Re: modules

1998-03-18 Thread Ian Perry
Also have a look at the "modules" file in /etc to make sure you are not loading modules which you do not want. I found that this file was not recreated on installation of the new kernel. Ian -- > From: Robin Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Ralph Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: David B

GIMP Problem in hamm

1998-03-18 Thread alemas
When I enter "gimp" as a command in afterstep (in hamm), I receive only the following: - gimp: error in loading shared libraries /usr/lib/libgdk.so.1: undefined symbol: XListInputDevices - The command, BTW, was entered in an XTerm with no keybinding peculiarities.

Re: automatically set DISPLAY after telnet/rlogin ?

1998-03-18 Thread Keith Beattie
Michael Agbaglo wrote: > > is there is nice way to have the DISPLAY-Variable automatically set to > the host from where I logged in ? > Obviously ssh appears to be the preferred answer but if tcsh is available on the remote host, check for tcsh's REMOTEHOST environment variable. It should have e

Port 1029 connections

1998-03-18 Thread Daich Chow
I'm running Debian 1.3.1, kernel 2.0.33 I'm new to this list. I'm on Ethernet. I'm also using IP Masquerading. Problem is, I keep getting people in my logs trying to access port 1029 multiple times. I telnet there from localhost or other places and there is nothing. you can even try it. toothpaste

Re: modules

1998-03-18 Thread Robin Davis
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote: > David B Wilson wrote: > > > > When I boot, there are complaints of unresolved symbols in modules > > such as ppp and pcmcia. This is with a recently compiled 2.0.30 > > kernel (and I did make modules and modules_install). Advice? > > > > Is there a w

problems updating hamm

1998-03-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
I've been having a bit of a problem updating hamm to the latest and can't configure either base-passwd or kbd: running dpkg --pending --configure ... Setting up base-passwd (2.0.3) ... Moving user ftp to uid 999. WARNING: /etc/passwd fails sanity check! dpkg: error processing base-passwd (--config

Re: modules

1998-03-18 Thread Ralph Winslow
David B Wilson wrote: > > When I boot, there are complaints of unresolved symbols in modules > such as ppp and pcmcia. This is with a recently compiled 2.0.30 > kernel (and I did make modules and modules_install). Advice? > > Is there a way to get a log of all the boot messages? Try "dmesg |

Re: the instructions for win95 under dosemu

1998-03-18 Thread servis
For the patient, After trying the alta vista translater, and not getting any more out of it than the orginal version, I sent an email to the author of the pages and asked if he would mind translating the pagese into english. He replied that we would do it as soon as possible but that at the moment

Re: Trouble with /var/spool/mail/????

1998-03-18 Thread shaul
> What are the appropriate permisions for /var/spool/mail/user? $ ls /var -ld drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 1024 Feb 12 20:08 /var $ ls /var/spool/ -ld drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 1024 Feb 8 06:31 /var/spool/ $ ls /var/spool/mail -ld drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 1024 Mar 1

Re: automatically set DISPLAY after telnet/rlogin ?

1998-03-18 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 10:50:51PM +0100, Michael Agbaglo wrote: > is there is nice way to have the DISPLAY-Variable automatically set to > the host from where I logged in ? Well I have two suggestions: 1. use ssh, that's what I use now 2. This option may not qualify as "nice." Looking at it ri

Re: the instructions for win95 under dosemu

1998-03-18 Thread Behan Webster
Milan Zimmermann wrote: > > Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > > > I went and largely read the instructions. "largely" meaning that my spanish > > is very rusty, and this was in portugese :) > > Would it be possible for you to put together English translation or > summary of that document? My Po

Re: wtmp-libc6 (solved)

1998-03-18 Thread dpk
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, dpk wrote: > > > I previously had tried the steps of removing the wtmp, rebooting, etc > > without success. I tried the libc6 upgrade procedure again, without > > success also. It was due to the non-US package 'ssh'. > > > > Th

Re: e-mail questions

1998-03-18 Thread shaul
Try looking at exmh and xmail to have a nice X front end. fetchmail may be used to bring the mail from your ISP. > I am using a modem and ppp to login to my ISP. What is a good setup for > e-mail??? Currently I use NS4's e-mail but it is a little buggy and > crashes often. I would like to have

Re: automatically set DISPLAY after telnet/rlogin ?

