dpkg hosed after crash

1999-07-02 Thread Mike Schmitz
A while back, my system crashed, but I was able to bring up a crippled
system that I can limp along with.  I lost mostly just data, and what
programs I lost, I have been able to replace by reinstalling them.  One
that is becoming a sore spot, though, is dpkg.  Whie it is able, mostly,
to install other programs, when I try to upgrade it, it gives me this
error:

mschmitz:~# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.4.1.3_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 42321 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace dpkg 1.4.1.1 (using
.../archives/dpkg_1.4.1.3_i386.deb) ...install-info: failed to lock dir
for editing! No such file or directory
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.4.1.3_i386.deb
(--install):
 subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.4.1.3_i386.deb


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login.defs

1999-05-28 Thread Mike Schmitz
I did an apt-get dist-upgrade to potato the other day, and my login.defs
no longer seems to be used.  I assume this probably has something to do
with pamification.  Any pointers anyone can give will be appreciated.

TIA

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Re: Where is KDE in slink?

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 11:17:45AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Go to KDE's site and look for the debian/potato dir - they're in there.

ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/1.1pre2/distribution/deb/potato

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Re: pgp 5.0 for Linux beta 11!

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 6, George Bonser wrote
 On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
 
  -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
  Hash: SHA1
  
  When you delete a message, doesn't Eudora delete the attachment?  I've
  never used Eudora before, Netscape handles them real well.
  
  - -Paul
 
 Eudora (IIRC) SAVES the attachment as a separate file. It is up to you to
 keep them straight.

By default it does not delete them automatically, but it gives you that
option.

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Re: perl script

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Jul 17, Ben Gertzfield wrote
  Mike == Mike Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 Mike I upgraded my system to hamm recently, and I am having
 Mike trouble with a script I have been using to create
 Mike invoices. The error message is:
 
 Mike -- Snip --
 
 Mike mike:~$ invoice -n Illegal character \015 (carriage return)
 Mike at /home/mschmitz/bin/invoice line 3.  (Maybe you didn't
 Mike strip carriage returns after a network transfer?)
 
 Mike -- Snip --
 
 Mike The only transfers this script has gotten have been
 Mike accomplished by cp. If I put a # at the end of line 3, the
 Mike error just moves up one.  Has anyone seen/solved this error?
 
 Perl 5.004 does not allow DOS carriage returns at the end of line.
 You will have to go through and remove all the ^Ms from the script.
 
 (an easy way to do that would be to 'pico filename', then just save)
 
I don't have pico, and usually use only vim. Vim showed no ^M's so I was 
fairly satisfied that they did not exist. I started looking at the file
in other editors on my system, ae  xedit, ae showed none, but xedit saw
them big as life. Is vim now trying to be compatible with M$?!! I may
have to find a new editor.

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Re: dselect woes

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 19, Brandon Mitchell wrote
 On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Alfonso E. Urdaneta wrote:
 
  I'm trying to use dselect to no avail.  First I tried to tell dselect to
  read the cdrom.
  
  chose option a, saw the following
 [ error sniped ]
 
 Is it recognized at boot up (try more | dmesg if you missed it)?  If 
   ^
Better make that dmesg | more ---|

 so, just mount it before going into dselect.  (mount -t iso9660 /dev/ 
 /cdrom, the  should be apparent from dmesg.  My ide cdrom uses 
 hdc.)  If it's not recognized, you may have to recompile your kernel to 
 get the cdrom working.  If all that did work, you may want to look at 
 man fstab to make it more automatic.
 
  So I figure that I should try the FTP method instead.
 [ another error snipped ]
 
 How are you connecting to the net (or did you connect)?  Also, did you 
 set up the network correctly during installation?
 
 Good luck,
 Brandon
 
 
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perl script

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
I upgraded my system to hamm recently, and I am having trouble with a script
I have been using to create invoices. The error message is:

-- Snip --

mike:~$ invoice -n
Illegal character \015 (carriage return) at /home/mschmitz/bin/invoice line 3.
(Maybe you didn't strip carriage returns after a network transfer?)

-- Snip --

The only transfers this script has gotten have been accomplished by cp. If
I put a # at the end of line 3, the error just moves up one.  Has anyone 
seen/solved this error?

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Re: LILO Problems, Groan

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 22, Paul Lange wrote
 Joy.  I've installed Debian 1.3.1 fresh on a 486/66 with ~4 megs of ram.  
 This machine is to be a router for home, but right after the install when I'm
 to reboot and see how my system goes, I get this as an error message when LILO
 won't load: 
 
   3FA:
 
 Yup.  That's it.  That on a line.  Then, I booted from my boot disk, logged in
 as root, uninstalled lilo, reinstalled it, and got the same message when I 
 rebooted.  It doesn't even get to LILO.  It stops right after it checks the
 floppy and gives the above informative message.
 
 Anybody have any ideas?
 --
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 web: http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~pel
 

make the boot line in /etc/lilo.conf read
  boot=/dev/hda   - or sda for SCSI
and run lilo

alternatively, toggle the bootable flag on the partition that the boot
line points at.

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Re: simple questions

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 22, Robert S. Ross wrote
 I didn't get a satisfactory answer before, so I will try again. I know
 about LILO, it is on my boot diskette. How do I get it into the
 partition so my System Commander can call it?
 My Red Hat installation offers the option of booting from the partition,
 if I wish. How do I get Debian to do that?

It is the default

 Unix, or Linux, is new to me, so I have  learning curve to go through.
 Also0, how do I call Xwindows?
 
When it is installed it gives you the option to set it up. It also gives
you the option to use xdm so it starts at boot time. If you choose not to 
do this, you can use startx to begin it.

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Re: qmail

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 5, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote
 Hi there
 I took this file in www.qmail.org and doesn't seem to work: 
   taz# tar -xzf qmail-1_01_tar.gz
   tar: Skipping to next file header
 
   gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error
 I couldn't descompress it.
 Does someone know either if there's a debian package compiled qmail or what

There is a debian package for qmail in experimental. 

 meant this error above?

I have seen this error when I downloaded using a windows ftp client and did
not make sure I was in binary mode.

 Thanks in advance
 Bruno
 
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Re: cdrom

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 07:41:00PM +0100, Tao Lu wrote:
 Hi:
 
 I first time try Linux. After install base system and boot up, I use
 dselect to set package. Although the cdrom is installed succefully
 during driver disk, the dselect ask me following:
 
 Insert the CD-ROM and enter the block device name [/dev/cdrom]:
 
 What is the block device name I should enter?
 

The easiest way to find out is with te use of 'dmesg'. it shows all the boot up
messages. pipe it to more to be able to scroll thru.

dmesg | more
 
 
 
 
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Re: Looking for Talk - HOWTO

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 7, Frank Barknecht wrote
 Igor Grobman hat gesagt: // Igor Grobman wrote: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 
   
   So my question is:
   How can I be talked at my local Debian-machine??
  
  
  You need to set your hostname to the one that resolves  into your ip 
  address.  
  For example node32.yourprovider.com  This can be done by modifying 
  /etc/hosts 
  each time you connect, or by using hostname command (and running it as 
  root).  
  Running 'hostname node32.yourprovider.com' will set your default hostname 
  to 
  the above.
 
 I tried this now, but it didn't seem to work. Instead I couldn't open my local
 display anymore for xterms and stuff, after I had changed the hostname as 
 root.
 Isn't there another way?
 

Rewrite your hosts file from /etc/ppp/ip-up, keeping the same name as is set
in hostname. Here is an example:


- snip -
#!/bin/sh
# /etc/ppp/ip-up: the command executed by pppd when IP comes up.
# Copyright 1994 John A. Phillips - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#
# Parameters:
# $1 = network interface used (e.g. ppp0)
# $2 = pathname of serial device file (e.g. /dev/modem or /dev/ttyS1)
# $3 = device speed (e.g. 38400)
# $4 = local address (e.g. 158.152.16.94)
# $5 = remote address (e.g. 158.152.1.222)

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
export PATH

NETDEVICE=$1
TTYDEVICE=`basename $2`
SPEED=$3
LOCAL_IP=$4
REMOTE_IP=$5
DATE=`date` # set DATE = current time

# update the /etc/hosts file...
#
echo #
# This file automatically generated by /etc/ppp/ip-up and should
# indicate the correct dynamically allocated IP address below.
#
# This file generated on $DATE
#
127.0.0.1   localhost
$LOCAL_IP   host.provider.com host  /etc/hosts
- snip -

Replace the host entries with your hostname :-)

HTH

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Re: finger return No one logged on. and I am logged...... (fwd)

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 14, Andrea Arcangeli wrote
 Anybody can report my same problem?
 
