Re: install hamm from CD

Tony Schonfeld wrote: > i've just receive my DEBIAN 2.0 distribution (linux central) today. > i need to upgrade 1.3.1 to hamm, after reading instructions to upgrade > correctly, i've mount my cdrom and type: > cd /cdrom/upgrade/cd_autoup.sh /tmp > cd /tmp > chmod 555 cd_autoup.sh > script /tmp/debi

Re: Package installation templates?

Mark Burgess wrote: > A good topic for the debain FAQ would be the answer to the following > question. Perhaps someone would be kind enough to mail me their answer > to this also. > > I want to create a standard list of packages which I will then install > on 50 machines without having to go into

Re: Can somebody help met to get pygres working on Debian 2.0?

It would be a good idea if you would describe your problem so others are able to help. Regards, Joey Johann Spies wrote: > I have sent email about this previously to the list, but since > upgrading to Debian 2.0 my system is in such a mess that it seems the > email got lost. > > If some

Re: QUESTION

The issue 30 of Linux Gazette, July 1998, has an article in which a user tell the experience he had with an experimental product called LinuxCad ( http://www.linuxcad.com ). Ciao _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Michele Bini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Linux programmer Membro Pluto

Re: apt & dists/stable-upgrades DOESN'T WORK

*- Michael Beattie wrote about "Re: apt & dists/stable-upgrades DOESN'T WORK" | On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Michael Stone wrote: | | > Quoting Ruud Janssen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | > > This doesn't seem to work for me. This is my /etc/apt/sources.list: | > > | > > deb ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr

Re: apt & dists/stable-upgrades DOESN'T WORK

On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Michael Stone wrote: > > > Quoting Ruud Janssen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > This doesn't seem to work for me. This is my /etc/apt/sources.list: > > > > > > deb ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Debian/dists/ stable-updates/ >

Re: Sending via SMAIL from dialup connection and private network

Jay Barbee wrote: > [Second Time Posted, I thought the Subject was not very informative] > > I recently upgraded several of my Bo systems to Hamm. All went fine. I > am currently struggling with some of the minor changes that the new > packages have. > > My home system is setup on a dummy netwo

Re: /var/log cleanout

On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Mark Panzer wrote: > Are system maintainers (su's) supposed to clean out the /var/log > directory after a while? Mine is up to 15MB and I don't think I really > need to see if I connected to the internet on June 2nd. Also is there a > program which cleans this for you, or wh

Re: /var/log cleanout

Mark Panzer wrote: > Are system maintainers (su's) supposed to clean out the /var/log > directory after a while? Mine is up to 15MB and I don't think I really > need to see if I connected to the internet on June 2nd. Also is there a > program which cleans this for you, or what is the correct way?

Re: CVS 1.10 is out...hamm?

Ossama Othman wrote: > Hi, > > Will CVS 1.10 be available in hamm? No. Hamm is released. It will be available in slink, it's successor. Regards, Joey -- A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems.

Re: Debian 1.3.1 instal on a 386/40

Rolf Edlund wrote: > Hi, I'm new at this list. > > Thinking on install 1.3.1 on a old AMD386DX/40 with 20Mb ram, a Mitsumi > LU005S cd-rom (non-ide), an ET4000 graphic chip and no 387 processor. Looks like my ftp/irc server. However it crashed after 250 days of uptime. :( > Any problem ? No.

Re: getting fqdn from gethostname on a hamm box

Alan Su wrote: > when i call gethostname() on my hamm, it returns only the name of the > machine, rather than a fqdn. i distinctly remember that when i was > running bo, i got a fqdn. does anyone know how i can make it return > the fqdn? or is there another function i should be using? thanks. >

Re: apt & dists/stable-upgrades DOESN'T WORK

On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Michael Stone wrote: > Quoting Ruud Janssen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > This doesn't seem to work for me. This is my /etc/apt/sources.list: > > > > deb ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Debian/dists/ stable-updates/ > > deb ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Debian stable

Re: old 1.3 directories

Nathan E Norman wrote: > 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

Re: non-interactive ispell

Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > is it possible to let ispell find all words that it doesn't understand > > > store in a file? When checking a long text one can't concentrate by > > > all these words that ispell doesn't know. > > > > The program "spel

Re: Fetchmail.

