Re: Local network

1999-02-21 Thread Jeremy
On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Bob Hilliard wrote: > I would like to telnet from linux on the Micron to Dos/Windows on > the secondary machine. Can this be done? What DOS/Windows software > is necessary? (I believe the floppy that came with the ethernet > adapter has a DOS ppp driver. Sure, it can

Re: modem connection

1999-02-21 Thread John Hasler
Daniel Kahraman writes: > I can hear the dialing of my modem, but there is also a continuous > buzzing sound as soon as the modem is activated and while the dialing is > taking place. Does it sound like dialtone? If so, the line is not going off-hook, either because of a hardware problem or becau

Re: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)

1999-02-21 Thread Martin Schulze
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > This is silly. You are ruling out a hell lot of possibilities without > technical reasons. I think both is possible, a logo without "Debian" and a > logo that plays with the letters "Debian". My examples may be bad but one of the requirements (not made by me) was that the

Re: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)

1999-02-21 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 11:02:32PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > Last point, opposing to Joey, I do think that the word Debian should be > > integrated in the logo, for example if the idea of the escape is taken, > > the bottom of the sheet could be merged in the "i" of Debian. > > Well, you

Re: hamm/pppconfig?

1999-02-21 Thread Larry Fletcher
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Larry writes: >> The first time I tried pppconfig it worked perfectly, but I just tried >> to change the phone number and now it won't connect. > >*Exactly* what did you do? *Exactly* what results did you get? 1) My provider changed its phone number, so I

Net card not found on install

1999-02-21 Thread Paul Hardiman
I installed the hamm release and was puzzled why my 3c905B (Cyclone) card was not found. I believe the supporting module is 3c59x which resides in /lib/modules/2.0.34/net. What's a happening here? Thanks. Regards, Paul Hardiman InterMedia, Inc (Colorado) In

Screen Size in X

1999-02-21 Thread Stephen Lavelle
How do I adjust the size of myscreen in X. Its too tall (vertical) and when I open some apps (Emacs, MAKE xCONFIG) i cannot see some parts of them. I think its currentlt set to 640x480 . also how do i get the output of the Xserver? Regards Stephen Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd. ~ Australian Tanned We

Subject: IBM netfinity PCs

1999-02-21 Thread John Gay
>Hello, > >Our school plans on getting some IBM Netfinity computers. Does anyone >have any experience running Debian with these computers. These computers >come, I think, with built in SCSI, video, and network. Does anyone >know >1. what video chip it uses >2. what SCSI >3. what n

Re: Lilo help for NT

1999-02-21 Thread Christian van Enckevort
Hi, I use a slightly different setup. I have an entry in the NT boot menu that allows me to start lilo, from which I can boot into linux. This is discussed in the January issue of the linuxgazette. If linux can write to the partition from which NT boots, you can make lilo write its bootsector dire

Re: magic cookie error

1999-02-21 Thread Christian van Enckevort
Hi, One way to solve this problem would be using 'xhost +localhost' to enable connections to the X server from your own machine. However, this may compromise security (probably not much of a concern for a single user machine). Trying this out I noticed that on my machine I can also use start an Xw

Re: hamm/pppconfig?

1999-02-21 Thread John Hasler
Larry writes: > Can anyone tell what went wrong and how to fix it? The first one is a normal 'chat' login. You expect turn>: The server sends 'Type "lafn" and :' and you repond with ay903^M it then sends 'Password:' and you send (your password, I assum

fbset

1999-02-21 Thread Alex
Hi, I have a vodoo Banshee and I need to get fbset. Does anybody know where can I get it?. Thanks.

tkrat problems

1999-02-21 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm trying to get tkrat (and the rest of my mail system) setup for mail. Right now I'm using netscape mail, and really want to quit using it. Anyway, my email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] and my linux login in choover. I've setup fetchmail to pull down my mail, and that seems to be working. How

