Prosignia 200 NIC

1997-09-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
Just pulled a Prosignia 200 out of the box - trying to configure it as a news server. Spent about 2 hours trying to get BSDI to load (cos the boss said so) but decided to do the Linux thing instead ... Everything works fine except I can't figure out which driver to use for the 10/100 Ethernet

Re: losing keys in fvwm2

1997-09-30 Thread Rick Hawkins
Slap me if you've tried this, but turning numlock on in X does all sorts of funky things to alt and function keys. I often find (particularly using forms in netscape) that I turn on numlock, and then spend half an hour trying to figure out why my keyboard doesn't work anymore ... turn off

Re: IP MASQ: Errors

1997-09-30 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 09:54:50 CDT Joe Stewart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have IP MASQUERADING on our network, and when a client connects to some sites we get this in the logs: MASQ: failed TCP/UDP checksum from 204.74.200.69! Otherwise, it seems fine. Is this a problem? Either

Re: Netscape 4.03 missing features?

1997-09-30 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 15:24:07 PDT Ed Slocomb ([EMAIL PROTECTED] .com) wrote: I installed the most recent version of NS Communicator (4.03) using the debian installer from hamm, but it seems that the bloated pig is missing one of the simplest enhancements present in the win32 version: the

Re: making a menu with lilo

1997-09-30 Thread Civ Kevin F. Havener
Haven't seen an answer to this one, so I'll give it a try. When you press tab during the boot process you will get a list of bootable kernels/OSes. Is that what you want? There ought to be a way to hack lilo.cfg to make it happen by default, but I don't know it.

lilo-menu

1997-09-30 Thread Will Lowe
Take a look at /usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz ... seach for MESSAGE and PROMPT. Essentially (according to the manual), you do MESSAGE=filename PROMPT Where filename is a file containing a message you want printed before the boot: prompt, I guess something like

bypassing xdm?

1997-09-30 Thread Tim Bell
I've configured my machine to boot into xdm. When confronted with the xdm login screen, how can I get to a text virtual console? I've had some success with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, followed shortly aftewards by Alt-F?, but this doesn't always work, and the last time I tried it I managed to hang the

killing xdm

1997-09-30 Thread Paul Miller
How can I kill xdm? I tried finding the pid id and it wasn't listed in 'ps -a' and I don't know how to scroll in 'top'... how? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: killing xdm

1997-09-30 Thread Will Lowe
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Paul Miller wrote: How can I kill xdm? I tried finding the pid id and it wasn't listed in 'ps -a' and I don't know how to scroll in 'top'... how? try ps -ax to list processes not attached to the terminal. Will

Strange library file

1997-09-30 Thread J Hulley-Miller
Greetings, I was just trying to upgrade to the latest libc6 tcl/tk packages and the install failed because it could not overwrite libtk4.2.so.1. ls -la reports: p-w---s-wt 1 5513 33730 0 Jul 5 1962 libtk4.2.so.1 All attempts to rm or change it have failed. Anyone know how I

XF86Setup trouble

1997-09-30 Thread Paul Miller
For some odd reason I can configure X w/o an existing config file and cannot when one exists. I've included the configuration made by XF86Setup and the output below after running setup for the second time. XF86Config: /etc/X11/XF86Config (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default

xvidtune: Please install this program before running.

1997-09-30 Thread Paul Miller
Anyone know what the problem is here? when I run xvidtune I get 'Please install this program before running.' .. I installed the xbase package.. is it in the xcontrib? if so, is there a xproc which does not depend on that elf-x11lib?? package? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: lilo-menu

1997-09-30 Thread Jason Killen
Ah. I did see the stuff about a message file but wasn't sure of the format, I guess it has no format. Thanks for tying my loose ends up. In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] yo u wrote: Take a look at /usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz ... seach for MESSAGE and PROMPT. Essentially (according to the manual),

Re: XF86Setup trouble

1997-09-30 Thread Will Lowe
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Paul Miller wrote: Fatal server error: No Display subsection for -bpp depth 8 That should be --bpp 8, as in startx --bpp 8 Otherwise, looks normal to me. You might want to try commenting out EVERY screen section except the one you

Re: killing xdm

1997-09-30 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Paul Miller wrote: How can I kill xdm? I tried finding the pid id and it wasn't listed in 'ps -a' and I don't know how to scroll in 'top'... how? Try: killall xdm Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz

Re: bypassing xdm?

