Recompiled Kernel route error:)

1996-12-30 Thread Fundamental
We recently recompiled our kernal (v2.0.0) to allow for dual processing and ipaliasing. Everything went smoothly accept for 1 error when the server reboots, while running the /etc/init.d/network file we get the following error ... route forgot to specify route netmask SIOCADDRT: invalid argument

Whats in a name?

1996-12-30 Thread Fundamental
Where did the name debian come from? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian 1.2 international?

1996-12-30 Thread Christian Hudon
On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Francesco Tapparo wrote: Hi all, I have read in this Mailing List that some packages in Debian 1.2 (e.g. shellutils and fileutils) are internationalized. I have installed the package wg15-locale, and I hav set LANG and LC_ALL to it_IT, but the error messages are in

Re: Debian 1.2 international?

1996-12-30 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Francesco Tapparo wrote: I have read in this Mailing List that some packages in Debian 1.2 (e.g. shellutils and fileutils) are internationalized. Well, it may be that I was talking about bo (Debian 1.3)... But yes, at least

Re: quake

1996-12-30 Thread Bernard Leach
Daniel Stringfield wrote: I've had some weird things happen in quake under X. 1. Keys are sticking. No, its not my keyboard. Fire button stays on alot, and you must hit fire again to make it stop.. 2. head movement. many times it will let me look up but not back down again. 3.

Re: Recompiled Kernel route error:)

1996-12-30 Thread Bruce Perens
I don't know if this will solve your problem, but I'd strongly suggest you upgrade your kernel to 2.0.27 . 2.0.0 had many known problems. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6

Re: dump problems

1996-12-30 Thread Pete Templin
On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Boy, that's weird huh? I can't really offer much help but since you say the filesystem fsck's ok I'm concerned (I use/rely on dump too). While file is at inode 16? (To get this use find /usr -inode 16 -ls.) -- Sun 20:42 on Templinux : pwd is ~

Has anyone installed on a Toshiba T2115CS?

1996-12-30 Thread Frank Swasey
I'm trying to install on a Toshiba T2115CS, and it was working fine yesterday, but today the lcd will not stay turned on very long at all... I'm really not sure whether this is a hardware problem with the machine, or if something installed wrong. I have the December InfoMagic 6-CD Linux

Re: Debian M$ co-habitation

1996-12-30 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Stephen Zander wrote: I am looking to install Debian 1.2 on my IBM Thinkpad 760CD. Unfortunately, for work reasons, I need to keep WinNT up operational also. So, three questions: 1. Does anyone have Debian running on a TP 760? I'm willing to break new ground but

nis install question

1996-12-30 Thread Pete Templin
Hi there. Pete the perenial question-asker here. I'd like to look at the stuff for the nis package. Will anything break if I do nothing more than install the nis debian package (i.e. is it a bad thing to install on a machine which I kinda depend on?)? I hope to migrate to nis sometime this

x startup error

1996-12-30 Thread Michael Harnois
What's causing this? I wiped my disk and installed the latest distribution, so it's not the artifact of a previous install ... xrdb: cannot run '/lib/cpp -traditional -Dlinux -D__i386__ -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_BS D_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -DX_LOCALE -DHOST=mharnois -DSERVERHOST=mharnois -DSRVR_ mharnois

99.9% load in /sbin/sylsogd - upgrade errors

1996-12-30 Thread Mark W. Blunier
I mirrored rex, and upgraded, unfortunately It is not very successful. The install failed a couple times, till that last installation failed with errors in the csh and tcsh packages. It seems on conflicts with the other, and neither will install properly, but this seems minor. My big problem, is

Re: Problem with new Logitech bus mouse [apparently solved].

1996-12-30 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
Hi again. Well, I tried much stuff including compiling David Howells PnP code into a 2.0.27 kernel. In the end, it looks like what solves the problem is a proper warm boot with loadlin. I used stripped config.sys and autoexec.bat files so that no drivers are loaded when linux boots. As a

Re: modules 2.1.13

1996-12-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 04:53 PM 12/29/96 +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: any sign of a modules 2.1.13 package? It's in unstable Not in the base directory on either {ftp,master}.debian.org nor debian.crosslink.net ... hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

mta suggestions?

