enable 16bit and 24bit

1997-06-24 Thread David Puryear
Hi all, Is it possible to enable different depth for different resolutions? What I would like to be able to do is: 8bit for 1024x768 and 320x240 16bit for 800x600 24bit for 640x480 This way I can do Ctrl-Alt + or - to change depth. I have 1 meg on video card. Thanks for an

Re: Print to IP

1997-06-24 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Greg Vence wrote: > > How/where could I find info on printing to an IP printer? > If the printer supports LPR (newer HP printers with the network interface do), then you simply need to get up the proper entry in /etc/printcap and make sure you have the lpr package installed. (You may want to loo

Re: Mail Archives Stopped?

1997-06-24 Thread David R Baker
It is a couple of days since my last message, I just looked at mail archives on www.debian.org and they are still only through June 11. I this is a nuisance, say so and I will cheerfully stop. Thanks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: pas16

1997-06-24 Thread David R Baker
Martien de Groot wrote: > > I am new to Linux and am currently attempting to install the Debian > 1.2.17 Linux Distribution. > I have successfully written the floppy disks and installed the base > system. My problem is with the detection of my Pro Audio Spectrum 16 > SCSI controller (= sound ca

Re: more on scsi controllers

1997-06-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
Isn't there a "reserve=io_address, length" option you can feed the kernel to protect against autoprobing? I've had experiences where another, unrelated driver got to a card first with an autoprobe and bolloxed everything up. Seems I used a boot line like "linux reserve=blah,blah aic7xxx=blah,blah

Re: more on scsi controllers

1997-06-24 Thread Rick Hawkins
> > Use a standard kernel, like the rescue disk. > > At the boot: prompt type > > linux fdomain=0x230,11 > > If I'm wrong about the 'linux' correct me. I can't reboot right now to > verify that. close. capital L. But it still didn't work :( I wonder if the eata is somehow interfering. I h

Terminal Display problem

1997-06-24 Thread Matthew Tebbens
Telnetting into my system I use a program called CRT. Before rebooting today, everything displayed in full (takeing up all of CRT's window) After rebooting, It seems I keep getting pushed back to 80x25. One of the programs that does this is pine. Before the reboot Pine use to fill the entire wind

Re: JDK 1.1

1997-06-24 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> I thought I saw someone mention a JDK 1.1 package, but I haven't > managed to find it anywhere. Was I mistaken? > > Rob. jdk1.1.1 is in hamm/non-free You should also take a look at http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ | _ 7

Re: turning shadow on

1997-06-24 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, m* wrote: > Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > do it! > > just make sure you read the man page on useradd and groupadd! this means that to add a new user in my system I've to use 'useradd' instead of previous 'adduser', right? And that useradd support sha

JDK 1.1

1997-06-24 Thread Rob Duncan
I thought I saw someone mention a JDK 1.1 package, but I haven't managed to find it anywhere. Was I mistaken? Rob. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

1997-06-24 Thread stick
> > > > > I think this is a very good idea - imagine when Debian is ported to other > > hardware platforms and (dreaming maybe) other OS's - one JAVA application > > could handle the installation regardless of Hardware and OS. > > Wait: you've apparently missed the thread that I've been carryin

Re: RFC: Prospective Kernel-Compiling mini-HOWTO

1997-06-24 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe debian *always* installs LILO in the boot record and uses the > 'mbr' program to write a new mbr (?? This is from memory - I'm not > looking at the script) > > I personally never put LILO in the MBR cos OS/2 and Win95 view the MBR > as their

Re: turning shadow on

1997-06-24 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote: > My last experiences on that issue: > > You need to have X installed otherwise shadowconfig on will fail because > it expects to modify an X configuration file. > I've X but no xdm. Some problems? Do I need to restart some /etc/init.d? []s, M

Re: aspfilter

1997-06-24 Thread jsa
> > > The error message from the log: > > > /usr/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-ljet2p-letter-auto-mono: file: command not > > found > > Did you install the package that contains the file command (its name is > file too)? > > Installing the Debian package file.x.deb fixed the problem. Works like a

Re: more on scsi controllers

1997-06-24 Thread Paul Wade
Use a standard kernel, like the rescue disk. At the boot: prompt type linux fdomain=0x230,11 If I'm wrong about the 'linux' correct me. I can't reboot right now to verify that. On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: > > dir /proc/scsi > > > > cat /proc/scsi/aha152x (in my case) give iopor

