Anonymous ftp times incorrect?

1998-08-11 Thread Colin Telmer
One of the machines I help maintain is running kernel 2.0.33 with 2 PII400 processors and an adaptec scsi card (debian machine with a bunch of RedHat stuff installed on it - I can't control the owner:)). The machine regularly crashes and I have been trying to help track down the problem with no ava

Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

1998-08-11 Thread Liran Zvibel
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: > Hi, > > Every now and then I do a little goof-up that scrambles a virtual > console and I'm sure we all do sometimes but lately I've been doing a > little programming and if I accidentally gib a string argument then it > corrupts the console every

Re: checking 8 bit clean on ppp

1998-08-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "RH" == Richard E Hawkins Esq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RH> I almost have this laptop connected by ppp to the debian machine on my RH> desk, but not quite. [...] RH> It now has a serial connection, and the host machine knows that RH> it's logged in [i checked :) ] RH> Aug 11 15:26:39 ha

Re: Which Video Card?

1998-08-11 Thread Keith
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > ah > you use the mystiqe too? > great, so there is support > i have it set for vga Are you running Debian? What version of Xwindows are you running? I am running 6.3, I think. > which of course works... but i dont exactly like 320x240, 16 c

Re: Debian at work

1998-08-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"George" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: George> I want to thank all of the developers for making 2.0 such a George> solid release. It was a big job to convert to libc6 yet not George> break people's existing private libc5 development work. George> THANK YOU, THANK YOU, TH

Re: checking 8 bit clean on ppp

1998-08-11 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > I almost have this laptop connected by ppp to the debian machine on my > desk, but not quite. > > >From /var/log/ppp.log: > > Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]: Iowa State University > Telecommun > ications ENET server 9^M > Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins

checking 8 bit clean on ppp

1998-08-11 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I almost have this laptop connected by ppp to the debian machine on my desk, but not quite. >From /var/log/ppp.log: Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]: Iowa State University Telecommun ications ENET server 9^M Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]: ^M Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]:

dump and restore problems

1998-08-11 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Hi, I'm trying to test dump and restore, and I've been having problems with restore. I'm using a buslogin 930 controller and an HP DDS3 tape drive. Here are some examples of my restore problems: freefall ~ $ sudo restore -x -v -f /dev/st0 lee/wav.old/clint.wav Verify tape and initialize maps Tape

Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

1998-08-11 Thread john
Shaleh writes: > Try typing the word "reset" -- yes it will come out looking like > gibberish but type it anyway and hit return. This USUALLY works. In some cases you may need to type control-j instead of return. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: new version of X giving problems

1998-08-11 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Jens wrote, > Did you check /var/log/xdm-errors? Sounds like what happens when my > mouse isn't detected. I just looked, and haven't found a mouse problem. after a normal startup, it ran for a couple of hours, then suddenly stopped working and spewed the following: Fatal server error: Hung

Re: nasty...

1998-08-11 Thread Christopher Barry
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > [...] > creating sd will create all the way up to sdp. Yes, but it won't create past /dev/sd15. The last time I installed Debian I had put 16 partitions on my brand new 9.1GB SCSI disk and then found I only had sda devices numbered up to 15. I read the manpage for /dev/M

Re: Which Video Card?

1998-08-11 Thread Keith Vance
Rick Smorawski wrote: > > I am buying a new pc, and have the choice between 2 cards. > > 1. Real3d Starfighter i740 based video card w/ 8megs ram > 3. and S3 based video card w/ 4megs ram. > > both are AGP > > I know there is currently no i740 server available. My question is, > should I go fo

Re: new version of X giving problems

1998-08-11 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Did you check /var/log/xdm-errors? Sounds like what happens when my mouse isn't detected. Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > upon returning from vacation yesterday, I let the system upgrade itself to > stable (from frozen). > > X immediately began causing problems. Without the usual request for >

Re: HELP with Sound Card

1998-08-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hello, On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 04:51:04PM +0530, XRDLAB wrote: > I am currently running Debian bo and wanted to compile sound support. > > My sound card is Aztech Galaxy (claims to be compatible > with SoundBlaster 16, non pnp). Didn't you read the documentation? There is no SB 16 compatible

Re: Xwrapper & Netscape problems

1998-08-11 Thread servis
*- Jeremiah Cornelius wrote about "Xwrapper & Netscape problems" | | I just installed Debian 2.0 on my new Dual PentiumPro box. | | IMHO, It's got some real plusses, and some definite minuses as cmpared | to RH 5.x... | | My real problem right now, is that X seems to have installed itself | with

