Ratón Logitech con rueda de scroll

1998-12-07 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Hola a todos, me acaban de regalar un ratón Logitech de esos que tienen una ruedecita entre los dos botones para realizar el scroll de forma cómoda. Se que está pensado para Windoze pero ¿alguien ha hecho funcionar en Linux la ruedecita de scroll o es algo exclusivo para Windows?. La verdad es

Re: Ratón Logitech con rueda de scroll

1998-12-07 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 01:09:35AM +, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez dijo: Hola a todos, me acaban de regalar un ratón Logitech de esos que tienen una ruedecita entre los dos botones para realizar el scroll de forma cómoda. Se que está pensado para Windoze pero ¿alguien ha hecho funcionar en

Re: Parche WindowMaker 0.20.2 - 0.20.3

1998-12-07 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 12:39:20AM +0100, Juanmi Mora wrote: Hola!!! Alguien ha probado el parche del subject. Le funciona? Prueba: http://master.debian.org/~mmagallo/wmaker_0.20.3-0.0.1_i386.deb http://master.debian.org/~mmagallo/libwraster1_0.20.3-0.0.1_i386.deb

Re: iconos desaparecidos en menus de KDE 1.0

1998-12-07 Thread Ramiro Alba Queipo
miquel wrote: ¿alguien ha instalado la versión de KDE 1.0 que distribuye este mes Linux Actual (en el CD de debian contrib)? Resulta que en algunos menús falta el archivo con el icono, y en su lugar sale un cuadro negro. En concreto en las ventanas de las aplicaciones propias de KDE. Da un

Re: Mensaje mosqueante II

1998-12-07 Thread Juan Ramón Larrea
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 09:40:23AM +, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: Ya he modificado el /etc/conf.modules descomentando la linea que ponía: alias net-pf-5 off según me indicó Marcelo. Ahora me aparece en xconsole: Dec 4 10:34:21

Re: iconos desaparecidos en menus de KDE 1.0

1998-12-07 Thread Melkor
On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, miquel wrote: ¿alguien ha instalado la versión de KDE 1.0 que distribuye este mes Linux Actual (en el CD de debian contrib)? Resulta que en algunos menús falta el archivo con el icono, y en su lugar sale un cuadro negro. En concreto en las ventanas de las aplicaciones

Re: Mensaje mosqueante II

1998-12-07 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 01:27:34PM +0100, Juan Ramón Larrea wrote: On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 09:40:23AM +, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: Ya he modificado el /etc/conf.modules descomentando la linea que ponía: alias net-pf-5 off

Re: ¡SOCORRO!: la he cagado como root.

1998-12-07 Thread Pere Camps
Javier, En el cdrom de boot añade: linux init=/bin/sh No se ejecutaran los /etc/rc2.d/* y te dará un shell. HIH. -- p.

RE: ¡SOCORRO!: la he cagado como root.

1998-12-07 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Puedes acceder en modo texto pulsando Control+Alt+Fx donde x puede ser de 1 a 6. Gracias Maqui pero, no me responde el teclado si arranco Debian de forma normal, entendiendo por normal que el gestor de arranque lance el kernel y este inicilice los servicios y configuraciones existentes en el

Re: ¡SOCORRO!: la he cagado como root.

1998-12-07 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 07:35:43PM +0100, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: He intentado arrancar el sistema mediante el CD-ROM de Debian 2.0 y la opción de boot rescue root=/dev/hdb1 pero al arrancar inicia xdm y estamos en lo mismo Tienes algunas opciones, en el prompt de LILO: linux

Cagada root solucionada. GRACIAS.

