Re: "Cannot find map file"

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Re: It's all so confusing, so should I get a CD Distribution?

> OK, I'm finding all this Linux thing really difficult because I'm using it > on my home computer and have to go to my mother's college to download > things, and I'm a total newbie so I > don't have a clue when it comes to recompiling the Kernel to put NTFS > compatibility on, and installing X Wi

Re: lynx get stuck (sort of...it's an annoyance)

On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 05:04:57PM -0500, Scott McDermott wrote: > > Doesn't the single key press "z - Cancel transfer in progress" do what > > you wish? This is from the help file which can be invoked by pressing > > "h" and then choosing "Key-stroke Commands". > > Z, or control-g. Stalled reso

Re: lynx get stuck (sort of...it's an annoyance)

Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 12:31:56PM +0100: > > the CTRL-C boogie and when i do so,i lose my page (and often,i dont > > remember the URL of the page in question),does there is a way for > > configuring lynx so that after a time it say an error message that the > > serv

Re: text-to-speech

Norbert Veber wrote: > is this one any good? I've tried rsynth before, and it was almost unbarable > :) It's a lot better than rsynth (it has a decent pronunciation dictionary). I find it very understandable. I think I'm in a minorty, though. -- see shy jo -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to

Re: Unable to login

"William D. Rendahl" wrote: >We have a box here running 1.3.1 that is only >allowing root to login. Any other account gives: > >Unable to cd to "/home/billr" > >(or that user's home) immediately after the password >is entered. The system only has one partition. So - has something

Re: text-to-speech

> Sure. Debian has a free text to speech program called "festival" that can > speak with a vaiety of voices. You will need to install debian first to use > it (note that this means installing linux - I assume you know what that > means, since you posted here). is this one any good? I've tried rsy

Re: Unable to login

Got it. My root directory / wasn't set to 755 drwxr--r-- No group or other execute. Doh! Thanks to all that replied, Bill -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

locale problems

Every time I run a perl program, I get the following message: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "us" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard loca

Re: Windows under DosEmu

On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 06:56:30PM -0300, Nelson Posse Lago wrote: > The basic trick for win95 is to create a 64Mb swap partition for linux and > configure DOSEMU to report 64Mb of expanded/extended memory to > applications. Then allow full direct access to the HP partition where > win95 lives in.

Re: Windows under DosEmu

On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Asher Haig wrote: > I'm told that it's possible to run Windows under DosEmu. What's the truth > in this? The DOSEMU documentation mentions how to run win3 under dosemu; there's a Brazilian linux user that wrote a mini-HOWTO (in portuguese...) on running win95 under DOSEMU, a

Re: Unable to delete files with strange ownership and permissions.

Hi folks. A search of the archives suggests to me that the following message was never posted: On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > Hello All. > > I'm running hamm (unstable) on a PC at home, and I somehow ended up with > some apparently corrupted files. I am unable to figure out how

FAQ's should be updated for newbies

Hiya. I just installed Debian 1.3.1 onto a spare partition of my system this weekend. The installation faq found on www.debian.org was very helpful in getting it installed on my system. However, the DSELECT faq was far from helpful... in fact, it was apalling how it ignores the novice user such

msql acls trouble

Hi! I'm newbie in sql databases. I recently installed msqland I've got some troubles with acls. My /etc/msql.acl looks like this: == # SuppressMail=no # Port=4333 # Configured=yes # MailTo=tomek # Debug=general:query:error:key:trace database=* read=* write=msql access=local data

Re: link error when compiling kernel

On Sat, Mar 14, 1998 at 12:03:45AM -0500, David B Wilson wrote: > I tried recompiling my kernel to add FAT32 support, but when it came > time for the link part of the compile, there were a bunch of undefined > functions. I don't know why Debian 1.3 gave two kernel versions, but > it was the 2.0.30

mkisofs

I am trying to test a cd writer we just bought. mkisofs fails about 1/2 the way through when trying to creating a filesystem from any existing CD I try. The error I receive is: cannot open : No such file or directory However, the file does it exist, and it doesn't fail on the same file each ti

