Pedro Sanchez wrote:
After this, /etc/group is ok, with user-name added where appropriate.
However, when user-name logs in and types groups he gets,
$ groups
user-name dialout
Where is dip? In fact, I tested by adding user-name to more groups but to
my surprise groups always returns the
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Matthew Majka wrote:
No switches on the mouse and the XF86Config file is bare. I
believe I used XF86Setup and it's various mouse options to
try to get the middle button to work with no luck.
Some mice require that you hold the middle mouse button down during
powerup.
Larry Gariepy wrote:
Matthew,
The problem with your mouse might not be your mouse, but the way that
it is configured. I have had to jump through all of the mouse hoops a lot
recently to get mine to work. A possible solution is that there might be
a switch on the
Hi,
Two questions:
1. Is the spreadsheet wingz available for debian - I couldn't find it.
Or is there a spreadsheet which allows the importation of wingz files?
2. Which spreadsheet to people recommend?
Thanks,
Mark.
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote:
Bob Nielsen wrote,
I think the requirement is : 5.4.4. In anycase, it works fine for me with
5.4.33.
The next magic question, is are you using hamm or bo, and should it make a
difference?
I'm using bo, but I don't think that will be a
On 11 Dec 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote:
[stuff removed]
Did you try reading through the 3-button-mouse howto in
/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini?
I'd like to thank everyone who answered my request for
information. The fix was easy; hold down button 1 during
boot and set the protocol to MouseSystems... and the
whoops, this should have gone to the list too.
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On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
It is NOT necessary for the last command to be started with exec. In
fact, exec should only be used on the window manager, and only if that
is the last command
Hi All,
I am thinking to buy a motherboard with SCSI controller. A local
newspaper advertised Iwill motherboard with Adaptec 2940U Ultra SCSI
controller. Does Debian support such motherboard? The manufacturer
has a web site @ http://www.iwill.com.tw
I appreciate it if someone could tell me
Alan Su [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Brian V Bonini wrote (Thu, 11 Dec 1997 14:28:59 -0500 ):
|What I need to do is somehow stop xdm at boot up (I'm booting Linux from a
|floppy) so I can get access to the console as root and delete the
|.xsession file that resides in /root. Please
On Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 07:18:16PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
Where is dip? In fact, I tested by adding user-name to more groups but to
my surprise groups always returns the same two groups!
Odd:
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joey dialout cdrom floppy tape dos users pub network
Were you
Is there anyone using debian-cd who would be willing to provide
some basic instructions on how to use it (or point me to some?)
Specifically, after installing debian-cd-1.0 on a Debian-1.3.1R6 system, I
don't understand which vars need to be configured to make mount the iso
filesystem in the
Tommy Lakofski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
[ I said: ]
It is NOT necessary for the last command to be started with exec. In
fact, exec should only be
I have created a mailing list for discussion about free electronics
software for Unix, especially Linux FreeBSD. To subscribe, please email
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(where fes means free electronics software) with the command
subscribe in the
Mike Fleming has brought together a series of presentations at the Washington
Statistical Society. The theme has been public-domain software, including our
usual friends in statistics and Linux like R (S+ clone), octave (Mathlab
clone), LaTeX. Beyond the packages many of us have heard of,
I was wondering if anyone knew of any problems with running the K6 and
Debian Linux?
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On 12-Dec-97 Fenrick wrote:
I was wondering if anyone knew of any problems with running the K6 and
Debian Linux?
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Hi,
I have heard of some problems with AMD K6 Anyone to comment?
The reason is because I have a K6 200 right beside me. :)
regards,
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Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated
Technical Head
I've mounted the cd and can read off of it. Permissions for a
particular file look like
-rwxr-xr-x 901 root size Install
Yet when I type ./Install from that directory as root, I get
permission denied. What gives? I have no idea where to look.
ebt - have fun
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i seem to have a problem that came about from using cfdisk. are there any
ways to correct or edit partition errors?
allan
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hi,
i seem to have a problem that came about from using cfdisk. are there any
ways to correct or edit partition errors?
allan
Few months ago, I tried using cfdisk to set the linux partition (2GB),
and both linux and msdos fdisk denied to run and I have to low-level
format
I had my system working fine for about 2 months but lately I have been
experiencing problems. I initially thought it had to do with dirty
filesystems. Now I have excluded that possibility.
Now I wanted to test memory (128M) by removing 64M at a time and changing
the lilo.conf mem statement. After
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
I would like to know if the Debian Linux Distribution support the Cirrus
5446 Chipset ?
In short: YES.
