Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
>
> > Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> >
> > > The solution is, of course:
> > >
> > > XAUTHORITY="${HOME}/.Xauthority"
> > > (AFAIK, $HOME is already set when /etc/profile is run)
> > >
> > > But this is the default location. I think
Curt Howland wrote:
>
> Good afternoon.
>
> I tried to install Netscape Communicator, and received the
> error that it needed libc6, which I do not have. So I went
> back to use the old netscape 3.01 (i think) that I had been
> using, but it seems to have been partially purged.
Hmm. I use Commu
___CLEAN HAMM/UNSTABLE INSTALL___
This is how I did it:
1. Start with the stable base disks and install the base
Debian Linux system per the standard method (ie; follow
the prompts on screen.) See the Debian Installation Guide.
---Begin installing hamm release---
The following .deb packages ar
On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 12:59:25PM -0400, Adam Greene wrote:
> This is the output from my Linux box that won't attach to my network:
That looks fine; what problem are you seeing?
Hamish
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Latest Debian packages at ftp://ft
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Joost Kooij wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Richard Wicks wrote:
> > P.S. I've just installed debian (good riddance to slackware) and beleive I
> > encountered a bug when trying to install netscape. Did anybody else
> > have a si
On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 12:48:38PM -0500, Nelson, R.A (Richard/Rick) wrote:
> Thanks, I've verified the problem on your system as well ---
> Users behind a firewall see the hang betwixt connect/user prompt and
> then a hang during a ls (right after passive mode is entered).
>
> When I do the same
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
>
> > The solution is, of course:
> >
> > XAUTHORITY="${HOME}/.Xauthority"
> > (AFAIK, $HOME is already set when /etc/profile is run)
> >
> > But this is the default location. I think it is better to not set the
> > variable a
> > > Permissions correct on /tmp? (drwxrwxrwxt). screen creates
> > > some sockets in /tmp I believe. I'm using 3.7.4-3 here
> > > and it seems to be fine.
> >
> > yes, they are:
> > drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 4096 Jan 15 12:02 tmp
> >
> > I use 3.7.4-4, I've noticed that it does not m
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, dave mallery wrote:
> now i am back to work finding how to get my mail from the isp's
> mail server. should i use elm or pine or...?? do they work
> like Eudora and go thru a connection dialog with the mail server
> every so often??
I use fetchmail to get my mail, procmail
On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 12:07:54PM +, Norbert Veber wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 04:52:01PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 08:23:23PM +, Norbert Veber wrote:
> > > I am having a strange problem with the hamm version of screen, it works
> > > fine
> > > for roo
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Richard Wicks wrote:
> P.S. I've just installed debian (good riddance to slackware) and beleive I
> encountered a bug when trying to install netscape. Did anybody else
> have a similar problem? I kept getting an error where dselect told
> me that the the n
> unless something has changed, the only version of netscape which can be
> installed by the debian packages is 3.01.
...
> I went thorugh this last year, and it took months to find the problem.
>
> rick
Rick,
Many thanks. I'll see what I can do. What a bummer, since Netscape
has 3.04 for Linu
unless something has changed, the only version of netscape which can be
installed by the debian packages is 3.01.
To make matters worse, if you use the netscape installer, it places its files
earlier in the search path than the .deb does.
I believe that "du / | grep netscape" will find the inc
Good afternoon.
I tried to install Netscape Communicator, and received the
error that it needed libc6, which I do not have. So I went
back to use the old netscape 3.01 (i think) that I had been
using, but it seems to have been partially purged.
I say partially, because when I went to install v3.
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Maarten Boekhold wrote:
> The only other solution I have is clean-install again, and then to go
> through the dselect stage to install a very minimal number of packages
> (only those marked 'required'?).
Recomendation here,
Install the bo base disks
Get the upgrade script
Hi,
Tonight I had to install a new debian system, and I wanted it to be
completely 'hamm' from the beginning. Since there are no install disks
for hamm yet, I decided to do the following (also on recommendation from
some other folks here on the list):
Install using the 'bo' disks, untill dsele
On 13 Jan, Scott Ellis wrote:
>
> Copy your secret and public key files to your linux machine
And when you do this copy, be really carefull with what you do; it
would be very easy to leave around copies of the secret key, thus
compromizing the key.
