cron

1996-12-20 Thread Fundamental
my crontabs wont run ...? i login as root, type crontab -e and they come up, but they dont run ... am i doing something wrong? or is there another way of doing cronjobs on debian 1.1 ? thanks Im out like bellbottom trousers, michael ///\ Wake up Muttley, your dreamin` again c-00

installation methods

1996-12-20 Thread Bernard Leach
I was wondering the other day about alternate installation methods, that is alternate to the standard interactive process. Does Debian support any automated installation processes? I.e. give dpkg a list of packages and it will install the current versions. One nice application would be a

Re: Serial cable pinout??

1996-12-20 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Wayde Allen wrote: On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, David Puryear wrote: [snip] [snip] Transmit and recieve are the main pins that are important. 2 and 3 are Transmit and receive. Switch those two, and run your ground straight through. Only need 3 wires going through the line

Printing question ...

1996-12-20 Thread Richard G. Roberto
Does anybody know how to prevent a banner page from being printed? I'm printing to an HP4M and after each print job a banner page gets printed (it looks like the contents of the cf file). There used to be a no banner switch for printcap, but I didn't see one in the Linux man page. Any ideas?

Re: ppp and mgetty

1996-12-20 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Simon Martin wrote: Make sure you are using /dev/ttyS? -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jax-inter.net/users/servo Send email for more information on the Jacksonville Linux Users Group! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: apropos core dumps

1996-12-20 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
---BeginMessage--- The man package that Debian uses doesn't need the makewhatis command. Debian 1.1.xx had a bug in apropos, that is fixed in Debian 1.2 You should upgrade, but I fear that this upgrade will affect a lot of programs, not only apropos ... I don't know anything about the other

Re: Serial cable pinout??

1996-12-20 Thread A. Paul Heely Jr.
On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, David Puryear wrote: 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

Problem: building kernel-image

1996-12-20 Thread Tadeusz Bak
Hi, After upgrading to Debian-1.2 (it went very smooth, thanks) i tried to build a new kernel. I installed the kernel-source-2.0.27.deb from devel directory and then I did: make menuconfig make-kpkg kernel_image There was no problem with compilation, but at the end I got: cp

Re: Printing question ...

1996-12-20 Thread Martin Konold
On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote: Does anybody know how to prevent a banner page from being printed? Try inserting ':sh:' in you /etc/printcap. This entry means 'suppress header' Yours, -- martin // Martin Konold, Muenzgasse 7, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany // // Email: [EMAIL

Unidentified subject!

1996-12-20 Thread Tim Webster
Precedence: list Priority: urgent Importance: low System: 486, scsi: apt2840, external 4G and 700M disks. cdrom: eide The debian kernel 2.027 crashes on the aic7xxx controller. I have no problems booting from none debian kernels. Please help. I have tried noreset wich doesn't help. -Tim.

Install Debian 1.2 over Redhat 3.03 without losing data?

1996-12-20 Thread Joseph L. Hartmann, Jr.
I would like to be able to install Debian over my Rehdat 3.03 without losing data files (all my faqs, msgs from the net, and so on) Is this possible? Please point me in the right direction of what to read. Thanks. Best Regards, Joe HartmannTel: (603) 863 6073 K2AJV

Re: Network trouble (?) with kernel 2.0.27

1996-12-20 Thread Eloy A. Paris
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: Printing question ...

1996-12-20 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, Martin Konold wrote: On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote: Does anybody know how to prevent a banner page from being printed? Try inserting ':sh:' in you /etc/printcap. This entry means 'suppress header' Thanks to everyone who replied. I had the burst

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

1996-12-20 Thread Nick Busigin
On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Carl Greco wrote: I have set up a couple of Linux based e-mail servers with uucp. The main advantages of uucp are low cost and local control of e-mail accounts. Exactly the reason why I like it. The latest system (a 386SX-16MHz 4MB PC) uses Debian 1.1 with smail and

Unidentified subject!