On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Tony Schonfeld wrote: > On Mon, 24 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Doesn't have to run as root, mine looks like this: > > > > ~> more .fetchmailrc > > defaults proto pop3 smtphost localhost > > poll mailhost1 user jesse password password1 > > poll mailhost2

getting fqdn from gethostname on a hamm box

when i call gethostname() on my hamm, it returns only the name of the machine, rather than a fqdn. i distinctly remember that when i was running bo, i got a fqdn. does anyone know how i can make it return the fqdn? or is there another function i should be using? thanks. (btw, getdomainname() r

How should I use DFTP?

Hello. I would like to use DFTP to get automatically new and updated packages from Debian during a PPP connection, putting its invokation in the ip-up script,. The problem is that dftp requires interactive mode,,but I would simply press the default choice it gives me. How can I make it work without

Re: Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?)

Thanks for all your replies. The reasons for including hurd are well founded and logical. I think, in large part because many people have a philosphical component in their choice to use linux, explaining the reasons behind decisions is far more important than in a traditional corporate str

Can Linux Box act as gateway for IPX/Novell traffic ?

Hi, We were setting up a windows 95 based computing facility of 50 computers for use by first year students (windows is a necessary evil here), and wish to restrict any use of the computers to browse web other than a few specified websites. I know a Linux PC with two network cards could act as a

Re: Partition hosed. Is there a way to find the superblock?

rob wrote > I did something stupid (not rebooting after a re-partition), and so > now after I finally did reboot, I've got a partition with a bunch of > data on it that can't be mounted. Both mount and e2fsck complain > about not being able to find the superblock. I can get some of the > data off

Help on PNP cards, network config & FAT 32 mounting.

It's the first time I'm trying to install Linux and I'm in need of some help :). I have a PENTIUM II 300 Mhz whit a AGP video card (Appolo 65, uses the Cirrus Logic 5465 chip), a USR Spotster 56 K Voice Faxmodem and a PCI NE2000 clone network card. I have another computer in my house, a P100 whi

Partition hosed. Is there a way to find the superblock?

I did something stupid (not rebooting after a re-partition), and so now after I finally did reboot, I've got a partition with a bunch of data on it that can't be mounted. Both mount and e2fsck complain about not being able to find the superblock. I can get some of the data off of it by just runn

Re: ftp.mi.us.debian.org

ftp.mi.us.debian.org is currently down. We are having campus-wide power problems. Unfortunately we have no estimate on the downtime length. Thanks for your patience. fyi. ftp.mi.us.debian.org is now operational again. Thanks, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

chfs equivalent?

I've filled up my /usr file system and I want to expand it (I've moved my other file system off that disk). Under UNIX there is a chfs command which allows me to extend the size of the file system without wiping it out. I can't find anything equivalent in any linux manual. Can you tell me if someth

Re: Memory testing tool.

On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > Hi, > > I got new memory installed on my PC. Sometimes when I load M$DOS a got a > warning from himem.sys about bad memory at some adress. WIN95 or LINUX do > not > produce any error messages on boot, but this error message makes me nervou

Re: Memory testing tool.

The best test is to beat up your system. Compile a kernel and something else that is large. If gcc survives, you should be fine. If you get a sig 11, then you may have hardware problems. Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > > Hi, > > I got new memory installed on my PC. Sometimes when I load M$DOS

Memory testing tool.

Hi, I got new memory installed on my PC. Sometimes when I load M$DOS a got a warning from himem.sys about bad memory at some adress. WIN95 or LINUX do not produce any error messages on boot, but this error message makes me nervous :) So is there some Debian package to test the memory under Li

Re: PDF file generation

On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 02:43:47PM -0400, Ossama Othman wrote: > > > How does one create a PDF (Acrobat) file? In searching through the > > packages I found a number of ways to view a PDF file, but didn't seem to > > find any way to create one. > > The only ways I am aware of besides using Adobe

Re: ifconfig failure.

C. R. Oldham wrote: [...] > Ifconfig returns "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable". Sorry for the false alarm. I checked by BIOS setup and the card was not being assigned an interrupt. Forcing the interrupt to 12 has fixed the problem. -- | Charles R. (C. R.) Oldham | NCA C

Re: How do I prevent Ctrl+Alt+Q from killing my X server?

