After an upgrade to 1.2.7 I notice that in /etc/inet.conf there is now a
#off# in front of the pop3 service. This means that our rather irate
clients can't pop their mail using Eudaora etc. the /etc/inet.conf warns
not to uncomment these unless I know exactly what I'm doing..
OK, what would I be
For some odd reason, my network just died a few min ago. This is the
second time it has happened. Everything has been working perfectly for
the last several months, then all of a sudden today and a few days ago,
everything would just stop. I was doing nothing out of the ordinary other
than
On Mon, 24 Feb 1997 10:06:45 +1000 John Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
.au) wrote:
After an upgrade to 1.2.7 I notice that in /etc/inet.conf there is now a
#off# in front of the pop3 service. This means that our rather irate
clients can't pop their mail using Eudaora etc. the /etc/inet.conf warns
I installed an .Xmodmap in my home (user) directory. It suppose
to switch between hungarian and us keyboard by the use of the scroll
lock key.
Called the file up as
xmodmap .Xmodmap
in the .xinitrc file.
It does not seem to map the keyboard.
XF86Config is set up correctly for the keyboard.
There are two things that you can do. The first may or may not work, while
the second will work.
First, when you logon and your machine starts to go haywire, press CRTL-ALT-F1
(like CTRL-ALT-DEL except for the F1 key). This hopefully will get you to your
first console window, and you can log in
Thanks goes out to all who responded to my plea for help.
After reading everyones mail and falling back to a phrase we use
in the Military when all else fails, read the instructions! I
have my P90 back up and going again!
I checked out my boot directory and found the following files:
boot.0300
On 23 Feb 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
I tried to install Debian on a friend's Thinkpad 365X, and it gets to
the Loading stage and then locks up. I've tried the
floppy=thinkpad option at the boot prompt with no effect.
I found someone else had asked about this on the list, and there was
Bjoern Starke writes:
Sorry, but it seems that it isn*t possible to install Debian 1.2.6. I
have installed Linux (Delix-DLD2.1) 2 Years before and it was an easy
thing... But Debian seems to be unuseable.
Juhuuu. I have set up my X11 (nearly) correctly now. Wow. Things
aren*t so bad at
IMO, it would be good publicity to promise 1/3 of potential prize to
Linux International, 1/3 to FSF, 1/3 to keep for debian, and keep
running with [EMAIL PROTECTED] identity.
Gleb
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I solved my locked out of X problem by rebooting the machine while
holding down the shift key, then booting up in single user mode. Then
removing the S99XDM file or whatever it is called. Thanks for all your
help everyone, you are incredible!
-=-
Daniel Robbins
School of Medicine Computer
Hi ALL,
I installed X recently in my PC and having problem under perticular
situation.
When I logged in as root or normal user, I can run X window programs,
e.g. xclock, oclock, xman, etc. But when I logged in as normal user
and then logged in as super user then I cannot run X window programs.
On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Gleb Arshinov wrote:
IMO, it would be good publicity to promise 1/3 of potential prize to
Linux International, 1/3 to FSF, 1/3 to keep for debian, and keep
running with [EMAIL PROTECTED] identity.
I second this.
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William On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Bubonic wrote:
Okay this is weird.
I can FTP to my machine, but only to anonymous. UNLESS, the
account that I am FTPing to is running bash for a shell. If it is
running tcsh, it says: user access
John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How do I get my users happy again?
Netstd no longer includes the pop daemon. You need to install the
qpopper or cuicpop package. I had to install it twice to make it work
right. The first time it didn't quite edit the /etc file properly.
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On Mon, 24 Feb 1997 10:06:45 +1000 John Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
.au) wrote:
After an upgrade to 1.2.7 I notice that in /etc/inet.conf there is now a
#off# in front of the pop3 service. This means that our rather irate
clients can't pop their mail using Eudaora etc. the /etc/inet.conf warns
Hi,
does anyone know how big a ext2-filesystem can be? I think some time ago it
has been about 2 GB?
