I wrote:
> What config tool comes with cnews? with suck? with pppd?
Jason Costomiris writes:
> I've got this great one. It's flexible in its operation, and very
> extensible.
> vi.
Yes, I'm fairly familiar with it, having used it to (among other things)
configure cnews since the early 1980's.
>>"Carl" == Carl Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Carl> You should just be aware that the 'make mrproper' also appears
Carl> to remove your '.config' file, so you should save it elsewhere
Carl> if you have already run a configure.
make-kpkg clean (from kernel-package) call make mrprope
You should be aware that we have a little problem with KDE. It uses Qt,
which isn't free software by Debian's definition. For this reason,
we are looking very hard at several upcoming replacements for KDE, and
will probably designate one as our preferred graphical desktop when it
is ready. If I had
> is there some document somewhere describe how to build
> a debian kernel and make it a *.deb package?
The kernel-package package produces packaged kernels.
Say that three times fast. Then install kernel-package and read
its man page.
> Lastly, how to build the loadable module in debian?
I gene
I am having a really hard time getting SVGALib working with my Stingray
64/V. I have the svgalib package in stable installed. I believe the
Stingray uses the ARK 2000PV chipset
XFree86 works fine. However, whenever I try a SVGAlib program, it either
causes my monitor to 'sleep' or gives me a seg f
Nicole,
> Ah, about that cheap MIDI (possibly mute) keyboard, I saw that
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] was talking about it too, he was looking
> for midi software packages and mainly for software synthesis.
Well, speaking of that, this is what I settled on. I turned out
getting a Yamaha PSR-220. It cost
I think you have to re-build the kernel with Triton IDE DMA support enabled.
Bruce
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How do I - boot into maitenence mode.
I have a machine about 6 months old that will not boot completely.
I get the message :
"mounting local file systems ..."
and then the box hangs ... any ideas?
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Well then, didn't really think to look at the man page for lilo.conf.
Thanks for the assist.
Timm
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997 12:44:19 -0700, Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>On Wed, 22 Oct 1997 18:27:53 GMT Timm Gleason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
>> Philippe Troin mentioned someth
Hi,
Anyone here know offhand that the 1.3 or 1.3.1 kernel has been
built with Generic SCSI device and Loopback device as loadable
module?
Secondly, is there some document somewhere describe how to build
a debian kernel and make it a *.deb package?
Lastly, how to build the loadable m
> "Darin" == Darin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Darin> 1) Nethack has a problem with the
Darin> /var/lib/games/nethack/perm(?) file, and claims there's no
Darin> permission to write to it. I changed
Darin> /usr/lib/games/nethack/nethack to setuid, and it worked (it
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Joey Hess wrote:
> Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > That is exactly when they start unloading!
>
> Yep, you're right, I've relaized that my sounds module could be unloading
> about then.
>
Make an explicit entry in /etc/modules for that module and it will stay
installed. (even if you
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997 18:27:53 GMT Timm Gleason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Philippe Troin mentioned something about a password option,
>
> >Lilo has a password option (which you probably want to use with the
> >restricted option too). RTFM.
>
> but I have been unable to find anything about thi
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Richard L Shepherd wrote:
> Not sure if this has been thrashed out before:
>
> Is Debian (or Linux in general) year 2000 *safe*? I'm not even sure what
> that means precisely, but I'm responsible for finding out round here and
> wondered if it's been discussed on this group.
Dale Scheetz wrote:
>
> On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> > Lindsay Allen wrote:
> > > I am getting error/warnings on both bo and hamm boxes after
> > > installing 2.0.31. Anybody else having trouble with it?
> >
> > Yep. Random freezes, generally when I'm not using the machine, in
> > t
Dale Scheetz wrote:
> That is exactly when they start unloading!
Yep, you're right, I've relaized that my sounds module could be unloading
about then.
