mallinfo()

1997-08-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
I have some source code that expects to find this function. Which library do I need to link in? Am I missing something obvious here? I know enough C to be dangerous, and that's not much. If you can point me to a web page or FAQ or something other than a newsgroup which will tell me about

Re: tty with non-standard irq

1997-08-19 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Aug 18, Joost Kooij wrote Um, I don't think it is a very healthy practice to use irq 2 for a serial port. Irq 2 is called the cascade interrupt. Pc-xt's, which have only one interrupt controller, have 8 irq's, but in at's a second controller is cascaded from the primary interrupt

Re: Daily Usenet Report

1997-08-19 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Aug 18, Will Lowe wrote I have my machine on a dialup ppp linuk until I get back to school in a week, at which point it'll be full-connected all the time. Lately I've been getting the Daily Usenet Report (I suppose generated someplace in cron.daily) which _always_ has errors like these:

Re: SoundBlaster

1997-08-19 Thread R. Chris Ross
I have a similar problem using kernel 2.0.27 with the really odd part being that I can play audio CDs using xplaycd. If something like saytime is run I get that /dev/audio is busy. In the kernel readme or sound howto it talks about checking that the device isn't being used by some

Iomega Ditto 2GB (internal).

1997-08-19 Thread Felix Almeida
I'm a sysadmin of a small network at my college and I'm going to buy a new tape drive in order to do the back-ups. Some friends told me that the Iomega Ditto 2GB (internal model) is a good choice. So, I'd like to know if this drive works fine under Linux. Are there any problems with it? Does

Re: Iomega Ditto 2GB (internal).

1997-08-19 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 18 Aug 1997 23:52:14 -0300 Felix Almeida ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm a sysadmin of a small network at my college and I'm going to buy a new tape drive in order to do the back-ups. Some friends told me that the Iomega Ditto 2GB (internal model) is a good choice. So, I'd like to

Debian Version Numbers Was: Is this the Debian Philosophy? (or.... $#@!@#$ bash 2.0!)

1997-08-19 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: From: Jim Pick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does bash 2.01 solve the problem? We do update 'stable' - we're currently debating that strategy on the debian-private (developers only) mailing list right now. If bash 2.0 is

Re: /etc/init.d structure [long rant]

1997-08-19 Thread Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd
On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Dima wrote: Assuming runlevel is roughly equivalent to state, the above model is a stack of states. A state transition diagram would be a (potentially fully connected) graph of states. (Potentially) what a mess. :) I don't think so. Just because it's potentially fully

Re: kernel for m68k 68060 amiga 4000 tower ?

1997-08-19 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
thanks for your help. andreas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Using a Sun keyboard to a PC?

1997-08-19 Thread Chris Osicki
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 18 19:47:48 1997 I was wondering if anyone has been able to connect a Sun keyboard to a PC? Yes, I know of few people. They used a self made converter. It ought to be possible since Linux can run on Sparc. But maybe the hardware is completely

Re: Debian Version Numbers Was: Is this the Debian Philosophy? (or.... $#@!@#$ bash 2.0!)

1997-08-19 Thread joost witteveen
The next version of the system will be called Debian 1.3.1 Revision 1. People who make long-term products based on Debian requested that we not change the version number of the system if we were only making a few bug fixes. For example, X windows was rebuilt because Richard Hang on,

Re: Using a Sun keyboard to a PC?

1997-08-19 Thread David Wright
On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Joergen Haegg wrote: I was wondering if anyone has been able to connect a Sun keyboard to a PC? To be honest, I've never tried it. It ought to be possible since Linux can run on Sparc. Not very relevant here, I'm afraid. But maybe the hardware is completely different?

[DEBIAN] AARGH PCMCIA network adaptor still not recognised

1997-08-19 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I'm still having problems accessing my network from my portable. My 3Com Etherlink II 3C589D (or C) adaptor is recognised as a ... Anonymous Memory Card !!! I thought it was a problem with the PCMCIA drivers so I copied the pcmcia sources from a working portable (same network adaptor)

Virtual memory problem?

