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1999-08-17 Thread Venkat Immani
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Re: Xemacs Prcs problem (still persists)

1999-08-17 Thread Prashanth Mundkur
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Patrick Olson wrote: > > That file is in a package named prcs. If you go into dselect and install > the prcs package, it should be able to load prcs.el. > The problem persists. I removed my prcs and reinstalled it. The installation gave the following messages: Setting up

FW: Kernel panic!

1999-08-17 Thread david . cureton
I used to get the same thing (Debian 2.0) on the first disk access after my PC went into suspended mode. I thought it was the powersave features of the bios but I didn't have the correct utilities to turn it off. (Too lazy to download them) On a long shot I used the utility hdparm to turn off th

Re: confusing X problem

1999-08-17 Thread Patrick Olson
> The only way I know to approach a problem like this is to get the system > to a known state, and then proceed with a step-by-step analysis to reduce > the number of variables, and isolate the problem. I would suggest > something like the following: That sounds good, but I'm not really sure how

Re: Setting up Exim

1999-08-17 Thread Steve George
Hi, First off I am confused why you have exim installed: I thought smail was the default for stable.guess I am wrong. On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 09:29:12PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the quick response. > Yes, it seems I can mail myself. I started "mail" and sent a message to

Re: permissions/ownership of /tmp

1999-08-17 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > What are the permissions and ownership of /tmp supposed to be? I don't 1777.

RE: More dhcpcd and pcmcia questions

1999-08-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 17-Aug-99 Bob C. Ruddy wrote: > When trying to start dhcpcd from the 'network.opts' file dhcpcd never > picks up the network information. When I run "/etc/init.d/dhcpcd start" it > works fine as long as I don't switch networks(see previous post). What > happens when I boot the system with 'DHCP

Printing problem

1999-08-17 Thread Isabelle Poueriet
Hello everyone. I am running Debian 2.1 and I am unable to print any files that are not ascii text. i.e. I can't print from netscape, or wordperfect but I can type: "lpr asciifilename" at the shell command and that works. I know I'm using the correct driver for my printer. What else could I b

Re: IP-Masquerade

1999-08-17 Thread Paul Miller
Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: > > The HOWTO suggested I should try something like > > ipfwadm -F -p deny (setting 'deny' as the default rule) > ipfwadm -F -a masquerade -P tcp 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 -D 0.0.0.0/0 > (and the same for udp) > The problem here is that packets are given permission to

Re: Kernel Compilation Error?

1999-08-17 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to compile a 2.0.36 kernel on my potato system, but I > keep getting this error: > > init/main.c: In function `get_options': > init/main.c:272: warning: subscript has type `char' > make: *** [init/main.o] Error 1 My guess is that your gcc

Re: IP-Masquerade

1999-08-17 Thread Steve George
Hi, It sounds to me as if when you did the first set-up for some reason the packets were getting through the rule and hitting the default deny. In the second instance you have a default allow so it should match any traffic. The first example is better as it is more specific. Hopefully the 192

Re: [Summary] UPS anyone? - batteries

1999-08-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya mike > > I changed the powersupply to be +24v-DC input instead of 110v-ac > > > > I use 2 car batteries...and pulled the 110vac... it stayed > > up for about 15 hrs.. - with 1 IDE disk...-- just sitting > > there and running cron every 10 minutes to log how long it ran > > That'll wor

How does one forward mail on EXIM?

1999-08-17 Thread Kent Andersen
I would really like some Clue.. I have a couple of email accounts that I would like to forward to another mail exchanger,, I guess exim will use a .forward file in the users directory and if so what is the format of that file? or if you have any other favorite ways of doing this please let me know

permissions/ownership of /tmp

1999-08-17 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
What are the permissions and ownership of /tmp supposed to be? I don't know how, but the permissions became set to rwxr-xr-x and ownership became 4534.310, obviously invalid user/group numbers. Also, will the staroffice3 installer deb work with Star Office 5.1? I asked both these questions twice

Re: Mail-question; Quick One!

