Re: On Debian, currently.

1998-03-22 Thread tko
Manoj Srivastava writes: Well, some one has indeed moved on to wider Horizons. The ex-project leader of Debian, who is very widely respected, has indeed left the project, and we are poorer for that. No argument about that. 8-) But then, everything changes and adapts (or it

Re: cdrom gone after kernel compile

1998-03-22 Thread John Szumowski
Ben Pfaff wrote: After compiling a more modularized kernel today (using Debian 1.3.1 with kernel src 2.0.32) I've lost my cdrom- everything was working perfectly with the bloated standard kernel... When I try mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /cdrom I see something like fs type

Re: cdrom gone after kernel compile

1998-03-22 Thread John Maheu
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, John Szumowski wrote: [cc'd to debian-user mailing list] After compiling a more modularized kernel today (using Debian 1.3.1 with kernel src 2.0.32) I've lost my cdrom- everything was working perfectly with the bloated standard kernel... When I try mount -t iso9660

Re: cdrom gone after kernel compile [Solution!]

1998-03-22 Thread John Szumowski
John Maheu wrote: [snip] I just had a similar experience with 2.0.33 and fs. It could be that module dependences where not calculated when you rebooted. Check to see if /lib/modules/2.0.32/modules.dep exists. If not run depmod -a in /lib/modules/2.0.32 Thanks! That did the trick...didn't

Re: grabbing root window images.

1998-03-22 Thread Carey Evans
Linux admin at alv [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My Afterstep window manager prevents xv from receiving clicks in root window. After left-clicking in a root window I see Afterstep's menu. xv still waits. Try setting a delay of five seconds, then selecting AutoGrab and moving the mouse over part of

Re: ppp problem

1998-03-22 Thread john
Tim writes: Look in the same file. Remove the 'proxyarp' keyword. Or, it may be in /etc/ppp/options . It's in /etc/ppp/options. Better to put '-proxyarp' in /etc/ppp/peers/provider, though. That way proxyarp is disabled only for the 'provider' connection. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: telnet from linux to win95

1998-03-22 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 05:46:49PM -0600, Henry Hollenberg wrote: Looks intresting I'll check it out, thanks. Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 21 Mar 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: Where can I read a description of vnc? I didn't get any hits on a debian package search

Re: telnet from linux to win95

1998-03-22 Thread Carey Evans
Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a tutorial on assembly I was tinkering with and it is written for intel assembly format...instead of att. The assembler might work under DOSEmu or under Wine. You could also have a look at the NASM assembler, which is a Debian package. It

Network/PPP Help

1998-03-22 Thread Harry Tuttle
Hello, Just installed Debain today and was working on getting the PPP working. I have been following the HOWTO: on PPP Set up and everything was going fine until I tried pinging. Haven't got any farther than that. Did get everything else to that point. And I am stuck and the HOWTO didn't

Re: Network/PPP Help

1998-03-22 Thread Harry Tuttle
Hello Billm And thanks for the reply. At 12:26 AM 3/22/98 -0500, you wrote: Hi Harry; You will probably get lots of responses to your request for help but here are some of my thoughts. It is impossible to tell from what you have written whether your problem is a routing problem or just

Re: Network/PPP Help

1998-03-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
This is where my problem starts. When I ping my ISP I get good pings but only 204.47.44.4, but if I try the name, dallas.net, I get nothing as I have not be able to establish a link to the DNS. I can ping my own machine and my ISP by IP numbers only. Can you ping any of your

Re: Network/PPP Help

1998-03-22 Thread Harry Tuttle
At 12:31 AM 3/22/98 -0500, you wrote: Can you ping any of your nameservers? (By IP address, not name, of course.) No, I am not able to ping anything but my machine when I am logged on and the domain machine of my ISP. Just by IP address only. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

cdrom

1998-03-22 Thread Michael Beattie
I have an interesting problem, I have gathered some bits and pieces together to make a small linux server, but my problem is that I cannot use the cdrom after installation, so I am stuck with a minimal system.. I can boot up with MS-DOS floppy, and use my 1.3.1 cdrom to install, fine. one the

Re: TRANSLATION Re: the instructions for win95 under dosemu

1998-03-22 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 08:07:03AM -0800, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Luiz Otavio L Zorzella writes: Here it goes. It comes from: http://www.pro-unix.org/~puma/ I translated the most important items: 2, 3 and 7. Well, folks.

Re: grabbing root window images.