1998-12-07 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Gracias por vuestras repuestas a mi mensaje de SOCORRO. Siempre estais ahi cuando os necesito, mil gracias. Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED]

About X

1998-12-07 Thread WuArMy490
Do I need an X Server to run X because when I install it and I do startx I get all these errors about the VGA stuff and it says it cant start the Xserver Anyone know how to fix this? thanks

Seagate DAT drive

1998-12-07 Thread Chris Evans
I have just installed a Seagate STD28000N (aka ARCHIVE Python 04687-XXX Rev: 6580 according to dmesg). I only had 90m tapes to hand and wanted to try it out, tar cvf on a handful of files claimed to work but nothing else did generally returning error messages about sequential position. I am

kernel security?

1998-12-07 Thread Chris Evans
I am just shipping off a machine to go into an ISP to act as an SMTP, POP3, IMAP, list (superlist), WWW (apacheSSL), ftp and possibly IRC server. Load won't be high but I'd like to minimise risks of this leaf positioned machine being used for spoofing and forwarding. I _think_ I'm getting my

Re: kernel security?

1998-12-07 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
it will probably be best to convince this ISP to set up his routers properly. Among many filters he should have, make SURE has has at least these few: Do not accept packets from OUTSIDE his network DESINTED to HIS network with HIS network range. Ie. Nothing should be coming in to his network on

Re: About X

1998-12-07 Thread Andrew Ivanov
What are the errors? So far there is about a million things that can be wrong. Be more specific. Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they

Re: About X

1998-12-07 Thread WuArMy490
Well I got X too work but how do I load a different window manager? Thanks

mouse broken

1998-12-07 Thread Erik Maxwell
I was upgrading my Xwindows to the slink distributions, and my mouse broke. When I try to start gpm, i get the following error message: gpm: /dev/mouse: Operation not supported by device /dev/mouse is a soft link to /dev/ttyS0. Does anyone know how I should go about fixing this

Re: Jaz 1Gb on hamm dist

1998-12-07 Thread David Stern
On Sun, 06 Dec 1998 16:58:01 EST, Brandon Mitchell wrote: Ack, looks like the standard dos/mac formatting trick. Try sdc4: Hi Brandon, I hate to interrupt a perfectly good thread, but can you give more details about whatever this trick is, and what the deal is with the 4th partition? I

RE: Jaz 1Gb on hamm dist

1998-12-07 Thread BOHICA
Thank You for the help, I tried /dev/sdc4 without success and then sequentially tried /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdc2, no luck there either. Then, on a wild hunch I tried mounting /dev/sdc without specifying a number and it worked! I have no idea why it worked, but your suggestions did put me on the

Re: Jaz 1Gb on hamm dist

1998-12-07 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, David Stern wrote: Ack, looks like the standard dos/mac formatting trick. Try sdc4: I hate to interrupt a perfectly good thread, but can you give more details about whatever this trick is, and what the deal is with the 4th partition? There is some crazy way they

Re: Jaz 1Gb on hamm dist

1998-12-07 Thread David Stern
On Sun, 06 Dec 1998 21:02:56 EST, Brandon Mitchell wrote: There is some crazy way they format/partition the disks so they work on both macs and pc's, but it results in you needing to use the 4th partition on pc's. That's about all I know, except that Iomega isn't the only one to do this,

Accidental power-out / LILO / mount @ boot?

1998-12-07 Thread Rich Hartman
Howdy all - I'm a relatively new user... When running X (KDE) as root (I was configuring KDM), our power went out for a second, causing the computer to reboot... as it was rebooting, the power went out again... anyway, now when I type finger, I get a little table similar to this: user: Tty:

A piping problem

1998-12-07 Thread Joseph Hartmann
I created a file: /usr/local/bin/printer.staircase.filter This file consists of two lines: #!perl while(STDIN){chop $_; print $_\r\n;}; I made it executable. It is owned by root. This file is an attempt to write a filter to eliminate the staircase effect (i.e. no CR after a LF) on my

Network Setup Problems

1998-12-07 Thread wax_man
I am having some problems getting my lan working. I'm trying to connect my win95 machine to my linux machine. Both have 3c509's connected to a hub. I've given my linux box 192.168.1.1 and windows 192.168.1.2. However, I can not ping either machine from the other. Any ideas? BTW, here is a

ctx monitors

1998-12-07 Thread Chris Frost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I know this is /way/ off topic, sorry if it offends anyone in advance. I'm thinking of buying a CTX PL9 monitor (19, [EMAIL PROTECTED]), what are people's feelings towards ctx or this monitor in paticular? I'm a student on a budget and this will be

Re: Accidental power-out / LILO / mount @ boot?

