debians /etc/rc.local?????

1998-01-29 Thread Kent
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finding kernal source

1998-01-29 Thread Dave Mallery
hi could you help me find the kernel source on the Debian 1.3 source cdrom? i need to compile my first kernel for my busmouse. 10q dave -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- Dave Mallery, K5EN po box 520; ramah nm 87321 running Debian GNU/Linux.Free at last -- TO

Re: debians /etc/rc.local?????

1998-01-29 Thread Art Lemasters
Kent wrote: where is it at? This is probably what you were after. --- 11.4 It looks as if Debian does not use rc.local to customize the boot process; what facilities are provided? http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/debian-faq-11.html#ss11.4

Re: Nedit hangs system

1998-01-29 Thread tjferrell
On 28 Jan, D W Wieboldt let loose with: Has anybody seen this? I have reasonably up to date hamm on a stinkpad 560. Installed nedit_5.0-3.deb. Invoking nedit works fine but then nothing works! Clearly un-acceptable. Just like using windoze; the only recourse is to hit the

Re: Ip_alias (arrgh!)

1998-01-29 Thread David R Baker
Support wrote: Yes folks its true I am not a LINUX guru, never claimed to be.. just installed the 2.0.33 and poof! there went the system.. lost all of my Modules every one of them had unresolved symbols in them.. put the old kernel back on and it works... the question is maybe its my

Re: uptime - bad data in /var/run/utmp?

1998-01-29 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
I upgraded all the section: base packages and it worked. bash-2.01$ uptime 12:41am up 29 min, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.05, 0.07 Thank you all. At\'e breve === Pedro Quaresma de Almeida Departamento de Matem\'atica Faculdade de Ci\^encias e Tecnologia

Re: finding kernal source

1998-01-29 Thread David R Baker
Dave Mallery wrote: hi could you help me find the kernel source on the Debian 1.3 source cdrom? i need to compile my first kernel for my busmouse. 10q On the binary (yes binary) CD there are kernel-source packages. There is also a package called kernel package which makes it very easy

Re: fips equivalent for ext2?

1998-01-29 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
I assume you have disk space available, either on another partition or available to partition. Assuming that the new partition is to be /dev/hdxn. As root, you should do the following: 1. fdisk /dev/hdx Use p to see the existing partition arrangement, then, if it doesn't already

Re: Nedit hangs system

1998-01-29 Thread Sten Anderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 28 Jan, D W Wieboldt let loose with: Has anybody seen this? I have reasonably up to date hamm on a stinkpad 560. Installed nedit_5.0-3.deb. Invoking nedit works fine but then nothing works! Clearly un-acceptable. Just like using windoze; the

Re: Linux and ultra dma drives

1998-01-29 Thread robert havoc pennington
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, ' ALLAN W. BART wrote: i just wanted to know about compatibility. I have a Quantum Fireball ST 3.2 GB, which has UDMA capability. The current version of Linux just ignores the UDMA, and uses plain DMA. It works fine for me. However, some people have had problems with

shell program menu and MCI dostracker

1998-01-29 Thread A. M. Varon
Thanks to all who responded about my question on the shell program menu! Another question, has anyone tried running the MCI dostracker on a Linux box? it's on www.security.mci.net. regards, == == Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated == == Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836

Re: X-Windows questions

1998-01-29 Thread Britton
I think you are ust asking too much of your machine :) It is a kind of multi-tasking linux uses that means you will occasionally (and not entirely predictably, though doing fewer things at once helps of course) have halts. It is not a real time system. On the other hand, you can give priority

Re: SoundBlaster AWE64

1998-01-29 Thread Britton
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Markus Lechner wrote: Thanks for your help, Marcus. Of course i red all the related docu before and i set the permissions according to my needs. The problem was solved with sfxload -I sndfont. I didn't know that i have to do this every time (because of unloaded

Re: debians /etc/rc.local?????