 Andrea Arcangeli
 
 -- Forwarded message --
 Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 16:22:17 +0200 (CEST)
 From: Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: David Fries [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: finger return No one logged on. and I am logged..
 
 On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
 
 On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, David Fries wrote:
 
 Are you logged in at console or with an rxvt in X?  I don't have a
 problem with logging in the console, but it doesn't show up if I'm in
 a rxvt.
 
 I logged in the console, but w works also if I am logged in xterm:
 
 arca:~$ w
  12:03pm  up 5 min,  4 users,  load average: 0.04, 0.07, 0.02
 USER  TTYLOGIN@  IDLE   JCPU   PCPU  WHAT
 andrea   ttyp0  11:59am   0:22   0:00   0:00 -bash
 andrea   ttyp1  12:00pm   2:09   0:00   0:00 -bash
 andrea   ttyp2  12:01pm   0:04   0:00   0:00 pine
 andrea   ttyp3  12:02pm   0:00   0:00   0:00 w
 arca:~$ last |head -5
 andrea   ttyp3:0.0 Thu Aug 14 12:02   still logged in
 andrea   ttyp2:0.0 Thu Aug 14 12:01   still logged in
 andrea   ttyp1:0.0 Thu Aug 14 12:00   still logged in
 andrea   ttyp0:0.0 Thu Aug 14 11:59   still logged in
 reboot   system boot   Thu Aug 14 11:58  
 arca:~$ finger
 No one logged on.
 
 I want to know if is a finger problem or is caused by something other.
 
 
 I am sure the problem is caused by login.
 
 arca:~# /var/run/utmp
 arca:~# last -f /var/run/utmp
 
 utmp begins Thu Aug 14 16:16:46 1997
 arca:~# login
 
 arca login: root
 Password:
 Linux arca 2.1.49 #2 Tue Aug 12 21:29:09 CEST 1997 i586 unknown
 Last login: Thu Aug 14 16:03:58 on tty1.
 No mail.
 arca:~# last -f /var/run/utmp
 ~***|*** * **`q   * **ISun Apr  7 10:47   still logged in
 *r   *Y**8*   `q   Thu Jan  1 01:08   still logged in
 *-   *r   `q   Sat Jan 10 22:43   still logged in
 ***3 4*@   Thu Jan  1 01:00 - 19:12  (18:12)
 
 utmp begins Thu Jan  1 01:00:00 1970
 arca:~#
 
 Can be a libc problem? xterm login shell return the same problem of login
 from console.
 
 arca:~# ldd /bin/login
 libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4000b000)
 arca:~# ldd /usr/bin/X11/xterm
 libXaw.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d/libXaw.so.6 (0x4000b000)
 libXmu.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x4005e000)
 libXt.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4007)
 libSM.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x400b2000)
 libICE.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x400bb000)
 libXext.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x400d)
 libX11.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x400db000)
 libncurses.so.3.0 = /lib/libncurses.so.3.0 (0x40179000)
 libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x401b6000)
 
 arca:~$ dpkg -l libc5
 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
 | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
 |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
 uppercase=bad)
 ||/ NameVersionDescription
 +++-===-==-
 ii  libc5   5.4.33-5   The Linux C library version 5 (run-time
 libr
 
 Any suggestions?
 
 Andrea Arcangeli
 

On my machine:


   mike:~$ finger
   No one logged on.
   mike:~$ finger @localhost
   [localhost]
   Username Real name  Idletime TTY Remote console location
   root root  15:09   1 (mike)
   mschmitz Mike Schmitz  20:00   2 (mike)
   root root  17:00   3 (mike)
   dialout  dialout0:03  s1 (/usr/sbin/pppd )

Bug or feature?

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Re: Looking for Talk - HOWTO

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 8, Frank Barknecht wrote
 Mike Schmitz hat gesagt: // Mike Schmitz wrote:
 
  Rewrite your hosts file from /etc/ppp/ip-up, keeping the same name as
  is set in hostname. Here is an example:
 
I have tried this now, but used an example from
 the Dynamic-IP-Hacks-mini-HOWTO like another user
 here suggested. Basically it is the same script as
 your example.  To test this setup I rlogged in to
 a SUN in my university and tried to talk me. But
 again I only could see the message in my xconsole:
 
 in.talkd[1583]: connect from sun.foo.bar.de 
 
 without getting a talk request in xterm. And yes: mesg is y.  In my
 /etc/hosts now is the official ip-address and an offical DNS-name.
 The SUN in my university is permanently connected to the internet.
 SUN and I even share the same domain name now. Still I cannot talk
 to me!?
 

From a previous answer to the same question by Igor Grobman:

- Snip -
Both of them do understand ntalk protocol.  However, suns have their ntalk/talk
ports switched as opposed to linux.  Your /etc/services file should containt th
e
following lines:

talk517/udp
ntalk   518/udp

On suns, talk would be port 518 and ntalk is 517.  The solution is to fix this
problem on one of the ends.


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HTH 

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Re: fstab question

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Thu, Oct 02, 1997 at 12:11:53AM -0400, Shaleh wrote:
 is there a way to specify an item without listing a fs type.  I have an
 external parport device that I have both msdos and ext2 formatted disks
 for.
 

I have separate lines in fstab corresponding to different directories.

/dev/sda1   /mnt/lzip   ext2noauto,user,umask=000   0   0
/dev/sda4   /mnt/dzip   vfatnoauto,user,umask=000   0   0

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Re: Anarchy! Yes, Anarchy!

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
 on the users
list, therefore I will speak up on the matter. I have felt, and do consider 
myself in alignment with David Cinege and Paul Wade. I do not think that 
_any_ decision should be made on business, marketing, or political reasons,
Whatever the cost, ONLY quality of the code and distribution should be 
considered. I believe that only harm can come from asking any government's 
sanction of the project, and money can only corrupt it. I apologize if my 
opinion is not shared by the majority, but it is mine, and all are free to
disagree.

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Re: pon permission problems

1999-02-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Sun, Nov 30, 1997 at 10:27:47PM -0800, michael wrote:
 The pon command works from the root account but not from the 'michael'
 user account (mine's a single user system).  Michael is a member of
 group pid and dialout.
 
 When michael executes pon the system issues the following complaint:
 
 You do not have permissions to access /etc/ppp.chatscript or
 /etc/ppp.options_out
 
 ls -l on ppp.chatscript:
 
 -rw---   1 root root  235 Nov 27 11:54
 /etc/ppp.chatscript
 
 ls -l on ppp.options_out:
 
 -rw---   1 root root  108 Nov 27 12:01
 /etc/ppp.options_out
 
 Clearly these files have the wrong permissions or owners.  Which is it?

Make these files mode 640 owner root group dialout.

 
 PS.  I had installed Netscape Communicator vis dpkg (took a while to get
 the tar file named correctly).  However, I didn't like the setup because
 it wouldn't run as root.  So I deinstalled via dpkg then used the
 netscape install script.  Any problems with that?
 
 PPS.  I installed the jdk stuff via dpkg as well.  It took a while to
 figure out why Netscape was exiting by itself.  I thought Java was
 included with it, why isn't it and why does it crash without it (because
 I've got Java module support installed in the kernel?)?
 
 

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Re: page breaks in text printing (for guitar tab)

1999-01-30 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 01:38:27PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote:
 
 How do I force a page break in text files for printing with linux?  I
 want to print some guitar tab, and it gets ruined if half is on one
 page, and the other half comes out on the next page.  It's entirely
 too much trouble (not to mention overkill) to format tab in say
 LaTeX.
 
 Anyone have any ideas on this?
 
 Also, how do I move the margins over to the right a bit?  I use a
 three hole punch on my tab to keep it in a binder and if the text is
 too far left, the holes kinda ruin it.

man pr

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Re: mutt trashes mail

1999-01-28 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:33:00AM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote:
 I am afraid to try mutt again.  After a long hiattus, I tried mutt again
 after some version changes.  
 
 I lost a large slug of mail.  Just gone.  I have just been leaving mail in
 the mail spoon.  Mutt has a habit of trashing that file.  
 
 Can anybody corroborate this behavior?  Has this kind of problem been
 solved?  I am now using af.

Check +mbox.  The default behaviour of mutt is to save read files there, 
clearing the inbox.

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Re: iomega (atapi) zip drive?

1999-01-08 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 11:54:18AM -0800, Daryl Williams wrote:
 folks,
 
 does anyone know if there is support for iomega's ATPI zip drive?
 i have one attached to the primary IDE controller of a DELL pentium
 running a 2.0.34 kernel.  any pointers would be very welcome.

