Re: Really dumb question...

1997-12-21 Thread Sten Anderson
Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Dec 19, 1997 at 07:28:44PM -0500, DebianUser wrote: Really dumb question; I keep looking for Debians kernel to package tools and cant find it... Ahm, what exactly are you looking for? I think he is looking for the tools to

Re: Perl 5.004.04-2 causes core dumps...

1997-12-21 Thread Neilen Marais
Hello On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Neilen Marais wrote: I have upgraded to 5.004.04-3, and the problem still persists! Did you install perl-base 5.004.04-3 and then perl 5.004.04-3 ? There should be a predepends line in perl 5.004.04-3, but I have heard that this restriction doesn't work somehow. I

Off-Line NNTP?

1997-12-21 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi... I'm looking for a simple solution allowing me to fetch only the newsgroups I want through a PPP link, and then having it served locally as NNTP so that I can use any reader. In fact, I'm looking for leafnode. I did use leafnode before, and it suited my needs perfectly, but I had to change

Apache

1997-12-21 Thread Rob
Hello all. Hopefully this is a simple question, but I'm relativly new to Linux.. I have a fairly minimal installation of stable debian, as I'm short of disc space. ie, no X, no compiler, no man pages. (It's a 486/25 with 80Mb although I have a spare 120Mb disc I havn't tried adding yet -that's

Off-Line NNTP?

1997-12-21 Thread Carl Fink
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm looking for a simple solution allowing me to fetch only the newsgroups I want through a PPP link, and then having it served locally as NNTP so that I can use any reader. I use suck -- there's a debian package for it. It works, it's being actively developed, and I really

Re: XCircuit available as debian package?

1997-12-21 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sat, 20 Dec 1997, Wojtek Zabolotny wrote: Hi All! I'm just wondering if someone is debianizing the XCircuit program (http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~tim/programs/xcircuit). It is a very nice schematic editor for X. Is it difficult to convert such a program into a debian package? I

Is `Okidata 6e' page printer a `Windows-based' printer?

1997-12-21 Thread Charles Read
Following the Print-HOWTO, I did this from root: # cat /etc/printcap /dev/lp1 My printer's LED blinked, with no further response after. /proc/devices shows that lp exists; `dmesg | grep lp' shows that my printer is recognized at port 0x378 (the IRQ should be 7, but I could not verify this

Re: Is `Okidata 6e' page printer a `Windows-based' printer?

1997-12-21 Thread Tim Sailer
Charles Read wrote: Following the Print-HOWTO, I did this from root: # cat /etc/printcap /dev/lp1 My printer's LED blinked, with no further response after. /proc/devices shows that lp exists; `dmesg | grep lp' shows that my printer is recognized at port 0x378 (the IRQ should be

Setting up suck for inn

1997-12-21 Thread Mark W. Blunier
I've installed suck and inn on my home system. Inn seems to work, at least on the local.test groups it started with. Now I want to add some public groups and fill the news spool and send out messages using suck. I would like to do this in my ip-up script, but I haven't figured out how this is

is anyone using NE1000?

1997-12-21 Thread Aaron Walker
Has anyone successfully setup a NE1000 card (not a clone) using Debian 1.3.1 with the loadable kernel module. I can't get my 486SX/25 with 8MB RAM to detect my NE1000 card. I can only use loadable modules because there's no way for me to get the newest kernel to my 486 (no modem, no zip drive,

Re: Is `Okidata 6e' page printer a `Windows-based' printer?

1997-12-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Dec 20, 1997 at 09:33:53PM -0600, Charles Read wrote: Following the Print-HOWTO, I did this from root: # cat /etc/printcap /dev/lp1 My printer's LED blinked, with no further response after. /proc/devices shows that lp exists; `dmesg | grep lp' shows that my printer is

Re: is anyone using NE1000?

1997-12-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Dec 21, 1997 at 12:20:34AM -0500, Aaron Walker wrote: Has anyone successfully setup a NE1000 card (not a clone) using Debian 1.3.1 with the loadable kernel module. I can't get my 486SX/25 with 8MB RAM to detect my NE1000 card. I can only use loadable modules because there's no way

Re: a few questions...(exactly one :-) )

1997-12-21 Thread Vaclav Hula
Hi... I have Debian/hamm box at home, and I have a problem: When I try to print, I do: lpr file it hangs and strace lpr file stops at connect(4, {sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(515), sin_addr=inet_addr(195.113.48.42)}, 16 unfinished ... (195.113.48.42 is invalid adress

the ghost of permissions past

1997-12-21 Thread David Stern
Hi, This afternoon I noticed that while web browsing netscape kept losing focus, but could be restored with a right-click on the titlebar. Then I noticed I couldn't edit files (text, cgi, rename..). There were also about five xv zombies which I couldn't kill -9 in an ssh root window. I

