Michael Acklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I really believe this is being caused by a reverse lookup or lookup from
> ftp.debian.org. I can log onto other ftp sites, ie sunsite, without any
> problems. But would rather download the packages via Debian.
I can confirm that ftp.debian.
On Fri, 1 May 1998, Ionut Borcoman at debian wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks to all for the quick answer. The
>
> $ emacs -batch -q -no-site-file -f batch-byte-compile
>
> is what I've wanted. But this leads me to another question: now, as a 'system
> adminstrator" of my own PC, I just wonder which is
Is there a Debian package to automate the installation of
StarOffice 4.0? Thanks in advance.
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Hi Daniel; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
>
> I have a 486dx4/100 system that has both PCI and VLB on the same board.
> I have Caldera currently running on the machine. The SCSI controller on
> it is a Adaptec 2840 VLB (Rev E, btw)
>
> Basically.. it hangs.. and gives errors something like
Hi,
Thanks to all for the quick answer. The
$ emacs -batch -q -no-site-file -f batch-byte-compile
is what I've wanted. But this leads me to another question: now, as a 'system
adminstrator" of my own PC, I just wonder which is the right way to add files
to emacs and to make them available to th
Liran Zvibel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
LZ> What do you have to say about $SUBJECT?
LZ> I think that in that way the /usr partition cant get currupted.
It's probably a good preventative measure, in the same way that not
doing everything as root is. The system should still work properly.
The onl
Hello!
What do you have to say about $SUBJECT?
I think that in that way the /usr partition cant get currupted.
Tanks,
Liran.
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I'm trying to build the python ppgplot module (two p's) on a
Debian 2.0 (frozen) system. I've been able to compile it, but
when I try to use the module, I get the following error:
Traceback (innermost last):
File "examples/tstsimple.py", line 3, in ?
from ppgplot import *
ImportErro
On Fri, 1 May 1998, Ionut Borcoman at debian wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I ermember that I've read somewhere that, if you compile the .el files,
> EMACS will start more rapidly. But I don't remember where I've read
> that. :-(
>
> Can somebody tell me how to compile the .el files EMACS load at start-up
> ?
On Fri, 1 May 1998, Graham Pople wrote:
> >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 forward with one exception. It is not clear
> >whether the installation routine is de
Hi,
Hopefully someone has this off the top of their head. I'm trying to get a
modem going from ttyS0.
As soon as I power up the CPU, the send data and receive data light on the
modem go on. I'm unable to do anything with the modem. If I run
statserial /dev/ttyS0, the line clears and the modem sh
Hi,
I have had the same proble with the time, both with bo and with hamm.
I am from Romania which is GMT+2. I had set the PC CMOS time to GMT and
try the Europe/Bucharest zone. It gave me an GMT+3 hour. I've try GMT+2
and the system returned me a GMT-2 hour. Now the system is set to GMT-1
and the
>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 forward with one exception. It is not clear
>whether the installation routine is designed to overwrite what is
>already on the hard
Hi,
I ermember that I've read somewhere that, if you compile the .el files,
EMACS will start more rapidly. But I don't remember where I've read
that. :-(
Can somebody tell me how to compile the .el files EMACS load at start-up
? Do I have to compile each of them by hand ?
TIA,
Ionutz
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Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
> "Jorge Daniel Ruckj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi all.
> >
> > How I do a shutdown if I use xdm?
> >
> > Thanks
>
> Are you aware that even while using xdm one can press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to
> get to a text console? I find a surprising number of linux users
> unaw
Hi,
When printing from BSDlpd on SG6.4 to lprng 3.2.1-1 on debian 1.3.1
the queue on the SG box reports that the queue on debian:
no space on remote; wating for queue to drain
and the queue on debian reports all OK and job recevied. the BSDlpd
queue then goes off line a jobs start mounting up.
"Jorge Daniel Ruckj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all.
>
> How I do a shutdown if I use xdm?
>
> Thanks
Are you aware that even while using xdm one can press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to
get to a text console? I find a surprising number of linux users
unaware of this fact.
>From the text console, you c
Thanks for your info,
I thought it might be something like that.
Is there anything I can do to fix this? Is there some file I need to
change to transmit the correct lookup.
