Benedikt Eric Heinen wrote:
My first question would be are these valid IP addresses or did you pick
arbitrary addresses for your local systems?
As that question was asked by several people, the 192.168.101.x addresses
are arbritrary addresses for my own subnet. The 193.135.252.47 and
On Tue, 15 Apr 1997 11:32:07 -0600 (MDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote:
I might have to give my aging P133 to my wife and buy a new PC. :-)
I stopped keeping cuurent with these things.
Which runs Linux the best: 200, PRO 200, or MMX 200?
Pro 200.
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On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Vadim wrote:
Vadim Two reasons emacs is slow: 1. Lisp (jed is faster than emacs
Vadim because it uses S-Lang (however they spell it)).
My beloved Vadik, :) there is nothing objectively fast about slang
and nothing slow about lisp.
Boris == Boris D Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I planed of packaging mit-scheme too. Please decide whether your
are going to pkg it and let me know.
Would you do it, please? I'm too new at this; I really don't know if
I have the knowledge to make a package yet. Maybe next
I learned vi under SysVr3 and SysVr4 and didn't see much difference
under Slackware/elvis. Vim does have some annoying differences but
I can't remember the specifics. Emacs with viper-mode is pretty
faithful too.
Emacs emulating vi? The only good thing about emacs is that it's easy
My needs might be better served if there were an easy way to instruct dpkg
to install the binaries on a different filesystem, like a zip disk. There
is probably a way to do this easily, but I haven't figured it out. Have to
do links by hand? THe config files, and so on, should go in the
Jeff Greeson wrote:
At 07:31 PM 4/15/97 -0500, you wrote:
Jeff Greeson wrote:
Stacker 133.. it's by Trinity Works.. here in dallas I think... but it's an
AMD 5x86/133 CPU that uses the intel 486 chipset. Find some info before I
spend the $99 on it.
try a post to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone know if Debian has packaged the package which allows a Linux
box to participate in an NT domain? I read somewhere once that such a
package exists, but am very vague as to the details of what it did.
NB: it's not samba, it's do with sharing the user-space/passwords etc.
Any ideas?
I bet this has been debated before, but how does the Trinity Works' Stacker
133 perform with 2.0.30 of Debian? FYI, the Stacker 133 is a AMD 5x86/133
that fits in a 486 chip socket.
Discuss... :)
Jeff Greeson
http://mk.hotweird.com
The Realm of Mortal Kombat
If possible, it could look, feel and function like a midnight commander.
left pane are the .deb files, to the right could be the content, info,
dependancies to other files etc. which you could toggle.
regards,
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Andre
Christoph,
..., I usually install [packages] ... in a directory
/usr/local/packages/package_name ...
I use a script to move files into the correct directories.
The appeal of such an approach is [ability to] use any packages ... without
[installing] anything locally except a set of
My needs might be better served if there were an easy way to instruct dpkg
to install the binaries on a different filesystem, like a zip disk. There
is probably a way to do this easily, but I haven't figured it out. Have to
do links by hand? THe config files, and so on, should go in the
It is generally agreed that any Unix user should be able to use
vi, regardless of which editor he prefers to use regularly.
Apparently the people who generated the debian rescue disk don't agree
or the recent editor wars wouldn't have happened on this list.
The main problem
Jason Ish writes:
I connect to the internet using my school PPP account which gives me a
user name not very close to my real name and chose to use my first name to
logon to my personal linux box. I would like to send email but have it
come from my school email name and not my localhost
Regarding the wish list for the dselect replacement:
1 A what if command: Tell me what you would do if I said do it.
I found with dselect I'd somehow told it to remove lots of
things I hand't meant to, so recently I've been using dpkg directly
rather than trying to figure out dselect.
2 A
I'm trying to upgrade modules to modutils but dpkg says:
Kernel was compiled with module support
Modules package cannot be removed
Ideas? I'm in the field at the moment.
