In a lot of man pages, and some of the documentation in /usr/doc there are
there little squares or cryptic $%^ thingees. I guess that there's
something I've missed somewhere...
What have/haven't I done?
On the assumption that you ran into some highlighting or underlining
markup,
Cool off, man. What they seem to be talking about IS a Debian issue.
Although ppp support IS compiled into the kernel, the pppd is separate,
and the method by which you establish a connection, be it through pon, or
a custom script like I use, because as far as I know pon will not redial
through
On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Mar 03, 1997 at 08:58:41PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
well, actually i had a few initial hassles getting the win95 box
to print with the PCL driver. Postscript worked fine (through
ghostscript to my HP4L), but PCL failed. Eventually somebody
On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Elie Rosenblum wrote:
Or you could just use the built in macros ^TO and ^FROM:
:0
* ^TO.*debian-user
* ^FROM.*debian-user
debian-user-l-inbox
Since ^TO will match all the addressing mechanisms procmail can check,
To:, Apparently-To:, Cc:, and any others it knows
On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Gregory Vence wrote:
It's happening to me too.
Scott Stanley wrote:
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 upgraded to fvwm2 today and ran into a few problems. Some of these may be
worthy of bug reports, but I thought I'd mention them here first.
- The postinst of fvwm2 fails if you ask it to convert fvwm1 rc files to the
new format and gawk is not present. fvwm2 should either depend on gawk
On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Richard Morin wrote:
Sorry to carry the ppp thing on, but I just can't get it to work with pon.
I currently dial in with minicom and evoke pppd manually. Does anyone
mind if I post the output from both to see what I'm not doing right? I'll
send private if anyone
On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Elie Rosenblum wrote:
* ^From .*debian-user*
* ^To: .*debian-user*
* ^Cc: .*debian-user*
even more tidy:
* ^(From|To|Cc):.*debian
-!-
I'm refering to using the 56k upgrade to their 33.6 modems. It's some
kind of driver (not ISDN) for working on regular analog lines. It might
be something that reloads EEPROM or such.
I'm looking for success and real connect speeds. Sometimes people with
33.6k only get on at 28.8k or
Is the 56kb USR upgrade compatible with linux? I tired of 14.4.
Almost certainly. I use a 56K ISDN 'pseudo-modem' all the time.
Even though this box isn't internally the same as the real USR modem
[snip]
I'm refering to using the 56k upgrade to their 33.6 modems. It's some
kind of
This is not a debian specific problem, but since I am running debian this
is as good a place as any to post.
I just bought an Epson Stylus color 500 printer. When I print a document
generated by LaTeX, converted to postscript with dvips, only part of the
page is printed. The rest is printed on
Shawn,
Well, I respectively disagree. This thread has been going for so
long, most of the chatter is NOT about how to establish a connect.
What I was seeing here was all this crap about how screwed up
Debian was, and how screwed up PPP was, and The real truth
is that if someone
You might want to look ath the March issue of Linux Journal (the one with Perl
on the cover).
There is a fairly lengthy article about e-mail and news via uucp.
Time is the best teacher, unfortunately it kills all of it's
John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In a lot of man pages, and some of the documentation in /usr/doc
there are there little squares or cryptic $%^ thingees. I guess
that there's something I've missed somewhere...
What have/haven't I done?
On the assumption that you ran into some
GV == Gregory Vence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SK --Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:
SK Hi Greg -- You asked:
GV Is the 56kb USR upgrade compatible with linux? I tired of 14.4.
GV :)
SK Almost certainly. I use a 56K ISDN 'pseudo-modem' all the
SK time. Even though this box isn't
A few weeks ago, there was mention of an SSL-Apache package. Is this
still being put together? When and where could I find that?
Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg
Debian GNU 1.2 Linux 2.0.29t
I just can't get the AWE32 sound card to work under debian. It
works fine under dos,95, or NT. I've installed all the patches and tried
running it with kernel 2.0.27, 2.0.29, and 2.1.26 with no success. I use
the I/O ,IRQ and DMA values out of the manual which match the ones in
95.
