plog

1998-01-19 Thread James Dietrich
My 'plog' command has stopped working--by that I mean that when I type 'plog' nothing is printed. And possibly related is the fact that my ppp.log files are empty. I'm running the latest from hamm. Any ideas? Thanks. James -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscri

Re: greenbush

1998-01-19 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Mark W. Blunier wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Geoffrey Deasey KD4WVF wrote: > > > > > Has anyone heard from greenbush, I ordered a cd and then when the bad > > weather hit up north, have not heard from them. I hope everyone is ok > > up there in snow land. > > Call up your credit card company qui

AccelX on Hamm

1998-01-19 Thread Asher Haig
I have Laptop-Accelx that I'm running on a Dell p166 with a neomagic 128ZV video card. I'm having the problem where when I run startx it beings to load and immediately quits. When I just run accelx directly it works fine (ie loads the server etc. and sits on the blank screen with a default grid

Re: greenbush

1998-01-19 Thread Mark W. Blunier
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Geoffrey Deasey KD4WVF wrote: > > Has anyone heard from greenbush, I ordered a cd and then when the bad > weather hit up north, have not heard from them. I hope everyone is ok > up there in snow land. Call up your credit card company quick. Otherwise you'll end up the the

Re: version 0.8 of libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script

1998-01-19 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Craig! I updated libc5 to libc6 on 2 computers (Debian 1.3 was installed in Nov-97 and Feb-97) using your script. Worked fine for me. Updating the rest of the packages with dselect is still quite painful. Thank you, Sasha. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubsc

Re: can't install buzz!

1998-01-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 04:17:29PM +0100, Joost Kooij wrote: > When testing bo when it was frozen, I encountered similar problems with a > 486dx40 with 8 MB ram, a vesa-localbus Trident 9000, vesa-localbus ide > interface + ide drive, a ne2000 and a matsushita cdrom interface + cdrom. > > IIRC it

Re: using dselect with an ftp proxy

1998-01-19 Thread AJT60
Well, after reading down my mail I find someone has already asked my question and recieved an answer. That ought to teach me for posting before I read my mail :] Please ignore my previous post. Andrew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: PS/2 mouse setup; /dev/mouse?

1998-01-19 Thread fpolacco
On Sat, Jan 17, 1998 at 01:21:34AM +0100, Pancho Horrillo wrote: > > I have read somewhere that it's not adviseable the use of symlinks > to devices such as modems or mouse ports, due locking conflicts. If a > process uses and locks /dev/ttyS0, and you have a symlink modem->ttyS0 and > try t

Remote Mounting

1998-01-19 Thread Mike Patterson
I'm trying to mount the directory /hoem/mike on /home/mike/t on a local system. I set the files below, then ran /usr/sbin/rpc.portmap on the server, and mount -a on the local system. I get the following error message: mike-ras# mount -a mount clntudp_create: RPC: Program not registered Any Ide

Bus error

1998-01-19 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Hello everybody, When I run a program (written by myself in C) I get "Bus error" at the end of execution. The program seems to work correctly and did not produce errors during compilation. Could somebody help, please... Thank you ZORO -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: [HELP] Need name/copy of script which loads modules at startup

1998-01-19 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Myron Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A while back, when I was playing with my kernel, I wanted to stop > loading the modules at startup so I moved/deleted the script or part > thereof from the rc.? directory. The plan was that I would put it > back in but then I forgot. Now I would like t

Re: How do I find out what version of ebian is on a machine?

1998-01-19 Thread Paul Huygen
Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about upgrading to libc6: >After it [Craig's fine upgrade script] has run, it is still up to you >to run dselect and upgrade the >rest of the system. this is not an >option - once you start upgrading >to hamm, you really have to do a >complete upgrade...ther

Re: errors in hamm upgrade

1998-01-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
Thanks, that fixed it. On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 10:29:41PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > 2. When trying to send a message from pine, I get: > > [Error sending: 501 HELO requires a valid host name as operand: > > 'localhost' ] > > > > I have 'localhost'

ASUS Pentium II motherboard

1998-01-19 Thread Mike Hill
My computer at work is being upgraded this week to an ASUS P2L97 AGP motherboard with a 233-MHz Pentium II. I'm moving from a Compaq Deskpro 200-MHz Pentium Pro, but I get to keep the hard drive, SMP EtherPower card and Matrox Millenium PCI video card (no video upgrade to AGP yet). On the old mac

Re: Why is debian "more of a learning curve" than Redhat???

