Re: running script files.

1997-03-07 Thread A. M. Varon
Thanks everyone for helping me out! Another quick question, when i boot, i see all kinds of cdrom drives being probed at. like mcd, aztcd, sony, gscd etc. I have looked at my /lib/modules, and the only cdrom module avail. is sbpcd.o. The probing of the cdroms delays the booting of debian to 2

Re: Script Files

1997-03-07 Thread Kendrick Myatt
At 06:29 PM 3/5/97 -0600, Pete Poff wrote: Hi, I have installed just base of Debian. I have not added any extra software. But I have added Envy 1.0 which is a type of mud. I'm trying to run it and to start it, I have to run the startup script. I'm getting all kinds of errors when I

Re: Script Files

1997-03-07 Thread Pete Poff
Kendrick, thanks for you help, but before I got your message, I found and installed the csh shell. I got rid of the error message when trying to run it, but when I do, it just dumps a core and doesn't work. I don't know why but, could be because I compiled it on a different system

MiniCom

1997-03-07 Thread Pete Poff
Hi, can minicom download files? If so how? I can't seem to be able to:( thanks, Pete Poff Pete Poff---AKA---BlackJack Personal E-Mail Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kyron E-Mail Address:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XFree86 3.2 performance problem ?

1997-03-07 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
From: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Has anyone else noticed that, since the upgrade to 3.2, X seems to be slower ? ... After the upgrade I noticed that my WM (AfterStep) took about 2-3 seconds more to load and the window drawing is also a bit slower. I didn't think

Re: gzip repair

1997-03-07 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
Martin Not necessarily so. Perhaps gunzip figures.tar.gz Martin followed by tar -xvf figures.tar works out all right. I have tried that, I get a unexpected EOF error when gunziping With very large files, 500+M, used to get bad gzips all the time. I never trusted it, and always

Re: XFree86 3.2 performance problem ?

1997-03-07 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Daniel S. Barclay wrote: Has anyone else noticed that, since the upgrade to 3.2, X seems to be slower ? I've noticed one area where X is now slower. I run 2 X displays, one at 256 colors, the other at 16bpp. I switch between then a lot. It used to be a very fast

Re: wtmp locking problem (was: Re: SOLVED: Erk! Something is *really* wrong here!)

1997-03-07 Thread Craig Sanders
On 6 Mar 1997, Guy Maor wrote: Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mgetty and telnet/ssltelnet trigger it because they call login. ssh wu-ftpd don't trigger it because they don't call login - they do their own thing. is that right? Correct. the more i think of it, the more it

Re: MiniCom

1997-03-07 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Pete Poff wrote: can minicom download files? If so how? I can't seem to be able to:( Sure, with x/y/zmodem, kermit, etc. It comes with x/y/zmodem, called rz and sz (or lrz and lsz). The lrzsz is also a separate deb package. I've lost track as to whether lrzsz is

Re: postgres95 - missing library - Repeat message

1997-03-07 Thread Evan Thomas
Oliver Elphick wrote: I sent the following message a bout a week ago, but I seem to have got dropped from the list about that time and I never saw it posted. If you saw it and replied, please resend your reply to me. I installed Debian 1.2 and updated to 1.2.7 from sunsite. I tried to

Minicom again

1997-03-07 Thread Pete Poff
Hi, the problem I am having is this. When I try to download, it gives the message, Press any key to download or Alt-C to quit. I do and it lagges for about 1-2 minutes, then goes back to the site I was on. I check to see if the file is there and it isn't. When I download from

Re: color xterm

1997-03-07 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
From: Fran\gois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED] dpk wrote: is there a package for color xterms for debian? if so, does anyone know where it is? i have looked all over in the ftp site to find it with no luck. This has been asked recently. The color xterm package has been abandonned

Re: wtmp locking problem (was: Re: SOLVED: Erk! Something is *really* wrong here!)

