Re: Bash Prompt in an XTerm

1997-07-22 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
>From: Travis Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Bash Prompt in an XTerm [snip] >This works fine when I am at the console as a normal user but as root I only >get: > >atheist# Check root's .bash_profile (and possibly .bashrc). It is probably overriding the defaul

Re: just how bad is Fortran?

1997-07-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues wrote: > Sorry, I can't resist ;-) > > fortran (77) is horrible. Well, it _was_ ok, Backus was a pioneer, etc. But we > are in the end of the '90s (and I thought only *my* profs were forcing > students to use it!) But it sure beats the Fortran

Re: HELP!! PLEASE!!

1997-07-22 Thread KillMadDog
how do I do that?!?! I need the CD-ROM to even install linux!! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re:

1997-07-22 Thread Sam92989
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Re: just how bad is Fortran?

1997-07-22 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Rick Hawkins writes: > I don't mean fortran in generall, i mean the available linux versions. >From what I've read so far, Linux fortran tools aren't exactly state of the art (as you know, chances are that gcc is going to optmize your code much better). > I'm familiar with Fortran, C, C++, etc.

Re: How Linux (and Debian) compare?

1997-07-22 Thread Jim Pick
> It'd be interesting to know how many active Debian systems there are out > there! Me too. There was some discussion on debian-private a few months ago about writing a package that would collect stats about the systems it was installed on - and send them via e-mail to a central server that w

Kudo's and Question

1997-07-22 Thread mike
First of all I would like to thank the Debian development team on another fine job done. Yesterday I took my in-production mail/pop/RADIUS server for our entire ISP (300+users small but climbing :) and upgraded to Debian 1.3.1 The upgrade was as smooth as one could imagine with only one

Re: How Linux (and Debian) compare?

1997-07-22 Thread Kevin Traas
> Also, do we have any specifics on the number of systems currently running > Debian? If so are those numbers broken down by year? Is there a way that > this sort of tracking could be automated within Debian's installation > routines? We need to blow our own horn if we can generate reliable numb

Re: just how bad is Fortran?

1997-07-22 Thread Rick Hawkins
> > fortran (77) is horrible. Well, it _was_ ok, Backus was a pioneer, etc. But we > are in the end of the '90s (and I thought only *my* profs were forcing > students to use it!) > You will be much better writing your code in ANSI C (pointers aren't difficult > once you get to know them). I don'

Re: just how bad is Fortran?

1997-07-22 Thread Norris Preyer
> "Adriano" == Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adriano> Sorry, I can't resist ;-) fortran (77) is horrible. Well, Adriano> it _was_ ok, Backus was a pioneer, etc. But we are in the Adriano> end of the '90s (and I thought only *my* profs were Adriano>

broke dpkpg files :-( help?

1997-07-22 Thread Bob Billson
Messing around with my machine this afternoon, I broke the files in /var/lib/dpkg somehow. Although the system is still intact and stable, dselect thinks nothing is installed. How do I used dpkg to rebuild the appropriate files so dselect and dpkg are happy again? I seem to remember someone aski

Re: just how bad is Fortran?

1997-07-22 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Sorry, I can't resist ;-) fortran (77) is horrible. Well, it _was_ ok, Backus was a pioneer, etc. But we are in the end of the '90s (and I thought only *my* profs were forcing students to use it!) You will be much better writing your code in ANSI C (pointers aren't difficult once you get to know

Re: News Server self-mutilation

1997-07-22 Thread Jack Holt
If you are using a pentium motherboard that has the VX, TX, or anything but the HX chipset, you can slow down your computer by as much as 5% by putting in more than 64 Mb of RAM, since VX and TX can only cache upto 64 Mb. Ths solution, either get a HX board or a board with VIA chipset. Sorry f

Re: first experience with defrag: have slight problem.

1997-07-22 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Tue, 24 Jun 1997 13:22:28 -0400 (EDT), "James D. Freels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I have installed the Debian defrag v 0.61-1 package and tried it out. > I have successfully e2defrag on sdc1, sdb2, and sdb1 by booting in > single user mode [at lilo prompt, 'linux single'], and first um

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-22 Thread Rick Hawkins
> "unreleased-1.3" and "unreleased-2.0" would be more useful and less > confusing. but not nearly so cool :) besides, this way they stay buzz, bo, hamm, etc. after release, and the symlinks for stable & unstable are just changed. rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-22 Thread jghasler
Buddha Buck writes: > It was seen that one reason for this was that someone looking at the FTP > site, seeing a directory with a numbered version would think that that > version was ready for release. A policy decision was made to name > releases while in development, and only number them when rel

EISA Setup utility for Linux?

