On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Eric Liu wrote:
Query: Is there any way I can manually dial in, login, and initiate PPP,
then ask 'pppd' to start?
Sure - use 'minicom' and then exit with Alt-Q and start up PPP with
something like 'pppd :' ...
Roy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tres Hofmeister wrote:
: Can someone point me towards info. on how one can duplicate the
: packages installed on one Debian system on another? Going through
: dselect by hand seems just a bit too tedious for multiple
: installations... Thanks.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Heiko Schlittermann)
On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Shaya Potter wrote:
Whenever I try to do a netdate to any site, I get a connection refused
error, I done both tcp and udp. Could it be because I am behind a firewall?
Very possibly.
The reason your system clock gains/looses time (one or the other, not
both) is that
Shaya Potter writes:
I just noticed that my linux box dosen't seem to be keeping correct
time. I tried running xntp to correct it, but it wouldn't work (does it
work behind firewalls?) Does anyone know of an efficient way to make my
linux box keep correct time?
If you don't want to go
Jean Orloff writes:
Since I'm there: `ps` is also broken in my custom 2.0.0 kernel. It complains
about being unable to find libproc.so. Any chance this may be cured at the
same
time? I got into the trouble of making a custom kernel because of the PS/2
mouse problem amply mentionned before...
Hello,
There have been a few people complaining that having installed
sendmail they were in a dependency catch 22 situation when
attempting to install smail. (unable to remove sendmail or
install smail)
This command solved the problem for me:
dpkg -i --force-conflicts
I am reluctant to bring this up again, since I saw it just a few
months ago on this list, and didn't pay attention at the time. So,
at the risk of rehashing this problem (if that is what it is), I am
submitting it again since I am now having the same difficulty myself.
I am using the original
Dear debianers,
A minimal X (and LaTeX) installation requires several debian packages,
but most people either do not want X or want at least a minimal
installation, right? So what are the justifications of splitting a
minimal X and LaTeX the way it is?
Thanks.
--
Billy C.-M. Chow
At 12:04 PM 8/20/96 cet, you wrote:
Hi,
Anybody can help me, please? I really need to be sure how to fix this.
Logged as root I did:
# cd /home/lds ; chown -R lds.users * ; ls -laR | more
and noticing that I forgot to change the ownership of the (hidden) dot files
I typed:
# chown -R
David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Wish is the base-level Tk interpreter. Install either the tk40 or
tk41 packages. if you install both, the wish from tk41 will be used
by default.
By the way, this days I tried to compile some Tcl extension package (namely
ctk) and its configure script
On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Eric Liu wrote:
Background: I have gotten 'pppd' to work with a 'chatscript' file.
However, I would prefer not to have to type my password into the
chatscript file. Thus...
I would do:
-cut-
#!/bin/sh
echo -n Type in your password:
stty -echo
read PASSWORD
On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Jean Orloff wrote:
1) I have /usr/local/bin/netscape as a script:
#! /bin/sh
# netscape startup script, to get around uggly config problems
XKEYSYMDB='/usr/local/lib/netscape/XKeysymDB'; export XKEYSYMDB
XNLSPATH='/usr/local/lib/netscape/nls'; export XNLSPATH
Do
Hello! This is more a query than a problem. Hope someone can help!
Thanx!
Background: I have gotten 'pppd' to work with a 'chatscript' file.
However, I would prefer not to have to type my password into the
chatscript file. Thus...
Query: Is there any way I can manually dial in, login, and
From: Pure Energy[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
i tried to run screen but it has just started to continiously
terminate.
i have run screen now for weeks without this problem. the strange
thing is that it does this on my personal account, root and one other.
on
all other accounts screen runs
MR. ENERGY,
THERE SEEMS TO BE SOMETHING WRONG WITH MY CAPS KEY!
CASPER BODEN-CUMMINS.
--
From: Pure Energy[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 20 August 1996 03:54
To:Debian Users
Cc:The recipient's address is unknown.
Subject: a problem with screen
hello all,
well not
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James W. Lynch)
can a Motherboard/IDE controller (onboard) destroy a disk drive?
The sound you heard from the disk drive is probably the arm that holds
the heads seeking repeatedly to the point that it hits the stop at one
end of its travel. It can hit that stop
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (renald loignon)
May I ask, in all seriousness, and without a trace of sarcasm, where in
the world (BUT preferably in the Debian installation instructions) one
is expected to find this information? I was used to the old
cdu31a=0xPORT,IRQ syntax from the boot
I just installed a new Pentium 100 on a ASUS motherboard. The first
thing I noticed was an odd sound coming from my maxtor 1 Gbyte drive.