Re: SOLVED: EXMH can not send e-mail (SMAIL/EXMH/MAILX)

On Sat, 14 Mar 1998 02:59:32 CST, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > Hi, All! > > Thanks to everyone who replyed on this message. I think problem is fixed now, > and I would like to share my little experience. [..] > For Mail program (package mailx) it is done in file: > /etc/smail/config > visible_n

Re: Off Subject: Mother board inquiry

On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, DAVID B. TEAGUE wrote: > Hi > > I hope someone can send or point me to specs on a motherboard. I want to > install this in my wife's machine. We plan to run a dual boot Linux/ > Lose95. > > It is a 486 Dx2/100 PCI mother board having the designation "PVI-486SP3 > Rev 1.21"

Re: Win95's FAT32 & Linux

I have just upgraded my windows 95 system to version 2 and I have used the FAT32 file system, but I am now unable to mount this partition under Linux, is this possible at when it was FAT then I just used the vfat module but this does not seem to work. Any ideas? Take a look at htt

Re: tetex question

"G. Kapetanios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My question is more tex oriented but involves knowledge of tetex. Tha is > why I am asking the list. The book documentclass creates page headers with > the title of the chapter. However, if the title is long the whole thing is > meesed up. Is there a w

many many segfaults

One of my debian boxes is becoming increasingly unstable, with general protection faults and segfaults almost every day now. I checked the RAM a couple of weeks ago with the memtest utility included with hwtools (i think), and it didn't find any faults -- but I know this doesn't mean the RAM's not

Re: lilo, linux and win95

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > howdy all.:-) > > Just installed Debian linux and win95 on a system and wish to have dual boot > > system with LILO as boot manager. > > cfdisk shows: > > /dev/hda1 Boot Primary Dos FAT16 (has Win95 installed on it) > /dev/hda5 Logical Linux

Re: Dell XPS/60

could be that your P60 overheat,my 486 do it too when open more than 48 hours (the CD drive to be exact),that can cause problem when having moderate to heavy load (or even light load depending on how your system is well cooled),check that you have a CPU cooling fan and that it work !! p.s.my 486 i

Re: OFF: Re: viewing binary files

Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I often make a script called my.reset that simply echo's ^O (letter o). > If this attachment worked right, then you should be able to use it without > any problem. Fyi, ^O puts the terminal back into text mode which is the > only problem I've ever ha

Re: your mail

On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, rick wrote: > Timothy M. Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | My backspace key has suddenly stopped working in X. > | Now it acts like a [Delete] Key. > | This happened when my KBD package died along with my /usr/loal/ > | directory, but did not recover when I reinstalled

Unable to login

We have a box here running 1.3.1 that is only allowing root to login. Any other account gives: Unable to cd to "/home/billr" (or that user's home) immediately after the password is entered. The system only has one partition. Any help or hints would be GREATLY appreciated! Please CC me directly

Win95's FAT32 & Linux

Hello, I have just upgraded my windows 95 system to version 2 and I have used the FAT32 file system, but I am now unable to mount this partition under Linux, is this possible at when it was FAT then I just used the vfat module but this does not seem to work. Any ideas? Also when I try to instal

Re: Serial line appears to be looped back.

On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Catalin Popescu wrote: > I managed quite easily to get my ppp running (using the config scripts > included with the Debian 1.3 instalation). Everything was OK until a few > days ago. I've noticed that after phoning and connecting succesfully to > my ISP I get the following mes

Re: How did you got these lines ?

On Fri, 13 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > very near the beginning and: > > > > Initializing random number generator... > > Configuring serial ports > > done. > > /dev/ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A > > /dev/ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A > > Typematic Rate set to 15.0 cps

Re: passwords

On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, David B Wilson wrote: > When I boot into Debian 1.3, it eventually prompts me for a password > without ever having asked me for a login name. If I don't respond, > it keeps prompting me. > > Also, when I initially installed, when I logged in as root, it > prompted me for a n

Dell XPS/60

I have a PC machine here on which I have installed Debian stable. It is an early Pentium, a Dell XPS/60. It is giving me a lot of problems. When it has been on for a while, it starts giving me floating point exceptions in several programs (including troff and fvwm2). What can be the cause of this?

