RE: Lan Tcp/ip Question

1998-07-20 Thread Tomt
At 01:47 PM 7/20/1998 -0400, you wrote: >Do you have the IP-Masquerade / IP-Firewall package installed? (I forget >the actual name.) I had similar problems after installing the ipmasq >tools. Seems the install scripts set up a really strict rules set to >protect the Linux machine from attack over

RE: 2 Xsessions?, 2 graphics cards?

1998-07-20 Thread servis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (21 Jul) | On 20-Jul-98 Stuart Marshall wrote: | > Is there some way to run more than one X session on my debian PC? | > | > Ideally I would do something like run an 8-bit depth xdm session | > that logged me into a remote sun computer and a second X session | > that is 16-bit de

Re: Lan Tcp/ip Question

1998-07-20 Thread Tomt
At 10:44 PM 7/19/1998 -0700, you wrote: >It may be useful for you to assign the NIC's address to something other >than 0x300. A lot of different (very different even!) cards try to use >0x300 (sound cards, primarily). Theres a sound card in the machine but its sitting on 0x330 >Also you may want to

RE: 2 Xsessions?, 2 graphics cards?

1998-07-20 Thread Ted Harding
On 20-Jul-98 Stuart Marshall wrote: > Is there some way to run more than one X session on my debian PC? > > Ideally I would do something like run an 8-bit depth xdm session > that logged me into a remote sun computer and a second X session > that is 16-bit depth that is my local session. If it re

New ncurses breaks dialog

1998-07-20 Thread Mike Schmitz
Dialog segfaults & dumps core after I upgraded ncurses. Versions: ncurses-base1.9.9g-8.8 ncurses-bin 1.9.9g-8.8 ncurses-term1.9.9g-8.8 ncurses3.0 1.9.9e-2.1 ncurses3.4 1.9.9g-8.8 ncurses3.4-dev 1.9.9g-8.8 dialog 0.9a-12 If you want to see the core

Re: Getting Samba working on BO

1998-07-20 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks for the reply Mirek, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 1998 at 10:30:59AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > (...) > > How do I get Samba working on my BO system. I used dselect to download and > > install it. I have looked through the files but I have not seen anything > > with

2 Xsessions?, 2 graphics cards?

1998-07-20 Thread Stuart Marshall
Hi, I am a happy debian user (since 0.93R6) and I am wondering if I can do something a bit unusual. I suffer from having 2 computers in my office, one is a debian PC, the other a sun workstation. I would really like to cut that down to just the PC by using a remote sun computer. Is there some

Re: Pine not building from source

1998-07-20 Thread aqy6633
> dpkg-buildpackage > > It cranks through the building process than errors at the end. Run it as a root. (There are other methods, but this is the simplest) Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Y

Pine not building from source

1998-07-20 Thread Keith
I have tried about three time to build a debian package from the Pine 3.96L files that I downloaded from the debian server. I have all three files it runs through the whole thing, but all I get is a tech-notes package. These are the files that I downloaded: pine_3.96L-2.diff.gz pine_3.96L-2.dsc p

Re: Fwd: LBA or not LBA

1998-07-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
You wrote: > Hi All > > What setting's have I have to choose > (for Linux to work fine - of course!) > in the BIOS for my harddisk? > > It ist a 2.1 GB Seagate > > a) USER 2.1 .. .. .. .. LBA > b) USER 2.1 .. .. .. .. NORMAL > > > For Dos, it is LBA - I know... Linux will recognize the entir

Fwd: LBA or not LBA

1998-07-20 Thread Martin Schulze
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RE: Linux via un terminal (OOPS)

1998-07-20 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Hi, my previous message was supposed to go in debian-french and not debian-user. Sorry for any inconveniences -- Laurent PICOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: is enlightenment 0.14 available as a deb package ?

