Re: Wow, and some questions

On Sat, 14 Jun 1997, Alan Woo wrote: 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.

PPP: /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down} query.

Why does /etc/ppp/ip-up unnecessarily ifconfig the ppp device? I don't believe this is necessary, as ppp appears to set up the device properly on its own. As I understand it this file is meant for setting up routes, or doing various random hacks at connection time (flushing mail queue, etc.) --

Re: Cron

Apache? IIRC there was a problem with apache and a #-1 group. Look at what is in /etc/apache/httpd.conf, on my system the /etc/cron.daily/apache script runs awk on the files in /etc/apache to determine user. Alternatively, check /etc/dwww/dwww.conf On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Matt Thompson wrote:

Re: Wow, and some questions

On Sat, 14 Jun 1997 18:37:20 -0400, Alan Woo wrote: [..] 1) I am incredibly knowledgable in Win95/NT. will i be able to run both Operating Systems if i partition my hdd? No problem. After you make room for linux and begin installation, you'll need to decide where you want lilo (linux boot

Re: samba

Are you saying that with I can use any protocol (IPX, TCP/IP, or NetBEUI) with Samba on the win95 box? Remco Blaakmeer wrote: 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

kernel-src .config files

I'm trying to switch from kernel 2.0.29 to 2.0.32 with the new kernel-src package. Is there going to be a problem if I copy over my .29 .config file into the 2.0.32 directory, or should I always run make menuconfig by hand? I don't want to change my setup any other than to use a different dot

Re: Wow, and some questions

Alan Woo wrote: 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

Re: Wow, and some questions

Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AW Alan Woo wrote: You can still access your Win95 drive through AW Linux as long as the drive isn't FAT32. To do this, add the AW following to your /etc/fstab file: AW AW /dev/your_hd_partition /where_you_want_to_mount_itmsdos defaults AW 0 0

Re: Wow, and some questions

1) I am incredibly knowledgable in Win95/NT. will i be able to run both Operating Systems if i partition my hdd? Yup. My own setup has DOS/Win 3.1, Win95, OS/2 and Debian on the same 1.2 GB drive. Win95 and OS/2 both are pretty minimal setups, though. 2) how do i install it (just a quick

Re: AMD K6

On Dec 14, Fenrick wrote 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

Re: samba

On Dec 14, 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. Netbios encapsulated in tcp/ip Tim --

Unidentified subject!

I have been trying, with no luck, to print to a printer shared from an NT box. I was wondering if someone could make some suggestions. The two machines involved, an NT (lager) box and a Debian Linux (stout) box, are located on my LAN at home. Lager can get to shares on the Stout via samba, with no

Re: MTA hostname masquerading, and local mail delivery

David Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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. Well, you've certainly confused me. :) What I mean is that

Re: PPP: /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down} query.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron Denney) writes: Why does /etc/ppp/ip-up unnecessarily ifconfig the ppp device? I don't believe this is necessary, as ppp appears to set up the device properly on its own. As I understand it this file is meant for setting up routes, or doing various random hacks at

Re: MTA hostname masquerading, and local mail delivery (correction)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Martin at cush) writes: snip fetchmail (on my machine) check regularly. This is all completely transparent to the MTA; as far as it's concerned, I might as well have my own domain name. (that is, I don't have to set any variables in my mail reader to tell it to

Re: samba

Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Are you saying that with I can use any protocol (IPX, TCP/IP, or NetBEUI) with : Samba on the win95 box? Samba (that runs on several Unix flavors, including of course Linux) can _only_ use TCP/IP. Windows 95 can use TCP/IP, IPX/SPX or NetBEUI to do

mke2fs capacity (where did it go!?)

I'm trying to setup 4 4.51gig scsi drives. I used the following to setup the drives: (victor)[root:~#] mke2fs -c -v /dev/sda1 mke2fs 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 Linux ext2 filesystem format Filesystem label= 1101824 inodes, 4401778 blocks 220088 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the

Re: samba

I do not think this is correct. I have seen Linux machines running SaMBa in both ipx and tcp/ip networks. On 15-Dec-97 Eloy A. Paris wrote: Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Are you saying that with I can use any protocol (IPX, TCP/IP, or NetBEUI) : with : Samba on the win95 box?

PPPD and CHAPMS

Is there a paritcular reason why pppd distributed with debian doesn't have support for MS chap compiled in? = === = mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |__ Alexander Stavitsky http://physlab.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: Clock skew detected.

