Re: 3FA: ???

1997-12-05 Thread Igor Grobman
> > I've seen the 1FA business before, but now that I've managed to move my file > system over to my new drive, and lilo'd it, I get a 3FA: after the hardware > check. The key sequence A1 (i think) will get me to LILO, which will boot if > left alone. I checked and I'm not touching the keys a

3FA: ???

1997-12-05 Thread Rick Hawkins
I've seen the 1FA business before, but now that I've managed to move my file system over to my new drive, and lilo'd it, I get a 3FA: after the hardware check. The key sequence A1 (i think) will get me to LILO, which will boot if left alone. I checked and I'm not touching the keys as it boots

Re: Q's about upgrading to hamm

1997-12-05 Thread Scott J. Geertgens
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: > > Ok, I'd like to upgrade to hamm, because there are some things there that > I need. I'm following the libc5 to libc6 howto, but I've got a couple > questions/comments. > > The first conflict arose when I tried to install the second pack

Re: perl missing from status file

1997-12-05 Thread Scott Ellis
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > I have a small partition that was used in the bo testing period > that, IIRC, is in the status in which the base installation left it. > It contains 18 mb, representing the packages installed from the base > disks. Perl exists in this partition

Re: Running defrag in single user mode...

1997-12-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Curt Howland wrote: > > Quick question from a non-unix person who doesn't > want to break something "just poking around"... > > How does one go into "single user" mode, then start > the multi user functions again? At the lilo prompt, type your image name plus 'single' > I pulled a defrag packa

Re: Running defrag in single user mode...

1997-12-05 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Single-user mode is also known as runlevel 1. To go to any runlevel, as root run 'telinit [level]' -- so 'telinit 1' would bring you to single-user mode, 'telinit 0' would shut down the system, 'telinit 6' would reboot.. and 'telinit 2' (or 3 or 4) would bring you back to multi-user mode. You cou

perl missing from status file

1997-12-05 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
I have a small partition that was used in the bo testing period that, IIRC, is in the status in which the base installation left it. It contains 18 mb, representing the packages installed from the base disks. Perl exists in this partition as /usr/bin/perl, but perl does not show up in /var/li

Re: multiple X sessions problem

1997-12-05 Thread Stephen Zander
E Papantoniou wrote: > my problem is that I cannot run more than one X server at the same time. > When I am logged in as a user one and run startx on display :0.0, I do > Ctrl-Alt-F2, log in as a user two and type startx -- :1.0 More importantly, why are you trying to? There are several window ma

Q's about upgrading to hamm

1997-12-05 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
Ok, I'd like to upgrade to hamm, because there are some things there that I need. I'm following the libc5 to libc6 howto, but I've got a couple questions/comments. The first conflict arose when I tried to install the second package, libc6_2.0.5c-0.1 . It conflicted with the pthreads package. N

HP4P-troubles

1997-12-05 Thread Krog, Max
I have been troubled for a long time with the message code 21: dataoverflow. When I try to print from CorelDraw 7.0 This is just one of the latest programs, which acts this way, so is the ole, wonderful printer OUT or might there be a new driver on the market. My talks with the Danish HP-firm har r

Running defrag in single user mode...

1997-12-05 Thread Curt Howland
Quick question from a non-unix person who doesn't want to break something "just poking around"... How does one go into "single user" mode, then start the multi user functions again? I pulled a defrag package down, but it won't run (for blatently obvious reasons) in multi-mode. No need to tell me

Re: command logging

1997-12-05 Thread Stephen Zander
Matthew Tebbens wrote: > > Is there a way to log all commands typed by someone ? > > ttysnoop does not work all that great, > .bash_history only logs AFTER the person logs off, > not sure if I can alter bash to log everything... > > I looked at telnetd, but I'm not sure if any of the > debugging

Re: ipfwadm

1997-12-05 Thread Carey Evans
Mark Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In order to use the ipfwadm command set, what options and modules need to > be selected in configuring the kernel? Under "Networking options", I think you need to have "IP: firewalling" selected. You'll also need to select "Network firewalls" to be able t

Re: How unstable is hamm?

1997-12-05 Thread bleach
I had already read about that one (here on the list) [elf-x11r6lib] so knew that it was necessary to "force" for that one. Who is using "comerr" or comerrg"? And what are the coflicts? Nevermind, doing dpkg --status on comerr2g makes it is clear to me that I need to take a close look at what is

Re: How unstable is hamm?

