Re: moving "/" sda4 --> sdb1

1998-10-05 Thread shaul
Perhaps the /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.gz could help ? > greetings, > > I need to move debian from drive 1 to drive 2 ( just deep sixed NT >;0) > ), what are the steps necessary. > > Thus far i have done a copy using mc ( skipping proc of course ), > modified lilo, fstab. > boots ok g

Re: some WindowMaker questions ...

1998-10-05 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 5 Oct, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > >> Make an ~/.xsession file and put "exec wmaker" on it. Then chmod +x it. > > I just commented the line with xterm on Xsession global (/etc/X11/) and > it worked ! :) > >> The file is /etc/X11/WindowMaker/menu.

Re: some WindowMaker questions ...

1998-10-05 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 10:11:12PM +0100, Nuno Carvalho wrote: Put this: > /usr/local/bin/xradiotrack on your ~/.xsession file. Like this: /usr/local/bin/xradiotrack exec wmaker Marcelo

Re: HTML form to email

1998-10-05 Thread Peter L. Berghold
Jay Barbee wrote: > Is there a package out there that will take a HTML form to be filled out > via the web and when it is submitted, it will be bundled into an email and > sent? > > Jay, Try picking up a CGI book on the subject. It is a basic excersise. A good place to start is with the cgi.p

Emacs isn't installing properly

1998-10-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
I'm trying to install emacs20 from slink when I install it, it produces pages of output (will a pipe pick these up?), and ends up with Wrote /etc/emacs20/site-start.d/00debian-vars.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/debian-startup.elc Done Errors were encountered while processing: /mnt/public

Re: threads package for libc6

1998-10-05 Thread JonesMB
I have another Linux threads question. Since POSIX threads are already built into the libc6 in hamm, I assume that the standard C libraries are also thread-safe. The guys who are developing on the Linux Debian systems that I built for them have been telling me of some odd things that they have

Re: some WindowMaker questions ...

1998-10-05 Thread Nuno Carvalho
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > Make an ~/.xsession file and put "exec wmaker" on it. Then chmod +x it. I just commented the line with xterm on Xsession global (/etc/X11/) and it worked ! :) > The file is /etc/X11/WindowMaker/menu.hook, but you don't want to change > that. If

Re: Should Package Web page be changed for non-free (Re: glimpse on CD?)

1998-10-05 Thread John Lapeyre
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Galbra>What I find strange if that I managed to download it without realising it Galbra>was non-free. I only *now* noticed that it's non-free by putting the Galbra>cursor on the `Download it!' ftp link and seeing the non-free part in the Galbra>path.

EDI software

1998-10-05 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hi all: Does anyone know of any EDI software which runs under Debian or Linux. Thanks Peter

Re: kbackup

1998-10-05 Thread JonesMB
Thanks to all who responded to my message "backup using hard disk - any ideas". I downloaded kbackup and I intend to start with that as soon as I get my replacement drive. Thanks too to Ralph Winslow for the Perl script. That is my current emergency backup till I get the drive back. Another

Re: pcmia needed?

1998-10-05 Thread D'jinnie
Unless you have a laptop you don't need pcmcia :) (well, ok, some machines - alphas for example - may come with pcmcia readers..). But generally, just get rid of it. --- Hackers have kernel knowledge. D'jinnie/Jinn, encountered on IRC and select MU**. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: need pop3 mail client that leaves mail on server

1998-10-05 Thread john
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. writes: > I have managed to get my low-speed ppp connection (about 6k max) running. Congratulatons! What did it take? > The connection itself is stable, but text sessions are not; they seem to > hang. You may want tp mess around with the asyncmap and escape options. --

Re: can't install debian

1998-10-05 Thread Nir
Hi Sorry I use Intel P54C Cpu on AL-B583 Mainbord Modem: Us robotics Sposter 36600 Video:ATI Mach mach Video capture:Fly video II Sound:Sound Blaster pro 16 SCSI:(UMAX) UDS-IS11 PC/ISA (It is new instalation, I couldn't install debian before I installed SCSI) CDROM:IDE CDD-7240J HDD:WD Caviar FDD

RE: Netscape with out mail and news?

