Re: StarOffice and XPrinter

1997-11-11 Thread Toth Laszlo
On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Toth Laszlo wrote: > > > On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > > > > > you probably didn't run the installation.. or run the scripts it > > > installs in the home directories (.sd.sh for bash and .sd.csh for > > > csh).. > > > >

xdm/X not terminating processes on logout

1997-11-11 Thread Brian M. Rectanus
For some reason processes are not being terminated after a user logs out of an X session (via xdm). Example: User logs in and starts up "vi someprogram", then user xxx kills the X session (ie kills WM, thus killing session). User xxx logs in again and 's "vi someprogram" is STILL runnin

1997 World Series

1997-11-11 Thread bhake
Dear debian-user@lists.debian.org Great News from Nikco Sports... Because of your noted sports interests, you have been selected to own a piece of World Series history!!! Known the world over, Nikco Sports is the best source for AUTHENTIC Sports Memorabilia! These exclusive licensed World Ser

Re: lock a pentium for fun!

1997-11-11 Thread JD Thomlinson
>> It is a bug for a processor to have any unassigned codes. > >In what way is it a bug? If all the codes are assigned, then future >extensions become impossible. Unassigned OP codes are properly given no-op execution and are indicated as "reserved" in the programming documentation. Best Regard

Re: Posting to usenet

1997-11-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Hi, > > # user's mail address, if not [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > mail_address= > > Okay, that works. (OTOH, I'm not enamoured with tin, so it would be nice > if I could figure out how to get trn to work.) > You should set a line like this in trn as well (after we get your system working). Your [EMAIL

Re: MTA Suggestion

1997-11-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On 11 Nov 1997, D. J. Bernstein wrote: > > the point was that his NFS argument against /var/spool/mail was > > irrelevant because home directories are often NFS mounted too > > There is no ``NFS argument against /var/spool/mail.'' > > The fundamental problem with /var/spool/mail is security. It'

Re: Update: mounting MS-DOS fs onto Linux

1997-11-11 Thread Pete Harlan
> >> One possible unconfirmed cause (Okay, a guess) Is the Win95 > partition > >> OSR2? (Fat32?) To my knoweldge, the vfat filesystem doesn't yet > >> support the alterations made by OSR2. > >> > >> Matt > > > >I have a bleeding-edge Windows95 OSR2 installation (October1997 OEM) > >and (Debian

Re: MTA Suggestion

1997-11-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Jason Costomiris wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 1997 at 08:40:35PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > : > Yeah, and? It allows you to streamline your quota setup. It also > : > allows you to have a smaller /var. > : > : what does "the qmail way" allow you to do with quotas which you >

Re: MTA Suggestion

1997-11-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: > > : I still don't know of any MUAs which will read mail from either maildir > : or ~/Mailbox. admittedly, configuring pine or elm to read ~/Mailbox > : rather than the usual spool dir is pretty simple.

Re: configuring the modem

1997-11-11 Thread Shaul Karl.
> I'm new at this. I'm trying to set up my modem and I'm looking for some > help other that the HOWTO's. > Linux is installed on the same machine as Win95. I have an internal 28.8 > modem. > I can't seem to get the hang of how to set the modem up useing > "setserial". I only want to dial out to

magicfilter permissions

1997-11-11 Thread Brian K Servis
This is a permissions problem that I can't straighten out. I have a util called hpset that I use to change the print qualilty of my hp dj660c. This program currently will only let root execute it since it writes directly to /dev/lp1. I want to stick this command in my magicfilter filter file bu

Re: MTA Suggestion

1997-11-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On 11 Nov 1997, D. J. Bernstein wrote: > > i couldn't even get it to use procmail as the local delivery agent > > instead of qmail-local > > Change ./Mailbox to '|preline procmail' in the qmail-start invocation. why isn't this in the FAQ? > > qmail might be excellent at what it does but it's inc

