Re: new kernel

1997-06-03 Thread Fredrik Ax
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Syd Alsobrook wrote: > Hello, > I have a machine that i just upgraded to v1.3 (that went perfectly). My > question is this I want to upgrade the kernel (now v2.0.27) the easiest way > possible can I copy the kernel from the install floppies for v1.3 (has > kernel 2.0.30) or is

Re: Help me to build a fileserver!!!

1997-06-03 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Eliezer Figueroa Puello wrote: > > I want to build a small network using Linux as the fileserver and > windows 95 computers as the clients. What I have in mind is something > similar to what novell network do, but using Linux in the place of the > novell server. I want to be able to map a linux

Re: lpr: unable to get official name for local machine

1997-06-03 Thread Brian K Servis
Jens B. Jorgensen writes: > >Brian K Servis wrote: >> >> Help! >> >> Ever since I upgrade to frozen(May 25) I am having all kinds of problems >> with name resolution. Lpr is one of them, when lpd starts I get the >> following repeated 5 times in messages: >> >> Jun 3 13:35:39 widget-servis lpd

XDM not allowing logins

1997-06-03 Thread Jason
I just install Debian 1.3 on a fresh system and set XDM to load on startup like I have done before. But XDM isn't allowing me to logon using root or my normal account. It just tells me that the password is incorrect. Does this have something to do with XDM not knowing about shadow passwords? An

Can't get free page while making filesystem ...

1997-06-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
I'm sure I saw a post about this in the past few weeks. I've got a P-90 with 24 MB of RAM that I'm trying to make useful ... so I rounded up a bunch of SCSI drives to toss in it. However, when I try to make filesystems on the 2 gig drives, it says it can't get a free page, and freezes. When form

Re: Help me to build a fileserver!!!

1997-06-03 Thread J . R . Blaakmeer
On Tue, 03 Jun 1997 13:36:03 PDT , Eliezer Figueroa Puello wrote: > I heard that Linux can to use the IPX protocol. I think that maybe I > can to configure Linux to emulate a novell network server and then > configure the windows 95 computers as novell network clients. I'm > writing this let

Re: Help me to build a fileserver!!!

1997-06-03 Thread J.P.D. Kooij
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Eliezer Figueroa Puello wrote: > > I want to build a small network using Linux as the fileserver and > windows 95 computers as the clients. What I have in mind is something > similar to what novell network do, but using Linux in the place of the > novell server. I want

Re: 2 ethernet cards and loadlin

1997-06-03 Thread J . R . Blaakmeer
On 03 Jun 97 16:40:49 -0500 , Chris Brown wrote: > > I am trying to get my machine to use 2 3c509 ethernet cards > booting from loadlin. Looking at the loadlin docs I think the > command line should be: > > "loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ether=10,300,eth0 ether=11,310,eth1 ro" > > eth0

Re: SU Problems

1997-06-03 Thread W Paul Mills
I just tried a couple of thing that seem to work. 1. Put the "export XAUTHORITY=~paul/.Xauthority in your .bashrc file. When you su to another user the XAUTHORITY environment variable still exists! Works fine. 2. Did you ever notice what happens when you su to another user with the USER

Re: Help me to build a fileserver!!!

1997-06-03 Thread Thomas Baetzler
Hello, Eliezer Figueroa Puello wrote: > I want to build a small network using Linux as the fileserver and > windows 95 computers as the clients. [...] This is covered in the SMB-HOWTO. Check /usr/doc/HOWTO for it. Ciao, -- Thomas Baetzler, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home

Re: Help me to build a fileserver!!!

1997-06-03 Thread Leslie Mikesell
> > I want to build a small network using Linux as the fileserver and > windows 95 computers as the clients. What I have in mind is something > similar to what novell network do, but using Linux in the place of the > novell server. I want to be able to map a linux partition in the server > t

Re: FIXED POST: Two problems after upgrade to Debian 1.3

1997-06-03 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 3 Jun, Curtis L. Daugaard wrote: > > 1) Irqtune was working for me under v.1.2, but though my configured > hardware is the same I now get an error message. Here is the message at > boot time: > > " irqtune: setting system IRQ priority to 3/14 > irqtune: insmod failed on '/usr/lib/hwtools/i

Re: 2 ethernet cards and loadlin

1997-06-03 Thread Leslie Mikesell
> > I am trying to get my machine to use 2 3c509 ethernet cards > booting from loadlin. Looking at the loadlin docs I think the > command line should be: > > "loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ether=10,300,eth0 ether=11,310,eth1 ro" > > eth0 is fine but I don't get eth1 at all. There isn't

Help me to build a fileserver!!!

