Hi all.
I just used apt to get and install WindowMaker, (I was using icewm b4).
Now that its installed, my xfmail refuses to do anything that involves
opening a new window - Reading Mail, Composing mail etc. When I press
compose or something, the main XFMAIL window goes into the background,
but
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The answer is easy. The new ppp's set auth "on" by default. They did
> not use to do so. Edit the provider script and add "noauth" near the
> end. All will be happy.
To be a bit more explicit - make certain that the keyword "noauth" is
in /etc/ppp/peers/pr
Nils Rennebarth wrote:
> You could try:
> 1)
> ifconfig eth1 1.2.3.1 pointopoint 1.2.3.2
> route add -host 1.2.3.2 device eth1
>
> and as the 1.2.3.2 host is a win95 box, that certainly can't handle ethernet
> in pointopoint mode, you need
>
> arp -s 1.2.3.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 pub
>
> I nev
I was using X, after loging in with XDM when I decided to go to single user
mode from a VT.
rakefet# telinit s
INIT: going single user
INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal
INIT: Sending processes the KILL signal
give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D for normal startup):
rakefet
Use the packages Phillip. You should NEVER have to see or run those
scripts. Just use dselect, choose the parts you want and wait for the
download. When it installs it will give you more directions.
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Hi,
>>"Luiz" == Luiz Otavio L Zorzella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Luiz> Forgive my dumbness... I've been thinking exactly what are the
Luiz> implications of what your're saying. Please correct me if I'm
Luiz> wrong:
Luiz> 1) sndshield, at *compilation time*, greps autoconf.h to guess
Luiz> which
Hi
Im Phillip Neumann and a new user of (debian) Linux too. I find this
system MUCH more interesting that Microsoft
dos or win95. But i have many programs in Win95 that i use every day, so
now i have 2 OP in my computer. They
both work perfectly well (thank to linux [lilo]). I´m doing linux
Hi
Im Phillip Neumann and a new user of (debian) Linux too. I find
this system MUCH more interesting that Microsoft dos or win95. But i have
many programs in Win95 that i use every day, so now i have 2 OP in my computer.
They both work perfectly well (thank to linux [lilo]). I´m doing
linux abou
Hi
Im Phillip Neumann and a new user of (debian) Linux too. I find
this system MUCH more interesting that Microsoft dos or win95. But i have
many programs in Win95 that i use every day, so now i have 2 OP in my computer.
They both work perfectly well (thank to linux [lilo]). I´m doing
linux abou
Manoj Srivastava writes:
> Hi,
> >>"Luiz" == Luiz Otavio L Zorzella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Luiz> I wish to send a mail to the OSS tech support about this
> Luiz> situation with debian. Is there anything you think I should
> Luiz> suggest to fix the problem in a clean way (all the di
Hi,
>>"Eloy" == Eloy A Paris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Eloy> Did you e-mail the HylaFAX maintainer? He's always willing to
Eloy> improve his package. I use it and is very nice.
I agree. But you see, in this case, people had already
presented the error to the author, (possibly zillions
On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 10:25:06PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> Nils, I'm trying to do the _exact_ same thing, except instead of PPP I
> have two ethernet interfaces.
And that makes all the difference because ethernet is a broadcast network
not point to point as for PPP. See below.
> I believe m
It is appletalk. Add a alias net-pf-5 off line to your modules conf
file. I had a similar problem.
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I keep getting messages about not finding the net-pf-5 module.. what is
this module and what does it do? If I don't need it, how can I get rid of
the error messages?
May 16 13:13:11 serv1 modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5
Thanks
-Paul
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I couldn't find any mention of it in the FAQs so I'm asking here:
Is there any way to install Linux from a fat32 partition?
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Could someone tell me the tex mailing list, please,
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On Sat, 16 May 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
> Lindsay Allen wrote:
> > I wrote:
> > >
> > > Question: is there a way to hard-reset the floppy drive and driver
> > > under linux, without rebooting?
