SATAN

1996-12-19 Thread Fundamental
Has anyone installed/used SATAN on a debian box before? When i tried to compile it it asked me to copy the 4BSD libraries to teh same directory ... i dont have these libraries? Im out like bellbottom trousers, michael ///\ Wake up Muttley, your dreamin` again c-00-Wacky

Re: Sound module

1996-12-19 Thread Lars Flodman
At 00:59 1996-12-19 +0100, you wrote: Hej all, I recently put up Debian on my machine, and think that it's a good system. There is one thing, that I would like to mention, on the new stable kernel release 2.0.27. I was using the debian 2.0.6 before, and after upgrading the sound module

Re: Ethernet drivers

1996-12-19 Thread Chad Zimmerman
Thanks to all that assisted me. I was able to get the network running again, all I had to do was run 'modconf' as Don had sugested and that was it. (And here I was thinking it would be hard to figure out). Chad Chad D. Zimmerman Editor: Web-Zine --

libg++ for 1.1

1996-12-19 Thread Hunter Marshall
I am trying to build octave 2.0 on my 1.1 system. I did not have the c++ libs (libg++), but if I get the new libg++, that depends on libc5.4, but I have libc5.2. (I am assuming that my lack of the c++ libs is what is causing the octave configure script to think my C++ compiler does not work (the

postscript

1996-12-19 Thread Daniel Stringfield
I switched from magicfilter to apsfilter, in hopes that would help. I still get the same garbage I got from magicfilter. I'm going to keep trying, of course, but I want proof that someone has gotten it to work on a Deskjet model 310! :) -- Daniel Stringfield

Re: Yet another logo proposal

1996-12-19 Thread Rob Browning
Jimmer ENDRES [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could someone tell me where and to whom I submit this? Check www.debian.org. It has a pointer. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lprm job; permission denied!?

1996-12-19 Thread Rob Browning
Dr. Andreas Wehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there some 'one who understands why lprm in Debian 1.2 doesn't work as normal user? Even if a normal user is put into the lp-group there is following error message: Don't know. I had a similar problem after some upgrade of lpr, but I fixed it

List of installation problems for 1.2

1996-12-19 Thread Dale Scheetz
The following list was composed from reports of those who have already installed Debian GNU/Linux 1.2. If you are having any trouble with your installation, consult this list for possible solutions. 1. Already reported as a bug: Can't find xlib6 so file. Add /usr/X11R6/lib to

Re: libg++ for 1.1

1996-12-19 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Hunter Marshall wrote: I am trying to build octave 2.0 on my 1.1 system. I did not have the c++ libs (libg++), but if I get the new libg++, that depends on libc5.4, but I have libc5.2. (I am assuming that my lack of the c++ libs is what is causing the octave configure

Re: X clients problem

1996-12-19 Thread A. Paul Heely Jr.
On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Olivier BOUSQUET wrote: I've just installed the Debian 1.2 distibution with X11 packages, including xlib6, xbase, xcompat, and a few others. Everything is going ok when I start the X server but when I try to run programs such as ghostview or fvwm, I get the error

Re: Console blanks trying to install 1.2 from floppies...

1996-12-19 Thread A. Paul Heely Jr.
On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: John C. Ruttenberg wrote: ... on a Micron Mellenia Transport notebook. It gets as far as probing for a Sanyo CDROM and starting to initialize it and then the screen goes blank and seems to relight it. Has anyone seen a similar

Q: re: dpkg-ftp

1996-12-19 Thread Anthony Thompson
Im a recent convert from slackware to Debian1.2 (well in the process of install it). Away im having a problem getting the ppp link up and running. Im able to establish the ppp connection ok. I check it using the ifconfig command and i see that i have a ppp connection to my ISP. The problem is

Re: Q: re: dpkg-ftp

1996-12-19 Thread A. Paul Heely Jr.
On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Anthony Thompson wrote: Im a recent convert from slackware to Debian1.2 (well in the process of install it). Away im having a problem getting the ppp link up and running. Im able to establish the ppp connection ok. I check it using the ifconfig command and i see

Re: Q: re: dpkg-ftp

1996-12-19 Thread Perry Piplani
Anthony Thompson wrote: Im a recent convert from slackware to Debian1.2 (well in the process of install it). I too am a slackware veteran. I just installed debian one one of my machines yesterday. This is my first mail via netscape mail. Away im having a problem getting the ppp link up

Re: zircon needs X11R6 package?

