hamm installation- rescue disk kernel panic

1998-04-30 Thread Donald Harter Jr.
I was trying to install hamm. I booted the rescue disk and I got a kernel panic. (kernel panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 01:00) Here are the messages before the crash: partition check hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12, FAT0 .] [me=0x0,cs=0,hf=0,fs=0,fl=0,ds=0,de=0,da

Re: Free/OpenSource software?

1998-04-30 Thread Thomas Lakofski
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1. I am planning to write in Java. Does the fact that Sun seems to have > control over the language itself affect the ability to apply the GPL or > similar liscences to Java software? I don't believe the status of the language you code in affects wh

X session stays opened in utmp/wtmp

1998-04-30 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello friends, == could anybody help me with this problem? Every time when anybody logs himself off XWindow, finger, who and last report him as a still logged-on person, usually with a nonsensual idle time. Command w returns everytime that there are n users, but lists only n-1 of them.

Free/OpenSource software?

1998-04-30 Thread hospedales
Hi, I am planning to start to write a piece of software in the near future, and I am considering whether or not to make the source open when I do so. I would appreciate any advice on pros and cons of having the source open. I don't understand some free software people. To me comput

Re: xdm and shutdown

1998-04-30 Thread Thomas Lakofski
shutdown -h 0? just remember to save stuff first... On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Jorge Daniel Ruckj wrote: > Hi all. > > How I do a shutdown if I use xdm? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Instaling Hamm.

1998-04-30 Thread Liran Zvibel
Well this is interesting, but I don't have enough space for this, thanks, Liran Zvibel. --- http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Patrick Ouellette wrote: > I've found it comforting to have a backup of the system > just in case. > > As Will states, its not that difficult.

RE: Instaling Hamm.

1998-04-30 Thread Patrick Ouellette
I've found it comforting to have a backup of the system just in case. As Will states, its not that difficult. I use the following sequence: create new partition make the ext2 filesystem on the new partition mount the partition on /mnt/ cp -a //* /mnt/ su -c "rm -R //*" # be sure you wa

xdm and shutdown

1998-04-30 Thread Jorge Daniel Ruckj
Hi all. How I do a shutdown if I use xdm? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: linux shutdown

1998-04-30 Thread Stephen Carpenter
HAHA go ahead and use his system tho ;) sync;sync;halt is the same as sync;sync;shutdown -h now on most systems now (at least on both RedHat and Debian it is) Halt checks the current runlevel..and if the runlevel is not 0 then it executes shutdown -h now on its own...this is a saftey catch The OLD

Re: Instaling Hamm.

1998-04-30 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: > Please tell me, it doesn't seem logical. I want to change the size of > /usr and some other important partitions. You need a free partition -- essentially mount the free one, cp -a all the /usr files onto it, and delete the /usr partition, using the n

Re: linux shutdown

1998-04-30 Thread Joey Hess
Arunas Norvaisa wrote: > Have RTFMing and am using 'shutdown -r now' to restart my system. > BUT our system (Netware/Unix) admin (really old and experienced > 'wolf') have told me that he's using 'sync;sync;halt' and have tried > to persuade me to use 'his' command. That method is pretty dumb for

Re: Instaling Hamm.

1998-04-30 Thread Liran Zvibel
Please tell me, it doesn't seem logical. I want to change the size of /usr and some other important partitions. TIA, Liran. --- http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Will Lowe wrote: > On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: > > > Hello, > > I want to install Hamm, but going

SMP Kernel 2.0.33 compile errors

1998-04-30 Thread Pure Energy
Hi all, (Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], i'm currently off the list) My current system : Tyan TomcatIII Duel Board (S1563D) Pentium Class 430 HX 2 Pentium 200 Non-MMX processors 64 mgs ram (mixed 70s/60s unfortunatly) 120 mgs swap partition

Rmuser script?

