Servidor de News

1998-07-15 Thread J. Parera
Hola, al leer el Noticias COMO veo que dan dos posibilidades (servidores) para noticias, el Cnews y el INN. Dicen que es más aconsejable instalar Cnews. Cual me recomiendan? Dice que para el Cnews hay que darle soporte NNTP, no lo entiendo. Para lo único que quiero el servidor es para poder

OffTopic: Unidad de disco extraible LS-120

1998-07-15 Thread J. Parera
Hola, actualmente tengo una unidad Iomega ZIP 100 por puerto paralelo la cual da algunos problemas con la impresora, pués se corta la impresión en curso si se accede al disco (normal por su esquema de funcionamiento) a más al funcionar por el puerto paralelo es un pelín lenta y ocupa un espació

Un dmesg con posibles fallos

1998-07-15 Thread J. Parera
Hola, revisando los mensajes que da la máquina al arrancar he encontrado alguna línea sospechosa: ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe A que se debe? Saludos, J. Parera Dmesg Description: Binary data

Re: FueradeTema: Unidad de disco extraible LS-120

1998-07-15 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, J. Parera wrote: actualmente tengo una unidad Iomega ZIP 100 por puerto paralelo la cual da algunos problemas con la impresora, pués se corta la impresión en curso si se accede al disco (normal por su esquema de funcionamiento) Usa un

Re: FueradeTema: Unidad de disco extraible LS-120

1998-07-15 Thread Agustin Martin Domingo
Santiago Vila wrote: Usa un nzcleo de la serie 2.1.x. Esto te permitira usar la unidad ZIP y la impresora al mismo tiempo (mediante un controlador integrado para el puerto paralelo que gestiona a la vez la impresora y la unidad ZIP sin ningzn problema), y mucho mas rapido, al incorporar el

Re: Instalar Debian sobre UMSDOS

1998-07-15 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 09:19:54PM +0200, Alberto Ruiz wrote: Hola a todos! ¿Como se podria instalar Debian 1.3.1 sobre umsdos? Quiero instalar Debian sobre umsdos y habia pensado en creal el sistema de ficheros con los diskettes de instalacion de una Slackware que deja instalar en umsdos

Re: OffTopic: Unidad de disco extraible LS-120

1998-07-15 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 05:18:58PM +0200, J. Parera wrote: actualmente tengo una unidad Iomega ZIP 100 por puerto paralelo la cual da algunos problemas con la impresora, pués se corta la impresión en curso si se accede al disco (normal por su esquema de funcionamiento) a más al funcionar por

Re: FueradeTema: Unidad de disco extraible LS-120

1998-07-15 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 10:52:33AM +0200, Agustin Martin Domingo wrote: Usa un nzcleo de la serie 2.1.x. Esto te permitira usar la unidad ZIP y la impresora al mismo tiempo (mediante un controlador integrado para el puerto paralelo que gestiona a la vez la impresora y la unidad ZIP sin

Eterm

1998-07-15 Thread Robert Kerr
Hi All, I've installed the package for eterm, and it seems to be okay, except that it exits as soon as the window opens. As far as I can tell from the somewhat scanty documentation, I don't NEED Enlightenment for it, which is good, since I'm using icewm/WindowMaker. Any ideas on how to get my

setting the sender field (was Re: Smail Configuration)

1998-07-15 Thread JonesMB
I did a similar thing to get my smail working. I use exmh/mh for email. My problem is that the sender field is set to [EMAIL PROTECTED](FQDN). The user is jmb (or whoever I'm logged in as) and the hostname is achimota. The network I'm on (from my dial-up ISP) is ziplink.net. My FQDN ends

Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?

