Offline news access (was: smail config for an ISP with PPP+SMTP+POP3 - How to do?)

1997-12-29 Thread Daniel Gross
Hi all! Thanks to the ones, who helped me with my smail configuration problem. (Martin Bialasinski, David Stern and Bob Nielsen) But, NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT! Hey it's not so different at all. Now that my eMail works fine, I also want to access to USENET News. Until now, I could

What does 'bo' stand for?

1997-12-29 Thread Pancho Horrillo
Hi! I have a silly question: What does 'bo' stand for in Debian distribution tree? Binary Something? Thanx for your support -- Pancho Horrillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

Re: What does 'bo' stand for?

1997-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 02:33:50AM +0100, Pancho Horrillo wrote: Hi! I have a silly question: What does 'bo' stand for in Debian distribution tree? Binary Something? Bo is a character from the film 'Toy Story'. Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

LibGif2

1997-12-29 Thread Asher Haig
Does anyone out there know where I can get libgif2? Preferably in .deb form? Apparently I need it to be able to install KDE Thanks --Asher -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: What does 'bo' stand for?

1997-12-29 Thread Geoff Kuchera
According to Pancho Horrillo: Hi! I have a silly question: What does 'bo' stand for in Debian distribution tree? Binary Something? Thanx for your support -- Pancho Horrillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] A very good question: bo stands for bo as in bo peep a character from Toy Story.

Re: LibGif2

1997-12-29 Thread Brett Wildermoth
Asher Haig wrote: Does anyone out there know where I can get libgif2? Preferably in .deb form? Apparently I need it to be able to install KDE Thanks --Asher The KDELIB file should contain this file Brett Wildermoth EMAIL : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Has anyone managed to compile amanda for bo?

1997-12-29 Thread Stan Brown
I am trying to set up amanda for our network. I have a Debian bo machine on it. I can't seem to get amanda going. The original distribution core dumpps while runing configure! It's trying tocheck for dump =E at the time BTW. There is a package for hamm, bit

Re: getting started in Xwin (Help)

1997-12-29 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: On Fri, 26 Dec 1997 23:35:55 GMT, Rick wrote: Matrox Mystique II, 4mb Getting vga mode to work should be pretty simple. The only reason svga might not be as easy is that I dunno if your vid card is supported and it'd be advisable to find out your

Re: hang on bootup

1997-12-29 Thread Jason and Heather
Here's the latest... On Sun, Dec 28, 1997 at 03:06:59PM -0700, Jason and Heather wrote: On Sun, Dec 28, 1997 at 10:26:13AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my system, this line results in a 10 second freeze up, and then Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! Thanks for the

Re: none

1997-12-29 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know what the story is with JDK? .According to my packages file, the stable debian packages is ver 1.0.2.. Sun recently released ver 1.2 (For Solaris/Windoze).. Is the package behind because Sun hasn't released any / any

Re: dpkg

1997-12-29 Thread Joey Hess
Timothy Hospedales wrote: IS there a dpkg option to list all the installed packages? dpkg -l since it keeps track of what is installed, I presume there must be some file somewhere which has them listed in it, anyone happen to know which file that is? /var/lib/dpkg/status -- see shy

Re: dselect ftp

1997-12-29 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all. A brief question, which I suspect may require a verbose answer... Is there a way to install debain using ftp on a dial-up connection? I suspect one may have to install ppp support from an alternate console before dselect will work, but is there a

Re: In the interests of standardation ...

1997-12-29 Thread Joey Hess
George Bonser wrote: I sangged the below from the Caldera mailing list. It describes a method that Red Hat has come up with so that packages can add themselves to the menus of different window managers when the package is installed. It is GPLed and looks like a good idea. Debian already has

Re: In the interests of standardation ...

1997-12-29 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
I sangged the below from the Caldera mailing list. It describes a method that Red Hat has come up with so that packages can add themselves to the menus of different window managers when the package is installed. It is GPLed and looks like a good idea. Debian already has the excellent menu

Re: In the interests of standardation ...

