On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Catouch wrote:
> I have had great success, so far installing and configuring my Debian system.
> However, I cannot access the HOWTO files. They are in /usr/doc/HOWTO and are
> gz. How can I read them? Thank you.
If you've installed less, the 'zless' command will view compr
On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Catouch wrote:
> I have had great success, so far installing and configuring my Debian system.
> However, I cannot access the HOWTO files. They are in /usr/doc/HOWTO and are
> gz. How can I read them? Thank you.
>
zcat *-HOWTO.gz | less
where '*' stands for the name of
> I have had great success, so far installing and configuring my Debian system.
> However, I cannot access the HOWTO files. They are in /usr/doc/HOWTO and are
> gz. How can I read them? Thank you.
try "gzip -dc somefile.gz|less"
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Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Greg Cox wrote:
>
> > Ok, now it says "System Lacks PPP Kernel Support.
>
> Either you:
>
> 1) Compiled your kernel without selecting ppp in the configuration
> process; or
>
> 2) Compiled with ppp but have not yet run /sbin/lilo t
"Timothy M. Hospedales" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just downloaded Netscape 4.04 and installed it via the .deb installer.
>
> When I start Netscape, it prints out about two pages of messages like:
> netscape: can't resolve symbol 'execute_java_constructor'
>
> The messages are all something
I am a new user to Linux and whilst trying to install packages through
'dselect' I run into problems which return a message 'exit error
status 1'
Also not all of the packages selected will install.
ie. half a package may install but the rest won't.
Any sugestions???
thanks
fingers
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On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Damir J. Naden wrote:
> I have spent last hour going thru the mailing list archives and still
> came out empty-handed:
> I have installed a base system froma the current base disks from hamm
> which point to the current bo disks. Those include libc5_5.4.33-6
> library. Next ste
hallo linux specialists,
so far I'm not a specialist myself, but I just want to install the system, and
it does not startup.
The boot prompt appears all right, then loading linux hangs up with the
following last lines at screen:
...
aic7xxx: Resetting the SCSI bus...done.
qlogicisp : PCI bios
I wrote:
> Use ppp. At each end, put this in /etc/ppp/ttyS0...
That should read /etc/ppp/options.ttyS0.
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Need some help installing debian correctly.
If anyone out there is a pro and wouldn't mind spending about twenty minutes on
the phone with me this afternoon, I would be glad to eat the long distance.
Please email me you phone number.
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Hi, everyone --
I have spent last hour going thru the mailing list archives and still
came out empty-handed:
I have installed a base system froma the current base disks from hamm
which point to the current bo disks. Those include libc5_5.4.33-6
library. Next step was to try and upgrade to ldso_1.9
On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Kevin J Poorman wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jan 1998 10:11:37 -0500 (EST) Jean Pierre LeJacq
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Kevin J Poorman wrote:
> >
> >> rxvt -fg grey -bg black
> >> it will come up fine but it will not run pico or clear the screen
> >> 'clear'
Hi,
I have a problem with Pine 3.96. When I start it, I get this error:
[Can't open mailbox lock, access is readonly]
I can read my mail, but not modify it, i.e i cannot delete and other stuff
that requires writing. I have checked the permissions on my $HOME/Mailbox
(which is my inbox), and the
Incoming, from Bob Nielsen
> On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Greg Cox wrote:
>
> > Ok, now it says "System Lacks PPP Kernel Support.
>
> Either you:
>
> 1) Compiled your kernel without selecting ppp in the configuration
> process; or
>
> 2) Compiled with ppp but have not yet run /sbin/lilo to select that
On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Greg Cox wrote:
> Ok, now it says "System Lacks PPP Kernel Support.
Either you:
1) Compiled your kernel without selecting ppp in the configuration
process; or
2) Compiled with ppp but have not yet run /sbin/lilo to select that kernel
when booting.
Bob
Bob Nielsen
G. Crimp wrote:
> So, I need to be on-line to read ? If I wanted to read
> off-line, I would need to maintain a local news spool,
> which is part of the server, therefore I need to be running
> a local server as well ?
Yes, though there are a few alternatives - there's a program called suck
that
See subject. When I send a ping to the other end of the ppp
connection, ifconfig shows that the count of received packets goes up,
but they are erroneous and dropped. With the former pppd (from
october) it worked.
I tried it both with the 2.0.32 and 2.0.33 kernel.
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OK, now it says "System Lacks PPP Kernel Support" What next
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On 1/4/98, at 12:31 PM, Randy Edwards wrote:
>> I have installed debian, now how do I get on the net so I can run dselect.
>> I don't think I have my modem set up yet.
>> /dev/modem not valid when
Ok, now it says "System Lacks PPP Kernel Support.
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On 1/4/98, at 12:31 PM, Randy Edwards wrote:
>> I have installed debian, now how do I get on the net so I can run dselect.