Stefan Walder
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Dipl. Ing. Stefan Walder (techn. Ang. in der EDV-Systemtechnik)
Universitaetsstrasse 150 E-Mail:
On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
run this after changing environments (i.e. changing to su):
export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
(note: bash specific, csh uses setenv DISPLAY localhost:0.0)
If this still fails, run xhost + and read the man page on xhost to find
the correct
At 17:05 23-2-97 -0600, robert havoc pennington wrote:
On 23 Feb 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
Peter Iannarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Compiling the entire Linux kernel to about 10 minutes.
You must be low on memory or something. I get less than 5 minutes on
my single PP200.
My 386SX16
On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Stefan Walder wrote:
does anyone know how big a ext2-filesystem can be? I think some time ago it
has been about 2 GB?
I've successfully formated and used a 9 Gb ext2 file system. I currently
work in one near 4 Gb large.
Nicolás Lichtmaier.-
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Stefan Walder writes:
does anyone know how big a ext2-filesystem can be? I think some time ago it
has been about 2 GB?
Somewhere I've read about a theoretical valua of 4TB (Terra-Byte),
I'm not sure but it is probably possible to spread one ext2fs
across the biggest harddisk.
btw. ftp.gwdg.de
Hi,
I want to use my Linux-Box at home to get mail and news. I'm using my Uni-ISP
and i want to have several Email-Adresses (my family). And I don't want to use
POP, I think uucp is nicer! So I want to use uucp over TCP/IP!
Now my questions:
1.) Can I use the email-address [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Martin Schulze wrote:
Bjoern Starke writes:
Sorry, but it seems that it isn*t possible to install Debian 1.2.6. I
have installed Linux (Delix-DLD2.1) 2 Years before and it was an easy
thing... But Debian seems to be unuseable.
Juhuuu. I have set up my X11
On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Lu Jimmy Chenji wrote:
On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
run this after changing environments (i.e. changing to su):
export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
(note: bash specific, csh uses setenv DISPLAY localhost:0.0)
If this still fails, run xhost + and
On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Stefan Walder wrote:
Hi,
I want to use my Linux-Box at home to get mail and news. I'm using my Uni-ISP
and i want to have several Email-Adresses (my family). And I don't want to use
POP, I think uucp is nicer! So I want to use uucp over TCP/IP!
Now my questions:
Lu == Lu Jimmy Chenji [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Lu On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
run this after changing environments (i.e. changing to su): export
DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 (note: bash specific, csh uses setenv
DISPLAY localhost:0.0) If this still fails, run xhost + and
On 21 Feb 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Craig writes:
If you dont have a good net connection, I'd recommend getting a freshly
burned CD with unstable on it once a month and upgrading from that.
In other words, if you don't have plenty of money, don't use Debian.
Definitely not! I spent
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Hayao Nakahara wrote:
Yes you can.
The followings are some of my /etc/adm/amd.xxx files.
I only add a few tips
On such configuration, I can
mount cdrom by accessing /l/cd,
mount floppy with ext2 format by /l/fd
mount floopy with fat format by /l/msdos.
I solved my locked out of X problem by rebooting the machine while
holding down the shift key, then booting up in single user mode. Then
removing the S99XDM file or whatever it is called. Thanks for all your
help everyone, you are incredible!
But isn't that the wrong solution? Isn't the
There is something with my PPP setup that really startles me:
(Teles S0.3 card, Debian Linux 1.2.6 distribution, 2.0.27 kernel)
I have two ISPs, one (lets call it I1) supports ISDN, the
other one (I2) supports ISDN and analog modem connections.
I can connect to I1 without any problems and all
I few days ago, I wrote:
There is something with my PPP setup that really startles me:
(Teles S0.3 card, Debian Linux 1.2.6 distribution, 2.0.27 kernel)
I have two ISPs, one (lets call it I1) supports ISDN, the
other one (I2) supports ISDN and analog modem connections.
I
Hi!
I've got a little problem with the scsi tape module (st.o):
Everything is fine, when I turn on the streamer before the
computer and when I don't unload the driver manually (rmmod st).
But if I turn on the streamer after the computer I get:
/dev/tape: No such device
whenever I try to access
Hi!
something must be wrong with my lpd-setup. When a user starts
a print job, s/he can't cancel it anymore. Example: (user 'spiegl')
$ lpr abc.txt
$ lpq
lp is ready and printing
Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
active spiegl 27 abc.txt
Friends in the Debian world;
I am having problems installing Debian 1.2.3 from my new CD. First, I
could not write the resq disk at all and get a bootable floppy. I FTP'd
the installation set and wrote floppys with rawrite2 that work; now I am
having trouble getting the installation to work.
