Re: forwarding mail

1997-08-07 Thread Richard Ayres
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Mikko Vkiparta wrote: > How I can automatically forward my mail to some other address (to > Internet) in debian? I have a user who does this simply by having a '.forward' file in his home directory that just contains the other address. It works with Smail, I believe it works w

Re: Use Joystick to reboot.

1997-08-07 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 7 Aug, Brian K Servis wrote: > > I had thought of doing as you did, adding a shutdown menu option. I > assume you are running as a regular user. How did you set it up so > that 'you' could start the shutdown process? > I user the "super" package (I guess you could use sudo as well). This i

Basic networking setup

1997-08-07 Thread Dominic Davidson
I've been trying to set up a *very* simple network with two peers recently. This is my first exploration into ethernet related issues under Linux. Before I get started properly, the FM's I have read are the NAG, NET-3-HOWTO and the Ethernet-HOWTO. The cards I am using are two NE2000 clones, manuf

RE: dosemu w/ graphics mode in X

1997-08-07 Thread wb2oyc
On 22:44:28 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Does anyone know how to get graphics mode to work in X with dosemu. I >have seen screenshots of windows 3.1 running under X in a xdos box. I >don't want to do anything that exotic. I want graphics mode in an >xdos box. > >Any hints? > Erv, If you get an an

RE: Aug 4 21:54:00 carlf modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5

1997-08-07 Thread wb2oyc
Carl, I have just recently changed my ISP to Bell Atlantic, and have had to make changes to my pppd options file in order to establish a working connection. This info may help in your case, I'm not at all sure, but it might apply. >Trying to make a PPP connection to AT&T's Worldnet servic

Re: What is CD 2?

1997-08-07 Thread Shaya Potter
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, George Bonser wrote: > On Thu, 7 Aug 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > There are legal problems putting PGP on the CDs: if it were included, the > > CDs could not be exported out of the USA (you have some _weird_ > > regulations). > > Also, the copyright conditions on packa

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #592

1997-08-07 Thread Mikko Väkiparta
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Re: Can't Install! Kernel Hangs!

1997-08-07 Thread Brian Kimball
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool, thanks for the hints. I turned off my BIOS' PnP initialization feature and everything worked smoothly. Very strange! brian > Hmmm.. I had the exact same thing happen with my laptop. I wasn't able > to boot up at all with any of the ker

Re: PPP error messages....

1997-08-07 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Kevin Traas wrote: > > I'm getting a lot of the following error messages on the console of one of > my boxes. It's a 386DX/40 with a PPP link to an ISP. > > ppp: frame with bad fcs, excess = 2a48 > > It seems that for each one of these, ifconfig reports an error on the ppp0 > interface. > > A

Re: Wrong "From:" name: also Re: exmh runs now

1997-08-07 Thread Victor Torrico
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 7 Aug, Victor Torrico wrote: > > > > What must be changed and in which programs to make "From:" read > > properly? > > > Hi, > > I don't know how to do headerrewriting in smail. I simply specify a > from header in my mailprogramm. > > If this is not suitable to y

Re: Use Joystick to reboot.

1997-08-07 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 7 Aug, Brian K Servis wrote: > activity. I still could move the pointer though. My only solution at > the time was to push the reset button. If I had had a joystick driver > active I could have started a clean shutdown which would have saved me > some work when the system came back up with a

Re: Modprobe error and kerneld question

1997-08-07 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 7 Aug, Shaleh wrote: > I do have auto in etc modules and nothing else. PPP/serial/slhc loads > as a module when I use pon/poff without my intervention, but isofs and > msdos/fat do not when I use mount. > Don't get me wrong, but maybe you don't use the mount command the right way ? To mount

Re: Wrong "From:" name

1997-08-07 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 7 Aug, Victor Torrico wrote: > > What must be changed and in which programs to make "From:" read > properly? > Hi, I don't know how to do headerrewriting in smail. I simply specify a from header in my mailprogramm. If this is not suitable to you, then you could dig through smail documentati