1998-04-30 Thread Shaleh
DId anyone get a rmuser script created? -- --- How can you see, when your mind is not open? How can you think, when your eyes are closed? - Jason Bonham Band, "Ordinary Black and White" --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Lilo woes

1998-04-30 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I am an emacs user myself...when im in X anyway... but...debian has a few other cool editors... ae (which is part of the base and base disks) is tiny and very easy to use (unfortunatly the lastest version in 2.0 has some problems...partially due to slang -- which i just found out about a few minits

Re: COBOL?

1998-04-30 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Ive never seen any COBOL stuff...ive never even seen COBOL but its funny... just yesterday I was wondering to myself if there were any COBOL comilers for linux Then I had some really evil thoughts about learning COBOL and trying to convert the kernel over to COBOL...and after that point I just

Re: mars-nwe preliminary for slink

1998-04-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, May 01, 1998 at 12:55:21AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > I've uploaded a preliminary package for mars-nwe (at long last) > to my FTP server at ftp.rising.com.au, in directory /pub/hamish. Hello Hamish! Thank you very much for doing it (saves me some trouble 8-)! I'll get it and make some

Re: Lilo woes

1998-04-30 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Tristan Day wrote: > Thanks to everyone who gave opinions and advice on the HTML editor. I can't > stand 'vi' (the DOS to Linux HOWTO is right when it says that DOS users > probably won't like vi! Is there a good tutorial? the man page assumes you > know it well), so when I ge

Re: COBOL?

1998-04-30 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 12:42:38PM -0400, K. Claussen wrote: > 3. I was wondering if anyone knew of any COBOL packages available for > Linux? See http://pw2.netcom.com/~wmklein/cobolfaq.htm#Section34 Also, there's "cobcy" on sunsite.unc.edu + mirrors, which IIRC translates COBOL to C. HTH, Ray -

RE: COBOL?

1998-04-30 Thread K. Claussen
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Lewis, James M. wrote: Jim.. > COBOL! gag, choke.. Yes, my sentiments exactally.. However, since I need it to graduate, I guess it's an evil that I must put up with for now. I wanted to save trips running back and fourth to the lab. :) > Seriously, I don't know of a compil

RE: COBOL?

1998-04-30 Thread Lewis, James M.
COBOL! gag, choke.. Seriously, I don't know of a compiler but I have a few things for emacs 19.34. I picked a cobol mode (2 of them actually) off the net and hacked them up. Added support in hilit19. It's slow but pretty. Let me know if you need them. I don't know the language but I can tell

Re: Debian 2.0 Question

1998-04-30 Thread Stephen Carpenter
you knowsince I have started using linux...I think my system as crashed probably about 6 times give or take... most all fo them were hardware! Once I had exactly the problem you describe...my system was running... doing "its thing" and power went out (while I wasn't home) then came on again 2 d

COBOL?

1998-04-30 Thread K. Claussen
All.. Hello.. :) This message serves a few purposes, really.. 1. I wanted to introduce myself as being new to the list. I have been lurking around for the past week or so and I wanted to say hello. 2. I wanted to say that I have been running Debian for about 2 weeks now and I must say that I li

Re: /dev/ttyS0 permissions

1998-04-30 Thread C.J.LAWSON
What are the permissions on /dev/ttyS0 ? === In any war, the first casualty is the truth. --anon On Wed, 29 Apr 199

Re: network statistics

1998-04-30 Thread Dale Martin
Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way I can see how much information has been sent between my > computer and another computer? > > Thanks > -Paul There are various tools in the "netdiag" package that you can use to monitor network activity. Checkout "netwatch" in that package

perl: problem with s/// and variable interpolation

1998-04-30 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: perl Version: 5.004.04-3 I wrote a sample script whose behaviour seems strange to me. At least I can't find in the doc why it behaves so, nor what I should write to get the expected result. The sample script #!/usr/bin/perl $TRANSLATION = '\1;$2'; $str = "ab"; $str =~ s{(.)(.)}{$T

