[semi-off-topic:-] Reasons for Debian/Linux over FreeBSD

1997-12-02 Thread Randy Edwards
I was wondering what sort of arguments folks would give for selecting Linux over FreeBSD. This is for a production server in an educational environment. The arguments used against Linux were that it was buggy and goes through too many changes. I, of course, countered those to a degree and my

Re: Packaging Gimp .99.15

1997-12-02 Thread Wintermute
Ben Gertzfield wrote: I'm the maintainer of GIMP for lDebian. Really, you should upgrade to libc6 if you want to use experimental software like GIMP (it's *really* beta software, which is why we're in no big rush to port it to libc5). No thanks.. I'm running libc6 Debian at work.. and

Re: Packaging Gimp .99.15

1997-12-02 Thread Wintermute
Adam Shand wrote: Anyone notice that the Gimp available for Debian 1.3.1 is the old .54 version? I have downloaded and successfully compile .99.15 on a libc5 system, however if you want to get this version (actually .99.14 last I looked) from Debian you HAVE to install from the hamm

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Logo chosen

1997-12-02 Thread Wintermute
Martin Bialasinski wrote: On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: We've been having a logo contest for a long time. It failed to generate a consensus on a logo for the project. It got to the point where people were clamoring for me to hire a commercial artist and get the job done. I

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Logo chosen

1997-12-02 Thread Wintermute
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Tommy Lakofski [EMAIL PROTECTED] On a bit of a tangent, how ready is the Hurd to replace the Linux kernel? I am not one of the people testing it. RMS is still running Debian on his laptop :-) What I would hope is that the HURD would support the 86open

Re: outgoing faces???

1997-12-02 Thread Rick Hawkins
Do her grandparents have a un*x box?! Why not just send it as an attachment? Doh! I should have thought of that. I'd assumed for some reason that xfases was mime, rather than part of x. grr. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Logo chosen

1997-12-02 Thread bruce
Wintermute: What are the clear cut benefits [of the Hurd]? It's a research OS, while Linux/Unix is mostly based on 1970's technology. This is not to say that it's better. That might be an individual decision. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Logo chosen

1997-12-02 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Wintermute wrote: As I read more and more about Hurd.. I still can't stop thinking WHY?.. in a couple hundred more revisions.. the Linux kernel may well come close to being a microkernel. What are the clear cut benefits? (Just a few simple lines please.. no

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Logo chosen

1997-12-02 Thread Jim Pick
The logo I chose is http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-logo/profile/si02.html Good choice. You forgot to give some credit to the artist (Simon?) though. Do you think SPI should trademark it? What sort of licensing do you think would be best? What does the original

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Logo chosen

1997-12-02 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Jim Pick wrote: The logo I chose is http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-logo/profile/si02.html Good choice. You forgot to give some credit to the artist (Simon?) though. Do you think SPI should trademark it? What sort of licensing do you

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Logo chosen

1997-12-02 Thread bruce
From: Jim Pick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good choice. You forgot to give some credit to the artist (Simon?) That's why. All I have is Simon?. Do you think SPI should trademark it? Yes, definitely, right away. It turns out that it is absurdly easy to file for a trademark, I did the debian one in

debian packages directories

1997-12-02 Thread tony mollica
Hi. For the last 2 days or so, it seems that I am unable to get to the packages directories from the Debian homepage/packages link. Does anyone else have this problem, or is the problem at my end? thanks tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian packages directories

1997-12-02 Thread Wintermute
tony mollica wrote: Hi. For the last 2 days or so, it seems that I am unable to get to the packages directories from the Debian homepage/packages link. Does anyone else have this problem, or is the problem at my end? thanks tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED] Last time I heard, the

Re: allow mount to normal user

1997-12-02 Thread Adam Klein
On Mon, Dec 01, 1997 at 05:02:06PM -0600, Paul Serice wrote: Adam Klein wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 1997 at 12:46:47AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Benoit Joly wrote: i want to allow normal user to use mount for floppy and cdrom. because i dont want to run apps in

PPP problems

1997-12-02 Thread Ian Gill Watkins
YO! That did it. Thanks a bunch. I've been able to d/l most of the distribution this evening!!! Thanks a million. Ian W I have been firing up Minicom to dial and log on, then CTRL-AQ to drop out of Minicom without reseting the modem (as described in the PPP- HOWTO) and then entering a

download stalls

1997-12-02 Thread David Stern
Hi, I'm doing some downloading with filerunner right now, have ran renice -20 on asmodem and tkwish(filerunner), but still find that my download will stall, as indicated by my asmodem display and filerunner transfer status display, under certain conditions, particularly following a http or ftp

qt1g (= 1.30) where ???