1997-03-07 Thread Joey Hess
Craig Sanders: the more i think of it, the more it seems that there's a conflict between Set A and Set B login-related programs. Set A includes mgetty, telnet, getty, and other programs which call /bin/login. Set B includes ssh and wu-ftpd and other programs which do their own wtmp

Re: Idea for the burner

1997-03-07 Thread J.P.D. Kooij
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Chad Zimmerman wrote: .. You go to any book store you see 7 or 8 books that deal with slackware and redhat, why not Debian? Maybe because debian isn't known widely enough. Maybe that is because too many books don't mention it at all. The Infomagic booklet in the cd-set I

Re: Idea for the burner

1997-03-07 Thread William Chow
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, J.P.D. Kooij wrote: Like, dselect is a great and easy tool, but there is no manpage for it... Dselect is pretty intuitive once you get the hang of it, but it needs to be a bit better before I call it a great and easy tool. There were a couple of times that dselect

Re: shared library tutorial? [db]

1997-03-07 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
From: Kevin M. Bealer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Can anyone point me to an online reference on how to compile and use shared libraries?... I don't know anything about the portability side but this seems to work for me: ... $ gcc --shared -o libgrunt.so tercated.c (as root) # cp

Re: Idea for the burner

1997-03-07 Thread Rob Browning
William Chow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pain to configure it to install one package... The problem isn't with a lack of dselect documentation, IMHO, but due to the way dselect is setup. However, one can argue that dselect is for initial installations, and the dpkg utilities under dselect are

Re: Minicom again

1997-03-07 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Pete Poff wrote: the problem I am having is this. When I try to download, it gives the message, Press any key to download or Alt-C to quit. I do and it lagges for about 1-2 minutes, then goes back to the site I was on. I To download to your machine running

Re: dselect error (more)

1997-03-07 Thread Bob Clark
Andreas Tille wrote: Under the subject: dselect error I posted some odd things. Now a further question: After the emergency stop caused by errors dselect asks, if I want to delete the installed stuff. I said yes and now I get messages of the type: leaving: stable/.../package.deb for

Re: Idea for the burner

1997-03-07 Thread J.P.D. Kooij
(sorry for the bad cc: people, debian-admintool@lists.debian.org doesn't exist, I just found out) On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, William Chow wrote: On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, J.P.D. Kooij wrote: Like, dselect is a great and easy tool, but there is no manpage for it... Dselect is pretty intuitive once

Re: Minicom again

1997-03-07 Thread Britton
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Pete Poff wrote: Hi, the problem I am having is this. When I try to download, it gives the message, Press any key to download or Alt-C to quit. I do and it lagges for about 1-2 minutes, then goes back to the site I was on. I check to see if the file is

Re: xt?

1997-03-07 Thread Jim
On 5 Mar 1997, David Stein wrote: Can debian Linux run on an xt? If not is there another linux that can run on an xt? a http: link in the right direction would be appreciated. Take a peek at Minix: ftp.cs.vu.nl:/pub/minix www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html I had it running on a 1

Can linux be my answering machine??

1997-03-07 Thread Jason Killen
Does anyone know if there are any programs that let linux act like an answering machine. Just a thought. Jason KillenQuestion Stupidity Monolith : driven by inner daemons RPS : better living through world [EMAIL PROTECTED]domination

IPX/Apple talk tip

1997-03-07 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
I recall someone mentioning a similar problem to mine. I recomined the kernel and excluded IPX and Appletalk totally, erased their modeles form usr/lib/modules, but kerneld insisted of still trying to load them arrg Anyhow, from a usenet post the fix is: alias net-pf-4 off alias net-pf-5 off In

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Re: VIM Editor

1997-03-07 Thread Mr Stuart Lamble
William Chow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] : Weird, I did an ldd on vim. The only two libs it needs are ncurses and : libc. Are there two different versions of vim in the debian packaging : system, one with and one without X support? There shouldn't be. Which version of vim do you have

Re: XFree86 3.2 performance problem ?

1997-03-07 Thread Paul Seelig
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone else noticed that, since the upgrade to 3.2, X seems to be slower ? [stuff deleted] Has anoyone had a similar experience ? I noticed that my Cirrus Logic 5426-VLB is slower in redrawing the screen and dragging

INND

1997-03-07 Thread Solomani
Setting up innd im at the point where i have to convert a news.active file into our loacl active file. The readme says i do this by typing teh following; perl -ne 's/ \d+ \d+ / 00 01 /' active Assuming that 'active' is the resulting master file INND will use, and active.au is

capture the screen

1997-03-07 Thread Ramiro Arenas
I am using XFree86 and the window manager fwmrc95, I need to capture the screen to send to some friends, does anyone know how can i do that?

