Problems with inbound ppp

1997-10-27 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I am not able to set up my Linux box as a ppp server (just one ppp line). It looks like pppd is assigning it's IP address to the client. The server's IP address is 147.83.61.27, and the clients' should be 147.83.61.201 Here are the logs for the server: ===ppp.log===

Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers

1997-10-27 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I have a question every so often I get messages of the following form Oct 27 20:58:27 garfield kernel: eth0: Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers,s tatus 7fffceff! Oct 27 20:58:27 garfield kernel: eth0: Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers,s tatus 073a858e! Oct 27 20:58:27 garfield

Re: On Bruce Perens and Dave Cinege, etc.

1997-10-27 Thread M W Blunier
On 27 Oct 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > What problems are term limits supposed to solve, exactly? They prevent the voters from re-electing someone that due to his entrenchment in the system, has more power than a freshman would have. Greedy and self serving voters vote for the incumba

Intel EtherExpress Pro 100B

1997-10-27 Thread Matt Thompson
I'm trying to install the driver for this card. I followed the instructions, and when I executed the compile-command I found at the bottom of the eepro100.c file (gcc -DMODVERSIONS -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/net/inet -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c eepro100.c), I receive the following

Re: Exiting VC from another

1997-10-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, PATRICK DAHIROC wrote: > I'm just wandering, but is there any way to logout of a Virtual Console > from another Console (i.e. logout of tty1 from tty2)? The reason I ask > this is I managed to hang tty1 and I had to kill all process on tty1 from > tty2 and then rebooted the s

Re: dselect infinite loop?

1997-10-27 Thread Will Lowe
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, PATRICK DAHIROC wrote: > A weird thing happens to deselect when I run it. It keeps replacing > existing files in my system even though I did not select it. And it keeps > on doing this over and over again. This is the first time this has > happened. Normally is simply skip

Re: [Q] Various problems with Compaq DeskPro XL - CD-ROM, MSS Sound.

1997-10-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: >... >kernel: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 >kernel: scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 2 SCSI disks total. >kernel: SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 411 [2006 >MB] [2.0 GB] >kernel: SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector=

Exiting VC from another

1997-10-27 Thread PATRICK DAHIROC
Hi I'm just wandering, but is there any way to logout of a Virtual Console from another Console (i.e. logout of tty1 from tty2)? The reason I ask this is I managed to hang tty1 and I had to kill all process on tty1 from tty2 and then rebooted the system. Is there a more elegant way of doing this

dselect infinite loop?

1997-10-27 Thread PATRICK DAHIROC
Hi A weird thing happens to deselect when I run it. It keeps replacing existing files in my system even though I did not select it. And it keeps on doing this over and over again. This is the first time this has happened. Normally is simply skips over files that were already selected, but not

Re: IMPORTANT Correction: The real Debian.org

1997-10-27 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Actually, the first test case has already been won, and I doubt there will > be a second The first test case was not sufficiently general. There must be more of them to overturn the law. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed

term limits

1997-10-27 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I just don't see the point in making the process of succession so > competitive. It depends if you want the project leader choice to be democratic or not. If it's going to be democratic, there _has_ to be competition. Thanks Bruce -- Can you g

Re: startx and no remote x-connections

1997-10-27 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On 27 Oct 1997, Peter Weiss wrote: > Hello Debianers, > > Usually I have set up runlevel 2 for logging in using xdm. This works > fine, I can address my Display by Host:0.0. > > If I start the X server on runlevel 3, which has no S99xdm at the end, > only local connections with D

Re: [HELP] Netscape & RealAudio & plug-ins

1997-10-27 Thread Jonah Beckford
The 'Applications' choice is under Preferences->Navigator(click on the arrow!)->Applications. Then change the RealAudio setup (or add a new one if it isn't there) with Description: RealPlayer 5.0 Beta MIMEType: audio/x-pn-realaudio Suffixs: .ra,.ram,.rm Application: /[THE PATH OF REALPLAYER]/

Re: Unable F1-F4 mc running in rxvt

1997-10-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, David Puryear wrote: > When running mc under rxvt, I can't use F1-F4, but I can use them in xterm. > Again, rxvt is from hamm. With the rxvt from bo, I didn't have this problem. > I can confirm this. Keyboard mapping in X is always somewhat weird. I stay with rxvt 2.20-3 In

Re: what package contains "unix2dos" and "dos2unix"?

