Re: How unstable is unstable?

1999-04-22 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 06:06:29PM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: > Hi, > > I have have been using Debian for a couple of months and I am happy with how > it runs. > > As a new user I wonder about stable vs unstable. I often get in trouble > because > I need to compile software that for instance

Re: Pine 4.1

1999-04-22 Thread Marlon Urias
There are deb available BUT if you insist on installing from sources: The trick is to use the the 'ncurses' library instead of termcap. You'll have to muck with the makefile to accomplish this. Be sure you've installed the 'ncurses3.4-dev' package, which will give you the appropriate headers

Re: RedHat need not apply

1999-04-22 Thread Ed Cogburn
Tony Crawford wrote: > > Kenneth Scharf wrote (on 22 Apr 99, at 5:07): > > > While it is good that Debian > > takes its time to 'get it right' having a commerical product based on > > Debian could put some pressure on the distro for 'more timely releases' > > or worse, a commerical release of an

Re: http proxy with Apache

1999-04-22 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Your friend should probably just set his browser preferences to use your web server as proxy for all requests. In order to do what you describe below you'd have to modify the actual html in the stream to change the links or the target site would have to use *only* relative links. Max wrote: > I'm

Re: Netscape Resources

1999-04-22 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Philip Lehman wrote: > On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Greg Scharrer wrote: > > >I am using a Sony CPD-200ES Monitor and an S3 ViRGE/DX video card. When I > >use Netscape 3 with a 1280x1024 resolution, the menu labels (e.g., File, > >Go, Bookmarks) are small, and so are the buttons (e.g., Back, Forward). > >

Re: RedHat need not apply

1999-04-22 Thread Ed Cogburn
Sean wrote: > > I don't think this would be that much of a problem, in fact I would > think the trend would tend to go the other way. A software company, > such as Corel, who has a massive software package, a-la WordPerfect, > isn't going to be quick to change the libraries that it is based upon.

Re: W95 defrag

1999-04-22 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Holger Mense <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, H C Pumphrey wrote: >> Greetings, fellow Debian fans, >> >> This is only a proto-debian question, I'm afraid, but I have tried to >> RTFM, honest. I'm trying to defrag the disc on a W95 laptop prior to using >> FIPS to re-partitio

How unstable is unstable?

1999-04-22 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I have have been using Debian for a couple of months and I am happy with how it runs. As a new user I wonder about stable vs unstable. I often get in trouble because I need to compile software that for instance depends on libc6 or a newer versions of GTK. The result is that I have been updati

Boot failure on SPARCstation 2

1999-04-22 Thread Max
I'm trying to install Debian on my SPARCstation 2 and I'm getting the following error: esp0: IRQ 3 SCSI ID 7 Clk 20 MHz CCF=4 TOut 167 NCR53C90A (esp100a) ESP: Total of 1 ESP hosts found, 1 actually in use scsi0: Sparc ESP100A (NCR53C90A) scsi: 1 host esp0: Warning, live target 0 not responding to

Re: RedHat need not apply

1999-04-22 Thread Ed Cogburn
Bob Nielsen wrote: > > I expect this will mean that the next update to WordPerfect will be as a > .deb file > > Bob I don't know. Corel told me they have no plan to move to libc6, so its not clear to me how strongly they will support their stand-alone WP. Maybe they are planning to pr

Re: SiS 6326

1999-04-22 Thread Carl Mummert
This is extensively documented at: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9904/msg00789.html Carl

Re: W95 defrag [also lilo+Linux+Win98 FAT32]

1999-04-22 Thread Brad
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, H C Pumphrey wrote: > > Greetings, fellow Debian fans, Greetings (: > This is only a proto-debian question, I'm afraid, but I have tried to > RTFM, honest. I'm trying to defrag the disc on a W95 laptop prior to using > FIPS to re-partition it so I can put Debian on it as we

