[off-topic] not only a server, what hardware?

1998-03-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi All! I have managed to promote Debian in a small but expanding firm (currently a dozen systems). They have old Novell Net and Samba at the moment, but they like Linux and want to change somehow. They allow me to give them a wishlist for a Debian System, and they'll buy it, and now I really

Re: [off-topic] not only a server, what hardware?

1998-03-05 Thread aqy6633
SCSI discs, 2 or more each 2-4 GB. Is buslogic available in Germany? Other good brands? BusLogic SCSI adapter and either Western Digital or Quantum Atlas II HDD. You might want to try BL FlashPoint adapter. Mainboard ASUS Good. Normal architecture or PS/2

Re: Ensoniq sound problems

1998-03-05 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: Hi, Has anyone ever been able to configure their Ensoniq Soundscape (yes, it is fairly old) card to work on Linux? I can't seem to get anything out of my sound card. Well, when I had a 486, my ensoniq soundscape worked OK. I recently upgraded to

Re: [off-topic] not only a server, what hardware?

1998-03-05 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: I have managed to promote Debian in a small but expanding firm (currently a dozen systems). They have old Novell Net and Samba at the moment, but they like Linux and want to change somehow. They allow me to give them a wishlist for a Debian System,

Re: 'watching' a file

1998-03-05 Thread Paul Miller
On 4 Mar 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: How can you 'watch' a file as it is being written to? For example, I want to have a script watch a log files for certain information and do something when it sees the information. Depending on exactly what you mean, `tail -f' might be helpful.

Re: [off-topic] not only a server, what hardware?

1998-03-05 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: I have managed to promote Debian in a small but expanding firm (currently a dozen systems). They have old Novell Net and Samba at the moment, but they like Linux and want to change somehow. They allow me to give them a wishlist for a Debian System,

Re: 'watching' a file

1998-03-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
hmmm.. if 'tail -f filename' continuously outputs using stdout, how could I stop it when the text I'm looking for appears? I want tail to terminate when it receives the following information: caller=##, conn='', name='username' ..and put those strings in

RE: SCSI controller

1998-03-05 Thread Vladislav Papayan x285
I would suggest BusLogic --- not only they are good but also they 'officially' support linux providing the drivers. Adaptec on the other hand refused (as far as I know) to recognize Linux as OS to support. Vladislav -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March

HELP: Newbie needs help with crash

1998-03-05 Thread Albert Hurd
My computer just seized up (cursor frose; ctrl-alt bksp and ctrl-alt del did nothing). I then warm rebooted. After the usual, I got: Checking root file system Parallelizing fsck /dev/hda2 contains a file system with errors, check forced /dev/hda2: unattached inode 28780 /dev/hda2: UNEXPECTED

LRU block list corrupted

1998-03-05 Thread Tinklas
Hello, I recently got a message from my kernel: panic: VFS : LRU block list corrupted I have PPRO200 64MB RAM and kernel 2.0.33 Scsi controller: aic7xxx: Adaptec AIC-7880 Ultra SCSI host adapter at PCI 9 aic7xxx: BIOS enabled, IO Port 0x9200, IO Mem 0xe400, IRQ 11, Revision B aic7xxx: Wide

Re: 'watching' a file

1998-03-05 Thread Bob Hilliard
Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] asks: How can you 'watch' a file as it is being written to? For example, I want to have a script watch a log files for certain information and do something when it sees the information. tail -f -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL

Re: HELP: Newbie needs help with crash

1998-03-05 Thread alemas
Go ahead, and run e2fsck, but read the man page first! I don't guarantee anything for you here (disclaimer) and am not a LINUX expert, but it did work for me when I received similar error messages. Read those man pages. If you can't do so on your Debian LINUX OS, the man pages are on the

Re: [off-topic] not only a server, what hardware?

