Re: perl_5.004.02-1 libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21

1997-10-12 Thread Mark W. Eichin
libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21 conflicts with ligdbm_1.7.3-19 (that came with my Debian So get libgdbm_1.7.3-21 from the same place you found libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: smail queue processing question

1997-10-12 Thread Rob MacWilliams
I use a debian box running smail as our local and Internet mail server for our lan. Is there an easy way I can setup smail to process mail that should be delivered locally immediately but queue up mail bound for the Internet and send it all out once every 30 minutes? Thanks in advance,

killing all user processes on logout

1997-10-12 Thread Paul Miller
* needs to kill all processes left open by the user on logout * will ONLY kill those processes open on the tty which is being logged off * also works for xdm any ideas? .bash_logout? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Ascend Pipeline 15

1997-10-12 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Looking for info/HOWTO on installing and configuring the Pipe 15 ISDN terminal adapter/modem. Anyone know of driver developement for this device? Thanks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

free command stuffed

1997-10-12 Thread Richard L Shepherd
I have just updated my servers to the latest stuff in bo (arrived on my mirror on Saturday). The free command now gives weird output, like this: ns1# free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:386536 380196 6340 22472 202704 -/+

Re: Debian Netatalk and Ethernet cards

1997-10-12 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, LeRoy D. Cressy wrote: Further to this problem I have experimented some more and have the following results, all on the one machine, using different cards, attempting to run netatalk on the same network: Card Description: Driver (Module):

perl_5.004.02-1 libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21

1997-10-12 Thread Martin Valldeby
Hi! When trying to install Perl 5.004 (which Apache 1.2.4 depends on) I ran into the following problem. Perl 5.004 pre-dependends on libgdbmg1 (note the last g), but libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21 conflicts with ligdbm_1.7.3-19 (that came with my Debian 1.3.1 installation). And to uninstall libgdbm1

Is something wrong with debian-user?

1997-10-12 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
I have not recieved anything in 3 days. I have submitted 2 items which appear to have gone ok, and yesterday I resubscribed. Thanks -- Walter L. Preuninger IIwaldo @ irc.wasteland.org:#unix [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rapidramp.com/~walterp

Netscape installer

1997-10-12 Thread Andrew Martin Adrian Cater \[Andy\]
Is there an installer which will work for netscape v304 rather than 301 ?? Andy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

timeoutd: Could not open /dev/ttyp0 for checking ....

1997-10-12 Thread Paul Miller
In xconsole, I keep getting messages like '..timeoutd[187]: Could not open /dev/ttyp0 for checking line discipline - idle limits will be enforced' .. is this normal? I don't remember seeing these messages before. -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

scsi zip zip accelerator card CD

1997-10-12 Thread Thalia L. Hooker
Hi, Does any one have a SCSI zip SCSI zip accelerator card and were able to get these recognized during installation? I am trying to repartion reinstall debian 1.3, and seem to get through most steps except getting the ZIP drive to work. I also notice that after each step of the installation

TV PC card suggestions

1997-10-12 Thread Paul Miller
I'm thinking about getting a TV PC card (TV on the PC, not for capturing) and I'm wondering if (1) Linux supports these cards and (2) what kind should I get? I want to have full screen TV quality (or better) and be able to hear sound (currently I have a SB16 and planning to upgrade to a AWE64

ANNOUNCEMENT: Soundblaster AWE HOWTO

1997-10-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hello! I worked the last days on a Soundblaster AWE HOWTO, so that the information gathered on this list (remember the thread about the AWE64?) would not be lost. All information (and a little more) you need to install the Soundblaster 32, SB AWE 32, SB AWE 64 on a Linux system are gathered

X 3.3-4 now in Debian 1.3.4

1997-10-12 Thread Nelson, R.A \(Richard/Rick\)
What XFree86 version is this? I'm running a Mystique, so can't afford to downlevel. Richard Nelson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Oct 11, 1997 at 10:14:40PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: BTW, why does the sound module say what follows at each startup, when I have the default 4megs on the soundcard? (Sure, on some readme...) AWE32 Sound Driver v0.3.3e (DRAM 28672k) Mmmh. Because it can't detect your

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Oct 11, 1997 at 10:14:40PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 1997 at 05:25:56PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: Ok, for you HOWTO, I have isapnp working fine now. I find it *really* odd that you have to rearrange

Re: Cyrix kernel patch

1997-10-12 Thread Shaleh
Paul Miller wrote: On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Shaleh wrote: I have never had an ounce of problem with my chip. I have a 150+ that behaves well. The problem I have seen is that everyone uses the wrong clock setup. My 150+ is actually a 120Mhz. The other problem I have seen is that not