Re: MTA Suggestion

1997-11-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On 11 Nov 1997, D. J. Bernstein wrote: > > the point was that his NFS argument against /var/spool/mail was > > irrelevant because home directories are often NFS mounted too > > There is no ``NFS argument against /var/spool/mail.'' except for your argument that /var/spool/mail is unsafe in an NFS

Re: HELLO

1997-11-11 Thread Rik Johns
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Nov 11 11:17:16 1997 >Received: (qmail 1649 invoked by uid 38); 11 Nov 1997 19:13:33 - >Resent-Date: 11 Nov 1997 19:13:32 - >Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; >X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Received: (qmail 1581 invoked from network); 11 Nov 1997 19:

Debian Newbie Setup Questions...

1997-11-11 Thread Andy Akins
Hello. I'm considering trying out Linux (Debian in particular) and I have some questions concerning the Debian distribution. I want to check and see if the Debian system will be compatable with my machine. I've looked in a lot of HOW-TOs, but they seem to deal with the Linux kernel in general rathe

Re: Mounting iso9660 image?

1997-11-11 Thread Olivier THARAN
On Tue, Nov 11, 1997 at 03:22:44PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is it possible to somehow mount an iso9660 image file that was > made with the mkisofs package? I'd like to check out what was > actually put in the image before doing a CD burn. Even a non-Linux > solution might be useful. You

Re: Mounting iso9660 image?

1997-11-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Is it possible to somehow mount an iso9660 image file that was > made with the mkisofs package? I'd like to check out what was > actually put in the image before doing a CD burn. Even a non-Linux > solution might be useful. I believe that this can be done using loopba

Re: Mounting iso9660 image?

1997-11-11 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is it possible to somehow mount an iso9660 image file that was > made with the mkisofs package? I'd like to check out what was > actually put in the image before doing a CD burn. Even a non-Linux > solution might be useful. I believe you're looking

Mounting iso9660 image?

1997-11-11 Thread Richard . Dansereau
Hello! Is it possible to somehow mount an iso9660 image file that was made with the mkisofs package? I'd like to check out what was actually put in the image before doing a CD burn. Even a non-Linux solution might be useful. Richard.. ---

Router installation

1997-11-11 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I am trying to install an Ascend Pipeline 25px ISDN router. The 25px is able to accept a dynamically assigned IP. I have read and done what the ISP-Hoohup HOWTO instructed but no net access. :( I also had problems getting minicom to work so I could configure the router but I eventually configur

Re: MTA Suggestion

1997-11-11 Thread D. J. Bernstein
> the point was that his NFS argument against /var/spool/mail was > irrelevant because home directories are often NFS mounted too There is no ``NFS argument against /var/spool/mail.'' The fundamental problem with /var/spool/mail is security. It's not easy to handle a world-writable directory safe

Re: Update: mounting MS-DOS fs onto Linux

1997-11-11 Thread Charles Read
Were you able to "mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt" your Win95 partition without any special work? [Eg, I am assuming you *do not* run mkfs over the Win95 partition.] -c > >> One possible unconfirmed cause (Okay, a guess) Is the Win95 partition >> OSR2? (Fat32?) To my knoweldge, the vfat filesyst

Re: Anybody using Syquest drives??

1997-11-11 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > > > > Anybody using Syquest drives under Linux, especially the SyJet?? I am > > considering buying one and wonder about their quality and reliability. > > I am in exactly the same situation - though I already decided to buy one. > I had previous exper

Re: MTA Suggestion

1997-11-11 Thread D. J. Bernstein
> i couldn't even get it > to use procmail as the local delivery agent instead of qmail-local Change ./Mailbox to '|preline procmail' in the qmail-start invocation. > qmail might be excellent at what it does but it's incompatible with > /var/spool/mail. qmail can run binmail as the delivery agen

Re: mutt for bo & libc5

1997-11-11 Thread David Puyrear
Otavio Exel wrote: > > hi everybody, > > I'm using Debian 1.3 bo libc5 only; for some reason (high degree of > newbieness :-) I wouldn't like to mess with libc6 for now; > > last month I received a message from debian-changes@lists.debian.org > stating that there was a mutt package for libc5; li