1998-07-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Jay == Jay Barbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jay ...I believe I am confused... I do not mind a little Jay automation, but currently in my lilo.conf I have 3 linux kernels Jay that I use. Jay This kernel-package util seems as if it takes this functionality Jay away from you and simply

Re: Debian 1.3 with AHA2842B

1998-07-15 Thread Michael B. Taylor
Maybe the reason that the RH installation disks work on your box and Debian doesnt is kernel related. Make a Debian 2.0 (hamm) rescue disk and try to boot. I am pretty sure that the hamm installation disks have a later kernel than the 1.3 installation disks. If this works, I suggest you make

Amiga File system

1998-07-15 Thread Dave Jones
Hello everyone! Here is a quick question: Where did AFFS support go in the Linux kernel? It was in 2.0.29 and 2.0.30, but when I upgraded my kernel to 2.0.34 it was gone as far as I can tell. Anyone have any info on this? My buddy needs to read off of some old Amiga drives and viola! I WAS

Help! Mail problems ... again

1998-07-15 Thread Michael Beattie
fetching mail with `fetchmail -v` gives this output: [snip] fetchmail: POP3 RETR 1 fetchmail: POP3 +OK 5379 octets reading message 1 of 87 (5379 bytes) fetchmail: SMTP 220 omnic.rumpus.net ESMTP Exim 1.92 #1 Wed, 15 Jul 1998 11:47:34 +1200 fetchmail: SMTP EHLO omnic.rumpus.net

2.0 relase date?

1998-07-15 Thread Stan Brown
Any projections on this? I note that the work all seems to be going into slink (2.1?), so when will 2.0 be reelased? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]770-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Windows 98: n. minor patch

Re: Amiga File system

1998-07-15 Thread servis
*-Dave Jones (14 Jul) | Hello everyone! | | Here is a quick question: | | Where did AFFS support go in the Linux kernel? It was in 2.0.29 and | 2.0.30, but when I upgraded my kernel to 2.0.34 it was gone as far as I | can tell. Anyone have any info on this? | | My buddy needs to read off of

xjed

1998-07-15 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Hi, Please does anyone know how to restrict the xjed beeper to visual mode only thanks Jonathan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Help! Mail problems ... again

1998-07-15 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: fetching mail with `fetchmail -v` gives this output: add the line: smtphost localhost to your .fetchmailrc file :) Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

installation

1998-07-15 Thread Robert Henry Rati
I just installed Debian 2.0 beta off of my Cheap Bytes CD, and when I selected configure packages from dselect, I got a list of errors as it configured modules and it canceled out because of errors. Is there some place I could look at the configuration log and see what problems it had? Is there a

Printing .tex files

1998-07-15 Thread Dennis Dixon
I have Debian vers. 1.3 and an old Citizen GSX 140 printer. I am attempting to print a .tex file. I assume my printer does not have a postscript interpreter. Therefore, as I understand it, the steps needed to print a .tex file are: 1) convert .tex to .dvi with latex filename.tex

Re: Help! Mail problems ... again

1998-07-15 Thread Michael Beattie
Already had that there, (this is my fetchmailrc:) - defaults poll pop.es.co.nz proto POP3 user mickyb with password is omnic here fetchall smtphost localhost - That has worked perfectly for ages... I have not changed anything at all to do with fetchmail, or Exim, Fetching mail

Re: the time

1998-07-15 Thread Damon Buckwalter
Shaleh wrote: Try 'man hwclock'. This should do the trick. -Damon To my knowledge there is no app that will change the time PERMANENTLY. That is why I said that the BIOS should be fixed. I used date, and another app (I forget what) on a bo box here at work. When it rebooted (long

security? smail in frozen is an open relay

1998-07-15 Thread Andrew Lewycky
(My apologies if this already known, and also for not submitting a proper bug report, since I don't know how, and I don't want to risk this being overlooked.) The smailconfig script included with smail 3.2.0.101-4.4 (in frozen) does not set the smtp_remote_allow option. As a result, any computer

Page Counting (print accounting)

1998-07-15 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
Has anyone here setup a page accounting system for a print spool? What I am looking for some sort of software that will count the number of pages in postscript and pcl documents as they are spooled and then record it. I poked around but nothing seemed to leap out at me, jet I note that lprng has

