Re: HELP: modem and server install

[Jack Kern]

On Fri, Sep 11, 1998 at 08:19:20PM -0700, BOB'S MAIL wrote:
[...]

> 1.  How do I get a server for fetchmail?

Check "http://www.rdrop.com/users/pann/index.html";.  See therein "Set
Up Internet Mail and Usenet News" for a quick set-up for fetchmail.

For more details see /usr/doc/fetchmail and do a "man fetchmail".

> 2.  How do I get the modem installed in the system?

To get "pon" working run "pppconfig" as root.

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Quake2

[Phillip Neumann]

Hi,


I have troubles with quake2. I donwload the file:
quake2-3.19a-glibc-i386-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz
After copy the fils quake2.conf to /etc and all the rest to
/usr/games/quake2 as root i execute quake2 and it said:



Added packfile ./baseq2/pak2.pak (42 files)
couldn't exec default.cfg
couldn't exec config.cfg
Console initialized.

--- sound initialization ---
sound sampling rate: 11025

--- Loading ref_softx.so ---
LoadLibrary("ref_softx.so") failed: ELF```/ref_softx.so: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory
Refresh failed
recursive shutdown
Error: Couldn't fall back to software refresh!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/games/quake2 -->


What shoud i do to play this game ??


I have try makeing this outside X. quake said it cannot load ref_soft.so
.


thanks,
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Re: backing up with tar

[Keith]

You are correct about specifying / that doesn't work because it errors on
the /dev files. I will check in to CPIO.

Thank You,
Keith

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> From: Wayne Cuddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: backing up with tar
> Date: Saturday, September 12, 1998 7:22 PM
> 
> Have you looked into cpio?  CPIO is much more reliable especially if
> there are back areas on the tape.  You may want to use this if are
> going to be doing regular backups.  Also I do not think tar will
> backup special device files such as the ones in /dev.  If you use tar
> you do not want to just specify /.  You most likely want to exclude
> /dev, /proc and maybe /tmp.  If you have any nfs mounted drives you
> may want to exclude them also.
> 
> On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Keith wrote:
> 
> > Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 19:14:20 -0400
> > From: Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: DEBIAN-USER@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: backing up with tar
> > Resent-Date: 12 Sep 1998 23:19:54 -
> > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ;
> > 
> > I would like to know if I am backing up my system correctly. I am using
the
> > following command to backup with tar.
> > 
> > tar -creat -file /dev/st0 /
> > 
> > Then a compare with
> > 
> > tar -compare -v -f /dev/st0
> > 
> > Is this the best way to use tar for backing up to a tape drive.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Keith
> > 
> > 
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> 
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> 

Re: scanners

[Keith]

Yes scanners do work on Linux. I am using a Mustek scanner with a Adansys
scsi card and it works great and it is easy to setup using SANE to control
the scanner. Mustek is not what I consider a great scanner but it is the
only one I have set up under Linux. Here is the url for SANE
http://www.mostang.com/sane/.

Keith

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> From: Rick Knebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: scanners
> Date: Saturday, September 12, 1998 10:11 AM
> 
> Can anyone tell me if scanners work with linux and if so make a
> reccomendation.
> 
> Thanks Alot
> 
> Rick
> 
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backing up with tar

[Keith]

I would like to know if I am backing up my system correctly. I am using the
following command to backup with tar.

tar -creat -file /dev/st0 /

Then a compare with

tar -compare -v -f /dev/st0

Is this the best way to use tar for backing up to a tape drive.

Thanks,
Keith

Re: How to installation linux on win 98

[ken westerback]

Having had Win98 and Linux installed on the same disk drive and Win95 and
Linux before that, I feel pretty confident that it works the same in
either case. Once you have isolated Win9x on its own partition, Linux can
pretty much ignore it - except to filch its files if needed.

 Ken

On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Amy wrote:

> Dear Sirs,
> How can install a linux system with window 98. It is a just same as that
> with window 95 or it is different.
> Thank you for your helps
> Yanbo Pang
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 

How to installation linux on win 98

[Amy]

Dear Sirs,
How can install a linux system with window 98. It is a just same as
that with window 95 or it is different.
Thank you for your helps
Yanbo Pang
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

kpilot errors out with lib error

[Edward J Young]

I've been trying to run kpilot but when I try to invoke it I get the
error: 

kpilot: error in loading shared libraries
libkfile.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

dpkg sez that kpilot is installed:

Alaska:~# dpkg -s kpilot
Package: kpilot
Status: install ok installed
Installed-Size: 1207
Maintainer: John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Version: 3.0.2-1
Depends: kdelibs0g (>= 2:980312), libc6, libstdc++2.8 (>= 2.90.26-1), qt1g (>= 
1.33-5), xlib6g (>= 3.3-5)
Description: PalmPilot/III hotsync package
 Kpilot provides file transfer and sync capabilities for owners of
 the 3COM PalmPilot or Palm III PDAs.  It currently includes conduits
 for mail, datebook, and memo pad.

It seems that my libraries are installed correctly:

Alaska:~# dpkg -S libkfile
kdelibs0g-dev: /usr/X11R6/lib/libkfile.so
kdelibs0g: /usr/X11R6/lib/libkfile.so.1
kdelibs0g-dev: /usr/X11R6/lib/libkfile.la
kdelibs0g: /usr/X11R6/lib/libkfile.so.1.0.0

I have the latest kdelibs0

Alaska:~# apt-get install kdelibs0g
Updating package status cache...done
Checking system integrity...ok
Sorry, kdelibs0g is already the newest version
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 220 not upgraded.


What could the matter be???


Thanx, 

Ed

Re: Why do most (all?) now require libc6: what to do??

[Brandon Mitchell]

On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Albert Hurd wrote:

> I have noticed that all packages I recently wanted to dwnload now
> require libc6. Since I am a newbie who is satisfied with bo and doesn't
> want to upgrade until I feel confident that I will not get into trouble
> with all the non-deb packages I have installed, what am I to do with the
> deb packages I want to install? Any help would be appreciated.

