eight_bit console

1998-08-20 Thread Linus Nilsson
Hello. I'm using Debain Linux and do most of my work in console mode. I use us keymap and i wonder what i have to do to be able to write eight_bit characters. In X alt is bound to meta and that works just fine, but in console-mode holding in alt while writing seems to have no effe

Trouble with IP forwarding

1998-08-20 Thread Michael B. Taylor
I am trying to get ip forwarding working between a hamm box and a Win95 box. Both machines have permanent ip addresses recognized by the campus name server. I compiled a custom kernel with the Debinized 2.0.34 source, with ip forwarding enabled. I installed a second net card in the hamm box

Re: OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)

1998-08-20 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Richard L. Alhama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do you guys sort all this mail? Personally, I gateway high traffic mailing lists such as several [EMAIL PROTECTED] ones into local newsgroups. There's no coping without a threaded newsreader and a kill file. There's a program mail2news, original

Re: shutdown not unnmounting

1998-08-20 Thread David B. Teague
Hi I have a 1.1 system (yes, I know that is almost prehistory) but I make money with it almost continuously, it serves the purpose, so I havent messed with it since installation. The problem is that SOMETIMES, not frequently, shutdown -h now will stop before unmounting drives The corr

Re: [Help] resc1440.bin (kernel) crash

1998-08-20 Thread Jimen Ching
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Jimen Ching wrote: > > Please help me. I accidentally hosed my linux upgrade and need to > > reinstall from scratch. > Hmm, how far did your system fall beyond the edge? Chances are that you > may very well be able to fix t

Re: xv package for deb?

1998-08-20 Thread the lone gunman
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 10:34:43PM +0200, Michele Bini wrote: > On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, the lone gunman wrote: > > Is there an xv package for debian? By xv, I mean the "XView" program > > by John Bradley. > Do you really need xv?! Have you ever tried GIMP? > If you only need to put an image on the ba

threads package for libc6

1998-08-20 Thread JonesMB
Where can I find the threads package for libc6 - I have looked all through the dselect list? All I find is the one for libc5 in the old libs section. Is this the right place for this or should I have asked on the -dev list? We are using Linux (as well as some Solaris systems) here for C/C++ de

Re: problems with xdm.

1998-08-20 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 12:18:54PM -0300, Paulo J. da Silva e Silva wrote: > > Hello, > > Last night I tried to get xdm working. As far as I understood all I should do > was edit /etc/X11/config line from "no-start-xdm" to "start-xdm". I did that, > booted and then I got xdm up. After that I logg

Re: [Help] resc1440.bin (kernel) crash

1998-08-20 Thread joost
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Jimen Ching wrote: > Please help me. I accidentally hosed my linux upgrade and need to > reinstall from scratch. Hmm, how far did your system fall beyond the edge? Chances are that you may very well be able to fix things and complete the upgrade. > But when I t

Re: Getty Issue

1998-08-20 Thread Shaleh
Glad it works (we knew you chose mgetty somehow). Next time you are stuck like that, rather than re-install why not use the rescue disk (the first boot disk). Boo the machine w/ the disk in and choose the rescue option. This will allow you to mount the filesystem, edit the broke file and reboot.

Getty Issue

1998-08-20 Thread Frederic Breitwieser
Thanks everyone for your suggestions... its actually MGETTY that's causing the issue, not GETTY. Its hard to see because it scrolls off the screen so fast I'm trying to read something that's scrolling on an LCD display, which doesn't refresh very fast. Anyway, that aside, I edited the config fil

Re: CD-RW experiences?

1998-08-20 Thread peloy
Dan Hugo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am thinking about getting a CD-RW drive to archive things, and maybe > even to maintain an up-to-date Debian CD set. > > Does anyone have any experience with these drives? [...] My personal experience with the H-P SureSture 7100 CD-RW drive is excellent, s

Re: OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)

1998-08-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Stephen" == Stephen J Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stephen> On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 01:40:25PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Stephen> I missed most of this discussion but... whats wrong with Stephen> the old standby procmail? >> Nothing, if you do not find it under powered.

Re: xv package for deb?

