More info on ftp crashes and UDMA hard drive

1998-10-03 Thread Eric
Well, in order to work around the ftp crashing problem, my friend and I decided to set up NFS. We got it working fine, and transfered a few files, and then we got around to trying to optimize the rsize and wsize mount parameters. In doing this, I went into the NFS mounted directory and did "time

exmh and the From field.

1998-10-03 Thread shaul
>From time to time I am still trying to convince exmh to use the login and address of my ISP's account ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Couple of days ago I run into something relevant from exmh help. It is written in /usr/lib/exmh/html/ppp.howto.html Start quoting: " ABOUT SETTING UP MAIL ON PPP-CONNECT

Re: Tin hangs on Debian 2.0

1998-10-03 Thread Niccolo Rigacci
As suggested by Paul Haggart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I upgraded to the new version of tin (in "slink"), and everything is working fine again. Don't know the reason of the problem, but may be I will post something to the Debian bug tracking system? Any suggestion? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am

Re: dialog vs whiptail

1998-10-03 Thread john
Jim Foltz writes: > I want to use either dialog or whiptail for some installation front ends. > What's the difference between these two programs? dialog is based on ncurses while whiptail is based on newt and slang. whiptail is (almost) completely compatible and offers a few extensions. -- John H

Re: PPP dial out fails at LCP ConfReq

1998-10-03 Thread john
Martin Bialasinski writes: > What I mean is that you shouldn't send the \d. He isn't sending \d. To chat '\d' means pause one second. Some ISP's get confused if chat exits and lets pppd start sending packets before they finish authenticating. The pause gives them time to get their act together.

Re: newbie installing Xwin, and other stuff

1998-10-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Christopher Jay Stevenson wrote: > > I need some hand holding here. > My computer uses an STB Velocity 128 video card. > > What do I need to do to install Xwindows. In dselect first select the xbase-xxx package in the X section. dselect will then automatically select the other needed p

large incoming ftp transfers crash computer

1998-10-03 Thread Eric
This is actually a problem my friend has been having. He has a hamm system which is connected to the same local 10Base-T network that mine is. The other day, someone else on the local network was transferring something really large (~500MB) to his computer and my friends computer crashed hard. I

Re: Why I have probelm starting KDE??

1998-10-03 Thread Eric
Do you have all the proper KDE debs installed and have you run ldconfig? On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 02:09:53PM +0800, Chan Min Wai wrote: > I have asked so many question and doing alot of change but... my kde > still not wrking I wonder if it is my system problem.. > > Can anyone help me... When

Re: xpovray

1998-10-03 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"Dr. Gerald H. Ristow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Hello, | I just upgraded from BO to HAMM and re-installed POVRAY 3.0. But I | cannot see the rendering progress on the screen. There used to be a | program called XFPOVRAY, but it is missing?!? | Regards, | Gerald Use xpvmpov. It works w

newbie installing Xwin, and other stuff

1998-10-03 Thread Christopher Jay Stevenson
I need some hand holding here. My computer uses an STB Velocity 128 video card. What do I need to do to install Xwindows. Also, I've never been root on a system before, so How do I mount another partition (as vfat) automatically on startup? ---Starfox Chris Stevenson

dhcpcd

1998-10-03 Thread Christopher Jay Stevenson
I've also had problems dealing with this package: dpkg: error processing dhcpcd (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: dhcpcd Anyone have any ideas? Chris "starfox" Stevenson

Re: New Debian Install

1998-10-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Doug Dine wrote: > > Hi, > > I am preparing to install Debian for the first time. I am going to place it > on my slave drive. > I run Win 95 and it of course is located on the master drive. Is there any > chance of > damaging that partition when doing the install being as it's located on > ano

