modem configuration specifics

1999-07-16 Thread Stephen Monroe
To all that were helping me configure my modem and needed more information: Here is the complete output of plog (Fixhate is the computer's name): Jul 15 01:55:27 fixhate pppd[8750]: Exit.Jul 15 01:55:27 fixhate pppd[8753]: pppd 2.3.7 started by root, uid 0Jul 15 01:55:27 fixhate

Re: Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-16 Thread andrew.macintyre
As I was used to agetty and minicom cooperating nicely on an ancient Slackware box, I expected this to work on this much more recent Debian box sigh. I use mgetty at home, but didn't really want to have to deal with its complexities for the situation at hand. The situation's more or less under

FreeCiv

1999-07-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I tried several times to get freeciv working but failed each time because civclient stops with SIGSEGV. Are there any known problems? I successfully started civserver and it seems to do reasonable things. But regardingless in which state the server is civclient breaks. If it is helpful

apt-get segmentation fault

1999-07-16 Thread root
Hello, I just ran fsck because at boot-time problems were reported with my disk. It seemed to have run okay, it fixed a bunch of stuff, and the reboot after that went normally (as far as I could tell). Now, when I run apt-get update, apt-get check, or apt-get dist-upgrade, it seg-faults on the

Re: FreeCiv

1999-07-16 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 12:45:56PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: I tried several times to get freeciv working but failed each time because civclient stops with SIGSEGV. Upgrade your xpm library and file a bug report against civclient to make it need xpm = 3.4j Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really

Re: Potato upgrade and Perl warnings...

1999-07-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting Michael Merten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Uh, I really think that's what the Updated Standard packages, Updated Optional packages, etc sections of the select screen are for. OTOH, I totally agree that dselect can be dangerous for anyone that mistakenly skips the 'select' stage. Perhaps it

Re: Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Andrew MacIntyre: As I was used to agetty and minicom cooperating nicely on an ancient Slackware box, I expected this to work on this much more recent Debian box sigh. That is because that worked with the cua/ttyS devices (kernel based locking between dialin/dialout) which has

Win Gateway

1999-07-16 Thread Algernon NG
Hi all! I won't bother with pppconfig and other anymore. I accept it won't work. But Win does (I hate it!), so I would like to make my win computer act as an Internet gateway. If anyone has any ideas how can I configure my machines (both the Linux

Linux LAN probs - a shaggy dog story?

1999-07-16 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, I have two working Linux boxes now. cat has IP 10.0.0.1 and dog has 10.0.0.2. When I reboot cat it can ping dog but reports over 50% losses. Likewise dog and ping cat with close on 50% losses. If I tru to telnet from dog to cat, I get the cat login prompt and then the system freezes as

Re: CD-RW woes. Again.

1999-07-16 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 10:48:20AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: *- On 15 Jul, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote about Re: CD-RW woes. Again. right. well, it seems that if i can work out what modules.conf is, this should work! The debian way is to make a file in /etc/modutils named anything you

Re: preparing for first installation - which User's Guide?

1999-07-16 Thread Mindaugas Genutis
Hello, I'm interested how could i unsubscribe from this group. It seems nothing helps :-). Mindaugas Genutis, programmer, No Magic, Inc. On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Drew Parsons wrote: Hello, I am preparing to make my first Linux installation. I have been studying fips and

Re: Procmail and Pine

1999-07-16 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: generated |IFS=' ' exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #mwagnon1: IFS=' command not found for address_pipe transport All messages are bouncing. Try changing your .forward to look like

Re: preparing for first installation - which User's Guide?

1999-07-16 Thread Patrick Kirk
At the bottom of every message see... Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null That should work :-() Patrick

Re: 'Inverse' chmod?

1999-07-16 Thread Marc Mongeon
This also works, and might be a little more readable(?) eval perl -e 'printf \%#o\, ((stat(\$1\))[2] 0x1ff)' eval takes a pass at the string that follows and performs regular shell variable substition before executing the command, so this is the command that is executed: perl -e 'printf %#o,

Hello to everybody

1999-07-16 Thread Mindaugas Genutis
Hi, The system tells me i can't be removed, because it couldn't find my name on the list. I keep getting your messages. Mindaugas Genutis, programmer, No Magic, Inc.