Re: iBCS compiling

1998-04-30 Thread Steve Izma
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Apr 30 08:57:49 1998 > Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 13:56:36 +0300 > Hi, > did set the SMP support in the CONFIG file correctly? > Cheers, Thomas Thanks, that did the trick. I thought I had read and set those options carefully earlier in the process, but I think I did the

Re: Printing from windows

1998-04-30 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Fri, May 01, 1998 at 01:04:10AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 1998 at 04:03:46AM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > > about how to write a filter that does nothing, I'll do that ... I'd make > > another printcap entry like this: > > > > raw|winprint:\ > > :lp=/dev/NULL:\ > > :i

Re: Debian 2.0 Question

1998-04-30 Thread Michael Acklin
At 10:58 AM 4/30/98 -0400, you wrote: > >I hate crashes/...had one too many myself > I did want to clear one thing up. It wasn't Debian that crashed. I had a power off/on that caused the crash. Apparently, sendmail was delivering a message right in the middle of the power spike and to

Re: ACK! SCSI Not WOrking

1998-04-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: [ snip ] : I don't have the manual for the card but... http://www.adaptec.com/support/overview/scsiha.html - you should be able to figure out how to find the manual from there. : if I look at the board itself i see jumpers (yes jumpers...I LOVE jumper

Re: Printing from windows

1998-04-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Apr 01, 1998 at 04:03:46AM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > about how to write a filter that does nothing, I'll do that ... I'd make > another printcap entry like this: > > raw|winprint:\ > :lp=/dev/NULL:\ > :if=/usr/sbin/rawprint: > > where /usr/sbin/rawprint just takes its input a

Re: Printing from windows

1998-04-30 Thread Will Lowe
> I have never found magicfilter to interfere with this though. I have > a PCL5 HP5L, and I print through samba to the same printer which I print > to on linux with lpr, with magic filter -- no problem. From memory > I did the same with my ESC2P bubblejet 20 before that. The problem is that my win

mars-nwe preliminary for slink

1998-04-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I've uploaded a preliminary package for mars-nwe (at long last) to my FTP server at ftp.rising.com.au, in directory /pub/hamish. This is 0.99pl8 which requires no patches to get running on libc6, unlike previous editions. Thanks to Marcus for letting me know about this, and for making me get aroun

Re: Quota on Mail systems

1998-04-30 Thread Chris
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Pete's mailing list account wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Chris wrote: > > > If a user receives a mail which puts them over softquota, with as a > local delivery agent: > > 1) deliver. User would receive their mail and go over softquota but with > zero grace per

Re: Debian 2.0 Question

1998-04-30 Thread aqy6633
> The question I have is looking at the /binary-i386 Disk section, there > all > the files and 2 I am not sure about. This is resc1440tecra.bin and > drv1440tecra.bin. What exactly is the "tecra"? Do I need it for installing > Debian 2.0? I checked the list archives and couldn't find anythin

RE: Debian 2.0 Question

1998-04-30 Thread Mark Ciciretti
The Tecra files are for the Toshiba Tecra series of laptops. I'm not really sure what is the difference between them and thee standard boot disks. You don't need to do a clean install. I just downloaded the hamm base packages and used dpkg to upgrade. Look at http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc

Re: Off Topic, Linus Torvalds.

1998-04-30 Thread DAVID B. TEAGUE
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > I have recently read a magazine about linux, and it mentioned the world's > first "knowing" of linux; A 1991 post to comp.os.minix from Linus > Torvalds. Would anyone have any idea if this is available, or even if it > was saved? Or even where I could

Debian 2.0 Question

1998-04-30 Thread Michael Acklin
Hello Everyone, I have been using Debian 1.31 for some time now, but had a bad crash last Monday and was going to go ahead and upgrade to Debian 2.0 from the Frozen Distribution. I know I am pre-mature but, thought this was a good time, seeing how my system is hosed as it is. I do have ba

