On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
I am curious to find out what folks in the Debian community think of
this.
1. What are the changes that you would make to the source code to make
the browser better?
the big one is port it to use GTK rather than Motif. but start off by
On Thu, Jan 22, 1998 at 04:43:38PM -0700, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
dump: MS-DOS executable (EXE), OS/2 or Windows
However, when i transfer the program to my DOS box (and rename it to
dump.exe), it wont run. It says:
dump: cannot execute: One of the library files needed to run this
That isn't going to work. The Windows 95 boot manager doesn't exist. I
don't know what URL you are referring to, but I am willing to bet that it
talks about the windows nt boot manager, which will boot linux.
95 will only boot itself and a previous DOS operating system, and the
latter only if
I wrote:
] dump: cannot execute: One of the library files needed to run this application
cannot be found
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
] You may need Cygnus's GNU Win32 DLL, I can't remember the exact name.
] I agree that static should remove this requirement though. ftp.cygnus.com.
Does this mean that Netscape will have its own package in the base install
of hamm? Or will it be available as a non-free package for download? (I
know about the installer that's already available, but it would be a bit
more convenient to have the whole thing in one place.)
Also, is anyone
Toth Laszlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I use netscape communicator 4.03. When I start it I get a lot of message,
like this:
/usr/lib/netscape/netscape: can't resolve symbol 'JS_GetFramePC'
Seems as if netscape isn´t able to find a library.
Have a look at `which netscape` and see wether
SC == Sudhakar Chandrasekharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SC I have xscreensaver 2.14-1 (hamm) installed on my machine. I
SC have created a custom hack after grabbing the soucres for 2.15
SC How do I make the xscreensaver binary aware of my hack? Do I
SC have to create a new Debian
On Thu, Jan 22, 1998 at 02:16:08PM -0600, Chris Smith wrote:
95 will only boot itself and a previous DOS operating system, and the
latter only if you previously had windows 3.1 installed and chose to
install 95 from the upgrade package in a separate windows directory. It's
a bit too limited
Craig Sanders writes:
possibly re-use parts of netscape browser in mnemonic. and vice-versa.
I doubt that the license will be compatible with the GPL. They will almost
certainly demand an unrestricted license on all changes, and the talk of a
special site makes me think that they will forbid
I have a setup where I have multiple win95 boxes hiding behing a
linux box with IP Masquerading. I've been trying to get CU-SEEME to work
on any one of the win95 boxes. I found a document
(http://www.waste.com/vc/ipmcus.htm) that gave me the following instructions:
ipautofw -A -r udp
Hello all.
i installed recently a debian 1.3.1.
My cdrom (a funai ex285a) is correctly detected during boot up. But,
near half the times, when i mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /cdrom, i get:
hdb: status error: status=0x08.
Drive not ready for command.
ATAPI reset complete.
and then my hard disk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can i send print jobs directly to the printer without conflict with the
NOVELL print Queue???
Assuming the JetDirect card is relative ly new (less that 2yrs or so) the
answer is: yes.
The printer won't accept jobs from both Novel LInux simultaneously but you
can
I am looking for a means of running a CGI script that would be
able to do a function similar to telnet. The idea would be that I could
access a Linux machine by means of any web browser and do standard shell
operations. Currently I work at a k12 school district and it is extremely
Chris-
I have heard recently from 2 colleagues of mine that there are a few Java
scripts/applets that allow you to telnet from a web-browser. I'll ask
tomorrow at work and see about a url. Might try searching.
-Ian
On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, R. Chris Ross wrote:
I am looking for a means
On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, R. Chris Ross wrote:
I am looking for a means of running a CGI script that would be
able to do a function similar to telnet. The idea would be that I could
access a Linux machine by means of any web browser and do standard shell
operations. Currently I work at a
Do you know what is the appropriate port setup for VoxPhone.
-Oz
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Hi, here I am, again..., I can login as anonymous to my box, but I can
not see anything in the /home/ftp directory..., I can cd to pub and
everything under it, I can get files, and put files in incoming, the
only thing in mind, how can ppl get files if they can't display/list
what is in the
On Thu, Jan 22, 1998 at 07:44:52PM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote:
The printer won't accept jobs from both Novel LInux simultaneously but you
can co-exist quite peacefully without you Novell users even noticing.