Re: PPP dial out fails at LCP ConfReq

1998-10-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MB" == Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "SC" == Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SC> Oct 3 09:26:08 cabrio chat[1127]: Password: SC> Oct 3 09:26:08 cabrio chat[1127]: -- got it SC> Oct 3 09:26:08 cabrio chat[1127]: send (??) SC> Oct 3 09:26:08 ca

xpovray

1998-10-03 Thread Dr. Gerald H. Ristow
Hello, I just upgraded from BO to HAMM and re-installed POVRAY 3.0. But I cannot see the rendering progress on the screen. There used to be a program called XFPOVRAY, but it is missing?!? Regards, Gerald P.S: please answer per e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dialog vs whiptail

1998-10-03 Thread Jim Foltz
Hello, I want to use either dialog or whiptail for some installation front ends. What's the difference between these two programs? The man page for whiptail is only a minor rewrite of the dialog man pageq, but I didn't find where it told the differences between them. -- Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECT

Why I have probelm starting KDE??

1998-10-03 Thread Chan Min Wai
I have asked so many question and doing alot of change but... my kde still not wrking I wonder if it is my system problem.. Can anyone help me... When I start the KDE I get this message... kaudioserver: error in loading shared libraries libkfile.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such

Re: PPP dial out fails at LCP ConfReq

1998-10-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "SC" == Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SC> Oct 3 09:26:08 cabrio chat[1127]: Password: SC> Oct 3 09:26:08 cabrio chat[1127]: -- got it SC> Oct 3 09:26:08 cabrio chat[1127]: send (??) SC> Oct 3 09:26:08 cabrio chat[1127]: send (\d) Make you r last line in the ch

Re: PPP dial out fails at LCP ConfReq

1998-10-03 Thread zuwi
Guess what I'm saying is just garbage, but sincerely garbage anyway ;-) I'd been sticked on such LCP fail and other PPP troubles for nearly one month when installing my first Linux distribution, which is Slackware 3.4. And finally I got through by setserial /dev/modem irq as the same as what I set

Re: have anyone got dhcpcd working ?

1998-10-03 Thread Lawrence Walton
We have it installed, and working; the only caveat was starting it in the init. On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote: > When Sergey V Kovalyov wrote, I replied: > > > > Hi, > > I wonder, have anyone manage to get a working dhcpcd ? I've tried to > > install it once, but the package seemd to b

Re: Dhcpcd

1998-10-03 Thread Steve Beitzel
I had to install dhcpcd on my bare Hamm system to access the Ethernet here, and it worked perfectly, so I don't think it is broken. You might try installing the netbase package, and anything else that it has dependancies on. Good Luck! /\ / \ /\ / /\/\ \ /

PPP dial out fails at LCP ConfReq

1998-10-03 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I have fianlly managed to get a proper chatscript to dial into my ISP (I think). Now I find that when pppd comes on it always fails at the LCP ConfReq phase. Here is a snippet from my ppp.log Oct 3 09:25:08 cabrio chat[1127]: CONNECT Oct 3 09:25:08 cabrio chat[1127]: -- got it Oct 3 09:25:0

Re: Long term Debian growth

1998-10-03 Thread Tom
Sam, You should post your questions to this list. There are many highly knowledgeable and skilled people here who will help you. Just don't forget to do some of your own work. Reading documentation etc. You also should consider upgrading to Debian 2.0. There is also a list of consultant

Re: freespace on linux partition

1998-10-03 Thread servis
*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "freespace on linux partition" | Any idea how to find out how much free space there is in megabytes on a partition, and on the system as a whole? | frankie | [EMAIL PROTECTED] df -m [|] see 'man df' ex. % df -m / Filesystem MB-blocksUsed Available C

Telnet and dselect seg fault

1998-10-03 Thread David Boisvert
Hello! I have a little problem with telnet and dselect. I'm not new with Linux. I've my own network of 4 x86 with slackware running on it and one P100 with debian running on it. This is the 2nd time I've installed debian gnu linux on my P100 box. The first time, everything was ok in the 2 fir

Re: have anyone got dhcpcd working ?

1998-10-03 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: > I wonder, have anyone manage to get a working dhcpcd ? I've tried to > install it once, but the package seemd to be broken. I use it. My site needs the -r switch (or at least did and I never bothered to change it). > Installation script > complaine

freespace on linux partition

1998-10-03 Thread frankie
Any idea how to find out how much free space there is in megabytes on a partition, and on the system as a whole? frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian secretary not working...

