Re: HELLO

1997-11-11 Thread Rik Johns
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Re: HELLO

1997-11-11 Thread Rik Johns
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Re: HELLO

1997-11-11 Thread Rik Johns
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Re: can't install LILO

1997-11-11 Thread Manos Papantoniou
perhaps you should make the linux root partition bootable (if you haven't done it already) Manos Papantoniou Ken Deboy wrote: Hello, I'm having trouble installing LILO inder Debian 1.3.1 (installing from floppies). My disks: /dev/hda DOS/Win3.1 boot /dev/hdb1DOS FAT16 /dev/hdb2

Re: installing a library

1997-11-11 Thread Rik Johns
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installing 1.3 and Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 (ISA)

1997-11-11 Thread Alan Su
Hi everyone- I hope this is the right list...I'm having a problem getting Debian Linux to recognize my Ethernet adapter, the Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 (the ISA version). So far, I've done the following: - disabled PnP for the card - set the interrupt to IRQ 10 - set the I/O address to 0x240

Re: HELLO

1997-11-11 Thread Simon's Mailing List Account
1) don't shout. 2) this is a Linux mailing list, not MS-DOS. 3) winmodems will never work under MS-DOS. ever. buy a real modem. same is true for Linux, at least at this time. On Mon, 10 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: COULD YOU PLEASE HELP ME FIND DOS DRIVERS FOR MY WINMODEM, BECAUSE I

Please help ! ;-)

1997-11-11 Thread Richard Nevone
I just installed the debian linux on a pentium 75 system with 32 MB RAM and a Trident 9680 , 2MB video card. Love the OS !Great job guys ! But I have a small problem... When I run startx from the shell prompt, X11 comes up fine but the screen is almost unreadable. I (very much by mistake)

Re: where to place locate TeX style files

1997-11-11 Thread Philippe Troin
On 10 Nov 1997 17:53:49 +0100 Christian Leutloff ([EMAIL PROTECTED] che.de) wrote: I want to add a new style file to my system. I'm using an unmodified /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf. Therefor I should be able to place new style files under /usr/lib/texmf/local. I've tried this but LaTeX never founds

Re: Please help ! ;-)

1997-11-11 Thread TJM
Increase the color depth to 16 bpp or use the 'noaccel' parameter for the Trident chipset. Either one of these should fix the problem. tjm [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

olvwm doesn't work

1997-11-11 Thread Bill Moran
HI I am trying to run olvwm. WHen I do I receive the following error message: /home/bill/.xinitrc: line 35 161 segementation fault (core dumped) olvwm Line 35 of my .xinitrc file contains: olvwm Can anyone tell me how to fix this? Thanks Bill -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Network audio system

1997-11-11 Thread Bill Moran
Hi I have a Toshiba laptop with debian installed. When I boot I receive the following message: Starting the Network Audio System Fatal server error could not create audio connection block info Does anyone know what this means and how it might affect the working of the machine? Thanks Bill

Re: Network audio system

1997-11-11 Thread Christian Lynbech
Bill == Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bill Fatal server error could not create audio connection block info This means that when the NAS tried to start the audio server, it died. Most likley, your kernel does not support sound, at least not in the way that the NAS server expects it to.

Routing Software

1997-11-11 Thread Support Department
Hi, my cable company is offering cable modem service via a hybrid modem (coaxil in, modem out) with connection to the computer via ethernet, the dialer is not a problem as it is written in java, but what I need support for is PPP, DHCP, and the ability to have other computers on the LAN be able

Re: LILO only says LI 01 01 01 01...

1997-11-11 Thread Andy Spiegl
First of all: Thanks a lot for your fast help! According to Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED]: it sounds like you forgot to reconfigure /etc/lilo.conf to write the boot record to your scsi disk instead of the ide disk. try: - power down and remove the IDE drive THAT was it! I

KDE Beta1

1997-11-11 Thread nir
I could not find a debian package set for KDE Beta1 installable in Debian 1.3.1 Does anyone know where to get these, when they exist!! should i install rpm's ?? thanks, Ritchie -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

How honest is top

1997-11-11 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
Hi, I have searched thru' man pages and I am still can understand the 'top' program. Here is a sample output 11:31am up 4 days, 1:58h, 2 users, load average: 1.05, 1.01, 1.00 37 processes: 34 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 98.0% user, 1.9% system, 98.0% nice, 0.1%