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On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Joey Hess wrote:
> Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > I've been running it for 24 hours now with no problems, other than the map
> > file error at boot up. Lately I have been building my kernels without
> > module support. I have heard that some of the modules in .31 don't load
> > and u
"Darin Johnson" wrote:
->
-> > Before 100 people jump to correct me, yes, time_t overflows after
-> > Tuesday, January 19, 03:14:07 2038. Fixing this requires that time_t by
-> > typedefed as a 64-bit quantity and then programs using it must be
-> > recompiled. One would hope that the world can
On Jun 21, Juan Carlos Muro wrote
^^^
Your date is set wrongly!
> - How can I do for the files and folders' colours to appear?
eval `/usr/bin/dircolors`
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
alias dir='ls -l'
alias sl='ls'
alias ll='ls -al'
> - How can I do the PWD to appear in the 'prompt'?
if [ $T
Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to compile the kernel. The README says I should make sure
> "/usr/include/asm, /usr/include/linux, and /usr/include/scsi directories
> are just symlinks to the kernel sources". They are not, so should I do a
> "rm -rf asm linux scs
Well I have seen some interesting answers and even some helpful ones
:-)
As for physically cutting off access to the floppy, if I wanted to do
that, I would just send out the server without the floppy in it. If it
gets to the point where we have clients having to boot off of a
floppy, we usually r
1) Nethack has a problem with the /var/lib/games/nethack/perm(?) file,
and claims there's no permission to write to it. I changed
/usr/lib/games/nethack/nethack to setuid, and it worked (it was setgid
already). I presume setuid was the wrong thing to do; what's the real
scoop?
2) can't get gravi
On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Timm Gleason wrote:
> Does anyone out there know of a way to prevent a Debian box from being
> able to boot into single user mode? We have removed any sort of delay=
> settings from the lilo.conf, and this makes it extremely difficult to
> get into that mode, but does not prev
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Valerio VALDEZ Paolini wrote:
> I am webmaster at my faculty (Computer Science, Bologna,
> Italy) and we are running a web server using (and mirroring)
> Debian Linux and Apache. Here are my questions:
>
> 1) why debian's package contains old v1.1.3 instead of 1.2.4?
1
> Before 100 people jump to correct me, yes, time_t overflows after
> Tuesday, January 19, 03:14:07 2038. Fixing this requires that time_t by
> typedefed as a 64-bit quantity and then programs using it must be
> recompiled. One would hope that the world can find something better
> than POSIX,
Hi!
I was reading the sendmail documentation, and found a note saying that
linux has got a undocumented feature (bug?) which lets the system without
answering accept() calls from the remote side. It's true, since i saw some
machines crying out that the remote system is down.
As of 2.0.30/8.
Hi there,
i have some questions about the apache package and
about Debian Logo.
I am webmaster at my faculty (Computer Science, Bologna,
Italy) and we are running a web server using (and mirroring)
Debian Linux and Apache. Here are my questions:
1) why debian's package contains o
Dale Scheetz wrote:
> I've been running it for 24 hours now with no problems, other than the map
> file error at boot up. Lately I have been building my kernels without
> module support. I have heard that some of the modules in .31 don't load
> and unload properly at all times. Is it possible this
On Tue, Oct 21, 1997 at 07:32:20PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: This is news to me. What config tool comes with cnews? with suck? with
: pppd?
I've got this great one. It's flexible in its operation, and very
extensible.
vi.
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On Wed, Oct 22, 1997 at 03:59:54PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote:
>
> > > > As you suggested (THANK YOU), Marcus, I got 0.4.2c and it correctly
> > > > detects size of memory on soundcard:
> > > >
> > > > AWE32-0.4.2c (RAM4096k)
> > > >
> > >
> > > I tried installing it on top of the AWE
Before 100 people jump to correct me, yes, time_t overflows after
Tuesday, January 19, 03:14:07 2038. Fixing this requires that time_t by
typedefed as a 64-bit quantity and then programs using it must be
recompiled. One would hope that the world can find something better
than POSIX, C, and Unix by
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On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, OS2&LinuxGuide wrote:
> # I just bought Debian 1.3.1, and for some reason the version I got on
> the cdrom pretends to be every bit 1.3 Now I don't have a problem with this,
> but do have a problem with the kernel level of the cdroms. The ke
There is some dispute over whether it's 2038 or later. In any case, one
only need define time_t to be 64 bits and it will last until the
heat-death of the universe.
