PLIP

1999-11-18 Thread Attila Csosz
I'd like to connect two computer ( on both debian 2.1 ) with paralel cable using PLIP. Should I give the command 'ifconfig ' 'route ...' on both or on one computer? If it possible I'd like to use two directional traffic. Thanks Attila -- --- - Debian 2

xemacs text-mode and gpm mouse issues

1999-11-18 Thread Brian May
Hello, gpm makes it possible to cut & paste between different console windows. When running XEmacs on a text mode console though, it grabs the mouse for itself (not sure how it does this). I suspect it might be via gpm. This has the following problems: - it is impossible to see what text I have

Re: mixviews or mix?

1999-11-18 Thread Ian Stirling
Joey Hess wrote: > > Ian Stirling wrote: > > I just compiled the emu10k1-11161999 from Creative > > and have a working Soundblaster Live. I installed > > 'mixviews' using dselect successfully but what and > > where is the programme? > > mxv Thanks Joey. Intuitively obvious isn't it given the pac

What's gone in Corel Linux

1999-11-18 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hi, A couple people here have mentioned that Corel Linux is a limited version of Debian with some enhancements added to it, including a different installer and KDE. Can anyone tell me what those things that were taken out might be? And if a new version of Debian comes out, will it be able to upgr

Re: How to mirror Debian across a firewall

1999-11-18 Thread Joe Block
Gary Hennigan wrote: > > "Pedro Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I want to have a local Debian mirror but to do this I have to go through > > our firewall. I'm looking at "rsync" and "mirror." The documentation of > Are you planning on mirroring all the debian distributions (slink, > pota

Re: fetchmail and email

1999-11-18 Thread Marc Mongeon
John: 1. It's called .fetchmailrc (note the leading period), and it's in your home directory (/home/, most likely). You have to use the command "ls -a" to see files that start with a period. 2. In your exim.conf file, you must specify that "localhost" is a local domain: local_domains = :local

Re: quota.group / quota.user

1999-11-18 Thread Brian May
> "aphro" == aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: aphro> do these files need to be setuid ? i have my aphro> homedirectories on a new server mounted on a filesystem aphro> with nosuid,nodev,usrquota,grpquota and it doesnt appear to aphro> like teh quotas..it spits out an error w

Re: How to mirror Debian across a firewall

1999-11-18 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Take a look at the apt-move package in potato... it should do just about what you want using rsync (you'll need to upgrade rsync if you're running slink). The current version (3.0-7) has a few problems, but a fixed version should be uploaded either tomorrow or Saturday (I'm the maintainer :-). In

fetchmail and email

1999-11-18 Thread John
My machine is a stand-alone unit, connected by modem to the Internet and I intend to rely on Pine for my email and newsgroup requirements. There are no problems sending mail, but the receiving aspect is presenting some. Most of the literature I've read appears to relate primarily to networks. It

Re: Corel linux

1999-11-18 Thread Sven Esbjerg
On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 03:45:00PM -0800, aphro wrote: > anytime soon..i doubt corel is up to releasing it as GPL. chances are low Well all the GNU/Linux stuff will have to be GPL and it is. The rest is under a Mozilla-like license that Corel made up. It's pretty much free. I think Debian develop

Re: How to mirror Debian across a firewall

1999-11-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Pedro Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to have a local Debian mirror but to do this I have to go through > our firewall. I'm looking at "rsync" and "mirror." The documentation of > the former doesn't mention proxies at all and that of the latter > suggests defining the variables proxy

Re: mixviews or mix?

1999-11-18 Thread Joey Hess
Ian Stirling wrote: > I just compiled the emu10k1-11161999 from Creative > and have a working Soundblaster Live. I installed > 'mixviews' using dselect successfully but what and > where is the programme? mxv > for information but all I can find is the package > name. The other problem is that I

Crystal CS4235

1999-11-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
Has anyone got this on-board sound to work with alsa & 2.2.x kernel? I've got an IBM PC300PL but the soundchip is a common onboard one (so I'm told) ... -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTE

mixviews or mix?