Re: Installing

1997-06-24 Thread Phoenix
The computer is a desktop computer. It has a supermicro motherboard(pt55st). The keyboard is a microsoft natural keyboard. The video card is a number nine Image 128 card. On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Coby Pritchard wrote: > > > > I am having trouble installing the new version

Re: more on scsi controllers

1997-06-24 Thread Rick Hawkins
> dir /proc/scsi > cat /proc/scsi/aha152x (in my case) give ioport, irq, and a whole bunch of > cool techie words. bash-2.00# dir /proc/scsi/ scsi bash-2.00# cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: none bash-2.00# dir /proc/scsi/ scsi bash-2.00# cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: none bash-

mirror question

1997-06-24 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, I've been running mirror for a few days now and I'd like to know . How can I restart mirror automatically if the mirror stop due to timeout or ppp disconnected? Thanks! -- Timothy C. Phan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: more on scsi controllers

1997-06-24 Thread Paul Wade
The first step is to see a host adaptor. dir /proc/scsi cat /proc/scsi/aha152x (in my case) give ioport, irq, and a whole bunch of cool techie words. If nothing is there, then we need to help it along a bit. The LILO argument is: fdomain=,[,] Does the card have jumpers? Somebody on this list

Re: RFC: Prospective Kernel-Compiling mini-HOWTO

1997-06-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: >> boot=/dev/hda3 > >This should read > > boot=/dev/hda > >no? Debian's installation gets this wrong, listing the boot device as >a partition on the disk, when you're supposed to use the whole disk. >This has caused problems for me, u

Re: # That's ease :-) how to setup dos ?

1997-06-24 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> Ave > > As far as I'm concerned the main package > we need is *fdos*, that should be at > unstable directory. > May be I'm too blind but I didn't found it > at my CDRom or at ftp.debian.org neither. > > Any suggestion ? > > Thank you > Samuel > fdos comes with dosemu package, AFAIK. Alex Y.

# That's ease :-) how to setup dos ?

1997-06-24 Thread Samuel J. MacDowell
Ave As far as I'm concerned the main package we need is *fdos*, that should be at unstable directory. May be I'm too blind but I didn't found it at my CDRom or at ftp.debian.org neither. Any suggestion ? Thank you Samuel -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

Re: libshadow.a ?

1997-06-24 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Roger Endo wrote: > Hi, > Looking for libshadow.a. Does not seem to be in Debian 1.3 as > I checked the Contents file. It was in the experimental shadow > package in earlier versions. Can anybody tell me where it is? If I'm not mistaken

Re: more on scsi controllers

1997-06-24 Thread Rick Hawkins
> Looking at the kernel source, I would say try for the future domain first. > It should be supported by a standard Debian kernel as a built-in (not > modular) driver. Maybe if you're lucky it will autoprobe. no such luck :( bash-2.00# mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom/ -t iso9660 mount: the kernel does

Re: more on scsi controllers

1997-06-24 Thread Paul Wade
Looking at the kernel source, I would say try for the future domain first. It should be supported by a standard Debian kernel as a built-in (not modular) driver. Maybe if you're lucky it will autoprobe. On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: > > :

Re: What good is the default .alias file?

1997-06-24 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997 12:05:25 -0400 (EDT), Scott K. Ellis wrote: >On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: > >> What good is the default .alias file in /etc/skel? >> >> It by default isn't, and I can see my way to execute the damn thing. >> If it was in the format: >> >> alias lsa="ls -a" >> >> it w

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

1997-06-24 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Will Lowe wrote: > The point of the whole idea was to provide a way for people to get > information on and install packages. We discussed the idea that "finding > linux software can sometimes be difficult because we didn't know where to > look" and the fact that, while dpkg is a _GREAT

Re: more on scsi controllers

1997-06-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: : :After the hints so far, it's clear that eata 's error messages have to :do with using the same adresses as the second ide card (which is :installed). However, those aren't the correct adressess. : :I actually have three scsi cards sitting here to cho

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

1997-06-24 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> > I was thinking that perhaps this might be a > > decent Java application: you could write essentially the same code to > > run locally in your Java-enabled kernel, and those with web sites that > > mirror debian packages could use the same code (with a few modifications) > > to run in Nets

