gtk themes + pon

1998-08-26 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hi, What should i do to make the gth themes work in debian? Should i remove all gtk packages and then compile and install the tgz files?? + Well i have a tipical problem that coulnot find the answer. In my system, im able to conect to inte

Re: Xwindows Vs. Gnome?

1998-08-26 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 26 Aug 98 12:17:47 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've just had a look @ gnome.org, and was wondering - is gnome >attempting to replace X as a gui? and if so, which is better? No, Gnome is attempting to provide a consistent look-and-feel across a range of applications that run under X,

Re: Copy entire filesystem

1998-08-26 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 26 Aug 98 08:16:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I have gotten a new, larger harddisk, and wish to use it to expand my >existing linux box. I would like to copy the filesystems off the old hard >disk, and replace it with this one. > >So far I haven't succeeded. I haven't been able to confi

Re: Logging for dselect/dpkg?

1998-08-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "ES" == Ed Slocomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ES> Does dselect/dpkg keep a log of the individual package install ES> script outputs? That stuff tend to just go flying past me on the ES> screen, and I occaisionally catch a glimpse of important ES> installation/activation instructions. Where

Re: file-rc vs. sysV init (was: enabling bootpc at startup)

1998-08-26 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting the lone gunman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Why is file-rc not the default, just out of curiosity. I found it > much more intuitive, and a bit easier and faster to maintain. The > default sysV init scripts took me a bit longer to figure out. First, the sysV mechanism is more common (e.g., red

Re: apt and multi-CD distributions

1998-08-26 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Christian Lynbech ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Is there a way to install via apt from multiple CD's, but from a > single drive? > > And how about mounting the CD. With dselects CDROM method, dselect > will take cae of the necessary mounting and unmounting, whereas I have > sofar done this by han

RE: Logging for dselect/dpkg?

1998-08-26 Thread Ed
> There is no logging provisions in deselect/dpkg, but you can cheat. On > any virtual console, you can use scroll lock to pause scrolling, and > you can use shift-pgup and shift-pgdn to scroll up and down the > virtual console. This works inside and outside of dselect. > > -Alex > Neat tricks,

Re: programs

1998-08-26 Thread Kent West
At 12:55 PM 8/26/1998 -0500, you wrote: >Hi, >Will programs such as applix and WP7 for linux run on debian? >Thanks > >Rick > >Rick Knebel >[EMAIL PROTECTED] I downloaded and installed the 15-day trial of WP7 just today. It seems to work. I was able to create a short doc and print it to a network

Logging for dselect/dpkg?

1998-08-26 Thread Ed Slocomb
Does dselect/dpkg keep a log of the individual package install script outputs? That stuff tend to just go flying past me on the screen, and I occaisionally catch a glimpse of important installation/activation instructions. Where can I go to find out what I'm missing?

Netscape and PGP5 ?

1998-08-26 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello friends! == I have a VERY big question now - is there anything (plugin, script, module - anything!) that makes my Netscape Communicator encrypt, decrypt and sign the mail messages using pgp5? It very important for me. Please, if somebody of you knows something, let me know it! I

Help with Smartlist + Sender: root

1998-08-26 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, I'm having a problem setting up a mailing list with Smartlist. One of the subscribers is being held hostage to an NT system ;-) and for some reason it says "Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]". Smartlist doesn't like it and rejects mails. The point is he can't change the Sender line, so I have

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-08-26 Thread john
Brian writes: > Am I interpreting this wrong? No, but your provider file does not include everything needed to make a dialup connection: some stuff is assumed to be in the options file. I still would like to know what became of your options file, though. Could it have been destroyed by wmpp? I'

Re: terminfo

1998-08-26 Thread Mike Miller
> "timothy" == timothy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am telnetting an AIX machine and trying to run pine and > it says "No terminfo entry for "XTERM-DEBIAN"." in xterm, > and similarly for when i'm in rxvt. Before my terminfo was > just "xterm" i think, and it worked, how d

Re: apt and deity

1998-08-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Vincent Murphy wrote: > I am interested in finding out about apt and deity. I would appreciate if > someone would inform me of a website or somewhere where I can get > introductory information. map apt-get, man sources.list, less /usr/doc/apt/guide.text.gz > Specifically,

Re: set clock to GMT?

