Re: kernel-source-2.0.33

1998-03-02 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, Bill Leach wrote: For the 'bo' distribution (1.3.1r6) look in: ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/bo-updates/ Yeah, I'm using bo ( that's the stable one right, Debian's so organized it makes me dizzy sometimes :-)) I was

Re: X11 and Matrox Mystique 220

1998-03-02 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, RUSSELL COOK wrote: Hello All, I just got a new video card, the Matrox Mystique 220. [can't get it to work, help, etc.] I've got one too. Xfree 3.3 from hamm works just fine for me! You'll need the SVGA server of course. I just used XF86Setup and it works fine. I

Re: 2.0.33 kernel and libc6 dependancies

1998-03-02 Thread Jens Ritter
On the question how do I delete kernel-source-2.0.32 Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] answered: Hi, Create or download a kernel-headers-2.0.32 package, and install that. Then you should be able to remove the kernel sources. Well kernel-source-2.0.32_*-5, can be removed then, but

Re: Lee: Re: smail Solution for Dynamic IP's

1998-03-02 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: This may or may not be justification for refusal, I can't say for sure. My recommendation would be to avoid using potentially problematic fields, of which From (without the colon) seems to definately qualify. He doesn't add a from (without colon)

Re: Full /usr/ partition

1998-03-02 Thread Will Lowe
On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote: Attached is a little perl I wrote tohelp you decide what directories to move and how much space to assign. You just say, for example: thanks, that was very useful. One thing (not sure how feasable this is) -- is there a way to get it stay on one

Re: Win95 Dialin Client Config

1998-03-02 Thread Ronn Pimentel
Wins is: (from the Wins Help file) A WINS server is a WindowsNT Server computer running Microsoft TCP/IP and the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) server software. WINS servers maintain a database that maps computer names to TCP/IP addresses, allowing users to easily communicate with other

Filtering out Resent-cc

1998-03-02 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Quick question for the procmail pros. I'm already sorting out debian mail with the following: :0: * ^X-Mailing-List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Deb-user How can I expand this to strip out the Resent-cc: headers from my debian mail? (FYI, this would fix the pine errors when responding.) Thanks, Brandon

Re: Filtering out Resent-cc

1998-03-02 Thread bruce
Make it pipe through formail to save the file, as in :: DebianUser.lock * ^X-Mailing-List: debian-user |formail -I Resent-Sender DebianUser Check the man pages, I am typing this from memory and could have something wrong. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Install on CDROMless Laptop

1998-03-02 Thread Damon Muller
G'day folks, I've recently acquired myself an oldish 486 laptop, which I'm in the process of installing Debian on, and I'd like a little advice. I've successfully managed to complete the base install (which, BTW, I think was considerably easier than RedHat 4.2 which I have on my desktop system!)

Activate Lilo

1998-03-02 Thread Abou Anber
Dear Sir : First I have windows 95 system and I installed Debian system. After I installed debian system I can choose through lilo which system I want start. After some time Some problem was occured in windows 95, which make me reinstall windows 95 again. At that time lilo don't work.

Re: Filtering out Resent-cc

1998-03-02 Thread Adam Klein
On Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 08:41:32PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote: Quick question for the procmail pros. I'm already sorting out debian mail with the following: :0: * ^X-Mailing-List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Deb-user How can I expand this to strip out the Resent-cc: headers from my debian

Re: Microsoft Intellimouse

1998-03-02 Thread Ben Pfaff
I just got debian linux up, got everything configured (including X), but I have one problem. I have a microsoft intellimouse which has a PS/2 connector. When I run xf86config and pick microsoft intellimouse from the list, my mouse immediately goes to the top left corner when I

Re: Max swap on Linux

1998-03-02 Thread Ben Pfaff
I am going to install Debian on a system that may require alot of swap space. According to the Debian installation notes, Linux only uses up to 128MB of swap space. I've been also told that Linux can handle more. Which is correct? There is a 128MB limit for each swap area. You can

StarOffice install problem

1998-03-02 Thread tmalloy
I have decided to swallow my pride and ask for help. Man, do I feel stupid. Ok this is what happened. I installed StarOffice 4.0. I wanted to do a network install. That is, I wanted to install the whole thing into /usr/local/bin/StarOffice. Then let individual users, which is really only me

Re: Filtering out Resent-cc

1998-03-02 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Thanks Bruce, Old rule: :0: * ^X-Mailing-List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Deb-user New rule: :0: * ^X-Mailing-List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |formail -I Resent-cc Deb-user Works without a problem. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL

Re: Max swap on Linux

1998-03-02 Thread Steve Hsieh
On 1 Mar 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: I am going to install Debian on a system that may require alot of swap space. According to the Debian installation notes, Linux only uses up to 128MB of swap space. I've been also told that Linux can handle more. Which is correct? There is a

Re: Xircom CE10-BC PCMCIA Ethernetadapter

1998-03-02 Thread FizzyPop
At 12:04 PM 3/1/98 +0100, Rene Bagia wrote: Hallo, i am a new Debian Linux user, so i have a little problem to install my pcmcia card service correctly, so i can use my XIRCOM CE10 Pcmcia Ethernet Adapter. I try to install with dselect the pcmcia card service and the pcmcia modules for

Re: Lee: Re: smail Solution for Dynamic IP's

1998-03-02 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Carey Evans wrote: What about the envelope sender? sendmail writes this as: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Mar 1 16:12:31 or something similar at the top of the message. qmail puts: Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] as RFC821 and RFC822 (4.3.1, 4.4.3) suggest. Hi Carey and David, David

Re: # login from remote host?

1998-03-02 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /bin/login will only allow root logins from those terminals listed in /etc/securetty. Although telnetd doesn't use a serial port, it does use a pseudo-tty. If you want to allow root login via telnet you'll need to add all the pseudo-ttys to

Re: 2.0.33 kernel and libc6 dependancies

1998-03-02 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Jens Ritter; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Well kernel-source-2.0.32_*-5, can be removed then, but not totally: Lot´s of */.depend and other files do not get deleted, seems not to be in the bug tracking system yet. Can this be confirmed by other people? Thanks, Jens If

Re: diagnosing smail

1998-03-02 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: On Fri, 27 Feb 1998 11:08:26 EST, Daniel Martin wrote: My interpretation is that smail only makes use of the from_field variable if incoming mail has no From: or Sender: fields already; further, if there is a From: field already, then smail inserts a

Re: kernel-source-2.0.33

1998-03-02 Thread Bill Leach
I don't know the answer to that one but one possibility is that the package was present but that the 'Packages' had not yet been replaced. I did not look at the time stamps so I have no idea if that could possibly have been the problem but only that during 'archive maintenance' the various

Re: Activate Lilo

1998-03-02 Thread Bill Leach
FIRST--READ the Linux-Win95 HOWTOs!! I do have, nor have I ever had Win95 on any machine that I own or control however... When you re-installed Win95, it appears that Win95 rewrote the mbr (Master Boot Record) on your hard disk. This means that the code that lilo installed there was 'blown

Modifying Routing Tables on the fly

1998-03-02 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, I am trying to modify a route table dependant on which user logs in through a dial-up connection. viz:route add 192.168.1.1 eth0 I have already got route add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 lo to stop other users getting to the local network (other than what they are supposed to)

Re: Pine configuration changed

1998-03-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: In the latest (hamm) pine 3.96L-2, I am getting asked (today, March 1) the question: To save disk space, delete old SENT mail folder sent-mail-jan-1998 ? everytime I execute pine. Formerly it was only asked once at the beginning of each month

Re: Microsoft Intellimouse

1998-03-02 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 10:20:16PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote: To get the extra button working on my Intellimouse, I had to plug it into the serial port with the adapter supplied with the mouse; then select Intellimouse and it should work fine. Plug it in the PS/2-port and use Section

Re: Modifying Routing Tables on the fly

1998-03-02 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Ian Perry wrote: I am trying to modify a route table dependant on which user logs in through a dial-up connection. viz: route add 192.168.1.1 eth0 I have already got route add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 lo to stop other users getting to the local network

Re: Lee: Re: smail Solution for Dynamic IP's

1998-03-02 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Bradshaw) writes: David in another message you were suggesting I not use the from line. Do you know how to turn it off? I haven't found any way to control this line -- smail seems to generate this line as Carey describes for sendmail. (This isn't quite what you're

Re: dpkg thinks my pentium is an i486 ?