1998-03-18 Thread Ossama Othman
I don't think prompts is what he was asking about, nor does he have to use ssh (although this would be preferrable). I've seen this done using some shell commands in a .cshrc or .profile file that is called after login. Here are shell scripts that I found you can source or place in your .cshrc or

Re: wtmp-libc6 (solved)

1998-03-18 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, dpk wrote: > I previously had tried the steps of removing the wtmp, rebooting, etc > without success. I tried the libc6 upgrade procedure again, without > success also. It was due to the non-US package 'ssh'. > > The wtmp file remained readable until I ssh'ed to my machine

Re: zyxel omni.net isdn modem?

1998-03-18 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Oh, in denmark. SPIDs are only used in US switches. You should be ready to go! Michael Legart wrote: > hi! > > >You don't need the isdn package or anything special like that. You need to > 1) do > >the spid setup, which you only do once and never again so you don't need > to put > >this into your

Re: the instructions for win95 under dosemu

1998-03-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> > I went and largely read the instructions. "largely" meaning that my spanish > > is very rusty, and this was in portugese :) > Would it be possible for you to put together English translation or > summary of that document? My Portugese and Spanish is at 0. [ I would > not mind the CD not work

Re: the instructions for win95 under dosemu

1998-03-18 Thread Milan Zimmermann
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > I went and largely read the instructions. "largely" meaning that my spanish > is very rusty, and this was in portugese :) Would it be possible for you to put together English translation or summary of that document? My Portugese and Spanish is at 0. [ I would n

Re: automatically set DISPLAY after telnet/rlogin ?

1998-03-18 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hi Michael: To achieve the look that you want, in your .bash_profile enter the following: NODENAME="`tput smso``tput blink`[`hostname`]`tput sgr0`" PS1='${NODENAME}${PWD}>' PS2='${PWD}>' Peter -Original Message- From: Michael Agbaglo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.or

wtmp-libc6 (solved)

1998-03-18 Thread dpk
I previously had tried the steps of removing the wtmp, rebooting, etc without success. I tried the libc6 upgrade procedure again, without success also. It was due to the non-US package 'ssh'. The wtmp file remained readable until I ssh'ed to my machine - it then became a binary mess. I download

Re: Domain Name

1998-03-18 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On 18 Mar 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > Remco Blaakmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 17 Mar 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > > > If your /etc/hostname reads "omnic", then you should have a line like this > > > in your /etc/hosts: > > > > > > 127.0.0.1 omnic.my.home omnic > > >

Re: automatically set DISPLAY after telnet/rlogin ?

1998-03-18 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Michael Agbaglo wrote: > is there is nice way to have the DISPLAY-Variable automatically set to > the host from where I logged in ? The easiest way to do this is to use ssh instead of telnet/rlogin. ssh is a secure shell, which means your password doesn't go over the network

Re: automatically set DISPLAY after telnet/rlogin ?

1998-03-18 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Michael Agbaglo wrote: > is there is nice way to have the DISPLAY-Variable automatically set to > the host from where I logged in ? Check out ssh, which does all you want and more (but is only available on nonus.debian.org and mirrors due to stupid US crypto laws) -- Scott

automatically set DISPLAY after telnet/rlogin ?

1998-03-18 Thread Michael Agbaglo
is there is nice way to have the DISPLAY-Variable automatically set to the host from where I logged in ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: printcap for bjc4000

1998-03-18 Thread Fabien Ninoles
> From: Rich Sahlender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > In /etc/printcap : > > lp:\ > :lp=/dev/lp1:\ > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp1:\ > :if=/etc/filter.bjc600:\ > :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\ > :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\ > :mx#0:\ > :sh: > > And in /etc/filter.bjc600 : > > #!/bin/s

Re: zyxel omni.net isdn modem?

1998-03-18 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
You don't need the isdn package or anything special like that. You need to 1) do the spid setup, which you only do once and never again so you don't need to put this into your scripts or anything like that 2) make a chat string. For my 'connect' argument which is passed to pppd, I use: connect "/u

ATI All-in-Wonder

1998-03-18 Thread Jesus Duran
Greetings all, i remember seeing a few posts regarding the ATI All-in-Wonder Video card some time backi was wondering if there was an x-server for it??? Were there any problems with using the card in X TIA, jd? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

I am leaving Debian

1998-03-18 Thread Bruce Perens
There was some question on this list yesterday regarding whether I would leave Debian. It is indeed true. I will remain as president of SPI and will redirect SPI's mission to be for all free software rather than just for Debian. I'm sorry it had to be this way, but I feel that my mission to bring f

zyxel omni.net isdn modem?