Re: forwarding mail

1997-08-07 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 7 Aug, Mikko Väkiparta wrote: > How I can automatically forward my mail to some other address (to > Internet) in debian? Create a .forward file in your homedir. It should just hold the address you want to forward to. I remember, that you have to be carefull abouzt ownership and permissions

Re: Debian-Lite : The Project

1997-08-07 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, George Bonser wrote: > On the other hand, fvwm, the old fvwm, is relatively easy to configure. And since you'll have a fair idea of what applications are likely to be installed (since you'll be packaging them all together on a cd or whatever) you could even provide a pre-set-u

Re: man gives segmentation fault

1997-08-07 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- [apologies for the big CC and To list. I couldn't determine who wrote initally] On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Michael B. Taylor wrote: > > > > I am running Debian 1.3.1, and recently trying to run man gives a > > segmentation fault when run as a normal user (but not w

cannot use dpkg / dselect

1997-08-07 Thread Davinder Pal Singh \(STEP\)
Hello Everybody, I want to install the libc5_5.4.33-3.deb packet. The present version of libc5 is 5.4,23-6. But when I run 1) dpkg -i libc5_5.4.33-3.deb I get the following message dpkg: failed to open package info file `/usr/lib/dpkg/updates/07a` for reading . There is really no such file

[NCURSES] Re: A quick question

1997-08-07 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote: > Hi > Where do I find "libncurses.so.3.2". In my system I have the 3.2 version. If you already have the 3.2 version, perhaps it has not been configured yet? > Is it in some directory of ftp.debian.org? ftp://ftp.

Re: [DPKG] how to change a package which is depended upon?

1997-08-07 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
"Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > I want to change my MTA from sendmail to qmail. How to do that? > > When I want to install qmail, dpkg says that I can't do that because > sendmail is already installed as a MTA. If I want to uninstall > sendmail, then it refuses becaus

Re: RAID5 controller

1997-08-07 Thread Dave Cinege
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997 11:23:13 -0700, Kevin Traas wrote: > >can anyone recommend a couple of tried and true RAID5 controllers >>i could price out? > >I've used the Mylex DAC960 PCI (3 and 5 channel). Very happy with them - >but pricy. However, I've never used these under Linux, only SCO Unix and T

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #591

1997-08-07 Thread Mikko Väkiparta
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[INSTALL] Re: Does Linux use BIOS parameters for disk?

1997-08-07 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Chris Brown wrote: > I have several old 386 machines around that would be nice for > different tasks. These machines have older BIOSs in them that > can't deal with larger IDE drives. My experience with DOS is that > you need to fdisk and format the drive on a machi

Re: forwarding mail

1997-08-07 Thread Michael B. Taylor
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > How I can automatically forward my mail to some other address (to > Internet) in debian? Make a file named '.forward' in you home directory and put the address you wish to forward to in that file. If you want to do something fancier than

Need expect Syntax Help

1997-08-07 Thread Kevin Traas
I'm in the process of setting up a script on a Linux box for someone that will automatically create users from a tab-delimited text file. This script used to work find under Debian 1.2.x (i.e. before shadow passwords). I could just pass parameters to passwd and the users' password would be set.

Re: Use Joystick to reboot.

1997-08-07 Thread Brian K Servis
Daniel J. Mashao writes: > >On 6 Aug 1997, Linh Dang wrote: > >> >> I remember having seen somewhere that you can use the joystick to make a >> clean >> reboot. That's handy when X freezes and your keyboard and mouse get stuck. >> Any >> info, pointer ? >That happens in OS/2 but I would not expe

Re: Debian-Lite : The Project

1997-08-07 Thread Toens Bueker
On Aug 7, Olaf Weber wrote > One place where I can imagine that a small installation would be > popular is on laptops. But for those to work well, you need (i) the > apm package, and (ii) recompile the kernel to enable apm support. Another area could be linux-ha, which is not ready yet. But when