1998-07-20 Thread Shaleh
E is where you were told to find it. It will appear in slink within the next week or so. There are some Redhat'isms to clean up. Apparently it writes to your .xinit files and some such. Also the new Imlib (1.7) has problems, so Imlib 1.6 was re-released by me. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsub

RE: Lan Tcp/ip Question

1998-07-20 Thread Patrick Ouellette
Do you have the IP-Masquerade / IP-Firewall package installed? (I forget the actual name.) I had similar problems after installing the ipmasq tools. Seems the install scripts set up a really strict rules set to protect the Linux machine from attack over the net. The rules were so strict I couldn

Re: hdparm

1998-07-20 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> Hi... >> >> Umm: >> >> /dev/hda: >> Timing buffer-cache reads: 64 MB in 1.61 seconds =39.75 MB/sec >> Timing buffered disk reads: 32 MB in 6.87 seconds = 4.66 MB/sec >> >> Buffer-cache reads? Uh... explain that to me please, this particular UDMA >> can't go past 33 MB/s. >> >> But I d

Re: Portuguese Keyboard

1998-07-20 Thread Ana Graca Silva
On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Ups... I forgot to mention that it was under de command line and not for X (the machine dosen't have X yet) But thanks, i'll save it for after X installation... >If you're running X, the XKEYBOARD server extension in XFree86 should allow >you to do >

I need sendmail 8.9.1 help

1998-07-20 Thread Gabor Z. Papp
Hi, please respond to me in private email. Debian 1.3 Kernel 2.0.34 Sendmail 8.9.1 I compiled the source, but looks like, something wrong, because newaliases says always this: Cannot rebuild aliases: not database format defined. I need only the simplest aliases file, just for remapping root and p

Re: is enlightenment 0.14 available as a deb package ?

1998-07-20 Thread Frank Barknecht
G. Kapetanios hat gesagt: // G. Kapetanios wrote: > I was wondering if enlightenment v. 0.14 has been made available as a > debian package. If not, any ideas when it will happen ? > George It's done. Take a look at: http://www.livenet.net/~shaleh/software/enlightenment By the way: E was release

Re: Dtime of Inodes

1998-07-20 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Jul 20, 1998 at 08:16:57AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All, > > I got hamm installed on my system. Everytime el2fsck runs, I get the message > 'Deleted inode 1234 has a dtime of zero. Fix ' > > Why does this message come? well... you don't want to run e2fsck on a mounted files

Re: Portuguese Keyboard

1998-07-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
If you're running X, the XKEYBOARD server extension in XFree86 should allow you to do this. Inside of Section "Keyboard" you can try the line: XkbKeymap "xfree86(pt)" And make sure you don't disable the extension by having the line XkbDisable In this section. Once you're inside X you ca

Re: Where could I find Gnome v.2.0 packages ? Thanks.

1998-07-20 Thread Frank Barknecht
Nuno Carvalho hat gesagt: // Nuno Carvalho wrote: > > Where could I find Gnome v.2.0 packages ? Thanks. > It's gnome v. 0.20, and you'll have to look in the unstable tree called slink on your debian ftp-server. Or take a look at Jim Pick's website: www.jimpick.com He is the maintainer for gno

Re: problems with X in hamm

1998-07-20 Thread Carlo U. Segre
On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: > Hi... > > Perhaps you should try downgrading to an older version of the X > servers/packages? > Probably, I will do that but it will require installing 1.3 fresh since a downgrade of just the X packages is not possible. Carlo <-

Re: problems with X in hamm

1998-07-20 Thread Carlo U. Segre
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Michael B. Taylor wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 04:16:08PM -0500, Carlo U. Segre wrote: > > > > I have been trying to install a new machine with the frozen hamm > > distribution and I am running into 2 problems with X11. > > > > 1. No user outside root is allowed to start

Re: problems with X in hamm

1998-07-20 Thread Carlo U. Segre
On Sat, 18 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am not using hamm, but is the wrapper /usr/X11R6/bin/X suid root? yes it is. Carlo <---> Carlo U. Segre Associate Professor of Physics Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL 60616 Voice:(312) 567-3498 FAX:

D2.0 on Tosh 460CDT pcmcia questions?

1998-07-20 Thread tony mollica
Hi. I'm trying to make an install of Debian 2.0 on a Toshiba 460CDT and the install goes OK except for the pcmcia stuff. I'm using the tecra disks, the system is up and running but the following errors regarding pcmcia are present on boot: pcmcia_core.o unresolved symbol apm_unregister_callbac

is enlightenment 0.14 available as a deb package ?