1998-01-29 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Art Lemasters wrote: Kent wrote: where is it at? This is probably what you were after. --- 11.4 It looks as if Debian does not use rc.local to customize the boot process; what facilities are provided?

Re: debians /etc/rc.local?????

1998-01-29 Thread A. M. Varon
On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: [I hope some Debian Developers are reading this.] Could it be possible to have the rc.local file by default in the Debian Distro? == == Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated == == Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836 == = == ==

Re: debians /etc/rc.local?????

1998-01-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Art Lemasters wrote: Kent wrote: where is it at? This is probably what you were after. --- 11.4 It looks as if Debian does not use rc.local to customize the boot process; what facilities are provided?

Dial-up script programs

1998-01-29 Thread Adam Klein
I need a more flexible program than 'chat' to use for dial up PPP scripts. Any suggestions. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

permissions on uucico

1998-01-29 Thread Catalin Popescu
I have the following permissions for uucico: -rwsr-sr-x 1 uucp dialout212932 May 8 1997 uucico I try to change permissions to allow ordinary users to invoke uucico (directly or via a script), but don't know what I'm doing wrong. I already tried: chmod a+s uucico (I imagined that

Re: debians /etc/rc.local?????

1998-01-29 Thread Tim Sailer
A. M. Varon wrote: On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: [I hope some Debian Developers are reading this.] Could it be possible to have the rc.local file by default in the Debian Distro? Actually, no... it will never get run, even if you create it. Debian uses SYSV style init,

Re: How to share files with Win95 or NT

1998-01-29 Thread Gerald V. Livingston lI
This was suggested in another message --- but not clearly. You say you have a shared WIN95 box with a CD available. I assume it is on the same side of the firewall as you -- meaning you would not have to go through your proxy server to *FTP* to that WIN95 machine. So, get a FTP daemon

Star Office, Latin 2 and many more

1998-01-29 Thread Bostjan Jerko
Hello ! I have 2 questions: 1) I tried to install old version of Star Office (the only one I have), but I get error message, that I am missing libXm.so.2 ? I guessed it will be part of lesstif package, but I was wrong. Any ideas where to get this library ? Oh, yes. I am not prepared to

Re: Pgp 5.0 Linux Install Question..

1998-01-29 Thread Steven Morrill
Hello All, Sorry if this too far off topic, but I thought there might be others out there with the same questions, or possibly some answers. Devon, I'm not completely clear on a couple of things with pgp yet... By way of explanation, I'm really a newbie at Linux, having migrated over from

Script idea...

1998-01-29 Thread Ender Wigin
Hi, I just (couple of weeks realy) upgraded to Hamm. After the upgrade I was left with a bunch of apps that core dumped ...(IE: ncftp) before I upgraded them to the libc6 version... So today in math class I thought up a neat script idea that could help others in my plight... (note extenuating

Re: Nedit hangs system

1998-01-29 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Jan 29, 1998 at 02:05:51AM +0100, Sten Anderson wrote: Perhaps this is caused by NEdit (in Hamm) being linked with Lesstif (the free Motif clone). Lesstif is still not fully compatible with Motif. Given that I received a private email that ddd-2.2.2-1 had the same problem, this looks

Re: fips equivalent for ext2?

1998-01-29 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
Hi all again! On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: I assume you have disk space available, either on another ^^ Sorry my poor english, I looking something like fips because I have no such space... I was thinking in archive compress

aalib-dev: I cannot compile the examples

1998-01-29 Thread Frank Barknecht
Recently I installed the new aalib and aalib-dev packages. Now I have problems in compiling source code that uses this library. For example: aalib-dev comes with some examples. If i try one of them I get: examples$ gcc info.c /tmp/cca019321.o: In function `main': /tmp/cca019321.o(.text+0x16):

Re: Help serial port communication

1998-01-29 Thread Carey Evans
Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Carey Evans wrote: [...] I think it's generally necessary to do O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK to open a disconnected serial port, then set CLOCAL with termios, and finally turn off O_NONBLOCK with fcntl. Of course, for just setting the speed it should

