Re: Supressing duplicate email

1998-05-07 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 11:21:23AM -0700, Mike Schmitz wrote: > Does anyone have a procmail recipe to supress duplicate email? (Useful when > subscribed to more than one Debian list). man 5 procmailex There is such an animal to be found there. => pgpbfu8QErHbC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to build Debian Linux cluster?

1998-05-07 Thread Kenneth L. Summers
> Hi, Ken! > > I post this message again, as there were some problems with listserver. I think it might have gotten lost at this end... we have a non-Linux mail server :) > > component in the cluster within 2 hours. I have since found out listening > > to this list that the dpkg utility helps t

Re: Supressing duplicate email

1998-05-07 Thread Petra, Kevin J Poorman
On Thu, 7 May 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote: > On Thu, 7 May 1998, Mike Schmitz wrote: > > : Does anyone have a procmail recipe to supress duplicate email? (Useful when > : subscribed to more than one Debian list). > > It's widely spread on the Internet: > > ## ELIMINATES DUPLICATE MESSAGES

Re: Compile Problems

1998-05-07 Thread Harry Tuttle
Thank you very much Remco, I am going to download it now. I see your name a lot on the list. Will let you know if it works. Again thanks Harry On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 12:12:56AM +0200, Remco van de Meent wrote: > On Thu, 7 May 1998, Harry Tuttle wrote: > > : What package contains

Re: Compile Problems

1998-05-07 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Thu, 7 May 1998, Harry Tuttle wrote: : What package contains the "crt1.o". I am at a loss trying to : figure this one out. Any help would be greatly appreciated. It's in the libc[56]-dev package. -Remco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

WU-FTP & Shadow Passwords

1998-05-07 Thread GBD
I installed Debian 1.3.1 (kernel 2.0.29) on a machine Iintend to use a s a public FTP/Web server. When I ran the install program, I selected to enable Shadow passwords. I also installed the package WU-FTP as an alternative to the standard ftp daemon. NOW..."real" users cannot log in via FTP, an

RE: Problem with my shell

1998-05-07 Thread Bob McGowan
-Original Message- From: Jeff Shilt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 07, 1998 2:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: recipient list not shown; @[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problem with my shell > > > > On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 02:08:36AM -0400, Jeff Shilt wrote: > > > I wrote

ppp, nethack problems in hamm

1998-05-07 Thread Britton
Two small bugs I have noticed in hamm: pon command only seems to work for root now, not even users who are in dialout group. Is there some other group they need to be members of now? nethack doesn't start up, complaining about read or write permissions on critical files. anyone else had these

Re: Smail aliases include file

1998-05-07 Thread Peter Prohaska
On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 09:43:40PM +1200, Tim Thomson wrote: > Hi, ReHi! > I'm trying to get smail to work with an include file for aliases. > My line in my aliases is as follows: > > everybody::include:/etc/smail/blobs If I´m correct, there is one ":" too much. > My /etc/smail/bl

Compile Problems

1998-05-07 Thread Harry Tuttle
Hello Everyone, Earlier some one had asked about compiling on Debian and I really did think about the problem. But they mentioned that they kept having a problem reporting "your compiler is unable to make executables". Then someone reported to check the "config.log" for the comple

Re: Problem with my shell

1998-05-07 Thread Jeff Shilt
> > On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 02:08:36AM -0400, Jeff Shilt wrote: > > I wrote a postinst shell script for a package and when I went to test it > > I get > > bash: ././postinst: no such file or directory > > I changed my PATH environent variable around a bunch, even took out . > > and tried to

Re: E(nlightenment)

1998-05-07 Thread Shaleh
E works fine on hamm and w/ a little help bo. It requires numerous graphic libs. Some of which bo has older versions of. I am the E maintainer for Debian. A package will appear when .14 comes out (I have posted imlib packages already). .13 breaks most of Debian's policy. There is a E mailing

E(nlightenment)

1998-05-07 Thread Greg Vence
Hello, Who is using E as their window manager? What are the issues involved w/ Debian? Thanx -- Greg. -- What do you want to spend today? Debian GNU/Linux (Free for an UNLIMITED time) http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html Greg VenceKH2EA/4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: How to build Debian Linux cluster?

