different problems when I try to rlogin - let me give you a little background info first. At our office (we are a R&D facility) we have two subnets one is on the 204.250.XXX.XXX and the other is an in-house only 10.1.X.X that is used for testing purposes. Here are the pro

Re: Upgrade path to 1.3

1997-06-16 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a standalone Debian 1.2 machine ;( - so here is what I plan to do: > > 1. Identify all packages that where updated on 1.3 and dld them, including >the Packages file. > > 2. Updating dpkg: >dpkg --clear-avail >dpkg -i ldso_*.deb

Re: making debian packages

1997-06-16 Thread joost witteveen
[Charset iso-8859-2 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > I've made my own deb file with polonisation stuff for tetex. I know that > other people may want to use it so i think about putting it in contrib > directory. Why in the contrib directory? Why don't you want to become a maintainer? Only i

Re: stephen farrell: Re: making sound module

1997-06-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"stephen" == stephen farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: stephen> I'll also check out kernel-package (as it mentioned in the stephen> FAQ), but from the description of kernel-sources, i figured stephen> that was outdated or, at least, unnecessary. Well, it certainly is not necessary

Re: Syslogd hangs

1997-06-16 Thread Bruce Perens
Make sure all of the files in syslogd.conf exist. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "uns

Re: Disk Maintenance

1997-06-16 Thread Bruce Perens
From: compwiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What packages are used to repair logical disk errors The "fsck" program, which generally runs the "e2fsck" program. This will happen automaticaly when the system boots after crashing, etc. You generally don't have to concern yourself with it unless something is

Elvis problems in X (was: Re: No Termcap)

1997-06-16 Thread J . R . Blaakmeer
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997 21:22:55 +0200 (MET DST) , Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > > Debian uses ncurses instead of termcap, which is considered "obsolete". > Just replacing -ltermcap by -lncurses will do the trick. I have a question about elvis, rxvt and termcap. I think the Debian package of elvis st

Re: named hangs on boot

1997-06-16 Thread Thomas Baetzler
Eloy A. Paris wrote: > Can you send to the list your named.boot, boot.zones and boot.options > files? Also, make sure you can ping the Debian box from another machine > and that your default gateway to reach the Net is working fine. > > What's your bind version? While you´re at it, could you try

pcmcia fax/modem question

1997-06-16 Thread Giuseppe Vacanti
Howdy -- I seem to have a problem with my no-name modem/fax PCMCIA card. It is recognized but not configured. Anybody who could give me a few pointers? I enclose the output from the message and daemon.log files. Thanks, Giuseppe cardmgr[106]: initializing socket 1 cardmgr[106]: socket 1:

RE: named hangs on boot

1997-06-16 Thread Bruce Perens
> Edit the file in /etc/init.d to put an "exit 0" The /etc/init.d/bind file, sorry. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THI

RE: named hangs on boot

1997-06-16 Thread Bruce Perens
From: dgolpira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I doesn't panic, just says "starting named service..." (or something > like that) and just sits there. Cannot switch to a VT to kill it or > anything. Boot the system with "linux single" or "linux emergency" on the command line. You may have to remount the roo

esc with telnet/xterm

1997-06-16 Thread Mika Marjamäki
Hi! We use software that uses ESC on a SCO Unix-machine, and connect to that with telnet and xterm. However, when I press esc, nothing happens, but when i hit it twice, everything works correctly... I guess this happens because some software - bash/xterm/telnet - hooks the escape, but i don't kno

Re: Xemacs wont install

1997-06-16 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Will" == Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Will> Has a better html mode, also. Much better!! Once you start using it, you never dream of using anything else. I'm always amazed when I log on at my ISP, type `w', and see someone editting HTML with `pico' or `vi'. :-) It's amazin

Re: TeTex-Problems

1997-06-16 Thread Gernot
Emilio wrote >> "G" == Gernot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >G> Thanx to those who replied. I tried all your hints but it still >G> does not work. When I do the thing mentioned above I get the >G> following: > >G> mother# initex latex.initex >G> ! I can't read tex.pool. >G> mother# > >G

Syslogd hangs

1997-06-16 Thread Geir A. Bjune
I dont know if it has been on the list before, but here goes... On Debian 1.2(.8, i believe) I have gotten some trouble with syslog crashing and wreaking general havoc on CPU / RAM (Pentium 90 with 8MB RAM) Is there another solution than the one I'm using now -fixproblem.sh killall -9 syslogd sys

Disk Maintenance

1997-06-16 Thread compwiz
What packages are used to repair logical disk errors (a Linux version of Norton Disk Doctor?) and to defragment my Linux partition? And how are they used? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Xwindows problem: window managers confusion HELP!

