In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote:
On Mon, Dec 08, 1997 at 09:34:10AM -0500, Dale Martin wrote:
And, if you still have problems, study the output of ssh -v very closely.
It's about the only way to figure out what's wrong when ssh is unhappy.
Hmmm. Just tried this. ssh -v tells me
On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
This seems to be saying that the currently running Xserver won't let you
connect. I think when you run startx --:1.0 it is trying to start it on
the currently running server. Try using something like startx --vt9 :1.0
(I don't know if that's right,
Hi,
Did you get an answer to your question. It is something I've
been wanting to know also.
aaron
Adalberto == Adalberto da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Adalberto Hello users,
Adalberto Excuses for my silly question:
Adalberto How can I get information from
E Papantoniou wrote:
my problem is that I cannot run more than one X server at the same time.
When I am logged in as a user one and run startx on display :0.0, I do
Ctrl-Alt-F2, log in as a user two and type startx -- :1.0
What version of the X packages are you running? There have been bugs in
Do du commands on your various filesystems to see how much you're
using on each. Put /var and /home on one slice and everything else
on the other. Add up what you're using for everything else, add a
percentage for growth, and make the everything else slice that big.
Make a swap partition (I use
I had a friend with this problem. You can put the base system on
five floppies. It really doesn't take too long.
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, --- A.T.E. --- wrote:
O.K. here's the problem . I have a laptop and I want to take dos
,windows and all that stuff off and just run a straight
ftp.debian.org
They are also on your cd in the same directory as the rescue
floppy image. You can use the cd undere DOS and write them to floppies
with RAWRITE
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, --- A.T.E. --- wrote:
Where can I get or how do I make a set of linux base system installation
Jens. Here's a twist. I've attached a short text
file clipped from the Linux Printing Howto. Apparently, the input
filter is not run when printing to remote printers. The clip describes
setting up a double print queue in order to run the input filter, but still
no luck. I'm not sure I understand
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Darren Renaud wrote:
Is there a way to establish an email only account? Also is there a way
to add or remove a large amount of those accounts (if they can exist)?
I'm setting up a system for student email, and have to add or remove 40+
accounts per semester. I'd like to
Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
E Papantoniou wrote:
my problem is that I cannot run more than one X server at the same time.
When I am logged in as a user one and run startx on display :0.0, I do
Ctrl-Alt-F2, log in as a user two and type startx -- :1.0
I eventually managed to run the second X
I have some older versions from Trans-Ameritech CDs, but when I heard
about
Debian being included on the November Boot magazine disk I thought I'd
give it
a try.
I had installed the base Slackware 1.2.28(I think?), but was unable to
get X running, though it would come up; nothing more.
My
Perl's idiot's guide to solving cgi problems didn't have any helpful
hints for my problem. Although it did say something about running the
server as a user which could write in all the cgi directories, which
didn't seem right. Currently Apache runs as www-data/www-data which is
enough access to
On 08-Dec-97 Darren Renaud wrote:
Is there a way to establish an email only account? Also is there a way
to add or remove a large amount of those accounts (if they can exist)?
I'm setting up a system for student email, and have to add or remove 40+
accounts per semester. I'd like to limit
Hi-
I would like to configure my Debian box to accept telnet, ftp, and www
connections. Right know I have my hosts.allow as ALL:ALL but I would like
limit the connections to only those with my schools connections and my
local LAN's machines.
i.e.just allowing *.unt.edu and *.dimension.org
bill writes:
Some ISPs using CHAP present the username/password sort of thing (of
course username: might be something else like login:, account:,
etc. but actually don't use them for ppp logins. If the script wakes
up getty on such systems, a ppp login attempt will fail.
Yes, I'm aware of
On Mon, Dec 08, 1997 at 11:04:07PM -0600, Ian Keith Setford wrote:
Hi-
I would like to configure my Debian box to accept telnet, ftp, and www
connections. Right know I have my hosts.allow as ALL:ALL but I would like
limit the connections to only those with my schools connections and my
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Ian Keith Setford wrote:
Hi-
I would like to configure my Debian box to accept telnet, ftp, and www
connections. Right know I have my hosts.allow as ALL:ALL but I would like
limit the connections to only those with my schools connections and my
local LAN's machines.
Just wondering if anyone has sucessfully compiled NNTPCACHE on a Debian
system?
If so, how?!?!?
Just follow the directions and it should work perfectly... or at least it
has for me for over a year now :)
One thing you can do if you aren't used to compiling things is to not
worry about
Hello all:
I'm trying to use xxgdb or ddd to debug a small program.