1998-08-26 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Vincent Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I would like to set my clock so it displays the time relative to GMT | (Greenwich Mean Time) as opposed to anything else. How do I do this? | I installed hamm for scratch using the Dialup set of packages, and I | think xntpd is installed. I'm not sure

Re: squake/xquake for libc6 linux (hamm)?

1998-08-26 Thread Shaleh
Try looking in non-free. All you need is there. the lone gunman wrote: > > I've got hamm installed on my system, and naturally I have libc6 > installed. I did not upgrade, but rather did a fresh install from cd, > so libc5 is nowhere on my system. > > I'd like to run quake on my system. Is th

set clock to GMT?

1998-08-26 Thread Vincent Murphy
I would like to set my clock so it displays the time relative to GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) as opposed to anything else. How do I do this? I installed hamm for scratch using the Dialup set of packages, and I think xntpd is installed. Regards, Vincent.

Re: X / Xemacs weird behaviour

1998-08-26 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Felipe Alvarez Harnecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hi, | | This is my problem: | if i try to run $ xemacs -display mymachine:0.0 from the shell it does not | complain but no window appears at the sceen. | | if i do $ xemacs -display othermachine:0.0 it works fine. | also if i simply do $xem

apt and deity

1998-08-26 Thread Vincent Murphy
I am interested in finding out about apt and deity. I would appreciate if someone would inform me of a website or somewhere where I can get introductory information. Specifically, i was wondering ring whether it would be possible for me to install packages using http, thru a http proxy. I am insi

squake/xquake for libc6 linux (hamm)?

1998-08-26 Thread the lone gunman
I've got hamm installed on my system, and naturally I have libc6 installed. I did not upgrade, but rather did a fresh install from cd, so libc5 is nowhere on my system. I'd like to run quake on my system. Is there any of the following avaible: xquake/squake source that can be compiled with lib

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-08-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "s" == servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] You forgot to answer my question :-) What happens if you just type /usr/sbin/pppd at the prompt (as user servis)? Will it run or issue an error message? When I do this, pppd starts and begins sending LCP packages. Aug 26 22:43:45 haitech ker

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

1998-08-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "SC" == Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SC> I was able to get over the 8-bit clean problem. I am curious. What was the solution? :-) SC> properly. The modem hang ups with no explanation. Got to spend more SC> time debugging it. If you want us to help you, send the lo

Diald dials all the time

1998-08-26 Thread Will Lowe
Diald is dialing my modem frequently, even when there's no traffic that I'm aware of. For a while I thought that xntpd was to blame, as it generates traffic whenever it tries to sync up with a time server. So I removed it -- but no luck. Any idea what else might make diald think there's traffi

Re: programs

1998-08-26 Thread Shaleh
Debian *IS* linux. Any linux application should run fine on any distribution of linux. I personally have used wp7. Rick Knebel wrote: > > Hi, > Will programs such as applix and WP7 for linux run on debian? > Thanks > > Rick > > Rick Knebel > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s u

X / Xemacs weird behaviour

1998-08-26 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Hi, This is my problem: if i try to run $ xemacs -display mymachine:0.0 from the shell it does not complain but no window appears at the sceen. if i do $ xemacs -display othermachine:0.0 it works fine. also if i simply do $xemacs it works fine. The strange thing is that any other xapp works

programs

1998-08-26 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, Will programs such as applix and WP7 for linux run on debian? Thanks Rick Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re : xterm backspae

1998-08-26 Thread Ehren Wilson
Ack I somehow managed to delete the message before I replied, but to the who ever it was wondering about changing the behavior of the backspace key in xterm, reading /usr/doc/X11/README.Debian tells how to change the behavior of the backspace so it sends ^H. Hope this helps Ehren

Re: Rescue disk is SLOW to load

1998-08-26 Thread Mike Roberts
> On 26 Aug, Mike Roberts wrote: > > I and a friend both have the same problem on our older 386 machines - > > the resue disk for hamm takes about 15 to 20 minutes to load the root > > filesystem and the kernel image. These same floppies work just fine > > on newer systems. We've both already com

