Re: I messed up my resolution.

1999-10-22 Thread Ethan Benson
On 22/10/99 Brad wrote: > Boot from your rescue flop, edit your /etc/inittab file and > change the line: > id:5:initdefault: > to: > id:3:initdefault: I don't believe this will work on a Debian system by default, since Debian by default doesn't make any differences between runlevels 2-5. Are y

Re: RAID, a little question ...

1999-10-22 Thread Michael-John Turner
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 09:02:01PM +0200 Robert Varga wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Paolo Pedaletti wrote: > > Short question: is it possible to have more than 4 md-devices? > > I can't do it. > > I seem to remember from the RAID tools documentation, that only 4 is > supported currently, you need

Re: Data Aquisition Cards?

1999-10-22 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Ingo Reimann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 10:40:37PM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: >> A shot in the dark. >> What are people using with temperature sensors, oxygen probes, etc., >> on linux systems? Where can I find an IEEE488 card, cheap? [...] > I have heard of a gr

Re: Virtual terminal

1999-10-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
loft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am student and have to explain how a virtual functions, how a software > could be designed so that a programm would print output to a virtual terminal. Do you mean the virtual consoles which you can flip between with Alt-F2 and so on? If so, these are just de

Re: Handling raw files

1999-10-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
Rik Burt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have figured out how to get the raw tar.gz files for the dpkg > package. Do you mean the file data.tar.gz? Or did you download source code? > How do I know where to put these files once I get them > ungzipped and untarred? `tar tzvf data.tar.gz' will giv

Re: howto mail attach in command line?

1999-10-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
zhaoway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > how could i mail people attach file using a single command? > like mail -s "some" [EMAIL PROTECTED] --attach $HOME/some.tar.gz Install mutt. mutt -s "some" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -a $HOME/some.tar.gz http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgpIkwcP8xvv7.pgp Descrip

Re: date and time lost after reboot

1999-10-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
Anthony Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I think something is writing to > the hardware clock on closing down but what could this be? /etc/rc*.d/*hwclock.sh (which are symlinks to /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh). The relevant code from my version of hwclock.sh is this: stop|restart|reload)

Re: Postgresql Beginner

1999-10-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
Bob Bernstein wrote: >This novice is confused by the role of the user 'postgres'. It seems I can't >do anything with this package unless I first su to root user, then su again >to >'postgres' user. That is correct. Of course you can choose to give postgres a password and you would

Re: I messed up my resolution.

1999-10-22 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Onno wrote: > Boot from your rescue flop, edit your /etc/inittab file and > change the line: > id:5:initdefault: > to: > id:3:initdefault: I don't believe this will work on a Debian system by default, since Debian by default doesn't make a

Re: installing on an ibm tp-i1452

1999-10-22 Thread Alan Su
so, just adding a little more information that might give someone an idea of what's going on. i went through the install process without configuring the PCMCIA stuff. on the first reboot, instead of allowing the normal first boot process to take place (i.e. change root password, create user accou

snowcrash and netgod

1999-10-22 Thread jason
i know that i can use these to get the newest versions of kde and X respectivly but i don;t remember the entire address of either or the complete apt.sources line. any help is appreciated. -jason "When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder

Virtual terminal

1999-10-22 Thread loft
Hello,   I am student and have to explain how a virtual functions, how a software could be designed so that a programm would print output to a virtual terminal. I found nothing on the Web so if you had a few minutes to help me it would be very nice.   Thanks Carine

Can't boot from floppies - HELP!

1999-10-22 Thread Jake Griesbach
I'm trying to boot from the Debian rescue disk to install linux for the first time. I have an adaptec AIC-7890 scsi card, so I was typing linux aix7xxx to boot. After the kernel loads, I get the following after the scsi driver loads: sda: sda1, sda2 sdb: sdb1 [MS-DOS FS Rel. ... [me=0x0, ... T

Mutt-ja

1999-10-22 Thread paul
Dazed and Confused again I`m afraid. I had a fairly servicable exim/fetchmail/mutt system (although mailcap has as yet escaped me) until yesterday when I decided to try and enable Japanese support. I replaced standard mutt (from a slink CD) with mutt-ja_0.95.4i.jp2-2,and also the required slang1

Re: RAID, a little question ...