1998-07-20 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I was wondering if enlightenment v. 0.14 has been made available as a debian package. If not, any ideas when it will happen ? George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROT

Portuguese Keyboard

1998-07-20 Thread Ana Graca Silva
Hello Debian Community! I was wondering if someone could save me some time on finding information about how to configure Debian to map portuguese keys and use the portuguese keyboard layout. thanks ... |\___/| .0.0. (= - =) Ana Graça Silva <> uuu uuu [EMAIL PROTECTED] <> <><>

Re: php3: unsupported or undefined function

1998-07-20 Thread Adam Heczko
Your /etc/php3.ini should looks like : (...) ;; ; Dynamic Extensions ; ;; ; if you wish to have an extension loaded automaticly, use the ; following syntax: extension=modulename.extension ; for example, on windows, ; extension=msql.dll ; or under UNIX, ; ex

Illegal Seek (Sendmail)

1998-07-20 Thread Mark A. Bialik
Hello: Can anyone tell me the possible reasons I'd be getting these errors in my mailq? Machine is running Debian Linux with Sendmail 8.8.8... the machine that these messages are trying to get to is also running sendmail 8.8.8 (SCO UnixWare 2.1). KAA13042 5112 Mon Jul 20 10:50 <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: hdparm

1998-07-20 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | Timing buffered disk reads: 32 MB in 6.87 seconds = 4.66 MB/sec > | > | Buffer-cache reads? Uh... explain that to me please, this particular UDMA > | can't go past 33 MB/s. > > The fastest disks manufact

Re: Keeping Machine Up - Advice Needed

1998-07-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I highly recommend diald. It is highly configurable and resilient. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > Tomorow I am leaving the country for about a month and I would like to > ensure that my machine stays up and online the whole time so I can telnet in > and access certain files. - So does

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-07-20 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: > Hi... > > What's blackbox? :) It's a new window manager from Brad Hughes. Kinda cool, but I can't compile it. So I'm asking for a debianized package. > Alex > > On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Richard L. Alhama wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 01:48:54 +0800

fetchmail error

1998-07-20 Thread Cheng Dien Yiu Anthony
Hello all, I have problems with fetchmail. Everytime I execute fetchmail -a -F to download emails from my ISP server POP3 protocol, it justs hang there. But if I use netscape mail to download email using POP3 protocal, there is no problem. Can someone tell me what's wrong? Thanks Anthony --

Re: hdparm

1998-07-20 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hi... | | Umm: | | /dev/hda: | Timing buffer-cache reads: 64 MB in 1.61 seconds =39.75 MB/sec | Timing buffered disk reads: 32 MB in 6.87 seconds = 4.66 MB/sec | | Buffer-cache reads? Uh... explain that to me please, this particular UDMA | can't go

Re: how to run binary prg?

1998-07-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
"K.Y.Lo" wrote: >Hi > >I had compile the code to create new binary file > >I want to execute BINARY program >here is message:- > >$ Chmod 755 Hello >$ Hello >bash: Hello: command not found Your search path does not include the current directory. `./Hello' should work. `echo

Dtime of Inodes

1998-07-20 Thread vaidhy
Hi All, I got hamm installed on my system. Everytime el2fsck runs, I get the message 'Deleted inode 1234 has a dtime of zero. Fix ' Why does this message come? Thanks, Vaidhy -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: how to run binary prg?

1998-07-20 Thread Daniel ANDRE
K.Y.Lo wrote: > > Hi > > I had compile the code to create new binary file > > I want to execute BINARY program > here is message:- > > $ Chmod 755 Hello > $ Hello > bash: Hello: command not found I think that . is not in your PATH so you must type ./Hello instead of Hello -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Where could I find Gnome v.2.0 packages ? Thanks.

1998-07-20 Thread Nuno Carvalho
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Re: No PINE debian package?

1998-07-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: : Hi... : : I'm running a Pine binary package. I think he meant that he couldn't find : a Pine binary package at all. Of course that's what he meant, and for good reason - there is no Pine binary package in hamm. That's why I described how to create one. -

Re: Configuring GNOME v.20?

1998-07-20 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Ok, I've got a .xinitrc file that starts a window-manager et. al. > However, X's startup sequence seems to be dysfunctional; it no longer > reads /etc/X11/Xresources automatically. I have to include an xrdb line > in .xinitrc to force it to read Xresources. I never used an .xinitrc > fi

how to run binary prg?