1998-10-05 Thread Shaleh
Do not believe we package it, but yes, on netscape's ftp there is a standalone directory -- just the browser. On 05-Oct-98 Jim Foltz wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a version of Netscape around the archives that does not have the > mail and news client, or the html editor? Just a plain web browser,

Netscape with out mail and news?

1998-10-05 Thread Jim Foltz
Hello, Is there a version of Netscape around the archives that does not have the mail and news client, or the html editor? Just a plain web browser, no extras? -- Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

cable modem

1998-10-05 Thread Russ Cook
My local cable company is now offering high-speed cable modem service. The following excerpt is from their web page Q&A section. I am running Slink with IPV4 (I believe). Can I use any TCP/IP stack with @Home? At this time, @Home supports the following: Windows 95, NT workstations, and MacOS 7.

Re: chimera does seg faults on me

1998-10-05 Thread Jim Foltz
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 01:38:45AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am using a 486SX2-50 8MB ram. > > when I run chimera2 (from X of course) it works alright for a bit, then ends > up with a Seg > fault or something. Is this because I am running it on a low powered machine, > > or is there so

Re: Safe rm available?

1998-10-05 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 02:49:50PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- Stephen J. Carpenter wrote about "Re: Safe rm available?" > | > | heh "Oh you wanna stick your finger in the light socket, ok well go ahead... > | see hurt like a bitch didn't it? bet ya wont do that again." > | > > Ha! The

Re: some WindowMaker questions ...

1998-10-05 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 05:56:07PM +0100, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > Every time I start X (with windowmaker) it opens a xterm session ! ;( > How can I disable it !? > I didn't found any file such as startup neitheir any line on > configuration files refering to it ! Make an ~/.xsession file and pu

Re: Safe rm available?

1998-10-05 Thread servis
*- Stephen J. Carpenter wrote about "Re: Safe rm available?" | | heh "Oh you wanna stick your finger in the light socket, ok well go ahead... | see hurt like a bitch didn't it? bet ya wont do that again." | Ha! The same could be said for using Winbloze! -- Brian --

RE: Why I have probelm starting KDE??

1998-10-05 Thread Geoffrey L. Brimhall
When I installed kde, all I had to get it working correctly was log in as root and execute: ldconfig Then everthing worked correctly On 04-Oct-98 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

Re: Safe rm available?

1998-10-05 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 06:31:55PM +, Andy Spiegl wrote: > Since 'rm' can be pretty dangerous sometimes, especially to new unix users, > I was wondering whether there is something like a "save rm" out there. > > With feature similar to this list: > - moving files to /tmp/trash instead of unli

Re: Is there any FREE alternative for libdb2 in debian?

1998-10-05 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > Last time I've read the libdb2 copyright statement and stated, that it > > hardly can be considered a "free" library > > Well, ... ehrmmm ... that copyright can be considered quite similar to > GPL (w

ax25-utils problem and conf.modules

1998-10-05 Thread Tony Schonfeld
After my last message i've just found i've omit to add the alias section read in AX25-HOWTO in my conf.modules. now my conf.modules is : # We could start with a keep statement in here, but since we use a different # order for the module path's we just override the whole thing. # AX25 alias net-pf

Re: Safe rm available?