1998-08-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Michele" == Michele Bini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michele> Do you really need xv?! Have you ever tried GIMP? Huh? I don't think the GIMP (excellent though it maybe) is in the same class of applications. Perhaps display (from imagemagick) is closer. manoj who is tryi

[Help] resc1440.bin (kernel) crash

1998-08-20 Thread Jimen Ching
Hi all, Please help me. I accidentally hosed my linux upgrade and need to reinstall from scratch. But when I tried to boot from the rescue disk, the kernel crashed on me. I have an AHA-2842 SCSI controller. The kernel detected it and tries to reset something. The next thing I see is a

Re: Bizarre getty issue

1998-08-20 Thread Pete Harlan
> >Frederic: try installing mingetty (uses less mem and CPU anyway), then > >change all the lines in inittab to use mingetty. This should both solve > >the problem and help you w/ resources. ... > packages are done installing. I'm curious, is getty, mingetty, etc, even > slightly necessary? Real

Re: Bizarre getty issue

1998-08-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Frederic Breitwieser wrote: : >Frederic: try installing mingetty (uses less mem and CPU anyway), then : >change all the lines in inittab to use mingetty. This should both solve : >the problem and help you w/ resources. : : Thank you for your very QUICK response. I'll d

Re: Bizarre getty issue

1998-08-20 Thread Frederic Breitwieser
>Frederic: try installing mingetty (uses less mem and CPU anyway), then >change all the lines in inittab to use mingetty. This should both solve >the problem and help you w/ resources. Thank you for your very QUICK response. I'll do that once the rest of the packages are done installing. I'm cu

Re: Bizarre getty issue

1998-08-20 Thread Shaleh
Frederic: try installing mingetty (uses less mem and CPU anyway), then change all the lines in inittab to use mingetty. This should both solve the problem and help you w/ resources. Frederic Breitwieser wrote: > > Upon installing Debian 2.0 on my Satellite 205CDS laptop (slowly getting > rid of

Re: Need some software advice.

1998-08-20 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra
Damon Muller wrote: > > Wordprocessor should be no problem, either KLyx or StarOffice should be > more than up to the task (I'll put on KDE, which should make Linux a > little easier to use for a first-timer). There's also Maxwell, XEmacs and one new one from ABIsource or something like t

Bizarre getty issue

1998-08-20 Thread Frederic Breitwieser
Upon installing Debian 2.0 on my Satellite 205CDS laptop (slowly getting rid of NT everywhere!), this laptop, pretty much every 5 minutes, whips out a bunch of error messages relating to /sbin/getty, then suddenly tells me its going to "wait for 5 minutes". I'm not sure where this comes from, as I

Re: xv package for deb?

1998-08-20 Thread Shaleh
If you need a pic -> background app grab chameleon. simply run chameleon and voila background (-: It also has a -t for tile optin. Michele Bini wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, the lone gunman wrote: > > > > > Is there an xv package for debian? By xv, I mean the "XView" program > > by John Br

Re: [3] Libforms?

1998-08-20 Thread Michele Bini
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, phillip Neumann wrote: > >On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, phillip Neumann wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> > >> Well i know that inside libforms88 is the lib libforms.so.0.88. I > have > >> already install this package. Thats why i found it curious. The file > >> libforms.so.0.88 is

goofy email fixed

1998-08-20 Thread the lone gunman
A few messages back, I posted questions about changing my hostname and some emails not going through. I figured out how to fix this problem, perhaps this post will help someone else with a similar problem. During the Debian 2.0 installation, I was asked for a hostname -- I entered "sewage" for m

Re: xv package for deb?

1998-08-20 Thread Michele Bini
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, the lone gunman wrote: > > Is there an xv package for debian? By xv, I mean the "XView" program > by John Bradley. > > When migrating from Debian 1.3 to 2.0, I just backed up the important > stuff, and did a total reinstall. (Too many upgrade problems posted > to this ma

Re: OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)

1998-08-20 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 01:40:25PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"Stephen" == Stephen J Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Stephen> I missed most of this discussion but... whats wrong with > Stephen> the old standby procmail? > > Nothing, if you do not find it under pow

Re: Debian

1998-08-20 Thread John Conley
> Help, I am brand new to linux or unix, and I am afraid I dont know much > about it. > > The install went great and the server is up, but I am unable to view > files or directorys when logged in as root. I can not change directorys > when logged in root also. Am I doing something wrong? Pleas

