Re: samba problems

1996-09-25 Thread Behan Webster
Domain=[workgroup] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 1.9.15p4] I believe two or three loop bugs were found in the earlier releases of SAMBA. The current release is 1.9.16p2, you should probably install that release. I have been running it for a few weeks (on IRIX 5.3) and it seems quite stable

Re: can't seem to get internalmodem running

1996-09-25 Thread Chris R. Martin
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Rob Hanson wrote: Hey there everyone, I am a bit new to the linux thing, and I seem to be having some trouble locating my modem. It is an internal 33.6 cardinal voice modem, and it uses com3 on my win95 setup. Being an internal com port, I don't think it was

Scsi errors

1996-09-25 Thread mattice
Can anyone help me here? I've got an AHA1542 with a quantum XP32150W as the only device on the chain. I keep getting errors like the following: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 198, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 27 88 b0 00 00 76 00 scsi : aborting command

list server finally changing

1996-09-25 Thread Bruce Perens
Special instructions if you want to un-subscribe: send the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . The Debian mailing list server is changing over now. I changed the name lists.debian.org in the DNS database, and not every site will get this change immediately because DNS data is cached at each

Re: How do I use longtable in LaTeX

1996-09-25 Thread ciccio
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says: I want to compare three documents in paralel columns in a report. The comparison will stretch over about 20 pages. I believe LaTeX have the possibility to do that. So far I could not find any documentation on how to use longtable that, according to one of the

Re: 386 Dx-40

1996-09-25 Thread bigl
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, A Q. Q. is anyone out there using still using a 386 dx-40 (running Linux) and if so could you let us know what problems you are having if any I am considering the purchase of one.. Jonathan I'm using 386DX40 without any

Re: debian startup scripts dedicated ppp

1996-09-25 Thread Joey Hess
You should propagate the PPP startup script before the NFS mounts occur. This is a site specific configuration that probably isn't that common. Never the less, I think Debian 1.2 will probably deal with this better (I think). In the I hope so. I didn't have much trouble getting the nfs

Re: 386 Dx-40

1996-09-25 Thread David J. Evans
Oops - I forgot to add that tigger is the 386 !! David On Tue, 24 Sep 1996 09:35:02 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, A Q. Q. is anyone out there using still using a 386 dx-40 (running Linux) and if so could you let us know what problems you are having if any I am considering

Re: adobe acrobat viewer in debian?

1996-09-25 Thread Derek Lee
I have installed the Acrobat3 reader with no problems. Just a warning message about: Warning: charset STRING not supported, using ISO8859-1 which pops up when I start the application. --Derek Lee

Disk Compression - Stacker - Drivespace, etc.

1996-09-25 Thread Joe Manarolla
I am curious whether or not the conventional PC disk compression utilities such as Stacker and Drivespace are compatible with the Linux O/S? I heard that Stacker 4.0 for O/S2 was a compatible utility. Fact or Fantasy? Joe

Re: Missing terminfo entries?

1996-09-25 Thread Raymond Penners
Fabrizio Polacco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My newly installed Debian system doesn't seem to recognize less standard terminal emulations. For example, Amiga terminal emulation (export TERM=amiga) is not present. You should install ncurses-term to get /usr/lib/terminfo/a/amiga As stated

Re: 386 Dx-40

1996-09-25 Thread Nelson Posse Lago
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A Q. Q. is anyone out there using still using a 386 dx-40 (running Linux) and if so could you let us know what problems you are having if any I am considering the purchase of one.. It runs fine. Of course, depending on the amount of

Re: Anyone got a microcom working with diald?

1996-09-25 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996 22:45:45 PDT Paul Christenson \[N3EOP\] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: To use 115200, you need to use setserial on the port with the spd_vhi flag, and tell diald/pppd to use 38400. However, since it connects under minicom, that's telling me that you aren't using the proper

Re: Re[2]: Am I the Only One Waiting??

1996-09-25 Thread Guy Maor
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Therefore the newest postings archived on the server and mirrors are those of June 96. Don't hold your breath :-) Check again; they're being updated now. There's a glitch right now so that postings past about mid September aren't there, but that

How to move the system to a new hard disk?

