error while installing Debian 2.2

2000-08-29 Thread Patrick Olson
, Western Digital 1 gig hard disk, 4x CD-ROM. This system runs Debian 2.0 and 2.1 just perfect. The CD is Debian 2.2 CDR (6 D Set) from LSL. Any suggestions for getting this to work would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Patrick Olson

Re: Printing problem with HP LaserJet IIP

1999-09-09 Thread Patrick Olson
I recently got a printer from someone who wasnt using it. He lost all the manuals but claims the printer used to work correctly under win 95/98. The printer is an HP LaserJet IIP (Plus). Now here is the problem I get: I tried setting up apsfilter and magicfilter, using the filter ljet2p,

Re: nas???

1999-09-06 Thread Patrick Olson
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, John Gay wrote: Thanks for the offer. I can ping between both PC's, it is just ftp and telnet that only work one way. I don't know a lot about networking so I read the net3 HOW-TO and set up some files for the I.P. Addresses and route. I don't know what is configured as

Re: Good books

1999-09-04 Thread Patrick Olson
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, R. Brock Lynn wrote: There is a book about Debian specifically, called The Debian Linux Users Guide. I don't know the web address, but I'm sure you can find it if you *really* want it. ;) http://www.linuxpress.com/ click on books, then on click here for free distribution

Re: pascal for linux

1999-09-03 Thread Patrick Olson
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Johann Spies wrote: I have a program called PTOC which I have downloaded more than a year ago. The README provides an email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I did not use it a lot, but it was a lot better than a program called p2c which was available as a debian package long

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

1999-09-03 Thread Patrick Olson
Read the IPCHAINS HOWTO. I think you can do something like: ipchains -A input -s ad.doubleclick.net -j DENY ipchains -A output -d ad.doubleclick.net -j DENY You probably want to tailor the above to meet your needs. This will block *any* kind of connection to/from that site,

Re: ipchains firewalling question

1999-09-03 Thread Patrick Olson
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: accordingly to the man page (ipchains(8)): --destination-port [!] [port[:port]] This allows separate specifiction of the ports. See the description of the -s flag for details. The flag

Re: ipchains firewalling question

1999-09-03 Thread Patrick Olson
very much to all who have been involved in this thread. I appreciate learning what mistakes I have made without so much trial and error, which would have been mostly error given the rules I started with. Patrick Olson

Re: Problem with open_1.40-10_i386.deb

1999-09-03 Thread Patrick Olson
I don't know why he wants it, but I was hoping to use it so that could log into one VC and then open up 3-4 others. I usually log into 4-5 VC's at a time, and it would be nice not to have to type my user name and password every time. However, it only works if I am root. I don't know if this is

Re: more net install

1999-09-03 Thread Patrick Olson
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Ron Stordahl wrote: Perhaps youi can suggest how one would do that Jason. You see I am in the middle of an install from CD, and in order to take advantage of the pre-rolled profiles (Standard, Development, Workstation, etc) I must answer Y to the question do I wish to

Re: Printer configuration

1999-09-03 Thread Patrick Olson
I would like to know what I have to do to configure a printer. I need to configurations: 1) A local printer attached to a parallel port. I personally like magicfilter. For a local printer, I think it is as simple as 1. installing the package magicfilter 2. running magicfilterconfig 3.

boot from hd (was RE: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?)

1999-09-03 Thread Patrick Olson
2. Said it would make my HD bootable, didn't. I still boot from floppies so if anyone can tell me where to look to change this... It's not bad because I almost never have to reboot :) What does it do when you try to boot from the HD? You might take a look at the LILO mini-HOWTO at

Re: ipchains firewalling question

1999-09-02 Thread Patrick Olson
if you use dhcp for anything, you must enable source/destination for 255.255.255.255 as well as the routes for this. This caught me some time ago :( Make sure you're allowing ident connections. Even if you don't answer them, you want to refuse connections rather than dropping the

Re: ipchains firewalling question

1999-09-02 Thread Patrick Olson
I have the following specific questions: 1. Have I made any mistakes that could cause really annoying problems? (perhaps unintentionally blocking something that shouldn't be blocked) if you use dhcp for anything, you must enable source/destination for 255.255.255.255 as well as the