> >
> > I just take the disk out.
>
> So do I, but it doesn't seem to convince the drive that h
On Sat, May 16, 1998 at 11:39:21AM -0400, G. Kaplan wrote:
> It seems to me , new user, that the use of chat rooms would be a means
> to more rapidly distributing the knowledge one need to be successful in
> using Linux in general and Debian in particular.
There's a #debian IRC channel on the open
On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 09:34:22PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Sat, 16 May 1998 10:40:23 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> >We are all volunteers here. Generally speaking, constructive criticism
> >is welcome -- unconstructive criticism just makes people leave the project.
>
> Exactly. I ha
There is currently a #debian and a #linpeople on irc.linpeople.org et.
al. The problem with what you propose is that it requires people there
to discuss. International issues and all. I would much rather see
someone make a site dedicated to helping newbies with well written docs
and then adverti
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On 16-May-98 G. Kaplan wrote:
> It seems to me , new user, that the use of chat rooms would be a means
> to more rapidly distributing the knowledge one need to be successful in
> using Linux in general and Debian in particular. What I would like to
>
It seems to me , new user, that the use of chat rooms would be a means
to more rapidly distributing the knowledge one need to be successful in
using Linux in general and Debian in particular. What I would like to
suggest the maintenance of a site where one could find a table of topics
of interest ;
On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 09:32:48PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> The beef is that you're arguing with me because the default happens to
> suit you and you don't see where the problem is with marking things to be
> held yet if the situation were reversed, where you would have to constantly
> mark t
After I use 'bl' (blinks keyboard LEDs), how can reset the LEDs so I can
see the status of num, caps, and scroll lock?
Thanks
-Paul
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Did you install applixware as the rpms or apply the Debian patches?
hmm.. Well, I still have the problem with rhmask
-Paul
On Sat, 16 May 1998, Greg Norris wrote:
> I've got Applixware 4.3.7 installed sucessfully on a bo system. In my
> case, however, it was a new installation of the product
I have located a bo box for use in making a security release of X for
the stable distribution. Many thanks to Harald Schueler, who came up
with the "winning box". Thanks also to Brad, Gregory Dickinson, Alain
Toussaint, and Florian Hinzmann for making generous offers as well.
I feel bad for start
The answer is easy. The new ppp's set auth "on" by default. They did
not use to do so. Edit the provider script and add "noauth" near the
end. All will be happy.
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I've got Applixware 4.3.7 installed sucessfully on a bo system. In my
case, however, it was a new installation of the product, rather than an
upgrade. So I didn't have to worry about rhmask...
On Sat, May 16, 1998 at 05:33:39AM -0400, Paul Miller wrote:
>
> Anyone have Applixware 4.3.7 installe
Hi,
I'm using the laster version of ppp in Hamm (2.3.5-0.1) and am having
problems to get IPX configured properly when stablishing the PPP
session. I get an error about an unsupported protocol:
[...]
May 16 09:24:38 zeus pppd[18865]: user eparis logged in
May 16 09:24:38 zeus pppd[18865]: sent [P
Did you e-mail the HylaFAX maintainer? He's always willing to improve
his package. I use it and is very nice.
See ya!
E.-
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hi,
: I was at my wits end, trying to get this USRobotics sportster
: modem to work while sending out faxes. It failed w
>
> On Sat, 16 May 1998 10:40:23 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> >We are all volunteers here. Generally speaking, constructive criticism
> >is welcome -- unconstructive criticism just makes people leave the project.
>
> Exactly. I have been giving constructive critism and in return I have
>
>
> Please help me !!!