Re: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)

1999-02-21 Thread Martin Schulze
Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: > Well, that a difficult task for these reasons : > - We probably have different ideas of what symbolize debian Which is good. If people would draw what they think Debian is and it fits the logo rules we would be able to choose from a large set of possible logos. Wonder

Re: Modem

1999-02-21 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> Hi, > > How do I set up my modem in Debian? I have installed the base system and a > bunch of other things including Minicom and when I opened Minicom the system > froze while itializing the modem. > > Thanks. > What kind of modem is it? Anyway, that freezing sounds like it could be an IRQ

Re: pine & mutt

1999-02-21 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 07:50:57AM +0100, Frederick Page wrote: > Well I tried pine at first (it did news, but not too good), then tried > SLRN, which was pretty good, but had no nice filtering/scoring. Then > I tried tin and it's IMHO great. Aroo? In what way is SLRN's scoring poor? IMHO it

Mail of February 20th, 1999

1999-02-21 Thread Fabio Drigani
If you have sent any important messages to the list, or to me personally, please, send them to me, again. I had problems with the mail of today and I have lost all the messages, before I could read them. Thank you very much, Fabio PS: sorry for the spam. Se avete inviato messaggi importanti, al

Re: Final test build of XFree86 for slink -- PLEASE TEST

1999-02-21 Thread Matt Garman
On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 08:33:13PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Sorry for the wide crossposting. > > XFree86 3.3.2.3a-10pre11v2 is available at > http://master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86. > ... Are these xlib libraries "thread-safe?" Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "They're

Re: Replying to messages with gnus

1999-02-21 Thread Miguel Wooding SF Ten.Union
Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In my .emacs file I have the following variables set: > > ; To send a blind carbon copy of every outgoing message to yourself, > ; set the variable `mail-self-blind' to `t'. (from emacs help_info) > (setq mail-self-blind t) > > ; To add a signatur

Re: exim

1999-02-21 Thread Robert Vollmert
> When I use fetchmail to retrieve my mail, exim delivers the first 10 and > then leaves the rest queued until cron next fires-up it's queue-runner. Take a look at `smtp_accept_queue_per_connection' in /usr/doc/exim/NewStuff.gz . -- Robert Vollmert [EMAIL PRO

Re: Debian who?

1999-02-21 Thread John Hasler
Paul Miller wrote: > I notice that the PPP package is an Optional Base package. Does it not > come on the install floppies? This would make sense if it did so that > people like Jeremy could install beyond their base system via FTP. Ppp is in the base system. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joh

Re: hamm/pppconfig?

1999-02-21 Thread Ed Cogburn
Larry Fletcher wrote: > > >Larry Fletcher wrote: > >> The first time I tried pppconfig it worked perfectly, but I just tried > >> to change the phone number and now it won't connect. (The only change > >> is the phone number, everything else is the same.) > >> > >> I tried deleting /etc/ppp/peers/

Local network

1999-02-21 Thread Bob Hilliard
My primary machine is a Micron P166. It is connected by ethernet to my old machine, a ZEOS 486, that I use for backups. Both machines have a DOS/Win3.1 partition. I would like to telnet from linux on the Micron to Dos/Windows on the secondary machine. Can this be done? What DOS/Windo

Apache and public_html directories

1999-02-21 Thread Mark Ciciretti
How do I set up public_html directories for users? I installed the 1.3.4 package of apache and apache-common. I then created a public_html directory under /home/mark/. When I enter the URL localhost/~mark/ I get Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~mark/ on this server. --- ---

color broken after slink upgrade

1999-02-21 Thread Ryan Yeske
I recently did an apt-get dist-upgrade on my hamm system to upgrade to slink. Everything worked smoothly, except now I notice that I am not getting color in a few places that I used to, namely aalib stuff and nethack. Where there was color before in these programs I simply get inverse text. ls -

Re: lilo problems

1999-02-21 Thread Andrei Ivanov
If 2 drives are swaped, /etc/fstab will also need to be changed to reflect changes in system. Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod

Re: Netscape is ignoring cookies!

