Yes, that's not a bad point, surviving machines in case of a crash...
provided the software on the 386's is designed not to necessarily send
everything immediately to the main dbase...
... but also PROVIDED there is no need to consult the main dbase,
which is much
hi,
i want to install debian and i want to know if it's possible to share
the
same partition for swap file of win95 and linux.
if it's possible, how to do this???
Thanks
Benoit Joly
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Trying to make lftp work, I'd downloaded the version in hamm. This
called for a new lic5 which caused the removal on damn near everything.
Included in that was the locales package. I've restored almost
everything, with the exception of the locales package which depends on
libc5 being removed.
I had written earlier that I've been getting seg faults when trying to
run programs from rxvt since updating hamm last night and that window
manager programs ran fine but that isn't the case.
I have found that Image magik seg faults from the menu.
Since I just got re-subscribed to the list I'll
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On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, dada wrote:
Is there any how-to to setup an ppp server under Debian?
I need detailled information becouse I'm newie :-) and I want set up one
ppp server at my home.
Regards.
Depending how many users you want to server
Nicola Bernardell writes:
I think nobody would think about replicating data on each of the 386's!
Don't. Have them build an LRU cache. Query the server first: if it
responds use its data and update the cache. If the server doesn't respond,
use the cache.
I mean, what scares me is all that
Make sure it's in your /etc/fstab file. That should do it.
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This might be a stupid question, but how do I automount partitons at
startup?
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Hi!
This might be a stupid question, but how do I automount partitons at
startup?
This is done from the file /etc/fstab, which is read at bootup. 'man
fstab' will help show you the options, here is mine as an example:
-BEGIN
# /etc/fstab:
It's the elf-x11r6lib I'm looking for not the elf-xlib as I stated in this
posting.
I searched the pkgs list from the Debian web site using elf as the keyword
and nothing. I looked up a few of the pkgs that keep telling me they require
it and they don't show it in the web site search either.
A friend of mine just installed Linux, newest Debian dist off of the ftp
sites.
Having a little trouble with X. He'd like to play Maelstrom, but it keeps
locking up just as he starts the second level. (We can kill the server
with ctrl-alt-backspace still.)
He's running the newest X3.3, and the
Ahh, you're using 'unstable'. Living dangerously, eh?
There are some programs (ie. emacs, fvwm2, xdaliclock + others) that
incorrectly link with both libc5 and libc6. This wasn't a problem
until you installed xlib6g, since you didn't have libc6-based
X libs until then. Read my previous post,
Hi!
This might be a stupid question, but how do I automount partitons at
startup?
Regards,
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If they are local hard disk partions, just add them to your /etc/fstab
file. 'man fstab' for details.
If you want to mount network partitions on demand - you want to check
out
Sounds like you've been bitten by 'unstable' too - followups to debian-devel
please.
Here's what I wrote previously:
Ahh, you're using 'unstable'. Living dangerously, eh?
There are some programs (ie. emacs, fvwm2, xdaliclock + others) that
incorrectly link with both libc5 and libc6. This
Does anyone know of an xemacs mode for iso-8859-9 similar to
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Since the web has become so annoying in the past year I have strayed away
from using it as much as possible, however now I need/would like to set up
a website that is username/password protected on my Debian Linux(so it is
somewhat related) machine.
Here's how I do it in with Apache. This
i want to install debian and i want to know if it's possible to share
the
same partition for swap file of win95 and linux.
if it's possible, how to do this???
There's a mini-HOWTO for this:
/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Swap-Space.gz
I've never done it myself though.
Cheers,
- Jim
On Sun, 14 Sep 1997 23:08:28 - Rick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
It's the elf-x11r6lib I'm looking for not the elf-xlib as I stated in this
posting.
I searched the pkgs list from the Debian web site using elf as the keyword
and nothing. I looked up a few of the pkgs that keep telling me
On 12 Sep 1997, Dale Martin wrote:
Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The other card I see mentioned a lot, but never see much as far as
recommendations, is the Intel EtherExpress 100. Anyone have any
thoughts on those?