>
> I am very interesting on installing of Debian 1.3.1. (r.6)
>
> By dselect-program, by ACCESS, is the question: INSERT THE CD-ROM AND
> ENTER THE BLOCK DEVICE NAME. What I must answer? I see, my cd-rom isn not
> yet installed (i can open). My cd-rom is the new LG
Lindsay Allen wrote:
> I wrote:
> >
> > Question: is there a way to hard-reset the floppy drive and driver
> > under linux, without rebooting?
>
> I just take the disk out.
So do I, but it doesn't seem to convince the drive that he can start
over again :(.
Eric
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On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 03:19:01PM -0400, dave oswald wrote:
> need Libtermcap.so.2
Package: termcap-compat
Priority: extra
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 565
Maintainer: Christian Hudon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.1.1
Replaces: libtermcap
Depends: libc5 (>= 5.4.0-0)
Confl
> "OL" == Oskar Liljeblad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
OL> May 16 12:41:53 oskar pppd[171]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1
OL>]
^^
You tell your ISP to identify himself via PAP. He doesn't do this and
terminates the connection.
Remove the "require-pap" or "+pap" option.
Ciao,
Þann 16-May-98 skrifar [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
>>Now I can't remember where I found it and EVERYONE is
>> looking for it from Me?!?!
>
> um well..add me to the list...if you do happen to find it...let me know
> where!
>
I have it here, if you guys want it...
I got it from the cnn site, somew
I recently installed pppd 2.3.5 from a Debian package. I kept the old ppp
up/chatscript etc files,
and when running pppd to connect to my ISP I get the error message "peer
refused to authenticate"
and the modem disconnects. The debug output is below.
The ppp up and chatscript files are configured
> "AS" == Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> get ftp://134.95.210.54/pub/AutoMultiUserSetupForSO40Linux.tar.gz as this
AS> ah, that's where it is. i'd heard such a thing existed. thanks.
Well, it is just my copy. I just found the original site in my bookmarks:
http://www.on-l
Please help me !!!
I am very interesting on installing of Debian 1.3.1. (r.6)
By dselect-program, by ACCESS, is the question: INSERT THE CD-ROM AND
ENTER THE BLOCK DEVICE NAME. What I must answer? I see, my cd-rom isn not
yet installed (i can open). My cd-rom is the new LG (iso9660) and is as se
Please help me !!!
I am very interesting on installing of Debian 1.3.1. (r.6)
By dselect-program, by ACCESS, is the question: INSERT THE CD-ROM AND
ENTER THE BLOCK DEVICE NAME. What I must answer? I see, my cd-rom isn not
yet installed (i can open). My cd-rom is the new LG (iso9660) and is as se
Anyone used x11amp before? Top seems to be reporting odd cpu statistics.
Look at the table below. Both programs were ran on the same system, one
before upgrading to a pentium-200mmx chip, and the other after.
program cyrix-166+ pentium-200mmx
mpg123 40% 10%
x11amp 80%
Anyone have Applixware 4.3.7 installed on a Debian system? I'm having
trouble upgrading from 4.3 to 4.3.7 using RedHat's rpmmask files.. I
tried copying the rhmask program from RedHat, but it doesn't work for some
reason... Any ideas?
Thanks
-Paul
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> "RJC" == Rev Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RJC> On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 09:54:57PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> >Now I can't remember where I found it and EVERYONE is
>> > looking for it from Me?!?!
>>
>> um well..add me to the list...if you do happen to find it...let me
> "MN" == Mike Nachlinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MN> I'm having problems with majordomo & mail due to an alias problem.
MN> If I run mkaliases /etc/aliases it returns;
MN> /usr/sbin/mkaliases: unknown file type , , for /etc/aliases.
MN> I reinstalled smail to get a default aliases file a
Hi,
I was at my wits end, trying to get this USRobotics sportster
modem to work while sending out faxes. It failed with "Unspecified
Transmit Phase B Error". Well, Drudging through the mailing list
archive, I came across this little reference to the following:
http://www.elgro.demon.co
On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 09:54:57PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Now I can't remember where I found it and EVERYONE is
> > looking for it from Me?!?!
