fax mini-howto?

1997-09-28 Thread Lawrence
Is there a mini-howto about how to sending fax under linux? Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Motif and libc6

1997-09-28 Thread Lawrence
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sep 27, Lawrence wrote > > I heard from the lists there is a problem compiling a Motif program with > > libc6. I have contacted RedHat and they said that they may release their > > Motif development kit compatible with libc6 very later this year. > > Meanwhile, is

ppp.chatscript for compuserve

1997-09-28 Thread Rob MacWilliams
I going on a business trip in a couple of weeks and I want to take my Debian machine with me rather than a Win95 box. The problem is that my employer has a department account on CompuServe and getting Linux PPP hooked up has eluded me so far. I've tried the minicom and manual ppp setup, but Comp

svgatextmode problem: VT_RESIZEX

1997-09-28 Thread dkk . lee
Hi, I have just installed svgatextmode, but have not got very far in running it. I have checked that the sync settings are within range. I started stm with the desired mode. stm tries a few times to allocate memory. The error occurs either during this or immediately afterwards. The error message

Re: Motif and libc6

1997-09-28 Thread jdassen
On Sep 27, Lawrence wrote > I heard from the lists there is a problem compiling a Motif program with > libc6. I have contacted RedHat and they said that they may release their > Motif development kit compatible with libc6 very later this year. > Meanwhile, is it possible to install libc6 and still

Re: extract only PART of an archive

1997-09-28 Thread Paul Wade
On Sun, 28 Sep 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > I've searched through the dpkg info and man pages and haven't found any > >> > way to do this (I might be blind, though). Is there anyway to do it with > >> > out doing > >> > > >> > dpkg -R /tmp/ file.deb > >> > > >> > and then moving the one

Possible flex-2.5.4 bug

1997-09-28 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Hi all! Here is a simple lexer which works with flex-2.5.2 but not with flex-2.5.4. Is this a bug in flex-2.5.4 or is 2.5.4 stricter, revealing a bug in my code? This simple lexer replaces "foo" with "bar" (just to do something) and strips out comments delimited by '<' and '>'. (In real life I

Re: ... other questions

1997-09-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: >... > I try to do almost everything except administration as user. I only >proform administration such as installing all debian stuff as root. Is it >safe to install/compile non-debian programs as root. I tried to install >twin as both and neith

Re: Translation Table Syntax Errors? SOLVED

1997-09-28 Thread Victor Torrico
On 97/09/28 at 16:28 PM +, Victor Torrico wrote: > On 97/09/27 at 15:01 PM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 27 Sep 1997 16:38:46 +0200 Remco Blaakmeer > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: > > > > > > > Hello All, > > > > > >

Re: Installation with BT-930

1997-09-28 Thread Egon Schmid
Can you boot from CD-ROM? A WD-7000 isn't on your hardware list. Which debian-version is it? Next, what does say your CD-ROM-boot which SCSI-adapter do you have. What devices have been found for the BT-930 and so on. Starting a Debian-installation from a floppy isn't a good idea. "Es geht auch

xfree86 dga extention

1997-09-28 Thread Lawrence
I try to compile a program and it requires the xfree86 dga extention, where to get this lib? Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Installation with BT-930

1997-09-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, first my configuration K6-200, BT-930, ASUS TX97-XE, Matrox-Millenium, IBM SCSI-DCAS 34330, Plextor SCSI-CDROM, IOMEGA-ZIP SCSI intern, 64MB SDRAM all new assembled. I tried to start with the Debian CD (German manufacturer J.F. Lehmanns) I seted up the Buslogic BIOS to boot from CD: it

Re: Translation Table Syntax Errors? SOLVED

1997-09-28 Thread Victor Torrico
On 97/09/27 at 15:01 PM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Sep 1997 16:38:46 +0200 Remco Blaakmeer > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: > > > > > Hello All, > > > > > > I keep getting error messages similar to the following when I run Mosaic

Re: DISK DEFRAGMENTER - PARTITIONS :-((

1997-09-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Zouave wrote: > To install Linux Debian 1.3.1 on my system (now running windows 95) I have > to do 2 things: > 1) FORMAT my HDD and create 2 partitions, one for W95, one for Linux > 2) Split my actual partition, without erasing anything, with the > application FIPS.EXE > > I

Re: Diald problem

1997-09-28 Thread Paul Serice
Michael Legart wrote: > > Hi! > > I have some problems with diald: > > Sep 28 11:19:37 badpixel diald[674]: Running connect (pid = 681). > Sep 28 11:19:37 badpixel connect: Initializing Modem > Sep 28 11:19:37 badpixel connect: Dialing system > Sep 28 11:19:57 badpixel connect: Connected > Sep 2

Re: NFS expert, please diagnose this

1997-09-28 Thread Martin Str|mberg
[Mailed to debian-user as well as this relevant (bug in my test program).] According to joost witteveen: > Are you sure you didn't have a typo there? didn't you mean > /var/clients/kant/var/spool/cron/atjobs/.SEQ > instead of > /var/spool/cron/.SEQ > > (there's at least a "atjobs" missing). Ah!