1996-12-19 Thread David Morris
Well, zircon needs tk which needs tcl and X. And yes, I didn't notice that before, but there is no X11R6 package, and there has been some discussion about what the dependancy should be, And for the life of me, i can't find where someone answered that. Help, anyone? On Wed, 18 Dec 1996

Re: List of installation problems for 1.2

1996-12-19 Thread Scott Barker
Nicely summarized list, Dale. But, I've a few notes to add: Dale Scheetz said: 1. Already reported as a bug: Can't find xlib6 so file. Add /usr/X11R6/lib to ld.so.conf and run ldconfig. I did not have this problem. My /etc/ld.so.conf still contains /usr/X11R6/lib after my upgrade.

Re: Q: re: dpkg-ftp

1996-12-19 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Anthony Thompson wrote: Im a recent convert from slackware to Debian1.2 (well in the process of install it). Away im having a problem getting the ppp link up and running. Im able to establish the ppp connection ok. I check it using the ifconfig command and i see

Re: Does the list send the sender a copy?

1996-12-19 Thread Nick Busigin
On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Martin Stromberg wrote: I have recently sent a number of messages to the debian-user mailing list and have not seen a copy of my message sent back to me by the list software. Does the list software exclude the original sender when it reflects the messages out to the

RE: virtual mail domains... long-winded response

1996-12-19 Thread Nick Busigin
On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Al Youngwerth wrote: I'd sure like to hear from other ISPs and linux masquerading/diald users out there and how they handle virtual domains. Using linux with masquerading and diald is becoming a very popular way to connect small LANs to businesses so I think its

Grrr! Dangling links in /usr/lib/

1996-12-19 Thread David Lutz
I am upgrading my mostly Debian 1.1 system to Debian 1.2. According to symlinks I have these dangling links: dangling: /usr/lib/libbfd.so.2.7.0.3 - libbfd.so.2.7.0.3.dpkg-tmp dangling: /usr/lib/libopcodes.so.2.7.0.3 - libopcodes.so.2.7.0.3.dpkg-tmp (Actually I have a few other, mostly in

Re: Grrr! Dangling links in /usr/lib/

1996-12-19 Thread Christian Hudon
On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, David Lutz wrote: of Debian Packages. I would like to know how I can fix the problem however. Dselect swears that the binutils package is up-to-date and refuses to attempt to reload it. Does anybody have any suggestions? Reinstalling might indeed be a good thing. Get

Re: ifmail for debian

1996-12-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
From: Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone working on an ifmail package for Debian? ifmail is a fidonet mailer for Unix. Not seen anything on the ftp site, i've tried to compile ifmail myself on my debian box but not had much luck :( I got it compiled ok actually. You need

Re: 1.2 installation, more notes

1996-12-19 Thread Esa Turtiainen
o I'm having problems recompiling the kernel. Compilation and module installation proceeds smoothly (using kernel-sources-2.0.27_1.00 ), but at boot time the slhc, slip and ppp modules I selected (and I suspect the rest in that category) are not recognized/loaded. Even if I tell make

anyone using an AMD K5?

1996-12-19 Thread Carlo U. Segre
Hello All: Sorry if this is slightly off-topic. Feel free to reply to me directly instead of on the list. Just wondering if anyone out there is using an AMD K5 P100 or P133 with Linux and if there are any problems with either chip. I have heard that the P100 might have some problems but I

Unidentified subject!

1996-12-19 Thread Miro Torrielli
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: StarOffice 3.1 segmentation faults I have been trying to install StarOffice 3.1 beta 2 on my debian 1.2 box, but the setup program keeps on producing segmentation faults at the very end of the installation process, and the actual programs (starwriter,

Re: NE 2000 cards

1996-12-19 Thread Heiko R. Selber
On Wed, 18 Dec 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the Debian Linux 1.2 instaled on my PC and I want to know how ca n I configure it for a NE2000 network card. Which program may I use? Oi Rogerio, You simply need to configure the kernel and recompile it. As root, cd to '/usr/src/linux/' ,

Re: lprm job; permission denied!?

1996-12-19 Thread Dr. Andreas Wehler
Hmm, : I use lprm all the time with Debian 1.2 and had no problem. : But I would just do: lprm 21 : Instead of what you are doing. all I know until now is, that lprm works for several remote printers, but doesn't for all of the 2 local printers. Only root may lprm something, in spite of

Re: Q: re: dpkg-ftp

1996-12-19 Thread Anthony Thompson
On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, A. Paul Heely Jr. wrote: Now i have had no problems previously with slackware getting ppp connection setup.. What have i done wrong? Ive checked my resolv.conf and it is the same as my old slackware config.. Do you have defaultroute set in the /etc/ppp/options

Re: Bizarre hard drive

1996-12-19 Thread racquadro
Sorry, but I have only IDE Hard Disks on my PC... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NE 2000 cards

1996-12-19 Thread racquadro
Ok, thanks very much. I will trie and tell you the results! Thanks! Voce fala portugues? (Do you speak portuguese?) Rogerio -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

I still can't get X to run

1996-12-19 Thread Kevin McEnhill
Howdy, I wrote to this list last week about the fact that I can't get Xwindows to run after upgrading to 1.2. Someone pointed out that there was a copy of XF86Config in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/. What I found there was a link to /etc/X11/XF86Config. That's great, it makes sense. I also learned about

Re: zircon needs X11R6 package?