And avoid print quota etc...
Oops. :-)
Hamish
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Hi,
[ Sorry if this is not debian specific.]
Hi,
I would like to implement a shell program (preferebly in C programming.)
where our users if they telnet to us, they would be given a menu instead
of a shell. They just press 1 they get pine. They press 2 they get the
vi editor, and so on and
On Thu, Jan 22, 1998 at 11:12:07PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
Neilen Marais [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Basically, it seems to do a reverse lookup on the system connecting to
it, but I think I sorted that out by putting allow_broken_hello, or
something similar for localhost.
This
On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Wiria A Kusuma wrote:
Hi, here I am, again..., I can login as anonymous to my box, but I can
not see anything in the /home/ftp directory..., I can cd to pub and
everything under it, I can get files, and put files in incoming, the
[cut]
Yeah, it seems that the wrong
On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, A. M. Varon wrote:
Hi,
[ Sorry if this is not debian specific.]
Hi,
I would like to implement a shell program (preferebly in C programming.)
where our users if they telnet to us, they would be given a menu instead
of a shell. They just press 1 they get pine.
Hello, I'm new -- just recieved my dist. of debian and currently have win95.
I have a program called partition magic -- but it doesn't allow me to create
linux partitions
-- why I do not know Anyhow Im looking for a way to take an existing
partition and
format it as linux -- without wiping
On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
I would like to implement a shell program (preferebly in C
programming.) where our users if they telnet to us, they would
be given a menu instead of a shell. They just press 1 they get
pine. They press 2 they get the vi editor, and so on and so
I don't see any indication that this is being done for security reasons.
Menus not only restrict user options, but they also provide a nicer
interface to new users who may not be familiar with UNIX commands.
So, to A. M. Varon, to answer your original question, there is a package
called adbbs,
The install process formats the partition for Linux. You just need to
create the partition or empty space for one beforehand - it can be a Win95
partition or whatever. The install program will ask which partition(s)
you want to format for Linux, or even allow you to destructively
repartition.
Hi all!
I have two PCMCIA ethernet cards, both on the list of supported cards
for pcmcia-cs, and one works fine but the other does not seem to be
recognized.
The details:
Computer: Toshiba Tecra 730CDT
Cards: Linksys EthernetCard Model No. EC2T (works)
Megahertz PCMCIA
On Thu, Jan 22, 1998 at 08:01:37PM +1030, John Spence wrote:
I just replied to a message in comp.os.linux.setup that asked where all
the Debian users were.
Are we so few or are we so selective? The only reason I read the message
at all is because I filter out every newsgroup message that
How can I send a message to the active console? For example, when a cdrom
is mounted, mount (or the kernel) reports 'changing media type...', etc.
to the active console - if you switch consoles, the text will finish on
the new active console.
Also, will this type of message appear in
Hi all,
I would like to know why cp -aR is not useful to replicate a disk
Thanks in advance,
Ulisses
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Hi again,
the resov+ library: is used also for incomming packets? so If I put
nospoof on it will check if IP and and DNS adress conicides?
Thanks in advance,
Ulisses
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Hi!
First of all I would like to thank everyone who is supporting Debian,
wich I couldn't live without :-)
The next criticism I is made in hope It can enhance the _best_
Linux distribution!! :-)
I belive that debian developpers should put info of compiling options
about packages when they are
Hi!
I would like to log /etc/init.d/* program execution (start, stop, reload, ...)
I think I good way to achieve it is to redirect stdout/stderr before
any original command of the /etc/init.d/ script is made.
How can I make this?
Do you think It can be made in a better way? How?
Why is not
A. M. Varon hat gesagt: // A. M. Varon wrote:
I would like to implement a shell program (preferebly in C programming.)
where our users if they telnet to us, they would be given a menu instead
of a shell. They just press 1 they get pine. They press 2 they get the
vi editor, and so on and so
On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, A. M. Varon wrote:
Hi,
[ Sorry if this is not debian specific.]
Hi,
I would like to implement a shell program (preferebly in C programming.)
where our users if they telnet to us, they would be given a menu instead
of a shell. They just press 1 they get pine.
Hello
First of all sorry for the long post!
Second, the system is 1.3!
