Re: Debian 2.0 last, wtmp broken

1998-08-27 Thread john
Eric Fain writes: > Does everyone else use last? It occurs to me that maybe people who don't > have a lot of users on their systems might not have tried last since > upgrading to hamm. Actually, I've never tried it before (two users). Seems to work fine, though. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-08-27 Thread john
Martin writes: > But this is strange. pppd is setuid root. So it should be able to > read any file, right? /etc/chatscripts/provider is read by chat, not pppd. pppd forks and exec's chat via these lines: setuid(getuid());

Re: ping: sendto: Operation not permitted

1998-08-27 Thread Bob Bernstein
For the record, removing the debian 'ipmasq' package - which had an empty configuration and therefore was defaulting everything to deny - solved the ping and dns problems, solved everything in fact except how to get ipmasqing working in 2.0.34. I'm suspicious of that 'IPAUTOFW' option. Does anybo

Question about Debian FTP sites

1998-08-27 Thread htyj
Does anyone know which FTP mirror site of Debian supports resume? Please tell me, thanks.

Re: terminfo

1998-08-27 Thread Mike Miller
> "timothy" == timothy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! The export, or 'set' in this case term variable works. > However, I modifed the .login file as you suggested set > TERMINFO=~/.terminfo, but it still doesn't recognize > xterm-debian when I login. :(. Any ideas? The she

Re: IPX not compiled in Hamm distribution?

1998-08-27 Thread Greg Norris
Firstly, try the command "cat /proc/modules"... this will show you if the ipx module is currently loaded (one of the lines should begin with "ipx" if so). If not, try these (as root): "modprobe ipx" followed by "/etc/init.d/ipx start". If this works, then edit /etc/modules and add a line for ipx

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-08-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "s" == servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: s> poff is just a shell script that will call the kill command. I haven't s> tried killing pppd from servis since this has worked. It will take me s> about an hour to get through the busy lines. Will this be able to kill s> the root process? s> % l

Re: ip-up?

1998-08-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JS" == Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JS> I see there is now a directory named /etc/ip-up.d so I created a JS> script file there with the name 'horlosie' with the last two lines of JS> ip-up. You need a command to execute the scripts in ip-up.d . The standard ip-up that comes with

Debian and IP Chains?

1998-08-27 Thread Dale E. Martin
So, I want to "go to the next level" with my network at home, and start doing some firewalling. I'm running 2.1.104 on my gateway, and I've played with ipfwcahins some. A couple of questions: 1) Is there a Debian way to set this stuff up - /etc/firewall or something? 2) Can someone share a rec

Re: Emacs 20.2 stability in Hamm

1998-08-27 Thread john
Peter Weiss writes: > Emacs crashes every couple of hours by no reason. I run two emacs20's, one with gnus and one for everything else and don't have that problem. I don't usually have that many buffers open, though. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-08-27 Thread john
Brian writes: > From what I understand from the man pages, doc's etc. I can have all my > options in the /etc/ppp/peers/provider options file, no problem. The options file can be empty, but it must exist if any user other than root is to use pppd. > Figures it would be something small like that.

Re: time

1998-08-27 Thread Ralph Winslow
When Jason Gunthorpe wrote, I replied: Damn, Jason, you're good! As the attached script ouput shows, that worked like a charm. I suspect that /etc/default/rcS, the existance of which I was totally unaware, was the key. Thanks!! > > On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote: > > > Since install

Re: X X

1998-08-27 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 09:19:48PM +, Phillip Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > What sould i do to run an X session, and then changing to another > console and make another X session, without linux saying me it canot do > it?? startx -- :1 -- Mike Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.bend-o

Fixed: lpr problem

1998-08-27 Thread Richard Sevenich
The flaw was a minor typo in /etc/hosts. Sorry 'bout that. Richard

RE: ip-up?

