There was a small mail outage today, but I think everything is back together
again, I am hoping that no emails are lost.
Jason
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On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Dave Mallery wrote:
i can't find the debian installer for the above netscape...
is it in hamm?? am i stuck in netscape 3 till then?
Yes, it is in hamm. No, you aren't stuck. You can get the .deb file by
ftp and install it. I don't have a bo system to test it, but I
On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, David Stern wrote:
Hi,
It occurred to me that running dselect | ftp as root could potentially
compromise root access.
I don't want users to be able to run dselect, and I don't want to loose
the power of dselect by downloading all packages and package lists
I have recently installed libc6 and parts of hamm (particularly those the
HOWTO said had to be installed. I also installed some Xaw packages, and
removed one because I didn't like the way it made xterm look. Perhaps
this last is where my problems originate.
I don't know how to get color xterms
On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, Britton wrote:
I have recently installed libc6 and parts of hamm (particularly those the
HOWTO said had to be installed. I also installed some Xaw packages, and
removed one because I didn't like the way it made xterm look. Perhaps
this last is where my problems
I'm running out of space on my /usr partition (500 megs). I have another
300 megs of unpartitioned space I could add to it, but I haven't got any
idea where would be a logical place to split /usr -- I'd prefer not to
combine them into one 300 meg partition. /usr/local is already a seperate
Greetings all,
OK, the ongoing saga of my ppp dialup continues. pon now attempts the
connection(my modem is now recognized!). It dials and then thats it. We
use Kerberos Authen so i do not know if this is causing the
problem. The logs show that after the handshake the host(my school) asks
I run across ckermit when I was looking for some other package in bo.
I suggest you will try again, perhaps on a different site.
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Has anyone gotten Enlightenment related apps (ImLib, eMusic, ePlus,
eTerm, etc), to compile properly on their debian system?
From what i've seen RH5 people seem to beable to compile E-stuff fine,
while they give trouble on
On Sat, Feb 21, 1998 at 11:39:51AM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
check your /etc/printcap file.
ahah, you're right. I took it from one of the workstations. But this begs
the question as to why it worked for weeks before this . . .
The base-files package used to include the
I have written to Adobe and they have informed me that no Linux version of
FramMaker exists or is planned.
On 21-Feb-98 Ralph Winslow wrote:
Is there a Debian package of FrameMaker or something that does
the same kinds of things? I've started using it a work and
would like to practice using
On 21 Feb 98 at 13:48, debian-user@lists.debian.org wrote:
On Sat, 21 Feb 1998 13:00:32 CST, TW Kayos wrote:
doesn't anyone have experience installing Debian on this hardware?
What makes you think aic7xxx supports your controller?
Well, the Hardware Compatibility HOWTO says the Adaptec 2920
On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, William R. Ward wrote:
: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: You probably did this already, but have you enabled your PS/2 mouse port
: in your BIOS? You also need a kernel with PS/2 support compiled in, or
: you need to insert the
Richard B. Talley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip - smbmount problems]
I learned a new Linux installation needs to be told where to find other
machines. DNS or a local file (HOSTS ?) or -I switch.
The file is /etc/hosts.
If you install samba you can use nmblookup to find out the address. I
On Sun, 22 Feb 1998 02:28:06 +0100, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, David Stern wrote:
It occurred to me that running dselect | ftp as root could potentially
compromise root access.
I don't want users to be able to run dselect, and I don't want to loose
the power of
On 22 Feb, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Fri, Feb 20, 1998 at 11:33:03PM -0500, Stephen P. Ryan wrote:
On 20 Feb, Bruce Dobrin wrote:
1FA: is what I get when I try to boot from My hard drive. I had this
problem once before and the problem mysteriously went away. It hasn't gone
away yet on
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Beattie) writes:
Is it at all possible to beep the PC Speaker via bash? or perl... or
whatever?
What I want to do is set up my ip-up script, so that fetchmail is run from
it, and there is some sort of notification when it is complete.. i.e. a
double beep or
Jesus Duran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
problem. The logs show that after the handshake the host(my school) asks
for 4 returns for interactive mode which i'm familiar with from dialing in
with ckermit(a dummy term). Should ppp take care of that? Any help is
I believe editing
On 22 Feb 1998, Carey Evans wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Beattie) writes:
Is it at all possible to beep the PC Speaker via bash? or perl... or
whatever?