1998-12-07 Thread Andrew Ivanov
ALSO - LILO, anyone? Yeah.. I can't for the life of me figure out how to get lilo going, even though I think I've read almost everything there is (does this mean I'm too stupid for linux?)... anyway, my disk setup is as below: /dev/hda1 boot primary dos fat 16 (big) 2

Re: Network Setup Problems

1998-12-07 Thread Brant Wells
Hey Chris: I am having some problems getting my lan working. I'm trying to connect my win95 machine to my linux machine. Both have 3c509's connected to a hub. I've given my linux box 192.168.1.1 and windows 192.168.1.2. However, I can not ping either machine from the other. Any ideas? Just

no sound until I run doom

1998-12-07 Thread G. Crimp
I need help with sound. If I want to run a music CD (internal CD drive) or a cassette (from a walkman plugged into the input jack on the back of the sound card) I have first to run doom. If I don't, I can't hear a thing. This is on Deb 1.3. I assume the same thing is happening on Deb 2.0. I

Re: A piping problem

1998-12-07 Thread Peter Kovacs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Joseph Hartmann wrote: #!perl while(STDIN){chop $_; print $_\r\n;}; Change perl to the full path to perl. I don't think the shebang notation has a path associated with it. Peter - --- Peter D. Kovacs UIN:

Re: no sound until I run doom

1998-12-07 Thread Evan Parry
On Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 06:48:33PM -0800, G. Crimp wrote: I need help with sound. If I want to run a music CD (internal CD drive) or a cassette (from a walkman plugged into the input jack on the back of the sound card) I have first to run doom. If I don't, I can't hear a thing. This is on

Re: A piping problem

1998-12-07 Thread Joseph Hartmann
X-Authentication-Warning: kovax.ml.org: kovacsp owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 22:01:21 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org MIME-Version: 1.0

Re: ctx monitors

1998-12-07 Thread wax_man
I have the CTX VL700 (17) montitor, and have been very happy with it. Nice on screen controls, and very nice look and feel. Have not had any problems with it and the ~2 years I've had it. chris On 6 Dec, Chris Frost wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I know this is /way/

Re: install hamm from Inet

1998-12-07 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Ben Bucksch wrote: Downloaded it 2 times (I think from ftp.debian.org via Go!Zilla like all other packages), both times the same error. Now CuteFTPed fom ftp.jp.debian.org and WinZip opens it. Is it possible, that the server-file is corrupted? I guess it's possible. But

non-interactive shell

1998-12-07 Thread Sibuyas Bombay
hi all, i have a few users in my box that i want to give access only to a very limitted number of commands, that is, /usr/bin/pon, /usr/bin/poff and /usr/bin/elm . i don't want to give them a fully interactive shell so i was thinking of writing a script that gets started when they log on and

apropos fails, makewhatis doesn't exist

1998-12-07 Thread Carl Fink
I'm sending this from a Debian 2.0 system (i386). Currently I'm having only one irritating problem: apropos fails. Well, it's installed, and it runs, but it replies to *any* query with Nothing appropriate, even apropos bash or apropos ls. Reading of Usenet hints to me that I need to run (or

Gnome Panel.

1998-12-07 Thread Evan Van Dyke
I just downloaded and installed the new Gnome debs from slink, and tried to run gnome-session, but the Gnome Panel applet loads, but doesn't finish drawing itself. it eats up however much processor time is availiable, but even after sitting for 15+ minutes hasn't done more than paint the area of

Re: About X

1998-12-07 Thread Andrew Ivanov
On Sun, 6 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I got X too work but how do I load a different window manager? Download window manager you want , install it, and edit /etc/windows-manager so that at the start up of X it will run what you want. HTH, Andrew

Re: Gnome Panel.

1998-12-07 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Evan Van Dyke wrote: I just downloaded and installed the new Gnome debs from slink, and tried to run gnome-session, but the Gnome Panel applet loads, but doesn't finish drawing itself. it eats up however much processor time is availiable, but even after sitting for 15+

ipmasq problems

1998-12-07 Thread wax_man
Ok, I've gotten my network up, but I can't seem to get ipmasq to work. I've followed the mini-howto and added the appropriate lines to my /etc/init.d/network file. However, everytime it tries to run ipfwadm it croaks. Here are the commands, and the errors: ipfwadm -F -p deny ipfwadm:

monolith woe / dynamic domains

1998-12-07 Thread chadi
hello everyone ! i really am so very dissapointed w/ monoliths (*.ml.org) decision to end their services, specially now that i just acquired myself a static ip from my isp. does anyone here know of any other companies/organizations who provides the same service as monolith once did ?

Re: Make xconfig

1998-12-07 Thread Alan Tam
Dear all; Thanks a lot for your precious info. I have installed X and get it running now (in XF86-svga server). My next step is to do the ' make xconfig ' and have a try on kernel compile. Thanks all. Alan Tam wrote: Hi all; How to run a ' make xconfig ' ?

Re: Finished with Linux

1998-12-07 Thread Carl Fink
In linux.debian.user, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you had shared the stupid messages with us here, perhaps somebody could have told you what they mean and how to fix the problem. Strange.. I don't recall you posting once. You seem easy to convince. So go on back to your Happy Meal OS. If you

Re: apropos fails, makewhatis doesn't exist

1998-12-07 Thread Damon Buckwalter
Carl Fink wrote: I'm sending this from a Debian 2.0 system (i386). Currently I'm having only one irritating problem: apropos fails. Well, it's installed, and it runs, but it replies to *any* query with Nothing appropriate, even apropos bash or apropos ls. I had this same problem a while

Re: X 11 vs. window manager (was: Re: Make xconfig)

1998-12-07 Thread Alan Tam
Hi Frank; Thanks a lot for your precious info. I have installed X and get it running now (in XF86-svga server). My next step is to do the ' make xconfig ' and have a try on kernel compile. I have visited the site Window Managers for X at http://www.PLiG.org/xwinman/ and learned

Re: apropos fails, makewhatis doesn't exist

1998-12-07 Thread Damon Buckwalter
Damon Buckwalter wrote: I filed a bug report on this some time ago, but I'm not sure is anything has happened with it. I just checked, and there are _8_ outstanding bugreports on the wine-doc package--the oldest is 80 days--all complaining about the extra-spaces problem... :) CCing

HELP: Newbie with Vim problems

1998-12-07 Thread Albert Hurd
I am getting a lot of erratic behavior in gvim (vim-5.3 and also 5.1-see 4.). Here is a list: 1. I went into vim. Seems to work ok. Then go into gui mode and the cursor doesn't work properly, and : doesnt take me to command mode. On exit I get the following: Warning: Name: subMenu

Re: Network Setup Problems

1998-12-07 Thread Kent West
On Sun, 6 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having some problems getting my lan working. I'm trying to connect my win95 machine to my linux machine. Both have 3c509's connected to a hub. I've given my linux box 192.168.1.1 and windows 192.168.1.2. However, I can not ping either

how do I read xbooks documentation for xwindows.

1998-12-07 Thread indeed
I have installed the xbooks package from the debian cdrom with dpkg -i and it appears in the /usr/doc/xbooks directory. How do you make xbooks more accessible and easier to read. Is there a convenient document viewer like the one used for info files that will manage the xbooks documentation.

interrupted file transfer

1998-12-07 Thread Paolo M. Pumilia
Hi all, Recently (in the last few weeks) i noticed that some files cannot be ftp-retrieved completely. It is the case of the file g77_2.91.60-1.deb whose transfer stopped at 1210340 (96%). It is not due to the server, since a tried to reget the file from different debian mirrors, with no success.

Re: multiple X servers?

1998-12-07 Thread John Leget
Hi, This may not be what your looking for but ive used it to boot up with two xservers using xdm. Check out the file /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers allows multiple servers at specified bpp, vtXX of course you will have to use ctrl-alt-Fxx to switch between them, you can also custimize the

Re: resolve.conf specification

1998-12-07 Thread Marco Frattola
AJ writes: hey i was wondering if when u did 'pppconfig' and created a new ppp account if u can specify what /etc/recolve.conf file u want cause i have access to a few ISPs around here that use different primary/secondary dns entries.. At present there is no simple way to use a

Petition for TrollTech to GPL Qt

1998-12-07 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I have just read about the Petition for TrollTech to GPL Qt, found at web site: http://www.rustcorp.com/petition/ Unfortunately I am still a bit confused about the issues involved. I would be interested in hearing the muse and views of people who know more about the issue than I.

Re: ml.org

1998-12-07 Thread Joey Hess
George Bonser wrote: If any of you have software on an ml.org site that you have been making available for download by FTP, I have some space on a server with good connectivity that I can let you use until you find other arrangements. I might also be persuaded to put any web content on

Re: KDE problem

1998-12-07 Thread Ed Boraas
On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Daniel Elenius wrote: I'm having some trouble with KDE. I installed the hamm deb packages, and when i run startkd, I get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ startkde [snip] note that you shouldn't be running startkde from the command line. you should have put startkde into your

Re: ml.org

1998-12-07 Thread David Stern
On Sun, 06 Dec 1998 23:24:25 PST, George Bonser wrote: On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Joey Hess wrote: Well ml.org only provided DNS, so anyone in such a situation will still ha a server with internet connectivity, they just may not have a good hostname for it. I'm I'm not sure if your offer makes

installing onto a LS-120

1998-12-07 Thread Marc Ahrens
I bought a LS-120 and want to install Linux onto it. It wouldn't let me mount or partition it. Please Help. I really don't want to install Linux onto my hard drive. Thanks for whatever suggestions that you might have.

startx ne marche pas

1998-12-07 Thread Olivier Malhomme
J' ai installé Linux. Apparamment tout s'est bien passé. Ma carte video a ete detectee sans problemes. Toutefois, lorsque je tape startx on me repond que le fichier XConfi86 est introuvable. Pourriez-vous m'aider ?

Re: How to use a ramdisk?

1998-12-07 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 05:34:08PM -0800, Eric House wrote: So there's no point in using ramdisks at all for non-boot tasks? You could use it to build a diskless client, e.g. make an X-terminal out of an old 486 with enough memory and a decent graphics card. To use a ramdisk on a running system:

very weird problem with PPP (server+client)

1998-12-07 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I used to have a very stable configuration for a PPP connection between two debian machines which suddenly has gone away. I'll explain myself. I have a machine with a 56k modem that acts as a server. I had mgetty with autoppp enabled and pppd with auth and login. The server

Connecting two computers via serial

1998-12-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
Is it possible to connect two computers (desktop and notebook) via a null modem connection? And, if so, what software would be suitable to make the link? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.achc.demon.co.uk The Moving Finger writes; and,

g++2.8, egcs, gcc 2.7.2, etc. - *very confused*

1998-12-07 Thread Martin Waller
Hi, I am stunningly confused about the whole c and c++ suite thing that's going on (I'm still in HAMM - it's *not * the __register_frame_info stuff!). Here's my story and a plea for a clear explanation of what's what and what I need to compile kernels, c++ toolkits and stuff. Over the

Re: RAMDISK error on installation from floppies

1998-12-07 Thread Martin Schulze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install debian from a 386SX 16mhz with 5 megs of ram from a floppy disk drive. It has a 106 meg hard drive. 15 megs of the hard drive are used as an MSDOS partition. The installation goes through detecting items on the system and then says the

Re: Can not find Xserver for Millenium G200.

