Re: netscape won't use disk cache?! (Solution)

On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Serge Stinckwich wrote: I've got similar problems. I have Netscape 4.0b3 and disk cache doesn't seems to work : the cache directory is empty, the index.db file is also created... Cheers, I supposed you missed the solution, or it was not clearly posted : I had to select

Re: netstd_2.13-1 ( READ THIS!!! or you /etc/inetd.conf will suffer )

Hi ! Do you know you have a directory /var/backups with a copy of /etc/group, /etc/passwd and /etc/inetd.conf in it ? (created by /etc/cron.daily/netbase ) Or was it only installed with the base of bo ? This -should- help you. if not, consider install anacron, that will ensure your cron

Man works for Root but not for other users

I recently installed Debian 1.2.8. One problem remains. Man works fine for root. When other users invoke it, though, they just get the error: Man can't set effective uid - operation not permitted. Any help would be greatly appreciated. (BTW thanks to Butch Kemper for the fix fot QPopper

Xresources (2)

i temporarily 'solved' the problem by adding the option -nocpp to xrdb in Xsession. But of course, now i can't use any macro's :-(. So i still welcome all help. thx. Jan - as a X newbee, i experimented with Xresources and

my debian blunders v.97

Now I've gone and done it. I deleted /var/lib/dpkg/status. So now I can't manipulate anything? Is this a feature? (What can I do?) This hard disk has a manuscript on it that I cannot afford to lose, using LaTeX, and the TeX system is set up just right. I don't have a cdrom or a drive I am

sysklogd 10 sec. delay at boot

The latest sysklogd (syslogd) takes 10 seconds to load at boot. Is this normal? Why the change? It used to be negligible. Signed, Curious in Massachusetts -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

FTP access without login capabilities?

Hi, Does anyone know if it is possible to grant a user ftp access using a password/username while not permitting telnet/login access? Thanks Rowan - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Rowan Deppeler System administrator Cybernex Networking http://www.cybernex.net.au

Re: FTP access without login capabilities?

On Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:53:16 +1000 RL Deppeler ([EMAIL PROTECTED] u) wrote: Does anyone know if it is possible to grant a user ftp access using a password/username while not permitting telnet/login access? Add the user in /etc/passwd with a shell /usr/local/bin/nologin. Create a shell script

Re: my debian blunders v.97

On Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:04:48 +1000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I deleted /var/lib/dpkg/status. So now I can't manipulate anything? Is this a feature? (What can I do?) This hard disk has a manuscript on it that I cannot afford to lose, using LaTeX, and the TeX system is set up just right. I

Installing packages from MS-DOS floppies?

How can I do this with dpkg? I know I can do it with dselect, but I'd rather not use it. Thanks. Adam Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Adaptec 2940 and 3940 PCI/SCSI adapters

The driver, or module you need is aic7xxx. My 2940 works fine, under 2.0.29, 2.0.27 and previous kernels. Under a 2.1.31 kernel that I compiled, I have an un-referenced symbol that I haven't tracked down yet. -- Brian Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: I need to know if these two adapters are

Re: Is there an xterm for windows or win95.

I have been looking for a xterminal that could be used on windows 3.1 or win95 to operate with XFree86. Does such a thing exist? My shop is primarily DOS based and such a thing would make my life much easier. After talking to a friend from digital, he says that they have an

Re: Memory Gobbler

At 09:20 AM 4/21/97 +1200, Richard L Shepherd wrote: Yes I have read that too. However it does see the memory (when I put mem=128M on the boot line). I'm not sure that cache isn't the problem, though. It went so well for 3 weeks, then started to go downhill. This w/e it killed itself

Re: Critical Times article on Linux

[reply diverted to debian-user] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Times, a respected British newspaper, published an article that was offensively critical of Linux in its Sunday edition. Well, solong for repspected Folk that don't get their facts straight don't deserve respect, especially if

Linux SMP more stable in 2.1 ???

