serial as a module?

1996-10-22 Thread Robert Nicholson
Can serial support be added as a module in 2.0.6 from rex? I ask because lsmod doesn't show it and it's out there in /lib/modules/2.0.6/misc/serial.o but when serial_cs from the PCMCIA package trys to load it gets undefined symbols for register_serial and unregister_serial -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: serial as a module?

1996-10-22 Thread Robert Nicholson
Robert Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well I've almost go this to work now. I didn't have misc/serial in my /etc/pcmcia/config Can serial support be added as a module in 2.0.6 from rex? I ask because lsmod doesn't show it and it's out there in /lib/modules/2.0.6/misc/serial.o

smail and name login@system.name

1996-10-22 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
First of all, apologies to anyone who tried to reach me and couldn't because of a broken From: line, but not really as your mailer reallys hould support the Reply-to: header :) (btw, my real address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]) if this comes out wrong.) Is there a way to get smail to rewrite addresses

pcmcia-modules source deb?

1996-10-22 Thread Robert Nicholson
If I recompile my 2.0.6 kernel with the source in rex I'm also expected to have to recompile the pcmcia-modules I'm using right? They appear to be available in deb format only as compiled against 2.0.6 kernels but when I put in my Hayes Optima 144 it says that the modules don't match the kernel.

Re: latest less+rxvt: the screen gets cleared

1996-10-22 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Found it! The problem is that I recompiled rxvt, because the compile options that are used in the binary package don't suit me. Something I changed breaks the screen restoration. BUG: I also noticed that the binary is compiled with -O -g. I think all packages should be compiled with as much

Re: better fonts?

1996-10-22 Thread Chris Walker
David Puryear wrote: Hi all, I was looking at some postscript files and quality was not very good. Is there different fonts I can get that would produce better output in X and especially ghostscript? If so, where and how. The Alladin version of ghostscript (version 4) has much better

Re: IOmega Jaz drive

1996-10-22 Thread Jean Orloff
I just installed Debian ON a 1Gb IOmega Jaz driver: it gets recognized at the bios level, just when you insert the root/boot disks! The resulting system is of course not too fast, but enough to get a feeling, without any worry for other installed systems. Amities, Jean Orloff

nmbd question...

1996-10-22 Thread Adam Shand
Hi, I've had samba running for a while and ignored nmbd but I now would like this to run as well. I've read the man page and would like to run it from inetd. My question is does anyone know where the default place for the hosts file that it uses is? And/or what the file is called? Or do you

Re: IOmega Jaz drive

1996-10-22 Thread Marcelo Magallon
On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Jean Orloff wrote: I just installed Debian ON a 1Gb IOmega Jaz driver: it gets recognized at the bios level, just when you insert the root/boot disks! The resulting system is of course not too fast, but enough to get a feeling, without any worry for other installed

Using a Hayes Optima 144?

1996-10-22 Thread Robert Nicholson
Hi, I believe I've done everything I need to to be able to use this PCMCIA fax/data modem. I've verified that serial is loaded before serial_cs with lsmod and install minicom but all attempts to address the modem fail. Is anybody using this modem? Currently /dev/modem is a link to /dev/cua2

Re: IOmega Jaz drive

1996-10-22 Thread jeff
I'm considering getting a Jaz drive and I'd like to install Debian on it. I want just a little bit more that get a feeling... I know what Debian can do and I like it! So, exactly what do you mean by not too fast. I've never seen a Jaz drive working, they are a rarity down here, but from what

Re: Debian Incoming directory

1996-10-22 Thread Dominik Kubla
I tried to cd to ./project/private/Incoming/ the response was: ./project/private/Incoming/: No such file or directory. I tried it in both ftp.debian.org and master.debian.org I am interested in reading the Incoming directory, because many time it takes a long time between posting a new

firewall on my web server

1996-10-22 Thread David_Oswald
Hi all ... I need to install the tis firewall (fwtk) onto my debian machine which is also a web server. I have no other hardware to install it on so I need to run with what I have - our simple web server. I imagine it will take some time to properly

Mounting CDROM during installation

1996-10-22 Thread M . Arifi Koseoglu
Hello ! I am having a veird problem while trying to install the Debian 1.1 distribution. I have a boot disk with NCR SCSI support (that is my SCSI controller), a root disk, and the 3 1.44 in base disks. Everything goes fine till the dselect phase. I boot, install the base system, select

Elm problem

1996-10-22 Thread Arrigo Triulzi
Hello, we have the Elm package installed and people are unable to use it for sending e-mail which always fails with a bad call: sh: -oi not found I have the impression that it is trying to tag the -oi flag to the sendmail command but never actually adds the sendmail in front.

Re: Mounting CDROM during installation

1996-10-22 Thread Dale Scheetz
You will need to have scsi_mod.o and sr_mod.o installed as well, for this to work. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black

Re: Elm problem

1996-10-22 Thread Andrew Booker
Hello, we have the Elm package installed and people are unable to use it for sending e-mail which always fails with a bad call: sh: -oi not found I have the impression that it is trying to tag the -oi flag to the sendmail command but never actually adds the sendmail in

Re: Elm problem

1996-10-22 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Arrigo Triulzi wrote: Hello, we have the Elm package installed and people are unable to use it for sending e-mail which always fails with a bad call: sh: -oi not found I have the impression that it is trying to tag the -oi flag to the sendmail command

What paths do I use to get dselect to work?