1996-12-20 Thread Tim Webster
Suject: Can not boot debian kernel 2.0.27 System: 486, scsi: apt2840, external 4G and 700M disks. cdrom: eide The debian kernel 2.027 crashes on the aic7xxx controller. I have no problems booting from none debian kernels. Please help. I have tried noreset wich doesn't help. -Tim. -- TO

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

1996-12-20 Thread David Engel
David Lutz writes: 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 This is a hold over

Sendmail 8.8.3 makemap questions

1996-12-20 Thread Adam Shand
Hi, Been trying to get sendmail 8.8.3 on a debian 1.1 (off the infomagic cd) box running. It seems to work yet when I try and makemap our mailertable file it gives me an error, with this line in the sendmail.cf: Kmailertable hash /etc/mailertable phoenix(larry)# makemap hash mailertable.db

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

1996-12-20 Thread David Lutz
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Dec 18 22:25:06 1996 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

Re: lprm job; permission denied!?

1996-12-20 Thread Dr. Andreas Wehler
I got a private mail from David Puryear [EMAIL PROTECTED], but a reply bounced with: : Return-Path: MAILER-DAEMON : Subject: Delivery failure : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 01:01:39 -0700 : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : Your

Re: I still can't get X to run

1996-12-20 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
I'm not exactly an X guru, but hopefully this'll help a little bit: On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Kevin McEnhill wrote: I wrote to this list last week about the fact that I can't get Xwindows to run after upgrading to 1.2. [deletions] Here is a portion on the error message I get. Begin Paste

Re: Realtek RTL8029

1996-12-20 Thread D M-L
I need help on installing this ethernet card, as the drivers don't seem to be included. Thanx Miro I have 4 NE200 ethernet cards, one is a RL8029, but I don't remember, which one. Maybe the PCI card ? for this, I use io=0xFF80 and irq=12 for each other ISA card, I use the DOS program

Problems with Sendmail and X..

1996-12-20 Thread Matthew Stone
ok.. i am trying to set up sendmail.. now it partialy works.. the local sendmail works when i am not online but when i ma online the outgoing sendmail works but the incoming doesn't... now what is wierd is it bounces but i still kind of get the mail on the recieving end.. and i do kill the

Re: Cosole Beep

1996-12-20 Thread Heiko R. Selber
On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Fabien Ninoles wrote: -+-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,

Re: java trouble

1996-12-20 Thread Vatiainen Heikki
You should check the home page of Java-Linux porting project at http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html. Among other things they have set up a couple of mailing lists and people there can probably answer better to Java specific questions. // Heikki -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

New X11 installation

1996-12-20 Thread Simon Martin
Hi all, Only me. I have now got a limping X11 installation. A few questions/observations: 1) I installed xserver_svga from Debian-1.2. When I run xbase-configure it complains at the end of the installation that there is no XF86_S3 (I have a Dell Dimension P130 with an S3 Trio 64 display

Re: Problems with Sendmail and X..

1996-12-20 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, Matthew Stone wrote: ok.. i am trying to set up sendmail.. now it partialy works.. the local sendmail works when i am not online but when i ma online the outgoing sendmail works but the incoming doesn't... now what is wierd is it bounces but i still kind of get the mail

Generating a boot disk for 5 disk set

1996-12-20 Thread James W. Lynch
For some reason, my first message got lost. The spam nazi caught it the first time, so I registered, got the confirmation back and resent the message, but I never saw it. So if this is a dup, please excuse me. I'm installing a new 2.1 Gb drive in place of my 350 Mb. Current set up is the first

Another (different) printing question

1996-12-20 Thread James W. Lynch
I used to run magic filter on an older Debian system and it worked fine. I installed 1.1 a few months back and re-installed the magicfilter and now I have the stair-step problem. I have read the HOWTO and it said to run a filter, and described one to fix that problem, but with magicfilter

Re: cron

1996-12-20 Thread Dale Martin
Fundamental [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: my crontabs wont run ...? i login as root, type crontab -e and they come up, but they dont run ... am i doing something wrong? or is there another way of doing cronjobs on debian 1.1 ? thanks I noticed this too. Cron was not running. Note that

Re: Printing question ...

