Re: School Proof-of-concept network

1998-08-05 Thread Joey Hess
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > b) An ethernet hub, 8 ports (I think 10Mbs is quite good > > enough). Cost? I think around $300-400, tops > > 178$cdn for a 3com Workgroup hub You can get cheap 8 port 10 base T hubs for $40 if you know where to look. (http://www.warehouse.com/datacomm/) -- see s

chmod

1998-08-05 Thread Mark Panzer
I tried using chmod to allow myself (when logged in as mark) to have access to my floppy drive. I did a chmod o+rwx /floppy but when I tried to check this with ls -ld /floppy I see that only root still has write privilages. Can someone offer some help. Mark Panzer -- Unsubscribe? mail -s

Re: Netscape and Debian for animated GIF

1998-08-05 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Erwan ESNAULT wrote: > I was wondering why a Netscape communicator (or navigator) under Debian > animates only one time an animated GIF, while under RedHat, it animates > it forever ? > This is probably not true - Netscape is a binary-only product so there's no way it can be

Re: libc6 upgrade

1998-08-05 Thread David Z. Maze
Clare Johnstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CJ> On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: EC> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AT> Should I be wary of ubgrading from libc6 2.0.6 to 2.0.7? Or can AT> I just blithely replace the library? EC> EC> As long as you aren't talking about a libc5 to libc6 upgra

Re: Password to single user boot.

1998-08-05 Thread David Z. Maze
Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: OO> By the way, I don't think I understood what you and David were OO> talking about concerning mbr and the master boot record and floppy OO> booting. Could you please elaborate? The default Debian setup allows you to select which partition to boot from,

Netscape and Debian for animated GIF

1998-08-05 Thread Erwan ESNAULT
I was wondering why a Netscape communicator (or navigator) under Debian animates only one time an animated GIF, while under RedHat, it animates it forever ? Is there a fix for this ? PS : the Netscape was installed from the Netscape original .tar.gz package on Erwan ESNAULT mailto: [EMAIL PRO

Re: messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-05 Thread Patrick Olson
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > 1. It has no provision for the possibility of fetchmail still being in > > action after 5 minutes (for example someone attaches a large file to an > > e-mail) > > > > 2. It has no way of handling a situation where fetchmail has stalled and > >

Re: using make config

1998-08-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Kennedy" == Kennedy Mutio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kennedy> I'm using Linux version 2.0.33XXX and I'm browsing around Kennedy> ftp.debian.org looking for the kernel-source and maybe Kennedy> kernel-package. I am also looking for dpkg-perl and dpkg-ftp Kennedy> because I noticed that

bind name resolution hangs for non-root users ???

1998-08-05 Thread Joseph Norton
I am having trouble with name resolution and non-root users. For non-root users, name resolution simply hangs. I haven't been able to track down the source of the problem. I'm sure that it is a simple fix, but I don't know where to start. thanks, - joe n. _

Re: libc6 upgrade

1998-08-05 Thread Clare Johnstone
And as I am quite paranoid - won't .. daren't.. use dselect.. what is the answer then? thank you clare On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Should I be wary of ubgrading from libc6 2.0.6 to 2.0.7? Or can I just > > blithely replace the library? > > > > Andre

Re: using make config

1998-08-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Kennedy Mutio wrote: > > I'm using Linux version 2.0.33XXX and I'm browsing around ftp.debian.org > looking for the kernel-source and maybe kernel-package. I am also looking > for dpkg-perl and dpkg-ftp because I noticed that my ftp option in dselect > dissapered mysteriously.

rescue disk fails boot, 486 motherboard

1998-08-05 Thread adavis
My project to build a gargabe can linux computer is stalled once again. A used 486 motherboard cannot boot the Debian rescue disks, and fails as soon as the slackware root disk is read. W/ debian disks, the kernel fails usually right after a message during kernel boot: Skipping ... PCI HBA .