Check your XF86Config file in /etc/X11. Look for an option that is commented out called Dontzap. Uncomment this line. The sequence is usually Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to kill x but who knows it might work. -Allan On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Eric Hanchrow wrote: -> I've installed Debian 2.0 from the offici

Debian 1.3.1 instal on a 386/40

Hi, I'm new at this list. Thinking on install 1.3.1 on a old AMD386DX/40 with 20Mb ram, a Mitsumi LU005S cd-rom (non-ide), an ET4000 graphic chip and no 387 processor. Any problem ? Btw.. do anyone knew the scanning frequency (H & V) on a Victor color monitor BV243490 ? --

Re: Second drive for DOSEmu?

On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 01:34:24PM -0700, Paul Marxhausen wrote: > After reading through all the DOSEmu info, I'm sorta-kinda-nearly > grasping this issue, but I still want to ask: > > I'll be converting a utility PC from MS-DOS over to Hamm soon, > and will be running at least one DOS program und

Sending via SMAIL from dialup connection and private network

[Second Time Posted, I thought the Subject was not very informative] I recently upgraded several of my Bo systems to Hamm. All went fine. I am currently struggling with some of the minor changes that the new packages have. My home system is setup on a dummy network (192.168.xxx.xxx), and I do t

Re: WARNING : libc6 Version: 2.0.7t-1 breaks resolv routines

> This implies that 'host' deals only in names and would therefor make 'host > 127.0.0.1' undocumented behavior. However, the man page also says: > This, on the other hand, implies that 'host' does deal in IP addresses. > Looks like a bug in the man page. this is a little old (i've been lazy

Second drive for DOSEmu?

After reading through all the DOSEmu info, I'm sorta-kinda-nearly grasping this issue, but I still want to ask: I'll be converting a utility PC from MS-DOS over to Hamm soon, and will be running at least one DOS program under DOSEmu. I've already tested it and it's happy, if slow. I thought a han

IPX not compiled in Hamm distribution?

OK, new user here. I've searched through as many resources as I can to find an answer for this question but I must be overlooking it. My local Linux hand-holders are not able to answer my question. I recently did two installations of Debian Linux 2.0.34, the "Hamm" distribution. BTW, many congra

CVS 1.10 is out...hamm?

Hi, Will CVS 1.10 be available in hamm? -Ossama

Re: Netscape xpm-problems solved.. next problem :-)

Quoting Kris Van Hulle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I see. Indeed, I get the right colors in 32 bpp mode. Unfortunately, my > card/monitor doesn't seem able to handle 1024*768 in 32 bpp mode. > And I'm certainly not gonna work in 800*600 mode. > > So, any other options ? Try 16bpp? Mike Stone

apache configuration

I'm not sure what happened, but during one of the upgrades of the apache package gzipped files no longer were sent with the correct "Content-Type" anymore. My understanding is that (for instance) if you get "NEWS.gz" that it will be sent back with a "Content-Type:" of "text/plain" and a "Content-E

Re: Wow! apt-get is great!

*- Peter S Galbraith wrote about "Wow! apt-get is great!" | | [Q] What would I do differently if I only wanted to upgarde certain | packages? Could I still use apt-get? Use dselect with the apt access method or just download the individual files and the dpkg -i them. -- Brian

Re: Wow! apt-get is great!

Hey, /usr/doc/apt/guide.text answered my question! I could still use apt-get to upgrade only a few packages using $ apt-get install Great! -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000,

Wow! apt-get is great!

After a year of using Debian 1.3 without ever upgrading packages via ftp, I got my 2.0 CDs and upgarded via apt. It went great. Now, a few weeks later, I decide to try to upgrade packages via ftp. I edit /etc/apt/sources.list and run $ apt-get update $ apt-get upgrade Wow! It's great! Super

Help installing Debian on UMSDOS file system?

I'm trying to install Debian on my wife's laptop that's currently running Windows 95. She's afraid that if I repartition it to make space for Linux, that she won't be able to reinstall all the Win95 software that's on the disk (it's a Compaq, and they don't ship Win95 installation CDs with their b

Re: telnet break-in

> > can't use Secure Shell, you might want to try One-Time Password packages, > > such as OPIE. I believe that even WU-FTP is starting to support one time > > passwords, too. > > Uhm, secure shell is not the answer to all problems. It WILL revert to an > unsecure protocol if the other end can not

/var/log cleanout

Are system maintainers (su's) supposed to clean out the /var/log directory after a while? Mine is up to 15MB and I don't think I really need to see if I connected to the internet on June 2nd. Also is there a program which cleans this for you, or what is the correct way? Thanks. Mark Panzer

Installation/Loadlin LINUX ...