1998-03-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hello! First let me thank you all (only one reply for all to save bandwidth). Good News: About three hours ago I got the okay, that they will start a project replacing the ol' Novell with Debian. Some of them are a bit sceptical, but I'm sure they will be surprised and beaten by the stability

lp devices

1998-03-05 Thread Jim Crumley
I am having trouble getting printing setup with a bo. I have a Canon BJC-4100, but I don' think the printer is the problem. I had been playing around with lpr/LPRng, printcap, etc. when I finally realized that I forgot add parallel printing support when I installed Debian. So I went back to the

Re: lp devices

1998-03-05 Thread David R Baker
Jim Crumley wrote: I am having trouble getting printing setup with a bo. I have a Canon BJC-4100, but I don' think the printer is the problem. I had been playing around with lpr/LPRng, printcap, etc. when I finally realized that I forgot add parallel printing support when I installed

Re: loading support for 2 ethernet cards

1998-03-05 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Yeah, it's a bit unclear at first. What you want to do is put the information on the append line, like this: append=mem=96M ether=10,0x300,eth0 ether=11,0x2e0,eth1 I'd recommend you put in the real values rather than 0,0 - that enables autoprobing and let's face it, you do want to know which

PLIP question

1998-03-05 Thread Janos A Csirik
Hello, I am having trouble getting PLIP to work. I have two debian linux machines, called frisbee and piglet. I tried to follow the instructions of the PLIP mini-HOWTO, they seem to work on piglet but not on frisbee. (I also have the laplink cable all plugged in but frisbee does not seem to be

Re: loading support for 2 ethernet cards

1998-03-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: : Yeah, it's a bit unclear at first. What you want to do is put the : information on the append line, like this: : : append=mem=96M ether=10,0x300,eth0 ether=11,0x2e0,eth1 : : I'd recommend you put in the real values rather than 0,0 - that enables :

Help: How can I recover /etc/aliases from /etc/aliases.db?

1998-03-05 Thread Vincent Renardias
[please CC: replies to me] The subject pretty much says it all... I accidentally deleted the /etc/aliases on a machine using sendmail 8.8.7, but I still have the compiled /etc/aliases.db around. Is there a way to recover the original file? Vincent, (Who will copy 1000 times I

Re: lp devices

1998-03-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Jim Crumley wrote: I am having trouble getting printing setup with a bo. I have a Canon BJC-4100, but I don' think the printer is the problem. I had been playing around with lpr/LPRng, printcap, etc. when I finally realized that I forgot add parallel printing support

Re: [off-topic] not only a server, what hardware?

1998-03-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 07:42:49PM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote: SCSI discs, 2 or more each 2-4 GB. Is buslogic available in Germany? Other good brands? BusLogic SCSI adapter and either Western Digital or Quantum Atlas II HDD. WD don't make SCSI disks,

Re: spontaneous rebooting

1998-03-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 04:06:50PM -0500, David B Wilson wrote: I installed Debian GNU Linux 1.3 revision 6 on a laptop. When I boot the system, just when LILO is about to load Linux, there seems to be an 80% - 90% chance that the system will spontaneously reboot. If I wait a long time,

CNAME records (was: Re: dynamic DNS within a non-dynamic domain)

1998-03-05 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
[posting this to debian-user because it doesn't belong in debian-devel] On 3 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on debian-devel: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am using dynamic DNS on perens.debian.org, a laptop with a radio modem. It works _excellently_. From: Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [off-topic] not only a server, what hardware?

1998-03-05 Thread aqy6633
On Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 07:42:49PM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote: SCSI discs, 2 or more each 2-4 GB. Is buslogic available in Germany? Other good brands? BusLogic SCSI adapter and either Western Digital or Quantum Atlas II HDD. WD don't make SCSI

How to install drivers on Installation

1998-03-05 Thread Pascal MIQUET
My system : an Old PS/2 8580 IBM SCSI controller 2 SCSI DISK 1 SCSI CDRom 12 Mo RAM Boot disk : kernel using MCA Using base-1 to base-5 system to start installation - OK But when I'm tryng to instal drivers, got errors : zcat command not found :( Images for drivers come from Debian 1.3.1

new GPL freeware

1998-03-05 Thread Lance Arsenault
Hello ???, I wrote a X-client freeware program and I don't know how to distribute it. Grab it at the forever unknown: http://www.villagrove.com/~lance/ I call it quickplot. Engineers and scientists will like it. It's yet another 2-D plotter. It's fast and easyer to use than most. I know it

Re: Zero Length Files on the CD...