1998-03-18 Thread Michael Legart
hi! can someone help me with a zyxel omni.net isdn modem? i have some problems getting et up-n-running in linux. acutally i have no idea how to do it ... it tried the isdn package, with no luck at all... please reply to my email addy... thanks :) regards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] badpixel of bad sect

Netscape Communicator and Mail

1998-03-18 Thread Ionut Borcoman
Hi, My Debian Box is almost complete excepting the PPP part and therefore I cannot delete my Win95 partition. 8-( I have downloaded the Communicator 4.03 and successfully installed. But, even that I am reading the HOWTO's I am still confused about PPP configuration. Every Linux flavor come wit

Picon packages disappeared?

1998-03-18 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Today I ran dselect and noticed that picon somehow disappeared. Is it just a temporary effect because of 2.0 preparation? Or is it really dropped out? Thank you, Sasha. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Domain Name

1998-03-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Remco Blaakmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 17 Mar 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > If your /etc/hostname reads "omnic", then you should have a line like this > > in your /etc/hosts: > > > > 127.0.0.1 omnic.my.home omnic > > > > The fqdn has to be at the first place. > > It doesn'

atalkd error

1998-03-18 Thread Greg Frye
during system start up (netatalk), I get a message that says 'atalkdsocket: Invalid argument'. The only thing that I have changed from the default that deselect sets up is that I added 'eth0' to /etc/atalkd.conf. What do I need to add, change, ...? I'm new to Debian (some Slackware experience) a

libtiff usage (RGBAImageGet problem)

1998-03-18 Thread Brian White
Does anybody have any experience with the inner workings of libtiff? I'm trying to use the libtiff library, but am having some problems and was wondering if anybody could clarify something... I have a small image with the following information: Image #0: TIFF Directory at offset 0x8 Subfile Ty

Re: qpopper, and APOP

1998-03-18 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
The only email client I know of which supports APOP is Eudora. I can assure you Netscape 4 doesn't. Also note that neither qpopper or cucipop (at least not the versions I've tried) has support for this enabled, though cucipop is capable. I compiled and tested my own cucipop from source and it worke

Re: command line mixer

1998-03-18 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Will Lowe wrote: > On 18 Mar 1998, Andy Spiegl wrote: > > > is played. Is there a utility that allows me to set the mixer > > via a command line program, so that I can put that into rc.boot? > > cam can do this, methinks. I am very happy with aumix, which can do just what

Recreating Installed Package Lists

1998-03-18 Thread Mark A. Bialik
Hi: I did a stupid thing... I accidently blew away a bunch of stuff in /var/lib/dpkg I didn't think things were working correctly, and I wanted a fresh start with dselect. Obviously, I know better now, and I just restored from tape. This does pose an interesting question, though. Is it possible

Re: grabbing root window images.

1998-03-18 Thread Peter Galbraith
> hello and thank you for replying to my message. Can you explain to me on > how to use it. thanks again. $ xv - right click in xv window to get control panel window to appear. - click on grab button to make `xv grab' window panel appear. - choose your method. e.g. grab after 0 second

qpopper, and APOP

1998-03-18 Thread finn
I'm a bit confused about APOP ... when is this useful? Oh, I know it prevents users from sending cleartext passwords over the net, but what supports APOP? Most Windows apps sure don't seem to, and those are what I need to support, unfortunately ... If someone could shed some light on this I'd be

Re: grabbing root window images.

1998-03-18 Thread Paul McDermott
hello and thank you for replying to my message. Can you explain to me on how to use it. thanks again. -- Paul McDermott The Computer Braille Facility The University of Western Ontario University Community Centre 215 London, Ontario N6A 3K7 Phone: (519) 661-3061 Email:

Re: grabbing root window images.

