On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Tony Koehn wrote:
Thomas,
My /etc/hosts file does have 127.0.0.1 localhost in it.
My /etc/host.conf has order hosts,bind in it.
Tony
snip
Tony Koehn wrote:
:After getting debian installed I tried to do a nslookup and I get this
:message:
:
:*** Can't find
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Tony Koehn wrote:
After getting debian installed I tried to do a nslookup and I get this
message:
*** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Non-existent host.domain
*** Default servers are not available.
What did I do wrong?
You have to enable localhost
Dear Debian Mavens,
I am brand new to Linux, being a Windows/Mac guy. No, make that a
Mac/Windows guy. I prefer the Mac. I want Linux to rid me of any contact
with Microsoft.
Anyway, my Compaq 9240 came with a combination CD-Rom/Optical drive.
It's made by Mitsubishi/Panasonic, Model #LF-1094D.
Greg Vence wrote:
Hello,
Its time to upgrade... What dual Pentium machines do people like and
what have known problems? I looked in LDP and didn't see anything
regarding this topic.
Thanx -- Greg.
I would suggest subscribing to linux-smp, and look at the archives for
the list, too. I asked
Hi!
It may have been asked before but I didnt find it in my messagebase
(must have been flushed out already.):
1) is there a staroffice debian package? if yes, where?
There is a staroffice installer package just uploaded to Incoming. We are not
allowed to distribute staroffice
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997 15:54:07 CDT larry ives ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
I just used the Debian installation for linux and it was a pleasure =
compared to slackware! There are a couple of things that don't work =
however.
I can't seem to execute a man page session. When I look for the man =
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997 15:39:22 MDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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I have no problems with the Slackware setup - Afterstep works beautifully
and is very appealing visually. Under Debian however, I have almost NO
color. Upon exit I see the message:
Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry
Dear Debian Mavens,
I identified the controller card for my CD-PD in my Compaq 9240
incorrectly!
It is an Adaptec 7850 PCI SCSI
Sorry.
Dr. L
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On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Curt Howland wrote:
I got the modification of the var/spool/mail directory part,
but not this other thing. Maybe someone will remember what it was.
You can find info like this in /var/lib/dpkg/info. It contains a wealth
of info (fun grepping:-) on everything that's
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On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
Now that anacron is taking over the daily, weekly and monthly
cron jobs, can I safely remove cron, or is it required for other
system functions?
I wouldn't particuarly recomend removing cron. Most of the
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On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, larry ives wrote:
I just used the Debian installation for linux and it was a pleasure =
compared to slackware! There are a couple of things that don't work =
however.
I can't seem to execute a man page session. When I look for the man =
Before I upgraded to 1.3, I had a package installed called color-xterm.
When I upgraded to 1.3, dselect said that the package color-xterm was
obsolete, so it was purged. Now, I don't have color in my xterms, and I
can't find the color-xterm package.
How can I get color xterms back??
thanks,
Shaya writes:
Actually, the part of the license which restricts it's use on Win95,
might not be valid w/ the GPL.
...
So who knows, that might mean that it's under the GPL only.
No. If they have released it under a modified GPL they may be infringing
the FSF's copyright on the GPL, but
Anyone know what this is telling me? I finally
found maybe a clue. Once my connection has
dropped for a bit, this line gets written to
/usr/adm/debug
ppp_tty_write: sleeping
Is this significant to my woes?
Casey
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I found the Apache 1.2 package in experimental, and now I know whyit
requires libc6.
What are the repercussion's if I install this on my 1.3.1 system? Can I just
install libc6 and what uses libc6 with be happy, or will I need to remove
libc5 and then have to worry about compatibility
Hi all,
Is it safe to put these lines in the /etc/ppp/ip-up scripts? $6 is passed
to the script using the ipparam option of pppd and is the name of the
user initiating the ppp link.
if [ -e /home/$6/.ip-up ]; then
cd /home/$6
. .ip-up
fi
Thanks,
Jim
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I'm sorry, but it seems I don't know where to look in the
docs. I'm looking for the equivalent of the .xhosts file
so I can open xwindows from other machines on this one.
I'll come back and ask about how to point the xserver to
grab the .openwin-init and other various files from the
users home
Hi all,
My specs: 486 DX-2 66mhz
20 megs RAM
STB Horizon video card w/ 1 meg RAM
I currently have Slackware with XFree 3.1.2 installed on HDA5 and I
recently decided to try Debian 1.3 with XFree 3.3, which is now installed
on HDA3. Afterstep is my window manager in both
How would this work?
would the base debian system automatically connect to my ISP and download
and install the desired packages?