1999-10-22 Thread Robert Varga
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Paolo Pedaletti wrote: > Ciao, > I have bought 2 IBM EIDE DJNA 13.5 Gb to do RAID under Linux. > It works ... not complitely. > > Short question: is it possible to have more than 4 md-devices? > I can't do it. I seem to remember from the RAID tools documentation, that only

Re: X Dacspeed

1999-10-22 Thread aphro
DAC speed is related to the VIDEO card only. it just defines how fas the video card can draw to the analog output at the specific refresh rates(somewhere along those lines) it is different from the refresh rate on the monitor. even if a videocard has a 350Mhz DAC it should still run fine on a 5 y

Re: date and time lost after reboot

1999-10-22 Thread aphro
does the bios reflect the accurate date? i got a similar prob on my servers but im 2000 miles away from em so i just use NTP to update when they bootup. i try to make sure the bios has the right date whenever possible. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]--

Re: Where is nologin file?

1999-10-22 Thread aphro
dont think there is any difference, accomplishes the same task. could be wrong though. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.o

Re: date and time lost after reboot

1999-10-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 06:45:18PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm finding that if I reboot, go into DOS, and then reboot to Debian ^^^ That's the PB, the simili-dos from Billou think they have the right to write to the cmos clock without notice you! Ea

Re: Center ICQ Program

1999-10-22 Thread Todd Suess
As a footnote to my own message, once I installed g++, the program compiled flawlessly, and works pretty neat! Anyone looking for a text (ncurses) based icq client for Debian really should try this out. Regards, Todd On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Todd Suess wrote: > www.freshmeat.net, it was in yeste

X Dacspeed

1999-10-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I wonder if there's a replacement for the '"Dacspeed" statement in Section "device"? It is not working anymore, and as my card goes up to 250 MHz, and my monitor only to 230 MHz, I don't wanna fry the monitor by a mystake. JT -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You might have m

Re: I messed up my resolution.

1999-10-22 Thread Onno
At 11:20 AM 10/22/99 +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: >After you have booted up, press Alt-Ctrl-F1 which will get you to a text >login prompt. Login, type 'killall xdm' and then run xf86config, and >have your monitor settings handy. > >Matthew Or this hmm with Linux there are plenty of options, so

Re: I messed up my resolution.

1999-10-22 Thread Onno
I forgot: IF you can give lilo some boot parameters. You could try: "linux 3" or "linux single" This will put you in runlevel 3 or 1... Then you can do the editing or repairs... Good luck, Onno At 06:56 PM 10/21/99 -0600, jh wrote: >Is there a way to keep debian from trying to start x at start

Re: I messed up my resolution.

1999-10-22 Thread Onno
Boot from your rescue flop, edit your /etc/inittab file and change the line: id:5:initdefault: to: id:3:initdefault: Your should be fine ;-) Good luck, Onno At 06:56 PM 10/21/99 -0600, jh wrote: >Is there a way to keep debian from trying to start x at start up? I messed >up the resolution an

Re: Kernel panic VFS ...

