Re: autoup.sh

1998-03-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : I've lost my link to this script. Could somebody please post the : URL? http://www.debian.org/devel/autoup.sh the script works great, btw - I've had no troubles so far (3 vastly different machines) -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phi

PS mouse and keyboard lock

1998-03-09 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Hi everybody, I have two, I think related questions. - How to install a ps/2 mouse. I have a /dev/psaux dev crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 10, 1 If I try to configure gpm -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 it says: no such device - My keyboard is also a ps/2 one. I notice the following: although the mouse is

Re: How do you e2defrag?

1998-03-09 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Ben Pfaff writes: >I have debian installed on a single partition, a partition which >I suspect is greatly fragmented (is there an easy way to tell?). I wish >to use the program e2defrag to defragment it, but have realized this could >be more difficult than I first thought. > You

Re: how to find an (not so) old package

1998-03-09 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Ben Pfaff writes: >I also cannot seem to find the "old" w3-el package (which would allow >me to downgrade w3-el). >Can someone help me? > Use the w3-el from bo, which is in dists/stable/binary-all/web, I > would guess. the bo version is (much) older than the w3-el that was at hamm b

Re: (smail + pine) reply-to?

1998-03-09 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Ian Keith Setford wrote: > I have a local lan connected to the Internet through a Pipe 50. The > domain I use is real but the domain is NOT routed on the internet right > now. I would like to use smail + pine to send messages. This setup is > currently working but I would li

Re: how to find an (not so) old package

1998-03-09 Thread Jens Ritter
"Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I also cannot seem to find the "old" w3-el package (which would allow > me to downgrade w3-el). Try the debian package finder: http://badger.alaska.net/debian/finder.cgi Maybe the version from stable will run? On this list, there was a mir

Re: (smail + pine) reply-to?

1998-03-09 Thread Jens Ritter
Ian Keith Setford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Example: twist.lucidity.org--> msg sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > if this person hits "reply" to this msg it > will be undeliverable because lucidity.org > is not routed on the in

Re: How do you e2defrag?

1998-03-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
I have debian installed on a single partition, a partition which I suspect is greatly fragmented (is there an easy way to tell?). I wish to use the program e2defrag to defragment it, but have realized this could be more difficult than I first thought. You say you have a single partiti

How do you e2defrag?

1998-03-09 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I have debian installed on a single partition, a partition which I suspect is greatly fragmented (is there an easy way to tell?). I wish to use the program e2defrag to defragment it, but have realized this could be more difficult than I first thought. I see that the partition will need to b

fvwm2: can I make transients have focus?

1998-03-09 Thread Brian White
Is there any way under fvwm2 to make all transient windows automatically get focus when they appear? It would be much more convienient than having to move the mouse to that window. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )

Re: autoup.sh

1998-03-09 Thread Bob Hilliard
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've lost my link to this script. Could somebody please post the > URL? Look on www.debian.org or http://taz.net.au/autoup/ -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9

Re: Mostly fresh start install?

1998-03-09 Thread David Stern
On Mon, 09 Mar 1998 16:54:22 EST, T-SNAKE wrote: > I want to mostly start anew with my install, since I think during my software > install, I hit some wierd button accidentally and it FLEW through a bunch of > prompted questions and I think totally screwed sendmail... so I'm gonna start > over. BUT

Re: xaw-wrappers

1998-03-09 Thread Behan Webster
Joey Hess wrote: > > This tells xaw wrappers to do everything in it's power to prevent any > libraires in /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw95 to be linked with xload. Since that > directory doesn't exist in the xaw95[g] packages, it's actually a no-op. If > you change it to: Yes, I had just figured that out

Re: xaw-wrappers

1998-03-09 Thread Joey Hess
Behan Webster wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>xload > > ldd: can't open /usr/X11R6/bin/xload.real (Permission denied) > > xaw-wrappers: unable to determine libc version of /usr/X11R6/bin/xload.real. > > Hmmm. This is the error I get now too... > > > > > What version of xaw-wrappers are you using