Re: buffers getting way out of control

1997-11-11 Thread Robert Zeches
Well - upon more investigation I found this to be in the debian bug report logs - #12245. This report talks about bogus +/- buffers free readings. Sorry about the posts - I guess I should have dug a little further. Still doesn't explain my out of memory errors - hmmm. Robert Robert Zeches

Re: buffers getting way out of control

1997-11-11 Thread Robert Zeches
Here's more info. If I stop the apache server everything seems to be normal: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:127924 75576 52348 11560 51012 -/+ buffers:24564 1336 Swap: 128484 0 128484

Where to nice fetching mail?

1997-11-11 Thread David Morris
I have a cron job that runs every half an hour to grab my waiting email and whatever usenet messages are applicable for the groups I am reading. The trouble is that once it starts the system load increases rapidly (to anywhere from 3 to 5) and causes any other process I am running to stall until

Re: Moving files between DOS hard drive and Linux hard drive

1997-11-11 Thread E.L. Meijer (Eric)
Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: using a command like `mount /dev/hda1 /mnt'. Dissected: mount /dev/hda1 /mnt ^ ^^ ^ Mount point. This can be any directory. | || * Shouldn't that be any _empty_

Re: X process takes over cpu

1997-11-11 Thread tps
On Nov 09, G. Kapetanios wrote Hi, Something strange has happened to my X sessions since upgrading to glibc6 stuf (3.3.1-1). Sometimes whan I finish the session an X process ( FvwmButtons ) remains active and uses about 50% of my cpu time. In order to stop it I have to use kill -9. Has

Re: squid

1997-11-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Behan Webster: I have squid installed, but something seems to be wrong as everytime the computer boots I get the following error messages: (In truth there are a dozen or so of the following line preceding the these error messages, but I cut them out for brevity as they all say

Re: smartmail/exim question

1997-11-11 Thread Christoph Lameter
This phenomenon is due to the strict RFC conformity of exim. smartlist generates a header with Resent-From but no Resent-To. To comply with some RFC exim will insert a Resent-To header (I got that from Phil a while back). This is known to the smartlist people and the examples for Smartlist mention

buffers getting way out of control

1997-11-11 Thread Robert Zeches
I hope someone can help me with this - I'm not a Debian guru and I didn't find anything in the list archives that was relevant to this. Here goes: If I run free, I notice that after awhile the numbers on the buffers line show upwards of 4GB of memory. If I let this stay this way eventually

Problems compiling MH on hamm system

1997-11-11 Thread ken
Hello Debian team, I'm having some trouble compiling the mh_6.8.4-14 source package on my hamm system. After extracting the source using dpkg-source, and configuring as described in the mh_6.8.4/READ-ME file, I get the following when doing the make: leisure# make for d in config sbr mts zotnet

Re: Moving files between DOS hard drive and Linux hard drive

1997-11-11 Thread David S. Zelinsky
Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: using a command like `mount /dev/hda1 /mnt'. Dissected: mount /dev/hda1 /mnt ^ ^^ ^ Mount point. This can be any directory. | || * Shouldn't that be any _empty_ directory?

finding myself on DDS-2 tape...

1997-11-11 Thread Tim Ferrell
Is there a formula for determining what percentage of tape I have left after a backup? I use 'mt tell' to get the current block on tape - how do I know how many blocks are on the tape? I am using a 4-8GB DAT drive with 90m and 120m tapes. I just need some kind of idea of how much tape is left...

Re: finding myself on DDS-2 tape...

1997-11-11 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997 21:01:29 EST Tim Ferrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is there a formula for determining what percentage of tape I have left after a backup? I use 'mt tell' to get the current block on tape - how do I know how many blocks are on the tape? I am using a 4-8GB DAT drive with

Re: Update: mounting MS-DOS fs onto Linux

1997-11-11 Thread Matt McClanahan
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Charles Read wrote: Here's what I tried: 0. Looked at /proc/filesystems to verify that VFAT was supported. 1. Ran dmesg | more to verify that /dev/hda1 was the correct partition. 2. Ran mount and got this result: # mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt

Re: olvwm doesn't work

1997-11-11 Thread tibor simko
bill == Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bill /home/bill/.xinitrc: line 35 161 segementation fault (core bill dumped) olvwm does the error persist when you run: `startx /usr/bin/X11/olvwm' with _empty_ .xinitrc file? if not, how olwm behaves? bill Line 35 of my .xinitrc file

plug and play modem

1997-11-11 Thread nitkiew
Hello, My modem (Zoltrix internal modem, v.34+, model FM-SE336VSP) is set to operate in Plug and Play mode under Win95. Is it possible to use it under Linux without setting fixed I/O address and IRQ number with jumpers ? Thanks, Jacek -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Anybody using Syquest drives??

