Re: Anybody in for helping a new debian user with aic7xxx ?

1997-08-27 Thread Stephan Pfab
Dieter Rohlfing wrote The 2 PCs are SCSI-only systems, HDs and CDROM are SCSI-2. Here are the main hardware components: Hi May be this is a hint. I am trying to install Debian 1.3.1 on a SCSI only system right now. For me only booting from the cd-rom doesn't work. (LDLoadlin ... something and

Re: Green monitor functions

1997-08-27 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: You may need the line: Option power_saver in Section Device in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file. In fact, you can configure the whole thing in /etc/XF86Config. Some lines from mine are: Section Screen Driver accel Device

Re: ide for java?

1997-08-27 Thread Jim Pick
hi is there any Java IDE interface to Linux? warnning: I'm loocking for an IDE diferent as JAVA WORKSHOP. You might try Vibe from Visix (www.visix.com). I've never tried it, but it is available for Linux. There is also the FreeBuilder project:

Re: ide for java?

1997-08-27 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 26 Aug 1997 16:28:37 -0700, Jim Pick wrote: hi is there any Java IDE interface to Linux? warnning: I'm loocking for an IDE diferent as JAVA WORKSHOP. You might try Vibe from Visix (www.visix.com). I've never tried it, but it is available for Linux. There is also the

Problem creating custom kernel image

1997-08-27 Thread Steve Mayer
Hi, I've only been using Debian 1.3.1 for a short while now and have run up against a problem that I'm not sure what to do about. When trying to create a custom kernel image, I am in the middle of the 'make config', right at the point that make splits off and tries to set up the

Re: I2O article

1997-08-27 Thread Bruce Perens
i2o seems to be not so much of a threat any longer. Sometime after I first started talking with the press about i2o, someone pointed out that the i2o group had left their standard document (about 500 pages) on their anonymous FTP server. Wired News published the URL, and thousands of people

Re: Green monitor functions

1997-08-27 Thread Joey Hess
Remco Blaakmeer wrote: In fact, you can configure the whole thing in /etc/XF86Config. Some lines from mine are: Section Screen Driver accel Device S3_868 BlankTime 15 SuspendTime 20 OffTime 30 What exactly is the difference between suspend and

Re: Green monitor functions

1997-08-27 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Joey Hess wrote: Remco Blaakmeer wrote: In fact, you can configure the whole thing in /etc/XF86Config. Some lines from mine are: Section Screen Driver accel Device S3_868 BlankTime 15 SuspendTime 20 OffTime 30

ftp status under dselect

1997-08-27 Thread Bob
Is there any way to have dselect show a status during the ftp of selected files? Something similar to the status indicator that ncftp uses would be nice. Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Sony StorStation (Ditto 2Gb)

1997-08-27 Thread Ralph Winslow
I've just procured the above tape drive and installed it on my parallel port. I also rebuilt my kernel to support tape (I think). Now what? What package can I use to back up my system? TIA -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] The IQ of

Re: I2O article

1997-08-27 Thread Kevin Traas
i2o seems to be not so much of a threat any longer. Sometime after I first started talking with the press about i2o, someone pointed out that the i2o group had left their standard document (about 500 pages) on their anonymous FTP server. Wired News published the URL, and thousands of people

Re: I2O article

1997-08-27 Thread john
Bruce Perens writes: Sometime after I first started talking with the press about i2o, someone pointed out that the i2o group had left their standard document (about 500 pages) on their anonymous FTP server. ... As far as I can tell, they have blown any non-disclosure case they ever might

Re: I2O article

1997-08-27 Thread john
Kevin Traas writes: Wonder how many of them said DOH and slapped their forehead in a most Homer-like fashion? I wonder if it was truly a mistake. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill

Re: q-mail: setup problem

1997-08-27 Thread Joey Hess
Package: qmail Version: 1.00-2 I'm filing a bug on this. dada wrote: Hi. I just installed qmail in my system to replace smail. When the configurarion script runs, here is that it return me: ** qmailconfig Your hostname is antinoo

