Re: make-kpkg problem

1997-07-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Yes, this is th expected behaviour. make-kpkg clean should always be done before building a new kernel, and make-kpkg makes sure to always re-institute the include/asm link during the build. make-kpkg dep is not required (it is not a valid argument anyway). Why wou

Re: Linux Journal "Reader's Choice Awards"

1997-07-18 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Ralph Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > That jibes with the O'Reilly article; apache 60%, Netscape ~25%??, MS > ~10%, the rest <7%. http://www.netcraft.co.uk/survey/ has the numbers. Not statistics, numbers: Netcraft looks at about 1.3 million servers each month. The most important numbers are below

Re: MS-DOS CR & directory/file timestamping

1997-07-18 Thread Ralph Winslow
David Oswald wrote: > > Hello all , > > I have a network of users here running NT and these users write > various > files out to a Debian box running Samba. These files are then served up > by an appache web server running on the same Debian machine. > > 2 QUESTIONS: > > 1) I n

Re: Dialup server setup HOWTO?

1997-07-18 Thread Kevin Traas
> Stupid question: Never! Or I'd be a fool I know there's a HOWTO or something for this, but it's > Friday and I'm brain dead. I have a 486 with an Equinox card and > some RealHighTech Prac modems. The modems work, the multiport card > works, as I can dialout. Now I want to dialin and

Re: Linux Journal "Reader's Choice Awards"

1997-07-18 Thread Ralph Winslow
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: > > > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > > This calls to mind a survey I read by O'Reilly at www.ora.com regarding > > web-crawling to find out various facts about usage/trends. At one point > > he broke down what powers various web si

Re: kernel compile using libc6

1997-07-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I'm afraid I don't quite understand your question. The kernel does nothing special for libc6 dependent stuff. As long as you have the shared library installed, the executables that depend on them will work, even with older kernels. The kernel has nothing to do with the loca

Re: Year 2000

1997-07-18 Thread Ralph Winslow
Syd Alsobrook wrote: > > Just a curious question, does anyone know if linux in general and Debian in > particular are year 2000 compliant? We're OK until 2017 (and since I'll surely have a 64-bit system by then, 'til hell freezes over) for 32-bit systems. > > It would be a shame if we came down

Re: sendmail vs smail

1997-07-18 Thread Randy Edwards
On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, jr wrote: > why Debian recomend install smail and not sendmail? I think it's primarily because smail is so much easier to configure. I originally set up smail and found it quite easy to deal with. Just this week, however, I had to install sendmail to get a particular app

Re: sendmail vs smail

1997-07-18 Thread George Bonser
sendmail has a different security hole every week, smail has not. Smail works EASILLY with UUCP, sendmail is more difficult, particularly when you are trying to manage routing in a large network. For the vast majority of cases, smail is much MUCH easier to configure and a lot easier to follow fr

sendmail vs smail

1997-07-18 Thread jr
why Debian recomend install smail and not sendmail? bye -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

16 bit color for X

1997-07-18 Thread jr
I install Debian 1.3.1 today (i use Red Hat before) and when I start X whitn "startx" all its OK. But when I wnat more color depth, I use "startx -- -bpp 16" but then my screen are flicking and the resolution down very much (much like EGA card)why? what can i do? I have an S3 Trio64 and I d

qpopper

1997-07-18 Thread jr
Hi today I had installed qpopper and when I want download the mail from that server , the Netscape mail allways say this error message: Coul not log in the POP3 server The server respond: Access is blocked for UIDs below 10 what is the problem? what can i do to resolve it? thanks -- TO UNSUB

adduser problem

1997-07-18 Thread Partha Narasimhan
After various combinations of adduser arguments, this is the most I have progressed through the process of adding a user. -- # adduser --gid 100 --uid 1001 xx Adding user xx... Adding new user xx (1001) with group CNC. useradd -d /home/xx -g CNC -s /bin/bash -u 1001 xx Home directory

Switching mouse buttons and multiple pointers?