Netscape communicator helper applications and bash

1998-01-29 Thread Jan Weytjens
I have Apache (from the debian distribution 1.3) running on a Toshiba 530CDT notebook running Linux 2.0.30 (debian 1.3). I also have Netscape communicator 4.04 on the same machine. When I configure edit preferences navigator applications to use acroread to open URLs pointing to pdf files as

Re: Netscape communicator helper applications and bash

1998-01-29 Thread Sten Anderson
Jan Weytjens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The error is in the shell command communicator tries to run with sh: ((/usr/bin/acroread /tmp/MOsomething.pdf); rm /tmp/MOsomething.pdf) where MOsomething.pdf is a temporary file in the /tmp directory. The problem is the (mis)matching of the

Re: Star Office, Latin 2 and many more

1998-01-29 Thread Sten Anderson
Bostjan Jerko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) I tried to install old version of Star Office (the only one I have), but I get error message, that I am missing libXm.so.2 ? This is the Motif library (version 2.*). Lesstif cannot replace it (yet). You must get yourself a version of StarOffice that

Copying CD-ROM's from Linux

1998-01-29 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, is there any software for Debian Linux that will allow to create a direct copy of a CD to a CD-Writer? In other words I don't want to go through the harddisk and I want to be able to copy all kinds of CD's. Thanks in advance, Nico. -- -- Nico De Ranter Sony Objective Composer

Kernel versions

1998-01-29 Thread Ian Perry
Does anyone know what the difference between the Slackware 2.0.0 kernel, and the Debian kernel 2.0.32 ? Any info would be appreciated. Ian Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Perl problem

1998-01-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Karl Abrams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just installed debian 1.3 from CD and then ran dselect. The packages perl 5.003.07-10, perl-suid 5.003.07-10 wg15-locale 2-5 are installed. The error messages are: ~17% perl perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories:

Re: X-Windows questions

1998-01-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Markus Lechner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why i want to run many X-Sessions? It's just an old habbit - i loved the Amiga for it's WorkBench and Command-Line Interface. So i want to configure Linux in the same way. Actually i'll need a little more RAM for this. You got the answer before:

dns compilation error

1998-01-29 Thread eugene mendoza
Dear Linux users, Am trying to set up bind ver 8.00. Files were written in bind ver 4 format. Tried using named-bootconf.pl to do conversion. It gave the following error message Cant modify subroutine entry in scalar assignment at /usr/sbin/named-bootconf.pl line 30 near ; the line in question

Re: Copying CD-ROM's from Linux

1998-01-29 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
Hi! On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, is there any software for Debian Linux that will allow to create a direct copy of a CD to a CD-Writer? In other words I don't want to go through the harddisk and I want to be able to copy all kinds of CD's. I'm not sure but I

Re: aalib-dev: I cannot compile the examples

1998-01-29 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Jan 29, 1998 at 11:05:36AM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: Recently I installed the new aalib and aalib-dev packages. Now I have problems in compiling source code that uses this library. For example: aalib-dev comes with some examples. If i try one of them I get: examples$ gcc

lp command for Linux

1998-01-29 Thread hockensb
I just installed Linux distributed by Debian which was packaged on the bootDisc CD-ROM. I tried to use the lp command and got the error message command not found. I am an inexperienced UNIX user. I don't recall doing anything during the install process to configure the printer. Could I have

Re: lp command for Linux

1998-01-29 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Jan 29, 1998 at 07:38:46AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed Linux distributed by Debian which was packaged on the bootDisc CD-ROM. I tried to use the lp command and got the error message command not found. I am an inexperienced UNIX user. I don't recall doing anything

Re: lp command for Linux

1998-01-29 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
Hello! On Thu, 29 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Please help! Of course!!! Debian users to the rescue come here! There are two printer spooling systems packages in Debian: LPR and LPRng, both are BSD style, so initially think that you do not have an lp command wich is part of a

