I am using Hamm in production since before it was beta. It runs very
very nicely. Also, you get all the new packages that are not in Bo.
Also, think about this: I, as a developer, have forgotten about Bo.
When I make a new release of the packages I maintain (Samba, for
example) I release it only f
This is a vague recollection of a conversation a long time
ago and it may be incorrect.
Sybase has not been ported to Linux, but it has been ported
to SCO.
There is a essentially free one user version of SCO.
King
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Please send replies t
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It's been in testing for a long time and is *VERY* stable, IMO.
> It hasn't been released yet because the folks running Debian feel that
> there are too many bugs.
They want perfection and they're right ! :)
> That's up to you. Does Bo do everyt
On Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 10:25:16AM -0500, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
> > --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> >
> > Clue required, please. I've never had XF86 give me an error like this one.
> >
> > I just completed transferring my existing hardware to a new
>
There is a good HOW-TO at http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html
I would also suggest using Hamm and the latest version of BIND if that is not a
problem for you. The HOW-TO is based on BIND version 8 and it makes it easier
to
follow the examples given. Also, I found help from a Debian u
> 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.
At least the package th
Please send replies to this address for now,
as my sister was nice enough to allow me to borrow
her account until I get settled in here.
For practical learning purposes (need a job), I
need to know if anyone on this list has installed a
Sybase server (beta, maybe?) under Debian and how.
Nuno Carvalho said
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Debian 1.3.1 (bo) and I would like to download from ftp the
> Debian 2.0 (hamm)
> but it's Beta Test, right !?
>
It's been in testing for a long time and is *VERY* stable, IMO.
It hasn't been released yet because the folks running Debian feel that
ther
Hi,
I'm using Debian 1.3.1 (bo) and I would like to download from ftp the
Debian 2.0 (hamm)
but it's Beta Test, right !?
Should I wait till it wouldn't be beta test to have a more "stable"
system !?
Best regards,
Nuno Carvalho
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> Hi all,
>
> Can someone please explain to me how to USE /etc/alternatives. I know
> what it is for but how does one take advantage of the links in it?
> Should it be the first item in the PATH? What? The man page is
> basically useless, Ch. 10 of the Developers Manual
Yeah, me again. Now I am looking for how to setup DNS addresses for a PPP
connection. I have tried making a resolv.conf file and that did not work.
Any help would be appreciated.
Scott
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Hi all,
Can someone please explain to me how to USE /etc/alternatives. I know
what it is for but how does one take advantage of the links in it?
Should it be the first item in the PATH? What? The man page is
basically useless, Ch. 10 of the Developers Manual just explains what
alternatives are
I, unfortunatley, have an Alliance Promotion 6422 "card" integrated into my
motherboard. For years, I've run the non-accelerated SVGA server at 640x480 at
16 bits per pixel - i could get 800x600 at 16bits per pixel in windows (until i
finally took it off last week!).
i have been able to get 800
On Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 10:45:35PM +0200, Frank Jonischkies wrote:
>
>
>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-3stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.pop3d
>> to /etc/inetd.conf (c
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 (c
Now and then when I try to do 'plog'--always under same login--I
am greeted with 'tail: /var/log/ppp.log: Permission denied'.
If this happened always or never it would make much more sense,
but *sometimes*?
This is for "the deep ones".
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I was going to try and set up mgetty to allow me to call my machine from
elsewhere for either ppp or shell access so I could connect from pretty much
any machine with a modem. I need to also be able to locally initiate an
outgoing call from this machine on the same modem for ppp or dialup access
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debian developers:
My problem with installing the beta version of Debian 2.0 seems to be
centered around the /usr/sbin/install-info script. This script is
included in the dpkg package. It seems that every time this script is
called from a pre or post installation or removal script of a package
(
On 30 Jun 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> >>"Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Dale> I never said "demand" anything. I am talking about "higher
> Dale> education" for users, not binding them to a post in the town
> Dale> square and giving them 20 lashes.