1996-12-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I'm pretty clueless when it comes to unix mail systems, so perhaps someone can help me out. I need to have aliases on the system that are the same username, but a different domain, eg [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The difficult part is that I need these two to be sent to different domains.

Re: Has anyone installed on a Toshiba T2115CS?

1996-12-30 Thread Bruce Perens
There is a kernel bug that kills the Toshiba Tecra. My next boot disk set (tomorrow evening if I'm lucky) will fix it. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24

Re: 99.9% load in /sbin/sylsogd - upgrade errors

1996-12-30 Thread Bruce Perens
Look in /etc/syslogd.conf, and make sure all of the log files are there. It's generally a missing news log file. Briuce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO

Re: Whats in a name?

1996-12-30 Thread Bruce Perens
Debian is for Deb and Ian Murdock. Ian founded the Debian project. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Rawrite2 Permision Denied

1996-12-30 Thread Bruce Perens
What operating system is giving you permission denied? OS/2 or NT? Or do you have hardware or software virus protection enabled? Try booting from a DOS floppy if you have one handy and you can get the files to a DOS hard disk filesystem. I'd be interested in hearing how to solve this sort of

Re: x startup error

1996-12-30 Thread Bruce Perens
Install the cpp package or the gcc package. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Multitasking and system freeze

1996-12-30 Thread Ricardas Cepas
Hello, I often encounter the following problem: when system is heavily loaded, the speed drops unproportionally fast and system gets frozen completely (for example, when I receive more mail). Ctrl+Alt+Del stops working. Some test I performed on 486SX, 4MB

/etc/hostname, Contents?

1996-12-30 Thread Dr. Andreas Wehler
Hi. My problems concerning lprm job; permission denied!? are solved now. After having a look over the lpr package it turned out, that a compare between welfa4 (my hostname?!) and welfa4.elektro.uni-wuppertal.de didn't match in function isowner(), so the neat permission denied

Re: Has anyone installed on a Toshiba T2115CS?

1996-12-30 Thread Frank Swasey
On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: There is a kernel bug that kills the Toshiba Tecra. My next boot disk set (tomorrow evening if I'm lucky) will fix it. What do you mean kills? At this point, I've wiped the harddisk and attempted to install IBM DOS 7, but the display simply will not

Re: upgrade from 1.1 - 1.2, some minor problems

1996-12-30 Thread Martin Stromberg
I didn't see any follow-ups on this one so here I go... [Klippa, klapp, kluppit] 4) In the configuration mode of dselect, I needed to use the 'Z' parameter to move to the background and examine configuration files. The first package I tried this on was 'xntp'. After I was finished

Re: mta suggestions?

1996-12-30 Thread Pete Templin
On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I'm pretty clueless when it comes to unix mail systems, so perhaps someone can help me out. I need to have aliases on the system that are the same username, but a different domain, eg [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The difficult part is that I

qmail, was RE: mta suggestions?

1996-12-30 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Hamish Moffatt writes: [SNIP - Virtual Domains Config question] Can anyone suggest a way to do this? Either another MTA (eg sendmail), or how to do it with smail? I'd prefer to stick with smail as possible, since I understand it to some extent, and have UUCP working with that already.

Re: Whats in a name?

1996-12-30 Thread James W. Lynch
- Received message begins Here - A fellow named Ian started this project, a long time ago, and if I recall correctly his helpful and delightful wife's name was Debbie. Hence the Deb-Ian or Debian. Jim. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Dec 30 00:07:42 1996 Resent-Date: Sun, 29

rawrite2 NT 3.51

1996-12-30 Thread Greg Vence
Hello, Rawrite2 worked fine in making the disk. (No errors.) I was able to boot off the recue disk. However, I didn't check all the disks as I don't have a machine here at work that I'm able to install linux on. Again, this was in 'interactive mode' using no command line paramenters. Hope

Re: mta suggestions?