1997-08-19 Thread Jorge JUAN-CHICO
I've successfully installed Debian Linux 1.3.1 before a few times, but now I've got a problem with a computer. So, I think it's not a problem of the distribution, nor the kernel. Maybe a problem of configuration, maybe a hardware problem, ... I don't know. Some background: The machine: Mother

Help: My ISDN dial-in is not working

1997-08-19 Thread T.G.H. de Grunt
Hi there, I'm trying to get my ISDN working. I already have my card recognized in Linux, also the ISDN utilities are working. So no I want to dial in to my provider. I checked some URL's for help on ISDN4linux: http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~ui16lab/www/isdn/setup_e.htm

vipw -s (shadow)

1997-08-19 Thread David Wright
I thought I'd stop editing the password files directly, as soon I may have some more users. I use shadowing. All that happens is # vipw -s vipw: /bin/ae: Bad address vipw: /etc/shadow is unchanged vipw: /bin/ae: No such file or directory vipw: /etc/shadow is unchanged # vigr -s vigr: /bin/ae: Bad

Re: Help: My ISDN dial-in is not working

1997-08-19 Thread Greg Vence
T.G.H. de Grunt wrote: Hi there, I'm trying to get my ISDN working. I already have my card recognized in Linux, also the ISDN utilities are working. So no I want to dial in to my provider. I checked some URL's for help on ISDN4linux:

Re: S/Linux

1997-08-19 Thread Davide Barbieri
Eric Waldman wrote: Any info available on when debian for the SPARCstations will be available. I use debian on all of my pentiums, 486's, and 386's. I have a sparcstation 1 and Sparc classic and would like to stick with debian. There is something working. There is a boot disk. There

SCSI Trouble

1997-08-19 Thread Andrew A.Babitchev
Hi! I have some troubles with Linux setup. Linux messaging Ports not found after autodect of SCSI controller, then it trying reset controller and locks up after messages error 01 and kernel panic. I'm using Adaptec SCSI controller on HP NetServer. Bye. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

rl_get_string_value_hook in bash 2.01-1 (unstable) question

1997-08-19 Thread Frits Daalmans
Hello, I nearly crashed my system today when, after a successfull upgrade to libc6 (according to the mini-HOWTO described in Debian-user) I upgraded from bash 2.01-0.1 to bash 2.01-1. I made the mistake of using dpkg-ftp; should maybe have done this one by hand. I do not wish to report this as

Re: rl_get_string_value_hook in bash 2.01-1 (unstable) question

1997-08-19 Thread Brandon Mitchell
I had this problem a few days ago. An updated upgrade readme was released a few days ago including the fix for your problem. I can't remember the version numbers now, but, you need the latest libreadline and libreadlineg (I think it ends in a -3). Everything worked great after that.

Re: Virtual memory problem?

1997-08-19 Thread Alex Yukhimets
I've successfully installed Debian Linux 1.3.1 before a few times, but now I've got a problem with a computer. So, I think it's not a problem of the distribution, nor the kernel. Maybe a problem of configuration, maybe a hardware problem, ... I don't know. You might just have kernel

help - 1.3 upgrade killed XFree86

1997-08-19 Thread Kenneth Gaugler
Yesterday I used the dselect/ftp method to upgrade my machine from Debian Linux 1.2 to 1.3. The system is now running 1.3, but X doesn't work anymore. Normally I have xdm starting at boot time; now the screen never comes up but the relays inside the monitor click about every second and there

transfer debian to CDR

1997-08-19 Thread Lawrence Chim
I have mirrored the debian bo, non-free, contrib, and hamm. Now, my friend want to install it and ask me to burn a CD from the mirror. I know how to creating the CD-image already, the problem is that the mirror (*.deb files only) is around 840MB, a CDR can only store up to 650MB, how can I due

Re: Debian Version Numbers Was: Is this the Debian Philosophy? (or.... $#@!@#$ bash 2.0!)

1997-08-19 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, joost witteveen wrote: The next version of the system will be called Debian 1.3.1 Revision 1. People who make long-term products based on Debian requested that we not change the version number of the system if we were only making a

hamm and compiling.

1997-08-19 Thread Tim Sailer
On 1 machine I have, I'm running hamm... updating daily. Real bleeding edge. I have a problem with compiling a program that I don't understand. Here is the error: gcc -g -ansi -pedantic -Wall -I./../include -I../include -I. -I..-c fcgiapp.c -o fcgiapp.o In file included from

mallinfo redux

1997-08-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
For those who care, I thought I'd summarise answers to my mallinfo question of yesterday, and what I came up with. Frits Daalmans suggested that I try the dmalloc package from non-free. However, when I installed it, there does not appear to be a mallinfo() defined in dmalloc.h. I suspect

Re: signify

1997-08-19 Thread Brian White
Does anybody know how to use signify with pine? I've copied one example as my .signify in my $HOME dir., but I'm clueless on how to make it work with pine. The easiest way to do this is to add a command like sh -c signify --fifo=$HOME/.signature to your .login file. However,

Re: pine/netscape sharing mail files

1997-08-19 Thread Brian White
I looked at the pine and netscape mail files and they appear to be in the same format, except netscape has a summary file for each file. Would it be safe to have procmail deliving mail to a shared mailbox file that netscape and pine are reading (and have netscape or pine open)? I use

Re: Iomega Ditto 2GB (internal).

