Re: UPS again
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Raymond A. Ingles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 5 Feb 1998, William R Ward wrote: Like a dummy, I bought a UPS without bothering to check if genpowerd supports it (I don't think it does). But before taking it back (I believe I have a week to do so and it's real stormy now, so I'm glad to have it anyway), I wanted to ask if anyone knew if I could do anything with it. I bought a MinuteMan 280 Pro UPS. It looks like it has smart features but does not come with a cable or software. It is made by Para Systems. Is there any Linux software that'll talk to this beast? The UPS-HOWTO has a lot of info about using a UPS under Linux. I'd check there before returning it. I know that genpowerd is pretty flexible and can be configured to support almost any UPS. The UPS-HOWTO does not mention my brand. I even did a web search and found nothing, Linux or otherwise, about my UPS. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report: There's a naked person outside! - Mike Nichols -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: modem and device
Ok !!! but i've tried with it... all i know is that my modem is on com 4 under windows what would it be under Linux... That would be ttyS3 (as ttys0=com1). and when i do `dmesg | grep PPP` there is nothing although i have installed ppp and recompiled the kernel of Linux, make the modules and install it... So, what can i do more precisly ?? What sort of modem you have? It's a card modem, but which brand/model? There are some so called 'win' modems which will only work with windows, I'm afraid. --j Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: The 'cuaX' naming convention for serial devices is deprecated. Now serial devices are named like /dev/ttyS0, /dev/ttyS1, etc. Good luck. Lily wrote: Hello, i'm Lily(nickname) !!! my problem is that i want to have internet under Linux but i don't have '/dev/cua?' . How can i do to have these ( i have already try with MAKEDEV but nothing) ?? thanks for all... -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Re: Which Linux distribution???
This is James from S.u.S.E.. Thanks to Tom Schaefer for the good rundown. [...] I have found a great use for every distribution I have encountered and they're all good. ANY of the Linux distributions makes an excellent choice. (see http://www.linux.org check the distributions page) Right, each person has their preference. One day we'll have a customer who will consider a feature awesome and the next day someone will call it crap depending on his needs and preferences. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. :) [...] get over it and support your distributor by becoming a subscriber. Keep these people in business. Linux is an emerging market and we need to support all of the distributors as best we can. Stay with a distributor who is providing the kind of support that works for you. Thanks, we definitely need that. Whenever I describe what we're doing to people in more 'traditional' business sectors, they ask me how the heck we survive by selling a product for $50 a pop that one can freely distribute to as many people as they want. Luckily through the support of the great Linux community we have been successful and that makes us able to keep improving our product and expanding the role of Linux in the world. Also, I think we Linux providers are doing a good job at following a coop-etition model. Sure we have healthy competition, but we are trying to keep the #1 goal in mind--chip away at the M$ hegemony. I think of it sort of like a political party. In a party, people will debate and argue like crazy to make sure that the best ideas/features come to the surface, but they have to always rally together at election time and rally around the candidate. For us, we should have that same healthy debate, but we can't let that distract us from the bigger goal. So, with that said, I encourage you to debate like mad, but let's use it to keep getting better and better rather than splitting us apart into factions that avoid each other. The last thing we need in the Linux community is a big pissing contest about distributions. At current prices, you can afford to try ALL of them and still beat Microsloth! Yep! There is no contest between MS and Linux. As Linus stated some time a go, the goal is .. 'World Domination, Fast' (not exact quote). I've assimilated ^H^H^HDebianized 32 machines in 2 weeks. I intend to put The Penguin in all the machines I can. There is no competition. We need stickers. A lot. btw. Why doesn't SuSe use dpkg/deb? It's superior to anything I've seen. Just had to ask ;-) --j -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Cheap hardware for
I was thinking Pentium100-166, 64 megs of SDRAM, and SCSI would be a good way to go -- are there any relatively inexpensive motherboards with these sorts of reqs that someone might recommend? Hi! These days P166MMX or P200MMX are rather cheap (relatively cheaper than P100-166 if you find them anywhere anymore new that is). Simple ATX case + cheap, but good MB (QDI, Asus or some..) is the way to go. Unfortunately almost all new motherboards have that nasty 64MB limit with cache, only alternative is VIA-chipset based MB's or PPro or PII. K6 or Cyrix compared speed to $ are not bad if you don't need that much fpu. The processor prices are dropping all the time, so byu after an drop and don't wait long .. or wait till the next drop. OTOH a BAT case + MB that cost very little and is what I would call 'good' might go as well. It seems to be that all the new MB's are ATX form, so upgrading might require new case in the future, but OTOH when upgrading, why not upgrade the case also... Also, I need a fairly cheap XFree86-compat graphics card. Doesn't need to be fancy or a speed deamon, but I'd like to be able to