Re: Netscape Communicator

1999-09-01 Thread Patrick Olson
Hi, I downloaded and installed Netscape Communicator 'communicator-v461-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz' Now I get the error that it can't load libXpm.so.4 but that file is in /usr/X11R6/lib can anyone help me? For that flavor of Netscape, you probably need to install the package

Re: pascal for linux

1999-09-01 Thread Patrick Olson
I have Pascal for Dos, but my OS (Sistema Operacional) is Linux, and I like how install in linux. Debian has a Pascal compiler. Look for the package gpc (and gpc-doc for the doc's). Alternatively, if you really want to run your DOS Pascal, you might try dosemu. Hope this helps, Patrick

Re: Netscape Communicator

1999-09-01 Thread Patrick Olson
I allready did get the xpm4.7 installed it correctly *I think*, still no success with the communicator libc5 version, then I did as you suggest and downloaded the libc2 and is working very fine at the moment. But.. I'm glad you got it working, but I can't understand why the libc5 version

Re: pascal for linux

1999-09-01 Thread Patrick Olson
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: I was looking at porting a pascal program from dos to linux. Besides having to write a device driver (as it twiddles the printer port directly) I would have to fix all references to the Borland runtime lib stuff. I don't think that dosemu would fix

ipchains firewalling question

1999-09-01 Thread Patrick Olson
and output filters can be # masqueraded for certain local systems ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.9/255.255.255.255 -j MASQ --- end list of ipchains commands --- I would really appreciate some feedback on this so that I will know if I am getting it right or making mistakes. Thanks in advance, Patrick

Re: ftp can build data connection - masquerading problem?

1999-08-31 Thread Patrick Olson
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: Hi there, Lately I've been facing a strange and very annoying problem... When I try to do FTP from a site, it will almost surely drop my connection out when I try to build a data connection (either through a 'get', 'retr' or just a

RE: FTP Install

1999-08-31 Thread Patrick Olson
Thanks for your response, For the info of everyone it seems that FTP install capabilities are not yet a reality for debian. In my experience installing debian is no longer a reality. I have in my possession three different debian CD's. One I created on the ftp site, one from cheap

Re: Netscape

1999-08-28 Thread Patrick Olson
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Keith G. Murphy wrote: Here's a question: does anyone's NS handle large combo boxes in HTML forms correctly? Whenever I need to select an item off a very large combo box (like states in an online order form: multiple popup windows created), my keyboard stops working, at

Re: more RAM = more speed?

1999-08-26 Thread Patrick Olson
There are several solutions to your problem: 1- Buy a new and better computer(i know that might an expensivesolution) Wish I could :) 2- Add more RAM and change your motherboard. At the same time reduce the size of swap memory(this is to force the applications to use any free

Re: Network Tangle

1999-08-25 Thread Patrick Olson
I have re installed a number of times trying to get access via the proxy to the local Australian Mirror site. ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian Two questions: 1. Can you ping ftp.au.debian.org? 2. Can you ping 192.111.32.2? If #1 is a no, but #2 is a yes, then you have a DNS problem. If both

more RAM = more speed?

1999-08-25 Thread Patrick Olson
patience with this old hardware. 4. Is there something else I should upgrade? Your response is appreciated. Thank you, Patrick Olson

Re: more RAM = more speed?

1999-08-25 Thread Patrick Olson
will be old and slow (200MB), is it worth it? That is interesting that when both are given equal priority, the kernel figures out which one is best. I didn't know about that feature. Thank you, Patrick Olson

Re: more RAM = more speed?

1999-08-25 Thread Patrick Olson
modem to about $280 for the board, CPU and RAM is a bit to much. Thank you, Patrick Olson

Re: xf86setup q's

1999-08-24 Thread Patrick Olson
i've got vga monitor, which plugs into a port at the back of the computer. i don't have a video card for the monitor, meaning that the monitor connects to the motherboard via ribbon from the port. OK, you have an on-board video card (built into the motherboard). There are several

Re: Communicator 4.6.1 Segfaulting under slink

1999-08-24 Thread Patrick Olson
I'm trying to run Communicator 4.6.1 (downloaded 128 bit, non-glibc version), and every time I try to start up, it waits a few minutes and segfaults. Hints as to what to do next? Do I download and use glibc, or pull their 56 bit exportable version? Is this likely a Debian problem or a

Re: apache/lynx problem - this is driving me crazy...