DISK DEFRAGMENTER - PARTITIONS :-((

1997-09-28 Thread Zouave
To install Linux Debian 1.3.1 on my system (now running windows 95) I have to do 2 things: 1) FORMAT my HDD and create 2 partitions, one for W95, one for Linux 2) Split my actual partition, without erasing anything, with the application FIPS.EXE I prefer the 2nd one because I CANNOT format my driv

Re: installing twin and other questions

1997-09-28 Thread Paul Serice
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I know someone asked about this recently. Sorry for not paying > more attention. I got twin from the caldera archive. It does not > seem to have compiled correctly. Can anyone tell me how they got > it up and running? I am trying to install it to /twin because I >

Re: Translation Table Syntax Errors?

1997-09-28 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Sun, 28 Sep 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > I have encountered the same problem. I have downgraded several packages > >> > and then re-upgraded them. I have tracked it down to be either > >> > xlib6_3.3-6 > >> > or xlib6g_3.3-6 that is causing this problem. Downgrading xlib6 to 3.3-4 > >>

Re: extract only PART of an archive

1997-09-28 Thread liiwi
>> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Sep 28 14:58:51 1997 >> Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> > I need to extract JUST ONE of the files in a .deb >> > >> > I've searched through the dpkg info and man pages and haven't found any >> > way to do this (I might be blind, though). Is there anyway to

Re: Translation Table Syntax Errors?

1997-09-28 Thread liiwi
>> > I have encountered the same problem. I have downgraded several packages >> > and then re-upgraded them. I have tracked it down to be either xlib6_3.3-6 >> > or xlib6g_3.3-6 that is causing this problem. Downgrading xlib6 to 3.3-4 >> > and downgrading enough packages so that I could remove xlib

General mail setup

1997-09-28 Thread nimennor
Hi, Sometimes when I check my mail with fetchmail I see the messages fly by: reading... flushed and so on. But when I go to /var/spool/mail/$USER, it's not there -- I've lost many important messages this way. Can somebody advise me what to do? Also, how can I setup pppd so that some ( ip-up )

Re: NFS expert, please diagnose this

1997-09-28 Thread Martin Str|mberg
Oops. Disregard my last message, which didn't contain anything new. I slipped on the keys. According to joost witteveen: > And /var/spool/cron/atjobs is mounted over nfs? Yes, but it's /var that's mounted. On the client (kant, descartes is the server): kant:~> mount [...] descartes.dcd.se:/var/

Re: NFS expert, please diagnose this

1997-09-28 Thread Martin Str|mberg
According to joost witteveen: > > According to joost witteveen: > > > I don't really think this has anything to do with setuid stuff > > > or anything, as "ls" running as root itself doesn't see anything > > > eighter. > > > > ??? I don't understand. As root: > > kant# ls -la /var/spool/cron/atjob

Re: NFS expert, please diagnose this

1997-09-28 Thread joost witteveen
> According to joost witteveen: > > I don't really think this has anything to do with setuid stuff > > or anything, as "ls" running as root itself doesn't see anything > > eighter. > > ??? I don't understand. As root: > kant# ls -la /var/spool/cron/atjobs/ And /var/spool/cron/atjobs is mounted ov

Re: NFS expert, please diagnose this

1997-09-28 Thread Martin Str|mberg
According to joost witteveen: > I don't really think this has anything to do with setuid stuff > or anything, as "ls" running as root itself doesn't see anything > eighter. ??? I don't understand. As root: kant# ls -la /var/spool/cron/atjobs/ total 7 drwx-- 2 daemon daemon 1024 Sep 2

Re: formatted floppy type??

1997-09-28 Thread W Paul Mills
On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Lawrence Lucier wrote: > Hi all. > > > Is there any way of determining which kind of filesystem a floppy has been > formatted with? The > reason I'm asking is because my boot floppy and install disks don't seem to > respond to either > ext2 or dos when I try to mo

Re: Translation Table Syntax Errors?

