Re: Debian Questions - Newbie-ish

1998-09-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: : On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 04:36:13PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: : : > : 1) Once I've got everything installed in a basic way, how do I build and : > : install the world myself? In NetBSD, it's as easy as "cd /usr/src ; make : > : build". W

PATH and ftp

1998-09-14 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
While updating from Slackware to Debian I seem to be deleted erroneously from the debian-user mailing list. Should anybody already have answered to my posts concerning PATH for tcsh or access denied using ftp to an account in /home/users, could he or she please send the response again to my normal

Re: diald and ppp

1998-09-14 Thread john
Keith quotes me: > If you run pppconfig you can use the chatscript it generates for diald by > replacing > > connect "/etc/diald/connect" > > with > > connect "/etc/chatscripts/provider" That should be: connect "chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider" -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John H

Re: .tar.gz, .tgz, tar.Z -->(alien) ->.deb???

1998-09-14 Thread Joey Hess
Horacio M.G. wrote: > did it! ...it seems I'm getting up to something. Now it no longer > says "can't load libXmu.so.6", instead it says: > "can't load libXpm.so.4" > What which other/s library/s should I install next? xpm4.7 -- see shy jo

Re: .tar.gz, .tgz, tar.Z -->(alien) ->.deb???

1998-09-14 Thread Horacio M.G.
On 14 Sep 98, at 14:09, Joey Hess wrote: > Horacio M.G. wrote: > > well, it was just like that, and the result was as I said, no .deb > > package, instead the tree directory directly in /. > > Well then you must be using some strange old version of alien and it > intrepreted alien -debian as "alie

Re: I can,t seem to get out to the internet.

1998-09-14 Thread Jack Kern
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 05:19:17AM -0700, The Burris's wrote: > Yes, I an new to Linux 2.0 something. I have had it installed for a few > months now. I have read the help files and ppp-howto stuff and even > bought a book. > I have my connect script working. > I connect to my isp using pppd call

Re: g77 and gdb.

1998-09-14 Thread John Maheu
gdb's fortran support still has a ways to go, but I think you will get what you want if you instead do, gdb hello break MAIN__ run list John John Maheuphone (403) 492-2049 University of Alberta email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: diald and ppp

1998-09-14 Thread Keith
I now have diald dialing but I am not getting connected. In my ppp lg I get the following errors. pppd[286]: sent [LCP ConfReg id=0x1 ] last message repeated 9 times pppd[286]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests pppd[286]: Connection Terminated pppd[286]: Exit. And I noticed in the diald.log t

g77 and gdb.

1998-09-14 Thread Paulo José da Silva e Silva
Hello, I am sure I am doing something silly, but I can´t find out what. I can not manage to debug fotran code compiled with g77. I am using GNU Fortran 0.5.24-19980804 (instaled from slink and part of the new egcs 1.1). Here is an exemple of what I am doing: I try to compile the "hello world" p

Re: Getting mail from a POP3 server

1998-09-14 Thread Phil Humpherys
"Mitchell Surface" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings, > > This should be an easy question but I can't seem to find an answer. I > want to get my e-mail from my ISP's POP server. I've been messing around > with sendmail (which is overkill, I now realize) without any luck. Can > someone poin

Re: 386SX-33 for pop3 server and proxy server

1998-09-14 Thread Phil Humpherys
Oliver Thuns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >I have a 386sx-33 with: > >4mb ram > >100 mb hard disk > >10mbit ethernet card > > > >Would this be enough for pop3 server and proxy server for a 25 node network > >with one dial up connection ? > > I think you need more than 4 MB to install Linux (o

Re: /tmp permissions

1998-09-14 Thread Phil Humpherys
Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's a "good policy" for /tmp directory to have 777 > permissions !? With such permissions any user could write on > that directory until even > there's no more space on device, > rigth !? Yup, though if he's not the root user, he won't be able to