As a thumb's rule, re-format all the floppy dis
On 15 Jan, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
>
> "When is version 2 coming out" will not be announced in advance, I'm
> afraid. At one point in time it will "have been released" and then
> everybody will know about it.
well, it is true, but not _really_ 100% exact.
>From 4 to 6 weeks before 2.0 release, "u
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
> 4. It should not forward any unknown queries about the 192.168.0.0 net
> over the ISDN line.
>
> I have got it configured to do 1, 2, and 3. However, i dont have
> a complete database of 192.168.0.0 names, and queries that arent
> satisfied
you wrote:
>Question for the C crowd: I have a program which I wish to print an ordered
>text file. In the Linux Programmers Guide, the printer chapter shows how to
>directly talk to the printer port. I'd like to be able to send the text to the
>appropriate printer filter (and spooler). How would o
Hi,
I have a number of mail boxes, to handle the different lists I am on.
I use procmail to filter the mails to the right folders.
I have put:
MAIL='/var/spool/mail/tim;/home/tim/mail/debian-user;/home/tim/mail/seul-
project'
MAILCHECK=10
into my .bash_profile. I have tried the same MAIL variable
At 04:18 PM 1/14/98 -0500, you wrote:
>On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, dave mallery wrote:
>
>> i finally just killed the process supporting the mouse... i guess there is
>> a way in some init control file to prevent it from starting gpm.
>
>/etc/rc*.d/*gpm
>
>> Serial connection established.
>> Using interfa
On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 02:15:49PM -0600, IBMackey wrote:
> Is there a way to keep the bo distribution of debian and install Wine?
>
> I was thinking that you might could downgrade and use the older version of
> libc5 which doesn't conflict w libc6, then just add the libc6 program,
> make links, a
Is there a way to keep the bo distribution of debian and install Wine?
I was thinking that you might could downgrade and use the older version of
libc5 which doesn't conflict w libc6, then just add the libc6 program,
make links, and then install wine.
Then you could just wait until Hamm becomes B
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Herr Detlev Scholz (ODIS) wrote:
> Now i installed the KDE-desktop on the box. The KDE is working well,
> when i start with startx. When i try to aktivate XDM or KDM, the
> Xserver starts, asks for login but after login it seems that the
> Xserver crashes and XDM is started
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On my hamm system if I misspell my password and get a new prompt, it
> appears that issue is not parsed, simply printed. My prompt is
> something like0 "Debian \s 2.0 hamm \n". On initial login it is fine.
> I have discovered that this happens even if I just
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
>I want to run a nameserver on my Linux box on the 192.168.0.0
> network. I want to set it up with a couple of features:
>
> 1. It should cache 'real' addresses from outside.
>
> 2. It should forward unknown queries about 'real' addresses to
I have a problem with BIND.
We have a medium-sized network (192.168.0.0) connected to the
internet via a dial-on-demand ISDN line. We pay by the minute, so we
want to keep connect-time to a minimum. The ISDN router basically
masquerades the internal network.
I want to run a nameser
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 07:06:55PM -0500, Igor Grobman wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 04:48:30PM -0500, Igor Grobman wrote:
> > >
> > > > - don't use SVGATextMode if X is started
> > >
> > > Why? works fine here.
> >
> > He's right. X Server looks at the Textmode to save and restore it prope
WIll it have more SCSI drivers in the basic install package? 1.3.1 (at
least the one I got, from cheapbytes) only offered the ncr8x0. I will be
using aha152x and pas16 SCSI on my Linux systems.
1.3.1 does support other scsi drivers, including aha152x. But it
doesn't autoprobe for many
Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
>
> > Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> >
> > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >I've chased this one for a while. Martin Bialasinski tried to help via
> > > >private
> > > >email, but nei
Hello all,
I am wondering about Debian 2.0...
WIll it have more SCSI drivers in the basic install package? 1.3.1 (at
least the one I got, from cheapbytes) only offered the ncr8x0. I will be
using aha152x and pas16 SCSI on my Linux systems.