1997-07-22 Thread Camm Maguire
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted as well. Greetings! We have an EISA system performing some increasingly critical tasks. On the rare occasion of a loss of CMOS power, the BIOS won't recognize the SCSI card controlling the root filesystem, forcing me to

Re: just how bad is Fortran?

1997-07-22 Thread Alex Romosan
we are using a combination of f2c and a package called f77reorder (available from http://www-hermes.desy.de/ww/f77prob.html) to compile fortran programs initially written on sgi's without problems. you can get both these packages in debian format by anonymous ftp from my computer, caliban.lbl.gov i

just how bad is Fortran?

1997-07-22 Thread Rick Hawkins
As i prepare to launch back into coding, is anyone familiar with just how bad the Fortran support is? or is that all a myth? I really need as much performance as I can get, and the low level stuff in c/c++ is gross overkill for my usage. The low-level stuff built into other languages took about

Re: Compiling the Kernel

1997-07-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Here follows the readme file for kernel-package, which should help creating your own kernel image deb package. manoj $Id: README,v 1.3 1997/06/25 07:33:26 srivasta Exp $ This is the Debian Linux packaging scripts for the Linux kernel. This package has been put togethe

Re: Compiling the Kernel

1997-07-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Bob" == Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bob> Install libc5-dev, which includes these files. Bob> Also, you want to (per the README which comes with the kernel Bob> source): Bob> make sure your /usr/include/asm, /usr/include/linux, and Bob> /usr/include/scsi directories are just sy

How Linux (and Debian) compare?

1997-07-22 Thread stick
Howdy all! I was recently going through some back-issues of magazines in an attempt to get "caught-up" when I ran across a little table that got me thinking. >From Lan Times' June 23, 1997 Volume 14, Issue 13: "According to International Data Corp. (IDC) shipments of Windows NT Server licenses s

mgetty, g3tolj

1997-07-22 Thread Mike Schmitz
I am using mgetty to receive faxes. I use g3tolj to put them in printable form for a HP Laserjet III. I get this error: EOF / read error at line 0 The page goes on to the printer, who complains about not having any A4 paper, and the script quits. If I hit the Continue/Reset button on the p

Re: Libc5

1997-07-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote: > Hi all > I have to install libc5-dev, but a dependency problem occurs with my > libc5 > version. While I have 5.4.23-6, dpkg askes 5.4.33-3 libc5. How can I get a > newer version of libc5.deb, for easy installation? Or can I force dpkg to > i

Libc5

1997-07-22 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Hi all I have to install libc5-dev, but a dependency problem occurs with my libc5 version. While I have 5.4.23-6, dpkg askes 5.4.33-3 libc5. How can I get a newer version of libc5.deb, for easy installation? Or can I force dpkg to install this libc5-dev anyway? How Can I do this? Thanks a

Re: bo and pcmcia installation...

1997-07-22 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Jason Costomiris wrote: > I'm trying to load 1.3.0 on a notebook. I made the boot, driver, and 5 > base diskettes. I also made a couple of ext2fs diskettes that had > pcmcia-cs_2.9.5-3, pcmcia-modules-2.0.30, and the 2.0.30 kernel-image. I fixed the problem by using pcmcia-

Re: RedHat vs Debian (was Re: Bash Prompt in an XTerm)

1997-07-22 Thread Lester P. Wang
I have converted from RedHat to Debian. RedHat is very nice if you don't want to look at writing your own scripts. The configuration tools are very nice; however, I had to edit them by hand with an editor to make them work correctly after a version upgrade. I still have a RedHat system for Appli

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-22 Thread Shaleh
Having missed the movies I missed the joke. Thanks for the explanation. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Dialup server setup HOWTO?