1998-05-07 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 03:59:39PM -0400, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > > I've seen several responses point you to Beowulf. Check it out. > I have a look. It's much more than we want or capable of doing. You > build supercomputer out of small computers connected with fast network, so > that s

Oops - ignore (Was: latex: Problem with special char & in macros)

1998-05-07 Thread Yann Dirson
Oops... please ignore my previous request for help - it does not contain enough information - the given example code works - I finally found the real-code error (but maybe a (La)TeX as well, we'll see). -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email:

Memory Checker (RAM)

1998-05-07 Thread C.J.LAWSON
A while ago someone posted information (or was it a website) on a program that can be used to detect intermittent RAM failure which may be missed by the bios. I would be grateful if anyone with this or similar information could mail it to me (or better post it to the list) --Jonathan In

Re: Diskless Debian, Shared /usr, etc...

1998-05-07 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sun, May 03, 1998 at 09:13:58PM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: > Thanks -- that was an excellent idea. I had to massage nfsroot into > working with libc6, but it was a great starting point. My client is > now taking up 2100K -- not bad. Could you plubish the patched nfsroot somewhere? It would be

Re: Debian 1.31

1998-05-07 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 7 May 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote: > One other thing to keep in mind is the tendency Microsoft software has > to rewrite the boot record (i.e. remove LILO). So always keep a boot > disk handy -- you never know when you'll need it. (Like after that > Win98 upgrade...) Yeah, keep a boot disk

Re: Debian 1.31

1998-05-07 Thread Jeff Noxon
One other thing to keep in mind is the tendency Microsoft software has to rewrite the boot record (i.e. remove LILO). So always keep a boot disk handy -- you never know when you'll need it. (Like after that Win98 upgrade...) :) Jeff On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 04:55:41PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: >

Re: how to set up headless machine?

1998-05-07 Thread Jack Kern
On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 03:43:21PM -0400, Ossama Othman wrote: > Hi, > > On 7 May 1998, Truxton King Fulton II wrote: > > The newer linux kernels do "serial console" if no video card is > > detected. This is a kernel configuration option -- get a new 2.1 > > kernel and compile it. > > Some peop

Re: How to build Debian Linux cluster?

1998-05-07 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Ken! I post this message again, as there were some problems with listserver. First of all thanks for the reply! > Well, welcome to the club. We made the decision about six months ago to > replace our X-terms with Linux boxes. The `pilot' project was to build a > small cluster of Debian Lin

Re: Debian 1.31

1998-05-07 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 7 May 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote: > off the secondary drive? Is there a graceful and free way to do this > without installing LILO in the primary drive's boot sector? I don't think so. But you do boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hdb1 for your linux kernel stanza and boot=/dev/hda1

Re: Debian 1.31

1998-05-07 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 04:42:23PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: > > I want to have the ability to dual boot with Debian and Windows 95 ? (I > > know with Windows NT and Windows 95 this is possible). Will such thing > > be possible Debian & Windows 95? > Absolutely. Lots of us do this all the time. Ve

Re: Debian 1.31

1998-05-07 Thread Will Lowe
> I want to have the ability to dual boot with Debian and Windows 95 ? (I > know with Windows NT and Windows 95 this is possible). Will such thing > be possible Debian & Windows 95? Absolutely. Lots of us do this all the time. Very easy to configure and use.

Debian 1.31

1998-05-07 Thread Ravi Joy
Dear Sir, I am interested in buying and trying out Debian1.31. I want to get a feel on this OS. My problem is that I have only one PC at home with one 2Gb SCSI hard disk on which I run Windows 95 OSR2.0. I have an old 500MB IDE drive which I plan to plug into my onboard IDE controller on which I

Re: how to set up headless machine?