1999-02-21 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Help, > > All of a sudden Nestcape is ignoring cookies. The cookies file is > intact but Netscape is failing to use them or accept. I am using the > Netscape 4.5 packages from slink. The permissions on the cookies > file is 600. I have also tried moving the cookies f

Re: lilo problems

1999-02-21 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 02:06:50PM -0500, Christopher Fury wrote: > I've had debian 2.0 running on my machine for a while now, but I finally > decided it > was time to load up windows so I could play some games. :) I went out > and bought > a new hard drive, and I want to boot windows off of it.

Replying to messages with gnus

1999-02-21 Thread Bob Hilliard
In my .emacs file I have the following variables set: ; To send a blind carbon copy of every outgoing message to yourself, ; set the variable `mail-self-blind' to `t'. (from emacs help_info) (setq mail-self-blind t) ; To add a signature to messages: (setq mail-signature-file "~bob/.sig") (s

modem connection

1999-02-21 Thread Daniel Kahraman
hello all: I can hear the dialing of my modem, but there is also a continuous buzzing sound as soon as the modem is activated and while the dialing is taking place. No connection is established. my modem init. string is ATZ modem dial command is ATDT could these be the problem?

Re: libc6 etc...etc..

1999-02-21 Thread Pollywog
On 21-Feb-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 2/21/99 12:46:19 PM Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> > - libc6 version 2.0.7u >> > - libstdc ++2.9 >> > - qt1g version 1.42-1 (I've the old version installed) >> > - libjpeg6a >> >> You can find the packages a

Re: libc6 etc...etc..

1999-02-21 Thread dyer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 2/21/99 12:46:19 PM Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > - libc6 version 2.0.7u > > > - libstdc ++2.9 > > > - qt1g version 1.42-1 (I've the old version installed) > > > - libjpeg6a > > > > You can find the packages at http://w

lilo problems

1999-02-21 Thread Christopher Fury
I've had debian 2.0 running on my machine for a while now, but I finally decided it was time to load up windows so I could play some games. :) I went out and bought a new hard drive, and I want to boot windows off of it. I've tried several lilo configurations, but I can't seem to make my windows

Re: libc6 etc...etc..

1999-02-21 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 2/21/99 12:46:19 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > - libc6 version 2.0.7u > > - libstdc ++2.9 > > - qt1g version 1.42-1 (I've the old version installed) > > - libjpeg6a > > You can find the packages at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages > using t

Re: pine & mutt

1999-02-21 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Steve Lamb, you wrote on Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 09:22:34PM -0800: >*WHY!?* Anyone familiar with mutt would know that it was modeled after >a newsreader, SLRN! So why contribute to bloat by having those two >functions in the same program, especially mutt, when one can have mutt and >slrn with s

RE: libc6 etc...etc..

1999-02-21 Thread Pollywog
On 21-Feb-99 Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > hello, > > I've installed kde from the debian cd-rom. > it works > But I understood this is a beta version. > > So I downloaded version 1.1 > > When installing 1.1 i get a message that libc6 is installed but not the > correct version. Can anybody tell m

anyone use logcheck on Debian?

1999-02-21 Thread Pollywog
Has anyone here used logcheck on a Debian system? I have used it with OpenLinux but on Debian, I have not been able to get the logcheck.ignore file to work. Also, sentry did not work very well on Debian and I got rid of it. Perhaps there is some way of getting locheck to work. thanks -- Andrew

libc6 etc...etc..

1999-02-21 Thread Cuno Sonnemans
hello, I've installed kde from the debian cd-rom. it works But I understood this is a beta version. So I downloaded version 1.1 When installing 1.1 i get a message that libc6 is installed but not the correct version. Can anybody tell me where i can find: - libc6 version 2.0.7u - libstdc ++

Re: Debian who?

