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1998-10-02 Thread Cool-Links.com
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Re: Samba encrypted passwd file

1998-10-02 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Kent West wrote: > Hi all! > According to the Encryption.txt doc file for Samba, the command to > create the encrypted password file is: > cat /etc/passwd | mksmbpasswd.sh > /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd > but when I run this I can a error: > bash: mksmbpasswd.sh: command not found > > Is

Re: nn & local news spool

1998-10-02 Thread mwb
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Set NNTPSERVER=localhost in your environment. It took me > months to figure this out. I do NOT find this documented > anywhere. I have my default server set up to localhost, so this wasn't necessary for me. However, I was emailed a message that to

Re: Off Topic: Samba

1998-10-02 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Jeff Noxon wrote: On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 04:28:09PM -0400, dpk wrote: > I have searched the Debian and Samba website for answers, as well as > /usr/doc, and newsgroups for a resolution. > > I would like to use encrypted passwords, but not have to maintain a > samba password file as well as /etc/

Re: Debian Linux on HP/Apollo 400?

1998-10-02 Thread Martin Schulze
First of all, Peter, you should *remove* the 310kB jpeg image that were attached to the origianl mail. Secondly you should tell your mail program not to send HTML mails. Peter L. Berghold wrote: > According to what I understand from the web page I'm to ask on this list > before I attempt to put D

Samba encrypted passwd file

1998-10-02 Thread Kent West
Hi all! According to the Encryption.txt doc file for Samba, the command to create the encrypted password file is: cat /etc/passwd | mksmbpasswd.sh > /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd but when I run this I can a error: bash: mksmbpasswd.sh: command not found Is the documentation wrong, or am I

Problems with ifmail

1998-10-02 Thread Jaap Lutz
Hi, I recently switched a computer that needs to function as a fidonet gateway to Debian 2.0. Prior to Hamm ifmail (the gateway program) would compile without problems, but now it doesn't and I can't really figure out why. There is a debian package for ifmail, but I need a few compile-time options

ACE packages available for testing

1998-10-02 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I am packaging ACE for Debian. I made some packages available for testing at: ftp://moc.tn.cornell.edu/pub/othman/aceconf/debian I'd appreciate any feedback. You may need to add -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXt -lpthread -ldl -lACE to the link line for your programs. Note these aren't

access to iso9660 raw image

1998-10-02 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi All, Today a friend of mine gave me a CD with raw binary image of hamm on it. MD5 sum is correct. Would it be possible to use this CD as a hamm distribution without burning new CD. May be using loopback device or something like that? Any help is greatly appreciated. Eugene Sevinian ---

Re: printing problems

1998-10-02 Thread Bradley Bell
thanks, I have gotten it to work, partly. Those files will help greatly. I've gotten it to work so far by downloading the new beta of the redhat "printtools" package and installing it with alien. It works, but is far from optimal. I still would like to get it to print the banner page, and I sti

Re: Off Topic: Samba

1998-10-02 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 04:28:09PM -0400, dpk wrote: > I have searched the Debian and Samba website for answers, as well as > /usr/doc, and newsgroups for a resolution. > > I would like to use encrypted passwords, but not have to maintain a > samba password file as well as /etc/passwd. Is it poss

Off Topic: Samba

1998-10-02 Thread dpk
I have searched the Debian and Samba website for answers, as well as /usr/doc, and newsgroups for a resolution. I would like to use encrypted passwords, but not have to maintain a samba password file as well as /etc/passwd. Is it possible to do this with Debian/samba? If so, could someone point

Linux Packetfilters?

1998-10-02 Thread Will Lowe
We're sitting on a T1 at work which runs from our lab the rest of campus; we've got a dedicated machine running a packetfilter in DOS. Yes, Dos. Mostly if just makes sure that packets not intended for our domain don't enter, and packets from within our domain stay there unless they've got a re

I Don't recieve the "Prospective needed and work ..." ?