1998-10-05 Thread servis
*- Andy Spiegl wrote about "Safe rm available?" | Since 'rm' can be pretty dangerous sometimes, especially to new unix users, | I was wondering whether there is something like a "save rm" out there. | | With feature similar to this list: | - moving files to /tmp/trash instead of unlinking (savin

configuration of teTeX (v. 9)

1998-10-05 Thread Jan Krupa
I have noticed that I do not have any PATH and MANPATH in profile for teTeX (for teTeX4.* I had to put PATH an MANPATH). It seemed to work until I tried to use dvips. For some quite small document (4 very simple pages without graphics) 'dvips file_name.dvi -o file_name.ps' starts metafont (or kps

Re: scsi emulation

1998-10-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> I have a scsi controler card in my computer (adaptec 2920 aka > future-data) already compiled into the kernel > Can I enable scsi emulation as well to drive an IDE CD-ROM > burner? Or will the REAL scsi driver and the scsi emulation code duke > it out leaving fubar behind? I use an Ada

Re: legality of mailing Debian CDs from US to overseas?

1998-10-05 Thread Daniel Martin
"John B. Fink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now -- my question is, can I get into any trouble by "exporting" CD-R of > Debian Linux? I'm just sending burns of the "binary-i386.raw" images that > I get via rsync. My primary worry (all of a sudden -- I guess I should've > thought of this beforeh

Re: legality of mailing Debian CDs from US to overseas?

1998-10-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, John B. Fink wrote: > > Hey folks, > > I've just started a scheme for sending Debian x86 CDs (the > "binary-i386.raw" images) free of charge to educational/non-profit > institutions and affiliates -- > http://adler.lib.muohio.edu/~jbfink/debian-giveaway. As of today I've > s

Re: legality of mailing Debian CDs from US to overseas?

1998-10-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, John B. Fink wrote: [ snip ] : Now -- my question is, can I get into any trouble by "exporting" CD-R of : Debian Linux? I'm just sending burns of the "binary-i386.raw" images that : I get via rsync. My primary worry (all of a sudden -- I guess I should've : thought of th

kde problem and wmanager question

1998-10-05 Thread Jan Krupa
Q1. I have installed kde from the stable distribution (debian2.0), I mean I just did: dpkg -i kdesupport*.deb dpkg -i kdelibs*.deb and so on (kdebase, utils, graphics.) Now I start usually (startx) with fvwm95 and then from the debian menu I choose WindowManagers/kde where the entry in menudefs.h

Safe rm available?

1998-10-05 Thread Andy Spiegl
Since 'rm' can be pretty dangerous sometimes, especially to new unix users, I was wondering whether there is something like a "save rm" out there. With feature similar to this list: - moving files to /tmp/trash instead of unlinking (saving full path) - configuration file with regexps listing fi

Re: encrypted passwords with pop3/imap/...?

1998-10-05 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi again! On 29 Sep 1998, Dale E. Martin wrote: > Ulisses Alonso Camaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I know that one possibility is to use ssh to forward this connections... > > but I can't be sure that users will make use of it... > > You can be sure if

Emacs woes

1998-10-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, I get this trying to --configure emacs 19: warning: /usr/man/man1/emacs.1.gz is supposed to be a slave symlink to /etc/alternatives/emacs.1.gz, or nonexistent; however, readlink failed: Invalid argument Leaving emacs.1.gz (/usr/man/man1/emacs.1.gz) pointing to /usr/man/man1/ema

pcmia needed?

1998-10-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
I've just upgraded to slink, and running dpkg--pending --configure gives this: Setting up pcmcia-cs (3.0.5-2) ... Architecture-specific modutils configuration not found, using defaults /lib/modules/2.0.33/pcmcia/8390.o: unresolved symbol(s) /lib/modules/2.0.33/pcmcia/fdomain_cs.o: unresolved symbol

Re: Sound not working

1998-10-05 Thread Ed Cogburn
Chan Min Wai wrote: > > Hai, Me again > > I have a SB32 pnp that work fine in Win98 and Dos when I change to > linux I first use isapnp to config the card and its ok... > > Then I don't know What to do next although I follow the HOWTO sound > and > setup the Sound but it did

legality of mailing Debian CDs from US to overseas?