Re: Kernel (?) screen blanking

1998-07-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 11:32:59AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is not the kernel that is doing it. Look at the man page for setterm for console blanking and xset for X blanking. Eh? Perhaps I'm wrong, but setterm just sets the settings; the kernel does do the actual blanking Hamish --

Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit

1998-07-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 06:42:19PM +, Patrick Meidl wrote: after reading the relevant FAQs, HowTOs, installation instructions etc. I recognized that all bootable partitions must start before the 1024th cylinder (I would like to use LILO), so I thought the best solution might be to have

No debian, but laTeX(2e)......

1998-07-15 Thread phillip Neumann
Hi, Im working, in debian, with latex 2e. My document style (or class) is book. The document looks like this: BLA BLA... 0.1 hello 0.2 hola 0.3 hi 0.3.1 hi but blabla. and i like to be like this: BLA, BLA. 1 hello 2 hola 3 hi 3.1 hi but, blablas My titles (in expample: hello

Re: HOWTO on setting up NFS?

1998-07-15 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Eric House wrote: I'm trying to set up NFS on my 1.3.1 systems in order to share files with a couple of Solaris machines and more. An article in the June '98 _Linux Journal_ describes the procedure for Slackware, but since that distribution has the rpc.* daemons on by

I'm getting arnsarbscraibe messages!!

1998-07-15 Thread Mark Phillips
Sorry about the spelling, but when I spelt it correctly, the debian-user server kept on thinking I wanted to unsubscribe, when in reality I just wanted to talk about the fact that I am being flooded with lots of messages from people who want to unsubscribe! Am I the only one, or are there other

Re: xfstt final setup questions.

1998-07-15 Thread sjc
On Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 01:43:27AM +0200, Christopher Barry wrote: Hello everyone, Hi... sorry I took so long to reply, I don't always have tiome to read the debian-user list...its hard enough keeping up with all the other debian-* lists I read. [I am the xfstt maintainer btw] FontPath

problems with PPP Debian 2.0 beta

1998-07-15 Thread Chris R. Martin
I recently upgraded my 'base' system to 2.0 beta, and also installed PPP 2.3.5-2. However, when I did this, ppp stopped working. It will dial, and it fails with the message peer refused to authenicate. Obviously this didn't happen before... I've checked pap-secrets and that looks the same.. in

Re: Kernel (?) screen blanking

1998-07-15 Thread servis
*-Hamish Moffatt (15 Jul) | On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 11:32:59AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | It is not the kernel that is doing it. Look at the man page for | setterm for console blanking and xset for X blanking. | | Eh? Perhaps I'm wrong, but setterm just sets the settings; the kernel |

Re: Size of ttfonts in Netscape?

1998-07-15 Thread sjc
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 11:38:11AM +0200, Thomas Apel wrote: I installed xfstt from slink installed some fonts and it works. But when I chose them in the Netscape preferences I can't set the size anymore. The dropdown boxes are greyed out. What's the reason for this and how can I change

Exim 2.00

1998-07-15 Thread ssnow
Hello Just wondering if there are plans to make a debian packages (.deb) for Exim 2.00. It was just released a few days ago. Will it take a while to get it added into the normal area in FTP because hamm is forzen? Thanks again Nikhil -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Size of ttfonts in Netscape?

1998-07-15 Thread sjc
I was just playing with this a little more I think this si a bug in netscape... It apears that Netscape does not handle the truetype fonts well You can go into prefs and fix it...but...if you exit netscape and come back in it does not remember the font size that you used. I would recomend not

Re: Help! Mail problems ... again

1998-07-15 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: Already had that there, (this is my fetchmailrc:) - defaults poll pop.es.co.nz proto POP3 user mickyb with password is omnic here fetchall smtphost localhost - That has worked perfectly for ages... I have not changed

Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit

1998-07-15 Thread Dave Jones
Don't know about you, but I couldn't get lilo to boot with a 540 mb drive, even though linux lilo were in the 1st partition that was 480 mb and I used the last 35 mb or so for swap. Drive has 1049 cyl, 16 heads and 63 sec /track. Wouldn't boot unless I used the linear option in red hat 5.0.