>
> um well..add me to the list...if you do happen to find it...let me know where!
www.linux-howto.com has it.
pgpH6gWbhZQ5D.pgp
Descripti
Hi,
Yes. See, in the current system, I have to manually go and put
on hold all packages I do _not_ want updated. In the reverse system,
you have to go and manually mark alll packages you _do_ want updated
(whether new, or old packages you feel need updating).
These systems are
Hi,
>>"Steve" == Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Steve> On 16 May 1998 00:20:33 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Now, you have to mark packages you want to upgrade. Tell me again,
>> how reversing the default would be any different?
Steve> I add a new package. All of a sudden I have to m
Hi,
>>"Steve" == Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> That happens not to be the case. If the reverse were true: that all
>> packages were held be default, and I had to do two ops to turn them
>> t be upgraded. I would do it. If I had to release them one by one,
>> that would be unacceptable.
On 16 May 1998 00:20:33 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Now, you have to mark packages you want to upgrade. Tell me
> again, how reversing the default would be any different?
I add a new package. All of a sudden I have to mark that package (or
section) for hold again. I add another p
Hi,
On re-reading what I had written, yes, it could be interpreted
as I would find releasing all the packages each time unaccpetable.
That was not what I meant to convey. I would find relasing
weach one individually unacceptable. But if I could do it in
one go, it would be fine
On 16 May 1998 00:22:29 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>Steve> Exactly. I have been giving constructive critism and in return
>Steve> I have been getting a flippant attitude of "It isn't that many
>Steve> ketstrokes." In fact, one person has said that if the
>Steve> situation were reverse he(?)'
Hi,
>>"Steve" == Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Steve> The beef is that you're arguing with me because the default
Steve> happens to suit you and you don't see where the problem is with
Steve> marking things to be held yet if the situation were reversed,
Steve> where you would have to cons
Hi,
>>"Steve" == Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Steve> On Sat, 16 May 1998 10:40:23 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>> We are all volunteers here. Generally speaking, constructive
>> criticism is welcome -- unconstructive criticism just makes people
>> leave the project.
Steve> Exactly. I h
Steve wrote:
> On Sat, 16 May 1998 10:40:23 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> >We are all volunteers here. Generally speaking, constructive criticism
> >is welcome -- unconstructive criticism just makes people leave the project.
>
> Exactly. I have been giving constructive critism and in ret
On Sat, 16 May 1998 10:40:23 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>We are all volunteers here. Generally speaking, constructive criticism
>is welcome -- unconstructive criticism just makes people leave the project.
Exactly. I have been giving constructive critism and in return I have
been getting a
On 15 May 1998 22:41:03 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>>> One can certainly put all new and all updated packages on
>>> hold. There are not that many sections; so it *is* possible to put
>>> ecerything on hold.
>Steve> Then ask yourself this, would you put up with having to release
>Steve> all t
Nils Rennebarth wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 10:30:33AM -0700, Alan Su wrote:
> > My linux box is connected to a campus network, and i'd like to provide
> > access to that network to a machine connected over a serial/modem line
> > via PPP.
> > My question is: can I fake this?
> Yes. In sh
Hi,
>>"Alan" == Alan Eugene Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alan> No thank you.
Well, there are other distributions -- red hat makes a fine
OS, you know. I just sent you Debian policy.
>> Most programs, even if they include , do
Alan> ^
>> not really depend on the versio
Hi,
>>"Luiz" == Luiz Otavio L Zorzella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Luiz> I wish to send a mail to the OSS tech support about this
Luiz> situation with debian. Is there anything you think I should
Luiz> suggest to fix the problem in a clean way (all the dists,
Luiz> including Debian)?
Yes.
Hi,
>>"Steve" == Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Steve> On 15 May 1998 16:21:52 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> One can certainly put all new and all updated packages on
>> hold. There are not that many sections; so it *is* possible to put
>> ecerything on hold.
