Re: ctx monitors

kenneth wrote, > - > response: > As with everything else, if you ask for an opinion on a brand of > hardware some people will complain how they got burned, and some will > rave about how great it is. certainly. Many worked until they were dis

Re: Need help with XFree86

Are you runnin Abacus Sentry? I had that problem once. It wasn't letting me into X blah blah blah. Kill it. Also, check for a lock file in /tmp. On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 10:58:41PM -0400, Jeff Browning wrote: :Hey All! : :Ahh, finally. I got my Debian CD, installed just about everything. Just :on

Re: -- MARK --

On 7 Dec 98 19:29:52 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Armin Wegner) wrote: >Every twenty minutes my xconsole writes a string consisting of date and time, >my hostname and the string "-- MARK --". What does this mean? This is new and >I can't remember when it first happened and what it caused to do so. Thi

Re: Network Setup Problems

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am having some problems getting my lan working. I'm trying to > connect my win95 machine to my linux machine. Both have 3c509's > connected to a hub. I've given my linux box 192.168.1.1 and windows > 192.168.1.2. However, I can not ping either machine from the

Re: Just My 2 Cents

On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 06:00:24PM -0500, Person, Roderick wrote: > It seems to me that most Linux user feel the same way. I always read threads > on the evil M$ or how bad Windblows is etc! So can someone tell me why the > Hell everyone wants M$ apps ported to Linux - Doesn't that defeat the > pu

navigator installed; want communicator

i've got navigator installed from the 4.08 package, but i'd like to get the netscape newsgroup viewer too (because i am used to it, not because i think it is superior). how do i go about doing this? i've got the tar.gz for the full communicator and know where to put it if i were going to make a f

Just My 2 Cents

Hey All, Just venting. Recently I check out the Linux apps wish list web page! I though that it was mighty funny that the software that most people want to see ported to Linux is made by the big nasty Microsoft clan. Personally, I hate M$ and was glade to find Linux. If it wasn't for Linux I pr

Re: installing linux debian on Toshiba Satellite

> Vazquez Jr, E A wrote: > > Don't expect much help here, I've been trying for DAYS to get a response > > to my questions but apparently no-one likes laptop installs. > > - Ed > > > > I'm trying to install debian on a Toshiba Satellite. I get as far as > > "booting linux.." but then the Toshiba

RE: installing linux debian on Toshiba Satellite

Actually, I did. I have successfully completed a floppy install for the basic hamm distribution. The problem was and is that everything I can find presumes that I already have a mounted source device or network connection to complete the install and build the network connection. This reply was a

Re: installing linux debian on Toshiba Satellite

On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Vazquez Jr, E A wrote: : Don't expect much help here, I've been trying for DAYS to get a response : to my questions but apparently no-one likes laptop installs. : : - Ed : : I'm trying to install debian on a Toshiba Satellite. I get as far as : "booting linux.." but

Re: installing linux debian on Toshiba Satellite

On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Vazquez Jr, E A wrote: > Don't expect much help here, I've been trying for DAYS to get a response > to my questions but apparently no-one likes laptop installs. It may be that no one is familiar with your hardware. If you are the poster that has the cd rom via parallel port o

nethack

It will work as root definately, the permissions odndon't look right.

Re: installing linux debian on Toshiba Satellite

Use the "tecra" boot disks. I have debian installed happily on my toshiba sattellite 445cdx, btw. There are even some debian packages (toshiba-hotkey, toshiba-fan) specifically for these laptops. Vazquez Jr, E A wrote: > Don't expect much help here, I've been trying for DAYS to get a response > t

nethack

What's the secret to get nethack to work? I have it sgid games, but it says it can't open /var/lib/games/nethack/perm ... brahe:/var/lib/games/nethack $ ll `which nethack` -rwxr-sr-x 1 root games1137 Oct 29 1997 /usr/games/nethack* brahe:/var/lib/games/nethack $ ll total 3 -rw-rw-

