AutoPPP/mgetty questions

1997-10-03 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have a machine that I want to act as a pppd server, and have all the pieces in place. Win95 can dial in and bring up the link without a problem. When I try using linux to dial into this machine, the link never goes up. I have tried various combinations of

Re: Debian on Dell Latitude Laptop

1997-10-03 Thread Eloy A. Paris
David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Has anyone successfully installed Debian 1.3.1 on a Dell Latitude XPi : laptop? If so, what it the secret? When I try booting from the : install/rescue disk, it gets about halfway through Loading linux... : and then reboots. I installed Debian 1.1 in a

Re: screenshot in xfree86

1997-10-03 Thread Richard . Dansereau
I believe that xwd will do it. This will just do a bitmap window dump. Another option is to use the grab feature in xv. You can then save it in whatever format you want. Oh, and I don't know if it is available for Debian, but I have run xgrab before under xfree86 in linux. This does bitmap

Re: screenshot in xfree86

1997-10-03 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: Does anyone know how to take a screenshot of the X desktop? xv has a grab function built-in. It can grab a single window or the entire root window (ie the entire screen). ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

check web links

1997-10-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Does anyone know a script or pgrogram for linux to check all the links at a web site? I found an ancient and seemingly buggy script on sunsite, but that was all. thanks, hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science computer

Re: Debian 2.0

1997-10-03 Thread Joey Hess
joost witteveen wrote: And, to give a little more feeling about when that may be: We're converting all packages to libc6. I My guess is that we're about half-way Good guess. To be specific (I updated my available file this morning): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmpgrep ^Depends: /var/lib/dpkg/available

problem in smail config

1997-10-03 Thread f . tapparo
Hi, I'm a debian user with a diaul-up connection to an ISP. I would like to configure smail so that it put a differen From: field if a mail is internal in my system or if it's delivered to an external address. I've modified my from_field: from_field=From: ${if dest:remote [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian 2.0

1997-10-03 Thread alex khalil
On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, joost witteveen wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, alex khalil wrote: When will Debian 2.0 be available? When it is ready And, to give a little more feeling about when that may be: We're converting all packages to libc6. I My guess is that we're about half-way,

Re: bug ?: Disappearing DOS partitions (fwd)

1997-10-03 Thread G. Crimp
I'm resending this message. It was returned to me as undeliverable, and I never got a copy of it as a member of the mailing list, so I'm supposing it never made it. Sorry to any of those who have already received this message. Thanks. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 26

debain-i18n

1997-10-03 Thread G. Crimp
Someone recently made reference, on this mailing list, to the i18n user group in answer to a question about no English support with Linux. I couldn't find a reference to this list on the debian web site, but followed the protocol mentionned there for subscribing. That is to say, I

Re: check web links

1997-10-03 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Does anyone know a script or pgrogram for linux to check all the links at a web site? I found an ancient and seemingly buggy script on sunsite, but that was all. Mom Spider. Hard to find, but worth the trouble. It's a perl script. HTH, Brandon

non-English Linux use

1997-10-03 Thread G. Crimp
Does one have to compile extra support into the kernel in order to be able to use accented characters, etc. ? Or is a non-English keyboard map sufficient ? If more than a key.map is needed, what might this be ? I want to use a keyboard with accented characters. I chose the

postgresql for debian

1997-10-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Is there a postgresql package for debian? There is only postgres95 as far as I can find. I want to start developing a web database app and don't want to work with an old version. Nor do I particularly want to compile the source nor install the RPM. thanks Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust

Re: mke2fs

1997-10-03 Thread David Stern
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, David Stern wrote: /usr/doc/util-linux/README.fdisk.gz says: You can have up to 64 partitions on a single IDE disk, or up to 16 partitions on a single SCSI disk, at least as far as Linux is concerned; in practice

mpeg and dat viewer

1997-10-03 Thread Wiria Atmadja Kusuma
what package do we need to view movie from vcd? tia

Re: postgresql for debian

1997-10-03 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Is there a postgresql package for debian? There is only postgres95 as far as I can find. I want to start developing a web database app and don't want to work with an old version. Nor do I particularly want to compile the source nor install the RPM.