Re: Problem with TERMCAP in Xfree86

1997-03-07 Thread Christian Hudon
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Vadim Vygonets wrote: On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Brown, Paul, BROWNPA2 wrote: I've got Debian GNU/Linux 1.2 installed and working and have installed XFree86. It is working fine except for when it comes to displaying an xterm it says that is cannot find a usable TERMCAP

Re: Idea for the burner

1997-03-07 Thread Scott Stanley
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, William Chow wrote: On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, J.P.D. Kooij wrote: Like, dselect is a great and easy tool, but there is no manpage for it... Dselect is pretty intuitive once you get the hang of it, but it needs to be a bit better before I call it a great and easy

Module Errors!!

1997-03-07 Thread Kael Rowan - CPTS666
I just installed a fresh version of Debian 1.2 on my Pentium 166 with hardly any modifications to the recommended setup in dselect, (except I chose to install the kernel source), and I just recompiled the kernel using it's default options almost exactly (except no SCSI support, etc), and keep

Re: Module Errors!!

1997-03-07 Thread Scott Stanley
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Kael Rowan - CPTS666 wrote: I just installed a fresh version of Debian 1.2 on my Pentium 166 with hardly any modifications to the recommended setup in dselect, (except I chose to install the kernel source), and I just recompiled the kernel using it's default options almost

Q: Will Digital HiNote run Linux

1997-03-07 Thread John Plate
Hi Does anybody knows if the Digital HiNote (laptop) VP 535 can run the Debien Linux? Thanks in advance. John -- John Plate [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Module Errors!!

1997-03-07 Thread Thought
Whenever I run /sbin/depmod -a, I get the following errors: *** Unresolved symbols in module /lib/modules/2.0.27/misc/atixlmouse.o *** Unresolved symbols in module /lib/modules/2.0.27/misc/busmouse.o *** Unresolved symbols in module /lib/modules/2.0.27/misc/icn.o *** Unresolved symbols in module

Re: VIM Editor

1997-03-07 Thread William Chow
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Mr Stuart Lamble wrote: William Chow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] : Weird, I did an ldd on vim. The only two libs it needs are ncurses and : libc. Are there two different versions of vim in the debian packaging : system, one with and one without X support? There

Re: XFree86 3.2 performance problem ?

1997-03-07 Thread William Chow
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone else noticed that, since the upgrade to 3.2, X seems to be slower ? [stuff deleted] Has anoyone had a similar experience ? I noticed that my Cirrus Logic

Re: capture the screen

1997-03-07 Thread Philippe Troin
On Fri, 07 Mar 1997 00:26:35 GMT Ramiro Arenas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I am using XFree86 and the window manager fwmrc95, I need to capture the screen to send to some friends, does anyone know how can i do that? Two methods: 1) Basic one. Use xwd and xwud. Read the manpages first. These

Re: Module Errors!!

1997-03-07 Thread William Chow
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Kael Rowan - CPTS666 wrote: 3c59x ether_setup: wrong version or undefined register_netdev: wrong version or undefined dev_kfree_skb: wrong version or undefined dev_alloc_skb: wrong version or undefined eth_type_trans: wrong version or undefined netif_rx: wrong version

Re: Module Errors!!

1997-03-07 Thread William Chow
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Thought wrote: Whenever I run /sbin/depmod -a, I get the following errors: and on and on and on for about 100 more lines... What should I do about that? (Oh, and other than /sbin/depmod -a, I followed all of the steps you mentioned in the previous reply to the

Re: dselect error (more)

1997-03-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Bob Clark wrote: It is leaving packages that were *not* installed. Things like pakages that were present before this instance of deselect. This is what I read on my screen, but to leave a package which wasn't installed should take 5-10 seconds?? That's the time it takes me

example script want

1997-03-07 Thread Lawrence Chim
Firstly, I am not a script expert and I only know how to write a little script file to execute a batch of commands. Can someone provides me an example script that insert a line of text into a text file. The line should be placed below the line section[xyz] and above the line blahblahblahblah.

Re: Module Errors!!

