Re: HP Laserjet 6L

On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Stefan Baums wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > is anyone running the HP Laserjet 6L with Debian GNU/Linux? I'm using > > magicfilter 1.2-20, and the 6L is not in magicfilterconfig's list of > > supported > > printers. Can I use anot

Re: (smail + pine) reply-to?

On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Ian Keith Setford wrote: > I have a local lan connected to the Internet through a Pipe 50. The > domain I use is real but the domain is NOT routed on the internet right > now. I would like to use smail + pine to send messages. This setup is > currently working but I would li

Re: Incredibly huge /var/log/lastlog

On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > According to Marcus Brinkmann: > > Would someone mind to explain me and the others what fixed seize files are > > Who mentioned fixed size files? I guess I did in my first post. After reading your susequent posts, I think that I should explain

56k voice modem compatible with debian/vgetty

Sorry if this is a little off topic, but I have immediately by a modem for my debian (unstable) machine within the next two days. Given I have to do this, I thought I would get check out a voice modem - Is there a good 56k internal voice modem that is compatible with vgetty? Is there one that does

Incredibly huge /var/log/lastlog

After a recent hamm upgrade (two or three days ago) on my machine (pretty much a single user machine) I noticed that /var/log/faillog and /var/log/lastlog are incredibly large (particularily lastlog): -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1522440 Feb 10 23:03 faillog -rw-r--r-- 1 root root

Re: pine/spell checking

On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, A. M. Varon wrote: > On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > > > Is there a good spell checker for pine? - One that works all the time and > > gives possible choices? > > There is a program called ispell. It can be used with pine. Paul, In case you haven't used ispell, it

RE: /usr/spool and related links...

On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Kristian Strickland wrote: > In all fairness to the authors, is it accurate to call a program's > "incorrect" behaviour a bug when the "incorrect" behaviour is caused be the > standards being changed _after_ the software was released? Actually, your statement is incorre

Re: Using hamm? READ THIS about /usr/spool and related links...

On 10 Feb 1998, Norris Preyer wrote: > All this is cool, I just couldn't figure out which package removed > the link, so I wasn't sure which package to file a bug against. The package that removed the link is fine. It is the packages that try to use the link that bugs should be reported against.

Re: latex2rtf - where is it?

On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Tony wrote: > I seem to to have a manpage for latex2rtf, but nothing that the system can > find. Does anyone know which package it is in? Hate to do this, but it is in the latex2rtf package:) Now to be helpful - I assume you mean "man latex2rtf" works, but there seems to be

problems with w command

The w command on a few of our servers is not working properly. I'll use two machines, verdi and frisch, to explain this although it is not isolated to these machines. Both machines have kernel 2.0.29 and procps 1.12.2 and the kernel configuration is pretty much identical (except for a coupld of thi

Re: K6 and Debian

On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Charles Read wrote: > [BTW, I've concluded that unless > you find a PCL printer with PostScript capability, > you're stuck with either one that works really well > under Win95 (PCL) or one that works really well > under Linux (PostScript).]. PCL is HP not Win95. Or, in other

Re: .xreset equivalent of .xsession?

On 22 Nov 1997, David Z. Maze wrote: > You can put things after your window manager in .xsession. These will > be executed after your window manager exits (user logs out) but before > the X server resets. To do that I would need to remove the exec statement which causes fvwm to take over the p

.xreset equivalent of .xsession?

Is the a file that a user can put logout commands similar to /etc/X11/xdm/Xreset_0? -- Colin Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies Building, Room 309, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)545-6000x4219

debian-user@lists.debian.org

On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Greg Green wrote: > I am new to Debian Linux and I am having problems with xdm and fvwm. > When I used Red Hat Linux, all I had to do to get Xwindows to start at > login was to edit the /etc/inittab to go default to run level 4. Now, I > am running Debian 1.30 and do not even

Re: TROUBLES WITH LINUX DEBIAN GNU 1.3.1 2CD SET

On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Oscar Alvarez Paredes wrote: > I bought this 2CD Debian Distributuion but i haven't already been able > to instal it. > > I tryied to boot it from the CD but after displaying the first line it > hangs. > I made the seven instalation disks and i installed the base system but i

Re: one more on plan (fwd)

mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca> -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 23:46:09 -0500 (EST) From: "Colin R. Telmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: one more on plan On Mo

lesstifg-dev problems

I have just recently upgraded to lesstifg and lesstifg-dev to recompile a package I maintain using libc6 stuff. After installing the newest versions, pn lesstif (no description available) pn lesstif-altdbg (no description available) pn lesstif-altdev (no des

setting up a slip/ppp server

I have a machine that is connected to the net and want to set up a slip or ppp server only so that I can dial into the machine via a connected modem with a PDA (palm pilot) that can establish either a slip or ppp connection. Setting this up must be covered in a FAQ, can I assign some kind of local

COM 5? Extra I/O Card?