Ed writes:
...once I had a working system of X/lesstif/latex/gcc and a lot of utils
I couldn't see the point in upgrading.
That's fine if you never intend to add any new packages. If you do,
eventually you will be forced to upgrade do to changes in libc, the kernel,
perl, etc. It is my
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
myself [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
I've got a little problem with the scsi tape module (st.o):
Everything is fine, when I turn on the streamer before the
computer and when I don't unload the driver manually (rmmod st).
But if I turn on the streamer after the
On 24 Feb 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ed writes:
...once I had a working system of X/lesstif/latex/gcc and a lot of utils
I couldn't see the point in upgrading.
That's fine if you never intend to add any new packages. If you do,
eventually you will be forced to upgrade do to changes in
The redhat users ( and other linux users ) will give the money to the Grand
Linux Foundation. I think you and other must think equals.
--
De: Daniel Stringfield[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Enviado:sábado 22 de febrero de 1997 17:47
Para:
Hi,
To get poppassd working under Debian 1.2, I had to change the P2 string in
line 184 of poppassd.c from:
enter new password:
to:
changing password for *\nenter new password:
This fixes the problem of getting the poppassd program hung while waiting
for passwd to finish execution.
Are you
At 10:53 AM 2/24/97 -0400, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
Hi,
To get poppassd working under Debian 1.2, I had to change the P2 string in
line 184 of poppassd.c from:
enter new password:
to:
changing password for *\nenter new password:
This fixes the problem of getting the poppassd program hung while
Please submit this as a bug to our bug tracking system. I just installed
the package and I can't change the password with Eudora either. It times
out waiting for the server to respond.
OK, I'll do so. I did not do it before because even though I am die-hard
Debian user, it's the first time I
Hi,
Is there a version of debian lpd which allows the use of filters
on remote printers ?
Thanks
Lennard
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Hello all,
Did a recompile to version 2.1.26. Everything works fine except that I
cant load the three loadable modules I compiled.
Here is what I get:
/ # depmod -av
*** Unresolved symbols in module /lib/modules/2.1.26/misc/appletalk.o
*** Unresolved symbols in module
Stefan Walder writes:
does anyone know how big a ext2-filesystem can be?
From /usr/src/linux/fs/ext2/CHANGES:
Changes from version 0.5 to version 0.5a
[..]
- Check that no data can be written to a file past the 2GB limit.
[..]
Ciao,
-
Andy-
As far as I know this is normal for SCSI devices. The devices have
to be on when you boot so the probe for devices recognizes what you
have on the SCSI bus at boot time.
You may be able to turn if off after the probe until you need it
(you'll have to check this)
My SCSI tape drive is
I seem to have lost daemon+mail logging after installing either
qpopper or xinetd. Anyone run into anything like this ?
Matthew
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Ed Down [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 24 Feb 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is my understanding from what I've read on this list that it
is pretty much impossible to upgrade an old installation like mine
without re-installing.
That's an extremely harsh criticism. Upgrading to the
Ed writes:
As I understand it 'rex' still contains all the packages (that were
available then) as they were at the release of 1.2.0.
By new packages I meant ones which were not available in old releases.
So if you installed 1.2.0 you can still add new packages from there
without upgrade
Hi,
What version of modutils/modules are you using? AFAIK, 2.1.23
is the version that should be used, and we don't have that yet for
debian.
manoj
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I have installde debian 1.2 on my desk top machine and
origionally configured it with an IP address of 0.0.0.0 since my ISP
uses dymanic IP address allocation. A few days ago I decided to try
setting up the desktop machine as a server for my laptop so that I
could get a little space on
Even though you may utilize the Debian 1.1 floppy set to start out, it
doesn't mean that you can't do an unstable install. Use the floppies and then
point dselect at whatever Debian version you have/or are interested in. It
worked fine for me to go right from the 1.1 base install to 1.2. That's
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mind you, I can't see anywhere in /etc/init.d/* where it only
starts xdm based on the runlevel, nor in the inittab.