Re: Compaq Netellingent 10/100 TX Ethernet card

1998-08-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Joao Paulo Figueiredo wrote: : : Hi, : : Is there any driver for my Compaq Netellingent 10/100 TX Ethernet : card? Or, do you known if it is compatible with some other driver supported by : debian? : I'm planning to install hamm... 2.0.35 kernel, Thunderlan (TLAN) d

Re: Rescue disk is SLOW to load

1998-08-26 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 26 Aug, Mike Roberts wrote: > I and a friend both have the same problem on our older 386 machines - > the resue disk for hamm takes about 15 to 20 minutes to load the root > filesystem and the kernel image. These same floppies work just fine > on newer systems. We've both already completed the

Re: /bin/sh vs. /bin/bash

1998-08-26 Thread Shaleh
Yes, if it calls sh, it should only use sh features. Report a bug. Please show which line fails and if possible a way to make it sh compliant. I use ash as my /bin/sh w/o a hitch. apt has a small bug that is only cosmetic. Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > > I recently installed an other shell than b

file-rc vs. sysV init (was: enabling bootpc at startup)

1998-08-26 Thread the lone gunman
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 08:19:34AM +0200, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > On: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 14:11:30 -0500 the lone gunman writes: > > > > On my Debian 1.3 system, I installed the package which removes the > > sysV style init scripts and installs the /etc/runlevel.conf system. > > I did not see this

Re: /bin/sh vs. /bin/bash

1998-08-26 Thread aqy6633
> Is this[1] to be considered as a bug and should I report it? > > Torsten > > Footnotes: > [1] the using of non-sh features in a script started with #!/bin/sh Yes, this is a bug! Please report it. Even more, we had a BIG discussion of this issue and dicided to have an alternatives for /

Re: /bin/sh vs. /bin/bash

1998-08-26 Thread the lone gunman
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 08:46:38AM +0200, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > I recently installed an other shell than bash as /bin/sh (ash > precisly) just to test the systems behaviour and noticed that some > scripts stopped working correctly. For example, /etc/init.d/rcS had > problems executing some scr

Compaq Netellingent 10/100 TX Ethernet card

1998-08-26 Thread Joao Paulo Figueiredo
Hi, Is there any driver for my Compaq Netellingent 10/100 TX Ethernet card? Or, do you known if it is compatible with some other driver supported by debian? I'm planning to install hamm... Thanks for any help, jpf.

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

1998-08-26 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
> >> /etc/chatscripts/isp > >> > >> ABORT BUSY > >> ABORT "NO CARRIER" > >> ABORT VOICE > >> ABORT "NO DIALTONE" > >> ABORT "NO ANSWER" > >> "" ATZ > >> OK ATDT2230101 > >> CONNECT '' > >> ogin: \d\q'us,ppp,thaths' > >> ssword: \qpassword > >> > >> "" \d\c > OK, terminal logi

Rescue disk is SLOW to load

1998-08-26 Thread Mike Roberts
I and a friend both have the same problem on our older 386 machines - the resue disk for hamm takes about 15 to 20 minutes to load the root filesystem and the kernel image. These same floppies work just fine on newer systems. We've both already completed the installs, but why does it take so long

Re: enabling bootpc at startup

1998-08-26 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 14:11:30 -0500 the lone gunman writes: > > On my Debian 1.3 system, I installed the package which removes the > sysV style init scripts and installs the /etc/runlevel.conf system. > I did not see this package in my hamm install. Did I overlook it? Yes, it's called file-rc an

Re: sendmail bug?

1998-08-26 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 13:12:25 -0700 David Stern writes: > I believe the procmail directive above is from root's .forward file, > but how the message lands in /var/spool/mail/daemon remains a > mystery. (nitro==mybox) > > --/var/spool/mail/daemon- > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 24

/bin/sh vs. /bin/bash

1998-08-26 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
I recently installed an other shell than bash as /bin/sh (ash precisly) just to test the systems behaviour and noticed that some scripts stopped working correctly. For example, /etc/init.d/rcS had problems executing some scripts (e.g., loading the keymap). I changed it to be #!/bin/bash instead o

Re: How to install modules after finished the installation

1998-08-26 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 13:12:57 +0800 Alex Kwan writes: > > 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 thes

Re: /var/log cleanout

1998-08-26 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 13:14:14 -0500 Mark Panzer writes: > > 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 t

Re: proper permissions & group for /dev/audio

1998-08-26 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 12:45:36 -0500 Richard E Hawkins Esq writes: > > 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 th

Re: CVS 1.10 is out...hamm?