It sounded kinda like a marble on the end of piece of sping steel
being drawn back and released about an inch from a thin steel plate.
It was a sprong - tic
On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote:
RedHat Picasso comes with a single CPU license for Metro X. I know
because I have a copy and Metro X runs great on my RedHat box. The only
reason I can see them giving out a single license copy is if it's a full
relase of Metro X's
AGH, I hate having to reply to my own messages.
I don't think it is livso312.so. But I did try something else. To
install you have to use StarInst script, which is a perl script which
will install Star Office. (can't use their installation -- need motif
2.0) You then make a link or copy
: On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, Shaya Potter wrote:
Subject: Re: Not keeping correct time
:
: I just noticed that my linux box dosen't seem to be keeping correct
: time. I tried running xntp to correct it, but it wouldn't work (does
: it work behind firewalls?) Does anyone know of an efficient way to
:
On Tue, 20 Aug 1996 00:43:23 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Liu) said:
Eric Hi! This new user has another unsolved problem. *grin* Background: Got
Eric and installed motifnls_2.1-1.deb and netscape_3.0-beta6-1.deb. Got the
Eric right tar.gz file off of Netscape's site and put it in /tmp,
From: Vebjoern Forsmo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/etc/inittab:
1:2345:respawn:/bin/login root /dev/tty1 /dev/tty1 21
Login does have a built-in 60-second timeout at the password: prompt,
and might have a timeout at the login: prompt too, I don't remember.
If you run a more normal getty/login on this
On 12:45:58 Richard G. Roberto wrote:
On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote:
Ah, this may have changed. When 3.0.3 was out in beta, the
Metro X server was also beta. The Xfree beta drivers blew
it away in performance tests posted on Xfree's web page.
I know this because I was looking
Can someone point me toward the FAQ or HOWTO that will explain the
issues with Motif? Why is Motif hard to come by and what is Lesstif?
Thnax!
Chris -)-
--
Christopher R. Hertel -)- University of Minnesota
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Networking and
After hearing all this stuff about viruses and password security I started
getting nervous, so I grabbed Crack 4.1 off of the net, compiled it, and
started running it over the password files of all the systems whose security I
care about. On the very small password file of my personal machine it
Here's a few things that has been bothering me for a while. Have I done
something wrong, or should the following be considered bugs:
/etc/inittab:
1:2345:respawn:/bin/login root /dev/tty1 /dev/tty1 21
The problem is that login waits 60 seconds before giving up. The init
start to respawn
Hi,
I have these two lines in a script that cron runs nightly for root
netdate tcp hostname_of_a_timeserver
clock -u -w
clock is inteligent enough to correct systematic errors. The options for
this are controled in /etc/adjtime. The clock is adjusted everytime you
boot.
On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, Tres Hofmeister wrote:
Can someone point me towards info. on how one can duplicate the
packages installed on one Debian system on another? Going through
dselect by hand seems just a bit too tedious for multiple
installations... Thanks.
Check out the UpGrades
Background: Got and installed motifnls_2.1-1.deb and
netscape_3.0-beta6-1.deb. Got the right tar.gz file off of Netscape's
Well, you need libXpm. Which you can get in the xpm4.7 package.
netscape should probably be fixed to depend on this package.
Jim
Daniel Lynes:
GNU Emacs for OS/2 still has this feature. Very, very dangerous.
Vi and clones aren't completely safe, either. In some circumstances, at
least, they load a .exrc (and/or .vimrc or whatever) from the current
directory (not the home directory). The intention is that you can
Sherwood,
I keep getting the following message when trying to NFS mount any of the
exported filesystems.
mount clntupd_create: RPC: Program not registered
Check that on the nfs server that mountd is running. This one is usually
NOT started from inetd but instead is started from one
Sherwood,
I like your suggestion of configuring packages as a separate step. The
option in dselect to 'configure remaining unconfigured packages' could
handle this, instead of the 'install selected packages' option. In this
scenario, the 'install' option would became 'load packages' and all
There probably wouldn't quite be room to include the kitchen sink. :-
IMHO, a better alternative to the large, best-endeavours kernel would be
to ship a really tight kernel and use the installation front-end to
configure additional support (in modules where possible or desirable).
