Re: /etc/ppp/options

1998-08-28 Thread servis
*- Gary L. Hennigan wrote about "/etc/ppp/options" | Related to my previous post about learning to use Xisp, I'm trying to | get PPP to work from a user account, my own, and so far haven't had | any success. Whether I use Xisp or just "pon ISP_Name" I get the | following in /var/log/ppp.log: | | p

/etc/ppp/options

1998-08-28 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Related to my previous post about learning to use Xisp, I'm trying to get PPP to work from a user account, my own, and so far haven't had any success. Whether I use Xisp or just "pon ISP_Name" I get the following in /var/log/ppp.log: pppd[2513]: Can't open options file /etc/ppp/options: No such fi

trying to use exmh

1998-08-28 Thread Ralph Winslow
I've installed exim and tried fetchmail a la the attachment. The mail server at my ISP is mail.nac.net and I'm fairly sure I remember my password (though I don't need it using Netscape). Can anyone tell where I've gone wrong? TIA (or as we said back in the olden days, adTHANKSvance) -- -

anon[ug]id doesn't work in netstd! :-(

1998-08-28 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Package: netstd Version: 3.07-2 I built an exports configuration with the anongid and map_static options, and found that anongid is not honoured... The anonymous mapping in the static file always goes to nobody/nogroup, regardless of the anon[ug]id options. Looking at the source I found this beau

xlogmaster

1998-08-28 Thread Ralph Winslow
It's rumored that this has been packaged for debian, but I don't see it when I run dselect (I'm using apt, stable (hamm), main - contrib - non-free - nonUS). Can anyone provide a clue? TIA -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

rdate still not working

1998-08-28 Thread Bob Bernstein
Hi all. I've calmed down a lot. Thanks. Here's what I get every time I run rdate: rdate: Could not connect socket: Connection refused I'm thinking the socket in question is one on this machine, yes? I've tried a number of ntp servers (tycho, bigben) and always the same output. I see I have th

DRIVERS FOR ETHER EXPRESS PCI 10

1998-08-28 Thread Computer Connection
Computer Connection "Where Price and Quality Meet" http://www.cc-usa.com

Printer

1998-08-28 Thread Donna J. Miller
Windows 98 wiped out my printer and it won't reload. Says EPBIRLIB.DLL file is missing. How can I download that file. The only printer driver that Epson offers won't work. I have it on a disk. What is the correct patch or command? Thanks Donna

Re: sound card

1998-08-28 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 28 Aug, Brian Morgan wrote: > Running debian 2.0 / 2.0.34 (stable) and having trouble getting my sound > card to work. I can get the cd rom player in X to run, but not through > the sound card. I didn't see anything in the device drivers setup when > I installed debian, and wasn't sure how els

Re: The GNU/Linux Desktop Alternative

1998-08-28 Thread Gernot
Office-Product: One of the major office-products for Linux is StarOffice (www.stardiv.com) which is quite for commercial use (I guess something around $ 80 including manual and service; for noncommercial use, its free). I use StarOffice 4.0 (Service-Release 3) for quite a time now and its stable a

Xisp and mutiple ISPs

1998-08-28 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
I've had this headache for a long time, using Linux with multiple ISPs. Generally I've resorted to writing my own scripts to accomplish different setups for different ISPs but I'm getting tired of the pain involved in modifying the script when I want to add/remove an ISP, so I thought I'd take a lo

Re: Beowulf cluster (fwd)

1998-08-28 Thread Andrew Martin Adrian Cater
Subject: Re: Beowulf cluster References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BTW, you forgot to send this to the list... You question at the bottom seemed to imply that. ??? If you care to repost this to the list I'm ok w/ that. Andrew Martin Adrian Cater wrote: > > > M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > > > > Hmm - is b

Re: CORRECTION MTA config (exim preferred?)

