On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Larry Owens wrote:
Some PC's have an option in BIOS setup to allow the keyboard error to be
skipped. I'll attach a keyboard if necessary to avoid the error.
Yes, but no IBM compatible PC will boot without a video card, AFAIK. But
that video card can be as simple (and
Hi!
I have a 'funny' problem with XFree: when typing, from time to
time a 'q' appears in the typed text. It happens in every X program,
xterm, rxvt, bash, pine or whatever.
An example (pasted from my X session):
This is an qexample of a rather curious espontaneus appear of q's in qmqy
Remco writes:
Yes, but no IBM compatible PC will boot without a video card, AFAIK.
The original pc BIOS had provision for a serial console.
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I have just upgraded to apache 1.3b3-9; I have the following .htaccess
in one directory:
AuthDbGroupFile /etc/apache/groups.db
AuthDbUserFile /etc/apache/users.db
AuthName staff access
AuthType basic
Limit GET
require group staff
/Limit
This seems to be ignored! Pages from the directory are
I have bought a Debian Linux before Christmas (a CD-ROM in the Dream
magazine) and I would like to have all the X11 features working
properly. So here is a brief description of my problem :
When startx is not launched, I can define with gpm a mouse on device
/dev/mouse. In this case, a
hi, i'm trying to install your release 1.3 into my computer and i have
the following problem:
i downloaded the files from your server resc1440.bin, drv1440.bin,
base1_3.tgz, base-1.bin, base-2.bin, base-3.bin, base-4.bin, base-5.bin
and rawrite2.exe. I runned rawrite2 to copy the image files onto
I hate me too posts, but since you asked, me too. I'm using passwd files
instead of db files; same problem...
On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 01:05:58PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
I have just upgraded to apache 1.3b3-9; I have the following .htaccess
in one directory:
AuthDbGroupFile
On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 01:05:58PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
I have just upgraded to apache 1.3b3-9; I have the following .htaccess
in one directory:
[snip]
This seems to be ignored! Pages from the directory are served
without any authentication at all. Has anyone else experienced this?
On Fri, Jan 02, 1998 at 09:58:32PM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote:
I hate me too posts, but since you asked, me too. I'm using passwd files
instead of db files; same problem...
Grab 1.3b3-10 from ftp.debian.org; it hasn't made it to my local
mirror yet since it was only uploaded yesterday. It seems
Quick sanity check, does /etc/apache/access.conf have the correct
AllowOverride line?
On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote:
I hate me too posts, but since you asked, me too. I'm using passwd files
instead of db files; same problem...
On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 01:05:58PM +1100, Hamish
On Fri, Jan 02, 1998 at 03:12:37PM -0600, Alex Romosan wrote:
however when I su to root I get a path like this...
/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin
I am not modifying the path in any environment files such as
...bash_profile -- what is
When I installed Debian for the first time, I captured the directory
structure of the /etc directory and printed it for future reference. I
did this more as a comparison to my previous RH system just out of
curiosity.
Today I went exploring my system to find that I had no rc0.d, rc1.d,
rc2.d,
On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Kevin J Poorman wrote:
I want to have my mail sorted into differant folders ... IE all mail from
this list is placed into a folder.
Do I need to use BOTH fetchmail and procmail or just Procmail to get the
mail and sort it ...
I'm using fetchmail and procmail and
Mine has:
AllowOverride AuthConfig
This worked in Apache 1.3b3.
On Fri, Jan 02, 1998 at 11:07:13PM -0500, Scott K. Ellis wrote:
Quick sanity check, does /etc/apache/access.conf have the correct
AllowOverride line?
On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote:
I hate me too posts, but since
On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, George Bonser wrote:
Uhm, if you find them under /etc/rc.d I have a surprise for you ... you
are running Red Hat ;)
:-) No as perfect as it would be, I have no /etc/rc.d directory.
I only have an /etc/rc.boot
Did you restore from an old backup?
I'm beginning to suspect
On Fri, Jan 02, 1998 at 10:33:20PM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote:
AllowOverride AuthConfig
This worked in Apache 1.3b3.
AllowOverride All here, which works for 1.3b3-8 and = 1.3b3-10.
