Re: kernel-source-2.0.33

Well I thought this was itor am I mistaken, I just didn't understand why dselect couldn't "track it down": http://cgi.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/kernel-source-2.0.33.html Package: kernel-source-2.0.33 2.0.33-3 Lin

Re: X11 and Matrox Mystique 220

RUSSELL COOK wrote: > > Hello All, > I just got a new video card, the Matrox Mystique 220. I have been > following this list for a while, and have observed that the Mystique is > supported now. However, after configuring for my card, and trying startx, my > screen goes black, and the

Re: POP3 Client..

On Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 11:35:04PM +0400, Timothy M. Hospedales wrote: > Does anyone know of a good POP3 client for Linux/X? > Something like Eudora or Pegasus in Windoze...? > > I just want to beable to check multiple mail boxes easily. (Its a pain > in netscape mail). > I'de rather not have

Re: Help installing NT and Linux

> So what I did was make the drive which NT needs to go on, the primary > master. I installed NT and it works fine, if that drive is the master. I > need the Linux drive to be the master because I don't want to reinstall > Linux or let NT win this battle :) I don't know about loosing battles but

Re: Installing with LS-120 drive

Hi, This is a really interesting problem... Sorry I cannot be of any help. It however is of interest to me as, just this afternoon, I was thinking of the possibility of putting a minimal installation (<90Mb) on a 120Mb disk drive and running linux off that. Concievably there will be a second flo

Re: Installing with LS-120 drive

Hi, This is a really interesting problem... Sorry I cannot be of any help. It however is of interest to me as, just this afternoon, I was thinking of the possibility of putting a minimal installation (<90Mb) on a 120Mb disk drive and running linux off that. Concievably there will be a second flo

POP3 Client..

Does anyone know of a good POP3 client for Linux/X? Something like Eudora or Pegasus in Windoze...? I just want to beable to check multiple mail boxes easily. (Its a pain in netscape mail). I'de rather not have to setup fetchmail and related apps. Thanks, Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

X11 and Matrox Mystique 220

Hello All, I just got a new video card, the Matrox Mystique 220. I have been following this list for a while, and have observed that the Mystique is supported now. However, after configuring for my card, and trying startx, my screen goes black, and the computer locks up - I can't ctl-a

quicken??

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- hi now that i have netscape 4.04 running, the last hurdle seems to be Quicken. all i need is something to keep a check register and print checks. (i know, write it yourself!)... could someone point me in the right direction? then i can convert my other machine

Help installing NT and Linux

I just got a new drive and I want to put a few more Operating Systems on it. Even thought NT is a pain to use I would like to have it around just to run a few apps. But I am having some problems getting it to install. Here is the situation: I have two 4.3 gig UltraATA Quantum Fireballs. The p

Re: Lee: Re: smail Solution for Dynamic IP's

On Sun, 01 Mar 1998 14:34:05 EST, wrote: > David Stern wrote: > > > I don't understand why a correct header would be rejected. I'd like to > > see some details for the basis to this claim, because I use the same > > address style as you and Daniel. Please tell. > > > This is from /var/spool/

SCSI changes Interrupts?

I just got my Adaptec 152x SCSI adapter to work However, two weird things happened in the process that I wonder if anyone could shed some light on Firstly, before I got it to work, cat /proc/interrupts reported my PS2 mouse as being on IRQ 8, "SoundScape" as being on IRQ 10, and had no li

Pine configuration changed

In the latest (hamm) pine 3.96L-2, I am getting asked (today, March 1) the question: To save disk space, delete old SENT mail folder "sent-mail-jan-1998" ? everytime I execute pine. Formerly it was only asked once at the beginning of each month (maybe it will go away tomorrow!). I checked bot

Re: Win95 Dialin Client Config

Erez Doron wrote: > > First you want to make sure the the WINS server is running. > > [major snip]What is a WINS server ?is it anything to do with samba ? WINS = Windows Internet Name Service Basically it's a NetBIOS name resolution mechanism, i.e. it translates NetBIOS names (the host part o

Re: Thanks :)

Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On an unrelated note, is there any reason why my "respond to all > recipients" in Pine would get a user called > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the Cc list? I only get > this when responding to mail from this list. The actual recipients don't > seem to have a

Re: SMTP transaction error

"A.D.Y. Cheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > reading message 1 (2561 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.hkstar.com Add the line "smtphost localhost" to your .fetchmailrc and also make sure your MTA (smail, sendmail, wha

Re: Lee: Re: smail Solution for Dynamic IP's

David Stern wrote: > I don't understand why a correct header would be rejected. I'd like to > see some details for the basis to this claim, because I use the same > address style as you and Daniel. Please tell. This is from /var/spool/smail/msglog/... I broke it into multiple lines Xdefe

Hamm Installation Disks

Hi Debian folks, Upon seeing that a set of installation files appeared under hamm I got curious. Using the single file version of the base disks and the 14400 versions of the other disks I started an install from DOS. Some observations: 1. I was unable to get the installation program to see an

Output of Anacron job `cron.daily' (fwd)

Since I've upgraded to anacron 2.0, I'm getting this email every day: Stopped /usr/sbin/boa (pid 196). Starting boa... File /usr/sbin/suidexec registered but not installed /usr/lib/emacs/20.2/i386-debian-linux-gnu/movemail PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.mail 2755 changed to root.mail u=rwx,g=rxs,

Re: kernel-source-2.0.33

For the 'bo' distribution (1.3.1r6) look in: ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/bo-updates/ For hamm look in: ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-all/devel/ or: ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/devel/ or for that matter: ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/hamm/hamm/bina

Re: Bounced mail from debian-user list (?)

Thanks for your posting!! I also just now received a bunch of 'returned mail messages' for messages that I have posted to the debian-users list and have already been sent to my mail account from debian-users. In my case the specific postings for which the 'returned' messages were sent were posted

Archiving mails with smail

Hi all! I am currently building an intranet server for the company where I'm working. I use smail (from bo) and the users are going to work with different mail clients (Netscape or Outlook Express) over POP3 (qpopper). The server will have an dialout connection to our ISP (ppp) and a multidrop ma

Re: Xircom CE10-BC PCMCIA Ethernetadapter

In an attempt to save the world from disaster, Rene Bagia wrote: > Hallo, > i am a new Debian Linux user, so i have a little problem > to install my pcmcia card service correctly, so i can > use my XIRCOM CE10 Pcmcia Ethernet Adapter. > I try to install with dselect the pcmcia card service and th

Re: NAT solution for Linux?

Hi! You wrote: > Is there a kernel module and/or software that provides Network Address > Translation (something similar to what Cisco's PIX product does)? I don´t know Cisco´s PIX, but there is domething called NAT at http://www.csn.tu-chemnitz.de/HyperNews/get/linux-ip-nat.html Regards Ra

Spread sheet compatible with LOTUS?

Are any of the spread sheet programs available in Debian able to read LOTUS 123 files? If not, is there a conversion utility that will convert LOTUS file to the format used by one of the Debian spread sheets? If no such thing exists in Debian, how about elsewhere in Linux? -- _

DMA Bus Mastering Reset on WDC AC34300L

Hello, I've just built a custom 2.0.33 kernel using the make-kpkg for a new ASUS P/I-P55T2P4-based P150 Linux box with 64MB RAM (bo installed) and I get the following error message: hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } hda: disabled DMA ide0: reset: success Is it

Re: gimp & jpegs

On Sat, Feb 28, 1998 at 11:45:55AM -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > Charles Shearer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: snip > You need libjpeg-dev. Good luck! > That did the trick, thanks Charles -- Charles Shearer ITopia tel/fax +44 181-289 0626 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

kernel-source-2.0.33

I found the kernel source package for 2.0.33 on the debian web page search engine but can't seem to find it with dselect. Anybody know how? Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble

Re: Thanks :)

> P.S.: I noticed alot of you use "IIRC." Since I only found out about the IIRC="If I Remember Correctly" Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \(")|

Thanks :)

