PPP kernel support loss ?? and other UNIX drivers

1998-01-21 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
Have had this happen on two different systems now and am at a loss as to why or how to fix. I install the base system and everything goes fine. Have a PPP script saved on disk to enable PPP for Dselect FTP. After I restart the PC and get the press enter to start dselect message I switch to tty2,

Re: ftpproxy with dselect

1998-01-21 Thread Stephen Zander
Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here's a pretty kettle of fish: the method recently recommened for ftp proxies with dselect doesn't work, because my lovely isp requires you to login to the proxy using your username and password, and to get to the site by issuing a ftp user [EMAIL

Re: command set

1998-01-21 Thread Britton
O'Rielly's Linux in a Nutshell is a good summary of common commands. It has lists of user, administrative, and network commands, a list of options for each, and a short description of the commands functionality. On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, J.P. Beebe wrote: I'm trying to learn how to use Linux. Can

Re: Two Monitors

1998-01-21 Thread Britton
I read an article in LJ describing the Metro-X server (I think that was it anyway), which can drive multiple video cards (though only with the right cards). I don't know if Xfree has any support for this sort of thing, or exactly how it would shake out with interrupts and such. I too am

Bug#15854 should be release-critical (was Re: buzz upgrade report)

1998-01-21 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
It sounds like you are talking about Bug#15854. On 11 Dec 1997 the maintainer's response to the bug report included a patch to fix it, which he said would be included in perl 5.004.04-4. My rex system contains non-empty directories that trigger this problem, but my bo system does

Re: Bug#15854 should be release-critical (was Re: buzz upgrade report)

1998-01-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 20, 1998 at 07:21:09PM -0500, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: It sounds like you are talking about Bug#15854. On 11 Dec 1997 the maintainer's response to the bug report included a patch to fix it, which he said would be included in perl 5.004.04-4. My rex system contains

Re: Newbie --Adding Programs To My Debian Base

1998-01-21 Thread IBMackey
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Will Lowe wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, IBMackey wrote: I've been using debian for about 5 weeks. I'm just starting to think about adding some programs, not in the packages, to my system. One such program came in the form of program.bin.gz. I figure I can use my

xntpd

1998-01-21 Thread Camm Maguire
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted as well. Greetings! What's the best way to keep xntpd from making discrete time adjustments (steps) to the clock when running across a dialup Internet connection which periodically becomes saturated? (i.e. xntpd sees a

Re: Two Monitors

1998-01-21 Thread tjferrell
On 20 Jan, Britton wrote: I read an article in LJ describing the Metro-X server (I think that was it anyway), which can drive multiple video cards (though only with the right cards). I don't know if Xfree has any support for this sort of thing, or exactly how it would shake out with

notes on upgrade from bo to hamm

1998-01-21 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
I just finished upgrading from bo to hamm. It worked almost flawlessly. Here are my notes. After running the upgrade script, any new bashes that i start dont work with set -o vi, even if i run that command manually. The problem appears only on the linux console, if i telnet it with a

Re: PPP kernel support loss ?? and other UNIX drivers

1998-01-21 Thread Shaleh
May or may not affect you. Check perms on /dev/ttyS?, needs to be group dialout, and on ppp scripits. PPP from debian assumes that you are in group dip or root. As I have seen it explained PPP actually is trying to load over console, and there is no PPP support for PPP over a console. -- TO

Help !! On Installing and Upgrading.

1998-01-21 Thread Ian Perry
Please help. I am relatively new to linux, and having trtied for several days now require some assistance. My question relates to the installation of 'unstable' sections, into the Debian 1.3 system, where conflicts between the current 'stable' version 1.3 packages installed and the Debian

Re: Local printing on server

1998-01-21 Thread Bostjan Jerko
At 16:50 20.1.98 -0500, you wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Bostjan Jerko wrote: Connection refused job 'cfA206debian' trasfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed after 1 attempts I already checked hosts.lpd (ALL and localhost), hosts.allow (ALL, debian and localhost) and hosts

Linux and ADSL

1998-01-21 Thread rob
Hi there, My local phone company is offering internet access through ADSL and I'm considering hooking up with them. Could someone tell me what all would be involved in changing over my Linux box to use their ADSL instead of using my dialup PPP? Does their modem require special drivers?