1998-03-05 Thread Carey Evans
Carroll Kong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hopefully it'll turn to symlinks... he needed to burn with ISO9660 with Rockridge extensions. Didn't he say he burned with EZCD Pro? Mine for Win 95 / NT had no such option. The Debian CD disk image gets around this. It's the entire contents of the CD

How to change e-mail header

1998-03-05 Thread Jimmy Lu
Hi I recently downloaded elm-2.4ME+37 and compiled it without much problem. But now I can not change e-mail header information. I needed to change the information because my local log-in name and host name differ from my ISP's e-mail address. e.g. Local log-in name: jimmy Local

Question about Debian configuration

1998-03-05 Thread Ionut Borcoman
Hi, This is my second day with Debian. Yesterday I have successfully installed Debian 1.3.1. I come from Win95 where everything is made by Win95. Now I have to do all by myself. 8-) So, here are the problems: 1. I have a 3-button mouse that works as MS mouse with 2 buttons or 3-button in PC

INN + Debian.

1998-03-05 Thread Johan Berglund
Is there anyone on this list who is running the original package configured INN NEWS server from Debian 1.3.1 and would like to help me? Please answer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: Printer sharing

1998-03-05 Thread Carey Evans
iquest [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Most of you suggested me to use Samba. I went ahead and install the Samba package. I read some of the document that came with the package and I still do not quite get to do what I want. If anyone of you do not mind, could you send me a step by

Re: Question about Debian configuration

1998-03-05 Thread Carey Evans
Ionut Borcoman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nevertheless, gpm recognize the 3rd button if I set it like this: gpm -m /dev/ttyS0 -t ms Question: How do I set the X mouse to see the third button (now I am using the emulation, but I don't like that) ? If it doesn't work the same under X, you

Re: 'watching' a file

1998-03-05 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Off the top try piping it through either ( less -o more -o most ) and doing a /what_I_want to find what you are looking for ... I hope it works ... J. On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Paul Miller wrote: On 4 Mar 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: How can you 'watch' a file as it is being written

converting true-type fonts

1998-03-05 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, anybody know a way of converting a Windows True-Type font to Linux (Unix in general)? Thanks in advance, Nico -- -- Nico De Ranter Sony Objective Composer (SOCOM) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32

AW: converting true-type fonts

1998-03-05 Thread TBaetzle
Nico De Ranter asked: anybody know a way of converting a Windows True-Type font to Linux (Unix in general)? You should probably check out Freetype - as far as I remember, it does include a TTF - BDF converter. Thomas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: Horario de verao

1998-03-05 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Eis o arquivo.consegui' puxa-lo mas acho que agora nao vai util pois ele configurava o horario de verao para ate' 01/03 Sim... será que alguém sabe quais os dias previstos para o horário de verão para os próximos anos? Se alguém tiver essa informação, alguém poderia vir a conseguir

hamm installation

1998-03-05 Thread M.C. Bezemer
I don't know whether or not this is the right place for this, but I had some problems installing hamm on my system. As I do not yet want to drop my bo system, I decided to try it out on a looped filesystem. I have recompiled a 2.0.32 kernel with looproot support (patch from linuxhq.com).

german vs english manpages

1998-03-05 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Hello, I have german and english manpages on my system. And I use LC_ALL and LANG for german local settings. If there is a german manpage for a certain topic, the corresponding english page isn't shown in favour of the german one. Unfortunately, sometimes the german manpage isn't complete

Re: german vs english manpages

1998-03-05 Thread Martin Schulze
On Thu, Mar 05, 1998 at 12:58:54PM +0100, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote: Hello, I have german and english manpages on my system. And I use LC_ALL and LANG for german local settings. If there is a german manpage for a certain topic, the corresponding english page isn't shown in favour of

Re: hamm installation

1998-03-05 Thread VASIL
M.C. Bezemer wrote: I don't know whether or not this is the right place for this, but I had some problems installing hamm on my system. As I do not yet want to drop my bo system, I decided to try it out on a looped filesystem. I have recompiled a 2.0.32 kernel with looproot support (patch

Re: Horario de verao

1998-03-05 Thread VASIL
Leandro Guimarγes Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: Eis o arquivo.consegui' puxa-lo mas acho que agora nao vai util pois ele configurava o horario de verao para ate' 01/03 Sim... serα que alguιm sabe quais os dias previstos para o horαrio de verγo para os prσximos anos? Se alguιm

Re: german vs english manpages

1998-03-05 Thread VASIL
Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote: Hello, I have german and english manpages on my system. And I use LC_ALL and LANG for german local settings. If there is a german manpage for a certain topic, the corresponding english page isn't shown in favour of the german one. Unfortunately, sometimes

Re: [off-topic] not only a server, what hardware?