Re: Cursor vanishes when LILO loads and doesn't return

1997-08-27 Thread Michael Rokicki
I'm running a 386DX-40 but for some reason it's being listed as an i586 on start-up. Any reason I shouldn't continue to ignore this until I get to understand the OS better? *It's probably OK. Send me the contents of /proc/cpuinfo. Is your chip from *Intel? processor : 0 cpu

Can't get apache to start using my files

1997-08-27 Thread jim
Using apache 1.1.3-6. The apache httpd is currently installed and running on my system (kernel 2.0.30). However, only the default files will show up. No matter what I do, I can't get apache to serve my files. The documentation which comes with the distribution pops up when you point your web

Knews

1997-08-27 Thread Shaleh
Thanks to everyone who suggested knews. It is a very nice X based news reader. I had a little trouble with the install though. Seemed dselect wanted to write in /etc/news -- that did not exist and it would not create it. Kept bombing out. So I created /etc/news and everything is happy.

reading mail locally

1997-08-27 Thread Will Lowe
Ok, again, now that I'm back at school, I'd like to have all my email/news reading be local, on my debian box, rather than on the central servers. I can forward mail via .forward or .maildelivery (on two different systems). The problem is this: my machine is (unfortunately) still running

Re: Cursor vanishes when LILO loads and doesn't return

1997-08-27 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Michael Rokicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] processor : 0 cpu : 386 model : unknown vendor_id : unknown stepping : unknown fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no fpu : no fpu_exception : no cpuid : no wp: no flags

Re: Applixware

1997-08-27 Thread Mr Stuart Lamble
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : On Mon, 25 Aug 1997 06:56:55 -0400, Tom Malloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Is anyone using redhats applixware on debian? How is it? The install : difficult? Is it worth buying? I want to migrate away from msoffice and : use linux exclusively if

depmod -a problem

1997-08-27 Thread Lindsay Allen
I just used kernel-package to build kernel-image-2.0.29 and then used dpkg to install it. None of the modules now auto-loads and depmod -a returns gum# depmod -av | less modprobe: error reading ELF header: No such file or directory TYPE /lib/modules/boot TYPE /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs etc etc

Re: I2O article

1997-08-27 Thread Bruce Perens
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just read everything on the I2O site, including the Initiative Agreement. While they require that the standard itself be kept secret, I see nothing that would prohibit the publication of a driver with source. Just their non-disclosure agreement. Anyone heard any

Re: depmod -a problem

1997-08-27 Thread Bruce Perens
Didn't the format of /etc/conf.modules change? 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 K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

bash

1997-08-27 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
hello, i downloaded the bash 2.01 source from /gnu and did a ./configure and make. i then attempted make install, and received the following: mattyt# make install mkdir /usr/local/info /usr/bin/install -c bash /usr/local/bin/bash /usr/bin/install -c bashbug /usr/local/bin/bashbug ( cd ./doc ;

Re: depmod -a problem

1997-08-27 Thread Lindsay Allen
Hi Bruce, On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: Didn't the format of /etc/conf.modules change? Bruce -- Hmmm, not to my knowledge. Using modutils_2.1.34-5a and tried 2.1.34-5 before that. /etc/conf.modules is substantially the same as the one on my hamm box. Think I'll make

Re: bash

1997-08-27 Thread Bruce Perens
Change the --dir-file flag to --infodir . GNU's install-info has diverged from ours. 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 K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 --

Article on Linux and non-official dist.

