Re: Update: immovable mouse cursor under XFree86 (Debian 1.3)

1997-11-06 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Charles Read wrote: The bottom of my mouse says the mouse is an IntelliMouse 1.1A and PS/2 compatible. The port the mouse plugs into is a PS/2 port (ie, round). So within /etc/X11/XF86Config, I changed (under the Pointer section) the Protocol to be PS/2, and then changed the Device to be

how to multi home a system?

1997-11-06 Thread Daryl Williams
i expect that there is a faq for this, however i have not been able to find it. i want to setup a box as a router. how do i plumb a second ethernet interface under debian? if there is not a faq for this, i will be glad to summarize any replies and start the faq... tia, //daryl -- Daryl

Re: Update: immovable mouse cursor under XFree86 (Debian 1.3)

1997-11-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
Charles Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I believe both PS/2 and /dev/mouse are correct. What else could be messing up the mouse/cursor? There are certain ambiguities in the way that you specified how you connected your mouse to the computer. Here are the correct possibilities, to the best of

Re: URGENT: Diald connection problem

1997-11-06 Thread Philippe Troin
On Wed, 05 Nov 1997 22:25:14 +0100 Michael Legart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Before I had a diskcrash and hat to reinstall my linux, the ppp connection worked fine with diald. How do I get the diald connect script installed again? It was really messed up, and I wanted to reinstalled the

Re: Update: immovable mouse cursor under XFree86 (Debian 1.3)

1997-11-06 Thread Charles Read
I tried installing /dev/psaux with 'modconf'. I get this result: Installation failed /lib/modules/2.0.29/misc/psaux.o: unresolved symbol kill_fasync_R689dfeeb How can I fix this? Thanks, -c There are two steps to fixing this. 1) As root, run 'modconf',

Number Nine Imagine 128 series 2 under Linux

1997-11-06 Thread Tim Ferrell
Anybody running a Number Nine Imagine 128 series 2 with XFree? I have the opportunity to get one at a good price and wonder how well it performs... Thanks Tim -- Science has promised man power...But, as so often happens when people are seduced by promises of power, the price is servitude

Unable to complete upgrade to libc6 development

1997-11-06 Thread Howard S. Ostrowsky
Hi all: I recently went through the process of upgrading from libc5 to libc6. After testing the resulting system for a couple days and finding it apparently ok, I went on to upgrade the gcc, g++, and g77 compilers and their associated libraries. At least, I thought I did. Now I'm not sure what

Re: Update: immovable mouse cursor under XFree86 (Debian 1.3)

1997-11-06 Thread Will Lowe
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Charles Read wrote: I tried installing /dev/psaux with 'modconf'. I get this result: Installation failed /lib/modules/2.0.29/misc/psaux.o: unresolved symbol kill_fasync_R689dfeeb Try (as root) insmod psaux and see if it happens.

Re: how to multi home a system?

1997-11-06 Thread Dale Harrison
i expect that there is a faq for this, however i have not been able to find it. i want to setup a box as a router. how do i plumb a second ethernet interface under debian? if there is not a faq for this, i will be glad to summarize any replies and start the faq... There already is.

xdm3d_xpm

1997-11-06 Thread Joe Lillibridge
Has anyone been able to compile xdm3d_xpm? I get this error when I try to compile: server.c: In function `_SysErrorMsg': server.c:71: conflicting types for `sys_errlist' /usr/include/stdio.h:221: previous declaration of `sys_errlist' make: *** [server.o] Error 1 I've tried installing the rpm

Re: xdm3d_xpm

1997-11-06 Thread csmall
Has anyone been able to compile xdm3d_xpm? I get this error when I try to compile: server.c: In function `_SysErrorMsg': server.c:71: conflicting types for `sys_errlist' /usr/include/stdio.h:221: previous declaration of `sys_errlist' make: *** [server.o] Error 1 I've tried installing

Re: xdm3d_xpm

1997-11-06 Thread Joe Lillibridge
On Thu, Nov 06, 1997 at 01:28:30PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In libc6 they have now defined errno and sys_errlist. The easiest way is to go into server.c and remove the definitiion of sys_errlist[] on line 71, it is already declared in the #include file. - Craig Ok, I did that to

Linux machine behind Win95 proxy

1997-11-06 Thread Collin Rose
My Linux machine is running behind a Windows 95 proxy. How could I setup an web/ftp/telnet requests to the Windows 95 machine to be redirected to the Linux machine? Collin