1997-06-16 Thread Alberto Ruiz
I found the problem, but I don't know how to fix it. The problem is that fvwm95 doesn't worked after upgrading it. It used to be called fvwm95, but now is fvwm95-2. fvwm, afterstep, and twm worked fine. Is it something wrong with the latest version? I just won't run, I only get a default X grey

Colors

1997-06-16 Thread compwiz
How do you make colors appear in a directory and BASH prompt? I played with the values in dircolors, but nothing happened. Thanks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Xwindows problem: window managers confusion HELP!

1997-06-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes : >Hi >I installed fvwm95 and everything worked fine. But I decided to installed >more windows managers and now all I get is a single xterm with no menus. >I'm having a hard time trying to figure out what goes on what file. At >this point I don't kn

Re: x & tty0

1997-06-16 Thread compwiz
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: > > after installing, and running xf86config, i get errors trying to launch: > > Fatal server error: > xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (No such file or directory) > > gpmconfig successfully finds the mouse at /dev/ttyS0, and it works. > > I've

Re: Xemacs wont install

1997-06-16 Thread Will Lowe
On 16 Jun 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > ECL> The "plain" Emacs (GNU Emacs) works very nice under X > ECL> windows. Some though prefer XEmacs. > > And XEmacs works very well on a console. It even does colors! > Has a better html mode, also.

Re: named hangs on boot

1997-06-16 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Does your kernel have netgrokking support compiled into it? -- Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.3 Linux 2.1.36 AMD K5 PR-133 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trou

Re: Xemacs wont install

1997-06-16 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "ECL" == Emilio Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "CF" == Carl Flippin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CF> When I did my initial debian installation, I chose to install CF> emacs ratger that Xemacs because I wasn't sure if I would be CF> running Xwindows. Now that I am using Xw

Re: No Termcap

1997-06-16 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Carl Flippin wrote: > I am attempting to comile Lynx 2.7.1. When it attempts to link in the > termcap library with '-ltermcap', The compile dies and says that > termcap isn't there. I looked in /lib and saw that a file beginning > with li

x & tty0

1997-06-16 Thread Rick Hawkins
after installing, and running xf86config, i get errors trying to launch: Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (No such file or directory) gpmconfig successfully finds the mouse at /dev/ttyS0, and it works. I've tried /dev/tty0, /dev/ttyS0, and /dev/mouse in the configurati

Re: named hangs on boot

1997-06-16 Thread Eloy A. Paris
> I don't think it's a long delay. I've let it go about 30-45 minutes > already!! > > I doesn't panic, just says "starting named service..." (or something > like that) and just sits there. Cannot switch to a VT to kill it or > anything. Can you send to the list your named.boot, boot.zones and b

1.3 on a 4Mb-machine

1997-06-16 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hey I tried to install Debian 1.3 on a machine with only 4Mb of RAM, but it failed while installing the modules: "zcat: Floating point exception". Anyone any ideas how to solve this? Remco. -- // Remco van de Meent // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www: http://oloon.student.utwente.nl //

RE: named hangs on boot

1997-06-16 Thread dgolpira
I don't think it's a long delay. I've let it go about 30-45 minutes already!! I doesn't panic, just says "starting named service..." (or something like that) and just sits there. Cannot switch to a VT to kill it or anything. Any ideas? > -- > From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing Debian Linux

1997-06-16 Thread Bruce Perens
You can't get a Debian 1.3 CD yet - though you should be able to in a week or so. I think it works best if you install the vga16 X server first, and then install whatever special server you need for your card. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 F

Re: Is there a Debian 1.3 "Unleashed" available?

