CD-ROM Not Recognizing

1997-04-11 Thread Ty
Is there any special configuration I must do for Debian to detect my CD-Rom? It's just a Mitsumi CD-ROM, and I tried inputting the io and irq manually and still no go.. Can anyone point me in the direction to get this working? I can pretty much use everything else, cept my cd-rom and floppy

Re: KDE/KDM

1997-04-11 Thread Kevin J Poorman
On Thu, 10 Apr 1997 07:56:51 +0200 (MDT) Philipp JW Grau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Kevin J Poorman wrote: hello Does anyone have kde/kdm working on there computer ... I downloaded the red hat package and tryed to install it but it errored out ... if any one has kde

Re: Problem with lprng after reboot.

1997-04-11 Thread Tony Finch
I just noticed this problem. The ownership of /var/spool/lpd has changed to root.root, wheras it should be root.lp. I changed the permission manually and it then worked. Hmm. I don't know what caused this to happen. Wow, you win the prize. I had the same problem. I don't know if this

Re: Yamaha CR102

1997-04-11 Thread Dan Irvin
we have cut over 100 CDs using this recorder under linux. Never got it wo work well under windows. -Dan

Re: error in bind.postinst with froze

1997-04-11 Thread John Foster
Is the problem with bash 2 only the ; before the } ? Then wouldn't it be possible to use perl to determine if a { ??? } type construct is a variable replacement thingy or a block of code, and edit it accordingly? Any idea where I could get a list of the syntax changes from bash 1.4.7 - bash 2.0

Re: error in bind.postinst with froze

1997-04-11 Thread Rob Browning
John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is the problem with bash 2 only the ; before the } ? Then wouldn't it be possible to use perl to determine if a { ??? } type construct is a variable replacement thingy or a block of code, and edit it accordingly? Any idea where I could get a list of the

Re: What editors are in base?

1997-04-11 Thread Greg Vence
Martin Schulze wrote: Ken Gaugler writes: What editors come on the base install? Also, what is the input device for 'cp ' that uses the console for input? ae is on board. I am surprised nobody mentioned vi -- what, no purists out there anymore? :-) We already faught the

Re: moxfm

1997-04-11 Thread Lawrence Chim
You did right in getting the BINARY version instead of the version you have to compile as Lawrence mistakenly assumed. You have to get the version that has been staticly linked with motif. That means the motif it needs are part of it. If you have motif you would get the dynamic or shared

Re: 'Sun Java WorkShop on Debian' experience anyone?

1997-04-11 Thread Lawrence Chim
Benedikt Eric Heinen wrote: Hi there, does anyone out there have any experience running the Sun jws on a Debian GNU/Linux system. On my system the jws freezes completely when I try to use the jws source editor. Does anyone know of a fix? Or - if you got the jws running, can you tell me,

Re: Scanning software available?

1997-04-11 Thread Lawrence Chim
Alfons Juan i Ciscar wrote: that is, are there any packages that will enable one to use a scanner that is able to read in characters, or in other words, uses OCR (optical character recognition) technology? It depends on the scanner you have. I've a HPScanJet4c connected to a SCSI card

Re: KDE/KDM

1997-04-11 Thread Paul Seelig
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philipp JW Grau) writes: and some fiddeling with the path entry in Makefiles and *.h files and some nice things like that Well, i too fiddled with path entries and some *.h files too commenting out includes not found on my system

Re: Problem with lprng after reboot.

1997-04-11 Thread Tony Finch
I wrote: I wonder if this is another manifestation of the dpkg tar problem. This isn't the problem with /var/spool/lpd, because that is a change in ownerships (which dpkg doesn't do) and it happens at reboot rather than when lprng is upgraded. I was wrong. The permissions didn't change when I

Re: New Package Manager Lib

1997-04-11 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Gith wrote: [snip] Any *constructive criticism* is welcome, ( in fact I'd love to hear everyone's ideas along the lines of i wish it would/could do this or that ). Well, I like a feature that my aix 3.2.5 box has. Software [packages] may be committed, which makes