1998-03-18 Thread GalbraithP
Paul McDermott wrote: > Hello everyone, thank you for all the help in the past and the help in the > future. I was wondering what package can I use to grab images from the > root window. ie an xterm or some other program. Any help would be > appreciated. I think xv will do but i'm not too sur

Ring 0 and DosEmu

1998-03-18 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Hello everybody, I saw the discussion on Win and DosEmu, and somebody mentioned something about "ring 0". Could someone tell more what it means. Just for general education... Thank you, ZORO -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Dual booting Linux and NT info

1998-03-18 Thread tony mollica
Hi. I have only been quickly browsing the dual boot topic, but I have found and successfully used the following link and information, if you haven't already seen this: http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~sedmison/directboot.html thanks, --- tjm [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: printcap for bjc4000

1998-03-18 Thread Phil Dyer
Bob Nielsen wrote: > Check the filter. Since magicfilter doesn't support the bjc600, I had to > choose another printer and then edit the "sDEVICE=" line(s) in the filter > to specify the bjc600 gs driver. It works fine for my MPC2500, which > prints like a bjc4000. > > Bob Got it.I ran magicfil

Re: lilo, linux and win95

1998-03-18 Thread David Stern
On 18 Mar 1998 21:18:15 +1200, Carey Evans wrote: > I don't think so. My PC at work, using IBM's BootManager (available > in OS/2 and Partition Magic) has: > > - lilo.conf - > boot=/dev/hda6 > root=/dev/hda6 > ... > - > > The normal MBR probably can't load this thoug

Re: grabbing root window images.

1998-03-18 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
xwd -root -silent > image.xwd This will output the root window in "X Window Dump" format. ImageMagick understands this format. I'm not sure if xv does. Paul McDermott wrote: > Hello everyone, thank you for all the help in the past and the help in the > future. I was wondering what package can I

Re: Multi-line greeting from xdm?

1998-03-18 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 05:37:37PM +0100, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > An easy way I could think of is to make a picture of this message (pcx, > bitmap, gif, whatever), and run a program like display or xv to put it > on the screen in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0. Thanks for all the suggestions. I ended

Re: printcap for bjc4000

1998-03-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
Check the filter. Since magicfilter doesn't support the bjc600, I had to choose another printer and then edit the "sDEVICE=" line(s) in the filter to specify the bjc600 gs driver. It works fine for my MPC2500, which prints like a bjc4000. Bob On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, dyer wrote: > > > Rich Sahle

the instructions for win95 under dosemu

1998-03-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I went and largely read the instructions. "largely" meaning that my spanish is very rusty, and this was in portugese :) ANyway, I got the gist of it, but it leaves a couple of concerns: 1) if i'm reading it right, it can't access the cd. This would be bad; all I wnat it for is to run the kid

Re: win95 and linux network

1998-03-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Benoit Joly wrote: > hi all, i will have two computer (mine and my parents one). > my parents computer is running win95 and mine linux, win95 and winnt. > i have an ethernet card (3com combo) on my computer and an external modem too. > > i want: > 1) to be able to play networ

Re: Dual Booting Win NT and Debian

1998-03-18 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Tristan Day wrote: > After going through the 'NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO,' I managed to dual > boot Linux and NT, but only using a boot floppy for Linux. Although I am > pleased that this time I installed Debian it didn't lock me out of NT, I > still want to dual-boot from my hard drive as

re:win95 and linux network

1998-03-18 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Setting all this up is not hard >i want: >1) to be able to play network games in win95 >the computer will be about 30 feet away, so i cant use serial cable. >maybe i can use ether coax or 10bt cable... what is the best You will need an ethernet card for each computer and... either a hub or the

Re: modules

1998-03-18 Thread David B Wilson
I'd suggest building and installing your kernel using the kernel-package package. The basic sequence is 'make config', run make-kpkg to build the kernel and make a Debian package from it, and then use dpkg to install the kernel. When I did "make-kpkg --zimage buildpackage" I eventuall

Re: Multi-line greeting from xdm?

1998-03-18 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Is there an easy way to make xdm display something like the following? > It's a (silly) company requirement. > > **ACCESS IS RESTRICTED TO AUTHORIZED > USERS* > This is a privately-owned network/computing system. Unauthorized access or use > is a crime und

Correction, not updatedb....find

1998-03-18 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, My mistake. Sorry :) It is /etc/cron.daily/standard that is responsble. Apparently, a "find" is being done on my NFS mounted filesystems but comes back with a "permission denied" error. All of the finds in "standard" are commented out. Where is this find coming from? Shouldn't find stay

grabbing root window images.

