Re: Reading news offline

1996-11-10 Thread Nick Busigin
On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Boris D. Beletsky wrote: Nick Actually, for a small newsfeed I prefer CNews with the nntp Nick package to inn (but that's a personal preference). If you have Nick inn up and running properly, don't bother changing it. i would advice using leafnode - doesn't require

Re: Reading news offline

1996-11-10 Thread Adam Shand
take a look at it http://www.troll.no/freebies/leafnode.html http://www.ssc.com/lg/issue9/newsserver.html Thanks for the tip. I probably won't change because I've already got CNews, NNTP and suck working quite nicely. I will take a look at leafnode for some other installations I've got to do

Boot up problem...

1996-11-10 Thread Adam Shand
Hi, I have a problem on boot up that I don't understand and can't seem to fix. I have installed Debian 1.1 (off the latest infomagic cd's). The first 3 computers I installed in on worked fine. This one is an older computer, a 386 dx 40 with 4 MB of RAM and 16450 UART's. The install seemed to

Re: Boot up problem...

1996-11-10 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Adam Shand, you wrote: Hi, I have a problem on boot up that I don't understand and can't seem to fix. I have installed Debian 1.1 (off the latest infomagic cd's). The first 3 computers I installed in on worked fine. This one is an older computer, a 386 dx 40 with 4

Re: Libc5 woes

1996-11-10 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: Look at some of the environment variables that are set when root logs in. Look especially at $SHELL and $PATH. Type alias and see if any well-known programs are aliased. These would be set by files like /root/.profile . You were right. Ron Murray

EIDE CD-ROM not detected

1996-11-10 Thread Lawrence Chim
I have a SCSI and a EIDE CD-ROM. I don't know why linux cannnot detect (then mount) the EIDE CD-ROM unless I boot the DOS first then run loadlin. It seems that it needs the DOS cdrom driver to initialise the CDROM first. lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Boot up problem...

1996-11-10 Thread Esa Turtiainen
On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, Tim Sailer wrote: In your email to me, Adam Shand, you wrote: Configuring serial portsdone. /dev/cua0: No such device /dev/cua1: No such device /dev/cua2: No such device /dev/cua3: No such device INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 I traced the

Re: Mule?

1996-11-10 Thread Mike Wilson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kazuhiro Sasayama) says: I'm looking for a package of Mule for Debian. Does anyone have it? The seems to be a bit of optimism on the mule mailing list that the Mule-Emacs merge could occur with 19.35. Mule specifics aside, ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Baetzler) replies: )

Re: rpminstall not found in debmake 1.09

1996-11-10 Thread Ezio Manini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote: when I tried, it displayed this error mesg. /usr/bin/alien: unexpected EOF while looking for `'' /usr/bin/alien: command substitution: line 2: syntax error any hint. IT'S A SINTAX ERROR I take advantage some

cvsinit ?

1996-11-10 Thread Roger Endo
Hey where's the cvsinit script in the cvs package? Thanks! Roger -- ~~ Roger Endo President, Warp 9 Technologies LLC SBnet, Internet for Santa Barbara [EMAIL PROTECTED] 805-961-0150

Re: Travan Tape Drive Problems

1996-11-10 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote: Hi Dan -- You said: On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: The tapedrive is identified in win95 as a QIC3020. This is a SCSI tape drive. (I've seen it ONCE as IDE although..) This is a QIC3020 Travan tape drive, connected to

Re: Moving files to a new partition. Please help.

1996-11-10 Thread Adam Heath
Thank you all for your help, but the command I ended up using was this: cd /mnt find ./ | grep -v ./mnt | grep -v ./proc | cpio -p mkdir proc mkdir mnt # 'find ./' find ALL files, starting at the root directory. # 'grep -v ./mnt' Lets all lines pass through that DON'T contain './mnt', ie the new

Anyone using Free SCO Unix yet?

1996-11-10 Thread Craig Harmon
Hello, With the release of Free SCO Unix--doesn't Linux become obsolete? I checked out their website and the software looks terrific. They even have Skunkworks that ports GNU software. Now I just have to make room on the hard drive for Linux and SCO... Regards, Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO

Re: Moving files to a new partition. Please help.

1996-11-10 Thread Joe Emenaker
Thank you all for your help, but the command I ended up using was this: cd /mnt find ./ | grep -v ./mnt | grep -v ./proc | cpio -p Well, we're well off the topic of Debian, not to mention Linux-specific problems, but you could have replaced the grep -v ./mnt | grep -v ./proc with just

I want my old elvis!

1996-11-10 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello. Using elvis, I found two problems, which I had not with Slackware 3.0's elvis: * End key did no longer work. * When I'm at the top of the document (or at the bottom), pressing up-arrow produces flicker on screen (instead of a beep). Ok, I decided to

Re: rpminstall not found in debmake 1.09

1996-11-10 Thread Warwick HARVEY
Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Warwick HARVEY wrote: At some stage it had its name changed to alien. At some stage later, the documentation was updated to reflect this change. See if you have an alien command in the package, and if not try a later version, if one has made it to

pgp

1996-11-10 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Where can I find a .deb of PGP? -- Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.teleport.com/~karlheg (K0D) AYG-GE01 Portland, OR, USA :) Proudly running Linux 2.0.21 and Debian GNU public software! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

can't resolve symbol 'llseek'

1996-11-10 Thread Juhani Luhtanen
I'm probably missing the obvious here but could someone help me out. I'm trying to install Debian 1.1 on a Pentium 200 MHz Endeavor motherboard 64MB RAM Adaptec 2940 SCSI 2 Fujitsu 9GB SCSI-harddrive The thing here what I suspect is --a quote from Large Disk mini-HOWTO - If you are not

syslogd woes

1996-11-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
First of all, at boot the syslogd either dies or doesn't start, so I have to restart it by hand once the system is up. I'm trying to get xconsole to work, so I'm using the following syslog.conf *.*;cron.none /var/adm/messages *.*;cron.none

