Re: [Q] How to create a FTP only account.. for...

1997-06-28 Thread J . R . Blaakmeer
> > Hi all Hi > regarding this subject... I have used /bin/true for ftp-only > accounts but i need to go one step farther. I have a /home/webusers > directory where i have user accounts who with web space only. Right now > they ftp in and put there html files there. But the thing is they

Re: terminology/concept questions

1997-06-28 Thread Graham C. Hughes
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Depmod and joystick problems

1997-06-28 Thread Johannes Martinez
I thought i had no problems upgrading to 1.3 but this may be one of them. First my joystick doesn't work. Yup, sounds like a small inconvenience but checking it out i saw that depmod returns a problem reading ELF header saying no such file or directory, doesn't tell me what it is looking

Problem with xfs

1997-06-28 Thread Ciccio
Hi, I just finished writing a type1 postscript font. I tested it with ghostscript and sent it to the printer, everything worked fine. Then I copied it into a directory for which xfs is configured; other fonts in this dir are correctly accesable. First I added a line to fonts.scale myself, then usi

SCSI times out with Jaz drive

1997-06-28 Thread Martin Brundage
I am having a problem with my new Jaz drive on my 6X86 p200+ system with Debian 1.2. When I do a recursive copy of a large number of files to an IDE drive my AHA-2940 times out occasionally, although it seems to always recover and finish the copy. I am using stock 2.0.27 kernel with all SCSI opti

Re: apcupsd, genpower, and PowerShute(TM) "Black" cable.

1997-06-28 Thread Brian White
> I have just tried to get two APC Smart UPS v/s 650s up and running in my > department but unfortunately, genpower does not support the cable, a black > PowerShute(TM) cable with serial number 940-0024C. Genpower 1.0.1-4 does have support for the Win95 "Plug-n-Play" cable (serial number 940-0095

Re: DOS partition with linux

1997-06-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes : > >I created the following partitions on my PC with debian: linux, linux >swap space, and DOS 16bit >32MB on my PC. I made the DOS partition >the bootable one. Linux seemed to have continued to install >correctly. > >When I rebooted the comp

Re: choosing a linux distribution

1997-06-28 Thread Rick Hawkins
> Actually, Debian requires zero disks for installation. It can be installed > directly from a bootable cd-rom (if you have a machine capable of booting > from CD). > If not, then you can install using two floppies - the boot disk and the > drivers (kernel modules) disk. The rest of the base sys

Smail - Return-Path Field

1997-06-28 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
Can smail be configured to omit the Return-Path Field from the headers of outgoing mail, or to use a specified string for the Return-Path Field? Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: [Q] How to create a FTP only account.. for...

1997-06-28 Thread System Account
Hi all regarding this subject... I have used /bin/true for ftp-only accounts but i need to go one step farther. I have a /home/webusers directory where i have user accounts who with web space only. Right now they ftp in and put there html files there. But the thing is they still have acc

Re: choosing a linux distribution

1997-06-28 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: > [snip] > > Actually, Debian requires zero disks for installation. It can be installed > > directly from a bootable cd-rom (if you have a machine capable of booting > > from CD). > > > > If not, then you can i

kernel/net problems

1997-06-28 Thread dpk
I downgraded to my 2.0.29 kernel yesterday because of all the scsi disk errors I was getting in /var/log/messages. That seems to be fixed by doing so. However now, I'm having network problems... my network connections will drop spuratically, and then 5 minutes later, my machine will let me on. M

Re: cron.daily : when does it run?

1997-06-28 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: : And how can we control it? Looked at man pages, but coudn't find it. : (And I'm used to Slackware with only /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ stuff) Checkout /etc/crontab. -- // Remco van de Meent // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www: http://oloo

Re: terminology/concept questions

1997-06-28 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Graham C. Hughes" wrote: > and tcsh fixes several of the traditional csh bugs. I still think > bash is a better shell to use, but then I don't believe in csh and > derivatives. What tcsh has is powerful command completion, which I believeDebian doesn't setup by default. For example, one cou

cron.daily : when does it run?

