Re: problem with leafnode and gnus

1997-10-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Oct 16, 1997 at 02:54:59PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Marcus Brinkmann wrote: leafnode is a program, you don't need care about - just install it and that's it (ok, change one or two lines in config file). But you have to install inews, too. Otherwise you cannot post. Not really.

Re: sound programs part 2

1997-10-17 Thread Britton
Hmm, I thought Debian bplay was compiled with buffer lockdowns out, since they can cause crashes. So my guess is that even as root, you are not really getting them, but the check isn't made so you don't see that message. It probably doesn't matter, since I have been able to do pretty cpu

elf-x11r6lib

1997-10-17 Thread Matt Thompson
hi, y'all, I've upgraded to hamm across the board, and found that xmix doesn't work anymore. (I even tried installing it from dselect and I get a Segmentation fault both as mattyt and as root). So I found another mixer that needed xforms. When I tried to install xforms from dselect, it said I

nfs problem

1997-10-17 Thread Jason Killen
Hello all. I have finally gottne nis setup on a few machines but nfs is giving me problems. Basically what happens is when the client mounts the server all ownerships are lost. I have tried using map_daemon in /etc/exports of the server and running ugidd but to no avail. Has anyone gotten

Re: elf-x11r6lib

1997-10-17 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Matt Thompson wrote: that needed xforms. When I tried to install xforms from dselect, it said I needed elf-x11r6lib, but that it doesn't appear to be available? gs-alladin depends on it, too, but I couldn't find it either.

Any interest in SNMP web based network monitor?

1997-10-17 Thread R. Chris Ross
For the past couple of weeks I have been using a package called MRTG. Both the current release and the beta for the next release are running nicely, showing html graphic display of SNMP data. The package is set up for monitoring network traffic but can be easily modified to monitor other

Netscape??

1997-10-17 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
I'm trying to get the netscape 4 beta installer, but its doesn't seem to be going well... In dselect I did an Update, and cleared everything. So my list is up to date. I selected the netscape beta package. Went to Install, and then...nothing. It won't find it during the install page.

Re: Any interest in SNMP web based network monitor?

1997-10-17 Thread Joey Hess
R. Chris Ross wrote: For the past couple of weeks I have been using a package called MRTG. It's already a debian package: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~dpkg -s mrtg Package: mrtg Status: install ok installed Priority: extra Section: contrib/net Installed-Size: 223 Maintainer: Dermot Bradley [EMAIL

Re: dpkg slackware?

1997-10-17 Thread Bruce Perens
Try unpacking the package, tarring up the result, and moving it to the slackware system that way. If it doesn't work, you might have to run autoconfig and build it from source under slackware. Be sure the /var/lib/dpkg directory gets bootstrapped with something sensible. Thanks

Re: Netscape??

1997-10-17 Thread Matt Thompson
I have Netscape 4.03 (non-beta, full release) and it comes with it's own installer. Just download the file from: ftp://ftp9.netscape.com//pub/communicator/4.03/shipping/english/unix/linux20 /base_install (you can modify the url if you want something slightly different, like navigator only)

Re: Netscape??

1997-10-17 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Matt Thompson wrote: I have Netscape 4.03 (non-beta, full release) and it comes with it's own installer. Just download the file from: [cut] Yeah, I guess I'll just break down and do that. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Controlling the FPU under Linux

1997-10-17 Thread Chris Hanson
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 16:28:12 +0200 From: Thomas SCHIEX [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd like to know if anybody has experience in finely controlling the FPU under Linux (I'm under Debian 1.3.1). I need to control the rounding mode of the FPU (rounding up or down instead of to nearest).

Mutt_0.84-0 doesn't send

1997-10-17 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi, everybody -- I have installed new mutt package compiled for libc5 (THANKS to Ray for keeping us with libc5 in mind!), ver. 0.84-0, and all was running fine so I deleted my old package 0.74-3. BUT, I didn't try to send an Email and sure enough that is the only function I can not get to work. I

Virtual DOMAIN with Sendmail/Qmail?

1997-10-17 Thread Zsolt Varga
Hello ! ...could you help me, In this times, I have to install some virtual domain 'handler' to our mail server... at the moment it's running with Deb 1.3 and with sendmail 8.8.5 is it hard to make virtual domain/virtual pop3 services with sendmail or it's better to do with Qmail?

problem with dselect (ftp method)

1997-10-17 Thread Debian List
Hi, I must have a problem with perl, I get the following error when trying dselect with ftp: Can't locate IO/Socket.pm in @INC at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 378. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 378. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at

Re: /dev/md0

1997-10-17 Thread Philippe Troin
On Thu, 09 Oct 1997 14:26:02 +0200 Pere Camps ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have a linear partition on my linux box (/dev/md0 = hdb7+hdb9+hdb11), and when I run the `mdadd -ar`, and I then mount the filesystem something like the following comes up: Warning: /dev/md0 has no

Re: CDR drive replacement.

