RE: cron

1996-08-29 Thread Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE
With not making a forward script who check you're mail to see if it's crony and let you know it. Something like the so-called vacancy demon. Fab. -- From: Al Youngwerth[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 1996 8:41 AM To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: RE:

Re: using filter

1996-08-29 Thread Nick Busigin
On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Shaya Potter wrote: How could I use filter to filter the mail from mailing lists (such as this one) into different folders. The only thing, I could think of is if there would be a way to do it based on the CC: line, but I didn't see an option in there to do filter

RE: mailing list

1996-08-29 Thread Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE
Humm... I think I have to complain to my news maintener... (I don't have this group on my news server though I have most of the linux groups... Is it a regional group?) Fab. -- From: Bernd Eckenfels[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 1996 5:30 PM To: Ninoles, Fabien:

RE: mailing list

1996-08-29 Thread Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE
The problem it's I can't put everything on my online account and they (administrator) don't have procmail or mh... Whatever, I did my suggestions after seeing so mush mail be reply two or three times for the same problem with the same answer. That's good for the reputation of the mail list but

Re: libwww-perl installation incomplete

1996-08-29 Thread Bill Wohler
Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the current version of the libwww-perl package is incomplete. In particular, it does not install the HTML sub-package. After obtaining the sources to libwww-perl and installing, I got past the errors above. Hmm. So did you have to do

Debian install: Thinkpad560 Dual Scan

1996-08-29 Thread dkklee
Hi I am contemplating installing debian on an IBM thinkpad 560 Dual scan. Are there any special things to do regarding this computer? Are there Linux utilities to test the battery level etc? Derek Lee

what is -ltk looking for?

1996-08-29 Thread David Morris
I am trying to compile the Embedded Tk source code and run into an error when the compiler tries to link to the tk library (gcc ... -ltk ...) Should I modify that to specify the particular version of the library to look for. I do have the tcl74 tcl75 (current pointer) tcl75-dev, tk40 tk41

Re: mailing list

1996-08-29 Thread Christoph Lameter
Here (news.fuller.edu). We have free NNTP access worldwide to the comp.os.linux and the linux.* hierachies. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: : :A good thing to see is some news mecanism. Aren't time to put :Debian list on news groups? : :

RE: Qs about Linux setup on Compaq 486 notebook

1996-08-29 Thread wb2oyc
Re: Qs about Linux setup on Compaq 486 notebook I'm want to use Linux on a Compaq 486/25SL notebook. I'm stuck on the following issues and would appreciate any pointers. 1 I believe the video ROM is being shadowed. The BIOS setup has options to shadow the video ROM at two different addresses,

Re: clock -w writes bogus date

1996-08-29 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
Bill Wohler writes: - Package: util-linux - Version: 2.5-5 - - clock -w is screwing up the CMOS clock. See: - - # cat /etc/timezone - US/Pacific - # clock -r - Wed Aug 28 00:52:27 1996 - # date - Wed Aug 28 00:51:54 PDT 1996 - # clock -w - # clock -r

Re: Debian install: Thinkpad560 Dual Scan

1996-08-29 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Derek Hi I am contemplating installing debian on an IBM thinkpad 560 Dual Derek scan. Are there any special things to do regarding this computer? No idea, check the Linux Laptop home page (http://www.redhat.com/llhp/) Derek Are there Linux utilities to test the battery level etc? Yes,

Re: joe and lynx on a short terminal

1996-08-29 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 28 Aug 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Probably a terminfo problem. Your terminal may have auto-wrap (auto-margins) and terminfo says it doesn't, or vice verse. Also make sure that you do have the right terminfo entry: if you set term to linux its terminfo entry says it has 25 lines.

Reorganizing linux.* hierachy

1996-08-29 Thread Christoph Lameter
I think we should do the following. 1. Map all high traffic groups / mailing lists linux.xxx to comp.os.linux.* 2. reorganize the linux.* groups to throw obsolete things out. 3. Make all groups non-moderated. The current setup is a major speed problem. Anyone who wants newsgroup access

Re: what is -ltk looking for?

1996-08-29 Thread David Morris
Allow me the privelege of flaming myself for not reading the man pages!!! I found the answer to all my questions right there in the gcc man file. My humblest apologies for spamming the list with my further inanities... On Wed, 28 Aug 1996 17:49:46 CDT. David Morris wove together: [ I am

minimal system

1996-08-29 Thread Mike Candy List
can anyone advise a new debian user on a scenario in which a useable system can be installed on a 120 meg hard drive with a 20 meg swap on another disk? If I can't use it for much then it seems that I would be better off going back to microstuffit- not all bad but thanks 1allMike List

XFree86 3.1.2F plans?

