nis....

1998-10-03 Thread Miguel Angel Hernandez Sanchez
Acabo de instalar el nis, con un solo servidor y 6 como clientes, pero tengo un problema: en el servidor con un usuario normal con ls -al todo aparece normal -rwxr-x--- 1 mig herejes 66217 May 28 12:19 xcom402a.jpg -rwxr-x--- 1 mig herejes 37972 May 28 12:20 xcom403a.gif

Debian 2.0 de Linux Actual

1998-10-03 Thread Daniel García Magariños
Buenas, Acabo de instalar la Debian 2.0 de Linux actual y todo va bien hasta que instalo las X-Windows. El problema es el mismo que tenía con Debian 1.3.1: las X-windows sólo funcionan en una resolución de 320x200 con mi tarjeta AGP Intel 470. ¿Sabe alguien si existe algún X-server o algo para

Re: nis....

1998-10-03 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 09:21:32AM -0500, Miguel Angel Hernandez Sanchez wrote: y no se como arreglarlo y me urge, espero que alguien pueda ayudarme a corregir este problema. Una pregunta un poco insolente: ¿leíste /usr/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz e hiciste lo que allí dice? Todas las veces

Curso de MBone con prácticas en Debian GNU/Linux

1998-10-03 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez
Hola (espero que esto no sea considerado off-topic)! En la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid vamos a dar un curso (gratuito) sobre MBone, con prácticas en Debian GNU/Linux. El propio curso será transmitido a la MBone (de neuvo, desde un trasto Debian). Creo que es uno de los tipos

Re: Off Topic: Samba

1998-10-03 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Jeff Noxon wrote: On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 04:28:09PM -0400, dpk wrote: > I have searched the Debian and Samba website for answers, as well as > /usr/doc, and newsgroups for a resolution. > > I would like to use encrypted passwords, but not have to maintain a > samba password file as well as

Re: nn local news spool

1998-10-03 Thread mwb
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Set NNTPSERVER=localhost in your environment. It took me months to figure this out. I do NOT find this documented anywhere. I have my default server set up to localhost, so this wasn't necessary for me. However, I was emailed a message that told

Re: Samba encrypted passwd file

1998-10-03 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Kent West wrote: Hi all! According to the Encryption.txt doc file for Samba, the command to create the encrypted password file is: cat /etc/passwd | mksmbpasswd.sh /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd but when I run this I can a error: bash: mksmbpasswd.sh: command not found Is the

Cool-Links News

1998-10-03 Thread Cool-Links.com
Dear Internet Webmaster, Cool-Links is Back! Cool-Links.com, the favorite link site of AEC professionals, is better, faster, and more interactive than ever. We now have opened the Cool-Links Connection where you can reach other AEC professionals. Cool-Links Connection includes Forum

Re: Savage3D X server?

1998-10-03 Thread Christopher Barry
Don't bother with this card. Firstly, no, I haven't heard of any Linux support for it. Right now the Windows support for it is still pretty shabby. They rushed the cards with the Savage 3D chip out with _very_ immature drivers because the Riva TNT appears to be superior to it in all ways and had

Re: Emacs keybinding of Ctrl-[

1998-10-03 Thread Havoc Pennington
On 2 Oct 1998, Andy Spiegl wrote: And there is no way to separate ESC and C-[ ? I mean, who uses C-[ to get an ESC?? Text terminals do. But there's a way around it - from the Emacs manual's discussion of keybindings (which you may find interesting, btw): TAB, RET, BS, LFD, ESC and DEL

Re: wvdial. . .

1998-10-03 Thread zuwi
Person, Rod at 0:39:17 wrote: PR Secondly anyone using wvdial... I've tried wvdial, it looked just fine, found the modem, got those a lot of works done automaticaly, and then dialing as well, pppd was started, then died. I got the messages as peer refused to authenticate.. Then I tried pppconfig,

on libs for Netscape 4.06

1998-10-03 Thread chadi
hello, im using debian 2.0 and also installed X but when i tried to install and run Netscape 4.06, it dumped a bunch of not found this/that lib ... is there anyone here who can help me as to exactly what sets of libraries shouldi install to get netscape running ? im a bit low on disk

Re: can any user have the right of root and can lunch Netscape

1998-10-03 Thread Daniel Martin
Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 09:31:53AM +0800, Chan Min Wai wrote: Hai, I'm asking about that can a user have the rithr of root and can lunch netscape as well in Xwin.. Any user can start X windows if it is intalled properly. Any user can start

Re: wvdial. . .