1998-03-22 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
On Sun, Mar 22, 1998 at 01:11:03PM +1200, Carey Evans wrote: My Afterstep window manager prevents xv from receiving clicks in root window. After left-clicking in a root window I see Afterstep's menu. xv still waits. Try setting a delay of five seconds, then selecting AutoGrab and

Re: lilo, linux and win95

1998-03-22 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: I'm saying that not only can a logical be created without being created within an extended partition, but that it can exist without an extended partition, or at least outside of any extended partition displayed by fdisk. Hmm. I haven't actually had

Re: Bye Bruce

1998-03-22 Thread Britton
On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Richard Sevenich wrote: Well, OK - I'll stick with Debian despite Bruce's departure - for a while longer. The developers would miss folks like me who ask those naive questions. You can't be elite if no one notices. Bruce provided a type of leadership (yes, I know Ian

odd ppp bug

1998-03-22 Thread Britton
I have been experiencing an odd problem with ppp on my machine. I have an attack dialer set up, and for the most part it works. Every now and then however, I forget to turn it off, and it rediales for days. After many hours or days, connections start to fail every time, the modem ringing then

Shared object links

1998-03-22 Thread Waye-Ian CHIEW
Hello! Shortly after installing ldso 1.9.4-1, some programs I have compiled inexplicably start dumping core. And here's what ldd reported for libc (which was linked into every program): $ ldd /lib/libc.so.6 --list = --list (0x) $ After installing ldso 1.9.7-1: $ ldd

Re: Unmount: COMMAND NOT FOUND!!!

1998-03-22 Thread Alain Toussaint
unmount is not the prefered method,use umount in it place. Alain Toussaint -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Libc5 vs Libc6: help me, please!

1998-03-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
Nuno Carvalho wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install KDE, and some others things, but it needs libc6. When I try to install libc6 I get messages of dependencies with libc5! :-( I can't remove the libc5 package! No, you must first upgrade libc5. The full instructions are in the

emacs in Hamm

1998-03-22 Thread Ian Lynagh
In Hamm emacs, emacs20 and emacsen-common are all in standard. emacs20 depends on emacsen-common which conflicts with emacs. Does this mean that I don't d/l emacs? And I thought all standard packages were meant to be able to coexist with each other? Thanks Ian -- Ian Lynagh - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mutt 0.89.1-4 [hamm]

1998-03-22 Thread jdassen
On Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 04:52:32PM -0500, Bill Leach wrote: Did you look on a NON-US mirror site? The pgp stuff can not be posted on U.S. based sites because the U.S. Govt. is paranoid that somehow the U.S. defense department will be destroyed if a cryptographic system (available worldwide)

Re: odd ppp bug

1998-03-22 Thread john
Britton Kerin writes: I forget to turn it off, and it rediales for days. After many hours or days, connections start to fail every time, the modem ringing then making it's customary screeching noises, then going beep-Beep-BOOP in deceending tones until timeout. The strange thing is that this

Re: HP Laserjet 6L

1998-03-22 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Stefan Baums wrote: Hi all, is anyone running the HP Laserjet 6L with Debian GNU/Linux? I'm using magicfilter 1.2-20, and the 6L is not in magicfilterconfig's list of supported printers. Can I use another filter

Re: Now he's a liar, too

1998-03-22 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 11:30:27AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, I lied. I thought I had posted my last message of the day, but there has been an outpouring of requests for the loggin surrounding my PPP problem. I concede that I should have included it in my original posting.

Is this list discontinued?

1998-03-22 Thread Adalberto da Silva
Hello, What's happening with debian user list? Are you dealing with a major crash? I'm not receiving any message since 5th March. Can anyone send me a note of explanation? Is anybody here, Ground Control? Thanks, Adalberto da Silva -- To

Re: Network/PPP Help

1998-03-22 Thread Mike Acklin
At 12:26 AM 3/22/98 -0500, you wrote: then type: bash-2.01$ plog Mar 21 18:57:44 gandalf chat[1554]: bleach^M Mar 21 18:57:44 gandalf chat[1554]: Password: Mar 21 18:57:44 gandalf chat[1554]: -- got it Mar 21 18:57:44 gandalf chat[1554]: send (your password^M) Mar 21 18:57:45 gandalf

Re: Is this list discontinued?

