smail Solution for Dynamic IP's

Please take a look at the header for this message for any discrepancies. I am sending this message with smail from a dynamic IP and may have an answer or two for others. By the way, this was sent using elm-me+ and fetchmail, also. Art Lemasters: -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: APC UPS'es

On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Robert Moody wrote: : Hi there, : : I am just trying to find out a quikly if the APC UPS is compatible with : Linux. I am not to sure and I don't want to purchase the wrong one for a : client. : : If anyone had had any experiance with these UPS please let me know. : : Thank

Re: How can I create new dpkg status file?

Patrick Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My status file got clobbered (ok, it was removed from /var while I was > looking for more space to work in). Is there any way to get dpkg to > look at my system and update the installed packages list based on what > is actually on the system? Your

Re: anonymous ftp permissions

Paul McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > add some debian stuff to it. The debian is on another drive. There was > talk about mounting the drive under the anonymous directory tree. I can't > use hardlinks on different drives and/or partitions or filesystems. I was > wondering why I can't us

Re: Fetchmail & Smail Problems

Deniz Dogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed Add "smtphost localhost" to your .fetchmailrc And als oadd localhost to the hostnames in /etc/smail/config Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

> that's fine, you can program in whatever toolkit you prefer. Thanks :) > however, you have to accept the fact that some of your choices may be > incompatible with free software licensing. Sure. > if you want wide distribution and adoption of your software in the free > software community, t

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also on another note, does anyone knoe if there is a graphical front end > to the ipfwadm (Firewall) program? If not then I am currently > considering writing one. The current plan is to produce both a ncurses > version, and a HTML ver

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > Guys, what I am doing is a high-quality gui programming. (sorry if it > sounds a bit ... not humble). Even Motif is not enough for this kind > of task. I am using most of the features of Motif 2.0 (those which > are also present in 2.1) - this rules les

Re: GhostView / GhostScript problem...

> >different sort`s of errors? Or always the same? > >is libpaperg installed and configured? Yes, I have the newewst libpaperg installed: Aside from the error I get when opening gziped ps/eps/pdf files, which I presume is a separate problem, all the errors are the same A4: Unknown papersize thing.

Re: fetchmail quit after upgrading smail

Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I decided to tackle my fetchmail/smail upgrde today. I am running > a hamm system but had put smail on hold because it messed up fetchmail. I > have searched the debian user mailing list arhive and tried the various > suggetions with no luc

two monitors

I am trying to get an old mda (hercules compatible?) card going together with a Matrox Millenium on an ASUS P55T4P2 motherboard. On my quest, I have found two ways to do this, one of which almost works---a "multimon" kernel patch that has compiled cleanly on 2.0.33. A second approach is called "m

Re: dselect: I can't get it going

On 24 Feb 98 at 20:26, Tonetti.doc, R Tonetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just bought Debian 1.3.1 + KDE on CD from JFL, Berlin. I installed a > small kernel on the 2nd partition of my HDD. So far, OK. > > I explored the CD in Win95, with PCtools, Xtree, etc., and frankly don't >

Re: bbs for debian?

Pere Camps wrote: > I was tempted to do that, but somebody told me that dosemu hangs > every two days or so of continous use. Is that true? I doubt it, I have a friend ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) who starts dosemu when his system boots, and never closes it. I haven't heard about periodic hangs. --

APC UPS'es

Hi there, I am just trying to find out a quikly if the APC UPS is compatible with Linux. I am not to sure and I don't want to purchase the wrong one for a client. If anyone had had any experiance with these UPS please let me know. Thanks in advance, -- Robert Moody Sysop of Programmer's Test

Re: Fetchmail & Smail Problems

On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 11:21:42AM +, Deniz Dogan wrote: > Hi, > > I`m getting this error: > > $fetchmail -k -v > [snip] > fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1 > fetchmail: POP3< +OK 7064 octets > reading message 1 (7064 bytes) > fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed > fetchmail: POP3> QUIT > fetchmail

Re: expand for UNIX

On Mon, Feb 23, 1998 at 11:12:07PM -0800, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > > Is there any program where I can extract files from that MS-DOS > expand/compress format under UNIX? As a last resort, you can run the original program from within dosemu. Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god."