Re: dwww and apache

1998-08-05 Thread joost
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just installed dwww and apache web server. I need to set up my system > as a host. How do I do it? I know I have to edit resolv.conf. My > resolv.conf has just the entries for my ISP nameserver. So how do I give > my system a IP address..? Look

tar and mail use

1998-08-05 Thread Carlos Marcos Kakihara
Hi! Thank's to the people that answer me about de 700MB file. The machine is in use, so I'll try the answers later. I have 2 more questions: First question: can I use tar to copy files into remote tapes, like dump ([EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev/rmt/0)? Second: Can I use mail with POP3 ser

Re: 2 CPUs and ps/top -- question

1998-08-05 Thread Ossama Othman
I found an answer to my question from one of my colleagues. This seems like a good thing to know so I'll post it in case anyone is interested. Here is he how checks to see how well his SMPing is working: (incidentally, these are benchmarks for a Debian 2.0 system running kernel 2.0.35 on a dual

Re: Password to single user boot.

1998-08-05 Thread Ossama Othman
> As David Maze points out, it'd also be best to NOT use mbr as the master > boot record since that will allow one to boot off a floppy and/or > another partition. > > I prefer to let LILO be the master boot record on my servers since they > only run Linux ... one less piece of software to worry a

Re: using make config

1998-08-05 Thread Kennedy Mutio
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Kennedy Mutio wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm trying to make my linux machinewh which has two ne2000 cards in i > > have > > ip forwarding. I tried this at the prompt > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux# ls > > include > > [EMAIL PROT

Re: Password to single user boot.

1998-08-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: : No problem. Have fun! :) : : By the way, perhaps lilo.conf should be readable by root only since a : password will be listed inside it, in your case. This shouldn't be a bad : thing, from what I can tell. I am glad that you asked this question since

Re: resolv.conf

1998-08-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
What have you got in /etc/nsswitch.conf? Alexander Gutfraind wrote: > Thanks for the reply! > I've checked my host.conf and I have those entries. > So what could be the problem? > > Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > In /etc/host.conf you need to have something like: > > > > order hosts,bind > > > >

Re: Password to single user boot.

1998-08-05 Thread Ossama Othman
No problem. Have fun! :) By the way, perhaps lilo.conf should be readable by root only since a password will be listed inside it, in your case. This shouldn't be a bad thing, from what I can tell. I am glad that you asked this question since I wanted to do the same thing but never actually tri

Re: Password to single user boot.

1998-08-05 Thread Liran Zvibel
Thanks!!! I should have RTFM, but I thought I remembered all lilo had to offer... Thanks again, Liran. --- http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: > Why don't you just restrict booting by using LILO's "password=" and > "restricted" in /etc/lilo.conf? Here is w

Re: Password to single user boot.

1998-08-05 Thread David Z. Maze
Liran Zvibel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LZ> We consider putting Linuxes (or should it be Linuces? )in the LZ> classes, but don't want the students to be able to boot single LZ> user and then rm -r *, or open accounts and try to get into the LZ> network. LZ> LZ> Is there an easy was to put a pass

VHDL design software for Linux?

1998-08-05 Thread Young, Ed
I'll be taking a digital hardware design class soon and am wondering if there's any VHDL design software available for Linux. Open Source, free, or otherwise. Ed -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Password to single user boot.

1998-08-05 Thread Ossama Othman
Why don't you just restrict booting by using LILO's "password=" and "restricted" in /etc/lilo.conf? Here is what the man page for "lilo.conf" says: password=password Protect the image by a password. restricted A password is only required to boot the ima

Password to single user boot.

1998-08-05 Thread Liran Zvibel
Hi. We consider putting Linuxes (or should it be Linuces? )in the classes, but don't want the students to be able to boot single user and then rm -r *, or open accounts and try to get into the network. Is there an easy was to put a password on single user boot? If not, I have and idea how to pre

RE: resolv.conf

1998-08-05 Thread John Marter
Hi, I have the exact same problem (at least last time I looked). This was true before I upgraded as well. I just did the upgrade and have another problem--my system won't boot. As soon as I fix that (I should have that figured out tonight or tomorrow as time permits), I will be devoting my att

Re: Several reasons why debian should not use bash for /bin/sh

1998-08-05 Thread Nelson Posse Lago
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Chris Ulrich wrote: > I can think of many reasons why bash should not be used as /bin/sh: > [...] > Compatibility: People are tempted to (and in fact do) write scripts that >use bash specific extensions when explicitly calling /bin/sh. >On all other unix sy

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"George" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: George> I agree. If I am speaking nonsense, just tell me what part of George> my idea is nonsense and why rather than a blanket statement George> along the lines of "The thoughts of the user community are of George> no importance to u