Hi, Thanks for all the responses about the bounced mail and swap spaces in Linux! :-) On an unrelated note, is there any reason why my "respond to all recipients" in Pine would get a user called "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the Cc list? I only get this when responding to mail from this list. The act

Re: Max swap on Linux

> I am going to install Debian on a system that may require alot of swap > space. According to the Debian installation notes, Linux only uses up to > 128MB of swap space. I've been also told that Linux can handle more. > Which is correct? Linux cannot handle more than 128M of swap in one partiti

SMAIL WARNING (was: Re: fetchmail doesn't work for me either)

On Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 11:20:32AM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > I upgraded fetchmail, smail, and some other packages at once, and immediately > begin having trouble with fetchmail. The problem is exactly as discussed by > A. D. Y. Chang. I'm at a loss, with all the discussion of smail on t

Re: make-kpkg

Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Hi, > > The problem is that someone has installed a /vmlinuz. Being > just a program, the debian kernel image package postinst assumes that > the sysadmin knows better, and does nothing. If you want the new > kernel, > # cd / > # mv vmlinuz vmlinuz.save >

Re: NAT solution for Linux?

At 16:41 -0600 1998-02-28, Nathan E Norman wrote: >Is there a kernel module and/or software that provides Network Address >Translation (something similar to what Cisco's PIX product does)? There is an implementation of NAT for Linux at

/etc/passwd comment field

I was reading through the passwd(5) man page, and I noticed something really neat, you can set the priority at which the users processes will run, and their ulimit. I was able to get the pri= field to work, and I also want to limit users to a max of 40 processes, but I can't figure out how. What

Xircom CE10-BC PCMCIA Ethernetadapter

Hallo,  i am a new Debian Linux user, so i have a little problem to install my pcmcia card service correctly, so i can  use my XIRCOM CE10 Pcmcia Ethernet Adapter.  I try to install with dselect the pcmcia card service and the pcmcia modules for the 2.0.29 Kernel but i cant use it.  I am v

Re: Win95 Dialin Client Config

Ronn Pimentel wrote: > First you want to make sure the the WINS server is running. [major snip]What is a WINS server ?is it anything to do with samba ? Regards Erez begin: vcard fn: Erez Doron n: Doron;Erez org:Savan Communications Ltd. email;inte

Re: /dev entry for cdu31a device

On Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 09:05:57AM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Jackson) writes: > > > What is the proper /dev entry for a Sony proprietary cdu31a device? I don't > > see a cdu31a device in dev and don't know how to access it otherwise. > > Thanks in advance. > > > This

Re: Max swap on Linux

On Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 12:59:10AM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote: > I am going to install Debian on a system that may require alot of swap > space. According to the Debian installation notes, Linux only uses up to > 128MB of swap space. I've been also told that Linux can handle more. > Which is corr

Re: Lee: Re: smail Solution for Dynamic IP's

On 01 Mar 1998 16:23:02 +1300, Carey Evans wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: > > > On Thu, 26 Feb 1998 22:19:37 EST, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > > [snip] > > > > If I didn't mention this before, I'm not cc'ing you because ipa.net > > > rejects my "from " lines as spam. > > > > I don't

Re: Kernel compilation

Hi, I assume you have set the root device for the kernel image on the floppy correctly? (man rdev). If not, the kernl maybe mounting the wrong partition aas teh root device and failing ;-( (though I'm not sure it would fail in the manner you describe; I think it is a possibility).

Re: MX list for aaa.bbb.ccc points back to rrr.sss.ttt

On Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 12:30:48AM -0300, Fernando Tadeu C Brandt wrote: > I get the following > > 554 MX list aaa.bbb.ccc points back to rrr.sss.ttt > 554 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Local configuration error > > when I try to send a message to aaa.bbb.ccc. > How can I fix the configuration at aaa.

Re: minicom...

