Problems configure'ing programs....

1998-05-21 Thread Christopher Fury
I've tried to configure several programs that require libraries like libjpeg, libtiff, and libpng But none of the programs seem to recognize the fact that I *have* these libraries (installed with dselect) in /usr/lib. I've ran ldconfig, it says they're there. I've tried setting my LD_LIBRARY

CONCLUSIONS: Re: burning hamm on CD.

1998-05-21 Thread Liran Zvibel
Hi, I downloaded the rest of the distribution today (non-us and contrib). I compared all the files in the binary-all and the binary-i386 trees (since I have NT at work, it was downloaded into two different trees) and my conclusion is that most of the files are identical (I deleted those on the bi

Re: still can't start ppp, even as root

1998-05-21 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 02:28:57PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I modified the ppp.chatscript and ppp.options_out files along with > > chap-secrets to reflect my ISP. Since I want to use my COM2 port to > > connect to the modem I created a symbolic link from /dev/mo

Re: [saioa@jet.es: hamm,bo...?]

1998-05-21 Thread Liran Zvibel
On Fri, 22 May 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > Hi: > > I´m a newbie on Linux, and I´ ve seen the terms hamm, bo, stable, > non-free ... in messages about instalation, but I don´ t know which is > the difference between them. Can anyone tell me? > > Thanks, > > Saioa. Hi,, bo - This is

Re: still can't start ppp, even as root

1998-05-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 03:05:24PM -0700, The Gecko wrote: > On 21-May-98 Shaleh wrote: > > Check the permissions on the /dev/tty device. This is a LARGE cause of > > the "ppp support" error. You can also try making your own kernel. PPP > > is installed setuid so unless you changed anything it s

Re: still can't start ppp, even as root

1998-05-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 02:28:57PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I modified the ppp.chatscript and ppp.options_out files along with > chap-secrets to reflect my ISP. Since I want to use my COM2 port to > connect to the modem I created a symbolic link from /dev/modem->/dev/ttys1. > Now when log

[saioa@jet.es: hamm,bo...?]

1998-05-21 Thread Martin Schulze
- Forwarded message from Saioa Perurena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: at Infodrom Oldenburg (/\##/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.12 Joey) by finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE from murphy.debian.org with smtp id ; Thu, 21 May 98 21:08 MET DST Received: from

Re: How to promote debian ?

1998-05-21 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
> Hi, > > Nevertheless, on the Internet you find mostly .rpm packed files, not > .deb ones. Also, many colleagues of mine have Red Hat or Slack. I would > like to convince them to switch to Debian. I know it is better, but how > do I convince them ? > Hi, Ionut! You may want to read following t

Release Date Debian 2

1998-05-21 Thread Mark Messer
Hi Is Debian 2 defently going to be release this month.. and when. Iced -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: still can't start ppp, even as root

1998-05-21 Thread The Gecko
On 21-May-98 Shaleh wrote: > Check the permissions on the /dev/tty device. This is a LARGE cause of > the "ppp support" error. You can also try making your own kernel. PPP > is installed setuid so unless you changed anything it should be done. > setuid means that the bit is set so that when a

Re: Configuring X window

1998-05-21 Thread Harry Tuttle
On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 04:40:59PM -0400, Gutraind wrote: > Hi! > I have K6 200MHZ, 32M ram and win95/debian 1.3 > that I 've installed only recently. > Slowly I'm getting used to linux, and was trying to install X windows. > I found both my Video Card and Monitor in the drivers available, > but ha

RE: still can't start ppp, even as root

1998-05-21 Thread The Gecko
Have you looked at /var/log/messages to see that ppp is actually initialized..?? On 21-May-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I modified the ppp.chatscript and ppp.options_out files along with > chap-secrets to reflect my ISP. Since I want to use my COM2 port to > connect to the modem I created a symbo

Re: still can't start ppp, even as root

1998-05-21 Thread Shaleh
Check the permissions on the /dev/tty device. This is a LARGE cause of the "ppp support" error. You can also try making your own kernel. PPP is installed setuid so unless you changed anything it should be done. setuid means that the bit is set so that when a program is started it sets its uid (

still can't start ppp, even as root

1998-05-21 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
I modified the ppp.chatscript and ppp.options_out files along with chap-secrets to reflect my ISP. Since I want to use my COM2 port to connect to the modem I created a symbolic link from /dev/modem->/dev/ttys1. Now when logged in as root I issue pon I still get the message this kernel does not hav