Re: [Debian]: Wann kommt die Debian 2.0 - CD

1998-08-05 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 5 Aug 1998, Jens Ritter wrote: | | > Please: This is an englisch speaking mailing list. Thanks, | | Some German on the list and even other languages contribute to the variety | on the list. I like it. Well, you may enjoy it but I think it would've b

hamm or slink

1998-08-05 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi, Recently I had a plan to download hamm to usu on my lab's PCs but infortunalti things go into the bad direction. There are chances that I will not be able to ftp very often. So I rashed into dillema 1. I can do know with hamm cd images or 2. ...jumpt to slink because of apt, kde and propably

Re: [Debian]: Wann kommt die Debian 2.0 - CD

1998-08-05 Thread Johann Spies
On 5 Aug 1998, Jens Ritter wrote: > Please: This is an englisch speaking mailing list. Thanks, Some German on the list and even other languages contribute to the variety on the list. I like it. Johann -- | Johann Spies

Re: resolv.conf

1998-08-05 Thread Alexander Gutfraind
Thanks for the reply! I've checked my host.conf and I have those entries. So what could be the problem? Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > In /etc/host.conf you need to have something like: > > order hosts,bind > > "bind" is what makes DNS servers get used for lookups. Without it DNS servers > will not

Source Navigator (lite)

1998-08-05 Thread Young, Ed
Has anyone used the Cygnus Solutions Source Navigator? I understand that there was an eval version around called Source Navigator Lite that only limited the size of projects it could handle, but had all the functionality of the full version. It's not available from Cygnus anymore. It loaded righ

2 CPUs and ps/top -- question

1998-08-05 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I remember that this question was asked before but I can't seem to find it in the list archives. My question is how can I tell what processes are running on a given processor using ps or top, or some other utility. SMP support has been enabled in my kernel (2.0.35). Will I need SMP profilin

Re: Diald doesn't do proper pap athentication

1998-08-05 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Hello Thanks Jens. That did the trick. Diald is working perfect now. John -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: another Xauthority problem?

1998-08-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
First thing is: are you su-ing and then running emacs? When you su you lose your XAUTHORITY environment variable. The variables points to a file which is used to authenticate you to the X server. What's more, the permissions on xauthority files are set 600 so that only the user logged in can acces

Re: using make config

1998-08-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Kennedy Mutio wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to make my linux machinewh which has two ne2000 cards in i > have > ip forwarding. I tried this at the prompt > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux# ls > include > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux# make config > make: *** No rule to make

Re: messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-05 Thread Patrick Olson
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Taren wrote: In my case, I don't think it's a problem with fetchmail itself, because any email that hangs fetchmail just happens to hang Hotmail when Hotmail tries to display it after retrieving it from my ISP via POP. > The situation where fetchmail hangs is something which

Re: Debian backup software.

1998-08-05 Thread Ed Cogburn
David Welton wrote: > > Hi, I need to back up 4 or 5 local Debian boxes, and am wondering > which of the various backup programs included in Debian have worked > well for people. I've had a look at afbackup and tob, and they seem > *ok*, but nothing spectacular. I am more interested in something

Re: libc6 upgrade

1998-08-05 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Should I be wary of ubgrading from libc6 2.0.6 to 2.0.7? Or can I just > blithely replace the library? > > Andrew Tarr > As long as you aren't talking about a libc5 to libc6 upgrade, then go ahead and let dselect/apt do their thing. -- Ed -- Unsubscr

another Xauthority problem?

1998-08-05 Thread Chris Evans
I have got Debian Hamm and X up and working and am really pleased. With help from the list I have got the recompile for SMP working and got X launching. However, I still have an X problem and can't work out the answer from the archives or the doc files I've found. The problem is under fvwm b

Re: apt?