Re: xaw-wrappers

1998-03-09 Thread Joey Hess
Behan Webster wrote: > Oops. I misinterpreted the point of xaw-warappers package. I though it > was to specify which xaw replacement to use. It seems it is used to > list what xaw replacements not to use. Right! > The only thing now is, how do I specify which xaw replacement I want to > use i

Re: autoup.sh

1998-03-09 Thread Steve Mayer
Mike, http://www.debian.org/devel/autoup.sh Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've lost my link to this script. Could somebody please post the > URL? > > Micro$oft, what do you want to spend today? > > -- > E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xaw-wrappers

1998-03-09 Thread Joey Hess
Behan Webster wrote: > If I chmod xload.real to 755, xload seems to run ok, although it still > seems to come up with the xaw3d library instead of the xaw95 library... You said you were using this line: /usr/bin/X11/xload,/usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw95 This tells xaw wrappers to do everything in it's p

Re: xaw-wrappers

1998-03-09 Thread Behan Webster
Behan Webster wrote: > > Another data point. > > If I chmod xload.real to 755, xload seems to run ok, although it still > seems to come up with the xaw3d library instead of the xaw95 library... Oops. I misinterpreted the point of xaw-warappers package. I though it was to specify which xaw repl

Re: Q2 with hamm

1998-03-09 Thread Roderick Schertler
If anybody who has this problem with quake2 crashing at load time with svgalib but not with X figures out what's going wrong, please let me know. I can't reproduce it here, so I can't debug it myself. -- Roderick Schertler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: emacs starting very slow

1998-03-09 Thread Keith Beattie
Catalin Popescu wrote: > > I have Debian Linux 1.3. running on a 486-66Mhz with 32 Mb RAM with me as > a single user. Until recently emacs was starting in about 2-3 seconds. In > the last few days I've noticed that it takes about 12--15 seconds to > start. What could possibly have happened? It seem

Re: Q2 with hamm

1998-03-09 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Sun, 8 Mar 1998 09:53:56 +0200, "Jaakko Niemi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Roderick Schertler wrote: >> >> Try >> >> quake2 +set s_initsound 0 >> >> instead. > > Will try that. Is there a list of those commands somewhere? There are lists of console commands and settable variables at

glut + hamm = Failure

1998-03-09 Thread Howard S. Ostrowsky
Hi: I have a mostly-hamm debian system with the latest gcc, glutg3, lesstif, etc. Recently I have tried to compile some of the example programs from the book "OpenGL for X" and found a problem. Typically, a session goes like this: gcc -o dials dials.c -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lGLU -lGL -lXmu -lXi -l X

Re: xaw-wrappers

1998-03-09 Thread Behan Webster
Another data point. If I chmod xload.real to 755, xload seems to run ok, although it still seems to come up with the xaw3d library instead of the xaw95 library... Hmmm... Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- E-mail the word "unsubsc

Mostly fresh start install?

1998-03-09 Thread T-SNAKE
I want to mostly start anew with my install, since I think during my software install, I hit some wierd button accidentally and it FLEW through a bunch of prompted questions and I think totally screwed sendmail... so I'm gonna start over. BUT, I'm not sure what the best way to proceed is. Should I

Re: 80 MB ram in debian system

1998-03-09 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Kirk, Hit the shift key before Linux starts booting. If the prompt still doesn't show up, you will have to modify your /etc/lilo.conf file to add a delay for the boot prompt or even force the boot prompt to wait for input before booting begins. IIRC, the line in lilo.conf would look something

Re: xaw-wrappers

1998-03-09 Thread Behan Webster
Joey Hess wrote: > > Is your /usr/X11R6/bin/xload a symlink to /usr/lib/xaw-wrappers/wrapper ? Yes. > I tried to reproduce this, and I can't -- I get another set of errors: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>xload > ldd: can't open /usr/X11R6/bin/xload.real (Permission denied) > xaw-wrappers: unable to de