Re: installing linux debian on Toshiba Satellite

Don't expect much help here, I've been trying for DAYS to get a response to my questions but apparently no-one likes laptop installs. - Ed I'm trying to install debian on a Toshiba Satellite. I get as far as "booting linux.." but then the Toshiba logo comes up and the cycle restarts. I'm sure I

questions

I am planning to install Debian 2.0 and I had a couple of euqquestions. 1. I installed a small preview off floppies and it had a SCSI driver still in the kernel when I booted pup that I did not want there. This caused it to give a boot up error. Is there an easy eway to ocorrect this in t

Re: Sendmail and majordomo

I have majordom aliased to majordomo Would that be a problem? Here is my current /etc/aliases file: postmaster: root MAILER-DAEMON: postmaster # Common aliases abuse: postmaster spam: postmaster # Other aliases majordom: majordomo majordomo: "|/usr/lib/majordomo/w

installing linux debian on Toshiba Satellite

I'm trying to install debian on a Toshiba Satellite. I get as far as "booting linux.." but then the Toshiba logo comes up and the cycle restarts. I'm sure I read a post recently about this but I can't remember what it was. There must be a simple way of getting round this -- any ideas? Anthony --

Re: Sendmail and majordomo

Quoting Amanda Shuler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Can someone tell me what the alias for majordomo should be for debian? > I had it, and I've lost it. :( > I know it's in the form: > majordomo:"|/path/to/majordomo/wrapper majordomo" > > I've put in: > majordomo:"|/usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper maj

Re: Sendmail and majordomo

I've got majordom: root majordomo: "/usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper majordomo" in /etc/aliases on our server (Debian 2.0), so it looks like you've got the right path. Do you have the majordom alias as well? -Original Message- From: Amanda Shuler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian User List Da

RE:KDE and kppp

I have kde installed on my machine and seem to have everything installed and working OK. The only thing that is a hang-up right now is that I am unable to run the kppp program as a normal user. It gives an error message that the "setuid" script is unable to run and this I can not start pppd.

Sendmail and majordomo

Can someone tell me what the alias for majordomo should be for debian? I had it, and I've lost it. :( I know it's in the form: majordomo: "|/path/to/majordomo/wrapper majordomo" I've put in: majordomo: "|/usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper majordomo" but when mail is sent to majordomo it is re

Re: ctx monitors

I'll second that. I've got a large CTX monitor (2085) at home that I've had for several years, and I hate it. Blurry, prone to wavering, severe screen curve. Save your eyes, buy Sony or something you've looked at and liked in a shop. -Original Message- From: Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PRO

RE: Need help with XFree86

Did you run XF86Setup or xf86config? Doesn't sound that way to me. Try one of those. If you have vga16 server use the XF86Setup in you got the SVGA server use xf86config. I personally don't like the XF86Setup it never quite worked with SVGA for me. Roderick Person [

Re: resolve.conf specification

On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 02:53:08PM -0500, AJ wrote: > you guys have been a lot of help but how would i go about symlinking these? > im not > > > Marco Frattola writes: > > > wouldn't it be possibile to make a bunch of files, called > > > /etc/resolv.cont.isp1 > > > /etc/resolv.cont.isp2 > > > ..

Re: --MARK--

> Subject: -- MARK -- > Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 20:29:52 +0100 (MET) > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Armin Wegner) > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Every twenty minutes my xconsole writes a string consisting of date and time, > my hostname and the string "-- MARK --". What does this mean? This is

Re: resolve.conf specification

On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 01:27:37PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ben Collins writes: > > What does this [resolv.conf] have to do with policy? > > Packages are not to mess with other packages' conffiles. We had a long and > inclusive discussion of this on debian-devel earlier this year. There

Re: ctx monitors

Date: From: "Richard E. Hawkins Esq." > I'm thinking of buying a CTX PL9 monitor (19", [EMAIL PROTECTED]), what are > people's feelings towards ctx or this monitor in paticular? I'm a student > on a budget and this will be my monitor for the next 4/5 years so I just > wanted to make sur