1998-08-26 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 15:13:00 -0400 (EDT) Ossama Othman writes: > > Hi, > Will CVS 1.10 be available in hamm? Probably not. It will go straight to slink (unstable). Hamm is stable now and no new package (except for security fixes or similiar) are going there. Torsten

Re: 755c Thinkpad issues

1998-08-26 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Gary L. Hennigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > Plus, we've had this 755 for a couple of years now and I think the | > battery has quit accepting a charge. Even when it's powered down the | > battery will not recharge. The battery status LED i

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

1998-08-26 Thread john
> Wrong passwords produce the "link is not 8-bit clean" message from pppd. > For some reason improper authentication doesn't (can't?) get reported as > such. When chat authentication fails for any reason, the peer keeps on echoing what it receives, still hoping for a correct login. Your chat scr

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-08-26 Thread servis
*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Re: PPP as normal user" | Brian writes: | > This fix doesn't seem like the right way to fix this problem.] | | The right way is to figure out what happened to your options file and then | purge and reinstall ppp. | | > Why would running it as root NOT fail when t

terminfo

1998-08-26 Thread timothy
I am telnetting an AIX machine and trying to run pine and it says "No terminfo entry for "XTERM-DEBIAN"." in xterm, and similarly for when i'm in rxvt. Before my terminfo was just "xterm" i think, and it worked, how do i get it back to this so I can check my mail when I telnet in? thanks! timothy

Howto have Xterm backspace send CTRL-H

1998-08-26 Thread Jay Barbee
I have read many letters about this problem dating back to August 8,9,10 about how the backspace does not function in an Xterm. There were lots of suggestions about how to fix this but I cannot get my backspace to actually transmit CONTROL-H. As of right now, Backspace acts like the Delete key

755c Thinkpad issues

1998-08-26 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> I'm afraid I won't be of much help as our situations are very > different. My 755 runs ONLY Debian. No DOS, no Windows, no emulators, > just Debian. Mine is supposedly just debian. But I would like the hibernate to work, which needs a dos partition. I originally formatted without room for t

Re: Can't rlogin/telnet into my machine over ppp

1998-08-26 Thread servis
*- Martin Bialasinski wrote about "Re: Can't rlogin/telnet into my machine over ppp" | | >> "s" == servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | s> I can't seem to rlogin or telnet into my machine, from a remote host. | s> I am connected to the net with a dynamic dialup ppp link. I can telnet | s> i

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

1998-08-26 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > I'll have to go with Jens on this one. Doesn't happen on either of my | > Debian boxes. One running a Matrox MilleniumI (XF86_SVGA) and the | > other an IBM Thinkpad 755C (also running the XF86_SVGA server, I | > believe). It must be specifi

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-08-26 Thread john
Brian writes: > This fix doesn't seem like the right way to fix this problem.] The right way is to figure out what happened to your options file and then purge and reinstall ppp. > Why would running it as root NOT fail when the options file is not > present and when run as a user it needs to have

Re: getting fqdn from gethostname on a hamm box

1998-08-26 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 03:06:09PM -0700, 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 anot

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-08-26 Thread servis
*- Martin Bialasinski wrote about "Re: PPP as normal user" | | (try this please) | | Maybe you did the "adduser name dip" during the current session? Then | you should login again. | | (and try /usr/sbin/pppd again. Different output/logs ?) My user account has been a member of the dip group for

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

1998-08-26 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> I'll have to go with Jens on this one. Doesn't happen on either of my > Debian boxes. One running a Matrox MilleniumI (XF86_SVGA) and the > other an IBM Thinkpad 755C (also running the XF86_SVGA server, I > believe). It must be specific to your server or your configuration. ahah. Just the pers

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

1998-08-26 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Jens Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Eric Hanchrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > 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