1999-11-18 Thread Ian Stirling
I just compiled the emu10k1-11161999 from Creative and have a working Soundblaster Live. I installed 'mixviews' using dselect successfully but what and where is the programme? I looked in /var/lib/dpkg for information but all I can find is the package name. The other problem is that I tried to co

How to mirror Debian across a firewall

1999-11-18 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, I want to have a local Debian mirror but to do this I have to go through our firewall. I'm looking at "rsync" and "mirror." The documentation of the former doesn't mention proxies at all and that of the latter suggests defining the variables proxy=true, proxy_ftp_port= and proxy_gateway

Re: SLINK and SMP

1999-11-18 Thread jason
SMP support has to be compiled into whatever kernel you use, though i would recommend compiling the newest stable 2.2.x kernel, and upgrading if necessary to support it. -jason "When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like

Re: pppd Crashes Serial Port

1999-11-18 Thread Jeff Sciortino
> > (I don't think we've heard back from the original poster (Sciortino?) > since making our suggestions.) I've been listening intently and learning a great deal. Thanks to all who've been helping me out. My progress so far: I've pretty much eliminated the possibility of an IRQ conflict between

Re: /dev/console

1999-11-18 Thread Nagilum
OK, thanks guys, I got it working. Yes I had been restarting syslogd... but it was actually my testing methods which were flawed. ;P I thought that if I echoed something directly to /dev/console it should work, but apparently that isn't the case. I had been using "logger" as you suggested with t

SLINK and SMP

1999-11-18 Thread Paul McHale
Does anyone know if Slink (2.1 on CD) has SMP support ? paul - Double E Solutions Attn: Paul McHale 4912 Effingham Dayton, Ohio 45431 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: 937-253-7610 Mobile: 937-371-2828 Fax:413-215-3232 Hom

News Gateway for debian mailing lists to linux.*

1999-11-18 Thread Christoph Lameter
Work is going on to get the news gateway functional again. Sorry I was hired by another company and did not have time to migrate the gateway yet. Talk to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have any further comments or to apply for feeds of linux.* -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1

Re: HELP: my system is still screwed....

1999-11-18 Thread Aaron Solochek
Have you tried to --force anything? You can probably force it to install the new apt, but who knows what it will do then. I bet it fixes the file list though. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bruno Boettcher wrote: > hello, > > trying to upgrade doesn't work anymore on my system, its state

HELP: my system is still screwed....

1999-11-18 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, trying to upgrade doesn't work anymore on my system, its state is not very good, i lost X and the package list is a mess i admit that with all the tries to restaurate the system it went deeper and deeper in a worse fashion... e.g. trying to install the latest apt: dpkg -i apt_0.3.1

Re: /dev/console

1999-11-18 Thread Kevin Heath
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 02:59:58AM -0500, Nagilum wrote: > I'm wondering how to get /dev/console to work properly in Debian. > > I'm running Debian 2.1 slink, and a 2.2.12 kernel. I've seen that the > Debian distribution sets /dev/console up as a symlink to /dev/tty0, while > slackware and Redhat

Re: Upgrade to X 3.3.4

1999-11-18 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 18 Nov, Christopher Clark wrote about "Upgrade to X 3.3.4" > I tried to upgrade to X version 3.3.4( samosa.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ > xfree86-334-slink/ ) > as per a recent mailing but failed. > dselect returns the following failure: > > mv: `ld.so.1.9.10' and `ld.so' are the same file > dpkg

Re: Cross-compiling on Debian systems?

