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Re: Qmail

1999-08-05 Thread debian
I agree even in source form installing qmail on debian is a breeze >As mentioned earlier, do to it's license that does not allow the >distibution of binaries it will problally never be a part of the qmail >disttribution. The packager of qmail has done a wonderful job of setting >up the compile sc

Port Scanning

1999-08-05 Thread Stephan Weaver
I was just wondering if portscanning was illegal? Stephan Weaver _ Do You Yahoo!? Free instant messaging and more at http://messenger.yahoo.com

Re: Qmail

1999-08-05 Thread Michael Fox
I have to say I like qmail, suits my needs. >Great! Stay with it. Learning a new MTA is enough of a pain that I would >never tell someone to drop one they like just because I prefer something >different. I learned qmail because I ran screaming from sendmail and I >was attracted to the small size

OT : RAM, please help.

1999-08-05 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Sorry for OT question, but I'm completely stumped here. My stepfather has a custom Gateway machine, and he wanted to get some memory upgrades on it. The docs say that motherboard supports up to 32M 4x64 modulo SDRAM chip in each DIMM (it has 2). I told him to order the SDRAM, and now that memory ar

Re: printer help

1999-08-05 Thread Brad
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: > Just had a quick look of the stylus_color_720dpi-filter. > > The first couple of lines look like: > > # PostScript 0 %! filter /usr/bin/gs -sDEVICE=stcolor -r720 -q [SNIP] This is the slink version, while the poster indicated potato. Sometimes this diffe

Re: SoundCard

1999-08-05 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> > Hi, > > I have been setting up my Debian 2.1 system (kernel 2.2.5), and have > progressed quite well. The only problem is my soundcard, which is a > soundblaster-clone: ES1869 from ESS Technology. > I have read the HOWTO on sound, but I still don't know where to start. > My laptop has recogni

SoundCard

1999-08-05 Thread camiel coenen
Hi, I have been setting up my Debian 2.1 system (kernel 2.2.5), and have progressed quite well. The only problem is my soundcard, which is a soundblaster-clone: ES1869 from ESS Technology. I have read the HOWTO on sound, but I still don't know where to start. My laptop has recognised the card, bu

Re: Backing up just my personal stuff (was: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system)

1999-08-05 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's my take on it: > As root, > dpkg --get-selections > /root/dpkg.selections > cp -a /usr/src/linux/kernel-image*.deb /root/ > Then backup > /root > /boot [...] Thanks for the suggestion, sounds good. Alas, I´m the type who can´t keep his disks

Re: bash manual/info lacks examples

1999-08-05 Thread Michael Merten
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 04:49:38PM +0200, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > > > It's been a LONG time since I've use the authentic one-and-only > > Bourne shell. How many Bourne shell clones do we have floating > > around here these days? > > > > Mike > > I don't know about clones, but I am typing

Re: Problem running Corel WP

1999-08-05 Thread Bradley Bell
You need to install the xpm4.7 package. This is the libc5 version. -Brad On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: > Don't know how you converted the system. But when the program is complaining > missing > some files, you can always do: > > shao:/home/shao$ dpkg -S libXpm.so.4 > xpm4g: /usr/X11R6

Re: Permissions being changed automatically for /dev file

1999-08-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Do you use mgetty to answer this line? mgetty will change the permissions according to one of its config files, /etc/mgetty/mgetty.config Aaron Faby wrote: > Hey folks, > > Im using slink, and for some reason, the permissions for > /dev/ttyS0 keep reverting back to 664, and when I want to > dial

Re: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system

1999-08-05 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
> > There is one MAJOR flaw with tar. If there is an error anywhere in the > > archive, ALL files after the error are lost. Better to use afio instead of > > tar. At most you will loose only the file where the error is. > > Use the option: --ignore-failed-read. This will not work if the tape is cr

Can I change the menu font size in a statically linked Motif app?

1999-08-05 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
Hello everyone. I'm using Xmgr 4.1.2 statically linked against Motif. I use it because it is more stable than Grace AFAIK. The problem is that the menu and dialog font size is too big to insure that windows will fit on my 800x600 laptop display. Does anyone have a solution to this problem? Can I c

Re: Configuring a gateway

1999-08-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
"Ivan J. Varzinczak" wrote: > > Ok, so if I'm getting this right you want both machines to serve as > > gateways between > > networks A and B? Of course I'm curious as to why you'd want such a thing > > if you already > > have a gateway. Or are you trying to do something like: routerA serves >

Re: [OT] How fast is a PIII?