Hi, I have a 486 system, and am installing from a HD. When I try to run the autoexec.bat program, I find that I get an error= "Not an image file." When I go thorugh the Machine code, it looks to me like Loadlin opens "LINUX", reads 4096 = bytes (0x1000), and yet never actually looks

Re: proper permissions & group for /dev/audio

Here is my /etc/group file. So not edit this file (much) (-: root:x:0: daemon:x:1: bin:x:2: sys:x:3: adm:x:4: tty:x:5: disk:x:6: lp:x:7:lp mail:x:8: news:x:9: uucp:x:10: proxy:x:13: kmem:x:15: dialout:x:20: fax:x:21: voice:x:22: cdrom:x:24: floppy:x:25: tape:x:26: sudo:x:27: audio:x:29: dip:x:30:

Re: pine installation

On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Paul McDermott wrote: > Hi everybody, I have downloaded the pine packages and don't know how to > install the packages. Please help me. > thanks in advance. > Paul A description of what you need to do to complete the installation of pine is in /usr/src/pine/README is you ins

How do I prevent Ctrl+Alt+Q from killing my X server?

I've installed Debian 2.0 from the official Debian 2.0 binary. Things are working well, but while using Emacs, I discovered that Ctrl+Alt+Q immediately kills my X server. This is annoying, because that key sequence has meaning to Emacs. I'd like to tell the server not to die when I type that seq

Re: proper permissions & group for /dev/audio

I said, > > should be group audio. The rest of what you showed is correct. > Thanks, that did it but it didn't. It worked for a few minutes, and now I find that /dev/audio is owned by bin. looking at /etc/group, it seems that audio and bin both fancy themself group 2. By it's position, aud

Re: proper permissions & group for /dev/audio

> should be group audio. The rest of what you showed is correct. Thanks, that did it rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer.

Re: proper permissions & group for /dev/audio

should be group audio. The rest of what you showed is correct. Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > I noticed exmh stopped beeping over new messages. I've found the reason: > > 0 crw-rw 1 root 2914, 4 Jun 23 17:57 /dev/audio > > It's lost whatever group it was attached to.

proper permissions & group for /dev/audio

I noticed exmh stopped beeping over new messages. I've found the reason: 0 crw-rw 1 root 2914, 4 Jun 23 17:57 /dev/audio It's lost whatever group it was attached to. Could someone who still has this tell me what the correct group & permissions are? thanks rick -- Thes

pine installation

Hi everybody, I have downloaded the pine packages and don't know how to install the packages. Please help me. thanks in advance. Paul

ifconfig failure.

Greetings, I sent this yesterday but never saw it appear on the list or in the archive, so I'm assuming something went wrong. I'm trying to install Debian 2.0 on an old 486dx4/100 with 32 MB of RAM, 2 GB of scsi disk, and a tulip-based PCI ethernet card. This is an Asus SP3g-based machine. Inst

Re: New SMB Timeout...

On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: : Another package that I could not get my Bo configuration to work with the Hamm : setup is SAMBA. Shares seem to be fine, but when I use SMBCLIENT I get an : error such as: : : startlmhosts: Can't open lmhosts file /etc/lmhosts. Error was No such f

Re: telnet break-in

Hi, > Interesting ... after reading the above messages, I decided to check out > my /var/log files and found a whole suite of "in.telnetd[XXX]: connect" > statements. Bummer! It appears that it is time for you disable all of those incoming services we mentioned. Have you considered using Secure

Re: netMeeting

I'd have to guess NO. There are too many possible proprietary (non-free) interfaces. General API, Compression etc. Of couse you could write M$ and ask them when they're going to port it. :) You'd be much more likely to find a GNU project that is available on all your intereted platforms, instea

New SMB Timeout...

Another package that I could not get my Bo configuration to work with the Hamm setup is SAMBA. Shares seem to be fine, but when I use SMBCLIENT I get an error such as: startlmhosts: Can't open lmhosts file /etc/lmhosts. Error was No such file or directory ...Then it simply hangs! It is true

Smail in hamm checking DNS lookups?