1998-08-05 Thread Ed Cogburn
Robert Rati wrote: > > I've heard of apt, but am not sure what it is. I thought it was supposed > to be the new graphical package manager for Debian and was going to be > released in 2.0, but I can't seem to find a package for it? Is it to be > released in 2.1 or am I just looking in the wrong p

Re: resolv.conf

1998-08-05 Thread Ossama Othman
You might also want to check /etc/nsswitch.conf. You should have something like the following for the "hosts" entry: hosts: files dns -Ossama -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

using make config

1998-08-05 Thread Kennedy Mutio
Hi, I'm trying to make my linux machinewh which has two ne2000 cards in i have ip forwarding. I tried this at the prompt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux# ls include [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux# make config make: *** No rule to make target `config'. Stop. My question is what do I need to d

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "SJC" == Stephen J Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SJC> makes sense...the more upstream developers, the more exposure debian gets SJC> lets face it...when you look around and see "Linux Software" the SJC> first name you see is RedHat and the first package format (not SJC> counting tarbal

Re: gnuserv & xauth

1998-08-05 Thread Deniz Dogan
>>> "Jan" == Jan Vroonhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jan> Deniz Dogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> How can I use a normal user`s gnuserv process as root? What I >> want to do is: as root to use a normaluser`s emacs to edit some >> conf files. >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# xauth -f /ho

Re: resolv.conf

1998-08-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
In /etc/host.conf you need to have something like: order hosts,bind "bind" is what makes DNS servers get used for lookups. Without it DNS servers will not be consulted. The order says where to look first, in this case first /etc/hosts, then DNS. Alexander Gutfraind wrote: > Dear fellow Debian

resolv.conf

1998-08-05 Thread Alexander Gutfraind
Dear fellow Debian users! Here is my problem: I have desently installed hamm. run pppconfig and it works smoothly. The problems I have is with the DNS. when I type known addresses with numbers they load. but with names they don't resolve. I have only an ISP connection so my resolv.conf has two na

On A Mac 68k?

1998-08-05 Thread Dan Burke
I'm looking for some info on running Debian Linux on my Macintosh Quadra 605. I've tried http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/ but the server doesn't appear to be there. Can anyone help me out? Dan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

dwww and apache

1998-08-05 Thread vaidhy
Hi All, I just installed dwww and apache web server. I need to set up my system as a host. How do I do it? I know I have to edit resolv.conf. My resolv.conf has just the entries for my ISP nameserver. So how do I give my system a IP address..? Thanks, Vaidhy -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubsc

Re: I need an explanation!

1998-08-05 Thread Mario Filipe
On 05-Aug-98 Alex Yukhimets wrote: > > Though you converted to hamm, "gnomine" binary is still libc5-based and it > needs libc5-based X libraries. You would need to install "xlib6" package. Thank you very much! That solved it! Yepee Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: naming of newt package

1998-08-05 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 04:43:07PM +0200, Frock wrote: > Stephen J. Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What this doe sis make the version name part of the package. This is done > > because often differnt versions are incompatible with eachother. > > It i scommon with libraries > > T

Re: gnome 0.20

1998-08-05 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Mike Nachlinger wrote: > > Hi, > > Where would I find libgnome0 and libgtkxmhtml0 for gnome 0.20 > Not shown in Contents-i386 and have scrambled up & down the tree. GNOME 0.20 is on slink. it's somewhere in debian/dists/slink/x11 I think > tia, > Mike > > Admiral Chara

RE: naming of newt package

1998-08-05 Thread Frock
Stephen J. Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What this doe sis make the version name part of the package. This is done > because often differnt versions are incompatible with eachother. > It i scommon with libraries > The problem is normally when you install a new version of a packag

Re: I need an explanation!

1998-08-05 Thread aqy6633
> Can someone explain why the folowing happens: > > 15:21:35$ gnomine > gnomine: can't load library 'libX11.so.6' > > ii xlib6g 3.3.2.2-4 shared libraries required by X clients > > Everything looks like it is installed! > This is hamm system converted recently (as I'm sure some of

Re: Diald doesn't do proper pap athentication

1998-08-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
John C. Ellingboe wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to setup Diald on my Debian Linux system. The system dials > my provider and connects up but refuses to do pap authentication. The > pon/poff works properly and does do pap authentication. > > I used the same dial script used with pon as suggeste

Re: cd_autoup.sh broken... or is it me?

1998-08-05 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
I had the same problem, some files are in 'base', not in 'libs', so it is necessary to edit the cd_autoup.sh Wojtek Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: > Hello all, > > I am working from the Master CD

I need an explanation!