1998-10-02 Thread shaul
It's been a long time since I recieved the "Prospective needed and work ..." email. Is it steel being automatically mailed from time to time ?

Re: Tin hangs on Debian 2.0

1998-10-02 Thread shaul
I am using tin_980226-3.deb on Debian 2.0. I can read news, but I can't post because of some 7/8 bit matter which I didn't look into. Few days ago there was someone asking on this list about this 7/8 bit matter. I think he is using it under Hamm too. > I installed a fresh Debian 2.0 system via F

Re: xwin-32, debian, and colliging window managers

1998-10-02 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Rick, try Debian vnc package. It allows you to view the "Linux Desktop" into Netscape 4 withing Windows. More info into Debian homepage in session News. Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 02:33:32PM -0500, Richard E. H

RE: hamm and large drives

1998-10-02 Thread Shaleh
I have a Hamm box on a 4.3 and a Slink box on a 4.3, both IDE. No hassles. Have not run a box greater than the 4.3 however. Anyone in the 6-9 range on IDE care to comment.

Re: hamm and large drives

1998-10-02 Thread Ares
I've got an 8.4GB IDE in my machine that runs like a clock (without the tick-tock :-). JDM On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Michael Stone wrote: > Has anyone had problems using large hard ide hard drives with hamm? I > was getting errors (EXT2-fs warning: ext2_free_(blocks|inode): bit > already cleared) on a

hamm and large drives

1998-10-02 Thread Michael Stone
Has anyone had problems using large hard ide hard drives with hamm? I was getting errors (EXT2-fs warning: ext2_free_(blocks|inode): bit already cleared) on a 8G ide drive, followed by an EXT2-fs panic: load_block_bitmap. I then put in a new 6.4G ide disk. The second disk died spectacularly with a

xwin-32, debian, and colliging window managers

1998-10-02 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Life isn't fair. I buy a machine to install debian and run lyx. I get my boss to buy a debian box for his number-smasher. And I'm spending my time fighting with nt problems :( The latest is his effort to have only one display on his desk. As he's wedded to word, that means NT display with

Re: kernel 2.1.xx

1998-10-02 Thread Marco Machmer
Bob Nielsen wrote: > You can make your own Debian package by getting the kernel source and > using make-kpkg, which is in the kernel-package package. i get the following error-message while i try to make a new kernel package with 'make-kpkg--zimage buildpackage' ### this are the last 2

Re: xmkmf / imake

1998-10-02 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Michael Stenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | What package is xmkmf/imake in? | | I've looked all over with no success. I'm new to | programming/development and don't know my way around this end of things | very well. (Don't worry... I won't "hurt" myself with it... I just need | it for devel

Re: xmkmf / imake

1998-10-02 Thread Nuno Carvalho
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Michael Stenner wrote: > What package is xmkmf/imake in? You can found it in x11/xlib6g-dev package! ./Nuno Carvalho

xmkmf / imake

1998-10-02 Thread Michael Stenner
What package is xmkmf/imake in? I've looked all over with no success. I'm new to programming/development and don't know my way around this end of things very well. (Don't worry... I won't "hurt" myself with it... I just need it for development purposes.) Thanks for your help!

debian chat damon

1998-10-02 Thread pussy
Is there a debian chat daemon, eg like chatd and one that ychat can access? I have searched through the packages list with no results, but obviously I could have missed it for a number of reasons. NB I don't mean IRC thanks Skunk Pussy [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://this.is/Drum&Bass telnet://skun

looking for c library for simple graphics (in .deb)

1998-10-02 Thread Jan Krupa
Could someone please recommend some graphic library for c (or c++ but more important for c) ? Something which can give postscript output or other format which can be easily printed under debian2.0 and I could use this way (similar to this): #include... #include here goes some code for computin

dead users in utmp

1998-10-02 Thread Max
I have a strange problem with users not getting properly cleared out of utmp when they kill the terminal instead of logging out. Here's an example. Suppose a user logs in. I type "who" and sure enough, he shows up. He then logs out by typing "exit", I type "who" and he's gone. But let's say he