1997-03-07 Thread Thought
Do you or does anyone else get these errors right after installing Debian? I would imagine that at least for the first day or so most everything would be error free and ready to go, but maybe not? The only thing I can think of that would cause ME to have these errors and nobody else would be that

Imagine 128

1997-03-07 Thread Dark Lord of Sith
I'm running an Imagine 128 video card and I'm having a terrible time finding good graphics setting. If anyone knows good resolution / refresh settings please let me know. The defaults with the 128 server just don't work right. Oh, I run an NEC Multisync monitor so that shouldn't be

Matrox Millenium

1997-03-07 Thread Thought
Does anyone out there know right off hand which chipset to choose when configuring X for the first time with a Matrox Millenium card?

2.0.29 freezing

1997-03-07 Thread Philippe Troin
I'm posting the problem here to see if someone can reproduce it: I found that running simultaneously the serial and floppy driver causes 2.0.29 to freeze badly. To cause the bug: start a ftp session somewhere, and download a file (transmission speed must be high, so get a fast server)

Re: Matrox Millenium

1997-03-07 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
There are two things you might want to do. First check http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/~ajv/xf86-matrox.html for the info about XFree86 Matrox server. This info is made by the authors of the Matrox code in XF86_SVGA server. The second is that you should try XF86Setup which comes with the

Re: 2.0.29 freezing

1997-03-07 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: WARNING/DISCLAIMER: This could cause your hard disk to become corrupt, make your monitor explode, burn your CPU, etc... etc... To minimize risks, umount or remount ro all your partitions if possible (well, you must keep one rw to do the ftp...) You

Re: color xterm

1997-03-07 Thread Ronald van Loon
| XTerm*customization: -color | ^^^ | |Interesting. Where did you find information on that resource? (It's |apparently not in the manual page.) It's a global Intrinsics resource. Maybe it is in the general X server page. It works for other programs too. If you have a program

Re: example script want

1997-03-07 Thread Ted Harding
( Re Message From: Lawrence Chim ) Can someone provides me an example script that insert a line of text into a text file. The line should be placed below the line section[xyz] and above the line blahblahblahblah. awk ' { print $0 ; if ( $0 == section[xyz] ) { print new line of text ; }

Re: csh

1997-03-07 Thread Vadim Vygonets
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Pete Poff wrote: Hi, on what ftp site can I get the csh shell and what file name is it called. For debian, you may get tcsh from any debian mirror in the directory shells (it's, of course, called csh). I'm using (and maintaining) tcsh, but I also have csh for

Re: capture the screen

1997-03-07 Thread Vadim Vygonets
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Ramiro Arenas wrote: I am using XFree86 and the window manager fwmrc95, I need to capture the screen to send to some friends, does anyone know how can i do that? Run xv (non-free Debian section, as far as I remember), press right mouse button, press `Grab' button...

Re: SOCKS5 Compilation troubles

1997-03-07 Thread Benedikt Eric Heinen
I am trying to compile Socks5 on a Debian Linux box, kernel 2.0.24, but it fails to succeed. It complains the lack of following files: [...] Are you sure you've done your configuration completely - I compiled socks5 on my system a couple of weeks ago without any problems (and without manually

Re: Procmail

1997-03-07 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Scott Stanley wrote: \sstanley, |/home/mustang/grad/sstanley/bin/procmail -f- VERBOSE=on The first \sstanley just makes sure the mail is copied directly to my inbox before trying to run it through procmail. Otherwise, I think it is

tk script to reboot etc from xdm login screen

1997-03-07 Thread Kevin Scott
I've had several requests for this, so a post to the list seemed appropriate. My scripts are based on those posted to this list by Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Monday 7th October 1996 (subject: Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work under X?). I've modified them considerably for use at our site,

Re: example script want

1997-03-07 Thread Ronald van Loon
In a message to me, Ted Harding, you wrote: |( Re Message From: Lawrence Chim ) | | Can someone provides me an example script that insert a line | of text into a text file. The line should be placed below the | line section[xyz] and above the line blahblahblahblah. | |awk ' { | print $0 ; | if

Re: Module Errors!!

1997-03-07 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Thought wrote: Do you or does anyone else get these errors right after installing Debian? This happens if you compile a new kernel of the same version (2.0.27). Modules are copied to /lib/modules/[version], so existing modules are overwritten if you compiled them again but they aren't deleted.