>
> ;-
Hi,
>>"Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dale> I never said "demand" anything. I am talking about "higher
Dale> education" for users, not binding them to a post in the town
Dale> square and giving them 20 lashes.
;-) Well said. I agree with this post, completely. (If yo
>> --=_899193828==_
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>>
>> Thanks to everyone. I got pppd to connect to my isp. Under plog I see
>> where a serial connection is established and it shows a link between ppp0
>> and ttyS2. But shortly after the link is created, it h
On 30 Jun 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> >>"Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Dale> On 29 Jun 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
> >> Umm, no. It would be nice if they did it, but a novce user is
> >> perfectly free to just file a bug report. I know I often do. I find
>> "mt" == matthew tebbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
mt> I found www.ml.org which is just what I was looking for.
mt> What you have below is also an option.
I would try www.ddns.org. They do dynamicaly update their dns server (or
resolve addresses using a database, don't remember).
So a updat
>> "F" == Forseti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
F> Ich habe vor zwei monaten schon einmal versucht, mit hilfe eines
F> abstrusen howtos auf die glibc upzudaten, mit dem Resultat der Notwendigkeit
F> einer kompletten neuinstallation
Guck dir mal http://www.debian.org/news.html#19980624 an. Die au
Dale Scheetz wrote:
>
> On 29 Jun 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > >>"Rob" == Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > Rob> Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >> What I am requesting is that the submitter of a bug take some time, in
> > >> exchange for the time the
Geeze, the crossposting is horrendous. I don't see this as a policy
issue, so followups to debian-devel or debian-user only please.
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 29 Jun 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > Make bug reporting any more onerous than it is, and peole
> > merely sto
On Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 10:25:16AM -0500, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. spewed forth:
> try "X :1 -bpp 8 -query localhost"
>
> (assuming that you're using xdm. use similar arguments without the query for
> startx)
No xdm here. If I try to start X in 8bpp, I get garbage and have to zap the
server.
Hi,
>>"Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dale> On 29 Jun 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Umm, no. It would be nice if they did it, but a novce user is
>> perfectly free to just file a bug report. I know I often do. I find
>> an error, usually that by itself is a frustrating e
There was enough interest that I felt it was worth posting my
configuration for mirroring the Debian frozen distribution.
Note that my mirror is behind a firewall and I have to do ftp via a
proxy, so there may be something I'm doing in my configuration that
won't work on machines out in the open.
Ivan wrote:
>
> Hello ,
>
> I asked a question re:xfvm95 recently. Is it that no-one can/will help or
> am I not supposed to ask questions re:xfvw95 on this list ?
>
> If the latter please tell me where to go possibilities of this !>
>
> Ivan.
>
More than likely, those who saw your
I found www.ml.org which is just what I was looking for.
What you have below is also an option.
Thanks !
Matthew
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> The new BIND 8 supports dynamic updates (or so I hear). I'm not sure how
> you'd get
> this working since I've not done it myself bu
The new BIND 8 supports dynamic updates (or so I hear). I'm not sure how you'd
get
this working since I've not done it myself but this is probably where you want
to
look. The new operation is IXFR (just as you suspected).
matthew tebbens wrote:
> At a local ISP I have a co-located system.
> Is
* Ivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Hello ,
|
| I asked a question re:xfvm95 recently. Is it that no-one can/will help or
| am I not supposed to ask questions re:xfvw95 on this list ?
|
| If the latter please tell me where to go
Try again! So much mail flies on this list that I (and others)
miss ma
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Ossama Othman wrote:
> I am exporting some ext2 filesystems from my Debian box to a Solaris
> machine. While the export works, the Solaris automounter complains about
> network locking not being available on my Debian box. Is network locking
> supported in hamm? If so, how
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am exporting some ext2 filesystems from my Debian box to a Solaris
>machine. While the export works, the Solaris automounter complains about
>network locking not being available on my Debian box. Is network locking
>suppo
W Paul Mills wrote:
>
> Did you try asyncmap 0 in your ppp options?
