On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 10:18:29AM -0600, Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote:
> PS. This is better than thier previous Eval kit they had up until
> just recently... Zmagic binaries linked with libc4! :(
It would probably be easier to get those running though :-)
Just grab libc4 and a few other things fr
I will be out of the office on Dec. 31, 1998.
> What I'm trying to setup is this: When I boot-up my system, I want to get
> a dial-up ppp connection to my ISP and grab mail. I want this to happen
> without having to manually run pon after I log in.
Rename /etc/ppp/no_ppp_on_boot to /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot . Ppp will then
come up when you boot.
On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Vincent Murphy wrote:
> I and a colleague share a PC. We would like to each run our own Xserver,
> which can be switched to using Ctrl-Alt-F7 and F8
First user logs on, starts Xserver with startx
(available via Ctrl-Alt-F7)
Se
Ok, tried this and no joy. Any other ideas? When I run
fetchmail-up from root's home dir, it seems to work (at least it dials
ok). Perhaps the problem is the order in which things are started. How
can I set things up to be sure that diald has been started before
fetchmail-up runs.
BTW, her
On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Steve Lamb wrote:
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>
> On Tue, 29 Dec 1998 17:53:49 -0500 (EST), Sourcerer wrote:
>
> >Afaik, none of the commercial os's allow for it in their installs.
>
> Untrue.
Afaik it was true. Thanks for the info.
> OS/2 allows you to use
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, ktb wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm trying to set it up so that after I sign into X the fvwm2
> windows manager comes up and not fvwm95. I followed the tutorial
> directions at the Debian site to do this:
Why don't you just select fvwm95 from fvwm2's root-menu? If it's not
there, you
Hi:
I installed Debian linux on my PC. However, I could not set the
network connection correctly. When I reboot the system I get list of
errors:
eth0: unknown interface
SIOCADDRT: Network unreachable
SIOCADDRT: Network unreachable
When I used the dselect utility, I noticed that netbase and nets
On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Eric Drayer wrote:
> I am interested in using the above as well as any other packages that
> might be related...scilab,pari
there is also maxima - comp.alg. system on top of
GNU CL.
>
> I am having difficulty getting to the documentation that tells how to run
> and use the
On 31-Dec-98 Gary Singleton wrote:
> Hi everyone, I'm starting to find a lot of things that could be made
> easier on my system if I could write better scripts. Are there any
> tutorials available? I know about the O'Reilly bash book but just
> need something to get started and explain to me wha
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 07:52:50PM -0600, me wrote:
> > Hey there!
> >
> > I'm new.
> >
> > I installed Debian 2.1 (frozen) and received a X11 error (both on
> > Intel and Alpha platforms):
> >
> > "Fatal server error:
> > could not open defualt
If you use the freedos image, lredir won't work. You need to use MS-DOS,
PC-DOS, DR-DOS, etc.
Bob
On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, shaul wrote:
> Package: dosemu
> Version: 0.66.7-13
>
> lredir prints its help text and reports no redirections correctly. But it
> also
> refuses to redirect anything. Ever
Hi everyone, I'm starting to find a lot of things that could be made
easier on my system if I could write better scripts. Are there any
tutorials available? I know about the O'Reilly bash book but just
need something to get started and explain to me what the heck stuff
like 'if [ -x /bin/blah ]'
If you are interested in symbolic math, I'll sugest you MuPAD:
http://www.mupad.de
or ftp://ftp.mupad.de
it's free for non-profit educational and scientific use
Wojtek Zabolotny
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've found:
ftp://ftp.task.gda.pl/pub/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/web/apache-common_1.3.3-4.deb
but it's a simlink and points to nowhere... :-(
Wojtek Zabolotny
On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Matus "fantomas" Uhlar wrote:
> -> You should look for it in sli
Hi all,
Does anybody have any advice on using the themes at fvwm.themes.org
with the hooks style setup of the fvwm2 Debian package? Both seem to
use the same type of principal of reading in seperate files but I don't
want to spend hours cutting an pasting if I don't have too.
Thanks,
--
Brian
> My question is: instead of having fetchmail start up from ip-up,
>how to I get it going by itself? In other words, I want to start
>fetchmail in daemon mode during the boot sequence. I know it has to be
>after diald gets started, or the thing won't work the first time out.
>Where do I put the fet
I will be out of the office on Dec. 31, 1998.