Hamish
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Latest Debian packages at
I had a lockup of my system (while running Netscape 4.04) which
required a hard reboot with the reset button. When the system came up
it auto-fsck'ed disks except that it gave me an error message on two of
my large files partitions which told me that I needed to run fsck
manually (there was a
If when I installed magicfilter it did not ask me what printer I had
how do I get back to its configuration.
Also, does anyone know what happened to www.greenbush.com
it seems to have disapeared !
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Hi all -
When i hit the Esc key twice on my Linux box - it asks
display all 482 options ? y/n or something similar.
When i say yes , it scrolls by a list of what i assume are
command options at warp speed and i only catch the
bottom screenfull.
How can i redirect this output into a text file?
I recently installed 1.3.1 (I am very new to Linux) and since the install
(apparently succesful), the only color on my X windows is in the Afterstep
icons and lettering in TkDesk; all else is greyscale. When I shutdown, I
get a string of messages of the form:
Hi there,
I am new to Linux and have a little problem with my kde desktop.
-How can I start kde without starting it from the X- Windows Desktop?
- I want to start kde while booting. How does it work?
What about the login ?
I start it with the line:
exec startkde /dev/null
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On Fri, Jan 02, 1998 at 11:39:56AM +, Brian Skreeg wrote:
I know this type of question must have been asked before but I can't
find a real answer:
I've installed WinNT4.0 on /dev/sda (first, 540Mb SCSI drive) and Debian
Linux 1.3.1 on /dev/sdb (sdb5 for root thru sdb9 for home fs) in
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Larry Owens wrote:
Some PC's have an option in BIOS setup to allow the keyboard error to be
skipped. I'll attach a keyboard if necessary to avoid the error.
Yes, but no IBM compatible PC will boot
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a handy way to handle multiple mail folders with mutt? In Pine, I
make them 'Incoming mail' folders [1] and then I can use the TAB key to
browse all folders for new messages.
Press 'c' '?' and you can select all
Hi
Second: In X: Is it even possible? I haven't seen anything that says how,
but it'd seem like it wouldn't be overly difficult. Or at least it
shouldn't be.
In my /etc/X11/XF86Config there exist a section 'Xinput' and it has the
following entries:
# The Mouse Subsection contains the same
In emacs proceed ESC with CTRL-Q.
On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Dean Somji wrote:
Installed Linux a couple weeks ago, all is going well.
But How do I insert escape characters in emacs or vi?
I can't seem to find any reference in the man pages or online help.
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On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, BRIAN SCHRAMM wrote:
I have a Slackware 2.0 system that has no capability of running a
floppy or booting from the CD-ROM (Sound Blaster Pro16). I would like
to update it to the newest (1.3) Debian release that I have so my
On Thu, 1 Jan 1998, Mark W. Blunier wrote:
I am subscribed to a mailing list that only sends out messages
in a digest form. I would like to convert the digest back into
individual messages. I use procmail to seperate out the digest
from the rest of the mail. The format of the digest is
William R Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ahh, thanks! That works! Now what if I go to F2 and run another X
session. The original one will still be on 7, and the new one on
8??
X will always use the next free virtual terminal. If you use 6 getty
process to get login prompts on the
Damir J. Naden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi, everybody --
I know this type of question must have been asked before but I can't
find a real answer:
I've installed WinNT4.0 on /dev/sda (first, 540Mb SCSI drive) and Debian
Linux 1.3.1 on /dev/sdb (sdb5 for root thru sdb9 for home fs) in that
I'm running a Debian 1.3.1 system and find the machine, when put into our
production environment here, after a little while causes the machine's
load to rise, and keep on going. It was so bad it got up to 150+ once. At
any ratI ran top one time and nothing was using any large amount of CPU,
nor
On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 12:47:52AM -0500, RHS Linux User wrote:
If when I installed magicfilter it did not ask me what printer I had
how do I get back to its configuration.
/usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig --force
Also, does anyone know what happened to www.greenbush.com
it seems to have
On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 12:52:55AM -0500, Gerald Wann wrote:
Hi all -
When i hit the Esc key twice on my Linux box - it asks
display all 482 options ? y/n or something similar.