Re: Debian

1998-08-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 02:27:10PM -0700, John Conley wrote: > Help, I am brand new to linux or unix, and I am afraid I dont know much > about it. > > The install went great and the server is up, but I am unable to view > files or directorys when logged in as root. I can not change directorys > w

Debian

1998-08-20 Thread John Conley
Help, I am brand new to linux or unix, and I am afraid I dont know much about it. The install went great and the server is up, but I am unable to view files or directorys when logged in as root. I can not change directorys when logged in root also. Am I doing something wrong? Please Help. John

Re: diald and ppp problems (now chap/pap, too)

1998-08-20 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 01:32:37PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: > On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: > > > So you should change the connect line to: > > > > connect "chat -v -f /the_base_path_to_myisp/myisp" > This works until the ppp server asks for chap/pap, and then the local > copy

Re: CD-RW experiences?

1998-08-20 Thread the lone gunman
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 02:04:41AM -0700, Dan Hugo wrote: > I am thinking about getting a CD-RW drive to archive things, and maybe > even to maintain an up-to-date Debian CD set. > Does anyone have any experience with these drives? I have no experience with CD-RW, but do own a CD-R... > Or, I cou

Re: fixing my host name!

1998-08-20 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 15:40:02 -0500 the lone gunman writes: > Several of my emails are getting returned by the intended > receiever's ISP. The emails are returned with "invalid hostname" -- > *my* hostname. Since I am currently only using PPP to connect to > the 'net, I have a bogus hostname. I

Re: OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)

1998-08-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Richard" == Richard L Alhama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> I wish to obtain the example setup =8). Is the sample setup Richard> on the deb file sufficient for my needs? Or is it Richard> sufficient for yours or us all subscribed to debian-user? Richard> This is the only thing I

Re: OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)

1998-08-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Stephen" == Stephen J Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stephen> I missed most of this discussion but... whats wrong with Stephen> the old standby procmail? Nothing, if you do not find it under powered. manoj -- You cannot achieve the impossible without attemptin

RE: fixing my host name!

1998-08-20 Thread Hank Fay
You're quite right; and the services they offer are far more extensive. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Noah L. Meyerhans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 1998 7:52 PM To: Hank Fay Cc: Lane; Matt Garman; Debian User's List; recipient list not shown: Subject: R

PHP 3.0.3 available on my webpage

1998-08-20 Thread Jeff Noxon
I couldn't wait any more for a PHP release that works with Apache 1.3.1, so I did it myself. You can download it from my homepage: http://www.planetfall.com/~jeff/debian/ This is PHP 3.0.3 for Apache 1.3.1 (Slink). I was going to build it for hamm, but I noticed that Apache 1.3.1 is no longer i

RE: diald and ppp problems (now chap/pap, too)

1998-08-20 Thread Will Lowe
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: > So you should change the connect line to: > > connect "chat -v -f /the_base_path_to_myisp/myisp" This works until the ppp server asks for chap/pap, and then the local copy of pppd spawned by diald doesn't do it, so the remote server kicks me of

Apache: (24)Too many open files: inc # of descriptors??

1998-08-20 Thread Paul Miller
[warn] (24)Too many open files: unable to open a file descriptor above 15, you may need to increase the number of descriptors How do I fix this error? Thanks -Paul

Netscape Communicator 4.5b1 "problem"

1998-08-20 Thread Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho
Hi, I'm having a Netscape problem: Everytime I run Netscape Communicator 4.5b1 (or even 4.05) it tries to run ipp d and start a connection ! :( I already did isdnctrl system off and kill the ipppd process but Netscape does n't stop from getting net ! The only solution i'd is to let it make

Debian 2.0 - Kernel

1998-08-20 Thread Terry Carney
Hi. Does anyone know whether IP forwarding is compiled into the supplied Hamm kernel? Terry. = | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | =

Re: shutdown not unnmounting

1998-08-20 Thread M.C. Vernon
> > > Hi, I have a debian system, :) always a good start... > and when I do a shutdown* the filesystems won't be automatically > unmounted which causes a lot of problems. Anybody know how to fix > this problem? > > * That is either: > shutdown -r now > or > shutdown -y -i0 -g0 > You

shutdown not unnmounting

1998-08-20 Thread Fred Fahnert
Hi, I have a debian system, and when I do a shutdown* the filesystems won't be automatically unmounted which causes a lot of problems. Anybody know how to fix this problem? * That is either: shutdown -r now or shutdown -y -i0 -g0 --===>Fred