1997-07-22 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Nathan E Norman, you wrote: > > 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

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-22 Thread Buddha Buck
> What is bo? hamm? Could someone explain these naming conventions to me, > please. > Bo is a code name for the Debian 1.3 release. Hamm is a code name for the Debian 2.0 release, currently in development. Some time ago, Debian ran into a problem when a not-quite-ready development version of

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-22 Thread Rick Hawkins
> What is bo? hamm? Could someone explain these naming conventions to me, > please. Look at where Bruce Perens works, and think about children's movies . . . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: RedHat vs Debian (was Re: Bash Prompt in an XTerm)

1997-07-22 Thread Rick Hawkins
> > > Redhat is *far* easier to install on a slow machine. After installation > > is another matter :) > Slightly faster; not necessarily easier. Since 4.0, Red Hat has been a > disaster for anyone with a CD-ROM attached to a SoundBlaster card, for > instance. this was a future domain. But o

naming convention question

1997-07-22 Thread Shaleh
What is bo? hamm? Could someone explain these naming conventions to me, please. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: /usr size and seting up a linux server

1997-07-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I don't have *all* the packages installed (you can't, anyway, because of confilcts). Here is my setup: __> df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hda2 503551 17792 459753 4% / /dev/hda6 507423 150210 331007

dselect ftp method problem (solved)

1997-07-22 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Sledgehammer approach: I downgraded perl and perl-suid to the stable versions. It works now. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 12:14:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Tommy Lakofski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: dselect ftp method problem Can't loca

Re: Compiling the Kernel

1997-07-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote: > Hello, > I had problems while compiled the kernel. > First I didn't have anything in my "/usr/src" directory, so I got the > "linux-2.0.29.tar.gz" file, that's my installed version, apply "tar -xzvf" > and got a directory tree "/usr/src/

bo and pcmcia installation...

1997-07-22 Thread Jason Costomiris
I'm trying to load 1.3.0 on a notebook. I made the boot, driver, and 5 base diskettes. I also made a couple of ext2fs diskettes that had pcmcia-cs_2.9.5-3, pcmcia-modules-2.0.30, and the 2.0.30 kernel-image. I didn't dslect, or course, since my source was unavailable (was going to NFS mount the

Re: Adaptec 2940Ultra Wide PCI SCSI Host Adapter

1997-07-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, David M wrote: :Dear list members, : :I was looking at the documentation my adaptec PCI SCSI and notice a :couple of configuration parameters that could be changed when running :under Linux (rather than DOS or Windows). These are: This sounds similar to an AHA-2940UW, whic

Compiling the Kernel

1997-07-22 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Hello, I had problems while compiled the kernel. First I didn't have anything in my "/usr/src" directory, so I got the "linux-2.0.29.tar.gz" file, that's my installed version, apply "tar -xzvf" and got a directory tree "/usr/src/linux/*". So, I did "make config", everything'

Re: RedHat vs Debian (was Re: Bash Prompt in an XTerm)

1997-07-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: > Redhat is *far* easier to install on a slow machine. After installation > is another matter :) Slightly faster; not necessarily easier. Since 4.0, Red Hat has been a disaster for anyone with a CD-ROM attached to a SoundBlaster card, for instance. > >

dselect ftp method problem

1997-07-22 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Can't locate Time/Local.pm in @INC at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 379. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 379. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/dpkg//methods/ftp/setup line 7. query/setup script returned error exit status 2. This is what I see whe

Re: Sendmail Oddity

1997-07-22 Thread Eloy A. Paris
It looks like you have problems with your name server. Probably you are not running Bind or /etc/resolv.conf is not configured. Try echo test|mail -s "Test message" lung (assuming lung is a local user) E.- Daniel Laffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Not really sure what this is about, but it ha

Re: RedHat vs Debian (was Re: Bash Prompt in an XTerm)

1997-07-22 Thread Rick Hawkins
> My question to you is how do you find them (which one do you think is > best; if there is such a thing as 'best'). Any particular features etc > you prefer on one over the other? Redhat is *far* easier to install on a slow machine. After installation is another matter :) Redhat's installat

Re: /usr size and seting up a linux server

1997-07-22 Thread Rick Hawkins
> I have one PC with a 6 gig disk for Linux only (the Linux PC). > I have another two PCs with Windows 95 (the Windows PCs). I would > like to able to use Linux on either of the two Windows PCs. > I don't have enough space on these PCs to install all the linux > software I would like. I can on

Re: How to fix ldso? Urgent.