1998-01-19 Thread Jim McIrvin
I have found that redhat was easy because the documentation was better printed in the book stores, but I have switched to debian and found it just as easy to work with as debian and like it better in the sense of upgrading, the dselect does a fairly nice job compared to Redhat. On Mon, 19 Jan 199

Star Office 4 webpage

1998-01-19 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Found it. Try this for a pseudo-multi-user installation: http://www.waldherr.org/soffice4.shtml rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

using dselect with an ftp proxy

1998-01-19 Thread AJT60
How do you set dselect to use an ftp proxy? I tried setting a ftp_proxy environment variable but that didn't seem to work. Andrew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Two Monitors

1998-01-19 Thread Richard L Shepherd
Has anyone any experience in using two monitors on one machine. I'm thinking particularly of X. I can get a second video card (which I guess is mandatory or there'd be nowhere to plug the second one in right?). What I'm really interested in is getting the tow side-by-side and having X treat them

Re: problem with nis and shadow

1998-01-19 Thread Ronn Pimentel
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > I also tried to set up shadow passwords with NIS and couldn't get it to work. > I downloaded the libc source and could see that shadow passwords aren't > implemented with regular NIS. It really isn't too surprising though since > with regular NIS,

Re: errors in hamm upgrade

1998-01-19 Thread Adam Klein
On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 10:29:41PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > 2. When trying to send a message from pine, I get: > [Error sending: 501 HELO requires a valid host name as operand: 'localhost' ] > > I have 'localhost' configured as the smtp server in pine, which used to > send the message through

debian-user FAQ: your help is needed!

1998-01-19 Thread Igor Grobman
Greetings all! I've set up a framework for debian-user FAQ using FAQ-O-Matic by Jon Howell. Faq-o-matic allows maintaining a FAQ using web interface. I hope this FAQ will become one of the best and most thorough databases of linux info on the net. This requires most of us to contribute howe

Re: Debian or Redhat or Caldera

1998-01-19 Thread Art Lemasters
Cox wrote: > > I am a network admin. I was a janitor, but I am going back to the temp. agency for work. > > I used to use Novell. Then I switched our LAN to NT. (How could I be so > stupid) > Now that I hate MS and Bill Gates, I am looking at Linux :) > > It is a new world for me. > > I

greenbush

1998-01-19 Thread Geoffrey Deasey KD4WVF
Has anyone heard from greenbush, I ordered a cd and then when the bad weather hit up north, have not heard from them. I hope everyone is ok up there in snow land. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: strange symlinks

1998-01-19 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Jens Christian Lisner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem is that in /usr/include/linux there are only very few files, > and /usr/include/asm is empty! So several headers were not able to find > their files. These are in /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32... > > Is it save to make the symlinks p

FTP Firewall

1998-01-19 Thread Cox
The problem is my ftp proxy (firewall). One thing I was wondering is I can change to a different virtual console and ftp out. Is there a way I could make dselect think I was installing from a local disk or something? Or is there a way I can see what dselect is passing to my ftp firewall? Do

Re: Debian or Redhat or Caldera

1998-01-19 Thread dg
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Cox wrote: > I am a network admin. I'm a IBM AS/400 programmer and admin > I used to use Novell. Then I switched our LAN to NT. (How could I be so > stupid) Now that I hate MS and Bill Gates, I am looking at Linux :) [grin] > It is a new world for me. It was a new wor

Tape Back-ups Was: Ftape

1998-01-19 Thread Pure Energy
Lets start this with a few *sighs* :/ I have now recompiled kernel 2.0.32 fine. The compile went fine and with no errors at all. I made sure that ftape *was not* included. After editing the MCONFIG file and compiling ftape yet again it still doesn't work.. i get errors as such: ftmt: com

Re: command set

1998-01-19 Thread Brian K Servis
Oleg Krivosheev writes: > >On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, J.P. Beebe wrote: > >> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 11:28:03 -0800 >> From: "J.P. Beebe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org >> Subject: command set >> Resent-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 17:24:30 + >> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN

[HELP] Need name/copy of script which loads modules at startup

1998-01-19 Thread Myron Alexander
A while back, when I was playing with my kernel, I wanted to stop loading the modules at startup so I moved/deleted the script or part thereof from the rc.? directory. The plan was that I would put it back in but then I forgot. Now I would like to load my modules at startup and I have forgotten whe

Re: Two minor hamm bugs

1998-01-19 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, I am the maintainer of the Debian samba package so the first part of this message corresponds to me... Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : When installing samba, the script in /etc/init.d has an error at the : top. I chose to use inetd and not having it start on boot. The script : does a `

mysql

1998-01-19 Thread Michael Sicher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- hello, i need to install mysql but the package needs libc6. are there any problems when removing libc5 to install libc6? (i think there is a faq available somewhere.) or is it better to compile the mysql source instead of upgrading to libc6? thanks a lot! mi

Why is debian "more of a learning curve" than Redhat???

