Re: UPS again

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Raymond A. Ingles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 5 Feb 1998, William R Ward wrote: Like a dummy, I bought a UPS without bothering to check if genpowerd supports it (I don't think it does). But before taking it back (I believe I have a week to do so and it's real

Re: modem and device

Ok !!! but i've tried with it... all i know is that my modem is on com 4 under windows what would it be under Linux... That would be ttyS3 (as ttys0=com1). and when i do `dmesg | grep PPP` there is nothing although i have installed ppp and recompiled the kernel of Linux, make the modules

Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Re: Which Linux distribution???

This is James from S.u.S.E.. Thanks to Tom Schaefer for the good rundown. [...] I have found a great use for every distribution I have encountered and they're all good. ANY of the Linux distributions makes an excellent choice. (see http://www.linux.org check the distributions page)

Re: Cheap hardware for

I was thinking Pentium100-166, 64 megs of SDRAM, and SCSI would be a good way to go -- are there any relatively inexpensive motherboards with these sorts of reqs that someone might recommend? Hi! These days P166MMX or P200MMX are rather cheap (relatively cheaper than P100-166 if you

Re: HP 100VG

Hi everybody, I'm trying to use one of HP 100 VG card : J2585B and my debian couldn't recognize thi card absolutelly. Does anybody know how to use this card in Linux ? Hi! This is from my 2.1.85 sources: /* ** hp100.c ** HP CASCADE Architecture Driver for 100VG-AnyLan Network

Problems in upgrade to unstable...

Just upgraded to hammfollowed the faq but am still having some problems. The most recent is this... When I run dselect, and pick the option to install I get this... Can't locate Net/Config.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004 /usr/lib/perl5

Re: Forwarding mail to news

Tim Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am subscribed to a number of different mailing lists, but find it easier to read using a news reader. Also, I am at different systems that connect to the internet using a dial-up connection. Is there a way to automaticaly post mail from a mailing list

Numlock in an xterm

I have a script in /etc/init.d that runs /usr/bin/setleds -D +num to set the numlock on. How can I get the same result in an xterm? Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Super-dooper config utils (was Which Linux distribution)

John Spence writes: I'd like to see more scripts like my Debian sendmailconfig script. Not only does it ask you the correct questions but it is a great source of information for understanding sendmail and script writing. I'm working on one for ppp right now. I'll have it ready for you to try

Re: Question re: splitting files

Nebu John Mathai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wouldn't mind finding out a better way that can be used with other OS' (including DOS and DOS-descended OS'). If you can find a DOS or Windows tar, or use WinZip under Win95, you can copy the files off and join them together with C:\TEMPCOPY

Re: Monolith DynDNS + ip-up

Timothy M. Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have the line (mlddc mymldata 21) /var/log/mlddc as specified in the readme file in ip-up. Is that the exact line you have? In that case, where is mymldata stored? I would have expected something like: mlddc /etc/mymldata

/dev/cdrom was: none

Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have installed Debian 1.3.1, but find myself without /dev/cdrom as a block device (at the driver selection stage, nothing fitted my Mitsumi 12x, which I ad run under an iso9660 on my previous slakware distribution). What is a block device, and how to get

Re: Monolith DynDNS + ip-up

Timothy M. Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm trying to register my monolith domain from within my ip-up script using mlddc. I have the line (mlddc mymldata 21) /var/log/mlddc as specified in the readme file in ip-up. However, when I login as usual with pppd, it doesn't register

Re: Question re: splitting files

On Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 10:42:48PM -0800, Steven Morrill wrote: Is there any way in Debian I can break files down to floppy size for archive purposes? Say I want to backup netscape so I don't have to go back and download it again if I do a complete re-install... How do I accomplish this? and

CGI scripts to send and recieve email eg. MUA

I was wondering if there was basically a MUA that was a cgi script. There are obviously quite a few folks doing it on the web. My situation is that I have a K12 school district where most of the faculty use public computers such as in the libraries. It is not reasonable for these folks

Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load

On my P166 (64 meg RAM) it takes about 20 seconds. Strange, on a BSDi P133 it takes about 5-10 seconds and that machine has less memory. I suspect our Xemacs is loading a bunch of unneeded stuff but I don't know for sure. You might want to mail our xemacs maintainer about this. Gerald Wann

X and color depth??