Re: Hello to everybody

1999-07-16 Thread Patrick Kirk
Go thru the header info and see what address you are receiving under. Then unsubscribe that name. Patrick - Original Message - From: Mindaugas Genutis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 2:19 PM Subject: Hello to everybody Hi, The system

[Linux] resetting the serial port

1999-07-16 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I'm currently experimenting with my serial ports. I have installed mgetty and everything works perfectly. Unfortunately when I kill the process that is using the serial ports, I can't use the port for some time anymore. I either have to reboot the PC or wait some time for it to be

Re: [slrn] please, help whith slrnpull

1999-07-16 Thread Pann McCuaig
slrn --spool On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 12:07:19PM +0200, J Horacio MG wrote: Hi, I installed slrn and slrnpull. For a short while I tried plain slrn, but what I really need is to be able to download the news to read, reply, compose, etc. off line. So, I set up the slrnpull.conf like

Free Financial Program (Somenthing like DAC-EASY or QuickBooks) ???

1999-07-16 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
I need a free Financial Program (Somenthing like DAC-EASY or QuickBooks) I will prefer if the program is an X Window aplication, but I will be glad with a console application __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: Procmail and Pine

1999-07-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Procmail and Pine Date: Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 10:26:22PM -0700 In reply to:Mark Wagnon Quoting Mark Wagnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi all, I'm trying to get procmail to sort my messages into several folders under ~/mail. Right now they're all in my inbox and it's hell

Re: Potato upgrade and Perl warnings...

1999-07-16 Thread Brad
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: With dselect, I kept going around in circles on the dependency/conflict resolution screens. That's because Perl in potato is unstable at the moment, you either have to remove the packages that haven't yet been upgraded to the new perl policy or put the

Re: Free Financial Program (Somenthing like DAC-EASY or QuickBooks) ???

1999-07-16 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I need a free Financial Program (Somenthing like DAC-EASY or QuickBooks) I will prefer if the program is an X Window aplication, but I will be glad with a console application I don't know the apps you talk about, but you could look at GNU Cash (which I never used myself). See

Re: Segmentation fault - apt-get again

1999-07-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Segmentation fault - apt-get again Date: Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 09:33:16AM +0100 In reply to:Patrick Kirk Quoting Patrick Kirk([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Shao asked... what does ldd /usr/bin/apt-get return?? enterprise:/home/patrick# ldd /usr/bin/apt-get

Problems installing with Promise Uttra33 (hde hdg)

1999-07-16 Thread John Beimler
I have a PC that I am trying to install Debian 2.1 on, and I am having a heck of a time. It has had RedHat 6.0 installed on it, but I want to switch it to Debian. The hard drives in the computer are connected to a promise Ultra33 card (http://www.promise.com/Products/idecards/u33.htm)which does

Lost PCI Network card after potato upgrade.

1999-07-16 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, I will try this question again without the attempt at humor... I upgraded my slink system to potato using dselect 3-4 days ago. After the initalruns through dselect/install/config/remove there weretwo problems still being reported. #1 the gcc deb file would not load because of a

Re: [possibly off-topic] pppdup package not working properly

1999-07-16 Thread S. Massy
--- Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 04:47:10PM +, S. Massy wrote: yeah it appears to be indeed a bug after having a close look at the logs (and a bit of sleep) I noticed That the modem was alway receiving a sighup right after having established the serial

Re: plog and wvdial output

1999-07-16 Thread John Hasler
I reran pppconfig, and edited a config file or two, but I can't remember exaxtly what I did. You changed the value in the IP Numbers screen from the default 'noipdefault' to '192.168.1.10:' . Run pppconfig and change it back. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain.

secure ftpd?

1999-07-16 Thread Lev Lvovsky
hello, a freind recently introduced me to the concept of ssh, and I really like what it allows one to do (or not do rather :). I'm curious though, is there such a thing as a secure ftpd where the data is encrypted to keep people from seeing what you're transferring (sorry, just a little

Accton NIC PCI Adapter

1999-07-16 Thread Joao Paulo Figueiredo
Hi, I'm trying to use a Ethernet adapter with the reference Accton Cheetah PCI Adapter (10/100 Fast Ethernet) but it refuses to work. I tried the drivers de4x5 and tulip without any results... Do you have any sugestions? Booting with Windows, it says I have a Accton EN1207D-TX PCI Fast

Re: Win Gateway

1999-07-16 Thread Lex Chive
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 01:30:00PM +0200, Algernon NG wrote: Hi all! I won't bother with pppconfig and other anymore. I accept it won't work. But Win does (I hate it!), so I would like to make my win computer act as an Internet gateway. If anyone has any ideas how can I configure my

Monitor

1999-07-16 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I'm about to order a new 17 monitor and was wondering if anyone had an experience with CTX VL710 series (Found only one review on the net so far). How well does it perform? If you know of sites (except zdnet, pcgamer, pcmagazine, hardwarecentral) where I can find reviews on it, please let me know.