Considering the main change for hamm is libc6, you are bound to keep
running into this problem.  If you want packages from hamm, you'll have to
upgrade.  The autoup.sh script does a pretty good job and is pretty much
debugged at this point.  You can also use apt to do the upgrade.  You're
personal programs should work fine as long as you keep libc5 installed.
Also don't do a partial install, you are bound to get weird core dumps and
seg faults, maybe even corrupted utmp/wtmp files.  Either get a cd or
suffer with a long download.  Basically, my advice is to do the upgrade or
forget about programs in hamm.

Best of luck,
Brandon

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Re: Why do most (all?) now require libc6: what to do??

[Wayne Cuddy]

You can try getting the source packages and building them against
libc5.  That is what I do for newer packages.

On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Albert Hurd wrote:

> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 14:27:12 -0700
> From: Albert Hurd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Why do most (all?) now require libc6: what to do??
> Resent-Date: 12 Sep 1998 20:20:35 -
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ;
> 
> I have noticed that all packages I recently wanted to dwnload now
> require libc6. Since I am a newbie who is satisfied with bo and doesn't
> want to upgrade until I feel confident that I will not get into trouble
> with all the non-deb packages I have installed, what am I to do with the
> deb packages I want to install? Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Albert Hurd
> 
> 
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Re: Why do most (all?) now require libc6: what to do??

[Bob Nielsen]

On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Albert Hurd wrote:

> I have noticed that all packages I recently wanted to dwnload now
> require libc6. Since I am a newbie who is satisfied with bo and doesn't
> want to upgrade until I feel confident that I will not get into trouble
> with all the non-deb packages I have installed, what am I to do with the
> deb packages I want to install? Any help would be appreciated.

hamm is the "official" version now.  There isn't room on many of the
mirrors to store previous versions, so bo was dropped.


However, from several weeks ago:

> > Is there still an ftp-server offering the bo-packages?
>
> ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/debian/dists/bo/ is recovering the
latest
> bo release.

http://debian.midco.net/Archive also has it, and it is .us..

There were some others listed but I didn't save the list.  You can check
the list archives at www.debian.org.

Bob


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Why do most (all?) now require libc6: what to do??

[Albert Hurd]

I have noticed that all packages I recently wanted to dwnload now
require libc6. Since I am a newbie who is satisfied with bo and doesn't
want to upgrade until I feel confident that I will not get into trouble
with all the non-deb packages I have installed, what am I to do with the
deb packages I want to install? Any help would be appreciated.

Albert Hurd

Maki' cd's with an IDE-cdr

[Rasmus Nielsen]

Heya!

How do I burn cd's with Debian Linux 2.0 ?

My cdr is an IDE.

Yours

Rasmus Nielsen

P.S.

Im VERY NEWBIE!

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Re: Failure to recompile a system library (pthreads) under Debian 2.0

[swoop]

Besides pthread library is included with glibc2.0. It is a part of
it. You need to get a glibc2.0.x latest stable version and make required
modifications and compile. But it might broke some other programs ... My
guess. ( i.e. you want redefine signals  ??? )
Oops. I was in hurry .. half read letter. Sorry for wasted
bandwidth. 

On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, swoop wrote:

> 
>   The 1.3.1 is based on libc 5 whereas debian 2.0 is glibc 2.0
> (a.k.a libc 6.0 ) . You need to remove all #include
> because they now belong to the kernels and therefore should not be
> included by developers to maintain portability issues . 
> 
> On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Martin Weinberg wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Folks,
> > 
> > 
> > I recently migrated from 1.3.1 to 2.0.  I need to recompile the
> > pthreads library with different signals for compatibility with the
> > LAM MPI implementation.  This worked fine under 1.3.1.
> > 
> > However, now I get large numbers of redefines from *.h inclusions
> > ending in failure to compile even the first object.  I'm using
> > the original source from the source directory.
> > 
> > I'm sure I'm making some sort of newbie mistake.  Can anyone
> > give me a clue?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > --Martin
> > 
> > 
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Re: Failure to recompile a system library (pthreads) under Debian 2.0

[swoop]

The 1.3.1 is based on libc 5 whereas debian 2.0 is glibc 2.0
(a.k.a libc 6.0 ) . You need to remove all #include
because they now belong to the kernels and therefore should not be
included by developers to maintain portability issues . 

On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Martin Weinberg wrote:

> 
> Folks,
> 
> 
> I recently migrated from 1.3.1 to 2.0.  I need to recompile the
> pthreads library with different signals for compatibility with the
> LAM MPI implementation.  This worked fine under 1.3.1.
> 
> However, now I get large numbers of redefines from *.h inclusions
> ending in failure to compile even the first object.  I'm using
> the original source from the source directory.
> 
> I'm sure I'm making some sort of newbie mistake.  Can anyone
> give me a clue?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --Martin
> 
> 
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Re: tin charset

[Paul]

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Type "M" to get a menu of items to configure in tin. Select item 73
(MM_CHARSET), change it to ISO-8859-1. All seems to be happy.

On Thu, 10 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have upgraded to tin 980226-3 (hamm) and need to do one or other of
> the following
> + change my charset to iso-8859-1, or
> + change my bitrate to 7bit
> in order to post messages (currently I get the error msg that the
> posting is not us-ascii.
> Does anyone know how to do one of the above?  (And will there be 
> side-effects?)
> 
> thanks,
> Nick
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 

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Re: Broken emacs

[Paul]

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I had a similar problem. How I solved it was to remove ALL
emacs packages including setup files. Re-install, being carefull
to install EXACTLY ONE emacs package. You may also install
EXACTLY ONE XEmacs package and get it to work. It appears that
it is quite easy to install more than one version of emacs
without it complaining, but then it will not configure without
complaining. I do not know if this is considered a bug or if
it has been submitted as one. Just know that this is what worked
for me.