Re: segmentation fault with glimpseindex

1998-05-21 Thread Carl Johnson
Thomas Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After investigating the segmentation fault that I have observed in > the e-mail report from cron.weekly, I ran glimpseindex by hand and > observed the following output. > > : $ glimpseindex -z -H /var/cache/man2html /usr/man/man* /usr/X11R6/man/man* >

mail problem

1998-05-21 Thread Shaleh
When I send mail to a user on my own machine, then try to reply to it, elm tries to reply to @machine. this is not a valid name. For instance root mails shaleh. shaleh hits reply and gets [EMAIL PROTECTED] is and invalid address. Where is my problem?? IS it in elm or is it in smail? BTW this i

Configuring X window

1998-05-21 Thread Gutraind
Hi! I have K6 200MHZ, 32M ram and win95/debian 1.3 that I 've installed only recently. Slowly I'm getting used to linux, and was trying to install X windows. I found both my Video Card and Monitor in the drivers available, but had some problems during configuration, and when the first preview of X

RE: How to upgrade ?

1998-05-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
On 21 May 1998, Goetzke, Christopher L wrote: > > > > > Sorry for this basic question, > > > but to upgrade a package it's simple necessary to use Dselect , > > > but when i want upgrade a distribution by example debian > > 1.3 to 2.0 > > > the Base packages are automaticaly upgrade without r

kde Beta 4

1998-05-21 Thread Richard Sevenich
I have downloaded and installed *.deb packages of kde beta4 replacing a working version of beta3. When I startx it fails with the messages: xauth: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6' xinit: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6' The library requested appears to be available. Any hints? TIA Richard --

Re: ifconfig and virtual devices

1998-05-21 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
You need IP Aliasing support. You probably have a kernel module for this but you have to load it. Simon Read wrote: > Folks, > > I need to be able to assign several IP numbers to the same interface. > I understand I can do this with something like "ifconfig eth0:1 > 192.168.107.4 -netmask 255.255

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-21 Thread G John Lapeyre
On Thu, 21 May 1998, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > > Does the stampede format even SUPPORT dependancies? > This is readily available from their web site. SLP Version 2.1 int value of 4. (Production release) /* * The structure of a .slp file: * * First, a .tar.bz2 file

ifconfig and virtual devices

1998-05-21 Thread Simon Read
Folks, I need to be able to assign several IP numbers to the same interface. I understand I can do this with something like "ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.107.4 -netmask 255.255.255.0". Unfortunately, this doesn't work with "ifconfig 1.22 (1996-05-09)"; I get "SIOCSIFADDR: No such device". Is this bec

RE: How to upgrade ?

1998-05-21 Thread Goetzke, Christopher L
> -Original Message- > From: George Bonser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 1998 7:47 PM > To: Tony Schonfeld > Cc: recipient list not shown > Subject: Re: How to upgrade ? > > > On Tue, 19 May 1998, Tony Schonfeld wrote: > > > Sorry for this basic question, > > but to

RE: X windows, Dselect, and then some...

1998-05-21 Thread Goetzke, Christopher L
> -Original Message- > From: Athas Nikolakakos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 1998 5:23 PM > To: Debian User LS > Cc: recipient list not shown > Subject: X windows, Dselect, and then some... > > > (1) What is the graphical configuration utility for Xfree86 > called

server up or down?

