On Tue, Nov 25, 1997 at 04:22:02PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
I'm certain this has been asked before, but since the search engine
for the mailing list archive down, please excuse me.
Why? Why have this enormously difficult and disruptive move from
libc5 to libc6? I'm basically unable to
Greetings All,
I saw a post about this awhile back but I didn't see a response.
fetchmail can't connect port 25 on the localhost. I get the
following:
fetchmail: 3.8.0 querying mail.blarg.net (protocol POP3) at Fri Nov 28 15:31:32
1997
fetchmail: POP3 +OK Cubic Circle's v1.14 1997/04/11 POP3
I assume these exist. I read instructions for NFS a couple of summers ago.
But I can't find them, and the man page for NFS is only instructions for
/etc/fstab.
Are there HowTo's for these hding somewhere? I want pop-3 to get the messages
from another machine (in my office) for the rest of
It doesn't understand that /raid/home/blp and /home/blp are the same
directory. Either set your home directory in /etc/passwd to /raid/home/blp,
or put a cd command in your .bash_profile .
Bruce
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The aic7xxx driver in 2.1.65 crashes my system, too. I have a IWILL P54-TS
motherboard with built-in aic7850. I'll have to try the patch with that.
Thanks
Bruce
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I've checked the packages via www.debian.org, but all the backup
packages there are aimed either at diskettes or tape drives. I have a
Zip drive, and don't want to purchase a tape drive. Conversely, I
don't want to backup a 1.2 gig drive to floppies.
The commercial packages like bru might do it
I just moved my Linux to a larger hard drive. Unfortunately, root appears to
own everything. What is the easiest way to fix the permissions? I still have
the original drive that I moved from and can still mount it.
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I just moved my Linux to a larger hard drive. Unfortunately, root appears to
own everything. What is the easiest way to fix the permissions? I still have
the original drive that I moved from and can still mount it.
The easist way is to copy it from the original again and either use 'cp
-a'
On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Adam Shand wrote:
how do I kill samba when it is loaded from inetd? .. smbd doesn't even
appear on ps -aux unless a service is being used.
If there are no processes running then samba isn't running. If you would
like to stop it from running on demand then you need
Someone will say use tar or use afio or use dump. I might, but
as far as I can tell none of those except tar inherently support
removable disks (multiple volumes). Tar can do multivolume backups,
but from what I've read if one sector on the disk is corrupted, you
lose the whole backup.
.. ok, so if I comment out the smbd and nmbd lines in inetd.conf, how do I
stop using port 139? - If I run smbd it says that port 139 is already in
use.
Port 139 is the netbios port (check your /etc/services file if you want to
see), which probably means you already have a nmbd process running
Hi Martin Stromberg; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
I haven't seen the kernel-source-2.0.32... package yet. Does anybody know
where it is?
Any particular reasoning against picking up 'virgin' kernel source from
any of the sites that carry it ( for example ftp.kernel.org)? I've done
that
Hi, it's me again, is this going through? The reason I ask is because
nobody has answered me or my questions? But I have a Quantum UDMA drive
along with a Gateway2000 UDMA controller card and when I try to insstall
Debian it won't detect any hard drives, or it will detect my internal IDE
zip drive
I have successfully compiled the sound driver with support for my cheap
Ensoniq Soundscape clone (made by Reveal). This installs fine, and I
have verifyed that I am getting sound output by cat'ing a few .au files
to /dev/audio, and I even picked up the mpg123 player to try out the
On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Allen Burns wrote:
Hi, it's me again, is this going through? The reason I ask is because
nobody has answered me or my questions? But I have a Quantum UDMA drive
along with a Gateway2000 UDMA controller card and when I try to insstall
At 08:18 PM 11/28/97 -0700, you wrote:
[snip]
along with a Gateway2000 UDMA controller card and when I try to
^^^
I take it this is some kind of nice proprietary IDE controller?
[snip]
The man says Ultra Direct Memory Access and my HD is a Quantum UDMA,
I have some questions related to xlock:
1. In `xlock -mode random', one of the modes is the Linux logo. It is (I
think) supposed to bounce around the screen. Instead, it just sits there, and
also seems to stop the `random' rotation of modes. Why does this happen? Is
there a fix? I looked at
This happens when a regular user runs a graphics program out of X - such
as squake... How can I fix this?
svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions.
Thanks
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Shaleh writes:
The problem is that X believes that all the mode defs are bogus, so it
throws them out. There is no entry left that supports anything other
than 640x480 8bpp, when it is thru.
When this happened to me, I had not properly defined the capability of my
monitor. Try re-doing
Can anyone recommend a good ORA type book(s) on IP masquarading and
Firewalls in conjunction with Debian with, if possible, full title, ISBN
and data of publication. Would really appreciate it.
