mailing list hiccup

1997-12-14 Thread bruce
Our SMTP server on the master system stopped answering for a little while. I sent a hangup to inetd and it started behaving again. Some list articles were delayed, and some are sitting at our alternate MX host right now and will eventually make it to the list. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: A question regarding hardware

1997-12-14 Thread bruce
George: But I do not think THIS promise card is supported. I have not seen any DMA33 support in Linux yet. The PCI driver recognizes the Promise Ultra DMA 33 controller in kernel 2.1.67 . It's not at all clear to me that the Promise driver does anything with this information. It may be

libbfd2.8.1 - duplicate packages?

1997-12-14 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
Hamm includes both libbfd2.8.1_2.8.1-2.deb and libbfd2.8.1.0.15_2.8.1.0.15-1.deb. Neither indicates and replaces or conflicts. Are these two versions of the same package, or are they independent? Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: ppp 2.3 options file is broken?

1997-12-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 05:35:29PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I have twice tried upgrading to ppp 2.3, but the provided options file contains the dns-addr lines but pppd complains about unrecognise options. How do I fix this? Other people seem to be using it successfully. There are a number

Re: lilo and dosemu

1997-12-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 10:43:22AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is my understanding that you cannot use dosemu to access partitions which use the lilo boot system. This seems to indicate that the boot partition, normally dev/hda1, cannot be DOS on a dual boot system if you intend to use

Re: dtterm

1997-12-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
George Bonser wrote: On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote: I don't know what dtterm is, but from context it sounds like a terminfo or termcap setting. It is, I suppose, the destop terminal. In its default configuration, when you right-click on a blank area of the destop,

Re: Disk partioning error any idea what this means?

1997-12-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
butch wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0069_01BD07C7.EDA769A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hi, does anyone out there on this list know what this is telling me? allan

Re: Debian 1.3 ignores more than 2 groups.

1997-12-14 Thread Kevin Buhr
Pedro Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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 same two groups! My first guess would be that

Re: setting up a cable-modem

1997-12-14 Thread Aaron Walker
The card is an internal PnP card. George Bonser wrote: You have a cable modem that installed into your computer? Most cable modems are external with an ethernet card installed in the computer. On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: Has anyone successfully setup a PnP Cable-Modem in

ttys accessible to root

1997-12-14 Thread Aaron Brick
what do i need to change to affect the settings of which ttys root is allowed to log in from? ie, right now he seems to be able to log in from ttys 1-8 and some ttyps but not elsewhere. thanks. aaron brick. -- aaron brick. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A question regarding hardware

1997-12-14 Thread Lightning Firestormer
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 12:57:21 -0800 (PST) From: George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:Lightning Firestormer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:[EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: A question regarding hardware But I do not think

Lyx, Latex, \today deZember

1997-12-14 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Has anyone found a way to make the latex statement \today in a lyx file translate into December instead of Dezember? I live in the States ^ ^ where the former spelling is used. Thanks, Kingsley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: lilo and dosemu

1997-12-14 Thread bruce
On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 10:43:22AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is my understanding that you cannot use dosemu to access partitions which use the lilo boot system. I don't believe this. bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: libbfd2.8.1 - duplicate packages?

1997-12-14 Thread Lindsay Allen
I contacted Galen on this one. I don't normally quote private mail on the list but I am confident that he will approve and this will save him from having to do it again. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Dec 14 11:10:21 1997 Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 23:47:40 -0700 From: Galen Hazelwood [EMAIL

linux systems labs

1997-12-14 Thread Alan Woo
Hi, i'm not sure if this is the right place to go for help, but i couldn't find any other. I ordered a copy of tri-linux from Linux Systems Labs a few weeks ago, and i didn't get a conformation message, and every time i send them an email asking about my order, i don't get a reply. I was just

Re: ttys accessible to root

1997-12-14 Thread Dale Harrison
what do i need to change to affect the settings of which ttys root is allowed to log in from? ie, right now he seems to be able to log in from ttys 1-8 and some ttyps but not elsewhere. /etc/securetty gives a list of tty's that root can login from. D. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: kernel sound defaults wrong?

1997-12-14 Thread Britton
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Stephen Zander wrote: I thought irq 5 was also for lpt1. surely it's better to document what we have now? Otherwise we may trade one set of questions for another (Why can't I use my ... printer? :)) In linux

Clock skew detected.

1997-12-14 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
I'm trying to compile the 2.0.32 kernel and I'm getting this at the end of the make-kpkg clean and make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image: make: *** Warning: Clock skew detected. Your build may be incomplete. What exactly does this error mean? I'm running a completely hamm distribution

Re: linux systems labs

1997-12-14 Thread Dan Irvin
send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] they _will_ take care of your problem... We did change over to a new system a few weeks back and had a few problems with email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you are not taken care of please email me [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call me at 888 440 0123. -Dan Hi,

Re: Clock skew detected.

1997-12-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Dec 14, 1997 at 01:08:00AM -0500, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: I'm trying to compile the 2.0.32 kernel and I'm getting this at the end of the make-kpkg clean and make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image: make: *** Warning: Clock skew detected. Your build may be incomplete.