Re: xdm3d_xpm

1997-11-06 Thread Joe Lillibridge
I figured it out, thanks! joe pgpZx2MNrlcLo.pgp Description: PGP signature

How to use bash 2.01-5 vi-style line editing

1997-11-06 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Has anyone found a way to use vi-style line editing in the 2.01-5 version of bash? When I do a $ set -o vi $ esck to recall the last command, I just get a beep instead of the last command. Has anyone found a way to use vi-style line editing in the 2.01-5 version of bash? Thanks,

X Window

1997-11-06 Thread Collin Rose
Is there a .deb package for X Window System? If not where should I get it from? Collin

startx -- -bpp 16 doesn't work

1997-11-06 Thread David Densmore
I am running the SVGA server, and am unable to start X Windows in 16 bit mode. I tried this command: startx -- -bpp 16 and got this message: SVGA: Linear addressing is required for 16bpp *** A configured device found, but display modes could not be resolved.*** There is a message in

Help Kernel Oops!

1997-11-06 Thread rir
How do I interpret this kernel debugging output? How do I learn to interpret kernel debugging output? How do I fix my system so I don't need to learn to interpret kernel debugging output? This is infrequently occurring at unknown times on an lightly loaded system, i.e. just debian-distributed

Re: Help Kernel Oops!

1997-11-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do I interpret this kernel debugging output? How do I learn to interpret kernel debugging output? How do I fix my system so I don't need to learn to interpret kernel debugging output? This is infrequently occurring at unknown times on an lightly loaded

Re: X Window

1997-11-06 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Collin Rose wrote: Is there a .deb package for X Window System? If not where should I get it from? ftp://ftp.debian.org/deboan/bo/binary/x11 Collin -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Chad D. Zimmerman

few questions

1997-11-06 Thread Luka Pravica
hi, I have couple of questions: 1. I tried to install xirc, but dselect complained that it requires qt1, which is not available. What is qt1 and where can I find it? 2. Anyone knows where I can find a program called pftp? 3. I tried to compile some c programs but have some troubles with

Re: few questions

1997-11-06 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Luka Pravica wrote: I have couple of questions: I only have one answer. 1. I tried to install xirc, but dselect complained that it requires qt1, which is not available. What is qt1 and where can I find it? It's still in incoming. You might want to try zircon in the

Re: nis

1997-11-06 Thread George Bonser
You need the amd package, /etc/fstab is the equivilant of /etc/vfstab Be careful! There is a BIG caveat in the amd documentation that states that amd is not going to understand Sun automounter maps. Just thought I would throw that in. I have not set it up yet but I plan to. I think I am

Re: few questions

1997-11-06 Thread Alex Yukhimets
4. Is there a way to use gcc on my linux to compile programs which will run on unix with SUN-OS 5.5? There is no compiler installed on my uni server, and I want to run some my programs on it. Install gcc on your SUN-OS 5.5 (Solaris 2.5). There are precompiled packages at

Re: URGENT: Diald connection problem

1997-11-06 Thread Lawrence
try to PURGE diald befor installing it. Michael Legart wrote: Hi! Before I had a diskcrash and hat to reinstall my linux, the ppp connection worked fine with diald. How do I get the diald connect script installed again? It was really messed up, and I wanted to reinstalled the default

Opera Web Browser

1997-11-06 Thread Paul J Thompson
I recently was looking to see if the web browser Opera was available for Linux. Well, when looking at their site I discovered that they are currently doing a poll of sorts to see how many Linux users (along with some other OSs) would be interested in their browser. They have pledged that if

Opera Web Browser (with an html address...)

1997-11-06 Thread Paul J Thompson
I recently was looking to see if the web browser Opera was available for Linux. Well, when looking at their site I discovered that they are currently doing a poll of sorts to see how many Linux users (along with some other OSs) would be interested in their browser. They have pledged that

Re: Help Kernel Oops!

1997-11-06 Thread Mr Stuart Lamble
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : Sorry, there's little to be learned from raw kernel OOPS messages : without seeing the full system and kernel configurations and versions. : (As far as I know.) There's some detail in the kernel documentation about reporting OOPS messages.. I can't

wtmp/ who and w problem.

