autoup.sh v0.24 released (was Re: autoup.sh bug)

1998-04-20 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 07:15:23PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > I did a bo--hamm upgrade over the weekend using your autoup.sh: > > $Id: autoup.sh,v 0.23 1998/03/26 15:31:10 root Exp root $ > > and got this when it got to installing dpkg: > > > dpkg: regarding .../base/dpkg_1.4.0.22.deb

X11 setup

1998-04-20 Thread Larry Panzer
I am a Linux novice attempting to set up X11R6 on my 486 system. I had proceded to the mouse set up at one point using the graphical set up program but (due to a little stupidity) my computer locked up and I had to shut it off with out properly exiting Linux. Since it was the first install I deci

Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?

1998-04-20 Thread tko
Paul Miller writes: [snip] > hmm... I have 64 megs of EDO RAM and two ~104 meg swap paritions and Linux > rarely touches them, and even if it does, it only uses less than 10 megs.. > Has Linux decided my 6-year old, 208 meg drive is too slow? NO, Linux does not care. You have to determine if that

Re: no popclient?

1998-04-20 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Richard L Shepherd wrote: > > > I see that popclient has been missing for sometime. I have a machine with > > popclient installed from some time ago (early days of bo). Just recently > > it has stopped working and I see no alter

Re: PINE Debian Package

1998-04-20 Thread robert havoc pennington
There should be one in non-free (or maybe contrib?) - anyway, it's there somewhere on the ftp server, I have it installed. Havoc Pennington On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Kenneth F. Ryder III wrote: > > I am looking for a debian package of PINE, does any one know where I can > get one? > > thanks >

How to reformat quoted replys?

1998-04-20 Thread Jim Foltz
Hello, I would like to automatically reformat quoted text when replying to an email message. Is this possible and how? I use mutt as my mail program. As for the editor, I prefer pico for email because it's quick and easy, but I also know some emacs. Thanks, Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

PINE Debian Package

1998-04-20 Thread Kenneth F. Ryder III
I am looking for a debian package of PINE, does any one know where I can get one? thanks Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [tcsh] disabling autologout?

1998-04-20 Thread Adam Shand
> Oh, minor stuff really. The completion stuff mentioned earlier in this > thread, prompt settings (~ when in your home dir, a shorter HH:MM time > format), other little things I can't remember right now. I'm sure I > could get bash to do most of it, if I sat down and figured it out... sounds

Re: HELP: Telneting Inbound via a PPP Connection

1998-04-20 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Rob Goodwin wrote: > Hi there, > Hi :) > I'm having a serious problem here. I have been able to set up my machine > to accept PPP connection. I can dial from a win95 machine and use PAP to > authenticate and connect. The IP address is assigned to the win95 machine > alright and I can then pi

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-20 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Joerg Plate writes: >> I guess I'll just delete them and just forget about it :^> > man symlinks I believe you mean "man symlink", and you are talking about: NOTES No checking of oldpath is done. Deleting the name referred to by a symlink will actually delete the file (

Re: IPX Routing Problem

1998-04-20 Thread Stephen Zedalis
Look at the IP Masquerade Resources page. http://ipmasq.home.ml.org And then follow the link to the Masquerade Applications List, then Miscellaneous, then IPX Basically, you build an IPX bridge between your inner and outer interfaces on your Masquerading machine using software from ftp://sunsit

Re: HELP: Telneting Inbound via a PPP Connection

1998-04-20 Thread Alain Toussaint
do you have a nameserver (bind) ?? Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [tcsh] disabling autologout? revisited.

1998-04-20 Thread Keith Beattie
dobrin wrote: > Sorry about this, but I was out and missed the beginning, How do you > disable Autologout in tcsh (which I MUST use to be script compliant with the > rest of the facility). I tried login.defs and a few other things. NADA. > This is funny. I just resisted the temptation to

Re: [tcsh] disabling autologout?