1997-07-22 Thread joost witteveen
> My box has both libc5 and libc6 installed. I just made a mistake and > downgraded ldso_1.9.2-2 to ldso_1.8.10-2.1. Now I don't seem to be able > to run any commands - certainly not dpkg at any rate. So I am between a > rock and a hard place, as the saying goes. > > I have another two debia

Re: ncurses3.4 deb file

1997-07-22 Thread Douglas Bates
Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler kindly pointed out to me that ncurses3.4 is now in ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/base so I have solved that problem. Many of you know what the next question will be. Where do I find libreadlineg2? I don't see it in the ls-lR.gz file from ftp.debian.org.

Re: pause

1997-07-22 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
no, it was working properly, but i had entered the last field as .1 when it should have been .2 (i ping'd the main server and compared values). all is fine now. thanks! matty On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Matthew C. Thompson wrote: > > : hi, > : >

Re: One last thing before I pass out`

1997-07-22 Thread Johnny Stevenson
> |"You need to set the DISPLAY env variable to :0.0 once you are root. > > Nope. In this case, he should have done a "xhost +", not a "xhost -". > - denies access, + allows it. The XAUTH* solution mailed earlier is a > better one, though. > Could someone mail me the XAUTH* solution mention. T

Harddrive/IDE channel error

1997-07-22 Thread Will Lowe
I've got a fully pnp system, with a seagate 2.1 gig drive and a Creative Labs CD420 cd drive on the first ide (ide0) channel. I've been letting the bios auto-detect everything (what's a pnp bios for, anyway ... :) ), and sometimes, at seemingly random times, I get the following error, under ke

Re: PCMCIA cardmgr in Debian 1.3

1997-07-22 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Junbiao Zhang wrote: > of a mismatch between the kernel(2.0.29) and the PCMCIA module(2.0.30)( > I selected pcmcia-cs_2.9.5-3.deb and pcmcia-modules-2.0.30_2.9.5-3.deb under > stable/binary/admin). pcmcia-modules-2.0.29_2.9.5-2.deb could not be > installed > because it re

How to fix ldso? Urgent.

1997-07-22 Thread Lindsay Allen
My box has both libc5 and libc6 installed. I just made a mistake and downgraded ldso_1.9.2-2 to ldso_1.8.10-2.1. Now I don't seem to be able to run any commands - certainly not dpkg at any rate. So I am between a rock and a hard place, as the saying goes. I have another two debian boxes here

Re: News Server self-mutilation

1997-07-22 Thread Ke Huang
If you are using a pentium motherboard that has the VX, TX, or anything but the HX chipset, you can slow down your computer by as much as 5% by putting in more than 64 Mb of RAM, since VX and TX can only cache upto 64 Mb. Ths solution, either get a HX board or a board with VIA chipset. Sorry f

Re: One last thing before I pass out`

1997-07-22 Thread Ronald van Loon
In a message to me, Brian K Servis, you wrote: |" |"Daniel Laffin writes: |"> |"> |">After su'ing in an xterm and trying to run any x app i get this. I tried |">"xhosts -", but it still gives me this. *scratches his head* Sleep |">now--thanks. =) |"> |">apollyon:/# xterm |">Xlib: connection to

Re: One last thing before I pass out

1997-07-22 Thread Brian K Servis
Daniel Laffin writes: > > >After su'ing in an xterm and trying to run any x app i get this. I tried >"xhosts -", but it still gives me this. *scratches his head* Sleep >now--thanks. =) > >apollyon:/# xterm >Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server >Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key >Erro

Re: Debian CDs?

1997-07-22 Thread jdassen
On Jul 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > Is there anyone who can help me choosing an international seller? I > visited Debian's homepage and all the recommended CD manufacturers. I > found a big difference on prices... why is that? Some manufacturers, e.g. LSL and cheap*bytes, produce regular (silve

Re: alphas

1997-07-22 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Jul 21, Jesse Goldman wrote > Our group is considering buying some Alpha workstations and we'd like to > put Debian on them. Does anyone have any experience running Debian on the > Alpha platform? Lots. > Is it similar too and as relatively trouble free as running on an > Intel machine? Not y

Re: Xlib

1997-07-22 Thread joost witteveen
> : > % alias mnemonic='LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/src/Xlib-threadsafe ~/bin/mnemonic' > : > : That's one way, but assuming his thread safe libs are OK, he problably > : wants to use them for all his programmes. > > The LD_LIBRARY_PATH-hack doesn't seem to work. If the other method (ld.so.config) wor