Martin Jackson: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
===
Þann 15-Jan-98 skrifar [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Question for the C crowd: I have a program which I wish to print an ordered
> text file. In the Linux Programmers Guide, the printer chapter shows how to
> directly talk to the printer port. I'd like to be able to send the text to
> the
> appropriate pri
On my hamm system if I misspell my password and get a new prompt, it
appears that issue is not parsed, simply printed. My prompt is
something like0 "Debian \s 2.0 hamm \n". On initial login it is fine.
I have discovered that this happens even if I just hit enter at the
login prompt.
--
TO UNSU
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >I've chased this one for a while. Martin Bialasinski tried to help via
> > >private
> > >email, but neither of us could figure out what is wron
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Neilen Marais wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I installed Staroffice 3.1 using the debian installer .deb's All
> >> seemed to have gone fine, but when I run setup to do the per-user
> >setup
> >> bit, it coredumps... Also if I run swriter3, or any of the other
> >> binaries, it als
Thanks, I've verified the problem on your system as well ---
Users behind a firewall see the hang betwixt connect/user prompt and
then a hang during a ls (right after passive mode is entered).
When I do the same from my ISP (no firewall), I see no delay at all.
I've sent a bug report to the ProF
I can't seem to do a recursive get on proftpd.
Anything I should set in config file?
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>> Hi
>>
>> I installed Staroffice 3.1 using the debian installer .deb's All
>> seemed to have gone fine, but when I run setup to do the per-user
>setup
>> bit, it coredumps... Also if I run swriter3, or any of the other
>> binaries, it also tries to run the setup bit, which core-dumps of
>> cour
Xbiff is there.
http://cgi.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/stable/x11/xcontrib.html
There are also other alternatives to xbiff that are similar but do niftier
things. Hit http://www.debian.org/packages.html and search for "xbiff".
> encountered a bug when trying to install net
On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 10:17:02AM -0700, Richard Wicks wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I have a minor little request. Does anybody else miss the xbiff
> program in debian? I can't seem to even find the SOURCE code anywere. I
> am fully aware that this is an extremely minor request and is j
Hello everybody,
I have a minor little request. Does anybody else miss the xbiff
program in debian? I can't seem to even find the SOURCE code anywere. I
am fully aware that this is an extremely minor request and is just filler
for your mailbox but I would like to see it as part of the d
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Try man lilo.conf
>
> Did you read /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/LILO.gz ?
Or even better: Read the Lilo User Guide. It resides in
/usr/doc/lilo. Unfortunately only as latex source. gunzip all files in
the directory and type "make". That should generate user.dvi and
tech.d
On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 04:52:01PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 08:23:23PM +, Norbert Veber wrote:
> > I am having a strange problem with the hamm version of screen, it works fine
> > for root, but when any other user tries to run it, it just 'freezes' as in:
> >
> >
This is the output from my Linux box that won't
attach to my network:
boot.info
Description: Binary data
ethernet.info
Description: Binary data
route.info
Description: Binary data
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I've chased this one for a while. Martin Bialasinski tried to help via
> >private
> >email, but neither of us could figure out what is wrong.
>
> >open("~/.Xauthority", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (
Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Maarten Boekhold wrote:
>
> > I noticed that the hamm/main/disks-i386/current directory points to
> > bo/disks-i386/current. Does this mean that I can install a clean libc6
> > system using those install disks? Or would a bette
Is it already possible to install a new system directly with hamm? I need
to do an install tonight, and want it to be hamm.
There aren't an hamm boot disks yet. You have to install bo, then
upgrade.
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Has anyone setup ProFTPD? Local access is fairly snappy, but remote
users find that it is excruciatingly slow from the connected message
to the user prompt -- and it doesn't seem to get any faster after
that either.
An mget * request of a large directory (say /usr/share/games/fortun
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've chased this one for a while. Martin Bialasinski tried to help via private
>email, but neither of us could figure out what is wrong.