Re: [ace@mullum.com.au: Help with debian]

1998-08-20 Thread Kent West
>Can anyone tell me how to change drives??? I'm not real sure what you mean by this. === Kent West | Technology Support/ | Abilene Christian University| Voice: 915-674-2557 FAX: 915.674.67

Re: [ace@mullum.com.au: Help with debian]

1998-08-20 Thread Kent West
>Can anyone tell me how to run any of the games??? I suspect that you're logged in as root. root doesn't "see" the files in the current directory, so you need to specify the path. For example, if you're in /usr/games and you want to run morse, you can't just type morse. You need to type ./morse.

Re: Help with debian

1998-08-20 Thread Kent West
At 08:44 PM 8/20/1998 +1000, you wrote: >Can u please to tell me how i can install X??? > where do i get it from??? > I have the 3 debian CD's >THANX I don't know how much hand-holding you need, but I felt like I could have used more, so this reply may seem too juvenile. Log in as root, and f

Re: identd

1998-08-20 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 04:09:57PM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > -> > if anyone will find he's usiong fake identd ppl will k-line him... > -> > IRC is not made for putting bots and bots abuse IRC. if someone wants to > -> > abuse IRC he will be banned. > -> > -> Well I have to agree... > -

Re: problems with X

1998-08-20 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
* Charles Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | me to my second problem. During the installation of X, the screen went | haywire and I just hit enter for a few options so that I could get out | of the installation. During this, I must have selected Y to the question | about X starting at boot. Now I am tr

Re: Connection Refused

1998-08-20 Thread Peter S Galbraith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ken, Debian distribution is packaged as the most secure distribution for > Linux. What you can expect with Debian is very paranoid settings for > networking as compared with other distributions. Well, Debian 1.3's sendmail allowed mail relaying (usually someone using y

Re: Off subject :-)

1998-08-20 Thread Peter S Galbraith
(A variation on the theme) A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts: "Excuse me, can you tell me where I am?" The man below says: "yes you're in a hot air balloon,  hovering 30 feet above t

problems with xdm.

1998-08-20 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
Hello, Last night I tried to get xdm working. As far as I understood all I should do was edit /etc/X11/config line from "no-start-xdm" to "start-xdm". I did that, booted and then I got xdm up. After that I logged as a user, logout, and then logged as root (to install something). After logging out

Re: OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)

1998-08-20 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 09:22:52PM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote: > On 19 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Yes, no, and not unless you want to. Even without enabling the > > generic command server and the @SH processing, the rules file for > > mailagent is a full fledged s

Re: old 1.3 directories

1998-08-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : *- Nathan E Norman wrote about "Re: old 1.3 directories" : | On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: : | : [snip] : | :[15]http://debian.midco.net/debian/Archive/ : | : | Minor nitpick - I think this should read: : | : [snip]

problems with X

1998-08-20 Thread Charles Perry
I am trying to install X on my computer. Everything seems to install fine except the graphics card. I have an ATI All-in-Wonder Pro. I think that I should set it to Mach64 but it doesn't work. The screen goes black and the computer is useless. Then, I have to reboot...which brings me to my second p

Re: Connection Refused

1998-08-20 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 08:20:52AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Kennedy Mutio writes: > > I have just installed debian linux onto a machine and added it to my > > network but I cannot telnet frm any other machine on the network to this > > new machine. I have checked the hosts.allow and hosts.

Re: *.au files ?

1998-08-20 Thread Peter Granroth
> *- Peter Granroth wrote about "Re: *.au files ? " > | > Hello, > | > i didn't find (maybe I should look more carefully) which audio player > | > supports SUN's au files. can anybody point me to right place ? > | > | If you just need somethin that can play them from the commad line without > all

Re: *.au files ?

1998-08-20 Thread servis
*- Peter Granroth wrote about "Re: *.au files ? " | > Hello, | > i didn't find (maybe I should look more carefully) which audio player | > supports SUN's au files. can anybody point me to right place ? | | If you just need somethin that can play them from the commad line without all | the bells &

Re: old 1.3 directories

1998-08-20 Thread servis
*- Nathan E Norman wrote about "Re: old 1.3 directories" | On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: | [snip] | :[15]http://debian.midco.net/debian/Archive/ | | Minor nitpick - I think this should read: | [snip] | [15]ftp://debian.midco.net/debian/Archive/ The http works for

Re: CD-RW experiences?