1998-03-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
What's happening with debian user list? Are you dealing with a major crash? I'm not receiving any message since 5th March. Looks fine to me. Maybe some messages to you bounced and you got unsubscribed. Try resubscribing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Network/PPP Help

1998-03-22 Thread Mike Acklin
Thanks Bill, I think you are right. I went back over the Install doc and one thing it did say was to configure you network, even if you are not connected. THEN it says, if you are not connected to a network you only have to answer the first 2 questions which are 1) Your computer name 2)

hamm installation problems

1998-03-22 Thread Donald Harter Jr.
I have had many problems trying to install hamm. I get the following error message that appears on the installation screen menu. The installation screen menu overwrites it. c: tray open hdc: tra hdc:tray end_request: I/O error dev 16:00 sector 0 When I try to install the base I get the

netscape 4.04

1998-03-22 Thread Dave Mallery
hi is there a way to clear the cache of pages and images? i've searched the menus... i have a cached page that seems to only reload from cache, and not from the server. other pages load from the server just fine. thanx d -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- Dave Mallery, K5EN

Re: netscape 4.04

1998-03-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
is there a way to clear the cache of pages and images? Yes. There is a button to do this under Preferences in the same place you can set the cache sizes. Alternatively just `rm -r ~/.netscape/cache'. (I think that's the right directory. Take a look under .netscape.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

netscape 4.04

1998-03-22 Thread Dave Mallery
boy is my face red... the cache option in the preferences menu requires you to click the little rh-pointing arrow pointing at 'advanced' which uncovers the cache and other options... duhh thanks, guys d -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- Dave Mallery, K5EN po box 520; ramah nm

hamm upgrades

1998-03-22 Thread Norbert Veber
Just for your interest, I have tested the hamm disks on a friends computer, and I was able to install hamm using those disks, but like others have pointed out, perl is missing, so I had to install it manually before I could use the ftp method of dselect. I also tried autoupd.sh on another friends

Re: Mutt 0.89.1-4 [hamm]

1998-03-22 Thread Norbert Veber
This situation has changed. Now: - The US version of mutt has no PGP support whatsoever. - The international version (maintained outside the US) contains better integrated PGP support. As a result, now - The mutt version on the regular FTP sites is the US version; no PGP support. -

Re: opendos fdisk *shifted* my partitions?

1998-03-22 Thread Jonas Bofjall
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: Getting the bootable flags back wasn't the problem; they're set that way now. But it litterly shifted the partition names; hda1 became hda2, and so forth. Is there any way to change them back? This is exactly what OpenDOS did with my Linux

Re: Programming hints.

1998-03-22 Thread Mats Rynge
(Alex Yukhimets) wrote: Beeing busy to write a programm I would like to add a routine that forces it to shut down orderly (closing files etc.) when recieving a SIGTERM from the system, because the program itself is doing work that will keep it going for months at least. Can somone tell

Telnet

1998-03-22 Thread Pete Poff
Does anyone know where I can find a program, like the telnet program for lynx, that will work in DOS? I want the one that you type like 'telnet telnet.example.edu.' Thanks, Pete Poff Pete Poff E-Mail Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

JPEG parameter struct mismatch.........

1998-03-22 Thread Heiko Heijenga
Howdy, I've messed a bit with upgrading my bo box to hamm, with success. BUT, I don't know what I did but I get a little (?) error, that is: JPEG parametet struct mismatch: library thinks size is 672, caller expects 456. Now I've tried to reinstall libjpeg (bo, hamm, oldlibs) but without

Re: JPEG parameter struct mismatch.........

1998-03-22 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Mar 22, 1998 at 10:30:56PM +, Heiko Heijenga wrote: I've messed a bit with upgrading my bo box to hamm, with success. BUT, I don't know what I did but I get a little (?) error, that is: JPEG parametet struct mismatch: library thinks size is 672, caller expects 456. I had the same

Re: Network/PPP Help

1998-03-22 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Mike Acklin wrote: I think the problem is in the router section and I don't really know what to do. When I do the route -n I get: kernal routing table Destination Gateway Genmask

Re: Network/PPP Help

1998-03-22 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Mike Acklin wrote: Thanks Bill, I think you are right. I went back over the Install doc and one thing it did say was to configure you network, even if you are not connected. THEN it says, if you are not connected to a network you only have to answer the first 2

xISP: rcVersion: error reading file version!

1998-03-22 Thread shaul
$ xisp [2] 637 $ xISP: rcVersion: error reading file version! What is it and how am I solving it ? Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Telnet

1998-03-22 Thread Toth Laszlo
Hi! www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/PCTelnet/ This is a free telnet and FTP client from NCSA. It makes FTP server from DOS machine, while telnet client is runing. Corleone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]