Re: NT authentication drama

1997-03-07 Thread Boris D. Beletsky
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Bruce wrote: Bruce Bruce Isn't this what you want? Bruce Bruce Bruce Bruce Bruce From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Burke) Newsgroups: Bruce comp.os.linux.announce Subject: Linux - NT authentication Bruce suite Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 06:03:28 GMT Organization:

Re: Non-existing packages in dselect

1997-03-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Heikki Vatiainen wrote: Yes sir, that's it. I did associate the starnge behaviour with dselect even though it's dpkg-ftp working under the hood. I forgot to check the bugs this time but I'm not sure if I would have found it under dpkg-ftp. Thanks for clearing this to

Network card driver for GE2500

1997-03-07 Thread Paulo Ramos
I would like to know if someone has this network card driver. TIA Paulo

Re: capture the screen

1997-03-07 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Ramiro Arenas, you wrote: I am using XFree86 and the window manager fwmrc95, I need to capture the screen to send to some friends, does anyone know how can i do that? Install the package xwpick Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: xt?

1997-03-07 Thread marsh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in article [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Craig writes: No Linux will ever work on an xt or a 286. They are missing neccessary bits of hardware called a MMU which protects the memory. A 386SX is the minimum. The 8088 used in the XT is lacking an MMU, but the 80286 used

Re: Non-existing packages in dselect

1997-03-07 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
You have checked the bug listings via www.debian.org or straight http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/iwj10/debian-bugs/db/6210.html? I noticed this when the tex packages from both stable and unstable were shown at the same time in dselect. This happened after my upgrade from stable to unstable. When

Re: dselect error (more)

1997-03-07 Thread Bob Clark
Andreas Tille wrote: On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Bob Clark wrote: It is leaving packages that were *not* installed. Things like pakages that were present before this instance of deselect. This is what I read on my screen, but to leave a package which wasn't installed should take 5-10 seconds??

Which OSF/Motif ?

1997-03-07 Thread Brown, Paul, BROWNPA2
Hi, I was wondering if anybody had any recommendations as to which versions of Motif are any good and what the prices are. Thanks, Paul Brown

Re: xt?

1997-03-07 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 7 Mar 1997, marsh wrote: I'm not saying that the 286 is not a superneato processor which was quite impressive (16?, 17? ) years ago, but there is a reason that The Great One (LT) chose the 386 for his initial experiments. So, is it true that there is nothing newer on the space shuttle and

icmp redirect messages

1997-03-07 Thread ljk
Hi, I have a peculiar situation with two machines. On one of them, icmp redirect messages go to the kernel syslog file, on the other the messages go to the console terminal. Yet they both have identical syslog.conf files. If anyone has any ideas, they would be appreciated. Thanks much Lennard

Re: Which OSF/Motif ?

1997-03-07 Thread Larry Ayers
On Fri, Mar 07, 1997 at 01:11:00PM +, Brown, Paul, BROWNPA2 wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anybody had any recommendations as to which versions of Motif are any good and what the prices are. Thanks, Paul Brown I highly recommend the SWIM Motif from http://www.cheapbytes.com.

Re: dselect error (more)

1997-03-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Bob Clark wrote: Two things. If I remember correctly (from your previuos posts) you have your packages on an nfs-mounted partition; and a troublesome one on an HP machine at that. There could be many things not related to deselect or Linux that may be affecting your

Re: dselect error (more)

1997-03-07 Thread Ronald van Loon
In a message to me, Andreas Tille, you wrote: | How well has nfs been implemented on the HP? |If there is any chance to do it in different ways I'm quite sure that the |administrator had choosen the bad way. This machine is in a terrible |state and it seems me that to become a Server for

?Audio Group?

1997-03-07 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi == I have a PC with the audio system SoundBlaster + Speakers + Sound Module As superuser I can hear the sound (xpat2, ...) but as normal users no :( Should I change the premissions in /dev/audio or ??? Thank you -- At\'e breve === Pedro Quaresma de Almeida

mount CDs ...

1997-03-07 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Jamie Taylor wrote: How can I access my floppy and cd-rom drives? Also, how can I access my ms-dos partition on my hard drive? I assume you have a base system installed? If you are working from the install disks, you will

SVGATextMode...

