Re: HELP: modem and server install

On Fri, Sep 11, 1998 at 08:19:20PM -0700, BOB'S MAIL wrote: [...] > 1. How do I get a server for fetchmail? Check "http://www.rdrop.com/users/pann/index.html";. See therein "Set Up Internet Mail and Usenet News" for a quick set-up for fetchmail. For more details see /usr/doc/fetchmail and do a

Quake2

Hi, I have troubles with quake2. I donwload the file: quake2-3.19a-glibc-i386-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz After copy the fils quake2.conf to /etc and all the rest to /usr/games/quake2 as root i execute quake2 and it said: Added packfile ./baseq2/pak2.pak (42 files) couldn't exec de

Re: backing up with tar

You are correct about specifying / that doesn't work because it errors on the /dev files. I will check in to CPIO. Thank You, Keith -- > From: Wayne Cuddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: backing up with tar > Date: Saturday, September 12, 1998 7:22 PM >

Re: scanners

Yes scanners do work on Linux. I am using a Mustek scanner with a Adansys scsi card and it works great and it is easy to setup using SANE to control the scanner. Mustek is not what I consider a great scanner but it is the only one I have set up under Linux. Here is the url for SANE http://www.mosta

backing up with tar

I would like to know if I am backing up my system correctly. I am using the following command to backup with tar. tar -creat -file /dev/st0 / Then a compare with tar -compare -v -f /dev/st0 Is this the best way to use tar for backing up to a tape drive. Thanks, Keith

Re: How to installation linux on win 98

Having had Win98 and Linux installed on the same disk drive and Win95 and Linux before that, I feel pretty confident that it works the same in either case. Once you have isolated Win9x on its own partition, Linux can pretty much ignore it - except to filch its files if needed. Ken On Sat, 12

How to installation linux on win 98

Dear Sirs, How can install a linux system with window 98. It is a just same as that with window 95 or it is different. Thank you for your helps Yanbo Pang [EMAIL PROTECTED]

kpilot errors out with lib error

I've been trying to run kpilot but when I try to invoke it I get the error: kpilot: error in loading shared libraries libkfile.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory dpkg sez that kpilot is installed: Alaska:~# dpkg -s kpilot Package: kpilot Status: install ok insta

Re: Why do most (all?) now require libc6: what to do??

On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Albert Hurd wrote: > I have noticed that all packages I recently wanted to dwnload now > require libc6. Since I am a newbie who is satisfied with bo and doesn't > want to upgrade until I feel confident that I will not get into trouble > with all the non-deb packages I have ins

Re: Why do most (all?) now require libc6: what to do??

You can try getting the source packages and building them against libc5. That is what I do for newer packages. On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Albert Hurd wrote: > Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 14:27:12 -0700 > From: Albert Hurd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Why do most (all?)

Re: Why do most (all?) now require libc6: what to do??

On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Albert Hurd wrote: > I have noticed that all packages I recently wanted to dwnload now > require libc6. Since I am a newbie who is satisfied with bo and doesn't > want to upgrade until I feel confident that I will not get into trouble > with all the non-deb packages I have ins

Why do most (all?) now require libc6: what to do??

I have noticed that all packages I recently wanted to dwnload now require libc6. Since I am a newbie who is satisfied with bo and doesn't want to upgrade until I feel confident that I will not get into trouble with all the non-deb packages I have installed, what am I to do with the deb packages I w

Maki' cd's with an IDE-cdr

Heya! How do I burn cd's with Debian Linux 2.0 ? My cdr is an IDE. Yours Rasmus Nielsen P.S. Im VERY NEWBIE! __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: Failure to recompile a system library (pthreads) under Debian 2.0

Besides pthread library is included with glibc2.0. It is a part of it. You need to get a glibc2.0.x latest stable version and make required modifications and compile. But it might broke some other programs ... My guess. ( i.e. you want redefine signals ??? ) Oops. I was in hur

Re: Failure to recompile a system library (pthreads) under Debian 2.0

The 1.3.1 is based on libc 5 whereas debian 2.0 is glibc 2.0 (a.k.a libc 6.0 ) . You need to remove all #include because they now belong to the kernels and therefore should not be included by developers to maintain portability issues . On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Martin Weinberg wrote: >