1998-05-21 Thread Paul McDermott
hello, can anyone read this? :) is the server up or down. -- Paul McDermott The Computer Braille Facility The University of Western Ontario University Community Centre 215 London, Ontario N6A 3K7 Phone: (519) 661-3061 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address: http://www.b

Re: PGP 262

1998-05-21 Thread The Gecko
On 21-May-98 Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > Is there a specific reason that you need to build PGP yourself? It's > available in .deb format at > ftp://nonus.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US/bo/binary-i386/pgp-us_2.6.3a-1.deb None, except that when I asked here earlier where to get it.. I was directed to

Re: PGP 262

1998-05-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 21 May 1998, The Gecko wrote: > Ok.. I'm trying to compile PGPv2.6.2 and I'm getting errors.. something about > P_SETP not being defined... where should I find this? > -- Is there a specific reason that you need to build

PGP 262

1998-05-21 Thread The Gecko
Ok.. I'm trying to compile PGPv2.6.2 and I'm getting errors.. something about P_SETP not being defined... where should I find this? -- http://benham.net/index.html -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS d+(-) s:+ a29 C++$ UL++> P+++$ L++> E? W+++$ N

Re: ppp... help

1998-05-21 Thread CHUCK
I just did a ppp installation, following the directions in Dale Scheetz' book. It did just what you describe until I made ppp-connect executable: chmod 700 /etc/ppp/ppp-connect. Then it worked fine. The book seems to say make it 600, but that didn't work. I really don't know very much about this,

Re: seg faults /core dumps (hamm)

1998-05-21 Thread jdassen
On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 08:32:10PM +0200, Christian Zander wrote: > I encounter the following problem when I try to run StarOffice 4.0, Adobe > Acrobat reader, etc. : the application exits with a segmentation fault and > dumps core. Hmm. All of those are libc5 binaries. Did you install oldlibs/xl

Re: CD from hamm

1998-05-21 Thread Thomas Kruse
Hi, >1.) The "official" distributions for bo separates binary from source so >that there is one cd for each. Yes of course! But my problem is, that the binary AND the source part is bigger, than one CD! (That makes 3 CD after all!) >2.) As dselect as documented indicates that it can be run from l

Re: Bug in su or mc ?

1998-05-21 Thread Chris
On Wed, 20 May 1998, Ionut Borcoman at musa wrote: > Hi, > > If I do the followings in X: > > 1. start an xterm; > 2. in xterm give an su > 3. as root (under su) start mc > 4. close the xterm > > I end up with a 100% CPU usage, even when I do nothing. If I give top, I > discover that mc is st

FYI: Netscape 3.01 archive

1998-05-21 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
I installed Netscape 3.01 last night, and it seems to be working fine. I did have a hard time finding the correct version to download from the Netscape servers. Netscape has moved the old versions of their software to: archive.netscape.com It also appears that this site will not accept anonymous

seg faults /core dumps (hamm)

1998-05-21 Thread Christian Zander
hi, I recently upgraded parts of my bo system to the latest hamm versions, including libc6 (obviously). Since I did so some things have been running better than before - some ran for the first time (kde beta4) and unfortunately some things don't run anymore. I encounter the following problem when

Re: X11 S3 installation

1998-05-21 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
> ... the docs you will need for x are in /usr/doc/x11... I was not able to find the exact docs you were talking about, but I did find the program that creates XF86Config and X11 seems to work somewhat... Boy that script asked me some questions I had to dig pretty deep to figure out! > ... I lik

How to print on a Win3.x/Win95 machine ?

1998-05-21 Thread Ionut Borcoman at musa
Hi, My computer is in a Windows 3.x / Windows 95 local network. From time to time I can start it under Linux. I would like to be able to print or read files from the other computers which run MS Windows. Do I need Samba for this ? A client or a server ? On which machine ? Are there any other optio

Re: segmentation fault with glimpseindex

1998-05-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
Thomas Vaughan wrote: > >After investigating the segmentation fault that I have observed in >the e-mail report from cron.weekly, I ran glimpseindex by hand and >observed the following output. ... >Is there an easy way for me to fix this, or is it a bug that needs to >be addressed? Ther

Help on installing Deb 1.3.1 on Toshiba laptop

1998-05-21 Thread Philip Restuccia
Hello. I sent a request for help on this topic a few days ago, but have received no responses as of yet. In case I wasn't clear enough on my needs the first time, I'm trying again. If you saw the first request and just don't know of anything that would help me, then I apologize for the duplicatio

segmentation fault with glimpseindex

1998-05-21 Thread Thomas Vaughan
After investigating the segmentation fault that I have observed in the e-mail report from cron.weekly, I ran glimpseindex by hand and observed the following output. : $ glimpseindex -z -H /var/cache/man2html /usr/man/man* /usr/X11R6/man/man* /usr/local/man/man* : : This is glimpseindex version

Re: tetex installation bug

1998-05-21 Thread Thomas Vaughan
> "GM" == Gergely Madarasz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GM> On 20 May 1998, Thomas Vaughan wrote: >> No, that doesn't solve the problem, which has something to do >> with an environment variable, TEXMFMAIN. Apparently there is a >> bug somewhere that causes TEXMFMAIN to be unset when it sh

Re: How to upgrade ?