Hello all I have a Matrox Millennium video card with 4mgs installed and a Dell VS15 monitor. It seams that i don't have something set correct and as we do alot of web browsing it would be nice to fix this. Now i have the following in my XF86Config file: 640x400

Newbie: Booting a new system

I've just installed Debian on my computer. I'm having trouble booting without using a boot disk. Debian's the only operating system on the internal (EIDE) hard drive. Win95 is on an external (SCSI) hard drive. The internal drive is 2.5 GB, partitioned as follows: hda1 - 128 MB - swap partition,

Re: Problems in upgrade to unstable...

I had that exact same problem with my first upgrade to libc6 (i've done 2). What I did to correct it was, i removed all the libc6 packages, and re-ran the auto-upgrade script i had, but this time i used perl_5.004.04-3.deb and not perl_5.004.04-4.deb... (I also had a POSIX problem with it too

Re: Newbie: Booting a new system

Boot up with the boot disk, and run /sbin/lilo again. On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Chris Buxton wrote: I've just installed Debian on my computer. I'm having trouble booting without using a boot disk. Debian's the only operating system on the internal (EIDE) hard drive. Win95 is on an external

Syquest's syjet (par.port) ..?

Hi, Just wondering whether anyone has had any success in using the Parallel Port Syjet 1.5 Gig drive from Syquest. I'm running debian off an old 200 meg HDD 486 notebook, and although the system runs fast and clean for me, the one problem I do have is lack of hard drive space for some larger

WTMP, BTMP

Hello friends. === Since I've upgraded my Debian to use libc6 (through modem - phew! ;-) my wtmp and btmp entries are completely corrupt and unreadable. I can't find out where the problem is. I've asked also my another friend who uses Debian and he has the same problem, too. Is it a

Re: Which Linux distribution???

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The KDE project is starting to make some configuration programs.. I haven't used all of these programs, but the ones I've used are really good. sysv init editor user editor (w/ quota options) kdm configuration filesystem analyser

Installing Debian Linux v1.3.1 from July '97

Hello ! Last night I wanted to install Debian v1.3.1 from July '97 with a Kernel v2.0.29. After I partitioned my hard disk, the install programm checked my hard disk for errors and got a whole lot of them.  It repeated printing: scsi0: Target 6 underflow - Wanted at least 1024, got 512, residual

reverse video going away in xterm?

hi- when i get a visible bell in a xterm window w/ reverse video, the window loses the 'reverse videoness' -- that is, the window goes back to non-reverse video. has anyone else had this problem? does anyone have any suggestions for changing this behavior? (or perhaps where to start

Re: WTMP, BTMP

It is a small bug in the formats of the utmp and wtmp files. Here is a small list of things you should do to completely upgrade: 1) Upgrade to all the packages in the base/ section 2) cd /var/log 3) mv wtmp wtmp.libc5 4) touch wtmp 5) cd /var/run 5) rm -f utmp 6) cp /dev/null utmp 7) shutdown -r

Re: Problems in upgrade to unstable...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just upgraded to hammfollowed the faq but am still having some problems. The most recent is this... When I run dselect, and pick the option to install I get this... Can't locate Net/Config.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004

Re: UPS again

William R. Ward wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Raymond A. Ingles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 5 Feb 1998, William R Ward wrote: Like a dummy, I bought a UPS without bothering to check if genpowerd supports it (I don't think it does). But before taking it back (I believe I have

Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load

I am experimenting with xemacs 20.3 on debian linux 2.0.29 machine w/ AMD K6 200MHz / 32M RAM. It takes xemacs about a full minute to load in xwindows. Anyone else experience such a prolonged load wait, or is it just me ( 20.3 ;-)? Usually the problem with *really* slow emacs

Re: Syquest's syjet (par.port) ..?

Just wondering whether anyone has had any success in using the Parallel Port Syjet 1.5 Gig drive from Syquest. The 2.1.x kernel has support for many kinds of parallel port hard drives. You might want to try this. Alternatively, I recommend getting a PCMCIA SCSI card and an external SCSI

Erols Internet w/1.3.1?

Does anyone on this list use the pppd that came with Debian 1.3.1 to communicate with Erols Internet? I can't. I'm using the same scripts that work fine with Panix in New York, and used to work with ATT Worldnet, but they don't work. I dial, and the chat script issues my ID and password, but

lists

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kernel-panic !!!

Hi everybody ! I´m using Debian 1.3.1. from the german computer magazin Chip and have a very misterious problem when I want to build / compile a customize kernel. On every time I use make zImage after about 5 minutes I get an error like command as86 (also ld86) not found , leaving directory

Debian 1.3.1 installation problem

Hello, Can anyone help? I am trying to install Linux on my PC using the Debian 1.3.1 distribution and it always fails. My PC Configuration is Cyrix M1 cpu, 16Mb RAM, Adaptec AHA2940 SCSI controller, 2x Conner 250Mb SCSI drives, 1x SCSI Panasonic PD/CD drive, and no floppy drive (it's broken)

Re: kernel-panic !!!