Re: KDE/KDM

1997-04-11 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On 11 Apr 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], ---cut-here-- Looks like it was a bad idea to comment out those includes!? But without commenting them out the compilation would have already stopped at an earlier

Re: KDE/KDM

1997-04-11 Thread The Tick
On 11 Apr 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philipp JW Grau) writes: Well, i too fiddled with path entries and some *.h files too commenting out includes not found on my system like iostream.h, ifstream.h and fstream.h. But then the compilation

ppp redial problem

1997-04-11 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
A weird thing is happening to my pppd. (version 2.2.0f-19) I added the persist option to /etc/ppp/options so that if the connection went down, it would immediately be brought back up again. However what happens is it attempts to dial and then stops short. It does this about three times and

Matrox Millinium

1997-04-11 Thread Karsten Bolding
Hi Which xserver should I use to get the most out of a Matrox Millinium card (presently I use xserver-svga) Karsten

RE: ppp redial problem

1997-04-11 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Why don't you try adding a wait or sleep command to the chatscript just before the dialout, or try a comma (,) between the numbers to see if it helps. It may be just sending the data too fast. Also. Normally atf doesn't reset the modem. It resets FACTORY

Re: ppp redial problem

1997-04-11 Thread Dave Cinege
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997 01:32:36 -0500 (EST), Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: A weird thing is happening to my pppd. (version 2.2.0f-19) I added the persist option to /etc/ppp/options so that if the connection went down, it would immediately be brought back up again. However what happens is it attempts to

Re: ppp redial problem

1997-04-11 Thread Dave Cinege
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997 01:32:36 -0500 (EST), Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: A weird thing is happening to my pppd. (version 2.2.0f-19) I added the persist option to /etc/ppp/options so that if the connection went down, it would immediately be brought back up again. However what happens is it attempts to

Linux Journal, Letters to the Editor

1997-04-11 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Has anyone seen this month's Linux Journal yet? There's a man who wrote a letter to the editor, complaining about RedHat. I wrote a note to him, inviting him to try Debian. Maybe we'll see him on this list soon? It would be good, I think. Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What editors are in base?

1997-04-11 Thread Martin Schulze
Greg Vence writes: ae is on board. I am surprised nobody mentioned vi -- what, no purists out there anymore? :-) We already faught the fight before - and lost. ae won. :-( There's a set of macros which can turn ae in a vi-mode. This might be included in further releases.

ppp - can't route with anything but ttyS1

1997-04-11 Thread Dave Cinege
If I set pppd to dial out on anything but ttyS1, it won't route. The modem will dial and connect, but the routing table is not updated. What have I forgotten to change? Dave 'Kill a Cop' Cinege (aka Psychopath #3)

MOXFM Imake fix.

1997-04-11 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I just d/led moxfm 1.0 and fixed the Imakefile so it installs correctly now. Here it is. Change XFMLIBDIR to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/moxfm even though it says that it's hard coded in. The program looks in this dir not the original. Which is right since /usr/X11

Multiple ISP setup

1997-04-11 Thread Chow Chi-Ming
Dear all, Just wonder what is a good ppp dial-up setup for multiple ISPs. I want to be able to choose which ISP to dial up easily (read: without having to edit /etc files manually each time I have to switch). Is there a tool for this? -- Billy C.-M. Chow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CD-ROM Not Recognizing

1997-04-11 Thread tgakem
Is there any special configuration I must do for Debian to detect my CD-Rom? If this is an IDE drive, as virtually all new CD-Rom drvies are that are not SCSI, you also need to watch the master/slave stetting. If your CD-Rom is connected to be slave on your 1st ide port, it should be

Re: moxfm

1997-04-11 Thread Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien wrote: I downloaded the moxfm file manager from the author's website in binary form. I uudecoded, unzipped, and un-tarred it, and rtfm'd. Following the instructions, I typed xmkmf and was told can't find file ^ 'Imakefile.tmpl'.