1997-11-06 Thread Udjat the BitMeister...
I upgraded to hamm a few days ago and I am running into a bit of trouble. I beleve the new wtmp format is the problem will reseting it help? If so is correct way to do this ' wtmp' ? Thanks much! [bitgate]udjat /usr/bin $ w 9:40pm up 2 days, 1:33h, 4 users, load average: 1.26, 1.33, 1.28

fax problem

1997-11-06 Thread Oz Dror
Hi, Since I have had fax modem, I was never able to receive fax from old fax machine, only form new fax machines or computers. I had the same problem with 2 versions of USR sporster the latest is the 56k, but I also had this problem with Suprafax 14.4k modem. Does any one know how to fix this

Re: RPM packages.

1997-11-06 Thread David R. Kohel
FWIW, I was able to compile SANE on my system running 'unstable' with no problems. Works great with my HP ScanJet 4c. Thanks, I did the partial upgrade. Compiling seemed to work OK, except that the configure doesn't set up the Makfiles to compile xscanimage. I did also upgrade the xlibs.

Re: Opera Web Browser (with an html address...)

1997-11-06 Thread Benedikt Eric Heinen
I recently was looking to see if the web browser Opera was available for Linux. Well, when looking at their site I discovered that they are currently doing a poll of sorts to see how many Linux users (along with some other OSs) would be interested in their browser. They have

Re: Opera Web Browser (with an html address...)

1997-11-06 Thread Joey Hess
Paul J Thompson wrote: I recently was looking to see if the web browser Opera was available for Linux. Well, when looking at their site I discovered that they are currently doing a poll of sorts to see how many Linux users (along with some other OSs) would be interested in their

Re: Opera Web Browser (with an html address...)

1997-11-06 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Joey Hess wrote: Paul J Thompson wrote: I recently was looking to see if the web browser Opera was available for Linux. Well, when looking at their site I discovered that they are currently doing a poll of sorts to see how many Linux users (along with some

Re: mrtg

1997-11-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Nov 05, 1997 at 03:11:53PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote: Joey Hess wrote: Tim Sailer wrote: Has anyone gotten mrtg to work with the aliased eth interfaces? I'm trying to get mrtg to plot traffic stats on our virtual web server which has interfaces like eth0:0, eth0:1, etc. It

Frozen system

1997-11-06 Thread Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH
Hi, Recently, I got libc6 installed from hamm on my Debian 1.3.0 system. I did it using appropriate mini-howto. My aim was to use xmgr from unstable distribution. Now, all seems to work fine except that when I run xemacs or xmgr, my system get randomly frozen. Then, the only thing I can do is to

Re: 2.1.30 and 3c900 module: Transmitter access conflict

1997-11-06 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
The subject says it all: I am installing a Debian 1.3.1 system on a brand new PC with a 3c900 Combo board. Since I have a Buslogic Flashpoint SCSI card, I used the disks under the special/ directory, which use 2.1.30. Loading the 3c59x module seems to work, because the module correctly

Re: Update: immovable mouse cursor under XFree86 (Debian 1.3)

1997-11-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
Ben Pfaff wrote: There are certain ambiguities in the way that you specified how you connected your mouse to the computer. Here are the correct possibilities, to the best of my knowledge: 1. Mouse is connected to a PS/2 (aka mini-DIN 6, which is circular) port. The port is

Re: Linux machine behind Win95 proxy

1997-11-06 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Collin Rose wrote: My Linux machine is running behind a Windows 95 proxy. How could I setup an web/ftp/telnet requests to the Windows 95 machine to be redirected to the Linux machine? i don't know, that's a function of your win95 software...you'll have to read the manual

What is the file XF86_NONE??

1997-11-06 Thread Mic Tyler
Hello All! New in here, but already major problem.. I am trying to install the X11R6 SVGA X Server and client but when the XF86_SVGA runs iot throws up an error saying it cannot locate the file XF86_NONE.. What is this and what do I need to do to rectify it?? Thanks in Advance Mic

Re: rsh

1997-11-06 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, m* wrote: Syd Alsobrook wrote: Help, What do I need to do to get rsh to work without passwords on a closed network? see man rhosts. m* also see ssh - just because your network is 'closed' is no reason to take risksone day your network may be open