1997-06-28 Thread Peter S Galbraith
And how can we control it? Looked at man pages, but coudn't find it. (And I'm used to Slackware with only /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ stuff) -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, M

[stephen.zander@interlock.mckesson.com: Re: Netscape SEGV with 3.3 VGA16]

1997-06-28 Thread Gary L. Dolan
"Gary L. Dolan" wrote: > The bus error is unrelated to the colormap problem. Go to > members.ping.at/theofilu for the bus error fix. OK, tried that... still behaves strangely though. with export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/netscape in /usr/bin/X11/netscape, I still get a bus error.

Re: reload .bash_profile in xterm?

1997-06-28 Thread Randy Edwards
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Sylvain Briole wrote: > So, xterm does not reload .bash_profile? I believe if you add a "-ls" (login shell) parameter to xterm when you call it your problem will go away and it'll read .bash_profile as you want. | Debian GNU/ __ o Regards,

[ujr@physik.phy.tu-dresden.de: problems with dosemu, fvwm95, xbase]

1997-06-28 Thread Gary L. Dolan
In an earlier message, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote: >I'm running Debian 1.3 with some packages from unstable (aka hamm), >eg. libc6, xfree 3.3 and several packages depending on it. I noticed > the following (minor) problems: > 1) DOSEmu > I installed DOSEmu 0.66.6 and when I run

smail configuration has been lost after disk full runq errors

1997-06-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
A few weeks ago, my system suffered an incident involving a full disk during which time there were a number of pretty major looking runq related errors. Since then, my system has been unable to clear out the mail queue. I have resorted to using the smtp-mail.el facility in emacs. Can someone

smail configuration has been lost after disk full runq errors

1997-06-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
A few weeks ago, my system suffered an incident involving a full disk during which time there were a number of pretty major looking runq related errors. Since then, my system has been unable to clear out the mail queue. I have resorted to using the smtp-mail.el facility in emacs. Can someone

smail configuration has been lost after disk full runq errors

1997-06-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
A few weeks ago, my system suffered an incident involving a full disk during which time there were a number of pretty major looking runq related errors. Since then, my system has been unable to clear out the mail queue. I have resorted to using the smtp-mail.el facility in emacs. Can someone

Re: reload .bash_profile in xterm?

1997-06-28 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Sylvain Briole wrote: > I run Debian 1.2/Linux 2.0.29/olvwm. > I have set up a color xterm. > But, my ls is not a color ls. > I need to type alias ls='ls --color' in the login window to obtain ls in > color. But I have written this command in my .bash_profile. > So, xterm does not reload .bash_pro

Re: Problem with mtab?

1997-06-28 Thread Sylvain Briole
Hello Heikki, > [cut] > # > # Remount rootfs rw (default), but do not try to change mtab because it > # is on a ro fs until the remount succeeded. Then clean up old mtabs and > # finally write the new mtab. > # > mount -n -o remount,rw / > rm -f /etc/mtab~ /etc/nologin > : > /etc

Re: problems with PCMCIA network card 3COM 3C589D

1997-06-28 Thread Sylvain Briole
Hello Nico, > 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 getting > these cards to function properly? Mine is working perfectly I use Linux 2.0.29 with the packages : pcmcia-cs2.9.1-2 pcmc

Re: Problem with mtab?

1997-06-28 Thread Sylvain Briole
Hello joost, > > > nathalie# mount /hda3/ > > > can't lock lock file /etc/mtab~: timed out > Apparently your mount eigher doesn't exit properly (maybe it's trying > to mount nfs volumes in the background?), or it's killed for > some other reason. > What does: > $ ps -ax|grep [m]ount > output on

Re: Why is pine so slow?

1997-06-28 Thread Sylvain Briole
Hello Lindsay, > 1. define an smtp host > 2. enable background sending I have defined an smtp host (localhost) and enabled background sending, but the problem is the same The solution is in the sendmail-config parameter in the .pinerc file (as said on this mailing list). Thanx. Sylvain.

Re: Why is pine so slow?

1997-06-28 Thread Sylvain Briole
Hello Colin, > sendmail-path=/usr/lib/sendmail -oem -t -oi > This made my pine lightning fast without the possible problems of using > the background sending option. It runs! But I haven't any problem with the background sending option : what are they? Thanx. Sylvain. Sylvain Briole

reload .bash_profile in xterm?