Install base system from frozen (bo)

1997-04-11 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I tried to install the install disks from frozen/disks-i368/1997-03-16. I made this disks as described in the docs by dd. After mounting several local disks via the install program I selected the entry to install base system. I have chosen /dev/fd0 as install medium (NICE TO HAVE THE NEW

Re: Multiple ISP setup

1997-04-11 Thread Lawrence Chim
Chow Chi-Ming wrote: Dear all, Just wonder what is a good ppp dial-up setup for multiple ISPs. I want to be able to choose which ISP to dial up easily (read: without having to edit /etc files manually each time I have to switch). If your ISP is using dynamic IP addressing, you only need

Re: moxfm

1997-04-11 Thread Lawrence Chim
I ran it because the INSTALL file said to do it as part of the installation process. I wish I could give a better reason, but though I've been a Linux weenie for about a year now, I'm just getting started with X and plowing up the learning curve. I compiled my one from source and run fine.

Re: ppp redial problem

1997-04-11 Thread Lawrence Chim
Are you using cua for your modem? Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: A weird thing is happening to my pppd. (version 2.2.0f-19) I added the persist option to /etc/ppp/options so that if the connection went down, it would immediately be brought back up again. However what happens is it attempts to

Install of rpm pk on debian distrib.

1997-04-11 Thread Eric De Vito
Is it possible to transform an rpm pk into a debian one ? Or at least to install an rpm pk on a debian dist., this instal. being recorded by the debian package management ? Or is it necessary to get rpm and deal with debian and redhat pk managers ? Eric

Re: Matrox Millinium

1997-04-11 Thread Lawrence Chim
Karsten Bolding wrote: Hi Which xserver should I use to get the most out of a Matrox Millinium card (presently I use xserver-svga) Karsten MGA -- Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RC5 challenge up again

1997-04-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
A new home, with a sensible proxying setup: http://bovine.st.hmc.edu/ -- Steve McIntyre, CURS Secretary, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] a href=http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~stevem/comp/My PC page/a Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, +--

Re: What editors are in base?

1997-04-11 Thread Greg Vence
Martin Schulze wrote: Greg Vence writes: ae is on board. I am surprised nobody mentioned vi -- what, no purists out there anymore? :-) We already faught the fight before - and lost. ae won. :-( There's a set of macros which can turn ae in a vi-mode. This might be

Re: Question on install

1997-04-11 Thread Paul Wade
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Alexander Koch wrote: Hi again. Well, since it is said and I experienced it several times the making of the boot floppies is not that easy... My problem is that I take the resc1440.bin and write it to disc (with dd) and when it comes to boot it just does nothing and

Re: Install base system from frozen (bo)

1997-04-11 Thread Greg Vence
Andreas Tille wrote: Hello, I tried to install the install disks from frozen/disks-i368/1997-03-16. I made this disks as described in the docs by dd. That set is a known problem. If you're using ftp.debian.org it's not up to date. On ftp.cdrom.com in the debian/frozen/disks-i386 there

Re: Install of rpm pk on debian distrib.

1997-04-11 Thread Paul Wade
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Eric De Vito wrote: Is it possible to transform an rpm pk into a debian one ? Or at least to install an rpm pk on a debian dist., this instal. being recorded by the debian package management ? Or is it necessary to get rpm and deal with debian and redhat pk managers ?

KDE/KDM

1997-04-11 Thread Kevin J Poorman
Snip for the sake of bandwith I must appolagise for the typing mistake it should be I can't get kdm to work when I type kdm I can's get kdm to work when I type kde nothing happens ... no prosess are spawned and no errors are given ... I also can not get xdm to work ... same deal as

Re: What editors are in base?

1997-04-11 Thread Martin Schulze
On Apr 11, Greg Vence wrote Me too. Apart from the fact that i cannot understand the decision I don't want to perform this fight a second time. This was the decision and now we should al live with it until we find a better solution (which could mean finding a very small vi or reducing

ae (was: What editors are in base?)

1997-04-11 Thread Paul Wade
The only shortcoming I have run into with ae as a base editor is the lack of a basic search command. +--+ + Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What editors are in base?