On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, David R. Kohel wrote:

> I found some references to this in the July and August archives, 
> but has no fix been found for the emacs19 & emacs20 packages?  
> My apologies if there has been more recent discussion which I 
> did not find in my search.
> 
> As far as I could tell, some people got them to install by 
> removing certain other packages, specifically "tm".  I have no 
> such package installed but installation STILL fails with emacs19 
> and emacs20.  
> 
> I've done an essentially complete upgrade from bo to hamm, and 
> ended up purging the old "emacs" to start afresh when I met with 
> the initial errors.  
> 
> The error message is the following:
> 
> emacs-install emacs19
> emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs19
> emacsen-common: byte-compiling for emacs19
> Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/share/emacs/19.34/site-lisp' does
> not exist.
> Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp' does not exist.
> Cannot open load file: bytecomp
> emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/emacsen-common 
> emacs19 xemacs20 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 26.
> dpkg: error processing emacs19 (--install):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 29
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  emacs19
> 
> ...and similarly for emacs20.  The lisp directory error seems to be 
> irrelevant.  The alternative solution from the archives, which I 
> eventually resorted to, is installation of xemacs, but it seems 
> more bulky than emacs and I use emacs typically in text mode anyway.  
> 
> Does anyone have a fix in the works?  Or is there a list of 
> conflicting packages which need to be upgraded or removed in 
> order to do the installation?
> 
> Thanks in advance for the help,
> 
> David
> 
> P.S.  If responding to the Debian-user list, please cc me in 
> response since I am not presently a subscriber, thanks.
> 
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Hardware support

[Braden N. McDaniel]

Can someone tell me what version of the aic7xxx (Adaptec SCSI) driver that
current Debian distributions are shipping with? I'm considering trying
Debian on my box, but I need this information to determine if it will
support my SCSI controller. Thanks...

Braden

[bpegam@hotmail.com: error!]

[Hanno Wagner \(Debian-Listmaster-Mails\)]

Hi,

I think this is more or less for you, please answer him :-)

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From: "-= FreeRide =- Yupy ja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: error!
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 10:58:45 PDT
Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

In the installation menu i press access, update and install, 
 after about 10 or 20min unpacking software i get this error:

 -

 Setting up dejagnu
 Edit  the master configuration file /etc/dejagnu/site.exp
 if needed
 Error were encountered while processing
 Emacs20
 auctex
 w3-el
 emacs20-el
 fvwm95
 motifnls

 Installation script return error exit status1
 Press RETURN to continue

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 Why I get this ???
 Help me!


 'SoftImage'

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Re: How to get a screenshot?

[Paul Seelig]

On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Eric House wrote:

> I assume the Gimp can handle the conversion.  But how does one get a
> screenshot under [Debian] Linux?  Is there anything comparable to
> Snapshot (on Solaris), for example?  
> 
Just use the GIMP! ;-)

>From the main toolbox window: "Xtns -> Screen Shot".

XV is BTW 
very nice for screenshots as well.

Cheers, P. *8^)
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Re: Broken emacs

[Mark W. Eichin]

> This was precisely the problem.  The EMACSLOADPATH was set in my 
> user account, and I was trying to install in a window with su root,

Ahhh.  I think it would be reasonable to explicitly unset this (and
probably other variables) in the emacsen-common handler
scripts... just as they should avoid running the user (or root's)
.emacs file...

Dependency conflicts in dselect

[David Karlin]

Hi,
I'm in the process of installing hamm on a new (to my system) hard-drive.
When running dselect, I got a dependency conflict telling me that netbase
recommends netstd.

The problem is that dselect tells me that netstd is no longer available on
my system.

I did the base installation from the base-14 diskette series, and chose the
"standard" installation, however, there _is_ a modem installed in this box,
but the system is not yet configured to use it.

What can I do to solve this dependency conflict?

Thanks,

David

Re: Gateway monitors and X

[Joachim Trinkwitz]

Brian Sheehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> i would be glad to hear from people who have gotten (or not) X running
> with a gateway monitor (in particular an EV700)
> 
Have you tried the Linux Monitor Data Base
(http://cande.dyn.ml.org/monitors/)?

Greetings
jtr

Re: ippp, ppa, ramdisk (i.e., parameters for kernel compilation)

[Manoj Srivastava]

Hi,
>>"Bob" == Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
--- -

 Bob> One advantage I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere is in compiling
 Bob> a kernel for installation on another computer,

Thanks. I have now included that in the Rationale. Also, there
 is a new facility built in, namely:

It allows you to specify a directory with config files, with
 separate config files for each subarchitecture (even allows
 for different config files for 2386, i486, etc). It is really
 neat for people who need to compile kernels for a variety of
 sub architectures.

manoj
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more installation trouble

[Brian Sheehan]

hi,
I solved the problem with INIT, thanks to Miquel van Smoorenburg, and I
reinstalled, this time taking his advice on what partitions I should
have. In total,  I have about 2 gigs for linux, and I split it up as
follows. BTW my machine is a standalone pc. :

/50 mb
/usr500mb
/var500mb
swap 64mb
/home c. 900mb

My problem this time comes after the base system has been installed and
the machine has been rebooted, and dselect is used to install the
packages chosen by me (I chose the custom option, and picked all
components for X, admin stuff, most of the developement stuff, the web
things, games). While dselect was unpacking everthing, every so
often I would see an error message whizz by. I didn't quite see what
these messages said, but it was something about 'no room left on block
device'. This made me think that maybe some one of my partitions was too
small (/usr?) but I doubt it - they seem pretty large. Finally, dselect
stopped installing stuff. It exited with 'error status 1' and a message
to the effect that installation had been stopped because there had been
too many errors. Pressing return as prompted I was returned too the
dselect menu of options. I chose configure, but this also would not
operate becuase of too many errors.  I then quit dselect.

As I said in my last mail, I installed debian succesfully already on
this machine with the same cd (only 2 partitions last time though - one
for swap)

any help appreciated,

Brian Sheehan

Failure to recompile a system library (pthreads) under Debian 2.0

[Martin Weinberg]

Folks,

I recently migrated from 1.3.1 to 2.0.  I need to recompile the
pthreads library with different signals for compatibility with the
LAM MPI implementation.  This worked fine under 1.3.1.

