CircleMUD

1998-01-31 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
I was trying to compile Circle MUD 2.20 under my hamm setup. It said 'undefined refrence to 'crypt'' a bunch of times and died. Any idea what package am I missing to cause this message? Thanks, Timothy BTW - Does anyone know of any bininaries of mud servers & worlds available for Linux? -- T

Re: strange samba error message: corrupt IPC area - remove it!

1998-01-31 Thread Carey Evans
Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I fix these errors? > > ERROR shm_validate_header : bad magic > ERROR shm_open : corrupt IPC area - remove it! This is presumably what Samba wants: Type "ipcs -m" to list all the shared memory. If htere's more than one, you now get to decide wh

Re: svgalib

1998-01-31 Thread Michael Beattie
> On Mon, Jan 31, 1994 at 02:20:19PM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: H > > Hi, > > > > After studying the docs for svgalib (to get a working 320x200x256 mode) I > > have discovered a script with svgatextmode to get the vga registers and > > create a mode for the libvga.et4000 file. Unfortu

xlib-3.3-5

1998-01-31 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
I'm trying to install GNOME (from the source distribution, I'd like to work on it). However, obviously I need to install the gtk library, so I went to my local Debian FTP site to retrieve the gtk library as a debian binary package. However, libgtk requires xlib6g (amongst other things). I then r

Dselect

1998-01-31 Thread Your Name
Ich bin Anfänger und möchte gerne eine grafische Oberfläche aus der Debian Distribution installieren. Aber wenn man mit Dselect arbeitet muß mann einen Device Block angeben oder das CDRom Laufwerk lit dem Befehl 'mount' montieren. wie geht das mit dem 'mount' wie installiere ich die graphische Ober

Re: Somewhat off topic...

1998-01-31 Thread DAVID B. TEAGUE
On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > "DAVID B. TEAGUE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ... Is there a way to program the ppp chat script or > > otherwise programm a dial loop that will allow me to repeatedly try to > > connect and start ppp? > My pppd tries repeatedly (at least

Re: installing qmail/dealing with package dependecies

1998-01-31 Thread Joey Hess
Paul Miller wrote: > On Sat, 31 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote: > > > In hamm, there is a qmail-src package which builds into a binary package. > > It's illegal to distribute qmail in binary form. > > hmm.. maybe someone could make a script to compile and install qmail w/ > the source package.. :) .

Re: installing qmail/dealing with package dependecies

1998-01-31 Thread Paul Miller
On Sat, 31 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote: > In hamm, there is a qmail-src package which builds into a binary package. > It's illegal to distribute qmail in binary form. > > Adam Klein > hmm.. maybe someone could make a script to compile and install qmail w/ the source package.. :) .. that would b

Re: Win95 and Linux: Was: Verified Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-01-31 Thread Ralph Winslow
David E. Scott wrote: > > Rob, > Nice to know you were successful in installing Win95 into a > Linux-based > system. I see you're using multiple physical drives to do that. In my > case, I was trying something of the reverse. I have a Win95B/FAT32 > system in a 5GIG drive. I used Partitio

installing qmail/dealing with package dependecies

1998-01-31 Thread Paul Miller
I want to install Qmail.. and there isn't a Debian package for it. (?) How can I create a fake MTA package to replace my currently running MTA, smail? Thanks Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTE

installing non-debian libs

1998-01-31 Thread Paul Miller
I want to replace my libc5 and glibc files with RedHat's package.. how can I do this (without freezing my system or destroying anything)? I mainly need the libc.so.5.* and libc.so.6.* files. Why? Debian's libc's aren't compiled w/ quota symbols... and I need them to compile programs with quota s

Re: fetchmail/smail trouble

1998-01-31 Thread Paul Miller
downgrading to the bo- smail package worked. ...someone should remove those bad smail packages from bo-update and hamm... Thanks On 31 Jan 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: >smail is refusing connections by fetchmail... there are no error messages >in any of the smail log files. I'm using the sma

Win95 and Linux: Was: Verified Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-01-31 Thread David E. Scott
Rob, Nice to know you were successful in installing Win95 into a Linux-based system. I see you're using multiple physical drives to do that. In my case, I was trying something of the reverse. I have a Win95B/FAT32 system in a 5GIG drive. I used Partition Magic to downsize the FAT32 partitio

Re: fetchmail/smail trouble

1998-01-31 Thread Ben Pfaff
smail is refusing connections by fetchmail... there are no error messages in any of the smail log files. I'm using the smail package from bo-updates on Debian/hamm w/ procmail... Anyone have an idea on what is wrong? Usually this is caused by DNS problems; i.e., fetchmail tries to c

fetchmail/smail trouble

1998-01-31 Thread Paul Miller
smail is refusing connections by fetchmail... there are no error messages in any of the smail log files. I'm using the smail package from bo-updates on Debian/hamm w/ procmail... Anyone have an idea on what is wrong? Thanks -Paul Please reply directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. I won't receive an

Re: debian keeps mail where?

