Re: Where is fdformat, mkfs.[fat|vfat] ?

1998-10-07 Thread Jack Kern
s/vfat.txt" by doing a "locate vfat" on my hamm system. This file has information about vfat including a reference to "http://www-plateau.cs.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/vfat.html"; -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux

Re: install debian

1998-09-29 Thread Jack Kern
EMS is enabled), > but never under WINDOWS-3.1 or WINDOWS'95. > (However, real DOS-Mode of WINDOWS'95 can have EMS driver with VCPI) > If loading via VCPI you also MUST have: My daughter ran into this. She said that she had to remove something like "NOVCPI" from the c

Re: xterm-debian

1998-09-28 Thread Jack Kern
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 03:21:19PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Jack Kern wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 12:00:47PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > > > > > *-"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > |

Re: xterm-debian

1998-09-28 Thread Jack Kern
doc/xbase/README.Debian | wc -l > 0 > On my hamm system: $ grep xterm-debian /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian | wc -l 8 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux

Re: RESCUE DISK |& X ICONS

1998-09-28 Thread Jack Kern
dd if=resc1440.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 conv=sync ; sync -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux

Re: X PHYSICAL WINDOW 2 BIG!

1998-09-23 Thread Jack Kern
Device "CirrusAVGA" Monitor "TTX" Subsection "Display" Modes "640x480" ViewPort0 0 Virtual 640 480 #Virtual 800 600 EndSubsection -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux

pppd[420]: Modem hangup

1998-09-21 Thread Jack Kern
Sep 21 09:10:51 ludd pppd[834]: Connection terminated. Sep 21 09:10:52 ludd pppd[834]: Exit. Sometimes the "Hangup (SIGHUP)" line is missing. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Problems with Mail

1998-09-18 Thread Jack Kern
uot;runq" will "run the queue" and deliver the mail after fetchmail has popped it. Hope it is as simple as that. :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread Jack Kern
\ *.=debug;*.=info;\ *.=notice;*.=warn /dev/tty5 Or as suggested in "Linux Tips HOWTO / v3.0, 7 January 1997" add the following line to /etc/syslog.conf *.*/dev/tty5 to dump everything on tty5. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread Jack Kern
tc/ppp/chap-secrets > drwxr-s---2 rootdip /etc/ppp/peers > -rw-r-1 rootdip /etc/ppp/peers/provider > -rwsr-xr--1 rootdip /usr/bin/pppd > -rwxr-xr-x1 rootroot/usr/bin/pon > -rwxr-xr-x1 rootroot/usr/bin/poff > crw-rw1 rootdialout /dev/ttyS1 > > I notice the permissions aren't quite the same as what you listed, so I'll > try playing with those in a few minutes. Well, maybe not. Perhaps the packages have been updated to correct the "bug". -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux

Re: How to start PPP?

1998-09-17 Thread Jack Kern
crw--- 1 root root /dev/ttyS2 Put the users who are to bring up a ppp link in the dip group. As shipped Debian 2.0 has /etc/chatscripts like this: drwx-- 2 root dip /etc/chatscripts/ This is a known bug -- wrong permissions on /etc/chatscripts/. (quoted from a message on debian-user) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Dos partition not mounted after new kernel boot

1998-09-16 Thread Jack Kern
aracter set, _e.g._, NLS charset cp437(nls_cp437). The help files using "make config" are fairly clear. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux

Re: PLIP-howto?

1998-09-16 Thread Jack Kern
i. > > Does anybody know which other documentation is available on the subject or > what happened to PLIP-howto? See /usr/doc/HOWTO/unmaintained/mini/PLIP.gz -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux

Re: xconsole doesn't tell me anything

1998-09-16 Thread Jack Kern
# Automatically? Run "xconsole -file /dev/xconsole" from ~/.xinitrc or some other X Window startup routine. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux

Re: I can,t seem to get out to the internet.

1998-09-14 Thread Jack Kern
> > Any hints as to what I might be doing wrong. Anything at all will > be greatly appreciated. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux

Re: HELP: modem and server install

1998-09-12 Thread Jack Kern
ee /usr/doc/fetchmail and do a "man fetchmail". > 2. How do I get the modem installed in the system? To get "pon" working run "pppconfig" as root. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Can httpd and wwwoffled co-exist?