FetchMail problem

1998-07-15 Thread Randy Edwards
I'm trying to set up fetchmail and have been pulling my hair out because the program doesn't seem to be acting like how the docs and manpage says it should. I want to run fetchmail in a daemon mode, so I created a script in /etc/init.d with the proper format which calls fetchmail as:

Re: FetchMail problem

1998-07-15 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Randy Edwards wrote: The problem I get is that my user mail for local username redwards is put into root's mailbox. In my above-mentioned /etc/fetchmailrc I have the following entry: try chowning thge script to the redwards user :) Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s

Hamm on Libretto

1998-07-15 Thread The Armadillo with the Mask
Hey, I'm having some problems getting dpkg to install libc6 as part of installing hamm on my Toshiba Libretto. I have tried this under both bash.tcsh and zsh and it produces the same output: errors while processing libc6-dev_2.0.7r-3.deb: could not overwrite /usr/include/asm which is also

Re: security? smail in frozen is an open relay

1998-07-15 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 09:19:21PM -0400, Andrew Lewycky wrote: (My apologies if this already known, and also for not submitting a proper bug report, since I don't know how, and I don't want to risk this being overlooked.) I just submitted this as a bug report; you should receive a Cc of it.

Re: its not a dos partition?

1998-07-15 Thread Elaina Tillinghast
Subject: Re: its not a dos partition? Christopher Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Martin wrote: Thought I changed that Dos won't let you create more than one primary partition when one is already set 'active' (bootable). Dos's fdisk won't let you set an active primary

Smail help please

1998-07-15 Thread Mark Yobb
Hi. I really need some help here. I have fetchmail working fine. It pops my mail off my ISP's server just fine. I can't figure out how to make smail send mail through my account on my ISP to the internet when I am logged in. If I use netscapes mail it works fine. I have looked through man

Print .ps files.

1998-07-15 Thread Mark Yobb
I am having trouble with printing. I have magicfilter, lprng, and cti-fthp (spelling?) installed. Text files print fine to my local printer (HP LazerJet 5L) but when printing postscript files with ghostscript I just get stepped lines of all these funny commands. I assume these commands

Time Server

1998-07-15 Thread Daniel Mashao
Long time ago when I was new to Linux I had a nice program that updated my system clock with time from somewhere on the net. Now I need that program again and have a hard time finding it using search engines and searching the infinite sunsite. Anybody knows what I am talking about and where I can

Re: Time Server

1998-07-15 Thread Christopher Barry
Hi, I used a freeware program for windows a long time ago that set my bios clock to the time served from a local atomic clock, but I don't remember where I got it from. It may have been download.com or something and it wouldn't be of use to you anyways being that it's for windows, but maybe

[nikolai@Ukraine.humbug.org.au: Delivery Notification: Delivery has failed (fwd)]

1998-07-15 Thread Martin Schulze
- Forwarded message from Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: at Infodrom Oldenburg (/\##/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.12 Joey) by finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE from murphy.debian.org with smtp id m0ywCQ1-001MvIC; Tue, 14 Jul 98 23:15

Re: Time Server

1998-07-15 Thread Christophe Broult
Daniel Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Long time ago when I was new to Linux I had a nice program that updated my system clock with time from somewhere on the net. Now I need that program again and have a hard time finding it using search engines and searching the infinite sunsite. Anybody

Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?

1998-07-15 Thread Matthew Collins
On 14 Jul 1998 18:21:21 -0500, you wrote: Rubbish. Please do not spread FUD. I have, at times, a round dozen kernel images on my machine, all compiled with kernel-package. I even have 2-3 2.0.34 images *ON AT THE SAME TIME*. Look at my lilo.conf, 5 (count it, five) different options.