With xxgdb when I attempt to load a program (compiled
with the -g option) I get a segmentation fault. When I try
to use ddd, I get can't malloc.
I there something other than the -g option I must use ?
The -g option
Hi! I'm having problems running X Windows after installing it. There's no
default window manager after running 'startx' at the command prompt even
if I specified one during the installation, so I have to type whatever
window manager I want to use at the console after it starts up. Does
anyone
I'm trying to install Debian 1.3.1 on a new system, which means I have no
certainty that anything (the hardware) is actually working as it is
supposed
to.
I get a few error messages, one of which is a 'can't find partition table'
or something like which scrolls by quickly after a series of
Adalberto How can I get information from X to know resolution
Adalberto and color depth of my actual server?
Adalberto Well, I can change resolution with that 'three keys
Adalberto effort' but I don't know exactly how many colors were
Adalberto displayed and how many
Hi Paul!
Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I know of no Thinkpads that can boot bzImages (though I do not know
many Thinkpads) - which is why the 'tecra' disks work (i.e. they are
zImages).
Is this true? I thought that the Tecra disks were still bzImages, but
were compiled with the
Hello, Aaron,
I'm quite sure my question was a very, very silly question because I
got no answers about.
I've read an X guide from O'Reillys and there's no clue for my question
(and now I know, for yous too), all those HowTo's I got too. In a word: nothing.
I
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone else had a Pro Audio Spectrum (16) working with
there Debian box and more importantly if they have gotten the cd-rom to
work with it off the cd-rom port on the card
I have gotten the sound to work but not the cdrom ... what I need to
figiure out is the device
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Logical partitions created with DOS
fdisk are completely unusable by Linux, and often will result in cfdisk
reporting a broke partition table.
In general, it is wise to assume human error or misunderstanding when
problems with partition tables
bleach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Paul, Linux doesn't recognize or even care about primary partitions.
fdisk, cfdisk, etc. recognize them but only because BIOS deals with
drives and partitions in this fashion.
Wrong. BIOS has no notion of partitions at all. Linux _does_ 'care'
about
Hello Bryan,yes there is a file that has the windows manager information.
It also tells what order to start them in. But you can only have one
running at a time. Here is mine, it is in /etc/X11/windows-managers
# This file contains a list of available window managers. The default
# Xsession
Kevin,
I have gotten the sound to work but not the cdrom ... what I need to
figiure out is the device name ...IE /dev/cdrom (It's not that one) ...
Thanks.
I also have a PAS16 at home, but I don't have a SCSI CD, so I
haven't tried. Anyway, the PAS16 adaptor is SCSI, so you should try
Thank you for your reply:
Firstly, at the command line I enter the following -- xxgdb gdbtst
Following that, the 4 windows open and then close. In the window
where I started the program I get Segmentation Violation. So I don't have
an opportunity to do anything within the debugger.
If I just
Alain Nissen wrote:
Richard A Nelson wrote:
When I start netscape I get a ration of the attached messages... I
thought I've taken care of all the requisite symlinks, but am obviously
missing something... Does anyone know what ?
See bug report #14249.
Daniel Martin writes:
[snip]
is all that they can do). Also, you may wish to create a
directory under /home (for example, called /home/nologin) with mode 755
owned by root, and then set all the users' home directories to that
instead of the default. (Of course, you can't do this if
Hello, Paul!
My previous question was:
Adalberto == Adalberto da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Adalberto Hello users,
Adalberto Excuses for my silly question:
Adalberto How can I get information from X to know resolution
Adalberto and color depth of my
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Phillips) writes:
Toshiba laptops have a hotkey combination to control the audio output.
[snip]
But the computer makes other sounds like beeps etc. Does this mean the
speaker can't have been turned off - or is this somehow
Hello all:
Isn't there a command called xdpyinfo which provides
a prints to an xterm window the characteristics of your Xserver.
Simply enter xdpyinfo.
Peter
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From: Adalberto da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
I recently installed the AFS file system on a Debian Linux machine
running the unstable distribution. Every time the scripts in
/etc/cron.daily are run now I get a series of error messages about
connections timing out for /afs domains. The messages look like
find: /afs/bcc.ac.uk: Connection
Hi,
System: PC with SCSI Quantum hard disk 3G and NT4 installed
I have created 3 primary partitions of type NTFS
I would like to create 2 linux partitions: system+swap but cfdisk
gives an error when writing the partition table:
FATAL ERROR: Cannot seek on disk drive
I am able to recover using
tony mollica wrote:
Jens. Here's a twist. I've attached a short text file clipped from
the Linux Printing Howto. Apparently, the input filter is not run
when printing to remote printers. The clip describes setting up a
double print queue in order to run the input filter, but still no
I have been led to believe that the 'tecra' disks had the kernel
patch AND were compiled as zImages. I may very well be wrong on
this account. However, I have yet to see a bzImage (that I have compiled)
boot my Thinkpad.
