Re: 1) Problem when installing cnews 2) Do I need it ?
shaul wrote: I tried to install cnews at the first place becuase it is a pre requierment for NNTP. And the reason I want NNTP is becuase I want to be able to read (and post) news without the need for downloading large files from my ISP. Does NNTP a reasonble solution ? Are there better solutions ? (I am connected to the Internet with a 33.6K modem and a dialup line). Take a look at leafnode, or slrn's slrnpull command. Either will download news to a small local news spool, which you can read offline. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pioneer DRM-602X multi-CD player and AHA-2940AU with Debian 1.3.1?
Hello, I'm trying to get a Multi-CD player Pioneer DRM-602X to work on a Debian 1.3.1 system (kernel 2.0.33 custom-compiled using make-kpkg) with an Adaptec 2940AU SCSI controller, but without luck... The various CD-ROM drives get different LUNs at boot-up, but then I get timeout errors while trying to mount the CDs. The SCSI chain also contains a Samsung SCSI HDD (ID 0), a SCSI CD-ROM drive from MediaVision (ID 1) and an HP DAT C1533A streamer (ID 2). As far as I can tell, termination is OK, as is the external SCSI cable. The kernel SCSI options also seem to be correctly set. Any idea on how to make this thing work would be greatly appreciated! I'm sorry for being slightly off-topic, but a search on www.dejanews.com and www.reference.com didn't produce any useful results... Cleto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AOL's spam policy
On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 03:49:09PM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote: Hi, same spam to them, please leave it to the Debian Team to take appropriate action. The mail you receive from the list mailer is useless for AOL, as they can't verify the origin of the spam, because the list mailer places a new header on the mail. And even if you would have the full header, you could easily verify that most spam mails aren't really from AOL, but from I understand that, however, I get spam from these AOL spammers from both the list and directly to me. As such, I will forward any spam from AOL sent directly to me to the AOL abuse address, even though the headers may be forged. I don't have the time to go through each and every spam header I get. The abuse team at AOL is payed to do that, aren't they? Yes. OTOH, if everyone would forward the lsit spam to them, this itself is unsolicited and not helpful ;) For personal mail I agree that this is the best action. You beat the wrong people in these cases. Who are we supposed to beat then? :) It is unfortunate that headers are so easy to forge. Hopefully some form of legislation will be passed that will illegalize spam. Anyone know anything about this? I am curious to know what actions if any are being taken. Yeah, I agree with you. It wuld be interesting to hear. The only people who can take action are the people that have access to the debian list system, as they can verify the header on the original mail. True, but it seems that every spam that is sent to the list is also sent directly to the subscribed user, giving the user a double dose of spam; not by any fault of Debian, however. Not everyone, but some. It is easy to filter the net for adresses :( You can notice them at [EMAIL PROTECTED] (hope this is right. Get this from the top of my head). Is this really necessary? Supposedly the debian list maintainers are subscribed to their own lists. :) I'm not sure. They requested it, but not everybody should do so... Well, they are subscribed, but they are also very busy. The point is that they can block the IP numbers the spam was originated, but they need at least one incident before being able doing so. Thank you, Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HP Deskjet 672C
Anybody using this printer with linux? It claims to be PCL3 compliant, but I don't know if dvilj can convert from .dvi to pcl3... 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| -- | You think you're so smart, but I've seen you naked | | and I'll prob'ly see you naked again ... | | --The Barenaked Ladies, Blame It On Me | -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
giflib3g PLEASE?
Can someone *please* tell me where to find giflib3g or a suitable replacement? several packages refer to it as a depend, and I can't find it or something that will provide it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Choosing a printer for Linux:
Hello, I'm planing to buy a printer, and I don't know whether to choose Epson Stylus color 800 or HP LJ 4L. I know that the Epson has PS level 2 as an option, but the one at my store doesn't have it. Are there any other good printers to choose from? Does anybody have experience with those? Thanks, Liran Zvibel. http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Choosing a printer for Linux:
I'm planing to buy a printer, and I don't know whether to choose Epson Stylus color 800 or HP LJ 4L. I know that the Epson has PS level 2 as an option, but the one at my store doesn't have it. Are there any other good printers to choose from? Does anybody have experience with those? I have plenty of experience with HP laser printers. The L series is in general a little iffy; it can be really difficult to clear some kinds of jams. I'd really recommend a P series over the L's. And my HP LJ 6MP (PS level 2) is beautiful, just beautiful. I love it. Don't know about the Stylus, sorry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Choosing a printer for Linux:
I have an HP LJ 6L which I'm very satisfied with. $400 or less for the machine (probably less now, sigh ... ). Used magicfilter to get it working with linux (took about 5 seconds to do, no configuring really). I do mostly postscript printing (latex to postscript using dvips, and ghostscript to print the postscript) and the pages come out very nice and clear. However, the first one I bought had a misaligned roller so everything came out slanted so ask for a test page print out at the store where you buy it (compusa was very nice about this). I use linux kernel 2.0.30, gs 3.33-5, and magicfilter 1.2-10. Been using it for about two months, no problems. - John Kloss On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: Hello, I'm planing to buy a printer, and I don't know whether to choose Epson Stylus color 800 or HP LJ 4L. I know that the Epson has PS level 2 as an option, but the one at my store doesn't have it. Are there any other good printers to choose from? Does anybody have experience with those? Thanks, Liran Zvibel. http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian, AOL and spam [igor@digicron.com: Re: META: Can we please restrict the list?]