1998-08-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: : > : > ourdomain: : >domains=ourdomain.com, : >transport=smtp, Exim doesn't like this line. Do I need "transport=remote_smtp" instead? /var/log/exim/paniclog says 1998-08-28 17:05:29 Exim configuration error smtp transport, referred to

Re: 3com 3c905b support in Hamm

1998-08-28 Thread David Warnock
Akop, Many thanks. On 28 Aug 98, at 21:36, Akop Pogosian wrote: > The 3c900/905 cards are supported with the latest 3c59x driver. > Even if redhat 5.0 does recognize your card it will not function. > At least, this was my case. This is because, the RedHat CD that I > had came with 2.0.32 kerne

Re: MTA config (exim preferred?)

1998-08-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: : On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: : : > To cut to the chase, here's what I need: : > : > Mail arriving at the Linux box destined for "ourdomain.net" should be : > forwarded to a specific host (IP address or nameserved, doesn't matter :

Re: 3com 3c905b support in Hamm

1998-08-28 Thread Akop Pogosian
David Warnock wrote: > > Hi, > > Cards recognised by Hamm? > > I am about to get Hamm installed on 4 PC's. I have been checking out the > hardware for Linux compatability by starting the installation of a RedHat 5.0 > CD (my Installer arrives on Tuesday with the Debian CD and I want to be sure

sound card

1998-08-28 Thread Brian Morgan
Running debian 2.0 / 2.0.34 (stable) and having trouble getting my sound card to work. I can get the cd rom player in X to run, but not through the sound card. I didn't see anything in the device drivers setup when I installed debian, and wasn't sure how else to get it to work. It's a creative l

Re: Font Servers

1998-08-28 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> Is anyone aware of were to get a fontserver to run on > a Debian 2.0 system? just add xfs-start-server start-xfs to /etc/X11/config prior to starting up xdm rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer.

Re: Font Servers

1998-08-28 Thread Immanuel Yap
Mike Nachlinger wrote: > > Is anyone aware of were to get a fontserver to run on > a Debian 2.0 system? xfs is included in the xbase package. Noel

followup on filed critical bug #26070

1998-08-28 Thread jesse
I've filed a critical bug against the base system (pcmcia failing intermittently in base system) which is preventing an install. I haven't heard anything and I've run out of experiments to try on my own, is there anything else I can/should do? Thanks.

MTA config (exim preferred?)

1998-08-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
For all you Exim gurus out there ... (this should go to an exim specific list: I'm hunting them down). (Other MTA suggestions won't be ignored - I get a headache thinking about mail routing these days). I'm helping the cc:mail admins here implement a virus scanner for incoming and outgoing mail.

Font Servers

1998-08-28 Thread Mike Nachlinger
Is anyone aware of were to get a fontserver to run on a Debian 2.0 system? Thanks, Mike +--+ | Mike Nachlinger (408) 446-9914 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Apres Ski Club 1-888-APRESGO www.apres.org | +

The GNU/Linux Desktop Alternative

1998-08-28 Thread Lyno Sullivan
THE SITUATION I am advising a friend, who is planning a major upgrade of thousands of desktops, in a major department of Minnesota state government, that he ought to insist on a cost-benefit analysis that includes GNU/Linux and the GNU Office Suite (I need the list of these products). Windows NT

Re: /var/log/messages

1998-08-28 Thread Paul M. Foster
On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Stefan Frank wrote: > BTW, does anybody know how to check in a bash script, wheter a PPP > connection is already up ? The /var/run/ppp0.pid file is already created > when the modem is still dialing the phone number. Here's another solution-- a script I wrote to do what you'

Making proxy mandatory.