1997-09-30 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Tim Bell wrote: I've configured my machine to boot into xdm. When confronted with the xdm login screen, how can I get to a text virtual console? I've had some success with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, followed shortly aftewards by Alt-F?, but this doesn't always work, and the

Re: Strange library file

1997-09-30 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 18:45:02 EDT J Hulley-Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I was just trying to upgrade to the latest libc6 tcl/tk packages and the install failed because it could not overwrite libtk4.2.so.1. ls -la reports: p-w---s-wt 1 5513 33730 0 Jul 5 1962

Re: killing xdm

1997-09-30 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Paul Miller wrote: How can I kill xdm? I tried finding the pid id and it wasn't listed in 'ps -a' and I don't know how to scroll in 'top'... how? The normal way to stop xdm is /etc/init.d/xdm stop at super user prompt. If this doesn't work, then follow the advice from

sendmail 8.8.7?

1997-09-30 Thread Debian List
Hasn't a debian package for sendmail 8.8.7 been released? thanks Ricardo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Cyrix kernel patches

1997-09-30 Thread Will Lowe
I'm searching for the patches to the 2.0.30 kernel that enable the Cyrix 166+ chips to function as Pentiums instead of unknown 486s. Now that linuxhq.com is gone, I don't know where to look. Any suggestions? sunsite just has a bunch of patch#.tar.gz files; no clue what's for what.

Re: sendmail 8.8.7?

1997-09-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Debian == Debian List [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Debian Hasn't a debian package for sendmail 8.8.7 been released? Debian thanks Ricardo __ dpkg -l sendmail Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/

Printer resets eternally

1997-09-30 Thread Britton
The light on my Epson Stylus Color 600 fast-flickers, then pauses, eternally, and /var/log/messages get's filled up with stuff like this: Sep 29 20:26:42 Beleriand lpd[124]: restarting lp720 Sep 29 20:27:13 Beleriand last message repeated 2151 times Sep 29 20:28:14 Beleriand last message

Re: xemacs and mail

1997-09-30 Thread Craig Sanders
On 29 Sep 1997, Olaf Weber wrote: Craig Sanders writes: i don't want gnus (or anything else apart from procmail) to store my mail...it's already stored where i want it. From the Gnus manual: Mail and Procmail - Many people use `procmail' (or some

Re: XF86Setup trouble

1997-09-30 Thread Lucas
At 10:47 PM 29-09-97 -0400, you wrote: For some odd reason I can configure X w/o an existing config file and cannot when one exists. I've included the configuration made by XF86Setup and the output below after running setup for the second time. I have found that whenever I confirmed that I would

Netscape 4.03 new xlib6?

1997-09-30 Thread Obi
Hi all, yesterday I tried to upgrade to the unstable xlibc6 (3.3-6) and now netscape dies with a bus error, after having complained about locales not supported by the libraries and about a bunch of keys that it coudln't find. Is there some hope to run netscape the new lbraries? thanks,

mke2fs

1997-09-30 Thread David Stern
Hi, I'm having an irregular experience with mke2fs. I'm attempting to format /dev/sda16 and message says: debian# mke2fs -v /dev/sda16 mke2fs 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 /dev/sda16 is entire device, not just one partition! Proceed anyway? (y,n) But /dev/sda16 is just a

Re: mke2fs

1997-09-30 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 23:32:21 PDT David Stern ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm having an irregular experience with mke2fs. I'm attempting to format /dev/sda16 and message says: debian# mke2fs -v /dev/sda16 mke2fs 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 /dev/sda16 is entire device,

Re: mke2fs

1997-09-30 Thread David Stern
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 23:32:21 PDT David Stern ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm having an irregular experience with mke2fs. I'm attempting to format /dev/sda16 and message says: debian# mke2fs -v /dev/sda16 mke2fs 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for

Re: DISK DEFRAGMENTER - PARTITIONS :-((

1997-09-30 Thread Keith Beattie
Zouave wrote: | To install Linux Debian 1.3.1 on my system (now running windows 95) I have | to do 2 things: | 1) FORMAT my HDD and create 2 partitions, one for W95, one for Linux | 2) Split my actual partition, without erasing anything, with the | application FIPS.EXE | | I prefer the