1998-01-19 Thread Shaleh
What makes RH that much simpler to use?? I find dselect simple, and linux == linux so config files are fairly standard. Yet I have heard that comment numerous times -- "debian is too much of a learning curve". -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROT

Re: FTP through Firewall

1998-01-19 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Cox wrote: > I have debian running on an old computer. > It has no CD. > It is on a LAN > I can manually ftp to debian through my firewall if I use [EMAIL PROTECTED] > but I can not dselect. When I try it does not get to the ftp server. > > HELP How do you ftp through the f

soundblaster != voyetra (was: Re: HELP!)

1998-01-19 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 12:50:22AM -0500, LKosmas wrote: > I get message that says "sound blaster 16 internal error" I am using > Voyetras DOP . Any suggestions? Sure. Just stop thinking you have a Soundblaster 16 (as you say, you haven't) or compatible (as there isn't any), and do a kerne

Re: /etc/profile and set -o vi

1998-01-19 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
"Walter L. Preuninger II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >before I upgraded to unstable, set -o vi, which was in my /etc/profile >worked. Now, I have to manually do a set -o vi after getting logged in. >Any ideas? This is a known problem. See Bug # 14672 at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/14/146

Re: Debian or Redhat or Caldera

1998-01-19 Thread David B. Teague
Hi Cox : You wrote: > Now that I hate MS and Bill Gates, I am looking at Linux :) > > It is a new world for me. > > I have looked at debian and decieded to much learning curve. > I currently have at home RH 4.? and RH 5.0 and Caldera Base. I sympathize. But every system new to a user/administ

RE: ImgStar 1.1 not compatible with new XV/ImageMagick

1998-01-19 Thread Simon Winder \(Exchange\)
Although I would like to make significant updates to imgstar, I no longer have direct access to a unix system, preventing me from doing any more development. You can make any changes to the loading or storing of image files by modifying source file "i_file.c". However, I should point out that xv d

Re: command set

1998-01-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
"J.P. Beebe" wrote: >I'm trying to learn how to use Linux. Can you tell me where I can find a >command set for it? I don't know how to maneuvre in this system at all. >Thanks! Unfortunately, the Debian User manual is not yet complete. A part of it dealing with basic commands can be found a

Re: command set

1998-01-19 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, J.P. Beebe wrote: > Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 11:28:03 -0800 > From: "J.P. Beebe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org > Subject: command set > Resent-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 17:24:30 + > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org > Resent-cc: recipient list n

Two minor hamm bugs

1998-01-19 Thread Shaleh
When installing samba, the script in /etc/init.d has an error at the top. I chose to use inetd and not having it start on boot. The script does a `grep -q blah && exit 0`. This should be '||' and not '&&'. Second ln -sf should change a symlink. It does not. i.e. $ ln -s foo bar $ ls -al

Re: Debian or Redhat or Caldera

1998-01-19 Thread John Spence
On Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 11:41:19AM -0600, Cox wrote: > I am a network admin. > > I used to use Novell. Then I switched our LAN to NT. (How could I be so > stupid) > Now that I hate MS and Bill Gates, I am looking at Linux :) > > It is a new world for me. > > I have looked at debian and decie

Re: FTP through Firewall

1998-01-19 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Cox wrote: > Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 11:40:17 -0600 > From: Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org > Subject: FTP through Firewall > Resent-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 17:42:21 + > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org > Resent-cc: recipient list not show

Debian or Redhat or Caldera

1998-01-19 Thread Cox
I am a network admin. I used to use Novell. Then I switched our LAN to NT. (How could I be so stupid) Now that I hate MS and Bill Gates, I am looking at Linux :) It is a new world for me. I have looked at debian and decieded to much learning curve. I currently have at home RH 4.? and RH 5.0 an

