Re: ZIP drive under Linux..

1996-05-15 Thread Paul Kirschner
I am using a parallel port version and I can vouch that it does work. The driver is available from http://www.torgue.net/zip.html. I have also read reports that the scsi driver works fine but I have experience with it.

Re: making sendmail not use DNS (Was: Re: diald)

1996-05-15 Thread Scott Barker
Yves Arrouye said: I have them already for a long time. Sendmail still does DNS queries, for example to try to contact my smarthost. I could try to put just this one in /etc/hosts but I'm not sure it will suffice (I'll tell if it does). I assume you are not using uucp, then. Try specifying

Re: Must pppd be run by root?

1996-05-15 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 13 May 1996, Richard Kettlewell wrote: This permissions problem just cost me over $44 (australian dollars). I upgraded pppd on the dialin machine at work on Friday night. Forgot to change the permissions on pppd to make it owned by root.ppp, perms=1750. When the line

Re: elv-fmt dumps core

1996-05-15 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 13 May 1996, Billy Chow wrote: On my 93R6, fmt (elv-fmt 1.8pl4-19) dumps core whenever I do `!}fmt' in vi (elv-vi 1.8pl4-19). Anyone else has this trouble? Any ideas how may I find out what's wrong. I haven't seen this problem (I don't use fmt), but maybe you should have a look at

Re: 'unsupported packages' (was Re: uugetty?)

1996-05-15 Thread Steffen Mueller
On Tue, 14 May 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: Morning Craig and all the others here ! 8-) Yep, that's why any 'unsupported' directory would have to be clearly marked Something like: WARNING * WARNING * WARNING ** WARNING *

Re: follow up on bs/del

1996-05-15 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, 10 May 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote: I've just tested netscape without the overriding translations and it works fine, with just keycode 22 = BackSpace. However, this is only true if I invoke it from the shell. If it's invoked from fvwm backspace doesn't work, with or without the

Re: X Windows

1996-05-15 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 14 May 1996, Carlo U. Segre wrote: On Mon, 13 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: (Reading database ... 13477 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace netscape (using netscape-2.01-2.deb) ... Unpacking replacement netscape ... Setting up netscape ...

Re: X Windows

1996-05-15 Thread Carlo U. Segre
On Mon, 13 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: (Reading database ... 13477 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace netscape (using netscape-2.01-2.deb) ... Unpacking replacement netscape ... Setting up netscape ... ERROR: The Netscape archive must be in /tmp under the

Re: follow up on bs/del

1996-05-15 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Craig Sanders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 14 May 1996 19:00: On Fri, 10 May 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote: I've just tested netscape without the overriding translations and it works fine, with just keycode 22 = BackSpace. However, this is only true if I invoke it from the shell. If

uucp (was Re: sendmail up and running or not)

1996-05-15 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 8 May 1996, Nick Busigin wrote: On Wed, 8 May 1996, Rob Leslie wrote: To receive mail directly from the outside, you need to have a host or domain name for which mail will be routed to your machine. Sometimes this involves an MX record pointing to your machine. It assumes your

Re: Bug with su and /usr/bin/zsh. Any idea?

1996-05-15 Thread Yves Arrouye
Rob Leslie writes: I can't reproduce this; however, you might make sure you don't have `su' aliased to something under zsh. Check with `which'. It isn't aliased. Nut I found the problem, which has nothing to do with su. I had an export UID in my environment, and thus the spawned zsh changed

Re: configuring ghostscript...

1996-05-15 Thread Lukas Nellen
j == joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a HP laser printer model LJ5P. I always use gs as my laserjet driver). Does anyone has the driver for 600 dpi mode, for ghostscript? j So that looks like you're out of luck. You could try to use gs j -sDEVICE=ljet4

Re: fvwm2: button functions missing...

1996-05-15 Thread Austin Donnelly
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: I am using fvwm2-2.0.42-beta-0 on debian 1.1. I have just discovered that there are some button functions missing. The menu from the top-left corner does not appear when I click on the top-left button. Also no list of windows when I click on the right mouse

Re: find question (and xargs)

1996-05-15 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Erick Branderhorst) wrote on 13.05.96 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: find / -size +459976c -noleaf -type f -name '*.deb'|\ xargs -n 1 dpkg-split -s {} rm {} I was thinking that {} would be replaced by the filename but that's not the case. Anyone know how to solve this? It's

minicom..