Re: ppp - no response to LCP ConfReq

1998-08-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "J" == JonesMB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: J> 08-25-1998 02:51:11.34 - LCP : Received and accepted authentication J> protocol c223 (CHAP). No problem. CHAP is always tried first, if it is available. I think PAP will work nevertheless. But the other box doesn't respond to any LCP request you

Re: Can't rlogin/telnet into my machine over ppp

1998-08-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "s" == servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: s> I can't seem to rlogin or telnet into my machine, from a remote host. s> I am connected to the net with a dynamic dialup ppp link. I can telnet s> in from a win95 machine on my private home net though. Ceck if you have the "PARANOID" setting in

Re: problem w/dselect via ftp

1998-08-26 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Daryl Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | i am having a problem using the ftp option with dselect. | i am able to login to ftp.debian.org and various mirros | however i am getting an error message that states: | | Could not find Packages in stable/binary-i386 | | is this a known problem, o

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-08-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "s" == servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: s> | Strange it works as root. As you can see, you don't have a s> | /etc/ppp/options file. Create one and try again. s> This fix doesn't seem like the right way to fix this problem. Why s> would running it as root NOT fail when the options file is

problem w/dselect via ftp

1998-08-26 Thread Daryl Williams
folks, i am having a problem using the ftp option with dselect. i am able to login to ftp.debian.org and various mirros however i am getting an error message that states: Could not find Packages in stable/binary-i386 is this a known problem, or has something changed (path?) since the release

Re: Latency problems with Telnet

1998-08-26 Thread Michele Bini
> > I connect to my ISP with Win95 as well (cos there is no NetMeeting on > > Linux :-(, and it is much more responsive. > > Maybe you have made the same error I made: to connect to my ISP I wrongly specified 38400 as modem speed since it was the only speed I found in the documentation (manual p

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

1998-08-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > Just to make sure: would the following list be OK for hamm updates? > > deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian stable main contrib non-free > deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian dists/stable-updates/ > deb http://nonus.debian.org/debian stable non-

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

1998-08-26 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Cormac McGuinness wrote: > Hi, > > > However, the PCs in question need to acess Novell servers on the > campus network. > My question, then, is whether IPX or Novell network traffic will be > able to flow through the internal firewall ? yes! take a look at ipxripd package

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-08-26 Thread Jack Kern
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 08:08:03AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- Rafael Cordones Marcos wrote about "Re: PPP as normal user" > | On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 01:57:08AM -0500, David Densmore wrote: > | > I just installed Debian 2.0. > | > > | > Can someone tell me how to establish a PPP connecti

Re: Help: Boot windows95 using LILO

1998-08-26 Thread Adalberto da Silva
Well, as far as I know W95 always requires the first hard disk to boot. I'm not sure about your configuration but I think this is the case. A good OS is presumed to deal quite well with a new hard disk... My computer does have W95 in hda (C: -the first hard disk for MS-DOS) and it boots

Can't rlogin/telnet into my machine over ppp

1998-08-26 Thread servis
Hi all, I can't seem to rlogin or telnet into my machine, from a remote host. I am connected to the net with a dynamic dialup ppp link. I can telnet in from a win95 machine on my private home net though. I have shadow support on. The error I get from the remote Solaris host is: % rlogin 128.4

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

1998-08-26 Thread Pete Harlan
Wrong passwords produce the "link is not 8-bit clean" message from pppd. For some reason improper authentication doesn't (can't?) get reported as such. I missed the beginning of this thread, so perhaps this has been mentioned. Good luck, -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

1998-08-26 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Just to make sure: would the following list be OK for hamm updates? deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian dists/stable-updates/ deb http://nonus.debian.org/debian stable non-US Thanks, Sasha.

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

1998-08-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Jack Kern wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 07:01:05PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > > On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > > > > > shouldn't it be "deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian stable-updates/" ??? > > > > No > > > > deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debia

Re: What is a magic number?