RE: Xwrapper & Netscape problems

1998-08-11 Thread Patrick Ouellette
I'd try reinstalling X, then getting the Netscape installer deb package (there used to be one, you have to grab netscape off a Netscape site then install the .deb). You can reinstall packages by having the .deb file available (in the current working directory, or append the path to the file name)

Re: sendmail help please

1998-08-11 Thread Adam Shand
> thank you very much for trying to help out. I must be really dumb, but > your suggestions do not seem to work for me. Here is the output of my > sendmailconfig after I added the lines you suggest: welcome to sendmail hell. > FEATURE(nodns) is no-op. hmm, okay i haven't actually used this

Re: Xwrapper & Netscape problems

1998-08-11 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Jeremiah Cornelius wrote: > [...] > > My real problem right now, is that X seems to have installed itself > without Xwrapper, and only root can launch X! I don't want to setuid > the xserver, and I can't find a .deb for the wrapper. did you install X with dselect or using

new version of X giving problems

1998-08-11 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
upon returning from vacation yesterday, I let the system upgrade itself to stable (from frozen). X immediately began causing problems. Without the usual request for permission to stop X, the sreen went into the repeated-blink mode. I've had to stop the auto-start of xdm. After a couple of h

Re: Xwrapper & Netscape problems

1998-08-11 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 01:26:12PM -0700, Jeremiah Cornelius wrote: > > I just installed Debian 2.0 on my new Dual PentiumPro box. > > IMHO, It's got some real plusses, and some definite minuses as cmpared > to RH 5.x... > > My real problem right now, is that X seems to have installed itself > w

Xwrapper & Netscape problems

1998-08-11 Thread Jeremiah Cornelius
I just installed Debian 2.0 on my new Dual PentiumPro box. IMHO, It's got some real plusses, and some definite minuses as cmpared to RH 5.x... My real problem right now, is that X seems to have installed itself without Xwrapper, and only root can launch X! I don't want to setuid the xserver, an

Re: Turn off Console Screen Blanking

1998-08-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JB" == Jay Barbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JB> How do you shutoff the console's screen blank? JB> I would like to be able to just boot up and not have the console blank out. The command is setterm -blank 0 Just create a file in /etc/rc.boot #!/bin/sh setterm -blank 0 and chmod 755 it.

Re: ATX and "shutdown -h"

1998-08-11 Thread Robert J. Alexander
Lee Bradshaw wrote: > > Hi, > > What do I need to do to get "shutdown -h" to turn off my computer? It > has an ATX power supply and win95 shutdown turned everything off so I > know it's possible. > > Here is a snippet from my latest 2.0.34 kernel .config file: > > CONFIG_APM=y > # CONFIG_AP

Re: xsession vs xinitrc

1998-08-11 Thread Robert J. Alexander
BG Lim wrote: > > Which is the better one to use with starting X, either with startx or xdm? > > BG > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null FWIW, I used to start X with XDM which is much more powerful but one day I moved my hard disk on a different system and XD

Re: Mouse Fatality in X-Windows

1998-08-11 Thread Robert J. Alexander
Midgley John wrote: > > Hi all > > I'm just getting started with Linux, and I've had several goes at > installing the Debian 2.0 distribution. I'm getting tanatalisingly close > to a working X-Windows installation - much video card clicking and > flashing - but it objects to a line in the XF86Con

Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

1998-08-11 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> Also, if there are any vim users reading this what does ^x ^s do? I > sometimes accidentally type this when I mean to save a file (bad habit > from using ae), and this seems to lock up vim pretty hard. ^S generally is a command to stopp sending . . . try ^Q if this freezes things. rick

Turn off Console Screen Blanking

1998-08-11 Thread Jay Barbee
Hello All, How do you shutoff the console's screen blank? I would like to be able to just boot up and not have the console blank out. Thanks for your help in advance! --Jay Barbee

Re: Play sound with xmailbox

1998-08-11 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Guido Bozzetto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I'm trying to use the sound playing without success. | How I can play a sound when arrive e new message ? | I've tried with: | | .Xresources: | *xmailbox*mailsndfile: /usr/doc/xmailbox/examples/dingdong.au | *xmailbox*mailsndcomm: /usr/bin/play %s |

Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

1998-08-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "CB" == Christopher Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [answered by Shaleh] CB> Also, if there are any vim users reading this what does ^x ^s do? I CB> sometimes accidentally type this when I mean to save a file (bad habit CB> from using ae), and this seems to lock up vim pretty hard. I don't

Re: kermel make overrwites symbolic link, confusing lilo

1998-08-11 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I don't think I've seen this one before . . . | | I have /boot mounted on the first partition, a single cylinder. | /vmlinux is a symbolic link to /boot/vmlinux-2.0.33. Rather than | following the link, "make zImage zlilo" is placing a vml

Re: Debian New User

1998-08-11 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 11 Aug 98 02:14:52 GMT, in linux.debian.user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I just recently installed the debian version of linux and now I have a few >question... > >1. I downloaded a few extra packaged from the debian www site, now; I use a >dual system (linux on one HD, Win95 on another). When i

Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

1998-08-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: : Hi, : : Every now and then I do a little goof-up that scrambles a virtual : console and I'm sure we all do sometimes but lately I've been doing a : little programming and if I accidentally gib a string argument then it : corrupts the console e

Sound Cards (again)

1998-08-11 Thread Mark Panzer
I know the subject of soundcards comes up all to often, but I was wondering if the users on this group could recommend a good quality card for around $30. I would also like to use this card in Win 95 for games like Fighters Anthology and others. I currently have the 2.0.34 sources for the kernel

Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

1998-08-11 Thread Shaleh
Try typing the word "reset" -- yes it will come out looking like gibberish but type it anyway and hit return. This USUALLY works. I am known for letting grep go through binary files. Has the same effect as you describe. Also try ^o^u or ^u^o (I forget the sequence). This seems to help when not

Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

1998-08-11 Thread Christopher Barry
Hi, Every now and then I do a little goof-up that scrambles a virtual console and I'm sure we all do sometimes but lately I've been doing a little programming and if I accidentally gib a string argument then it corrupts the console every single time so I quickly run out of all 6 consoles and am fo

multiple CDROM installation

1998-08-11 Thread Richard L. Grabbe
I am new to LINUX...sorry... I have searched for 3 days to find detailed instructions and no docs or faq's went far enough, if at all... at install I entered mcdx=0x310,9,0x360,11,0x390,10 I have sence edited mcdx.h with the address,irq's however the document didn't say how to get the header

ATX and "shutdown -h"

1998-08-11 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Hi, What do I need to do to get "shutdown -h" to turn off my computer? It has an ATX power supply and win95 shutdown turned everything off so I know it's possible. Here is a snippet from my latest 2.0.34 kernel .config file: CONFIG_APM=y # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set # CONFIG

Re: multiple PPP

1998-08-11 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Eugene Sevinian wrote: > Hi Debians, > I am running w95 at home , and recently I tried to configure > multiple ppp connection from that machine to different Linux boxes in > different domains. As I understand there is no chance to configure network > parameters in w95 depending on connection (Am I

Re: Xserver: a bug or a feature ?

1998-08-11 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 12:51:42 +0200 Max Lawson writes: > > There's sthg strange w/ the Xserver config. Some applications need > to connect to the Xserver. The connection get refused till I add the > box/host name to the xhost list! If you are talking about the xhost feature implemented on user si

Re: Apache Problem

1998-08-11 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 00:14:10 +0800 (PHT) Richard L Alhama writes: > apacheconfig errors: > > httpd: cannot determine local hostname > Use ServerName to set it manually > > /usr/sbin/apachectl graceful:http could not be started > > other info --- > /etc/hosts > 127.0.0.1 etok etok.etik.com

Re: Windows95 programs and X-Windows

1998-08-11 Thread Shaleh
Rolando Manchado wrote: > > Can Windows95 programs run on X-Windows? The easy answer is no. Different binaries, libraries, Operating Sytems, etc. HOWEVER there is a project called WINE. This is a project to allow WinOS apps to on X. It is both an emulator for the binaries and a re-write o

[Q] Writing Debian CDs with Windows software

1998-08-11 Thread Arifi Koseoglu
Hello everyone, I hope this is not a FAQ. I downloaded the Debian CD images, and unsuccessfully tried to write them to CDs using the following applications: HP SureStore cd writer software Adaptec EZ CD-Writer Although I changed the .raw extensions to .iso, the software listed a

MySQL Any Opinions on Value as learning tool?