Igor, I took the freedom to forward this to debian-user, mainly because I stated that the email adress is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (my fault, it is [EMAIL PROTECTED]). I think the information is interesting for the user list, too. Thank you, Marcus - Forwarded message from Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from mailhost.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de by localhost (fetchmail-4.3.9 POP3) for brinkmds/localhost (single-drop); Sat, 04 Apr 1998 02:16:29 CEST Received: (qmail 22967 invoked from network); 3 Apr 1998 20:07:50 - Received: from murphy.novare.net (HELO murphy.debian.org) (205.229.104.6) by mailhost.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de with SMTP; 3 Apr 1998 20:07:50 - Received: (qmail 16331 invoked by uid 38); 3 Apr 1998 20:07:45 - Resent-Date: 3 Apr 1998 20:07:45 - Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 16310 invoked from network); 3 Apr 1998 20:07:44 - Received: from bigpapa.nothinbut.net ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by murphy.novare.net with SMTP; 3 Apr 1998 20:07:43 - Received: from hmm.nowhere ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [207.44.46.254]) by bigpapa.NothinBut.Net (8.8.7/8.8.7/Debian/GNU) with ESMTP id PAA09773; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 15:07:35 -0500 Received: from hmm ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [127.0.0.1]) by hmm.nowhere (8.8.8/8.8.8/Debian/GNU) with ESMTP id PAA15069; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 15:07:35 -0500 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 (debian) To: Aaron Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: META: Can we please restrict the list? In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 03 Apr 1998 19:44:37 +1000. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 15:07:35 -0500 From: Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-Message-ID: UZPy1D.A.F_D.RGUJ1@murphy Resent-From: debian-devel@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-devel@lists.debian.org archive/latest/1870 X-Loop: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I am the person that deals with debian spam. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask everyone to forward the spam they see on debian lists to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I do read -user, -devel, -private, -policy, and countless other debian lists ;), but sometimes I don't get to them fast enough, so if people forward the mail, it would help. On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 07:00:20PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Thu, Apr 02, 1998 at 05:52:10PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: How far do you want to take this? We could say that all we ever see from person x is trash, so they don't belong here either. Bad idea. aol, and the free email services, hotmail, juno, etc. AOL seems to be a special case, its the single biggest source of junk on the net. Well, AOL has millions of subscribers and only a tiny amount of them spam. AOL is also very serious and pro-active about fighting spam. They have filed quite a few lawsuits against spammers recently. Of course, it is very hard for them to filter every single new account, but they do cancel their accounts fast. I've decided to block all aol.com mail using procmail rule that will forward it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If it's a real message, I will bounce it to the appropriate list. I hope this will only be a temporary measure. I realize there are going to be exceptions to the general moronic level of aol subscribers, but couldn't they telnet to their accounts on master? (all real developers have these). and as for the free email services, just ban the lot of them. Since one needs to have real net access to upload a package, one has no need for the ability to post from the free (hotmail, juno and friends, services). Sorry, there is a reason to use free email services. I change providers quite frequently, and notifying everyone of my new email address, and resubbing to all the lists got to be a big PITA real fast. From then on, I've been using a free email forwarding service, and it has been quite a relief. I know a lot of people (including some developers) who are in the same boat as I am. Thanks. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - End forwarded message - -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mail in linux...
First, the '_' character is illegal in host names. RFC 952 contains the requirements for hostnames: 1. A name (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string up to 24 characters drawn from the alphabet (A-Z), digits (0-9), minus sign (-), and period (.). Note that periods are only allowed when they serve to delimit components of domain style names. (See RFC-921, Domain Name System Implementation Schedule, for background). No blank or space characters are permitted as part of a name. No distinction is made between upper and lower case. The first character must be an alpha character. The last character must not be a minus sign or period. A host which serves as a GATEWAY should have -GATEWAY or -GW as part of its name. Hosts which do not serve as Internet gateways should not use -GATEWAY and -GW as part of their names. A host which is a TAC should have -TAC as the last part of its host name, if it is a DoD host. Single character names or nicknames are not allowed. Since that RFC the requirement for the first character to be a letter has been relaxed (see STD 3). You can't name your machine the same name as your ISP. That would be disastrous. Name it whatever you like, really, because if you don't have a real registered DNS name it doesn't make a difference (provided you don't use the name of a real machine on the net). Perhaps you'll name your machine 'castle-of-lions'. I like that. Anyway, it's more likely that your problem lies with DNS. Have you configured your /etc/resol v.conf and /etc/host.conf for your ISP's DNS servers? Dave Elliot wrote: Hey there, Well, I've run into some problems with trying to get mail up and running. Currently, I'm not using X(configuration problems), but once I do, I'll start using Mozilla. However, I'd like to use e-mail with my system from the command line until then. Here's the deal. I set up my computer with the hostname 'castle_of_lions' and didn't get any complaints from the debian install. However, when I ran smail(or maybe it was fetchmail), it said something to the effect that 'fqdn couldn't validate hostname'... What does that mean? So, I changed the hostname to something easier, and it accepted the hostname, but won't let me get mail. I changed my computer name to mail.inxpress.net(my mail servers provider), and used fetchmail... I told it to send my root mail to my main user(alfor). When it downloaded it, it appeared to delete the messages, and I couldn't find them in any of the /home/(user) directories. How can I set my system up to get and send mail? I think I read somewhere that I need to adduser with the name of my internet providers login/e-mail address. However, when I try that, it won't allow me to use that(kingalfor) Is there a limit on the length of linux usernames? I would like my system to have a hostname of 'castle_of_lions'. I'd like to be able to login my system without having to make a special user named kingalfor. I'd also like to use elm or perhaps pine. I'd prefer pine, but can't find it anywhere in the distribution. If it's there, could someone tell me where it is, or else, how do I get it? I've got elm, I just have to learn how to use it.(if anyone can help me on configuring elm, that would be much appreciated also.) I've read the HOWTO, but it just seems to be one big configuration file with not much help... Maybe I'll try to look at it again, but please, any help would be appreciated. Thanks! -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mail in linux...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Elliot) writes: SNIP the hostname, but won't let me get mail. I changed my computer name to mail.inxpress.net(my mail servers provider), and used fetchmail... I told it to send my root mail to my main user(alfor). When it downloaded it, it appeared to delete the messages, and I couldn't find them in any of the /home/(user) directories. How can I set my system up to get and send mail? The messages were delivered to smail, which should have put them in /var/spool/mail/user - this is the file that elm/pine/whatever (have you considered mutt? No? Why not?) will look in for new messages. Pine is in non-free, assuming you're using stable (aka 1.3.1 aka bo) - the license on pine has some silly restrictions that make it not completely free (in the sense of liberated, not in the sense of costing nothing) software. And your username on your isp's mail server and your username on your own machine don't have to be at all the same. I have an entry something like this in my .fetchmailrc: poll mail.geocities.com proto pop3 user topoliza with password x is martind here since I have a mail account with geocities under the name topoliza and my user name on my box is martind. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DPKG question.