Re: can't resolve symbol 'llseek'

1996-11-10 Thread Warwick HARVEY
Juhani Luhtanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm probably missing the obvious here but could someone help me out. No, it's a bug with the boot disks you're using (I *assume* you're running this off a boot disk, since that's the only context I've heard of this error occurring). They contain a

Re: pgp

1996-11-10 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Where can I find a .deb of PGP? ftp://ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de/pub/os/linux/debian-non-US Regards, -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1

Re: Interesting idea (was: Apache config error)

1996-11-10 Thread Winfried Truemper
CoB SysAdmin (Joe Emenaker) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : export LOGS=/var/log/apache : export DOCS=/var/web/webspace : export CGI=/var/web/cgi-bin : the config files. However, I think there *may* exist somewhere in this idea : the ability to avoid more configuration change hassles than it

Re: pgp

1996-11-10 Thread Lawrence Chim
Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Where can I find a .deb of PGP? ftp://ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de/pub/os/linux/debian-non-US no, it have been move to ftp://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/pub/debian-non-US/ lawrence,

where is e2fsprogs_1.06-1?

1996-11-10 Thread Lawrence Chim
when I install e2fsprogs_1.06-2, it displays the following error mesg. dpkg: cannot see how to satisfy pre-dependency: e2fsprogs pre-depends on e2fsprogs (= 1.06-1) dpkg: cannot satisfy pre-dependencies for e2fsprogs (wanted due to e2fsprogs) where to find the e2fsprogs_1.06-1? lawrence, --

Re: Apache config error

1996-11-10 Thread Dermot Bradley
On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, Ronald van Loon wrote: I think I may have found why people are so unhappy with the new release of the Apache httpd: when it moves the directories, they become owned by root, rather than the special user 'www-data'. The new directory that is created, /usr/lib/httpd, gets

NFS that quits working after a time

1996-11-10 Thread Stan Brown
I posted this to the lsit a couple of daya agao and so far have received no replies. My debian system using automoun and NFS is set up to access all the filesystems on all the machines on my local network. If I reboot the debian machine, this all works fine. After running for a

Re: Anyone using Free SCO Unix yet?

1996-11-10 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, Craig Harmon wrote: Hello, With the release of Free SCO Unix--doesn't Linux become obsolete? I checked out their website and the software looks terrific. They even have Skunkworks that ports GNU software. Nope. Not in my opinion. Linux doesn't exist JUST to be a

Re: Anyone using Free SCO Unix yet?

1996-11-10 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Daniel Stringfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, Craig Harmon wrote: With the release of Free SCO Unix--doesn't Linux become obsolete? No, for a lot of reasons. In fact, SCO would not have made their system free except to combat the perception that Linux had already obsoleted SCO.

Re: Anyone using Free SCO Unix yet?

1996-11-10 Thread Robert Nicholson
I'm guessing there's a lack of device driver support but I've never liked SCO. -- They pay homage to a king who's dreams are buried in their minds. His tears are frozen stiff. Icicles drip from his eyes. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Logging users off..

1996-11-10 Thread Ole Jakob Skjelten
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! I was wondering if Debian has any admin programs that would allow root to log off a user and kill off all of their processes? Yes, try the fancy little program called slay which can easily be located at sunsite, it workes just fine; simply slay username and it

Re: pgp

1996-11-10 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Lawrence == Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lawrence Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Where can I find a .deb of PGP?

Free SCO unix

1996-11-10 Thread Daniel Stringfield
I just looked at the free sco unix. I'm not that impressed. They act like they are heroes because they are allowing students and home users to run there software for free. Not to mention that they are giving stripped down versions of there software (that's pretty stripped down anyway) to you.

Re: pgp

1996-11-10 Thread Sven Rudolph
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lawrence == Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lawrence Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Where can I

lpd not working after kernel upgrade to 2.0.24

1996-11-10 Thread Marc A. Gallagher
After upgrading to kernel 2.0.24 from 2.0.0 I am having problems printing... I have an HP660C and am using Magicfilter... I had it working fine until the upgrade... I have the most recent copies of: libc (5.4.7) lpr (5.9-12) magicfilter (1.2-6) When I try to print it queues the job, but when

Clone(), and I don't mean threads.

1996-11-10 Thread Todd Graham Lewis
I have a debian machine. It's got tons of stuff on it, but no package files. I have another machine, this one with no Linux at all on it. I insert a floppy into the second machine, attach a null-modem cable between the two, fire up the clone-server on the first machine, and start up the second.

[semi-off topic]I need a little help ...

1996-11-10 Thread Richard G. Roberto
Hello, I finally got Debian (mostly rex) installed on my Toshiba Tecra 720CDT laptop. I need some help getting a handle on a few things though. I can't seem to find the key combo to switch resolutions under X. On a desktop system, this is just CTL-ALT-(+/-), but the + is on the number pad.

Re: pgp

1996-11-10 Thread Lars Wirzenius
[ Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. ] Karl M. Hegbloom: The package is broken! Where else can I look for it??? I fetched a copy, and compared it the one I have on my hard disk. They're identical, and both work. You may have forgot to set binary mode when

A couple things I noticed with rex packages ...

1996-11-10 Thread Richard G. Roberto
Has anyone else noticed that the x3270 package fails to install correctly unless the DISPLAY environment variable is set? I haven't looked into it very deeply, but I thought I'd mention it. Also, most refuses to run in an xterm or rxvt complaining the terminal isn't strong enough! That's pretty