>open("~/.Xauthority", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>access("~/.Xauthor
>
> Question for the C crowd: I have a program which I wish to print an ordered
> text file. In the Linux Programmers Guide, the printer chapter shows how to
> directly talk to the printer port. I'd like to be able to send the text to the
> appropriate printer filter (and spooler). How would one g
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Question for the C crowd: I have a program which I wish to print an ordered
>text file. In the Linux Programmers Guide, the printer chapter shows how to
>directly talk to the printer port. I'd like to be able to send the text to the
>appr
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Maarten Boekhold wrote:
> I noticed that the hamm/main/disks-i386/current directory points to
> bo/disks-i386/current. Does this mean that I can install a clean libc6
> system using those install disks? Or would a better approach be to
> install a minimal bo system and then
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Question for the C crowd: I have a program which I wish to print an ordered
> text file. In the Linux Programmers Guide, the printer chapter shows how to
> directly talk to the printer port. I'd like to be able to send the text to the
> appropriate printer filter (and
>> On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Damir J. Naden wrote:
>> > Yup, same here. It takes a *very long* time for the mail to get from
>> > fetchmail
>> > to my mailbox. Has anyone tried exim package and what (if any) downsides
>> > are to
>> > use the exim instead of the smail package?
>>
>> I use the smail v
Question for the C crowd: I have a program which I wish to print an ordered
text file. In the Linux Programmers Guide, the printer chapter shows how to
directly talk to the printer port. I'd like to be able to send the text to
the
appropriate printer filter (and spooler). How would one
Hi,
Is it already possible to install a new system directly with hamm? I need
to do an install tonight, and want it to be hamm.
I noticed that the hamm/main/disks-i386/current directory points to
bo/disks-i386/current. Does this mean that I can install a clean libc6
system using those install
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Nelson, R.A (Richard/Rick) wrote:
> This procps fails on install:
> trying to overwrite directory `/bin' in package debianutils with
> nondirectory
Known problem fixed with procps-1.2.5-2 which is stuck in incoming at the
moment.
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Yes,
that is what I found yesterday -- besides being named .xsesion,
the file needs to be an executable -- it does not need to have
#!/bin/bash -- however.
Vladislav
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Has anyone setup ProFTPD? Local access is fairly snappy, but remote
users find that it is excruciatingly slow from the connected message
to the user prompt -- and it doesn't seem to get any faster after
that either.
An mget * request of a large directory (say /usr/share/games/fortunes)
errors out
I've chased this one for a while. Martin Bialasinski tried to help via private
email, but neither of us could figure out what is wrong.
# xauth -i generate westgac3/unix:0 .
xauth: creating new authority file ~/.Xauthority
xauth: unable to open tmp file "~/.Xauthority-n"
xauth: unable to write
Question for the C crowd: I have a program which I wish to print an ordered
text file. In the Linux Programmers Guide, the printer chapter shows how to
directly talk to the printer port. I'd like to be able to send the text to the
appropriate printer filter (and spooler). How would one go about doi
This procps fails on install:
trying to overwrite directory `/bin' in package debianutils with
nondirectory
Richard Nelson
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On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 02:23:40PM +0100, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote:
> PD: en la maling list normalmente se habla en ingles, hay mailing lists
> sobre linux en castellano como [EMAIL PROTECTED], si quieres mas
> informacion sobre ello avisame...
According to ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/maili
Hola Fabio!
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Fabio Daniel Guerra wrote:
> Como hago para adquirir el Programa LINUX DEBIAN. Lo nesecito urgente y
> no lo concigo?
En el servidor de Debian (www.debian.org) puedes encontrar una lista de
ellos, concretamente puedes mirarlo en http://www.debian.org/vendors.html
Hello all:
I have adjusted by pap-secrets file as follows:
#magic fix
* * ""
not
>> # magic fix
>> * * "" *
I have tested with and without shadow passwords and
all works fine. I think the trick is in the /etc/mgetty/login.config.
I had to specify login in th
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
> Peter Prohaska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > why `/dev/fd*'s are mounted at /floppy.
> > When reading fsstnd, you would expect them to be mounted in
> > /mnt/someting. Since /floppy is neither one of those un*x shorties nor
> > used during
> I recently installed Debian 1.3.1.
>
> When I use xfig, everything works O.K. till I try to use text by pushing
> the Text button and it freezes. Ocassionally, one or two of the other
> buttons also give this problem.
>
> Have anybody else come across this?