Re: Posting to usenet

1997-11-11 Thread Trevor Barrie
Amendment to previous message: /sbin/route produces different output when I'm connected. It's Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface ca24l.pq.ca.ibm * 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 loopnet *

Re: Posting to usenet

1997-11-11 Thread Trevor Barrie
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > Okay, tin works, sort of. It seems it still can't find my hostname since > > my From: lines show up as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", but I can manually edit that. > > It's a pain though. > > > > (The file /usr/doc/tin/INSTALL.gz cryptically recommends tha

Re: bounced mails

1997-11-11 Thread Pete Templin
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Shaleh wrote: > I get e-mail from various people's server about mail bouncing. This > appears to be a problem with the debian list-serv. FYI: The bounceograms are, in fact, from various peoples' servers, and in particular, ones that don't follow standardized email RFCs. A

Re: HELLO

1997-11-11 Thread DebianUser
In a message dated 11/11/97 4:02:24 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > 4) and it was my impression, that aol users were unable to connect > to the Internet using the Aol servers..who knows...:/... Depending on the game you can do it under Win95. Now for something more on topic

1.3.1 Setup with ULTRA DMA disk

1997-11-11 Thread Alex Monaghan
Help, I attempted to install Debian 1.3.1 from the Linux Systems Labs "Official" Debian CD onto my father's PC. This installed OK from the boot floppy made from the CD. When booting from the rescue disk it finds ide0 at irq14 and ide1 at irq 15 and all works OK, when booting via LILO or via th

Re: [OFF TOPIC] M$ Explorer for Solaris!!!!

1997-11-11 Thread Glenn Amerine
> "ychim" == ychim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ychim> MS said that there is no Linux port. Brian K Servis wrote: >> Look out *NIX world here comes M$!!! >> >> M$ has released preview 1 of M$ Explorer for Solaris 2.5. >> http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie40/download/unix.htm

mutt for bo & libc5

1997-11-11 Thread Otavio Exel
hi everybody, I'm using Debian 1.3 bo libc5 only; for some reason (high degree of newbieness :-) I wouldn't like to mess with libc6 for now; last month I received a message from debian-changes@lists.debian.org stating that there was a mutt package for libc5; like that: > Description: > mutt -

Re: [OFF TOPIC] M$ Explorer for Solaris!!!!

1997-11-11 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > MS said that there is no Linux port. Sun Computer running Solaris. Thats all they are planning on releasing for. > > > Brian K Servis wrote: > > > > Look out *NIX world here comes M$!!! > > > > M$ has released preview 1 of M$ Explorer for Sola

Re: [OFF TOPIC] M$ Explorer for Solaris!!!!

1997-11-11 Thread ychim
MS said that there is no Linux port. Brian K Servis wrote: > > Look out *NIX world here comes M$!!! > > M$ has released preview 1 of M$ Explorer for Solaris 2.5. > http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie40/download/unix.htm. It is even more > bloated than Communicator it says it need 30M of disk space

Re: Netscape 4 news

1997-11-11 Thread Simon's Mailing List Account
On 11 Nov 1997, James Troup wrote: > Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Has nothing to due with previous post ;-) Version 4.04 is out for > > ALL Linux platforms but Alpha. Even one for mklinux!! > > You have a broken definition of "ALL". (There's no m68k one either) > Actually, even mo

Re: [OFF TOPIC] M$ Explorer for Solaris!!!!