1999-08-24 Thread Patrick Olson
I believe the error is the /www/one-click.com settings. This looks like an invalid http format. Unfortunately I cannot find the file which is controlling this. Probably should be www.one-click.com Look in /etc/lynx.cfg for a line that begins STARTFILE: and I think that will be the line you

strange lynx behavior

1999-08-22 Thread Patrick Olson
suggestions that might help me get to the bottom of this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Patrick Olson

Re: er - how to print?

1999-08-22 Thread Patrick Olson
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Martin Waller wrote: My father-in-law just hgave me an OKI OL600ex laser printer. I have an OkiPage 10ex that emulates a LaserJet 5. Your OKI might emulate a LaserJet of some sort also. Doing any prinitng (e.g. cat afile.txt /dev/lp or echo hello /dev/lp does

Re: Suggested GUI to apache and GUI to ftp?

1999-08-22 Thread Patrick Olson
GLIBC2 distribution (for RedHat, Mandrake, Suse, Caldera, etc.) IglooFTP-PRO-0.9.1-linux-ix86-glibc2.tar.gz glibc2 is the latest. If you are running a recent version of Debian, this what you want. I'm running 2.1 and glibc2 is the one I go for. LIBC5 distribution (for

Re: X-window install - newbie

1999-08-22 Thread Patrick Olson
xfree86-common_3.3.2.3a-11.deb I would have thought using dpkg -i on this would have installed x- windows, or at least the relevant components. Seems not to. That is just one piece of the pie. There's a lot more than one package to XFree86. If you try to install the package xbase, it

Re: Problems with the samba update

1999-08-21 Thread Patrick Olson
apt. Could someone enlighten both of us as to the method of putting a hold on packages when apt is involved? Hope this helps, Patrick Olson

Re: how to format mySeagate ST33210A

1999-08-20 Thread Patrick Olson
Jumping in the middle here, so pardon me if I'm way off. Is your Seagate ST33210A an IDE drive? Yes That makes it easier for me. I know a bit about IDE, but nothing about SCSI. Debian 1.0? I'm going to assume you mean 2.0, in which case I have the same disks... No, I labeled

Re: confusing X problem

1999-08-19 Thread Patrick Olson
This component is supported by Accelerated-X Thank you, Patrick Olson XFree86 Version 3.3.4 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: July 13 1999 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date

Re: how to format mySeagate ST33210A

1999-08-19 Thread Patrick Olson
Jumping in the middle here, so pardon me if I'm way off. Is your Seagate ST33210A an IDE drive? On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Ralph Winslow wrote: What do you mean by using the second? I mean the second, Ramdisk, diskette. You mean the disk it asks for after you boot the 'rescue disk, right? I

Re: confusing X problem

1999-08-18 Thread Patrick Olson
and bottom lines are off the screen and there is a blank gap slightly above the middle. They are fine horizontally though. Thank you, Patrick Olson

Re: Xemacs Prcs problem (still persists)

1999-08-18 Thread Patrick Olson
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Prashanth Mundkur wrote: Setting up prcs (1.2.11-7) ... install/prcs: Byte-compiling for emacsen flavour xemacs20 Compiling /usr/share/xemacs20/site-lisp/prcs/prcs.el... ** Variable reference to constant :buffer ** Variable reference to constant :force [...]

Re: HELP: X window Setup Problem

1999-08-18 Thread Patrick Olson
There are several ways to do this: 1. Write the XF86Config file manually (not a lot of fun!) 2. Install package XF86Setup and run it (graphical set up program) 3. run xf86config (not so nice as the graphical program, but will make you a config file) Hope this helps, Patrick On Thu, 19 Aug

Re: Looking for Help w/ xfs

1999-08-18 Thread Patrick Olson
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Vaughn J Lujan wrote: reinstalling. However, now when i got to start up xfs it tells me the following: xfs error: CONFIG: can't open configuration file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config xfs error: fatal: couldn't read config file I took a look at the man pages and it

Re: newbie install problem with CD-ROM mount

1999-08-18 Thread Patrick Olson
I am totally new to linux and debian. I tried to install from CD-ROM but it (a Hi-Val (MITSUMI) FX400) wasn't recognized. Following the installation instructions I tried the second choice of booting in DOS/Win first and copying installation files to the C: partition. This works OK, but

Re: confusing X problem

1999-08-17 Thread Patrick Olson
chipset and then proceeded to detect the P9100! That seemed really strange, but I won't claim to know what it means. Thanks, Patrick Olson

Re: help meeee.