1997-06-16 Thread Erv Walter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Erv Walter wrote: > > > Will they include all the .deb packages? or just a selected few as they > > currently do. I hope they include all the stuff one finds at master in > > stable, non-free, etc. I don't have a fast connection from home

Re: Xemacs wont install

1997-06-16 Thread Emilio Lopes
> "CF" == Carl Flippin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CF> When I did my initial debian installation, I chose to install CF> emacs ratger that Xemacs because I wasn't sure if I would be CF> running Xwindows. Now that I am using Xwindows, I attempted to CF> install the The "plain" Emacs (GNU Emacs

Upgrade path to 1.3

1997-06-16 Thread softcorp
Hi debians, I followed closely the recent discussions regarding 1.3 - and finally decided to join the herd. Please excuse the use of the bandwidth. I have a standalone Debian 1.2 machine ;( - so here is what I plan to do: 1. Identify all packages that where updated on 1.3 and dld them, includin

Re: Is there a Debian 1.3 "Unleashed" available?

1997-06-16 Thread Erv Walter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Daniel J. Mashao wrote: > Will they include all the .deb packages? or just a selected few as they > currently do. I hope they include all the stuff one finds at master in > stable, non-free, etc. I don't have a fast connection from home so

Re: Is there a Debian 1.3 "Unleashed" available?

1997-06-16 Thread Bruce Perens
On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > All of the cheap CD outlets will soon be selling the "Official CD" at > very good prices (lunch money, and I mean McDonalds). I'd suggest you > get the book separately from the CD. From: "Daniel J. Mashao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Will they include all the .

Re: POP mail questions

1997-06-16 Thread Alex Yukhimets
>What I get a problem is that some mail programs put my local machine's > hostname (golgotha) into the message header thus making the message appear > from/reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Of course, since that isn't in > anyone's DNS any messages replied to will bounce. > >Would you or anyo

Re: permissions of CD-ROM device

1997-06-16 Thread Emilio Lopes
> "RS" == Roderick Schertler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RS> I've got a working sound card and CD-ROM drive again for the first RS> time in a while, and I'd like to set the permissions up so I can RS> play CDs on it without being root. The drive is an IDE device, RS> /dev/hdc, it's currently

solved the molassus

1997-06-16 Thread Rick Hawkins
I'm not sure just which messages did & didn't get out; i've just discovered that the full file system on a workstation was eating the mail. So apologies in advance if theis got here in some form before . . . It finally occurred to me that com1 was off on the card due to the modem card that was i

Re: TeTex-Problems

1997-06-16 Thread Emilio Lopes
> "G" == Gernot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: G> Thanx to those who replied. I tried all your hints but it still G> does not work. When I do the thing mentioned above I get the G> following: G> mother# initex latex.initex G> ! I can't read tex.pool. G> mother# G> Hmmm. ??? Have you tr

Re: POP mail questions

1997-06-16 Thread Randy Edwards
> 1.2 had popclient. I notice that dselect now shows this as obsolete and > fetchpop is shown on the dselect list. Just a minor correction Bob, as I've travelled over this same road that Stan is considering; the "fetch mail from a pop site" that 1.3 now has is called fetchmail. I've played

Re: POP mail questions

1997-06-16 Thread Randy Edwards
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, George Bonser wrote: If you don't mind a related question George (and to anyone else who knows:-)... > Note that if you use SMTP, you should use your ISP as your smarthost. This > is because if you have dynamic IP, your claimed hostname might not equal > your reverse DNS l

Re: [lpd] filtering

1997-06-16 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, [ISO-8859-1] Mika Marjamäki wrote: > Hi! Does anyone know, if the standard lpd/lpr etc. support input-filtering > for network printers, or do I have to install LPRng or something? > > We have several printers connected to HP JetDirect boxes, but i cannot get > input filtering

Re: Xemacs wont install

1997-06-16 Thread compwiz
> >From: Carl Flippin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Date: Monday, June 16, 1997 2:40 PM >Subject: Xemacs wont install >When I did my initial debian installation, I chose to install emacs >ratger that Xemacs because I wasn't sure if I would be running >Xwindows. Now th

Re: Is there a Debian 1.3 "Unleashed" available?