What I want to do is set up my ip-up script, so that fetchmail is run from
it, and there is some sort of notification when
William R. Ward wrote:
[snip]
I've never seen much point in svgatextmode, personally - you can get
80x50 from LILO, isn't that enough?
I'm all for giving everyone as many options as practical but
SVGATextMode is one that I plan on leaving off of my system.
Quite fortunately, for me, after
Okay, I agree, this is most likely a very stupid question. How can one
tell if they have motif installed?
Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Howdy,
Got a bit of a problem here. Actually, it a LOT of a problem.
I had a fairly standard bo installation. I ran the autoupgrade.sh script,
which seemed to work, kind of. It missed a whole lot of stuff in /oldlibs
and some stuff in /base when retrieving everything, so the system was in a
half
I have a Colorado 250 internal tape drive connected to the floppy cable
and I want to run unattended backups. In addition, I have zftape and
autofs running.
Is there any way I can share IRQ6? I saw a kernel patch (2.0.33) for IRQ
sharing, but I'm not sure if that patch will do the job and do
I setup cgiwrap the other day and it works great. the only thing I dont
like is the fact that it fills my xconsole. Is there anyway to filter
this out? I use my xconsole to monitor telnets/ftp/mail and dont wish to
have cgiwrap here.
Any help on this would be great. thanx alot.
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Will Lowe wrote:
I'm running out of space on my /usr partition (500 megs). I have another
300 megs of unpartitioned space I could add to it, but I haven't got any
idea where would be a logical place to split /usr -- I'd prefer not to
combine them into one 300 meg partition. /usr/local is
On Sat, 21 Feb 1998 16:36:25 MST, Richard B. Talley wrote:
On 21 Feb 98 at 13:48, debian-user@lists.debian.org wrote:
On Sat, 21 Feb 1998 13:00:32 CST, TW Kayos wrote:
doesn't anyone have experience installing Debian on this hardware?
What makes you think aic7xxx supports your
On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
I don't know. I seem to remember seeing a request for an egcs package
on the WNPP list, but I could be wrong.
In the unstable distribution (Debian pre-2.0, a.k.a. hamm), egcs is
already available as gcc! :-)
$ dpkg -l gcc
On 21 Feb 98 at 22:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David
Stern) wrote:
Do you have some evidence that the 2920 is an aic7xxx ? I already told
you that if it's a newer model you might have to look at the development
drivers.
Actually you told the writer that started this thread.
A little digging
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes:
What I'm trying to do is make my ppp connection as secure as possible,
and one of the first things I realized is that whenever I'm running
dselect, I'm root, and that I might be connected to the internet for
long enough such that my ip address could
Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Has stopped working - I say lp file, the file queues, I try lpstat
and see ERROR: printer 'lp', chdir to /var/spool/lpd/bj10sx' failed;
'No such file or directory' which makes sense as ther's no file or
directory named bj10sx in /var/spool/lpd.
Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, Feb 21, 1998 at 09:02:33PM -0500:
I'm running out of space on my /usr partition (500 megs). I have another
300 megs of unpartitioned space I could add to it, but I haven't got any
idea where would be a logical place to split /usr -- I'd prefer not to
where are the bitchx configuration files (.74p2 deb package)? I found one
in /etc/bitchx, but I can't find where the server list is stored..?
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What do you have in /usr/src? Much besides the linux source?
If you have a lot in there, you might split that off.
Go BlueHens!
On 22-Feb-98 Scott McDermott wrote:
Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, Feb 21, 1998 at 09:02:33PM -0500:
I'm running out of space on my /usr partition (500 megs).
Does anyone have any experience setting up a Dell laptop to output sound,
such as from the CD to play audio cds? Or even if not, does anyone
possibly have any ideas as to how to go about doing it? I thought I had
compiled support in with soundblaster compatible, but apparently not --
or maybe
The debs on E.org's ftp are fubarred -- avoid them. The Imlib you have
IS NOT compatible w/ any E apps. Period. It has nothing to do w/
Debian or Redhat. I am the E maintainer, but my status is not complete
yet. When it is expect E, imlib, and others to appear. There are a few
of us working
Hi,
Recently I upgraded nmh on hamm from 0.17-1 to 0.22-1 and I just
discovered my smail header rewriting is broke, and I think the new nmh
is the culprit. smail remains on hold status in dselect. I've read
the bug reports (there are none), I've read /usr/doc/nmh/DIFFERENCES.gz,
but there
Please reply direct as I'm not subscribed to debian-user...