Is Linux with SMP more stable in 2.1 than in 2.0 ? I have random lockups under heavy load. I've tried the shed.c patches from Leonard Zubkoff on the linux-smp mailing-list without any success... If yes, which 2.1 version is ok ? Does debian (hamm) works ok with 2.1 ? Thanks for any info !

Re: NOT urgent: 586 assumptions?

[ Please don't Cc: me when replying to this message on a mailing list ] Joost Witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I used to have a CYRIX 486, that gave me floating point errors. This apparently was due to a bug in the CYRIX (wasn't there with other 486's or pentiums). I have worked on an AMD

16bpp in xdm?

Hello all, How to start 16bpp in xdm? I know how to do in in startx. But I prefer to access X window using xdm and everytime I start xdm and it automatically set it to 8bpp. Your help is greatly appreciated. Anthony -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Re: 16bpp in xdm?

On Apr 22, Anthony Dien Yiu Cheng wrote : Hello all, : : How to start 16bpp in xdm? I know how to do in in startx. But I prefer : to access X window using xdm and everytime I start xdm and it : automatically set it to 8bpp. : : Your help is greatly appreciated. : Edit /etc/X11R6/xdm/XServers

Using Debian As Networking Teacher

-Hello, I was wondering how valuable debian wqould be as a backaground in learning networking administration, such as a ladder to learning solaris systmes fundamnetals. i know they are different, are they close in any areas? allan Name: Allan W. Bart, Jr.

Debian Linux Package Finder

Hi. Our Debian Package Finder is now complete (basically). It will search frozen, unstable, contrib, non-free and non-us. It will also allow you to search based on Package Name, Provides, Description or Maintainer. It will also allow you choose from a list of mirrors which one you want to

zmailer

Hey Is anyone here using zmailer? Would you please contact me? My router dumps core, likely due to a strange dbm. thanks. bye -R. // Remco van de Meent // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www: http://oloon.student.utwente.nl //Never make any mistaeks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ ISA

I've found that Debian doesn't recognise the Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ ISA card. Has anyone got a solution ? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Hostid

Hi, I would like to know what is the hostid number given by the system. Is it a fix number, where does it come from ? Thanks Franck -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ ISA

Daeron wrote: I've found that Debian doesn't recognise the Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ ISA card. Has anyone got a solution ? The problem might be that you have the card on an address that's not probed. I always have to patch eepro.c and include my card address in the list (near the top of the

Re: Critical Times article on Linux

[reply diverted to debian-user] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Times, a respected British newspaper, published an article that was offensively critical of Linux in its Sunday edition. Is there any place on-line where I could read that article, I'm getting curious :-) ? Nico Well,

vfat32 patch

Have anyone successfully applied the vfat32 patch to 2.0.29 or 2.0.30? Though I can compile the patched 2.0.29, I got unresolved symbols while booting linux. 2.0.30 not even compiled. -- Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Re: slackware,redhat-debian

Douglas == Douglas L Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Douglas I've got two machines, one slackware 3.0 (I think), and Douglas the other is redhat 3.0.3 that I want to move to debian. Douglas The problem is that they're too far away and I can't get Douglas in front of them in

Re: Problem with apache and includes

Thanks a lot for your responses, Chad and Alvin! I uncommented the respective lines and restarted apache as you suggested. Although I think you brought me one step further, unfortunately, it is still not working. S, do you or anybody else happen to have any other ideas? And by the way, is

Re: 1.2.4 list of known problems

I have just noticed that this message was not correctly delivered on Thursday 17 April, I'm sorry, I send it again now. - Original message follows - [ Part 2: Included Message ] Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 16:34:21 +0100 (GMT+0100) From: Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

kernel 2.1.3x?

Anyone having much luck with 2.1.3x? I'm running 2.1.29 and it's fine, except that the nfs module doesn't insert. But no luck with 2.1.33 or 2.1.35; both have lots of missing symbols on all the hardware drivers, probably relating to PNP support. I just ftpd the whole 2.1.35 source and the new

Re: kernel 2.1.3x?

Anyone having much luck with 2.1.3x? I'm running 2.1.29 and it's fine, except that the nfs module doesn't insert. But no luck with 2.1.33 or 2.1.35; both have lots of missing symbols on all the hardware drivers, probably relating to PNP support. The same is true here. I can run 2.1.29 but

Debian on a Compaq Deskpro XL

Howdy, I'm trying to install Debian Linux on a Compaq Deskpro XL. I have located the Linux Compaq Deskpro XL HOWTO but there is only information on how to create the bootdisks for Slackware and RedHat. Did anybody try to install Debian on such a system? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

User info

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Re: Comparing HD to dpkg

On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: On Sat, 19 Apr 1997 14:35:15 MDT Jason Ish ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This may be possible but I'm still getting a grasp on all the unix utils. I would like dpkg to make a master list of everyfile that it has installed, then have linux make a

Re: Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ ISA

Daeron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've found that Debian doesn't recognise the Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ ISA card. Has anyone got a solution ? Try adding io=0x300,irq=3 to the options line (if you're using Debian's modconf, or installing fresh) if your card is at 3,0x300. A friend of mine

sendmail virtusertable question

anyone know how to get sendmail's virtusertable to write directly to a file? e.g. i want to have an entry in /etc/virtusertable like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/virtual/info at the moment, any mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this setup bounces with an error message about being

basket weaving looks better every day! (fwd)

I thought I would post a different perspective on my current boot problem. I hope somebody out there in debian land can help me. Paul McDermott | E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Computer Braille Facility | Phone Number: (519) 661-3061 University OF Western

Return code from system()

According to the man page for system(), it should return the return code of the command run, or else -1 or 127. For me it is returning RC * 256: that is, if the return code is 1, system() returns 256; if 2, 512 and so on. Code fragment: char *s = ...; int j = system((const char

Problem printing large PostScript files with GhostScript.

I have little experiance with postsctipt and am having trouble printing some files. One in particular is a 1.4 Meg file of around 325 pages. The printers that I have available are HP laserjet series 2 and 4. Ghostscript gets to the 100 page point and quits. This happens when I

Re: Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ ISA

I've found that Debian doesn't recognise the Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ ISA card. Has anyone got a solution ? Yeah, buy another card grin I had one of these in a Debian box and had some very strange problems that I eventually attributed (unwarranted, possibly) to the driver. The card

Weird X error with pthreads.

I have your basic X program, open a window and draw something on it, and when I link it with the pthreads library and try to run it I get : XIO: fatal IO error 0 (Unknown error) on X server :0.0 after 26 requests (24 known processed) with 0 events remaining. I'm not calling any functions

Re: Problem printing large PostScript files with GhostScript.

I have little experiance with postsctipt and am having trouble printing some files. One in particular is a 1.4 Meg file of around 325 pages. The printers that I have available are HP laserjet series 2 and 4. Ghostscript gets to the 100 page point and quits. This happens when

Re: Problem printing large PostScript files with GhostScript.

I have little experiance with postsctipt and am having trouble printing some files. One in particular is a 1.4 Meg file of around 325 pages. The printers that I have available are HP laserjet series 2 and 4. Ghostscript gets to the 100 page point and quits. This

Re: Problem printing large PostScript files with GhostScript.

Chris Brown wrote: 325 pages. The printers that I have available are HP laserjet series 2 and 4. Ghostscript gets to the 100 page point and quits. This ... Is there a hard limit on GostScript in this area that I'm not aware of? Would it be a better bet to try to change to

WEB SECURITY: fyi!!

I just want leave a note to all people running web servers on thier debian machines. Check your cgi-bin dir for the following files: test-cgi nph-test-cgi phf php.cgi? I have looked up information on these cgi's and they are old software code that people can use to grap passwd files and such.

problem ftpd

I can't login into my box the ftpd denies access to everyone! I check the files /etc/hosts.deny /etc/hosts.allow /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess and they are all fine! what else could it be? I am using wu-ftpd.. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: problem ftpd

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Comet Mercantile [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't login into my box the ftpd denies access to everyone! I check the files /etc/hosts.deny /etc/hosts.allow /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess and they are all fine! what else could it be? I am using wu-ftpd.. What does your

Re: problem ftpd

Comet Mercantile [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't login into my box the ftpd denies access to everyone! I check the files /etc/hosts.deny /etc/hosts.allow /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess and they are all fine! what else could it be? I am using wu-ftpd.. Could this be the problem caused by a recent

EQL

Who has EQL running on their system? To those that do -- do you still have to run eql_enslave as written in the eql readme file in the kernel? The info and web sites listed there are out of date. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Dial up PPP

I am trying to conigure the box do accept a dialup pp conection. I am getting an error message that I don't understand. mgetty fatal: ys0 login' etc/mgetty/login.config must be root/0600 Thanks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Debian on a Compaq Deskpro XL

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nico De Ranter) writes: I'm trying to install Debian Linux on a Compaq Deskpro XL. I have located the Linux Compaq Deskpro XL HOWTO but there is only information on how to create the bootdisks for Slackware and RedHat. Did anybody try to install Debian on such a system?

Re: 16bpp in xdm?

In your XF86Config file under Section screen add DefaultColorDepth 16 just like the Monitor or BlankTime entry except there are no paren's around numbers in this file. example: Section Screen Driver svga DefaultColorDepth 16

Re: EQL

Steve Hsieh writes: Who has EQL running on their system? To those that do -- do you still have to run eql_enslave as written in the eql readme file in the kernel? The info and web sites listed there are out of date. The short answer: yes Brian -- Mechanical Engineering

Re: DEITY TEAM -- REQUEST FOR FUNCTIONALITY and COMMENTS

The new dselect should allow you to mark a package for re-install. I just managed to delete all .so files in my X11R6/lib. It's be nice if I could just mark all the affected packages for reinstall in dselect, instead of having to download and reinstall by hand. -- See shy Jo. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Debian Linux Package Finder

Our Debian Package Finder is now complete (basically). The entire thing is written in python so you will need that also. It's new (permenant) home is: http://larry.earthlight.co.nz/debian/finder.cgi Adam. Pretty slick. Looks good too. :-) Cheers, - Jim pgpt4kRr6CDwi.pgp

Re: Using Debian As Networking Teacher

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was wondering how valuable debian wqould be as a backaground in learning networking administration, such as a ladder to learning solaris systmes fundamnetals. i know they are different, are they close in any areas? I think they're very close, ähm you can get

Re: afterstep...

I must apologize that I have not replied to this earlier, but I only read debian-user occasionally and have been busy lately. I am the maintainer of the AfterStep package, and must say that my 1.0pre6 package (with debian version .99pre6 to work with the dpkg version ordering scheme) was uploaded

New Toy

I have in my office a Dell Poweredge 4100/180 with the following: AIC-7880UW AIC-7860UW 2940UW EEPro/100 WD UW 2.0 gig disk NEC 462 CDROM DELL 6UW Backplane The boot disk sees all this nice hardware, but I can't get the ehternet card to configure. Does anyone have a quick way for me to get the

Re: Memory Gobbler

On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Matt Lawrence wrote: I had similar problems with the kernel on the install disks. If I let the system sit for a day or so (386 with 8M), I would get a bunch of Couldn't get a free page messages. After rebuilding the kernel for my hardware, the message hasn't come back.

Re: New Toy

On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Tim Sailer wrote: [...] AIC-7880UW AIC-7860UW 2940UW EEPro/100 [...] The driver for the EEPro/100 is still in alpha, but available for testing. Also, the EEPro/100 may conflict with your SCSI-adaptor but a workaround is provided by editing the driver-source for

Re: fvwm2 menus burned

If I remember correctly the /etc/menus dir is for pkgs you want skipped when update-menus is run. Maybe skipped is incorrect. It's not updated by the program but the super-user. Meaning that nothing added by dpkg will be added to the menus in this dir. Making the menu system non-operational