1997-10-27 Thread m*
Paul Miller wrote: > > ? > > -Paul > stable/binary-i386/utils/sysutils_1.2-1.deb -- "The Shining One" -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: what package contains "unix2dos" and "dos2unix"?

1997-10-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote: : ? : : -Paul : kepler:~ $ dpkg -S dos2unix sysutils: /usr/bin/dos2unix sysutils: /usr/man/man1/dos2unix.1 kepler:~ $ dpkg -S unix2dos sysutils: /usr/bin/unix2dos sysutils: /usr/man/man1/unix2dos.1 -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue -

Re: what package contains "unix2dos" and "dos2unix"?

1997-10-27 Thread Simon's Mailing List Account
[EMAIL PROTECTED] slk]$ dpkg -S dos2unix sysutils: /usr/bin/dos2unix sysutils: /usr/man/man1/dos2unix.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] slk]$ so dos2unix is in the sysutils package, which is an optional package in utils. On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > ? > > -Paul > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THI

Re: what package contains "unix2dos" and "dos2unix"?

1997-10-27 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
sysutils from section utils. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > ? > > -Paul > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

RE: Win95 connected to my Debian box

1997-10-27 Thread David Puryear
On 27-Oct-97 Matt Thompson wrote: hi, i just received my new ibm tp560 and am going to network it to my debian desktop. i could, of course, put debian on the tp (and probably will make a partition for it), but i want to learn about networking win95 clients with

Re: dosemu and Wordperfect 5.1

1997-10-27 Thread Erv Walter
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: >> On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, Johann Spies wrote: >> >> What sort of problems are you having? > Instability to such an extend that I cannot us Wordperfect in Dosemu. I What version of DOS is doesmu running. I found wp

what package contains "unix2dos" and "dos2unix"?

1997-10-27 Thread Paul Miller
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Re: Netscape for Linux

1997-10-27 Thread Paul Miller
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Chuma Agbodike wrote: > Thanks to you and all that responded. > I have downloaded and installed Netscape commuinicator ver 4.03 > > One thing though. In win95 version I am able to use the same copy > to access two separate ISPs, by usiing the UTILITY provided to > setup the

Re: Clock/Time Zone

1997-10-27 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
For the timezone, run /usr/sbin/tzconfig . To set the CMOS clock /usr/sbin/clock (This may be /usr/sbin/hwclock in newer versions I've heard.) If you really want to keep your system time accurate, install the xntp package. You need a network connection for that though. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMA

Re: Sendmail question.

1997-10-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, What you are asking for is called masquerading (people on hosta.foo.com are trying to masquerade as people from foo.com). This was easy even in pre m4 das of sendmail configuration, and in these new days of m4 ease this is a piece of cake. This /etc/mail/sendmail.mc shall i

Re: On Bruce Perens and Dave Cinege, etc.

1997-10-27 Thread Britton
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Richard G. Roberto wrote: > > [snip] > > PROPOSAL FOR TERM LIMITS > > > > I propose that all elected posts in the Debian organization > > be subject to the following term limits: I actually like this proposal. I have no pr

Re: Win95 connected to my Debian box

1997-10-27 Thread Bruce Perens
Samba, the standard set of net servers, and perhaps a POP server are all you need. File and printer sharing work excellently in both directions. Telnet works from the Windows machine to Debian, POP mail works (Valerie uses and old Eudora at home, but I think I've seen it work with Exchange, too).

Clock/Time Zone

1997-10-27 Thread Jason R. Bauer
How do you change the time zone and clock? I changed the time once (as root) but the next time i rebooted the time was incorrect again. --- Jason Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Guru 23 Computing Services You break it, We fix it! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to

Re: [HELP] Netscape & RealAudio & plug-ins

1997-10-27 Thread Bob Billson
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Weird, it's there for me... did you try clicking on "Navigator" or the >little triangle to the left of "Navigator"? That should give you a >dropdown with new menuentries, among them "Applications" DOH!!! I was clicking on word 'Navigator'. That gives

Re: [Q] Various problems with Compaq DeskPro XL - CD-ROM, MSS Sound.

