Re: Linux and 6x86

1996-12-03 Thread Bruce Perens
It's been reported to work fine. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

amd for mail (?)

1996-12-03 Thread Fundamental
I wish to configure a debian mail server running smail to use users accounts to store there mail box instead of /var/mail or /var/mail/spool. Someone said i could use amd to do this (as well as procmail). After reading the package description on amd, im not so sure i can use amd for this

Re: amd for mail (?)

1996-12-03 Thread Boris D. Beletsky
Hi Fundamental, You wrote: Fundamental Fundamental I wish to configure a debian mail server running smail Fundamental to use users accounts to store there mail box instead of Fundamental /var/mail or /var/mail/spool. Someone said i could use Fundamental amd to do this (as well as procmail).

Re: Linux and 6x86

1996-12-03 Thread Paul Chau
A lot of people are happy with there 6x86 running linux. Maybe those games are intel sponsored. PS: Intel is not bad either. Cheers. Paul On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, GREENE KENNETH ADAM wrote: I was wondering about Linux and the Cyrix/IBM 6x86 (specifically P120). Does Linux support it, I know

Configuring Network Card

1996-12-03 Thread Wayne Richardson
I am trying to add a network card and I am having a lot of trouble. Can anyone out there help? When I enter the command ifconfig eth0 cr, I get: eth0 Link encap:AMPR NET/ROM HWaddr inetaddr:143.122.16.109 Bcast:143.122.16.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 BROADCAST RUNNING

Help with corrupt headers

1996-12-03 Thread Alex Derbes
Hi, I have just experianced some disk problems which resulted in some headers in /usr/include (for example string.h) to be corrupted, what packages should I intall to replaced the headers and how do I do this? on a side note, is there anyway to get an Adaptec AHA-2920 SCSI

Re: MS WORD format (and customizable telnet client) (fwd)

1996-12-03 Thread Alexander LIST
On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Paul Seelig wrote: This was the case with the first beta because of a failure on behalf of the developers when they compiled the release. The newer betas are corrected in this regard. So you have to buy your Motif anyway. And apart from that it's still not even worth

Can't install netscape (using dpkg)

1996-12-03 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I tried to install netscape using dpkg by doing: # dpkg --install netscape dpkg: error processing netscape (--install): cannot access archive: No such file or directory Errors were encountered while processing: netscape I don't know why this didn't work. I get the following status

rex installation report

1996-12-03 Thread Debian Mailing-List
'lo I installed Debian rex (frozen) this week-end -- I had some problems : * perl-suid and perl-base written a lot of messages like : try overwrite /usr/lib/perl5/ one is try overwrite /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.00307/CORE/liberl.a *

dselect installation fails

1996-12-03 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I have just tried using dselect to upgrade my system to the latest version of rex (from an earlier version of rex) and ran into problems with the installation stage. I realize that rex hasn't yet been officially released yet as 1.2, but I thought someone might like to know of this bug.

Re: Linux and 6x86

1996-12-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I was wondering about Linux and the Cyrix/IBM 6x86 (specifically P120). Does Linux support it, I know some video games don't support the chip (or the chip doesn't support them |-). If it is supported, does everything run OK. thanxs in advance for any responses. Absolutely no problems

Re: dselect via ftp probs

1996-12-03 Thread Andy Guy
Richard Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi folks, sorry to bring up a quasi newbie prob, but here goes. I had a buzz setup with 2.0.24, and after reading various messages about dselect I decided to go to the frozen level. Here is my trouble so far, I didn't have dpkg-ftp, so I went and

Re: MS WORD format

1996-12-03 Thread Nils Naumann
Hallo, Daniel Does anyone know of a document reader/editor that will read Microsoft Daniel Word format? This is something I need once a week at least. In fact, it is my only reason for windows booting. So you can imagine how desperately I sought for such a software, but no! I couldn't believe

Re: dpkg-ftp/dselect timestamping

1996-12-03 Thread Andy Guy
Christopher W Hafey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dpkg-ftp, dselect -- Is there a way to get these programs to timestamp /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/debian/frozen/binary-i386/admin/* (and others) to what they are on ftp://debian.crosslink.net? (I'm doing 1.2 this weekend; so far, it's been

Procmail

1996-12-03 Thread Daniel Stringfield
Can someone show me there .forward file for use with mail sorting with procmail? I've been fooling around with it for an hour now, and have not made any real progress. -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jax-inter.net/users/servo

Is frozen missing something?

1996-12-03 Thread Carlo U. Segre
Hello All: I have just been checking on my local mirror and the ftp.debian.org sites and I notice that there are several packages missing from the frozen tree. On my local mirror, these files are actually links to files in the frozen/binary-all/ part of the directory (which is completely

xvscan

1996-12-03 Thread Juan Cespedes
Hi everybody. I have a HP ScanJet 4p Scanner, with Automatic Document Feeder, and I would like to know if xvscan (or any other scanning software) supports it (I mean the ADF). BTW, do anyone know where can I buy it? Juan Cespedes -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

MicroSuck makes me fume!