do 1280x1064 on occaison. If you can get an older Millenium or newer Mystique cheap, then that is a good choise. Also ATI has some good and cheap boards. Just be sure to use newest X servers. ATI for example seems to be pushing faster new versions of their chips and boards to market, than they can write good drivers.. or I'm just stumbling to all the bugs.. As for SCSI controllers Asus has the SC875 which is based on Symbios/NCR 53C875 chip - cheap and well supported. UW controller for the price half of an narrow Adaptec 2940. About any board based on the Symbios/NCR chip is a good choise. However if you're going to use only one disk, then EIDE disks are cheaper and in some cases faster. If you're using 2 disks consider SCSI and with 3 disks go with SCSI. IBM disks are good choises in any case, but they're not the cheapest. I did some *very* quick test with one IBM 6,4BG UDMA-ide disk and 4,3GB UW SCSI disk and the ide disk was a *little* faster. This was on a system with Intel VS440FX mb, Ppro 180, 64mb, *No UDMA*, Adaptec 2940UW, disks with 1 GB partition in the front of the disk. I had an setup with an 3,6GB ide disk and four older SCSI disk (0,5GB-1GB) with swap partitions and /var, /usr and so on spread evenly. Then I sold the SCSI adapter and moved the whole system to that one IDE drive.. the whole system became slow as (beep) . I just installed an new adapter and tonight it's time for some raid-experimentations :). --j -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: HP 100VG
Hi everybody, I'm trying to use one of HP 100 VG card : J2585B and my debian couldn't recognize thi card absolutelly. Does anybody know how to use this card in Linux ? Hi! This is from my 2.1.85 sources: /* ** hp100.c ** HP CASCADE Architecture Driver for 100VG-AnyLan Network Adapters ** ** $Id: hp100.c,v 1.14 1997/11/16 13:57:28 alan Exp $ ** ** Based on the HP100 driver written by Jaroslav Kysela [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Extended for new busmaster capable chipsets by ** Siegfried Frieder Loeffler (dg1sek) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** ** Maintained by: Jaroslav Kysela [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** ** This driver has only been tested with ** -- HP J2585B 10/100 Mbit/s PCI Busmaster -cut so the support is coming, if not there. You migh want to ask the maintainer for patches. --j -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Problems in upgrade to unstable...
Just upgraded to hammfollowed the faq but am still having some problems. The most recent is this... When I run dselect, and pick the option to install I get this... Can't locate Net/Config.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 21. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 21. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/dpkg//methods/ftp/install line 7. installation script returned error exit status 2. Press RETURN to continue. So, I'm guessing I'm missing an important package...I went and got the latest versions of Perl, dftp, etc. What do I need? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Forwarding mail to news
Tim Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am subscribed to a number of different mailing lists, but find it easier to read using a news reader. Also, I am at different systems that connect to the internet using a dial-up connection. Is there a way to automaticaly post mail from a mailing list to a local news group? Newsgate is a mail2news and news2mail gateway. There is a debianpackage in hamm, don't know about bo. Another way would be to use gnus (in xemacs or emacs). Gnus is a news/mailreader which shows all data as newsgroups (actual newsgroups, mailfolders, directories et al.). It has quite amazing features, but also a somewhat steep learning curve. But once you have a good customisation, you don't want to miss it any more :-) Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Numlock in an xterm
I have a script in /etc/init.d that runs /usr/bin/setleds -D +num to set the numlock on. How can I get the same result in an xterm? Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Super-dooper config utils (was Which Linux distribution)
John Spence writes: I'd like to see more scripts like my Debian sendmailconfig script. Not only does it ask you the correct questions but it is a great source of information for understanding sendmail and script writing. I'm working on one for ppp right now. I'll have it ready for you to try out in a couple of days. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Question re: splitting files
Nebu John Mathai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wouldn't mind finding out a better way that can be used with other OS' (including DOS and DOS-descended OS'). If you can find a DOS or Windows tar, or use WinZip under Win95, you can copy the files off and join them together with C:\TEMPCOPY FILE.01+FILE.02+FILE.03 FILE.TAR You could probably use zipsplit, if you could work out how. You can also tar directly to multiple floppies, and get more disk space. There's a Mac program called SunTar that is compatible with this method. I think it's something like: % tar -Mcf /dev/fd0 inputfile ... -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Monolith DynDNS + ip-up
Timothy M. Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have the line (mlddc mymldata 21) /var/log/mlddc as specified in the readme file in ip-up. Is that the exact line you have? In that case, where is mymldata stored? I would have expected something like: mlddc /etc/mymldata /var/log/mlddc 21 to make sure that mlddc finds the file. (And so that only one fork/exec is needed by reordering the redirections.) -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
/dev/cdrom was: none
Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have installed Debian 1.3.1, but find myself without /dev/cdrom as a block device (at the driver selection stage, nothing fitted my Mitsumi 12x, which I ad run under an iso9660 on my previous slakware distribution). What is a block device, and how to get the cd recognised? 1. Access to peripherals, etc., is via special files for devices, like /dev/ttyS1 for the second serial port and /dev/hdc for the first IDE or ATAPI device on the second controller. A modem device is a character special file because I/O is generally a character at a time. A disk device is a block special file because I/O is generally in blocks (of e.g. 2 sectors = 1024 bytes). There are good hysterical reasons for this. 2. If the CD is on the first IDA controller it's probably /dev/hdb; on the second it's probably /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd. Use the appropriate device name instead if /dev/cdrom. The Debian-supplied kernel automatically recognises ATAPI CD-ROMs, so type dmesg | less to see where it is. If you really want to use /dev/cdrom, do something like ln -s hdc /dev/cdrom. I also recommend you do a chgrp cdrom /dev/hdc so that you can put trusted users into the cdrom group (see the adduser man page) and give them access to the CD-ROM audio with cdplay, workman, etc. Also - I loaded the packages off the sunsite at imperial college; it turns out that the Latex I picked up had a 1 year-old bug in it (\noindent did not work inside a quote environment). Is there a way of telling whether that is generally a problem with the Debian 1.3.1 distribution, or just that that mirror had not been updated in that directory? You could check on http://www.debian.org/ under the Packages link and see what the latest listed version is there. If you've got the latest and it still has the bug, check under the Bug Tracking link to see if it's been reported. If it hasn't been reported, use the bug program to do so. Check the HOWTO or the mailing list archives for libc6 before trying to install the latest TeX packages. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Monolith DynDNS + ip-up
Timothy M. Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm trying to register my monolith domain from within my ip-up script using mlddc. I have the line (mlddc mymldata 21) /var/log/mlddc as specified in the readme file in ip-up. However, when I login as usual with pppd, it doesn't register and the /var/log/mlddc file is empty. When I type that exact line on the command prompt it registers fine and the /var/log/mlddc file has the registration info appended. I tried chmoding everything in my /etc/ppp and all contents to 777 incase something didn't have enough permissions, but there was no difference. Any thoughts on why it will work on the command prompt and not in the script? First, I'd make certain that the mymldata file is in the current directory when pppd is executing the command in the script - when /etc/ppp/ip-up is executed, the environment is cleared and the current working directory is anyone's guess. So, I'd suggest doing a cd to the directory containing mymldata in the line above the one that depends on it. You may also find it necessary to set the HOME environment variable, if the mlddc script reads any configuration files from a user's home directory. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Question re: splitting files
On Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 10:42:48PM -0800, Steven Morrill wrote: Is there any way in Debian I can break files down to floppy size for archive purposes? Say I want to backup netscape so I don't have to go back and download it again if I do a complete re-install... How do I accomplish this? and how do I re-assemble the pieces to install the program? I just tar as multi-volumes, set volume size appropriately to fit on a disk. Scott -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
CGI scripts to send and recieve email eg. MUA
I was wondering if there was basically a MUA that was a cgi script. There are obviously quite a few folks doing it on the web. My situation is that I have a K12 school district where most of the faculty use public computers such as in the libraries. It is not reasonable for these folks to come to a machine and configure it for pop mail every time that they sit down to read mail. Most of the folks are using Hotmail accounts but this is problematic since there are many places that filter out Hotmail and many others because of spam. I don't see these folks getting a computer on every teacher's desk in the near future. Web based mail would be a good temporary solution. cgiemail may work for sending but receiving and managing an account is a different thing. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load
On my P166 (64 meg RAM) it takes about 20 seconds. Strange, on a BSDi P133 it takes about 5-10 seconds and that machine has less memory. I suspect our Xemacs is loading a bunch of unneeded stuff but I don't know for sure. You might want to mail our xemacs maintainer about this. Gerald Wann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi - I am experimenting with xemacs 20.3 on debian linux 2.0.29 machine w/ AMD K6 200MHz / 32M RAM. It takes xemacs about a full minute to load in xwindows. Anyone else experience such a prolonged load wait, or is it just me ( 20.3 ;-)? Thanks Jerry -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- John Goerzen | Developing for Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| Debian GNU/Linux is a free replacement for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DOS/Windows -- check it out at www.debian.org. --+-- Find out how to avoid all those pesky crashes, lockups, application errors, and slow applications at http://www.debian.org -- Debian can replace Windows 95 with a much more stable operating system. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
X and color depth??