Re: the ghost of permissions past

1997-12-21 Thread David Stern
On Sun, 21 Dec 1997 00:15:00 PST, David Stern wrote: Although I figured since I'd already rebooted and had experienced it twice consecutively that it was permanent, but I just rebooted again and all is well. I think I have an idea of what's going on. When I began using ssh I started having

Re: Printing

1997-12-21 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Toth Laszlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! I've got a Canon BJ-200ex printer. Can I use it under LINUX? I have used ghostscript 5.03 and magicfilter, but it doesn't working! [some lines removed] The /var/log/lp-err contains this line Can't find initialization file gs_init.ps The

Re: Filter

1997-12-21 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Toth Laszlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! Yes 5L. :)) What do you use for it? I installed a 4 MB memory card in my 5L because with some sort of input (e.g., pages full of text converted by a2ps) I got memory problems. Torsten -- I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on tape

Re: Ghostscript 5 for 1.3.1 working?

1997-12-21 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed gs 5 a while ago, but I havn't been able to make it work with my Epson Stylus Color 600. When I install the package, it says that it can't be configured (for reason which I forget at the moment). It seems to try to work though, but I can't

Re: bootable Debian 1.3.1 CD

1997-12-21 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Frank Barknecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christian Hagemeier hat gesagt: // Christian Hagemeier wrote: Hi! My motherboard supports the feature to boot from a CD-ROM. I read that I can install Debian this way. But how do i create such a CD? Or is the Official CD such a bootable

Colours with Lynx

1997-12-21 Thread Martin Schulze
Morning folks, the program lynx from bo comes with predefined colours. That's fine, but I don't like them. I tried to re-configure them but couldn't find a user-based way. I thought this should be able to do on ~/.lynxrc but how? The only way was to comment out the COLOR statements in

Re: Off-Line NNTP?

1997-12-21 Thread Martin Schulze
On Wed, Dec 17, 1997 at 12:34:42AM +0200, Neilen Marais wrote: I'm looking for a simple solution allowing me to fetch only the newsgroups I want through a PPP link, and then having it served locally as NNTP so that I can use any reader. In fact, I'm looking for leafnode. I did use leafnode

Re: bootable Debian 1.3.1 CD

1997-12-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
Torsten Hilbrich wrote: Debian-CDs are bootable, at least the official ones. If you are using the CD from Lehmanns-Bookstore: this one is! Does anybody has an Adaptec AHA 2940 and was able to boot from this (or any other) CD. Yes. I have an Adaptec 2940UW and SCSI CD-ROM, and am

Re: is anyone using NE1000?

1997-12-21 Thread Aaron Walker
I tried what you suggested but it just hangs when trying to load the module. Any other suggestions? Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 1997 at 12:20:34AM -0500, Aaron Walker wrote: Has anyone successfully setup a NE1000 card (not a clone) using Debian 1.3.1 with the loadable kernel

Re: dpkg and deb files, Thanks

1997-12-21 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All i need now is some guidence on what files to get next!, i am leaving x-win until the cd arrives, but if anybody has any farorite packages that will be good for a newbie, just some general thinks to help get to grips with linux, fun stuff etc! less and mc,

FTP Problem

1997-12-21 Thread Fenrick
I was wondering if anyone had experienced a situation where they're ISP provided them with a FTP Proxy (squid based); and terrible non-proxy access. Is there anyway inwhich I can get perl scripts (dselect, etc) to use the FTP Proxy. I've tried using the firewall stuff; but that doesn't work at

Forcing xforms installation?

1997-12-21 Thread Paolo M. Pumilia
Hi all, I have recently removed xlib and installed xlib6_3.3.1-2.deb. that provides shared libraries required by libc5-based X clients and should replace elf-x11r6lib and xlib. As i try to install xforms0.86_0.86-2.deb, dpkg seems to check only if xlib can be found (that is not installed any

Re: Colours with Lynx

1997-12-21 Thread Will Lowe
Also, if anyone could tell me where lynx get's it's default startup page, I'd be appreciative. I don't have a ~/.lynxrc, and $WWW_HOME is unset, but lynx still insists on starting with an ancient (and now obselete) page I must have specified years ago. Will

Re: Colours with Lynx

1997-12-21 Thread Sten Anderson
Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, if anyone could tell me where lynx get's it's default startup page, /etc/lynx.cfg - Sten Anderson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Netscape 4.04

1997-12-21 Thread tmalloy
It might be a good idea if the netscape4.deb installation did not remove netscape 3 until it has verified that everything is set for the new install. As of now I am left with nothing. As far as I can tell the file I got from ftp.netscape.com matches the required syntax of the ' file in /tmp must

HAMM kernel-source OK with libc5 BO?