Package: dosemu
Version: 0.66.7-13
lredir prints its help text and reports no redirections correctly. But it also
refuses to redirect anything. Everything I tried resulted in an error.
Have someone else encounter this ?
Where should I look to see what I am doing wrong ?
- -- System Information
Hi, folks
What I'm trying to setup is this: When I boot-up my system, I
want to get a dial-up ppp connection to my ISP and grab mail. I want
this to happen without having to manually run pon after I log in. I also
want to be able to detect if the line has gone down and re-connect in
that e
I am interested in using the above as well as any other packages that
might be related...scilab,pari
I am having difficulty getting to the documentation that tells how to run
and use the above.I installed octave and gunplot with dselect along with
other stuff
I also can't figure out how to run th
After re-installing X11, (with all new fonts) -- 'frozen' distro, I still
get the same error:
"could not open default font 'fixed'"
but:
locate fixed gives "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fixed.pcf.gz."
"/etc/X11/XF86Config" shows this path as well, so I know I have the font.
What should I do?
I believe this was intended for the list.
>
>vi /etc/lilo.conf
>
>to install lilo using a file in this location just type lilo from a
>shell prompt (for further details eg options, alternate files etc see
>the man page)
>
>more details on how lilo works and how to configure it can be found in
>th
On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 11:33:08AM -0600, Brent Hueth wrote:
>
> Ok, got my new debian system up and running at work (yahoo!!), now i'm
> trying to do the same at home. Everything seems to have installed
> properly, but i can't get my modem to respond. I tried a cat > /dev/
> ttyS1 atdt## to see if
Ok, got my new debian system up and running at work (yahoo!!), now i'm
trying to do the same at home. Everything seems to have installed
properly, but i can't get my modem to respond. I tried a cat > /dev/
ttyS1 atdt## to see if i could get a response, and nothing. I'm sure
that the modem is on
I want to add the mod_auth_pam module from
Ingo Lütkebohle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
from http://blank.pages.de/pam/ to my existing apache-ssl setup.
Unfortunately, he only supplies it in source form, with instructions for
adding it to the source tree and recompiling the whole shebang. I rea
Hi!
I've seen FreeBSD being installed over a serial console and thought
"Hmm, how can I do this with debian?". I was aware of the sercons
stuff in recent 2.1 kernels. Initiated by a question from Shane Wegner
on debian-user I tried it out (up to "partition a harddisk" - I had no
spare disk to con
On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 11:43:26AM -0500, AJ wrote:
> it listed my password i use for ICQ which i also used for my own root
> password!! they were the only places i used it.. needless to say if u
Needless to say your root password should not be the same as you normal
account password especially no
>> "A" == AJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
A> cat gtkicqrc it listed my password i use for ICQ which i also used
A> for my own root password!! they were the only places i used
A> it.. needless to say if u use GTKicq make sure u set permissions on
A> /home/user/.icq/gtkicqrc to only the user..
Thi
Thanks for the input.
I went into Dselect, and libc5 was already installed, as was xpm (what
was the exact name of the xpm package you recommend ??).
BRGDS
mike
Avijit Bandyopadhyay wrote:
>
> On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Shaleh wrote:
>
> >
> > On 30-Dec-98 Mike Rae wrote:
> > > All :
> > >
> > > Af
I will be out of the office on Dec. 31, 1998.
Ryan Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Now, how, if possible, can one get this binary running? I imagine
that I need a libtermcap2 built/linked with libc6. Does such a debian
package exists? Or do I need to go find the sources and built it myself?
AFAIK there is no libtermc
Last night i was rummaging around my system on another account and i was
checking out my directories seeing if i could find stuff. well i went to
my main account went to the .icq folder which uses GTKICQ
i typed:
cat gtkicqrc
it listed my password i use for ICQ which i also used for my own root
pas
Akop,
Did you try to dial you ISP with a terminal emulator, like minicom? This is
a good way to find out exactly what it expects as far as send and expect
strings.
The log looks similar to mine. My ISP uses CHAP. Have you tried making a
chap-secrets and using the name option in options?
On Thu,
On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 12:52:48AM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
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>
> On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, AJ wrote:
>
> > can anyone tell me the best way to do this?
