can't find bind

1998-07-14 Thread Michael Harnois
I have bind set up as a caching-only nameserver on the machine that serves as my internet gateway, and it works just peachy. However, my workstation can't see it: i.e. when I run nslookup, I get *** Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.3: Non-existent host/domain and it rolls over to

Re: Less in color?

1998-05-31 Thread Michael Harnois
Asher Haig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That doesn't seem to do anything different. My problem is that when I > pipe an ls to less, I end up with a bunch of b/w color codes instead of > colors. Makes it hard to read. Did you do ls -r? That seems to be the key. -- Michael D. Harnois, Redeemer

Re: clueless people on debian-user

1997-12-13 Thread Michael Harnois
> bruce writes: > I think having our lists on news benefits us, and we can > tolerate the spam and the mis-directed mail. What do you think? Agreed. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel 2.1.68/69

1997-12-03 Thread Michael Harnois
2.1.70 is out now ... -- Michael D. Harnois, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Life is a comedy for those who think, a tragedy for those who feel." -- Anatole France -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "un

Re: xterm color (*sigh*)

1997-10-15 Thread Michael Harnois
Matt Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > An old problem cropped up, tho. I don't have colors in my xterms anymore. > My xsysinfo has colors just fine, but not my xterms. I never had to > adjust anything with bo (except to edit /etc/profile with alias ls="ls > --color", which I've done). In o

Re: xlib6g and netscape

1997-10-10 Thread Michael Harnois
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I get lots of complaints from it about the C locale being missing. :-( > (Navigator 3, not Communicator.) A couple of weeks ago the current set of files on hamm was such that if you installed them and didn't notice what you were doing, the locales pack

Re: Prompt in Bash

1997-09-06 Thread Michael Harnois
Since you're providing enlightenment ... I ran into a problem when I tried to modify your script for my own preferences. Specifically, when I tried to change the value of PS1 to give a colorized prompt. The string I began with was PS1="\\[\\e[1;31m\\]\h:\\[\\e[0m\\]\\[\\e[1;34m\\]

Re: Prompt in Bash

1997-09-05 Thread Michael Harnois
"Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gonzalo A. Diethelm wrote: > > > > A while ago, somebody in this forum posted how to make the current > > working directory appear on the title bar in an xterm. I lost that > > article somehow; could the author repost it? Thanks in advance... > >

Re: ZIP drive

1997-09-01 Thread Michael Harnois
Actually, the best chance for a substantive answer to the question would be to join linux-parport and ask there. [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is also a parport home page at http://www.torque.net/linux-pp.html. -- Michael D. Harnois, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: ZIP drive

1997-09-01 Thread Michael Harnois
Milos Prudek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could someone help me with the installation of parallel version of > iomega ZIP under Debian Linux? I do not know where to start... Can you do it from a stock Debian kernel? I'm not sure. I'm doing it under 2.1.51 and it's easy from there ... -- Micha

Re: Tcl/Tk 8.0

1997-08-31 Thread Michael Harnois
Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libtcl.so (No such file or > directory), skipping > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libtk.so (No such file or > directory), skipping Run ldconfig again. If the error doesn't reappea

Re: confusion over tcl/tk packages

1997-08-31 Thread Michael Harnois
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > tk4.2_4.2p2-6.deb and tcl76_7.6p2-6.deb. That line was a brain fart. Should have been tcl7.6_7.6p2-6.deb and tcl76_7.6p2-6.deb. No, they're not the same. One depends on the other. -- Michael D. Harnois, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA [EMAIL PROTECTED]

confusion over tcl/tk packages

1997-08-30 Thread Michael Harnois
I give up. What's the difference between tk4.2_4.2p2-6.deb and tk42_4.2p2-6.deb and tk4.2_4.2p2-6.deb and tcl76_7.6p2-6.deb. Perplexedly yours, -- Michael D. Harnois, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Few sinners are saved after the first 20 minu

Re: Green monitor functions

1997-08-26 Thread Michael Harnois
Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >While running X, Debian blanks my screen just fine. However, what I'd > like to do is to convince Debian to handle the "green" power-saving > functions of my video system. This functions well under Win95 and OS/2, but > for some reason doesn't seem

Re: [XINETD] problems

1997-08-22 Thread Michael Harnois
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > 2. using log_type = FILE doesn't work if filename doesn't exist. > Man >page says it should create it, but it doesn't. > Am I overlooking something? Can anyone confirm these problems? I can confirm this second one, yes. -- Michael D. Harnois, Redeemer Lutheran

Re: shutdown doesn't umount properly one of my partitions

1997-07-28 Thread Michael Harnois
Dany Dionne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone know how to fix the problem? When this happens, it means that some program still has a file open on the drive in question at the time the unmounting is supposed to take place. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscrib

Re: just how bad is Fortran?