Re: /etc/crontab.daily and the security hole in find | xargs

1997-08-07 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 7 Aug 1997, Jan Vroonhof wrote: > I was checking out the files in /etc/crontab.daily and there it says > above the standard > find | xargs rm > lines something to the effect of "These lines commented out because of > the obvious security hole". > > What se

Re: A quick question

1997-08-07 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Bruno O. M. Simoes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Where do in debian ftp site I find the libncurses.so.3.2 library? : Thanks in advances Try "dpkg --search libncurses". E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-94

Re: RAID5 controller

1997-08-07 Thread Kevin Traas
>can anyone recommend a couple of tried and true RAID5 controllers >i could price out? I've used the Mylex DAC960 PCI (3 and 5 channel). Very happy with them - but pricy. However, I've never used these under Linux, only SCO Unix and WinNT. However, I can't see there'd be a problem as long as L

PPP error messages....

1997-08-07 Thread Kevin Traas
I'm getting a lot of the following error messages on the console of one of my boxes. It's a 386DX/40 with a PPP link to an ISP. ppp: frame with bad fcs, excess = 2a48 It seems that for each one of these, ifconfig reports an error on the ppp0 interface. Any ideas what fcs stands for? Any ideas

Re: Leafnode oddities ?

1997-08-07 Thread Joey Hess
Dean Carpenter wrote: > It's still only doing the partial news downloads. At least, it > seems to be when I use -v. Without -v it seems to run longer, but > I can't tell if it really cycled through all the interesting > groups. Any problems with installing libc6 and leafnode-1.4-1 ? Please d

Re: RAID5 controller

1997-08-07 Thread Markus Diesmann
I can recommend, and we have in use the IFT 3102U (32MB) Raid Controller Infotrend Technology, Inc However I have to warn you. There is currently no support of the rpc.lockd daemon under linux. So using a Linux system as a file server for SUN and SGIs will bring you into trouble. file lockin

libreadline..

1997-08-07 Thread Carlos Marcos Kakihara
Hi! I'm trying to compile librl-2.0.3, but I'm getting the following errors: [stress]:/usr/src/librl-2.0.3/readline# make install ... if [ -f /usr/bin/"ranlib" ]; then ranlib -t /usr//lib/libreadline.a; fi ranlib: /usr//lib/libreadline.a: no arquive map to update make: *** [install] Erro

Problem with dselect....

1997-08-07 Thread Kevin Traas
Hopefully, someone familiar with dselect can help me with this one On one system I've got, I've installed and am using ZMailer. No problems well, until I wanted to ugprade the OS from 1.2.x to 1.3.x. I failed to notice that dselect wanted to install smail (it wasn't previously installe

A quick question

1997-08-07 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Hi Where do I find "libncurses.so.3.2". In my system I have the 3.2 version. Is it in some directory of ftp.debian.org? Thanks in advances. Bruno -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

A quick question

1997-08-07 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
>Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 13:48:35 -0300 >To: Lista Debian >From: "Bruno O. M. Simoes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: A quick question > >Where do I find the libncurses.so.3.2 library? >Thanks in advances >Bruno > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Debian-Lite : The Project

1997-08-07 Thread Olaf Weber
Lindsay Allen writes: > In other words the space required in round figures on a cdrom is 12 Mb for > the disk-i386 set plus 8Mb for my selection of packages, or 20 Mb. So > with 98 Mb available the is 78 Mb free to add other things. One place where I can imagine that a small installation would

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #590

1997-08-07 Thread Mikko Väkiparta
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How to make cardmgr to use ttyS0

1997-08-07 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
HI, I have a laptop computer and the pcmcia uses ttyS2 on start-up. It looks like it should be an easy thing to make it use ttyS0 but I cannot find any documentation on what to change. The problem is that ttyS2 uses IRQ 0 and not 3 or 4 that I want. Anybody familiar with pcmcia will know that se

Re: [Kernel] Advanced Power Management

1997-08-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Will Lowe wrote: > I'd like it to shut down the monitor after 20 minutes or so of unuse xset +dpms see xset -q for details. I'd like to spin down s SCSI disk when not in use (I mount it only for nightly backups). Can it be done? Using the aic7xxx driver for Adaptec 2940U. -- Peter Galbrai

Re: Use Joystick to reboot.