1997-10-27 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Oops. On second thoughts i have not given you a good answer at all. I see I have the same problem with the cd-rom on a 6000. Making the device seems to do the trick. -- Jaldhar On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > Try this URL: http://www-c724.uibk.ac.at/XL/ > > It should tell y

What happened to clock frequency

1997-10-27 Thread David Puryear
Hi all, Used to I could get clock frequency when X started, but now I don't see it. Is there any way to get this info. like I just to? I am running svga server from hamm. Thanks for any info., David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Unable F1-F4 mc running in rxvt

1997-10-27 Thread David Puryear
Hi, When running mc under rxvt, I can't use F1-F4, but I can use them in xterm. Again, rxvt is from hamm. With the rxvt from bo, I didn't have this problem. TIA, David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROT

Re: POP and SMTP program for shell users

1997-10-27 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Mon, Oct 27, 1997 at 01:37:08PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: : Is there a elm/pine type program that will do POP and SMTP? thanks. Mutt does this rather well. I think there's a pretty up-to-date version of it in hamm. Personally, I didn't use the hamm package. I compiled my own (w/pgpmime support),

Re: POP and SMTP program for shell users

1997-10-27 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Shaleh wrote: > > > > > Is there a elm/pine type program that will do POP and SMTP? thanks. > > > > 1) Install qpopper or imap-4 depending on the protocol you want. No > >co

Win95 connected to my Debian box

1997-10-27 Thread Matt Thompson
hi, i just received my new ibm tp560 and am going to network it to my debian desktop. i could, of course, put debian on the tp (and probably will make a partition for it), but i want to learn about networking win95 clients with linux servers. i am currently running hamm and am downloading samba

Re: [Q] Various problems with Compaq DeskPro XL - CD-ROM, MSS Sound.

1997-10-27 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Try this URL: http://www-c724.uibk.ac.at/XL/ It should tell you all you need to know. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > When I boot up - > > kernel: FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 > kernel: scsi0 : AM53/79C974 PCscsi driv

Re: POP and SMTP program for shell users

1997-10-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Shaleh wrote: > > > Is there a elm/pine type program that will do POP and SMTP? thanks. > > 1) Install qpopper or imap-4 depending on the protocol you want. No >configuration necessary that I know about. Why this? Isn't that

help needed installing hamm

1997-10-27 Thread Otavio Exel
hi everybody, I've got a newbie index of 2 in a 0..10 range :-) I've tried to update from a fresh install of bo to hamm but couldn't; as I'd like very mutch to experiment with hamm & 2.0.30 now I decided to try a fresh install of hamm; how do I do that? the set of disks I can see in ftp.debian.or

RE: pppd and ISP dialup

1997-10-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
> > user lucas // I believe this is for pap authentication <<-- yeah but you > need stuff in pap-secrets might add +pap > I don't think +pap is right. As I understand it, it would demand the isp's router to authentificate itself via pap. If you want to, you could use x-isp, an X frontend to p

Re: [Q] Various problems with Compaq DeskPro XL - CD-ROM, MSS Sound.

1997-10-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
his device did not exist on my machine, so I did this to get it: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV sr0 ls -l /dev/sr0 br--r--r-- 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Jul 24 13:21 /dev/sr0 Maybe try rebuilding the device? I notice yours is different. > kernel: Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lu

on term limits

1997-10-27 Thread Bruce Perens
Richard thinks I'm a putz? I am struck to the heart! Oh, cruel fate! :-) Term limits are fine, but the biggest problem so far has been finding serious candidates for the job. I greatly appreciate Ian's running, as until now there never has been a contested election, and I could not seriously say t

[HELP] Netscape & RealAudio & plug-ins

1997-10-27 Thread Bob Billson
This isn't particularly Debian-specific. My apologies for being off topic. I finally broke down and installed Netscape (Communicator 4.03) on my Debian system. I also downloaded the RealAudio player (5.0 beta version). The problem is getting Netscape to recognize the player or any other plug-in

[Q] Various problems with Compaq DeskPro XL - CD-ROM, MSS Sound.

1997-10-27 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
When I boot up - kernel: FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 kernel: scsi0 : AM53/79C974 PCscsi driver rev. 0.5; host I/O address: 0x7100; irq: 11 kernel: kernel: scsi : 1 host. kernel: Vendor: COMPAQPC Model: ST32430N Rev: 0554 kernel: Type: Direct-Access

Re: On Bruce Perens and Dave Cinege, etc.