1998-08-26 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 09:32:05AM -0700, Michael Rudmin wrote: > More specifically, a magic number is an identifier described in the > Point-to-point protocol. It is a specific packet that is > used to determine when a system is looped back to itself. hmm oh... that too :) same principal :) I d

Re: debian vs others

1998-08-26 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, > I know it is kind of silly to ask what is better debian vs redhat on a > debian list but here goes anyway. > I have used various distro including redhat, caldera and suse and have not > been really happy with any of them. Debian is my first Lin

Re: telnet break-in

1998-08-26 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 10:35:12AM -0400, Ossama Othman wrote: > > > > Hence the One-Time Password suggestion. Either way, better to have/use > > > > SSH than use telnet/ftp/r{login,sh,exec}. > > > > > > I have both SSL-Telnet and SSH installed. I don't type root passwords over > > > clear connec

Re: debian vs others

1998-08-26 Thread the lone gunman
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 09:00:17AM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote: > So anyone out there who uses debian now who used to use one of the > distro's, I would appreciate if you could tell me what you like about it > better. I used to use Slackware -- no real package management system at all. I did everyt

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

1998-08-26 Thread Jack Kern
On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 07:01:05PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > > > shouldn't it be "deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian stable-updates/" ??? > > No > > deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian dists/stable-updates/ > > Is correct. I use "deb ftp:/

Re: What is a magic number?

1998-08-26 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 07:54:24PM +0800, htyj wrote: > I've seen the term "magic number" in many documents, I wonder what it is, and > how to get it(calculate it?)? TIA. A magic number is basically an identifier... for exampleif I am sniffing ethernet (ie taking in raw ethernet packets wheth

Re: Cron problem

1998-08-26 Thread reckless
That's okay. It's at least nice to know I'm not the only one. :) Bill. On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > > > Hi there. Cron doesn't seem to be running on our Debian machine. There > > is one job in the root crontab and I started it with a #crontab root > > command. #crontab -l

Re: Cron problem

1998-08-26 Thread M.C. Vernon
> > Hi there. Cron doesn't seem to be running on our Debian machine. There > is one job in the root crontab and I started it with a #crontab root > command. #crontab -l shows the job but it never runs. Any ideas or > experience with this? If you need more info just let me know. Thanks in >

Cron problem

1998-08-26 Thread reckless
Hi there. Cron doesn't seem to be running on our Debian machine. There is one job in the root crontab and I started it with a #crontab root command. #crontab -l shows the job but it never runs. Any ideas or experience with this? If you need more info just let me know. Thanks in advance. Reg

Re: debian vs others

1998-08-26 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 09:00:17AM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote: > I have used various distro including redhat, caldera and suse and have not > been really happy with any of them. > I read an article about debian and was sort of intrigued. > I like what I read about there package system and being ab

Re: DE-220 Ethernet Card

1998-08-26 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 10:03:01AM +0100, Nicholas Humfrey wrote: >Has anyone got the DE-220 EtherNet Card to work with Linux ? It is a > popular and very available card which is supposed to be ne2000 compatible > but is obviously not 100% compatible. It has PnP support and jumperless > config

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-08-26 Thread servis
*- Martin Bialasinski wrote about "Re: PPP as normal user" | | >> "s" == servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | s> % ls -al /etc/ppp | s> total 92 | s> 1 drwxr-xr-x 6 root dip 1024 Jul 26 14:48 ./ | s> 7 drwxr-xr-x 64 root root 7168 Aug 26 06:49 ../ | s> 36 -rw-r--r--

Re: telnet break-in

1998-08-26 Thread Ossama Othman
> > > Hence the One-Time Password suggestion. Either way, better to have/use > > > SSH than use telnet/ftp/r{login,sh,exec}. > > > > I have both SSL-Telnet and SSH installed. I don't type root passwords over > > clear connections unless it is an emergency. > > Hmm - why is it that emergencies al

Re: Copy entire filesystem

1998-08-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ snip ] : My questions are, again, how to copy a filesystem but not it's linked : directories from other drives, and, second, how to do this whole job : successfully. Here's how I do it. mke2fs /dev/[newdevice] mount /dev/[newdevice] /mnt cd [

Re: How to receive mail under WIN95 from another Debian PC ?