Re: RFC: Prospective Kernel-Compiling mini-HOWTO

1997-06-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
Depends. Are you installing the LILO boot block in the MBR or the boot record of the partition? If you're not going the MBR route, the hda3 line is correct. I believe debian *always* installs LILO in the boot record and uses the 'mbr' program to write a new mbr (?? This is from memory - I'm not

Re: Prob Removing Latex pkg

1997-06-24 Thread Christian Meder
On Jun 24, Mark Mabry wrote > > I've been upgrading to Debian 1.3 w/o problems except for the tetex > upgrade. I've followed the instructions that tell me to first remove > the tex packages and install the tetex ones. However, there is a > problem when I try to remove the latex package. Apparen

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

1997-06-24 Thread Will Lowe
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > decent Java application: you could write essentially the same code to > > run locally in your Java-enabled kernel, and those with web sites that > > > I think this is a very good idea - imagine when Debian is ported to other > hardware platform

Print to IP

1997-06-24 Thread Greg Vence
Hello, How/where could I find info on printing to an IP printer? Thanx -- Greg. -- Greg Vence | Debian GNU Linux KH2EA/4 | Diamond 2000 (7npw 4cpw) [EMAIL PROTECTED]| There is time for what's important -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "u

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

1997-06-24 Thread stick
> I was thinking that perhaps this might be a > decent Java application: you could write essentially the same code to > run locally in your Java-enabled kernel, and those with web sites that > mirror debian packages could use the same code (with a few modifications) > to run in Netscape acros

Re: RFC: Prospective Kernel-Compiling mini-HOWTO

1997-06-24 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Pete Harlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > boot=/dev/hda3 > > This should read > > boot=/dev/hda If you do this, you will over-write any boot manager you happen to have installed on the system. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED

more on scsi controllers

1997-06-24 Thread Rick Hawkins
After the hints so far, it's clear that eata 's error messages have to do with using the same adresses as the second ide card (which is installed). However, those aren't the correct adressess. I actually have three scsi cards sitting here to choose from: 1) the nec card, which, on closer look

Re: Books on Debian

1997-06-24 Thread Marc Saric
W Paul Mills wrote: > My start with Debian came about 6 months ago. I found dselect and > the rest of the packaging system confusing. Frustrating at that time > was man pages that said they were not up to date - read the docs. > The doc files also said they were not up to date - read the man pages

Re: radius

1997-06-24 Thread Paul Wade
I've got 2 'boxed' systems to develop. One for multiple balanced modems because the frame relay costs are ugly in Maine. The other for wireless microwave links. Both are intended to provide Internet to win/mac/schmuckware workstations. I am planning to use bootable CD's on these. A motherboard wi

Re: first experience with defrag: have slight problem.

1997-06-24 Thread Bruce Perens
The C library on the rescue floppy only contains the functions that are used by the programs on the floppy itself. This is done to save space. Thus, it's problematical to run programs that weren't on the disk when it was built. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: RFC: Prospective Kernel-Compiling mini-HOWTO

1997-06-24 Thread Pete Harlan
> boot=/dev/hda3 This should read boot=/dev/hda no? Debian's installation gets this wrong, listing the boot device as a partition on the disk, when you're supposed to use the whole disk. This has caused problems for me, until I noticed it and changed it back to /dev/hda. Perhaps I'm

Re: turning shadow on

1997-06-24 Thread Christoph Lameter
My last experiences on that issue: You need to have X installed otherwise shadowconfig on will fail because it expects to modify an X configuration file. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: : > Hi, : > : > I've upgraded from 1.2

libshadow.a ?

1997-06-24 Thread Roger Endo
Hi, Looking for libshadow.a. Does not seem to be in Debian 1.3 as I checked the Contents file. It was in the experimental shadow package in earlier versions. Can anybody tell me where it is? Thanks, Roger -- ~~ Roger Endo

Re: Video card not located

1997-06-24 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Jon Stearley wrote: > > I'm a Debian newbie, but not a Linux newbie. Upon running my Xserver, it > says it "Can't probe screen #0", which the vendor says means the video > card is not being located. I've installed all the X packages.deb. > Perhaps I'm missing a driver o

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

1997-06-24 Thread Will Lowe
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > I'm not sure if fvwm95 menu entries calling a simple tk/tcl program to > display info on one package is better than a styandalone tk/tcl package > to provide info on all available packages. The standalone package > could be used with any window man

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

1997-06-24 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> > I think the a frustrating thing with Linux is finding out what's > > available. I think what would attract people to Linux is *showing* them > > all that's available. > > You mean package-wise? Yeah. > > What's missing is an X tool to display the > > package

weird routing problems.