1997-06-16 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Daniel J. Mashao wrote: > > > On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > > > > > All of the cheap CD outlets will soon be selling the "Official CD" at > > > very good prices (lunch money, and I mean McDonalds). I'd suggest you > > >

Xemacs wont install

1997-06-16 Thread Carl Flippin
When I did my initial debian installation, I chose to install emacs ratger that Xemacs because I wasn't sure if I would be running Xwindows. Now that I am using Xwindows, I attempted to install the xemacs* packages. dpkg complained that Xemacs conflicts with emacs. When I tried to remove emacs,

[lpd] filtering

1997-06-16 Thread Mika Marjamäki
Hi! Does anyone know, if the standard lpd/lpr etc. support input-filtering for network printers, or do I have to install LPRng or something? We have several printers connected to HP JetDirect boxes, but i cannot get input filtering working with them.. Mika -- Mika Marjamäki -/

No Termcap

1997-06-16 Thread Carl Flippin
I am attempting to comile Lynx 2.7.1. When it attempts to link in the termcap library with '-ltermcap', The compile dies and says that termcap isn't there. I looked in /lib and saw that a file beginning with libtermcap is there. Why can't the compiler find the file, or is it the wrong file? -

Re: Is there a Debian 1.3 "Unleashed" available?

1997-06-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Daniel J. Mashao wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > > > All of the cheap CD outlets will soon be selling the "Official CD" at > > very good prices (lunch money, and I mean McDonalds). I'd suggest you > > get the book separately from the CD. > Will they includ

Re: Xwindows problem: window managers confusion HELP!

1997-06-16 Thread Will Lowe
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote: > I installed fvwm95 and everything worked fine. But I decided to installed > more windows managers and now all I get is a single xterm with no menus. > I'm having a hard time trying to figure out what goes on what file. At > this point I don't know the di

Re: Debian woes

1997-06-16 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: > > > On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > > > Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > > > > If a standard package depends on a non-free package it should be reported > > > as a bug. To my knowledge there are no such packages in 1.3.0. > > Lawrence, you proba

Xwindows problem: window managers confusion HELP!

1997-06-16 Thread Alberto Ruiz
Hi I installed fvwm95 and everything worked fine. But I decided to installed more windows managers and now all I get is a single xterm with no menus. I'm having a hard time trying to figure out what goes on what file. At this point I don't know the difference between .xinitrc and xsession. Can som

Re: named hangs on boot

1997-06-16 Thread Eloy A. Paris
What do you mean with "hang"? Does the kernel panic or something? Otherwise it could be a long delay that looks like a hang up. E.- dgolpira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : I have a box running Debian 1.2. Lately, it hangs on boot when trying : to start named. : : If I boot from floppy, disable na

Re: Upgradeing to 1.3 (fwd)

1997-06-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, compwiz wrote: > I currently have Debian 1.2. I followed the instruction to upgrade the > dpkg tool, but I don't know which packages download, to actually install > Debian 1.3. > Thanks What I did was to use dselect with the Update option followed by the Select option. It co

Re: Is there a Debian 1.3 "Unleashed" available?

1997-06-16 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > All of the cheap CD outlets will soon be selling the "Official CD" at > very good prices (lunch money, and I mean McDonalds). I'd suggest you > get the book separately from the CD. Will they include all the .deb packages? or just a selected few as they cu

Re: Still trying to install debian through ftp.

1997-06-16 Thread Richard Harran.
Hi again ! Thanks for the tips. However, I'm not a very experienced network user, so : how do I download the pnpdump & 3c5x9 files from your web-site (bearing in mind that I'm using netscape under windows95 (when I go to the address, and choose save file, the file type is html)), and then how do

Re: Installing dosemu after 1.2>1.3: Problem

1997-06-16 Thread Adam Klein
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Jan Finjord wrote: > I just finished upgrading from 1.2 to 1.3. Had dosemu_0.64 previously, but > not configured. Removed it with dpkg --purge since dselect complained > about it being there when installing 0.66 (in addition to a problem with > no free-dos, though I have a

Re: Problems installing Debian 1.3

1997-06-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 1997 at 11:24:53AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > If you are using OS/2 Boot Manager, you should NOT select the 'Make the > > Hard Disk Bootable' option. Instead you should install LILO on the root > > partition of your hard disk (the /d

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

1997-06-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, We already have a guru list. It is called debian-devel. And we already have issues that migrate between the lists as appropriate. Unfortunately, that does not cut down on the volume of debian-user. manoj >>"John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> 'Normal'

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

1997-06-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, High volume lists do not have to have you missing important mail; Debian comes with procmail and mailagent, which should help ou priotize your mail reading. manoj -- "I will make no bargains with terrorist hardware." Peter da Silva Manoj Srivastava mailto:[EM

Re: Still trying to install debian through ftp.