1996-12-30 Thread Bob Izenberg
Pete Templin wrote: # I can tell you that one of our production machines (a DEC box running # Ultrix) has IDA Sendmail 5.65/IDA-1.2.8 running on it. I believe we # kept the old bugger because it had the IDA sendmail, which allowed us to # redirect email based on machine names (and therefore

RE: xconsole problem

1996-12-30 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Nathan == Nathan L Cutler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nathan When I run 'xconsole' as a non-root user, I get the Nathan following message (inside the xconsole window): [...] Nathan Anybody have any idea what to do with this conundrum?

Help with installing Debian 1.2

1996-12-30 Thread Xinbing Liu
Hi, I'm trying to install Debian 1.2 stable version for the fiest time. I downlowaded the six floppies from www.debian.org. My computer's configuration: P 90 MHz, 32 MB, PCI bus, two SCSI disks, scsi controller is NCR53c810 (so the computer reports), first disk 1 GB with MS DOS installed,

x startup error continued

1996-12-30 Thread Michael Harnois
Continuing with my previous question ... I can compile a kernel successfully, so I think my gcc and cpp are ok. I did find out along the way that neither xlib6 or xlib6-dev install /usr/X11R6/lib into ldso.conf, b.[2~s[2~o.conf, but I fixed that ... however, it

Re: Upgrade questions 1.1-1.2

1996-12-30 Thread tomk
To answer myself and inform the folks on this list I'd like to suggest that an option be added to the conflict list of dselect. This option would allow one to pull-up the Packages description on a After digging around, I found the I/i key did the trick for above! A big _thanks_ to the

modules and missing ones

1996-12-30 Thread tomk
Another question, in Release 1.1, I had cdrom,isofs, and sound modules loading up during boot-up. Release 1.2 complains about not being able to find any of these modules during boot-up. isofs appears to have been compiled into the kernel. So no big deal, but what about cdrom and sound modules?

Re: A.out binaries in debian 1.2 ??? nah....

1996-12-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], James Martino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike, I tried to install the new uucp, but it requires mailx, which I don't use. Why the change in dependencies since the last release, if it's just a recompile for ELF? It's not just a recompile for ELF. It has some

Re: nis install question

1996-12-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pete Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there. Pete the perenial question-asker here. I'd like to look at the stuff for the nis package. Will anything break if I do nothing more than install the nis debian package (i.e. is it a bad thing to install on a machine

1.2 MB rescue disk

1996-12-30 Thread Patrick M. Ferraro
The PC I am installing Linux on can only accept a 5 1/4 1.2 MB as drive A:. I can not find the file: resq1200.bin on your FTP site. Please let me know where I can find that file or how else I can create a Linux installation Rescue disk. My E-mail address is as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks

Re: nis install question

1996-12-30 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Pete Templin wrote: I'd like to look at the stuff for the nis package. Will anything break if I do nothing more than install the nis debian package (i.e. is it a bad thing to install on a machine which I kinda depend on?)? I hope to migrate to nis sometime this summer,

Setting up Masquerading on Debian machines.

1996-12-30 Thread Rob Browning
[Previously (accidentally) posted to debian-devel] Is there any reason that msquerading wouldn't work right using the current (unstable) debian packages? I tried to set up a simple net, following the instructions in the IP-Masquerade mini-HOWTO, and have had no success. Here's some info if

Re: qmail, was RE: mta suggestions?

1996-12-30 Thread Remco van de Meent
At 12:24 PM 12/30/96 -0200, Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues wrote: Hamish Moffatt writes: [SNIP - Virtual Domains Config question] Can anyone suggest a way to do this? Either another MTA (eg sendmail), or how to do it with smail? I'd prefer to stick with smail as possible, since I

Re: Setting up Masquerading on Debian machines.

1996-12-30 Thread Remco van de Meent
At 12:16 PM 12/30/96 -0600, Rob Browning wrote: [Previously (accidentally) posted to debian-devel] Is there any reason that msquerading wouldn't work right using the current (unstable) debian packages? I tried to set up a simple net, following the instructions in the IP-Masquerade mini-HOWTO,

Re: Setting up Masquerading on Debian machines.

1996-12-30 Thread Rob Browning
Remco van de Meent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe I don't get it right, but to me, it seems you're masquerading USING your eth0-interface, instead of your ppp0-interface.. am I right? That's right. I have a ppp connection from the host to the internet, and a ethernet connection from the

Re: Setting up Masquerading on Debian machines.