Re: Netscape 4.06 and Debian 2.0

1998-10-02 Thread Ed Cogburn
Doug: I'm echoing this back to DebianUser so that hopefully someone who has seen this happen before will help. I never had this kind of problem before and I've been using netscape since v3.05. What I say below is nothing more than guesses. doug a blaisdell wrote: > > ed-- > You poste

Re: NIS Installation problem

1998-10-02 Thread Jay Barbee
At 10/2/98 02:39 PM -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi Debian users, > I'm having some troubles into getting NIS into one server and some > clients. > I step by step followed de Debian NIS HowTo and the NIS HOWTO, but I > can't >login into a client. >

Re: Color and Fonts Loss

1998-10-02 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 09:43:42 +0200 (SAT) Daniel Mashao writes: > > If I run netscape (or any color or font intensive app) I have > problems starting other applications. I have to restart my Xserver > to be able to start other applications. Does anybody know of a > painless solution? 1. Use 16bit

Re: printing problems

1998-10-02 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 12:14:53 -0700 (PDT) Bradley Bell writes: > > I need to print to an HP Laserjet 5Si printer which is hooked up to > a netware network, > > Can anybody point me to any resources on printing to netware > printers? > > I've studied and tried every trick in the IPX- and Printing-

NIS Installation problem

1998-10-02 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I'm having some troubles into getting NIS into one server and some clients. I step by step followed de Debian NIS HowTo and the NIS HOWTO, but I can't login into a client. In NIS HowTo there is a program to check if NIS is Ok. I created a t

Re: Emacs keybinding of Ctrl-[

1998-10-02 Thread Andy Spiegl
> C-[ is the same as ESC, I think. So that's your problem. And there is no way to separate ESC and C-[ ? I mean, who uses C-[ to get an ESC?? > Maybe if you redefine ESC, but you probably don't want to do that. I don't think so. :-) > Do you have an alt or meta or compose key you could use? You c

3dfx voodoo2

1998-10-02 Thread tracheotomy_bob
Hallo again.     Do the glide drivers currently available from 3dfx's site support the Monster 3D II card? When I tried the test programs they bombed with an error saying that no Voodoo card was present. Yet according to the Howto everying is in place. /proc/pci recognises it!   thanks.

Re: printer setup for hp laserjet 6L

1998-10-02 Thread John Maheu
All you have to do is run magicfilterconfig and answer the questions as root and you're done. Then "lpr file" will print. John John Maheuphone (403) 492-2049 University of Alberta email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Econ

Re: debian as secretary?

1998-10-02 Thread Adam Lazur
You can use a program still in development called 'spk'. It does exactly what you want, and more. It'll only work with USR voice modems though I believe. In any event, here's the URL: http://www.cs.alfred.edu/~spk/ .adam -- Adam Lazur - Computer Engineering Undergrad - Lehigh University

Re: Emacs keybinding of Ctrl-[

1998-10-02 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Havoc Pennington wrote: > On 2 Oct 1998, Andy Spiegl wrote: > > I am working with an US-keyboard, but typing German texts in XEmacs. > > So I tried to teach XEmacs (v19.11) to give me the umlauts if I press > > the corresponding keys together with CTRL. This works fine for all > > keys except fo

Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-10-02 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 11:01:22AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > I agree...but...they still could be. Isn't that exactly what the people who > were writting mainframe applications a few yars ago said? :) > > "Nah this system wont be in use past 9

LS-120

1998-10-02 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Are there any utilities for formatting 1.44m floppies in an LS-120 (on /dev/hdd)? Also I have a custom kernel, how can I create a boot diskette which will boot in the LS-120 drive? (my bios WILL boot a floppy in the LS-120 drive, the debian 2.0 boot/rescue disks do work in the LS-120...but how wer

Re: debian as secretary?