1998-04-20 Thread Keith Beattie
Adam Shand wrote: > > > While there are still a few things I prefer about tcsh, I figure bash > > can you expound? i'm curious. > Oh, minor stuff really. The completion stuff mentioned earlier in this thread, prompt settings (~ when in your home dir, a shorter HH:MM time format), other little

Re: smail Hostnames--Simplified

1998-04-20 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Art Lemasters wrote: > Allow me to give an example to be more specific (sorry). > > If my machine has the fullname > > newname.bf.org > > can I still download mail from the account [EMAIL PROTECTED] to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > using smail? How? Thanks. You

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-20 Thread DAVID B. TEAGUE
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 04:43:41PM +0200, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > I happen to have some very valuable information on how to play the > > classical guitar. Would you like me to post that to debian-user? > YES! Seriously, I play guitar and dou

Re: Comments on Debian 'frozen' release, wvdial

1998-04-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 01:39:17PM -0600, Andy Rabagliati wrote: > > Folks, > > Except .. that after the base install I wished to continue as an ftp > install. This required the usual guru-level PPP setup, not acceptable, > in my opinion, for a fresh install. It is not any more. See belo

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-20 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > I read this now and this reminds me of a point I have meant to bring to > someones > attention... > the debian xfstt package soes not contain the original xfstt documentation! > I installed it recently (again) and actually had to download the packag

ckermit and hp48

1998-04-20 Thread Jens Ritter
Hallo all, I have some strange problems with ckermit and my HP48 pocket calculator: 1. The connection works: If I do cat /dev/ttyS0 (where the calculator is connected) and start a kermit transmission from it, I get some strange characters on the console: unsolved [/home/jens] $ cat /dev/ttyS0

Re: [tcsh] disabling autologout? revisited.

1998-04-20 Thread dobrin
Sorry about this, but I was out and missed the beginning, How do you disable Autologout in tcsh (which I MUST use to be script compliant with the rest of the facility). I tried login.defs and a few other things. NADA. Thanks (now back to our regularly schedualed discourse on shells) --

Re: What libs to use ???

1998-04-20 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Mario Filipe wrote: > Hello > > This is not really a debian problem, but i think that the people here can help > me. > > I need to create a program that shows how much of it's task has been done (in > percentage maybe) and what is it doing currently. I could display this wit

HELP: Telneting Inbound via a PPP Connection

1998-04-20 Thread Rob Goodwin
Hi there, I'm having a serious problem here. I have been able to set up my machine to accept PPP connection. I can dial from a win95 machine and use PAP to authenticate and connect. The IP address is assigned to the win95 machine alright and I can then ping my linux box but that's about it. A

Re: why?

1998-04-20 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote: > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Why would any list accept an email message with the above in the To: > header? > > Also, someone in the US State of Maryland might want to consider donating > a mail server for Debian. That email would have been grounds for

ISDN modem problems

1998-04-20 Thread Christian Lynbech on satellite
I have just got myself an ISDN line and a Zyxel Omni.net plus modem, but I have problems in getting it to work smoothly. The problem is that I keep getting error messages saying something to the effect of: ppp: frame with bad fcs, excess = 4de9 The more trafic (for instance with ping) I gene

Comments on Debian 'frozen' release, wvdial

1998-04-20 Thread Andy Rabagliati
Folks, I downloaded the boot disks and base2_0.tgz to install the new glibc debian release on my Compaq laptop. I am an experienced linux installer. All went very smoothly. Except .. that after the base install I wished to continue as an ftp install. This required the usual g

Re: Routing with Debian?

1998-04-20 Thread Florian Attenberger
On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote: > Here is my situation: I want to connect a laptop to the Internet using a > PLIP connection to my Ethernet-connected workstation. This pretty much > sums up what I have tried (except for those ifconfig's): > > on laptop: > route add plip0 > route add

Re: no popclient?

1998-04-20 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Richard L Shepherd wrote: > I see that popclient has been missing for sometime. I have a machine with > popclient installed from some time ago (early days of bo). Just recently > it has stopped working and I see no alternative package to get either the > binary (popclient) o

IPX Routing Problem

1998-04-20 Thread Florian Attenberger
Hi, I want to connect my IPX-Network via dialup to another IPX-network. The dialing PC should be the Gateway. I know, how to get this working for TCP/IP: ipfwadm -F -p deny ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.1.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0 (With these two lines i connect my localnet to the Internet) How can i g

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 04:43:41PM +0200, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > > > > > Win98 runs one hell of a lot slower than Win95 and multitasks even > > > > worse.. > > > > > > Cut it off please, if you want this type of discussion there are plenty > > > news groups filled with it. Let's keep th

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-20 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I read this now and this reminds me of a point I have meant to bring to someones attention... the debian xfstt package soes not contain the original xfstt documentation! I installed it recently (again) and actually had to download the package off of sunsite and unpack the tarball just to get the do

Re: Residual X11R5 and a.out errors?