1998-08-27 Thread Lewis, James M.
Part of the problem might be that "clock" got changed to "hwclock" in 2.0. Check the man page for any parameter changes. If rdate doesn't work, you could try ntpdate. jim -- From: Johann Spies[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 27, 1998 12:12 PM To: Debian-poslys Cc:

RE: Debian 2.0 last, wtmp broken

1998-08-27 Thread Lewis, James M.
I have a different (but related?) problem with last. After upgrading to 2.0 a few days ago I noticed that logins via X don't show up in last. who works just fine. Apparently xterm puts something in utmp but not wtmp?... I seem to recall something about this. Unfortunately, I've slept since the

X X

1998-08-27 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hi, What sould i do to run an X session, and then changing to another console and make another X session, without linux saying me it canot do it?? Thanks, Phillip Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]

PCMCIA error

1998-08-27 Thread Chris Muenzer
I have loaded the PCMCIA module. When I insert my ethernet card, the card is displayed as eth0. When I try to use the network I receive the following error: eth0: pcnet_reset_8390() did not complete I am using an Accton EN2216 Ethernet PCMCIA Card with Hamm using Kernel 2.0.34 on a Compaq Presa

gtk

1998-08-27 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hi debianized... Someboady here knows how to make these new stuff of gtk themes work ?? Thanks, Phillip Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Diald dials all the time

1998-08-27 Thread Will Lowe
> NetBIOS can use NetBEUI, TCP/IP, or IPX. On Win95 boxes it defaults to > using NetBEUI, but may use IPX if the IPX stack is installed (which it > is by default) Any idea how I'd write an ipfwadm rule to refuse forwarding of netbeui or ipx packets?

ip-up?

1998-08-27 Thread Johann Spies
After upgrading to Debian 2.0 my ip-up doesn't seem to work anymore. I think Debian 2.0 handles it differently. My 1.3.1 ip-up file looks like this -- #!/bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin export PATH runq /usr/sbi

include-file in a LaTeX-document.

1998-08-27 Thread Johann Spies
Afrikaans is my language and because there are at the moment no hyphenation rules for it, I use a file ~/afkap.tex containing a word list with the correct hyphenation as an included file in all my Afrikaans documents. After upgrading to Debian 2.0 LaTeX complains about that file with an error mes

lpr problem

1998-08-27 Thread Richard Sevenich
I've just installed Debian 2.0 on a new machine. I cannot get 'lpr' to print. In particular, its error message is: "lpr: unable to get official name for local machine" I could use a hint here. TIA, Richard

Re: SCSI peripherals?

1998-08-27 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Rafael Cordones Marcos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 02:53:33PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > I have an external SCSI zip drive & scanner. However, it seems that | > when I boot my machine if they aren't powered on at boot time, they don't get | > recognized.

Re: SCSI peripherals?

1998-08-27 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: |I have an external SCSI zip drive & scanner. However, it seems |that when I boot my machine if they aren't powered on at boot time, |they don't get recognized. Is there any way I can get it to read them |after boot time? Or do I have to leave them on permanently

Re: SCSI peripherals?

1998-08-27 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 02:53:33PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have an external SCSI zip drive & scanner. However, it seems that > when I boot my machine if they aren't powered on at boot time, they don't get > recognized. Is there any way I can get it to read them after boot time?

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-08-27 Thread servis
*- Martin Bialasinski wrote about "Re: PPP as normal user" | | >> "s" == servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | s> | /etc/chatscripts/provider: | s> | -rw-r- 1 root dip 512 Aug 14 22:29 provider | s> | s> BINGO! I found that the group read bit was not on on this file.

Re: Debian 2.0 last, wtmp broken

1998-08-27 Thread Eric Fain
Unfortunately, repeating the procedure described in autoup.sh has not been successful. Your operation of last doesn't sound right to me, unless you have last aliased to something. In my case however, logging in as root does not give me any more entries than before (zero). Does everyone else use

dbf2mysql misses libmysqlclient.so.3

1998-08-27 Thread Thomas Apel
When I try to execute dbf2mysql it says: dbf2mysql: can't load library 'libmysqlclient.so.3' In /usr/lib/ are the following file and symlink: /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.3.21.31 /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.4 -> libmysqlclient.so.3.21.31 As it is a 3.x lib I created a link

Re: /bin/sh vs. /bin/bash

1998-08-27 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: 27 Aug 1998 19:02:43 +0200 Torsten Hilbrich writes: > > On: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 15:18:36 -0400 Shaleh writes: >> >> Yes, if it calls sh, it should only use sh features. Report a bug. >> Please show which line fails and if possible a way to make it sh >> compliant. I use ash as my /bin/sh w/o

SCSI peripherals?

