Re: Sorry, but I STILL can't sort out my MBR

1998-05-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
se BOOTPART (or similar) to set up an entry in NT's boot manager for Linux. If it's Linux, add an entry to /etc/lilo.conf for NT, something like other=/dev/hda1 label=NT Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ft

Re: Setup w/large hard drives

1998-05-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
1435329 7 0x0011 383 0x82 127 63 397 63120897 I can boot from /dev/hdb2 (FreeBSD) too, and it's the second half of a 3.2gb drive. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub

Re: Connecting to a different LAN

1998-05-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
obably do it. Your friend will need to do the same on all his hosts, or at least on his gateway, if he has one. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mail

Re: elf-x11r6lib

1998-05-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
done the same. I suspect that xlib6 or a predecessor of it would have provided elf-x11r6lib when it was a current virtual package. It isn't now though, so xlib6/xlib6g don't provide it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at f

Re: irc and that Free Software thing

1998-05-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
which are needed for course-related work. As a university student myself, I get pretty annoyed if I can't get a terminal to do some work because people are browsing the web, for example. I don't know about .NZ, but in .AU net access isn't really too expensive. Hamish -- Hamish Mo

Re: Debian 1.31

1998-05-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I'm not entirely sure I see the point though. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNS

Re: changing a users group

1998-05-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
up file. Which is just the same as manually editing them. Is there a good reason to use vipw, instead of just "vi /etc/passwd"? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5

Re: How to build Debian Linux cluster?

1998-05-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
f ownership. Most PCs are just terminals now anyway -- we have Citrix WinFrame which allows Windows work from any terminal. Some of the better PCs have NT 4.0 on the desktops, too. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://

Re: Internet from Windows/NT thru Linux

1998-05-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
8 -W eth0 -D 0/0 >/dev/null ipfwadm -I -i deny -o -P all -S 127.0.0.0/8 -W eth1 -D 0/0 >/dev/null There are only these commands, and a few others, to prevent IP spoofing. This seems to be a common misconception. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: Linux won't use SMC 8416 ether card

1998-05-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
nice and painless under Linux -- and even nice on Microsoft platforms. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.o

Re: frame on debian?

1998-05-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
gt; Acrobat. Does anyone know of a way to read frame files on linux? Or to > write .pdf files on linux? You can write pdf files with recently Ghostscripts (eg gs-aladdin package), using the output device type "pdfwrite". Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [

Re: NE2000

1998-05-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
disk. However, the magic disk is manufacturer specific; I have at least four disks here for ISA cards, one for ISA PnP, and another again for PCI. Try to find the disk. If not, I guess I could try to send you some. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Diskless Debian, Shared /usr, etc...

1998-05-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, May 03, 1998 at 12:56:06AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > I suggest the NFS-Root and NFS-Root-Client mini-howtos. What I have > > ended up doing is creating a tree with just enough of /bin, /sbin/, > > /etc, /var and /tmp to boot up in it, then

Re: Debian Linux and W95 coexist?

1998-05-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
which is a bit more convenient in terms of maintainence and partition requirements, but is harder to set up initially. (Use BOOTPART, though.) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5

Re: Diskless Debian, Shared /usr, etc...

1998-05-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ely got a Debian system remotely, although it can't be used for package installation/deinstallation etc of course because /usr is readonly, and /var and /etc are machine-specific. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp:

Re: ncpfs not working

1998-05-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Is ncpfs a module, and have you inserted it? Also, ncpfs doesn't support NDS, only bindery mode. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are

Re: HELP - Host/IP mismatch causing mail denial

1998-05-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
o leave this check enabled -- I can't afford to not accept a customer's email just because their ISP has not set up reverse DNS correctly. To do that, change the line in /etc/hosts.deny which says ALL: PARANOID to ALL except in.smtpd: PARANOID Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Free/OpenSource software?