Now the problem :
Here where I work, there are several machines running Debian (from web
servers to personal workstations like my own, all pc's, actually there are 2
alphas but those don't matter here), there are also
Robert LaGrasse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The ATI card is a member of the Mach64 family, and has the Rage II + DVD
chipset on board. I've attempted to install the xserver-Mach64 server on
my machine. dselect puts me into the xf86config program, and I plug in
the parameters which correspond to
Fred Handloser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Also, is there a way to write the boot screen information to
a logfile. Most of the information has scrolled off the screen
by the time I get the kernel panic.
The messages are written to /var/log/messages. Also try dmesg
- Sten Anderson
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robert havoc pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The install process formats the partition for Linux. You just need to
create the partition or empty space for one beforehand - it can be a Win95
partition or whatever. The install program will ask which partition(s)
you want to format for
R. Chris Ross writes:
I am looking for a means of running a CGI script that would be
able to do a function similar to telnet. The idea would be that I could
access a Linux machine by means of any web browser and do standard shell
operations. Currently I work at a k12 school district
Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Other thing is that it seems to do a DNS lookup on every from address,
and since my from contains [EMAIL PROTECTED], this can't be done when
I'm offline. So if I can get this fixed I think I can use the newest
smail again... Any suggestions?
When I close my X session, one or more instances of the following message
appear:
xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server :0.0
Any ideas what causes this?
Ian W
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On 23 Jan 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
So despite turning of this feature, smail *does* check the DNS. I'll
have another look at this and will probably file a bugreport.
BTW: which package has libpcap ? This one is missing in tcpdump's
Depends: line. Another bugreport I guess.
I
Sten Anderson wrote:
Robert LaGrasse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The ATI card is a member of the Mach64 family, and has the Rage II + DVD
chipset on board. I've attempted to install the xserver-Mach64 server on
my machine. dselect puts me into the xf86config program, and I plug in
the
Sten Anderson wrote:
Robert LaGrasse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The ATI card is a member of the Mach64 family, and has the Rage II + DVD
chipset on board. I've attempted to install the xserver-Mach64 server on
my machine. dselect puts me into the xf86config program, and I plug in
the
I'd like to see the unrestricted strong encryption enhancement as described
at
http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/Plaza/6333/
I need this feature for online banking. It's the only reason I still boot
to Windows.
Russell Cook, Engineering Branch
WSR-88D Operational Support Facility
(405)366-6520
I can't mount a print queue on a Novell 4.1 Server using:
nprint -s umsm3 -p .Network_Services.dpg.Mednet.mednet
-q pq_mns_helpdesk_dpg_4
I get the following Error:
nprint: Could not find valid connection spec in ncp_initialize
Where is this configured? (ncp_initialize).
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On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Ian Gill Watkins wrote:
When I close my X session, one or more instances of the following message
appear:
xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server :0.0
Any ideas what causes this?
That you didn't close all xterms, xclocks, windowmanagers
Gill Watkins Ian writes:
GW When I close my X session, one or more instances of the following
GW message appear:
GW
GW xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server :0.0
GW
GW Any ideas what causes this?
Your xterms were talking to your X server by some means, probably a
Ivan Rojas writes:
Well, tanks to all that helped me last week with the lilo problem, but
I'm stil in trouble with it.
I got Lilo to boot, I mean when the computer starts lilo appears asking
for what OS to launch. If I select Linux it goes ok, but if I select
Win95 ( default ) it will
Faulty! Make the following changes and re-run LILO. That should fix you up!
I would fix him up if the Win95 boot sector hadn't already been
overwritten. As is, that will just keep the problem from happening again.
This guy has got to sys c: from Win95 as well, to restore the old 95 boot
On 23-Jan-98 Mario Filipe wrote:
Hello
First of all sorry for the long post!
Second, the system is 1.3!
OK, found the solution, I have to get a 2.1.25 (or above, i think)
kernel... :(
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http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf
Can anybody suggest a good off-line news-reader that I can use with Linux?
I'd prefer one that comes with the Debian distribution - I've looked at
Netscape, but don't like the interface, I'd prefer a text-based one.
I just want to be able to connect to my news server, grab headers and
selected
I give up!
I have tried to configure DOSEMU to run on my Debian system without
success.