SSHD newbie question

1999-04-22 Thread Rick Salvador
Hi, I've compiled the sshd daemon successfully but I don't know how/where to set it up to startup when the system boots. Im guessing that I put a Symbolic link to it in init.d and then have to call it from rc3.d but not real sure how to proceed. Thnx ~~

make modules question

1999-04-22 Thread homega
Hi, after compiling a new kernel, `make mrproper', `make config', `make dep', and `make clean', I run `make modules' with this result: homega:/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot# make modules make: *** No rule to make target `modules'. Stop. what about the new modules? `lsmod' returns nothing at all

Re: Corel : GNOME vs KDE

1999-04-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ snip ] : >- I don't remember other reasons but GNOME is greater ! : > : We could argue that... ;) Please do so somewhere other than debian-user. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Corel : GNOME vs KDE

1999-04-22 Thread Paul Seelig
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Sami Dalouche wrote: > I don't understand why Corel has chosen KDE instead of Gnome. > [ etc. deleted ] > Please stop right here! If you don't understand it then just keep quiet instead of provoking yet another flame war on this subject. Corel made a choice with regards to mak

http proxy with Apache

1999-04-22 Thread Max
I'm trying to set up my Apache server to act as a proxy for certain requests and I'm not getting the desired behavior. Over here, we can connect to a remote http server that allows access based on IP addresses (and we have been granted access). The problem is that one of my users connects remotel

Re: Corel : GNOME vs KDE

1999-04-22 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/22/99 3:27:48 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I don't understand why Corel has chosen KDE instead of Gnome. > KDE is not free or not fully free. As stated in the release that came out a few days ago - it had to do with the fact that KDE has been aroun

Netscape Resources

1999-04-22 Thread Greg Scharrer
I am using a Sony CPD-200ES Monitor and an S3 ViRGE/DX video card. When I use Netscape 3 with a 1280x1024 resolution, the menu labels (e.g., File, Go, Bookmarks) are small, and so are the buttons (e.g., Back, Forward). Does anyone know how to make these items larger? I tried looking for the resou

Re: Potato

1999-04-22 Thread Kevin Dalley
Avoid 2.2.1 kernel. The compiler sometimes died on my with this kernel. Under potato, I only have a handful of packages which don't work correctly now. "Madel, Kurt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > For those of you using Potato, I was wondering how unstable it is. I have a > Zip Plus

SiS 6326

1999-04-22 Thread Rafael Urias Cardona Echeverry
I bought a Tiger Direct PC, K6-2 350, with an SiS 6326 8MB AGP video card. However, with that video card, I cannot get X to work. We found a card specific server on the Xfree ftp site with some support for the SiS 6326. We downloaded both svga and svga16 servers, but cannot get the card to work

Re: Pine 4.1

1999-04-22 Thread John Maheu
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Rick Salvador wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to compile Pine 4.1 on my Debian 2.1r0 system and I get > getting an error about not having ltermcap. I'v installed the libtermcap > package and the libc5 package with no help. I'll admit to being a newbie. > Any help would be

Re: Corel : GNOME vs KDE

1999-04-22 Thread thomas lakofski
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Philip Lehman wrote: > How enlightening. KDE bashing is pretty trendy at the moment, isn't > it? i think it'll be nice to have the choice of either. commercial adoption of debian as a base can only lead to good things, i think (judging by what corel's saying). > Please, let

Pine 4.1

1999-04-22 Thread Rick Salvador
Hi, I've been trying to compile Pine 4.1 on my Debian 2.1r0 system and I get getting an error about not having ltermcap. I'v installed the libtermcap package and the libc5 package with no help. I'll admit to being a newbie. Any help would be appreciated. Rick ~~~

Re: Corel : GNOME vs KDE

1999-04-22 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Sami Dalouche wrote: > I don't understand why Corel has chosen KDE instead of Gnome. > KDE is not free or not fully free. > It's worse than Gnome : > - it takes more memory > - it's not GTK ( I'm a GTk fan) > - I will have less apps because Gnome is newer and