1998-10-05 Thread John B. Fink
Hey folks, I've just started a scheme for sending Debian x86 CDs (the "binary-i386.raw" images) free of charge to educational/non-profit institutions and affiliates -- http://adler.lib.muohio.edu/~jbfink/debian-giveaway. As of today I've sent out seven CDs -- three to US addresses, one to Canada

Sound not working

1998-10-05 Thread Chan Min Wai
Hai, Me again I have a SB32 pnp that work fine in Win98 and Dos when I change to linux I first use isapnp to config the card and its ok... Then I don't know What to do next although I follow the HOWTO sound and setup the Sound but it didn't run during the boot time so not a se

Re: 3com905B cyclone not working

1998-10-05 Thread Eric
I had extensive troubles with the 3C905B. I have a dual boot system with Windows 95 and Linux. If I do a soft reboot from Windows, I get the ff:ff:.. problem, so I always have to turn off my computer when I want to go from Windows to Linux. Also, these cards have a documented problem with optain

how do I prevent DNS queries?

1998-10-05 Thread Thomas Adams
I have set up a small LAN at home with my Linux box being a router, firewall, mail&news server and my MAC being my system for working on. If I send email from my Mac all is well. The mail software contacts my Linux box and delivers the email which is later sent to my ISP via UUCP. But if I send n

Re: Debian secretary wont work with pon.

1998-10-05 Thread Phillip Neumann
Jens Ritter wrote: > Phillip Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Please check the mail archive. > > As far as I read, you have to restart xringd, so it gets the > back to the modem. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > KeyID: 2048/E451C639 1998/01/28 > Print: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E

RE: 'man'

1998-10-05 Thread Matthew Tebbens
It looks like he installed the base (all the disks) but none of the default packages that dselect defaults to. ? You should review all the packages that dselect defaults to for the first time, and install all of them. On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Shaleh wrote: > Brian, the man command needs a pack

Re: HTML form to email

1998-10-05 Thread Lars Steinke
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: > Is there a package out there that will take a HTML form to be filled out > via the web and when it is submitted, it will be bundled into an email and > sent? > > I imagine there are CGI programs that do it. Any pointers? > > --Jay Try cgiemail, it's debi

Re: Change route from suid script?

1998-10-05 Thread john
Jon Kaare Hellan wrote: > I would prefer not to have to be root to choose the default > route. Embedding the commands to /sbin/route in a suid/guid C-program > works. Is there another workaround? Look at setuidexec. It is in the setuidmanager package. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasle

Xringd: still having problems with pon....

1998-10-05 Thread Phillip Neumann
Jens Ritter wrote: > Phillip Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Please check the mail archive. > > As far as I read, you have to restart xringd, so it gets the > back to the modem. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > KeyID: 2048/E451C639 1998/01/28 > Print: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E

Ax25-utils crash , Help me !

1998-10-05 Thread Tony Schonfeld
hello , i repeat my problem for the debian-user mail-list : I use Debian 2.0 with Libc6 and libc5 , kernel 2.0.35 , z8530drv 2.4c and ax25-utils 2.1.42a . In the kernel i've compile in modules : CONFIG_AX25 CONFIG_NETROM CONFIG_ROSE CONFIG_NET_RADIO CONFIG_BAYCOM CONFIG_MKISS CONFIG_SCC All

Re: newbie installing Xwin, and other stuff

1998-10-05 Thread Ed Cogburn
Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Christopher Jay Stevenson wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Umm... *rubs back of head* > > > > I haven't been able to get dhcpcd working, which I need for using the > > > > computer on the network, so I can't use dselect... I need to download > > > > packages individually. (I think.

RE: 'man'

1998-10-05 Thread Shaleh
Brian, the man command needs a package called man-db. Make sure you have it installed.

