[General Q] What is inetd?

1997-06-28 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
What is inetd? Where can I read up more on inetd and its advantages / disadvantages? I am currently running my apache off of /etc/init.d/apache . I was wondering whether there is any adavatage of using inetd to start apache. Sudhakar -- An elephant is a mouse running an Operating System. --

Re: problems with dosemu, fvwm95, xbase

1997-06-28 Thread David Pfitzner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler) wrote: (about dosemu 0.66.6) Well, fdos seems to have problems with lredir. I only get garbage on drive d: (which should actually be the whole linux fs). From the dosemu mailing list, it appears that lredir does not work with fdos, due to missing

choosing a linux distribution

1997-06-28 Thread Craig Sanders
RE: your web page at http://mkracht.aye.net/~matt/linuxdist/ Debian Web: http://www.debian.org/ FTP: ftp://ftp.debian.org/ You've got this part correct, at least. Installation For some reason, Debian requires six disks for their installation program. I knew this was a

Re: terminology/concept questions

1997-06-28 Thread mark powers
George == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] sez: George For me, I hate the C shell and like Korn or bash (bash is George the second incarnation of the Bourne shell ... bash stands George for Bourne again shell). George You have the c shell (csh) the bourne shell (sh) bourne

Problems installing 1.3

1997-06-28 Thread Tony Koehn
Please CC all your messages to me because I don't subscribe here regualary.. I have been trying to install debian 1.3 as a new install. I created me a Rescue 1440 Disk and a Dev 1440 Disk ( I think its called that) (been a long day)... I installed the base file on my dos partition and

Re: choosing a linux distribution

1997-06-28 Thread Buddha Buck
Matt, I apologize if you seem to have been hit recently by the Debian Advocacy Brigade, but I -do- want to add one thing myself. Craig Sanders said: RE: your web page at http://mkracht.aye.net/~matt/linuxdist/ Debian Web: http://www.debian.org/ FTP:

Re: [General Q] What is inetd?

1997-06-28 Thread Paul Wade
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: What is inetd? Where can I read up more on inetd and its advantages / disadvantages? I am currently running my apache off of /etc/init.d/apache . I was wondering whether there is any adavatage of using inetd to start apache. inetd is

Re: choosing a linux distribution

1997-06-28 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: [snip] Actually, Debian requires zero disks for installation. It can be installed directly from a bootable cd-rom (if you have a machine capable of booting from CD). If not, then you can install using two floppies - the boot disk and the drivers

Re: terminology/concept questions

1997-06-28 Thread Poobalan MurphyPA Arumugam
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, David Miles wrote: I appreciate your response. Another question or so: 1) Are shells geared toward specific tasks?... such as program creation, a shell built to specifically offer enhanced compiling and program generation capabilities? another perhaps for graphics

Re: Debian got slammed

1997-06-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jun 27, 1997 at 05:51:24PM +, Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro wrote: On This Day, In The Year Of Our Lord 27 Jun 97 at 14:31. Re: Debian got slammed by debian-user@lists.debian.org: Saying Slackware is in any real way preferable to Debian is damn stupid. Depends from points of

Re: Debian got slammed

1997-06-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jun 27, 1997 at 12:54:01PM -0600, Rick Hawkins wrote: It would be nice if he got his facts straight, though. The need for six disks for cd installation, for example. I installed it on a friends cd with two, which was two more than I needed. I think one of the installs on this

Re: DEBIAN NEWS

1997-06-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jun 26, 1997 at 11:17:00AM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: DEBIAN OFFICIAL 2-CD SET AVAILABLE FOR $4.95 Linux Systems Labs is offering the Debian Official 2-CD Set for $4.95, or for $9.95 . The product is identical in both cases, and the $9.95 version includes a $5 donation to Software in

getting CDs overseas

1997-06-28 Thread Bruce Perens
The solution is to get a CD dealer in Oz interested. We make it easy enough for them. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: getting CDs overseas

1997-06-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Jun 28, 1997 at 01:20:00AM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: The solution is to get a CD dealer in Oz interested. We make it easy enough for them. Unfortunately, I don't know of any companies in Australia that produce discs like these, companies like Walnut Creek, LSL, CheapBytes etc. Even the

reload .bash_profile in xterm?