1997-12-29 Thread Joey Hess
Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: I sangged the below from the Caldera mailing list. It describes a method that Red Hat has come up with so that packages can add themselves to the menus of different window managers when the package is installed. It is GPLed and looks like a good idea. Debian

Re: In the interests of standardation ...

1997-12-29 Thread Joey Hess
George Bonser wrote: How do you make the debian menus work with a text display? I have never seen such a menu. What command do you run do display such a menu on a text terminal session? You use a program such as pdmenu[1], which displays menus on a text display. It's a debian package, install

Re: Offline news access (was: smail config for an ISP with PPP+SMTP+POP3 - How to do?)

1997-12-29 Thread Carl Fink
. . . I want to download my (a little more than a) handfull newsgroups, and read it offline. There are (of course) several ways to do this. I use suck, which downloads news and stores it on a local news spool. This is probably more work than you want to bother with. I suggest you look at

Re: In the interests of standardation ...

1997-12-29 Thread Adam Shand
If anyone here is known on the Caldera/Red Hat lists we should ask them to post a follow up to the original message. If we could get some element of standarization between Debian/Red Hat/Caldera it would be [IMHO] a Good Thing. Someone want to voluenteer? Adam.

Re: Printing problem solved

1997-12-29 Thread David Stern
On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, David Stern wrote: with your resources. DejaNews (http://www.dejanews.com) searches the Debian List, so if you have a question which you think is likely to be common (I'd imagine configuring a deskjet is somewhat common), you might try searching the list

Re: In the interests of standardation ...

1997-12-29 Thread Joey Hess
George Bonser wrote: Hey! Way cool! I had pdmenu but had never used it. Now ... if only more programs put themselves into the menuing system ... :( File wishlist bugs, and upgrade to hamm, which has far more programs using it than did bo (if you're still using bo, that is..). -- see shy

Re: In the interests of standardation ...

1997-12-29 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Shand wrote: If anyone here is known on the Caldera/Red Hat lists we should ask them to post a follow up to the original message. If we could get some element of standarization between Debian/Red Hat/Caldera it would be [IMHO] a Good Thing. Someone want to voluenteer? Not me, but

accelx question

1997-12-29 Thread Shaleh
has anyone installed accelx 4.1 on a bo system. I have a copy and wanted to install it. But the last time I did it rendered Xfree unusable. It ate the kb database. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: accelx question

1997-12-29 Thread Alex Yukhimets
has anyone installed accelx 4.1 on a bo system. I have a copy and wanted to install it. But the last time I did it rendered Xfree unusable. It ate the kb database. It's a feature of AX 4.1. Next time before installing AX, backup you /etc/X11 directory and restore after installation. Alex

redirection for netscape conference

1997-12-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Hi, I want to run Netscape Conference on a PC behind an IP masquerading firewall, to talk to the real world. So I need something to redirect the ports. I've looked at redir; I start it up standalone on the three ports Netscape wants to use, but it seems to die straight away. This is not good. I

Re: In the interests of standardation ...

1997-12-29 Thread Will Lowe
On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Joey Hess wrote: George Bonser wrote: Hey! Way cool! I had pdmenu but had never used it. Now ... if only more programs put themselves into the menuing system ... :( File wishlist bugs, and upgrade to hamm, which has far more programs using it than did bo (if

Re: smail / fetchmail and ppp problems

1997-12-29 Thread Will Lowe
On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Ok. I've narrowed it down -- smail doesn't like mail addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- if I tell fetchmail to use procmail as the delivery agent, everything is fine, but otherwise sendmail seems to send itself into infinite loops trying to

Problems with NFSD?