Re: IP Masq and ftp on the LAN

On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Chuck Peters wrote: > > What is a good way to solve the ftp problem that our Windoze LAN users > experience? > > I half heartily tried setting up an IP tunnel without success and that > isn't a good solution anyway because I am running a static IP dialup > account and it r

Re: php/fi and mysql

> Is there debian packaged mysql ? > Yes there is. I have one installed on my box. As well as PHP. As PHP can talk to different databases you will find different packages of PHP. > I compiled php/fi on debian 1.3 woth mysql support, bu t when i reload > apache it show these messages: > Startin

Re: What SCSI should I buy?

On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 08:21:07AM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > Thanks to everybody who replied. I believe every SCSI-adaptor is > succesfully used by at least one person :-). Advansys seems to be > the best choice (or buslogic, but that wasn't one my friends initial > shopping list). Alth

RE: tetex question

The "fancyheadings" package (sometimes called fancyhdr) is probably what you want. Try "\usepackage {fancyhdr}" to see if you have it. My system has support for it in emacs via auctex. There is a manual in .dvi on the system for fancyhdr (fancyhdr.dvi.gz). jim -- From: G. Kapetanios[

RE: gated dying

Sounds like multicast support was left out of the kernel. Try going through the configuration step to see if it is there. jim -- From: George Bonser[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 16, 1998 1:39 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: The recipient's address is un

Serial line appears to be looped back.

I managed quite easily to get my ppp running (using the config scripts included with the Debian 1.3 instalation). Everything was OK until a few days ago. I've noticed that after phoning and connecting succesfully to my ISP I get the following message "Serial line appears to be looped back". I sus

Re: LINUX "Proxy"

PMan: Well, out of the five responses I got from a post in the debian users group, I got four mentions of IPMasq, and two mentions of a proxy called SQUID. Nobody even mentioned SOCKS, but I have definitely heard of it from my many run-throughs of NT configuration. Which way do y'all have it set u

Re: Question about CDRW

I just want yo mount the drive and work with it like the CD-ROM or the Zip Drive. Thx mwb escribió: > On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Alex Maneu Victoria wrote: > > > --IMPORTANT!! PLEASE REPLY TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] , thanks > > > > Hi. > > > > There's a friend of mine that has recently bought a Cd-rewriter

Communicator and News reading

I have fallen WAY behind on the latest with Netscape Communicator, so forgive me if this has been answered... I checked on the debian faq-o-matic and support pages first. I am running Communicator 4.04, Debian version 1.3+ Whenever I attempt to read news, I get a bus error. Are there any workaro

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No SPAMMING - NEED YOUR HELP

Hi -my name is Diane Standley and I am 85% disabled so every keystroke is a struggle - I have 2 e-mail addresses that I need to be removed from Spam lists - if you could help, I'd appreciate it.  They are:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Thanks - Diane

RE: X Help

I am running Debian 1.31. I want to install X windows on my system. Keep in mind that I have run X windows on this machine in the past using XFree86. So I know there is no incompatability in the software hardware issue. Here is the problem: I cannot run X

IP Masq and ftp on the LAN

What is a good way to solve the ftp problem that our Windoze LAN users experience? I half heartily tried setting up an IP tunnel without success and that isn't a good solution anyway because I am running a static IP dialup account and it requires setup on the dialup server side as well. I want

Re: SEUL: Anybody home

Hi David: You write: > From: IN%"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "David Cary" 16-MAR-1998 01:55:25.72 > To: IN%"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "Keith Dart", IN%"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > CC: > Subj: RE: SEUL: Anybody home > I just installed Debian on a fresh system last week just for the experience. > > (Anyone want

Re: dwww and dhttpd??