1998-10-03 Thread Kent West
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, zuwi wrote: Person, Rod at 0:39:17 wrote: PR Secondly anyone using wvdial... I've tried wvdial, it looked just fine, found the modem, got those a lot of works done automaticaly, and then dialing as well, pppd was started, then died. I got the messages as peer

Re: access to iso9660 raw image

1998-10-03 Thread Daniel Martin
Eugene Sevinian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi All, Today a friend of mine gave me a CD with raw binary image of hamm on it. MD5 sum is correct. Would it be possible to use this CD as a hamm distribution without burning new CD. May be using loopback device or something like that? Any

Re: can any user have the right of root and can lunch Netscape

1998-10-03 Thread Jim Foltz
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 11:03:35PM -0400, Daniel Martin wrote: Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 09:31:53AM +0800, Chan Min Wai wrote: Hai, I'm asking about that can a user have the rithr of root and can lunch netscape as well in Xwin.. Any user can

Debian secretary not working...

1998-10-03 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hello, I cannot get xringd to work. Here is my /etc/xringd.conf file: -a echo Ring... R 1-6 R 8 : echo Got ya 1)It is supposted that when reciving a call, a Ring.. will apear on screen at the same time that ring on the phone isnit?? Well nothing apear when the phone ring... 2) After 2 rings

have anyone got dhcpcd working ?

1998-10-03 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
Hi, I wonder, have anyone manage to get a working dhcpcd ? I've tried to install it once, but the package seemd to be broken. Installation script complained about absence of /etc/dhcp directory but refused to create one, so I had to do it by hand and reinstall. Then the daemon itself could not

ARENA: BACKPAPER

1998-10-03 Thread BOB'S MAIL
When I execute arena from X, I get the first screen telling about it while it is loading a gif file from the arena site...then I am returned to X. An error message said something like: no backpaper 1. What and where is the config file? 2. What do I do to either install, configure, or run

Re: dpkg question

1998-10-03 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I am trying to build dpkg from source as provided with slink. The first | thing it tells you to do is cd to the directory containing the souce code | and type ./configure to run the configure script. | | The problem is that there IS no configure script! |

req libs for Netscape 4

1998-10-03 Thread chadi
hello, im using debian 2.0 and also installed X but when i tried to install and run Netscape 4.06, it dumped a bunch of not found this/that lib ... is there anyone here who can help me as to exactly what sets of libraries shouldi install to get netscape running ? im a bit low on disk

New Debian Install

1998-10-03 Thread Doug Dine
Hi, I am preparing to install Debian for the first time. I am going to place it on my slave drive. I run Win 95 and it of course is located on the master drive. Is there any chance of damaging that partition when doing the install being as it's located on another physical drive? Thanks.

Re: wvdial. . .

1998-10-03 Thread john
Kent writes: If you haven't already, you might check the /etc/wvdial.conf file and make sure your username and password are correct. It looks like wvdial is failing to put in the requisite 'noauth'. BTW anyone, why doesn't adding a normal user to the dip group give him the capability to plog

NETSCAPE 3

1998-10-03 Thread pussy
The debian package for netscape 3 gives a URL (archive.netsccape.com or something) where I can download the netscape software. Unfortunately, when I try and access that URL via ftp I cannot get in, it won't let me. Any ideas how to get hold of netscape 3??? thanks very much Skunk Pussy

Re: NETSCAPE 3

1998-10-03 Thread Doug Dine
At 10/2/97 1:30:00 AM, you wrote: Go to Netscape and you can access it by HTTP from their archives. ftp://archive:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/archive/index.html#3.04 The debian package for netscape 3 gives a URL (archive.netsccape.com or something) where I can download the netscape software.

Re: have anyone got dhcpcd working ?

1998-10-03 Thread Ralph Winslow
When Sergey V Kovalyov wrote, I replied: Hi, I wonder, have anyone manage to get a working dhcpcd ? I've tried to install it once, but the package seemd to be broken. I, too, tried to install it and found that it wouldn't simply install. Since I just wanted to look at the documentation to

Re: Debian secretary not working...

1998-10-03 Thread Ralph Winslow
When Phillip Neumann wrote, I replied: Hello, I cannot get xringd to work. Here is my /etc/xringd.conf file: -a echo Ring... R 1-6 R 8 : echo Got ya Since xringd runs as a daemon, (I assume by the name, I don't actually use it), your echos probably go to something like xringd.log

bug in pslatex.trm in gnuplot

1998-10-03 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
I've just stated that bug, which I've reported in Gnuplot beta347 (pre 3.6) occurs in gnuplot_3.5beta6.340 too :-(. I didn't see it on the official gnuplot bugs' list, so I'm sending my report once again. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 01:01:58 +0200 (EEST) From:

Re: on libs for Netscape 4.06

1998-10-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, im using debian 2.0 and also installed X but when i tried to install and run Netscape 4.06, it dumped a bunch of not found this/that lib ... is there anyone here who can help me as to exactly what sets of libraries shouldi install to get

RE: Long term Debian growth

1998-10-03 Thread Samuel Hahn
Tom -- I am not a small business owner, but I do run a site for my family non-profit (www.StoneSpring.org), and would like to host this on a Debian machine. It's currently on an ISP (Verio) site. I am new to Debian, having done not much since installing 1.3 on an Intel server last November and

Re: can any user have the right of root and can lunch Netscape

1998-10-03 Thread Chan Min Wai
Thank to Jim, Daniel Think I have get my answer...

