Printer configuration

1998-12-22 Thread William R Ward
or something on this? I looked and couldn't find one. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 831/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 831/458-8862

Sendmail 8.9 on hamm?

1998-11-13 Thread William R Ward
I'm running a 'stable' (hamm) system and want to have Sendmail 8.9 for its spam-blocking abilities. Hamm comes with 8.8.8 which I am not happy with. Is there an 8.9 .deb file that will work with hamm? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit

Help setting up virtual hosts

1998-11-08 Thread William R. Ward
the same no matter which Linux distribution I use, shouldn't it? This is dreadfully urgent; if you know the answer please let me know. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 831/479-4072

Re: Help setting up virtual hosts

1998-11-08 Thread William R. Ward
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, William R. Ward wrote: Perhaps there was some extra step that I had done under Red Hat to make this syntax possible, but I can't remember what it is. Whatever it is, it should work the same no matter

Re: Help setting up virtual hosts

1998-11-08 Thread William R. Ward
: Le 08-Nov-98, William R. Ward a pris ses électrons pour écrire: I had recompiled it a few times, but didn't notice that setting before. I now am getting a slightly different error. SIOCSIFADDR: Invalid argument ppp0:0: unknown interface. And in /var/log/messages, it says this: Nov 7

MD5 check failed for some packages!!

1998-04-08 Thread William R. Ward
. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit

Emacs 19.34

1998-04-07 Thread William R. Ward
I am using the emacs package (19.34) and am finding that increasingly there are more and more packages (e.g. pcl-cvs) that depend on either emacs19 or emacs20 and for some reason the emacs package doesn't provide emacs19 as I would expect it should. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View

ckermit gone?

1998-04-07 Thread William R. Ward
Apparently ckermit is no longer provided - I believe it used to be in either non-free or contrib. Why is this? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED

tm gone?

1998-04-07 Thread William R. Ward
What happened to the tm package (mail utilities for Emacs)? It seems to be gone from hamm now... --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa

HTTP mirror of non-us??

1998-04-07 Thread William R. Ward
site I know of is ftp://nonus.debian.org. (I download my regular hamm files from http://www.cdrom.com) Any help would be most appreciated. Also, is there any hope of convincing the owners of www.debian.org to include a mirror of ftp.debian.org on their HTTP server? --Bill. -- William R Ward

Trouble installing dump_0.4b4-6.deb

1998-04-07 Thread William R Ward
): trying to overwrite `/usr/man/man8/rmt.8.gz', which is also in package cpio [] Why is this file in both dump and cpio packages? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072

Re: HTTP mirror of non-us??

1998-04-07 Thread William R. Ward
? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http

Re: Slink [was: Re: Debian Hamm Dselect]

1998-04-02 Thread William R. Ward
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, William R. Ward wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simple. Slink doesn't currently duplicate anything that is in hamm. Set dselect or whatever to look in dists/frozen

Slink [was: Re: Debian Hamm Dselect]

1998-04-01 Thread William R Ward
is slink. I noticed this too. However the 'slink' version seems incomplete. What is the current status of the unstable version? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072

xterm weirdness

1998-04-01 Thread William R Ward
to the Debian system, the term gets so hosed must either do a 'hard reset' periodically or launch a Debian xterm to display on the remote X server (which works fine). Any ideas? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803

Re: Slink [was: Re: Debian Hamm Dselect]

1998-04-01 Thread William R. Ward
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 1 Apr 1998, William R Ward wrote: Andreas Mueck \(Stud.93\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it ok to set dselect to use the package files in /debian/hamm/ yet? I was using /debian/dists/unstable before now, and I noticed

PS/2 Mouse Port

1998-02-21 Thread William R. Ward
expected to see gibberish. So maybe it isn't working at all! I'd appreciate any suggestions for 1) testing to see if my PS/2 port even works, 2) configuring Linux to find my PS/2 port, and/or 3) getting it to work with X. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http

Re: PS/2 Mouse Port

1998-02-21 Thread William R. Ward
PS/2 mouse port support included as a module. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP

Re: Dial Script

1998-02-20 Thread William R. Ward
don't do so between the hours of 10pm and 10am Pacific time. Thanks. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408

Re: Viewing bootup message

1998-02-20 Thread William R. Ward
- you can get 80x50 from LILO, isn't that enough? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP

Re: Nis refusing logins

1998-02-13 Thread William R. Ward
is overriding the yp entry. Your /etc/passwd '+' entry should not have the user information, just +::0:0::: - then all users in the passwd map will be included. Get a copy of Managing NIS and NFS from O'Reilly. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit

Re: Question re: splitting files

1998-02-13 Thread William R. Ward
xvMf /dev/fd0 Apart from when a disk goes bad (obviously), I've never had any trouble with this. Stick a 'z' in the tar options to get gzip (fewer floppies!) --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St

Re: Home dir Permissions

1998-02-13 Thread William R. Ward
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 12 Feb 1998, William R. Ward wrote: One comment about permissions: Web files do *NOT* have to be world readable. They just have to be readable by the web server. If you set up a user and group for your web server (I

Re: Home dir Permissions

1998-02-12 Thread William R. Ward
the other users on the system). --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5

Re: UPS again

1998-02-11 Thread William R. Ward
binary-compatible enough to run SCO binaries? I seem to recall hearing it is. Barring that, I'll have to see if I can't talk them out of the specs... -Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339

Re: UPS again

1998-02-11 Thread William R. Ward
Yikes that sounds like a chore. I hope it doesn't come to that. --Bill. In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: William R. Ward wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Raymond A. Ingles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 5 Feb 1998, William R Ward wrote: Like

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #193

1998-02-08 Thread William R. Ward
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gary L. Hennigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: William R. Ward wrote: [snip] The UPS-HOWTO has a lot of info about using a UPS under Linux. I'd check there before returning it. I know that genpowerd is pretty flexible and can be configured to support almost any

Re: UPS again

1998-02-07 Thread William R. Ward
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Raymond A. Ingles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 5 Feb 1998, William R Ward wrote: Like a dummy, I bought a UPS without bothering to check if genpowerd supports it (I don't think it does). But before taking it back (I believe I have a week to do so and it's real

UPS again

1998-02-06 Thread William R Ward
a MinuteMan 280 Pro UPS. It looks like it has smart features but does not come with a cable or software. It is made by Para Systems. Is there any Linux software that'll talk to this beast? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Maturity of debian for sparc?

1998-02-03 Thread William R Ward
it quite a bit and would like to have the SPARC be more compatible with the PC's in order to simplify administration. Thanks for any all input --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339

Re: Netscape doesn't work (libc5/libc6)

1998-02-03 Thread William R Ward
Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 30 Jan 1998, William R. Ward wrote: I'm running hamm and I can't get Netscape to work. I know it's probably a problem with libc5 vs libc6, and that I probably need to reinstall one or more libc5 files, but I don't know which ones! I ran ldd

Re: Netscape doesn't work (libc5/libc6)

1998-02-03 Thread William R Ward
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William R. Ward) writes: I'm running hamm and I can't get Netscape to work. I know it's probably a problem with libc5 vs libc6, and that I probably need to reinstall one or more libc5 files, but I don't know which ones! I ran ldd and strace and the output is attached here

Netscape doesn't work (libc5/libc6)

1998-01-31 Thread William R. Ward
() = 501 getuid()= 501 getgid()= 101 getegid() = 101 getpid()= 1026 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ -- William R Ward Bay View

Re: VM (Emacs mail reader) maintainer?

1998-01-22 Thread William R. Ward
6.34; it's up to .39 now. I have been installing it in /usr/local/share but would like to be able to just update the .deb file when a new version comes out --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339

VM (Emacs mail reader) maintainer?

1998-01-21 Thread William R Ward
of the new releases of VM --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5

Re: xinetd not starting -- where is rpc.portmap?

1998-01-17 Thread William R. Ward
THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa

Re: PS/2 mouse setup; /dev/mouse?

1998-01-16 Thread William R Ward
the problem by rebooting (keyboard lockup) or killing the X processes (mouse problem). Anyone get this to work? I'd like to be able to hook up a terminal to the serial port that i've been using for mouse. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL

Re: xload

1998-01-13 Thread William R. Ward
in, but you'll find it. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key

Re: pgp and elm

1998-01-13 Thread William R. Ward
, but they obviously don't have the non-US stuff. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key

Re: SEGMENTATION FAULT

1998-01-10 Thread William R Ward
and your Xwindows libs. I had this too, and I had to upgrade just about everything to hamm before things started working properly again. Now everything works except Netscape, which I can't possibly recompile!!! :( --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit

Re: SEGMENTATION FAULT

1998-01-10 Thread William R Ward
and your Xwindows libs. I had this too, and I had to upgrade just about everything to hamm before things started working properly again. Now everything works except Netscape, which I can't possibly recompile!!! :( --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit

socks 5 debian module?