Re: Debian Questions - Newbie-ish

1998-09-14 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
>> Um... Okay. I guess what I'm looking for is more of a "core system" sort > of answer. Id est, I'm wondering how I go about configuring a kernel and > building userland. Or, is it the case that in Debian *everything* is a > package? That's sort of an intriguing possibility. > Is kernel configur

Re: Debian Questions - Newbie-ish

1998-09-14 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
>Hmm. I think bootpart from BSD will do this, and I'm pretty sure LILO >will. I've used LILO to dual boot Windows and Linux, and bootpart to >dual boot DOS and BSD. I never have done exactly what you want to do yes, LILO will do this. My /etc/lilo.conf file boots both, and will supposedly boo

Re: Debian Questions - Newbie-ish

1998-09-14 Thread john
Mason Loring Bliss writes: > 3) Is there an equivalent to the NetBSD practise of a nightly sup of > current sources? Look at apt, in unstable. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Installation Help

1998-09-14 Thread Jonathan Jefferies
Hi all, Got some dumb installation questions. Situation: 1. Installing onto a virgin drive (hda2 & hda3) in a system which already has Linux (Redhat) and Win95 installed 2. Installing from a scsi cdrom which linux recognizes. 3. Boot from install floppy, id of scsi and installation of

Re: Is there a .deb version of netscape?

1998-09-14 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Anthony Campbell wrote: : I've just installed debian 2.0, after using redhat 5.0, and am quite : impressed. Only problem is that I do need netscape occasionally (if lynx : won't access a site) and there doesn't seem to be a .deb package of : netscape corresponding to the .

Re: Debian DSELECT

1998-09-14 Thread Vincent Murphy
I would really just suggest that you get a book called "Running Linux" (O'Reilly) and read it. I learned more about Linux in that one book (I consider myself reasonably proficient in how the thing works) than I did in lots of other bits `n' pieces on the web (slashdot et al.). Alternatively get yo

Re: Debian Questions - Newbie-ish

1998-09-14 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 04:36:13PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > : 1) Once I've got everything installed in a basic way, how do I build and > : install the world myself? In NetBSD, it's as easy as "cd /usr/src ; make > : build". What's the Debian equivalent? > > There isn't one - most Debian

Is there a .deb version of netscape?

1998-09-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
I've just installed debian 2.0, after using redhat 5.0, and am quite impressed. Only problem is that I do need netscape occasionally (if lynx won't access a site) and there doesn't seem to be a .deb package of netscape corresponding to the .rpm version for redhat. Should I use alien to conver the

Re: Debian DSELECT

1998-09-14 Thread Paul M. Foster
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Kent West wrote: > At 09:55 PM 9/13/1998 +0100, you wrote: > >> "Martin" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Martin> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i > > > >Joris> 2. D O C U M E N T A T I O N ( why all these cryptic files and no real > >Joris> database ??? HTML yes?)

Re: OFF TOPIC: where did MICROPOLIS go?

1998-09-14 Thread Jonathan Jefferies
Chris Mc. wrote: > > Thank you! > I can't believe they just folded up like that > Well, after suffering several of their rather expensive drives die, I for one wasn't about to buy any more of their product. I haven't a clue about the Singapore group and whether or not they ever produced any

Re: shaper module documentation

1998-09-14 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Yosef B wrote: : Can someone point me to the documentation to configure the traffic shaper : module for the kernel? /usr/doc/shaper/shaper.txt if you have the shaper package installed.. -Remco

Re: Debian Questions - Newbie-ish

1998-09-14 Thread John Larkin
Mason Loring Bliss wrote > My questions: > > 1) Once I've got everything installed in a basic way, how do I build and > install the world myself? In NetBSD, it's as easy as "cd /usr/src ; make > build". What's the Debian equivalent? Well, the packages are distributed in binary format (hence the m

Re: Debian Questions - Newbie-ish

1998-09-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: : What I'd really like is a "Debian for NetBSD People" guide, but, failing : that, maybe a couple kind souls out there can answer some questions I've : got. : : Note: I'm not running Debian yet - I'm running NetBSD-current - but I : think I'm g