1997-06-16 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Hello again, You probably have to say 'ifconfig eth0 down' before you try to remove the 3c509 driver module. I have the pnpdump utility in /sbin directory and you can get it from http://www.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/pnpdump if you trust my binaries :) NOTE: pnpdump resets the PnP cards. It hasn't been h

Re: TeTex-Problems

1997-06-16 Thread Gernot
> As root, go to /usr/lib/texmf/ini (or the TeTeX equivalent) and, if > there's a makefile there you can just type 'make' but otherwise type > 'initex latex.initex'. This will create a latex.fmt which is the > default format file it's looking for. Thanx to those who replied. I tried all your hint

making debian packages

1997-06-16 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
I've made my own deb file with polonisation stuff for tetex. I know that other people may want to use it so i think about putting it in contrib directory. Maybe someone could tell me what should i do wit my deb file? I know that i should put it on master.debian.org/pub/Linux/Debian/Incoming/ but w

Re: Bash 2.00 error in xterm

1997-06-16 Thread Civ Kevin F. Havener
You are correct, sir! Momentary loss of brain wave activity. It never worked under 1.14 because I just recently got a working X server. Hence I never would have known whether it worked or not. All my VC logins *were* login shells...duh! Thanks to your pointers, the O'Reilly bash book, and

permissions of CD-ROM device

1997-06-16 Thread Roderick Schertler
I've got a working sound card and CD-ROM drive again for the first time in a while, and I'd like to set the permissions up so I can play CDs on it without being root. The drive is an IDE device, /dev/hdc, it's currently group disk. Is the standard way to set this up to make the device node group

Re: Debian woes

1997-06-16 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > > If a standard package depends on a non-free package it should be reported > > as a bug. To my knowledge there are no such packages in 1.3.0. Lawrence, you probably mean "package in stable depends on package in non-free."

Re: Upgradeing to 1.3

1997-06-16 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, compwiz wrote: > I currently have Debian 1.2. I followed the instruction to upgrade the > dpkg tool, but I don't know which packages download, to actually install > Debian 1.3. You'll have to upgrade: - dpkg - ld.so - libc5 - all packages in section base in the above order.

Re: Debian woes

1997-06-16 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > > On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > > > > > If a standard package depends a non-free package, it won't resolve it > > > and I have to manually install the non-free package free before > > > installing > > > the stand

SUGGESTION: Re: Cleaning Debian Filesystem...

1997-06-16 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > Has anyone come up with a decent way to audit a filesystem... so the admin > > can wipe out tons of stuff that is only partially installed or not > > removed completely, etc. ? Somebody once posted a sc

Re: Diferences

1997-06-16 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> > Which are the diferences between ELF and a.out?. > > Thanks. Please read ELF-HOWTO. It is available on http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ | _ 7 ''' \(") (O O) / \ \ +--

Re: Still trying to install debian through ftp.

1997-06-16 Thread Richard Harran.
Thanks for the advice. I can't do 'rmmod 3c509', as it says 'device or module in use', even if I try this straight away on booting. When I try 'pnpdump', I get unknown command error. ifconfig looks like this : eth0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:97:63:c5:cb inet addr 131.111.193.137 Bca

Installing dosemu after 1.2>1.3: Problem

1997-06-16 Thread Jan Finjord
I just finished upgrading from 1.2 to 1.3. Had dosemu_0.64 previously, but not configured. Removed it with dpkg --purge since dselect complained about it being there when installing 0.66 (in addition to a problem with no free-dos, though I have an ms-dos partition). Afterwards, I cannot install d

Re: Cleaning Debian Filesystem...

1997-06-16 Thread Adrian Bridgett
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Has anyone come up with a decent way to audit a filesystem... so the admin > can wipe out tons of stuff that is only partially installed or not > removed completely, etc. ? I occasionally use dbackup to get a list of files which are not part of a pack

named hangs on boot

1997-06-16 Thread dgolpira
I have a box running Debian 1.2. Lately, it hangs on boot when trying to start named. If I boot from floppy, disable named, reboot, re-enable it and reboot, it then starts without a problem. Any ideas? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Upgradeing to 1.3 (fwd)

1997-06-16 Thread compwiz
I currently have Debian 1.2. I followed the instruction to upgrade the dpkg tool, but I don't know which packages download, to actually install Debian 1.3. Thanks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Still trying to install debian through ftp.