1998-08-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Mike Schmitz wrote: : On Sun, Aug 23, 1998 at 04:44:42PM +0200, Michael Grimm wrote: : > If not, what package do you recommend ? qpopper ? : : I would recommend IMAP. That way a user on PC1, if (s)he uses both Linux : and '95, could have the same mail in both. There

Re: debian vs others

1998-08-26 Thread chris
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 09:00:17AM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, > I know it is kind of silly to ask what is better debian vs redhat on a > debian list but here goes anyway. > I have used various distro including redhat, caldera and suse and have not > been really happy with any of them. > I

Re: debian vs others

1998-08-26 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 09:00:17AM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, > I know it is kind of silly to ask what is better debian vs redhat on a > debian list but here goes anyway. Welldon't expect un-biased opinion :) I myself am very biased :) (but shouldn't you expect thatI am a package m

Re: Newbie's question: how to send&receive mail

1998-08-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "PI" == Peter Iannarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PI> Install smail and qpopper. Answer the questions during install. PI> NOTE - your name server must be setup properly before you PI> can use SMTP and you should have a fully qualified domain name. I belive the original poster wanted to fet

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-08-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "s" == servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: s> % ls -al /etc/ppp s> total 92 s> 1 drwxr-xr-x 6 root dip 1024 Jul 26 14:48 ./ s> 7 drwxr-xr-x 64 root root 7168 Aug 26 06:49 ../ s> 36 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root34938 Jul 9 10:58 connect-errors s> 2 -rwxr--r--

Re: How to set the LAN up automatically

1998-08-26 Thread joost
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Alex Kwan wrote: > Hi! Joost, > > My LAN card is 3com 3C-574 TX, PCMCIA type. > I can see the message "loading device 'eth0'...done" > at the boot time Ah! You have PCMCIA (IIRC it means "PC Manufacturers Create Irksome Acronyms") That's an entirely different ballgame.

xvfb

1998-08-26 Thread HOURDIN Christophe
Hello, I wonder if  a bo version of Xvfb  exists.  The hamm version of Xvfb can't works with bo because it  needs libc6. Christophe --  Christophe Hourdin Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique   Tour 25-15, 5eme etage, Jussieu, CNRS/UP

Re: time is off

1998-08-26 Thread Paul Reavis
daryl sez: > both of my my debian systems have the wrong time. they are 7 hours > too early, although they are in the correct timezone (PDT). i can > use the date command to set the date right, however i still have the > same problem after a reboot. The key is the reboot - the problem isn't your

Re: debian vs others

1998-08-26 Thread jdassen
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 09:00:17AM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote: > Also do you think debian will continued to be developed? Yes. The current developer count is 405. > I read somewhere that the head of the progect quite because he thought the > progress was not fast enough. That's not a very accurat

Re: Newbie's question: how to send&receive mail

1998-08-26 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello: Install smail and qpopper. Answer the questions during install. NOTE - your name server must be setup properly before you can use SMTP and you should have a fully qualified domain name. Peter -Original Message- From: htyj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Dat

Re: What is hurd?

1998-08-26 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 09:54:11AM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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

debian vs others

1998-08-26 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, I know it is kind of silly to ask what is better debian vs redhat on a debian list but here goes anyway. I have used various distro including redhat, caldera and suse and have not been really happy with any of them. I read an article about debian and was sort of intrigued. I like what I r

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-08-26 Thread servis
*- Rafael Cordones Marcos wrote about "Re: PPP as normal user" | On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 01:57:08AM -0500, David Densmore wrote: | > I just installed Debian 2.0. | > | > Can someone tell me how to establish a PPP connection from my normal | > user account? I have no problem as root. | > | > I tr

Re: Lotus notes like app?

1998-08-26 Thread Joerg Friedrich
check http://samba.anu.edu.au/gnuotes/ On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, David Welton wrote: > Anyone heard of anything similiar for Linux? > > Here's what I need, more or less: > - > Home page from where all other pages are accessed. The home page should > include a complete summary of the project: > >

Re: error message at booting time

1998-08-26 Thread joost
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, htyj wrote: > > When my linux boot up, the following message make me uncomfortable. > > 1. Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! > I don't have a SCSI card. How can I get rid of this line? Simple. Buy a WD-7000 SCSI card ;-) Or recompile the kernel to include only

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