1998-04-20 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Britton wrote: > > While trying to install or remove X programs with dselect, I often get > whole slews of errors like these: > > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libdb.so.1 (No such > file or directory), skipping > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11

Re: [tcsh] disabling autologout?

1998-04-20 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > might as well forget csh and learn sh. (This is similar to why I > think Java/C can now replace C++, but I digress. :)) Ugh...I shudder the thought. I like C++ :)(although, I can understand why) > ksh = Kron Shell (an extension of sh) > LocalWords: Kron The correct name is "Kor

Re: [tcsh] disabling autologout?

1998-04-20 Thread Adam Shand
> 1) I find myself working on several different OSs these days: WinNT, > Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, FreeBSD, Linux, etc. Being able to have the same > shell everywhere is nice and I have found bash to be the easiest to > install on all these types of machines. (autoconf is a beautiful > thing!) this

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-20 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Paul Rightley wrote: > I have installed xfstt, but it seems to be documentation-poor. > I know nothing of fonts in X (or in Windows for that matter - > I guess I am the prototypical luser). Where would I get some > TTF fonts and where would I put them to use them? Are there

Ghosting and monitor settings for Xwindows

1998-04-20 Thread Matthew Lee
Hi, I noticed on some windows that overlap each other I can see a faint line continuing down the edge of the top window corresponding to the buried edge of the bottom window. Is this because my monitor clock rates or other settings are incorrect? I have a Neomagic chip so I am using the vga16 serve

Re: Changing xterm titles to something more usefull than 'xterm'

1998-04-20 Thread Norbert Veber
> Changing the title bar dynamically can be done with the PROMPT_COMMAND > environment variable (in bash). In my bashrc I have: > > function settitle > { > # title="[EMAIL PROTECTED]:(`date +%k:%M:%S`):`pwd`" > title="[EMAIL PROTECTED]:(`date +%k:%M:%S`):`history 1`" > echo -n "^[]2;$title^G"

Re: [tcsh] disabling autologout?

1998-04-20 Thread Keith Beattie
Adam Shand wrote: > > > > > Use bash (instead of tcsh) and ssh (for connecting to remote hosts). > > > > running a couple of days behind here but ... > > are there reasons for your personal bias? i definately agree with using > ssh for connecting to hosts (auto setting of display variable,

MP3 encoding

1998-04-20 Thread Corey Miller
Does anyone know of any good mp3 encoding programs for linux? Thanks, Corey Miller --- Corey Miller "This looks like a job for . legal tender!" MSTie #71940 -The Tick [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.egr.msu.edu/~mille542/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: [sara@ora.com: NPR show on open source]

1998-04-20 Thread Douglas Bates
Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > From: "Sara Winge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:16:43 -0700 > > Subject: NPR show on open source > > > > Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman are guests on > > NPR's "Science Frida

EXIM help

1998-04-20 Thread BRIAN SCHRAMM
I am looking at the EXIM mail transport to handle the UUCP and pop mail that I have along with filtering mail and local mail. I remember a person on this list that offered someone a copy of the mail files that they use. Can I get a copy of them from anyone that is using t

Re: [sara@ora.com: NPR show on open source]

1998-04-20 Thread Douglas Bates
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From: "Sara Winge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:16:43 -0700 > Subject: NPR show on open source > > Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman are guests on > NPR's "Science Friday" today--looks like the segment's > from 12:30-1:00 pm PD

FvwmWinList in hamm-fvwm

1998-04-20 Thread Marc Meier
After installing a hamm.system my fvwm configuration no longer works as expected FvwmWinListFocusFore/Back has no effect and the icon text is left justified instead of centered as default. Not a huge problem but it works with fvwm 2.0.45-BETA-4 in bo. Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

UUCP question (important)

1998-04-20 Thread Nicolas Weinachter
Hello, I want to create a connection between 2 unix machine (1 linux and 1 aix) using uucp (the goal is to exchange mail) and in tcp mode. I installed the taylor version of uucp on the 2 unix stations : the install was successfull I configured the 2. My linux is named : pclin2 My aix is named : m

Re: Can emacs and xemacs coexist?