1997-06-28 Thread Sylvain Briole
Hello all, I run Debian 1.2/Linux 2.0.29/olvwm. I have set up a color xterm. But, my ls is not a color ls. I need to type alias ls='ls --color' in the login window to obtain ls in color. But I have written this command in my .bash_profile. So, xterm does not reload .bash_profile? What can I do?

Re: getting CDs overseas

1997-06-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Jun 28, 1997 at 01:20:00AM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > The solution is to get a CD dealer in Oz interested. We make it easy > enough for them. Unfortunately, I don't know of any companies in Australia that produce discs like these, companies like Walnut Creek, LSL, CheapBytes etc. Even th

getting CDs overseas

1997-06-28 Thread Bruce Perens
The solution is to get a CD dealer in Oz interested. We make it easy enough for them. 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: DEBIAN NEWS

1997-06-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jun 26, 1997 at 11:17:00AM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > DEBIAN OFFICIAL 2-CD SET AVAILABLE FOR $4.95 > > Linux Systems Labs is offering the Debian Official 2-CD Set for $4.95, > or for $9.95 . The product is identical in both cases, and the $9.95 > version includes a $5 donation to Softwar

Re: Debian got slammed

1997-06-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jun 27, 1997 at 12:54:01PM -0600, Rick Hawkins wrote: > It would be nice if he got his facts straight, though. > > The need for six disks for cd installation, for example. I installed it > on a friends cd with two, which was two more than I needed. I think one > of the installs on this m

Re: Debian got slammed

1997-06-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jun 27, 1997 at 05:51:24PM +, Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro wrote: > On This Day, In The Year Of Our Lord 27 Jun 97 at 14:31. > "Re: Debian got slammed" by debian-user@lists.debian.org: > > Saying Slackware is in any real way preferable to Debian is damn stupid. > > Depends from points

distribution page

1997-06-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I read your distribution page about Linux. A few points about Debian; yes, there are six floppies but you can boot off the official 1.3 CD now if your system supports it and I believe there are other floppy-less or floppy-fewer solutions. Yes, the dselect interface isn't too good, but there's a new

Re: terminology/concept questions

1997-06-28 Thread Poobalan MurphyPA Arumugam
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, David Miles wrote: > I appreciate your response. > > Another question or so: > > 1) Are shells geared toward specific tasks?... such as program creation, a > shell built to specifically offer enhanced compiling and program > generation capabilities? another perhaps for gra

Re: choosing a linux distribution

1997-06-28 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: [snip] > Actually, Debian requires zero disks for installation. It can be installed > directly from a bootable cd-rom (if you have a machine capable of booting > from CD). > > If not, then you can install using two floppies - the boot disk and the > drive

Re: [General Q] What is inetd?

1997-06-28 Thread Paul Wade
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > What is inetd? Where can I read up more on inetd and its advantages / > disadvantages? I am currently running my apache off of > /etc/init.d/apache . I was wondering whether there is any adavatage of > using inetd to start apache. inetd is

Re: choosing a linux distribution

1997-06-28 Thread Buddha Buck
Matt, I apologize if you seem to have been hit recently by the Debian Advocacy Brigade, but I -do- want to add one thing myself. Craig Sanders said: > > RE: your web page at http://mkracht.aye.net/~matt/linuxdist/ > > > Debian > > > >Web: http://www.debian.org/ > >FTP: ftp:/

Problems installing 1.3

1997-06-28 Thread Tony Koehn
Please CC all your messages to me because I don't subscribe here regualary.. I have been trying to install debian 1.3 as a new install. I created me a Rescue 1440 Disk and a Dev 1440 Disk ( I think its called that) (been a long day)... I installed the base file on my dos partition and installed

Re: terminology/concept questions

1997-06-28 Thread mark powers
> "George" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sez: George> For me, I hate the C shell and like Korn or bash (bash is George> the second incarnation of the Bourne shell ... bash stands George> for Bourne again shell). George> You have the c shell (csh) the bourne shell (sh) b

choosing a linux distribution

1997-06-28 Thread Craig Sanders
RE: your web page at http://mkracht.aye.net/~matt/linuxdist/ > Debian > >Web: http://www.debian.org/ >FTP: ftp://ftp.debian.org/ You've got this part correct, at least. > Installation > > For some reason, Debian requires six disks for their installation > program. I knew thi

Re: problems with dosemu, fvwm95, xbase

1997-06-28 Thread David Pfitzner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler) wrote: (about dosemu 0.66.6) > Well, fdos seems to have problems > with lredir. I only get garbage on drive d: (which should actually be the > whole linux fs). >From the dosemu mailing list, it appears that lredir does not work with fdos, due to missing f

[General Q] What is inetd?