Paul
On 08-Dec-97 Kirk Hilliard wrote:
Hi Paul!
Paul Rightley [EMAIL
Hello,
I checked the dpkg man page and the dpkg --help listing but could
not find an answer:
Is there an option or set of flags that can be passed to dpkg in
order for it to provide a listing of installed packages that have
been updated? I'm assuming there must be since dselect does this
and
Randy Edwards writes:
I've got to get a new modem for a Debian machine. My requirements
are that it be one of the Rockwell 56k standard ones, of course, that it
do fax, and I'd like it to be able to handle voice. What I'd really
love is to set up a voice mailbox system on my Debian box.
Hi,
How to install those packages in project/experimental using dselect with
ftp method. Thanks.
Louis
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Richard Davies writes:
This is a request for some feedback from current and potential users of GPC.
I have GPC 2.0 compiled for hamm, built using GCC 2.7.2.3. The next
version of GPC (currently 971001) is in beta, but is already more stable
than GPC 2.0. There seems to be a few
Thanks, I'll try this out sometime this morning.
tony mollica
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On 8 Dec 1997, Kirk Hilliard wrote:
Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I know of no Thinkpads that can boot bzImages (though I do not know
many Thinkpads) - which is why the 'tecra' disks work (i.e. they are
zImages).
Is this true? I thought that
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On 9 Dec 1997, Douglas Bates wrote:
I recently installed the AFS file system on a Debian Linux machine
Where is AFS for Linux available?
Nils
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This is a request for some feedback from current and potential users of
GPC.
I have GPC 2.0 compiled for hamm, built using GCC 2.7.2.3. The next
version of GPC (currently 971001) is in beta, but is already more stable
than GPC 2.0. There seems to be a few possibilities available.
Hello all ...
I have convinced a client of mine who is novell IPX based to install a
debian linux machine into their small company. (all they have ever used
is Novell for file and print shares).
Initially , this new debian machine will be used to serve up internal
web pages and
Dale Scheetz writes:
On 8 Dec 1997, Sten Anderson wrote:
That's the problem-^
When You install debian (or most other distributions), you must remove
these
pseudo-partitions as only DOS understands them.
Are you saying
On Mon, Dec 08, 1997 at 03:02:09PM -0500, Daniel Martin wrote:
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Adam Klein wrote:
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Daniel Martin wrote:
On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Adam Klein wrote:
In the past few days, smail has stopped non-local mail. It returns a
message from
QUESTION: Is their a generic ip addressing scheme that should be used
within this company , since it is not connected in any way to the net.
Does it even matter? I guess I could use any address I want ...
There's an RFC on this, but I can't quote the number at the moment
This RFC defines the
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, David Oswald wrote:
QUESTION: Is their a generic ip addressing scheme that should be used
within this company , since it is not connected in any way to the net.
Does it even matter? I guess I could use any address I want ...
Yes, use one of the private network blocks set
about private ip address spaces:
Address Allocation for Private Internets is rfc 1597
http://www.internic.net/rfc/rfc1597.txt
people may want to have a look at:
http://www.clock.org/~fair/opinion/rfc1597.html
which also talks about:
Network 10 Considered Harmful
(Some Practices
Hello all,
I am running a Debian 1.3.1 install with the basics for X. I use xdm
to login via WinNT/Exceed v5. I have used dftp up update all the X
based stuff from ftp.debian.org and I use afterstep as my window
manager.
What I am having problems with is a lockup or hangup from XDM. If I
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Kevin Traas wrote:
: QUESTION: Is their a generic ip addressing scheme that should be used
: within this company , since it is not connected in any way to the net.
: Does it even matter? I guess I could use any address I want ...
:
:
: There's an RFC on this, but I can't
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Sen Nagata wrote:
: about private ip address spaces:
:
: Address Allocation for Private Internets is rfc 1597
: http://www.internic.net/rfc/rfc1597.txt
:
: people may want to have a look at:
:
: http://www.clock.org/~fair/opinion/rfc1597.html
:
: which also talks
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Ferenc Kiraly wrote:
Hi!