1999-10-22 Thread Onno
At 01:54 AM 10/22/99 +0200, Jocke wrote: >Hi all, > >I did something stupid today :( >While recompiling my kernel to add scsi support for my cdrw I accidently >forgot some ide stuff and now I can't boot. If you want to change something important like a...*hmmm* a kernel or something ALWAYS make li

Re: Center ICQ Program

1999-10-22 Thread Todd Suess
www.freshmeat.net, it was in yesterdays or wednesdays new archives list. regards, Todd On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 08:39:30AM +, Todd Suess wrote: > > > > Anyone have any idea what cc1plus is? I thought I had everything > > I needed on this syst

date and time lost after reboot

1999-10-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm finding that if I reboot, go into DOS, and then reboot to Debian I've lost my date and time settings. This isn't a battery problem because it's a laptop which is continuously plugged in; I can put it to sleep and wake it up without problems. I think something is writing to the hardware clock on

Antwort: X startup errors

1999-10-22 Thread klaus_drews
Hi, try "X -probeonly". Then you should see, which part causes the error. KD Richard Weil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 22.10.99 18:11:39 An: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" Kopie: (Blindkopie: Klaus Drews/D/WestLB-Systems/WLB) Thema:X startup errors Content-type: text/plain; chars

Handling raw files

1999-10-22 Thread Rik Burt
I have figured out how to get the raw tar.gz files for the dpkg package. How do I know where to put these files once I get them ungzipped and untarred? Is there a way for my system to do that automatically? (I know that is what dselect is for but it is currently broke)

X startup errors

1999-10-22 Thread Richard Weil
Where are errors in XFree86's start-up logged? At boot I get the message: Checking for valid XFree86 server configuration ... error in configuration file This then prevents xdm from starting. I'd like to see what part of my XF86Config file is causing the problem if possible. Thanks. Richard

Re: How to copy the Debian-CD (with short 8.3 FN's) to my Harddisk with LFN

1999-10-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
MK>> The other Thing is, how can I get a full FTP-Mirror (SLINK stable + src) ??? MK> MK>Use wget, it had be designed for that. Hello, wget does download ALL !!! It is too much !!! I like to get only the stable bin+src SLINK for i386 and not more. I have only 2,8 GByte and the last Download had

Re: Center ICQ Program

1999-10-22 Thread lexchive
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 08:39:30AM +, Todd Suess wrote: > > Anyone have any idea what cc1plus is? I thought I had everything > I needed on this system to compile, etc but apparently I am > missing something? > cc1plus is the part of gcc that can compile C++ files. Did you install g++ and re

Re: pinging a domain name

1999-10-22 Thread Mark Wagnon
pplaw wrote: > > debs, > > through pon (config'd with pppconfig), i can ping my isp's addy > (207.76.102.251), but i can't ping the domain (www.pcisys.net) (or any > other domain, including www.debian.org). therefore, i can't have a > successful apt with dselect. > > how do i config linux to co

Re: pinging a domain name

1999-10-22 Thread aphro
add the DNS servers to /etc/resolv.conf e.g. nameserver 1.2.3.4 nameserver 5.6.7.8 to find your isp's name servers ask them or do a WHOIS on their domain. test it by using the nslookup utility (nslookup www.debian.org for ex.) nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Postgresql Beginner

1999-10-22 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 02:32:32AM -0400, Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This novice is confused by the role of the user 'postgres'. It seems I can't > do anything with this package unless I first su to root user, then su again to > 'postgres' user. > All you have to do as postgres i

Re: Configuring LILO in Debian

1999-10-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 09:35:06AM -0500, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > Hi everybody, > Debian installation, I wasn't given the option to dual boot. When my > machine starts up, I get a "boot:" prompt, but it quickly defaults to > linux. If I type in dos, it tells me that I don't have that option and

Re: Where is nologin file?

1999-10-22 Thread Pollywog
On 22-Oct-99 aphro wrote: > i just chsh and change their shell to /dev/null to whoever i dont > want to login. sure it may not be the easiest(or maybe it is?) maybe im > still stuck doing things the old way..(as long as it works:) ) Is there a big difference between making their shell /dev/null

Antwort: Re: device name for mouse?