1996-12-20 Thread Martin Konold
On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote: Thanks to everyone who replied. I had the burst page suppressed with the :sh: boolean, and even tried the -h option to the lpr command, but the boolean I was looking for isn't implemented on linux. That doesn't matter because the problem is at

file permission for cdrom /dev/hdc etc

1996-12-20 Thread Derek Lee
Hi, What are the default file permissions for /dev/cdrom and /dev/hdc on Debian? I want ordinary users to be able to access the CDROM drive but at the moment, /dev/cdrom is readable by everyone but linked to /dev/hdc which can be read by the disk group. What is the debian way for this? Derek Lee

Apache Installation

1996-12-20 Thread Angel Leyva
Has anyone else noticed that during the installation of apache ,if you change the default directories for the document root and/or the cgi-bin directory, this is not reflected in the srm.conf file. You have to go into that file, and manually update those paths. While I have your attention, how

Re: Apache Installation

1996-12-20 Thread hakan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, Angel Leyva wrote: Has anyone else noticed that during the installation of apache ,if you change the default directories for the document root and/or the cgi-bin directory, this is not reflected in the srm.conf file. You have to go into

Re: file permission for cdrom /dev/hdc etc

1996-12-20 Thread James W. Lynch
If I can assume you don't really want your users to access the raw device, I think you will find all is well. On my system, when I mount the device (/dev/mcd) on /cdrom, everyone can read it. I also have the user option in my /etc/fstab which lets anyone mount the cd. This may or may not be

Re: Apache Installation

1996-12-20 Thread Eloy A. Paris
While I have your attention, how does one restart the server once these changes are made? /etc/init.d/apache reload I did not know of this sophistication. I just do a kill -HUP apache's PID Regards, E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de

SUID problems. experts?

1996-12-20 Thread Dr. Andreas Wehler
Hi. My problems with lprm not working for ordinal users is caused by another odd problem: suid isn't working for a few programs! E. g. mmm is a wrapper of mine with a few combined actions for the normal user. mmm calls just mount/umount/fsck/fdformat/mkfs and so on, depending on argv[0].

Re: VT100 terminal?

1996-12-20 Thread Dale Scheetz
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 have done

upgrade from 1.1 - 1.2, some minor problems

1996-12-20 Thread James D. Freels
I have 3 Intel machines running Debian 1.1. I have just upgraded one of them to Debian 1.2. These are the minor problems I had 1) netstd and gcc required cpp, but did not tell me up front in dselect, but at the time it tried to install. I fixed it with a manual dpkg -i of cpp, then a

Re: Re: X-Windows problem

1996-12-20 Thread Francesco Tapparo
Thanks to all that answered to me: it was a problem in the configuration of the Modeline lines. Now my X-configuration is OK. Ciao! Francesco Tapparo [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

bug in X-Windows?

1996-12-20 Thread Francesco Tapparo
Hi all, I think, I have found a bug in X-Windows, but I'm writing it to debian-user, because I'm not secure if it is a bug of XFree86 or of fvwm2, and the I do'nt know which mantainer email to. This is the story: Yesterday, I start X-Windows with startx; then start rxvt from a menu. In rxvt I

Re: Cosole Beep

1996-12-20 Thread Dale Scheetz
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 beep on the Linux console ? I get

Re: Apache Installation

1996-12-20 Thread hakan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, Eloy A. Paris wrote: While I have your attention, how does one restart the server once these changes are made? /etc/init.d/apache reload I did not know of this sophistication. I just do a kill -HUP apache's PID Well,

Re: Install Debian 1.2 over Redhat 3.03 without losing data?

