Re: more or less Newbies?

1998-03-23 Thread Bill Leach
The 'bug' mentioned in 'more' when used with man pages is IMHO not a bug. More does 'back-scroll' when viewing man pages because it is not possible to 'back-scroll' a pipe. 'Less' does not 'show' this characteristic behaviour of pipes because less creates its' own buffer containing the entire con

Re: memory above 64M not recognized

1998-03-23 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > Lately i have upgraded from 32MB to 96MB memory and while the BIOS has no > problem recognizing it all, linux will only see 64MB. Add the following to your lilo.conf file and then re-run lilo: append="mem=96M" Linux 2.0.x can't seem to autodetect memory above 64MB. This is chan

Re: xdm, X, fvwm2 : newbie questions

1998-03-23 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Gabor Kontur wrote: > What i simply did was copy the file /etc/init.d/xdm.dpkg-dist to > /etc/init.d/xdm. > Is that all there is to it ? Is this script complete as it is now? Lets hope so. You can have a look at the script's contents and if inside it looks like a real s

Re: 2.1.XX kernel compile still not going well---ppp

1998-03-23 Thread ranty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 24 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For well over a year, I have experienced some kind of problem compiling the > 2.1.X kernels. The kernel boots well, but ppp support isn't working > properly. I've been around and aruond with the lists on this.

Re: Vim 5.0 package and compile-time options in packages

1998-03-23 Thread David Sewell
On Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 02:33:36PM -0500, Scott McDermott wrote: > David Sewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 11:43:49AM -0700: > > A Debian package of 5.0 has just been released, something a lot of > > users were eagerly waiting for. Earlier today I installed it, and > > was disappoi

Re: memory above 64M not recognized

1998-03-23 Thread Steve Mayer
Gabor, Add the following line near the top of your lilo.conf file: append="mem=96M" rerun lilo and reboot. Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gabor Kontur wrote: > > == > Lately i have upgraded from 32MB to 96MB memory

Re: memory above 64M not recognized

1998-03-23 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- If you are runnning LILO add this line to your /etc/lilo.conf: append="mem=96m" -Ian _ Ian K. Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] H: 940.566.0461

smbclient interface

1998-03-23 Thread Paul Miller
Is there a smbclient interface that is something like mc's ftp interface? Thanks --- Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, finger for public PGP key -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HAMM: Recomended for update?

1998-03-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > I had upgraded before the problems occured and it all worked fine. I > noticed a disk problem and tried a new install. That worked fine, but when > I went to restore from tape, I had some errors which broke my system even > worse than before (not HAM

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-03-23 Thread David Stern
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998 16:32:41 +0100, Havas Gergo wrote: > Hello > I installed debian 1 months ago. I've benn trying to setup X-windows since > that time. But any time I start XF86Setup after a few minutes it's frozen, > and I have to login again. Sometimes it writes that some files are missing > or

smb/linux work-around for sma

1998-03-23 Thread Paul Miller
Anyone been to www.scour.net? Well, if you haven't, it is a really cool, professional media search engine. Scour.net has its own client software, available only for win95/NT, called Scour Media Agent. SMA works over the smb/samba protocol and I've been able to mount shares, download, etc.. I'm

Re: Programming hints.

1998-03-23 Thread shaul
> What about CTRL + C. Is that a signal? Yes it is. I don't know what signal exactly it is. SIGINT ? SIGTERM ? > If not, how can a do something before > exiting from CTRL + C? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fvwm2: icons not visible as user, ok as root.

1998-03-23 Thread David Stern
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998 01:28:21 +1000, wrote: > For quite a while, I have not been able to see most icons in fvwm2 (or other > windows managers, except afterstep, which keeps icons in a certain > directory). As far as I can recall, icons were visible for a brief time > when I first installed Debian o

memory above 64M not recognized

1998-03-23 Thread Gabor Kontur
== Lately i have upgraded from 32MB to 96MB memory and while the BIOS has no problem recognizing it all, linux will only see 64MB. So far i had two 16MB PS/2 type simms in bank 0 . I moved those to bank 1 and installed two 32

xdm, X, fvwm2 : newbie questions

1998-03-23 Thread Gabor Kontur
= While everyone is eager to get the latest versions of the unstable system, i would be truly happy to get my stable version of debian (1.3.1) up and running. My first obstacle was that xdm was not starting but luckily Mike

Re: fvwm2: icons not visible as user, ok as root.