1999-08-17 Thread Michael Merten
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 04:08:02PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Ok let me get this straight: > > I use a total of three (four) apps to read my mail: (pppd(pon) connects to > > my ISP,) fetchmail gets the mail, passes it on to exim, which sends it to > > the (one and o

Re: [Summary] UPS anyone?

1999-08-17 Thread Michael Merten
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 01:57:01PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya > > I have a few dead UPS... ( bad battery ) > > I changed the powersupply to be +24v-DC input instead of 110v-ac > > I use 2 car batteries...and pulled the 110vac... it stayed > up for about 15 hrs.. - with 1 IDE disk...-

Kernel Compilation Error?

1999-08-17 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all, I'm trying to compile a 2.0.36 kernel on my potato system, but I keep getting this error: init/main.c: In function `get_options': init/main.c:272: warning: subscript has type `char' make: *** [init/main.o] Error 1 I've downloaded the sources from several places, but it still bails.

More dhcpcd and pcmcia questions

1999-08-17 Thread Bob C. Ruddy
When trying to start dhcpcd from the 'network.opts' file dhcpcd never picks up the network information. When I run "/etc/init.d/dhcpcd start" it works fine as long as I don't switch networks(see previous post). What happens when I boot the system with 'DHCP="y"' in the 'network.opts' file is that t

Re: Mail-question; Quick One!

1999-08-17 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ok let me get this straight: > I use a total of three (four) apps to read my mail: (pppd(pon) connects to > my ISP,) fetchmail gets the mail, passes it on to exim, which sends it to > the (one and only) user: me, and I finally invoke for example "mail" to read > and ed

Re: [Summary] UPS anyone?

1999-08-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya I have a few dead UPS... ( bad battery ) I changed the powersupply to be +24v-DC input instead of 110v-ac I use 2 car batteries...and pulled the 110vac... it stayed up for about 15 hrs.. - with 1 IDE disk...-- just sitting there and running cron every 10 minutes to log how long it ran

Re: full color ghostview ?

1999-08-17 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Arno wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 11:52:02AM -0400, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: > > > This sounds like a font problem. Do you have the font packages > > > installed for ghostscript? > > > > No, this is not the font problem, fonts look ok (please, look at my > > original p

Re: which pgp package?

1999-08-17 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello Chanop, On 17-Aug-99, you wrote: CS> hi, CS> CS> I'm new to pgp. It seems that there are many pgp packages in potato, CS> ie pgp-us, pgp-i, pgp5i. Which one I should use? CS> CS> thanks CS> CS> Chanop As I understand it, the are two versions of pgp due to the US export restrictions of R

Re: (fwd) Re: How to do it? [Xserver]

1999-08-17 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello Artur, On 17-Aug-99, you wrote: AZ> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Dunham) writes: AZ> AZ> -> Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: -> AZ> -> > This would make me think you perhaps are using the wrong X AZ> server? -> > Which model of graphics card do you have (or Sun model AZ> if you don't

Re: HP-T20 SCSI Tape

1999-08-17 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello Ryan, On 17-Aug-99, you wrote: RCS> I've installed a HP-T20 into one of my linux machines and it RCS> doesn't seem to be working correctly. RCS> RCS> I can see in the /proc/scsi/scsi the following, which tells me that RCS> the drive is loaded: RCS> RCS> Attached devices: RCS> Host: scsi0

Re: confusing X problem

1999-08-17 Thread Ernest Johanson
The only way I know to approach a problem like this is to get the system to a known state, and then proceed with a step-by-step analysis to reduce the number of variables, and isolate the problem. I would suggest something like the following: Verify whether the current version of stable does have

Re: Apache: unable to use authentification

1999-08-17 Thread Marc Mongeon
You need to specify the "AllowOverride AuthConfig" directive for that directory in one of the main config files (e.g., /etc/apache/access.conf). Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 |