I think the support for the atapi zip drive began in 2.0.35

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Re: Horrid question: ssh or ssl-telnet for Windoze(95)/Doz

1998-12-17 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 03:23:40PM -, Chris Evans wrote:
 Ugh, this is a horrid question to ask but I'll risk it.
 
 I am happily moving all my heavy internet stuff to Debian (three 
 machines: home, old office, new ISP hosted machine).  Very, very 
 impressed with Debian.  
 
 The trouble is that I can't ditch Windoze from my portable for some 
 time yet nor do I have space on it for the doze things I need 
 (mostly SAS  SPSS) and to put Debian on it too.  I'll get space 
 some day but .
 
  'til then I want some secure way to get into my Debian 
 machines from that machine when I'm away from home.  Does 
 anyone else face this?  Is there a free or cheap ssh or ssl-telnet for 
 this horrid platform or are there other ways of ensuring confidential 
 transfers and use of the debian machines?

SecureCRT

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Re: Short scripts

1998-12-17 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 10:52:06AM -0700, John Greer wrote:
 I know that there has to be an easy way to do this but i thought that I 
 would ask anyway.  How do I create a short script file similar to a 
 DOS batch file?  I would like to be able to have a link to pon that 
 would run pon and then run another app if pon is successful.  Is 
 there a simple way to do this?  Thanks for the help.  

If pon is successful, then pppd is successful. Write a script to start
the other app and place it in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d.  All scripts in that 
directory are run if pppd succeeds.

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Re: Any one using voice modems (mailbox) on Debian with US Robotics Modem

1998-12-11 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 12:45:27PM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote:
 I am looking for tips of how to get US Robotics Sportster Voice modem to
 work as a voicemail system. I have to software to get it work in Windows
 but I do not want to go that route. 

vgetty

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Re: Mouse freezes

1998-12-02 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 12:27:42AM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
 
  AI == Andrew Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 AI I got a small problem in X: sometimes, when I restart my xserver,
 AI mouse stops working, and only reboot fixes it.
 
 I saw this just today (ps/2 M$ mouse). I restarted the Xserver, and it
 worked again. I believe it is gpm interfering somewhere (although this
 is OK on my homebox [Logitech serial mouse]).
 
 Shut down gpm before starting X (/etc/init.d/gpm stop). I heared you
 can use a special device in XF86Config make gpm also manage the mouse

My /etc/gpm.conf:

device=/dev/psaux
responsiveness=15
type=ps2
append=-R

The relevant part from /etc/X11/XF86Config:

Section Pointer
   ProtocolMouseSystems
   Device  /dev/gpmdata
   BaudRate1200
   Emulate3Timeout 50
   Resolution  100
   Buttons 3
   Emulate3Buttons
EndSection
 
HTH

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Re: Still having Printer Problems

1998-11-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 09:13:29PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
 In my attempt to isolate why I can't print I came across a potential
 problem.  When I installed Linux I had a parallel
 port Zip Drive attached to my printer port.  If I type 'mount /dev/sda 
 Zip' I am able to mount the zip drive.  Since 
 my printer is connected to the Zip drive I was wondering if this might
 be why I cannot print by using /dev/lp1?
 If I have a file 'test' and type test  /dev/lp1 I get nothing. lp test
 gives an error message 
 
 job 'cfA12' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed
 
 Might this be a result of the Zipdrive/Printer?  If so, how can I
 correct it to print via the Zip drive?

Check out http://www.torque.net/parport/paride.html

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Re: transferring large files from DOS/Windoze to Debian

1998-11-01 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 10:58:33AM -, Chris Evans wrote:
 Is there a way to transfer large files from DOS/Windoze machines 
 to Debian if you only have a null modem or floppies to connect 
 the two?
 
 I want to download some large files for Debian (staroffice and a 
 newer kernel source).  My Debian machine is now at home and it 
 will cost a fortune to download them at 14.4k over the 'phone but I 
 can catch them with my NT machine at work for free and put them 
 on my Win95 portable (conversion to Debian for this is 
 planned!!!)  with laplink.
 
 Is there a good way to transfer them from the portable to the 
 Debian machine?  I have a feeling that kermit or another protocol at 
 each end of the null modem cable is the best answer.  I can get 
 kermit or the like for the portable and I have minicom on the Debian 
 machine.

Run getty on the serial port. There is an example in /etc/inittab. 
Uncomment it and modify serial port etc. Hook up cable. Run any terminal
program on the windows box and upload the files.


Re: lynx colours

1998-10-28 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 05:06:03PM +, Dave Swegen wrote:
 Is there anyone out there who could enlighten me on the topic of colours
 in lynx? IMHO the default colours are dreadful (dark-blue on black,
 anyone?). I have rtfm, but to little avail. This is something that has
 been bugging me for ages, and I would like to sort it out once and for
 all.

In lynx.cfg I changed blue to brightblue and red to brightred.  That made
it readable for me anyway.

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Re: Is Supra 336i a Winmodem?

1998-10-16 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 10:25:15PM -0500, Andrew Ivanov wrote:
 I have been trying to get my modem to work in debian, and unfortunately,
 unsuccessfully.
 I have 486DX4, it's got SupraExpress 336i Sp modem installed in it. My
 primary boot right now is Win95, until I can get debian setup. Modem works
 perfectly with Windows.
 In debian what happens is:
 Modem is on COM3, at least this is what Windows tells me.
 setserial /dev/ttyS2 gives me output :
 UART unknown, IRQ 4, Port 0x03e8

You might check the IRQ that windows has COM3 at.  Might have the right IO
but wrong IRQ.  Alternatively, Linux is more sensitive to IRQ conflict than
windows, so if you have com 1 active it might be conflicting.


 
 When I run wvdialconf, it tells me that modem was not detected, asks if
 it's in use by any other programs, etc.
 
 Any idea why is this not working? How can I check if this is a Winmodem?
 Any suggestions, please?
 Andrew

HTH

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Re: goldstar cdrom driver

1998-10-09 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 05:47:19PM -0700, Steve Ball wrote:
 Could someone please point me to where to get the driver for a
 Goldstar CDROM
 Model CRD8160B
 Rom ver. 1.04D

This seems to be an IDE cdrom, so the driver should be already in the 
kernel.  All you have to do is mount it. I.E.

mount -t iso9660 /dev/hd[abcd] /cdrom
 |
you'll need to pick one, probably c or d

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Re: Fax Software

1998-10-06 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 11:47:13AM -0400, David Frye wrote:
 Can anyone tell me of a good fax software package for Linux. I see that
 they have an efax, hylafax, and mgetty-fax. Which of these is the
 easiest and most reliable to use?

I used to use efax. It has one shell script that does everything. If you
understand shell scripting, it is pretty easy. I switched to mgetty because
it does a lot more. With vgetty, you have voice, fax,  data all in one
package. Drawback: It only works with class 2 or 2.0. No class 1. Hylafax 
I was never able to get running, but I haven't tried it in a couple of years.

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Re: X X

1998-08-27 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 09:19:48PM +, Phillip Neumann wrote:
 Hi,
 
 What sould i do to run an X session, and then changing to another
 console and make another X session, without linux saying me it canot do
 it??

startx -- :1

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Re: How to receive mail under WIN95 from another Debian PC ?

1998-08-26 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Sun, Aug 23, 1998 at 04:44:42PM +0200, Michael Grimm wrote:
   If not, what package do you recommend ? qpopper ?

I would recommend IMAP.  That way a user on PC1, if (s)he uses both Linux
and '95, could have the same mail in both.

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Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

1998-08-13 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 10:47:58PM -0400, Hank Fay wrote:
 Chris,
 
   well, it helped jumble up the funny critters. s  The only thing that
 works so far is shutdown
 
 Hank
 
 
 Using  VFP: MS's OOP Production Tool
 http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/fayhj
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Ronn Pimentel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 1998 10:12 AM
 To: Christopher Barry; debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Subject: Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.
 
 
 On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 12:23:22PM -0700, Christopher Barry wrote:
  Hi,
 
  Every now and then I do a little goof-up that scrambles a virtual
  console and I'm sure we all do sometimes but lately I've been doing a
  little programming and if I accidentally gib a string argument then it
  corrupts the console every single time so I quickly run out of all 6
  consoles and am forced to reboot.
 
 
 The way that I get ride of a scrambled console.
 1.  Try typing reset
 2.  Try typing clear
 3.  Try running top This always seems to work.  don't know why but it
 does.
 
Try CTRLvCTRLoENTER

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Re: Using dialog

1998-08-04 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Sun, Aug 02, 1998 at 07:20:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 *- Johann Spies wrote about Using dialog
 | I want to try out dialog and have read the man page. But I still do not
 | know how to use it.  Can somebody send me an example please?
 | 
 
 The dunc package requires it so you could install that package and look
 at its scripts.
 