1997-08-27 Thread Keith Beattie
Hi all, I'm in the process of writing an article about installing Linux (using Debian) and hope to have a compatible mini Debian distribution on the CD that comes with the magazine. I've looked, but can't seem to find info on the policy and details on creating non-official distributions. This

Re: depmod -a problem

1997-08-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, This is a problem with the newer versions of depmod and friends throwing a hissy fit over non .o files under /lib/modules/2.0.29/. Older versions did not have a problem, so older versions of kernel package left text files in /lib/modules/* as documentation (actually, this

Re: Problem creating custom kernel image

1997-08-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Steve == Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve When trying to create a custom kernel image, I am in the middle Steve of the 'make config', right at the point that make splits off Steve and tries to set up the configuration script for the sound Steve card, and I get 4 parse errors in

Re: bash

1997-08-27 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
sorry, bruce, but i have no programming experience. i grep'd all the files but couldn't find --dir-file anywhere. where do i change it? thanks, matty Matt well, i know a heck of a lot more that i used to... Thompson MZI, Inc. v-206.430.3726 707 S. Grady Wayf-206.430.3420

CDROM death

1997-08-27 Thread Carl Flippin
Every time I try to access my cdrom under any distribution of Linux, the entire system goes into limbo. My drive is connected to a PAS 16 and it appears that autoprobe is finding it since the light on the drive flashes. The drive is a Toshiba 2x. Has anyone heard of this problem before? Do I

Re: Article on Linux and non-official dist.

1997-08-27 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Keith Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've looked, but can't seem to find info on the policy and details on creating non-official distributions. It's fine with us. In fact, you can duplicate the Official Debian 1.3.1 2-CD Set if you want - we put the ISO 9660 master CD images online at the

Re: depmod -a problem

1997-08-27 Thread Lindsay Allen
Hi Manoj, Take a bow. That fixed it. I remembered reading about this and had deleted all the text files in /lib/modules/2.0.29 thinking that they were the problem. Now I will have to put them back! Your help appreciated. Lindsay

Re: StarOffice installation

1997-08-27 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin Steigerwald writes: I managed to install StarOffice via its own installation routine, but not via the Debian installer package. If I try dpkg-i-ing the installer packages it fails to find the StarOffice *.tar.gz files. But this files are in the same directory I started the

Re: Knews

1997-08-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: Thanks to everyone who suggested knews How can I expand only the text of the news messages. I run X in 640x480 until my new monitor comes in and the default message space shows about 4 or 5 lines. You can separate the text and article list

Re: Can't get apache to start using my files

1997-08-27 Thread Martin Schulze
jim writes: I also have encountered this problem and reported it as a bug. It took me quite some time finding out what exactly the problem is. I'll send you my /etc/init.d/2nd-apache from another machine. The problem is that apache strarts, fork()s, does something, then a) reading its config

Re: ipfwadm question

1997-08-27 Thread Michele Dalla Silvestra
On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: My linux box acts as a ip-masq for the internal sub-net of Windows machines. It has 3 cards: one for output to Internet, with a valid IP address and 2 for the internal sub-net. IP-Masq is working OK; all machines can telnet,

Re: xdm and getting to the console..

1997-08-27 Thread Bengt-Ove Johansson
On Wed, Aug 20, 1997 at 10:44:31AM -0700, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: On Wed, 20 Aug 1997, Marc W. Brooks wrote: At 01:09 PM 8/20/97 -0400, Paul wrote: hi, x runs on console #7 you can go controlalt1 through6 to get to a regular prompt. hope this helps. Paul Thanks, I guess what I

Re: bash

1997-08-27 Thread joost witteveen
hello, i downloaded the bash 2.01 source from /gnu and did a ./configure and make. i then attempted make install, and received the following: Maybe just doing debian/rules build will do the trick? The debian maintainer may have done all kinds of things to make bash build on Debian, and you

Re: I2O article

1997-08-27 Thread Ted Harding
( Re Message From: Bruce Perens ) i2o seems to be not so much of a threat any longer. Sometime after I first started talking with the press about i2o, someone pointed out that the i2o group had left their standard document (about 500 pages) on their anonymous FTP server. Wired News

Re: Article on Linux and non-official dist.