Re: ACK! SCSI Not WOrking

1998-04-30 Thread Mark Ciciretti
Try setting the jumper to set the address to 340. I have an Adaptec 1522, which is basicaly the same card but with floppy support. This is the message I get from dmesg: aha152x: BIOS test: passed, auto configuration: ok, detected 1 controller(s) aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x340, IRQ=11, SCSI

Re: logging/syslog

1998-04-30 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, Paul Miller wrote: > > > I just noticed that mgetty is logging caller information to > /var/log/syslog.. Is there any way I can get mgetty to start logging to > something like /var/log/callers? No. (Well, yes, direct the *mgetty* log file into /var/log/callers, by changing policy.h and rec

libc5 Version von mesa für hamm?

1998-04-30 Thread Dirk Luetjens
Hallo, ich suche die mesa2 libraries in einer libc5 Version für ein hamm System. Hat jemand eine Idee? Dirk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sidewinders and Re: compiling joystick.o

1998-04-30 Thread David Wright
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Brian Servis wrote: > Corey Miller wrote: > > > > I'm trying to compile the module for joystick support, but when I > > make joystick.o and try to load it with insmod I get this error: > > [...] > > Check the Makefile, I think there is a variable in there that sets

Re: ACK! SCSI Not WOrking

1998-04-30 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Patrick Ouellette wrote: > Does you SCSI card have *gasp* jumpers to configure the interrupts Jumpers for both interrupts and IO adress...I had (previously to posting my first message even) check /proc/interrupts found that 11 and 9 are free interrupts for me...and the board suports both (it also

Re: Quota on Mail systems

1998-04-30 Thread Pete's mailing list account
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Chris wrote: > I don't think I'll hold my breath - but I will switch over to procmail to > my MDA. Can you give me any information on setting procmail up as the > MDA? Or is it fairly straight forward (ie. I should just read the > sendmail man page) I would not recommend t

RE: ACK! SCSI Not WOrking

1998-04-30 Thread Patrick Ouellette
Does you SCSI card have *gasp* jumpers to configure the interrupts (or software)? I get similar messages if I put the wrong irq in the AHA152x module load line. If it is one of those plug-n-pray cards there used to be some utils that might help, iirc. Pat Ouellette Email: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: HP Laserjet 4000 T

1998-04-30 Thread Mario Filipe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 30-Apr-98 Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 11:08:29AM +0100, Mario Filipe wrote: >> The bosses arround here have bought one of these. Our problem now is that >> when >> printing the printer holds the last page (FF missing). Question: What is th

Re: compiling joystick.o

1998-04-30 Thread Brian Servis
Corey Miller wrote: > > I'm trying to compile the module for joystick support, but when I > make joystick.o and try to load it with insmod I get this error: > > mstie# insmod joystick.o > joystick.o: kernel-module version mismatch > joystick.o was compiled for kernel version 2.0.3

Re: green monitor functions for the console?

1998-04-30 Thread Thomas Lakofski
I have this in a file called `/etc/rc.boot/consoledpms': #!/bin/sh setterm -blank 15 -powersave powerdown I couldn't get it to do anything other than 'suspend' on the console, and 'off' in X... probably depends on your videocard and monitor. -thomas On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > F

RE: Quota on Mail systems

1998-04-30 Thread Patrick Ouellette
IMHO quotas on /var/spool are a bad idea. They are only effective (as you have discovered) if the user owns the file there - many processes (news, mail, etc.) put things in spool with the ownership other than the user who the file is for. If you do get say all the processes to put the file in spo

Re: diamond viper card and xfree86

1998-04-30 Thread Frank Barknecht
Lewis, James M. hat gesagt: // Lewis, James M. wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone know if a diamond viper 330 card is supported > under XFree86? If it is, can I run it with a bo system? > I think this is a card with a Riva128-Chip. If so, take a look at http://www.suse.de Suse has developed a X-S