1999-08-17 Thread Patrick Olson
There is a StarOffice 5.1 Personal Edition available from them free of charge, but it is restricted to non-commercial use. My opinion is that you should go for that if your use qualifies as non-commercial. There is more info on their web site at www.stardivision.com. Hope this helps, Patrick

Re: Rage128 Video Card

1999-08-17 Thread Patrick Olson
Assuming the system has Windows 95 on it, look around in the Windows display settings. Somewhere, it should say the proper name of the card. Alternately, we can use the process of elimination: There's a whole mess of ATI cards in the card list at http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html If you

Re: confusing X problem

1999-08-17 Thread Patrick Olson
How old is your version of Debian? Did you install the XF86_SVGA from a debian package or compile it from source? I started from a Debian 2.0 CD, but did not install X from there. I pointed dselect to ftp://ftp.debian.org//pub/debian/dists/stable for updating the stuff that installed off the

Re: Xemacs Prcs problem

1999-08-17 Thread Patrick Olson
That file is in a package named prcs. If you go into dselect and install the prcs package, it should be able to load prcs.el. On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Prashanth Mundkur wrote: Hi, My slink xemacs-nomule tries to load the prcs.el package whenever I load any file. However, this file doesn't

Re: confusing X problem

1999-08-16 Thread Patrick Olson
Um, I've got only good to say for the xserver that nvidia has released, which your video card might like. I hear diamond viper so I'm guessing a tnt chip. Beyond that, you really should have the specs of your monitor handy, as that has always for me been the part that needed the endless

Re: confusing X problem

1999-08-16 Thread Patrick Olson
someone please take a minute to point out the mistakes in my config file? By the way, my /etc/X11/XF86Config and /var/log/xdm.log are at: http://home.internetcds.com/~compman/XF86Config http://home.internetcds.com/~compman/xdm.log Thank you, Patrick Olson

Re: confusing X problem

1999-08-16 Thread Patrick Olson
+ As always, my XF86Config and xdm.log are at: http://home.internetcds.com/~compman/XF86Config http://home.internetcds.com/~compman/xdm.log Your help is greatly appreciated, Patrick Olson

Re: Problems with the samba update

1999-08-16 Thread Patrick Olson
I am going to assume that version is from unstable (also known as potato) since my Samba is older. In that case, there was mention of a bug in that version of Samba that makes it need a 2.2.x kernel. The message at this address has a better explanation than I can give:

Re: kernel, libncurses4-dev_4.2-3.2.deb, and all kinds of fun.

1999-08-16 Thread Patrick Olson
This is just a guess: Are you sure your FTP program is in binary mode? That may sound silly, but I've made the mistake of being in ASCII mode a few times myself. Hope this helps, Patrick On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Cheshire wrote: won't work so I've downloaded the potato version. A lot of times. On

confusing X problem

1999-08-15 Thread Patrick Olson
I have been trying all day to get XFree86 3.3.2.3 running, but have simply had no luck getting any resolution other than 320x200. I would like it to do 800x600 with 256 (or more) colors. The video card does that just fine under Windows95, so I know the hardware is capable, although maybe not

Re: hard drive error

1999-08-13 Thread Patrick Olson
hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } ide0: reset: success I don't really know what causes this error, but I receive it also. The only cure I've found was to recompile the kernel with Use DMA by default when available /disabled/. I've been told that this can be fixed with the

Re: soudblaster live and modules in general

1999-08-12 Thread Patrick Olson
I think you need to run make modules and make modules_install from the same directory as the other make commands (make config and so on). The purpose of this is to create the stuff needed for sound as a module. I'm not real familiar with sound, so that's about all I can say. I hope that

Re: ugh!! Why does my time keep resetting?!