1998-10-03 Thread servis
*- Ralph Winslow wrote about "Re: Debian secretary not working..." | When Phillip Neumann wrote, I replied: | > | > Hello, | > | > I cannot get xringd to work. | > Here is my /etc/xringd.conf file: | > | > -a echo Ring... | > R 1-6 R 8 : echo Got ya | | Since xringd runs as a daemon, (I assume

checkpassword and qmail-pop3d - authorization failure

1998-10-03 Thread Oliver Thuns
Hello! I compiled checkpassword 0.76 witch -lcrypt and put it in /bin. But it will not work with qmail-pop3d, which is invoked inetd: pop-3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/qmail-popup qmail-popup domain.com /bin/checkpassword /usr/sbin/qmail-pop3d Maildir I get an authoriza

ISDN: HOW TO start?

1998-10-03 Thread Remo Badii
Dear Debs, I have a new Debian 2.0 distribution running well. I have recompiled the kernel with PCMCIA and ISDN support, bought an AVM Fritz! PCMCIA card, and ordered the ISDN installation by the Telecom. On tuesday, I'll be ready for a first try. Unfortunately, by reading the documentation in /us

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

1998-10-03 Thread Chan Min Wai
Thank to Jim, Daniel Think I have get my answer...

RE: Long term Debian growth

1998-10-03 Thread Samuel Hahn
Tom -- I am not a small business owner, but I do run a site for my family non-profit (www.StoneSpring.org), and would like to host this on a Debian machine. It's currently on an ISP (Verio) site. I am new to Debian, having done not much since installing 1.3 on an Intel server last November and

Re: on libs for Netscape 4.06

1998-10-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >hello, im using debian 2.0 and also installed X but when i tried to > install and run Netscape 4.06, it dumped a bunch of "not found > this/that" lib ... is there anyone here who can help me as to exactly > what sets of libraries shouldi install to

bug in pslatex.trm in gnuplot

1998-10-03 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
I've just stated that bug, which I've reported in Gnuplot beta347 (pre 3.6) occurs in gnuplot_3.5beta6.340 too :-(. I didn't see it on the official gnuplot bugs' list, so I'm sending my report once again. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 01:01:58 +0200 (EEST) From: Woj

Re: Debian secretary not working...

1998-10-03 Thread Ralph Winslow
When Phillip Neumann wrote, I replied: > > Hello, > > I cannot get xringd to work. > Here is my /etc/xringd.conf file: > > -a echo Ring... > R 1-6 R 8 : echo Got ya Since xringd runs as a daemon, (I assume by the name, I don't actually use it), your echos probably go to something like xringd.lo

Re: have anyone got dhcpcd working ?

1998-10-03 Thread Ralph Winslow
When Sergey V Kovalyov wrote, I replied: > > Hi, > I wonder, have anyone manage to get a working dhcpcd ? I've tried to > install it once, but the package seemd to be broken. I, too, tried to install it and found that it wouldn't simply install. Since I just wanted to look at the documentation to

Re: NETSCAPE 3

1998-10-03 Thread Doug Dine
At 10/2/97 1:30:00 AM, you wrote: Go to Netscape and you can access it by HTTP from their archives. ftp://archive:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/archive/index.html#3.04 >The debian package for netscape 3 gives a URL >(archive.netsccape.com or something) where I can download the >netscape software. >Unf

NETSCAPE 3

1998-10-03 Thread pussy
The debian package for netscape 3 gives a URL (archive.netsccape.com or something) where I can download the netscape software. Unfortunately, when I try and access that URL via ftp I cannot get in, it won't let me. Any ideas how to get hold of netscape 3??? thanks very much Skunk Pussy [EMAIL

Re: wvdial. . .