ISDN: HOW TO start?

1998-10-03 Thread Remo Badii
Dear Debs, I have a new Debian 2.0 distribution running well. I have recompiled the kernel with PCMCIA and ISDN support, bought an AVM Fritz! PCMCIA card, and ordered the ISDN installation by the Telecom. On tuesday, I'll be ready for a first try. Unfortunately, by reading the documentation in

checkpassword and qmail-pop3d - authorization failure

1998-10-03 Thread Oliver Thuns
Hello! I compiled checkpassword 0.76 witch -lcrypt and put it in /bin. But it will not work with qmail-pop3d, which is invoked inetd: pop-3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/qmail-popup qmail-popup domain.com /bin/checkpassword /usr/sbin/qmail-pop3d Maildir I get an

Re: Debian secretary not working...

1998-10-03 Thread servis
*- Ralph Winslow wrote about Re: Debian secretary not working... | When Phillip Neumann wrote, I replied: | | Hello, | | I cannot get xringd to work. | Here is my /etc/xringd.conf file: | | -a echo Ring... | R 1-6 R 8 : echo Got ya | | Since xringd runs as a daemon, (I assume by the

freespace on linux partition

1998-10-03 Thread frankie
Any idea how to find out how much free space there is in megabytes on a partition, and on the system as a whole? frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: have anyone got dhcpcd working ?

1998-10-03 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: I wonder, have anyone manage to get a working dhcpcd ? I've tried to install it once, but the package seemd to be broken. I use it. My site needs the -r switch (or at least did and I never bothered to change it). Installation script complained

Telnet and dselect seg fault

1998-10-03 Thread David Boisvert
Hello! I have a little problem with telnet and dselect. I'm not new with Linux. I've my own network of 4 x86 with slackware running on it and one P100 with debian running on it. This is the 2nd time I've installed debian gnu linux on my P100 box. The first time, everything was ok in the 2

Re: freespace on linux partition

1998-10-03 Thread servis
*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about freespace on linux partition | Any idea how to find out how much free space there is in megabytes on a partition, and on the system as a whole? | frankie | [EMAIL PROTECTED] df -m [device|directory] see 'man df' ex. % df -m / Filesystem MB-blocks

Re: Long term Debian growth

1998-10-03 Thread Tom
Sam, You should post your questions to this list. There are many highly knowledgeable and skilled people here who will help you. Just don't forget to do some of your own work. Reading documentation etc. You also should consider upgrading to Debian 2.0. There is also a list of

PPP dial out fails at LCP ConfReq

1998-10-03 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I have fianlly managed to get a proper chatscript to dial into my ISP (I think). Now I find that when pppd comes on it always fails at the LCP ConfReq phase. Here is a snippet from my ppp.log Oct 3 09:25:08 cabrio chat[1127]: CONNECT Oct 3 09:25:08 cabrio chat[1127]: -- got it Oct 3

Re: Dhcpcd

1998-10-03 Thread Steve Beitzel
I had to install dhcpcd on my bare Hamm system to access the Ethernet here, and it worked perfectly, so I don't think it is broken. You might try installing the netbase package, and anything else that it has dependancies on. Good Luck! /\ / \ /\ / /\/\ \ /

Re: have anyone got dhcpcd working ?

1998-10-03 Thread Lawrence Walton
We have it installed, and working; the only caveat was starting it in the init. On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote: When Sergey V Kovalyov wrote, I replied: Hi, I wonder, have anyone manage to get a working dhcpcd ? I've tried to install it once, but the package seemd to be

Re: PPP dial out fails at LCP ConfReq

1998-10-03 Thread zuwi
Guess what I'm saying is just garbage, but sincerely garbage anyway ;-) I'd been sticked on such LCP fail and other PPP troubles for nearly one month when installing my first Linux distribution, which is Slackware 3.4. And finally I got through by setserial /dev/modem irq as the same as what I

Re: PPP dial out fails at LCP ConfReq

1998-10-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
SC == Sudhakar Chandrasekharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SC Oct 3 09:26:08 cabrio chat[1127]: Password: SC Oct 3 09:26:08 cabrio chat[1127]: -- got it SC Oct 3 09:26:08 cabrio chat[1127]: send (??) SC Oct 3 09:26:08 cabrio chat[1127]: send (\d) Make you r last line in the chatscript

Why I have probelm starting KDE??