1997-12-29 Thread William R Ward
I have just upgraded my Debian 1.2 to the latest bleeding edge stuff using HAMM, and have found that my nfsd appears to occasionally go into oblivion for no apparent reason. I have to stop and restart (using /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs) periodically as things just hang on the client machines. Has

Re: Printing problem solved

1997-12-29 Thread David Stern
On Sun, 28 Dec 1997 19:59:52 PST, George Bonser wrote: I really would not want to see debian-user on deja news ... deja-news is a spam harvester's dream. If deja-news picks it up, I would want to see all articles from the gateway have an X-No-Archive: yes header inserted so that the

Re: Printing problem solved

1997-12-29 Thread Will Lowe
On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, David Stern wrote: essentially: What will it take to get a (any) search function for debian-user? Or conversely, what is blocking a search function from being implemented? Or does a search function plan already exist? .. Well, you can hit the archives at

netmask

1997-12-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Is a netmask of 255.255.255.128 (ie half a class C) 25 bits of address, ie a /28 designator for tools that use that form of netmask? I think it should but have never really known the rules for this. I figure 32 bits is one host (255.255.255.255), 24 bits is a class C (255.255.255.0); half of a

Re: netmask

1997-12-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is a netmask of 255.255.255.128 (ie half a class C) 25 bits of address, ie a /28 designator for tools that use that form of netmask? Yes, it's 25 bits, but it's not a /28, it's a /25 ofcourse .. Mike. -- Miquel van

Re: netmask

1997-12-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 01:09:16PM +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is a netmask of 255.255.255.128 (ie half a class C) 25 bits of address, ie a /28 designator for tools that use that form of netmask? Yes, it's 25

Re: Changing the domain

1997-12-29 Thread Nils Rennebarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 21 Dec 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: Maybe a /etc/domain is there for NIS/YP? Exactly. And to change the domainname, you need to change: /etc/resolv.conf /etc/hosts The latter should contain at the ip address of each of the hosts interfaces. Nils

loss of xauthority

1997-12-29 Thread hawk
I'm stumped again. I've lost my ability to control xhost for more than a minute or so. This is fairly recent. my xhost + . . . line in .xsession used to let me specify my common hosts, including localhost. No longer. It is necessary to do an xhost + immediately before a program tries to

sendmail relay against spam on debian

1997-12-29 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Greetings, I have two Debian boxes that sit on my Network. The network is host to about 100 domains. Along with acting as the DNS for the network, the two boxes also act as MX relay for all of the domains. The problem is someone out there found my boxes and used them to dump spam.

Re: Offline news access

1997-12-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Daniel Gross wrote: But, NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT! Hey it's not so different at all. Now that my eMail works fine, I also want to access to USENET News. Until now, I could read it online (using tin), but the german Telekom (our phone company) has horrible

Re: paths and su

1997-12-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Tim Ferrell wrote: Nope, I double checked this to be sure. I have only aliases in my bashrc files (global, user, and root). I am inclined to think that this is being set by a default config file somewhere though, because of the inclusion of /usr/bin/X11 - I always refer

Re: couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Wed, 24 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: When I try to dial my ISP using /etc/ppp.chatscript in my ppp.log file I get this message: Dec 24 09:52:42 speedy chat[827]: ATDT7454342(a carrot goes here)M Dec 24 09:52:42 speedy chat[827]: Couldn't match host name or address - please try

Re: Is it possible to start X Windows in multiple V/C .

1997-12-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Lazar Fleysher wrote: ~/startx -- :1 _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running Fatal server error: Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already

Re: smail / fetchmail and ppp problems

1997-12-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Will Lowe wrote: Shouldn't smailconfig automatically assume that hostname=localhost:foo:foo.domain.com should be added in /etc/smail/config? The only way to do this currently is to answer the Is this system known by any other names? question with Yes; localhost

Re: couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-29 Thread Tim Sailer
Martin Bialasinski wrote: On Wed, 24 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: When I try to dial my ISP using /etc/ppp.chatscript in my ppp.log file I get this message: Dec 24 09:52:42 speedy chat[827]: ATDT7454342(a carrot goes here)M Dec 24 09:52:42 speedy chat[827]: Couldn't match host

off topics, seaching for cheap stuff..