Approve script of Majordomo

1997-11-06 Thread Ana Silva
Hello People: I'm creating a moderated list and I saw in the Faq of Majordomo that it comes with this approve script, but i can´t find it... I guess I don´t have it, so I was wondering if someone could indicate me where can I find it ! I'm in a certain urgence ... Hoping

gpc-problem

1997-11-06 Thread Tobias Peters
gpc won't compile any programs on my debian-System. I have installed gpc, gpc-doc and libgpc2. The Version No. of all three debian-packages is 2.0-3 . I always get the same error-message: ld: cannot open -lgpc: No such file or directory I also tried to compile some of the files in the examples-

Re: gpc-problem

1997-11-06 Thread Hayao Nakahara
From: Tobias Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpc won't compile any programs on my debian-System. I have installed gpc, gpc-doc and libgpc2. The Version No. of all three debian-packages is 2.0-3 . This is a well-known problem, bug of libgpc2 package. To fix, try ln -sf libgpc.so.2.8

Setting volume size for dump

1997-11-06 Thread Johann Spies
Thank you for the reactions to my enquiry about efficient backup programs. I have overlooked dump and am trying it out now. What I do not seem to get right is setting the volume size. While using dump like this: dump 0uf /dev/nzqft0 / it does a backup, but says it requires 11 tapes asking

Re: Approve script of Majordomo

1997-11-06 Thread Olivier THARAN
On Thu, Nov 06, 1997 at 11:08:52AM +, Ana Silva wrote: I'm creating a moderated list and I saw in the Faq of Majordomo that it comes with this approve script, but i can´t find it... I guess I don´t have it, so I was wondering if someone could indicate me where can I find it ! It should

SSH Question...

1997-11-06 Thread Adam Shand
Hi... I'm setting up an automated script which needs the functionality of rsh to execute some commands on a remote machine, and I need it to *not* prompt for a pasword. I know that I can do this with SSH using a .shosts file, but I would like to use one of SSH's additional methods of host

tty uses only bottom line of screen

1997-11-06 Thread James Dietrich
Several times I have had it happen that after running (and quitting) top on one of my virtual terminals, the terminal then uses only the bottom line of the screen. Everything seems to work all right, because I can type commands and login and logout just fine except for the fact that all output

Re: dpkg won't remove nfsroot

1997-11-06 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, joost witteveen wrote: I have a misconfigured or partially configured nfsroot on my disk that is marked 'purge' in dselect. Both dselect and 'dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq -r nfsroot' give the following response: /var/lib/dpkg/info/nfsroot.prerm:

Re: Using source code for debian; compiling debian

1997-11-06 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: Several hundred of the Debian packages will compile automaticaly. A number of them will not, and require a bit of hand tweaking. You can't install _all_ debian packages, as many of them conflict with each other. For example we distribute at least 4

Re: What is the file XF86_NONE??

1997-11-06 Thread Mic Tyler
Aha! I managed to fix it myself after copying the XF86_SVGA to XF86_NONE.. A hack but it worked!! {8^ ) Thanks anyway guys and gels -Original Message-From: Mic Tyler [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.orgDate: Thursday,

Re: tty uses only bottom line of screen

1997-11-06 Thread G. Kapetanios
I had the same problem some time ago. It would happen when I used less. As time went by more and moreof my consoles would suffer that. It stopped on its own after upgrading to a new kernel (at the time I was using 2.0.0 ) and I guess I must have upgraded less at some point. I know this isn't

Re: Approve script of Majordomo

1997-11-06 Thread Ana Silva
Olivier THARAN wrote: On Thu, Nov 06, 1997 at 11:08:52AM +, Ana Silva wrote: I'm creating a moderated list and I saw in the Faq of Majordomo that it comes with this approve script, but i can´t find it... I guess I don´t have it, so I was wondering if someone could indicate me

Re: Unable to complete upgrade to libc6 development

1997-11-06 Thread Philippe Troin
On Wed, 05 Nov 1997 17:40:32 PST Howard S. Ostrowsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I recently went through the process of upgrading from libc5 to libc6. After testing the resulting system for a couple days and finding it apparently ok, I went on to upgrade the gcc, g++, and g77 compilers and

Re: SSH Question...