1996-05-15 Thread Richard . Dansereau
Hi! I'm trying to get minicom properly setup. When I try to run minicom as a non-priveledged user.. I get the error that /dev/cua1 permission denied The default permission settings on /dev/cua1 when you install Debian 0.93R6 is 660. I can get things to work if I set the permissions to

Re: network with ETHERLINK 3

1996-05-15 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Tue, 14 May 1996, Patrick Hernaelsteen wrote: I am unable to configure my system with a EtherLink III ( 3C509B-TP ). Does any body had this kind of problem before. Thanks for helping me, Patrick. I have a 3C509x-TP Etherlink III working now under debian 1.1. I was unable to get it

Re: disabling daemons from init.d

1996-05-15 Thread eckes
Hello, Simply remove the S* links from the rc?.d I had a similar problem. If I install a package and move its cronjob from cron.weekly to cron.dayly, will the cron-file be replaced on an update? Wouldnt it be better to store all cron scripts in cron.d like init.d and on update check only for

continuing netscape problems

1996-05-15 Thread Dale Scheetz
I downloaded what netscape delivers these days, only to find that I had 2.02 and the debian installation package wanted 2.01, so I downloaded the source to debian-2.01 and set it up for 2.02. The installation went fine, unlike when I tried to install it using the 2.01 package. The first time I

Re: X Windows

1996-05-15 Thread Kevin M Bealer
On Mon, 13 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: When I decide what I want to add, how do I hang it on the menu system? Is there a good user tutorial? In particular, I can start the xserver either as root or as a user, but I can't seem to do both. Once root cranks up the xserver, how does a user gain

Re: making sendmail not use DNS (Was: Re: diald)

1996-05-15 Thread Michael Meskes
Yves Arrouye writes: Richard Kettlewell said: Also, do someone know how to ask sendmail really not to make DNS queries? This is somewhat that starts up diald when one does not want, and it is really annoying. I have them already for a long time. Sendmail still does DNS queries,

Upload: color-ls-3.12-3 uploaded to master.debian.org

1996-05-15 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
This version has an updated revision number (-3) to distinguish it from the version included in the initial 1.1 beta release. Changes from the original are noted below: Date: 14 May 96 22:25 UT Format: 1.4 Distribution: unstable Priority: Low Maintainer: Syrus Nemat-Nasser [EMAIL

Re: minicom..

1996-05-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'm trying to get minicom properly setup. When I try to run minicom as a non-priveledged user.. I get the error that /dev/cua1 permission denied The default permission settings on /dev/cua1 when you install Debian 0.93R6 is 660.

Re: problems with mailagent

1996-05-15 Thread Kevin M Bealer
On 13 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ahh, I see. [I am copying this to debian user, since the answer maybe useful to others as well.] People using mailagent with popclient may want to run mailagent by itself after downloading mail from the server9since popclient delivers

Re: minicom..

1996-05-15 Thread Michael Meskes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to get minicom properly setup. When I try to run minicom as a non-priveledged user.. I get the error that /dev/cua1 permission denied The default permission settings on /dev/cua1 when you install Debian 0.93R6 is 660. I can get things to work if I

Re: find question (and xargs)

1996-05-15 Thread Craig Sanders
On 14 May 1996, Kai Henningsen wrote: It's find that does the replacing. None of the {}s are in the find arguments, however. (And rm is not even in the xargs arguments!) Personally, I'd probably make a script for the split-and-remove, but it should also work with a shell function. A

Re: 3D Graphics Cards?

1996-05-15 Thread Rob Browning
B == Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: B Is anyone out there using 3D graphics cards with Linux? The only B one I know about is the Matrox Millenium that works with B Accellerated X. I need X support and Open GL, and as much B rendering power as possible. I'm using the Millenium, but I

Re: Dselect proposed interface (was Re: 1.1 installation notes.)

1996-05-15 Thread Kevin M Bealer
On Tue, 14 May 1996, Christian Hudon wrote: Looks OK (we can include a mouse interface). But what is required more then a new look is the ability to list only the 'installed' packages, or select a singe package to be installed/removed, and a method of seeing which package (installed) is

Re: minicom..

1996-05-15 Thread Dick Arnold
On Tue, 14 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'm trying to get minicom properly setup. When I try to run minicom as a non-priveledged user.. I get the error that /dev/cua1 permission denied The default permission settings on /dev/cua1 when you install Debian 0.93R6 is 660. I

Re: X Windows

1996-05-15 Thread Kevin M Bealer
On Tue, 14 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: Unfortunately, you mus edit the /etc/X11/fvwm/system.fvwmrc file yourself to add the menu items. I don't know of any good menu editor but there may be one for all I know. Vi works for me :-) 'pico' is good for a unix newbie. If you are used

Re: Must pppd be run by root?