1997-06-28 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
What is inetd? Where can I read up more on inetd and its advantages / disadvantages? I am currently running my apache off of /etc/init.d/apache . I was wondering whether there is any adavatage of using inetd to start apache. Sudhakar -- "An elephant is a mouse running an Operating System." --

Re: Debian got slammed

1997-06-28 Thread Dave Cinege
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997 18:00:24 -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: >So, let me see what we have here. I don't think the following >is any exaggeration. I've seen some of these points in this thread >alone: > >o Within Debian, we're a happy lot except there's no > concensys on issues such as dselect, bas

news errors

1997-06-28 Thread Randy Edwards
I've been working on getting suck and inn to work. Right now things are going well and I can issue out a "get-news" command to grab my news articles. However, at the end of the process (after it's downloaded the articles) I get the following error messages: 441 Already got messageid Malfun

Re: Why is pine so slow?

1997-06-28 Thread Debian user mail
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: > > # default delivery mode > > O DeliveryMode=background > > > > becomes > > > > # default delivery mode > > O DeliveryMode=deferred > > Hmm, this one might be the answer for me. > > The thing about reverse dns lookups certainly rings a bell here, be

Switching IP aliases

1997-06-28 Thread Richard L Shepherd
I wish to have 2 nearly identical machines. Each will have it's own IP number plus an IP alias. The idea is that I wish to occasionally take 1 down and give it's IP alias over to the other machine, so that there is no visible change to any clients. The problem is that machines on the localnet m

Re: terminology/concept questions

1997-06-28 Thread George Bonser
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, David Miles wrote: > I appreciate your response. > > Another question or so: > > 1) Are shells geared toward specific tasks?... such as program creation, a > shell built to specifically offer enhanced compiling and program > generation capabilities? another perhaps for gra

Re: libgpc problem

1997-06-28 Thread Christian Meder
On Jun 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > When I attempted to install libgpc2, I got the following error: > > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so (No such file or > directory), skipping > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so (No such file or > directory), skippin

Re: LD_PRELOAD=lib using ldopen: can't resolve symbol '_dl_open'

1997-06-28 Thread joost witteveen
OK, replying to my own post, > I'm trying to LD_PRELOAD a library that in turn uses ldopen. > this works OK, as long as I don't try to run (with LD_PRELOAD > set) any binaries that use libdl themselves. [..] > $ gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,libfoo.so.0 -o libfoo.so.0.0 -fPIC libfoo.c -ldl > > $ export

Re: "Too many open files"

1997-06-28 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Marcelo" == Marcelo E Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marcelo> Hi, I'm getting this message very often in one of the Marcelo> Debian Linux machines I work with, and I have no clue of Marcelo> where to start looking. It's not coming from the kernel Marcelo> since it's no

"Too many open files"

1997-06-28 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, I'm getting this message very often in one of the Debian Linux machines I work with, and I have no clue of where to start looking. It's not coming from the kernel since it's not logged along other kernel messages, but it shows up in the console. The first time I saw it, it cam

Re[2]: Installation 1.3 failed, returned to 1.1 and upgraded

1997-06-28 Thread JIM_BURT_at_nass-fx
Recall, I ran Debian 1.1 with few problems for 7 months. With few problems, for months, I used numerous "bo" packages, though evidently not the "bo" dpkg_1.*.deb package. Last month I tried installing Debian 1.3, eventually re-initializing several partitions, but these pure Debian 1.3 installatio

setting desktops with fvwm2

1997-06-28 Thread Chris Hanson
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 11:38:24 -0600 From: Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Randy Edwards wrote: > >The question I have is B) how can I get my programs to open > up on Desk 5. Have you tried setting the geometry? I can get emacs to start up in "the second row" by

Re: libgpc problem

1997-06-28 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> When I attempted to install libgpc2, I got the following error: > > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so (No such file or > directory), skipping > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so (No such file or > directory), skipping > > I have two questions. > > 1