1997-10-27 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Richard G. Roberto wrote: [snip] > PROPOSAL FOR TERM LIMITS > > I propose that all elected posts in the Debian organization > be subject to the following term limits: [snip] So, Richard. Are you ready to commit a lot of your private time to becoming project leader for a yea

Re: POP and SMTP program for shell users

1997-10-27 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Shaleh wrote: > Is there a elm/pine type program that will do POP and SMTP? thanks. 1) Install qpopper or imap-4 depending on the protocol you want. No configuration necessary that I know about. 2) Install fetchmail and configure it to work with qpopper or imap-4. Some

How do I setup smail with majordomo

1997-10-27 Thread Mario Filipe
Hi I have smail running on my system. Now I also want to have majordomo, in fact i already have majordomo running and setup (i can subscribe to the list), but when i try to sen d any messages to the list, they get lost in the void. Does anyone Know what to do ? I've already put some aliases in /et

startx and no remote x-connections

1997-10-27 Thread Peter Weiss
Hello Debianers, Usually I have set up runlevel 2 for logging in using xdm. This works fine, I can address my Display by Host:0.0. If I start the X server on runlevel 3, which has no S99xdm at the end, only local connections with Display ":0" are accepted, using the Host:0.0 a

Re[2]: modem problems

1997-10-27 Thread TENCC01.LEWIS01
Actually, it's worse than just what follows the "CONNECT". If the line quality goes down, most modems will drop speed accordingly. That would mean an change in speed at the tty "on the fly". That is rather hard to predict... jim __ Reply Separator _

DC, Debian.org, Bruce & stuff, guys, USE YOUR BRAINS

1997-10-27 Thread Peter Gervai
I'm nobody (just an annoyed lurker) but please think it over: 1) If you do care what DC argues about then answer to his address, not to the list. Help keeping pollution down and the better use of the available electron pool. 2) If you don't want to hear about him again, then please do not answer

POP and SMTP program for shell users

1997-10-27 Thread Shaleh
Is there a elm/pine type program that will do POP and SMTP? thanks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: XFree86 setup!!!

1997-10-27 Thread corey A
Actually I would love to hear the advice to this user as I have the same board on my machine and X does not run ever since I upgraded to Debian 1.3.1 At 08:05 AM 10/27/97 +, Chuma Agbodike wrote: >I suspect you told xf86config to Probe. >Do not probe. And do not use the fancy setup program. >

Re: Hamm installation

1997-10-27 Thread Scott Ellis
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Bao C. Ha wrote: > > What is the proper way to install Hamm? I want to install it on a > clean disk. I use the CDROM to install the base 1.3. Then when > it reboots, I use FTP in dselect to try to install hamm. It did > not work. http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/ -- Scot

Idled

1997-10-27 Thread Matthew Tebbens
Has anyone noticed idled causing crashes/reboots ? Matthew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Hamm installation

1997-10-27 Thread Bao C. Ha
What is the proper way to install Hamm? I want to install it on a clean disk. I use the CDROM to install the base 1.3. Then when it reboots, I use FTP in dselect to try to install hamm. It did not work. Appreciate any comments/suggestions. Thanks. Bao -- Bao C. Ha ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Using DHCP

1997-10-27 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Jason Washburn wrote: > Has anyone has any luck connecting with DHCP, my campus uses is and I > was > wondering how I can hook up to the network that way... Working without any problems here. package dhcpcd. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We a

X windows

1997-10-27 Thread Melani Pathyil
Hello! Recently, I installed Debian Gnu/Linux on my home computer. Since then, I've been trying to install and configure X with little success. I have a feeling that the problem is in my choice of video cards during XF86Setup. I have STB Velocity 128 4MB video card with an AGP bus. Since th

Not more? Re: my ~/.mail/tmp/DISSENT folder reached 123.

1997-10-27 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Oct 27, 1997 at 05:06:01PM +0100, Giuseppeferdy Miceli wrote: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Giuseppe "ferdy" Miceli) > Date: 27 Oct 1997 17:06:00 +0100 > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Lines: 12 > X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.52/XEmacs 20.2 > >ciao, > > i've got 123 mails about dissent and rel

Sendmail question.