1999-11-18 Thread ferret
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Ben Collins wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 09:37:00AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > brought it up. And the FTP archive doesn't have a source package) > > > > :# dpkg-cross --install sysvinit_2.76-3.deb libc6_2.0.105-2.deb \ > > dpkg_1.4.0.34.deb mount_2.9g-6.deb lds

Upgrade to X 3.3.4

1999-11-18 Thread Christopher Clark
I tried to upgrade to X version 3.3.4( samosa.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ xfree86-334-slink/ ) as per a recent mailing but failed. dselect returns the following failure: mv: `ld.so.1.9.10' and `ld.so' are the same file dpkg: error processing ldso (--configure): subprocess post-installation script retu

Mysterious reset during dselect

1999-11-18 Thread Drew Bell
Any ideas on what would cause a spontaneous reset in the middle of the Install part of dselect? And, after said reboot, it's currently hanging on "Calculating module dependencies". Install was in the middle of finding old versions of teTex. Drew Bell

Re: process limits

1999-11-18 Thread Marcin Inkielman
thanks for your respose On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, aphro wrote: > marn >fork fails in ~300 iteration > marn >i would like it fails in for example 3000 iter. > > may have to wait for 2.4 to do that.. > even for more than 500 process in total for all users? > check /include/linux/limits.h 2.2 def

Re: /dev/console

1999-11-18 Thread Ian Winter
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 10:54:47AM -0500, Nagilum wrote: > Hi, thanks for the response. I have those same lines in my syslog.conf... > that should work for an XConsole when I'm running X... but what about when > I'm not running X? How could I get the normal console device to display > log message

Re: secure pop3 via ssh

1999-11-18 Thread Remco van 't Veer
Install ssh on the server; "apt-get install ssh", this includes the sshd daemon. See if it is running; "ps axw | grep sshd", if not try running the init script; "sh /etc/init.d/ssh start". Now you should be able to login with slogin; "slogin localhost". On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 16:03, Mario Olim

Re: Compatible notebook

1999-11-18 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: > Rajesh Mittal wrote: > > > I am trying to buy a notebook , and I will be installing debian or free bsd > > on that. > > Has anybody got a suggestion about processor type , graphics card or n/w > > card. > > or a

problems

1999-11-18 Thread Brett Polach
hello, I am having problems making my site appear on Netscape, it has no proble appearing on Explorer, what could be the problem, any help would be greatly appreciated. http://www.ccypi.com   Brett   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OT/INFO: Number crunching processor

1999-11-18 Thread Jose L Gomez Dans
Hi! We are considering buying a new computer for number crunching applications. So far, we have been using an ageing P200 with Debian 2.1/2.2 on it, but it's taking several hours to process some data and there's some money available X-). In principle, I have shortlisted two candidates for t

Re: secure pop3 via ssh

1999-11-18 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Remco van 't Veer wrote: > Hi Mario, > > The server should accept ssh and you should be able to connect to this Hi Remco, My problem is exactly in how to set the server to accept ssh connections. Which changes should I do, which packages should I install, in order t

Re: how to start an obnoxious daemon at boot?

1999-11-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I have a BestPower UPS (it is a `smart' one) and I am trying to start > the monitoring daemon with a /etc/init.d/ script like everything else > (using the init.d/skeleton for a template), however i have a problem: > > this daemon does not create .pi

Re: secure pop3 via ssh

1999-11-18 Thread Ookhoi
> How can I set a secure pop3 server using ssh? > I read the man page for fetchmail and there is an example of a > secure conection via ssh. > How do I implement the server? If you use ssh to connect to the pop3 server (as I do), you don't need special things for the pop3d. If

Re: secure pop3 via ssh

1999-11-18 Thread Remco van 't Veer
Hi Mario, The server should accept ssh and you should be able to connect to this machine using ssh without having to supply your password (using a .shosts or .rhosts file of instance). It should also accept pop-3 of course. ;-) A extended example, based on a example in fetchmail(1): poll mai