1997-11-11 Thread Tim Ferrell
Anybody using Syquest drives under Linux, especially the SyJet?? I am considering buying one and wonder about their quality and reliability. Thanks! Tim -- Debian GNU Linux Power to the people... E-Mail: Tim Ferrell

Re: HELLO

1997-11-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: COULD YOU PLEASE HELP ME FIND DOS DRIVERS FOR MY WINMODEM, BECAUSE I HAVE GAMES TO PLAY ON MODEM GAME. I CAN'T BECAUSE MY MODEM DOESN'T WORK IN DOS. 1. Don't shout. 2. This is the wrong forum for any DOS questions not related to Debian GNU/Linux in some way. 3.

Re: Moving files between DOS hard drive and Linux hard drive

1997-11-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David S. Zelinsky) writes: Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: using a command like `mount /dev/hda1 /mnt'. Dissected: mount /dev/hda1 /mnt ^ ^^ ^ Mount point. This can be any directory. | ||

HELLO

1997-11-11 Thread Flavorfa
COULD YOU PLEASE HELP ME FIND DOS DRIVERS FOR MY WINMODEM, BECAUSE I HAVE GAMES TO PLAY ON MODEM GAME. I CAN'T BECAUSE MY MODEM DOESN'T WORK IN DOS. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

delete and backspace with xterm/rxvt

1997-11-11 Thread Curtis Brown
Hi, I recently upgraded several packages, including ncurses-base, and xbase. Now delete and backspace don't work at all in xterm or rxvt. I tried reinstalling ncurses-base and xbase, but I still have the problem. I'm using ncurses-base_1.9.9g-5 and xbase_3.3.1-1. Can anyone help? Thanks, Curt

Re: Setting volume size for dump

1997-11-11 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Claus-Justus Heine wrote: Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Claus-Justus Heine wrote: Aren't these marks simply file marks? (just asking, I know that there are thos MTFSS/BSS/WSM tape operations, are these effectively different from the MTFSF/BSF/WEOF

Re: removing some persistent files

1997-11-11 Thread Carey Evans
Tommy Lakofski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: after a horrendous crash on my hamm box (cause of which I've yet to ascertain), I'm left with some files like this on my disk: 07/8F: total 396246198 br-sr-S--x 1 2691225646111, 99 Mar 12 1995 18F7 First run fsck -Vf /dev/???, for

Re: ps/2 mouse don't work on ps/2 driver

1997-11-11 Thread Carey Evans
Wee-Min Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using a mitsumi ps/2 mouse. It won't work on the ps/2 mouse driver = provided by Debian's Linux. What's wrong? When I start Linux... it reported that it has detected a ps/2 mouse. But after running gpm I can't see my mouse cursor. I've heard that

Unidentified subject!

1997-11-11 Thread David Maslen
I'm trying to keep my system, on the stable distribution. I found myself recompiling a couple of packages such as qmail so as to be able to do this. I've tried to recompile gimp0.99 and it doesn't seem to work. ./debian/rules build seems to go ok, complaining it can't find something to do with xd

Re: Posting to usenet

1997-11-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Trevor Barrie wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Looks like nn tries a command leafnode doesn't understand (or the syntax nn uses is wrong). You could check the rfc about error 502. RFC? I know FAQs, manpages, HOWTOs and /usr/doc/*, but that's a

Re: DSFG Free?

1997-11-11 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Pete Harlan wrote: configurable, solid, and DFSG free. It also has support for all the I have slipped into a parallel universe where GPL seems to have been replaced by DFSG. Unfortunately, www.debian.org and www.gnu.org reside in my former universe. A web search

hamm release date?