Larry 'Daffy' Daffner wrote:
As far as real connect speeds, I've seen estimates that 5% of the
country has the right hardware on the other end of the telephone
switch to support 56kbps technology. Also, USR hasn't actually
shipped
the equipment that's needed on the ISP side to support
:0 E
* ^TO.*debian-user
$MAIL/Lists/debian/user/incoming
:0 E
* ^FROM.*debian-user
$MAIL/Lists/debian/user/incoming
You can OR them like so:
* ^(TO|From.*)debian-user
It might have to do with striping the 8th bit of a byte before it
gets displayed on the terminal. For man, try the -7 option .
That might not help you at all, but since the other responses
from the list has not fix your problem yet, that is what I would
investigate until a better suggestion
I don't think that's the problem, less is my PAGER, and I know about zcat.
Most of the text is quite readable. The little squares are often where I'd
expect an apostrophe to be, and some of the funny codes are B7 for
example. It looks like a bit of hex.
Try adding export
On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, John Foster wrote:
I don't think that's the problem, less is my PAGER, and I know about zcat.
Most of the text is quite readable. The little squares are often where I'd
expect an apostrophe to be, and some of the funny codes are B7 for
example. It looks like a bit of hex.
Does any know how I can get NT workstation to work
with SAMBA the way WIN95 does.
Any help will be appreciated
-OZ
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Raja R Harinath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
You're reading an ISO-8859-1 (8-bit) document with `less' in it's 7-bit
mode.
[snip]
In either case, your display has to support 8-bit characters, and show
them meaningfully. `xterm' can handle it. I
Randy R Dees [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have just done a clean install from a 1.2.2 CDROM and am having
troubles starting X. I got the base system installed, and then installed
the X stuff. I selected xbase, xserver-vga16, fvwm2, and xserver-svga for
the initaial install. I did allow xdm
hi,
This ppp issue is dragging for weeks! i like to suggest a book like Linux
Secrets by Naba Barkati. From IDG Books. Please, this is *not* a sales
pitch.
I was having problems setting up ppp. And after reading the book, i
setup my ppp within 2 hours. No problems whatsover. The ppp script(you
THe gdbm (and probably others) library isnt set up correctly with regards to
sym links in /usr/lib
ln -s libgdbm.so.1.7.3 libgdbm.so
Is this an ok mailing list to post such problems or should I go through the
debian bug tracking system?
More library problems.. has anyone managed to get
John == John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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.
Dark Lord of Sith wrote:
I just can't get the AWE32 sound card to work under debian. It
works fine under dos,95, or NT. I've installed all the patches and tried
running it with kernel 2.0.27, 2.0.29, and 2.1.26 with no success. I use
the I/O ,IRQ and DMA values out of the manual
Hi!
Has anyone else noticed that, since the upgrade to 3.2, X seems to be slower ?
I have a P120 with 48 Mb and a Stealth64 Video 2000 (S3) with 2Mb DRAM.
I use 1024x768 with 16 bpp.
After the upgrade I noticed that my WM (AfterStep) took about 2-3 seconds more
to load and the window drawing is
To refresh, there were strange little squares and odd bits of hex
scattered through the manpages. This reply fixed it:
I don't think that's the problem, less is my PAGER, and I know about zcat.
Most of the text is quite readable. The little squares are often where I'd
expect an apostrophe
Hi,
some time ago I've installed the shadow-packages. But now where have the gone?
Is there now shadow-Support now? What about security?
Stefan Walder
*---*
Dipl. Ing. Stefan Walder (techn. Ang. in der EDV-Systemtechnik)
Add the following lines to the xinitrc file to the Modules section.
Load pex5.so
^^^
Load xie.so
^^
but I dont know the exact name of that libraries. FInd them by dpkg
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Hi,
I have a problem (and possible bug raport).