Re: secure pop3 via ssh

1999-11-18 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
You can do it easily with stunnel as well. Here's my line from inetd.conf: pop3s stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/stunnel /usr/sbin/stunnel -p /etc/ssl/certs/imap4.pem -l /usr/sbin/cucipop -Yq You need to create the certificate using the openssl package's openssl program. Mario Olimpi

Re: Compatible notebook

1999-11-18 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
Hi Rajesh Mittal wrote: > I am trying to buy a notebook , and I will be installing debian or free bsd > on that. > Has anybody got a suggestion about processor type , graphics card or n/w > card. > or as a whole . Try the latest IBM thinkpad. I think it is also certified by RedHat though you

Re: howto run a process which respawn after death.

1999-11-18 Thread Roland Mas
Felipe Alvarez Harnecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a tool for start a proccess and after it dies the process > respawn ? Just like init does but from the command line. $ while true ; do process ; done or $ (while true ; do process ; done) & should do the trick.

Re: Cross-compiling on Debian systems?

1999-11-18 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 09:37:00AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > brought it up. And the FTP archive doesn't have a source package) > > :# dpkg-cross --install sysvinit_2.76-3.deb libc6_2.0.105-2.deb \ > dpkg_1.4.0.34.deb mount_2.9g-6.deb ldso_1.9.10-1.deb > :Building sysvinit-sparc-cross_2.76-

[ftp] ftpadmin user, private directories, incoming and not much more. . .

1999-11-18 Thread Neil D. Roberts
Hi List; This is my first mail here, so hi to all. . .I have a little problem, lack of knowledge is what I call it. Anyway, I have a public ftp server, and I need to create a special account for ftp administering (ftpadmin). This account can only be to accessed via ftp, to put files and take f

Re: Well, Corel is out

1999-11-18 Thread Kenneth Scharf
--- Tim Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Sytsma wrote: > > > > I've seen Corel's Linux out. > > It's 15$ to buy their cheap CD's, and ~50 to buy > it in the box. > > However, I'd really like to see how good it is. > > Download it and find out! Sheesh. > > > Has anybody here d/l'd the

Re: Cross-compiling on Debian systems?

1999-11-18 Thread ferret
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Ben Collins wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 02:38:26PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 19:52:42 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > ./xgcc -B./ -DCROSS_COMPILE -DIN_GCC-O2 -I./include -I. -I. \ > > > -I./config -g0 \ > > > -finhibit-size-dire

Re: xv instead of IM in mailcap?

1999-11-18 Thread Tom Allard
> I manually exchanged ImageMagicks display against xv on > /etc/mailcap. But every time I install an application which alters > /etc/mailcap, display is again inserted. How can I prevent that? See the man page for update-mime(8). Basically, you create a file in /usr/lib/mime/packages . There i

Re: exim and procmail?

1999-11-18 Thread J C Lawrence
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 21:52:03 -0500 David S Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been getting an error procmail which has been bouncing my > mails to debian-user. Basically, the procmail log messages get > echoed back to the debian list server. I edited a line in > /etc/exim.conf: A more

Re: secure pop3 via ssh

1999-11-18 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 13:38:08 -0200 (EDT) Mario Olimpio de Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I set a secure pop3 server using ssh? I read the > man page for fetchmail and there is an example of a secure > conection via ssh. How do I implement the server? Install the sshd (com

Re: Burning CD-Rs with Debian?

1999-11-18 Thread Jose L Gomez Dans
> yeah its slink.. id advise burning the cd in linux, or in unix at least I can't do that, I have to use a box that runs on Win95. > j.l.go >download a version of potato (the official CD would be a slink based > thing, > dont know if u can d/l an iso of potato..as for slink you get main

Re: /dev/console

1999-11-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Nagilum ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, thanks for the response. I have those same lines in my syslog.conf... > that should work for an XConsole when I'm running X... but what about when > I'm not running X? How could I get the normal console device to display > log messages? My understanding

howto run a process which respawn after death.