1998-09-12 Thread Jack Kern
On Sat, Sep 12, 1998 at 10:48:59PM +1200, Tim Thomson wrote: > On 9 Sep 1998, Jack Kern wrote: [...] > > I don't understand these conflicts, so I thought I would ask if httpd and > > wwwoffled can coexist before trying to reinstall wwwoffle or whatever. [...] > Well, you c

Can httpd and wwwoffled co-exist?

1998-09-09 Thread Jack Kern
ught I would ask if httpd and wwwoffled can coexist before trying to reinstall wwwoffle or whatever. boa uses port 80 and wwwoffle uses ports 8080 and 8081 -- all defaults. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux

Re: procmail

1998-09-08 Thread Jack Kern
zzie.com/ii/faqs/archive/mail/filtering-faq/ http://www.best.com/~ii/faqs/archive/mail/filtering-faq/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux

Re: HELP: More Problems Configuring Email

1998-09-07 Thread Jack Kern
On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 04:13:06PM -0300, Ralph Winslow wrote: > When Jack Kern wrote, I replied: > > For reference my .fetchmailrci, as previously attached: > > poll mail.my_isp.net protocol pop3 username rjw password secret_word > > > > On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 10:3

Re: HELP: More Problems Configuring Email

1998-09-07 Thread Jack Kern
news and uucp services. smtp stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.smtpd fetchmail is trying to use in.smtpd and the connection is being refused. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-08-26 Thread Jack Kern
What am I missing? You could use sudo to run pon/poff and other programs that work perfectly as root. Installing and using sudo seems a lot easier than messing with all these file permissions. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux

Re: apt & dists/stable-upgrades DOESN'T WORK

1998-08-26 Thread Jack Kern
dists/hamm/non-free Packages 404 No such file or directory. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux

Re: OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)

1998-08-17 Thread Jack Kern
rocmail as recommended in the FILTERING MAIL FAQ: http://www.jazzie.com/ii/faqs/archive/mail/filtering-faq/ http://www.best.com/~ii/faqs/archive/mail/filtering-faq/ ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/mail/filtering-faq -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux

Re: elm still no signature file working

1998-07-24 Thread Jack Kern
ctory -- not in "~/.elm/" -- unless it may be specified otherwise in "~/.elm/elmrc". -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Driver bug? 56k USR doesn't transmit properly?

1998-07-06 Thread Jack Kern
e) unless you are using the modem from an old program that can't specify speeds higher than 38400 for faster hardware. However, "pppd" can do so when specified in "/etc/ppp/peers/provider", for example. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Trying to install ELM

1998-07-05 Thread Jack Kern
rt.c -o mcprt.o > [...] Is there a particular reason that you need to _compile_ elm? If not, then you can get the "elm-me+" package from the Debian 1.3 distribution and use "dpkg -i elm-me+_*.deb" to install the package. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmou

Re: [I98turboRI@aol.com: Newbie permissions question.]

1998-07-05 Thread Jack Kern
yping 'groups'. As > for the permissions, type 'man chmod' to read all about them. CAUTION: 'usermod -G dip username' appears to have the probably unwanted result of removing "username" from all the other groups -- it did so when I tried it. -- [EMAIL PRO

Re: plog not working in hamm.

1998-06-02 Thread Jack Kern
this is because > > > /etc/syslog.conf [...] > > Strange. Does /etc/syslog.conf contain a line: > > > > local2.*-/var/log/ppp.log > > > > on your machine? > > No it doesn't. I've added it in now though. Can I activate this

Re: telnetd?

1998-06-02 Thread Jack Kern
low telnet > to work (?) or is there a specific package I need? Check "/etc/inetd.conf" for the following line (all in one line). telnet stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.telnetd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/L

Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?

1998-05-31 Thread Jack Kern
t the exim installation seemed fine. Did the forced smail removal leave some problems? I reinstalled smail and everything is OK. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: directory tree and .deb's

1998-05-31 Thread Jack Kern
-0.13.deb, then "dpkg -c xyz-0.13.deb" displays an "ls -l" of the archive therein. One doesn't have to install the package to see this. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hamm ...

1998-05-27 Thread Jack Kern
autoup/ http://www.taz.net.au/autoup/ Therein is a section on how to deal with the new format for wtmp. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SMTP connection went away?

1998-05-20 Thread Jack Kern
the line, "telnet localhost 25" now gives: Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to ludd. Escape character is '^]'. 220-ludd.klis.com Smail-3.2.0.101 (#1 1998-May-5) ready at Wed, 20 May 1998 00:24:47 -0300 (ADT) 220 ESMTP supported Could this /etc/inetd.conf entry be related to Mr. Lowe&

Re: PPPD Not working?