Problem with netscape

1997-12-14 Thread Jon Nelson
Say, does anybody know why this happens every once in a while? I'm running Netscape 3.01 on Debian 1.3.1 on a K5-100 system. For months at a time it is perfectly stable and then, for no reason that I am able to fathom, when I run netscape it never shows up. A quick ps -ax shows a zombied

Re: dtterm

1997-12-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
George Bonser wrote: I take that back ... it does not work. Looks like I created a tercap type entry out of a terminfo description. Any idea how I can turn that back to a terminfo entery for linux or will the Solaris terminfo entry work ok? What you posted looked like a good terminfo

Re: setting up a cable-modem

1997-12-14 Thread Aaron Walker
The card is made by General Instruments. The TV cable does go into the back of the card. In my house, we have only 1 cable box, and that's in the living room. My linux box is in my room. So there's no cable box within 25 feet of my computer. I read the cable-modem mini-HOWTO and it says

Exim configuration

1997-12-14 Thread Randy Edwards
I recently switched from smail to exim as my MTA in the hopes of getting something a bit easier to configure and which can more easily handle spam blocking. However, I've run into some problems getting exim to process my local, user-to-user mail. I'm using the bogus domain name of

Re: libbfd2.8.1 - duplicate packages?

1997-12-14 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: Hamm includes both libbfd2.8.1_2.8.1-2.deb and libbfd2.8.1.0.15_2.8.1.0.15-1.deb. Neither indicates and replaces or conflicts. Are these two versions of the same package, or are they independent? They

Re: AMD K6

1997-12-14 Thread Fenrick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 12, A. M. Varon wrote 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. :) There are problems with certain runs of the K6 and linux with more than 32 MB RAM. It's documented

IDE CDR / CDRW Drives

1997-12-14 Thread Fenrick
Does anyone know if there are drivers under Linux for IDE CD writers, and the CD rewritable drives? Or does all the work have to be done under Win95? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

ftp proxy

1997-12-14 Thread Fenrick
Does anyone know if it is possible to set up dselect to use a ftp proxy when using a ftp source? My ISP doesn't provide any other way to ftp. Thanx in advance -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ftp proxy

1997-12-14 Thread Rob
This one works for me, so assuming your ftp proxy uses the normal [EMAIL PROTECTED] login, just set the ftp host to be the proxy server, or proxy:port if required, and the username as [EMAIL PROTECTED] my settings are: ftp site: green:2121 passive: y username: [EMAIL PROTECTED] password:

samba

1997-12-14 Thread Aaron Walker
Lets say I have a Win95 box and a Linux box. Does Win95 view the samba connection as TCP/IP or NetBEUI? Thanks for your help. -- ` Aaron Walker Work: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: samba

1997-12-14 Thread Fenrick
Lets say I have a Win95 box and a Linux box. Does Win95 view the samba connection as TCP/IP or NetBEUI? It uses TCP/IP. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ftp proxy

1997-12-14 Thread Fenrick
Rob wrote: This one works for me, so assuming your ftp proxy uses the normal [EMAIL PROTECTED] login, just set the ftp host to be the proxy server, or proxy:port if required, and the username as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for the suggestion - it appears that the proxy in this case uses

Re: AMD K6

1997-12-14 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
There are problems with certain runs of the K6 and linux with more than 32 MB RAM. It's documented on their web page, along with how to return your defective chip for a good one. Since you have to send it to them first, I just switched the K6 we had into a winders95 box, and it runs

Re: setting up a cable-modem

1997-12-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
The card is made by General Instruments. The TV cable does go into the back of the card. In my house, we have only 1 cable box, and that's in the living room. My linux box is in my room. So there's no cable box within 25 feet of my computer. I read the cable-modem mini-HOWTO

Re: Smail and procmail?

1997-12-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 03:33:02AM +0100, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: Hi, This is probably a silly question, but I thought I'd ask anyway: How does one set up procmail as the default mail delivery program when using smail as MTA? I have set up procmail on a per-user basis (using a proper

Not exactley concerning debian

1997-12-14 Thread Bob Mills
I want to set up my computer to run Debian in 1 partion and have win95 in another. I have no idea how to go about this or if it can be done. Thanks for any help. Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: samba

1997-12-14 Thread Aaron Walker
If it uses TCP/IP, how does Win95 see it in Network Neighborhood? Fenrick wrote: Lets say I have a Win95 box and a Linux box. Does Win95 view the samba connection as TCP/IP or NetBEUI? It uses TCP/IP. -- ` Aaron

Re: lilo and dosemu

1997-12-14 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, Dec 14, 1997 at 03:06:02AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 10:43:22AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is my understanding that you cannot use dosemu to access partitions which use the lilo boot system. I don't believe this. I don't know why, but this is

Re: Not exactley concerning debian

1997-12-14 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Bob Mills wrote: I want to set up my computer to run Debian in 1 partion and have win95 in another. I have no idea how to go about this or if it can be done. No problem ;-) You will have to install '95 on the first primary partition. Don't let the install make the