1998-12-07 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Sean Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The G200/G100 series of video cards are now supported with the XF86-SVGA server under XFree86 3.3.3, which was released about a week ago. I've found that the new server also has better support for the regular Millenium I cards. The upgrade to

xemacs/emacs cannot find the package

1998-12-07 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi all, In xemacs, when I choose the option browse the web from the menu bar, it returned Cannot open load file: w3-el/w3. But I checked the file and it is in /usr/lib/xemacs20.4/lisp/w3... Could anyone help?? Thanks. Shao.

lynx proxy

1998-12-07 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi all, Could anyone tell me how to set the proxy settings for lynx?? Thx! Regards, Shao.

Re: xemacs/emacs cannot find the package

1998-12-07 Thread Evgeny Roubinchtein
On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi all, In xemacs, when I choose the option browse the web from the menu bar, it returned Cannot open load file: w3-el/w3. But I checked the file and it is in /usr/lib/xemacs20.4/lisp/w3... Could anyone help?? Have you checked the

Re: ipmasq problems

1998-12-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
wm == wax man [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: wm Ok, I've gotten my network up, but I can't seem to get ipmasq to wm work. I've followed the mini-howto and added the appropriate wm lines to my /etc/init.d/network file. However, everytime it tries wm to run ipfwadm it croaks. Here are the commands,

Where do I start fetchmail?

1998-12-07 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi all, What is the right place to start fetchmail?? I would think to put them ip-up. But it didn't work. I psed the process, it was there, then disappeared after a while. Is it because it has some problems to read the ~/.fetchmailrc?? Thx. Shao.

Re: xemacs/emacs cannot find the package

1998-12-07 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Yes, I just did. Permission is set to Read. Load-Path has got that directory as well... So what is next Thanks... Shao. On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Evgeny Roubinchtein wrote: On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi all, In xemacs, when I choose the option

Re: Where do I start fetchmail?

1998-12-07 Thread Nuno Carvalho
On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi all, What is the right place to start fetchmail?? You can use it anywhere. I use it with wmmail ! Every 10 seconds it fetch mail from my pop server! But it didn't work. I psed the process, it was there, then disappeared after a while. Is

Re: g++2.8, egcs, gcc 2.7.2, etc. - *very confused*

1998-12-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 01:50:48 -0800, Martin Waller wrote: I am stunningly confused about the whole c and c++ suite thing that's going on (I'm still in HAMM - it's *not * the __register_frame_info stuff!). Read /usr/doc/gcc/README.Debian . Being naive enough to try anything, and having

Re: ctx monitors

1998-12-07 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 08:56:43PM -0600, Chris Frost wrote: I'm thinking of buying a CTX PL9 monitor (19, [EMAIL PROTECTED]), what are people's feelings towards ctx or this monitor in paticular? I'm a student on a budget and this will be my monitor for the next 4/5 years so I just wanted to

Re: 512MB RAM, 860MB swap and out of memory ?

1998-12-07 Thread ulisses
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Krupa! On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Jan Krupa wrote: My Debian Linux 2.0 cannot use more than 460MB sawp :( that's very extrange :-( Here are some additional information $ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:

Re: ml.org

1998-12-07 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 11:36:40PM +, David Stern wrote: Webworkshttp://www.ddns.org DynIP http://www.dynip.com So glad those are listed in Yahoo. *sigh* Ah well, the demise of ml.org finally got me off my keister and got my real domain in action and away from my services

Re: ipmasq problems

1998-12-07 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 11:31:17AM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: AFAIK, developer kernel use ipchains, not ipfwadm. This is correct. There is a debian package which will do masqing for an ipchains system. *VERY* slick and something I recommend highly. -- Steve C. Lamb

rc.boot not booting!