MWave Modem

1998-01-21 Thread tommy knocker
I have an IBM computer with debian installed and it uses an internal Mwave modem. I can't seem so write a script that will initialize the modem. Does anybody have a script that will work with this modem that I can look at? __ Get Your

Upload files via web browser

1998-01-21 Thread iquest
Hi, I'd like to know how do I can create a web page that would allow the user browsing at the page to upload files to the server. I've seen the other way around where the user can download file from the server. But for this case, the user is the client that uploads file to the

Backup system

1998-01-21 Thread rob
Hi there, I would like to set up a simple Backup system for a linux server I'm setting up. I hear that linux has great support for floppy tape drives. Anyone recommend a good one with least amount of troubles getting to work? The system I would like to set up is to have a cron that backs up

VM (Emacs mail reader) maintainer?

1998-01-21 Thread William R Ward
The VM mail reader has recently gone through several releases but the Debian package isn't keeping up. I've been installing it in /usr/local/whatever but would like to be able to use the .deb files. Who maintains this (or how can I find out)? I would like to encourage him/her to stay on top of

Re: *-* auto-upgrade from rex to hamm

1998-01-21 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: does rex = rexx (script language found in OS/2 amongst others) As others have pointed out, no. But REXX == Regina, a package in to-be-2.0. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always.

Re: Upload files via web browser

1998-01-21 Thread Carey Evans
iquest [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to know how do I can create a web page that would allow the user browsing at the page to upload files to the server. [snip] Some browsers (like Netscape) support this. I recommend doing the necessary CGI programming using CGI.pm from Perl.

Re: Upload files via web browser

1998-01-21 Thread A. M. Varon
I'd like to know how do I can create a web page that would allow the user browsing at the page to upload files to the server. If you have an FTP server on your web server, type this in your netscape: ftp://e-mail address example: ftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED] It will ask you for your

debian

1998-01-21 Thread Koen Muylkens
If i want a grafical enviroment on Linux wich on should I take and how do I install it ? , Is X window good ? THX -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Gzip + Dselect after libc6 upgrade

1998-01-21 Thread Brian Skreeg
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Re: Fast Network Terminal Graphics (gnuplot)

1998-01-21 Thread tibor simko
camm == Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: camm Years ago, a camm friend helped me setup Tektronics terminal emulation under camm kermit, but I can't seem to get it working now. don't forget to try out all of the tektronics terminals availabke in gnuplot, i.e. `tek40xx`,

Re: debian-user FAQ: your help is needed!

1998-01-21 Thread Jens Ritter
Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greetings all! I've set up a framework for debian-user FAQ using FAQ-O-Matic by Jon Howell. It looks and feels great. I guess you don´t want to mention it from the official pages yet. But I really think the appropiate url would be ...debian.org/faq/

telnet to localhost

1998-01-21 Thread Wiria A Kusuma
I can not telnet or ftp to localhost, it says that service is not started, but I can see them in /etc/service, can some body tell me where should I check for this error? Further more I can not even ftp or http to my box from the net, even thou my apache and wuftpd is up and running.., it says

Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-21 Thread Mark Phillips
I, like Thomas Vaughan, have been having problems getting emacs to recognise the Alt key under X. (The system is a Toshiba laptop.) Daniel Martin wrote: What is the result of the following commands: xmodmap xmodmap -pke | grep -E '64|11[356]' Here are the results: $ xmodmap xmodmap: up

Kernel Compile after libc6 upgrade

1998-01-21 Thread Mike Hill
This week I tried compiling a kernel (2.0.32) for the first time since upgrading to libc6 about a month ago. I can't get past `make dep.' It fails with the following message: debian# make dep make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32/arch/i386/boot' make[1]: Nothing to be done

ATI 3D Rage II and XFree86

1998-01-21 Thread Franz Karrer
I installed the Debian 1.31 kernel 20.2.29 on my Pc. Now I have problems in finding the proper xserver configuration for the ATI 3D Rage II videoboard. I tried svga and mach64 server where I can select - from xf86config - the ATI 3D Rage II,Ramdac option, but I don't know which Ramdac types and

