Re: Kernel questions

1998-09-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Remo" == Remo Badii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Remo> Why does the original kernel have permissions -rwxr-xr-x, while Remo> the new one (vmlinuz-2.0.34) has -rw-r--r--? The kernel does not need to be executable. Since the file system is a kernel module, and the file system and t

Unidentified subject!

1998-09-17 Thread King Lee
Hello, I am going to set up a mail server on Debian (1.3) and have read some conflicting reports on the various pros and cons of sendmail, qmail, and smail. Can someone give me a recommendation on one of those MTAs and why? Thanks King Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread Jack Kern
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 02:27:21PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > At 10:03 AM 9/17/1998 -0700, you wrote: > >I've been reading the thread so it seems that you were trying this as > >root (ie, no file permissions problems). What speed did you set the > >serial port to in chatscript? Mine is 115200 (to

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread john
Kent West writes: > I changed the speed in /etc/ppp/peers/provider from 115000 to 14400. Try 38400. It should work and will give you better throughput. > I still can't ping anything,... What does your 'plog' output look like new? Do you have your ISP's DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf? -- John

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread john
Kent West writes: > I just tried 115200 per your suggestion. The modem did not respond in any > way. So I tried 38400, and the modem dials. So I guess the fast speed > just couldn't handshake with the slow modem. 57600 is probably the fastest speed your 14.4 modem can handle. -- John Hasler [EMAI

Re: printing takes hours in HAMM

1998-09-17 Thread shaul
> According to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > According to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > After upgrading to Hamm, (actually, after upgrading to 2.0.34) I noticed > > > > that the advanced extensions to the parallel port (SPP and such) can be > > > > recognized. Perhaps these extensions are the source

Re: unmounting bad floppy

1998-09-17 Thread shaul
> > is there a way to force an unmount of a bad floppy? It failed to > mount, and has gotten the idea that something is open. Is there > anythign short of rebooting, or can i even try to reboot? > Can it be that a bad cdrom has the same problem ? I have encountered situations when, after I h

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-17 Thread Carl Johnson
Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mario Filipe wrote: > > |> I installed rvplayer on my machine (slink updated this morning) > |> but everytime i try to run welcome.rm (provided with realplayer > |> package) it tell's me this: > |> > |> File compression not supported. Cannot

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread Kent West
Yea! Success! At both 38400 and 57600 I can dial. Not only that, I now have a PPP connection such that I can ping another computer. Whoopee! Thanks to everyone! At 04:07 PM 9/17/1998 -0500, you wrote: >You might want to try 57600, > >Peter > >-Original Message- >From: Kent West <[EMAIL PR

Re: Second try--can someone interpret these install boot messages?

1998-09-17 Thread Curt Daugaard
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 04:09:06PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > Drive looks toasted. However ... Yes, it does boot DOS and Windows. > : The weird thing: the CHS numbers don't match either what CMOS says > : (under MSD in DOS) or what I pass to the kernel at the boot > : prompt, i.e. hd

Re: Basic question from a Debian new boy

1998-09-17 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> As far as I can tell, any given application in the Debian > distribution is embedded in one of the *.deb files with any number of > other applications. Is there a document available that tells which > apps are contained in which *.deb packages? Yep. Its in the Contents-* File. E.g. debian/

Re: Using MySQL as user database

1998-09-17 Thread Mike McCauley
On Sep 17, 6:14pm, Alexander List wrote: > Subject: Using MySQL as user database > Hi! > > I am thinking about using mysql for administering my user database, as it > will probably be quite large (expected round 1 users). > > I thought about the following ways to do this: > > 1) using normal p

Installation of ipx

1998-09-17 Thread Horst Fleischer
Hallo! 1) I have some problems trying to install the IPX -package for the NCPFS-Support for Novell - Netware Servers. I tried to install and afterwards to configure these 2 packages several times with "DSELECT" but I always get the same errors when using ncpmount -S Servername -U Username /mou

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-17 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> I have computers that don't have cd's so I installed the base system > from floppies. (It works! :) What do I have to do to set up a zip drive > on the parallel port so I can start installing packages (can't handle a > stack of hundreds of floppies). You just insmod the module for ZIP. Its in th