1999-10-22 Thread klaus_drews
Try "cat /dev/whatever". It worked fine for me some time ago. If you get the right address you'll see. aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 22.10.99 15:34:27 An: jh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kopie:debian-user@lists.debian.org, recipient list not shown: ; (Blindkopie: Klaus Drews/D/WestLB-Sy

pinging a domain name

1999-10-22 Thread pplaw
debs, through pon (config'd with pppconfig), i can ping my isp's addy (207.76.102.251), but i can't ping the domain (www.pcisys.net) (or any other domain, including www.debian.org). therefore, i can't have a successful apt with dselect. how do i config linux to connect to domain names and not ju

Re: How to copy the Debian-CD (with short 8.3 FN's) to my Harddisk with LFN

1999-10-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 01:10:44PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello and good day, > > I like to copy my 4 Debian-CD's (2 bin and 2 src) onto my NFS/FTP-Server > running Debian 2.1 but whenever I do it, I get only the short file names. Did you tryied to make an image of he CD? > The other

Re: Center ICQ Program

1999-10-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
You should install g++ JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> All the simple programs have been written.

Re: Kernel version 2.2.12: isapnp builtin or newbie fluke?

1999-10-22 Thread bwarsing
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 01:34:55PM +, Jonathan Heaney wrote: > If it's external, isapnp will make no difference. > > If it's internal, it may be that your PC's bios is configuring it for you > (this might > happen if you have a setting in the bios "PnP OS Installed" set to "No"). No. I had m

Re: Netscape 4.7 vs mozilla for a potato machine ?

1999-10-22 Thread J Horacio MG
> Now NS 4.7 is a different matter. Whether its any good, depends on who > you ask. :-) For some it has problems, including crashing, but for > others it works like a charm. Personally (Communicator 4.7), its never > crashed on me, and seems to be better than previous versions, but YMMV.

RAID, a little question ...

1999-10-22 Thread Paolo Pedaletti
Ciao, I have bought 2 IBM EIDE DJNA 13.5 Gb to do RAID under Linux. It works ... not complitely. Short question: is it possible to have more than 4 md-devices? I can't do it. Devices md0 md1 md2 md3 works ok, no problem, but I want to setup md4 and md5 too. This is the situation: /usr/share/doc/

Re: Re: ipupload

1999-10-22 Thread Paolo Pedaletti
Ciao Eric G . Miller, > > file to my website. But when I disconnect I can execute another script > > in ip-down.d because I use 'kill `cat /var/run/ppp0.d`' which is not a > > proper downing of route ppp0. > > Since the ip-down script run *after* the link goes down, you obviously > can

Re: Identd behind IP Masq?

1999-10-22 Thread Joe Kellner
Did you read the documentation for midentd and set up a file with the identd responce you want for your masqueraded machine? -- Praying mantis entrapped Cicada posing bravery with his might Climbing the hill with spearing fist portrays the fearless fight Str

Re: Where is nologin file?

1999-10-22 Thread aphro
i just chsh and change their shell to /dev/null to whoever i dont want to login. sure it may not be the easiest(or maybe it is?) maybe im still stuck doing things the old way..(as long as it works:) ) nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System

Configuring LILO in Debian

1999-10-22 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hi everybody, I have installed Debian 2.1 on one of my machines. I am also running Windows 98. On my second machine (dual boot Red Hat and Windows 98) Red Hat installed and configured LILO so that I get a "boot:" prompt at startup where I can either tell it to boot linux or dos. But with

Re: device name for mouse?

1999-10-22 Thread aphro
depends on the com port .. com1 /dev/ttyS0 com2 /dev/ttyS1 ..etc.. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett,

Re: How can I find specs on my monitor?