1998-08-28 Thread Sergey Imennov
Hi, I have Junkbuster and Squid installed on Debian 2.0 box. All of the outbound traffic goes through this machine. Since I'd like to have some idea of web usage, and total bytes transferred, etc., I'd like to make it mandatory for users

sounds don't work properly for non-front windows

1998-08-28 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I've developed a new exmh problem. Exmh plays a sound when mail arrives. Most of the time, though, when exmh is not active window, i get merely a pop on hte speaker. This same activity was exhibited when the permissions on /dev/audio were wrong. I don't suppose i'm missing something obviou

IBM PC Server 704

1998-08-28 Thread detre
I've just installed Debian on my IBM PC Server 704 and I'm having problems. I'll go for the easy one first. It came with an IBM ServerRAID card. I want to know if there is a linux driver for this. Is there a list of RAID chips that are supported somewhere or is there any other way to find out? T

RE: set clock to GMT?

1998-08-28 Thread Bob McGowan
> -Original Message- > From: Rafael Cordones Marcos > Subject: Re: set clock to GMT? > > > On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 09:19:26AM +0100, Vincent Murphy wrote: > > > > OK, sorry for not making myself clearer in the first place. -deleted discussion on GMT > By the way, (for anybody lis

Re: set clock to GMT?

1998-08-28 Thread Ted Harding
On 27-Aug-98 Rafael Cordones Marcos wrote: > By the way, (for anybody listening) when I live my PC on for several > days I have found that the hardware clock and th system time differ in > HOURS. Is that OK? Should I use cron to update the hardware clock > every now and then? Several hours is not

Re: Kernel

1998-08-28 Thread Ehren Wilson
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, kolds wrote: > What are some good resources for learning to how to generate a kernel. > I'm interested in creating a trimmed down kernel for Debian 2.0 which > will fit on my 386 (4MB RAM). Any suggestions for good 'how to' > resources? > > Thanks, > Kevin For

Re: UMSDOS as root

1998-08-28 Thread Steve Byrne
I've been trying to run UMSDOS as my root partition for the last week or so. I posted to the debian-user list to see if anyone knew about how to make this work, but I haven't received a reply yet. Debian definitely doesn't support UMSDOS as root out of the box. I can get tantalizingly close to ha

Re: lpr problem

1998-08-28 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 01:01:38PM -0700, Richard Sevenich wrote: > 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. > I guess you have to in

Re: Beowulf cluster

1998-08-28 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 28 Aug, Ossama Othman wrote: >> from what I remember Beowulf uses PVM, and that is already packaged. >> They basically seemed when I read their pages to be makeing "add ons" which >> make PVM more powerfull > >>From what I recall, PVM is being superseded by MPI. There is already a > Debian pa

Re: 3com 3c905b support in Hamm

1998-08-28 Thread David Warnock
Thanks Nathan. Dave On 28 Aug 98, at 10:36, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Debian 2.0 works with the 905b just fine. Install the 3C59x module. Dave Warnock Sundayta Ltd www.sundayta.co.uk

Re: PPP via Minicom

1998-08-28 Thread David Densmore
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, David Wright wrote: >I ought to have mentioned the -d or debug parameter which will log >the LCP information. The normal logs are really only useful to log ppp >usage once you've got it all working. Before you post them, check for >any exposed passwords they contain. Here are

Kernel

1998-08-28 Thread kolds
What are some good resources for learning to how to generate a kernel. I'm interested in creating a trimmed down kernel for Debian 2.0 which will fit on my 386 (4MB RAM). Any suggestions for good 'how to' resources? Thanks, Kevin WINMAIL.DAT Description: application/vnd.ms-tnef

Re: Beowulf cluster

1998-08-28 Thread Ossama Othman
> from what I remember Beowulf uses PVM, and that is already packaged. > They basically seemed when I read their pages to be makeing "add ons" which > make PVM more powerfull >From what I recall, PVM is being superseded by MPI. There is already a Debian packaged implementation of MPI called "mpi

Re: As user: swap capslock/cntrl?

1998-08-28 Thread Alan Su
Anders Hammarquist wrote (Fri, 28 Aug 1998 19:45:20 +0200 ): |> |>I think you can swap them in the console as well by using loadkeys. I'm |>afraid I can't offer you any help as to how to go about doing it though. |> so i'll shamelessly use this as a segue to a question i've had for a while. i've

Re: As user: swap capslock/cntrl?