1997-10-17 Thread Philippe Troin
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997 13:28:57 EDT Dale Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have used Philips CDRs exclusively and have not been satisfied. For the usual reasons, I am replacing my current CDR and want something that will last a while. I can get an HP SureStore CD-Writer 6020 for a

Re: problem with dselect (ftp method)

1997-10-17 Thread Alex Romosan
i had the same problem earlier today, so i fixed by just reinstalling a bunch of packages (dpkg and the gang, perl, libc6). i think the one that did was libc6. or maybe it was just a coincidence. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the

Re: scroll-back buffer

1997-10-17 Thread B. Bell
On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote: How can I clear the scroll-back buffer when a use logs out (other than changing tty's)? if you have SVGATextMode installed, executing 'stm' will do it. -brad - Free the West Memphis Three - http://www.pobox.com/~mms/wm3/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Xfree86: how to make Backspace really be KeySym backspace??

1997-10-17 Thread Steve Hsieh
Hi, It appears that in the default keyboard mapping for xfree86 (xkb disabled), both the backspace key *and* the delete key are mapped to the KeySym 'Delete'. Can someone tell me where this is being done? I don't want these keys mapped. In other words, I'd like the delete key = keysym Delete

Re: Mutt_0.84-0 doesn't send

1997-10-17 Thread jdassen
On Fri, Oct 17, 1997 at 12:48:55AM -0400, Damir J. Naden wrote: I have installed new mutt package compiled for libc5 (THANKS to Ray for keeping us with libc5 in mind!), ver. 0.84-0, and all was running fine so I deleted my old package 0.74-3. BUT, I didn't try to send an Email and sure enough

Re: elf-x11r6lib

1997-10-17 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Will Lowe wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Matt Thompson wrote: that needed xforms. When I tried to install xforms from dselect, it said I needed elf-x11r6lib, but that it doesn't appear to be available? gs-alladin depends on it, too, but I couldn't find it either. This is a wrong (old)

packages from parallel Zip drive

1997-10-17 Thread ANTJE OLDENBURG
hello everybody, I've just installed the base system on my computer at home but I don't have any ftp-connection or CD-drive in it. But I've downloaded the stable/msdos-i386 packages to my parallel Iomega-ZIP drive. How can I install these packages with this? thank you, Antje -- TO

Postgres

1997-10-17 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi Once again I'm here to talk about Postgres. It was suggested previously that a new package to exist should be created using libc6. But (and correct me if i'm wrong) libc6 will only be final with hamm, so it might make some sense to create a package still using libc5 and maybe another one with

Re: xdvi

1997-10-17 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Dale Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ([EMAIL PROTECTED])$ xdvi /usr/X11R6/bin Error: XsraSelFile: can't get font 9x15 Any ideas as to - Which 9x15 font it's looking for? I assume the normal 9x15 from X. It is in the xfntbase package.

Re: Booting to SCSI

1997-10-17 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey everyone! Simple (hopefully) question. I've got an IDE drive on an Tyan motherboard with an Award BIOS. I recently went out and bought a Seagate Cheetah drive on a Symbios Logic (aka NCR) 53c875 host adapter (an AWESOME combination, BTW g) How

Re: elf-x11r6lib

1997-10-17 Thread Matt Thompson
Ulf, Thanks for your reply. I have a 1.3.1 CD with xtetris on it, and since I've upgraded to hamm fully, it's no longer available thru dselect. I tried what you suggested, but xtetris wouldn't run at all, so I removed it. I think it's odd to have packages available in dselect which have

Re: Booting to SCSI

1997-10-17 Thread Matt Thompson
I bought a ASUS P55T2P4 recently and it came with Award BIOS v4.51, which does allow booting off of SCSI devices (although I only have ide). You might try going to Award's site and getting an upgrade. cheers, matty Matt Thompson MZI, Inc. v-206.430.3726 707 S. Grady Way

From Slackware to Debian

1997-10-17 Thread tfoong
Hello ALL, I have just joined this list. Hello to all you debian people. I have just received my debian 1.3.1 CD and have had my first try at installing it. ( Well it failled sob .. more on that later ) I have been running Slackware for several years now. However I am no expert. I

Re: xdvi

1997-10-17 Thread Miguel A. Arranz
As for the problems with \special{landscape} not implemented in xdvi, I think that the answer is in the configuration of teTeX. Run texconfig and check that you have properly configured xdvi. Hope it helps -- ** Miguel A. Arranz Dpt. of Economics

Re: Postgres

1997-10-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: Once again I'm here to talk about Postgres. It was suggested previously that a new package to exist should be created using libc6. But (and correct me if i'm wrong) libc6 will only be final with hamm, so it might make some sense to create a package

Re: Anyone getting jdk1.1 working?

