Re: xdm/X not terminating processes on logout

1997-11-14 Thread G. Kapetanios
Almost exactly the same thing is happening to my machine. I n case FVWMButtons does not terminate. It has starrted happening after I upgradeed to 3.3.1-1 George On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Brian M. Rectanus wrote: For some reason processes are not being

newsgate: news2mail coredump

1997-11-14 Thread Steve Kostecke
The mail2news portion of newsgate works perfectly for me. Unfortunately that is not the case for news2mail. I had a feeling that my posts to debian.user (my local store of debian-user) weren't going out to the list. So I tried running news2mail (as root) and fed it a message like this:

Laptop install gone haywire

1997-11-14 Thread Michael Jinks
I'm new to this list and new to Debian -- I've been using RedHat for about the past two months though. Before that I was very nearly Unix-free. A brief comb through the archives didn't turn up anything that looked like it pertained to my problem; if you know better, just let me know and maybe

Modem configuration

1997-11-14 Thread smorrill
Ok, guys, I give... I have a base installation running from floppies (ver 1.3) on a 586 sharing a hard drive with win95. Everything works as it should, so far. I'm trying to get ppp running so I can ftp the packages I need. I'm a real newbie to linux, and I'm not understanding the setup process

Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH causes problems in hamm distribution

1997-11-14 Thread Jameson Burt
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Jameson Burt wrote: : After upgrading ldso, libc6 and several other packages, several packages : failed to work, responding segmentation violation, :xv, xfig, xephem : The cause of this was my setting of LD_LIBRARY_PATH in .bashrc. : I had used this setting

Re: Where is the Local Guide to Latex?

1997-11-14 Thread H Huang
Drake == Drake Diedrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Drake On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: I have finally decided to learn Latex, so I bought Leslie Lamport's book and started reading ... but the first suggestion has been difficult to deal with. He suggests that there is a Local

Re: compiling wine/twin

1997-11-14 Thread Britton
You know that 'yacc' stands for Yet Another Compiler Compiler' don't you? Don't know about you, but this scares me a little. However if you think you are up to it or have something to contribute to WINE: What you want are the GNU versions of lex and yacc, known I think as flex and bison. Hope

core during preinst

1997-11-14 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, just tried to install netscape4 on my hamm system: stas ~ # dpkg -i netscape4_4.0-6.deb (Reading database ... 15923 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking netscape4 (from netscape4_4.0-6.deb) ... dpkg: error processing netscape4_4.0-6.deb (--install): subprocess

Re: Where is the Local Guide to Latex?

1997-11-14 Thread Nick Busigin
On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: I have finally decided to learn Latex, so I bought Leslie Lamport's book and started reading ... but the first suggestion has been difficult to deal with. He suggests that there is a Local Guide to Latex that I should read to find out how to use the

Re: Modem configuration

1997-11-14 Thread Britton
I used minicom fairly extensively when first setting up ppp. I think it would be worth your time to download that perhapd from win 95 and install it. Then you can check if your modem is installed right. Mine is on an odd port and interrupt (I don't remember which now) but I never had to worry

XDM freezes keyboard: problem and solution

1997-11-14 Thread Mike O'Donnell
I have a problem with a solution, in case someone else hits the same problem. I also hope that someone can provide a fuller explanation of the problem, since mine has a few gaps. I installed Debian 1.1 on 12 September 1996, then reinstalled 1.3.1 on 9 August 1997 from Linux System Labs CDs. I

Re: Laptop Monitors

1997-11-14 Thread Bob Clark
Try specifying chipset clgd5436 in place of 754x. It worked for me on a Gateway Solo2100 laptop with a 7548. Here's my XF86Config: # This file is derived from Gordon Chaffe's ([EMAIL PROTECTED]/Berkeley.EDU) # web page http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/index.html#xfree86_cirrus # # This

xdm problems...