I have recently acquired the need for another com port and am already using com1 (mouse) and com2(UPS) and found the following paragraph in a FAQ for the palm pilot (the palm pilot is a PDA that has a syncronization cradle that connects to a com port): What to do if you do not

Re: Please advice on insmod problem

On 29 Oct 1997, Carey Evans wrote: > "Robert J. Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > insmod psaux > > > > which yields the following error message : > > > > /lib/modules/2.0.30/misc/psaux.o: unresolved symbol > > kill_fasync_R53d38e09 > > Presumably you need psaux for your PS/2 mouse.

Re: POP and SMTP program for shell users

On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Shaleh wrote: > > > > > Is there a elm/pine type program that will do POP and SMTP? thanks. > > > > 1) Install qpopper or imap-4 de

Re: POP and SMTP program for shell users

On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Shaleh wrote: > Is there a elm/pine type program that will do POP and SMTP? thanks. 1) Install qpopper or imap-4 depending on the protocol you want. No configuration necessary that I know about. 2) Install fetchmail and configure it to work with qpopper or imap-4. Some

Re: The real Debian.org -> please read

On Sun, 26 Oct 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: > If you are new to Debian, please don't make the mistake I made. This is a > closed > software project, where you are allowed to contribute only if you surcome to > the > personal agenda of the current leadership. This is the structure and model of > t

Re: Strange disk problems - file dates out of wack - solved

On 26 Oct 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Unmounted /home without any problems and ran e2fsck with the "check for > > > > bad blocks" and "force" options. However, the disk seems to be fine. > > > > Strange. > > You might want to try the debugfs program

RE: Strange disk problems - file dates out of wack

On Sun, 26 Oct 1997, Ted Harding wrote: > Try (non-destructively) e2fsck -fnV on the device with these files > and stand back ... (at any rate pipe it through "less"). I predict > several thousand lines of possibly alarming information. Depending on what > you see, you may judge that it's worth ta

Re: Strange disk problems - file dates out of wack

On Sun, 26 Oct 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: > > Looking more closely at /reevesj/.netscape/cache, one finds: > > > > br--r-srwx 1 2878729728 73, 60 May 21 2025 07 > > > > Notice the date and the permissions! Whatever this is, I cannot remove > > it, even using "rm -f", as root! I als

glimpse engine on web site

Am I doing something wrong, or has the glimpse engine that one can use to search the mailing-list archives never worked? I always get the following error message: Error: can't open glimpse index-file lists/.glimpse_index (use -H to give an index-directory or run 'glimpseindex' to make an index)

Strange disk problems - file dates out of wack

(EDT) From: "James G. MacKinnon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Colin R. Telmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "James G. Mackinnon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: frisch On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote: > Unmounted /ho

Re: Pine and fvwm under hamm

On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Matt Thompson wrote: > since i updated to hamm, two odd things are happening. one is that often > when i send a message from Pine, it hangs for 20-30 seconds before saying > 'message sent and copied to sent mail'. just in case there was a problem > with smail, or my isp's ma

Setting the time and xntp

I am currently using a machine that has Win95 on the first harddisk and debian unstable on a second harddisk and I am having trouble getting the time to change from GMT. The cmos clock is set to the Eastern time zone and as this is not my machine I don't feel right asking to have the cmos clock set

Strange update problem

I just updated a machine that was previously running unstable to the most current version of unstable and a bunch of programs that seem to depend on libc5 core dump (emacs, fvwm2, ?). I poked around but couldn't solve the problem so I thought the easiest thing to do would be to present the output o

netbook and diskless workstations

Does anyone have any experience using netboot? My department has a number of Windows machines and a couple of fast Debian machines in one room all on a net. After plugging debian and X enough, the debian machine consoles are always busy but some students still are using windows, so I can't convert