1998-03-02 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, joost witteveen wrote: Isn't this because we want packages built on Intel systems to be the same? If dpgk were to report Pentium, and some compiler is going to create real Pentium code (that doesn't run on i386), then you wouldn't be able to build Intel packages on your

Re: Thanks :)

1998-03-02 Thread Michael Beattie
On 1 Mar 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: [snip] IIRC, you will see this header real quick if you tell pine to show all headers. Then you could use procmail to remove this header, I believe. How do you get pine to show all headers? I can NEVER get it to work... Michael

Re: 2.0.33 kernel and libc6 dependancies

1998-03-02 Thread Jens Ritter
Damir J. Naden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Jens Ritter; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Well kernel-source-2.0.32_*-5, can be removed then, but not totally: Lot´s of */.depend and other files do not get deleted, seems not to be in the bug tracking system yet. Can this be

Re: Activate Lilo

1998-03-02 Thread Carey Evans
Abou Anber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First I have windows 95 system and I installed Debian system. After I installed debian system I can choose through lilo which system I want start. After some time Some problem was occured in windows 95, which make me reinstall windows 95 again. At

Re: quicken??

1998-03-02 Thread Carey Evans
Dave Mallery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: now that i have netscape 4.04 running, the last hurdle seems to be Quicken. all i need is something to keep a check register and print checks. (i know, write it yourself!)... Have a look at cbb (a Debian package). I don't think it prints cheques

Re: Modifying Routing Tables on the fly

1998-03-02 Thread Jens Ritter
Ian Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to modify a route table dependant on which user logs in through a dial-up connection. viz: route add 192.168.1.1 eth0 I have already got route add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 lo to stop other users getting to the local network

DE-660 PCMCIA Card problems

1998-03-02 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Folks, If anyone read my earlier message, I have resolved my problem of how to get the PCMCIA stuff onto a laptop without a CD-ROM or anything like that (just coppied them off my windoze machine onto a floppy and mounted it as vfat on debian). Now I'm wondering if anyone has had any luck with

Re: Thanks :)

1998-03-02 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: On 1 Mar 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: [snip] IIRC, you will see this header real quick if you tell pine to show all headers. Then you could use procmail to remove this header, I believe. How do you get pine to show all headers? I can NEVER

dselect / ftp broken

1998-03-02 Thread Ian Watkins
Grab any Perl packages that are outstanding by FTP and then install those using dpkg - that should fix it. I had the same problem when upgrading. HTH Ian W Karachi, Pakistan email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SH Hi -- SH Through some stupid mistake, I seem to have broken my

Re: Modifying Routing Tables on the fly

1998-03-02 Thread Ian Perry
Sorry, Maybe I did not explain it well enough. The remote IP stays the same for all users loggin in (there is only one dial-in port) The route table has to change according to the user, not by the remote IP. The only means I have of Identifying which user is logging in is the Login Name. If it

Re: POP3 Client..

1998-03-02 Thread Anthony Fok
On Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 11:35:04PM +0400, Timothy M. Hospedales wrote: Does anyone know of a good POP3 client for Linux/X? Something like Eudora or Pegasus in Windoze...? I just want to beable to check multiple mail boxes easily. (Its a pain in netscape mail). I'de rather not have to

ncpmount: no server?

1998-03-02 Thread K.Y.Lo
Hi I had been compiled the kernel with IPX and NCPFS driver which is already connecting to the Novell netware. I have configure nwe_mars.conf in /etc/ directory. Then I log on my user and testing 'nprint' command to output printer. It says:- ncpmount /home/fred ncpmount: No server found in

Re: Pine configuration changed

1998-03-02 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
In the latest (hamm) pine 3.96L-2, I am getting asked (today, March 1) the question: To save disk space, delete old SENT mail folder sent-mail-jan-1998 ? everytime I execute pine. Formerly it was only asked once at the beginning of each month (maybe it will go away tomorrow!). I

64 Kbps Leased connection - HELP

1998-03-02 Thread M K Pai
I run a corporate intranet on a Linux server. Browsing is accomplished thru an apache proxy and dialup connection. We are expecting a 64Kbps leased connection ( 16 static IP addresses ) any day. I have no idea about how to interface it to our Linux box. If I fail, the boss wil give the line to

Re: 64 Kbps Leased connection - HELP

1998-03-02 Thread Jim
Most likely (but you should _ask_ the people who are bringing in the line), you will get a csu/dsu and an IP router from the company supplying the line. In this case, simply get an ethernet card for your linux box. If it's isdn, see if you can get an isdn -- ethernet box, which you should put a