I'm using an EtherExpress 100 together with Linux. The
i'm running debian 1.3.1 and i need whatever help i can get on all these
problems!
problem one: bitchx
i have bitchx73 installed, and i cannot get it to run properly. when
run, it tells me the current term (defaulted to 'linux') doesn't have a
termcap entry. upon starting, everything looks cool
Justin Honold wrote:
i'm running debian 1.3.1 and i need whatever help i can get on all these
problems!
[ ... ]
problem 6: mpeg_play
this isn't necessarily a problem, because i switched to mtv, but i was
unable to run mpeg_play because i was missing libm.so.4 (with libc
installed).
On Sep 14, Bert Heijenga wrote
After installing Nedit from the package nedit-smotif_4.0.3-1.deb I cannot
start Nedit as root nor as a user.
I get the following message:
nedit: can't load library '/usr/lib/libXt.so.6'
Unknown error
[snip]
What does
ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/nedit
Rob MacWilliams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there any place these variables are documented, I looked through
the Info pages but couldn't find anything. Emacs really is a
lifestyle and I'd like to find out more before I commit to it
entirely.
It's in the XEmacs FAQ for Gnus. I tested it on
On Sat, 13 Sep 1997, Jim Pick wrote:
I try to install X11 from cdrom that is download and recorded from ftp.
When I use dselect to install some packages, some .deb packages are
refused by dpkg. Even I use dpkg -i xlib* to install X11, error message
like:
dpkg-deb:
On Sun, 14 Sep 1997, A. Paul Heely Jr. wrote:
What ports are these devices connected to?
These all connect through device, I don't know exactly what it is,
that is itself connected to a serial port.
One device only... the Wyse's have _two_ serial ports, but maybe to just
switch from one
I'm using a DEBIAN Linux version 1.1.
I installed an AVA 1505 AT-to-SCSI host adapter.
Do you know where I can find a driver for this
SCSI host adapter ?
Thanks
Paolo
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Hi,
With regards to your xman problem, have you checked the permissions of
/dev/null?
I had exactly the same problem and messages from xman with an
installation of Slackware - it was because /dev/null only had root
permissions. I had to chmod it so that everybody could use
Is there a window maker package for the stable release?
Otherwise I imaging this is annother of those I'm using the unstable stuff
and really shouldn't be...
Binary Bar - Australia's first free access internet bar/cafe/gallery.
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My experience is with hp terminals using enq-ack protocol. When you
send stuff to one of the devices (screen, printer port, mini-tape,
etc.) the keyboard gets locked for the duration of that transfer.
Usually, this is not very long. If the line is fast, you don't have
much time to do anything
Hi all,
Does somebody know how to configure qpopper to get a mail in ~user/mail
intead /var/spool/mail/user ?
Thank you
Bruno
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Yes. I did this the other day in the process of installing qmail.
I recompiled qpopper and qpopperauth. Have a look at www.qmail.org, the
instructions are in the faq I think.
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Hello everyone...
Hi!
First of all, I noticed that the Sound Blaster AWE 64 is out, and is
only about $100 in most stores. Does anyone know if this works
alright under Linux/Debian yet?
I have SB AWE32pnp, and the SB64
On Mon, Sep 15, 1997 at 01:11:07PM +0100, Paolo Ciliegi wrote:
I'm using a DEBIAN Linux version 1.1.
I installed an AVA 1505 AT-to-SCSI host adapter.
Do you know where I can find a driver for this
SCSI host adapter ?
Thanks
Paolo
If my guess is right, you can use the AHA-152x driver
Colin == Colin R Telmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Colin Does anyone have any experience using netboot?
Look into the `transnames' kernel patch; which I think might be part
of the 2.1.x kernels now. With that, I think you could boot a '95
workstation with a floppy. The kernel on the
Carl == Carl Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Carl I have recently been trying to edit some perl scripts using
Carl xemacs, so I tried using the cperl-mode instead of
Carl perl-mode.
Try (require 'cperl-mode) and see if that brings it in.
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How can I adjust the responsiveness of the mouse under X? Right now I
almost have to move the mouse half way across the room to cross the
screen? It's a PS/2 mouse.
I've adjusted (lowered) the resposiveness under GPM. Could that be affecting
things in X? X is accessing the mouse
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Hi,
we use a SMTP/POP3 mail solution running in a Debian box. I find the
vacation program very useful when users are out of the office. However,
my users do not even know there is a Unix box behind the scenes because
all they is a nice mail program like Eudora with a nice Windows user
interface.