1997-06-24 Thread Shaya Potter
I somehow did something that affects route. I have the simple settings that the debian installer automatically sets up in my /etc/init.d/network file. This ifconfig's the eth0 interface appropriatly, set's up the network, but when it tries to set the default route, I get. chum# route add defaul

Re: fvwm2 and the focus

1997-06-24 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Did you know that with the default bindings ALT-clicking > on a window raises it, while an ALT-right-click lowers it? Perhaps this > would serve your needs? I got so used to this on my Linux machine that I set up my Solaris/CDE in the office with th

Re: Video card not located

1997-06-24 Thread Will Lowe
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Jon Stearley wrote: > runing Debian. Any ideas? Thx. > The millenium is now supported by XF86. You might want to try it out ... the driver is probably under "unstable" on ftp.debian.org. Will

Re: turning shadow on

1997-06-24 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > Hi, > > I've upgraded from 1.2 to 1.3 w/o too much trouble. At that time I > did not turn shadow on. Now I would like to do it. Should I do a > shadowconfig on and cross my fingers or is there something further? > > I've installe

Re: NFS problems with Debian server and Solaris client

1997-06-24 Thread Markus Diesmann
I do have similar problems serving SGI machines. It might depend on the way a file system is mounted e.g. hard vs. soft, but I'am not sure, still testing ... Markus Diesmann -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: Netscape uses SOCKS host for local servers

1997-06-24 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Kirk Hilliard wrote: > > > Subject: Re: Netscape uses SOCKS host for local servers > > Kirk Hilliard wrote: > > > > How do I get Netscape to not use a SOCKS host for machines in my local > > domain? > > > > I am running "Mozilla/3.01Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.27 i586)" on my > > Debian 1.2 box, which

Re: fvwm2 and the focus

1997-06-24 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Santi Mauro wrote: > I am using fvwm2 and I want to configure it in the following > maner : > > If I click with the mouse on a window, this window becomes the > active one and raises on the top. > > I didn't manage to write the corrects instructions in my .fvwm2rc > file in order t

Re: problems with PCMCIA network card 3COM 3C589D

1997-06-24 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Nico De Ranter wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm having problems attaching my portable to the network from within > Linux. It used to work fine with a 3Com Etherlink III 3C589C network card, > however I just got a new shipment of 3Com Etherlink III 3C589D cards and > these do not seem to be compatible at a

Video card not located

1997-06-24 Thread Jon Stearley
I'm a Debian newbie, but not a Linux newbie. Upon running my Xserver, it says it "Can't probe screen #0", which the vendor says means the video card is not being located. I've installed all the X packages.deb. Perhaps I'm missing a driver or something? I was able to drive this equipment at

Re: radius

1997-06-24 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Dave Cinege, you wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Jun 1997 11:23:14 -0400 (EDT), Tim Sailer wrote: > > >> >I haven't played with the source yet. I was hoping not to. I'm trying to > >> >put together an 'instant ISP' type system, complete with a linux based > >> >term server. I use the S

first experience with defrag: have slight problem.

1997-06-24 Thread James D. Freels
I have installed the Debian defrag v 0.61-1 package and tried it out. My partition table looks like sda1 / 100 Mb sda2 /usr400 Mb sdb1 /var 20 Mb sdb2 /mnt/sdb2 280 Mb soft linked, contains /usr/local, /usr/src sdb3 swap 20 Mb sdc1 /home 1020 M

Prob Removing Latex pkg

1997-06-24 Thread Mark Mabry
I've been upgrading to Debian 1.3 w/o problems except for the tetex upgrade. I've followed the instructions that tell me to first remove the tex packages and install the tetex ones. However, there is a problem when I try to remove the latex package. Apparently the latex.prerm script calls insta

Re: Books on Debian

1997-06-24 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Paul Wade wrote: > I also agree. Only a few pages of hardcopy are needed. Consider the > candidate for a thick 'Complete Debian' type of book: > > 1) His hardware is too strange to get base and a few things installed. > > 2) He has no way to browse a CD. > > 3) He has no way to view web pages. >

Re: [Q] Best Strategy to install Debian 1.3 using a PCMCIA CDROM?