Re: Xemacs Prcs problem

1999-08-17 Thread Patrick Olson
That file is in a package named prcs. If you go into dselect and install the prcs package, it should be able to load prcs.el. On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Prashanth Mundkur wrote: > Hi, > > My slink xemacs-nomule tries to load the prcs.el > package whenever I load any file. > However, this file doesn

install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory

1999-08-17 Thread Benjamin AlbiƱana
Hi, this is my first post to the list. Sorry for my english. In a 486, Potato, kernel 2.3.6, I'm having problems whith dpkg: # dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/make_3.77-7_i386.deb (Reading database ... 12295 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace make 3.77-7 (using .../a

Apache: unable to use authentification

1999-08-17 Thread Bart-Jan Vrielink
Hello, I'm trying to get Apache (tried the Slink version and the current Potato version) to use authentification for some directory. Inside the directory have the following .htaccess: AuthType basic AuthName rinet AuthUserfile /etc/apache/htpasswd require user bartjan When I try to authentifica

IP-Masquerade

1999-08-17 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Hi there, today I was trying to set our computers to do IP-Masquerading (we'll be changing our external provider, and while the old one did the masquerading for us, the now one doesn't)... I tried to do everything as explained in the IP-Masquerade HOWTO, but for some reason things weren't runn

Mail-question; Quick One!

1999-08-17 Thread vw
Ok let me get this straight: I use a total of three (four) apps to read my mail: (pppd(pon) connects to my ISP,) fetchmail gets the mail, passes it on to exim, which sends it to the (one and only) user: me, and I finally invoke for example "mail" to read and edit mail. "mail" is (basically) an edit

Re: Setting up Exim

1999-08-17 Thread vw
Thanks for the quick response. Yes, it seems I can mail myself. I started "mail" and sent a message to "viggo" (my local username). It arrived promptly, and I was able to read it. I can not, however, find any file by that name (or any file at all) in my /home/viggo directory (using "dir" from an xt

Gateway/Slink Install

1999-08-17 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: I am having trouble installing Slink ( using Linux Sytems Labs Cds ) on a Gateway 3000: at one point in the installation it comes up with the message: failed to extract the floppy drivers. I have used the same cd tp install Linux on an SAG computer earlier, so I doubt that there is anythi

Xemacs Prcs problem

1999-08-17 Thread Prashanth Mundkur
Hi, My slink xemacs-nomule tries to load the prcs.el package whenever I load any file. However, this file doesn't seem to be a part of any of the following: xemacs20-bin xemacs20-nomule xemacs20-support emacs19-el emacs19 emacsen-common How do I fix this? I'm assuming if someone c

Re: Fetchmail won't configure

1999-08-17 Thread Thorsten Jenal
on Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 05:28:04PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As a newbie, I thought I'd let fetchmailconf take me by the hand and help me > configure the bastard instead of futzing around with config-files. But all I > get is: > fetchmailconf (I type at prompt) Linux answers: > env: python:

Re: Setting up Exim

1999-08-17 Thread Greg Baker
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Allright, maybe this is a stupid question, but I'm stuck: > In X, I open a xterm and type eximconfig. I supply my mailserver's id and > tell it where to put the mail (in the sole user's account: mine!). Not too > difficult, even for a newbie like me.

Setting up Exim

1999-08-17 Thread vw
Allright, maybe this is a stupid question, but I'm stuck: In X, I open a xterm and type eximconfig. I supply my mailserver's id and tell it where to put the mail (in the sole user's account: mine!). Not too difficult, even for a newbie like me. Now, when I try to get my mail, I run fetchmail (the m

Re: (fwd) Re: How to do it? [Xserver]

1999-08-17 Thread Artur Zaworski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Dunham) writes: -> Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: -> -> > This would make me think you perhaps are using the wrong X server? -> > Which model of graphics card do you have (or Sun model if you don't -> > know the card)? Which X server are you using? -> -> One

