e2fsck scan on active partition

1997-07-13 Thread Udjat -A MiB
Is there a way to safely do a e2fsck scan on your active and boot partitions? I dont want to fix any problems, I just want to see if there are any problems without booting a different partition/resq disk. there is the -n option but I dont know if that is _safe_ Thanks! --Udjat. -- TO

RE: PPP connection problem

1997-07-13 Thread wb2oyc
On 02:07:28 Lazar Fleysher wrote: send (ATDT) Serial Connection established Using interface ppp0 Connect:ppp0--/dev/ttyS2 LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests Connection terminated Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0 Does anyone know what the problem is?

adding ipfwadm rules

1997-07-13 Thread Randy Edwards
I've been playing around with masquerading (which has been going surprisingly smoothly -- great!:-). Well, I've got enough confidence in this that I want to have it come up whenever the machine is up. Being the Linux newbie that I am, I was wondering there the most appropriate place to add

Re: Problems with xauth PAM

1997-07-13 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Juan Jose Quintela writes: Juan And when I try to launch a window in a remote machine I Juan obtain the following message: Juan ~$ xterm [1] 5939 ~$ Xlib: connection to krilin:0.0 Juan refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect Juan to Server Error: Can't

Re: Off-topic: Making ALT be the META key

1997-07-13 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
David == David R Kohel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Did anyone come up with a solution to this one? Is this David controlled by emacs of X keymapping (or both)? I've found `xkeycaps' to be invaluable for setting X Windows keysyms. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: Non-interactive HTTP retrival *with* POST verb ?

1997-07-13 Thread Mark Boyns
12 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I posted a few days back asking about a non-intercative way to fetch stuff using HTTP. Some kind soul pointed me to wget. Neat stuff, but it only took a couple of dys to reach it's limits :-( I am trying to fetch a daily weather

Re: adding ipfwadm rules

1997-07-13 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Randy Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: :I've been playing around with masquerading (which has been going : surprisingly smoothly -- great!:-). Well, I've got enough confidence in : this that I want to have it come up whenever the machine is up. : :Being the Linux newbie that I am, I

Re: adding ipfwadm rules

1997-07-13 Thread A. M. Varon
On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, Randy Edwards wrote: Being the Linux newbie that I am, I was wondering there the most appropriate place to add the ipfwadm lines would be. I'm thinking they'd be a natural for adding to /etc/init.d/network, but I was wondering if this is a good place for such

Re: Netconfig isnt available

1997-07-13 Thread A. M. Varon
On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, K.Y.Lo wrote: Hi I cant find 'netconfig' on Debian Linux 1.3. I am going to set up my ethernet TCP/IP but I need 'netconfig' to install so much easier. do you know where is 'netconfig'? netconfig is a script file used in slackware. It's not compatible with debian,

Enlightment packaging

1997-07-13 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, I though I saw that someone was packaging the Enlightment window manager (http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~s2154962/enlightenment, US mirror at http://www.kickit.org/enlightenment/), but I can't find it in hamm's Packages list. Does anyone know anything about this? Thanks, --Amos --Amos

probem going bash 1.14.7-2 to 2.0-3

1997-07-13 Thread Douglas Stewart
Preparing to replace bash 1.14.7-2 (using .../base/bash_2.0-3.deb) ... Unpacking replacement bash ... Setting up bash (2.0-3) ... sh: can't resolve symbol 'rl_filename_quoting_function' dpkg: error processing bash (--install): subprocess post-installation script killed by signal

syslogd / hostname - mismatch?

1997-07-13 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hey When syslogd starts up (/etc/init.d/sysklogd), it uses in de logfiles 'cal052204'. But I want it to use 'oloon'. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ hostname oloon [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ hostname --fqdn cal052204.student.utwente.nl [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost

Re: probem going bash 1.14.7-2 to 2.0-3

1997-07-13 Thread Lindsay Allen
I had the same experience, but on a headless machine. Once I shut it down I could not log in again. The installation was just a test bed so I reinstalled from scratch. Lindsay =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perth,

Re: probem going bash 1.14.7-2 to 2.0-3

1997-07-13 Thread Lindsay Allen
I must correct my earlier message on this subject. I certainly did get that error message, but I was not upgrading bash. I was working through .../disks-i386/1997-05-30/Upgrading except that I did it slightly out of order, like this. dpkg -i dpkgversion.deb dpkg --clear-avail