1996-08-29 Thread Erik B Andersen
XFree86 3.1.2F is out, according to http://www.xfree86.org. I am wondering if a Debian package of this beta software will be made available. Anyone have any plans to make this available??? -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web: http://www.et.byu.edu/~andersee/ 2485 South State St.

Re: mailing list

1996-08-29 Thread Buddha Buck
The problem it's I can't put everything on my online account and they (administrator) don't have procmail or mh... That's one reason why I use MH on my home machine... Nobody but me cares that I have 100MB of archived mail. I can do any sort of filtering I want, and so forth. That's one

Re: joe and lynx on a short terminal

1996-08-29 Thread Gerry Jensen
On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: On 28 Aug 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Probably a terminfo problem. Your terminal may have auto-wrap (auto-margins) and terminfo says it doesn't, or vice verse. Also make sure that you do have the right terminfo entry: if you set term to

RE: mailing list

1996-08-29 Thread Kevin M Bealer
On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE wrote: More of that, a news group is more organized. Thread are follow up and it's easy to jump over some who don't interested yourself. This will help people to got an answer more easily and more quickly, and to free a bit the traffic on this mail

Re: MajorDomo Problem with wrapper

1996-08-29 Thread Steffen Mueller
On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Brian C. White wrote: G'morning everybody, This symptom with majordomo usually indicates a problem with access rights. Yup. All the directories were owned by admin.qmail or something similar. Removing and re-installing majordomo fixed all that. Is qmail already

help ?

1996-08-29 Thread shankar
Hi, My pentium is not booting after I installed Debian 1.1 (kernel 2.0.0). The system hangs after configuring the serial ports. Here is what the last screen looks like. Running /etc/init.d/boot . Loading modules lp ... ne loading device 'eth0' eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using

Re: what is -ltk looking for?

1996-08-29 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
David Morris wrote: : : I am trying to compile the Embedded Tk source code and run into an error : when the compiler tries to link to the tk library (gcc ... -ltk ...) : : Should I modify that to specify the particular version of the library to : look for. I do have the tcl74 tcl75 (current

Re: mailing list

1996-08-29 Thread Lars Wirzenius
I hope this to be my last contribution to this thread, so I'll try to make it thorough. Sorry about the length. I will use must to indicate that unless we do it that way, there is going to be problems and the Debian project will suffer. (No film at 11.) I'm willing to stake whatever reputation I

Re: joe and lynx on a short terminal

1996-08-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
You (Dale Scheetz) wrote: On 28 Aug 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Probably a terminfo problem. Your terminal may have auto-wrap (auto-margins) and terminfo says it doesn't, or vice verse. Also make sure that you do have the right terminfo entry: if you set term to linux its terminfo

Re: minimal system

1996-08-29 Thread Erik van der Meulen
At 12:03 AM 8/29/96 -0700, Mike Candy List wrote: can anyone advise a new debian user on a scenario in which a useable system can be installed on a 120 meg hard drive with a 20 meg swap on another disk? If I can't use it for much then it seems that I would be better off going back to

Bad modules.tgz in special-kernel disks?

1996-08-29 Thread Topi Miettinen
It seems that the modules.tgz file is broken in all the rex/disks-i386/special-kernel images: tar ztvf /mnt/modules.tgz drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1996-07-12 09:34 lib/ [cut] -rw-r--r-- root/root 29055 1996-07-12 09:34 lib/modules/2.0.5/fs/xiafs.o tar: Unexpected EOF on archive file tar:

Re: what is -ltk looking for?

1996-08-29 Thread Shaya Potter
It is looking for libtk, the way debian installs tk won't work with just -ltk, you need -ltk4.0 or -ltk4.1 depending on which version of tk you have installed (or which version the program you are trying to compile requires). Debian does this so you can have multiple versions of tcl and tk

Problem

1996-08-29 Thread Dolgopolsky Igor
Hello there!!! I have a problem. I have a RedHat CD and installed linux, but i have a problem with my AHA-2940 in the kernel 1.2.13 (it's not supported) I get kernel 2.0.0 and compiled it for my system with all common options: AHA-2940 support, SLIP, PPP, Networking, TCP/IP, autoload modules etc.