1998-08-27 Thread timothy
I have an external SCSI zip drive & scanner. However, it seems that when I boot my machine if they aren't powered on at boot time, they don't get recognized. Is there any way I can get it to read them after boot time? Or do I have to leave them on permanently / reboot every time I want to u

Re: Questions about Debian 2.0

1998-08-27 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:21:55 +0200 Remo Badii writes: > > Dear Debian users/developers, > I have a few questions which arised during my (successful) installation of > Debian 2.0 on a Thinkpad 760 CD. Please consider that this is my first Linux > installation at all and have mercy. > > 1) When t

Re: /bin/sh vs. /bin/bash

1998-08-27 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 15:18:36 -0400 Shaleh writes: > > Yes, if it calls sh, it should only use sh features. Report a bug. > Please show which line fails and if possible a way to make it sh > compliant. I use ash as my /bin/sh w/o a hitch. apt has a small > bug that is only cosmetic. The probl

Re: into the breach^h^h^h^h^h ppp once more

1998-08-27 Thread john
Richard E. Hawkins writes: > The loginid and password are correct; they're the same ones it uses to > login. Are they the ones in the secrets file? > what can possibly be going wrong here? PAP authentication is failing. Why are you using it? You're already authenticating. Why not just use 'no

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-08-27 Thread john
Brian writes: > If I issue 'pppd file /etc/ppp/peers/provider' then it seg faults! Doesn't for me. Note, however, that 'pppd file /etc/ppp/peers/provider' is *not* the same as 'pppd call provider'. The latter will accept privileged options in provider. With my options file removed, ''pppd c

RE: diald + ipmasq + samba

1998-08-27 Thread Geoffrey L. Brimhall
I recently got all three above working, with print and mail spooling also working. Here's the order that I did all of this: 1. Set up bind on the gateway machine so that it was the DNS authority for the 192.168.1-255/24 subnet and my own little domain name (non-registered) sitting on these address

ping: sendto: Operation not permitted

1998-08-27 Thread Bob Bernstein
Has anyone ever seen the Subject: line's message before? I just compiled 2.0.34 to get ip masqing going, and I appear in the process thereof to have trashed something really basic. Ecch! I get this whether I ping a local host, a remote host, or the machine itself. The system's ifconfig and routin

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-08-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "s" == servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: s> | /etc/chatscripts/provider: s> | -rw-r- 1 root dip 512 Aug 14 22:29 provider s> s> BINGO! I found that the group read bit was not on on this file. s> Changed that and I am a happy camper now. In fact I just dialed in to

Re: Diald dials all the time

1998-08-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Will Lowe wrote: : On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: : : > Do you have any Windows stations on your LAN? What happens when you click : > "network neighborhood?". It is probably Win95 doing it. Block the netbios : > traffic from the outside world with ipfwadm rul

real 3d video card supported in XF86?

1998-08-27 Thread Daryl Williams
folks, does anyone know if the real 3rd video card is supported by the XF86 system, and if so, what chipset it uses? thanks in advance, //daryl

Re: Diald dials all the time

1998-08-27 Thread Will Lowe
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: > Do you have any Windows stations on your LAN? What happens when you click > "network neighborhood?". It is probably Win95 doing it. Block the netbios > traffic from the outside world with ipfwadm rules. Hmm. Yes, this is part of the problem. "man ip

Re: Beowulf cluster

1998-08-27 Thread Greg Vence
Home Page http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/beowulf/beowulf.html HOWTO http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/beowulf/howto/howto.html Enjoy -- Greg. Gregory Dickinson wrote: > > This might sound silly, but does anyone know of any documentation anywhere > that tells one how > to set up a Beowulf-type clu

Re: Questions about Debian 2.0

1998-08-27 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 12:21:55PM +0200, Remo Badii wrote: > 2) When pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL (programmed to halt the system in inittab), > the machine halts but is not powered off. Is this because I have not > chosen the APM package during installation (overlooked it, probably)? > Do I

which log to diagnose crash

1998-08-27 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
my bosses machine crashed this mornging, leaving his Xsession frozen, and no kernel panic message. Which log do I look in for this, or does a kernel panic get logged? how do i figure out what happened? rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer.

Re: OFF-TOPIC: Fortran 77 lib.

1998-08-27 Thread John Maheu
Besides the 2 links from Meijer you may find something useful at http://www.fortran.com/fortran/free.html http://www.fortran.com/fortran/libraries.html http://www.csc.fi/math_topics/FTP/America.html John John Maheuphone (4

Re: ZIP Disk mounting

1998-08-27 Thread Mike Miller
> "Dale" == Dale E Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Once a filesystem is on the disk, you can mount it just > like any other partition: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt To simplify mounting even further, I put this in my /etc/fstab: /dev/sda1 /zip ext2 noauto,user,nodev,noexec,nosuid,r

Re: how to boot into single user mode?