Hello all I have a Matrox Millennium video card with 4mgs installed and a Dell VS15 monitor. It seams that i don't have something set correct and as we do alot of web browsing it would be nice to fix this. Now i have the following in my XF86Config file: 640x400 25.18640 664 760 800400 409 411 450 640x480 31.50640 680 720 864480 488 491 521 800x600 50.00800 856 976 1040600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync 1024x768 75.00 1024 1048 1184 1328768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync Under 640x400 and 640x480 graphics appear to look fine. All bright and colorfull but under 800x600 and 1024x768 graphics get dark. Real dark. Its not so bad as to cause them to be unviewable but it would be nice to solve this problem as i enjoy using 800x600 for most things including Netscape. Anyone know how i can fix this? I have a dos/win95 on another disk in the same system and graphics are fine so i know its something with linux/my config. I have tried to use the xvidtune but this made no difference at all. Is there something i'm missing dealing with color-depth? Any help with this is appreciated as i do alot on the web and the proper color would be nice. And Netscape just isn't the same at 640x480 or below :/ Thanx --Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Newbie: Booting a new system
I've just installed Debian on my computer. I'm having trouble booting without using a boot disk. Debian's the only operating system on the internal (EIDE) hard drive. Win95 is on an external (SCSI) hard drive. The internal drive is 2.5 GB, partitioned as follows: hda1 - 128 MB - swap partition, located at the end of the drive hda2 - 1023 MB - /, located at the beginning of the drive hda3 - everything else - /usr/, located in the middle The BIOS is set to LBA translation. When I boot from the drive, instead of the usual meaningful hardware-probe messages, I get a prompt: 2FA: If I hit enter, it repeats itself. If I press 2, the hard drive light comes on, but nothing happens. If I press F, it checks the floppy drive for a bootable partition. If I press A, the prompt changes to: 1234F: Again, F boots from the floppy drive if I've inserted my boot floppy. Pressing one of the listed digits makes the hard drive light come on, but nothing else happens. This isn't what I'm used to seeing from LILO on a working (Slackware) system. So what's going on? Chris Buxton Internet and Database Consultant -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems in upgrade to unstable...
I had that exact same problem with my first upgrade to libc6 (i've done 2). What I did to correct it was, i removed all the libc6 packages, and re-ran the auto-upgrade script i had, but this time i used perl_5.004.04-3.deb and not perl_5.004.04-4.deb... (I also had a POSIX problem with it too added the those errors). First, I suggest, you download the perl_5.004.04-3.deb (not -4.deb) and dpkg --remove perl ; dpkg -i perl_5.004.04-3.deb then run dselect... Try that, and let me know how it turns out... Jeremy Tregunna [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.huron.net/~paradox On Fri, 6 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just upgraded to hammfollowed the faq but am still having some problems. The most recent is this... When I run dselect, and pick the option to install I get this... Can't locate Net/Config.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 21. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 21. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/dpkg//methods/ftp/install line 7. installation script returned error exit status 2. Press RETURN to continue. So, I'm guessing I'm missing an important package...I went and got the latest versions of Perl, dftp, etc. What do I need? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Newbie: Booting a new system
Boot up with the boot disk, and run /sbin/lilo again. On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Chris Buxton wrote: I've just installed Debian on my computer. I'm having trouble booting without using a boot disk. Debian's the only operating system on the internal (EIDE) hard drive. Win95 is on an external (SCSI) hard drive. The internal drive is 2.5 GB, partitioned as follows: hda1 - 128 MB - swap partition, located at the end of the drive hda2 - 1023 MB - /, located at the beginning of the drive hda3 - everything else - /usr/, located in the middle The BIOS is set to LBA translation. When I boot from the drive, instead of the usual meaningful hardware-probe messages, I get a prompt: 2FA: If I hit enter, it repeats itself. If I press 2, the hard drive light comes on, but nothing happens. If I press F, it checks the floppy drive for a bootable partition. If I press A, the prompt changes to: 1234F: Again, F boots from the floppy drive if I've inserted my boot floppy. Pressing one of the listed digits makes the hard drive light come on, but nothing else happens. This isn't what I'm used to seeing from LILO on a working (Slackware) system. So what's going on? Chris Buxton Internet and Database Consultant -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Syquest's syjet (par.port) ..?
Hi, Just wondering whether anyone has had any success in using the Parallel Port Syjet 1.5 Gig drive from Syquest. I'm running debian off an old 200 meg HDD 486 notebook, and although the system runs fast and clean for me, the one problem I do have is lack of hard drive space for some larger applications, and data; so I am considering a Syjet to remedy this. Thanks for your advice, Nebu -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
WTMP, BTMP
Hello friends. === Since I've upgraded my Debian to use libc6 (through modem - phew! ;-) my wtmp and btmp entries are completely corrupt and unreadable. I can't find out where the problem is. I've asked also my another friend who uses Debian and he has the same problem, too. Is it a problem with /usr/bin/last or with programs writing to the wtmp? Is there a fix for that? Thanks in forward. Peter -- * * Peter Paluch * * Kukucinova 939/35 * * Kysucke Nove Mesto* * 024 01* * Slovakia, Europe * * - * * tlf: +421 826 421 2542* * e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Which Linux distribution???
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The KDE project is starting to make some configuration programs.. I haven't used all of these programs, but the ones I've used are really good. sysv init editor user editor (w/ quota options) kdm configuration filesystem analyser + mount/unmount (intergraded with desktop) ppp (never used it, but it may have a configuration interface) full KDE configuration (kcontrol) bind configuration xvidtune replacement joystick setup lazer jet printing utility printer quene monitor pgp configuration tool .. and RedHat has it's own configurator, and then there is linuxconf, and GnoME probably wants to write one, etc etc. Hopefully everybody will realize that it's silly, and help out with COAS. See http://www.caldera.com/coas/ and ftp://ftp.coas.org/pub/ Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Installing Debian Linux v1.3.1 from July '97
Hello ! Last night I wanted to install Debian v1.3.1 from July '97 with a Kernel v2.0.29. After I partitioned my hard disk, the install programm checked my hard disk for errors and got a whole lot of them. It repeated printing: scsi0: Target 6 underflow - Wanted at least 1024, got 512, residual SG count 1. This started out with a higher number in wanted. This message has been printed about 6 times, then: SCSI disk error: host 0 channel 0 id 6 lun 0 return code = 27070002 scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:04, sector 1090338 And after that, the scsi bus got resetted. What does all this mean ? My hardware: - Adaptec 2940 v1.21 - Quantum Fireball ST2.1S - Plextor 12TSi - Teac CD-R 50S - Hercules Stingray 128/3D - Cyrix PR150+ (133 MHz) - 32 MB EDO (60ns) - Shuttle Soundsystem 48/Wav / HOT-239, chipset: Opti 82c930 - Teles S0 16.3 ISDN card - SimpleNet SN3200 NE-2000 compatible Network adaptor Thanks for all your help ! Machts gut / Have a nice day Alexander Skwar -- E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check Out : http://www.digitalprojects.com PGP-KeyID : 0xA05119C7 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
reverse video going away in xterm?
hi- when i get a visible bell in a xterm window w/ reverse video, the window loses the 'reverse videoness' -- that is, the window goes back to non-reverse video. has anyone else had this problem? does anyone have any suggestions for changing this behavior? (or perhaps where to start looking for more clues?) -sen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: WTMP, BTMP
It is a small bug in the formats of the utmp and wtmp files. Here is a small list of things you should do to completely upgrade: 1) Upgrade to all the packages in the base/ section 2) cd /var/log 3) mv wtmp wtmp.libc5 4) touch wtmp 5) cd /var/run 5) rm -f utmp 6) cp /dev/null utmp 7) shutdown -r now Then you should be all set. On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Peter Paluch wrote: Hello friends. === Since I've upgraded my Debian to use libc6 (through modem - phew! ;-) my wtmp and btmp entries are completely corrupt and unreadable. I can't find out where the problem is. I've asked also my another friend who uses Debian and he has the same problem, too. Is it a problem with /usr/bin/last or with programs writing to the wtmp? Is there a fix for that? Thanks in forward. Peter -- * * Peter Paluch * * Kukucinova 939/35 * * Kysucke Nove Mesto* * 024 01* * Slovakia, Europe * * - * * tlf: +421 826 421 2542* * e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems in upgrade to unstable...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just upgraded to hammfollowed the faq but am still having some problems. The most recent is this... When I run dselect, and pick the option to install I get this... Can't locate Net/Config.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 21. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 21. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/dpkg//methods/ftp/install line 7. installation script returned error exit status 2. Press RETURN to continue. So, I'm guessing I'm missing an important package...I went and got the latest versions of Perl, dftp, etc. What do I need? I'd have a look at line 21 of FTP.pm and line 7 of install. I haven't moved to hamm yet, or I'd do it for you; but if you look at those lines and let us know what they say, I'm sure help will be forthcoming. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mary bought a pair of skates upon the ice to frisk now wasn't that a crazy way her sweet young *? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: UPS again
William R. Ward wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Raymond A. Ingles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 5 Feb 1998, William R Ward wrote: Like a dummy, I bought a UPS without bothering to check if genpowerd supports it (I don't think it does). But before taking it back (I believe I have a week to do so and it's real stormy now, so I'm glad to have it anyway), I wanted to ask if anyone knew if I could do anything with it. I bought a MinuteMan 280 Pro UPS. It looks like it has smart features but does not come with a cable or software. It is made by Para Systems. Is there any Linux software that'll talk to this beast? The UPS-HOWTO has a lot of info about using a UPS under Linux. I'd check there before returning it. I know that genpowerd is pretty flexible and can be configured to support almost any UPS. The UPS-HOWTO does not mention my brand. I even did a web search and found nothing, Linux or otherwise, about my UPS. You might try doing this the hard way - turn off and unplug your UPS, get a plug that fits its control plug and wire a bundle of wires keeping track of which wire goes to which pin, use a meter in ohmmeter mode to find the ground wire(s), bundle those, connect them to the meter ground probe, switch the meter to volts mode, plug in the UPS and note levels on other wires, allow UPS battery to charge, unplu UPS and note levels on each wire, monitor levels on each wire while battery discharges, get a plug to fit one of your free serial ports, wire the ground wire(s) from the UPS plug to the serial port ground wires, wire the appropriate signal wires from the UPS to the RTS, CTS, etc. lines of the serial port plug, write your own C or perl or tclsh/tk or ... program to do what you want, debianize the resultant package, use your imagination ... HTH, lots of Luck, e-mail if you get stuck. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report: There's a naked person outside! - Mike Nichols -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mary bought a pair of skates upon the ice to frisk now wasn't that a crazy way her sweet young *? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load
I am experimenting with xemacs 20.3 on debian linux 2.0.29 machine w/ AMD K6 200MHz / 32M RAM. It takes xemacs about a full minute to load in xwindows. Anyone else experience such a prolonged load wait, or is it just me ( 20.3 ;-)? Usually the problem with *really* slow emacs loading is that your hostname is set incorrectly. It will wait a long time trying to resolve a bad hostname. Add your hostname to /etc/hosts to fix. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Syquest's syjet (par.port) ..?
Just wondering whether anyone has had any success in using the Parallel Port Syjet 1.5 Gig drive from Syquest. The 2.1.x kernel has support for many kinds of parallel port hard drives. You might want to try this. Alternatively, I recommend getting a PCMCIA SCSI card and an external SCSI SyJet. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Erols Internet w/1.3.1?
Does anyone on this list use the pppd that came with Debian 1.3.1 to communicate with Erols Internet? I can't. I'm using the same scripts that work fine with Panix in New York, and used to work with ATT Worldnet, but they don't work. I dial, and the chat script issues my ID and password, but the connect ppp0---dev/modem just seems to fail, and a ppp0 never appears in the output of ifconfig. I've looked at the PPP-Howto, I've tried the minicom-don't hang up-call pppd sequence, and it just doesn't seem to want to work. Any suggestions? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum http://dm.net -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
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kernel-panic !!!
Hi everybody ! I´m using Debian 1.3.1. from the german computer magazin Chip and have a very misterious problem when I want to build / compile a customize kernel. On every time I use make zImage after about 5 minutes I get an error like command as86 (also ld86) not found , leaving directory ./linux/arch/i386/boot, [bootsect.o] Error 127, [zImage] Error 2 . And the process aborts without anything done. When I use make bzImage the end is the same. I tryed it with many configurations and kernel sources ( 2.0.29 - 2.0.33 ). But nothing work. I also edited the Makefile in that directory and comment out the lines with this operations. Then I get only errors like unknown ( or invalid ) processor command . Then I probed to rename the files /usr/i486-linuxaout/bin/as and ld to as86 and ld86 or create a link from the directory named above to these files. It didn´t work. I used make menuconfig because make xconfig didn´t work. But X with the KDE display manager works fine. All the required links should be ok. I didn´t have any *.rej after that or a file /usr/bin/encaps ( a tip from the S.u.S.e online support database ) . Make dep and make clean worked correct. I don´t know what could it be. Perhaps has somebody other an idea or can help me in any way (but I don´t want to do an BIOS update). I had a problem like this also with an older Slackware distribution. Then I have an another problem with kdm. Since few days it doesn´t work and I don´t no why. The problem is that I don´t get any error messages or entrys in log-files or so on. The programm just don´t do anything. I can type in xdm and after 1 or 2 seconds I see the prompt again. That´s all ! On reason could be that the file /etc/init.de/xdm has 0 byte and is empty. Does somebody know from where I can get an installation package ? On the CD or the Debian ftp-Server I didn´t found it. greetings Lothar Some informations about my system : = harddisk : Seagate ST52520A ; 2.5 GB (IDE) board : Octek Rhino 9 HX PCI graphic : Matrox Mystique (yes ... ) 2 MB processor : Cyrix 6x86 P166 + Rev. 2.7 other : Soundblaster 16 PnP ( ... ) and Hauppauge WinTV/pci ( also called as WinCastTV) Win95b on a primary partition (hda1) and Linux on a logical partition (hda5 and hda6) LILO in MBR Award PnP PCI-Bios v. 4.51PG 1996 Some Debian informations : gcc-2.7.2.1-3 libc4-4.6.27-15 libc5-5.4.17-1 libc5-dev-5.4.17-1 libc5-pic-5.4.17-1 binutils-2.7-5 ldso-1.8.5-1 make-3.75-1 dpkg-dev-1.4.0.5 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian 1.3.1 installation problem
Hello, Can anyone help? I am trying to install Linux on my PC using the Debian 1.3.1 distribution and it always fails. My PC Configuration is Cyrix M1 cpu, 16Mb RAM, Adaptec AHA2940 SCSI controller, 2x Conner 250Mb SCSI drives, 1x SCSI Panasonic PD/CD drive, and no floppy drive (it's broken) After booting DOS (from my first SCSI drive) I use LOADLIN to load an image built for a AHA2940 controller. The exact syntax I am using is LOADLIN zimage root=/dev/ram ro initrd=root.bin This then takes me into the preinstall script (/sbin/dinstall presumably). I then follow the instructions on the screen: selecting color and a UK keyboard; Initialise and Activate the swap partition on /dev/sdc3 and the ext2 partition on /dev/sda1 (my second SCSI drive); mount them both; and then select install Operating System Kernel and Modules. I then choose cdrom on /dev/sdc0 and use default stable archive. At this point the following message appears and the process stops: Installing from rescue floppy ./install.sh: Can't open ./install.sh /dev/loop0: No such device The attempt to extract the rescue floppy failed Can anyone help? Am I doing something wrong or is it the script? How do I get Linux installed? Thanks. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: kernel-panic !!!
Does the file /usr/bin/as86 exist? Is the bin86 package installed? If not, install it. On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Lothar Krenzien wrote: Hi everybody ! I´m using Debian 1.3.1. from the german computer magazin Chip and have a very misterious problem when I want to build / compile a customize kernel. On every time I use make zImage after about 5 minutes I get an error like command as86 (also ld86) not found , leaving directory ./linux/arch/i386/boot, [bootsect.o] Error 127, [zImage] Error 2 . And the process aborts without anything done. When I use make bzImage the end is the same. I tryed it with many configurations and kernel sources ( 2.0.29 - 2.0.33 ). But nothing work. I also edited the Makefile in that directory and comment out the lines with this operations. Then I get only errors like unknown ( or invalid ) processor command . Then I probed to rename the files /usr/i486-linuxaout/bin/as and ld to as86 and ld86 or create a link from the directory named above to these files. It didn´t work. I used make menuconfig because make xconfig didn´t work. But X with the KDE display manager works fine. All the required links should be ok. I didn´t have any *.rej after that or a file /usr/bin/encaps ( a tip from the S.u.S.e online support database ) . Make dep and make clean worked correct. I don´t know what could it be. Perhaps has somebody other an idea or can help me in any way (but I don´t want to do an BIOS update). I had a problem like this also with an older Slackware distribution. Then I have an another problem with kdm. Since few days it doesn´t work and I don´t no why. The problem is that I don´t get any error messages or entrys in log-files or so on. The programm just don´t do anything. I can type in xdm and after 1 or 2 seconds I see the prompt again. That´s all ! On reason could be that the file /etc/init.de/xdm has 0 byte and is empty. Does somebody know from where I can get an installation package ? On the CD or the Debian ftp-Server I didn´t found it. greetings Lothar Some informations about my system : = harddisk : Seagate ST52520A ; 2.5 GB (IDE) board : Octek Rhino 9 HX PCI graphic : Matrox Mystique (yes ... ) 2 MB processor : Cyrix 6x86 P166 + Rev. 2.7 other : Soundblaster 16 PnP ( ... ) and Hauppauge WinTV/pci ( also called as WinCastTV) Win95b on a primary partition (hda1) and Linux on a logical partition (hda5 and hda6) LILO in MBR Award PnP PCI-Bios v. 4.51PG 1996 Some Debian informations : gcc-2.7.2.1-3 libc4-4.6.27-15 libc5-5.4.17-1 libc5-dev-5.4.17-1 libc5-pic-5.4.17-1 binutils-2.7-5 ldso-1.8.5-1 make-3.75-1 dpkg-dev-1.4.0.5 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: CGI scripts to send and recieve email eg. MUA
R. Chris Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: based mail would be a good temporary solution. cgiemail may work for sending but receiving and managing an account is a different thing. How about www.emumail.com ? Waht are the exact problems with receiving mails? Any MTA you get with debian does this pretty good. What about managing the accounts? I am not sure what you mean with that. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian 1.3.1 installation problem
I then choose cdrom on /dev/sdc0 and use default stable archive. /dev/sdc0 would be the third SCSI hard drive. You want /dev/scd0, the first SCSI CD-ROM. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load
I am experimenting with xemacs 20.3 on debian linux 2.0.29 machine w/ AMD K6 200MHz / 32M RAM. It takes xemacs about a full minute to load in xwindows. Anyone else experience such a prolonged load wait, or is it just me ( 20.3 ;-)? Usually the problem with *really* slow emacs loading is that your hostname is set incorrectly. It will wait a long time trying to resolve a bad hostname. Add your hostname to /etc/hosts to fix. Hi - I've tried the following (single) lines in my etc/hosts file - 127.0.0.1 localhost OR 127.0.0.1 zeropoint // where zeropoint is what is reported by hostname OR 127.0.0.1 zeropoint localhost and noticed very little if any improvement in xemacs load speed? I'm probably making a silly mistake, but it's not immediately obvious to me what it is. Ideas? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Can I pass dselect a list of packages?
Hello, I was wondering if it was possible to pass dselect a _custom_ list of packages that has been previously compiled. ie: `cat pkg-list` where pkg-list is a file containing the names of a _custom_ set of packages I want to install. If I need to select packages to install one at a time that's OKjust wondering if there is a short cut [EMAIL PROTECTED] speed]$ cat pkglist ae joe mc Thanks Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load
I've tried the following (single) lines in my etc/hosts file - 127.0.0.1localhost OR 127.0.0.1zeropoint // where zeropoint is what is reported by hostname OR 127.0.0.1zeropoint localhost and noticed very little if any improvement in xemacs load speed? I'm probably making a silly mistake, but it's not immediately obvious to me what it is. Ideas? Maybe that's not the problem, then. It's just that that's what's always been the problem for me. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Can I pass dselect a list of packages?
I was wondering if it was possible to pass dselect a _custom_ list of packages that has been previously compiled. ie: `cat pkg-list` If you already have a debian system with desired set of packages installed you could do: dpkg --get-selections pkg-list and then on a new system dpkg --set-selections pkg-list The file pkg-list is an ascii file and I think you can customize it to your need. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
no proxyarp
The linux server kernel 2.x is giving error messages- like after running PPPD it says ethernet address unable to proxyarp and NAMED give errors when it tries reading addresses in reverse address files. NSLOOKUP is not able to get local host. Is there something wrong with the reverse addressing? Have enabled RARP support in kernel. Will someone tell me whats going on please? Regards, Eugene _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
no proxyarp
The linux server kernel 2.x is giving error messages- like after running PPPD it says ethernet address unable to proxyarp and NAMED give errors when it tries reading addresses in reverse address files. NSLOOKUP is not able to get local host. Is there something wrong with the reverse addressing? Have enabled RARP support in kernel. Will someone tell me whats going on please? Maybe someone has come across this before. Will someone help with this please? Regards, Eugene _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #193
William R. Ward wrote: [snip] The UPS-HOWTO has a lot of info about using a UPS under Linux. I'd check there before returning it. I know that genpowerd is pretty flexible and can be configured to support almost any UPS. The UPS-HOWTO does not mention my brand. I even did a web search and found nothing, Linux or otherwise, about my UPS. Just a suggestion but I'd switch search engines if I were you. Excite found a few hits on my first try with the Minuteman and UPS keywords and to top it off the first of those hits was the company itself. Take a look at http://www.minuteman-ups.com Might not have any relevant Linux info but it at least has some contacts so you can get the specs for cabling. Gary Hennigan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Install Help on ThinkPad Wanted
Hello, I'd be most grateful to anyone who can help me with my installation of Debian 1.3.1 on an IBM ThinkPad 760C. I was able to complete the base installation from diskettes where I believe I included the necessary drivers to support my external Panasonic KXL-783A 8X-CD-ROM via its PCMCIA credit card interface. I still cannot, however, read any of the distribution CDs (in binary ISO image format) because it cannot mount /dec/cdrom nor /dev/hd[b|c] when running dselect to load the rest. Am I limited to loading it on the same removable hard drive on a friend's ThinkPad which has an internal CD-ROM drive?, or is there a way around it on mine. If I do load it from my friend's, a different model ThinkPad, will it still work on mine after I put the hard drive back? I welcome any/all suggestions or explanations on how I can overcome this obstacle. Thank you. - William Vera -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Can I pass dselect a list of packages?
On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: I was wondering if it was possible to pass dselect a _custom_ list of packages that has been previously compiled. dpkg --set-selections filename you can also _get_ the list of currently selected stuff with dpkg --get-selections filename so you can get and then set them to do backups or copy a system ... Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | |PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey| -- | So don't beg, and don't plead. | | You can't have the heart you make bleed. | |-- The Beautiful South, Love is... | -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: reverse video going away in xterm?
Sen Nagata [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: when i get a visible bell in a xterm window w/ reverse video, the window loses the 'reverse videoness' -- that is, the window goes back to non-reverse video. has anyone else had this problem? does anyone have any suggestions for changing this behavior? (or perhaps where to start looking for more clues?) There was a discussion about this some time ago about this, but no solution was found (at least not posted to the list). Sorry. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
problem
Okay i installed linux but i can't seem to install anything with dselect. I think I must have configured my ethernet wrong. This is what it says when i try to install something with dselect: Connecting to ftp.debian.org... Net::FTP: Bad hostname 'ftp.debian.org' at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 405 FTP error Query/setup script returned error exit status 1. my hardware is: 3com Etherlink III ISA (3C509b-TPO) Thanks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: problem
Okay i installed linux but i can't seem to install anything with dselect. I think I must have configured my ethernet wrong. This is what it says when i try to install something with dselect: Connecting to ftp.debian.org... Net::FTP: Bad hostname 'ftp.debian.org' at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 405 FTP error Query/setup script returned error exit status 1. my hardware is: 3com Etherlink III ISA (3C509b-TPO) Could you please post to the list the following files: /etc/init.d/network /etc/resolv.conf /etc/networks Thanks. ALex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Pine not work with lots of news?
Hi, I spool this list as a news group, slrn reads it fine, but pine says there are no messages. Pine works on all my other newsgroups (smaller). Is this a bug? I'm running pine 3.96, and Debian 1.3.1. Thanks, Tim. --- Debian/GNU Linux... the maintainable operating system. http://www.debian.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