Re: How to do it? [Xserver]

1999-08-17 Thread Adam Di Carlo
I think your problem is that you need to 'chmod 0666 /dev/fb?'. This is a known bug in the slink Xsun X window system servers. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: How to do it? [Xserver]

1999-08-17 Thread Artur Zaworski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Di Carlo) writes: -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Artur Zaworski) writes: -> -> > Sorry, I forgot something... last sec. of my Xsun ;> -> > -> > + strace Xsun -> > -> > access("/dev/fb0", R_OK|W_OK) = 0 -> > open("/dev/fb0", O_RDWR)= 6 -> > ioctl(6, FBIO

Re: [Summary] UPS anyone?

1999-08-17 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > Unresolved questions: > > - What do we get for smart mode? I presume more info about the >state of the UPS and the line condition gets to the user >software. But can the Linux software display it? If you get the APC Back-UPS pro an

Re: FAT32 to FAT16

1999-08-17 Thread Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho
Kim Andersen wrote: > I have a problem, I really hope you can help me. I need to convert my > computer back to FAT16 from FAT32. How can I do that? I have already > formatted my harddisk (850MB), so does their exist any program, which in > MS-DOS mode can convert my harddisk back to FAT16? There'

Re: Samba and /etc/passwd

1999-08-17 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Tue Aug 17, 1999, Debian Mail wrote: > > > I'm quite puzzled since I cannot find the answer to what seems to be a > > > faq: I want that samba uses /etc/passwd and not /etc/smbpasswd to > > > authenticate a user. How do I do that? > > > > You can't. > > So every user has to use passwd AND smbp

Re: xemacs at console won't suspend

1999-08-17 Thread ferret
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 16 Aug, David Teague wrote about "xemacs at console won't suspend" > > Hi Folks [snip] > > > > Would someone please tell me how to make xemacs running in text mode > > suspend as emacs always does and xemacs do

answering w/ mgetty

1999-08-17 Thread Paul Miller
Is it possible to config mgetty so that it'll *only* answer the phone when it receives "FAX" from the modem? I don't want mgetty answering data/voice calls at all. What about silent answering? Can mgetty be configured to 'silently' listen to an answered call by a answering machine or human and

Re: full color ghostview ?

1999-08-17 Thread Arno
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 11:52:02AM -0400, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: > > This sounds like a font problem. Do you have the font packages > > installed for ghostscript? > > No, this is not the font problem, fonts look ok (please, look at my > original post). > The problem is that gv (and the family)

Re: Problems with the samba update

1999-08-17 Thread peter karlsson
> The solution to my problem was to remove the samba password file > and re-enter my users passwords into it. This fixed the problem for me. The problem is that I do not have a password file for samba, I don't use encrypted password (mostly because I'm too lazy to set them up). -- \\// Peter -

Re: leafnode won't fetch

1999-08-17 Thread NatePuri
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 07:02:15AM -0230, Chris Gushue wrote: > Thus wrote NatePuri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [99.08.17 06:21]: > > I'm trying to setup leafnode. > > > > I have configure /etc/leafnode.conf to use my isp's nntp server (i.e., > > news.myisp.net). > > > > When I run the command 'fetch'

Re: confusing X problem

1999-08-17 Thread Patrick Olson
> How old is your version of Debian? Did you install the XF86_SVGA from a > debian package or compile it from source? I started from a Debian 2.0 CD, but did not install X from there. I pointed dselect to ftp://ftp.debian.org//pub/debian/dists/stable for updating the stuff that installed off th

tkchooser not starting

1999-08-17 Thread IEN
Hi there, since the last update I did in my samba package, tkchooser refuses to start... It goes well all over the startup sequence, the window comes up but, when trying to start the SMB protocol (the only one I have configured), it aborts (error messages included in the end of the e-ma

