PPP options for diferent nodes (was: ... different providers)

1998-11-28 Thread homega
Hi there, since the node I connect through to my provider has changed, I'm trying to change the configuration for it. My first step was to change the file /etc/chatscripts/provider to change the phone number to dial out, which is now like follows: ABORT BUSY ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT VOICE ABORT

Re: fixing the charset in a terminal

1998-11-28 Thread Carl Johnson
Sasha Gutfraind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello fellow users! > I've been experiencing a weird and recuring problem > in my debian system: > When a program fails to read a data file for example, > or somhow abnormally exits, the terminal starts to > use some weird charset, and becomes unreadab

Dired in xemacs not working.

1998-11-28 Thread Paulo Silva
Hello, I am using xemacs20, but dired mode is not working. For exemple, when I press "d" over a file name, xemacs gets into a loop that can only be halted by pressing control-g. Any hint? Thanks, Paulo. here is result from dpkg --status xemacs20-bin and xemacs20-nomule Package: xemacs20-bi

debian X

1998-11-28 Thread richard
Hallo again, I'm puzzled about the way the debian X distribution works. On my machine at home I put on the distribution from Xfree86.org because I was more familiar with that and I couldn't figure out dselect properly at the time, but on my machine at work I've put the 'proper' Debian X

xfree86 errors

1998-11-28 Thread richard
Can someone tell me what these errors mean? I figure that they aren't very important but I'd still like to know what they mean. Next, how can I get rid of these messages, not just catting error to /dev/null but actually eliminating the cause. Where do I start, how do I find out where to start?

Re: fixing the charset in a terminal

1998-11-28 Thread wtopa
Subject: fixing the charset in a terminal Date: Sat, Nov 28, 1998 at 12:05:14PM -0800 In reply to:Sasha Gutfraind Quoting Sasha Gutfraind([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hello fellow users! > I've been experiencing a weird and recuring problem > in my debian system: > When a program fai

Re: fixing the charset in a terminal

1998-11-28 Thread Cesare Tagliaferri
On sab, 28 nov 1998, Sasha Gutfraind wrote: > >My question is: How do I restore normal charset at >(I guess stdout) ? > To restore normal charset it's enough to give the "reset" command, even if you cannot see what you are typing. Bye! Cesare Tagliaferri

Re: diald time restriction

1998-11-28 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! }-> Peter Bartosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: }-> }-> > hi debians }-> > i´ve got only a short question: }-> > is it possible to restrict diald only to work at e.g. one hour per day? }-> You can restrict certain portions of the config file to be operative [...] }-> down unless specifically

Re: Automatizing installation on several machines

1998-11-28 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Jiri Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, chmod o=x is probably sensible anyway because then when users do a > chmod +r some-file, it *will* be readable, which is probably what people > expect when they do a chmod +r. > Most of my users will not have any Unix knowledge at all, so this won

HOWTO: apt-get with ftp login as a particular user

1998-11-28 Thread Geoffrey L. Brimhall
How do I do this ? I got the setting of /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the ftp server where I want to login. However, I need ftp to login as a user with password (anonymous is not allowed). How do I do this ? I tried looking up the man on ftp.conf, but for some reason the man pages did not li

frozen i386 killed dselect etc

1998-11-28 Thread John Leget
Just updated with debian i386 frozen today andi ran into trouble as follows /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2:undefined symbol : _register_fram_info which effectively killed dselect,xfstt (which caused x to bomb :)), and probably more. now i traced the symlink to -> libstdc++-2-libc6.0-1-

Re: Dialout within X

1998-11-28 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Kenneth K. Ho wrote: > > I have just installed hamm distribution (kernel 2.0.34) onto my system, > and X won't let me dial out. Even worse, to dial in, I have to reboot > the system! There are no error messages, just that the modem won't > respond (tested it myself). >

Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-11-28 Thread Ed Cogburn
I've been watching the explosive growth of deb packages in slink, now around 2700 packages. Recently, the split-up of X11 into around 12 packages and the numerous packages used in slink for the Netscape programs and the huge number (around 30) of packages that has to be installed for the

fixing the charset in a terminal

1998-11-28 Thread Sasha Gutfraind
Hello fellow users! I've been experiencing a weird and recuring problem in my debian system: When a program fails to read a data file for example, or somhow abnormally exits, the terminal starts to use some weird charset, and becomes unreadable. That, of course, affects only one terminal or xterm.

Re: sendmail check_mail ruleset

1998-11-28 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"Oliver Elphick" | | Messages from a Debian developer are messing up my combination of | sendmail and fetchmail. | | His Sender field has an empty email address: | Sender: "Ole J. Tetlie" <> I have also been in touch with another person who have problems with my headers. | I would like to g

Re: Re: libstdc++2.9 2.91.58-5 broken??