1998-07-20 Thread K.Y.Lo
Hi I had compile the code to create new binary file I want to execute BINARY program here is message:- $ Chmod 755 Hello $ Hello bash: Hello: command not found Help me Thanks alot -- Cheers K.Y.Lo Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/nul

Re: Configuring GNOME v.20?

1998-07-20 Thread Ed Cogburn
Maarten Boekhold wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > I've installed the GNOME packages, but I missed the message during > > install that mentioned making a change to /etc/X11/window-managers. I > > now have no window manager running, and I can't for the life of me > > figure

Re: No PINE debian package?

1998-07-20 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
jason and jill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's included in the distribution and available for download from > www.debian.org. > > Can't get much more available than that unless you contract Pam Anderson > to deliver it to your home. ;) > > He may have missed it because it's in non-free rather

Re: Custom Rescue Disk kernel

1998-07-20 Thread dpk
Building the kernel with ramdisk and initrd support rescue disk mounted in /mnt dir cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /mnt/linux rdev /mnt/linux /dev/ram0 gzip -c /usr/src/Linux/System.map > /mnt/sys_map.gz After booting, the disk start the existing linux partition, inst

Re: No PINE debian package?

1998-07-20 Thread jason and jill
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Re: Configuring GNOME v.20?

1998-07-20 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > I've installed the GNOME packages, but I missed the message during > install that mentioned making a change to /etc/X11/window-managers. I > now have no window manager running, and I can't for the life of me > figure out what I'm supposed to do to get the

Re: make

1998-07-20 Thread David Z. Maze
phillip Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: pN> Im not so sure about what packages do i need to run the "make" pN> command. Which one do i need ?? The quick answer to your question is just the 'make' package. If you're actually going to try to compile programs using make, though, you probably w

RE: Drive mounting

1998-07-20 Thread Richardson,Anthony
Should be: mkdir /dos mount -t msdos /dev/hdb6 /dos The mkdir command only has to be given once. The mount command needs to be given everytime you log in (or you can edit the /etc/fstab file so that the partition is automatically mounted). The second logical partition on the second drive is hdb

Configuring GNOME v.20?

1998-07-20 Thread Ed Cogburn
I've installed the GNOME packages, but I missed the message during install that mentioned making a change to /etc/X11/window-managers. I now have no window manager running, and I can't for the life of me figure out what I'm supposed to do to get the GNOME system running. There's nothing helpful i

Re: [filsin@bigfoot.com: libs again.........]

1998-07-20 Thread Frank Barknecht
Martin Schulze hat gesagt: // Martin Schulze wrote: > - Forwarded message from Phillip Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > hi users... > > Hi, i've donwload the lates .deb packages of E. econfig still dont want > to play with me. I have donwload the libgtk-perl package from > ftp.debian.co

php3: unsupported or undefined function

1998-07-20 Thread Guido Bozzetto
I'm trying to use postgreSQL and php3 together but don't work. I've seen the php3 installed files and also the calendar php3 module don't work. What's wrong, what can I do ? Here are the messages: Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function pg_connect() Fatal error: Call to unsupported

Re: hdparm

1998-07-20 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Jul 20, 1998 at 02:33:33AM -0700, Alexander wrote: (...) > Buffer-cache reads? Uh... explain that to me please, this particular UDMA > can't go past 33 MB/s. (...) Buffer-cache read == read from memory (RAM) to memory - this test speed of your memory system. Mirek -- Unsubscribe? mai

Custom Rescue Disk kernel

1998-07-20 Thread Gabor Z. Papp
Please respond me in private email, thanks. I want to put my own kernel into rescue disk, but after rebooting I get always the existing linux setup, instead of starting the installation. Building the kernel with ramdisk and initrd support rescue disk mounted in /mnt dir cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i38

Re: LOST /dev/zero file. HELP!!!

1998-07-20 Thread Alexander
Hi... Wouldn't makedev also need some of the /dev/* files? Alex On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Will Lowe wrote: > Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 15:48:09 -0400 (EDT) > From: Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: LOST /dev/zero file. HELP!!! > Rese

Re: LOST /dev/zero file. HELP!!!

1998-07-20 Thread Alexander
Hi... Ok. You can use the mknod command to re-create all the files in /dev. But here is the information you will need. This is a complete listing of every file I have in /dev (including stuff from the makedev package, ignore that if you please...): crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 30, 1 Jul 14

Re: your or redhat?