1998-08-20 Thread joost
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Dan Hugo wrote: > I am thinking about getting a CD-RW drive to archive things, and maybe > even to maintain an up-to-date Debian CD set. > > Does anyone have any experience with these drives? > > Since I happen to work at Philips, I would most likely be getting one of > th

Re: *.au files ?

1998-08-20 Thread Peter Granroth
> Hello, > i didn't find (maybe I should look more carefully) which audio player > supports SUN's au files. can anybody point me to right place ? If you just need somethin that can play them from the commad line without all the bells & whistles with, you can grab playulaw from my ftp site (compil

Re: CDE

1998-08-20 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > > > or FVWMCDE. No debianized package for this. And the server is located in > > here in the Philippines which may take some time to d/l. > > hmm sounds cool... > > > http://lilith.mozcom.com/~orly > > um...is this the right url? > I check

Re: meta key in emacs

1998-08-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
This problem has come up so many times since hamm started getting used that it almost merits its own HOWTO. What's happened is that you've upgraded X and now you are using the XKEYBOARD extension. As you've noticed, the ALT key now does ALT and the "windows" key is now the META key. I've argued

Re: Memory problem with a Compaq

1998-08-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Peter Iannarelli wrote: : Hello: : : I have a 90 MHz Compaq with 32 megs of memory. : Its running 1.3.1. For some reason Linux only sees : 16 megs of memory. Does anyone know why and : how I can fix this ? Compaqs are notoriously stupid when it comes to proprietary BIO

Re: old 1.3 directories

1998-08-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: : Allen Hoffman wrote: : > Hi: : > Where are the old debian 1.3 installation directories now? : :[13]ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/debian/dists/bo/ :[14]ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian/bo/ :[15]http://debian.midco.net/

*.au files ?

1998-08-20 Thread fantomas
Hello, i didn't find (maybe I should look more carefully) which audio player supports SUN's au files. can anybody point me to right place ? -- Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, sysadmin at NETLAB+ Kosice, Slovakia BIC coord for *.sk; admin of netlab.irc.sk; co-admin of irc.felk.cvut.cz

Re: identd

1998-08-20 Thread fantomas
-> > if anyone will find he's usiong fake identd ppl will k-line him... -> > IRC is not made for putting bots and bots abuse IRC. if someone wants to -> > abuse IRC he will be banned. -> -> Well I have to agree... -> I personally almost never use IRC but...if a server admin doesn't want somone ->

Re: CD-RW experiences?

1998-08-20 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 02:04:41AM -0700, Dan Hugo wrote: > I am thinking about getting a CD-RW drive to archive things, and maybe > even to maintain an up-to-date Debian CD set. > > Does anyone have any experience with these drives? > > Since I happen to work at Philips, I would most likely be ge

Re: identd

1998-08-20 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 09:10:20AM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > -> > > This mail will be forwarded to all IRC operator lists and all sites > using > -> > > such identd will be K:-lined. > -> > > -> > hey that's not very nice. Besides, it appears that changing the ident is > -> > not poss

Re: Need some software advice.

1998-08-20 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 10:57:41PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: > > Does anyone know of a good IDE, something that will have a shallow > learning curve from M$ Visual C++, Preferably X based (please don't say > 'emacs', I don't want to scare her off too soon!)? > Try to look at xwpe. It's IDE, you

Re: apt & dists/stable-upgrades

1998-08-20 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 03:19:03PM +0200, Ruud Janssen wrote: > Short question: > > Is it possible to point apt to dists/stable-upgrades > to update the system with the latest bugfix releases > of all installed packages? sure put deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists stable-updates/ i use

Re: Which MTA?

1998-08-20 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 12:24:00AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Ken Chew wrote: > > > Also would it be possible to create email account without actuall adding > > user account on the system. Currently what we do is 'adduser' for every > > user account. Is this necessary? > >

Re: Is www.debian.org down?

