SCSI CD-PD correction

1997-07-14 Thread F. L. Szot/Dr. Lightning
Dear Debian Mavens, I identified the controller card for my CD-PD in my Compaq 9240 incorrectly! It is an Adaptec 7850 PCI SCSI Sorry. Dr. L -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Debian + AfterStep= no color (fwd)

1997-07-14 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997 15:39:22 MDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > I have no problems with the Slackware setup - Afterstep works beautifully > and is very appealing visually. Under Debian however, I have almost NO > color. Upon exit I see the message: > > Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entr

Re: man pages, etc.

1997-07-14 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997 15:54:07 CDT larry ives ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just used the Debian installation for linux and it was a pleasure = > compared to slackware! There are a couple of things that don't work = > however. > I can't seem to execute a man page session. When I look for the man

Re: staroffice / netscape debian packages?

1997-07-14 Thread Igor Grobman
> > Hi! > > It may have been asked before but I didnt find it in my messagebase > (must have been flushed out already.): > > 1) is there a staroffice debian package? if yes, where? There is a staroffice installer package just uploaded to Incoming. We are not allowed to distribute staroffice

Re: Dual Pentium Machines

1997-07-14 Thread Kevin M. Bealer
Greg Vence wrote: >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. > I would suggest subscribing to linux-smp, and look at the archives for the list, too. I

SCSI CD-PD problem

1997-07-14 Thread F. L. Szot/Dr. Lightning
Dear Debian Mavens, I am brand new to Linux, being a Windows/Mac guy. No, make that a Mac/Windows guy. I prefer the Mac. I want Linux to rid me of any contact with Microsoft. Anyway, my Compaq 9240 came with a combination CD-Rom/Optical drive. It's made by Mitsubishi/Panasonic, Model #LF-1094D.

Re: NSLOOKUP don't work

1997-07-14 Thread Michele Dalla Silvestra
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Tony Koehn wrote: > After getting debian installed I tried to do a nslookup and I get this > message: > > *** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Non-existent host.domain > *** Default servers are not available. > > What did I do wrong? You have to enable localhos

Re: NSLOOKUP don't work

1997-07-14 Thread John F
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Tony Koehn wrote: > Thomas, > > My /etc/hosts file does have 127.0.0.1 localhost in it. > My /etc/host.conf has "order hosts,bind" in it. > > Tony <> > > Tony Koehn wrote: > > :After getting debian installed I tried to do a nslookup and I get this > > :message: > > : > > :*

Re: NSLOOKUP don't work

1997-07-14 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> Thomas, > > My /etc/hosts file does have 127.0.0.1 localhost in it. > My /etc/host.conf has "order hosts,bind" in it. > > Tony Tony, do you have a nameserver line in /etc/resolv.conf? It must be in the form: nameserver 122.122.122.122 Of course, you would have to substitute 122.122.122.122

xdm login

1997-07-14 Thread Victor Torrico
Hello, When logging into X using xdm, after I enter my login name and password, I get a big white box in the upper left hand corner of the screen with a message that boot is still in progress. I depress the OK button in this box , it goes away and all works fine in X. This is kind of a pain to d

Re: Enlightment packaging

1997-07-14 Thread Shaya Potter
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Kevin M. Bealer wrote: > Amos Shapira wrote: > >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 P

Re: Enlightment packaging

1997-07-14 Thread Kevin M. Bealer
Amos Shapira wrote: >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? > >T

Re: Motif v lesstif - was Re: Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 ...