Re: dns compilation error

1998-01-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
eugene mendoza [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tried using named-bootconf.pl to do conversion. It gave the following error message Cant modify subroutine entry in scalar assignment at /usr/sbin/named-bootconf.pl line 30 near ; the line in question is $new_config = ; You are sure, you use the

Re: lp command for Linux

1998-01-29 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hi Bob: You have to install the print spool software. Use deselect. Since you are a beginner, install the simple lpr package. Peter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, January 29,

Re: Netscape communicator helper applications and bash

1998-01-29 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Jan Weytjens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is the (mis)matching of the parentheses. When run in an xterm window, I get the same error message. Apparently, the problem is with bash (/bin/sh is a link to /bin/bash) which complains about about the following syntax: ((echo A); echo B)

dhcpcd broke?

1998-01-29 Thread Richard Kilgore
I just upgraded all my systems to the latest hamm stuff, and everything seems to work fine except for dhcpcd on the host connected to my cable modem. Here's my current software: Linux version 2.0.29 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) ii dhcpcd 0.70-2 a DHCP client

Strange NIS behaviour

1998-01-29 Thread Pierre Blanchet
I'm running Debian 1.3.1 on 55 machines here, and they all have the same problem: $ps aux|grep yp blanchet 5008 0.0 1.0 912 328 p0 S 14:28 0:00 grep yp Ok, ypbind does not run (it crashes often when NIS server shuts down). $ypwhich can't clnt_call: Can't communicate with

Diskless link

1998-01-29 Thread Pure Energy
I have a P200 running Debian with a 486 connected via ether. The connection works 99% of the time but i have noticed that out-of-the-blue the connection dies from the 486. No ping, telnet, ftp, lynx or anything else *Until* I ping it from the P200. This is something i've been lost in

RE: Copying CD-ROM's from Linux

1998-01-29 Thread Richardson,Anthony
cdrecord (ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord) will do a direct CD to CD copy. (I don't believe that X-CD-Roast will.). It compiled and installed easily on my Debian 1.3 box. Tony Richardson p.s. There is an article on X-CD-Roast in the Jan. issue of Linux Journal. The author

Verified Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-01-29 Thread Pure Energy
Just so others on the list are aware... I have various drives on one of my systems with the first hard drive containing win3.11 and the rest linux ext2. I had the win95 upgrade sitting on the shielf for the last year and decided to finally set it up. It installed safely without touching any

how to integrate non-US AND local packages to dselect

1998-01-29 Thread clasen
Hi I want to install debian 1.3.1r6 on several machines via NFS. Is there a way to offer all packages to dselect when non-US packages and local (self-made) packages are located in different sub-directories. I imagine a directory-structure like this: /pub/debian/bo # with

Re: SoundBlaster AWE64

1998-01-29 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
(Sorry Britton, no help for your keyboard, but I have to correct some things Markus wrote. I didn't saw this before). On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Britton wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Markus Lechner wrote: Thanks for your help, Marcus. Of course i red all the related docu before and i set the

Re: permissions on uucico

1998-01-29 Thread tko
Catalin Popescu writes: I have the following permissions for uucico: -rwsr-sr-x 1 uucp dialout212932 May 8 1997 uucico I try to change permissions to allow ordinary users to invoke uucico (directly or via a script), but don't know what I'm doing wrong. [snip] Please

Re: Dial-up script programs

1998-01-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I highly reccommend the program 'expect' which is sort of an extension to TCL. I've used it with great success. expect is available as a debian package. Adam Klein wrote: I need a more flexible program than 'chat' to use for dial up PPP scripts. Any suggestions. Adam Klein -- Jens B.

graphics cards

1998-01-29 Thread Richard Sevenich
We are upgrading a lab and wish to get fairly high end graphics cards where possible. Open GL is a course tool to be supported. We are looking at these series: ELSA Gloria Diamond Fire GL Does anyone on this list have experience/information to share in this area? Regards, Richard