1998-05-07 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, On 7 May 1998, Truxton King Fulton II wrote: > The newer linux kernels do "serial console" if no video card is > detected. This is a kernel configuration option -- get a new 2.1 > kernel and compile it. Some people can't afford to take a chance on a development kernel, especially if system

Re: how to set up headless machine?

1998-05-07 Thread Truxton King Fulton II
The newer linux kernels do "serial console" if no video card is detected. This is a kernel configuration option -- get a new 2.1 kernel and compile it. -Truxton Stuart Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I need to set up a debian/linux PC for use without a > keyboard or monitor.

Re: Am I missing something or is this a HUGE security flaw?

1998-05-07 Thread Truxton King Fulton II
Colin Telmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: another method is to use "exec startx". -Truxton > On Tue, 5 May 1998, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > > > This is a no-answer. Starting X from the console is a valid -- and > > > even prefered, IMHO -- way of starting X. If I *ne

Re: changing a users group

1998-05-07 Thread Greg Vence
Matthew D. Myers wrote: > > How do you change a users group assignments without manually editing the > passwd and group and also shadowed files. > Check out the FAQ-o-matic http://www.debian.org/fom/1.html More specifically, here http://www.debian.org/fom/122.html It dices, slices & for 19.95,

Re: Install problem - kernel problems with Adaptec 2740 EISA cards

1998-05-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 7 May 1998, Bob McGowan wrote: : I downloaded the Official CD images 2 or 3 months ago and did all the : checks and balances before burning a CD. I also checked the CD image : file against the burned image (dd and cmp under a UNIX system) and found : no errors. : : I tried to install fro

changing a users group

1998-05-07 Thread Matthew D. Myers
How do you change a users group assignments without manually editing the passwd and group and also shadowed files. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

jserv with apache

1998-05-07 Thread maillist
I've been trying to compile and set up jserv in Debian 2.0 and I haven't been having too much luck. I was wondering if someone had added all the neccessary stuff to apache 1.3b6 and .deb'inize it for me. Rocky -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: Supressing duplicate email

1998-05-07 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Thu, 7 May 1998, Mike Schmitz wrote: : Does anyone have a procmail recipe to supress duplicate email? (Useful when : subscribed to more than one Debian list). It's widely spread on the Internet: ## ELIMINATES DUPLICATE MESSAGES WITH SAME MESSAGE ID :0 Wh: msgid.lock | $FORM

Supressing duplicate email

1998-05-07 Thread Mike Schmitz
Does anyone have a procmail recipe to supress duplicate email? (Useful when subscribed to more than one Debian list). -- Mike Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.bend-or.com/~mschmitz Don't blame me - I voted libertarian!http://www.lp.org/ Use Debian Linux -

Install problem - kernel problems with Adaptec 2740 EISA cards

1998-05-07 Thread Bob McGowan
I downloaded the Official CD images 2 or 3 months ago and did all the checks and balances before burning a CD. I also checked the CD image file against the burned image (dd and cmp under a UNIX system) and found no errors. I tried to install from the CD using a DOS boot and running the install.ba

Re: Problem with my shell

1998-05-07 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 02:08:36AM -0400, Jeff Shilt wrote: > I wrote a postinst shell script for a package and when I went to test it > I get > bash: ././postinst: no such file or directory > I changed my PATH environent variable around a bunch, even took out . > and tried to run postinst wi

Re: Creating small router systems

1998-05-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 7 May 1998, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > Our goal is to setup a number of small Debian systems, fairly small and > simple, on old 486's to use as routers. These each have 8M memory, > Ethernet, and a small hard disk; no CDROM. > [We have a portable CDROM (Mountain), but couldn't find a Linux

Re: KDE compiling

1998-05-07 Thread jdassen
On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 07:19:08PM +0200, Christian Herold wrote: > I experienced some problems ompiling KDE Beta 4: > while doing "configure" for kdelibs, I get the error message: looking > for g++ ... failed ... cant compile executable ( But I still have the > gcc and g++ compilers!) Look for a

KDE compiling

1998-05-07 Thread Christian Herold
Hi! I experienced some problems ompiling KDE Beta 4: while doing "configure" for kdelibs, I get the error message: looking for g++ ... failed ... cant compile executable ( But I still have the gcc and g++ compilers!) Who can help? Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Help! Windows95? Anyone?