Is there a way to establish an email only account? Also is there a way
One thing you can do is give the user /bin/false insted of a shell.
Just out of curiosity, is it bad to assign users a shell of
/dev/null ? I was paranoid and
Hi,
I'm trying to compile a custom kernel (2.0.31) for my machine using
make-kpkg (3.01). I came across a minor irritant. Here is what I do -
1. make config|xconfig|menuconfig
2. Edit drivers/sound/local.h and add #define DESKPROXL (my machine.
drivers/sound/Readme.cards asks me to add this
Following up my verbose message ...
One place you can find all the RFCs in a browsable format is
http://rfc.fh-koeln.de/doc/rfc/html/rfc.html
I find using the browser a bit easier than ftping the RFCs from internic
or wherever ...
: On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Sen Nagata wrote:
:
: : about private ip
I have installed majordomo on my system. Everything compiled okay, I can
subscribe/unsubscribe/etc... but when I try and send mail to the list, it
bounces back with an 'unknown user' error, as if instead of processing the
include command, it is treating it like a username. My /etc/aliases looks
I've heard claims that some Novell specific hardware won't do anything
but IPX. I've never encountered this myself. (anyone know if it's
true?? FUD??) AFAIK, a hub should be doing all its work at the hardware
level anyway.
If it's just an ethernet hub, it never gets beyond the Physical and
Jay,
I am a little confused. If you are running Exceed from an NT box and
connecting to debian, then exceed is the xserver. You don't need an
xserver on the debian box (or even fonts, for that matter).
If you are also using the window manager on debian, then you have to be
using single
I have a question that has not been asked on the java-linux list, but
has not been answered. So I'm asking here :)
I am running Debian stable, and using the JDK package downloaded from
Hamm. I have had no problems until this...
I'm writing a RMI program. It works on other platforms (Win NT, HP
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On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, David Oswald wrote:
QUESTION: Is their a generic ip addressing scheme that should be used
within this company , since it is not connected in any way to the net.
Does it even matter? I guess I could use any address I want ...
Others had
I have to install Linux onto a umsdos file system on one of my computers,
even though I know it isn't a suggested practice.
What steps should I take to install a fresh debian system onto umsdos. I
have a up and running Debian system to make a new kernel and what not.
Thanks for any info or
I am a little confused. If you are running Exceed from an NT box and
connecting to debian, then exceed is the xserver. You don't need an
xserver on the debian box (or even fonts, for that matter).
Humm, let me clearify... I guess I do not need an xserver, but it
wants to be installed
Lets back up for a moment. The drives themselves care not how they are
used. In scsi (and I suspect IDE), the drive responds to the block
address and knows nothing about partitions, logical or otherwise (or
for that matter, clusters).
It is the device level driver code on the actual interface
Umm... Sounds like you have things setup pretty well. I assume you have
allow server reset enabled in the xconfig window mode screen.
Never mind, since you are using an external window manager that probably
doesn't apply...
It appears that xdm does not get your request to be managed. I'll
If you can boot a DOS session, you might want to try doing a fdisk/mbr on
that drive. Not being sure just exactly what you are trying to do though,
realize that issuing the above command _will_ wipe out everything on the
drive. If you do run the command, it would be a pretty good idea to take
a
Steve,
What mailer are you running on your system? If you are running sendmail,
have you run the newaliases command (or sendmail -bi) to reinitialize the alias
file? If you are running some other mailer, I'm sure that there is a command
that will do this for you.
Steve Mayer
[EMAIL
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Steve Saletta wrote:
I have installed majordomo on my system. Everything compiled okay, I can
subscribe/unsubscribe/etc... but when I try and send mail to the list, it
bounces back with an 'unknown user' error, as if instead of processing the
include command, it is
Unfortunately, it's export restricted. However, you call always check
the linux-afs faq (and get on the mailing list) at URL:
http://www.umlug.umd.edu/linuxafs/
Nils Rennebarth wrote:
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On 9 Dec 1997, Douglas Bates wrote:
I recently installed the AFS file
Have not done this myself so...
First, IPX and IP can co-exist and Linux speaks both. Again, I don't do
IPX but possibly the Linux capability might aid you in setting this up
incrementally.
No, idea about the hub though. It should be willing to accept the Linux
box as a valid novell machine
Umm... Sounds like you have things setup pretty well. I assume you have
allow server reset enabled in the xconfig window mode screen.
Never mind, since you are using an external window manager that probably
doesn't apply...
It appears that xdm does not get your request to be managed.
Can someone send me the binary to make a rescue disk that uses krnimage
2.0.30 or newer? or tell me where to get one!