Re: mke2fs

1997-09-30 Thread Philippe Troin
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997 00:16:12 PDT David Stern ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: Because /dev/sda16 has major 8, minor 16, which is the major/minor pair for /dev/sdb: look at 'ls -l /dev/sda16 /dev/sdb'. BTW, you have created sda16 yourself didn't you

Re: libjpegg6a

1997-09-30 Thread joost witteveen
I had noticed a posting about it and didn't need this package until I had removed the message, where can I get it since its not in the unstable branch yet and I tried finding it on chiark where it was originally uploaded but no luck A real mirror of master's incoming can be found at:

Re: samba security -- more info?

1997-09-30 Thread joost witteveen
Dear Folks, If you know about the samba security problem, could you please send me as soon as possible a pointer to more information, or to the (source) patch or fix? The fixed package is in bo-updates, on a (recent) mirror near you. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl

Nueva lista debian-user-spanish

1997-09-30 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Note: This is an announcement for a new Debian list for spanish-speaking people. [ That's why it is in spanish ]. Thanks. *--- ANUNCIO === Conscientes del aumento en el nĂºmero de usuarios hispanos

Re: xemacs and mail

1997-09-30 Thread Carey Evans
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] yep, i read that. i even read the rest of the gnus docs on handling mail. it seems like it's not going to be any good for me because it doesn't want to read an mailbox which has new mail being appended to it. You can read existing mbox-type

Re: DISK DEFRAGMENTER - PARTITIONS :-((

1997-09-30 Thread A. M. Varon
| But to split my partition I need to do a DEFRAG of my HDD. There are | HIDDEN-SYSTEM*-READ_ONLY files at the end of the drive, so Windows' Defrag | can't move this files to the begining. | | --Do you have any DEFRAGMENTER or utility to know WHICH is the file that is | annoying me at

Re: making a menu with lilo

1997-09-30 Thread Carey Evans
Jason Killen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can anyone give me some help with setting up lilo to give the user a menu at boot. I've never set up a machine to do more than boot linux and the man pages haven't helped much. You can't get a graphical menu like OS/2 Boot Manager (unless you happen to

dos2unix, recode and dbview

1997-09-30 Thread Johann Spies
I had an interesting experience while trying to read a Dos-dbf-file with dbview. I first tried recode ibm-pc:l1 dosfile linuxfile and when I ran dbview linuxfile I got an error message: Version 226 not supported. It worked well when I recoded the file using dos2unix. Why the

Re: killing xdm

1997-09-30 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Paul: Try using /etc/init.d/xdm stop Peter From: Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, September 30, 1997 6:16 AM Subject: killing xdm How can I kill xdm? I tried finding the pid id and it wasn't listed in 'ps -a' and I don't

Re: dos2unix, recode and dbview

1997-09-30 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Johann Spies wrote: I had an interesting experience while trying to read a Dos-dbf-file with dbview. I first tried recode ibm-pc:l1 dosfile linuxfile and when I ran dbview linuxfile I got an error message: Version 226 not supported. It worked well when

Re: Prosignia 200 NIC

1997-09-30 Thread Carey Evans
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just pulled a Prosignia 200 out of the box - trying to configure it as a news server. Spent about 2 hours trying to get BSDI to load (cos the boss said so) but decided to do the Linux thing instead ... Everything works fine except I can't figure

mailing list

1997-09-30 Thread Marc Fleureck
Is there any way to browse this mailing list without subscribing to it ? Does anyone know ? Regards, marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Loading multiple GNU/Linux machines

1997-09-30 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Mon, Sep 29, 1997 at 04:14:10PM -0500, Nick Gilliam d-3712 7-5554 ng96753 gillidn wrote: : I am looking for methods to efficiently load many (up to : 200) Debian GNU/Linux machines. The machines are to : be configured identically. TCP/IP connectivity is available. Are the machines

Re: XF86Setup trouble

1997-09-30 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Will Lowe wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Paul Miller wrote: Fatal server error: No Display subsection for -bpp depth 8 That should be --bpp 8, as in startx --bpp 8 Well, if the X server complains about a missing -bpp 8 subsection,

