Re: connect to Samba from DOS

1998-06-29 Thread Steve Mayer
Paul, Try ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/Clients/LANMAN/ There should be four disk images there that give you a the DOS LanManager client. This should work. You can also use Lantastic 7.0 with the encapsulated NetBIOS and SMB support. Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul Miller wrote: > > I'm

Re: connect to Samba from DOS

1998-06-29 Thread Simon Blake
Paul - there was a MS TCP/IP package for DOS that let you access lanman shares. It was NDIS based, but presumably could be coerced into working over packet drivers with a shim. Cheers Si On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > > I'm looking for a DOS program to connect to Samba shares (via

connect to Samba from DOS

1998-06-29 Thread Paul Miller
I'm looking for a DOS program to connect to Samba shares (via a TCP/IP packet driver). Anyone know of such a program? Where can I get it? Thanks -Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

major problems for me upgrading to Debian 2.0

1998-06-29 Thread James D. Freels
I started with the libc5-2-libc6 howto. That went OK. Then I proceeded to install packages via dselect. Thank went OK. I might point out that there were a large number of new packages. Very impressive! However, I did not add anything new at this stage; just upgrading at this point. All the pa

Re: Bug reporting proceedure, was Re: Bug#24066: libc6: rsh segfaults as , a result of new libc 2.0.7r2

1998-06-29 Thread Rob Browning
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I am requesting is that the submitter of a bug take some time, in > exchange for the time they expect from the maintainer, and verify that the > bug has not been reported already. If it has, it is appropriate to send > the maintainer a confirmation t

Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux?

1998-06-29 Thread Brian Weiss
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Shaleh wrote: > The various office suites for Linux have slide presenters in them. I am > fairly sure that both Star Office and Applixware do. There may also be > a generic slide tool presenter. However I am sure the GUI lacks a great > deal compared to a professional offi

Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux?

1998-06-29 Thread Yamamoto Hirotaka
Adrian Monk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anybody know whether there is an equivalent for Linux/Unix of the MS > Powerpoint prog for preparing slides for overhead projector? My wife has > to use this prog for preparing slides for medical lectures and because of > it (and a private practice in

need more info please

1998-06-29 Thread Babs
I need to update from stable to frozen. The directions i was given don't seem quite clear to me. Previous directions: Sure. Install the apt package for 'bo' (http://master.debian.org/~jgg/) and run "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade". Install it how?? From dselect or what? I have been to a few

Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux?

1998-06-29 Thread Shaleh
The various office suites for Linux have slide presenters in them. I am fairly sure that both Star Office and Applixware do. There may also be a generic slide tool presenter. However I am sure the GUI lacks a great deal compared to a professional office. These office suites are NOT free, but th

Powerpoint equiv. for Linux?

1998-06-29 Thread Adrian Monk
Does anybody know whether there is an equivalent for Linux/Unix of the MS Powerpoint prog for preparing slides for overhead projector? My wife has to use this prog for preparing slides for medical lectures and because of it (and a private practice invoicing prog) I have to keep a Windows 95 partiti

Re: SOLUTION? how to hold mail in another machine temporarily

1998-06-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Carlos Carvalho wrote: : Hi folks, : : I asked some days ago here how to make another machine hold the mail : while the main mail server is down. People told me to put another MX : record in the dns to point to the temporary machine. : : Sure this is necessary, but I don't t

Re: SMP, again

1998-06-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: : Steve wrote, : : > That's it. : : hmm, still doesn't seem to do it. My Makefile now reads, [ snip ] : and top still shows no signs of a second processor :( : : Am I still missing something? It's dual P-II's (gateway ns7000) We have a

Re: xterm

1998-06-29 Thread Joerg Friedrich
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: > It seems like somewhere along the way, xterms stopped calling themselves > 'xterm' but 'xterm-debian'. Nice. The rest of the world has no idea what > a 'xterm-debian' is. What do I have to hack to make it back into 'xterm'? in /etc/X11/Xresources is a line

Re: SOLUTION? how to hold mail in another machine temporarily

1998-06-29 Thread Simon Blake
Carlos qmail (www.qmail.org) has a feature called smtproutes that allows you to set up a machine with a higher MX to hold the mail in a local queue until the machine with the lower MX comes back up, then deliver to the main box. No additional users needed, and it works well. Cheers Si On Mon,

SOLUTION? how to hold mail in another machine temporarily

1998-06-29 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Hi folks, I asked some days ago here how to make another machine hold the mail while the main mail server is down. People told me to put another MX record in the dns to point to the temporary machine. Sure this is necessary, but I don't think it's enough. First, the temp machine must recognize al

Re: How to enable pop3?

