> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, December 05, 1998 4:56 PM
> To: Chris Stalker-Herron
> Cc: Debian User List
> Subject: Re: ISP username for diald
>
>
> Chris Stalker-Herron writes:
> > When trying to connect through diald, I am seei
Chris Stalker-Herron writes:
> When trying to connect through diald, I am seeing "PAP authentication
> failed" in my ppp.log. I think it's because diald does not know what
> user to pass to pppd.
No. It is because pppd is not being called with the 'noauth' option, and
so is demanding that the IS
On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 11:16:12PM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote:
> Does anyone know how to change the BASIC mouse speed (not the
> acceleration) in X. The 'xset m' only changes the acceleration and
> threshold, but what I want is a faster non-accelerated mouse
> speed. I've tried 'xset m 4 1' which
Hello everyone, I fixed my sound problem recently. To bring everyone up
to date, I had a pnp sound card that I could not get sound working. I
needed to load the soundlow module for it to work. Now that said. I have
a question on making a sound with the <^G>. I am trying to insert the
bell char
Hrrm, I just ran update from w/in dselect, and the new version of libc6
conflicts with dpkg... and hence pulls out lots of needed utils
including
dpkg... anyone know what's up?
--Evan
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On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Eugene Sevinian wrote:
> It seems that this modem is very special thing. Might be it was made at
> April 1. The matter is that during dialing from minicom it performs kind
> of maping. So 1->9, 2->8, 3->7...9->1, 0->0. The same is under Norton
> Terminal Emulation. :)))
Ick...
On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Shaleh wrote:
> Windows (and dos) has no concept of case, Linux chooses to show them as
> uppercase. You will also note that if you mount a fat partition in linux all
> the files have the x bit turned on, even txt files. This is another side
> effect of browsing the fat files
When trying to connect through diald, I am seeing "PAP authentication
failed" in my ppp.log. I think it's because diald does not know what user
to pass to pppd. Where is the ISP username supposed to be specified when
using diald? When running pon, this comes out of /etc/ppp/peers/provider,
but t
I do this to test and debug window managers:
simply xinit -- :1 --bpp 16
or whatever args you need
the -- means send these args to the X server. xinit will read your xinitrc and
all.
Jiri Baum wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > I've decided I can't wait any longer and want to perform the upgrade
> > from hamm to slink this weekend. Is there anything I need to watch out
> > for?
>
> __register_frame_info
>
> Not sure if the fix has progressed from Incoming yet, but the problem breaks
> ds
Hello all,
I've got my X server cheerily up an running on display 0.
What I would like is for another user to be able to start an X server
from the command line on Display 1, and be able to switch back and forth
between X servers by hitting Alt-f7 and Alt-f8.
I'm using standard debian X related
Ok when I go into [A]ccess I do Harddisk
then it asks me what partition I want but then it goes
filesystem type and I pick msdos, but in an msdos filesystem the change all
the - and the _ to ~1 and so on
so do I have to change all my .deb file packages to whatever~1.deb for it to
work?
thanks
A
Hrrm, I just ran update from w/in dselect, and the new version of libc6
conflicts with dpkg... and hence pulls out lots of needed utils
including
dpkg... anyone know what's up?
--Evan
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Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: CD-ROM and Network problems
Date: Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 10:22:07PM -0400
In reply to:Jeff Browning
Quoting Jeff Browning([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> Hey all,
>
> When I installed Debian, I accidentally installed the wrong NIC and
> CD-ROM drivers. When I try to mount my cd
Hello,
> I'm filtering a file using gawk. since there are line that look alike, but
> differ only by two chars, I decided to take this approach:
...
> my understanding of gawk working:
>
> get a line from file
> scan pattern in order of appearance and if a match is found, execute action
> until
Hello,
> anyway, how does a ` differ from a ' anyway ?
Depends on where you use them :-)
The typical usage is:
" string with variable substitutions
' literal string (suppress substitutions)
` execute the command and use the result
So: 'pwd' gives you those three characters, whil
Hello,
> I've decided I can't wait any longer and want to perform the upgrade
> from hamm to slink this weekend. Is there anything I need to watch out
> for?
__register_frame_info
Not sure if the fix has progressed from Incoming yet, but the problem breaks
dselect and apt.