FTP through Firewall

1998-01-19 Thread Cox
I have debian running on an old computer. It has no CD. It is on a LAN I can manually ftp to debian through my firewall if I use [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I can not dselect. When I try it does not get to the ftp server. HELP -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to

Re: Problems with 80386 and 4 MB of RAM

1998-01-19 Thread Fabian Knittel
> From: Laurent PICOULEAU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Samstag, 17. Januar 1998 02:34 > 1°) Try commenting compact Already tried that, then LILO started but only typed 'LI' > 2°) I don't think that your BIOS support lba. I don't either... :-) > If I'm right you'll have to > declare your disk

command set

1998-01-19 Thread J.P. Beebe
I'm trying to learn how to use Linux. Can you tell me where I can find a command set for it? I don't know how to maneuvre in this system at all. Thanks! J.P. Beebe -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

strange symlinks

1998-01-19 Thread Jens Christian Lisner
After installing kernel-2.0.32 I've got two symlinks /usr/src/linux -> kernel-headers-2.0.32 /usr/src/linux-2.0.32 -> kernel-headers-2.0.32 and in /usr/include: linux -> /usr/src/linux-2.0.32/include/linux asm -> /usr/src/linux-2.0.32/include/asm The problem is that in /usr/include/linux there

Re: libc5 and libc6

1998-01-19 Thread Scott Ellis
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Tom Ed White wrote: > Is it possible to use libc5 and libc6 together? There are a couple of > programs in "hamm" that I would like to try, but I heard somewhere that > the two libs can't both be installed. http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/ -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Updating the kernel via patches

1998-01-19 Thread Ben Pfaff
I remember that Carey Evans suggested some time ago downloading the whole sources for upgrading. Is this the only easy way? It is certainly the easiest way, and it's what I recommend for people who are inexperienced at dealing with patches. (However, dealing with patches is the only way to

Re: Netscape 4.04.... [Read this Please!]

1998-01-19 Thread Ender Wigin
On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Timothy M. Hospedales wrote: > My MOZILLA_HOME as well as all the other directories NSN must find as > described in the README are already set. :(.However, everyone who has replied > indicating success seems to be running full hamm. Mine is half bo, half hamm. > I suspec

libc5 and libc6

1998-01-19 Thread Tom Ed White
Is it possible to use libc5 and libc6 together? There are a couple of programs in "hamm" that I would like to try, but I heard somewhere that the two libs can't both be installed. Thanks, Tom Ed White -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problem with nis and shadow

1998-01-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jens B. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I also tried to set up shadow passwords with NIS and couldn't get it to work. >I downloaded the libc source and could see that shadow passwords aren't >implemented with regular NIS. They are on a libc6 system (hamm).. >

Re: SSH outside US

1998-01-19 Thread Scott Ellis
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Vaclav Hula wrote: > Hi all there! > Where I can find SSH outside US? > Ax nonus.debian.org -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . T

Updating the kernel via patches

1998-01-19 Thread boeing
Hi, recently I tried to update my kernel (2.0.30) to version 2.0.33. I used the script patch-kernel (I hope the name is right) and the files patch-2.0.31.gz patch-2.0.32.gz patch-2.0.33.gz from sunsite.unc.edu. The update stopped after a short time with an error message, leaving me at

Re: can't install buzz!

1998-01-19 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > I don't suppose anyone here is feeling nostalgic and can think of > any reason why the buzz (1.1) boot disk would hang on me? Kernel 2.0.0. > I get "eata_dma: no BIOS32, still needed" etc, then it hangs. This > is sometimes caused by NE2000 cards being

Re: Database driver module problems

1998-01-19 Thread Paul Heinlein
At 12:30 PM 1/18/98 -0800, Dave Neuer wrote: >I am having problems getting the DBI drivers for mSQL working on my >Debian Linux 1.3.1 system. I am using mSQL 2.0.3, DBI 0.91, and >Msql-modules-1.1814. Concerning the DBI problems, I have no advice; I use Msql.pm rather than the DBI interface for t

Re: problem with nis and shadow

1998-01-19 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I also tried to set up shadow passwords with NIS and couldn't get it to work. I downloaded the libc source and could see that shadow passwords aren't implemented with regular NIS. It really isn't too surprising though since with regular NIS, it's easy for any machine on the network to get whatever

RE: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #96

1998-01-19 Thread Andrew Akins
I know it is considered bad form to post such things directly to the list, but I would like to unsubscribe - and the listserver keeps telling me I'm not a member of the list. And yet, I'm still getting my digests. I've also emailed the contact person for the list, and he/she has not responded.