Yes, me. For me it was caused by x
> I had this problem; PAP just didn't damn well work. For me, the fix
> was
> to add the following to pap-secrets:
>
> # magic fix
> * * "" *
>
> Someone on one of the linux mailing lists suggested it; it seems to be
>
> otherwise undocumented, although certainly not unimportant.
>
Hello Phil,
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Philip Hands wrote:
> > I can verify that turning off shadow passwords fixes the PAP problem.
> > This is unacceptable. And it's already reported in bug 16044. Oh well.
>
> It this the case with ppp-pam installed ?
With or without. Tried both.
> If you are u
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I recently installed Debian 1.3.1.
>
> Have anybody else come across this? How do I proceed to debug this?
I had exactly this same problem :-(
My solution, while not going to hamm (with lib6) to check newer version,
was use the mono chromatic vers
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, IBMackey wrote:
> > try reinstalling the dpkg-ftp package is the only thing i can think
> > of.
> >
> > are you behind a firewall of any kind? check your configuration of
> > dpkg-ftp too...
> >
> > BTW, which version of the upgrade script did you run?
> Craig, I tried reinst
> I can verify that turning off shadow passwords fixes the PAP problem.
> This is unacceptable. And it's already reported in bug 16044. Oh well.
It this the case with ppp-pam installed ?
If you are using ppp for dial-in, with PAP authentication, I was assuming that
people will be using PAM to
I have the same problem with a Mitsumi cdrom on a Mad16 card. I thought it
was something to do with the fact that the Mad16 is a software
configurable card.
Linux seems to leave the hardware in a state DOS can't recognise.
I just use halt instead of reboot, and then press the reset button.
Tim.
Hello,
my problem is as follows:
I tried to install Debian 1.3.1 with the rescue disk to an old (7/1993)
Compaq Server ProSignia 80486/66 MHz. When I try the second step of
installation (partition the harddisks), an error occurs with the
message:
No harddisk to be found!
The Server contains an EI
Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
>
> Yes, and the functions are not really hidden, they're just not documented.
> But heck, what _is_ documented in Win95? The "trouble shooting" help
> doesn't get you far beyond "is the printer switched on?" and "check that
> the cable is plugged in".
Very true. I think t
iquest wrote:
Hi,
I've purchased a Laser printer and I'd like to know how do I
know the name of the print that connect to my Debian box.
I
am able to print files without any problem. I just like
to know
how printer name was created (if any).
Thanks!
Timothy C. Phan
Have a look in
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Erik Walthinsen wrote:
> I know that RedHat rushed quite a bit to get Hurricane out, and it shows in
> the speed at which the Errata list has grown. I will have to now take a
> closer look at the Debian distribution's efforts relative to glibc and
> stability.
Stability..
> Ok, so what does this have to do with Debian then?
The decision to use RedHat was made before we were aware of certain
initiatives. The current plan is to base SEUL on Debian, hopefully aiding in
the generation of a Debian-based Linux "core", which would be standardized,
allowing packagers to
> > why `/dev/fd*'s are mounted at /floppy.
> I think it is a matter of convenience and tradition.
Personally, I use /fd0, /fd1, etc. The RedHat method (/mnt/floppy) seems
less than useful to me. The reason for this is that I always use /mnt for
what it's designed for: temporary mounts.
Put
Ivan Rojas writes:
>
> Sorry for get back to the same question, I bet that millions of times
> you have solved this answer but this is the first time I ask it :o)
>
> I got Debian 1.3 in CDs and installed in my second hard drive, guess
> what is in the first one... anybody said windoze95?
>
> We
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 08:23:23PM +, Norbert Veber wrote:
> I am having a strange problem with the hamm version of screen, it works fine
> for root, but when any other user tries to run it, it just 'freezes' as in:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] screen
>
> it just sits there for ever, not error messa
| On Tuesday, 13 January 98, at 12:14:19 PM
| Smorrill wrote about "Debian & Pgp question..."
> I have used Pgp for quite awhile with Win95, and thus have already made
> my secret key & id number, etc. I would like to get pgp set up with
> Linux as I would like to move to using Debian exclusively.
> Pity ... this looks like it would have been a good candidate for the POSIX
> package manager as is used with Unifix Linux.