Re: Modifying Routing Tables on the fly

1998-03-02 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Ian Perry wrote: Sorry, Maybe I did not explain it well enough. The remote IP stays the same for all users loggin in (there is only one dial-in port) The route table has to change according to the user, not by the remote IP. The only means I have of Identifying which

Re: Modifying Routing Tables on the fly

1998-03-02 Thread Ian Perry
The light comes on and the penny drops. I will try it first thing in the morning. Many thanks... Ian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: kernel-source-2.0.33

1998-03-02 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Bill Leach wrote: I don't know the answer to that one but one possibility is that the package was present but that the 'Packages' had not yet been replaced. I did not look at the time stamps so I have no idea if that

Re: kernel-source-2.0.33

1998-03-02 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Ok, sounds like the right track, but I'm still getting an error. Maybe I'm not setting the directory's correctly. Here is the error: Getting Packages file from bo-update/binary-i386... Could not find Packages[.gz] in bo-update/binary-i386, staoppedFTP ERROR Here is the default info when I

RE: Help installing NT and Linux

1998-03-02 Thread Richardson,Anthony
There are some pecularities with regard to MS OS's that you need to watch out for. They require that their boot partition be marked active or bootable. You can do that with Linux's fdisk. Linux doesn't care whether its partition is marked active or not. (If you run multiple independent

copy/paste in xterm

1998-03-02 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hello X-guru's, On some debian machines I encounter the following problem: when copying and pasting text among xterms, I find that trailing spaces after lines of text are copied as well, so that each copied line has exactly the width of the terminal. Does anyone know where this annoying

Re: Thanks :)

1998-03-02 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: On 1 Mar 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: [snip] IIRC, you will see this header real quick if you tell pine to show all headers. Then you could use procmail to remove this header, I believe.

Re: Pine configuration changed

1998-03-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote: In the latest (hamm) pine 3.96L-2, I am getting asked (today, March 1) the question: To save disk space, delete old SENT mail folder sent-mail-jan-1998 ? everytime I execute pine. Formerly it was only asked once at the beginning of

Re: copy/paste in xterm

1998-03-02 Thread Ossama Othman
I get the same behavior. Trailing spaces also get pasted for me, too. I don't recall getting this behavior in bo or any of the UN*X systems I run. Thanks for posting about this problem since I forgot to. How about some help guys? :-) -Ossama

Re: quicken??

1998-03-02 Thread servis
On 2 Mar, Carey Evans wrote: Dave Mallery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: now that i have netscape 4.04 running, the last hurdle seems to be Quicken. all i need is something to keep a check register and print checks. (i know, write it yourself!)... Have a look at cbb (a Debian package). I

Re: Modifying Routing Tables on the fly

1998-03-02 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Is there a way to safely change the routing table dependant on who logs in ? Well, this is hard to imagine for a multi-user system. If you have several users logged in -on on the console and another one from local network via telnet? Anyway, if you still insist on this kind of setup, you may

Problem

1998-03-02 Thread Javier Leyba
Hi I'm trying to install a Linux version 2.0.29 on my PC with the following configuration: Motherboard Soyo 430 TX Pentium 200MHz 32 MB RAM HD 2 GB Conner (Primary Master) HD 1 GB Seagate (Secondary Master) CD Sound Blaster ATAPI (Primary slave) In the 2 GB disk I have installed Win95 and

Re: Thanks :)

1998-03-02 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: How do you get pine to show all headers? I can NEVER get it to work... Press the letter 'h' when viewing a message. Pressing it again turns it off. Moreover, for

Re: 64 Kbps Leased connection - HELP

1998-03-02 Thread Rob
Well, your first big clue as to how the interface will work out is the addresses you've been assigned. If you've been provided a range of 16 addresses, they're most likely giving you a subnet of a larger network with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.224. This will provide 16 addresses, although only

Re: Lee: Re: smail Solution for Dynamic IP's

1998-03-02 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Hi, Well thanks to help from Art, Carey, Daniel, and Martin I think we have the problem narrowed down to the envelope sender (MAIL FROM: in the SMTP dialog). If I connect to the mail server with telnet as Carey suggested, everything is fine. Netscape also has no problem generating mail with the

Re: make-kpkg

1998-03-02 Thread Lorens Kockum
In bigears.lists.debian.user, Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TEST When, having brought in kernel-source for 2.0.32 on my bo system, I: cd /usr/src/linux;make-kpkg a lot of compiling happens (after I answer the config questions) and the command ld -m elf_i386 ... -o vmlinux