Re: lynx play sound files

1998-03-09 Thread Behan Webster
Brian White wrote: > > > > hello everyone, I was wondering how to get lynx to play sound files ie > > > ..wav and .au? I know it can be done. I think it has to do with a > > > ..mailcap file. but i'm not sure. Thanks in advance. > > > Paul > > > > You have to install the mime-support package an

Re: Installing with LS-120 drive

1998-03-09 Thread Paul Rightley
Thank you for the suggestion. I got it to install without the use of loadlin. I made a rescue disk on a normal 1.44 floppy and then put a debian/hamm/main/disks-i386/current tree on a LS-120 and put resc1440.bin and drv1440.bin and base2_0.tgz in the current directory. Before "installing the ker

autoup.sh

1998-03-09 Thread mike
I've lost my link to this script. Could somebody please post the URL? Micro$oft, what do you want to spend today? -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Installing with LS-120 drive

1998-03-09 Thread Paul Rightley
Sorry it has taken me so long to get back to this... The big problem with the machine we are installing Debian on is the fact that it does not have a "normal" floppy drive. I have not looked into using the LS-120 as the root partition, but I will try it one of these days. Paul On 01-Mar-98 C.J.

Re: how to find an (not so) old package

1998-03-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
I also cannot seem to find the "old" w3-el package (which would allow me to downgrade w3-el). Can someone help me? Use the w3-el from bo, which is in dists/stable/binary-all/web, I would guess. -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST.

Re: Upgrading to 2.0 from 1.2

1998-03-09 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Stan Brown wrote: > I have a Debian system, that is still at 1.2 (as verifed by > /etc/debian.versio). I plan on upgrading to 2.0 as soon as it becomes > stable. > > Should I first upgrade to 1.3 first? No. There is a script that will do the critical p

Re: Upgrading to 2.0 from 1.2

1998-03-09 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Stan Brown wrote: > I have a Debian system, that is still at 1.2 (as verifed by > /etc/debian.versio). I plan on upgrading to 2.0 as soon as it becomes > stable. > > Should I first upgrade to 1.3 first? You shouldn't need to, but if you have any proble

emacs starting very slow

1998-03-09 Thread Catalin Popescu
I have Debian Linux 1.3. running on a 486-66Mhz with 32 Mb RAM with me as a single user. Until recently emacs was starting in about 2-3 seconds. In the last few days I've noticed that it takes about 12--15 seconds to start. What could possibly have happened? It seems that also other programs (such

Re: 80 MB ram in debian system

1998-03-09 Thread Christophe Broult
Kirk Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Concerning passing boot parameter with a boot disk.] > > Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If you are just starting out and don't want to mess around > > with configuration files or just want to experiment, you can manually > > enter "mem=8

Re: 80 MB ram in debian system

1998-03-09 Thread Steve Mayer
Kirk, When you first see LILO appear on the screen, hit the left shift key. You should get the boot: prompt. Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirk Hilliard wrote: > > [Concerning passing boot parameter with a boot disk.] > > Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If you are just startin

Re: Help! Binaries link both libc5+libc6!

1998-03-09 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 02:01:10PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote: >I just installed Raima's Velocis Server 2.0 on an up-to-date hamm machine. >The binaries do not run (segfault), and when I run ldd I get this: > > This means that there is an upstream problem. If you do not sources, > there is no

how to find an (not so) old package

1998-03-09 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Well, I tried to upgrade web/w3-el to version pre 4, using dftp. But after he put some of the files in the system, he told me I could not use it unless I had emacs 20, which conflicts with emacs 19. AFAIK, vm does not work with emacs 20, so I can't upgrade (I use vm quite a lot). Resume: my "ol

Re: xaw-wrappers

1998-03-09 Thread Joey Hess
Behan Webster wrote: > I've tried to use the xaw-wrappers program with xload using the > following entry in /etc/xaw-wrappers.conf: > > /usr/bin/X11/xload,/usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw95 > > But all I get is: > > griffon:~> echo $PATH > /home/verisim/usr/bin:/home/behanw/bin:/home/behanw/bin/share:/usr/