1997-11-06 Thread Philippe Troin
On Thu, 06 Nov 1997 02:48:26 -0900 Adam Shand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm setting up an automated script which needs the functionality of rsh to execute some commands on a remote machine, and I need it to *not* prompt for a pasword. I know that I can do this with SSH using a .shosts file,

Re: netscape

1997-11-06 Thread Dale Martin
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think I have all of 3.3.1; would you believe it still doesn't work? Bus error. WIth a whole lot of XKeysymDB errors before it, which are fixable by setting XKEYSYMDB to the appropriate directory IIRC. I'm having the same problem. Like you said - lots

Re: xplaycd works without sound output

1997-11-06 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: Well, you've read it wrong then :-) From the adduser manpage: Add an existing user to an existing group If called with two non-option arguments, adduser will add an existing user to an existing group. Well, I didn't know that.

Re: tty uses only bottom line of screen

1997-11-06 Thread James Dietrich
Sorry to answer my own post, but I figured out a solution to the problem: Put the following script in some directory such as /usr/bin and while you are at the messed up terminal, type cat /usr/bin/fixvt.sh if /usr/bin is the path to the file and fixvt.sh is its name. That should clear

Re: How to use bash 2.01-5 vi-style line editing

1997-11-06 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: Has anyone found a way to use vi-style line editing in the 2.01-5 version of bash? When I do a $ set -o vi $ esck to recall the last command, I just get a beep instead of the last command. Has anyone found a way to use

News - Mail geteway

1997-11-06 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi Having installed majordomo, I would like to know if there is a news-mail gateway available as a Debian package. Thank you -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.uevora.pt/~mjnf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: Opera Web Browser

1997-11-06 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Paul J Thompson wrote: I recently was looking to see if the web browser Opera was available for Linux. Well, when looking at their site I discovered that they are currently doing a poll of sorts to see how many Linux users (along with some other OSs) would be

Re: News - Mail geteway

1997-11-06 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: Hi Having installed majordomo, I would like to know if there is a news-mail gateway available as a Debian package. Thank you -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.uevora.pt/~mjnf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: News - Mail geteway

1997-11-06 Thread Paul Seelig
On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: Having installed majordomo, I would like to know if there is a news-mail gateway available as a Debian package. Check out the newsgate package from the non-free section. I use it for putting the mailing lists i'm subscribed to into a local

Re: diald / ppp routing problems on hamm system [SOLVED]

1997-11-06 Thread Ken Lauffenburger
This did the trick. Thanks Phil! This disrupted my operations here for a few days, and seems like it could impact other people upgrading to hamm from bo. So should I file a bug report on this, and if so how do I do it? --ken I very recently upgraded my home system from bo to hamm. As soon

Re: Using source code for debian; compiling debian

1997-11-06 Thread Igor Grobman
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: Several hundred of the Debian packages will compile automaticaly. A number of them will not, and require a bit of hand tweaking. You can't install _all_ debian packages, as many of them conflict with each other. For example we distribute at

web question

1997-11-06 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I must apologise for asking an irrelevant question but I can't get any help from elewhere. Can anyone give me some references to documentation discussing setting up password protected web pages (or even better a description of how do that :-) )?

[Q] CD-RW

1997-11-06 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Does anybody have any experience with CD-RW drives under Linux? To be more specific, with a Ricoh 6200. Where I work we have a good opportunity to buy one, but if it doesn't work in Linux, it's no good! ;) TIA! Salutacions, Pere __o

Re: diald / ppp routing problems on hamm system [SOLVED]

1997-11-06 Thread Joost Kooij
There were some problems reported with the /etc/nsswitch.conf. The networks line says files dns which means that when resolving a network address, libc will try first /etc/networks, then ask on DNS. However route tries to resolve the net diald passes to it and blocks in there (the

nm reports no symbols

1997-11-06 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Does anyone happen to know why the nm command would report no symbols? Here's how I got it... $ nm /lib/libreadline.so.2.1 /lib/libreadline.so.2.1: no symbols Every other library that I've tried nm with reports no symbols also. I'm using libreadlineg version 2.1-7 and binutils version

Re: dpkg won't remove nfsroot

1997-11-06 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Richard G. Roberto wrote: On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, joost witteveen wrote: I have a misconfigured or partially configured nfsroot on my disk that is marked 'purge' in dselect. Both dselect and 'dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq -r nfsroot' give the following response:

Re: Easy Samba Question

1997-11-06 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Yes, it works, although sometimes getting access to a WINS server (eg nmbd) which knows about the server can be a hassle, I suspect. I have accessed samba through terminal servers fine. The login message at ftp.kernel.org even advertises an SMB

