On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Jason Killen wrote:
> Which log is "the log"? I'm looked throught last and auth.log but found
> nothing.
OK; do this:
1. Attempt a telnet session.
2. When it fails, cd to /var/log.
3. ls -ltr
The error (if logged) will be in one of the last files listed. (My guess
is da
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> I didn't know that Debian can use RedHat packages. Can dpkg do it or do
> I need something more?
It's the 'alien' package.
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Jason Killen wrote:
> I cant rlogin either but I do get mail along with other
> services. What happens exactally is I try to telnet in and I get
>
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
Is there a de
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro wrote:
> What is the difference between Red-Hat, Debian and Slackware?
Slackware: One of the oldest distributions, and is showing its age.
Created as a "bugfixed" version of SLS (Softlanding Linux System).
Maintained by one person (Patrick Volkerding
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote:
> I bought InfoMagic Linux Developper's Ressource 6 CD set od december
> 1996. I've decided to install Debian from it but a bunch of packages
> can't configure after installation
Let me guess.. you installed all of the packages the first time you ran
> The base install seems to be more targeted to people with: A) a live
> internet connection, B) Debian on CD, or C) The Debian distribution on
> another filesystem or NFS. However, like I mentioned, of the people I
> deal with each day, about 5% of the Debian newbies fall into that group.
I'd sa
On Sat, 15 Mar 1997, dpk wrote:
> My linux box is my school domain (I work there) and currently when I
> send mail from it uses [EMAIL PROTECTED] as from whom it is sent by.
> However I want it to go to my mail server, ie.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re-run smailconfig. You'll have to use the --force f
On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Paul Rightley wrote:
> I have heard a mention here of a (Debian?) install script that might convert a
> .fvwmrc file to a .fvwmrc2 file. Where can I find such a utility?
It comes with the fvwm2 package, and automatically makes the changes when
fvwm2 is installed.
However, b
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Tim Sailer wrote:
> You are using Cyclades boards? I believe (in a FAQ somewhere) that the
> device names can only be 2 chars, like ttyC0. If you go over C9,
> you'll have to use Ca, Cb, etc.
The problem was that the 1.x kernels could not support device names over 5
character
I'm having a heck of a time trying to get a 2.0.28 kernel to compile. I
do the make config, then
make-kpkg -revision moe.1 kernel_image
It spins along for a while, then
/dev/dsp and /dev/audio support (CONFIG_AUDIO) [Y/n/?]
MIDI interface support (CONFIG_MIDI) [Y/n/?]
FM synthesizer (YM3812/OP
On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Joseph Skinner wrote:
> my news server requires that I use authentification to identify myself.
>
> I've been told that a number of windows news readers will do this.
>
> Any suggestions on how to set this up under linux.
Your system should already be running identd; usuall
On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Daniel J. Mashao wrote:
> > You _did_ run 'make config' (or 'make menuconfig') to tell it to add
> > support for those devices, didn't you?
> I just ftped the file kernel-image-2.0.27_1.00.deb and ran dpkg on it.
I have never used the kernel_image packages, as I always compi
On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Daniel J. Mashao wrote:
> Can anybody tell me what I need to successfully upgrade from 2.0.0
> to 2.0.27. When I run dpkg on the kerneld package it says every is fine
> but unfortunately my sound, cd-rom and floppies stops working. Anyone?
You _did_ run 'make config' (or 'ma
On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Whitney Warwick wrote:
> But one problem I can't use my cd-rom (Reveal 4x) with it. It is not
> supported.
Are you sure? If it's an IDE CD, then I'm sure it's supported.
Reveal does not make their own products, they simply relabel products from
other manufacturers. If it
On 7 Jan 1997, John Henders wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gertjan Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a really radical suggestion, and that is to split off the
> installation process from dselect.
I agree.. However, how about automatically installing the first round of
"stuff" without
On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Michel 'dbk' Rochman wrote:
> Just installed Debian Linux 1.1 (kernel 2.0) from Infomagic's CDs
> this weekend, and ran into a problem during xbase configuration.
>
> I've got a dual system with Linux/Windaube95 (french for Windog95).
> Windog says the graphics card is an "ATI
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Don Morton wrote:
> /usr/bin/tcsh was indeed in my /etc/shells, but no luck. After reading
> the previous post, just for the heck of it, I entered /bin/tcsh in
> /etc/shells, and now it works. Note that /bin/tcsh is a symbolic link
> to /usr/bin/tcsh.
Which is in your passw
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I wonder if anyone on the list may have experience with Packard
> Bell machines, running Debian ? The reason for the question is, a local
> store is selling excess stock that didn't sell during the holiday season
> at a price that is very, very,
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Eric Budd wrote:
> I'm using MSIE 3.0. Am I doing something wrong?
Anyone else find humor in the above statement?
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On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Timothy Phan wrote:
> Anybody out there? I've not received any discussion/comment
> on this mailing for almost 1 month now. Has the list been
> up?
The list is up and running. Not a heavy list, but definitely has traffic
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On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote:
>
> > Dec 27 09:17:00 irvine kernel: st0: Error with sense data: extra data not
> > valid Current error st09:00: sns = 70 3
> > Dec 27 09:17:00 irvine kernel: ASC= 3 ASCQ= 2
> > Dec 27 09:17:00 irvine kernel: Ra
On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Eduardo Diaz Comellas wrote:
> BTW, is there any way to install debian
> in a large group of computers without selecting the packages every time?
AFAIK, not directly.
An indirect workaround is to put the files in one directory (NFS mount,
maybe? Symlinks to the CD?) and just
On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Pete Templin wrote:
> Now, an NFS mount request fails, like this:
>
> # mkdir /nfs
> # mount templinux:/nfs /nfs
> mount: clntudp_create: RPC: Program not registered
>
> Any idears?
I just had the same thing yesterday. The problem is that the nfs daemon
is not running.
Ed
On Sat, 14 Dec 1996, J. Ramos Goncalves wrote:
> Proceed like this:
>
> cp /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.27/arch/i386/boot/zImage /boot/linux-2.0.27
> cp /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.27/System.map /boot/System.map-2.0.27
> ln -s /boot/linux-2.0.27 /vmlinuz
> ln -s /boot/System.map-2.0.27 /System.map
On Fri, 13 Dec 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I use AcceleratedX (the only accelerated server for my graphics card), so I
> don't want to install XFree86, but I haven't been able to convince dselect
> that I already have a package which provides xlib6.
That's because AcceleratedX does *NOT* prov
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Eric Budd wrote:
> Forgive for asking a stupid qeustion, but here goes. . .
>
> I am building a system from used parts to run debian on, and the hard drive
> I have is DOS-formatted, but not as a system disk. Is there any way that i
> can format that disk for Debian straight
On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Alexander Gieg wrote:
> The only boot disk that I have is the one of Debian Installation.
> Do you believe that its root disk hasn't the e2fsck program?
It's reasons like this that I keep a Slackware boot/'rescue' root disk set
in the disk box. I heard that there is now a De
On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Wieboldt, David wrote:
> >This isn't debian specific, but what does it take to read/print pdf files
> >in linux?
> Wow I have an answer!
>
> Your choices are two: 1) xpdf or 2) Adobe acrobat. If you just want to
> read single .pdf files, I would go for xpdf. If you have a
On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> I advised Joel to look over the licenses of the individual programs in
> non-free, and decide what he could legally include. I don't know if he'll
> have space.
Since there has been discussion of splitting up non-free, how about
creating a 'non-dist' for
On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> How do I disable smail/sendmail, either during or after installation, so
> that it can only be used to send mail to the mail server, and will not try
> to retrieve mail as well?
Neither program RETRIEVES mail. They only accept mail that is directly
sent
On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> I'm not surprised that you are wondering why modules are useful. Most
> of the reason of that is that the Linux distributions have not caught
> up with what they can do. That's including Debian.
I do see their uses. However, there are problems with using
On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> We had a report that adding PPP to /etc/modules rather than letting kerneld
> load it made it work. I don't know why that would be, so if you can
> corroborate it, that would help.
This isn't directed to you, Bruce.. but your message brought up a point.
On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Kevin McEnhill wrote:
> I know that the directory tree on ftp.debian.org is in a state of change
> with the upcoming release of v1.2, but I have spent two hours looking
> for the 'netscape-v301' package.
As the package simply installs the program downloaded from Netscape, yo
On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Graeme Stewart wrote:
> > "michael" == Fundamental <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> michael> my debian time is wrong:) The time in my cmos is correct,
> michael> but the time that debian displays is incorrect
>
> After doing a `date -s "Now"' to get the system ti
On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Pedro Quaresma wrote:
> netscape_3.01-1.deb
> and
> netscape-v301-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz
[...]
