Re: Slackware----->Debian

1998-03-02 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 04:10:06PM -0700, Holden Caulfield wrote: > So, when removing Slackware it is not necessary to format the drive? What > will happen to slackware? Will it just be replaced by Debian? Or will it > just install side-by-side to Slackware. When you install Debian, just inst

Re: Slackware----->Debian

1998-03-02 Thread Martin Schulze
On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 04:10:06PM -0700, Holden Caulfield wrote: > So, when removing Slackware it is not necessary to format the drive? What > will happen to slackware? Will it just be replaced by Debian? Or will it > just install side-by-side to Slackware. Creating a new file system on a pa

Re: Where did /usr/tmp go?

1998-03-02 Thread Christian Hudon
On Monday, March 02, Paul Rightley wrote > 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). In short, yes.

Re: Slackware--->Debian

1998-03-02 Thread Ralph Winslow
Holden Caulfield wrote: Please don't apologize, that's what this group is for. During the Debian installation, you'll have the opportunity to re-partition your hard disk; if you choose to do so, you'll effectively "DOS format" your disk. Even if you don't, one of the steps in the installation wil

Re: your book and Debian Kernel Construction

1998-03-02 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2 Mar 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > 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 > som

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

1998-03-02 Thread john
Daniel Martin writes: > One thing I'm also doing is rewriting my smail config file each time ppp > goes up so that my visible_name is set to the current value > (e.g. ppp75.hcf.jhu.edu); this value is also stored in /etc/mailname. I've found that it is sufficient to set visible_name to the host pa

Re: Thanks :)

1998-03-02 Thread Keith Beattie
Ossama Othman wrote: > > P.S.: I noticed alot of you use "IIRC." Since I only found out about the > Jargon file last week, I don't know what this means, and it doesn't seem > to be in the jargon file. What does it mean? IIRC = "If I Recall Correctly" Here, learn to fish :) http://www.ucc.ie

Re: disabling remote xdm logins

1998-03-02 Thread Thomas Lakofski
ipfwadm -I -a reject -P udp -S 0.0.0.0/0 -W eth0 -D 209.109.31.9 177 works for me... (btw, it's not a broadcast -- the client sends a UDP broadcast.) -t On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: > From: Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998

Slackware----->Debian

1998-03-02 Thread Holden Caulfield
So, when removing Slackware it is not necessary to format the drive?  What will happen to slackware?  Will it just be replaced by Debian?  Or will it just install side-by-side to Slackware.   Holden C. [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

Re: Slackware--->Debian

1998-03-02 Thread Martin Schulze
On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 03:31:54PM -0700, Holden Caulfield wrote: > I am very new to LINUX so I apologize for the insignificance of this > question. I have Slackware installed on my computer and want to get rid of > it so I can install Debian 1.3.1 rev. Is there a LINUX equivalent to the DOS >

Slackware--->Debian

1998-03-02 Thread Holden Caulfield
I am very new to LINUX so I apologize for the insignificance of this question.  I have Slackware installed on my computer and want to get rid of it so I can install Debian 1.3.1 rev.  Is there a LINUX equivalent to the DOS format command or is there some special process I need to follow in

disabling remote xdm logins

1998-03-02 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I am trying to disable remote xdm logins from terminals and from some remote xdm login widgets. I tried to modify the Xaccess file according to the docs and then restarting xdm but I still can't seem to get xdm to stop broadcasting to the rest of the machines on the same subnet that it is a

Re: Ultra ATA HD Controller Comaptibility

1998-03-02 Thread C.L. Daugaard
There is now a Mini-HOWTO on the Ultra-DMA interface, and it addresses the Promise Ultra33 controller. Go to http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/ Joe Hill wrote: > > I am looking for a version of Linux that is compatible with my IDE HD > controller, which is an "Ultra ATA" controlle

Re: Terminal server

1998-03-02 Thread shaleh
We use radius on a bsdi system and a Debian shell server. Our customers login on a Ascend terminal server. Our shel people just type shell at the prompt and it takes them to the debian box where they actually log in. NO PROBS. We even have a guy using an apple II. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM TH

hamm bugs

1998-03-02 Thread Jonas Bofjall
I tried to install the `hamm' distribution today on a fresh installation. Is that not possible yet? Anyway, I encountered the following problems during installation which might be of value to someone: * The disk partitioning program did not work. When I created a maximum size partition it said i

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

1998-03-02 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Bradshaw) writes: > 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

Load Sharing

1998-03-02 Thread Timm Gleason
Does anyone out there know if there is a Linux software package that will allow a box to act as a load sharing router? In a fashion similar to f5 Labs big/IP or Cisco's LocalDirector. I have looked at both of these products and neither has any real fancy equipment in them, and at least one of them

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

1998-03-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Fernando Tadeu C Brandt wrote: > 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

Re: 80 MB ram in debian system

1998-03-02 Thread Ossama Othman
> solution - NT boot loader, bootmenu, LILO, loadlin, etc.) you can install > lilo on the floppy and configure it to boot the kernel located on the hard > drive. If you are just starting out and don't want to mess around with configuration files or just want to experiment, you can manually enter

Re: Ultra ATA HD Controller Comaptibility

1998-03-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Joe Hill wrote: : 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

Re: Pine configuration changed

1998-03-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Massimo Manghi wrote: > 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 > >

Re: 80 MB ram in debian system

1998-03-02 Thread aqy6633
> 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? If you bound to boot from floppy for some reason (which is good when you just start

Re: Installing with LS-120 drive

1998-03-02 Thread Paul Rightley
Neither my coworker nor I have been able to find the time to try to attack the new problem - and I really don't know where to begin at the moment. We got a system installed using the LS120 drive and the hamm installation disks (and I am will write up a little HOWTO to describe it - since it was no

KDE Beta 3, Hamm

1998-03-02 Thread Roy C Bixler
Hi: I have the Debian packaging from the hamm directory of KDE Beta 2. I would like to upgrade to Beta 3 because I like the K desktop, but think it has quite a ways to go stability-wise to be useable. Is there any hamm packaging of KDE Beta 3? Can anyone using KDE Beta 3 comment on its stabilit

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

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: 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

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 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) Se

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: 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

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: 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 l

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 put

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 sys

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 you

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: 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

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 roo

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 ord

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 > addr

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: 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 b

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 connecti

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 ?

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.

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 to

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 i

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 l

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 lil

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

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: 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:

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 exten

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 you

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: 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: 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 uncom

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" ? > > > > > > everytim

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

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, in

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 lil

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 x

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 12:

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 Megyer

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: 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: 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 14

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, f

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 Win9

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 w

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 Debia

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: 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

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

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 behaviou

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 M

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 start

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: 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: 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 Identifyin

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

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: 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!).

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 find_c

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

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

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 m

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 ca

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: 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 n

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 cheque

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.

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. > >

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: 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 y

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: 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 ne

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 "P

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 m

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