> > instead just send the mail from that list to its own folder like:
> >
> > :0:
> > * ^TOdebian-user
> > $HOME/mail/debian
> >
>
> I'd like to comment on this. If the debian-* list administrator(s) would edit
> the debian-*.config files and change the "subject_prefix" option to reflect
> th
Dave --
Check out http://www-nt-ca.creaf.com/wwwnew/tech/spec/specs.html
-- Harmon
On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, m* wrote:
> quick one:
>
>
> is communicator a memory hog?
>
> my guess is yes.
>
> m*
>
> --
> "The Shining One"
> --
I just installed the beta3 on a 486-66mhz with 12mb. The only improvement
over beta2 that is obvious is stability. It takes a longgg time to
loa
quick one:
is communicator a memory hog?
my guess is yes.
m*
--
"The Shining One"
--
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On Mon, 7 Apr 1997 mfrattola wrote:
mfrattola> Hi all, does anybody have any experience with the LAN card
mfrattola> in the subject? do they work with linux? which driver
mfrattola> (eepro?)?
Yes, I have one working (ISA thought), I wouldn't say tho
I'd like to bridge our Token Ring and Ethernet LANs using a 133 Pentium
running Linux 2.0.27, with a 3Com319 TokenLink and SMC Ultra NIC cards,
and bridging SW developed by Chris Cole. Both NICs recognized and
reachable with "ifconfig" (tr0 at addr 0xa20 and eth0 at 0x280).
Problem is that the To
On Sun, 6 Apr 1997, Matt Lawrence wrote:
> Ok, I've run out of places to look. I'm getting occasional "hda:timeout"
> messages and my system is locking up with a disk error after anywhere from
> a few hours to a couple of days. When it locks up, I can still change
> virtual consoles, but I can
Kevin Poorman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] OR my web page at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/2782
>...this is a fish
Memory Fault Where Am I ?
On Mon, 07 Apr 1997 21:14:24 -0400 (EDT) Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
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>On 07-Apr-97 Kevin J Poorman wro
On Tue, 8 Apr 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello all...
>
> I recently acquired a Sound Blaster 16 card for my debian box. I
> have seen the card working in a windows machine w/ an ide disk.
>
> After plugging it in and powering up, the card obviously conf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello all...
>
> I recently acquired a Sound Blaster 16 card for my debian box. I
> have seen the card working in a windows machine w/ an ide disk.
>
> After plugging it in and powering up, the card obviously conflicts
> with the adapte
> The other day I was using dselect, and when I was installing some of the
> packages, I was getting read errors on the drive. What could I do about
> this? Is there something LIKE Disk Doctor for linux?
> joe
You want to use fsck, from the e2fs
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creaf.com is Creative Labs. I have a SB16 and will help you if you tell
me what you need to know.
On 08-Apr-97 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello all...
>
>I recently acquired a Sound Blaster 16 card for my debian box. I
> have seen the car
Hello all...
I recently acquired a Sound Blaster 16 card for my debian box. I
have seen the card working in a windows machine w/ an ide disk.
After plugging it in and powering up, the card obviously conflicts
with the adaptec 1542c controller. The machin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>> "Dima" == Dima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>> As you state, disk space is now pretty cheap. That's not an
>>> excuse to wantonly waste disk a la Microsoft, but symlinks
>>> aren't exactly huge.
>
>Dima> Which is even worse, in a s
The other day I was using dselect, and when I was installing some of the
packages, I was getting read errors on the drive. What could I do about
this? Is there something LIKE Disk Doctor for linux?
joe
|
joseph robert pal
Pete Harlan wrote:
>
> The problem is that "ssh" won't work unless you remove group-write
> permissions from your home directory (and the ~/.ssh directory).
>
> It's either a misconfiguration with Debian (i.e., files should not be
> group-writable by default) or with the ssh Debian package (i.e.,
> > > So the question is, is there an easy way to make a substitution on *only*
> > > the 'Subject:' line of the *header* of the mail, either using procmail or
> > > something else?
> >
> > Sure. man formail.
> >
> > I wonder, however, why on earth you would want to do this. Why not,
> > inste
On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Roy C Bixler wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > Hmmm, my Debian (rex) shows MDT, but my Red Hat shows (correctly for
> > Arizona) MST. R. H. seems to have a few more configuration choices,
> > including various parts of Indiana.
> >
> > The files don't seem
> Uhm, isn't smail finicky about the permissions on a .forward file? If it
> does not trust the file, it will not obey it.
This reminds me---Debian has adopted this nice system of every user
having his/her own group. (No sarcasm: It's a Good Thing.)