Basic question from a Debian new boy

1998-09-17 Thread Harry
As far as I can tell, any given application in the Debian distribution is embedded in one of the *.deb files with any number of other applications. Is there a document available that tells which apps are contained in which *.deb packages? Further to this, to help the Linux newcomer

Iomega Zip

1998-09-17 Thread Michael Vanecek
I have computers that don't have cd's so I installed the base system from floppies. (It works! :) What do I have to do to set up a zip drive on the parallel port so I can start installing packages (can't handle a stack of hundreds of floppies). Thanks, Mike

Re: Debian 2.0 disks-i386

1998-09-17 Thread Michael Vanecek
If you are transfering those to disk from dos/windows, you need to use the rawrite utility (rawrite writes information to a disk without regard to the format - hence overwriting the file system info that reduces a 14.4 to a 13.8) Rawrite is available from the same dir that you downloaded your bins

Re: Second try--can someone interpret these install boot messages?

1998-09-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Curt Daugaard wrote: [ snip ] : hd: controller still busy : hda: reset timed out: status=0xff { Busy DriveReady WriteFault : SeekComplete DataRequest CorrectedError Index Error } : hda: reset timed out: error=0xff { BadSector UncorrectableError

Second try--can someone interpret these install boot messages?

1998-09-17 Thread Curt Daugaard
I'll make this as short as I can. I've been having a devil of a time trying to get the Hamm install kernel to read my hd at boot. I'm using the lowmem option to install on a 4mb PS/2 model 35. (By the way, this is one of the very few PS/2's that have an AT bus, so MCA is not the problem.) Both

tob problems

1998-09-17 Thread Johann Spies
I have used tob before, but today I get a segmentation fault every time I want to do a -fullcount of -full backup. It ends like this: - current->tss.cr3 = 00641000, %cr3 = 00641000 *pde = Oops: 0002 CPU:0 EIP:0010:[<0011e

Re: ftape

1998-09-17 Thread Johann Spies
Thanks Kenneth. Johann -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]3201 Pietermaritzburg | | Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 Suid-Afri

Unidentified subject!

1998-09-17 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, I just bought a mylex ultra wide scsi adapter and was going to get a plextor int scsi cdrom. Anyone use these with linux? Thanks Alot \ Rick

Re: ppp problems

1998-09-17 Thread john
Matt Porter writes: > My scripts in ip-up.d and ip-down.d do not run, nor does the actual ip-up > or ip-down script itself (tested by throwing an echo command in there). Not a valid test. These scripts are run with stdin and stdout connected to /dev/null. > My user is in those groups already. c

Re: SVGALib, Xpert@Play and sQuake/Quake II

1998-09-17 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 01:23:18AM -0700, Chris Whitworth wrote: > I forgot to mention that I'm a little new to this Linux admin business > (as in running my own box; I've been using other ppls for ages) > > >I don't suppose "ldconfig" (as root) helps? You are runnning the > programs > >as root

Re: Kernel(-package) mysteries

1998-09-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Remo" == Remo Badii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Remo> My old /lib/modules/2.0.34 had previously been renamed to Remo> *.save and it contained a subdirectory pcmcia; the new Remo> /lib/modules/2.0.34 doesn't: Possbly becuase you did not build and instll the pcmcia modules? The p

Re: Debian and two more OS's

1998-09-17 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 10:48:03AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 07:09:43PM +0100, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 11:29:24PM +0200, Jan Krupa wrote: > > > Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. > > > Syncing disks. > > > Re-read table failed with er

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread Kent West
At 03:38 PM 9/17/1998 -0500, you wrote: >115000 is not a valid baud rate -- try 115200. I just tried 115200 per your suggestion. The modem did not respond in any way. So I tried 38400, and the modem dials. So I guess the fast speed just couldn't handshake with the slow modem.

Re: Kernel(-package) mysteries

1998-09-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Nathan" == Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nathan> : I left the original Debian kernel in /boot and I can indeed boot with Nathan> : it using lilo: how does this kernel find (make use of) "its" Nathan> : /lib/modules/whatever if this directory has been renamed to Nathan>

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread Kent West
Oh, and thanks to everyone else who helped also, not just Kenneth! At 02:27 PM 9/17/1998 -0500, you wrote: >At 10:03 AM 9/17/1998 -0700, you wrote: >>I've been reading the thread so it seems that you were trying this as >>root (ie, no file permissions problems). What speed did you set the >>seria

