RE: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Peter Iannarelli wrote: > I'd like to say the getting PPP up and running was a breeze. > Took about an hour. (1 hour because I had to install hardware, > and track down a priviledge level issue on a cuaX.) > > The actual ppp stuff took abount 10-15 minutes. > "Dial out with

Re: xemacs and c++ //-type comments

On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, root wrote: > > The c++ mode in xemacs does not appear to recognize the double-slash > comments in c++ code (these comments start with // and end at the following > new-line -- like the '#' comment character in ksh scripts). Yes it does, my 19.14 emacs seems to understand t

Re: teTeX kind of broken

On 1 Mar 1997, Kevin Dalley wrote: > Putting the instructions in preinst may be too late, but it is better > than nothing. Instructions in the mailing list are insufficient > considering the number of users installing tetex. > > Christoph Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Marcelo Ma

gimp troublees

Hi. I am having a little trouble with gimp. I have installed gimp 0.54.1-5 and gimp-plugins 1.0-1. My problem is that I can't figure out how to access the menus/pluging that are defined in my config files. I have copied /etc/gimp/gimprc to ~/.gimprc and have verified that it and /etc/gimp/add-o

RE: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

I agree! This is getting pretty boring, with all the silly ranting and raving. For Pete's sake, the Debian guys didn't create PPP in the first place! Take it to those that did, if you're really that stuck! It's really not so damn difficult to be honest, but the first time or two it might seem

Re: x windows

On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Richard Morin wrote: > On Sat, 1 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > well i got 1.2.2 installed and i was wondering about x > > windows, could anyone tell me how much disk space i will > > need to run this. i have an old 386 with 4m ran and 20mb > > of swap space. >

Mail list problems??

Every time I post to the debian user mail list I am getting 5-10 error messages saying the mail could not be delivered. Although, I do get a copy of the mail sent back to me from the list. I am wondering if this is related to the problems with the mail list, or if I am the only one getting t

Re: xemacs and c++ //-type comments

[Please don't Cc me when replying to messages on the list] Harmon, On Sat, Mar 1 1997, root (you?) wrote: > > The c++ mode in xemacs does not appear to recognize the double-slash > comments in c++ code (these comments start with // and end at the following > new-line -- like the '#' comment cha

Re: Graphics file converter(s) (Like xv)

Stan Brown said: > I am looking for a general puropose conversion program for graphich > formats. What I would really like would be sonething like xv that could > be run ono interactivley by the lp interface script. > > Ultimetly II need the fiel is PCL3, but I have ghostsc

Re: Writing to a boot floppy.

Try make-kpkg -r=custom.1.0 kernel_image in /usr/src/linux, assuming that you have kernel-package installed. You may need a preformatted disk, depending upon the current state of kernel-package. After you create the official debian package, then install the package as usual dpkg -i

Re: lprm says "Permission denied" (fwd)

John Goerzen writes: > This is *not* an acceptable fix. Other packages, for isntance Samba, will > **NOT** work with lprng. Why won't samba not work with it? Please file an appropriate bug against the samba package. Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * Debian Linux Maintainer * [

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Richard Morin wrote: > how-to. When I switched to Debian, I quickly looked at pon, but soon > went back to ppp-on which worked. I've started over, and just > can't get pon to work. Not as easily as ppp-on anyway. What?!? That mess (ppp-on) is easier than pon? Here's w

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Re: teTeX kind of broken

Putting the instructions in preinst may be too late, but it is better than nothing. Instructions in the mailing list are insufficient considering the number of users installing tetex. Christoph Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Marcelo Magallon writes: > > On 28 Feb 1997, Christoph Martin

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

On Fri, 28 Feb 1997,, John wrote: John> > I editted /etc/ppp.chatscript to properly log into the John> > dial-in server. Since /etc/ppp.options_out made reference to John> > /dev/modem, I went to /dev and make a symlink from "modem" to John> > "ttyS0". (I know I could have edited the

RE: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

I'd like to say the getting PPP up and running was a breeze. Took about an hour. (1 hour because I had to install hardware, and track down a priviledge level issue on a cuaX.) The actual ppp stuff took abount 10-15 minutes. "Dial out with dynamic ip" I don't see what all the whining is about.