Re: Printing to a HP Deskjet 870 Cxi

On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote: > Does anyone know how to set up a Deskjet 870 Cxi with magicfilter (or > anything else for that matter)? Cheers, Colin. > > Ps. I have no desire for color - could I just use the 550 filter? Should have tried the 550c before posting

Printing to a HP Deskjet 870 Cxi

Does anyone know how to set up a Deskjet 870 Cxi with magicfilter (or anything else for that matter)? Cheers, Colin. Ps. I have no desire for color - could I just use the 550 filter? -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies

passing "-c filename" to /etc/init.d/dhcpc

g to /etc/hostname happens when /etc/init.d/dhcpc is restarted. Furthermore, running /usr/sbin/dynamic_host by hand works fine and so I am totally confused. Does /etc/init.d/dhcpc have write access to /etc/hostname? Any help is gratefully appreciated. Cheers. -- Colin R. Telme

Re: printing over samba to win95

add the line `echo translate' if you want automatic # CR/LF translation when printing. #echo translate echo "print -" /usr/sbin/ljet3-filter "$@" ) | /usr/bin/smbclient "MAIN\\HPLIII" -I ipaddress -N -P >

Re: WAVE

ine (although the incoming speed is much faster than the outgoing). I really don't what else to say - I had no problems with it. Credit should be given to the dhcpcd maintainer. Cheers. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School o

Re: sound card as a module and audio CDs

layers just don't signal kerneld to load the sound module. Cheers. PS. I have added the following to my .xsession (could just as well be put in .bash_profile if you don't run xdm): cat /dev/null > /dev/audio That gets kerneld to load the sound module without needing to hear some obnox

Re: [backup method] - what about TOB?

Anyway, if that is the case, both tar and afio have support for multivolumes, although given that afio archives each file whereas tar makes one large archive, if you are going to multiple floppies, perhaps afio would be a better idea? Cheers. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergove

sound card as a module and audio CDs

thing is not triggering kerneld to load the sound module). I guess I could write a simple little wrapper to insmod and rmmod and run workman inbetween, but I thought there may be a better way to go about this. Any ideas? Any help is gratefully appreciated. Cheers. -- Colin R. Telmer, Inst

Re: File impossible to delete

wn root drafts > chown: drafts: Operation not permitted > > bash-2.00# rm -f drafts > rm: drafts: Operation not permitted > > What can I do to get rid of it? As root can you chmod 700 drafts and then try rm -f drafts? -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmen

Re: copying text files (unix to dos)

earch dos2unix) -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies Building, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)545-6000x4219 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP

Re: mail encrypting/pgp

_TMPFILE_ /usr/lib/pinepgp/crypt _TMPFILE_ _RECIPIENTS_ You might also consider enabling the "compose-send-offers-first-filter" feature. Then when you send a message, you will be prompted for which filter you would like to use. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Interg

Re: time

keep the cmos clock as accurate as possible, I have root's crontab do a clock -w every night. Cheers. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies Building, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7

Re: Where is Netscape Communicator?

p site at netscape but none of there web pages list a linux version. Weird. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies Building, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)545

Re: How to find programs provided by package?

mentation is VERY sparse... dpkg --listfiles mctools-lite will do it. Cheers. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies Building, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)

setting time via a server?

continuously to just set the clock every 24 hours. Can xntp be used as a one-off program and put into a crontab? Cheers. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies Building, Queen's University Kingston, On

Re: audio files

lute path. However, it is nothing like showaudio. It's just a simple script that cats a file to dev/audio and therefore doesn't do any conversion. You may want to look at the bplay package. Cheers. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations S

Re: rxvt colours

esource pointing to ~/.Xdefaults. > > > > JM> Inside X, rxvt -bg blue -fg snow works fine! > > > > JM> Any ideas > > > > Don't you have a netscrape around, do you? > > > Yes I have netscape??? I think he meant "netscape running&

xinitrc vs. xsession (was Re: Window Managers)

tup defined as .xsession and /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc have $startup defined as .xinitrc? At the moment, both files have $startup defined as .xsession. Is this a bug? Cheers. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies, Queen&

Re: octave

c5-dev_5.4.20-1.deb. It had a > few > complaints about empty version fields which I fixed the same way, and then > seemed to install ok. > Finally I typed "octave" and this time the response was "segmentation fault." > What should I try next? What version of o