1998-05-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
o prove than infringement of a patent. Hmaish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Printing from windows

1998-04-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ich is the problem in > the first place... H. If you don't specify a filter at all (remove the if=) then it won't use magicfilter, and will go straight through to the printer. Then you can have both the raw and cooked (magicfiltered) queues running in parallel; at least, I THINK

mars-nwe preliminary for slink

1998-04-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
the log and keeps running. Note: this package is for slink, which means you need a hamm or slink system to run it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing

Re: Printing from windows

1998-04-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
rint through samba to the same printer which I print to on linux with lpr, with magic filter -- no problem. From memory I did the same with my ESC2P bubblejet 20 before that. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp

Re: HP Laserjet 4000 T

1998-04-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
recommend installing magicfilter -- it can do that for you. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UN

Re: incoming PAP authentication failures

1998-04-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
count on your system can use ppp, but nobody else. I haven't tried it with shadow passwords for a while but last time I turned on those it didn't go either. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/p

Re: ping failure and ipmasquerade

1998-04-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
n't, but I'm guessing. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: bugs in latest ncftp package?

1998-04-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ry. Fortunately there's no reason why someone can't start on 2.4.4unoff or similar and add features to 2.4.x now. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies fr

Re: bugs in latest ncftp package?

1998-04-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ence option "xfer-timeout=3600". > > Is this a bug, config error, carbon error? I think this is because you had NcFTP 3.0 (which was in non-free), and have now upgraded to NcFTP 2.4.3 (now GPL). hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] L

Re: freshmeat repository

1998-04-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
sought of mix :-) I think Debian's default configurations and added configuration projects are one of the best features. I've installed FreeBSD on my system as well and find that it asks me no configuration questions -- I have to configure sendmail myself, for example -- no thanks

Re: freshmeat repository

1998-04-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
at would be the point in our changing to rpm? I don't see that dpkg works any worse. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: Looking for a PDF reader

1998-04-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
free PDF viewing solution yet -- Acrobat Reader is clearly non-free, xpdf is unfortunately not DFSG-compliant, and ghostscript 4+ is required, which are also non-free. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/p

Re: How to send files over uucp

1998-04-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
le remote_uucp_node_name\!user_name\!remote_filename ^ This sounds like a bit of a hack somewhere -- it should just be machine1!machine2!...!machineN!filename, no? But then, I do UUCP on one box for mail and not for file transfer. Hamish -- Hamish M

super-strange linux behavior

1998-04-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
e of those files is 2gb, yet the disk is only 700mb (as df shows). e2fsck didn't find anything except a few minor block free bits wrong, and afterwards those files are just as big! The file system for this is e2fs, too. Ideas? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [

Re: Does someone heard about Interbase on Linux?

1998-04-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 01:27:04PM -0300, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: > I want to test RDBMS for Linux... Does someone knows somethinig about > Interbase and Linux? Apparently a version 4.0 is coming out for Linux in the next week or so -- I read this on c.o.l.a. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt,

Re: UUCP :error with login

1998-04-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
trying to UUCP over direct modem dialup, or over TCP/IP, and if TCP, using the UUCP port or via telnet? What happens if you make the connect by hand with minicom or telnet as appropriate? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp:

Re: exim & mutt, weird

1998-04-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 11:43:51AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Right now, I have one box running mutt-i 0.91.1i-1 with smail > 3.2.0.101-3, and another running mutt (non-i) 0.91.1 also, with exim. > The latter does not get the hostname correct, the former does. > Yet I have had

Re: exim & mutt, weird

1998-04-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 01:27:48AM +, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 12:42:43AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > In .muttrc I have: > > > > > > set hostname="earthlink.net" # my DNS domain > > > set use_from

Re: Printer now printing properly HOWTO suggests "magic filter"?