1997-10-17 Thread Benjamin Ryzman
Richard A. Guay wrote: On 16-Oct-97 Lawrence wrote: make sure you are in 256 colour mode, at first. Are you saying that the jdk will not run in other graphics mode but 256 colour? I sure hope that that is not the case. It isn't. I run the jdk daily for my development work. My X

mount clntudp_create: RPC: Program not registered

1997-10-17 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm having this message when trying to mount an exported fs. Both machines are Debian, running almost same versions. Does somebody have a hint about this? The fs was mounted once and work for long time. After the last power fail I can't mount it anymore.

Re: man page for nsswitch.conf

1997-10-17 Thread Dale Martin
Lukas Eppler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just wanted to remind you that libc6 is unstable and in development. So problems about it should go in [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Thanks for the reminder. As I suspected, 99% of the problems I was having with NIS were from misconfiguration of nsswitch.conf.

Re: Virtual DOMAIN with Sendmail/Qmail?

1997-10-17 Thread Scott Ellis
On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, Zsolt Varga wrote: ...could you help me, In this times, I have to install some virtual domain 'handler' to our mail server... at the moment it's running with Deb 1.3 and with sendmail 8.8.5 is it hard to make virtual domain/virtual pop3 services with sendmail Sendmail

Re: From Slackware to Debian

1997-10-17 Thread Scott Ellis
On Fri, 17 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I have had some experience with slackware please all you ex slackers think what were your experience when switching to debian. * What are the major differences between Slackware and Debian? Well, besides being better :) Debian's

Re: majordomo list server

1997-10-17 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
From: Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org On 16 Oct 1997, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: test-list: :include:/var/lib/majordomo/lists/test it is not the correct one!? I think that's ok (don't take my word for this). But probably the configuration of

Where is ripd or gated

1997-10-17 Thread R Chris Ross
I was looking for a daemon to do rip. It was in one of the net packages but I don't see it now. Very possible that I overlooked it. Chris -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: Where is ripd or gated

1997-10-17 Thread R Chris Ross
Sorry about that I'v gone brain dead again. I am looking for gated but it was routed that I was thinking of and that's fine. I was looking for a daemon to do rip. It was in one of the net packages but I don't see it now. Very possible that I overlooked it.

sql database

1997-10-17 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, Has anyone done any benchmark/comparison between these databases? mSQL, MySQL, PostGres95 in term of performance, application interfaces such as perl, tcl, and drivers such as odbc, jdbc, etc. Thanks! -- Timothy C. Phan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: dpkg slackware?

1997-10-17 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: Try unpacking the package, tarring up the result, and moving it to the slackware system that way. If it doesn't work, you might have to run autoconfig and build it from source under slackware. Be sure the /var/lib/dpkg directory gets bootstrapped

administration tool for command logging

1997-10-17 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I was wondering whether there is a system administration tool which permits the monitoring of specified commands, file access attempts, by users. Thanks George

Re: dpkg slackware?

1997-10-17 Thread James Troup
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Isn't there a non-debian tarball of dpkg somewhere? [...] Debian/project/experimental ls -l dpkg*nondebbin* -r--r--r-- 1 adminroot 555827 Oct 8 17:17 dpkg_1.4.0.19_alpha.nondebbin.tar.gz -r--r--r-- 1 adminroot 459539 Jul 21 23:48

Re: CDR drive replacement.