1998-01-31 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Britton wrote: > > I am finally getting mail set up right on my system after seeing the > article in LJ. I found that my system did not have a file > > /var/spool/mail/myusername > > which said article says is the standard place where mail is kept? Does > the user setup s

libc6

1998-01-31 Thread Ken Taylor
Hi, Am currently "playing around" with Debian. Have system installed and stable. Found tools for ping/traceroute etc via proxy on your site which include the libc6 package. All attempts to install the packeges result in errors that the system will not install due to the fact that libc5 is install

Email quest

1998-01-31 Thread eugene mendoza
Dear Nick, Read your reply to Daniel Mashao and it was very informative. I too am setting up a e-mail server and have the following question? To have a smtp mail server set up on the linux machine do i need a name server which is authorative for my sub-domain or will a caching only server be goo

Email quest

1998-01-31 Thread eugene mendoza
Dear Nick, Read your reply to Daniel Mashao and it was very informative. I too am setting up a e-mail server and have the following question? To have a smtp mail server set up on the linux machine do i need a name server which is authorative for my sub-domain or will a caching only server be goo

hi

1998-01-31 Thread Jay Lunsford
hi there, im haveing problems:( when i try to get in gamespy in a server... it has an error... it say's W_LoadWadFile could'nt load GFX.WAD what's the matter , if u know plz send me what i need thank you:) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "un

Compaq Deskpro 4000

1998-01-31 Thread Fernando Tadeu C Brandt
I would like to have some information about Debian hardware compatibility with the "Compaq Deskpro 4000" especially its "Matrox MGA 1064-SG" card and the "Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX Embedded" network card. Thank you very much, Fernando T. C. Brandt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Email quest

1998-01-31 Thread eugene mendoza
Dear Nick, Read your reply to Daniel Mashao and it was very informative. I too am setting up a e-mail server and have the following question? To have a smtp mail server set up on the linux machine do i need a name server which is authorative for my sub-domain or will a caching only server be goo

strange samba error message: corrupt IPC area - remove it!

1998-01-31 Thread Paul Miller
How can I fix these errors? ERROR shm_validate_header : bad magic ERROR shm_open : corrupt IPC area - remove it! ERROR shm_validate_header : bad magic ERROR shm_open : corrupt IPC area - remove it! Thanks Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PRO

qpopper/possible SYN flood???

1998-01-31 Thread Paul Miller
I'm getting warning messages from qpopper 2.2 about a possible SYN flood.. what is a SYN flood? ...I've never received these messages before... is there something wrong w/ qpopper? I don't know if this is related, but I'm also getting network collisions... loLink encap:Local Loopback

Re: Offline Email

1998-01-31 Thread Nick Busigin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: > Does anybody have an idea of how to best set-up an offline email system? I > cannot find suitable information from the man pages etc. Setting up email on a UNIX system can be a challenge as it involves configuring a n

Re: How do I use magicfilter.

1998-01-31 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Jan 30, 1998 at 11:04:32PM -0600, mwb wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Several kind folks responded to my plea for help in solving the printing > > staircase effect when using lpr to print to an HP DeskJet used for Windows. > > OK, I have installed magicfilter-so

Re: svgalib

1998-01-31 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Jan 31, 1994 at 02:20:19PM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: > Hi, > > After studying the docs for svgalib (to get a working 320x200x256 mode) I > have discovered a script with svgatextmode to get the vga registers and > create a mode for the libvga.et4000 file. Unfortunately, it requires a >

Re: debian keeps mail where?

1998-01-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
Britton wrote: > >I am finally getting mail set up right on my system after seeing the >article in LJ. I found that my system did not have a file > >/var/spool/mail/myusername > >which said article says is the standard place where mail is kept? Does >the user setup system not auto

Re: Nis refusing logins

1998-01-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi >== > >I have instaled nis_3.1.deb (with libc6) but I am having problems >with the non-local users. > >I have the following entry in /etc/passwd > > +piupiu:*:0:0::/home/merlin/msky:/bin/bash ^ Rea

Netscape doesn't work (libc5/libc6)

1998-01-31 Thread William R. Ward
I'm running hamm and I can't get Netscape to work. I know it's probably a problem with libc5 vs libc6, and that I probably need to reinstall one or more libc5 files, but I don't know which ones! I ran ldd and strace and the output is attached here. I just don't know how to read the output of the

debian keeps mail where?

1998-01-31 Thread Britton
I am finally getting mail set up right on my system after seeing the article in LJ. I found that my system did not have a file /var/spool/mail/myusername which said article says is the standard place where mail is kept? Does the user setup system not automaticly create this file, or am I using

Re: EDA Conundrums

1998-01-31 Thread Paolo Nenzi
On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Maximiano C. Francisco III wrote: > The second problem I have encountered is in the compilation of magic > v6.5. Everything seems to run smoothly until it hits the compilation of > the X11 apps. The compiler stops at this point and tells me that "-lX11 > does not exist" No

Re: acct bug?