Re: DMA Bus Mastering Reset on WDC AC34300L

1998-03-02 Thread Attila Megyeri
Hi, I had the same problem recently with the same motherboard. Changing the 'PCI Latency' in the BIOS from 0 to 32 completly eliminated this phenomenon. Since then there is no problems with bus mastering or hdparm from bo (kernel 2.0.33). My HDD is a Quantum 1.6 G. Best regards Attila

Help with ftp

1998-03-02 Thread Erik Rodríguez
Hello: There's an anonymous ftp at my University. there's a directory /pub/Linux/debian/Debian-1.3.1.r6 It's contents are: 02/16/18 12:00AM Directory . 02/16/18 12:00AM Directory .. 10/20/17 12:00AM 23,118 ChangeLog 02/10/18 12:00AM702,030 Contents-i386.gz 09/19/17

Re: X11 and Matrox Mystique 220

1998-03-02 Thread Russ Cook
Christopher, Thanks for taking to trouble. I got my xserver working... I removed it! Then, I went to the hamm site and reinstalled it. It seems that (perhaps) my xserver-svga3.3-3 may have been left over from my bo system when I upgraded to hamm. I wasn't aware I had to reinstall the

80 MB ram in debian system

1998-03-02 Thread Russ Cook
Hi All, This weekend, I added some ram to my system. I now have two 32 MB simms, and two 8 MB simms, giving me a total of 80 MB of ram. My bios recognizes all ram at bootup, but Linux only recognizes 64 MB. I think this has been addressed here before, something about a line added to

Yikes, sorry. (Was Re: make-kpkg)

1998-03-02 Thread Lorens Kockum
In debian-user, I wrote an inane test message, not even setting the subject to test ;-/. Just because I was completely certain it wouldn't get out. So much for certainty. To make up, debian success story. Except for fighting with deselect a bit, like everyone, especially the first time round,

Re: security problem (tcp/ip)

1998-03-02 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Carey Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Frank Barknecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do I forward pop3 over ssh? This is described in question C4 in the fetchmail FAQ (at least for version 4.3.6). Basically you need to install ssh on the client and sshd on the mail server (mailhost)

Re: Pine configuration changed

1998-03-02 Thread Massimo Manghi
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote: In the latest (hamm) pine 3.96L-2, I am getting asked (today, March 1) the question: To save disk space, delete old SENT mail folder sent-mail-jan-1998 ? everytime I execute pine.

Re: quicken??

1998-03-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I have had decent success running Quicken V4 under wine(v 971130). I don't think printing works yet though. Also, Quicken 8 for DOS works in dosemu. Unfortunately when I upgraded my Windows version from 4 to 6 the data format became

Re: Pine configuration changed

1998-03-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Massimo Manghi wrote: the change of ownership in ~/.pinerc is probably due to a mistake in the way pine (I mean pine packaged for Debian Linux) gets some environment variable. You can reproduce the change in the ownership of ~/.pinerc by passing as superuser with the

Re: Thanks :)

1998-03-02 Thread Bill Leach
Pine is clearly one of the better documented programs in the world of computing. If you press the '?' key from almost anywhere other than when in 'compose' then pine gives you help. As Remco mentioned the 'h' command is the one that you want to toggle between 'all headers' and 'normal headers'.

Re: Help with ftp

1998-03-02 Thread Bill Leach
In ftp: mget * However, if you are running Linux on anything then I strongly suggest that you get one of the mirror programs so that dates and symlink are preserved. mget * will copy symlinks by copying the files. So, for example the 6 meg+ kernel source packages will appear multiple times in

Terminal server

1998-03-02 Thread Chuck Peters
Our livingston PM2e (30 port) has gone catatonic on us as we were attempting to renumber the IP's to move over to our new connectivity provided by West Chester Univ. I have a trouble ticket into Livingston, but I fear we may have to ship the Port Monster back to livingston and experience an

Re: 80 MB ram in debian system

1998-03-02 Thread Ossama Othman
Add the following to your lilo.conf and rerun lilo, then reboot: append=mem=80M -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- PGP Keys --- Public: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_PUBLIC.asc REVOKED:

problem with netscape and installed plug-ins

1998-03-02 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
(I got no feedback on this one, I think it might not have gone through. Reposting.) Hi, since I installed netscape with the (excelent) .deb package, instead of by hand, as I was doing before, I had the extra benefit of having a mumber of applications put as plug-ins for netscape, wich is great,