Re: Deltrees

On Sun, Feb 22, 1998 at 01:02:57PM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > > should work, if I understand your question. (What's a deltree??) > > It's important for mathematical work. Each year in italy, the deltas are > harvested from the deltrees. While there is an extra supply in the wi

Re: Port Scanning

> Is there anything out there to stop people from port scanning my system ? > I had someone last night scan my system from port 1 to 50,000 ! > > I heard that there is a portscand out there somewhere, if so where ? There is a nice little package called abacus-sentry that runs as a daemon

Re: Port Scanning

matthew tebbens wrote: > > > Is there anything out there to stop people from port scanning my system ? > I had someone last night scan my system from port 1 to 50,000 ! Firewalling or tcp_wrappers configured the right way. > I heard that there is a portscand out there somewhere, if so where ?

Re: Cyrix 586/100

Matthew Vernon wrote: > > Can anyone tell me if this processor is compatible with debian, and if any > special installation procedures will be required? > > Thanks, > > Matthew > I use a Cyrix 586/120 and it works fine. Linux sees it as a 486 but performance is real good. Dick A. -- TO UNSUBS

dselect: I can't get it going

Hi all, I just bought Debian 1.3.1 + KDE on CD from JFL, Berlin. I installed a small kernel on the 2nd partition of my HDD. So far, OK. But, when I try launching, from root, _dselect_, no packages get charged: it asks me for the top directory to start with on debian CD, and I enter /debian

Re: Port Scanning

You might want to look at Abacus Sentry- you can get it from www.psionic.com matthew tebbens wrote: > Is there anything out there to stop people from port scanning my system ? > I had someone last night scan my system from port 1 to 50,000 ! > > I heard that there is a portscand out there somewhe

Re: BGP

On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Stephen Zedalis wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Scott Ellis wrote: > > >Nope. You need to sign a licence to distribute it at all (including in > >non-free) and Debian isn't willing to sign the licence (and you can't just > >have "someone else" sign the licence and then upload

Re: BGP

On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Scott Ellis wrote: >Nope. You need to sign a licence to distribute it at all (including in >non-free) and Debian isn't willing to sign the licence (and you can't just >have "someone else" sign the licence and then upload it to non-free). Hmm... Isn't it for things like this

Re: How to track hard drive seeks?(more info/questions)

On 23 Feb, Brian White wrote: >> I attached strace to the update process and it is doing as it says, >> sleeps for 5 seconds and then calls bdflush(). I can't watch bdflush >> because it is a new process everytime. > > Have you tried strace with the "-f" option and friends (-o, -ff)? > strace -p

Re: Port Scanning

On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, matthew tebbens wrote: > Is there anything out there to stop people from port scanning my system ? > I had someone last night scan my system from port 1 to 50,000 ! > > I heard that there is a portscand out there somewhere, if so where ? You can't stop them beforehand. You

Re: diald with dynamically assigned IP?

On 24 Feb 1998, Erv Walter wrote: > The slip proxy can have any ip you want. They are only used to trap > the network requests while the net is down anyway. For example, I > ahve remote set to 127.0.0.2 and local set to 127.0.0.3 for the > proxy. Diald will detect the new ip when you connect an

Debian makes the link page at mozilla.org

Very Cool, Thought you all would like to know that the Netscape folks at www.mozilla.org have a link to the Debian Social Contract page. The link is on http://www.mozilla.org/library.html. The www.mozilla.org page is about the upcoming source release of Netscape. -- Brian -- Mechanical Eng

Magic Cookie???

Hi All: I have been gradually replacing the "bo" components of my system with the appropriate (I hope) "hamm" components. However, after a recent spate of changes I find that I get the following messages when I run a program which tries to open a window in X: Xlib: Connection to ":0.0" refu

Bug in EGCS?

Hi, this small program doesn't seem to work properly with egcs. I was wondering if this is a kwown bug/problem or if I am just doing something *very* stupid: #include #include main() { cout.fill(' '); for(float i=0;i<10;i+=0.1) cout << setprecision(2) << setw(5) << i << endl; } Output: [E

Re: Strangeness at boot

On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 01:50:54AM +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > Aha, your /bin/sh is probably not bash, but ash. Older versions of ash > do not reckognize the (posix) signal names (as opposed to numbers). This > should have been fixed AFAIK. Try to update whatever your /bin/sh is > to the

Re: GhostView / GhostScript problem...