TIA
Lindsay
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On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote:
I'm trying to upgrade modules to modutils but dpkg says:
Kernel was compiled with module support
Modules package cannot be removed
Ideas? I'm in the field at the moment.
Yes. This one can be solved by hand with dpkg. You need to ftp the
Syrus,
Many thanks - you got me out of a bit of a hole, there.
dpkg now says that modutils is installed, but I notice that
/dev/init.d/boot still refers to modutils. Hope this is OK.
Lindsay
On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote:
I'm
Dear Debian users, I have two questions related to XF86 setup and boot
options:
- I have Debian 1.2 installed with kernel 2.0.27, when I boot the system,
the last thing the system do, before asking me for the user and password,
is start the xdm program. Then the system change to the
For many moons now, I have been using a primative method to establish
a ppp link, namely: use minicom to login and start ppp at the other
end, then exit minicom and run pppd manually.
Though labour intensive, this method worked tolerably well. The only
problem was that sometimes pppd believed
When I get to configuring my sound card, and get to the SB base I/O field,
the default is 220. Whatever I seem to type, it returns sorry, no help
is available for this option. I've tried typing 220 and just hitting
enter and both of them get me that response.
Anyone have an idea before I dig
On Tue, Apr 15, 1997 at 11:32:07AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pro 200.
200 and 200 MMX will run it the same. MMX has extensions for multi-media,
but no more raw processing power.
No but MMX 200 has a larger cache (L1) than the non-MMX,
which according to the usual benchmarks I saw in a
It is generally agreed that any Unix user should be able to use
vi, regardless of which editor he prefers to use regularly.
Apparently vi doesn't exist in Debian - vim, nvi, and elvis
(maybe others) all like to have a symlink named vi pointing to them.
A year ago when I was
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Boris D. Beletsky wrote:
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On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Vadim wrote:
Vadim Two reasons emacs is slow: 1. Lisp (jed is faster than emacs
Vadim because it uses S-Lang (however they spell it)).
My beloved Vadik, :) there is nothing
On Wed, Apr 16, 1997 at 10:14:30AM +0800, A. M. Varon wrote:
If possible, it could look, feel and function like a midnight commander.
left pane are the .deb files, to the right could be the content, info,
dependancies to other files etc. which you could toggle.
Hmmm. But more interesting is
- I have Debian 1.2 installed with kernel 2.0.27, when I boot the system,
the last thing the system do, before asking me for the user and password,
is start the xdm program. Then the system change to the seventh tty and
change the apperance from text to graphical. I move to the first
On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Rick wrote:
I assume that the unstable dir was removed since bo is no longer conciderred
unstable.
What's up with the packages file pointing to unstable?
There's some problem, apparently.
How is it that others are installing bo and not run accross this yet?
Hi.
I've recently installed thelatest apache web package and found that I
cannot POST to it. We seems to be getting the error:
Method not implemented
POST to /~matt/cgi-bin/Formmail/formmail.pl not supported.
I've looked through all the apache documentation without much luck,
[ snip ]
first type runlevel, and see what level you are booting in (runlevel
is in /sbin/runlevel). Then, if runlevel says N 4, you're in level
4, and type
cd /etc/rc4.d
mv S99xdm K99xdm
Just some minor nit picking: it should be
mv S99xdm K01xdm
This might be important when switching
On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Brian C. White wrote:
Why does it take so long for Netscape or Lynx to start?
It takes forever because they both read the entire file and run every
single test condition they encounter.
The latest mime-support (2.12) will work much better with lynx since
it tries
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Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
Is legal if I copy the full DEBIAN distribution in a CD (ftp.debian.org)
and I give the CD to my friend?
Short answer: Yes, perfectly legal.
Most programs in the main Debian distribution are covered by the GPL,
which states that if
Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm new to Debian. I've been waiting for one month to receive the
1.2.4 CD from Cheap Bytes (sent March 3rd arrived April 4th) and I'm
I received my 1.2.4 from them in one week or so. And I am in Brazil.
trying with it these days... I would
Dale Scheetz writes:
[snip]
Isn't this already available with get_selections and set_selections?