 There is dialog replacement called whiptail that is supposed to be more
 powerful.  The pppconfig and modconf packages use it so you could look
 at those packages for examples.

RANT
How can you call it more powerful when it only has a subset of the function-
ality?  I personally use tailbox in several of my internal toys.  I find
whiptail to be ugly, clumsy in respect to moving around in menus, slower on
older machines, and it seems to me the reason we went to it was more political
than technical.
/RANT

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Re: LPRng printer Port

1998-07-22 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 01:07:16PM +0100, Babs wrote:
 HELP!
 
   I have read every doc i can get my hands on, news groups,  more. I can
 not figure out why my printer port is not opening.
   I'm running an X86 based PC, Debian Linux Kernel 2.0.34, I am in the
 process of integrating the internal network at our office. I'm still fairly
 new to linux been running it for about 5 months or so. Still have lots to
 learn. 
   I have Netatalk and Samba Running and configured properly. At one point 
 i
 did have LPRng Suite working properly as well. Crashed the system and had
 to do a complete reinstall. From that point on i have not been able to get
 the printer port to open, no matter what i do. Does anyone have any ideas
 for me. If i can get the port open i can work on filters later.

I added use_shorthost to the lpd.conf to get it to work.

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New ncurses breaks dialog

1998-07-21 Thread Mike Schmitz
Dialog segfaults  dumps core after I upgraded ncurses.
Versions:

  ncurses-base1.9.9g-8.8
  ncurses-bin 1.9.9g-8.8
  ncurses-term1.9.9g-8.8
  ncurses3.0  1.9.9e-2.1
  ncurses3.4  1.9.9g-8.8
  ncurses3.4-dev  1.9.9g-8.8
  dialog  0.9a-12   

If you want to see the core file, let me know

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Re: New ncurses breaks dialog

1998-07-21 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 07:43:10PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote:
 
 I had this problem only yesterday and it turned out that I had mismatched
 versions of ncurses3.4 and  ncurses3.4-dev.
 
 Can we see the output of 
dpkg -l ncurses* ?
 
 Here is mine:-

---snip---

mschmitz# dpkg -l ncurses*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ NameVersionDescription
+++-===-==-
un  ncurses none (no description available)
ii  ncurses-base1.9.9g-8.8 Video terminal manipulation - Minimum termin
ii  ncurses-bin 1.9.9g-8.8 Video terminal manipulation - associated pro
un  ncurses-dev none (no description available)
un  ncurses-develop none (no description available)
un  ncurses-pic none (no description available)
un  ncurses-runtime none (no description available)
ii  ncurses-term1.9.9g-8.8 Video terminal manipulation - additional ter
un  ncurses21-dev   none (no description available)
ii  ncurses3.0  1.9.9e-2.1 Old libc5 curses - shared libraries
pn  ncurses3.0-altd none (no description available)
un  ncurses3.0-dev  none (no description available)
ii  ncurses3.4  1.9.9g-8.8 Video terminal manipulation - shared librari
pn  ncurses3.4-dbg  none (no description available)
ii  ncurses3.4-dev  1.9.9g-8.8 Video terminal manipulation - Developer's li
pn  ncurses3.4-pic  none (no description available)
mschmitz#


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Re: Selection/clipboard problems

1998-07-16 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 12:52:16PM +0200, Oskar Liljeblad wrote:
 Right now, it seems to be impossible to move text using the clipboard/X
 selection between some applications - especially from xterm/rxvt to
 nedit/netscape. Am I doing it the wrong way, or is there a way to make it
 work without modifying the source?
 
 Oskar Liljeblad ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

It requires the middle button for paste.  It will not use the right button
instead like gpm will.  You can Emulate3Buttons, though.

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Re: Print to HPLaserjet 5/L on a windows box

1998-07-16 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 02:49:13PM -0700, ... wrote:
 
   Well, the subject pretty much says it all.  Is there an (semi)
 easy way for me to print to this box?  I've just spent the last 1/2 hour
 trying to coax windows to print a 10 page HTML doccument containing only
 text, and I've had no luck.  My workstation is (proudly :) 100% Microsoft
 free, but I network fine with everybody via Samba.  If I could print I
 would be a happy camper.  Any information, or links to HOWTO's etc etc
 would be greatly apreciated.
 
   mike...

There is a script called smbprint - I believe it is in the /usr/doc/samba
tree.  You will have to modify it, and there is some minor setup.

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Re: Here is a procmail filter for the Repeated Messages

1998-07-10 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 12:27:27AM -0500, Mike Merten wrote:
 
 One more, then I'll shut up for a while...
 
 Is there a way to get Mutt to search message headers instead of
 just the msg body (so I can batch delete stuff like this) ?
 
 Mike

I just used the original send date.
D - Capital d gives a prompt - Delete messages matching:
and I gave it:  ~d -07/07/98
to delete messages older than 08/07/98.

~h PATTERN  messages which contain PATTERN in the message header
might do more what you're asking. The mutt manual, under Advanced Usage,
gives much more specific rules

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Re: Making modem talk 3........................

1998-07-08 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 03:48:59PM -0700, Phillip Neumann wrote:
 
 Hi, again..
 
 This is getting interesting for me, because i have try to configure my 
 modem since about 3 weeks, and i couldnt.
 Im my win95 modem prop. said its in COM3. In the Resources tab it said 
 Input/Output 03E8 and Interrupt Request 05. Im a novice with that 
 stuff and im not syre if thats the IRQ and OI.
 
I hope my modem will work !!

setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 5

If that works, put it in /etc/rc.boot/0setserial

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Re: Mutt configuration

1998-07-06 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 03:51:10PM -0500, Mike Merten wrote:
 Hi everyone,
 
 I have a problem configuring Mutt.  All mail, unless I delete it,
 is saved in my spoolfile.  I'm trying to configure the mbox-hook
 command to move all read mail to a different folder (mbox) but
 am unable to get it to work.  
 
 The spool file is the users default mail file in /var/spool/mail/.
 The mbox file is the usual ~/mbox.  In /etc/Muttrc I added the line
 
   mbox-hook $spoolfile ~/mbox
 
 I've also tried specifying the full pathname in place of $spoolfile
 and ~/mbox.  I've tried swapping the spoolfile and mbox args in case
 I misread the syntax in the docs.  Obviously I'm not doing something
 right.  Any suggestions?

set nohold
set mbox=~/mbox

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Re: changing module parameters

1998-06-25 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 01:52:11AM -0400, Hank Fay wrote:
 Oops -- the info on modules to be loaded was in /etc/modules -- but no info
 on the parameters being passed.

You want /etc/conf.modules.
my ne otions line is:

options ne io=0x340
 

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Re: changing module parameters

1998-06-25 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 10:50:29AM -0400, Hank Fay wrote:
 Mike,
 
   yup, that works fine, thanks.
 
   A followup question: the old wrong parameters install still shows up
 earlier in the boot sequence.  Where is that information stored?  I'm
 half-guessing, being new at this thing, that it was compiled into some kind
 of map when I built the system using the install. ???
 
 Hank

Check earlier in the same file.

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Re: Linux Y2K

1998-06-24 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Sun, Jun 21, 1998 at 11:03:18PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
 
  t == timothy  [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 t How will Debian  other distributions handle Y2K on older computers 
 t which don't
 t have a Y2K safe BIOS?
 
 Check http://www.debian.org/news.html#19980104
 
 Ciao,
   Martin

Actually he was asking about the BIOS.  It should be fairly easy to create a
hack at boot (when the system clock is initialized) to make any adjustments 
necessary to the data from the BIOS.

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Re: Bug#23695: fvwm2: seems to be reading some hook files twice?

1998-06-19 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 12:08:04PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
 Branden Robinson writes:
   Package: fvwm2
   Version: 2.0.46-BETA-3
   Severity: normal
   
   After a recent upgrade of fvwm2, the window manager seems to be processing
   at least some of my $HOME/.fvwm2/*.hook files twice.  Used to be, the
   attached main-menu-pre.hook file did the expected thing.  Now, the menus
   I custom-made get doubled up (see the attached X window dumps in PNG 
 format).
 
 Well, I never took time to fully investigate, but I do have a similar,
 though not identical problem: I get 2 FvwmButtons and 3 FvwmPager, the
 former causing 2 of each swallowed app to be launched, and seem not to
 like it when one hides the other...

Mine was doing something similar til I put a Plus sign before the initial-
ization of the module. Such as:

+ Module FvwmPager  0 0

I don't remember why I tried that, but it fixed the problem. 