Re: newbie installing Xwin, and other stuff

1998-10-05 Thread Ed Cogburn
Christopher Jay Stevenson wrote: > > > > > > > Umm... *rubs back of head* > > > I haven't been able to get dhcpcd working, which I need for using the > > > computer on the network, so I can't use dselect... I need to download > > > packages individually. (I think.) > > > > > > > > > Now you'

Re: 'man'

1998-10-05 Thread aqy6633
> I just installed Debian for the first time (Install was very easy and > went well). So far I've only installed the base system (rescue, > driver, bases 1 through 5) It seems to be working quite well and I'll > start adding some packages soon but I have one concern. I can not use > 'man'. I al

Re: Starting daemons under debian 2.0

1998-10-05 Thread aqy6633
> I would like to control myself starting of daemons booting up my new > debian 2.0 powered machine. > Under RedHat 5.x I had ntsysv program which permitted to choose the > daemons to launch on startup and generated automaticallu /etc/rcX.d > files. > Is there something similar under Debian? updat

Re: 'man'

1998-10-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
> I just installed Debian for the first time (Install was very easy and > went well). So far I've only installed the base system (rescue, > driver, bases 1 through 5) It seems to be working quite well and I'll > start adding some packages soon but I have one concern. I can not use > 'man'. I a

Re: Lowmem ...

1998-10-05 Thread Anton J . Gamel
Hi! As far as I remember you have to do a boot: lowmemboot root=/dev/hda3 > putting Bo on 486DX33, <4MB RAM (3968kB), 520MBHD > I found lowmem.bin and resc1440.bin, made disks of them both. > Made the swap, main and temporary root partition. > Initialised swap, (I THINK I) copied the root filesys

'man'

1998-10-05 Thread Brian Meenan
Hello all: I just installed Debian for the first time (Install was very easy and went well). So far I've only installed the base system (rescue, driver, bases 1 through 5) It seems to be working quite well and I'll start adding some packages soon but I have one concern. I can not use 'man'. I

Re: 3com905B cyclone not working

1998-10-05 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Umm, this is a rather simple thing to check, but it caused the ff:ff. ethernet adress on my own box: Are you sharing IRQ9 with any other cards? Including things built in to your motherboard? If you check IRQs in the Device Manager of Win9x, the _ONLY_ other thing listed as IRQ9 should be IRQ

Starting daemons under debian 2.0

1998-10-05 Thread Lorenzo Pulici
I would like to control myself starting of daemons booting up my new debian 2.0 powered machine. Under RedHat 5.x I had ntsysv program which permitted to choose the daemons to launch on startup and generated automaticallu /etc/rcX.d files. Is there something similar under Debian? Tnx Lorenzo

Re: Why I have probelm starting KDE??

1998-10-05 Thread Lorenzo Pulici
Chan Min Wai wrote: > Can anyone help me... When I start the KDE I get this message... > kaudioserver: error in loading shared libraries Have you installed the required package kdelibs following the right order specified in the README file? And QT libraries? Bye Lorenzo

Re: Samba encrypted passwd file

1998-10-05 Thread peloy
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 fou

Re: need pop3 mail client that leaves mail on server

1998-10-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > > > I have managed to get my low-speed ppp connection (about 6k max) > > running. The connection itself is stable, but text sessions are not; > > they seem to hang. So netscape and ftp (other than to the ppp host) > > wo

scsi emulation

1998-10-05 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I have a scsi controler card in my computer (adaptec 2920 aka future-data) already compiled into the kernel (module actually). It is connected to my scsi 4mm dat tape drive (works great, but slw tape). Can I enable scsi emulation as well to drive an IDE CD-ROM burner? Or will the REAL scsi dr

Re: newbie installing Xwin, and other stuff

1998-10-05 Thread Christopher Jay Stevenson
> > > > Umm... *rubs back of head* > > I haven't been able to get dhcpcd working, which I need for using the > > computer on the network, so I can't use dselect... I need to download > > packages individually. (I think.) > > > > > Now you've got me confused. :-) If you can 'download pack

Re: Xwindows working... sorta

1998-10-05 Thread Christopher Jay Stevenson
> At 05:13 AM 10/5/1998 -0400, Phillip Neumann wrote: > >PS: dont mess yourself with vi, its a little complicated (i did never > learn > >it...) > > Yeah, but it loads fast for doing short little file changes, and it's > likely to be on every unix system you come across. (vim (vi-improved) is