1997-04-11 Thread Ken Gaugler
Martin Schulze wrote: Greg Vence writes: ae is on board. I am surprised nobody mentioned vi -- what, no purists out there anymore? :-) We already faught the fight before - and lost. ae won. :-( There's a set of macros which can turn ae in a vi-mode. This might be

Re: Multiple ISP setup

1997-04-11 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: Just wonder what is a good ppp dial-up setup for multiple ISPs. I want to be able to choose which ISP to dial up easily (read: without having to edit /etc files manually each time I have to switch). If your ISP is using dynamic IP addressing,

Re: Question on install

1997-04-11 Thread Paul Wade
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Alexander Koch wrote: Quoting Paul Wade ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] My problem is that I take the resc1440.bin and write it to disc (with dd) and when it comes to boot it just does nothing and the mbr of /dev/sda (lilo) is taken. Is the floppy drive trying to

Problem on mounting CD...

1997-04-11 Thread Felix Almeida
Hi! I've been tried to allow the normal users in my system to mount a CD-ROM but with no success... I even put the following line in my /etc/fstab: /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user,unhide 0 0 Where /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to /dev/scd0. My /cdrom directory has the following

Re: KDE/KDM

1997-04-11 Thread Christian Leutloff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Seelig) writes: Well, i too fiddled with path entries and some *.h files too commenting out includes not found on my system like iostream.h, ifstream.h and fstream.h. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[leutloff] dpkg -S iostream.h libg++27-dev: /usr/include/g++/iostream.h

Re: Problem on mounting CD...

1997-04-11 Thread tgakem
Hi! I've been tried to allow the normal users in my system to mount a CD-ROM but with no success... I even put the following line in my /etc/fstab: /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user,unhide 0 0 Where /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to /dev/scd0. My /cdrom directory has

Re: Multiple ISP setup

1997-04-11 Thread Douglas Bates
Chow == Chow Chi-Ming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chow Dear all, Just wonder what is a good ppp dial-up setup for Chow multiple ISPs. I want to be able to choose which ISP to dial Chow up easily (read: without having to edit /etc files manually Chow each time I have to switch). Chow Is

RE: Question on install

1997-04-11 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- If I'm understanding you right, you're saying that when you try to boot from the rescue disk it just boots your previous lilo. If this is true check your BIOS settings for boot order and make sure that it will boot from the floppy drive before it looks at the

Re: Question on install

1997-04-11 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi, you should look at your bios settings. They can give you trouble when trying to install the base system. Specifically you should look at the memory (cache and video) and turn it off. The other thing that comes to mind is your rescue disk write pertected. If it isn't that is why it is

Re: Problem on mounting CD...

1997-04-11 Thread Riku Saikkonen
Felix Almeida wrote: /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user,unhide 0 0 Where /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to /dev/scd0. My /cdrom directory ... mount /cdrom works fine but umount /cdrom gives the error message: umount: /cdrom mount disagrees with the fstab I had this problem a

Re: Boot problem

1997-04-11 Thread Gilbert Laycock
Daniel == Daniel Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel Now, I wanted to boot my machine in Linux. There's been no Daniel problem with that until now. All that comes up is: LIL- And Daniel then there's no response. This sounds as if you need to reboot with a floppy, then run lilo as root. The

ISAPNP help

1997-04-11 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I sent this msg lastnight but it doesn't appear in my sent mail dir and I haven't gotten any response. I just got a 33.6 PnP modem that doesn't seem to want to work no matter what I do. isapnp seems to configure it. setserial seems to configure it. statserial

Re: Problem on mounting CD...

1997-04-11 Thread David Wright
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been tried to allow the normal users in my system to mount a CD-ROM but with no success... I even put the following line in my /etc/fstab: /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user,unhide 0 0 Where /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link

Re: 'Sun Java WorkShop on Debian' experience anyone?

1997-04-11 Thread Benedikt Eric Heinen
jdk 1.0.2 with no problem, though I am not using it now. Did you need to install any patches to make it run? SuSE delivered a modified classes.zip along with jws, claiming the original wouldn't work... Benedikt signoff --- Benedikt Eric Heinen - Muehlemattstrasse 53 - CH3007 Bern -

bi

1997-04-11 Thread Rick Hawkins
Apart from the fact that I need a vi, many new users won't ever use vi if they find it. vi is a tool for freaks, hackers and gurus (therefore it's a very good editor for us...). I only wish i could remember all the vi i knew , gad, 13 years ago? I got here, hit unxix again, but

Re: ae (was: What editors are in base?)