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Hi,
I'm trying to cut down my online time and would like to use diald,
however everytime I wish to follow a link in my browser (netscape) to a
webpage that is cached, diald fires up a ppp link. I prefer to only
reload webpages manually, so I setup netscape to never reload webpages
David Stern wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to cut down my online time and would like to use diald,
however everytime I wish to follow a link in my browser (netscape) to a
webpage that is cached, diald fires up a ppp link. I prefer to only
reload webpages manually, so I setup netscape to
On Sat, 29 Nov 1997 03:29:15 EST, Wintermute wrote:
David Stern wrote:
I'm trying to cut down my online time and would like to use diald,
however everytime I wish to follow a link in my browser (netscape) to a
webpage that is cached, diald fires up a ppp link. I prefer to only
reload
Isn't there some kind of cache software, though? I don't know what
it's called, but it caches webpages locally, and won't querry the
remote server unless the page isn't in the cache? What is it called?
Would it work?
Well you forced me to pick my brain.. so you asked for it..
On Sat, Nov 29, 1997 at 12:49:32AM -0500, Paul Miller wrote:
This happens when a regular user runs a graphics program out of X - such
as squake... How can I fix this?
svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions.
You need to make your program setuid root (because svgalib wants access to
the video,
Ok I know that this is a really stupid question but I am new so please bear
with me, thank you. First I would like to say thanx to all the ppl that
helped me get debian on my system, adn to all the others out there that
have a Gateway2000 that debain won't install on: It is your promise ultra
Most CPU fans I've seen come with a pad of conductive [something] which
goes between the processor and the heatsink. I would think that something
like this would be essential, given that the surfaces are probably not
perfectly flat (on a nano scale).
I think it's more a case of sheer
Adam Shand writes:
I just moved my Linux to a larger hard drive. Unfortunately, root appears to
own everything. What is the easiest way to fix the permissions? I still have
the original drive that I moved from and can still mount it.
The easist way is to copy it from the original again
david.j.jasper writes:
I have recently installed Linux, and am having trouble locating the device
name
of my cd. I see, in the boot up, that the cd is detected, but do not see the
device name.
Does anyone know how I can locate this?
Dave
OK, what sort of drive is it? (IDE, SCSI,
I haven't been able to reach http://ipmasq.home.ml.org today at all - and,
of course, the list of mirrors is on that site as well So much for fault
tolerance
Anyone know of an available mirror of this site?
Thanks,
Kevin Traas
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Another option for Linux is Squid:
http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/FAQ/FAQ.html
Later,
Kevin
Isn't there some kind of cache software, though? I don't know what
it's called, but it caches webpages locally, and won't querry the
remote server unless the page isn't in the cache? What is it
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Stephen Zander wrote:
Eloy A. Paris wrote:
Witold Grabysz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: the following phrase doesn't work in bash:
: ((ls);(ls))
: Why? Is it not allowed by the shell syntax or there is a bug in it?
Yup, you're right; it's probably a bug. This
On Thu, Nov 27, 1997 at 09:28:15PM -0500, Benoit Joly wrote:
hi,
i have some prob with my awe64...
i compiled my kernel with sb16 support irq 5, dma 1, hdma 5, ...
(i looked in my windows for these settings, so it's supose to be good)
and when i boot i can only see:
sound init
On Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 11:15:35AM -0800, tony mollica wrote:
There have been some posts on rebuilding the kernel that mention the
kernel-package.deb package, make-kpkg and non-debian kernel source or
packages. I have been successfully rebuilding my kernels, but only from
a debian CD with no
I need to know how to set up my modem to start my ppp files so that i could
be dial up , could u help me...
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Allen Burns wrote:
Ok I know that this is a really stupid question but I am new so please bear
with me, thank you. First I would like to say thanx to all the ppl that
helped me get debian on my system, adn to all the others out there that
have a Gateway2000 that debain won't install on: It
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Wintermute wrote:
Pancho Horrillo wrote:
IS THIS TRUE?
I really NEED to know
I hope is simply a joke
thx
It's totally bogus. I almost detect a bit of the recently passed
controversy over the Linux patent dispute.
Wouldn't say bogus. It is a humors
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Witold Grabysz wrote:
Remco van de Meent wrote:
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Witold Grabysz wrote:
: the following phrase doesn't work in bash:
: ((ls);(ls))
: Why? Is it not allowed by the shell syntax or there is a bug in it?