1998-10-02 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: > Hello, > I want to access my pc from univerisy. Of course i can, i have done it. > But I can only if my pc is connected to internet (obvious). I just > cannot getup on 8:00am, turn pc on, connet go to univ. and then back at > 5:00 becouse the phone-lin

Re: X config/setup info.

1998-10-02 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 09:17:34AM -0700, Dunlap, Randy wrote: > Thanks to Pann and Chris for pointing out that I was still using > the VGA16 server instead of the S3 server. > > But ... did I miss something somewhere? Either XF86Config could have > modified /etc/X11/Xserver for me or it could h

Re: how to insert EOF from keyboard ?

1998-10-02 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Jan Krupa wrote: > Could someone please tell how can I insert under > Linux (debian2.0) EOF (end of file) sign (in C lang.) from keyboard? > I mean what sequence of keys ? CTRL-D Sincerely, Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anagrams of "dig

Re: Long term Debian growth

1998-10-02 Thread john
Tom writes: > 1. Debian could maintain a list of consultants and technical workers who > can and will support commercial Debian sites. (Perhaps at a discount.) That already exists. > 2. An off the shelf business development kit... > ... > Any opinions? Sure. Start a business, implement your id

Re: Emacs keybinding of Ctrl-[

1998-10-02 Thread Havoc Pennington
On 2 Oct 1998, Andy Spiegl wrote: > Hi, > > I am working with an US-keyboard, but typing German texts in XEmacs. > So I tried to teach XEmacs (v19.11) to give me the umlauts if I press > the corresponding keys together with CTRL. This works fine for all > keys except for u-umlaut which would end

Kernel compile error and wvdial. . .

1998-10-02 Thread Person, Rod
Hey all, So I have been playing with the compiling of a custom kernel, and go all the way through make zImage...I get this error Id86 cannot find command error[127] then it exits out of the directory. I thought at first it was because I chose to compile the kernel as ELF. So I tried it again

Re: HELP: Newbie with fsck problem

1998-10-02 Thread Albert Hurd
Jim Foltz wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 09:33:57AM -0700, Albert Hurd wrote: > > A power outage just caused a file check failure. I was told to fix the > > problem manually with fsck. When I run fsck or fsck -r -f, it replies > > with the usual, "Parallelizing fsck version 1.10 (24-Apr-97)" a

Emacs keybinding of Ctrl-[

1998-10-02 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi, I am working with an US-keyboard, but typing German texts in XEmacs. So I tried to teach XEmacs (v19.11) to give me the umlauts if I press the corresponding keys together with CTRL. This works fine for all keys except for u-umlaut which would end up being on CTRL-[ : ;; define umlaut keys (d

Re: CPU temp/fan tachometer for linux?

1998-10-02 Thread Peter S Galbraith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In the Makefile, change the line > CFLAGS = -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -I. -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer > > to read > > CFLAGS = -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/include -I. -O > 2 -fomit-frame-pointer Thanks a lot. Now I can build oikay, but I get thi

Re: STB velocity 128

1998-10-02 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 02:55:57AM -0400, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 12:11:49AM -0500, Default Debian Reader wrote: > > I have an STB velocity 128 AGP card and don't see it anywhere in the > > supported cards in xf86config? Does anyone else use this card, and if so > > ho

"kickstart" for Debian?

1998-10-02 Thread Thomas Heft
Does Debian have any unattended installation software, like Redhat's "kickstart" or Solaris's "jumpstart"? I'm looking at deploying a bunch of Linux machines, but would like to automate the installation/configuration. Thanks, Tom -- Tom Heft Systems Manager [EM

Re: Installing pine 4.05

1998-10-02 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: > Anybody installed this package from project/experimental? > > I replaced -ltermcap with -lncurses as suggested elsewhere but still I > cannot compile the package becuase it is looking for a crypt() function. Once more I have to say: Please, do not mod

Re: CPU temp/fan tachometer for linux?