Re: joe and lynx on a short terminal

1996-08-29 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote: I have this in my .bash_profile to set my terminal to vt320 if I'm calling in on the phone which I rarely do anymore:: TTY=`tty` case $TTY in /dev/ttyS?) TERM=vt320 ;; esac Thanks! This let me; 'stty cstopb' to fix login's insistance that 1

Re: joe and lynx on a short terminal

1996-08-29 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Well yeah, if you run agetty (which is /sbin/getty on Debian ofcourse) you can put the terminal type at the end of the command line. For example if your terminal is a vt100, then in /etc/inittab: S1:23:respawn:/sbin/getty /dev/ttyS1 9600

Re: help ?

1996-08-29 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 29 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, My pentium is not booting after I installed Debian 1.1 (kernel 2.0.0). The system hangs after configuring the serial ports. Here is what the last screen looks like. Running /etc/init.d/boot . Loading modules lp ... ne

Re: what is -ltk looking for?

1996-08-29 Thread David Engel
Heiko Schlittermann writes: Since the libtk versions are incompatible (at API level, as far as I can guess -- I've tried (now successfully) to adopt source written for This is correct and is also why the author started putting the version number in the library file name. tk7.4 (?) and for

Re: mailing list

1996-08-29 Thread Steve Dunham
Kevin M Bealer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE wrote: More of that, a news group is more organized. Thread are follow up and it's easy to jump over some who don't interested yourself. This will help people to got an answer more easily and more

Debian Faq

1996-08-29 Thread Shaya Potter
I would first off like to say, that the new Debian Faq is great and has lots of usefull information. Now that I got that out of the way, here are the little nit pickings. It seems that it has not converted over to postscript gracefully. When I printed it out on my Laser Jet 4M plus, there

Re: joe and lynx on a short terminal

1996-08-29 Thread Bruce Walzer
On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: [...] This bring up another issue. This terminal obviously has special needs. Is there a way in /etc/profile (or somewhere else) to set up the proper conditions based on the terminal rather than the user? That is, can I determine at login time what

Re: XFree86 3.1.2F plans?

1996-08-29 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Erik B Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ] XFree86 3.1.2F is out, according to http://www.xfree86.org. I am ] wondering if a ] Debian package of this beta software will be made available. Anyone ] have any ] plans to make this available??? I would really appreciate this as well. I use a

Re: minimal system

1996-08-29 Thread Brian C. White
can anyone advise a new debian user on a scenario in which a useable system can be installed on a 120 meg hard drive with a 20 meg swap on another disk? If I can't use it for much then it seems that I would be better off going back to microstuffit- not all bad but thanks 1allMike

NIS vs. NYS question?

1996-08-29 Thread Dirk Luetjens
Hello, I have a small problem integrating a new debian system into an existing bad maintained network. I installed the NIS package, everything so far is ok. ypbind connects to an NIS-Server, but to the wrong one. So I wanted to connect explicit to another with the option: ypbind -S lfm,fee but

still more smail problems.

1996-08-29 Thread Eamon Daly
I'm using Smail3.1.29.1 #29.37 from the debian package install, and having nothing but problems. Ignoring the earlier file locking trouble, I'm now discovering that for some reason, the following occurs: /USR/SBIN/CRON is spawned runq is called runq goes zombie

Re: joe and lynx on a short terminal

1996-08-29 Thread Michael Meskes
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Data General dumb terminal hooked up to my linux box through a hard wired serial port. The terminal seems to provide 24 lines on the screen. Pine handles this fine, but joe and lynx

ELF or a.out?

1996-08-29 Thread Niels
Hi, Some packages, among them workbone and symlinks, still provide an a.out binary in /usr/bin/, but no dependency on libc4 (workbone even depends on libc5...). Niels -- Planet Internet Holding XXTP Support

Re: mailing list

1996-08-29 Thread David Gaudine
On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Lars Wirzenius wrote: It is also easy to start reading a newsgroup. Many more people read a newsgroup than an average mailing list. [snip] Subscribing to a list takes much more effort, which reduces the number of participants. [snip]

Re: minimal system

1996-08-29 Thread Lazaro . Salem
Please, don't threat with the microstuffit :-) Concerning your not very specific question here is my rule of Thumb: No matter how large your HD is you will end up filling it. seriously, you may want look at the Debian FAQ revamped recently (great job!) under any debian mirror in