1998-08-05 Thread Mario Filipe
Hi Can someone explain why the folowing happens: 15:21:35$ gnomine gnomine: can't load library 'libX11.so.6' 15:29:22$ ldd /usr/local/bin/gnomine libgnomeui.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libgnomeui.so.0 (0x4000c000) libgnome.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libgnome.so.0 (0x40039000) li

Re: gnuserv & xauth

1998-08-05 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Deniz Dogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I use a normal user`s gnuserv process as root? What I want to > do is: as root to use a normaluser`s emacs to edit some conf files. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# xauth -f /home/deniz/.Xauthority extract - :0.0 | xauth > merge - > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#

Installing contrib, non-free.

1998-08-05 Thread Liran Zvibel
I'm not sure whether it was sent well last time, so I'm sending it again. Sorry if you read it twice. Hi. I mounted the debian tree through nfs. The server had main, contrib and non-free. I selected a lot of contrib and non-free packages, but in the install process they didn't get installed. What

Re: Strange thing ...

1998-08-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: : On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Mario Filipe wrote: : : > : > On 05-Aug-98 Daniel Mashao wrote: : > > I had the same problem until I was told I needed to upgrade the perl : > > library to the newer one in bo/unstable. That solved my problem. : > : > Yes! B

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-05 Thread Paul
On 5 Aug 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > OTOH, three friends of mine wanted to try Linux. I gave them Debian > and saw, that it *is* too complicated for the average Windoze user to > set up. X setup is a pain in the ass and we know it. Still one of them > wants to learn it, and I believe he w

Strange thing Solved, new problem

1998-08-05 Thread Ana Graca Silva
Remember me? Yes the one who had problems with apt! Everything is solved now (+/-)! I got other version of apt and used it to upgrade to hamm , it didn't whent very smothling but I'm up ... My new problem is the window manager - afterstep 1.4.5.3-1 . I was trying to configure my desktop when i

Re: naming of newt package

1998-08-05 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 02:36:53PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi- > > i've been wondering...why is newt named things like 'newt0.21' or > 'newt0.25' instead of 'newt_0.21' or 'newt_0.25'? > > looking at the answer to question 6.3 in the debian faq, it appears > that 'newt0.21' and 'new

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-05 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 12:25:40PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> "GB" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > GB> Debian is, quite frankly, too small to dictate to the rest of the linux > GB> community how things should be done. On the other hand, it is too good for > GB> the o

Re: Strange thing ...

1998-08-05 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 12:25:21PM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote: > On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Mario Filipe wrote: > > > > > On 05-Aug-98 Daniel Mashao wrote: > > > I had the same problem until I was told I needed to upgrade the perl > > > library to the newer one in bo/unstable. That solved my problem. >

Re: dpkg

1998-08-05 Thread Greg Starkes
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > I am trying to install packages that came along with my Debian 2.0 CD > (which is from one of the image CD). The installation utility program > "dselect" confuses me with all the different screens. So I tried dpkg > and it worked fine...for starters. I

RE: FYI: PC Mag takes a look at RedHat 5.1

1998-08-05 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
This is an extract from the PC magazine article on RH 5.1: > "For most situations a fast Pentium with 32MB or more of RAM is advisable to > run Linux 5.1." My God... A fast Pentium with 32MB... Hmmm I don't need that... But the worst is "Linux 5.1", I afraid that there *is* people that can make

Re: samba: encrypted passwords

1998-08-05 Thread servis
*- Chris wrote about "samba: encrypted passwords" | | I was wondering if there is a way to configure samba to do the following: | | - Accept unencrypted login passwords | - Update the smbpasswd file by encrypting unencrypted passwords | - Accept enrypted passwords that are in the smbpasswd file |

dpkg

1998-08-05 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
I am trying to install packages that came along with my Debian 2.0 CD (which is from one of the image CD). The installation utility program "dselect" confuses me with all the different screens. So I tried dpkg and it worked fine...for starters. I want to findout what are the different options that

Re: messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-05 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 05:21:52PM -0700, Patrick Olson wrote: > > Unfortunately, the script I created (ppp-mail) calls ppp-on, waits until > ip-up creates a file (as a signal that the connection is up), does > "fetchmail &", sleeps for 5 minutes then does a killall fetchmail and > ppp-off doesn't

FYI: PC Mag takes a look at RedHat 5.1

1998-08-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
(Not Debian, but it's still Linux coverage) http://www.zdnet.co.uk/pcmag/flooks/1998/09/redhat51.html -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

SCSI woes

1998-08-05 Thread Mario Filipe
Hi Despite the fact that I've been working with linux (for real, in a job) for the past year there are still a few things that i do not handle very well. One of those things is SCSI! And right now i have a server to install with SCSI only disks and the thing doesn't want to work. I'll explain. T

Re: apt?