1997-12-05 Thread bleach
Yep, that's it! But additionally, there is some sort of problem with comerr that I encounted and after trying to get dselect to choose an acceptable solution I finally gave up and forced. Obviously it is a problem for any sysadm when required functions move from one package to another and dsele

Re: dunc pppd configuration script

1997-12-05 Thread john
Richard G. Roberto writes: > I also want to address this issue about "standard" options file > locations. It is impossible to manage multiple ppp options sets in the > same file unless the option requirements are identicle. ... I > personally have three different connection requirements and use

Re: How are .Xdefaults files handled under Debian?

1997-12-05 Thread bleach
Humm, appreciate the suggestion as to the cause. It does look as though it could be related to visualBell. The only problems are that by default the visualbell is off, the xterm menu indicates that it is off, I set the resource off in .Xresources but the problem still occurs. One thing that I di

Re: command logging

1997-12-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: > Is there a way to log all commands typed by someone ? > The programm you need is script. It is in bsdutils.deb . Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

Re: PPP modem connection.

1997-12-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I´ve been trying to connect ppp using XISP and after giving the ppp > garbage characters (and clicking on continue) it disconnects the line. I > think I have PPP installed correctly, but how can I be sure? > (I do connect with the same hardware under

Re: BS in rxvt+ncurses

1997-12-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Nathan" == Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nathan> Hmm, I'll regret saying this forever I bet :) Many lists like Nathan> this one have an "FAQ" that gets posted semi-frequently. Nathan> Anyone ever attempted this? Are there good reasons for this Nathan> NOT to happen? Otherwis

Re: time zone problem

1997-12-05 Thread Scott Ellis
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > yes.. tzconfig is correctly set and doesn't give any errors when saving an > updated timezone.. date gives the same results.. Weird. I don't have any other ideas, sorry. -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/

Streaming "Password:" in VC

1997-12-05 Thread Jay Barbee
Hello all, I believe I botched my Debian 1.3.1 install up, upon the first bootup. I was converting from Slackware to debian after a crash (perfect time to do this), so I had my users and home directories on another partition I did not want to setup the initial user that debian asks for, a

Re: How unstable is hamm?

1997-12-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"bleach" == bleach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bleach> As to a general opinion concerning stability, the hamm base bleach> system has not given me any trouble. The problems that I have bleach> seen are most often related to installing or further upgrading bleach> packages. bleach> I suppo

Re: PPP and Linux

1997-12-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > > I have installed Linux, and think that it is really great! There are a > > couple of things that I would like to do. Firstly, I would like to be able > > to get my Linux side to answer the phone, and if the user logs in OK, create > > a PPP connectio

Re: time zone problem

1997-12-05 Thread Paul Miller
yes.. tzconfig is correctly set and doesn't give any errors when saving an updated timezone.. date gives the same results.. On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Scott Ellis wrote: > On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > > > this happened after compiling glibc, since then I removed the installed > > files (b

Re: BS in rxvt+ncurses

1997-12-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 5 Dec 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: : Hi, : >>"Nathan" == Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : : Nathan> Hmm, I'll regret saying this forever I bet :) Many lists like : Nathan> this one have an "FAQ" that gets posted semi-frequently. : Nathan> Anyone ever attempted this? Are there go

Re: time zone problem

1997-12-05 Thread Scott Ellis
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > this happened after compiling glibc, since then I removed the installed > files (because they didn't compile right)... > > #date > Fri Dec 5 20:02:14 /usr/local/etc/localtime 1997 > > .. how can I fix this (other than a symlink work around)? I couldn't

Re: How unstable is hamm?

1997-12-05 Thread David Gaudine
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, bleach wrote: > I have also had dselect "render" my system incapabile of a full boot a > couple of times following an install session. The last being a couple of > days ago and was an fsck check failure. Dselect had removed libcom_err > which it seem caused e2fsck to fail to

time zone problem

1997-12-05 Thread Paul Miller
this happened after compiling glibc, since then I removed the installed files (because they didn't compile right)... #date Fri Dec 5 20:02:14 /usr/local/etc/localtime 1997 .. how can I fix this (other than a symlink work around)? I couldn't find any settings or anything...and I've reinstalled a

Re: How are .Xdefaults files handled under Debian?