Re: lprm says "Permission denied" (fwd)

On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > This is *not* an acceptable fix. Other packages, for isntance Samba, will > **NOT** work with lprng. > This is nice to know Sounds like the thing to do is work on lpr to get it working. Besides, I am running into as many problems getting lprng

Re: Netscape 4.0b2 out, any success?

On Fri, 28 Feb 1997,, Brian wrote: Brian> Brian> > Also, NetScape takes about 5 minutes to start if you have Brian> > mime-support installed. It seems to run /bin/sh for every Brian> > entry in /etc/mailcap and it doesn't like what it finds in Brian> > there at all. Eventually after

Re: lprm says "Permission denied" (fwd)

On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > This is *not* an acceptable fix. Other packages, for isntance Samba, will > **NOT** work with lprng. > Doesn't getting rid of name canonizing in lpr work? Just get the source of an older version of lpr or unpatch the current sources or get an older lp

wu-ftpd

I'm trying to set up ftpd. The man pages suggest wu-ftpd, so that's what I'm using. I've gone down the wu man page and set my server up according to it's recomendation. The only problem I'm having is with anonymous users and ls. When I connect using loopback, login using anonymous and try l

Re: mailcap error

> I get the following message when I install packages > like xanim, imagemagic, etc: > > Error: '/etc/mailcap' is not in required format > > What is wrong? In order for mime-support to work, it requires a specific format of the mailcap file. I suggest you re-install mime-support and make sure t

Re: Free Publicity from the RSA Data Security Challenge

> Yep, it's 2056. In fact I set plug-gw up on www.debian.org and assigned > it a new IP address so it could be canonical, only to find that the > protocol is changing to an undocumented UDP-based system for no good > reason. See http://zero.genx.net. > > Anyone have ideas about what how to handl

xemacs and c++ //-type comments

The c++ mode in xemacs does not appear to recognize the double-slash comments in c++ code (these comments start with // and end at the following new-line -- like the '#' comment character in ksh scripts). Does anyone know if there is a patch or modification for the c++ mode so that it will recogn

Re: POP3 Server

> What is the lastest version of the POP3 Mail Server software. I seem to > be getting reports from users who say they have 'Remove Mail from the > Server' selected so that when a mail download completes to their mail > reader it should remove it, but it does not. Almost every single problem > re

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

On 1 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Craig writes: > > IT IS NOT DIFFICULT AT ALL TO GET PPP WORKING ON DEBIAN. > > > More generally, it is not difficult at all to get PPP working on any of > > the Linux distributions I've worked with. > > It is not difficult for you or me to get PPP working. It

Re: x windows

On Sat, 1 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Sat, 1 Mar 97 13:26:20 PST > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: x windows > > Hello, > > well i got 1.2.2 installed and i was wondering about x > windows, could anyone tell me how much disk space i will >

Re: lprm says "Permission denied" (fwd)

This is *not* an acceptable fix. Other packages, for isntance Samba, will **NOT** work with lprng. > On Wed, 26 Feb 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Much Deleted. > > > > > The real fix seems to go to lprng. That's the official position of the > > maintainer as well, as stated in

Re: Live filesystem on CDs

> John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hmm, just an observation here. (Not necessarily directed at you, Mike.) > > Are *all* packages that are compressed with gzip compressed with gzip -9? > > Including all .orig.tar.gz files, .diff.gz, etc.? If not, this may be a > > way to save some spa

Re: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32?

Yes. And it also supports long filenames on those partitions. > Hi, > > Having benefited greatly from this list before, I do not doubt for a > moment that someone will know the answer to this: > > Does Linux read/write to the new Win95 Fat32 filesystem? > > thanks in advance. > > -alex > -

Re: /etc/alternatives -- Why?

> > What is the /etc/alternatives directory for. I mean, what's the > philosophy behind it? > > Thanks > Paul Serice > It lets people have two programs with the same name on the system at once. Examples: nvi, vim, etc: install as vi xemacs, emacs: both install as emacs -- John Goerzen

Re: x windows

On Sat, 1 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > well i got 1.2.2 installed and i was wondering about x > windows, could anyone tell me how much disk space i will > need to run this. i have an old 386 with 4m ran and 20mb > of swap space. > When I first installed X on my machine, I o

Re: PLIP setup?