Re: Time Server

1998-07-15 Thread Manfred Bartz
Daniel Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Long time ago when I was new to Linux I had a nice program that updated my system clock with time from somewhere on the net. Now I need that program again and have a hard time finding it using search engines and searching the infinite sunsite. Anybody

Re: I'm getting arnsarbscraibe messages!!

1998-07-15 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Mark Phillips wrote: Sorry about the spelling, but when I spelt it correctly, the debian-user server kept on thinking I wanted to unsubscribe, [...] Hi. I am getting lots of messages like the one you quoted, but because I'm *also*

Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit

1998-07-15 Thread Patrick Meidl
I recognized that all bootable partitions must start before the 1024th cylinder (I would like to use LILO), so I thought the best solution might be to have these partitions: With LBA this appears to be incorrect. I have previously had systems booting Linux from the last 500mb of a

Re: Time Server

1998-07-15 Thread Pere Camps
Daniel, Long time ago when I was new to Linux I had a nice program that updated my system clock with time from somewhere on the net. Now I need that program again and have a hard time finding it using search engines and searching the infinite sunsite. Anybody knows what I am talking about and

How to regenerate apache-ssl certificates ?

1998-07-15 Thread Mario Filipe
Hi I have installed apache-ssl but now a questions just came into my mind! How do i regenerate the certificates or even better how can i convince the thing to generate certificates with a bigger expiration date (it's used in an intranet and we aren't to inclined into paying someone for a

Re: Printing .tex files

1998-07-15 Thread Waldemar Żurowski
Hello, Dennis Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I type gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=printer -sOutputFile=\|lpr filename.ps Perhaps it is not quite good advice, but I suggest to install magicfilter package. It will allow you to install some filters, which would handle conversion from PS to

Re: No debian, but laTeX(2e)......

1998-07-15 Thread Waldemar Żurowski
phillip Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1 hello 2 hola 3 hi 3.1 hi but, blablas Hello, You have 2 option. 1) Change book class to article class, depending what you really want to do. I mean, are you going to write a book, or just something like article or report. Report has its

re: can't find bind

1998-07-15 Thread LeRoy D. Cressy
Michael Harnois wrote: I have bind set up as a caching-only nameserver on the machine that serves as my internet gateway, and it works just peachy. However, my workstation can't see it: i.e. when I run nslookup, I get *** Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.3: Non-existent

Re: Size of ttfonts in Netscape?

1998-07-15 Thread Thomas Apel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just playing with this a little more I think this si a bug in netscape... It apears that Netscape does not handle the truetype fonts well You can go into prefs and fix it...but...if you exit netscape and come back in it does not remember the font size that

RE: linux + win95: linux boot partition/

1998-07-15 Thread Richardson,Anthony
The 1024 problem is a very real one. On old BIOSes the 1024 cylinder corresponded to 528 MB. Newer BIOSes do translation (they pretend the drive has more heads than it actually does so they can pretend that it has fewer cylinders than it actually does) and the 1024 cylinder corresponds to about 8

Re: Size of ttfonts in Netscape?

1998-07-15 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 01:04:15PM +0200, Thomas Apel wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just playing with this a little more I think this si a bug in netscape... It apears that Netscape does not handle the truetype fonts well You can go into prefs and fix it...but...if you exit

Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?

1998-07-15 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 08:46:35AM +, Matthew Collins wrote: On 14 Jul 1998 18:21:21 -0500, you wrote: Does make-kpkg run config for you? It dosn't say. It does not run config...you have to run make [menu,x]config yourself I run make config first, and the run make-kpkg. Off it goes

Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit

1998-07-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 11:41:26AM +, Patrick Meidl wrote: I recognized that all bootable partitions must start before the 1024th cylinder (I would like to use LILO), so I thought the best solution might be to have these partitions: With LBA this appears to be incorrect. I have

Re: Print .ps files.