1997-11-11 Thread Matthew
does anyone know when hamm will be released? (If you do know, email me at the below address, my server that is subscribed to this list appears to be down right now) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

DSFG Free?

1997-11-11 Thread Pete Harlan
configurable, solid, and DFSG free. It also has support for all the I have slipped into a parallel universe where GPL seems to have been replaced by DFSG. Unfortunately, www.debian.org and www.gnu.org reside in my former universe. A web search turns up many wonderful pages written in

Re: Setting volume size for dump

1997-11-11 Thread Claus-Justus Heine
Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Claus-Justus Heine wrote: Aren't these marks simply file marks? (just asking, I know that there are thos MTFSS/BSS/WSM tape operations, are these effectively different from the MTFSF/BSF/WEOF operations?) Yeah, it's a different

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #974

1997-11-11 Thread Jon Sokolow
Im Having Some Problems Getting My Linux machine connected to the network on campus. I have a 3com 3c905 network card and I have the Driver (I think). I need help compiling the driver into the kernel. Could someone Help me Out?? Thanks Jon From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Nov 8 14:10:20 1997

Down after 75 days of up time

1997-11-11 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Shut!!! Our main Linux server that handles mail (SMTP/POP3), WWW (apache), HTTP proxying and caching (Squid), primary DNS, remote access (PPP), file and printing services (Samba and NFS), network News (innd), among other things, crashed yesterday after 75 days of up time. Boy, I can tell you it

pseudo-static IP for webserver?

1997-11-11 Thread Rick Hawkins
I wish I knew enough about the details here to phrase this right, but anyway: I need to test software that uses a browser to control it. That is, news web accounts on the server are administratively controlled through web pages from other machines. (the server runs apache). To test this, I

can't install LILO

1997-11-11 Thread Ken Deboy
Hello, I'm having trouble installing LILO inder Debian 1.3.1 (installing from floppies). My disks: /dev/hda DOS/Win3.1 boot /dev/hdb1DOS FAT16 /dev/hdb2Linux Swap /dev/hdb3Linux Root /dev/hdb4Minix My /etc/lilo.conf file: boot=/dev/hda compact vga=normal install=/boot/boot.b

Re: CD-ROM Floppy

1997-11-11 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, RON BROWN wrote: : I am having problems mounting my cd-rom and 3 1/2 floppy to read files : and programs from them. Can anyone help me with this matter. Do you get any error message? Some more information is required, I think. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: monitor variable

1997-11-11 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, charles jackson wrote: Can anybody tell me how to change my monitor variable for x11? There is a man who surely holds the answer. Go ask the man, man x is your friend man 5 XF86Config probably is a nice guy too Try (as root): mv /etc/X11/XF86Config

Re: Setting volume size for dump

1997-11-11 Thread Kai M{kisara
On 11 Nov 1997, Claus-Justus Heine wrote: Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Claus-Justus Heine wrote: ... So does this mean that SETMARKS are kind of second level file marks? I'm just curious what these things are. There is no real need for me to know it, I'm just curious.

Re: Problems compiling MH on hamm system

1997-11-11 Thread Francis Swasey
Ken, I think you will find things a lot easier if you try NMH instead of the very old and buggy MH. You can find NMH (New MH) at http://www.math.gatech.edu/nmh/ Frank -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: KDE Beta1

1997-11-11 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, nir wrote: : I could not find a debian package set for KDE Beta1 installable in Debian 1.3.1 : Does anyone know where to get these, when they exist!! : : should i install rpm's ?? There are several differences between the RPM and the DEB packages (they are in hamm, I

Re: Setting volume size for dump

1997-11-11 Thread Kai M{kisara
My apologies to Claus-Justus and Jens: the attribution was incorrect in the previous reply (because I accidentally hit the send key too early ;-) On 11 Nov 1997, Claus-Justus Heine wrote: Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Claus-Justus Heine wrote: ... So does this mean that

new iso9660 debian image?

1997-11-11 Thread Dirk Vleugels
Hi, (please CC the above email adress, my subscribe command isn't confirmed until now) i'm thinking about switching to Debian 1.3.1. I guess the easiest solution is to download the prebuild cdrom image, but it's already pretty old (Jul 7). Is there a newer image (with all new .deb files

Re: Anybody using Syquest drives??