Re: Help with ftp

1998-03-02 Thread Alex Yukhimets
How can i download the entire tree structure to my PC so i could copy it to CD (i have a cd writer)? i mean, a single instruction that makes it recursively. Assuming you have Linux installed on your home PC (right?) - you may use package mirror to create a mirror of the remote directory tree

Re: 80 MB ram in debian system

1998-03-02 Thread Alex Yukhimets
This weekend, I added some ram to my system. I now have two 32 MB simms, and two 8 MB simms, giving me a total of 80 MB of ram. My bios recognizes all ram at bootup, but Linux only recognizes 64 MB. I think this has been addressed here before, something about a line added to

AW: 80 MB ram in debian system

1998-03-02 Thread TBaetzle
Russ Cook asked: This weekend, I added some ram to my system. I now have two 32 MB simms, and two 8 MB simms, giving me a total of 80 MB of ram. My bios recognizes all ram at bootup, but Linux only recognizes 64 MB. I think this has been addressed here before, something about a line

keeping up-to-date and not using dselect

1998-03-02 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Hi, this is probably a stupid, simple question, but here it goes: I know many people do not use dselect at all. How do one know which packages were upgraded in the ftp server without using dselect, so that he/she can keep things up-to-date, not using dselect? Thanks. PS: BTW, when does deity

Re: 80 MB ram in debian system

1998-03-02 Thread Ben Pfaff
This weekend, I added some ram to my system. I now have two 32 MB simms, and two 8 MB simms, giving me a total of 80 MB of ram. My bios recognizes all ram at bootup, but Linux only recognizes 64 MB. I think this has been addressed here before, something about a line added

AW: Help with ftp

1998-03-02 Thread TBaetzle
Erik Rodríguez asked: There's an anonymous ftp at my University. there's a directory /pub/Linux/debian/Debian-1.3.1.r6 [...] How can i download the entire tree structure to my PC so i could copy it to CD (i have a cd writer)? i mean, a single instruction that makes it recursively. You

Re: Yikes, sorry. (Was Re: make-kpkg)

1998-03-02 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 04:14:37PM +, Lorens Kockum wrote: Only one thing I don't really like: sure, we do get shadow passwords if we ask for them (and oh joy, xlock knows that!) but why do we get asked at all? Are there any reasons at all for keeping crypted passwords in /etc/passwd ?

Re: Archiving mails with smail

1998-03-02 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all! I am currently building an intranet server for the company where I'm working. I use smail (from bo) and the users are going to work with different mail clients (Netscape or Outlook Express) over POP3 (qpopper). The server will have an dialout connection to

Re: X11 and Matrox Mystique 220

1998-03-02 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
RUSSELL COOK [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello All, I just got a new video card, the Matrox Mystique 220. I have been following this list for a while, and have observed that the Mystique is supported now. However, after configuring for my card, and trying startx, my screen goes black,

Netscape fails to automatically open ps, ram, ...

1998-03-02 Thread Fernando Tadeu C Brandt
Netscape is showing the following error box when I try to open postscripts, sound file, etc: sh: -c line 1: missing closing ')' for arithmetic expression sh: -c line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `;' sh: -c line 1: '((gv /tmp/MO34FAF5B0003B1); rm /tmp/MO34FAF5B0003B1 )' This is probably

Re: 80 MB ram in debian system

1998-03-02 Thread David Stern
On Mon, 02 Mar 1998 10:18:16 CST, Russ Cook wrote: Hi All, This weekend, I added some ram to my system. I now have two 32 MB simms, and two 8 MB simms, giving me a total of 80 MB of ram. My bios recognizes all ram at bootup, but Linux only recognizes 64 MB. I think this has been addressed

Re: 80 MB ram in debian system

1998-03-02 Thread Bill Leach
From the xconf menu: CONFIG_MAX_16M This is for some buggy motherboards which cannot properly deal with the memory above 16M. If you have more than 16MB of RAM and experience weird problems, you might want to try Y, everyone else says N. Note for machines with more that (sic) 64MB of RAM: in

Re: your book and Debian Kernel Construction

1998-03-02 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Hey Dale, After a make distclean I get some action with make-kpkg kernel-image cd .. dpkg -i kernel-image-2.0.30_1.00_i386.deb but the times of some of these files suggest they are not getting installed on the repeat go around. $ pwd /usr/src $ ls -l total 1863 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root