What about a fresh, from scratch installation? (like a newby would
encounter) 8-)
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This is a bug in the Configure script of the kernel package that has
been brought to the fore by the POSIXness of binutils/bash, as you
suspected.
The fix is to escape the POSIXly reserved characters in the script that
are used in 'expr' commands. The one you are tripping on checks for a
valid
I had that when I first installed. Make sure the path callout for your
cgi-bin in the .conf files is correst, and once that is done check the
ownership of the directory and the access privilages of the cgi-bin
directory.
Here is how ine is:
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 2048 Mar 17 11:08
Mark Phillips wrote:
For many moons now, I have been using a primative method to establish
a ppp link, namely: use minicom to login and start ppp at the other
end, then exit minicom and run pppd manually.
Though labour intensive, this method worked tolerably well. The only
problem was
According to a posting in comp.mail.smail by Bruse Becker, relay control
has been added to smail as of version 3.2.0.93
This is a MOST WELCOME feature and a security asset to any site on the
net running smail. Do we have this verison as a package yet?
George Bonser
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL
I'm trying to upgrade modules to modutils but dpkg says:
Kernel was compiled with module support
Modules package cannot be removed
Ideas? I'm in the field at the moment.
What I did was to edit the modules.prerm file in /var/lib/dpkg/info and
delete the check described above. Then the
I've to install debian linux in 4 PCs here at the university (now they
have an old slackware). My idea was to have one of them to export users
and their directories plus a directory with apps not in the debian
distribution (a sort of non-local). Up to here no problems arise.
But I'd like also to
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Portuesi Simone wrote:
I've to install debian linux in 4 PCs here at the university (now they
have an old slackware). My idea was to have one of them to export users
and their directories plus a directory with apps not in the debian
distribution (a sort of non-local). Up
The latest mime-support (2.12) will work much better with lynx since
it tries to use tests that lynx can recognize internally without forking
an external process.
Where is 2.12 available. I can only find 2.11 on my nearest Debian
mirror.
It was stuck in incoming until this morning. As
Hi
It would be nice to see links to the Bug Tracking
System (BTS) from the web pages the individual
packages can be downloaded on www.debian.org.
Those interested in upgrading individual packages
would so be able to check the reported bugs before
starting the process which might
Hello,
I installed the tmview_96.05-1.deb package which I got from
bo/binary/tex some days ago (it disapeared from there now,
like some other TeXrelated packages??).
At home it works fine at home (360 DPI fonts) but in the university
it produces only a very strange vertical pattern. Behind
Hello,
I use Emacs at the console (I have an 486/33 :-() and under X.
I've done some key bindings in my .emacs (more detailed in an
*.el file called from .emacs but this is not the point):
(global-set-key [C-left] 'backward-word)
(global-set-key [C-right] 'forward-word)
(global-set-key
Yup - I think it's called smb-NT-verify.1.1.tar.gz. I don't remember
exactly where I got it, but here's the authors name from the
nt-linux.readme file ...
Christopher Burke| Unique | Web: http://www.mindware.com.au
Mindware | Custom | Info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PO
At 08:28 AM 16/04/97 -0600, Chad Zimmerman wrote:
I had that when I first installed. Make sure the path callout for your
cgi-bin in the .conf files is correst, and once that is done check the
ownership of the directory and the access privilages of the cgi-bin
directory.
Here is how ine is:
How about the ability to search(currenlty using /) all fields not just
the package name. It is sometimes helpfull if you are not sure what a
package is called to search the discription of the package.
Brian
Mechanical
Yes, passive option is used.
ppp.log says something like (sorry, my machine is at home so I don't
have the exact words).
terminating on signal 15
sent TermReq id ...
recd TermAck ..
Yes, ppp.log says terminating on signal ...