I think the information you want may be in /etc/init.d/README
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Why does everyone keep saying that X should look like Win 95. I don't want
This I totally disagree!!! I'd rather prefer X to work more
like OS/2 :P. AFAIK, win95's interface is not as Object-
Oriented (OO) as M$ has claimed. OS/2 users should know.
I particularly find win95 difficult to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But if I turn on the streamer after the computer I get:
/dev/tape: No such device
whenever I try to access the tape (through /dev/tape as a link
to /dev/nst0 or 7dev/st0). Is this normal? Do I really have to
reboot when I want to make a backup, ie. want to use
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Spiegl) writes:
The Linux kernel is able to rescan the SCSI-bus at run-time (normaly it
does so once at boot time only)
Therefore you should do the following as root, before insmoding (or
executing someting on the /dev/tape device, e.g. tar, cpio)
echo scsi
While spreading the news about the RC5 contest, I was asked the following
question about the 56bit key and I wonder how to answer:
What is the complication of this exhaustive search? I suppose it is
exponential, but to what number?
Thanks is advance
Ioannis Tambouras
[EMAIL
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On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Ed Down wrote:
On 24 Feb 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ed writes:
...once I had a working system of X/lesstif/latex/gcc and a lot of utils
I couldn't see the point in upgrading.
That's fine if you never intend to add any new
On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Riku Voipio wrote:
Here at debian, we have joined the fun, and you can join in too.
This may sound silly, but why doesn't someone package this thing (both US
and non-US) with a nice description of what it is, how can the whole
community beneffit from such an effort, etc,
From time to time I have seen messages on this list and elsewhere
about Win95 overwriting Linux partitions.
Is there an effective procedure to stop this from happening?
Bob
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I just upgraded my Debian 1.1 using the access method option for ftp in
dselect. It looks as if I upgraded my dselect as well. After the upgrade,
the access method selection for ftp is no longer availaable. Was this by
design, or do I need to make changes elsewhere to get this option back? It
Hi All,
I'm trying to initialize a 3c590 card with AUI cable as
selected media.
I had tried to passing parameters to lilo, with
append= ether=irq,io,0,1,eth0 as well as to insmod (Ethernet-HOWTO)
with xcvr=1 and none has succeed.
How can I select AUI media for a 3c590
hi.
just installed Debian 1.2... noticed that startx doesn't work,
xinit does, but it starts to load up FVWM and puts an xterm
on a background and hangs... i installed everything correctly
and XFree86 config was fine. my mouse may not be setup on the
system, that's not the problem, the problem
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
Any recommendations for Cd tools?
I want something that I can set up the tracks with.
cdplay in cdtools doesn't let me do that.
It does, but you have to manually edit the ~/.cdtooldb. WorkMan uses the
same format for its database, so if you have that, a
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[concerned that he can't upgrade without completely re-installing his system]
I installed 1.1.
You will have to upgrade dpkg by hand to the version in the release you
are installing:
dpkg -i dpkg-x.x.x.x.deb
dpkg --clear-avail
_Then_ update the list of
On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Fri, 21 Feb 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the linux console doesn't do underlining... i use setterm -ulcolor
It does on Hercules video systems (ie old, old mono).
For what that's worth.
that's right... in fact anything except svga should
On 24 Feb 1997, Dirk Bernhardt wrote:
Stefan Walder writes:
does anyone know how big a ext2-filesystem can be?
From /usr/src/linux/fs/ext2/CHANGES:
Changes from version 0.5 to version 0.5a
[..]
- Check that no data can be written to a
I was wondering if anyone here had a quick answer as to how to set up a
messages window under FVWM; this is basically a read-only xterm window
type thing where all console messages get displayed...
...Paul
...Paul, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://megadodo.com/~cleggp/
37 Briarwood Lane, Apt
On 24-Feb-97 Dirk Bernhardt wrote:
Stefan Walder writes:
does anyone know how big a ext2-filesystem can be?
From /usr/src/linux/fs/ext2/CHANGES:
Changes from version 0.5 to version 0.5a
[..]