However, now I get large numbers of redefines from *.h inclusions
ending in failure to compile even the first object.  I'm using
the original source from the source directory.

I'm sure I'm making some sort of newbie mistake.  Can anyone
give me a clue?

Thanks!

--Martin


===

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530 Graduate Research Tower
University of Massachusetts
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Re: Can httpd and wwwoffled co-exist?

[Jack Kern]

On Sat, Sep 12, 1998 at 10:48:59PM +1200, Tim Thomson wrote:
> On 9 Sep 1998, Jack Kern wrote:
[...]
> > I don't understand these conflicts, so I thought I would ask if httpd and
> > wwwoffled can coexist before trying to reinstall wwwoffle or whatever.
[...]
> Well, you could put a line in your lynx.cfg :
> no_proxy:localhost,localhostname
> where localhostname is your system's hostname.
> 
> This would mean that wwwoffle wouldn't be used to access boa. Guess you

Yes, I did finally figure out what that line in /etc/lynx.cfg meant.
Now dwww does not use wwwoffle.  The biggest problem was that I had used
the proxy environment variables in the wrong case while _not_ using the
corresponding /etc/lynx.cfg lines.

> should try to reinstall wwwoffle.

Re-configured wwwoffle:  Adding a stanza to the "LocalHost" section for
"localhostname" in addition to "localhost" stops wwwoffle from caching the
local documents.  I had configured dwww with "localhostname" instead of
"localhost".

Thank you,
Jack

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Re: ippp, ppa, ramdisk (i.e., parameters for kernel compilation)

[Bob Nielsen]

On 12 Sep 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:

>   Advantages of using make-kpkg
>   -- -- - -

One advantage I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere is in compiling a
kernel for installation on another computer, such as using a fast
machine to compile the kernel for installation on a slower machine.
I've done  this by hand and dealing with modules is a big mess.  make-kpkg
handles it very nicely as the modules are included in the .deb file.


Bob


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Re: Broken emacs

[David R. Kohel]

> > emacs-install emacs19
> > emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs19
> > emacsen-common: byte-compiling for emacs19
> 
> Well, do you have set EMACSLOADPATH on your root (or whatever are you
> using for instaling new packages)?
> 
> Bilbo

This was precisely the problem.  The EMACSLOADPATH was set in my 
user account, and I was trying to install in a window with su root,
where the old EMACSLOADPATH from the user account was being used.

--David

Failure to recompile a system library (pthreads) under Debian 2.0

[Martin Weinberg]

Folks,


I recently migrated from 1.3.1 to 2.0.  I need to recompile the
pthreads library with different signals for compatibility with the
LAM MPI implementation.  This worked fine under 1.3.1.

However, now I get large numbers of redefines from *.h inclusions
ending in failure to compile even the first object.  I'm using
the original source from the source directory.

I'm sure I'm making some sort of newbie mistake.  Can anyone
give me a clue?

Thanks!

--Martin

Re: ippp, ppa, ramdisk (i.e., parameters for kernel compilation)

[Manoj Srivastava]

Hi,
>>"Steve" == Steve Tremblett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 Steve> After you do the kernel configuration, it is suggested you do
 Steve> 'make dep; make clean' to correctly set up dependencies, and
 Steve> clean up old object files so they don't get included.  Then I
 Steve> usually use 'make zImage' to make the kernel.  At that point I
 Steve> get a cup of coffee and read the paper (Pentium 75 - ~17
 Steve> minutes).  Afterwards, I look at my screen to make sure that
 Steve> it finished ok, then do 'mv /lib/modules/2.0.34
 Steve> /lib/modules/orig.2.0.34'.  Then 'make modules; make
 Steve> modules_install' does pretty well what it claims to do.  At
 Steve> this point you are finished, so now you take it for a test
 Steve> drive.

Advantages of using make-kpkg
-- -- - -

I have been asked several times about the advantages of using
 the kernel-package package over the traditional Linux way of hand
 compiling kernels, and I have come up with this list. This is off the
 top of my head, I'm sure to have missed points yet. Any additions
 welcomed.

 i) Convenience. I used to compile kernels manually, and it
involved a series of steps to be taken in order;
kernel-package was written to take all the required steps (it
has grown beyond that now, but essentially, that is what it
does). This is especially important to novices: make-kpkg
takes all the steps required to compile a kernel, and
installation of kernels is a snap.
ii) It allows you to keep multiple version of kernel images on
your machine with no fuss.
   iii) It has a facility for you to keep multiple flavours of the
same kernel version on your machine (you could have a stable
2.0.33 version, and a 2.0.33 version patched with the latest
drivers, and not worry about contaminating the modules in
/lib/modules)
iv) It knows that some architectures do not have vmlinuz (using
vmlinux instead), and other use zImage rather than bzImage,
and calls the appropriate target, and takes care of moving the
correct file into place.
 v) Several other kernel module packages are hooked into
kernel-package, so one can seamlessly compile, say, pcmcia
modules at the same time as one compiles a kernel, and be
assured that the modules so compiled are compatible.
vi) It enables you to use the package management system to keep
track of the kernels created. Using make-kpkg creates a .deb
file, and dpkg can track it for you. This facilitates the task
of other packages that depend on the kernel packages.
   vii) It keeps track of the configuration file for each kernel image
in /boot, which is part of the image package, and hence is
the kernel image and the configuration file are always
together.
  viii) It allows to create a package with the headers, or the
sources, also as a deb file, and enables the package
management system to keep track of those (and there are
packages that depend on the package management system being
aware of these packages)
ix) Since the kernel image package is a full fledged Debian
package, it comes with maintainer scripts, which take care of
details like offering to make a boot disk, manipulating
symbolic links in / so that you can make boot loader scripts
static (just refer to the symbolic links, rather than the real
image files; the names of the symbolic links do not change,
but the kernel image file names change with the version)
 x) There is support for the multitudinous sub architectures that
have blossomed under the umbrella of the m68k architecture.
xi) There is support there for optionally applying patches to the
kernel provided as a kernel-patch .deb file, and building a
patched kernel auto-magically, and still retain an UN-patched
kernel source tree