1997-08-07 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
On 6 Aug 1997, Linh Dang wrote: > > I remember having seen somewhere that you can use the joystick to make a clean > reboot. That's handy when X freezes and your keyboard and mouse get stuck. Any > info, pointer ? That happens in OS/2 but I would not expect to see this in Linux. A copule of times

[Common Lisp] I'm working on the clisp package...

1997-08-07 Thread Will Lowe
The new version of clisp was released today from it's upstream source. I'm going to package it for debian, probably this weekend. If you use clisp (or are likely to use it), please let me know if you think the following modules are appropriate: CLX (common lisp X-interface) STDWI

Re: debian mirror via http ?

1997-08-07 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 05:02 PM 7/08/97 +0200, Per Eric Rosén wrote: >Hi ! > >I am trying to set up a automatic mirror of the debian packages archive to >my local system. To use with diald , a single-connection protocol would be >useful. There may be two approaches : Finding a debian mirror accessible >via http ( or f

Re: Debugging pine sessions

1997-08-07 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, David Wright wrote: > On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > > For a "production" version, -DDEBUG is not appropriate. > > If the documentation is wrong about this, please use the bug tracking > > system. Debian maintainers are not

A quick question

1997-08-07 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Where do in debian ftp site I find the libncurses.so.3.2 library? Thanks in advances Bruno -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Deity vs Diety

1997-08-07 Thread Behan Webster
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 06, 1997 at 11:24:00AM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: > > My major interest in the -Desktop and Diety projects is the provision for > > This name is confusing me -- is it really Diety? > Should be "Deity", no? Very different! > Deity \De"i*ty\, n.; pl. Deities. [O

Re: Installed perl-tk-400.202-2; now perl-tk is broken

1997-08-07 Thread Rob Browning
"Howard S. Ostrowsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am a longtime Linux (Slackware) user who has recently switched > to Debian. Welcome. > I had been using the versions of Perl and Perl-Tk which are in the > 1.3 Debian release, and all was working OK. Then I decided that I > wanted to upgrade

Re: color in console (was: Colored ls output)

1997-08-07 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, hal wrote: > Hi I have a question about color on Virtual consoles. Slackware was defaulted > to color but I can't find it in 3.1. Is it in termcap? My term echos as > 'linux' > I get no color from ls or minicom. Color is an option to ls. See man ls. -- Jean Pierre -- T

RAID5 controller

1997-08-07 Thread m*
can anyone recommend a couple of tried and true RAID5 controllers i could price out? thanks! m* -- "The Shining One" -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Wrong "From:" name

1997-08-07 Thread Victor Torrico
Hello All, Finally got fetching and sending eMail working using the following Debian packages: exmh, fetchmail, mh, metamail, mime-support and smail. There is only one problem: the "From:" part of the eMail header shows "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" which is incorrect. It should read "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Debugging pine sessions

1997-08-07 Thread David Wright
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > Hi. > > For a "production" version, -DDEBUG is not appropriate. > If the documentation is wrong about this, please use the bug tracking > system. Debian maintainers are not always supposed to read this list. I could see your point about -DDEBUG no

Re: Can't Install! Kernel Hangs!