Re: sysvinit in hamm uses "updatercd" -- where is it?

1998-01-19 Thread Steve Hsieh
> > Can someone tell me where, in which package, I can find it? > > > >That should be /usr/sbin/update-rc.d, which should be in package dpkg. > > It should be, but it isn't. update-rc.d doesn't know about the new > /etc/rcS.d/ directory yet. > > If you look in the sysvinit.postinst script, you'

SSH outside US

1998-01-19 Thread Vaclav Hula
Hi all there! Where I can find SSH outside US? Ax --- Vaclav Hula [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~ax -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: sysvinit in hamm uses "updatercd" -- where is it?

1998-01-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In upgrading to debian unstable, I see that sysvinit uses "updatercd" in > sysvinit.postinst to create the symlinks to /etc/init.d. > > But I don't see "updatercd" available anywhere in any Deb package.. no > wonder my l

Re: mt setblk fails

1998-01-19 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Oliver: Try looking at the mt command. It provides facilities for manipulating a tape drive. I have in the past had to use the "mt setblk 0" command to read tapes from Alphas and HPs. Hope this will help. Peter -Original Message- From: Oliver Elphick To: debian-user@lists.debian

can't install buzz!

1998-01-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I don't suppose anyone here is feeling nostalgic and can think of any reason why the buzz (1.1) boot disk would hang on me? Kernel 2.0.0. I get "eata_dma: no BIOS32, still needed" etc, then it hangs. This is sometimes caused by NE2000 cards being probed, but I pulled mine out completely and it stil

mt setblk fails

1998-01-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
I am trying to read data from a DAT tape written on a foreign machine (probably a Sun). I use dd to read from it, but invariably get 0 blocks. I am able to read a tape written by a SCO machine, but the SCO machine cannot read a tape I write. Following the SCSI HOWTO, I tried changing the hardwar

[off topic] partially related news items??

1998-01-19 Thread Richard G. Roberto
I was surfing today and saw two points of interest that I thought may interest the debian community: Intel is partnering with Sun Microsystems to offer "out-of-the-box" licensing for its 64 bit processor instead of Microsoft. The processor family will run Solaris (although by then Solaris will be

Re: How do I find out what version of ebian is on a machine?

1998-01-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 08:44:03PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > 3. Then repeat the "Install" followed by "Configure" until dselect reports >no problems. It might just be more, or it might just be dpkg-ftp, but I find that if I do install, then install again, it will download again all the p

Staroffice3.1 crashes X session.

1998-01-19 Thread Ronan LEBREF - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/RTO
I'm trying to install Staroffice3.1 from the debian package. Everything worked fine during installation but when I try to launch "setup" or anything like "scalc", a bitmap appears and then the Xsession crashes. As explained in Staroffice installation guide, I checked permission on Xp3 directory

Gzip + Dselect after libc6 upgrade

1998-01-19 Thread Brian Skreeg
Hi folks, `fraid I`m still having bother with gzip and dselect. I`ve upgraded to libc6 quite successfully. Everything works hunkydory but dselect always gives this error when installing. dpkg -i works fine on it`s own. Error; gzip: stdout: Broken pipe dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error

Re: How do I find out what version of ebian is on a machine?

1998-01-19 Thread Craig Sanders
I am cc-ing this back to debian-user because it contains information which will be useful to anyone considering an upgrade to hamm. On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Stan Brown wrote: > >On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Stan Brown wrote: > > > >> All ths talk of libc5 to libc6 upgrades gotme thnking about upgarding. >

Re: Fast Network Terminal Graphics (gnuplot)

1998-01-19 Thread Carey Evans
Camm Maguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings! So what's the most efficient mechanism for getting gnuplot > graphics displayed across a telnet session without using X windows? > Something beside the "dumb" terminal driver of gnuplot would be nice. > Years ago, a friend helped me setup Tekt

/etc/profile and set -o vi

1998-01-19 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
before I upgraded to unstable, set -o vi, which was in my /etc/profile worked. Now, I have to manually do a set -o vi after getting logged in. Any ideas? -- Walter L. Preuninger IIwaldo @ irc.wasteland.org:#unix [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: off-topic: Good bug-tracking package?