   Disadvantages of using make-kpkg
   - -- - -

  i) This is a cookie cutter approach to compiling kernels, and
 there are people who like being close to the bare metal.
 ii) This is not how it is done in the non-Debian world. This
 flouts tradition. (It has been pointed out, though, that this
 is fast becoming Debian tradition)
iii) It forces you to use fakeroot or sudo or super or be root to
 create a kernel image .deb file (this is not as bad as it
 used to be before fakeroot)


manoj
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Re: ippp, ppa, ramdisk (i.e., parameters for kernel compilation)

[Remo Badii]

Dear Steve,

you are clarity personified.
I'll compile the kernel once I have the ISDN card, since some ISDN
parameters have to be fed in as well (I just found and read the 
.../Configuration.help file).
Many thanks,
Remo
 
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Re: Af's handling of attachments

[Torsten Hilbrich]

On: Sat, 12 Sep 98 07:49 +0200 Johann Spies writes:
> 
> I am trying to use afbackup on my pc which is not part of a network
> using the following command (resulting in an error):
> 
> $ afclient -h localhost -X full_backup /dev/qft0
> 
> Error: cannot get the port number of the backup service.
> 
> How do I fix that?  

Check your /etc/services file:

afbackup2988/tcp# Afbackup system
afbackup2988/udp# Afbackup system

> How do I set up afbackup on a single computer?

Just use "BackupHost: localhost" in your client.conf.

> According to the Package file's description it is easy.  I do not
> find it in the documentation.

Look into /usr/doc/afbackup/CONFIG.gz and INTRO.gz.

Torsten

Re: ippp, ppa, ramdisk (i.e., parameters for kernel compilation)

[Steve Tremblett]

On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Remo Badii wrote:
> 1) While selecting/installing isdnutils, I was prompted to enter the
>name of whatever (I did not know what that was) and the message
>ended with (ippp0 ippp1 ippp2 ...):
>I typed ippp0. Afterwards, I got the message that
>/etc/isdn/ipppd.ippp0 is not yet configured. I thought this was all
>right since I haven't bought an ISDN card yet and some configuration
>must be done by hand (as for gpm, I think), by editing a file.
>However, at reboot I also see a new message saying
>INIT: /etc/inittab[74]: id field too long (max 4 characters).
>Is this a problem with that name ipppd.ippp0 or something else?

For now, you can leave that out - if you won't be using it for a while
then don't compile it in.  It only takes 15 minutes on a slow machine, so
doing it again later won't hurt.  The manual for your ISDN card will
instruct you on what values to give in the config. 

> 2) I'll have to choose kernel compilation options: I am working on an
>IBM Thinkpad which will be connected to the rest of the world only
>via an ethernet PCMCIA card and an ISDN card, no printer. Do I need
>ppa (i.e., something I think is related with the parallel port)?
>The boot message about ppa currently says: SPP present, EPP not
>supported, probing 03bc, 0378, 0278 ...

PPA is the parallel port scsi adapter - specifically for support of the 
Iomega parallel port Zip drive - you don't need it.  The parallel port 
support is 'lp' (descended from 'line printer' I beleive). 

> 3) Presently, I also get the message:
>RAMDISK driver: 16 ramdisks of 4096k size.
>I do not know what a ramdisk is (although I can imagine it): do
>I need any of them, is that a compilation option?
>I have a 2.1 GB HD, 40 MB ram (probably 64 in the future), and a 40MB
>Swap partition (just in case this is relevant to the ramdisk choice).

RAM disks are only useful in certain situations - you probably won't need
them.  A RAM disk is a portion of your RAM that the kernel presents to you
as a hard disk - you can read & write files.  Its advantage is speed.  Its
disadvantage is that you've gotta give up some RAM. 

> 4) At boot time, I also get the message
>Unable to load NLS charset cp437 (nls_cp437): again, I do not know
>what that is, but the file is on the disk, together with several
>other ones with analogous names.

Being out of the Linux world for a while, I can only guess - I think that
is for the internationalization stuff?  I compiled my kernel and in the
filesystems section you are asked about internationalization support, and
in the help for that section it mentions that you only really need 2 of
the codepages (for North America and Europe I think?).  I chose those 2
that were suggested and got no errors.

> 5) Finally, kernel-package allegedly makes things easy. If I understand 
>correctly, I am supposed to rename the directory /etc/modules/2.0.34
>to something else since that gets overwritten. Is all the rest 
>automatic? Where does the new image "go", so that I can correctly
>point to it in the new lilo.conf? A sample lilo.conf with the call
>to the original kernel and to a custom-made one would be helpful.
>I do not see any "fakeroot" on the disk: is the command in the
>documentation correct? It ends in kernel-image: do I have to type
>"kernel-image" or a fantasy name for the image to be created?
>THis is not clear from the README file.

After you do the kernel configuration, it is suggested you do 'make dep; 
make clean' to correctly set up dependencies, and clean up old object 
files so they don't get included.  Then I usually use 'make zImage' to 
make the kernel.  At that point I get a cup of coffee and read the paper 
(Pentium 75 - ~17 minutes).  Afterwards, I look at my screen to make sure 
that it finished ok, then do 'mv /lib/modules/2.0.34 
/lib/modules/orig.2.0.34'.  Then 'make modules; make modules_install' 
does pretty well what it claims to do.  At this point you are finished, 
so now you take it for a test drive.  The kernel is in 
/src/linux/arch/i386/boot (correct me if wrong), and called zImage.  I 
usually test it on a floppy first - take a blank and go 'cat zImage > 
/dev/fd0'.  Then leave the floppy in and reboot.  Watch the startup. and 
see how it goes.  If it looks ok, then you want to install the new 
kernel.  Look at /etc/lilo.conf to see where it takes your kernel from 
(if you use LILO that is - you most probably do).  Either back up the old 
one and put the new one in its place, or make /etc/lilo.conf point to 
where you want the new one to be.  After that, run lilo and *poof* we are 
done.