1998-06-29 Thread Joerg Friedrich
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote: > How can I enable pop3 support in Debian 1.3.1? > I added a line saying: > pop-3 stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.pop3d > to /etc/inetd.conf (copied that from Slackware), but in.pop3d seems > not to exist in Debian (che

Modem slowdown after hamm upgrade?

1998-06-29 Thread Simon Blake
Hi there I've a dual PPro unit that has been a 33K6 PPP PAP dialin server for the last year (hamm for the last 3 months), and worked fine, so long as I ran pppd v2.2 - I kept the old binary lying around and just symlinked it back in after every ppp update from hamm, because the v2.3 binary didn't

Re: SMP, again

1998-06-29 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Steve wrote, > That's it. hmm, still doesn't seem to do it. My Makefile now reads, ARCH = i386 # # For SMP kernels, set this. We don't want to have this in the config file # because it makes re-config very ugly and too many fundamental files depend # on "CONFIG_SMP" # # NOTE! SMP is experime

Re: SMP, again

1998-06-29 Thread Steve Mayer
Rick, That's it. Have a good one, Steve Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > steve wrote, > > > From what I've experienced, this should be > > > SMP=1 > > Ahah. recompiling. So this is a 1 means use it, but defaults to 0/don't, > rather than the number of processors? > > thanks > > r

Re: SMP, again

1998-06-29 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
steve wrote, > From what I've experienced, this should be > SMP=1 Ahah. recompiling. So this is a 1 means use it, but defaults to 0/don't, rather than the number of processors? thanks rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: SMP, again

1998-06-29 Thread Jesse Goldman
My understanding of this was that SMP was a logical flag which, when set to 1, would automatically handle any number of processors up to 16 or so. Perhaps 16 is going a bit far but it works fine with 2. J. Goldman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: SMP, again

1998-06-29 Thread Steve Mayer
Rick, From what I've experienced, this should be SMP=1 Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > hmm. I don't seem to be getting this. From what I've read, All I need for an > SMP kernel is to change two lines to /usr/doc/linux/Makefile, so that it reads > > # NOTE

Re: Debian Mirror

1998-06-29 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
matthew tebbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I keep a local debian mirror of the i386 stuff for both stable & frozen, | for a bunch of people here at the isp, and a few friends. | | Anyways, | I think I have the mirror config file and local directories setup | correctly. Is anyone also mirroring

SMP, again

1998-06-29 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
hmm. I don't seem to be getting this. From what I've read, All I need for an SMP kernel is to change two lines to /usr/doc/linux/Makefile, so that it reads # NOTE! SMP is experimental. See the file Documentation/SMP.txt # SMP = 2 # # SMP profiling options and then do the normal make, lilo,

Re: Permedia 2 AGP gfx card with Debian ?

1998-06-29 Thread Brian Weiss
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Lars Steinke wrote: > Hi there, > > I had a tad bit of problems getting a GLoria Synergy AGP by ELSA to run > using the XSuSE_Elsa_GLoria server (as XFree cannot support binary-only > servers). > > One of the problems might be that SuSE still uses libc5 while I am > installi

Re: help: ethernet doesn't work

1998-06-29 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Wimme wrote: > Herez the prob: I have a 3Com Etherlink III (3c509) ISA card, static IP > and a cable modem. By this I assume you mean that the 3Com card goes to the cable modem, and the cable modem goes out to the Internet, right? Make sure that you've set up the route pro

RE: Linux/WinNT dual booting

1998-06-29 Thread Richardson,Anthony
Check out the Linux+NT-Loader mini-HOWTO. Basically run LILO to create a Linux boot sector. Here's an example lilo.conf: compact boot=/dev/hdb6 image=/vmlinux root=/dev/hdb6 read-only This assumes that Linux is installed on the second logical partition on disk 2. Change hdb6 as needed.