Is there a dpkg command to veryify the integrity of a package too make sure it downloaded okay? I skimmed through the manpage and documentation, but I didn't find anything like that. Thanks, Timothy -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03-Apr-98 Time: 23:11:16 This message was sent by XFMail -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dpkg error installing gcc
Help!! :-) when I try to dpkg --install gcc.deb, I get the following error message: trying to overwrite ' /usr/bin/g++ ', which is also in package g++ dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) what do I do now?! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing Debian Linux..
Could someone tell me what the base1 3.tgz is for and what the base.bin files are for... i am just kinda getting into linux and wanted to know... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP Deskjet 672C
Hi, Will, This printer is exactly the same as the HP 660 repackaged with a different model number (I know this for a fact because I work for Mac/PC Zone :) ). Make sure to install the gs or gs-alladin and magicfilter packages and choose the 'dj550c' filter when prompted. I have a 660Cse and performance is good, but color printing doesn't quite reach the quality level you get under windoze. :( *sigh* Maybe someday someone will sell a printer with optimized Linux drivers and they will suddenly have 6 million die-hard customers. :) HTH, Matt On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Will Lowe wrote: Anybody using this printer with linux? It claims to be PCL3 compliant, but I don't know if dvilj can convert from .dvi to pcl3... 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| -- | You think you're so smart, but I've seen you naked | | and I'll prob'ly see you naked again ... | | --The Barenaked Ladies, Blame It On Me | -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Choosing a printer for Linux:
Hello Liran, I believe the PS L2 option for the Epson 800 is a software option that is proprietary for either windoze or mac. Ciao, Matt On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: Hello, I'm planing to buy a printer, and I don't know whether to choose Epson Stylus color 800 or HP LJ 4L. I know that the Epson has PS level 2 as an option, but the one at my store doesn't have it. Are there any other good printers to choose from? Does anybody have experience with those? Thanks, Liran Zvibel. http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP Deskjet 672C
Matt Thompson wrote: This printer is exactly the same as the HP 660 repackaged with a different model number (I know this for a fact because I work for Mac/PC Zone :) ). Make sure to install the gs or gs-alladin and magicfilter packages and choose the 'dj550c' filter when prompted. Matt - I asked this question on the list awhile ago but got no response. Hope you don't mind me asking you directly... My wife has an HP DJ722c attached to her Win95 machine. Through samba (and magicfilter and ghostscript's dj550c) I can print plain text and postscript (from Netscape) to her printer. When I tell Netscape to print color, nothing prints. Any ideas? The 722c doc says it's a windows-only printer, but since the greyscale works I'm hoping that color might work too. -- ...RickM... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xdm, lesstif problems
Ok, I'm running full hamm, and just updated (about 20mb worth). Now xdm won't work at all, even with the /etc/init.d/xdm start command as root (I have the same xdm file in /etc/init.d I had before). And, when I do 'startx', it uses mwm instead of AfterStep, which I have called as the last line of my .xsession file: mattyt# cat .xsession exec xsysinfo -geometry 225x100+602+921 xconsole -geometry 450x100+828+921 -daemon -notify -verbose -fn fixed -exitOnFail -file /dev/xconsole -stick exec afterstep I also got these errors regarding lesstif: Installing files... (Reading database ... 20196 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace lesstif-bin 1:0.83-3 (using .../devel/lesstif-bin_0.83-4.deb) ... dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... dpkg: error processing debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/devel/lesstif-bin_0.83-4.deb (--install): subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish (forking to background) Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock) Errors were encountered while processing: debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/devel/lesstif-bin_0.83-4.deb DPKG ERROR Any help you can give would be *much* appreciated. Life without AfterStep and xdm is a drag. :) TIA, Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using sendmail for outgoing mail to ISP
How can I configure sendmail under Debian 1.3 so that it can send my outgoing mail to my ISP on demand (when I have established a PPP link with my modem)? I wanted to configure /etc/smail/routers myself but I did not find the information I was looking for in the smailconf(5) manpage nor in the HOWTOs. Can someone tell me how to do this or where in my Debian system I could find the appropriate documentation? Thanks. -- Pierre Sarrazin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Montreal] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP Deskjet 672C
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Rick Macdonald wrote: Matt Thompson wrote: This printer is exactly the same as the HP 660 repackaged with a different model number (I know this for a fact because I work for Mac/PC Zone :) ). Make sure to install the gs or gs-alladin and magicfilter packages and choose the 'dj550c' filter when prompted. Matt - I asked this question on the list awhile ago but got no response. Hope you don't mind me asking you directly... Not at all. :) My wife has an HP DJ722c attached to her Win95 machine. Through samba (and magicfilter and ghostscript's dj550c) I can print plain text and postscript (from Netscape) to her printer. When I tell Netscape to print color, nothing prints. Any ideas? The 722c doc says it's a windows-only printer, but since the greyscale works I'm hoping that color might work too. -- ...RickM... Sorry, I don't have any experience with this printer, although I'm familiar with it. :( I don't know who it is, but you might try emailing either the maintainer of the magicfilter package, or the original author. We really should start an emailing campaign to get a printer manufacturer to support Linux. We may not spend money on software, but we sure are new hardware junkies. :) Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Choosing a printer for Linux:
On Sat, Apr 04, 1998 at 04:06:13AM +0300, Liran Zvibel wrote: Hello, I'm planing to buy a printer, and I don't know whether to choose Epson Stylus color 800 or HP LJ 4L. I know that the Epson has PS level 2 as an option, but the one at my store doesn't have it. Are there any other good printers to choose from? Does anybody have experience with those? Well, it depends on a few choices: 1. Do you want colour or black and white? 2. Do you want an inkjet or laser printer? 3. Price? 4. Desktop space. ;-) My recommendation? EPSON Stylus COLOR 800! :-) Why? Because I have an EPSON Stylus COLOR 500 here and I *absolutely* love it! It is fantastic! Its bw and colour print quality is awesome! It works great under Debian GNU/Linux with Ghostscript 5.10 (gs-aladdin), i.e. you probably don't need EPSON's PS level 2 option. (I have no idea what if the option is hardware or software based.) I want colours and I love colours, and EPSON Stylus COLOR 800 creates superb text and photo printouts. Ghostscript 5.10 even supports 1440x720 dpi mode! :-) You can't go wrong with EPSON Stylus COLOR 500. :-) But then, if you prefer a laser printer instead, go with HP LJ 4L or other fine printers. :-) Cheers, Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and Environmental Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep smiling! *^_^* Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://olvc.home.ml.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: giflib3g PLEASE?