Steve Tremblett
QNX Technical Support

Re: XDM

[Paul]

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I believe /etc/X11/config needs "allow-user-xsession"

On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 
> I have some troubles with xdm. When configuring to start with it
> (/etx/X11/configure) I reboot and all start ok, except that X11 dont
> read my link from .xsession to .xinirc. Sould i explicit said X11 to use
> my .xsession file??
> 
> 

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*   For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son,  *
*   that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16  *
* W. Paul Mills  *  Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A.  *
* EMAIL= [EMAIL PROTECTED]  *  WWW= http://Mills-USA.com/  *
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WindowMaker 0.19.2-1 and Meta (aka windows) key

[Zini Enrico]

I installed WindowMaker 0.19.2-1 from slink and tried to change the modifier
key to Meta instead of Alt.

Both xkeycaps and xmodmap say my Meta key is mod4, where my Alt key is mod1;
WPrefs also captures my meta-?? keypresses as mod4-??, ok.

I changed all occurences of mod1 with mod4 in ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker
and it isn't working (neither Alt-?? nor Meta-?? nor any other modifier perform
any action); i change it back to mod1 and everything works perfectly (except
commandline completion in Midnight Commander, of course :-| )

Afterstep was handling Meta perfectly, so it seems to be something specific to
WindowMaker...

Ciao! Enrico

scanners

[Rick Knebel]

Can anyone tell me if scanners work with linux and if so make a
reccomendation.

Thanks Alot

Rick

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ippp, ppa, ramdisk (i.e., parameters for kernel compilation)

[Remo Badii]

Dear Debianers,

I am about to try my first kernel compilation after a successful
installation of Debian 2.0.
I have a couple of questions, the former not related to the kernel
itself.

1) While selecting/installing isdnutils, I was prompted to enter the
   name of whatever (I did not know what that was) and the message
   ended with (ippp0 ippp1 ippp2 ...):
   I typed ippp0. Afterwards, I got the message that
   /etc/isdn/ipppd.ippp0 is not yet configured. I thought this was all
   right since I haven't bought an ISDN card yet and some configuration
   must be done by hand (as for gpm, I think), by editing a file.
   However, at reboot I also see a new message saying
   INIT: /etc/inittab[74]: id field too long (max 4 characters).
   Is this a problem with that name ipppd.ippp0 or something else?
2) I'll have to choose kernel compilation options: I am working on an
   IBM Thinkpad which will be connected to the rest of the world only
   via an ethernet PCMCIA card and an ISDN card, no printer. Do I need
   ppa (i.e., something I think is related with the parallel port)?
   The boot message about ppa currently says: SPP present, EPP not
   supported, probing 03bc, 0378, 0278 ...
3) Presently, I also get the message:
   RAMDISK driver: 16 ramdisks of 4096k size.
   I do not know what a ramdisk is (although I can imagine it): do
   I need any of them, is that a compilation option?
   I have a 2.1 GB HD, 40 MB ram (probably 64 in the future), and a 40MB
   Swap partition (just in case this is relevant to the ramdisk choice).
4) At boot time, I also get the message
   Unable to load NLS charset cp437 (nls_cp437): again, I do not know
   what that is, but the file is on the disk, together with several
   other ones with analogous names.
5) Finally, kernel-package allegedly makes things easy. If I understand 
   correctly, I am supposed to rename the directory /etc/modules/2.0.34
   to something else since that gets overwritten. Is all the rest 
   automatic? Where does the new image "go", so that I can correctly
   point to it in the new lilo.conf? A sample lilo.conf with the call
   to the original kernel and to a custom-made one would be helpful.
   I do not see any "fakeroot" on the disk: is the command in the
   documentation correct? It ends in kernel-image: do I have to type
   "kernel-image" or a fantasy name for the image to be created?
   THis is not clear from the README file.

Of course, I am going to finish reading the documentation in the
meantime, but any clarification is well accepted.
Thank you.
Remo
 
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| Stochastic Processes Group | Switzerland   |
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Re: OFF TOPIC: where did MICROPOLIS go?

[Chris Mc.]

Thank you! 
I can't believe they just folded up like that

>Metacrawler search - Micropolis 3243 SCSI
>
>http://www.mm.mtu.edu/drives/micropolis/new/3243.html
>
>Specs and link to config info
>
>
>George
>
>A computer virus can be said to either 1) trash your hard drive, 2) 
lock
>up your computer, or 3) slow down your computer over time.
>
>Sounds like windows to me.
>
>
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Re: PON: provider file error

[Michael Beattie]

On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, BOB'S MAIL wrote:

> I am NEW, but getting experience!
> 
> >From the Debian~#  prompt I execute pon, I get the following responses 
> >depending whether I have '/dev/modem' or '/dev/modem!' in the provider file 
> >(per instructions):
>  
> /usr/sbin/pppd: In file /etc/ppp/peers/provider: unrecognized D option 
> '/dev/modem'
>/usr/sbin/pppd: In file /etc/ppp/peers/provider: unrecognized D option 
> '/dev/modem!'
> 
> dselect ran ppconfig and I answered the queries correctly and see my 
> responses in files I have observed with mc while trying to get the above 
> working.  So from root:
>  
> 1.  How do I get the modem installed in the system working at Com 4 
> without the provider induced
>  error?

Try using /dev/ttyS3 (DOS COM4) as the device in the provider file, and if
that does not work, send the contents of the provider file to the list..
someone should be able to help you.


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Re: HOW: server for fetchmail

[Michael Beattie]

On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, BOB'S MAIL wrote:

> >From the Debian~#  prompt I execute fetchmail and get the fiollowing 
> >response:
>  
> fetchmail: no mail servers have been specified.
> 
> >From dselect I ran appconfig (I think it was) and I answered the queries and 
> >see my responses in files I have observed with mc while trying to get the 
> >above working.  So from root:
>  
> 1.  How do I get a server for fetchmail?