1997-11-11 Thread Bill Leach
Flame ON: I suppose that this is just some of my own "sour grapes", anti-Micro$loth bigotry but... Should anyone be surprised!? To Micro$loth people, "they ARE the world" and what 'they' do "IS the standard". Though I may well be "full of it", I really do believe that Micro$sloth really does

Re: HELLO

1997-11-11 Thread Bruce Perens
4) And be sure to tell all your friends to not get ripped off on winmodems the way you did. They won't run Linux either. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EM

Re: squid

1997-11-11 Thread Behan Webster
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > According to Behan Webster: > > I have squid installed, but something seems to be wrong as everytime > > the computer boots I get the following error messages: > > > > (In truth there are a dozen or so of the following line preceding the > > these error messages,

Re: Update: mounting MS-DOS fs onto Linux

1997-11-11 Thread Pete Harlan
> One possible unconfirmed cause (Okay, a guess) Is the Win95 partition > OSR2? (Fat32?) To my knoweldge, the vfat filesystem doesn't yet > support the alterations made by OSR2. > > Matt I have a bleeding-edge Windows95 OSR2 installation (October1997 OEM) and (Debian) Linux reads it fine as vf

info about shadow needed

1997-11-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Hi, I have some difficulties in understanding the /etc/gshadow file. A excerpt: nogroup:*:: usera:x:: userb:!:: msql::: The second field is the group password, right? A * means password disabled (as in /etc/shadow), but what about x, ! and the empty field? Ciao, Martin -- TO UNS

Re: new iso9660 debian image?

1997-11-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Dirk Vleugels wrote: > > i'm thinking about switching to Debian 1.3.1. I guess the easiest solution > is to download the prebuild cdrom image, but it's already pretty old (Jul 7). > > Is there a newer image (with all new .deb files included) available? If not, > would it be a

Re: Netscape 4 news

1997-11-11 Thread James Troup
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has nothing to due with previous post ;-) Version 4.04 is out for > ALL Linux platforms but Alpha. Even one for mklinux!! You have a broken definition of "ALL". (There's no m68k one either) -- James -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the wor

Re: nenscript + gs

1997-11-11 Thread Pere Camps
Ben, > Oops, I forgot, you need to add `quit.ps' at the end in addition to > `-dNOPAUSE'. Ok! It worked. Thanks. Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:343/108.91 - _`\<;_ http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ PGP key available --- (_)/ (_)"

Re: [OFF TOPIC] M$ Explorer for Solaris!!!!

1997-11-11 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Brian K Servis wrote: > Look out *NIX world here comes M$!!! > > M$ has released preview 1 of M$ Explorer for Solaris 2.5. > http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie40/download/unix.htm. It is even more > bloated than Communicator it says it need 30M of disk space when done > install

Re: mail tuning

1997-11-11 Thread Ryan Smith-Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I was thinking of setting up a mail server for 3,000 user accounts. > But I want to know what kind of tuning I can do. I have used > ipop3d under Red Hat before and it reads the entire mailbox, > what if the user has 2 mail, down goes the s

mail tuning

1997-11-11 Thread RedHat Linux User
I was thinking of setting up a mail server for 3,000 user accounts. But I want to know what kind of tuning I can do. I have used ipop3d under Red Hat before and it reads the entire mailbox, what if the user has 2 mail, down goes the server. any ideas ? -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS M

Re: nenscript + gs

1997-11-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anybody have a way to automatize this? IE, I don't want to > type and quit everytime I run this script. Oops, I forgot, you need to add `quit.ps' at the end in addition to `-dNOPAUSE'. -- Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAI

bounced mails

1997-11-11 Thread Shaleh
I get e-mail from various people's server about mail bouncing. This appears to be a problem with the debian list-serv. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: nenscript + gs

1997-11-11 Thread Pere Camps
Ben, > > type and quit everytime I run this script. > Add -dNOPAUSE. It doesn't work... I get the same result. Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:343/108.91 - _`\<;_ http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ PGP key available --- (_)/ (_)"L

Netscape 4 news

1997-11-11 Thread Shaleh
Has nothing to due with previous post ;-) Version 4.04 is out for ALL Linux platforms but Alpha. Even one for mklinux!! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Problems using adduser with NIS

1997-11-11 Thread David Maslen
Hi, I'm having difficulty adding users to my network which runs nis. I have a mail server which also stores the home directories. This is where I set up new users, but users cannot log into this machine. They access their directories over NFS, and get their mail the same way through qmail's Mailbox

Re: [OFF TOPIC] M$ Explorer for Solaris!!!!