Christopher J. McNicholas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can someone *please* tell me where to find giflib3g or a suitable replacement? several packages refer to it as a depend, and I can't find it or something that will provide it. The source for it is in project/orphaned - so you'll need to compile it yourself, I guess. When hamm was frozen - many packages with major bugs were removed from the distribution. Somebody still needs to fix it, I guess. Cheers, - Jim pgpv8zzm7jd4X.pgp Description: PGP signature
grep problems hamm
I first want to say that I am very pleased with the hamm release. It had a latest version of everything that I needed with no need to put any programs in usr/local thanks. However... I am having a problem with grep. I can't get it to output ANYTHING! No matter what I try it just returns to me in a split second. This happens both with I specify files and when I use stdin or a pipe. I installed hamm fresh via ftp with out any trace of the old debain except for file I saved in my home dir. Also, today a hole bunch of packages updated themselves via dpkg-ftp. I believe grep was working before the update today but I am not sure. If it is relevant I also recompiled the kernel (2.0.33) with ip_masq support. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No subject given
Gnoh, Chee Seng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, When I install Debian packages (from diskette) using dselect, I am asked for the packages.gz. Where can I get this file? If you want to install single packages you should use the dpkg -i filename_of_the_package.deb command. Dselect should only be used for installation based on a complete structure of packages including a descriptive file Packages.gz which contains all available packages. Torsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Correct directory permissions list?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, Somehow several directories on my 1.3.1 system have had their permissions changed. So far I have found /tmp and /var/spool. Is there some list somewhere that lists all the default permissions of these directories? Maybe a file in /etc or something? I think it happened when I tried to use the netscape4 package to upgrade netscape 4.04 to 4.05 and it crapped out. The permissions of /tmp are likely to be changed if you: cd /tmp tar xfz ... As the tar archive contains an entry for the current directory, the /tmp directory gets usually permissons of 755 after this. No idea what might happend to /var/spool. To answer your question, I don't know of such a file permission list (except for suid programs). The base-files package, for example, contains the /tmp directory including its correct permission, but the permissions are not part of the /var/lib/dpkg/info/base-files.list file. Torsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
frozen grep
Hello! I installed grep_2.1-6 and /etc/init.d/xdm didn't work until downgrade to 2.1-4. It seems grep -q ^start-xdm /etc/X11/config doesn't work more with grep_2.1-6. Where is the problem and how to fix it? -- Alexey Vyskubov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pstree in fvwm* menus
On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 09:00:33AM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote: (..) However, it is possible that the pstree will be longer then the number of lines in an xterm of default size (24 lines). What then? We can always increase the size of the xterm but that wouldn't be a solution since there is still the potential to overrun the number of lines in the xterm if there are many processes. You can do: (while true; do pstree; sleep 5; done) pstree.tmp tail -f pstree.tmp|less Mirek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disk partition problem
On Sun, May 03, 1998 at 09:21:28PM -0500, Chris wrote: Hello. I have been reading about Debian, and I am eager to try it out. However, I seem to have a problem that I have not found an answer for yet, even after searching through all of the FAQ's and help documents I could find. The problem is with partitioning my hard disk. I DO NOT want to wipe it out (like using fdisk), so instead I tried FIPS (found on the Linux CD). First I scanned and defragged my disk, then I tried to run fips. Then it told me there was a file(s) at the end of my hard disk. So I checked the documentation on fips and it listed a two files that might be at the last sector, but it wasn't true on my machine. And that's where I'm stuck. Please help me or tell me where I can get help so I can free myself from the tyranny of Windows!! They might be special files which defraggers normally won't move. The windows swap file is one. If they are normal files, then try renaming them, copying them back to their original names and then deleting the renamed versions - hopefully the copies will be placed near the start of the partition rather than at the end. ie. ren a b copy b a del b (hey - I remember those long DOS commands :-) Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | 2.0 release soon - over 1800 PGP key available on public key servers | packages on a stable OS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: frozen grep
AV == Alexey Vyskubov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AV Hello! I installed grep_2.1-6 and /etc/init.d/xdm didn't work until downgrade to AV 2.1-4. Have the same problem, but don't have the package to downgrade. Can anybody give me a hint where I can find the old version of grep (grep-2.1-4.deb)? Stefan Ratschan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: frozen grep
On Sat, Apr 04, 1998 at 12:25:38PM +0200, Stefan Ratschan wrote: AV == Alexey Vyskubov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AV Hello! I installed grep_2.1-6 and /etc/init.d/xdm didn't work until downgrade to AV 2.1-4. Have the same problem, but don't have the package to downgrade. Can anybody give me a hint where I can find the old version of grep (grep-2.1-4.deb)? grep-2.1-7.deb is in incoming. Mirek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Debian Linux..