1996-12-03 Thread Daniel Stringfield
In response to someone's suggestion to get the Microfoft WOrd Viewer, and run it under WINE. Well. It sorta runs under wine. It requires that SHARE.EXE be loaded. Uhg! How do I get it to think I am running it? -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL

Re: tar misbahaving

1996-12-03 Thread Carlo U. Segre
On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Marek Duszynski wrote: Hello, A few days ago I noticed that my Debian 1.1 can not extract multivolume tar archives from floppies - each attempt ends up in segmentation fault. I have had the same problem using taper and QIC80 tapes. Even afio gives problems with any

Re: Linux and 6x86

1996-12-03 Thread Carlo U. Segre
On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, GREENE KENNETH ADAM wrote: I was wondering about Linux and the Cyrix/IBM 6x86 (specifically P120). Does Linux support it, I know some video games don't support the chip (or the chip doesn't support them |-). If it is supported, does everything run OK. thanxs in

Re: MS WORD format (and customizable telnet client) (fwd)

1996-12-03 Thread Marco Mariani
On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Jerzy Kakol wrote: Server. The incredibly ancient VT-100 standard should pass to history long time ago. I would like to use a terminal emulator exactly like between two Linuxes - with comfort of bash, arrow keys, color ls and so on. So, does anybody know a DOS or Windows

getting ppp up

1996-12-03 Thread Joe Emenaker
Does anyone have any experience getting ppp started from a base system that just has been installed in a computer? I just went through this yesterday pain in the ass (figuring it all out, that is). I don't have any experience with ppp because all my other debian systems have been

video mode solved. cpp/gcc solved. kernel, X11?

1996-12-03 Thread Dr.-Ing. Andreas Wehler
Was: Remarks, installing rex from scratch : 1) Don't give an entry : vga=[any number other than normal] : in /etc/lilo.conf and launch lilo with that. It will : completely confuse dselect, and nobody is aware of this :-( Video modes are ok, forget about

Re: Linux and 6x86

1996-12-03 Thread Jonas Bofjall
On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, GREENE KENNETH ADAM wrote: I was wondering about Linux and the Cyrix/IBM 6x86 (specifically P120). Does Linux support it I am running Debian GNU/Linux on an Cyrix/IBM P-150+ and it runs like a charm. No problems (yet). I am sporadically running maybe an hour a day for

Re: Help with corrupt headers

1996-12-03 Thread Debian Mailing-List
Hi, I have just experianced some disk problems which resulted in some headers in /usr/include (for example string.h) to be corrupted, look in .../debian/stable/binary???/Contents for include/string.h and you will find libc5-dev what packages should I intall to replaced the

/etc/hosts and BIND autoconversion

1996-12-03 Thread Adam Heath
A while back I saw mentioned in a message about some utility that would read the '/etc/hosts' file and convert it into the BIND database. I would like to have this program. I have a DOS-based tcp program that can't use a hosts file, but can use BIND. I have BIND running locally, but I need the

Re: what is libdl1 ?

1996-12-03 Thread Martin Alonso Soto Jacome
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am getting several packages in the frozen and contrib trees saying that they pre-depend on a 'libdl1' package which I cannot seem to find anywhere. Can anyone help? It seems that the last ld.so provides libdl1: Package: ldso Essential: yes Status: install ok

debian pre1.2

1996-12-03 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
Hi, I have just tried debain pre1.2 and have the following comments. 1) Overall, the installation is very smooth with very few hiccups. 2) It seems that most of the kernel options have been compiled-in. This is opposed to the previous version when users are free to configure the

It could happen to you (was Re: network cards and POST failures)

1996-12-03 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hello everyone, at last, the strange problems I was having with my Linux box at reboot time is solved. I followed Donald Becker's recommendation about putting /sbin/ifconfig eth0 down at the very end of the reboot script and this fixes everything. Now everything is crystal-clear to me. I agree

Re: Goodbye, all!