Re: seeking newsreader suggestions

1997-07-22 Thread jdassen
On Jul 22, Hamish Moffatt wrote > I'm looking for a new newsreader, and was wondering if somebody > can recommend one. Features I'd particularly like are; > * PGP support, > * URL extraction (then run Lynx, etc); > * Mail aliases (ideally from the same file as my MUA). > > Actually I want so

Re: seeking newsreader suggestions

1997-07-22 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hamish> I'm looking for a new newsreader, and was wondering if Hamish> somebody can recommend one. Features I'd particularly like Hamish> are; * PGP support, * URL extraction (then run Lynx, etc); Hamish> * Mail aliases (

Re: wyse60 terminal

1997-07-22 Thread jdassen
On Jul 21, Remco van de Meent wrote > On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Pilon wrote: > : Is there someone using a Wyse60 terminal with Linux?, I set the TERM > : enviroment variable to wy60 but some aplications report this error: > : couldn't load tercap/terminfo entry, other aplication just doesn't run > :

ncurses3.4 deb file

1997-07-22 Thread Douglas Bates
I have installed the unstable version in hamm and now have several packages that do not configure properly because ncurses3.4 is not available. The most important such package for me is gdb. Hamish Moffatt wrote to me earlier that ncurses3.4 was available in the Incoming section on master.debian.

Re: master down?

1997-07-22 Thread Shaya Potter
On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: > joost witteveen wrote: > > > > Been try to contact master.debian.org for a couple of days. Is it > > > working? > > All > > > I get is the FTP error window. Have tried at all different hours day and > > night. > > > > $ ping master.debian.org > > PI

Re: One last thing before I pass out

1997-07-22 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Here's what I do after 'su -': % whoami hessu % echo $DISPLAY :0 % su - # export DISPLAY=:0 # export XAUTHORITY=/home/hessu/.Xauthority # xterm& The X server wants a magic cookie (password string) by the client program to make sure that the client is allowed to connect to it. The magic cookies

PCMCIA cardmgr in Debian 1.3

1997-07-22 Thread Junbiao Zhang
Hi there, I installed the recent stable version of debian linux on my laptop with a 3Com EtherLink 3c589D card. There were some problems when I installed the PCMCIA module. The cardmgr daemon couldn't be started because of a mismatch between the kernel(2.0.29) and the PCMCIA modul

Re: pause

1997-07-22 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Matthew C. Thompson wrote: : hi, : : i just installed 1.3.1 and everytime i do anything 'net oriented : (popclient, netstat -r, netscape) there seems to be about a five second : pause before anything happens. : : did i maybe enter some info incorrectly or something?

One last thing before I pass out

1997-07-22 Thread Daniel Laffin
After su'ing in an xterm and trying to run any x app i get this. I tried "xhosts -", but it still gives me this. *scratches his head* Sleep now--thanks. =) apollyon:/# xterm Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key Error: Can't open display: :0.0 Exit

bo-updates: integrate with dselect?

1997-07-22 Thread Randy Edwards
I have a question about the bo-updates subdirectory. Now, I know that bo is supposed to be stable and relatively unchanging, but what is the purpose of the bo-updates subdirectory? I take it that it contains updates to the bo packages, but how can one integrate this into deselect, or even s

Re: How to delete a directory tree.

1997-07-22 Thread Paul McDermott
hi, rm -rf directory name/* hope this helps. Paul On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Chris Brown wrote: > I was looking around the ohter day and found a couple of old > mirrors that there is no interest in any longer and I want to remove > the entire directory tree that they are in. What is the simples

Re: Xlib

1997-07-22 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, joost witteveen wrote: : > I thought Debian XFree86 3.3 was thread safe anyway. But assuming you : > know what you're talkign about here... : : Thought so too .. I'm using Debian XFree86 3.3 indeed, but when running Mnemonic (pre-alpha-release), I get X-io errors. These

How to delete a directory tree.