1997-11-14 Thread Paul Miller
I'm using Debian/hamm ... and I'm trying to get xconsole to work.. it works fine from the window manager menus, but won't run with xdm/kdm.. I also noticed this other problem.. and I don't know what it means. /var/log/xdm-errors: AUDIT: Thu Nov 13 23:27:51 1997: 975 X: client 3 rejected from

Re: Modem configuration

1997-11-14 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, smorrill wrote: Ok, guys, I give... I have a base installation running from floppies (ver 1.3) on a 586 sharing a hard drive with win95. Everything works as it should, so far. I'm trying to get ppp running so I can ftp the packages I need. I'm a real newbie to linux,

Re: xdm problems...

1997-11-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AUDIT: Thu Nov 13 23:27:51 1997: 975 X: client 3 rejected from local host Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: -1 This sort of message generally means that someone not authorized to connect to your X server tried to connect anyway. Since the host was the

Re: xdm problems...

1997-11-14 Thread Paul Miller
On 13 Nov 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AUDIT: Thu Nov 13 23:27:51 1997: 975 X: client 3 rejected from local host Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: -1 This sort of message generally means that someone not authorized to connect to your X server tried to

olvwm

1997-11-14 Thread Bill Moran
Hi I am (still) trying to get olvwm to work under debian. When I run /usr/bin/X11/olvwm, I receive the message Cannot connect to (NULL DISPLAY) I have a .DISPLAY file in my home directory with :0.0 in it. When I type env I cannot find a DISPLAY variable. How do I set the variable for

[BIND] Delegation question--update

1997-11-14 Thread lung
I figured out a rough way to solve it, but I dont like it. for each of the IP that they are allocated if i put an IP IN NS ns1.domain.com IN NS ns2.domain.com into the reverse file for that class c it works because it looks to the ns1 and ns2 .domain.com name

Does lesstif provide libXm.so.1.2 for Netscape?

1997-11-14 Thread Rick Macdonald
The release notes for Communicator 4.04 say that Linux plugins only work with the dynamically linked version of Motif 1.2. Does lesstif provide this, and do plugins work? I recall that bash 2.0.1 (or was it 2.1?) is also required? ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: mail domain

1997-11-14 Thread Carey Evans
Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Before installing BIND, the default mail domain was '3dillusion.com'.. now it is '3dillusion.3dillusion.com' ... I want to change it back, how can I do this? If this is the named I get on 3dillusion.com, it's still not set up right: % dig @3dillusion.com

Re: ISDN link on demand.

1997-11-14 Thread Philippe Troin
On Thu, 13 Nov 1997 23:27:48 GMT Batista, M. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Know somebody set up the ISDN link to an ISP on demand? I make this link by hand, but when the hangup time out to come, the ISDN driver shutdown the link and i have to start up by hand once more. Have

Re: Does lesstif provide libXm.so.1.2 for Netscape?

1997-11-14 Thread Philippe Troin
On Thu, 13 Nov 1997 22:05:47 MST Rick Macdonald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The release notes for Communicator 4.04 say that Linux plugins only work with the dynamically linked version of Motif 1.2. Does lesstif provide this, and do plugins work? Lesstif provides *source* compatibility

Re: starting xdm

1997-11-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
Will Lowe wrote: I'd like my system to come up running xdm or kdm. What is the proper place to do this? Right now I'm just logging in and doing sudo kdm, but I've a feeling that there's probably a correct runlevel or something to do this in. In /etc/X11/config, you need the line

Modem configuration, cont.

1997-11-14 Thread smorrill
Thank you all for the response! And, yes, Dwarf, I have your new book I think it's a great help! Finally, something Debian specific! But I have to admit, I'm still just trying to get my modem working in the base (floppy install only) system. Do I have to MAKEDEV for my modem? -- Steve Morrill

Which book?

1997-11-14 Thread clif smith
OK I know this question will generate subjective answers but -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Laptop Monitors

1997-11-14 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
I have the same chipset (CL754x). If you look at the X11 readme files they mention that no-one is working on the chipset so they cannot guarantee or fix bugs. I also have similar problems. // Daniel J. Mashao --

Re: Modem configuration

1997-11-14 Thread RDuran2099
I have the exact same problem too. I purchaced the CD from LSL afterwards and installed DUNC. For some reason at the end of the configuration proccess I get a message: Error Executing command I read the Related HOW To's and I'm still confused. If it's okay with steve, Could you please cc.