X Windows

1998-01-21 Thread Rob
Hi All, First, thanks for the assistance with the ethernet card yesterday -- I now have network access :) I'd like to do the X-Windows thing, where do I start? Is there a FAQ out there somewhere? Any direction would be appreciated... Thanks, Rob -- Save the Whales -- Collect the whole set

Re: Two Monitors

1998-01-21 Thread Brian K Servis
Britton writes: I read an article in LJ describing the Metro-X server (I think that was it anyway), which can drive multiple video cards (though only with the right cards). I don't know if Xfree has any support for this sort of thing, or exactly how it would shake out with interrupts and such.

Re: Help !! On Installing and Upgrading.

1998-01-21 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Ian Perry wrote: What is required to allow the installation of libc6 either with the safe removal of libc5, without crashing the system, or having the two co-exist on the same system, or cant the two be mixed ? How is it done ? Look at:

mixing kernel/modules versions, CONFIG_MODVERSIONS and ...

1998-01-21 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
I would like to know what I have to do if I want to use mixed kernel/modules versions compiled in my machine or in another one... the kernel documention and HOWTOs doesn't tell about that... well, not exactly they tell that if you enable CONFIG_MODVERSIONS you can _always_ misc different

Re: Linux and ADSL

1998-01-21 Thread Stephen Gregory
Do a bit a research before you take the plunge. I almost went with MTT (in nova scotia) and their ADSL service. However, I found out that they are using some nasty proprietary Novell gunk. I went with a cable modem instead. The install was very sweet. Before the tech came I installed and tested

(Off-topic)Jade and DocBook

1998-01-21 Thread Mario Filipe
Hi Just want to know if there is someone here who is using both those things ? If there is then I will talk to you privately. Thanks Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: perl module to read config files?

1998-01-21 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Sounds like a perfect job for bison and flex. Having looked at the syntax of the new files I'm guessing they follow a nice, strict (easy to program for) syntax. If you get the source it's probably got a parser embedded in it. It shouldn't be difficult to translate c to perl. Craig Sanders wrote:

Re: Using xmodmap to set the Alt and Meta keys (emacs, X, and Alt key)

1998-01-21 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Mark Phillips wrote: I, like Thomas Vaughan, have been having problems getting emacs to recognise the Alt key under X. (The system is a Toshiba laptop.) keycode 64 = Alt_L keycode 113 = Alt_R keycode 115 = Meta_L keycode 116 = Meta_R What does emacs say when you invoke describe-key:

Modules and Debian

1998-01-21 Thread John Spence
Sorry for the elementary nature of the question but I am not happy with my current understanding of module configuration under Debian. I'm not very good at understanding Linux documentation yet. /usr/doc/modules == contains a group of stubs that tell me they are there for backwards compatibility.

Re: Modules and Debian

1998-01-21 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, John Spence wrote: /etc/init.d/modules (which is a symlink to /etc/init.d/modutils) The package to manage kernel modules used to be called modules. It was renamed upstream to modutils and we followed the naming convention. The modules symlink is to make sure that

Re: Modules and Debian

1998-01-21 Thread David Z. Maze
John Spence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JS Here's what I think I understand so far. JS JS /etc/init.d/modutils JS JS says it loads the appropriate modules in 'boot'. I suppose this JS means /etc/init.d/boot which seems to load modules in JS /etc/init.d/modutils. Which one

greenbush

1998-01-21 Thread Geoffrey Deasey KD4WVF
Last night I received a message from Paul Wade, he said that he now has power and is cutting cdrom's. I did not expect this level of customer service. I hope everyone in Paul's family has come through this ordeal well. (the power i mean) (sorry for this off topic message) But I thought that

Re: telnet to localhost

1998-01-21 Thread Myron Alexander
On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Wiria A Kusuma wrote: I can not telnet or ftp to localhost, it says that service is not started, but I can see them in /etc/service, can some body tell me where should I check for this error? Further more I can not even ftp or http to my box from the net, even thou my