1998-03-18 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everyone, thank you for all the help in the past and the help in the future. I was wondering what package can I use to grab images from the root window. ie an xterm or some other program. Any help would be appreciated. I think xv will do but i'm not too sure. Thanks in advance. -

problem with updatedb trying to scan NFS filesystem

1998-03-18 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, One of cron.daily entries does an "updatedb" on all filesystems. Based on /etc/updatedb.conf, it seems that NFS filesystems are supposed to be ignored, i.e. "pruned," from the database, yet I get mail from cron telling me that it couldn't read a directory in the NFS filesystem. Am I misinter

Re: Multi-line greeting from xdm?

1998-03-18 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 10:11:56AM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote: > > > Is there an easy way to make xdm display something like the following? > > xbanner will help. > Can xbanner print more than one line of text? --8<-- 3. At present, XBanner can only render one line of text. A future version wi

Re: Multi-line greeting from xdm?

1998-03-18 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 06:02:28PM +0200, Tommi Virtanen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 09:26:03AM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote: > > Is there an easy way to make xdm display something like the following? > > It's a (silly) company requirement. > > xbanner will help. Can xbanner print more than

Re: Multi-line greeting from xdm?

1998-03-18 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 09:26:03AM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote: > Is there an easy way to make xdm display something like the following? > It's a (silly) company requirement. xbanner will help. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - it's a valid address w/o spam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

libXpm

1998-03-18 Thread David B Wilson
When I try running xconq, it complains that libXpm.so.4 can't be loaded. Where do I find that (or a different version of xconq)? David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: denying finger info

1998-03-18 Thread Pere Camps
Fuzzy, > we use kfingerd instead of fingerd to do that, you can set defaults as > to what is displayed we have only fingername/account name displayed by > default and each user can create a .fingerrc that tells the daemon > what to return for themselves. I belive there are other similar > products

[Q] Mesa + gcc 2.8.1 +libc6 (Linux)

1998-03-18 Thread Vladislav Papayan x285
Hello, I compiled Mesa with gcc 2.8.1 + the latest libc6 (that includes pthreads 0.7) on Linux. I tried make linux-386-pthreads, make linux-386-elf, make linux-elf All the sample programs core dump. The debugger cannot step through the core file. I also tried putting a printf right the main decla

Re: Dual Booting Win NT and Debian

1998-03-18 Thread Fredrik Ax
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Tristan Day wrote: > After going through the 'NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO,' I managed to dual > boot Linux and NT, but only using a boot floppy for Linux. Although I am > pleased that this time I installed Debian it didn't lock me out of NT, I > still want to dual-boot fr

Multi-line greeting from xdm?

1998-03-18 Thread Jeff Noxon
Is there an easy way to make xdm display something like the following? It's a (silly) company requirement. **ACCESS IS RESTRICTED TO AUTHORIZED USERS* This is a privately-owned network/computing system. Unauthorized access or use is a crime under U.S. federal an

Re: command line mixer

1998-03-18 Thread Will Lowe
On 18 Mar 1998, Andy Spiegl wrote: > is played. Is there a utility that allows me to set the mixer > via a command line program, so that I can put that into rc.boot? cam can do this, methinks. Will ---

Re: Domain Name

1998-03-18 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > Thanks... this works, but I had to make a hardlink to hostname... but I > dont think thats a problem.. > And yes.. I am running stable. I'm sorry I don't remember how things are in stable. I have been running unstable since July and many, many things

Unidentified subject!

1998-03-18 Thread Gerald V. Livingston lI
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command line mixer

1998-03-18 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi! Every time I reboot my system the volume of my soundcard is set up so high that I almost get a hard attack the first time a sound is played. Is there a utility that allows me to set the mixer via a command line program, so that I can put that into rc.boot? Thanks a lot! Andy. -- Andy Spi

multi-tray IDE CDrom drives

1998-03-18 Thread tko
Picked up a NEC 4 tray IDE CDrom drive. Debian sees the base tray (1 of 4). How does one access the other 3 trays? It would be cool to be able to load binary and source disks into the same drive and have access to both (probably with different mounting points) 8-) -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =

Re: printcap for bjc4000

1998-03-18 Thread dyer
Rich Sahlender wrote: > > Could someone tell me how to setup my printcap for a bjc4000 printer. > > I'm a newbie, so please be gentle. I need to be able to print > > ghostscript files. > > I use a bjc600 as follows: > > In /etc/printcap : > > lp:\ > :lp=/dev/lp1:\ > :sd=/var/spoo