1998-03-23 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> For quite a while, I have not been able to see most icons in fvwm2 (or other >> windows managers, except afterstep, which keeps icons in a certain >> directory). As far as I can recall, icons were visible for a brief time >> when I first installed Debian on this machine in July 1997. Is the

Re: opendos fdisk *shifted* my partitions?

1998-03-23 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
jonas wrote, >This is exactly what OpenDOS did with my Linux system too. I fixed the >problem by using Linux fdisk. I noted all the start and end cylinders of >all partitions, then I removed them all and recreated them at their proper >places. No information on the partitions were lost in the pro

CGI --> Debian/apache ---> Not working

1998-03-23 Thread Kent Andersen
Got this problem, really bad actually, Heres the rundown, what has to be done with permissions on the Debian Dist to make the CGI scripting work? It must be permissions or something, I dont know what I have to do to get them to work properly. any hints?? Thanks So Much Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: more or less Newbies?

1998-03-23 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quite honestly I can't think of any DOS, Windows or OS/2 text file viewer > program I've used over the last 10 years that didn't have the simple > features of search and page up/down and backscroll. I couldn't believe my > > senses we

netscape: automatic viewing of ps.Z files

1998-03-23 Thread Steve Hsieh
Hi, Can any of you other netscape users view a file.ps.Z file automatically? When I try to click on one of these links (or simply 'netscape file.ps.Z'), it prompts me to save the file to disk instead of uncompressing it and filtering it to gv. It is recognizing the file type correct, just not

Re: Parallel ZIP drive (not Plus) and modules ??

1998-03-23 Thread Steve Hsieh
I have my parallel zip drive working, but I didn't do anything special. ppa and lp can't be loaded at the same time. For starters though, if you insmod lp, is the lp port detected, or does it tell you that no lp ports were found? On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Andrew M.A.Cater [Andy wrote: > Hello all,

Re: Attn: Newbies Re: Random "Broken Pipe"

1998-03-23 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 09:38:53AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Bill Leach wrote: > > : I think that it is mostly historical (just about every Unix system since > : about 1970 has had 'more'). > : > : There are some other reasons that are now at least mostly not > : appl

Re: HAMM: Recomended for update?

1998-03-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > Hi, > > There were messages around last week saying that Hamm "is broken", certain > packages were missing and could be retrieved only from special places... > (sorry if I did not get the situation right)... So as of today whould it be >

Parallel ZIP drive (not Plus) and modules ??

1998-03-23 Thread Andrew M.A.Cater \[Andy\]
Hello all, I'm having great problems getting my parallel Zip drive recognised under 2.0.33. The dmesg error says '0 scsi hosts detected ' - on other occasions I have device busy on parallel port. My motherboard allows me to configure auto compatible ECP EPP and to specify addresses for the p

Re: more or less Newbies?

1998-03-23 Thread Will Lowe
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > wasn't about setting up servers...it was about setting up a USEABLE > default install for > NEWBIES. Most installations are NOT going to be set up as servers, > regardless of whether or It's simple to do this. Most newbies are going to

making hamm CD

1998-03-23 Thread Stephen Carpenter
ok I have a 486dx66 here on my desk that I use for CD burning (use the network bandwidth I have at work to get stuff...burn it on CD and bring it home :) ) It has 2 850 MB hard drives...and is rather stipped down for software so that I don't have to worry space too much (try to keep around 650

Re: netscape: locale 'C' not supported

1998-03-23 Thread Art Lemasters
And BTW, Chris Hall is the one who gave me the tip to rm -r the locale and app-defaults files. Thanks, Chris. Art -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: netscape: locale 'C' not supported

1998-03-23 Thread Art Lemasters
The following applies to hamm (the unstable version) only! Do not do it in the stable version. After installing xlib6 to get Netscape going (which did not work after installing xlib6, which is still being fixed by the developers), I followed the advice to cd /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11

Re: Vim 5.0 package and compile-time options in packages

1998-03-23 Thread Scott McDermott
David Sewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 11:43:49AM -0700: > A Debian package of 5.0 has just been released, something a lot of > users were eagerly waiting for. Earlier today I installed it, and > was disappointed to discover that GUI support was not enabled, as it > had been in th