Re: fonts in Navigator

1997-11-06 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, BG Lim wrote: Hello, I've been using Netscape Navigator 4.03 for some time. I use it to browse sites like ZDnet. My problem is that the fonts are not legible and quite small. I don't knwo how to change them. How do I reassign fonts in Navigator? OR is it a system wide X

Removing a mailbox lock on pine

1997-11-06 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, I do not know what caused it and how to rectify it. When I run pine (which normally did not give any problems) suddenly this afternoon there was a message Can't open mailbox lock: Access readonly. I cannot find any lock files. I did a reboot and that did not help. Help will be

Book for writing shell scripts.

1997-11-06 Thread R Chris Ross
I am looking for suggestions on a good book for writing shell scripts. O'Reilly publishes a book on bash and another on awk sed. Their other books seam to be quite good are there good choices and are there others worth looking at. I'v been administering Debian systems for a while

Re: amd/automount [Was: nis]

1997-11-06 Thread Matthew Majka
Since we're talking about automounters. I've heard that there is a version of AutoFS for Linux under development. I'm wondering if this will take the standard Sun/SGI maps and support indirect mounts? Anyone have details on AutoFS and when it will be available? --

Multiple instances (was Using source code for debian; compiling debian)

1997-11-06 Thread b.leach
Hi Richard; These were not web BROWSERS he was talking about but web SERVERS. You can not, in anything even remotely resembling a normal system, use two different web servers. Now in fact if you REALLY want to do this you can, in that you could configure (and probably recompile) one of the

Re: diald / ppp routing problems on hamm system

1997-11-06 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 04 Nov 1997 10:45:10 CST Ken Lauffenburger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, I very recently upgraded my home system from bo to hamm. As soon as I installed the netbase package, diald stopped working. The PPP link would connect, but

Re: What is the file XF86_NONE??

1997-11-06 Thread b.leach
Yes it is most definately a hack. You need to edit the file /etc/X11/Xserver to properly reflect the real xserver that you are using. In your case the first line of that file should be /usr/X11R6/XF86_SVGA. I am reasonably sure that if you don't do this then any future upgrade to the X

Re: few questions

1997-11-06 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Luka Pravica wrote: I have couple of questions: 1. I tried to install xirc, but dselect complained that it requires qt1, which is not available. What is qt1 and where can I find it? 2. Anyone knows where I can find a program called pftp? Both of these are still in

applix 4.3 rpm - deb

1997-11-06 Thread Paul Miller
I ran 'alien -d /cdrom/RPMS/i386/applix-4.3-1.i386.rpm' and got several errors.. can I safely ignore these errors/warnings? Warning: Unusual executable location repeated many times dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: could not find any packages for /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (libX11.so.6)

Re: diald / ppp routing problems on hamm system

1997-11-06 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Oops! My so-called solution has a symptom looking for a problem. From the syslog: kernel: sl0: transmit timed out, bad line quality? kernel: sl0: transmit timed out, bad line quality? last message repeated 2 times [EMAIL PROTECTED] route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask

Re: amd/automount [Was: nis]

1997-11-06 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Matthew Majka wrote: Since we're talking about automounters. I've heard that there is a version of AutoFS for Linux under development. I'm wondering if this will take the standard Sun/SGI maps and support indirect mounts? Anyone have details on AutoFS and when it will

Re: nm reports no symbols

1997-11-06 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: Does anyone happen to know why the nm command would report no symbols? Here's how I got it... $ nm /lib/libreadline.so.2.1 /lib/libreadline.so.2.1: no symbols Every other library that I've tried nm with reports no symbols also. I'm using

Re: Setting volume size for dump

1997-11-06 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Johann Spies wrote: Thank you for the reactions to my enquiry about efficient backup programs. I have overlooked dump and am trying it out now. What I do not seem to get right is setting the volume size. While using dump like this: dump 0uf /dev/nzqft0 / it does a backup, but says it

Re: tty uses only bottom line of screen

1997-11-06 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
James Dietrich wrote: Sorry to answer my own post, but I figured out a solution to the problem: Put the following script in some directory such as /usr/bin and while you are at the messed up terminal, type cat /usr/bin/fixvt.sh if /usr/bin is the path to the file and fixvt.sh is its

Re: RPM packages.