>
> On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Sture Palminger wrote:
>
> >
> > 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 secon
At a local ISP I have a co-located system.
Is it possible to dial-in to the ISP on a NON-dedicated
line, and have my home system tell my co-located system
its IP address. So I can setup the co-located DNS with
the same hostname that works...each time my home system
connects ?
I assume this would b
Hi,
I am exporting some ext2 filesystems from my Debian box to a Solaris
machine. While the export works, the Solaris automounter complains about
network locking not being available on my Debian box. Is network locking
supported in hamm? If so, how do I enable it?
Thanks,
-Ossama
Hi,
Asking a question about fvwm95 probably isn't so bad since there is a
Debian package for it. Not getting a response doesn't necessarily mean
that you did something wrong. Some people are just more interested in
questions or answers that are related to them in some way or just find
interestin
> --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> Clue required, please. I've never had XF86 give me an error like this one.
>
> I just completed transferring my existing hardware to a new case/motherboard.
> If it matters, I went from a P90 to a dual P133. I moved over the
Hello ,
I asked a question re:xfvm95 recently. Is it that no-one can/will help or
am I not supposed to ask questions re:xfvw95 on this list ?
If the latter please tell me where to go
Ivan.
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On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Brian Weiss wrote:
> 1.3 or you can just not run X and wait for S.u.S.E. to make libc6 bins
> available. Good luck with your system.
According to SuSE the problem in my case is not libc5 (or I wouldn't be
able to run X -probeonly anyway...) but rather a general problem with
E
Hi! Debian Fans,
(1) What is the difference between SB
AWE-64 Valve
and SB AWE-64
Gold?
(2) I wanted to upgrade my modem from
33.6K to 56K
(my ISP supported 56K), can it be
improve the speed
of download and
do I need changed something (
configuration
& etc.) to
Hi,
I am currently looking at buying Accelerated X from Xi graphics (think thats
correct), as I am looking at buying a Matrox Millenium G200, but I am wondering
how compatiable it is with Debian? i.e. how easy it is to install etc..
Regards
Graham
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mark A. Bialik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Be aware that qpopper has been subject to buffer overflow exploits the
>past few days.
And a new qpopper has been in Incoming since Saturday.
>Patches were posted, but today a new series of attacks
>proved the patches wort
We use hp interfaces and emulex interfaces here. Both of them can be
used by nt directly. When defining the printer in the print manager,
pick other for the "print to" box. Then pick "LPR port". You have to
enter the name (or ip-addr) of the remote system and the name of the
printer. Emulex us
So, somewhere in the midst of my regular hamm updates, Netscape seems to
have fallen off the bus. AFAIK, nothing else has changed netscape-wise.
My installation is current as of last night (using dselect+apt-get); I
even tried reinstalling Netscape completely. Moving my ~/.netscape and
~/nsmail fol
On 29 Jun 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> >>"Rob" == Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Rob> 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 veri
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Alex Kwan wrote:
> Hi! Debian Fans,
>
> (2) where is the packages of Netscape Communicator V.4.05
> for hamm? does it working well and stable?
You'll find the installer in frozen/contrib/web and the binaries on any
netscape mirror.
it works very well :-)
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"Alex Kwan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> (1) I want to upgarde my Linux system to 2 x Pentium-II system,
> and I have read the document "Installing Debian Linux 2.0" on
> www.debian.org , at chapter 4.13 "Multiple Processors"
> have following words:
>
> "If you compile software on a multiproces
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.
>
> Any idea how this can be done? I tried some escape sequence but doesn't
> work.
using `clear` in .bash_logout is fine, but if you are like me, an
Hi!