Re: Corel : GNOME vs KDE

1999-04-22 Thread Jeff Noxon
Oh, no. Let's not start another GNOME-vs-KDE thread. Please! On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 08:47:47PM +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote: > I don't understand why Corel has chosen KDE instead of Gnome. [ Rest deleted ]

Corel : GNOME vs KDE

1999-04-22 Thread Sami Dalouche
I don't understand why Corel has chosen KDE instead of Gnome. KDE is not free or not fully free. It's worse than Gnome : - it takes more memory - it's not GTK ( I'm a GTk fan) - I will have less apps because Gnome is newer and has, I think, already a lot of apps compared to

Re: Long filenames on cdr

1999-04-22 Thread Sami Dalouche
U can use -R instead of -r. See the man page for differences. On Sat, Mar 06, 1999 at 10:07:52PM +0100, LinHaX wrote: > With mkisofs, you can use -r to have long filenames under linux & -J to have > long filename under Windoze. > -r -J -> long filenames under Linux + Windoze !! > On Fri, Mar 05, 19

Sound Editor

1999-04-22 Thread Sami Dalouche
Is there a Sound Editor similar (but more powerful) to Cool Edit available under Linux. (And in .deb if possible) ? -- // -oOo- -oOo ---oOo--\\ | Sami Dalouche | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | AIM : linhax| | 01.34.83.16.76 | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Ati Xpert@Play 98 AGP 2X

1999-04-22 Thread Sami Dalouche
Is anyone running X (slink version) with this card ? Is it good supported. I ask you these questions because I've a S3 GX/2 card which is supported but with this card, my X crashes often. So, If I bought a new card, I want it to be fully compatible with linux. -- // -oOo- --

Re: Netscape Probs on Slink

1999-04-22 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Peter Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello Debianers, > > another Slink problem: > > Starting Netscape 4.07 Communicator shows up the licence-window and > freezes short after. The prozess runs, hangs, no output, it does not > consume much cpu time (Kernel is 2.2.4). strace

Hello From Corel, was(Re: Strategic Alliance Between Corel, KDE and Debian)

1999-04-22 Thread Dave Neil
Hi Everyone, My name is Dave Neil. I'm working on the Corel Linux OS. I would like to comment on what we at Corel will be doing with regards to joint development with Debian. To help do this I'll respond to Mark's message. Mark Phillips wrote: > I just received the Debian announcement about t

Re: W95 defrag

1999-04-22 Thread Holger Mense
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, H C Pumphrey wrote: > Greetings, fellow Debian fans, > > This is only a proto-debian question, I'm afraid, but I have tried to > RTFM, honest. I'm trying to defrag the disc on a W95 laptop prior to using > FIPS to re-partition it so I can put Debian on it as well[1]. W95 def

W95 defrag

1999-04-22 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Turn file mirror off and then defrag again. === Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: W95 defrag

1999-04-22 Thread Alec Smith
You might also take a look at a commercial package called PartitionMagic from PowerQuest. Yeah, it costs money... I've found however that PartitionMagic does a reliable job resizing partitions without need of defragging. If you've got more than one machine, or expect to be fiddling with partitions

Re: KDM vs XDM

1999-04-22 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/22/99 12:34:01 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Thanks. I am still kind of a newbie at this. Words like "binary" and > "compile the kernel" and other threatening words like that, I've steered > clear of. Could you help me know exactly what you mean w

[SOLVED:] Sendmail - aliases problem

1999-04-22 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
Thanks Jens, I finally got it working. I removed the localhost line in /etc/hosts and it works! I have got an empty hosts file now. I wouldn't have figured it out without your help. Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > These timeouts are likely due to sendmail trying to resolve domain names > (specifica