1997-12-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, bleach wrote: > I also use "xterm*reverseVideo:yes" but there is one thing that happens > that really "bugs" me... If an error occurs in "vi" when on an xterm the > reverse video gets screwed up. Background seems to switch to "white" > while the forground remains "white". Ma

PHP/FI Apache Module

1997-12-05 Thread Steve Kostecke
Ref: Hamm (Sun Nov 30 22:00:00 UTC 1997), Apache 1.3b3-3, PHP/FI 2.0b10-5 I'm a bit confused as to how to make Apache use the PHP/FI module. The docs seem to suggest that I must recompile Apache. ...? FWIW I've been able to use php.cgi TIA -- _ _

Re: BS in rxvt+ncurses

1997-12-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Nathan" == Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nathan> Hmm, I'll regret saying this forever I bet :) Many lists like Nathan> this one have an "FAQ" that gets posted semi-frequently. Nathan> Anyone ever attempted this? Are there good reasons for this Nathan> NOT to happen? Otherwis

Re: MacIntosh diskettes

1997-12-05 Thread Scott Hanson
Nils Rennebarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: > > > How can I configure a Debian 1.3.1 box to read and write on/to Mac > > > diskettes and which programs can I use ? > > You can't. The pc type drive is physically incapable of handling the > > mac format.

Re: Sound.o module / Dependancies

1997-12-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Brian Skreeg wrote: > > Hi there peoplewithsound, > > ok, here we go... > > Brand new fresh Debian 1.3.1 install from Infomagic 6 CD set. > Apon installation I notice the sound module isn`t available in this > release (something to do with non-free missing?) . OK.. so.. > kernel source 2

Re: PPP and Linux

1997-12-05 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> I have installed Linux, and think that it is really great! There are a > couple of things that I would like to do. Firstly, I would like to be able > to get my Linux side to answer the phone, and if the user logs in OK, create > a PPP connection so that they would be able to load a WWW browser

Re: How unstable is hamm?

1997-12-05 Thread bleach
Hi John; I have one PC running hamm. Part of my "motivation" for switching to hamm is that I also have two Amiga 3Ks running debian linux and for those essentially hamm is not an option. It is I think, useful to try to keep the debian machines all running the same version. The PC does however,

Re: HTTP background tool

1997-12-05 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Eloy A. Paris writes: > > Do not reinvent the wheel. The Wget package will do what you want, and > more. > Tried it, it works great. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: HTTP background tool

1997-12-05 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Dale Martin writes: > > I use "snarf". It can do command line grabs from http, finger, ftp, and > gopher. Seems to work reasonably well, and it's super simple to use. > > I'm not sure if it's still available or not - I don't see it in my mirror. > Let me know if it's not - I'll package it

Re: Installation Problem

1997-12-05 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 5 Jul 1996, Faiz ul Haque Zeya wrote: > Hello, > I come accross three problems while installing Debian 1.3.1 from CD > > 1. The system boots correctly from the boot floppy created during > installation > but by booting from harddisk (through LILO ) the kernel boots >

release 1.3.1r6

1997-12-05 Thread Tom Derby
Help I can't get base 4&5 to download I've tried the mirror servers in japan and Germany in addition to the main site in the U.S. I am trying to get it down with Win95 all the other files i.e. base 1-3 and root all came through fine. Anybody else having a problem? thanks Tom Derby [E

PPP and Linux

1997-12-05 Thread Alistair Phillips
Hi there Linux users. I have installed Linux, and think that it is really great! There are a couple of things that I would like to do. Firstly, I would like to be able to get my Linux side to answer the phone, and if the user logs in OK, create a PPP connection so that they would be able to load

Re: Debian libc5 (bo/stable) to libc6 (hamm/unstable) upgrade Mini-HOWTO

1997-12-05 Thread bleach
Hi Bob; In addition to what Scott said himself, I was told that he was sent a specific request to post it again (in multiple groups). However, like you (I suspect), I carefully read the whole thing (yet again> to see if there was anything new. Thus, as a request to Scott: If it is not too much

Sound.o module / Dependancies

1997-12-05 Thread Brian Skreeg
Hi there peoplewithsound, ok, here we go... Brand new fresh Debian 1.3.1 install from Infomagic 6 CD set. Apon installation I notice the sound module isn`t available in this release (something to do with non-free missing?) . OK.. so.. kernel source 2.0.30 installed. make dep make clean

Re: How unstable is hamm?