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread Peter Iannarelli
-Original Message- From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, September 17, 1998 2:28 PM Subject: Re: How to start PPP? >At 10:03 AM 9/17/1998 -0700, you wrote: >>I've been reading the thread so it seems th

Re: Debian 2.0 disks-i386

1998-09-17 Thread Kent West
At 11:59 AM 9/17/1998 -0700, you wrote: > > >I am trying to copy the debian 2.0 linux files into a floppy >so I can install from Floppy diskettes. >I downloaded the files from: > >ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/2.0.10_1998-07- >21/ > > >I noticed to copy some of these file

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread Kent West
At 10:03 AM 9/17/1998 -0700, you wrote: >I've been reading the thread so it seems that you were trying this as >root (ie, no file permissions problems). What speed did you set the >serial port to in chatscript? Mine is 115200 (to a 28.8 modem >external). What modem? (internal/external, brand?).

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread Kent West
At 12:45 PM 9/17/1998 -0500, you wrote: >Kent West writes: >> I've just discovered the chat command (I'm a newbie). I can echo a >> command from the prompt to the modem, but when I try "chat "" ATZ OK >> ATDT(phonenum)" the system sits for a while displaying "ATZ" and then >> just returns me to the

Re: ppp problems

1998-09-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MP" == Matt Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MP> On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Pann McCuaig wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 08:21:53AM -0700, Matt Porter wrote: MP> My scripts in ip-up.d and ip-down.d do not run, nor does the actual ip-up MP> or ip-down script itself (tested by throwing an echo c

Re: Debian 2.0 disks-i386

1998-09-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "SS" == Shane S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SS> I noticed to copy some of these files like: resc1440.bin, base14-?.bin, SS> these files are greater than 145k. The size of a formated 1.44 floppy SS> is SS> 145k. How can you fit these files into a floppy for a floppy SS> installation? In the

Re: Debian 2.0 disks-i386

1998-09-17 Thread servis
*- Shane S. wrote about "Debian 2.0 disks-i386" | | | I am trying to copy the debian 2.0 linux files into a floppy | so I can install from Floppy diskettes. | I downloaded the files from: | | ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/2.0.10_1998-07- | 21/ | | | I noticed to copy

Re: ftape

1998-09-17 Thread David Z. Maze
Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KS> I read the sources to the latest ftape package (I downloaded the KS> tarball from the ftape site) and it DOES NOT SUPPORT FORMATING KS> TAPES. (for definitions of "it" such that "it" is the Iomega 2GB and Ditto Max drives. ftape formats tapes fine o

Debian 2.0 disks-i386

1998-09-17 Thread Shane S.
I am trying to copy the debian 2.0 linux files into a floppy so I can install from Floppy diskettes. I downloaded the files from: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/2.0.10_1998-07- 21/ I noticed to copy some of these files like: resc1440.bin, base14-?.bin, these files are

[Dakshinamurthy K ] Debian install

1998-09-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, This has been asked on another linux related mailinglist. manoj --- Begin Message --- I was trying to send this mail since some time. I hope some debian gurus will clarify. LILO supports booting from either of the hard disks connected to the Primary IDE controller (ie. hda

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread john
Nils writes: > A lot of modems need a lot of time after a ATZ command and get confused > when they receive anything in this period of time. Try to let chat wait a > while after issuing the ATZ. When he types in a chat command on the command line the modem does not get involved at all: see my previ

Re: Bounce-queues with LPRng

1998-09-17 Thread Mika S . Marjamäki
> > Does anyone here have a filtered bounce queue for remote printer set up > > with LPRng? > I could never get it running here. Call me stupid but I just couldn't > get it to work. I use lpr and messy shell scripts to achieve the same. I have used shell scripts before, but wanted to move on to LP

Puzzled with segfault in the "speakfree" package

1998-09-17 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
Hello, I have two almost identical PCs with fresh Debian 2.0 installs on them. I installed the speakfree package and while it runs well in one workstation it seg-faults in the other. I've reinstalled all involved packages from the same CD, including shared libraries, and I'm using the same con

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread john
Kent West writes: > It's almost as if the "echo ATDT" command at the prompt "sees" the > modem, but the ppp stuff does not see the modem. I think the modem is receiving what is sent to /dev/ttyS1 whether it comes from the console or from pppd, but does not respond to 'ATZ' with 'OK'. Try conne