> > i was thinking among the lines of:
> > tar -vcf home.tar /home/
> > rm -rf /home/
> > mkdir /home
> > m
I have a binary that is linked with both libc6 and libtermcap2
that I am trying to get running. I tried installing the termcap-compat
debian package, and that provide the binary with the needed libtermcap
library. Unfortuntely, since libtermcap was built and linked using libc5
(as stated i
Can someone give a quick rundown on the various Netscape packages out
there? I think knowing what to download and what is needed will clear up a
lot of confusion (at least for me :)
Here are some examples from the [frozen] list:
communicator-base-45 4.5-1 [non-free]
Popular World-Wide-Web
Yeah, but it just seems to stick-or rather it does not provide any info
that I can make anything out of. The last two lines of the file are:
(I've also included the rest of the file below)
configure:2846: checking if tclsh knows where tclConfig.sh is
configure:2852: checking for a tclConfig.sh in l
I have searched the mailing list archives for this problem, and I
understand it can be solved by aliasing module char-major-10 to off, but
I would like to understand what is going on. (It is not really a
problem, because in spite of the message everything seems to work.)
The problem appeared on my
On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 06:20:32 -0800, Antonio L Rodriguez wrote:
[configure problems]
Have you looked at the config.log configure generates for the precise test
performed, and its results?
HTH,
Ray
--
J.H.M. Dassen | RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may
[EMAIL PROTECT
Has anyone installed the CMU Cyrus Imap server? I am having a hell of a
time running the ./configure script because of a tcl problem. Here is
the output of the script: (I am running it with the
--with-tcl=/usr/lib/tcl8.0 switch on by the way)
checking if tclsh knows where tclConfig.sh is... no
ch
Vincent Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I and a colleague share a PC. We would like to each run our own Xserver,
> which can be switched to using Ctrl-Alt-F7 and F8, as with virtual
> consoles.
>
> Is such a situation possible? I'm running hamm.
Yes, just use the shell function (can be de
"Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> HEllo,
>
> i am trying to install apache-ssl-1.3.3 ... but i have a little problem...
>
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of apache-ssl:
> apache-ssl depends on apache-common (>= 1.3.3); however:
> Version of apache-comm
I will be out of the office on Dec. 31, 1998.
Ok, I have set up ppp connections several times but I am not an expert.
I am trying to connect to my new ISP, INTX.NET (if anyone else is using
INTX.NET as their ISP, please tell me what you do!) I had real hard time
figuring out what kind of strings my ISP sends and expects. I have
already manage
-> On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Matus "fantomas" Uhlar wrote:
-> > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of apache-ssl:
-> > apache-ssl depends on apache-common (>= 1.3.3); however:
-> > Version of apache-common on system is 1.3.0+1.19-1.
-> >
-> > anyway i didn't found apache-common-1.3.3 on
-> I and a colleague share a PC. We would like to each run our own Xserver,
-> which can be switched to using Ctrl-Alt-F7 and F8, as with virtual
-> consoles.
->
-> Is such a situation possible? I'm running hamm.
do it as
startx -- :0
startx -- :1
(on other VC's of course)
and you can switch
>I think seyon can handle all of these requirements.
>
Actually, minicom is among the most accurate emulations I've ever
found. Its as close to perfect as a VT220 as you'll find, at any
price :)
Paul
Hello.
Does anybody know, whether is some way to make work printer Oki "OKIPAGE
4w plus" under Linux. That printer is 'Win printer'. I heard something
about rendering by ghostscript, but I can find really nothing, how to do
it. thank you very much.
PF 1999,
Martin S
On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Matus "fantomas" Uhlar wrote:
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of apache-ssl:
> apache-ssl depends on apache-common (>= 1.3.3); however:
> Version of apache-common on system is 1.3.0+1.19-1.
>
> anyway i didn't found apache-common-1.3.3 on FTP server; what'
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Trevor Barrie wrote:
> Does anybody know how I'd go about using a UMAX Astra 1220P under Debian?
> I installed sane, but looking at the docs it seems as though the only
> Umax scanners it supports are SCSI models; this is a parallel port scanner.
>
I have the Mustek 9636P an
[ Please direct your submission to debian-user@lists.debian.org
which is the proper list for such things.]
crown victoria wrote:
> I installed the Debian's linux base system on my PC.
> I tried launching the X Windows, however I could
> not locate startx or xdm programs in the Unix directories.