Re: resolve.conf specification

To create symlinks: ln -s In a message dated 12/7/98 1:53:50 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > you guys have been a lot of help but how would i go about symlinking these? > im not > new to linux.. but i still consider myself a newbie in linux.. > sorry for the ignoranc

Re: -- MARK --

*- Armin Wegner wrote about "-- MARK --" > Every twenty minutes my xconsole writes a string consisting of date and time, > my hostname and the string "-- MARK --". What does this mean? This is new and > I can't remember when it first happened and what it caused to do so. > > See 'man syslogd' un

Help - X meets my OLD monitor

Hey guys... I'm outta ideas on this one, so I'm posting here with the hopes someone can help me out. I'm trying to configure X on my system - it has an old Mitsuba monitor that I can't seem to get specs on. Here's what I DO know: * Model Mitsuba 710VH * Under Win95, I can run 800x600 with no pr

Need help with XFree86

Hey All! Ahh, finally. I got my Debian CD, installed just about everything. Just one problem. When I try to run "startx" it says: "_XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running Fatal server error: Cannot establ

Re: resolve.conf specification

Ben Collins writes: > What does this [resolv.conf] have to do with policy? Packages are not to mess with other packages' conffiles. We had a long and inclusive discussion of this on debian-devel earlier this year. There are also technical issues having to do with the fact that a package that doe

Re: resolve.conf specification

you guys have been a lot of help but how would i go about symlinking these? im not new to linux.. but i still consider myself a newbie in linux.. sorry for the ignorance :-( AJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Marco Frattola writes: > > wouldn't it be possibile to make a bunch of files, called > > /e

terminal window

hello I need to open a terminal window for my dial-up ppp connection. I have to pass more than just the username/password. I used pppconfig, but it wasn't enough for the extras. How do I open a terminal window for dial-up connections? thanks Mark -- "A man talking sense to himself is no madder t

Re: Connecting two computers via serial

Thanks to everyone who replied. It seems that PLIP is the answer; I;ve found some documentation on this so a good deal of RTFM seems to be in order! Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.achc.demon.co.uk "The Moving Finger writes; and, having wr

-- MARK --

Every twenty minutes my xconsole writes a string consisting of date and time, my hostname and the string "-- MARK --". What does this mean? This is new and I can't remember when it first happened and what it caused to do so.

Re: new libc6 problem?

On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 10:53:10 -0700, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > "J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | There is nothing "directly" about ftp.debian.org. It's a mirror like any > | other. (The master site is master.debian.org, which is only accessible > | to developers) > > So wh

repost of Trouble mounting CD-ROM on parallel port

OK, here we go again. Toshiba 610CDT laptop MicroSolutions backpack CD on LPT1 0x378 IRQ7 Xircom NIC hamm dist floppy install v2.0 unable to mount CD to complete install of NIC drivers so that I can reach network dist point. All the online help I can find tells me what to do AFTER the drive is

Re: refused connect from 'unknown'

Martin, > PC> Dec 7 13:52:12 casal in.telnetd[27798]: refused connect from > PC> unknown > Is this you connecting? No, its not me. > Maybe it is an attacker transmitting a bogus tcp package or such. Maybe. But lately I've become to think that's the ALL: PARANOID setting in host

RE: dselect wants to remove crucial packages

This has been fixed recently. Wait for your mirror to catch up. Also the "=" character puts a package on hold. This will stop it from updating. On 07-Dec-98 Ossama Othman wrote: > Hi, > > How can I prevent dselect from wanting to remove crucial packges on my > "potato" system? The problem se

Re: non-interactive shell

>> "SB" == Sibuyas Bombay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> i don't want to give them a fully interactive shell so i was SB> thinking of writing a script that gets started when they log on SB> and will just present them with 4 choices, pon (w/ sudo), poff (w/ SB> sudo), elm, and quit(log-out). I b

Re: refused connect from 'unknown'