1996-09-25 Thread Fernando Tadeu Caldeira Brandt
I am planing to install a new bigger hard disk. I will keep the old one but I would like to move Debian Linux to the new disk. Is it safe to use dd? If not, what would be the most pratical way to do that without having to remember all customization, etc? Fernando

Re: LaTeX

1996-09-25 Thread Giuseppe Vacanti
There have been a few buggy LaTeX packages around. I had the same problem. I found that by explicitly defining the variables below everything would work ok. I understand this shouldn't be necessary, but for some reason kpathsea doesn't do its job right on my system (by the way, you could try and

Re: 386 Dx-40

1996-09-25 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hi, A Q. Q. is anyone out there using still using a 386 dx-40 (running Linux) and if so could you let us know what problems you are having if any I am considering the purchase of one.. I'm running a 386DX33-256k-8M-1GB/ide-270MBsyquest-ET4000/1MB with no problems. Sure X11 is very

Re: can't seem to get internalmodem running

1996-09-25 Thread Gerry Jensen
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote: ${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/cua2 ${AUTO_IRQ} skip_test autoconfig ${STD_FLAGS} If so, you need to change it to this: ${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/cua2 ${AUTO_IRQ} skip_test autoconfig ${STD_FLAGS} spd_vhi Or you could be more brute-force about it and

Re: Anyone got a microcom working with diald?

1996-09-25 Thread Gerry Jensen
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Paul Christenson [N3EOP] wrote: To use 115200, you need to use setserial on the port with the spd_vhi flag, and tell diald/pppd to use 38400. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the spd_vhi flag is really necessary anymore for most programs. The spd_hi and

ppp/slhc won't load on 1.2.13 kernel under Debian 1.1

1996-09-25 Thread Brian K Servis
Hi all, I have to run the 1.2.13 kernel for MATLAB. I have compiled a new 1.2.13 kernel and modules using all the a.out gcc and libs, no problems. In /lib/modules I have separate directories for 1.2.13 and 2.0.0 with all the subdirectories with all the modules in them. But when I try to load

Re: Missing terminfo entries?

1996-09-25 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
Raymond Penners wrote: I do have /usr/lib/terminfo/a/amiga. But it is not listed in /etc/terminfo/a (here only ansi is present). I think it is there only because it is needed during the installation (and it belongs to ncurses-base). /usr/lib/terminfo/a/ansi is a symlink ti /etc/terminfo/ ,

Re: Problem with GIMP

1996-09-25 Thread Rob Browning
Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have the same problem here. I'm afraid it's a GIMP bug. I'll see about forwarding it upstream, but there's a major upgrade the works so chances are this would be wasted effort. -- Rob

Re: mime? nslookup?

1996-09-25 Thread John Goerzen
Are there mime and nslookup packages for debian? Yes. Debian has all sorts of packages :-) -- John Goerzen | System administrator owner, The Communications Custom programming| Centre and Complete Network (complete.org) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Free Unix shell access, 316-367-8490

Unidentified subject!

1996-09-25 Thread Jan Muszynski
snip I'm working on a machine that has a 1.2 gb hdd in it (scsi) 1 gig is ms-dog 200 mb is debian. because I have transferred my debian system to a dedicated machine, I would like to reclaim that 200 meg and append it to the 1 gb dos partition without

Re: debian startup scripts dedicated ppp

1996-09-25 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Joey Hess wrote: You should propagate the PPP startup script before the NFS mounts occur. This is a site specific configuration that probably isn't that common. Never the less, I think Debian 1.2 will probably deal with this better (I think). In the I hope so. I

Re[4]: Am I the Only One Waiting??

1996-09-25 Thread Lazaro . Salem
On 25.09.96 04:17 Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Therefore the newest postings archived on the server and mirrors are those of June 96. Don't hold your breath :-) Check again; they're being updated now. There's a glitch right now so that

RE: Trashed disk

1996-09-25 Thread Al Youngwerth
From my SCSI days of long ago... I believe your disk is telling you that it tried to write to a sector but that when it went to read it back to verify the data written was correct, the verify failed. Typically SCSI disks will then automatically reallocate the bad sector with some reserved

Re: Re[4]: Am I the Only One Waiting??

1996-09-25 Thread Guy Maor
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something might still be wrong. As of 25-Sep-96 8:30 GMT+1, and pointing my browser to http://www.debian.org/List-Archives I find: I'm talking about the archives on the *ftp* mirrors in /debian/debian-lists. Sorry if that was not obvious. The

NTeX for Debian generalized packaging

1996-09-25 Thread Mark Phillips
There has been talk recently about replacing the debian version of the TeX stuff with teTeX or NTeX. I myself have been using NTeX and have found it very good. The only problem is that because I haven't installed the debian versions of TeX, when I want to install another package that wants you

argh, NIS!

1996-09-25 Thread Patrick J. Edwards
NIS is giving me a big headache. I want to run it though... so here is the rror it keeps coming up with: $ yppasswd YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain possum.com yppasswd: can't find the master ypserver: Can't bind to server which serves this domain $ domainname possum.com $ ps

Available tools for making clickable WWW imagemaps?