1997-06-16 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
If you still have the line starting 'lookup ...' in your /etc/resolv.conf try removing it completely. I checked the man page and there was no mention about lookup option. My resolv.conf looks like this: search ton.tut.fi cs.tut.fi atm.tut.fi cc.tut.fi nameserver 193.166.80.16 nameserver

Re: plog doesn't work anymore under 1.3

1997-06-16 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
> "DS" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DS> I believe that the newer ppp writes its logs to DS> /var/log/daemon.log Go change the script instead, then? -- SSM - Stig Sandbeck Mathisen Trust the Computer, the Computer is your Friend -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: plog doesn't work anymore under 1.3

1997-06-16 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: > > Hi, > > I've just upgraded to 1.3 and tried using ppp. I've managed to connect > okay (enabling me to send this email) by plog no longer works. When > I type it, it comes up blank. I had a look at /var/log/ppp.log and it > is empty. It seems like

Re: Debian woes

1997-06-16 Thread Lawrence Chim
Dale Scheetz wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > > > If a standard package depends a non-free package, it won't resolve it > > and I have to manually install the non-free package free before > > installing > > the standard package. > > > If a standard package depends on a non-f

Re: Debian woes

1997-06-16 Thread Lawrence Chim
Dale Scheetz wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > > > If a standard package depends a non-free package, it won't resolve it > > and I have to manually install the non-free package free before > > installing > > the standard package. > > > If a standard package depends on a non-f

Re: Debian woes

1997-06-16 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > If a standard package depends a non-free package, it won't resolve it > and I have to manually install the non-free package free before > installing > the standard package. > If a standard package depends on a non-free package it should be reported as a

Diferences

1997-06-16 Thread Alejandro Acosta A.
Which are the diferences between ELF and a.out?. Thanks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: mirroring web pages

1997-06-16 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote: > > I know how to mirror using ftp. Does anyone know of a free program for > mirroring web pages when there is no access by ftp? wget works real well. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps

Still trying to install debian through ftp.

1997-06-16 Thread Richard Harran.
Thanks for all the suggestions so far. Unfortunately, I haven't had any luck at making ftp or telnet work at all, either using ip numbers (gives error 'no route to host'); or computer names (gives eth0 time out). Could someone explain what should be after 'search', or 'domain' in the resolv.conf

Re: plog doesn't work anymore under 1.3

1997-06-16 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
> "MP" == Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MP> Hi, MP> I had a look at /var/log/ppp.log and it is empty. It seems like MP> this file is no longer written to??? MP> Any ideas? What's in /etc/syslog.conf? If this file has been replaced by the upgrade process, I think the old file

Re: Problems installing Debian 1.3

1997-06-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jun 15, 1997 at 11:24:53AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > If you are using OS/2 Boot Manager, you should NOT select the 'Make the > Hard Disk Bootable' option. Instead you should install LILO on the root > partition of your hard disk (the /dev/sdb7 partition should be made > bootable, however

Re: Problems installing Debian 1.3

1997-06-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jun 15, 1997 at 01:12:33PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > 2. Compiling a Custom Kernel > > I ran 'make menuconfig' in /usr/src/linux. I can't change the Soundblaster > > Settings (Base Adress, IRQ, Hi and Low-DMA...). There is allways the > > message 'You entered an invalid value'. > > > >

Re: mirroring web pages

1997-06-16 Thread Jim Michael
I have had very good success with a Perl script called webcopy. It has many configurable options. It should turn up on a http://www.hotbot.com search. Cheers, Jim On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote: > You can get wget and try that ... it gets data either via ftp or httpd and > it is

Re: help with man pages

1997-06-16 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Heikki" == Heikki Vatiainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Heikki> Isn't it 'set -a' not 'set -e'? Otherwise I think what Heikki> Karl is saying should fix the bug. Oops. Yes, it is `set -a', not `set -e'. -- Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg P

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