1997-10-27 Thread Dale Harrison
This isn't particularly Debian, but I'm hoping someone can shed some light anyway. It involves Sendmail, so if you don't care for it, you can ignore the rest of this message :) Heres the deal. I have two hosts. hosta.foo.com and hostb.foo.com. hosta uses hostb as its smtp gateway. [hosta is inte

Re: IMPORTANT Correction: The real Debian.org

1997-10-27 Thread Britton
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 1997 at 07:18:27PM -0500, Dave Cinege wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Oct 1997 23:54:15 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > >On Sun, Oct 26, 1997 at 12:25:56PM -1000, Jimen Ching wrote: > > >> > > >> 2. To the users, it's so pitiful that use

Re: dosemu and Wordperfect 5.1

1997-10-27 Thread Johann Spies
On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, Johann Spies wrote: > > > Is there anybody who could get Wordperfect 5.1 working on Dosemu? I would > > like to know how they did it. > > I have used both WP5.1 and 6.0 with dosemu (many versions over the past > three years) with n

Re: On Bruce Perens and Dave Cinege, etc.

1997-10-27 Thread john
Richard G. Roberto writes: > This is a testimony to how frightening an individual Dave Cinege really > is. Tedious, yes, but frightening? Hardly. > We must revoke his license to victimize the community at large. No one is being "victimized" by Mr. Cinege's blitherings. The only thing truly off

X++ library: what package?

1997-10-27 Thread Paul Miller
What package can I find the X++ library in (I need it to compile xIrc)? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Using DHCP

1997-10-27 Thread Joey Hess
Jason Washburn wrote: > Has anyone has any luck connecting with DHCP, my campus uses is and I > was > wondering how I can hook up to the network that way... Have you tried installing the dhcpcd package? It should get you up on the network very easily. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FRO

Using DHCP

1997-10-27 Thread Jason Washburn
Has anyone has any luck connecting with DHCP, my campus uses is and I was wondering how I can hook up to the network that way... Any help would be appreciated.. Jason -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [E

my ~/.mail/tmp/DISSENT folder reached 123.

1997-10-27 Thread ferdy
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Giuseppe "ferdy" Miceli) Date: 27 Oct 1997 17:06:00 +0100 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lines: 12 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.52/XEmacs 20.2 ciao, i've got 123 mails about dissent and related things. i think - my humble opinion of course - those are far too many for a non-te

Re: XFree86 setup!!!

1997-10-27 Thread Chuma Agbodike
I suspect you told xf86config to Probe. Do not probe. And do not use the fancy setup program. And then make sure you see a stable grey screen before venturing further. You may also have to use the following command line. startx -- -bpp 16 Chuma Shaul Peleg wrote: > I have tried numerous insta

Re: Netscape for Linux

1997-10-27 Thread Chuma Agbodike
Thanks to you and all that responded. I have downloaded and installed Netscape commuinicator ver 4.03 One thing though. In win95 version I am able to use the same copy to access two separate ISPs, by usiing the UTILITY provided to setup the accounts. Is there a similar utility for LINUX version ?

Re: PCMCIA/kernel problems [scheme]

1997-10-27 Thread Mike Miller
> "brian" == Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Miller) writes: >> Here's a related question - where is the SCHEME variable >> set in a Debian 1.3 system? The pcmcia docs state that >> the default value is `default', but on my system, the >> d

Re: Minicom character problem

1997-10-27 Thread Adam J. Klein
Sorry to bother people on the list. I was just using the wrong terminal emulation. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: On Bruce Perens and Dave Cinege, etc.

1997-10-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I think term limits may not be the panacea that people think they are. 1) Unlike general elections, incumbents do not have more money to spend than challengers 2) Unlike general elections, incumbents do not get more into the constituents eye (any body can mail on the lists

RE: [Q] Cyrix 6x86L [SOLVED]

1997-10-27 Thread Vladislav Papayan x285
Hi, I found that Cyrix was NOT the cause of my problem. I have bad memory chips. As soon as I switched the memory everything is working fine. By the way, I think with help of set86 utility and a good fan -- that processor runs even cooler than a 100MHz Intel (IHMO). As far as clocking -- I have C

Re: The real Debian.org

1997-10-27 Thread Gernot Bauer
Orn E. Hansen wrote: > > ^ann 27-Oct-97 skrifar Gernot Bauer: > > Dave (dc) wrote: > >> -- Take heed people. This is what happens if you dare challenge the > >> leadership of the > >> Debian project. > > [crap deleted] > > > > Can we please filter mails from [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the > > debian-u

On Bruce Perens and Dave Cinege, etc.