1996-09-25 Thread Yves Arrouye
Are there such tools in Debian packages? If not, what do you recommend me (I only known mapedit 1.1.2) that I could get and Debianize? Yves. -- Yves Arrouye Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7, avenue Leon BolleeWeb: http://www.fdn.fr/~yarrouye/ 75013 Paris

Re[2]: Trashed disk

1996-09-25 Thread Lazaro . Salem
I you have an Adaptec card, you may want to check the disk using the utilities provided with the card to test the disk (alt-A at boot time before linux is booted). You can also check the grown defects list with the MS-Windows utilities provided with EZSCSI. Don't know if there is some linux

Re[6]: Am I the Only One Waiting??

1996-09-25 Thread Lazaro . Salem
'm talking about the archives on the *ftp* mirrors in /debian/debian-lists. Sorry if that was not obvious. The archives on the web site should be up before too long also. Guy Great! thanks a lot Guy. One related question: How can I add the bunch of messages to my mail box so to read them off

Re: Re[6]: Am I the Only One Waiting??

1996-09-25 Thread Guy Maor
Great! thanks a lot Guy. One related question: How can I add the bunch of messages to my mail box so to read them off line with say mail or exmh? For any MUA that keeps the mail in mbox format, you can just cat the new mail onto the end of the file. The MUA takes care of sorting and

Re: server sides in apache.

1996-09-25 Thread Fundamental
At 16:03 24/09/96 +0200, you wrote: At 14:56 24-09-96 +1000, Fundamental wrote: Hi, ive solved all my web server related problems since i changed from NCSA to apache - accept this one... All my server side includes are now failing with an error message [an error occured trying to process this

Using reserved addresses

1996-09-25 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Hi, I have a client who would like to use the reserved addresses internally throughout his LAN... My question is, will the workstations which use reserved IPs be able to go out into the net? If those reserved IPs are not routed outside, then how would a workstation be able to properly

Re: Using reserved addresses

1996-09-25 Thread Chris R. Martin
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: Hi, I have a client who would like to use the reserved addresses internally throughout his LAN... My question is, will the workstations which use reserved IPs be able to go out into the net? If those reserved IPs are not routed outside, then

Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)

1996-09-25 Thread bigl
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this still Debian related? Erick As far as I read this list about 70-80% of messages are off-topic but there is no sharp edge between normal unix questions (or specialy about one package) and Debian questions. I've found on this list

RE: Scsi errors

1996-09-25 Thread Al Youngwerth
Can anyone help me here? I've got an AHA1542 with a quantum XP32150W as the only device on the chain. I keep getting errors like the following: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 198, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 27 88 b0 00 00 76 00 scsi : aborting command

Re: 386 Dx-40

1996-09-25 Thread Max Hyre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Dear M[sr]. Lawson I just upgraded from a 386DX-25 on which I'd been running Linux (Debian 0.96R6) with no problem. I had 4 MB RAM and an aged RLL hard drive (100 MB). X would run, but so slowly that I didn't bother with it (but I also had a

bootup messages

1996-09-25 Thread Chris R. Martin
I recently recompiled, packaged, and installed a 2.0.20 kernel. I edited /etc/modules so that no modules are loaded at bootup (just using auto). However I now get the following messages at bootup: some date and time modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-4 some date and time modprobe: can't locate

Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)

1996-09-25 Thread Billy Chow
bigl == bigl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bigl On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this still Debian related? Erick bigl As far as I read this list about 70-80% of messages are bigl off-topic but there is no sharp edge between normal unix bigl questions (or specialy about one

Re: server sides in apache.

1996-09-25 Thread Remco van de Meent
Something else: will there be an /info and /status, besides logging of HTTP_REFERER and HTTP_USER_AGENT, in the new distribution (with apache-1.1.1) ?? does the standard apache have referer/agent stats? i ask because mine doesnt seem to be generating any? 1.0.5 doesn't // Remco van de Meent

gs_4.01-4.deb and deskjet 510

1996-09-25 Thread Marc Weeber
Hello fellow debians, I just installed the new gs package gs_4.01-4.deb. installing was no problem, but when I tried to use it with the magicfilter, I get garbage out of my HP Deskjet 510. THis filter uses -sDEVICE=deskjet. However, when I replace it with the `djet500' device (hmm.. in my old gs,

Re: 386 Dx-40

1996-09-25 Thread Jim Pick
My web server, primary DNS, sendmail and mailagent are running on a 386DX/33 running Slackware. It's got 8MB of RAM and two 200MB hard drives. I've upgraded it to a 2.0.10 kernel (which I compiled on my Pentium/90 Debian machine -- much faster). Upgrading Slackware to a 2.0.x kernel was

Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)

1996-09-25 Thread branderh
Is this still Debian related? bigl think that any censorship should be used very careful. Especially when the previous posts were about the shortcomings of the Debian LaTeX system and merits of a LaTeX distribution that is a potential debian package. Such a debian package will be

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1996-09-25 Thread Steve Stuart
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Re: Missing terminfo entries?