1997-07-18 Thread Brian K Servis
I have a M$ 2-btn PS/2 mouse. When using cut and paste in X I have to click the L & R button simultaneously to paste. I would like to click the R button to paste as with gpm on the tty's. Can I switch this around? Or is my only solution to buy a 3-btn mouse? Related question: Is it possible

group permission & nethack

1997-07-18 Thread Rick Hawkins
I know i've solved this problem before, but . . . I"m trying to run nethack. however, i get repsonses to hte effect of No write permission to lock /var/lib/games/nethack/perm! checking the permissions, 0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root games 0 May 27 02:02 logfile 0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 r

re:"ALT" key doesn't work in X, affecting emacs especially.

1997-07-18 Thread Todd Harper
> The ALT key in X11 isn't working right. I have just installed XFree86, the > SVGA server for the Matrox Millenium (4MB WRAM), and I am not sure what I > did or didn't do, or could have done to make this key work right. Is it the > Keyboard setup in the installation of the Debian system? Is it

supported serial cards?

1997-07-18 Thread Lukas Eppler
Hi, Does somebody know a good serial card with at least eight ports, which is simple to set up with Debian? Thanks, -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch telnet://soil.fear.ch:

libc5_5.4.33-5_i386.deb

1997-07-18 Thread Paul Miller
I'm having trouble upgrading to -5 from -3 ... here is my output: # ldconfig # dpkg -i libc5_5.4.33-5_i386.deb (Reading database ... 13971 files and directories currently installed) Preparing to replace libc5 5.4.33-3 (using lib5_5.4.33-5_i386.deb) Unpacking replacement libc5 ... Setting up libc5

Re: How to find programs provided by package?

1997-07-18 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Christopher Ray Martin wrote: > Is there any way to get dpkg to tell you what files were in a package if > you don't have the .deb archive? For example, I installed mctools-lite a > long time ago, but I have no idea what programs were provided, and the > documentation is VERY

Re: make-kpkg problem

1997-07-18 Thread Buddha Buck
> > I extracted kernel-source-2.0.30_2.0.30-7.deb so that I can home-brew a > kernel. There is a problem in that when I do a "make-kpkg clean" it > actually does a "make mrproper" and amongst other things I lose my > include/asm link. A "make clean" works as expected. What include/asm link? If

Dialup server setup HOWTO?

1997-07-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
Stupid question: I know there's a HOWTO or something for this, but it's Friday and I'm brain dead. I have a 486 with an Equinox card and some RealHighTech Prac modems. The modems work, the multiport card works, as I can dialout. Now I want to dialin and do proxy ARP and all that good stuff. Wh

Re:Re: dselect through a firewall?

1997-07-18 Thread Linh Dang
>> "spotter" == spotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: spotter> Just remember, many people can use dpkg-ftp through a firewall if spotter> their proxy is a 2 step procedure+password. All you do is tell spotter> dselect to ftp to the firewall. Then set it to respond with The proxy of my com

xterm error (fwd)

1997-07-18 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi folks, my friend gets this error when starting an xterm session. No other X programs gives him any trouble. We have reinstalled the xterm program from /usr/X11R6/bin and that it does not do any good. He installed libc5_4.0.33 but that did not fix the problem and we installed the latest loc

Kernel Compiled (at last)

1997-07-18 Thread David Densmore
Thanks to the readers of debian-user I have successfully recompiled my kernel. Thank you to all who responded to my pleas, I couldn't have done it without your help. I am getting a message during boot that I don't understand: WARNING: no modules present for this kernel in place of the loading m

Re: Netscape 3.01 off-line

1997-07-18 Thread schizo
> mosaic Does anyone know what happened to the Hyperion project? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Netscape 3.01 off-line

1997-07-18 Thread Rick Hawkins
> I know that I've used Netscape 3.01 off-line before to read documents... > now whenever I try to run it while not connected to my ISP, it simply > hangs. One time it even locked out my other X apps.. I had to kill the > server. > Something must have changed in my setup, but I don't know what t