Re: need pop3 mail client that leaves mail on server

1998-10-05 Thread Ed Cogburn
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > I have managed to get my low-speed ppp connection (about 6k max) > running. The connection itself is stable, but text sessions are not; > they seem to hang. So netscape and ftp (other than to the ppp host) > work, but xterm, rsh, etc. do not. IRC in the client

Re: newbie installing Xwin, and other stuff

1998-10-05 Thread Ed Cogburn
Christopher Jay Stevenson wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > 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 fi

Motorola modem not working

1998-10-05 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, First, I didn't know very well yet manipulate ioports and interrupts. I bought a 56.6Kbs Motorola V.90 (SM56) modem and tried the package wvdial to detect my modem and it didn't detected. My mouse is at /dev/ttyS0 and the output of the wvdialconf program is: phanta

Re: Moniter screen is wavy.

1998-10-05 Thread Jeff Katcher
Mrpeabody wrote: > > My moniter screen has become wavy. When you look at it it seems to > move. I have a 21 inch dell moniter and a stb nvidia video card. My > moniter used to be fine but I recently moved it and now it is wavy like > a day after I moved it. Has perment damage been done? >

Re: 3Com 905B Cyclone not working

1998-10-05 Thread Steve Beitzel
Hello All, I had the same sort of problems with this card when I tried to use it for the first time. First off, the ff:ff... problem can be fixed by shuting down your computer and unplugging it (yes, physically unplugging it). This needs to be done so that the system can reset itself pro

need pop3 mail client that leaves mail on server

1998-10-05 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I have managed to get my low-speed ppp connection (about 6k max) running. The connection itself is stable, but text sessions are not; they seem to hang. So netscape and ftp (other than to the ppp host) work, but xterm, rsh, etc. do not. IRC in the client is stable, but running it in a windo

Re: MTA config (exim preferred?)

1998-10-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: : On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: : : > To cut to the chase, here's what I need: : > : > Mail arriving at the Linux box destined for "ourdomain.net" should be : > forwarded to a specific host (IP address or nameserved, doesn't matter :

Re: 3com905B cyclone not working

1998-10-05 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > > I have a problem getting a 3com905B cyclone ethernet card to work under > > linux on a fresh debian 2.0 system. The card functions OK under > > win95. I think the problem is that the card thinks the network is > > 100MBit ethernet, whereas

Re: Debian Linux on HP/Apollo 400?

1998-10-05 Thread joseph evan porter
> > 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

Re: nn & local news spool

1998-10-05 Thread Paul
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, mwb wrote: > 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

Re: oh... dhcpcd

1998-10-05 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Christopher Jay Stevenson wrote: > > Hmm... would the fact that I haven't installed a driver for my Card have > something to do with dhcpcd not working? Umm...It might. ;^) Run modconf as root, and see if you can find the module appropria

HTML form to email

1998-10-05 Thread Jay Barbee
Is there a package out there that will take a HTML form to be filled out via the web and when it is submitted, it will be bundled into an email and sent? I imagine there are CGI programs that do it. Any pointers? --Jay

ftp client

1998-10-05 Thread Leon Breedt
hi anyone know of a nice console ftp client that supports squid proxy servers? i detest having to use lynx to download :) i tried lftp, no success :( thanks leon -- - -- - Leon J. Breedt : PGP Fingerprint [EMAIL PROTECTED] : B1 BC 1F

Re: Modem won't dial

1998-10-05 Thread Lorenzo Pulici
David Densmore wrote: > use the pon command the modem picks up the line and I hear dial tone, > but it will not dial the number. It will just sit there and let me > hear dial tone until the telco times out. Check modem active profile with AT&V if you live outside U.S. you should not have X4. Cha

Re: What to do with a patch for a stable package?

