IP-aliasing

1999-03-02 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I have a one gateway with a 3c905b (Boomerang) running 2.2.2 just fine. When I use ifconfig to alias an ip it works no problem. On a different machine, an HP Vectra, with a 3c905b? (Cyclone) and the IP-aliasing works only with 2.0 kernels. Weird. I have compiled 2.2.2 for this Vectra 6 times wi

Re: SOLVED: samba 2.0 troubles (mostly)

1999-03-02 Thread wtopa
Subject: SOLVED: samba 2.0 troubles (mostly) Date: Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 06:11:35PM -0500 In reply to:Daniel J. Brosemer Quoting Daniel J. Brosemer([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > I'm having problems with samba 2.0 (the .deb in potato) that I was hoping > > > someone could help me wi

Re: Debian Kills Disks

1999-03-02 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: Debian Kills Disks Date: Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 03:57:44PM -0700 In reply to:Bob Nielsen Quoting Bob Nielsen([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Mon, 1 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Floppies are getting even worse. They are not reliable but we can't > > all ge

Re: dselect Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-03-02 Thread Frankie
Wayne Cuddy wrote: > > If there is one feature that I would LOVE to see in dselect it would be to > save all the packages I have selected and allow my to load the selection on a > new system so I don't have to do it everytime. Maybe this feature is already > there and I don't know about it... >

IRC and BitchX newbie -- where do I read about how to get started?

1999-03-02 Thread Mark Phillips
I've just installed BitchX because I want to join in on the Slink release IRC party thingy. Unfortunately I have never used IRC, let alone BitchX before, and I'm really not sure how to get started. I tried man bitchx, and also looked in /usr/doc/bitchx, but it seems this documentation is for peo

cpu used too much

1999-03-02 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
My laptop wmcpu type applets show the cpu running at full speed all the time. I this a problem? What should I do about it...? NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com

Re: IP-aliasing

1999-03-02 Thread wtopa
Subject: IP-aliasing Date: Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 06:05:07PM -0600 In reply to:Ian Keith Setford Quoting Ian Keith Setford([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I have a one gateway with a 3c905b (Boomerang) running 2.2.2 just fine. > When I use ifconfig to alias an ip it works no problem.

Re: OFFTopic: Insert eps file in a Tex document

1999-03-02 Thread Mark Phillips
> Excuse me, but I have to do this in TeX, no LaTeX. > Thanks,Paulo Henrique I'm afraid I only know how to do it in latex. Is there any reason why it must be in TeX rather than LaTeX? Sorry I can't be of more help, Mark. _/\___/~~\

Re: modem user

1999-03-02 Thread wtopa
Subject: modem user Date: Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 04:40:38PM -0600 In reply to:Fethi A. Okyar Quoting Fethi A. Okyar([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Hi, > > The last thing I expected to have problems with during my > recent hamm installation (2.0.34) was with the modem, but > guess wh

Re: cpu used too much

1999-03-02 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> My laptop wmcpu type applets show the cpu running at full speed all the > time. I this a problem? What should I do about it...? Try top and see what is the process that eats up all the CPU. Naturally you should not see CPU working a lot, unless you are, for example, starting Netscape. For exa

Re: OFFTopic: Insert eps file in a Tex document

1999-03-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 08:06:43PM -0400, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Excuse me, but I have to do this in TeX, no LaTeX. Look in the DVIPS manual - run "info dvips" or type "M-x info RET m dvips RET" in Emacs. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grum

cpu used too much...

1999-03-02 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy Y'all I'm a VB Programmer trying to pick up on Linux & C++... When a program goes into a loop, like when a program crashes, the computer will act strange... Things will be extremely slow, or will not work, etc... If you check with 'top' & see what's eating up your cpu, like Andrei suggeste

Re: cpu used too much

1999-03-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 06:45:10PM -0600, Andrei Ivanov wrote: [Dead processes eating CPU] > What are consequences of that? Anyone? > I'd figure heat that builds up will eventually become a problem > overheating your CPU, which will result in errors and crashes. It's not going to overheat your CP

Re: cpu used too much

1999-03-02 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
OK. It was xosview eating up 87% of my cpu. Now, everthing is back to normal... Thanks. NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > > My laptop wmcpu type applets show the cpu r

Re: Help..can't delete broken links, directories et all!!

1999-03-02 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Roddie Rod wrote: > Anyway, now I a gig or more of broken symlinks, directories and files. > Most are in /usr/lost+found but some are in /usr/lib/* and /usr/man. > Problem is I can't delete them. I have tried to rm -f, delete using > midnight commander and renaming the files!

Re: SOLVED: samba 2.0 troubles (mostly)

1999-03-02 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In reply to:Daniel J. Brosemer > > Quoting Daniel J. Brosemer([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > This looks useful, I'll spend the time to find out how it wants to be > > compiled sometime. > Shhh, boy did I screw up! It was supposed to say DIAGNOSE.TXT! >

Re: DHCP client for 2.2.x/token-ring???

1999-03-02 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I gave it a try this morning... unfortunately, it exits with a message to the effect of "interface is not ethernet". There's a patch floating around for version 0.70 which (mostly) makes it work with token-ring, but it won't apply against later versions (and a quick browse through the source seems

Re: realaudio with 2.2.2

1999-03-02 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I've been able to get it to work with some sites (which use video) and not > others. Does anyone know if Real is going to have an upgrade soon? G2? The problem is that the real player relies upon broken sound system drivers. There is a library that em

Re: Diff

1999-03-02 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
> I had to hack the vnc* source code (for it to use more displays > than it was...). Now, I am trying to "diff" the old one with the new one, > but I would like diff's output to be like debian's diffs. Is there any > standard to diff files when you are making *.deb packages? I think the best

Re: SOLVED: samba 2.0 troubles (mostly)

1999-03-02 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: SOLVED: samba 2.0 troubles (mostly) Date: Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 08:23:11PM -0500 In reply to:Daniel J. Brosemer Quoting Daniel J. Brosemer([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Mon, 1 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In reply to:Daniel J. Brosemer > > > > Quoting Danie

strange log entry

1999-03-02 Thread Pollywog
I found the following message in my syslog after another machine (running RedHat) connected to mine to send me mail. I am using Debian 2.0 (Hamm). Mar 1 04:26:22 lilypad kernel: MASQ: reverse ICMP: failed checksum from 205.xxx.xxx.xxx! (I have replaced the actual IP address with "x"'s What

how to set up the delete key under X Window ?

1999-03-02 Thread Jan Krupa
Under X Window backspace works in the standard way but delete works exactly the same way as backspace. How can I achieve the key delete working under X Window in all applications (e.g. xterm, emacs, mathematica, netscape, vim,..) in the standard way (erasing the sign after cursor not before, lik

dselect dumps core on me :-(

1999-03-02 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi! After I upgraded my laptop from HAMM to SLINK (using apt-get) I can't run dselect anymore. *sniff* I can start it allright, but as soon as I hit enter on any of the menu items it gives me a core dump, nothing else. :-( Apt still works, btw. Anybody have any clue what might have happened? Tha

Do dpkg and apt use the same database?

1999-03-02 Thread Andy Spiegl
According to E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Dselect and dpkg and apt all use the same db. Are you sure? When I do a "apt-get update" followed by a "dpkg -l ..." I sometimes do not get the same as when I do "dselect, Update" first? I have the feeling that dselect does one more thin

OFF TOPIC Re: PINE config

1999-03-02 Thread Mike Nachlinger
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, COfrog wrote: > Interesting glitch in Pine 4.10 > > My ISP requires that my mailer send my login ID and correct domain name. > Configuring Pine for that was no problem, however, I use a remailer > service for my primary email address, that way when I relo and switch > ISP's my

Re: how to set up the delete key under X Window ?

1999-03-02 Thread wtopa
Subject: how to set up the delete key under X Window ? Date: Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 03:30:50AM +0100 In reply to:Jan Krupa Quoting Jan Krupa([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Under X Window > backspace works in the standard way but delete works exactly > the same way as backspace. > > How

problem sending mail...

1999-03-02 Thread Jesse Evans
Folks, Something chokes when I try to send mail, but only certain addresses. For example, I can send a message to myself via my ISP and it get's retrieved just fine using fetchmail. Likewise, I can send mail to a web-based addresse, i.e. netscape.net and it shows up there, so I kn

Re: OFF TOPIC Re: PINE config

1999-03-02 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
If I were you I would run 3.96 (if you are running debian). Go to http://ompages.com/debian/pkgs/pine/pine.html all licensing issues have been resolved NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Mike Na

Shared PPP connection?

1999-03-02 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
Is it possible to have two computers on a network share a ppp connection where on computer dials an isp? I would love to be able to do this... NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com

Re: startup forced to X login

1999-03-02 Thread David Z. Maze
MallarJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MallarJ> In a message dated 3/1/99 3:28:07 PM Central Standard Time, MallarJ> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: lls> For now, I would prefer to simply get a CLI login and do startx lls> when I want it. MallarJ> MallarJ> This kind of annoyed me to I actually went back

Re: problem sending mail...

1999-03-02 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Jesse Evans wrote: > Folks, > > Something chokes when I try to send mail, but only certain addresses. > > For example, I can send a message to myself via my ISP and it get's > retrieved just fine using fetchmail. Likewise, I can send mail to a web-based > addresse

Re: Shared PPP connection?

1999-03-02 Thread Ramiel Givergis
Yes, lookup IP Masquerading At 07:38 PM 3/1/99 -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: >Is it possible to have two computers on a network share a ppp connection >where on computer dials an isp? > >I would love to be able to do this... > >NatePuri >Certified Law Student >& Debian GNU/Linux Monk >McGeorge Sc

Re: Shared PPP connection?

1999-03-02 Thread John Hasler
Paul Nathan Puri writes: > Is it possible to have two computers on a network share a ppp connection > where on computer dials an isp? Sure. That's ip masquerading. Look up ipfwadm. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

stop machine before fvwm2

1999-03-02 Thread Ben Frame
This seems like a dumb question, and I'm sure this is probably really easy, but I'm still learning here... I need to boot my machine 1 time without loading the window manager (fvwm2), is there any way to do this? A key to press during the bootup maybe (like F8 in windows)? Any help is much

Re: problem sending mail...

1999-03-02 Thread William Park
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 07:03:17PM -0800, Jesse Evans wrote: > Folks, > > Something chokes when I try to send mail, but only certain addresses. > > For example, I can send a message to myself via my ISP and it get's > retrieved just fine using fetchmail. Likewise, I can send mail to a

Re: SOLVED: samba 2.0 troubles (mostly)

1999-03-02 Thread Ben Messinger
"Daniel J. Brosemer" wrote: > I gave it one last stab after the small success with your /etc/hosts > suggestion I figured there were more resolution problems, and so I bit the > bullet and enabled the builtin WINS server in samba, pointed the win95 box > at it, and all appears to work. I don't lik

Re: realaudio with 2.2.2

1999-03-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Jonathan Guthrie wrote: > On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > I've been able to get it to work with some sites (which use video) and not > > others. Does anyone know if Real is going to have an upgrade soon? G2? > > The problem is that the real player relies upon

Re: Shared PPP connection?

1999-03-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
Define IP-masquerading (plus a bit more, see the config help files and the HOWTO) in the kernel. It's easy to set up and works quite nicely for me with three computers. Bob On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > Is it possible to have two computers on a network share a ppp connection >

RE: Installation via PCMCIA ethernet card

1999-03-02 Thread Mark Ciciretti
Get the drivers disk from 3Com and make the drivers as per their instructions. Then run 3c589.exe, or something similar to that, from there you can set the IRQ and the other setings of the card. On 28-Feb-99 Liam Healy wrote: > I am trying to install Debian 2.1 on a Dell Latitude XPi CD via the >

Re: realaudio with 2.2.2

1999-03-02 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > The problem is that the real player relies upon broken sound system > > drivers. There is a library that emulates the broken driver called > > rpopen.tar.gz. Have you tried that? > Do you have a URL for this? Oh, I have no idea where it came from. IS

Re: insert eps files in a TeX document

1999-03-02 Thread mcclosk
> Excuse me, but I have to do this in TeX, no LaTeX. epsf.tex works in plain TeX, as far as I know. In the TeTeX distribution, it's in /usr/lib/texmf/tex/plain/dvips/epsf.tex. It's well documented there. Here are some excerpts from the file: --- This file contains TeX macros to include a

Re: Shared PPP connection?

1999-03-02 Thread Matt Garman
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 07:49:56PM -0800, Ramiel Givergis wrote: > Yes, lookup IP Masquerading > > At 07:38 PM 3/1/99 -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > >Is it possible to have two computers on a network share a ppp connection > >where on computer dials an isp? I have a similar question. Is IP Mas

PLEASE HELP: Can't access my system....

1999-03-02 Thread Rich Hartman
Hello, I was messing around w/ FSTAB, and apparently erased the "ro" from the "defaults,errors=remount-ro" field of my root filesystem entry Anyway, now I can't login even as root, and get all kinds of boot-up errors I've tried "linux single" at LILO, and I can login, but I can't edit

Re: Shared PPP connection?

1999-03-02 Thread Ramiel Givergis
Read --> http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/IP-Masquerade.html It'll tell ya all you need to know about what to enable in the kernel and how to use ipfwadm etc. If you plan to use applications like ICQ or any servers on client computer on your network you'll need to use a Proxy aswell. >I ha

Quake No longer running for users

1999-03-02 Thread Peter Ludwig
Well, I did the funny thing today, I started upgrading my machine to slink, after a few glitches (i.e. exmim returning 40-50 messages saying that it wouldn't accept mail for @localhost) I seem to have everything going smoothly (fingers crossed, haven't yet tried the network settings, I'm moving soo

IP Masq

1999-03-02 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I'm trying to IP Masq so that I can set up shared ppp. I enabled experimental drivers. Then, when trying to enable networking stuff, I can't find the IP Forwarding option. Also, I don't know what to do about ifconfig: I tried this: eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1

Re: IP Masq

1999-03-02 Thread Peter Ludwig
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > I'm trying to IP Masq so that I can set up shared ppp. > I enabled experimental drivers. Then, when trying to enable networking > stuff, I can't find the IP Forwarding option. To get the IP Forwarding option you need to enable some weird options,

Re: IP Masq

1999-03-02 Thread Ramiel Givergis
Read --> http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/IP-Masquerade.html before you ask any questions. At 10:49 PM 3/1/99 -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: >I'm trying to IP Masq so that I can set up shared ppp. > >I enabled experimental drivers. Then, when trying to enable networking >stuff, I can't fi

Re: PLEASE HELP: Can't access my system....

1999-03-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Rich Hartman" wrote: >Hello, > >I was messing around w/ FSTAB, and apparently erased the "ro" from >the "defaults,errors=remount-ro" field of my root filesystem >entry Anyway, now I can't login even as root, and get all kinds >of boot-up errors > >I've tried "linux sing

Re: IP Masq

1999-03-02 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I did read it... NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Ramiel Givergis wrote: > Read --> http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/IP-Masquerade.html > before you ask any questions. > > > At 10:49 PM 3

Re: realaudio with 2.2.2

1999-03-02 Thread Joey Hess
Use rvplayer.deb installer. It has the wrapper built in. Problem solved, painlessly. Jonathan Guthrie wrote: > On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > The problem is that the real player relies upon broken sound system > > > drivers. There is a library that emulates the broken driver called

Re: IP Masq

1999-03-02 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I your address 191.168.1.1 also the address you gave your gateway? Just wondering if my host and gateway are the same computer, whether I just need 192.168.1.1 or another as well? NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com O

Help please

1999-03-02 Thread pachin
I have a 486SX whit 4MB i dont now what can do for intall debian. My problem is whit this partitions. Thaks for your atention. pachin 7.2 Low-Memory Systems If you system has less than 6MB RAM, a paragraph about low memory and a text menu with four choices can be displayed. This means that

Re: IP Masq

1999-03-02 Thread Peter Ludwig
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > I your address 191.168.1.1 also the address you gave your gateway? Yes. My Linux box serves the other machine I have here. (It used to serve a win95 machine, but they person who owned the machine got a little bit silly and kept turning off the networ

Re: IP Masq

1999-03-02 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
When you say 'set up ip forwarding,' do you mean on the gateway/host or the linux client? I've followed the mini howto very closely, and feel quit close. My machines ping each other no problem. But my linux client will not reach the outside world. I'm running 2.2.2 on both machines. I think I

Re: apt-get and broken CD layouts

1999-03-02 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 04:16:10PM +, Marc Haber wrote: > Hi! > > When I was new to debian, I made a hamm CD that is severely broken in > its directory structure. > > # ls /mnt/cdrom > binary-i386 disks-i386 upgrade-i386 > > # ls /mnt/cdrom/binary-i386 > Packages. Packages.gz devel hamradio

Re: Help please

1999-03-02 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
what size is your hard drive? NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, pachin wrote: > I have a 486SX whit 4MB i dont now what can do for intall debian. My problem > is whit this partitions. > > Thaks

Re: IP Masq

1999-03-02 Thread Peter Ludwig
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > When you say 'set up ip forwarding,' do you mean on the gateway/host or > the linux client? On the client. Depending on how your Internet Connection is established (I use pon/poff myself) it may or may not setup a default route on the gateway.host mac

Setup ethernet connection

1999-03-02 Thread Shao Zhang
Dear Debian Users, I need to setup an ethernet connection at work. I always use debian at home, but never use it over a large LAN. Could someone please tell me how to setup an enthernet connection? Is there a tool like Redhat's netcfg to do this? Or do I have to edit the file /etc/

Re: Setup ethernet connection

1999-03-02 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
Ethernet is very easy: 1) make sure you have your kernel configured right (i.e., mod for your NIC). 2) add hosts to /etc/hosts 3) ifconfig 192.168.x.x netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.x.255 (a) do this on the host and the clients, 4) this should cover it. 5) read Ethernet-HOWTO.gz

Hamm-->Slink, now fetchmail/exim behaves strangely

1999-03-02 Thread Mark Phillips
I've just upgraded from Hamm to Slink. Fetchmail seems to work the same as before, except that now, only the first 10 messages get to my mail box straight away. The rest of the messages sit around in the /var/spool/exim/input directory for about 5 minutes before eventually being delivered to my

non-anonymous ftp with MC?

1999-03-02 Thread chul-yong,shin
Question. How do I do non-anonymous ftp with MC? I want to connect to SUN with user id and password. But I can not. The only thing that I can get from MC home page is type "cd ftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]". This example doen't tell me how to input passwd. Be

bash-2.02 breaks scp?!

1999-03-02 Thread Toens Bueker
Hi *, recently I did an 'apt-get upgrade' to get all the brand new potato-debs and after that I could no longer scp files between the machines, that were just upgraded. Instead I always got an 'fortune: command not found'. I downgraded to bash-2.01 and everything is fine again. Any hints? By T

Re: stop machine before fvwm2

1999-03-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
Ben Frame wrote: >I need to boot my machine 1 time without loading the >window manager (fvwm2), is there any way to do this? A >key to press during the bootup maybe (like F8 in >windows)? Presumably you mean `without starting X'? (since fvwm2 is just another X program). a) interrup

Remote printers: lpr vs. lprng. Which one should I use?

1999-03-02 Thread Conrado Badenas
Hi all! Mi local printer works perfectly, but now I want to use one of the remote printers of the Department. I will read the docs of related packages in order to configure printcap to use it. But I have a doubt: Which package should I use? lpr or lprng? This is the situation: my computer has it

Re: apt-get and broken CD layouts

1999-03-02 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999 09:22:43 +0100, you wrote: >First create /mnt/main and then mount there CD. And in mnt create links >dists, stable and frozen pointing to main. In /etc/apt/sources.list put this: > >deb file://localhost/mnt stable main > >This way everything should work as expected. This way, I'

Re: stop machine before fvwm2

1999-03-02 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Ben Frame wrote: > >I need to boot my machine 1 time without loading the > >window manager (fvwm2), is there any way to do this? A > >key to press during the bootup maybe (like F8 in > >windows)? > > Presumably you mean `without starting X'? (since fvwm2 is just another > X pro

Re: Quake No longer running for users

1999-03-02 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Peter Ludwig wrote: > Well, I did the funny thing today, I started upgrading my machine to > slink, after a few glitches (i.e. exmim returning 40-50 messages saying > that it wouldn't accept mail for @localhost) I seem to have everything > going smoothly (fingers crossed, haven

still have browser trouble

1999-03-02 Thread Sidney Brooks
Installed Debian 2.0 from CD and everything worked. Decided to add space on hard disk but then several reinstalls all led to same browser problems.Browsers arena and gzilla, which worked before, now give error messages. Chimera2 still seems to work, but when used to download netscape communicator,

link button (was: Debian 2.1 NOW! logo)

1999-03-02 Thread Carey Evans
Carey Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With the imminent release of Debian 2.1, and people asking how to make > Debian more visible, I've revamped a logo I created a while ago, and > put it on my web site. It's less than 2K as a GIF, but even so I > won't attach to an email to a public list.

Re: apt-get and broken CD layouts

1999-03-02 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 10:49:22AM +, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 2 Mar 1999 09:22:43 +0100, you wrote: > >First create /mnt/main and then mount there CD. And in mnt create links > >dists, stable and frozen pointing to main. In /etc/apt/sources.list put this: > > > >deb file://localhost/mnt sta

Re: Where are ms-dos filenames for Debian packages?

1999-03-02 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Keith Saxon wrote: > I'm trying to install .deb files from a DOS partition. I did that installing linux on an old compaq laptop with dos 6.2 > That's where I rejoined the perl_5.004.04-6.deb file tht I'm trying to > install. Just rename the file to something like perl

xmcd/cda and iso-9660/high-sierra fs

1999-03-02 Thread Aaron Stromas
hi, i'm trying to configure xmcd for my Sony CD-RW CRX100E cdrom drive. it fails to open /dev/scd0. the FAQ suggests a test - dd if=/dev/scd0 of=/dev/null bs=2k count=10. the test fails. according to the faq it indicates no support for iso-9660/high-sierra filesystem. i'm running version 2.0.34.

Re: Where are ms-dos filenames for Debian packages?

1999-03-02 Thread John Lines
> I read somewhere that dpkg can handle "mangled" filenames because it looks > inside the package to determine if it is the correct version. Is dpkg what > I need to be learning to use? > It is certainly worth knowing how to use dpkg directly for one-off operations. > > CD-ROM is not an option

Re: non-anonymous ftp with MC?

1999-03-02 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 07:26:08PM +0900, chul-yong,shin wrote: > Question. > > How do I do non-anonymous ftp with MC? > > I want to connect to SUN with user id and password. > > But I can not. > > The only thing that I can get from MC home page is > > type "cd ftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]". This

Re: IRC and BitchX newbie -- how to get started?

1999-03-02 Thread homega
Mark Phillips dixit: > > I've just installed BitchX because I want to join in on the Slink > release IRC party thingy. Unfortunately I have never used IRC, let > alone BitchX before, and I'm really not sure how to get started. I > tried man bitchx, and also looked in /usr/doc/bitchx, but it seem

Re: non-anonymous ftp with MC?

1999-03-02 Thread Tumyp S. Sattaroff
"chul-yong,shin" wrote: > > Question. > > How do I do non-anonymous ftp with MC? > Press ESC then c, in the window type : ftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED] then Enter -- Bye Tim&HisTeam

Where does my mail go?

1999-03-02 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
Hi, I have changed from using fetchmail/elm to using fetchmail/mutt, but now can not find the messages fetchmail receives. When I start Mutt, it goes to the /var/spool/mail/username box. Mutt claims this box is empty. When I change to ~/Mail/inbox, mutt also can not find any messages. The only

www.debian.org/2.0/install

1999-03-02 Thread Werner Reisberger
By choosing the link installation guide on the debian homepage I am downloading the file install containing the line: loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin Thats really easy, but why do I need DOS to install debian? Werner

Re: Hamm-->Slink, now fetchmail/exim behaves strangely

1999-03-02 Thread Graham Ashton
On Tuesday 02 March, Mark Phillips wrote: > I've just upgraded from Hamm to Slink. Fetchmail seems to work the > same as before, except that now, only the first 10 messages get to my > mail box straight away. I've got the same problem. Strange, isn't it. -- Graham

Re: xmcd/cda and iso-9660/high-sierra fs

1999-03-02 Thread Peter Berlau
On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 07:07:31AM -0500, Aaron Stromas wrote: hi Aaron, > > i'm trying to configure xmcd for my Sony CD-RW CRX100E cdrom drive. it > fails to open /dev/scd0. you must : make menuconfig, or equal, than select # # Filesystems # CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m cu -- Peter Berlau [EMAIL PR

Re: PINE config

1999-03-02 Thread Kevin Conover
there is a secion in the code that contains this paragraph: # Define this if you want to be sure to not allow users to change their # From header line when they send out mail. Even if you don't define # this the default is to not allow From to be changed. The user would have # to edit (by hand

How to mount my bernouli rw for world on samba

1999-03-02 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I moved my bernouli drive out of my windows nt desktop to make room for a larger HD (only two drive bays). So I shoved it into the linux machine sitting under the table. The linux machine is running smb so I can have it share it's disk space and printer with the nt box (so far this has worked fin

Re: PLEASE HELP: Can't access my system....

1999-03-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
This is a good application for the rescue disk (of the installation floppy set). You can alt-F2 to get a console screen, mount the root partition to /mnt and edit /mnt/etc/fstab with ae. Bob On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Rich Hartman wrote: > Hello, > > I was messing around w/ FSTAB, and apparently era

Re: Shared PPP connection?

1999-03-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Ramiel Givergis wrote: > Read --> http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/IP-Masquerade.html > It'll tell ya all you need to know about what to enable in the kernel > and how to use ipfwadm etc. > > If you plan to use applications like ICQ or any servers on client computer > on

Re: realaudio with 2.2.2

1999-03-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
I've been using the rvplayer debian package all along. As I mentioned, since 2.2, it does work some of the time, but some sites just won't play at all (they work with 2.0.36 however). Bob On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > Use rvplayer.deb installer. It has the wrapper built in. Problem sol

Re: Shared PPP connection?