On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good small server to use with dwww for viewing > the debian documentation? I'm the maintainer of wn so ... I would recommend wn. Small, efficient, can be run from inetd. Only issue is that it is significantly more security minded

tetex question

Hi all, My question is more tex oriented but involves knowledge of tetex. Tha is why I am asking the list. The book documentclass creates page headers with the title of the chapter. However, if the title is long the whole thing is meesed up. Is there a way to change that and either hjave no page

Re: Household proxy

G'day >This is probably a dumb question, but exactly what is proxy, how does it >differ from IP masquerading and why would one use it instead of IP masq? Nah, no such thing as a dumb question! That's why the list is here :) Basically, with the growth of the internet, getting more than 1 IP addre

Re: routing daemons for debian

Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : you can find a (hamm/libc6) debian package of gated at : http://debs.fuller.edu, christoph's unofficial debian archive. What about bo/libc5? Unfortunately, we have only libc5 based systems in our network. Ciao ... ... PIT ... -- --

Re: Pid

Try "ps". Type in "man ps" to get detailed description of this command. You may also use "top" to get danymically changing table of processes. Wojtek Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Pete Poff wrote: >

lynx get stuck (sort of...it's an annoyance)

i'm writing because when i visit web pages in lynx and when i press on a link who's not working,lynx patiently wait for the server to answer (witch can take a very long time sometime) and i cannot do anything except doing the CTRL-C boogie and when i do so,i lose my page (and often,i dont remember

Re: Bash 2.01 with bo

Hello, > > I need to install Bash 2.01 on a Debian 1.3.1 bo-based system. > > How safe is it to use bash-2.01 from bo-unstable? Does anyone have had > > problems with that? > > I used essentially that same bash 2.01 on my bo box for at least two > months before upgrading to hamm, and never had an

any Hardware watchdog experiences

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all again! Anybody here uses this kind of cards? Are they "reliable"? Are you satisfied with it? Any kind comment about it will be greatly appreciated, Ulisses - - "Compute

Backup solution for Linux

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello I'm interested in backup solutions for Linux (+-10G without compression) What hardware is avaliable for Linux? DAT/DLT? Wich software should I use? Where I can find docs about it? Thanks in advance Ulisses - -

UPS (want to collect past articles)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello I'm now interested about UPS and Linux, I'll appreciate a lot if anybody can send me the past articles about it (that were a lot) Many thanks Ulisses - - "Computers are u

Re: What SCSI should I buy?

The driver included in the 2.1 kernels DOES support the UW card. I would suggest getting that driver, it does work with the 2.0 (and the 1.2) kernels. I am not sure which version of the driver is being shipped with Debian's kernel. That is driver version 3.1D and goes in /usr/src/linux/drivers/sc

Re: What SCSI should I buy?

Thanks to everybody who replied. I believe every SCSI-adaptor is succesfully used by at least one person :-). Advansys seems to be the best choice (or buslogic, but that wasn't one my friends initial shopping list). Although I'm worried about one thing: my friend noted that on the box of the A

Help With Upgrade to Hamm

In regards to using the autoup.sh upgrade script to upgrade from bo to hamm, should I get libc5 and ncurses3.0 from the /oldlibs directory? I am ftp'ing from the ./hamm/binary-i386 directory. Thanks. Art Lemasters -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM T

Re: Household proxy

O.K. So we've got 3-1/2 for IPMasq and 1-1/2 for squid, or something to that effect . I checked out the associated URL. Looks good. Thanks for helping a new guy get into the FreeOS thing. Hey, FreeOS -- rhymes with BeOS -- hmmm ;) Jay D. Winks -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: lilo, linux and win95

On Sun, 15 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > dev/hda1 Boot Primary Dos FAT16 (has Win95 installed on it) > > /dev/hda5 Logical Linux > > /dev/hda6 Logical Linux Swap > > > > If I run LILO and tell it to generate a new /etc/lilo.conf and then answer: > > > > Install a parti

Re: lilo, linux and win95

On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > > > On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, David Stern wrote: > > > There doesn't need to be hda2, hda3 AND hda4. There does need to be ONE > If that is the case one of them apears to be missiing The partition with internal logical partition's (hda5 and above) is someti

