network setup confusion - thanks, less confused

>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 problems. > >In one, I have a modem. I have set it up so that it dials in to my ISP. I type pon, it >dials, and later ifconfig comes up with

RE: Permission Mode

On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: : : On 29-Oct-97 Bao C. Ha wrote: : > : >What is the permission mode of S (capital S), like : >-r-Sr--r-- fpexe ??? : > : The S setuid in the position you show above or setgid in -r-xr-S---. You set : the setuid bit as above by: : : chmod 4544 fpexe Wel

RE: Permission Mode

On 29-Oct-97 Bao C. Ha wrote: > >What is the permission mode of S (capital S), like >-r-Sr--r-- fpexe ??? > The S setuid in the position you show above or setgid in -r-xr-S---. You set the setuid bit as above by: chmod 4544 fpexe Run "man chmod" for more detail. >How do I set something like tha

Network Unreachable

Today my linux started doing something screwy... I boot up and i get the following error SIOCADDR: NETWORK UNREACHABLE As far as I know i haven't done anything to my network settings.. i have been playing with the sound module of the kernel but that shouldn't have anything to do with it. My netwo

RE: Backup?!

On 28-Oct-97 Johann Spies wrote: >Can somebody please help me with my backup problems. > >I installed an Iomega Ditto 2GB drive with a Ditto Dash controller card >and I have ftape 3.04-beta-5 working satisfactorily and completing the >recommended tests successfully. > >When I discovered Taper, I

Re: Permission Mode

"Bao C. Ha" wrote: > > What is the permission mode of S (capital S), like > -r-Sr--r-- fpexe ??? This means that you've got the setuid bit on without the user's execute bit on. As you can guess, that means the setuid bit is meaningless (and ls is telling you that) Stephen --- "Normality is a

Permission Mode

What is the permission mode of S (capital S), like -r-Sr--r-- fpexe ??? How do I set something like that? Thanks. Bao -- Bao C. Ha ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.hacom.net voice: (706) 736-8717 dial-in: (706) 849-0785 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Connection problem after upgrading ppp to 2.3.1

Hi, I can't get connected to my ISP at 28800 bps after ppp upgrade to 2.3.1. The highest I got is 9600. I've tried setserial ttyS2 (my modem), and it got me to 19200, but no more. Everything worked fine with ppp-2.2.0 Thanks, -- *) Aria -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the wor

Re: Segmentation fault (man & apropos)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Since last evening I have been getting segmention faults in man and > in apropos. Can anyone explain to me what that means and how I fix > it? Do I have to reinstall? No need to reinstall. One of your database files (indeb.bt on each subdir in /var/catman) went corru

Re: Intel EtherExpress Pro 100B

On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Matt Thompson wrote: : Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:13:48 -0800 (PST) : From: Matt Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Cc: Debian User List : Subject: Intel EtherExpress Pro 100B : Resent-Date: 27 Oct 1997 23:12:49 - : Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian

Re: VT-100 terminal

Ian Keith Setford wrote: > > Hi > > How to I open a VT-100 emulated window so I may talk to my serial port > device? It is attached to Com1 (/dev/ttys0). I need to configure an > Ascend router through the serial port. The program 'cu' which comes with the uucp package will work for this al

Upgraded to libc6; Broke my system

Subject: Hi, all Recently I tried to upgrade my debian 1.3.1 system from libc5 to libc6, following scrupulously the instructions in the Mini-HOWTO. I had no problems using dpkg to install one at a time all the way through perl_5.004.02-1.deb and perl-tk_400.202-3.deb. I wish I'd stopped at that

Re: chatscript help

> My script at present: > ABORTBUSY > ABORT"NO CARRIER" > ABORTVOICE > ABORT"NO DIALTONE" "" AT&F OK ATDT3219994 CONNECT Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubsc

Re: adding users after installing NIS

On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, R Chris Ross wrote: > I have just set up NIS on several of my machines and I am having a > little trouble adding a user. If I use adduser the group, shadow and > passwd files in /etc are all updated properly but adduser doesn't > complete properly properly. It term

Re: [Q] ppp login

On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Pere Camps wrote: > I'm now using the /etc/shadow for access, as it is very convient > (not having to set up all the users in pap-secrets). Now, is there any way > to deny PPP access to some users in the /etc/shadow list? > Take a look at ppp-secrets (it will be used fi