1996-12-19 Thread Alexander Gieg
Well, zircon needs tk which needs tcl and X. And yes, I didn't notice that before, but there is no X11R6 package, and there has been some discussion about what the dependancy should be, And for the life of me, i can't find where someone answered that. Help, anyone? The xbase package has

Re: List of installation problems for 1.2

1996-12-19 Thread Dale Scheetz
Thank you for your response. On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Scott Barker wrote: Nicely summarized list, Dale. But, I've a few notes to add: Dale Scheetz said: 1. Already reported as a bug: Can't find xlib6 so file. Add /usr/X11R6/lib to ld.so.conf and run ldconfig. I did not have this

Re[2]: rawrite under nt - bad things happen...

1996-12-19 Thread David_Oswald
RE: RAWRITE.exe under MS N/T - Bad things happen... The fix? was to load DOSKEY. I think it has something to do with memory pages. Maybe rawrite has to be on a single page and I added enough junk into that page to force it to find a whole new clean one.

procmail as local mailer for sendmail

1996-12-19 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, A couple of weeks ago I changed the default local mailer for sendmail (deliver) with procmail (this was a suggestion of [EMAIL PROTECTED]). The reason for this change was that deliver does not notify comsat of new mail so I ca no get asynchronous notification of incoming mail through the biff

Re: virtual mail domains... long-winded response

1996-12-19 Thread Carl Greco
According to Nick Busigin: On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Al Youngwerth wrote: I'd sure like to hear from other ISPs and linux masquerading/diald users out there and how they handle virtual domains. Using linux with masquerading and diald is becoming a very popular way to connect small LANs to

Re: Unidentified subject!

1996-12-19 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Miro Torrielli wrote: To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: StarOffice 3.1 segmentation faults I have been trying to install StarOffice 3.1 beta 2 on my debian 1.2 box, but the setup program keeps on producing segmentation faults at the very end of the

RE: virtual mail domains... long-winded response

1996-12-19 Thread Al Youngwerth
It seems like a lot of ISPs don't support uucp or charge extra to set it up so I've never really explored it. It may just be that a lot of ISPs don't advertise that they support it (and I haven't been asking). I'll look into uucp over TCP/IP. Thanks, Al Youngwerth [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accents like DOS and Windows?

1996-12-19 Thread Alexander Gieg
Hello. I've read *all* the documents in /usr/doc/HOWTO and /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini about configuring the keyboard for non-us languages, and learned how to use the dead-keys in text mode. Now I'm really close by stop using Windows 95, but I'm with troubles. In DOS and Windows, persons who don't have

Re: List of installation problems for 1.2

1996-12-19 Thread Vatiainen Heikki
The following list was composed from reports of those who have already installed Debian GNU/Linux 1.2. If you are having any trouble with your installation, consult this list for possible solutions. [cut] 18. Mc fails to declare it's dependence on libgpm. Should declare dpendence on

Re: X-Windows problems

1996-12-19 Thread Jorge A. Wiendl
Hi, I got this problem some time ago, and solve it replacing Xserver, and changing Vsync and Hsync of the monitor. I think is better you use the manual to configure your video card, and I suggest you to use xf86config to make XF86Config file. Good luck

Toshiba 500 CDT

1996-12-19 Thread Tim Sailer
I'm almost at the end of my fight with this notebook. Now X11 is working but only at 640x480. Does anyone on this list have a working XF86Config file for this at 800x600? Thanks, Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps I have

Problems with Debian 1.2

1996-12-19 Thread Johnny Stevenson
I am net to this list so sorry if I am asking any repeat questions. Problems: Not being able to remotely login anymore after installing a package (most probably xinetd). I could remote login before installing this. Now all I get is connection refused, even remote login in from the local machine

Debian 1.1 - 1.2 update

1996-12-19 Thread Simon Martin
Ok, I'm back on-line. I completely obliterated my debian installation through not reading the documentation, but that's my problem. I am now working on 1.2 and would like to thank everyone involved. It looks brilliant. I might even try and get X to work... A couple of little things 1)

Serial cable pinout??