1999-10-22 Thread aphro
depending on the monitor, you may be able to get the specs from www.monitorworld.com they got specs on over 2000 monitors but i did not see that model# ..they got names instead (e.g. Dell graphics performance 16c) or contact dell. or depending on your monitor(mine does - Princeton E0500) if u run

Re: Linux documentation

1999-10-22 Thread virtanen
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Shaul Karl wrote: > Available Optional packages in section doc > > debian-guide - Text from: Debian GNU/Linux: Guide to Installation and Usage > > This package will install the full text in HTML and PostScript formats from > the book "Debian GNU/Linux: Guide to Installation

Re: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.12/mo

1999-10-22 Thread Pollywog
On 22-Oct-99 Martin Fluch wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: > >> > On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 01:25:50AM -0400, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: >> >> This is a know bug in the modutils package. See the bugs page on >> >> this. >> > >> > Where is this bugs page? >> >> I could not find it ei

Re: Kernel version 2.2.12: isapnp builtin or newbie fluke?

1999-10-22 Thread Jonathan Heaney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have some funkiness happening. > Does the new kernel have automatic support for isapnp cards? > The reason I ask is, I was having some trouble with modconf,etc... > Perhaps you will recall the thread posted > > Re: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/mod

Debian meltdown - Linux no longer boots after libncurses4.2-3 upgrade fails.

1999-10-22 Thread clread
I'm upgrading Debian 1.3.1 -> Debian 2.1. The autoup.sh script went ok.   But when I ran dselect, the upgrade for libncurses4.2-3 failed (as described in an earlier posting).   Now, Linux does not even boot.   I think dselect must have installed some packages, but then halted at libncurses,

ftp errors last few days ??

1999-10-22 Thread John
Hi, Anyone have any idea, what the following means. Errors have started coming up in various ftp clients since 4-5 days ago ?. ie mirror, gftp, get problems with mirror too, which suddenly doesnt seem to be able to mirror anymore either times out or skips files ???. :(. "Warning: Cannot parse lis

Re: MTAs and dialup connected machines

1999-10-22 Thread Oskar Liljeblad
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 11:25:03PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > I have a little bit of a problem getting EXIM to work on > > > a dialup-connected computer. > > Thank you. > Perhaps you also got the short answer on how to avoid having my ISP domain > quoted with mail sent locally ? I've tried to

Re: popularity-contest broken pipe

1999-10-22 Thread Matthew W. Roberts
I should also note that I can run it from the command line no problem, it is just as a daily cron job that it has problems... Matt On Oct 21, 1999 at 05:41:26PM, Matthew W. Roberts wrote: > I installed popularity-contest (stable) on my machine and every day I get > the following message from cron

Kernel version 2.2.12: isapnp builtin or newbie fluke?

1999-10-22 Thread bwarsing
Hi, I have some funkiness happening. Does the new kernel have automatic support for isapnp cards? The reason I ask is, I was having some trouble with modconf,etc... Perhaps you will recall the thread posted Re: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.d Well... while att

Re: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep

1999-10-22 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 01:25:50AM -0400, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > > This is a know bug in the modutils package. See the bugs page on > > Where is this bugs page? http://bugs.debian.org/modutils In particular, see Bug#47830. > > Solution is t

Re: kernel-source: make menuconfig does not run ?

1999-10-22 Thread Ingo Reimann
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 02:24:58PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > Package: kernel-source > Version: N/A > Severity: normal > > [13:57:06 kernel-source-2.2.12]# make menuconfig > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) > make -C scripts/lxdialog all > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/s

Re: Data Aquisition Cards?

1999-10-22 Thread Ingo Reimann
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 10:40:37PM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > A shot in the dark. > What are people using with temperature sensors, oxygen probes, etc., > on linux systems? Where can I find an IEEE488 card, cheap? > > I have been thinking about these things for years, and I have a couple >

Re: Linux documentation

1999-10-22 Thread Shaul Karl
Available Optional packages in section doc debian-guide - Text from: Debian GNU/Linux: Guide to Installation and Usage This package will install the full text in HTML and PostScript formats from the book "Debian GNU/Linux: Guide to Installation and Usage" by Debian developers John Goerzen and Oss

kernel-source: make menuconfig does not run ?