Re: Kernel 2.0.33 questions

1998-03-09 Thread Ian Eure
Martin Jackson wrote: > I recently bought an HP 7200i CD-RW, an internal EIDE device. I was > wondering if > > 1) Kernel 2.0.33 (or perhaps one of the 2.1 series) supports CD-RW format? Not a kernel issue. The kernel supports ATAPI (e/ide) devices- so if the drive reads it, it works. > > >

Re: Starting postmaster (postgresql) at boot time

1998-03-09 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, I am sorry for my previous message. I found the mistake: absence of the data directory. The problem is solved. Thank you for the help. Johann Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Afric

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-09 Thread Fari Boustanchi
Please unsubscribe us. Thanks Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 a écrit: > >> I found sendmail easier to setup than smail... others would probably > >> disagree. > > I can belive that but ideally I would like to use smail but if sendmail will > do > what i want then i will use that. > > >> I have s

Re: Remote Printer Refuses to print

1998-03-09 Thread Dr. Karl-Wilhelm Schulte
On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 05:33:18PM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote: > I have set up a printer on a Debian Linux box and I have a tough time > getting it to accept jobs from other machines. lpr seems to work fine but > lpq shows that the job did not go through because I have no line printer > access. >

Re: newbie setup of ppp Thanks connected (network unreachable)

1998-03-09 Thread Bill Leach
Ok, I'm sure we can work through this... Your /etc/nsswitch.conf file probably needs to have something like this (this is from the hamm distribution but I believe that bo is similar): # /etc/nsswitch.conf # # Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality. # Information about this f

smail, the sequel

1998-03-09 Thread David Stern
After reading and trying out many of the ideas I've seen here and elsewhere regarding smail configuration for dialup networking, I've decided to ask for some more help. VISIBLE_NAME and PRIMARY_NAME are now~ being set to u.washington.edu after PRIMARY_NAME=u.

Re: Help! Binaries link both libc5+libc6!

1998-03-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
I just installed Raima's Velocis Server 2.0 on an up-to-date hamm machine. The binaries do not run (segfault), and when I run ldd I get this: This means that there is an upstream problem. If you do not sources, there is nothing you can do but complain. -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to

Upgrading to 2.0 from 1.2

1998-03-09 Thread Stan Brown
I have a Debian system, that is still at 1.2 (as verifed by /etc/debian.versio). I plan on upgrading to 2.0 as soon as it becomes stable. Should I first upgrade to 1.3 first? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]770-996-6955 Fac

Re: 80 MB ram in debian system

1998-03-09 Thread Kirk Hilliard
[Concerning passing boot parameter with a boot disk.] Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you are just starting out and don't want to mess around > with configuration files or just want to experiment, you can manually > enter "mem=80M" (don't type the quotes) or whatever amount of RAM y

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, If your username is different on your ISP account, and you want mail to go there, your mail user agent is generally what one configures to set a correct From: and Reply-to: fields; You can, fo course, add to rule set 1 to rewrite outgoing addresses, but that requires knowledge of s

Re: newbie setup of ppp Thanks connected (network unreachable)

1998-03-09 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I can't get anywhere, I've check the routing tables they appear to be > set up fine according to the documentation I found on them. I can > ping my isp and the DNS but nothing else. ifconfig appears to display > the correct info again according to the documentation I

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-09 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
>> I found sendmail easier to setup than smail... others would probably >> disagree. I can belive that but ideally I would like to use smail but if sendmail will do what i want then i will use that. >> I have sendmail set up as : >> sendmail -bd -q 15m same as mine at the moment. >> I am using

Re: Q2 with hamm

1998-03-09 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> > Just tried 3.14a, and it somehow doesn't take -nosound or -noaudio, >> > which make Q2 bomb because of broken sound in 2.1.88 and 2.1.89 >> > won't compile cleanly, so here we go again :) >> > >> I think a have the same problem as you had (Segmentation fault on >> Startup). >> Where can i

(smail + pine) reply-to?