1999-02-21 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 12:04:29PM -0600, Paul Miller wrote: > Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > > > Base system is there just to get you started. Man pages, C/C++, etc . is > > all in packages which need to be installed. If you don't have the > > connection to netwell, installing via floppies will wor

Re: fetchmail problem

1999-02-21 Thread Pollywog
I just added "sleep 15s" to my /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/local just above the line that calls fetchmail and it looks as though perhaps that did the trick. I did grab mail that time. -- Andrew

Re: Debian who?

1999-02-21 Thread Paul Miller
Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > Base system is there just to get you started. Man pages, C/C++, etc . is > all in packages which need to be installed. If you don't have the > connection to netwell, installing via floppies will work for some > things, but looking > on the bigger picture, if you can no

Re: configuring modem, installing netscape communicator

1999-02-21 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Unless it's a PnP modem, in which case pon will not connect. So if it's pnp, get isapnp pzackage first and configure the modem. Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354

Re: Need help with new cable modem

1999-02-21 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 02:40:44PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 1) Find a driver for the plug-n-pray PCI ethernet controller they > > installed. (Realtek RTL8029 - a really really generic card, the box > > doesn't even have the manufacturers name on it) ne2k-pci (as had already been mentio

Re: configuring modem, installing netscape communicator

1999-02-21 Thread John Hasler
Daniel Kahraman writes: > How do I install my modem? I think it is already installed. Modems require no installation (sometimes they do require some configuration, but not usually). > So the question becomes how do I set up the dial-up configuration > (manually) for my local ISP? As root, run pp

Re: fetchmail problem

1999-02-21 Thread Pollywog
On 21-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote: >> (-rwxr-xr-x) And (just to ask the obvious) is the command actually >> pointing to fetchmail (debian places it in /usr/bin/). Apart from this I >> can't think of any reason why it won't work, as it works just fine for me. >> This is what my .fetchmailrc looks like (o

Re: fetchmail problem

1999-02-21 Thread Pollywog
On 21-Feb-99 Dave Swegen wrote: > In debian you are supposed to put scripts which you want run when > connecting in '/etc/ppp/ip-up.d'. Also, make sure the permssions are correct > (-rwxr-xr-x) And (just to ask the obvious) is the command actually > pointing to fetchmail (debian places it in /usr/

Re: configuring modem, installing netscape communicator

1999-02-21 Thread Phil Dyer
Daniel Kahraman wrote: > Hello All: > > How do I install my modem? I think it is already installed. So the > question becomes how do I set up the dial-up configuration (manually) > for my local ISP? > > Dan > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null Dan, run pppconf

Re: Auto Login at Boot?

1999-02-21 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 09:43:59PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I usually keep three terminal open. One as root, one as user under a > command shell and one as user under an X terminal. I use root because I > haven't found out which files I need to give user rights to in order to > PPP. a

vgagamespack

1999-02-21 Thread Marco Frattola
hi all, i'm having some problems with hamm's vgagamespack. it doesn't seem to succeed in initializing my mouse. i've tried every combination of mouse config into libvga.config, but none worked. even setting 'mouse none' doesn't work. what's wrong with it? has anybody seen the same behaviour? -- |

Re: hamm/pppconfig?

1999-02-21 Thread Larry Fletcher
>Larry Fletcher wrote: >> The first time I tried pppconfig it worked perfectly, but I just tried >> to change the phone number and now it won't connect. (The only change >> is the phone number, everything else is the same.) >> >> I tried deleting /etc/ppp/peers/provider in an effort to erase the >>

Re: Auto Login at Boot?