1998-05-07 Thread Keith Alen Vance
If you copy all of you cab files to your harddrive you can run the setup right off of the harddrive. You will need more than the cabs actually. You will need the setup files and scandisk and all that other garbage they put on the disks. Keith On Thu, 7 May 1998, James A. Bates wrote: > Hel

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 and WindowsNT?

1998-05-07 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Read the specific HOWTO. It can be found at the sunsite, at the same subdir where you already found the Hardware Compatibility HOWTO. Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra http://www.lge.com.br./[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.terravista.pt./Enseada/1989/ BRASIL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Help! Windows95? Anyone?

1998-05-07 Thread The Gecko
On 07-May-98 Liran Zvibel wrote: > Hi. > You should try : > fdisk /MBR > Thi sshould erase the defected MBR, I'm not sure what'd happen to the > filesystems. (I'm sure that it won't work if you have more then one > partition.) > > HTH, > Liran. In Dos6.x, fdisk /MBR would work just fine (regardle

RE: NT-Netzwerk und Drucker

1998-05-07 Thread The Gecko
Finden Sie "samba" und Lesen Sie "Documentation" Darren P.S. Mein Deutsch is schlecht. Ich hoffe, Sie mich verstehen Kann. > Hallo! > > Wie verbinde ich eine Linux-Rechner eigentlich mit einem NT-Netzwerk, so > dass ich die Laufwerke und den Postscript-Drucker nutzen kann, die hier > an eine

Re: Two Operating Systems

1998-05-07 Thread Travis Cole
Keep Win95 on the first primary partition. Install Debian on that 700 megs you have free. The install process should make it quite easy. Then install LILO and have it boot both Win95 and Linux. If you want specificst let me know. On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 10:37:48AM -0600, Chris Betz wrote: > I am

Two Operating Systems

1998-05-07 Thread Chris Betz
I am in a situation where it is manditory for me to maintain my Windows 95 OS on my computer along with most of the software. However for my own personal use I have partitioned my drive and have over 700 megs where I would like to install Linux. I am curious as to the best way to do this so I can u

Creating small router systems

1998-05-07 Thread Gregory Guthrie
Our goal is to setup a number of small Debian systems, fairly small and simple, on old 486's to use as routers. These each have 8M memory, Ethernet, and a small hard disk; no CDROM. [We have a portable CDROM (Mountain), but couldn't find a Linux Driver for it] I want to confirm if I understand th

Re: ftp-server without having installed one?

1998-05-07 Thread Remco van de Meent
On 7 May 1998, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: : The other strange thing was an unknown service on port 6000: : "wabe.in-bonn.de [127.0.0.1] 6000 (?) open" : What does this one mean? Maybe you're running a X-Server - it usually binds on port 6000. -Remco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

ftp-server without having installed one?

1998-05-07 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi, playing around with netcat, I tried out the example fom its README, the command 'echo QUIT | nc -v -w 5 target 20-250 500-600 5990-7000', which should "inform you about a target's various well-known TCP servers", and I took as my 'target' 'localhost' (completely stand-alone PC). Surprisingly

RE: Help! Windows95? Anyone?

1998-05-07 Thread Jorge Daniel Ruckj
Hi James. Try with this: Boot from Window$ 95 diskette. At system prompt, run "fdisk /mbr" to rewrite Master Boot Record. If it work, you can boot from hard disk. Jorge D. Ruckj ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Sorry for my bad english... -- > De: James A. Bates <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Help! Windows95? Anyone?

1998-05-07 Thread Liran Zvibel
Hi. You should try : fdisk /MBR Thi sshould erase the defected MBR, I'm not sure what'd happen to the filesystems. (I'm sure that it won't work if you have more then one partition.) HTH, Liran. --- http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Help! Windows95? Anyone?

