Re: 06032921167-0001@T-Online.De

1997-09-17 Thread Bruce Perens
Me too. Write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pete Templin). By the way, only a broken mail system would bounce the message to you. There's stuff in the RFCs about using the envelope from for errors that this mail delivery agent must be ignoring. Bruce -- Can you get your

Re: locales

1997-09-17 Thread Andy Dougherty
On 16 Sep 1997, Dale Martin wrote: Since no one else has responded to this, I figure I'll tell you my solution, which is brain dead to say the least. When I run perl, it says: perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories: LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE perl: warning: Please check

cygwin32-17.1 source on Official CD 2

1997-09-17 Thread David R Baker
Hi, While looking for something else, I noticed the cygwin32-17.1 sources on the source Official CD. There seems to be no binary package. The source files are in the new source file format (unlike 1.2.10). There were binary packages in 1.2. What is the status of this stuff? Is the presence of

Re: /etc/X11/XF86Config for Trident tgui9440

1997-09-17 Thread kestrel
On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: Would someone who's using the above card at 800x600 (or better) please forward a copy of their configuration file to me? I'd appreciate it deeply. TIA -- you'll find mine included, I've got it set up to default to 800x600 with 16bpp and no

Re: xfishtank

1997-09-17 Thread Rob MacWilliams
Rick Hawkins writes: rob writes, Rick Hawkins writes: 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

Re: cygwin32-17.1 source on Official CD 2

1997-09-17 Thread Jim Pick
While looking for something else, I noticed the cygwin32-17.1 sources on the source Official CD. There seems to be no binary package. The source files are in the new source file format (unlike 1.2.10). There were binary packages in 1.2. What is the status of this stuff? Is the presence of

Problem with serial port?

1997-09-17 Thread Bob
I have just installed Debian version 1.3 on my computer. When I attempt to send 'at' commands to my modem through minicom there is a long delay of about 45 seconds before what I typed appears on the screen and than another 30 seconds before the modem responds. My modem is connected to what would

Re: cygwin32-17.1 source on Official CD 2

1997-09-17 Thread David R Baker
Hi, Thanks for the reply. I looked at www,debian.org and the package description says depends on lic5, not libc6. I'm running essentially pure stable. Should the binaries using libc5 from hamm be safe with 1.3.1? Thanks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: Problem with serial port?

1997-09-17 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Bob wrote: I have just installed Debian version 1.3 on my computer. When I attempt to send 'at' commands to my modem through minicom there is a long delay of about 45 seconds before what I typed appears on the screen and than another 30 seconds before the modem responds.

Re: cygwin32-17.1 source on Official CD 2

1997-09-17 Thread Jim Pick
Hi, Thanks for the reply. I looked at www,debian.org and the package description says depends on lic5, not libc6. I'm running essentially pure stable. Should the binaries using libc5 from hamm be safe with 1.3.1? There shouldn't really be a problem. On the other hand, I don't really

Re: Best Ethernet Card

1997-09-17 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On 12 Sep 1997, Dale Martin wrote: 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 have the Intel EtherExpress 100 Pro, which is different from the regular one (requires a driver that is

Re: Problem with serial port?

1997-09-17 Thread Bruce Perens
The other possibility would be that the interrupt vector for the com port isn't configured correctly in /etc/rc.boot/0setserial. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens

ipx via ppp.

1997-09-17 Thread R. Chris Ross
I have compiled my kernel with ipx support at home. It was intended that I connect via ppp to our novel server at work. When I put any of the ipx related commands into the /etc/ppp/option file I get a message that the command is no good. They are out of the pppd man page. Does Debian

Re: re-attaching a terminal to a disconnected process

1997-09-17 Thread Frank Sergeant
Thanks (to Thomas and Greg) for the suggestions to use screen. I'll look into it. I 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, [...] -- Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

libc6-dev and clisp

1997-09-17 Thread Will Lowe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I'm recompiling clisp for libc6. Have the standard /usr/include/* header files changed significantly from libc5? I'm getting all sorts of conflicting types errors where a clispfile.c includes a /usr/include/.h file. For some reason configure isn't resolving