Re: Laptop install gone haywire

1997-11-14 Thread Carey Evans
Michael Jinks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 VFS: Cannot open root device 02:00 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00 This looks to me like a media error, but I've tried two different copies of the root filesystem floppy and

Pentium Bug Fix for Linux?

1997-11-14 Thread Kevin Traas
I just heard on BugTraq that there's now a bugfix available for Linux Anyone heard of it or where it might be obtained? For those that are wondering what I'm talking about http://support.intel.com/support/processors/pentium/ppiie/index.htm Regards, Kevin TraasBaan

Re: autofs and 2.0.31

1997-11-14 Thread Olivier THARAN
On Thu, Nov 13, 1997 at 11:48:38PM +, G. Kapetanios wrote: I have compiled a 2.0.31 kernel. One of the reasons for doing so was to use autofs. However when I did make menuconfig I didn't see an option for autofs support. I thought it was in the kernel anyway and instaled he package.

Re: Pentium Bug Fix for Linux?

1997-11-14 Thread Olivier THARAN
On Fri, Nov 14, 1997 at 09:25:45AM +0100, Kevin Traas wrote: I just heard on BugTraq that there's now a bugfix available for Linux Anyone heard of it or where it might be obtained? It's in the latest 2.1.63 kernel, and hopefully will be integrated in 2.0.32... Later, olive --

Re: 2.0.31 kernel - SCSI problems

1997-11-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
I tried 2.0.31, but found that it broke my SCSI system - it would no longer acknowledge the existence of tapedrive or scanner. This was apparent at boot-time, when they no longer appeared on the SCSI device list. I am using an Adaptec 2940UW with the aic7xxx SCSI kernel code. I wanted this

xdm trouble

1997-11-14 Thread Ole Jørgen Tetlie
[Please CC any replies to me] Hi, I upgraded some packages to unstable yesterday, and now xdm dies, restarts, dies, restarts, dies, ... so I can't log on to fix it (I probably removed the old libX, while xdm is still linked to it!). Is it possible to disable xdm from lilo, or boot in any other

backing-up dselect state files

1997-11-14 Thread Otavio Exel
hi everybody, I see all dselect stuff live in /var/lib/dpkg; I'd say /var is not a safe place to keep such important stuff; any opinions? now some questions: - what files should I backup from /var/lib/dpkg to be able to resume using dselect in case of crash in /var? - is there a program that

Re: Where is the Local Guide to Latex?

1997-11-14 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, joost witteveen wrote: First LaTeX it, to create the .dvi. Then for a postscript printer: dvips file to print it directly to the printer, or dvips file -o to create the .ps file. It may be worth to know that magicfilter supports

re-thinking partitions

1997-11-14 Thread Otavio Exel
hi everybody, I'm re-thinking my HD partitioning and would apreciate some advice! - are symlinks really fast? - I read somewhere that 500mb for /var and /tmp is fine; what exactly does that mean? two partitions summing up 500mb? one 500mb partition and symlinks from /var and /tmp? - why is

Re: xdm trouble

1997-11-14 Thread Philippe Troin
On 14 Nov 1997 11:46:46 +0100 Ole =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rgen?= Tetlie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I upgraded some packages to unstable yesterday, and now xdm dies, restarts, dies, restarts, dies, ... so I can't log on to fix it (I probably removed the old libX, while xdm is still linked to

Linux + NT

1997-11-14 Thread Alfredo Todini
I have two disks: a 1Gb disk, with Windows 95, and a 2GB disk, with Linux. Now I need to replace Windows 95 with Windows NT. I read the Linux+NT mini-HOWTO, and it suggests to install Linux after NT. However I absolutely cannot destroy or damage my Linux partition; is it possible to install NT

Re: re-thinking partitions

1997-11-14 Thread Philippe Troin
On Fri, 14 Nov 1997 10:24:10 -0200 Otavio Exel ([EMAIL PROTECTED] br) wrote: - are symlinks really fast? Quite, except on NFS. You really should worry about it unless you're a performance freak. - I read somewhere that 500mb for /var and /tmp is fine; what exactly does that mean? two

Re: Where is the Local Guide to Latex?