1998-08-28 Thread Anders Hammarquist
>How do I swap the capslock and control keys on a standard PC keyboard as a >user only? (not as root) Under X, you do it with xmodmap. To quote the xmodmap manpage: One of the more irritating differences between keyboards is the location of the Control and Shift Lock keys. A common

Re: Custom boot Disk Creation?

1998-08-28 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 28 Aug, Young, Ed wrote: > > I'll bet this has been covered, and I feel shame for not knowing and not > being able to find out how, but > How do I create a custom boot disk? Is there a utility, or just a sequence > of steps? > > Thanx, > > Ed The package you want it boot-floppies. Be warn

Re: Score: Smail 1, Bob 0

1998-08-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"George" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: George> The upstream maintainer of smail has just totally screwed it George> up. My advice is to use smail ONLY for uucp and grab an old George> version ... say from buzz if you can find one. Do not put George> smail on the internet

Re: Lexmark - which device

1998-08-28 Thread Richard Sevenich
I found 'laserjet' to work fine. Thanks to any who responded. Richard

hamm: hwclock y2k problem

1998-08-28 Thread Jeff Noxon
FYI, to those whom may be concerned: There appears to be a bug with the "hwclock" program and y2k wraparound, on at least one system. I have several systems using the AMI model 721 motherboard. You'd think that AMI, being a BIOS manufacturer, would get this right... In any case, this board wrap

Resolved: I'm an idiot

1998-08-28 Thread Ed Slocomb
Ok, I think I've got it. Looks like only smail/ and news/ are not owned by root in /etc . Thanks to Brian (servis) at purdue for the quick response. -Original Message- From: Ed Slocomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, August 28, 1998 2:21 AM Subject: OK

Re: Beowulf cluster

1998-08-28 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 09:22:00AM -0400, Greg Vence wrote: > M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > > Hmm - is beowulf a .deb? and if so, is it in /slink/non-free > > > It seems to be available as RPM's. You can use alien to get it > installed. I am tossing around the idea of a cheap beowulf cluster...junke

As user: swap capslock/cntrl?

1998-08-28 Thread Edward J Young
How do I swap the capslock and control keys on a standard PC keyboard as a user only? (not as root) I need to do this so I don't get Carpel Tunnel from straining to hit the control key when running emacs all the time. Since this is a system at Univ. of Colorado, and I'm not root, I need to do

Re: PPP via Minicom

1998-08-28 Thread john
David Densmore writes: > That didn't change anything, so here are the logs. > This is one from a normal (working) connection using pon: > Aug 28 06:45:44 linux pppd[950]: pppd 2.3.5 started by dden, uid 1000 > > connection script. > We need to see the snipped part so we can tell what does work.

Re: PPP via Minicom

1998-08-28 Thread john
David Densmore wrote: > I just installed Debian 2.0. > > Under 1.3.1 I could initiate a PPP connection by dialing and logging in > with Minicom, quitting Minicom without resetting the modem and invoking > pppd manually like this: > > /usr/sbin/pppd defaultroute /dev/ttyS0 38400 & David Wright w

Eterm/rxvt/xterm/xvt..

1998-08-28 Thread Jeremy Hinegardner
I have a problem with xterm/rxvt/Eterm. All of them when hitting the backspace key just beep at me. On xvt the backspace works properly. What needs to be set to make the backspace work properly for xterm,rxvt and Eterm? Thanks, Jeremy -- Jeremy Hinegardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] R

Re: how to boot into single user mode?

1998-08-28 Thread joost
Hi, This is explained in the manpage for init(1). Quoting man init: ---cut--- BOOTFLAGS It is possible to pass a number of flags to init from the boot monitor (eg. LILO). Init accepts the following flags: S, single Single user mode boot. In this mode /etc/in

Custom boot Disk Creation?