Again thanks for your help
Mike
At 11:32 AM 5/1/98 -0400, you wrote:
>This is due to tcp wra
This is due to tcp wrappers on the ftp server of ftp.debian.org. In
the /etc/hosts.deny they probably had the line 'ALL: PARANOID'.
This will disconnect hosts with name/address discrepencies. For
instance, you connect as 'myhost.ml.org'. ftp.debian.org looks up the
address for 'myhost.ml.org' a
Hello,
Well I got the basic hamm from disks working fine last night. But when i
started to download the rest of the packages from ftp.debian.org, I got a
"Connection Refused" message or something similar.
I really believe this is being caused by a reverse lookup or lookup from
ftp
Make an /etc/lilo.conf with
boot=/dev/hda6
root=/dev/hda6
compact
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
delay=0
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
read-only
Rick wrote:
> HI all,
> Yes i know this is going to seem a really dumb question, but here goes
> anyhow...
>
> I am using the Boot mana
On Fri, May 01, 1998 at 11:32:59AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 06:50:14PM -0400, Thomas Lakofski wrote:
> > If you suspected this, there are ways in which it can be shown that your
> > code has been stolen, as was done when Microsoft stole Stacker technology
> > and calle
>
> I am using the Boot manager that comes with partition magic 3 (IBM thingy),
> and in order to boot linux it requires that Lilo is installed on the
> partition to boot. Quickly and easily, how do i install Lilo on /dev/hda6
> (thats the partition i want to boot) with only one boot option (linux
Hi Steve,
> No I am not braver than you
> I didn't see any such configs when i did it (kernel 2.0.29...but they shoul
> dbe there
> if you see them I guess)
> anyway I will look again when I can but...
> I didn't see anything
Sorry, I gave you bad advice. :( I have an Adaptec 2940UW which uses
HI all,
Yes i know this is going to seem a really dumb question, but here goes
anyhow...
I am using the Boot manager that comes with partition magic 3 (IBM thingy),
and in order to boot linux it requires that Lilo is installed on the
partition to boot. Quickly and easily, how do i install Lilo on
No I am not braver than you
I didn't see any such configs when i did it (kernel 2.0.29...but they shoul dbe
there
if you see them I guess)
anyway I will look again when I can but...
I didn't see anything
-Steve
Ossama Othman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > > I'm not sure if this will help, but have you tried
Hi,
> > I'm not sure if this will help, but have you tried tweaking some of the
> > SCSI low level driver settings when you configure your kernel?
>
> no I havn't...I supose I should take a look at the source code for the
> kernelSCSI
> drivers
I meant the SCSI low level driver settings when yo
actually thats good...use the new drive exclusively but...
don't "use th eold drive for garbage"
old hard drives are great...good for lofting monitors once you get a few of them
-Steve
Ben Pfaff wrote:
>I am going to configurate a linux machine. But I don't know if it is =
>good to use a
Ossama Othman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure if this will help, but have you tried tweaking some of the
> SCSI low level driver settings when you configure your kernel?
no I havn't...I supose I should take a look at the source code for the
kernelSCSI
drivers
> Also, is
> your kernel configured t
Hi,
> Also, now I have lilo installed on the HDD and I cannot remove it. I've
> try "fdisk /mbr" from dos, but with no succes. Does anybody have a
> suggestion ?
Like I said to someone else, RTFM! :) LILO stores a copy of the original
MBR in /boot. Read the manual in /usr/doc/lilo for details
I am going to configurate a linux machine. But I don't know if it is =
good to use a old 120 MB drive for swap. I would like to know if it is =
good to use that drive for swap and a new WD for /. The new drive is =
around 4GB so I could use the new drive for swap too and the old one for
Hi!
I am going to configurate a linux machine. But I don't know if it is good to
use a old 120 MB drive for swap. I would like to know if it is good to use that
drive for swap and a new WD for /. The new drive is around 4GB so I could use
the new drive for swap too and the old one for garbage. I
> > 2. Can anyone suggest how I could restore NT as the default boot?
If fdisk /mbr doesn't work try to RTFM! :) Just kidding. Actually, LILO
stores the original MBR in /boot. Read the LILO docs in /usr/doc/lilo to
get detailed instructions on which file to "dd" and what dd flags are
needed.
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Yann Dirson wrote:
> 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 = "a
Hi,
I'm not sure if this will help, but have you tried tweaking some of the
SCSI low level driver settings when you configure your kernel? Also, is
your kernel configured to support tape drives?