1997-09-28 Thread Carlos Martinez Txakartegi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi! On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: > > > Warning: ... found while parsing '%s' > > > Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDown > > > Warning: translation table syntax error: %s > > > > [snip more errors] > > > > > I'm r

Re: NFS expert, please diagnose this

1997-09-28 Thread joost witteveen
> > Does adding a no_root_squash (like below) change anything? > > > > /directory host(no_root_squash) > > It's already there: OK, I didn't want to test anything myself, as that meant adding no_root_squash myself. But I've done that now, and I see what you mean. I don't really think this has

Re: installing twin and other questions

1997-09-28 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tmalloy wrote: : I know someone asked about this recently. Sorry for not paying more : attention. I got twin from the caldera archive. It does not seem to have : compiled correctly. Can anyone tell me how they got it up and running? I : am trying to install it to

Re: NFS expert, please diagnose this

1997-09-28 Thread Martin Str|mberg
Thanks for the response, I've been feeling abandoned lately! According to joost witteveen: > > Appearently, stat-ing a file in a directory that is only readable for > > root from a program that is setuid root, that is on a nfs mounted > > partition fails. > > Does adding a no_root_squash (like be

Re: xemacs and mail

1997-09-28 Thread Craig Sanders
thanks for your reply. On 28 Sep 1997, Jan Vroonhof wrote: > Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > i guess what i'm looking for is a blend of xemacs/gnus and pine/elm. > > Use gnus. Gnus is not only a news reader but also a mail reading > program. It excells at using mailling lists.

Re: xemacs and mail

1997-09-28 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i guess what i'm looking for is a blend of xemacs/gnus and pine/elm. Use gnus. Gnus is not only a news reader but also a mail reading program. It excells at using mailling lists. Look in the info file under "Select methods" "Getting Mail". The only th

Re: NFS expert, please diagnose this

1997-09-28 Thread joost witteveen
> I've mailed to debian-user twice earlier about this but I haven't > gotten any responses at all. > > If you know NFS, please try this an tell me if it works for you or > not. > > As it doesn't work for me and I think it wont work for you, I suppose > I'd file a bug report but I don't know if it

Diald problem

1997-09-28 Thread Michael Legart
Hi! I have some problems with diald: Sep 28 11:19:37 badpixel diald[674]: Running connect (pid = 681). Sep 28 11:19:37 badpixel connect: Initializing Modem Sep 28 11:19:37 badpixel connect: Dialing system Sep 28 11:19:57 badpixel connect: Connected Sep 28 11:19:57 badpixel connect: Loggin in Sep

RE: IBM THINKPAD

1997-09-28 Thread Paul Rightley
The problem arises from the fact that the 365xd cannot boot Linux bzImages. These kernel images have been used by Debian since 1.2. I solved the problem by installing Debian 1.1 and then upgrading to 1.2 and later to 1.3. I do think that there is a better solution, but it may require compiling a

(non-debian) PPP question.

1997-09-28 Thread Udjat the BitMeister...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have two different modems that I make PPP connections with. Is there a way to force them to us the same network interface every time? serial-ppp1 uses ppp0 ISDN-ppp2 uses ppp1 every time? I use mrtg to track traffic and the interfaces flip around. Thanks!

disk copying tool?

1997-09-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Anyone know of a good disk copying tool for Linux? I have two floppy drives, I want to copy from an image to the two drives alternately, preferably checking that each has changed before writing (using changeline). I am using a program called DiskFactory 32 for Win32 which is ok but only does one

YA PS2 Mouse question

1997-09-28 Thread Dan Hugo
I just read through all of the Mouse-related mail I have saved up, and I did not see an answer to this, though I did see one related comment. I am using AcceleratedX and attempting to use a MouseSystems optical mouse. The mouse has a serial connector and a PS/2 adaptor (which was given the thumbs

xemacs and mail

1997-09-28 Thread Craig Sanders
i've decided to give xemacs another go and see if i like it any better than i did last time :-). i'm running it with viper, so at least most of the vi keys that i'm used to are still there. I don't like emacs keybindings and am not willing to change to them. i like vi. i'm also beginning to l

Re: Bruce on the internet

1997-09-28 Thread Jim Pick
By popular demand - more pictures! I bagged RMS, and David Miller too. http://www.jimpick.com/freesoft/rogues/ (I'll try to tune into Alan Cox late tonite/this morning) Cheers, - Jim pgpwhSNzePx4h.pgp Description: PGP signature