Thanks a lot for such a quick answer. I have another question...
I have got a CDD2600 CD Recorder and a Pioneer 12x SCSI CDROM on an
Elaina Beth Tillinghast wrote:
I've mounted the cd and can read off of it. Permissions for a
particular file look like
-rwxr-xr-x 901 root size Install
Yet when I type ./Install from that directory as root, I get
permission denied. What gives? I have no idea where to look.
It's
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Joost Kooij wrote:
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
I would like to know if the Debian Linux Distribution support the
Cirrus
5446 Chipset ?
In short: YES.
The Chipset has a problem that there is no one porting X86 to it. If you
read the
Help,
I need to restore a file from a Taper 6.7.4 backup and when I try
a restore Taper seg faults as soon as I select any file for restore.
I need to get a file off the backup ASAP! Is there any other
program that can read the tapes. I am using the ftape driver to
write to an QIC-80 Extra
Interesting, I am running perl version 5.004.04-2 also, but when I do
perl -v I get:
This is perl, version 5.004_04 built for i386-linux
Copyright 1987-1997, Larry Wall
Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
GNU General Public
On 97/12/11 at 08:25 AM -0500, Victor Torrico wrote:
Hello,
Think CHOS is the greatest thing since chocolate ice cream. I have it partially
configured but can't boot all OSs on several partitions. Obviously it's a case
of cockpit trouble on my part. I've tried all I can do to get all three
Does anyone know how to install packages with dselect, via floppy
disks? I know I have to include the packages themselves, .dep files,
right? But I think I need to add soemthing else cause I get some
errors, I need to add like a packages header or something, any ideas?
Also does anyone know of
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On Thu, 11 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
Our upstream provider is forcing us to change our Class C. Now, we need
to run two blocks parallel for awhile. We're running Debian Linux
(2.0.32) and I was wondering how to set up an IP address
That's it. I have to logout and login again for the new groups to take effect.
I wasn't using X, just the console.
Thank you for your answers.
P. Sanchez
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On Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 07:18:16PM -0500, Joey Hess
I am thinking to buy a motherboard with SCSI controller. A local
newspaper advertised Iwill motherboard with Adaptec 2940U Ultra SCSI
controller. Does Debian support such motherboard? The manufacturer
has a web site @ http://www.iwill.com.tw
I appreciate it if someone could tell me pros
I have a simple socket program. I've compiled it with gcc on
Debian 1.1 (kernel 2.0.29) and Red Had (Biltmore 2.0.30) and I keep
getting Network is unreachable.
Running gdb reveals the connect call is not working.
After stepping over the connect, errno = 101. Network is unreachable is
displayed
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know how to install packages with dselect, via floppy
disks? I know I have to include the packages themselves, .dep files,
right? But I think I need to add soemthing else cause I get some
errors, I need to add like a packages header
Yesterday I upgraded some packages, including smail. Coming in this morning,
there was no new mail, which is more than a little odd. Apparently smail was
no longer running; trying to stop the daemon failed. I restarted it, and mail
begain appearing. But Every message is accompanied by an
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Ken Lauffenburger wrote:
Interesting, I am running perl version 5.004.04-2 also, but when I do
perl -v I get:
This is perl, version 5.004_04 built for i386-linux
Copyright 1987-1997, Larry Wall
Perl may be copied only under the terms
Not sure if this is the right list to ask this question, but
here goes.
The gods of bandwidth have smiled upon me at work, and I am
able to create a local mirror of the Debian FTP site. I'm currently
just mirroring /debian/hamm.
When I use this mirror machine as an FTP
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know how to install packages with dselect, via floppy
disks? I know I have to include the packages themselves, .dep files,
right? But I think I need to add soemthing else cause I get some
Hi,
I have just installed Debian on a partition of my HD (and a swap partition)
everything seems to be going well, i log on and get a $, what next?
I have a Mistsumi CD rom drive, but cannot get the drivers select page to
recognise it, how do i find the interupts, irq thingys out?
what packages
Hi:
Inquiry was made regarding published (I assumed commercial)
books/ manuals on Debian. A reply from Fuzzy [EMAIL PROTECTED],
indicated some of the debian website things, whiich are indispensible.
Beyond the HOWTOs, files in /usr/doc/... Dale Scheetz has written a
book specifc to Debian. It
Pure Energy hat gesagt: // Pure Energy wrote:
Hmm same thing here aswell. I'm running stable but have a few hamm
packages installed. This i get running everyperl script and some
(including adduser) just core dump.. *ANY* help in this would be
appreciated.