1998-07-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 01:59:58AM -0700, Mark Yobb wrote: I am having trouble with printing. I have magicfilter, lprng, and cti-fthp (spelling?) installed. Text files print fine to my local printer (HP LazerJet 5L) but when printing postscript files with ghostscript I just get

H Key is unusable, after base installation of hamm

1998-07-15 Thread Stelios Parnassidis
Just had the base system installation of Hamm, and wanted to type 'which superformat'. 'h' beeps and beeps ... i have to type Ctrl-V h to use it. I looked into the /etc/terminfo/l/linux via ... (untic) could find nothing. What's wrong with my very 'h'? Heh? :(

Re: problems with PPP Debian 2.0 beta

1998-07-15 Thread Michael B. Taylor
auth is selected in /ppp/options now. It wasnt before. I had to put noauth in /ect/ppp/peers/provider to override it and get a connection. Mike On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 09:28:53PM -0500, Chris R. Martin wrote: I recently upgraded my 'base' system to 2.0 beta, and also installed PPP 2.3.5-2.

Colorado Tape Drive

1998-07-15 Thread Marc Baron
I'm having problems with my Colorado 350 drive...ever since I've installed Win95, I can't do a successful back-up. Is this a software problem...do I need new software to go with Win95? Help... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

ncurses 4.2?

1998-07-15 Thread servis
How can I install ncurses 4.2 without wrecking havoc on my system and keeping everyting happy, dependencies and all? I would like to use a beta release of taper that fixes a bug I am experiencing with large archives and it needs at least ncurses 4.1. Thanks, Brian -- Mechanical Engineering

Re: Tkdesk (was: File managers ??............)

1998-07-15 Thread Mark Harrison m0192@
Michael Beattie wrote: On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Alexey Vyskubov wrote: On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 02:38:00PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tkdesk looks fine but I don't know how to get rid off of the icons menu which appear on the left of the screen. Nasty hack: put the

How to build a custom kernel with kernel-source-2.0.34_2.0.34-4.deb

1998-07-15 Thread Alex Kwan
Dear debian fans, My system is hamm, and I have downloaded the kernel source (kernel-source-2.0.34-2.0.34-4.deb) from ftp.debian.org (1) What is the difference between linux-2.0.34.tar.gz and kernel-source-2.0.34_2.034-4.deb. (2) How to build a custom kernel with

dkpg error! What should I do?

1998-07-15 Thread Pete Willemsen
Hello, I'm fairly new to Debian, and I'm currently attempting to install the Debian distribution on my Mac Centris 650. And, yes, I do realize this is very unstable. Nonetheless, my question concerns an error that I'm receiving when using dselect and dkpg. I've managed to install most of the

Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?

1998-07-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Matthew Collins wrote: [ snip ] : All the functionallity you describe sounds really good, I (and many : others by the sounds of things) might be missing the point here, but : how do we USE this marvelous package? Is there any documentation, : because the man pages are

Re: Why does tty1 become the current VT on reboot/halt?

1998-07-15 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Noah L. Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey all. Why is it that when I reboot or halt my machine, I'm automatically switched to the first virtual console? I don't like this at all, because all of the messages coming from the rc scripts get sent whichever VC I was on when I typed the

Re: How to build a custom kernel with kernel-source-2.0.34_2.0.34-4.deb

1998-07-15 Thread Michael B. Taylor
No clue on question 1. In answer to question 2, I suggest you get the kernel-package package and then check /usr/doc/kernel-package for detailed instructions. Mike On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 09:56:31PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote: Dear debian fans, My system is hamm, and I have downloaded the

Re: libc6 Netscape form problems

1998-07-15 Thread Jaakko Niemi
I am running the libc6 version of Netscape 4.05 and am experiencing some strang problems when entering text into text fields. Something keeps appending random binary bits to the end of the strings and it really screws things up. Sometimes it isn't even apparent in the field and other