1998-07-20 Thread Alexander
Hi... Um, I've heard Red Hat has better stuff for GUIs and such. Probably what you want. Of course, if you don't like the fact that it's commercial, you can always switch to Debian. :) Alex On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Ken Gray wrote: > Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 13:51:17 -0500 > From: Ken Gray <[EMAIL PRO

Re: hdparm

1998-07-20 Thread Alexander
Hi... Umm: /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 64 MB in 1.61 seconds =39.75 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 32 MB in 6.87 seconds = 4.66 MB/sec Buffer-cache reads? Uh... explain that to me please, this particular UDMA can't go past 33 MB/s. But I do believe I heard of a UDMA/66 or so

Re: Cross-compile to Windows NT

1998-07-20 Thread Alexander
Hi... Well, my two cents: Java is lame. Slow, VERY slow, and lame. And abused. (I don't feel like having my web browser start lagging whenever I decide to look at some "cool" web page.) Alex On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 11:15:00 -0700 (PDT) > From: "Steph

Re: xbase broken?

1998-07-20 Thread Alexander
Hi... Um, yeah. dpkg --purge xbase, then reinstall it. That's the only solution I could come up with... (either that or create the files it wants, i.e. the source file that mv is complaining about) Alex On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Michael B. Taylor wrote: > Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 13:54:00 -0400 (EDT)

Re: Freetype

1998-07-20 Thread Alexander
Hi... Lazy rtfmers are not tolerated. :) Alex On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Richard L. Alhama wrote: > Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 23:18:30 +0800 (PHT) > From: "Richard L. Alhama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian-User-Mailing-List > Subject: Freetype > Resent-Date: 17 Jul 1998 15:07:39 - > Resent-From:

Re: problems with X in hamm

1998-07-20 Thread Alexander
Hi... Perhaps you should try downgrading to an older version of the X servers/packages? Alex On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 11:34:56 -0400 > From: Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Carlo U. Segre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Debian Users Mailing

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-20 Thread Alexander
Hi... I think there's a core file in /proc/ for each process. Alex On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 16:29:17 +0100 (BST) > From: "C.J.LAWSON" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Keith Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "C.J.LAWSON" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], >

Re: Long text file to edit..

1998-07-20 Thread Alexander
Hi... The problem with beav is it's mostly built as a hex editor. Of course, I haven't used it or any emacs-style editor much. They're so, ugh, unfriendly! :) (ok, ok, I'm a weenie, I admit it.) Alex On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Nelson Posse Lago wrote: > Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 12:11:13 -0300 (EST) > F

Re: ADDUSER AND >8 Usernames?

1998-07-20 Thread fantomas
-> once again just in the raw case that it was missed -> how does one go about getting a username longer than -> 8 charachters added? I don't recomment adding longer usernames then 8 chars because most of SW isn't made to support them and thus most of progr would fail on them. -- Matus "fantom

Re: Keeping Machine Up - Advice Needed

1998-07-20 Thread Carl Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Tomorow I am leaving the country for about a month and I would like to > ensure that my machine stays up and online the whole time so I can telnet in > and access certain files. - So does anyone have any tips on things I should > do / measures to put in place

Re: Getting Samba working on BO

1998-07-20 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sun, Jul 19, 1998 at 10:30:59AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: (...) > How do I get Samba working on my BO system. I used dselect to download and > install it. I have looked through the files but I have not seen anything with > debian specific information in it. I have a win95 system on th

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-20 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > > On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Brian White wrote: > > > > Assuming that forking a "kamakazi" child is not an acceptable > > > solution, is there some way of capturing the image of the process from > > > the kernal? > > > > Hmmm... That's interesting. Assuming there is no library/system call > > t

Re: Long text file to edit..

1998-07-20 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > On Sun, Jul 19, 1998 at 12:23:59AM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: > > On 17-Jul-98 Carlos Marcos Kakihara wrote: > > > I want to edit a 700MB text file. vi tells that the file is > > > too long, and xemacs tells that "maximum buffer size something.." :) > > > There is a way to view this

Re: passwords at Debian's FTP site

1998-07-20 Thread Damon Muller
On Sun, 19 Jul 1998 10:05:28 +0100 (BST) (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anonymous ftp (i.e. you respond "anonymous" when asked for user name) DOES > typically ask for a password, but entering any syntactically correct email > address at this point is usually sufficient (though some sit

Re: Moving a life to a dos box

1998-07-20 Thread Damon Muller
On Sat, 18 Jul 1998 14:29:11 -0400 John McPeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed GNU/LINUX and I need to get a file (ppp.log) from my > linux box to my dos box. As you may be able to tell I am trying to > learn about unix from books. My original problem is with making a ppp > con but

Kernel Warning???