Re: Help serial port communication

1998-01-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Carey Evans wrote: Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Carey Evans wrote: [...] I think it's generally necessary to do O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK to open a disconnected serial port, then set CLOCAL with termios, and finally turn off O_NONBLOCK with fcntl. Of course, for just

Re: permissions on uucico

1998-01-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Catalin Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the following permissions for uucico: -rwsr-sr-x 1 uucp dialout212932 May 8 1997 uucico I try to change permissions to allow ordinary users to invoke uucico (directly or via a script), but don't know what

inbound traffic problem with hamm

1998-01-29 Thread justin honold
i'm having some problems (well, COMPLETE problems) with incoming pop and nntp. i'm running hamm right now, using smail/pine and inn/tin. here are the pertinent crontabs i'm having trouble with (which were working pre-upgrade) 10,20,30... * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail 10 * * * * /usr/bin/tin -q -r

Re: graphics cards

1998-01-29 Thread Ben Pfaff
We are upgrading a lab and wish to get fairly high end graphics cards where possible. Open GL is a course tool to be supported. We are looking at these series: ELSA Gloria Diamond Fire GL Does anyone on this list have experience/information to share in this area?

Parallel port patches

1998-01-29 Thread Alex Maneu Victoria
-Please, reply to this message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Hi to everybody. I have downloaded from the internet some patches for my parallel port. The objective is to finally use the printer and the Zip drive, but not at the same time. Basically I have 2 questions: 1) How should I install these

Window-manager?

1998-01-29 Thread Alex Maneu Victoria
-please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Hello. Since now I've been using afterstep. Would you recommend me any other? I've heard the best is KDE. If it's so, where can I download it? How big is it? (I'm connecting at 33600bps or less) (I've visited www.kde.org and it was terribly slow!). Thanks.

drvspace drives

1998-01-29 Thread Alex Maneu Victoria
- Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Hello. Just a little question: Is it possible to access a drive space compressed w95 partition from Linux? And from w95, access the Linux partitions? Thanx - Àlex Maneu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) MAN Soft

Sound Card??

1998-01-29 Thread Alex Maneu Victoria
-please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Hello. Since a long time I have tried to use my soundcard unsuccessfully. My card is a Logitech SoundMan Wave. But, to make it easier, let's make it be a SoundBlaster or SoundBlaster Pro. How should I configure it (I mean, the kernel, etc.)? Thank you very

Re: Copying CD-ROM's from Linux

1998-01-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Richardson,Anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: p.s. There is an article on X-CD-Roast in the Jan. issue of Linux Journal. The author mentions that the next release of the software will use cdrecord to do the actual writing. And the version in hamm does so. From the available file: -

Re: Dial-up script programs

1998-01-29 Thread Adam Klein
On Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 10:57:10PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need a more flexible program than 'chat' to use for dial up PPP scripts. Any suggestions. 'Expect' is the usual suggestion for this, though I've never needed it. The problem with 'Expect' is that it takes up a lot of

Re: Dial-up script programs

1998-01-29 Thread Adam Klein
On Thu, Jan 29, 1998 at 09:11:56AM -0600, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: I highly reccommend the program 'expect' which is sort of an extension to TCL. I've used it with great success. expect is available as a debian package. It takes up a lot of hard disk space (for me, 1 meg is a lot), but I guess

Re: Script idea...

1998-01-29 Thread Behan Webster
Ender Wigin wrote: Hi, I just (couple of weeks realy) upgraded to Hamm. After the upgrade I was left with a bunch of apps that core dumped ...(IE: ncftp) before I upgraded them to the libc6 version... So today in math class I thought up a neat script idea that could help others in my

Re: inbound traffic problem with hamm

1998-01-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
justin honold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: in my .fetchmailrc i have poll pop.primary.net protocol pop3 user jhonold password PASSWORD fetchall. running fetchmail -v last night yielded unknown host debian -- you need a . in your hostname). debian is the name of my localhost (not on a network).