Re: Portmap

1998-03-23 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Nope, it isn't. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is it necessary to run the portmap daemon if all I need is telnet > and FTP? -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apache/suexec

1998-03-23 Thread Paul Miller
Why does the apache maintaince script change the permission of suexec to 755? Apache wants it to be 4711. -Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Portmap

1998-03-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it necessary to run the portmap daemon if all I need is telnet >and FTP? Run "rpcinfo -p" to find out what uses the portmapper. If nothing does, you probably do not need to run it. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vis

Re: X config problem: -dpi option

1998-03-23 Thread Art Lemasters
If you were asking about screen resolution (for example, VGA, SVGA, etc.), then you need to install the appropriate X server. If you want high resolution, xserver-vga16 will not do it. You would want one of the others (for example, xserver-svga), which can be found in the /X11 directory at t

Portmap

1998-03-23 Thread mike
Is it necessary to run the portmap daemon if all I need is telnet and FTP? Micro$oft, what do you want to spend today? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

HAMM: Recomended for update?

1998-03-23 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, There were messages around last week saying that Hamm "is broken", certain packages were missing and could be retrieved only from special places... (sorry if I did not get the situation right)... So as of today whould it be recomended to try to update packages and see Hamm in all it's shi

Re: X config problem: -dpi option

1998-03-23 Thread Art Lemasters
Marizio asked: > Does someone know where in the config files one can set the -dpi option for > the X server, if a value is needed which is different from the default? Do you really mean the "-dpi" option for printing, fonts, etc.? If so, disregard my following answer. If you are really

Re: Running X11 over a network

1998-03-23 Thread Ben Pfaff
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >Try this, which is slightly different: > >* Give 192.168.1.1 to the laptop. >* Give 192.168.1.2 to the desktop. >* Install any X software you want, but no xserver package, on the laptop. >* Install on

RE: telnet from linux to win95

1998-03-23 Thread Timm Gleason
I know that Hummingbird Software makes a package that includes a telnetd that runs on Win95. I have used it and had much success, until I found that I didn't really need it. Ataman software makes a RSHD for Win95, but no telnetd. Timm Gleason N2H2, Inc > -Original Message- > From: Henry H

RE: Microsoft mouse in X11

1998-03-23 Thread Timm Gleason
Check the bottom of your Microsoft mouse. If it is a version 2.1 or higher, you have become the victim of the Microsoft behemoth. For some reason, which has yet to be adequately explained, the MS Mice above version 2.0 do not work with the newest versions of XFree. I have dissected many a mouse and

Re: Running X11 over a network

1998-03-23 Thread Ian Lynagh
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >Try this, which is slightly different: > >* Give 192.168.1.1 to the laptop. >* Give 192.168.1.2 to the desktop. >* Install any X software you want, but no xserver package, on the laptop. >* Install only xserver-* (whichever you

Rescue Disk and Adaptec SCSI

1998-03-23 Thread Jay Barbee
I saw a while back on a friend's system that the AIC-7xxx SCSI controller did not boot properly when using the Debian 1.3.1 rescue disk. I have someone who wants to install Debian and has two SCSI systems to play with. Both Adaptec. One is an AIC-7xxx that I warned him about, but the other i

Vim 5.0 package and compile-time options in packages

1998-03-23 Thread David Sewell
A Debian package of 5.0 has just been released, something a lot of users were eagerly waiting for. Earlier today I installed it, and was disappointed to discover that GUI support was not enabled, as it had been in the 4.6 Debian package. I was on the point of submitting a "wishlist" bug report, bu

X config problem: -dpi option

1998-03-23 Thread Maurizio Quadrio
Does someone know where in the config files one can set the -dpi option for the X server, if a value is needed which is different from the default? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

List Problem?

1998-03-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Hello Subscribed to this list yesterday (www.rahul.net.perens/Debian/MailingLists.html) and have yet to get any mail. Is there a problem? Or is this a very quite list? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

more or less Newbies?