I'm a complete novice
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On 14 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Shaya writes:
Actually, the part of the license which restricts it's use on Win95,
might not be valid w/ the GPL.
...
So who knows, that might mean that it's under the GPL only.
No. If they have released it under a modified GPL they may be
If you are connecting to a server running INN, it is configured to
throttle article flow to sucking feeds by default. You will see articles
arrive in a regular pattern of say 20 articles, pause, 20 more, pause.
The only way to correct it is to get the provider to recompile INN with
one of its
Hi,
I am using suck (version 3.3.2-1) to download my news, but I am
not satisfied with the speed this download takes place. It doesn't
make use of my ISDN link with 64kbps. Most of the time the transfer
rate is around 3-4kbps.
Is there any way I could have misconfigured suck? Or is this a
On 15 Jul 1997, Andy Spiegl wrote:
I am using suck (version 3.3.2-1) to download my news, but I am
not satisfied with the speed this download takes place.
FWIW, I've noticed the same slow transfers via suck over a 28.8k link.
Regards, | Debian GNU/ __ o
.
Kevin M. Bealer wrote:
(clipping orig post and most of reply...)
I would suggest subscribing to linux-smp, and look at the archives for
the list, too. I asked this question a week or two ago and then
decided that the Cyrix 200+ with a Gigabyte 586S board was the best
for the money(*).
(clipping
On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Kevin M. Bealer wrote:
Kevin M. Bealer wrote:
Following up on this:
After:
1) installing set6x86
2) Setting all BIOS settings to maximum delay timings (for RAM)
3) Setting the ISA bus frequency to 7.159 MHz (lowest setting)
(only my CDROM, modem, and ethernet
I noticed that some example files where stored in
/usr/doc/package/examples while others are stored in
/usr/doc/examples/package. Unfortunately I did not notice the second
location until relatively recently.
What does the standard say ? Personally I prefer the first setting
and
what packages do I need to compile the kernel? With the default
installation and the linux-2.0.30.tar.gz kernel it won't compile - it
fails when making zImage or bzImage. I didn't have this problem with
RedHat, Slackware, or Debian on my other system??
-Paul
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I'm used to emacs and somethings when I save it pico I type ^x ^s which
locks up that window... how can I stop this from happening?
-Paul
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how do I change the logon message?
-Paul
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You will find the answer in /etc/motd
At 01:54 AM 7/15/97 -0400, Paul Miller wrote:
how do I change the logon message?
-Paul
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Shaya Potter wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Kevin M. Bealer wrote:
Enlightenment has a license that prevents it's migration to certain
operating systems, which is a restriction on derived works, which
makes it not free software. It could be packaged into non-free
however, as I understand
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Christopher Ray Martin wrote:
Before I upgraded to 1.3, I had a package installed called color-xterm.
When I upgraded to 1.3, dselect said that the package color-xterm was
obsolete, so it was purged. Now, I don't have color in my xterms, and I
can't find the color-xterm
On Jul 14, Robert D. Hilliard wrote
In smailconfig, you must choose option (1), then after several
more questions, you give your ISP's mail server's name in response to:
...
This will give the results that I think the original poster was
looking for.
Yes, it will. I was faced with
Hi. First off, thanks for all the help from this list. I just got a
new computer, and it is running beautifully. I've recieved more help
from this list (and the newsgroups) then I've ever recieved from any
tech support line.
Okay, almost beautifully. When I got the computer, I took the sound
I'm used to emacs and somethings when I save it pico I type ^x ^s which
locks up that window... how can I stop this from happening?
^Q
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I noticed that some example files where stored in
/usr/doc/package/examples while others are stored in
/usr/doc/examples/package. Unfortunately I did not notice the second
location until relatively recently.
What does the standard say ?
How about looking at the standard?
Igor Grobman writes:
3) does the dosemu supports Windows?
Not really. There are a couple of win emulators available: wine and twin.
Twin hasn't been packaged yet, but is being worked on, and wine is available
in project/experimental.
Please take a look at the DOSEMU-HOWTO, it's stated
MS == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(3) Satellite system:
No mail is to be delivered or routed here. Any mail generated
on this system is sent to a central mail switch using SMTP.
MS Have you tried this?