1998-01-19 Thread jdassen
On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 06:34:41PM +0059, Toens Bueker wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 1998 at 06:51:24PM -0800, Obi wrote: > > does anyone know of a good bug-tracking software? > > Have you had a look at 'jitterbug'? Its from Andrew Tridgell - the father > of samba ... Jitterbug, the Debian bug-tracki

Re: Updating the kernel

1998-01-19 Thread Carey Evans
"Martin Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was wondering if there was anything special I needed to do to upgrade from > kernel 2.0.30 to kernel 2.0.32 (or 33 if it's available). Red Hat requires > an "rpm --install" to avoid overwriting the old kernel. Does dpkg require > this too? I've m

Re: Remote X-term

1998-01-19 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Bradshaw) writes: [...] > X has problems with masquerading because the remote end initiates > the port connection. If you use redir to redirect the port, you can > only support X on one machine inside the firewall. Well, you _could_ redirect port 6001 on the firewall to p

HELP!

1998-01-19 Thread LKosmas
I get message that says "sound blaster 16 internal error" I am using Voyetras DOP . Any suggestions? Sincerely- LKOSMAS. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Netscape 4.04.... [Read this Please!]

1998-01-19 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
> Þann 18-Jan-98 skrifar Timothy M. Hospedales: > > My MOZILLA_HOME as well as all the other directories NSN must find as > > described in the README are already set. :(.However, everyone who has > > replied > > indicating success seems to be running full hamm. Mine is half bo, half > > hamm

Re: Moving from ethernet to a modem

1998-01-19 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
"G. Kapetanios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I have friend whom I have persuaded to use Debian instead of Win95 :-) > He wants to \have an internet connection from his home. As his situation > is of interest to me since my studying days will soon be over and I will > ghave to move

errors in hamm upgrade

1998-01-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
I performed the hamm upgrade using Craig's script (all went fine) and letting dselect do it's thing. I had a scare when e2fsck wouldn't work after I rebooted, but was able to install a few remaining packages and get it to work. I have two remaining problems (at least until I try installing some m

Re: sysvinit in hamm uses "updatercd" -- where is it?

1998-01-19 Thread Ben Pfaff
In upgrading to debian unstable, I see that sysvinit uses "updatercd" in sysvinit.postinst to create the symlinks to /etc/init.d. But I don't see "updatercd" available anywhere in any Deb package.. no wonder my links were created. :) Can someone tell me where, in which package, I c

sysvinit in hamm uses "updatercd" -- where is it?

1998-01-19 Thread Steve Hsieh
In upgrading to debian unstable, I see that sysvinit uses "updatercd" in sysvinit.postinst to create the symlinks to /etc/init.d. But I don't see "updatercd" available anywhere in any Deb package.. no wonder my links were created. :) Can someone tell me where, in which package, I can find it?

Re: Small home network ?

1998-01-19 Thread Ben Pfaff
i want to have terminal to be able to see outside world As far as i understand from reading NET-3 HOWTO i can use dedicated class C addresses (something like 196.xxx) Is there any docs how to do it? You probably want to see the IP-Masquerading mini-HOWTO, which is in /usr/doc/H

Re: Small home network ?

1998-01-19 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> i want to have terminal to be able > to see outside world > > As far as i understand from reading > NET-3 HOWTO i can use dedicated > class C addresses (something like 196.xxx) > > Is there any docs how to do it? Hi. What you are looking for is IP Masquerading HOWTO. Alex Y. -- _ _( )

Small home network ?

1998-01-19 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, All i'm going to set up terminal for my P133 home terminal. i've got 386sx 20MHz and put Debian on it (it was quite exiting to see Linux running on computer with 2.92 bogomips). i've got also two NE2K ethernet cards which are recognized by Linux and now waiting for cable with cross-over wi

Re: netscape4

1998-01-19 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Dennis Drapeau wrote: > Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 19:18:21 -0400 > From: Dennis Drapeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian List > Subject: netscape4 > Resent-Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 23:09:52 + > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org > Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ;

Re: GIMP & fonts

1998-01-19 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Eli" == Eli Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eli> (hamm, 1week old) Gimp seems to only be able to access about Eli> 10 fonts (with text select tool), and of those, none are Eli> smooth, all have blocky edges and dont scale, so, my question Eli> is: how do i fix this? You

Re: squake question

1998-01-19 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 18-Jan-1998, Pure Energy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI.. i'm using the squake_1.09-1.1-4.deb paxkage with the > quake-lib_1.06-4.deb package. i ram it and was able to join a server > (promply getting killed quickly hehe). I exited and restarted but it now > complains about not finding a... >

Re: Netscape 4.04.... [Read this Please!]