I recently upgraded several of my Bo systems to Hamm. All went fine. I am currently struggling with some of the minor changes that the new packages have. My home system is setup on a dummy network (192.168.xxx.xxx), and I do typically email myself at my work Debian box which is on the net with

Re: Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?)

On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Imagine "Debian GNU/FreeBSD" ... that would send some people straight > over the edge. Uhhmmm why not. So that we can all multiple boot to these OS's ( Linux /HURD/FreeBSD/Win32/fooOS) without learning any other packaging systems. I love OS's!

Re: Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?)

Nathan wrote, > Imagine "Debian GNU/FreeBSD" ... that would send some people straight > over the edge. Actually, what I want is a Debian BSD/linux, using the BSD stuff rather than GNU. Maybe someday when i have a few hundred spare hours :) rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU un

Re: Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?)

On Mon, 24 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The Hurd is a kernel not an OS. My take on this is that Debian is a > collection of apps and their philosophy of package managment and the > DFSG. The real name of Debian is 'Debian GNU/Linux', with the Hurd > kernel it will just be 'Debian GNU/Hurd

Re: apt & dists/stable-upgrades DOESN'T WORK

Quoting Ruud Janssen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > This doesn't seem to work for me. This is my /etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Debian/dists/ stable-updates/ > deb ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Debian stable main contrib > non-us Try "deb http://llug.sep.bnl.

mail -s

Re: MouseSystem optical mouse doesn't work on hamm

Opps! My /dev/mouse link was pointing to /dev/ttys0 and not /dev/ttyS0 ! Works now. > After an upgrade from Slackware 96 (!) to hamm, my mouse doesn't work using > the old XF86Config file and the old kernel. Attempts to reconfigure with > XF86Setup were not successful. > > The mouse used to

Can somebody help met to get pygres working on Debian 2.0?

I have sent email about this previously to the list, but since upgrading to Debian 2.0 my system is in such a mess that it seems the email got lost. If somebody have pygres running with postgresql 6.3.2 and debian 1.5.1 on Debian 2.0 I would like to know how they did it. If I cannot solve this pr

Package installation templates?

A good topic for the debain FAQ would be the answer to the following question. Perhaps someone would be kind enough to mail me their answer to this also. I want to create a standard list of packages which I will then install on 50 machines without having to go into dselect and choose them by hand

Re: Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?)

On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Thomas Malloy wrote: > [...] > I thought DEBIAN was a distribution of linux, which runs on various > hardware platforms. As you will know, Linux is two things at the same time. On one side, it is the name people usually call "the complete OS", on the other side, it is just a

Problem with apt

Hi, I've just installed on some computer debian hamm via ftp method. I've also installed apt, but, when I give it update, it doesn't work ! It says that it cannot open passive conenctions. 425 Can't open passive connection: Permission denied. Any ideas ? TIA, Ionutz

install hamm from CD

i've just receive my DEBIAN 2.0 distribution (linux central) today. i need to upgrade 1.3.1 to hamm, after reading instructions to upgrade correctly, i've mount my cdrom and type: cd /cdrom/upgrade/cd_autoup.sh /tmp cd /tmp chmod 555 cd_autoup.sh script /tmp/debian.upgrade cd /cdrom /tmp/cd_autoup.

Re: Fetchmail.

On Mon, 24 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Doesn't have to run as root, mine looks like this: > > ~> more .fetchmailrc > defaults proto pop3 smtphost localhost > poll mailhost1 user jesse password password1 > poll mailhost2 user jesse password password2 > > I make it poll every 10 m

netMeeting

is there a program that can talk to netmeeting? BG

Pygres not working on Debian 2.0

Hallo, I cannot get pygres running on Debian 2.0 with postgresql 6.3.2. The error message is this: from pg import * ImportError: /usr/lib/python1.5/lib-dynload/pgmodule.so: undefined symbol: lo_creat I had no problems on Debian 1.3.1 with libc5. Is anyone using pygres on libc6 on Linux? I wo

Re: Movie player

On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 07:43:45PM +1000, BG Lim wrote: > Is there a wprogram to play QuickTime movies in linux? Try xanim :) Mirek

Re: telnet break-in

On Mon 08 Aug 1998, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ok; granted - there are not free versions of ssh for Win95/NT (I thought > there was one, but I don't have a URL so I'll concede the point). There is a sorta free implementation of SSH for Win95/NT. Source code is available, but mo

Movie player

Is there a wprogram to play QuickTime movies in linux? BG

Re: Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Malloy) writes: > It is quite worth while on its own merits, but what does it have to do > with linux or debian? Debian, the multi kernel/multi arch distribution. I like the sound of that. I don't need hurd right now. but when I'm going to make some programs my self

Re: Hardware monitoring software?