When i say yes , it scrolls by a list of what i assume are
command options at warp speed and i only catch the
From personal experience this is a tad much for one machine. DNS can
fill up some memory w/ cache and is a constant hit. Really should be
its own 486 or so w/ some memory tossed in. Shell services can be
dangerous, and a user could easily peg out a system.
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On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 01:31:34PM +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a handy way to handle multiple mail folders with mutt? In Pine, I
make them 'Incoming mail' folders [1] and then I can use the TAB key to
It seems that Paul Wade is a bit , ahm, unpolite to debian users. He was
never debian developer, but he left the debian lists after an argument about
the way debian is going (the Dave Cinege saga, if you remember). I would
encourage you to get your disk from elsewhere.
Thing is, he has my
On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Shaleh wrote:
From personal experience this is a tad much for one machine. DNS can
fill up some memory w/ cache and is a constant hit. Really should be
its own 486 or so w/ some memory tossed in. Shell services can be
dangerous, and a user could easily peg out a system.
From personal experience this is a tad much for one machine. DNS can
fill up some memory w/ cache and is a constant hit. Really should be
its own 486 or so w/ some memory tossed in. Shell services can be
dangerous, and a user could easily peg out a system. We run a shell
machine, a dns server,
Hi-
I am having no luck getting a new ethernet card up. I just installed a
new card with a DEC tulip chip and I can't get it working. Does anyone
have a tulip card working? If so, could you share with me how you got
it running?
I am running 2.0.30 on a ppro 200.
Thanks in advance!
-Ian
Yo-
I just installed a new 10/100 ethernet card which uses DEC's tulip
(21140) chipset. I have compiled in the support for the tulip and it
shows no errors during start-up but I am unable to access the network.
I am able to ping the loopback but when I try to ping another machine or
my router
I accidentally stomped on my root crontab file. Now my logs don't get
rotated, etc. Does anyone have a copy of the default debian root
crontab that they could send me, or does someone know what entries I
should add to execute the scripts in cron.daily, cron.weekly, and
cron.monthly?
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On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 12:03:18PM -0500, Larry Owens wrote:
I accidentally stomped on my root crontab file. Now my logs don't get
rotated, etc. Does anyone have a copy of the default debian root
crontab that they could send me, or does someone know what entries I
should add to execute the
Hi!
This isn't strictly debian related but...
Does anybody know how to change the default bookmarks.html file
w/ Communicator 4.04?
TIA!
Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Please help. I can't get my modem to work under linux, but it works
fine in NT. The settings in NT are:
IRQ 3 and IO 0x2e8 (COM4) .
When booting linux, it sees my serial ports at :
/dev/tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
/dev/tty03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
and after
On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
Hi everyone,
Is there a way to convert ps (or any possible output from gnuplot) to a
gif (or even a jpeg). This needs to be done in a script, so command line
programs only.
Probably you should use GhostScript to rasterize the ps file
(gs
On Wed, 31 Dec 1997, Pierre DUPUIS wrote:
Does someone know where can i get a 'Windows or Dos to Linux' Manual, it
can be very helpfull.
I don't know about such a manual, but there exists a HOWTO:
(In my debian system: /usr/doc/HOWTO/DOStoLinux-HOWTO.gz)
It is a part of the 'doc-linux'
Hi,
I am running Debian 1.3.1 on a 200 MHz pentium system with 3Com's Fast
Etherlink XL PCI networking card. I am running the latest vortex driver for
the network interface. It has been running great for quite a while. All of
a sudden while running remote shells to other systems, the system
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Dennis Drapeau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
/dev/ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
/dev/ttyS3 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Seems ok to me, but I cannot dial out from port /dev/ttyS3.The group
on /dev/ttyS3 is dialout.
What do you mean with cannot dialout ?
Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi!
This isn't strictly debian related but...
Does anybody know how to change the default bookmarks.html file
w/ Communicator 4.04?
In my installation (Netscape 4.03 done with the Debian installer), the
file is located in
Hogland, Thomas E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I recently discovered why the company had no problems when I asked for a
PC to use to install Debian and learn about it - they are planning (or
hoping) to use it as a dial-in server. They have a Megaport 24cs dial-in
board from Equinox; I checked
Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi everyone,
Is there a way to convert ps (or any possible output from gnuplot) to a
gif (or even a jpeg). This needs to be done in a script, so command line
programs only.