1998-10-02 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 2 Oct, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Try lm_sensors. >> >> http://appindex.freshmeat.net/view/904554804/ > > Cool. Have you compiled this? > (Which do you pick? lm78-1.2.3.tgz or lm_sensors-1.4.6.tar.gz) > > I get: > > # insmod ./lm_sensors.o > ./lm_sens

RE: Shared file

1998-10-02 Thread Lewis, James M.
What do you mean by "shared"? Unless you take special measures, all files are opened in shared mode. You have to explicitly lock them if you don't want shared access. For example, use 2 consoles (or xterms) and do cat - > share.txt in the first window and do tail -f share.txt in

Re: What causes single user boot?

1998-10-02 Thread Andy Spiegl
According to Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 2. A filesystem check failed because there were serious errors and >the system wants you to run fsck manually It is not 1 and 3 so it must be 2. That sounds reasonable, because the "operator" (who had no idea what he was doing) read

Re: HELP: Newbie with fsck problem

1998-10-02 Thread Jim Foltz
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 09:33:57AM -0700, Albert Hurd wrote: > A power outage just caused a file check failure. I was told to fix the > problem manually with fsck. When I run fsck or fsck -r -f, it replies > with the usual, "Parallelizing fsck version 1.10 (24-Apr-97)" and > immediately returns me

Savage3D X server?

1998-10-02 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Does anyone know if there is an X server that will support the Savage3D or if an X server/driver is in the works? Thanks, -Ossama __ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: can any user have the right of root and can lunch Netscape

1998-10-02 Thread Jim Foltz
On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 09:31:53AM +0800, Chan Min Wai wrote: > Hai, > I'm asking about that can a user have the rithr of root and can > lunch netscape as well in Xwin.. Any user can start X windows if it is intalled properly. Any user can start netscape if it is intalled properly. Root user i

Re: Voodoo Rush

1998-10-02 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > I have a friend interested in changing his machine's OS over to Debian, > the only problem that I can see is that he has a Intergraph Voodoo extreme > as his video card, and I can't find a X-server for it. I was simply > wondering if there is such an X-server for Debian. All Voodoo Rush ca

Re: CPU temp/fan tachometer for linux?

1998-10-02 Thread Peter S Galbraith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Try lm_sensors. > > http://appindex.freshmeat.net/view/904554804/ Cool. Have you compiled this? (Which do you pick? lm78-1.2.3.tgz or lm_sensors-1.4.6.tar.gz) I get: # insmod ./lm_sensors.o ./lm_sensors.o: kernel-module version mismatch ./lm_sensors.

Where is the default dir for kdebase...

1998-10-02 Thread Chan Min Wai
I'm a debian linux 2.0 user I'm trying to use kde after I install Qt (free 1.4) then I continuate to install the kdelibs0g with dpkg -i .deb then install the kdebase with dpkg -i .deb. now I start my Qt setting the CPLUS_DIR, LD_LIBRARY and other then I start to start to set

HELP: Newbie with fsck problem

1998-10-02 Thread Albert Hurd
A power outage just caused a file check failure. I was told to fix the problem manually with fsck. When I run fsck or fsck -r -f, it replies with the usual, "Parallelizing fsck version 1.10 (24-Apr-97)" and immediately returns me to the (root) prompt without doing any repairs. When I try to reboot

Re: Adaptec AIC-7890 SCSI under Debian?

1998-10-02 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Blazej Sawionek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I was skimming through the messegas from the last few days and I haven't | noticed any answers so I'm answering (even though it is rather late). | | > I've been trying to install Debian on a P-II, with a ASUS P2B-LS | > Motherboard, and a Adapt

Re: Scanners - recommandations?

1998-10-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"John" == John Plate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> I'm planning to buy a scanner. What type will work well with Linux? You should look into the SANE project. Specifically, the backends (which are scanner specific) are detailed in http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.htm

can any user have the right of root and can lunch Netscape

1998-10-02 Thread Chan Min Wai
Hai, I'm asking about that can a user have the rithr of root and can lunch netscape as well in Xwin..

Re: Debian & Chinese & Netscape!

1998-10-02 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
Hi Jimen, What do you mean by builtin?? You still need to download the chinese fonts before you can use the 'encoding' in netscape. Is this right?? I can get Chinese displayed in most of cases... But for some web pages with heavy java and frames, I cannot read Chinese there...

Re: Adaptec AIC-7890 SCSI under Debian?

1998-10-02 Thread Blazej Sawionek
I was skimming through the messegas from the last few days and I haven't noticed any answers so I'm answering (even though it is rather late). > I've been trying to install Debian on a P-II, with a ASUS P2B-LS > Motherboard, and a Adaptec AIC-7890 Ultra2 SCSI chipset. Matthias Klose wrote

Re: A True newbie here (fwd)

1998-10-02 Thread Kent West
At 05:39 AM 10/2/1998 -0500, Christopher Jay Stevenson wrote: > >Hmm... meant to send this to the list > >> > > What you'll probably want to do (I'm assuming you're not installing from >> > > CD-ROM) is install the base system, then download the dhcpcd package with >> > > Win95, mount the windows p

Re: PS/VaulePoint Problem--Can't install.

1998-10-02 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Man, is the Adaptec SCSI card ever a FAQ. I wonder if this is in the FAQ-O-Matic... Should be. "Cap'n Fred" wrote: > Actually my machine is a 486DX2 66, as far as I know it is not a MCA. The > Adaptec card is AHA 2840VL, whis is the VESA model I think. You might want to try the boot disk me

Re: Soft reboot = hard drive not recognized

1998-10-02 Thread Kent West
At 08:02 AM 10/2/1998 -0400, you wrote: >My computer does not have PNP support in the BIOS (it is from 1993). I do use "Auto" for the drive type in the BIOS, though. > Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/1/98 8:01:11 PM >>> >On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Kent West wrote: > >> At 04:41 PM 10/1/1998 -

Re: Excel DLLs (.xll) in Wine or Willows or Bochs or ...

1998-10-02 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 08:16:59AM -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi Debian users, > my boss at work have to run a simulation into Excel that uses a DLL of > Excel (.xll). The problem is that the simulation will take too long (about 7 > years) and he couldn't put

Configuring sound (and video) in Cyrix MediaGX

1998-10-02 Thread Jorge Sanz Forcada
Hi all, I have installed Debian 2.0 in my Cyrix Media GX MMX enhanced 200 Mhz. I have seen that there are some users that are also installed this system in that computer before, so perhaps they can help me. I have two questions: 1.- I am trying to install the sound "card" as a

Re: newbie question: when dpkging libpam0g & libpam0g-util

1998-10-02 Thread \"J.H.M.Dassen\" <\"J.H.M.Dassen\"
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 09:56:42PM +0800, zuwi wrote: > When I tried to dpkg --configure libpam0g, it told me this depends on > libpam0g-util, and libpam0g-util had not been configured, so failed. > > Then I tried to dpkg --configure libpam0g-util, it told me this depends on > libpam0g, and (of co

Installing Sybase server from RH ftp site

1998-10-02 Thread Douglas Bates
Yesterday on http://www.redhat.com/ they were offering a free download of RPM package of the Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise and of its docs. You are asked to register but can access the ftp site directly (ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/sybase/) if you prefer not to do that. Has anyone tried to insta

Re: tin charset problem

1998-10-02 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> Has anyone ever seem this error from tin? > > Error: Bad charset for non-7bit encoding (must not be us-ascii) > > I consistently get this error and it won't let me post because of it. The solution: Press M in rtin, choose item 73. MM_CHARSET and set it to ISO-8859-1. Now I can post without rt

newbie question: when dpkging libpam0g & libpam0g-util

1998-10-02 Thread zuwi
Hi, I'm using Debian 2.0. When I tried to dpkg --configure libpam0g, it told me this depends on libpam0g-util, and libpam0g-util had not been configured, so failed. Then I tried to dpkg --configure libpam0g-util, it told me this depends on libpam0g, and (of course) it had not been configured yet