Re: screenshot in xfree86

1997-10-03 Thread joost witteveen
On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: Does anyone know how to take a screenshot of the X desktop? well if you are using the default afterstep rc file hitting F4 will do a screenshot of the desktop, this file needs to be converted to another graphic format I guess but I know it works

Re: mpeg and dat viewer

1997-10-03 Thread Wiria Atmadja Kusuma
sorry, I should had sent in plain text format, forgive me. -Original Message- From: Joost_Kooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Wiria Atmadja Kusuma [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, October 04, 1997 5:27 AM Subject: Re: mpeg and dat viewer On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Wiria Atmadja Kusuma wrote:

mpeg and dat viewer

1997-10-03 Thread Wiria Atmadja Kusuma
can anyone be kind enough to point me what package to install in my linux box, so that I can view movie from it? and where can I get it. thanks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Moving and Repartitioning

1997-10-03 Thread Ronald van Loon
Not specifically Debian-related, but in a way it is. I have Linux installed on a 4 Gb disk at home. Of that space, about 1.2 Gb is in use, by various partitions. I recently bought a Matrox Rainbow Runner, which is a companion card to the Matrox Mystique. As far as I know though, there are no

Re: debain-i18n

1997-10-03 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, G. Crimp wrote: Someone recently made reference, on this mailing list, to the i18n user group in answer to a question about no English support with Linux. I couldn't find a reference to this list on the debian web site, but

Problem installing Debian 1.3.1 on Thinkpad 760ED

1997-10-03 Thread Hans M. Pedersen
Hello ! I have been trying for about two days to install Debian 1.3.1 on a Thinkpad 760ED with XGA graphics - but without any luck :-( When I boot from the rescue disk (yes - I have used the floppy=thinkpad option), the root.bin and linux are loaded - and nothing more. After the newline in

Re: mpeg and dat viewer

1997-10-03 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Wiria Atmadja Kusuma wrote: can anyone be kind enough to point me what package to install in my linux box, so that I can view movie from it? and where can I get it. thanks You can try EIOM Pri Section Package Inst.verAvail.ver Description *** Opt non-free

Re: Problem installing Debian 1.3.1 on Thinkpad 760ED

1997-10-03 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Hans M. Pedersen wrote: Hello ! I have been trying for about two days to install Debian 1.3.1 on a Thinkpad 760ED with XGA graphics - but without any luck :-( When I boot from the rescue disk (yes - I have used the floppy=thinkpad option), the root.bin and linux

Time Zone mount points

1997-10-03 Thread Nelson, R.A \(Richard/Rick\)
Thanks for all the previous help, I'm pretty well on my way now. I can actually do usefull work ;-} I've got two small problems (w/my computer, we'll not go further...) *) How do I set the timezone appropriately? I noticed /etc/localtime was symlinked to a non-existant file And that

Re: Moving and Repartitioning

1997-10-03 Thread Richard . Dansereau
What are the best ways to do this ? I thought of: a) creating a gzipped tarfile on my jaz-drive (1 Gb, so I can't just copy it) (drawback: tar seems to have some quirks in that it doesn't always correctly restores permissions) b) reinstalling (drawback: needs reconfiguring too,

Re: Time Zone mount points

1997-10-03 Thread Will Lowe
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Nelson, R.A (Richard/Rick) wrote: Thanks for all the previous help, I'm pretty well on my way now. I can actually do usefull work ;-} I've got two small problems (w/my computer, we'll not go further...) *) How do I set the timezone appropriately? as su, run

Re: Time Zone mount points

1997-10-03 Thread Nelson, R.A \(Richard/Rick\)
Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: *) How do I set the timezone appropriately? as su, run /sbin/tzconfig Thanks much... I couldn't for the life of me find anything related to this in any Linux/Unix books; even scanned /bin,/sbin looking for *time*, *zone* - probably never would've found

Re: Moving and Repartitioning

1997-10-03 Thread kevin havener
Read the Answer Guy column in the latest Linux Gazette (http://www.ssc.com/lg) for a thorough discussion of how to accomplish a backup using cpio. I hope that's where I saw it :-). And I hope this message makes it to the list OK...my first attempt to use netscape to send mail.