1998-10-03 Thread john
Kent writes: > If you haven't already, you might check the /etc/wvdial.conf file and > make sure your username and password are correct. It looks like wvdial is failing to put in the requisite 'noauth'. > BTW anyone, why doesn't adding a normal user to the dip group give him > the capability to p

New Debian Install

1998-10-03 Thread Doug Dine
Hi, I am preparing to install Debian for the first time. I am going to place it on my slave drive. I run Win 95 and it of course is located on the master drive. Is there any chance of damaging that partition when doing the install being as it's located on another physical drive? Thanks. Dou

req libs for Netscape 4

1998-10-03 Thread chadi
hello, im using debian 2.0 and also installed X but when i tried to install and run Netscape 4.06, it dumped a bunch of "not found this/that" lib ... is there anyone here who can help me as to exactly what sets of libraries shouldi install to get netscape running ? im a bit low on disk spa

Re: dpkg question

1998-10-03 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I am trying to build dpkg from source as provided with slink. The first | thing it tells you to do is cd to the directory containing the souce code | and type ./configure to run the configure script. | | The problem is that there IS no configure script! |

ARENA: BACKPAPER

1998-10-03 Thread BOB'S MAIL
When I execute arena from X, I get the first screen telling about it while it is loading a gif file from the arena site...then I am returned to X. An error message said something like: no backpaper 1. What and where is the config file? 2. What do I do to either install, configure, or run

have anyone got dhcpcd working ?

1998-10-03 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
Hi, I wonder, have anyone manage to get a working dhcpcd ? I've tried to install it once, but the package seemd to be broken. Installation script complained about absence of /etc/dhcp directory but refused to create one, so I had to do it by hand and reinstall. Then the daemon itself could not crea

Debian secretary not working...

1998-10-03 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hello, I cannot get xringd to work. Here is my /etc/xringd.conf file: -a echo Ring... R 1-6 R 8 : echo Got ya 1)It is supposted that when reciving a call, a "Ring.." will apear on screen at the same time that ring on the phone isnit?? Well nothing apear when the phone ring... 2) After 2 rings

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

1998-10-03 Thread Jim Foltz
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 11:03:35PM -0400, Daniel Martin wrote: > Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 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.. > >

Re: access to iso9660 raw image

1998-10-03 Thread Daniel Martin
Eugene Sevinian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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? >

Re: wvdial. . .

1998-10-03 Thread Kent West
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, zuwi wrote: > Person, Rod at 0:39:17 wrote: > PR> Secondly anyone using wvdial... > > I've tried wvdial, it looked just fine, found the modem, > got those a lot of works done automaticaly, > and then dialing as well, pppd was started, > then "died". I got the messages as > "

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

1998-10-03 Thread Daniel Martin
Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 sta

on libs for Netscape 4.06

1998-10-03 Thread chadi
hello, im using debian 2.0 and also installed X but when i tried to install and run Netscape 4.06, it dumped a bunch of "not found this/that" lib ... is there anyone here who can help me as to exactly what sets of libraries shouldi install to get netscape running ? im a bit low on disk spa

Re: wvdial. . .

1998-10-03 Thread zuwi
Person, Rod at 0:39:17 wrote: PR> Secondly anyone using wvdial... I've tried wvdial, it looked just fine, found the modem, got those a lot of works done automaticaly, and then dialing as well, pppd was started, then "died". I got the messages as "peer refused to authenticate.." Then I tried pppcon

Re: Emacs keybinding of Ctrl-[

1998-10-03 Thread Havoc Pennington
On 2 Oct 1998, Andy Spiegl wrote: > And there is no way to separate ESC and C-[ ? > I mean, who uses C-[ to get an ESC?? > Text terminals do. But there's a way around it - from the Emacs manual's discussion of keybindings (which you may find interesting, btw): , , , , and started out as na

Re: Savage3D X server?

1998-10-03 Thread Christopher Barry
Don't bother with this card. Firstly, no, I haven't heard of any Linux support for it. Right now the Windows support for it is still pretty shabby. They rushed the cards with the Savage 3D chip out with _very_ immature drivers because the Riva TNT appears to be superior to it in all ways and had al