1997-07-22 Thread Chris Brown
I was looking around the ohter day and found a couple of old mirrors that there is no interest in any longer and I want to remove the entire directory tree that they are in. What is the simplest way to do this? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [

News Server self-mutilation

1997-07-22 Thread Daniel Laffin
I guess this is question night. I added an addtional 64 megs of RAM to my news server making it 128 total. I also put in another 256K cache to total 512K. Now the load is on average twice as high? I dont follow that at all. -Dan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "u

Sendmail Oddity

1997-07-22 Thread Daniel Laffin
Not really sure what this is about, but it happens on both incoming ad outgoing mails. Any suggestions? This is with sendmail 8.8.5. Thanks. apollyon:/# echo test | mail -v lung lung... Host unknown (Name server: none: host not found) lung... Host unknown (Name server: none: host not found) p

Re: xdm path

1997-07-22 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > > > > > Although I have losts of idas on this, I cant find the answer. When > > > logging in locally through xdm where is the path set? For instance, I am > > > unable to run netscape because its not in the default path. I can just > > > open an xterm and run it from there, but the buttons

Re: xdm path

1997-07-22 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > > Although I have losts of idas on this, I cant find the answer. When > > logging in locally through xdm where is the path set? For instance, I am > > unable to run netscape because its not in the default path. I can just > > open an xterm and run it from there, but the buttons are there to

Re: master down?

1997-07-22 Thread Victor Torrico
joost witteveen wrote: > > Been try to contact master.debian.org for a couple of days. Is it working? > All > > I get is the FTP error window. Have tried at all different hours day and > night. > > $ ping master.debian.org > PING master.debian.org (206.190.143.161): 56 data bytes > 64 bytes from

Re: unknown undentifier "" in script

1997-07-22 Thread joost witteveen
> Hi. > > Last time I keep getting messages like: > > Unknown identifier "" in script > -f: Aborting. Very much looks like update-menus, old (1.3 or before) version. Your best bet is probably to upgrade to menu-1.5. The error probably will not go away (if anything 1.5 is more strict in syntax c

Re: Xlib

1997-07-22 Thread joost witteveen
> Remco van de Meent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have thread-safe version of the X-libraries. > > What I want to do, is start X, and a client, using those libraries, instead > > of those in /usr/X11R6/lib. > > I thought Debian XFree86 3.3 was thread safe anyway. But assuming you > know

unknown undentifier "" in script

1997-07-22 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Hi. Last time I keep getting messages like: Unknown identifier "" in script -f: Aborting. from cron, from update-menues, maybe something else. What's causing them? How to fix it? Thank you. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _

Re: xdm path

1997-07-22 Thread joost witteveen
> Although I have losts of idas on this, I cant find the answer. When > logging in locally through xdm where is the path set? For instance, I am > unable to run netscape because its not in the default path. I can just > open an xterm and run it from there, but the buttons are there to use and >

Re: Where is as86 command?

1997-07-22 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> I am attempting to compile a new kernel but get an "as86: Command not > found error" during compiilation. > > I have checked Dselect for this command but cannot find it. Can anyone > tell me which package it is in? bin86 in devel Alex Y. > > Ross -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +

Re: Where is as86 command?

1997-07-22 Thread joost witteveen
> I am attempting to compile a new kernel but get an "as86: Command not > found error" during compiilation. bin86 package. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #508

1997-07-22 Thread Mikko Väkiparta
fdasfads Mikko Väkiparta Ananda Communications Oy http://www.ananda.fi puh. 040 - 515 9899 fax. (09) 3489 629 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MA

Re: master down?

1997-07-22 Thread joost witteveen
> Been try to contact master.debian.org for a couple of days. Is it working? > All > I get is the FTP error window. Have tried at all different hours day and > night. $ ping master.debian.org PING master.debian.org (206.190.143.161): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 206.190.143.161: icmp_seq=0 tt

Re: samba question

1997-07-22 Thread Carey Evans
"Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > Does IP-masq forward broadcasts? Windows Networking relies on network > broadcast to do name lookups. I've tried to do "windows networking" > through a firewall and cannot get it to work. (I tried socks5). Samba's nmbd should provide the W

Re: qmail?

1997-07-22 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Jul 21, Martin Schulze wrote > Install a dummy package. How do I do that? Which TFM I should R? Antti-Juhani -- ... MS-DOS is universally considered unreal. (The Jargon File 4.0.0) pgpn0HQyvmhkt.pgp Description: P

Re: qmail?