On Sat, Feb 28, 1998 at 09:24:21AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ^^ huh? > As far as I know, you can't configure minicom to connect you to the Internet. > Minicom can only be used to test your connection to your ISP, and to see his

Re: .deb installation

This really should be: dpkg -i /filename1.deb ... /filenameX.deb (or cd to first). Ben Pfaff wrote: > >How can i install the both packages in Linux with the other hard disk >partition mounted or how can install the packages from floppies? > > dpkg -i FILENAME1.deb FILENAME2.deb > > --

Re: trouble with the boot-block..

> All this makes sense, of course. What I don't understand is > how something got written to the MBR and why my floppy drive > is ignored now. To clear my SCSI drives 1 and 3, I'll have to > do a low-level format. >From an earlier message, I gathered that you DID tell the installation program to

/dev entry for cdu31a device

Hello all, What is the proper /dev entry for a Sony proprietary cdu31a device? I don't see a cdu31a device in dev and don't know how to access it otherwise. Thanks in advance. Martin Jackson: [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Information Science Major Mankato State Unive

Re: PPP Accounting

On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 10:12:27PM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: > > Michael your clock is one month out! > > hph.. again Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --

Kernel compilation

I'm back again, I have recompiled my kernel, but now it wont boot from the new bootdisk that 'make zdisk' created. I followed the HOWTO to the letter, and here I am stuck. It will still boot off of my old boot disk, but not properly, it says there are no modules for that kernel. As I had ker

Re: stm (was Console resolution (Was Viewing bootup message))

On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Benoit Goudreault-Emond wrote: > [snip] > > Hmm, I used to have that running with my tseng et4000, but when I went to > > my new s3 virge, It died completely... anyway, 80x34 is fine... 80x25 is > > just too large... I hate DOS so much... :) > > > > Died how? Don't forget

Re: Signify and Pine

On Sat, 28 Feb 1998, Brian White wrote: > > My signify signature's, when used with pine sometimes die completely, and > > I am completely frustrated :) And to top it all off, I only sometimes get: > > > > [1]+ Broken pipe signify --fifo=$HOME/.signature > > > > I suppose I should me

Re: SGML-Tools

On Sat, 28 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Am I using it in a wrong manner or is there a bug: > > $ sgml2latex -a example.sgml > SGML-Tools driver version 0.99.7 Hmmm. It works for me using this syntax. Here are some considerations: No filenames have changed accidentally? (No ~'s or spa

Max swap on Linux

Hi, I am going to install Debian on a system that may require alot of swap space. According to the Debian installation notes, Linux only uses up to 128MB of swap space. I've been also told that Linux can handle more. Which is correct? Thanks. -Ossama ___

Bounced mail from debian-user list (?)

Hi, I just got a whole mess of bounced mail messages from concentric.net related to the Debian list. In fact, all of the messages I sent to the list were apparently delivered since I got copies of my message from the list. I assumed my messages got through fine since I got responses from the lis

Re: NAT solution for Linux?

On Sat, 28 Feb 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Is there a kernel module and/or software that provides Network Address > Translation (something similar to what Cisco's PIX product does)? You might have a look at this web page: www.linas.org/linux/load.html -- __ _ David S

Re: Kernel Customization.

Hi, You seem to only have one kernel on your machine. That is the reason that you have judt /vmlinuz and no /vmlinuz.old. When you install the next kernel version, you shall get the second link in /. As to the names in /boot, the names are /boot/vmlinuz- If you need more than

Re: make-kpkg

Hi, The problem is that someone has installed a /vmlinuz. Being just a program, the debian kernel image package postinst assumes that the sysadmin knows better, and does nothing. If you want the new kernel, # cd / # mv vmlinuz vmlinuz.save # ln -s boot/vmlinuz-2.0.32 vmlinuz

Vacation reply

_ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: make-kpkg

When the estimable Manoj Srivastava wrote, I replied: > > Hi, > > Could you show us the output of > % ls -als / > % ls -asCF /boot It's attached. This is after I re-executed with --bzimage kernel_image. > > It is hard to tell from the information given what is going on > ;-)

sendmail and pine

I'm struggling to get sendmail and pine working properly together. I have a dial-up ISP account [EMAIL PROTECTED] My linux account is [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm trying to get my mail to deliver locally as coming from rcook, but to go out externally as from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have been following the