1998-03-23 Thread lucier
To: Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Attn: Newbies Re: Random "Broken Pipe" ** Reply to note from Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 23 Mar 1998 14:19:06 +0100 > > On Sun, Mar 22, 1998 at 11:31:10PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >

Re: Matrox Millenium II & XWindows problem

1998-03-23 Thread Ben Pfaff
You need to upgrade to the xserver-svga 3.3.1 that's in hamm in order to use the Matrox Millennium II effectively. Even after that you should probably upgrade manually to 3.3.2 that you can get from ftp.xfree86.org. All that needs to be replaced is the one XF86_SVGA server file. I am unable t

Re: Running X11 over a network

1998-03-23 Thread Ben Pfaff
* Install Hamm and, when prompted for IP addresses, give 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2 (even though they may both be connecting to the 'net via a modem with a fixed IP address) * install X on the laptop only (?) * on the 486 type "xhost +" * on the laptop type "DISPLAY=ip:0.0 ;

Matrox Millenium II & XWindows problem

1998-03-23 Thread Chip Grandits
I am unable to get my Millenium Matrox II driving my ViewSonic 15 to come up in XWindows in anything but 320 X 200. I don't know if I am configuring things correctly for the Millenium Matrox II. According to an FAQ from the Matrox Millenium Xserver group just about everything is autodetected i

Running X11 over a network

1998-03-23 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi all I have a small problem and wonder if anyone can help me? I have 2 computers both of which will shortly be running Hamm and both of which will have BNC network cards. One of them, a laptop, has a fast CPU and piles of memory but a NeoMagic video card :( The other, an old 486, has a slow C

Re: atalkd error ???

1998-03-23 Thread Greg Frye
I posted this to the Debian users list because path, etc are different than the standard package paths that are mentioned in the Linux Journal (January 1998). I thought that I might have done something wrong during the package installation. Has anyone installed netatalk? Could anyone point me

Re: Files in 2 or more packages

1998-03-23 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Joost Kooij writes: > On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Brandon Mitchell wrote: >> On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: >> >> > When I try to upgrade my wu-ftpd, it fails because there's a manpage >> > that is also present in another package. What's the case? Wasn't that >> > supposed to be nor

Re: Unmount: COMMAND NOT FOUND!!!

1998-03-23 Thread C.J.LAWSON
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Joerg Friedrich wrote: > On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > > > Hi, > > should that be umount or U[n]mount with a capital U?? > > --J. > > > If you try with a capital U, you will see 'command not found'! > > Just try it! > Which is why you shouldn't use it and

Re: HP Desk Jet 670 C and Linux

1998-03-23 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 01:07:16PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > Hello ! > I'm just looking for cheap colour ink printer for our students' lab. > I didn't see HP DJ 670 C on the list of incompatible printers. > However I couldn't find it on the list of devices available in my gs... > Doe

Re: AccelX on Debian

1998-03-23 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Jonas, I tried the Accelerated-X demo on my hamm system. It worked without a glitch, except for some monitor timings that I will have to convert from XF86Config style to XI style. I haven't tried the Accelerated-X server on any bo system. Sorry I couldn't be of any help. -Ossama __

AccelX on Debian

1998-03-23 Thread Jonas Bofjall
I previously posted a question on the list if anyone had good or bad experiences from running Accelerated X with Debian. The only replies I got were positive. I decided to evaluated it before actually buying, so I downloaded it and installed on a fresh bo (stable) with XFree installed. After the A

Re: Problems with apache and postgres (already solved)

1998-03-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Number 2 >postgesql 6.3-2 >Dpkg could not config postgresql due to problems in initdb. I tried to run >initdb manually as user postgres from the postgres home dir /var/lib/postgre >s >but this didn´t work because initdb could not find other programs

backup

1998-03-23 Thread Usman Roshan
Hi, I'm running a Linux server that NFS mounts drives from a Digital Alpha machine. Can someone recommend what debian package I can use to backup the drives to tape ? I'm looking for something that can specifically backup NFS mounted directories to a tape drive on the server. Thanks. Usman --

Re: Hardware question.

1998-03-23 Thread finn
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: : Hi, : : >> Hi, : >> : >> I am looking at a new computer for my parrents to get me for college... I : >> looked at the hardware howto but somethings arn't listed so heres : >> what I am looking at getting. : >> : >> Tiger K6233 custo

Re: Attn: Newbies Re: Random "Broken Pipe"

1998-03-23 Thread finn
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Bob Hilliard wrote: : On Mon, 23 Mar 1998 09:27:21 -0600 (CST) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > One thing it will change is the behavior of 'make config' when : > recompiling the kernel ... namely when you choose ``?'' to get more : > information about that particular option. `

Re: Hardware question.