Re: modules

1998-03-18 Thread David Z. Maze
David B Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DBW> When I boot, there are complaints of unresolved symbols in modules DBW> such as ppp and pcmcia. This is with a recently compiled 2.0.30 DBW> kernel (and I did make modules and modules_install). Advice? I'd suggest building and installing your kern

Re: man segmentation fault

1998-03-18 Thread tibor simko
> "janos" == Bujtar Janos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: janos> Every time i want to see man pages (any!!!) the result is janos> core dumped. you can try to re-create manpage index cache via: $ man 8 mandb $ mandb -c cheers -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Dual Booting Win NT and Debian

1998-03-18 Thread Tristan Day
After going through the 'NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO,' I managed to dual boot Linux and NT, but only using a boot floppy for Linux. Although I am pleased that this time I installed Debian it didn't lock me out of NT, I still want to dual-boot from my hard drive as promised by the HOWTO. I have

Unidentified subject!

1998-03-18 Thread Gerald V. Livingston lI
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Re: 3C90X

1998-03-18 Thread Nathan C. Burnett
The Linux kernel already has support for this card, use the 3c590/3c900 series driver. Nate On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Veselin Tabakov wrote: > Hi, > I have new 3C90X network adapter but I haven't drivers for this card. > I'm try to write module for this card but this is a very stupid > idea. > If an

Re: 3C90X

1998-03-18 Thread Ossama Othman
The 3C59X driver supports _both_ the 3COM Vortex cards and the Boomerang cards which is your 3c90x. It also happens to be the one I have. :) You can get the latest driver from: http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ Have fun. -Ossama ___

modules

1998-03-18 Thread David B Wilson
When I boot, there are complaints of unresolved symbols in modules such as ppp and pcmcia. This is with a recently compiled 2.0.30 kernel (and I did make modules and modules_install). Advice? Is there a way to get a log of all the boot messages? David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Windows under DosEmu

1998-03-18 Thread Nelson Posse Lago
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 01:41:52PM -0300, Nelson Posse Lago wrote: > > > I think win95 will accept to run > > under DMPI, which dosemu emulates, and that's the "trick". > > Could you elaborate a bit on the term DMPI? What does it mean and what is it

Re: Netscape Mail

1998-03-18 Thread Fabien Ninoles
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Mar 17 20:03:10 1998 > Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 15:19:06 -0700 (MST) > From: Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: iquest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Debian User > Subject: Re: Netscape Mail > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > > The netscape mail never dow

Re: denying finger info

1998-03-18 Thread Pere Camps
Ben, > I think that you want to take a look at the cfingerd package. It > looks to me like it can do everything you want. I will. Thanx. Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:343/108.91 - _`\<;_ http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ PGP key

dpkg and tk4.2

1998-03-18 Thread Mike Hill
When I attempt to re-install the tk4.2 run-time lib that I had forcibly removed, I get the following: debian# dpkg -i tk4.2.4.2p2-7.deb (Reading database ... 36894 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking tk4.2 (from tk4.2.4.2p2-7.deb) ... dpkg: error p

Re: help with dosemu

1998-03-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 06:52:34PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: > I have the latest dosemu from hamm. I am having a problem using lredir > to mount a directory under dos. I would like to mount /usr/local/dos as > my d:. Having done this I would like to install some dos based games. > when I type 'lredi

Re: Taking over vnc, vnc-doc. Also xdm information request.

1998-03-18 Thread Amos Shapira
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |I still cannot see all the implications (as there is domain socket, TCP and |RFB ((used by VNC)) protocolls now), but it is much clearer now. Thank you! Just to be clear, there is no such thing as "domain socket". Sockets are created (using the socket(

RE: 3C90X

1998-03-18 Thread TBaetzle
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have new 3C90X network adapter but I haven't drivers for this card. > Use the 3c59x ("Vortex") driver - it works fine. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