Debian and two more OS's

1998-09-14 Thread Jan Krupa
I created on 4G hard disk, using msdos fdisk 1600Mg primary partition and installed there Win95 (Fat32). The rest of the HD was left "untouched" by msdos fdisk. Then during the debian2.0 installation I created primary partition hda2 as a native linux (1400Mg) and hda3 (100MG) as a swap. On rest

Re: IP Masquerading

1998-09-14 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Tomt wrote: > I have the hamm distrubution and I have ip masquerading enabled in the > kernel and the masquerading package installed. > Do I need anything else? Like another ip assigned to my nic or what? > Yes, each network interface (PPP, Ethernet card, etc.) must have

Re: .tar.gz, .tgz, tar.Z -->(alien) ->.deb???

1998-09-14 Thread Joey Hess
Horacio M.G. wrote: > well, it was just like that, and the result was as I said, no .deb > package, instead the tree directory directly in /. Well then you must be using some strange old version of alien and it intrepreted alien -debian as "alien -d -e -b -i -a -n", and the -i made it install the

Re: .tar.gz, .tgz, tar.Z -->(alien) ->.deb???

1998-09-14 Thread Horacio M.G.
On 14 Sep 98, at 12:25, Joey Hess wrote: > Horacio M.G. wrote: > > 2) Scriptum-1_1_7b-linux-elf-static.tgz > > and I ran: alien --to -debian Scriptum-1_1_7b-linux.elf-static.tgz > > I doubt that was your real command line. Alien will not accept invalid > arguments like those. See the man page. >

IP Masquerading

1998-09-14 Thread Tomt
I have the hamm distrubution and I have ip masquerading enabled in the kernel and the masquerading package installed. Do I need anything else? Like another ip assigned to my nic or what? Thanks

Kppp as normal user

1998-09-14 Thread Sergio Orsatti
After reading the howtos, faqs, I still can't dialup to my ISP with Kppp as a normal user. When I am root, it works fine. I have Debian 2.0 and KDE 1.0 installed and if I use pon to dialup to my ISP, it works fine (root or normal user). When using Kppp as normal user, it connects to my ISP and

Debian Questions - Newbie-ish

1998-09-14 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
What I'd really like is a "Debian for NetBSD People" guide, but, failing that, maybe a couple kind souls out there can answer some questions I've got. Note: I'm not running Debian yet - I'm running NetBSD-current - but I think I'm going to give Debian a try for a while. I'll clear out a mostly unu

shaper module documentation

1998-09-14 Thread Yosef B
Can someone point me to the documentation to configure the traffic shaper module for the kernel? TIA, Lawrence Baker

Re: PON on REQUEST

1998-09-14 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Thanks for your reply. I do have a script which updates the ip address of my machine and posts it on a web page. I have installed xringd package and it would be a cool thing, but it can not find the modem. It keeps complaning that /dev/ttyS1 does nor exist... I know it exists and ppp works fine.

Re: analog 3.0.3 "home grown scripts"

1998-09-14 Thread Joey Hess
William R. McDonough wrote: > could someone please show me where to access these "home grown scripts" > I have analog on my web server but it's FreeBSD not Debian... > > I'd love to have my analog show me email and FTP stats. Someone else basically answered you, but I'll forward the stuff to the

Re: Getting mail from a POP3 server

1998-09-14 Thread Mitchell Surface
A big thank you to everyone who sent me messages about my POP problem. I must add that Pann's instructions (at the site in the tag) are the best set for a beginning Debian user that I've seen. There should be some way to either add these to the Debian site or at least provide a link to them. Than

Re: [DBI] Structure of table?

1998-09-14 Thread aqy6633
> I wonder if there is a legal way using the DBI driver for Perl to > gain information about the structure of the table, especially the > length of some fields. I think there is no DBI function that would do it uniformly for all databases, but for most of them you could execute a "SELECT" query wh

Re: I can,t seem to get out to the internet.