1998-05-17 Thread Jack Kern
hings easier :) , try the pppconfig package (pppconfig_1.0.deb), a new program for hamm/frozen. Like falling off a log... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

boot failure: "hde: Probing with STATUS instead of ALTSTATUS"

1998-05-17 Thread Jack Kern
one Keyboard: Enhanced Bus Type: ISA/AT/Classic Bus DMA Controller: Yes Cascaded IRQ2: Yes BIOS Data Segment: None Is there a way to get kernel 2.0.32 to work with this system? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 -- To UNSUB

Re: Leafnode question

1998-05-12 Thread Jack Kern
your system clock is correctly set. Often the intruders address from syslog will be a name for a dial-up account. The isp or owner of the domain can check their logs to see what user was on that account at that time. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux i3

Re: how do I delete not empty directories

1998-05-11 Thread Jack Kern
t "rm -R" will do? The command line could be edited to substitute the "rm" for the "ls". Perhaps this would help avoid disasters to some extent -- unless one fouls up the command line editing. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debia

New kernel 2.0.32 rebooting during boot up

1998-05-09 Thread Jack Kern
sorted out? (I believe someone else recently posed a similar problem but I probably failed to attend to any responses at the time.) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux i386 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: sudo no do

1998-05-08 Thread Jack Kern
ith no "Host_Alias" spec and it also worked: jkern localhost= Thanks again. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux i386 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

sudo no do

1998-05-08 Thread Jack Kern
to find it. I am using kernel 2.0.30. I didn't see any comments about what kernels would be required with the change to hamm. Is it necessary to upgrade the kernel? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux i386 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: how to set up headless machine?

1998-05-07 Thread Jack Kern
quot;Global" options section (/usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz) seems to have a relevant passage: SERIAL= enables control from a serial line. The specified serial port is initialized and LILO is accepting input from it and from ... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nov

Re: Rescue Disks

1998-05-05 Thread Jack Kern
here was a recent comp.os.linux.announce article regarding "tomsrtbt" Tom's "UNIX on a floppy" where "rt" stands for root and "bt" stands for boot. It has an image to copy to a floppy formatted to 1920kb. There is lots of room and facility for customization

Re: Cpu

1998-05-04 Thread Jack Kern
ing then please share it with me. Bye. This might be interesting (if not considered silly): I run a 3.78 Bogomips AMD 386SX/SLX-25 (mid-1992) with 9M RAM and Debian 1.3, sometimes with two users (no X). It should qualify well in the low price category. :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern

Incoming telnet attempts during leafnode/fetch nntp connections

1998-05-03 Thread Jack Kern
t attempt was logged as from "1Cust43.tnt2.tco2.da.uu.net". A part of another machine name was "alvirus". I don't know if I should pay any attention to this. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux i386 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mutt & libc6

1998-04-26 Thread Jack Kern
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 08:19:02PM -0300, Jack Kern wrote: > On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 05:12:39PM +1000, Chris wrote: > [...] > > With all the discussion of pine v's mutt, etc, etc, I thought I'd take a > > look a mutt and see what people where on about. > >

Re: Mutt & libc6

1998-04-25 Thread Jack Kern
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 05:12:39PM +1000, Chris wrote: [...] > With all the discussion of pine v's mutt, etc, etc, I thought I'd take a > look a mutt and see what people where on about. > > However, I am currently running a bo system (waiting for hamm to go > stable) and I can't find a package for

Re: Modem Question.

1998-04-24 Thread Jack Kern
#x27;man chat') that one escape the '\' so the modem initialization string needs another '\' to include the '\' in the AT\V command: AT\\V0. ^^ Probably, a good bet that either AT&V or A

Re: "man" fails -- segmentation fault

1998-04-21 Thread Jack Kern
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 04:08:27PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 11:09:00AM -0300, Jack Kern wrote: > > Yesterday "man" failed: e.g., > > > > $ man man > > Segmentation fault > > Looks like man's databas

"man" fails -- segmentation fault

1998-04-21 Thread Jack Kern
I am using Debian GNU Linux 1.3: $ uname -a Linux ludd 2.0.30 #1 Mon Mar 9 00:41:12 AST 1998 i386 unknown -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux i386 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]