Bug reporting proceedure, was Re: Bug#24066: libc6: rsh segfaults as , a result of new libc 2.0.7r2

1998-06-29 Thread Dale Scheetz
Before I start whining ;-) I want to thank Steve for the useful information in his bug report, and although his bug report is a duplicate report, and that is what I am here to complain about, I appreciate his report and am not directing this at him specifically. I have never experienced this probe

Linux/WinNT dual booting

1998-06-29 Thread Paul Miller
How can I boot WinNT4 using LILO or boot Linux using WinNT? I have a MS-DOS partiton that currently boots MS-DOS or WinNT (using WinNT's boot menu), but I can't figure out how to specify a Linux partition in the boot.ini file. As an ugly work around, LILO boots Linux or MS-DOS. Then if MS-DOS,

Re: Download speed

1998-06-29 Thread Sture Palminger
Hi Andreas Thanks for your message. The modem is an external whith cables supplied whith the modem. The configuration of the modem port is: /dev/ttyS1, Line 1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3 Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0 closing_wait: 3000, closing_wait2: inf

Re: Download speed

1998-06-29 Thread Sture Palminger
Hi Troy Thanks for your message. Yes this is a pppd connection.I have played around with mtu and mru but ther is no bigger change. Did your second suggestion and dialed upp the only BBS available around here. The download speed was ~1.5 Kb/s (run with minicom 115200 8N1 CTS/RTS). The spee

Re: two suggestions re autoup.sh

1998-06-29 Thread Bob Hilliard
Hi, It's not my script - that honor belongs to Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who saw the need and developed it. I made some minor contributions, and wrote the README. The necessity of running dselect several times is a dpkg/dselect issue that is well known, and is mentioned in inst

No ncurses color in hamm xterms

1998-06-29 Thread servis
On my hamm system I have recenly lost color on ncurses applications running in xterms. This recenly started happening but I can't recall which packages changed to create the problem. Has anybody else seen this happening? Things like dselect, mc, the kernel make menuconfig all work but are only

Permedia 2 AGP gfx card with Debian ?

1998-06-29 Thread Lars Steinke
Hi there, I had a tad bit of problems getting a GLoria Synergy AGP by ELSA to run using the XSuSE_Elsa_GLoria server (as XFree cannot support binary-only servers). One of the problems might be that SuSE still uses libc5 while I am installing Debian 2.0 Beta... Actually it should work nevertheles

Re: How to clear screen before login prompt

1998-06-29 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Jieyao wrote: > I was trying to do a clear screen after I logout from the console before the > login > prompt appears. A better twist on all the clear suggestions that are shell specific: $ clear >new.issue $ edit new.issue # whatever editor you want $ mv new.issue /etc/is

Debian Mirror

1998-06-29 Thread matthew tebbens
I keep a local debian mirror of the i386 stuff for both stable & frozen, for a bunch of people here at the isp, and a few friends. Anyways, I think I have the mirror config file and local directories setup correctly. Is anyone also mirroring the i386 stable and/or frozen ? Maybe you can look at

Re: Linux print server, windows machines

1998-06-29 Thread Jay Barbee
> > All the printers will have ip addresses, via HP jetdirect boxes and > > cards. I will have several laptops that will need to be able to print > > to these printers. All the laptops will be running windows 98. ...agree with Jens... SAMBA is the way to go. I wondered, just out of curiosity,

Re: How do I get exim to work?

1998-06-29 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote: >> >> > As root exim -bp shows the queue. >> >> I re-installed exim (I think for the last time now). I can see the queue. >> All the messages are reported to be frozen. Eximon does show some >> messages. >> >> > This is because you are running as u

Re: How to clear screen before login prompt

1998-06-29 Thread Jay Barbee
> Jieyo, > > Add the 'clear' command to your .bash_logout file. > I would like to see this in the debian dist by default. ...added to /etc/skel. I think it is very handy. --Jay Barbee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: How to enable pop3?

1998-06-29 Thread Mark A. Bialik
> You will need to install a pop server package. Hamm has both qpopper > and cucipop and I believe at least qpopper is in 1.3.1. Be aware that qpopper has been subject to buffer overflow exploits the past few days. Patches were posted, but today a new series of attacks proved the patches worthle

Re: How to clear screen before login prompt

1998-06-29 Thread Shaleh
Unless you are tied to agetty for a reason, mingetty does this automatically. Works similar to Sun's console getty. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: Linux print server, windows machines

1998-06-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Brian Morgan wrote: > I've got kind of a rather lengthy question about windows machines > printing to a linux print server. I'm rather new at this, but was asked > to investigate these possibilities. Any help I could get would be > great. > > I'm running hamm, 2.0.33 kernel, and need to connect

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Re: How to clear screen before login prompt

1998-06-29 Thread Steve Mayer
Jieyo, Add the 'clear' command to your .bash_logout file. Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jieyao wrote: > > I was trying to do a clear screen after I logout from the console before the > login > prompt appears. > > Any idea how this can be done? I tried some escape sequence but doesn't > work

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Re: CTRL+ALT+DEL reboot in X

1998-06-29 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 11:10:14PM +0200, Oskar Liljeblad wrote: > Is there a way to make CTRL+ALT+DEL shutdown and reboot the computer in X? I have this in my .fvwm2rc. You will need to setup sudo to use it though. AddToMenu Quit +"Quit fvwm" Quit +"Reboot" exec sudo reboot -t n

Re: How to enable pop3?

1998-06-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote: > How can I enable pop3 support in Debian 1.3.1? > I added a line saying: > pop-3 stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.pop3d > to /etc/inetd.conf (copied that from Slackware), but in.pop3d seems > not to exist in Debian (che

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Re: xterm

1998-06-29 Thread jdassen
On Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 11:41:08AM -0400, Tim Sailer wrote: > It seems like somewhere along the way, xterms stopped calling themselves > 'xterm' but 'xterm-debian'. Nice. See http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/22/22668.html > The rest of the world has no idea what a 'xterm-debian' is. What do I have >

Re: How to enable pop3?

1998-06-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How can I enable pop3 support in Debian 1.3.1? >I added a line saying: >pop-3 stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.pop3d Don't do that, in.pop3d is not included with the standard installation. You n

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Linux print server, windows machines

1998-06-29 Thread Brian Morgan
I've got kind of a rather lengthy question about windows machines printing to a linux print server. I'm rather new at this, but was asked to investigate these possibilities. Any help I could get would be great. I'm running hamm, 2.0.33 kernel, and need to connect several printers on our campus t

Re: Where is Netscape?

1998-06-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Shaul wrote: > > If you want a v4 version, get the v4 version of the .deb installer. > > Is there a .deb v4 installer for Bo ? It seems to me that the ftp sites are > only keeping the one for Hamm ? Supposedly this also works for bo. Bob Nielsen Intern

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-29 Thread David Wright
On 27 Jun 1998, Brederlow wrote: > [snip] > > > A bit more info would be nice. I for one would be quite happy just to > > have a record of what has been printed on the screen. > > Your right, the detailed messages would go to a logfile and maybe to a

Re: How to clear screen before login prompt

1998-06-29 Thread danair
Jieyao wrote: > > I was trying to do a clear screen after I logout from the console before the > login > prompt appears. > > Any idea how this can be done? I tried some escape sequence but doesn't > work. > > TIA. > __o __o __o __o > __\_))__\_))__\_))__\_))___.

xterm

1998-06-29 Thread Tim Sailer
It seems like somewhere along the way, xterms stopped calling themselves 'xterm' but 'xterm-debian'. Nice. The rest of the world has no idea what a 'xterm-debian' is. What do I have to hack to make it back into 'xterm'? Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buo

Re: How do I get exim to work?

1998-06-29 Thread Johann Spies
On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote: > As root exim -bp shows the queue. I re-installed exim (I think for the last time now). I can see the queue. All the messages are reported to be frozen. Eximon does show some messages. > This is because you are running as user, and you do not have pe

Re: Matrox Millenium G200

1998-06-29 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> Hi all, >> >> Does anyone know if the Martox Millenium G200 is compatiable with XFree? >> Its a >> new AGP card, and I amd asking if it compatiable before I go out and buy it. >> If not does anyone know where I could go and find out if it is? Not yet. Xi Graphics do have an X server, but i

Re: How to enable pop3?