1998-01-10 Thread William R Ward
Does anyone know why there isn't a socks5 debian module in hamm? I compiled it myself and have it in /usr/local but would rather have it installed properly... --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339

Re: Help: System time lags CMOS time

1998-01-10 Thread William R Ward
this nightly; you may wish to run it every 3 or 4 hours. It's probably due to your SCSI card stealing interrupts that would otherwise update the clock. You might be able to configure your SCSI host adapter to use less interrupts or get a bus mastering adapter. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay

Re: Help: System time lags CMOS time

1998-01-10 Thread William R Ward
this nightly; you may wish to run it every 3 or 4 hours. It's probably due to your SCSI card stealing interrupts that would otherwise update the clock. You might be able to configure your SCSI host adapter to use less interrupts or get a bus mastering adapter. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay

HELP! Netscape under hamm??

1998-01-10 Thread William R Ward
Whenever I try to run Netscape, v3 or v4, under my HAMM system I get 'Segmentation Fault'... I suspect it's because it was compiled for libc5 and I'm using libc6. Any way I can get it to work --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL

NFS woes

1998-01-09 Thread William R. Ward
from killall nfsiod) but it shouldn't be dying like this. Is anyone else experiencing this? It didn't do this until I upgraded... I'm using 2.0.32 kernel, if that matters. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803

Scanner

1998-01-09 Thread William R. Ward
I have a Tamarack (sp?) SCSI-based TWAIN compliant scanner and would like to use it under Linux. Of course it only came with Windoze drivers... Is there (preferably Debianized) software for Linux that would talk to it? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http

Energy Star screensaver?

1998-01-05 Thread William R Ward
I believe that my video card and monitor are capable of powering down the monitor through software; is there any way to get Debian to make this happen? I would like both text and X11 to be able to do this... Any help would be appreciated. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting

tty confusion

1998-01-02 Thread William R Ward
abilities (I use tcsh) - if I hit ^U the line is not cleared, but the shell acts correctly (whatever I type after doing so is treated as the entire command), for instance. Is anyone else seeing this problem? Is there a fix? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http

tty confusion

1998-01-02 Thread William R Ward
abilities (I use tcsh) - if I hit ^U the line is not cleared, but the shell acts correctly (whatever I type after doing so is treated as the entire command), for instance. Is anyone else seeing this problem? Is there a fix? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http

Re: /sbin/clock missing?

1998-01-02 Thread William R Ward
Anthony Fok [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 1 Jan 1998, William R Ward wrote: Until I upgraded to hamm, I could use /sbin/clock to set and view the CMOS clock. That program is gone now! Did something else replace it? Yes! :-) /sbin/hwclock is the new program that replaces the obsolete

Re: laser printers and linux

1998-01-02 Thread William R Ward
cheap laser printer that *will* work with Linux? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP

Re: laser printers and linux

1998-01-02 Thread William R Ward
William R Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: G. Crimp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yep. Crystal clear. Time to face the music and take the thing back. Too bad. Less than 400$, small, 8 ppm, and (apparently) very good text and graphics output. Sigh... So that we don't all have to learn from

X and text consoles - switching back forth?

1998-01-01 Thread William R Ward
it was on a Red Hat system, so I know it's at least theoretically possible. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1

Re: Sparcs

1998-01-01 Thread William R Ward
. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit

Re: X and text consoles - switching back forth?

1998-01-01 Thread William R Ward
using Ctrl-Alt-Fn (1=n=6). -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key

/sbin/clock missing?

1998-01-01 Thread William R Ward
Until I upgraded to hamm, I could use /sbin/clock to set and view the CMOS clock. That program is gone now! Did something else replace it? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1

Problems with NFSD?

1997-12-29 Thread William R Ward
anyone else experienced this? I have tried turning on the debugging option but have yet to see anything that appears to be relevant in the logs. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1

mirror script

1997-12-26 Thread William R Ward
the files that have changed since the last time it was run. It uses the LWP::UserAgent Perl module (part of libwww-perl) to mirror() the documents. - --Bill. - -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339

Perl dpkg

1997-12-26 Thread William R Ward
stuff in /usr/local/lib/site-perl, but I don't know how to achieve that state of bliss help?? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz

Re: truncating files

1997-12-07 Thread William R Ward
years ago but have since forgotten the reason... HTH. - --Bill. - -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408

Re: truncating files

1997-12-07 Thread William R Ward
years ago but have since forgotten the reason... HTH. - --Bill. - -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408

SCSI Linux IDE Win95 on same box?

1997-12-06 Thread William R. Ward
this up. I would also like to be able to access the Win95 partition from within Linux. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060

Re: multiple X sessions problem

1997-12-06 Thread William R. Ward
I've seen this working (on a Redhat system) once, but have never managed to get it work on my own systems. It would be convenient, so for example my wife and I can both be logged in and switch back and forth easily. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http

Re: multiple X sessions problem

1997-12-06 Thread William R. Ward
I've seen this working (on a Redhat system) once, but have never managed to get it work on my own systems. It would be convenient, so for example my wife and I can both be logged in and switch back and forth easily. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http