Re: secure ftpd?

1999-07-16 Thread Ed Kutrzyba
I'm curious though, is there such a thing as a secure ftpd where the data is encrypted to keep people from seeing what you're transferring (sorry, just a little paranoid)? Try secure copy. Read the manpage for scp info/usage. hth, EK

Re: 'Inverse' chmod?

1999-07-16 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Marc Mongeon wrote: This also works, and might be a little more readable(?) eval perl -e 'printf \%#o\, ((stat(\$1\))[2] 0x1ff)' Uhm... I dunno if this is too easy, or what, but what's wrong with ls -l?

Re: [slrn] please, help whith slrnpull

1999-07-16 Thread J Horacio MG
slrn --spool I already tried that with the following configuration: --- ~/.slrnrc --- set spool_inn_root ~/News/slrnpull set spool_root ~/News/slrnpull/news set spool_nov_root ~/News/slrnpull/news set read_active 1 set use_slrnpull 1 set server_object spool set

Sound Blaster Live

1999-07-16 Thread Chris Carlson
I am pretty happy with the new kernel modules for the live, however I am still having problems running RealPlayer G2 and Civ III CTP. Anyone here having any luck with these? Thanks -Chris - -Christopher J. Carlson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -

SGML question.

1999-07-16 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Hi, anybody knows about a simple user manual DTD available ?? DocBook is oversized for this task and i don't know about any repository of DTDs. Thanks. -- __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker. QlSoftware. Tel. 09.874.60.17 e-mail:

Re: VS: Newbie troubles: XF86Setup acts out strange

1999-07-16 Thread Peter Allen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, my system: Compaq Deskpro XE 466. 486/66, 32M ram, 540 hd (soon to be doubled), on-board video, Siemens mcm 1702 monitor, Rockwell comp. 56K modem. thanx Vitux Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra:

LyX Problems, what is dviprint?

1999-07-16 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, When I use LyX to print my documents with the dvips driver they come out with bad margins, all text shifted up in every page. However, this doesn't happen when I use the dvips command manually on my dvi files (I adjusted the page output of dvips using texconfig). I noticed that LyX calls

Re: public_html directories not accessable outside of LAN

1999-07-16 Thread David Karlin
Hamish, Thanks for your response. As another user suggested, I set UseCanonicalName no and that fixed it (as far as I can tell). I'm guessing though, that not setting a ServerName would probably work too. Seems logical. Thanks again, --David On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 09:31:28AM +1000, Hamish

Re: Sparc vs. slink (minimal configuration)

1999-07-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 07:07:21PM -0500, Steve McConnel wrote: I recently acquired some hardware being retired from work, including a genuine Sun SPARCstation 1+ and a 486 system, so I ordered copies of the Is this system just too old and slow to run Linux reasonably, or is there something

Re: Free Financial Program (Somenthing like DAC-EASY or QuickBooks) ???

1999-07-16 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 07/16/99 at 17:13:59, E.L. Meijer Eric wrote concerning Re: Free Financial Program (Somenthing like DAC-EASY or QuickBooks) ???: I don't know the apps you talk about, but you could look at GNU Cash (which I never used myself). See http://www.gnucash.org/. I don't think it is debianized

Question?

1999-07-16 Thread Michael Walton
I have looked at you site, and I was thinking about downloading the OS, but I was wondering if it would conflict with my current operating system. I am currently running DOS 6.0, and Win 3.11 I didn't know if these operating systems would cause a problem with it. If you could give me some

openldap

1999-07-16 Thread Tim \(Pass the Prozac\) Sailer
OK, so maybe I'm a little stupid, but I prefer not to think of myself that way... I'm trying to get openldap to do something, but to no avail. I created an ldif file, ran ldif2ldbm. ldapsearch shows no matches, while ldbmtest shows the record I added. Any pointers for me? Thanks, Tim PS: please

RE: modem configuration specifics

1999-07-16 Thread - -
Today's Topics: modem configuration specifics [ Stephen Monroe [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Re: Re: getty vs minicom [ Here is the complete output of plog (Fixhate is the computer's name): Jul 15 01:55:27 fixhate pppd[8753]: pppd 2.3.7 started by root, uid 0 Jul 15 01:55:27

Re: Linux LAN probs - a shaggy dog story?