1998-08-28 Thread Young, Ed
I'll bet this has been covered, and I feel shame for not knowing and not being able to find out how, but How do I create a custom boot disk? Is there a utility, or just a sequence of steps? Thanx, Ed

Re: apt error

1998-08-28 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote: > On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Chuck Peters wrote: > > : I am using the stable release and installed apt. While upgrading > : and adding some things with dselect I got the following error. I > : thought it was OK to use apt out of the unstable release.

OK, I'm an idiot.

1998-08-28 Thread Ed Slocomb
...So I did a chown lp *, but I was in /etc, not in /var/spool/lpd . Oops. Could some forgiving soul mail me an ls -l /etc of a 2.0 system? I think just about all of those files/dirs are owned by root, but I'd like to be sure.

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

1998-08-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Torsten" == Torsten Hilbrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Torsten> The . command in the ash do not support command line options to the Torsten> called script (Does anyone have the Posix standard for the bourne Torsten> shell handy?) Nope, command line options are not required to

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

1998-08-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"the" == the lone gunman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: the> On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 08:46:38AM +0200, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: >> I recently installed an other shell than bash as /bin/sh (ash >> precisly) just to test the systems behaviour and noticed that some >> scripts stopped working co

Lexmark -which driver

1998-08-28 Thread Richard Sevenich
At work we have a new printer, the Lexmark Optra S laser printer. It emulates Postscript level 2 and PCL 6. I currently print to an HP Laserjet SeriesII using gs via 'lpr -d' to invoke /etc/filter.ps. Can someone tell me which device driver to use in /etc/filter.ps for this new Lexmark? TIA, Ric

Re: set clock to GMT?

1998-08-28 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 09:19:26AM +0100, Vincent Murphy wrote: > > OK, sorry for not making myself clearer in the first place. Here's the > output from date ; hwclock --show ... > > consigliori:~# date ; hwclock --show > Fri Aug 28 10:16:29 IST 1998 > Fri Aug 28 09:16:29 1998 -1.006290 se

Re: Nedit bug

1998-08-28 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Akop Pogosian wrote: > However, soon I found a very annoying bug. It's not an nedit bug. You need to update one of the libs used by nedit. I'm sorry but I forget which one. Maybe libXt? In any case I suggest you don't hesitate to contact the maintainer of the Deb nedit packag

Re: 3com 3c905b support in Hamm

1998-08-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, David Warnock wrote: [ snip ] : EtherExpress Pro 100/B and a 3Com 3c905b-tx Fast Etherlink XL : PCI 10/100base-tx. Debian 2.0 works with the 905b just fine. Install the 3C59x module. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PRO

Re: Config PCMCIA-LAN card on a laptop

1998-08-28 Thread Ian Stuart
Alex Kwan wrote: > If someone have the PCMCIA ethernet card on Hamm, > would you please share your experience with me? > I need your help, I can't go on. As I type, Laptop to ethernet... Have you got the pcmcia stuff in? 1) get the pcmcia source code 2) configure a new kernel with 1) TCP/IP en

Re: apt error

1998-08-28 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Chuck Peters wrote: : I am using the stable release and installed apt. While upgrading : and adding some things with dselect I got the following error. I : thought it was OK to use apt out of the unstable release. How do I : fix it? What version of apt are you using? I

Re: making mp3's

1998-08-28 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Chris Hoover wrote: : 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. IIRC, there was one mentioned on www.freshmeat.net, called ripperX, this we

Config PCMCIA-LAN card on a laptop

1998-08-28 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi! I want to setup a LAN on my laptop with Hamm, and I have seen the document "PCMCIA How To" this document said that the laptop's configuration of network is difference with desktop PC , don't configure the PCMCIA ethernet card in /etc/rc.d/rcinet.1 (I can't found it on Hamm), but in the /et