Re: Interrupts and serial ports

1998-01-21 Thread W Paul Mills
I have my modem and my UPS both connected to serial ports with the same interupt. Seems to work OK. These are both on the same card which was modified (not a lot of fun) to share the interupt. JDR Microdevices sells a 4-port serial board that is supposed to support shared interupts. On Sun, 11

STuck - Dselect FTP through Firewall

1998-01-21 Thread Cox
What is dselect passing to my ftp proxy??? I can go through the firewall manually but I need to figure out exactly what commands dselect is generating. Can I monitor this somehow I do not have man pages or anything to help me because I can not run dselect from ftp and I do not

Re: Using xmodmap to set the Alt and Meta keys (emacs, X, and Alt key)

1998-01-21 Thread Brian K Servis
Peter S Galbraith writes: If XFree is setup correctly, then the `Windows' key (identified above as Win), are Meta keys and the Alt keys are really seen in Emacs as Alt keys. I use the Alt key to insert 8-bit characters, like é. The `Menu' key really works and is a synonym for `Meta-x' in Emacs

Allow only certain users to print?

1998-01-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
I want to only let a few users print, using lprng. I put the following line in lpd.perms, but it didn't seem to have any effect: REJECT SERVICE=P SERVER NOT USER=blp,brook,laura,root Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Help!

1998-01-21 Thread Jeffrey Velez
Why I can Not Post! --- Jeffrey Velez * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://jvelez2.med.miami.edu UM, MNS * 165 Dominion Garage * Miami, FL 33136 * 305/243-3664 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

user management

1998-01-21 Thread Paul Miller
Is there a program that is similar to Novell's syscon program? Linux really needs a good user management program (terminal-based) that can quickly add/remove groups, set passwords/info fields, delete users, set quotas, etc --- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED], finger for public PGP key -- TO

Re: Clean hamm installation

1998-01-21 Thread Paul Rightley
No, I never used --force-blah. The trouble was that I had xdm going, and my video card cannot start X more than once (unless there is a reboot in between) - my card is a Diamond Stealth 3000 3D. Also, I had followed the upgrade mini-HOWTO, but had not upgraded libgdbm and perl (since this was

Newbie Setting up LPRng

1998-01-21 Thread Jeffrey Velez
I installed LPRng on my linux machine using dselect. How do I set this program to print to my Remote HP LaserJet 4 using a JetDirect Box? It's on a Novell Server 4.1. I never printed on my linux machine, so I don't know if it is setup already. Please Help! Thanks! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

anyone using proftpd?

1998-01-21 Thread Paul Miller
Is anyone using proftpd? How does it compare to wu-ftp? Security? I noticed a huge amount of disk access (compared to wu-ftp) in a old version of proftpd... I don't know if it has been fixed or changed.. --- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED], finger for public PGP key -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: user management

1998-01-21 Thread Brian K Servis
Paul Miller writes: Is there a program that is similar to Novell's syscon program? Linux really needs a good user management program (terminal-based) that can quickly add/remove groups, set passwords/info fields, delete users, set quotas, etc --- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED], finger for

Re: ATI 3D Rage II and XFree86

1998-01-21 Thread Steve Hsieh
There is a web site on how to configure this board. Sorry, I forget the exact site name. Do a search on the web for ATI Rage and Linux. I think you also need the 3.3.1 version of Xfree mach64 -- do you have that or are you using the debian stable 3.3 version? I installed X on an ATI Mach64 3D

using cd-jukebox under linux

1998-01-21 Thread mfrattola
Hi all, I need to use a cd-jukebox and I hope I can do it under linux. It's a SCSI thing has 14 drives and takes up 2 SCSI ids (2x7 discs). Now it's attached to a win3.11 box with an adaptec 2940AU. Problem is that machine sees all the drives at boot time, but there's no way to access them under

proftpd - can't read

1998-01-21 Thread Paul Miller
I can't see my files or directories with proftpd 1.0 ... same for both anonymous and system user... what is wrong? I don't think proftpd needs the /lib, etc dirs.. ??? --- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED], finger for public PGP key -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

netscape3.04 installer

1998-01-21 Thread Paul McDermott
hi everybody, i was wondering if there was a deb installer for netscape3.04 file. if there is can somebody point me to the right place. Thanks in advance. paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

Re: anyone using proftpd?