1997-12-02 Thread David Lutz
Arrgh!!! Where is qt1g (= 1.30)? I can't find this package anywhere and it seems to be required for QWeb and KDE which I would like to try out. Thanks. D.L. / David Lutz --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- http://www.pobox.com/~david \ | Those of you who think you know everything : KD6GNS

RE: PPP problems

1997-12-02 Thread Ian Gill Watkins
Your pppd keeps sending Config Requests until it times out. Normally LCP ConfReq is followed by received LCP ConfAck -- received from remote pppd. So, in your case remote pppd is not running. In minicom wait unitl you receive a line of garbage with many curly brackets. That's remote pppd

Re: Packaging Gimp .99.15

1997-12-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Dec 01, 1997 at 08:24:03PM -0500, Wintermute wrote: No thanks.. I'm running libc6 Debian at work.. and lemme tell ya.. it just doesn't have the package base yet for me to think about using it at home. Could you expand a bit on that last statement? I have absolutely no idea what you

Re: Packaging Gimp .99.15

1997-12-02 Thread Wintermute
Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 1997 at 08:24:03PM -0500, Wintermute wrote: No thanks.. I'm running libc6 Debian at work.. and lemme tell ya.. it just doesn't have the package base yet for me to think about using it at home. Could you expand a bit on that last statement? I have

Linux inetd.. (fwd)

1997-12-02 Thread dpk
Found this somewhat pertinant to Debian, especially since this vulnerability was tested on a Debian machine... Just fyi. Thanks, Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Systems/Network | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 -- Forwarded

Re: Packaging Gimp .99.15

1997-12-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Dec 02, 1997 at 01:54:18AM -0500, Wintermute wrote: Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 1997 at 08:24:03PM -0500, Wintermute wrote: No thanks.. I'm running libc6 Debian at work.. and lemme tell ya.. it just doesn't have the package base yet for me to think about using it at

Re: Packaging Gimp .99.15

1997-12-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, [I'm not being confrontational, just curious] Wintermute == Wintermute [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wintermute Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 1997 at 08:24:03PM -0500, Wintermute wrote: No thanks.. I'm running libc6 Debian at work.. and lemme tell ya.. it just doesn't have

Re: download stalls

1997-12-02 Thread David Stern
I just found what seems to be a cure to my download stall problem. I right-clicked on my filerunner titlebar (maximize) by sheer accident and I noted that the lights on the modem started blinking faster. So I left it alone for a bit, and my downloads don't even begin to stall. Another symptom

Re: allow mount to normal use

1997-12-02 Thread Carey Evans
Orn E. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: it is often convenient to make a link from /dev/cdrom to whatever device your CD-ROM is on. Thus, if you add devices, or change your configuration, you only have to change one link, instead of every program that uses the CD-ROM ;-) But

Re: pcmcia install -- off topic

1997-12-02 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
On Monday, 1 December 1997, Bill Leach writes: As an aside, why call the debian setup floppy resc1440.bin when it could be named something like boot.bin, or debian.bin (alongside debi1200.bin/boot1200.bin)? Well, because it _is_ a rescue floppy and can be used to boot and recover the

Re: allow mount to normal user

1997-12-02 Thread Paul Serice
Adam Klein wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 1997 at 05:02:06PM -0600, Paul Serice wrote: Adam Klein wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 1997 at 12:46:47AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Benoit Joly wrote: i want to allow normal user to use mount for floppy and cdrom. because

Re: Packaging Gimp .99.15

1997-12-02 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, Examples, please? I run a libc6 system, and there are way more packages available than are there on my libc6 (1.3.1) CDROM. What packages aren't available on a libc6 system? There are frequently unresolved dependencies on the ftp mirrors. Some Packages stay in Incoming for a

libc5.4.38 available anywhere?