1997-07-14 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> > > > What do you mean? Making Lesstif and Motif binary compatible? > > > > You must have OSF source for that :) > > I know that if someone want to sell Motif, he needs to buy the source > from OSF and compile it. And if he wants to use the name "Motif" to > sell their compilation, he needs to p

Re: NSLOOKUP don't work

1997-07-14 Thread Tony Koehn
Thomas, My /etc/hosts file does have 127.0.0.1 localhost in it. My /etc/host.conf has "order hosts,bind" in it. Tony -- > From: Thomas Baetzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Tony Koehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: NSLOOKUP don't work > Date: Monday, July 14, 1997 10:01 AM > > Tony K

Re: XF86 3.3-3

1997-07-14 Thread Kevin M. Bealer
Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: (clip) > >In any case, the XF86 3.3 packages are definitely broken. I'd fill out a >bug report, but unfortunately, I can't be any more specific than that >right now. > (clip) > >-- >TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to >[EMAIL PRO

Debian + AfterStep= no color (fwd)

1997-07-14 Thread vanryn
Hi all, My specs: 486 DX-2 66mhz 20 megs RAM STB Horizon video card w/ 1 meg RAM I currently have Slackware with XFree 3.1.2 installed on HDA5 and I recently decided to try Debian 1.3 with XFree 3.3, which is now installed on HDA3. Afterstep is my window manager in both cas

cp command

1997-07-14 Thread Syd Alsobrook
Really easy The best way to copy a directory tree from one drive to another is cp -pr /usr /hd Thanks Syd http://www.uc.edu/~alsobrsp "How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it." Dougla

Re: Motif v lesstif - was Re: Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 ...

1997-07-14 Thread Alexander Gieg
> > > What do you mean? Making Lesstif and Motif binary compatible? > > > You must have OSF source for that :) I know that if someone want to sell Motif, he needs to buy the source from OSF and compile it. And if he wants to use the name "Motif" to sell their compilation, he needs to pay extra roy

man pages, etc.

1997-07-14 Thread larry ives
I just used the Debian installation for linux and it was a pleasure = compared to slackware! There are a couple of things that don't work = however. I can't seem to execute a man page session. When I look for the man = executable I can't find it, all though I do have some gziped man pages. The "fil

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

1997-07-14 Thread Timothy J. Miller
Paul Rightley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I thought that the consensus was that the 365XD cannot boot bzImages. > I went the route of installing Debian 1.1 (with boot disks using > zImages) and then upgrading. The most direct solution is to compile > an appropriate zImage on a working Linux mac

Re: Newbie Question

1997-07-14 Thread Karlheinz Nolte
Bob Nielsen wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, David Wilde wrote: > > > Firstly let me say that I have never used Linux and I am learning as I go > > along. > > > > I have installed debian ver 1.2 on a second hard drive on my PC. I didn't > > encounter any real problems during installation so I assu

Re: Smail configuration

1997-07-14 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
In smailconfig, you must choose option (1), then after several more questions, you give your ISP's mail server's name in response to: "Do you have a smarthost available (and accessible via SMTP) ? A smarthost is a system to which you forward mail you don't want to deliver yourself; it presum

md5sum failure update

1997-07-14 Thread Chris Smith
Thanks to those who wrote. The suggestion was that I had ftp set to ascii mode but was not the case. My ftp program is fairly reliable in auto mode and the files were all the correct size. What I have since done is add the -b (binary mode) switch in running md5sum.exe instead of blindly followin

Anacron/Cron

1997-07-14 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
I have finally installed anacron. Since my machine doesn't run 24 hours a day, no cron scripts have ever run, so my log files are getting out of hand. The package description for anacron says "It's also a good replacement for cron on systems, that don't run continuously 24 hours a day b

staroffice / netscape debian packages?

1997-07-14 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi! It may have been asked before but I didnt find it in my messagebase (must have been flushed out already.): 1) is there a staroffice debian package? if yes, where? 2) is there a netscape debian package? if yes, where? does not have to be the newest version, more important is wether is runs s

Re:Netscape Mail 3.x

1997-07-14 Thread Curt Howland
>From: Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Anyway, it won't send mail. I get "FCC file not found". >That is a problem with the mail dir not existing. Create the dir that is >listed >in the mail properties. Sure enough, that was exactly the problem. Thank you for pointing out something obvious that