1998-08-27 Thread Østergaard
> i figure the only way to fix this is to boot into single user > mode and remove the xdm entries, however i am not sure > how to do this in linux... needless to say i am feeling very > stupid right about now. any help would be appreciated. There's nothing to feel stupid about. Learning-by-doing

Re: how to boot into single user mode?

1998-08-27 Thread Jay Barbee
at the LILO boot prompt you can type: linux single To boot your "linux" kernel. --Jay > folks, > > after successfuly downloading and installing debian 2.0, > i foolishly set it to start xdm at boot time. unfortunatly > i did not get the X server configured correctly and i am > now unable to l

running linux UMSDOS(?)

1998-08-27 Thread Rick
Hi all, Am i correct in thinking that linus can be run from a UMSDOS (??) partition (??) - i.e from a folder mounted on a dos drive (or fat 32 to be more specific).   is this called umsdos? i am a little unsure.   Thanks   Rick   Kitty5 Web Design EMAIL - [EMAIL PROTECTED] HOME  - Http://d

Re: Debian 2.0 last, wtmp broken

1998-08-27 Thread Jay Barbee
It sounds as if you did changing over of wtmp and utmp correctly. I however did not. I actually touched wtmp and copied /dev/null to utmp before I rebooted my newly install hamm for the first time. This gave me garbage for last. So I redid the steps pointed out by the upgrade FAQ, and rebo

digital camera

1998-08-27 Thread timothy
Does anyone know of any linux drivers or drivers-in-development for Minolta digital Cameras? Thanx Alot! Timothy -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 27-Aug-98 Time: 13:05:30 This message was sent by XFMail. Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0.

RE: SOLVED: How do I prevent Ctrl+Alt+Q from killing my X server?

1998-08-27 Thread Eric Hanchrow
I was using `scwm', the Scheme Window Manager. It was killing my X server! Thanks anyway. > -Original Message- > From: Eric Hanchrow > Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 1998 06:22 PM > To: 'XFree86@XFree86.org' > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: How do I prevent Ctrl+Alt+Q from killin

how to boot into single user mode?

1998-08-27 Thread Daryl Williams
folks, after successfuly downloading and installing debian 2.0, i foolishly set it to start xdm at boot time. unfortunatly i did not get the X server configured correctly and i am now unable to login at the console. i am also not able to remote login because the console is secured against root ogi

Re: Random Return Addresses

1998-08-27 Thread David Densmore
Thanks to everyone who responded to my question about getting Mutt to display any From: address I want. I finally figured out what was wrong, I was using ssmtp as my MTA because it was simple and easy to install. But no matter what entry I put in .muttrc, it was ignored. So I purged ssmtp and se

Re: Logitech TrackMan & CD Changer

1998-08-27 Thread Allan K. Neal
-> Does anyone have any experience with using the TrackMan+ or TrackManFX -> with hamm? I'm thinking about buying one but part of my decision will -> be based on it's compatability. I Have a TrackMan Marble and it works great. It is a PS/2 device but I have it working through a serial adapter th

Re: Logitech TrackMan & CD Changer

1998-08-27 Thread servis
*- Cristov Russell wrote about "Logitech TrackMan & CD Changer" | Hello all. | | Does anyone have any experience with using the TrackMan+ or TrackManFX | with hamm? I'm thinking about buying one but part of my decision will | be based on it's compatability. | I have a Mouseman+ using the ps/2 p

Beowulf cluster

1998-08-27 Thread Gregory Dickinson
This might sound silly, but does anyone know of any documentation anywhere that tells one how to set up a Beowulf-type cluster for SMP. --Thanks, Greg Dickinson

Re: How should I use DFTP?