1998-08-05 Thread Dominik Rothert
On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 05:07:01PM -0500, Robert Rati wrote ... > released in 2.0, but I can't seem to find a package for it? Is it to be > released in 2.1 or am I just looking in the wrong place? Hamm doesn't contain apt. You can find apt on a Debian FTP Site in /pub/de

Re: Strange thing ...

1998-08-05 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 12:25:21PM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote: > On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Mario Filipe wrote: > > > > > On 05-Aug-98 Daniel Mashao wrote: > > > I had the same problem until I was told I needed to upgrade the perl > > > library to the newer one in bo/unstable. That solved my problem. >

RE: Epson Stylus Color at 720 dpi ?

1998-08-05 Thread Ted Harding
On 05-Aug-98 Lars Steinke wrote: > I am using the Epson Stylus Color 600 and got it to print nicely using the > magicfilter package (via ghostscript, of course). Just a word of warning: > I did not succeed in printing via the 720 dpi filter, using the 360 dpi > one works fine though (actually I jus

SNA-TCP/IP interface

1998-08-05 Thread Smith, Brian N.
Does anyone know of an SNA interface for Linux? We want to prototype a SNA-TCP/IP interface. Thanks Brian Smith -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: xfstt bug in slink

1998-08-05 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 01:49:34AM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: > Oops...it's not xfstt. It's the script in init.d. > Stephen...? ;-) Hope this helps. > > Art Well this has already been reported... what version are you installing? it SHOULD be fixed in the latest version xfstt_0.9.9-5 in

Weird Rescue Disk problems

1998-08-05 Thread Matt Kopishke
Hello, I am trying to do a fresh install of Hamm (2.0 Beta cd from Cheap Bytes). My harware does not support cd booting, and I don't have dos drivers for my CD rom, so I need to use a Rescue Disk to get thing going. But I make the Disk from 1440.bin with Rawrite2, reboot, watch it load root.bin, t

Re: user limits

1998-08-05 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Paul: Yes there is -- I think. -Original Message- From: Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian User Date: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 6:20 AM Subject: user limits > >Is there any way to limit background processes? Check out the ulimit command. More specifically ulimit -u >

Installing contrib, non-free.

1998-08-05 Thread Liran Zvibel
Hi. I mounted the debian tree through nfs. The server had main, contrib and non-free. I selected a lot of contrib and non-free packages, but in the install process they didn't get installed. What am I doing wrong? BTW: When configuring X window (using xf86config), it didn't change the file /etc/X

Epson Stylus Color at 720 dpi ?

1998-08-05 Thread Lars Steinke
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Akop Pogosian wrote: > If you have epson stylus color 400 or epson stylus color > please let me know. Also,a few months ago, I found a great > site on Espon Printers under linux, but I lost it. If you > know such a site, please let me know. I am using the Epson Stylus Color 60

user limits

1998-08-05 Thread Paul Miller
Is there any way to limit background processes? Thanks -Paul -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: AIM, Netscape 4.05

1998-08-05 Thread Dirk Bonne
McGill wrote: > > Hello, > > I've recently moved to Debian 2.0 from slackware 3.2 (kernel 2.0.29), and > I am having trouble getting AOL's instant messenger (AIM) and netscape > 4.05 running. When I am in X (using WindowMaker wm... if that makes a > difference...) and type ./aim or ./netscape i

Re: AIM, Netscape 4.05

1998-08-05 Thread Brian Almeida
On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 09:23:12PM -0400, McGill wrote: > I've recently moved to Debian 2.0 from slackware 3.2 (kernel 2.0.29), and > I am having trouble getting AOL's instant messenger (AIM) and netscape > 4.05 running. When I am in X (using WindowMaker wm... if that makes a > difference...) and

Re: Building debian packages under Solaris?