Hi, Clock skew has been generally (in my experience) the case when you are compiling on a NFS mounted system, and there is a difference between the clocks of the server and the client. manoj -- If you permit yourself to read meanings into (rather than drawing meanings out of)

Re: kernel-src .config files

Hi, I genrally copy over the old .config file, and then re-run make menuconfig. The advantage is that all my old defaults are still there. You should rerun the menuconfig command since newer kernels may have new configuration options. manoj -- The abdomen, the chest, and the

RE: PPPD and CHAPMS

I think Hammish posted last night that the names of the options have changed with pppd but the options file was not changed. It is a matter of entering the correct option names. Check posts made by Hammish in the last 24hrs. On 15-Dec-97 Alexander Stavitsky wrote: Is there a paritcular

Hard Drive

I am having problems getting the CD to recognize my hard drive. When I get to this section to partition my drive No drive found is returned. I have a drive already partitioned with 1 GB assigned to drive D. I have a Gateway pentium II with an Ultra ATA bus controller. Through a little

Re: Is Perl 5.004.04-3 Package Routine Broken?

Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues wrote: Same problem here. After trying to install it with dpkg, I runned the postinst script manually with the 'configure' parameter. Then I edited the /var/lib/dpkg/status file, in the perl package section changed the line install ok not-configured to

Re: Sanyo 20x CDROM

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got a Sanyo 20x ide/atapi cdrom drive and my kernel detects it but I can't seem to mount it to /cdrom, what /dev/... file is the sanyo cd linked to? every one I found I tried got the following message: the kernel doesn't recognize ... as a block device

RE: PPPD and CHAPMS

On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, George Bonser wrote: I think Hammish posted last night that the names of the options have changed with pppd but the options file was not changed. It is a matter of entering the correct option names. Check posts made by Hammish in the last 24hrs. On 15-Dec-97 Alexander

Re: mke2fs capacity (where did it go!?)

On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, matthew tebbens wrote: Here is what 'df' says about the drives: Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hdb1 705433 485054 183942 73% / /dev/sda14253289 509553 3523648 13% /var/sda1 This says I

RE: PPPD and CHAPMS

Oops, disregard unable to rebuild package part of the previous message. I guess I had some old headers from ??-dev hanging around. Removed all *-dev packages and reinstalled libc6-dev - it compiles. I wonder what was wrong. = === = mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Core with pthread, libc6, and g++ in child processes..

Hello! I just installed the latest unstable version of Debian on Saturday and am either doing something wrong or I have found a bug. On top of this, I have followed the mini-howto for upgrading from libc5 to libc6 and installed all of the suggested packages. I've narrowed the problem down to

Re: samba

On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, George Bonser wrote: On 15-Dec-97 Eloy A. Paris wrote: Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Are you saying that with I can use any protocol (IPX, TCP/IP, or NetBEUI) : with : Samba on the win95 box? No, I was not saying that. Generally, when you want computers to

Re: PPP: /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down} query.

Daniel Martin at cush [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron Denney) writes: Why does /etc/ppp/ip-up unnecessarily ifconfig the ppp device? I don't believe this is necessary, as ppp appears to set up the device properly on its own. As I understand it this file is meant for

Re: MTA hostname masquerading, and local mail delivery

On Sun, 14 Dec 1997 22:17:17 EST, wrote: Well, you've certainly confused me. :) At least I can communicate clearly that I am confused. Well, let me tell you what my machine is set up to do - it may help you find a solution to your problem. More informationon how I acheived my machine's

Re: Hard Drive

The Promise UATA card is an IDE controller card, but NOT supported by the Linux kernel. Think of it as a SCSI Card (I know IDE isn't SCSI, but bear with me), the promise card responds to a slightly different command set, so you need support for it in the kernel. To make your system work with

Re: Hard Drive

Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 01:54:06 -0600 From: Troy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:William Aycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Hard Drive The Promise UATA card is an IDE controller card, but NOT supported by the Linux

NFS on Linux 1.3

Hi, We acquired the boot magazine # 15 - 11/97 - and after a successfully instalation of Linux 1.3 we are trying to map a driver letter for a PC with Windows 95 and NFS client to reach the file system on Linux server. Is it possible to do with the base installation of Linux or

Re: Core with pthread, libc6, and g++ in child processes..

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello! I just installed the latest unstable version of Debian on Saturday and am either doing something wrong or I have found a bug. On top of this, I have followed the mini-howto for upgrading from libc5 to libc6 and installed all of the suggested packages.

Re: Core with pthread, libc6, and g++ in child processes..

On 15 Dec 1997, Dale Martin wrote: Hi. Simply linking with libg++ and libpthread will cause this, because libg++ isn't thread safe. The libstc++ that comes with egcs (a new alternative to gcc/g++ based on gcc/g++ 2.8.0) is thread safe, and seems to work OK in general. As far as I know,

Re: debian-user-digest broken?