1997-11-11 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Anybody using Syquest drives under Linux, especially the SyJet?? I am considering buying one and wonder about their quality and reliability. Thanks! Tim Dear Tim, I am in exactly the same situation - though I already decided to buy one. I had previous experience with Jaz drive - that was

xbiff's bitmaps?

1997-11-11 Thread Branden Robinson
I was wondering if anyone could tell me where the traditional old mailbox bitmaps (the ones that are ugly) for xbiff are? I've dug around /usr/X11R6 quite a bit and can find neither the bitmaps nor an app-defaults for xbiff that would control this. The man page also didn't mention any

Re: where to place locate TeX style files

1997-11-11 Thread Christian Leutloff
Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For a style file, it would be: /usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/latex/ Then run texhash. Brian Mays [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have you tried placing them under /usr/lib/texmf/local/tex/latex Hope that helps. yes, it does. Thanks a lot. Bye

Re: can't install LILO

1997-11-11 Thread LeRoy D. Cressy
Manos Papantoniou wrote: perhaps you should make the linux root partition bootable (if you haven't done it already) Manos Papantoniou Hi, though using the linux partition to boot is the optium idea, I don't know if Ken's bios can boot from the second ide hd. One option is to switch

Re: Stop rc5v2 client, Bovine team won 56 bit secret key challenge!

1997-11-11 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Britton wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: I don't think it has already been reported on this mailing list, anyway, just for who is letting the rc5v2 client run: www.distributed.net gives details. Ok, maybe the Linux community started late

nenscript + gs

1997-11-11 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Does anybody have a way to automatize this? IE, I don't want to type return and quitreturn everytime I run this script. CUT #!/bin/bash nenscript -B -FCourier5 -fCourier6 -p./a.ps $1 gs -q -I/usr/share/ghostscript/3.33/fonts/ -sDEVICE=ljet4 -sOutputFile=./a.dj a.ps lpr a.dj

Re: installing 1.3 and Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 (ISA)

1997-11-11 Thread Steve Mayer
Alan, If memory serves me correct, the current version of the eepro driver is hardcoded (somehow) to work on IRQ 5. Do you have a sound card installed on IRQ 5? The latest driver from the author fixes this problem. Look in the driver source for his email address. Also, check using dmesg as

Re: nenscript + gs

1997-11-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anybody have a way to automatize this? IE, I don't want to type return and quitreturn everytime I run this script. Add -dNOPAUSE. -- Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senders of unsolicited commercial e-mail will

Re: CD-ROM Floppy

1997-11-11 Thread tko
RON BROWN writes: Hello Everyone, I am having problems mounting my cd-rom and 3 1/2 floppy to read files and programs from them. Can anyone help me with this matter. OK, first ? - what type of CDROM drive do you have? (IDE, SCSI, or OTHER) second ? - What kind of floppies are you trying

fvwm95

1997-11-11 Thread tko
Quick question... Where is the configuration information for the initial xterm window which is opened when xdm starts up fvwm95? I like the font in the additional xterm windows and the font in the initial xterm windows is harder to read. Thanks! -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek

cmucl

1997-11-11 Thread Lisa, Sian, Becki and Richard
I have just installed cmucl, carnigie Mellon University Commol Lisp. If there is sufficient interest I am willing to package it, but as it quite a large, complex system, I would rather not spend a lot of time packaging it if there was no interest. It includes PCL and CLX, to requested packages,

Re: pseudo-static IP for webserver?

1997-11-11 Thread Daniel Martin
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: I wish I knew enough about the details here to phrase this right, but anyway: I need to test software that uses a browser to control it. That is, news web accounts on the server are administratively controlled through web pages from other

JDK 1.1.4 deb

1997-11-11 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, Is the JDK 1.1.4 debian package available yet? Thanks! -- Timothy C. Phan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) NEC America, Inc. ASL 1525 Walnut Hill Ln. Irving, TX 75038

Netscape 4 question

1997-11-11 Thread Shaleh
When i try to run Netscape I get a IOT trapped/abort (core dump) message. Anyone seen this. It just started last night and to my knowledge nothing has changed. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

[OFF TOPIC] M$ Explorer for Solaris!!!!