1997-06-03 Thread Eliezer Figueroa Puello
I want to build a small network using Linux as the fileserver and windows 95 computers as the clients. What I have in mind is something similar to what novell network do, but using Linux in the place of the novell server. I want to be able to map a linux partition in the server to work as a

Re: lpr: unable to get official name for local machine

1997-06-03 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Brian K Servis wrote: > > Help! > > Ever since I upgrade to frozen(May 25) I am having all kinds of problems > with name resolution. Lpr is one of them, when lpd starts I get the > following repeated 5 times in messages: > > Jun 3 13:35:39 widget-servis lpd[374]: unable to get official name fo

2 ethernet cards and loadlin

1997-06-03 Thread Chris Brown
I am trying to get my machine to use 2 3c509 ethernet cards booting from loadlin. Looking at the loadlin docs I think the command line should be: "loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ether=10,300,eth0 ether=11,310,eth1 ro" eth0 is fine but I don't get eth1 at all. There isn't even a referenc

Re: ISP conn.

1997-06-03 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997 14:09:40 -0500 (CDT), Timothy Phan wrote: >Hi, > > I've tried EXACT procedure described in the ISP-Hookup-HOWTO > and I failed to connect to my ISP from the Debian/Linux box. >Jun 3 02:02:16 Tcphan chat[921]: expect (name:) chat is looking for name: >Jun 3 02:02:21 Tcpha

converting .hqx files

1997-06-03 Thread Walt Tautz
What are *.hqx files (mac?), how to I convert them to something i can look at them. Apparently i need something that emulates BinHex 4.0 -W.T. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ISP conn.

1997-06-03 Thread Al Youngwerth
> Hi, > > I've tried EXACT procedure described in the ISP-Hookup-HOWTO > and I failed to connect to my ISP from the Debian/Linux box. > > I'll try to look for more doc on this later when I get home. > I would appreciate If someone here can point out something > really quick from the fol

new kernel

1997-06-03 Thread Syd Alsobrook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello, I have a machine that i just upgraded to v1.3 (that went perfectly). My question is this I want to upgrade the kernel (now v2.0.27) the easiest way possible can I copy the kernel from the install floppies for v1.3 (has kernel 2.0.30) or is it easier just t

ISP conn.

1997-06-03 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, I've tried EXACT procedure described in the ISP-Hookup-HOWTO and I failed to connect to my ISP from the Debian/Linux box. I'll try to look for more doc on this later when I get home. I would appreciate If someone here can point out something really quick from the followong log messa

lpr: unable to get official name for local machine

1997-06-03 Thread Brian K Servis
Help! Ever since I upgrade to frozen(May 25) I am having all kinds of problems with name resolution. Lpr is one of them, when lpd starts I get the following repeated 5 times in messages: Jun 3 13:35:39 widget-servis lpd[374]: unable to get official name for local machine widget-servis I conne

Re: problem with install

1997-06-03 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Andy Pastuszak wrote: > Hello All, > > I am trying to install Debian 1.2.17 on a Compaq Deskpro XL 5/90, which > has that AMD SCSI chip in it. Installation went great except for the > fact that every time I access the SCSI HD, I get the message: > > target: 0 rate=10.0 Mhz,

Re: man hangs with less and more

1997-06-03 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
You probably have 'set -a' in /etc/profile or some of your bash startup files. For some reason 'set -a' causes this problem. It's also reported as bug #8390. The only cure I have is to remove 'set -a' from the startup files and logout/login again. Mark Boyns wrote: > > When I run: > >$ man

man hangs with less and more

1997-06-03 Thread Mark Boyns
When I run: $ man ls it just sits there. ^C reveals: man: command exited with status 2: /bin/gzip -dc '/var/catman/cat1/ls.1.gz' | { export MAN_PN LESS; MAN_PN='ls(1)'; LESS="$LESS\$-Pm\:\$ix8mPm Manual page $MAN_PN ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB %pB\\%.."; less; } Running

Re: DSELECT question

1997-06-03 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Andy Mortimer wrote: > On Jun 3, Fredrik Ax wrote > > On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > > > > > Dselect in that respect works fine for me. I am however upset with dselect > > > when using cdrom/mounted access methods. In those cases dselect does want > > > to se

Re: Netscape 3.01 128bit version ?