Last night I've (tried) upgraded my 1.1 upgraded from stable from
unstable. It went like usual (several iterations of install and some
manual dpgk installs), and suddenly, after upgrade of the dpkg itself
it broke. It keeps seying Symbol sysinfo
| export MANPAGER=/usr/bin/less
|
| (Of course, this only works if you have the 'less' package installed.)
|
| If it works for you, then you might want to put this line into your
| .bashrc or whatever startup script you use.
|
| If the problem is that the documents you're looking at are
Debians:
Following is a description of the steps I took to implement ip masquerading
via a firewall. This allows computers on a lan to access the internet via a
dynamically allocated PPP link. In a nutshell, it facilitates the
functionality inherent within a class B internet domain without
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On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Martin Stromberg wrote:
Perhaps the server only can export the directories in the export file;
try mounting with mount -t nfs 141.48.54.2:/usr/local/linux /mnt.
I really don't know a lot about nfs mounting, but trying won't hurt.
I forgot to mention that I also tried this.
On Feb 28, Dale Martin wrote
Can anyone point me to an online reference on how to compile and use
shared libraries?
Check out ELF: from the Programmer's Perspective by H.J. Lu:
http://www.debian.org/Documentation/elf/elf.html
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/GCC/elf.ps.gz
HTH,
Ray
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I don't know why not. There is nothing different about the modem -
computer interface, AFAIK.
On Mar 2, Gregory Vence wrote:
Is the 56kb USRupgrade compatible with linux? I tired of 14.4. :)
Thanx -- Greg.
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Custom
I had tried the first item you suggested before reverting back to normal
lpr, I do recall. I also seem to remember that in some of Samba's
documentation, the lprng option was mentioned, while in other areas where
the options for printing were listed, lprng was not mentioned.
I do not recall if I
The FFrom and rom words are indications of file locking problems. If
you go to http://www.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de/mailing-lists/procmail/ and do
a search with a word ffrom you'll find that many others have had these
problemes too.
Here's a small excerpt:
FFrom is generally an
[Now over the next day, I'll get about 10 bounces. Can someone fix the
flippin' list? How about an Errors-to: header? ]
On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Shawn Asmussen wrote:
Cool off, man. What they seem to be talking about IS a Debian issue.
Although ppp support IS compiled into the kernel, the pppd is
Furthermore, saying its NOT is the documentation is just totatlly
wrong! If you chose NOT to install the HOWTO'S or INFO,
And how would I go about doing that? I've got 5 install disks and a machine
with a modem that can only get to the net via PPP. I'd install the HOWTO's
with dselect but,
Christoph Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Marcelo Magallon writes:
On 28 Feb 1997, Christoph Martin wrote:
The obvious solution is to remove all TeX files conflicting with teTeX
before installing teTeX, but this is not user friendly, nice,
cool, etc.
You have no
John Goerzen wrote:
I don't know why not. There is nothing different about the modem
-
computer interface, AFAIK.
On Mar 2, Gregory Vence wrote:
Is the 56kb USRupgrade compatible with linux? I tired of 14.4. :)
I was just checking to make sure that the upgrade wasn't some
Randy R Dees wrote:
I have just done a clean install from a 1.2.2 CDROM and am having
troubles starting X. I got the base system installed, and then installed
the X stuff. I selected xbase, xserver-vga16, fvwm2, and xserver-svga for
the initaial install. I did allow xdm to set up.
[...]
On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Daniel Stringfield wrote:
Also, I remember bringing up the fact that its illegal (in the US) to run
at speeds
over 46k (or similar) over the analog lines... so legally, you can't go
that fast.
I'm assuming that this is going to be overturned shortly, since several
Marc Abrams wrote:
Things are changing at NetForward!
http://www.netforward.com/changes.shtml
~~~
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
On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Stefan Walder wrote:
some time ago I've installed the shadow-packages. But now where have the gone?
Is there now shadow-Support now? What about security?
I'm also concerned about this, but not terribly because I run Debian on
personal machines, not ones intended to be used
Hi Stefan,
I do still see them in 'project/experimental' (This is at Uni Mainz.):
-rw-r--r-- 1 110 425 44862 Dec 6 11:54
shadow-login_960810-1_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 110 425 43594 Dec 6 11:52
shadow-login_960810-1_m68k.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 110 425255326
On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
actually, it's completely untrue. samba works very well with lprng.
lprng has removed the possibility to automatically remove Files after
printing. This is however necessary to remove spooled jobs. How do you work
around this problem?