Brandon wrote: Could someone tell me what the base1 3.tgz is for and what the base.bin files are for... i am just kinda getting into linux and wanted to know... Hi, The 5 base-?.bin files are for writing to floppies. They contain the base system which has enough utilities to install the rest. You might use these if you are making the floppies on one system to install on another system that has no software yet. The base1_3.tgz is for the common case where a dos system is already on the system that you are going to add linux to. It is simply the same data as the previous files, all in one file. The installation program reads the hard disk, instead of floppies. So, there is no need to break it into floppy size chunks. Hope you give linux a try. ps http://www.linuxpress.com has a nice installation guide you can download. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xdm, lesstif problems
On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 09:56:27PM -0800, Matt Thompson wrote: I also got these errors regarding lesstif: [prerm failure] Can you please tell me what version of grep you have installed. I'm still not sure if this is a lesstif problem or a result of grep-2.1-6 being broken. TIA, Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking his name in vain. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anybody know how to tell for how long has ppp-if been up?
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Nick Busigin wrote: On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, [iso-8859-1] Marcelo E. Magallón wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: Cant help jumping in, is there an easy way to add/subtract times from the output of date??? Or do you mean that the time-stamp file would be null length and use its creation time? even then, how can you work out the time since creation? I'm thinking C... use time_t, and add and substract that. strftime is your friend here. From the shell, use date with some funky formating (something like date +%Y%m%d%H%M.%S). You man add and substract that, and convert it to another format. And yes, for what I asked, it would be a null file, and use creation date for reference. I wrote a perl script that calculates ppp usage and breaks it down by user and also classifies it by prime/non-prime time usage. If you like, I can mail it to you. Yup.. I would like :) Can you mail it to me please? Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- ERROR #0001: Windows/NT loaded. Hoo-boy, is your system in for it now. --- Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hamm compile errors.
Since getting hamm updates today, nothing wants to compile.. everything ends up with a few pages of errors after hitting the first file. Are there any fixes out for this? libg++27-dev was not initially installed, but I tried plugging it in to see if it would make a difference, to no avail. (libstdc++-dev has the same problems) (sample gcc output when compiling kde and ssh, which I have previously compiled successfully w/ hamm): KDE: ../config.h:90: warning: abstract declarator used as declaration ../config.h:92: parse error before `false' ../config.h:93: parse error before `true' The lines it are complaining about are: 90 typedef int bool; 91 #ifdef __cplusplus 92 const bool false = 0; 93 const bool true = 1; 94 #else gcc -pipe -c -I. -I./gmp-2.0.2-ssh-2 -I./zlib-1.0.4 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DHOST_KEY_FILE=\/etc/ssh_host_key\ -DHOST_CONFIG_FILE=\/etc/ssh_config\ -DSERVER_CONFIG_FILE=\/etc/sshd_config\ -DSSH_PROGRAM=\/usr/local/bin/ssh\ -DETCDIR=\/etc\ -DPIDDIR=\/var/run\ -DSSH_BINDIR=\/usr/local/bin\ -DTIS_MAP_FILE=\/etc/sshd_tis.map\ -g -O2 -I/usr/X11R6/include ssh.c In file included from /usr/include/sys/types.h:30, from includes.h:134, from ssh.c:168: /usr/include/gnu/types.h:25: syntax error before `typedef' In file included from ssh.c:168: includes.h:175: parse error before `NO' In file included from includes.h:185, from ssh.c:168: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.3/include/stdarg.h:75: syntax error before `void' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: x is dead - non-free
After loads of problems with LSL ( after 2 weeks they wrote back to me saying my credit card was out of date because 1/10/98 in England means 1st October and over in America it's 10th Jan, and I wrote back correcting them but they said that I have to use another card) I am facing a real dilemma with Distribution disks. If X becomes non-free, there will be no point buying a Debian distribution CD if I am correct?? I mean, if X isn't on there, I'll have to dnld everything anyway, or buy Red Hat ?? What a pain. X is a large part of Debian, it's stupid to make it non-free... | | | This message was sent using | | Micro$oft Express. - Don't blame me, mother | | insists. | | | | You're Not Our Brightest Year - Mr Boon, | | Headteacher of St Bede's, Cambridge | | | | Tristan you're soo annoying!!| | I'm sorry, you're not really, you're very sweet | | -Mrs Myers, Maths Teacher| * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
KDElibs vs qt1 and libgif2
Hi, I'm trying to install KDE Beta3 but when I try kdelibs a get the following message: - cut here --- (Reading database ... 16596 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace kdelibs Beta3-1 (using kdelibs-Beta3-1.i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement kdelibs ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kdelibs: kdelibs depends on libgif2 (= 2.3); however: Package libgif2 is not installed. kdelibs depends on qt1 (= 1.3); however: Version of qt1 on system is 1.2-5. kdelibs depends on kdesupport (= Beta3-1); however: Version of kdesupport on system is Beta2-1. dpkg: error processing kdelibs (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: kdelibs - cut here --- So, I will need libgif2, but I didn't fount it anyway on WEB; and for qt1 package the last version I found was 1.2-5 ! :( Where could I found this packages ? Has someone already installed KDE Beta3 ? Thank's. Best Regards, Nuno Carvalho P.S. I'm using Debian 1.3.1 --- Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho Department of Informatics Engineering University of Coimbra PORTUGAL [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://student.dei.uc.pt/~nemanuel --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hamm compile errors.