Re: tin charset

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Type "M" to get a menu of items to configure in tin. Select item 73 (MM_CHARSET), change it to ISO-8859-1. All seems to be happy. On Thu, 10 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have upgraded to tin 980226-3 (hamm) and need to do one or other of > th

Re: Broken emacs

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I had a similar problem. How I solved it was to remove ALL emacs packages including setup files. Re-install, being carefull to install EXACTLY ONE emacs package. You may also install EXACTLY ONE XEmacs package and get it to work. It appears that it is quite easy

Hardware support

Can someone tell me what version of the aic7xxx (Adaptec SCSI) driver that current Debian distributions are shipping with? I'm considering trying Debian on my box, but I need this information to determine if it will support my SCSI controller. Thanks... Braden

[bpegam@hotmail.com: error!]

Hi, I think this is more or less for you, please answer him :-) - Forwarded message from -= FreeRide =- Yupy ja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - X-Originating-IP: [194.249.3.110] From: "-= FreeRide =- Yupy ja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: error! Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 10:58:45

Re: How to get a screenshot?

On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Eric House wrote: > I assume the Gimp can handle the conversion. But how does one get a > screenshot under [Debian] Linux? Is there anything comparable to > Snapshot (on Solaris), for example? > Just use the GIMP! ;-) >From the main toolbox window: "Xtns -> Screen Shot".

Re: Broken emacs

> This was precisely the problem. The EMACSLOADPATH was set in my > user account, and I was trying to install in a window with su root, Ahhh. I think it would be reasonable to explicitly unset this (and probably other variables) in the emacsen-common handler scripts... just as they should avoi

Dependency conflicts in dselect

Hi, I'm in the process of installing hamm on a new (to my system) hard-drive. When running dselect, I got a dependency conflict telling me that netbase recommends netstd. The problem is that dselect tells me that netstd is no longer available on my system. I did the base installation from the bas

Re: Gateway monitors and X

Brian Sheehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i would be glad to hear from people who have gotten (or not) X running > with a gateway monitor (in particular an EV700) > Have you tried the Linux Monitor Data Base (http://cande.dyn.ml.org/monitors/)? Greetings jtr

Re: ippp, ppa, ramdisk (i.e., parameters for kernel compilation)

Hi, >>"Bob" == Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: --- - Bob> One advantage I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere is in compiling Bob> a kernel for installation on another computer, Thanks. I have now included that in the Rationale. Also, there is a new facility built in, name

more installation trouble

hi, I solved the problem with INIT, thanks to Miquel van Smoorenburg, and I reinstalled, this time taking his advice on what partitions I should have. In total, I have about 2 gigs for linux, and I split it up as follows. BTW my machine is a standalone pc. : /50 mb /usr500mb /var5

Failure to recompile a system library (pthreads) under Debian 2.0

Folks, I recently migrated from 1.3.1 to 2.0. I need to recompile the pthreads library with different signals for compatibility with the LAM MPI implementation. This worked fine under 1.3.1. However, now I get large numbers of redefines from *.h inclusions ending in failure to compile even the

Re: Can httpd and wwwoffled co-exist?

On Sat, Sep 12, 1998 at 10:48:59PM +1200, Tim Thomson wrote: > On 9 Sep 1998, Jack Kern wrote: [...] > > I don't understand these conflicts, so I thought I would ask if httpd and > > wwwoffled can coexist before trying to reinstall wwwoffle or whatever. [...] > Well, you could put a line in your ly

Re: ippp, ppa, ramdisk (i.e., parameters for kernel compilation)

On 12 Sep 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Advantages of using make-kpkg > -- -- - - One advantage I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere is in compiling a kernel for installation on another computer, such as using a fast machine to compile the k

Re: Broken emacs

> > emacs-install emacs19 > > emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs19 > > emacsen-common: byte-compiling for emacs19 > > Well, do you have set EMACSLOADPATH on your root (or whatever are you > using for instaling new packages)? > > Bilbo This was precisely the problem. The EM

Failure to recompile a system library (pthreads) under Debian 2.0

Folks, I recently migrated from 1.3.1 to 2.0. I need to recompile the pthreads library with different signals for compatibility with the LAM MPI implementation. This worked fine under 1.3.1. However, now I get large numbers of redefines from *.h inclusions ending in failure to compile even th