Steve> Then ask yourself
Bob Nielsen writes:
> Connect your modem to ttyS0 and make a symbolic link to /dev/modem ('ln
> -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/modem' as root).
Please don't. This link is unnecessary and confusing. Use /dev/ttyS0
directly.
> Install ppp (and optionally diald) and read the man pages and other
> documentatio
Carlos Marcos Kakihara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I'm looking for some database manager that looks like
: SyBase. Is there one avaliable for Linux? If possible, a Debian
: package.
There is PostgreSQL, an Object Oriented RDBMS. It's in the misc
section of Hamm (it's 100% free).
You also
On Fri, 15 May 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having problems with a floppy drive. Basicly it won't write
> properly on any floppy disk that hasn't been formatted in that drive.
> Preformatted floppies screw up. The problem is, that often after a
> failed attempt to read or wri
On Fri, 15 May 1998, VB Student wrote:
> I have two serial ports in Debian Linux. ttyS0 and ttyS1.
> My mouse is on ttyS1. What software can I use to dial-up my ISP [ ppp,
> diald???]
> Once my modem connects can I open a telnet or ftp and download files?
> What about arena? Will that work with a
I have two serial ports in Debian Linux. ttyS0 and ttyS1.
My mouse is on ttyS1. What software can I use to dial-up my ISP [ ppp,
diald???]
Once my modem connects can I open a telnet or ftp and download files?
What about arena? Will that work with a dial-up device?
Thanks for helping a newbie
Casey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Well...you could do that...but it is MUCH simpler than that
> first go into /usr/include
> mv linux linux-deb
> mv asm asm-deb
> ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux linux
> ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm asm
Change that for:
ln -s /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.0.33
On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 11:32:11PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Forgive my posting this here, but . . .
Well I for one can find it in my heart to forgive you :)
> As I was wondering aimlessly around the sites of the people on this list
> looking for hints and tips for a Linux 'virgin', I hap
On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 04:11:46PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Well, try putting in -I/usr/src/linux/include for every file
> compiled in the tree; and see if that improves things.
>
> At the last resort, you can try mkdir /usr/src/tmp; mv the
> 2.0.32 headers there
> Are there any dictionary programs (console and/or X)? -- a dictionary,
> not just a list of correctly spelled words!
You could look at http://www.dict.org/ I use their client, dict (command
line) and daemon, dictd on my machine. Somebody (forgot their name) is
already in the process of packag
Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks:
> Are there any dictionary programs (console and/or X)? -- a dictionary,
> not just a list of correctly spelled words!
Hi,
I have packaged the Dict project's client/server software and all
of the dictionary databases they make available. They are stil
On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 10:59:33AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Fri, 15 May 1998 13:58:02 -0400 (EDT), Scott Ellis wrote:
>
> >Go to the select screen, hit 'o', go to the top of the updated packages
> >section (the header), hit '='. There, all the updated packages are on
> >hold.
>
> My isn
Silly me. Over a month ago, my system crashed and upon reboot,
I performed a fsck while all filesystems were still mounted. Yes,
I ignored all the warnings, so it's my fault. OK, well here's
the problem... something went wrong and several of my
files got corrupted, uncluding the whole /usr/man/m
Are there any dictionary programs (console and/or X)? -- a dictionary,
not just a list of correctly spelled words!
Thanks
-Paul
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Rev. Joseph Carter writes:
> On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 04:11:46PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
> Thr problem with OSS/Linux is that it grep's autoconf.h to see if you have
> the right configuration for module support and versioning.
Sorry I could not quite follow you all the way. Let's see
This is probably not a Debian problem, but I've noticed that since I
installed Netscape 4.05, I can't get any plug-ins to work. I've installed
rvplayer and acroread from Debian packages, as well as UMP, which works
with the timidity package.
These all worked fine with netscape 3.04. If I look
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