1998-09-14 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, The Burris's wrote: > I have my connect script working. > I connect to my isp using pppd call provider > after it gets logged in I type pppd in a seperate > x window and get the trash. > I can ping my providers address > I can ping my assigned address > I have my DNS numbers

Re: KDE's Kedit and Kview

1998-09-14 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 12 Sep, Michael Beattie wrote: > > I know that KDE is still in the development stages, but one small bug that > bugs me is that when using the K file manager to open text, .c or image > files, The respective viewers/editors take the file's path and location to > be seperate arguments. For examp

Re: Debian DSELECT

1998-09-14 Thread Steve Tremblett
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Kent West wrote: > difficult for me to wade through. Typically I come away from a three-hour > documentation-reading session having gained nothing. I've often thought > about contributing to the documentation projects, yet until I understand > how the thing works, I can't wr

Re: .tar.gz, .tgz, tar.Z -->(alien) ->.deb???

1998-09-14 Thread Joey Hess
Horacio M.G. wrote: > 2) Scriptum-1_1_7b-linux-elf-static.tgz > and I ran: alien --to -debian Scriptum-1_1_7b-linux.elf-static.tgz I doubt that was your real command line. Alien will not accept invalid arguments like those. See the man page. You probably need to install libc5 compatability libra

Re: Installation Help

1998-09-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Cameron Taggart wrote: : Where can I find help on installing Debian? : I thought this was the list but no one has replied. : : When installing Debian I get this error part way though the instation: : : "No ... msdos ... partitions that had not already been mounted were

Re: diald and kernel problems

1998-09-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"G" == G Crimp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: G> Sep 13 02:55:46 G>modprobe: no dependency information for module: G>"/lib/modules/2.0.30/net/slip.o" You must have recompiled the same kernel version that you were running, and the old modules were still around

Re: Debian DSELECT

1998-09-14 Thread Kent West
At 02:49 PM 9/14/1998 -0400, you wrote: >Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> LaTex, etc, may be far superior to wordprocessors, but again, >> there's the psychological issue of leaving one world (Windows) and >> trying to find similarities (WordPerfect, Word, Excel, etc) in the >> new world

smail: 'No route to host' problem

1998-09-14 Thread Mike
After upgrading my system to Debian 2.0, my smail can't find its smart_host through which all non-local email is supposed to be routed. A typical error message in the log file looks like: 09/12/1998 11:04:01: [m0zHSBI-000BVtC] Deferred TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ROUTER:smart_host TRANSPORT:smtp ERRO

Re: cdrom

1998-09-14 Thread Phillip Neumann
E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > In what group should a user be to be able to play an audio-cdrom ?? > > current user is in: bin lp mail cdrom audio dip > > The logical group would be audio. To play an audio CD a user needs > write access to the CD device. What I did was ch

[DBI] Structure of table?

1998-09-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, I wonder if there is a legal way using the DBI driver for Perl to gain information about the structure of the table, especially the length of some fields. I may be blind so please quote the m if the answer should be rtfm. Thanks in advance, Joey -- Unix is user friendly ... It's

Re: Debian DSELECT

1998-09-14 Thread Richard Hoskins
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > LaTex, etc, may be far superior to wordprocessors, but again, > there's the psychological issue of leaving one world (Windows) and > trying to find similarities (WordPerfect, Word, Excel, etc) in the > new world (Linux). This is the source of all your probl

ISO-8859 fonts

1998-09-14 Thread Nebu John Mathai
Does anyone know where ISO-8859 fonts are located? For some reason, the second time that I installed Debian 2.0 and X, these fonts are missing, and so I'm getting messages that I never before seen from gimp, netscape, textedit, ghostview, etc, that say they cant find these fonts. I installed the

Locale in Emacs and Perl

1998-09-14 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
I using Debian 1.31 and I ahve the following problem. Whenever I use emacs under X I get the warning: locale not supported by C library, locale not changed I am under the impression, though I may be wrong and this warning is not given when I use emacs outside X. When I use perl ( when I use lat

Re: How to get a screenshot?