>
I and a colleague share a PC. We would like to each run our own Xserver,
which can be switched to using Ctrl-Alt-F7 and F8, as with virtual
consoles.
Is such a situation possible? I'm running hamm.
regards,
vinny
PS please CC any replies to me.
--
Vincent Murphy | UCC CompSci Student | [E
I posted this before Christmas but got no response - everyone away partying? So
I thought I'd try again.
When I installed Debian on my Toshiba Satellite recently I had dosemu working,
though not perfectly. Now it doesn't work at all. I've no idea what I've
changed or what has happened. The follow
HEllo,
i am trying to install apache-ssl-1.3.3 ... but i have a little problem...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of apache-ssl:
apache-ssl depends on apache-common (>= 1.3.3); however:
Version of apache-common on system is 1.3.0+1.19-1.
dpkg: error processing apache-ssl (--con
hi
Ship's Log, Lt. ktb, Stardate 301298.1945:
> I then used locate .xsession and found three files in /home/kent
> directory:
> .xsession~
*~ are backupfiles
> .xsession
that is the right one
> .xsession-errors
that's the errors which occure starting X
>
> I placed "exec fvwm2" in both the .xses
ktb wrote:
>
>Hi, I'm trying to set it up so that after I sign into X the fvwm2
>windows manager comes up and not fvwm95. I followed the tutorial
>directions at the Debian site to do this:
>touch ~/.xsession
>chmod u+x ~/.xsession
Another method that you can use, but one which will
Greetings,
Is there a way of starting two X sessions with *different* screen sizes
? I can start a second session fine but it uses the same screen size
as the primary. I've tried Ctrl-Alt-[-+] but it only changes the
resolution, not the screen size.
What I want to do is start an X desktop running
>Why are you rewriting ip-up and ip-down? The standard Debian ip-up and
Honestly?
I didn't read the man pages, and it seemed logical at the time :)
Frederic Breitwieser
Bridgeport, CT 06606
Homebrew Automotive Website:
http://www.xephic.dynip.com/
1993 Supercharged Lincoln Continental
1989 H
-> > I may be wrong (pls correct me if so) but I believe this mail list
-> > _IS_ linked to the newsgroups. Check out linux.debian.user
->
-> At least in my region (Germany) the linux.* newsgroups are almost
-> dead. I also had problems with other gated mailing lists (like
-> comp.risks) so I pr
non-us SSL package is required.
zhao
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Randy Edwards wrote:
> Here's my silly question for the day. ;-)
>
> Does the non-us SSL version of Apache also require the non-SSL package or is
> it a standalone replacement for Apache?
>
> --
> Regards, | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I too have an Exabyte 8200. Mine works, so I mention what I do.
The primary line I use is
/sbin/dump 0uBf 250 /dev/nst0 /
Notice the 0 for a whole dump, the B for size 2.5MB (250)
You merely needed to tell it how long your tape is,
otherwise the default is old-fashioned small.
If you
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Eric Gillespie wrote:
> I know this isn't a Debian-specific question but I'm at home for xmas and
> I don't have access to the newsgroups here, so forgive me this
> transgression.
>
> I have an 8gig hard drive which I made a single ext2 filesystem to hold my
> mp3s. While rip
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On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, ktb wrote:
> I placed "exec fvwm2" in both the .xsession and .xsession~ files and
> used chmod again. I did all steps as a regular user while in the /home
> directory.
First of all, the .xsession~ file is merely an automatic backup made by
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On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, AJ wrote:
> can anyone tell me the best way to do this?
> i was thinking among the lines of:
> tar -vcf home.tar /home/
> rm -rf /home/
> mkdir /home
> mount /dev/hdb3 /home
> tar -xvf home.tar
That will work, but here's a slightly nicer w
vi /etc/lilo.conf
to install lilo using a file in this location just type lilo from a
shell prompt (for further details eg options, alternate files etc see
the man page)
more details on how lilo works and how to configure it can be found in
the Debian-user FAQ-O-Matic under installation
http://w
I will be out of the office on Dec. 31, 1998.
> Could someone tell me how do I install LILO and where, in what files, do I
> configure it, and of course how ?
LILO is installed in a default Debian setup. If for some reason you need
to reinstall it, just download the lilo*.deb file from ftp.debian.org.
Once downloaded, just use dpkg -i
I'm not running DIALD but am running PPP. I have fetchmail in the ip-up.d
directory. When PPP comes up it automatically runs everything in ip-up.d.