Re: Problems with the samba update

1999-08-17 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Peter, I had a similar problem when I updated my samba to Potato. In my case, it was because I had a installed Samba on a older version of debian and I used the easiest shortcut on my inital setup. The solution to my problem was to remove the samba password file and re-enter my users password

Re: update-alterntaives question by proxy

1999-08-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 07:40:13AM -0700, Robert Jones wrote: > This question was presented to me by someone else, and, as I couldn't find an > appropriate answer, I pass it on the the list for futher enlightenment. > > What is the Right Way to increase the priority of one option for an > altern

Re: leafnode won't fetch

1999-08-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 10:00:46AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > IIRC, don't you have to access the newsgroup (say, from within SLRN or > Netscape Messenger) first, to let leafnode know you're interested? I > vaguely recall having to do something like that... I think when you do > this, you ge

How do I set samba permissions?

1999-08-17 Thread Mark Wright
I'm trying to use an NT editor to edit a bunch of perl scripts on my debian server, shared through samba. The problem is that the 'group execute' permission keeps getting turned off when I save the file. I've set create mask to 0770, but every time I save a file, the permissions change from -rwxr

Re: FAT32 to FAT16

1999-08-17 Thread Geordy Korte
> I have a problem, I really hope you can help me. I need to convert my > computer back to FAT16 from FAT32. How can I do that? I have already > formatted my harddisk (850MB), so does their exist any program, which in > MS-DOS mode can convert my harddisk back to FAT16? Try the normal FDISK and

Re: confusing X problem

1999-08-17 Thread Ernest Johanson
How old is your version of Debian? Did you install the XF86_SVGA from a debian package or compile it from source? > > Thanks for that info. I didn't even know that file was there, but it > wouldn't matter much since mine is old and doesn't have that entry. Did I > do something bad by just get

[Summary] UPS anyone?

1999-08-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Here's another update about what I have so far concerning this confusing UPS issue (prices in Canadian dollars). Thanks to all who contributed. Please email again if you have more info to add. Peter --- `Best Power' general comments (http://www.bestpower.com) - manufacture

Re: SV: FAT32 to FAT16

1999-08-17 Thread Aaron Solochek
I mention this a lot, but its a great app. Partition Magic has converted a FAT32 to FAT16 flawlessly for me a couple of times. Actually, all I use is the boot disk, brings up a nice GUI, and does just about anything I need. Granted I don't have to pay for it, I just borrow my friends copy

Re: full color ghostview ?

1999-08-17 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 17 Aug, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote about "Re: full color ghostview ?" > > > > > > On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Paul Miller wrote: > > > >> Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: > >> > > >> > b) is there a sensible replacement for ghostview that is functionally > >> >

Re: printer accounting

1999-08-17 Thread Dpk
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 03:49:05AM +0200, Armin Wegner wrote: Hello, can you suggest me a software for printer accounting, please? Try LPRng. There is a debian package for it, and their online FAQ is detailed with very useful information: http://www.astart.com/lprng/LPRng-HOWTO.h

Re: full color ghostview ?

1999-08-17 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 17 Aug, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote about "Re: full color ghostview ?" > > > On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Paul Miller wrote: > >> Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: >> > >> > b) is there a sensible replacement for ghostview that is functionally >> > similar the windows' GSview ? >> > >> I much prefer the 'gv'

Fetchmail won't configure

1999-08-17 Thread vw
As a newbie, I thought I'd let fetchmailconf take me by the hand and help me configure the bastard instead of futzing around with config-files. But all I get is: fetchmailconf (I type at prompt) Linux answers: env: python: no such file or directory I search dselect for "python" but all the python d

apt-get strange behaviour

1999-08-17 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Hi there, From some time on (since I've last upgraded apt-get? Can say for sure! ;-/) I've been facing some strange problems with apt-get... When I do a 'apt-get update' it seems to go all over the download of the packages (as expected), but then it come to a segfault when building the de

SV: FAT32 to FAT16

1999-08-17 Thread vw
Hey, if it's formatted it's empty, so just get a set of old DOS-diskettes and do a normal install with a reformat. But then again; why bother with dos when you can have Linux?! Cheers Vitux Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer > -Oprindelig meddelelse- > Fra: Kim Andersen [

Re: full color ghostview ?