1996-12-19 Thread David Puryear
Hi All, I'm trying to connect two computer with serial cable but I couldn't find the cable long enough. So I went to electronic store and bought cable without plugs and plugs. I ask them which wire went where, but they had no idea.:( I think I saw a posting of this somewhere, but have no idea as

Cross Compiling for DOS/Windows3.1/Windows95

1996-12-19 Thread Wayde Allen
I have a question about compiling code for use on DOS, Windows3.1, and Windows95. Any suggestions on how to do this? I have thought about installing DJGPP under dosemu, but would rather not if it isn't necessary. I have also installed the Win32 developement package from the debian ftp site, but

Re: Problems with Debian 1.2

1996-12-19 Thread Vatiainen Heikki
Check if there's a line like '/usr/X11R6/lib' in the file /etc/ld.so.conf. If not, you should add it and run 'ldconfig' or 'ldconfig -v | more' for more verbose output. This should fix the problem with libXt.so.6, at least it did for me when I installed Debian 1.2. [cut] Also having a

VT100 terminal?

1996-12-19 Thread Pete Templin
- This is to make the office gag gift really work...- I was given a VT100 terminal as a gag gift. Is there any way to interface it with a Linux box? Keep it simple, so I can do it in one night and really get some laughs around here. (Normally, we get one machine from work. I got a Power Mac

Re: Warm Boot Problems

1996-12-19 Thread Eloy A. Paris
At 10:25 AM 12/18/96 -0700, you wrote: I seem to be having trouble booting with Debian version 1.2. Hardware: 486 sx-40 (AMD) 20 M memory 820 M Seagate HD using DM when in Dos When I cold boot (reset button) The boot floppy will load and run When I WARM boot, (shutdown and restart) the loader

Re: Serial cable pinout??

1996-12-19 Thread Vatiainen Heikki
The Linux Serial HOWTO tells about null modem cables. There are instructions for both minimum and full handshake cables with the pinouts for both the 9 and 25 pin connectors. The URL straight to the section that tells about null modem cables is

Re: Problems with Debian 1.2

1996-12-19 Thread Johnny Stevenson
Vatiainen Heikki wrote: Check if there's a line like '/usr/X11R6/lib' in the file /etc/ld.so.conf. If not, you should add it and run 'ldconfig' or 'ldconfig -v | more' for more verbose output. Yes, this works !!1 Thanks to all who responded. -- Be seeing you...

Incoming Files

1996-12-19 Thread GREENE KENNETH ADAM
Where do incoming files land at on FTP.DEBIAN.ORG??? Where can we access them. I'm looking for Kaffe (a Java Virtual Machine, I saw it mentioned on the lists, but I can't find it on the FTP). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Serial cable pinout??

1996-12-19 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
David Puryear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ] Does any one know the pinout of 9 pin serial ] cable? This specific information is available at: http://www.paranoia.com/~filipg/HTML/LINK/PORTS/F_The_Serial_Port2.html#THESERIALPORT_002 The site is run by Fil, and he also

Re: Serial cable pinout??

1996-12-19 Thread Wayde Allen
On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, David Puryear wrote: I'm trying to connect two computer with serial cable but I couldn't find the cable long enough. So I went to electronic store and bought cable without plugs and plugs. I ask them which wire went where, but they had no idea.:( I think I saw a posting

Re: VT100 terminal?

1996-12-19 Thread Wayde Allen
On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Pete Templin wrote: - This is to make the office gag gift really work...- I was given a VT100 terminal as a gag gift. Is there any way to interface it with a Linux box? Keep it simple, so I can do it in one night and really get some laughs around here. I've never

Re: 1.2 installation, more notes

1996-12-19 Thread Prashanth Mundkur
On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Esa Turtiainen wrote: o I'm having problems recompiling the kernel. Compilation and module installation proceeds smoothly (using kernel-sources-2.0.27_1.00 ), but at boot time the slhc, slip and ppp modules I selected (and I suspect the rest in that category)

I still can't get X to run (part II)

1996-12-19 Thread Kevin McEnhill
Howdy, OK, I don't think I am asking the right question. I have a Diamond SpeedStar Pro video card. I know it is supported because I spent two months running under XF86 v.3.1. Now that I have upgraded to v.3.2, my server claims that the chipset is invalid and doesn't make sense so it quits. I

Cosole Beep

1996-12-19 Thread Vithar
Okay, I realize that this is not neccessarily a Debian problem, but since I am using Debian, I figured I'd ask this here anyway. g Is there any way, short of physically disabling it, of turning off the annoying beep on the Linux console ? I get tired of having it beep at me whenever I try

Re: mt I/O error w/ HP T1000 tape drive.