Casper
This is my original post cas
cas I've a kernel on the /dev/sda2 partition in the /boot directory,
cas and it's called vmlinuz. My boot partition doesn't seem to be set
cas correctly, because it's not booting /dev/sda2 as root. Instead, it
cas displays Loading Linux , then boot: and then
On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Michael Meskes wrote:
Jean Orloff writes:
Since I'm there: `ps` is also broken in my custom 2.0.0 kernel. It complains
about being unable to find libproc.so. Any chance this may be cured at the
same
time? I got into the trouble of making a custom kernel because of
I am reluctant to bring this up again, since I saw it just a few
months ago on this list, and didn't pay attention at the time. So,
In that case you might want to try the archives.
You will get a much speedier response from there, I'm sure :).
Sorry can't answer your question.
Regards,
jay
I installed Debian just last night (coming from Redhat) and I'm impressed
with it so far. One trouble though: I installed latex and related tex
packages, but when I run latex I get can't find default format file.
AFAIK this indicates the kpathsea path information wasn't set up correctly.
The
Todd Is there any chance you have checked the bootparm-howto?
Todd
Todd http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw ??
If you install Debian's doc-linux package, they are also at
/usr/doc/HOWTO/*
As the doc-linux package is updated monthly with the upstream HOWTOs, you
should always look for
I am reluctant to bring this up again, since I saw it just a few
months ago on this list, and didn't pay attention at the time. So,
at the risk of rehashing this problem (if that is what it is), I am
submitting it again since I am now having the same difficulty myself.
I am using the original
Could someone knowledgeable in low-level kernel matters take a look at the
following? I looked at the Web page, and though it sounds interesting
overall (and it WOULD solve a serial problem I experienced with Debian 1.1.1
and kernel 2.0.6), there appear to be some technical inaccuracies which
I've just set up Debian 1.1.5, and have run into one small
but annoying problem right away. The only option the setup
gave me for time zone was US - Mountain. Which I chose, with
the result that my system is now reporting Mountain Daylight
Time (with the correct GMT time, since I set it in
From: Charles A. Schuman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# fdisk (then p)
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 *1 1251 513891 6 DOS 16-bit =32M
/dev/sda2 252252976 1484437+ 83 Linux native
/dev/sda3 977977 1003 55282+ 82 Linux swap
From: Casper BodenCummins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I like your suggestion of configuring packages as a separate step.
There may be a bit of misunderstanding here. I did an update of my system
from the rex (unstable) directory today using the FTP method of dselect.
Updating from rex is a good way to get
From: Casper BodenCummins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IMHO, a better alternative to the large, best-endeavours kernel would be
to ship a really tight kernel and use the installation front-end to
configure additional support (in modules where possible or desirable).
The stripped-down kernel for 1.2 is
From: Justin Ennis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am using the original Debian 1.1 release (kernel 2.0.0), and when
I issue a shutdown -h now command, I get the following:
System halted
general protection:
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010: [00173257]
EFLAGS: 00010046
eax: 5307 ebx: 0001 ecx: bfff0003
Rick Macdonald wrote:
On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
: Not true. You can't get a virus from reading an email message.
Actually, that depends upon your E'mail system. [...]
...but that's a hole in Microsoft mail. Obviously, this kind of thing
could not be
From: Randy Gobbel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
but when I try to run it on a relatively large password
file, I get a system freeze after running for around 45 minutes.
Watch its memory usage, and see if it is using up your swap space.
It's probably dying when memory usage gets to a particular value.
You
On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Jean Orloff wrote
-- extra stuff deleted --
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
A minimal X (and LaTeX) installation requires several debian packages,
but most people either do not want X or want at least a minimal
installation, right? So what are the justifications of splitting a
minimal X and LaTeX the way it is?
The developers may have their own reasons for breaking up
s Is it possible that you have a disk that is bigger than your bios rom
s knows how to handle?
How can I tell if the BIOS is going to handle it?
Well, if you needed to load a special driver to run DOS with the disk then
the BIOS dowsn't handle it. Since you have less than 1024 cylinders on the
On Tue, 20 Aug 1996 22:27:58 EDT Tom Fawcett ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
I installed Debian just last night (coming from Redhat) and I'm impressed
with it so far. One trouble though: I installed latex and related tex
packages, but when I run latex I get can't find default format file.
AFAIK
Can someone point me toward the FAQ or HOWTO that will explain the
issues with Motif? Why is Motif hard to come by and what is Lesstif?
Motif is a set of proprietary libraries licensed by OSF. So it
costs money to get them. I've bought them for $99.00 at InfoMagic
I like your suggestion of configuring packages as a separate step. The
option in dselect to 'configure remaining unconfigured packages' could
handle this, instead of the 'install selected packages' option. In this
scenario, the 'install' option would became 'load packages' and all
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996 00:23:16 EDT renald loignon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Could someone knowledgeable in low-level kernel matters take a look at the
following? I looked at the Web page, and though it sounds interesting
overall (and it WOULD solve a serial problem I experienced with Debian
Bruce Perens wrote:
:
: Thus, I'll ask Ian Jackson. How about three flags to dpkg?