1996-12-30 Thread Remco van de Meent
At 01:00 PM 12/30/96 -0600, Rob Browning wrote: Remco van de Meent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe I don't get it right, but to me, it seems you're masquerading USING your eth0-interface, instead of your ppp0-interface.. am I right? That's right. I have a ppp connection from the host to the

jdk

1996-12-30 Thread Joey Hess
I've got the following java packages installed: ii jdk-common 1.0.2-2JDK (Java Development Kit) ii jdk-static 1.0.2-2JDK (Java Development Kit) - Static part Whenever I try to run any of the java stuff, like appletviewer, javac, etc, I get this error: [EMAIL

2nd debian 1.2 upgrade problem: console hung

1996-12-30 Thread James D. Freels
In upgrading machine #2 (see earlier post on problems with machine #1) from debian 1.1 to 1.2, and rebooting. I got an error on reboot something about unable to initialize console and the machine hung. I thought it may have been a problem with my upgrade. Later I decided to wipe out the drive,

Re: jdk

1996-12-30 Thread Vincent Renardias
On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Joey Hess wrote: I've got the following java packages installed: ii jdk-common 1.0.2-2JDK (Java Development Kit) ii jdk-static 1.0.2-2JDK (Java Development Kit) - Static part Whenever I try to run any of the java stuff, like appletviewer,

Browsing *.deb files with Midnight Commander (was: Re: nis install question)

1996-12-30 Thread Paul Seelig
On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote: Are you an Emacs user? If so, try my deb-view for emacs. It lets you browse Debian deb files without unpacking or installing. You can look at control files, man pages, etc. You can even copy individual files out of the deb file. (It's based on

XWD printing

1996-12-30 Thread Scott J. Geertgens
In order to get the correct colormap on my remote X11 windows, I have to run in 16bpp in Linux. I need to print these Xwindows to a printer (in postscript format). The general method for doing this is to use xwd or xwpick to dump the screen to a file. However, I have been unable to find a

Help with installing Debian 1.2 (#2)

1996-12-30 Thread Xinbing Liu
Well, I sort of stumbled through the two problems I reported earlier (see the included message below). To solve the unable to open initial console problem with the created boot floppy, I found out that I had to press ENTER twice at the boot: prompt. (If I don't it will hang, very, very

Sbpcd and MAKEDEV

1996-12-30 Thread James W. Benson
I have the basic disks installed.1.2 and the new-resq144. I added the module for sbpcd. When I boot from Lilo I can't find the CDROM anywhere. There is no sbpcd in /dev and when I try to run MAKEDEV it won't run from root and from a login in it complains that there is an unexpected { in

Re: qmail, was RE: mta suggestions?

1996-12-30 Thread Remco van de Meent
At 01:22 PM 12/30/96 -0600, Roy C Bixler wrote: On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Remco van de Meent wrote: Maybe zmailer is another option? Seems to be very fast also... Yes, this works well, but unfortunately there is no Debian package available for it. Is anyone working on such a thing? I hope so,

Re: Setting up Masquerading on Debian machines.

1996-12-30 Thread Scott Barker
Remco van de Meent said: Yes, but what you want is masquerading the eth-iface using the ppp0-iface... So what I suggest is the following: ipfwadm -F -a masquerade -S 192.168.1.1 -D 0.0.0.0/0 -W ppp0 I believe the -W option should only be used for -I and -O rules. Forwarding by definition

Re: List of installation problems for 1.2

1996-12-30 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
From: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] The following list was composed from reports of those who have already installed Debian GNU/Linux 1.2. If you are having any trouble with your installation, consult this list for possible solutions. ... Could someone maintain this as a web page

Re: qmail, was RE: mta suggestions?

1996-12-30 Thread Boris D. Beletsky
Hi Remco, You wrote: Remco Is anyone working on such a thing? Remco I hope so, because I *can* compile it, but I cannot get it to Remco work together with piped things like majordomo. There is a patch for majordomo somewhere at www.qmail.org. Regards, borik -- _[_]_ Boris D. Beletsky