>> I don't think I have my modem set up yet.
>> /dev/modem not valid when ppp
On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 01:29:20PM -0500, Jim Foltz wrote:
> libc6-dev depends on either >= kernel-source-2.0.32-2 or
> >= kernel-headers-2.0.32-2 or greater, neither of which are
> available. But, I have the Linux kernel sources for 2.0.33. So, I made
> a kernel-source-2.0.33 package with make-kp
On Sun, 4 Jan 1998 10:11:37 -0500 (EST) Jean Pierre LeJacq
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Kevin J Poorman wrote:
>
>> Got 2 questions ... When I start a Rxvt in my .xinitrc file like
>this:
>> rxvt -fg grey -bg black
>> it will come up fine but it will not run pico or clear the s
Hello,
After looking around in the unstable distribution I decided
here were a few packages that I just couldn't do without. I managed to
install libc6, ldso, and a few other new packages with little problem
using the helpful libc6 HOWTO.
libc6-dev depends on either >= kernel-source-2.0.3
Hi Debian Friends,
this is just to report a successful Debian installation on a low memory
system.
I am successfully running the Debian base package, PPP networking and
X11 base packages downloaded from the latest distribution. The
kernel have been compiled by myself configuring as many modules as
On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Orn E. Hansen wrote:
> > we'd like to try other window managers... what is available and
> They reside in the binary/X11 directory I'd think. There are,
The hamm distribution has KDE desktop. This thing is *real* slick. You
can see screenshots and get info from www.kd
> I have installed debian, now how do I get on the net so I can run dselect.
> I don't think I have my modem set up yet.
> /dev/modem not valid when ppp...
My advice would be not to use /dev/modem. Call all of your serial
devices by their "real" name, e.g. /dev/ttyS1.
Then set up all o
On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 04:56:51PM +0100, Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Jim Foltz wrote:
> >
> > > I use smail becasue it's what Debian wanted. The only issue I have is
> > > that I want email sent from my pc to have my ISP email address as a
> > >
I have installed debian, now how do I get on the net so I can run dselect.
I don't think I have my modem set up yet.
/dev/modem not valid when ppp...
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> we so far have gotten xdm/xwindows running, but the type size is too
> small to be readable. I think its defaulting to 1024x768 how do I
> have it resize to 800x600, without losing the ability to switch to the
I suggest keeping the 1024x768 screen size, and only changing fontsizes for
those
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I just tried to install omniorb. But postinst dies with a segematation
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computer. The same thing still happens. Any ideas?
Ralf
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On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Carl Nasal wrote:
> Hi everyone,
Hi Carl!
> I have a 166 Pentium Monorail (a stupid computer with the screen and CPU
> all in one--yeah, I know, I'm an idiot) running Windows 95 and a 486
Hey, Apple has built such machines for years. And everyone must say those
old Apple "s
On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, G. Crimp wrote:
> So, I need to be on-line to read ? If I wanted to read
> off-line, I would need to maintain a local news spool,
> which is part of the server, therefore I need to be running
> a local server as well ?
Hi!
If you are now looking for a real-easy-to-configu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Jim Foltz wrote:
>
> > I use smail becasue it's what Debian wanted. The only issue I have is
> > that I want email sent from my pc to have my ISP email address as a
> > retuern address. This is done by configuring the email client
> > easily. I used
Hi,
Harry Palmer wrote:
>
> I'm new to Linux/Unix - still trying to decide which distribution to
> go for in fact.
>
> I've downloaded and installed the Debian base system (boot, drivers
> and five base disks) to a laptop with no problems. I'd think that
> installing the MAN pages would be a log
Bob Clark writes:
> I have two Debian boxes connected with a nullmodem cable. The first unit
> is connected to my ISP using a modem and ppp. I want the second box to
> use the first as a gateway. sliplogin/slattach seems like what I want
> but I get the following when I run sliplogin:
> ...
> An
Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What I'm trying to do is to have my bookmarks file in the
> ~/public_html directory.
>
> As Netscape rewrites the file completely every time you change a
> bookmark, I can not have a simlink to the public_html directory. In the
> other way arou
"G. Crimp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 12:41:48PM -0500, Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
> > Now if it were only
> > so easy to set the default home page...
> >
[...snip...]