1997-08-19 Thread Behan Webster
Felix Almeida wrote: I'm a sysadmin of a small network at my college and I'm going to buy a new tape drive in order to do the back-ups. Some friends told me that the Iomega Ditto 2GB (internal model) is a good choice. So, I'd like to know if this drive works fine under Linux. Are there any

need HELP in RECOVERING a DEBIAN SYSTEM

1997-08-19 Thread Eythan Weg
I have installed an apparently incompatible ldso version 1.9.5-1 on a libc5 debian system. Some library was not found so I have decided to down grade to the previous version of ldso (1.8.x-x). But then rm could not be found. In short I could not downgrade. The end result is that nothing seems

Re: SoundBlaster

1997-08-19 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, R. Chris Ross wrote: I have a similar problem using kernel 2.0.27 with the really odd part being that I can play audio CDs using xplaycd. If something like saytime is run I get that /dev/audio is busy. In the kernel readme or sound howto it talks about

Re: SoundBlaster

1997-08-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Look for the processes nas and kill it. Or, as root: /etc/init.d/nas stop You can later start it again with: /etc/init.d/nas start (whether you used kill to stop it or the init.d script) Peter -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maurice-Lamontagne

Problems unpacking source shadow-961025.orig

1997-08-19 Thread Robert M. Albrecht
Hello, I want to change the maximum username length, therefore I have to recompile the shadowsuite. But I have a problem when unpacking the source: I copied all three shadow*-files from my Debian 1.3.1 cdrom and tried it several times (fiddling with the options -sn and -su and untaring if

problem with dump

1997-08-19 Thread Dany Dionne
HI, I unbale to use dump to backup my linux box. I receive the error message: poynting{root}:3dump 0ubdfs 126 54000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev/rmt/1n 3000 /dev/hd DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Aug 19 12:03:14 1997 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/hda2 (/) to

Re: Debian Version Numbers Was: Is this the Debian Philosophy? (or.... $#@!@#$ bash 2.0!)

1997-08-19 Thread Civ Kevin F. Havener
I concur. The next release of the stable tree should be called 1.3 Revision 2, not 1.3.1 Revision 1. What problem has this solved for CD retailers? Will they still be bummed when 1.3 Revision X+1 is released and they just got 1.3 Revision X on the shelves? Did it make any difference that it

Re: [DEBIAN] AARGH PCMCIA network adaptor still not recognised

1997-08-19 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, I'm still having problems accessing my network from my portable. My 3Com Etherlink II 3C589D (or C) adaptor is recognised as a ... Anonymous Memory Card !!! I thought it was a problem with the PCMCIA drivers so I copied the pcmcia sources from a working

Help, Please!

1997-08-19 Thread Shawn Fetterolf
I can't get Debian to access my 6.4 Gig HD. It will access my 3.2Gig but laughs at me when it reads the drive geometry from the BIOS. Can anyone help. The HD is a Quantum BigFoot CY6.4 Logical Cylinders 13446 Logical Heads 15 Logical Sec/Track 63 Sectors 12706470 Thanks A Bunch Shawn Fetterolf

Re: help - 1.3 upgrade killed XFree86

1997-08-19 Thread Philippe Troin
On Tue, 19 Aug 1997 07:29:11 PDT Kenneth Gaugler ([EMAIL PROTECTED] id.com) wrote: Yesterday I used the dselect/ftp method to upgrade my machine from Debian Linux 1.2 to 1.3. The system is now running 1.3, but X doesn't work anymore. startx /tmp/x.out 21 to capture the error

Re: transfer debian to CDR

1997-08-19 Thread Philippe Troin
On Wed, 20 Aug 1997 10:51:22 +1000 Lawrence Chim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have mirrored the debian bo, non-free, contrib, and hamm. Now, my friend want to install it and ask me to burn a CD from the mirror. I know how to creating the CD-image already, the problem is that the mirror

debian on compaq deskpro 5133

1997-08-19 Thread Alfonso E. Urdaneta
Has anyone out there installed Debian on a Compaq Deskpro 5133 ? Thanks, Alfonso -- Alfonso E. Urdaneta VOX: 407.729.3840 Harris Corp/Transcomm Division FAX: 407.729.1962 PO Box 5100, MS 6B.3827mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Melbourne, FL