You need to create a .fetchmailrc file in your home directory. It should
contain something similar to the following:

-
defaults
batchlimit 5

poll [mailserver] proto POP3
user [user_on_mailserver] with password [pass] is [localuser] here
fetchall smtphost localhost
-

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KDE's Kedit and Kview

[Michael Beattie]

I know that KDE is still in the development stages, but one small bug that
bugs me is that when using the K file manager to open text, .c or image
files, The respective viewers/editors take the file's path and location to
be seperate arguments. For example, Kedit says "Cant open directory" with
the first two program instances, and then opens the file in the third
instance when passed the filename and path of "/home/userfoo/bar.txt"

The image viewer opens with "%m" and [filename] as available images to
view.

I dont know if anyone understnds what I am describing, I haven't been
motivated enough to ask until today.. Anyway, Is there a temporary fix for
this, or do I have to wait till the next packaged release?

I hope I am not the only one with these problems!


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Re: intent to package: gmt generic mapping tools

[Michele Bini]

> The full-resolution coastline archive is 57 Mb.  Will it be included? (High
> resolution is 12.6MB). I can see us filling a CD quickly with this.  On the
> other hand, if it saves me a 57 MB download, it's very well worth it!

Data such this can be very useful to scientist but the main distribution
is already too large (IMO).
What about creating specialized distributions or add-on CDs containing
this and similar data (such as star database)?
(That is, scientific tools remain in the main distribution, including small
databases, but the full ones are only put in 'scientific' CDs).

Ciao
-Michele

Re: Can httpd and wwwoffled co-exist?

[Tim Thomson]

On 9 Sep 1998, Jack Kern wrote:

> On a Debian 2.0 system I had wwwoffle installed and working with lynx.
> I then installed dwww which required httpd, so I installed boa.
> 
> dwww only worked if I nullified the HTTP_PROXY variable used by
> wwwoffle/lynx, or if I put wwwoffle "online" -- wwwoffle "online" then
> proceeded to cache all the dox which of course are already on the disk.
> :(
> 
> Now for some reason wwwoffle has stopped working even when I stop
> httpd(boa).  Command-line requests and fetching works but lynx cannot
> read the cache or mark urls for fetching.
> 
> I don't understand these conflicts, so I thought I would ask if httpd and
> wwwoffled can coexist before trying to reinstall wwwoffle or whatever.
> boa uses port 80 and wwwoffle uses ports 8080 and 8081 -- all defaults.

Well, you could put a line in your lynx.cfg :
no_proxy:localhost,localhostname
where localhostname is your system's hostname.

This would mean that wwwoffle wouldn't be used to access boa. Guess you
should try to reinstal wwwoffle.

HTH,

Tim.

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PON: provider file error

[BOB'S MAIL]

I am NEW, but getting experience!
 
From the Debian~#  prompt I execute pon, I 
get the following responses depending whether I have '/dev/modem' or 
'/dev/modem!' in the provider file (per instructions):
 
    /usr/sbin/pppd: In file 
/etc/ppp/peers/provider: unrecognized D option '/dev/modem'
   /usr/sbin/pppd: In file 
/etc/ppp/peers/provider: unrecognized D option '/dev/modem!'
 
dselect ran ppconfig and I answered the queries 
correctly and see my responses in files I have observed with mc while trying to 
get the above working.  So from root:
 
    1.  How do I get the modem installed 
in the system working at Com 4 without the provider induced
 
error?

 
 
Bob Barth
email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
A virus can 1) trash your hard drive, 2) 
lockup your computer, or 3) slow it downSounds like windows to 
me

Window Maker problem

[Saisanthosh B]

I downloaded Window Maker 0.19 from the unstable directory (along with the
required updated libraries) using "apt-get". But when i run X Windows I get
the following error message. 

/usr/X11R6/bin/WindowMaker: error in loading shared libraries
: undefined symbol: _Xsetlocale

I have installed all the required libraries. What is the problem ? 
Thanks in Advance.

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Af's handling of attachments

[Johann Spies]

I am trying to use afbackup on my pc which is not part of a network
using the following command (resulting in an error):

$ afclient -h localhost -X full_backup /dev/qft0

Error: cannot get the port number of the backup service.

How do I fix that?  How do I set up afbackup on a single computer?
According to the Package file's description it is easy.  I do not find
it in the documentation.

Johann
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Afbackup on a single computer

[Johann Spies]

I am trying to use afbackup on my pc which is not part of a network
using the following command (resulting in an error):

$ afclient -h localhost -X full_backup /dev/qft0

Error: cannot get the port number of the backup service.

How do I fix that?  How do I set up afbackup on a single computer?
According to the Package file's description it is easy.  I do not find
it in the documentation.

Johann
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HOW: server for fetchmail

[BOB'S MAIL]

From the Debian~#  prompt I execute fetchmail and get the fiollowing 
response:
 
    fetchmail: no mail servers 
have been specified.
 
From dselect I ran appconfig (I think it was) 
and I answered the queries and see my responses in files I have observed with mc 
while trying to get the above working.  So from root:
 
1.  How do I get a server for fetchmail?
 
 
Bob Barth
email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 
 
 
 
Bob Barth
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Attachments using af

[Johann Spies]

I discovered af tonight and as an emacs user I think it is a promising
program.  What I cannot find in the documentation is how to handle
attachments with af.

Does somebody know?

Johann
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chat quirk or control characters from pppd

[Richard E. Hawkins Esq.]

Thanks to a major effort from Jens Jorgensen, who finally found an 
error in the FM, I now have ppp running over a modem trough a 
moodem pool and telnet server.

I'm now tring to get it to run through the ISN line, which is a 
little trickier.  I found the BREAK option to use in the script, which
gets me connected to a similar server, but there reaches a point
when, after the second sent message, the other end replies with 
"ANSWERED", at which point any key must be hit to bring up the
menu.  

It sees this response, recognizes the ANSWERED, and sends "" (just
a blank line).