1999-08-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > Does anyone know how fast is a PIII, say 500MHz? > How does it compare to PII or Celeron? http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,391810,00.html says it's only 8% faster than PII at same clock speed when running business apps on Windows. If anyone has Linux benchmarks, post '

[OT] How fast is a PIII?

1999-08-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Does anyone know how fast is a PIII, say 500MHz? How does it compare to PII or Celeron? Thanks

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #1346

1999-08-05 Thread Jim McCloskey
I wrote: |> Xview is a general solution to this problem---it lets you view and |> manipulate images in many formats and lets you save them in just |> about any format. My experience with it has been great, Sigh sorry, I should have written XV of course. Jim

dpkg locking my machine from time to time/ fsck

1999-08-05 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Hi there, As it was the second time I've experienced SERIOUS problems with dpkg this week, I think it's worth poting something here... Monday I was updating my gmc package when dpkg locked (I think it was on the ¨unpacking replacement...¨ stage) and the system became so unstable that I ha

Re: Configuring a gateway

1999-08-05 Thread Ivan J. Varzinczak
> Ok, so if I'm getting this right you want both machines to serve as gateways > between > networks A and B? Of course I'm curious as to why you'd want such a thing if > you already > have a gateway. Or are you trying to do something like: routerA serves > network A for packets > destined for n

Re: [potato] gdm doesn't start windowmanager

1999-08-05 Thread Nico De Ranter
> Nico De Ranter wrote: > > > > Howdy, > > > > I don't know whether this is the correct mailinglist to post > > this but anyway... > > > > I upgraded my Debian box to unstable and installed gdm. Unfortunately > > when I try to login the screen flickers a few times and the gdm screen > > pops bac

Re: Qmail

1999-08-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 09:24:14AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > I think Debian is wrong in using a non-free MTA. They are not > practicing what they preach. The problem is finding people with the required time and skill to move the systems over safely. The amount of mail handled by the Debian m

Re: Best way to check out hardware / BIOS problems?

1999-08-05 Thread Ernest Johanson
David, If you haven't done so already, you could check to see if any video/bios shadowing is turned on in the bios. It should be off. Also whether there are any memory speed/configuration issues. Do all the memory modules have the same speed (60, 70, whatever nanoseconds)? And does the motherboard

Re: Dependency Problems Persist

1999-08-05 Thread Paul Miller
Paul Nesbit wrote: > > Says `apt-get install dpkg-dev`, > "Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they have > unmet > dependencies: > dpkg-dev: Depends:perl" > > "perl: Depends:perl-base," replies `apt-get install perl`, > to which `apt-get install perl-base`

Re: X on Slink with RIVA TNT (Diamond V550)

1999-08-05 Thread steve j. kondik
nVidia has some tnt xservers with the glx module on their ftp site.. ftp1.detonator.nvidia.com. they are signifigantly tweaked over the 3.3.3.1 version. -steve On 08/05/99 @ 07:58AM, Sean Fulmer wrote: > I am trying to get X up and running on slink with a Riva TNT display > adapter, but I am not

Re: a quick scsi question

1999-08-05 Thread Bill Leach
While thinking in terms of absorbing is probably not too bad an idea, it is also misleading. The terminating resistors do indeed absorb energy (as does any shunting resistance). The SCSI bus terminating resistance is the same as the "Thin-net" coaxial cable ethernet termination. The "problem" is

Re: ppp fails "LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests"

1999-08-05 Thread David Wright
Quoting Not Again ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > For the first time I'm having difficulty establishing Linux > ppp connections, with a recently opened ISP account. > pppconfig has done well enough on my numerous previous > setups, with only an occasional script tweak, that I've > never had to debug Linux p

Re: Configuring a gateway

1999-08-05 Thread Ivan J. Varzinczak
> It depends on what you mean by gateway. I would mean a litle router. I have two subnets: A and B. There's a machine that works as gateway to both nets. Now I want to configure another machine to serv as router to subnet B, while the first machine will continue as gateway for subnet A an

Permissions being changed automatically for /dev file

1999-08-05 Thread Aaron Faby
Hey folks, Im using slink, and for some reason, the permissions for /dev/ttyS0 keep reverting back to 664, and when I want to dial-in I have to keep reverting back to 666. I know theres a program that checks all the file permissions on important files to make sure they are secure and reverts th