Bruce
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On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> I've been running it for 24 hours now with no problems, other than the map
> file error at boot up. Lately I have been building my kernels without
> module support. I have heard that some of the modules in .31 don't load
> and unload properly at all times
Can someone recommend a good motherboard for use with SMP Linux ?
I was looking at the DK440LX by Intel for use with dual pII 300's,
it comes with an onboard Adaptec 7895 Dual Channel SCSI controller with
RAIDport... not sure if Linux supports that controller.
Thanks.
Matthew
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On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote:
>
> I am getting error/warnings on both bo and hamm boxes after installing
> 2.0.31. Anybody else having trouble with it?
Nope, Not a problem here. It seems to know my hardware well.
Granted I have only a three day up
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997 19:51:07 +1000 Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 21, 1997 at 08:15:00PM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote:
>> I ran my system with the date in the year 2000 for a few weeks. I could not
>> find any problems. Unix was never so dumb as to store the century as two
>> d
Have you compiled your kernel with
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRITON=y
I get:
hdparm -d1 /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
using_dma= 1 (on)
However, the man page says:
-d Disable/enable the "using_dma" flag for this drive.
This option only works with a few combin
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Kirk Hilliard wrote:
> I do seem to have a reliability issue with some fairly cheap green on
> gold CDRs. (US$4 ea @ qty 100 with a black label thermally printed on
> them by a local company -- supposed to be Sony CDRs, but they were
> totally blank before being printed). T
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote:
> >
> > > As you suggested (THANK YOU), Marcus, I got 0.4.2c and it correctly
> > > detects size of memory on soundcard:
> > >
> > > AWE32-0
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know if there is any Debian package for XMGR
> (graphics software).
>
> Thanks
> Franck
>
There are precompiled linux binaries (4.01 alpha, I think) at the xmgr
home page,
http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Xmgr
I installed the semistatic version on
Thanks to all who offered help on getting my Yamaha CDR400tx (1.0d) CD
recorder working, especially to Nathan Norman who pointed me to
http://www.shop.de/cgi-bin/winni/lsc.pl
where I discovered that cdwrite-2.0 does not support the CDR400tx but
that cdrecord-1.5 does.
There does not seem to be a
Waller Martin MEJ wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have two seperate problems, but both are to do with setting up
> networking.
>
> 1.
>
> My PC(s) at home:
>
> I have two connected with 3C509 ethernet cards, and have given them reserved
> IP addresses. They talk to each other perfectly. No problem
On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Joey Hess wrote:
> Lindsay Allen wrote:
> > I am getting error/warnings on both bo and hamm boxes after installing
> > 2.0.31. Anybody else having trouble with it?
>
> Yep. Random freezes, generally when I'm not using the machine, in the dead
> of night (the *worst* time for
http://www.bai.de/sendsms/sendsms.shtml
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I have the plus entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/group in the client, not
in the master.
/etc/passwd
+:*
/etc/group
+:*:*:
I also changed the /etc/nsswitch.conf to use either "compat" or "db nis
files" for the passwd, group, shadow entries.
It still does not work.
Appreciate any other sugg
Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> I've sometimes cleared it by unloading and reloading the SCSI driver.
iff the boot drive is not on the same SCSI Bus as the CDR drive.
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Hi,
>From my mirror I see that the setup for X has changed considerably. I am
wondering what is the correct procedure to upgrade. I have X 3.3-4
Here is what i think i should do.
First upgrade xlib6 to 3.3.1-1, then remove xlib6-dev and everything that
depnds on it and install xlib6-altdev, the
> I'm trying to upgrade from ldso_1.8.10-2.deb to ldso_1.9.6-2.deb
> because I can't get executor to run. I can run it under slackware
> just fine, and one of the differences is the ld.so itself. I've
> tried preloading the various other libraries with copies from the
> slackware distro. No luc
> What I was looking for was any potential secuity risks that exist in the
> default setup of Debian 1.3.1.*.
http://www.debian.org/security.html
(this lists all security problems. As far as I'm aware, all have been
fixed in bo-updates).
