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

1997-03-04 Thread Shawn Asmussen
H... Well, that's news to me. I wasn't aware that pppd would redial. I thought that it just called whatever command that you gave it to connect and that was it. I know that chat is only as smart as the script you give it, so I just worked up my own redial script to use for the pppd connect comm

Re: lprm says "Permission denied" (fwd)

1997-03-04 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: >On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Nils Rennebarth wrote: >> 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? >I'm not sure what you mean. Files in

Problem installing debian...

1997-03-04 Thread Alan Stephenson
I have an Infomagic September 1996 installation disk, and it says that it will install debian 1.1, linux kernel 2.0.0. However, after making all the disks, I put the 'installation boot' disk in, and hit enter at the boot prompt. It starts by saying 'Loading...', then it says 'Uncompressing Li

Re: why? whats wrong with cron?

1997-03-04 Thread Alvin Birdi
Dear Solomani, > > Can someone tell me why on one particular box cron wont run? > > I have three other identically setup Debian box and the cron on them runs > fine, but this one it doesnt. why? > Make sure that the file `cron' is in /etc/init.d and is executable. If it isn't, copy it over

Re: AWE32 problems.

1997-03-04 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
Richard Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. > > >

Re: why? whats wrong with cron?

1997-03-04 Thread Bernt T. Hansen
On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Solomani wrote: > Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 12:05:44 +1100 (EST) > From: Solomani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian User List > Cc: Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: why? whats wrong with cron? > > > Can someone tell me why on one particular box cron wont run? > > I

pppd keep-alive cron script (was Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!)

1997-03-04 Thread Steve
> On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Jason Costomiris wrote: > I run myown scripts for ppp not the pon. be that as it may.. all thats > needed here is to make a script that greps for ppp / pon .. whatever. set > this on a cron and bang! if the connection drops, your check script, run > at intervals set via cron,

Re: getty

1997-03-04 Thread Bernt T. Hansen
On Mon, 3 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 09:17:45 -0500 (EST) > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: getty > > Ok, what's the difference between mgetty and vgetty? (aside from the spelling) > I tried vgetty --help and it reported "mge

Re: getty

1997-03-04 Thread Siggy Brentrup
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ok, what's the difference between mgetty and vgetty? (aside from the spelling) > I tried vgetty --help and it reported "mgetty FATAL." > vgetty is an attempt to support a voice mailbox using voice capable modems. Since it was not too stable, the mgetty-voi

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

1997-03-04 Thread William Chow
On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: > > 1. what do you expect for free? Well, one would expect at least a clean install... If people perceive Linux/Debian as being impossible to install, then, well, they won't use it :) And if people don't use an OS, well, that's just bad for people in

Re: Problems booting with new kernel

1997-03-04 Thread William Chow
On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Karl Sackett wrote: > > > I've been trying to upgrade my kernel using kernel-source-2.0.27. I > > put the new kernel on a floppy, boot from the floppy, and instead of > > loading the new kernel I get this on my display: > > > > Lo

list service improved

1997-03-04 Thread Bruce Perens
The list service on debian-user should be up to speed now. Some of the smaller mailing lists have lost their subscriber data - if you aren't seeing messages from them, please re-subscribe by sending mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], where list-name is the list you want. The lists won't subscribe you twice

Re: Fresh Debian on UMSDOS?

1997-03-04 Thread Dale Scheetz
I have been working with a small kernel patch that allows the kernel to use the loop device to mount the root file system contained as an image in a file. You simply copy; rootfs, vmlinuz, loadlin.exe, and linux.bat to /linux on your C: drive; cd /linux and run the batch job. This is a read/write r

getty

1997-03-04 Thread tomk
Ok, what's the difference between mgetty and vgetty? (aside from the spelling) I tried vgetty --help and it reported "mgetty FATAL." -- -= Sent by Debian 1.2 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK - member of ARRL [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ethernet routing problem?

1997-03-04 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Steve Izma wrote: > Installation of netbase and netstd seemed to go well > using dselect, except for an unsurprising temporary problem in > finding the right i/o port for the ethernet card. I'm using the > D-link DE220P, which the ne driver easily finds. Ifconfig gives >

Re: Problems booting with new kernel

1997-03-04 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Karl Sackett wrote: > I've been trying to upgrade my kernel using kernel-source-2.0.27. I > put the new kernel on a floppy, boot from the floppy, and instead of > loading the new kernel I get this on my display: > > Loading.. > > 8000 > AX: 02FF > BX: > CX: 000B > DX:

Re: libvga?

1997-03-04 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 25 Feb 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been trying to run several svga games and keep getting this error: > > /usr/games/doom-1.8/sdoom: can't load library '/usr/lib/libvga.so.1' > Unknown error > /usr/games/doom-1.8/sdoom: can't load library '/lib/libvga.so.1' > Unkn

Re: netscape: Floating Point Exception,

1997-03-04 Thread Brian C. White
> 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

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

1997-03-04 Thread System Account
On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Jason Costomiris wrote: > [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. > >

Re: lprm says "Permission denied" (fwd)

1997-03-04 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Nils Rennebarth wrote: > 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

why? whats wrong with cron?

1997-03-04 Thread Solomani
Can someone tell me why on one particular box cron wont run? I have three other identically setup Debian box and the cron on them runs fine, but this one it doesnt. why? Its Version: 3.0pl1-36 and its been inactive since the machine was first setup (a month or so ago). Im at the end of my wi

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

1997-03-04 Thread Robert Nicholson
John Goerzen wrote: > Bad idea. Replace the entry in the options file with ttyS0, do NOT make a > modem symlink. This could, in fact, be responsible for all the rest of > your problems. > > Reason is: modems use UUCP-style locking. Other programs will see that > /dev/modem is locked, but NOT t

GCC broken after upgrade :-(

1997-03-04 Thread Stan Brown
I just upgraded from a Iconnect disk dated 02-Feb-97. When I tried to build a new kernel I got: gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory cpp: output pipe has been closed make: *** [init/main.o] Error 1 So i went to the CD and did a dpkg -i of

To the GCC package maintainer?

1997-03-04 Thread Robert Nicholson
Is ther e a version of gcc that includes the gnustep patches to the Objective-C runtime?

Re: Mail list problems??

1997-03-04 Thread Seth Reinosa
I get the same thing brother wat iz up folks? On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, 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 o