On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Karl Ferguson wrote: > Hmmm - how fast is PLIP? Are you able to give me some stats on FTP's and > ping times? I'm wondering if it's faster than 115200 serial... I don't do well with my slow machine (web crawler indeed) but even it manages 15 KB/s using ncftp. Andrea tells

Re: Package configuration philosophy

Ever since I started using Debian about two years ago I have been gnashing my teeth here because the DEL/HOME/END keys did not work at the prompt. Now I discover .inputrc. This is IMO a prime candidate for something that can and should be installed along with bash on day one, on ix86 boxes. Or a

Graphics file converter(s) (Like xv)

I am looking for a general puropose conversion program for graphich formats. What I would really like would be sonething like xv that could be run ono interactivley by the lp interface script. Ultimetly II need the fiel is PCL3, but I have ghostscript converting

mailing lists

Mike hasn't responded to the request I sent on Thursday to restore my directory on "master", so I'll have to put the list server back up from scratch. Hopefully I'll have time for it this evening. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PG

Re: Changing kernel.

Hi, >>"Mikael" == Mikael Hallendal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mikael> Hello! Mikael> I'm about to compile a new kernel. Do I have to take the .deb Mikael> kernel or can I download the latest from sunsite.unc.edu? Get the latest, by all means. You should also get a package called kernel

Debian diald/pppd IPCP negotiation problem; fails first time, succeeds second time [db]

Hi, I'm having trouble connecting with ppp under diald, on Debian 1.2.x. When I run pppd without diald (using Debian's pon command), pppd connects fine. When I use diald to run pppd, PPP won't connect the first time, but will the second time. (And if the connection goes idle for a while and di

Re: Using my old Dos PGP-pubring under Linux?

On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Bjoern Starke wrote: > Is it possible to use my old PGP keyrings (generated under DOS) under > Linux? Yes. Put it all in the directory ~/.pgp Vadik. -- Vadim Vygonets [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sysadmin? Me?! Naah... I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a binary tr

x windows

Hello, well i got 1.2.2 installed and i was wondering about x windows, could anyone tell me how much disk space i will need to run this. i have an old 386 with 4m ran and 20mb of swap space. looking forward to hearing from you. allan - Name: Allan W. Bart,

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

Craig writes: > IT IS NOT DIFFICULT AT ALL TO GET PPP WORKING ON DEBIAN. > More generally, it is not difficult at all to get PPP working on any of > the Linux distributions I've worked with. It is not difficult for you or me to get PPP working. It *is* difficult for many people. There is a real

Using my old Dos PGP-pubring under Linux?

Hello Is it possible to use my old PGP keyrings (generated under DOS) under Linux? Kind regards.bjoern

Re: Perhaps someone can help me

On Fri, 28 Feb 1997 07:18:19 -0500, you wrote: >I'm looking for the pgp encryption facility. >I've install all if the debian packages I can and >my system seems void of pgp. It*s not in the dselect programm. On my distribution it*s in the following dir. cdrom/debian/non-us/binary-i386/pgp-i_2.6.

Re: Perhaps someone can help me

Santiago Vila writes: > On the Debian mirrors, there is a file named README.non-US saying: Great. Now, why doesn't this file have a link named "README.pgp"? Why do you expect someone looking for pgp to look in "README.non-us"? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [

Re: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32?

On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: > Lawrence Chim wrote: > > > > Harmon Sequoya Nine wrote: > > > > > > first is with the "mtools" (do a "man mtools" to get more info), although > > > this is usually only with a floppy. > > > > > > The second way is to mount the win95 partition using: > >

Re: Linux and Fat32?

As far as I know it does. Just use the standard "mount" command, but with a "-t vfat" filesystem option. You'll need to load the "vfat" module at boot time (when you installed debian, the "configure modules" section gives you this ability). So the command would be: mount -t vfat /dev/hd? /moun

Re: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32?