Dual Pentium Machines

1997-07-13 Thread Greg Vence
Hello, Its time to upgrade... What dual Pentium machines do people like and what have known problems? I looked in LDP and didn't see anything regarding this topic. Thanx -- Greg. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

fte

1997-07-13 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hey Is it true that /usr/bin/fte is missing in the fte-package? I have /usr/X11R6/bin/xfte and /usr/bin/{c,v}fte, but no /usr/bin/fte. Is that correct? Remco -- // Remco van de Meent // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www: http://oloon.student.utwente.nl //Never make any mistaeks. --

[no subject]

1997-07-13 Thread jmgray
Hi, I'm trying to install a patch for my D-Link D600 ethernet adapter, but am getting the following error. Has anyone run into these types of errors when doing this install? Thanks in advance! Error msg: loading device 'eht1'... eth1: D-Link DE-600 pocket adapter: not at I/O 0x378

Questions from a future user

1997-07-13 Thread Shaleh
What are Debian's pro's and con's? How hard is its PPP setup and how stable are its PPP connections. I will be using my box to dial an ISP and do school work. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Problems with Debian 1.3 new installation and ThinkPad 365XD.

1997-07-13 Thread Noel Yap
On Fri Jul 11 17:03:41 -0500 1997, Timothy J. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm attempting a new install on the ThinkPad 365XD w/800x600 display, 40Mb RAM, CDROM and external floppy; at boot, the system reports root.bin loaded, then linux, then it simply halts. I have a similar system.

Re: 1.3.1 font problem in X

1997-07-13 Thread Noel Yap
On Fri Jul 11 19:29:26 -0400 1997, digger vermont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I upgraded from 1.3.0 to 1.3.1 which was mostly an X upgrade to 3.3-3. Now, none of the upgraded and important (misc, 75dp1, and 100dpi I believe) font paths are recognized. I tried running mkfontdir in

Re: Questions from a future user

1997-07-13 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Sun, 13 July 1997, Shaleh wrote: What are Debian's pro's and con's? How hard is its PPP setup and how stable are its PPP connections. I will be using my box to dial an ISP and do school work. Well, here is my 2 cents : Pros: Large, competent volunteer development staff

Re: Off-topic: Making ALT be the META key

1997-07-13 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
David R. Kohel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Did anyone come up with a solution to this one? Is this controlled by emacs of X keymapping (or both)? I had the same problem (with emacs) until it spontaneously corrected itself. David I recently installed XEmacs, and would like to have

Re: PPP dial-up script working at last.

1997-07-13 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
David Densmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I finally got my PPP dial-up script working. Thanks to everyone who responded to my request for help. My real problem was simple ignorance - I thought all of the ppp files were in /etc/ppp, which is why I didn't know about /etc/ppp.chatscript and

Slow PLIP

1997-07-13 Thread Lazar Fleysher
HI I am trying to connect my linux computer with dos one using plip On dos machine I use plip packet driver form ftp://ftp.crynwr.com/drivers/plip.zip The connection can be established but it is very very slow. If I use dos on both and connect them using interlnk, intersrv, I get about 60Kb/sec

md5sum failure

1997-07-13 Thread Chris Smith
Recently downloaded the Debion Official CD 1.3.1. When I ran the md5sum program against it, I received a failure in all 85 files. Since I haven't experienced any other corruption problems I am at a loss to explain this. Newbie at Linux, used NT4 to download and ran the posted DOS md5sum

Re: PPP dial-up script working at last.

1997-07-13 Thread mark powers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: -- after there is a directory /etc/ppp all the files _should_ be there, IMO. As it is now, the configuration of ppp is not easy to understand. Agreed, though a simple question-and-answer PPP configuration script ought not to be too difficult. I have one from

Re: nobody is running find at too high a priority

1997-07-13 Thread W Paul Mills
On 10 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote: I guess the Debian developers are all nightowls. 7AM is *not* early enough to be scheduling this sort of thing. Kevin Dalley writes: Since this is an entirely individual item which cannot please everybody, I suggest that you change

XTerm on XFree86 3.3-3 trouble

1997-07-13 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
Hi, I have a strange XTerm behaviour after upgrading to XFree 3.3-3. When I start mc in a xterm I have trouble with the F-Keys: F1 gives P F2 gives Q F3 gives R F4 gives S F5 - F10 work just fine. When I start mc in a rxvt, all F-Keys work just fine. Has someone else encountered this

Re: md5sum failure

1997-07-13 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Chris Smith wrote: Recently downloaded the Debion Official CD 1.3.1. When I ran the md5sum program against it, I received a failure in all 85 files. Since I haven't experienced any other corruption problems I am at a loss to explain this. Newbie at Linux, used NT4 to