1997-06-03 Thread Matthew Tebbens
Thats the problem, Netscape will only make it available through a web page using a cgi that checks where you are (to make sure your in the US). The program is offered up as 'promise.cgi', not the real file name. I'm going to check it out today, see if it works. Matthew On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Brian

Re: netscape hung

1997-06-03 Thread Philippe Troin
On Tue, 03 Jun 1997 09:40:38 CDT Timothy Phan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Everytime I bring up netscape, it comes up fine. Once I press > a icon button, the netscape will no longer respond. Ever worse > if I press any of the pulldown menu, it will hang up the whole > system because t

Re: Netscape 3.01 128bit version ?

1997-06-03 Thread Brian White
> Does the installer for Netscape/gold 3.01 work with the 128bit version ? > I'll have to rename promise.cgi to what the installer wants. I've never tried it. If the filenames within the archive are the same, then it should. Brian

Re: Netscape problem

1997-06-03 Thread Brian White
> All of which brings me to my question: Once X and Netscape were up, I > could run netscape, only I got the error message listed here. > > Would someone please tell me WHY I get this, and more to the point, > what I can do to make Netscape work? What does it mean, cannot allocate > colormap entry

Re: Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry

1997-06-03 Thread Brian White
> > > Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "#C0C0C0" > > > Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background > > Probably running on an 8-bit display. Netscape trys to > get lots of colors and quickly runs out with only 8-bit display. > > Try > > netscape -install >

text mode 3270 emulator?

1997-06-03 Thread Marcelo
Does anyone know of a _text mode_ 3270 terminal emulator for debian (package, pre-compiled or source that compiles under debian)? Thanks, Marcelo. Marcelo Zacarias - USP/CIAGRI | Cx. Postal 9, CEP 13418-900, Piracicaba/SP System & Network Admin. | Fn: 019-4294373 / Finger for PGP public

Re: IDL compiler/CORBA

1997-06-03 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: > Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 21:59:31 -0500 (CDT) > From: Timothy Phan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian User > Subject: IDL compiler/CORBA > Resent-Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 03:59:38 + > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org > Resent-cc: recipient list n

netscape hung

1997-06-03 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, I'd like to know if anyone here has a quick fixed for netscape hung problem that I'm experiencing. Everytime I bring up netscape, it comes up fine. Once I press a icon button, the netscape will no longer respond. Ever worse if I press any of the pulldown menu, it will hang up the

problem with install

1997-06-03 Thread Andy Pastuszak
Hello All, I am trying to install Debian 1.2.17 on a Compaq Deskpro XL 5/90, which has that AMD SCSI chip in it. Installation went great except for the fact that every time I access the SCSI HD, I get the message: target: 0 rate=10.0 Mhz, synchronous, sync offset=15 bytes I got this message all

Re: PPP,Samba and Linux

1997-06-03 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Marc D. Jones wrote: > > I've tried that this morning to no avail. Here is what I have... > > /etc/ppp/options > > DNS pointing to ISP (I can web serf while dialed in so I believe this > works) > WINS pointing to the Linux IP (also the dial up adaptor on the laptop > is set to WINS to Linux IP

Re: IDL compiler/CORBA

1997-06-03 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
Not that I know of. There is a commercial product for Linux from Chorous Systems called COOL. I've just downloaded it for evaluation but haven't had time to actual use it yet. -- Jean Pierre On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: > I' d like to know if there is GNU version of the IDL compi

Re: DSELECT question

1997-06-03 Thread Andy Mortimer
On Jun 3, Fredrik Ax wrote > On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > > > Dselect in that respect works fine for me. I am however upset with dselect > > when using cdrom/mounted access methods. In those cases dselect does want > > to see all of the packages mentioned in Packages file prese