>> "PC" == Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PC> Dec 7 13:52:11 casal in.telnetd[27798]: warning: can't get client PC> address: No route to host PC> Dec 7 13:52:12 casal in.telnetd[27798]: refused connect from PC> unknown PC> If my machine has a telnet request, then my machine knows the IP

Re: Make xconfig

>> "AT" == Alan Tam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AT> Thanks a lot for your precious info. I have installed X and get it AT> running now (in XF86-svga server). My next step is to do the ' AT> make xconfig ' and have a try on kernel compile. For which you should IMHO install the kernel-package pack

dselect wants to remove crucial packages

Hi, How can I prevent dselect from wanting to remove crucial packges on my "potato" system? The problem seems to be related to the libc6/dpkg issue. I currently have libc6-2.07u-6 and dpkg 1.4.0.31 installed. Thanks, -Ossama __

reposting isdn question

Running Debian 2.0.34 and am having connection quality troubles using a 64K or 128K ISDN. I am in Europe and the dial-up server is in the US. I am running an external TA through the serial port. The connection establishes in about 5 seconds and I can pass traffic but at a slow rate (slower than

Re: OCR software for Linux?

"Eloy A. Paris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.- There exist some, but non in a usable state yet. See: http://starship.skyport.net/crew/amk/

Re: new libc6 problem?

"J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 08:27:55 -0700, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: | > "J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | More aftermath of the __register_frame_info problem. Joel | > | Klecker has done | > | an NMU of libc6 (which is now i

Re: dselect on serial terminal

Chevelle Strobel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > --=_NextPart_000_0298_01BE1FC6.DACCE7C0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > When I use the Select Packages menu item of "dsel

Re: Bells, whistles & Other noise makers

Paul McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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

Re: Accidental power-out / LILO / mount @ boot?

Subject: Re: Accidental power-out / LILO / mount @ boot? Date: Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 10:56:47AM -0500 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Quick question... > > All the HOWTOs and FAQs I've read say to give the pass param for extra driv

Re: startx ne marche pas

tu dois configurer X. XF86Setup si possible, xf86config sinon... bonne chance, thomas On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 09:46:45AM +0100, Olivier Malhomme wrote: > J' ai installé Linux. Apparamment tout s'est bien passé. Ma carte video a > ete detectee sans problemes. > Toutefois, lorsque je tape

Re: rc.boot not booting!

>> "DM" == Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DM> rei$ cat /etc/rc.boot/rc.masq DM> #!/bin/sh DM> # PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin DM> echo Setting up IP Masquerading... DM> /sbin/depmod -a DM> /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_irc DM> # /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_quake DM> /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_

Re: startx ne marche pas

Olivier Malhomme wrote: >J' ai installé Linux. Apparamment tout s'est bien passé. Ma carte video a >ete detectee sans problemes. Do you mean that X setup detected it, or merely that you are seeing an ordinary text screen? >Toutefois, lorsque je tape startx on me repond que le fichier XConfi

Re: lynx & proxy

Valo, > Edit /etc/lynx.cfg and uncomment http_proxy-variable and alter it for > your settings. _Or_ you can use environment variable 'http_proxy', like > this: > > export http_proxy='http://wwwproxy.hut.fi:80/' What about auto proxys? ie: http://somewhere/cgi-bin/autoproxy ? Tha

Re: Petition for TrollTech to GPL Qt

> Unfortunately I am still a bit confused about the issues involved. I > would be interested in hearing the muse and views of people who know more > about the issue than I. The current status (it changed late last week) is that code may be forked and freely distributed (though under a different

Re: ctx monitors

> I'm thinking of buying a CTX PL9 monitor (19", [EMAIL PROTECTED]), what are > people's feelings towards ctx or this monitor in paticular? I'm a student > on a budget and this will be my monitor for the next 4/5 years so I just > wanted to make sure I was making a good decision before I bought on

Re: ftp chroot for normal users?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 7 Dec 1998, Daniel Podlejski wrote: > Stef Hoesli Wiederwald napisal(a): > : For user ftp, the ftpd does a chroot to ~ftp > : Can I make ftpd to do that for another user: When joe makes an ftp > : connection, his homedirectory ~joe should be the root directo

Re: resolve.conf specification

On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 09:56:58AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Marco Frattola writes: > > wouldn't it be possibile to make a bunch of files, called > > /etc/resolv.cont.isp1 > > /etc/resolv.cont.isp2 > > .. > > /etc/resolv.cont.ispN > > and symlink one of them to /etc/resolv.conf when a call

Re: Re: Can not find Xserver for Millenium G200.