Re: Magicfilter and printing (Epson stylus 400)

1999-08-05 Thread David Wright
Quoting virtanen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > It was exactly what I tried first. But I first configured the printer to > do 720dpi. It worked printing text-files but when trying ps it started > printing garbage. I configured it yesterday night to print 360dpi and now > it works. Just by using lpr ps-file

Re: X on Slink with RIVA TNT (Diamond V550)

1999-08-05 Thread Aaron Faby
Sean Fulmer wrote: > > I am trying to get X up and running on slink with a Riva TNT display > adapter, but I am not having much luck. I know that the nVidia Xserver > requires the unstable release of XFree86, but I'm new at this and I want > to stay away from anything 'unstable'. I am able to ge

XFree86 support for Vanta video card?

1999-08-05 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, A friend has just bought a new computer, complete with a SNiper V video card, which is based on "Vanta". It would seem there is XFree86 support for the Riva TNT chipset, but what about from Vanta. I can't seem to find anywhere about whether this is supported. Any information gratefully app

gmc segfaulting

1999-08-05 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I installed gmc from potato with lastest gnome packages and it's segfaulting! :( My versions are: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~$ dpkg -l | grep gmc ii gmc 4.5.37-2 Midnight Commander - A powerful file manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~$ dpkg -l | grep gnome ii

Re: postscript

1999-08-05 Thread Jim McCloskey
* erasmo perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > does somebody knows some package that enables me to convert from gif, > jpg, tif, etc to Postscript format? Xview is a general solution to this problem---it lets you view and manipulate images in many formats and lets you save them in just about any f

Re: slink problems

1999-08-05 Thread Russell Nelson
Stephane Bortzmeyer writes: > > [I'm not on debian-admintool and I hate posting on lists where I'm not.] That's why they have open archives. :) > On Thursday 5 August 1999, at 11 h 6, the keyboard of Russell Nelson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > create a hard link to their installer

Re: unpredictable gcc behavior (not signal 11) with recent slink system

1999-08-05 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Timothy Burt wrote: > The problem is unpredictable in the sense that the compile always > fails but rarely in the same place. It really does look like a hardware problem of some kind, I agree. Have you tried running the memory at 95MHz? I had a 128MB DIMM that wouldn't work r

Re: FreeCiv problem

1999-08-05 Thread Lance Levsen
> But it is the game I left before. There are only two AI plaiers > except than mine. What do I have to to to restart from a saved > state. Moreover, is there a way to reload a game without leaving > the server? > > Any hint to a part of documentation would be suffice as well. > > Kind regards

Re: Mozilla vs. Communicator

1999-08-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 12:12:38 -0300, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: > > This may not be netscape's fault; there are indications that there may > > be a subtle compiler problem affecting X resulting in these crashes. [These indications come from Adam Heath, our netscape maintainer, if memory serve

Re: slink problems

1999-08-05 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
[I'm not on debian-admintool and I hate posting on lists where I'm not.] On Thursday 5 August 1999, at 11 h 6, the keyboard of Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > create a hard link to their installers ONLY if the installer will > never ask questions. Give that link the same name prepe

Re: X on Slink with RIVA TNT (Diamond V550)

1999-08-05 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 5 Aug, Sean Fulmer wrote about "X on Slink with RIVA TNT (Diamond V550)" > I am trying to get X up and running on slink with a Riva TNT display > adapter, but I am not having much luck. I know that the nVidia Xserver > requires the unstable release of XFree86, but I'm new at this and I want

Re: Mozilla vs. Communicator

1999-08-05 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
> > (snip) as NS seems to enjoy a lot the ¨killing itself for nothing¨ > > business)? > > This may not be netscape's fault; there are indications that there may be a > subtle compiler problem affecting X resulting in these crashes. Hmmm... and do you have an idea of wheter the XFree team is worki

Re: slink problems

1999-08-05 Thread Russell Nelson
Stephane Bortzmeyer writes: > Many other suggestions have been made to solve the problem. It is not easy. > You have to find: > > - a good scheme (think of X11-only installers, without a tty), > - implement it (i.e. modify 3000 packages' {pre,post}{rm,inst}. Nonsense. The solution is quite

X on Slink with RIVA TNT (Diamond V550)