1997-12-29 Thread Wiria A Kusuma
Hello everybody.., can some one here suggest me sites on the net where I can buy cheap computer hardwares, somebody suggest me a good site a week ago, where I can buy things very very cheap, something like a brand new sony 17 monitor for around $300, but I accidentally deleted my netscape user

Help on printers

1997-12-29 Thread BRIAN SCHRAMM
I have an IP address of 56.88.7.156 on my network at work. My printer IP address (HP Jetdirect card) is 192.0.0.192. How can I talk to it? Brian Schramm -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

X-Server

1997-12-29 Thread Glenn Scherb
I'm planning to set up my first Debian box from the InfoMagic collection sometime in the next few weeks. I have a choice between XF86 and Metro-X X-Servers. I'm using a Number Nine 9FX Reality 332 card with 2MB. Any recommendations, pros, cons, etc. Also, any recommendations, pros, cons,

Re: Grey Screen After Starting XF86

1997-12-29 Thread Philipp Frauenfelder
I've configured XF86 (correctly I think) but evertime I try to start it with the X command, I get a grey screen and an X cursor. Nothing happens after that. try 'startx' instead. Can anybody help? I hope this helps. GK. cu -- Philipp Frauenfelder [PGP] home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Full Root

1997-12-29 Thread Nils Rennebarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Anthony Landreneau wrote: My root partition, of 400 megs is full. The partition /usr and that of /var are all on their own partition. I have looked in every directory for a core file, and have scanned for viruses. There is no reason

Re: changing domain name

1997-12-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Aaron Walker wrote: How would I go about changing my domain name? Thanks for your help. From your earlier message I'm guessing that you want to assign a real, live DNS name to your machine as opposed to changing what your machine thinks it is. You need to contact the holders of the DNS zone

libmd5-perl and libmime-base64-perl

1997-12-29 Thread Randy Edwards
Running hamm I tried to install the various Linux Gazette packages. However, they depend on libwww-perl. Fine, but after selecting libwww-perl it says it needs libmd5-perl and libmime-base64-perl and these are nowhere to be found. Anyone know what the status is of these packages? Thanks in

Re: libmd5-perl and libmime-base64-perl

1997-12-29 Thread Scott Ellis
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Randy Edwards wrote: Running hamm I tried to install the various Linux Gazette packages. However, they depend on libwww-perl. Fine, but after selecting libwww-perl it says it needs libmd5-perl and libmime-base64-perl and these are nowhere to be found. Anyone know what

Debian on CD.

1997-12-29 Thread Timothy Hospedales
My current Debian system is off FTP sites. I am looking to buy Debian on CD when the next version comes out with libc6 standardized. What are the pro's and con's have you guys noticed for the different vendors? Thanks, Timothy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Tim Sailer wrote: Dec 24 09:52:42 speedy chat[827]: ATDT7454342(a carrot goes here)M Dec 24 09:52:42 speedy chat[827]: Couldn't match host name or address - please try again(carrot goes here)M I think he is using pap, and pap-secrets doesn't match the hostname.

Re: Offline news access (was: smail config for an ISP with PPP+SMTP+POP3 - How to do?)

1997-12-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Daniel Gross wrote: Hi all! Thanks to the ones, who helped me with my smail configuration problem. (Martin Bialasinski, David Stern and Bob Nielsen) But, NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT! Hey it's not so different at all. Now that my eMail works fine, I also want to access to

SLRN problem

1997-12-29 Thread Pann McCuaig
I'm running a bo system and have just installed slrn (and slrnpull). No problems with the install, or setting up slrnpull to query the NNTP server at my ISP. I can see in the log that articles are being pulled down, and I can see them spread about under /var/spool/slrnpull/news. I've RTFMed

Re: loss of xauthority

1997-12-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm stumped again. I've lost my ability to control xhost for more than a minute or so. This is fairly recent. my xhost + . . . line in .xsession used to let me specify my common hosts, including localhost. No longer. It is necessary to do an xhost +

Re: Debian on CD.