1997-12-05 Thread Stephen Zedalis
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, John Bradley Fitzgibbons wrote: > >I've been watching all of the messages concerning libc6 upgrades and now >I've just got to ask. How unstable is hamm? My major interest is due to >development. I'd really like to start playing around with version 6, but >I'd hate to destroy

Re: How are .Xdefaults files handled under Debian?

1997-12-05 Thread bleach
Hi Mark; Well, I think that I got it from a couple of places but I seem to remember the man rxvt was about the more informative about XTERM resources (for my purposes anyway) than man xterm was. On the system that I am using right now the form of the entry is: "xterm*scrollBar:yes" but I suspect

Re: How unstable is hamm?

1997-12-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Scott Ellis wrote: : On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, John Bradley Fitzgibbons wrote: : : > I've been watching all of the messages concerning libc6 upgrades and now : > I've just got to ask. How unstable is hamm? My major interest is due to : > development. I'd really like to start play

Re: BS in rxvt+ncurses

1997-12-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: [ problem snipped ] : : Man, this problem has come up on this list how many times now? : Hoow! (I'm not frustrated at you Marcelo.) Isn't it time we : had a decent search engine on the debian-user archives or some help : database that people c

Re: Get this, Gateway2000's 'wonderful' tech support

1997-12-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: : > Allen Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : > : > > I wrote a e-mail to gateway2000's tech support team asking them if Linux : > > was compatible with my Promise Ultra 33 here is an EXACT copy of what was : > > returned: : > > : > > Hello Allen, :

Re: MacIntosh diskettes

1997-12-05 Thread Nils Rennebarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: > > How can I configure a Debian 1.3.1 box to read and write on/to Mac > > diskettes and which programs can I use ? > > You can't. The pc type drive is physically incapable of handling the > mac format. This is only tr

(Bruce's New Venture (Was Re: BS in rxvt+ncurses)

1997-12-05 Thread Civ Kevin F. Havener
Jens, I know just the right guy to do this...our soon to be departed project leader. Didn't he mention doing something similar as part of his life-after-project-leader? Something about taking service calls and stripping out company details, then providing that back to the Debian community. M

Re: Philosophical question

1997-12-05 Thread tko
Larry G. Gariepy Jr. writes: > > Hi all, > I guess this doesn't pertain specifically to Debian, but I have a > philosophical question about software upgrades, and I just thought I would > take My two cents worth. Like yourself, I don't like "rocking the boat" either. My upgrade philosophy is

PPP modem connection.

1997-12-05 Thread gustavoq
I´ve been trying to connect ppp using XISP and after giving the ppp garbage characters (and clicking on continue) it disconnects the line. I think I have PPP installed correctly, but how can I be sure? (I do connect with the same hardware under Windows 95 without a problem) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FR

Re: ati tv tuner

1997-12-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Benoit Joly wrote: > > hi all, i wanna know if there is a driver (beta, alpha...) for the tv > tuner, or in developpement?? > > i have this card and want to throw away my win95... > > thanks in advances (and thanks for answers that i received for all my prob > in linux installation, now it's wor

Re: pppd complains link isn't 8-bit clean!

1997-12-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Mark Phillips wrote: > > Hi, > > A friend and I have been having problems getting ppp to work on his > laptop. Everything works with the chat script until just after ppp is > engaged. Then it complains as follows. > > pppd Serial connection established > Using interface ppp0 > Connect:ppp0 <->

Re: KDE mismatched packages...

1997-12-05 Thread Igor Grobman
> > Hey.. > > Is there anyreason that some of the packages in non-free are beta2-1 and > some are beta2-2? Very frustrating when there isn't enough of either of > them for a full install. This is because some of them are stuck in the Incoming AFAIK. Our archive maintainer, Guy Mayor, has just

Re: MacIntosh diskettes

1997-12-05 Thread Rick Hawkins
> How can I configure a Debian 1.3.1 box to read and write on/to Mac > diskettes and which programs can I use ? You can't. The pc type drive is physically incapable of handling the mac format. The solution is to use pc format disks, which both the mac & linux can read & write. rick --

Re: Dreamware: encrypted tcpip?

1997-12-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: > > I was thinking that I want my wan links to be encrypted. Ssh would not be > enough, as nfs or ftp/rcp also need to be encrypted. I was wondering if > there was anything such as this in the ppp code or ip tunneling code? I believe some IETF commitee is working on

Re: How unstable is hamm?