1997-04-11 Thread Rick Hawkins
The only shortcoming I have run into with ae as a base editor is the lack of a basic search command. I've also had screen freezes using it over telnet; i don't know if the new versions of ncurses have fixed this.

Re: Problem on mounting CD...

1997-04-11 Thread Andrew Martin Adrian Cater
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Felix Almeida wrote: Hi! I've been tried to allow the normal users in my system to mount a CD-ROM but with no success... I even put the following line in my /etc/fstab: /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user,unhide 0 0 Where /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link

RE: bi

1997-04-11 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I'm going to finally ask this question. What is it that is so special about vi? Does it decompile programs or write them all by itself or leap tall buildings with a single bound? Really. I've been on unix boxes for about 7 years and only used vi when I had

RE: moxfm

1997-04-11 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- By the way. Once you run xmkmf you have to run make install ; make install.man which you may already know. Just in case though. On 09-Apr-97 Tim O'Brien wrote: I downloaded the moxfm file manager from the author's website in binary form. I uudecoded,

RE: bi

1997-04-11 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Rick wrote: Really. I've been on unix boxes for about 7 years and only used vi when I had no other choice. That's it, exactly. When you have no other choice. Some people seem to force themselves to use it _all_ the time, just they they know what to do when they have no

Re: bi

1997-04-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Rick wrote: Really. I've been on unix boxes for about 7 years and only used vi when I had no other choice. That's it, exactly. When you have no other choice. Some people seem to force themselves to

RE: bi

1997-04-11 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Are you saying that I should use vi all the time so I know what to do when I have no other choice? Or are you saying that vi is a solid standby editor to use in an emergency and you don't understand why ppl use it all the time? On 11-Apr-97 Rick Macdonald

dselect

1997-04-11 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I sent this a few days ago but got no answer. Does anybody know how to clear dselect status? I used hold to select only the bo pkgs I wanted to install thinking I could reset the suggested status. But it don't work. How do I reset the pkgs to the suggested

Re: Matrox Millinium

1997-04-11 Thread Clint Adams
Which xserver should I use to get the most out of a Matrox Millinium card (presently I use xserver-svga) The best option is replacing the XF86_SVGA binary from xserver-svga with one from XFree86 3.2A -- it has less problems and also supports modes with more colors than 8bpp.

Re: What editors are in base?

1997-04-11 Thread Vadim Vygonets
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote: When I was in school, my UNIX teacher had one immutable law; Thou shalt learn vi. His argument was that no matter what flavor of unix you happen to come across in your career as a unix administrator, there will always be vi on the system. I have to

Re: Question on install

1997-04-11 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 11-Apr-97 Alexander Koch wrote: Well, until now I used rawrite to produce about 4 rescue floppy disks. I tried them all in order. I have the right order of booting. When booting the floppy is accessed (*schrab* *schrab*) and then the hard drive is read and

Re: Install base system from frozen (bo)

1997-04-11 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Andreas Tille wrote: I tried to install the install disks from frozen/disks-i368/1997-03-16. I made this disks as described in the docs by dd. These disks are obsolete. There is a newer set (1997-04-04?). There were many problems with those disks. The newest disk set

Re: Problem on mounting CD...

1997-04-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Felix Almeida wrote: Hi! I've been tried to allow the normal users in my system to mount a CD-ROM but with no success... I even put the following line in my /etc/fstab: /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user,unhide 0 0 Where /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link

Re: ppp redial problem

1997-04-11 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: Are you using cua for your modem? You mean the modem device or something else? I am using /dev/modem which is symlinked to /dev/ttyS1 in pppd as well minicom and pppupd both of which redial correctly. -- Jaldhar

Re: ppp redial problem

1997-04-11 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: I'm seeing things like this once and awhile. I just went to a serial port that only provides Rx, Tx, RTS, and CTS. I have to set DTR ON all the timeon the modem, and it seems to work fine, but sometimes it will not redial correctly. It also takes it

installation disks wanted for stable release

1997-04-11 Thread Eric Delaunay
Hello, is there a chance to find a new installation disks set that is aware of bug #8313 regarding perl / perl-base in the stable release (1.2.9?) before 1.3 release date, or should I hack them for myself? I'll have to install 3 PC next week and need to put a stable release on them. Thanks in

RE: ppp redial problem

1997-04-11 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Rick wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Why don't you try adding a wait or sleep command to the chatscript just before the dialout, or try a comma (,) between the numbers to see if it helps. It may be just sending the data too fast. Also. Normally atf

Re: Question on install

1997-04-11 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Alexander Koch wrote: My problem is that I take the resc1440.bin and write it to disc (with dd) and when it comes to boot it just does nothing and the mbr of /dev/sda (lilo) is taken. According to your further mails, BIOS settings try the floppy first. Was the floppy written

Re: bi

1997-04-11 Thread Leslie Mikesell
I'm going to finally ask this question. What is it that is so special about vi? Does it decompile programs or write them all by itself or leap tall buildings with a single bound? It works from any keyboard, you don't need arrows, f-keys or other unlikely stuff. You keep your hands on the

Re: Problem on mounting CD...

1997-04-11 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Felix Almeida wrote: The problem is that the users can mount the CD but cannot umount it! A few people already told you, the symbolic links were the problem. A further suggestion: Why not use the automounter, This is probably what you want, if users should be able to access

Re: ISAPNP help

1997-04-11 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Rick wrote: I sent this msg lastnight but it doesn't appear in my sent mail dir and I haven't gotten any response. I just got a 33.6 PnP modem that doesn't seem to want to work no matter what I do. isapnp seems to configure it. setserial seems to configure it. statserial

Re: ppp redial problem

1997-04-11 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: A weird thing is happening to my pppd. (version 2.2.0f-19) I added the persist option to /etc/ppp/options so that if the connection went down, it would immediately be brought back up again. However what happens is it attempts to dial and then

Re: ppp redial problem

1997-04-11 Thread Rob Browning
Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You mean the modem device or something else? I am using /dev/modem which is symlinked to /dev/ttyS1 in pppd as well minicom and pppupd both of which redial correctly. I may be mistaken, but I think that this can cause problems in some cases,

bug tracking system

1997-04-11 Thread Francesco Tapparo
Hi all, I have a proble with the Debian bug tracking system. I have found a minor bugs in some packages, and I have used bug to report the error. But I have not received the automatical answer from the bug tracking system. I like to know what's is wrong, and if the message has reached the bug

Re: Question on install

1997-04-11 Thread Greg Vence
Alexander Koch wrote: Quoting Paul Wade ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] My problem is that I take the resc1440.bin and write it to disc (with dd) and when it comes to boot it just does nothing and the mbr of /dev/sda (lilo) is taken. Is the floppy drive trying to read at boot? Make

Re: bug tracking system

1997-04-11 Thread Martin Schulze
On Apr 12, Francesco Tapparo wrote Hi all, I have a proble with the Debian bug tracking system. I have found a minor bugs in some packages, and I have used bug to report the error. But I have not received the automatical answer from the bug tracking system. I like to know what's is wrong, and

Re: What editors are in base?

1997-04-11 Thread jghasler
Martin Schulze writes: ...there's already a notice that the only installed editor is called ae. Where? John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Problem on mounting CD... (SOLVED)

1997-04-11 Thread Felix Almeida
Hi folks! Thank you very much! You're right about the symbolic link, it was the problem... -( I only changed my fstab to point /dev/scd0 instead of /dev/cdrom and everything works fine now. Thank you. :-) PS: Special thanks to Riku, Andrew and Bob. Felix Almeida.