1997-12-29 Thread Will Lowe
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Timothy Hospedales wrote: My current Debian system is off FTP sites. I am looking to buy Debian on CD when the next version comes out with libc6 standardized. What are the pro's and con's have you guys noticed for the different vendors? I bought my 1.2 CD from

Re: loss of xauthority

1997-12-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WHile I'm at it, should I be using something other than xhost? the fm's i rt 'd seem to suggest I should be using magic cookies instead. Yes. Here was a posting about this some time ago. I quote it below. Ciao, Martin From: Christian

Re: loss of xauthority

1997-12-29 Thread hawk
Martin wrote, From: Christian Hudon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 14:48:19 + Subject: xauth +, not a good idea... If you don't trust every user on your machine, you'll need to learn a bit about xauth. xauth list $DISPLAY will list the key for the display $DISPLAY.

smail vs procmail

1997-12-29 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I have a .forward file with the following line: |IFS=' ' p=/usr/bin/procmail test -f $p exec $p -Yf- || exit 75 #mario This used to work under sendmail. Now, I just replaced sendmail with smail and I can't get my email filtered trough procmail. The replacement

Re: What does 'bo' stand for?

1997-12-29 Thread Michael Stutz
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Martin Schulze wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 02:33:50AM +0100, Pancho Horrillo wrote: Hi! I have a silly question: What does 'bo' stand for in Debian distribution tree? Binary Something? Bo is a character from the film 'Toy Story'. And what about hamm?

Re: couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-29 Thread Aaron Walker
The problem was: When I dial into my ISP, I get a prompt that says: host: here I type ppp then my username and password. How would I get it to type ppp? Would I just change my ppp.chatscript to say? ABORTNO DIALTONE ATDT7454342 ppp login amwalker password

Re: What does 'bo' stand for?

1997-12-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Michael Stutz wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Martin Schulze wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 02:33:50AM +0100, Pancho Horrillo wrote: Hi! I have a silly question: What does 'bo' stand for in Debian distribution tree? Binary Something? Bo is a character

Re: couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-29 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: The problem was: When I dial into my ISP, I get a prompt that says: host: here I type ppp then my username and password. How would I get it to type ppp? Would I just change my ppp.chatscript to say? ABORTNO DIALTONE

Re: What does 'bo' stand for?

1997-12-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: : On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Michael Stutz wrote: : : On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Martin Schulze wrote: : : On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 02:33:50AM +0100, Pancho Horrillo wrote: :Hi! : :I have a silly question: What does 'bo' stand for in Debian :

.bash_profile and TCP/IP

1997-12-29 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Happy Holidays, I have a 2 part question and as always I'd appreciate any and all information! 1: In my .bash_profile I would like to initiate X everytime I login at the console but not when logging in remotely. I experience 2 problems. 1. When I merely enter

Re: loss of xauthority

1997-12-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin wrote, From: Christian Hudon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 14:48:19 + Subject: xauth +, not a good idea... If you don't trust every user on your machine, you'll need to learn a bit about xauth. xauth list $DISPLAY will list the key

Re: .bash_profile and TCP/IP

1997-12-29 Thread Brandon Mitchell
I believe you can do this by something like the following: if [ `tty | grep -v ttyp` != ]; then startx fi but I would test it first by replacing startx with echo hello world. Note, try echo $TERM to see why your other solution didn't work (should be linux). This eliminates the problem

Re: couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-29 Thread Aaron Walker
I got it working. Thanks to all that helped. But now another, sorta related question... Now that I can connect to my ISP under Linux, is it possible to connect under Linux then get access from netscape under my Win95 box (their both connected via ethernet)? How would I do this? Brandon

Moment of stupidity... heh.

1997-12-29 Thread Adam Shand
Err, I just ^Z a dpkg -i and killed the process and now of course it tells me that: dpkg: status database area is locked - another dpkg/dselect is running What do I do to fix this? I was in the middle of installing rc564 so it wasn't anything mission critical. TIA, Adam. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Bizarre problem.