1996-12-03 Thread Dermot Bradley
On Sat, 30 Nov 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: These are the 1.1 boot disks from 6 months ago with initrd added and a few bug-fixes like keyboard configuration. It's not like it's a brand-new program. Has the problem with the nfs module been fixed - the last few boot disks I made wouldn't load

Re: Can't install netscape (using dpkg)

1996-12-03 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Mark Phillips wrote: Hi, I tried to install netscape using dpkg by doing: # dpkg --install netscape dpkg: error processing netscape (--install): cannot access archive: No such file or directory Errors were encountered while processing: netscape The second

Re: trn vs. inn

1996-12-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
Okay, lets see if this now gets past the spam filter.. In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian Package [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, i have some errors in /var/log/news/news.notice when invoking trn: [timedate] barbar nnrpd[24517]: localhost.augusta.de connect [timedate] barbar nnrpd[24517]:

Re: Procmail

1996-12-03 Thread joost witteveen
Can someone show me there .forward file for use with mail sorting with procmail? I've been fooling around with it for an hour now, and have not made any real progress. .forward: |/usr/bin/procmail and my .procmail: :0 * ^From.owner-linux-gcc pr/lgcc :0 * ^From.owner-linux-kernel

two net Q's: (1) serial nfs/ppp, (2) dropped gateway route

1996-12-03 Thread John M. Rulnick
I'm using the Debian 1.1 release, 2.0.6 kernel. Two questions, one concerning a serial cable link, the other on an ethernet: (1) I'm accessing an nfs mounted drive on my desktop from my notebook over a serial cable (thanks all!). Sometimes it works great, sometimes (especially when copying a

Re: MS WORD format (and customizable telnet client)

1996-12-03 Thread Rick Macdonald
Marco Mariani wrote: On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Jerzy Kakol wrote: Server. The incredibly ancient VT-100 standard should pass to history long time ago. I would like to use a terminal emulator exactly like between two Linuxes - with comfort of bash, arrow keys, color ls and so on. So, does

Is Debian 1.2 out yet?

1996-12-03 Thread juan j casero
Hi Everyone - I tried to upgrade to Debian 1.1 a few weeks ago and went back to my old system when I couldn't recompile a custom kernel for my Linux box. I'm still interested in Debian and I would like to know if 1.2 (aka REX) has been released yet. I was a bit disappointed that I was not

security

1996-12-03 Thread Alexander N. Benner
Shalom I got a prg. from a friend wich can hack-root. I don't know if it is a known prob. it works fine with 2.0.0 I don't know how to describe it, without posting the whole source. Here some parts of it: /* Mount Exploit for Linux, Jul 30 1996 [graphic] Discovered and Coded by Bloodmask Vio

Re: security

1996-12-03 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hi, /* Mount Exploit for Linux, Jul 30 1996 whats your version of the mount package? Should be fixed long ago... (if it isnt another bug in mount): Wed Aug 21 13:10:46 1996 Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Debian 1.1.6) o Added mount 2.5l-1 Fixes major security hole. This is in buzz-fixed!

Re: Is Debian 1.2 out yet?

1996-12-03 Thread Bruce Perens
We suffered a lot of FTP server problems in the last few days, and are currently attempting to build a working Packages file for Debian 1.2 . The process is running now, I am watching it. We still need a few days of testing X before the release. Please stay tuned... Thanks Bruce

Re: Compiling Perl from Source

1996-12-03 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Fri, 29 Nov 1996, Robyn Renwick wrote: Hi everyone! I am a second year computer science student working on a debian system. I recently completed a project where I compiled Perl from the source code. I was asked to post my findings here as it may be helpful. I did quite a long

Re: security

1996-12-03 Thread Alexander N. Benner
Shalom It may be wrong, but I think it was Bernd Eckenfels who wrote 1996 AD: /* Mount Exploit for Linux, Jul 30 1996 whats your version of the mount package? Should be fixed long ago... (if it isnt another bug in mount): It was mount-package-2.5 Wed Aug 21 13:10:46 1996 Guy Maor

Re: security

1996-12-03 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
o Added mount 2.5l-1 Fixes major security hole. I now installed mount 2.5j from buzz I guess 2.5j is OLDER than 2.5l... umm... The hack _still works_ so it seemed to be an other problem. Please be sure to get the fixed version of mount, and then try again. You should be able to get it

Re: Netscape - bus error

1996-12-03 Thread Paul Christenson
On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Pedro Quaresma wrote: netscape_3.01-1.deb and netscape-v301-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz [...] bus error $ I got the 'bus error' whenever I tried to access the c|net homepage (www.cnet.com). However, I was running 3.0, without the Debian package. (Direct in

Re: innd mmap

1996-12-03 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: You (Craig Sanders) wrote: my news box is regularly throttling with the log message File exists writing symlinking article file -- throttling. How's your disk? Do you see many ext2 errors? yeah, a few there's some weird corrupted files

Re: innd mmap

1996-12-03 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, 30 Nov 1996, Richard Kettlewell wrote: my news box is regularly throttling with the log message File exists writing symlinking article file -- throttling. Try rebuilding your history file - IIRC this has worked for me (albeit under Solaris 2.5 rather than Linux). yep, that's

gdb and dynamically loaded code

1996-12-03 Thread Douglas Bates
I have version 4.16-2 of the gdb package installed. When I start gdb I get the warnings warning: Unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint function. warning: GDB will be unable to debug shared library initializers warning: and track explicitly loaded dynamic code. It would be very helpful to