1999-10-22 Thread Shaul Karl
Package: kernel-source Version: N/A Severity: normal [13:57:06 kernel-source-2.2.12]# make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12/scripts/lxdialog' make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src

Re: Netscape 4.7 vs mozilla for a potato machine ?

1999-10-22 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 10:43:51AM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: > I dislike Netscape more and more with each new version. I am using 4.7 > with Potato and find it unstable. I consider all libc6 versions of netscape broken. It runs reasonably stable with: - the libc5 version and the old compatibil

How to copy the Debian-CD (with short 8.3 FN's) to my Harddisk with LFN

1999-10-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello and good day, I like to copy my 4 Debian-CD's (2 bin and 2 src) onto my NFS/FTP-Server running Debian 2.1 but whenever I do it, I get only the short file names. The other Thing is, how can I get a full FTP-Mirror (SLINK stable + src) ??? This Mirror will be for the "Inter LUG f.G." in Str

Re: howto mail attach in command line?

1999-10-22 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
apt-get install uudeview uuenview -m [EMAIL PROTECTED] -b -a $HOME/some.tar.gz On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, zhaoway wrote: > how could i mail people attach file using a single command? > like mail -s "some" [EMAIL PROTECTED] --attach $HOME/some.tar.gz > > TIA > > -- > zhaoway > = Please Cc me when

howto mail attach in command line?

1999-10-22 Thread zhaoway
how could i mail people attach file using a single command? like mail -s "some" [EMAIL PROTECTED] --attach $HOME/some.tar.gz TIA -- zhaoway = Please Cc me when replying list.

Re: Where is nologin file?

1999-10-22 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 01:01:08AM -0400, Milan Kliska wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a nologin file which gets removed with rmnologin script. Is > that just a dummy file or what? I just want root to be able to login to this > specific computer. I couldn't find any information about this file, o

Re: Netscape 4.7 vs mozilla for a potato machine ?

1999-10-22 Thread Phillip Deackes
Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to upgrade my browser. Should I try mozilla or netscape 4.7 ? > Perhaps I would do better if I'll keep my current 4.06 ? > I am using potato. I dislike Netscape more and more with each new version. I am using 4.7 with Potato and find it unstable. If

Re: Where is nologin file?

1999-10-22 Thread Ethan Benson
On 22/10/99 Milan Kliska wrote: I'm looking for a nologin file which gets removed with rmnologin script. Is that just a dummy file or what? I just want root to be able to login to this specific computer. I couldn't find any information about this file, or the file itself. /etc/nologin when exi

Re: Netscape 4.7 vs mozilla for a potato machine ?

1999-10-22 Thread Ed Cogburn
Shaul Karl wrote: > > I want to upgrade my browser. Should I try mozilla or netscape 4.7 ? > Perhaps I would do better if I'll keep my current 4.06 ? > I am using potato. There was an article some days ago on LinuxToday or Slashdot (not sure) about the latest version of Mozilla. The gis

Re: xemacs21 and auctex

1999-10-22 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Ingo Reimann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i got some problem with xemacs when upgrading from 20 to 21. How do i > activate auctex? There seems to be some trick, that i can't figure out. > The needed files are there... In your .emacs you should insert at least: (require 'tex-site) I like t

Re: Sed script

1999-10-22 Thread Joakim Svensson
Hi all, >i need to extract the number 997841138254, or any other number from that >position, from an hl7 file. The file will look like this : > >MSH...OBR|0001||997841138254|..F > >I can use "OBR" as the starting point of the search and then use the "|" to >move to the begginning of

Re: Linux documentation

1999-10-22 Thread virtanen
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Shaul Karl wrote: > > Another option is http://www2.newriders.com/cfm/prod_book.cfm?RecordID=585 ; > > the real source to it is available, and it's fairly easy to produce a > > PostScript file from it. > > > > Not Found > > The requested URL /debian/debian-guide.tar.bz2 was