Problem with mc solved

1998-01-29 Thread Andreas Mueck \(Stud.93\)
Hi, thank you very much, the problem is solved. The error occured because of conflicts between libc5 and libc6. I installed e2fslibsg and comerr2g, the older versions used libc5, and now everything works alright. Bye, / // Andreas Mueck

lprm not working for users

1998-01-29 Thread Marsh
I just installed Debian 1.3 and all is mostly well. However, when a non-root user attempts to remove a print job from the queue lprm gives a permission denied message. The lp executables all seem to be installed suid: -rwsr-sr-x 1 root lp 13208 Feb 11 1997 /usr/bin/lprm and the

Re: Window-manager?

1998-01-29 Thread Adam Shand
Since now I've been using afterstep. Would you recommend me any other? I've heard the best is KDE. If it's so, where can I download it? How big is it? (I'm connecting at 33600bps or less) (I've visited www.kde.org and it was terribly slow!). I like WindowMaker, it's fast and stable and

acct bug?

1998-01-29 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, Some minutes ago I got my system without disk space. Looking for info/files, I found the /var/account/pacct file with 283MB. Is there some known bug in acct that I missed? Some other opinion about this? []s, Mario O.de MenezesMany are the plans in a

Re: aalib-dev: I cannot compile the examples

1998-01-29 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're not specifying any libraries against which to link, so the only library used is the C library. You should specify that you want to link against the aa library, so probably you need gcc info.c -laa. In fact, since aalib uses X, slang, and gpm, you really need to

Offline Email

1998-01-29 Thread Daniel Mashao
Does anybody have an idea of how to best set-up an offline email system? I cannot find suitable information from the man pages etc. What I want is the system that I can 'send' email while my machine is off-line and then sometime later when I use a ppp connection, my system will then send the

Re: dhcpcd broke?

1998-01-29 Thread bhmit1
On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Richard Kilgore wrote: I just upgraded all my systems to the latest hamm stuff, and everything seems to work fine except for dhcpcd on the host connected to my cable modem. Here's my current software: Linux version 2.0.29 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3)

Re: Offline Email

1998-01-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Daniel Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I want is the system that I can 'send' email while my machine is off-line and then sometime later when I use a ppp connection, my system will then send the email outside. I have tried both smail and sendmail unfortunately they just write error

re: Dailup script programs

1998-01-29 Thread Stephen Gregory
I use 'runscript' from the minicom package. You can install minicom, save 'runscript' to a save place, and the un-install minicom if HD space is a problem. My recovery disk has runscript on it as my pppd dialer. (I could not make expect redial fast enough for my likeing) -- Stephen

Re: LINUX

1998-01-29 Thread Alex Yukhimets
I dont understand how i download debian Can u tell me the exact place to go and which files tro download??? I just a want a basic linux system with a GUI and applications included Please post such questions to debian-user@lists.debian.org Get

Re: fips equivalent for ext2?

1998-01-29 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
I'm sorry, but I don't know how to solve your problem if you don't have any free disk space. Perhaps someone else on the list will have some ideas. Bob On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: I assume you

[FIXED] ZGV crash

1998-01-29 Thread kestrel
I finally got zgv working, I had to edit the /etc/vga/vgalib.config file to increase my monitors horizontal and vertical rates, commented out the section for the mach32 setting, and forced it to detect my card as VGA (was detecting it as TVGA which my card isn't, htough it is a Trident) G'razel

Re: Sound Card??

1998-01-29 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Alex! Since a long time I have tried to use my soundcard unsuccessfully. My card is a Logitech SoundMan Wave. But, to make it easier, let's make it be a SoundBlaster or SoundBlaster Pro. How should I configure it (I mean, the kernel, etc.)? I have different Sound Card, but may be my

Re: Parallel port patches

1998-01-29 Thread Sten Anderson
Alex Maneu Victoria [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have downloaded from the internet some patches for my parallel port. The objective is to finally use the printer and the Zip drive, but not at the same time. Basically I have 2 questions: 1) How should I install these patches and then

Installing Debian on Laptop

1998-01-29 Thread David B. Miles
New Debian User! I have a Compaq Elite 4/75 CX laptop. I have an IC ethernet card (network card). I installed Debian on the laptop using disks. I would like to make a network connection through the network card and then install the rest of the debian files through the network. Please help.