1999-11-18 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Is there a tool for start a proccess and after it dies the process respawn ? Just like init does but from the command line. Thanks. -- __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker. QlSoftware. Tel. 09.874.60.17 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] P

Re: pppd Crashes Serial Port

1999-11-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting aphro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On 17 Nov 1999, John Hasler wrote: > > john >The information is correct at boot, however, the serial ports can be > john >rearranged in the init scripts. > > i read somewhere that the kernel just assumes what is what, i know for a > fact that the kernel incorr

Token ring error messages

1999-11-18 Thread David Kanter
I have compiled the 2.2.10 kernel for Token Rings with use of the Tropic module. I have an IBM ISA Token Ring card. However, the boot-up process freezes partway through the Token Ring phase. During boot-up, I can see messages like the Token Ring's hardware address, and something about "16MBps."

Re: secure pop3 via ssh

1999-11-18 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 01:38:08PM -0200, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > Hi, > > How can I set a secure pop3 server using ssh? Don't know, I'm interested too ;) > How do I implement the server? The qpopper package work perfectly for me (without touching any config file) JY --

Mgetty+Cyclades

1999-11-18 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
I'm trying to use mgetty to control my Cyclades ports to use a¨56K modem as dial in I used setserial so my serial on ttyC0 is set like that: ttyC0, Line 0, UART: Cirrus, Port: 0x, IRQ: 2 Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0 closing_wait: infinte, closing_wait2: infinte

Re: [Fwd: Debian specific Partition problme]

1999-11-18 Thread Nagarjuna G.
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, David Wright wrote: ->> As you notice the number of cylinders are shown to be 8693, too large to ->> make lilo work. Obviously I failed to make the machine boot linux, except ->> through a boot floppy. Otherwise there are no problems during running. -> ->Do take a look at the

Re: get info on installed debian system

1999-11-18 Thread Evan Moore
thanks for the info. On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Martin Fluch wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Evan Moore wrote: > > > How can I get version info etc. about the dist of debian that is already > > installed on a machine? > > cat /etc/debian_version > > Martin > >

Re: Right List? First install.

1999-11-18 Thread Bryan Scaringe
> > I believe that you remember incorrectly. The NE2000 drivers (ISA and PCI) are > not built into the installation kernel, but must be loaded as modules during > the "Configure Device Driver Modules" step. Opps! It's been a while. Thanks for catching that. > Finally, a few cards that claim

Re: get info on installed debian system

1999-11-18 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 18 Nov, Evan Moore wrote about "get info on installed debian system" > How can I get version info etc. about the dist of debian that is already > installed on a machine? > cat /etc/debian_version And for all the packages installed: dpkg -l | grep '^.i' -- Brian Servis -- -

Re: how to start an obnoxious daemon at boot?

1999-11-18 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Ethan Benson wrote: > hi, > > I have a BestPower UPS (it is a `smart' one) and I am trying to start > the monitoring daemon with a /etc/init.d/ script like everything else > (using the init.d/skeleton for a template), however i have a problem: > > this daemon does not create .pid files You d

Re: the gimp?

1999-11-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Rob Mahurin wrote: : On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 12:44:00PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: : > : > Debian guarentees that everything in it's main distribution is free, which : > makes preprending -free to package names quite pointless. The gimp package : > suggests gimp-nonfree, wh

debian on VME

1999-11-18 Thread Jim Ziegler
I am seeking suggestions on running debian on a VME system. I need a simple test system and have a VME setup with no processor board. I am looking for an inexpensive simple to boot etc. system that will run debian. Suggestions please?

Re: Burning CD-Rs with Debian?