:
: It is a little important for
On Fri, Nov 28, 1997 at 04:43:38PM -0800, Stephen K Myers wrote:
Greetings All,
I saw a post about this awhile back but I didn't see a response.
fetchmail can't connect port 25 on the localhost. I get the
following:
...
reading message 1 (2324 bytes)
fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null)
Ieee! Whats going on here??? I just did the latest update in hamm BTW.
Thanks for the help in advance!
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 06:53:03 -0800
From: Cron Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.daily
Electric Fence 2.0.5 Copyright (C)
On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Randy Edwards wrote:
I'm running Netscape 4.04 with bo and have been having some trouble
getting Netscape's internal mail to work. I've set Netscape's preferences
to use its internal movemail function and have chmod'ed my
/var/spool/mail/redwards subdirectory to 01777
The following packages need some work to be done and I dont get around to
do it. They need someone with expertise:
knfsKernel NFS tools (Difficult to build under libc6) (experimental)
omirr Online Mirror Tool (Difficult to build under libc6)
debmake Important package building tool.
In a message dated 97-11-29 10:47:48 EST, you write:
I need to know how to set up my modem to start my ppp files so that i could
be dial up , could u help me...
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ag, you killed your email address in the message. Regardless
First off you cannot be
On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Wintermute wrote:
Isn't there some kind of cache software, though? I don't know what
it's called, but it caches webpages locally, and won't querry the
remote server unless the page isn't in the cache? What is it called?
Would it work?
You want a proxy server.
when I'm playing multiplayer quake (1.09) I can't move forwards or
backwards.. I can in single player mode.. My opponents are win95 tcp/ip
with quake 1.06.. is there an incompatibility?
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frank wrote,
Rick Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
They work wonderfully. I have a k6-166 running at 210/83
quite happilly. However, it needs some cooling at this
speed; until i get something more than this cheesy $2 fan,
I need to keep the side off to compile (but not at
166/66).
[Snip]
So that snippet I sent you helped a little?
As for X, first off tell me how far you've gotten already.
Well acctually what I ended up doing was getting rid of my promise ultra
controler card and pluging my HD into the mother board. Did that and every
thing worked fine. As far as X as I
On Sat, 29 Nov 1997 03:56:07 EST, Wintermute wrote:
Isn't there some kind of cache software, though? I don't know what
it's called, but it caches webpages locally, and won't querry the
remote server unless the page isn't in the cache? What is it called?
Would it work?
Well you
Allen Burns wrote:
[Snip]
As far as X as I have xbase.deb Xlib6.dev and two
servers, I got the one that SHOULD work with my graph. card and I also
downloaded the SVGA generic server, I did this on a MSDOS (this is msdos
because I don't have linux up and running on the i.net yet.) zip disk
At 05:54 PM 11/29/97 +, you wrote:
when I'm playing multiplayer quake (1.09) I can't move forwards or
backwards.. I can in single player mode.. My opponents are win95 tcp/ip
with quake 1.06.. is there an incompatibility?
With my experience Win95 TPC/IP in quake is EXTREAMLY slow, it is
Is there a package that provides an ls with statically
linked libs, or a package that will set up the ~ftp
heirarchy so that anonymous ftps can use ls?
Thanks
Mark
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On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, M. W. Blunier wrote:
Is there a package that provides an ls with statically
linked libs, or a package that will set up the ~ftp
heirarchy so that anonymous ftps can use ls?
Wu-ftp has a script to set up the libraries. I think it's called
makeftpuser or something (look in
M. W. Blunier wrote:
Is there a package that provides an ls with statically
linked libs, or a package that will set up the ~ftp
heirarchy so that anonymous ftps can use ls?
Thanks
Mark
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Now on to the meat... if you have everything installed, you might try
running as root...
/usr/sbin/xbase-configure
and then ...
/usr/bin/X11/xf86config
Be sure to read the instructions in xf86config carefully, as most
problems with X come from incorrect values specified for monitor
Hello,
I purchased Debian 1.3 a couple of weeks ago (with donation) and I
installed once already. I mucked things up a little and reinstalled.
My first linux was SLS, then Slackware, then Redhat, and now Debian. I
like the Debian philosophy so I'm going to stay with it.
My first configuration
I have download most of the debian packages off of their website (time,
time, time) and I have put them on a ZIP disk, the problem that I get is I
will run dselect and when I got to install it says Skipping deselected
package XXX Can somebody please tell me what directory structure I need
for
I think I figured it out. I have been downloading the packages stright to
my HD and then copying them to my ZIP drive (on another comp) then I take
the ZIP drive and use it to run the packages, I think that I just haven't
copied those packages yet. What I did was put the packages file in the root
I purchased Debian 1.3 a couple of weeks ago (with donation) and I
installed once already. I mucked things up a little and reinstalled.