1997-11-06 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
David R. Kohel wrote: checking for X... (cached) libraries /usr/X11R6/lib, headers /usr/X11R6/include checking for dlfcn.h... (cached) no checking for main in -lX11... (cached) no checking for main in -lXext... (cached) no checking for main in -lXpm... (cached) no checking for main in

Re: web question

1997-11-06 Thread Lucas
Hello George, Try searching for something called htaccess (for NCSA web servers). This may get you started even if it's not the server you are using. At 03:29 PM 06-11-97 +, G. Kapetanios wrote: Hi, I must apologise for asking an irrelevant question but I can't get any help from

Re: Removing a mailbox lock on pine

1997-11-06 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Johann Spies wrote: I do not know what caused it and how to rectify it. When I run pine (which normally did not give any problems) suddenly this afternoon there was a message Can't open mailbox lock: Access readonly. Can you verify the permissions on /tmp are:

Re: Help Kernel Oops!

1997-11-06 Thread Dima
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I interpret this kernel debugging output? How do I learn to interpret kernel debugging output? How do I fix my system so I don't need to learn to interpret kernel debugging output? By UTSL'ing; however Unable to handle kernel paging request at

Re: Multiple instances (was Using source code for debian; compiling debian)

1997-11-06 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Thu, Jan 01, 1970 at 12:00:00AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These were not web BROWSERS he was talking about but web SERVERS. You can not, in anything even remotely resembling a normal system, use two different web servers. Now in fact if you REALLY want to do this you can, in that you

Re: web question

1997-11-06 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote: Hi, I must apologise for asking an irrelevant question but I can't get any help from elewhere. Can anyone give me some references to documentation discussing setting up password protected web pages (or even better a description of how do that :-)

Re: dpkg won't remove nfsroot

1997-11-06 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
Thanks a lot. This worked perfectly. I assume from your wording (in this case this is safe) that this would not be a safe procedure in general. Is this correct? Bob On Wed, 5 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) wrote: The way to fix this (in this case this is safe), is to do:

Re: RPM packages.

1997-11-06 Thread
checking for X... (cached) libraries /usr/X11R6/lib, headers /usr/X11R6/include checking for dlfcn.h... (cached) no checking for main in -lX11... (cached) no etc. Anyone know what is wrong here? Just remove the cache (./config.cache). Removed it. When I rerun configure it looks

Re: URGENT: Diald connection problem

1997-11-06 Thread Michael Legart
At 06:19 PM 11/5/97 -0500, cron wrote: The man pages and how-to's on this are not the best quality. Yep. I can agree on that one! The diald HOWTO really sux. It's not a help, but just a config script. It would be great if someone sometime could take some time to write a good diald howto But

Re: diald / ppp routing problems on hamm system

1997-11-06 Thread Ken Lauffenburger
Bonard B. Timmons III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops! My so-called solution has a symptom looking for a problem. From the syslog: kernel: sl0: transmit timed out, bad line quality? kernel: sl0: transmit timed out, bad line quality? last message repeated 2 times Yes, I was getting these

Re: How to use bash 2.01-5 vi-style line editing

1997-11-06 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
On Thu, 6 Nov 1997 Joost Kooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: Has anyone found a way to use vi-style line editing in the 2.01-5 version of bash? When I do a $ set -o vi $ esck to recall the last command, I just get a beep instead

case statement question...

1997-11-06 Thread David Oswald
Hello all - I have a KSH script question... Can someone out there take a look at this script. I want to perform an operation based on the day of month. but the days (10 - 31) are giving me a problem. I would really like to keep this a one liner if i can. How bout anybody out there done something

case statement question again...

1997-11-06 Thread David Oswald
Hello all - I have a KSH script question... sorry - the offending line is [10-31]) not [30-31]) Can someone out there take a look at this script. I want to perform an operation based on the day of month. but the days (10 - 31) are giving me a problem. I would really like to keep this a one liner

Re: case statement question...

1997-11-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
David Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello all - I have a KSH script question... Can someone out there take a look at this script. I want to perform an operation based on the day of month. but the days (10 - 31) are giving me a problem. I would really like to keep this a one liner if i

virtual mail using smail, is it possible???

1997-11-06 Thread Alberto Ruiz
Is possible to configure smail as a virtual mail server handling more than one domain? I know you can do it with sendmail. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

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