Re: smail for lazy newbie user

On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Andrew J Tarr wrote: > > after tearing my hair out over my aforementioned modem problem, sweating a > bit over pppd configuration I turned my attention to seting up mail stuff. > Fetchmail seemed simple enough, but I'd also like to send (naturally). > I'm presuming you do some

Re: Segmentation fault (man & apropos)

On Tue, 28 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Since last evening I have been getting segmention faults in man and in > apropos. Can anyone explain to me what that means and how I fix it? Do I > have to reinstall? I tried running fsck, but that does not seem to have > done anything. I am not su

Re: Problems with inbound ppp

On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Pere Camps wrote: > 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 > As someone sta

Re: Wordperfect 5.1

Erv Walter 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 to be unstable when > I used DOS 7.x (from Win95). When I used DOS 5.0 or 6.x, WP is rock > solid. I have

Re: [Q] autofs and kernel 2.0.31

Olivier THARAN wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 1997 at 10:56:28AM -0700, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > How should I proceed with kernel 2.0.31 and autofs? Would the autofs > > deamon 0.3.14 wouk with the autofs support in kernel 2.0.31? > I'd say, if the patches for autofs are included in 2.0.31, g

Segmentation fault (man & apropos)

Since last evening I have been getting segmention faults in man and in apropos. Can anyone explain to me what that means and how I fix it? Do I have to reinstall? I tried running fsck, but that does not seem to have done anything. I am not sure what files or output to annex here in order to prov

adding users after installing NIS

I have just set up NIS on several of my machines and I am having a little trouble adding a user. If I use adduser the group, shadow and passwd files in /etc are all updated properly but adduser doesn't complete properly properly. It terminates before asking for any information on the

minor weirdness with DISPLAY and xdm

I remember when I logged in with xdm, my DISPLAY variable used to be set to ":0.0". Now it is set to "kite:0.0". I haven't done anything I can think of to change it besides upgrading the X packages. I have tried inserting lines in the Xsession files, etc, to force my DISPLAY back to ":0.0", and not

Re: [Q] login refused connections

Pere Camps wrote: > > Hi! > > If I have a service disabled in inetd.conf, how do I log > unsuccesful connections to that service? That is, I want to know if > somebody is probing any ports in my machine. > tcplogd, in the iplogger package, will log connection attempts in spite of disabl

[Q] login refused connections

Hi! If I have a service disabled in inetd.conf, how do I log unsuccesful connections to that service? That is, I want to know if somebody is probing any ports in my machine. TIA! Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:343/108.91 - _`\<;_

Re: kernel panic

I Brake for Moths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to install Debian on an EISA wide SCSI machine. When the > resc1440.bin kernel boots (no boot parameters), it gets to the aic7xxx > section and properly detects the SCSI controller (Adaptec AHA 2740), > resets the SCSI bus, then panics wi

Re: PCMCIA/kernel problems

Thanks for you help. My problem was that I didn't add support for Advanced Power Management (APM). I would have never figured that... Thanks again for everyone's help! Dennis -- dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Systems/Network | work: 353.4844 Division of Enginnering Computing Services |

kernel panic

I am trying to install Debian on an EISA wide SCSI machine. When the resc1440.bin kernel boots (no boot parameters), it gets to the aic7xxx section and properly detects the SCSI controller (Adaptec AHA 2740), resets the SCSI bus, then panics with this message: aic7xxx: (aicxxx_isr) Encountered s

Re: Printing with gs

What you need is magicfilter. It is available as a Debian package. I have at last got my printer working after much help from Anthony Fok and much agravation. I would be happy to help with other questions on this topic. On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, John Paul Lorenti wrote: > I've installed debian's g

Re: mail failed, returning to sender

Funny, I got one of those too last time I posted to debian-user. What's up (and who tf is dodo)? Pete? > > > >|- Failed addresses follow: -| > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... transport smtp: 550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User > > unknown > >|---

Re: exmh configuration

Lance Levsen wrote: > > Oh yeah, on other thing. The last filter should be to your +inbox. and shoul > d > be generic: > > :0 > * > |/usr/lib/mh/rcvstore +inbox > > This allows anything that failed all tests to get dumped into the inbox > instead of the bit bucket (or where ever el

Re: [Q] autofs and kernel 2.0.31

On Tue, Oct 28, 1997 at 10:56:28AM -0700, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > How should I proceed with kernel 2.0.31 and autofs? Would the autofs > deamon 0.3.14 wouk with the autofs support in kernel 2.0.31? I'd say, if the patches for autofs are included in 2.0.31, go ahead, just install autofs-