1998-09-14 Thread Eric House
> > But how does one get a > > screenshot under [Debian] Linux? Is there anything comparable to > > Snapshot (on Solaris), for example? > > > Just use the GIMP! ;-) > > >From the main toolbox window: "Xtns -> Screen Shot". That was the winning answer. :-) Thanks for all the replies. xv was

Installation Help

1998-09-14 Thread Cameron Taggart
Where can I find help on installing Debian? I thought this was the list but no one has replied. When installing Debian I get this error part way though the instation: "No ... msdos ... partitions that had not already been mounted were detected." What could cause this error? I am wanting to inst

Re: {stupid pet tricks}blown Root passwd FIXED!

1998-09-14 Thread Kent Andersen
this did the trick Thanks!! At 02:00 PM 9/14/1998 -0500, you wrote: >> maybe im doing something wrong.. can you elaborate how when i boot from the >> rescue disk mount the Hdd without it booting up to login state? >> maybe a little hand holding is in order > >you don't want to use the boot dis

Re: anonymous ftp

1998-09-14 Thread Thomas Apel
Eric Jensen wrote: > > I've been having some problems getting anonymous ftp to work properly on > my system. I've set up most everything in the way that the manpage for > in.ftpd told me too, but it refers to a program pw_mkdb which I can't seem > to find anywhere. In any case, I don't believe t

Re: {stupid pet tricks}blown Root passwd

1998-09-14 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 04:27:41PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote: > "Stephen J. Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > #include > > > LILO: linux /bin/sh > > [...] > > > hopefully once you zap the root password...it SHOULD be sufficent > > to remount the filesystem read-only and issue halt or

RE: KDE problems.

1998-09-14 Thread Person, Rod
I'm trying to run it on 33MHz 486sx with 8meg. I have 12M of swap. I'm not exactly sure which version of KDE it is. I downloaded from the hamm/contrib... I didn't realize KDE took up so much memory. Well if this machine is not capable of running KDE are there any suggestions. I didn't like fvwm95

ftp: User doris access denied.

1998-09-14 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I use a /home/users and a /home/friends folder. Users in that directories cannot access our server via ftp. They get an 530 User doris access denied. error (wher doris is a sample user). The users that have their homedirectory in /home can however access the server via ftp. Whats wrong? Stef

Re: KDE problems.

1998-09-14 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 14 Sep, Person, Rod wrote: > Anyone using KDE, do you have this problem, can you help.. > > When I start KDE as the default window manager it takes 1/2 hour > or more to load. Then once it does load it is take just as long to do > anything. > I added kdmdesktop to my Xsetu

Re: 2nd Try: Ctrl-Alt-Minus on Laptop

1998-09-14 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 14 Sep, Kent West wrote: > Anyone know how to change resolution/screen size on a laptop that doesn't > have a separate numeric keypad? I can lock the number keys on that are > imbedded in the alpha keys, but that still doesn't let me do the > Ctrl-Alt-Minus key combo. Nothing I've tried has work

Re: {stupid pet tricks}blown Root passwd

1998-09-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 11:08:14AM -0600, Kent Andersen wrote: > actually it would be nice if I knew what the root password was > my problem is somehow it is trashed. can't log in as root to change it There is no way you can recover a lost password (exception below), this is the whole purpose

Re: Getting mail from a POP3 server

1998-09-14 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 10:53:57AM -0400, Mitchell Surface wrote: > This should be an easy question but I can't seem to find an answer. I > want to get my e-mail from my ISP's POP server. I've been messing around > with sendmail (which is overkill, I now realize) without any luck. Can > someone po

Re: Twin

1998-09-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 10:08:30AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On debian 1.3.1 I used the windows emulator twin with some success after > unpacking the tar.gz, and followed the installation instructions. After > upgrading to 2.0 I tried to do the same. It would not link however. > Complains abou