1999-08-12 Thread Patrick Olson
I'm sure not an expert, but from what little I understand of the mail headers, it looks OK. Judging by the mail headers of other messages, debian's server puts GMT timestamps on messages. Run the command date and see what it says. If it indeed shows the wrong time, then I must apologize for

dpkg -S

1999-08-11 Thread Patrick Olson
.3.0 As such, it seems that dpkg -S only works on packages that are already installed. Is there something I can use to determine which package needs to be installed when a program complains about a particular file? Thanks, Patrick Olson

Re: dpkg -S

1999-08-11 Thread Patrick Olson
Grab debian/dists/dist/{main,contrib,non-free}/Contents-yourarch.gz . It may be in a slightly different place, but that should be what you need. Thanks for the info (and the quick reply). I grabbed ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/stable/Contents-i386.gz I think it has all three

Re: Installing Netscape

1999-08-10 Thread Patrick Olson
When I startx I see navigator in the menu (fvwm2) but when I select it nothing happens. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I think you have it installed right, but maybe the fvwm2 menu is not set up right. From an xterm, try typing netscape at the shell prompt. On my system,

Re: lynx limit of 10 refresh URLs

1999-08-10 Thread Patrick Olson
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Brian Butler wrote: Hello. I want to use lynx to visit a group of sites. After login, there is a cookie-setting ritual involving many redirections. After ten of these, lynx complains that its limit of ten refresh URLs has been reached. Then it stops. I would like

Re: lynx limit of 10 refresh URLs

1999-08-10 Thread Patrick Olson
This made good sense to me, too. I set it to 20 with the command line parameter, and it still barfed after ten redirections: Redirection limit of 10 URL's reached. This is a strange one. Lynx is so configurable, I couldn't fathom this being a static setting... Thanks much for taking

Re: Problems with fetchmail.. can anyone help?

1999-08-10 Thread Patrick Olson
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Colin McMillen wrote: I am trying to get my mail from a remote server rather than through Netscape Mail. I have the fetchmail package installed, but it can't seem to get mail from my server. Can someone point out what I am doing wrong? (The username and mail server are

Re: How to boot to text mode?

1999-08-09 Thread Patrick Olson
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Godric wrote: Apologies for what may be a very simple question - but I'm new using Debian (migrated from Suse which I've had only been using for a while) but what file do I have to change in Debian 2.1 so that on booting I go straight to text mode to login rather than

Re: saving dselect lists?

1999-08-09 Thread Patrick Olson
dpkg --get-selections /usr/local/dpkg_packages will save the list of packages you have selected to a file named /usr/local/dpkg_packages and then dpkg --set-selections /usr/local/dpkg_packages will select packages based on that file. I would expect that any filename could be used. The

lprng problem

1999-08-08 Thread Patrick Olson
I am having a hard time getting lprng to work. I am pretty sure the problem is in my /etc/lpd.perms file. With the default /etc/lpd.perms file, things print just fine. However, I want to restrict who can use my printer. The configuration below pretends to do exactly what I want it to, but

Re: Font editor?

1999-08-08 Thread Patrick Olson
I'm not sure if this will do the job or not. It is a font editor, but it says .fnt instead of the .psf you mention. I don't know much about fonts so maybe I should have kept my mouth shut :-) Hope this info is helpful. begin quote from dselect's description of fonter fonter - Interactive

Re: Font editor?

1999-08-08 Thread Patrick Olson
I'm not sure if this will do the job or not. It is a font editor, but it says .fnt instead of the .psf you mention. I don't know much about fonts so maybe I should have kept my mouth shut :-) Hope this info is helpful. Seems to be about what I wanted. Thanks. Hmm, on exit it

Re: Error of compilation of the kernel.

1999-08-08 Thread Patrick Olson
I believe I saw somewhere that the package bin86 must be installed to compile the kernel successfully. If you don't have bin86, I would suggest trying that. On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Rafael Eduardo [iso-8859-1] Martín Candial wrote: Hi all, I have installed the base of Debian 2.0 (kernel 2.0.34)

Re: Printing Broken After Upgrade to 2.2.10 Kernel on slink

1999-08-08 Thread Patrick Olson
Maybe it was my imagination, but I think I had to change /dev/lp1 to /dev/lp0 in my /etc/printcap after upgrading from a 2.0.x kernel to 2.2.1. I am still at a loss as to what caused this. You might want to try changing it, as you can always change it back if it doesn't help. I think the

Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting

1999-08-06 Thread Patrick Olson
If you remove the package 'xdm' it will have to stop doing that. I'm not sure it that's the recommended way or not. Or you could hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 when X it starts. That leaves X running, but switches you to another virtual terminal that is not running X. On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Daniel Yang wrote:

Re: Configuring a monitor?