-Ossama
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Hi!
Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I've got a Sun Netra I5, with serial console only. The current Debian
> boot disks don't like the serial console, so I used RedHat's instead.
> Now I've got this Netra Linux box :)
AFAIK there is enhanced serial console support in 2.1.*. But don't forge
Hi,
I was looking for more than a month to see the hamm in the stable. But
this didn't happened so I 've taken a deep breath, downloaded the hole
hamm from a local mirror and burned 2 CD with hamm, contrib, non-US and
non-free. I've decided to make a clean install, especially because I
have separa
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Tristan Day wrote:
[snip]
>
> So my questions are as follows:
>
> 1. Where can I find a good tutorial for vi?
I liked the papers by the authors of vi and ex
available at
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/BSD/manuals/
with names usd.15.vi.ps.Z and usd.16.ex.ps.Z. Most intr
I am trying to get Maxwell to work but do not have fonts installed
correctly.
I've got 75dpi installed in the default location for Debian 1.3 - Not
what Maxwell wants.
Maxwell is looking for Type1 fonts and its setup provides symbolic
links to them in .../fonts/Type1.
Where do I get the Type1 fo
Michael Beattie wrote:
> > swap
> > /
> > /boot
> > /etc
> > /var
> > /tmp
>
> I'm not sure, but I believe the above must be on the same drive...
> /boot and /etc do...
/boot does not (I've had /boot be a symlink to a dos partition (don't
ask ;-)).
swap doesn't, of course.
/var doesn't:
/dev/h
-Original Message-
From: Thomas Lakofski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Debian User
Date: Friday, 1 May 1998 03:13:pm
Subject: Re: biff/new mail - blink LED indicators on keyboard
>You might want to try this instead:
>
>http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net/
>
>it's
Has anyone else had problems with cron since version cron_3.0pl1-45.deb was
installed into hamm ?
The following error messages from crom were in my mailbox this morning.
Subject :Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> root run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily
Message body : /bin/sh: root: command not found
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Ok I got a differt SCSI card...the only one I could find in a reasonable
price range locally was an Adaptec 1520 ...it is suported by the
152x driver I should hope...
here is the problem...
it coems up..in SCSI Bios and with jumpers I have set:
IRQ: 10 (also tri
I have a 486dx4/100 system that has both PCI and VLB on the same board.
I have Caldera currently running on the machine. The SCSI controller on
it is a Adaptec 2840 VLB (Rev E, btw)
Basically.. it hangs.. and gives errors something like "scsi0 spurrious
intterupt" etc I'm using a boot disk t
No, it's a DOS program, just opop it on disk w/ DOS on it, clone from disk
to disk.
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote:
>
> hmm... I didn't see it in dselect.. is it a Linux program?
>
> I think I'll want to enlarge some of my partitons too.. I think the main
> thing is writing LILO to th
I have an old 486 with a few hard drives in it that I want to use as a
server. I'd like to store debian-packaged apps such as gcc, x11, xemacs etc
on the server, yet keep some functionality on my local drive so I don't
need the server all the time.
what is the best way to do this under debian? I t
I just tried it and tleds works the same as bl... it only works with the
tty is was executed on...
-Paul
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Plutonically Incorrect wrote:
> No, I'm saying it might help you, maybe you can modify it to check your
> mail every couple o fminutes and have it blink... who knows.
>
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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 L
Installing Debian hangs on "Loading root.bin" (4 dots) from the
resc1440 disk. This is hapenning on AST Ascentia 900N (486/75/20Mb)
laptop. I tried several diskettes, they are formatted in the same
physical drive (under DOS, I used rawrite2 to copy the images to
diskettes).
What is weird that
No, I'm saying it might help you, maybe you can modify it to check your
mail every couple o fminutes and have it blink... who knows.
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote:
>
> ... I don't see how that would work as a new mail/biff type program...
> are you saying that i should run that program
hmm... I didn't see it in dselect.. is it a Linux program?
I think I'll want to enlarge some of my partitons too.. I think the main
thing is writing LILO to the new drive so that it'll boot as /dev/hdaX,
allowing me to move it from /dev/hdd to /dev/hda...