1997-10-27 Thread Richard G. Roberto
Sorry to have come into this so late, but I was tuned in to a different soap opera ;) This is not the first time someone has requested that Bruce be "impeached" or removed from his post as project leader, or president, or whatever it is currently. This is the first time Dave Cinege has done it.

Re: Debian Certified

1997-10-27 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
This has been my problem. Debian could be so useful for me at work but time after time I keep hearing it is a toy created by hobbyists and their is no support. Actually, there is a list of consultants on the web site but that's not enough. The last time this was discussed I think the consensus

Re: news & mail

1997-10-27 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Nagy Csaba wrote: > How can I email to news group ? > I'd want to configure my mail server to post every emails > - according to a mail group - to a given news group. > Is it possible ? > > Csaba > There's a Debian package called newsgate which sounds like it could do wh

Re: The real Debian.org

1997-10-27 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > Yeah, and bandwidth costs money... and who wants to pay for opinions > nobody wants to hear, right? > I will gladly pay for opinions I do not want to hear but is it asking too much for them to have some substance? At one time Dave had a slight point

Re: net-acct problem

1997-10-27 Thread Rolf Obrecht
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Thomas Baetzler wrote: > Rolf Obrecht wrote: > :messages in kern.log: > > Maybe you could provide more info on the > hardware configuration you're running (i.e. memory, CPU, network adapters). > It is a 486DX2/66 with 16MB and two SMC Ultra ethernet cards, running nothing b

news & mail

1997-10-27 Thread Nagy Csaba
How can I email to news group ? I'd want to configure my mail server to post every emails - according to a mail group - to a given news group. Is it possible ? Csaba -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: The real Debian.org

1997-10-27 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 27-Oct-97 skrifar Gernot Bauer: > Dave (dc) wrote: >> -- Take heed people. This is what happens if you dare challenge the >> leadership of the >> Debian project. > [crap deleted] > > Can we please filter mails from [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the > debian-user-list (and the digest). It was funny

exmh configuration

1997-10-27 Thread Mario Filipe
--- Begin Message --- Hello I'm using exmh. I Have several folders and i would like to have INC separating the mails for each folder. I chose pre-sort (or something like that) in the prefs but I don't know what i have to do to specify the criteria, and in this way inc does nothing (it he does s

Enlightenment window manager

1997-10-27 Thread Ana Silva
Hello All I've just installed Enlightenment but when i try to startx it says it can't find a configuration file and then it shuts down X. Can someone send me a configuration file or tell me how can I do it ? -- |\.../| .0.0. (= - =) Ana Graca Silva |X| [EMAIL PRO

sendmail -> smail: easiest way!

1997-10-27 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, What should be the easiest way to go from sendmail to smail? Is there any risk of loosing e-mail in the transition? e.g. those in the send/receive queue. Thanks, []s, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP

Re: dselect problem...

1997-10-27 Thread David Puryear
On 27-Oct-97 Lukas Eppler wrote: On 26 Oct 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: > If I recall properly, I had this problem at one point and solved by > upgrading to a newer dpkg-ftp. Try downloading the newest version > from hamm with a regular ftp program and installing with `dpkg -i'.

Re: net-acct problem

1997-10-27 Thread Thomas Baetzler
Rolf Obrecht wrote: :I use the package net-acct on one of our debian-machines. :Works ok if it runs, but nacctd sometimes dies, and I get the following :messages in kern.log: I don't know anything about net-acct apart from the fact that it's been running fine for close to two months on one of my

rc564 & diald

1997-10-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
rc564 seems to be keeping my link alive all the time, like since 3am so far (it's nearly 11pm now). I recently increased the timeouts for everything from 10 to 30 minutes and that seems to be enough to keep the link up. Does anyone have some diald.conf lines to ignore rc564 traffic? I added igno

Configuring Majordomo

1997-10-27 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hello I downloaded majordomo. While folowing the instruction on INSTALL, i was forced to stop on wrapper config-test because it tell's me the folowing : -- Checking to see if there are new variables that should be in your majordomo.cf file...BAD: Couldn't open sample.cf for reading, No such file

Re: Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO (regular posting, updated)

1997-10-27 Thread Christian Leutloff
Scott Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2.4. Other Possible Conflicts > > Since perl is used in many package installation scripts, problems with > with library upgrades may temporarily break perl, which may break > other package installations. To be safe, install the new libgdbm1 and

Installing from a CD

1997-10-27 Thread Julio Arrebola
Hi everybody, I've been trying to install debian 1.3.1 from a CD. The proccess starts fine but after loading the kernel the system reboot again. My system is a Pentium 166 MMX, TX Mather Board, 32MB of RAM, S3 Virge Video Card, SB 64AWE, 24x CD and 2 hard disks. Does anyone have any clue of

net-acct problem

1997-10-27 Thread Rolf Obrecht
Hello, I use the package net-acct on one of our debian-machines. Works ok if it runs, but nacctd sometimes dies, and I get the following messages in kern.log: Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address c040 Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel:

Re: dselect problem...