1999-11-18 Thread aphro
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Jose L Gomez Dans wrote: j.l.go >Hi! j.l.go >I finally managed to get access to a CDR writer connected to the j.l.go >Internet. I read the FAQ, but I think it is rather meagre in the information j.l.go >it provides. I'd like to know what is the latest version of debia

Re: get info on installed debian system

1999-11-18 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Evan Moore wrote: > How can I get version info etc. about the dist of debian that is already > installed on a machine? cat /etc/debian_version Martin - -- If Windows is the answer, can we please have the problem back? For public PGP-key

Re: /dev/console

1999-11-18 Thread Nagilum
Hi, thanks for the response. I have those same lines in my syslog.conf... that should work for an XConsole when I'm running X... but what about when I'm not running X? How could I get the normal console device to display log messages? Also, does anyone know why Debian uses a symlink to tty0 whil

secure pop3 via ssh

1999-11-18 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, How can I set a secure pop3 server using ssh? I read the man page for fetchmail and there is an example of a secure conection via ssh. How do I implement the server? Thanks, []s, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN

Re: Cobalt Qube 2 Internet server?

1999-11-18 Thread aphro
Cobalt is moving away from MIPS and to a K6-2 350 i believe? so it should be just like any other PC just a small physical size. nate On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, virtanen wrote: hvirta > hvirta >Hi, hvirta > hvirta >is out there anybody, who has got experience on using Cobalt Qube 2? hvirta >(Intern

Re: shared library not found

1999-11-18 Thread aphro
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Alex V. Toropov wrote: alex >Hi all alex >when I try ldd xwp it shows among rest lines: alex >libXpm.so.4 => not found wp6 needs libc5 ver of libXpm .. the libc6 ver wont do. install the libc5 packages xpm4.7 and libc5 and it should work nate --

Re: PPP problems on potato

1999-11-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 09:28:34AM +0100, Onno wrote: > I'm not an expert on this bit I have an idea... > > >Nov 17 21:29:14 debian pppd[137]: Serial connection established. > >Nov 17 21:29:14 debian pppd[137]: Using interface ppp0 > >Nov 17 21:29:14 debian pppd[137]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1

Re: Cross-compiling on Debian systems?

1999-11-18 Thread ferret
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Ben Collins wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 02:38:26PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 19:52:42 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > ./xgcc -B./ -DCROSS_COMPILE -DIN_GCC-O2 -I./include -I. -I. \ > > > -I./config -g0 \ > > > -finhibit-size-dire

Re: How to savely copy a disk?

1999-11-18 Thread wir95cgu
> > | my harddisk is on the edge (still dma/ irq errors). Is there an easy way > > | to copy all partitions (Vfat WinNT/ Debian Linux/ Linux Swap) to new one > > | without reinstalling all things? In my experience these "dma/irq errors" don't necessarily mean that your hd is about to die. I had th

Re: TCP (over ppp) problem with kernel 2.2.x

1999-11-18 Thread aphro
On 18 Nov 1999, Miles Bader wrote: miles >Hi, I have a problem which is driving me crazy: If I use a 2.2.x kernel miles >(as opposed to 2.0.36), I can't make any network connections (over my miles >ppp link) that require tcp. In other works, non-tcp net stuff, like miles >ping or dns lookup, work

get info on installed debian system

1999-11-18 Thread Evan Moore
How can I get version info etc. about the dist of debian that is already installed on a machine? Thanks Evan

Re: Cross-compiling on Debian systems?

1999-11-18 Thread ferret
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Erik Mouw wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 19:52:42 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Ben Collins wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 02:48:55PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > I'd like to set up a cross-compiler on my Lintel (AMD 266) to comp

Re: pppd Crashes Serial Port

1999-11-18 Thread aphro
On 17 Nov 1999, John Hasler wrote: john >The information is correct at boot, however, the serial ports can be john >rearranged in the init scripts. i read somewhere that the kernel just assumes what is what, i know for a fact that the kernel incorrectly identifies my modem which i hardcode to IRQ

Re: how to start an obnoxious daemon at boot?