I have not been receiving digests for a few day now. Is the system broken? Perhaps some miscreant has unsubscribed me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

isapnp on startup

I am trying to configure a pnp sound card. But it seems that /etc/init.d/isapnp did not start first, so kernel could not initialize sound correctly. Below is from /var/adm/messages kernel: Sound initialization started kernel: sb: Interrupt test on IRQ7 failed - device disabled kernel: MPU-401

Re: mke2fs capacity (where did it go!?)

On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, matthew tebbens wrote: (victor)[root:~#] mke2fs -c -v /dev/sda1 mke2fs 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 Linux ext2 filesystem format Filesystem label= 1101824 inodes, 4401778 blocks 220088 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=1 Block

Re: Disk partioning error any idea what this means?

hi, i was setting up multiple operating systems. allan On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote: 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:

GNU mirror

Requested by Ben Pfaff, I have added a GNU mirror to my ftp Debian ftp site. I also aliased it in DNS so it is easy to remember: ftp://gnu.egr.msu.edu/pub/gnu Seeing that it is Debian *GNU*/Linux, thought people here would appreciate it. :) Thanks, Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: mke2fs capacity (where did it go!?)

On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, David Wright wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, matthew tebbens wrote: (victor)[root:~#] mke2fs -c -v /dev/sda1 mke2fs 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 Linux ext2 filesystem format Filesystem label= 1101824 inodes, 4401778 blocks 220088 blocks (5.00%)

Re: Cron

On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Matt Thompson wrote: : 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

ksmbfs

Has anyone else had kernel SMB fs support working with recent 2.1 kernels and the ksmbfs package (2.0.1-2)? It says smb_read_super: need mount version 6 and gives up for me. thanks, Hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: Wow, and some questions

On 14 Jun 1997, Alan Woo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) I am incredibly knowledgable in Win95/NT. will i be able to run both Operating Systems if i partition my hdd? You have received several useful suggestions about installing LILO so as to be able to boot either OS. Another alternative

Re: ksmbfs

Hi, I started to maintain ksmbfs that is now called smbfs. Last week I uploaded the libc6 version. However, I don't know anything about the 2.1 kernels. For me, it is too bloody to be in the bleeding edge of kernel development. I know that Volcker Lendecke is too busy these days to take a look

Re: AMD K6

So if you get a new chip then it shouldn't have any problems? Yes, but talking quite frankly with the techs there, they said the fastest they are turning them back around is 7-9 weeks. 2 months without a CPU?? a couple of things: a) the buggy chips are no longer avaialable. b) it

RE: Unidentified subject!

I had a similiar problem when printing from Solaris. There is a registry setting in 3.51 (sorry can't remember which one) that needs to be tweaked to allow incomming LPR jobs. Have a look on Technet (or the MS Website) searching for LPR NT Once the registry is set printing is OK. Alex

Re: mke2fs capacity (where did it go!?)

On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, matthew tebbens wrote: But I don't have 4,401,778 blocks, I only have a total of 4,253,289 blocks which becomes aprox 4,355,367,000 bytes. How does it get from 4,401,778 blocks to 4,253,289 blocks ? Somewhere along the line I lost about 250,000 blocks... ?? You

Re: AMD K6

Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: So if you get a new chip then it shouldn't have any problems? Yes, but talking quite frankly with the techs there, they said the fastest they are turning them back around is 7-9 weeks. 2 months without a CPU?? a couple of things: a) the buggy chips

Re: mke2fs capacity (where did it go!?)

Thats over 250megs of tables and internal structures ? Wow... On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Scott Ellis wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, matthew tebbens wrote: But I don't have 4,401,778 blocks, I only have a total of 4,253,289 blocks which becomes aprox 4,355,367,000 bytes. How does it get

PCMCIA 3Com589 Debian Olivetti laptop

Hello, I am currently installing Debian 1.3.1 kernel 2.0.29 on an Olivetti ECHOS 150D. The installation process does not detect and select some devices during the detection phase. The CD runs correctly. But the 3Com589 LAN ethernet PCMCIA card driver isn't detected and its installation crashes

Re: mke2fs capacity (where did it go!?)

matthew tebbens wrote: Thats over 250megs of tables and internal structures ? Wow... There is also 5% reserved for root, unless you specified otherwise Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps The squeaky wheel gets the

Re: mke2fs capacity (where did it go!?)

Thats over 250megs of tables and internal structures ? Wow... Not only. I don't remeber whether it was already mentioned but by default 5% of the filesystem is reserved for the super-user. You may override this default with -m option to mk2efs. Alex Y. On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Scott Ellis

Re: mke2fs capacity (where did it go!?)