1997-10-27 Thread LUK ShunTim
David Puryear wrote: > > Hi all, > > With deselect, I have the Access with ftp with right directory and all then I > pick update which download new packages files from dists/unstable/main, > non-free, and contrib like the way it should. But when I do Install I get this > messages: > Processing st

Re: The real Debian.org

1997-10-27 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Sorry for the cross-post but I had to do it... On 26 Oct, Dave Cinege wrote: > > Take heed people. This is what happens if you dare challenge the leadership > of the > Debian project. This is what happens if you chanllenge without valid motivations. > If you are new to Debian, please don't ma

Re: dselect problem...

1997-10-27 Thread Lukas Eppler
On 26 Oct 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: > David Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > With deselect, I have the Access with ftp with right directory and all then > > I > > pick update which download new packages files from dists/unstable/main, > > non-free, and contrib like the way it should. But when

Re: win95 fat32

1997-10-27 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Sun, 26 Oct 1997, hmaddox wrote: > Rather new to linux but a pretty through search found nothing on vfat32 > from win 95 osr2 and debian linux. I get an invalid file system > responce when i try to mount . ??? This subject was discussed recently; look at the archive at www.debian.org: Subj

Re: win95 fat32

1997-10-27 Thread jdassen
On Sun, Oct 26, 1997 at 09:06:35PM -0500, hmaddox wrote: > Rather new to linux but a pretty through search found nothing on vfat32 > from win 95 osr2 and debian linux. I get an invalid file system responce > when i try to mount . ??? There is no FAT32 support in the regular Linux kernel. Check

Re: The real Debian.org

1997-10-27 Thread Gernot Bauer
Dave (dc) wrote: > -- Take heed people. This is what happens if you dare challenge the > leadership of the > Debian project. [crap deleted] Can we please filter mails from [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the debian-user-list (and the digest). It was funny in the beginning but this freak just wastes bandw

Re: * Formal call for the removal of Bruce Perens *

1997-10-27 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
On Sun, 26 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Many responders have complained about the cross posting of dc's > complaints. Why, then, do they post their responses to multiple > debian lists? We did that so that DC would get it X times that there are many people disagree with him :). On th

Re: cdrom problems

1997-10-27 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
On Sun, 26 Oct 1997, ITom - WebIroda wrote: > > I thought this was normal. It means the kernel's noticed you've got > > a different CD-ROM in than last time it looked. > OK Thanks. > > > > interleaved files not (yet) supported'. I didn't have any problems > > > with the other drive with this De

Debian Certified

1997-10-27 Thread tmalloy
I have been thinking that some system of evaluating proficiency in Debian Gnu/Linux and its applications might be helpful to both beginning and advanced users. (and developers also) Many commercial sites hesitate to use Linux because of support issues. As this changes, and hopefully it wi

Re: cdrom problems

1997-10-27 Thread Tamas Imrei
> > ISO9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A > > Interleaved files not (yet) supported. > > Warning: defective cdrom (volume sequence number). Enabling "cruft" > > mount option. > > You shouldn't get this from the official Debian CD, or from a CD > that didn't do this on another drive. The awful thing is th

Re: Minicom character display problems

1997-10-27 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam J. Klein) writes: > One of my uses for Minicom is to call up my local library. When I do > this in DOS, everything goes fine, but when I use Minicom in Linux, all > the line drawing characters get changed into `A's and `.'s. How can I > fix this problem? Are you running

Re: About Dave Cinege's postings

1997-10-27 Thread Matt Thompson
> Do not fear that I will be unduly effected by his messages. > > Thanks > > Bruce thanks to you, Bruce, for your patience and cool-headedness. i haven't been around long enough to disagree with you :) (seems that *every* thinking person would eventually disagree with the leader abo

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