Dialing my ISP

1997-09-17 Thread Steve Koop
Hi There: I'm A user to Linux and have problem hooking up to my ISP. I have installed Debian 1.3.1 several times now second time I installed Debian I got on line fine. The next time I installed it, because I forgot to install the drive for my network card so done that, and it not work. The only

Re: SB AWE 64 versus Soft. Syns. for making midi... Also, midi keybo

1997-09-17 Thread Britton
I figure that maybe I can spend the money on a midi-compatable keyboard instead. Anyone with exp. on using one of those under Linux? I saw a keyboard for about $170 at Electronic Boutique, which was basically one devoted to Midi, without any samples built in. That seems to be the

idea for newbies

1997-09-17 Thread George Bonser
Just a little tip that I picked up from an old timer. As you learn new things, enter the information into a regular text file, I use a file called infofile. Example: /bin/echo pppstats displays ppp useage statistics infofile Then when you want to remember something that you entered concerning

Re: 06032921167-0001@T-Online.De

1997-09-17 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Eloy A. Paris wrote: I am getting bounced back messages every time I post to debian-user. The bounced message says that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is an unknow user. Is it just me or everybody is having this problem? I've the same problem since yesterday. Dieter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: Dialing my ISP

1997-09-17 Thread Joost_Kooij
On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Steve Koop wrote: I'm A user to Linux and have problem hooking up to my ISP. When I Do # pon,, It dials and the other modem answers and the when I ping a site on the Internet, nothing happens. Have read the ppp, serial, and net3, howto's.. Does any body have

Re: workman_1.3a-5 uploaded to master

1997-09-17 Thread Volker Ossenkopf
I have uploaded a new version of the workman package to master. It adjusts the postinst file to better meet the Debian policy. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.5 Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 22:00:00 +0200 Source: workman Binary: workman Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.3a-5

Re: xvmount_3.6-4 uploaded to master

1997-09-17 Thread Volker Ossenkopf
I have uploaded a new version of the xvmount package to master. It adjusts the postinst script to better meet the Debian policy. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.5 Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 22:00:00 +0200 Source: xvmount Binary: xvmount Architecture: source i386 Version: 3.6-4

Re: 06032921167-0001@T-Online.De

1997-09-17 Thread Martin Schulze
Bruce Perens writes: Me too. Write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pete Templin). By the way, only a broken mail system would bounce the message to you. There's stuff in the RFCs about using the envelope from for errors that this mail delivery agent must be ignoring. Looking at

Re: Debian ppp server how-to?

1997-09-17 Thread dada
Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Thanks for using NetForward! http://www.netforward.com v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v 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

Re: Dialing my ISP

1997-09-17 Thread Joost_Kooij
On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Joost_Kooij wrote: When I Do # pon,, It dials and the other modem answers and the when I ping a site on the Internet, nothing happens. .. Does any body have some suggestions in this mater? Try: `pon;plog -f` (or `pon;tail -f /var/log/ppp.log`) It will show you

HELP: problems compiling wine

1997-09-17 Thread Lazaro Salem
Hi, I would appreciate any hint to work around this error I get when trying to compile wine (970828). configure and make depend worked ok, but when trying: mafalda# make [snip...] make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/wine970824/miscemu' gcc -o wine controls/controls.o files/files.o

Re: [DEBIAN] Standardization?

1997-09-17 Thread David
It would be so cool if we all used linux insted of debian or redhat. I changed from redhat to deb because I percieved that future upgrades would be smoother. I think that was time I could better have spent doing something else. But for the record I'm glad I spent it. Binary Bar - Australia's

Re: ipx via ppp.

1997-09-17 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, R. Chris Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I have compiled my kernel with ipx support at home. It was : intended that I connect via ppp to our novel server at work. When I put : any of the ipx related commands into the /etc/ppp/option file I get a : message that the command is no

Re: Debian ppp server how-to?