> Somewhere in this list you will find a page that lets
> you indicate the URL of the page you wish
G. Crimp hat gesagt: // G. Crimp wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 05:10:51PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> >
> > Not normally. Typically, a reader doesn't download all articles in a group,
> > it just downloads a summary of the articles in the group (so it can display
> > a list of articles with t
On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Kevin J Poorman wrote:
> Got 2 questions ... When I start a Rxvt in my .xinitrc file like this:
> rxvt -fg grey -bg black
> it will come up fine but it will not run pico or clear the screen
> 'clear'. when I try and run pico I get the following error: "Terminals
> database in i
Hi,
Got 2 questions ... When I start a Rxvt in my .xinitrc file like this:
rxvt -fg grey -bg black
it will come up fine but it will not run pico or clear the screen
'clear'. when I try and run pico I get the following error: "Terminals
database in inaccessable"
and typeing clear brings the responc
Carl,
If you make the connection from the Debian box, it should be quite easy,
using slip to connect each to the other via the null modem cable. Win95
can be set up as a gateway with either Wingate or Trumpet Firesock, but
they are difficult to deal with. I am not sure if it is possible to have
Trivial questions at this early stage, but I'd greatly appreciate any
help. I should also say that this is probably the most helpful mailing
list I've ever read (which could be down to Debian's reluctance to
provide 'absolute beginner' help).
Dont i know it!, some hopless newbie tutorials would b
On Tue, Dec 30, 1997 at 07:48:57AM +0100, Ãlex Maneu wrote:
[snip]
> And another question! I use a "Iomega Zip 100MB
> parallel port" drive. I can use it with fstab, but
> I cannot print having this drive connected to the parallel
> port. I've heard that there's a patch or something
> that y
hallo linux specialists,
so far I'm not a specialist myself, but I just want to install the system, and
it does not startup.
It is a digital DECpc 466d2 MTE (EISA) with 16MB RAM,
Adaptec 2740 SCSI controller, 2GB Quantum Fireball Tempest (SCSI), Toshiba
SCSI-CDROM, Wangtek SCSI Tape drive,
Ethe
Is it possible to install qt1 and qt1g? It doesn't seem so, because both
of those packages has a /usr/X11/lib/libqt.so.1.31.
I have glibc, and I'd like to install the qt1g-version. But, if I install
that version, other packages will complain about qt1 not being installed..
So at the moment I have t
"John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The new drive is divided into 4 partitions. one is unused, one is mounted
> under /var, the next is mounted under /usr and the last is swap.
>
> ERR Error locking your mailbox.
>
> And the following error in my /var/log/mail.log file
>
> Jan 4 13:51:13 drag
I'm new to Linux/Unix - still trying to decide which distribution to
go for in fact.
I've downloaded and installed the Debian base system (boot, drivers
and five base disks) to a laptop with no problems. I'd think that
installing the MAN pages would be a logical next step in my learning
curve, but
Daniel,
> > Does anybody know how to change the default bookmarks.html file
> > w/ Communicator 4.04?
> In my installation (Netscape 4.03 done with the Debian installer), the
> file is located in /usr/lib/netscape - just edit the bookmarks.htm
> file you find there, and that should do it.
>I am having no luck getting a new ethernet card up. I just installed a
>new card with a DEC "tulip" chip and I can't get it working. Does anyone
>have a "tulip" card working? If so, could you share with me how you got
>it running?
compile the tulip driver as module, and use "option=XX" or "opt
Hi all,
I added a new hard drive to my system the other day and seem to
have introduced a problem with my smail setup.
The new drive is divided into 4 partitions. one is unused, one is mounted
under /var, the next is mounted under /usr and the last is swap.
To get the existing data ont
On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 05:25:23AM -0500, Carl Nasal wrote:
> I installed Debian (twice now) to try to get my CD-ROM installed. I
> don't know much about the CD-ROM as it was installed about 3 years ago
> and from moving around we've probably lost most of the documents about
> it. From just readi
Hello,
All the Xprograms (my own or source) compiled on my system (gcc) exits
immediately showing Segmentaion fault when run . They however get compiled
and linked without showinig any error . Any help .
Thanks
Faiz ul Haque Zeya
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Hi again all,
Sorry for all of these problems, but this has basically been the only
place to turn to! Boy do I wish there were more Debian Linux
books---even half of the amount of Slackware or Redhat would be nice.
Couldn't find much from where I looked. ;)
I installed Debian (twice now) to try
On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 05:10:51PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> Not normally. Typically, a reader doesn't download all articles in a group,
> it just downloads a summary of the articles in the group (so it can display
> a list of articles with the subject and the author, say). Then, it downloads
>
On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 12:41:48PM -0500, Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
> Now if it were only
> so easy to set the default home page...
>
>
Choose "Preferences..." from the "Edit" menu on the
menu bar. This will open up a dialog window that is split
vertically. On the left is a list of aspects
> -Forwarded message from Fuzzy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>-
> I think its defaulting to 1024x768 how do I
> have it resize to 800x600, without losing the ability to switch to the
> smaller size.
In theory Ctrl-Alt-(numeric)+ will cycle you through the screen modes
defined in XF86Config. In p
Hi everyone,
I have a 166 Pentium Monorail (a stupid computer with the screen and CPU
all in one--yeah, I know, I'm an idiot) running Windows 95 and a 486
Tandy running Debian--just installed. I only have one phone line that I
can use for my 'Net connection and I would like to be able to hook the
On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 10:31:29PM +0100, Mario Fabiano wrote:
> I am a new Debian user. I actually have been using Linux for a while. I
> have some questions.