FW: KDM vs XDM

1999-04-22 Thread Brian Morgan
> > > You should find a command called switchdm (I think it is in > > > /usr/sbin/switchdm but my Debian/KDE box is at home). Run > this as root > and > > > it will ask you if you want [1] xdm, [2] kdm or [3] Neither. > Press 2 and > > > you should have kdm next time you restart X. > > > > Ran

Re: W95 defrag

1999-04-22 Thread Leen Besselink
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, H C Pumphrey wrote: > > Greetings, fellow Debian fans, > > This is only a proto-debian question, I'm afraid, but I have tried to > RTFM, honest. I'm trying to defrag the disc on a W95 laptop prior to using > FIPS to re-partition it so I can put Debian on it as well[1]. W9

Re: samba/network neighborhood question

1999-04-22 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Ben Frame wrote: > I just got Samba installed and it seems to be working fine. But it > doesn't always show up in my Network Neighborhood under Win95. Both the > Debian machine and Win95 machine are on the same subnet and both are in > a workgroup called "linux." I've made

RE: KDM vs XDM

1999-04-22 Thread H C Pumphrey
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Brian Morgan wrote: > Ran switchdm [to set kdm as default login manager] but I do not have an > /etc/X11/config file, which switchdm relies on. I am running slink and > recent versions of XFree86, KDE, etc. Isn't there a different file that > slink uses to control its login

Re: KDM vs XDM

1999-04-22 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/22/99 12:26:38 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > You should find a command called switchdm (I think it is in > > /usr/sbin/switchdm but my Debian/KDE box is at home). Run this as root and > > it will ask you if you want [1] xdm, [2] kdm or [3] Neither

Re: subdivise potato and slink in two mailing lists

1999-04-22 Thread Colin Telmer
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: > as you see it there is (to me) too much mail in this mailing list. > > Do you know if it possible to subdivide it in two : > a potato > and a slink list. > > I don't know if this is usefull but ... -) It would be hard to stop people fro

RE: KDM vs XDM

1999-04-22 Thread Brian Morgan
> On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Brian Morgan wrote: > > > I'd like to be able to change my default login manager to KDM instead of > > XDM, now that I have KDE up and running. What do I need to do > to make this > > happen? > H C Pumphrey wrote: > You should find a command called switchdm (I think it is in

8-bit safe text utils?

1999-04-22 Thread Eric House
I'm trying to process some 8-bit text on my Debian system and it's giving me fits. Clearly some of the programs I'm piping things through aren't 8-bit aware. Can someone point me to a good listing of these and/or to a discussion of how to work around the limitations of the system. Here's an exam

Re: Upgrading

1999-04-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Stefan Kleijkers wrote: : Hello, : : How easy is it to upgrade a Debian distribution? With RedHat it's very easy, : you can buy/download a new version and chose UPGRADE in the installationmenu. : Does Debian have something like that too? It's absurdly easy to upgrade de

Re: 2940U2W drivers in slink?

1999-04-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Graham Ashton wrote: : Just a quickie - can anybody verify that the slink boot floppies contain : drivers for the adaptec 2940U2W scsi card? I don't want to go out and : buy 6 boxes that I can't install debian on! 2.0.36 installed easily on a Netfinity 5000 here, which has

W95 defrag

1999-04-22 Thread H C Pumphrey
Greetings, fellow Debian fans, This is only a proto-debian question, I'm afraid, but I have tried to RTFM, honest. I'm trying to defrag the disc on a W95 laptop prior to using FIPS to re-partition it so I can put Debian on it as well[1]. W95 defrag will move a lot of stuff (which it colours turq

Re: (no subject)

1999-04-22 Thread Adam Linford
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, darrin griffiths wrote: > I'm installing debian linux but the files resc1440.bin and drv1440.bin > are too large to fit on a 1.44 mb floppy. > help! > This may be obvious, but I've known people to attempt this from DOS, and forget to use the rawrite command. Adam