1998-08-11 Thread Allan Bart
Hi, I am looking to use my debian machine as a learning platform, so i am looking to create a small projectr that would use a database system. I read about MySQL and thought it would be interesting. so my question is has anyone used it and reliable a system is it for real world application? All

Re: Debian New User

1998-08-11 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I just recently installed the debian version of linux and now I have a few > question... > > 1. I downloaded a few extra packaged from the debian www site, now; I use a > dual system (linux on one HD, Win95 on another). When i d/l the files they > had the extension of

Re: First time Linux user.

1998-08-11 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, GamerZ wrote: > > > okay > > this is hopefully my last question for today > > the simple alphabet of DOS no longer exists > > it was extremely simple (which haha confused even some) > > linux uses a single tree supposedly, and has to mount devices

Re: Troubles: x11amp, eplus, searching libs, SLab.........

1998-08-11 Thread Ed Cogburn
phillip Neumann wrote: > > Hi, > > I discover that when i want to here some music with x11amp, i must boot > my system with the "default" kernel image. I cannot play any mp3 with > x11amp when i boot using my custom image. > In the kenrel options of sound i have: > Sound card support (Mod

Re: Compiler Issues

1998-08-11 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: > I know we are going thru' compiler changes etc. I am trying to install any > C++ compiler whether egcs or gcc. I installed all relevant files as far as > I know and as far as the dpkg did not complain about missing packages. But > when I compile a .cc f

Re: Dselect & script

1998-08-11 Thread David B. Teague
On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Cristov Russell wrote: > From: Cristov Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Dselect & script > > Recently I read somewhere (possibly on this list) that there is a way > to capture what was done during dselect using something like > /.../script but they did not go into much

Re: 2.0.34 error: Freelist block not free

1998-08-11 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! I posted this problem some time ago and received no replies as of yet. I thought it might be worth another try. Can anyone provide insight as to what may be causing this kernel error? (e.g. hardware, kernel-ware, ppp-ware?) > Greetings! I just upgraded this machine to Debian 2.0 a

Re: Problems with Libc6 upgrade?

1998-08-11 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > I'm about to received Debian 2.0, and I was > wondering what effect upgrade will have on programs > that I currently use. Besides the usual GNU > programs, I also have WordPerfect, Maple, and etc. > > Will these programs

Re: Debian at work

1998-08-11 Thread Paul Miller
George Bonser wrote: > > Debian's ability for remote installaion and upgrade without needing X, > without needing access to the console or CD-ROM, and without having to > manually FTP a load of packages along with its dependancy checking at > package selection time made the difference. > I just w

Re: xsession vs xinitrc

1998-08-11 Thread Will Lowe
> Which is the better one to use with starting X, either with startx or xdm? you don't really have a choice ... startx (and xinit) use .xinitrc, and xdm uses .xsession. One simple trick is to make one of those files and make the other a symlink to it.

Re: GNOMEish Window Manager

1998-08-11 Thread Will Lowe
> WindowMaker is another one I use sometimes, but when apps are iconised, > they sit behind the panel, which is annoying. I just have the clip collect them all ... eventually the gnome panel should be able to act as a dock/clip, but it isn't done yet.

Re: linux probs

1998-08-11 Thread Will Lowe
> i went overboard with dselect and threw everything in there Oops. ... :) > now nothing runs > system halts at startup What's it say? > what would be a quick and easy way to just delete some files that i don't > need? Well, I would try making a boot disk (the rescue disk should help you do this

samba problems

1998-08-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I've been running sambades on a bo box which I upgraded to hamm this evening. The box provides file & printing services to two Win95 boxes and an NT box, hence the need for encryption. On hamm, I created the smbpasswd file with mksmbpasswd and set passwords for the users. Previously I had no "secu

Help: Xserver errors

1998-08-11 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
I am currently running Debian 2.0 and during the setup I had succesfully setup the Xserver for my Matrox Millenium II video card (using XF86Setup and it successfully starts the server and provides a screen for me to run the video timing program and save the configuration file). When I run startx f

Dselect & script

1998-08-11 Thread Liam Healy
Try the "mountable" option in dselect (see package dpkg-mountable). It keeps a transcript (in /var somewhere? check the docs). Also don't be confused: each of the options (CD-ROM, mounted, mountable, nfs, etc.) is like a separate program and only bears vague relation to the location of the Debian

Play sound with xmailbox

1998-08-11 Thread Guido Bozzetto
I'm trying to use the sound playing without success. How I can play a sound when arrive e new message ? I've tried with: .Xresources: *xmailbox*mailsndfile: /usr/doc/xmailbox/examples/dingdong.au *xmailbox*mailsndcomm: /usr/bin/play %s but I'm hearing only the internal speaker bip.