1997-06-28 Thread Sylvain Briole
Hello all, I run Debian 1.2/Linux 2.0.29/olvwm. I have set up a color xterm. But, my ls is not a color ls. I need to type alias ls='ls --color' in the login window to obtain ls in color. But I have written this command in my .bash_profile. So, xterm does not reload .bash_profile? What can I do?

Re: Why is pine so slow?

1997-06-28 Thread Sylvain Briole
Hello Colin, sendmail-path=/usr/lib/sendmail -oem -t -oi This made my pine lightning fast without the possible problems of using the background sending option. It runs! But I haven't any problem with the background sending option : what are they? Thanx. Sylvain. Sylvain Briole

Re: Why is pine so slow?

1997-06-28 Thread Sylvain Briole
Hello Lindsay, 1. define an smtp host 2. enable background sending I have defined an smtp host (localhost) and enabled background sending, but the problem is the same The solution is in the sendmail-config parameter in the .pinerc file (as said on this mailing list). Thanx. Sylvain.

Re: Problem with mtab?

1997-06-28 Thread Sylvain Briole
Hello joost, nathalie# mount /hda3/ can't lock lock file /etc/mtab~: timed out Apparently your mount eigher doesn't exit properly (maybe it's trying to mount nfs volumes in the background?), or it's killed for some other reason. What does: $ ps -ax|grep [m]ount output on your system

Re: problems with PCMCIA network card 3COM 3C589D

1997-06-28 Thread Sylvain Briole
Hello Nico, however I just got a new shipment of 3Com Etherlink III 3C589D cards and these do not seem to be compatible at all. Did anybody succeeded in getting these cards to function properly? Mine is working perfectly I use Linux 2.0.29 with the packages : pcmcia-cs2.9.1-2

Re: Problem with mtab?

1997-06-28 Thread Sylvain Briole
Hello Heikki, [cut] # # Remount rootfs rw (default), but do not try to change mtab because it # is on a ro fs until the remount succeeded. Then clean up old mtabs and # finally write the new mtab. # mount -n -o remount,rw / rm -f /etc/mtab~ /etc/nologin : /etc/mtab

Re: reload .bash_profile in xterm?

1997-06-28 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Sylvain Briole wrote: I run Debian 1.2/Linux 2.0.29/olvwm. I have set up a color xterm. But, my ls is not a color ls. I need to type alias ls='ls --color' in the login window to obtain ls in color. But I have written this command in my .bash_profile. So, xterm does not reload .bash_profile?

smail configuration has been lost after disk full runq errors

1997-06-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
A few weeks ago, my system suffered an incident involving a full disk during which time there were a number of pretty major looking runq related errors. Since then, my system has been unable to clear out the mail queue. I have resorted to using the smtp-mail.el facility in emacs. Can someone

smail configuration has been lost after disk full runq errors

1997-06-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
A few weeks ago, my system suffered an incident involving a full disk during which time there were a number of pretty major looking runq related errors. Since then, my system has been unable to clear out the mail queue. I have resorted to using the smtp-mail.el facility in emacs. Can someone

smail configuration has been lost after disk full runq errors

1997-06-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
A few weeks ago, my system suffered an incident involving a full disk during which time there were a number of pretty major looking runq related errors. Since then, my system has been unable to clear out the mail queue. I have resorted to using the smtp-mail.el facility in emacs. Can someone

[ujr@physik.phy.tu-dresden.de: problems with dosemu, fvwm95, xbase]

1997-06-28 Thread Gary L. Dolan
In an earlier message, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote: I'm running Debian 1.3 with some packages from unstable (aka hamm), eg. libc6, xfree 3.3 and several packages depending on it. I noticed the following (minor) problems: 1) DOSEmu I installed DOSEmu 0.66.6 and when I run it

Re: reload .bash_profile in xterm?