On the other hand, probably the only way to get your syste
Well I spent the day upgrading my system to libc6 so I could install KDE
Beta1. First off thanks to the KDE team who look like they make have
the beginnings, and more, of a decent X interface... YAY! (and of course
the debian packagers)
Everything went smoothly but I am left with a couple quest
> Hi folks. I've tried to install xlib6g_3.3-7.deb and it requires a
> xlib6_3.3-7.deb which is advertised in the Packages file but does
> not seem to be available on ftp.debian.org (?). The glibc-libc5
> mini-howto is great (although discovered after the fact) but does
> not go into upgrading X.
Hi folks. I've tried to install xlib6g_3.3-7.deb and it requires a
xlib6_3.3-7.deb which is advertised in the Packages file but does
not seem to be available on ftp.debian.org (?). The glibc-libc5
mini-howto is great (although discovered after the fact) but does
not go into upgrading X.
Any clues
On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> I've sometimes cleared it by unloading and reloading the SCSI driver.
A question related to this: is it posible to force a driver to unload,
even if it says 'device busy'?
I have a QIC-80-WIDE tape drive, which doesn't seem to understand the
'eof' comma
On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> I've sometimes cleared it by unloading and reloading the SCSI driver.
Hmmm, how do you do that? Do you mean you unload and reload it as a
module?
Joost
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On Tue, Oct 21, 1997 at 08:15:00PM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote:
> I ran my system with the date in the year 2000 for a few weeks. I could not
> find any problems. Unix was never so dumb as to store the century as two
> digits. Richard Stallman and FSF have been testing this, too.
>
> The biggest pro
hi
franck> Hi, I would like to know if there is any Debian package
franck> for XMGR (graphics software).
yes, there is, in hamm/math section: xmgr_4.0.1-1.deb
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>>"Joel" == Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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Joel> 1997-10-21 at approximately 05:45 PM -0700, Mark Phillips wrote:
>> I am trying to compile the kernel. The README says I should make
>> sure "/usr/include/asm, /usr/include/linux, a
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Well I don't know why, but plog has suddenly started to work. At least we
> now have a clue as to why pon isn't working. It comes up with the
> following:
>
> Oct 21 22:36:51 genoa pppd[239]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0
> Oct 21 22:3
Hey guys, signed on to the mailing list a couple days ago, VERY good. Keep up
the
good work!
Okay, now comes the things I don't understand or that are bugging me...
(p.s. LOTS of stuff coming up here)
Note that is any of this is covered in a previous message, just point it out to
me so you
d
Hi,
Well I don't know why, but plog has suddenly started to work. At least we
now have a clue as to why pon isn't working. It comes up with the
following:
Oct 21 22:36:51 genoa pppd[239]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0
Oct 21 22:36:51 genoa pppd[239]: tcgetattr: I/O error
Oct 21 22:36:51 ge
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1997-10-21 at approximately 05:45 PM -0700, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I am trying to compile the kernel. The README says I should make sure
> "/usr/include/asm, /usr/include/linux, and /usr/include/scsi directories
> are just symlinks to the kernel sourc
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Jeff Gunter wrote:
> Silly question: can he use the modem at all? Is he using a pcmcia modem or
> hooking up to a serial port? Some pcmcia configs have trouble w/ interrupt
> conflicts...
I'm not sure if he can use the modem at all. I'll see if I can find out.
He is usin
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Joost Kooij wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
> > A friend of mine has installed debian on his laptop. I tried running pon.
> > It runs without complaining, but doesn't do anything much. The modem
> > doesn't make any of the usual noises associated with a
Hi,
I've been fiddling with hdparm, trying to improve the I/O performance
of my machine (Gateway PII 233, 96Mb, 3.2Gb IDE disk). However, I can't
get hdparm to turn on the DMA mode:
# hdparm -d1 /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
"Bao C. Ha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am having problems configuring NIS in Debian 1.3. I set one up as
> master and one as client, no shadow passwd. From the client, I can do
> "ypcat passwd", and see NIS distributed users. But when I try to log in
> as one of the NIS users, it just does
On 22-Oct-97 Bob Nielsen wrote:
>But it looks like if you don't have the activation key, the functionality
>is no greater than the personal edition. I downloaded the manual and both
>gv and ghostview would only view two pages! I'll stick with taper.