1998-01-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
Is anyone using proftpd? How does it compare to wu-ftp? Security? I noticed a huge amount of disk access (compared to wu-ftp) in a old version of proftpd... I don't know if it has been fixed or changed.. I'm using proftpd without any problems. However someone reported a problem with

Re: anyone using proftpd?

1998-01-21 Thread Paul Miller
hmm.. I just installed the newest Debian version and I can't see the directory listing... ever have this problem? BTW- the bug your talking about should be fixed.. it says something about that on their homepage. On 21 Jan 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: Is anyone using proftpd? How does it compare

Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-21 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I, like Thomas Vaughan, have been having problems getting emacs to recognise the Alt key under X. (The system is a Toshiba laptop.) Daniel Martin wrote: What is the result of the following commands: xmodmap xmodmap -pke | grep -E '64|11[356]'

Re: Newbie Setting up LPRng

1998-01-21 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Jeffrey Velez wrote: I installed LPRng on my linux machine using dselect. How do I set this program to print to my Remote HP LaserJet 4 using a JetDirect Box? It's on a Novell Server 4.1. Take a look at the documentation: http://www.astart.com/lprng/LPRng.html --

How to share files with Win95 or NT

1998-01-21 Thread Cox
How do I get files off Win NT or 95 machines across my LAN. I have TCP/IP running. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: How to share files with Win95 or NT

1998-01-21 Thread Tim Sailer
Cox wrote: How do I get files off Win NT or 95 machines across my LAN. I have TCP/IP running. Install samba and use smbclient to go to your share on the box. Or, compile the kernel with smb support and use smbmount to mount the remote share locally. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] /

[Re: How to share files with Win95 or NT]

1998-01-21 Thread Rob
You have to run some sort of server program on the 95 or NT machine, you can find free and shareware applications for this at www.tucows.com. You could also run ftp from the 95 or NT machine and put the files on the Linux box. -- Save the Whales -- Collect the whole set [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-21 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Well it may not quite follow the discussion... I'm using XEmacs 20 and X-3.2.2 (hamm). I have the keyboard with Windows button neighbouring to ALT button. It works like ESC in XEmacs. May be it's good enough solution. The good thing is that I just followed whatever was the default in

Re: telnet to localhost

1998-01-21 Thread Pure Energy
On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Wiria A Kusuma wrote: I can not telnet or ftp to localhost, it says that service is not started, but I can see them in /etc/service, can some body tell me where should I check for this error? Further more I can not even ftp or http to my box from the net, even thou my

Re: anyone using proftpd?

1998-01-21 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Paul == Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Is anyone using proftpd? How does it compare to wu-ftp? Paul Security? I noticed a huge amount of disk access (compared Paul to wu-ftp) in a old version of proftpd... I don't know if it Paul has been fixed or changed.. We've

Re: How to share files with Win95 or NT

1998-01-21 Thread Cox
See, the problem is I have a computer with no CD. I have a network card and I am behind a corporate fire wall. I can not get dselect to work through my firewall so I thought if I set up a CD on a win95 box as shareable then I might get dselect to work that way. But I don't have samba on

Re: How to share files with Win95 or NT

1998-01-21 Thread Tim Sailer
Cox wrote: See, the problem is I have a computer with no CD. I have a network card= and I am behind a corporate fire wall. I can not get dselect to work= through my firewall so I thought if I set up a CD on a win95 box as= shareable then I might get dselect to work that way. But

Re: MWave Modem

1998-01-21 Thread Stephen Zander
tommy knocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have an IBM computer with debian installed and it uses an internal Mwave modem. I can't seem so write a script that will initialize the modem. Does anybody have a script that will work with this modem that I can look at? I have bad news I

Re: How to share files with Win95 or NT

1998-01-21 Thread Cox
No, I can't get dselect ftp to work throught my firewall. I can manually ftp but dselect gets stuck. I have been trying to get dselect to work for three days with no good help from the user-list. So now I am trying to figure out a way to copy the files or run dselect from a shared CD off of