1997-11-11 Thread Richard A. Guay
Hi, Since we have Solaris 2.5.1 on a few systems here I tried it out. It does not work worth a penny! All of the screens come up black! It expects to be the only program running and hogs all of the color space! It does not even use it's own color map. What a piece of junk! -Original Mess

Re: printer trouble (solved)

1997-11-11 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > Hi! > > > > > I recently got a problem with a printer filter used by lpr. The filter > > is used for a HP Deskjet 870 cxi, and used to work properly on this > > machine, and still does on other machines: > > > > The

[OFF TOPIC] M$ Explorer for Solaris!!!!

1997-11-11 Thread Brian K Servis
Look out *NIX world here comes M$!!! M$ has released preview 1 of M$ Explorer for Solaris 2.5. http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie40/download/unix.htm. It is even more bloated than Communicator it says it need 30M of disk space when done installing and 60M during the install, YIKES! Brian Servis -

Netscape 4 question

1997-11-11 Thread Shaleh
When i try to run Netscape I get a "IOT trapped/abort (core dump)" message. Anyone seen this. It just started last night and to my knowledge nothing has changed. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

JDK 1.1.4 deb

1997-11-11 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, Is the JDK 1.1.4 debian package available yet? Thanks! -- Timothy C. Phan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) NEC America, Inc. ASL 1525 Walnut Hill Ln. Irving, TX 75038

Re: pseudo-static IP for webserver?

1997-11-11 Thread Daniel Martin
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: > > I wish I knew enough about the details here to phrase this right, but > anyway: > > I need to test software that uses a browser to control it. That is, > news & web accounts on the server are administratively controlled > through web pages from other

cmucl

1997-11-11 Thread Lisa, Sian, Becki and Richard
I have just installed cmucl, carnigie Mellon University Commol Lisp. If there is sufficient interest I am willing to package it, but as it quite a large, complex system, I would rather not spend a lot of time packaging it if there was no interest. It includes PCL and CLX, to requested packages, a

fvwm95

1997-11-11 Thread tko
Quick question... Where is the configuration information for the initial xterm window which is opened when xdm starts up fvwm95? I like the font in the additional xterm windows and the font in the initial xterm windows is harder to read. Thanks! -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek

Re: CD-ROM & Floppy

1997-11-11 Thread tko
RON BROWN writes: > > Hello Everyone, > > I am having problems mounting my cd-rom and 3 1/2 floppy to read files > and programs from them. Can anyone help me with this matter. > OK, first ? - what type of CDROM drive do you have? (IDE, SCSI, or OTHER) second ? - What kind of floppies are you tr

Re: nenscript + gs

1997-11-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anybody have a way to automatize this? IE, I don't want to > type and quit everytime I run this script. Add -dNOPAUSE. -- Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Senders of unsolicited commercial e-mail will receiv

Re: installing 1.3 and Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 (ISA)

1997-11-11 Thread Steve Mayer
Alan, If memory serves me correct, the current version of the eepro driver is hardcoded (somehow) to work on IRQ 5. Do you have a sound card installed on IRQ 5? The latest driver from the author fixes this problem. Look in the driver source for his email address. Also, check using dmesg as

nenscript + gs

1997-11-11 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Does anybody have a way to automatize this? IE, I don't want to type and quit everytime I run this script. CUT #!/bin/bash nenscript -B -FCourier5 -fCourier6 -p./a.ps $1 gs -q -I/usr/share/ghostscript/3.33/fonts/ -sDEVICE=ljet4 -sOutputFile=./a.dj a.ps lpr a.dj ===CUT===

Re: Stop rc5v2 client, Bovine team won 56 bit secret key challenge!