[Q] autofs and kernel 2.0.31

Hi, Thanks, first of all, to all the folks who answered my questions on getting Sound and CD to work on my Compaq DeskPro XL. I have been fooling around with kernel 2.0.31 that I downloaded from funet.fi I see that autofs support is included with this release of the kernel. Are there docs on au

[Q] ppp login

Hi, I've been able (with the help of this list) to set up a PPP line on my machine. Thanks. I'm now using the /etc/shadow for access, as it is very convient (not having to set up all the users in pap-secrets). Now, is there any way to deny PPP access to some users in the /etc/shad

[FAQ] Please read the FAQ [was: Re: Backup?!]

Hi Jo, at the end is an addition I'd like to see added to section 3.6. Why does my XYZ backup program complain about "Invalid argument" errors? of the ftape FAQ. Thank you! > I cannot get Tob to use the tape with afio. I even reinstalled tob after > removing all my old configuration files w

Re: sig 11 problem when compiling kernel???

Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (regarding hardware problems indicated by failed kernel compiles): > You can also change the bios setings, adding more wait states or so. This is a good idea. I forgot to mention that I already did that. -- Frank -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS M

Re: Enlightenment window manager

Ana Silva wrote: > > In this point i can almost run the Enlightenment... When i run startx > it says it can't find the file startup/full-background.jpg! I have that > file at /etc/X11/enlightenment, so I just have to know where > is E looking for that file! > guess i never asked:

Re: sig 11 problem when compiling kernel???

Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (ragarding hardware problems indicated by failed kernel compiles): > because you are using K6, make sure that it is made after week 30. K6 > before week 30 will trigger a bug where people cannot compile Linux > kernel if there are more than 32MB in their comput

boot problem with tbeach maui

Hello to everyone! I've read somewhere that linux looks for a scsi device at i/o port 0x330, where my maui card is. So if my maui is in the machine, linux cannot start. If I remove it it can start. It stops a bit after recognizing my ide devices. Does anyone know how I can disable this 'search

Re: Sendmail forwarding for other domain.

On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, R Chris Ross wrote: : What has to be put into the sendmail.cf to allow forwarding for a : specific domain other than the domain that the sendmail server is : part of? Use the mailertable feature. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "u

Sendmail forwarding for other domain.

What has to be put into the sendmail.cf to allow forwarding for a specific domain other than the domain that the sendmail server is part of? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: chatscript help

On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Shaleh wrote: |I need to make a chatscript for ppp to dial into our new 56k terminal |servers. It needs to simply dial and then let PAP do it's thing. Can |anyone give any suggestions? | |My script at present: |ABORTBUSY |ABORT"NO CARRIER" |ABORTVOICE

Can avoid wu-ftpd resolving names ???

Dear fellow Debian/Linux user, wu-ftpd seems to be trying always to resolve into names the addresses connecting to it. this is very useful for logging purposes. Unfortunately though I use my Thinkpad Debian box in many different locations and often there is no local DNS or proper entries in my /etc

Installing a kernel [was Re: Newbie here- please don't flame me!]

I'd like to take Ignus' message as an opportunity to offer what I think is an important caveat about Debian and custom kernels. There have been several good responses about how to install a kernel and where to get information. However, I'd like to point out that it is rather important to follow t

Please advice on insmod problem

I have a wonderfully working Debian 1.3.1 system. During boot I get an error message which I can reproduce with the following command: insmod psaux which yields the following error message : /lib/modules/2.0.30/misc/psaux.o: unresolved symbol kill_fasync_R53d38e09 What can I do to fix this litt

Wanted: command to monitor hard disk activity

On my other Unix box (AIX) I have the iostat -d command which gives off : %tm_act : perc. of time disk was active Kbps : amount of KB per second read and written to disk tps : transfer per seconds issued to disk (rtansfer is an I/O request issued to disk) the sar -u will at least give

Dual Monitor With Linux?

hello ! is there anybody ever seen, or used 2 monitors on linux as: 1 SVGA (S3trio64) for X 1 hercules(MDA) for console ...I found some kernelpatches at sunsite,(or tsx-11?) but these patches against 0.99.13 and so on ;-))) (museum rules) .. so I changed a line at

Re: Missing packages in Hamm

Bao C. Ha wrote: :I am trying to install hamm. And I am missing some of the following :packages: jdk-common, elf-x11r6lib, ... : :Are they not ready yet? Or are they located somewhere else not obvious? At least elf-x11r6lib is an obsolete virtual package - so any dependency on it should be consi