Everything is then group-writable by default,
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On Tue, 8 Apr 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [ ... ]
>
> I'd like to comment on this. If the debian-* list administrator(s) would edit
> the debian-*.config files and change the "subject_prefix" option to reflect
> the appropriate list, then all of the filterin
On Tue, 08 Apr 1997 09:54:48 +0200 Peter Bodnar ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> i have a problem vith diald daemon..it start correctly, set up
> slip line ant others, but..if i try connect to site out of my
> internal network, nothing happend...diald NOT START ppp daemon
Which v
On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Andrew Martin Adrian Cater wrote:
> Having just installed a full system from unstable via dpkg-ftp, I find
> I've messed up pppd, pon and poff with bad permissions trying to allow
> users ppp access.
> 1. How can I restore the correct files from base disks without overwriting
Having just installed a full system from unstable via dpkg-ftp, I find
I've messed up pppd, pon and poff with bad permissions trying to allow
users ppp access.
1. How can I restore the correct files from base disks without overwriting
all the stuff I've downloaded ?
2. What is the canonical way
I have also seen this problem very occasionally along with other strange
problems that I finally chased down to a design flaw in the cache timing of
the motherboard I was using. It was causing programs (some more often than
others) to get kernel paging request failures.
Gcc was really good at find
I have installed GNU emacs and I can' t map the delete and the backspace
keys in .emacs.
In xemacs I have done the same think fine.
How can resolve the problem?
Thank you.
Andrea Arcangeli
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.imola.queen.it/user/arcangeli/
Debian GNU
_ _ _ ____ _ _
/
On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> Hmmm, my Debian (rex) shows MDT, but my Red Hat shows (correctly for
> Arizona) MST. R. H. seems to have a few more configuration choices,
> including various parts of Indiana.
>
> The files don't seem readable, so I don't know what to make of it.
If you
On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
>
> > > The time change was the other night, but my machine still says PST
>
> > I noticed the same problem with my machine. It said EDT when the date
> > printed, but was still an hour behind. I fixed it with ne
Ed Down wrote:
What about OpenGL, or Mesa as it has been implemented under Linux? I
compiled my sample code from my OpenGL class without too many problems
on my Linux box and it worked! Surprised, was I.
Jim.
>
> Has anyone any experience programming with the PEXlib under Debian?
>
> I have m
On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Andreas Nolda wrote:
> Second, `/etc/scd0' is missing so that dselect did not mount my CD-ROM
> drive.
Sorry for the typo -- it has to be `/dev/scd0'!
Andreas Nolda
> I'm up-to-date with "unstable", and my clock magically changed over night.
> I don't have this problem! I'm in MDT now.
>
> RickM...
My clock changed from GMT to BST (British Summer Time), but when
I use mail to send messages the Date field on the message still
shows the time in GMT. The s
On Apr 8, Andreas Nolda wrote
> Trying to install Debian 1.2 (rex) on my laptop from a PCMCIA (SCSI)
> CD-ROM drive (besides the seven installation floppy disks), I ran into the
> following problems:
>
> First, I got an error message indicating that the PCMCIA drivers could
> not be found on the
On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > The time change was the other night, but my machine still says PST
> I noticed the same problem with my machine. It said EDT when the date
> printed, but was still an hour behind. I fixed it with netdate ;-)
> I guess we should report it as a bug?
I'm
Trying to install Debian 1.2 (rex) on my laptop from a PCMCIA (SCSI)
CD-ROM drive (besides the seven installation floppy disks), I ran into the
following problems:
First, I got an error message indicating that the PCMCIA drivers could
not be found on the device driver floppy disk.
Second, `/et
Has anyone any experience programming with the PEXlib under Debian?
I have managed to get PEX running in the Xserver (Note to the maintainer -
maybe the install should modify XF86Config?) but there are no demos/code
supplied with the xext package.
I have scanned the PEXlib reference manual and t
On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Steffen R. Mueller wrote:
> Thus spake Adam Shand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> > Hi.
>
> Hi Adam,
>
> >
> > Sorry for the follow-up post so soon after. I managed to find a copy of
> > the old libg++ 2.7.1 that I needed on the September 1996 Infomagic CD.
> >
> > For anyone in
On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Steve wrote:
>
> The time change was the other night, but my machine still says PST
> which is an hour behind the correct PDT. My CMOS clock is set to GMT.
> Any suggestions? Do I need to update the timezone package?
>
> Please CC any responses to my address as I'm no longer
Matthew Tebbens wrote:
>
> Are there any debian packages similiar to IP-Watcher or TTY-Watcher ?