Lawrence Chim wrote: > > Harmon Sequoya Nine wrote: > > > > first is with the "mtools" (do a "man mtools" to get more info), although > > this is usually only with a floppy. > > > > The second way is to mount the win95 partition using: > > mount -t vfat /dev/??? /mountDir > > > > This should work

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Re: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32?

In your email to me, Lawrence Chim, you wrote: > > Harmon Sequoya Nine wrote: > > > > Unless its changed in the past few months, Linux can read and write to > > dos/windows 95 partitions without a problem. There are two ways. The > > first is with the "mtools" (do a "man mtools" to get more inf

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

> On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, CoB SysAdmin wrote: > > > > Gee, that's *&[EMAIL PROTECTED]& hillarious, since *I'm* the ISP and I > > configured > > the dial-up server exactly the way specified in the PPP HOWTO. > > well, then you must have done something wrong. Either in your dialin > server config, or

Re: Question about startup script

cobal wrote: > > Hi > > The book I have says that the start up shell script (aka autoexec > billspeak) is called .profile or .login in the home directory. When I > look (using ls -a) I don't see anything like this. Any thoughts?? This depends (to some extent) on which shell you use. I use ksh

POP3 Server

Hi All, What is the lastest version of the POP3 Mail Server software. I seem to be getting reports from users who say they have 'Remove Mail from the Server' selected so that when a mail download completes to their mail reader it should remove it, but it does not. Almost every single problem rep

Re: Netscape 4.0b2 out, any success?

On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Brian S. Julin wrote: > It may be that my ld.so does not seem to support ELF LD_PRELOAD > anymore. The manpage calls it an "a.out" ld.so and only mentions > LD_AOUT_PRELOAD. I take this to mean that ELF binaries no longer > need ld.so, but how do I get my libXpm.so.4.6 to lo

Re: Perhaps someone can help me

The below should easily be edited into the FAQ or a HOWTO type document. Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Peter Iannarelli wrote: > I'm looking for the pgp encryption facility. *-

Changing kernel.

Hello! I'm about to compile a new kernel. Do I have to take the .deb kernel or can I download the latest from sunsite.unc.edu? /Micke

Re: The broken PPP saga continues!

On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, CoB SysAdmin wrote: > So, looking at it all like this, it appears that the conversation goes fine > until they agree on IP addresses. After that, the server doesn't see any > of the client's echo requests. However, the client DOES see the single > on that comes from the serve

Returned mail: Host unknown (Name server: ns.uxg.com: host not found) (fwd)

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Re: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32?

Harmon Sequoya Nine wrote: > > Unless its changed in the past few months, Linux can read and write to > dos/windows 95 partitions without a problem. There are two ways. The > first is with the "mtools" (do a "man mtools" to get more info), although > this is usually only with a floppy. > > The

Solved (was: first installation, network problem)

Thanks to all kind & wise persons who helped me to solve the problem. Gateway and DNS addresses were wrong and /etc/hosts.allow as well. I used Rescue disk to reconfigure network because I do not know another way (more convinient) to do that. With regards, Eugene Sevinian -

Re: PLIP setup?

> Hmmm - how fast is PLIP? Are you able to give me some stats on FTP's and > ping times? I'm wondering if it's faster than 115200 serial... It sure is! I haven't tried FTP yet, but `ping -s 8` times look good: PLIP 3.6 ms 33.6k modem 100.3 ms 10base-T 0.5 ms Jim pointed me to

Re: PLIP setup?

At 06:47 PM 2/28/97 -0800, Jim wrote: Hmmm - how fast is PLIP? Are you able to give me some stats on FTP's and ping times? I'm wondering if it's faster than 115200 serial... Regards >Compile both lp and plip as modules- lp otherwise takes priority and >since only one device per port is allowed

Re: Installation problem which now is network problem

On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Daniel Karlsson wrote: >... > boot manager, Linux is now up and running. > > Unfortunately it's not up and running to that extent I would like to. I have > no contact at all with the network and with the Internet in particular. I > think I have to make some changes in the netwo