Re: upgrading to current smail

On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 1998 at 07:12:51AM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > > > I've had to install the bo smail, and leave it htere the last few months. > Really, smail 3.2.0.100 is broken at the moment. There a couple of things > you can try, ple

MX list for aaa.bbb.ccc points back to rrr.sss.ttt

I get the following 554 MX list aaa.bbb.ccc points back to rrr.sss.ttt 554 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Local configuration error when I try to send a message to aaa.bbb.ccc. How can I fix the configuration at aaa.bbb.ccc? Fernando

Re: Lee: Re: smail Solution for Dynamic IP's

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: > On Thu, 26 Feb 1998 22:19:37 EST, Lee Bradshaw wrote: [snip] > > If I didn't mention this before, I'm not cc'ing you because ipa.net > > rejects my "from " lines as spam. > > I don't understand why a correct header would be rejected. I'd like to > see

Re: fetchmail doesn't work for me either

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Eugene Davis) writes: > I upgraded fetchmail, smail, and some other packages at once, and immediately > begin having trouble with fetchmail. The problem is exactly as discussed by > A. D. Y. Chang. I'm at a loss, with all the discussion of smail on this > list. Well,

Re: Motif and lesstif coexistance?

> Can RedHat motif (I used alien to convert a .rpm to .deb) co-exist with > lesstif? xscreensaver installation complains that it needs lesstif. You can try... But my experience says "no way". Download the source package and recompile xsceeensaver yourself (with real Motif). Alex Y. -- _

Re: Lee: Re: smail Solution for Dynamic IP's

On Thu, 26 Feb 1998 22:19:37 EST, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > [..] > local username had to match the remote username. Check out my web page > if you want to see all the effort I've put into HTML so far :^) > And what nice dogs you have. > If I didn't menti

Re: dump screen to file

> How can I dumb the console screen to a file via a bash shell command (or > program)? Perhaps by using script(1) ? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Kernel Customization.

I tried to customize the installation kernel, but I was not completely succesful. 1) Debian FAQ says that dpkg will * install the custom kernel in /boot/vmlinuz_VVV-Custom.N, and set up appropriate symbolic links to the most recent kernel version. my /boot director

Re: minicom...

> how do i do to configurate the minicom for conecting to interntet wiht a > pulse telephone line??? As far as I know, you can't configure minicom to connect you to the Internet. Minicom can only be used to test your connection to your ISP, and to see his gretting. To accomodate the pulse dial

Re: Installing with LS-120 drive

> I have persuaded a co-worker to install Debian on his machine. > However, he has a LS-120 drive (essentially a 120MB capacity > floppy) and no "normal" floppy drive. I wrote a resc1440.bin > (from hamm/main/disks-i386/current) for him since rawrite2 > will not work (apparently) with these disk d

SGML-Tools

Am I using it in a wrong manner or is there a bug: $ sgml2latex -a example.sgml SGML-Tools driver version 0.99.7 Usage: driver.pl [options] General options: --papersize={a4,letter} -s {a4,letter} --language={en,english,english,de,deutsch,german,nl,nederlands,dutch,fr,franç ais,french} -l

fetchmail doesn't work for me either

I upgraded fetchmail, smail, and some other packages at once, and immediately begin having trouble with fetchmail. The problem is exactly as discussed by A. D. Y. Chang. I'm at a loss, with all the discussion of smail on this list. Fetchpop works ok, and with fetchpop -ar, I get a running list

Re: Support for Debian GNU/Linux

> > A commercial company will have a proposal on my desk this weekend > to coordinate the worldwide network of Debian consultants in a single > support organization. > Great news! I've been waiting for the RH Support Partner program to get moving for months... and waiting... and waiting... and w

Re: Support for Debian GNU/Linux

> > In the 1998 Linux Journal Buyer's guide, there is a matrix comparing the > various distributions. Under Debian, it says that optional paid > commercial support is available, but gives no details. > Have a look at the "How do I get support?" section in http://www.debian.org/intro/about.html