I am dual-booting NT from the primary partition, so I can't build from
/dev/hda1 otherwise it comes up with cannot load NTLDR :)
I have a bootable DOS 6.2 diskette here which if I build a diskimge from
Thanks to all that have posted to this thread.
Last night finally got it to work and no more boot from floppy ;o)
The final lilo.conf was:
boot=/dev/hda
install=/kernel/boot/boot.b
map=/kernel/boot/map
delay=50
timeout=70
compact
prompt
default=Win95
image=/kernel/boot/vmlinuz
Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I noticed that fetchmail got slow, but I didn't associate this with smail.
But xconsole shows, that during fetchmail my local caching only nameserver
learns hostnames.
So despite turning of this feature, smail *does* check the DNS. I'll have
Has anyone out there made (or considered making) Debian T-Shirts? That
new logo sure would look sharp on one.
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Configuration:
Notebook:HP Omnibook 4000C 486/50 8MB RAM 500MB DISK
Linux-Partition: 250MB
SCSI-Interface: Port Replicator
CDROM: NEC Multispin SCSI 4x
Linux: Debian 1.3.1 on CDROM
Hi experts,
I am trying to install Linux on my notebook.
Configuration:
Notebook:HP Omnibook 4000C 486/50 8MB RAM 500MB DISK
Linux-Partition: 250MB
SCSI-Interface: Port Replicator
CDROM: NEC Multispin SCSI 4x
Linux: Debian 1.3.1 on CDROM
Hi experts,
I am trying to install Linux on my notebook.
Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I want to only let a few users print, using lprng. I put the
following line in lpd.perms, but it didn't seem to have any effect:
REJECT SERVICE=P SERVER NOT USER=blp,brook,laura,root
Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
I think you want:
REJECT
On 23 Jan 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
Time to revert to smail from bo and do further tests on a spare machine.
This happened to me, too. I lost mail from mailing lists, so for me it
wasn't that bad. Anyway, I (almost) removed smail from the equation. I
have:
. smail: queues mail and
Did you run smailconfig? If so, what did you tell it?
Ran smailconfig and I get an error that hostname --fqdn was non-zero.
Started digging, ran some man pages, etc. then ran hostname (comes back
fine) and hostname -f (which says hostname: unknown or something like
that). Also won't let me
On Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 10:09:56AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm using slrn's scoring to bring Debian-related postings to my attention.
I've just re-written my score file for the Linux groups I subscribe to. I
can filter out most of the unwanted messages by killing those with
subjects
Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 23 Jan 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
So despite turning of this feature, smail *does* check the DNS. I'll
have another look at this and will probably file a bugreport.
I don't recall if you said it's a dial-up connection, but I guess
On 23 Jan 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
So despite turning of this feature, smail *does* check the DNS. I'll have
another look at this and will probably file a bugreport.
Yes, please do. Do so on my behalf as well. I'm behind a firewall
and without external DNS, so smail won't accept anymore
On Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 09:54:37PM +0500, Ian Gill Watkins wrote:
You might want to try slrn/slrnpull
bo/binary/news/slrn_0.9.3.2-2.deb
slrnpull has a very simple config file and will download only the groups
you want for reading offline with slrn.
I'm not sure if it's possible to just
*
MEGAWICHTIG - MEGAWICHTIG - MEGAWICHTIG - MEGAWICHTIG - MEGAWICHTIG -
MEGAWICHTIG
*
FYI
Important Notice
WARNING! If you
Ralf,
Although the boot kernel for debian includes support for Adaptec SCSI
controllers, they are not autoprobed for. In order to recognize your
controller, first you need to know which controller you have, (Adaptec
aha151x, aha152x, aic6260, aic6360, etc.) and then you need to identify the
If this is not the place to ask this please point me in the right
direction. BTW I am not new to Linux and it's way of handling
questions.
Here it goes:
I downloaded the latest version of Wine from the Wine web page. I
extracted it and read the readme file for
On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Ian Gill Watkins wrote:
Can anybody suggest a good off-line news-reader that I can use with Linux?
I'd prefer one that comes with the Debian distribution - I've looked at
Netscape, but don't like the interface, I'd prefer a text-based one.