1997-11-14 Thread David Morris
On Fri, 14 Nov 1997 13:00:07 +0100. Santiago Vila Doncel wove together: [snip] [ It may be worth to know that magicfilter supports .dvi format, so if you [ have magicfilter installed, you can even do: [ [ cat whatever.dvi | lpr Or even more simply: 'lpr whatever.dvi' -- The AtticKeeper: Rev.

Re: netscape

1997-11-14 Thread Dale Martin
Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry for being so slow. No problem. You did disprove my theory of mine however. Normally, when I post to this list, if I don't get a response within 15 minutes one never comes. :-) Did either of you add the /usr/i486-linuxlibc1 fix? There was a bug

Re: Linux + NT

1997-11-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
Alfredo Todini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have two disks: a 1Gb disk, with Windows 95, and a 2GB disk, with Linux. Now I need to replace Windows 95 with Windows NT. I read the Linux+NT mini-HOWTO, and it suggests to install Linux after NT. However I absolutely cannot destroy or damage my

Re: re-thinking partitions

1997-11-14 Thread Dale Martin
Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is a lot of space wasted unless you have large spool directories (news/mail). For a reasonable single-user station, 64MB should be largely enough on /var. /tmp is left to your choice (16 is a good number). I would find 16M for /tmp WAY too

Re: xdm problems...

1997-11-14 Thread Sten Anderson
Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 13 Nov 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: You can turn off this security by typing `xhost +localhost' at an xterm prompt; thenceforth during that X session any user on the local computer will be able to run clients. hmm.. I'll try that, maybe that will

Re: md driver

1997-11-14 Thread RedHat Linux User
Have you ran badblocks on /dev/hda4 ? Thats what was reporting the error Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_ http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ PGP key available --- (_)/ (_)Lo importante es el concepto

Can't login anymore

1997-11-14 Thread Chuma Agbodike
Right after I installed postgres 6.2.1 and played with is a little I can't log into my LINUX anymore. Everything goes on as usual until it reaches: INIT: entering runlevel: 2 Then it differs from what it used to do, which is start the various daemons Now it says: Debian Linux 1.3 (none) tty1

Re: xdm problems...

1997-11-14 Thread Jan Echternach
On 14 November 1997, Sten Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another workaround is: cp /home/USER/.Xauthority /root/ Or to set XAUTHORITY to point to the user's .Xauthority. I've done this with my xterm -e root, and it works pretty well (unfortunately I can't tell you how exactly I did

Re: re-thinking partitions

1997-11-14 Thread Daniel Mashao
On 14 Nov 1997, Dale Martin wrote: Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is a lot of space wasted unless you have large spool directories (news/mail). For a reasonable single-user station, 64MB should be largely enough on /var. /tmp is left to your choice (16 is a good

Re: Where is the Local Guide to Latex?

1997-11-14 Thread Civ Kevin F. Havener
IIRC there is a TeTeX HOWTO that says it is meant to fill in some of the information thats supposed to be in the often non-existent local guide. Of course it can't supply info on where all the files are stashed on your local system, but I, like Dale, am about to set off down the Latex path

Re: re-thinking partitions

1997-11-14 Thread Dale Martin
Daniel Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: why not put /var and /tmp in the same root partition? When you run out of space on your root partition while compiling, it's a real pain. I've had it happen. I've never run out of space on /var, or on / if I don't have /tmp on it. So, I have /tmp soft

Re: re-thinking partitions

1997-11-14 Thread Otavio Exel
Daniel Mashao wrote: On 14 Nov 1997, Dale Martin wrote: Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is a lot of space wasted unless you have large spool directories (news/mail). For a reasonable single-user station, 64MB should be largely enough on /var. /tmp is left to your

Re: squid

1997-11-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Behan Webster: Sun Nov 9 14:01:48 EST 1997: Running: squid -D -s -f /etc/squid.conf /var/log/squid/squid.out 21 /usr/lib/squid/RunCache: line 38: 337 IOT trap/Abort squid -D -s $conf 13 23 I was running the libc5 version from bo

Re: re-thinking partitions

1997-11-14 Thread Otavio Exel
Dale Martin wrote: Daniel Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: why not put /var and /tmp in the same root partition? When you run out of space on your root partition while compiling, it's a real pain. I've had it happen. I've never run out of space on /var, or on / if I don't have /tmp on

Re: olvwm

1997-11-14 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Bill Moran wrote: Hi I am (still) trying to get olvwm to work under debian. When I run /usr/bin/X11/olvwm, I receive the message Cannot connect to (NULL DISPLAY) I have a .DISPLAY file in my home directory with :0.0 in it. When I type env I cannot

Re: Which book?