1997-12-05 Thread Scott Ellis
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, John Bradley Fitzgibbons wrote: > I've been watching all of the messages concerning libc6 upgrades and now > I've just got to ask. How unstable is hamm? My major interest is due to > development. I'd really like to start playing around with version 6, but > I'd hate to destr

Re: Dreamware: encrypted tcpip?

1997-12-05 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: > I was thinking that I want my wan links to be encrypted. Ssh would not be > enough, as nfs or ftp/rcp also need to be encrypted. I was wondering if > there was anything such as this in the ppp code or ip tunneling code? http://skip.incog.com/

Re: How unstable is hamm?

1997-12-05 Thread Will Lowe
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, John Bradley Fitzgibbons wrote: > I've been watching all of the messages concerning libc6 upgrades and now > I've just got to ask. How unstable is hamm? My major interest is due to I've been running a mostly-hamm system since July, and haven't had any problems other than: A

Re: BS in rxvt+ncurses

1997-12-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Marcelo E. Magallón wrote: > > Hi, > > I've already asked this, and I'm sure someone must be having the > same problem... > > No matter how I set the backspace in X11, it won't work under rxvt + > some ncurses program, for example, pine. At some point the entry in > /etc/terminfo/r/rxvt

Re: Ink Jet Printers

1997-12-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
The Ghostscript printer compatibility web page recommends the cdj550 driver for the 694c and has some suggestions and further links for Epson Stylus printers: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Jess Stryker wrote: > HP 694c DeskJet > > Epson Stylus Color 600 > > The

Re: emacs and .Xdefaults

1997-12-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Wintermute wrote: > > Kirk Hilliard wrote: > > > > Last week I issued a plea for help: > > > I just made a new installation of bo, and emacs no longer seems to > > > read my ~/.Xdefaults file like it used to in rex. > > > > And Wintermute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> came to the rescue: > > > Try this.. >

Re: Where is font "-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*"?

1997-12-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Mark Phillips wrote: > > When I try to run either fr (filerunner) or tkman, it comes up with > similar messages, both complaining about the lack of the font: > > "-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*" > > It works fine on my machine at home, and as far as I can tell, they both > hav

How unstable is hamm?

1997-12-05 Thread John Bradley Fitzgibbons
I've been watching all of the messages concerning libc6 upgrades and now I've just got to ask. How unstable is hamm? My major interest is due to development. I'd really like to start playing around with version 6, but I'd hate to destroy my system to do it... :) I have an admin level knowledge

Re: Get this, Gateway2000's 'wonderful' tech support

1997-12-05 Thread Matthew Tebbens
The one thing I like about Micron is that they have more options to pick from. I can almost pick all the hardware that will work with Linux. With Gateway I don't like the video cards, and sound cards they offer... I would probably buy from Micron in the future. On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Robert D. Hi

multiple X sessions problem

1997-12-05 Thread E Papantoniou
(this is a repost) Hi all, my problem is that I cannot run more than one X server at the same time. When I am logged in as a user one and run startx on display :0.0, I do Ctrl-Alt-F2, log in as a user two and type startx -- :1.0 The second X server attempts to start (the gray default background ap

command logging

1997-12-05 Thread Matthew Tebbens
Is there a way to log all commands typed by someone ? ttysnoop does not work all that great, .bash_history only logs AFTER the person logs off, not sure if I can alter bash to log everything... I looked at telnetd, but I'm not sure if any of the debugging features do this. Something where I cou

Re: Debian libc5 (bo/stable) to libc6 (hamm/unstable) upgrade Mini-HOWTO

1997-12-05 Thread Scott Ellis
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, this Mini-HOWTO was posted to the various > lists. It appears to be identical to the version posted on Wed Nov 12. > Is this an error, or is it an intentional repeat, not an update? It was an intentional repeat. I haven't

Installation Problem

1997-12-05 Thread Faiz ul Haque Zeya
 Hello,    I come accross three problems while installing Debian 1.3.1 from  CD 1. The system boots correctly from the boot floppy created during installation     but by booting from harddisk (through LILO ) the kernel boots     correctly but then it stopped displaying the following:

Debian libc5 (bo/stable) to libc6 (hamm/unstable) upgrade Mini-HOWTO

1997-12-05 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, this Mini-HOWTO was posted to the various lists. It appears to be identical to the version posted on Wed Nov 12. Is this an error, or is it an intentional repeat, not an update? Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Get this, Gateway2000's 'wonderful' tech support