1998-11-28 Thread Fred McDavid
Hi, Thanks for responding so quickly with the fix...thought I was hosed for a bit there. Should that have fixed those errors throughout or just for apt-get and dpkg? I'm getting the same thing with kde that I was with dpkg...however, 'man' had been generating those errors and it stopped when

potato blight (fwd)

1998-11-28 Thread Russell Cook
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 11:22:58 -0600 (EST) From: Russell Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: potato blight I tried yesterday to "apt-get upgrade" for the first time since Slink was frozen. I fai

Re: Oracle 8i has problems [solved]

1998-11-28 Thread Lukas Eppler
Success! The Oracle 8i together with Oracle Webserver is running. We installed redhat and the same error occurred, so we (gladly) switched back, so it's no debian specific problem. The problem seems to be not a configuration error but a bug in oracle; a queue somewhere (we don't know) keeps one

Re: PPP connection speed(again)

1998-11-28 Thread Andrew Ivanov
You could: 1. Use wvdial package to finetune your modem. 2. Use irqtune to do the same. I tried it, it doesnt help me much, though my usual speed of download is around 3Kbs on netscape/ftp with 33.6 modem. As far as FAQ for irqtune says, it sounds like you have a problem that requires that packag

Dialout within X

1998-11-28 Thread Kenneth K. Ho
So I see that I am not the only person to get those libXpm.so.4 problems with Netscape. And yes, I did install both libc5 and "libc6." I have just installed hamm distribution (kernel 2.0.34) onto my system, and X won't let me dial out. Even worse, to dial in, I have to reboot the system! The

Re: Getting Rid of Debian/Linux

1998-11-28 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! David McDonald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd wrote: > > > I have a requirement to remove Debian from one of our workstations and > > re-install DOS/Windows (Horror!) > Just boot from your DOS installation disks, run the FDISK program (I can't > recal

Re: Kernel Won't Recompile

1998-11-28 Thread Mark W. Blunier
On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Jason Dawe wrote: > >Here is the last 15 lines of the error. (Isn't there an easier way than > >writing it all down?) > > If you have a mouse working, either in X or using gpm on the console, you > can highlight a block of text with the left butt

xbase

1998-11-28 Thread Stephan Böni
Hi   when i like to install xlib6g so i need xbase >> 3.3.2.3a-1, but on your ftp server is only version  3.3.2.3-2. do you have a newer version?   steph  

sendmail check_mail ruleset

1998-11-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
Messages from a Debian developer are messing up my combination of sendmail and fetchmail. His Sender field has an empty email address: Sender: "Ole J. Tetlie" <> which sendmail rejects: Nov 28 15:10:27 linda sendmail[17997]: PAA17997: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [193.195.30.

Old PHP/FI .deb

1998-11-28 Thread Stephane Leclerc
Hi! Does someone know if a .deb for the old PHP/FI (PHP v2) exist? I tried to install PHP/FI on my Debian 2.0 release using the full package available online but I was unsuccessful (I was unsuccessfull to compile the Apache .so module for PHP/FI). Stef...

Re: reinstallation of system with full complement ...

1998-11-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "AED" == Alan Eugene Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AED> My system is pretty richly endowed with installed software, but is in need AED> of some rejuvenation---a reinstall from scratch. [...] AED> I would appreciate any suggestions on upgrading. I don't want to lose AED> software I've com

Re: Hello World doesn't work

1998-11-28 Thread Kent West
On 28 Nov 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > *-Havoc Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | > | On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Kent West wrote: > | > > | > main() > | > | A long shot, but technically the above is illegal; you have to do: > | int main(int argc, char* argv[]) > > It can also be 'int main(void)', w

Re: 3COM 3c509B port selection

1998-11-28 Thread Thomas Adams
On Fri, Nov 27, 1998 at 10:26:24PM -0500, Michael B. Taylor wrote: > The cards that I have used (some tulips and some ancient Western Digitals) > autosense the media. Are you sure this one doesnt do that too? I own a 3c509 and this one also doesn't autodetect the media type. > Here is what I wo

Re: Hello World doesn't work

1998-11-28 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | On Sat, Nov 28, 1998 at 09:03:39AM +0100, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: | > It can also be 'int main(void)', which is equivalent to 'main()'. | | Hmmm. I was told that 'int func(void)' means it takes no parameters, | while 'int func()' means it could take any. That

Re: Recommandation for LTT

1998-11-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "p" == pat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: p> Mark Phillips suggested me: >> The only thing I'm worried about is people using my email address for spam >> purposes. Perhaps you could do something like >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] p> Does anyone have other suggestions ? Yes. Don't print the emailad

Re: Hello World doesn't work

1998-11-28 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sat, Nov 28, 1998 at 09:03:39AM +0100, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > > It can also be 'int main(void)', which is equivalent to 'main()'. > > Hmmm. I was told that 'int func(void)' means it takes no parameters, > while 'int func()' means it could take any.

reinstallation of system with full complement ...