1998-03-09 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I have a local lan connected to the Internet through a Pipe 50. The domain I use is real but the domain is NOT routed on the internet right now. I would like to use smail + pine to send messages. This setup is currently working but I would like the "reply-to" action for these messages to r

kernel 2.0.33

1998-03-09 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
HI, Can I use the 2.0.33 deb package from hamm in a bo machine without upgrade the whole system to hamm? Thanks, []s Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails" http://curiango.ipen

Help! Binaries link both libc5+libc6!

1998-03-09 Thread Jeff Noxon
I just installed Raima's Velocis Server 2.0 on an up-to-date hamm machine. The binaries do not run (segfault), and when I run ldd I get this: teljenpc:~/bin$ ldd rds lib_exif.so => /home/velocis/bin/lib_exif.so (0x4000a000) lib_adm.so => /home/velocis/bin/lib_adm.so (0x4000c000)

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-09 Thread Thomas Apel
Hi! Manoj Srivastava schrieb: > > Hi, > >>"mfrattola" == mfrattola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > mfrattola> Maybe I'm wrong, but doesn't this rewrite 'From' for every > mfrattola> message, and not only for those 'going out' of his LAN? > mfrattola> Also, doesn't confDELIVERY_MODE=queue queue

Sound card problems

1998-03-09 Thread Wojciech Zukowski
i have a problem with my soubnd card. it's SGBXII (8bits) i can compile it only in kernel (not in module) an d i can't play mp3... does anybody know what to do>? Wojciech Zukowski PGP-key ID: C27D2715 http://www.kkiem.mech.pg.gda.pl/~wojte

Re: GIMP

1998-03-09 Thread Frank Barknecht
Matt Thompson hat gesagt: // Matt Thompson wrote: > I just upgraded GIMP, and when I tried to run it, got: > > $ gimp > gimp fatal error: sigsegv caught > [n]othing, [e]xit, [s]tack trace, [a]ttach to process: s > #0 0x400ae018 in g_stack_trace () > #1 0x400addd0 in g_debug () > #2 0x807e2f7 i

xaw-wrappers

1998-03-09 Thread Behan Webster
I've tried to use the xaw-wrappers program with xload using the following entry in /etc/xaw-wrappers.conf: /usr/bin/X11/xload,/usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw95 But all I get is: griffon:~> echo $PATH /home/verisim/usr/bin:/home/behanw/bin:/home/behanw/bin/share:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/u

Re: /etc/issue, ssltelnet

1998-03-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 9 Mar 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: : Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : : > Among the more vanilla problems is the /etc/issue file - specifically, : > the advertisement of what OS is running on the target machine. I'd like : > to get things set up so that it's not immediately cl

Re: lynx play sound files

1998-03-09 Thread Brian White
> > hello everyone, I was wondering how to get lynx to play sound files ie > > ..wav and .au? I know it can be done. I think it has to do with a > > ..mailcap file. but i'm not sure. Thanks in advance. > > Paul > > You have to install the mime-support package and of course some audio-player. T

Re: locks and compiling mutt

1998-03-09 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 09:57:49AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Mar 07, 1998 at 10:51:55AM -0500, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > > I'm compiling mutt for a bo system. > > Why aren't you using the Debian .diff.gz as a basis? > > > IIRC there was a discussion on > > locks a couple days ago. It

Re: Anacron isn't logged

1998-03-09 Thread Scott Ellis
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Bob Hilliard wrote: > I update my hamm partition from a local mirror every four or five > days. Since my last update (3/5/98) anacron runs normally every day, > but there is no entry in /var/log/anacron. I don't know which > packages were updated on the last run. Which

Re: snmpd weirdness

1998-03-09 Thread David Engel
On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 12:03:48PM +0100, Peter Gervai wrote: > So snmpd. It seems - and some fellow admins reported that they noticed the > same effetct - that snmpd's ifInOctets and ifOutOctets are incorrect. More > specifically, they are usually the half of the real values, and in my case > it s

Remote Printer Refuses to print

1998-03-09 Thread Daniel Mashao
I have set up a printer on a Debian Linux box and I have a tough time getting it to accept jobs from other machines. lpr seems to work fine but lpq shows that the job did not go through because I have no line printer access. This is the etc/printcap on machine 1 raw2|com5p:\ :lp=:\

Re: Memory leak?