Re: Smail configuration

1997-07-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Bob Nielsen writes: > I'd like to do the same thing, but I don't get that option from > smailconfig (smail_3.2-3 from 1.3.1): > > You must choose one of the options below: > (1) Internet site: you send and receive Internet mail on this > machine, using SMTP over TCP/IP. > (2) UUCP to smarth

xserver-svga 3.3-3 on an lcd

1997-07-14 Thread Lukas Eppler
There were a lot of problems I saw... hopefully solved now. My problem is different: I manage to get into X as before, but the server seems to add noise to the image when something changes on the screen. It begins with some stars (single pixels) before even the grey pattern appears, continuously pa

Re: nobody is running find at too high a priority

1997-07-14 Thread Dima
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >George Bonser writes: >> Ok, then why not adopt some default standard (Say PAP like windows does) >> that you MAY CHANGE but for newbies, asks them what the phone number is, >> what their password is and username and then sets the darned thing up to >> act like Win9

Re: Smail configuration

1997-07-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Martin Schulze wrote: > Alex Monaghan writes: > > Is there a simple way to get smail to forward mail to my ISP ? > > > > Currently it appears to do it's own name resolution and delivery, > > under Win 95 all mail got sent to the ISP to do this. > > > > I am currently getti

Re: PPP script working at last.

1997-07-14 Thread Adrian Bridgett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> David Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I _can_ believe it and I don't think it's your fault -- after there is a > directory /etc/ppp all the files _should_ be there, IMO. As it is now, the > configuration of

Re: Smail configuration

1997-07-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Alex Monaghan writes: > Is there a simple way to get smail to forward mail to my ISP ? > > Currently it appears to do it's own name resolution and delivery, > under Win 95 all mail got sent to the ISP to do this. > > I am currently getting some delivery timeouts. I'd rather pass the > non-loca

Re: mailing list archives needs updated..

1997-07-14 Thread sacampbe
>Although I found the information I was looking for, it would be nice to > have archives updated. Isn't this done automagically? The maintainer of the archive is returning from vacation today. For some unknown reason, the web pages stopped being updated just before he left (although the a

Re: ? missing files... ?

1997-07-14 Thread joost witteveen
> > i still do not appear to have the make program > > or stdio.h for that matter. > > > > does anyone know what package these utilities come > > in, either one of the basic ones, or a development > > package? > > The library file stdio.h comes in libc5-dev. There should be a package > for mak

Re: Netscape 3.x mail

1997-07-14 Thread Shigeru IKEDA
> Anyway, it won't send mail. I get "FCC file not found". > > Not being one to believe too seriously in every conspiricy theory > I run accross in alt.conspiricy.black-helocopters, do tell what > is this "FCC file"? Check the setting of Netscape. Open the dialog from Options -> Mail & News Prefe

Re: Netscape 3.x mail

1997-07-14 Thread Randy Edwards
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Curt Howland wrote: > Downloaded and installed Netscape, excelent install, I commend > the writer of that package. > Anyway, it won't send mail. I get "FCC file not found". Did you catch the little blurb at the end of dselect's Netscape install which explains what you need

Re: Netscape 3.x mail

1997-07-14 Thread Shaleh
> Anyway, it won't send mail. I get "FCC file not found". That is a problem with the mail dir not existing. Create the dir that is listed in the mail properties. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Netscape 3.x mail

1997-07-14 Thread Curt Howland
Good morning, all. Downloaded and installed Netscape, excelent install, I commend the writer of that package. Anyway, it won't send mail. I get "FCC file not found". Not being one to believe too seriously in every conspiricy theory I run accross in alt.conspiricy.black-helocopters, do tell what

Re: XTerm on XFree86 3.3-3 trouble

1997-07-14 Thread Brian K Servis
H Huang writes: > >On 13 Jul 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> > 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

Re: ? missing files... ?

1997-07-14 Thread dpk
> hello. i' am looking for a little help > form anyone with a little more experience > with the debian distribution. > > i have installed debian 1.3 over the net > (yes it was slow) and i have it up and running > including xfree86. however i do not appear to > have a complete development environme

Re: X-Windows...

1997-07-14 Thread Dave Cinege
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997 09:50:26 -0500, Tony Koehn wrote: >Can anyone tell me why I would want X-Windows??? > >Is this just a cheesy windows look a like or is there some advantages. I Well all the networking things, IE running remote clients, etc >did install it once ( a long time ago) but didn

Re: Help transfering data....