1996-12-19 Thread Pete Templin
On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Martin Stromberg wrote: I get I/O errors when I attempt to mt -f /dev/nrft0 fsf # my HP/Colorado T1000 tape drive. I'm gonna guess it's either not a supported action or a bug, but it doesn't really matter. Is there any easy workaround for this problem,

untic?

1996-12-19 Thread Joey Hess
Where can I find an untic program? untic is supposed to decompile terminfo files. -- #!/usr/bin/perl -pl- # ,,ep) ayf |)nj,, $_=reverse lc$_;s@@''@g;y/[]{A-U}()a-y1-9,!.?`'/][} # Joey Hess {)(eq)paj6y!fk7wuodbjsfn^mxhl5Eh29L86`i'%,/;[EMAIL PROTECTED]@|@g

Re: Serial cable pinout??

1996-12-19 Thread John Hasler
David Puryear writes: I'm trying to connect two computer with serial cable but I couldn't find the cable long enough. So I went to electronic store and bought cable without plugs and plugs. I ask them which wire went where, but they had no idea. Wire up your cable straight through, and then

Is your mirror in the mirrors list?

1996-12-19 Thread Bruce Perens
I noticed at least one mirror missing from ftp://debian.crosslink.net/pub/debian/README.mirrors . If you are operating a Debian mirror that is accessable to the general public and it's not on the list, please send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP

IS there a reason why...

1996-12-19 Thread Chad Zimmerman
I installed the new apache onto my system, and have all but one thing working, I cannot get anything in the cgi-bin to be found. The srm.conf file has it called out as: ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/httpd/cgi-bin/ Which is where it is located on the server, but whenever I try to access any

1.2 Installed on PS/2 Model 70

1996-12-19 Thread Brian S. Julin
I've gotten a smooth installation of Debian 1.2 worked out for microchannel machines, using the Linux/MCA group's patches. I'd upload the disk images and patches, but I can't find any instructions for doing so in ftp://master.debian.org/pub/Linux/Debian/Incoming Please someone clue me in. In

Re: Cosole Beep

1996-12-19 Thread Fabien Ninoles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Vithar wrote: Okay, I realize that this is not neccessarily a Debian problem, but since I am using Debian, I figured I'd ask this here anyway. g Is there any way, short of physically disabling it, of turning off the annoying

Re: List of installation problems for 1.2

1996-12-19 Thread Scott Barker
Dale Scheetz said: If you don't update rc.d you will probably have to manually start cron every time you reboot. Does it still have a cron entry? Yes, I still have a cron entry in /etc/rcX.d But, as I said, I was going from an upgrade, not a bare install, so I imagine my links were left over

Weird dselect

1996-12-19 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I finished installing 1.2 and after some minor hi-cups everything is ok. However, now when I run the Access option of dselect I get double options like this: dselect - list of access methods Abbrev.Description cdrom Install from a CD-ROM. cdrom Install from

named woes

1996-12-19 Thread Simon Martin
Hi all, I have everything working alright on Debian 1.2, except named. named is working, it will resolve names with no problems. Unfortunately, it connects to my ISP, so when I use it when the link is down it takes quite a while to get up and running. On Debian 1.1 it this worked ok. On Debian

apropos core dumps

1996-12-19 Thread Eduardo Diaz Comellas
Hi! This is the third time I send this message, but I think it hasnt reached the list due some problems with multiple addresses and the spam filter. I hope somebody is reading it now :-) -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 09:48:35 +0100 (MET) From: Eduardo Diaz

ppp and mgetty

1996-12-19 Thread Simon Martin
Hi all, ... and now for something completely different. I have one modem on my debian box. I use this to connect to my ISP using diald/ppp. works a charm. I now need to enable external access to my debian box. I am going to be travelling and I will need access to my hard disk. I downloaded

Network trouble (?) with kernel 2.0.27

1996-12-19 Thread F. Fernandez
Hi! I've been working with a fresh instalation of 1.2 including a reconfigured kernel 2.0.27. I'm getting lots of messages like the following in /var/adm/messages: Dec 19 22:37:19 blackbird last message repeated 569167 times Dec 19 22:38:19 blackbird last message repeated 577432 times

Re: Cross Compiling for DOS/Windows3.1/Windows95

1996-12-19 Thread Wayde Allen
On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Marty Leisner wrote: I've done this a lot (I gave an article to the CUJ but they never published it on this topic). Could I get a copy ... ? The win32 is old...the stuff from cygnus is not cross-compiled yet (but it shouldn't be too difficult...) The Win32 development