Re: You have new mail

1998-07-15 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Hi! When loging in, my users sometimes get the message 'You have mail', when in fact they have new mail. Also, in redhat whenever they received new mail and they where in the bash shell, they'd get the 'You have new mail' after any command. In debian they don't. I

Re: Packages of FTP Client (GUI)

1998-07-15 Thread Jaakko Niemi
I am looking for the packages of FTP Client (GUI) under X, Would someone know that? What is its name location? FileRunner is a great ftpclient and filemanager. You can find it from section: net. IIRC this was in contrib or non-free before, but the license changet month or two a go

Re: My 'h' key is unusable

1998-07-15 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Stelios Parnassidis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just had the base system installation of Hamm, and wanted to type 'which superformat'. 'h' beeps and beeps ... i have to type Ctrl-V h to use it. I looked into the /etc/terminfo/l/linux via ... (untic) could find nothing. What's wrong

Re: REALLY small machine

1998-07-15 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Robert Henry Rati wrote: I have an old 384 with 40 meg HD and 1 meg of ram and I wanted to set it up as my ftp server. Can Linux install into that small a HD and if so, how would I go about doing that? Linux can be booted in less than 1 meg, but you can't do much with

Re: How to build a custom kernel with kernel-source-2.0.34_2.0.34-4.deb

1998-07-15 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 10:16:04AM -0400, Michael B. Taylor wrote: (1) What is the difference between linux-2.0.34.tar.gz and kernel-source-2.0.34_2.034-4.deb. Try a recursive diff on both source trees, and you'll notice that the debian kernel tree is patched with some security

PNP modem

1998-07-15 Thread Robert Henry Rati
Has anyone configured a PNP modem in Linux using PNPISATOOLS? I have a 33.6 modem which (unfortunately) is PNP and haven't been able to get Linux to recognize it. It should see it on /dev/ttyS1, since it's set for Com 1. Also, there were a number of scripts setup to connect you to an isp when

color prompts

1998-07-15 Thread Dave Jones
Hello! I read in the Configuration HOWTO that RedHat Slackware Linux can use Escape control codes to add color support (and some default settings; like LESS as a default pager) to the prompt line, see below: _ # /etc/profile # System wide environment and startup programs # Functions and

Re: How to regenerate apache-ssl certificates ?

1998-07-15 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Tim Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] emailed me the enclosed script. Mario Filipe wrote: Hi I have installed apache-ssl but now a questions just came into my mind! How do i regenerate the certificates or even better how can i convince the thing to generate certificates with a bigger expiration date

procmail and .forward

1998-07-15 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, Before upgrading to hamm, I had to put a .forward file with that known line of redirection in order to get my e-mail filtered by procmail. Now, even without the .forward two users of my system were getting their e-mail filtered by procmail. I double checked and they didn't have the

Re: Debian 2.0 - rcmd: Lost connection

1998-07-15 Thread Michael Q. Le
Thanks for the reply... I believe that I am using the latest version of libc6, so I guess it is still broken. Here is the output from dpkg --list: ii libc6 2.0.7r-5 The GNU C library version 2 ii libc6-dev 2.0.7r-5 The GNU C library version 2 These are the latest

Re: You have new mail

1998-07-15 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi! When loging in, my users sometimes get the message 'You have mail', when in fact they have new mail. Also, in redhat whenever they received new mail and they where in the bash shell, they'd get the 'You have new mail' after any command. In debian they don't.

Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/

1998-07-15 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 08:39:00AM -0400, Richardson,Anthony wrote: The 1024 problem is a very real one. Please, it really occurs in very few systems/configurations. It had been a problem for me occasinally because of some older mainboards lying around here. It is no problem with harddisks and

Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?