1998-05-07 Thread James A. Bates
Hello, I realize that this is mailing list concerns Debian, but everyone here has been so helpful so I thought I'd ask here first. I bought a used harddrive yesterday so that I could install Debian and keep Windows95 on my first drive. I tested a program called Master Booter to see how it worke

floppy install

1998-05-07 Thread Richard Sevenich
Upon Hamm's imminent release, will there be a new set of floppies for install or will the old set do? I'll need to do several scratch installs on new m machines and am also wondering if there are any libc5 -> libc6 peculiarities to be aware of for a scratch install? TIA Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Can't get a kernel to recognize my Asus PCI-SC875 scsi card

1998-05-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 7 May 1998, Pierre Blanchet wrote: : "GDM" == G Dale Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : : : GDM> I am trying to build a kernel with only the options I want now that I : GDM> have hamm : GDM> installed again. The boot floppy made from this install recognizes and : GDM> uses the

Re: telnet login remotely or local host

1998-05-07 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > I have just installed debian linux and want to telnet into the machine. > Neither telnet localhost nor telnet IPaddress do work, I am getting > "connection refused". > > The inetd is running (checked with ps -aux), > in host.allow I typed in ALL: ALL and removed > the PARANOIC from hosts.de

Re: mgetty counting rings

1998-05-07 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 01:44:14PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > Or is it the precise number of rings that's important to you? > I'm not convinced that the number of rings I hear in the earpiece > precisely matches what's being "heard" and logged at the other end. You are correct. The number of rin

Re: Tom's Unix on a Floppy

1998-05-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 7 May 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: : On Wed, 6 May 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: : : > Um lets see : > th efilename is tomsrtbt-1.1.4.38.tar.gz : > I have found that the most usefull tool in the web is AltaVista search engine ... : > put in the filename you are looking for and... T

Re: Question about libc5 - libc6 upgrade.

1998-05-07 Thread Liran Zvibel
On Thu, 7 May 1998, Damon Muller wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I was considering upgrading to hamm, but my wonderfull ISP just decided > that it was going to charge $0.25 for every Meg over 300M downloaded > each month. Given that I almost use that anyway, it'll take me about a > year to download hamm

Re: mgetty counting rings

1998-05-07 Thread Thomas Lakofski
On Thu, 7 May 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote: > Is there a way to have mgetty (or something else) counting the number of > RING's it receives on the modem line? I want it to write the results with a > timestamp in a logfile, if possible. You could use xringd to run a command every ring, something

VERY strange dselect ftp-problem

1998-05-07 Thread Florian Attenberger
Some days ago i installed the latest development-kernel (2.1.99) Everything works fine with it besides one thing: Updating my system via the dselect ftp-method is DAMN slow(about 1000 cps). Now I thought that this might be a problem of ftp.debian.org and tried to get the packages with ncftp, just

telnet login remotely or local host

1998-05-07 Thread Raymond Saenger
Hi, perhaps someone knows an answer to a very stupid question. I have just installed debian linux and want to telnet into the machine. Neither telnet localhost nor telnet IPaddress do work, I am getting "connection refused". The inetd is running (checked with ps -aux), in host.allow I typed in AL

Re: Newbie question on backspace key in VIM editor

1998-05-07 Thread aqy6633
> Hi, > > I am having problems with my keyboard mappings. I can't get my backspace > key to work in VIM. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance Where do you use it- on console ot xterm? In any case, there is a ":fixdel" command in vim, check out ":help fixdel". But it can be done i

Re: mgetty counting rings

1998-05-07 Thread David Wright
On Thu, 7 May 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote: > Is there a way to have mgetty (or something else) counting the number of > RING's it receives on the modem line? I want it to write the results with a > timestamp in a logfile, if possible. Every ring of my phone is timestamped in /var/log/mgetty/mg

Re: hamm status

1998-05-07 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Timothy C. Phan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : I'd like to know if hamm is stable to use now? Does the : new kernel source include the NTFS and Joliet FS patches? master.debian.org thats is the machine where developers build and upload their packages to is running Hamm. I have three machines