1998-03-05 Thread Carroll Kong
Carroll Kong On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: WD don't make SCSI disks, unless they have recently started. Buy Seagate or IBM, Quantum aren't that good. Hamish Yeah WD makes scsi. I think for a while now just never hit major popularity I guess? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

hamm upgrade gone sour -cry for help

1998-03-05 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Yesterday I decided to take the plunge I ftp'd the entiret of the hamm/binary-i386 directory and with a little bit of directory setup... burned it onto a CD I then brough tit home from work and updated my bo system to a hamm system I first mounted the CD and used autoup.sh (latest version)

Re: [off-topic] not only a server, what hardware?

1998-03-05 Thread servis
On 5 Mar, Hamish Moffatt wrote: BusLogic SCSI adapter and either Western Digital or Quantum Atlas II HDD. WD don't make SCSI disks, unless they have recently started. Buy Seagate or IBM, Quantum aren't that good. Hamish Huh? Check out http://www.westerndigital.com/products/ Brian

[off-topic] network setup (was: not only a server, what hardware?)

1998-03-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Mar 05, 1998 at 12:01:59PM +1059, Craig Sanders wrote: On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: If you can do it, i would suggest that you put the gateway/firewall on a separate box. scrounge up an old 386 or 486 (running debian, of course) if you have to. Craig, I have given

Re: [off-topic] network setup (was: not only a server, what hardware?)

1998-03-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Oh, sorry for the follow up. ten seconds after pressing send key, I realized that the Masquerading will happen on the gateway/firewall. So, IP masquerading will run on machine 1, not machine 2, if I am correct. Thank you, Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linux

Re: [off-topic] not only a server, what hardware?

1998-03-05 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello, == WD don't make SCSI disks, unless they have recently started. Buy Seagate or IBM, Quantum aren't that good. Yeah WD makes scsi. I think for a while now just never hit major popularity I guess? WD is making SCSI for a very short time, so there cannot be a major

Re: Question about Debian configuration

1998-03-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Mar 05, 1998 at 09:16:30AM +0200, Ionut Borcoman wrote: Hi, 3. When I play my audio CDs, very often the CD is jumping (like with an old LP). Under Win95 everything is fine. Also, if I use soft eject, the CD eject and immediately close ! Question: Where can I find a good free

Apache modules and Debian

1998-03-05 Thread joyal
Please have mercy on a poor, befuddled newbie. I'm having trouble figuring out how to add the module mod_auth_pg95 to the Apache server. I installed both Apache and PostgreSQL from Debian packages. I've read much documentation, including almost all of the docs from www.apache.org. None of the

How can I get the Emacs manual?

1998-03-05 Thread Catalin Popescu
Does anybody know how/where could I get a nice printable copy of the Emacs manual written by R. Stallman which has about 500 pgs (*dvi or *ps file format)? I already have one from someone, but unfortunately it is xerox-copied with a huge ecomomy of toner and it's therefore hard to read. Thank

Re: How can I get the Emacs manual?

1998-03-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
Does anybody know how/where could I get a nice printable copy of the Emacs manual written by R. Stallman which has about 500 pgs (*dvi or *ps file format)? I already have one from someone, but unfortunately it is xerox-copied with a huge ecomomy of toner and it's therefore hard

Re: How can I get the Emacs manual?

1998-03-05 Thread jdassen
On Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 11:25:10PM +0200, Catalin Popescu wrote: Does anybody know how/where could I get a nice printable copy of the Emacs manual written by R. Stallman which has about 500 pgs (*dvi or *ps file format)? GNU documentation is usually written in the TeXinfo format. From

Q2 with hamm

1998-03-05 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Hello! Has anyone got Q2 working in hamm with ref_soft or ref_gl? Under X I have it working nice (except joystick..) but with anything else just a segfault after 'loading ref_gl.so...'. Strace show it opening ld-linux.so.2 and after that a few mmaps and after a mprotect - booom. I've tried

Running just an X-server

1998-03-05 Thread Erik van der Meulen
I have a small Debian box running as a server in a small network (NT/95). Until now I have done all configuration using a terminal session from the client to the server (which does not have a monitor). I would like to be able access my server with an x-client. All x-servers on the list seem to be

replacing MTA

1998-03-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
What is the proper way to invoke dpkg when replacing on MTA with another? Someone once said that you just put both packages on the same command line but I've never figured that out. How do you install and remove with the same command? This may belong on devel, but I'll try here first. TIA, --