Re: which log to diagnose crash

1998-08-28 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> When X freezes, there's no a priori reason why anything should be logged. > The rest of the machine should be running normally, and the best course > of action is to telnet in through the network or a serial line and kill > the X session (using startx it'll be an xinit process). This wasn't an

Re: Help with Smartlist + Sender: root

1998-08-28 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > [...] > keep all the tests but this one. What I can't find now is a reference to > "weighting" in the procmail manpages. How's the weight suppossed to work? procmailsc(5) ? -- "c4f9f68ae233d0fe52be4735d04df1bf" (a truly random sig)

Re: /var/log/messages (Is ppp up?)

1998-08-28 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> > BTW, does anybody know how to check in a bash script, wheter a PPP > > connection is already up ? The /var/run/ppp0.pid file is already created > > when the modem is still dialing the phone number. > > I can usually tell by my HDD working... you could add a script in > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ to pl

Re: Help with Smartlist + Sender: root

1998-08-28 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 01:42:14PM +0200, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > However, this would perhaps encourage the bad habit of using the root > account for sending mail. Another thing you could do would be to tell the > NT user not to use the root account for sending mail ;-) I have asked arround

3com 3c905b support in Hamm

1998-08-28 Thread David Warnock
Hi, Cards recognised by Hamm? I am about to get Hamm installed on 4 PC's. I have been checking out the hardware for Linux compatability by starting the installation of a RedHat 5.0 CD (my Installer arrives on Tuesday with the Debian CD and I want to be sure everything is going to be ready). C

Re: mouse

1998-08-28 Thread servis
*- Rick Knebel wrote about "Re: mouse" | On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 07:24:18PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > *- Rick Knebel wrote about "mouse" | > | Hi, | > | I have been playing around with debian 1.3.1 in anticipation of getting 2.0 | > | in a couple of days. | > | I have set up X on my comp

Re[2]: ping: sendto: Operation not permitted

1998-08-28 Thread Bob Bernstein
"Michael B. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IP masquerading is compiled into the stock 2.0.34 hamm kernel and works > just fine for me. Remember to install the ip masq ftp module so that > ftp works right behind the firewall. Never mind that; what I should be sure of is that I've entered th

Re: Installing communicator 4.06

1998-08-28 Thread Dale E. Martin
Alexey Vyskubov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is glibc2 version of Communicator 4.06. I use it. > If you have only libc5 version, install netscape4 package. > This one tells you about old libraries you have to install (from /oldlibs dir) > and puts appropriate wrapper around netscape. > > -

Re: Score: Smail 1, Bob 0

1998-08-28 Thread john
George Bonser writes: > I have no idea why Debian ships with that piece of junk as their standard > mailer. Because we haven't been able to agree on what to replace it with. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: /var/log/messages

1998-08-28 Thread servis
*- Stefan Frank wrote about "Re: /var/log/messages" | | BTW, does anybody know how to check in a bash script, wheter a PPP | connection is already up ? The /var/run/ppp0.pid file is already created | when the modem is still dialing the phone number. | Check the return status of 'fping -q ' -- B

Re: Beowulf cluster

1998-08-28 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > Weren't some people from the beowolf team interested in switching > > > to .deb or at least packaging new stuff also as .deb files? > > > > > > I'm sorry, but I lost track here. > > > > Hmm - does one need a beowulf in order t

Re: Beowulf cluster

1998-08-28 Thread Martin Schulze
M.C. Vernon wrote: > > Weren't some people from the beowolf team interested in switching > > to .deb or at least packaging new stuff also as .deb files? > > > > I'm sorry, but I lost track here. > > Hmm - does one need a beowulf in order to debianise the source? I thought beowulf cluster are bin

Re: Beowulf cluster

1998-08-28 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > Greg Vence wrote: > > M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > > > > Hmm - is beowulf a .deb? and if so, is it in /slink/non-free > > > > > It seems to be available as RPM's. You can use alien to get it > > installed. > > Weren't some people from the beowolf team i

Re: How to reinstall packages ?