1997-12-05 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
> Allen Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I wrote a e-mail to gateway2000's tech support team asking them if Linux > > was compatible with my Promise Ultra 33 here is an EXACT copy of what was > > returned: > > > > Hello Allen, > > > > Thanks for your message. Unfortunatly, Linus has not b

MacIntosh diskettes

1997-12-05 Thread Guido Bozzetto
How can I configure a Debian 1.3.1 box to read and write on/to Mac diskettes and which programs can I use ? -- +++ | Guido Bozzetto | Office phone & Fax: +39 432 548314 | Il sunadôr | \/ I | E-mail: :-) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: hostname

1997-12-05 Thread Greg Green
THANKS!! Greg Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"Greg" == Greg Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Greg> I am currently working just fine on my LAN, however, I need to > Greg> change my host name only. What files would I modify to do so? I > Greg> know I need to change the /etc/hosts, but I

Re: Problems with jdk1.1.3 and JNI

1997-12-05 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> gcc -shared -I/usr2/programs/jdk1.1.3/include -I/usr2/programs/jdk1.1.3/incl > ude/genunix -o libGroup.so javaQ_groups_Group.c Hi. This is not the right way to generate shared library. What you got here is plain objet file (.o) named as shared lib. The correct way is: gcc -fPIC -c -I<.> j

Re: pppd complains link isn't 8-bit clean!

1997-12-05 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> Hi, > > A friend and I have been having problems getting ppp to work on his > laptop. Everything works with the chat script until just after ppp is > engaged. Then it complains as follows. > > pppd Serial connection established > Using interface ppp0 > Connect:ppp0 <-> /dev/ttyS1 > LCP: timeo

Re: mount trouble with MSDOS fs

1997-12-05 Thread Charles Read
/proc/filesystems shows that msdos, vfat are present. I definitely compiled them into the kernel sometime back. The error msg is: # mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12, FAT 16, check=n,conv=b,uid=0, ...] [me=0xf8,cs=8,#f=2, ...] Translation block size = 512 VFS: Can't find a valid

Problems with jdk1.1.3 and JNI

1997-12-05 Thread Richard A. Guay
Hi, I am not sure this is the right list for this problem, but I thought someone might be able to direct me to the right place. I was hoping the maintainer for the java package might be able to help. I am trying out JNI programming using the linux port for jdk1.1.3 and the new libjava.so file.

Re: HTTP background tool

1997-12-05 Thread Dale Martin
"Orn E. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool, that will basically > connect to a site through port 80, using HTTP and download a document > in the background? > > Some sites are very slow, and they only provide HTTP access to the > informatio

Re: How are .Xdefaults files handled under Debian?

1997-12-05 Thread Mark Phillips
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, bleach wrote: > Shouldn't it be: xterm*scrollBar:true (on) Maybe. I was copying another file. How did you find out about the correct format? > > On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: > > I added the line: > > > > xterm.scrollBar:true > > > > In a .Xdefaults file

Re: Network Setting

1997-12-05 Thread Ana Silva
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Pancho Horrillo wrote: > > I think i need to create a device eth0 but i can´t! (Because when i run > > /etc/init.d/network it says "no such device" ) > You must first install the modules or recompile the kernel to > support your ethernet (or whatever) card. > Y

Re: How are .Xdefaults files handled under Debian?

1997-12-05 Thread bleach
Shouldn't it be: xterm*scrollBar:true (on) On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: > I added the line: > > xterm.scrollBar: true > > In a .Xdefaults file to turn on scrollbars automatically on xterms, but X > seemed to ignore this. How does Debian deal with Xdefaults? And where > can I

Re: dunc pppd configuration script

1997-12-05 Thread Richard G. Roberto
Just to clear up some confusion about dunc, I realize the script has shortcomings and John is looking into taking over the package so it can get properly attended to. However, its really quite useable in its current state -- even on a bo system. It's just an ash script that uses dialog, so it sho

Re: HTTP background tool

1997-12-05 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Ralph Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool, that will basically : >connect to a site through port 80, using HTTP and download a document : >in the background? : perl certainly provides all you need. You could easily specify a URL : and have a perl prog

Re: Network Setting

1997-12-05 Thread Matthew Tebbens
What type of network card do you have ? Also post your /etc/init.d/network, maybe theres a problem in there. No matter what the problem is, you really should re-compile the kernel with support added for only those features you want. Matthew On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Pancho Horrillo wrote: > On Fri,

Re: Where is "-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*"?