I went to ftp.xfree986.org, downloaded all the necessary binaries, and then just followed the directions. Essentially, you put all the .tgz files in your /var/tmp folder, then run a preinstallation script, extract all the files (using a special "extract" binary), and then run a postinstallati

ms-tnef garbage (was Re: How to set page size in GROFF?)

On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 10:06:48 -0500, Richardson, Tony wrote: > How do I set the page length of the ASCII device in {n,t,g}roff? I don't know. But frankly, When I see that your message has the following structure: [-- Attachment #1 --] [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.4K --] [-- Att

Re: lynx & proxy

In linux.debian.user, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi all, > Could anyone tell me how to set the proxy settings for lynx?? Sure. Look for lines containing the word "proxy" in /etc/lynx.cfg. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum

Re: ftp chroot for normal users?

On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote: : For user ftp, the ftpd does a chroot to ~ftp : Can I make ftpd to do that for another user: When joe makes an ftp : connection, his homedirectory ~joe should be the root directory, so : joe cannot go bellow ~joe ? It's possible, but it's a

Re: Connecting two computers via serial

Anthony Campbell writes: > Is it possible to connect two computers (desktop and notebook) via a null > modem connection? Yes. > And, if so, what software would be suitable to make the link? pppd. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: resolve.conf specification

Marco Frattola writes: > wouldn't it be possibile to make a bunch of files, called > /etc/resolv.cont.isp1 > /etc/resolv.cont.isp2 > .. > /etc/resolv.cont.ispN > and symlink one of them to /etc/resolv.conf when a call is made to the isp Sure. That'll work fine for you. The problem is with Debian

Re: lynx & proxy

Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could anyone tell me how to set the proxy settings for lynx?? Edit /etc/lynx.cfg and uncomment http_proxy-variable and alter it for your settings. _Or_ you can use environment variable 'http_proxy', like this: export http_proxy='http://wwwproxy.hut.

Re: Accidental power-out / LILO / mount @ boot?

Quick question... All the HOWTOs and FAQs I've read say to give the pass param for extra drives the value of 2, but this is the second message I've seen using 0 instead. What's up with that? -Jay In a message dated 12/6/98 8:59:43 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > And yes. T

Re: ftp gone from dselect

On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Matt Garman wrote: > > Whenever I go into dselect to choose which method to use, the ftp > option is now gone! I really don't know what caused this, nor how to > restore it. Any hints? Install dpkg-ftp Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ

Re: ftp gone from dselect

On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 08:15:29AM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: > > Whenever I go into dselect to choose which method to use, the ftp > option is now gone! I really don't know what caused this, nor how to > restore it. Any hints? You have (re)installed dpkg-ftp? HTH, James

Re: ftp gone from dselect

On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 08:15:29 -0600, Matt Garman wrote: > Whenever I go into dselect to choose which method to use, the ftp option > is now gone! I really don't know what caused this, nor how to restore it. Install "dpkg-ftp". HTH, Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient

Re: A piping problem

On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Joseph Hartmann wrote: > #!perl > while(){chop $_; print "$_\r\n";}; > > I can give the command "less /usr/local/bin/printer.staircase.filer" > to bash, and get a listing of the file -- it really IS there. > > But when I try to pipe stuff into the filter with the following

How to set page size in GROFF?