1998-06-29 Thread Jieyao
You need to install the pop3 package Last I know there were 2 packages that can do pop3 I think one is called qpopper. > How can I enable pop3 support in Debian 1.3.1? > I added a line saying: > pop-3 stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.pop3d > to /etc/inetd.conf (copie

How to clear screen before login prompt

1998-06-29 Thread Jieyao
I was trying to do a clear screen after I logout from the console before the login prompt appears. Any idea how this can be done? I tried some escape sequence but doesn't work. TIA. __o __o __o __o __\_))__\_))__\_))__\_))___. --\---\

Re: Autoup Upgrade

1998-06-29 Thread Gregory Guthrie
Bob, Thanks for the clear and informative message. I think this should be included with the autoup.sh documentation, it certainly explains things not described there. Gregory Guthrie - At 10:53 PM 6/28/98 -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: >Hi, > During the upgrade, au

Efax setup in inittab

1998-06-29 Thread Jay Barbee
Is anyone out there using EFAX and PPPD on the same modem. I wanted to strat EFAX in inittab to autoanswer any incoming calls, but still be free for diald to still use the modem (while not receiving a fax) to make the internet connection. All attempts send EFAX hogging the modem whether it is

Re: hamm upgrade/c++ libraries

1998-06-29 Thread Ed Cogburn
Phil Dyer wrote: > > I upgraded to hamm yesterday and have run into a problem. > I used autoup.sh with an ftp connection to get the required packages. > Now I cannot compile c++ code, as it cannot find the libs. (iostream.h, > fstream.h, string, list, etc). > > Doing a locate says they are nowher

Re: Moving from Ethernet to modem

1998-06-29 Thread David Wright
On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Ted Cabeen wrote: > When I set my system up on Debian, it was connected directly to an ethernet > link, so the entire system is set up to expect connections. Now, I've > had to move away from my direct connection and I need to close out all > of the systems that rely on that

Re: Where is Netscape?

1998-06-29 Thread Ed Cogburn
Shaul wrote: > > > If you want a v4 version, get the v4 version of the .deb installer. > > Is there a .deb v4 installer for Bo ? It seems to me that the ftp sites are > only keeping the one for Hamm ? > Oops, you're right; there isn't a v4 installer for bo. The hamm version is in con

wu-ftpd hangs in local network

1998-06-29 Thread Jay Barbee
Hello all, I cannot figure out what is wrong with my two debian systems at home. It seems that whenever I FTP into that it connects almost instantly, but hangs for about a minute or two before the login prompt appears. Name resolution is not the issue, what is? --Jay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

How to enable pop3?

1998-06-29 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
How can I enable pop3 support in Debian 1.3.1? I added a line saying: pop-3 stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.pop3d to /etc/inetd.conf (copied that from Slackware), but in.pop3d seems not to exist in Debian (checked the Contents-i386 file) Stef -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Problem installing a package with dpkg

1998-06-29 Thread Ed Cogburn
Katharine Osborne wrote: > > I'm trying to install the xlib6g package and am > getting the following error: > > dpkg: error processing xlib6g_3.3.2.2-1.deb > (--install): > trying to overwrite > '/usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6.3', which is also in > package xlib6 > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed

Re: installing a modem under debian 1.3

1998-06-29 Thread Ed Cogburn
scott hussey wrote: > > I am a very novice Linux/Debian user and am trying to setup minicom. I am > curious about how to get minicom to recognize my modem. I read in the man > page that most linux systems have the serial port as /dev/modem or > /dev/cua#. How can I get Linux to install my modem a

Re: Newton connectivity?

1998-06-29 Thread Ted Cabeen
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carl Fink writes: >Does anyone have any suggestions (or FAQ pointers) for someone using a >Newton MessagePad 2100 with Debian Linux? I have been offered a >really good deal on one (next thing to free). > >I currently have a Bo system because I'm waiting for official

Re: postgres intallation failed

1998-06-29 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 06:29:17AM +0200, Oliver Elphick wrote: > The bug is not in base-passwd but in postgresql. I used adduser to create > the account if it did't exist, but I had not noticed that `adduser --system' > assigns /bin/false as the shell. I have changed postgresql-6.3.2-11 > to use