1997-09-17 Thread Carey Evans
dada [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] I do all you say...but I don't enjoy...It don't work. Maybe I'm newie, can help me? Does your phone line ring? Does the modem notice (AA light flashes; RING gets printed if you're in minicom)? Does the modem itself answer (it shouldn't)? Does

Bo updates

1997-09-17 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, I am wondering when all those useful packages in bo-updates will be merged into bo. I've seeing them for quite a while but I don't want to install in our production servers (running 1.3.1) anything that is untested. Debian 1.3.1 was released more than one month ago and I haven't seen any

Re: HELP: problems compiling wine

1997-09-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: gcc -o wine controls/controls.o files/files.o graphics/graphics.o graphics/metafiledrv/metafiledrv.o graphics/x11drv/x11drv.o ipc/ipc.o loader/loader.o memory/memory.o misc/misc.o msdos/msdos.o multimedia/multimedia.o objects/objects.o

reading mail with gnus

1997-09-17 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm trying to set gnus to manage email with split methods. Using XEmacs I was able to configure the methods but I couldn't find how to have the e-mails shown in the screen. Is there some tutorial/howto to do this? Can someone help me with a step-by-step guide?

install new kernel 2.0.30 ??

1997-09-17 Thread Marc Fleureck
Hi, I have installed a package kernel-image-2.0.30deb to upgrade from 2.0.27. I used dpkg -i packname.deb. All went well. After a reboot, the system still says it has the old kernel (uname -r). Should I say switchkernel or something ?? Regards, Marc e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO

Re: install new kernel 2.0.30 ??

1997-09-17 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Marc Fleureck wrote: I have installed a package kernel-image-2.0.30deb to upgrade from 2.0.27. I used dpkg -i packname.deb. All went well. After a reboot, the system still says it has the old kernel (uname -r). Did you run lilo? -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Debian ppp server how-to?

1997-09-17 Thread dada
Carey Evans wrote: dada [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] I do all you say...but I don't enjoy...It don't work. Maybe I'm newie, can help me? Does your phone line ring? Does the modem notice (AA light flashes; RING gets printed if you're in minicom)? Does the modem itself

Netscape 4.03 for Linux is out!

1997-09-17 Thread Brian K Servis
Hi all, Just thought you would like to know, Netscape 4.03 english version is out for Linux. It comes in three forms: standard, professional and just the stand alone browser with now news/mail/composer/etc. ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.03/shipping/english/unix/linux20/

Re: Netscape 4.03 for Linux is out!

1997-09-17 Thread Lawrence
so, is the netscape.deb up-to-date:) Brian K Servis wrote: Hi all, Just thought you would like to know, Netscape 4.03 english version is out for Linux. It comes in three forms: standard, professional and just the stand alone browser with now news/mail/composer/etc.

Re: Debian ppp server how-to?

1997-09-17 Thread dada
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 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

Re: Netscape 4.03 for Linux is out!

1997-09-17 Thread Paul Seelig
On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Brian K Servis wrote: Just thought you would like to know, Netscape 4.03 english version is out for Linux. It comes in three forms: standard, professional and just the stand alone browser with now news/mail/composer/etc. Thanks for the information. The release has

Re: Netscape 4.03 for Linux is out!

1997-09-17 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Brian K Servis wrote: It comes in three forms: standard, professional and just the stand alone browser with now news/mail/composer/etc. What are the differences between these three forms? Dieter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Netscape 4.03 for Linux is out!

1997-09-17 Thread Glenn Amerine
Paul == Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Thanks for the information. The release has been since quite Paul a while now and in the meantime i already deinstalled Paul it. Can you imagine that the standalone version needs more Paul resources than the already bloated 3.0x

graphics accelarator cards ?

1997-09-17 Thread Marc Fleureck
Does somebody know what cards are compatible and give good performance ? Is e.g. Matrox a good choice (say Matrox Mystique or Matrox Millenium) ? What's the difference between Matrox Mystique and Matrox Mystique ii ? Regards, Marc e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: HELP: problems compiling wine

1997-09-17 Thread Will Lowe
On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Lazaro Salem wrote: Hi, I would appreciate any hint to work around this error I get when trying gcc -o wine controls/controls.o files/files.o graphics/graphics.o graphics/metafiledrv/metafiledrv.o graphics/x11drv/x11drv.o ipc/ipc.o loader/loader.o memory/memory.o

Re: install new kernel 2.0.30 ??