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread john
Kent West writes: > I've just discovered the chat command (I'm a newbie). I can echo a > command from the prompt to the modem, but when I try "chat "" ATZ OK > ATDT(phonenum)" the system sits for a while displaying "ATZ" and then > just returns me to the prompt. As mentioned below, apparently the e

Re: IP Firewalling/Forwarding baffles me

1998-09-17 Thread Miller Paul
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Kendall P. Bullen wrote: > The protected machine is running Solaris 2.5.1 (possible to be > upgraded to 2.6). It has another 'private' IP address, 192.168.2.2. > (Using those private network numbers seemed like a good idea for > security reasons.) It can ping the IP address

Re: Gateway monitors and X

1998-09-17 Thread Evan Felix
On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, David Wright wrote: > On 10 Sep 1998, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > > > 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

Re: ppp problems

1998-09-17 Thread Matt Porter
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Pann McCuaig wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 08:21:53AM -0700, Matt Porter wrote: > > > I've got two problems with ppp that have been ongoing for a while. My > > system started at Debian 1.3 and has been upgraded through the whole > > unstable hamm process to a stable 2.0 sy

Re: Is there a .deb version of netscape?

1998-09-17 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Blazej Sawionek wrote: : > There are .deb's of the 4.5b1 prerelease. Get them from : > http://master.debian.org/~doogie/netscape/ I'd say. : > -Remco : Sorry, for not knowing that, but who is who there: : : communicator4-dmotif_..16-Jul-1998 17:32 4.1M : communica

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread Kent West
At 07:40 AM 9/17/1998 -0500, you wrote: >> " " "expect (OK) >> " " "alarm >> " " "Failed > >Your modem is not responding to the ATZ command with OK. Are you certain >that your mo

Access to floppy

1998-09-17 Thread Brian Schramm
I have autofs running and would like to use it to access the floppy and cdrom on my computer. I can see both from a user account but I do not have write access to the floppy from any other account exept root. I have set the group access on the /dev/fd0 to floppy group and the users that I want to

ftape

1998-09-17 Thread Kenneth Scharf
The latest ftape package (I'm not sure but I think the debian ftape package NOT THE DRIVER IN THE KERNEL supports the ditto 2g drive.) DO NOT ENABLE FTAPE IN THE KERNEL CONFIG AND TRY TO BUILD IT IN. ENABLE IT AS A MODULE BUT DON'T BUILD THE KERNEL MODULE. USE THE FTAPE PACKAGE. I read the sour

Re: X DSelect

1998-09-17 Thread servis
*- Dan Hrabarchuk wrote about "X DSelect" | Is there a DSelect type program for X? If not how can I get started on a GTK | DSelect? | Check out http://www.debian.org/~jgg/deity/ I am sure they would love your help. You should also ask on the debian-devel list. There is a deity-digest list tha

Re: ppp problems

1998-09-17 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 08:21:53AM -0700, Matt Porter wrote: > I've got two problems with ppp that have been ongoing for a while. My > system started at Debian 1.3 and has been upgraded through the whole > unstable hamm process to a stable 2.0 system and is currently up to date > as of about a we

Re: Using MySQL as user database

1998-09-17 Thread Brian
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Alexander List wrote: > Hi! > > I am thinking about using mysql for administering my user database, as it > will probably be quite large (expected round 1 users). We do this now using PostgreSQL > > I thought about the following ways to do this: > > 1) using normal pa

Re: X DSelect

1998-09-17 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Dan Hrabarchuk wrote: > Is there a DSelect type program for X? If not how can I get started on a GTK > DSelect? > I think debian-devel is the appripriate place for this. HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College

Re: Using MySQL as user database

1998-09-17 Thread Eric Calvert
With that many users, wouldn't it be best to just authenticate everything directly from the database? You've probably on got a handful of things that people need to be authenticated for way... dialup incoming/outgoing mail ftp Then, only those who really NEED shell access need be in

X DSelect

1998-09-17 Thread Dan Hrabarchuk
Is there a DSelect type program for X? If not how can I get started on a GTK DSelect?