1998-08-27 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 21:57:37 + Kicco McCotten writes: > > Hello. > I would like to use DFTP to get automatically new and updated packages > from Debian during a PPP connection, putting its invokation in the ip-up > script,. > The problem is that dftp requires interactive mode,,but I would > s

Re: ZIP Disk mounting: still no answer...so reposting

1998-08-27 Thread Dale E. Martin
"Michael Rudmin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone tell me more about how to mount it? Also, are there specific > drivers that I should > install, or should have intalled when I initialized my debian Linux > >Thanks. You probably need to load the aha152x module into your kernel - wit

Re: Disabling virtual desktops in X

1998-08-27 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-LUK ShunTim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Ole J. Tetlie wrote: | > | > *-LUK ShunTim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > | | > | I'm just wondering whether enabling virtual resolution is compiled | > | default in X servers. Even if I commented out all "Virtual" options in | > | my XF86Config file, I still get the

Re: ZIP Disk mounting: still no answer...so reposting

1998-08-27 Thread Jay Barbee
Simply treat the ZIP as another Drive (floppie, hard disk). You need to know what device your scsi card detected it at (ie /dev/sd??). I have a ZIP that happends to be my "D" drive so my mount command go like: mount -t vfat /dev/sdd4 /zip ...You can even go into fdisk and repartition (so that

Re: Logitech TrackMan & CD Changer

1998-08-27 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > Does anyone have any experience with using the TrackMan+ or TrackManFX > with hamm? I'm thinking about buying one but part of my decision will > be based on it's compatability. I have a TrackMan Marble and it works just fine. Assuming that there isn't anything different with the connector

Logitech TrackMan & CD Changer

1998-08-27 Thread Cristov Russell
Hello all. Does anyone have any experience with using the TrackMan+ or TrackManFX with hamm? I'm thinking about buying one but part of my decision will be based on it's compatability. Also, I asked this before around the time the list was down. I have an NEC 251 4 disc changer as my secondary s

Debian 2.0 last, wtmp broken

1998-08-27 Thread Eric Fain
I have 4 machines running Debian, three of which I have upgraded to 2.0 (hamm) from 1.3.1 using autoup.sh. I have followed the instructions contained therein regarding utmp and wtmp, (repeatedly) but my last command does not work properly on any of these machines: "last" returns with nothing excep

Re: [root@slimbag.ml.org: Compiling problems]

1998-08-27 Thread Martin Schulze
> Hi, i got debian 2.0 hamm upgraded to slink, i use the 2.0.35 kernel. > I got the bttv driver pack and some apps to use it. It is packaged already, at least I found something and my house mate uses something... > When i try to compile xtvscreen, the app included with bttv i get the > followoin

[root@slimbag.ml.org: Compiling problems]

1998-08-27 Thread Martin Schulze
- Forwarded message from root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: 27 Aug 1998 15:06:22 - X-From_:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 27 10:06:21 1998 X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Old-Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 17:05:52 +0200 (CEST) From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sub

Re: multiple problems

1998-08-27 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, spOOL wrote: > 1. what packages do I need to download to get X to work??? I would like to > use the Win95 look alike window manager xbase*.deb xserver-yourcard*.deb a-window-manager.deb some-apps.deb xlibg6*.deb is your card an ATI MACH64?, then d/l xserver-mach64*.deb. FVWM

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-08-27 Thread servis
*- Ed Cogburn wrote about "Re: PPP as normal user" | | For one thing, I'm uneasy at the fact that you don't have an options | file in /etc/ppp. Going by the messages in that file, having that file | should be standard for Debian setups. Changes to the default in the | options file would go

Re: Random Return Addresses

1998-08-27 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 03:41:44AM -0500, David Densmore wrote: > Is there any way to get mail clients like Pine and Mutt to use a return > address other than [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I have tried both Pine and Mutt, and they only seem to allow me to have > my Linux userid as the return address. My

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-08-27 Thread servis
*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Re: PPP as normal user" | Brian writes: | > This setup, with no /etc/ppp/options file and only | > /etc/ppp/peers/provider, has worked for months when pon(pppd) is called | > from root. | | But why don't you have an options file? Because all the options are in /e

Re: Debian 1.3.1 instal on a 386/40

1998-08-27 Thread Markus M. Schneider
Rolf Edlund wrote: > Thinking on install 1.3.1 on a old AMD386DX/40 with 20Mb ram, a Mitsumi > LU005S cd-rom (non-ide), an ET4000 graphic chip and no 387 processor. Debian is supporting non-ide cd-roms. According to the Hardware HOWTO the Mitsumi CR DC LU05S is supported (use the MCD or MCDX dri

Re: Debian 1.3.1 instal on a 386/40

1998-08-27 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 06:33:06AM +, Rolf Edlund wrote: > > But I'm still wondering, is Debian supporting non-ide cd-roms ? And what > about FPU emulation in kernel 2.0.30 ? Have tryed to look for info on > that, but have not found any. > Yes, and yes. Luck, Pann -- W