1998-03-23 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
Hi, >> Hi, >> >> I am looking at a new computer for my parrents to get me for college... I >> looked at the hardware howto but somethings arn't listed so heres >> what I am looking at getting. >> >> Tiger K6233 customize it yourself kit. >> it contains: Sounds like a good choice. >> a ATX mo

Re: Attn: Newbies Re: Random "Broken Pipe"

1998-03-23 Thread Bob Hilliard
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998 09:27:21 -0600 (CST) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing it will change is the behavior of 'make config' when > recompiling the kernel ... namely when you choose ``?'' to get more > information about that particular option. ``less'' will make you choose > ``q'' to get back t

Re: Attn: Newbies Re: Random "Broken Pipe"

1998-03-23 Thread finn
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Bill Leach wrote: : I think that it is mostly historical (just about every Unix system since : about 1970 has had 'more'). : : There are some other reasons that are now at least mostly not : applicable. For example, 'more' will work on a printing terminal but I : believe tha

Unidentified subject!

1998-03-23 Thread Havas Gergo
Hello I installed debian 1 months ago. I've benn trying to setup X-windows since that time. But any time I start XF86Setup after a few minutes it's frozen, and I have to login again. Sometimes it writes that some files are missing or incorrect, but does it so fast that I can't read which are those.

fvwm2: icons not visible as user, ok as root.

1998-03-23 Thread adavis
For quite a while, I have not been able to see most icons in fvwm2 (or other windows managers, except afterstep, which keeps icons in a certain directory). As far as I can recall, icons were visible for a brief time when I first installed Debian on this machine in July 1997. I posted about this

Re: Attn: Newbies Re: Random "Broken Pipe"

1998-03-23 Thread finn
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: [ snipped discussion of less vs. more ] : Excellent comment, now let's go all the way and tell them newbie people : how to _do_ it :) : : in bask/ksh: export PAGER less : in csh/tcsh: setenv PAGER less Excellent support :) BTW, these lines could b

Re: debian on a laptop?

1998-03-23 Thread Mark Boyns
On 23 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Will Lowe wrote: > > > On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Stan Brown wrote: > > > > > It's not a lpatopt, but my Debian box is a 486/100 with 16M, and it > > > runs X just fine. > > > > Really, wow! I've never tried to run it on anything othe

2.1.XX kernel compile still not going well---ppp

1998-03-23 Thread adavis
For well over a year, I have experienced some kind of problem compiling the 2.1.X kernels. The kernel boots well, but ppp support isn't working properly. I've been around and aruond with the lists on this. This has happened on two different machines, through libc5 and libc6 libraries. Both mod

Re: Unmount: COMMAND NOT FOUND!!!

1998-03-23 Thread finn
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: : Hi, : should that be umount or U[n]mount with a capital U?? : --J. : : On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Tristan Day wrote: : : > When I ask Debian 1.3.1 to unmount my 3.5" to take it out of the drive, I : > get 'Command Not Fount' or something along these lines

Re: Attn: Newbies Re: Random "Broken Pipe"

1998-03-23 Thread finn
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ snip ] : (one newbie user who is looking forward to a new stable debian release that : hopely won't include such obvious archiac software) Hmm ... well, I hope it includes new _and_ "archaic" software ... some of that stuff's quite useful! ;) (a

Great Support

1998-03-23 Thread John_Ingram
I'd like to extend my warmest thanks to the Debian community, specifically those on #debian, even more specifically the following #debian inhabitants: brianm: This guy gave up many hours on Saturday with a strange X11 installation problem I was having, and then devoted many hours again on Sunday

Re: Attn: Newbies Re: Random "Broken Pipe"

1998-03-23 Thread David Wright
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Some wonderful developer(s) fixed our manpage readers of > > the coming release (hamm) so that they will also scroll upwards > > to the beginning of any file we read. The manpages (accessed > > by typing "man nameofcommand"--without the quo

Re: Linux SAMBA -> Win NT.