1997-08-27 Thread Lindsay Allen
Hi Keith, As you may be aware, there was another suggestion recently to issue a mini-debian on CD with a magazine. I did some work on that project and solved the problems of making a workable distribution which took up approx 20 Mb of CD space. So if you have 100 Mb available on a CD you can

Re: Cursor vanishes when LILO loads and doesn't return

1997-08-27 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Michael Rokicki wrote: *It's probably OK. Send me the contents of /proc/cpuinfo. Is your chip from *Intel? processor : 0 cpu : 386 model : unknown vendor_id : unknown stepping : unknown fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no

Samba 1.9.17 is out

1997-08-27 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hello everyone, Samba 1.9.17 is out, it has just been released. Since it solves several browsing related bugs and adds several new features my company is really interested in, I am making an unofficial package out of it. If anyone is interested please drop me a note. E.- P.S. An official

Re: q-mail: setup problem

1997-08-27 Thread dada
Joey Hess 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 Package: qmail Version: 1.00-2 I'm filing a bug on this. dada wrote: Hi. I just installed qmail in my system to replace smail. When the

Off-topic - tcpload

1997-08-27 Thread Lindsay Allen
I have need for something to show me the load on an interface and so far I have not been able to find anything. tcpview looks promising but there is no binary. Any ideas? I'm interested in both eth0 and ppp0 interfaces. And another question - how many hosts can one have on a single thin

Re: reading mail locally

1997-08-27 Thread Bob Clark
Sounds like a job for fetchmail. Will Lowe wrote: Ok, again, now that I'm back at school, I'd like to have all my email/news reading be local, on my debian box, rather than on the central servers. I can forward mail via .forward or .maildelivery (on two different systems). The

Re: reading mail locally

1997-08-27 Thread Chiel_Postma
On Tue, Aug 26, 1997 at 11:42:41PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: In essence, I need a way for my machine to receive mail when booted to debian, but not have that mail get lost if the system is down (which, over breaks, etc., can mean a week or more of downtime). I've thought of two solutions,

Re: I2O article

1997-08-27 Thread Glenn Amerine
john == john [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: john I wonder if it was truly a mistake. Maybe someone in the group runs Linux. ;-} Glenn -- Glenn Amerine Inet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems AnalystVoice: (614)224-1336 Metropolitan Human Services

Re: new install

1997-08-27 Thread tko
Karsten Bolding writes: Hi Just got a new computer with 2 Quantum Fireball ST2.1A and a Pioneer ATAPI CD (DR-A24X) I'am having some problems... I can boot the system and come to the point where Please wait Installation is determining the current state .. and

Re: Off-topic - tcpload

1997-08-27 Thread joost witteveen
I have need for something to show me the load on an interface and so far I have not been able to find anything. tcpview looks promising but there is no binary. Any ideas? I'm interested in both eth0 and ppp0 interfaces. Is netdiag the package you are looking for? /usr/sbin/statnet

Re: Samba 1.9.17 is out

1997-08-27 Thread joost witteveen
Hello everyone, Samba 1.9.17 is out, it has just been released. Since it solves several browsing related bugs and adds several new features my company is really interested in, I am making an unofficial package out of it. Have you tried asking the maintainer, Klee Dienes [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: Samba 1.9.17 is out

1997-08-27 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi. No, not yet, I haven't asked the maintainer for an update. I guess he's out or something because I sent an e-mail to him a couple of weeks ago regarding a question I had with the Samba package and he did not get back to me. Any way, if he comes with an update it'll go into Hamm. My question

Re: Samba 1.9.17 is out

1997-08-27 Thread joost witteveen
Hi. No, not yet, I haven't asked the maintainer for an update. I guess he's out or something because I sent an e-mail to him a couple of weeks ago regarding a question I had with the Samba package and he did not get back to me. Any way, if he comes with an update it'll go into Hamm. My

Qmail package, where?