1998-08-20 Thread M.C. Vernon
i > I've not been getting the debian-users digest list lately, and I can't hit > the www.debian.org site. > > Is there a problem on my end or debians's. > > If this is making it to the list, someone please respond and let me know. Yep - it did, and www.debian.org is up, if a tad slow: $ ping

Re: Help with debian

1998-08-20 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Adrian Collings wrote: > Can u please to tell me how i can install X??? > where do i get it from??? > I have the 3 debian CD's > THANX You can install X by determining what kind of video card you have and installing the x*, etc. packages on the x11 directory of your CD'

Re: meta key in emacs

1998-08-20 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Michael Symalla wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > can anyone help me to let my Alt-key be the metakey in emacs? Now I am > using the ESC key, which works fine but is not as comfortable as the ALT > key. Install xkeycaps and edit the keyboard layout to your liking. If you have

Is www.debian.org down?

1998-08-20 Thread Edward J Young
I've not been getting the debian-users digest list lately, and I can't hit the www.debian.org site. Is there a problem on my end or debians's. If this is making it to the list, someone please respond and let me know. Thank you, Ed Young

Off-topic:non-scsi tape backup?

1998-08-20 Thread Edward J Young
Sorry if this is off-topic, it's just that this list has proven to be so helpful in many areas. Please suggest any alternate news groups that may be better for this question. I've not been receiving the debian-users digest list lately and am reposting this in part to test if this bounces, and t

apt & dists/stable-upgrades

1998-08-20 Thread Ruud Janssen
Short question: Is it possible to point apt to dists/stable-upgrades to update the system with the latest bugfix releases of all installed packages? Thanks, Ruud.

Re: Need some software advice.

1998-08-20 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 10:57:41PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: > Hi Debianizers, > > I have a friend who has shown some interst in Linux, so I think I might > possibly have another convert from the windoze world. Actually, I think Good! =o) > > Also a spreadsheet-type thing would also be handy. A

Re: old 1.3 directories

1998-08-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Allen Hoffman wrote: > Hi: > Where are the old debian 1.3 installation directories now? [13]ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/debian/dists/bo/ [14]ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian/bo/ [15]http://debian.midco.net/debian/Archive/ [16]http://debian.midco.net/debian/Archive

Re: OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)

1998-08-20 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On 19 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, > > Yes, no, and not unless you want to. Even without enabling the > generic command server and the @SH processing, the rules file for > mailagent is a full fledged state machines, and one can apply the > rules recursively, and the actio is idf

Apache & user execution of Perl/CGI scripts

1998-08-20 Thread Paul Miller
I'm having lots of trouble getting the CGI to work for users. The current Debian-Apache release (1.3.1-3) is never happy with my suexec binary.. >From the Debian sources, apache appears to be compiled with suexec support.. I even tried compiling it myself w/ Debian's sources, and it still didn't

Re: Connection Refused

1998-08-20 Thread tko
Kennedy Mutio writes: > I have just installed debian linux onto a machine and added it to my > network but I cannot telnet frm any other machine on the network to this > new machine. I have checked the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files in /etc > and changed them. I might have done this wrong but doe

APT keeps deb in /var/cache/apt/archives

1998-08-20 Thread Robert Ramiega
Hi! Yesterday i swiched to apt method of dselect and am quite impressed with that. Today i noticed that apt didn't delete installed debs dpkg-ftp after installation asked if it should delet installed packages can apt do that also? Is it safe to delete this debs (will it not make apt go crazy)?

Need some software advice.

1998-08-20 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Debianizers, I have a friend who has shown some interst in Linux, so I think I might possibly have another convert from the windoze world. Actually, I think the thing that might have sold her on it is the possibility of burning CDs and still being able to use the computer - unlike the windoze w

Off subject :-)

1998-08-20 Thread Hersh, Harry
Why we love Linux: > > A helicopter was flying around above Seattle yesterday when an > > electrical malfunction disabled all of the aircraft's electronic > > navigation and communications equipment. Due to the clouds and > haze, > > the pilot could not determine the helicopter's position and cou

Re: some email won't go...

1998-08-20 Thread Lane
Does it fail using the fully qualified domain name? I am not very familier with "other" sendmail programs and could not tell if your config is using sendmail... If so, check your sendmail.cf file and make sure you have an alias for the receiving machine as 'sewage' without any domain. -Lane

Re: Linux and Security

1998-08-20 Thread Lane
Who was it that said, "if you turn the sausage grinder backwards - you dont get a pig out."? I always thought this was a very descriptive way to explain the unix encryption routine. -Original Message- From: Kyle Amon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian User List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL

Keyboard dies when using xdm

1998-08-20 Thread Peter Makholm
I have a problem booting directly into X with xdm. I told the instalation script to boot into xdm. By hand I removed runlevel 2 from xdms entry in runlevel.conf. The problem is that when I boot into runlevel 3, the keyboard dies. It works when I first boot into runlevel 2 and then as root writes

Installing (and using) LiLo on 2nd HD?