__
Get Your Private, Free Email at
Hi John;
One question that I have: Is it true that ALL ISPs that use chap or pap
authentication also do not require an initial login? I don't personally
know of any exceptions but I also don't see any technical reason why it
would not be possible to use chap following login.
It also seems to
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Steve Saletta wrote:
I am using smail, and neither local nor remote addresses work.
My problem doesn't seem to be with majordomo, but rather
with the :include: feature of smail, and yes, I have ran sendmail -bi.
This may be do the same thing as newaliases, I don't
Jay,
I did some fiddling and made some calls. I found a few quirkey things but
don't know if they would affect you.
The guys here use xdm-query. At first it gives you an error message about
xdm request denied. Then you clear the key field (communications screen -
configure) and everything
hi all,
I´m using slrn for reading news and do NOT want to change the app ;)
Now, when starting slrn from within the standard linux terminal, I get
that nifty color-spreading frontend. But when started in an xterm, it
looks sad monochrome.
Does anyone know if can get colors in xterms, too --
Do you have a little spare time?
Do you have some extra hard drive space?
Do you enjoy being the first to try something new?
Do you want to be on a low volume mailing list (compared to debian-user)?
Do you want to help debian become the most popular linux distribution?
Do you want women to adore
Add the following line to your ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources, depending
on which one you use:
xterm*customization:-color
You may also choose to add it to /etc/X11/Xresources, to make it a
system-wide default.
Thanks,
Dennis
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dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Systems/Network | work:
I too faced this situation when using a lynx browser with slang compiled
in on my (Red Hat 4.2) system. The supposedly color xterm wasn't, so I
got around that by running lynx from an rxvt. There it looks like it's
supposed to (I think)
hth
dpk wrote:
Add the following line to your ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources, depending
on which one you use:
xterm*customization:-color
You may also choose to add it to /etc/X11/Xresources, to make it a
system-wide default.
Actually, though that will enable color for everything
I am finally making the transition to the libc6. I am following the HOW-TO
but am having a hard time finding the recommended files like 'libreadline2'
at ftp.debian.org (although I found libreadlineg2).
Beyond file location problems I would like to not use dpkg and use dselect
instead but I am
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Alexis S. Panagides wrote:
I am finally making the transition to the libc6. I am following the HOW-TO
but am having a hard time finding the recommended files like 'libreadline2'
at ftp.debian.org (although I found libreadlineg2).
Beyond file location problems I would
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a question for you... What happens to the Linux partitions sitting in a
extended partition if the extended partition gets accidently _trashed_?
(like from a virus)
I assume it does the same thing as trashing a primary partition ... FUBAR
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
Alright, this is really weird. After adding those lines it ran fine and
now it runs w/o those lines.. maybe my permissions were wrong, but I'm
sure they were 755 root/root. hmm.. Anyhow, now it only runs in the
/cgi-bin and not the user's
Hi,
Kevin J Poorman wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone else had a Pro Audio Spectrum (16) working with
there Debian box and more importantly if they have gotten the cd-rom to
work with it off the cd-rom port on the card
I have gotten the sound to work but not the cdrom ... what I
I am doing work for a small township that has 5 people working there that would
like internet access and email. Is there a way to give them access with only
one modem connection with Linux? I know Wingate will do this, but is there some
sort of proxy arrangement that will do the same thing on
I got somewhat farther in hunting down twin, and some advice from their side.
It seems that there are libc functions not present in our version.
Particularly,
unsigned int * _dl_find_hash(char *, char *, int , char *, int);
^^^
and
Hi,
There was a typo that caused the configuration to be done
multiple times; I think in the latest version that has been
fixed (I realize that may be little consolation to people running
stable 1.3.1 rXXX).
Unfortunately, to ease the task of people who maintain a
kernel
On Tue, Dec 09, 1997 at 10:54:02AM -0600, Ken Lauffenburger wrote:
Hello,
I checked the dpkg man page and the dpkg --help listing but could
not find an answer:
Is there an option or set of flags that can be passed to dpkg in
order for it to provide a listing of installed packages that
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Steve Millard wrote:
I am doing work for a small township that has 5 people working there that
would
like internet access and email. Is there a way to give them access with only
one modem connection with Linux? I know Wingate will do this, but is there
some
sort of
Ken Lauffenburger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I would like to be able to just get the latest Packages.gz file and
check for updates. I'm looking for a list of updated installed
packages, not available (uninstalled) ones.
Ruari-diff does just that; it's currently in Incoming, until it's
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