I just want to be able to
If you receive an e-mail with a subject of Badtimes, delete it
immediately WITHOUT reading it. This is the most dangerous Email virus
yet. It will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it will
scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. It will
recalibrate your refrigerator's
Since Netscape Communications Corporation is now making Netscape
re-distributable without strings, it should be made into a Debian
package (instead of just the installer/wrapper package).
See:
http://home.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease560.html?cp=nws01flh2
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Is there any way we can view vxtreme video? Is the solaris plug in somehow
compatible?
cnn has a bunch of things i want to peek at, but most seem to be in this
format :(
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So, it's set as MY domain, not a domain I'm connecting to? Hmmm... Will
this have side effects when I DO set up the ethernet connection? (I'm
also wired to a LAN and through it - and the firewall - to the internet.
Maybe I'll reset it to something like debian.ctg.com - the LAN domain is
ctg.com -
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Ran smailconfig and I get an error that hostname --fqdn was
non-zero.
Yes, but
Hello,
We have a Linux Box (with it's own monitor) and Tektronix X-terminal (XP217CH
box +TXD1753R monitor, produced in Aug 1996). It would be very convinient for
us, if we could boot X-Terminal from Linux box, rather than from central node.
Questions:
1. Is it possible? ( I have zero
I am curious to find out what folks in the Debian community think of
this.
2. What features would you add to the browser?
I'm running Netscape on different computers, and whould be glad to keep
bookmark file just on what computer, as sometimes it's difficult to syncronise
them. Sorry if
Sorry I made a typo in previous messoge. Sending in again.
I am curious to find out what folks in the Debian community think of
this.
2. What features would you add to the browser?
I'm running Netscape on different computers, and whould be glad to keep
bookmark file just on ONE computer,
I've just guided a friend through an installation of Debian over the
phone.
He had a hard time getting LILO to install to the MBR of the first HDD.
He has Win95 on the first IDE and was installing Linux on the second. It's
hard to tell over the phone with a first time linux user if they are
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I, like Thomas Vaughan, have been having problems getting emacs to
recognise the Alt key under X. (The system is a Toshiba laptop.)
The `problem' is that the Alt keys aren't acting as the Meta keys
BRIAN SCHRAMM writes:
I downloaded the latest version of Wine from the Wine web page. I
extracted it and read the readme file for compiling it. I found out
that I needed xpm and the x lib development on my system. I then went
to dselect and installed the two libraries. I
My local freenet (SEFLIN) uses lynx as the login shell for users,
with a menu displayed on login. The 'G' command in lynx is disabled,
thus restricting users to accessing only directories on the
parent machine and web sites that are included in the menu or sub-menus.
Bob
On Fri, 23 Jan
Hi,
I've decided I need some help. I don't get it anymore. I upgraded a lot of
packages on my own computer to be able to use libc6 versions of X-programs
(most notably the gimp), and it has worked. I use afterstep as window manager
(version 1.0-5.1). This one also works just fine.
Now I have
I am communicating with Netscape's VP Client Products. They are still
determining the license details, and I will do my best to convince
them to use straight GPL or LGPL, or something DFSG-compliant.
Bruce
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Hi,
I noted a strange behave of debian 1.3, using nslookup.
If you enter interctively (after having set q=any):
edu
nslookup try to resolve edu (or any othe d1^ level domain)
appending your default domain to edu:
edu.aaa.bbb.com does not exist
So, you have to close edu with a dot:
edu.
and you
On Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 04:52:06AM -0500, Jeffrey Velez wrote:
I can't mount a print queue on a Novell 4.1 Server using:
nprint -s umsm3 -p .Network_Services.dpg.Mednet.mednet
-q pq_mns_helpdesk_dpg_4
I get the following Error:
nprint: Could not find valid connection spec in
Back in the 1980's, AtT produced S.
Most statistical departments quickly worked with S; eg,
Stanford, Purdue, Carnegie-Mellon.
Numerous statistics departments contributed code to S.
In the early 1990's, Statistical Sciences licensed S from ATT, producing
S-Plus.
They put on a pretty front end,
I have install debian base off floppies. Everything ok but now trying
to finishing the installation by connecting out to ISP to get FTP to
finish installing packages.
But modem doesn't dial the phone, never get any OK. Had problems with
/dev/cua1 not existing but did 'mkmod -m 666
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