HAMM Mirror

1998-03-05 Thread iquest
Hi, I'd like to know how much disk space I need to mirror hamm/ (i386 only)? Thanks! -- Timothy C. Phan Intelligence Quest Research, INC. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

nix MTA question

1998-03-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
Never mind, I figured it out :) I just needed to use the 'B' option on the dpkg command line, and install the new MTA. Don't know why I couldn't figure that out before (too much pizza, probably) -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone: (605) 334-4454

where is libext2fs.so.2

1998-03-05 Thread Richard Sevenich
Bravely upgrading to hamm via ftp, I find my machine unbootable - complaining about a missing 'libext2fs.so.2'. In which package might i find this. TIA, Richard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Barcodes

1998-03-05 Thread Tim Sailer
Does anyone know (not that this is real Debian specific) of a program that given a number, would generate a gif/jpg/tiff/whatever of a 3-of-9 barcode? Thanks, Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps We will either find a way, or

Re: converting true-type fonts

1998-03-05 Thread Kevin Cave
Stephen Carpenter wrote: actually you don't have to convert them get a package called xfstt it is a font server for true type fonts just compile itbring over the windows fonts and put them in /var/lib/ttfonts then run xfstt --sync then run xfstt then just edit XF86Config to include

Re: HAMM Mirror

1998-03-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
I'd like to know how much disk space I need to mirror hamm/ (i386 only)? In bytes: 302082630 /mirror/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386 54236703/mirror/debian/hamm/non-free/binary-i386 9040451 /mirror/debian/hamm/contrib/binary-i386 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Debian vs. FreeBSD

1998-03-05 Thread Y.A.Uvarov
Hi! Could somebody compare Debian with FreeBSD. I currently work on FreeBSD and I want to know if there are any reasons to try Debian. Thanks in advance, Yury. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

Re: Apache modules and Debian

1998-03-05 Thread Adam Edwards
At 03:33 PM 3/4/98 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: deletia The compilation process apparently involves making changes to a Configuration file, but I've yet to discover what file this is. I could be WAY off but I beleive the prog to modify the configuration is simply apacheconfig. Please

Re: where is libext2fs.so.2

1998-03-05 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Richard Sevenich wrote: Bravely upgrading to hamm via ftp, I find my machine unbootable - complaining about a missing 'libext2fs.so.2'. In which package might i find this. e2fslibsg -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Re: where is libext2fs.so.2

1998-03-05 Thread Kevin Cave
Richard Sevenich wrote: Bravely upgrading to hamm via ftp, I find my machine unbootable - complaining about a missing 'libext2fs.so.2'. In which package might i find this. TIA, Richard A quick search in the Debian Homepages serch engine reveals... FILE

Re: Running just an X-server

1998-03-05 Thread Fredrik Ax
On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Erik van der Meulen wrote: I have a small Debian box running as a server in a small network (NT/95). Until now I have done all configuration using a terminal session from the client to the server (which does not have a monitor). I would like to be able access my server

Re: HELP: Newbie needs help with crash

1998-03-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
Albert Hurd wrote: My computer just seized up (cursor frose; ctrl-alt bksp and ctrl-alt del did nothing). This was probably not the operating system but X. If you have a network or serial connection to another machine or a dumb terminal it should still be possible to get out of this without

Re: spontaneous rebooting

1998-03-05 Thread David B Wilson
So how far do you get exactly? Do you get LILO pause Loading Linux..reboot Sometimes I've counted 13 dots after Loading Linux before reboot. Yesterday I don't recall having seen any dots before the reboots, but I wasn't specifically paying attention to dots at the time. David

Problem in vfat_rmdirx

1998-03-05 Thread M . Chady
I'm running kernel 2.0.32 and I'm sharing my disk with Win95. The partition that I share with Windoze is VFAT and it works fine under Linux, except that of course (?) different read/write/execute priviledges don't work on it. My problem is that every now and again the kernel says this: Problem

Re: HAMM Mirror

1998-03-05 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I'd like to know how much disk space I need to mirror hamm/ (i386 only)? In bytes: 302082630 /mirror/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386 54236703 /mirror/debian/hamm/non-free/binary-i386 9040451 /mirror/debian/hamm/contrib/binary-i386 Not to be pedantic here,