1997-11-11 Thread Brian K Servis
Look out *NIX world here comes M$!!! M$ has released preview 1 of M$ Explorer for Solaris 2.5. http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie40/download/unix.htm. It is even more bloated than Communicator it says it need 30M of disk space when done installing and 60M during the install, YIKES! Brian Servis

Re: printer trouble (solved)

1997-11-11 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: Hello everyone, Hi! I recently got a problem with a printer filter used by lpr. The filter is used for a HP Deskjet 870 cxi, and used to work properly on this machine, and still does on other machines: The princap entry is

Re: [OFF TOPIC] M$ Explorer for Solaris!!!!

1997-11-11 Thread Richard A. Guay
Hi, Since we have Solaris 2.5.1 on a few systems here I tried it out. It does not work worth a penny! All of the screens come up black! It expects to be the only program running and hogs all of the color space! It does not even use it's own color map. What a piece of junk! -Original

Problems using adduser with NIS

1997-11-11 Thread David Maslen
Hi, I'm having difficulty adding users to my network which runs nis. I have a mail server which also stores the home directories. This is where I set up new users, but users cannot log into this machine. They access their directories over NFS, and get their mail the same way through qmail's

Netscape 4 news

1997-11-11 Thread Shaleh
Has nothing to due with previous post ;-) Version 4.04 is out for ALL Linux platforms but Alpha. Even one for mklinux!! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

bounced mails

1997-11-11 Thread Shaleh
I get e-mail from various people's server about mail bouncing. This appears to be a problem with the debian list-serv. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: nenscript + gs

1997-11-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anybody have a way to automatize this? IE, I don't want to type return and quitreturn everytime I run this script. Oops, I forgot, you need to add `quit.ps' at the end in addition to `-dNOPAUSE'. -- Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mail tuning

1997-11-11 Thread RedHat Linux User
I was thinking of setting up a mail server for 3,000 user accounts. But I want to know what kind of tuning I can do. I have used ipop3d under Red Hat before and it reads the entire mailbox, what if the user has 2 mail, down goes the server. any ideas ? -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: mail tuning

1997-11-11 Thread Ryan Smith-Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was thinking of setting up a mail server for 3,000 user accounts. But I want to know what kind of tuning I can do. I have used ipop3d under Red Hat before and it reads the entire mailbox, what if the user has 2 mail, down goes the

Re: [OFF TOPIC] M$ Explorer for Solaris!!!!

1997-11-11 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Brian K Servis wrote: Look out *NIX world here comes M$!!! M$ has released preview 1 of M$ Explorer for Solaris 2.5. http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie40/download/unix.htm. It is even more bloated than Communicator it says it need 30M of disk space when done installing

Re: nenscript + gs

1997-11-11 Thread Pere Camps
Ben, Oops, I forgot, you need to add `quit.ps' at the end in addition to `-dNOPAUSE'. Ok! It worked. Thanks. Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_ http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ PGP key available --- (_)/ (_)Lo

Re: Netscape 4 news

1997-11-11 Thread James Troup
Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has nothing to due with previous post ;-) Version 4.04 is out for ALL Linux platforms but Alpha. Even one for mklinux!! You have a broken definition of ALL. (There's no m68k one either) -- James -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: new iso9660 debian image?

1997-11-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Dirk Vleugels wrote: i'm thinking about switching to Debian 1.3.1. I guess the easiest solution is to download the prebuild cdrom image, but it's already pretty old (Jul 7). Is there a newer image (with all new .deb files included) available? If not, would it be a

info about shadow needed

1997-11-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Hi, I have some difficulties in understanding the /etc/gshadow file. A excerpt: nogroup:*:: usera:x:: userb:!:: msql::: The second field is the group password, right? A * means password disabled (as in /etc/shadow), but what about x, ! and the empty field? Ciao, Martin -- TO

Re: Update: mounting MS-DOS fs onto Linux

1997-11-11 Thread Pete Harlan
One possible unconfirmed cause (Okay, a guess) Is the Win95 partition OSR2? (Fat32?) To my knoweldge, the vfat filesystem doesn't yet support the alterations made by OSR2. Matt I have a bleeding-edge Windows95 OSR2 installation (October1997 OEM) and (Debian) Linux reads it fine as vfat.