Re: rl_get_string_value_hook in bash 2.01-1 (unstable) question

1997-08-19 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Frits Daalmans wrote: I nearly crashed my system today when, after a successfull upgrade to libc6 (according to the mini-HOWTO described in Debian-user) I upgraded from bash 2.01-0.1 to bash 2.01-1. [snipped] My question is: In which

xfree86

1997-08-19 Thread Michael Sicher
hello, i just changed to debian linux for the first time and have a small x problem: root can startx and everything works fine but when a user starts x no windows manager is loaded. which startup files do i have to copy/create for each user? thanks a lot! michael -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

install w. smc-ultra as module

1997-08-19 Thread Michael Taeschner
Hi, I just got my first debian installation done (1.3.1), but would have needed only half the time if the following Problem hadn't occured: I started from dos drive hda1 the rescue system and tried to configure the drivers. My ethernetcard is a SMC 8216C, etherEZ says it is on io=0x220, irq=10,

dselect woes

1997-08-19 Thread Alfonso E. Urdaneta
I'm trying to use dselect to no avail. First I tried to tell dselect to read the cdrom. chose option a, saw the following If you make a mistake use the interrupt key ( ^C ) to abort. I see that /dec/cdrom exists and is a block device Inser the CD-ROM and enter the block device name

Re: Virtual memory problem?

1997-08-19 Thread Dima
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I've successfully installed Debian Linux 1.3.1 before a few times, but now I've got a problem with a computer. So, I think it's not a problem of the distribution, nor the kernel. Maybe a problem of configuration, maybe a hardware problem, ... I don't know.

Re: Help, Please!

1997-08-19 Thread Kevin Traas
I can't get Debian to access my 6.4 Gig HD. It will access my 3.2Gig but laughs at me when it reads the drive geometry from the BIOS. Can anyone help. The HD is a Quantum BigFoot CY6.4 Wow!!! I've never had my Debian system laugh at me! Guess I'll have to install a sound card grin Anyway,

Re: debian on compaq deskpro 5133

1997-08-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Has anyone out there installed Debian on a Compaq Deskpro 5133 ? What hardware does it have? Sony CDU77e cdrom drive 3.25 Floppy 2 2.1 G IDE HD 32 M RAM Matrox Millenia graphics card Unknown ethernet card. Is this the older `Deskpro XL 5133' model? The following is an excerp

Re: dselect woes

1997-08-19 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Alfonso E. Urdaneta wrote: I'm trying to use dselect to no avail. First I tried to tell dselect to read the cdrom. [snip] So I type insmod /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrom: /dev/cdrom: No such device You should get your cdrom recognized. What kind of cdrom do you have? If

duplicating a floppy

1997-08-19 Thread Max Lawson
Hi there! Hum, Hum ! I'm not sure that's the best place to ask it. Nevertheless ... I would like to duplicate a msdos floppy in such a way that even its mother won't make the difference.. I've tried mcopy, but the mother did the difference... Thanks in advance, ml P.S. what

Re: duplicating a floppy

1997-08-19 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Hum, Hum ! I'm not sure that's the best place to ask it. Nevertheless ... This list is always off the topic. But that's ok, it's still educational and linux related. I would like to duplicate a msdos floppy in such a way that even its mother won't make the difference.. I've tried

Re: dselect woes

1997-08-19 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Alfonso E. Urdaneta wrote: I'm trying to use dselect to no avail. First I tried to tell dselect to read the cdrom. chose option a, saw the following [ error sniped ] Is it recognized at boot up (try more | dmesg if you missed it)? If so, just mount it before going

Re: dselect woes

1997-08-19 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 19, Brandon Mitchell wrote On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Alfonso E. Urdaneta wrote: I'm trying to use dselect to no avail. First I tried to tell dselect to read the cdrom. chose option a, saw the following [ error sniped ] Is it recognized at boot up (try more | dmesg if you missed

Man question

1997-08-19 Thread Shaleh
How can I change it so that less is used to view man pages instead of more? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Man question

1997-08-19 Thread Brandon Mitchell
export PAGER=less (that's from memory, possible typos) Brandon On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Shaleh wrote: How can I change it so that less is used to view man pages instead of more? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: Help: My ISDN dial-in is not working

1997-08-19 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: And I selected my Teles card for support. teles card ? please use a current kernel (2.0.29 or 30) with the 2.0.30A isdn patch (already included in debian kernels (-6 or -7 or so). /sbin/isdnctrl verbose 0 bad thing. use verbose 2 at least.