Re: netcat

1997-10-12 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
Could someone help me with netcat. I use the debian package installation method. Grab the package off the debian ftp site. It verified that it was installed. I try running it by typing netcat and file was not found. I did man -k netcat and no man pages were located. I can't find the binary to

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Oct 11, 1997 at 10:14:40PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 1997 at 05:25:56PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: Ok, for you HOWTO, I have isapnp working fine now. I find it *really* odd that you have to rearrange

List server

1997-10-12 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Are the list server(s) ok or is it just me ? Peter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

SOLVED: Epson Stylus Color 600 Printing

1997-10-12 Thread Britton
The general message is: if you are new to unix, watch out for line continuation characters (I know I read something describing them that way somewhere, and mayby in certain types of config files they are, but...). They are really escape characters that refer specifically to the newline THAT MUST

Re: mysql deb package

1997-10-12 Thread Martin Schulze
Timothy Phan writes: Hi, Would someone build the debian package for MySQL and other MySQL related such as mySQL-perl, mySQL-tcl, mySQL-JDBC, mySQL-ODBC on 1.3? I've downloaded the one in hamm/ and it requires libc6 which my debian box is not yet upgraded. The most easiest way

Re: xlock

1997-10-12 Thread Martin Schulze
Behan Webster writes: I have xlockmore installed on my system here with shadow turned on. I know it's supposed to work (because other machines on our localnet are configured seemingly exactly the same and xlock works there). griffon:~ ls -l /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /usr/bin/X11/xlock

Re: Cyrix kernel patch

1997-10-12 Thread George Bonser
On 12-Oct-97 Paul Miller wrote: I think that is because your chip is over-heating.. (common problem) I bought a jet fan w/ barings and it has never frozen with my 6x86 166+ .. although performance is another thing. -Paul I agree. BTW, I found some reading on the subject at:

Re: Cyrix kernel patch

1997-10-12 Thread Paul Miller
On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, George Bonser wrote: On 07-Oct-97 Adam Heath wrote: On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Shaleh wrote: Is there a patch against 2.0.29 for cyrix chips?? Is anyone using it?? I tried the patch for 2.0.30 kernels (on a 2.0.30 kernel, of course) and it locked up a few times ... so

Re: Cyrix kernel patch

1997-10-12 Thread Paul Miller
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Shaleh wrote: I have never had an ounce of problem with my chip. I have a 150+ that behaves well. The problem I have seen is that everyone uses the wrong clock setup. My 150+ is actually a 120Mhz. The other problem I have seen is that not everyone makes motherboards

Re: Cyrix kernel patch

1997-10-12 Thread Paul Miller
Yeah, I'm using it... it works fine if I just enable to reconition. If I try to enable the special features I run into big problems.. probably because my chip is 'IBM 6x68 166+' and not 'Cyrix' (I thought they were the same) -Paul On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Shaleh wrote: Is there a patch against

Re: Help with Samba+Windows+IP-Masq

1997-10-12 Thread Paul Miller
I've done this. I have a ne2000 connected to a cable modem and a 3c590 combo connected to two win95 machines with BNC. I'll assume both interfaces work fine. something like this to your /etc/smb.conf file (global section): interfaces = 192.168.100.0/24 198.109.162.43/255.255.255.224

disabling user mail

1997-10-12 Thread Paul Miller
Is there anyway to disable user mail, so the user can not receive mail (the system replies that the user is unknown, etc)? I'm currently using smail+procmail and I'd rather not switch MTAs. Possibly by using the .forward file (I couldn't find any help on it)? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive

1997-10-12 Thread John Goerzen
Simon Karpen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which WD drives have you had good luck with? I have yet to see a recent one last more than a year... I have several (3) old Caviar drives. One is a 170 meg and the other two are 540 meg. One is six years old; the other, probably about 5; and the third

Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive

1997-10-12 Thread Jim Pick
WD is the only brand that I have seen go belly-up without warning. I am told that WD has recognized the problem and has applied fixes. The only drive I've lost was a WD one. But I have plenty of other WD drives that haven't given me any grief. I've had no problems with my Quantum drives

Re: Install over firewall

1997-10-12 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Oct 08, Stephen Zander wrote Adrian Bridgett wrote: Any ideas on how best to do this? I have installed a version of Socks5 and have symlink /usr/bin/ftp to point to /usr/bin/rftp. This works fine. What sort of fire-wall? Does it support user remote-id@remote-site e-mail Hmm -

wu-ftp/guest accounts

1997-10-12 Thread Paul Miller
I'm trying to configure wu-ftp so my web/ftp users only see their home directories and the public directory (of course the /bin and /lib dirs also).. Currently, my web/ftp users can see their home directory, but they can't do anything with their files (write/overwrite/etc).. It's as if they don't

file-rc problem?