1997-12-29 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Hey guys! I've got a really *bizarre* problem!!! When I am using my PPP dialup connection, I can use everything on the 'net perfectly. EXECEPT, that I cannot access any dialup IP's in my ISP's domain, including my own. Any attempt at contacting, using the IPs directly, or via a dyn.ml.org

Re: .bash_profile and TCP/IP

1997-12-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Ian Keith Setford wrote: Happy Holidays, I have a 2 part question and as always I'd appreciate any and all information! 1: In my .bash_profile I would like to initiate X everytime I login at the console but not when logging in remotely. I experience 2 problems.

Re: .bash_profile and TCP/IP

1997-12-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Ian Keith Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1:In my .bash_profile I would like to initiate X everytime I login at the console but not when logging in remotely. I experience 2 problems. How about using xdm? It will give a X login at the console. Edit /etc/X11/config to

Re: couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-29 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: I got it working. Thanks to all that helped. But now another, sorta related question... Now that I can connect to my ISP under Linux, is it possible to connect under Linux then get access from netscape under my Win95 box (their both connected via

Ethernet not starting correctly

1997-12-29 Thread Asher Haig
Once again, I'm having some problems with networking. I at least got my card working now (was having problems before that I fixed by recompiling new kernel and pcmcia modules etc.) but now the networking isn't loading correctly when it boots. When I boot up networking simply doesn't work. eth0

More that 64 Mb memory

1997-12-29 Thread Douglas Bates
I have searched the FAQ's but I still can't find the answer to this one. I have a new machine with 128 Mb. of memory. When I boot a standard kernel using the standard lilo configuration from Debian the kernel reports only 64 Mb of memory. Could someone tell me what I change to have the kernel

Re: Moment of stupidity... heh.

1997-12-29 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Do fg at the prompt where you ^Z'd it. Brandon On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Adam Shand wrote: Err, I just ^Z a dpkg -i and killed the process and now of course it tells me that: dpkg: status database area is locked - another dpkg/dselect is running What do I do to fix this? I was in the

something wrong with the user-digest?

1997-12-29 Thread Feng Qian
I haven't got any mail from user-digest for a while. Then suddenly got this huge mail (1.8M) from the debian-change. Is there anything wrong with the server? ** * Feng Qian * * Dept. of Pharmacol. Physiol. Sci.

Debian vs. Caldera

1997-12-29 Thread Brinsfield, Sean
Hi guys, I'm new to the Linux scene, actually want to get into the Linux scene and have two copies that I could start out with, Debian 1.3.1 and Caldera OpenLinux Standard. Please tell me which flavor would be best for a newbie and why. I'm excited about Linux and ready to get rolling with it.

Unidentified subject!

1997-12-29 Thread Feng Qian
I am using MI/X on both win95 and mac. I remembered there were some problems to install MI/X for win95. It seemed you need two files from the Micrographics in order to decompress the file0001.bin. Anyhow, my copy works fine on a win95 machine. I suggest you go to the micrographics home page to

Re: Moment of stupidity... heh.

1997-12-29 Thread Adam Shand
Do fg at the prompt where you ^Z'd it. Uh, I realise that. I ^Z'd it and *killed* the process. It's no longer running. There is now a stale lock file and I need to know where it's kept so that I can delete it. Thanks, Adam. Err, I just ^Z a dpkg -i and killed the process and now of

Re: More that 64 Mb memory

1997-12-29 Thread Scott Ellis
On 29 Dec 1997, Douglas Bates wrote: I have searched the FAQ's but I still can't find the answer to this one. I have a new machine with 128 Mb. of memory. When I boot a standard kernel using the standard lilo configuration from Debian the kernel reports only 64 Mb of memory. Could someone

Re: Moment of stupidity... heh.