Re: Debian DSELECT

1998-09-14 Thread Kent West
At 09:55 PM 9/13/1998 +0100, you wrote: >> "Martin" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Martin> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i > >Joris> 2. D O C U M E N T A T I O N ( why all these cryptic files and no real >Joris> database ??? HTML yes?) > >There are manpages, which are often quite good he

Re: 2nd Try: Ctrl-Alt-Minus on Laptop

1998-09-14 Thread Joe Stewart
Hi - here is the combination that works for me - Ctrl-Alt-Fn-P. The Fn key changes the P to -. This is on a Compaq Armada. Your keyboard may have the - on a different key or may not have the function key to access control items on the laptop. Joe On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Kent West wrote: > Anyon

Re: {stupid pet tricks}blown Root passwd

1998-09-14 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> actually it would be nice if I knew what the root password was > my problem is somehow it is trashed. can't log in as root to change it If you boot from the resc1440 disk, you can mount the filesystem, and remove the root password entirely. If you have shadowpasswords on, you will have to

Re: {stupid pet tricks}blown Root passwd

1998-09-14 Thread Kent Andersen
actually it would be nice if I knew what the root password was my problem is somehow it is trashed. can't log in as root to change it At 08:06 AM 9/14/1998 -0700, you wrote: >At the lilo prompt, type "linux single" and you should be able to boot >from the hard drive as root. > >Bob > >On Mo

Re: diald and kernel problems

1998-09-14 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> I trying to set up diald. I had to recompile my kernel to enable > slip support. I made it a module. I did > > make mrproper, > make config, > make dep, > make clean, > make zImage, > make modules, > make modules-install. > > It look

bo xservers on hamm & xdm

1998-09-14 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I've recovered the bo xbase, svga, and vga from a bo archive. This was necessary, as the hamm xserver is unstable on my system; a busy netscape, or realplayer, bring it down hard enough that it can't be used again until after reboot. Ncurses3.0 was also necessary for xterm. I've reconfigured

No PATH for tcsh defined?

1998-09-14 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I prefer tcsh as the standard shell instead of the bash. Why is the path not set as for the bash? I manualy inserted setenv PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games into /etc/csh.cshrc Now it works. Is this a bug or a feature or did I miss something? Stef

Re: Printing under hamm

1998-09-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
The ljet4ml-filter passes postscript files directly to the printer, not via ghostscript. ljet4m-filter might be a better choice (600 dpi conversion of non-postscript input to postscript), however. Bob On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, XRD Lab wrote: > Hello, > > I recently installed hamm on one of my machin

Re: 386SX-33 for pop3 server and proxy server

1998-09-14 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Oliver Thuns wrote: > >I have a 386sx-33 with: > >4mb ram > >100 mb hard disk > >10mbit ethernet card > > > >Would this be enough for pop3 server and proxy server for a 25 node network > >with one dial up connection ? > > I think you need more than 4 MB to install Linux (or

Re: 386SX-33 for pop3 server and proxy server

1998-09-14 Thread Oliver Thuns
>I have a 386sx-33 with: >4mb ram >100 mb hard disk >10mbit ethernet card > >Would this be enough for pop3 server and proxy server for a 25 node network >with one dial up connection ? I think you need more than 4 MB to install Linux (or FreeBSD). Maybe FreeBSD ist an option for you, on my 8MB 486

2nd Try: Ctrl-Alt-Minus on Laptop

1998-09-14 Thread Kent West
Anyone know how to change resolution/screen size on a laptop that doesn't have a separate numeric keypad? I can lock the number keys on that are imbedded in the alpha keys, but that still doesn't let me do the Ctrl-Alt-Minus key combo. Nothing I've tried has worked. Is there another way to change r

Re: analog 3.0.3 "home grown scripts"

1998-09-14 Thread Daniel Martin
"William R. McDonough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > could someone please show me where to access these "home grown scripts" > I have analog on my web server but it's FreeBSD not Debian... > > I'd love to have my analog show me email and FTP stats. ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/so