Adrenolin [~]$perl -v
perl:
I have heard of some problems with AMD K6 Anyone to comment?
The reason is because I have a K6 200 right beside me. :)
There was a minor bug that was fixed some months ago. In repeated compiles,
it would attempt to execute an occasional instruction twice. THis has been
fixed, and all
Hi. I'm going to be setting up a dedicated network connection for a
client across the border. He has asked me about a separate mail server
(on top of the web/cgi server with the Net connection) to offload some of
the duties of the main server.
I'm a little confused as to how exactly I
hmm, I now also noticed that there is a file @ in my home directory, which is
a symbolic link to the current message in exmh. I don't think this used to be
the case. and after a reboot, the smail daemon had to be manually started
again.
rick
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On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote:
Yesterday I upgraded some packages, including smail. Coming in this morning,
there was no new mail, which is more than a little odd. Apparently smail was
no longer running; trying to stop the daemon failed. I restarted it, and mail
begain
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Rick wrote:
Hi,
I have just installed Debian on a partition of my HD (and a swap partition)
everything seems to be going well, i log on and get a $, what next?
I have a Mistsumi CD rom drive, but cannot get the drivers select page to
recognise it, how do i find the
David Guadine wrotem,
I had to rerun smail-config and specify using a daemon instead of
an inet.d entry. (I got that from reading debian-devel.) But, apparently
you were already using a daemon; there's obviously something here I don't
understand, but try what I did anyway.
Just tried this,
Folks,
Has anyone installed Debian on an IBM Aptiva L5H? I have a user here
that wants to get one, but only if Linux will install and run with
little hassle.
Thanks,
Tim
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It is a damned poor mind indeed
Dale and all
My apologies to Dale Sheetz and to the list. I was really OFF BASE
in my remark about 'Phone support' for this book. I was wrong,
and the sooner that is fixed the better.
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Here at BNL, we have the RHIC project ( a super collider ) going
online in '99. The folks that are specing out what to do with the
data (50MB/min for 4000 hrs/yr) are using big Sparc SMP iron,
and HPSS, a big tape farm to hold the raw data. The data first
goes to a 30TB cache of fiber-channel
Without seeing the program, it's hard to tell. I suspect that you have a
big-endian/little-endian problem. Try getting the addr with gethostbyname
or convert the ip-addr directly with inet_addr.
jim
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On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Robinet David Jeremy wrote:
Hi. I'm going to be setting up a dedicated network connection for a
client across the border. He has asked me about a separate mail server
(on top of the web/cgi server with the Net connection) to offload some of
the duties of the main
Brian Hutchinson wrote:
I have a simple socket program. I've compiled it with gcc on
Debian 1.1 (kernel 2.0.29) and Red Had (Biltmore 2.0.30) and I keep
getting Network is unreachable.
Running gdb reveals the connect call is not working.
After stepping over the connect, errno = 101.
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Elaina Beth Tillinghast wrote:
: I've mounted the cd and can read off of it. Permissions for a
: particular file look like
: -rwxr-xr-x 901 root size Install
: Yet when I type ./Install from that directory as root, I get
: permission denied. What gives? I have no idea
If there is a second dedicated IP address, you would use MX records in the DNS
to do it. Otherwise, if there is only one IP address, you can use rinetd.
On 12-Dec-97 Robinet David Jeremy wrote:
Hi. I'm going to be setting up a dedicated network connection for a
client across the border.
I have set up a US Debian mirror ftp site in E. Lansing, Michigan:
ftp://debian.egr.msu.edu/debian
It should be quite fast, as it is on 100mb to Fiber, then out to the world-
which last time I checked was a T3 down to Ann Arbor.
This site will be up 24-7, (minus the morning of the 29th of
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Rick wrote:
I have a Mistsumi CD rom drive, but cannot get the drivers select page to
recognise it, how do i find the interupts, irq thingys out?
Take a look at the settings for the drive under Win95.
what packages should i get to start me off, how (after downloading them
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Joost Kooij wrote:
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
I would like to know if the Debian Linux Distribution support the
Cirrus
5446 Chipset ?
In short: YES.
The Chipset has a problem that there is no one porting X86 to it. If you
read
Hello all...
I have a ViewSonic 15G monitor and an older JAX 8241 video card
with an S3 805 chipset. I've got the boot magazine disk version of
Debian installed on my 586 and so far everything's working great, except
for
I'm trying to get XFree86 up and running and am beating my
My students were messing around with my classroom computer, and now I
have stuff all over the place. I can't get everything back in proper
order. What do I do?