1997-12-02 Thread Steve Hsieh
I see that libc5.4.33 is the most recent libc5 debian package in both the stable and unstable trees... 5.4.38 has been out for awhile -- is that available in a debian package anywhere? Steve -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Logo chosen

1997-12-02 Thread Paul Serice
Wintermute wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Tommy Lakofski [EMAIL PROTECTED] On a bit of a tangent, how ready is the Hurd to replace the Linux kernel? I am not one of the people testing it. RMS is still running Debian on his laptop :-) What I would hope is that the HURD

Re: Debian with non-free packages?

1997-12-02 Thread Frank Barknecht
Volker Jahns hat gesagt: // Volker Jahns wrote: I wonder: is there anybody who sells Debian with the non-free packages? Volker J.F. Lehmanns Bookstore in germany is making a Debian 2-CD-Set with a lot of non-free, non-us and local packages inside. At just DM 19.80 it's quite complete. Look

Re: teTeX packages

1997-12-02 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! I can't seem to get Debian's teTeX to work at all (can't find default format file from tex). But when I downloaded it direct from sunsite, it worked fine. Has anyone had a similar experience? I suppose I could include more (or any, actually) details if requested. I had this

Gimp

1997-12-02 Thread Ana Silva
Hello All Can someone tell me where is the libgr library? It seams I need it to use image.jpg with gimp!!! Thanks -- |\.../| .0.0. (= - =) Ana Graca Silva |X| [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://khromo.uevora.pt/~ags Nothing cures insomnia like the

kernel 2.1.68/69

1997-12-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
can anyone get 2.1.68 or 2.1.69 to compile? hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: qt1g (= 1.30) where ???

1997-12-02 Thread James Dietrich
One place to find it at the moment is ftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian/Incoming/HELD-FOR-GUY James On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, David Lutz wrote: Arrgh!!! Where is qt1g (= 1.30)? I can't find this package anywhere and it seems to be required for QWeb and KDE which I would like to try out.

magifilter problems

1997-12-02 Thread G. Kapetanios
I have a pretty strage problem with my new printer. I have a HP 6L with the latest version of magicfilter from hamm When I try to print anything but text and pcl files nothing happens. I have gs-alldin installed. If however, I process ps files with the same exact options as in the filter I am

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Logo chosen

1997-12-02 Thread Anand Kumria
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Wintermute wrote: I ask you.. what exactly is a debian... :) Funny you should mention that: I just happened to be going through my magazine and came across Linux Journal circa Dec 1994. On the cover Exclusive Art Exhibit: What Is a Linux and the rest of the cover is populate

Matrox Mistique Business 4 MB

1997-12-02 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Can this card run Xfree at 1280x1024x75Hzx16bpp? Is it fast? Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_ http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ PGP key available --- (_)/ (_)Lo importante es el concepto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Debian on DEC 3000

1997-12-02 Thread Jerzy Kakol
Hi all, I'd like to install debian on DEC 3000 and after some RTFM-ing I realized that only this list is the source for installation instructions. My situation is a bit difficult. I have DEC 3000 station WITHOUT any input devices, the only connection to the outer world is network card. I had

Re: Packaging Gimp .99.15

1997-12-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wintermute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of which.. there are certain things at work which didn't mesh well with the hamm upgrade.. namely NIS, xcontrib, xdm, and a few others. It seems that even the newer version of NIS is not backwardly compatible with older

Re: Packaging Gimp .99.15

1997-12-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Wintermute wrote: How about the fact that there are numerous packages that depend on others that AREN'T there...for starters? Which ones? Oh, wait, are you running a completely hamm system or one

Re: allow mount to normal user

1997-12-02 Thread W Paul Mills
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Adam Klein wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 1997 at 05:02:06PM -0600, Paul Serice wrote: Adam Klein wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 1997 at 12:46:47AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Benoit Joly wrote: i want to allow normal user to use mount for floppy and

Re: kernel 2.1.68/69

1997-12-02 Thread David Z. Maze
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: HM can anyone get 2.1.68 or 2.1.69 to compile? I've been working on it, hopefully I'll get 2.1.69 to build sometime today. :-) Thoughts so far: -- linux/drivers/sound/Makefile is broken, or the Configure script that calls it is broken. Add a line

clock /etc/init.d/boot

1997-12-02 Thread tko
Here's a gotcha for those who (like me) did not use the new /etc/init.d/boot file when upgrading to release 1.3.1 (bo). I found out that /proc was not being mounted early enough in the old 'boot' (many thanks to the folks on this list for that tip), however, after installing the new 'boot', I