1998-08-20 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Hi, the BIOS of my PC is able to boot from the second HD which is called D by the BIOS and /dev/hdc by Linux. I'd like to use /dev/hdc2 as my root partition and I want to install LiLo on this second HD, booting from it. I don't want to install LiLo on the first HD. Reading LiLo's documentatio

Re: Memory problem with a Compaq

1998-08-20 Thread Andrius Sabanas
Peter Iannarelli wrote: > > Hello: > > I have a 90 MHz Compaq with 32 megs of memory. > Its running 1.3.1. For some reason Linux only sees > 16 megs of memory. Does anyone know why and > how I can fix this ? > > Peter Check your BIOS settings. I once had the same problem with HP Vectra 486/66XM

meta key in emacs

1998-08-20 Thread Michael Symalla
Dear Debian users, can anyone help me to let my Alt-key be the metakey in emacs? Now I am using the ESC key, which works fine but is not as comfortable as the ALT key. Thanks a lot. -- Bye Mitch

Help with debian

1998-08-20 Thread Adrian Collings
Can u please to tell me how i can install X??? where do i get it from??? I have the 3 debian CD's THANX

Re: Help with debian

1998-08-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Please stop asking the listmasters but ask on the user mailing list. That is Debian User I've set a Cc so they can answer your mail Regards, Joey Adrian Collings wrote: > Can u please to tell me how i can install X??? > where do i get it from??? > I have the 3 debian CD's

Memory problem with a Compaq

1998-08-20 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello: I have a 90 MHz Compaq with 32 megs of memory. Its running 1.3.1. For some reason Linux only sees 16 megs of memory. Does anyone know why and how I can fix this ? Peter BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Iannarelli;Peter FN:Peter Iannarelli ORG:GenX Internet Laboratories TITLE:Engineer TEL;WORK;VO

Re: Runaway X

1998-08-20 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 10:40:18AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > Once I can stop the looping, I can start figuring out why the server > > only comes up in 340x200 mode and why /dev/psaux doesn't work as a > > Microsoft mouse port. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Harry Hersh > I don't know if this mi

CD-RW experiences?

1998-08-20 Thread Dan Hugo
I am thinking about getting a CD-RW drive to archive things, and maybe even to maintain an up-to-date Debian CD set. Does anyone have any experience with these drives? Since I happen to work at Philips, I would most likely be getting one of those models (the 3610, I believe, but I don't work in t

Re: Which MTA?

1998-08-20 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 02:08:01PM +0800, Ken Chew wrote: > > Hi, > > I am looking into setting up email accounts for some of our assosciate > companies as well as clients. They will just be using pop3 to retrive > their email, no access to the server via telnet, ftp or whatever? > > I understan

Re: Apt how, why, where

1998-08-20 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hi, > >>"E" == E L Meijer \(Eric\) writes: > > E> Being lazy myself, I have a feature request on behalf of all the (lazy) > E> loadlin users. Would it be possible to have the newly created > E> kernel-image package offer the option of copying the kernel to the > E> place loadlin expects

[ace@mullum.com.au: Help with debian]

1998-08-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Could you guys take care of him? Regards, Joey -- We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. - Linus Torvalds --- Begin Message --- I'm new to debian and need to know more about it to start with : Can anyone tell me how to get intoXWindows??? Can anyone t

Re: Qt installation problem

1998-08-20 Thread Marlon Urias
use the deb package. I did it yesterday and it set's all that annoying stuff for you. It did it all in one command: dpkg -i qt.deb recommending a shortcut,marlon On Thu, 20 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to install Qt 1.40 on Debian 2.0 and have

Re: big file problem

1998-08-20 Thread Eugene Sevinian
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Robert Wilderspin wrote: > On 19 Aug 98 16:51:37 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Hi All, > >today I have changed the harddisk on my PC from 1.1G to ~4G WD > >Caviar 24300. I was quite happy when I have got running system by simply > >'cp from_old_disk to_new_disk'. Every

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