Re: Questions from a future user

1997-07-13 Thread Karlheinz Nolte
Shaleh wrote: What are Debian's pro's and con's? How hard is its PPP setup and how stable are its PPP connections. I will be using my box to dial an ISP and do school work. Hi, I think Debian biggest advantage is the intelligent package handling. PPP is very good pre-configured. I use

Re: Toshiba laptop resume mode

1997-07-13 Thread Mike Orr
On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Bill Moran wrote: I am trying to install debian on a Toshiba laptop 410 CS and am having trouble making resume mode work. When I try to resume the computer hangs. I have a Toshiba Satellite T2130CT; I don't know how much that differs internally from yours. Suspend/resume

Re: PPP setup (was: Questions from a future user)

1997-07-13 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 13 July 1997, Shaleh wrote: What are Debian's pro's and con's? How hard is its PPP setup and how stable are its PPP connections. I will be using my box to dial an ISP and do school work. I just did a test install using the 1.3 official disk (from lsl). I took some notes of

Re: PPP dial-up script working at last.

1997-07-13 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 11 Jul, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: By the way, there is no solution for redialing of several phone numbers, as I can see (not even with the dunc-package). If you can use X, there is the xisp package. It can try several numbers, redail, handle multiple ISPs, multiple ip-up/down, easy to set

dpkg not installing modules

1997-07-13 Thread Barry King
Upgraded to 1.3 from 1.2 -- noticed the lack of appletalk and netware modules in the base distribution. dpkg would also have trouble getting the module .o files into the appropriate library directories. After a little work with dpkg, depmod and modconf, I got appletalk and ipx modules up and

Re: PPP dial-up script working at last.

1997-07-13 Thread bash
On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, mark powers wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: -- after there is a directory /etc/ppp all the files _should_ be there, IMO. As it is now, the configuration of ppp is not easy to understand. Agreed, though a simple question-and-answer PPP configuration script ought

Re: nobody is running find at too high a priority

1997-07-13 Thread jghasler
I wrote: ...it is clear from the questions being posted that not everyone knows to do this. Looks like a documentation problem. W. Paul Mills writes: I am not so sure this is a documentation problem. More of a failure to read. Any time more than a very small minority of users are unable to

Re: nobody is running find at too high a priority

1997-07-13 Thread George Bonser
Any time more than a very small minority of users are unable to get what they need from the documentation it has failed. The failure may be due to an insoluble problem (such as documenting all possible ppp schemes) but it is failure nonetheless. Ok, then why not adopt some default standard

Mouse not responding (gpm)

1997-07-13 Thread Ty
Has anyone had any problems with the mouse not responding? The mouse was/is working fine, (MS serial mouse), however when I attempt to load-up x-windows, the mouse does not respond at all. I have checked the /etc/gpm.conf and tried other serial ports such as ttyS0 through ttyS3, and still

uname -a on /etc/motd

1997-07-13 Thread Randy Edwards
Could someone tell me what process is putting what appears to be the output of a uname -a at the top of /etc/motd? I delete that regularly since IMHO it doesn't look very pretty, but try as I might, Linux seems to have more patience at putting it there then I do at removing it. :-)

Re: uname -a on /etc/motd

1997-07-13 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sun, 13 Jul 1997 18:22:23 EDT Randy Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Could someone tell me what process is putting what appears to be the output of a uname -a at the top of /etc/motd? I delete that regularly since IMHO it doesn't look very pretty, but try as I might, Linux

Re: uname -a on /etc/motd

1997-07-13 Thread joost witteveen
On Sun, 13 Jul 1997 18:22:23 EDT Randy Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Could someone tell me what process is putting what appears to be the output of a uname -a at the top of /etc/motd? I delete that regularly since IMHO it doesn't look very pretty, but try as I might,

Re: Mouse not responding (gpm)

1997-07-13 Thread Igor Grobman
Has anyone had any problems with the mouse not responding? The mouse was/is working fine, (MS serial mouse), however when I attempt to load-up x-windows, the mouse does not respond at all. I have checked the /etc/gpm.conf and tried other serial ports such as ttyS0 through ttyS3, and still

Re: Toshiba laptop resume mode

1997-07-13 Thread Bruce Perens
The kernel we distribute doesn't have Advanced Power Management configured in because it crashes some systems. Install the kernel-source package and make a custom kernel, with APM enabled. That should handle resume just fine. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502