HTH
Jiri <[EMAIL PR
Hello,
> > The way I remember it is:
> >
> > 1) kernel opens the file, finds it suid
> > 2) kernel executes the shell with that uid
> > 3) shell opens the same filename
...
> I think it's probably the kernel that does the open on step 3,
No, it's the shell - it gets passed the filename. If it wa
On: 04 Dec 1998 15:57:43 +0100 Torsten Hilbrich writes:
>
> On: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 13:06:15 +0100 Gunnar Isaksson writes:
>> Is there some script I can use to find out which installed packages
>> aren't used by other packages.
>
> I will email Gunnar a little perl script I wrote recently. If more
On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 05:35:30PM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote:
> > I guess installing libc6 2.0.7u-5 will do it. But you should update some
> > time
> > after that "fix"...
>
> Where do we get libc6 2.0.7u-5? All of the mirrors I've checked had some
> really old version or the latest libc6 2.0.
On: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 22:39:16 -0600 Evan Van Dyke writes:
>
> I just installed the xanim .deb, but it is unable to play any audio
> files...
> Or, atleast is unable to produce any actual sound. I do know that
> the sound driver is compiled into the kernel and it works, so I'm
> guessing that the
On: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 00:10:52 AST Jeff Browning writes:
>
> Thanks but when I dpkg the .deb file, it says qt1g depends on xlib6g.
> Where could I get that? Thanks.
Do you still have a bo Debian box or a hamm/slink one? xlib6g is the
libc6 version of the X11 libraries (the according package in b
> 2) socks can be used by a variety of other client software as well.
I don't know much about socks, but can it support things like
realplayer, internet phone, etc? My impression is that socks is good for
access control, but you have to set everything on the client side.
(Well, I could be wrong o
On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Allens wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm a newbie to linux, and have a question. I know this is a bit off topic in
> this group, as it is a linux in general question, but anyway:
> How do I get linux to mark bad sectors on my hard drive, as I have a few, and
> they are stopping me doing lot
And another thing. Is it possible to get back into the drivers
configuration thing that I used after installing the drivers disk?
Thanks!
Jeff
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:I filed a bugreport on this a while ago, but I seem to be the only one with
:this problem :(
:
:well ... I updated now to potato hoping it'll go away, but I had no luck.
:
:ok what does actually happen in detail:
:
:sudo -s throws me right into rootshell without prompting for a passwd.
:
:I am in
On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 11:54:40AM -0600, Eric Jensen wrote:
> When you print from netscape, it sends postscript to the printer.
> Assuming you don't have a Postscript printer, you need to use ghostscript
> and a print filter (try the magicfilter package).
Does anybody know why you don't get the
Hey all,
When I installed Debian, I accidentally installed the wrong NIC and
CD-ROM drivers. When I try to mount my cd-rom it keeps saying "irq
timeout: status=0x50." My NIC is a PCI plug-and-pray card. Does Debian
support PNP?
Jeff
__
Get
hi again,
i was thinking about upgrading to a matrox marvel-tv which supports
video in and video out... is there anyway to watch video in linux i know
that ouput will be fine i just didnt know if it was possible to watch
TV in linux or do video editing,
thanx,
AJ
Hi,
I'm a newbie to linux, and have a question. I know this is a bit off topic in
this group, as it is a linux in general question, but anyway:
How do I get linux to mark bad sectors on my hard drive, as I have a few, and
they are stopping me doing lots of things like running Xwindows etc. fsck
Le 04-Dec-98, Alan Su a pris ses électrons pour écrire:
>
> when i reboot with the newly compiled kernel, the 3c575_cb module
> doesn't want to load. the relevant errors are:
> pcmcia/3c575_cb.o: unresolved symbol netif_rx_R6a97aa56
> pcmcia/3c575_cb.o: unresolved symbol unregister_netdev_R84f
Shao Zhang writes:
> At a moment, I am trying to install some network packages to speed up the
> connection. I have tried to install squid, mtr, apache and so on. I don't
> know if they can help, but redhat has got all of these installed.
None of these will change the speed of your ppp connection.
On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Kent West wrote:
>
> Of course the next question is the obvious one: Is it a winmodem?