This one insists on sending mail to root on the local system to the
ISP i
Frank Barknecht hat gesagt: // Frank Barknecht wrote: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
A simple solution is the -x-switch to cp (Try man cp).
copy -ax copies everything only out of the one filesystem where you started.
well, it's cp -ax of course...
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I use telnet command to say 'Host name lookup failure'.
What does that mean? I cant find about the troubleshooting in Debian FAQ.
Cheers Kam.
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K.Y.Lo writes:
I use telnet command to say 'Host name lookup failure'.
What does that mean? I cant find about the troubleshooting in Debian FAQ.
Check your /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts files.
Regards
Joey
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Look at /etc/issue.
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On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
how do I change the logon message?
-Paul
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On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Martin Schulze wrote:
Igor Grobman writes:
3) does the dosemu supports Windows?
Not really. There are a couple of win emulators available: wine and twin.
Twin hasn't been packaged yet, but is being worked on, and wine is
available
in
On 15 Jul 1997, Andy Spiegl wrote:
I am using suck (version 3.3.2-1) to download my news, but I am
not satisfied with the speed this download takes place.
Upgrade to the latest suck-3.5.1-1 which includes some changes
speeding up the transfer rate. From /usr/doc/suck/changelog.gz:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy J. Miller) writes:
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem)
[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 0,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
[me=0x0,cs=0,#f=0,fs=0,fl=0,ds=0,de=0,data=0,se=0,ts=0,ls=0]
Transaction block size = 512
[MS-DOS
I do have nameserver 127.0.0.1 in my /etc/resolv.conf file.
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Subject: Re: NSLOOKUP don't work
Date: Monday, July 14, 1997 5:58 PM
Thomas,
My
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Kevin M. Bealer wrote:
[cut]
I found my keyboard/screen, and possibly the whole thing (don't
remember) would lock up when I had an S3, but adding the nolinear
option fixed the problem. This was with the older version, i.e. it
happened with 3.1 or 3.2. However, other
On 13 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A. M. Varon writes:
Righto! linux treats you as a knowledgeable person, not some idiot who
does'nt know how to use an OS.
The truly knowledgeable person shares his knowledge. Why should we not
share our knowledge of how to configure ppp with new
I do have nameserver 127.0.0.1 in my /etc/resolv.conf file.
Then you have to make sure your nameserver is installed, properly
configured and _running_. Check /usr/doc/bind for documentation.
Before that, I would recommend to change 127.0.0.1 to the address of
some different nameserver though.
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, PYR wrote:
How would this work?
would the base debian system automatically connect to my ISP and download
and install the desired packages?
Assuming you have base already installed, and that you have some
networking utilities installed and configured (that is, a network
Downloaded and installed Netscape, excelent install, I commend
the writer of that package.
Thanks!
Anyway, it won't send mail. I get FCC file not found.
Not being one to believe too seriously in every conspiricy theory
I run accross in alt.conspiricy.black-helocopters, do tell what
is
Hi!
Elvis uses colors by default (different when editing a shell script
or a html file). I don't like that colors at all.
I'd like to have the possibility to turn that off completely in my
.elvisrc or .exrc or similar. Can ne1 provide me with the lines?
As an interim solution I have removed
At 01:54 AM 7/15/97 -0400, Paul Miller wrote:
how do I change the logon message?
-Paul
Pre-login is in /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net
Post-login is in /etc/motd
/etc/issue.net is sent to incoming telnet sessions.
/etc/issue is sent to console and tty (serial) connections.
Later,
Kevin Traas
Well, after several more hours of tinkering, I'm tracking down my
problem. I changed the USR factory settings on my modem. My
connection would still crash out. So I let a ping session run for an
hour to see what happened. Here is a sample of the results:
64 bytes from 152.117.1.7:
This might be going to the wrong list, but I don't think I subscribe to
debian-devel. Maybe it actually goes to the linux kernel people. Anyway:
Shouldn't make modules_install
1) automatically purge the /lib/modules/* tree before installing?
2) update /etc/modules and conf.modules?
I
Will == Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Will This might be going to the wrong list, but I don't think I
Will subscribe to debian-devel. Maybe it actually goes to the
Will linux kernel people. Anyway:
Will Shouldn't make modules_install 1) automatically purge the
Will
Hi
I have had installed Debian 1.3 done then one thing is a problem about network.