1998-10-03 Thread Chan Min Wai
I have asked so many question and doing alot of change but... my kde still not wrking I wonder if it is my system problem.. Can anyone help me... When I start the KDE I get this message... kaudioserver: error in loading shared libraries libkfile.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No

dialog vs whiptail

1998-10-03 Thread Jim Foltz
Hello, I want to use either dialog or whiptail for some installation front ends. What's the difference between these two programs? The man page for whiptail is only a minor rewrite of the dialog man pageq, but I didn't find where it told the differences between them. -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL

xpovray

1998-10-03 Thread Dr. Gerald H. Ristow
Hello, I just upgraded from BO to HAMM and re-installed POVRAY 3.0. But I cannot see the rendering progress on the screen. There used to be a program called XFPOVRAY, but it is missing?!? Regards, Gerald P.S: please answer per e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PPP dial out fails at LCP ConfReq

1998-10-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MB == Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SC == Sudhakar Chandrasekharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SC Oct 3 09:26:08 cabrio chat[1127]: Password: SC Oct 3 09:26:08 cabrio chat[1127]: -- got it SC Oct 3 09:26:08 cabrio chat[1127]: send (??) SC Oct 3 09:26:08 cabrio

Re: New Debian Install

1998-10-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Doug Dine wrote: Hi, I am preparing to install Debian for the first time. I am going to place it on my slave drive. I run Win 95 and it of course is located on the master drive. Is there any chance of damaging that partition when doing the install being as it's located on another

dhcpcd

1998-10-03 Thread Christopher Jay Stevenson
I've also had problems dealing with this package: dpkg: error processing dhcpcd (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: dhcpcd Anyone have any ideas? Chris starfox Stevenson

newbie installing Xwin, and other stuff

1998-10-03 Thread Christopher Jay Stevenson
I need some hand holding here. My computer uses an STB Velocity 128 video card. What do I need to do to install Xwindows. Also, I've never been root on a system before, so How do I mount another partition (as vfat) automatically on startup? ---Starfox Chris Stevenson

Re: xpovray

1998-10-03 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Dr. Gerald H. Ristow [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Hello, | I just upgraded from BO to HAMM and re-installed POVRAY 3.0. But I | cannot see the rendering progress on the screen. There used to be a | program called XFPOVRAY, but it is missing?!? | Regards, | Gerald Use xpvmpov. It works with

Re: Why I have probelm starting KDE??

1998-10-03 Thread Eric
Do you have all the proper KDE debs installed and have you run ldconfig? On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 02:09:53PM +0800, Chan Min Wai wrote: I have asked so many question and doing alot of change but... my kde still not wrking I wonder if it is my system problem.. Can anyone help me... When I

large incoming ftp transfers crash computer

1998-10-03 Thread Eric
This is actually a problem my friend has been having. He has a hamm system which is connected to the same local 10Base-T network that mine is. The other day, someone else on the local network was transferring something really large (~500MB) to his computer and my friends computer crashed hard.

Re: newbie installing Xwin, and other stuff

1998-10-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Christopher Jay Stevenson wrote: I need some hand holding here. My computer uses an STB Velocity 128 video card. What do I need to do to install Xwindows. In dselect first select the xbase-xxx package in the X section. dselect will then automatically select the other needed

Re: PPP dial out fails at LCP ConfReq

1998-10-03 Thread john
Martin Bialasinski writes: What I mean is that you shouldn't send the \d. He isn't sending \d. To chat '\d' means pause one second. Some ISP's get confused if chat exits and lets pppd start sending packets before they finish authenticating. The pause gives them time to get their act together.

Re: dialog vs whiptail

1998-10-03 Thread john
Jim Foltz writes: I want to use either dialog or whiptail for some installation front ends. What's the difference between these two programs? dialog is based on ncurses while whiptail is based on newt and slang. whiptail is (almost) completely compatible and offers a few extensions. -- John

Re: Tin hangs on Debian 2.0

1998-10-03 Thread Niccolo Rigacci
As suggested by Paul Haggart [EMAIL PROTECTED], I upgraded to the new version of tin (in slink), and everything is working fine again. Don't know the reason of the problem, but may be I will post something to the Debian bug tracking system? Any suggestion? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using

exmh and the From field.

1998-10-03 Thread shaul
From time to time I am still trying to convince exmh to use the login and address of my ISP's account ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Couple of days ago I run into something relevant from exmh help. It is written in /usr/lib/exmh/html/ppp.howto.html Start quoting: ABOUT SETTING UP MAIL ON

More info on ftp crashes and UDMA hard drive

1998-10-03 Thread Eric
Well, in order to work around the ftp crashing problem, my friend and I decided to set up NFS. We got it working fine, and transfered a few files, and then we got around to trying to optimize the rsize and wsize mount parameters. In doing this, I went into the NFS mounted directory and did time