On Sat, Apr 04, 1998 at 06:07:23AM -0700, ninjaz wrote: The lines it are complaining about are: 90 typedef int bool; 91 #ifdef __cplusplus 92 const bool false = 0; 93 const bool true = 1; 94 #else This is evil; there is a built in bool type with the new g++ and libstc++28, so no need to pretend like this code does. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDElibs vs qt1 and libgif2
Has someone already installed KDE Beta3 ? Nuno, where did you find this new KDE beta? I'm running hamm and the latest I've seen at ftp.debian.org is packages requiring Beta2-2. Either way, to answer your questions, the hamm KDE package has dependency problems which make it not function (at least that's my experience). I've reported this as a bug and am eagerly awaiting a fix as I've defaulted X to use KDE as my primary window manager and after using KDE for a while don't relish the thought of going back to fvwm2. :-) -- Regards,|Debian GNU/__ o http://www.debian.org . | / /__ _ _ _ _ __ __ Randy | / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) |// /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ |...because lockups are for convicts... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: x is dead - non-free
Tristan Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After loads of problems with LSL ( after 2 weeks they wrote back to me saying my credit card was out of date because 1/10/98 in England means 1st October and over in America it's 10th Jan, and I wrote back correcting them but they said that I have to use another card) I am facing a real dilemma with Distribution disks. If X becomes non-free, there will be no point buying a Debian distribution CD if I am correct?? I mean, if X isn't on there, I'll have to dnld everything anyway, or buy Red Hat ?? What a pain. X is a large part of Debian, it's stupid to make it non-free... As has been said many, many times, all the annoucement means is that X11R6.4 from the open group will become non-free. X11R6.3 will remain free - there's nothing the Open group can do about this. And the XFree86 people will continue develop, support, and improve their X stuff. (and so we may very well see XFree86 producing their own X11R6.4) So, in short: DON'T PANIC. X will remain a part of Debian now and in the foreseeable future; futermore, it will remain free. (this is one reason the DFSG are written the way they are - once free, always free [1]) X development may be slowed down a bit, but I don't at the moment see any reason to be worried by that. [1] This doesn't mean that one can't create a DFSG free product, and then decide to make subsequent versions of the product non-free. However, the versions that are released with DFSG compatible licences will _always_ be DFSG free. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pgp
Hi all I notice alot of you use pgp signed messages. I would like to set this up myself (just for the hell of it) - but to be honest I can't figure out how. I tried to install the package pinepgp from my local debain mirror, but it complains that it can't find the package pgp. Any ideas how I can set this stuff up? Thanks alot, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pgp
On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Chris wrote: I tried to install the package pinepgp from my local debain mirror, but it complains that it can't find the package pgp. Any ideas how I can set this stuff up? You need to download the pgp package which is in a non-US based distribution. Go to www.debian.org which explains how to get non-US based packages. -- Jean Pierre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: x is dead - non-free
I am facing a real dilemma with Distribution disks. If X becomes non-free, there will be no point buying a Debian distribution CD if I am correct?? I mean, if X isn't on there, I'll have to dnld everything anyway, or buy Red Hat ?? It is the *next* release of X that will be non-free. The present release will remain free and remain available, and XFree86 will continue to maintain and support it. What a pain. X is a large part of Debian,... And will continue to be. X is *not* going to be removed from Debian. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AOL and spam suggestion
Hi! Just in case you didn't yet notice, it seems that the spam mail on the debian-user list is coming from only ONE sender. I'm not saying this really is true, but examining all headers of the spam mail, I noticed that the following line: X-Mailer: AOL 2.5 for Windows sub 2 (by the way, isn't that a bit obsolete?) occurred in all these spam mails, that is, From - About John807601 - You've won! GILLILIGAN - Hi im Sandra JeffRow12 - You've won $5.000! BUTCHER56 - Hi I want to meet you im a model! Oasis179 - Im Jenny V75ortex - Here (Skills123 asking about 'Linix' does not have that line, but: X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 62 Dr Zap [EMAIL PROTECTED], asking about 'Fat 32 and Linux.', also doesn't use AOL 2.5 for Windows sub 2: his mail contains X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 16-bit for Windows sub 68) Not only the line mentioned above appeared in all messages, they also had almost the same lay-out (e.g. 'Click Here') The last time I bought a PC GAMER magazine [ Sept 1996, that's not quite recently ;-) ] it contained something about a 15 hours free trial for AOL. If it is still possible to have AOL access without having to pay or even to identify yourself, it's quite impossible to catch the spammer. In the message of Marcus Brinkmann about 'Debian, AOL and spam ...', Igor Grobman wrote: I've decided to block all aol.com mail using procmail rule that will forward it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If it's a real message, I will bounce it to the appropriate list. I hope this will only be a temporary measure. To me this seems a good idea, as there don't seem to be much linux users that send email from AOL. (As far as I can see 2 in the last 1.5 weeks) Just for a suggestion, I just installed procmail. I don't yet fully understand it, but I guess it should be possible to block mail from AOL only if it was sent using AOL 2.5/Win sub2. Thus normal mail (sent with AOL 3.0) just passes procmail and gets on the list. Greetings, Maarten Bezemer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[ppp] Many Protocol-Rejects
I'm getting alot of Protocol-Reject entries in syslog. What would cause this? pppd 2.3.3 (hamm/frozen) Apr 4 11:40:37 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x8a6c Apr 4 11:40:37 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x4c1 Apr 4 11:41:37 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0xc6f4 Apr 4 11:41:37 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0xc3 Apr 4 11:41:38 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x5a12 Apr 4 11:41:38 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0xa7 Apr 4 11:42:06 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x6e95 Apr 4 11:42:06 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x9efe Apr 4 11:42:06 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0xb7 Apr 4 11:43:05 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x28eb Apr 4 11:43:05 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x4448 Apr 4 11:43:05 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x22e8 Apr 4 11:43:05 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x1f Apr 4 11:43:05 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0xe1 Apr 4 11:43:07 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x1b Apr 4 11:44:07 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x49 Apr 4 11:44:07 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0xe94 Apr 4 11:44:36 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0xc4b1 Apr 4 11:44:37 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x1238 Apr 4 11:44:37 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0xa7 Apr 4 11:44:37 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0xcd Apr 4 11:44:37 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x2e75 -- ||k || Steve Kostecke| Debian GNU/Linux ||__|| [EMAIL PROTECTED]| The OpenSource Operating System |/__\| http://kostecke.home.ml.org | http://www.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
database server/debian stability
the good address for postgreSQL is http://www.postgresql.org/ it's not a comercial organisation. Alain Take a look at postgresql.. You can find it on the web at www.postgresql.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: swapFILE vs swapDISK ??