1996-10-22 Thread Dave Cinege
Maybe I'm just too ignorant of the unix directory conversions, but I can't get dselect to do squat. I'm installing from the CD (1.1.10). The only thing it seems to start with is root (/) and then it will not continue because it tries to access stuff as //xxx/ with 2 leading slashes.

Re: Opinions on Linux Journal article

1996-10-22 Thread Buddha Buck
[Note: I'm moving this from debian-changes to debian-user] '[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:' Hello, i was wondering what were the reactions of list members to this article. I thought it was well done. It showed our strengths and weaknesses. Which article? Which issue? -- Buddha

Re: Need help with NIS: close, but it don't work yet

1996-10-22 Thread Swen Thuemmler
On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote: [...] ypbind checks that the NIS server is still there every minute (the period in the old version. The new man page just says periodically). The man page doesn't show an option to override this, so I may just put one in myself. Do you see any

Re: Does Linux NIS needs plus-entries?

1996-10-22 Thread Swen Thuemmler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Christian Hudon wrote: I seem to faintly remember someone saying on this list that Linux NIS doesn't need plus-entries in /etc/passwd and friends... Is that really true? Because the latest nis package still says: No, this is wrong. It

Re: Opinions on Linux Journal article

1996-10-22 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Buddha Buck wrote:' [Note: I'm moving this from debian-changes to debian-user] Good idea. I didn't check header :( '[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:' Hello, i was wondering what were the reactions of list members to this article. I thought it was well done. It showed our strengths and

Re: Apache 1.1.1 ate my website!

1996-10-22 Thread Gerry Jensen
On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Marty Leisner wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], you w rite: I know that at least one of the 2.0.x kernels has major problems when running Apache. Sorry, I don't remember which one. So you might want to try another kernel and see if that fixes your problem. I'm

Re: better fonts?

1996-10-22 Thread Tibor Simko
On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, David Puryear wrote: I was looking at some postscript files and quality was not very good. Is there different fonts I can get that would produce better output in X and especially ghostscript? If so, where and how. I use fonts from GNU archives and they are really nice

Re: Mounting CDROM during installation

1996-10-22 Thread John Hasler
M. Arifi Koseoglu writes: Everything goes fine till the dselect phase. I boot, install the base system, select loadable modules (and this is important: I *DO* select cdrom support *AND* isofs support, and *DOUBLE-CHECK* after- wards that they are marked with a +), install the kernel, reboot,

is ftp.debian.org mirroring properly?

1996-10-22 Thread Joey Hess
I generally run deselect daily, and update to the newest unstable group of packages on ftp.debian.org, but for about a week, I haven't seen any new packages. I pointed it at master.debian.org today, and saw a ton of updated packages. So is ftp.debian.org properly mirroring master.debian.org, or

Re: Need help with NIS: close, but it don't work yet

1996-10-22 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Swen Thuemmler wrote: On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote: [...] ypbind checks that the NIS server is still there every minute (the period in the old version. The new man page just says periodically). The man page doesn't show an option to override this, so

Re: latest less+rxvt: the screen gets cleared

1996-10-22 Thread Brian Mays
Carlos Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BUG: I also noticed that the binary is compiled with -O -g. I think all packages should be compiled with as much optimization as possible. The binaries in the rxvt Debian package have been compiled with -O2 -g -Wall and later stripped as suggested by

Re: pcmcia-modules source deb?

1996-10-22 Thread Brian Mays
Robert Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I recompile my 2.0.6 kernel with the source in rex I'm also expected to have to recompile the pcmcia-modules I'm using right? Sometimes. It depends on what you have changed of the kernel's configuration. When building the PCMCIA modules, the

Re: better fonts?

1996-10-22 Thread Rob Browning
David Puryear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was looking at some postscript files and quality was not very good. Is there different fonts I can get that would produce better output in X and especially ghostscript? If so, where and how. One thing that will help screen output tremendously is

Re: Mounting CDROM during installation

1996-10-22 Thread Bruce Perens
NCR SCSI 53c810 You need a special boot floppy for the 53c810. It's at ftp://sgk.phast.umass.edu/pub/boot1440.bin.gz . If you continue to have problems, get into the shell and run lsmod and cat /proc/filesystems. Both should list the ISO driver. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: is ftp.debian.org mirroring properly?

1996-10-22 Thread Hugo HAAS
On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Joey Hess wrote: I pointed it at master.debian.org today, and saw a ton of updated packages. So is ftp.debian.org properly mirroring master.debian.org, or is something broken? Something else is strange : I tried twice to subscribe to the mailing-list debian-devel and I

Re: Mounting CDROM during installation

1996-10-22 Thread John Hasler
Bruce writes: You need a special boot floppy for the 53c810. It's at ftp://sgk.phast.umass.edu/pub/boot1440.bin.gz . Special_Boot-6 worked for me. I got it from LastMinute/SpecialKernels on the I-Connect CDROM. The install failed to run 'depmod -a', though, leading to symptoms like those

Re: firewall on my web server

1996-10-22 Thread Shaya Potter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My questions: After installation of fwtk: Q1: Will my remote users/clients still be able to telnet into this machine - after the