Re: shielding from liability

1997-08-23 Thread Dave Cinege
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997 10:15:52 -0500, Paul Serice wrote: >Suppose, Bruce is "going to drive tomorrow to Santa Cruz (from >Berkeley) to participate in a meeting for Debian," and on the way he >causes an accident. Before incorporation, no one knew how far the >liability tail extended. (For example,

modem hangs after ppp??

1997-08-23 Thread lc29b50
I got my ppp script to connect to my isp, but some how after it runs ppp, the modem hangs up. How do I fix this problem?? I want to maintain ppp connection for more than a second.. Below are my script files, and the /dev/adm/syslog of pppd: dialup script - #!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/pppd

Re: Release naming ...

1997-08-23 Thread Dave Cinege
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997 20:42:21 -0400 (EDT), Richard G. Roberto wrote: >A while ago I posted my feelings on this to Debian private, >but it was _very_ ill received at the time. I'll restate it >now. Commercial products do not rename their OS every time >there's a bug fix! Then it's settled! Debi

Re: Prompt in Bash

1997-08-23 Thread Dave Cinege
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997 12:32:35 -0300 (EST), Daniel Doro Ferrante wrote: > > > Hi All ! > > Does anybody know how do I change colors in a bash prompt. I can >do it in tcsh, but no succes with bash... (even after reading the man). #b/w prompt #PS1="\\h\\$ \\u [\\w] " #Pretty color promp

Re: Expelling David Cinege from the list

1997-08-23 Thread Dave Cinege
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997 15:19:59 -0800 (AKDT), Britton wrote: >> to *purchase* software. Do you *really* want an operating system developed >> by >> people like *this* to control your mission-critical computing needs, Mr. >> Computer User?" > >My guess is Englesh (heh) is this guys second language.

Re: Anybody in for helping a new debian user with aic7xxx ?

1997-08-23 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Dieter Rohlfing; unless Mutt is confused,on Aug 22, you wrote : > Hi Mark, > > thanks a lot for your reply. > > The 2 PCs are SCSI-only systems, HDs and CDROM are SCSI-2. Here are the > main hardware components: > > - Mobo Shuttle HOT-419 (VLB with Opti chipset), AMD486/133, 32 MB RAM > - Ada

Re: debian-user needs a charter!

1997-08-23 Thread Mike Orr
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Jim Pick wrote: > I just came back from a week's work, and I've discovered that the nature > of debian-user has changed dramatically. That's unfortunate, since ... > > Now it has been hijacked for use as a batteground for a flame-war. > > Bruce, could you please write up

Re: X installation calamity solved. Thank you!

1997-08-23 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Charles Blair wrote: > Thanks to Joost Kooi for suggesting I could bypass my mis-installed > X installation by typing ``linux single'' at the LILO prompt. This > allowed me to delete some stuff and salvage my system. 'single' still has many daemon processes running - you can

Re: DUNC

1997-08-23 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, PATRICK DAHIROC wrote: > Hi > > I recently asked for help concerning PPP dial up and you suggested that I > use DUNC for this. I already have unpacked the source code in my system > but when I ran "make" the only it did was move the source code to > /usr/bin; the code itself

Release naming ...

1997-08-23 Thread Richard G. Roberto
A while ago I posted my feelings on this to Debian private, but it was _very_ ill received at the time. I'll restate it now. Commercial products do not rename their OS every time there's a bug fix! I suggested adopting a more commercial approach to release naming for the reasons it is now being

Re: Anybody in for helping a new debian user with aic7xxx ?

1997-08-23 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Dieter Rohlfing wrote: > Tim Sailer wrote: > > > Do you have an early 2940 in the machine? I had this same problem, > > and had to get a BIOS upgrade from Adaptek. > > It's revision B with BIOS 1.21 > > > The 2940 and it's chipset are considered beta, at best. I have a > > p

Re: simple questions

1997-08-23 Thread Jim Pick
> I didn't get a satisfactory answer before, so I will try again. Probably due to the fact that some inconsiderate individuals are using debian-user as a batteground for a flamewar. :-( >I know > about LILO, it is on my boot diskette. How do I get it into the > partition so my System Commander

Unable to load interpreter

1997-08-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi! I've just encountered a strange seg fault of *all* programs on that system. On the console I sa these messages: mmap() of /dev/zero failed And for every program which was started I get a line Unable to load interpreter Does ne1 of you know what's happened? Regards, Joey -- /

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