1101824 inodes, 4401778 blocks 220088 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user /dev/sda14253289 13 4033188 0% /var/sdb1 /dev/sdb14253289 13 4033188 0% /var/sdb1 /dev/sdc14253289 13 4033188 0% /var/sdc1 /dev/sdd1

FTP install

hi there, I really need to upgrade my GIMP 0.54 to the 0.99 version .. unfortunatly it needs libc6 so I though I could go for the complete Hamm instead but ... I'm hitting a wall! :-( I just subscribed this list just to ask this question: Can HAMM be installed through FTP? I've been trying

wu-ftpd

Hey I asked this a while ago, but I didn't notice any responses.. The wu-ftpd in the hamm-distribution is linked towards libc5.. so it screws up the wtmp file - `last` output is horrible.. Anyone who got it to compile using a libc6-system? Thanks for your help! bye, Remco -- TO

Re: mke2fs capacity (where did it go!?)

On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, matthew tebbens wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, David Wright wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, matthew tebbens wrote: (victor)[root:~#] mke2fs -c -v /dev/sda1 mke2fs 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 Linux ext2 filesystem format Filesystem label= 1101824

error when starting X

When I try to start the X server for XFree86, I get the following error: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 How can I fix this? If it helps, I'm using Xfree86 3.3.1 with Debian 1.3.1. I've gotten this error before with previous versions of Xfree. Thanks for your help. --

Re: FTP install

On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Dominique Jacquel wrote: hi there, I really need to upgrade my GIMP 0.54 to the 0.99 version .. unfortunatly it needs libc6 so I though I could go for the complete Hamm instead but ... I'm hitting a wall! :-( I just subscribed this list just to ask this

Re: FTP install ... thanks

hey cheers ... that should help a lot ... I'll try that tomorrow! good day or night .. depending where you are ;-) *-* | Dominique Jacquel http://www.mech.ed.ac.uk/~dom | | Ph.D. student mailto:[EMAIL

Re: mke2fs capacity (where did it go!?)

Hmmm interesting ! Thanks. On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, David Wright wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, matthew tebbens wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, David Wright wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, matthew tebbens wrote: (victor)[root:~#] mke2fs -c -v /dev/sda1 mke2fs 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for EXT2

wuftpd vs wuftpd-academ

Can someone tell me what's the difference between wuftpd and wuftpd-academ versions? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

samba not printing via lpr

Hi, until a few days ago, I was using samba to print to a laserjet attached to a NT box. Today I needed to print a C program, using a2ps, but printing doesn't work anymore. I *think* I upgraded samba recently, but I don't recall how long ago... I have this on /etc/printcap

Installing

I recnetly got a copy of the Boot Mag w/ Cd that contains Debian. I have wanted to install Debian since then, but when i tried, I encounter what i think is an error. First My system: 486 66 16 Md Ram Diamond Stealth64 VLB 2 MB Vram 450 MB IDE HD Pro Audio

smail not starting on boot

After a few attempts, smail finally runs, but fails to start on boot as it is supposedly configured to do. /etc/init.d/smail does exist. Is there something else I need to look at? rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: smail not starting on boot

Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: After a few attempts, smail finally runs, but fails to start on boot as it is supposedly configured to do. /etc/init.d/smail does exist. Is there something else I need to look at? I believe that by default, smail is run out of inetd (/etc/inetd.conf).

Re: smail not starting on boot

I believe that by default, smail is run out of inetd (/etc/inetd.conf). Telnet to port 25 of your box and see if it responds. It responds, but I've manually started smail. The problem is that the init.d file doesn't seem to be run automatically. rick -- These opinions will not be those of

Re: Making a debian CD

On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Carlos Barros wrote: And Other thing is that by default 'less' use as editor other than 'vi' (I think that 'vi' is the standart editor in unix), may be 'ae'( don't remember). yes, this is very annoying, isn't it. because of some debian policies (which do make some sense

root logs in with no password on consoles

In this strange new world after the reinstall, another problem is that root is not asked for a password when attempting to log in at the consoles. However, su and login at the xconsole do require the password, and root is still unable to login from telnet. How do I fix this? i can't even

runaway tcsh's

Every couple of days, i seem to get tcsh's that become runaway processes when killed. I recall discussion a couple of weeks ago; was this resolved? -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Controlling a Parallel Port Device

The short version: I've been given a schematic for a device that I've been told I can hook up to a Bi-Directional parallel port. It uses one pin for information in, and one for information out. I need to figure out what pins to hook it to, and find a way to make a driver for this device.