1997-06-24 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Ed Down wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > > I am planning on installing Debian 1.3 on my laptop. I have had prior > > > success installing 1.2 on this same laptop. I prefer to clean up the > > > hard-disk and start fro

NFS problems with Debian server and Solaris client

1997-06-24 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
I'm having problems getting Solaris 2.5.1 to use the Debian NFS server. Read only file systems work fine. On read-write file systems, the Solaris client works fine initially but then gets confused. It no longer can create files or directories, is unable to delete them, doesn't recognize director

turning shadow on

1997-06-24 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I've upgraded from 1.2 to 1.3 w/o too much trouble. At that time I did not turn shadow on. Now I would like to do it. Should I do a shadowconfig on and cross my fingers or is there something further? I've installed almost all the stuff from stable. []s Mario O.de M

Re: Debian 1.3: Boot on ThinkPad 760EL

1997-06-24 Thread Rob Browning
Martin Fehlaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As I have read in Deja News others have (had?) the same problem I do. > The new Rescue Disk does not work on my (new as well) ThinkPad. Other > distrubutions do not seem to have this problem. Am I missing something > obvious? Is there a solution I am n

Re: emacs ispell -- request for bug confirmation

1997-06-24 Thread Rob Browning
"John M. Rulnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - on a clean Debian 1.3 install, 'dpkg -i ispell_3.1.20-0.1.deb' > followed by 'dpkg -i iamerican_3.1.20-0.1.deb' yields a failed > iamerican installation: What kernel are you running? Did you compile a special one? We thought we had tracked this

Re: fvwm2 and the focus

1997-06-24 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > I am using fvwm2 and I want to configure it in the following > > maner : > > > > If I click with the mouse on a window, this window becomes the > > active one and raises on the top. > > > > I didn't manage to write the corrects instruct

Re: Debian 1.3: Boot on ThinkPad 760EL

1997-06-24 Thread Bruce Perens
Boot from the "tecra" boot disk in disks-i386/current/tecra/resc1440.bin This works on Thinkpads, too. Thanks 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

Re: fvwm2 and the focus

1997-06-24 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Santi Mauro wrote: > Hi, > > I am using fvwm2 and I want to configure it in the following > maner : > > If I click with the mouse on a window, this window becomes the > active one and raises on the top. > > I didn't manage to write the corrects instructions

Re: What good is the default .alias file?

1997-06-24 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: > What good is the default .alias file in /etc/skel? > > It by default isn't, and I can see my way to execute the damn thing. > If it was in the format: > > alias lsa="ls -a" > > it would be useful. How is this any good

Debian 1.3: Boot on ThinkPad 760EL

1997-06-24 Thread Martin Fehlaber
As I have read in Deja News others have (had?) the same problem I do. The new Rescue Disk does not work on my (new as well) ThinkPad. Other distrubutions do not seem to have this problem. Am I missing something obvious? Is there a solution I am not aware of? Thanx, -- Martin Fehlhaber [EMAIL PROT

problems with PCMCIA network card 3COM 3C589D

1997-06-24 Thread Nico De Ranter
Hi, I'm having problems attaching my portable to the network from within Linux. It used to work fine with a 3Com Etherlink III 3C589C network card, however I just got a new shipment of 3Com Etherlink III 3C589D cards and these do not seem to be compatible at all. Did anybody succeeded in gettin

Re: radius

1997-06-24 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997 11:23:14 -0400 (EDT), Tim Sailer wrote: >> >I haven't played with the source yet. I was hoping not to. I'm trying to >> >put together an 'instant ISP' type system, complete with a linux based >> >term server. I use the SDL WAN cards, with the builtin csu, so I'm >> >also buildi

What good is the default .alias file?