> bus error
> $
I got the 'bus error' whenever I tried to access the c|net homepage
(www.cnet.com). However, I was running 3.0, without the Debian package.
(Direct
On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Karsten Bolding wrote:
> route add -net 130.226.66.83
>
> with this result
>
> SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument
... because 130.226.66.83 is not a NETWORK address.
Try using 130.226.66.0 instead.
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Gotta love it... All messages going through the list have unsub info
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On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Buddha M Buck wrote:
> (that'll teach me to use a 11-character root password).
Unless you changed your system, only the first 8 have any significance.
(Part of the shadow password suite allows extended length passwords.)
i.e.
'oneverylongpassword' == 'oneveryl'
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On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote:
> Which Seagate/Quantum drive was using and which IBM drive is using by
> SGI?
I don't have that info. You'd have to ask SGI.
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On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, CoB SysAdmin wrote:
> I'm trying to get an e-mail->alpha-pager thing working. Everything is
> working except the fact that I don't have permissions to use /dev/ttyS1
> When I send mail to, say, jdoe, I have /usr/bin/filter pick it up and
> execute the pager script, and it fai
On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Shaya Potter wrote:
> On a sidebar, has anyone noticed that all of Jobs's companies have
> had good UIs. Apple, Next,
But they still operate under the assumption that the user has three hands.
Or at least a prehensile, well, never mind...
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On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Mike O'Donnell wrote:
> WHAT I THINK I NEED: I think that I need to boot the system in single-user
> mode, or otherwise avoid starting up xdm, so that I can seek out the bad
> configuration files and fix them.
While many users (self included) have some negative feelings about
>I'm trying slowy to get my whole office over to Debian , and
>the next machine I'm going to tackle is the TI-Extensa 560CD laptop.
I installed it on an Extensa 570CDT (except for X); no problems with the
base installation. The CD-ROM is a standard ATAPI on /dev/hdb. The fact
that there is a reb
On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
> I don't know whether it's really necessary to advise people not to
> select any large packages at this stage. Everything ought to work
> reasonably well if they just select what they want.
Unfortunately, it doesn't. I took a 1.1.4 CD release, followed t
On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Fingers wrote:
> I'm having some trouble getting mgetty to work in the inittab file,
> if i do mgetty 38400 ttyS1 & it works fine but i have to manually
> reset it everytime a user calls. What line do i need to add to my
> inittab for it to automatically do it for me as i
On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Marc A. Volovic wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Paul Christenson wrote:
> > In an attempt to avoid a war, I'll simply say that Silicon Graphics is
> > using IBM SCSI drives exclusively. Given the nature of their products, I
> I am afraid you're
On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote:
> I am looking for a 4GM SCSI harddisk. Which brand is better?
In an attempt to avoid a war, I'll simply say that Silicon Graphics is
using IBM SCSI drives exclusively. Given the nature of their products, I
doubt that it's because of cost. (Actually, i
On Sun, 17 Nov 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > One solution would be to hade an "unhold" feature, which sets the status
> > according to the currently-installed status.
> I don't understand this. The 'default' behavior of dpkg-ftp is to _ask_
> the user if they want to get all of the new/updat
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Neil Walker wrote:
> Can someone kindly point me in the right direction
> to solve a niggling problem,
> When I do a `su' command bash comes up with
> an error message,
>
> bash: setenv : command not found
That's because setenv is built into csh/tcsh. Apparently, you are
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On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Wayne Richardson wrote:
> I can download these packages from the internet from my windows '95
> machine and then transfer them to the Linux system using a diskette.
> When I try to run dpkg on these files I get errors.
Are you *certain* that you are transferring them in BI
Has anyone "debianized" the shadow password suite?
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On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Stephen Fuqua wrote:
> I am in the process of building a debian machine for my office
> from surplus parts.
> Will I be able to get lilo to boot off the 1gig drive when I
> make a root partition smaller than 1023 cylinders? Can I be
> pretty sure that I can at least boot th
Another nickel's worth on dselect...
When getting packages via ftp, some sort of progress indicator would be
nice, especially for those with slow, not-too-reliable links.