Re: Printing from windows

1998-04-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 06:57:35AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > The solution then is to set up a printer in printcap that does not use > magicfilter but instead just passes the raw data straight to the > printer. > Then use this printer as the share printer exported by samba. Windows > is > alrea

Re: linux shutdown

1998-04-30 Thread Lorens Kockum
In debian.user was writ: > > And - what are dangers of so-called 'three-finger salute' which is >described as The Very Bad Thing (tm) and absolute no-no? It is? Hasn't been so for a *very* long time! /etc/inittab: # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t20

Re: HP Laserjet 4000 T

1998-04-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 11:08:29AM +0100, Mario Filipe wrote: > The bosses arround here have bought one of these. Our problem now is that when > printing the printer holds the last page (FF missing). Question: What is the > right filter for this one, and how can we force the FF? I recommend instal

hamm's last soaks up 9MB RAM

1998-04-30 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! I recently updated an 386 with 8MB to hamm and after fixing utmp/wtmp I ran last too check if everything is ok. It seemed to do nothing, neither ^C nor ^Z worked. I opened another ssh-connection and ps showed me root 210 6.9 49.5 9952 3400 p0 D13:39 0:02 last After a while la

linux shutdown

1998-04-30 Thread Arunas Norvaisa
Dear all, I'm confused... Have RTFMing and am using 'shutdown -r now' to restart my system. BUT our system (Netware/Unix) admin (really old and experienced 'wolf') have told me that he's using 'sync;sync;halt' and have tried to persuade me to use 'his' command. What is your opinion as I'm re

Re: Off Topic, Linus Torvalds.

1998-04-30 Thread Lorens Kockum
In debian-user Michael Beattie wrote: >I have recently read a magazine about linux, and it mentioned the world's >first "knowing" of linux; A 1991 post to comp.os.minix from Linus >Torvalds. Do you yearn for the days when men were men, and wrote their own device drivers... > From: [EMAIL PR

Re: iBCS compiling

1998-04-30 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, did set the SMP support in the CONFIG file correctly? Cheers, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Lilo woes

1998-04-30 Thread Tristan Day
Thanks to everyone who gave opinions and advice on the HTML editor. I can't stand 'vi' (the DOS to Linux HOWTO is right when it says that DOS users probably won't like vi! Is there a good tutorial? the man page assumes you know it well), so when I get everything working again (see below) I think I

Re: Printing from windows

1998-04-30 Thread Brian Servis
Will Lowe wrote: > > This DOES work: > 1) make some windows thing (ie. MS Word) print to a file > 2) ftp the file to the linux host in BINARY mode > 3) killoff lpd > 4) become user "lp" > 5) do "cat filename > /dev/lp1" > > it prints just fine this way (even with all the crazy control characters

Re: Off Topic, Linus Torvalds.

1998-04-30 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 11:29:43PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: > I have recently read a magazine about linux, and it mentioned the world's > first "knowing" of linux; A 1991 post to comp.os.minix from Linus > Torvalds. A number of early Linux posts from Linus are available as part of the Linus v

Re: bouncing mail with procmail

1998-04-30 Thread Lorens Kockum
In debian-user you wrote: > >How can I bounce mail with procmail? I've tried using |exit 111, but it >complains about not being able to open the exit mail file... You need to put 'EXITCODE=xxx' instead. >Here is my current .procmailrc: Here is mine :-) I use qmail, so YMMV. reject-spam prints a

Re: kde dont work

1998-04-30 Thread Alain Toussaint
Hello all,i got it working finaly,it's awesome,i like it very much and i look stable on my setup (16 MB ram,48 MB swap). thanks !! Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Driver for Diamond Fire GL 100 PRO

1998-04-30 Thread Mike Holliday
Hi, Download The Xserver/driver in the latest XF86_SVGA server, i.e. in XF86 3.3.2. I'm not sure if that is available as a bo set of packages. If it isn't just download the Linux_ix86 XF86-3.3.2 binaries (not the glibc ones) from any XF86 mirror. The glibc XF86 binaries are for Linux libc6/glib

Off Topic, Linus Torvalds.