Re: Debian Version Numbers Was: Is this the Debian Philosophy? (or.... $#@!@#$ bash 2.0!)

1997-08-19 Thread Bruce Perens
bash$ cat /etc/debian_version 1.3 bash$ So I am running Debian version 1.3 - and yet the CD says Debian 1.3.1 . Oops. My fault. The reason for two numbers is mostly marketing. I know that marketing is anathema to most of us, but someone's gotta do it and I'm afraid the task fell on me. Feel

compiling Vim 5.0l, config broken?

1997-08-19 Thread Christopher Ray Martin
I am having a hard time getting Vim 5.0l to compile. It appears the configure script is somehow broken, but I don't know anything about autoconf or whatever this is generated from... It lists functions and such which I know are availible and usable as not availible, and at the conclusion of the

GhostScript problem

1997-08-19 Thread Adam Klein
I just installed the ghostscript package, and it's working great, except for this: every postscript document I print ends up with its last line cut off. How can I stop this? I'm using a Canon BJ-200e printer. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Re: Debian Version Numbers Was: Is this the Debian Philosophy? (or.... $#@!@#$ bash 2.0!)

1997-08-19 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: [snip] The reason for two numbers is mostly marketing. I know that marketing is anathema to most of us, but someone's gotta do it and I'm afraid the task fell on me. Feel free to call me up if you need a longer explanation. But maybe we should start

Re: Help: My ISDN dial-in is not working

1997-08-19 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: T.G.H. de Grunt wrote: I'm about to go through this process. I've noticed that many people treat the ISDN device just like a modem and skip all the other 'special stuff' from these help guides. I'm not sure if that is a locality issue though. uh, that's a

Re: dselect woes

1997-08-19 Thread Carl Fink
I figure OK, the machine does not like my cdrom drive. Why not try the insmod driver thing. So I type insmod /dev/cdrom Actually, insmod means add a driver to the kernel. (Okay, it means load a module, but let's not get technical.) For instance, to use my CD-ROM, I have to type

telnet and ftp..

1997-08-19 Thread Richard . Dansereau
Hello all! I'm not quite sure what I did.. but, somehow I managed to remove telnet and ftp from my Debian installation through dselect. Of course, this is rather inconvenient. Which package can I find these programs? Cheers! Richard..

*jed*: How to remove the top _MENU_ line?

1997-08-19 Thread sca . bbs
Hi, How to remove the top line - '*** Debian GNU/Linux *** ...' In emacs, I can do: '(menu-bar-mode -1)' thanks -mlt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: about the gpc package

1997-08-19 Thread Christoph Lameter
Look at the bug reports for the gpc package on www.debian.org for a fix . The one who took over the package has vanished appearantly. Anyone volunteering to maintain the package? On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, nik w wrote: I am unable to compile schtuff with gpc, namely: godg# pwd

X reconfiguration for xdm ???

1997-08-19 Thread Andrew Martin Adrian Cater \[Andy\]
I've managed to break my X windows: is there any way of restoring the default so that xdm will boot and a windows manager will be selected. I can do startx / xinit and get a single xterm but I'd like xdm and a window manager back. I can reinstall xbase, but the default postinst refuses to

How can I set the timezone on a computer?

1997-08-19 Thread Terrence Brannon
Somehow the timezone on my computer is HST, not PST. I would like to set it to PST. How can I do this? -- oo Sending unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE) to this address Legal Notice is indication of your consent to pay me $120/hour for 1 hour oo minimum for

tzconfig does not discriminate Pacific and Pacific-New!

1997-08-19 Thread Terrence Brannon
Please enter the name of one of these cities or zones You just need to type enough letters to resolve ambiguities Press Enter to view all of them again Name: [Pacific] Pacific Pacific Pacific-New Please enter the name of one of these cities or zones You just need to type enough letters to

Re: How can I set the timezone on a computer?

1997-08-19 Thread Will Lowe
On 19 Aug 1997, Terrence Brannon wrote: Somehow the timezone on my computer is HST, not PST. I would like to set it to PST. How can I do this? as root, do tzconfig clock -s Will

Re: X reconfiguration for xdm ???

1997-08-19 Thread Victor Torrico
on Tue, Aug 19, 1997 at 10:20:06PM + EDST, Andrew Martin Adrian Cater [Andy] wrote: I've managed to break my X windows: is there any way of restoring the default so that xdm will boot and a windows manager will be selected. I can do startx / xinit and get a single xterm but I'd like