- Check that no data can be written to a file past
On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Giuseppe Vacanti wrote:
Is anybody using a UPS with debian who would care to email how they
are faring?
Is APC a good UPS to buy? Do I need a special cable? And how should I
go about sizing the UPS (I mean, do I need a 200W UPS if the power
supply of my box is 200W)?
Shaya said:
--
I am currently using a debian system to masquerade all the traffic from
my high school's win95 lan to the internet. This is ok for a temporary
manner, but my school wants me to implement a way to track where all the
students are going, can't have them going to sighs which arn't
i run the command xconsole, this is pretty much what your looking for
also... it is a read only window that displays not only my fvwm errors,
but also network errors (nis unreachable servers, etc). the path to it is:
/usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole
i just added it to my .xinitrc so it setup
On Mon, 24 Feb 1997,, Matthew wrote:
Matthew I seem to have lost daemon+mail logging after installing
Matthew either qpopper or xinetd. Anyone run into anything like this
Matthew ?
Either???
You mean installing qpoper and running it _from_ xinetd?
borik
While spreading the news about the RC5 contest, I was asked the following
question about the 56bit key and I wonder how to answer:
What is the complication of this exhaustive search? I suppose it is
exponential, but to what number?
With a 56 bit key, there are 2 to the power of 56 possible
On Mon, 24 Feb 1997 03:57:42 +0100, you wrote:
Hello,
Isn't that card listed in xfconfig's card database? (call dpkg --configure
xbase, if I'm not mistaken). It sounds like a quite known card.
Yes, but the problem was that Diamond renamed many of their graphics
cards. For example. Diamond
On Mon, 24 Feb 1997 02:30:20 -0800 (PST), you wrote:
Hello,
And no, this is not a flame. (apparently some people on this list are
hypersensitive, tell someone to go RTFM and give them the directions and
they start crying...)
I have lived 3 jears with Windows95. So, this won't kill me anyway.
I saw a potential solution to this in a two-cent tip in Linux Gazette in
issue #11 or #12 I think. Check out http://www.ssc.com/lg. It may be
searchable.
On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, dpk wrote:
i run the command xconsole, this is pretty much what your looking for
also... it is a read only window
Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
From time to time I have seen messages on this list and elsewhere
about Win95 overwriting Linux partitions.
Is there an effective procedure to stop this from happening?
Bob
This happened to me because (I believe) I created the DOS partition
above
Hi,
can anyone tell me the predependancies of the package xscreensaver`?
I need it for bug testing.
Short explenation:
I need the packages that must be installed to install xscreensaver.
Hold back the packages that are installed with the base system (not
the REAL base system; i mean the
Hi Debian users:
I installed stable 1.2 on my system from ftp.debian.org. I installed inn
and trn then tried to run trn, and got the message:
trn
Warning: Couldn't open /etc/news/whoami to determine hostname!
Why? What can I do to fix this?
My machine is a 486 33, ISA mother board 16MB
Steve Reid wrote:
While spreading the news about the RC5 contest, I was asked the following
question about the 56bit key and I wonder how to answer:
What is the complication of this exhaustive search? I suppose it is
exponential, but to what number?
With a 56 bit key, there are 2 to
The Debian FAQ lists the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the address to
which to send corrections and suggestions regarding the FAQ. Mail to this
address bounces with a Sorry, no mailbox here by that name message.
Do the people who maintain the FAQ know this?
Lindsay Haisley
Whatever happended to the Pthreads libs that used to be part of
libc5?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [/cdrom/debian] $ dpkg -c
Debian-1.2/binary/base/libc5_5.4.13-1.deb | grep pthreads
-rwxr-xr-x root/root104324 Nov 24 05:11 1996 usr/lib/libpthreads.so.1.60.4
lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 Nov 24 05:11
On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Herman Mansilla wrote:
Hi Richard,
Even though I am novice in PPP, I had a similar case:
In my Ethernet Network I set up a Linux Machine as a router, adding a
Frame Relay card. This card used 192.168.x.x as a dummy address.
According to the manual it needed an
dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i run the command xconsole, this is pretty much what your looking for
also... it is a read only window that displays not only my fvwm errors,
but also network errors (nis unreachable servers, etc). the path to it is:
/usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole
i just added it
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