1998-04-30 Thread Michael Beattie
I have recently read a magazine about linux, and it mentioned the world's first "knowing" of linux; A 1991 post to comp.os.minix from Linus Torvalds. Would anyone have any idea if this is available, or even if it was saved? Or even where I could start to look for it? Sheesh.. I ask TOO much.. :)

Re: KDE Beta-4 with bo?

1998-04-30 Thread John Wingfield
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Tempsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >On 29 Apr , John Wingfield wrote: > >> Could someone please explain to me what "bo" and "hamm" actually are? >> Thanks! > >Codewords for different versions of the distribution, >bo == 1.3(.1rX) (currently the "stable" distr

green monitor functions for the console?

1998-04-30 Thread Paul Miller
Is there a program, similar to xset, that can set the green monitor functions for the console? I'd like my monitor to turn off after a certain amount of inactivity. Thanks -Paul --- Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public PGP key at http://paul.3dillusion.com/pgpkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

bouncing mail with procmail

1998-04-30 Thread Paul Miller
How can I bounce mail with procmail? I've tried using |exit 111, but it complains about not being able to open the exit mail file... Here is my current .procmailrc: LOGFILE=$HOME/mail.log :0 * ! ^(FROM|TO).*tcimet.net |exit 111 :0 * ^(FROM|TO).*tcimet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] This it not on my se

Re: PPP problem using hamm

1998-04-30 Thread David Wright
On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, calvin wrote: > when i type in pon it dials my ISP and logs in fine then like 30 seconds > later it disconnects heres what it says when i type in plog > pppd[129] Serial connection established > pppd[129] Using interface ppp0 > pppd[129] LPC: Timeout sending config-requests >

Driver for Diamond Fire GL 100 PRO

1998-04-30 Thread Mircea-David MORAR
Hello, Does anybody know where could I find a driver for a graphic card Diamond Fire GL 100 Pro? I can't use X on my machine because the card is not supported. Many thanks, Mircea == Mircea-David Morar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Research Assi

logging/syslog

1998-04-30 Thread Paul Miller
I just noticed that mgetty is logging caller information to /var/log/syslog.. Is there any way I can get mgetty to start logging to something like /var/log/callers? That would make it easier to have a program watch that file and execute a command when a new line appears than digging through the

Re: KDE Beta-4 with bo?

1998-04-30 Thread John Wingfield
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin.MPG.DE>, "Heiko R. Selber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >"Rev. Joseph Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >-+ On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 04:22:08PM +0200, Heiko R. Selber wrote: >-+ > >-+ > I heard that the new KDE Beta-4 was released. Unfortunately, it seems >-+ th

Re: display postscript

1998-04-30 Thread jdassen
On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 09:57:27PM -0400, David B Wilson wrote: > Is there any sort of display postscript support in Linux? Yes. The ghostscript author was contracted to produce Display PostScript support for gnustep (see http://www.gnustep.org/GoodNews/GeneralNews.html); the "dgs" package in hamm

Re: recompiling kernel

1998-04-30 Thread G. Crimp
On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 11:32:27AM -0400, Scott Ellis wrote: [snip] > > Somewhere in usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/compressed there is a file > > that is invoking objdump (whatever that might be) with an option `-k'. > > make zdisk and make zImage say this is an illegal option. [snip] > > >

HP Laserjet 4000 T

1998-04-30 Thread Mario Filipe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi The bosses arround here have bought one of these. Our problem now is that when printing the printer holds the last page (FF missing). Question: What is the right filter for this one, and how can we force the FF? Thanks Mario Filipe [EMAIL PR

Re: /dev/ttyS0 permissions

1998-04-30 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Bob Hilliard wrote: > /dev/ttyS0 should have 660 permissions. I frequently find my > /dev/ttyS1 has changed to 640. This can be caused by pppd terminating > abnormally, and perhaps by other events. Is there some place in the documentation where one can see what the per