"Timothy M. Hospedales" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have GhostView 1.5-16.1 and gs-aladdin 5.10-3 / gs 3.33-6. Both gs? They conflict. Ah, one after the other > Using either gs and gs-aladdin, all the files i've tried to open in > GhostView (eps,ps,pdf), have given some sort of errors, such

Cyrix 586/100

Can anyone tell me if this processor is compatible with debian, and if any special installation procedures will be required? Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM T

Port Scanning

Is there anything out there to stop people from port scanning my system ? I had someone last night scan my system from port 1 to 50,000 ! I heard that there is a portscand out there somewhere, if so where ? Thanks, Matthew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

Re: Getting Started

Robert Smith wrote: > drive. The reason I can't install is because I can't > put anything decent on my work computer, HR thinks > that would make me less productive, and my home > computer has some propriety hardware. Also I can't cd I'd consider searching for an old 486 (or even a 386) "beater"

Re: BGP

On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Stephen Zedalis wrote: > On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Joel Klecker wrote: > > >gated, but there is no Debian package for it due to licensing[1] (there was > >talk of doing an installer package, but nothing ever came of it). gated is > >available at . > > > >[1]

Re: X-Windows Question

On Fri, Feb 20, 1998 at 12:28:32AM +0100, Hubert Fauque wrote: > Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote: > > > I get the dread: > > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=111 > > xinit: Connection refused (errno 111) unable to connect to X > > > try > xhost > in your .xsession Wah! This is

Re: lpr remote printing

On Sat, Feb 21, 1998 at 02:49:36AM -0600, Alex Romosan wrote: > the problem is the missing link to /var/spool from /usr/spool. since base-files_1.6.1 has removed this link as it is against FHS, it might be put back in before the release, but it is good that we can find "broken" packages now. > t

Re: Viewing bootup message

On Mon, Feb 23, 1998 at 10:32:47PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: > I have spent quite some time on this one. Reverting to the bo > svgatextmode does not help. The thing that makes the difference is the > particular font chosen. If I use 80x25, 80x25x9 or 80x25x8 I can still > scroll right back to

Re: Free X server for Win95

On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, pai wrote: > > Is there a free X server for Win95 / WinNT ? If so where ? Well this isn't exactly a X server but it's the next best thing *AND* it's gpl'd look at http://www.orl.co.uk/vnc/ The win32 server is a little slow, but the win32 client is pretty peppy.

Re: aha2920, "no disk found"

On Tue, 24 Feb 1998 09:56:28 CST, TW Kayos wrote: > > [..] > >What makes you think aic7xxx supports your controller? > > The hardware FAQ > > http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO-7.html: > > "7.1 Supported > [..] > Adaptec AHA 2920 > .. " It does NOT say that the 2920 is supported by

How can I create new dpkg status file?

My status file got clobbered (ok, it was removed from /var while I was looking for more space to work in). Is there any way to get dpkg to look at my system and update the installed packages list based on what is actually on the system? Pat -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Re: looking for hamm/binary-all/oldlibs

> The oldlibs directory at several Debian ftp mirrors is empty? > Anyone know where they went? My guess would be that you are looking for hamm/hamm/binary-i386/oldlibs/ Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +

Re: aha2920, "no disk found"

On 24 Feb 98 at 9:56, TW Kayos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [back and forth about deciding if 2920 is supported snipped] This is a perfect example of why computers (any OS, any platform) are such a pain (can't find the one detail you need) and why the 'net is such a wonderful tool. The hardware

Re: /var/log/messages

On Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:40:24 GMT, "K.Y.Lo" wrote: > I had set up PPP then check /var/log/messages.. > > I accidentally deleted in /var/log/messages. I want it back > How? AFAIK, there's no backup copy. I'd avoid writing manually to your log files. (Last night I typed "mailstat" and a string of

Re: diald with dynamically assigned IP?

Thomas Lakofski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Has anyone got diald running with an ISP who does not give you a static > IP? From what I can see the slip proxy that diald uses requires you to > know what address your localhost will be assigned beforehand -- which is > tricky if it changes eve

Backspace in Netscape

I installed Netscape 4.04 with the installer in hamm. The backspace key results in delete rather than backspace. I recall there was a fix for this in earlier versions but I can't seem to find any reference about it (3.02 didn't have this problem for me). Backspace works correctly for other X app

`icmplogd: destination unreachable from localhost'

What does `icmplogd: destination unreachable from localhost' mean when it appears in my system log? I just installed iplogger, and I'm curious as to what this implies. I don't have any connectivity problems AFAIK, yet this message appears at least once every couple of minutes in the log. -- TO

Re: BGP

On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Peter Paluch wrote: >Hello, friends, >=== > >I would like to ask - is there any package which enables routing using >BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) ? I know that there is routed, but it >doesn't seem to be able to use BGP. gated, but there doesn't seem to be a de

error in fdisk/cfdisk ?