1997-11-14 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, clif smith wrote: OK I know this question will generate subjective answers but Well, if you are looking for a book to help with installing and understanding the Debian distribution, you could try my new book. (that is about as subjective as I can get ;-) Check out

More Laptop Video stuff...

1997-11-14 Thread Andrew Akins
Thank you to everyone who has helped with this problem... I got my laptop (with a cirrus logic GD7543 video chip and 800x600 TFT LCD screen) to work in 800x600 mode using the VGA16 server. Works like a charm, but of course it's only 16 colors. When I switch the server to SVGA, the screen is

Re: xdm problems...

1997-11-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Paul Miller wrote: : On 13 Nov 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: [ snip ] : : BTW, why don't you add a Reply-To: header? There is no host : 3dillusion.3dillusion.com. : : damn.. I've had this problem since I installed BIND. My email address : used to only include my domain by

Mounting Solaris 2.5.1 partitions..

1997-11-14 Thread Richard . Dansereau
Hello all! Just tried taking an external SCSI disk from one of our SparcStations running Solaris 2.5.1 and connecting it up to my x86 Linux box. The SCSI chain recognizes that a drive is there, but, I can't seem to mount any of the partitions on the drive. It was suggested to me to use the ufs

Re: mail domain

1997-11-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 14 Nov 1997, Carey Evans wrote: Hang on here. If I do whois 3dillusion.com, I get (among other things) Domain servers in listed order: NS.3DILLUSION.COM198.109.162.43 METS.TCI.EAST-LANSING.MI.US 198.109.160.2 SERV1.CL.MSU.EDU 35.8.2.41 However ...

TCL Libraries

1997-11-14 Thread ian
Hi-- I need to know the path for the tcl.h file and I have been unable to locate it myself. Any direction is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! Ian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

COM 5? Extra I/O Card?

1997-11-14 Thread Colin R. Telmer
I have recently acquired the need for another com port and am already using com1 (mouse) and com2(UPS) and found the following paragraph in a FAQ for the palm pilot (the palm pilot is a PDA that has a syncronization cradle that connects to a com port): What to do if you do

setting up a slip/ppp server

1997-11-14 Thread Colin R. Telmer
I have a machine that is connected to the net and want to set up a slip or ppp server only so that I can dial into the machine via a connected modem with a PDA (palm pilot) that can establish either a slip or ppp connection. Setting this up must be covered in a FAQ, can I assign some kind of local

Re: mail domain

1997-11-14 Thread Paul Miller
On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: On 14 Nov 1997, Carey Evans wrote: Hang on here. If I do whois 3dillusion.com, I get (among other things) Domain servers in listed order: NS.3DILLUSION.COM198.109.162.43 METS.TCI.EAST-LANSING.MI.US 198.109.160.2

xdm trouble

1997-11-14 Thread Aaron Denney
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote: I upgraded some packages to unstable yesterday, and now xdm dies, restarts, dies, restarts, dies, ... so I can't log on to fix it (I probably removed the old libX, while xdm is still linked to it!). Is it possible to disable xdm from lilo, or boot in

Keyboard Mapping Problem

1997-11-14 Thread Mike Nachlinger
Hi All, Don't know what made this occur but any help would be great. The last few days anytime I type a z or a Z may machine sends the z plus a line feed. Any Ideas on how to correct this? Is an .inputrc file needed? Thanks, Mike Mike NachlingerApres Ski Club, Inc. 1-888-APRESGO

Re: mail domain

1997-11-14 Thread David Gaudine
On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Paul Miller wrote: it was set to (none) ... changing it to 3dillusion.com also had no effect.. I don't think I have the NIS package installed, what is it? I have a similar problem; when I run pine I get the message incomplete maildomain annette Return address in