1997-08-27 Thread Paulo Almeida
Hi everybody! I am looking for the qmail package so that I can install it on a debian platform. Unfortunately I was unable to find it so far. Can anyone please tell me where I might find the package. (the complete url would be appreciated) Thanks in advance. Paulo --

Re: Samba 1.9.17 is out

1997-08-27 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Any way, if he comes with an update it'll go into Hamm. My question is, to make it work with Bo (libc5) all that is needed is to recompile in a bo system? Yes, unless there are bugs in the package... But usually, it works OK. OK, thanks. I'll have the chance to test this in about 15

Re: [Performance] 386vs486 compilation

1997-08-27 Thread Brian White
It just dawned on me that all intel packages must be compiled for 386 to make them intel platform-independant. I am wondering how much of a performance boost can be had by recompiling them for 486 or pentium. 10% improvement would probably be about the maximum. While 10% is the point where

Re: [Performance] 386vs486 compilation

1997-08-27 Thread Brian White
From: Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you ever seen numbers for running Pentium code on a 486 and 386 vs native code? I think the Pentium code generator now uses Pentium-specific instructions. Before then, Pentium code on 386 and 486 sometimes ran faster than the 386 and 486

Linux in Wired

1997-08-27 Thread Brian White
There was a decent article about Linux in the latest issue of Wired. It was honest and fair, in my opinion, and Linux came out looking really good. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )

New mailing list: debian-dissent

1997-08-27 Thread Dave Cinege
A new mailing list has been formed to function as an arena for discussions about changing the current Debian (non technical) structure and function. General discussion topicality about the Debian project is: reorganization restructuring splitting or branching purpose and ethics surrounding such

Support for the 3Com 3C900 (Etherlink PCI) network card?

1997-08-27 Thread Lazaro Salem
It seems there is no module support for the 3Com 3C900 Etherlink PCI card in the standard kernel (version 2.0.x). However I found there are some updated source code and a compiled module in: http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html Has anybody tried the compiled module? Will it

Re: Sony StorStation (Ditto 2Gb)

1997-08-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: I've just procured the above tape drive and installed it on my parallel port. I also rebuilt my kernel to support tape (I think). Now what? What package can I use to back up my system? TIA That drive is not (yet, at least) supported by Linux. It

Re: Support for the 3Com 3C900 (Etherlink PCI) network card?

1997-08-27 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Wed, Aug 27, 1997 at 04:28:50PM +0200, Lazaro Salem wrote: : It seems there is no module support for the 3Com 3C900 Etherlink PCI : card in the standard kernel (version 2.0.x). However I found there are : some updated source code and a compiled module in: : :

Re: CDROM death

1997-08-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Carl Flippin wrote: Every time I try to access my cdrom under any distribution of Linux, the entire system goes into limbo. My drive is connected to a PAS 16 and it appears that autoprobe is finding it since the light on the drive flashes. The drive is a Toshiba 2x.

Re: Sparc Debian?

1997-08-27 Thread Johnie Ingram
Michael == Michael Solomani Mifsud [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael Does Debian make a version of Linux (UNiX?) for sparc Michael machines? If so, what kind of preformance comparison between Michael solaris 2.5 and SunOS? Thanks. Funny you should ask -- I just installed it the other day.

Re: Qmail package, where?

1997-08-27 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Paulo Almeida wrote: I am looking for the qmail package so that I can install it on a debian platform. Unfortunately I was unable to find it so far. Can anyone please tell me where I might find the package. (the complete url would be

Re: sendmail/smail and off-line mail

1997-08-27 Thread Gonzalo Diethelm
On Aug 25, 1997, at 12:41, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: Apparently I have found that sendmail is easier to setup, than smail. I might be wrong but the horrible sendmail setup stories seem to originate before the use of m4 macros. I concur. If you do something standard there are m4 macros

Re: Compiling Qpopper

1997-08-27 Thread Johnie Ingram
Bruno == Bruno O M Simoes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bruno Hi all; I'm compiling qpopper and everything's fine. But, to Bruno enable it to recognize shadow, it must to have a shadow Bruno library. It complains: #ld: cannot open -lshadow: No such file Bruno or directory What package must I