Re: crypt

1997-06-03 Thread David Wright
On Fri, 30 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > On Tue, 27 May 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > The crypt (1) algorithm is based on the German WWII era "Enigma" cipher > > - except that it's not as good. It emulates an Enigma machine with one > > rotor. I'll point out that the chaps at Bletchley Park cr

Re: PPP,Samba and Linux

1997-06-03 Thread Marc D. Jones
I've tried that this morning to no avail.  Here is what I have.../etc/ppp/optionsDNS pointing to ISP (I can web serf while dialed in so I believe this works)WINS pointing to the Linux IP (also the dial up adaptor on the laptop is set to WINS to Linux IP*In options.ttyS2remote IP = free IP addre

Re: Xemacs?

1997-06-03 Thread Dale Martin
Alexander Stavitsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems to be withdrawn from bo distribution. Is there an explanation > somewhere? As someone else mentioned, it's back in bo. Also, version 19.15 is in hamm, and it can coexist with "regular" emacs. I've been using it for a week or two, and asi

ifmail/ndbm compile problem

1997-06-03 Thread Randy Edwards
I've been trying to compile the FidoNet package ifmail. Ifmail uses ndbm for its database routines and I have gdbm installed in my 1.3 setup which I believe satisfies the ndbm requirements (but me knowing little C and even less about *dbm makes me real shaky:-). When I try to compile ifmail

FIXED POST: Two problems after upgrade to Debian 1.3

1997-06-03 Thread Curtis L. Daugaard
My apologies to the debian-user list for my faulty original post. I had just installed Netscape 4.0 and forgot to disable HTML in its mail package (which is enabled by default). Let me try again. Can someone enlighten me on the following, which I can't seem to solve with the available documentat

Re: diald problem

1997-06-03 Thread stephen
> Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To:debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: diald problem > Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 22:01:00 +0200 > From: Giuseppe Vacanti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Howdy, > > On my system at fairly regular intervals (every couple of days) di

Re: Two problems after upgrade to Debian 1.3

1997-06-03 Thread Adrian Bridgett
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Can someone enlighten me on two problems?  I can't  seem to solve > them with the available documentation > 1) Irqtune was working for me under v.1.2, but though my configured > hardware is the same I now get an error message.  Here is the message >

file-rc in debian 1.3

1997-06-03 Thread Douglas L Stewart
Anyone have an idea what went wrong here? I'll probably just copy the file from my laptop (which is already 1.3 and has the file), but I'm just curious if this is a bug or not. What now [?,d,r,q,fd,fc,p] (defer): (Reading database ... 34666 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing t

Re: SU Problems

1997-06-03 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I just do: 8<->8 ~ # pwd /root ~ # ln -s /home/karlheg/.Xauthority . 8<->8 I've also got "~karlheg/.emacs" and several other files like it symlinked in the same way for

Re: DSELECT question

1997-06-03 Thread Fredrik Ax
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > Dselect in that respect works fine for me. I am however upset with dselect > when using cdrom/mounted access methods. In those cases dselect does want > to see all of the packages mentioned in Packages file present. Even those > that you've chosen n

Re: DDD problems

1997-06-03 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Jun 2, Matthew Tebbens wrote > Maybe someone can help me with a few problems I'm having with DDD. > At certian times (or mouse clicks) in the program, I get the following: > --- > Error: PANIC: no geometry_manager procedure spe

Re: Xemacs?

1997-06-03 Thread Kevin Dalley
xemacs is back in bo. Alexander Stavitsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems to be withdrawn from bo distribution. Is there an explanation > somewhere? -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Troubl

Re: making 16bpp the default in X

1997-06-03 Thread Luke Bussanmas
> What do I need to do to make 16 bpp the default in X? In your /etc/X11/XF86Config file place the following line under the Section "Screen" : DefaultColorDepth 16 That should solve the problem without having to delete the other subsections on "Display". -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

help recovering damaged linux file system

1997-06-03 Thread Gerry Jensen
I recently tried to install Win95 over a DOS partition hoping it would leave my Linux partition alone. It didn't. Linux starts booting, then starts spitting out errors. If I boot from a floppy, then try to mount, I also get the errors. Running e2fsck on the partition gives me _many_ messages su

Re: Apache server-side includes questions

1997-06-03 Thread Pawel Wiecek
On Jun 2, 6:38pm, Tom Lees wrote: > Ooops, that should be . Does that work? > Or file="blah" (not sure if virtual is a 1.2 extension). Otherwise, try It's not. But echo might be... Paul -- (___) | Pawel Wiecek - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | < o o > | http://www.ists.pwr.wroc

Re: All those Perl CPAN Modules...