Re: ZIP Disk mounting: still no answer...so reposting

1998-08-27 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 07:58:17PM -0700, Michael Rudmin wrote: > I have an IOMEGA SCSI zip drive, with an IOMEGA zoom SCSI card > (non-bootable) on my 486. > > I haven't seen anything in the setup that tells me that the drive is > mountable. In addition, in the Debian documentation, (Chapter 4),

Re: Newbie's question: how to send&receive mail

1998-08-27 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 12:36:28AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Do you have X running? Are you setting up a server or are just an > end-user? The simplest thing to do as an end user is get Netscape's > Communicator/Navigator. This'll save you the trouble of setting up > smail/fetchmail/mu

Re: OFF-TOPIC: Fortran 77 lib.

1998-08-27 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > > > Hi All, > > I know this is not really the place to put this question, but I > didn't know where to begin... Does anybody know where can I find any > fortran 77 "libraries". By "libs" I mean scientific (physics, maths, ...) > libs, not system calls or related stuff. >

Re: file-rc vs. sysV init (was: enabling bootpc at startup)

1998-08-27 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 02:20:28PM -0500, the lone gunman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 08:19:34AM +0200, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > > On: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 14:11:30 -0500 the lone gunman writes: > > > > > > On my Debian 1.3 system, I installed the package which removes the > > > sysV style init

OFF-TOPIC: Fortran 77 lib.

1998-08-27 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
Hi All, I know this is not really the place to put this question, but I didn't know where to begin... Does anybody know where can I find any fortran 77 "libraries". By "libs" I mean scientific (physics, maths, ...) libs, not system calls or related stuff. Daniel.

Re: seeking a project list app

1998-08-27 Thread Martin Schulze
Shaleh wrote: > As I take on projects I would like a way to list them and prioritize, > annotate, etc. them. Not looking for a daily calendar. This is mostly > long term stuff. Two sub projects currently use a ticket system. You might want to look at it. It's based on (currently a non-free *si

Re: set clock to GMT?

1998-08-27 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Vincent Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | I would like to set my clock so it displays the time relative to GMT | > | (Greenwich Mean Time) as opposed to anything else. How do I do this? | > | I installed hamm for scratch using the Dialup set of packages, and I | > | think xntpd is installed.

Emacs 20.2 stability in Hamm

1998-08-27 Thread Peter Weiss
Hello I'd like to know if other people made the experience that emacs crashes more often then on other OS's like Debian bo or DEC OSF 4.0. On my home system I used to launch emacs and do all the work with it, the machine is not connected to the net, so no gnus or mail client is

Re: Disabling virtual desktops in X

1998-08-27 Thread LUK ShunTim
Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > > *-LUK ShunTim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | > | I'm just wondering whether enabling virtual resolution is compiled > | default in X servers. Even if I commented out all "Virtual" options in > | my XF86Config file, I still get the virtual desktops. I'm using the > | XF86_Mach64 s

Re: Installing communicator 4.06

1998-08-27 Thread Ervin D . Walter
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nico De Ranter) writes: > > there doesn't seem to be version of communicator 4.06 build > for libc6. Look again. There is a glibc2 binary in the development/ tree (not the shipping/ tree) Erv -- Graduate Student

Re: smail config...

1998-08-27 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | >> "tp" == terence pua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | tp> i am looking to... | tp> 1) access my mail via POP3 | | So you want to access the mail stored at this box via pop3? You need | cucipop or qpopper. Or the imap package, which provides pop2, p

Re: Installing communicator 4.06

1998-08-27 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > > Howdy, > > there doesn't seem to be version of communicator 4.06 build > for libc6. Is it possible to run it somehow. I get a lot > of messages complaining about missing libraries that are > actualy there when I check, I only get these messages when trying > to run a libc5 program. > Y

Installing communicator 4.06

1998-08-27 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, there doesn't seem to be version of communicator 4.06 build for libc6. Is it possible to run it somehow. I get a lot of messages complaining about missing libraries that are actualy there when I check, I only get these messages when trying to run a libc5 program. Nico -- -- Nico De Ra

Re: ZIP Disk mounting: still no answer...so reposting

1998-08-27 Thread Philippe_Andersson
Please have a look at: Regarding the ZIP-Zoom: "Linux supports this adapter with the aha152x driver." Hope this helps. Ph. A. __ Reply Separator _ Subj

Re: dselect/apt

1998-08-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "PN" == Phillip Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PN> But i dont want to install any of this things... what sould i do to PN> remove it from the dselect? You clearly have marked the "new" packages with + for installation (when they are not marked for installation due to dependencies). dsel

Re: remove .deb package and install previose version

1998-08-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
a> Does somebody know how can I remove .deb package and install a> previouse version of the package? Fetch the package from the ftp server and do a dpkg -i package.deb a> I've removed the package using dselect, and removed lines a> in apt configuration file (/etc/apt/sources.list/) that a> poi

Re: smail config...