Nils
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A few manpages are formatted in a style that less doesn't completely
clean up. Most seems to handle these a little better. Most detects and
unzips gzip'd documents automatically.
Bob
At 05:50 PM 3/2/97 -0500, Susan G. Kleinmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a lot of man pages, and some of
William Chow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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
Scott Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can anyone tell me what the differences are between lpr and lprng. In
what ways has lprng been ``enhanced and extended'', to quote the package
description.
Read /usr/doc/lprng/Intro.txt.gz and others.
Sven
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Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Mar 03, 1997 at 08:58:41PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
well, actually i had a few initial hassles getting the win95 box
to print with the PCL driver. Postscript worked fine (through
ghostscript to
Hello all...
I have a disk with some information on it that came from an SCO box
(some version that was current about 3 years ago - 3.0 ODT ?).
I recall that the disk was formated with the format command native
to SCO. If im not mistaken the disk was
Adrian Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A suggestion for people using Lprng and having problems is to check
out the Lprng mailing list (10-20 messages a day - see the doc
dir. for info). I joined a few weeks ago and they have covered this
problem (Samba) and many others; and Patrick Powell
Hello
I Loaded something like
netscape-v30-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz
I got the exec-ready-to-use file
I ran it .. and it said: Floating point exception (core dumped).
Haa. It was too simple to work so easily ! What is wrong ?
Is there a better release without any problem for linux
Joe Emenaker writes:
I'd begin to entertain the idea that I was out in left field if the
install guide even simply MENTIONED something like Oh, if you want to
use PPP, go read this other document first
Well, you weren't. Is anyone about to start a project to solve this
problem? I'm
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On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, John Goerzen wrote:
I had tried the first item you suggested before reverting back to normal
lpr, I do recall. I also seem to remember that in some of Samba's
documentation, the lprng option was mentioned, while in other areas where
the options for printing were listed,
I've been setting up Debian 1.2.4 (25 Jan.: Cheapbytes distribution)
on two new Pentium 150 systems and I can't get network routing over
ethernet to work.
Installation of netbase and netstd seemed to go well
using dselect, except for an unsurprising temporary problem in
finding the right
We have someone who wrote a PPP set-up program that isn't ready for prime time.
When it is ready, it will be part of the system.
Bruce
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Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Pardon what maybe a silly question, but do you have libc5-dev
and ncurses-dev installed?
manoj
Sure.
$ dpkg -s ncurses3.0-dev
Package: ncurses3.0-dev
Status: install ok installed
[skip]
$ dpkg -s libc5-dev
Package: libc5-dev
Jason Costomiris wrote after:
On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Shawn Asmussen wrote:
Cool off, man. What they seem to be talking about IS a Debian issue.
Although ppp support IS compiled into the kernel, the pppd is separate,
and the method by which you establish a connection, be it through pon, or
Hello,
I want to install my Soundblaster 16 (Value Edition) unter Debian.
How?
Thanx. bjoern
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On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 20:29:34 +1000
From: Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org,
Dark Lord of Sith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: AWE32 problems.
Dark Lord of Sith wrote:
I just can't get the AWE32
Tom asked me to pass this message along to the list, so here it is.
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: (Fwd) ZIP-drive (parellel) under Debian
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1. what do you expect for free?
you are talking as if you have some RIGHT to DEMAND that things get
done according to YOUR needs. Nobody would mind if you politely
asked how do i get this working? - but you antagonise people by
demanding your system is fucked, fix it for me!.
On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, QUALITY ASSURANCE wrote:
Debians:
6. edit /etc/init.d/network and append the following line.
ipfwadm -F -a accept -m -P all -S XXX.XXX.XXX.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/ Where
XXX.XXX.XXX is your network ip address or the first three octets of
your lan
The list server will be back up properly in a few hours. It is currnetly running
from a backup site, and I think we're going to transition it to operate from
Bucknell U. soon.
Thanks
Bruce
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