Re: ippp, ppa, ramdisk (i.e., parameters for kernel compilation)

Hi, >>"Steve" == Steve Tremblett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steve> After you do the kernel configuration, it is suggested you do Steve> 'make dep; make clean' to correctly set up dependencies, and Steve> clean up old object files so they don't get included. Then I Steve> usually use 'make zI

Re: ippp, ppa, ramdisk (i.e., parameters for kernel compilation)

Dear Steve, you are clarity personified. I'll compile the kernel once I have the ISDN card, since some ISDN parameters have to be fed in as well (I just found and read the .../Configuration.help file). Many thanks, Remo | Dr. Remo Badii

Re: Af's handling of attachments

On: Sat, 12 Sep 98 07:49 +0200 Johann Spies writes: > > I am trying to use afbackup on my pc which is not part of a network > using the following command (resulting in an error): > > $ afclient -h localhost -X full_backup /dev/qft0 > > Error: cannot get the port number of the backup service. >

Re: ippp, ppa, ramdisk (i.e., parameters for kernel compilation)

On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Remo Badii wrote: > 1) While selecting/installing isdnutils, I was prompted to enter the >name of whatever (I did not know what that was) and the message >ended with (ippp0 ippp1 ippp2 ...): >I typed ippp0. Afterwards, I got the message that >/etc/isdn/ipppd.ipp

Re: XDM

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I believe /etc/X11/config needs "allow-user-xsession" On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > > I have some troubles with xdm. When configuring to start with it > (/etx/X11/configure) I reboot and all start ok, except that X11 dont > read my li

WindowMaker 0.19.2-1 and Meta (aka windows) key

I installed WindowMaker 0.19.2-1 from slink and tried to change the modifier key to Meta instead of Alt. Both xkeycaps and xmodmap say my Meta key is mod4, where my Alt key is mod1; WPrefs also captures my meta-?? keypresses as mod4-??, ok. I changed all occurences of mod1 with mod4 in ~/GNUstep/

scanners

Can anyone tell me if scanners work with linux and if so make a reccomendation. Thanks Alot Rick -- Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rknebel.csrlink.net

ippp, ppa, ramdisk (i.e., parameters for kernel compilation)

Dear Debianers, I am about to try my first kernel compilation after a successful installation of Debian 2.0. I have a couple of questions, the former not related to the kernel itself. 1) While selecting/installing isdnutils, I was prompted to enter the name of whatever (I did not know what tha

Re: OFF TOPIC: where did MICROPOLIS go?

Thank you! I can't believe they just folded up like that >Metacrawler search - Micropolis 3243 SCSI > >http://www.mm.mtu.edu/drives/micropolis/new/3243.html > >Specs and link to config info > > >George > >A computer virus can be said to either 1) trash your hard drive, 2) lock >up your compu

Re: PON: provider file error

On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, BOB'S MAIL wrote: > I am NEW, but getting experience! > > >From the Debian~# prompt I execute pon, I get the following responses > >depending whether I have '/dev/modem' or '/dev/modem!' in the provider file > >(per instructions): > > /usr/sbin/pppd: In file /etc/ppp

Re: HOW: server for fetchmail

On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, BOB'S MAIL wrote: > >From the Debian~# prompt I execute fetchmail and get the fiollowing > >response: > > fetchmail: no mail servers have been specified. > > >From dselect I ran appconfig (I think it was) and I answered the queries and > >see my responses in files I

KDE's Kedit and Kview

I know that KDE is still in the development stages, but one small bug that bugs me is that when using the K file manager to open text, .c or image files, The respective viewers/editors take the file's path and location to be seperate arguments. For example, Kedit says "Cant open directory" with th

Re: intent to package: gmt generic mapping tools

> The full-resolution coastline archive is 57 Mb. Will it be included? (High > resolution is 12.6MB). I can see us filling a CD quickly with this. On the > other hand, if it saves me a 57 MB download, it's very well worth it! Data such this can be very useful to scientist but the main distributi

Re: Can httpd and wwwoffled co-exist?