Lilo question

1997-07-18 Thread Kevin J Poorman
I have a 240mb hard drive and a 850mb hard drive in my computer. I have my partions set up like this hda1 dos 210mb (soon to be open dos) hda2 boot for linux 10mb hda3 swap for linux 20mb hdc1 ext2 root partion for linux(850mb) now I was told by a friend to do my partions this way after I mov

installing hamm from scratch

1997-07-18 Thread Paul Miller
after installing the base system and dselect loads what do I do? I've already downloaded libc6*i386.deb, ncurses3.4*i386.deb, and libreadlineg2*i386.deb... what order to I install these dpkg -i libc6_2.0.4...i386.deb ?? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscri

Netscape 3.01 off-line

1997-07-18 Thread Christopher Ray Martin
I know that I've used Netscape 3.01 off-line before to read documents... now whenever I try to run it while not connected to my ISP, it simply hangs. One time it even locked out my other X apps.. I had to kill the server. Something must have changed in my setup, but I don't know what to look for

Debian doesn't like my SCSI controller!

1997-07-18 Thread Andrew Tipton
I am having difficulty installing Debian. It boots up, and does the screens of the hardware info, and it gets to the SCSI part. It detects my SCSI card(DTC3280), and the 2 hard drives and the cd-rom drive hooked up to it. It then sends a few commands to it(I think), and the system locks up. The har

Re: How to Make fvwm2 "ClickToFocus"

1997-07-18 Thread Stephen Witt
> Shaya Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I make fvwm2 "ClickToFocus" instead of having the > focus follow the mouse. It should be easier to tell which > files do what in /etc/X11/fvwm2, that it is. > In my ~/.fvwm2rc file there is a section on Focus Setup that I include below:

Re: How to find programs provided by package?

1997-07-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Christopher Ray Martin wrote: > > Is there any way to get dpkg to tell you what files were in a package if > you don't have the .deb archive? For example, I installed mctools-lite a > long time ago, but I have no idea what programs were provided, and the > documentation is VE

Re: Where is xmkmf?

1997-07-18 Thread Shaya Potter
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Jason Ish wrote: > > After reinstalling Debian last night (I did a fresh 1.3.1 install) with > XFree86 I can't figure it what I am missing that hold the program xmkmf. It > has always been there before (so I didn't know which package specifically > holds it). > It's in

Where is xmkmf?

1997-07-18 Thread Jason Ish
After reinstalling Debian last night (I did a fresh 1.3.1 install) with XFree86 I can't figure it what I am missing that hold the program xmkmf. It has always been there before (so I didn't know which package specifically holds it). Could anyone tell me which package I need to get this file.

(Solved) How to check integrity of .deb files

1997-07-18 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, At 03:37 PM 7/17/97 -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: >You can use md5sums to verify their integrity. There is a list of the >correct checksum values in the indices directory of the archive that you >can use to compare with the values that md5sum gives for the packages. As Dwarf suggested, I used t

Re: How to find programs provided by package?

1997-07-18 Thread Shaya Potter
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Christopher Ray Martin wrote: > > Is there any way to get dpkg to tell you what files were in a package if > you don't have the .deb archive? For example, I installed mctools-lite a > long time ago, but I have no idea what programs were provided, and the > documentation is VE

How to find programs provided by package?

1997-07-18 Thread Christopher Ray Martin
Is there any way to get dpkg to tell you what files were in a package if you don't have the .deb archive? For example, I installed mctools-lite a long time ago, but I have no idea what programs were provided, and the documentation is VERY sparse... Thanks, Chris. Chris R. Martin email: [

How to Make fvwm2 "ClickToFocus"

1997-07-18 Thread Shaya Potter
How can I make fvwm2 "ClickToFocus" instead of having the focus follow the mouse. It should be easier to tell which files do what in /etc/X11/fvwm2, that it is. Thanks, Shaya -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [E

obsolete package base

1997-07-18 Thread Christopher Ray Martin
I notice I have a package installed called "base 1.1.0-14" and it is considered "obsolete" by dselect. However, "dpkg --remove base" doesn't work, it says it's an essential package. Do I need to remove this package? How can I do it? Thanks, Chris. Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Mail Archives Stopped?