If it were a Winmodem, then it wouldnt even dial out.
> --
> Kent West
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> KC5ENO - Amateur Radio: When all else fails.
> Linux - Finally! A real OS for the Intel PC!
>
It seems that this modem is very special thing. Might be it was made at
April 1. The matter is that during dialing from minicom it performs kind
of maping. So 1->9, 2->8, 3->7...9->1, 0->0. The same is under Norton
Terminal Emulation. :)))
Eugene.
On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Kent West wrote:
> On Sat, 5
On Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 10:52:33AM -0500, AJ wrote:
> things easier and i cant get ssh to work because i cant type my password
> in the opening command.. is there a way to edit ssh so that u can type
> something like:
>
> ssh -l login -p password host.com
This would be inherently insecure since y
On Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 10:52:33 -0500, AJ wrote:
> is there a way to edit ssh so that u can type something like:
>
> ssh -l login -p password host.com
This would defeat part of ssh's purpose.
> or is there a way to specify the password for this host so it doesnt ask
> you?
Look at the documena
hey,
im trying to set most of my commands to windows in windowmaker to make
things easier and i cant get ssh to work because i cant type my password
in the opening command.. is there a way to edit ssh so that u can type
something like:
ssh -l login -p password host.com
?
or is there a way to speci
Just a guess but >man gpm yields
[snip]
COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
Available command line options are the following:
[snip]
-r number
Set the responsiveness. A higher responsiveness is used
for a faster cursor motion.
does that look like wha
On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Eugene Sevinian wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Shaleh wrote:
>
> >
> > On 04-Dec-98 Eugene Sevinian wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > Could someone explain my why the USR33600 modem which was working
> > > without any problem under w95 does not work under Debian. It simply
> > > pre
Windows (and dos) has no concept of case, Linux chooses to show them as
uppercase. You will also note that if you mount a fat partition in linux all
the files have the x bit turned on, even txt files. This is another side
effect of browsing the fat files.
On 05-Dec-98 John Leget wrote:
> How do
Today I updated the libs.
Now it works.
Christoph
On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 01:51:15PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> > > I have a small config feeling question?
> > > Since we spawn hundreds of messages each day, it
> > > would be more comfortable to have a constant string
> > > in subjects such as [ DEBIAN ] that allows easy
>
> > You could fil
On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 22:04 -0500, Richard A Nelson wrote:
> Found the subject card at a good price (after rebate), but couldn't
> find any info on the 2d portion of the card... anyone know what I
> need for xf86 (or if it isn't supported)?
AFAIK you will have to get a 2.1 kernel and use the FB
*-Birgit Kellner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Perhaps bizarre question: I installed debian, everything seems to be
| fine, but bash refuses to recognize the commands "man" and "info" and
| just returns "command not found". Any explanation?
Have you installed the packages "man-db" and "info"? They shoul
Perhaps bizarre question: I installed debian, everything seems to be
fine, but bash refuses to recognize the commands "man" and "info" and
just returns "command not found". Any explanation?
--
birgit kellner
department for indian philosophy
hiroshima university
> The only problems I am having is getting some hardware working
> correctly. The first item is my printer, a HP Deskjet 682C. When
> printing things I often get unexplainable errors where the printer
> just stops working and the error light starts flashing. Removing,
> cleaning and reinserting
hi
Ship's Log, Lt. Sibuyas Bombay, Stardate 051298.1340:
> hi !
>
> anyway, how does a ` differ from a ' anyway ? ... and what are they called
> ?
>
AFAIK
apostroph `
(single) quotation mark '
the ' is used to enclose a string much like " except that interpretation by
the shell is forbitte
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Shaleh wrote:
>
> On 04-Dec-98 Eugene Sevinian wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Could someone explain my why the USR33600 modem which was working
> > without any problem under w95 does not work under Debian. It simply
> > pretends that it works but dial absolutly wrong phone number :(
Hi,
Thanks for your reply.
I have tried to use /etc/ppp/options with the only line "lock".
This will use all the default settings, which is used by redhat 5.0.