Re: Problem creating custom kernel image

1997-08-27 Thread Steve Mayer
Manoj, Sorry about not including the error message. I was in a hurry and meant to add the error as an attachment. Forgot all about it. When I get home from work, I'll resend the message with the error.G Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, Steve == Steve Mayer

finding systeminfo.h

1997-08-27 Thread Paul
Hi Folks, sorry for my last email it got screwed up some how. I have the latest source for speakfreely 6.1c and I am trying to compile it. [root:/usr/src/speak_freely-6.1c:]$make cc -fsingle -O -Iadpcm -Ilpc -Igsm/inc -Imd5 -Iidea -Ilibdes -DInternet_Port=2074 -DHALF_DUPLEX -DSolaris

Missing /etc/resolv.conf

1997-08-27 Thread Gonzalo Diethelm
I just noticed I don't have a resolv.conf file anywhere in the /etc hierarchy. Is it anywhere else (I doubt it)? Is there a package I'm missing? I just added bind, thinking that would solve the problem, but it didn't. -- Gonzalo A. Diethelm G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Printing - text works, ps doesn't

1997-08-27 Thread Paul Miller
I'm trying to print postscript files over samba.. When I print from StarOffice 3.1 I get this error message in the print error file: /usr/sbin/dj550c-filter: /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r300 - sDEVICE=cdj550 -sOutputFile=- - failed It works perfectly if I type 'lpr -Plp filename' ... I've

XDM

1997-08-27 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
Hi all! A few days ago I tried to upgrade my Debian 1.2 - 1.3.1 (According to Linux System Labs). As a matter of fact, I just upgraded some of the packages. Among theses, I upgraded X11, thinking that I was taking care of everything... I upgraded xbase and xserver_s3 and all

Re: CDROM death

1997-08-27 Thread Joost Kooij
Bob Nielsen wrote: On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Carl Flippin wrote: Every time I try to access my cdrom under any distribution of Linux, the entire system goes into limbo. My drive is connected to a PAS 16 and it appears that autoprobe is finding it since the light on the drive flashes. The

Re: Off-topic - tcpload

1997-08-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Aug 27, 1997 at 07:44:35PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: And another question - how many hosts can one have on a single thin ethernet cable? AFAIK, the specs are about 30 connections, and 180 metres (300 foot) maximum length. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL

Re: Missing /etc/resolv.conf

1997-08-27 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Gonzalo Diethelm wrote: I just noticed I don't have a resolv.conf file anywhere in the /etc hierarchy. Is it anywhere else (I doubt it)? Is there a package I'm missing? I just added bind, thinking that would solve the problem, but it didn't. I believe that resolv.conf

Re: Missing /etc/resolv.conf

1997-08-27 Thread Victor Torrico
Try making your own by (as root): 1. touch /etc/resolv.conf 2. edit /etc/resolv.conf to add your dns nameserver The file should look like: search . nameserver 123.123.123.123 123.123.123.123 would be your domain nameserver numerical address. Cheers, -- Victor Torrico --

Re: I2O article

1997-08-27 Thread Rick Hawkins
Sometime after I first started talking with the press about i2o, someone pointed out that the i2o group had left their standard document (about 500 pages) on their anonymous FTP server. Wired News published the URL, and thousands of people downloaded copies of the i2o standard before the i2o

Re: Off-topic - tcpload

1997-08-27 Thread Lawrence
Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 1997 at 07:44:35PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: And another question - how many hosts can one have on a single thin ethernet cable? AFAIK, the specs are about 30 connections, and 180 metres (300 foot) maximum length. to be accurate, 185 metres.

Re: I2O article

1997-08-27 Thread Kevin Traas
Sometime after I first started talking with the press about i2o, someone pointed out that the i2o group had left their standard document (about 500 pages) on their anonymous FTP server. Wired News published the URL, and thousands of people downloaded copies of the i2o standard before the i2o

Re: I2O article

1997-08-27 Thread Alfonso E. Urdaneta
Excuse my ignoramce, but what is I2O ? Alfonso. -- Alfonso E. Urdaneta VOX: 407.729.3840 Harris Corp/Transcomm Division FAX: 407.729.1962 PO Box 5100, MS 6B.3827mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Melbourne, FL 32902.5100

Re: Off-topic - tcpload

1997-08-27 Thread Joey Hess
joost witteveen wrote: I have need for something to show me the load on an interface and so far I have not been able to find anything. tcpview looks promising but there is no binary. Any ideas? I'm interested in both eth0 and ppp0 interfaces. Is netdiag the package you are looking for?