1998-03-23 Thread Fredrik Ax
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Toth Laszlo wrote: > Hi! > > > I have problems with it too. I have Service Pack 3. When I try logging in > with samba, I get this message: > > \\drama is not accessible > The account is not authorized to login from this station. Either you upgrade samba to support encrypte

Re: Files in 2 or more packages

1998-03-23 Thread Jens Ritter
"Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I try to upgrade my wu-ftpd, it fails because there's a manpage > that is also present in another package. What's the case? Wasn't that > supposed to be normal? Why does it fail? What's the correct procedure > now? > > Here's the thing

2 questions

1998-03-23 Thread Paul McDermott
hello everybody thank you for all of your help. I am using wget to mirror the debian site or part of it anyways. My question is this: Is there a flag to delete files when wget downloads a newer version of the same package. I have to clear my ftp site once a week because i run out of space. I did

Re: odd ppp bug

1998-03-23 Thread rick
Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | I have been experiencing an odd problem with ppp on my machine. | I have an attack dialer set up, and for the most part it works. | Every now and then however, I forget to turn it off, and it | rediales for days. After many hours or days, connections | start t

Re: Attn: Newbies Re: Random "Broken Pipe"

1998-03-23 Thread Bill Leach
I think that it is mostly historical (just about every Unix system since about 1970 has had 'more'). There are some other reasons that are now at least mostly not applicable. For example, 'more' will work on a printing terminal but I believe that 'less' will not. There might be other VDTs that c

Problems with apache and postgres (already solved)

1998-03-23 Thread ramin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi! Yesterday i upgraded some packages to Hamm frozen and has two problems. I don´t know if that where bugs or just my faults. Anyway, i solved them and maybe this information can help others. OK, here it goes: Number 1 Apache 1.3b5-2 I had to uncomment

Re: Files in 2 or more packages

1998-03-23 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > > > When I try to upgrade my wu-ftpd, it fails because there's a manpage > > that is also present in another package. What's the case? Wasn't that > > supposed to be normal? Why does it fail? What

Re: Hardware question.

1998-03-23 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Sounds like it will work fine I belive by UDMA it means Ultra-DMA on the IDE controller thats fine...if linux doesn't suport it then it just wont use it (btw I believe the drive has to also support it) then againLinux probably does suport it...it might be handeled completely in hardware (I

MSP

1998-03-23 Thread Pete Poff
Does anyone know if Debian offers any MSP support? Thanks, Pete Poff Pete Poff E-Mail Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Files in 2 or more packages

1998-03-23 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > When I try to upgrade my wu-ftpd, it fails because there's a manpage > that is also present in another package. What's the case? Wasn't that > supposed to be normal? Why does it fail? What's the correct procedure > now? --force-overwrite is n

HP Desk Jet 670 C and Linux

1998-03-23 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hello ! I'm just looking for cheap colour ink printer for our students' lab. I didn't see HP DJ 670 C on the list of incompatible printers. However I couldn't find it on the list of devices available in my gs... Does it mean, that it may be used with Linux? Is it possible to utilize all its

Re: Linux SAMBA -> Win NT.

1998-03-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 11:31:14AM +0100, Toth Laszlo wrote: > I have problems with it too. I have Service Pack 3. When I try logging in > with samba, I get this message: > > \\drama is not accessible > The account is not authorized to login from this station. > > Is this happennig without libdes

Re: Linux SAMBA -> Win NT.

1998-03-23 Thread Eloy A. Paris
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : If the NT machines have Service Pack 3 you will need to recompile SaMBa : with libdes to get encryption support. No need to do that: samba-1.9.18p3-x from Hamm has support for encrypted passwords (I maintain it). E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Tec

Re: Random "Broken Pipe"

1998-03-23 Thread Carey Evans
Marcelo E. Magallón <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [79 jacinta:~] while true ; do echo -n . ; /usr/sbin/update-alternatives > --display WindowMaker | grep -q 'WindowMaker-newstyle' ; done > .Broken pipe >From the grep man page: -q, --quiet Quiet; suppress normal output.

rpcgen :-(

1998-03-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I'm trying to use rpcgen. I have the sample program below, which I didn't write. (Typical lecturer spaghetti code, if I had a dollar for every program written by a lecturer that I'd had to fix in the past four years, I'd have quite a few bucks! ) Anyway, rpcgen appears to like running cpp on the c

Re: debian on a laptop?