1999-08-17 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Paul Miller wrote: > Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: > > > > b) is there a sensible replacement for ghostview that is functionally > > similar the windows' GSview ? > > > I much prefer the 'gv' package over 'ghostview'. It is another front end > to 'ghostscript' which has a much

Re: leafnode won't fetch

1999-08-17 Thread Keith G. Murphy
NatePuri wrote: > > I'm trying to setup leafnode. > > I have configure /etc/leafnode.conf to use my isp's nntp server (i.e., > news.myisp.net). > > When I run the command 'fetch' absolutely nothing happens. Why is this? IIRC, don't you have to access the newsgroup (say, from within SLRN or Net

FAT32 to FAT16

1999-08-17 Thread Kim Andersen
Hi! I have a problem, I really hope you can help me. I need to convert my computer back to FAT16 from FAT32. How can I do that? I have already formatted my harddisk (850MB), so does their exist any program, which in MS-DOS mode can convert my harddisk back to FAT16? Do you know any download

update-alterntaives question by proxy

1999-08-17 Thread Robert Jones
This question was presented to me by someone else, and, as I couldn't find an appropriate answer, I pass it on the the list for futher enlightenment. What is the Right Way to increase the priority of one option for an alternative? For example, on my system, nvi was installed with a priority of 30,

Panasonic EggCam?

1999-08-17 Thread Jorge L. deLyra
I heard that Video4Linux provides support under Linux for the Panasonic "EggCam" video-conference camera, but I cannot find specifics anywhere. Does anybody know (1) whether this is true and (2) how to do it? Jorge L. deLyra,

PPPoE Client?

1999-08-17 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello, my internet service provider is switching from a dhcp connection to a PPPoE connection. We as customers have to install the PPPoE client. I have the client in source code. but unclear how to change my routing, ethernet connection and so. can some please give me step by step instructions on h

Auto-mounting and unattended boot

1999-08-17 Thread Alex Shnitman
Hi. I have a removable drive in a machine that doesn't have a display and is used via the network. Since the drive is removable, sometimes the machine boots without the drive, and sometimes with it. I'd like to have it mount the filesystem on the drive automatically on boot, but if it's not there

Re: No Mouse, No X Windows(SOLVED)

1999-08-17 Thread Wendell Buckner
Thank you for your input, LeeE and everybody else who responded. I actually fixed this problem this past Sunday! After calming down (I was totally frustrated) and rereading the responses, concerning this matter, on Sunday, I was able to figure it out! As the my linux box was booting, I saw it con

Re: strange pppd question

1999-08-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Brad wrote: : On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: : : > I'm trying to write a daemon (in perl) : : Isn't Perl wonderful? At the moment, i'm working on a CD ripper using : cd-diskid, perl-tk, cdparanoia, id3, and bladeenc and CDDB.pm. It actually : works pretty

Re: bash & smaller fonts

1999-08-17 Thread Paul Miller
To change the console text, I use the 'SVGATextMode' package and the 'setfont' command which is in the 'kbd' package. Hope this helps, -- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where do all the bits go when the computer is done with them?

Re: full color ghostview ?