1997-08-07 Thread Richard . Dansereau
> Hello all. I just got my CheapBytes 1.3.1 CD (which has some files that > look suspiciously out of date ...) and I can't boot from either the CD > (using loadlin) or the Rescue Disk I made. I also tried downloading the > latest disk image, and it didn't work either. > > The kernel seems to han

[Kernel] Advanced Power Management

1997-08-07 Thread Will Lowe
I'd like my debian system to take advantage of the power management functions of my bios (in particular, I'd like it to shut down the monitor after 20 minutes or so of unuse ... it'd be cool if "halt" could also turn off the power on my ATX mobo, put that's not as important). I've heard mention

Re: Debian-Lite : The Project

1997-08-07 Thread Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH
-> Here are some ideas for the remaining 72 Mb: -> -> The supposed audience for Debian-{Lite,Desktop,MagazineCover,Whatever} -> will probably want X (and giving them fvwm2-95 isn't such a bad idea -> either.) I think fvwm2-95 will be a little too complicated to configure for newbies (I

Re: Debugging pine sessions

1997-08-07 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, David Wright wrote: > I seem to recall seeing .pine_debug{1,2,3,4} in my home directory on a > Debian 1.1 or 1.2 machine, but I never see them now (1.3 stable). If I > type > > pine -d 1 > > I get the sort of output I might expect from

Re: Does Linux use BIOS parameters for disk?

1997-08-07 Thread Paul Wade
I have had no problems partitioning and installing Linux on 1.2 gig and 3.5 gig drives on old 386 machines. I boot the install floppy and proceed from there. I usually just create a boot floppy. This loads the kernel into memory and IDE access from there is handled w/o the obsolete BIOS. On Thu,

Re: Does Linux use BIOS parameters for disk?

1997-08-07 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> I have several old 386 machines around that would be nice for > different tasks. These machines have older BIOSs in them that > can't deal with larger IDE drives. My experience with DOS is that > you need to fdisk and format the drive on a machine that properly > supports the particula

Printing to a laserprinter with lprng

1997-08-07 Thread David Wright
I thought I'd go with lprng for my Debian 1.3 installation. It's very frustrating that users can't remove their own jobs using lprm in the lpr package. Unfortunately, whereas lpr could satisfactorily print jobs on the printer (large ones at that), lprng can't. For example, I've just typed man

debian mirror via http ?

1997-08-07 Thread Per Eric Rosén
Hi ! I am trying to set up a automatic mirror of the debian packages archive to my local system. To use with diald , a single-connection protocol would be useful. There may be two approaches : Finding a debian mirror accessible via http ( or fsp ? ) , or using a http to ftp gateway on a Internet s

Re: Does Linux use BIOS parameters for disk?

1997-08-07 Thread Mike Miller
Chris Brown wrote: > > I have several old 386 machines around that would be nice for > different tasks. These machines have older BIOSs in them that > can't deal with larger IDE drives. My experience with DOS is that > you need to fdisk and format the drive on a machine that properly > supp

Re: installing Linux on a Compaq Deskpro 4000 - The sequel

1997-08-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
No real help from me, sorry. > I'm still trying to install Linux on a Compaq Deskpro 4000 M5233MMX but > I can't get the network to work. Somebody has been so kind to provide > me with a link to ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/stuff/tlan-0.29.tar.gz but > I'm afraid that my Compaq has yet a newer mod

Re: Removing "modules" and "base"

1997-08-07 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Johann Spies wrote: > > > > What does dpkg print when it tries to upgrade modutils? > > > > The output of dpkg -i was: > > ... > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/modutils.prerm: /etc/init.d/kerneld: No such file or > > directory ... > > /var/li

Re: What is CD 2?

1997-08-07 Thread jdassen
On Aug 7, hal wrote > I am a bit confused as to why Debian is two CDs. I tried to use dselect on > CD 2 but could not find directories asked for by dselect. Also packages, > like PGP are missing. I looked in the FAQ and the INSTALL. Where is this > documented please. There are legal problems putti

Can't Install! Kernel Hangs!