1998-11-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
My system is pretty richly endowed with installed software, but is in need of some rejuvenation---a reinstall from scratch. Two or three possibilities have occurred to me. 1. Install a new debian right over the old one, letting the chips fall where they may. 2.

Problem installing packages that use install-info

1998-11-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I am having trouble installing packages that use install-info in their installation scripts. Now I have some cruft building up on my system due to the impossibility of purging or removing certain packages including now shellutils_1.26-6.3.deb. I have not been able to cleanly remove lg* packages

Re: Hello World doesn't work

1998-11-28 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sat, Nov 28, 1998 at 09:03:39AM +0100, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > > It can also be 'int main(void)', which is equivalent to 'main()'. > > Hmmm. I was told that 'int func(void)' means it takes no parameters, > while 'int func()' means it could take any.

Recommandation for LTT

1998-11-28 Thread pat
Hi, You've maybe heard about LTT, Linux Tips & Tricks. As I'm now properly crediting authors, by default i'm putting their name and email address. But I'm worrying about robots collecting emails. I really don't want that. Mark Phillips suggested me: > The only thing I'm worried about is people u

Re: Hello World doesn't work

1998-11-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Nov 28, 1998 at 09:03:39AM +0100, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > It can also be 'int main(void)', which is equivalent to 'main()'. Hmmm. I was told that 'int func(void)' means it takes no parameters, while 'int func()' means it could take any. Some example source is below. gcc complains about the

Re: Hello World doesn't work

1998-11-28 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > int main(void) is also correct, and until ANSI C90 comes out, main() will > do. > You're right, I'm a dork, or at least my memory is foggy :-) > > then return something from main, or call exit(). > > > > maybe the lack of a return or exit call from

Re: Hello World doesn't work

1998-11-28 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Kent West wrote: > > > > main() > > A long shot, but technically the above is illegal; you have to do: > int main(int argc, char* argv[]) int main(void) is also correct, and until ANSI C90 comes out, main() will do. > th

Re: Hello World doesn't work

1998-11-28 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Kent West wrote: > Hey all! > > I've decided to get my feet wet with C programming on Linux. I've got two > machines running Debian (hamm). On both, I've created a simple C > program (named "bub.c") like so: You need to #include man 3 printf will show you this. > main(

Re: Hello World doesn't work

1998-11-28 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Havoc Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Kent West wrote: | > | > main() | | A long shot, but technically the above is illegal; you have to do: | int main(int argc, char* argv[]) It can also be 'int main(void)', which is equivalent to 'main()'. | then return something f

Re: Kernel Won't Recompile

1998-11-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
Jason Dawe wrote: >Here is the last 15 lines of the error. (Isn't there an easier way than >writing it all down?) If you have a mouse working, either in X or using gpm on the console, you can highlight a block of text with the left button and use the middle button to copy that text as input to

libgnome_0.30-3.deb & libgtkxmhtm10_0.30.1-3.deb

1998-11-28 Thread jim r
Where are these files? I d/l'd all the necessary files, according to the web pages at debian.org. Installing went fine until I tried to install the gnome_core_0.30-2.deb package. It said I have an old version of libgnome (I have 0.30-2, needs 0.30-3) and that I need libgtkxmhtm10_0.30-3and

Re: libstdc++2.9 2.91.58-5 broken??

1998-11-28 Thread Mitch Blevins
Stefan Baums wrote: > Hi all! > > I just tried to upgrade my system to the packages in slink, and now my > libstdc++2.9 (2.91.58-5) seems to be broken. Whenever I try to do things like > > man any_program > > or > > apt-get install some_package > > or > > dselect > > I get

PPP connection speed(again)

1998-11-28 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi all, I tried to use the RedHat /etc/ppp/options file in debian, and it didn't help. The connection speed cannot go up to 800 bytes/sec. The redhat's ppp version is 2.3.3-6. And I am using the newest stable ppp debian pachage. So any ideas?? I really want to fix this pro

procmail (again) (and exim)

1998-11-28 Thread clkrogh
Just realized that I think I said sendmail instead of smail for what I was currently using, but that doesn't change anything. [continuation of my exim header rewrite thought] Boredom while waiting on a slow server made me try installing exim again. Elm said "mailer returned error status 1" but I

Re: Please help with CD writer questions

1998-11-28 Thread Mark W. Blunier
> Hi, I wanted to get one of these drives for data archival and I had afew > questions, i'de be glad for any advice: > > 2. What is the deal with the buffer underflow thing? I read (on Computers.co > m) that you should have a fast SCSI interface, because if you cant feed the > writer data fast eno