At a moment, I am trying to install some network packages to speed
up the connection. I have tried to install squi
Here's a good place to start for getting the specs on the machine,
where to get reference diskettes (which configure the hardware,
change bios settings, etc.), and more:
http://members.tripod.com/~ps2page/
Also try
http://www.co.umist.ac.uk/~ch/psinfo/psinfo.1.toc.html
Hope this he
Dae Gyu Kim wrote:
>Can anyone point what I have done wrong to my smail settings?
>
>I can no longer send mails out of my machine, when using mutt. I can
>still fetch mails from my mail server. Strangely, Netscape mailer on my
>machine can fetch and send mails with no problem.
H
"Sibuyas Bombay" wrote:
>anyway, how does a ` differ from a ' anyway ? ... and what are they call
>ed
For full details look at the manpage for bash on quoting; for a
friendlier approach, look at the Debian Tutorial at www.debian.org.
Very briefly: ' is called single quote, ` is calle
Hello,
I'm a beginner in linux, and i need a DSP6430 v1.0 video driver for
debian's xwindows system, but i didn't find this.
Please, if you can, send it to me.
Thanks lot: bigp
On Sat, 5 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ok I have the packages.gz file but when I read it it says
> Package: whatever.deb
> and so on but then it says
> filename: dists/stable/main/binary-i386/whatever
>
> should I change that filename to the directory I put all my packages in so
> dselect
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Leandro Dutra wrote:
> > I want to work with Linux but where I am, I am the only one.
>
> Welcome to Linux!
>
>
[snip]
>
> > After all we can not build a wall to separate the world in MS users and
> > Linux users.
>
> As someone already pointed out, Micro$oft
How do i get linux to see win/dos as lower case.
I came across this when i was copying some quake files using SAMBA they
come out in linux as all upper case, first i thought it was samba but i
zipped the files up copied the zip, used MC to have a look in the zip
and all upper case again. ( both on
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > When I run dselect do I need the
> > .deb and .tar.gz files or just the
> > .deb files to install the packages I want
> > Im pretty shure You only need the .deb files,
> > most the .tar.gz files include the sources and
> > You will only need the
Hello,
> > If so, then you should be able to simply delete them with an appropriate
> > "find" command, perhaps from a cron job (add a file to /etc/cron.daily).
> >
> > Try:
> > find . -mtime 7 -exec ls -l {} \;
>
> find would return files wich are exactly 7 days old.
Oops. I should checked m
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Evan Parry wrote:
> Hello all. I have recently moved to Debian after a couple years of
> Slackware and, more recently, FreeBSD. So far things have been quite
> nice and I am liking Debian quite a bit.
>
> The only problems I am having is getting some hardware working
> cor
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote:
> I posted this to the list not too long ago, and the only response was I
> got was a message saying "That's what you get for running unstable
> distributions." As stated in my original message, the problem began with
> hamm. The reason I was trying t
Thought I'd get a jump on my planned install of slink and install the
latest apt, only to end up with a broken apt-get. I tried to install
the apt package from slink on my hamm system and it immediately
complained about a libc6 problem. I thought, okay, I'll just go ahead
and let my old apt-get do
hi !
anyway, how does a ` differ from a ' anyway ? ... and what are they called
?
sib
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ok I have the packages.gz file but when I read it it says
Package: whatever.deb
and so on but then it says
filename: dists/stable/main/binary-i386/whatever
should I change that filename to the directory I put all my packages in so
dselect runs correctly?
thanks
Army
Hi!
Does anyone know of any Optical Character Recognition software for Linux?
I'd love to have this capability with my brand-new scanner.
peloy.-
The G200/G100 series of video cards are now supported with the XF86-SVGA server
under
XFree86 3.3.3, which was released about a week ago. I've found that the new
server also has
better support for the regular Millenium I cards.
The upgrade to XFree86 3.3.3 is pretty painless, and worked witho
zhaoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I want to do a bot in a mud 10.74.i.forget 1999, want a perl
> script to do this. Is this the correct thing to do to play
> with following script and interacts with telnet 10.74.xx.xx 1999?
> i.e. open (mud, 'telnet localhost 1999')
You should probably connec
It looks like you're missing arguments in the mount command.