Does the file /usr/bin/as86 exist? Is the bin86 package installed? If not, install it. On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Lothar Krenzien wrote: Hi everybody ! I´m using Debian 1.3.1. from the german computer magazin Chip and have a very misterious problem when I want to build / compile a customize

Re: CGI scripts to send and recieve email eg. MUA

R. Chris Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: based mail would be a good temporary solution. cgiemail may work for sending but receiving and managing an account is a different thing. How about www.emumail.com ? Waht are the exact problems with receiving mails? Any MTA you get with debian does this

Re: Debian 1.3.1 installation problem

I then choose cdrom on /dev/sdc0 and use default stable archive. /dev/sdc0 would be the third SCSI hard drive. You want /dev/scd0, the first SCSI CD-ROM. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load

I am experimenting with xemacs 20.3 on debian linux 2.0.29 machine w/ AMD K6 200MHz / 32M RAM. It takes xemacs about a full minute to load in xwindows. Anyone else experience such a prolonged load wait, or is it just me ( 20.3 ;-)? Usually the problem with *really* slow emacs

Can I pass dselect a list of packages?

Hello, I was wondering if it was possible to pass dselect a _custom_ list of packages that has been previously compiled. ie: `cat pkg-list` where pkg-list is a file containing the names of a _custom_ set of packages I want to install. If I need to select packages to install one at a time

Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load

I've tried the following (single) lines in my etc/hosts file - 127.0.0.1localhost OR 127.0.0.1zeropoint // where zeropoint is what is reported by hostname OR 127.0.0.1zeropoint localhost and noticed very little if any improvement in xemacs

Re: Can I pass dselect a list of packages?

I was wondering if it was possible to pass dselect a _custom_ list of packages that has been previously compiled. ie: `cat pkg-list` If you already have a debian system with desired set of packages installed you could do: dpkg --get-selections pkg-list and then on a new system dpkg

no proxyarp

The linux server kernel 2.x is giving error messages- like after running PPPD it says ethernet address unable to proxyarp and NAMED give errors when it tries reading addresses in reverse address files. NSLOOKUP is not able to get local host. Is there something wrong with the reverse addressing?

no proxyarp

The linux server kernel 2.x is giving error messages- like after running PPPD it says ethernet address unable to proxyarp and NAMED give errors when it tries reading addresses in reverse address files. NSLOOKUP is not able to get local host. Is there something wrong with the reverse addressing?

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #193

William R. Ward wrote: [snip] The UPS-HOWTO has a lot of info about using a UPS under Linux. I'd check there before returning it. I know that genpowerd is pretty flexible and can be configured to support almost any UPS. The UPS-HOWTO does not mention my brand. I even did a web search

Install Help on ThinkPad Wanted

Hello, I'd be most grateful to anyone who can help me with my installation of Debian 1.3.1 on an IBM ThinkPad 760C. I was able to complete the base installation from diskettes where I believe I included the necessary drivers to support my external Panasonic KXL-783A 8X-CD-ROM via its PCMCIA

Re: Can I pass dselect a list of packages?

On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: I was wondering if it was possible to pass dselect a _custom_ list of packages that has been previously compiled. dpkg --set-selections filename you can also _get_ the list of currently selected stuff with dpkg --get-selections filename so you

Re: reverse video going away in xterm?

Sen Nagata [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: when i get a visible bell in a xterm window w/ reverse video, the window loses the 'reverse videoness' -- that is, the window goes back to non-reverse video. has anyone else had this problem? does anyone have any suggestions for changing this

problem

Okay i installed linux but i can't seem to install anything with dselect. I think I must have configured my ethernet wrong. This is what it says when i try to install something with dselect: Connecting to ftp.debian.org... Net::FTP: Bad hostname 'ftp.debian.org' at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line

Re: problem

Okay i installed linux but i can't seem to install anything with dselect. I think I must have configured my ethernet wrong. This is what it says when i try to install something with dselect: Connecting to ftp.debian.org... Net::FTP: Bad hostname 'ftp.debian.org' at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm

Pine not work with lots of news?

Hi, I spool this list as a news group, slrn reads it fine, but pine says there are no messages. Pine works on all my other newsgroups (smaller). Is this a bug? I'm running pine 3.96, and Debian 1.3.1. Thanks, Tim. --- Debian/GNU Linux... the maintainable operating system.