1999-02-21 Thread Jeremy
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I usually keep three terminal open. One as root, one as user under a > command shell and one as user under an X terminal. I use root because I > haven't found out which files I need to give user rights to in order to > PPP. # usermod -G dip

configuring modem, installing netscape communicator

1999-02-21 Thread Daniel Kahraman
Hello All: How do I install my modem? I think it is already installed. So the question becomes how do I set up the dial-up configuration (manually) for my local ISP? Dan

Re: /etx/X11/Xserver

1999-02-21 Thread Deniz Dogan
"servis" == servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: servis> It is created by the xserver-common package during servis> install. Files that are created in the install scripts are not servis> registered as beng owned by a package. From servis> /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-common.postinst: Thanks. Well,

Problems with Netscape 4.5 and shared libraries

1999-02-21 Thread doesn't say
I recently bought Debian 2.0 cd, because I couldn't afford Red Hat and I was bored in using Slackware, and I didn't have any problems until now. I installed Netscape 4.5 and when I run it, it claims that 'cannot load libXpm.so.4'. Now, I have the file in /usr/X11R6/lib, and other programs use it

Printing problems

1999-02-21 Thread A. Gustavo González
Hello, Recently I was moved to Debian. I have installed Debian 2.0 'hamm' distribution. I succeded with ppp connection, X-windows, applications,...but I was not able to suitably configure the printing protocole! I have an Epson Stylus Color 600 local printer. First I read the printing-howto. I used

exim

1999-02-21 Thread Gregory T. Norris
When I use fetchmail to retrieve my mail, exim delivers the first 10 and then leaves the rest queued until cron next fires-up it's queue-runner. How can I tell it to go ahead and deliver everything as soon as it arrives? I've looked at exim's FAQ and tried a few options from there, but I apparentl

Re: hamm/pppconfig?

1999-02-21 Thread John Hasler
Larry writes: > The first time I tried pppconfig it worked perfectly, but I just tried > to change the phone number and now it won't connect. *Exactly* what did you do? *Exactly* what results did you get? > I tried deleting /etc/ppp/peers/provider in an effort to erase the > defaults and start o

Re: PPP from install disks.

1999-02-21 Thread John Hasler
Daniel J. Brosemer writes: > I remember someone mentioning that PPP support was on the install disks. > 1) is pppconfig on the install disks? (the base system) It is in the base system. > 2) does it simplify setup for PAP dialup? I think so (but then I wrote it). -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTE

ppp difficulty

1999-02-21 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I recently had an ADSL connection installed, which gives me a dedicated internet connection through a proxy. An unanticipated side-effect of this is that I'm now having problems when I use ppp to dial into work... apparently due to the routing tables not being correct. Here's what I have set up p

Re: Need help with new cable modem

1999-02-21 Thread wtopa
Subject: Need help with new cable modem Date: Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 11:07:58AM -0800 In reply to:Matt Campbell Quoting Matt Campbell([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Help! > > As of about 8 pm tonight I will have a brand spanking new cable modem > connection to the internet. However, a

Re: question

1999-02-21 Thread Martin Schulze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am interested in downloading Debian Linux, but I am confused in which > file > I should download. The download site has many files, none of them say "Debian > 2.0." What do I download, is it a single file or a series of files? Debian 2.0 is a directory containin

Re: magic cookie error

1999-02-21 Thread Richard Harran
I've seen this question a lot on this list, and although this (xhost) is a working solution, it seems to be considered to be a bit of a security hole (anyone logged on to the localhost can access the X-Server, and thus monitor keys and find out peoples passwords). If you set the XAUTHORITY varia

Re: cdda2wav problem

1999-02-21 Thread Dietmar Schultz
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Worik wrote: > Sorry, this driver and/or drive does not support cdda reading. > cooked: Read cdda : Input/output error > > I have tried two different ide cdroms. One a creative and the other an IBM. > Both manufactured in about 1995. Is it lightly that the cdroms cannot r

Re: Video for Linux

1999-02-21 Thread Dave Swegen
>From what I remember I simply used 'mknod' with the relevant major and minor device numbers, which I found in amongst the docs for the linux kernel (/usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt to be precise). So the command would be "mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0", and then you might have to make /dev/vid