Re: mke2fs capacity (where did it go!?)

matthew tebbens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here is what 'df' says about the drives: Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hdb1 705433 485054 183942 73% / /dev/sda14253289 509553 3523648 13% /var/sda1

Re: Stupid mirror question.

Thanks, I am aware of -T option but it takes an extra run to switch between mirrors. My guess is that the problem stems from timezones somehow. I'm wondering if it is possible to make mirror always work in UTC and forget about the existence of timezones altogether. On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Timothy

Re: Making a debian CD

On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: : : On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Carlos Barros wrote: : : And Other thing is that by default 'less' use as editor other than : 'vi' (I think that 'vi' is the standart editor in unix), may be 'ae'( : don't remember). : : yes, this is very annoying, isn't it.

okay, nearing there. few last things

Hey all, my tri-linux just got here from lsl, and the old email wasn't working after all, apart form that, they have very prompt service. Anyways, my hdd is loaded with useless dll's, so i'm soon going to format the entire thing. Are there any major glaring things i need to prepare for in order

Re: Python-tk giving [off-thread]

On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Mike Orr wrote: This just happened this week after a bulk upgrade. (Other than that the upgrade went very smoothly.) By bulk upgrade I mean letting dselect upgrade everything it thought necessary. What is the easist way to do this? It's something that would be nice

Re: Hard Drive

I think we can't help you with that Promise controller yet. Is there a non-Ultra controller on your motherboard that you can plug the drive into? Given that the CD is working, I would suppose so. It'l be a little slower for now, but most of the disk delay is because of the seek time, which Ultra

Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux

Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.62 1997/12/15 22:51:11 johnie Exp $ 1. General Questions 1.1. Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/. 1.2. Purpose of this

Re: okay, nearing there. few last things

As far as I know, both netstat and netstd ppp are included with all distributions of Linux. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong). Alan Woo wrote: Hey all, my tri-linux just got here from lsl, and the old email wasn't working after all, apart form that, they have very prompt service. Anyways, my

Re: Disk partioning error any idea what this means?

' ALLAN W. BART wrote: hi, i was setting up multiple operating systems. ... Drive C: has 1 Error This tells me that you are running MS-DOS and are posting to the wrong lis t. Sorry, then, but in principle my reply stands. You're running a

Re: error when starting X

Aaron Walker wrote: When I try to start the X server for XFree86, I get the following error: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 How can I fix this? If it helps, I'm using Xfree86 3.3.1 with Debian 1.3.1. I've gotten this error before with previous versions of

Re: Installing

There is a problem with your SCSI card and the aic7xxx driver. I am having problems with the one in the development kernel, too. I think some older kernel versions might work better - is anyone out there running an older version of this driver? Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: error when starting X

I have overcome this before ny linking tty0 to tty1 (or the other way around, don't remember). For some odd reason it didn't work this time. Oliver Elphick wrote: Aaron Walker wrote: When I try to start the X server for XFree86, I get the following error: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect:

Strange kernel Messages

Help!!! My system went down this morning and coming back up, I'm getting the following on my console, syslog, kern.log, debug, and messages file. It's filling up my logs, filling my drives, and creating all kinds of havoc. I haven't modified my kernel in any way and what shows below is all I'm

Re: error when starting X

On Mon, Dec 15, 1997 at 01:02:42PM -0500, Aaron Walker wrote: When I try to start the X server for XFree86, I get the following error: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 How can I fix this? If it helps, I'm using Xfree86 3.3.1 with Debian 1.3.1. I've gotten this error

Re: smail not starting on boot

But when it runs out of inetd, there is nothing for it to do on startup. There is nothing running all the time. OK, so what should I be doing so that smail automatically starts/starts listeninging/whatever? Currently, once i start it from init.d, it stays going until shutdown. rick --

.xsession not executing

I tried to send this earlier, but i don't think anything got out. After reinstalling, my .xsession file isn't run. I've looked in the man pages for x and xdm, but they don't say anything about permissions other than to be executable. I've tried 700, but this doesn't seem to do it. rick --

Re: Debian needs guinea pigs

Add me to the list. I have the room to test both upgrades and fresh installs. Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Magicfilter gs

Hi folks, I have a matrix 9 dot printer (epson compatible) which is capable to give 240x216 resolution. I tryed to use -r switch for gs to make at least 240x144 and device=eps9hi but it does not get any better than 120x72. Did any-one finetune magicfilter? If yes, please, tell how? Thank you

Re: .xsession not executing

On Mon, 15 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to send this earlier, but i don't think anything got out. After reinstalling, my .xsession file isn't run. I've looked in the man pages for x and xdm, but they don't say anything about permissions other than to be executable. I've