1997-06-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Count me in. I used to maintain the CGI modules, so I have some experience there ;-). My only concern is the amount of time I have, but I'll be glad to help where I can. manoj -- "If we fail to draw the line in Vietnam we may find ourselves compelled to draw a defense lin

Re: Two problems after upgrade to Debian 1.3

1997-06-03 Thread Paul Wade
I don't have to check the headers to see that you're using Netscape 4 because I'm using Pine and HTML email doesn't look good here. There is something in the 'preferences' to disable it. I seem to remember that it defaults to HTML allowed when first installed. If they are serious about the new 'com

Apache & DBMUserFiles ...

1997-06-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
I know this isn't a Debian specific question ... a helpful slap in the right direction would be appreciated. The powers that be have decided we need to use DBM Authentication files on our webserver ... fine with me, since they're said to be faster. However, I have no idea how to make this work, or

Re: Has anyone try to install binutils in 1.3?

1997-06-03 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, David Puryear wrote: > Hi all, > > When installing binutils_2.8.1-1_i386.deb I got dependency error, so I did it > again with libbfd2.8_2.8-1.deb which I already had installed. Here is what > happened: > > LeBox:-> dpkg -i libbfd2.8_2.8-1.deb > (Reading database ... 17956 fil

Re: ISP connect doc.

1997-06-03 Thread Randy Edwards
> Would someone please suggest which doc to read for ISP connection > for Debian/Linux? Thanks! Read the ISP-HowTo (or is it ISP-Install-HowTo?!; something like that). You'll find it in the usual documentation site (check off from http://www.debian.org). Once you get it from the documenta

IDL compiler/CORBA

1997-06-03 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, I' d like to know if there is GNU version of the IDL compiler and CORBA? THanks! -- Timothy C. Phan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) NEC America, Inc. ASL 1525 Walnut Hill Ln. Irving, TX 7

Debian 1.3 release status

1997-06-03 Thread Bruce Perens
We are in the process of releasing Debian 1.3 . Currently a new set of boot floppies has to be moved into the archive (although the old set will work for most people) and the symbolic links have to be changed. Then we have to give the mirrors a day to catch up. You can beat the rush by downloading

Re: SU Problems

1997-06-03 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 2, Ed Donovan wrote > > You could just add > > xhost +localhost > > to your .xinitrc file, if you don't have any xhost commands there > already. Jens has suggested "export XAUTHORITY=~paul/.Xauthority"; I > don't immediately know which method would be preferable. The xhost > method wo

Re: SU Problems

1997-06-03 Thread Ed Donovan
> "Paul" == Paul McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> Hi folks, I just installed X version 3.2 on my system this Paul> past few weeks. I am having problems do things as su. ie for Paul> the first error message is one that I receive whenever I try Paul> to run an X progr

Re: sendmail question - virtusertable

1997-06-03 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, pete wrote: > I have the following setup in sendmail.mc, yet, sendmail is ignoring > /etc/virtusertable file. I am using tabs, not spaces in > /etc/virtusertable, and have made sure to restart sendmail to register > changes. (used the sendm

Netscape 3.01 128bit version ?

1997-06-03 Thread Matthew Tebbens
Does the installer for Netscape/gold 3.01 work with the 128bit version ? I'll have to rename promise.cgi to what the installer wants. Matthew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Has anyone try to install binutils in 1.3?

1997-06-03 Thread David Puryear
Hi all, When installing binutils_2.8.1-1_i386.deb I got dependency error, so I did it again with libbfd2.8_2.8-1.deb which I already had installed. Here is what happened: LeBox:-> dpkg -i libbfd2.8_2.8-1.deb (Reading database ... 17956 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to repl