1999-07-16 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
This sounds more like a hardware problem than a config problem because _some_ of your pings are making it through. If it were a config problem I would expect you to get _no_ ping responses. Patrick Kirk wrote: Hi all, I have two working Linux boxes now. cat has IP 10.0.0.1 and dog has

Re: Free Financial Program (Somenthing like DAC-EASY or QuickBooks) ???

1999-07-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 05:13:59PM +0200, E.L. Meijer Eric wrote: I don't know the apps you talk about, but you could look at GNU Cash (which I never used myself). See http://www.gnucash.org/. I don't think it is debianized (yet?). Anyone with experience with this package? It's in Potato.

Re: Question?

1999-07-16 Thread Robert Rati
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Michael Walton wrote: I have looked at you site, and I was thinking about downloading the OS, but I was wondering if it would conflict with my current operating system. I am currently running DOS 6.0, and Win 3.11 I didn't know if these operating systems would

Re: [slrn] please, help whith slrnpull

1999-07-16 Thread Johann Spies
Have you tried slrn --spool ? On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: Hi, I installed slrn and slrnpull. For a short while I tried plain slrn, but what I really need is to be able to download the news to read, reply, compose, etc. off line. So, I set up the slrnpull.conf like

Re: Procmail and Pine

1999-07-16 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: Does anyone have any other procmail sources that I can look at? Here is my .forward (I use exim with procmail. I believe the same can be done with exim alone, but I have not tried it): #|IFS=' ' exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #jhspies

Re: More Net difficulties

1999-07-16 Thread Sera Hill
I'd stick with official debian stuff until you get things working. Adding complexity at this point probably isn't a good idea and sendmail can be a real bear. In any case, sendmail isn't really involved in your receiving of mail in most cases. What mail software are you currently trying to use?

Re: Linux LAN probs - a shaggy dog story?

1999-07-16 Thread Leen Besselink
yeah... maybe something like half dublex - full duplex... but then again... mostly this causes no connection at all... I dunno... maybe it's a bad cable. It very much sounds like hardware to me. Although a bad driver could be the cause. What kind of card is it ? On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Jens B.

Segmentation faults with apt-get

1999-07-16 Thread mcclosk
| Ditto! | | It only happens when I telnet in from work. Thanks - I assume I | don't need to worry about it. I've had the problem even when running apt-get (0.3.7, compiled for slink) from the console accessing a (partial) archive on the local system. I don't think it was caused by faulty

Re: Linux LAN probs - a shaggy dog story?

1999-07-16 Thread Aaron Solochek
I'm going to make a bold suggestion here, and that is that no one has had (or has) as strange a lan problem as I. But here's what I've learned so far. When I was losing pings on one of my machines it was a result of the cable running along a wall with electrical cables. Simply moving the

Re: Linux LAN probs - a shaggy dog story?

1999-07-16 Thread Ben Cranston
Btw, if you want to get involved in a nightmare, tell me why the only way I can get the net connection to my room working is to use this ONE SPECIFIC CABLE COMBINATION!! All the cables are straight through and work everywhere else. But for some reason, although I get a link, no packets

Re: Linux LAN probs - a shaggy dog story?

1999-07-16 Thread Aaron Solochek
No, its all cat5, some store bought, some homemade. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ben Cranston wrote: Btw, if you want to get involved in a nightmare, tell me why the only way I can get the net connection to my room working is to use this ONE SPECIFIC CABLE COMBINATION!! All the

Re: stop gnome-session to record xterms?

1999-07-16 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 10:21:19AM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: Hello, Bonjour! i have the folowing problem: i can't log graphically on my computer unless i log into it on the console and edit the .gnome/session file by hand, because it is full of calls to xterms in a way that lets the

Re: Mail prgs (exim)

1999-07-16 Thread Sera Hill
Well, I'm not sure how the config works for exim. When it asks me for information, I'm not sure just *what* it's asking me for? Like the local hosts thing, and the relay-mail thing. And exim never once asks for the POP3 Server Domain or the username/pass combo that'd be needed if it were to

Re: 'Inverse' chmod?

1999-07-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: 'Inverse' chmod? Date: Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 01:20:15PM -0400 In reply to:William T Wilson Quoting William T Wilson([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Marc Mongeon wrote: This also works, and might be a little more readable(?) eval perl -e 'printf

Re: Mail prgs (exim)

1999-07-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Mail prgs (exim) Date: Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 10:27:41AM -0400 In reply to:Sera Hill Quoting Sera Hill([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Well, I'm not sure how the config works for exim. When it asks me for information, I'm not sure just *what* it's asking me for? Like the

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