1998-03-09 Thread dpk
I don't know if I'm still on the list as we had problems with our mail server last night. I am using kernel 2.0.33. Dennis -- dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Network Administrator | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 On 9 Mar 1998, Jens Ritter wrote: > O

Re: Hamm bug: syslog() does not work together with libstdc++

1998-03-09 Thread Martin Schulze
On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 03:07:50PM +0100, Farzad FARID wrote: > It *does* work, I've cut and paste this code from the source of the > 'logger' program, right form the Debian sources :) Of course it does not Args. Seems I should take a look at that guy. > work when it's linked with libstdc++, w

Re: CNAME records (was: Re: dynamic DNS within a non-dynamic domain)

1998-03-09 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On 9 Mar 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > Note that AFAIK all SMTP mailers (well, sendmail at least) will rewrite the > addresses in the mail headers. That includes rewriting a CNAME pointer to > the canonical name it points to. > > So even if you send out mail with the CNAME in the From: h

Re: Hamm bug: syslog() does not work together with libstdc++

1998-03-09 Thread Farzad FARID
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > Afaik this doesn't work. Take a look at the manpage: > >void syslog( int priority, char *format, ...) > > Now look what you've given them? > > priority logical_OR facility > as first argument > > > Let's take a look at the openlog() funct

Re: newbie setup of ppp Thanks connected (network unreachable)

1998-03-09 Thread Ian Perry
Have you got a name server set up with the bind package ? Not knowing your setup If your linux box is a gateway, from your NT machine, is your hosts.allow correct ? -- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: newbie setup of ppp Thanks connected (netw

RE: How can I get the Emacs manual?

1998-03-09 Thread servis
On 9 Mar, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 6 Mar, Catalin Popescu wrote: >> Thank you for the information. But what's the file's name. I saw only huge >> files (which I presume include the WHOLE emacs). As I had a quite slow >> phone link I would prefer to download the manual only. >> >> Catali

Anacron isn't logged

1998-03-09 Thread Bob Hilliard
I update my hamm partition from a local mirror every four or five days. Since my last update (3/5/98) anacron runs normally every day, but there is no entry in /var/log/anacron. I don't know which packages were updated on the last run. Which package controls writing to the anacron log? --

Re: newbie setup of ppp Thanks connected (network unreachable)

1998-03-09 Thread apiercey
Well thanks to all your help I'm connected, but (OF COURSE) I can't get anywhere, I've check the routing tables they appear to be set up fine according to the documentation I found on them. I can ping my isp and the DNS but nothing else. ifconfig appears to display the correct info again accor

Re: IDE CD-ROM IRQ

1998-03-09 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
>I am only guessing: >1) How does it work on DOS/WIN (assuming that you have it installed) ? No problems with Win95. >2) I would try to change what might be relevant definitions in the BIOS and >see what effects these changes might have. >3) Does the HD and the CD "know" that they supose

RE: How can I get the Emacs manual?

1998-03-09 Thread servis
On 6 Mar, Catalin Popescu wrote: > Thank you for the information. But what's the file's name. I saw only huge > files (which I presume include the WHOLE emacs). As I had a quite slow > phone link I would prefer to download the manual only. > > Catalin ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/elisp-manual-1

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #353

1998-03-09 Thread UNK TWO
take me off this damn list -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ibcs, modulo.