RE: gated dying

It looks like the kernel I was using is not configured for multicasting. On 16-Mar-98 George Bonser wrote: > It looks like gated is dying instantly on startup. It gives the following > complaint: > > task_set_option: task ICMP socket 7 option MulticastLoop(13) loop 0: Protocol > not available >

gated dying

It looks like gated is dying instantly on startup. It gives the following complaint: task_set_option: task ICMP socket 7 option MulticastLoop(13) loop 0: Protocol not available Mar 15 22:30:31 calvin gated[27810]: Abort gated[27810] version 3-5-8: Protocol not available What am I missing? bo sys

Re: Household proxy

On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Florian Attenberger wrote: > Jay D. Winks wrote: > > > > I have researched a few different distributions and found Debian to be > > the best-documented of the group, and that's important to me. My mates > > and I seek only to inplement a household proxy for concurrent connect

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dwww and dhttpd??

I installed dwww and dhttpd with dselect. I didn't have any problems with the installation, but I haven't been able to do anything useful. When I first started dwww, I got an message related to lynx. I don't know why this didn't show up in the dependency checks, but I downloaded lynx and tried ag

Re: X help

> I cannot run XF86Setup. It will not show anything on my monitor. I Have you tried to run XF86Setup and NOT use defaults found in XF86Config file? Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimet

X help

I am running Debian 1.31. I want to install X windows on my system. Keep in mind that I have run X windows on this machine in the past using XFree86. So I know there is no incompatability in the software hardware issue. Here is the problem: I cannot run XF86Setup. It will not show anything on

Re: "Cannot find map file"

"DAVID B. TEAGUE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, Mar 15, 1998 at 06:52:34PM -0500: > "Cannot find map file" This usually means that the kernel you are running is not the same as the kernel that you have most recently compiled. It refers to the file, `System.map' which is usually in the root of

Re: lilo, linux and win95

> dev/hda1 Boot Primary Dos FAT16 (has Win95 installed on it) > /dev/hda5 Logical Linux > /dev/hda6 Logical Linux Swap > > If I run LILO and tell it to generate a new /etc/lilo.conf and then answer: > > Install a partition boot record to boot linux from /dev/hda5?yes > Ins

Re: Debian on Thinkpad 560x...

On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Tan Wee Yeh wrote: : Dear all, : : I have just gotten a thinkpad 560x and would like to put : debian (preferably 2.0) in. My previous attempts were : taunted by the system rebooting upon loading the kernel (it : passed the LILO prompt). : : I located the linux on tp560 ho

Re: It's all so confusing, so should I get a CD Distribution?

G'day >1) Would you recommend a distribution disk for a newbie? > >2) Are there different ones to get? > >3) I know this is a Debian list, but do you recommend Debian for >user-friendliness? What are its advantages/disadv. ? I read an article about >Red Hat being good, but it's expensive (£50 = $

Re: Household proxy

G'day, >I have researched a few different distributions and found Debian to be >the best-documented of the group, and that's important to me. My mates >and I seek only to inplement a household proxy for concurrent connection >to the 'Net at the moment, but we will doubtless want to do more in the

Host name of outgoing mail

Hello, My ISP has upgraded and reconfigured sendmail to refuse to relay mail from any host other than from it's dynamic addresses, which are ppp[0-48].acorn.net. Now it won't accept mail from my pc which is named pc1.net. I need to have at least a address of acorn.net to use my ISP as a smarth

Debian on Thinkpad 560x...

Dear all, I have just gotten a thinkpad 560x and would like to put debian (preferably 2.0) in. My previous attempts were taunted by the system rebooting upon loading the kernel (it passed the LILO prompt). I located the linux on tp560 homepages. Success was reported on the tp560x but I did no

Re: Household proxy

Jay D. Winks wrote: > > I have researched a few different distributions and found Debian to be > the best-documented of the group, and that's important to me. My mates > and I seek only to inplement a household proxy for concurrent connection > to the 'Net at the moment, but we will doubtless want

"Cannot find map file"

Hi For some time my system gives me this error mesage on boot up. "Cannot find map file" My messages log files only go back to Feb of this year. Each of these have have this error message at each boot. I think the error goes all the way back to installation of Debian 1.1 over a year ago.