Hi there ! I've partitioned my hard drive with fdisk / cfdisk this way: Pri 1 Linux Swap (64 MB) Pri 2 Linux native (1200 MB) Pro 3 DOS (2 GB) Pri 4 Extended DOS (4-part. 800 MB) When I verify with fdisk it (correctly!) tells me that partition 3 starts WITHIN partition 2 ! As a consequence, DOS

Re: BGP

On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Joel Klecker wrote: >gated, but there is no Debian package for it due to licensing[1] (there was >talk of doing an installer package, but nothing ever came of it). gated is >available at . > >[1] The gated consortium requires that groups who wish to dist

Re: aha2920, "no disk found"

>> doesn't anyone have experience installing Debian on this hardware? Perhaps >> the card should be removed from the "working" hardware list, as it doesn't >> work with linux. > >What makes you think aic7xxx supports your controller? The hardware FAQ http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWT

Re: Matrox Millenium II again

I have a Matrox Millenium II PCI with 4 MB WRAM. One of the best resource for information on how to upgrade and configure XFree86 for the Millenium II is the Web site for the XFree86 Matrox Team at http://matrox.alloy.net. I got it working with the Matrox Team's download and installation instructio

looking for hamm/binary-all/oldlibs

The oldlibs directory at several Debian ftp mirrors is empty? Anyone know where they went? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

diald with dynamically assigned IP?

Hi, Has anyone got diald running with an ISP who does not give you a static IP? From what I can see the slip proxy that diald uses requires you to know what address your localhost will be assigned beforehand -- which is tricky if it changes every time you dial up. Has anyone experienced this pro

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

> > > I hope you'll put it under the GPL. > > > > Hope you wouldn't :) > > > > Since I wouldn't be able to create a Motif interface in case you put > > it under GPL. I am having a big problems with GPL'd software now: I > > am writing a Motif clone of WS_FTP and while the front-end is almost > > r

Re: netscape communicator

> but how can I install the libraries depending on libc5 when I have > libc6? You can. If you install those from hamm/ tree - there would be no problem. They are just installed in an alternative location. Check out oldlibs/ section in hamm. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---

Re: Matrox Millenium II again

I think Xinside Accelerated X 4.1 supports the Matrox Series. I thikn it is overall better than XFree86 since most of the drivers are optimized for the specific cards. check it out youreself www.xinside.com The package doesn't come free though. It cost $100 but I think it is well worth it. >

Re: bbs for debian?

Hamish, Sorry for taking so long in replying. > > Ugly solution: I'm running my RA 2.50/Bink 2.60/IMAIL 1.75/Squish 1.10 > system under dosemu on Debian 1.3. > I just unplugged the hard drive from my DOS BBS machine and plugged > it into my Linux box, mounted all the drives, set up dosemu

GhostView / GhostScript problem...

I have GhostView 1.5-16.1 and gs-aladdin 5.10-3 / gs 3.33-6. Using either gs and gs-aladdin, all the files i've tried to open in GhostView (eps,ps,pdf), have given some sort of errors, such as: Unknown paper size: (A4). Unrecoverable error: stackunderflow. Unexpected interpreter error -17. Error in

re: wwwcount from hamm

Bujtar Janos wrote: > > HI! > > Is there anybody who uses wwwcount package fro hamm? > Solved !! I called the cgi script like that: (Debian hamm / Apache) Does NOT work !! BUT: http://my.ip.addrr/cgi-bin/wwwcount.cgi?df=counter.dat";> WORKS fine Can anybody tell me what i did wro

Re: Getting Started

> I've a Syquest (1.5 G) drive and I do not seem to be able to mount > it onto any partition: > > mount /dev/sdca /syquest > > Always gave me some error on unknown ftype... Did I do something > wrong? > > Thanks! To mount the disk in syjet, you should know the partitions you hav

Some module missing...?

Hi, debian users When I try to use pppd, the program is halted. 'In "TOP" I see "insmod -k" at the top displaying that /sbin/insmod -k consumes 90 % of CPU-time searching a modul (probably some PPP-modul). How do I solve this problem. I have to first "Ctrl+C" and then kill the above running. I

anonymous ftp permissions

Hello everybody, I have an anonymous ftp site up and running. I want to add some debian stuff to it. The debian is on another drive. There was talk about mounting the drive under the anonymous directory tree. I can't use hardlinks on different drives and/or partitions or filesystems. I was won

Re: Sorry This is probably a stupid question.

Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 writes: > > Hi all, > > Sorry to ask this but what is hamm, No stupid questions, just information requests 8-) Anyhow, to answer your question, "hamm" is a project name for the _next_ stable release of Debian. The current stable release is "bo". Debian provides

Matrox Millenium II again

Hello Debian-users, I have installed Debian Linux 1.3.1 (from InfoMagic CD-set dated Aug 97). Next I would like to have XFree86 running, but with my Matrox Millenium II I have faced some problems (I have Nokia 447Xpro terminal with line frequency range from 30 to 96 kHz and refresh frequency ra

dpkg thinks my pentium is an i486 ?

Hi, I've been playing with some package's source and now I have a question: When I run ./debian/rules it prints lines containing: -DHOSTTYPE='"i486"' -DOSTYPE='"linux-gnu"' -DMACHTYPE='"i486-debian-linux-gnu"' I think that the it is the line ARCH = $(shell dpkg --print-gnu-build-architecture) t

mount dos partition

Hi, I'd like to know how can 'root' mount a msdos/vfat partition that would allow other users (non-'root') to write file onto it? Thanks! -- Timothy C. Phan Intelligence Quest Research, INC. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting Started

iquest wrote: > > Hi, > > I've a Syquest (1.5 G) drive and I do not seem to be able to mount > it onto any partition: > > mount /dev/sdca /syquest > > Always gave me some error on unknown ftype... Did I do something > wrong? > > Thanks! Do you have a valid partition and filesy

Re: Unidentified subject!

On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Elias G. Gounaris wrote: > I am trying to downlod the resc1440.bin and it seems that is larger than > a WIN95 formated disk do you have any suggestions > Thanks in advance > Elias G. Gounaris > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You have to write it to the raw disk, not to the dos file

Re: Getting Started

Hi, I've a Syquest (1.5 G) drive and I do not seem to be able to mount it onto any partition: mount /dev/sdca /syquest Always gave me some error on unknown ftype... Did I do something wrong? Thanks! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Unfortunatly I can't install Linux on any of my >

isdn shorthold support - eicon/diehl diva2

I want to run PPP over ISDN into an NT4 RAS. I could use diald to give me connectivity on demand, but if the "shorthold" feature is possible, I'd like to use that. I need to be able to re-establish the link with activity from either end, and by using shorthold I c

Re: Sorry This is probably a stupid question.

Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 hat gesagt: // Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: > Hi all, > > Sorry to ask this but what is hamm, > > I guess i should know, but I am new to this list, and Debain(after just moving > from RedHat), so if someone could please let me know, I would be grateful,

/var/log/messages

Hi I had set up PPP then check /var/log/messages.. I accidentally deleted in /var/log/messages. I want it back How? Help me! Thank youz -- Cheers K.Y.Lo Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mai

Unidentified subject!

I am trying to downlod the resc1440.bin and it seems that is larger than a WIN95 formated disk do you have any suggestions Thanks in advance Elias G. Gounaris email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

Netscape error

I had installed Netscape 4.04 communicator on Linux done. everything is ok but it has a problem. I tried to resize Netscape on Xwindows then later, logging off. Next day, I loaded Netscape with Xwindows. It went crash back to the user prompt. Fatal server error: Free: mismatched size. What do

Re: two keyboards, two monitors, two users, one processor?

Wojciech Zabolotny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However using the null modem cable one must be very carefull about power > supply! Sometimes it is possible to destroy serial ports, when two > computers are connected to the sockets powered from different phases. > I've done it :-(. You're probabl

wwwcount from hamm

HI! Is there anybody who uses wwwcount package fro hamm? THNX james -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: RFC1035 and MTA's

Thomas Lakofski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was wondering if anyone else was feeling constrained in their choice of > MTA's on debian because of complaints about RFC1035 and their FQDN. > Neither smail or exim will work on my system, because, apparently, my > domain name does not comply to RFC

Re: formatting a floppy

"Tonetti.doc, R Tonetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I format a 3.5" floppy disk in Linux, either bootable or not? % superformat /dev/fd0 (superformat is from the fdutils package.) -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: "The Source will b

Re: C locale

Corey Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I use the tcsh shell, and couldn't find any scripts that could > possibly be setting LANG to "us". Just to be sure, I manually did 'setenv > LANG "EN_us"'. However, I still get the error message as follows: Oops. That should be "en_US". Make sure

Re: Binary Directorys

Michael Beattie wrote: > >Is there any significant difference between /bin|/sbin and >/usr/bin|/usr/sbin ??? I am just interested as to why there are two bin >and sbin directorys. Stuff in /usr may not be present when the machine first boots - if /usr is a separate partition. Programs in