1997-06-24 Thread Dave Cinege
What good is the default .alias file in /etc/skel? It by default isn't, and I can see my way to execute the damn thing. If it was in the format: alias lsa="ls -a" it would be useful. How is this any good? alias a alias alias loada 'source ~/.alias' alias loadalias loada alia

Re: emacs ispell -- request for bug confirmation

1997-06-24 Thread John M. Rulnick
I'd appreciate if someone could help confirm/deny two possible bugs. Regarding emacs and ispell (and iamerican) for Debian 1.3: - if iamerican is not installed, using ispell under emacs incorrectly yields an error message indicating that 'ispell -v' does not output it's version line (this appears

Re: Books on Debian

1997-06-24 Thread W Paul Mills
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, H.C.Lai wrote: > My point is, having Debain's book on the shelves of bookshops raises the > visibility of Debain and may actually encourage people to choose it over > other distributions. Very true. I had heard about linux for some time before first trying it somewhere back

Re: radius

1997-06-24 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Dave Cinege, you wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:38:28 -0400 (EDT), Tim Sailer wrote: > > >In your email to me, Paul Wade, you wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Tim Sailer wrote: > >> > >> > Well, I've made a bit more progress. The whole problem was that merit > >> >

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

1997-06-24 Thread Will Lowe
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > An idea about `menu': > > I think the a frustrating thing with Linux is finding out what's > available. I think what would attract people to Linux is *showing* them > all that's available. You mean package-wise? Generally I check out www.debia

fvwm2 and the focus

1997-06-24 Thread Santi Mauro
Hi, I am using fvwm2 and I want to configure it in the following maner : If I click with the mouse on a window, this window becomes the active one and raises on the top. I didn't manage to write the corrects instructions in my .fvwm2rc file in order to have the required behaviou

Re: [Q] Best Strategy to install Debian 1.3 using a PCMCIA CDROM?

1997-06-24 Thread Emilio Lopes
> "SC" == Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SC> PS: Does my digital signature attachment bother folks reading this SC> list. It's just that sometimes there is more signature than message. Pretty annoying, IMO. -- Emilio C. Lopes -- TO UNSUBSC

Re: radius

1997-06-24 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:38:28 -0400 (EDT), Tim Sailer wrote: >In your email to me, Paul Wade, you wrote: >> >> On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Tim Sailer wrote: >> >> > Well, I've made a bit more progress. The whole problem was that merit >> > radiusd has been compiled without shadow support. Doing 'shadow

Re: radius

1997-06-24 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Paul Wade, you wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Tim Sailer wrote: > > > Well, I've made a bit more progress. The whole problem was that merit > > radiusd has been compiled without shadow support. Doing 'shadowconfig off' > > now allows radpwchk to authenticate properly. So..

Re: Changing the host name

1997-06-24 Thread Nils Rennebarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: >> I'm trying to figure out how to change the hostname manually. I did the >> command hostname , and I went into /etc/hosts and replace the >> old hostname with the new one. Is it anything other command or file that >>

Re: radius

1997-06-24 Thread Paul Wade
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Tim Sailer wrote: > Well, I've made a bit more progress. The whole problem was that merit > radiusd has been compiled without shadow support. Doing 'shadowconfig off' > now allows radpwchk to authenticate properly. So.. has anyone played > with the merit version and shadow?

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)

1997-06-24 Thread Peter S Galbraith
First, let me thank all those that responded to my `impressions' post. I'll reply to this one, and leave it at that. > (I thought Debian's installation asked whether you were really sure about > running mke2fs, It does, it does. Just a case of initial culture shock. > > - I assume that the l

Re: Installing

1997-06-24 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Coby Pritchard wrote: > > I am having trouble installing the new version of debian. Iget all the way > to the select type color or mono screen. and it stops right there. I don't > think it freezes up because the cursor is still blinking. I just cant > select anything. Conflict with keyboard?maybe?

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1997-06-24 Thread Martien de Groot
I am new to Linux and am currently attempting to install the Debian 1.2.17 Linux Distribution. I have successfully written the floppy disks and installed the base system. My problem is with the detection of my Pro Audio Spectrum 16 SCSI controller (= sound card) and the CDROM drive. I have used

Re: radius

1997-06-24 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Paul Wade, you wrote: > > I compiled Merit and actually got it to work last year on a non-Debian > system. It involved a bit of study and doing things manually. I started at > an ISP that had a Cisco 2516 router and tacacs+ on NT. I switched to 2 > Linux systems on an isolated

Re: Where is libc6 ????????

1997-06-24 Thread Paul Wade
/hamm/hamm/binary/base I hope the 'new' menu package came from hamm if it requires libc6. On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Eddie Katz wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to find the LIBC6 package but with no luck. The new "menu" > package r > equires it and I cannot find it anywhere. > > Thanks > > == Eddie

Where is libc6 ????????