1997-07-23 Thread Michael Harnois
On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues wrote: > fortran (77) is horrible. Well, it _was_ ok, Backus was a pioneer, > etc. But we are in the end of the '90s (and I thought only *my* > profs were forcing students to use it!) In the early 80's a local computer rag ran a tongue-in-cheek

Re: mc problem

1997-07-06 Thread Michael Harnois
On Sun, 06 Jul 1997 20:49:23 +0800, Dima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > It will if you patch your terminfo and X resources. IIRC the > procedure was explained somewhere in the docs for mc-3.xx. I did that, and it was great for mc. However, it broke everything that uses ncurses. ncftp was just a ju

Re: mc problem

1997-07-06 Thread Michael Harnois
On Sun, 6 Jul 1997 14:24:23 +0200 (CEST), Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I think I know what this problem is. It's probably related to > {v,}fat partitions. In that case, the solution would be very easy. > Look at the permissions on the files on your {v,}fat partition; I > bet they're

Re: mc problem

1997-07-06 Thread Michael Harnois
On Sun, 6 Jul 1997 12:43:59 +0800 (WST), Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > How about using md5sum on the suspect files? Compare it with what's > in Packages and let us know what you find. It's correct on either filesystem. -- Michael D. Harnois, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA

Re: mc problem

1997-07-05 Thread Michael Harnois
Well, I've discovered (accidentally) what crashes and burns on my system. Any .deb file which has been on a vfat filesystem will not open with mc. If I download a file to a vfat system, I can't open it. If I copy it from an ext2fs filesystem to a vfat system, I can't open it. If I copy the same fil

Re: mc problem

1997-07-05 Thread Michael Harnois
On Sat, 5 Jul 1997 17:28:21 -0400 (EDT), Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > This looks like dpkg problems. > Try downgrading to 1.4.0.8 (the 1.3 release version) and see if that > fixes it. I really thought this was going to be the key ... nope. -- Michael D. Harnois, Redeemer Lutheran C

Re: mc problem

1997-07-05 Thread Michael Harnois
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lindsay Allen) writes: > I certainly understand things better now and it seems that the > problem is not in mc at all. I just wiped every mc related file > from my box and installed Paul's mc_4.0-linux-1_i386.deb and it > behaves in exactly the same way. There is a lot of disk

Re: Problem with new netscape beta.

1997-06-15 Thread Michael Harnois
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Aside from the annoying dialog, I can no longer enter secure pages. > Anyone know what went wrong? It worked fine with the previous beta. Puzzled me for quite a while, too. Copy policyMoz40P1.jar, which should be hanging out in the directory where you

Re: More diald woes!!!!!

1997-05-16 Thread Michael Harnois
I think I am probably not the only person on earth who has his spam filter set to catch anything with more than three exclamation points in the subject. -- + Michael D. Harnois + If you want to follow Jesus, + + Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA + you better look good

Re: perplexing procmail problem

1997-04-09 Thread Michael Harnois
Douglas L Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone have any idea why mail to debian-user is bypassing my procmail > filter? I'm using the following .poprc and .procmailrc. > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try getting rid of the period after the TO, i.e. * ^TOdebian-user and see what happe

Re: pentium Pros and what about the USB?

1997-03-29 Thread Michael Harnois
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: > I don't know about USB. Do you have any USB devices? I've never seen one. Compaq markets a USB camera. -- + Michael D. Harnois + If you want to follow Jesus, + + Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA + you better look good on w

Re: A young girl lost her puppy

1997-03-10 Thread Michael Harnois
Thought <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Debians, so the subject line got your attention huh? I figured > if I titled this message "Stupid Questions" nobody would pay > attention. Your second assumption was right. Your first one was right, too, but not for the sort of attention you wanted, unle

Re: Which OSF/Motif ?