Re: fetchmail problem

1999-02-21 Thread Dave Swegen
In debian you are supposed to put scripts which you want run when connecting in '/etc/ppp/ip-up.d'. Also, make sure the permssions are correct (-rwxr-xr-x) And (just to ask the obvious) is the command actually pointing to fetchmail (debian places it in /usr/bin/). Apart from this I can't think of a

Re: /etx/X11/Xserver

1999-02-21 Thread servis
*- On 21 Feb, Deniz Dogan wrote about "/etx/X11/Xserver" > Hi, > > After some X package upgrades, no package owns /etc/X11/Xserver on my > box. I checked docs but couldn't find which file provides its > function. Any ideas? > > TIA. > It is created by the xserver-common package during install

Non-ATAPI-CDROM ??

1999-02-21 Thread Martin Hafner
Hi, there ! I am just trying to install Debian 2.0(.34) on my 486/50. Other components are: 8 MB RAM SVGA 1 MB WD 210 MB Conner 210 MB Soundblaster 1.5 ser. Mouse The CDROM (in Windows a "MITSUMI newer single speed") is connected to an extra Controller (only one connector, looks like ATAPI, (E)IS

Re: Debian who?

1999-02-21 Thread M.C. Vernon
> I'm a Brand Spankin' Shinning Newbe with a Brand Spankin Shinning New > Debian install using floppies, all seven of them D/Led from Debian.org, > so now what? The man pages don't work. Nothing will install because of > dependency errors except for joe (works great but there must be > something b

Programming the floppy disk drive

1999-02-21 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
Hi everybody I',m not sure if this is the right place to put a quetion like this, but here it is. I ned some information about the structure of a floppy and how both to read and to foramt it at a low level. Of couser under linux, but also under DOS (I've got some doc on how DOS works with floppie

Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-02-21 Thread Michele Bini
On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 04:08:27PM -0700, Brett Wuth wrote: > Hi, > > My Debian system is getting to have so many packages installed > that backing it up is becoming difficult. Ideally I'd like to > only back up the files which I can't restore by re-installing > the packages. > > Does anyone hav

GRiD install

1999-02-21 Thread Toms222222
I've been trying to install linux on a grid laptop and when it probes the ide controller ( I think, its after the line starting with hda, identifying the harddrive, one more line comes up then) the system reboots. Anyone know how to fix this? Is there a way to tell it where the HD is so it doesn'

Troubles compiling DSO for Apache

1999-02-21 Thread Alexander List
Hi! I am using apache 1.3.4-5, apache-dev 1.3.4-5. When I try to configure Ralf Engelschall's mod_ssl, I get: ./configure:Error: Installed Apache doesn't contain Extended API (EAPI) Unfortunately, I didn't manage to compile the apache source package myself. I always get to a point where debian/r

Video for Linux

1999-02-21 Thread steven walsh
I'm trying to get v4l working on my system. I compiled it into the kernel and dmesg seems to say I find it: i2c: initialized Linux video capture interface: v1.00 bttv0: Brooktree Bt848 (rev 18) bus: 0, devfn: 48, irq: 11, memory: 0xe7eff000. bttv: 1 Bt8xx card(s) found. bttv0: model: BT8

Lilo help for NT

1999-02-21 Thread Dung T. Nguyen
Hi   I was wondering if you anyone could give me a hand with using LILO to boot into Linux (and NT).  The setting is as follows:       primary master:  Ultra DMA drive    -- NT 4.0     primary slave: none     secondary master:  IOmega Zip Drive     secondary slave: Tosh

diald

1999-02-21 Thread talein
Umm -- first off, I'm not subscribed to this list (-devel is enough for me to sort through for now) -- but it was suggested that I bring the problem I'm having with diald here. So if you reply to the mailing-list, please make sure I get a CC of the reply. I'll cover the ground I've covered (hrmm