1999-08-05 Thread Sean Fulmer
I am trying to get X up and running on slink with a Riva TNT display adapter, but I am not having much luck. I know that the nVidia Xserver requires the unstable release of XFree86, but I'm new at this and I want to stay away from anything 'unstable'. I am able to get X running with the standard

Re: Backing up just my personal stuff (was: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system)

1999-08-05 Thread Pann McCuaig
Here's my take on it: As root, dpkg --get-selections > /root/dpkg.selections cp -a /usr/src/linux/kernel-image*.deb /root/ Then backup /root /boot /etc /var /home /usr/local [/usr/lib/cgi-bin] To restore: install the base system copy dpkg.selections from the backup media to /root/ dpkg --set-

Re: Mozilla vs. Communicator

1999-08-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 11:38:43 -0300, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: > I've noticed there's different packages for Netscape Communicator & > Mozilla... Is the up-to-date Mozilla release as good as Netscape > Communicator 4.61 (or hopefuilly better, as NS seems to enjoy a lot the > ¨killing itself f

apache-ssl and virtual hosts

1999-08-05 Thread Robert Varga
How can I use virtual hosts on the SSL port in apache? I copied the virtual host sections in httpd.conf to another piece and updated the virtualhost tag with :443, and ServerName tag with :443 and put SSLEnable in as well. I put NameVirtualHost mynumericip:443 in the file as well. However, I al

Re: Configuring a gateway

1999-08-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
It depends on what you mean by gateway. If you mean you want this box to allow computers on an internal network access to the internet through a dialup or similar on the linux box then you'll want to use IP Masquerading. This can be done by using ipfwadm if you're running a 2.0.x kernel or ipchain

Re: bash manual/info lacks examples

1999-08-05 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > It's been a LONG time since I've use the authentic one-and-only > Bourne shell. How many Bourne shell clones do we have floating > around here these days? > > Mike I don't know about clones, but I am typing this on an SGI box where sh _is_ the Bourne shell, and I also have access to a Solar

Re: LILO on hdc (to be hda)

1999-08-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I can't see a way to tell LILO to do it. I would advise writing your kernel to a floppy and booting off of that the first time, then run lilo. joost witteveen wrote: > So I thought I know how to work with LILO. And I *thought* done > this many times before (years ago). But... > > I want to prepar

Mozilla vs. Communicator

1999-08-05 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Hi there, I have quite a ¨strange¨ doubt to pose you all... I've noticed there's different packages for Netscape Communicator & Mozilla... Is the up-to-date Mozilla release as good as Netscape Communicator 4.61 (or hopefuilly better, as NS seems to enjoy a lot the ¨killing itself for nothing¨

Re: g++ (egcs) and g++272

1999-08-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 08:01:37 -0600, Robert Kerr wrote: > can g++ (the egcs version) and g++272 coexist successfully? No; the library packages they need conflict. g++272 was a crude hack to allow package maintainers a backdoor for compiling old code. > I'm using a slink system, and think tha

Re: Qmail

1999-08-05 Thread markzimm
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 11:51:57PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: > > > what about exim?? I am very happy with exim and its lisencing is better than > qmail. Great! Stay with it. Learning a new MTA is enough of a pain that I would never tell someone to drop one they like just because I prefer somethin

Re:Qmail

1999-08-05 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 5 Aug, Bob C. Ruddy wrote about "Re:Qmail" > On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Justa na acount to get my list mails wrote: > > ->by the way, i noticed that the mailing-lists of debian are based on that. > > Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the debian maillists and > email have been moved off

Re: Qmail

1999-08-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 16:11:35 +, Justa na acount to get my list mails wrote: > I have recently read that debian is going to cooparate with Corel and kde > for a easy distribution... etc. etc. > > i thought that the qt libs are not free Qt version 1 was non-free. Qt version 2 is un

g++ (egcs) and g++272

1999-08-05 Thread Robert Kerr
Hi all, can g++ (the egcs version) and g++272 coexist successfully? I'm using a slink system, and think that I need to back up the g++272 compiler for a legacy app, but don't want to mess anything up with my current happy egcs g++ compiler. -- -bob An optimist says the glass is half full, a pe

Re:Qmail

1999-08-05 Thread Bob C. Ruddy
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Justa na acount to get my list mails wrote: ->by the way, i noticed that the mailing-lists of debian are based on that. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the debian maillists and email have been moved off of qmail. Bob