1998-01-19 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 18-Jan-98 skrifar Timothy M. Hospedales: > My MOZILLA_HOME as well as all the other directories NSN must find as > described in the README are already set. :(.However, everyone who has replied > indicating success seems to be running full hamm. Mine is half bo, half hamm. > I suspect tha

Updating the kernel

1998-01-19 Thread Martin Jackson
Hello all. I was wondering if there was anything special I needed to do to upgrade from kernel 2.0.30 to kernel 2.0.32 (or 33 if it's available). Red Hat requires an "rpm --install" to avoid overwriting the old kernel. Does dpkg require this too? I've made an honest effort to read the documenta

VoxPhone and IPMasq

1998-01-19 Thread Oz Dror
Does any one knows which ports Do I need to fwd in order to use VoxPhone, or VXtreme Thanks Oz Dror -- < NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] <> PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126

RE: Problems with 80386 and 4 MB of RAM

1998-01-19 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Hello >Hi, > >I've got some problems with Linux and my little test-computer. Im >struggling with the low amount of memory (only 4 MB). The complete >configuration: > >80386 with 40 Mhz >4 MB of RAM >1.6 GByte HD [...] >[ 1 ]L I L O > > At startup it only says: > > 3FA: > > It just

Re: smail 3.2.0.100-4, won't accept mail form port25 no more

1998-01-19 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Neilen Marais; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I am not an expert so I apologize if this is a waste of the bandwidth. I got my smail_3.2.0.100-2 to work with fetchmail after I had given sendmail the *full* name of my machine mybox.mydomain.net (when it asks something about the 'other names'

Re: Netscape 4.04.... [Read this Please!]

1998-01-19 Thread IBMackey
On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > >I have been following various messages about Netscape 4.04, and it > >seems to me that lots of people's NSN4 don't do Java properly, AND, > >(Please correct me if i'm wrong), I haven't seen any successfull > >reponses to

Re[2]: configuring return address on outgoing mail

1998-01-19 Thread Bob Bernstein
robert havoc pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A local expert tells me that bounced mail doesn't go to the From: address > but to some other thing set by the MTA. I've tried sending mail to bad > addresses and I get nothing back. So something's wrong. Perhaps you need to set visible_name to

Re: IOMEGA IDE ZIP drive

1998-01-19 Thread Uros Platise
Ben Pfaff wrote: > >I have got IOMEGA ZIP drive for the IDE >interface and I cannot get it work properly. >Kernel detects it as ATAPI CD-ROM drive. > >Does anybody have any suggestion? > > Are you running kernel 2.0.33? IIRC, some support for ATAPI devices > like ZIP, SyJet, etc

Re: squake question

1998-01-19 Thread Joey Hess
Pure Energy wrote: > > HI.. i'm using the squake_1.09-1.1-4.deb paxkage with the > quake-lib_1.06-4.deb package. i ram it and was able to join a server > (promply getting killed quickly hehe). I exited and restarted but it now > complains about not finding a... > > Model Maps/e2m1.bsp Not F

Re: IOMEGA IDE ZIP drive

1998-01-19 Thread Ben Pfaff
I have got IOMEGA ZIP drive for the IDE interface and I cannot get it work properly. Kernel detects it as ATAPI CD-ROM drive. Does anybody have any suggestion? Are you running kernel 2.0.33? IIRC, some support for ATAPI devices like ZIP, SyJet, etc., was added in one of the 2.0.x re

squake question

1998-01-19 Thread Pure Energy
HI.. i'm using the squake_1.09-1.1-4.deb paxkage with the quake-lib_1.06-4.deb package. i ram it and was able to join a server (promply getting killed quickly hehe). I exited and restarted but it now complains about not finding a... Model Maps/e2m1.bsp Not Found once i join a server. any

IOMEGA IDE ZIP drive

1998-01-19 Thread Uros Platise
Hi there, I have got IOMEGA ZIP drive for the IDE interface and I cannot get it work properly. Kernel detects it as ATAPI CD-ROM drive. Does anybody have any suggestion? Thanks! Uros -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-ma