1998-08-28 Thread joost
BT!! klonk! SCRIETCH! I made a small brainfart^H^H^H^H^Herror, this in fact doesn't work if you want to reinstall as it skips everything that is already installed. And it tries to install everything that wasn't installed before :-/ *blush* I hope this didn't screw your system Instead, a

Re: [HELP/ADVICES NEEDED] Problems w/ my HD

1998-08-28 Thread Max Lawson
> > On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Max Lawson wrote: > > > I'm running Debian GNU/Linux at home. I've overclocked my box a few days > > ago by > > increasing the bus frequency. > > One might say that you were asking for it. If you overclock the system > bus, you'll overclock most other busses along wi

Re: Beowulf cluster

1998-08-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Greg Vence wrote: > M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > > Hmm - is beowulf a .deb? and if so, is it in /slink/non-free > > > It seems to be available as RPM's. You can use alien to get it > installed. Weren't some people from the beowolf team interested in switching to .deb or at least packaging new stuff

Re: How to reinstall packages ?

1998-08-28 Thread joost
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Ionut Borcoman wrote: > I know this method. What I want is something to do an reisntalation for > ALL the installed packages from the system, not a specific one. When you > have tens of programms, it is no fun to make this process by hand !. It is quite easy in fact: # STE

Re: [HELP/ADVICES NEEDED] Problems w/ my HD

1998-08-28 Thread joost
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Max Lawson wrote: > I'm running Debian GNU/Linux at home. I've overclocked my box a few days ago > by > increasing the bus frequency. One might say that you were asking for it. If you overclock the system bus, you'll overclock most other busses along with it (this can a

Re: PPP via Minicom

1998-08-28 Thread David Densmore
On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, I wrote: >I just installed Debian 2.0. > >Under 1.3.1 I could initiate a PPP connection by dialing and logging in >with Minicom, quitting Minicom without resetting the modem and invoking >pppd manually like this: > >/usr/sbin/pppd defaultroute /dev/ttyS0 38400 & > >I can't get

Re: Beowulf cluster

1998-08-28 Thread Greg Vence
M.C. Vernon wrote: > > Hmm - is beowulf a .deb? and if so, is it in /slink/non-free > It seems to be available as RPM's. You can use alien to get it installed. > (not that I can offord to have one right now, but maybe) > Me either. However, as a consultant I see 486's trashed from time to

Re: reading debian-user-digest with kmail

1998-08-28 Thread Jim Foltz
On Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 09:59:20AM +0100, Chopper wrote: > Is anyone reading debian-user-digest with kmail? > > I am trying to, but very often the content is dramatically cut > short. The problem is that kmail is pretty poor at parsing messages. > The curtailment problem is because it gets confus

[HELP/ADVICES NEEDED] Problems w/ my HD

1998-08-28 Thread Max Lawson
Hello, I'm running Debian GNU/Linux at home. I've overclocked my box a few days ago by increasing the bus frequency. The "problem" I have is the messages printed at boot time. Forgotten to take the messages but they're of the form "status=0x.." and "error=0x..". I've also noticed that

Re: which log to diagnose crash

1998-08-28 Thread David Wright
On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > 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? When X freezes, there's no a

Re: Disabling virtual desktops in X

1998-08-28 Thread David Wright
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, LUK ShunTim wrote: > Thanks. I got it. This is what I observed. > > I change the "Display" subsection of my XF86Config to this: > > Subsection "Display" > Depth 8 > Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > Virtual 1024 768 >

Re: Help with Smartlist + Sender: root

1998-08-28 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > I'm having a problem setting up a mailing list with Smartlist. One > of the subscribers is being held hostage to an NT system ;-) and for some > reason it says "Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]". Smartlist doesn't like it and > rejects > mails. The