Re: Jetdirect

On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Asher Haig wrote: > How do I go about setting up linux to print to a Jetdirect printer? The Hi, I'd recommend the lprng package. 1) Install lprng 2) assign an ip-address/name to the jet-direct device (e.g. netprint.my.domain/192.168.1.100) and add it to /etc/hosts or

Re: Binary Directorys

Hi, /bin and /sbin are usually on the root partition, availabel at startup; but th eroot partition has generally been small. /usr is generally larger, but not available at boot. manoj -- "Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

Re: Speak-Freely Problems

AFAIK the standard version of speak-freely is compiled with the "DUPLEX" option, so it works only with the fully duplex capable hardware<->driver. AFAIK most of the drivers available in OSS-Free included into Linux system do not support the full duplex. Get the source version of speek-freely packa

Re: two keyboards, two monitors, two users, one processor?

On 24 Feb 1998, Carey Evans wrote: > Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 23 Feb 1998, Carey Evans wrote: > > [snip] > > > I think most X apps would run tolerably over a null modem cable. If I > > understand these gadgets right, the can operate at the speed of the serial > > port, w

Re: Beeping the Speaker

On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Norbert Veber wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 22, 1998 at 02:15:46AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > In bash or sh or ksh - > > > > > > > > echo ^g^g > > > > > > Doesn't work for me. > > > > come on, its not rocket science,

Fetchmail & Smail Problems

Hi, I`m getting this error: $fetchmail -k -v [snip] fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1 fetchmail: POP3< +OK 7064 octets reading message 1 (7064 bytes) fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed fetchmail: POP3> QUIT fetchmail: POP3< ListProcessor 6.0 fetchmail: SMTP transaction error

Re: Free X server for Win95

> > Is there a free X server for Win95 / WinNT ? If so where ? > Try http://www.microimages.com/freestuf/mix.htm If I well remember it emulates the twm window manager. -- Massimo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-ma

Sorry This is probably a stupid question.

Hi all, Sorry to ask this but what is hamm, I guess i should know, but I am new to this list, and Debain(after just moving from RedHat), so if someone could please let me know, I would be grateful, especially if anyone could give me the URL of any information. Regards Graham Lillico -- TO U

Free X server for Win95

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Re: netscape communicator

Hi, so I finally fixed it up. After I installed few libraries from oldlibs section of hamm distribution it began to work. I didn't know it was possible to install xpm4.7 when having libc6. thanx for help Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL P

expand for UNIX

Is there any program where I can extract files from that MS-DOS expand/compress format under UNIX? -- Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella Product Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.conexware.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL P

Re: How to run multiple X display servers?

On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > > > > Looking at the startx script, I'd say you should use ":1" (without quotes) > > > instead of ":1.0". They both mean the same to the X server but the former > > > isn't recognised as a local display by

Re: two keyboards, two monitors, two users, one processor?

Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 23 Feb 1998, Carey Evans wrote: [snip] > I think most X apps would run tolerably over a null modem cable. If I > understand these gadgets right, the can operate at the speed of the serial > port, which is about 120 kbps, I think. Even over ppp (33k mode

Signify and Pine

My signify signature's, when used with pine sometimes die completely, and I am completely frustrated :) And to top it all off, I only sometimes get: [1]+ Broken pipe signify --fifo=$HOME/.signature I suppose I should mention that I use the fifo option... Has anyone had something simi

Re: Beeping the Speaker

On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Norbert Veber wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 22, 1998 at 02:15:46AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > In bash or sh or ksh - > > > > > > > > echo ^g^g > > > > > > Doesn't work for me. > > > > come on, its not rocket science, ech

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > > > Also on another note, does anyone knoe if there is a graphical > > > front end to the ipfwadm (Firewall) program? If not then I am > > > currently considering writing one. The current plan is to produce > > > both a ncurses version, and a HTML ver

Re: X Windows 16-bit

Peter Paluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But I have another question: in bo, I was able to move windows between > screen by simple dragging them. However, in hamm this is not possible. I > don't want to have EdgeScroll disabled (in bo this wasn't needed). Why > is this, and how to solve it? The

Re: Getting Started

> Unfortunatly I can't install Linux on any of my > machines, but I can use the ASH Shell from the > rescue disk, as I am a complete novice to Linux, I > was wondering what to do next, where can I find some > *simple*, and small programs on the net, how to unzip > them, and if I need to format a d

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