1997-12-29 Thread Scott Ellis
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Adam Shand wrote: Do fg at the prompt where you ^Z'd it. Uh, I realise that. I ^Z'd it and *killed* the process. It's no longer running. There is now a stale lock file and I need to know where it's kept so that I can delete it. rm -f /var/lib/dpkg/{lock,methlock}

Re: More that 64 Mb memory

1997-12-29 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On 29 Dec 1997, Douglas Bates wrote: I have searched the FAQ's but I still can't find the answer to this one. I have a new machine with 128 Mb. of memory. When I boot a standard kernel using the standard lilo configuration from Debian the kernel reports only 64 Mb of memory. Could someone

Re: More that 64 Mb memory

1997-12-29 Thread Will Lowe
On 29 Dec 1997, Douglas Bates wrote: I have searched the FAQ's but I still can't find the answer to this one. I have a new machine with 128 Mb. of memory. When I boot a standard kernel using the standard lilo configuration from Debian the kernel reports only 64 Mb of memory. Could someone

Re: couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-29 Thread Tim Thomson
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote: I believe there is a kernel option called IP_MASQ that you would be interested in. However, I haven't done this yet (I plan on it when I decide how I will connect my boxes together). Yes! I use it on my system here. My Win3.11 machine acts

Re: Debian on CD.

1997-12-29 Thread Cleto Pescia
My current Debian system is off FTP sites. I am looking to buy Debian on CD when the next version comes out with libc6 standardized. What are the pro's and con's have you guys noticed for the different vendors? For now, the only thing I can tell you for sure is that you should *NOT* buy

Re: Bizarre problem.

1997-12-29 Thread Tim Thomson
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Timothy Hospedales wrote: Hey guys! I've got a really *bizarre* problem!!! When I am using my PPP dialup connection, I can use everything on the 'net perfectly. EXECEPT, that I cannot access any dialup IP's in my ISP's domain, including my own. Any attempt at

oh my god the listserv is stuffed.. =)

1997-12-29 Thread forrest
Howdy... I subscribed here about .. 2 months ago.. since then i had to unsubscribe as i've been to busy lately.. When i unsubscribed, i was told that an error occurered, and i was never even on the mailing list.. ok, i thought, it's fine, i'm not getting any more mail, it's taken me off the

Re: couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 02:06:58PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: password \qpassword\q \qpassword\q Incidentally, you don't want the second \q; it will turn echo to the log back on, and the password WILL then go into the log. hamish

Re: couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-29 Thread john
Brandon writes: ABORTNO DIALTONE ATDT7454342 host:ppp amwalker \qpassword\q Better: ABORT NO DIALTONE ABORT NO CARRIER ABORT VOICE ABORT BUSY ATZ OK ATDT7454342 CONNECT

Re: Bizarre problem.

1997-12-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 04:41:52PM +, Timothy Hospedales wrote: Hey guys! I've got a really *bizarre* problem!!! When I am using my PPP dialup connection, I can use everything on the 'net perfectly. EXECEPT, that I cannot access any dialup IP's in my ISP's domain, including my own.

Re: Debian on CD.

1997-12-29 Thread Mark W. Blunier
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Cleto Pescia wrote: For now, the only thing I can tell you for sure is that you should *NOT* buy the Debian CDs from Greenbush Technologies Corp. (www.greenbush.com). I ordered the official CD set in September by filling out their secure on-line form, they charged my

Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux

1997-12-29 Thread wnpp
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.64 1997/12/29 23:13:55 johnie Exp $ 1. General Questions 1.1. Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/. 1.2. Purpose of this

Re: couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-29 Thread Aaron Walker
Does it really matter? On my machine, the only person that can view the logs, is root. Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 02:06:58PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: password \qpassword\q \qpassword\q Incidentally, you

Re: Moment of stupidity... heh.

1997-12-29 Thread Adam Shand
That's what I was after. Thank you very much. Adam. Uh, I realise that. I ^Z'd it and *killed* the process. It's no longer running. There is now a stale lock file and I need to know where it's kept so that I can delete it. rm -f /var/lib/dpkg/{lock,methlock} -- Scott K. Ellis