1996-09-25 Thread Raymond Penners
Fabrizio Polacco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Both TERMCAP and TERMINFO are unset. Setting TERMINFO to /usr/lib/terminfo doesn't help either. So, IMHO, the Debian ncurses package is broken. What kind of test did you do to say that? Perhaps not ncurses itself, but something is wrong

Re: bootup messages

1996-09-25 Thread Erik B Andersen
Easy enough to fix... Edit your /etc/conf.modules and add the following: alias net-pf-4 off alias net-pf-5 off alias netmask off alias broadcast off (I only use the first two on my system, but it works for me...) -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web:http://www.et.byu.edu/~andersee/

Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)

1996-09-25 Thread bigl
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this still Debian related? bigl think that any censorship should be used very careful. Especially when the previous posts were about the shortcomings of the Debian LaTeX system and merits of a LaTeX distribution that is a potential

Re: [Linux-ISP] Using reserved addresses

1996-09-25 Thread Michael Dillon
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: My question is, will the workstations which use reserved IPs be able to go out into the net? No. This is a good thing. If those reserved IPs are not routed outside, then how would a workstation be able to properly communicate? Using a proxy

Re: [Linux-ISP] Re: Using reserved addresses

1996-09-25 Thread Steve Greene
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: My question is, will the workstations which use reserved IPs be able to go out into the net? If those reserved IPs are not routed outside, then how would a workstation be able to properly

Re: Disk Compression - Stacker - Drivespace, etc.

1996-09-25 Thread Boris Beletsky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Joe Manarolla wrote: jmanI am curious whether or not the conventional PC disk compression utilities jmansuch as Stacker and Drivespace are compatible with the Linux O/S? jman jmanI heard that Stacker 4.0 for O/S2 was a compatible utility.

Re: hint on handling mail volume: sortmail

1996-09-25 Thread Rob Browning
Paul Christenson [N3EOP] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could the list maintainer set up the list so that all subject lines start with a unique string, such as [DebUser]? A number of other lists I'm on do this; it would make automatic sorting a lot easier. (Message number optional.) You don't

Netatalk borke in 2.06 to 2.0.20???

1996-09-25 Thread Pat . Ouellette
Hello all. Netatalk does not seem to be functioning on my system since upgrading to kernel 2.0.6. I upgraded to 2.0.20 to see if it would come back. Everything loads fine, but the macintosh clients don't see the Linux box's file system and printers. Nbplkup shows all the devices on the network

Re: Missing terminfo entries?

1996-09-25 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
Raymond Penners wrote: Perhaps not ncurses itself, but something is wrong somewhere. Several programs such as vim (3.0-5), joe/jmacs (2.8-4) complain about a missing termcap entries (e.g. when I set TERM=amiga). Here we are. ncurses is termcap compatible but doesn't provide a termcap file.

Unsubscribe from this list...

1996-09-25 Thread Juha Ylitalo
What used to be nice WWW interface for handling all the crap like subscribing and unsubscribing from list, seems to be now broken, and I definately can't handle current volume of this mailing-list (would need system that supports threads etc.), so if postmaster is among readers, please unsubscribe

FAQ: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages

1996-09-25 Thread Sven Rudolph
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Sven Rudolph, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.24 1996/09/25 19:24:09 sr1 Exp sr1 $ 1. General Questions 1.1. Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ (

Cirrus Logic GP-5446

1996-09-25 Thread C . J . Lawson
Hi folks, [not me again].. I decided to do the decent thing and switch to PCI. . ... The long and short of it is that I am stuck with a Cirrus Logic GP-5446 (2Mb) video card that X claims it cannot id (X -Probeonly actually reports something like 64k) I wonder if there is

Re: argh, NIS!

1996-09-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Patrick J. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NIS is giving me a big headache. I want to run it though... so here is the rror it keeps coming up with: $ yppasswd YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain possum.com yppasswd: can't find the master ypserver:

HELP for network setup

1996-09-25 Thread Tianlin WANG
I'm recently instaling Debian 1.1. from CD-ROM. I made X11 window works. Everything seems fine and I like it except that I can not make networking up. Here is my situation: I have a office-wide LAN with a hub. Currently A freeBSD and Sun workstation are communicating through hub very well. So

HELP for network setup

1996-09-25 Thread Tianlin Wang
I'm recently instaling Debian 1.1. from CD-ROM. I made X11 window works. Everything seems fine and I like it except that I can not make networking up. Here is my situation: I have a office-wide LAN with a hub. Currently A freeBSD and Sun workstation are communicating through hub very well. So

Re: Cirrus Logic GP-5446

1996-09-25 Thread Marcus Hightower
I have a Cirrus Logic GP-75xx that I can't get working. Hi folks, [not me again].. I decided to do the decent thing and switch to PCI. . ... The long and short of it is that I am stuck with a Cirrus Logic GP-5446 (2Mb) video card that X claims it cannot id (X -Probeonly