On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 01:33:24PM -0500, Nebu John Mathai wrote: Is there any performance loss to making swapfiles (large ones), as opposed to having a static swap partition? Will it (this may sound silly, but my hard drive is old too ... 1993) increase the wear and tear on my hard drive? Yes - with a swap partition you only need to ensure that you write to the correct parts. With a swap-file you have to deal with the filesystem too - e.g. ensuring that the last modification date is correct must take a fair bit of time for a swap-file! Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | 2.0 release soon - over 1800 PGP key available on public key servers | packages on a stable OS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP Deskjet 672C
On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 10:40:55PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: Matt Thompson wrote: This printer is exactly the same as the HP 660 repackaged with a different model number (I know this for a fact because I work for Mac/PC Zone :) ). Make sure to install the gs or gs-alladin and magicfilter packages and choose the 'dj550c' filter when prompted. Matt - I asked this question on the list awhile ago but got no response. Hope you don't mind me asking you directly... My wife has an HP DJ722c attached to her Win95 machine. Through samba (and magicfilter and ghostscript's dj550c) I can print plain text and postscript (from Netscape) to her printer. When I tell Netscape to print color, nothing prints. Any ideas? The 722c doc says it's a windows-only printer, but since the greyscale works I'm hoping that color might work too. There is some windows-only deskjet stuff (prints in black and white only) http://www.rpi.edu/~normat/technical/ppa Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | 2.0 release soon - over 1800 PGP key available on public key servers | packages on a stable OS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mail in linux...
On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 07:25:12PM -0600, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: First, the '_' character is illegal in host names. RFC 952 contains the requirements for hostnames: 1. A name (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string up to 24 characters drawn from the alphabet (A-Z), digits (0-9), minus sign (-), and period (.). Note that periods are only allowed when they serve to delimit components of domain style names. (See RFC-921, Domain Name System Implementation Schedule, for background). No blank or space characters are permitted as part of a name. No distinction is made between upper and lower case. The first character must be an alpha character. The last character must not be a minus sign or period. A host which serves as a GATEWAY should have -GATEWAY or -GW as part of its name. Hosts which do not serve as Internet gateways should not use -GATEWAY and -GW as part of their names. A host which is a TAC should have -TAC as the last part of its host name, if it is a DoD host. Single character names or nicknames are not allowed. I think the install should check for this - it's not too difficult and would avoid people naming their computers wrongly (particularly post-win95). Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | 2.0 release soon - over 1800 PGP key available on public key servers | packages on a stable OS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
aic7xxx + IBM DCAS 4.3GB = LI
before changing boot=/dev/sda1 to boot=/dev/sda I got 1FA: instead of LILO. Now I'm getting LI - I've had Suse on the system and no problems at boot. I don't want to re-install Suse again just to get this problem solved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [ppp] Many Protocol-Rejects
On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Steve Kostecke wrote: I'm getting alot of Protocol-Reject entries in syslog. What would cause this? pppd 2.3.3 (hamm/frozen) Apr 4 11:40:37 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x8a6c Apr 4 11:40:37 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x4c1 Apr 4 11:41:37 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0xc6f4 Apr 4 11:41:37 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0xc3 Apr 4 11:41:38 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x5a12 Apr 4 11:41:38 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0xa7 Apr 4 11:42:06 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x6e95 Apr 4 11:42:06 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x9efe Apr 4 11:42:06 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0xb7 Apr 4 11:43:05 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x28eb Apr 4 11:43:05 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x4448 Apr 4 11:43:05 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x22e8 Apr 4 11:43:05 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x1f Apr 4 11:43:05 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0xe1 Apr 4 11:43:07 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x1b Apr 4 11:44:07 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x49 Apr 4 11:44:07 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0xe94 Apr 4 11:44:36 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0xc4b1 Apr 4 11:44:37 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x1238 Apr 4 11:44:37 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0xa7 Apr 4 11:44:37 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0xcd Apr 4 11:44:37 stasis pppd[16063]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x2e75 Your connection works nevertheless, right. I think that this is the same as with my ipppd (pppd for isdn). This simply means that either u or your provider do not support a protocal that you or your provider offers. I fact these messages do not matter anything because the lowlevel protocols of the modem (V42bis,Vflex) are sufficient. examples (from isdn, but should be the same as modem) ip-header comression bsd-compression predictor1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
help with SCSI warnings
Whenever I use (i.e. install a package or use find- some read intensive task) my SCSI cdrom, I get the message Warning: Running low on SCSI on SCSI DMA buffers Whenever I use (i.e. install a package or use find- some read intensive task) my SCSI cdrom, I get the message Warning: Running low on SCSI on SCSI DMA buffers This occurs on my 486 running Debian 1.3.1- the SCSI card in question in an Adaptec 1535 (a 154x sans bios). I'm using a kernel that I've recompiled from the 2.0.32 deb package- all my base SCSI stuff is hardwired (I saw a few posts on Dejanews suggesting that this might solve the problem- it doesn't, in my case), while the cdrom and the iso9660 filesys are set up as modules. These messages sometimes fill up an entire screen- but more than being an annoyance that I'd like to solve, I wonder why they're occuring. Thanks! John Szumowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] This occurs on my 486 running Debian 1.3.1- the SCSI card in question in an Adaptec 1535 (a 154x sans bios). I'm using a kernel that I've recompiled from the 2.0.32 deb package- all my base SCSI stuff is hardwired (I saw a few posts on Dejanews suggesting that this might solve the problem- it doesn't, in my case), while the cdrom and the iso9660 filesys are set up as modules. These messages sometimes fill up an entire screen- but more than being an annoyance that I'd like to solve, I wonder why they're occuring. Thanks! John Szumowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pgp
This is probably off the topic, but I was wondering what the difference is between the international and America only versions of pgp are? Which is better? Why? (Not that I am allowed to use the america only version - I'm just interested in why there is a difference) Thanks for any info, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Offtopic: Java Mode broken in Xemacs20?]