1998-10-05 Thread Jens Ritter
Juergen Nagler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Debian community, > > I'm very new to Debian but not to Linux. I realy appreciate the .deb > format. But now I have a problem: > > I installed the squid.deb package out of the stable packages. Now there > was a log messages repeated 800 thousand ti

Should Package Web page be changed for non-free (Re: glimpse on CD?)

1998-10-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I was surprised that glimpse was not on my Debian CD, so I downloaded it from the Debian web page. Until [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me it was non-free. What I find strange if that I managed to download it without realising it was non-free. I only *now* noticed that it's non-free by putting the cur

Re: Debian secretary wont work with pon.

1998-10-05 Thread Jens Ritter
Phillip Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Please check the mail archive. As far as I read, you have to restart xringd, so it gets the back to the modem. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] KeyID: 2048/E451C639 1998/01/28 Print: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 Here i

Re: Xwindows working... sorta

1998-10-05 Thread Kent West
At 05:13 AM 10/5/1998 -0400, Phillip Neumann wrote: >PS: dont mess yourself with vi, its a little complicated (i did never learn >it...) Yeah, but it loads fast for doing short little file changes, and it's likely to be on every unix system you come across. (vim (vi-improved) is nicer, but not

Re: Xwindows working... sorta

1998-10-05 Thread Kent West
At 10:54 PM 10/4/1998 -0500, Christopher Jay Stevenson wrote: >Well, thanks to you guys, my mouse is working... >It's just that X isn't... >Hmm... >What I get is an xdm that has the login on the lower right of the screen, >and cut-off as well, almost as if the resolution isn't correct. (It seemed >

Re: Xwindows working... sorta

1998-10-05 Thread Kent West
At 12:32 AM 10/5/1998 -0400, you wrote: >On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 10:54:16PM -0500, Christopher Jay Stevenson wrote: >> Well, thanks to you guys, my mouse is working... >> It's just that X isn't... >> Hmm... >> What I get is an xdm that has the login on the lower right of the screen, >> and cut-off

Re: 3com905B cyclone not working

1998-10-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: : Hi all, : : I have a problem getting a 3com905B cyclone ethernet card to work under : linux on a fresh debian 2.0 system. The card functions OK under : win95. I think the problem is that the card thinks the network is : 100MBit ethernet, whe

Network load balancing and virtual hostnames

1998-10-05 Thread Lars Steinke
Hi all, unfortunately I have my mind set on taking on a rather tricky problem: We have two servers here with three network ports each connected to a 100MBit switch which ideally should share their network load between each other and across all three network interfaces. Now, the more recent versio

Re: glimpse on CD?

1998-10-05 Thread \"J.H.M.Dassen\" <\"J.H.M.Dassen\"
[Redirected to -user] On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 09:36:57AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > I just noticed that glimpse is *not* on my _official_ LSL Debian 2.0 disk > set. Strange. There's nothing strange about it. Glimpse does not meet the Debian Free Software Guidelines (IIRC, because the lice

NFS error report

1998-10-05 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I mounted the directories /usr/local and /home in a PC 486 client from a Pentium (server). The mount was sucefully but at boot the çlient gives me the error: NFS: notice message: result = -101. several times. What is wrong? Have a

Modem won't dial

1998-10-05 Thread David Densmore
I just replaced my USR Sportster 28.8 with a 3Com USR V.90 56K. I set the jumpers to the same settings as my old modem before installation (COM1 IRQ4). I changed the speed from 38400 to 57600 in /etc/ppp/peers/provider, which was the only change I made in any of my previously working chatscripts.

oh... dhcpcd

1998-10-05 Thread Christopher Jay Stevenson
Hmm... would the fact that I haven't installed a driver for my Card have something to do with dhcpcd not working? Heh. How do I install a driver for it? ---starfox Chirs Stevenson

Re: Xwindows working... sorta

1998-10-05 Thread Christopher Jay Stevenson
> > > Christopher Jay Stevenson wrote: > > > Well, thanks to you guys, my mouse is working... > > It's just that X isn't... > > Hmm... > > What I get is an xdm that has the login on the lower right of the screen, > > and cut-off as well, almost as if the resolution isn't correct. (It seemed > >

Re: 3com905B cyclone not working

1998-10-05 Thread Lars Steinke
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > I have a problem getting a 3com905B cyclone ethernet card to work under > linux on a fresh debian 2.0 system. The card functions OK under > win95. I think the problem is that the card thinks the network is > 100MBit ethernet, whereas it is only 10M

Re: Change route from suid script?

