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 of the

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?

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

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 that

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

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 do

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: 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: 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' Unknown

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: 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 this

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: 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

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

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: Loading..

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: 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-voice

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 mgetty

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: 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 debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: why? whats wrong with cron? Can someone tell me why on one particular box cron

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. Dark Lord of Sith

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 from

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

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 the

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