Perhaps the key piece of evidence is that
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Vadim wrote:
Vadim My beloved Vadik, :) there is nothing objectively fast
Vadim about slang and nothing slow about lisp. Emacs seems to
Vadim be alot more complicated then jed that's all. (maybe jed is
Vadim faster just because it meant to be fast emacs clone?)
On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Alexander Koch wrote:
[...]
3. On the boot discs there were only /dev/sdb1 to /dev/sdb8, both 9 and 10
were missing. Well, it's not difficult to have 10 partitions if you a) only
use two primary, one to be an extended partition with the rest being logical
ones and b) if
I am getting this message while booting my Linux box:
VFS unable to mount root fs on 03:03
Can someone tell me what does it mean?
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Has wine been pkged for deb? If so where can I find it?
Have a good one.
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Date: 16-Apr-97
I've already been baffled by this Sue... Here's what's basically in my
access.conf:
Directory /
AllowOverride None
Options None
Order deny,allow
deny from all
/Directory
Directory /home/*
Options All
AllowOverride FileInfo
order allow,deny
allow from all
/Directory
Limit GET POST
Options All
I've no idea if this is might be documented somewhere. If so, please point
me to the right FM to RTFM grin Thanks.
I would like to offer both normal terminal and PPP connections on my
dial-in modems for my end-users. If possible, I'd like it to be as
automated as possible - i.e. No user
In your email to me, Kevin Traas, you wrote:
I've no idea if this is might be documented somewhere. If so, please point
me to the right FM to RTFM grin Thanks.
I would like to offer both normal terminal and PPP connections on my
dial-in modems for my end-users. If possible, I'd like
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Pilon wrote:
I am getting this message while booting my Linux box:
VFS unable to mount root fs on 03:03
Can someone tell me what does it mean?
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In your email to me, Kevin Traas, you wrote:
I would like to offer both normal terminal and PPP connections on my
dial-in modems for my end-users. If possible, I'd like it to be as
automated as possible - i.e. No user intervention.
Is this possible? If so, any suggestions, etc.?
If you type ping -c 5 www.microsoft.com
how long does it take before you see the first
line ?
This almost sounds like a DNS timeout.
--Jeff (just a guess)
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Brian C. White wrote:
The latest mime-support (2.12) will work much better with lynx since
it tries to use
I like the consept of dselect as it is but som improvments are welcome.
The sugestions is sorted in thre cattegorys: 1) Small improvments to
dselects interface. 2) Bigger new featurs to dselect. 3) New / improved
featurs involving possably changes to the pakage managment system.
Lets start with
Vadim Vygonets [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 15 Apr 1997, Alair Pereira do Lago wrote:
I do not know vi well but I do not see how it could be simpler than
ctr-alt-s
in emacs. There, while you are filling the regular expression you can see
the text that the incomplete regular
Hi,
When I first installed debian I selected more packages than would fit on
the disk, and so I ended up with tons of broken packages and had to
install again. dselect recovered nicely (something other distributions
don't do) but since each package has a predictable size it seems dselect
could
Running a machine with the frozen version of debian:
etc/init.d/xdm: Command not found.
host:/etc/init.d# /etc/init.d/xdm stop
no /usr/bin/X11/xdm found; none killed.
host:/etc/init.d# start-stop-daemon --stop --exec /usr/bin/X11/xdm
no /usr/bin/X11/xdm found; none killed.
host:/etc/init.d# ps
On 16 Apr 1997, Alair Pereira do Lago wrote:
Here, I was not saying anything about fastness or slowness of any editor, but
about a powerful use of emacs.
Emacs is powerful, but in vi the work is faster not only because the
editor is faster, but also because you don't have to move your fingers
Ok guys, ready for my comments on dselect? There are some doozies in here,
and some not-so-doozies. Also, there may be many points that can't work
simply because of the way packages are set up. The ideas are in no
particular order.
1) Allow quick install from floppies
It'd be really
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
According to a posting in comp.mail.smail by Bruse Becker, relay control
has been added to smail as of version 3.2.0.93
This is a MOST WELCOME feature and a security asset to any site on the
net running smail. Do we have this verison as a package yet?
Folks,
what does it matter if one editor is faster than another? Or if one
is more powerful than any other? Nothing! The particular user has
to be familiar with at least one editor in that way that _he_ can
use it for his purposes.
It doesn't make any sense discussing wether one particular
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This is from the NET-2-HOWTO. You can find more in the ppp-HOWTO and I
believe the serial howto.
Configuring a PPP server is similar to establishing a SLIP server.
You can create a special `ppp' account, which uses an executable
script as its login shell.
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Carpenter, Dean (MS Mail) wrote:
Yup - I think it's called smb-NT-verify.1.1.tar.gz. I don't remember
exactly where I got it, but here's the authors name from the
nt-linux.readme file ...
Christopher Burke| Unique | Web: http://www.mindware.com.au
Mindware
what does it matter if one editor is faster than another? Or if one
is more powerful than any other? Nothing! The particular user has
to be familiar with at least one editor in that way that _he_ can
use it for his purposes.
The issue relevant to this group is: what editor should someone
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Another battle won for Linux. I'm sending this to the driver developer as
soon as I find his email. In case they don't know yet.
Anybody know the email offhand?
(Ethernet cards)
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Ricky
Tracking # 322629
There are no
Hi,
In trying to upgrade a 1.2.x system to 'frozen' (to see if this would
fix my I can't receive smtp email from a M$ Exchange-based site
problem). I recieve a bunch of these errors when telling dselect to
install:
---
getting:
Has wine been pkged for deb? If so where can I find it?
Have a good one.
You can find a really old version of wine in project/experimental.
I have a newer version compiled on my machine and will be uploading
a new package before the release of 1.3.
Since Wine isn't really useful as a tool,
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Are you involved in the development or just pkging for Debian?
I really only want wine for a few programs. ICQ in particular so I'll know
when friends and family logon and to send msgs etc...
www.mirabilis.com if you want to check it out.
I really don't see
The 'file names' are wrong in Package.frozen.
A work around :
- You tell deselect to Update the package list.
- Just after it has downloaded the list, you switch to another console
(or xterm) and, in the appropriate directory,
(/var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/)
type :
sed -e
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I don't know why this is. They could fix it by creating a symlink unstable
- - bo. I just used master.debian.org instead. It works fine.
On 16-Apr-97 Pete Harlan wrote:
Hi,
In trying to upgrade a 1.2.x system to 'frozen' (to see if this would
fix my I can't
Alexandre writes:
The 'file names' are wrong in Package.frozen.
A work around :
Thanks! That fixed it!
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I am getting questions from possible future Linux users. I'll post them
to this list to tap into the extensive experience. Maybe we'll get more
converts.
Question of the day:
Those of you who burn CD's from Linux - what software do you
use? Is it dependable and straightforward to
On Apr 16, Richard Sevenich wrote
I am getting questions from possible future Linux users. I'll post them
to this list to tap into the extensive experience. Maybe we'll get more
converts.
Question of the day:
Those of you who burn CD's from Linux - what software do you
use? Is it
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997 15:29:58 -0700, Richard Sevenich wrote:
I am getting questions from possible future Linux users. I'll post them
to this list to tap into the extensive experience. Maybe we'll get more
converts.
Question of the day:
Those of you who burn CD's from Linux - what software
robert havoc pennington wrote:
When I first installed debian I selected more packages than would fit on
the disk, and so I ended up with tons of broken packages and had to
install again. dselect recovered nicely (something other distributions
don't do) but since each package has a
I am gonna install frozen from scratch in a machine and I would like to keep
all the messages printed in the installation. What can I do to log all
the messages?
Is there a way to use script for this purpose?
Is script in the base?
Is there another program I should know about?
It is my
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