1998-10-05 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 10:52:08AM +0200, Jon Kaare Hellan wrote: > I've got ppp interfaces defined for the workplaces of me and my wife, > and use a small script to switch the default route to the interface > that needs to be active. ok...sounds interesting... > This works, but I have to be root

exim quota to /var/log/exim and /var/spool/exim?

1998-10-05 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all, I have setup quota to user mailboxes with exim, but if the quota is exceeded the "refused" mail is put in the spool directory to retry sending to (in this case) local account, that is the mail still is in the hard drive. I would like to know a way to avo

xdm not working

1998-10-05 Thread G. Kapetanios
Following an earlier email concerning failure to look up a host adress which also prevented xdm from running I have included my ISP nameserver address in /etc/resolv.conf. Now xdm starts, I log in and the system waits before starting the window manager for some time I still havent waited long e

3com905B cyclone not working

1998-10-05 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi all, I have a problem getting a 3com905B cyclone ethernet card to work under linux on a fresh debian 2.0 system. The card functions OK under win95. I think the problem is that the card thinks the network is 100MBit ethernet, whereas it is only 10MBit. The kernel I compiled is 2.0.34, and it

Re: debian 2.0 refuses to get installed in a box with a SCSI disk.

1998-10-05 Thread \"J.H.M.Dassen\" <\"J.H.M.Dassen\"
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 02:38:03PM +0100, J.Miguel Signes wrote: > The system is an Intel Pentium, at 90 MHz, with 24 MB RAM. > There is an Adaptec AIC-7850 Host SCSI Adapter (BIOS v1.11) at Have you tried using the special disk images for that SCSI adapter? http://master.debian.org/~doko/

Re: 2 ether, problems routing

1998-10-05 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 11:34:15AM +, Pere Camps wrote: > I've just installed two ethernet cards on my system and now I have > problems routing some stuff between the two networks. > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:24:52:32:41 > inet addr:147.83.61.17 Bcast:147.8

debian 2.0 refuses to get installed in a box with a SCSI disk.

1998-10-05 Thread J.Miguel Signes
¡Hola! I just can't get debian 2.0 installed in a Fujitsu S3000 box. At boot time, when 'loading linux', it reboots after some '.'. The same 'Rescue disk' worked fine on other (different) computers. The system is an Intel Pentium, at 90 MHz, with 24 MB RAM. There is an Adaptec AIC-7850 Host SCSI

Re: Cirrus Logic 5430 at 16 bpp and 800x600

1998-10-05 Thread Oleksiy \(alex\) Bolgarov
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > Hi debian users, > I'm having a problem setting a Cirrus Logic card model 5430 1Mb of > RAM. It doesn't enter in XWindow at 800x600 at 16bpp. It complies about > linear addressing that I don't know. > Anyone has this type of

chimera does seg faults on me

1998-10-05 Thread frankie
I am using a 486SX2-50 8MB ram. when I run chimera2 (from X of course) it works alright for a bit, then ends up with a Seg fault or something. Is this because I am running it on a low powered machine, or is there some fundamental flaw to Chimera? I haven't bothered giving any information about m

Re: 2 ether, problems routing

1998-10-05 Thread Toby Bouzane
First you need to assign a local IP(your LAN) to the Ether card that is connected to you LAn. AN the One connect to the NET the IP you got from your ISP. Then use ipfwadm to forward any packets from your LAN to the Net. A good help is the HOWTO docs on Network and Firewalls. Hope it helps Toby

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