Long term Debian growth

1998-10-02 Thread Tom
I am thinking that Debian should consider taking some steps to increase its commercial presence by becoming more attractive to small entrepreneurial business owners with low to moderate technical skills. The reasons for this is to provide an increased source of funding for Debian expansion. Lets

Voodoo Rush

1998-10-02 Thread Ehren Wilson
I have a friend interested in changing his machine's OS over to Debian, the only problem that I can see is that he has a Intergraph Voodoo extreme as his video card, and I can't find a X-server for it. I was simply wondering if there is such an X-server for Debian. Thanks, Ehren Wilson --

Re: What causes single user boot?

1998-10-02 Thread Christopher D. Judd
> *- Christopher D. Judd wrote about "Re: What causes single user boot?" > | > |This happens on my system since upgrading to Hamm. The problem seems > | to be that fsck -A tries to check /fd0 (since I have entries for /fd0 in > | fsab) and fails since no disk is in the drive. If that is the

Shared file

1998-10-02 Thread ivan
Hi, all I would like to know how can I creat and handle a file that can be shared by more than one process at the same time in Debian. I got it working in AIX, but in Linux's open system call there's no option to do this. Thanks in advance.

Re: Electric eyes

1998-10-02 Thread Dominik Rothert
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 08:42:37PM +1200, John Leget wrote ... > For some reason electric eyes (0.3-1) bombs, > until i either try to open > or save anything then the following results. > Gdk-Message: > ** ERROR **: sigsegv caught I have the same problem, since I use libgtk-1.1

Re: Problems with NFS (is this a bug?)

1998-10-02 Thread Dale E. Martin
Jose Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > I've been using Debian 1.3.1 at my work for sharing my local SCSI disk > with NFS. Everything worked ok until I upgraded to Debian 2.0. I did not > changed anything in config files. My disk is shared with a Sun Solaris > 2.5.x and 4 PCs (Debian

Re: [HELP:]howto hamm->slink + dpkg problems

1998-10-02 Thread Jens Ritter
Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hello, > > i didn't find any README in the slink directory, so how does the upgrade work > (and the maintenance...) do i simply install the packages of the slink > directory? > > In fact i would like to have packages like gnome easily installed and >

Re: Soft reboot = hard drive not recognized

1998-10-02 Thread Jeff Miller
My computer does not have PNP support in the BIOS (it is from 1993). I do use "Auto" for the drive type in the BIOS, though. >>> Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/1/98 8:01:11 PM >>> On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Kent West wrote: > At 04:41 PM 10/1/1998 -0400, Jeff Miller wrote: > >Hi all: > > > >I

Relisys AVEC Easy 3

1998-10-02 Thread Sean Johnson
I have a Relisys AVEC Easy 3 scanner. It is of the EPP Parallel Port variety, and I was wondering how I should go about setting it up under Linux. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanx. Sean

Re: problems with finger

1998-10-02 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! > looks like your utmp file is mangled. the easiest way is to just wipe it > out entirely. (try as root: "> /var/run/utmp") it's also possible to > fix the utmp file by manipulating it's contents - depending on the number > of users on your system this may be better, or simply wiping the u

Excel DLLs (.xll) in Wine or Willows or Bochs or ...

1998-10-02 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, my boss at work have to run a simulation into Excel that uses a DLL of Excel (.xll). The problem is that the simulation will take too long (about 7 years) and he couldn't put this kind of thing to run in Windowze because it could go into GPF and loss the entire s

Scanners - recommandations?

1998-10-02 Thread John Plate
Hi I'm planning to buy a scanner. What type will work well with Linux? Thank you in advance. -- John Plate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

qmail-pop3d

1998-10-02 Thread mpf
Hello! I installed ucspi-tcp and qmail. How could I use qmail's pop3d?