Re: Upgrading

1999-04-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 04:14:08PM +0200, Stefan Kleijkers wrote: > Hello, > > How easy is it to upgrade a Debian distribution? With RedHat it's very easy, > you can buy/download a new version and chose UPGRADE in the installationmenu. > Does Debian have something like that too? As I recall (it m

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Re: KDM vs XDM

1999-04-22 Thread H C Pumphrey
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Brian Morgan wrote: > I'd like to be able to change my default login manager to KDM instead of > XDM, now that I have KDE up and running. What do I need to do to make this > happen? You should find a command called switchdm (I think it is in /usr/sbin/switchdm but my Debian/

Re: samba/network neighborhood question

1999-04-22 Thread Pete Templin
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Ben Frame wrote: > I just got Samba installed and it seems to be working fine. But it > doesn't always show up in my Network Neighborhood under Win95. Both the > Debian machine and Win95 machine are on the same subnet and both are in > a workgroup called "linux." I've mad

KDM vs XDM

1999-04-22 Thread Brian Morgan
I'd like to be able to change my default login manager to KDM instead of XDM, now that I have KDE up and running. What do I need to do to make this happen? Brian Brian Morganhttp://brian.greenville.edu Computer Support Spe

Re: Linux nis and shadow passwords, non Linux clients

1999-04-22 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Nils Rennebarth wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 10:01:53AM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > Hmmm, perhaps you'll have to generate your own intermediate passwd file to > > generate the NIS maps. However, I would perhaps reconsider using shadow. > > Unless > > you're only serving up some (not r

ppp very slow in one direction?

1999-04-22 Thread dlr
Please forgive yet another ppp question. I'm stumped by this though, and I'm hoping that someone else has experienced the same problem. Summary: My ppp dialup starts up OK. Everything appears to be working fine, except that transfers from the ISP to my machine are really slow (~200 bytes/se

Re: building pcmcia modules for 2.2.6

1999-04-22 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Shaleh shaid, > On 21-Apr-99 Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: ... > > It's time to update the kernel for my laptop,and I'm trying to use > > make-kpkg to do this. I've managed to get the kernel image .deb built, > > but not the pcmcia stuff. > > > > I've updated to the pcmcia-source from potat

KDE license (was: redhat need not apply)

1999-04-22 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Ray rote, > > that is essentially the GPL with an additional clause that it can be > > linked with Qt. ... > > The KDE people need to track down the authors of the GPL code that much of > > their project is based on, though, to get permission to use it under the > > new license. > I suspect au

Re: configuración de redes

1999-04-22 Thread William R Pentney
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Me gustaría obtener ayuda sobre: > ¿Cómo puedo instalar una red con linux? > > Lo necesito urgentemente > > Gracias [basically: How do I install a network with Linux?] Sugero balsa. Es un colleccion de programas que usa el protocolo SMB. Suger

Re: RedHat need not apply

1999-04-22 Thread Sean
I don't think this would be that much of a problem, in fact I would think the trend would tend to go the other way. A software company, such as Corel, who has a massive software package, a-la WordPerfect, isn't going to be quick to change the libraries that it is based upon. At least that's what

Re: Fonts is X and Linux

1999-04-22 Thread Tommy Malloy
"Person, Roderick" wrote: > > What window manager are you using? Most have a configuration util that > allows you to set different fonts. I use WindowMaker and I can set fonts > either with WMPrefs or wmakerconf. > I switch my window mangers every now and then but mostly use fvwm2 (olvm olvwm)

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #721

1999-04-22 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
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Re: building pcmcia modules for 2.2.6

1999-04-22 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Peter proposed, > Hello Richard, > > I've got the same problem here on my slink notebook, but I think you're a > little ahead of me. Could you please tell me what pcmcia-packages I need > from potato to have the modules compiled and packaged by make-kpkg? > On my notebook there

Re: Disk geommetry, was Re: Kernel Upgrade: Why?