Hi. I just installed xemacs20 (I had xemacs19 before). Previously I did Tools-VC-RegisterFile-FileName.java, and it would do syntax highlighting and allow me to use indentation and stuff. Now when I try that, it says Searching for program: No such file or directory, admin. Any idea on how to fix this, or any other way to get it to syntax highlighting? Thanks, Timothy -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 04-Apr-98 Time: 15:30:36 This message was sent by XFMail -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with symlinks and moving /usr to another partition
I have two (non-swap) ext2fs partitions, /dev/hda8 and hda9. I had hda9 mounted on /rep. The thing is, I've been running out of space so I decided to move /usr to the new partition. What I did is do a cd / cp -av usr rep Which resulted in a /rep/usr directory being created. Then I did cd / rm -rf usr ln -s /rep/usr usr This created a symbolic link, and everything seemed to be working. Problem is, now I've got ldconfig problems, where a bunch of libs aren't being found. That's because in /usr/lib (really /rep/usr/lib) there are entries like libm.so - ../../lib/libm.so.6* Now this was broken, because if you go into /usr/lib and type cd ../../lib it works, and it goes into /lib, but pwd will show //lib which is weird. Now if you do ls ../../lib it works. But if you do a ls -l ../.. it lists the contents of /rep, not /. This is where I'm confused about the difference between real absolute paths and those which contain symlinks. I'm thoroughly confused. Anyway, it isn't able to dereference ../../lib/libm.so.6 from /usr/lib, so I went into /rep, and manually made a symlink by: ln -sd /lib lib Now ldconfig is ok. But I'm just wondering if there is an elegant way to get around this problem, maybe using the symlinks package to make the links absolute, or by using some arcane option of ln when I make the original usr link in the / directory. Any help appreciated. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] A. Kiyan Azarbar Ottawa, Canada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: x is dead - non-free
The news about X11 is among the more disturbing items I've heard in this realm--the unix-paradigm world. An X-guru coworker mentioned this possibility to me a few months ago but I never thought that corporate greed would sink to this depth. But the offstage buzzer is sounding: `Wrong!' According to George Bonser: On 4 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is the *next* release of X that will be non-free. The present release will remain free and remain available, and XFree86 will continue to maintain and support it. Stop! XFree will ALWAYS be free. It will continue to evolve in future releases. XFree might diverge over time from OpenGroup's X but if more systems use XFree than OpenGroup's X they become moot. I think you will realize that OpenGroup has simply shot themselves in the foot bigtime. Yep... Foot and head. Any further such divisiveness and the commercial UNIX and X operations are going to go down the drain. gary kline -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
libXmu.so.6 error?
After I installed xlib6g, I get an error trying to startx: can't load library libXmu.so.6 I reinstalled X332lib.tgz, but still no good. I peeked in the lib directory and found these: libXmu.a libXmu.so libXmu.so.6 libXmu.so.6.0 What should I do to fix X? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Starting X-Windows 8bpp
Can anyone tell me how to start X-Windows at greater than 8bpp. I am using XFree86 and using an X Server which is capable of this. Thanks -- John Wingfield Committee Member Website Manager British Double Reed Society [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bdrs.demon.co.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: x is dead - non-free
I wrote: It is the *next* release of X that will be non-free. The present release will remain free and remain available, and XFree86 will continue to maintain and support it. George Bonser writes: Stop! Stop what? XFree will ALWAYS be free. Yes, of course it will. 'X', however, refers to 'The X Window System', which is a registered trademark of TOG. X11R6.4 will be the next release of X, and it will not be free. Doesn't matter much, though, because we have XFree. I thought I made that clear. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Starting X-Windows 8bpp
Take a glance at xinit or startx's man page. It boils down to a -bpp option. -- --- How can you see, when your mind is not open? How can you think, when your eyes are closed? - Jason Bonham Band, Ordinary Black and White --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
backspace key under X in vim
Hi, There have been previous discussions on this topic but I never quite understood them. As near as I can tell, an out of the box hamm/frozen system has the backspace key configured differently than it was in Debian 1.3. The particular example that concerns me most is under the application vim. When I am editing a file and in insert mode, the backspace key deletes the character under the cursor instead of the character to the left of the cursor. This is extremely annoying. I have fixed the problem locally by placing the line keycode 0x16 = Delete in my /etc/X11/Xmodmap file but the problem persists when logged in remotely on a Solaris machine running a standard X11R6.3 xterm. I don't know whether to blame vim, X, Debian, or the readline lib setup, but I just want the backspace key to do what it has always done (until now). So I have two requests. Can someone explain how Debian thinks it should be. And more important to me, can anybody tell me how to make the backspace key delete the character to the left of the cursor (both locally and remotely). thanks, Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I need hellp installing debian....
i got my diskettes (rawimage files) wrote to disk and i goto install base it says unable to extract i redownload and got a fresh diskette out of my newly bought box of disks and it says it still unable to extract..If it helps i am using packerd bell legend supreme with win95 and a 56k modem a zip drive and a ide cdrom drive.please help me -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need hellp installing debian....
i got my diskettes (rawimage files) wrote to disk and i goto install base it says unable to extract i redownload and got a fresh diskette out of my newly bought box of disks and it says it still unable to extract..If it helps i am using packerd bell legend supreme with win95 and a 56k modem a zip drive and a ide cdrom drive.please help me What disk images do you use? (Where did you get them? Specify the directory you downloaded them from.) Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