1996-05-15 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Craig The ppp package should have a 'ppp' group, pppd should be owned by Craig root.ppp and it should be mode 1750. Can we make that dialout, please? Something already present and used by (at least) dip and efax. -- Dirk Eddelbuttel

dselect and dpkg

1996-05-15 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Hi there, I'm trying to install Debian 1.1 (I know that it's unstable and maybe I should start with a stable release first, but I have already learned a few things and I think I should be able to complete the installation with your help). To this end, I have made a copy of one of the mirrors to

Re: Sendmail Log

1996-05-15 Thread Lukas Nellen
R == Rob Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just a quick question. I was looking through the log for sendmail this afternoon and noticed that it stopped recording where mail was comming from and only recording who the mail is for. R events. But I don't have any idea yet

Re: X Windows

1996-05-15 Thread Kevin M Bealer
On Tue, 14 May 1996, Carlo U. Segre wrote: Unfortunately, you mus edit the /etc/X11/fvwm/system.fvwmrc file yourself to add the menu items. I don't know of any good menu editor but there may be one for all I know. Cheers Carlo

Re: minicom..

1996-05-15 Thread Christian Hudon
On Tue, 14 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'm trying to get minicom properly setup. When I try to run minicom as a non-priveledged user.. I get the error that /dev/cua1 permission denied The default permission settings on /dev/cua1 when you install Debian 0.93R6 is 660. I

Re: X Windows

1996-05-15 Thread Kevin M Bealer
On Mon, 13 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Mon, 13 May 1996, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote: One of the joys of getting X up is that you'll get Netscape up and then you'll be able to use DejaNews to answer every question under the Sun! Switching to a Cyrrus Logic card solved the major

Re: 1.1 setup for /dev/xconsole?

1996-05-15 Thread Kevin M Bealer
On Tue, 14 May 1996, Maarten Boekhold wrote: If you try bringing up xconsole and see nothing, then it's possible that you've already been logging messages for a while and the pipe filled up, so Has anyone noticed that with recent kernels, the pipe to xconsole fills up on boot up before

Re: 'unsupported packages' (was Re: uugetty?)

1996-05-15 Thread Bruce Perens
Absolutely. If Bruce finds some time the dpkg and dselect ought also be modified to show up a small WARNING message. Those are Ian Jackson's programs. P.S. Sorry I'm keeping a low profile on debian-user - I'm very busy getting the release in shape and am unable to even _read_ all messages, no

Re: follow up on bs/del

1996-05-15 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, 14 May 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote: 2. make fvwm run your script rather than netscape. Edit your .fvwmrc and put in the full pathname to your netscape script. That's what I did. Strange. It should work then. #! /bin/bash I used sh, it's the same in debian. True. I

Re: X Windows

1996-05-15 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, 14 May 1996, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote: I installed fvwm2 but still get the xterm that comes as the default. If you start X with 'xinit' or 'startx' and do _not_ have an X startup script in your home directory, you will be punished by being presented with an X term that could only

Re: Dselect proposed interface (was Re: 1.1 installation notes.)

1996-05-15 Thread Winfried Truemper
Kevin M Bealer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : The current dselect screen isn't bad -- it's efficient, etc. But it is : too 'unix' ... which is to say, you're expected to think. At this stage : the first time user has ~ 400 packages to deal with. All the power in : the world can be hidden

aiee: Scheduling in interrupt error

1996-05-15 Thread J.Hage
Hi, the problem is this. I has a 120 Pentium and Linux didn't make dep or make zImage on it. All kinds of errors probably because of signal 11. Now the processor has been replaced (it was that or the motherboard) with a 100 Pentium and it worked better. Still I got the following error: Aiee:

Re: X Windows

1996-05-15 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 14 May 1996, Kevin M Bealer wrote: On Mon, 13 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: When I decide what I want to add, how do I hang it on the menu system? Is there a good user tutorial? In particular, I can start the xserver either as root or as a user, but I can't seem to do both. Once

Re: minicom..

1996-05-15 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Richard Dansereau writes: Richard Hi! I'm trying to get minicom properly setup. When I try to run Richard minicom as a non-priveledged user.. I get the error that /dev/cua1 Richard permission denied The default permission settings on /dev/cua1 Richard when you install Debian 0.93R6

1.1 Beta install problem: depmod not found

1996-05-15 Thread Andy Dougherty
During a fresh install of 1.1 beta, I had the following problem while trying to 'Install the Operating System Kernel': Installing the kernel... 4047 blocks depmod: not found I worked around this by switching to vt2 and executing ln -s /target/sbin/depmod /sbin/depmod I then

Unidentified subject!

1996-05-15 Thread Gerry Jensen
Does anyone know of an easy way to make it so that cron.daily/weekly/monthly jobs get executed even if the system is not on at the specified time? For instance, I typically only run my home system an hour or two per day. How could I make it so that the first time I boot my system each day,

Re: X Windows

1996-05-15 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 15 May 1996, Kevin M Bealer wrote: On Tue, 14 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: Unfortunately, you mus edit the /etc/X11/fvwm/system.fvwmrc file yourself to add the menu items. I don't know of any good menu editor but there may be one for all I know. Vi works for me :-)