1998-03-09 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Pedro! First of, two things: a) this mailing list is in english b) there is an spanish mailing list ;-) On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, PEDRO FERNANDEZ wrote: > Trabajo con Debian 1.3.1. y esto tratando de cargar el modulo ibcs, > para que pueda ejecutar programa

Re: Hamm bug: syslog() does not work together with libstdc++

1998-03-09 Thread Martin Schulze
On Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 07:48:06PM +0100, Farzad FARID wrote: > development environment is Debian hamm with libc6 version 2.0.7pre1-2 and > libg++272 version 2.7.2.8-0.1. > If I link my C++ program without any g++ libraries syslog works. > If I link my C++ program with '-lstdc++' syslog does not

Re: What does spam-mail mean?

1998-03-09 Thread Martin Schulze
On Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 03:56:16PM +0200, Catalin Popescu wrote: > Sorry for what could be considered a very stupid question, but what does > spam-mail mean? I've tried to find the word in the dictionnary, but no > luck. SPAM is mail that you don't want to receive. It's advertisements normally.

Re: Cron run-parts /etc/cron.weekly

1998-03-09 Thread Alain Nissen
Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > > run-parts: /etc/cron.weekly/lpr exited with return code 1 > > Running by hand causes no problems. Then I piped the output to mail, and > when it arrives, the lpd restart only echos a ".". Any ideas? This is a > relatively up to date hamm system. > > dpkg -l lpr:

snmpd weirdness

1998-03-09 Thread Peter Gervai
Hello, (It's probably not a question of the package and debian, but..) So snmpd. It seems - and some fellow admins reported that they noticed the same effetct - that snmpd's ifInOctets and ifOutOctets are incorrect. More specifically, they are usually the half of the real values, and in my case i

Re: Starting postmaster (postgresql) at boot time

1998-03-09 Thread Johann Spies
On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote: > On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Johann Spies wrote: > > : How do I get the postgresql (6.3) postmaster to start running from the > : start. ...does not work on my debian machine: > : putting it in the inittab-file or putting the postgres.init script in > :

hamm installation problem

1998-03-09 Thread Alain Toussaint
i was installing hamm tonight and i got a problem while doing so,here's what i did: 1-:repartition my hard disk,i had a 400 meg partition as /dev/hda1,a 48 meg swap partition /dev/hda2 and a 1.1 gig /dev/hda3 partition,i separated /dev/hda3 as 2 partition (hda 3 and hda4) and copied the base2_0.tg

Re: /etc/issue, ssltelnet

1998-03-09 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Among the more vanilla problems is the /etc/issue file - specifically, > the advertisement of what OS is running on the target machine. I'd like > to get things set up so that it's not immediately clear whether one of > our servers is running Linux, B

Hamm CD images available

1998-03-09 Thread Johnie Ingram
To facilitate testing of Debian 2.0 I've set my ftp site to make CD images every night at 9 p.m. EST; the image can be downloaded as something like: ftp://ftp1.us.debian.org/Debian-2.0-980309-0929Z.iso This is a T1 to Merit, who peers with MCI and others in Chicago. Please let me know o

Re: CNAME records (was: Re: dynamic DNS within a non-dynamic domain)

1998-03-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
Note that AFAIK all SMTP mailers (well, sendmail at least) will rewrite the addresses in the mail headers. That includes rewriting a CNAME pointer to the canonical name it points to. So even if you send out mail with the CNAME in the From: header field, the recipient mailer will rewrite it.. no w

Debian distribution

1998-03-09 Thread Pascal MIQUET
I'm trying to make my PS/2 LiNUX ALiVE In order to install LiNUX on an MCA(PS/2) system, DRV and RESCUE must be patched for MCA. Is the 'Official' distribution take care of the MCA ? I've found DRV and RESCUE disks to be able to install BASE floppies :) System is coming to LiFE, but on reboot

Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)

1998-03-09 Thread Soenke Lange
Hallo [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If you use a smarthost, then the mail that they send for you is not > > rejected, as their "HELO [domain]" is valid, it can be found on the > > DNS. whereas mine is not. is this right? > > In my limited experience, mail servers always accept HELO from non-existent > dom