Re: [semi-off-topic:-] Reasons for Debian/Linux over FreeBSD

1997-12-02 Thread tko
Randy Edwards writes: I was wondering what sort of arguments folks would give for selecting Linux over FreeBSD. This is for a production server in an educational environment. The arguments used against Linux were that it was buggy and goes through too many changes. I, of course, countered

Re: Matrox Mistique Business 4 MB

1997-12-02 Thread Daniel Martin
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Pere Camps wrote: Hi! Can this card run Xfree at 1280x1024x75Hzx16bpp? Is it fast? Well, I use this card (The Mystique Business is also known as the Mystique 220) with 2 MB ram, and it can do that resolution at 8bpp, so 4 MB should be able to do 16 bpp. Note,

Re: Matrox Mistique Business 4 MB

1997-12-02 Thread Pere Camps
Daniel, Well, I use this card (The Mystique Business is also known as the Mystique 220) with 2 MB ram, and it can do that resolution at 8bpp, so 4 MB should be able to do 16 bpp. Ok. Perfect. Thanks. Note, however, that you'll have to use Xfree86 3.3.1, not the Xfree86 3.3 that

Re: [semi-off-topic:-] Reasons for Debian/Linux over FreeBSD

1997-12-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, FreeBSD is not commercial software, Red Hat Linux is commercial software! (along with all the goodies which come with a commercial product, like tech support!) Actually, Red Hat's tech support is only for installation problems, and from the

Re: I must have missed the partition mount step...

1997-12-02 Thread tko
Samuel Hahn writes: Hi... This morning was my first attempt to install Debian Linux (1.3). It went pretty smoothly (I was impressed) except for 2 items I need to ask about: 1. I seem to have missed the selection step that allows me to determine which of my partitions I want to

Re: Packaging Gimp .99.15

1997-12-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Yes, there are problems, espescially with new uploads [sometimes], but that's wy it is unstable. What is not true is that there are fewer packages available. Look at this (I am not making it up) __ __ dpkg -l |

Get Your Mailbox Stuffed with CASH for the Holidays!

1997-12-02 Thread Dorian Carrasco T.
$$$ This is a LEGAL, LOW-COST, MONEY-MAKING PHENOMENON. PRINT this letter, read the directions, THEN GET STARTED TODAY! You are about to embark on the most profitable and unique program you may ever see. Many times over, it has

YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain Watkins

1997-12-02 Thread Ian Gill Watkins
I have started receiving this message since installing the remainder / most of the Debian system. The domain on my home net is called watkins (original huh?). I have had a look out on the net and it appears to be something to do with TCP/IP / DHCP but I could do with some fairly detailed info

Giving Net access to Win95 workstations on my network

1997-12-02 Thread Ian Gill Watkins
How do I go about giving the Win95 workstations on my network access to the Net via my Linux box? They have TCP/IP installed and are using HOSTS LMHOSTS files for name resolution. I can ping both ways server-Win95 , Win95 -server, but the Win95 boxes can't see beyond the server. The server

RE: [semi-off-topic:-] Reasons for Debian/Linux over FreeBSD

1997-12-02 Thread Ian Gill Watkins
Lets put it like this. I tried installing FreeBSD, but gave up because the install routine was buggy and plainly didn't work at points (this was to allow installs over a PPP link). Debian had a straight-forward FAQ with d/l this, this and this. If you have one of these then you will need this

Re: Giving Net access to Win95 workstations on my network

1997-12-02 Thread Timm Gleason
You might want to look into IP Masquerading. Go look at this page http://www.wiznet.ca/~ambrose/ They have lots of info about masquerading those packets through a Linux box. Timm Gleason Hardware Engineer N2H2, Inc. On Tue, 2 Dec 1997 22:24:01 -, Ian Gill Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Giving Net access to Win95 workstations on my network

1997-12-02 Thread Will Lowe
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Ian Gill Watkins wrote: How do I go about giving the Win95 workstations on my network access to the Net via my Linux box? They have TCP/IP installed and are using HOSTS LMHOSTS files for name resolution. I can ping both ways server-Win95 , Win95 -server, but the Win95

Re: Get Your Mailbox Stuffed with CASH for the Holidays!