1997-07-14 Thread Frank Barknecht
Kevin J Poorman hat gesagt: // Kevin J Poorman wrote: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi. > > I just got a new hard drive and wish to transfer my root fs to this new > drive as it is larger > > now to the hard part ... > > I Tryed to do a cp -a * /mnt (where the new hd was mounted) > > but it sat t

Re: ? missing files... ?

1997-07-14 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> hello. i' am looking for a little help > form anyone with a little more experience > with the debian distribution. > > i have installed debian 1.3 over the net > (yes it was slow) and i have it up and running > including xfree86. however i do not appear to > have a complete development environme

Re: dosemu and lredir problem redirecting drives

1997-07-14 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Paul" == Paul Kirschner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> I installed Debian 1.3.1 with DOSEMU. Mapping drives Paul> according to the documentation didn't work for me... FreeDOS unfortunately does not work with lredir. Try Caldera's OpenDOS or (shudder) Billy's Ms. dos. -- Broug

? missing files... ?

1997-07-14 Thread Daryl Williams
hello. i' am looking for a little help form anyone with a little more experience with the debian distribution. i have installed debian 1.3 over the net (yes it was slow) and i have it up and running including xfree86. however i do not appear to have a complete development environment. although i h

NSLOOKUP don't work

1997-07-14 Thread Tony Koehn
After getting debian installed I tried to do a nslookup and I get this message: *** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Non-existent host.domain *** Default servers are not available. What did I do wrong? Tony -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

dosemu and lredir problem redirecting drives

1997-07-14 Thread Paul Kirschner
I installed Debian 1.3.1 with DOSEMU. Mapping drives according to the documentation didn't work for me... "Welcome to dosemu 0.66!" C:\> lredir e: \linux\fs\tmp Error 3e redirecting drive E: to \LINUX\FS\TMP C:\> lredir e: \linux\fs/msdos Error 40 redirecting drive E: to \LINUX\FS/MSDOS (BTW /

X-Windows...

1997-07-14 Thread Tony Koehn
Can anyone tell me why I would want X-Windows??? Is this just a cheesy windows look a like or is there some advantages. I did install it once ( a long time ago) but didn't think it even compared to Windows 3.0... Tony -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to

Smail configuration

1997-07-14 Thread Alex Monaghan
Is there a simple way to get smail to forward mail to my ISP ? Currently it appears to do it's own name resolution and delivery, under Win 95 all mail got sent to the ISP to do this. I am currently getting some delivery timeouts. I'd rather pass the non-local delivery to my ISP. I still want t

Re: 1.3.1 upgrade: getting rid of the package base 1.1.0-13 -- dselect and downgrading dosemu

1997-07-14 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, At 04:45 PM 7/11/97 PDT, Bruce Perens wrote: >However, edit /var/lib/dpkg/status and remove the paragraph >about the "base" package, and that will effectively purge it. >Forcing dpkg to remove the package removes all of the files in /dev. >It's my error, sorry. But removing this paragraph by

RE: Problems with Debian 1.3 new installation and ThinkPad 365XD

1997-07-14 Thread Paul Rightley
On 11-Jul-97 Timothy J. Miller 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 thought that the consensus was that the 365XD cannot boot bzIm

Re: PPP install (was:nobody is running find at too high a priority)

1997-07-14 Thread xenub
At 21:50 13/07/97 -0500, you wrote: >The truly knowledgeable person shares his knowledge. Why should we not >share our knowledge of how to configure ppp with new users? Do you want to >force them to go through some sort of silly rite of passage? No it`s not what I meant. I didn't seen it

Re: Weekly log reporting system for apache?