Re: I can't boot or install Linux

1997-09-30 Thread Joost_Kooij
On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Zouave wrote: My computer has an Intel 486 dx4 100Mhz processor, 36MB RAM, 515MB hard disk, 3 1/2 '' floppy, CD-ROM 20x, HP Deskjet 540 printer, Logitech SoundManWave (sound card), Modem hayes compatible 33600 bps, mouse Logitech Standard, Scanner Logitech ScanMan Color

Re: mailing list

1997-09-30 Thread jdassen
On Sep 30, Marc Fleureck wrote Is there any way to browse this mailing list without subscribing to it ? Does anyone know ? The mailing lists are archived on the web at http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ There is also a digest version of -user available IIRC. HTH, Ray -- POPULATION

Re: Netscape 4.03 new xlib6?

1997-09-30 Thread Erv Walter
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Obi) writes: Hi all, yesterday I tried to upgrade to the unstable xlibc6 (3.3-6) and now netscape dies with a bus error, after having complained about locales not supported by the libraries and about a bunch of keys that it

Re: samba security -- more info?

1997-09-30 Thread Civ Kevin F. Havener
Just don't expect to find and update your samba package with dselect. :-( Usde dpkg instead. On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, joost witteveen wrote: Dear Folks, If you know about the samba security problem, could you please send me as soon as possible a pointer to more information, or to the

Re: bypassing xdm?

1997-09-30 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Tim Bell wrote: I've configured my machine to boot into xdm. When confronted with the xdm login screen, how can I get to a text virtual console? I've had some success with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, followed shortly aftewards by Alt-F?, but this doesn't always work, and the last time I tried it

mono monitor with x

1997-09-30 Thread Paul
Hi everybody, I installed debian 1.3 with X. The server is mono. I cannect to the machine remotely using xhosts. but xdm cannot start probably at startup. I will give you my startx out put. I hope somebody can help me or at least point me in a positive direction. This is my first time

Re: bypassing xdm?

1997-09-30 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Tim Bell wrote: I've configured my machine to boot into xdm. When confronted with the xdm login screen, how can I get to a text virtual console? Hold down the left alt and control keys, then press the function key for the VC you wish to switch to. That is, Alt-Control F1

Printer-setup

1997-09-30 Thread Gernot Bauer
Hi, where should I start to look for man-pages or some installing-instructions concerning printer-setup (hp-deskjet 690C). I'd like to set up filters to be able to print ps-files... Thanx, Gernot -- -- Gernot Bauer University of Linz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO

hamm mirror

1997-09-30 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, I've been mirroring the ftp.debian.org on the bo/ and bo-updates/ for months now. The activities on this version seems to slow down quite a bit. Now, I'm thinking to mirror the hamm/ as well. Would someone tell me approximately how much more disk space do I need for the hamm/

Re: dat drive recognized as removable hard drive

1997-09-30 Thread Louis Larry
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Louis Larry wrote: I have a SCSI tape autoloader that's capable of having 4 * 4Gig 4 mm dat on it. Problem is that when the kernel boots, it recognize it as a removable hard drive (/dev/sdb) instead of a tape drive. I use adaptec 2940 SCSI adapter. Pointer? Clue? Reply

RE: mailing list

1997-09-30 Thread George Bonser
Try looking at linux.debian.user on Usenet. On 30-Sep-97 Marc Fleureck wrote: Is there any way to browse this mailing list without subscribing to it ? Does anyone know ? Regards, marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Maarten Boekhold maartenb@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl, Manoj Srivastava srivasta@datasync.com, sanvila@ctv.es

1997-09-30 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Hi, [Concerning a possible bug in flex-2.5.4] For the example I gave, Manoj and Maarten suggest adding ``return 0'' to the action after the input() receives an EOF, and in this case it would solve the problem, but I don't think that this should be necessary and there are other situations where

Re: Printer-setup

1997-09-30 Thread Will Lowe
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Gernot Bauer wrote: Hi, where should I start to look for man-pages or some installing-instructions concerning printer-setup (hp-deskjet 690C). I'd like to set up filters to be able to print ps-files... install (and configure) the magicfilter package. You configure it