1997-06-28 Thread Randy Edwards
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Sylvain Briole wrote: So, xterm does not reload .bash_profile? I believe if you add a -ls (login shell) parameter to xterm when you call it your problem will go away and it'll read .bash_profile as you want. | Debian GNU/ __ o Regards,

[stephen.zander@interlock.mckesson.com: Re: Netscape SEGV with 3.3 VGA16]

1997-06-28 Thread Gary L. Dolan
Gary L. Dolan wrote: The bus error is unrelated to the colormap problem. Go to members.ping.at/theofilu for the bus error fix. OK, tried that... still behaves strangely though. with export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/netscape in /usr/bin/X11/netscape, I still get a bus error.

cron.daily : when does it run?

1997-06-28 Thread Peter S Galbraith
And how can we control it? Looked at man pages, but coudn't find it. (And I'm used to Slackware with only /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ stuff) -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000,

Re: terminology/concept questions

1997-06-28 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Graham C. Hughes wrote: and tcsh fixes several of the traditional csh bugs. I still think bash is a better shell to use, but then I don't believe in csh and derivatives. What tcsh has is powerful command completion, which I believeDebian doesn't setup by default. For example, one could

Re: cron.daily : when does it run?

1997-06-28 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: : And how can we control it? Looked at man pages, but coudn't find it. : (And I'm used to Slackware with only /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ stuff) Checkout /etc/crontab. -- // Remco van de Meent // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www:

kernel/net problems

1997-06-28 Thread dpk
I downgraded to my 2.0.29 kernel yesterday because of all the scsi disk errors I was getting in /var/log/messages. That seems to be fixed by doing so. However now, I'm having network problems... my network connections will drop spuratically, and then 5 minutes later, my machine will let me on.

Re: choosing a linux distribution

1997-06-28 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote: On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: [snip] Actually, Debian requires zero disks for installation. It can be installed directly from a bootable cd-rom (if you have a machine capable of booting from CD). If not, then you can install

Re: [Q] How to create a FTP only account.. for...

1997-06-28 Thread System Account
Hi all regarding this subject... I have used /bin/true for ftp-only accounts but i need to go one step farther. I have a /home/webusers directory where i have user accounts who with web space only. Right now they ftp in and put there html files there. But the thing is they still have

Smail - Return-Path Field

1997-06-28 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
Can smail be configured to omit the Return-Path Field from the headers of outgoing mail, or to use a specified string for the Return-Path Field? Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: choosing a linux distribution

1997-06-28 Thread Rick Hawkins
Actually, Debian requires zero disks for installation. It can be installed directly from a bootable cd-rom (if you have a machine capable of booting from CD). If not, then you can install using two floppies - the boot disk and the drivers (kernel modules) disk. The rest of the base system

Re: DOS partition with linux

1997-06-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes : I created the following partitions on my PC with debian: linux, linux swap space, and DOS 16bit 32MB on my PC. I made the DOS partition the bootable one. Linux seemed to have continued to install correctly. When I rebooted the computer, the

Re: apcupsd, genpower, and PowerShute(TM) Black cable.

1997-06-28 Thread Brian White
I have just tried to get two APC Smart UPS v/s 650s up and running in my department but unfortunately, genpower does not support the cable, a black PowerShute(TM) cable with serial number 940-0024C. Genpower 1.0.1-4 does have support for the Win95 Plug-n-Play cable (serial number 940-0095A).

SCSI times out with Jaz drive

1997-06-28 Thread Martin Brundage
I am having a problem with my new Jaz drive on my 6X86 p200+ system with Debian 1.2. When I do a recursive copy of a large number of files to an IDE drive my AHA-2940 times out occasionally, although it seems to always recover and finish the copy. I am using stock 2.0.27 kernel with all SCSI

Problem with xfs

1997-06-28 Thread Ciccio
Hi, I just finished writing a type1 postscript font. I tested it with ghostscript and sent it to the printer, everything worked fine. Then I copied it into a directory for which xfs is configured; other fonts in this dir are correctly accesable. First I added a line to fonts.scale myself, then

distribution page

1997-06-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I read your distribution page about Linux. A few points about Debian; yes, there are six floppies but you can boot off the official 1.3 CD now if your system supports it and I believe there are other floppy-less or floppy-fewer solutions. Yes, the dselect interface isn't too good, but there's a

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