TIA,
Brandon
I saw a script to do this a while back - the main thing
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http://www.math.jhu.edu/~mertind/mybox.html
Dear God, I've become standard advice. Heaven preserve me!
In any case, the URL as written above won't work - it's really:
http://www.math.jhu.edu/~martind/mybox.html
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On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, RHS Linux User wrote:
If when I installed magicfilter it did not ask me what printer I had
how do I get back to its configuration.
If you have an /etc/printcap file the setup program does not run.
Either delete /etc/printcap before you install magicfilter, or after
you have
Hello,
Here's a copy of my .procmailrc file. The only thing it does
is split the debian-user digest into its compeonent messages and save
them in a mailbox names Mail/debian-user.
# .procmailrc
#
PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/local/bin:.
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail # You'd
On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Dennis Drapeau wrote:
Please help. I can't get my modem to work under linux, but it works
fine in NT. The settings in NT are:
IRQ 3 and IO 0x2e8 (COM4) .
When booting linux, it sees my serial ports at :
/dev/tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
/dev/tty03 at
I seem to be having trouble getting my computer to regocnize my network
card. I have an SMC-Ultra (jumper on card set to soft configuration) which
in setup at first does not initialize, but afterwards setup tells me that it
installed the driver successfully. WHen I boot up, it gives me the
Many thanks to Brian Skreeg, Hamish Moffatt and Torsten Hilbrich for
thaking the time to answer my question. I have, after reading all sorts
of winNT/linux mini-HOWTOs installed LILO onto the /dev/sdb5 (root)
partition and copied it over to the file on the WinNT disk, and now I
can boot Linux from
I recently installed Debian Linux and I am now trying to get the modem
working.
The modem is installed and works under Win95 using Com 2, irq 3, 2F8, it is
a pnp capable modem but I have configured it using the jumpers provided.
I followed the ppp instructions in The Debian Linux User's Guide by
I am a new Debian user. I actually have been using Linux for a while. I
have some questions.
Is there some way to unpack a Debian package in a place different than
the target directories, e.g. /tmp? The aim is just to look at the files
belonging to the package.
Is there some way, maybe using
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Please help me I'm a new user of
Debian 1.31 and i can't finish the installation !!
When I reach Dselect and
i choose the CD-ROM to install the package I press OK and after I always got the
same message: Insert the CD-ROM and enter the block device name []
and I can't go
On Sat, 03 Jan 1998 22:31:29 +0100 Mario Fabiano
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am a new Debian user. I actually have been using Linux for a while.
I
have some questions.
Is there some way to unpack a Debian package in a place different than
the target directories, e.g. /tmp? The aim is just to
I'd like to set up some kind of news system on my
Debian 1.3.1 system. I've been looking at the various *.deb
packages that came on my InfoMagic CD. I'd like to understand
how news works before I go about deciding what packages to
use. I checked out the HOWTO's, but the news howto is
It seems that Paul Wade is a bit , ahm, unpolite to debian users. He was
never debian developer, but he left the debian lists after an argument about
the way debian is going (the Dave Cinege saga, if you remember). I would
encourage you to get your disk from elsewhere.
Thing is, he has
G. Crimp wrote:
The reader then goes and gets all the messages for those interesting groups.
Not normally. Typically, a reader doesn't download all articles in a group,
it just downloads a summary of the articles in the group (so it can display
a list of articles with the subject and the author,
Hi
What is the make of the card, I have the same problem with D-Link card. It
works with the de4x5 driver, you many need to find out what IO address it
is at. (This you should be able to get from the ifconfig command with the
current tulip driver).
A different problem that I have with the tulip
On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Larry Owens wrote:
I accidentally stomped on my root crontab file. Now my logs don't get
rotated, etc. Does anyone have a copy of the default debian root
crontab that they could send me, or does someone know what entries I
should add to execute the scripts in cron.daily,
hi again
when I run :
setserial -a /dev/ttyS3 I get:
/dev/ttyS3, Line 3, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3
Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
closing_wait: 3000, closing_wait2: infinte
Flags: spd_vhi split_termios
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