Re: First time Linux user.

1998-08-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "REHE" == Richard E Hawkins Esq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: REHE> dir takes three letters to accomplish "ls". Never trust a REHE> command that can't be typed in two letters . . . mkdir and rmdir ? I always wondered about them. To the original poster: There is a DOS/Windows to Linux HowTo w

Re: resolv.conf, PPP and multiple providers

1998-08-11 Thread servis
*- Damon Muller wrote about "resolv.conf, PPP and multiple providers" | | However, anyone have any hints on how to set up the resolv.conf file | when you have multiple ISPs? I guess I could have an ip-up script modify | it when it dials each ISP, but that's a bit of a pain. | That is about the o

multiple PPP

1998-08-11 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi Debians, I am running w95 at home , and recently I tried to configure multiple ppp connection from that machine to different Linux boxes in different domains. As I understand there is no chance to configure network parameters in w95 depending on connection (Am I right?). Is there any way to as

Re: help w/ virtual domains and linux

1998-08-11 Thread Kevin Conover
note right at the beginning: I use linux at home but I use solaris at work. I do something similar at work so this may help, but ... ;-) On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Shaleh wrote: > I am in the process of moving from BSDi to Debian at work. We typically > have from 5 to 25 domains on a web server. I k

Re: Compiler Issues

1998-08-11 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 11:52:05AM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote: > I know we are going thru' compiler changes etc. I am trying to install any > C++ compiler whether egcs or gcc. I installed all relevant files as far as > I know and as far as the dpkg did not complain about missing packages. But > whe

nasty...

1998-08-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I just removed some of the old buzz/rex packages, base, timezone, bdflush. I did it in dselect, and apt quite happily obliged. After that, I had neither timezone NOR timezones installed (don't know why), and removing base removed /usr/local (a symlink luckily, I've been bitten before), most of /de

HELP with Sound Card

1998-08-11 Thread XRDLAB
I am currently running Debian bo and wanted to compile sound support. My sound card is Aztech Galaxy (claims to be compatible with SoundBlaster 16, non pnp). The card works fine under dos with the following settings: SB 16io=0x220, irq=10, dma=1 MPU-401 io=0x330, irq=2 In

xdm starts local server

1998-08-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I just upgraded a bo machine to hamm from the official CDs; /etc/X11/config says # This file contains configuration flags for the X Window System. # For a description of the meanings of the flags, see # /usr/doc/X11/README.Debian no-run-xconsole obey-nologin allow-user-resources allow-user-modmap

Opinions on SQL Databases

1998-08-11 Thread Allan Bart
Hi, I am just getting my system up to snuff and i think it would be a good time to really learn sql. What are your linux favorites and why? Allan == Allan W. Bart, Jr. Strategic Analyst _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address

Re: xsession vs xinitrc

1998-08-11 Thread David Z. Maze
BG Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BL> Which is the better one to use with starting X, either with startx BL> or xdm? startx uses .xinitrc; xdm uses .xsession. -- _ / \ "Dad was reading a book called | David Maze |

Windows95 programs and X-Windows

1998-08-11 Thread Rolando Manchado
Can Windows95 programs run on X-Windows? == Rolando Manchado == OBTENGA GRATIS SU CORREO ELECTRÓNICO EN http://www.mixmail.com

Re: samba problems

1998-08-11 Thread peloy
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, now 95 users have to supply their network password once, > which is undesirable. Once entered it seems happy enough, but I would > prefer that those users didn't have to enter a password. > > Any suggestions for a solution? And what about sett

[2] Troubles: x11amp, eplus,

1998-08-11 Thread phillip Neumann
Hi, im still getting troubles with x11amp (and eplus...) [i can only play mp3 when booting with the typycal kernel, the one that comes with kernel-image2.0.34.deb...] >I guess it isn´t a PnP card. S... Well in fact it is a PnP. I had to do all this stuff with isapnp. I've got a Sound Bl

help

1998-08-11 Thread Rick Balnionis
Not sure wether or not you'd be able to help I have a buslogic flashpoint scsiII card and all i seem to get up now is bios not inialised , try numerous things to sort out the problem , do you have any idea . Would be very grateful , Thanks Rick