Fetchmail: header

1999-10-22 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, What's wrong with this? It's happened to me a few times, fetchmail refuses to download a message alleging the "header line is ridiculously overlong". Is this something I should fix in fetchmail somehow, o should I contact with the owner of the list where this message came from? Version: f

Re: ssh2, tcpdump

1999-10-22 Thread esl
It works! Thanks. I already have af_packet as a module and you are right you have to load it manually, why? I thought a module will just be automatically loaded when needed? Is this a bug? As for ssh2, when I installed slink I selected the profile "System Administration". I'll into your suggesti

Identd behind IP Masq?

1999-10-22 Thread Harlan Crystal
Greetings, I recently reinstalled my system, and I previously was able to run identd while behind IP masquerading. I've installed the midentd package (identd with ip masq support) yet when I attempt to connect to irc servers, it will say " Got Ident response" yet still the server will not all

Re: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep

1999-10-22 Thread Martin Fluch
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Solution is to add the file /etc/modutils/paths and add > > entries for each one of subdirectories under /lib/modules/2.2.12/. > > Are there any more specific docs to read about setting up this file? man modules.conf Martin -- If the box says '

solved: dvips -d 2400 How??? default printer does not support 2400dpi

1999-10-22 Thread esoR ocsirF
Hello all, I am the original poster. After receiving a tip from an old mentor of mine I tried setting up dvips with texconfig and set the printer in 2 seperate locations. It seems to be working now but dvips now is very verbose when ps'ing a dvi file (not complaining though :) Thanks for all the s

Re: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.12/mo

1999-10-22 Thread Martin Fluch
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 01:25:50AM -0400, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > >> This is a know bug in the modutils package. See the bugs page on > >> this. > > > > Where is this bugs page? > > I could not find it either, though I did find one that seemed to be

Re: Where is smbmount?->smbfs

1999-10-22 Thread Ingo Reimann
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 06:41:58AM +, Stuart Ballard wrote: > Hi, > > What package do I need to install to get the smbmount command? I have > samba, samba-common and smbclient installed, but mount -t smbfs doesn't > seem to do anything, and there is no smbmount man page. > if you need smbfs, y

SVGA Ghostscript

1999-10-22 Thread peter karlsson
Is there any way to get ghostscript to display postscript documents on the console (using SVGALIB or the framebuffer)? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

Center ICQ Program

1999-10-22 Thread Todd Suess
Hey gang, Anyone here ever try using the Center ICQ program for Linux? It is a complete text based client for ICQ, no x required! :) I tried to compile it and got the following error: tsuess:~/tmp/center-1.10.7/center# make cd ../ktools/src; make; cd ../../center make[1]: Entering directory `/ro

Re: ssh2, tcpdump

1999-10-22 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
> Can someone please help: > > 1. ssh 2.0.13 failed on make on stock slink. I did the usual configure > then make and then it gives me errors(sorry I don't have details here > and I can provide that). Anyone who has successfully build ssh2 and if > you can give me some pointers? I'm running slink

Re: rtl8139 in slink?

1999-10-22 Thread Martin Oldfield
> "Alexis" == Alexis Maldonado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexis> Hello! On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:42:48PM -0700, aphro Alexis> wrote: >> curious as to why there was no realtek 8139 driver included in >> slink. and it doesnt appear as an option in the kernel that >> sli

ssh2, tcpdump

1999-10-22 Thread esl
Can someone please help: 1. ssh 2.0.13 failed on make on stock slink. I did the usual configure then make and then it gives me errors(sorry I don't have details here and I can provide that). Anyone who has successfully build ssh2 and if you can give me some pointers? I'm running slink with the la