Re: Qmail

1999-08-05 Thread Shao Zhang
Justa na acount to get my list mails [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You got to admit that qmail is a really really good mta. > > by the way, i noticed that the mailing-lists of debian are based on that. > > ;-) > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > what a

Re: bash manual/info lacks examples

1999-08-05 Thread Michael Merten
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 02:53:02PM +0200, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > Says Mike: > > bash shells can do: > > > > let a=$b+$c*$d > > let a=($b+$c)*$d > > > > but if you want to ensure compatibility with Bourne shells like > > ash, you should stick to: > > > > a=$(($b+$c*$d)) > > a=$((($b+$c)*$d)

Configuring a gateway

1999-08-05 Thread Ivan J. Varzinczak
Hi folks: I'm willing to configure a linux box as a gateway and I want to know if anyone can give me some hints about what is needed to do this. Thanks in advance. -- Ivan J. Varzinczak - (mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Bolsista PET/CAPES - Depto. de Informatica - UFPR Curitiba - Parana -

Re: [Exim] Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam

1999-08-05 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999 10:19:27 -0600 (MDT), you wrote: >Just as a side-note, it is a silly option anyway, isn't it? I've not used >it for anything useful... yet. I consider it a good option for a host that is secondary MX for a lot of domains. Saves its admin from maintaining a list of these domains

Re:Qmail

1999-08-05 Thread Justa na acount to get my list mails
You got to admit that qmail is a really really good mta. by the way, i noticed that the mailing-lists of debian are based on that. ;-)

Re: Qmail

1999-08-05 Thread Bob C. Ruddy
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Gergely Madarasz wrote: ->> What do you think about Qmail. As to what I think. I think qmail is one of the easiest, safest, mtas to use. I have never lost a message or ever had a problem with qmail. It has been extremely stable for me and I would recomend it to any one. ->> I

Re: Qmail

1999-08-05 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Justa na acount to get my list mails wrote: > What do you think about Qmail. > I think it sould become the default mta of debian. It is not even part of the main distro because of its licence, and probably never will be. -- Madarasz Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system

1999-08-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
virtanen wrote: > > I don't backup system files. I backup kernels, /etc and > > /var/lib/dpkg/status* files. I also collect a list of installed > > debs I can reinstall from CD: > > > > # dpkg --get-selections > /backup/debian.selections > > > > Peter > > I managed to get an iomega zip-drive

Re: bash manual/info lacks examples

1999-08-05 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Says Mike: > bash shells can do: > > let a=$b+$c*$d > let a=($b+$c)*$d > > but if you want to ensure compatibility with Bourne shells like > ash, you should stick to: > > a=$(($b+$c*$d)) > a=$((($b+$c)*$d)) but if you want to ensure compatibility with Bourne shells like the Bourne shell :), yo

Re: Qmail

1999-08-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 15:47:24 +0300, Justa na acount to get my list mails wrote: > What do you think about Qmail. It is non-free software; there are free software alternatives (at least for my MTA needs), so I don't think about it much. > I think it sould become the default mta of debian. De

Re: Exim and Mail Forwarding

1999-08-05 Thread Jor-el
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Graham, You may recieve some better advice from someone else, but it seems to me that you need to run DNS for your local network. The MX records for the local domain would tell the respective mailservers which machine they need to deliver external mail t

Qmail

1999-08-05 Thread Justa na acount to get my list mails
What do you think about Qmail. I think it sould become the default mta of debian.

help with Stunnel.

1999-08-05 Thread Justa na acount to get my list mails
I need halp with the stunnel deb package i want to create a new stunnel.pem file i manage to creat the RSA and the CERTIFICATE part but i cant find how to create the dh parametres. Any help will be great. Thanks.

FreeCiv problem

1999-08-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, Now after the GTK+ client for FreeCiv 1.8.1 is available I managed to start the civclient successfully. The xaw client did only core dumps on my box at home. After reading quite a lot of documentation a fairly managed the first steps. The only (and I think very basic thing) I didn't foun

perl w/o -ldb -lndbm

1999-08-05 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm needing a perl binary w/o -ldb and -lndbm in order to run Sybperl. Should be possible to use the deb sources to do this? I would like to have a perl.deb and not a /usr/local/bin/perl. If yes, how? And, if I do this, are there some essential programs that could brea