1997-03-07 Thread C . J . Lawson
Hi, (1) Please could someone confirm that the latest version of SVGATextMode is 1.4 (or am I missing something out) (2) I seem to have a problem configuring my SVGATextMode program. For a start I have a cirrus Logic GP-5446 Card and this in not listed amongs the list of supported cards (XFREE

Base14 seg fault (msgId for labeling)

1997-03-07 Thread Donny DaLee, ProSoft
Hello, I recently started trying to install Debian and have been running into problems with the base14 1-4 disks. The disks are read correctly, but when the files are extracting, I get: Segmentation fault Segmentation fault Segmentation fault I've downloaded the base14 files again and created

test

1997-03-07 Thread Matthew Tebbens
test

Re: Matrox Millenium

1997-03-07 Thread Clint Adams
Does anyone out there know right off hand which chipset to choose when configuring X for the first time with a Matrox Millenium card? mga2064, but the SVGA server will detect it automatically.

X personal configuration files: .fvwm2rc vs. .Xdefaults

1997-03-07 Thread Jean-Paul LACHARME
Hi, I use fvwm2, and it works without real problem. Lots of desktop features are designed within .fvwm2rc. In other systems, some X local features are designed within a .Xdefaults file. I did not find any global template for .Xdefaults in Debian. Nevertheless, I wonder if creating such a file

Re: xt?

1997-03-07 Thread jghasler
Marsh writes: Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think ATT System V ever ran on 286s. You may be correct, but Unix did not start with System V. Xenix, Minix, and Coherent are the main derivatives I can think of that ran on 286s. Xenix is real licensed Unix, as is SCO. There was

Re: X personal configuration files: .fvwm2rc vs. .Xdefaults

1997-03-07 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Jean-Paul LACHARME wrote: I use fvwm2, and it works without real problem. Lots of desktop features are designed within .fvwm2rc. In other systems, some X local features are designed within a .Xdefaults file. I did not find any global template for .Xdefaults in Debian.

Perl/io/dpkg-ftp and start-stop-daemon (again(again)).

1997-03-07 Thread Brian Skreeg
Hi folks, I asked for help on this problem last week but since having to change addresses suddenly I didn't get any replies (you might have seen them bouncing) so here it is again. My linux box is almost unusable because of this so I look forward to some help on the matter. 1:

PPP and PAP

1997-03-07 Thread Tim Sailer
OK Folks, Here is a working /etc/ppp/options file that I have tested against the linux terminal server at buoy.com, a USR total control rack, and a portmaster PM2er. All you need to d oto start ppp is type 'pppd' as root. I will pretty this up and get it on a web page, along with a scripting

Re: SVGATextMode...

1997-03-07 Thread Igor Grobman
Hi, I am the maintainer of SvgaTextMode... On Fri, 7 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, (1) Please could someone confirm that the latest version of SVGATextMode is 1.4 (or am I missing something out) Yes. (2) I seem to have a problem configuring my SVGATextMode program. For a start

Re: Perl/io/dpkg-ftp and start-stop-daemon (again(again)).

1997-03-07 Thread Randy Dees
I am getting this same problem - I got it after pointing dselect from 1.2.2 at unstable. My fix is to reinstall from base disks in unstable; but I certainly understand not wanting to do this. I was ready to reinstall my system anyhow - but would like to know the answer too. When

Re: X personal configuration files: .fvwm2rc vs. .Xdefaults

1997-03-07 Thread I Brake for Moths
I'm a little confused by your message, but have you investigated the .hook files that fvwm2 uses for configuration? Rikki On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Jean-Paul LACHARME wrote: Hi, I use fvwm2, and it works without real problem. Lots of desktop features are designed within .fvwm2rc. In other

Re: diald disconnect script

1997-03-07 Thread Brian Mays
Richard Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was wondering if anyone could send me a copy of their /etc/ppp/ppp-disconnect. I'm very happy with my first few days of diald, but it doesn't seem to be closing cleanly, as I don't have this script installed. Without a basic script to start from, my

Re: ?Audio Group?

1997-03-07 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Here's the listing of the files in /dev belonging to the audio group: rae:~: 18:06 find /dev/ -group audio -ls 329580 crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 3 Dec 18 23:55 /dev/dsp 329590 crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 0 Dec 18 23:55 /dev/mixer 329600 crw-rw 1 root

Re: NIS documentation wrong?

1997-03-07 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 09:56 AM 3/5/97 +0100, Swen Thuemmler wrote: It the nis documentation it says I can + and - users in the passwd file (I take it that it should be on the fly and it used to work with debian 0.93 in this case...) - however I can't seem to do this. The following two lines are in my

Re: xt?