There are plans being worked on that would use Debian as the base
distribution, with a POSIX package manager. The decision to use RedHat and
RPM was made before these plan
"John S. Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Having problems upgrading libc5, xlib6 and ldso
>
> using dpkg I get;
>
> **
> Setting up ldso (1.8.12-1) ...
> ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so (No such file
Peter Prohaska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all!
>
> Please dont flamme me for that unimportant question. But I was wondering,
> why `/dev/fd*'s are mounted at /floppy.
> When reading fsstnd, you would expect them to be mounted in
> /mnt/someting. Since /floppy is neither one of those un*x
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 03:05:04PM -0500, Vladislav Papayan x285 wrote:
> > I use now xdm to login into the system -- however
> > it seems like my ~/.xinitrc is being ignored.
>
> .xinitrc is used for startx, and .xsession is used for xdm logins.
> I s
at some point around Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:56:25 -0500 (EST)
William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mentioned:
> We will be using Sendmail (which is the only one we can distribute easily)
> and probably procmail for mail deliver. This is what red hat uses and we
> won't change it unless we need to.
Hi,
I've purchased a Laser printer and I'd like to know how do I
know the name of the print that connect to my Debian box. I
am able to print files without any problem. I just like to know
how printer name was created (if any).
Thanks!
Timothy C. Phan
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Tim Ferrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> what kind of entry do I need to add to lilo.conf to get lilo to boot
> a alternate kernel located on a Zip disk? I can use a custom boot floppy
> and mount the Zip disk (/dev/sda1) as root but it would be simpler if
> I didn't need the floppy... one less d
I've seen a fair bit of discussion on this list of problems moving between
libc5 and libc6 and problems with programs that rely on them.
I'm wondering if I can expect similar problems if I upgrade to ghostscript
5.10. This requires, amongst other libraries, libpng v.0.96. The version
available o
Ivan Rojas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well the thing is I tryed creating a small partition in the first HD (
> 50Mb ) to install LILO in there. I select the LILO package in dselect
> but seems that is not being installed. I created a lilo.conf file and
> didn't work either.
All you need to do
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote:
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:
: I too have been having trouble connecting to ftp.us.debian.org.
: When I try to ftp there, I get the following:
:
: Connected to santanni.cc.gatech.edu.
: 220 santanni.cc.gatech.edu FTP server (Version wu-2.4.2-academ[BETA-15](1)
Tue Oct 7 12
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 09:39:24PM -0600, IBMackey wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
>
> > The obvious question (please don't take offense) is: Did you
> > start ppp before entering dselect? dselect, or rather dpkg-ftp, will
> > attempt to make an ftp connection,
I apologize if this is slightly off topic. I can't
seem to find an answer elsewhere, having tried the
more appropriate newsgroups.
When printing color on my HP 692C the color pictures
are much to dark. The Printing HOWTO suggests appending
a file, gamma.ps, right before the file name in the
gs c
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> i've cc-ed my reply to debian-user as you're more likely to get an answer
> from there. i don't use the ftp install method at all.
>
> On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, IBMackey wrote:
>
> > Tried your script. Being the newbie chicken that I am, I entered th
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
> The obvious question (please don't take offense) is: Did you
> start ppp before entering dselect? dselect, or rather dpkg-ftp, will
> attempt to make an ftp connection, but assumes that a ppp connection
> is up. It does not check, AFAIK, to
Hi - wondering if anyone can help me out
I have managed to get the ipx working and can slist and nprint.
When I try to ncpmount I get "mount failed".
logged in as root, file server is 3.12, mounting to mount point /nw,
directory /nw exists.
Regards
Andrew Robinson
Linux newbie
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I can verify that turning off shadow passwords fixes the PAP problem.
This is unacceptable. And it's already reported in bug 16044. Oh well.
On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 03:10:26AM +0100, Peter Gervai wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> > > [PAP not working with ppp 2.3.2]
> > >
IT> Shouln't it be possible to divide the list in beginners and advanced
Problem is that you couldn't stop mis-posting, so you'd end up with
people posting twice, once in the newbies group and once in the
experienced group "just in case nobody in the newbies group knows the
answer", so you'd en
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