1998-05-21 Thread Tony Schonfeld
On Tue, 19 May 1998, George Bonser wrote: > On Tue, 19 May 1998, Tony Schonfeld wrote: > > > Sorry for this basic question, > > but to upgrade a package it's simple necessary to use Dselect , > > but when i want upgrade a distribution by example debian 1.3 to 2.0 > > the Base packages are auto

Re: burning hamm on CD.(deleting links)

1998-05-21 Thread Cesar Talon
On 21-May-98 Liran Zvibel wrote: > It is NT here. I am going to delete the identical files, my question is, > whether to delete from binary-all or from binary-i386. The duplicate files are on binary-all. On binary-i386 you'll find symlinks to the ones on the *-all tree. So, if you don't want to

Re: burning hamm on CD.

1998-05-21 Thread Liran Zvibel
It is NT here. I am going to delete the identical files, my question is, whether to delete from binary-all or from binary-i386. TIA, Liran. --- http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ On Thu, 21 May 1998, Peter Paluch wrote: > Hello, > == > > > Hi, > > I downloaded the Hamm/main at work, the pr

burning hamm on CD.

1998-05-21 Thread Liran Zvibel
I didn't see it, I hope it isn't the third time the list receives this question... Liran. I sent this earlier today, but our server had some problems, and I'm not sure whether it got the list. I'm sorry if you read it twice. Liran. Hi, I downloaded the Hamm/main at work, the problem is that th

Re: burning hamm on CD.

1998-05-21 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello, == > Hi, > I downloaded the Hamm/main at work, the problem is that the size of the > tree is about 760 MB. I want to burn it to CD, but it won't fit. > > I noticed that a lot of packages are identical in the binary-0i386 and > binary-all, can I remove the identical ones from the binary

Re: binary-i386 + binary-all >650 MB = CD size...

1998-05-21 Thread Thomas O. Kruse
Hi, well the main, contrib and non-free stuff is more than 650MB, too. I don't know how to burn an installable CD out of it, do you? Bye, Thomas -- Thomas Kruse   < >  Telefon:  (+49)2501-276527 Heideggerstrasse 4 < >  Fax:  (+49)2501-276528 48165 Muenster < > G e r m a n y   

ppp, PII/P90, ioctl(SIOCADDRT) device route: Network is down(100)

1998-05-21 Thread Joost Witteveen
Hi, I've got two computers here, both with an (about) 3 weeks old debian-hamm distribution, one P90, and one PII-233. On the P90 I can setup a ppp connection to cistron.nl (posing as provider), but my PII-233 refuses to do the same. The thing is when running "dip -v dip-script", the output on bot

burning hamm on CD.

1998-05-21 Thread Liran Zvibel
I sent this earlier today, but our server had some problems, and I'm not sure whether it got the list. I'm sorry if you read it twice. Liran. Hi, I downloaded the Hamm/main at work, the problem is that the size of the tree is about 760 MB. I want to burn it to CD, but it won't fit. I noticed tha

Re: Linux AGP and VIA chipsets

1998-05-21 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Wed, May 20, 1998 at 12:42:31AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 1. Does anyone else have a motherboard baised on a VIA Apollo 3 AGP > > chipset with 1Mb cache RAM? Or do I need a Intel 430TX type for > > absolute reliability/compatability? I'm looking at Biostar, DFI, and FIC > > brands. >

Re: tetex installation bug (way around)

1998-05-21 Thread Cesar Talon
On 20-May-98 Thomas Vaughan wrote: >: $ dpkg --configure tetex-base tetex-bin >: Setting up tetex-base (0.9-6) ... >: /usr/bin/texconfig: No $TEXMFMAIN; set the environment variable or in >: texmf.cnf. > No, that doesn't solve the problem, which has something to do with an > environment variable,