1998-03-23 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Will Lowe wrote: > I'm thinking about buying myself a laptop on which to run Debian. It'd > have to be used and relatively inexpensive, as I'm in college and have no > money. > > Anyway, I was thinking that a laptop 486 DX/4 100 with 16 megs of ram > ought to run ok, cons

Re: Attn: Newbies Re: Random "Broken Pipe"

1998-03-23 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
hamish wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 10:37:39AM +0100, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > in bask/ksh: export PAGER less > > You want > > export PAGER=less > > I do believe. > Yep, moreover, I meant `bash' and not `bask'. Maybe Monday mornings aren't the right time for emailing to the debia

Re: Linux SAMBA -> Win NT.

1998-03-23 Thread Toth Laszlo
Hi! I have problems with it too. I have Service Pack 3. When I try logging in with samba, I get this message: \\drama is not accessible The account is not authorized to login from this station. Is this happennig without libdes? Thanks Corleone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Attn: Newbies Re: Random "Broken Pipe"

1998-03-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 10:37:39AM +0100, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > in bask/ksh: export PAGER less You want export PAGER=less I do believe. hamish (a tcsh user) -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software Australia Pty. Ltd. Developers of music

Re: xdm -- multiple (3) servers

1998-03-23 Thread Harald Koenig
On Mar 23, Jameson Burt wrote: > Harald Koenig of XFree86 solved my problem with 3 X-servers under xdm. > Here is his reply, annotated. thanks for your comments! > Here are some alterations on Mr. Koenig's recommendations > that improve Mr. Koenig's solution for the Linux arena. > 1. Change the

Re: Unmount: COMMAND NOT FOUND!!!

1998-03-23 Thread Joerg Friedrich
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > Hi, > should that be umount or U[n]mount with a capital U?? > --J. > If you try with a capital U, you will see 'command not found'! Just try it! --- Heute ist nicht alle Tage, ich komme wieder, keine Frage!!! Joerg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Attn: Newbies Re: Random "Broken Pipe"

1998-03-23 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Art Lemasters wrote: > > > Some wonderful developer(s) fixed our manpage readers of > > the coming release (hamm) so that they will also scroll upwards > > to the beginning of any file we read. The manpages (accessed > > by typing "man nameofcommand"--without the qu

Linux SAMBA -> Win NT.

1998-03-23 Thread Johan Berglund
Are there any known problems connecting to a Linux samba-server from a Windows NT4 server/workstation? I can connect to the linux from the win95 computers but not from any of the NT computers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Unmount: COMMAND NOT FOUND!!!

1998-03-23 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Hi, should that be umount or U[n]mount with a capital U?? --J. On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Tristan Day wrote: > When I ask Debian 1.3.1 to unmount my 3.5" to take it out of the drive, I > get 'Command Not Fount' or something along these lines: it seems "unmount" > doesn't exist! How do I get rou

Re: New handling of scripts external to PPPD (ie ip-up, ip-down)

1998-03-23 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Adam Heath wrote: > I have never liked the idea of having to edit either ip-up, or ip-down each > time I want to add a script into the ppp chain. This is also hard for > separate packages to do automatically, without errors. > > So here it comes. Sit down for this one. > >

Hardware question.

1998-03-23 Thread Ender Wigin
Hi, I am looking at a new computer for my parrents to get me for college... I looked at the hardware howto but somethings arn't listed so heres what I am looking at getting. Tiger K6233 customize it yourself kit. it contains: a ATX motherboard with the VIA 590vp2 chipset... can anyone tell m

Re: pop3 mail reader

1998-03-23 Thread Art Lemasters
Benoit queried: > hi all, i have a pop3 account elsewherre on the net and i want a pop3 client. Get fetchmail (C' est fetchmail). > > i want to make multiple "folder" for my mail (filter) like debian-user and > other... > what should i use Your e-mailer should be configurable for sev

pop3 mail reader

1998-03-23 Thread Benoit Joly
hi all, i have a pop3 account elsewherre on the net and i want a pop3 client. i want to make multiple "folder" for my mail (filter) like debian-user and other... what should i use Thanks Benoit Joly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Attn: Newbies Re: Random "Broken Pipe"

1998-03-23 Thread lucier
** Reply to note from Art Lemasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 23 Mar 1998 00:20:29 -0600 (CST) > > default, or my bo was broken. In any case, less was an excellent idea > for a default for manpage paging. Quite honestly I can't think of any DOS, Windows or OS/2 text file viewer prog

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