diald troubles

I hope someone here can give me some advice. I have set up diald correctly (i think), and it works pretty well, but there are a couple disturbing messages I get consitantly on the syslog: Aug 17 18:40:51 sigma pppd[341]: Using interface ppp0 Aug 17 18:40:51 sigma pppd[341]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /de

Re: how to put ifconfig in startup script?

On Fri, 16 Aug 1996 23:31:49 PDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello; > > After messing up my XDM and essentially locking myself > out of my system for a while, I have become interested > in setting up my ethernet card from a startup script. > > Does one put the ifconfig and route statements in th

Re: can't ifconfig dummy

You gotta tell it which dummy: ifconfig dummy0 songdog -Larry -- Larry Daffner| Linux: Unleash the workstation in your PC! [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://web2.airmail.net/vizzie/ The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. --Thomas H

Re: can't ifconfig dummy

Bill Roman writes: Bill> Why doesn't `ifconfig dummy songdog' work? It tells me: Bill> SIOCSIFADDR: No such device Try ifconfig dummy0 route add and if you use kerneld to load modules, add this in /etc/conf.modules: alias dummy0 dummy -- Dirk Eddelb"ut

Re: [Fwd: Virus Alert]

> Not true. You can't get a virus from reading an email message. Actually, there is a "Good Times" virus and it does come by email. The announcement itself _is_ the virus and it spreads _exteremely_ quickly! For more information, check out the following FAQ: http://www-mcb.ucdavis.edu/in

Re: Installing Netscape with dpkg

> How does one make "slight modifications" to a debian package? What is > a debian package? Is it really just a gzipped, tarred file? What are > the important components? You can grab the package source and edit it from there. Please DON'T do this, though. I try to keep up and a short note to

runq zombies

My system's been running for about a week. I've started to notice lots of runq zombies (from smail, I guess): FLAGS UID PID PPID PRI NI SIZE RSS WCHAN STA TTY TIME COMMAND 100040 0 10843 1 0 0 106848 11543d S ? 0:00 (runq) 100040 0 11188 1 0

Re: Warining from make xconfig ... (fwd)

I got essentialy the same message while preparing to compile a non- Debian 2.08 kernel. I conclude from this that whatever the problem is, it is not a Debian problem. I don't know if the resulting config file is really broken or not, but I did not take any chances. I used menuconfig. It is almos

Warining from make xconfig ... (fwd)

Sorry! I guess the error output would help! # make xconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts kconfig.tk make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.12/scripts' make -C /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.12/drivers/sound mkscript make[2]: Entering directory

Warining from make xconfig ...

Hi everyone! I get this warning message when I run make xconfig to setup my kernel .config file prior to compiling. It doesn't seem to bother anything, but I figured I ask if anyone else has seen it. Thanks Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 201-739-2886 - whippany, nj -- **

lyx and fonts

Hi, I'm trying to use lyx, and it works fine untill it invokes latex. Then it seems to be using some fonts that I have not installed. Where can I find those fonts (listed below)? Acording to /usr/doc/lyx/debian.README.gz, ther should also excist "* several manpages", of which I can find non. I a

Re: Where can I get dpkg-ftp other than the install disks?!

Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > > Hi folks. > > I just returned to a pre-1.1 beta PC which has an early verion > of the ELF system. Here's my problem. I want to update it via > dpkg-ftp, but I can't find dpkg-ftp! I presume that it has been > incorporated into the base disks. How to I get it onto

Re: dosemu

Shaya Potter wrote: > > What video card do you use? > > Shaya > -- > Shaya Potter > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, I'm currently using a Cirrus Logic GD5434, which works fine with XFree in 8 bit mode, but produces streaks at higher bpp's. Anyway, I'm getting a Matrox soon, a real speedster. Thanx for y

PPP and kernels

I guess best way to describe my current status with Debian is that I am still in process of moving to Debian from system that was originally based on Slackware 3.0. Anyway. I installed Debian 1.1.4 without too many problems and got everything basically working (fvwm95, emacs and PPP as most im

Re: [Fwd: Virus Alert]

On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Robbie Honerkamp wrote: > > I remember reading about this several months ago. It was the opinion > > of most people at the time to be just a joke. Anyone know for sure > > if it is anything other than a joke? > > Not true. You can't get a virus from reading an email message.

how to put ifconfig in startup script?