1997-08-07 Thread Brian Kimball
Hello all. I just got my CheapBytes 1.3.1 CD (which has some files that look suspiciously out of date ...) and I can't boot from either the CD (using loadlin) or the Rescue Disk I made. I also tried downloading the latest disk image, and it didn't work either. The kernel seems to hang when it di

Re: man gives segmentation fault

1997-08-07 Thread Michael B. Taylor
> > I am running Debian 1.3.1, and recently trying to run man gives a > segmentation fault when run as a normal user (but not when run as root): > > % man man > Segmentation fault > > xman and tkman work fine. I was fairly sure I hadn't played with any > relevant settings - the executable has

Re: What is CD 2?

1997-08-07 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, hal wrote: > Also packages, like PGP > are missing. I looked in the FAQ and the INSTALL. Where is this documented > please. Pgp is under some strange copyright problems in the United States, which prevents it from being located on the main Debian ftp site or on Debian CDs .

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #589

1997-08-07 Thread Mikko Väkiparta
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Does Linux use BIOS parameters for disk?

1997-08-07 Thread Chris Brown
I have several old 386 machines around that would be nice for different tasks. These machines have older BIOSs in them that can't deal with larger IDE drives. My experience with DOS is that you need to fdisk and format the drive on a machine that properly supports the particular disk but

installing Linux on a Compaq Deskpro 4000 - The sequel

1997-08-07 Thread Nico De Ranter
Hi, I'm still trying to install Linux on a Compaq Deskpro 4000 M5233MMX but I can't get the network to work. Somebody has been so kind to provide me with a link to ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/stuff/tlan-0.29.tar.gz but I'm afraid that my Compaq has yet a newer model networkadaptor :-(. It just do

Re: Leafnode oddities ?

1997-08-07 Thread Dean Carpenter
> Dean Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Does anyone know of any problems with Leafnode ? It doesn't appear to get > > a full chunk of news when fetch runs ... Here's a sample session from a > > logged in session as news : > What version of leafnode do you have installed? The curr

Re: Looking for Talk - HOWTO

1997-08-07 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 7, Frank Barknecht wrote > Igor Grobman hat gesagt: // Igor Grobman wrote: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > > > So my question is: > > > How can I be talked at my local Debian-machine?? > > > > > > You need to set your hostname to the one that resolves into your ip > > address. > > For

Re: color in console (was: Colored ls output)

1997-08-07 Thread Martin Schulze
On Aug 7, hal wrote > Hi I have a question about color on Virtual consoles. Slackware was defaulted > to color but I can't find it in 3.1. Is it in termcap? My term echos as > 'linux' > I get no color from ls or minicom. Please take a look at /usr/doc/fileutils or /usr/doc/color-ls Joey

/etc/crontab.daily and the security hole in find | xargs

1997-08-07 Thread Jan Vroonhof
[Sorry if this question has been adressed a zillion times but the search function of the archive seems broken] [Sorry again: I am reading this list through the web-archives and august hasn't appeared yet. Could you CC me] First of all let me thank everybody who has worked on Debian 1.3.1 for all

Re: What is CD 2?

1997-08-07 Thread Shaleh
hal wrote: > > I am a bit confused as to why Debian is two CDs. I tried to use The second CD is where the source (as in code) packages are. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

kernel errors under Linux pre-patch-2.0.31-3

1997-08-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I tested the kernel pre-patch-2.0.31-3 from www.linuxhq.com because it's got support for hardware I use. I use Debian 1.3 with upgrades for 2.1.X kernels. Under this kernel, I'm logging errors like: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e0202024 current->tss.cr3 = 00742000,

What is CD 2?

1997-08-07 Thread hal
I am a bit confused as to why Debian is two CDs. I tried to use dselect on CD 2 but could not find directories asked for by dselect. Also packages, like PGP are missing. I looked in the FAQ and the INSTALL. Where is this documented please. thanks hal +++ Codea, Compilea, Coredumea +

DAC960 RAID controller (PCI)

1997-08-07 Thread Serguei Poloupanov
Hi I have HP NetServer LH with DAC960 RAID controller (PCI). Mylex Corporation does not offer driver supporting Debian Linux as well as FreeBSD and other free UNIX systems. Could anyone help me? Thanks Serguei. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PRO

color in console (was: Colored ls output)