1997-10-12 Thread Darin Johnson
I was installing 1.3.1, and had selected file-rc. It unpacked the files, but when setting them up, I had quite a few packages give warnings/errors in update-rc.d. Was this a bug? If I reinstall without file-rc, then install it by itself later, is it safe to use? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

building perl 5.004?

1997-10-12 Thread Ken Gaugler
Has anyone successfully built Perl 5.004? I get all kinds of *.h files not found errors, like /usr/include/time.h no such file or directory. This is odd, because the files are definitely there. Maybe I will have to wait for the .deb?! -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara, California email: [EMAIL

Re: How to use the Compose key?

1997-10-12 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Ana Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry if my question is too sily but what is a compose Key? Is it for acentuation ? Yes, in most cases. You can compose a character using other characters with the compose key. For example, you can get รถ (the german umlaut o just in case you

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-12 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
In my previous posting, I forgot to attach the isapnp.conf file with the solution suggested by Marcus Brinkmann, here it is. Also, I mentioned kernel 2.1.55 - err... I _have_ problems building it at the moment - but forgot to say that I wanted to test it more for the IPC SHMEM kernel

Printing info nodes.

1997-10-12 Thread Shaul Karl.
I want to print all the nodes of mgetty info. If possible, I would like to format it nicely before I print it. Can I do it non interactively ? In particular, is there something like groff -man ? Thank you. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

problem with leafnode and gnus

1997-10-12 Thread Gustaf Erikson
Hello all, I'm having trouble setting up leafnode to read news. I installed leafnode w/o problems, followed the configuration described in the README and README.debian files, as well as an article in Linux Gazette #9. This article told me to log into my news server, run 'fetch' as root, start a

Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive

1997-10-12 Thread Frank Sergeant
Simon Karpen wrote: Looking around, I notice I have a lot of WD drives: 4GB, 4 months old 1.6GB, 1 year old * 1.6GB, 2.5 years old 800MB, approx 4 years old (got second hand) 200MB, 5 years old * This drive isn't on 24/7. All the rest are, and most have been for their entire

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-12 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 1997 at 05:25:56PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: Ok, for you HOWTO, I have isapnp working fine now. I find it *really* odd that you have to rearrange the order of the entrys in the isapnp.conf. A *quick* and *dirty* hack, and

Re: Install over firewall

1997-10-12 Thread Adrian Bridgett
Well that script doesn't work (total brain failure). However this one works in most circumstances. Unfortunately it's got a bit bigger and will grow even larger when I add a bit more intelligence into it. /* makes ftp script to download all packages marked for install which are different from

route does not show all networks by name

1997-10-12 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
I have 4 network cards a poor old 486-66. When I run route I see all routes fine, except for the -net entries. These are displayed in dotted quad instead of name. /etc/networks contains the following: localnet127.0.0.1 corenet 192.168.0.0 loannet 192.160.0.32 depnet

Implementing callback

1997-10-12 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
Thanks to all that recently helped me with my 'peer refuses to authenticate' problem. Now I have gone 1 step further, and tried to implement callback for security reasons. I can does all of this manually by: 1) Connecting with minicom to the remote box 2) Logging in with a userid/password

Small problem when compiling enlightenment

1997-10-12 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
Tried compiling enlightenment but nrea the end I get this error: ld: error: libc.so.6, needed by /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so, conflicts with libc.so.5 make: *** [enlightenment] Error 1 cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/enlightenment/themes/DEFAULT': No such file or directory cp: cannot

freeware/shaware collection

1997-10-12 Thread Wiria Amadja Kusuma
Hi guys, I am wondering if there is any website on the net which provides us freeware or software specifically for linux, something like tucows, nonags or download.com for windooz. thanks kusuma -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Infomagic LDR debian, and, What's Hamm and Bo?

1997-10-12 Thread me
From: David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bo is the current stable release; hamm is unstable. The names are just codenames, which never change. ... For some reason, some people object to the user of these codenames (don't ask me why; every project in real life has a codename) so ... And

Re: Wordperfect files in linux

1997-10-12 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, And thanks to everybody who answered my question. To summarise, unless I am prepared to pay some money ( and I am not :-) ) there is no straightforward solution. The only thing available is wp2latex which is not in a Debian package. I 'll probably give it a try. As far as MS-Word is

man-db ocassionally needs to be re-installed.

1997-10-12 Thread adavis
Monthly, or more often, since installing Bo 1.3 on new system, I have had to re-install man-db, after getting segmentation faults whenever executing man. I don't believe this is related to libc6, as has been reported. It happens at almost random times. Perhaps certain package upgrades have

xterm/keypad

1997-10-12 Thread Dale Harrison
This is probably going to sound stupid, but... How does one enable the numeric keypad in an xterm? I've never actually noticed that the keypad acts as cursor movement before. [It's the weekend, I'm allowed to ask stupid questions :)] D. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the