1997-12-05 Thread Mark Phillips
I didn't receive any reply to the following. Does nobody know? On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: > > When I try to run either fr (filerunner) or tkman, it comes up with > similar messages, both complaining about the lack of the font: > > "-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*

Re: How are .Xdefaults files handled under Debian?

1997-12-05 Thread Sten Anderson
Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I added the line: > > xterm.scrollBar: true > > In a .Xdefaults file to turn on scrollbars automatically on xterms, but X > seemed to ignore this. How does Debian deal with Xdefaults? In Debian, the file ".Xdefaults" should be renamed to ".Xre

Anyone packaging new smail (to stop spam relays)?

1997-12-05 Thread Petri Wessman
The current version of smail in the 'unstable' Debian release is a bit old and doesn't have support to stop spam relaying. I have heard that version 3.2.0.94 has a new config variable (smail_remote_allow) for this. Is anyone packaging the new smail? There's a very real need for an MTA that blocks

How are .Xdefaults files handled under Debian?

1997-12-05 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I added the line: xterm.scrollBar:true In a .Xdefaults file to turn on scrollbars automatically on xterms, but X seemed to ignore this. How does Debian deal with Xdefaults? And where can I read about these things? Thanks, Mark. _/\___/~~\___

Re: Network Setting

1997-12-05 Thread Pancho Horrillo
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Ana Silva wrote: > Hello... > I´ve been installing debian-linux in a machine. Everything went well, > but i don´t access network! > I think i need to create a device eth0 but i can´t! (Because when i run > /etc/init.d/network it says "no such device" ) > Can someone help me ?

Re: Network Setting

1997-12-05 Thread Pancho Horrillo
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Ana Silva wrote: > Hello... > I´ve been installing debian-linux in a machine. Everything went well, > but i don´t access network! > I think i need to create a device eth0 but i can´t! (Because when i run > /etc/init.d/network it says "no such device" ) > Can someone help me ? (

Re: HTTP background tool

1997-12-05 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Ralph Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool, that will basically : >connect to a site through port 80, using HTTP and download a document : >in the background? : perl certainly provides all you need. You could easily specify a URL : and have a perl prog

pppd complains link isn't 8-bit clean!

1997-12-05 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, A friend and I have been having problems getting ppp to work on his laptop. Everything works with the chat script until just after ppp is engaged. Then it complains as follows. pppd Serial connection established Using interface ppp0 Connect:ppp0 <-> /dev/ttyS1 LCP: timeout sending Config-R

Unidentified subject!

1997-12-05 Thread Sten Anderson
Subject: Re: emacs and .Xdefaults References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Sten Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 05 Dec 1997 12:17:43 +0100 In-Reply-To: Gilbert Laycock's message of 05 Dec 1

Network Setting

1997-12-05 Thread Ana Silva
Hello... I´ve been installing debian-linux in a machine. Everything went well, but i don´t access network! I think i need to create a device eth0 but i can´t! (Because when i run /etc/init.d/network it says "no such device" ) Can someone help me ? (This is realy bugging me... :((( ). Thanks... --

Re: emacs and .Xdefaults

1997-12-05 Thread Gilbert Laycock
> "Kirk" == Kirk Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kirk> I just made a new installation of bo, and emacs no longer seems to Kirk> read my ~/.Xdefaults file like it used to in rex. Shouldn't it be called ~/.Xresources ? Personally I have the two filenames symbolic linked together, because

preparing a minimal system

1997-12-05 Thread Sen Nagata
hi- i am attempting to install a system that has as small number of files as possible (note: i am not necessarily trying to make an installation that will fit on a floppy). in addition, i would like to be able to perform the preparation of hard drives for target machines on a machine other than

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #1095

1997-12-05 Thread XRD Lab
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Re: Ink Jet Printers

1997-12-05 Thread Marco Pistore
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Jess Stryker wrote: > HP 694c DeskJet > Hi, i am very happy with my HP 694c. I am using gs-aladdin 5.03 with the cdj550 driver to print ps and pdf files. Ciao, Marco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: Ink Jet Printers

1997-12-05 Thread Anthony Fok
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, James A.Treacy wrote: > > HP 694c DeskJet > > > > Epson Stylus Color 600 > Heh, I'm about to buy a printer too. Those are the same two I'm > considering. The Epson 800 isn't enough of an improvement to warrant an > extra $190 Canadian. I'll probably go with the Epson as I wan

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