Re: System Load

1999-02-21 Thread Joey Hess
George Bonser wrote: > On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Chris Hoover wrote: > > > I'm running 2.2.1. This is the first time I've noticed it, and am not > > doing anything out of the ordinary. > > > > See if there is some stale Netscape process running or if RealAudio is > hung in a weird state. Check "ps

Quite wierd network problem

1999-02-21 Thread Gregory Vandenbrouck
Hi, Sometimes my network hangs up (I can not ping outside, I can ping on localhost). Usually it happends once every 3 or 4 days. I'm currently running 2.2.1 kernel, but it always happened (kernels 2.0.36 to 2.2.1). For a long time, I though it was due to my network card (3com 3C905BTX2). I used

/etx/X11/Xserver

1999-02-21 Thread Deniz Dogan
Hi, After some X package upgrades, no package owns /etc/X11/Xserver on my box. I checked docs but couldn't find which file provides its function. Any ideas? TIA. -- Deniz Dogan

Re: hamm/pppconfig?

1999-02-21 Thread John Leget
Also check out the files in /etc/chatscripts/... these are used as well, i just manually changed the phone no here recently. cheers Larry Fletcher wrote: > The first time I tried pppconfig it worked perfectly, but I just tried > to change the phone number and now it won't connect. (The only chan

Re: Proxy Setup for Netscape and Junkbuster

1999-02-21 Thread John Leget
Hi, (im running potato ) check the file /etc/junkbuster/config in my setup it has the following as default listen-address :5865 Did you configure youre netscape proxy settings properly to use the above ?? ive set netscape to use localhost port 5865 gets rid of those pesky adds etc :

Modem

1999-02-21 Thread Doug Dine
Hi, How do I set up my modem in Debian? I have installed the base system and a bunch of other things including Minicom and when I opened Minicom the system froze while itializing the modem. Thanks. Doug Dine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.xoom.com/dougdine http://members.xoom.com/loveless

IBM netfinity PCs

1999-02-21 Thread King Lee
Hello, Our school plans on getting some IBM Netfinity computers. Does anyone have any experience running Debian with these computers. These computers come, I think, with built in SCSI, video, and network. Does anyone know 1. what video chip it uses 2. what SCSI 3. what network card

PPP from install disks.

1999-02-21 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
I remember someone mentioning that PPP support was on the install disks. I am about to install debian on a machine via PPP/ftp if possible. The ISP that my friend is with uses PAP, and I have had no luck setting up PAP in the past (though I have never used pppconfig) so I have two questions. 1)

Re: VGA fonts on X

1999-02-21 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 02:23:50AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > is it possible to use vga fonts on an Xterm? No. Not without converting them, and I know of no tool to do this. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux |If existence exists, [EMAIL PR

hamm/pppconfig?

1999-02-21 Thread Larry Fletcher
The first time I tried pppconfig it worked perfectly, but I just tried to change the phone number and now it won't connect. (The only change is the phone number, everything else is the same.) I tried deleting /etc/ppp/peers/provider in an effort to erase the defaults and start over, but when I ran

Proxy Setup for Netscape and Junkbuster

1999-02-21 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
What should my port be set to in Netscape when running Junkbuster? In the FAQ it says 8000 and in the Manual it says 5865? When I run either one of these I keep getting error messages in Netscape that Network connection is refused by server! Lance

System Load

1999-02-21 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm a little concerned about my system load. Top is registering a load average of 1.35 1.24 1.01, but my system is more than 90%. How can this be? There is no disk activity, and lots of free memory. I'm running 2.2.1. This is the first time I've noticed it, and am not doing anything out of the

Re: Auto Login at Boot?