Re: How to share files with Win95 or NT

1998-01-21 Thread Tim Sailer
Cox wrote: No, I can't get dselect ftp to work throught my firewall. I can manually ftp but dselect gets stuck. I have been trying to get= dselect to work for three days with no good help from the user-list. So now I am trying to figure out a way to copy the files or run dselect=

logging into Winnt from linux

1998-01-21 Thread Gary van Blerk
Hi there, I have recently installed Debian Linux 1.3.1 Kernel 2.30.0 at work. We run a WinNt server 3.51 Is there any client I can use to log onto the WinNt server from my linux box and get access to all my resources on the server and also get Microsoft mail. Will I be able to use the

Re: How to share files with Win95 or NT

1998-01-21 Thread Jens Ritter
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Cox wrote: How do I get files off Win NT or 95 machines across my LAN. I have TCP/IP running. You can use smbclient and smbmount with approximately the same syntax as under Win96 and NT: \\where\what To use smbmount you have make sure your kernel supports the smbfs

Re: How to share files with Win95 or NT

1998-01-21 Thread Cox
I don't think that is that great of a suggestion. I am trying to run deselect for the first time. You know how many different files to is going to download.It would take all day to ftp these files to my local drive. That is what dselect is supposed to do. Now, can anyone tell me is

super: does syslog work?

1998-01-21 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
I've attempt to use the documented feature of super to direct its logging information to the syslog daemon without success. Logging to a file works. Here's an extract from /etc/super.tab: :global \ gethostbyname=n \ logfile=/var/log/super.log \ rlog_host=localhost \ syslog=y

Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-21 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Hi Mark! I, like Thomas Vaughan, have been having problems getting emacs to recognise the Alt key under X. (The system is a Toshiba laptop.) I'm running a Toshiba Tecra 730CDT, and the Alt key in emacs under X works fine in combination with other keys without any special setup. What model is

Re: Interrupts and serial ports

1998-01-21 Thread dg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, W Paul Mills wrote: I have my modem and my UPS both connected to serial ports with the same interupt. Seems to work OK. These are both on the same card which was modified (not a lot of fun) to share the interupt. JDR Microdevices sells

Re: Interrupts and serial ports

1998-01-21 Thread Tim Sailer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You talk about a JDR Microdevices card with 4 ports. is it supported by linux??? How much does it cost??? Because I could use some more ports at a communication box at work, which should run Debian, if everything goes right. AST used to make a 4 port card that used 1

Re: Newbie Setting up LPRng

1998-01-21 Thread Lee Bradshaw
I installed LPRng on my linux machine using dselect. How do I set this program to print to my Remote HP LaserJet 4 using a JetDirect Box? It's on a Novell Server 4.1. I never printed on my linux machine, so I don't know if it is setup already. Hi, I haven't used LPRng, so this message

Re: super: does syslog work?

1998-01-21 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: I've attempt to use the documented feature of super to direct its logging information to the syslog daemon without success. Logging to a file works. Here's an extract from /etc/super.tab: :global \ gethostbyname=n \

Sharing a single logon with Unix NT

1998-01-21 Thread Alex Monaghan
Help, This is not 100% Debian specific, but should apply to Debian as well as other Unix flavors. I've been tasked with rolling out Windows 95 NT, but I still need to provide NFS access to some Unix boxes (we use Beame Whiteside NFS). Ideally I'd like to be able to logon once to NT and / or

upgrade to hamm == X problems

1998-01-21 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Yesterday i upgraded from bo to hamm. That went pretty well, but X broke. I ran out of disk space during the X upgrade, and i thought maybe that was the problem. I removed all the X packages and reinstalled on a roomier disk, hoping that would fix things. It didnt, X still doesnt work.