Re: gtk

1998-08-28 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > Hi debianized... > > > > Someboady here knows how to make these new stuff of gtk themes work ?? > > What do you mean? are you referring to gnome, or what - what are you > trying to do - gnome themes, E themes...? > > Matthew No, he's refering to G

Intel EtherExpress Pro problems

1998-08-28 Thread David Khoury
Just installed Debian Hamm on a machine with an Intel N440BX Server board. This board comes with a Intel EtherExpress Pro (82558) ethernet adapter. Inserting the "eepro100" module seems to work OK, but trying to assign an IP address to it with ifconfig just gives the following error: "SIOCS

Re: PPP via Minicom

1998-08-28 Thread David Wright
On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, David Densmore wrote: > I just installed Debian 2.0. > > Under 1.3.1 I could initiate a PPP connection by dialing and logging in > with Minicom, quitting Minicom without resetting the modem and invoking > pppd manually like this: > > /usr/sbin/pppd defaultroute /dev/ttyS0 38

RE: Filenames with spaces in them

1998-08-28 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 28-Aug-98 Tomt wrote: > > I have some files I've transfered from my Windows NT machine and > > they have several spaces in them like > > This is a Test.txt > > > > How does linux treat spaces I'm tried the filename listed above and a > > cou

Re: Exim fail to receive mails !?!

1998-08-28 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Ionut Borcoman wrote: > > > On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Ionut Borcoman wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have an /var/log/exim/paniclog that says that /etc/aliases doesn't exist > > ! Now I do have an aliases (from smail). I will try again with exim. > > > > Hi again, > > Now exim it

reading debian-user-digest with kmail

1998-08-28 Thread Chopper
Is anyone reading debian-user-digest with kmail? I am trying to, but very often the content is dramatically cut short. The problem is that kmail is pretty poor at parsing messages. The curtailment problem is because it gets confused whenever it meets a "MIME" intro line and so the user doesn't ge

Re: Installing communicator 4.06

1998-08-28 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 02:22:12PM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > Howdy, > > there doesn't seem to be version of communicator 4.06 build > for libc6. There is glibc2 version of Communicator 4.06. I use it. If you have only libc5 version, install netscape4 package. This one tells you about old

RE: Filenames with spaces in them

1998-08-28 Thread Ted Harding
On 28-Aug-98 Tomt wrote: > I have some files I've transfered from my Windows NT machine and > they have several spaces in them like > This is a Test.txt > > How does linux treat spaces I'm tried the filename listed above and a > couple of other variants? If such a name is read from a direct

Re: How to reinstall packages ?

1998-08-28 Thread Ionut Borcoman
Hi, I know this method. What I want is something to do an reisntalation for ALL the installed packages from the system, not a specific one. When you have tens of programms, it is no fun to make this process by hand !. TIA, Ionutz On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Helge Hafting wrote: > dpkg -i package_fil

Re: Exim fail to receive mails !?!

1998-08-28 Thread Ionut Borcoman
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Ionut Borcoman wrote: > Hi, > > I have an /var/log/exim/paniclog that says that /etc/aliases doesn't exist > ! Now I do have an aliases (from smail). I will try again with exim. > Hi again, Now exim it works. This looks like a bug in exim installer. Nevertheless, the com

Re: Exim fail to receive mails !?!

1998-08-28 Thread Ionut Borcoman
Hi, I have an /var/log/exim/paniclog that says that /etc/aliases doesn't exist ! Now I do have an aliases (from smail). I will try again with exim. TIA, Ionutz On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: > On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Ionut Borcoman at lungu wrote: > > > server (qpoper) worked well ho

Re: Non us-ascii characters in ls

1998-08-28 Thread Helge Hafting
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/28/98 at 07:18 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Hi, >am currently helping a friend install 2.0 and we came across something >I've noted before but bypassed (mainly work in english anyway), ls will >list non-us-ascii characters as '?' instead of the proper character l

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