How do I set the page length of the ASCII device in {n,t,g}roff? It appears that the standard page length is 66 lines and the default page length on our network printer is 60 lines. I'm asking because I want to do: # man | lpr and have the man output pages fit on the physical pages. (Yes "man

Re: Network Setup Problems

Hi there ! Sorry to come in late on this ... Have you set you /etc/hosts file correctly ? 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.1 linux.networkname linux 192.168.1.2 windows.networkname windows Also in W95 have you configured your network setup ? Make sure TCP/IP networking is

Re: Network Setup Problems

Subject: Network Setup Problems Date: Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 09:45:38PM -0500 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I am having some problems getting my lan working. I'm trying to > connect my win95 machine to my linux machine. Both have

ftp gone from dselect

Whenever I go into dselect to choose which method to use, the ftp option is now gone! I really don't know what caused this, nor how to restore it. Any hints? Thanks! -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world

Fw: install hamm from Inet

>> Downloaded it 2 times (I think from ftp.debian.org via Go!Zilla like all >> other packages), both times the same error. Now CuteFTPed fom >> ftp.jp.debian.org and WinZip opens it. >> Is it possible, that the server-file is corrupted? >I guess it's possible. But you said WinZip opened it? The f

Re: Old Packages?

On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 14:18:51 +0100, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote: > I use Debian 1.3.1. Are there ftp Servers who still carry the old libc5 > Packages I need? Quoting http://www.debian.org/ : :Old versions of Debian : :Debian 1.3 (codenamed Bo) can be found at :ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/

installing onto a LS-120

From: "Marc Ahrens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I bought a LS-120 and want to install Linux onto it. It wouldn't let me mount or partition it. Please Help. I really don't want to install Linux onto my hard drive. Thanks for whatever suggestions that you might have. --

Re: Finished with Linux

thread: In linux.debian.user, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >If you had shared the "stupid messages" with us here, perhaps >somebody could have told you what they mean and how to fix the >problem. Strange.. I don't recall you posting once. >You seem easy to convince. So go on back to your Happy Meal

Old Packages?

I use Debian 1.3.1. Are there ftp Servers who still carry the old libc5 Packages I need? Stef

Seagate DAT drive

From: "Chris Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have just installed a Seagate STD28000N (aka ARCHIVE Python 04687-XXX Rev: 6580 according to dmesg). I only had 90m tapes to hand and wanted to try it out, tar cvf on a handful of files claimed to work but nothing else did generally returning

Re: ftp chroot for normal users?

Stef Hoesli Wiederwald napisal(a): : For user ftp, the ftpd does a chroot to ~ftp : Can I make ftpd to do that for another user: When joe makes an ftp : connection, his homedirectory ~joe should be the root directory, so : joe cannot go bellow ~joe ? Use ProFTPD - look at DefaultRoot directive in

refused connect from 'unknown'

Hi! Can somebody explain me what this is? Dec 7 13:52:11 casal in.telnetd[27798]: warning: can't get client address: No route to host Dec 7 13:52:12 casal in.telnetd[27798]: refused connect from unknown If my machine has a telnet request, then my machine knows the IP (at least

How to force Netscape to use Debian /etc/mailcap ?

Hmmm, it seems to me Netscape keeps it's own mailcap and mimetypes files somewhere which is a royal pain in the backside if one takes into account that a full MIME type database is available on every Debian system. Anybody an idea how to force netscape to make use of the MIME types configured in

ftp chroot for normal users?

For user ftp, the ftpd does a chroot to ~ftp Can I make ftpd to do that for another user: When joe makes an ftp connection, his homedirectory ~joe should be the root directory, so joe cannot go bellow ~joe ? Stef

Re: Connecting two computers via serial

> >Is it possible to connect two computers (desktop and notebook) via a null >modem >connection? And, if so, what software would be suitable to make the link? Anthony, Sure, if you must. You could use SLIP or PPP. Or, better yet, use the parallel ports; a connection known as PLIP. See the

Re: resolve.conf specification

>wouldn't it be possibile to make a bunch of files, called >/etc/resolv.cont.isp1 >/etc/resolv.cont.isp2 >.. There is a script that deals with this very problem as part of the ppp kit for NetBSD. It resolves this issue not by linking to, but by copying the proper resolv.conf for that connection to