1996-12-20 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Joseph L. Hartmann, Jr. wrote: I would like to be able to install Debian over my Rehdat 3.03 without losing data files (all my faqs, msgs from the net, and so on) Is this possible? Please point me in the right direction of what to

Re: untic?

1996-12-20 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Joey Hess wrote: Where can I find an untic program? untic is supposed to decompile terminfo files. Altavista found the following: ftp.cis.ohio-state.edu/comp.sources.unix/Volume05/untic.Z ftp.cis.ohio-state.edu/comp.sources.unix/Volume24/untic.Z

Re: cron

1996-12-20 Thread Vociferous Mole
On Nov 20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fundamental) wrote: my crontabs wont run ...? i login as root, type crontab -e and they come up, but they dont run ... am i doing something wrong? or is there another way of doing cronjobs on debian 1.1 ? Nope, I screwed up the postinstall when I converted to

Socksified dpkg-ftp?

1996-12-20 Thread Stefan Sunaert
Hi, our debian linux box is behind a firewall operating socks4 protocol. The dpkg-ftp package does not seem to use our rftp client, so we cannot use dselect (ftp method). Does anyone have a solution? -- ~ Stefan Sunaert

Re: network works, now no nfs

1996-12-20 Thread Paul Christenson
On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Pete Templin wrote: Now, an NFS mount request fails, like this: # mkdir /nfs # mount templinux:/nfs /nfs mount: clntudp_create: RPC: Program not registered Any idears? I just had the same thing yesterday. The problem is that the nfs daemon is not running. Edit

Re: Install Debian 1.2 over Redhat 3.03 without losing data?

1996-12-20 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Joseph L. Hartmann, Jr. wrote: I would like to be able to install Debian over my Rehdat 3.03 without losing data files (all my faqs, msgs from the net, and so on) Is this possible? Please point me in the right direction of what to read. Your best bet is to put

Re: cron

1996-12-20 Thread Vociferous Mole
On Dec 20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vociferous Mole) wrote: update-rc cron defaults That should be update-rc.d cron defaults Sorry, steve -- The Mole - I think, therefore I scream Not only is God dead, but just try to find a

Re: apropos core dumps

1996-12-20 Thread Paul Christenson
On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Eduardo Diaz Comellas wrote: BTW, is there any way to install debian in a large group of computers without selecting the packages every time? AFAIK, not directly. An indirect workaround is to put the files in one directory (NFS mount, maybe? Symlinks to the CD?) and just

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

1996-12-20 Thread Allan Anderson
On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Wayde Allen wrote: 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 ... ? I'm fairly interested in this as well, since I do builds on Win16, Win32, and many

Re: libg++ for 1.1

1996-12-20 Thread joost witteveen
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

v 1.2 and cdrom

1996-12-20 Thread Walker, Kenny
Ok, I'm stupid. I am trying to install v1.2 from a cdrom. When I boot the kernel sees my sbpcd drive through the probing of that module. However no device seems to be set up or mounted. I have tried to mount the /cdrom to nearly every device in /dev but no luck. What simple thing am I

Re: v 1.2 and cdrom

1996-12-20 Thread Bruce Perens
It's a bug. Fix it with: mknod /dev/scd0 b 11 0 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

Re: v 1.2 and cdrom

1996-12-20 Thread Bruce Perens
Oops. That last fix was for SCSI CDs. The sound-blaster CD is created with mknod /dev/sbpcd b 25 0 I am currently testing a new boot floppy set that I will release this weekend. It fixes this, and a number of other bugs. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP

Can not boot kernel-2.0.27 with apt2840.

1996-12-20 Thread Tim Webster
System: 486, scsi: apt2840, external 4G and 700M disks. cdrom: eide The debian kernel 2.027 crashes on the aic7xxx controller. I have no problems booting from none debian kernels. What I need is some one to make a boot floppy without! the non eide cdrom stuff. I have tested making kernel with