1997-11-11 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Britton wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: > > > I don't think it has already been reported on this mailing list, > > anyway, just for who is letting the rc5v2 client run: www.distributed.net > > gives details. Ok, maybe the Linux community start

Re: can't install LILO

1997-11-11 Thread LeRoy D. Cressy
Manos Papantoniou wrote: > > perhaps you should make the linux root partition bootable (if you > haven't done it already) > > Manos Papantoniou > Hi, though using the linux partition to boot is the optium idea, I don't know if Ken's bios can boot from the second ide hd. One option is to swit

Re: where to place locate TeX style files

1997-11-11 Thread Christian Leutloff
Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For a style file, it would be: > /usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/latex/ > Then run texhash. Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you tried placing them under > /usr/lib/texmf/local/tex/latex > Hope that helps. yes, it does. Thanks a lo

xbiff's bitmaps?

1997-11-11 Thread Branden Robinson
I was wondering if anyone could tell me where the traditional old mailbox bitmaps (the ones that are "ugly") for xbiff are? I've dug around /usr/X11R6 quite a bit and can find neither the bitmaps nor an app-defaults for xbiff that would control this. The man page also didn't mention any command-l

Re: Anybody using Syquest drives??

1997-11-11 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> > Anybody using Syquest drives under Linux, especially the SyJet?? I am > considering buying one and wonder about their quality and reliability. > > Thanks! > Tim Dear Tim, I am in exactly the same situation - though I already decided to buy one. I had previous experience with Jaz drive - tha

new iso9660 debian image?

1997-11-11 Thread Dirk Vleugels
Hi, (please CC the above email adress, my subscribe command isn't confirmed until now) i'm thinking about switching to Debian 1.3.1. I guess the easiest solution is to download the prebuild cdrom image, but it's already pretty old (Jul 7). Is there a newer image (with all new .deb files includ

Re: Setting volume size for dump

1997-11-11 Thread Kai M{kisara
My apologies to Claus-Justus and Jens: the attribution was incorrect in the previous reply (because I accidentally hit the send key too early ;-) On 11 Nov 1997, Claus-Justus Heine wrote: > "Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Claus-Justus Heine wrote: > > > ... > > > So does t

Re: KDE Beta1

1997-11-11 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, nir wrote: : I could not find a debian package set for "KDE Beta1" installable in Debian 1.3.1 : Does anyone know where to get these, when they exist!! : : should i install rpm's ?? There are several differences between the RPM and the DEB packages (they are in hamm, I

Re: Problems compiling MH on hamm system

1997-11-11 Thread Francis Swasey
Ken, I think you will find things a lot easier if you try NMH instead of the very old and buggy MH. You can find NMH (New MH) at http://www.math.gatech.edu/nmh/ Frank -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Setting volume size for dump

1997-11-11 Thread Kai M{kisara
On 11 Nov 1997, Claus-Justus Heine wrote: > "Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Claus-Justus Heine wrote: ... > > So does this mean that "SETMARKS" are kind of "second level" file > > marks? I'm just curious what these things are. There is no real need > > for me to know it, I'm ju

Re: monitor variable

1997-11-11 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, charles jackson wrote: > Can anybody tell me how to change my monitor variable for x11? There is a man who surely holds the answer. Go ask the man, man x is your friend man 5 XF86Config probably is a nice guy too Try (as root): mv /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86

Re: CD-ROM & Floppy

1997-11-11 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, RON BROWN wrote: : I am having problems mounting my cd-rom and 3 1/2 floppy to read files : and programs from them. Can anyone help me with this matter. Do you get any error message? Some more information is required, I think. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING L

can't install LILO

1997-11-11 Thread Ken Deboy
Hello, I'm having trouble installing LILO inder Debian 1.3.1 (installing from floppies). My disks: /dev/hda DOS/Win3.1 boot /dev/hdb1DOS FAT16 /dev/hdb2Linux Swap /dev/hdb3Linux Root /dev/hdb4Minix My /etc/lilo.conf file: boot=/dev/hda compact vga=normal install=/boot/boot.b m

pseudo-static IP for webserver?