Re: HAMM Mirror

1998-03-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 5 Mar 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: : I'd like to know how much disk space I need to mirror hamm/ (i386 :only)? : : In bytes: : : 302082630 /mirror/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386 : 54236703 /mirror/debian/hamm/non-free/binary-i386 : 9040451

Re: Barcodes

1998-03-05 Thread Joey Hess
Tim Sailer wrote: Does anyone know (not that this is real Debian specific) of a program that given a number, would generate a gif/jpg/tiff/whatever of a 3-of-9 barcode? I think there are barcode fonts out there. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: replacing MTA

1998-03-05 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Thu, Mar 05, 1998 at 09:42:22AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: What is the proper way to invoke dpkg when replacing on MTA with another? Someone once said that you just put both packages on the same command line but I've never figured that out. How do you install and remove with the same

Re: Apache modules and Debian

1998-03-05 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please have mercy on a poor, befuddled newbie. I'm having trouble figuring out how to add the module mod_auth_pg95 to the Apache server. I installed both Apache and PostgreSQL from Debian packages. I've read much documentation, including almost

Re: HAMM Mirror

1998-03-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
302082630 /mirror/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386 54236703 /mirror/debian/hamm/non-free/binary-i386 9040451/mirror/debian/hamm/contrib/binary-i386 Not to be pedantic here, but for a mirror to be useful, shouldn't it include the binary-all directories as well? Oops:

RE: How can I get the Emacs manual?

1998-03-05 Thread Lewis, James M.
You can ftp a copy from prep.ai.mit.edu It's in pub/gnu/ -- From: Catalin Popescu[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 1998 4:25 PM To: Debian Userslist Cc: The recipient's address is unknown. Subject:How can I get the Emacs manual? Does anybody know

RE: Running just an X-server

1998-03-05 Thread Lewis, James M.
You need an Xserver package for nt/95. I use Exceed from Hummingbird Communications LTD. I have heard that there are some free ones floating around, but I don't know about an nt version. There are lots of commercial packages to choose from but the ones I know about are expensive. You need to

Re: IDE CD-ROM IRQ

1998-03-05 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] answers: I'm performing an installation from CD-ROM on a Compaq Deskpro 4000 with a CreativeLabs 8x IDE CD-ROM. I've once had this on a friend's machine with a Goldstar 8x IDE CD-ROM used as /dev/hdc. After simply upgrading to kernel 2.0.33 this mysteriously

Re: Debian vs. FreeBSD

1998-03-05 Thread Carroll Kong
I have both FreeBSD and Debian installed. I will use Debian and Linux interchangably... from what I hear and so far I already begin to feel (i haven't used freebsd nearly as much as linux), that FreeBSD is a more structured OS. From what I hear from other admins, ex-Linux admins, freebsd

Re: [off-topic] not only a server, what hardware?

1998-03-05 Thread dg
On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: I have managed to promote Debian in a small but expanding firm (currently a dozen systems). They have old Novell Net and Samba at the moment, but they like Linux and want to change somehow. They allow me to give them a wishlist for a Debian

Re: HELP: Newbie needs help with crash

1998-03-05 Thread servis
On 5 Mar, Oliver Elphick wrote: If you have only the one machine, you are stuck, because X won't let you switch to a virtual terminal to do this. For the future crashes(not that should be any), you could get the joystick module and the jsr_daemon program. This allows you to perform two

Re: replacing MTA

1998-03-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote: : On Thu, Mar 05, 1998 at 09:42:22AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: : What is the proper way to invoke dpkg when replacing on MTA with : another? Someone once said that you just put both packages on the same : command line but I've never figured that out.

Re: HAMM Mirror

1998-03-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
If you have nfs, you can try mounting my ftp/pub directory via nfs. The server name is brahe.midco.net .. the ftp/pub dir, or any subdirectory thereof, may be mounted. It's exported readonly, so you might as well mount it read-only. FWIW, I also have a Debian (and ftp.gnu.org and

Re: Debian article on bootNet.com

1998-03-05 Thread Keith Beattie
Lindsay Allen wrote: Your article inspired quite a lot of traffic on this list so you do seem to have made a significant impact and brought in some fresh blood. Well done. Thanks! It's nice to be able to contribute! How did the project work out from the magazine's perspective? From

Problems with EURO-ISDN

1998-03-05 Thread Pätzold
Hallo! I installed the Debian Linux Kernel 2.0.33. My problem is, that the HiSax driver tells me, EURO protocol is not supported on my System, although I compiled in the Euro protocol in the Kernel. I discovered, that the l3dss1.h File is missing in the source directory. Can you tell