>
> Matthew
There is trafshow and statnet and a bunch of other
utilities which enable network monitoring.
Peter
Are there any debian packages similiar to IP-Watcher or TTY-Watcher ?
Matthew
Jason Costomiris writes:
>
> On Sun, 6 Apr 1997, Christian Hudon wrote:
>
> > So the question is, is there an easy way to make a substitution on *only*
> > the 'Subject:' line of the *header* of the mail, either using procmail or
> > something else?
>
> Sure. man formail.
>
> I wonder, however
Thanks to all who responded about this problem.
I have taken the consensus view and installed xinetd instead of inetd. Only
time will tell...
Regards,
Dave Ross, Senior Technical Specialist
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From: Matthew Tebbens [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 19
Hi all,
could anyone enlighten me as to what the following entries from the
mgetty log file means?
Modem is usd as a dial in device and appears to work correctly.
04/08 22:10:02 yR0 TIOCMBIS failed: I/O error
04/08 22:10:02 yR0 cannot turn off soft carrier: I/O error
04/08 22:10:02
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> The maintainers of these two packages reached an agreement on
> how to make possible to install both without any conflicts.
> They uploaded corrected versions to master.debian.org/Incoming
> but for some reason they were not transferred to Bo. I downloaded
> these two p
Hows about xinetd ? Works great for me.
On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Dave Ross wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been having a recurrent problem with inetd freezing. I am at my wits
> ends with this problem. Here is the setup:-
>
> Basic 1.1 installation, but with networking components upgraded to:-
>
> netbase
The maintainers of these two packages reached an agreement on
how to make possible to install both without any conflicts.
They uploaded corrected versions to master.debian.org/Incoming
but for some reason they were not transferred to Bo. I downloaded
these two packages from Incoming and installed
Steve Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can someone explain why the xemacs and emacs packages can't coexist on the
> same Debian system? (What would it take to make them coexist?)
I have both on my computer at home. All that I know is that there are some
conflict in some few auxiliary binari
Terrence M. Brannon writes:
>
> I placed the following in /etc/mirror/packages/bufo.usc.edu and called
> it with mirror. It did a wonderful job of pulling things from the
> remote site to the local site but wouldnt take the SwarmGenesis
> directory and mirror it to the remote machine. How can I do
>> For anyone interested if you want the FP97 extensions to work with Debian
>> linux all you need to do is is *downgrade* libg++ to version 2.7.1 and it
>> all becomes easy. If anyone needs help I'll be happy to provide what help
>> I can.
>
>Was it really necessary to downgrade the complete syst
I placed the following in /etc/mirror/packages/bufo.usc.edu and called
it with mirror. It did a wonderful job of pulling things from the
remote site to the local site but wouldnt take the SwarmGenesis
directory and mirror it to the remote machine. How can I do this
package=swarm-genesis
site=buf
Hi,
I've been having a recurrent problem with inetd freezing. I am at my wits ends
with this problem. Here is the setup:-
Basic 1.1 installation, but with networking components upgraded to:-
netbase-2.09-1
netstd-2.06-1
(i.e. parts from Debian 1.2).
The upgrade has made no difference to the p
Thus spake Adam Shand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hi.
Hi Adam,
>
> Sorry for the follow-up post so soon after. I managed to find a copy of
> the old libg++ 2.7.1 that I needed on the September 1996 Infomagic CD.
>
> For anyone interested if you want the FP97 extensions to work with Debian
> linux
Hi.
Sorry for the follow-up post so soon after. I managed to find a copy of
the old libg++ 2.7.1 that I needed on the September 1996 Infomagic CD.
For anyone interested if you want the FP97 extensions to work with Debian
linux all you need to do is is *downgrade* libg++ to version 2.7.1 and it
a
Hi folks,
I've read over most of the docs that come with the dosemu package, but I'm
still quite perplexed.
I was wondering if someone who uses the dos with win95 and dosemu could
give me some pointers. I am hoping to try out some accounting software if
I can get this to work.
TIA. I'll gladly as
hi
i have a problem vith diald daemon..it start correctly, set up
slip line ant others, but..if i try connect to site out of my
internal network, nothing happend...diald NOT START ppp daemon
and second problem: i try solve this problem to running
pon/poff
The time change was the other night, but my machine still says PST
which is an hour behind the correct PDT. My CMOS clock is set to GMT.
Any suggestions? Do I need to update the timezone package?
Please CC any responses to my address as I'm no longer subscribed to
the list. I checked the list arc
Hi All.
I'm trying to get MS Frontpage extensions working on my Debian box. After
repeated unsucess it turns out that the problem is that Frontpage was
compiled against an old libg++.