Re: hamm upgrade/c++ libraries

1998-06-29 Thread dyer
Brandon Mitchell wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Phil Dyer wrote: > > > I upgraded to hamm yesterday and have run into a problem. > > I used autoup.sh with an ftp connection to get the required packages. > > Now I cannot compile c++ code, as it cannot find the libs. (iostream.h, > > fstream.h, str

Re: adding pcmcia module for updated kernel

1998-06-29 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
In a message Tom Kuiper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I recently installed the 2.0.33 kernel. Now I want to add the pcmcia | module, which is in a separate package. This module is already | installed for the previous version of the kernel, 2.0.30. I strongly | suspect that I cannot just create a

Re: hamm upgrade/c++ libraries

1998-06-29 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Phil Dyer wrote: > I upgraded to hamm yesterday and have run into a problem. > I used autoup.sh with an ftp connection to get the required packages. > Now I cannot compile c++ code, as it cannot find the libs. (iostream.h, > fstream.h, string, list, etc). Have you run the res

Re: Man + Latex

1998-06-29 Thread Waldemar Żurowski
Dennis Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jens Ritter suggestion, I downloaded the 'sgml-tools' package which has > the file 'linuxdoc-sgml.sty'. This not working, I renamed the > 'linuxdoc-sgml.sty' file to 'linuxdoc.sty', which also didn't work. Hello, Perhaps you should just make an symbo

Re: mailx problem

1998-06-29 Thread Gregory Green
Loic, One thing I did recently was upgrade to Hamm using apt-get. Mailx is the only problem I have noticed since then. But now I think in the future I may get other problems since it looks like it is only half-done. When I do a dpkg -l on mialx I get : Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Sta

hamm upgrade/c++ libraries

1998-06-29 Thread Phil Dyer
I upgraded to hamm yesterday and have run into a problem. I used autoup.sh with an ftp connection to get the required packages. Now I cannot compile c++ code, as it cannot find the libs. (iostream.h, fstream.h, string, list, etc). Doing a locate says they are nowhere on the system. Is there a pac

compiling argus-1.7.beta.1b

1998-06-29 Thread danair
Has anyone had any luck compiling argus-1.7.beta.1b under hamm? Dan.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt and passive ftp

1998-06-29 Thread Patrick Scott Pierce
I have not looked into the underbelly of apt but I assume it is using the ftp protocal. Going on that assumption, can or is it utilizing passive ftp? I have no difficulties at home w/ apt but at work it dies like an ugly beast. My first thought was the passive ftp issue. -- Patrick Scott Pi

RE: Debian ascentia910N

1998-06-29 Thread Mark Ciciretti
Try the tecra boot disks in ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/special/tecra/ On 29-Jun-98 in Debian ascentia910N Robert E Steward wrote: > Dear All, > Has anyone out there tried to install debian on the AST ASCENTIA > 910N laptop.I have partitioned the disk, and format

Debian ascentia910N

1998-06-29 Thread Robert E Steward
Dear All, Has anyone out there tried to install debian on the AST ASCENTIA 910N laptop.I have partitioned the disk, and formated the second partition as DOS. The rescue disk read up until "boot:".Then causes "Loading root.bin" to be displayed & then it hangs. Any suggestions welcome,

Re: anyone have libc6_2.0.7pre1-4.deb (for intel) ?

1998-06-29 Thread Peter Allgeyer
Richard Kilgore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : I'm trying to figure out what broke my rsh and rlogin to user : root. If I do "rsh -l root localhost cmd" I get :rcmd: localhost: Success : as output, the cmd never happens, and there's nothing useful in : the log files. I just recently upgraded

Re: Inoperative ls in wu-ftpd-academ

1998-06-29 Thread Harald Schueler
Am Sun, 28 Jun 1998 schrieb Bob Nielsen: > In wu-ftpd-academ 2.4.2.16-9 (hamm), I'm not getting any response to an ls > command with an anonymous connection. I know there was a bug report on > an earlier version had included libc5 files in /home/ftp/lib with binaries > linked with libc6. With tha

Matrox Millenium G200

1998-06-29 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
Hi all, Does anyone know if the Martox Millenium G200 is compatiable with XFree? Its a new AGP card, and I amd asking if it compatiable before I go out and buy it. If not does anyone know where I could go and find out if it is? Regards Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Where is Netscape?