Re: locks and compiling mutt

1998-03-09 Thread jdassen
On Sat, Mar 07, 1998 at 10:51:55AM -0500, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > I'm compiling mutt for a bo system. Why aren't you using the Debian .diff.gz as a basis? > IIRC there was a discussion on > locks a couple days ago. It appears that I should use: > ./configure --enable-flock --disable-fcntl > Can

Re: Another Newbie question

1998-03-09 Thread Paul Slootman
On Sat 07 Mar 1998, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > i installed hamm using disks from unstable > and found there is no > PS/2 mouse device (/dev/psmouse). The PS/2 mouse device is called /dev/psaux (it has been for a long time). Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-09 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
>> >> Hi, >> >>"Graham" == Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 writes: >> >> Graham> Hello, I was wondering if the following is possible using >> Graham> either Smail or Sendmail, >> >> Simple in sendmail. >> >> Graham> What I want to do is to use smail or sendmail mail to deliver >> Graham> m

gcc problem

1998-03-09 Thread Stephen Carpenter
My hamm system crashed and burned yesterday the problem was related to an accidently installe dpackage not unmounting filesystems properly on reboot in any case today I re-installed. I installed bo then I upgraded to hamm via autoup.sh and the CD I burned on 3-4-98 then of course dselect an

JAZ Problems.

1998-03-09 Thread Corey Miller
I have an iomega JAZ (1GB) drive, using a SCSI card based around the NCR53c406a chipset. I got everything (seemingly) working fine, but I frequently get errors like the following whenever I read or write to the drive. I only have the one disk that came w/ the drive. Mar 2 23:51:51 mstie

Re: Kernel compilation

1998-03-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"shaul" == shaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> My advice: before installing the new kernel (assuming 2.0.29) mv >> /lib/modules/2.0.29 /lib/modules/2.0.29.old > modules> >> shaul> Thank you. mv /lib/modules/2.0.29 /lib/modules/2.0.29.old did shaul> it. I think it ought to be in the REA

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"mfrattola" == mfrattola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mfrattola> Maybe I'm wrong, but doesn't this rewrite 'From' for every mfrattola> message, and not only for those 'going out' of his LAN? mfrattola> Also, doesn't confDELIVERY_MODE=queue queue all messages mfrattola> and wait for runq to m

Re: newbie setup of ppp

1998-03-09 Thread Steven Morrill
I hope this doesn't sound overly simplistic, but... I literally beat myself up trying to get ppp working when I first got started with Debian. I read, re-read and bugged everybody on the list trying to figure out what was wrong with my setup. ( pon, poff, etc.) I double checked with my isp to ma

Re: Cgi? how to make it work? anyone?, anyone?

1998-03-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Mar 08, 1998 at 04:28:01PM -0700, Kent Andersen wrote: > Everything looks good, other than the cgi craps out. > have cgi supported in apache and have pearl installed. > its like an out of the box install, > it acts like a permissions problem but Im not to shure, > I put the cgi scripts at

Securing your system (was: /etc/issue, ssltelnet)

1998-03-09 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Norman, I can't say much about the /etc/issue file since I've never really dealt with it. If you figure out what do about the issue file, could you please let me know, too. By the way, this is the first time I've ever noticed a /etc/issue.net file. Is this new to hamm, or was it in bo, too?

Cron run-parts /etc/cron.weekly

1998-03-09 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Hmm... I've been getting this for a few weeks: > run-parts: /etc/cron.weekly/lpr exited with return code 1 Running by hand causes no problems. Then I piped the output to mail, and when it arrives, the lpd restart only echos a ".". Any ideas? This is a relatively up to date hamm system. dpkg -

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-09 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Ian Perry wrote: [snip] > The outgoing server on the win95 machine must be kept as an ip address > because the nameserver won't be running on the linux machine until it is > connected to an ISP name service. e.g SMTP server 192.168.1.25 in my > case. Cant you use the c:\wind

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