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My students were messing around with my classroom computer, and now I
have stuff all over the place. I can't get everything back in proper
order. What do I do?
Some more details would be helpful. As is, your question is very
vague and it's hard to offer any suggestions. For
On Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 01:35:47AM -0500, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote:
Just tried zgv thats in hamm. I get this:
red# zgv
svgalib: FATAL internal error:
Set MAX_REGS at least to 405 in src/driver.h and recompile everything.
Normally I'd suggest sending something like this to [EMAIL
On Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 01:01:43PM +0100, Gertjan Klein wrote:
Bill Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do you mean with incompatible workarounds? What's incompatible
about booting from an extended partition?
I have lost it. In as much as I really do not wish to mislead anyone
then
Jason Ish said
I have to install Linux onto a umsdos file system on one of my computers,
even though I know it isn't a suggested practice.
What steps should I take to install a fresh debian system onto umsdos. I
have a up and running Debian system to make a new kernel and what not.
Thanks
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Regarding Spreadsheets of 05:42 PM -0800 1997-12-11, Mark Phillips wrote:
Hi,
Two questions:
1. Is the spreadsheet wingz available for debian - I couldn't find it.
Or is there a spreadsheet which allows the importation of wingz files?
There's a Linux version
Hi,
Two days ago I began getting the following error messages when I
responded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED],
which I did twice. The standard mailing list footer is on the mail, it
appears to come from the mailing-list, but the From: address reads Mail
Delivery System [EMAIL
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On Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 01:01:43PM +0100, Gertjan Klein wrote:
Bill Leach [EMAIL
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know how to install packages with dselect, via floppy
disks? I know I have to include the packages themselves, .dep files,
right? But I think I need to add soemthing else cause I get some
errors, I need to add like a packages header
On 12 Dec 1997, Sten Anderson wrote:
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know how to install packages with dselect, via floppy
disks? I know I have to include the packages themselves, .dep files,
right? But I think I
I had some problems like this, where fdisk and cfdisk could no longer deal
with my disk. I posted somewhere and this wonderful fellow
A. E. Brouwer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
answered. He wrote fdisk3 . Some times it can read broken tables , get
the good info and spit out a clean one. It worked
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Rick wrote:
Hi,
I have just installed Debian on a partition of my HD (and a swap partition)
everything seems to be going well, i log on and get a $, what next?
I have a Mistsumi CD rom drive, but cannot get the drivers select page to
recognise it, how do i find the
My students were messing around with my classroom computer, and now I
have stuff all over the place. I can't get everything back in proper
order. What do I do?
Some more details would be helpful. As is, your question is very
vague and it's hard to offer any suggestions. For
Jimmy == Jimmy Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jimmy Hi All, I am thinking to buy a motherboard with SCSI
Jimmy controller. A local newspaper advertised Iwill motherboard
Jimmy with Adaptec 2940U Ultra SCSI controller. Does Debian
Jimmy support such motherboard? The manufacturer
It's Bill Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED]. He's been having problems with
fetchmail/exim/procmail. He's aware of the problem and I think he's going
to go to sendmail soon.
Brandon
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Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it
PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does
Matthew Majka wrote:
I'd like to thank everyone who answered my request for
information. The fix was easy; hold down button 1 during
boot and set the protocol to MouseSystems... and the
documentation was on my system all along. The more I use
Linux, the more I am amazed at the
My students were messing around with my classroom computer, and now I
have stuff all over the place. I can't get everything back in proper
order. What do I do?
This is obviously a windows user. Because of postings like this,
and because of all the spam we are getting and all of the
On 12 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My students were messing around with my classroom computer, and now I
have stuff all over the place. I can't get everything back in proper
order. What do I do?
This is obviously a windows user. Because of postings like this,
See my
personally I find the usenet more efficient since I don't have to
download the complete messages, just the headers
Manos
G John Lapeyre wrote:
On 12 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My students were messing around with my classroom computer, and now I
have stuff all over the place.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think having our lists on news benefits us, and we can tolerate the spam
and the mis-directed mail. What do you think?
I agree.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (G John Lapeyre) writes:
I don't see why people let a little spam get to them. Its bad,
but its life. About one out of 50 or 100 messages on debian-user is like
It's not that difficult to set up procmail to catch most of the spam.
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, C.L. Daugaard wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think having our lists on news benefits us, and we can tolerate the spam
and the mis-directed mail. What do you think?
I agree.
I agree too.
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