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1998-11-28 Thread Rino Mardo
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Re: Hello World doesn't work

1998-11-28 Thread aqy6633
> main() > { > printf("Howdy, World!\n"); > } I would sugest putting the following line before main() #include Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \(")

lj5P and remote printing problem

1998-11-28 Thread Jan Krupa
I cannot get my local printer laserjet5P to print. I have installed magicfilter and I chose lj4lp filter and it does not work I mean that the command 'lpr foo.ps' prints strange code (e.g.:roun exch round exch... F000FC14...) Which filter should I choose? Also I have a postricpt printer HP Lase

lj5P and remote printing problem

1998-11-28 Thread Jan Krupa
I cannot get my local printer laserjet5P to print. I have installed magicfilter and I chose lj4lp filter and it does not work I mean that the command 'lpr foo.ps' prints strange code (e.g.:roun exch round exch... F000FC14...) Which filter should I choose. Also I have postricpt printer HP Laserj

Re: Can't remote X

1998-11-28 Thread Kent West
On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Cesare Tagliaferri wrote: > On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Kent West wrote: > > >Now, for the Thanksgiving weekend, I've traveled 150 miles east (from > >Abilene to Ft Worth) to my folks' house, and am using my Debian laptop on > >my Mom's ISP and trying to telnet back to my Abilene De

Re: Hello World doesn't work

1998-11-28 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Kent West wrote: > > main() A long shot, but technically the above is illegal; you have to do: int main(int argc, char* argv[]) then return something from main, or call exit(). maybe the lack of a return or exit call from main prevents the io buffers from getting flushed

Hello World doesn't work

1998-11-28 Thread Kent West
Hey all! I've decided to get my feet wet with C programming on Linux. I've got two machines running Debian (hamm). On both, I've created a simple C program (named "bub.c") like so: main() { printf("Howdy, World!\n"); } and compiled it with: gcc -o bub bub.c When I run "./bub" on

libstdc++2.9 2.91.58-5 broken??

1998-11-28 Thread Stefan Baums
Hi all! I just tried to upgrade my system to the packages in slink, and now my libstdc++2.9 (2.91.58-5) seems to be broken. Whenever I try to do things like man any_program or apt-get install some_package or dselect I get the error message /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc

Re: 3COM 3c509B port selection

1998-11-28 Thread Michael B. Taylor
The cards that I have used (some tulips and some ancient Western Digitals) autosense the media. Are you sure this one doesnt do that too? Here is what I would try if you cant get it to work and nobody who actually knows something about this NIC has a better idea: Get the newest 3com driver from

Re: Kernel Won't Recompile

1998-11-28 Thread A. M. Varon
On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Jason Dawe wrote: > Anyway after doing a 'make config', then a 'make zImage', I get the > error listed below. Also a similar error after trying 'make bzImage'. I > might be the same, but I'm not sure. > /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage does not appear after doing make > xI

Re: procmail (again) (and exim)

1998-11-28 Thread clkrogh
> from .procmail: > > # remove duplicate messages, ie. to me and mailing list > :0 Wh: msgid.lock > | formail -D 32768 $MAILDIR/cache.msgid > > You may not think dropping these messages is a good idea, but when a > mailing list gets hosed and spews several copies of every message I like > i

Kernel Won't Recompile

1998-11-28 Thread Jason Dawe
I am trying to compile the Linux Kernel 2.0.36 (Or is it 2.0.37?) Anyway after doing a 'make config', then a 'make zImage', I get the error listed below. Also a similar error after trying 'make bzImage'. I might be the same, but I'm not sure. /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage does not appear af

Re: procmail ........ (again)

1998-11-28 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 02:42:58PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: > > > > :0 ic > > > | cd backup && rm -f dummy `ls -t msg.* |sed -e 1,32d` > > > > Great idea here for new users to procmail and to others aswell who test > > new procmail recipes (

Re: virtual hosts

1998-11-28 Thread Carey Evans
"Chris Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The ISP suggests mapping the various > different host names to the different IP addresses all on the same > machine. The tech man there tells me that gets round the problem > of older browsers coming in to the numeric address and so hitting > the ww

Re: Blocking an arbitrary port with ipfwadm

1998-11-28 Thread Carey Evans
Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I want to do is use ipfwadm to block a single port - namely 31337 > (UDP). For anyone who has had their head in the sand for the last few > months, that's the port that Back Orrifice listens on by default. ipfwadm -I -a reject -P udp -D 192.168.20.

3COM 3c509B port selection

1998-11-28 Thread Stan Brown
I am trying to install on a freinds machine. It has a board lables 3c50 (b), which has all 3 conetctor types (AUI, 10 base 2, 10 base T) on it unfortunately it *does Not* have an jumpers. the 3c509 module recognizes it, and figures out the IRQ and memory location, bu