1997-09-17 Thread Joost_Kooij
On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Marc Fleureck wrote: I have installed a package kernel-image-2.0.30deb to upgrade from 2.0.27. I used dpkg -i packname.deb. All went well. After a reboot, the system still says it has the old kernel (uname -r).

Re: install new kernel 2.0.30 ??

1997-09-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Installing a kernel image package just puts a kernel image in boot, symlinks to /vmlinuz, and offers t run Lilo. Whether you get the new version on next bootup depends on whether your bootup process is aware that you upgraded. If you use LILO, did you (after checking

Debian 1.2 archive?

1997-09-17 Thread Mike Miller
Is Debian 1.2 available by ftp anywhere? Mike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

top doesn't understand multiple processors

1997-09-17 Thread Brian White
When running top on my 2 cpu machine, I get some interesting states: 12:12pm up 18:03h, 5 users, load average: 1.52, 0.76, 0.49 65 processes: 61 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 90.2% user, 107.5% system, 0.9% nice, 0.0% idle Mem: 128044K av, 110520K used,

Many questions (mostly Network)

1997-09-17 Thread Mike Patterson
1) I have a rather strange setup, and I'm confused on how to implement it. It looks something like this: |---| ~~~| Gateway ||---[A Machine] |---|| | |---[A Machine] |---|| | Fileserv ||---[A

'tell' is missing from libc6

1997-09-17 Thread Brian White
It appears the tell(path) command is missing from libc6. What should I be using instead? Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- the difference between

Incoming PPP question - subnetting

1997-09-17 Thread Kevin Traas
I'm having a problem configuring dialin PPP access on my system. (Debian 1.3.1, PPPD 2.2 pl0) I've allocated a subnet of addresses to the incoming lines and tried setting the subnet mask in /etc/ppp/options to netmask 255.255.255.224; however, my incoming clients have netmasks of 255.255.255.0.

Re: reading mail with gnus

1997-09-17 Thread Steve Witt
On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: Hi, I'm trying to set gnus to manage email with split methods. Using XEmacs I was able to configure the methods but I couldn't find how to have the e-mails shown in the screen. Is there some tutorial/howto to do

Re: Many questions (mostly Network)

1997-09-17 Thread Dima
Mike Patterson wrote: ... So my questions are: * Can I have two ne-2000 compatible cards in the same system? You can stop other drivers from probing i/o ports and tell them which port to use as well, so it doesn't have to be 2 ne2k's -- other cards will do, too. Some ne2k's have to

Re: Many questions (mostly Network)

1997-09-17 Thread Kevin Traas
So my questions are: * Can I have two ne-2000 compatible cards in the same system? No problem. See the Multiple-Ethernet HOWTO. * assuming the gateway can pump data extremely fast, will I be losing a ton of permformance by going from 10baseT to thin BNC? In other words,

Re: Incoming PPP question - subnetting

1997-09-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Kevin Traas wrote: I'm having a problem configuring dialin PPP access on my system. (Debian 1.3.1, PPPD 2.2 pl0) I've allocated a subnet of addresses to the incoming lines and tried setting the subnet mask in /etc/ppp/options to netmask 255.255.255.224; however, my incoming clients have

Re: Incoming PPP question - subnetting

1997-09-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Kevin Traas wrote: I'm having a problem configuring dialin PPP access on my system. (Debian 1.3.1, PPPD 2.2 pl0) I've allocated a subnet of addresses to the incoming lines and tried setting the subnet mask in /etc/ppp/options to netmask 255.255.255.224; however, my incoming clients have

Re: Many questions (mostly Network)

1997-09-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Mike Patterson wrote: -- 3) Ok, now let's say one of the A Machines is a Linux box that uses PPP to hook into a secure site (behind a firewall). Let's say (oh, for example) that everything behind the firewall is

MD5 passwords and su

1997-09-17 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
I just detected the MD5_CRYPT_ENAB option in /etc/login.defs and enabled it. Login works fine with the new passwords but su seems to have no idea of MD5. Is there a working version of su for MD5 passwords? I have the following packages installed: shellutils_1.16-2 (containing su)