1999-04-22 Thread dlr
When I was installing debian, I made two test partitions on my 12.9GB IBM "ultra-ATA" drive. One partition was 300MB from cylinder 6144 to cylinder 6744, the other was 300MB at the very end of the disk, around cylinder 25000. I used the bad block scan on my debian install cd to check each partiti

RE: Fonts is X and Linux

1999-04-22 Thread Person, Roderick
What window manager are you using? Most have a configuration util that allows you to set different fonts. I use WindowMaker and I can set fonts either with WMPrefs or wmakerconf. > -Original Message- > From: Tommy Malloy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 22, 1999 11:35 AM > T

Re: samba/network neighborhood question

1999-04-22 Thread William Schwartz
The "network neighborhood" functionality in Windows can lag behind for up to 15 minutes. Its becuase of the way "browsing" is handled in Windows... So, it is normal for a machine to not show up immediately. There are more technical explinations for this (refering to master browsers and such window

Fonts is X and Linux

1999-04-22 Thread Tommy Malloy
What is the best information source to learn about the use of fonts in Linux and X? To be perfectly honest I have no idea how to use the many fonts that are available to me under X. I have xfontsel installed and have looked at it, but I am not sure how to use it to change default screen fonts and

samba/network neighborhood question

1999-04-22 Thread Ben Frame
I just got Samba installed and it seems to be working fine. But it doesn't always show up in my Network Neighborhood under Win95. Both the Debian machine and Win95 machine are on the same subnet and both are in a workgroup called "linux." I've made several changes to my smb.conf file, and conse

Re: Linux nis and shadow passwords, non Linux clients

1999-04-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jens B. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hmmm, perhaps you'll have to generate your own intermediate passwd file to >generate the NIS maps. Ah yes, a possibility is to include the password in /etc/password, and then filter that out again for shadow-capable host

Re: 2940U2W drivers in slink?

1999-04-22 Thread Graham Ashton
On Thursday 22 April, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > Graham Ashton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | Just a quickie - can anybody verify that the slink boot floppies contain > | drivers for the adaptec 2940U2W scsi card? > > It might, but you'd be better off getting a copy of the boot disks > with a mor

Re: Linux nis and shadow passwords, non Linux clients

1999-04-22 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Hmmm, perhaps you'll have to generate your own intermediate passwd file to generate the NIS maps. However, I would perhaps reconsider using shadow. Unless you're only serving up some (not root, etc.) passwords from NIS and have set up NIS to work this way there's no benefit to running shadow locall

Re: Strange emacs from SunOS

1999-04-22 Thread Carl Mummert
> > which has double the size it should have. If I type a character, I get > > A correction: The window is only twice as wide as it should be. The > height of the window seems to be ok. One possibility is that emacs on the Linux box is defaulting to some font that is as you describe. I have see

Re: unsubscribing

1999-04-22 Thread Kirk Hogenson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > |> Can someone please tell me how to get removed from this mailing > |> list. NOTE: Before you let the flames fly realize that I have > |> tried all of the suggested ways to get removed, i.e. mail -s > |> unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |> [...] > > I tried to unsubs

Re: uppgrading packages to unstable versions

1999-04-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 11:59:40AM +, Ulrik Haugen wrote: > * Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > unstable is now based on a new glibc. So if you want to migrate to it, tell > > dselect (or apt) to update based on the unstable directory and download the > > 40 > > - 80 some megs of updated packag

Re: Where is telnet, ftp?

1999-04-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 02:54:51PM +0530, XRDLAB wrote: > Hi, > > I upgraded my hamm system (Debian 2.0) to slink (Debian 2.1) using the > cd's from Linux Central. Everything went well. I am having some problems > with the system after upgrading which seem strange. > > 1. After upgrading, I cann

Re: Strange emacs from SunOS

1999-04-22 Thread Debian Mail
> which has double the size it should have. If I type a character, I get A correction: The window is only twice as wide as it should be. The height of the window seems to be ok. Stef

Re: 2940U2W drivers in slink?

