diald troubles

1996-08-18 Thread Ervin D. Walter
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 --

GOOD TIMES

1996-08-18 Thread Bruce Perens
Your system has now been infected with the GOOD TIMES virus. Have a nice day! -- Clinton isn't perfect, but I like him a lot more than Dole. Please register to vote, and vote for Democrats. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams.com/

Re: GOOD TIMES

1996-08-18 Thread Bruce Perens
Only Kidding! Bruce -- Clinton isn't perfect, but I like him a lot more than Dole. Please register to vote, and vote for Democrats. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams.com/

StarOffice under Debian

1996-08-18 Thread Christoph Lameter
Is anyone running StarOffice under Debian? If so how and where did you get the Motif Libraries?

Re: can't ifconfig dummy

1996-08-18 Thread Pablo Bianucci
Hi Bill! On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Bill Roman wrote: Why doesn't `ifconfig dummy songdog' work? It tells me: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device Am I the dummy here? The same happened to me, until I realized that the interface should be called 'dummy0' (or 1, 2, etc...) Bye Good Luck! Pablo B.

Re: how to put ifconfig in startup script?

1996-08-18 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [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 the usual rc.inet1

Re: can't ifconfig dummy

1996-08-18 Thread Michael Meskes
Bill Roman writes: Why doesn't `ifconfig dummy songdog' work? It tells me: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device Try dummy0 instead! Michael -- Michael Meskes |_ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | / ___// / // / / __ \___ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

module cdu31a fails on insert

1996-08-18 Thread Michael_Laing
I am installing debian 1.1.1 from the August Pacific Hi Tech CD on my Gateway 200 PS-60. Things go OK until I try to add the cdu31a module to support the CDU33A CDROM drive in the Gateway: it fails to insert. The drive is defaulted onto 0x340; when I try to add a parameter to the module

re: installation boot fails with standard bootdisk on 486SX/33

1996-08-18 Thread Michael_Laing
I previously wrote: Installation fails on this old machine shortly after hitting return at the 'Boot Parameters' prompt using the standard bootdisk. Linux 1.2.13 runs fine. Additional info: after hitting return I get from 3 to 6 dots and then a 'bad disk' message. The disk is not bad,

RE: GOOD TIMES

1996-08-18 Thread wb2oyc
On 01:10:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your system has now been infected with the GOOD TIMES virus. Have a nice day! -- Clinton isn't perfect, but I like him a lot more than Dole. Please register to vote, and vote for Democrats. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GOOD TIMES

1996-08-18 Thread wb2oyc
On 01:15:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only Kidding! Bruce -- Clinton isn't perfect, but I like him a lot more than Dole. Please register to vote, and vote for Democrats. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams.com/ I'm not kiddking! He

NFS trouble

1996-08-18 Thread wb2oyc
Debian guru's, Here I am again in need of some assistance with this new release. I've been using NFS over a SLIP link to my laptop to access resources on the Debian box (like the CDROM, etc) with the R6 distribution for several months. Now, with 1.1 my laptop and another machine both using

Re: lyx and fonts

1996-08-18 Thread Michael Meskes
Hakan Ardo writes: 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

can I erase /var/tmp?

1996-08-18 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
I just noticed that my /var/tmp directory contains: 12784 base-tmp-6491 2 extract-tmp-10628 2 extract-tmp-10702 1 extract-tmp-6127 1 extract-tmp-6208 1 extract-tmp-6289 7676partial-tmp-6491 What creates those directories, and can I erase them? TIA, Susan

ALPHA: pe package - periodic execution

1996-08-18 Thread Christian Schwarz
Hi! I just rewrote my pe program and made a debian package. Here is what it's for: pe is meant to be a simple replacement for cron(8) on sys­ tems that don't run 24 hours a day. On such systems, you can't normally specify a certain time when a job is to be

Re: can I erase /var/tmp?

1996-08-18 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Susan G. Kleinmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just noticed that my /var/tmp directory contains: 12784 base-tmp-6491 2 extract-tmp-10628 2 extract-tmp-10702 1 extract-tmp-6127 1 extract-tmp-6208 1 extract-tmp-6289 7676partial-tmp-6491 What creates those

Re: module cdu31a fails on insert

1996-08-18 Thread Bruce Perens
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Things go OK until I try to add the cdu31a module to support the CDU33A CDROM drive in the Gateway: it fails to insert. The drive is defaulted onto 0x340; when I try to add a parameter to the module insertion it either fails the same way or gives me an invalid parameter

RE: GOOD TIMES

1996-08-18 Thread Bruce Perens
You're right about that; Clinton IS a VIRUS! OK, I deserved that. Now let's go on with the software work. Bruce -- Clinton isn't perfect, but I like him a lot more than Dole. Please register to vote, and vote for Democrats. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL

Can't remove sendmail with dselect/dpkg

1996-08-18 Thread John Houwen
In my original installation, I incorrectly selected sendmail (among other things g) to be installed. Upon further investigation, smail would appear to be the preferred mail transport device. However, dselect/dpkg refuses to remove it, or any part of it. smail not installed, cannot remove

heads-up about SCSI tape drives

1996-08-18 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
I've been having a lot of problems with my SCSI tape drive in the past week or so (Unrecognizable archive, etc.). Another user also told me in private email that he'd also been having trouble with his SCSI tape drive. (I have an Exabyte 8505; I do not know what kind of SCSI tape drive the

Re: What am I doing wrong?

1996-08-18 Thread Tim O'Brien
2 Here is my diald line: diald /dev/ttyS0 -m slip local 192.168.86.20 remote 10.0.2.15\ defaultroute modem crtscts connect chat -f /etc/slipchat: mtu\ 1024 I've not done this with SLIP, but I assume it's similar to PPP... Anyhow, a few

Re: module cdu31a fails on insert

1996-08-18 Thread Pablo Bianucci
Hi Michael! On Sun, 18 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The drive is defaulted onto 0x340; when I try to add a parameter to the module insertion it either fails the same way or gives me an invalid parameter message. Have you tried with the following parameter? cdu31a_port=0x340 Bye Good

Re: Can't remove sendmail with dselect/dpkg

1996-08-18 Thread Miro Torrielli
John Houwen wrote: In my original installation, I incorrectly selected sendmail (among other things g) to be installed. Upon further investigation, smail would appear to be the preferred mail transport device. However, dselect/dpkg refuses to remove it, or any part of it. smail not

Re: Can't remove sendmail with dselect/dpkg

1996-08-18 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sun, 18 Aug 1996, John Houwen wrote: In my original installation, I incorrectly selected sendmail (among other things g) to be installed. Upon further investigation, smail would appear to be the preferred mail transport device. However, dselect/dpkg refuses to remove it, or any part

Re: GOOD TIMES

1996-08-18 Thread Tim O'Brien
Your system has now been infected with the GOOD TIMES virus. Have a nice day! -- Clinton isn't perfect, but I like him a lot more than Dole. Please register to vote, and vote for Democrats. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams.com/ Goodtimes

Re: module cdu31a fails on insert

1996-08-18 Thread renald loignon
Use the argument cdu31a_port=0x340 when you install the module. It also understands cdu31a_irx=N. May I ask, in all seriousness, and without a trace of sarcasm, where in the world (BUT preferably in the Debian installation instructions) one is expected to find this information? I was used to the