1998-07-20 Thread Pure Energy
Hello everyone, This is a new one to me.. can anyone explain what this kernel warning means and why i'd suddenly get it?? I'm running 2.0.33 on a current hamm system. Jul 20 03:35:13 timberwolf kernel: Warning: dev (03:09) tty->count(1) != #fd's(2) in do_tty_hangup --Rob --

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-07-20 Thread Alexander
Hi... What's blackbox? :) Alex On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Richard L. Alhama wrote: > Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 01:48:54 +0800 (PHT) > From: "Richard L. Alhama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian-User-Mailing-List > Subject: Unidentified subject! > Resent-Date: 19 Jul 1998 17:37:43 - > Resent-From: de

Re: Replacement for ftpd

1998-07-20 Thread Alexander
Hi... Dunno, but proftpd (Debian package available by that name in hamm) seems like a very nice ftpd. Alex On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Yosef B wrote: > Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 23:18:13 +0200 > From: Yosef B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Replacement for ftpd > Resent-

Re: No PINE debian package?

1998-07-20 Thread Alexander
Hi... I'm running a Pine binary package. I think he meant that he couldn't find a Pine binary package at all. Alex On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 17:42:54 -0500 (CDT) > From: Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Keith Alen Vance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > C

Re: Lan Tcp/ip Question

1998-07-20 Thread Alexander
Hi... It may be useful for you to assign the NIC's address to something other than 0x300. A lot of different (very different even!) cards try to use 0x300 (sound cards, primarily). Also you may want to try pinging the machine's own address on the ethernet. See what that produces. Aside from that

make

1998-07-20 Thread phillip Neumann
Hi, Im not so sure about what packages do i need to run the "make" command. Which one do i need ?? Thanks, Phillip Neumann, [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.c

Lan Tcp/ip Question

1998-07-20 Thread Tomt
Hi Everyone, Question for anyone who knows much about networking under Debian. I have two computer one is running Debian Linux. Kernel 2.0.29 and the other is running Windows Nt Workstation Sp3. Now heres what I'm trying to get done is the two machines to connect up and let the debian download st

Re: Hard drive spindown settings

1998-07-20 Thread Alexander
Hi... Um, if this is possible you might want to do a software spin-down thing. Have a daemon watch for disk activity, and if there is none in a set amount of time (30 sec?) the hard disk will be suspended and SIGSTOP will be sent to update. Then the daemon will send SIGCONT to update and spin the

Re: netscape-help!!

1998-07-20 Thread Alexander
Hi... Bah. Use fetchmail then; it's probably a better idea anyway. (make it a cron job or something; then you can download your mail on demand too) Alex On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Phil wrote: > Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 09:49:20 -0500 > From: Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >

cdrom error? (instalation)

1998-07-20 Thread Jake Munson
I am attempting to install debian with floppies. I successfully get through all the installation until I attempt to install the kernel and modules. It installs stuff from the rescue floppy fine, but when installing from the drivers disk, I get the following error: --- lib/modules

Re: Keeping Machine Up - Advice Needed

1998-07-20 Thread servis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (19 Jul) | | One thing that happens occasionally is that my ISP has problems and | their gateway will stop working and packets don't get out, but it doensn't | actually disconnect. So I was thinking I should put something in my cron.daily | to restart the ppp connection -

Re: Printing

1998-07-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Iryx Shan'kar wrote: > Some times ago I have installed debian 1.3. But awful... Impossible to > print. I succeed only in printing text, but no pictures or formated text. I > have a canon BJC 620. Please help... Install magicfilter and gs-aladdin. Select the bjc600-filter in

Printing

1998-07-20 Thread Iryx Shan'kar
Some times ago I have installed debian 1.3. But awful... Impossible to print. I succeed only in printing text, but no pictures or formated text. I have a canon BJC 620. Please help... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null