1999-08-17 Thread Paul Miller
Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: > > b) is there a sensible replacement for ghostview that is functionally > similar the windows' GSview ? > I much prefer the 'gv' package over 'ghostview'. It is another front end to 'ghostscript' which has a much better feel and look IMHO. You might give it a shot. --

printer accounting

1999-08-17 Thread Armin Wegner
Hello, can you suggest me a software for printer accounting, please? Armin

Re: xemacs at console won't suspend

1999-08-17 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a know bug with xemacs20-nomule and gpm. The solutions are to > either recompile xemacs without gpm support, or stop gpm before > starting xemacs on the console. See > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/pa/lxemacs20-nomule.html for the several > VERY

boot problems

1999-08-17 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I tried to install linux on an old 386dx-40 with 16mb of ram. It reads the resc1440 floppy VERY SLOWLY and somewhere between loading kernel and decompresssing just dies with 'boot failure'. I am assuming this is either a bad floppy disk (though it does boot in two other machines), a bad floppy d

Re: which pgp package?

1999-08-17 Thread Steve Gore
> > I'm new to pgp. It seems that there are many pgp packages in potato, > > ie pgp-us, pgp-i, pgp5i. Which one I should use? > > Personally, I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GPG): http://www.gnupg.org > It's currently in beta - what isn't in the Linux world :), with 1.0 due > out next month. It works

Re: Redhat mutt with xterm-debian

1999-08-17 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 13:13:33 -0400, Andrew Leiserson wrote: > but since I have the xterm-debian entry in ~/.terminfo/x/ I don't see why > mutt shouldn't work. Did you set the environment variable TERMINFO to point to $HOME/.terminfo ? Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited

Re: leafnode won't fetch

1999-08-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 01:48:30AM -0700, NatePuri wrote: > I'm trying to setup leafnode. > I have configure /etc/leafnode.conf to use my isp's nntp server (i.e., > news.myisp.net). > When I run the command 'fetch' absolutely nothing happens. Why is this? Could you define exactly what "absolut

Re: Samba and /etc/passwd

1999-08-17 Thread Debian Mail
> > I'm quite puzzled since I cannot find the answer to what seems to be a > > faq: I want that samba uses /etc/passwd and not /etc/smbpasswd to > > authenticate a user. How do I do that? > > You can't. So every user has to use passwd AND smbpasswd every time he wants to change his password? Ste

Re: which pgp package?

1999-08-17 Thread Chris Gushue
Thus wrote Chanop Silpa-Anan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [99.08.17 06:46]: > hi, > > I'm new to pgp. It seems that there are many pgp packages in potato, > ie pgp-us, pgp-i, pgp5i. Which one I should use? > > thanks > > Chanop Personally, I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GPG): http://www.gnupg.org It's cur

mlockall() and pthreads together?

1999-08-17 Thread Britton Leo Kerin
I assume if I execute mlockall and then later create a bunch of threads, they come into existance without their memory locked into RAM? Anyone know for sure? Britton

Re: leafnode won't fetch

1999-08-17 Thread Chris Gushue
Thus wrote NatePuri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [99.08.17 06:21]: > I'm trying to setup leafnode. > > I have configure /etc/leafnode.conf to use my isp's nntp server (i.e., > news.myisp.net). > > When I run the command 'fetch' absolutely nothing happens. Why is this? As of leafnode 1.9.4 (I think), fet

[HYLAFAX] Strange dialout

1999-08-17 Thread Geordy Korte
Hi all, I am wondering If anyone has experienced strange dialout when Hylafax is installed. Here is a log entry dialout ttyS1/usr/sbin/faxget Tue Aug 17 10:56 - 10:56 (00:00) dialout ttyS1/usr/sbin/faxget Tue Aug 17 09:55 - 09:55 (00:00) dialout ttyS1/usr/sbin/faxge

which pgp package?

1999-08-17 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
hi, I'm new to pgp. It seems that there are many pgp packages in potato, ie pgp-us, pgp-i, pgp5i. Which one I should use? thanks Chanop -- Chanop Silpa-Anan Australian National University.