1997-12-02 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Isn't some division of the FBI interested in this kind of crapola? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Matrox Mistique Business 4 MB

1997-12-02 Thread Daniel Martin
Here's a copy of the message I posted to the list earlier, with irrelevant bits cut out, and with a few changes made that make things easier. The message assumes that you have a Debian XFree86 3.3 system already installed (and you can indeed use the Matrox 220 with Xfree86 3.3, but only in

Re: YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain Watkins

1997-12-02 Thread Carl Mummert
cmI have started receiving this message since installing the cmremainder / most of the Debian system. cmThe domain on my home net is called watkins (original huh?). cm cmI have had a look out on the net and it appears to be something to cmdo with TCP/IP / DHCP but I could do with some fairly

Re: MAJOR PROBLEM!

1997-12-02 Thread David B. Teague
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Allen Burns wrote: I just voited at http://www.slashdot.org and Debian is at 714 and Red Hat is at 738! Get off your a**es and go vote! I just visited the url mentioned. I see no place to 'vote' for Debian on that site at this point. The voting seems to be on the issue of

strange hardware problem?

1997-12-02 Thread David Oswald
Hello all... sorry for the long letter. hope you find it entertaining. This story eventually becomes debian related please be patient... I have two of these machines and they are both in the same condition - Fu$%ed... The machines are Gateway P4D-66 (486-66mhz). They have been

Re: kernel 2.1.68/69

1997-12-02 Thread Matthew R. Briggs
Subject: kernel 2.1.68/69 Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 23:19:41 +1100 From: Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org can anyone get 2.1.68 or 2.1.69 to compile? hamish Hamish, 2.1.67 had some changes to the installation scripts that broke make-kpkg. I've been

Re: Xfree with a Diamond Stealth II ?

1997-12-02 Thread Michael Legart
Hi, damn ... I still haven't got X to work with my stealth II. Well... it is working a litte, but I'm not able to change modes, and I would like some more colors, and a higher resolution. Anyone who has tried running x with this card? Can i just use the svga xserver? thanks regards, b a d p

RE: Get Your Mailbox Stuffed with CASH for the Holidays!

1997-12-02 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
I am digginto the USPS and FBI areas to forward it to them. Maybe we should all forward this to the person that sent it - it's froma lawyer specializing in MLM/pyramid schemes and their legality. Maybe several thousand copies of this in his mailbox will prevent this from happening again...:-) (The

Re: Crash! (help)

1997-12-02 Thread tko
Udjat the BitMeister... writes: What is device 03:01 ( see the syslog below. I assume its the swap partition) I did: swapoff /dev/hda2 mkswap -c /dev/hda2 swapon -a That should have reset a corrupt swap partition correct? here is the messages from the syslog:

RE: Get Your Mailbox Stuffed with CASH for the Holidays!

1997-12-02 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
The word from the US Postal Service is: According to 18 USC sec 1302 (the Postal Lottery Laws always quoted in these letters) , if the letter asks you to send money someplace and says that you'll make a big return on it by forwarding the letter, it's illegal. Doesn't matter if there's a product

Re: kernel 2.1.68/69

1997-12-02 Thread Roy C Bixler
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Matthew R. Briggs wrote: Hamish, 2.1.67 had some changes to the installation scripts that broke make-kpkg. I've been watching the lists and I don't think anyone has noticed yet (except you and me). 2.1.68 has all kinds of new signal stuff that don't compile

DNS Problem

1997-12-02 Thread Kevin Traas
If you've got a suggestion, I'd love to hear it. I've just had a client contact me. Their getting the following in /var/log/messages: Dec 2 12:47:16 inetgw named[140]: axionet.com IN MX points to a CNAME (mail.axionet.com)Dec 2 12:47:16 inetgw named[140]: axionet.com IN MX points to a

Re: mailing list/newsgroup loopback?

1997-12-02 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Wintermute [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Larry G. Gariepy Jr. wrote: Yes, I am noticing some duplicate messages. I am getting copies of messages I sent again a day or so after I sent them (and received them the first time). I was wondering why yesterday (the 29th) was such a heavy day.