IMAP via PPP

1998-08-11 Thread Michael Stenner
OK, I have a rather specific goal in mind when setting up my mail. My mail arrives at work. I read and send mail from both work and home. I know that I can (with pine, for example) manipulate and read mail from home via IMAP. Unfortunately, this is slow and ends up re-downloading mail messag

multiple PPP

1998-08-11 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi Debians, I am running w95 at home , and recently I tried to configure multiple ppp connection from that machine to different Linux boxes in different domains. As I understand there is no chance to configure network parameters in w95 depending on connection (Am I right?). Is there any way to as

Re: Troubles: x11amp, eplus, searching libs, SLab.........

1998-08-11 Thread Jens Ritter
phillip Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I discover that when i want to here some music with x11amp, i must boot > my system with the "default" kernel image. I cannot play any mp3 with > x11amp when i boot using my custom image. > In the kenrel options of sound i have: > Sound card su

slow blinking light on ZIP when disk inserted

1998-08-11 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
augh. I think my zip died. It gets found, but when I put a disk in, after the series of fast blinks of the orange light, it begings a slow blink (about 1.5s cycle), which never stops. this happens whether plugged in or not. however, it doesn't click, and i've tried this on a handful of disk

Re: Problems with Libc6 upgrade?

1998-08-11 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > that I currently use. Besides the usual GNU > programs, I also have WordPerfect, Maple, and etc. > > Will these programs work with Libc6, or are there > patches that I have to download? Debian 2.0 is libc5 compatible. They run without patches.

Re: Mouse Fatality in X-Windows

1998-08-11 Thread Jens Ritter
Midgley John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As an aside, if I retrieve the whole Debian thing as a .raw file, to an > NT machine, how can I write it to a CD? (I have a CD Writer, obviously!) If you you retrieved the CD Images for Debian 2.0 from somewhere, just burn them to a CD using WinOnCD (or

Re: Hard drive sriping

1998-08-11 Thread Jens Ritter
john mcpeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > I have an old 486 I am using to learn Linux (unix) on. I had a 250 Meg > drive in it but it didn't have enough room for all the stuff I wanted. I > put an old 240 Meg drive that was just laying around in it, but I don't > know how to set them u

kermel make overrwites symbolic link, confusing lilo

1998-08-11 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I don't think I've seen this one before . . . I have /boot mounted on the first partition, a single cylinder. /vmlinux is a symbolic link to /boot/vmlinux-2.0.33. Rather than following the link, "make zImage zlilo" is placing a vmlinuz in /, undoing the old link, and crossing the 1023 cylind

Re: help w/ virtual domains and linux

1998-08-11 Thread Shaleh
I always use for i .. -- bad habit. i should have been domain. The passwords are all of the type login: webmasterfoo, password fooretsambew. They are temporary passwords for internal use before we give them to the customers. They then change them to whatever they want. So it is not a secur

Re: apt - priorities?

1998-08-11 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! B. Bell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 2) Track everything in unstable, but only try to upgrade a package if > a) the user requests to have the package upgraded > b) another package depends on the new version I use this workaround: Usually I have unstable commented out in sources.list. If I want

Re: Hard drive sriping

1998-08-11 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! john mcpeek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > know how to set them up to work as one drive. I saw something about > drive striping and I installed the leaner drive module. I need to know > how I should format the drives and how to make it think two drives are > really one. It's explained in the Software

Re: xsession vs xinitrc

1998-08-11 Thread Ed Cogburn
BG Lim wrote: > > Which is the better one to use with starting X, either with startx or xdm? > > BG > Its not so much that one is better than another, rather they do things differently. xdm is run during system boot so that users never see a command line, they get a graphical (X) logi

Re: dselect "parse" error in HAMM release

1998-08-11 Thread Craig Slusher
Thanks Torsten, You're correct about dates and FTP. I used ftp to get the files to my local Windows NT server. Then I tried to ftp from NT to my new linux box. The parse error was due to the file dates on the NT box (day of transfer). My solution was to modify the DpkgFtp.pm file by remarking t

Compiler Issues

1998-08-11 Thread Daniel Mashao
I know we are going thru' compiler changes etc. I am trying to install any C++ compiler whether egcs or gcc. I installed all relevant files as far as I know and as far as the dpkg did not complain about missing packages. But when I compile a .cc file it gives the following output: com5 % gcc ff.cc

xsession vs xinitrc

1998-08-11 Thread BG Lim
Which is the better one to use with starting X, either with startx or xdm? BG

Re: sendmail help please

1998-08-11 Thread Adam Shand
> Now when i issue a "mail bob" command, where bob is my local user, > whether I am connected or not I do not get any mail in my local mailbox. > > Aug 11 10:18:22 deb760xl sendmail[2008]: KAA02006: to=root, ctladdr=root > (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=nullclient, > relay=9.87.2.