Re: Problems with inbound ppp

Hamish, > > #bbs-s1:bbs > > 147.83.61.201:bbs > > ===CUT=== > > I had this problem too. The text and example in options.ttyXX > appears to be incorrect; they should be the other way around. > (At least, that fixed it for me). This file is only mentioned > but not documented in ppp(8). I filed a b

Frontpage Server Extension

Thanks for the answers on the elf-x11r6 and jdk-common packages. Has anybody been successfully integrating MS Frontpage 98 Server Extension with Hamm? Bao -- Bao C. Ha ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.hacom.net voice: (706) 736-8717 dial-in: (706) 849-0785 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FRO

Re: Unable F1-F4 mc running in rxvt

> Regarding Re: Unable F1-F4 mc running in rxvt; David Puryear > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adds: David> Download 2.20-3 from bo extracted rxvt to run that without David> changing anything else, and that worked fine. So, I would David> say 2.20-4 is different than 2.20-3. I've trie

Re: Missing packages in Hamm

On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Bao C. Ha wrote: > I am trying to install hamm. And I am missing some of the following > packages: jdk-common, elf-x11r6lib, ... elf-x11r6lib is an obsolete virtual package. The few packages that still claim a depends on it are broken. It will still work if you install anywa

Re: Missing packages in Hamm

On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Bao C. Ha wrote: > I am trying to install hamm. And I am missing some of the following > packages: jdk-common, elf-x11r6lib, ... elf-x11r6lib is an obsolete virtual package that used to be provided by xlib6 and isn't anylonger (over a year after being announced obsolete). An

Missing packages in Hamm

I am trying to install hamm. And I am missing some of the following packages: jdk-common, elf-x11r6lib, ... Are they not ready yet? Or are they located somewhere else not obvious? Thanks for any suggestions. Bao -- Bao C. Ha ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.hacom.net voice: (706) 736-8717

Re: Enlightenment window manager

Hi Ana, On 28-Oct-97 Ana Silva wrote: Gustaf Erikson wrote: > Move the configuration file (tarred) in the main E directory to > ~/.enlightenment. I had to untar the tarball to change line in the > main config file (?), because E complained it couldn't find a > "Debi

[Q] Cannot Print to Samba printer

Hi I am giving up. I cannot print to my Samba printer (attached to Linux) and I was able to do it before. I do not remember what I have done first upgraded to glibc or recompiled samba 10 times. It is not my windows client problem -- because when I use smbclient '\\myhost\printer_name' -P on th

Re: Printing with gs

Probably the easiest way to set up printing would be to install either the apsfilter or magicfilter package. These work in conjunction with ghostscript and handle everything for you, setting up a filter and installing the links in /etc/printcap. Bob On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, John Paul Lorenti wrote:

Re: Debugging multi-threaded app?

On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Thomas Baetzler wrote: [about a thread-aware debugger] There is another debugger, SmartDB (or smartgdb, don't remember), in development currently, about which the developers said it will support threads in a few week from now. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LI

[gnu.misc.discuss,comp.software.year-2000] Re: GNU software Year 2000 Ready?

Something about Debian GNU/Linux being year-2000-ready, for those interested. -- Emilio C. Lopes --- Start of forwarded message --- From: Duane Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.software.year-2000 Subject: Re: GNU software Year 2000

Debugging multi-threaded app?

Hi, please forgive me since this is not really a Debian-specific question. Could anybody spare some hints on how to debug a multithreaded app in Linux? I'm porting an app I originally wrote for Win32 to Linux, and while I do get a clean compile after substituting pthreads for the Win32-thread-s

Interesting Networking Problem...

  I have a couple of Debian 1.3.x systems on the 'Net that are experiencing an interesting problem.   These systems are located in BC, Canada.   For the past few days and next few, I'm in the Netherlands and I'm having some difficulties accessing these systems.    For the most part, they ar

Majordomo again

Hi I think I have majordomo running. I can subscribe to my test list but whn i try to send messages to the list i get this : CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Message log follows: -| no valid recipients were found for this message |---

Re: Digests

On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, ERIK STEARNS wrote: > I am new to these discussion lists and was wondering how do I set the > list mailings that I get to digest mode? send a message: to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe then send a message: to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe AFAIK that should do