1998-08-05 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 5 Aug 1998, Dale E. Martin wrote: > Just curious if anyone had done it. Christoph Lameter compiled some Debian packages for Solaris some time ago. You may look in the debian-devel mailing list archives. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset

Re: [Debian]: Wann kommt die Debian 2.0 - CD

1998-08-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JR" == Jens Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JR> Please: This is an englisch speaking mailing list. Thanks, Yes, I know. My fault. I read the german and international list in one folder and choose the wrong function to reply. It went to -users by accident. Ciao, Martin -- U

Re: Market Debian? (was Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?)

1998-08-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "GB" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GB> On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, George R wrote: GB> locations every time it is run. Even if you run it Red Hat's UUCP package GB> through alien, it will continue to look in /usr/lib/uucp for its configs GB> rather than the proper /etc/uucp directory.

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "GB" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GB> Debian is, quite frankly, too small to dictate to the rest of the linux GB> community how things should be done. On the other hand, it is too good for GB> the other distributions to ignore.I think they all secretly desire to be GB> as well

Re: Strange thing ...

1998-08-05 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Mario Filipe wrote: > > On 05-Aug-98 Daniel Mashao wrote: > > I had the same problem until I was told I needed to upgrade the perl > > library to the newer one in bo/unstable. That solved my problem. > > Yes! But do you know where to get these packages nowadays! In ot

libc6 compatability

1998-08-05 Thread Jeremy Cook
Hello, I just upgraded to Debian 2.0. Now I'm not sure whether I will regret this. I will be developing/compiling applications that need to run painlessly on earlier Debian installations, or even RedHat Linux. What is the story on libc6/libc5 compatability and compatability with other Linuxes? Re

Re: Installation Help Needed Please :)

1998-08-05 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
No panic, it's all right ... > James Patrick Galvin, Jr. wrote: > > Okay, I've got most of the stuff figured out, but I'm still a little > confused. I ran FIPS and split my primary DOS partition and then I > formated the new partition (D:). Don't format the new partition under DOS: you need nat

gnuserv & xauth

1998-08-05 Thread Deniz Dogan
Hi, How can I use a normal user`s gnuserv process as root? What I want to do is: as root to use a normaluser`s emacs to edit some conf files. I tried: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# xauth -f /home/deniz/.Xauthority extract - :0.0 | xauth merge - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# export DISPLAY=:0.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

multi dialing solution

1998-08-05 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi Debians, Sometimes it is difficult for me to decide does my question fit to this mailing list. This time I also have such feelings... However, here is my question(s). I want to gather some info abbout possible hardawre/software solution about using linux for comunications via modem (or modems

Diald doesn't do proper pap athentication

1998-08-05 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Hello, I am trying to setup Diald on my Debian Linux system. The system dials my provider and connects up but refuses to do pap authentication. The pon/poff works properly and does do pap authentication. I used the same dial script used with pon as suggested in the diald example documentation.

Re: ASUS P2B-S and Debian

1998-08-05 Thread Matthias Klose
have a look at http://swt.cs.tu-berlin.de/~doko/aic7xxx/ for Debian boot disks that support the 7890. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Mac CX and Debian Linux

1998-08-05 Thread Andreas Tobler
Hello, I heard about Linux for m68k yesterday, and I saw installation instructions for atari and amiga. Are there also instructions available for mac's (68k)? The right link is enough. Thanks, Andreas -- | Andreas Tobler | CH-8004 Zuerich

Re: Strange thing ...

1998-08-05 Thread Mario Filipe
On 05-Aug-98 Daniel Mashao wrote: > I had the same problem until I was told I needed to upgrade the perl > library to the newer one in bo/unstable. That solved my problem. Yes! But do you know where to get these packages nowadays! In other words does anyone know of a bo packages archive!

Installation Problem

1998-08-05 Thread James Patrick Galvin, Jr.
Ok, I've got this problem.  I defraggmented my harddrive and then used FIPS to split my primary partition.  Then I booted off a floppy which I wrote with resc1440.bin using rawrite2.exe.  I hit enter to boot and then I selected the color scheme then the US keyboard, but when I hit next to p

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-05 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 04-Aug-1998, Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: > : > : That is the point that I create a slightly modified subset of Debian that > : does conform to the standard and sell the sucker for $100 a pop to > : businesses needing a better Linux than

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