1997-11-11 Thread Rick Hawkins
I wish I knew enough about the details here to phrase this right, but anyway: I need to test software that uses a browser to control it. That is, news & web accounts on the server are administratively controlled through web pages from other machines. (the server runs apache). To test this, I n

Down after 75 days of up time

1997-11-11 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Shut!!! Our main Linux server that handles mail (SMTP/POP3), WWW (apache), HTTP proxying and caching (Squid), primary DNS, remote access (PPP), file and printing services (Samba and NFS), network News (innd), among other things, crashed yesterday after 75 days of up time. Boy, I can tell you it

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #974

1997-11-11 Thread Jon Sokolow
Im Having Some Problems Getting My Linux machine connected to the network on campus. I have a 3com 3c905 network card and I have the Driver (I think). I need help compiling the driver into the kernel. Could someone Help me Out?? Thanks Jon >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Nov 8 14:10:20 1997

Re: Setting volume size for dump

1997-11-11 Thread Claus-Justus Heine
"Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Claus-Justus Heine wrote: > > > > > > Aren't these marks simply "file marks"? (just asking, I know that > > > > there are thos MTFSS/BSS/WSM tape operations, are these effectively > > > > different from the MTFSF/BSF/WEOF operations?) > > > > > >

"DSFG Free"?

1997-11-11 Thread Pete Harlan
> configurable, solid, and DFSG free. It also has support for all the I have slipped into a parallel universe where GPL seems to have been replaced by DFSG. Unfortunately, www.debian.org and www.gnu.org reside in my former universe. A web search turns up many wonderful pages written in language

hamm release date?

1997-11-11 Thread Matthew
does anyone know when hamm will be released? (If you do know, email me at the below address, my server that is subscribed to this list appears to be down right now) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: "DSFG Free"?

1997-11-11 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Pete Harlan wrote: > > configurable, solid, and DFSG free. It also has support for all the > > I have slipped into a parallel universe where GPL seems to have been > replaced by DFSG. Unfortunately, www.debian.org and www.gnu.org > reside in my former universe. A web searc

Re: Posting to usenet

1997-11-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Trevor Barrie wrote: > On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > > Looks like nn tries a command leafnode doesn't understand (or the syntax > > nn uses is wrong). You could check the rfc about error 502. > > "RFC"? I know FAQs, manpages, HOWTOs and /usr/doc/*, but th

Unidentified subject!

1997-11-11 Thread David Maslen
I'm trying to keep my system, on the stable distribution. I found myself recompiling a couple of packages such as qmail so as to be able to do this. I've tried to recompile gimp0.99 and it doesn't seem to work. ./debian/rules build seems to go ok, complaining it can't find something to do with xd

Re: ps/2 mouse don't work on ps/2 driver

1997-11-11 Thread Carey Evans
Wee-Min Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using a mitsumi ps/2 mouse. It won't work on the ps/2 mouse driver = > provided by Debian's Linux. What's wrong? > > When I start Linux... it reported that it has detected a ps/2 mouse. But > after running gpm I can't see my mouse cursor. I've heard

Re: removing some persistent files

1997-11-11 Thread Carey Evans
Tommy Lakofski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > after a horrendous crash on my hamm box (cause of which I've yet to > ascertain), I'm left with some files like this on my disk: > > 07/8F: > total 396246198 > br-sr-S--x 1 2691225646111, 99 Mar 12 1995 18F7 First run fsck -Vf /dev/???