1997-07-14 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
There is Analog that is a .deb package under net or web on the ftp sites. It does an OK job, personally, I use a perl script program called Accesswatch as far as I know it is not a .deb package. It is at http://accesswatch.com/ next to nothing in configuration is needed and it runs without a cgi-

Re: Toshiba laptop resume mode

1997-07-14 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > > 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. > > From: Pann McC

Serious problem with adduser_3.4

1997-07-14 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
I have the following problem with this version of adduser. Here's what I get when I try to add a user to my system: # adduser adams Adding user adams... Selecting from 1000 2 (0,0,1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4,5,5,6,6,7,7,8,8,9,9,10,10,11,11,13,13,15,20,21,21,22,24,25,26,29,30,30,31,31,32,33,33,34,34,35,35,

Re: Weekly log reporting system for apache?

1997-07-14 Thread Dave Cinege
On 14 Jul 1997 13:13:42 +0200, Ingo Fischenich wrote: >"Dave Cinege" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Are their any (hopfully debianized) reporting systems that will create nice >> readable reports from accesses to users pages? >> >> My last ISP had something he made but you won't give them to m

Re: gdb dependencies

1997-07-14 Thread Shaya Potter
No, those packages are still in Incoming on master. Shaya On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote: > > Hi, > > I installed gdb_4.16-10 from unstable. It depends on ncurses-3.4 and > libreadlineg2. However, there are no such packages. > Is this a bug or are these packages missing a

Re: Thanks (was Future debian user)

1997-07-14 Thread Shaya Potter
On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Shaleh wrote: > Well looks like I am going to gve Deban a try. Thanks for all the > suggestions and offers. I received 30 some odd mail on my first day -- > I am impressed. And most of it was civil help and questions. One last > question --> where is the best and most inexpe

Re: Weekly log reporting system for apache?

1997-07-14 Thread Ingo Fischenich
"Dave Cinege" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are their any (hopfully debianized) reporting systems that will create nice > readable reports from accesses to users pages? > > My last ISP had something he made but you won't give them to me : < > > If there is nothing out there I will write someth

Weekly log reporting system for apache?

1997-07-14 Thread Dave Cinege
Are their any (hopfully debianized) reporting systems that will create nice readable reports from accesses to users pages? My last ISP had something he made but you won't give them to me : < If there is nothing out there I will write something, but my time could be better used. --

question on emacs and xterm under XFree 3.3-3

1997-07-14 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I have just upgraded to XFree 3.3-3 . All went smoothly but I have two questions Firstly when I start emacs I get the following warning Warning: Cannot convert string "%s" to type %s Can anyone tell me what this is ? Secondly I used to have xterm-color as my default xterm Now I get the st

Re: [gtk-list] Re: sane problems

1997-07-14 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> > > > these are the errors i received: > > > > > > > > gdk.c:31: X11/Xatom.h: No such file or directory > > > > > > This sounds to me like you need to install the XFree86 > > > developement package. For RedHat systems, this is the XFree86-devel rpm, > > > but I don't know what it would be for

Re: dosemu lredir don't redir :-(

1997-07-14 Thread Mike
Brent Hendricks wrote: >But OpenDOS from Caldera uses lredir just fine. I haven't had any >problems using OpenDOS with DOSEMU. No more MS operating systems on my >computer! Now if only we could redistribute OpenDOS with DOSEMU. The second best thing would be to have an .deb package that would a

Linux Router Project -- About to get working and need more people!

1997-07-14 Thread Dave Cinege
Linux Router Project -- About to get working and need more people! The Linux Router Project is about to begin work on our minimal root fs. Very crucial to this are people that truely understand the dependencies of networking functions and utilities. I'm looking to use Debian 1.3.1 as the base to

Any AMD users ? troubles with direct mount

1997-07-14 Thread Oliver Landsmann
Hi there ! I tried to direct mount some filesystems like descriped in the reference - No success :( Mounting under a toplvl works fine but no direct access like the /usr/man or the rwho example ... Any hints or maps for me ? b.t.w. i am using debian 1.3 and amd 5.2.2.2 of 1992/05/31 16:53:21

Re: [gtk-list] Re: sane problems

1997-07-14 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
> > > these are the errors i received: > > > > > > gdk.c:31: X11/Xatom.h: No such file or directory > > > > This sounds to me like you need to install the XFree86 > > developement package. For RedHat systems, this is the XFree86-devel rpm, > > but I don't know what it would be for your Debian

Re: gdb dependencies

1997-07-14 Thread joost witteveen
> > Hi, > > I installed gdb_4.16-10 from unstable. It depends on ncurses-3.4 and > libreadlineg2. However, there are no such packages. > Is this a bug or are these packages missing at the moment? neighter. They are just still sitting in "incoming". I've put those packages in ftp://rulcmc.