1997-08-07 Thread hal
Hi I have a question about color on Virtual consoles. Slackware was defaulted to color but I can't find it in 3.1. Is it in termcap? My term echos as 'linux' I get no color from ls or minicom. thanks in advance hal +++ Codea, Compilea, Coredumea +++ I coded, I compiled, I cored

Re: Debian-Lite : The Project

1997-08-07 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote: > To get a feel for this, I made up what seemed to be a comfortable working > Debian and went through the excercise of creating it from a minimum set of > packages. The working Debian was just on 40 Mb and it needed only 8 Mb > of packages to produce th

can not start openwin

1997-08-07 Thread Davinder Pal Singh \(STEP\)
Hello Friends, I am pretty new to Debian Linux. I have installed Debian 1.3.xx on a 100 Mhz Pentium PC. But I am unable to start openwindow. I have installed the olvwm *.deb package with the help of dpkg and xserver etc. before that. But somehow I am not able to start openwin. The message I get is

Re: Large Disk New Install

1997-08-07 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Syd Alsobrook wrote: > So, I installed a new 1.3.1 system from the cheapbytes cd, the install went > very smooth everything is working, although I find it annoying that > deselect scans through every file on the disk when it is installing 1 file. > Only one problem when I try t

Re: Debian Memory Limit at 64MB ?

1997-08-07 Thread Shaya Potter
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Markus Diesmann wrote: > Hi, > > we have Debian installed on a PC with 256MB. > However it seems, that Debian uses only 64MB > (according to top and free). > Is there a limit at 64MB? Do we need to set a special > kernel option? Markus this is a problem with some BIOS's that

[Fwd: qmail]

1997-08-07 Thread Davinder Pal Singh \(STEP\)
Hello Friends, I am pretty new to Debian Linux. I have installed Debian 1.3.xx on a 100 Mhz Pentium PC. But I am unable to start openwindow. I have installed the olvwm *.deb package with the help of dpkg and xserver etc. before that. But somehow I am not able to start openwin. The message I get is

Re: Debian-Lite : The Project

1997-08-07 Thread Lindsay Allen
To get a feel for this, I made up what seemed to be a comfortable working Debian and went through the excercise of creating it from a minimum set of packages. The working Debian was just on 40 Mb and it needed only 8 Mb of packages to produce this, as most files came from base1_3.tgz. In other

Re: Threads information, book recommendation.

1997-08-07 Thread Thomas Baetzler
David B. Teague wrote: :Would someone please recommend a book on threads programming? Norton, Scott J., "Threadtime - The Multithreaded Programming Guide", Prentice Hall 1996, ISBN 0-13-190067-6 I don't know how far the POSIX stuff they're discussing is identical to what we get in libpthreads -

Re: Why Debian?

1997-08-07 Thread Patrick Weemeeuw
Torsten Hilbrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > Yes!! I heard that the a.out->ELF update worked well in Debian system > (no own experience, I started using Debian with 1.2). > Indeed. At my previous job, I upgraded a HTTP proxy server from a.out to ELF format with only 2 minutes downt

Re: Problems when booting from the OfficialCD

1997-08-07 Thread Carey Evans
Nils Inge Lilleheie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have problems when I try to boot from the (binary) official CD on the > Digital Celebris GL180 PC's. > > The PC recognize the CD to be bootable and displays: > >LDLINUX.SYS 1.30 96/11/04 Copyright (C) 1994-96 H. Peter Arvin > > on the s

Re: Debian-Lite : The Project

1997-08-07 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
> "KG" == Kai Grossjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KG> See Section 6 "Profile Screens". Hmmm, that looks indeed promising. I'm looking forward to seeing that :) -- SSM - Stig Sandbeck Mathisen Mary had a little lamb, and the doctor was *very* surprised -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: Need help diagnosing (*stopping*) a spam problem.