:
: --select package-name [package-name ...]
: Selects a list of packages for later installation.
: --deselect package-name [package-name ...]
: De-selects a list of
Eric Liu writes:
Problem: Typing 'netscape' yields
netscape: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4'
Install xpm4.7. That'll help.
The installations did not complain of missing dependencies. I can't
Should we add one here? I think so.
Michael
--
Michael Meskes |
Howdy!
I just picked up the LAN adapter mentioned in the subject; it
replaces a Cogent BusMaster 960 that sporadically locked up under heavy load
[ick!].
It works perfectly under my primary OS-- NEXTSTEP-- but I can't
find a driver that works for Linux. The
On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
From: Vebjoern Forsmo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/etc/inittab:
1:2345:respawn:/bin/login root /dev/tty1 /dev/tty1 21
Login does have a built-in 60-second timeout at the password: prompt,
and might have a timeout at the login: prompt too, I don't remember.
Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Whenever I try to do a netdate to any site, I get a connection refused
error, I done both tcp and udp. Could it be because I am behind a firewall?
Don't know if this will help, but the xntp-docs says the following
about ntpdate:
-u
Direct
If people are pulling the packages over a phone line there is an advantage to
limitting the size of individual packages. That way they can hang up the
phone periodically. Also, if a bug shows up that needs to be fixed they
only have to download the package that is broken.
There is a plan
Can someone point me toward the FAQ or HOWTO that will explain the
issues with Motif?
Please clarify what you mean by the issues.
Why is Motif hard to come by
Because it is commercial software. You have to pay for it.
Several vendors sell Motif for Linux. See the Linux Commercial HOWTO,
John Houwen wrote:
Miro,
I appreciate your comments, but that is part of the problem ... smail
*won't* install unless sendmail is removed! At the same time, dpkg
refuses to remove sendmail unless smail is installed ... like Catch-22 :)
Sorry about the mis-understanding ...
Thanks
Different people maintain different packages. One of the main
strengths of debian is that there is an expert who is in control of
a package. A minimal X installation is quite large. It would be very
unfair to expect someone(who donates their time) to be able to
maintain such complex programs as
Bruce Perens wrote:
I think this is _almost_ right. What you need is to copy the dpkg status
file in a way that marks the packages as selected _but_not_installed_ on
the second system. It would take a script to do this, because you don't want
to take anything that got installed in the base and
Hi guys,
Does anyone of you know how to use the win32gcc package? Did I miss some
documenation or websites? Am I right when I assume that with this package
I can compile and link c++ programs which are runnable on a windows
machine?
Greetings,
Wilbert.
On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Justin Ennis wrote:
I am reluctant to bring this up again, since I saw it just a few
months ago on this list, and didn't pay attention at the time. So,
at the risk of rehashing this problem (if that is what it is), I am
submitting it again since I am now having the same
Hello.
First a little note if you have seen this message already:
I'm having problems getting the mail go futher than the network the machine
I'm on, so sorry if you see this for the nth time.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I'm running OS/2 Warp with HPFS on several of my drives.
I noticed that
On a similar note, if you have the modelines option set for vi (in
EXINIT or .exrc), the first and last 5 lines of the file can be executed
as vi or ex commands. Try the following for some fun:
echo vi: :!ls -lR ~ : tmp.file
EXINIT=set ml vi tmp.file
and wistfully watch all those
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hi!
I just discovered that the files in /usr/lib/perl5/pod are chmod 440
(-r--r-), which makes it impossible to use the diagnostic feature
of perl5:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use diagnostics;
use strict;
as propagated in the Perl FAQ.
I
Hi Ken,
Yes.. I know that should have made in a different way and yours is one of the
possibilities (provided that there are not files beginning with two dots like
/home/lds/..a_weird_name_for a file. I know that under the ksh I could have
used
# cd /home/lds ; chown -R lds:users .[!.]*
(reposting looking forward to get some answers)
Hi Debian-users,
Some files under /var and /usr are normally owned by root:systemgroup
were the string systemgroup above can be root, staff, adm , mail, news ...etc
Q: Will the bootup break something if the ownership of /var/... are set to
Reposting message with slight modifications as I haven't got any answer yet.
-
Hi,
Some files under /var and /usr are normally owned by root:systemgroup
were the string systemgroup above can be root, staff, adm , mail, news ...etc
Q: Will the bootup break something if the ownership of
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