Hi all -
Hopefully someone here in Debian-user land is familiar enough with pppd to
give me some help with this. I'm trying to get a dialup PPP connection set
up between computers running Debian 2.1 on two separate networks, and right
now it seems to be dying because the debian box on the remote
I have some random rude comments which I want to display at login. I am
trying to use the fortunes-mod package to achieve this, but am having
difficulty transforming the (plain text) file that contains the comments
into something suitable for the fortune program. I tried putting a '%'
On 08-Apr-99 George Bonser wrote:
Try superformat
Is that for formatting Linux floppies too?
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On 08-Apr-99 Pollywog wrote:
On 08-Apr-99 George Bonser wrote:
Try superformat
Is that for formatting Linux floppies too?
It appears that it is for DOS floppies and I want to get ext2 floppies.
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Hi Chris:
You might try shutting off auth in /etc/ppp/peers/?
Change it to noauth.
Peter
Chris Kaltwasser wrote:
Hi all -
Hopefully someone here in Debian-user land is familiar enough with pppd to
give me some help with this. I'm trying to get a dialup PPP connection set
up between
On 08-Apr-99 George Bonser wrote:
What do you mean Linux floppies? You should always use msdos format for
floppies on Linux.
Oh?? Is there a reason for that? I have never done it that way.
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Is libXt.so.6 a glibc library as I suspect, or am I wrong?
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On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 05:42:38PM +0200, Ruben Leote Mendes wrote:
On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 01:09:57PM -0700, Adam Klein wrote:
Why don't you just mount the parition under /usr/local?
The main reason is because I want to put several directories in the
same partition. I create several
Hello,
I've just installed Debian 2.1 and discovered that I can't compile
programs which require the header files such as Xm/Xm.h and X11/keysym.h.
If anyone could point me to the package containing these, that would be
great.
Thanks,
Rob
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, George Bonser wrote:
What do you mean Linux floppies? You should always use msdos format for
floppies on Linux.
No, floppies for Linux should be formatted with a Linux filesystem.
-Egon
On 08-Apr-99 Egon Schmid wrote:
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, George Bonser wrote:
What do you mean Linux floppies? You should always use msdos format for
floppies on Linux.
No, floppies for Linux should be formatted with a Linux filesystem.
-Egon
oh my. Looks like I have stirred up the
On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 07:19:09PM +, Richard Harran wrote:
into something suitable for the fortune program. I tried putting a '%'
(percentage - in case that symbol doesn't travel) on each blank line
between each comment, then running
It must be a % and only a % - no trailing spaces.
In a message dated 4/8/99 2:43:24 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is libXt.so.6 a glibc library as I suspect, or am I wrong?
It's in glib (libc5) and glibc (libc6) - both using the same name.
-jay
On 08-Apr-99 R. Marx wrote:
Hello,
I've just installed Debian 2.1 and discovered that I can't compile
programs which require the header files such as Xm/Xm.h and X11/keysym.h.
If anyone could point me to the package containing these, that would be
great.
Interesting. I had this
Hi again ...
I got many msg that I should use ALSA or if I want I should use the newest
(no these from dist) so now I want to use kernel drivers.
Has anybody installed YAMAHA-OPL3SA3 with kernel drivers ? As modules or
built-in ? Which modules did you use ? How to configure them ? Please help
me
In a message dated 4/8/99 2:51:10 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What do you mean Linux floppies? You should always use msdos format for
floppies on Linux.
No, floppies for Linux should be formatted with a Linux filesystem.
-Egon
oh my. Looks like I
--- Ruben Leote Mendes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Adam,
On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 01:09:57PM -0700, Adam Klein
wrote:
Why don't you just mount the parition under
/usr/local?
The main reason is because I want to put several
directories in the
same partition. I create several
Chris Kaltwasser writes:
I've been reading through the pppd man and docs and I can't figure out
why it would even need to do a name lookup, let alone on a host name with
a wildcard (is that even valid in DNS???)
I'm not sure what's going on with the DNS queries, but you are
authenticating
On 08-Apr-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 4/8/99 2:51:10 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What do you mean Linux floppies? You should always use msdos format for
floppies on Linux.
No, floppies for Linux should be formatted with a Linux
On 08-Apr-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 4/8/99 2:43:24 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is libXt.so.6 a glibc library as I suspect, or am I wrong?