At this point, it seems to hang, regardless of what I do.  It can't
be ppp queries from the other end, since it hasn't connected
to my machine yet.  It simply waits for "keys:", which is the end of 
the menu prompt (and at this point, the behavior is identical to
the similar modem pool terminal server.

I assume that i can't have started pppd on this end, either. attempting 
to duplicate the problem by hand, It doesn't pause at this line.

so how do i figure out why it never sees (or respons to perhaps?) the
keys: prompt?

rick

Re: OFF TOPIC: where did MICROPOLIS go?

[George R]

On 09/11/98 at 04:59 PM, "Chris Mc." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>sorry to be a pain, but does anyone know what ever happened to 
>Micropolis Corp.? I found an old 3243 4.3gig SCSI drive that I need
>info  on. I've searched for Micropolis, but the phone numbers and web
>sites I  found are all dead. Did someone take them over?

Metacrawler search - Micropolis 3243 SCSI

http://www.mm.mtu.edu/drives/micropolis/new/3243.html

Specs and link to config info


George

A computer virus can be said to either 1) trash your hard drive, 2) lock
up your computer, or 3) slow down your computer over time.

Sounds like windows to me.

Re: Using ZIP drive on Linux

[Default Debian Reader]

On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, mwb wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Lennox Reid wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Where do I get a driver to access a parrallel port ZIP drive on a Linux
> > machine?
> 
> Compile a kernel.
> 
> Include modules for scsi support, parallel port, and ppa.
there is a module for iomega zip drives also, if that is what you have.
> 
> Check out the Parallel Port Home Page at
> http://www/torque.net/parport/
> 
> Mark
> 
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Re: Where to start networking my computers

[Default Debian Reader]

On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Lennox Reid wrote:

> I am trying to network three computers in my home, with my little 386
> running linux as the gateway/server/etc.  Eventually, the plan is to have
> the linux computer access the internet and give the other computers access
> so that we use only a single line.  It will also be used to allow me to
> share files and devices (printers, scanner, etc) between computers without
> having to disconnect and reconnect them.
> 
> My question is, where do I start?  I purchased an inexpensive hub, and a 16
> bit ISA "plug'n'play" LinkSys Ethernet card for the 386 (I know it sucks,
> and I will probably return it for another).  Linux does not recognize it,
> and I have no idea how to begin to configure it.  Could anyone help a poor,
> ignorant, newbie?
Well you can read the NET-3-HOWTO on your system, it is a very good guide
to setting up the linux box for networking.
> 
> Also, I installed the "base" debian system from the floppies, but have not
> installed any other packages.  What should I install to set up basic
> networking?  Eventually, I will want to install an e-mail server, a
> telnet/ftp server (I think these come with the base system), a web server,
Telnet/ftp come with the base so does smail.  You could install apache for
a web server etc...but i would first suggest installing kernel source
because you will need to recompile your kernel to support some networking
aspects, not sure what the default comes with, but you'll need ip
masquarading(?), ip forwarding, firwall and something else support at
least.
> etc.I've seen some of these as packages, but what about the basic original
> setup?
> 
> Any information on where to start would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!
> -lennox
> 
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HELP: modem and server install

[BOB'S MAIL]

I installed Debian 2.0.  I AM NEW.  I don't have my 
modem installed some way.  It is a USR Sportster 28.8 internal thing on Com 
4 (ttys3 I think). poff works fine as does plog .  pon does not work 
because the modem reference is missing.  The narrative 
follows.
 
From the Debian~#  prompt I execute pon and 
get the following response:
 
    /usr/sbin/pppd: In file 
/etc/ppp/peers/provider: unrecognized D option '/dev/modem'
 
From the Debian~#  prompt I execute fetchmail and get the fiollowing 
response:
 
    fetchmail: no mail servers 
have been specified.
 
dselect ran appconfig (Ithink it was) and I 
answered the queries and see my responses in files I have observed with mc while 
trying to get the above working.  So from root:
 
1.  How do I get a server for fetchmail?
 
2.  How do I get the modem installed in the 
system?

 
 
Bob Barth
email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using ZIP drive on Linux

[mwb]

On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Lennox Reid wrote:

> 
> Where do I get a driver to access a parrallel port ZIP drive on a Linux
> machine?

Compile a kernel.

Include modules for scsi support, parallel port, and ppa.

Check out the Parallel Port Home Page at
http://www/torque.net/parport/

Mark

Using ZIP drive on Linux

[Lennox Reid]

Where do I get a driver to access a parrallel port ZIP drive on a Linux
machine?

Thanks!

-lR

 

Where to start networking my computers

[Lennox Reid]

I am trying to network three computers in my home, with my little 386
running linux as the gateway/server/etc.  Eventually, the plan is to have
the linux computer access the internet and give the other computers access
so that we use only a single line.  It will also be used to allow me to
share files and devices (printers, scanner, etc) between computers without
having to disconnect and reconnect them.

My question is, where do I start?  I purchased an inexpensive hub, and a 16
bit ISA "plug'n'play" LinkSys Ethernet card for the 386 (I know it sucks,
and I will probably return it for another).  Linux does not recognize it,
and I have no idea how to begin to configure it.  Could anyone help a poor,
ignorant, newbie?

Also, I installed the "base" debian system from the floppies, but have not
installed any other packages.  What should I install to set up basic
networking?  Eventually, I will want to install an e-mail server, a
telnet/ftp server (I think these come with the base system), a web server,
etc.I've seen some of these as packages, but what about the basic original
setup?

Any information on where to start would be appreciated.

Thanks!
-lennox

cdrom

[Phillip Neumann]

Hi,



In what group should a user be to be able to play an audio-cdrom ??
current user is in:  bin lp mail cdrom audio dip






   
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Pine 4.02 ...

[Nuno Carvalho]

 Hi,

   Since i'd installed fetchmail i get the following message on pine:

[Mailbox vulnerable - error creating /var/spool/mail/nemanuel.lock.905559153.62]


 What's going on !?

 Thanks.

 Best regards,
   Nuno Carvalho