1998-08-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "tp" == terence pua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: tp> i am looking to... tp> 1) access my mail via POP3 So you want to access the mail stored at this box via pop3? You need cucipop or qpopper. You want fetch mail from your ISP with pop3? Use fetchmail. tp> 2) send mail via SMTP ??? This is wh

Slow, Slow, Slow

1998-08-27 Thread FRANCK . F . L . LEGALL
Hi, The first time I used Debian it was version 1.2. I am now using 1.3 hamm which is nearly the same as 2.0, I think. The system is really slow now. Is it because I am using the last version of afterstep ? Is it debian 2.0 fault ? Do you have same problems ? Thanks Franck PS : my PC is a cyri

making mp3's

1998-08-27 Thread Chris Hoover
I'd like to make some mp3 off of my favorite cd's and was wondering if someone could direct me as how to go about doing this. Which programs do you use, and how to do it. Thanks, Chris -- E-Mail: Chris Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 27-Aug-98 Time: 07:13:01 Thi

Install lilo on new disk/new partition

1998-08-27 Thread adavis
Thank you for several answers to my request for information about copying an entire filesystem. After this all, I found a HOWTO on the subject, as well. I think I have succeeded in copying the filesystems off my old disk to my new one. The system boots ok off a floppy prepared as describe in th

[root@elephants.org: More Help: Upgrade to 2.0, slang conflicts?]]

1998-08-27 Thread Martin Schulze
hmbf. -- Unable to locate coffee, operator halted. -- Stefan Farsch --- Begin Message --- (moderators: I apologize for sending this as root. My machine is unstable as a result of upgrading. The root windows I had open still work, but I can't login to other

Questions about Debian 2.0

1998-08-27 Thread Remo Badii
Dear Debian users/developers, I have a few questions which arised during my (successful) installation of Debian 2.0 on a Thinkpad 760 CD. Please consider that this is my first Linux installation at all and have mercy. 1) When trying mtools from my personal account, I get the error message "c

Re: Disabling virtual desktops in X

1998-08-27 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-LUK ShunTim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I'm just wondering whether enabling virtual resolution is compiled | default in X servers. Even if I commented out all "Virtual" options in | my XF86Config file, I still get the virtual desktops. I'm using the | XF86_Mach64 server. | | Any hint if I'd like to

multiple problems

1998-08-27 Thread spOOL
I have a copy of Debian 1.3 that came with an issue of Boot Magazine. After about 15-20 attempts to install X from the CD, I decided that this version of Debian and/or X must not support my graphics card which is an ATI All-In-Wonder-Pro. So I downloaded Hamm. Hamm itself installed flawlessly. I

Re: Debian 1.3.1 instal on a 386/40

1998-08-27 Thread Martin Schulze
Rolf Edlund wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/26/98 >at 01:06 AM, Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >> Thinking on install 1.3.1 on a old AMD386DX/40 with 20Mb ram, a Mitsumi > >> LU005S cd-rom (non-ide), an ET4000 graphic chip and no FPU. > > >Looks like my ftp/irc server.

Re: Random Return Addresses

1998-08-27 Thread M.C. Vernon
> Is there any way to get mail clients like Pine and Mutt to use a return > address other than [EMAIL PROTECTED] In pine, set a custom header reply_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > this message sent with Eudora under Win98. HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge T

Re: Can Linux Box act as gateway for IPX/Novell traffic ?

1998-08-27 Thread Cormac McGuinness
"Originally from Mario Olimpio de Menezes" > On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Cormac McGuinness wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > However, the PCs in question need to acess Novell servers on the > > campus network. > > My question, then, is whether IPX or Novell network traffic will be > > able to flow through

Random Return Addresses

1998-08-27 Thread David Densmore
Is there any way to get mail clients like Pine and Mutt to use a return address other than [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have tried both Pine and Mutt, and they only seem to allow me to have my Linux userid as the return address. My Linux username is dave. My ISP username is dden. This is the best I can

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