>
>Bob
Yeah, after I tried using it ... it p
Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am trying to compile the kernel. The README says I should make sure
> "/usr/include/asm, /usr/include/linux, and /usr/include/scsi directories
> are just symlinks to the kernel sources". They are not, so should I do a
> "rm -rf asm linux scsi" as the
But it looks like if you don't have the activation key, the functionality
is no greater than the personal edition. I downloaded the manual and both
gv and ghostview would only view two pages! I'll stick with taper.
Bob
On Sat, 18 Oct 1997, George Bonser wrote:
>
> Right, so don't download
Yes. I was having a problem with PPP - after 6-8 hours it would drop the
connection, and then die shortly after reconnecting with the messages in
/var/log/ppp.log
Oct 20 07:14:33 fleming pppd[11094]: No response to 5 echo-requests
Oct 20 07:14:33 fleming pppd[11094]: Serial link appears to be di
I want it to... but only when connecting to shares... win95 prompts only
once at boot.. with novell you can specify a login name for the server
and not have to have the same name for both. Yeah I could have win95
check a name server, but thats a hasle for those who don't connect to the
server.
-
Bruce Perens wrote:
> By the way, my Toshiba system runs the disk about 20% faster when I use
> "hdparm" to turn on 32-bit mode.
How did you benchmark that? I've tried using bonnie, and don't see any real
difference with my disks when I turn 32 bit on and off.
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Lindsay Allen wrote:
> I am getting error/warnings on both bo and hamm boxes after installing
> 2.0.31. Anybody else having trouble with it?
Yep. Random freezes, generally when I'm not using the machine, in the dead
of night (the *worst* time for a computer to freeze).
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I ran my system with the date in the year 2000 for a few weeks. I could not
find any problems. Unix was never so dumb as to store the century as two
digits. Richard Stallman and FSF have been testing this, too.
The biggest problem that may happen has to do with the motherboard BIOS
and the PC cloc
Is it that you don't want win95 to prompt for the username and password,
or you want it to do so? I am using Samba and in the Windows 95 control
panel I set the login to be the network login. Then it prompts for the
username and password when logging in the user, and does not prompt again.
Note al
I've sometimes cleared it by unloading and reloading the SCSI driver.
Bruce
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Not sure if this has been thrashed out before:
Is Debian (or Linux in general) year 2000 *safe*? I'm not even sure what
that means precisely, but I'm responsible for finding out round here and
wondered if it's been discussed on this group.
8<--->8
Richard Shep
When I try uptime, or w, or any of several other commands, I get a
"bad data in /var/run/utmp" message.
I tried rebooting, and it didn't help. Any clues?
Will
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On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> I can't interpret that SCSI error, but you can write to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> and there are people on that list who can help. Could it be a data
> underrun? I would suggest burning CDs in single-user mode until you are
> sure about that. My Pentium 90 ca
Is it possible to have mgetty not answer the phone, but have it print the
caller's name & number to the x/console?
ie. in xconsole it'd say something like:
Oct 21 17:30:00: Incoming call from Anonymous at 555-1234
If so, how could I set this up?
Thanks,
-Paul
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I think I saw a netware/novell emulator on redhat before I switched to
Debian.. what do I need to do to emulate netware? -- I decided this was
probably a better alternative to samba for my win95 clinets (because win95
will prompt for the username and password).. I've already compiled my
kernel for
for some reason or another, xconsole doesn't work with xdm anymore. the
/etc/config file have 'run-xconsole' and everything is correct in the
setup file.. I didn't change anything, only upgrades selected by dselect..
It works perfectly from the the wm's menu.. I tried changing 'xconsole'
to 'xco
On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Adam Shand wrote:
> Now in order to compile KDE I have to have libgif* which require xlib6g
> etc etc... this is a bit frustrating as I am somewhat reluctant to put so
> crucial a part of my system into the 'unstable' tree. Is it possible that
> older versions of the non-free
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