1998-04-20 Thread Keith Beattie
Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, shaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > By the way, how can I tell the aliases in my .bashrc to work only when I am > > using X (I don't need xemacs -geometry 87x28 when I am not using X) ? > > Use a function such as > > xemacs()

Re: supressing return mail with "at"

1998-04-20 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Richard E. Hawkins Esq. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I tossed together a 2 line script to run with at, to give me a ^Q every > minute: > echo -n "bbb" > /dev/ttyp8 > at -f testfile now + 1 minutes avoid output to stdout/err! "at" only sends mail if there is anything to send. see at(1) at -f test

Re: [tcsh] disabling autologout?

1998-04-20 Thread Adam Shand
> I much prefer tcsh for interactive use. Having smart completion is the > best thing since sliced bread! hmm, i'm didn't know that you could do all these things. i use simple file name completion all the time, but the below stuff is sorta neat. > $ cd [tab] > -> shows and completes to dire

Re: Q: Suport for IR?

1998-04-20 Thread Mike Miller
There is the Linux/IR project [1]. I've never looked into it though. I've got an IrDA port on my laptop, but don't have anything to talk to with it. Mike [1] http://www.cs.uit.no/~dagb/irda/irda.html> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Exim and procmail

1998-04-20 Thread Stephen Carpenter
George Bonser wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Daniel Quinlan wrote: > > > hi, > >now I know I can't be the only one using Exim and procmail, so I must > > be doing something weird. > > Uhm, you probably ARE the only one using Exim and Procmail! Exim has its > own filtering and delivery scriptin

Re: Video Modes in X

1998-04-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 12:57:36AM +1000, Chris wrote: > > > I am trying to get my X running 1152x862 at 16 bpp - Vertical scan = 60Hz, > Horizontal Scan = 56Hz. > > The only hastle is that there is no modeline for this in my XF86Config, > and I don't know how to write one. > > Can anyone help

Re: [tcsh] disabling autologout?

1998-04-20 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Adam Shand wrote: > > > > > Use bash (instead of tcsh) and ssh (for connecting to remote hosts). > > > > is is there really any advantage to using bash over tcsh? I much prefer tcsh for interactive use. Having smart completion is the best thing since sliced bread! e.g. $ cd [tab] ->

Zen and the art of working with NT

1998-04-20 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I have a linux machine here which is low on hard disk space my idea was to mount my "Windows NT home directory" here at work and use it for extra space (I can up my spcae by 2 gigs that way) o far I have mounted my home drive \\home5\sjc8$ on /mnt/partners with smbmount because o fmy specific probl

supressing return mail with "at"

1998-04-20 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I have a screwball link in my apartment, a 9600 isn line. ANd, unfortunately, the m-soft right-" is ^S with bit 8 high. There is no way to reset the adaptor from my end using this; it needs a complete reset, losing the line, or a ^Q from the host. I tossed together a 2 line script to run wi

Re: Exim and procmail

1998-04-20 Thread David Wright
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Daniel Quinlan wrote: > "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 daniel" > >as my .forward I don't think it knows what "exit 75 daniel" means. There should be a # to comment out your username: #daniel Cheers, -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science D

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-20 Thread Paul Miller
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > > Windows 98 and NT require more ram to be faster than 95. Otherwise, > This is an issue that is dear to my heart ... I want my memory to be used > /principally/ for my applications not gobbled up by my OS! > I have 64 megs of ram in my Dell 200... a

OUT OF TOPIC: squid and ftp

1998-04-20 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Hi everybody, excuse me for being out of topic but I have a little problem with the squid web cache and if somebody know how to solve it I will thank him for a LOT of time... ftpget doesn't work.I am pretty sure the conf file has all the right options in it, squid launch ftpget a

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-20 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
W Paul Mills writes: >> nr# ldconfig >> ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libdb.so.1 (No such >> file or directory), skipping >> ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libext2fs.so (No such file or >> directory), skipping >> ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libe2p.so (N

PPP and Ethernet

1998-04-20 Thread Richard L. Alhama
I work for an ISP here in the Philippines. I have a permanent ethernet connection to the Internet and would like to use my modem to dial-up to our router which assigns dynamic IP addresses. Anyway, the purpose of dialing to our router is to monitor the dial-up lines and to check the connection ra

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-20 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > > > Win98 runs one hell of a lot slower than Win95 and multitasks even > > > worse.. > > > > Cut it off please, if you want this type of discussion there are plenty > > news groups filled with it. Let's keep this a _useful_ list. > > > > Sorry, but this is valuable information ... so you

Re: Big hard disks

1998-04-20 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Larry Panzer wrote: > Thanks to everyone who helped me on my last question. Now that I have > decided on getting a bigger hard disk (I looking at about a 1GB) I have > heard of or know of the following problems: > > Can I plug a 1GB EIDE disk into a normal IDE controller with a CD-ROM, and > will

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-20 Thread C.J.LAWSON
> commercial on the radio about Win98 being the OS of future businesses... > Win98 runs one hell of a lot slower than Win95 and multitasks even worse.. > I don't know where M$ came up with Win98 running programs faster than > Win95.. Win98 is a disaster; _never_ install it, it is a complete was

Re: why?

1998-04-20 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Why would any list accept an email message with the above in the To: > header? Your question could be asking one of two different things: 1) Why would the list accept mail with an "obviously bogus" To: header? 2) Why would the

Re: question about kernel

1998-04-20 Thread Maarten Bezemer
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Carroll Kong wrote: > Yes. There is the new 'nestea' attack ... linux is linux, > regardless of distribution. In other words, debian is definately > vulnerable, there are patches available. I forgot exactly where I got > mine, (sorry), but it is something like ip_f

Re: question about kernel

1998-04-20 Thread Carroll Kong
Yes. There is the new 'nestea' attack ... linux is linux, regardless of distribution. In other words, debian is definately vulnerable, there are patches available. I forgot exactly where I got mine, (sorry), but it is something like ip_fragment.c and you throw it into your kernel source

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-20 Thread Carroll Kong
Windows 98 and NT require more ram to be faster than 95. Otherwise, it's overbloated kernel and other system sucking resources will force you to hit your harddrive (memory paging via swap file / disk) and that wil cause such a slow down. Personally, I find windows 95 and nt have faster re

Re: Running XDVI from netscape

1998-04-20 Thread Egon Schmid
The problem is definitly bash 2.0. Try a real shell. This was an answer from a netscape person (name forgotten but can be found in the emacs manual) -Egon On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > I have seen this problem before. > > > Thanks Michael for quick response. > > > Hmm...

Re: Running XDVI from netscape

1998-04-20 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I have seen this problem before. > Thanks Michael for quick response. > Hmm... will another shell give me still different error messages? > I load ash from cdrom, and /bin/sh -> /bin/ash - and IT WORKS. > > A problem with shells seems more serious than one with application; > should I repor

Re: Super.tab syntax

1998-04-20 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, C.L.Daugaard wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 09:29:33PM -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > I still get > > bash: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward: Permission denied I don't use super, but it's interesting that bash is the one complaining and not super. You could make thi

question about kernel

1998-04-20 Thread Maarten Bezemer
Hi! A lot of the people here are running RH linux, and this morning all of 'em crashed. RH seems to have a patch available, Debian doesn't. Question: is Debian vulnerable for this? -Maarten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-20 Thread W Paul Mills
On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann writes: > > > I think this is only linker confusion and has its cause by removing > > libraries and symlinks and running ldconfig in the wrong order. > > > Policy about calling ldconfig in package scripts is changing at the m

Re: I have a pppd connection problem.

1998-04-20 Thread Avery Pennarun
On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 09:13:16AM +0200, Szomor Attila wrote: > --ppp not replacing existing default route to eth0[0.0.0.0] > --Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP > I do not have idea what is a solution if you know it please send me an > e-mail. I don't think the settings on your IS

Re: gzip question

1998-04-20 Thread John
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 12:38:54PM +0100, John wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Norbert Veber >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >> >On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 12:11:06PM +0100, John wrote: >> >> Hello >> >> >> >> I have

Netscape + Java + X 24 bpp

1998-04-20 Thread Fredrik Ax
System configuration: * Base: Debian 1.3.1 r6 (bo, libc5) * Kernel: version 2.0.30 * X: XFree86 3.3.1 (debian packages 3.3-4) with the S.u.S.E. XF86_SVGA server. * Gfx hw: Matrox Millenium II * Netscape: Communicator 4.04 pro (installed with the "netscape4_4.0-5.deb" package from hamm

Re: Question.

1998-04-20 Thread Carey Evans
"Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is what's known as a 'port scan'. Someone wants to see what network > services > are available on your box. This would likely be a first step for a would-be > intruder. You should probably alert someone at fuller.edu. I don't think it is: %

What libs to use ???

1998-04-20 Thread Mario Filipe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello This is not really a debian problem, but i think that the people here can help me. I need to create a program that shows how much of it's task has been done (in percentage maybe) and what is it doing currently. I could display this with printf's but that

Re: Super.tab syntax

1998-04-20 Thread C.L.Daugaard
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 09:29:33PM -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > Have you tried escaping the shell characters: > echo \"1\" \> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > Thanks, I hadn't. Unfortunately bash still complains about permissions. I additionally tried setting real uid to root, but whe

ATI expert@work AGP 8mb

1998-04-20 Thread Marlon
I have this vid. card and was attempting to install a win. manager. The nearest sounding option for my card was the ATI Mach64. but no dice, it looked all screwy. I've heard that the problem was lack of support for AGP. It's not vital that I run X but it would be nice. Where can I get the proper d

Re: Running XDVI from netscape

1998-04-20 Thread King Lee
Michael Tempsch writes: > > > > I installed Netscape 4.04 (in a private directory) last year > > and after fiddling with preferences (Edit -> preferences > > ->Navigator->Applications) I was able to bring up XDVI when > > I clicked on a .dvi file and a ghostview when I click on a .ps > > file.

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-20 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > > > Well for what it is worth my own opinion is that 95 just like its forbears > > is an app. loaded on dos and for this reason I think we should be talking > > about whether or not dos is a true multi-tasking OS ... It certainly is > > capable of beco

Re: Is X breaking my monitor?

1998-04-20 Thread Paul Miller
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote: > On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, The Thought Assassin wrote: > > > On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Will Lowe wrote: > > > Every few minutes, the screen wavers a little -- like it was made of > > > jelly and someone's shaking in just the slightest bit. Is this a > > > monito

Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?

1998-04-20 Thread Paul Miller
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Remco Blaakmeer writes: > > > The second thing that you can do is to move up to the new "ultra-DMA" > > > IDE drives. The bandwidth (bytes per second) is much higher than the > > > standard IDE drives and will speed up Linux as a whole. > > > > If y

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-20 Thread Paul Miller
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > Well for what it is worth my own opinion is that 95 just like its forbears > is an app. loaded on dos and for this reason I think we should be talking > about whether or not dos is a true multi-tasking OS ... It certainly is > capable of becoming one. The q

w04-2

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Tape Orientated Backup Bug

1998-04-20 Thread Tim Metz
Downloaded the unstable Debian Tape-Orientated Backup package (tob_0.14-4.deb) tonight and had something interesting (frustrating) happen, posting here so that others may avoid similar problems... 1. Installed package -> "dpkg -i tob_0.14-4.deb" 2. Intended to execute "tob -check" as documented

errors while uninstalling pppupd

1998-04-20 Thread Britton
I got the following: Removing pppupd ... /etc/init.d/pppupd: line 28: syntax error near unexpected token `force-reload)' /etc/init.d/pppupd: line 28: ` force-reload)' dpkg: error processing pppupd (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL:

Running XDVI from netscape

1998-04-20 Thread King Lee
Hello, I installed Netscape 4.04 (in a private directory) last year and after fiddling with preferences (Edit -> preferences ->Navigator->Applications) I was able to bring up XDVI when I clicked on a .dvi file and a ghostview when I click on a .ps file. I was running RedHat 4.02 (I think).

RE: Changing xterm titles to something more usefull than 'xterm'

1998-04-20 Thread Mike Brownlow
On 20-Apr-98 Norbert Veber wrote: > Is there a simple way to make xterms display the current command > beeing executed in the window? By simple I mean without patching and > recompiling bash and/or xterm. I know that you can change the title > using the -T command line option, but I want it to chan

I have a pppd connection problem.

1998-04-20 Thread Szomor Attila
Dear Madam/Sir, My internet provider changed his router parameter because his win95 users must to use bring up terminal window after connection. Since this option (Cisco/Group-Async/no ppp authentication pap)changed I do not make a correct connection and get two error messages: --ppp not replacing

Re: Install disks for PowerPC

1998-04-20 Thread Alain Toussaint
> Thanx for the reply. So how does one get started with the IBM PowerPC > then if there are no disks-powerpc? you check elsewhere for now,it's a very real possibility that Debian developper are crafting a very good distribution but that need time and they seem to be very busy (with the release of

XFree 3.3.2 and TGUI9680

1998-04-20 Thread seth
After a recent harddrive failure I moved from bo to hamm. I quickly discovered that XF86 in hamm doesn't seem to like my tgui9680 vid card. The svga server loads, but all I get is a black screen, and after hitting ctrl-alt-bkspc I get: "waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/X1

Re: no popclient?

1998-04-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
Use fetchmail. On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Richard L Shepherd wrote: > I see that popclient has been missing for sometime. I have a machine with > popclient installed from some time ago (early days of bo). Just recently > it has stopped working and I see no alternative package to get either the > bina

Changing xterm titles to something more usefull than 'xterm'

1998-04-20 Thread Norbert Veber
Is there a simple way to make xterms display the current command beeing executed in the window? By simple I mean without patching and recompiling bash and/or xterm. I know that you can change the title using the -T command line option, but I want it to change dynamically depending on what I'm do

no popclient?

1998-04-20 Thread Richard L Shepherd
I see that popclient has been missing for sometime. I have a machine with popclient installed from some time ago (early days of bo). Just recently it has stopped working and I see no alternative package to get either the binary (popclient) or the equivalent (lightweight) functionality. The error

does samba support user list REQUESTS

1998-04-20 Thread Paul Miller
Does Samba support user list requests -- sending a list of users to remote machines upon request.. Novell 3.11 and Win NT do this.. does Samba? Thanks -Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Install disks for PowerPC

1998-04-20 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Alain Toussaint wrote: > > where are they? I see a directory for disks-i386 and several other > > platforms (alpha, sparc and m68k) but no disks-powerpc. > > > > So how does one get started installing Debian on a PowerPC MAC, and where > > are the instructions? > > > > i d

Re: first kernel compile & first failed kernel !!!!!

1998-04-20 Thread Alain Toussaint
> I am assuming that you either compiled support for these directly into the > kernel or you have no need for them. If this is the case, edit > /etc/modules and remove the references to linear, cdrom, and serial. i compiled them in the kernel (and yes i trully need them as i only have 1 machine a

Re: Install disks for PowerPC

1998-04-20 Thread Alain Toussaint
> where are they? I see a directory for disks-i386 and several other > platforms (alpha, sparc and m68k) but no disks-powerpc. > > So how does one get started installing Debian on a PowerPC MAC, and where > are the instructions? > i don't think there will be a Debian for the Mac version of the

Re: first kernel compile & first failed kernel !!!!!

1998-04-20 Thread Alain Toussaint
> I suspect that you were already running 2.0.29 before you built your > custom one. It is possible that there were some modules in the old kernel > that were not included in your custom kernel. > > Try this and see if it corrects the problem: > > mv /lib/modules/2.0.29 /lib/modules/2.0.29-old

Install disks for PowerPC

1998-04-20 Thread Richard L Shepherd
where are they? I see a directory for disks-i386 and several other platforms (alpha, sparc and m68k) but no disks-powerpc. So how does one get started installing Debian on a PowerPC MAC, and where are the instructions? TIA 8<--->8 Richard Shepherd ([EMAIL PRO

Exim and procmail

1998-04-20 Thread Daniel Quinlan
hi, now I know I can't be the only one using Exim and procmail, so I must be doing something weird. Exim is configured as an 'Internet site' (option 1) and I'm using this: "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 daniel" as my .forward I'm using fetchmail to pull my mail off

first kernel compile & first failed kernel !!!!!

1998-04-20 Thread Alain Toussaint
Hello all i did my first kernel compile (make menuconfig,make clean, make-kpkg clean, make-kpkg --bzimage kernel_image) and installed the resulting .deb package of the kernel,runned lilo (twice) and rebooted,the kernel loaded fine but i think i lacked something ( i guess i did not make the module

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