David Natkins
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fax : (609) 896-2239
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998 [
There is another test build of the XFree86 packages available. The .dsc
and .changes files are not PGP signed. These are not official debian
packages; they are simply used to make sure I have not introduced something
hideous into the X packages.
*) http://master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86/
*)
Hi, folks
I want to begin fetching mail as soon as my system boots up,
by having fetchmail running as a daemon. What should happen is that
fetchmail will trigger diald when it wants to connect to my POP account.
Where should I install the fetchmail-up script to enable this?
--
't
Hi, I'm trying to set it up so that after I sign into X the fvwm2
windows manager comes up and not fvwm95. I followed the tutorial
directions at the Debian site to do this:
touch ~/.xsession
chmod u+x ~/.xsession
I then used locate .xsession and found three files in /home/kent
directory:
.xses
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Shaleh wrote:
>
> On 30-Dec-98 Mike Rae wrote:
> > All :
> >
> > After installing Navigator 4.5, and attempting to run, I get the
> > following error messgae
> >
> > "./netscape: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4"
> >
> > Running a "ldd netscape" tells me that
> >
> > "lib
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I just solved this one. You need the libc5 libraries from the oldlibs
directory. I assume you are running hamm.
dpkg --install oldlibs/xpm4.7_3.4j-0.6.deb
dpkg --install oldlibs/libg++27_2.7.2.1-14.4.deb
will probably fix it.
Regards,
Jim.
>
I want to burn a CD which is -basically- debian, but has two or three
extra packages present and marked as necessary, and also runs a script
which changes which packages are and aren't selected (depending on
things such as the partition sizes) before it runs dselect. (It's for
a volunteer project
>> "JL" == Jim Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JL> Why can xlogo find the libraries and netscape not?
Because xlogo is compiled for libc6, whereas your netscape is compiled
for libc5.
Install xlib6 from oldlibs.
JL> dpkg --install x11/fvwm95_2.0.43b-5.deb
JL> Selecting previously deselect
To configure LILO one needs to know the parameters of the machine.
If you specify the parameters of your computer, I could help you.
For example: how many OS's you have, what disks are they on, partition
table.
Andrew
> Hi !
>
> Could someone tell me how do I install LILO and where, in what files
Hi everyone !
The telco that I am leasing bandwidth from advises that I cannot use ISDN
for speeds over 256K - therefore I am going to go to frame relay.
>From what I have seen frame relay = X25 = CCITT - is this correct ?
What additional hardware do I require for my debian box to connect to the
hey,
im purchasing a 16.8gig new ibm deskstar HD.. and am partitioning it
like this:
8gig VFAT Win32
4gig VFAT Win32
4gig Linux Native
what i wanna do is mount the linux native part to /home/ while keeping
all the current files in /home/ in tacked, and having all the user
privelages and stuff re
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I figured out the netscape problem, but this one is still bugging me.
> Second question. What is this telling me?
>
> dpkg --install x11/fvwm95_2.0.43b-5.deb
> Selecting previously deselected package fvwm95.
> (Reading database ... 21675 file
I'm trying to get a backup of my system using dump. However, I can not
seem to get it to work. I have a 2.5gig scsi tape drive (Exabyte 8200)
and 2.1gigs on my root partition. When I do dump -0 -f /dev/nst0 / the
system starts to dump but seems to want almost 40 tapes. What is going
on here?
T
See the following?
chinaberry 139> ldd `which xlogo`
libXaw.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.6 (0x4000e000)
libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x40046000)
libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x40058000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x400a200
Martin Bialasinski writes:
> There is also another problem. When ppp is updated, it will update poff,
> and all changes would be lost.
I thought it was fairly obvious that one would need to take measures to
deal with this. The simplest is to just put the edited poff in
/usr/local/bin. You could
Lost me.. but simply.. if you want linux pc to be seen in network
neighborhood on windows machine. Install/configure Samba on Linux PC. This
will allow it to look like it is a windows pc to other windows pc's. ie.
file/print sharing.
>I've got a machine, A, that connects to network N via a ppp l
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 05:46:19PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've got a machine, A, that connects to network N via a ppp link to
> machine M. I'm planning to masquerade machine B through A (A will have
> masq installed and run ipfwadm, B will talk to the world through it).
>
> If
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