Re: hamm mirror

1997-09-30 Thread joost witteveen
Hi, I've been mirroring the ftp.debian.org on the bo/ and bo-updates/ for months now. The activities on this version seems to slow down quite a bit. Now, I'm thinking to mirror the hamm/ as well. Would someone tell me approximately how much more disk space do I need for the

Re: mono monitor with x

1997-09-30 Thread joost witteveen
(The answer I give here is not the right answer, but just somthing I noticed, and it might help you). (--) VGA2: Mode 800x600 needs hsync freq of 35.16 kHz. Deleted. (--) VGA2: Mode 1024x768 needs hsync freq of 35.52 kHz. Deleted. (--) VGA2: Mode 640x400 needs hsync freq of 37.86 kHz.

Re: samba security -- more info?

1997-09-30 Thread joost witteveen
Just don't expect to find and update your samba package with dselect. :-( Usde dpkg instead. True. But I'll never think of saying that, as I never use dselect anyway. I nearly always use dpkg (unless I really want to upgrade my whole system to unstable, then dselect is useful, but otherwise, I

ZIP IDE

1997-09-30 Thread Pierre GAMBAROTTO
All is in the subject. How can I use a iomega zip with an IDE interface with linux ? Pierre Gambarotto : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Re: hamm mirror

1997-09-30 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
--- Timothy Phan wrote: I've been mirroring the ftp.debian.org on the bo/ and bo-updates/ for months now. The activities on this version seems to slow down quite a bit. Now, I'm thinking to mirror the hamm/ as well. Would someone tell me approximately how much more disk space do I need

problem installing debian

1997-09-30 Thread Hasibul Haque
debian cannot detect my hard drive I'm asked to load a driver or command at boot: how am I supposed to do that? or should I try to install redhat ? any suggestions would be welcome _ Sent by RocketMail. Get your free e-mail at

Re: netatalk question...

1997-09-30 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
--- Jason Costomiris wrote: Macs (using netatalk, of course) can file just fine, but can't print. What am I missing? --- end of quote --- I haven't tried this, as I'm sitting in the middle of more Macs than I care to think about, and I need to print to AppleTalk printers (the reverse problem,

Re: samba security -- more info?

1997-09-30 Thread John M. Rulnick
Thank you. Actually, I'm wondering if you could point me to the *source* fixes for samba (assuming it is not just a Debian security problem), since the information is to be passed on to a non-Debian sysadmin. John -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: samba security -- more info?

1997-09-30 Thread joost witteveen
Thank you. Actually, I'm wondering if you could point me to the *source* fixes for samba (assuming it is not just a Debian security problem), since the information is to be passed on to a non-Debian sysadmin. Well, I didn't look that far into it. Yes, you are right, it isn't a Debian

Re: samba security -- more info?

1997-09-30 Thread Roy C Bixler
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, John M. Rulnick wrote: Thank you. Actually, I'm wondering if you could point me to the *source* fixes for samba (assuming it is not just a Debian security problem), since the information is to be passed on to a non-Debian sysadmin. Here is the original announcement:

Re: Maarten Boekhold et. al.

1997-09-30 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Oops. Kirk can't differentiate between Subject: and Cc: Hilliard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: mailing list

1997-09-30 Thread David Stern
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Marc Fleureck wrote: Is there any way to browse this mailing list without subscribing to it ? Does anyone know ? See if your usenet server mirrors linux.debian.user , mine does. Regards, marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Stern -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: problem installing debian

1997-09-30 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Hasibul Haque wrote: debian cannot detect my hard drive I'm asked to load a driver or command at boot: how am I supposed to do that? or should I try to install redhat ? any suggestions would be welcome What kind of hard drive do you have? Syrus. --

Re: xvidtune: Please install this program before running.

1997-09-30 Thread Stephen Zander
Paul Miller wrote: Anyone know what the problem is here? when I run xvidtune I get 'Please install this program before running.' .. I installed the xbase package.. is it in the xcontrib? if so, is there a xproc which does not depend on that elf-x11lib?? package? This is related to the slew

Re: problem installing debian

1997-09-30 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Hasibul Haque wrote: debian cannot detect my hard drive I'm asked to load a driver or command at boot: how am I supposed to do that? or should I try to install redhat ? any suggestions would be welcome Some additional information will be necessary before an answer is

ifconfig

1997-09-30 Thread Jimmy Lu
Hi, Can someone tell me how to setup a machine with one network interface card(eth0) to respond to more than one IP address? FreeBSD seems to be able to do something as follows: ifconfig ep0 192.168.123.2 ifconfig ep0 192.168.123.3 alias netmask 0x I checked man page of

Re: xvidtune: Please install this program before running.