1997-10-17 Thread Bruce Perens
The HP CDR drive was designed and manufactured by Philips. It has slightly different firmware. I'd suggest the Yamaha. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP

Re: scroll-back buffer

1997-10-17 Thread Bruce Perens
Excuse my naivete, but won't printing a bunch of blank lines clear it? Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER:

Re: From Slackware to Debian

1997-10-17 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Fri, 17 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My install Problems. ... Well IT DONT WORK!! How I installed it - ... - I did NOT have the packages.gz file. This is the problem. Dselect needs to have a structure like this: path/to/debian/basedir/ \__stable \__binary-all

Re: From Slackware to Debian

1997-10-17 Thread Will Lowe
On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, Lukas Eppler wrote: I am relatively new to linux. I am asking back: What is bad about one big partition? I have it like that, I am flexible as hell, and have no clear problems with it. Well, if you wanted to export part of your drive (say /usr) to another machine so

Re: scroll-back buffer

1997-10-17 Thread Joey Hess
Torsten Hilbrich wrote: Another way: runvc false where runvc is the following script: #!/bin/sh # Run something on a VC, from X, and switch back to X when done. # GPL Joey Hess, Thu, 10 Jul 1997 23:27:08 -0400 exec open -s -- sh -c $* ; chvt `getvc` Hm, maybe I

Re: CDR drive replacement.

1997-10-17 Thread John Goerzen
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have used Philips CDRs exclusively and have not been satisfied. For the usual reasons, I am replacing my current CDR and want something that will last a while. I can get an HP SureStore CD-Writer 6020 for a reasonable price. I am curious if anyone has

Re: Where is xload program?

1997-10-17 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Daniel J. Mashao wrote: I am looking for xload package and I don't know where it is? It's in the xproc package. How can I find out where it is w/o having to waste bandwidth? There are Contents.gz files in the same locations as the binary-i386-dirs on every mirror. and

Re: CDR drive replacement.

1997-10-17 Thread Danny ter Haar
According to Bruce Perens: The HP CDR drive was designed and manufactured by Philips. It has slightly different firmware. I'd suggest the Yamaha. We always used the Yamaha 102 writer and worked fine for us. This week we purchased the CDR400T (6x4) from Yamaha. So far we have been unable to get

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-17 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: #define AWE_DEFAULT_BASE_ADDR 0x620 /* base port address */ #define AWE_DEFAULT_MEM_SIZE 4096 /* kbytes */ Then it should work. Done, but I still get this with kernel 2.0.30: AWE32 Sound Driver v0.3.3e (DRAM 28672k) This is

free software

1997-10-17 Thread Tim Sailer
I was wondering if there was any software out there that would do the job of the microsoft ils servers that netmeeting use. We have a very small group that wants to set up a semi-private network and use netmeeting for documentation purposes.. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL

innxmit help?

1997-10-17 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, I've just reinstall the debian 1.3.1 and I apparently have missed some setup somehow. How, the innxmit always give me this problem: --8 $ /usr/lib/news/bin/innxmit -d localhost /var/lib/news/batch.news.dhc.net.479

Re: sql database

1997-10-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
Timothy Phan wrote: Hi, Has anyone done any benchmark/comparison between these databases? mSQL, MySQL, PostGres95 in term of performance, application interfaces such as perl, tcl, and drivers such as odbc, jdbc, etc. There have been some comparisons on the PostgreSQL

Re: free software

1997-10-17 Thread Keith Beattie
Tim Sailer wrote: I was wondering if there was any software out there that would do the job of the microsoft ils servers that netmeeting use. We have a very small group that wants to set up a semi-private network and use netmeeting for documentation purposes.. Severs? We don't need no

Re: free software

1997-10-17 Thread Tim Sailer
Keith Beattie wrote: Severs? We don't need no stinkin' servers! Use multicast! Nope. I need to use the 'off the shelf' Microsnot product. Seriously though, I'm not terribly familiar with all the functionality of netmeeting but at my first glance, it appeared to have taken quite a few hints

Re: /dev/md0

1997-10-17 Thread Pere Camps
Phil, This is because you created you mdtab by hand, and not with mdcreate. Mdcreate computes a checksum and puts it in the mdtab. When mdrunning a md partition, the checksum is computed and is compared to the one stored in the mdtab. If they're different, the md device isn't started.

exim / mh problems

1997-10-17 Thread Ken Lauffenburger
Hello, I have been running sendmail on my machine at home for a long time with few problems. I use mh and exmh, and sometimes elm. When I recently installed Debian on a machine at work I decided to try exim instead of sendmail. I liked it so I replaced sendmail with exim on my machine at home.

Re: Booting to SCSI

1997-10-17 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Hey everyone! Simple (hopefully) question. I've got an IDE drive on an Tyan motherboard with an Award BIOS. I recently went out and bought a Seagate Cheetah drive on a Symbios Logic (aka NCR) 53c875 host adapter (an AWESOME combination, BTW g) How do I make the system boot from the SCSI