1999-04-22 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Graham Ashton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Just a quickie - can anybody verify that the slink boot floppies contain | drivers for the adaptec 2940U2W scsi card? I don't want to go out and | buy 6 boxes that I can't install debian on! | | I've been reading on dejanews that you need the 2.2 kernel

unsubscribing

1999-04-22 Thread mcclosk
|> Can someone please tell me how to get removed from this mailing |> list. NOTE: Before you let the flames fly realize that I have |> tried all of the suggested ways to get removed, i.e. mail -s |> unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've also tried |> sending unsubscribe commands such as: unsubscrib

configuración de redes

1999-04-22 Thread loles_navas
Me gustaría obtener ayuda sobre: ¿Cómo puedo instalar una red con linux? Lo necesito urgentemente Gracias

Upgrading

1999-04-22 Thread Stefan Kleijkers
Hello, How easy is it to upgrade a Debian distribution? With RedHat it's very easy, you can buy/download a new version and chose UPGRADE in the installationmenu. Does Debian have something like that too? -- Stefan Kleijkers [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Strange emacs from SunOS

1999-04-22 Thread Debian Mail
> Just out of curiosity, when you log in directly from the linux box, what > is the value of your TERM variable. What is this when you log in from the > IRIX box? It is vt100 from the linux box and xterm from the IRIX. However, if I setenv TERM xterm in the shell on my linux box, I still get the s

Re: I'm not giving up: backpack CD-ROM drive.

1999-04-22 Thread Fabio Olive leite
Ola! ] 2) Use a null modem cable to connect to a desktop and piggy back ride on ] that systems CD-ROM. ] Q: I don't know if the Linux base system supports null modem connections. It does since a long time ago, as I installed myself my first debian system on an old notebook with no cdrom or any p

Boa error...

1999-04-22 Thread Curt Howland
Good morning Debianites! :^> I pulled down the latest version of Boa, and am having an interesting trouble: The force-reloads in the cron maintenance jobs aren't working. The daemon won't die, even with a "kill". It requires a "kill -9". The error message in the /var/log/boa/error_log is [22/Ap

Re: CR-563b -Reply

1999-04-22 Thread John Zaitz
I too have an old PB, the 4x CD-ROM was giving me the same problems when I used either CheapBytes Cds or ones I burnt at work. I replaced the CD with a 24x and everything went fine afterwards. >>> 04/21/99 10:38pm >>> On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 09:48:40PM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote: [...] > and

2940U2W drivers in slink?

1999-04-22 Thread Graham Ashton
Just a quickie - can anybody verify that the slink boot floppies contain drivers for the adaptec 2940U2W scsi card? I don't want to go out and buy 6 boxes that I can't install debian on! I've been reading on dejanews that you need the 2.2 kernel to get a recent driver for the U2W... Thanks. --

While installing on an sparc stn2 Data Access Execption

1999-04-22 Thread Per-Olof Widstrom
Hi! I´m trying to install Debian slink on an Sparc Station 2, all I get in return is a Data Access Error, why? I try to boot from the cd, that work. I get the SILO prompt and I press enter and it loads linux ( I have also tried linux-2.2 ) After that it says "Loading initial ramdisk", it takes

Re: Linux nis and shadow passwords, non Linux clients

1999-04-22 Thread Nils Rennebarth
Again following up on my own posts, sigh: On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 03:22:58PM +0200, Nils Rennebarth wrote: > Next problem: The net nis master runs slink. A slink client works after > shadow has been configured and + added to /etc/shadow. > A client runs partly potato, and does not work, i.