1998-12-07 Thread Damon Muller
Hi All, From my understanding, any scripts that are located in the /etc/rc.boot directory should be executed on booting. And most of the scripts I have in there seem to do that. However, I have a script to set up everything for IP Masquerading in rc.boot, and this doesn't seem to run. It works

Re: 512MB RAM, 860MB swap and out of memory ?

1998-12-07 Thread Jan Krupa
On Mon, 7 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Krupa! On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Jan Krupa wrote: My Debian Linux 2.0 cannot use more than 460MB sawp :( that's very extrange :-( You're right. Linux can use my 860MB of swap ( I gave some applications

Re: g++2.8, egcs, gcc 2.7.2, etc. - *very confused*

1998-12-07 Thread Martin Waller
Read /usr/doc/gcc/README.Debian . I did but was still confused :( Being naive enough to try anything, and having heard of all sorts of problems with egcs and g++, I decided to scrap g++2.8 and put g++2.7.2 on. (I had egcs 2.90.29, dated 19980515). g++2.7.2 is intended only for compiling

very weird problem with pppd (server + client)

1998-12-07 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I used to have a very stable configuration for a PPP connection between two debian machines which suddenly has gone away. I'll explain myself. I have a machine with a 56k modem that acts as a server. I had mgetty with autoppp enabled and pppd with auth and login. The server

XFree86 Problem

1998-12-07 Thread Jeff Browning
When I try to run the preinstall script for xfree86, it says: It appears that you have an a.out system. a.out binaries are not available for this release. Is this correct? If not, how am I supposed to install xfree86? Jeff __ Get Your Private,

Re: resolve.conf specification

1998-12-07 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 06:40:32PM +0100, Marco Frattola wrote: .. /etc/resolv.cont.ispN and symlink one of them to /etc/resolv.conf when a call is made to the isp (HUPing named, of course)? You don't even have to HUP named since it is libc that uses resolv.conf for gethostbyname(). if he

Re: resolve.conf specification

1998-12-07 Thread wb2oyc
wouldn't it be possibile to make a bunch of files, called /etc/resolv.cont.isp1 /etc/resolv.cont.isp2 .. There is a script that deals with this very problem as part of the ppp kit for NetBSD. It resolves this issue not by linking to, but by copying the proper resolv.conf for that connection to

Re: Connecting two computers via serial

1998-12-07 Thread wb2oyc
Is it possible to connect two computers (desktop and notebook) via a null modem connection? And, if so, what software would be suitable to make the link? Anthony, Sure, if you must. You could use SLIP or PPP. Or, better yet, use the parallel ports; a connection known as PLIP. See the

ftp chroot for normal users?

1998-12-07 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
For user ftp, the ftpd does a chroot to ~ftp Can I make ftpd to do that for another user: When joe makes an ftp connection, his homedirectory ~joe should be the root directory, so joe cannot go bellow ~joe ? Stef

How to force Netscape to use Debian /etc/mailcap ?

1998-12-07 Thread Lars Steinke
Hmmm, it seems to me Netscape keeps it's own mailcap and mimetypes files somewhere which is a royal pain in the backside if one takes into account that a full MIME type database is available on every Debian system. Anybody an idea how to force netscape to make use of the MIME types configured

refused connect from 'unknown'

1998-12-07 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Can somebody explain me what this is? Dec 7 13:52:11 casal in.telnetd[27798]: warning: can't get client address: No route to host Dec 7 13:52:12 casal in.telnetd[27798]: refused connect from unknown If my machine has a telnet request, then my machine knows the IP (at

Re: ftp chroot for normal users?