Does anyone have any experience with the Adaptec 1460
SlimScSI PCMCIA card? I have a Seagate Baracuda (rebadged as SUN
Microsystems) drive I'm trying to use with my laptop through this
card. The card recognises the drive, spins it up,
Remco Blaakmeer hat gesagt: // Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, Britton wrote:
I have recently installed libc6 and parts of hamm (particularly those the
HOWTO said had to be installed. I also installed some Xaw packages, and
removed one because I didn't like the way it
Michael Beattie wrote:
Okay, I agree, this is most likely a very stupid question. How can one
tell if they have motif installed?
# ldconfig -p | grep Xm
libXmu.so.6 (ELF-libc6) = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6
libXmu.so.6 (ELF-libc5) = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXmu.so.6
libXmu.so
On Sat, Feb 21, 1998 at 03:10:38PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
I have written to Adobe and they have informed me that no Linux version of
FramMaker exists or is planned.
FrameMaker is being developed using gcc, and there has been a usenet posting
by one of the Adobe engineers that it would be
Hello,
==
Alex Y. wrote:
While the following is all true, what you probably asked for is just that
most (if not all) X programs have -geometry option which allowes to
I agree. However, most programs, apart from having the -geometry
parameter, are programmed to be used as a big windows and
Hello,
==
of windows when I try to move them. However, when I witch to 16 bpp, it
stops displaying the outlines when I try to move windows around. Thanks
for your help,
This is a issue with the windowmanager.
For fvwm2, you need a line like XORValue 255 in the configfile.
I had
Hi!
Is there a deltree command in linux? ... or what parameters does
rmdir need to remove all files and subdirectories under a directory?
regards,
b a d p i x e l of bad sector
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Hi,
Recently I upgraded nmh on hamm from 0.17-1 to 0.22-1 and I just
discovered my smail header rewriting is broke, and I think the new nmh
is the culprit. smail remains on hold status in dselect. I've read
the bug reports (there are none), I've
Michael \[badpixel/bad sector\] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi!
Is there a deltree command in linux? ... or what parameters does
rmdir need to remove all files and subdirectories under a directory?
It's not rmdir, but just rm; rm -r is what you want - rm -rf does
what you want without asking
On Sun, Feb 22, 1998 at 01:10:27AM -0500, Paul Miller wrote:
I have a Colorado 250 internal tape drive connected to the floppy cable
and I want to run unattended backups. In addition, I have zftape and
autofs running.
Is there any way I can share IRQ6? I saw a kernel patch (2.0.33) for
When Michael [badpixel/bad sector] wrote, I replied:
Hi!
Is there a deltree command in linux? ... or what parameters does
rmdir need to remove all files and subdirectories under a directory?
rm -rf directory
should work, if I understand your question. (What's a deltree??)
HTH
Riddle me this, Batmen ( Batwimmin),
I'm getting mail every 20 min. complaining the runq hasn't run.
This is from cron on behalf of root. As root, I crontab -l
and get NULL output (also ls -l /var/spool/cron/crontabs
showns no entry for root). So I cd /var/spool/cron/crontabs;
grep rung * and
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hi,
since I upgraded to isdnutils i.2.1.beta1-18, my default route is
deleted with each hangup of the ISDN line. What has changed? What do I
have to change?
Regards,
Ralf
-
- -
Ralf
Hello everybody,
I have problem with LPRng - as normal user I can't remove my print jobs
even if they were sent by myself. I can do it only as root. Here is what
is says when I try to remove some job (printing ext2.ps):
knm:~$ lprm
Printer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
checking '[EMAIL
Though I did not comment upon the original message, I too feel as you do
and that is that I have seen that code (1FA:) displayed on a machine
that did not have Linux installed. This is strictly SWAG but I think
that it came from the ROM on a SCSI controller card at the time that I
believe that I
I won't begin to suggest that I have any idea what your problem might be
but...
Have looked at the cron tabs (or anacron) to see if there is anything
that is started about once ever three hours?
Have you checked swap space and memory usage immediately after booting
and immediately after the
Stephen, has cfdisk complained after the first time you set up the drive
(the first time would have been ok since there was not a DOS/PC sort of
partition table on the drive)?
I am 'just clutching at straws here' but in the past there have been
some drives that 'lie' to the SCSI bus about their
On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote:
I'm getting mail every 20 min. complaining the runq hasn't run.
This is from cron on behalf of root. As root, I crontab -l
and get NULL output (also ls -l /var/spool/cron/crontabs
showns no entry for root). So I cd /var/spool/cron/crontabs;
grep
What version of autoup.sh did you use? Are you getting the hamm
files from a local mirror, files in your current directory, or by ftp
from a mirror? Version 0.21 has a bug that prevents it from
retrieving oldlibs/libc5_*.deb, and from failing due to that. In that
case, it will fail as soon
hello-
not sure if this is where i should mention this -- please redirect
me if that is the case :-)
i've tried the hamm installation disks dated 1998-02-21 and cannot
partition the hard drive i want to install on to. i get a message about
not being able to detect the hard disk. during
Hello,
I decided to tackle my fetchmail/smail upgrde today. I am running
a hamm system but had put smail on hold because it messed up fetchmail. I
have searched the debian user mailing list arhive and tried the various
suggetions with no luck.
Appreciate any help I could get.
On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Sen Nagata wrote:
not sure if this is where i should mention this -- please redirect
me if that is the case :-)
cc'd the boot floppy maintainer. The [EMAIL PROTECTED] would
also be a good place.
i've tried the hamm installation disks dated 1998-02-21 and cannot
On Sun, Feb 22, 1998 at 02:46:47AM -0500, Paul Miller wrote:
where are the bitchx configuration files (.74p2 deb package)? I found one
in /etc/bitchx, but I can't find where the server list is stored..?
/etc/irc/servers
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hmm.. that directory does exist, bitchx is using a list though..
What is the format for /etc/irc/servers??
On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Adam Klein wrote:
On Sun, Feb 22, 1998 at 02:46:47AM -0500, Paul Miller wrote:
where are the bitchx configuration files (.74p2 deb package)? I found one
in
On Sun, Feb 22, 1998 at 01:45:37PM -0500, Paul Miller wrote:
hmm.. that directory does exist, bitchx is using a list though..
What is the format for /etc/irc/servers??
I don't know. All mine has is one line containing my default server.
Adam Klein
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On 22 Feb, Ralph Winslow wrote:
When Michael [badpixel/bad sector] wrote, I replied:
rm -rf directory
should work, if I understand your question. (What's a deltree??)
HTH
deltree is a DOS command.
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should work, if I understand your question. (What's a deltree??)
It's important for mathematical work. Each year in italy, the deltas are
harvested from the deltrees. While there is an extra supply in the winter,
coming from the australian nablabushes, these are generally considered to be
On Sun, 22 Feb 1998 08:58:15 EST, wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes:
Recently I upgraded nmh on hamm from 0.17-1 to 0.22-1 and I just
discovered my smail header rewriting is broke, and I think the new nmh
is the culprit. smail remains on hold status in dselect. I've read
I would like to know if there is a preliminary release date for Debian
2.0. Some of my hardware is not easily supported yet (e.g. Matrox
Millenium II) in the Debian 1.3.1 CD, so I'd like to be able to get it
soon. Thank you.
Jeff Alami
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When Carey Evans wrote, I replied:
Thanks for the tip, Corey - I ran checkpc -f and can now print
simple text (the lpd directory was owned by root, rather than
lp the bj10sx directory which hadn't existed is now in place)
but printing a page from netscape or that page saved to a file
from the
Hi,
Is there a nice way to determine when I installed a package?
Right now I'm manually comparing my /var/lib/dpkg/status* files.
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Attached is a little perl I wrote tohelp you decide what directories
to move and how much space to assign. You just say, for example:
redice /usr
-or-
redice /var/spool
and it will report the subdirectories and the space they're using as
a
On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote:
Michael Beattie wrote:
Okay, I agree, this is most likely a very stupid question. How can one
tell if they have motif installed?