You might want to try:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt
On my system, I've created a directory (mkdir /95) and added an entry into
fstab:
/dev/hda2 /95 vfatdefaults0 0
This way if I want to move a fil
On Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 12:08:22PM +0800, zhaoway wrote:
>
> I want to do a bot in a mud 10.74.i.forget 1999, want a perl
> script to do this. Is this the correct thing to do to play
I don't know a whole lot about mud, but my guess is you would want to use
'expect' which is packged with debian. I
Hello debian user,
I want to do a bot in a mud 10.74.i.forget 1999, want a perl
script to do this. Is this the correct thing to do to play
with following script and interacts with telnet 10.74.xx.xx 1999?
i.e. open (mud, 'telnet localhost 1999')
while (){
if $_ eq '>' .
very few programming e
heya,
heres my prob i dont know if anyone can tell me what to do.. but can u
tell me how to move files to my win95 partition from debian?
i type:
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
mv /home/artlu/filename /mnt/
then i get:
cannot create regular file 'filename': Invalid Argument
i have my kernel supporting win95
hello ,
At work i need to install Debian on a Hp Netserver 4/66 LF
the profile of this machine is :
motherboard type : D2976-6001
Cpu Card : 486dx2 D3310-68002
3 x 2gb scsi Hd (raid)
scsi ha7770 controller
scsi cdrom toshiba xm 4101ta1084
with the install floppy at boot time i've :
scsi0 a
Eugene Sevinian writes:
> Hi all,
> I am trying to connect 2 Debian machine,
> via uucp. I am not sure that I will find answer in this mailing list,
Sorry about that, I was clouding the issue with my previous answer. OK, you
will need to setup UUCP on both machines. One of the machine will have
Found the subject card at a good price (after rebate), but couldn't
find any info on the 2d portion of the card... anyone know what I
need for xf86 (or if it isn't supported)?
--
Rick Nelson
Hello all!
I notice that when im working late in the night and have roottail
running on /var/log/syslog or when im just reading thru log files I see tonnes
of incoming telnet attempts on weird ports!!!
How worried should I be? I have disabled all un-necessary services in
inetd and I
Hi,
I'm looking for Xserver for Millenium G200, it used to be on SUSE, but with
the release of new version .tar.gz file is gone. There is a bunch of RPM
packages, but I did not succeed in installing them.
Any recommendations?
Thanks,
Sasha.
When I use the Select Packages menu item of
"dselect" and then do a search and press return, my terminal locks
up. Has anybody else tried this?
>
> When I run dselect do I need the
> .deb and .tar.gz files or just the
> .deb files to install the packages I want
> Im pretty shure You only need the .deb files,
> most the .tar.gz files include the sources and
> You will only need them if You plan to compile
> the sources Yourself, or for int
On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 07:07:09PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
>
> When I run dselect do I need the
> .deb and .tar.gz files or just the
> .deb files to install the packages I want
Im pretty shure You only need the .deb files,
most the .tar.gz files include the sources and
You will only ne
Problem solved!
I upgraded to following packages and the problem went away.
libstdc++2.8_2.90.29-2.deb
libstdc++2.9_2.91.60-1_i386.deb
libstdc++2.9-dev_2.91.60-1_i386.deb
--
Janne Löf
I've got to set up Debian (hamm) on an IBM PS/2 system.
It's a 486sx with 16mb of RAM, the bus's a Microchannel (MCA) one and the
video chip seems to be a XGA-2 Display Adapter /A (directly on the
motherboard). The drive bus is SCSI, and a few other marvels I haven't
figured out. I can access a DO
Hello all,
Can anyone point what I have done wrong to my smail settings?
I can no longer send mails out of my machine, when using mutt. I can
still fetch mails from my mail server. Strangely, Netscape mailer on my
machine can fetch and send mails with no problem.
Thanks in advance.
Eugene Sevinian writes:
> Could someone explain my why the USR33600 modem which was working without
> any problem under w95 does not work under Debian. It simply pretends that
> it works but dial absolutly wrong phone number
You mean that it dials a number different than the one you gave when you
When I run dselect do I need the
.deb and .tar.gz files or just the
.deb files to install the packages I want
ArmY
Hello all. I have recently moved to Debian after a couple years of
Slackware and, more recently, FreeBSD. So far things have been quite
nice and I am liking Debian quite a bit.
The only problems I am having is getting some hardware working
correctly. The first item is my printer, a HP Deskjet
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