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On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Mark Carroll wrote:
>> I would prefer a much improved dselect. Todays dselect is not
>> convinient to be used. It is like emacs to the novice. (cryptic,
>> non-standard interface, funny keyboard accel keys, no menues...)
> Hmmm - I got on well with dselect from the beginni
Mark Warburton wrote:
> I have been using a 14400 modem with debian for some time now using
> the diald system. Recently, I purchased a 28800 Microcom Deskporte
> 28.8S to speed things up a bit. Now diald will not work. I find it
> dials the number and then refuses to talk to the computer on th
Rob Hanson wrote:
> I am a bit new to the linux thing, and I seem to be having some
> trouble locating my modem. It is an internal 33.6 cardinal voice
> modem, and it uses com3 on my win95 setup.
You need to use the 'setserial' command to tell the system about your
modem. You should be able to
Fernando Tadeu Caldeira Brandt wrote:
>
> I just just installed Debian from the August 96 release of
> Infomagic's 6 CD set and I would like to know how to access
> (using dselect) the local and non-free packages.
> Are they in the CD set?
No, they are not.
The 'local' set is just that; ones tha
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I just want to report that I got dosemu 0.60.3-1 to work (or
> whichever the version is in the Debian 1.1 stable tree is) when
> booting from the hdimage instead of booting from the floppy.
>
> I must also admit that I got the message
>
> > ERROR: can't get floppy
Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
>
> This is with two flavors of Slacware and with Debian. It seems to be a
> problem that my SCSI adapter has with Linux in general.
>
> On Sep 22, 6:34pm, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > Subject: Re: System hangs on SCSI reset (AHA 1522).
> : > Problem: The system hangs
Scott Danzig wrote:
> it registers as a PS/2 type mouse, using IRQ 12.
> They all didn't work.
Did you recompile the kernel with PS/2 mouse support?
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I'm trying to run dosemu, version 0.60.3-1. However, whenever I go to
run it, I get:
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moe:~> dosmoe:~> dos
dos: can't load library '/usr/lib/libX11.so.6'
Unknown error
dos: can't load library '/lib/libX11.so.6'
Unknown error
dos: ca
Fundamental wrote:
>
> hey everyone, ive just installed debian 1.1, everything went fine
> until i
> rebooted and i get the following errors...
>
> SIOCSFADDR: bad value
> SIOCSNETMASk: bad value
> SIOCSIFBRDADDRS: Network unreachable
> SIOCSADDRT: Network unreachable
I used to get errors like t
Andy Tarkinson wrote:
> Second is a question with Ghostscript, I use gs to print postscript
> files on my deskjet. Now I use a function in my .bashrc to invoke it.
> The only problem is that when it is done printing I get the GS> prompt
> and have to type "quit" to finish printing and eject the p
Boris Beletsky wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> dwarf>If you only installed the base system then the only editor
> dwarf>availabe is AE (Andrews Editor). This was done because AE is
> dwarf>small enough to fit on the base disks.
> I am sorry, but isn't vi designed for that pur
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My /home and /usr/local are two of the places which have exceeded the
> limits of a single tape. Guess I have to come up with another way
> then.
I know that 'tar' can backup across multiple tapes, and I'm sure that
most all of the programs out there can do it as well.
Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> However, you will be able to download a package from our FTP site and
> upgrade your system to 2.0.20 .
> Installing a package takes a one-line shell command.
So, when will the kernel-package appear on the CD-ROM distributions? I
had to recompile the kernel before I cou
On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> If I'm not mistaken, the generic kernel will install on a 2940. It's the
> AIC7XXX series of chips, and aic7xxx.o is built into the generic kernel.
It does. I was at the office and had the generic disk set with me. Said
'what the heck' and found it wor
I need to create a custom installation boot disk to install Debian on a
system at work. This is a custom server, with a SCSI main drive on an
Adaptec 2940UW controller. Once I get the main drive supported and the
base installed, I can finish it from there.
I've heard here that the custom kernels
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> Justin Stodola wrote:
> >
> > Ok, X works ok, with one annoying problem: Down the left hand
> > side of the screen is a fairly narrow(~.25 inch) band of increased
> > intensity that makes a
Justin Stodola wrote:
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> Ok, X works ok, with one annoying problem: Down the left hand
> side of the screen is a fairly narrow(~.25 inch) band of increased
> intensity that makes anything that fall within it unreadable. This
> occurs in all video modes with resolutions higher than 640x480.
> An
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