[Q] smail and fetchmail

1997-08-27 Thread G'razel
I got Debian installed and working fine this time around (think I had a corrupted base files disk) but smail and fetchmail aren't working this time, fetchamail seems to be going out and checking my accounts and marking the messages read in the ISP's spool but not downloading them to my machine

Re: Off-topic - tcpload

1997-08-27 Thread Jim Pick
I have need for something to show me the load on an interface and so far I have not been able to find anything. tcpview looks promising but there is no binary. Any ideas? I'm interested in both eth0 and ppp0 interfaces. Is netdiag the package you are looking for?

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-27 Thread Joey Hess
Brian White wrote: There was a decent article about Linux in the latest issue of Wired. It was honest and fair, in my opinion, and Linux came out looking really good. And it's finally online now at http://.wired.com/wired/5.08/linux.html -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: [Q] smail and fetchmail

1997-08-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, G'razel == G'razel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: G'razel I got Debian installed and working fine this time around G'razel (think I had a G'razel corrupted base files disk) but smail G'razel and fetchmail aren't working this G'razel time, fetchamail G'razel seems to be going out and checking my

Re: ftp status under dselect

1997-08-27 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Bob wrote: : Is there any way to have dselect show a status during the ftp of selected : files? Something similar to the status indicator that ncftp uses would be : nice. Nope there isn't. At least not right now in the stable tree. Remco -- // Remco van de Meent

Mirror Cron job ?

1997-08-27 Thread Ricardo Muggli
What is the correct way to set up a mirror cron job that runs daily? This is what I have done. Created a file /etc/cron.daily/mirror with this in it: #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/mirror /etc/mirror/packages/ftp.debian.org Shouldn't this be run as a different user than root? If so how do I set it up

Changing mouse buttons in Xterm

1997-08-27 Thread David_Neuer
How does one change mouse button assignments in Xterm? Is there an initialization file somewhere? I have read the man page, but couldn't figure this out. The default for the paste function for selected text is mouse button # 3, but I only have a 2 button mouse and would like to set the paste

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-27 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : There was a decent article about Linux in the latest issue of Wired. It : was honest and fair, in my opinion, and Linux came out looking really good. All right!!! I read the on-line version (referenced by another Debian fellow in this list) and think it

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-27 Thread Ted Harding
Brian White wrote: There was a decent article about Linux in the latest issue of Wired. It was honest and fair, in my opinion, and Linux came out looking really good. And it's finally online now at http://.wired.com/wired/5.08/linux.html And in this article is stated: However,

Patch troubles

1997-08-27 Thread Curtis L. Daugaard
I'm not an utter newbie, but I feel like it right now. I have a patch (to support certain hardware) against 2.0.30 that I've successfully applied. Good. But I guess I'm just clueless about how to apply the pre-patch 2.0.31-1 through 2.0.31-7 (to gain support for the LS-120 drive). I've checked

Re: Missing /etc/resolv.conf

1997-08-27 Thread lc29b50
On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Gonzalo Diethelm wrote: I just noticed I don't have a resolv.conf file anywhere in the /etc hierarchy. Is it anywhere else (I doubt it)? Is there a package I'm missing? I just added bind, thinking that would solve the problem, but it didn't. just add one yourself. --

Re: Mirror Cron job ?

1997-08-27 Thread joost witteveen
What is the correct way to set up a mirror cron job that runs daily? This is what I have done. Created a file /etc/cron.daily/mirror with this in it: #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/mirror /etc/mirror/packages/ftp.debian.org Shouldn't this be run as a different user than root? If so how do I set