1998-07-15 Thread Matthew Collins
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998 09:04:42 -0500 (CDT), you wrote: RTFM kernel-package docs. All Debian documentation is in /usr/doc/packagename ... at the very least, there will be a copyright file there :) [snip] kernel-package is the coolest thing ever. It has a ton of options, works with Debian

2.0 Expected release date?

1998-07-15 Thread Stan Brown
Any prohectiosn? The ddaily list of open bugs seems to have disapeared. Are they all done? Is anyone working on them? Does anyone care? Are all the devlopers moving on too slink/ After all it's a whole lot more fun to be on the cuting edge, than ploding awya at

Upgrade bo-hamm w/SOCKS proxy, how?

1998-07-15 Thread Jeff Noxon
I have a friend running bo, which he installed from CD. How can he upgrade to Hamm through his NT proxy server, running SOCKS? I can think of several difficult ways, but is there a beginners-approved way? Thanks! Jeff -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: PNP modem

1998-07-15 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Yup. Under hamm. I've had trouble is isapnp in the past but setting up an internal USR Sportster this time was a breeze and it was actually better since I could use IRQ 5 which is non-standard for a serial port (I'm using two other ports already). Does pnpdump find the device? Robert Henry

Re: procmail and .forward

1998-07-15 Thread jason and jill
I'm using hamm with: sendmail 8.8.8-20 procmail 3.10.7-6 It't not a bug...it's the way the packages are supposed to work together when installed system-wide. My isp has been set up that way since '94. When you need to use .forward is a bug occurring (more like an inconvenience

Re: procmail and .forward

1998-07-15 Thread Clint Adams
Before upgrading to hamm, I had to put a .forward file with that known line of redirection in order to get my e-mail filtered by procmail. Now, even without the .forward two users of my system were getting their e-mail filtered by procmail. I double checked and they didn't have the

Re: Upgrade bo-hamm w/SOCKS proxy, how?

1998-07-15 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote: How can he upgrade to Hamm through his NT proxy server, running SOCKS? I can think of several difficult ways, but is there a beginners-approved way? Does the NT proxy server proxy HTTP? If so use ATP and the http method, do this before you run it,

Re: ncurses 4.2?

1998-07-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I install ncurses 4.2 without wrecking havoc on my system and keeping everyting happy, dependencies and all? I would like to use a beta release of taper that fixes a bug I am experiencing with large archives and it needs at least ncurses

fdutils error while setting

1998-07-15 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm getting the bellow message from dpkg while trying to set fdutils. What is wrong? How can I fix this? -- running dpkg --pending --configure ... Setting up fdutils (5.2pl4-3) ... Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish

RE: linux + win95: linux boot partition/

1998-07-15 Thread David Wright
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Richardson,Anthony wrote: The 1024 problem is a very real one. Yes, I agree it is. However, Hamish was commenting on a posting that referred to SCSI drives, not IDE ones. Unfortunately he had pruned the quotation so much that all references to SCSI had disappeared. So

Need good ftp-client, Checking links on webserver

1998-07-15 Thread Clemens Heuberger
Hi: 1) I would need an ftp client which is able to delete recursively a whole directory tree on the remote host. I tried ncftp, xftp, qftp, cftp ... (I cannot telnet to this machine, it is a web-server, I have only ftp access to it.) Does such a thing exist? 2) Is there some

Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/

1998-07-15 Thread David Wright
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Nils Rennebarth wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 08:39:00AM -0400, Richardson,Anthony wrote: The 1024 problem is a very real one. Please, it really occurs in very few systems/configurations. It had been a problem for me occasinally because of some older mainboards lying

Report: installed hamm from Cheapbytes CD

1998-07-15 Thread Gonzalo Diethelm
Hello, This is a brief report after installing Debian hamm from the Cheapbytes CD on my Dell Latitude CPi laptop. The CD boots OK, and everything works as before. The only thing that was a nuisance was in the section where you select what file systems, network drivers, etc. to install. There

Web transaction security.

1998-07-15 Thread Christopher Barry
Jaakko Niemi wrote: snip This is a ns bug. Really funny, when you are paying bills through a www-service. Or entering passwords/uids/urls... snip --j There was a big discusion in one of the slashdot.org poles awhile back, I believe the pole was something like would you use (or

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