Re: mail domain

1997-11-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Paul Miller wrote: : On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: : : On 14 Nov 1997, Carey Evans wrote: [ snip ] : : Notice the absence of ns.3dillusion.com! : : Is this a problem w/ my name server, InterNIC, or tcimet.net and what : needs to be done? It's a problem at

cdrecord + HP-CDWriter 7100 ; need help

1997-11-14 Thread Ararat A. Vardanyan
Dear Users, I ask you to help me to solve problems with using the cdrecord-1.6 with HP-CDWriter 7100 device. The situation is the folowing: I use the kernel-2.0.31 and I have my CD-writer as IDE/ATAPI. So I have received last version of cdrecord and xcdroast interface for it, install

Re: More newbie setup stuff...

1997-11-14 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
Daniel Martin wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Andrew Akins wrote: Checking for languages ... de_DECan't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. Any idea what this means? Any suggestions?

Re: Linux + NT

1997-11-14 Thread Chi Wong
Well, you could install NT onto of Win95. Meaning that you install in the same partition of Winp5 but it gets confusing later on as you might have to install software for both NT and 95. If you want trully NT and Linux. Kill the 95 partion and install NT first on the first partition and Linux

Re: starting xdm

1997-11-14 Thread Gertjan Klein
Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk wrote: Will Lowe wrote: I'd like my system to come up running xdm or kdm. What is the proper place to do this? Right now I'm just logging in and doing sudo kdm, but I've a feeling that there's probably a correct runlevel or something to do this in. In

Re: squid

1997-11-14 Thread Behan Webster
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: According to Behan Webster: Sun Nov 9 14:01:48 EST 1997: Running: squid -D -s -f /etc/squid.conf /var/log/squid/squid.out 21 /usr/lib/squid/RunCache: line 38: 337 IOT trap/Abort squid -D -s $conf 13 23 I

Is there something wrong ?

1997-11-14 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello all: Is there something wrong with the list servers or is it me ? Peter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

autofs and 2.0.31

1997-11-14 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote - I have compiled a 2.0.31 kernel. One of the reasons for doing so was to use autofs. However when I did make menuconfig I didn't see an option for autofs support. I thought it was in the kernel anyway and instaled he package. However the package does not find autofs

Re: squid

1997-11-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Behan Webster: Really strange, I cannot reproduce this. Hmm. I just compiled squid_1.1.17 for libc5 and put it on ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/people/miquels/debian/libc5-compiled/ I'll give it a shot. Just a thought, I'm wondering whether it has to do with the order in which

Re: Modem configuration

1997-11-14 Thread Matthew Majka
I just got PPP working a couple days ago at home, so this is still fresh in my mind. For some reason, the /dev/cu devices didn't exist (using minicom clued me into this), so I had to do `cd /dev ; ./MAKEDEV serial-cu` to get started. After I got the /dev/cu devices, things went very smooth. --

Re: squid

1997-11-14 Thread Behan Webster
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Neither can I, that's why I'd like you to try the latest version so that _if_ something is wrong I can base the fix also on that latest version.. Drat. Same problem using squid version 1.1.17-1. This is what I found on the console after rebooting.

Re: netscape

1997-11-14 Thread Stephen Zander
Dale Martin wrote: No problem. You did disprove my theory of mine however. Normally, when I post to this list, if I don't get a response within 15 minutes one never comes. :-) There's a link to Heilsenberg's (sp?) Uncertainty Principle there somewhere :) Well, I'm running 3.3.1-1, I and

Re: netscape

1997-11-14 Thread Dale Martin
Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mine has ./include ./include/X11 ./lib ./lib/X11 ./lib/X11/XErrorDB ./lib/X11/XKeysymDB ./lib/X11/app-defaults - ../../../X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults ./lib/X11/locale - /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale The XErrorDB XKeysymDB files

NCR53c8xx, CD-RW

1997-11-14 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I just bought a NCR53c8xx based card and a CD-RW drive, and it seems that linux can't recognize the drive. When I boot up, I get: scsi host: 0 detected total And /proc/pci doesn't say anything about the SCSI card. I've read in the SCSI howto that

re: md driver

1997-11-14 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! If anybody sent replies to my reply about the re:, please send them again. I accidentally deleted them. Thanks. Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_ http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ PGP key available ---