Hello; After messing up my XDM and essentially locking myself out of my system for a while, I have become interested in setting up my ethernet card from a startup script. Does one put the ifconfig and route statements in the usual rc.inet1 and reference it somehow from rc6.d, or what? I apprecia

can't ifconfig dummy

Why doesn't `ifconfig dummy songdog' work? It tells me: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device Am I the dummy here? -- Bill Roman ([EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]) running linux

Re: User-friendliness (was: Re: dselect returns error code)

"Heiko R. Selber" writes: -> On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: -> -> > On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Heiko R. Selber wrote: -> > -> > > [ Problems with dselect ] -> -> > Well, don't judge Debian by dselect. Dselect is the product of one mind -> > and has, in my estimation, severe user interface p

Re: [Fwd: Virus Alert]

On Sat, 17 Aug 1996 05:47:04 +0300 Lars Wirzenius ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > GNU Emacs had a similar feature (certain magic lines in a file could > run any Emacs commands automatically when the file was loaded -- and > Emacs commands are powerful indeed). FYI, this is now disabled by default.

Re: RAID in Linux (was Re: SCSI and EIDE)

> Hi guys, > > starting a new thread about the subject... ;-) > > I'm still trying to get a grip on this... > > Few questions: > 1. can raid0/raid1 be done on either scsi or ide or both? > 2. what's the difference between raid0 and raid1? > 3. what exactly does it do? Does it mirror data accross

Problem with man?

Sorry for the line wraps, but I get this when I try to look at a man page. And catman just sits there and does nothing! Anybody? # man man man: command exited with status -1: /bin/gzip -dc '/var/catman/cat1/man.1.gz' | { export MAN_PN LESS; MAN_PN='man(1)'; LESS="$LESS\$-Pm\:\$ix8mPm Manual pag

Re: [Fwd: Virus Alert]

Robbie Honerkamp: > Not true. You can't get a virus from reading an email message. Not true. The Good Times virus is a hoax, but it is possible to get a virus from e-mail, in some circumstances. Some e-mail systems allow the sender to tag the contents as being plain text, HTML, C source code, a s

Re: [Fwd: Virus Alert]

>Not true. You can't get a virus from reading an email message. > >Notice that the original post came from AOL.. :) O... Cheap shot! ;-) >Robbie >(who wonders how many people deleted this message in fear when they >saw the Subject: line..) We... the subject didn't contain "Good Times"

NT and Linux

[cc'd to debian-user since this info may help someone else.] Joe Russack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (I'll be running NT in a few weeks, when the full release comes out. > If you feel like typing up the info, that might be nice, but it's > not critical yet...) I'll save you a few days of a

Re: libwww-perl installation incomplete

Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the current version of the libwww-perl package is incomplete. In > particular, it does not install the HTML sub-package. After > obtaining the sources to libwww-perl and installing, I got past > the errors above. Hmm. So did you have to do anyt

libwww-perl installation incomplete

I downloaded checkbot which is used to verify links in Web pages, but the current version of the libwww-perl package: libwww-perl5.00-1 is incomplete. In particular, it does not install the HTML sub-package. Running check

where to find older pcmcia that uses 2.0.6 kernel

is there a record of pcmcia packages that use 2.0.6 kernel. the new one expects the 2.0.7 kernel and I need the older one. should I just upgrade my kernel? is this hard to to? Eddie Urenda

PCMCIA package that uses kernel 2.0.6 not 2.0.7 (was Re: Where can I ftp pcmcia package

I have kerne 2.0.6 though and it expects kernel 2.0.7. Where can I find a version that expects version 2.0.6 of the kernel. If this is not possible, how hard is it to upgrade my kernel ? Eddie Urenda On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote: > Hi Eddie -- > You can get the Debian pcmci

Re: RAID in Linux (was Re: SCSI and EIDE)

Ricardo Kleemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Few questions: > 1. can raid0/raid1 be done on either scsi or ide or both? The linux md driver is software, so it doesn't care what the underlying block device technology is. You just give it block-device partitions to turn into a RAID device. Thes

Re: exmh and Xauthority

> > I seem to have a problem with exmh (or X). When I start exmh I get a string > > of > > > > BGRegister insecure server (must run old style xauth). Command ignored. > > > > I think I understand what is happening: my X server is not generating > > the ~/.Xauthority file needed to run secure and

Where can I get dpkg-ftp other than the install disks?!

Hi folks. I just returned to a pre-1.1 beta PC which has an early verion of the ELF system. Here's my problem. I want to update it via dpkg-ftp, but I can't find dpkg-ftp! I presume that it has been incorporated into the base disks. How to I get it onto my system without messing with my confi

Re: Where can I ftp pcmcia package

Hi Eddie -- You can get the Debian pcmcia package from any Debian mirror. ftp.caldera.com:/pub/mirrors/debian is close to UCLA. When you get there (i.e., when you get to pub/mirrors/debian, which is where Caldera puts the Debian distribution -- this top level directory is differ