Re: Window Managers

iguration. If you just run X through startx or xinit, then .xinitrc is the file to use. Look into /etc/X11/xdm for the global Xsession and in /etc/X11/xinit for the global xinitrc. Modify the one you that is applicable and then save it as the appropriate dot file. Cheers. -- Colin

Re: Anyone available that I can call???

te that may cause the problem although I don't know if this would cause it. Anyway, hopefully fuelling the discussion will get other more knowledgable users involved. Cheers. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies, Qu

Re: rxvt ignores x resource settings?

now peaked my curiousity - why is the point of rxvt to avoid xrdb? Is that part of the reason it uses less memory? Curiousity killed the cat... Cheers. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies, Queen's University

Re: octave

for that library on my > system and can't find it either. The file /var/lib/dpkg/status says > "install ok installed depends gnuplot, less". gnuplot and less are both > installed. What should I do? Thanks for helping. Hard to say - what version of octave and

Re: rxvt ignores x resource settings?

ed this symlink yesterday and it seemed to like .Xresources. The version I am running currently is also 2.20-4. So Iam really not offering a solution unfortunately, but it may help in the interim. Cheers. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of

Re: apcupsd, genpower, and PowerShute(TM) "Black" cable.

e - does he still want to give it away? Cheers, Colin. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)545-6000x4219 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Matlab for Debian?

anged to g. Anyway, the reason that I am writing this is to say if you do try octave, look into the documentation for matlab compatibility. There is a list of options that are suggested to be set that you should be aware of to give it the look and feel of matlab. Cheers. -- Colin R. Telme

Re: Wine and xpm

On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > Should I install xpm source? And if so, where does it go? Install the debian xpm#.#-dev package. dpkg will put it where it should go. Cheers. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Stud

Re: Why is pine so slow?

e of sendmail's "-t" option. sendmail-path=/usr/lib/sendmail -oem -t -oi This made my pine lightning fast without the possible problems of using the background sending option. Cheers, Colin. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations

apcupsd, genpower, and PowerShute(TM) "Black" cable.

genpower. Moreover, it is GPLd. I would be happy to package this for debian if there is no objections/some demand. Any comments? Cheers, Colin. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies, Queen's Unive

Re: Xlib3.3 server probs

atively create the file /etc/X*.hosts (replacing * with the display number, usually 0) and include each machine on individual lines. See xhost(1) for details. Cheers, Colin -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Poli

Re: xdm is not comming up ......

nal line should # look like: # XTerminalName:0 foreign # # X servers are automatically added to this file by the Debian # xbase and xserver configuration scripts. :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16 -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Pol

Re: [lpd] filtering

get > input filtering working with them.. I think that under standard lpr you have to set up a "double queue". See the bottom of the Printing-HOWTO in the section on remote printers. Cheers, Colin. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations

Questions regarding dynamic IPs and dhcpcd

After successfully setting up dhcpcd to connect to a cable modem, I have a few questions regarding dynamic ip addresses. First note that I have read through the dynamic-ip-hacks mini-HOWTO, but am still a little confused. Also, I will write up what ever information I find in a mini-HOWTO or a debi

links between rex* and bo?

Are there any symlinks between bo and any of the rex directories? I want to remove the rex directories from my local mirror given space constraints but I recall seeing a note that a few links still existed. Cheers. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations

Re: Rogers Cable Access..a follow-up

limit with the isp (and/or restrictions on the time of day) and that wave downloads are much faster than standard phone line isps, it could be a bargain. Cheers, Colin. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies, Queen's Un

DLINK-220 (was Re: rogers wave cable access....)

this without success. I tried pnpdump without any options, but it only listed my AWE32 and modem. When I did this, it looked at regport 0x203. Is there a possiility that the dlink220 is on another regport? Cheers, Colin. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations

Re: rogers wave cable access....

-HOWTO. As for the kerbosos, I'll let you know after the weekend. Cheers, Colin. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (61

Re: rogers wave cable access....

One other thing I forgot to mention. I think you can also use alternative sofware such as bootp, but I am quite sure that Rogers Wave uses the dhcp protocol. Cheers. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies, Queen's Unive

Re: rogers wave cable access....

replicated the winipcfg program. 2) What ethernet driver should I use for a D-LINK 220? NE-2000? Cheers, Colin. PS. I will report my failure/success as I go and would be quite happy to contribute the either/both the dhcpcd documentation and the mini-HOWTO. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute o