Re: IP Masquerade and PPP

1998-05-25 Thread John Boggon
-Original Message- From: Bruce Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian Date: Sunday, 24 May 1998 04:09:pm Subject: IP Masquerade and PPP >Has anyone got IP Masquerade to work with PPP. I have followed the >how-to`s and looked all over the `net, but I still can`t get it to >work. I have

Re: biff/new mail - blink LED indicators on keyboard

1998-05-01 Thread John Boggon
-Original Message- From: Thomas Lakofski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian User Date: Friday, 1 May 1998 03:13:pm Subject: Re: biff/new mail - blink LED indicators on keyboard >You might want to try this instead: > >http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net/ > >it's

cron problems

1998-05-01 Thread John Boggon
Has anyone else had problems with cron since version cron_3.0pl1-45.deb was installed into hamm ? The following error messages from crom were in my mailbox this morning. Subject :Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> root run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily Message body : /bin/sh: root: command not found

Mirror

1998-04-15 Thread John Boggon
How can I get mirror to leave the debian/contrib and debian/non-free directories but still retrieve the hamm | slink/contrib, hamm | slink/non-free directories ? If I add the lines exclude_patt+|contrib/ exlude_patt+|non-free/ to my mirror script it will not retrieve any of the contrib directories.

Re: A simple question

1998-04-06 Thread John Boggon
-Original Message- From: Norbert Pabis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, 6 April 1998 09:01:pm Subject: A simple question > >HI, > I have one little question. What does GNU stands for? > > GPL is General... and what is GNU > Pabis Norbert I think it's,

Re: possible network attack question

1998-03-12 Thread John Boggon
-Original Message- From: Patrick Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'G. Kapetanios' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Date: Thursday, 12 March 1998 01:05:pm Subject: RE: possible network attack question >George, >[humor mode on] >To do a network sniff one must proc

Re: wwwcount from hamm

1998-02-28 Thread John Boggon
-Original Message- From: Bujtar Janos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user Date: Wednesday, 25 February 1998 15:46 Subject: re: wwwcount from hamm >Bujtar Janos wrote: >> >> HI! >> >> Is there anybody who uses wwwcount package fro hamm? >> > >Solved !! > > >I called the cgi script li

Broken Mail

1998-02-13 Thread John Boggon
Hi all, I have a rather urgent problem I need some help with. Yesterday I had to move my /var directory from it's own partition to the same partition as /. No Problem, I'll use tar to preserve file permissions and links I thought. It all went ok except for the mail. My local mail is now broken. I

Re: Automating PPP with cron?

1998-02-09 Thread John Boggon
-Original Message- From: Alex Yukhimets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, 9 February 1998 6:59 am Subject: Re: Automating PPP with cron? >> Hi, >> I would like to setup my system to do two things. >> To check per

Re: PCI NIC support for 89C940?

1998-01-27 Thread John Boggon
>I've got a bunch of PCI Ethernet adapters lying around, several >brands like Link-SYS etc. that I'd like to use with Linux. > >They all have the LSI "Winbond W89C940F" on them. I've seen some >reference to them as being "Novell NE2000 Compatible" but they >don't seem to work with that driver an

Re: telnet to localhost

1998-01-22 Thread John Boggon
-Original Message- From: Pure Energy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Wiria A Kusuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, 22 January 1998 5:58 am Subject: Re: telnet to localhost >On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Wiria A Kusuma wrote: > >> I can not telnet or ftp to localhost

Re: netscape4

1998-01-18 Thread John Boggon
>Hi, > >I am wondering which version of netscape the install wrapper for hamm >uses. I have downloaded communicator 4.04 >(communicator-v404-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz) and the install >script exits with a version compatability. > I had the same problem. I had to change the name of t

Re: X cannot find mouse (new installation)

1998-01-17 Thread John Boggon
> >I created a new Debian system last night, downloading 'stable' from >ftp.debian.org. In trying to run XFree86, I get this server error >message: > >Fatal server error: >Cannot open mouse (No such file or directory) > >I cannot figure this out, becase I was using the same /etc/X11/XF86Config >fi

Re: More colors in X

1998-01-14 Thread John Boggon
> How do I start X using more than 8bp ? > >startx -- -bpp {16|24|32} > Thank you. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: More colors in X

1998-01-14 Thread John Boggon
> >To get xdm working, first you have to install it. During installation it >should ask you if you want to automatically start xdm at boot time. >Alternatively, xdm is started out of /etc/init.d/xdm. Follow the indicated >files and you will see what you are missing. Make sure you have run >xf86conf

More colors in X

1998-01-14 Thread John Boggon
How do I start X using more than 8bp ? I've tried startx -bpp16 startx --bpp16 going thru all the startup and config scripts I could find reading how-to's and man pages hiring a witchdoctor No luck.. I'm using the X-F

Re: svgatextmode - how to use

1998-01-13 Thread John Boggon
-Original Message- From: Irmund Thum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, 13 January 1998 8:08 pm Subject: svgatextmode - how to use >I've installed svgatextmode with dselect but can't find any file or >.conf. >How can I use this utility? >Thanks in advanc

Re: new smail pkg (3.2.0.100-1.deb) problems

1998-01-09 Thread John Boggon
-Original Message- From: Damir J. Naden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, 9 January 1998 2:37 pm Subject: new smail pkg (3.2.0.100-1.deb) problems >When installing smail package, the only remaining package in hamm dist >was 3.2.0.100-1, so I installed th

Re: Mail problems

1998-01-05 Thread John Boggon
On 4 Jan 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The new drive is divided into 4 partitions. one is unused, one is mounted > > under /var, the next is mounted under /usr and the last is swap. > > > > ERR Error locking your mailbox. > > > > And the following