Re: most: cannot display *.gz files

1999-08-05 Thread David Wright
Quoting Stephan Engelke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 08:15:53AM +, Walter Logeman wrote: > > > While we are on the subject, what I can't do is stop the file > > from scrolling past, is there a way to view them page by page? > > cat filename| more > zcat filename.g

Re: no bash commands work

1999-08-05 Thread Michael Stenner
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 07:38:12PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 4 Aug, wonko wrote about "no bash commands work" > > i use xdm to logon in x and everything works in x, but when i switch to > > a different terminal for any command it says bash command not found, and > > i can't restart withou

Re: Installation von Debian

1999-08-05 Thread virtanen
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Dieter Müller wrote: > Hallo! > Ich habe die größten Probleme Debian zu installieren, weil mein Rechner > den Kernel weder von der CD-ROM noch von Diskette bootet. > Könnten Sie mir evtl. eine einfache Installationsanleitung und > Fehlerbehebung an folgende Adresse schicken, da

Re: How do I connect to BTInternet in the UK? They use MS-CHAP

1999-08-05 Thread Phillip Deackes
Thanks, guys, for the input. It certainly looks like they don't use MS-CHAP despite references to it all over the place. Looking forward to the free access at the weekend :) -- Phillip Deackes Debian Linux (Potato)

Re: personal organizers

1999-08-05 Thread Phillip Deackes
virtanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I use 9menu and dfm (an excellent file-manager) so that > I have an icon of a > > Palm Pilot on my desktop and when I double-click it I get a menu > appear > > which > > has on it all the Linux Pilot apps I use. It works very smoothly and > gives > > me a lo

Re: Fetchmail and Exim - 554 SMTP service not available

1999-08-05 Thread Phillip Deackes
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Phillip Deackes wrote: > > > I have made sure I have localhost in the correct place in exim.conf, > I > > have checked the fetchmail.FAQ (section T3) but still can't work it > out. > > > > TIA for any help. > > Do you see Exim's gree

Re: bash manual/info lacks examples

1999-08-05 Thread Michael Merten
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 10:10:30AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > > > 1) For builtins bash has also help: > > > >$ help let | less > > > > 2) Usage of man (my pager is `less') > > > > > > 3) Usage of info > Please don't understand me wrong. I *f

Re: bash manual/info lacks examples - addendum

1999-08-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Thank you very much Mirek. Yes, I wanted to express, that the use of documentation is limited if there are no examples in it. In the case of `let` it was only my personal problem (which I would be able to solve by searching for my own old example at home ... or by asking you over the list :) ). I

Re: Backing up just my personal stuff (was: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system)

1999-08-05 Thread Michael Merten
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 02:24:12AM -, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: > > /usr/local is about 760Mb (723Mb of that is a partial mirror > >of Debian) > > I presume you mean that these are potato packages you have downloaded since an > initial install of slink. Actually

Re: unpredictable gcc behavior (not signal 11) with recent slink system

1999-08-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 21:59:26 -0400, Timothy Burt wrote: > Could it be some other motherboard problem? Or even the cpu? http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11 lists a whole list of problems that have resulted in signal11 and related unpredicatable behaviours. HTH, Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening dat

Re: Backing up just my personal stuff (was: backing up a complet

1999-08-05 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
On 05-Aug-99 Wim Kerkhoff wrote: >> /usr/local is about 760Mb (723Mb of that is a partial mirror >>of Debian) > > I presume you mean that these are potato packages you have downloaded since > an > initial install of slink. > > What would the best & easiest wa

Re: dselect dependencies

1999-08-05 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 01:31:42AM -0400, Paul Nesbit wrote: > I can't get beyond the following dependency problems list: > dselect just keeps suggesting the same. > > E I OM Pri SectionPackage >* * *Req Baselibc6 >* * *Req Baseperl-base >

Re: most: cannot display *.gz files

1999-08-05 Thread Ed Cogburn
I came in in the middle of this thread, I don't know who I should be talking to here. > > I can view any file with "most ", except for gzipped files. > > Whenever I try that, I get > > : failed to open for reading. Hmm, I'm running a potato system using most as my pager. Mo

Re: most: cannot display *.gz files

1999-08-05 Thread Matthias Murra
>I am sorry this is not an answer to your question I am new at >this. I am learning to look at files in my half installed >version. I've managed to use cat and zcat with *.gz >files. You probably knew that. Yep, but most has other nice features: >While we are on the subject, what I can't do i