Re: Re[2]: Installation 1.3 failed, returned to 1.1 and upgraded

1997-06-28 Thread Bruce Perens
Boot the rescue disk. At the boot prompt, say: boot: linux root=/dev/sda7 Does it come up with the hard disk root? > I enter >lilo -C /target/etc/lilo.conf >getting >Map segment is too big. This is a complaint about the size of /boot/boot.b, or whatever you gave as the

Kernel and upgrade question

1997-06-28 Thread Gary L. Dolan
I run 2.0.27 here, and am thinking about going to .29 or .30. As an avid reader of this group, I see occasional problems about the .30 kernel. Also, I am bound and determined to move to debian 1.3 in the near future (I will be starting a new job next week and my time will shrink dramatically.) Anyw

Re: Second Ethernet Card

1997-06-28 Thread Linux dist. research
- Chip Atkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Xi Graphics[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Denver, CO (303)298-7478 (work) On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Jun 1997 14:12:00 EDT "Lalovic, Drazen" > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I ha

Re: Second Ethernet Card

1997-06-28 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Hi, Maybe I can help. Check http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/3c509.html which talks about Linux and 3com 3c5*9 Ethercards. I just got a new version of the 3c509 driver for my card to get a fix for the 'Waiting for 3c509 to discard packet, status 2001.' nag some of you might have seen.

Re: Re[2]: Installation 1.3 failed, returned to 1.1 and upgraded

1997-06-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 26 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :Recall, I ran Debian 1.1 with few problems for 7 months. :With few problems, for months, I used numerous "bo" packages, :though evidently not the "bo" dpkg_1.*.deb package. [stuff cut] : : [I selected /dev/sda7. :But note that MY PARTITION /dev/

Strange IP address in mail header

1997-06-28 Thread John Foster
I've received some spam, and somthing in the headers made me wonder: >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun May 25 20:11:35 1997 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from mailhost.ExposeInfidelity.com (alt.ExposeInfidelity.com (206.1.562.999)) by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (8.8.5/8.6.

Re: Why is pine so slow?

1997-06-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Paul Wade wrote: > > > I get the same with smail and I'm not using a smarthost. I think it could > > be an smail or pine config thing, because you would think that smail would > > accept the mail right away and pine would contin

Re: Why is pine so slow?

1997-06-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Debian user mail wrote: > Ah, the wonders of sendmail. > > > In your /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: > > # default delivery mode > O DeliveryMode=background > > becomes > > # default delivery mode > O DeliveryMode=deferred Hmm, this one might be the answer for me. The thing

[Q] How to create a FTP only account...

1997-06-28 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
How do I create a FTP only account in my machine? I do not want this account to be telnettable (ie. a shell account). Iam running wu_ftp on my linux machine. I also have to do this on a machine running Solaris. This other machine is running Solaris' built-in ftpd. Would I be able to achieve th

Re: message problems...

1997-06-28 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, dpk wrote: > But I have also just realized that my cdrom device doesn't exist: > > Jun 25 18:05:44 brainiac kernel: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, > channel 0, id 3, lun 0 > Jun 25 18:05:44 brainiac kernel: scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom

Re: [Q] How to create a FTP only account...

1997-06-28 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> How do I create a FTP only account in my machine? I do not want this > account to be telnettable (ie. a shell account). Iam running wu_ftp on > my linux machine. I also have to do this on a machine running Solaris. > This other machine is running Solaris' built-in ftpd. Would I be able > to

Re: [Q] How to create a FTP only account...

1997-06-28 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Alex Yukhimets wrote: > > How do I create a FTP only account in my machine? I do not want this > > account to be telnettable (ie. a shell account). Iam running wu_ftp on > > my linux machine. I also have to do this on a machine running Solaris. > > This other machine is running Solaris' built-i

Re: libgpc problem

1997-06-28 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 26 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I attempted to install libgpc2, I got the following error: > > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so (No such file or > directory), skipping > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/lib

Re: Best Strategy to install Debian 1.3 - partitioning matters

1997-06-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > The same in my case too. Ideally, I would like to have seperate > partitions for /, /usr, /usr/local, /home and /root. One wants to > maintain a clean machine. ;-) The md-layout-mini-howto (or something with a similar name) has some fine

turning off idle IDE drive

1997-06-28 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Hi. I noticed recent discussion on how to spin off idle SCSI hard drive. Could anyone point me to some information on how to do it with IDE drives? Thanks. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ | _ 7 ''' \(") (O O) / \

Two Ethernet Cards

1997-06-28 Thread Lalovic, Drazen

master.debian.org down?