1999-08-04 Thread Patrick Olson
Exactly. The power goes off while booting. It has something to do with BIOS settings, I think, (not linux) (PnP BIOS) All the 'Advanced power management...' and so on are 'disabled'. No 'power-saving features are compiled in'. It seems to be the case that if I shut down the machine

smail problems

1998-10-20 Thread Patrick Olson
A problem has shown up all of a sudden on my Debian 2.0 system. Everything worked fine until yesterday. Now when I try to send mail, about half the time it spits out ROUTER:smart_host TRANSPORT:smtp ERROR:(ERR164) transport smtp: BIND server failure: : Connection timed out into

386 mass storage

1998-10-11 Thread Patrick Olson
At the moment I'm running Debian 2 on a 386/33 with only 600MB of hard disk space (400MB master, 200MB slave). What I'm looking for is a way to allow this machine to take over as fileserver. The current fileserver is a 386/33 running Windows 3.11 between crashes. It can access its 6.4GB drive

scripting help

1998-08-07 Thread Patrick Olson
My script doesn't quite work. Could someone tell me what I've done wrong? The problem is that it displays the file as soon as it has a nonzero length. I would like the script to wait until the file is 95 bytes long. My script: - until test -s filename do sleep 5s done cat

Re: ppp connection speed

1998-08-07 Thread Patrick Olson
That fixed it. Many thanks, Patrick On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Marsh Ray wrote: Try putting the 'REPORT CONNECT' at the beginning? - Marsh /usr/sbin/chat -v -r /home/patricko/speed \ TIMEOUT 60 \ ABORT '\nBUSY\r'

Re: scripting help

1998-08-07 Thread Patrick Olson
Your script worked great. Thanks, Patrick On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Lee Brinton wrote: On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 08:11:36PM -0700, Patrick Olson wrote: My script doesn't quite work. Could someone tell me what I've done wrong? The problem is that it displays the file as soon as it has

Re: ppp connection speed

1998-08-06 Thread Patrick Olson
On 21 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add 'REPORT CONNECT' to your chatscript and call chat with '-r /etc/ppp/report' and the 'CONNECT' string reported by your modem will appear in /etc/ppp/report. Add 'X4' to your modem init string and it will report the connect speed. I tried this and

Re: messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-05 Thread Patrick Olson
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Taren wrote: I just went through the same exact situation with sendmail/procmail. The problem isn't with your system, or any software you're running on it. What is happening is that you're receiving email from either spoofed addresses which can't be resolved by your DNS

Re: messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-05 Thread Patrick Olson
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Taren wrote: In my case, I don't think it's a problem with fetchmail itself, because any email that hangs fetchmail just happens to hang Hotmail when Hotmail tries to display it after retrieving it from my ISP via POP. The situation where fetchmail hangs is something which

Re: messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-05 Thread Patrick Olson
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: 1. It has no provision for the possibility of fetchmail still being in action after 5 minutes (for example someone attaches a large file to an e-mail) 2. It has no way of handling a situation where fetchmail has stalled and needs to be

Re: messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-04 Thread Patrick Olson
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Peter Granroth wrote: Has anyone else had this problem with their mail? Could someone who understands what is causing this problem explain it to me? Of course I forgot to write down the error message, but I also had problems getting fetchmail to get three messages

Re: messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-04 Thread Patrick Olson
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Johann Spies wrote: Has anyone else had this problem with their mail? Could someone who understands what is causing this problem explain it to me? I receive mail from this list in digest form and did not experience such problem with mail from the list. However the

Re: Drive mounting

1998-08-03 Thread Patrick Olson
I don't know anything about the EtherPCI II card itself, but I have an EtherPCI card working with the Tulip driver. I don't know what the difference between my EtherPCI and your EtherPCI II is. If they are really similar, yours might work with the Tulip driver. On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, Cristov

messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-03 Thread Patrick Olson
I have received several e-mails from this list that cause fetchmail to stall. There is something wrong with the individual e-mails, as Hotmail can't quite handle them either. Although Hotmail retrieves them from the POP server, the web browser stalls while displaying them. I just deleted the