Re: Getting mail from a POP3 server

1998-09-14 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
If you just need to read e-mails from pop3 and you don't want to install new software you can use emacs. I use it everyday. Bye, Giuseppe

Re: Getting mail from a POP3 server

1998-09-14 Thread Østergaard
Fetchmail On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Mitchell Surface wrote: > Greetings, > > This should be an easy question but I can't seem to find an answer. I > want to get my e-mail from my ISP's POP server. I've been messing around > with sendmail (which is overkill, I now realize) without any luck. Can > some

Getting mail from a POP3 server

1998-09-14 Thread Mitchell Surface
Greetings, This should be an easy question but I can't seem to find an answer. I want to get my e-mail from my ISP's POP server. I've been messing around with sendmail (which is overkill, I now realize) without any luck. Can someone point me to a straight forward solution, preferably with examples

Re: More Samba headaches

1998-09-14 Thread Brian Morgan
> Brian Morgan wrote: > > Here's a tricky one for ya. I'm using debian 2.0 / samba to connect > > several jet direct box printers via ip addresses so that hundreds of > > laptops on our campus can print via ip using MS networking. Works > > great. > > > Ok. Can you explain your setup a bit more?

Re: {stupid pet tricks}blown Root passwd

1998-09-14 Thread Peter Makholm
"Stephen J. Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: #include > LILO: linux /bin/sh [...] > hopefully once you zap the root password...it SHOULD be sufficent > to remount the filesystem read-only and issue halt or reboot You didn't try this Stephen? When I blew up my /etc/inittab this was the

Re: Magicfilter error "lpd cannot execv "

1998-09-14 Thread Jay Barbee
Wayne, Thanks for the reply. In my /etc/magicfilter/djet550c-filter, the rights are as follows: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4857 Jul 8 16:09 dj550c-filter* When I run it via the commandline, I do not get any error, if simply sits there as if it is waiting for information. I am still g

Re: {stupid pet tricks}blown Root passwd

1998-09-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
At the lilo prompt, type "linux single" and you should be able to boot from the hard drive as root. Bob On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Kent Andersen wrote: > I seem to have a problem changed my root password on one of my systems and > whamo when I later tried to su root my password doesent work... > went

Re: nifty dselect trick?

1998-09-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: : : Is there any way I can take a dselect archive (where is it) from one : machine and feed it to another in order to install exactly the same : packages? dselect is a front end to dpkg. box1:~ $ dpkg --get-selections > pkglist box2:~ # dpkg --set-sel

analog 3.0.3 "home grown scripts"

1998-09-14 Thread William R. McDonough
could someone please show me where to access these "home grown scripts" I have analog on my web server but it's FreeBSD not Debian... I'd love to have my analog show me email and FTP stats.

nifty dselect trick?

1998-09-14 Thread M.C. Vernon
Is there any way I can take a dselect archive (where is it) from one machine and feed it to another in order to install exactly the same packages? Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/

*sigh* source for pcmcia modem cables?

1998-09-14 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
*DOH* the day after jens found a solution to let me ppp, I managed to put down my laptop sideways, crunching the connector on the cable--it now features a 90 degree bend :) and the connectors are broken. This is one of those two flat prongs inline.does anyone know a likely source? rick

Re: X Windows

1998-09-14 Thread Horacio M.G.
On 14 Sep 98, at 12:57, Micki Heyns wrote: > I am running bo and trying to set up my x windows but it does not like my > screen card "S3 Trio64V2". My card is a S3 Trio64V+, and it worked fine both with Debian 1.3.1 and now with 2.0, except a bit of a headache for configuring. The XF86_S3 server

.tar.gz, .tgz, tar.Z -->(alien) ->.deb???