Re: Bizarre Clock Problem

1999-08-17 Thread Matthew Tuck
"Keith G. Murphy" wrote: > It may actually be due to the *documented* behavior of adjtime. > ... This makes a lot of sense. I vaguely remember something about this happening when I found my clock out by months. In this case, I imagine it would be a good idea to set a drift threshhold wherein ad

leafnode won't fetch

1999-08-17 Thread NatePuri
I'm trying to setup leafnode. I have configure /etc/leafnode.conf to use my isp's nntp server (i.e., news.myisp.net). When I run the command 'fetch' absolutely nothing happens. Why is this? -- NatePuri ("natedawg") Certified Law Student McGeorge School of Law Sacramento, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: qmail question

1999-08-17 Thread Robert Varga
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Robert Varga wrote: > > > On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Nikolay Hristov wrote: > > > has anybody tried to limit the size of the Sended mail with qmail for a > > single user? > > /var/qmail/control/smtpsize seems to be for that purpose. Search on the > Qmail mailing lists for it t

Re: 3com509c not recognized

1999-08-17 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
westk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was planning on upgrading to the 2.2 kernel as soon as I got the box on the > network, but now it sounds like I might be better off to download a 2.2 > kernel > now in order to get the NIC working. In which case, maybe I should just > forego > slink and go

Re: How to install fortify?

1999-08-17 Thread Tadeusz Bak
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Brad wrote: > Install them both at the same time. dselect or apt-get should handle this > with no problem. With dpkg, > dpkg --install fortify_1.3.0-2.deb fortify-linux-x86_1.3.0-2.deb > should work... Yes, it works. Thank you very much! -- Tad

Re: How to install fortify?

1999-08-17 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Tadeusz Bak wrote: > I've just tried to install fortify under Debian 2.1. But fortify 1.3.0-2 > and fortify-linux-x86 1.3.0-2 depend on each other, so I can't configure > them. How to solve this dilemma? Thanks! Install them both at the sam

How to install fortify?

1999-08-17 Thread Tadeusz Bak
-- This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. -- Hi, I've just tried to install fortify under Debian 2.1. But fortify 1.3.0-2 and fortify-linux-x86 1.3.0-2 depend on each other, so I can't configure them. How to solve this dilemma? Thanks! -- Tad

Re: strange pppd question

1999-08-17 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: > I'm trying to write a daemon (in perl) Isn't Perl wonderful? At the moment, i'm working on a CD ripper using cd-diskid, perl-tk, cdparanoia, id3, and bladeenc and CDDB.pm. It actually works pretty well! > that mon

Re: strange pppd question

1999-08-17 Thread Michael Merten
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 12:52:03AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Strange what I'm doing; pppd works fine :) > > I'm trying to write a daemon (in perl) that monitors the "health" of the > next hop on an ethernet port (think DSL or cable connection), and dials > a provider when the connection goes

strange pppd question

1999-08-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
Strange what I'm doing; pppd works fine :) I'm trying to write a daemon (in perl) that monitors the "health" of the next hop on an ethernet port (think DSL or cable connection), and dials a provider when the connection goes down. To do this, I need to invoke pppd from my prgram ... pppd forks and

Re: how to connect client xserver to networked host?

1999-08-17 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 11:06:06PM -0600, Nathan Duehr wrote: > Ken, > > Take a look at SSH. It would get you a couple of things you probably > need in your "headless" webserver configuration : > > 1. Secured connections to your headless system from anywhere. > 2. X forwarding over that same sec

Re: should I upgrade PERL from 5.004 yet?

1999-08-17 Thread Pollywog
On 17-Aug-99 Brad wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Pollywog wrote: > >> Is Debian's PERL still broken or is it safe to upgrade? Should I remove >> PERL 5.004 when I upgrade? >> >> I am using Potato. > > It seems that most of the packages are fixed, although

Re: kbd and kbd-data incompatible?

1999-08-17 Thread Pollywog
On 17-Aug-99 Brad wrote: > If you're installing kbd version 0.99-1 or -2 from potato, then go ahead > and remove kbd-data. It appears to be no longer necessary (i have a > potato > system, kbd but no kbd-data, and it works fine) Thanks, that is what I did, but I was afraid to reboot the machine.

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