1997-03-07 Thread Carl Johnson
marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in article [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Craig writes: No Linux will ever work on an xt or a 286. They are missing neccessary bits of hardware called a MMU which protects the memory. A 386SX is the minimum. The 8088 used in the XT

Re: X personal configuration files: .fvwm2rc vs. .Xdefaults

1997-03-07 Thread Dima
[ cc'ed to the list ] On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Jean-Paul LACHARME wrote: ... For example, it has been said that running a color Xterm (which is very conv enient) needs only to add the line 'Xterm*customization: -color'. OK. So, I c reated a .Xdefaults file into my home directory with this single

sound module

1997-03-07 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, Can anyone tell me what is the module that replaces sound.o in the 2.0.27 kernel ?? Thanks very much George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College

Re: Perl/io/dpkg-ftp and start-stop-daemon (again(again)).

1997-03-07 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
I think your perl installation is messed up. Here's a small demo what happens with script files that reference a missing interpreter. First I show the shell I'm using but it's pretty much the same thing with bash. Then I show the location of the perl binary, create a small test script and give

Re: example script want

1997-03-07 Thread Ted Harding
( Re Message From: Ronald van Loon ) In a message to me, Ted Harding, you wrote: |( Re Message From: Lawrence Chim ) | | Can someone provides me an example script that insert a line | of text into a text file. The line should be placed below the | line section[xyz] and above the line

Re: Perl/io/dpkg-ftp and start-stop-daemon (again(again)).

1997-03-07 Thread Brian Skreeg
When I do 'dpkg --status perl' and 'dpkg --status perl-base' it prints out the corresponding lines: Package: perl Status: install ok installed [cut] Package: perl-base Status: purge ok not-installed [cut] Yep that's what I get. It's perl I have installed and not perl-base . I can't uninstall

Re: Perl/io/dpkg-ftp and start-stop-daemon (again(again)).

1997-03-07 Thread Bernt T. Hansen
I'm using Infomagics release from December 1996 and I've got the same problem. I found that installing the base perl system seems to work but if you upgrade it (even to the devel packages in Std) it breaks. I've installed the base perl (required) version for now and put a hold on it. I found

pine producing gratuitous folder locks

1997-03-07 Thread David C. Winters
Today, I started getting running into a problem with Pine 3.94--it began telling me that every folder I tried accessing was locked. This persisted even after I rebooted the machine, so I upgraded to Pine 3.95q out of the 3.95L-7 .deb package. This resulted in the same thing--if I try to open a

Re: X personal configuration files: .fvwm2rc vs. .Xdefaults

1997-03-07 Thread Jason Killen
I run all my xterms from the fvwm menu or the buttons so my lines look like this xterm Exec exec xterm -fg lightgrey -bg black -sb You are correct in saying that .Xdefaults should handle this I'm not sure why it wouldn't, I use .Xdefaults to configure knews. Tell me what you find.

Re: xt?

1997-03-07 Thread Jason Killen
On 7 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marsh writes: Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think ATT System V ever ran on 286s. From what I understand some 6300's, not 7300's, ran SV on 286's. Coherent is nice if you can get a copy. Jason KillenQuestion

Re: Perl/io/dpkg-ftp and start-stop-daemon (again(again)).

1997-03-07 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Skreeg) writes: Due to the ridiuclous dependancies involving Perl,io,libnet and dpkg-ftp I now find dpkg-ftp broken. io was merged into perl and is now obsolete. Remove io and reinstall perl. bash: /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: No such file or directory.

cannot run dpkg anymore

1997-03-07 Thread Laurent Bonnaud
Hi, after upgrading (successfully) to libc5_5.4.20 and ld.so_1.8.9, the commands dpkg -l and dpkg -i abc.deb fail with the error message (i'm citing from memory as my machine is not connected to a network) : dpkg : cannot resolve symbol 'sysinfo'. The command dpkg --version works, though. I

Re: Which OSF/Motif ?

1997-03-07 Thread Michael Harnois
Larry Ayers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I highly recommend the SWIM Motif from http://www.cheapbytes.com. It's worked really well for nearly all Motif apps I've tried to compile, and the price is right. Nearly is a little frightening ... what *hasn't* it worked for? -- + Michael D. Harnois

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