My ethernet device was not detected at boot. How do i make the kernel
on top of root? I cant find the network driver like smc9124.c in the
Debian Linux directory. Help me!
thank you
cheers Kam
Novice Linux
K == K Y Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
K Hi I have had installed Debian 1.3 done then one thing is a
K problem about network. My ethernet device was not detected at
K boot. How do i make the kernel on top of root? I cant find
K the network driver like smc9124.c in the Debian
I'm trying to get my girlfriend's Debian machine updated to 1.3 but so far
its been a real pain because she is behind a corporate firewall and I have
to manually ftp the files. Is there any way to configure deselect to go
through the firewall?
in case this helps, netscape is setup for proxy
Shaya Potter wrote:
WinOS2 not an emulator per say, it's based on the same code that Microsoft
used in win 3.1, but patched by IBM so that it could load on top of OS/2.
Therefore, if you have a copy of it, you can also use it to load on top of
dosemu. However, remember to legally use it, you
On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Victor Torrico wrote:
Shaya Potter wrote:
WinOS2 not an emulator per say, it's based on the same code that Microsoft
used in win 3.1, but patched by IBM so that it could load on top of OS/2.
Therefore, if you have a copy of it, you can also use it to load on top of
On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Christopher Ray Martin wrote:
I'm trying to get my girlfriend's Debian machine updated to 1.3 but so far
its been a real pain because she is behind a corporate firewall and I have
to manually ftp the files. Is there any way to configure deselect to go
through the
On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Victor Torrico wrote:
Shaya Potter wrote:
WinOS2 not an emulator per say, it's based on the same code that Microsoft
used in win 3.1, but patched by IBM so that it could load on top of OS/2.
Therefore, if you have a copy of it, you can also use it to load on top of
See http://sunsite.tut.fi/finder/ for my Debian GNU/Linux package
finder.
You can use the finder to do for example these things:
o search for packages with a keyword
o search for packages owning the file you're looking for
o browse stable/unstable/non-US sections and see what's in them.
Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have no pam whatsoever. I have the debian nis package, and when the
NIS server goes down login hangs and dies, even on the console.
The root entry is not exported via NIS and is present on the machine's passwd.
Am I alone experiencing this ?
Phil.
Oliver Landsmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Any hints or maps for me ?
Here are my maps:
amd.home -cache:=inc /cad amd.direct -type:=direct /information amd.direct
-type:=direct /packages amd.direct -type:=direct /local amd.direct
-type:=direct /source amd.direct -type:=direct /Vhdl amd.direct
Casey Feskens wrote:
Well, after several more hours of tinkering, I'm tracking down my
problem. I changed the USR factory settings on my modem. My
connection would still crash out. So I let a ping session run for an
hour to see what happened. Here is a sample of the results:
So my
Vote for Debian as your favorite distribution at
http://www.ssc.com/lj/readchoice.html .
Thanks
Bruce
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On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Jim Foltz wrote:
Is it safe to put these lines in the /etc/ppp/ip-up scripts? $6 is passed
to the script using the ipparam option of pppd and is the name of the
user initiating the ppp link.
if [ -e /home/$6/.ip-up ]; then
cd /home/$6
. .ip-up
fi
No
Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Vote for Debian as your favorite distribution at
: http://www.ssc.com/lj/readchoice.html .
Of course!!! After all Debian has done for us it's the least I can do.
By the way, I-Connect appears in the list of Linux distributions. What
does this mean?
E.-
On 15 Jul 1997, Dale Martin wrote:
Oliver Landsmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Any hints or maps for me ?
Here are my maps:
amd.home -cache:=inc /cad amd.direct -type:=direct
[...]
Just insert a -- before $AMDARGS in /etc/init.d/amd, the line should look
remotely like this one:
eval
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Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for [color]
Sometimes I get the same message, if I start xemacs with the result,
that the color of the background is not the same as before. I am
wondering, what this mean?
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Victor Torrico wrote:
I have OS/2 Warp 3.0 with Winos2. Has anyone actually used Winos2 on top of
dosemu.? If so would you describe the steps necessary to do this or point me
to
information which describes these steps?
I'm also interestet on this issue...
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Syd Alsobrook wrote:
Really easy
The best way to copy a directory tree from one drive to another is
cp -pr /usr /hd
Thanks
Syd
Hmm... The _best_ way? I not so sure. Like most things in
*nix where there are lots of ways to get the job done there
is usually not a _best_
On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Bob Clark wrote:
Syd Alsobrook wrote:
Really easy
The best way to copy a directory tree from one drive to another is
cp -pr /usr /hd
Hmm... The _best_ way? I not so sure. Like most things in
*nix where there are lots of ways to get the job done there
is
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