1998-04-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
doing that though, you might want to build the kernel using make-kpkg instead of "make zImage" etc; do make-kpkg kernel_image That will build a .deb file containing the kernel and all the modules. Then use "dpkg -i kernel-image-2.0.32_1.00_i386.deb" (or whatever the filename

Re: exim & mutt, weird

1998-04-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 02:18:53PM +, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 07:05:47PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > I have exim (1.90-3) and mutt (non-i, 0.91.1-1) installed here; > > when I send a message, mutt sets the from address to just > &

exim & mutt, weird

1998-04-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
l_domains_include_host = true local_domains_include_host_literals = true relay_domains = rising.com.au Any ideas? I installed exim on this machine as a test before changing a production machine from smail to exim, but want to get this running before I play further. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL

Re: PCI NE2000 clone w/1.3.1, 2.0.30 kernel

1998-04-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ller: Realtek 8029 (rev 0). Medium devsel. IRQ 11. I/O at 0x6100. Interesting that yours has a different device number to mine. I have another of these cards again which is device 14; but that's in a 486. I think it's slot-dependent. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Why no g++?

1998-04-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
our engineering Unix systems (Suns) have only Sun's compilers (which don't appear to have the STL) and g++ 2.7.2.x, which won't compile anything written using the STL etc for 2.8.x in my experience. Fortunately our CS machines have egcs 2.8.x g++ installed and they are also Suns, and bin

Re: newbie boot ?

1998-04-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
the kernel with just the devices you need. Also, if the device immediately after MD tells you what it is an what I/O it is looking at, you could reserve it at the LILO prompt (then in lilo.conf) so that the device isn't allowed to probe. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: Apache tilde question - Solved

1998-04-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
tially readable by HTTP clients. BAD. > Locate it somewhere else on the filesystem. Could you explain why? I can't see it. ~smith/cgi-bin will be the only way to access the directory, so either they'll be executed or they'll be sent. Scripts have to be readable (as well as executable

Re: Sound problems

1998-04-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
iled; it would match exactly one configuration of one sound card. Red Hat have modularized drivers with 5.0, but from what I could see of their sound configuration tool (which supports only the PnP SB), their modularization patches are different to the ones used in Linux 2.1. Hamish -- Hamish

Re: Is X breaking my monitor?

1998-04-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
supply, and especially that the fan is working. I've seen a few PCs display strange video effects because of dying power supplies. Of course, it could be either the monitor or the video card too; try changing them temporary if you have spares. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?

1998-04-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ther hand, Linux 2.0.x doesn't seem to properly support DMA on Intel Triton chipsets for the secondary controller; I get a timeout and "DMA disabled" when it detects the disks. This appears to be fixed in 2.1 though. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: why debian?

1998-04-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
an. In particular, I like the Red Hat > manual which comes in HTML format. There is little Debian-specific user documentation (to the best of my knowledge), that is true. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.risin

Re: why debian?

1998-04-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
stalling these days. Yesterday we held an installfest at my university, where we installed several Debian pre-2.0s, some 1.3.1s, some RedHat 5.0s and even a FreeBSD 2.2.5, and didn't need anything more than the boot disk for any of these. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

kernels

1998-04-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Can anyone suggest an easy way to ensure that I never download a debian kernel package where I already have a custom kernel installed? dpkg/apt/dselect continually replace my kernel-package-2.0.33 with the standard one, which doesn't suite my hardware at all of course (and causes random reboots dur

network startup script

1998-04-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Can anyone suggest why this script doesn't seem to work on 2.1.90? It's my /etc/init.d/network. I added the netmask on the route line for lo because it seemed to help, but I still get some other errors, and ifconfig seems to hang. #!/bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 25

weird routing problem

1998-04-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG1 0 16 eth0 I just added ipfwadm -F -a a -b -S 192.168.1.0/25 -D 192.168.1.128/25 and vice-versa to the machines too and it still doesn't work -- I can still ping linux2 from pc1, but not vice-versa. Any ideas? It makes

Re: Debian 2, What will it Have

1998-04-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
d anti-GPL doom and gloom on this list helps anybody; please leave it in gnu.misc.discuss. thanks, hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://h

Re: Apache Server Side Includes

1998-04-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
; # doesn't give it to you (or at least, not yet). Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Includes [...] You might want to include "index.shtml" in the DirectoryIndex line in srm.conf too. Hope this helps, I use shtml all over my web site to keep everything common to each page in one plac

Re: Hi

1998-04-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ers! It does have a bigger level 1 cache. This should certainly make some different, but I don't have the numbers. Nor am I an Intel fan. Hamish (K6-166) -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish.

Re: how to cope with bad blocks (and off-topic: WD warranty policy)

1998-04-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
y power-sensitive, a friend of mine has had the same power supply problem with the same disk) but I haven't opened it to look yet. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5

Re: how to cope with bad blocks (and off-topic: WD warranty policy)

1998-04-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
> The drive has a three year warranty. Will WD fix the drive or sent me a new > one because of bad blocks? Has anyone has experience with WD warranty? > Should I try to make heavy use of the drive to detect more (soon to be) bad > blocks, as long as I have warranty? It's wor

Re: GIMP How is it?

1998-04-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
t one > will be like wandering in a desert of documents for days. While It appears to be just as difficult in PhotoShop 4.0 though. I am not a graphics person, but a friend who is had just as much trouble. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] La

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
l run together as one 32 bit process I believe. Re: #2 -- Windows is not multiuser in the Unix sense. Citrix make a nice WinNT 3.51 variant called WinCenter which is multiuser. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packa

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
as I understand it -- Windows couldn't stop that just because it crashed unless it went trashing registers too. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies f

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
nd Orn -- although Linus does great work, I don't think he, or Bill Gates, or anyone in this industry could yet make Man of the Century. Perhaps next century. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au

Re: IPX problem

1998-04-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
g the auto-configure and auto-primary options? Maybe there is a linux networking list at vger.rutgers.edu which can help you out; write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to find out what lists exist there -- all the kernel lists are at that site. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTEC

weird menu problem

1998-04-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Hamm compile errors.

1998-04-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ype with the new g++ and libstc++28, so no need to pretend like this code does. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.h

Re: LILO err

1998-04-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ly let you off with a warning about this, but obviously there's something about your second drive which needs special handling -- perhaps it's SCSI? Read the LILO documentation in /usr/doc/lilo; you need to use one of the other .b loader files in /boot probably. hamish -- Hamish Moffa

Re: SAMBA w/ TCP/IP

1998-03-31 Thread Hamish Moffatt
addresses 192.168.x.y if you don't have any official ones, eg 192.168.0.1, 192.168.0.2 etc. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are

aliases trashed

1998-03-31 Thread Hamish Moffatt
and the date in the name is newer than the file date, but still ancient. To say this is unacceptable is the understatement of the year. How could it happen? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/

Re: Copyright of 1913 Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

1998-03-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
e and research is allowed, commercial use is forbidden. > > It can go in the non-free section, but not elsewhere. Are we allowed to modify the RFCs in doc-rfc? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.c

vncserver for bo

1998-03-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Does anyone have a vncserver port to bo? I tried to compile it but obviously it wants jdk 1.1 to compile the java client, which bo doesn't have. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/h

xsession problem

1998-03-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I'm just trying out vncserver -- excellent stuff. In my /etc/vnc.conf I put $vncStartup = "$ENV{HOME}/.xsession"; but when vncserver runs, the ~/.vnx/X.log says rfbInitSockets: listening on TCP port 5901 httpInitSockets: listening on TCP port 5801 sh: /etc/X11/Xsession: Permission denied but t

Re: X won't connect!

1998-03-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
> xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. > > Any ideas? I'm using the XF86_S3 server. Check your permissions on /tmp, should be rwxrwxrwxt. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.a

Re: AMD K6 233

1998-03-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
6x86L? I've had an original 6x86-P166+ (133MHz part) running 24x7 under Linux 2.0.32 for four or five months now, and I had the same CPU on a different motherboard in a dual boot NT/Linux system for another 8 months before that without incident. I have a K6-166 that works fine too. Hamish --

Re: LILO woes.

1998-03-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
SK /MBR" in DOS to reinstall a standard MBR, or install the mbr package I think, to replace it, then set your Linux root partition active. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#E

Re: Will SuperZip drive run under Linux.

1998-03-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
doubles as both parallel and SCSI ports? If so, parallel mode apparently isn't yet supported under Linux -- SCSI mode should be though. (This is a summary of other posts on the list; I still have the original, painfully slow, parallel model.) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [E

Re: rumba package?

1998-03-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ment. I don't remember exactly what it did, but the function is probably close enough to what the other rumba does for this to be problematic. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B

Re: smail help required [urgentish]

1998-03-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 01:17:25PM +0100, Soenke Lange wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 01:51:20PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > I just upgraded to smail 3.2.0.101-3, something I've been dreading. > > With good reason; even though I haven't enabled any anti-SPAM >

gold CDs in Australia

1998-03-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Anyone in Australia with a local mirror and a CD burner? I have neither the bandwidth nor the burner here unfortunately, but would like to get a CD to upgrade some machines. thanks, hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp

Re: desperately seeking installation

1998-03-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
hat worked fine, and I booted each of 2.1.54, 2.1.65, 2.1.72, and 2.1.86 earlier today without incident). 2.0.33 reboot immediately, several times. I recompiled it with --zimage and it worked immediately. I didn't compile 2.1.90 like that though, so it's probably coincidental. I seem to be

Re: smail help required [urgentish]

1998-03-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
hat box is debian too but not critical. Will exim support different alias files for different domains? I've got the hideous smail method for doing that installed -- duplicating the configuration files in another directory and using dodgy transports. This is an important requirement here. Hamish -

smail help required [urgentish]

1998-03-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
or local systems with no working dns System # It's off by default # example to switch it on: #+smtp_sender_verify -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software Australia Pty. Ltd. Developers of music education software including Auralia & Musitio

Re: CGI --> Debian/apache ---> Not working Why? Why. WHY!!!!

1998-03-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Mar 14 00:56 cgi-bin Within the cgi-bin directory, executables should be readable and execute for everyone (ie a+rx, or 555), or at least for whatever user your web server runs as, normally www-data for Debian's apache I believe. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176

Re: install troubles continue

1998-03-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
e time at the prompt. It works for me with LILO anyway. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software Australia Pty. Ltd. Developers of music education software including Auralia & Musition. 31 Elmhurst Road, Blackburn, Victoria Australia, 3

Re: Some odd errors / compatibility questions.

1998-03-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
because both SIMMs are used equally, effectively interleaved. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software Australia Pty. Ltd. Developers of music education software including Auralia & Musition. 31 Elmhurst Road, Blackburn, Victoria Australia, 3

Re: Parallel ZIP drive (not Plus) and modules ??

1998-03-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
. To use lp and ppa at the same time you need the new parport stuff -- I think this is in Linux 2.1 only. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software Australia Pty. Ltd. Developers of music education software including Auralia & Musition. 3

Re: Linux SAMBA -> Win NT.

1998-03-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
his happennig without libdes? As Eloy says, samba (the latest from hamm) has encrypted passwords. You need to put "encrypt passwords = yes" in /etc/smb.conf too. Otherwise you get unauthorised station messages. It works fine here for me now with SP3. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobil

rpcgen :-(

1998-03-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
#include "msg.h" */ int * printmessage_1(msg, req) char **msg; struct svc_req *req; { static int result; FILE *f; f = fopen ("print_file", "w"); if(f == (FILE *) NULL) {result = 0; return (&result); } fprintf (f, "%s\n", *msg);

Re: Attn: Newbies Re: Random "Broken Pipe"

1998-03-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 10:37:39AM +0100, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > in bask/ksh: export PAGER less You want export PAGER=less I do believe. hamish (a tcsh user) -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software Australia Pty. Ltd. Developers

Re: Complex lilo setup for starters: use loadlin

1998-03-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
TPART lets me boot NT, 95, DOS, Linux and FreeBSD all straight from the menu. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software Australia Pty. Ltd. Developers of music education software including Auralia & Musition. 31 Elmhurst Road, Blackburn, V

Re: Netscape Communicator and Mail

1998-03-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
the line. You should hear the H; usually it's a comma for a delay, I never heard of W before. And some modems are relay-less -- my Supra 288 can be completely silent if the speaker is disabled. Just fyi, hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: On Debian, currently.

1998-03-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
s only a day or so due to the hard disk problem (I was overseas when it developed). I have only had to have physical access about four times, and once was to install new hardware. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software Australia Pty.

Re: I am leaving Debian

1998-03-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
't mind what it is but don't think we should name it for marketing reasons. I hope I have summed this up accurately. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software Australia Pty. Ltd. Developers of music education software including

Re: is this the end of debian?

1998-03-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
oesn't care necessarily, but maybe they don't agree, or they prioritise it differently to you, or they don't have the time to implement a feature which is not particularly useful to themselves. Remember, you are free to do any implementation you want done yourself. thanks, Ha

Re: is this the end of debian?

1998-03-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
uce has not been the project leader since mid-December. Ian Jackson is our new project leader. There is no reason to think things will not go on as normal. Ian Murdock was the original founder, or one of. We survive without hearing from him on a day to day basis. I think we can go on just fine. Ham

Re: Dual Booting Win NT and Debian

1998-03-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
d for me. I suggested getting BOOTPART (BOOTPA20.ZIP) and using that, it will set it up for you and can also set up booting both 95 and DOS separately from the menu, FreeBSD etc. It doesn't copy the boot sector from your Linux partition but puts a redirector one in instead as C:\BOOTSECT.LNX.

Re: xterm problems

1998-03-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 05:45:27PM -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > >>>>> "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hamish> I'm having big problems using an xterm running on X11R6.3 > Hamish> on Solaris 5.6 to work on a Debian

xterm problems

1998-03-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
1%p3%|%t;7%;%?%p4%t;5%;m%?%p9%t\016%e\017%;, sgr0=\E[m\017, smacs=^N, smam=\E[?7h, smcup=\E7\E[?47h, smir=\E[4h, smkx=\E[?1h\E=, smso=\E[7m, smul=\E[4m, tbc=\E[3g, u6=\E[%i%d;%dR, u7=\E[6n, u8=\E[?1;2c, u9=\E[c, vpa=\E[%i%p1%dd, -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [E

Re: Moonlight Creator and pthreads problem.

1998-03-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Mar 15, 1998 at 12:30:33AM +, Wintermute wrote: > These are the thread libraries I currently have in /lib: > > libpthread-0.7.so > libpthread.so.0 -> libpthread.so.0.6 > libpthread.so.0.6 > > I have not installed libpthreads in dselect so I assume that these > libraries are a part of

Re: Moonlight Creator and pthreads problem.

1998-03-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Mar 15, 1998 at 01:39:42AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > I had this problem too; somehow libpthread.so.0.6 got left behind, > > and the dynamic linker seems to like to use it. dpkg -S couldn't tell > > me who owned it. I deleted it

C++ & threads crashes

1998-03-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
t.flush(); sleep(2); server->active = FALSE; return 0; // to shut up the compiler about returning values } int main() { cout << "About to start a server" << endl; Server newserver; sleep(1); cout << "exiting main" << endl;

Re: How did you got these lines ?

1998-03-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Mar 13, 1998 at 06:07:19PM -0500, Ralph Winslow wrote: > When [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, I replied: > > Try the following: > > su - root > > dmesg | pg No need to be root. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising S

Re: long filenames in M$Dos partition

1998-03-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
nux" file system is to determine thier names in the 8.3 > format from the beginning. Huh? The vfat file system does long filenames on Windows partitions just fine! You seem to be using an invalid domain name again btw. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EM

Re: pthreads

1998-03-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 01:15:23PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 10:53:13PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > Weird about the contents search on www.debian.org though. > > http://www.debian.org/packages.html contains: > :Note: substring searchi

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