Re: Exim Problem

1998-04-30 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
>> > >> Do you have this in /etc/host.conf? >> > >> >> > >> order hosts,bind >> > >> >> > >> this should tell DNS to look in /etc/hosts before looking into named >> > >> (or at least this is what I think it should do :) >> > >> > Yep that is what is in my /etc/host.conf file. and it still don't

Re: Boot Disk Failures

1998-04-30 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello Dale! On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, G.Dale Miller wrote: > I am having trouble with the boot disks from April. I boot up with the > rescue floppy > and it start up with the loading root... etc.. Eventually it says > boot failed press and > key to try again. Ar

Error when booting

1998-04-30 Thread Julian Easterling
I mistakenly sent the following to one person when I meant to send it to the list. To Oliver, sorry that you have to read this twice. Message Follows: I did that and I it still won't boot from the hard drive. I think these type of problems is what made me give up Linux last year when I tr

Re: TCP/IP Network +WIN95

1998-04-30 Thread Johan Berglund
>I have a local network that consists of 2 win95 and 1 debian box. >The debian box has an isdn connection to the Internet. >There is one Problem: >The win95 boxes make the debian box dial exactly dial every 5 minutes, >each. This is getting very expensive. I have experienced this problem to. It wa

Re: MUTT...the final configs

1998-04-30 Thread Norbert Veber
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 12:57:02AM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > As per that big pine discussion I decided to try mutt... > I used it for about 5 mins...and think I would like to continue using it. > I believe I have the version from non-us (a coupla week

kde dont work

1998-04-30 Thread Alain Toussaint
i installed kde tonight,also started it but it gave me these error messages: kwm: cannot connect to X server ~$ kcmbell: cannot connect to X server kpanel: cannot connect to X server kbgndwm: cannot connect to X server krootwm: cannot connect to X server kcminput: cannot connect to X server Starti

Re: /dev/ttyS0 permissions

1998-04-30 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 11:14:06PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: > > > /dev/ttyS0 should have 660 permissions. I frequently find my > > > /dev/ttyS1 has changed to 640. This can be caused by pppd terminating > > > abnormally, and perhaps by other events. > > > > I knew it, I knew it, I knew it

an exim expert, please REPOST

1998-04-30 Thread Marco Frattola
Sorry to repost, but got no answer, so maybe this message got lost .. Hi all, I'm trying to switch from sendmail to exim, and I'm facing some problems. I have a small net and a dialup connection to internet. Since only some accounts on one machine are enabled to internet mail usage, I'd like to re

MUTT...the final configs

1998-04-30 Thread Stephen Carpenter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- As per that big pine discussion I decided to try mutt... I used it for about 5 mins...and think I would like to continue using it. I believe I have the version from non-us (a coupla weeks ago I burned a CD at work with the entire non-us portion of debian on it...

Re: DNS/Non-authoritative answer trouble

1998-04-30 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I get the same thing... I don't think this needs to be "fixed" I believe this is correct... in any case I have never seen it be wrong even whan it says that... have you seen any wrong entries with it? might be a good idea to seek out what "non-authoritative" means before trying to fix it ;) -Steve

compiling joystick.o

1998-04-30 Thread Corey Miller
I'm trying to compile the module for joystick support, but when I make joystick.o and try to load it with insmod I get this error: mstie# insmod joystick.o joystick.o: kernel-module version mismatch joystick.o was compiled for kernel version 2.0.32 while this kernel is vers

Re: lib problem with netscape 4.05

1998-04-30 Thread deniz
Hi, > "Alex" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Any ideas? >> >> Thanks in advance. Alex> Install xlib6 (not xlib6g) and libc5 packages. I think list is too long. libc5, xlib6, xpm4.7 and now: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$/usr/local/netscape/netscape /usr/local/netscape/netscape