Re: mail domain

1997-11-14 Thread David Gaudine
Sorry if this is a rerun, I think the list rejected it the first time because my email address was bad, which is sort of the point of this thread. On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Paul Miller wrote: it was set to (none) ... changing it to 3dillusion.com also had no effect.. I don't think I have the NIS

Is there anyway to fix this? (libc6 prob)

1997-11-14 Thread Udjat the BitMeister...
[bitgate]udjat ~ $ w 1:22pm up 17:11h, 2 users, load average: 0.11, 0.06, 0.07 USER TTYLOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT tigger ttyp0 3:10am 8:54h 0.00s ?- udjatttyp1 8:06am 0.00s 0.00s ?- The PCPU WHAT entrys no longer work. PLEASE HELP!!! Thanks! -Eric

Kernel error message(s)-pls help...

1997-11-14 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi, everyone -- I have a problem that goes way beyond my knowledge of linux: while downloading a gnuplot example page in Netscape3.04 running on machine from debian1.3 tree sources) whole server crashed - completely closed down and threw me back to the command line on a virtual console (X is

Re: Modem configuration

1997-11-14 Thread Shaul Karl.
If your modem is not plug play and you have luck, you probably don't have to configure the modem at all, since it is done at boot. You can try setserial -g /dev/ttyS1 to see if it seems like your modem. For my modem, also on COM 2, this gives: /dev/ttyS1, UART: 16550A, Port:

Re: xdm problems...

1997-11-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I use this as root: # xauth -f ~srivasta/.Xauthority -i extract - $DISPLAY | xauth merge - manoj -- Therefore, one should never admit a garrison larger than one's own forces, especially when composed of barbarians. Polybios, writing in the mid-2nd century BC

Need reasons to GPL Haskell implementation

1997-11-14 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gnu.misc.discuss,comp.os.linux.advocacy as well. Hi, This is a long post, so I've divided it into sections---Preface, Request for Feedback, Consideration, Conclusion, Appendix---to help you figure out whether it's

Re: Laptop install gone haywire

1997-11-14 Thread Michael Jinks
Thanks for the suggestions so far; running the install without floppy=thinkpad does get me further into the install, but then I get more strange stuff. The system prints out a set of instructions for continuing the low-memory install, then follows that with a list of fdisk choices. At this point

RE: Linux + NT

1997-11-14 Thread Ralph Winslow
On 14-Nov-97 Alfredo Todini wrote: I have two disks: a 1Gb disk, with Windows 95, and a 2GB disk, with Linux. Now I need to replace Windows 95 with Windows NT. I read the Linux+NT mini-HOWTO, and it suggests to install Linux after NT. However I absolutely cannot destroy or damage my Linux

Re: Linux + NT

1997-11-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Nov 14, 1997 at 01:17:10PM +0100, Alfredo Todini wrote: I have two disks: a 1Gb disk, with Windows 95, and a 2GB disk, with Linux. Now I need to replace Windows 95 with Windows NT. I read the Linux+NT mini-HOWTO, and it suggests to install Linux after NT. However I absolutely cannot

RE: TCL Libraries

1997-11-14 Thread Ralph Winslow
On 14-Nov-97 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi-- I need to know the path for the tcl.h file and I have been unable to locate it myself. Any direction is greatly appreciated. Try this: find / -type f -name tcl.h -print  Thanks in advance! Ian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: COM 5? Extra I/O Card?

1997-11-14 Thread Bruce Perens
Can I somehow use this card and assign irq 5 to the new com port and move the sound card to say 7? Edit /etc/rc.boot/0setserial . That will get the serial card going. You might have to re-build the kernel to move the sound card IRQ. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed

Re: backing-up dselect state files

1997-11-14 Thread Olivier THARAN
On Fri, Nov 14, 1997 at 09:55:07AM -0200, Otavio Exel wrote: I see all dselect stuff live in /var/lib/dpkg; I'd say /var is not a safe place to keep such important stuff; any opinions? Well then, where would you want it to be? The latest version of FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) tells us