1997-06-28 Thread Victor Torrico

Apple Personal LaserWriter (serial non-PS) printer...

1997-06-28 Thread Dan Hugo

xemacs with auctex

1997-06-28 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes

gdb problem with core

1997-06-28 Thread Fumiaki Kamiya

man permissions

1997-06-28 Thread Peter S Galbraith
After installing 1.3, man failed to work for ordinary users: > man bash man: can't create a temporary filename: No such file or directory The permissions on /tmp were: drwxr-xr-t 4 root root 1024 Jun 25 16:47 tmp so I changed them to: drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1024

Problem with scalable fonts

1997-06-28 Thread Antonio M. Roldan

Re: Second Ethernet Card

1997-06-28 Thread Leslie Mikesell

Re: help with dselect again plz

1997-06-28 Thread joost witteveen
> Do you want to install the files fetched [y]: > Installing files... > (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing > debian/stable/binary-i386/x11/float > bg_1.0-6.deb (--install): > files list file for package `mgetty-fax' contains empty filename > Errors were encountered while processing: >

Re: color_xterm and xfm, where are they?

1997-06-28 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 25 Jun, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Well, I also have a problem with colors in "xterm"s. > I get a colored "ls" with .Xresorces set up like you say, > but how can other programms display their colorings in xterm. > > For example: I am using mutt for my e-mail. > It is configured to colorize cit

Re: scsi controllers, bsd file system

1997-06-28 Thread Paul Wade
On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: > a-hah! I've gotten somewhere--but it's not good. > > Once I connected the three scsi devices, I found that it finds all 3. > But . . . The last device in the list does not get a /dev/srX entry. > Thus with jus a cd and a zip in the chain, the cd gets on

Re: How compile telnet like Debian telnet?

1997-06-28 Thread joost witteveen
> > I have 2 machines, on the first I'm using Debian and on the other, > a linux that I had compiled everthing, without using pre-compiled packages. > In the second machine (not Debian), when I use /usr/bin/telnet in a xterm > and do a ls -l /usr/lib in the remote machine (Every action that

Re: Problem with mtab?

1997-06-28 Thread joost witteveen
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > This is what I have in my /etc/init.d/boot, version [..] > rm -f /etc/mtab~ /etc/nologin [..] > So according to this, /etc/init.d/boot should take care of removing > /etc/mtab~ during the boot. That'll solve the problem, but not the caus

Re: Problem with mtab?

1997-06-28 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
This is what I have in my /etc/init.d/boot, version @(#)boot 2.10 26-Apr-1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [cut] # # Remount rootfs rw (default), but do not try to change mtab because it # is on a ro fs until the remount succeeded. Then clean up old mtabs and # finally write the new mtab. #

Network Audio System problems

1997-06-28 Thread Marc Saric
Hi all, Finaly I have managed to get XPilot running with sound, recompiling it with the NCD-Sound-option and Network Audio System (NAS) V1.2 P4 (according to the auinfo readout), which is available as Debian-package. Unfortunately NAS does not have a good sound quality, there are always errors wh

Re: man permissions

1997-06-28 Thread joost witteveen
> > After installing 1.3, man failed to work for ordinary users: > > > man bash > man: can't create a temporary filename: No such file or directory > > The permissions on /tmp were: > drwxr-xr-t 4 root root 1024 Jun 25 16:47 tmp > > so I changed them to: > drwxrwxrwt 2 root

setting desktops with fvwm2

1997-06-28 Thread Randy Edwards
I've been happily running fvwm2 for the past few weeks but one thing seems a bit strange. I've modified my Xsession file to open up the rxvt windows and a couple of other things (e.g. xarclock, xbiff, etc.) that I want opened when X starts. The problem I have is with the pager. These thing

Re: Dat vs. Travan

1997-06-28 Thread Tommy Lakofski
I use an old 2/4 GB DAT... apparently, this oldest of DAT incarnations is about the same speed as a Travan 4/8 (about 500kb/s for a SCSI travan). However... the newest DATs are pretty incredible. I recently used a DDS-3 Sony SDT-9000 that has 12/24 capacity (and it really did compress 2x, even whe

Re: Why is pine so slow?