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On Sep 15, Jeppe Buk wrote
Try adding -h after rshd in your /etc/inetd.conf. This flag allows
your in.rshd to use the root .rhosts file. Without it /root/.rhosts
will be silently ignored.
That did it! The option isn't mentioned in the man page. How was I
supposed to have found this out
On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Bengt-Ove Johansson wrote:
I'm a student programmer at the Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science,
Odense University in Denmark.
I've installed Debian 1.2 on one of our PC's in the Unix network. This
works great (not surprisingly).
Now I've installed Debian
I read carefully the Printing HOWTO, and have installed Magicfilter
according to its docs. I have an HP 4L, but there appears to be 3 versions
of the 4L filter in the filters directory. One is very large, the others not.
So, I need this: What is the exact name of the filter to put in
Has anyone else had a problem with this? It utterly hangs X, beyond
restarting X. I can still telnet in, but halting the xdm daemon restarting
isn't enough to recover the keyboard. For that matter, it requires an actual
power down (but there are some strange hardware problems on this
On Wed, Sep 10, 1997 at 03:53:42PM +0200, Jeppe Buk wrote:
Hi
I'm a student programmer at the Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science,
Odense University in Denmark.
I've installed Debian 1.2 on one of our PC's in the Unix network. This
works great (not surprisingly).
Now I've
I tried to install Debian 1.3.1. I got cannot initialize swap partition
error and it stopped the installation. I've already tried 3 rescue disks.
I don't know what went wrong. Can anybody help?
I'm using Adaptec AHA-2940 SCSI card, Quantum Viking 4.3G HD.
Marlet
On Mon, Sep 15, 1997 at 10:03:24AM -0400, Brian White wrote:
As I suspected, if X reads the mouse directly (and it does unless you are
using it with GPM's repeater mode, the settings made via GPM won't affect
X.
I didn't know about this mode. I had an interesting problem where X would
die if
After my vacation, I came back to a special root login that looked
like I needed to do some repairs. This was not the normal login prompt.
The disks look fine (did e2fsck on them) but now XFree-3.3 wouldn't
recognise my [Windows] keys as Meta keys in X, and the Backspace key
enters a ~
On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Jeff Noxon wrote:
On Fri, Sep 12, 1997 at 01:09:24PM -0400, Dale Martin wrote:
The current wisdom says to avoid the 3com 3c905, and go with a DEC
Tulip based card. I do know from personal experience that the 3c905
has problems - haven't tried a Tulip card yet, but
Hi!
Is it possible to allow root access via telnet?
It is supposed to be used for remote administration. The server is
*not* connected to the Internet and contains no sensitive/important
data, so security would not be a problem. The server is (right now)
only for playing with... :-)
Regards,
On Sep 06, Karsten Bolding wrote
Hi
Got my new machine (orca) and started to migrate programs from the old
(dolphin). So far I've run into two problems - maybe unrelated - but both has
to du with
X.
1: ncview is a very nice utility to browse netcdf-files
On Mon, 15 Sep 1997 16:13:43 +0200 Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
ual.net) wrote:
On Sep 15, Jeppe Buk wrote
Try adding -h after rshd in your /etc/inetd.conf. This flag allows
your in.rshd to use the root .rhosts file. Without it /root/.rhosts
will be silently ignored.
That
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes:
Carl == Carl Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Carl I have recently been trying to edit some perl scripts using
Carl xemacs, so I tried using the cperl-mode instead of
Carl perl-mode.
Try (require 'cperl-mode) and see if that
hi everybody,
I'm trying to install Debian 1.3.1 with an Adaptec AHA 2840VL/2842VL
SCSI card; while the RESC1440 disk is beeing loaded I get a lot of error
messages; some of them are:
- encountered spurious interrupt
- failed to initialize module ?
- In swapper task - not syncing
..and it
Hello,
I've read the mini-FAQ on token ring and they don't talk about Debian.
What are the steps to successful tr0 ?
Thanx -- Greg.
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I have the package e2compr_1.06-2 installed providing the package
e2fsprogs (replacing it). If I now try to install a package (say mc)
depending on e2fsprogs (=1.06-1) it tells me this package is not
installed even though it is provided by e2compr.