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-17 Thread Jim McCloskey
Mario Filipe wrote: |> I installed rvplayer on my machine (slink updated this morning) |> but everytime i try to run welcome.rm (provided with realplayer |> package) it tell's me this: |> |> File compression not supported. Cannot locate the requested |> RealAudio decoder. |> |>

Using MySQL as user database

1998-09-17 Thread Alexander List
Hi! I am thinking about using mysql for administering my user database, as it will probably be quite large (expected round 1 users). I thought about the following ways to do this: 1) using normal passwd/shadow files, dumped regularly from mysql I encountered the following difficulties

Avi,MPEG Textmode viewers

1998-09-17 Thread Kent West
I believe this was sent to me by mistake without making it to the list, so I'm forwarding it on to the list. At 04:19 PM 9/17/1998 +0100, you wrote: >Hi, > Please does anyone know of a package which I can use to view avi's, mpegs >etc in textmode (svgalib). > > Regards >-- >Jonathan L

Re: Boot Problem

1998-09-17 Thread Michael Vanecek
I think my ppp crapped out on me while I was sending my last email. Here it is again:--- Begin Message --- Viola! Success. That was rather strange. After booting with the floppy, I went and executed lilo like you said (actually I went to bin rather than sbin, but it worked anyway), rebooted sans fl

Re: control and mail on debian 2.0

1998-09-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Brian Schramm wrote: : I have a debian machine that is a firewall for my network. I would : like to remove the monitor and keyboard on the machine so I need a way : to control it by a secure shell from my internal network. Is there : any way to do this? I looked for ssh

ppp problems

1998-09-17 Thread Matt Porter
I've got two problems with ppp that have been ongoing for a while. My system started at Debian 1.3 and has been upgraded through the whole unstable hamm process to a stable 2.0 system and is currently up to date as of about a week ago. I just started to have the need to use the ip-up scripting ab

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-17 Thread John Larkin
> > I installed rvplayer on my machine (slink updated this morning) > > but everytime i try to run welcome.rm (provided with realplayer > > package) it tell's me this: File compression not supported. Cannot > > locate the requested RealAudio decoder. For more information, > > please see Error 38 a

Avi,MPEG Textmode viewers

1998-09-17 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Hi, Please does anyone know of a package which I can use to view avi's, mpegs etc in textmode (svgalib). Regards -- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield,

Re: /var/adm/messages

1998-09-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Default Debian Reader wrote: : I am used to Solaris boxes that log things like failed su attempts to : /var/adm/messages and other console things like that...What is the : equivalent file in debian? Also i use icewm for a window manager, is : there a console that i can se

control and mail on debian 2.0

1998-09-17 Thread Brian Schramm
I have a debian machine that is a firewall for my network. I would like to remove the monitor and keyboard on the machine so I need a way to control it by a secure shell from my internal network. Is there any way to do this? I looked for ssh and did not find it. Is it hidden in a package that I

Re: Kernel(-package) mysteries

1998-09-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Remo Badii wrote: : Dear Debs, : this is my second list of questions about kernel compilation and modules : mysteries. I apologize for repeating part of the content of the previous : message, but I prefer to leave it for clarity. : : I have just succeeded in compiling a

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 08:19:08AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I've just discovered the chat command (I'm a newbie). I can echo a command > from the prompt to the modem, but when I try "chat "" ATZ OK > ATDT(phonenum)" the system sits for a while displaying "ATZ" and then just > returns me to the pro

Network tracing software

1998-09-17 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, Are there any network tracing packages available for Debian? What I'm looking for is something that will keep track of network activity and keep a log of what connections are being made to my system (as well as where my systems are calling out to). I have a ISDN router that was activating

Kernel(-package) mysteries

1998-09-17 Thread Remo Badii
Dear Debs, this is my second list of questions about kernel compilation and modules mysteries. I apologize for repeating part of the content of the previous message, but I prefer to leave it for clarity. I have just succeeded in compiling a new kernel using make menuconfig make-kpkg --revision=cus

Re: ftape

1998-09-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
Johann, The version of ftape in the 2.0.x kernels is much older than that on the ftape archives. 3.04d is the first version to support the Ditto 2GB drive, but I understand there are still problems. The latest is 4.02. As Claus-Justus says on his web page: If you intend to use Iomega's Di

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-17 Thread Tim Thomas
> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 15:04:31 +0100 (WEST) > Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Organization: Universidade de Evora > From: Mario Filipe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To:debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: About realplayer > HI > > I installed rvplayer on my m

Re: Please Help me figure out this PPP -> NT RAS thing?

1998-09-17 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Mohan: I don't know if this is going to work but you can try it. In your /etc/ppp/options file put a line as follows: # Set the assumed name of the remote system for authentication purposes # to . #remotename name login-name That is the name to send to login. In your /etc/ppp/pap-secret

Reading mail with Web-Browser?

1998-09-17 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, is there a Debian tool that provides http/html access to mail? (something like a "hotmail" service?). Yes, I know that netscape can fetch mails by pop and imap; I am looking for some utility that produces native http/html (maybe by fetching the mails itself with pop or imap). Thanks, Thomas

Re: LPRng and banners...

1998-09-17 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 03:56:07PM +0300, Juha Ylitalo wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > I am trying to setup Linux printer spooler for our UNIX machines with > latest stable debian and its LPRng and CTI-ifhp filters, all taken from > debian packages (except 2.0.35 kernel, which I co

Please Help me figure out this PPP -> NT RAS thing?

1998-09-17 Thread Mohan Kannapareddy
Greeting Folks, I have fresh Debian 2.0 installed with the ppp-2.35 package. I am desperately trying for the last two days to get my linux box dial up to our NT RAS server which has the domain\\username type setup. I have the "/etc/ppp/chap-secrets" file se

Re: Boot Problem

1998-09-17 Thread Michael Vanecek
Viola! Success. That was rather strange. After booting with the floppy, I went and executed lilo like you said (actually I went to bin rather than sbin, but it worked anyway), rebooted sans floppy, and it booted without hesitation. What did I miss? At the end of the install, where you were given a

Re: are there (X)emacs20-no-mule debian packages

1998-09-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Richard Hoskins wrote: > AFAIK, there is no Emacs 20.3 Debian package yet. It's in slink. $ dpkg -s emacs20 Package: emacs20 [...] Version: 20.3-1 [...]

About realplayer

1998-09-17 Thread Mario Filipe
HI I installed rvplayer on my machine (slink updated this morning) but everytime i try to run welcome.rm (provided with realplayer package) it tell's me this: File compression not supported. Cannot locate the requested RealAudio decoder. For more information, please see Error 38 at: http

Re: COBOL for linux

1998-09-17 Thread Curt Daugaard
Look here: http://www.ssc.com/lj/issue13/np13b.html HTH, Curt On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 12:06:14PM +0100, K.Y.Lo wrote: > Hi > > Does anyone know where is COBOL for the Linux? > > thanks alot > -- > Cheers > > K.Y.Lo > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe

Configuration files?

1998-09-17 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
There seem to be two independent system.fvwm95rc on my freshly installed Debian 2.0 system: sos:~> ls -i /etc/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm95rc 14384 /etc/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm95rc sos:~> ls -i /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm95rc 149639 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm95rc sos:~> ls -l /

Re: Boot Problem

1998-09-17 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> Well, I loaded Debian from floppy. However, while it boots from the boot > floppy fine, when I try to boot from the hd, it doesn't appear to load > anything, and stops at a 1FA: prompt (to which nothing can be typed). Hm, to me it sounds like a problem with lilo. What does it say, if you execute

Re: debian 2.0 install

1998-09-17 Thread Michael Below
Hi, Nathan wrote: >I don't believe Linux SMP code supports dual 486 processors (due to the >lack of standards for such machines). Pentium and above >multi-processor systems are supported. According to the Parallel Processing HOWTO, parallel processing is supported on 486DX, but not on 486SX.

NIS & Shadow problem

1998-09-17 Thread Clemens Heuberger
I' m using a NIS and Shadow. Sometimes, I cannot login to the Client, and the syslog shows login[1860]: no shadow password for `cheub' on `ttyp7' from `thue' Sep 17 login[1860]: invalid password for `cheub' on `ttyp7' from `thue' If I issue a yppasswd (which is possible since I am logged in

Re: Apache mod_ssl

1998-09-17 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 05:32:49PM +0100, Oliver Thuns wrote: > >> No but there is apache-ssl, wich is also a debian package (in hamm), find > >> it at www.debian.org -> packages -> search I think it's in the non-US > >> section > > > >Does anyone know why it's such an old version of Apache? >

Re: Bounce-queues with LPRng

1998-09-17 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 04:02:25PM +0300, Mika S. Marjamäki wrote: > Hi! > > Does anyone here have a filtered bounce queue for remote printer set up > with LPRng? > > I have my HP LaserJet 5L connected to my "home-server", and want to print > to it from my workstation using magicfilter through LA

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread Kent West
I've just discovered the chat command (I'm a newbie). I can echo a command from the prompt to the modem, but when I try "chat "" ATZ OK ATDT(phonenum)" the system sits for a while displaying "ATZ" and then just returns me to the prompt. As mentioned below, apparently the echo command from the promp

What DSELECT does?