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Netscape won't gunzip now

Ever since I re-installed Netscape 3.01 with the Debian installer, it will no longer gunzip a compressed file like it used to. What do I need to add to my /etc/mailcap file in order to make it do that again? Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Debian GNU 1.2

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, CoB SysAdmin wrote: > > This is perhaps indicitive of a problem with your ISP. It is strange > > that it goes out but does not return. > > Gee, that's *&[EMAIL PROTECTED]& hillarious, since *I'm* the ISP and I > configured > the dial-up server exactly the way specified in th

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

In your email to me, CoB SysAdmin, you wrote: > > Gee, that's *&[EMAIL PROTECTED]& hillarious, since *I'm* the ISP and I > configured the > dial-up server exactly the way specified in the PPP HOWTO. > > > If you want a better solution, why not use diald? It will automatically > > bring up the

Re: PLIP setup?

On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Spineux Alain wrote: > > You can't include PLIP and the printer driver together You can with separate ports and module support.. #/etc/conf.modules # [..] options lp io=0x3bc,0x378 options plip io=0x278;irq=5 This puts a printer on your plip network. -!-

The broken PPP saga continues!

Okay... for those who offered to look at my scripts and such, here's everything you'd ever need to know about what's going on, I hope. I put a lot of time into organizing the information into something easy to read, so, even though it's long, I'd appreciate it if you'd take the time to give it a

Re: Problems with mouse.

Brown, Paul, BROWNPA2 wrote: I have just installed the latest version of Debian GNU/Linux (v 1.2 I think) and when it came to the device installation section I asked it to install the MS Bus Mouse driver. When the system boots up it says that it has found the bus mouse, however

Test

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Re: PLIP setup?

On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Steve Reid wrote: > SIOCSIFADDR: No such device > SIOCSIFDSTADDR: No such device > > It looks as if the PLIP device is not compiled into the kernel. I don't > get any message regarding PLIP when I boot, but I _know_ I have PLIP > compiled into the kernel. Compile both lp and

Re: Upgrade procedure for tetex

On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Christoph Martin wrote: > - Purge all the old tex packages which are replaced by tetex. (E.g. go > into dselect, select the tetex-packages, look which old tex packages > are marked to be removed, purge the packages.) > > tetex replaces: amslatex, amstex, babel, bibtex, dvips

Question about startup script

Hi The book I have says that the start up shell script (aka autoexec billspeak) is called .profile or .login in the home directory. When I look (using ls -a) I don't see anything like this. Any thoughts?? One other thing - how about some suggestions for an outstanding book - I not very happy wi

RE: xdm window for login prompt

Hay Walter: Check the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-error. See if there are any errors. Try hitting the <+> or <-> a few times. not the + is the key pad not the key board +. Regards -- From: Walter Kotorynski[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 28, 1997 5:26 AM To: debia

Re: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32?

On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 00:57:43 -0300 (ARST) > From: "[iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alex Lobkovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian user list > Subject: Re: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32? > > On Thu, 27 Fe

Re: Lilo query

Your "boot=/dev/hda3" should actually read "boot=/dev/hda". This is how it is on my computer. Please let me know if this doesn't work. :-) -- Harmon

Re: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32?

Unless its changed in the past few months, Linux can read and write to dos/windows 95 partitions without a problem. There are two ways. The first is with the "mtools" (do a "man mtools" to get more info), although this is usually only with a floppy. The second way is to mount the win95 partition

Re: perl/tk problem

Marco Prandini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to write some code with perl5's Tk module, but I've been > stopped two seconds after my first try: Sounds like you have the latest perl installed, but not the latest perl-tk. If you upgrade to the latest perl-tk package (from unstable), the p

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Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

Interesting, I find Debian Linux to be the most easiest PPP setup. All I have is the following # cat /etc/ppp.options_out /dev/modem 38400 204.97.69.153:204.97.64.1 defaultroute note the defaultroute at the end that's what tells pppd to setup the default route. --

Re: shared library tutorial?

The elf how-to briefly mentions something about this, it says: "just compile all the object files with -fPIC, then link with a command like gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,libfoo.so.y -o libfoo.so.y.x *.o If that looks complex, you obviously haven't ever read up on the equivalent proced