1998-12-07 Thread Daniel Podlejski
Stef Hoesli Wiederwald napisal(a): : For user ftp, the ftpd does a chroot to ~ftp : Can I make ftpd to do that for another user: When joe makes an ftp : connection, his homedirectory ~joe should be the root directory, so : joe cannot go bellow ~joe ? Use ProFTPD - look at DefaultRoot directive

Seagate DAT drive

1998-12-07 Thread Kenneth Scharf
From: Chris Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have just installed a Seagate STD28000N (aka ARCHIVE Python 04687-XXX Rev: 6580 according to dmesg). I only had 90m tapes to hand and wanted to try it out, tar cvf on a handful of files claimed to work but nothing else did generally returning

Old Packages?

1998-12-07 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I use Debian 1.3.1. Are there ftp Servers who still carry the old libc5 Packages I need? Stef

Re: Finished with Linux

1998-12-07 Thread Kenneth Scharf
thread: In linux.debian.user, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you had shared the stupid messages with us here, perhaps somebody could have told you what they mean and how to fix the problem. Strange.. I don't recall you posting once. You seem easy to convince. So go on back to your Happy Meal OS.

installing onto a LS-120

1998-12-07 Thread Kenneth Scharf
From: Marc Ahrens [EMAIL PROTECTED] I bought a LS-120 and want to install Linux onto it. It wouldn't let me mount or partition it. Please Help. I really don't want to install Linux onto my hard drive. Thanks for whatever suggestions that you might have.

Re: Old Packages?

1998-12-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 14:18:51 +0100, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote: I use Debian 1.3.1. Are there ftp Servers who still carry the old libc5 Packages I need? Quoting http://www.debian.org/ : :Old versions of Debian : :Debian 1.3 (codenamed Bo) can be found at

Fw: install hamm from Inet

1998-12-07 Thread Ben Bucksch
Downloaded it 2 times (I think from ftp.debian.org via Go!Zilla like all other packages), both times the same error. Now CuteFTPed fom ftp.jp.debian.org and WinZip opens it. Is it possible, that the server-file is corrupted? I guess it's possible. But you said WinZip opened it? The first 2

ftp gone from dselect

1998-12-07 Thread Matt Garman
Whenever I go into dselect to choose which method to use, the ftp option is now gone! I really don't know what caused this, nor how to restore it. Any hints? Thanks! -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world

Re: Network Setup Problems

1998-12-07 Thread wtopa
Subject: Network Setup Problems Date: Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 09:45:38PM -0500 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I am having some problems getting my lan working. I'm trying to connect my win95 machine to my linux machine. Both have

Re: Network Setup Problems

1998-12-07 Thread ivan
Hi there ! Sorry to come in late on this ... Have you set you /etc/hosts file correctly ? 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.1 linux.networkname linux 192.168.1.2 windows.networkname windows Also in W95 have you configured your network setup ? Make sure TCP/IP networking is

How to set page size in GROFF?

1998-12-07 Thread Richardson, Tony
How do I set the page length of the ASCII device in {n,t,g}roff? It appears that the standard page length is 66 lines and the default page length on our network printer is 60 lines. I'm asking because I want to do: # man | lpr and have the man output pages fit on the physical pages. (Yes man

Re: A piping problem

1998-12-07 Thread Rob Collins
On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Joseph Hartmann wrote: #!perl while(STDIN){chop $_; print $_\r\n;}; I can give the command less /usr/local/bin/printer.staircase.filer to bash, and get a listing of the file -- it really IS there. But when I try to pipe stuff into the filter with the following

Re: ftp gone from dselect

1998-12-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 08:15:29 -0600, Matt Garman wrote: Whenever I go into dselect to choose which method to use, the ftp option is now gone! I really don't know what caused this, nor how to restore it. Install dpkg-ftp. HTH, Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te

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