1997-09-30 Thread Guy Maor
Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My fix was: ln -s /usr/X11R6 /usr/i486-linuxlibc1 Yipes! That's very wrong, and you don't want to link through the X11 dir, as at least one package was (incorrectly) using that. Safest is: cd /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11 for i in XErrorDB XKEYsymDB

Re: ZIP IDE

1997-09-30 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Pierre GAMBAROTTO wrote: All is in the subject. How can I use a iomega zip with an IDE interface with linux ? By default the kernel has support precompiled in for zip. As long as it is connected at turn on, it will be found as /dev/sda4 (or sba4, i forget which)

samba security

1997-09-30 Thread Zouave
-- | De: John M. Rulnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] | A: debian-user@lists.debian.org | Asunto: samba security -- more info? | Fecha: dilluns, 29 / setembre / 1997 19:10 | | Dear Folks, | | If you know about the samba security problem, could you please send me | as soon as possible a pointer to

Re: xvidtune: Please install this program before running.

1997-09-30 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
On Tue 30 Sep 1997, Guy Maor wrote: Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My fix was: ln -s /usr/X11R6 /usr/i486-linuxlibc1 Yipes! That's very wrong, and you don't want to link through the X11 dir, as at least one package was (incorrectly) using that. Safest is: cd

Re: No Debian updates?

1997-09-30 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, joost witteveen wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, lukas eppler wrote: Do people who don't want to fiddle around with libc6-stuff wait half a year for an upgrade? ... The excuse we have this time is the libc6 change. This means _every_ package has to be rebuild, and

Re: xvidtune: Please install this program before running.

1997-09-30 Thread Guy Maor
Andreas Jellinghaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: add : app-defaults Yes, and I held down the shift key too long when typing XKey. So do: cd /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11 for i in XErrorDB XKeysymDB locale app-defaults ; do ln -s ../../../X11R6/lib/X11/$i $i done The next version of xlib6g

Re: xvidtune: Please install this program before running.

1997-09-30 Thread Stephen Zander
Guy Maor wrote: Safest is: cd /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11 for i in XErrorDB XKEYsymDB locale ; do ln -s ../../../$i $i done Thanks for the tip: will change that right now. All the libc5 packages in hamm that have libc6 versions use this directory. Then someone (me ?) should log a bug

Re: ZIP IDE

1997-09-30 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Chad D. Zimmerman wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Pierre GAMBAROTTO wrote: All is in the subject. How can I use a iomega zip with an IDE interface with linux ? By default the kernel has support precompiled in for zip. As long as it is connected at turn on, it will be found as

Re: ifconfig

1997-09-30 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Jimmy Lu wrote: Hi, Can someone tell me how to setup a machine with one network interface card(eth0) to respond to more than one IP address? FreeBSD seems to be able to do something as follows: ifconfig ep0 192.168.123.2 ifconfig ep0 192.168.123.3 alias netmask 0x

Re: xvidtune: Please install this program before running.

1997-09-30 Thread Guy Maor
Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Guy Maor wrote: All the libc5 packages in hamm that have libc6 versions use this directory. Then someone (me ?) should log a bug against xlib6 cause it doesn't. It loads everything into /usr/lib/libc5-compat. First I'd seen of

SOLVED- I can't boot or install Linux - SOLVED

1997-09-30 Thread Zouave
It was easy, I simply had to wait 5 min., and then it run. Thanks to everybody! :-) Zouave | On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Zouave wrote: | | My computer has an Intel 486 dx4 100Mhz processor, 36MB RAM, 515MB hard | disk,

Re: Printer-setup

1997-09-30 Thread Lawrence
use magicfilter and choose cdj550c. Gernot Bauer wrote: Hi, where should I start to look for man-pages or some installing-instructions concerning printer-setup (hp-deskjet 690C). I'd like to set up filters to be able to print ps-files... Thanx, Gernot --

Re: ifconfig

1997-09-30 Thread Louis Larry
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Can someone tell me how to setup a machine with one network interface card(eth0) to respond to more than one IP address? FreeBSD seems to be able to do something as follows: ifconfig ep0 192.168.123.2 ifconfig ep0

Re: xvidtune: Please install this program before running.