On 9 Sep 1998, Jack Kern wrote: > On a Debian 2.0 system I had wwwoffle installed and working with lynx. > I then installed dwww which required httpd, so I installed boa. > > dwww only worked if I nullified the HTTP_PROXY variable used by > wwwoffle/lynx, or if I put wwwoffle "online" -- wwwoffle

PON: provider file error

I am NEW, but getting experience!   From the Debian~#  prompt I execute pon, I get the following responses depending whether I have '/dev/modem' or '/dev/modem!' in the provider file (per instructions):       /usr/sbin/pppd: In file /etc/ppp/peers/provider: unrecognized D option '/dev/mode

Window Maker problem

I downloaded Window Maker 0.19 from the unstable directory (along with the required updated libraries) using "apt-get". But when i run X Windows I get the following error message. /usr/X11R6/bin/WindowMaker: error in loading shared libraries : undefined symbol: _Xsetlocale I have installed all t

Af's handling of attachments

I am trying to use afbackup on my pc which is not part of a network using the following command (resulting in an error): $ afclient -h localhost -X full_backup /dev/qft0 Error: cannot get the port number of the backup service. How do I fix that? How do I set up afbackup on a single computer? Ac

Afbackup on a single computer

I am trying to use afbackup on my pc which is not part of a network using the following command (resulting in an error): $ afclient -h localhost -X full_backup /dev/qft0 Error: cannot get the port number of the backup service. How do I fix that? How do I set up afbackup on a single computer? A

HOW: server for fetchmail

From the Debian~#  prompt I execute fetchmail and get the fiollowing response:       fetchmail: no mail servers have been specified.   From dselect I ran appconfig (I think it was) and I answered the queries and see my responses in files I have observed with mc while trying to get the abo

Attachments using af

I discovered af tonight and as an emacs user I think it is a promising program. What I cannot find in the documentation is how to handle attachments with af. Does somebody know? Johann . -- | Johann

chat quirk or control characters from pppd

Thanks to a major effort from Jens Jorgensen, who finally found an error in the FM, I now have ppp running over a modem trough a moodem pool and telnet server. I'm now tring to get it to run through the ISN line, which is a little trickier. I found the BREAK option to use in the script, which

Re: OFF TOPIC: where did MICROPOLIS go?

On 09/11/98 at 04:59 PM, "Chris Mc." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >sorry to be a pain, but does anyone know what ever happened to >Micropolis Corp.? I found an old 3243 4.3gig SCSI drive that I need >info on. I've searched for Micropolis, but the phone numbers and web >sites I found are all dead.

Re: Using ZIP drive on Linux

On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, mwb wrote: > On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Lennox Reid wrote: > > > > > Where do I get a driver to access a parrallel port ZIP drive on a Linux > > machine? > > Compile a kernel. > > Include modules for scsi support, parallel port, and ppa. there is a module for iomega zip drives

Re: Where to start networking my computers

On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Lennox Reid wrote: > I am trying to network three computers in my home, with my little 386 > running linux as the gateway/server/etc. Eventually, the plan is to have > the linux computer access the internet and give the other computers access > so that we use only a single

HELP: modem and server install

I installed Debian 2.0.  I AM NEW.  I don't have my modem installed some way.  It is a USR Sportster 28.8 internal thing on Com 4 (ttys3 I think). poff works fine as does plog .  pon does not work because the modem reference is missing.  The narrative follows.   From the Debian~#  prompt I

Re: Using ZIP drive on Linux

On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Lennox Reid wrote: > > Where do I get a driver to access a parrallel port ZIP drive on a Linux > machine? Compile a kernel. Include modules for scsi support, parallel port, and ppa. Check out the Parallel Port Home Page at http://www/torque.net/parport/ Mark

Using ZIP drive on Linux

Where do I get a driver to access a parrallel port ZIP drive on a Linux machine? Thanks! -lR

Where to start networking my computers

I am trying to network three computers in my home, with my little 386 running linux as the gateway/server/etc. Eventually, the plan is to have the linux computer access the internet and give the other computers access so that we use only a single line. It will also be used to allow me to share fi

cdrom

Hi, In what group should a user be to be able to play an audio-cdrom ?? current user is in: bin lp mail cdrom audio dip __ / / /

Pine 4.02 ...

Hi, Since i'd installed fetchmail i get the following message on pine: [Mailbox vulnerable - error creating /var/spool/mail/nemanuel.lock.905559153.62] What's going on !? Thanks. Best regards, Nuno Carvalho