Re: SEUL's choice of sendmail

1998-01-29 Thread Linux Weekly News
Since you haven't gotten an answer to this question in a couple of weeks, I suggest you take it to the seul-project list, which can more likely answer your question. Liz Coolbaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

debian re-install?

1998-01-29 Thread Gerald Wann
Hello - Pardon my ignorance - but is it possible to use the debian install program (from the floppies) to recompile the kernel with additional modules (e.g. PLIP) without having to reinstall the whole OS and current file system? Thanks Jerry -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: debian re-install?

1998-01-29 Thread Ben Pfaff
Pardon my ignorance - but is it possible to use the debian install program (from the floppies) to recompile the kernel with additional modules (e.g. PLIP) without having to reinstall the whole OS and current file system? No. But you can do it *without* the floppies. ;-) I suggest

?: Debian 1.3.1 and XFREE86 on Omnibook 4000C - Monitor settings

1998-01-29 Thread Ralf Durben
Notebook: Omnibook 4000 C8MB RAM486/DX50 Linux:Debian 1.3.1 Hi experts, I tried to install XFREE86, but I have problems in selecting the correct options for my graphic card and my monitor. According to the handbook the Omnibook has a graphic card supporting SVGA but the laptop

question on using lpr

1998-01-29 Thread BobHock65
I just installed Debian version of Linux on my PC. I created a sample C program using Vi Editor. When I entered the command lpr proga.c it looked like this: 1st line 2nd line 3rd line 4th line ..(you get the idea). I

Re: Window-manager?

1998-01-29 Thread Ender Wigin
On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Alex Maneu Victoria wrote: -please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Hello. Since now I've been using afterstep. Would you recommend me any other? I've heard the best is KDE. If it's so, where can I download it? How big is it? (I'm connecting at 33600bps or less)

Re: Installing Debian on Laptop

1998-01-29 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
On 29 Jan, David B. Miles wrote: New Debian User! I have a Compaq Elite 4/75 CX laptop. I have an IC ethernet card (network card). I installed Debian on the laptop using disks. I would like to make a network connection through the network card and then install the rest of the debian

Re: question on using lpr

1998-01-29 Thread AJT60
On Thu, 29 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1st line 2nd line 3rd line 4th line ..(you get the idea). no idea on this one, sorry. Also, how can I copy a file from my harddrive to a floppy (i.e., A: in

Re: Sound Card??

1998-01-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Jan 29, 1998 at 05:04:45PM +0100, Alex Maneu Victoria wrote: -please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Hello. Since a long time I have tried to use my soundcard unsuccessfully. My card is a Logitech SoundMan Wave. But, to make it easier, let's make it be a SoundBlaster or SoundBlaster

Re: drvspace drives

1998-01-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Jan 29, 1998 at 05:02:44PM +0100, Alex Maneu Victoria wrote: - Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Hello. Just a little question: Is it possible to access a drive space compressed w95 partition from Linux? Yes. Install the dmsdosfs package from sunsite.unc.edu (you have to search

keyboard locks

1998-01-29 Thread Harry Anderson
I'm trying to install debian for the first time, from the LSL Debian 1.3.1 CD. If this helps, I have: an AMD K6 on an Intel 430TX chipset installing from the CD via MSDOS-6. Everything is fine when I boot up - I get the 'uncompressing Linux...' message and the screen scrolls through all the

Re: question on using lpr

1998-01-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 30 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 29 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1st line 2nd line 3rd line 4th line ..(you get the idea). no idea on this one, sorry. This is because

Re: drvspace drives

1998-01-29 Thread servis
On 29 Jan, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 1998 at 05:02:44PM +0100, Alex Maneu Victoria wrote: - Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - And from w95, access the Linux partitions? There are some tools to access it form dos (perhaps windows too), but I never used them. Certainly