1998-01-31 Thread Carey Evans
Ulisses Alonso Camaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is some cron like program that executes these kind of scripts each x > hours the system is up with similar or equal syntax. I may be more usefull > than cron for non 24H systems... This is anacron. It is *very* useful, almost required, fo

Re: Nedit hangs system

1998-01-31 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Given that I received a private email that ddd-2.2.2-1 had the same problem, > this looks like the likely explanation. Unfortunately, though I am the > LessTif maintainer, I am not knowledgable in X programming. I know that X > has a concept of "focus" that can be used

Re: Mirror ?

1998-01-31 Thread James A . Treacy
> > What do I have to do to have my make my Debian mirror an official site? > > I didn't find contact information about this at the web site. > > http://www.debian.org/mirror.html > > Webmaster: > > For some reason, there doesn't seem to be a link from the rest of the > site to this page. > Th

Re: How do I use magicfilter.

1998-01-31 Thread mwb
On Fri, 30 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Several kind folks responded to my plea for help in solving the printing > staircase effect when using lpr to print to an HP DeskJet used for Windows. > OK, I have installed magicfilter-so how do I use it. I entered it as a command > and the system do

How do I use magicfilter.

1998-01-31 Thread BobHock65
Several kind folks responded to my plea for help in solving the printing staircase effect when using lpr to print to an HP DeskJet used for Windows. OK, I have installed magicfilter-so how do I use it. I entered it as a command and the system doesn't recognize it. How does it magically insert the c

Re: controller scsi 3130B data technologies

1998-01-31 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Maurizio Marini; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > Hi, > I apologize for asking something that has yet been answered; > I'm trying to install 1.3. My computer is equipped with a controller 3130 B > and kernel on boot doesn't recognize disks (0 scsi host). > Someone can help me? > bYeZ > >

tseng cards

1998-01-31 Thread Michael Beattie
Is there anybody out there with a tseng et4000 video card??? Would they happen to have the file "tseng3.exe" for it Have they got a working libvga.et4000 file they can lend me I would be greatly appreciative for some help :) Thanks, Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECT

newbie question - problem with netscape

1998-01-31 Thread Steve
Currently I am runnning netscape on win 95 -- my distribution CD "debian linux" had a corrupted netscape package and I cant install it -- and am wondering if there is any way I can download netscape (in win95) and then - boot up linux and install it? Also I am wondering how to open/extract/intal

Re: [Q] Speed? Re: Parallel linux<->linux?

1998-01-31 Thread maor
Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: MH 6.8.3 X-col: - MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 17:41:34 -0800 From: David Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: man segmentation fault

1998-01-31 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Gerald Wann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello - > > I am getting a segmentation fault whe i invoke man from the > command line. What are the possible causes of this error, please? See if running the command 'mandb -c' while root fixes this problem. If it does, the problem is that the man index

Re: debian re-install?

1998-01-31 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Gerald Wann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello - > > Pardon my ignorance - but is it possible to use the debian install > program (from the floppies) to recompile the kernel with additional > modules (e.g. PLIP) without having to reinstall the whole OS and > current file system? > > Thanks > Je

svgalib

1998-01-31 Thread Michael Beattie
Hi, After studying the docs for svgalib (to get a working 320x200x256 mode) I have discovered a script with svgatextmode to get the vga registers and create a mode for the libvga.et4000 file. Unfortunately, it requires a program by the name of "getVGAregs" which I cannot find. any suggestions?

What Driver for Compaq Ethernet Card

1998-01-31 Thread Butch Kemper
I have a Compaq Deskpro 2000 that has an ethernet card that Windows NT identifies as "Netelligent 10/100 TX PCI UTP Bus 0". The card has a big chip on it that is marked as "ti Tlan Chip TNETE100APCM E303W-7BAF2TW" but that didn't give me a clue. I am trying to install Bo and have been unable to

Re: pppd question

1998-01-31 Thread Wakko Warner
Philip Hands wrote: > > Does pppd support server assigned nameservers? I know some isp's tell what > > the name servers are, I was wondering if there was a way that pppd would set > > up the new nameserve > > If you are talking about the microsoft protocol tweaks that let you tell > Win95 > cli

controller scsi 3130B data technologies

1998-01-31 Thread Maurizio Marini
Hi, I apologize for asking something that has yet been answered; I'm trying to install 1.3. My computer is equipped with a controller 3130 B and kernel on boot doesn't recognize disks (0 scsi host). Someone can help me? bYeZ Maurizio Marini -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Re: HELP: eth0 not recognized

1998-01-31 Thread Joel Klecker
Regarding "HELP: eth0 not recognized" of 16:25 +0900 1998-01-30, David Iannucci wrote: >I've got an ISA ethernet card that has E2000 printed on it, and >so I've assumed it's an NE2000 compatible. There's a paper >note taped on the inside of the machine that says that the >ethernet card is IRQ 7, a