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compile errors

1998-06-17 Thread Mike Schmitz
One of my clients is setting up a new hamm machine.  Base-install plus default
config(what is already marked in dselect) is installed.  Kernel source package
2.033, and the kernel packager are installed.  The kernel compiles OK but the
package is not created.  The last page of the output is attached.  We were able
to compile the kernel elswhere and copy it back to the machine and install it.

TIA for any pointers, and will answer any questions about installed packages.

These may be relevant.
ii  dpkg1.4.0.22   Package maintenance system for Debian Linux
ii  dpkg-dev1.4.0.22   Package building tools for Debian Linux
ii  dpkg-perl   0.1-2hamm1 Perl interface modules for dpkg
ii  kernel-package  4.11   Debian Linux kernel package build scripts.
ii  kernel-source-2 2.0.33-9   Linux kernel source.


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---BeginMessage---
install -p -d -o root -g root -m 755 debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.0.33/cdrom
install -p -d -o root -g root -m 755 debian/oot -g root -m 755 
debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.0.33/fs-image/lib/modules/2.0.33/oot -g root -m 
755 debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.0.33/ipv6
install -p -d -o root -g root -m 755 debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.0.33/ipv4
install -p -d -o root -g root -m 755 debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.0.33/ipv6
install -p -d -o root -g root -m 755 debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.0.33/misc
install -p -d -o root -g root -m 755 debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.0.33/net
install -p -d -o root -g root -m 755 debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.0.33/scsi
install -p -d -o root -g root -m 755 debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.0.33/block
install -p -d -o root -g root -m 755 debian/tmp-image/usr/oot -g root -m 755 
debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.0.33/net/kernel-image-2.0.33
sed -e 's/=V/2.0.33/g'-e 's/=B//g'   \
-e 's/=S//g' -e 's/=R//g' \
-e 's/=K/bzImage/g' -e 's/=L/lilo/g'  \
 /usr/lib/kernel-package/image.postinst  
debian/tmp-image/DEBIAN/oot -g root -m 755 
debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.0.33/block
chmod 755 debian/tmp-image/DEBIAN/postinst
sed -e 's/=V/2.0.33/g'-e 's/=L/lilo/g'  \
 /USA/lib/kernel-package/image.prerm  
debian/tmp-image/DEBIAN/prermchmod 755 debian/tmp-image/DEBIAN/prerm
install -p-o root -g root -m 644 debian/changelog \
 debian/tmp-image/usr/doc/kernel-image-2.0.33/changelog.Debian
install: debian/changelog: No such file or directory
make: *** [stamp-image] Error 1
router:/usr/src/linux#

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Re: ZIP ZIP+ drives

1998-06-17 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 09:55:15PM +0100, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
 On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 03:45:45PM +0200, Max Lawson wrote:
  Hi, 
  
  I know the ZIP drive is supported in the kernel; and 
  I would like to know if the ZIP+ drive is supported too. 
 
 Not yet - try looking at http://www.torque.net/zip.html
 
You probably want to make that http://www.torque.net/~campbell/

Actually there is an alpha driver available there.

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Re: CD-rom and ZIP

1998-06-10 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 07:16:57PM +0200, Marc van der Vossen wrote:
 Hi,
 
 A big thanks to all who have responded to my questions. I can now mount
 every thing I want. Is there an automatic mounter ? If I would like to mount

put entries in /etc/fstab

 three things, what should they be called? I know /mnt, but that is only one
 out of three. These are the things to be mounted:
 hda5: misc
 hdc4. Zip
 hdd4: Cd-rom

I would use /mnt/misc, /mnt/zip, /mnt/cdrom with fstab entries:

/dev/whatever /mnt/misc   ext2defaults0   2
/dev/hdc4   /mnt/zipvfatnoauto,user 0   0
/dev/hdd/mnt/cdrom  iso9660 noauto,user,ro  0   0

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Re: Echoing another terminal

1998-06-09 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 01:52:47PM -0500, Matthew Myers wrote:
 Is it possible to echo the display of another terminal to the current
 terminal you are on?

try ttysnoops

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Re: CD-rom and Zip-drive

1998-06-06 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Fri, Jun 05, 1998 at 07:49:17PM +0200, Marc van der Vossen wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I have a problem with my secondary IDE channel. I have a CD-rom as slave ans
 a Zip-drive as Master on that controller. When I insert my Debian-CD,
 install goes OK. Then, after reboot, dselect starts and I say; load from
 CD-rom. That's the place it does not work. I tried installing a mitsumi
 driver with the following settingns,
 mcd=0x376,15
 Is this correct ?
 I tried setting CD as Master and Zip as slave, but the system does not run
 and I can't even get the dos driver, nor the win95 driver to work.
 

I have the same configuration. It worked fine until I upgraded to a TX 
motherboard. After that Linux would not recognize my cdrom drive. I finally
got it workin with the cdrom as slave to the zip, and added this line to 
my /tec/lilo.conf:

append=hdc=cdrom

It gives me a warning or two at bootup, but every thing works fine.

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Re: pon - When am I connected?

1998-05-30 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 10:01:32PM -0600, Lazar Fleysher wrote:
 
 
 Maybe it is not the best way, but I have the following command in my
 ip-up script.
 
 wall PPP is UP

Better make thatecho PPP is UP | wall

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Supressing duplicate email

1998-05-07 Thread Mike Schmitz
Does anyone have a procmail recipe to supress duplicate email? (Useful when
subscribed to more than one Debian list).

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

1998-04-17 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 03:41:45PM +0100, C.J.LAWSON wrote:
 Well for what it is worth my own opinion is that 95 just like its forbears
 is an app. loaded on dos and for this reason I think we should be talking
 about whether or not dos is a true multi-tasking OS ... It certainly is
 capable of becoming one. The question is, has it be implemented?
 

DesQview, DoubleDos, NovelDOS, VM to name a few.

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Re: mgetty voice/fax/data

1998-02-26 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 09:56:05PM -0500, Paul Miller wrote:
 Where is the mgetty home page?  The site I found in the info file did not
 exist.  Or do you know the mgetty mailing list address?
 
 Thanks
 -Paul
 
http://wais.leo.org/~doering/mgetty/
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Re: US Mutt in hamm

1998-02-19 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 03:13:07PM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote:
 On Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 01:42:12PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote:
  Bleh... the default behavior of mutt changed. Can anyone tell me how to
  make the latest mutt *not* move the read email to $HOME/mbox on exit?
  I can't find it in the docs. I'd like it to stay in the spool file.
 
 add to .muttrc:
 
 set mbox=/var/spool/mail/username
 
 There may be a more generic way to do it in /etc/Muttrc, but this
 is what I figured out after reading the docs in the last upgrade.
 If you find the generic way, please let me know.

Maybe:  set mbox=/var/spool/mail/$USER
 
 I'm annoyed that the View-URL function has been moved into another
 program.  Is anyone going to package the View-URL thing?  IMHO, that
 was one of Mutt's greatest features.

I just wrote a script to check whether I was in X or not, and called the
appropriate browser
 
 Also, the colorization is now gone.  I haven't had a chance to
 find out why.
 
 Thanks,
 
 Jeff
 
 
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Re: Using obsolete Laser printers with Debian

1998-01-27 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 12:15:08PM -0800, Howard S. Ostrowsky wrote:
 Hi all:
 
 I have recently acquired two obsolete laser printers which were destined
 for the garbage dump.  I would like to use one or both of them with my
 Debian system, but I'm having some problems.
 
 The first one is an HP LaserJet Plus (500K memory) with serial and 
 parallel interfaces.  It works well (parallel) under DOS and windows. 
 In Linux I can print ascii text, but not post-script.  I am using
 Magicfilter and Aladdin-Ghostscript, but when I send a postscript
 document to the printer it justs hangs.  A log file says 25% done...50%
 done... etc. lpq says the document is in the queue, then a little
 later it says the queue is empty.  But the printer remains silent.  Does
 anyone have any suggestions for me?  How about a printcap entry that has
 actually worked?

You might try lowering the resolution.  A while back I had a LaserJet (no
numbers or plus) working with ghostscript.  I no longer have the configs, but
IIRC all I changed was the resolution.  The LaserJet has no memory, so the only
resolution was the lowest. :-(  

I hope yours will work better.

HTH

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Re: Newbie Q: Color Xterms...

1998-01-27 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 01:12:37PM -0900, Adam Shand wrote:
 
 Sorry everyone, I know this has been answered a billion times before...
 but I can't find the answer.
 
 What is it I have to change to allow things like bitchx/mutt to run in
 color inside an xterm?

XTerm*customization:-color

in .Xresources

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Re: lp/ppa configuration; how to set to use printer?

1998-01-09 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 01:26:17PM -0600, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
 I have a Zip drive on lp0, and at boot time it is recognized (een if no
 disk inserted), and then I cannot use lp0 to print.
 