1997-12-21 Thread Rick Macdonald
Is it OK to install the unstable (HAMM) kernel source (2.0.32) with my stable (BO) 1.3.1.r6 system, or should I just get the original source tar file and use that? ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

Re: Colours with Lynx

1997-12-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 21 Dec 1997, Will Lowe wrote: Also, if anyone could tell me where lynx get's it's default startup page, I'd be appreciative. I don't have a ~/.lynxrc, and $WWW_HOME is unset, but lynx still insists on starting with an ancient (and now obselete) page I must have specified years ago.

Re: Netscape 4.04

1997-12-21 Thread David Stern
On Sun, 21 Dec 1997 12:09:36 EST, wrote: [.. snip .deb netscape install woes..] As for installing netscape with a .deb script, I wouldn't be able to help you. However, the 3.01 linux netscape moved a few weeks or so ago to a new home: ftp://archive.netscape.com/archive/index.html Netscape

Searching the list archives.

1997-12-21 Thread DebianUser
I've been trying to use the search engine on debians web site to check through the mailing list archives but apparently it wont. Currently I'm using searching the mailing list archives using altavista. (host:www.debian.org and [search_keyword]) Is there any plans to include the mailing list

Re: Colours with Lynx

1997-12-21 Thread Martin Schulze
On Sun, Dec 21, 1997 at 11:37:51AM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: Also, if anyone could tell me where lynx get's it's default startup page, I'd be appreciative. I don't have a ~/.lynxrc, and $WWW_HOME is unset, but lynx still insists on starting with an ancient (and now obselete) page I must have

Re: is anyone using NE1000?

1997-12-21 Thread john
Hamish Moffatt writes: The ne module handles both NE2000 and NE1000 cards. Just add ne to your /etc/modules, and something like options ne io=0x280 irq=10 I just installed an NE2000 with 2.0.32, and couldn't get it recognized at irq 10. I had to move it to 2/9. -- John Hasler [EMAIL

Re: Colours with Lynx

1997-12-21 Thread David Stern
On Sun, 21 Dec 1997 11:37:51 EST, Will Lowe wrote: Also, if anyone could tell me where lynx get's it's default startup page, I'd be appreciative. I don't have a ~/.lynxrc, and $WWW_HOME is unset, but lynx still insists on starting with an ancient (and now obselete) page I must have

DPT PM2044W problems...

1997-12-21 Thread Mika Marjamaki
Hi! On one machine we have a DPT PM2044W PCI Wide SCSI-Adapter with a RC4040 RAID/Caching module. There are five 2G IBM DCAS-32160W-drives connected to the adapter and RAIDed as one 8G RAID5-array. The operating system on that machine is Debian GNU/Linux, running Linux kernel version 2.0.33 with

Re: Netscape 4.04

1997-12-21 Thread Sten Anderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So please just tell the name of the file at ftp.netscape.com including the path to the directory it is in. If the file needs to be renamed please tell me that also. The file is communicator-v404-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz which is available at

Re: Networking Info?

1997-12-21 Thread Peter Prohaska
Do you have the Net-3-HOWTO (some information) and the Nag (Network Administration Guide). The second is from LDP and you can get it at sunsite. Maybe we should package the LDP Books for Debian. Good idea !!! It´s really ineffective that everyone has to download them on his own. Especially

Re: HAMM kernel-source OK with libc5 BO?

1997-12-21 Thread Sten Anderson
Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it OK to install the unstable (HAMM) kernel source (2.0.32) with my stable (BO) 1.3.1.r6 system, It should work just fine. or should I just get the original source tar file and use that? I would recommend this option. Unpack it to a temporary

Re: is anyone using NE1000?

1997-12-21 Thread Aaron Walker
Thanks to everyone for your help. I got Debian to see my NE1000 at 0x320 and IRQ 5. The problem was that in the /etc/conf.modules file it said: options ne io = 0x320 irq = 5 I changed it to: options ne io=0x320 irq=5 (I just got rid of the spaces between the numbers and the equal sings) Now it

booting single, writable?

1997-12-21 Thread Ken Gaugler
Hi Folks. I got a new motherboard and CPU (triton III with a Cyrix PR200MMX) and of course there are problems booting now. It looks to me like if I can disable XDM, I can get a handle on fixing things up. However, booting from a floppy using emergency root=/dev/hda4 I cannot move the XDM inits

Re: Setting up suck for inn

1997-12-21 Thread Randy Edwards
Mark W. Blunier wrote: started with. Now I want to add some public groups and fill the news spool and send out messages using suck. I would like to do this in my ip-up script, but I haven't figured out how this is done. There's a couple of things you'll need to do. You'll have to add