Re: dtterm

1997-12-14 Thread George Bonser
Actually, simply copying the terminfo entry from the solaris machine to the debian machine worked. On 14-Dec-97 Oliver Elphick wrote: George Bonser wrote: I take that back ... it does not work. Looks like I created a tercap type entry out of a terminfo description. Any idea how I

Re: setting up a cable-modem

1997-12-14 Thread George Bonser
On 14-Dec-97 Aaron Walker wrote: The card is made by General Instruments. The TV cable does go into the back of the card. YIKES! That is ALL we need, RF interference problems from computers on the cable-TV circuit. The reason I was skeptical was that I was with a company desinging the

Re: CHoose OS v0.80 - Tale of Woe

1997-12-14 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Victor Torrico [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: ftp proxy

1997-12-14 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Rob wrote: This one works for me, so assuming your ftp proxy uses the normal [EMAIL PROTECTED] login, just set the ftp host to be the proxy server, or proxy:port if required, and the username as [EMAIL PROTECTED] The simpler solution for this type of proxy is to just

Re: Partitioning

1997-12-14 Thread Gertjan Klein
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to boot 95 from a logical partition? On a seperate note, is it possible to *install* (from CD) 95 onto a logical HD. To my knowledge, no - but I've never actually tried it. Gertjan. -- Gertjan Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Boot Control home page:

Re: Problem with booting after moving from 128 to 64M

1997-12-14 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Daniel J. Mashao wrote: 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

CHoose OS v0.80 - Tale of Woe

1997-12-14 Thread Philip Jensen
Hi Sorry, I can't provide a fix, but I would like to find out more about CHoose OS 0.80. Where can I get more info/download? thanks Philip Jensen On 97/12/11 at 08:25 AM -0500, Victor Torrico wrote: Hello, Think CHOS is the greatest thing since chocolate ice cream. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

MTA hostname masquerading, and local mail delivery

1997-12-14 Thread David Stern
Hi, There are a lot of things about mail delivery that I'm unsure of right now. Having put more time into thinking about exactly what I want, I've become less certain about my configuration needs. Originally I thought it best to masquerade globally, as this is not email client specific, which

Re: samba [off-topic]

1997-12-14 Thread Thomas Lakofski
I think you're confusing the network client with the network protocol. Win95 will quite happily see lanman servers running on TCP/IP, IPX/SPX or NetBEUI, so it'll see samba just fine. If your machine is having a problem with this, try adding TCP/IP to its network configuration, and making sure

FastSCSI Card recommendations

1997-12-14 Thread Damir J. Naden
G'day everybody -- I decided to invest into new computer, and since I already have two SCSI-2 HD's (Quantum and IBM), I'd like to keep them. My current system is VLB-based so I have to buy a new card for PCI-based pentium class system. I am looking into choosing between three diff adapters at

recompiling the kernel

1997-12-14 Thread Aaron Brick
I tried today to recompile my kernel, but after a few minutes of working fine, it quit, giving me these errors: consolemap.c:303: uni_hash.tbl: No such file or directory consolemap.c: In function `con_set_default_unimap': consolemap.c:404: `dfont_unitable' undeclared (first use this function)

Re: Smail and procmail?

1997-12-14 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 03:33:02AM +0100, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: Hi, This is probably a silly question, but I thought I'd ask anyway: How does one set up procmail as the default mail delivery program when using smail as MTA? I have

Re: samba

1997-12-14 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: If it uses TCP/IP, how does Win95 see it in Network Neighborhood? Fenrick wrote: Lets say I have a Win95 box and a Linux box. Does Win95 view the samba connection as TCP/IP or NetBEUI? It uses TCP/IP. It's simple. NetBIOS runs on top of

2.1.72 sound driver and kerneld

1997-12-14 Thread David Z. Maze
The sound driver in the 2.1.72 kernel builds as a sound module, and then separate modules for each individual device. On my system, I use the sb driver, which then depends on the uart and sound modules. This works fine with modprobe and appropriate options. Is there any way to get this work

Re: recompiling the kernel

1997-12-14 Thread G John Lapeyre
I have no idea whats going on, but I did find this: /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.30/drivers/char/uni_hash.tbl On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Aaron Brick wrote: I tried today to recompile my kernel, but after a few minutes of working fine, it quit, giving me these errors: consolemap.c:303:

Re: Mail Server?

1997-12-14 Thread Robinet David Jeremy
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: When I send mail through my ISP, I direct pine's smtp to the mail server (by name, ie mail.polaris.net) my ISP askes me to use. I assume that smail/sendmail on other machines on the local net would be pointed at that server as well. That's notquite

Cron

1997-12-14 Thread Matt Thompson
I've been getting these messages for a few days: Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 06:42:01 -0800 (PST) From: Cron Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.daily chgrp: invalid group name `#-1' chgrp: invalid group name `#-1' chgrp: invalid group

Wow, and some questions

1997-12-14 Thread Alan Woo
Hi, i was amazed at the help i got from you people at this list, i got a message about 20 minutes after i asked a question. That was amazing, thanks to all who helped. Anyways, things will hopefully soon be sorted out, and i will soon be a new linux user. I have very little knowledge of linux