1999-11-18 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 18 Nov, Ethan Benson wrote about "how to start an obnoxious daemon at boot?" > > does anyone have any suggestions for how to do this? does there > happen to be a replacement software for these UPSs (that works in > smart mode) ? > You didn't mention if you tried the bpowerd Debian pack

Re: Presentations with latex

1999-11-18 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > I use latex to prepare my presentations. Before installing Debian Slink > (default workstation setup), I had a latex class called "seminar.cls" > available. Nevertheless, I cannot use it now bacause it is not > i

Re: How to savely copy a disk?

1999-11-18 Thread Martyn Pearce
Brian Boonstra writes: | > dd --- diskdump --- is what you want. Byte for byte copying. | | | I'm not so sure this would work around bad sectors on the hard drives. If you mean bad blocks, then the HDD will not present them to the outside world. Mx.

Re: shared library not found

1999-11-18 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Alex V. Toropov wrote: > > Hi all > > I'm trying to run WordPerfect for linux from Corel > It stops with error "libXpm.so.4 not found" > > when I try ldd xwp it shows among rest lines: > libXpm.so.4 => not found > > > when I try ldconfig -p it shows among rest lines: > li

Re: How to savely copy a disk?

1999-11-18 Thread Brian Boonstra
> dd --- diskdump --- is what you want. Byte for byte copying. I'm not so sure this would work around bad sectors on the hard drives. - Brian

Re: the gimp?

1999-11-18 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 12:44:00PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > Debian guarentees that everything in it's main distribution is free, which > > makes preprending -free to package names quite pointless. The gimp packag

Re: How to savely copy a disk?

1999-11-18 Thread Martyn Pearce
Martin Fluch writes: | AFAIK dd can make the copied data useless, when the target hd isn't | identicaly to the source hd (and with identicaly I mean it: same geometry | and partitioned in the exact same way). | | ext2 partitions can easyly moved along with tar, and for swap partitions | it makes

Re: How to savely copy a disk?

1999-11-18 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 18 Nov 1999, Martyn Pearce wrote: > Peter Weiss writes: > | Hello, > | > | my harddisk is on the edge (still dma/ irq errors). Is there an easy way > | to copy all partitions (Vfat WinNT/ Debian Linux/ Linux Swap) to new one > | without reinstall

Re: Linux as a router

1999-11-18 Thread Brian Boonstra
You wrote: > I have an Intel/486 and want to set it up as a router. You might want to try the Debian-based Linux Router Project, at http://www.linuxrouter.org/ The whole thing runs off a write-protected floppy, so you can't be hacked as badly as with a HD. The docs on

Re: How to install pine on slink from source

1999-11-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Daniel Mashao ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I once did it, but I forgot what I did. Searching the archives I could not > find pine installation messages. Anyone remember? I just can't get used to > mutt. It smells too much like vi and I find vi hard. I must stop avoiding vi at once :-) I just bu

Burning CD-Rs with Debian?

1999-11-18 Thread Jose L Gomez Dans
Hi! I finally managed to get access to a CDR writer connected to the Internet. I read the FAQ, but I think it is rather meagre in the information it provides. I'd like to know what is the latest version of debian that I might download (I guess it's slink.something). I'd like to know if I co

Re: Perl5 (Potato) ... [satan]

1999-11-18 Thread J Horacio MG
El jue, 18 de nov de 1999, a las 12:35:54 +0100, Klaus Drews dijo: > Hi, > > just a small hint : > somewhere there is a README in the docs, which says, that you have > to load and unload and convert things to work with 5.005. Look for it, > befor upgrading. I crashed my system some time ago becaus

how to start an obnoxious daemon at boot?

1999-11-18 Thread Ethan Benson
hi, I have a BestPower UPS (it is a `smart' one) and I am trying to start the monitoring daemon with a /etc/init.d/ script like everything else (using the init.d/skeleton for a template), however i have a problem: this daemon does not create .pid files, and it forks several times when its fi

Compatible notebook

1999-11-18 Thread Rajesh Mittal
hi I am trying to buy a notebook , and I will be installing debian or free bsd on that. Has anybody got a suggestion about processor type , graphics card or n/w card. or as a whole . rajesh This is Linux Country. On a quiet

Re: diff caches stuff in memory?