My first linux was SLS, then Slackware, then Redhat, and now Debian. I
like the Debian philosophy so I'm going to stay with it.
Hi.
What philosophy is
I think I figured it out. I have been downloading the packages stright to
my HD and then copying them to my ZIP drive (on another comp) then I take
the ZIP drive and use it to run the packages, I think that I just haven't
copied those packages yet. What I did was put the packages file in the
David Stern wrote:
development group seems to have dried up just before caldera took it
on, but I'll do what I can to make old ties, and maybe even see about
WindowMaker-izing it (WindowMaker stole most of the AfterStep
development group).
Thanks, I did not know this.. I wondered why it was
Matthew Tebbens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yup, found it !
I'm using 2.0.32
I re-compilied the kernel, added support and everything seems to
work just fine. I still have to add my external scsi drives at
a later time I think the following Warning message is related
to that.. ?
Thanks
I've had quite a few problems using XFree86 on my Debian installation. I
have a K6-233 with 64MB SDRAM and a Matrox Millenium II video card. I
was told to upgrade XFree86 to 3.3.1 to get Millenium II support.
After that, X was working fine, but would only load the VGA16 server; I
wanted better
Does Debian/Linux support any video capture boards? If so, what
software is needed and what boards are supported?
Thanks,
John
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On Fri, 28 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A fried cpu is not always just dead. I've seen one that made funny things
with
interrupts, and that was hard to diagnose.
This is why I always put heatsink goop on the chip, without it the
heatsink/fan doesn't do much. The problems you can get
On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote:
On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
A few weeks ago about three nice people from the Debian-user list helped
me out with setting up fixing my DNS server, which I am very thankful.
Unfortunately I am now having problems with IRC which may or
There was some discussion about this a couple of months ago, but with a 486,
as well as a configuration that let me play with it without compiling, I
didn't follow everything.
Now I'm trying to build it, and during configure get:|
checking for dnet_ntoa in -ldnet... (cached) no
checking for
On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Michael wrote:
My first configuration issue is installing Netscape Communicator. On my
previous install I used netscape's install script but I'd like to do it
via dpkg so the software will be registered with the system.
I already have the communicator tar file, I need
On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Wintermute wrote:
One problem which I'm encountering right now is that wwwoffle wants
glibc6, and I've been taking the moderate approach to upgrades, i.e.:
the latest stable. So, I'm thinking of running a squid version since
wwwoffle requires glibc6, but there's a
Hello,
For the last couple of days I cannot access the mailing lists archives
at www.debian.org. Is this a temporary problem, or has something
changed that I have missed?
Thanks.
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David R Baker wrote:
Hello,
For the last couple of days I cannot access the mailing lists archives
at www.debian.org. Is this a temporary problem, or has something
changed that I have missed?
Thanks.
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On Sat, 29 Nov 1997 11:31:55 PST, Michael wrote:
[..]
My first configuration issue is installing Netscape Communicator. On my
previous install I used netscape's install script but I'd like to do it
via dpkg so the software will be registered with the system.
I already have the communicator
I have a SB 32 PnP (SB 16 compatible) and have big problems playing
sound. If I play sound through nas the output is very stagnant. .au
files seems to work fine. I use 2.0.32 and have the awe32 driver
installed.
Does anybody has an idea what could be causing this problem? The
sound output
On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Alan Su wrote:
Rick Macdonald wrote (Thu, 27 Nov 1997 19:27:13 -0700 (MST) ):
|
| Yup, you're right; it's probably a bug. This does work:
|
| ( (ls);(ls))
|
| Try changing the definition of the helper in Netscape to follow the
| above syntax.
|
|I couldn't find
Anyone tried out this kernel?
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When I installed bo I told it I was on a network. I am not. Now lprng
will not print becuase it can not find my machine and I get a SIOCARDT
error on boot. How do I go back to be a stand alone machine?
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I think dnet_ntoa might be related to inet_ntoa, which is in libc and has a
man page. See if the use appears to be the same.
Bruce
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At home, when I tried to install some non-official package, I got this error:
gzip: stdout: Broken pipe
dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1
dpkg: error processing /root/L3263TMP.deb (--install):
subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2
Errors were
David Stern wrote:
I've also noticed that since the last Enlightenment release, some of
the WM and AStep crowd are now switching to E!. I think this was
partially because the last release was a major in the development
cycle, but also partially due to redhat hiring E!'s author, which was
On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Shaleh wrote:
When I installed bo I told it I was on a network. I am not. Now lprng
will not print becuase it can not find my machine and I get a SIOCARDT
error on boot. How do I go back to be a stand alone machine?
Hi,
look into /etc/init.d/network
Simply set a #
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