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 01:57:39AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Thu, 21 May 1998 08:45:42 +, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > > >Does the stampede format even SUPPORT dependancies? > > Yes it does, minimally. I'm not familiar with DEB but what I liked about > SLP was that it was just a TGZ w

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-21 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 21 May 1998 08:45:42 +, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: >Does the stampede format even SUPPORT dependancies? Yes it does, minimally. I'm not familiar with DEB but what I liked about SLP was that it was just a TGZ with the package information appended to the end. So instead of being a

[off-topic] light comic relief

1998-05-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Apologies for the offtopicness, but a bit of light relief with a mention of Linux .. MICROSOFT TESTS NUCLEAR DEVICE AT SECRET HANFORD FACILITY REDMOND (BNN)--World leaders reacted with stunned silence as Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) conducted an underground nuclear test at a secret facility in eastern

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-21 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
[This thread prolly belongs on -user more than -devel] On Wed, May 20, 1998 at 02:54:38AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > This is what I got from the Stampede's FAQ: > > How is Stampede Linux better than Debian Linux? > > + glibc2 in the standard distribution We're closer to standard

binary-i386 + binary-all >650 MB = CD size...

1998-05-21 Thread Liran Zvibel
Hi, I downloaded the Hamm/main at work, the problem is that the size of the tree is about 760 MB. I want to burn it to CD, but it won't fit. I noticed that a lot of packages are identical in the binary-0i386 and binary-all, can I remove the identical ones from the binary-all? TIA, Liran Zvibel.

inetd and ftpd

1998-05-21 Thread Igor Mozetic
After upgrade of netbase (3.09-1) (the latest hamm) there are two ftp entries in inetd.conf: ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.ftpd ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/ftpd The second one is for wu-ftpd-academ, so I outcommented the first one. I

Why fetchmail didn't download my e-mail ?

1998-05-21 Thread Ionut Borcoman at musa
Hi, (Background: my home computer is connected via ppp to my isp; my home pc is debian.borco.net; the isp server is mail.mailbox.ro; i use fetchmail to get the mails after I connect to the isp via ppp. For reading and writing I use Netscape Mail, which reads from the local machine and sends mails

Some scripts cause ksh to core dump

1998-05-21 Thread Francois Gouget
Hi, I'm using ksh to run some scripts that generate java code. INormally I would run these scripts on a Solaris (thus the ksh) but it's so much faster on my Linux box... :-) Anyway, today I got one script which is crashing ksh !!! ~/javaSDK/generate> sdk SQLViewEntity S

ppp... help

1998-05-21 Thread Matthew D. Myers
I am having a terrible time getting on the internet with linux. Can someone give me a good set of scripts and instructions on how to accomplish this? I can dial with both kermit and minicom, but when I try to use the scripts in the how-to it doesn't dial, and sometimes logs me off. -- To UNSU

Re: Debian as mail server and firewall

1998-05-21 Thread Thomas J. Malloy
Thanks for all the help. I told my friend the basic plan. He will let me know tonight if I have the go ahead. I think he wants to try it himself one last time. I'll let you know what happens. Thanks again -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

StarOffice 4.0 and Faxing

1998-05-21 Thread Damir J. Naden
G'day everybody -- has anyone successfuly set up SO4.0 (under hamm system) to fax directly from the application- to avoid "save to file (as .ps)" method? I'm using efax, can fax from the command line, can fax directly from Lyx0.12, but can't do much more than initialize the modem by using faxlpr "

Re: Adaptec aic 7895 aha2940

1998-05-21 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 20 May 1998, Telesforo L wrote: > I am trying to install debian linux in a 2 400mhz processors with a > host adpater Adaptec AIC-7895 but when I try to install the debian linux > linux don't detect the host adapter. How can i solve this problem? You need a 2.0.34 type kernel to make t

Re: X windows, Dselect, and then some...

1998-05-21 Thread Greg Norris
> (2) I've tried to find graphics drivers for my AccelGraphics (permedia II > chip set) by 3d labs, but I have been unsuccessful. I did find one, but it > had .xqa files w/o no readme on how to install it. It kinda looked like a > windows .ini file listing all RAMDACs, Resolutions, megahertz. An