Re: telnet to localhost

1998-01-21 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Wiria A Kusuma wrote: I can not telnet or ftp to localhost, it says that service is not started, but I can see them in /etc/service, can some body tell me where should I check for this error? there are several possible causes for this: 1. check the log files in /var/log

Re: errors in hamm upgrade

1998-01-21 Thread David Gaudine
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote: Yes. Smail now rejects connections from hostnames which don't have a dot in them. The fix is to change the line in /etc/smail/config which reads '-smtp_hello_broken_allow' to read 'smtp_hello_broken_allow=localnet'. I have the same (or a

Re: super: does syslog work?

1998-01-21 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Craig Sanders wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: I've attempt to use the documented feature of super to direct its logging information to the syslog daemon without success. Logging to a file works. Here's an extract from /etc/super.tab:

Re: upgrade to hamm == X problems

1998-01-21 Thread David Gaudine
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: It worked fine with bo but when i start the server under hamm, my machine switches to video mode, blanks the screen, and stops talking to the console. The server output looks normal (looks like it's not aware there's a problem). I cant

syslog and pipe router

1998-01-21 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I am trying to configure both my Debian machine and my Pipe 50 router to use syslog. I believe to have the Pipe 50 setup right according to the manual. I think linux isn't getting/accepting/writing the messages though. My pipe 50: Ethernet-Mod-Config-Log-Yes, 192.168.100.102

Re: errors in hamm upgrade

1998-01-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
David Gaudine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote: Yes. Smail now rejects connections from hostnames which don't have a dot in them. The fix is to change the line in /etc/smail/config which reads '-smtp_hello_broken_allow' to read

fdos package needed

1998-01-21 Thread hollen
I have tried without success to find the fdos package on the Debian FTP site. I need it because mkrboot depends on it. I need mkrboot because boot-floppie depends on it. In case I am going in the wrong direction, my ultimate goal is to make a Debian boot/rescue disk with a custom kernel and the

Re: syslog and pipe router

1998-01-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ian Keith Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yo- I am trying to configure both my Debian machine and my Pipe 50 router to use syslog. I believe to have the Pipe 50 setup right according to the manual. I think linux isn't getting/accepting/writing the messages

Re: syslog and pipe router

1998-01-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Ian Keith Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to configure both my Debian machine and my Pipe 50 router to use syslog. I believe to have the Pipe 50 setup right according to the manual. I think linux isn't getting/accepting/writing the messages though. Syslog won't accept

RE: Netscape 4.04.... [Read this Please!]

1998-01-21 Thread Vladislav Papayan x285
My netscape 4.04 is also working just fine -- I did not have to do anything at all. Just downloaded, installed using debian packages and it just works. My configuration: hamm debian as of December 19 (all libc6 + some packages that cannot live without libc5) kernel: 2.1.78 To dial up I use X-ISP

Re: upgrade to hamm == X problems

1998-01-21 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
David Gaudine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ] Are you sure you can't switch virtual consoles? I have the same problem ] in all other respects. I have to use ctrl-alt-f1 instead of alt-f1 ] to switch virtual consoles since X is running I tried both Ctrl-Alt-F? and the regular Alt-F?. Neither

Re: syslog and pipe router

1998-01-21 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I'm assuming you mean Pipeline 50, and that's a dandy little piece of hardware! That's beside the point though. I can't offer you help but I share in your misery. I've had the same problem with a MicroRouter 900i. I've got everything set for syslog but I've never gotten a message from the thing. I

Network Problem

1998-01-21 Thread Uros Platise
Hi there, A week ago I set up new Debian machine called marvin. It is an old 80386-40 CPU board with 40 MB of disk and 8 MB of RAM. The only work marvin will do is routing between Packet Radio network and home (local) network. After setting the network configuration files I can ping my working

Re: errors in hamm upgrade

1998-01-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, David Gaudine wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote: Yes. Smail now rejects connections from hostnames which don't have a dot in them. The fix is to change the line in /etc/smail/config which reads '-smtp_hello_broken_allow' to read

Thanks!! syslog and pipe router

1998-01-21 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Jens: I got mine working. How about you? -Ian | | .__. .__..__. .__. .__. \ \/ / | | | | | \ | | | | | | \ \ / / | | | | | |\ \ | | | | | | \ \/ / | |__ | | | | \ \| | | |_| | / / \ \ |__|__.|__| |__| \|