1997-06-28 Thread Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro
>I use Debian 1.2/Linux 2.0.29 and the Pine 3.96 package. >But, when I send mail with it, it is very slow (it takes about 1 ou 2 >minutes to send a message). Could it be that the connection with the mail server is slow? If you are on a dial-up and you are using POP3, depending on the spee

Re: scsi controllers, bsd file system

1997-06-28 Thread Stephen Zander
Rick Hawkins wrote: > > a-hah! I've gotten somewhere--but it's not good. > > Once I connected the three scsi devices, I found that it finds all 3. > But . . . The last device in the list does not get a /dev/srX entry. > Thus with jus a cd and a zip in the chain, the cd gets one, but not the > zi

Re: Why is pine so slow?

1997-06-28 Thread Shaya Potter
On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro wrote: > >I use Debian 1.2/Linux 2.0.29 and the Pine 3.96 package. > >But, when I send mail with it, it is very slow (it takes about 1 ou 2 > >minutes to send a message). > > Could it be that the connection with the mail server is slow? If >

Problem with mtab?

1997-06-28 Thread Sylvain Briole
Hello all, I use Debian 1.2/Linux 2.0.29. I have three partitions on my hard disk : /dev/hda1 : linux /dev/hda2 : linux swap /dev/hda3 : ms-dos 6.22 And I have a problem with the mount command : nathalie# mount /hda3/ can't lock lock file /etc/mtab~: timed out So, I delete /etc/mtab~ and it ru

Why is pine so slow?

1997-06-28 Thread Sylvain Briole
Hello all, I use Debian 1.2/Linux 2.0.29 and the Pine 3.96 package. But, when I send mail with it, it is very slow (it takes about 1 ou 2 minutes to send a message). I thank you in advance for your answer(s), Sylvain. Sylvain Briole | SysOp d'Eclice B.B.S. EMail InterNe

ncurses3.4

1997-06-28 Thread Roy C Bixler
I have a system with the 'hamm' hierarchy packages installed. Several of the packages, including important ones like 'gdb' depend on 'ncurses3.4' but I cannot find this anywhere. I wonder why 'ncurses3.4' is not included in 'hamm'. Any pointers or workarounds anyone? Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: man permissions

1997-06-28 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote > After installing 1.3, man failed to work for ordinary users: > > > man bash > man: can't create a temporary filename: No such file or directory > > The permissions on /tmp were: > drwxr-xr-t 4 root root 1024 Jun 25 16:47 tmp > > so I changed them to: > drwxrwxrwt

Re: Why is pine so slow?

1997-06-28 Thread Paul Wade
On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Shaya Potter wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro wrote: > > > >I use Debian 1.2/Linux 2.0.29 and the Pine 3.96 package. > > >But, when I send mail with it, it is very slow (it takes about 1 ou 2 > > >minutes to send a message). > > > > Could it be

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-06-28 Thread joost witteveen
> I have a system with the 'hamm' hierarchy packages installed. Several of > the packages, including important ones like 'gdb' depend on 'ncurses3.4' > but I cannot find this anywhere. I wonder why 'ncurses3.4' is not > included in 'hamm'. Any pointers or workarounds anyone? ncurses3.4 is in "i

hope to see ML to be included in future.

1997-06-28 Thread sca . bbs
Hi, I'm looking forward to seeing these softwares to be included in the future distributions of Debian. SML/NJ, Standard ML of New Jersey. O'Caml, Objective Caml. thanks -mlt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mai

Spam filtering and mailagent

1997-06-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, There are some sites that update a list of spammers addresses quite regularily, and I use that to filter out all the junk that by all reports is increasingly evident. I run two scripts weekly through cron to grab the lists (the listing are given below). I have mailagent the

Re: Why is pine so slow?

1997-06-28 Thread Joey Hess
Paul Wade: > I get the same with smail and I'm not using a smarthost. I think it could > be an smail or pine config thing, because you would think that smail would > accept the mail right away and pine would continue. Makes me think that it > makes an initial delivery attempt at the time. I know th

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