Re: TCP/IP Network +WIN95

1998-04-30 Thread Lee Bradshaw
You could try running tcpdump to see which packets are causing the dialing. If you can make all the machines idle, there shouldn't be too much traffic. I would guess the packets are from netbios ports on the windows machine to the DNS port on you DNS server. I had to block ports 137-139 for both

Re: TCP/IP Network +WIN95

1998-04-30 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I dunno what to tell you about the Win95 boxes and dialing every 5 mins :( I used to do it this way: I had a linux server with no monitor (oh sure its a minor detail... until you need to reboot it and find out hours later there was a bootable CD in the CD drive (but I digress)) I would telnet to th

Re: lib problem with netscape 4.05

1998-04-30 Thread deniz
Hi, > "Noah" == Noah L Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Noah> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 29 Apr 1998 Noah> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$/usr/local/netscape/netscape >> /usr/local/netscape/netscape: can't load library 'libXt.so.6' >>

Re: /dev/ttyS0 permissions

1998-04-30 Thread Bob Hilliard
"Rev. Joseph Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /dev/ttyS0 should have 660 permissions. I frequently find my > > /dev/ttyS1 has changed to 640. This can be caused by pppd terminating > > abnormally, and perhaps by other events. > > I knew it, I knew it, I knew it! heh > > Sounds like

Re: display postscript

1998-04-30 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi David B Wilson; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > Is there any sort of display postscript support in Linux? > David Maybe ghostview_*.deb or gv_*.deb? Regards DamirN -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Linux and W95 coexist?

1998-04-30 Thread shaul
/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Partition.gz could be helpful (attached to your email). > -- [ From: Herb Howe * EMC.Ver #2.5.3 ] -- > > Just received Debian Linux on the LSL CD which will be used on a shared > Pentium which already has Windows 95 installed. The installation > instructions look straight forw

Re: Quota on Mail systems

1998-04-30 Thread Paul Miller
On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Pete's mailing list account wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Chris wrote: > > > This quota works fine and enforces the limit correctly when a user > > attempts to put any files in that filesystem via the shell - but when a > > user recieves mail it is placed into their mail f

Re: [SOLVED] DNS/Non-authoritative answer trouble

1998-04-30 Thread Paul Miller
I figured it out with a little playing around.. I guess BIND has gotten a little more strict with its format because I never had this problem before. Oh well, it's fixed now. -Paul On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > > When I use nslookup to resolve my DNS name, it gives a 'Non-authori

Re: Quota on Mail systems

1998-04-30 Thread Pete's mailing list account
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Chris wrote: > This quota works fine and enforces the limit correctly when a user > attempts to put any files in that filesystem via the shell - but when a > user recieves mail it is placed into their mail file - regardless of their > disk quota. So affectively the mail syst

Off Topic: Toddler property laws - Humor

1998-04-30 Thread George R
Forwarded from: HENRY L. BUNCH,FIC([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Toddler Property Laws 1. If I like it, it's mine. 2. If it's in my hand, it's mine. 3. If I can take it from you, it's mine. 4. If I had it a little while ago, it's mine. 5. If it's mine, it must never appear to be yours in any way

display postscript

1998-04-30 Thread David B Wilson
Is there any sort of display postscript support in Linux? David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /dev/ttyS0 permissions

1998-04-30 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 08:40:35PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: > > /dev/ttyS0 should have 660 permissions. I frequently find my > > /dev/ttyS1 has changed to 640. This can be caused by pppd terminating > > abnormally, and perhaps by other even

iBCS compiling

1998-04-30 Thread Steve Izma
I'm trying to compile iBCS for kernel 2.0.30. I've gotten the source code tar file: ibcs_970212.orig.tar from the August 1997 Info Magic disks. The code compiles easily enough and installs. Using insmod iBCS does not produce a kernel mis-match, but the loading fails with: /lib/modules/misc/iBCS: u

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