Re: resolve.conf specification

On Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 06:40:32PM +0100, Marco Frattola wrote: > .. > /etc/resolv.cont.ispN > and symlink one of them to /etc/resolv.conf when a call is made to the isp > (HUPing named, of course)? You don't even have to HUP named since it is libc that uses resolv.conf for gethostbyname(). if he

XFree86 Problem

When I try to run the preinstall script for xfree86, it says: "It appears that you have an a.out system. a.out binaries are not available for this release." Is this correct? If not, how am I supposed to install xfree86? Jeff __ Get Your Private

very weird problem with pppd (server + client)

Hi! I used to have a very stable configuration for a PPP connection between two debian machines which suddenly has gone away. I'll explain myself. I have a machine with a 56k modem that acts as a server. I had mgetty with autoppp enabled and pppd with "auth" and "login". The serve

Re: g++2.8, egcs, gcc 2.7.2, etc. - *very confused*

> >Read /usr/doc/gcc/README.Debian . > I did but was still confused :( >> Being naive enough to try anything, and having heard of all sorts of >> problems with egcs and g++, I decided to scrap g++2.8 and put g++2.7.2 on. >> (I had egcs 2.90.29, dated 19980515). > >g++2.7.2 is intended only for

Re: 512MB RAM, 860MB swap and out of memory ?

On Mon, 7 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hi Krupa! > > On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Jan Krupa wrote: > > > > > My Debian Linux 2.0 cannot use more than 460MB sawp :( > > that's very extrange :-( You're right. Linux can use my 860MB of swap ( I gave some ap

rc.boot not booting!

Hi All, >From my understanding, any scripts that are located in the /etc/rc.boot directory should be executed on booting. And most of the scripts I have in there seem to do that. However, I have a script to set up everything for IP Masquerading in rc.boot, and this doesn't seem to run. It works f

Re: ipmasq problems

On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 11:31:17AM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > AFAIK, developer kernel use ipchains, not ipfwadm. This is correct. There is a debian package which will do masqing for an ipchains system. *VERY* slick and something I recommend highly. -- Steve C. Lamb

Re: ml.org

On Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 11:36:40PM +, David Stern wrote: > Webworkshttp://www.ddns.org > DynIP http://www.dynip.com So glad those are listed in Yahoo. *sigh* Ah well, the demise of ml.org finally got me off my keister and got my real domain in action and away from my services

Re: 512MB RAM, 860MB swap and out of memory ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Krupa! On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Jan Krupa wrote: > > My Debian Linux 2.0 cannot use more than 460MB sawp :( that's very extrange :-( > Here are some additional information > $ free > total used free sharedbuffers cached > M

Re: ctx monitors

On Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 08:56:43PM -0600, Chris Frost wrote: > I'm thinking of buying a CTX PL9 monitor (19", [EMAIL PROTECTED]), what are > people's feelings towards ctx or this monitor in paticular? I'm a student > on a budget and this will be my monitor for the next 4/5 years so I just > wanted

Re: g++2.8, egcs, gcc 2.7.2, etc. - *very confused*

On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 01:50:48 -0800, Martin Waller wrote: > I am stunningly confused about the whole c and c++ suite thing that's > going on (I'm still in HAMM - it's *not * the __register_frame_info > stuff!). Read /usr/doc/gcc/README.Debian . > Being naive enough to try anything, and havin

Re: Where do I start fetchmail?

On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi all, > What is the right place to start fetchmail?? You can use it anywhere. I use it with wmmail ! Every 10 seconds it fetch mail from my pop server! > But it didn't work. I psed the process, it was there, then > disappeared after a while.

Re: xemacs/emacs cannot find the package

Hi, Yes, I just did. Permission is set to Read. Load-Path has got that directory as well... So what is next Thanks... Shao. On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Evgeny Roubinchtein wrote: > On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: > > >Hi all, > > In xemacs, when I choose the o

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