It's in glib (libc5) and glibc (libc6) - both using the same name.
-jay
I asked because a
*- On 8 Apr, R. Marx wrote about Installing X include/library files
Hello,
I've just installed Debian 2.1 and discovered that I can't compile
programs which require the header files such as Xm/Xm.h and X11/keysym.h.
If anyone could point me to the package containing these, that would be
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 4/8/99 2:51:10 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What do you mean Linux floppies? You should always use msdos format for
floppies on Linux.
No, floppies for Linux should be formatted with a
Pollywog wrote:
I get those annoying MAGIC COOKIE warnings when I su from a regular user and
this even happens when I use vim after 'su'. I am still able to edit stuff,
and the only problem is when I need to run some X program as superuser.
I saw somewhere how to deal with this Xauth
Thanks: it's working now, but I'm not quite sure how. I copied the
first few fortunes into another file, and ran strfile on that and it
worked. I then added the other fortunes in chunks to the new file,
re-running strfile each time (I was hoping to narrow down where the
problem was). However, I
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 04:49:52PM -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
My laptop wmcpu type applets show the cpu running at full speed all the
time. I this a problem? What should I do about it...?
It may be a serious problem.
What are the first lines of the program 'top' ?
-Michele
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 11:00:26PM +0100, Andrew Holmes wrote:
Hi,
Wouldn't it be nice if POP mail boxes could be set to
automatically bounce messages over a certain size as soon as they arrive at
the ISP :-)
to avoid downloading long letters you can use the -l option
of fetchmail
-Michele
Sorry, I didn't CC the group. Here is my reply to 'Pollywog':
I think what you need to do is type:
export XAUTHORITY=/home/user_running_X/.Xauthority
after you have su'ed. You can also add this to your root/.bashrc, if
the only time you use X as superuser is from inside an X-session
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, George Bonser wrote:
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Egon Schmid wrote:
No, floppies for Linux should be formatted with a Linux filesystem.
For what reason?
I don't like M$
-Egon
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Egon Schmid wrote:
[ snip ]
: This is a Linux ML and I think the default answer should be a Linux
: filesystem. Do all people on the ML read floppies on Windows 95/98/2000 or
: NT? What about installing vmware (www.vmware.com) and use M$ together
: with Debian.
Well,
I just picked up some cheap used NE2K pci ethernet cards to use for a
home lan. I installed two in this Linux box since it may become a
proxy-gateway/firewall for a DSL connection soon.
I re-compiled the kernel to support the cards, and set my BIOS to use
irq's that were available. This is the
Thanks Pollywog, Brian, and James for helping out with this. So
far I've gotten the lib6g-dev installed and that took care of half the
problem, but I'm unable to find the lesstifg-dev package, so I still don't
have the Xm.h, etc. files. Is this something that needs to be downloaded
from
In a message dated 4/8/99 3:17:57 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is a Linux ML and I think the default answer should be a Linux
filesystem. Do all people on the ML read floppies on Windows 95/98/2000 or
NT? What about installing vmware (www.vmware.com) and use M$
On 08-Apr-99 Nathan E Norman wrote:
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Egon Schmid wrote:
[ snip ]
: This is a Linux ML and I think the default answer should be a Linux
: filesystem. Do all people on the ML read floppies on Windows 95/98/2000
or
: NT? What about installing vmware (www.vmware.com)
On 08-Apr-99 George Bonser wrote:
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would think the real answer depends on your use of the floppies. If
you're
going to use them only for Linux - no reason to get the DOS tools involved,
format them with a Linux filesystem. If you're going to
It didnt work :-(
-Original Message-
From: Adam Linford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Assad Khan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thursday, April 08, 1999 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: Base Installation problems.
-Original Message-
From: Assad Khan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Ben Messinger wrote:
I just picked up some cheap used NE2K pci ethernet cards to use for a
home lan. I installed two in this Linux box since it may become a
proxy-gateway/firewall for a DSL connection soon.
[cut]
I made entries in /etc/init.d/network so that it now reads:
#! /bin/sh
On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 09:59:30PM +0200, Piotr Domagalski wrote:
Hi again ...
I got many msg that I should use ALSA or if I want I should use the newest
(no these from dist) so now I want to use kernel drivers.
Has anybody installed YAMAHA-OPL3SA3 with kernel drivers ? As modules or
On 08-Apr-99 R. Marx wrote:
Thanks Pollywog, Brian, and James for helping out with this. So
far I've gotten the lib6g-dev installed and that took care of half the
problem, but I'm unable to find the lesstifg-dev package, so I still don't
have the Xm.h, etc. files. Is this something
I was wondering if it is possible to get the HP Web JetAdmin software
working with debian. I tried running the installer, but it seems to
depend on the layout of a Redhat system in order to work correctly
(the hp web page specifically mentions Redhat). I got several errors
while running the
*- On 8 Apr, R. Marx wrote about Re: Installing X include/library files
Thanks Pollywog, Brian, and James for helping out with this. So
far I've gotten the lib6g-dev installed and that took care of half the
problem, but I'm unable to find the lesstifg-dev package, so I still don't
have
On 08-Apr-99 R. Marx wrote:
Thanks Pollywog, Brian, and James for helping out with this. So
far I've gotten the lib6g-dev installed and that took care of half the
problem, but I'm unable to find the lesstifg-dev package, so I still don't
have the Xm.h, etc. files. Is this something
Well, I got passed the lesstifg-dev problem...just downloaded it from the
Debian archives. I tried searching for it in dselect...but no go. Anyhow,
I hit another problem though...does anyone know what the Xpm library is
and how to install it? Arrgh. I've tried looking at the search results
for
It works! Anyhow, thanks for everyones help! I appreciate it.
Thanks,
Rob
On 08-Apr-99 R. Marx wrote:
Well, I got passed the lesstifg-dev problem...just downloaded it from the
Debian archives. I tried searching for it in dselect...but no go. Anyhow,
I hit another problem though...does anyone know what the Xpm library is
and how to install it? Arrgh. I've tried
We recently installed Debian onto a laptop machine, and ran into
some weird IP problems. When we tried to ping out of the laptop, we
recieved an Operation not permitted error. With help from the
lists, the problem was tracked to the IP Firewalling setup. It
defaulted to not allowing
I've seen a few messages recently on the list telling
how to get a user's PGP key automatically by an email
auto-responder. I'm assuming this is done with procmail
filtering. If anyone that has this set up could send
me the relevant lines out of their .procmailrc files,
I would like to see them.
Where and I find this program
Mark Wagnon wrote:
This is to keep this thread active, and to pose another question:
I downloaded a program called gRunlevels, but it looked for my rcN.d and
init.d stuff in /etc/rc.d.
I created a /etc/rc.d directory and symlinked the above files to it. Now
I don't seem to have a linux-utils package installed and it is not listed on
the Debian website. Is it called debianutils? I have that.
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I've got a similar problem but with *.pdf files. The solution was found
looking at this list archives. Uncomment the following line in the file
/etc/netscape4/config
NO_LD_PRELOAD=yes
Sergey.
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Christopher Swingley wrote:
Hello!
I'm having trouble getting Netscape to read
Hi Piotr,
I think you said you wanted to do this with a 2.0 kernel; mine works using a
late-2.1 kernel (2.1.132?). I just followed the instructions in the kernel
source file Documentation/sound/OPL3-SA2: the driver is good for SA2, SA3
and SAx.
Regards,
Mike
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[EMAIL
Hi,
Sometimes when compiling I get errors not having some headers files or
cause they're older.
What I have to do is to copy all files from
/usr/src/linux/include/linux to /usr/include/linux and it works.
My question is:
Wouldn't be better to do a symbolic link on /usr/include !?
[EMAIL
Hello,
when I try to run java I have this :
/usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/../bin/i686/green_threads/java: error in loading
shared libraries:
/usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/../lib/i686/green_threads/libjava.so: undefined
symbol: _dl_symbol_value
slink+potato+kernel2.2.1
someone can help ?
P.S. : if I install kaffe
kfloppy seems to be missing from the KDE deb packages, but I just installed
kdeutils from source and I have kfloppy.
Problem solved.
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polly wogged,
The real reason FAT filesystems are good for floppies is because it
wastes the least space, while providing a decent medium for transferring
data. If you really need the features ext2 provides then by all means
use mke2fs.
Just the answer I was seeking. So it will be
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