Re: XTerm on XFree86 3.3-3 trouble

1997-07-14 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (H Huang) writes: > On 13 Jul 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > 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: [...] > This problem is addressed in file READM

gdb dependencies

1997-07-14 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Hi, I installed gdb_4.16-10 from unstable. It depends on ncurses-3.4 and libreadlineg2. However, there are no such packages. Is this a bug or are these packages missing at the moment? Thanks, Ulf -- #include -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to

Work-Needing and Prospective Packages

1997-07-14 Thread Philippe Troin
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Philippe Troin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.48 1997/07/14 05:59:38 phil Exp $ 1. Note I've taken over the maintenance of the "Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux" from Sven Rudolph starting version 1.

Re: Toshiba laptop resume mode

1997-07-14 Thread Bruce Perens
On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > 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. From: Pann McCuaig <[EMA

Re: adduser

1997-07-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jul 1997 19:41:04 -0700 (MST), Bob Nielsen wrote: > > >The version in 1.3.1 (adduser_3.2.deb) works for me. > > No it does not. > > Check the files it copies from /etc/skell. Yep, it only copies the first > line. Sorry, I didn't even realiz

Re: XTerm on XFree86 3.3-3 trouble

1997-07-14 Thread H Huang
On 13 Jul 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > 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

Re: adduser

1997-07-14 Thread Dave Cinege
On Sun, 13 Jul 1997 19:41:04 -0700 (MST), Bob Nielsen wrote: >The version in 1.3.1 (adduser_3.2.deb) works for me. No it does not. Check the files it copies from /etc/skell. Yep, it only copies the first line. -- Elite MicroComput

Re: XTerm on XFree86 3.3-3 trouble

1997-07-14 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > 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 f

Re: Toshiba laptop resume mode

1997-07-14 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > 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. FWIW my 2105 handles res

Re: Thanks (was Future debian user)

1997-07-14 Thread Randy Edwards
On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Shaleh wrote: > I am impressed. And most of it was civil help and questions. Don't worry, the hostile and rude answers are given to you later. > One last question --> where is the best and most inexpensive place to get > a Debian CD distribution. Check out http://www

Thanks (was Future debian user)

1997-07-14 Thread Shaleh
Well looks like I am going to gve Deban a try. Thanks for all the suggestions and offers. I received 30 some odd mail on my first day -- I am impressed. And most of it was civil help and questions. One last question --> where is the best and most inexpensive place to get a Debian CD distribution.

Re: PPP install (was:nobody is running find at too high a priority)

1997-07-14 Thread jghasler
A. M. Varon writes: > Righto! linux treats you as a knowledgeable person, not some idiot who > does'nt know how to use an OS. The truly knowledgeable person shares his knowledge. Why should we not share our knowledge of how to configure ppp with new users? Do you want to force them to go through

Re: adduser

1997-07-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: > The version in 1.3.1 (adduser_3.2.deb) works for me. Oops, let me rephrase that. It automatically created an unknown default password. I had to remove the password field from /etc/passwd as root and then add the password with passwd. Bob Bob Nie

Re: adduser

1997-07-14 Thread George Bonser
It works but installs only the first line of the dot-files in the home directories. On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: > The version in 1.3.1 (adduser_3.2.deb) works for me. > > On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, George Bonser wrote: > > > > > I manually ftp'd the one from hamm and installed it. > >

Re: adduser

1997-07-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
The version in 1.3.1 (adduser_3.2.deb) works for me. On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, George Bonser wrote: > > I manually ftp'd the one from hamm and installed it. > > > > On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Matthew C. Thompson wrote: > > > greetings, > > > > so what's the fix for adduser? it's not working for me at