Re: netscape 4.04 fonts

1998-03-05 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Dave Mallery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: some of the fonts displayed are so small that they are illegible. i have up'ed the sizes in edit/preferences/appearance/fonts (which helps with some displays) but not with others... like gw2k for instance. also some of the fonts are poorly rendered,

dosemu and graphics

1998-03-05 Thread David Morris
My computer runs Debian continually. However, lately, I have been needing to reboot to dos (a 6 year old daughter who wants to play a couple dos games who it is very hard to say 'no' to). I have the latest (hamm) dosemu installed for a text based program and have tried to get it to run in

Re: HELP: Newbie needs help with crash

1998-03-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote: [ description of problem, and Oliver's helpful advice snipped ] : : Checking root file system : Parallelizing fsck : /dev/hda2 contains a file system with errors, check forced : /dev/hda2: unattached inode 28780 : /dev/hda2: UNEXPECTED

Re: converting true-type fonts

1998-03-05 Thread Ender Wigin
-K Kevin Poorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ewigin.home.ml.org Do the Free-Ride free-ride.home.ml.org On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, anybody know a way of converting a Windows True-Type font to Linux (Unix in general)? Look in the freetype packages ... one of them has a

Compiling Kernel 2.0.32

1998-03-05 Thread Ian Perry
Hi All, Last night I tried to recompile the Kernel 2.0.32 and had an error at the end telling me that AS86 was not found after telling it to make zImage I had gone through the procedure of make config and then make dep ; make clean as suggested at the end of the config. I assume it is an

Re: Help: How can I recover /etc/aliases from /etc/aliases.db?

1998-03-05 Thread Vincent Renardias
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, George Bonser wrote: If you are using dbm, you might be able to use the db_dump command. Here is a little piece of the manpage for it: NAME db_dump - the DB database dump utility Thanx for the tip. In the meantime, I've came up with an alternate way to do it:

Re: new GPL freeware

1998-03-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
I wrote a X-client freeware program and I don't know how to distribute it. Grab it at the forever unknown: http://www.villagrove.com/~lance/ There are several things you can do: * Announce it on comp.os.linux.announce. * Upload it to sunsite.unc.edu. * Become a

Where can I get the libgif2 package ??

1998-03-05 Thread Carsten Jahner
Dear Debian-Team I tried to install the KDE-Environment Beta 3 but this version depends on the libgif2 package. Unfortinaly this package isn't on my Debian distribution. (Kernel 2.0.29). Where can I find it ? (I've searched it on several Sites and ftp-servers but I didn't found it.) Please help.

Re: Compiling Kernel 2.0.32

1998-03-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Ian Perry wrote: Hi All, Last night I tried to recompile the Kernel 2.0.32 and had an error at the end telling me that AS86 was not found after telling it to make zImage I had gone through the procedure of make config and then make dep ; make clean as suggested at the

Re: Debian vs. FreeBSD

1998-03-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Mar 05, 1998 at 12:39:22PM -0500, Carroll Kong wrote: I have both FreeBSD and Debian installed. I will use Debian and Linux interchangably... from what I hear and so far I already begin to feel (i haven't used freebsd nearly as much as linux), that FreeBSD is a more structured

Need help installing master boot code into extended Linux partiti on

1998-03-05 Thread Seth Fulton
I would like to install Linux on my machine without disrupting my multiboot configuration. Currently I have an OS/2 boot manager, an NTFS primary partition running NT WKSTN 4.0 and a FAT32 primary partition running WIn95B. I would am planning on resizing these partitions using partion magic to

SSI and Apache

1998-03-05 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I have Apache running but I am not having luck getting Server Side Includes to work. If I embed the code in a .shtml page and then ask for the page it simply dispalys the source on the browser. I was wondering if I may have missed a config parameter in the Apache config. I looked but

Re: Compiling Kernel 2.0.32

1998-03-05 Thread Ian Perry
I realise that gcc is a compiler... I will check tonight to see if bin86 is there. It if was part of the dependant packages I would have thought it would have been installed with the rest. -- From: Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ian Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

question...

1998-03-05 Thread Rafael Castillo Mejia
hi... i want to start Netscape directly with the mouse, from the Netscape Boton in X11 mode. how do i do that thank... rafael castillo mejia -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

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