Re: Netscape crash after xlib6 3.3-6

1997-10-03 Thread Chew Keat Yeow
On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: Thankzs! I had a number of sleepless night because of this. While we are on this, it occur to me that a revert feature in dselect/dpkg would be great. Many a time, I find myself installing package which break other package but there was no way to go

Re: Time Zone mount points

1997-10-03 Thread Will Lowe
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Nelson, R.A (Richard/Rick) wrote: Thanks much... I couldn't for the life of me find anything related to this in any Linux/Unix books; even scanned /bin,/sbin looking for *time*, *zone* - probably never would've found tzconfig Yeah, this is one of those undocumented

X 3.3-6

1997-10-03 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I am considering moving from X 3.3-3 which I currently have to X 3.3-6 . However in the last few weeks a number of messages point that there are a number of problems with this upgrade associated also with xlib6g. Can somebody briefly summarise what these are and how to upgrade safely ?

Re: AutoPPP/mgetty questions

1997-10-03 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have a machine that I want to act as a pppd server, and have all the pieces in place. Win95 can dial in and bring up the link without a problem. When I try using linux to dial into this machine, the link never goes up.

Re: problem installing debian

1997-10-03 Thread Bruce Jackson
Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Hasibul Haque wrote: I have a quantum fireball ST6 IDE hardrive with Pentium II 233 cpu. I have 1 primary partion with win95 and 2 logical drives - one of them is empty for linux install the other one has windows nt. I am able to boot the

Boot Problems

1997-10-03 Thread Russ Cook
Hello All! A few days ago I posted a problem I'm having at home making a custom kernel that I can boot. I'm reposting now with some information. I run Dos/Windows on my first SCSI drive, /dev/sda, which has three partitions plus the boot sector. I run OS/2 and Linux on my second SCSI drive,

Re: non-English Linux use

1997-10-03 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, G. Crimp wrote: Does one have to compile extra support into the kernel in order to be able to use accented characters, etc. ? No. Or is a non-English keyboard map sufficient ? If more than a key.map is needed, what might this be

the Debian GNU/Linux consultants list

1997-10-03 Thread Behan Webster
** The Debian GNU/Linux consultants list! ** Even though a Debian system can be supported quite well with a little time and by using the debian mailing lists, some people either don't have the time or have

Re: non-English Linux use (Dead keys?)

1997-10-03 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Or is a non-English keyboard map sufficient ? If more than a key.map is needed, what might this be ? Does anyone know how to configure a keyboard to allow the insertion of accented characters under X? I know it's got something to do with dead keys, but I never got this to work. I can thus

Apache-ssl

1997-10-03 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! I notice there is source, but no binary package, of apache-ssl under debian-non-US/stable at os.inf.tu-dresden.de. Is this right? Thanks! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Camm Maguire == The

Using non-US dist w/ dselect

1997-10-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
How on earth is this supposed to work? I have been setting up a mirror. The debian directory is /ftp/pub/linux/debian, the non-US directory is /ftp/pub/linux/debian-non-US. There is a link, /ftp/pub/linux/debian/local which points to ../debian-non-US. This setup used to work: I have a user who

biff

1997-10-03 Thread Tommy Lakofski
this should probably be in debian-devel... however: biff seems to have been broken in the last round of hamm changes, and the developer's email address listed in the package bounces. what's the procedure in these cases? thanks, TL -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

HP SureStore DAT24x6e

1997-10-03 Thread Glenn Amerine
Does anyone have this automated DAT changer on their network? And if so, any troubles backing up Debian boxes with it? From what I can tell from HP's literature, backup software for NetWare and NT are included, and then it lists a bunch of Unix systems that are supported via mtx autoloader

Re: GCC setup problem

1997-10-03 Thread Galen Hazelwood
No, no, no, no, no. *smacks Galen about a bit* gnats != gnat. _gnat_ is the Ada compiler that does/did evil diversions, _gnats_ is the problem report management system, and it has (afaik) 0 reason to be diverting gcc. Sorry, I keep getting those two confused. *whack myself on head*

Re: email to pager software???