1997-03-07 Thread Michael Harnois
Larry Ayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I highly recommend the SWIM Motif from > http://www.cheapbytes.com. It's worked really well for nearly > all Motif apps I've tried to compile, and the price is right. "Nearly" is a little frightening ... what *hasn't* it worked for? -- + Michael D. H

Re: xterm color

1997-01-09 Thread Michael Harnois
So is Debian X finding the app-defaults files at all? Michael Harnois ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | It is easier to make a saint out of a No Organization Whatsoever | libertine than out of a prig. -- Santayana -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

Re: xterm color

1997-01-07 Thread Michael Harnois
>You must set the color resource OK ... tried all that ... didn't help ... other ideas? + Michael D. Harnois + It is easier to make a saint out of + + Pastor, computer nerd, + a libertine than out of a prig. + + Linux user, Havanese owner +

xterm color

1997-01-06 Thread Michael Harnois
How in the world do I get colors to display in xterm? The release notes for 3.2 say that "colour support is now included by default," but when I do "ls --color" all I get is mono with bold. If I do the same thing in an rxvt window, I get colors. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail th

x startup error progress

1997-01-03 Thread Michael Harnois
I reinstalled the Debian xbase package. My error returned. I copied over the xrdb binary from the non-Debian build I made. The error went away. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

x startup error continued

1997-01-02 Thread Michael Harnois
Well, I compiled the raw XFree-3.2 source without the Debian diff, and installed it, and I no longer have the problem I was experiencing. So, although I could be missing something, it seems likely to me that the problem is with the Debian package and not with my setup ... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

x startup error continued

1996-12-30 Thread Michael Harnois
Continuing with my previous question ... I can compile a kernel successfully, so I think my gcc and cpp are ok. I did find out along the way that neither xlib6 or xlib6-dev install /usr/X11R6/lib into ldso.conf, b.[2~s[2~o.conf, but I fixed that ... however, it di

x startup error

1996-12-30 Thread Michael Harnois
What's causing this? I wiped my disk and installed the latest distribution, so it's not the artifact of a previous install ... xrdb: cannot run '/lib/cpp -traditional -Dlinux -D__i386__ -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_BS D_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -DX_LOCALE -DHOST=mharnois -DSERVERHOST=mharnois -DSRVR_ mharnois

what broke ip forwarding?

1996-12-28 Thread Michael Harnois
What packages in bo could plausibly have an effect on ip forwarding? I had forwarding and masquerading working reliably on a machine running 2.0.27 until I upgraded a bunch of packages. Suddenly it quit, and now the only way it works is if I set the default policy to accept. + Michael D. Harnois

xterm fails

1996-11-18 Thread Michael Harnois
t does not, or what else could this be? Michael Harnois ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | It is easier to make a saint out of a No Organization Whatsoever | libertine than out of a prig. -- Santayana Speaking only for myself, not for Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, Iowa, Conference VII:

make xconfig bad colors

1996-08-20 Thread Michael Harnois
Somewhere along the line, I'm not sure just where, the colors in the xconfig screens on my system got messed up and I don't know how to fix them. The background is white and the foreground is a pale grey -- so grey, in fact, that only the top or bottom half of the button shapes appears. How do I fi

Re: mailagent and MH

1996-08-19 Thread Michael Harnois
"Susan G. Kleinmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have just begun using mailagent, and am hoping for some enlightenment > regarding its behaviour. I am, too, so I hope if you receive private replies you will enlighten me. > > Then I try to fetch mail messages from mbox.sgk into my MH inbox, >

Re: UncorrectableError from two disk sectors

1996-08-14 Thread Michael Harnois
Gerry Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a 1.5g Maxtor hard drive. My motherboard has the Intel Triton > chipset. Do we have anything in common here? I'm currently running > 2.0.11 but have had this with other 2.0.x kernels as well. Aha. I've been having this problem and I have a 1.

Re: UncorrectableError from two disk sectors

1996-08-13 Thread Michael Harnois
Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > `dmesg' shows a lot of messages about two sectors on my disk. Oh, thank God! I'm not the only one! I thought my disk was dying!

Re: what's module net-pf-3?

1996-05-02 Thread Michael Harnois
ven't a clue as to why. I get this whenver I connect >with either SLIP or PPP. I'm using kerneld and I thought that may have >something to do with it but I don't know. Are you by chance running >kerneld too? Yup. -- Michael Harnois ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) No Organization Whatsoever