Re: PPP install (was:nobody is running find at too high a priority)

1997-07-14 Thread jghasler
Louis-Philippe Alain writes: > You want to know why I switched to Linux? Because Win95 was boring. I > think what makes Linux be Linux is the fact that it's not very user > friendly if you compare it to Win95. The nore it's hard to make a Linux > box running as you want, the more you learn. There

Re: Newbie Question

1997-07-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, David Wilde wrote: > Firstly let me say that I have never used Linux and I am learning as I go > along. > > I have installed debian ver 1.2 on a second hard drive on my PC. I didn't > encounter any real problems during installation so I assume everything is OK. > Now I would

Re: adduser

1997-07-14 Thread Randy Edwards
On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Matthew C. Thompson wrote: > so what's the fix for adduser? it's not working for me at all. i am > running 1.3.1 (installed 1.3 and update on a daily basis with dselect). As far as I know, the adduser in 1.3.1 hasn't been fixed for some strange reason. However, if you gra

Re:PPP install (was:nobody is running find at too high a priority)

1997-07-14 Thread A. M. Varon
On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Louis-Philippe Alain wrote: > I disagree... Why make it easier? I use Linux for 2 weeks now. I used Dos > and windows for 8 years before. You want to know why I switched to Linux? > Because Win95 was boring. I think what makes Linux be Linux is the fact > that it's not very us

Re: adduser

1997-07-14 Thread George Bonser
I manually ftp'd the one from hamm and installed it. On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Matthew C. Thompson wrote: > greetings, > > so what's the fix for adduser? it's not working for me at all. i am > running 1.3.1 (installed 1.3 and update on a daily basis with dselect). > > thanks, > matty > > > -- >

adduser

1997-07-14 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
greetings, so what's the fix for adduser? it's not working for me at all. i am running 1.3.1 (installed 1.3 and update on a daily basis with dselect). thanks, matty -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re:PPP install (was:nobody is running find at too high a priority)

1997-07-14 Thread George Bonser
On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Louis-Philippe Alain wrote: > > > On 13 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >Yes, I agree that a dynamic IP install configuration would be a boon to > > newbies getting PPP up and working smoothly (at least it would've for me:-). > > > >However, I think it could

Newbie Question

1997-07-14 Thread David Wilde
Firstly let me say that I have never used Linux and I am learning as I go along. I have installed debian ver 1.2 on a second hard drive on my PC. I didn't encounter any real problems during installation so I assume everything is OK. Now I would like to install a GUI (fvwm) and I have downloaded a

Re:PPP install (was:nobody is running find at too high a priority)

1997-07-14 Thread Louis-Philippe Alain
> On 13 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Yes, I agree that a dynamic IP install configuration would be a boon to > newbies getting PPP up and working smoothly (at least it would've for me:-). > >However, I think it could be worked better (read: without mentioning > Win95) than your s

Re: nobody is running find at too high a priority

1997-07-14 Thread George Bonser
On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Randy Edwards wrote: >However, I think it could be worked better (read: without mentioning > Win95) than your suggestion... :-) Why? Think of it this way, linux is so darned configurable that it can be made to act like nearly anything. Since the consumer internet servic

Re: nobody is running find at too high a priority

1997-07-14 Thread Randy Edwards
On 13 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Good idea. I also still think that the install script should offer "Dial up > an ISP and use dynamic IP" as a separate menu item. Selecting this would > bring up a menu in which "Would you like to set PPP up like Win95 DUN" > would be one of the choices.

POP2 and POP3 servers?

1997-07-14 Thread Tim Bell
Hi, I've just installed Debian 1.3.1 on a server which used to run Redhat 4.1. The Redhat installation had an RPM package called imap, which provided ipop2 and ipop3, POP servers. I haven't been able to find anything comparable in Debian, the closest I've come is cucipop and qpopper which both pro

mailing list archives needs updated..

1997-07-14 Thread David Puryear
Hi, Although I found the information I was looking for, it would be nice to have archives updated. Isn't this done automagically? Cheers, David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PR