Re: Enlightenment window manager

At 11:32 AM 28/10/97 +, Ana Silva wrote: >Gustaf Erikson wrote: > >> Move the configuration file (tarred) in the main E directory to >> ~/.enlightenment. I had to untar the tarball to change line in the >> main config file (?), because E complained it couldn't find a >> "Debian-menu" item. Remo

Re: help needed installing hamm

On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Otavio Exel wrote: > 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.org/debian/hamm/../

Re: VT-100 terminal

Ian Keith Setford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How to I open a VT-100 emulated window so I may talk to my serial port > device? It is attached to Com1 (/dev/ttys0). I need to configure an > Ascend router through the serial port. The best way is probably minicom with all the modem initialisatio

Re: Win95 connected to my Debian box

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: > Telnet works from the Windows machine to Debian, But not very well. There is a new (no-cost) version of HyperTerminal available from Hilgraeve that does telnet as well as serial connections considerably better, that I picked up from Tucows. -- Car

Re: help needed installing hamm

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otavio Exel) writes: > I've got a newbie index of 2 in a 0..10 range :-) I've seen negative newbie indexes, so don't worry. > the set of disks I > can see in ftp.debian.org/debian/hamm/../disks-i386 are bo based! Hamm (2.0) won't have boot disks at least until all the softwar

Re: X windows

"Melani Pathyil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > All of the above gave me an X window that was too large. The screen was > shifted to the right, such that only half of the screen was visible. There's a newer version of XFree86 available now than the one in Debian 1.3.1. You can download the Xser

Re: [Q] Cyrix 6x86L [SOLVED]

Vladislav Papayan x285 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a program for Linux (or DOS) that will detect bad memory? The hwtools packages includes one called "memtest". It doesn't use any OS, just boots off the first 4K of a floppy. -- Carey Evans <*> http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.

Re: The real Debian.org

"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > > Let's march to Victory! SIEG HEIL! > > And thus Orn E. Hansen officially ends this thread. :-) Unfortunately not, even if he didn't invoke Godwin's Law on purpose. He just guaranteed a signal to noise

Re: Enlightenment window manager

Gustaf Erikson wrote: > Move the configuration file (tarred) in the main E directory to > ~/.enlightenment. I had to untar the tarball to change line in the > main config file (?), because E complained it couldn't find a > "Debian-menu" item. Removing the line containing this solved the > problem.

smail for lazy newbie user

after tearing my hair out over my aforementioned modem problem, sweating a bit over pppd configuration I turned my attention to seting up mail stuff. Fetchmail seemed simple enough, but I'd also like to send (naturally). I'm presuming you do something with smail. I poured over the disparate docum

Backup?!

Can somebody please help me with my backup problems. I installed an Iomega Ditto 2GB drive with a Ditto Dash controller card and I have ftape 3.04-beta-5 working satisfactorily and completing the recommended tests successfully. When I discovered Taper, I thought that my problems were solved, but

DC and Company Here is Something for you

There is a notice on comp.os.linux.announce by graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] He is looking for people to start a new distributions. For what? I have no idea. He does not state the goals of this new distributions. So I guess DC you can join them and break them too. Send email to graham. (disclaimer

Re: Newbie here- please don't flame me!

On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, News Account wrote: > There are extensive how-to's at www.linux.org, one of which explains > upgrading and installing a new kernel. As for your sound card, the setup > is less than straightforward. There is a very good FAQ at > http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brink

Re: Debian Certified

On 27-Oct-97 Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > 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 t

RE: On Bruce Perens and Dave Cinege, etc.

On 27-Oct-97 Richard G. Roberto wrote: > I fear > that I've come to a conclusion that may bring a fair bit of > flame mail my way, but Dave Cinege has to be dealt with. We > must revoke his license to victimize the community at large. There is an expression in the US ... you have the right to sw

Re: Unable F1-F4 mc running in rxvt

Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In xemacs for example I get "dead-circumflex is not defined" this makes > the use of the T-^ command ion gnus somewhat difficult :-) http://www.math.ethz.ch/~vroonhof/emascs/x-compose.el.gz Jan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail th

Re: On Bruce Perens and Dave Cinege, etc.

On 28-Oct-97 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > You think the congress can put together a distribution like > Debian? > > manoj Yes ... and they would call it Slacklaw. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [

Re: Adaptec AHA-1510 SCSI Driver

you need to choose the: Adaptec AHA152X/2825 support ...option when you are configuring your kernel. this will work for the 1505 (which i have) and the 1510. then you have to add an 'append' line to /etc/lilo.conf. here's mine: $ cat /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda2 compact install

Re: Newbie here- please don't flame me!