Re: squid

1997-11-11 Thread Behan Webster
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: According to Behan Webster: I have squid installed, but something seems to be wrong as everytime the computer boots I get the following error messages: (In truth there are a dozen or so of the following line preceding the these error messages, but I cut

Re: HELLO

1997-11-11 Thread Bruce Perens
4) And be sure to tell all your friends to not get ripped off on winmodems the way you did. They won't run Linux either. 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: [OFF TOPIC] M$ Explorer for Solaris!!!!

1997-11-11 Thread Bill Leach
Flame ON: I suppose that this is just some of my own sour grapes, anti-Micro$loth bigotry but... Should anyone be surprised!? To Micro$loth people, they ARE the world and what 'they' do IS the standard. Though I may well be full of it, I really do believe that Micro$sloth really does make

Re: Netscape 4 news

1997-11-11 Thread Simon's Mailing List Account
On 11 Nov 1997, James Troup wrote: Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has nothing to due with previous post ;-) Version 4.04 is out for ALL Linux platforms but Alpha. Even one for mklinux!! You have a broken definition of ALL. (There's no m68k one either) Actually, even more broken;

Re: [OFF TOPIC] M$ Explorer for Solaris!!!!

1997-11-11 Thread ychim
MS said that there is no Linux port. Brian K Servis wrote: Look out *NIX world here comes M$!!! M$ has released preview 1 of M$ Explorer for Solaris 2.5. http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie40/download/unix.htm. It is even more bloated than Communicator it says it need 30M of disk space when

Re: [OFF TOPIC] M$ Explorer for Solaris!!!!

1997-11-11 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MS said that there is no Linux port. Sun Computer running Solaris. Thats all they are planning on releasing for. Brian K Servis wrote: Look out *NIX world here comes M$!!! M$ has released preview 1 of M$ Explorer for Solaris 2.5.

mutt for bo libc5

1997-11-11 Thread Otavio Exel
hi everybody, I'm using Debian 1.3 bo libc5 only; for some reason (high degree of newbieness :-) I wouldn't like to mess with libc6 for now; last month I received a message from debian-changes@lists.debian.org stating that there was a mutt package for libc5; like that: Description: mutt -

Re: [OFF TOPIC] M$ Explorer for Solaris!!!!

1997-11-11 Thread Glenn Amerine
ychim == ychim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ychim MS said that there is no Linux port. Brian K Servis wrote: Look out *NIX world here comes M$!!! M$ has released preview 1 of M$ Explorer for Solaris 2.5. http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie40/download/unix.htm. It is even

1.3.1 Setup with ULTRA DMA disk

1997-11-11 Thread Alex Monaghan
Help, I attempted to install Debian 1.3.1 from the Linux Systems Labs Official Debian CD onto my father's PC. This installed OK from the boot floppy made from the CD. When booting from the rescue disk it finds ide0 at irq14 and ide1 at irq 15 and all works OK, when booting via LILO or via the

Re: HELLO

1997-11-11 Thread DebianUser
In a message dated 11/11/97 4:02:24 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 4) and it was my impression, that aol users were unable to connect to the Internet using the Aol servers..who knows...:/... Depending on the game you can do it under Win95. Now for something more on topic.

Re: bounced mails

1997-11-11 Thread Pete Templin
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Shaleh wrote: I get e-mail from various people's server about mail bouncing. This appears to be a problem with the debian list-serv. FYI: The bounceograms are, in fact, from various peoples' servers, and in particular, ones that don't follow standardized email RFCs. As

Re: Posting to usenet

1997-11-11 Thread Trevor Barrie
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Okay, tin works, sort of. It seems it still can't find my hostname since my From: lines show up as [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I can manually edit that. It's a pain though. (The file /usr/doc/tin/INSTALL.gz cryptically recommends that I check

Re: Posting to usenet

1997-11-11 Thread Trevor Barrie
Amendment to previous message: /sbin/route produces different output when I'm connected. It's Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface ca24l.pq.ca.ibm * 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 loopnet *

Re: mutt for bo libc5

1997-11-11 Thread David Puyrear
Otavio Exel wrote: hi everybody, I'm using Debian 1.3 bo libc5 only; for some reason (high degree of newbieness :-) I wouldn't like to mess with libc6 for now; last month I received a message from debian-changes@lists.debian.org stating that there was a mutt package for libc5; like

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