Postgresql Beginner

1999-10-22 Thread Bob Bernstein
This novice is confused by the role of the user 'postgres'. It seems I can't do anything with this package unless I first su to root user, then su again to 'postgres' user. I have created a db, such as 'mydatabase,' but I feel like I'm missing something. Surely there's a way to allow an "ordinary

help installing lincurses4 v. 4.2-3

1999-10-22 Thread clread
I'm upgrading Debian 1.3.1 (bo) to Debian 2.1 (slink). I followed autoup.sh instructions first to upgrade libc5 -> libc6. But now, dselect tells me libc6 >= 2.0.7u-6 is required, but that my system only has libc6 2.0.7t-1. What's wrong? How can I fix it? Charlie

X problem with kernel 2.2.13

1999-10-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
I just compiled kernel 2.2.13 using my old .config file with 'make oldconfig'. Now when I start X, I get multiple overlapping copies of the screen. Has anyone else seen this or know why this is occuring? I'll try reconfiguring X in the morning, but I've never seen anything like this happen with

Re: fetchmail, sendmail, and mutt and sending mail with the correct a ddress

1999-10-22 Thread Brian Lavender
If you installed sendmail as a package from the Debian distribution, then you need to add the below line to your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file and run the program sendmailconfig as root MASQUERADE_AS(ntrnet.net)dnl This should produce a line in your /etc/mail/sendmail.cf which looks like DMntrnet.n

keyboard hassles with Debian from HP-UX

1999-10-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I'm having some keyboard hassles accessing a debian system from HP-UX 10.20. I am running rxvt on HP-UX, which requires me to run "stty erase '^?'" to get backspace working (otherwise only c-backspace works). When I then telnet to a Debian 2.1 box, backspace works OK -- except in some programs (n

Where is nologin file?

1999-10-22 Thread Milan Kliska
Hi, I'm looking for a nologin file which gets removed with rmnologin script. Is that just a dummy file or what? I just want root to be able to login to this specific computer. I couldn't find any information about this file, or the file itself. Thanks, Milan

Re: Ethernet card SMC1211TX

1999-10-22 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Is SMC1211TX EZ Card 10/100 (PCI) suported under Linux? If yes what > is the name of the driver? The rtl8139 driver should work. -- -- Phil Brutsche

Re: dpkg problem

1999-10-22 Thread Rik Burt
Ok, two choices: 1) Open up /var/lib/dpkg/status, and find the package entries for libc6 and dpkg, then give the full entry (all fields for that package) for each one. 2) Try getting the slink _and_ potato dpkg .deb's, then use dpkg-deb to unpack them so you can try to get a working dpkg.

Re: Sed script

1999-10-22 Thread Eric G . Miller
Duh, even easier: $ cut --delimiter='|' --fields=N < infile > outfile where N = the fields you want. See man cut. -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +

Re: Sed script

1999-10-22 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 04:28:29PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > Not debian related but i need help nonetheless. > > i need to extract the number 997841138254, or any other number from that > position, from an hl7 file. The file will look like this : > > MSH...OBR|0001||997841138

Re: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.12/mo

1999-10-22 Thread Pollywog
On 22-Oct-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the prompt reply. > I have a few more questions if you are willing to answer them. > > On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 01:25:50AM -0400, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: >> This is a know bug in the modutils package. See the bugs page on >> this. >

Ethernet card SMC1211TX

1999-10-22 Thread Dan Pomohaci
Hello, Is SMC1211TX EZ Card 10/100 (PCI) suported under Linux? If yes what is the name of the driver? Thanks, -- | Dan N. Pomohaci | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Lecturer - Faculty of Biotechnology

libdb2.7?

1999-10-22 Thread Kaz Sasayama
Is anyone working on libdb2.7.debs? I'd like to try prcs2, which requires Berkeley DB 2.7. If no one is working, I will build it myself in /usr/local. Thanks in advance. -- "Free software is not for free." Kaz Sasayama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hyper Linux Systems (Hypercore Software Design, Ltd.) ht

Re: ash - options to `echo' command

1999-10-22 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Thanx! On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 09:00:46AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/toc.htm

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