Re: Sound Blaster AWE32 and Sound Blaster AWE 64 Gold

1997-09-17 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm ... I have a SB16 and midi works fine without isapnptools, maybe that's the difference. You probably have a waveblaster extension mounted to i/o 330 using the MPU 401 interface. The SB 32 has a build-in (non MPU 401 compatible) Emu8000

Re: MD5 passwords and su

1997-09-17 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On 16 Sep 1997, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: I just detected the MD5_CRYPT_ENAB option in /etc/login.defs and enabled it. Login works fine with the new passwords but su seems to have no idea of MD5. Is there a working version of su for MD5 passwords? su also seems to ignore ENV_SUPATH and

Re: top doesn't understand multiple processors

1997-09-17 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
--- You wrote: When running top on my 2 cpu machine, I get some interesting states: 12:12pm up 18:03h, 5 users, load average: 1.52, 0.76, 0.49 65 processes: 61 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 90.2% user, 107.5% system, 0.9% nice, 0.0% idle Mem: 128044K av,

Re: graphics accelarator cards ?

1997-09-17 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
--- Marc Fleureck wrote: Does somebody know what cards are compatible and give good performance ? Is e.g. Matrox a good choice (say Matrox Mystique or Matrox Millenium) ? What's the difference between Matrox Mystique and Matrox Mystique ii ? --- end of quote --- I think Matrox is a good choice,

rlogin and rxvt

1997-09-17 Thread Will Lowe
I use the following to open an xwindow to a remote host (copland), because ssh isn't available on our central campus machines: rxvt -e rlogin copland And when I later do 'ps -x', I see this: 3983 1 S 0:00 rxvt -bg black -fg grey -T Copland -n Copland -font 10x20 4023

rpc.portmap and friends

1997-09-17 Thread mike
How dangerous is it to remove rpc.portmap, rpc.bwnfsd, rpc.mountd, rpc.nfsd, rpc.pcnfsd, rpc.rstatd, rpc.rusersd, rpc.rwalld, and rpc.ugidd? I'm trying to setup a semi-closed box running nothing but a few terminal server utilities and want to only accept telnet and ftp connections from a

Re: MD5 passwords and su

1997-09-17 Thread Galen Hazelwood
The version of su you're using (from shellutils) isn't part of the shadow password suite. It's smart enough to use shadow password functions if it finds them in the library, which it does, but other shadow features (ENV_SUPATH, SU_WHEEL, MD5 passwords) aren't available. If you want them, you

Re: comment about Linux

1997-09-17 Thread dada
Torsten Hilbrich wrote: dada [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Is true that I never lose control on my linux box, but some times I lose control in my X-Windows and I must restart the X. Is that usual? I supose that's due to use some aplications. But if this is true, why I lose

Re: rpc.portmap and friends

1997-09-17 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 17 Sep 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How dangerous is it to remove rpc.portmap, rpc.bwnfsd, rpc.mountd, rpc.nfsd, rpc.pcnfsd, rpc.rstatd, rpc.rusersd, rpc.rwalld, and rpc.ugidd? I'm trying to setup a semi-closed box running nothing but a few terminal server utilities and want

Re: Incoming PPP question - subnetting

1997-09-17 Thread Kevin Traas
Thanks for the reply (and the info), Jens. Here's what I'm trying to do: I've got one assigned Class C - 206.182.236.0 - which I've split using a netmask of 255.255.255.224. I'm using one subnet of 206.182.236.32 for my local LAN. My Debian Linux box is IP .33 and acts as a DialdD server to

Re: MD5 passwords and su

1997-09-17 Thread Lindsay Allen
On 16 Sep 1997, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: I just detected the MD5_CRYPT_ENAB option in /etc/login.defs and enabled it. Login works fine with the new passwords but su seems to have no idea of MD5. Is there a working version of su for MD5 passwords? I have the following packages installed:

Re: rpc.portmap and friends

1997-09-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How dangerous is it to remove rpc.portmap, rpc.bwnfsd, rpc.mountd, rpc.nfsd, rpc.pcnfsd, rpc.rstatd, rpc.rusersd, rpc.rwalld, and rpc.ugidd? I'm trying to setup a semi-closed box running nothing but a few terminal server utilities and want to only accept