1997-07-18 Thread Guy Maor
Mail is being archived again. I inadvertantly left the crontab entry commented out while I was away. Bugs in glimpse are still keeping me from getting the search engine fully working. I want to use 4.0B1 as it has some useful features. I'll keep debugging it. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Segmentfaults in post-inst scripts when upgrading to hamm

1997-07-18 Thread Paul Miller
most of the important programs/libs are having segmentfaults when I try to install them in the post-inst script. libc6, libreadlineg2, bash2.01, etc.. what can I do? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: Year 2000 and samba...

1997-07-18 Thread Douglas Bates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Baetzler) writes: > James C. Carr wrote: > : As far as I've been told, though I haven't actually tried it, > :the Linux kernel functions up to the year 2037. How that works, I'm > :not entirely sure... > > The Unix timestamp is represented as time_t, which is usuall

Re: FIC PA2011 Board (Was: Debian for PPC Macs)

1997-07-18 Thread Rick Hawkins
> > it looks like waiting for the hot 603 is worth it--if you can wait. > What kind of board is this and how long I have to wait? It is an amd640 chipset board. The webpage (http://www.shuttlela.com/603.html) claims late july. It will support 1mb of cache ram, bus rates of 83mhz, and cache 256

Re: Are their networking changes in regard to 2.1.* kernels?

1997-07-18 Thread Philippe Troin
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997 10:11:28 EDT Shaya Potter ([EMAIL PROTECTED] l) wrote: > I just got a chance to get a spare machine to try out the 2.1 series > kernels, well I decided to go with 2.1.45, and everything seems to work > ok, except that when ever I boot up, I get the error > > SIOCADDRT: Invali

Re: Problems with Debian 1.3 new installation and ThinkPad 365XD.

1997-07-18 Thread Rob Browning
"Timothy J. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm attempting a new install on the ThinkPad 365XD w/800x600 > display, 40Mb RAM, CDROM and external floppy; at boot, the system reports > root.bin loaded, then linux, then it simply halts. I had this problem recently. Turned out that the T

Re: Newbie Question

1997-07-18 Thread Rob Browning
Emilio Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Edit the file /etc/group to > put yourself in. I have something like: Or just run "adduser ecl floppy" as root. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTE

New Install 1.3.1: /etc/init.d/xdm empty

1997-07-18 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I installed Debian 1.3.1 on a new machine and I found two problems: 1. After installing xbase and the SVGA server, the file /etc/X11/xdm/Xserver refers to /usr/X11/X11R6/bin/X (or something like this, I don't recall well). The right name should be /usr/bin/X11/X. 2. /etc/init.d/xdm is emp

Re: is awk working?

1997-07-18 Thread Dima
>>Dima wrote: >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... >>If I use awk --re-interval, it should accept reg-expr like [0-9]{5} to mean >>"five numbers in row" (a reg-expr definition of ZIP code?), but it doesn't. ... Interval expressions ... ... are requested with this option, or when >

Re: "ALT" key doesn't work in X, affecting emacs especially.

1997-07-18 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> The ALT key in X11 isn't working right. I use xmodmap to set it up: Here's my ~/.Xmodmap bit of file to get the left ALT key to be a Meta key: clear mod1 keycode 64=Meta_L add mod1 = Meta_L -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, D

Re: bash 2.01

1997-07-18 Thread Brian K Servis
Jens B. Jorgensen writes: > >Hong Huang wrote: >> >> BG Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> bash 2.01 is in the Incoming directory of master.debian.org. However, it's >> compiled against libc6. If you still stay with bo (1.3.1), you'll have to >> grab the debianized source codes, make necessary

Re: Enlightment packaging

1997-07-18 Thread Lalo Martins
On Jul 14, Kevin M. Bealer wrote > Amos Shapira wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I though I saw that someone was packaging the Enlightment window manager > >(http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~s2154962/enlightenment, US mirror at > >http://www.kickit.org/enlightenment/), but I can't find it in > >hamm's Packages list

Re: /etc/issue file

1997-07-18 Thread Brian K Servis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> I want to add a clear screen character to the beginning of the /etc/issue >> file instead of having a clear command in the .bash_logout... I think it >> is ^L... how can I add this character with emacs? >> >I'm not sure how you would do it in Emacs - I use vi (actuall

x question

1997-07-18 Thread Paul McDermott
hi folks, I got xfee86 3.2 on my system and xdm running. How can I setup x to run remote x-servers on other debian machines. there was a file in/etc/X11/Xsession which i have set so that anybody can use the xserver. What else do i need to do? thanks in advance. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: MS-DOS CR & directory/file timestamping

1997-07-18 Thread Ingo Fischenich
David Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 1) I need to remove the ^m found at the end of each file that is > created by those rotten NT users. If in vi I issue a "%s/^M//g I do > remove the ^m but the file system is becoming too large to do this by > hand. > Can someone please as

Re: installing/upgrading to hamm

1997-07-18 Thread Douglas Bates
Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I install hamm from scratch (I just installed 1.3.1 > yesterday)? I downloaded ncurses3.4-*.deb, is there anything else I > need which isn't where is should be (unstable dirs)? I apologize for bringing up what I expect is an old thread but I have

Re: cua vs ttyS and diald

1997-07-18 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997 14:50:26 +0100, Alan Hyde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I don't have any ttyS0 device. Therefore how do I setup a ttyS0 > device for dialing out? Run /dev/MAKEDEV ttyS0 as root. -- Roderick Schertler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: bash 2.01

1997-07-18 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Hong Huang wrote: > > BG Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've noticed that both bo and hamm have bash as bash 2.0 > > > > I download bash 2.01 sources from the homepage. Then I tried to compile it, > > but I didn't know what modifications to make. > > > > Anyway, the result is that compiled

Re: "ALT" key doesn't work in X, affecting emacs especially.

1997-07-18 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The ALT key in X11 isn't working right. I have just installed XFree86, the > SVGA server for the Matrox Millenium (4MB WRAM), and I am not sure what I > did or didn't do, or could have done to make this key work right. Is it the > Keyboard setup in the installation o

MS-DOS CR & directory/file timestamping

1997-07-18 Thread David Oswald
Hello all , I have a network of users here running NT and these users write various files out to a Debian box running Samba. These files are then served up by an appache web server running on the same Debian machine. 2 QUESTIONS: 1) I need to remove the ^m found at the end of eac

Re: security concern

1997-07-18 Thread stick
Howdy, Cheng! > > Someone has break in my machine (Debian 1.3) and > write a file in my home dir. There is no trace > in utmp and wtmp file. In dameon.log and syslog > file, there two seems to be like this: > Sorry to hear that your system has been compromised! One of the first things I'd do i

Out of town.

1997-07-18 Thread Dale Scheetz
I will be out of town and out of e-mail contact for the period between 19 and 26 July. So, if you see a posting from me during this period, it is probably someone else pretending to be me ;-) (Why they would see an advantage in doing so is beyond me.) Later, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_-

Re: cua vs ttyS and diald

1997-07-18 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Alan Hyde wrote: > If I understand these device details correctly, the ttyS devices are > setup for incoming calls (denoted by the 4) and the cua devices for > outgoing calls (denoted by the 5). I don't have any ttyS0 device. > > Therefore

Re: compiling ftools on debian machine

1997-07-18 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Debian email wrote: > I have tried changing "-ltermcap" to "-lncurses", but get: > > ld: cannot open -lncurses: No such file or directory Quick check, do you have the ncurses-dev package installed? - -- |Yo

Re: ssh

1997-07-18 Thread Mark Boyns
18 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I know this isn't related to debian, but I do run ssh on my Debian machine > and was hoping some other users out there encountered this... > > When I ssh onto machine, it displays the motd twice... any particular > reason why? You might want to set P

Re: IFCONFIG - help!

1997-07-18 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote: > How can I configure several IP addresses in just one network interface? Is > there some parameter on ifconfig? Here's the script I use for virtual hosts. Make sure your kernel either supports ip_alias, or you have built ip_alias.o. I wrote it, an

Re: /etc/issue file

1997-07-18 Thread Shaya Potter
Open up the file in vi. Then at the first letter go into insert mode. Type ctrl-v (this allows escape codes to be literally entered) then press escape, then c. so you should have something that looks like ^[cDebian HTH, Shaya On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > I know this doesn't tot

Re: dselect through a firewall?

1997-07-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: : :On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Shaya Potter wrote: : :> Just remember, many people can use dpkg-ftp through a firewall if their :> proxy is a 2 step procedure+password. All you do is tell dselect to ftp :> to the firewall. Then set it to respond with [EMAIL P

Are their networking changes in regard to 2.1.* kernels?

1997-07-18 Thread Shaya Potter
I just got a chance to get a spare machine to try out the 2.1 series kernels, well I decided to go with 2.1.45, and everything seems to work ok, except that when ever I boot up, I get the error SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument When the /etc/init.d/network script is run to ifconfig the ethernet device

Re: /etc/issue file

1997-07-18 Thread stick
Hello, Paul. > > I know this doesn't totally relate to Debian... > Not everything on this list needs to be strictly Debian related. Many people get their first contact with Linux/*nix via Debian, so these questions are expected. > I want to add a clear screen character to the beginning of the

Re: FIC PA2011 Board (Was: Debian for PPC Macs)

1997-07-18 Thread Dean Carpenter
> On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: > > > I'm leaving in a few days for a workshop, so I'll buy second week of > > august. If the "Hot 603" motherboard is out, and reasonably priced, > What about this motherboard? I read a lot about board but never heard > about it. > > > i'll try for on

Re: update-rc.d didn't work...

1997-07-18 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Mathieu Legrand wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to install Debian Linux 1.3.1. I already installed Debian 1.2 > and now I want to do a totally new installation. This new revision has a > really good installation system, but I have two problems: > > - first of all, a ma

Re: FIC PA2011 Board (Was: Debian for PPC Macs)

1997-07-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jul 18, 1997 at 08:11:50AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: > > > it looks like waiting for the hot 603 is worth it--if you can wait. > What kind of board is this and how long I have to wait? Personally, I have a Shuttle HOT-553 and I can't imagine wa

Re: perl script

1997-07-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jul 17, 1997 at 10:40:45PM -0700, Mike Schmitz wrote: > I don't have pico, and usually use only vim. Vim showed no ^M's so I was > fairly satisfied that they did not exist. I started looking at the file > in other editors on my system, ae & xedit, ae showed none, but xedit saw > them big a

Re: IFCONFIG - help!

1997-07-18 Thread Lindsay Allen
There is a good section on this in /usr/doc/HOWTO/NET-3-HOWTO.gz, section 6.11. It explains things much better than I could. If necessary I can mail you a copy. Lindsay =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perth, Western Au

update-rc.d didn't work...

1997-07-18 Thread Mathieu Legrand
Hello, I'm trying to install Debian Linux 1.3.1. I already installed Debian 1.2 and now I want to do a totally new installation. This new revision has a really good installation system, but I have two problems: - first of all, a major problem. /usr/sbin/update-rc.d doesn't work and then I

IFCONFIG - help!

1997-07-18 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Hi; How can I configure several IP addresses in just one network interface? Is there some parameter on ifconfig? Thanx Bruno -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: 3com 3c59x.o module for Kernel 2.0.29

1997-07-18 Thread David M
Hello Allen, I guess will be in "interactive mode" :-) After rebboting once again I do get some output from modprobe -v 3c59x.o: /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.0.29/net/3c59x.o /lib/modules/2.0.29/net/3c59x.o: unresolved symbol register_netd ev_R24876de2 /lib/modules/2.0.29/net/3c59x

cua vs ttyS and diald

1997-07-18 Thread Alan Hyde
Firstly as a lurker on this list for the past 4 months thanks for all the help and tips! I'm currently trying to setup diald. My current ISP connection is done using pon/poff/chatscript etc via cua0. Reading various notes on the mailing list I get the impression I should be using ttyS0 not cua0.

Re: 3com 3c59x.o module for Kernel 2.0.29

1997-07-18 Thread David M
Hi again! nearly there... :-) ok> # cd / ok> # tar -zxvf /tmp/3com_tar.gz ok> # depmod -va A listing of the modules is displayed. ok> # modprobe -v 3c59x.o Nothing happens. I assume this is a good sign... > The last step should initialize your card. If it works, do a > ko> # rmmod 3c59x.o

Re: Xfree86-3.3 and S3V

1997-07-18 Thread Johnny Stevenson
Bob Clark wrote: > > A couple of months ago I convinced a friend > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to change over from slackware to debian; > and in turn convinced some other people to do the same. He > was impressed (as I knew he would be) with debian until... > he upgraded to Xfree-3.3, now X no longer wor

Re: TKDesk: insufficient resources for operation

1997-07-18 Thread Johnny Stevenson
Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Carlos Marcos Kakihara wrote: > > > Hi, I'm using tkdesk_1.0b1-1.deb and I'm getting the following > > errors: > > [stress]:~$ tkdesk & > > [1] 745 > > [stress]:~$ X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient > resources for > > operation) > > Major opco

Re: dselect through a firewall?

1997-07-18 Thread Shaya Potter
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > > On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > > > Wish I knew that back when I was behind the thing :> Anyhow, if I have the > > time I might add an option for those kind of firewalls.. > > I know in my case (ANS Interlock) it didn't work

Re: Where's zImage

1997-07-18 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> David Densmore wrote: > > > > After executing the command make zImage, I cannot find zImage. > > > > Here are the last 6 lines of screen output from make zImage. Is this > > of any significance? > > > > make[1]: Entering directory > > `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.30/arch/i386/boot' > > as86 -0

kernel compile using libc6

1997-07-18 Thread Victor Torrico
Hello, How does one compile a kernel that supports libc6 dependent packages using kernel-package v-3.5 ? Or else if not using kernel-package, how does one do this? I'm using packages with libc6 dependencies now and for the most part they seem to work OK except for the locales package which choke

Re: 3Com Fast Etherlink XL

1997-07-18 Thread David M
Hello Jonh, > I did it by getting the 3c59x.c file and just compiling it > using the compile line shown at the bottom of the file. > Then I copied the 3c59x.o file to /lib/modules//net/3c59x.o > (copying original out of way) > and rebooting. thanks for your prompt reply. As I mentioned to Thoma

Re: 3Com Fast Etherlink XL

1997-07-18 Thread David M
Dear Thomas, > Well, get the kernel-source package aswell as the kernel-package. Install > both, then go to /usr/src/linux/drivers/net and replace the file 3c59x.c > with the patched version you obtained from Donald Becker's page. In > /usr/src/linux, do a make menuconfig to run the kernel config

XFree86 3.3 and ATI Mach64

1997-07-18 Thread David R. Kohel
I've got an ATI Mach64 card (ATI 264CT chipset) which was configured correctly under XFree86 3.2. Now under the highest resolution (1024x768) it displays shadowed traces of the window as I move it -- two prominant resonances can be seen shifted about 1 and 2 cm to the right, but horizontal lin

"ALT" key doesn't work in X, affecting emacs especially.

1997-07-18 Thread adavis
The ALT key in X11 isn't working right. I have just installed XFree86, the SVGA server for the Matrox Millenium (4MB WRAM), and I am not sure what I did or didn't do, or could have done to make this key work right. Is it the Keyboard setup in the installation of the Debian system? Is it xterm?