 The lsmod reports ls module loaded, no ppa module reported.
 
 How can I disable ppa, and print?

You need to recompile the kernel, with module support for the Zip.  You'll
find it in the SCSI section.  Alternatively, there is a kernel patch that 
will allow you to use the pass-thru feature.  Info can be found at
http://www.torque.net/linux-pp.html

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Re: pon permission problems

1997-12-01 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Sun, Nov 30, 1997 at 10:27:47PM -0800, michael wrote:
 The pon command works from the root account but not from the 'michael'
 user account (mine's a single user system).  Michael is a member of
 group pid and dialout.
 
 When michael executes pon the system issues the following complaint:
 
 You do not have permissions to access /etc/ppp.chatscript or
 /etc/ppp.options_out
 
 ls -l on ppp.chatscript:
 
 -rw---   1 root root  235 Nov 27 11:54
 /etc/ppp.chatscript
 
 ls -l on ppp.options_out:
 
 -rw---   1 root root  108 Nov 27 12:01
 /etc/ppp.options_out
 
 Clearly these files have the wrong permissions or owners.  Which is it?

Make these files mode 640 owner root group dialout.

 
 PS.  I had installed Netscape Communicator vis dpkg (took a while to get
 the tar file named correctly).  However, I didn't like the setup because
 it wouldn't run as root.  So I deinstalled via dpkg then used the
 netscape install script.  Any problems with that?
 
 PPS.  I installed the jdk stuff via dpkg as well.  It took a while to
 figure out why Netscape was exiting by itself.  I thought Java was
 included with it, why isn't it and why does it crash without it (because
 I've got Java module support installed in the kernel?)?
 
 

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qic-02

1997-11-20 Thread Mike Schmitz admin0

I am trying to set up a mountain qic-02 drive with debian. The default
kernel seems to be compiled with qic-02 support, and comes up with a blurb
on bootup about finding a tpqic device. I am not sure what device to use.

TIA

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Re: qic-02

1997-11-20 Thread Mike Schmitz admin0


On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:

 Mike Schmitz admin0 wrote:
  
  I am trying to set up a mountain qic-02 drive with debian. The default
  kernel seems to be compiled with qic-02 support, and comes up with a blurb
  on bootup about finding a tpqic device. I am not sure what device to use.
 
 Take a look at the FTape howto. It should tell you everything you 
 need to know.


The Ftape howto explicitly says it does _not_ cover qic-02 tapes.

Mike 


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Re: fstab question

1997-10-02 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Thu, Oct 02, 1997 at 12:11:53AM -0400, Shaleh wrote:
 is there a way to specify an item without listing a fs type.  I have an
 external parport device that I have both msdos and ext2 formatted disks
 for.
 

I have separate lines in fstab corresponding to different directories.

/dev/sda1   /mnt/lzip   ext2noauto,user,umask=000   0   0
/dev/sda4   /mnt/dzip   vfatnoauto,user,umask=000   0   0

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Re: cdrom

1997-09-10 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 07:41:00PM +0100, Tao Lu wrote:
 Hi:
 
 I first time try Linux. After install base system and boot up, I use
 dselect to set package. Although the cdrom is installed succefully
 during driver disk, the dselect ask me following:
 
 Insert the CD-ROM and enter the block device name [/dev/cdrom]:
 
 What is the block device name I should enter?
 

The easiest way to find out is with te use of 'dmesg'. it shows all the boot up
messages. pipe it to more to be able to scroll thru.

dmesg | more
 
 
 
 
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Re: Anarchy! Yes, Anarchy!

1997-08-22 Thread Mike Schmitz
 on the users
list, therefore I will speak up on the matter. I have felt, and do consider 
myself in alignment with David Cinege and Paul Wade. I do not think that 
_any_ decision should be made on business, marketing, or political reasons,
Whatever the cost, ONLY quality of the code and distribution should be 
considered. I believe that only harm can come from asking any government's 
sanction of the project, and money can only corrupt it. I apologize if my 
opinion is not shared by the majority, but it is mine, and all are free to
disagree.

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Re: LILO Problems, Groan

1997-08-22 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 22, Paul Lange wrote
 Joy.  I've installed Debian 1.3.1 fresh on a 486/66 with ~4 megs of ram.  
 This machine is to be a router for home, but right after the install when I'm
 to reboot and see how my system goes, I get this as an error message when LILO
 won't load: 
 
   3FA:
 
 Yup.  That's it.  That on a line.  Then, I booted from my boot disk, logged in
 as root, uninstalled lilo, reinstalled it, and got the same message when I 
 rebooted.  It doesn't even get to LILO.  It stops right after it checks the
 floppy and gives the above informative message.
 
 Anybody have any ideas?
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make the boot line in /etc/lilo.conf read
  boot=/dev/hda   - or sda for SCSI
and run lilo

alternatively, toggle the bootable flag on the partition that the boot
line points at.

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Re: simple questions

1997-08-22 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 22, Robert S. Ross wrote
 I didn't get a satisfactory answer before, so I will try again. I know
 about LILO, it is on my boot diskette. How do I get it into the
 partition so my System Commander can call it?
 My Red Hat installation offers the option of booting from the partition,
 if I wish. How do I get Debian to do that?

It is the default

 Unix, or Linux, is new to me, so I have  learning curve to go through.
 Also0, how do I call Xwindows?
 
When it is installed it gives you the option to set it up. It also gives
you the option to use xdm so it starts at boot time. If you choose not to 
do this, you can use startx to begin it.

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Re: dselect woes

1997-08-19 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 19, Brandon Mitchell wrote
 On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Alfonso E. Urdaneta wrote:
 
  I'm trying to use dselect to no avail.  First I tried to tell dselect to
  read the cdrom.
  
  chose option a, saw the following
 [ error sniped ]
 
 Is it recognized at boot up (try more | dmesg if you missed it)?  If 
   ^
Better make that dmesg | more ---|

 so, just mount it before going into dselect.  (mount -t iso9660 /dev/ 
 /cdrom, the  should be apparent from dmesg.  My ide cdrom uses 
 hdc.)  If it's not recognized, you may have to recompile your kernel to 
 get the cdrom working.  If all that did work, you may want to look at 
 man fstab to make it more automatic.
 
  So I figure that I should try the FTP method instead.
 [ another error snipped ]
 
 How are you connecting to the net (or did you connect)?  Also, did you 
 set up the network correctly during installation?
 
 Good luck,
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Re: finger return No one logged on. and I am logged...... (fwd)

1997-08-14 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 14, Andrea Arcangeli wrote
 Anybody can report my same problem?
 
 Andrea Arcangeli
 
 -- Forwarded message --
 Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 16:22:17 +0200 (CEST)
 From: Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: David Fries [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: finger return No one logged on. and I am logged..
 
 On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
 
 On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, David Fries wrote:
 
 Are you logged in at console or with an rxvt in X?  I don't have a
 problem with logging in the console, but it doesn't show up if I'm in
 a rxvt.
 
 I logged in the console, but w works also if I am logged in xterm:
 
 arca:~$ w
  12:03pm  up 5 min,  4 users,  load average: 0.04, 0.07, 0.02
 USER  TTYLOGIN@  IDLE   JCPU   PCPU  WHAT
 andrea   ttyp0  11:59am   0:22   0:00   0:00 -bash
 andrea   ttyp1  12:00pm   2:09   0:00   0:00 -bash
 andrea   ttyp2  12:01pm   0:04   0:00   0:00 pine
 andrea   ttyp3  12:02pm   0:00   0:00   0:00 w
 arca:~$ last |head -5
 andrea   ttyp3:0.0 Thu Aug 14 12:02   still logged in
 andrea   ttyp2:0.0 Thu Aug 14 12:01   still logged in
 andrea   ttyp1:0.0 Thu Aug 14 12:00   still logged in
 andrea   ttyp0:0.0 Thu Aug 14 11:59   still logged in
 reboot   system boot   Thu Aug 14 11:58  
 arca:~$ finger
 No one logged on.
 
 I want to know if is a finger problem or is caused by something other.
 