3C90X

1998-03-18 Thread Veselin Tabakov
Hi, I have new 3C90X network adapter but I haven't drivers for this card. I'm try to write module for this card but this is a very stupid idea. If anybody have idea where to get drivers for this card just write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TIA Vesselin Tabakov Network Administrator Overgas Inc. [EMAIL PR

mount problems

1998-03-18 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I had two bo Linux box with 2.0.30, and a directory exported from one to other. This used to work until I put 2.0.33. Now, with all the same configuration, I get the message: mount clntudp_create: RPC: Program not registered Both boxes have NFS properly compiled, installed and

man segmentation fault

1998-03-18 Thread Bujtar Janos
Hello ! Today my debian hamm started to fail when i want to see a man page Every time i want to see man pages (any!!!) the result is core dumped. Stracing the man the last message is " Updating index cache for path.." Any ideas? thnx james -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing with LS-120 drive

1998-03-18 Thread shaul
> Actually, I got the installation to work with the LS-120 drive. > After installing debian and creating a boot floppy, upon reboot > I get 'Loading...' and then the machine reboots... I do not understand why it happen. Perhaps it will not happen if you will use loadlin with the in

Re: PPP to multiple Internet Provider

1998-03-18 Thread shaul
> - Users in a selected group (e.g. dip) can do po and poff without being > superuser. On my 1.3.1 (not r6) I had to change -rw--- of /etc/etc/ppp.chatscript and /etc/ppp.options_out to -rw-r- to acheive it. Note that my ISP password can be read from /etc/etc/ppp.chatscript. I don't kno

Re: Taking over vnc, vnc-doc. Also xdm information request.

1998-03-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 08:56:57AM +0200, Amos Shapira wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > |Ah, I see. If I want to start a client from elsewhere, I have first to copy > |the cookie to it, everytime the X server was new started (if I try to > |display a remote client on my home s

win95 and linux network

1998-03-18 Thread Benoit Joly
hi all, i will have two computer (mine and my parents one). my parents computer is running win95 and mine linux, win95 and winnt. i have an ethernet card (3com combo) on my computer and an external modem too. i want: 1) to be able to play network games in win95 the computer will be about 30 feet a

Re: Domain Name

1998-03-18 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On 17 Mar 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > > Remco Blaakmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > In that case, why to I get "omnic.(none)" ??? Where is this (none) > > > > coming > > > > from? > > > > > > > > IIRC, the glibc (or whatever is

Re: Domain Name

1998-03-18 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > I'm not sure If my first attempt got through... probly mail server crash > > did it... *GRIN* > > > > > > In the /etc/issue file you can use the \n.\o sequence to get a copy of > > your hostname and d

Re: lilo, linux and win95

1998-03-18 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: > hda5 (or sda5) and above are logical partitions. Logical partitions > cannot be used to store the lilo boot sector. I don't think so. My PC at work, using IBM's BootManager (available in OS/2 and Partition Magic) has: - lilo.conf - boot=/dev/h

Re: many many segfaults

1998-03-18 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Perhaps the log files can give you a hint ? > > > One of my debian boxes is becoming increasingly unstable, with general > > protection faults and segfaults almost every day now. > > > > I checked the RAM a couple of weeks ago with the memtest utilit

Re: hamm, Netscape, libXt.so.6???

1998-03-18 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 10:26:19PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just upgraded to hamm, and Netscape will not run, because it cannot find > libXt.so.6. Which lib in hamm provides this? xlib6 (not xlib6g). xlib6 is currently not in hamm. It is currently removed from hamm because it had bugs

xdm -- multiple (3) servers need "xrefresh" because :0 goes gray.

1998-03-18 Thread Jameson Burt
So I needn't end my xdm session when I get up and my wife uses Linux, I run three X servers under xdm. For this, I have within /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt7 :0 :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt8 :1 :2 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt9 :2 Usually, on booting, :0 starts, then :1

Re: Taking over vnc, vnc-doc. Also xdm information request.

1998-03-18 Thread Amos Shapira
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Bradshaw) wrote: |> Ah, I see. If I want to start a client from elsewhere, I have first to copy |> the cookie to it, everytime the X server was new started (if I try to |> display a remote client on my home station, for example). Thsi I can do with |> xauth -extract and -merg

Re: hamm/contrib/binary-i386/Packages* files

1998-03-18 Thread alemas
A Red Hat man said, as he took his shoes off to set a spell in our forum: > Why are the hamm/contrib/binary-i386/Packages* files empty? There are files > in that subtree which are needed to successfully install multiple programs > from the main hamm distribution. Then a Greenhorn, wet behind the

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