Re: compiling kernel

1998-05-07 Thread David Wright
On 6 May 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Joey> Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> Because the kernel-source and kernel-package packages are arrch > >> independent, and the bin86 requirement is an intel-ism. Since we do > >> not have a means of

mgetty counting rings

1998-05-07 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hey, Is there a way to have mgetty (or something else) counting the number of RING's it receives on the modem line? I want it to write the results with a timestamp in a logfile, if possible. Any hints on this subject? Thanks! -Remco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Can't get a kernel to recognize my Asus PCI-SC875 scsi card

1998-05-07 Thread David Wright
On Wed, 6 May 1998, G.Dale Miller wrote: > I am trying to build a kernel with only the options I want now that I > have hamm > installed again. The boot floppy made from this install recognizes and > uses the > ASUS SC875 (Symbiosor NCR) scsi card that I have no problem but when I > build my own k

Smail aliases include file

1998-05-07 Thread Tim Thomson
Hi, I'm trying to get smail to work with an include file for aliases. My line in my aliases is as follows: everybody::include:/etc/smail/blobs My /etc/smail/blobs file contains the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] and has these permissions: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root

Re: Can't get a kernel to recognize my Asus PCI-SC875 scsi card

1998-05-07 Thread Pierre Blanchet
"GDM" == G Dale Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GDM> I am trying to build a kernel with only the options I want now that I GDM> have hamm GDM> installed again. The boot floppy made from this install recognizes and GDM> uses the GDM> ASUS SC875 (Symbiosor NCR) scsi card that I have no

SOLVED: Re: recompiling kernel

1998-05-07 Thread G. Crimp
On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 12:02:30PM -0400, Bill Leach wrote: > Hi Gerald; > > Though I noticed your original posting I did not then comment for it > being too much of a 'blind leading the blind' situation. More like the blind leading the stupid... Read on. > > What I did notice is that

Question about libc5 - libc6 upgrade.

1998-05-07 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Folks, I was considering upgrading to hamm, but my wonderfull ISP just decided that it was going to charge $0.25 for every Meg over 300M downloaded each month. Given that I almost use that anyway, it'll take me about a year to download hamm without it costing me a fortune... Anyway, I would li

Re: alias not passed to xterm

1998-05-07 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I wrote: > > I never use the .alias file, but I assume that this file is sourced in > your .bash_profile? If you start an xterm without any options, you get > a bash that doesn't read your ~/.bashrc file. If you want a login shell, ^^ Erro

Re: alias not passed to xterm

1998-05-07 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Thomas J. Malloy wrote: > > My aliases do not seem to be passed correctly to xterm I am using OLVWM. > The following alias is in my .alias file "alias xboard='xboard -size small' > This does not work from xterm, but it does work if I execute it through a > BASH box. This is true even though env

Re: Problem with ppp-2.3.3-5 and authentication

1998-05-07 Thread James Whitwell
On 6/5/98 1:18 AM Bill Leach wrote: >My question would be, if Mr. Whitwell's machine is using PAP, are the >entries in the ppp/pap-secrets file correct? AFAIK for the PAP >authentication to work (I don't use PAP but have used CHAP), the >Username, password, and IP address (or address range) have t

Re: Tom's Unix on a Floppy

1998-05-07 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 6 May 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > Um lets see > th efilename is tomsrtbt-1.1.4.38.tar.gz > I have found that the most usefull tool in the web is AltaVista search engine > ... > put in the filename you are looking for and... > http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/dci/linux/lsr/disks > is the fi

Re: 'w' doesn't show X session users

1998-05-07 Thread Norbert Veber
On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 12:33:21AM -0400, Steve Hsieh wrote: > > Subject says it all. The user shows up on 'last', but not on 'w'. This > is a recent problem that started roughly around when the latest xserver* > debs were placed in hamm.. > > Any one know what the problem is? I'm not sure if

docbook, xemacs and psgml

1998-05-07 Thread Mark Mickan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Is anyone using psgml under Xemacs to write DocBook documents? I'm trying to set it up but having many problems. Am I on the right track with this: ??? Test Chapter This is a test document. I'm using Xemacs 19.16 and the latest everything else from hamm

hamm status

1998-05-07 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, I'd like to know if hamm is stable to use now? Does the new kernel source include the NTFS and Joliet FS patches? Thanks! -- Timothy C. Phan Intelligence Quest Research, INC. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