1997-10-03 Thread Mark Plaksin
PT == Pete Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PT Hello, PT I'm working on a project to handle email-to-pager service. I found PT a software tool to do so, but the C program segfaults. PT Can anyone suggest a software package, and/or volunteer to help me PT debug the problem? Hi, Try

Re: biff

1997-10-03 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Tommy Lakofski wrote: this should probably be in debian-devel... however: biff seems to have been broken in the last round of hamm changes, and the developer's email address listed in the package bounces. what's the procedure in these cases? Yes, unstable questions should

Re: Boot Problems

1997-10-03 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] Russ Cook wrote: [Klippa, klapp, kluppit.] : I have built a custom kernel (2.0.30) to remove unnecessary file system : support, and add IP Masquerading. I've followed the instructions in : /usr/src/linux/README. I've made a boot floppy with the new kernel, and I :

Re: mke2fs

1997-10-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, David == David Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Someone should probably make a report. At the time I wrote David this I hadn't noticed the companion copyright and David changelog.Debian files, or else I'd already have made such an David attempt. David Should one simply e-mail Guy Maor

Re: check web links

1997-10-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Brandon == Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brandon On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Does anyone know a script or pgrogram for linux to check all the links at a web site? I found an ancient and seemingly buggy script on sunsite, but that was all. Brandon Mom Spider.

Re: check web links

1997-10-03 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On 3 Oct 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, Brandon == Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brandon On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Does anyone know a script or pgrogram for linux to check all the links at a web site? I found an ancient and seemingly buggy script on

Re: bad blocks

1997-10-03 Thread Jaakko . Niemi
Hi, I am running Debian 1.1 and am having problems with bad blocks. I would appreciate any help in solving my problem. This is the error message: Bad Block 1384505 in group 169's inode table. Relocate? Yes. WARNING: Severe data loss possible! Bad Block 1384521 in group 169's inode

Re: mke2fs

1997-10-03 Thread David Stern
Consider the report made. This thread should also be complete now. Thanks again to Monoj, Remco, David Wright, Phil and anyone else whose name I didn't mention for the excellent help and advice, David Stern. On 3 Oct 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, David == David Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Time Zone mount points

1997-10-03 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Nelson, R.A (Richard/Rick) wrote: Thanks for all the previous help, I'm pretty well on my way now. I can actually do usefull work ;-} I've got two small problems (w/my computer, we'll not go further...) *) How do I set the timezone appropriately? I noticed

Re: X 3.3-6

1997-10-03 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote: Hi, I am considering moving from X 3.3-3 which I currently have to X 3.3-6 . However in the last few weeks a number of messages point that there are a number of problems with this upgrade associated also with xlib6g. Can somebody briefly

Re: Time Zone mount points

1997-10-03 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 3 Oct, Will Lowe wrote: On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Nelson, R.A (Richard/Rick) wrote: Thanks much... I couldn't for the life of me find anything related to this in any Linux/Unix books; even scanned /bin,/sbin looking for *time*, *zone* - probably never would've found tzconfig Yeah, this is

Re: X 3.3-6

1997-10-03 Thread joost witteveen
The problems are easy to summarize: - xlib6 version 3.3-6 has a bug in it that causes a lot of programs not to find files under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ . xlib6 version 3.3-5 doesn't have this bug. - the rest of the packages don't seem to have any bugs that break other things (of course

Fw: Boot Problems

1997-10-03 Thread Russ Cook
-- From: Russ Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fw: Boot Problems Date: Friday, October 03, 1997 4:03 PM -- From: Martin Str|mberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, October 03, 1997 1:21 PM In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] Russ Cook wrote:

Re: check web links

1997-10-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Brandon == Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brandon Just found it: http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/MOMspider/ That's the old perl 4 version. Brandon What additions did you make? Hmm. I forst started by giving it variable levels of verbosity (on a large site,

where's dlfnc.h?

1997-10-03 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Hi, I just went on to compile the newest greatest etc version of PostgreSQL (6.2), and the compile failed because dlfnc.h can't be found. This file is supposed to be in ldso At least it was in ldso_1.8.8-1.deb. I recently installed ldso-1.9.6-2, because I also want libc6, and there it is

Re: X 3.3-6

1997-10-03 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, joost witteveen wrote: The problems are easy to summarize: - xlib6 version 3.3-6 has a bug in it that causes a lot of programs not to find files under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ . xlib6 version 3.3-5 doesn't have this bug. - the rest of the packages don't seem to