Has anyone here gotten it to work? And if you have do you still have to
old library files in deb format lying a
On Mon, 07 Apr 1997 21:35:43 PDT "Kingsley G. Morse Jr."
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> "John M. Rulnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >when I try to view a PostScript file under Netscape.
>
> I think this may be caused by a bug in the 2.0 version of the bash shell. I
> seem to remember gettin
"John M. Rulnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>sh: -c:line 1:missing closing ')' for arithmetic expression
>sh: -c:line 1:syntax error near unexpected token ';'
>sh: -c:line 1:'((gv /tmp/MO233499B410060202.ps); rm /tmp/MO233499B410060202.ps
>) &'
>when I try to view a PostScript file under Netsca
When installing the base system with the graphical installer from floppy I
get the error message:
usage: floppy_merge device
There is a problem extracting the floppy from
.
When I run floppy merge from a shell with: floppy_merge dev/fd0
It seems to work fine, that is sends loads of garbage to
On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, smorrill wrote:
> I have a base debian system installed on my 586 133 mhz. I got the
> "Cheap Bytes" cd and am trying to install packages, specifically the
> Xwindows packages. These are located in a directory called "rex-fixe"
> on the cd. I must be missing something here,
Uhm, isn't smail finicky about the permissions on a .forward file? If it
does not trust the file, it will not obey it.
I am giving .sigs a break this month
George Bonser
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm using sendmail *duck*. And it seems to work sorta I think
my problem is one with procmail and slocal. Although I havent played much
with getting it to forward to another address, that was a problem from
a user that I couldn't figure out.
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>Jason Kill
I would like to be able to use the standard Debian start-up scripts for my
custom router bootdisk. (And it appears so would alot of other people)
Unfortunately start-stop-daemon requires perl.
All together perl and libs are about 500K (about 200K compressed)..a
HUGH waste on a floppy.
Is t
> "TT" == The Tick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
TT> SWiM Motif came on a single CD-ROM, in a plain white envelope
TT> all in a cardboard mailer. And thats it. No manuals (manuals
TT> cost extra, but I saw PostScript Motif
TT> reference manuals on the CD).
You can turn those
On 07-Apr-97 Kevin J Poorman wrote:
>Hi
>
>first the motif questions
>1: where can I get the motif librarys ?
>2: How much do they cost ?
>
>secondly the X questions
>
>when I type xdm absolutly nothing happens I just get a command prompt
>back and no processes are spawned... any thoughts ?
>
>wh
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On 07-Apr-97 Kevin J Poorman wrote:
>when I type xdm absolutly nothing happens I just get a command prompt
>back and no processes are spawned... any thoughts ?
>
Try checking the /var/log/xdm-errors file.
>also I have afterstep and like it's look and feel my
On Apr 7, John M. Rulnick wrote
>Help needed. After upgrading today to bo's base and devel (and a few
>others), I'm receiving the following message:
>
>sh: -c:line 1:missing closing ')' for arithmetic expression
>sh: -c:line 1:syntax error near unexpected token ';'
>sh: -c:line 1:'((gv /tmp/MO2334
On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, smorrill wrote:
> I have a base debian system installed on my 586 133 mhz. I got the
> "Cheap Bytes" cd and am trying to install packages, specifically the
> Xwindows packages. These are located in a directory called "rex-fixe"
> on the cd. I must be missing something here,
"PJG" == Philipp JW Grau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PJG> On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Gary Lee wrote:
>> Where can I find the 4.0b3 Netscape?
PJG> home.netscape.com
PJG> and its mirrors...
Aha! Finally found the linux version. It's on ftp2.netscape.com in the
directory /pub/communicator/4.0/4.0
Help needed. After upgrading today to bo's base and devel (and a few
others), I'm receiving the following message:
sh: -c:line 1:missing closing ')' for arithmetic expression
sh: -c:line 1:syntax error near unexpected token ';'
sh: -c:line 1:'((gv /tmp/MO233499B410060202.ps); rm /tmp/MO233499B410
"R" == Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
R> I have looked in the doc's and
R> find no way to display plain old jpg's as the screensaver instead
R> of the animations.
R> I would like to see an option to display the contents of an image
R> directory, randomly maybe?
It should be fairly e
On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Kevin J Poorman wrote:
> Hi
> first the motif questions
> 1: where can I get the motif librarys ?
Cheap*Bytes (http://www.cheapbytes.com) sells a complete Motif
2.0.1 development system (SWiM Motif 2.0 by LaserMoon) for $69.00. This
is a VERY good price considering Mo
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