 
 I am sure the problem is caused by login.
 
 arca:~# /var/run/utmp
 arca:~# last -f /var/run/utmp
 
 utmp begins Thu Aug 14 16:16:46 1997
 arca:~# login
 
 arca login: root
 Password:
 Linux arca 2.1.49 #2 Tue Aug 12 21:29:09 CEST 1997 i586 unknown
 Last login: Thu Aug 14 16:03:58 on tty1.
 No mail.
 arca:~# last -f /var/run/utmp
 ~***|*** * **`q   * **ISun Apr  7 10:47   still logged in
 *r   *Y**8*   `q   Thu Jan  1 01:08   still logged in
 *-   *r   `q   Sat Jan 10 22:43   still logged in
 ***3 4*@   Thu Jan  1 01:00 - 19:12  (18:12)
 
 utmp begins Thu Jan  1 01:00:00 1970
 arca:~#
 
 Can be a libc problem? xterm login shell return the same problem of login
 from console.
 
 arca:~# ldd /bin/login
 libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4000b000)
 arca:~# ldd /usr/bin/X11/xterm
 libXaw.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d/libXaw.so.6 (0x4000b000)
 libXmu.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x4005e000)
 libXt.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4007)
 libSM.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x400b2000)
 libICE.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x400bb000)
 libXext.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x400d)
 libX11.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x400db000)
 libncurses.so.3.0 = /lib/libncurses.so.3.0 (0x40179000)
 libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x401b6000)
 
 arca:~$ dpkg -l libc5
 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
 | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
 |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
 uppercase=bad)
 ||/ NameVersionDescription
 +++-===-==-
 ii  libc5   5.4.33-5   The Linux C library version 5 (run-time
 libr
 
 Any suggestions?
 
 Andrea Arcangeli
 

On my machine:


   mike:~$ finger
   No one logged on.
   mike:~$ finger @localhost
   [localhost]
   Username Real name  Idletime TTY Remote console location
   root root  15:09   1 (mike)
   mschmitz Mike Schmitz  20:00   2 (mike)
   root root  17:00   3 (mike)
   dialout  dialout0:03  s1 (/usr/sbin/pppd )

Bug or feature?

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Re: Looking for Talk - HOWTO

1997-08-12 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 8, Frank Barknecht wrote
 Mike Schmitz hat gesagt: // Mike Schmitz wrote:
 
  Rewrite your hosts file from /etc/ppp/ip-up, keeping the same name as
  is set in hostname. Here is an example:
 
I have tried this now, but used an example from
 the Dynamic-IP-Hacks-mini-HOWTO like another user
 here suggested. Basically it is the same script as
 your example.  To test this setup I rlogged in to
 a SUN in my university and tried to talk me. But
 again I only could see the message in my xconsole:
 
 in.talkd[1583]: connect from sun.foo.bar.de 
 
 without getting a talk request in xterm. And yes: mesg is y.  In my
 /etc/hosts now is the official ip-address and an offical DNS-name.
 The SUN in my university is permanently connected to the internet.
 SUN and I even share the same domain name now. Still I cannot talk
 to me!?
 

From a previous answer to the same question by Igor Grobman:

- Snip -
Both of them do understand ntalk protocol.  However, suns have their ntalk/talk
ports switched as opposed to linux.  Your /etc/services file should containt th
e
following lines:

talk517/udp
ntalk   518/udp

On suns, talk would be port 518 and ntalk is 517.  The solution is to fix this
problem on one of the ends.


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Re: pgp 5.0 for Linux beta 11!

1997-08-07 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 6, George Bonser wrote
 On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
 
  -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
  Hash: SHA1
  
  When you delete a message, doesn't Eudora delete the attachment?  I've
  never used Eudora before, Netscape handles them real well.
  
  - -Paul
 
 Eudora (IIRC) SAVES the attachment as a separate file. It is up to you to
 keep them straight.

By default it does not delete them automatically, but it gives you that
option.

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Re: Looking for Talk - HOWTO

1997-08-07 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 7, Frank Barknecht wrote
 Igor Grobman hat gesagt: // Igor Grobman wrote: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 
   
   So my question is:
   How can I be talked at my local Debian-machine??
  
  
  You need to set your hostname to the one that resolves  into your ip 
  address.  
  For example node32.yourprovider.com  This can be done by modifying 
  /etc/hosts 
  each time you connect, or by using hostname command (and running it as 
  root).  
  Running 'hostname node32.yourprovider.com' will set your default hostname 
  to 
  the above.
 
 I tried this now, but it didn't seem to work. Instead I couldn't open my local
 display anymore for xterms and stuff, after I had changed the hostname as 
 root.
 Isn't there another way?
 

Rewrite your hosts file from /etc/ppp/ip-up, keeping the same name as is set
in hostname. Here is an example:


- snip -
#!/bin/sh
# /etc/ppp/ip-up: the command executed by pppd when IP comes up.
# Copyright 1994 John A. Phillips - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#
# Parameters:
# $1 = network interface used (e.g. ppp0)
# $2 = pathname of serial device file (e.g. /dev/modem or /dev/ttyS1)
# $3 = device speed (e.g. 38400)
# $4 = local address (e.g. 158.152.16.94)
# $5 = remote address (e.g. 158.152.1.222)

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
export PATH

NETDEVICE=$1
TTYDEVICE=`basename $2`
SPEED=$3
LOCAL_IP=$4
REMOTE_IP=$5
DATE=`date` # set DATE = current time

# update the /etc/hosts file...
#
echo #
# This file automatically generated by /etc/ppp/ip-up and should
# indicate the correct dynamically allocated IP address below.
#
# This file generated on $DATE
#
127.0.0.1   localhost
$LOCAL_IP   host.provider.com host  /etc/hosts
- snip -

Replace the host entries with your hostname :-)

HTH

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Re: qmail

1997-08-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 5, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote
 Hi there
 I took this file in www.qmail.org and doesn't seem to work: 
   taz# tar -xzf qmail-1_01_tar.gz
   tar: Skipping to next file header
 
   gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error
 I couldn't descompress it.
 Does someone know either if there's a debian package compiled qmail or what

There is a debian package for qmail in experimental. 

 meant this error above?

I have seen this error when I downloaded using a windows ftp client and did
not make sure I was in binary mode.

 Thanks in advance
 Bruno
 
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mgetty, g3tolj

1997-07-22 Thread Mike Schmitz

I am using mgetty to receive faxes. I use g3tolj to put them in printable 
form for a HP Laserjet III. I get this error:

   EOF / read error at line 0

The page goes on to the printer, who complains about not having any A4 
paper, and the script quits. If I hit the Continue/Reset button on the 
printer, it goes ahead and prints anyway. This works fine with single 
page faxes, but I get quite a few multi-page ones. 

TIA

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Re: perl script

1997-07-18 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Jul 17, Ben Gertzfield wrote
  Mike == Mike Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 Mike I upgraded my system to hamm recently, and I am having
 Mike trouble with a script I have been using to create
 Mike invoices. The error message is:
 
 Mike -- Snip --
 
 Mike mike:~$ invoice -n Illegal character \015 (carriage return)
 Mike at /home/mschmitz/bin/invoice line 3.  (Maybe you didn't
 Mike strip carriage returns after a network transfer?)
 
 Mike -- Snip --
 
 Mike The only transfers this script has gotten have been
 Mike accomplished by cp. If I put a # at the end of line 3, the
 Mike error just moves up one.  Has anyone seen/solved this error?
 
 Perl 5.004 does not allow DOS carriage returns at the end of line.
 You will have to go through and remove all the ^Ms from the script.
 
 (an easy way to do that would be to 'pico filename', then just save)
 
I don't have pico, and usually use only vim. Vim showed no ^M's so I was 
fairly satisfied that they did not exist. I started looking at the file
in other editors on my system, ae  xedit, ae showed none, but xedit saw
them big as life. Is vim now trying to be compatible with M$?!! I may
have to find a new editor.

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perl script

1997-07-17 Thread Mike Schmitz
I upgraded my system to hamm recently, and I am having trouble with a script
I have been using to create invoices. The error message is:

-- Snip --

mike:~$ invoice -n
Illegal character \015 (carriage return) at /home/mschmitz/bin/invoice line 3.
(Maybe you didn't strip carriage returns after a network transfer?)

-- Snip --

The only transfers this script has gotten have been accomplished by cp. If
I put a # at the end of line 3, the error just moves up one.  Has anyone 
seen/solved this error?

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Re: Making Kernel: Addendum

1997-07-09 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Michael Bucciarelli wrote:

 The second time around I also did make clean after make deb.
 Sorry I left this out.
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Try make-kpkg clean 

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Re: color_xterm and xfm, where are they?

1997-06-25 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Jun 25, Frank Barknecht wrote
 Emilio Lopes hat gesagt: // Emilio Lopes wrote: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 
   AR == Alberto Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  
  AR I installed fvwm95 and the default settings have a color_xterm and
  AR xfm icons.  I looked in all the debian packages but I could not
  AR find them.  Can some tell where I can find color_xterm and xfm? Or
  AR Is there a better substitute for those programs?  I also noticed
  
  The plain normal xterm can do colors. Just put the follwoing in your
  ~/.Xresources:
  
  #ifdef COLOR
  *customization: -color
  #endif
  
  Do a xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources  and start a fresh xterm.
 