Re: Mouse Fatality in X-Windows

1998-08-11 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 10:16:42AM +0100, Midgley John wrote: > > flashing - but it objects to a line in the XF86Config file which says > '/dev/mouse'. > > I have a Compaq Deskpro with a mini-din-type mouse socket; W95 reports > it as a PS/2 Port Mouse. So my question is - what should the line re

Mouse Fatality in X-Windows

1998-08-11 Thread Midgley John
Hi all I'm just getting started with Linux, and I've had several goes at installing the Debian 2.0 distribution. I'm getting tanatalisingly close to a working X-Windows installation - much video card clicking and flashing - but it objects to a line in the XF86Config file which says '/dev/mouse'.

sendmail help please

1998-08-11 Thread Robert J. Alexander
I have the follwoing setup on my IBM Thinkpad running Debian slink: when I am in the office I have sendmail configured to route all mail to my permanently connected 9.87.2.151 machine. when I am disconnected (with only my 127.0.0.1) I would only need to be able to send mail to my local users (for

Re: No Backspace in X

1998-08-11 Thread Peter Allgeyer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Hamish Moffatt said : I had this same problem, even after upgrading to 2.0. : However, I was able to get it to work. I don't remember *exactly* what : I had to change, but I *do* remember which parts of what files needed : review. Check /etc/inputrc and /etc/X11/Xresour

Re: Latex Postscript

1998-08-11 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > Does anyone know of any program/method to convert M$ PowerPoint > slides to decent ps or eps files > I do not know M$ Powerpoint but Wordperfect's Presentations has an export facility that can create .eps files. If you can export Powerpoint's fig

Re: emacs 20 wont install after upgrading...

1998-08-11 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Keith wrote: > I recently upgraded to Debian 2.0 and I can't get emacs 20 to install. > Here is the error message I get: > > Cannot open load file: debian-rundir > emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/emacsen-common > emacs20 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-comm

Re: First time Linux user.

1998-08-11 Thread AJT60
On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, GamerZ wrote: > okay > this is hopefully my last question for today > the simple alphabet of DOS no longer exists > it was extremely simple (which haha confused even some) > linux uses a single tree supposedly, and has to mount devices to this tree > every bootup, i believe >

Re: help w/ virtual domains and linux

1998-08-11 Thread Shaleh
Harald Schueler wrote: > > Am Tue, 11 Aug 1998 schrieb Shaleh: > > > Currently on BSDi we do this in a rc.local script: > > > > for i in `cat /etc/servers` > > do > > ifconfig $interface $domain alias > > route add -host $domain 127.0.0.1 > > done > > I use: > > i=0 > for ALIAS in $IPALIASES >

Re: help w/ virtual domains and linux

1998-08-11 Thread Harald Schueler
Am Tue, 11 Aug 1998 schrieb Shaleh: > Currently on BSDi we do this in a rc.local script: > > for i in `cat /etc/servers` > do > ifconfig $interface $domain alias > route add -host $domain 127.0.0.1 > done I use: i=0 for ALIAS in $IPALIASES do ifconfig eth0:${i} ${ALIAS} netmask ${NETMASK} broad

Dselect & script

1998-08-11 Thread Cristov Russell
Hello everyone. Recently I read somewhere (possibly on this list) that there is a way to capture what was done during dselect using something like /.../script but they did not go into much detail. Could someone explain to me how to do this? TIA Cristov Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: First time Linux user.

1998-08-11 Thread Akop Pogosian
GamerZ wrote: > > Hi there, this is my first message to this list. > I have been using computers for close to 5 years now, and have since > expanded my knowledge about computers, yet mainly involving DOS and Windows. > 1) Where would be a good site for information regarding Linux, perhaps

KDEadmin.deb

1998-08-11 Thread Z.P. Dylejko
why isn't there a kdeadmin.deb package for KDE 1.0?

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