'w' doesn't show X session users

1998-05-07 Thread Steve Hsieh
Subject says it all. The user shows up on 'last', but not on 'w'. This is a recent problem that started roughly around when the latest xserver* debs were placed in hamm.. Any one know what the problem is? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Can't get a kernel to recognize my Asus PCI-SC875 scsi card

1998-05-07 Thread G.Dale Miller
I am trying to build a kernel with only the options I want now that I have hamm installed again. The boot floppy made from this install recognizes and uses the ASUS SC875 (Symbiosor NCR) scsi card that I have no problem but when I build my own kernel it won't recognize it. I am trying to build fro

Newbie question on backspace key in VIM editor

1998-05-07 Thread chee seng gnoh
Hi, I am having problems with my keyboard mappings. I can't get my backspace key to work in VIM. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

New install

1998-05-07 Thread Simon Damberger
I have just tried to install the "bo" release on my machine and ended up with a strange error message:   floppy0: perpendicular mode not supported by this FDC   I am using a LS-120 as my main (only) floppy drive. Is there some BIOS setup that I need to change? How do I get around this prob

Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 and WindowsNT?

1998-05-07 Thread John_Gay
I've looked through the FAQ's and didn't see this particular question addressed, only Windows 95. I am planning to install Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 AND WindowsNT onto a PC and was wondering which order and what tools should be used. I will be installing them on a 'new' machine with nothing loaded. For

new to Debian, want to install

1998-05-07 Thread Danny Thompson
I am tired of Bill and his Microsoft and want to install Debian. I ordered the 2CD-ROM set and need help in really understanding what I am getting into and how to install Debian. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Danny Thompson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

NT-Netzwerk und Drucker

1998-05-07 Thread Sabine Wolf
Hallo! Wie verbinde ich eine Linux-Rechner eigentlich mit einem NT-Netzwerk, so dass ich die Laufwerke und den Postscript-Drucker nutzen kann, die hier an einem NT-Server haengen ? Gibt es zu Linux und NT ein gutes FAQ oder soetwas in der Art ? Tschau, Sabine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

New tetex (0.9*) question

1998-05-07 Thread Damir J. Naden
Greetings, just curios: why is tetex package so much bigger (in installed size) than the 0.4* version? Are there that many new features? I use Lyx under hamm system and wonder if there are any advantages of installing the 0.9 version at this point? TIA DamirN -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Telnet Proxy anyone?

1998-05-07 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Richard L Shepherd wrote: > Has anyone heard of a telnet-proxy package (especially for linux and > Debian of course)? > > We have some people who have (and want to keep) their subnet blocked for > offsite access (so they do all their WWW browsing via a WWWcache which can > th

alias not passed to xterm

1998-05-07 Thread Thomas J. Malloy
My aliases do not seem to be passed correctly to xterm I am using OLVWM. The following alias is in my .alias file "alias xboard='xboard -size small' This does not work from xterm, but it does work if I execute it through a BASH box. This is true even though env in the xterm shows that bash is th

Re: Debian listserver on 2%

1998-05-07 Thread Art Lemasters
Then it is confirmed. Elvis _is alive!_ Art > > On Wed, 6 May 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > thanks to everyone who has asked if we have problems with the > > listserver. Indeed we had a problem with it. Delivery was > > sized down to 2%. I have to admit that I don't know why. I'v

Re: Debian listserver on 2%

1998-05-07 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 6 May 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > thanks to everyone who has asked if we have problems with the > listserver. Indeed we had a problem with it. Delivery was > sized down to 2%. I have to admit that I don't know why. I've > resized it back to 100% and from the log I see delivery runs