NFS problem after moving from hamm to slink

1999-04-22 Thread Ken McCord
Having a problem with root mounted NFS file systems on my PC's acting as X terminals. Everything has been working fine with hamm, but as soon as I upgrade to the nfs-server (and net-base) in slink (either by a full install of slink, or just upgrading the nfs-server), I'm getting all sorts of 'Perm

installing slink via www proxy

1999-04-22 Thread Matus fantomas Uhlar
HEllo, is it possible, after installing base slink to use some method which supports www proxy ? I tried apt as the only method but it does not. it also does not ask what do I want to install (as http and ftp methods do) so I can not choose http and continue installint using http method using pr

Re: RedHat need not apply

1999-04-22 Thread Tony Crawford
Kenneth Scharf wrote (on 22 Apr 99, at 5:07): > While it is good that Debian > takes its time to 'get it right' having a commerical product based on > Debian could put some pressure on the distro for 'more timely releases' > or worse, a commerical release of an 'unstable' branch might occurr to >

Re: uppgrading packages to unstable versions

1999-04-22 Thread ktb
ktb wrote: > > Ulrik Haugen wrote: > > > > * Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > unstable is now based on a new glibc. So if you want to migrate to it, > > > tell > > > dselect (or apt) to update based on the unstable directory and download > > > the 40 > > > - 80 some megs of updated packages. >

Linux nis and shadow passwords, non Linux clients

1999-04-22 Thread Nils Rennebarth
I recently switched our nis master server from AIX to linux. There are still a number of AIX hosts that should be run as nis clients or nis slaves. How do non shadow password clients get the password entries? How do I make it on AIX which doesn't have shadow passwords but a similar mechanism usin

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #723

1999-04-22 Thread Kirk Hogenson
David J. Fasching wrote: > > Can someone please tell me how to get removed from this mailing list. > NOTE: Before you let the flames fly realize that I have tried all of > the suggested ways to get removed, i.e. > mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've also > tried sending unsubscribe comman

Re: The case of the missing 64 meg...

1999-04-22 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Vincent Murphy wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 12:31:39AM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: > > .. Simplest thing to do is put: > > > > append="mem=128m" > > > > in your lilo.conf file. For my 96 meg machine, I've got a stanza that > > reads: > > what if i don't use lilo and i w

Re: question

1999-04-22 Thread John Hasler
Aseem Agarwal writes: > Am not able to connect to my ISP (GTE) using "pppconfig". The connect > script fails. I get an error in "plog" " tcgetattr failed connect script > failed" Have tried several combinations, but none seems to work, any > advice/ suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Please

Re: uppgrading packages to unstable versions

1999-04-22 Thread ktb
Ulrik Haugen wrote: > > * Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > unstable is now based on a new glibc. So if you want to migrate to it, tell > > dselect (or apt) to update based on the unstable directory and download the > > 40 > > - 80 some megs of updated packages. > > I'm afraid I choose a rather m

Re: Disk geommetry, was Re: Kernel Upgrade: Why?

1999-04-22 Thread Marsh Ray
On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 03:56:31PM -0700, debian-user list wrote: > The HOWTO, and the person responding to the Mindcraft survey, both assert > that the part of the disk furthest from the spindle is the fastest, and that > one can use this to optimise performance. While I don't doubt the first p

Re: SSH 2

1999-04-22 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 21:00:35 +1000, Jiri Baum wrote: > where can I find ssh 2, please? ftp://ftp.cs.hut.fi/pub/ssh/ It's license is more restrictive than SSH1's; noone has so far volunteered to package it. Unlike SSH1's protocol, SSH2's can be implemented in free software. If you are interes

Re: The case of the missing 64 meg...

1999-04-22 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
We also shouldn't forget, after adding to lilo.conf append='mem=128M' to run lilo. Sebastian Canagaratna, Department of Chemistry Ohio Northern University Ada, OH 45810 > *- On 22 Apr, Arcady Genkin wrote about "Re: The case of the missing 64 > meg..." > > Dan Willard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

subdivise potato and slink in two mailing lists

1999-04-22 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
hello as you see it there is (to me) too much mail in this mailing list. Do you know if it possible to subdivide it in two : a potato and a slink list. I don't know if this is usefull but ... -) bye

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