Re: Setting volume size for dump

1997-11-11 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Claus-Justus Heine wrote: > > "Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Claus-Justus Heine wrote: > > > > > > > > Aren't these marks simply "file marks"? (just asking, I know that > > > > > there are thos MTFSS/BSS/WSM tape operations, are these effectively > > > > > different from th

HELLO

1997-11-11 Thread Flavorfa
COULD YOU PLEASE HELP ME FIND DOS DRIVERS FOR MY WINMODEM, BECAUSE I HAVE GAMES TO PLAY ON MODEM GAME. I CAN'T BECAUSE MY MODEM DOESN'T WORK IN DOS. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

delete and backspace with xterm/rxvt

1997-11-11 Thread Curtis Brown
Hi, I recently upgraded several packages, including ncurses-base, and xbase. Now delete and backspace don't work at all in xterm or rxvt. I tried reinstalling ncurses-base and xbase, but I still have the problem. I'm using ncurses-base_1.9.9g-5 and xbase_3.3.1-1. Can anyone help? Thanks, Curt

Re: Moving files between DOS hard drive and Linux hard drive

1997-11-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David S. Zelinsky) writes: > Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > using a command like `mount /dev/hda1 /mnt'. Dissected: > > > > mount /dev/hda1 /mnt > >^ ^^ ^ Mount point. This can be any directory. > >| ||

Re: HELLO

1997-11-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > COULD YOU PLEASE HELP ME FIND DOS DRIVERS FOR MY WINMODEM, BECAUSE I HAVE > GAMES TO PLAY ON MODEM GAME. I CAN'T BECAUSE MY MODEM DOESN'T WORK IN DOS. 1. Don't shout. 2. This is the wrong forum for any DOS questions not related to Debian GNU/Linux in some way. 3. Win

Anybody using Syquest drives??

1997-11-11 Thread Tim Ferrell
Anybody using Syquest drives under Linux, especially the SyJet?? I am considering buying one and wonder about their quality and reliability. Thanks! Tim -- Debian GNU Linux Power to the people... E-Mail: Tim Ferrell <[EMAI

plug and play modem

1997-11-11 Thread nitkiew
Hello, My modem (Zoltrix internal modem, v.34+, model FM-SE336VSP) is set to operate in Plug and Play mode under Win95. Is it possible to use it under Linux without setting fixed I/O address and IRQ number with jumpers ? Thanks, Jacek -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Re: olvwm doesn't work

1997-11-11 Thread tibor simko
> "bill" == Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bill> /home/bill/.xinitrc: line 35 161 segementation fault (core bill> dumped) olvwm does the error persist when you run: `startx /usr/bin/X11/olvwm' with _empty_ .xinitrc file? if not, how olwm behaves? bill> Line 35 of my .xin

Re: Update: mounting MS-DOS fs onto Linux

1997-11-11 Thread Matt McClanahan
> On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Charles Read wrote: > > > Here's what I tried: > > > > 0. Looked at /proc/filesystems to verify > > that VFAT was supported. > > > > 1. Ran "dmesg | more" to verify that /dev/hda1 > > was the correct partition. > > > > 2. Ran mount and got this result: > > > > # mount -t

Re: finding myself on DDS-2 tape...

1997-11-11 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997 21:01:29 EST Tim Ferrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is there a formula for determining what percentage of tape I have left after a > backup? I use 'mt tell' to get the current block on tape - how do I know > how many blocks are on the tape? I am using a 4-8GB DAT drive with

finding myself on DDS-2 tape...

1997-11-11 Thread Tim Ferrell
Is there a formula for determining what percentage of tape I have left after a backup? I use 'mt tell' to get the current block on tape - how do I know how many blocks are on the tape? I am using a 4-8GB DAT drive with 90m and 120m tapes. I just need some kind of idea of how much tape is left...

Re: Moving files between DOS hard drive and Linux hard drive

1997-11-11 Thread David S. Zelinsky
Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > using a command like `mount /dev/hda1 /mnt'. Dissected: > > mount /dev/hda1 /mnt >^ ^^ ^ Mount point. This can be any directory. >| || * Shouldn't that be any _empty_ directory?

Problems compiling MH on hamm system

1997-11-11 Thread ken
Hello Debian team, I'm having some trouble compiling the mh_6.8.4-14 source package on my hamm system. After extracting the source using dpkg-source, and configuring as described in the mh_6.8.4/READ-ME file, I get the following when doing the make: leisure# make for d in config sbr mts zotnet u

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