Re: fetchmail problem

1997-12-02 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Pann McCuaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After years of reading my mail with pine from a shell on my ISP's machine, I've got a fetchmail/mutt/smail setup running here (on a bo installation). Sometimes when I connect to my ISP and run fetchmail, everything appears to be normal, but the

Re: DNS Problem

1997-12-02 Thread Behan Webster
Kevin Traas wrote: If you've got a suggestion, I'd love to hear it. I've just had a client contact me. Their getting the following in /var/log/messages: Dec 2 12:47:16 inetgw named[140]: axionet.com IN MX points to a CNAME (mail.axionet.com) Dec 2 12:47:16 inetgw named[140]:

Re: DNS Problem

1997-12-02 Thread Kevin Traas
I've just had a client contact me. Their getting the following in /var/log/messages: Dec 2 12:47:16 inetgw named[140]: axionet.com IN MX points to a CNAME (mail.axionet.com) Dec 2 12:47:16 inetgw named[140]: axionet.com IN MX points to a CNAME (smtp.axionet.com) Oh, and

Postgres What do you think

1997-12-02 Thread Paul
Hi everybody, I wanted to say thanks for all your help with samba. I have been investigating in a database package. I was wondering if anybody uses postgres95. I would like to have some feedback about this package. Any problems, failures, sucesses or anything else that would be relavent.

Re: DNS Problem

1997-12-02 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: If you've got a suggestion, I'd love to hear it. Okay, first suggestion is to turn off rich text or HTML email in your mail client. Email does NOT have pretty colors or centering and I usually just delete any message I see which looks like a webpage.

Re: DNS Problem

1997-12-02 Thread Kevin Traas
If you've got a suggestion, I'd love to hear it. Okay, first suggestion is to turn off rich text or HTML email in your mail client. Email does NOT have pretty colors or centering and I usually just delete any message I see which looks like a webpage. Yeah, apologies to everyone about that

Re: DNS Problem

1997-12-02 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Scott Ellis wrote: Okay, first suggestion is to turn off rich text or HTML email in your mail client. Email does NOT have pretty colors or centering and I usually just delete any message I see which looks like a webpage. That's a bit of a broad sweeping statement. I guess

Re: DNS Problem

1997-12-02 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Tommy Lakofski wrote: On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Scott Ellis wrote: Okay, first suggestion is to turn off rich text or HTML email in your mail client. Email does NOT have pretty colors or centering and I usually just delete any message I see which looks like a webpage.

QPopper warning

1997-12-02 Thread Kevin Traas
I've been getting the following message in /var/log/messages ever since I installed qpopper on my system: Dec 2 13:09:35 inetgw in.qpopper[742]: (v2.2) Unable to get canonical name of client, err = 0 Everything works fine, but I always get that message - filling up the log files Anyway, I

Re: DNS Problem

1997-12-02 Thread Kevin Traas
Hey! Hey you guys!!! I personally agree with both of you and try to keep my mail formatted according to the accepted standard on each list I'm a member of But I made a mistake all right? It's fine with me if you carry on with the war, but I'd appreciate being left out of it even though

Re: DNS Problem

1997-12-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: : I've just had a client contact me. Their getting the following in : /var/log/messages: : : Dec 2 12:47:16 inetgw named[140]: axionet.com IN MX points to a CNAME : (mail.axionet.com) : Dec 2 12:47:16 inetgw named[140]: axionet.com IN MX points

Re: DNS Problem

1997-12-02 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: It's fine with me if you carry on with the war, but I'd appreciate being left out of it even though I started it.. grin OK, no war. Just seems a little shortsighted to throw out the message because of the medium. TL -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: Quantum UDMA Drive Linux

1997-12-02 Thread Allen Burns
Why don't you run 'dmesg' after the system boots and send us the output? This would be helpful. Acctually I already diagnosed the problem it was my Promise Ultra 33 controler card, I had to pull it out and use my motherboard. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Postgres What do you think

1997-12-02 Thread Andrew Akins
I would also like to know what people think of this. I've installed it, and it appears to be working, but I have yet to really get my hands dirty. -- ++ | Andrew Akins | |

problem using gv

1997-12-02 Thread Cheng Tang
The newer version of gv seems not work in my systerm. -- gv: error in loading shared libraries libXaw3d.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory - Is there any way to fix it? Thanx. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

PnP modem woes continue, IRQ never fires for modem

1997-12-02 Thread Charles Read
Here's what I've done: 0. I installed isapnptools and set up the /etc/isapnp.conf file, which is provided below. I based the configuration on the readout for my modem within Win95. 1. I went through various setserial commands as in the /usr/doc/isapnptools/README.modules file.