Re: bash manual/info lacks examples

1999-08-05 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 10:10:30AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > > > 1) For builtins bash has also help: > > > >$ help let | less > > > > 2) Usage of man (my pager is `less') > > > > > > 3) Usage of info > Please don't understand me wrong. I *f

Re: Backing up just my personal stuff (was: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system)

1999-08-05 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
> /usr/local is about 760Mb (723Mb of that is a partial mirror >of Debian) I presume you mean that these are potato packages you have downloaded since an initial install of slink. What would the best & easiest way of making such a partial mirror or all package

Re: most: cannot display *.gz files

1999-08-05 Thread Stephan Engelke
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 08:15:53AM +, Walter Logeman wrote: > While we are on the subject, what I can't do is stop the file > from scrolling past, is there a way to view them page by page? cat filename| more zcat filename.gz | more gzip -dc filename.gz | more (generic way,

Re: bash manual/info lacks examples - addendum

1999-08-05 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
Hi again, I read your mail again. I answered in previous message about metods I use for finding information. Your question is about lacking examples either. You are right. Man- and info-pages assume some basic knowledge about computer, os (operating system), programming and technical documentatio

Exim and Mail Forwarding

1999-08-05 Thread graham . lillico
Hi, I have just finished setting up my internet gateway server using the "Setting Up Mail for a Home Network Using Exim" tutorial in the July(43) issue of Linux Gazette. However I have another linux machine that will need to send mail to its local users, the users on the internet gateway and

Re: most: cannot display *.gz files

1999-08-05 Thread Walter Logeman
Matthias, I am sorry this is not an answer to your question I am new at this. I am learning to look at files in my half installed version. I've managed to use cat and zcat with *.gz files. You probably knew that. While we are on the subject, what I can't do is stop the file from scrolling

Re: bash manual/info lacks examples

1999-08-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > 1) For builtins bash has also help: > >$ help let | less > > 2) Usage of man (my pager is `less') > > > 3) Usage of info Please don't understand me wrong. I *found* the text where the description of let is documented. But what do I have to typ

Re: bash manual/info lacks examples

1999-08-05 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 08:49:31AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hello, > > every time I read the bash manual to get help I'm missing > examples for the basic usage of a builtin. For instance > I managed to write a simple shell script with a loop which > increased a variable > > i = 0; > while [

Re: slink problems

1999-08-05 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wednesday 4 August 1999, at 16 h 29, the keyboard of Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Um, it's quite annoying to be constantly interrupted to interact > various programs during the configuration phase of a Debian install. It's the Mother of All FAQs and has been discussed (but not

most: cannot display *.gz files

1999-08-05 Thread Matthias Murra
I am having a problem with the version of most that came with slink (v4.8.1-0.1) which I am unable to solve despite looking in all the docs, man pages and the mailing archives. I can view any file with "most ", except for gzipped files. Whenever I try that, I get : failed to open for reading. I

bash manual/info lacks examples

1999-08-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, every time I read the bash manual to get help I'm missing examples for the basic usage of a builtin. For instance I managed to write a simple shell script with a loop which increased a variable i = 0; while [ $i -lt $MAX ] ; do echo $i let ... done But I havn't my small loop script h

Re: APM/LILO [was Re: Configuring a monitor?]

1999-08-05 Thread virtanen
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, John Pearson wrote: > > > > while rebooting to get into DOS. There is win95 installed on the same > > > > hd and I'm using 'loadlin'. (It was impossible to get lilo working > > > > with this machine.) With win95 the power goes off automaticly, when I > > > > stop > > > > the o

Re: [potato] gdm doesn't start windowmanager

1999-08-05 Thread Nico De Ranter
> I had the same problem, and I found that there were a couple of things that > could be behind it first it could be a bad xsession file, or it could be > an issue with the window manager, either it's not correctly installed, or the > /etc/X11/window-managers file is trying to start a window

Re: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system

1999-08-05 Thread virtanen
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > > > David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > The very idea of all one's system software in a set of homogeneous > > > .deb files is probably foreign to most unix administrators. > > > > Only those with "home brew"

Re: Backing up just my personal stuff (was: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system)

1999-08-05 Thread Michael Merten
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 09:52:11PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Michael Merten wrote: > > > /var is 65Mb > > You will likely want to exclude /var/lock and /var/run and possibly > /var/state > > No need to restore pid and lock files for programs that are no longer > runni

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