Re: Getting Samba working on BO

1998-07-28 Thread Patrick Olson
On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: This is probably a stupid question, but I guess I'll ask it anyways. Not as bad as some I've asked :) Sorry to take so long to reply, I am sometimes really slow about reading the mailing lists I'm on. How do I get Samba working on my BO

Re: samba printing problems

1998-07-28 Thread Patrick Olson
On Mon, 27 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do the apps that create the problems have an option for 'background' printing or something similiar? They send the print data to the spooler in chunks when the program is not busy. That might be something to look for. Nope. Paintbrush has very

Re: samba printing problems

1998-07-27 Thread Patrick Olson
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Turn off print spooling on the Win machine. I forget exactly the proce dure for this on Win3.1, it has been to long. It thinks it is printing to a local printer and is sending the data in chunks to the printer, which is fine for a directly

Re: samba printing problems

1998-07-23 Thread Patrick Olson
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another way to test the source of the problem is to print to a file on Win3.1. Then send the print file directly to the printer by 'cat file.prn /dev/lpN' where N is probably 1 for 2.0.X kernels and 0 for 2.1.X kernels. This will eliminate

samba printing problems

1998-07-22 Thread Patrick Olson
I'm trying to print from Windows 3.1 to an Epson Stylus Pro connected to my Linux computer (using samba). Whenever I print anything very complicated (graphics, high-res text), it comes out with blank spaces, pieces missing, etc. I know it's something on the Linux computer because the printouts

Re: tail and grep

1998-07-09 Thread Patrick Olson
tail -f /var/log/messages | grep local IP /home/pppusers/dynamic.IP it does nothing but create a 0 byte file. tail -f will run forever; output to the file won't be flushed until you've written a certain amount to the file -- one line obviously isn't enough. The screen on the other

Re: a user list too big, a suggestion

1998-07-09 Thread Patrick Olson
On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: eg mutt, gnus. You can delete whole threads with one keystroke after you discover you don't want to read it in mutt (Control-D). I have no trouble keeping up with debian-user, debian-devel, policy, mentors, etc with this. Just wanted to point out

Re: Hard lock-up crashes, need some clues!

1998-07-09 Thread Patrick Olson
I don't know if this will help you any, but it's worth a shot: When mine was overheating recently, it was the RAM chips that were getting too hot. The way I figured that out is the side of the case right where the RAM chips are was quite warm to the touch. The chips themselves were too hot to

Re: tail and grep

1998-07-09 Thread Patrick Olson
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I think you need to somehow ensure that tail isn't used until that line isn't written in the log; -f will get it to wait, but will never get you any output in the dynamic.IP file. That makes good sense. I never thought about doing it that way (and

tail and grep

1998-07-08 Thread Patrick Olson
when I try tail -f /var/log/messages | grep local IP it prints (with a real IP address instead of 123.123.123.123) Jul 7 20:06:00 server2 pppd[587]: local IP address 123.123.123.123 on my console. That's exactly what it should do. But if I try to redirect it to a user's file (so he can

Re: problem compiling kernel 2.0.34 under Debian 1.3.1

1998-07-07 Thread Patrick Olson
On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11 sig11 (signal 11) is often a sign of a hardware problem. Either you machine is over/under clocked, over heating, has a memory glitch or something. Sig 11 can also be one of the problems that

kernel canot find map file

1998-07-07 Thread Patrick Olson
With your help I have successfully compiled kernel 2.0.34 now that my fan is blowing through the computer. Obviously a temporary solution, but that's not why I'm writing this message... I get this in /var/log/messages: Jul 6 16:59:56 server2 syslogd 1.3-3#17: restart. Jul 6 16:59:56 server2

Re: kernel canot find map file

1998-07-07 Thread Patrick Olson
- I get this in /var/log/messages: - - Jul 6 16:59:56 server2 kernel: Cannot find map file. - - when my computer boots with the new kernel. when you compile the kernel, copy vmlinux or arch/arch/boot/zImage to /boot and don't forget System.map (from/usr/src/linux) - that's the map

problem compiling kernel 2.0.34 under Debian 1.3.1

1998-07-06 Thread Patrick Olson
I've been running Debian 1.3.1 with kernel 2.0.29 I decided to upgrade to kernel 2.0.34 but it fails during make zImage with an error message. Can anyone help? Here's the error message and a few of the lines before it: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.0.34/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes