NEC SuperScript 860 laser printer??

1996-11-11 Thread David Puryear
Hi all, I was going to buy NEC SuperScript 860 printer. So I looked at the printer drivers and did not see one that match this. Can this printer be used in Linux? If so, how/what should I use in terms of driver? Here is spec for this printer: Speed 8ppm Resolution: 6

Re: Emacs and XEmacs

1996-11-11 Thread Paul Seelig
On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Esa Turtiainen wrote: > I'd like to use both Emacs and XEmacs at the same time. Are there > plans to allow this in the future. I have heard that people have > patched this to work. > Extract the binary data files from all needed xemacs*.deb or emacs*.deb files with ar

dumb CDROM question

1996-11-11 Thread David Golpira
Hi. I've been using Slackware for a wgile and decided it's now time to switch over to Debian. I've booted off the boot disk w/ "linux aha152x=0x340,11,7,1" - similar to what I needed for Slackware to recognize my CDROM. I installed the cdrom module and the sr_mod module. When it comes time to r

Re: Anyone using Free SCO Unix yet?

1996-11-11 Thread Boris D. Beletsky
Hi Craig, You wrote: Craig> Craig> Hello, Craig> Craig> With the release of Free SCO Unix--doesn't Linux become Craig> obsolete? why? there is minix, *bsd, etc... they doesn't make linux obsolete Craig> I checked out their website and the software looks Craig> terrific. They even have Sk

Re: how to download in the background?

1996-11-11 Thread Boris D. Beletsky
Hi lawrence, You wrote: > Is it possible to download something, say > http://xxx.xxx.xxx/abc.zip in the background? For example, I > can run ncftp, get a file, press CTRL-Z, type bg, then I can > logout and ncftp still downloading the file for me. Is there > an equivalent command for downloadi

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

1996-11-11 Thread Boris D. Beletsky
Hi Adam, You wrote: Adam> Adam> Thank you all for your help, but the command I ended up using Adam> was this: Adam> Adam> cd /mnt find ./ | grep -v ./mnt | grep -v ./proc | cpio -p Adam> mkdir proc mkdir mnt # 'find ./' find ALL files, starting at Adam> the root directory. # 'grep -v ./mnt'

Emacs and XEmacs

1996-11-11 Thread Esa Turtiainen
Hi, I'd like to use both Emacs and XEmacs at the same time. Are there plans to allow this in the future. I have heard that people have patched this to work. Esa -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: I am looking for a program

1996-11-11 Thread Graeme Stewart
These packages are in the Debian distribution: /pub/debian/non-free/binary-i386/unzip_5.12-13.deb /pub/debian/non-free/binary-i386/zip_2.01-13.deb /pub/debian/rex/binary-i386/misc/zip_2.01-14.deb /pub/debian/rex/binary-i386/misc/unzip_5.12-15.deb and should do the

Re: I am looking for a program

1996-11-11 Thread Thomas Baetzler
Miguel A. Tang Aranda wrote: > I just start use Linux a few days ago and I was asking > myself if there is a packing program that make files in ZIP format and > where can I found it. Get the zip and unzip packages from one of the Debian ftp servers. They should be in the misc section

Can't install cdu31a

1996-11-11 Thread Robin Rowe
Hi. I am trying to install debian, but not having much luck getting it to recognize my sony cd-rom. I am using 'linux cdu31a=0x340' at the boot prompt. When I get to the device driver configuration menu and try to install 'cdu31a' it says it can't initialize. It works fine under Win 3.1 and Win95

Re: I am looking for a program

1996-11-11 Thread Roberto Magana
On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Miguel A. Tang Aranda wrote: > Hi everybody: > I just start use Linux a few days ago and I was asking > myself if there is a packing program that make files in ZIP format and > where can I found it. > Thank a lot. > You can find it in ftp://simula.efis.ucr.

Re: how to download in the background?

1996-11-11 Thread Joey Hess
> Is it possible to download something, say http://xxx.xxx.xxx/abc.zip > in the background? For example, I can run ncftp, get a file, press > CTRL-Z, type bg, then I can logout and ncftp still downloading the > file for me. Is there an equivalent command for downloading from http? Another easy w

Re: Computer insane behaviour!

1996-11-11 Thread Nelson Posse Lago
On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > Indeterminate behavior is generally an indication of a hardware problem. I already checked, doesn't seem to be the case. Besides, it's not indeterminate behaviour, it's very consistant. The error is always the same, even after I erased the disk

using NIS

1996-11-11 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Hi guys, I've set up a Debian linux system to be NIS master and have a FreeBSD system trying to act as client. How do I test/debug this? I tried logging into the FreeBSD system with a user account from the master system, but it didn't work... First time with NIS for me, so I'm looking for poin

Re: too many open files?

1996-11-11 Thread D. Chiodo
Might want to look into the following settings for Apache. # Server-pool size regulation. Rather than making you guess how many # server processes you need, Apache dynamically adapts to the load it # sees --- that is, it tries to maintain enough server processes to # handle the current load, pl

I am looking for a program

1996-11-11 Thread Miguel A. Tang Aranda
Hi everybody: I just start use Linux a few days ago and I was asking myself if there is a packing program that make files in ZIP format and where can I found it. Thank a lot. *** *Miguel A. Tang Aranda

xconsole stops logging

1996-11-11 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
Hi, I have noticed that xconsolo stops logging any kernel messages when the daily cron scripts get run and the current /var/log/messages file gets renamed to /var/log/messages.0 and a new one gets created. Is this something normal or is there anything I am doing wrong? Thanks, Luis. -- TO UNSUBSC

Re: Computer insane behaviour!

1996-11-11 Thread Bruce Perens
Unmount the disk with problems, and run "/sbin/e2fsck -f /dev/hd??". Fill in the device name as appropriate. Check for bad memory (I know, that's shotgunning the problem, but it turns up a lot) and other hardware problems. Indeterminate behavior is generally an indication of a hardware problem.

Re: g77 & f2c serious problems

1996-11-11 Thread Arrigo Triulzi
David Gaudine scripsit: |I should add that, in the unlikely event that -fno_automatic solves |your problem, you should send the bug report to the developers of your |source code. -fno_automatic solves a problem that should not come up |with "correct" code. Ahem, it didn't work. So far no solution

shared lib handler failed

1996-11-11 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi I'm having some problems concerning to shared library, I guess, that are boring me. When trying to exec some programs, I receive a Segmentation Fault. The strange part is that some of this programs are running, e.g. xterm_color, and I can't start another process of it.

Popmail

1996-11-11 Thread Mark Carroll
Just wondering - can anyone recommend a POP mail client for Linux (not X), and suggest where I can get it from? Many thanks, Mark ...in case anyone's wondering, after reinstalling diald and purging it again, pppd is now fine... (-: -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail t

Computer insane behaviour!

1996-11-11 Thread Nelson Posse Lago
Hi all, I know this is not debian specific, but anyway... I really can't believe my eyes, but I'm under this situation: I have 2 identical (Quantum IDE, 1.7Mb) hard disks. I divided one of them in several partitions and installed different debian configs on each in order t

Re: default window size for netscape?

1996-11-11 Thread fols9488
> On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, Brian C. White wrote: > > > > does anyone know how i can set the default window size for netscape? > > > > I start netscape like this: > > > > netscape -geometry 1137x990+3840+1024 -ncols 64 > > > > You can probably also add some lines like: > > > > Netscape*geome

Re: lpd not working after kernel upgrade to 2.0.24

1996-11-11 Thread Michael Laing
Marc A. Gallagher wrote: > > 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

Re: Lilo problem after kernel upgrade to 2.0.25

1996-11-11 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hi, > LILO Loading linux > Wrong loader, giving up... How does your lilo.conf look like? Greetings Bernd -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: g77 & f2c serious problems

1996-11-11 Thread Arrigo Triulzi
Douglas Bates scripsit: |Are the differences in floating point results relative to other |machines based on Intel processors? Remember that the floating point |registers on Intel processors use an 80 bit IEEE extended |representation. Other architectures such as SPARC use the 64 bit IEEE |represe

Lilo problem after kernel upgrade to 2.0.25

1996-11-11 Thread Dermot Bradley
I just built 2.0.25 for a machine currently running 2.0.22 and did a reboot. LILO starts up and then I get the following: LILO Loading linux Wrong loader, giving up... I've never seen this error before. Rebooting and picking the older kernel from Lilo works okay. Dermot -- Dermot Bradley

Re: too many open files?

1996-11-11 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Thanks!!! I did su to root! That must be the reason! I'll give it a try! Ricardo On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > Ricardo Kleemann wrote: > : > : Hi guys, > : > : I tried running apache and got back the "too many open files" error. > : > : How can I check/monitor the number

Re: too many open files?

1996-11-11 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Thanks for the help!!! So now I'm puzzled! :( here are my values: irvine:/$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/file-nr 192 irvine:/$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/inode-nr 16801502 irvine:/$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/file-max 1024 irvine:/$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/inode-max 3072 I'm only running about 15 virtual WWW domai

Re: Anyone using Free SCO Unix yet?

1996-11-11 Thread Kevin Traas
On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, Craig Harmon wrote: > With the release of Free SCO Unix--doesn't Linux become obsolete? Not quite! There's nothing like 120 developers constantly upgrading/improving an already great product without having to go through development, testing, "release-to-manufacturing", a

Mailing list archives

1996-11-11 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
There seems to be some problem with the index to this and last month's messages. Are people aware of this? And given that I can't use that, I remember that at some point lprng was recommended as the future "lpr" for debian. Where can I find this? Thanks! Luis. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

dselect reports error

1996-11-11 Thread Pete Templin
---error message--- (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing xv (--remove): files list file for package `adduser' contains empty filename Errors were encountered while processing: xv Processing was halted because there were too many errors. dpkg --remove returned error exit stat

Re: A couple things I noticed with rex packages ...

1996-11-11 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote: > On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, Christian Hudon wrote: > > > On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote: > > > > > Also, most refuses to run in an xterm or rxvt complaining the > > > terminal isn't strong enough! That's pretty wierd. > > > > > > > Do y

Ext2fs error messages

1996-11-11 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi Recently I upgraded my PC hardware, from a VL BUS to a PCI board. After this change and with an on board IDE, I have received some error messages about ext2. In order to check the file system, I ran e2fsck even with the -c flag and some problems were reported as corrected.

Re: how to download in the background?

1996-11-11 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> In libwww-perl there is a command GET that makes the trick. > If you have a squid proxy, you can read it next time directly from > cache. Otherwise, you can put it to a file. Wouldn't it be easier to use 'lynx' (-dump or -source or somesuch) or 'snarf'? > On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Lawrence Chim wr

Re: Weird NFS/automounter problem.

1996-11-11 Thread Swen Thuemmler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, Stan Brown wrote: > I have set my Debian Linux box up with the sutmounter so that > I can access all the machines on my local network. After I boot the > machine, all this works fine. I can change directory to /net(name_of_machine) > an

Re: how to download in the background?

1996-11-11 Thread Esa Turtiainen
Hi, In libwww-perl there is a command GET that makes the trick. If you have a squid proxy, you can read it next time directly from cache. Otherwise, you can put it to a file. Esa On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote: > Is it possible to download something, say http://xxx.xxx.xxx/

how to download in the background?

1996-11-11 Thread Lawrence Chim
Is it possible to download something, say http://xxx.xxx.xxx/abc.zip in the background? For example, I can run ncftp, get a file, press CTRL-Z, type bg, then I can logout and ncftp still downloading the file for me. Is there an equivalent command for downloading from http? lawrence, -- TO UNSUB

Re: init problems (fwd)

1996-11-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
You ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am still having problems with init. My computer is up to date with > unstable. sysvinit was one of the many things that got upgraded in a > flurry last week. Now, programs that don't put themselves in the > background get killed before the gettys are started.

[Help] MouseSystems and X11

1996-11-11 Thread Pedro Quaresma
Hello = I have tried to install Debian Linux in my machine this weekend and I was not totally well succedd. Unix - ok X11 - not ok After a sucesfull instalation of the Unix from a CD (it recognizes the CD the HardDisk the Floppy the printer the Screen) I went to install the

Re: too many open files?

1996-11-11 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Ricardo Kleemann wrote: : : Hi guys, : : I tried running apache and got back the "too many open files" error. : : How can I check/monitor the number of file descriptors being used?? : : Where do I change it if it needs to be increased? Installed lshell? Became root via su? Heiko -- email

Re: A couple things I noticed with rex packages ...

1996-11-11 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, Christian Hudon wrote: > On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote: > > > Also, most refuses to run in an xterm or rxvt complaining the > > terminal isn't strong enough! That's pretty wierd. > > > > Do you have the TERMCAP environment variable defined? I had that probl

Re: too many open files?

1996-11-11 Thread Oskar Pearson
Hi > I tried running apache and got back the "too many open files" error. There are generally two possible errors: You can have too many files open on your system (say you have lots of programs that are opening a few files each) or a single process (like apache) can open 256 files (this is the de

Re: where is e2fsprogs_1.06-1?

1996-11-11 Thread Warwick HARVEY
Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > e2fsprogs_1.06-3 fixes it. Just go install that. Sure - it just hadn't made it to the local mirror yet (and still hasn't). Warwick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pgp

1996-11-11 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sun, 10 Nov 1996 23:23:55 EST Paul Haggart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > Is there a special reason pgp isn't on master.debian.org, or am I just not > looking hard enough? :) There's a very good reason: the obnoxious US restrictions about cryp

Re: memory over 64Meg

1996-11-11 Thread Joey Hess
> I have just upgraded to 80Megs from 32Megs on a ASUS PCI/I-P54TP4 > board running Debian 1.1 (stable). free(1) only sees 64megs. > POST shows the memory ok. Try adding "mem=80M" to lilo, or whatever bootloader you have. I'm have 80 mb, and can access it all.. -- #!/usr/bin/perl -pi___Synt

Re: pgp

1996-11-11 Thread Paul Haggart
On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > 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 downloading, or something. Is there a special reason pgp isn't on master.debian.org, or am I just not

Re: A couple things I noticed with rex packages ...

1996-11-11 Thread Christian Hudon
On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote: > Also, most refuses to run in an xterm or rxvt complaining the > terminal isn't strong enough! That's pretty wierd. > Do you have the TERMCAP environment variable defined? I had that problem too, and undefining TERMCAP fixed it. Christian --

memory over 64Meg

1996-11-11 Thread Rob Ransbottom
I have just upgraded to 80Megs from 32Megs on a ASUS PCI/I-P54TP4 board running Debian 1.1 (stable). free(1) only sees 64megs. POST shows the memory ok. I can't say how anything else works, as I only run linux. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAI

Trying to remove gpm

1996-11-11 Thread Kevin McEnhill
Howdy, About one month ago, I crashed my system something fierce. My mouse has a bouncy middle button that I havn't gotten around to doing anything about. Anyway, I was running Ghostview and draging the scroll bar down and I wandered ooff the bar and onto the page. OK, no problem except my mouse d

Re: pgp

1996-11-11 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > "Lars" == Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> "Karl M. Hegbloom": >> The package is broken! Where else can I look for it??? Lars> I fetched a copy, and compared it the one I have on my hard Lars> disk. They're identical, and

Re: where is e2fsprogs_1.06-1?

1996-11-11 Thread Guy Maor
Warwick HARVEY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Lawrence Chim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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 pr

Re: where is e2fsprogs_1.06-1?

1996-11-11 Thread Warwick HARVEY
Lawrence Chim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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)

Adaptec 2940

1996-11-11 Thread Kelly D. Leavitt
Help! Trying to install the Debian installation with an adaptec 2940 controller. Settings are: IRQ=14, Base Address=0xD000. I know the controller works since I have free SCO running on it (and I want to switch to Linux). Boot process doesn't reconize the adapter (SCSI: 0 Hosts SCSI: detected total.

Re: EIDE CD-ROM not detected

1996-11-11 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sun, 10 Nov 1996 14:16:11 +1100 Lawrence Chim ([EMAIL PROTECTED] t.edu.au) wrote: > 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 initial

Re: pgp

1996-11-11 Thread Lawrence Chim
Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > > > "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? >

Re: 2.1 compilation secrets?

1996-11-11 Thread Jason Eggleston
On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Sorry to bring this up again, but can somebody who has 2.1.x running > on debian let me know what I'm doing wrong? I have gcc 2.7.2, > binutils 2.7-3, libc 5.4.7. I can't compile kernel 2.1.5; Well, I'm not near my machine at the moment, but rm -r /us

Re: Anyone using Free SCO Unix yet?

1996-11-11 Thread John Hasler
Craig Harmon writes: > With the release of Free SCO Unix--doesn't Linux become obsolete? Daniel Stringfield writes: > Nope. Not in my opinion. Linux doesn't exist JUST to be a free operating > system. I have not heard of a free SCO, but i will go check it out. > Will it provide source? Does it