1999-02-21 Thread Chris Hoover
Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I usually keep three terminal open. One as root, one as user under a > command shell and one as user under an X terminal. I use root because I > haven't found out which files I need to give user rights to in order to > PPP. Lance, If I remember correctly, the faq-o-

Re: pine & mutt

1999-02-21 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 04:39:38PM -0500, Adam Lazur wrote: > Steve Willer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > > Now I use mutt and tin and am quite happy with both. > > > > Sounds like mutt wasn't too good for news either. > > AFAIK mutt isn't currently meant to be a news reader. There are > patches t

Re: fetchmail problem

1999-02-21 Thread Chris Hoover
Andrew, I believe you can put set daemon 600 in your .fetchmailrc, and it will do the same thing. Chris Pollywog wrote: > > I am having a problem with Fetchmail. I can get mail if I connect to the > Internet and then use the command 'fetchmail', but when I was using OpenLinux, > I just put:

Re: Auto Login at Boot?

1999-02-21 Thread Chris Hoover
Setup diald, then you don't have to worry about starting up ppp. It will do it anytime you try to access the net. Chris Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > IN trying to find out if there was a way to automatically login during > boot or to login to different terminals at boot I ran across this > program

Auto Login at Boot?

1999-02-21 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
IN trying to find out if there was a way to automatically login during boot or to login to different terminals at boot I ran across this program. Not being a C programmer I don't really understand what is happening in this program. It looks as if a password can be accepted as an argument but in th

fetchmail problem

1999-02-21 Thread Pollywog
I am having a problem with Fetchmail. I can get mail if I connect to the Internet and then use the command 'fetchmail', but when I was using OpenLinux, I just put: /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -d 600 in my /etc/ppp/ip-up and I could get my mail whenever I went online with diald. I am unable to do t

Re: xdm question

1999-02-21 Thread servis
*- On 20 Feb, Mark Wagnon wrote about "xdm question" > I successfully upgraded to slink from hamm. Yahoo! It only took about 10 > hours over 3 days to do it. apt is your friend!!! > > One question though. I rebooted my system and xdm started. I never use > xdm, but I thought okay I'll try it. It w

Re: xdm question

1999-02-21 Thread Steve Willer
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Pann McCuaig wrote: > > I did a ctrl-alt-F1 and found xdm in /etc/init.d/. Is it okay to remove > > xdm from here without any adverse effects? Well, I did it anyway :) but > > I was just wondering if I should seek an alternative solution. > > man update-rc.d Better yet, dpk

Re: 2 modems in one computer?

1999-02-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 04:03:16PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Shaleh writes: > > There is a thing called multi link ppp -- two modems dial at once and you > > get double the speed (in theory). It does work in Windows, I am not > > aware of software support in Linux > > I've heard of people using

missing man files

1999-02-21 Thread wtb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] missed the man files in his struggle. I just discovered today that there are a large number of man pages included in debian seven disk download for hamm. One has to read throught the programming jargon but they are there. Try ls /usr/man/man1 or man2 through man5 and man7 and

Re: Modem Commands

1999-02-21 Thread shaul
> Also, is there a page somewhere that lists the hayes/at modem commands? Try the modem manufacturers home pages. Even if they do not have hayes/at modem commands you can probably get it from what they do have. For example, I believe that www.zoltrix.com can help. Another option, which I never

Re: two quick questions

1999-02-21 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> How can I make setserial changes permanent. I'm using com 7 which is > 0x3E8 > and irq 5. Irq 5 instead of irq 4 is a permanent change as far as my system > goes but setserial reverts back to irq 4 at each reboot. man setserial, the file you need to edit is /etc/rc.boot/0setserial Andrew

Re: xdm question

1999-02-21 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 16:26 (-0800), Mark Wagnon wrote: > I successfully upgraded to slink from hamm. Yahoo! It only took about 10 > hours over 3 days to do it. apt is your friend!!! > > One question though. I rebooted my system and xdm started. I never use > xdm, but I thought okay I'll try it.

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