Hi, You have to create a custom kernel to fit your needs. I gather you have a CD Rom of the Debian distribution. Good. I hope it contains the full distribution, for then you have everything locally; but if you can download from the Debian site, not having the full distribution shall no

Re: Exiting VC from another

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: Newbie here- please don't flame me!

There are extensive how-to's at www.linux.org, one of which explains upgrading and installing a new kernel. As for your sound card, the setup is less than straightforward. There is a very good FAQ at http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/soundblaster.html which explains the setup for

chatscript help

I need to make a chatscript for ppp to dial into our new 56k terminal servers. It needs to simply dial and then let PAP do it's thing. Can anyone give any suggestions? My script at present: ABORTBUSY ABORT"NO CARRIER" ABORTVOICE ABORT"NO DIALTONE" "" ATD

subcribe

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Re: On Bruce Perens and Dave Cinege, etc.

Hi, >>"M" == M W Blunier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: M> On 27 Oct 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> What problems are term limits supposed to solve, exactly? M> They prevent the voters from re-electing someone that due to his M> entrenchment in the system, has more power than a freshman would M>

Re: exmh configuration

Oh yeah, on other thing. The last filter should be to your +inbox. and should be generic: :0 * |/usr/lib/mh/rcvstore +inbox This allows anything that failed all tests to get dumped into the inbox instead of the bit bucket (or where ever else it might go or do). -Lance -- - If I had a nea

Newbie here- please don't flame me!

Aloha! I'm new not only to this group, but to Linux as well. I have everything installed and running that I could figure out (including X11, which was a major pain in the butt), but have a few questions regarding the kernel. I wanted to install a kernel which would have support for my mo

Printing with gs

I've installed debian's ghostscript package and it works by typing the appropriate commands on the command line but I haven't been able to interface it with lpr so I can't print directly from Netscape, star office, etc. I have to create a ps file in netscape and then print it. StarOffice doesn't s

VT-100 terminal

Hi How to I open a VT-100 emulated window so I may talk to my serial port device? It is attached to Com1 (/dev/ttys0). I need to configure an Ascend router through the serial port. Thanks in advance. Ian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL P

Re: On Bruce Perens and Dave Cinege, etc.

Hi, >>"Britton" == Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Britton> I actually like this proposal. I have no problem with Bruce, Britton> he has done a gret job. I just don't see the point in making Britton> the process of succession so competitive. The limits need Britton> not be short. Richards

Re: dselect infinite loop?

It happened to me also. Ctrl-C was the only way out. Then grief doing the rest of the install manually. This is the first time it happened to me too. I installed from Informagic's 6 set CD. Chuma PATRICK DAHIROC wrote: > Hi > > A weird thing happens to deselect when I run it. It keeps replacin

Re: Intel EtherExpress Pro 100B

On Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:13:48 PST Matt Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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/s

Adaptec AHA-1510 SCSI Driver

The Hardware Compatibility HOWTO says that this SCSI card is supported under Debian Linux 1.3.1, but it didn't come with my standard distribution. Where can I get the module or driver for the AHA-1510 device? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PRO

Re: exmh configuration

Hi Mario. Here's how I do it with procmail. Took me a little bit to figure out, but now there's no problem. This may or may not help you, I use a dialup and gwpop, but you can use any MTA that will send mail through a filter. In Exmh (I'm using 2.0zeta) under Preferences-->Incorporate

Re: Unable F1-F4 mc running in rxvt

On 28-Oct-97 Brian Mays wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Puryear) writes: > 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. Is this a problem

Re: On Bruce Perens and Dave Cinege, etc.

On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Glenn Amerine wrote: > > "M" == M W Blunier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > M> On 27 Oct 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> What problems are term limits supposed to solve, exactly? > > M> They prevent the voters from re-electing someone that due to > M>

can you help

Hi, I have a Rx 56k PC card and I lost the installation disks can you please tell me were I can download them from the Internet. PLEASE!!! Thank you -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Any interest in SNMP web based network monitor?

Ed Donovan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes: [snip] > It might still be a good candidate for some work; the package is > version 2.2, and MRTG 2.3 has been out for a while now. [snip] Looks like we have the inevitable bit of duplication going on... I've got a (~) package of MRTG-2.4 that I made for m

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