1998-09-17 Thread Blazej Sawionek
I installed hamm via ftp. Now I needed to add one package. I added it in dselect and to my horror it downloaded some 20 packages, among them different Xservers. Said that now the default is a different Xserver than I in fact had as default, then it did byte-compling for different packages and so on

RE: Star Office 5/4 in english?

1998-09-17 Thread harsh
I got ver 4 from the german site about a week ago ftp://ftp.stardivision.de/pub/so4/linux/sp3/01 Good Luck Jim On 16-Sep-98 Mrpeabody wrote: > Can you get star office 5 in english? I used to have star office 4 in > english but it seems all that it is no longer available now that star > office 5

LPRng and banners...

1998-09-17 Thread Juha Ylitalo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I am trying to setup Linux printer spooler for our UNIX machines with latest stable debian and its LPRng and CTI-ifhp filters, all taken from debian packages (except 2.0.35 kernel, which I compiled myself to get automounter work). Basic printing appears to be wo

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread Kent West
At 05:34 AM 9/17/1998 -0700, you wrote: >1: the documentation for ppp is in the man pages, which you probably >have not installed? Correct; I don't yet have the man pages installed. >2: the correct way to start ppp is 'pon connect-name' where >connect-name is the name of the service you gave when

Boot Problem

1998-09-17 Thread Michael Vanecek
Well, I loaded Debian from floppy. However, while it boots from the boot floppy fine, when I try to boot from the hd, it doesn't appear to load anything, and stops at a 1FA: prompt (to which nothing can be typed). Also, do I have to load the drivers for the serial ports, or is that automatically

Re: COBOL for linux

1998-09-17 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 12:06:14PM +0100, K.Y.Lo wrote: > Hi > > Does anyone know where is COBOL for the Linux? I searched through Debian package lists nothing even mentions COBOL. I personally doubt that sucha beast exists. Ive never actually heard of anyone who actually LIKES COBOL. If t

Re: Q: Why Midhight Commander stopped working on text console?

1998-09-17 Thread Oleksiy \(alex\) Bolgarov
Dave Thayer wrote: > > I had a similar problem caused by having the line > > eval `resize` > > in my .bashrc . Apparantly it conflicted somehow whith the concurrent > subshell process (whatever that is). Starting mc with the -u switch > disables the concurrent subshell. I ended up just commentin

How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread Kenneth Scharf
1: the documentation for ppp is in the man pages, which you probably have not installed? 2: the correct way to start ppp is 'pon connect-name' where connect-name is the name of the service you gave when you ran pppconfig. 3. I seem to have a similar problem. The mystery became clear when I start

netscape4 mail reader

1998-09-17 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Are you using the netscape communicator or the navigator package? Starting with version 4 the navigator package does NOT include the mail reader, ONLY the browser. The communicator package includes the browser, mail reader (icon is a little envelope at the lower right of screen), and a composer (

[slightly OFF TOPIC] digital audio in linux?

1998-09-17 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi, Suppose I want to do the following: 1) record music with my audio DAT-recorder 2) transfer it _digitally_ to the hard disk of a debian box 3) burn audio CD's of it I know how to do 1) and 3). Does anyone know what hardware/software combo would enable me to perform step 2)? Eric -- E.L.

COBOL for linux

1998-09-17 Thread K.Y.Lo
Hi Does anyone know where is COBOL for the Linux? thanks alot -- Cheers K.Y.Lo Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: being dropped from the list

1998-09-17 Thread Ted Harding
On 17-Sep-98 Hanno Wagner \(Debian-Listmaster-Mails\) wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 09:37:04PM -, Darren Benham wrote > On 16-Sep-98 Ralph Winslow wrote: > >> It seems that everytime my ISP has the slightest interrruption of >> e-mail service, I get unsubscribed to this list. Might it be

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