1997-06-24 Thread Eddie Katz
Hi, I am trying to find the LIBC6 package but with no luck. The new "menu" package r equires it and I cannot find it anywhere. Thanks == Eddie Katz == [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . T

Re: radius

1997-06-24 Thread Paul Wade
I compiled Merit and actually got it to work last year on a non-Debian system. It involved a bit of study and doing things manually. I started at an ISP that had a Cisco 2516 router and tacacs+ on NT. I switched to 2 Linux systems on an isolated (coax) ethernet. I was able to get client and server

Re: radius

1997-06-24 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Adam Shand, you wrote: > > >Is anyone actually using the debian radius package? It doesn't appear > >to work in any fashion. It seems like all the binaries are looking > >for /usr/private/etc/raddb/ as in: > > Are you using the Merit or Livingstone version? Right now, Merit.

Re: radius

1997-06-24 Thread Adam Shand
>Is anyone actually using the debian radius package? It doesn't appear >to work in any fashion. It seems like all the binaries are looking >for /usr/private/etc/raddb/ as in: Are you using the Merit or Livingstone version? >dict_init: Couldn't open dictionary: /usr/private/etc/raddb/dictionary >D

Re: nec scsi controller

1997-06-24 Thread Paul Wade
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: > hmm: > > EATA0: address 0x1f0 in use, skipping probe. > EATA0: address 0x170 in use, skipping probe. > scsi : 0 hosts. > scsi : detected total. > > something is already getting at it. The controller does make some kind > of attempt to boot from the cd,

Re: Big problem with TeX/LaTeX

1997-06-24 Thread Christoph Martin
Paul Rightley writes: > teTeX does seem to install now (and I do not have the TeX environment > variables set... To me, this is not right. This means that I cannot > use dselect to remove the teTeX packages and then reinstall them without > executing commands not related to dselect. Is this

Re: Books on Debian

1997-06-24 Thread Paul Wade
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, H.C.Lai wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > > > Two problem(s) with a book: (a) you're really only buying a few pages of > > Debian-specific stuff which (b) is almost out-of-date before it's > > published. I'd far rather have just a good annotated bibliography of all > > the Deb

Re: nec scsi controller

1997-06-24 Thread Carey Evans
Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > EATA0: address 0x1f0 in use, skipping probe. > EATA0: address 0x170 in use, skipping probe. > scsi : 0 hosts. > scsi : detected total. [snip] > So how do i clear whatever has its grubby paws on the controller? cat /proc/ioports (or run lsdev) s

Re: [Q] Best Strategy to install Debian 1.3 using a PCMCIA CDROM?

1997-06-24 Thread Ed Down
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > > I am planning on installing Debian 1.3 on my laptop. I have had prior > > success installing 1.2 on this same laptop. I prefer to clean up the > > hard-disk and start from scratch. > > You d

Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3

1997-06-24 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >From a guy who has used Linux since 1993 or so, I found the installation > to be non-trivial: ... > - I didn't really like the interface of dselect. It's easy to get lost in >there. Perhaps changing the background colour according to the

Bruce on congress in germany

1997-06-24 Thread Martin Schulze
Good morning everyone, I hope you find your day going well. I am organizing a congress in fall, Sept 27th and 28th. One schedule is titled 'New Technologies' and will contain several Linux and Debian talks. We have invited Bruce Perens to talk about Debian GNU/Linux there. Richard St

Re: Books on Debian

1997-06-24 Thread H.C.Lai
David Wright wrote: > > Two problem(s) with a book: (a) you're really only buying a few pages of > Debian-specific stuff which (b) is almost out-of-date before it's > published. I'd far rather have just a good annotated bibliography of all > the Debianised documentation. As I think I've said befor

Re: RFC: Prospective Kernel-Compiling mini-HOWTO

1997-06-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, w rites: >Hello, > >This file has been posted to this forum a few times before in earlier >versions. I would very much appreciate feedback on it. If enough people >think it's a good idea, I will attempt to contribute it to the LDP. >... >// if you w

lockd for debian ?

1997-06-24 Thread Markus Diesmann
I need to export a mail directory from a Debian system to SGI and SUN machines. A few applications expect a lock daemon lockd on the exporting system. I seems that there is no such daemon for debian, We found an old Linux version 0.4 '95 from Olaf Kirch, but it does not seem to work reliable. Do

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