Success installing Debian from CDROM

1997-07-18 Thread adavis
I was able to successfully install Linux from a bootable CDROM, without a serious hitch. The system is Debian 1.3.0, installed from a two CD set from Paul Wade. I did not have to install MSDOG at all. The installation went almost flawlessly. Debian's installation frontend has been cleaned up

Re: Year 2000 and samba...

1997-07-18 Thread Thomas Baetzler
James C. Carr wrote: : As far as I've been told, though I haven't actually tried it, :the Linux kernel functions up to the year 2037. How that works, I'm :not entirely sure... The Unix timestamp is represented as time_t, which is usually a signed long value. A date is represented a the numb

Re: telneting

1997-07-18 Thread joost witteveen
> tset: terminal type linux is unknown > Terminal type? > > Sorry, you have encountered a bug in Lynx Ver. 2-4-2 > ... > ... > Lynx now exiting with signal: 11 Lynx ver 2.4.2, hey? That sounds very old. Once upon a time, many, many moons ago, I also got that "you have encountered a bug in Lynx"

Re: ssh

1997-07-18 Thread joost witteveen
> I know this isn't related to debian, but I do run ssh on my Debian machine > and was hoping some other users out there encountered this... > > When I ssh onto machine, it displays the motd twice... any particular > reason why? No, but take a look at your .bashrc and .bash_login. ssh is differ

Re: g++ won't compile. How do I fix it?

1997-07-18 Thread joost witteveen
> > How do I fix this? What's wrong? > > bash-2.00$ g++ --help > ld: warning: libm.so.5, needed by /usr/lib/libg++.so, may conflict with > libm.so.6 > /lib/libm.so.5: warning: erfl is not implemented and will always fail > /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x36): undefined reference to `main' > /lib/libm.

g++ won't compile. How do I fix it?

1997-07-18 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
How do I fix this? What's wrong? bash-2.00$ g++ --help ld: warning: libm.so.5, needed by /usr/lib/libg++.so, may conflict with libm.so.6 /lib/libm.so.5: warning: erfl is not implemented and will always fail /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x36): undefined reference to `main' /lib/libm.so.5: undefined re

Re: Where's zImage

1997-07-18 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Hi, Actually the package is called bin86 and it can be found from the devel section in both stable and unstable. Here's the description: Description: Assembler and loader for kernel compilation. This is the as86 and ld86 distribution written by Bruce Evans. It's a complete 8086 assem

Re: 3Com Fast Etherlink XL

1997-07-18 Thread David M
Hello again, I am still somewhat confused on how I actually go about installing the 3c90x.c driver... I would appreciate some help/tips or alternatively, pointers to FAQs etc where I can find more info regarding this. I have just installed Debian 1.3. I got the Rescue and Device driver's disket

make-kpkg problem

1997-07-18 Thread Lindsay Allen
I extracted kernel-source-2.0.30_2.0.30-7.deb so that I can home-brew a kernel. There is a problem in that when I do a "make-kpkg clean" it actually does a "make mrproper" and amongst other things I lose my include/asm link. A "make clean" works as expected. Is this intended? I have looked at

Re: Where's zImage

1997-07-18 Thread Paul Miller
David Densmore wrote: > > After executing the command make zImage, I cannot find zImage. > > Here are the last 6 lines of screen output from make zImage. Is this > of any significance? > > make[1]: Entering directory > `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.30/arch/i386/boot' > as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bo

telneting

1997-07-18 Thread Paul Miller
I had this problem with RedHat too.. When I telnet to my ISP, it crashes -- but *ONlY* when I do it from the console, not xterm! .. my ISP is running FreeBSD.. and heres the output: # telnet Trying ... Connected to . Escape character is '^]'. FreeBSD (ttyp0) login: Password: Last login: ...

Where's zImage

1997-07-18 Thread David Densmore
After executing the command make zImage, I cannot find zImage. Here are the last 6 lines of screen output from make zImage. Is this of any significance? make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.30/arch/i386/boot' as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s make[1]: as86: Command not found

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