Debian Fans,
(1) I want to upgarde my Linux system to 2 x Pentium-II
system,
and I have read the document "Installing Debian
Linux 2.0" on
www.debian.org , at chapter 4.13
"Multiple Processors"
have following words:
"If you compile software on a multiprocessor system,
look for the
Hi,
since some time less (or lesspipe) when displaying compress texts reports:
/bin/bash: option -c requires an argument when I Quit displaying a text.
The text (or deb, nice script manoj :-) is displayed correctly, its only a
little annoying to get this message everytime I quit less. I dont rememb
On Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 08:15:57AM +, Damon Muller wrote:
> > Part of the problem is that we pay for bandwidth used in Australia --
> > $230/Gb on most of the backbones. It's just a bit cheaper to get
> > a CD from the USA.
>
> If any of the (hopefully many) Australian debain users on the list
>> Brandon Mitchell wrote:
>> >On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Jieyao wrote:
>> >
>> >> I was trying to do a clear screen after I logout from the console
before t
>> >he login
>> >> prompt appears.
if you are using bash as your shell then just create a .bash_logout file in the
users home hirec
Brandon Mitchell wrote:
>On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Jieyao wrote:
>
>> I was trying to do a clear screen after I logout from the console before t
>he login
>> prompt appears.
>
>A better twist on all the clear suggestions that are shell specific:
>
>$ clear >new.issue
>$ edit new
>
> 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/Xre
Hi Folks,
> Part of the problem is that we pay for bandwidth used in Australia --
> $230/Gb on most of the backbones. It's just a bit cheaper to get
> a CD from the USA.
If any of the (hopefully many) Australian debain users on the list come
accross a reasonably priced hamm CD in Australia, a qui
Hi Folks,
Just a little story that I thought might amuse people.
I've come to the realisation that a debain rescue disk is every bit as
essential for an aspiring linux trouble-shooter as a DOS system disk
with cd-rom drivers and Norton Disk Doctor is for the Windoze variety of
hacker.
We have a
Sorry to follow up on my own post. I did attach my XF86Config but I either
screwed up, or something ate the second attachment to my previous message.
Here's the config...
PeeWee
# **
# Files section. This allows default font an
Clue required, please. I've never had XF86 give me an error like this one.
I just completed transferring my existing hardware to a new case/motherboard.
If it matters, I went from a P90 to a dual P133. I moved over the disks, RAM
and boards - everything but the P90 motherboard.
Everything works
Thanks to everyone. I got pppd to connect to my isp. Under plog I see
where a serial connection is established and it shows a link between ppp0
and ttyS2. But shortly after the link is created, it hangs up. I have
enclosed a excerpt from /var/logs/ppp.log
Thanks for any help ahead of time
Scott
J
I too have noticed a ppp slow down on my bo system. A while back I
updated a bunch of packages, and I think ppp was one of them. Here is
what I think I know about that, even though I dont understand it.
I think that /etc/ppp/options used to have:
mru 542
That line is commented out in the most r
Did you try asyncmap 0 in your ppp options?
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Sture Palminger wrote:
>
> 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 av
On Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 04:48:43PM -0700, Steve Mayer wrote:
> 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
Brian Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm running hamm, 2.0.33 kernel, and need to connect several printers on
> our campus to the linux print server (whatever that may be: I don't
> know. Is there a print server type package I need to have installed?)
> All the printers will have ip address
Jay Barbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...agree with Jens... SAMBA is the way to go. I wondered, just out of
> curiosity,
> was Win98 packaged with a LPR utility yet? Thought since NT 4 does have
> the support maybe 98 did.
As far as I know the lpr command in Windows NT is command-line
ori
Steve Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
Th
> 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?
Just download .deb file and install it with
dpkg -i apt*.deb
(as root).
Alex Y.
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Hi Adrian Monk; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
> 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
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Make bug reporting any more onerous than it is, and peole
> merely stop filing reports.
I suppose there is something to that.
> For the most part the maintainer knows the bugs on a package
> better than anyone else, and the maintainers
Hi,
>>"Rob" == Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Rob> 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
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Patrick Scott Pierce wrote:
> 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
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