Re: ppp redial problem

1997-04-11 Thread Greg Vence
Rob Browning wrote: Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You mean the modem device or something else? I am using /dev/modem which is symlinked to /dev/ttyS1 in pppd as well minicom and pppupd both of which redial correctly. I may be mistaken, but I think that this can cause

Re: vi

1997-04-11 Thread Rick Hawkins
I'm going to finally ask this question. What is it that is so special about vi? Does it decompile programs or write them all by itself or leap tall buildings with a single bound? Really. I've been on unix boxes for about 7 years and only used vi when I had no other choice. Is there

Re: ISAPNP help

1997-04-11 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Well, that's the port I configured it for. On 11-Apr-97 Nils Rennebarth wrote: On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Rick wrote: I sent this msg lastnight but it doesn't appear in my sent mail dir and I haven't gotten any response. I just got a 33.6 PnP modem that doesn't

Re: ppp redial problem

1997-04-11 Thread Rob Browning
Greg Vence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please don't let me start another editor snowball here. What is the difference between /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/cua0? I think this is (or should be) a FAQ somewhere, but the short story is that the cua* devices are only kept around in the kernel for historical

Re: vi

1997-04-11 Thread Rick Hawkins
I'm going to finally ask this question. What is it that is so special about vi? Does it decompile programs or write them all by itself or leap tall buildings with a single bound? Really. I've been on unix boxes for about 7 years and only used vi when I had no other choice. Is there

Re: ppp redial problem

1997-04-11 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- It's my understanding that /dev/cua* is outdated and only used for backward compatability. /dev/ttyS* is the correct usage. Which both belong to dialout. On 11-Apr-97 Greg Vence wrote: Rob Browning wrote: Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You

RE: ppp redial problem

1997-04-11 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Well, actually the manual isn't wrong. ATF does reset the modem but to FACTORY DEFAULTS. ATZ re-initializes the modem to the prior settings. If the factory sets the defaults to no compression, no error checking, and software handshaking for example and

Re: vi

1997-04-11 Thread Philippe Troin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: What I missed most, and missed on years of word processors, is the trivially easy manner of making compound, repeated, commands. I know it's possible in emacs, but i've found no-one whom I could ask who could tell me. For emacs, C-x ( starts recording, C-x )

Re: dselect

1997-04-11 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- There doesn't seem to be a --clear-status arg for dpkg. It gives me an error. And --clear-avail doesn't do it either. I can't believe that there's no way to clear this. From one site to another or one dir to another the status remains the same. On

dselect replacement team

1997-04-11 Thread Brian C. White
As part of the facelift for Debian 2.0, I'd like to offer an improved interface as an alternative for dselect. To this end, I'm going to be putting together a team of people to produce such a product. If you would like to work on this, please let me know and tell me what resources you have

Re: ISAPNP help

1997-04-11 Thread Paul Wade
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Rick wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I sent this msg lastnight but it doesn't appear in my sent mail dir and I haven't gotten any response. I just got a 33.6 PnP modem that doesn't seem to want to work no matter what I do. isapnp seems to configure it.

Re: bi

1997-04-11 Thread jghasler
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes: Ed, man! !man ed ... Computer Scientists love ed ... RUNS ED!! ... ...the mighty ed... ... Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all. ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ... THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!! Teco. John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)

Re: Question on install

1997-04-11 Thread jghasler
Alexander writes: When booting the floppy is accessed (*schrab* *schrab*) and then the hard drive is read and my old lilo turns up. Well, I tried 4 discs that were ok (Just checked at my other computer here, usual checks says nothing), 4 new discs. I went through eight discs the other day

Re: What editors are in base?

1997-04-11 Thread Bruce Perens
From: someone... I've never seen a base-line Unix box w/o vi that was what prompted the initial mail. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Schulze) Me too. Apart from the fact that i cannot understand the decision [...] It's funny how often this comes up. The reason is that the base system is the

Re: Multiple ISP setup

1997-04-11 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Chow Chi-Ming wrote: Just wonder what is a good ppp dial-up setup for multiple ISPs. I want to be able to choose which ISP to dial up easily (read: without having to edit /etc files manually each time I have to switch). Is there a tool for this? I don't believe there

Re: ISAPNP help

1997-04-11 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I found a PNP FAQ and double checked at usr.com. It seems that PNP modems with emulated uart's (what an idea) are totally incompatable. This Winmodem will only work with windows (not even DOS). By the way. I did do all that. I'm going to repost this under a

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