1999-11-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Colin Marquardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > The test case I just set up worked! I don´t know what was > different... Maybe the error really was between keyboard and chair, > and I´ve now gotten the brown paper bag award :-( I don´t know. > > Thanks for taking the time to answer, That's OK

Re: Presentations with latex

1999-11-18 Thread Paul Huygen
Manuel Arenaz Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Before installing Debian Slink [..], I had a latex class called "seminar.cls" > available. Nevertheless, I cannot use it now bacause it is not > installed. Which package(s) do I have to install? Are there any other > latex recomended packages to ins

Re: Cross-compiling on Debian systems?

1999-11-18 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 02:38:26PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 19:52:42 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ./xgcc -B./ -DCROSS_COMPILE -DIN_GCC-O2 -I./include -I. -I. \ > > -I./config -g0 \ > > -finhibit-size-directive -fno-inline-functions -fno-exceptions \ > >

Re: Cross-compiling on Debian systems?

1999-11-18 Thread Erik Mouw
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 19:52:42 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Ben Collins wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 02:48:55PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > I'd like to set up a cross-compiler on my Lintel (AMD 266) to compile >> > packages for my Sparc IPX. I'd preferabl

Presentations with latex

1999-11-18 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
Hello, I use latex to prepare my presentations. Before installing Debian Slink (default workstation setup), I had a latex class called "seminar.cls" available. Nevertheless, I cannot use it now bacause it is not installed. Which package(s) do I have to install? Are there any other latex recomended

autoload balancing

1999-11-18 Thread Petr Vácha
Hi there. I really need to know if it's possible to use autoload balancing on the ethernet and, if yes, how can I configure it. Thanks Petr Vacha

RE: Sane / Scanner problem

1999-11-18 Thread mheyes
The scanner (HP 4c) id was set to "2". When I booted with the scanner off, and entered the "echo" line you suggested, the scanner mounted and I was able to access it. Hmmm. My lilo.conf forced recognition with "append=aha152x=0x140,9,2" so I tried changing the scsi id from 2 to 3 in the append

Re: Quick Latex question

1999-11-18 Thread Rob Mahurin
That worked quite nicely, thank you. Also, if I put my \label and \caption between \end{tabular} and \end{center}, I can have separate captions on the tables, like I wanted. Awesome. Thanks a lot. Rob -- "Just the facts, Ma'am" -- Joe Friday

Re: Mouse, please help

1999-11-18 Thread Klaus Drews
Hi, gpm is not responsible for your mouse in X. To find out, if gpm-package is installed, type dpkg -l gpm. Now there should be something like coma:~# dpkg -l gpm Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Rei

Re: My ppp connection is (stalling)

1999-11-18 Thread mheyes
I had the same problem. My connection worked fine with a 2.0.36 kernel, but when I used 2.2.13 I would stall after 50K or so downloaded. I read a posting about certain ISPs using Ascend routers, which don't work well with the bsd_comp and ppp-deplate compression schemes used in potato. I added a

Re: Gnome panel and Enlightenment

1999-11-18 Thread Michael Stenner
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 07:48:25AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > What is the spec of your machine? > Mine is a Pentium 100MHz/64MB, would this one run X/Gnome/E comfortably? I gotta bite... I sit in front of a Dual PII 400 w/ 512MB ram at work and recently switched back to afterstep (from Gnome/Enlighte

Re: the gimp?

1999-11-18 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 12:44:00PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > Debian guarentees that everything in it's main distribution is free, which > makes preprending -free to package names quite pointless. The gimp package > suggests gimp-nonfree, which means that if you use dselect or any other > reasona

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