1999-03-02 Thread John Hasler
> I have a similar question. Is IP Masquerading the same solution for > networking say two, three, four computers (in a house or apartment), so > that they can all share files and resources,... That's just ordinary networking. > as well as share a modem? IP masquerading lets them all share

rouge package

1999-03-02 Thread David Henderson
hi all, first time I've posted here, so please help me out: I had an old .deb module from bo, nfsroot. I didn't know why it was dropped so went back and found it and installed it again (I wanted probenet). It appears to have wiped my (normally very full) /etc/init.d directory. This is a Bad Thin

Re: xmcd/cda and iso-9660/high-sierra fs

1999-03-02 Thread Aaron Stromas
  hi Aaron, >  > i'm trying to configure xmcd for my Sony CD-RW CRX100E  cdrom drive. it > fails to open /dev/scd0. you must : make menuconfig, or equal,  than select # # Filesystems # CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m cu thanks, this will get me started. i couldn't see it using make menuconfig but make

Re: realaudio with 2.2.2

1999-03-02 Thread Joey Hess
Upgrade to frozen., Bob Nielsen wrote: > I've been using the rvplayer debian package all along. As I mentioned, > since 2.2, it does work some of the time, but some sites just won't play > at all (they work with 2.0.36 however). > > Bob > > On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Use rvplay

Re: still have browser trouble

1999-03-02 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> Installed Debian 2.0 from CD and everything worked. Decided to add > space on hard disk but then several reinstalls all led to same browser > problems.Browsers arena and gzilla, which worked before, now give > error messages. Chimera2 still seems to work, but when used to > download netscape comm

VNC <-------------

1999-03-02 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hello, Im trying to run vnc, but i have some troubles. I want run vncserver as me (filsin). When i do it i get, inside the log file, this: _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 failed to set default font path '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/

Re: xmcd/cda and iso-9660/high-sierra fs

1999-03-02 Thread Aaron Stromas
perhaps i'm on the wrong trail. it dawned on me to look in /proc/filesystems and i see there nodev  proc   iso9660 does it mean i have iso9660 support built in? if so, why when i try to dd from /dev/scd0 i get dd: /dev/scd0: Operation not supported by device -a Aaron Stromas wrote:   hi

Re: IRC and BitchX newbie -- how to get started?

1999-03-02 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
http://www.irchelp.org/ Everything you could possibly need to know about IRC. If you don't feel like reading this here's a few quick commands which should get you through the Debian party: /server SERVER connect to SERVER /join CHANNEL join CHANNEL (channel names begin with #, l

Re: Where are ms-dos filenames for Debian packages?

1999-03-02 Thread Keith Saxon
Thanks everybody. The on and off-list suggestions have *all* been helpful. I learned something from each. Now I have PERL, a Bible, and a game installed. I used dpkg. It's working no matter what I name the files. Now I know how to install some Linux documentation to use while I try the suggestions

Connection timed out & Incorrect MD5Sum

1999-03-02 Thread Lyno Sullivan
When using apt-get at: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ why do I get the following errors repeatedly on the same packages? 1) Connection timed out 2) Incorrect MD5Sum What is the proper thing to do about a situation like this? Should I report it and if so, where? Should I use an alternate ht

Re: startup forced to X login

1999-03-02 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 3/1/99 9:34:38 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Because in slink xdm (and other login managers) are in their own > packages. So if you don't want xdm, The Right Thing To Do (TM) is > either to remove the xdm package if you don't want to use xdm at all, >

Re: realaudio with 2.2.2

1999-03-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Jonathan Guthrie wrote: [ snip ] : personal Web site. http://www.brokersys.com/~jguthrie/rpopen.tar.gz Your server is sending a MIME type of [text/plain] for this ... -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] h

Re: startup forced to X login

1999-03-02 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > In a message dated 3/1/99 9:34:38 PM Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Because in slink xdm (and other login managers) are in their own > > packages. So if you don't want xdm, The Right Thing To Do (TM) is > > either to remove the xdm package if you don't want to use

Re: stop machine before fvwm2

1999-03-02 Thread David B. Teague
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > [ .. how to do that .. ] > > Wouldn't it be nice to have a run-level that doesn't start X by default > in debian? It is one of the first things I do after installing debian > on a machine. Eric and Paul At the very least, the X (or xdm) package

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