1997-08-07 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] > Once you've done that, you can work on the real solution: disabling the use > of your system as a mail relay. See > http://spam.abuse.net/spam/tools/mailblock.html#relay for that. And the qmail FAQ, especially question 5.4. Also see qmail-control(5) and qmail-

Re: Looking for Talk - HOWTO

1997-08-07 Thread Frank Barknecht
Igor Grobman hat gesagt: // Igor Grobman wrote: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > So my question is: > > How can I be talked at my local Debian-machine?? > > > You need to set your hostname to the one that resolves into your ip address. > > For example node32.yourprovider.com This can be done b

Re: Outputting tabs with sed

1997-08-07 Thread Martin Schulze
> How can I output tabs with sed? > > I need something like: `s//\t' Sorry Nick, I don't understand what you want to get? Change a character into \t? Then you should try 's//\\t/g'. Change a character into a character? You can simply[1] insert characters in sed statements. [1]

Problems when booting from the OfficialCD

1997-08-07 Thread Nils Inge Lilleheie
I have problems when I try to boot from the (binary) official CD on the Digital Celebris GL180 PC's. The PC recognize the CD to be bootable and displays: LDLINUX.SYS 1.30 96/11/04 Copyright (C) 1994-96 H. Peter Arvin on the screen, but nothing more happens.. Does anybody know what mi

Re: missing modules for CHAP?

1997-08-07 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink) writes: > Did the following message ever get posted? I didn't receive it. It got to my ISP at "Thu, 7 Aug 1997 15:13:30 +1200 (NZST)" > Trying to make a PPP connection to AT&T's Worldnet service, I have > created a script that will dial. The modem connection is ma

Re: [DPKG] how to change a package which is depended upon?

1997-08-07 Thread Carey Evans
"Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I want to install qmail, dpkg says that I can't do that because > sendmail is already installed as a MTA. If I want to uninstall sendmail, > then it refuses because a lot of package depends on MTA. I've tried > --auto-deconfigure, but seems

Re: man gives segmentation fault

1997-08-07 Thread Carey Evans
Kevin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > % man man > Segmentation fault > % ls -l /usr/bin/man > -rwsr-xr-x 1 man root71204 May 21 10:40 /usr/bin/man > % strace man > execve("/usr/bin/man", ["man"], [/* 29 vars */]) = 0 > strace: exec: Operation not permitted It's not pe

Re: Modprobe error and kerneld question

1997-08-07 Thread Carey Evans
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I do have auto in etc modules and nothing else. PPP/serial/slhc loads > as a module when I use pon/poff without my intervention, but isofs and > msdos/fat do not when I use mount. % /sbin/lsmod Module PagesUsed by psaux 11

Re: Debian Memory Limit at 64MB ?

1997-08-07 Thread jdassen
On Aug 7, Markus Diesmann wrote > we have Debian installed on a PC with 256MB. However it seems, that > Debian uses only 64MB (according to top and free). Is there a limit at > 64MB? Do we need to set a special kernel option? See /usr/doc/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO.gz For PCs, there appears to be n

Re: Need help diagnosing (*stopping*) a spam problem.

1997-08-07 Thread jdassen
On Aug 7, Rob Browning wrote [ISP abused by spammers] > I'd appreciate any help in diagnosing and stopping this (an RTFM would be > fine). I'm not really an expert on this, so I'll point you to a FM: http://spam.abuse.net . > I've reproduced a bit of suspicious log and one of the bounces below.

Debian Memory Limit at 64MB ?

1997-08-07 Thread Markus Diesmann
Hi, we have Debian installed on a PC with 256MB. However it seems, that Debian uses only 64MB (according to top and free). Is there a limit at 64MB? Do we need to set a special kernel option? Thanks for any information, Markus Diesmann Neurobiology and Biophysics Freiburg Germany -- TO UNSUBSC

Re: Outputting tabs with sed

1997-08-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: > > How can I output tabs with sed? > > I need something like: `s//\t' In theory, sed -e 's// /' ^ | tab char should work, but it d

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