1998-06-29 Thread Shaul
> If you want a v4 version, get the v4 version of the .deb installer. Is there a .deb v4 installer for Bo ? It seems to me that the ftp sites are only keeping the one for Hamm ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

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1998-06-29 Thread Michael Lees
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1998-06-29 Thread Michael Lees
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Subject: > > debian-user-digest Digest Volume 98 : Issue 545 > > Today's Topics: > Inoperative ls in wu-ftpd-academ > Re: older debian release? > bo --> hamm upgrade.. > autofs HOWTO > Turtle

Re: postgres intallation failed

1998-06-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
Jeff Noxon wrote: >On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 11:14:19AM +0200, Networking Wizard wrote: >> After Shared PostgreSQL library intsallation (libpgsql 6.3.2-8) >> i've been trying to inttall postgresql (6.3.2-8) severl times, >> but i did not succeed; dpkg terminates because of unspecified errors.

Re: glibc / libc6

1998-06-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Chris Massam wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if someone could tell me what the difference between glibc > and libc6 is, > > I've seen a few apps coming out these days written for libc5 or glibc , no > mention of libc6... is libc6 compatible with glibc. glibc = Gnu l

Re: glibc / libc6

1998-06-29 Thread aqy6633
> Hi all, > > I was wondering if someone could tell me what the difference between glibc > and libc6 is, > > I've seen a few apps coming out these days written for libc5 or glibc , no > mention of libc6... is libc6 compatible with glibc. libc6 is the name Debian uses for glibc2. They are just

glibc / libc6

1998-06-29 Thread Chris Massam
Hi all,   I was wondering if someone could tell me what the difference between glibc and libc6 is,   I've seen a few apps coming out these days written for libc5 or glibc , no mention of libc6... is libc6 compatible with glibc.   Cheers   Chris

anyone have libc6_2.0.7pre1-4.deb (for intel) ?

1998-06-29 Thread Richard Kilgore
I'm trying to figure out what broke my rsh and rlogin to user root. If I do "rsh -l root localhost cmd" I get rcmd: localhost: Success as output, the cmd never happens, and there's nothing useful in the log files. I just recently upgraded to libc6_2.0.7r-2, so I'm suspecting the code in rcmd

Re: installing a modem under debian 1.3

1998-06-29 Thread john
John Kloss writes: > I have been told that /dev/cua# is deprecated and that docs using > /dev/cua# are out of date... Yes. They will disappear soon. > I'm pretty sure that /dev/modem is just a symbolic link.. Yes. It's always a symbolic link. > so to make /dev/modem type ln -s /dev/ttyS2 /dev

Autoup Upgrade (Was: Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #536)

1998-06-29 Thread Bob Hilliard
Hi, During the upgrade, autoup.sh must remove several critical packages in order to upgrade them i.e. in bo, perl is one package; in hamm perl is provided by perl-base and perl. The hamm version of perl depends on perl-base, but perl-base conflicts with the bo version of perl. Therefore it i

adding pcmcia module for updated kernel

1998-06-29 Thread Tom Kuiper
I recently installed the 2.0.33 kernel. Now I want to add the pcmcia module, which is in a separate package. This module is already installed for the previous version of the kernel, 2.0.30. I strongly suspect that I cannot just create a pointer to /lib/modules/2.0.30/pcmcia in /lib/modules/2.0

Re: Problem installing a package with dpkg

1998-06-29 Thread David Z. Maze
Katharine Osborne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KO> I'm trying to install the xlib6g package and am KO> getting the following error: KO> KO> dpkg: error processing xlib6g_3.3.2.2-1.deb KO> (--install): KO> trying to overwrite KO> '/usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6.3', which is also in KO> package xlib6 K

Re: postgres intallation failed

1998-06-29 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 11:14:19AM +0200, Networking Wizard wrote: > After Shared PostgreSQL library intsallation (libpgsql 6.3.2-8) > i've been trying to inttall postgresql (6.3.2-8) severl times, > but i did not succeed; dpkg terminates because of unspecified errors. > Here is the log: > > > Unp

Re: installing a modem under debian 1.3

1998-06-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, scott hussey wrote: > I am a very novice Linux/Debian user and am trying to setup minicom. I am > curious about how to get minicom to recognize my modem. I read in the man > page that most linux systems have the serial port as /dev/modem or > /dev/cua#. How can I get Linux to

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