>
>
> Is there some way to unpack a Debian package in a place different than
> the target directories, e.g. /tmp? The aim is just to look
George Bonser wrote:
>
> I *>think<* bridging is for bridging one type of traffic to another. FOr
> example, forwarding IPX traffic on one net to IP on another.
>
> On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote:
>
> > I have a 486/66 8M with 4 ne2k clones in it. What does the bridging code
>> > I have a fairly urgent need for load balancing two modems, but eql just
>> > does not work for me. All the bits are in place but all traffic goes
via
>> > ppp1.
>> >
>> You must make sure that the hardware at the other end of the connection
>> will also support load balancing (i.e. it must be
On 3 Jan 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
> William R Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Ahh, thanks! That works! Now what if I go to F2 and run another X
> > session. The original one will still be on 7, and the new one on
> > 8??
>
> X will always use the next free virtual terminal. If yo
I just downloaded Netscape 4.04 and installed it via the .deb installer.
When I start Netscape, it prints out about two pages of messages like:
netscape: can't resolve symbol 'execute_java_constructor'
The messages are all something about Java or JavaScript..
Then, any time I go to a page wit
On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Greg Norris wrote:
> > I have bought a Debian Linux before Christmas (a CD-ROM in the "Dream"
> > magazine) and I would like to have all the X11 features working
> > properly. So here is a brief description of my problem :
> >
> > When "startx" is not launched, I can define wi
On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Bob Clark wrote:
> I have two Debian boxes connected with a nullmodem cable.
> The first unit is connected to my ISP using a modem and
> ppp. I want the second box to use the first as a gateway.
> sliplogin/slattach seems like what I want but I get the
> following when I run
I have two Debian boxes connected with a nullmodem cable.
The first unit is connected to my ISP using a modem and
ppp. I want the second box to use the first as a gateway.
sliplogin/slattach seems like what I want but I get the
following when I run sliplogin:
attaching slip unit sl0 for Ssolo
On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 02:50:02AM +0100, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Dec 1997, Toens Bueker wrote:
>
> > when will there be a patched version of apache 1.2.*
> > available for bo?
>
> I doubt there ever will be. Debian 2.0 will come out in about a month or
> so (my prediction, nothing of
Mario Fabiano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have found some log files in /var/log that are readable by anybody.
> Maybe they are not particularly critical. I want anyway to change their
> permissions, for instance to 640, for the owners root.adm. Will be the
> permissions kept by the logrotate p
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I recently installed Debian Linux and I am now trying to get the modem
> working.
>
> The modem is installed and works under Win95 using Com 2, irq 3, 2F8, it is
> a pnp capable modem but I have configured it using the jumpers provided.
>
> I followed the ppp instruct
Hi,
I have a small problem with outgoing mail. I have a permanent connection
and a static ip-number. The FQDN is cal011205.student.utwente.nl and there
is a CNAME, blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl. The primary MX record for
blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl points to Cal011205.student.utwente.nl
(notice th
i have a maxtor harddrive i just bought and when i try to install it it
beeps one beep after another. COULD YOU PLEASE TELL ME WHATS WRONG AND
HOW TO FIX IT ITS A 420MEG. THANKS ALOT DIANE
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On Wed, 31 Dec 1997, Toens Bueker wrote:
> when will there be a patched version of apache 1.2.*
> available for bo?
I doubt there ever will be. Debian 2.0 will come out in about a month or
so (my prediction, nothing official) and it will contain an updated
version of apache, too.
Remco
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On Thu, 1 Jan 1998, Joey Hess wrote:
> That's a bit clumsy. It'd be easier to start one server the usual way,
> then for each extra server you want, do "X :n.0 -query localhost". That makes
> X connect to the xdm on the localhost, and you don't need to send xdm any
> signals.
I have heard that, e
On Fri, 26 Dec 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Dec 1997, George Bonser wrote:
>
> :
> : I don't know about your system but on mine they are all hard links. These
> : look like regular files in a listing as opposed to symbolic likns which
> : show as links in a long directory listing.
>
Just as a matter of interest, why do you want to use two mice?
Andrew
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we still can't directly post to debian-users, altho we do get posts
correctly, (puzzled look).
we so far have gotten xdm/xwindows running, but the type size is too
small to be readable. I think its defaulting to 1024x768 how do I
have
On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 01:58:10PM -0600, Mark W. Blunier wrote:
> That seems odd. I thought that Linux would only set
> tty00 and tty01 at bootup.
/etc/rc.boot/0setserial will only set up the first two ports,
because the ttyS2 and S3 have less standard locations (especially
IRQs), and also S3 an
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