Re: Pine configuration changed

1998-03-02 Thread Massimo Manghi
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: No, that seems to be o.k.: $ su Password: # cd ~ # pwd /root I wish I had your set up for the shell. prfs02:~ su Password: # cd ~ # pwd /home/manghi Did you try to run 'pine' as root? Did it change .pinerc's onwership? -- Massimo Massimo

Ultra ATA HD Controller Comaptibility

1998-03-02 Thread Joe Hill
I am looking for a version of Linux that is compatible with my IDE HD controller, which is an Ultra ATA controller on a recent Gateway 2000 PC (300 MHz P II). According to the Redhat site, this controller is not compatible with Redhat ... my questions are: to anyone's knowledge, is the current

Re: Terminal server

1998-03-02 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Setting up the Linux boxes should be pretty easy. A few questions though: do you want to support 'shell' dialups or PPP dialups or both? Radius may be a problem. As I understand this (and there are others on this list who know a lot more about radius+linux) there is no debian client support. If

Re: 2.0.33 kernel and libc6 dependancies

1998-03-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Jens == Jens Ritter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jens Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] answered: Jens Well kernel-source-2.0.32_*-5, can be removed then, but not Jens totally: Jens Lot´s of */.depend and other files do not get deleted, seems not Jens to be in the bug tracking system yet.

Re: make-kpkg

1998-03-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Ralph == Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ralph May I suggest that make-kpkg print a message when it sees that Ralph a kernel image exists in / and that it will therefore not Ralph complete the install? Ok, I've put in a warning message now. Ralph I don't recall putting

Re: Terminal server

1998-03-02 Thread Tim Sailer
Chuck Peters wrote: Our livingston PM2e (30 port) has gone catatonic on us as we were attempting to renumber the IP's to move over to our new connectivity provided by West Chester Univ. I have a trouble ticket into Livingston, but I fear we may have to ship the Port Monster back to

Linux Bad Blocks

1998-03-02 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi I have a hard disk that had gained a couple of bad blocks recently. Linux (Debian 1.3.1) is having problems dealing with them kernel panic ... what can I do to mark the bad block in Linux? Shoud I go to msdos and format the disk? will this last option solve my problem? Thanks --

Re: dpkg thinks my pentium is an i486 ?

1998-03-02 Thread Adam Klein
On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 10:15:03AM +0100, Joost Kooij wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, joost witteveen wrote: Isn't this because we want packages built on Intel systems to be the same? If dpgk were to report Pentium, and some compiler is going to create real Pentium code (that doesn't run on

Re: Lee: Re: smail Solution for Dynamic IP's

1998-03-02 Thread Christian Lynbech on satellite
I am not sure whether this can help you at all (or whether it has been brougth up before), but the following hack, posted to a debian list a long time ago, works for me in rewriting headers with smail. I am using my university account to connect to the internet, and I want all replies (regardless

Re: XLOCK unlocks during the night.

1998-03-02 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Brandon! I rebooted the computer hoping that it'll cure the problem, but it did not. But when I ran xlock from the terminal, that's what I get: $ xlock [1] 766 $ X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed request: 78 (X_CreateColormap)

RE: 80 MB ram in debian system

1998-03-02 Thread Vladislav Papayan x285
I am also planning to add more than 64 mb to my machine. However I do not have /etc/lilo.conf. I always boot from a floppy disk (when creating a kernel I just do make bzdisk). What should I do in that case? Thanks, Vladislav -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

Re: XLOCK unlocks during the night.

1998-03-02 Thread Brandon Mitchell
[ Interesting, I thought I already replied to this, maybe someone else with the same problem. ] On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: Hi, Brandon! I rebooted the computer hoping that it'll cure the problem, but it did not. But when I ran xlock from the terminal, that's what I

Re: Where did /usr/tmp go?

1998-03-02 Thread Paul Rightley
Thanks for the information. I edited the appropriate tripwire config file and had it use /var/tmp instead. Everything is working fine again. Should this behavior be filed as a bug against tripwire (if it hasn't already been done). Paul On 25-Feb-98 Behan Webster wrote: Paul Rightley wrote:

Re: your book and Debian Kernel Construction

1998-03-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Firstly, if you have make-kpkg, nevenr never never do make distclean; as it wipes out your .config file ;-( make-kpkg clean saves your .config, runs make distclean, does some more debian specific cleanup, and restores the .config file. No fuss, and you get all the benefits

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