# ldconfig -p | grep Xm
libXmu.so.6 (ELF-libc6) = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6
libXmu.so.6 (ELF-libc5) =
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
check your /etc/printcap file.
ahah, you're right. I took it from one of the workstations. But
this begs the question as to why it worked for weeks before this
. . .
Because the symlink /usr/spool pointing to /var/spool was removed in
Bill == Bill Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thanks for the suggestions...
Bill Stephen, has cfdisk complained after the first time you set
Bill up the drive (the first time would have been ok since there
Bill was not a DOS/PC sort of partition table on the drive)?
That's correct.
Hi Guys
I installed Debian 1.1 and for a year things worked quite well. I could
send mail, receive mail via popmail, and use ppp for web access, fpt and
telnet. Except for some problems getting logged in last Christmas, which
seem to have been resolved all has been well.
Until recently,
Hello,
==
But I have another question: in bo, I was able to move windows between
screen by simple dragging them. However, in hamm this is not possible. I
don't want to have EdgeScroll disabled (in bo this wasn't needed).
That word should be
torsten wrote
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
check your /etc/printcap file.
ahah, you're right. I took it from one of the workstations. But
this begs the question as to why it worked for weeks before this
. . .
Because the symlink /usr/spool pointing to
How do I go about setting up linux to print to a Jetdirect printer? The
HP page is useless. From what I see, it appears that I need to set it up
with lpd as a tcp/ip printer. Does that mean that I have to have an
additional IP address on my network for the printer (if so, is there any
way
I am try to use dselect. When I choose Access, I am getting the following
message:
dselect:unable to open/create access method lockfile:permission denied
I need suggestion how I can overcome this problem
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Hello All,
I have a small lan at home, ip masquerading, and a dial up ISP. My
debian machine is p90.mydomain. My ISP is icon.net. My account on
p90.mydomain is rcook. My account with my ISP is russcook. When I try to send
mail from my debian machine, it reads from: [EMAIL
I recently installed Debian 1.3.1 and keep getting the following
errors concerning the C locale. This first one is given whenever I install
most debian packages (assumably the ones whose scripts use perl).
perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories:
LC_CTYPE
On Sun, 22 Feb 1998 16:04:21 EST, DAVID B. TEAGUE wrote:
Hi Guys
I installed Debian 1.1 and for a year things worked quite well. I could
send mail, receive mail via popmail, and use ppp for web access, fpt and
telnet. Except for some problems getting logged in last Christmas, which
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes:
For some unknown reason my Sender: line is no longer being rewritten,
and most destinations will refuse my mail because it is not DNS
resolvable (as an aside I'd be interested to hear the basis for such
refusals). Those that don't refuse it will
I need Windows, because some programs are only written for Windows and I
can't use an emulator for Windows. I have heard, that it is possible to run
Microsoft Windows 95, for example, in a samba server on a linux machine,
but I can't imagine, how this should be. If anybody have such a
Nils wrote:
of dpkg -l * says:
[...]
ii ipx 1.0-1 Utilities to configure the kernel ipx
interf
[...]
These are the user level utilities to configure ipx interfaces.
They still need an ipx-enabled kernel.
The relevant test ist if the file /proc/net/ipx exists.
I can't seem to get mutt to work, it keeps saying it can't find a mailbox
or other. I never had this problem with pine.
Any ideas?
i.b.
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On Feb 22, HHaque wrote
I am try to use dselect. When I choose Access, I am getting the following
message:
dselect:unable to open/create access method lockfile:permission denied
I need suggestion how I can overcome this problem
You need to run deslect as root, not as a normal user.
Tim
RUSSELL COOK hat gesagt: // RUSSELL COOK wrote:
Hello All, I have a small lan at home, ip masquerading, and a dial
up ISP. My debian machine is p90.mydomain. My ISP is icon.net. My
account on p90.mydomain is rcook. My account with my ISP is russcook.
When I try to send mail from my debian
Florian Frank hat gesagt: // Florian Frank wrote:
I need Windows, because some programs are only written for Windows and I
can't use an emulator for Windows. I have heard, that it is possible to run
Microsoft Windows 95, for example, in a samba server on a linux machine,
This is impossible I
I just updated a local mirror of Debian and I noticed that while it did not
grab any new packages, it removed a few ... including Exim. Is exim gone from
Debian? I manually checked ftp.debian.org and sure enough, no exim in hamm.
George Bonser
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