-Paul
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Plutonically
... I don't see how that would work as a new mail/biff type program...
are you saying that i should run that program when I have new mail?
-Paul
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Plutonically Incorrect wrote:
> There is a program called TLedz (or Tleds) that would monitor any TCP
> stack (eth0, ppp0, etc) a
Ghost would be right up your alley
Ghost copies a hard drive (no matter what OS) by cylinders. and it doesnt
matter if it's cloning from a smaller HD to a bigger HD.
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote:
>
> I just got a new hard drive, and I'm wondering what I need to do to move
> the root
There is a program called TLedz (or Tleds) that would monitor any TCP
stack (eth0, ppp0, etc) and have the lights blink to the console even if
you were logged off. You could it up so that it would blink and stay lit
at a given mS, each blink would correspond to a tcp packet coming in...
I dont
I just got a new hard drive, and I'm wondering what I need to do to move
the root and other Linux partitions to the new drive? Most importantly,
LILO! Currently I boot off /dev/hda3 and I'm wanting to replace that hard
drive with a new one... which can temporarily replace the cdrom drive while
I
You might want to try this instead:
http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net/
it's a little lcd display going for about $70 which will show you all
kinds of system information, including whether you have mail, etc.
-thomas
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote:
> From: Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
Here is the scenario:
A teacher at school recently acquired a SparcBook 3 w/ 32 megs of ram and
a 520 meg HD (http://www.unixpac.com.au/vendors/tadpole/s3.html)
He was selling it for his friend (His friend works for a big company, when
the company upgrades, they give their machines to employees f
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Thats not exactly true (as I pointed out earlier but I
might have accidently not
sent my response ot the list)
actually sync;sync;halt would work fine...under ideal conditions :)
but...under debian linux (and redhat) it will work fine
in fatcyou can just for
Anyone know how I could have a cool LED animation when new mail arrives
(when I'm logged in or not)? Something like a bouncing effect for the
first couple seconds and then have the scroll lock blink once every five
minutes or so...
I have a program called 'bl' that does make the keyboard lights
Is there a way to compute a sun-style checksum on a debian machine?
(sum on linux and the suns produces different numbers)
David
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On Fri, 1 May 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> But weren't Microsoft found to have breached Stac's patent, rather than
> stolen actual code? I think actual code would be harder to prove
> than infringement of a patent.
Hmmm, from what I remember they had just lifted whole code segments from
Stacker
At 14:37 -0500 1998-04-29, Nathan E Norman wrote:
>Now for the hashed over part. Is there a sane and reasonable way to
>either convert an existing RedHat machine to Debian, or to start the
>Debian install from what I have now?
project/experimental/dpkg_*_.nondebbin.tar.gz
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I'm definitely going to try to attend this meeting!
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Our next regular OCLUG meeting
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 08:09:51PM -0400, Colin Telmer wrote:
> I have recently discovered that some mail being sent to my machine is
> being denied by smtpd due to a host/ip mismatch. I value the security but
> need to know this is happening. I have missed some very important mail
> today because
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 06:50:14PM -0400, Thomas Lakofski wrote:
> If you suspected this, there are ways in which it can be shown that your
> code has been stolen, as was done when Microsoft stole Stacker technology
> and called it Doublespace in DOS 6.2. The risk of being caught is usually
> enou
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?
You are a masochist. =p =>
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On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 02:37:00PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> Now for the hashed over part. Is there a sane and reasonable
> way to either convert an existing RedHat machine to Debian, or
> to start the Debian install from what I have now? Remember, I
> can't use the Debian boot disk. (I t
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 07:01:44AM -0400, Paul Miller 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... Here is my
> current .procmailrc:
>
> LOGFILE=$HOME/mail.log
> :0
> * ! ^(FROM|TO).*tcimet.net
Something else that may be relevant to this thread is mgetty.conf. Mine
certainly messes with /dev/ttySx.
# use these options to make the /dev/tty-device owned by "uucp.uucp"
# and mode "rw-rw-r--" (0664). *LEADING ZERO NEEDED!*
port-owner uucp
port-group uucp
# port-owner dialout
# port-group
I have recently discovered that some mail being sent to my machine is
being denied by smtpd due to a host/ip mismatch. I value the security but
need to know this is happening. I have missed some very important mail
today because of it (don't know why I decided to check /var/log/daemon.log
just now
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