What happens here?
Thanks,
Torsten
Hi!
Is it possible to allow root access via telnet?
It is supposed to be used for remote administration. The server is
*not* connected to the Internet and contains no sensitive/important
data, so security would not be a problem. The server is (right now)
only for playing with... :-)
Hi!
Is it possible to allow root access via telnet?
It is supposed to be used for remote administration. The server is
*not* connected to the Internet and contains no sensitive/important
data, so security would not be a problem. The server is (right now)
only for playing with... :-)
On 15 Sep 1997, TENCC01.LEWIS01 wrote:
My experience is with hp terminals using enq-ack protocol. When you
send stuff to one of the devices (screen, printer port, mini-tape,
etc.)
(does each of those terminals have that lot of ports?)
the keyboard gets locked for the duration of
On Mon, Sep 15, 1997 at 10:24:03AM +0200, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
Justin Honold wrote:
i'm running debian 1.3.1 and i need whatever help i can get on all these
problems!
[ ... ]
problem 6: mpeg_play
this isn't necessarily a problem, because i switched to mtv, but i was
unable
Michael Legart wrote:
Hi!
Is it possible to allow root access via telnet?
It is supposed to be used for remote administration. The server is
*not* connected to the Internet and contains no sensitive/important
data, so security would not be a problem. The server is (right now)
only for
On Mon, Sep 15, 1997 at 01:02:55PM -0400, Raymond A. Ingles wrote:
How does one determine from minimal catalog info what cards are
Tulip-based? I've been trying to figure that out for a while...
They use the DEC 2104x (10 Mb/s) or 2114x (100 Mb/s) chips. Just look
at the card or the specs
Hi!
I have a little problem getting cdda2wav to work... when i start
the program, i'm just told that it cannot stat device sgb ...
Howcome?
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Michael Hi! Is it possible to allow root access via telnet?
Edit /etc/securetty and add entries for the /dev/ttypN's that
telnet uses. To see what I mean, log on with telnet, and run `w' or
`who', and look at the TTY names.
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Hi!
Is it possible to allow root access via telnet?
It is supposed to be used for remote administration. The server is
*not* connected to the Internet and contains no sensitive/important
data, so security would not be a problem. The server is (right now)
only for playing with... :-)
On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Michael Legart wrote:
Is it possible to allow root access via telnet?
It is supposed to be used for remote administration. The server is
*not* connected to the Internet and contains no sensitive/important
data, so security would not be a problem. The server is (right
Hi!
Option 1, the usual way to do this: just telnet as an ordinary user,
and then su to root.
Great! It was just something like that I was looking for ... I just
needed to do root stuff via telnet.
Thanks!
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Does anyone know of an xemacs mode for iso-8859-9 similar to
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Hello.
I seem to have a problem with atd and its pid file (/var/run/atd.pid).
I have a client that mounts all directories from a server.
I can't find any differences except that at's pid file seems to be empty on
the client, while for example crond's pid file does contain something.
Does anybody
Hi
I keep getting e-mail through Juno from my boyfriend who is on an aircraft
carrier. The last time, I used uuencode. This time it says base64. Can you
tell my why they are coming to me encoded. Also, is there an easy way for me
to decode this message. The uuencode doesn't work. Maybe it
I'm thinking about a setup like this: our application would
run on a Linux box at the central office, one instance (process)
for each user. Some users would be connected over the central
office's ethernet. Other users would be at remote offices
connected perhaps directly over a modem to the
One device only... the Wyse's have _two_ serial ports, but maybe to just
switch from one host to another, don't know whether or not the second port
can just be used as auxiliary input... but why not keybord emulation as
done by most barcode scanners I saw? Do credit card scanners have
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Michael Legart wrote:
Option 1, the usual way to do this: just telnet as an ordinary user,
and then su to root.
Great! It was just something like that I was looking for ... I just
Actually, I recommend sudo ... since I
On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Frank Sergeant wrote:
Is there a way to tell the process to keep running even if
its terminal is disconnected, and then later re-attach a
terminal to it, perhaps the same terminal from the remote
office or perhaps the system administrator's terminal at
the central office
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