 Well, I also have a problem with colors in  xterms.
 I get a colored ls with .Xresorces set up like you say, 
 but how can other programms display their colorings in xterm.
 
 For example: I am using mutt for my e-mail.
 It is configured to colorize cites, WWW-URLs and Mail adresses,
 but this only works in a linux-console.
 
 And how do I get colors in lynx?
 

I use rxvt to display mutt  lynx. It gets the colors right without all the
hassle. It also doesn't have the problem with termcap.


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IP masq, Token Ring and dhcp

1997-06-19 Thread Mike Schmitz
I have a client that I am setting up with IP masquerading. I've done this
countless times with ethernet networks. In fact with this machine, I have it 
running in the office, working well. I take it to the customer's site, set
the networking to Token Ring (the networking works, Telnet, Ping etc), but 
it won't masquerade. Another piece in the mix that I have not dealt with 
before is dhcp. They have a dhcp server, but the Debian box has a fixed IP.
Any other info that would be helpful, just ask.

TIA

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Re: Fwd: amd problem

1997-05-22 Thread Mike Schmitz
On May 22, Craig Sampson wrote
 
 
 On Thu, 22 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  i have a amd 5x86-133 cpu not a k5 when chip gets warmed up my floppy
  drives go belly up. i checked it out by putting a amd 486dx4 120 cpu in and
  the problem dis appered.i also have two fans, one on heat sink other blowing
  over heat sink.
 
 Make sure that you have heatsink paste between the heatsink  the CPU, it
 makes a big difference.
 
 Craig
 

You might also look at the voltage. Too much voltage can warm up a CPU.

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Re: Printer Resolution Problem.

1997-05-09 Thread Mike Schmitz
On May 8, Jim Smith wrote
 Forgot to mention that I'm using Magicfilter, maybe the resolution can
 be reduced to 150 dpi there somewhere.
 
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1. Find out where magicfilter put its' filter.

[mike:~] grep if= /etc/printcap 
:if=/usr/sbin/dj500c-filter:\

2. Edit that file, The postscript section is near the top.

# PostScript
0   %!  filter  /usr/bin/gs  -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r300 -sDEVICE
=cdj500 -sOutputFile=- -^^^
0   \004%!  filter  /usr/bin/gs  -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r300 -sDEVICE
=cdj500 -sOutputFile=- -^^^
 Change the 300 to 150

  -- Examples are for deskjet 500C but yours' should be similar --

HTH
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Re: Where is the League for Programming Freedom?

1997-02-28 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Feb 27, Alexander Gieg wrote
 I know it's not a Debian quetion, but I don't have access
 to Usenet, and don't know where I can ask for this.
 
 When I search for League for Programming Freedom in
 Altavista, Infoseek, Yahoo! etc., they all send me to
 
   http://www.lpf.org/
 
 But this host hasn't a DNS entry! Anyone know their IP
 address, or where can I find these guys? I was trying
 for two weeks, in two ISPs, and with a 2 Mbps (E1) line,
 and nothing happens... :-(

My DNS shows 128.52.46.33, but they didn't answer up to my pings.

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Limiting bandwidth on ftp server

1997-02-20 Thread Mike Schmitz

My ISP is considering allowing me to setup a debian mirror, but he is 
concerned that it may use excessive bandwidth, because of the possibility 
of someone with a fast data connection might use it. We thought about 
using a machine with a slip connection, but were hoping to do it with a 
virtual domain and a hard drive rather than dedicating a whole machine.

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Re: Mounting a file as a filesystem

1996-12-06 Thread Mike Schmitz

Partition Magic will repartition a DOS or win95 volume without destroying
data. It is also very easy to use.

On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Simon Martin wrote:

 Hi all,
 
 I have two disks on my PC, hda=127 MB and hdb=1.6 GB. I am using hda for
 Debian, hdb is Win95.
 
 I installed Debian on hda as a test and promptly fell in love with it.
 Unfortunately I earn my living developing for Win 3.x/Win 95 and so cannot
 easily repartition my main disk.
 
 I heard some noise on this list about setting being able to mount a file as
 a filesystem. I would like to know how I can create say a 200MB file on hdb
 (Win 95) and mount it as a filesystem on say /usr.
 
 Is this possible? What do I need to do it?
 
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Re: Pine and fvwm2

1996-11-26 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote:

 Hello,
 
 I used to run pine under an xterm or rxvt while using fvwm and I had full
 cut/paste support (I mean, I could copy from the pine screen and paste 
 into any other X-application and viceversa). Now that I am using fvwm2 the
 pine screen ignores the cut/paste events even though they work fine on the
 xterm and rxvt screens (other than pine). Can somebody give an idea on how
 to fix this?

If you have the enable-mouse-in-xterm box checked cut  paste no longer
works. I don't know if that is what you have done, but that tripped me up
for a while.
 
 In a separate issue, I liked the little virtual (sticky) desktop that used
 to show up in my screen allowing me to navigate from one virtual desktop 
 to another by just clicking the appropriate rectangle. How do I enable
 this in fvwm2?

Module FvwmPager. Read the FvwmPager man page for details
 
 Thank you for your info,
 
 Pedro Ivan
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Re: Will Caldera's WABI run on a Debian system?

1996-11-24 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote:

 Mike Schmitz wrote:
  
  On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote:
  
   Does anybody know if Caldera's WABI will run on a Debian system?
   Caldera's web page kind of says maybe.
  
   I'm tempted to pay the $200 just so I can run Quicken without
   booting up DOS/Windows.
 
  Consider CBB. It will import quicken data and alerady runs under Linux
  natively. It lives at http://www2.me.umn.edu/~clolsen/cbb/cbb.html
 
 The URL doesn't seem to exist. Please check and let me know what it is!
 
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It comes up when I point my browser it's way. If you mean your nameserver
doesn't have it, try http://134.84.197.48/~clolsen/cbb/cbb.html/

Good Luck,
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Re: Will Caldera's WABI run on a Debian system?

1996-11-24 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote:

 On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Mike Schmitz wrote:
 
Consider CBB. It will import quicken data and alerady runs under Linux
natively. It lives at http://www2.me.umn.edu/~clolsen/cbb/cbb.html
   
   The URL doesn't seem to exist. Please check and let me know what it is!
   
  It comes up when I point my browser it's way. If you mean your nameserver
  doesn't have it, try http://134.84.197.48/~clolsen/cbb/cbb.html/
 
 No, the name is resolved OK. It doesn't find the file. I get this error:
 
 File Not found
 The requested URL /~clolsen/cbb/cbb.html was not found on this server.
 
 I cut/paste with the mouse, so I didn't make a typing error.
 
 ...RickM...
 
 
Sorry typo :-)
http://www2.me.umn.edu/~clolson/cbb/cbb.html
I looked at that several times before I caught it. I used cut  paste 
this time to make sure. 
Mike


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Re: Will Caldera's WABI run on a Debian system?

1996-11-22 Thread Mike Schmitz


On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote:

 Does anybody know if Caldera's WABI will run on a Debian system?
 Caldera's web page kind of says maybe.
 
 I'm tempted to pay the $200 just so I can run Quicken without
 booting up DOS/Windows.
 
 I haven't checked for awhile, but I assume that WINE is still
 a long ways away. I couldn't tolerate having my Quicken files
 corrupted!
 
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Consider CBB. It will import quicken data and alerady runs under Linux 
natively. It lives at http://www2.me.umn.edu/~clolsen/cbb/cbb.html

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Re: PPP Manual Dial?

1996-08-21 Thread Mike Schmitz

On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Jean Orloff wrote

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 is getting on my nerves (and I won't let my wife or kids do that...). So what 
 I
 would like is some graphical front-end to pppd, displaying the status, and
 with buttons to start/stop a connection. This could be started by root at boot
 time, solving the suid problems. (I tried 
   chmod a+s /usr/sbin/pppd /usr/sbin/chat; 
   chmod a+rx /etc/ppp/chat* 
 but no way I could fire a ppp session as a simple mortal user...). Including a
 prompt for the password in such a setup would be relatively trivial.
 
 Does anyone know of something of this kind? I vaguely saw a related tool for
 diald: a good hint? Come on: we could easily do better than windoze and the
 uggly trumpet winsock on this one, and this is a huge selling argument!
 
 Amities,
 
   Jean Orloff
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I use TKppp. I believe I got it from sunsite. I made a few modifications 
to suit my personality, but it it is mostly stock. It does auto-redial, 
auto-reconnect, and pings at an interval (user-defined) to keep your ISP 
from shutting you off if you take too long reading your mail :-\.

 
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