Mailinglists documented

1997-12-02 Thread Martin Schulze
Good evening folks, Much of the the conversation between Debian developers and users is managed through several mailing lists. Debian GNU/Linux is developed through distributed development all around the world. Therefore email is a preferred way to discuss various items. All the

Re: Postgres What do you think

1997-12-02 Thread Iztok Umek
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Paul wrote: Hi everybody, I wanted to say thanks for all your help with samba. I have been investigating in a database package. I was wondering if anybody uses postgres95. I would like to have some feedback about this package. Any problems, failures, sucesses or

Re: DNS Problem

1997-12-02 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Tommy Lakofski wrote: On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Scott Ellis wrote: Okay, first suggestion is to turn off rich text or HTML email in your mail client. Email does NOT have pretty colors or centering and I usually just delete any message I see which looks like a webpage.

Re: PnP modem woes continue, IRQ never fires for modem

1997-12-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Charles Read wrote: : Here's what I've done: : : 0. I installed isapnptools and set up the : /etc/isapnp.conf file, which is provided : below. I based the configuration on the : readout for my modem within Win95. : 1. I went through various setserial commands :

$TERM = xterm acting funny on non-linux terms

1997-12-02 Thread Will Lowe
I recently synced up my Debian machine with the unstable tree on ftp.debian.org. Now if I connect to my linux box inside a non-linux xterm (non xterm-color, from a Sun machine, for example), all the text comes out in reverse video, which makes reading mail, viewing anything with less, etc,

freqs of video mode

1997-12-02 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! What do I change in order to have a 34 line display at 75 Hz? If I change the vga= at lilo to the 34 line display I get 60 Hz, where I can see some flicker. Both my monitor and my vga card are able to cope with 1280 at 75 Hz in graphics mode. Dunno if this helps.

twin again

1997-12-02 Thread Rick Hawkins
I've found some more information out since the last post, and Bruce's suggestions. It seems that the items not found by configure are only needed for some other specific systems, and that these are not a problem. THere is a problem, though, in that twin's debugger is still using two

Pioneer DR-A24X

1997-12-02 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Just to let you know (I don't know who to address really) but in order to make a Pioneer DR-A24X CD-ROM drive (ATAPI) work you have to append this in lilo: append=hdx=noprobe hdx=cdrom Otherwise it'll halt your machine. Salutacions, Pere __o

Re: Postgres What do you think

1997-12-02 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Iztok Umek wrote: : Othervise... anyone knows good tool for www-postgres conectivity? I'm using PostgreSQL 6.2.1 and Apache WWW-server together, using the PHP/FI module. Works great! Mail me if you want some examples :) bye, Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: $TERM = xterm acting funny on non-linux terms

1997-12-02 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Will == Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Will I recently synced up my Debian machine with the unstable Will tree on ftp.debian.org. Now if I connect to my linux box Will inside a non-linux xterm (non xterm-color, from a Sun Will machine, for example), all the text comes out

Re: Postgres What do you think

1997-12-02 Thread Ean Schuessler
I have been having a lot of fun with Java Servlets, JDBC and Postgres. Check out the java/apache stuff. On Tue, Dec 02, 1997 at 11:09:33PM +0100, Iztok Umek wrote: Othervise... anyone knows good tool for www-postgres conectivity? --

Re: YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain Watkins

1997-12-02 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Ian Gill Watkins wrote: [ Could you please configure your mailreader to break line at 76 characters, thanks ] I have started receiving this message since installing the remainder / most of the Debian system. The domain on my home net is called watkins (original huh?).

Re: [semi-off-topic:-] Reasons for Debian/Linux over FreeBSD

1997-12-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Dec 02, 1997 at 09:58:41AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Randy Edwards writes: I was wondering what sort of arguments folks would give for selecting Linux over FreeBSD. This is for a production server in an educational environment. The arguments used against Linux were that it

Installing Debian 1.3 on Eurocom laptop

1997-12-02 Thread Laurent Andriantsiferana
Hi, I tried to install Debian 1.3 on my laptop : EUROCOM 6200. I already installed Debian on my previous laptop with no problems. I read the installation guide and several Linux HOWTO (Hardware Compatibility, Laptop, PCI ...) and I couldn't find any clue. First the technical specifications of my

colormap in X server

1997-12-02 Thread Cheng Tang
Is there a way to increase colormap in X server? Everytime I start netscape, all other program (asclock, gimp, etc) can no longer use color. I don't know whether this is due to constraints in my setting in X or the hardware. How can I find this out and fix this problem? Thanks a lot!! -- TO

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