1997-07-22 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Jul 22, Dima wrote > >>Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > You can a) hit SHIFT+Q in dselect every time to override dependecies Risky. > or b) install a dummy package that provides MTA. Search for messages > about equivs package in the list archive. Thanks. I'll do that the next time I'm online.

master down?

1997-07-22 Thread Victor Torrico
Been try to contact master.debian.org for a couple of days. Is it working? All I get is the FTP error window. Have tried at all different hours day and night. Victor -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROT

libc5_5.4.33-5.deb installation problem

1997-07-22 Thread Victor Torrico
Hello all, The subject package will not configure. One of its purposes is to allow the locales package to operate correctly. Has anyone been able to install this package and get locales operating correctly? All packages that libc5 depends upon were first installed. Trying to install the subjec

install Kernel source

1997-07-22 Thread K.Y.Lo
Hi Which one of kernel source file do I need? thats why, I gonna build the new kernel with network card added I found in the /usr/src directory there isnt Kernel source files. the one is currently Linux kernel 2.0.29. i read debian installation document, it say to install the kernel source first t

Re: OLH@kms.min.dk

1997-07-22 Thread Anders Hammarquist
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >In a message to me, Nico De Ranter, you wrote: >|" >|"> I would not recommend you reply directly to this chap; >|"> I did and have started receiving more test messages directly. >|" >|"AARGH, I've just send a reply :-) > >I have sent e-mail to his postmast

Adaptec 2940Ultra Wide PCI SCSI Host Adapter

1997-07-22 Thread David M
Dear list members, I was looking at the documentation my adaptec PCI SCSI and notice a couple of configuration parameters that could be changed when running under Linux (rather than DOS or Windows). These are: Plug and Play SCAM support -- The default setting is disable

Re: OLH@kms.min.dk

1997-07-22 Thread Ronald van Loon
In a message to me, Nico De Ranter, you wrote: |" |"> I would not recommend you reply directly to this chap; |"> I did and have started receiving more test messages directly. |" |"AARGH, I've just send a reply :-) I have sent e-mail to his postmaster - the messages also seem to have stopped for no

Re: OLH@kms.min.dk

1997-07-22 Thread Nico De Ranter
> I would not recommend you reply directly to this chap; > I did and have started receiving more test messages directly. AARGH, I've just send a reply :-) Nico. > > > Hamish > -- > Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Student, computer science & computer systems e

Where is as86 command?

1997-07-22 Thread Ross Gardler
I am attempting to compile a new kernel but get an "as86: Command not found error" during compiilation. I have checked Dselect for this command but cannot find it. Can anyone tell me which package it is in? Ross -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL P

Re: Star Office question

1997-07-22 Thread Victor Torrico
Martin Schulze wrote: > Alex Yukhimets writes: > > > I saw it posted erialer but I acedently deleted it ... > > > > > > there is a bug? in the star office install script? something about > > > lang=us_eg or some such could someone please repost this?? > > > > Sure. You would have to change the val

Re: OLH@kms.min.dk

1997-07-22 Thread Andree Leidenfrost
Thanks for the hint! I was just thinking of doing exactly this. Regards, Andree -- | Institute of Geophysics phone: +49 40 4123 4389 ANDREE LEIDENFROST | University of Hamburg fax: +49 40 4123 5441 Geophysicist | Bundesstrasse 55 e-mail: [EMAIL

seeking newsreader suggestions

1997-07-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I'm looking for a new newsreader, and was wondering if somebody can recommend one. Features I'd particularly like are; * PGP support, * URL extraction (then run Lynx, etc); * Mail aliases (ideally from the same file as my MUA). Actually I want something that works just like mutt, but for new

OLH@kms.min.dk

1997-07-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I would not recommend you reply directly to this chap; I did and have started receiving more test messages directly. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (

Re: HELP!! PLEASE!!

1997-07-22 Thread Felix Almeida
On Mon, 21 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I can't get my SCSI controller/CD-ROM drive to be detected by linux!! > I need it to install debian. > I have a Media Vision Jazz card. (which is basically a combo pro sonic and > future domain tmc-8xx) and 2x CD-rom, which under windows 95 is detecte

Re: Netscape 3.01 off-line

1997-07-22 Thread Martin Bureau
> 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. Go in Options/General Preferences/Appearance and set "Browser Starts

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