Re: A True newbie here (fwd)

1998-10-02 Thread Christopher Jay Stevenson
Hmm... meant to send this to the list > > > What you'll probably want to do (I'm assuming you're not installing from > > > CD-ROM) is install the base system, then download the dhcpcd package with > > > Win95, mount the windows partition from within Linux, copy over the dhcpcd > > > package, and

Re: Any non-X graphical browsers?

1998-10-02 Thread Dirk Bonne
Kent West wrote: > > Are there any graphical web browsers available that don't need X? I've > only got 8MB on this laptop, which is unusable with X and Netscape. > take a look at lynx Dirk

Re: debian 2.0 cd from lsl

1998-10-02 Thread Edward Kear
At 09:29 PM 10/1/98 -0400, Rahul Sood wrote: >2 weeks ago I ordered the Debian 2.0 CD from Linux System Labs in >Michigan, US, and included a $50 contribution to Debian with my payment. >I haven't heard from them since, and their web site, www.lsl.com is down. >Has anyone bought from lsl recently

Re: printing problems

1998-10-02 Thread Dirk Bonne
Bradley Bell wrote: > > I need to print to an HP Laserjet 5Si printer which is hooked up to a > netware network, > > Can anybody point me to any resources on printing to netware printers? > > I've studied and tried every trick in the IPX- and Printing-HOWTO, and > the instructions there are pret

More info with my problem with NFS

1998-10-02 Thread Jose Rodriguez
Hi! The following is the log of Sun (Solaris 2.5.1) with has problems with my NFS shared disk (Debian HAMM 2.0) as related before. Sep 26 10:36:05 teide unix: NFS server 193.144.131.181 not responding still trying Sep 26 10:36:05 teide unix: NFS server 193.144.131.181 ok Sep 28 09:30:16 teide un

Installing pine 4.05

1998-10-02 Thread Daniel Mashao
Anybody installed this package from project/experimental? I replaced -ltermcap with -lncurses as suggested elsewhere but still I cannot compile the package becuase it is looking for a crypt() function. Any help? I am having a problem with apps that are color intensive (eg netscape) and font int

[HELP:]howto hamm->slink + dpkg problems

1998-10-02 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i didn't find any README in the slink directory, so how does the upgrade work (and the maintenance...) do i simply install the packages of the slink directory? In fact i would like to have packages like gnome easily installed and maintained through dselect... and that seems possible only u

Problems with NFS (is this a bug?)

1998-10-02 Thread Jose Rodriguez
Hi! I've been using Debian 1.3.1 at my work for sharing my local SCSI disk with NFS. Everything worked ok until I upgraded to Debian 2.0. I did not changed anything in config files. My disk is shared with a Sun Solaris 2.5.x and 4 PCs (Debian Hamm). When activating NFS things work ok for a while

Electric eyes

1998-10-02 Thread John Leget
Hello all, For some reason electric eyes (0.3-1) bombs, im running debian slink. Everything seems ok until i either try to open or save anything then the following results. Gdk-Message: ** ERROR **: sigsegv caught any ideas. Thanx

How about a system health-monitoring tool

1998-10-02 Thread Joe Emenaker
I was upgrading some packages last night and I broke two things, DBI and smail. I didn't find out about the mail one until the next morning (and boy, were the clients pissed...). So, I got to thinking. Suppose we made a directory called, say, /usr/lib/healthcheck or something. Package maintainers

Can we make the dependencies a little more strict?

1998-10-02 Thread Joe Emenaker
Okay, here's the deal: I've got perl, mysql, perl-dbi, and mysql-dbd all loaded. The perl-dbi stuff is very dependent upon the build of perl (to the point where I suspect that a rebuild of perl will break DBI unless it, too, is rebuilt in the context of the new perl binary). The same seems to hold

Re: printer setup for hp laserjet 6L

1998-10-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
> > My printing system consists of a HP LJ6L, ghostscript 4.03, lprng, > and magcfilter. I used magicfilterconfig to set up /etc/printcap > to look like: > > lp|lp|lp|HP Laserjet 6L:\ > :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ > :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\ > :if=/etc/magicfi

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