1997-09-30 Thread Stephen Zander
Guy Maor wrote: Sorry, all the libc5 _development_ packages in hamm that have libc6 versions use this directory. The runtime shared libs go into /usr/lib/libc5-compat. This was a design error, btw, but it's too late to change. That still makes the current behaviour of xlib6 a bug (ie

mrouted?

1997-09-30 Thread Lawrence
what is mrouted? where to get it? lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: No Debian updates?

1997-09-30 Thread Jim Pick
Still, I imagine a debian release between stable and unstable. Stable is nice for the space shuttle or other critical purposes. But, let's say, the netscape installer package: There's no bug in the old version. But I think there should be a place outside the developers' corner for the new one

Re: mono monitor with x

1997-09-30 Thread Lazar Fleysher
HI, I do not know if what I write applies to you in full extend, but may be yes... I have an old Hercules card and monitor. (I do not know whether being old matters). In /etc/X11/XF86Config file I use HorizSync 18.43 VertRefresh 50 Mode: 720x350 Modeline 720x350 18.43 720 760 800 820

Re: Netscape 4.03 new xlib6?

1997-09-30 Thread Jaakko . Niemi
Hi all, yesterday I tried to upgrade to the unstable xlibc6 (3.3-6) and now netscape dies with a bus error, after having complained about locales not supported by the libraries and about a bunch of keys that it coudln't find. Is there some hope to run netscape the new lbraries?

Re: mono monitor with x (fwd)

1997-09-30 Thread Lazar Fleysher
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 12:59:47 -0600 (MDT) From: Lazar Fleysher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: mono monitor with x HI, I do not know if what I write applies to you in full extend, but may be

Re: Printer-setup

1997-09-30 Thread Gernot Bauer
My printer prints all formats (ok, a printer is supposed to print ;) Thanx to all who replied. Especially Pat, Will and Lawrence. If others have the same problem: read the howto in /usr/doc/ (Printer-HOWTO), install magicfilter and run magicfilterconfig as root (delete /etc/printcap if you

bo-updates

1997-09-30 Thread Lukas Eppler
Hi! I may be wrong, but: When bo-updates had the same structure as stable, non-free and contrib, one could in fact use dselect to install the bo-updates, just by typing Enter space seperated list of distributions to get [stable non-free contrib]: stable non-free contrib bo-updates This would

cdda2wav

1997-09-30 Thread Paul Miller
is this kind of output normal: no match: at position 189925 from 125547996 no match: increase overlap (3) or decrease SYNC_SIZE (320). no match: at position 332808 from 125547996 no match: increase overlap (3) or decrease SYNC_SIZE (320). no match: at position 475692 from 125547996 no match:

Re: Newbie going crazy........part 2

1997-09-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi! Only wanted to say that your punctuation mark key is broken. And please shorten your lines. Marcus On Sun, Sep 21, 1997 at 02:48:42PM -0800, Lawrence Lucier wrote: ** Reply to note from Lawrence Lucier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 21 Sep 1997 01:28:15 PST Howdy all...:-)

Re: XF86Setup trouble

1997-09-30 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! (**) MONO: Graphics device ID: Primary Card (**) MONO: Monitor ID: Primary Monitor It looks to me like your X-server is trying to use the Screen section for the mono driver for some reason. In that section you do *NOT* have a 8 bit depth subsection (of course). So, for starters

SSH/X11 vulnerability

1997-09-30 Thread Lawrence
It may be interested to those people using ssh. SSH/X11 Vulnerability September 1997 Systems affected:

Re: Announcing TIND: This Is Not Dselect

1997-09-30 Thread Lawrence
Mmmm...It is what I got when tried to run the script. can't read STAT(glut-dev/Version): no such element in array while executing catch exec dpkg --compare-versions $AVAIL($i/Version) gt $STAT($i/Version)... invoked from within if [catch exec dpkg --compare-versions $AVAIL($i/Version)