Have a look at wmlm78. Homepage : Or search Freshmeat. Hope this is what you were looking for... Cheers. Bye. Ph. A. __ Reply Separator _ Subject: Hardware monitorin

Re: What is hurd?

> > I've browsed through the Hurd faq, but I'm still not clear exactly what > advantages Hurd has over the Linux kernel. The FSF say that when they > decided to continue Hurd development in 1990 once they heard about Linux, > Linux was not portable and didn't scale well (esp. to multiprocessor > m

Re: correct procedure for make-kpkg

On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 02:17:50AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"the" == the lone gunman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > the> What is the correct procedure for building a home-grown custom kernel > the> with make-kpkg? What are the steps from installing the kernal source > the> pac

Re: correct procedure for make-kpkg

Hi, >>"the" == the lone gunman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: the> What is the correct procedure for building a home-grown custom kernel the> with make-kpkg? What are the steps from installing the kernal source the> package to installing the new, roll-your-own kernel? Please read /usr/do

Re: QUESTION

On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: [snip] > > hmm what company puts out AutoCAD? > AutoDesk I think. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with "pgpkey" as subject. -

Getting pine to send internet messages.

Hallo, In installed pine 3.96 on my Debian 2.0 system yesterday. With the older pine on Debian 1.3.1 I had a lot of pleasure. So far I could not get pine to send messages other than those to the localhost. When I try to send messages to somebody outside this machine, I get the error message:

How to install modules after finished the installation

Hi! After I completed the installation of the Base System of Hamm, I found that I need some modules which have not selected from Step "Install Operation Kernel and the Device Driver" of Installation Program, How do I install these modules? In dont' want to re-install the Base System. Thanks &

Running program at boot time

Thanks for all the reply. I am using a quite old Linux 1.2.13. So according to the start up scripts, anything you want to run at boot time, it should put in the rc.local file under /etc/rc.d. I put the program path in the rc.S file, and put the whole path for the program in rc.local. But still

Re: [pppd] error: link not 8-bit clean

> Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This usually means that the chat script is exiting without having provided > > the other end with everything it needs. Dial in with minicom and work > > through the login until you get the garbage that indicates that ppp has > > s

Re: Running program at boot time

Xiaolin Wang wrote: > > I try to run some program at the machine boot up, and put the program > lines in rc.local. But it doesn't work. Hope anyone can help > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null rc.local is used on BSD style boots. Debian uses a sysv style boo

Running program at boot time

I try to run some program at the machine boot up, and put the program lines in rc.local. But it doesn't work. Hope anyone can help

Re: QUESTION

On Mon, 24 Aug 1998 20:19:29 EDT, "Stephen J. Carpenter" wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 04:47:30PM -0700, Dimas Franco wrote: > > HI :-) CAN I RUN PROGRAMS FOR WN95 ON LYNUX LIKE AUTOCAD 14 > [..] > It is possible to get CAD programs for Linux. > [..] I don't know if all these links are curr

Re: QUESTION

On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 09:55:10PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- Stephen J. Carpenter wrote about "Re: QUESTION" > | On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 04:47:30PM -0700, Dimas Franco wrote: > | > HI :-) CAN I RUN PROGRAMS FOR WN95 ON LYNUX LIKE AUTOCAD 14 > | > | Hmm okthe short answer is "NO"...b

Re: help w/ ethernet (with a dash of ppp)

Martin Bialasinski wrote: > Did you also add a routing entry for the subnet? > > route add -net 192.168.3.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > route -n should show a line like > > 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 I was told that 2.1.x adds route entries for yo

Re: QUESTION

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Re: where is NNTPSERVER variable set?

On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 07:50:22PM -0500, the lone gunman shared with us the following words of wisdom: > > I moved back to school, and now must use a different news server than > the one I used at home. Where do I change where the NNTPSERVER > environment variable is originally initialized? Ch

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