1998-09-14 Thread Horacio M.G.
Hi there, I downloaded some archives which I'm trying to install: 1) hj-alpha3_tar.Z (sun's hotjava) which I somehow thought was for linux-i386, and now I realized it would only run on solaris. The problem with it though, is that it's "_tar.Z", instead of ".tar.Z". So, what I did was just renam

Eterm's MAIN file

1998-09-14 Thread Remo Badii
Dear Debianers, I'd like to configure Eterm in Debian 2.0. Therefore, I have created a file ~/.Eterm/MAIN by copying the MAIN file I found in the Eterm tree. The default Eterm configuration starts with blue menubar and scrollbar and with the name "ame". I could not find any clue in the MAIN file

KDE problems.

1998-09-14 Thread Person, Rod
Anyone using KDE, do you have this problem, can you help.. When I start KDE as the default window manager it takes 1/2 hour or more to load. Then once it does load it is take just as long to do anything. I added kdmdesktop to my Xsetup_0 (as the last line, not sure if t

Re: Gateway monitors and X

1998-09-14 Thread joseph evan porter
> > > i would be glad to hear from people who have gotten (or not) X running > > with a gateway monitor (in particular an EV700) > > I have a 15" Gateway Vivitron (Sony manufactured) that works fine. Gateway was very helpful when I called about technical specs, but they didn't have many. I had t

Re: supramax

1998-09-14 Thread joseph evan porter
> > have you gotten your supramax to work in linux? please let me know.. i cant > get mine to work either... is this modem a winmodem? > >From what I understand (you can look back a week or so to see my question in the mailing list archives), the SupraMax is a software modem. It has a Rockwell

Re: Getting startx to run

1998-09-14 Thread David Wright
On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, David S. Jackson wrote: > Thus spake David S. Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I seem to be having the same problem as you are with my new 2.0 > > distrib. I know it's not too fruitful to receive another "I have that > > problem too" response, but perhaps we could colabora

Does HAMM support MCA?

1998-09-14 Thread Richardson,Anthony
BO used a kernel patched to support MCA and worked right out the box for me on on old 386 PS/2 Model 80. Has the kernel for HAMM been patched to support MCA as well? Thanks, Tony Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: printing takes hours in HAMM

1998-09-14 Thread Andy Spiegl
According to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > After upgrading to Hamm, (actually, after upgrading to 2.0.34) I noticed > that the advanced extensions to the parallel port (SPP and such) can be > recognized. Perhaps these extensions are the source of your problem ? Ah, that sounds like a very good idea! I

386SX-33 for pop3 server and proxy server

1998-09-14 Thread Greg Cox
I have a 386sx-33 with: 4mb ram 100 mb hard disk 10mbit ethernet card Would this be enough for pop3 server and proxy server for a 25 node network with one dial up connection ?

Re: {stupid pet tricks}blown Root passwd

1998-09-14 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 02:18:40AM -0600, Kent Andersen wrote: > I seem to have a problem changed my root password on one of my systems and > whamo when I later tried to su root my password doesent work... > went through the normal booting from a floppy but cant seem to mount the > harddrive so I c

I can,t seem to get out to the internet.

1998-09-14 Thread The Burris's
Yes, I an new to Linux 2.0 something. I have had it installed for a few months now. I have read the help files and ppp-howto stuff and even bought a book. I have my connect script working. I connect to my isp using pppd call provider after it gets logged in I type pppd in a seperate x window an

Mail reflector how to?

1998-09-14 Thread Smith, Brian N.
Does anybody know of a mail reflector how to for Debian and could recommend a mail package to use as such? Thanks Brian Smith

Re: X Windows

1998-09-14 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Micki: Are you sure its your card? Did you run xf86config ? Look in /var/log/xdm-errors to see what the error message(s) is. Peter -Original Message- From: Micki Heyns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, September 14, 1998 6:36 AM Subject: X Windows

X Windows

1998-09-14 Thread Micki Heyns
I am running bo and trying to set up my x windows but it does not like my screen card "S3 Trio64V2". Can you tell me where I can download a driver ? Thanx !! Miki Heyns *+27 (021) 807 2271 (W) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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